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Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
Woken Furies was released in the U.K. in March and will be released in the U.S. in October.
Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
a guest review by Meghan McCarron
I have a love/hate relationship with military SF, and judging from all the political hemming and hawing in Woken Furies, so does Richard K. Morgan. And yes, even though the book is being marketed as neo-noir, I would classify it as military SF. It's got much more in common with Three Kings than L.A. Confidential.
Woken Furies is the third book in a series featuring Takeshi Kovacs, ex-UN commando with a flair for violence, some serious emotional issues, and a swagger Philip Marlowe (or Han Solo) would envy. He inhabits in a far-future world where the discovery of long-lost Martian technology (and maps) has allowed humanity to inhabit the Martians' abandoned planetary colonies as well as good old Earth. In addition, humanity has achieved quasi-immortality by storing a person's personality and/or soul in a "cortical stack" that can be fitted into any cloned "sleeve," allowing for someone to live as long as that stack survives, which can be hundreds of years.
At its best, the series combines archeological intrigue, political philosophy, and lots of ass-kicking, not to mention smart language play and hot sex. As a fan of all of these things, especially language play and ass-kicking (and, okay, you got me, hot sex), I recommend the series, though I encourage you to start with earlier books, because Morgan seems to have declared war on exposition and those weaklings who crave it. This is a book I wanted to be able to search with Google. But while I'm not sure that keeping the audience in the dark is the best way to create suspense, the information gap didn't stop me when I was reading.
There are, however, a few more serious flaws. First of all, the language. One of the things that really charmed me about this book was the mish-mash of the names. Sylvia Oshima. New Hokkaido. Adoracion. They paint a cultural picture that isn't, and never needs to be, explained. And while the writing style is catchy (I found it playing in my head, embellishing my life's events: "Meghan stumbles into the Coffee Bean thinking about the mess of traffic awaiting her, a sludged-up river that stinks instead of moves. A caffeine headache, slight but needy, hums, but relief is coming..."), the catchiness often runs away with itself, resulting in sentences like, "The heat settled on me wetly."
And then there's the politics. The last third of Woken Furies is mired in politics: revolutionary, colonial, oligarchic, and otherwise. This book wants you to know war is hell and communist-style revolution is fraught with dangers, even as it decries the oligarchy and delights in the hero's violent power. So the message ends up being something more like, "War is hell, revolutions don't work, but war is great to write about, and what if this revolution does work? The end."
On one hand, I'm glad the book took up questions of violence and equality. But if you do take it up, don't devote 150 pages to the question and then drop it like something on fire. A book about violence needs to deal with that violence, not simply say "it's fucked up," and move on to the next fight.
There's more to be said here, but I'm trying to keep this review blog-length, and it seems a little silly to go into character details when no one else [in the U.S.] even has the book yet (it comes out in October). Suffice to say that an engaging hero and a tech-rich world buys the series a lot of leeway, but if it's to continue its shelf life, it needs to engage with, not simply flirt with, the numerous dilemmas its world and hero raise. Besides the issues of violence and revolution, there is little or no engagement with the central conceits of 1. We've found the immortal soul 2. We can store with technology, and 3. There are fucking Martians!!! The series asks the reader to take these things as givens, but the more I read, the more questions I started asking. The book is worth reading, and it's a good ride, but ultimately it comes down as simply "ambitious" instead of a pure success.
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And yes, even though the book is being marketed as neo-noir, I would classify it as military SF. It's got much more in common with Three Kings than L.A. Confidential.ReplyDelete
I think you've just described why I lost interest in the Takeshi Kovacs books after the second one, which indeed made the switch from futuristic mystery to military SF. Too bad, I liked Altered Carbon quite a bit.
Thanks for an interesting review, and you're probably right about not needing too many plot details. Anyone interested can pop over to Amazon to find a plot summary.
- Anonymous8/07/2005 6:57 AM
Philip Marlowe doesn't swagger, and rarely envies those who do.ReplyDelete
you're right, of course. he drinks. and watches. I don't know why I left that in there/ did not clarify. To be honest, kovacs doesn't always swagger either. he oscilates b/w han solo actual swagger and philip marlowe verbal swagger. (nihilistic comebacks, and oh! the description of the specimens he encounters). As a writer I like to think of that as its own kind of swagger. I'm probably pathetically wrong.ReplyDelete


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Carotid artery surgery is a procedure to restore proper blood flow to the brain.
The carotid artery brings needed blood to your brain and face. You have one of these arteries on each side of your neck. Blood flow in this artery can become partly or totally blocked by fatty material called plaque. This can reduce the blood supply to your brain and cause a stroke.
There are two invasive ways to treat a carotid artery that has plaque buildup in it. This article focuses on a surgery called endarterectomy. The other method is called angioplasty with stent placement.
Carotid endarterectomy; CAS surgery; Carotid artery stenosis - surgery; Endarterectomy - carotid artery
During carotid endarterectomy:
The surgery takes about 2 hours. After the procedure, your doctor may do a test to confirm that the artery has been opened.
This procedure is done if your doctor has found narrowing or a blockage in your carotid artery. Your doctor will have done one or more tests to see how much the carotid artery is blocked.
Surgery to remove the buildup in your carotid artery may be done if the artery is narrowed by more than 70%.
If you have had a stroke or temporary brain injury, your doctor will consider whether treating your blocked artery with surgery is safe for you.
Other treatment options your doctor will discuss with you are:
Carotid angioplasty and stenting is likely to be used when carotid endarterectomy would not be safe.
Risks of anesthesia are:
Risks of carotid surgery are:
Your doctor will do a thorough physical exam and order several medical tests.
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During the 2 weeks before your surgery:
Do not drink anything after midnight the night before your surgery, including water.
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Carotid artery surgery may help lower your chance of having a stroke. But you will need to make lifestyle changes to help prevent plaque buildup, blood clots, and other problems in your carotid arteries over time. You may need to change your diet and start an exercise program, if your doctor tells you exercise is safe for you. It is also important to stop smoking.
Goldstein LB. Prevention and management of stroke. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 62.
Silva MB Jr., Choi L, Cheng CC. Peripheral arterial occlusive disease. In: In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 63.
Society for Vascular Nursing. 2009 Clinical practice guideline for patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA). JVasc Nurs. 2010;28:21-46.
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Vander Blue scored 19 points to lead Marquette past No. 16 Pittsburgh 79-69 on Saturday for its 23rd straight home win—the fourth-longest active streak in the country.
"I want to be really excited and I want to dance in the locker room," Williams said. "I can't. Because then I won't work tomorrow. And if we don't work tomorrow and don't figure out a way to find a way to beat Seton Hall (Tuesday), then we've lost the impact of what this positive work was.
"I guess from a program selfishness standpoint, can we be tough enough that over the next 29 days, can we exhaust every opportunity to improve? Exhaust every opportunity to see where we will be at the end? And along the way, never become satisfied with where we're at."
Blue, Marquette's leading scorer, was 7 of 8 from the field and 3 for 4 on free throws to go with six rebounds for the Golden Eagles (18-6, 9-3). On Monday, Blue made just three shots and scored seven points in a 63-55 loss at No. 15 Georgetown, which is also 9-3 in league play.
"I had sort of a weird feeling about how I played at Georgetown," Blue said. "I felt like we could've got that one there. That was a big one. .
Marquette shot 57 percent (26 for 46) and also won the teams' previous meeting this season, 74-67 in overtime at Pittsburgh on Jan. 20.
"I think if I were to say our best performance on the road in Big East play would be at Pitt, and I thought our best performance at home in a Big East game thus far would be Pitt," Williams said.
Lamar Patterson scored 19 points to lead Pittsburgh (20-6, 8-5), which entered the game fifth in the nation in scoring defense (54.4 ppg). Tray Woodall added 10 points and eight assists for the Panthers, who lost for just the second time in their last nine games.
"There were three things we wanted to do," Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon said. "Hold them under 40 percent defensively; we didn't come close to that. We wanted to keep them off the free-throw line; we certainly didn't come close to that. Then obviously the rebounding, we got out-rebounded, so simply put, the 10-point loss is really pretty easy to see.
Davante Gardner finished with 14 points for Marquette and scored 10 of his team's 11 during a key stretch late in the game.
Gardner started his scoring spree when he tipped in his own miss to give the Golden Eagles a 63-50 lead with 6:35 to play.
Woodall missed a 3-pointer but Pittsburgh got the offensive rebound. The Panthers also got the rebound on a miss by Talib Zanna, and then Dixon was called for his first technical of the season with 6:05 to play.
"That was my first one in I don't know how long," Dixon said. "I congratulated them on that. There was no bad language. I'll be sure to pass that onto my mom."
Gardner made both free throws, and after a 3-pointer by Patterson, he sank two more from the line to give Marquette a 67-53 lead with 5:45 remaining.
Fifteen seconds later, Patterson turned the ball over and then received a flagrant foul call. Derrick Wilson made one free throw, Gardner was fouled, and made two more free throws for a 70-53 lead with 5:13 left.
After a free throw by Patterson, Gardner capped his offensive outburst with a layup off a pass from Jamil Wilson for Marquette's biggest lead, 72-54, with 4:14 to go.
Pittsburgh scored eight of the next 10 points and got within 74-62 on a layup by Woodall. But the Panthers missed their next three shots and fell behind, 76-62, on a dunk by Jamil Wilson with 2:00 to go.
In the first half, a jumper by Trent Lockett gave Marquette a 28-18 lead with 7:19 to go.
Pittsburgh responded by scoring the next seven points to trim the deficit to 28-25 after a layup by James Robinson with 5:37 left.
But that's as close as the Panthers would get, as Marquette scored 11 of the final 13 points of the half for a 42-29 lead at the break.
"I thought we got the ball around the basket and didn't finish well," Dixon said. "We normally finish those, but for whatever reason, we didn't. I don't know what that reason was."


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February 20, 2013
As the second phase of Marietta's Armory Square project gets under way, members of Armory Square Inc....
Restore the gym floor and use the armory for what it was always used for, ballgames, dances, etc
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Can't wait any longer gota pee. What a joke.
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I still cannot find one reason an armory is called historical; its hysterical.
So a bunch of guys went to war from these steps; does that make it historical.
Are all other bus stations, airports, railway stations historical for the same reasons?
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include new restroom facilities: the restrooms will be closed at the end of every business day. They will not be open, 24-7 . So much for the public restroom hoopla.
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Sorry...that should read "Marietta also needs to focus on..."
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I'm not sure why people are so opposed to the renovation of this building. Marietta is such a historic town and to not preserve fixtures such as this would be a tragedy. Marietta needs to focus on bring manufacturing jobs to the area, even if it's not located within city limits. Even if the business is outside the city limits, Marietta will still benefit in many ways, including maintaining the historical value and charm that it has. To not preserve such a structure permanently destroys some of that charisma.
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They have to spend some money that's already in the bank in order to scam the grantors into believing that this is a viable project. If they didn't spend real money on doors and windows, an awful choice for a demolishable building, the grantors would not give the money to the city. They are scamming all of us tax payers by playing games with these state grants. There is no business plan and the voters of Marietta NEVER voted to renovate the Armory. It's a very small group of people and a selfish, money grubbing council making all of this happen.
Put it on the ballot. Make the council show us the business plan, which doesn't exist!
God help us all.
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Dealpolitik: Five Questions Raised by Dish's Bid for Clearwire
Dish's complicated proposal for Clearwire raises many questions about both Sprint's proposed acquisition of Clearwire and Softbank's proposed acquisition of Sprint. Here are some of the most important:
Can Clearwire take the Dish deal under the terms of Clearwire's agreements with Sprint?
Sprint said on Tuesday the answer is no, and Clearwire's release detailed Sprint's objections. But Sprint isn't the most disinterested source, and Clearwire did not react to any of Sprint's posturing. Given that Clearwire's board concluded it had a fiduciary duty to talk to Dish, Clearwire must think there is a possible path forward.
For example, Sprint complains that some of the Dish transaction would violate the merger agreement between Sprint and Clearwire. Nevertheless, there is a way of dealing with the merger agreement.
It is true that the transactions proposed by Dish are prohibited by the merger agreement. This means Clearwire cannot sign a deal with Dish unless and until the Sprint agreement is terminated. And the Sprint merger agreement has a "force the vote" provision. That means that even if the Clearwire directors decide they would prefer the Dish deal, Clearwire cannot the unilaterally terminate the Sprint deal and must take it to a shareholder vote. Clearwire's board can recommend that shareholders reject the Sprint deal. But only after the public shareholders of Clearwire reject the Sprint deal does Clearwire have the right to get out of the deal.
Although a "force the vote" provisions is not typical, it is not that unusual either. The way the parties can get around it is Dish can negotiate definitive agreements with Clearwire even though Clearwire may not be able to sign them for months. Then, when Dish knows Clearwire would like to take its deal, it can irrevocably offer to enter into the agreements as soon as the Sprint deal is terminated. Once that offer is made, it is safe for Clearwire board to change its recommendation on Sprint and start the process of trying to get out of the Sprint deal by having shareholders vote it down. (That change of recommendation triggers an option on Sprint's part to walk away at any time. That is why it is critical that Dish's offer be irrevocable.)
But that is just the beginning of the analysis. Sprint says that its waiver would be required under various other agreements for Clearwire to do Dish's deal. Those agreements are so complex it is hard to get a read on that, but my guess is Dish has confidence it has a path forward. They won't want Clearwire to violate any contracts with Sprint because if Dish wins it will likely end up with most of the exposure for any liability. So it has almost certainly looked at the agreements and apparently concluded that it can find a path forward. Again, Dish is not a disinterested party, but my guess is that there is some deal it is willing to do once they have Clearwire at the negotiating table that it thinks it can do without Sprint's cooperation.
Would a definitive deal between Dish and Clearwire be structured in the same way as Tuesday's announced proposal?
Not necessarily. That proposal was structured to get in the door at Clearwire and allow the Clearwire board to trigger the" fiduciary out" to the "no shop" in the Sprint merger agreement. In other words the proposal was intended to meet the criteria in the Sprint merger agreement that allows Clearwire to talk to competing bidders. A no shop prohibits such discussions unless certain criteria are met. Those criteria constitute the fiduciary out.
As Dish and Clearwire work on a deal which both think meet the requirements of Clearwire's complex web of contracts with Sprint, there could be changes to Dish's offer. For example, Sprint has said that Dish's proposal to buy at least 25% of the Clearwire shares violates Clearwire's so-called equity-holders agreement. That argument is questionable in my view, since Dish isn't party to that agreement. But the issue may be able to be avoided if Clearwire scales back the number of shares to be acquired. The offer to buy all of the outstanding shares, which has a minimum of 25%, was necessary in the initial proposal to trigger that fiduciary out that opened the door to negotiations.
And it is important to note that even if Clearwire and Dish can engineer a deal around Sprint's multiple and complex contractual rights and the fact that it owns a majority of the Clearwire shares (which gives it the right to elect all of the Clearwire directors), that doesn't necessarily mean that Clearwire will still think that a Dish deal is better than Sprint's.
But assuming Clearwire and Dish come up with a deal which is both doable and preferable to Clearwire, that raises more questions:
Will Sprint increase its bid for Clearwire if Clearwire decides to recommend a Dish deal?
Since Softbank has agreed to buy Sprint, the answer turns largely into the question of whether Softbank is willing to pay more for Clearwire. Presumably the Sprint acquisition of Clearwire was arranged because Softbank wanted to acquire Clearwire contemporaneous with the Sprint acquisition. But that doesn't mean Softbank is willing to pay more in the aggregate for the two companies. We will come back to that thought momentarily.
Can Softbank walk away from its acquisition of Sprint if Dish gets a deal with Clearwire?
That turns on whether the Dish deal would have a "material adverse effect" on Sprint. If so Softbank could walk away from the acquisition of Sprint. If not, it probably is required to buy Sprint even if even if Clearwire has a deal with Dish.
If a Dish-Clearwire deal does not have a material adverse effect, then Softbank is stuck in the situation and needs to decide whether it wants to have Sprint up its bid for Clearwire in a bidding war with Dish and how far it is willing to go. Whether the Dish deal creates a material adverse effect (or MAE in M&A lingo) is something that could be argued about for months in court.
If Sprint and Dish deal get into a bidding war over Clearwire, could it affect the price Softbank pays for Sprint?
If the Dish deal would have a material adverse effect on Sprint, then yes. Here is what Softbank could say to Sprint: "We are not willing to proceed with the Sprint deal if you cannot at least maintain the status quo with Clearwire. So to keep our deal alive we have to offer more for Clearwire and defeat Dish. But we are tapped out on price. So if you still want to do a deal we are going to have to move some of the value from what the shareholders of Sprint were going to get to the offer for Clearwire." In this situation Sprint is left with the choice of losing the Softbank deal or agreeing to a reduced price.
There are a lot of potential moving pieces here.
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"I'm trying to get the winning numbers," says Lester McCain.
Some believe it's an art.
"Some of them are going to be my kids' birthdays and quick picks," MCain said.
McCain is dreaming about the $550 million jackpot.
"That would be a lot of money right there. I could pay a lot of bills off and take care of a lot of people," he said. "You're going to have some relatives you haven't seen in 20 years."
"It's getting exciting. It's getting up there, people are getting excited about it ... they want to win," said Bodie's store employee Lisandra Gilliam.
Odds may be 1 in 175 million, but McCain says it's worth the $2.
"It's fun. Just taking a chance, that's what the lottery's all about. A lot of people say, well you're just throwing your money away, but the person that won threw some money away and they took a chance. That's all it's about, just taking a chance to win."
This year sales of Powerball tickets are up 35 percent from 2011, meaning more and more people are taking that chance.
Business has been booming for this lotto stop on 13th Street since the jackpot rolled over Saturday.
"We've got people playing for businesses and getting 100 at a time," Gilliam said.
MCain said he just wants the winning ticket to be someone from this area.
"We don't want it to go upstate this time. We want local people to win this big money this time," he said.
The only fact here is that you have to play to win.
"Today is the day. Georgia Lottery says today could be your day," Gilliam laughed.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Quarterback Josh Freeman and defensive lineman Richard Seymour, two of the NFL's higher-profile free agents, have drawn interest from the 49ers but are not close to signing with them, according to multiple reports Sunday morning.
Freeman got released Thursday, less than two weeks after losing his job as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers starter. His desire to serve as a starter likely will dissuade Freeman from talking seriously with the Colin Kaepernick-led 49ers, and the Raiders are a more likely option, according to the NFL Network's Mike Silver.
The 49ers swapped third-string quarterbacks last week, releasing rookie B.J. Daniels and signing former Cardinals starter John Skelton.
Seymour couldn't come to financial terms with the 49ers last month after they expressed interest in the former Raiders and Patriots lineman, according to CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora. Seymour turned 34 on Sunday and will continue to field offers "until Week 10," he told La Canfora. The Detroit Lions and Atlana Falcons also have shown interest.
The 49ers' interest reportedly came after Aldon Smith went on indefinite leave to deal with personal issues, although the 49ers need at nose tackle really came after nose tackle Ian Williams sustained a season-ending ankle fracture Sept. 15. Glenn Dorsey has since stepped up to fill that void at nose tackle.
Seymour was a high school teammate of 49ers center Jonathan Goodwin at Lower Richland High, in Hopkins, S.C. Seymour has made over $86 million in his career, nearly $30 million more than any defensive tackle in NFL history, according to Sportrac.com. The Raiders voided his contract in February and he accounts for nearly $14 million on this season's salary cap.
In other 49ers news, Donte Whitner's paperwork to change his last name to "Hitner" has been delayed in Ohio, a result of the federal government shutdown, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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Epidural Steroid Injection
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Standiford Helm II, MD
Dr. Helm has been practicing interventional pain management since 1982. Dr. Helm is a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology with subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine and of the American Board of Pain Medicine. Dr. Helm is a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP), the only certifying agency which tests the ability to perform interventional pain procedures. Dr. Helm is also an examiner for FIPP.
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
What is an epidural steroid injection?
An epidural steroid injection is a common procedure to treat spinal nerve irritation that is most often caused by tissues next to the nerve pressing against it. The beginning of the nerve (nerve root) may be irritated by a bulging intervertebral disc, disc contents ("ruptured disc") or bone spur, directly touching the spinal nerve.
An epidural steroid injection involves bathing an inflamed nerve root in steroids (potent anti-inflammation medicine) in order to decrease the irritation of the nerve root that is causing pain.
How is an epidural steroid injection performed?
The epidural steroid injection procedure is quick and simple. While it is common for people to be concerned prior to the procedure, it is actually frequent to hear from patients afterwards: "Is that all?"
The spinal cord rests in the spinal canal. The nerve roots branch out from the spinal cord at each level of a spinal vertebra (the bony building blocks of the spine). The cord is protected by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which serves as a shock absorber for the cord. The CSF is held in place by a membrane with several layers, one of which is called the dura, from the Greek for tough (think of "durable"). The Greek word "epi" means "outside of." So, the epidural space is outside of this tough membrane. During an epidural steroid injection, a needle and syringe are used to enter the epidural space and deposit small amounts of long-lasting steroids around the inflamed spinal nerve. A fluoroscope (a viewing instrument using X-rays) is used to visualize the local anatomy during the injection. The epidural steroid injection specifically targets the locally inflamed area and treats it with a maximal amount of steroids, thereby minimizing exposure of the rest of the body to the steroids.
When are epidural steroid injections used?
Epidural steroid injections are most commonly used in situations of radicular pain, which is a radiating pain that is transmitted away from the spine by an irritated spinal nerve. Irritation of a spinal nerve in the low back (lumbar radiculopathy) causes pain that goes down the leg. Epidural injections are also used to treat nerve compression in the neck (cervical spine), referred to as cervical radiculopathy, which causes pain.
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Fete nationale 'isn't what it once was'
By Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press
MONTREAL - Quebec's annual holiday is often a chance for the province's pro-independence politicians to drum up support for the cause, but heavy rains weren't the only thing dampening Fete nationale celebrations on Tuesday.
With interest in sovereignty slumping and the Parti Quebecois suffering a historic defeat earlier this year, even organizers conceded Tuesday's festivities had a different feel.
Politically speaking, the holiday "isn't what it once was," said Gilles Grondin, director of the Mouvement national des Quebecois, which has organized the holiday's festivities for the past 30 years.
"In terms of nationalism, people don't express themselves in the same way," Grondin said.
"There isn't the same collective movement that we saw in the 1960s, for example. Life in general is more individualistic. We see it with social media."
Grondin conceded there may have been a smaller turnout than usual at Monday's concert bash on the historic Plains of Abraham in Quebec City.
He said part of the reason is the explosion of smaller events — there were more than 1,100 planned across the province on Tuesday, according to organizers — and an increased number of competing music and arts festivals throughout the summer.
Deeper issues are also at play.
Mathieu Bock-Cote, a well-known sovereigntist and columnist for Le Journal de Montreal, summed up the sombre mood in a piece Tuesday lamenting the decline in nationalist pride over the past 20 years.
He wrote that he wasn't feeling the "spirit" of the Fete nationale this year.
The Quebec Liberals scored a majority government in the April 7 election as the PQ suffered its worst popular vote result in more than 40 years.
And opinion polls show support has dropped even further since.
The PQ now ranks third behind the Liberals and Francois Legault's Coalition party. It's also showing signs of division as it looks for a leader to replace Pauline Marois.
At the federal level, meanwhile, the Bloc Quebecois continues to flounder.
The party has only four seats in Parliament and its leader, the hardline sovereigntist Mario Beaulieau, has already seen resignations and anger over his victory speech which included a chant formerly used by the terrorist Front de liberation du Quebec.
"This year's edition of Fete nationale is clearly not what I think some organizers would have hoped for," said Jack Jedwab, executive vice-president of the Association for Canadian Studies.
"There would have been sort of a sovereigntist spin on it, even though they say it's not partisan."
For many, though, it wasn't a political event — just a chance to have fun.
Despite the rain, Montreal's annual Fete nationale parade drew a diverse crowd as it snaked through downtown to Maisonneuve Park in the east end for an evening concert.
Maria-Theresa Sarmento, who moved from Portugal to Montreal 34 years ago, said she attends every year, even if it means getting wet.
"My three children were born here. This is home," explained Sarmento, who wore a blue-and-white headband with the words, "It's now the time to celebrate."
She said she holds no dreams of Quebec becoming a country.
As it stands, many feel the same way.
A recent Leger Marketing poll, commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies, found that 61 per cent of respondents agreed that "Quebec will never separate from Canada." Another 27 per cent disagreed, while 12 per cent didn't know or didn't answer.
The poll, conducted between June 17-19, had a sample size of 1,000 respondents and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
Along with the Bloc's Beaulieu, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was the only other federal leader spotted at the Montreal parade, where he praised Quebec's cultural diversity.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper celebrated at a community centre in Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse, outside Quebec City.
In a statement, Harper said Tuesday's festivities "allow us to appreciate how Quebecois and Francophone heritage have contributed to building a united and prosperous Canada."
Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau also issued statements marking the holiday.


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Tweeting isn't always so sweet for celebrities when they're bombarded by haters, or when get themselves in trouble for a quick quip or knee-jerk jab. So here are a few famous Twitter quitters, although they don't always stay away for long:
1. Megan Fox: The actress quit in January. This was her last post: "5 days on Twitter and I have yet to discern its purpose. #WhatIsThePoint ???"
2. James Franco: He quit after his lackluster hosting stint on the Oscars. But apparently he's back.
3. Alec Baldwin: He quit -- twice. Once after a scuffle with a photographer. Then he re-opened his account. Then again after getting in an argument with a flight attendant about not turning off his phone. He was probably tweeting at the time.
4. Ashton Kutcher: Even the original king of tweets bowed out after backlash from comments he made about late Penn State coach Joe Paterno. He still has an account, but it's supposedly monitored by his management team.
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Current Fashion Design students are not affected. The Fashion Design department will continue to offer every course they need to earn their diploma.
Fashion design courses will also be available as electives to students interested in learning more about the world of fashion and wishing to learn marketable skills to diversify their employment opportunities.
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The diagnosis of MDS ultimately depends on microscopic examination of your bone marrow and the analysis of damage to the chromosomes or DNA of bone marrow cells. For this exam, you'll need to have a bone marrow biopsy. But before your doctor will recommend this biopsy, he or she will ask about your symptoms and medical history, perform a physical exam, and do some testing. However, MDS tends to produce nonspecific symptoms and the bone marrow biopsy will be necessary for diagnosis.
The diagnosis and prognosis of MDS includes the following:
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. Your answers may point in any of three directions: to your red blood cells that suggest anemia, to your blood clotting mechanisms if you are bruising or bleeding, or to your immune system if you are having worrisome infections. Rarely, patients may present during an acute infection that signifies an infection-fighting deficit. In this case, a persistent sore throat or nonhealing infection elsewhere may be the first sign of difficulty.
There may be little or nothing to discover from your physical exam. You may have bruising, an active infection somewhere in your body, or findings such as pale skin and a rapid heartbeat that suggest anemia. Your spleen, lymph glands, and/or liver may be enlarged.
Your first set of laboratory tests will probably be very general and may include the following:
If there are abnormalities in your blood tests, your doctor will likely refer you to a hematologist (a physician who specializes in disorders of the blood), who will do a bone marrow biopsy.
For this procedure, you'll be given local anesthesia, then a needle is inserted into the back of the pelvis to the right or left of the midline, or your sternum (breastbone). A sample of the bone marrow tissue is suctioned out for testing in two parts. The first part is called the aspiration where 1-2 teaspoons of bone marrow liquid is removed. The second part involves removing a small core of tissue (biopsy) to examine the architecture surrounding the cells. The exam of the bone marrow tissue will not only confirm a diagnosis, it will also characterize the type of MDS and provide treatment and prognostic information. Some of the aspiration material is also sent for molecular and chromosome analysis. This procedure may cause some discomfort, but it is brief.
Cytology is the study of cells. The cytology of cancer cells differs significantly from normal cells, and physicians use the unique cellular features seen on biopsy samples to determine the diagnosis and assess the prognosis of a cancer. With MDS, the bone marrow produces enough cells, but the cells are abnormal and unable to function properly. Any or all of the cell types in the marrow may show abnormalities that will confirm your diagnosis with precision. However, a few cell types are critical to the final classification of the several forms of MDS:
Tests can also be done to look at the cells' chromosomes. MDS can be diagnosed when there are missing or abnormal chromosomes.
Staging is the process by which physicians determine the prognosis of a cancer that has already been diagnosed. Staging is essential for making treatment decisions (eg, surgery vs. chemotherapy). Several features of the cancer are used to arrive at a staging classification, the most common being the size of the original tumor, extent of local invasion, and spread to distant sites (metastasis). Low staging classifications (0-1) imply a favorable prognosis, whereas high staging classifications (4-5) imply an unfavorable prognosis.
Since MDS is a bone marrow disease, it can not be classified using the traditional staging method. Instead, there are two different staging systems used for MDS: International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) and WHO (World Health Organization) Scoring System (WPSS).
International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS)
The IPSS rates three factors to stage MDS:
Patients are given a score for each of the three factors. The lower the score the better the prognosis. The scores are added together to get an overall IPSS score. There are four categories of IPSS scores:
The IPSS scoring uses the following five classifications of bone marrow appearance:
Each of these types has criteria for definition, including the presence of ring sideroblasts and the percentage of cells that are called blasts. In general, the greater the damage, the more the chromosomal damage, and the greater the number of blasts in the bone marrow, the greater the chance of progressing to acute leukemia.
WHO (World Health Organization) Scoring System (WPSS)
This system uses three factors to score risk:
Once scored, patients are placed into one of five groups:
The WHO scoring systems uses the WHO classification system for type of MDS:
Prognosis is a forecast of the probable course and/or outcome of a disease or condition. Prognosis is most often expressed as the percentage of patients who are expected to survive over five or ten years. Cancer prognosis is a notoriously inexact process. This is because the predictions are based on the experience of large groups of patients suffering from cancers at various stages. Using this information to predict the future of an individual patient is always imperfect and often flawed, but it is the only method available. Prognoses provided in this monograph and elsewhere should always be interpreted with this limitation in mind. They may or may not reflect your unique situation.
The table below gives the 5-year survival rate and risk of leukemia according to IPSS risk groups.
|IPSS Risk Group
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|Risk of Leukemia
The table below gives the median survival and risk of leukemia according to WPSS risk groups.
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|Very low
|12 years
|5.5 years
|4 years
|2 years
|Very high
|9 months
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Detailed guide: myelodysplastic syndrome. American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_3x.asp?dt=65 . Accessed April 2, 2009.
Silverman LR. Myelodysplastic syndrome. In: Cancer Medicine. American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancer_information/ . Accessed November 30, 2002.
Last reviewed December 2014 by Mohei Abouzied, MD, FACP
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Hello ladies (and men)
Now that the weather is warmer I'm starting to run in a sports bra and I've been intrigued by the psychology behind our body images, particularly female runners.
I was told once that I'd never be a runner because I'd never have a runner's body. It was the opinion of someone I respected, so I believed them. Today, I still don't have a runner's body. Yet I know I'm a runner.
I wanted to share my story because I think others struggle with similar setbacks. Here it is - http://vanessaruns.com/2011/05/19/women-and-running-and-self-esteem/
Does anyone else out there run in a sports bra (or shirtless for men)? Has running done anything to improve your body image?
Enjoy the lovely weather!
Vanessa Rodriguez
OK, I'll bite.
I like my body -a lot, in fact. It works really well and even though I'm not fast, I went through 25 or so years without running when I thought I couldn't. My knees screamed when I ran and it just wasn't worth the agony. Then I read Born to Run and decided to give barefoot running a try. It suits me well. So now we're into my second summer of running and I prefer to run in soft lyca shorts that come down to just above my knees and nothing much else unless the sun is out and I don't have a shady trail to stick to. Then I put on a white long sleeve tech shirt I got at a race. It comes off once I get to the shade again, though, usually.
My thought on women and body image: You are absolutely right! If you're a runner, that might well go a long way to resetting that oppressive, ubiquitous useless 'standard" image that seems to work its way into so many otherwise sensible women's minds. Once you have an operational definition of what a good and useful body is, it's easier to disregard the old model. You go!
Barefoot / Minimalist Runner
...not maintaining this these days..
07/29/2012 Marsh Creek Raptor Run 10 Mile Trail Race
07/15/2012 Quadzilla 15K Trail Run, Trexlertown, PA 1:37 (2011, 1:49)
04/29/2012 Lehigh Valley / St. Luke's HM, 1:43:15 (2011, 1:54:20 )
03/19/2012 Kutztown Fool's Run 10 Miler, 1:18:15 (2011, 1:30:20)
02/26/2012 Ugly Mudder 7.2 Mile Trail Run, Reading, PA 1:20
11/27/2011 Dirty Bird 15K Trail Run, Birdsboro, PA 1:40
10/08/2011 Lehigh Gap Nature Center 10K Trail Run (6.38 miles), 59:20 (10/07/2012)
Started running (again) May 5, 2010
Thanks for the comment Joseph! I actually started running a lot more bare after getting into barefoot/minimalist running as well. I wonder if there's a connection?
Vanessa Rodriguez
I don't hate my body, but I don't/won't run in a sports bra unless it was pretty substantial. It mostly has to do with modesty. My body is fine and functional, but I still don't want to "let it all hang out" for the world to see. My body works for me, but doesn't need to be out there for the scrutiny of the general public. (And yes, I attire myself modestly at the beach as well. I am 48 years old and past the bikini stage.)
As for men running shirtless - well its a free country and you can do whatever you like. But all I think when I see that (and I don't care how hot you think you are) is EWWWWW, please put some clothes on! Don't even try to tell me you NEED to run shirtless. I"ve been running for years and I wear a bra AND a shirt every time. I never died of heat exhaustion yet!
Runners - and racers - really do come in all shapes and sizes. I see the range in the starting packs of every 5K and 10K that I run - and in the age group award winners as well. And at longer distances too - when I ran the Long Beach half marathon and marathon, I noticed that most of the runners were bigger and heavier - some significantly heavier - than me. (Including a lot of those who were faster than me, ha ha).
I live in an inland suburb of Los Angeles, and it gets pretty hot in the summer. I do see a fair number of women running in halter tops or sports bras. Some of them probably shouldn't (like the ones who are significantly overweight), but....to each her own. Personally, I prefer wearing a T-shirt, even if it's a drippy cotton one, since it soaks up sweat. I've tried running in a bathing suit top, and I much prefer having the T-shirt. I also look better in sleeves. As for guys running shirtless - if you've got the body to show off, that's fine. But for guys who are significantly overweight, same caveat applies as to women in sports bras - do take a look in the mirror before you head out.
2015 highlights...
@ 5K: New Balance Palm Springs 5K, Palm Springs, CA, 24:32
Angels Baseball Foundation 5K, Anaheim, CA, 24:24
Pride of the Valley, Baldwin Park, CA, 24:28
@ 10K: LA Chinatown Firecracker 10K, Los Angeles, CA, 52:15
Great Race of Agoura - Old Agoura 10K, Agoura Hills, CA, 51:40
Fiesta Days Run, La Canada, CA, 49:57
I'm often amazed at the different body types at a 5K and I've told my husband after races "don't under estimate the 'heavier' girls!" You don't take them seriously and they'll pass you before you know what happened. I'm still in the "athena" category myself, and muse at how many of the very thin "running type" forms I pass in a race. It's all about conditioning at this length I guess.
About clothing, running has helped my self esteme. My body is growing stronger and changing shape, even if the pounds are only coming off at a crawl now. It'll be a while before I ever run in just a bra, but with how humid it gets around here, I can't blame em!
Raserei - 5K Runner, Agility Dog Handler
05/15/11 - Bob Potts 5K (first race ever) - 39.46
06/04/11 - Hope for Cope 5K - 36.11
07/09/11 - Habitat for Humanity 5K -
07/30/11 - Sunset Stretch 5K -
08/20/11 - Run for the Park CC Challenge 5K -
Usually the female have different type of body structure and they always take some more time to get strong and tough, So at the start they may feel hard to build the structure of the body. So the running may be the best exercise to get a strong body and in that situation women must wear Sports Bra to be comfortable in the running.
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It's been a while since we ran a photo of the day, until I saw this photo from Swobo's blog … Oh yeah! Reminds me of Chris Farley's Fat Guy in a Little Coat.
While some would argue that Ti frames never left, they don't get the respect they used to with all the industry focus on carbon these days. But in the latest issue of Road Bike Action they feature top Ti frames, including a new Litespeed that's sub 800 grams. I've owned 3 ti frames and another, our Modal project, is being built now.
I race on carbon, just like any roadie, but when it's time for a tour, all-day ride, endless hours in the rain, or just commuting, Ti is it for me.
It was well timed that I'd ride with David Hiller and Patrick McGrath (from Cascade) down the bus and bike-only thoroughfare on the same day the city announced it was permanent. We weaved in and out of the buses, cursed the few cars that had strayed onto the street, and urged the cops to ticket them.
A few turns later, in a sad amount of traffic, we went our separate ways, and back later for Critical Mass. Before our ride, we met at Zeitgeist Coffee talked advocacy, bikes, and more. Their bikes are pictured below.
During last year's visit to Copenhagen, I got a taste for city cycling. The bike lanes there are filled with sophisticated Danes, happily riding to and fro in regular street clothes on simple, comfy, utilitarian bikes. We rented bikes to join in ourselves, and the experience was transforming. Why do so many Americans ride complicated, uncomfortable bikes, and insist on wearing spandex just for the ride to work? 150,000 Copenhagenners do it every day, and 149,999 could jump off for an impromptu photo shoot.
With this in mind, I decided that I would get my own urban bike for tooling around town, getting groceries, going to bars, etc. My criteria were, and are, in order of priority:
- It must be capable.
- It must be comfortable
- It must be stylish.
- It must be enjoyable.
- It must have carrying capapcity.
- I must be able to hop on it and ride away with no special preparation.
- It must be simple to use and maintain.
Thus, I went on a mission to find or build a bike to fulfill those criteria. I test rode a lot of bikes, and I have to say, the Electra Townie came really close.
We rode with Critical Mass last night, representin' the hugga, kitted up and on our race bikes. Critical Mass meandered through downtown, towards Fremont via HWY 99, Stone Way, and then onto Golden Gardens. It was a fun, festive event, and massive.


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RICHMOND -- In an 80-page report released Friday on its own investigation into last summer's massive refinery fire, Chevron U.S.A. Inc. acknowledged its failure to identify and replace a corroded pipe and vowed to take steps to prevent a similar accident from happening again.
The oil giant also acknowledged that it mishandled its response to the pipe leak that sparked the blaze.
The report, submitted to the Contra Costa Health Services department and released to the media Friday morning, arrived at many of the same general findings as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, one of the agencies investigating the Aug. 6 fire that sent more than 15,000 people to area hospitals and shut down the heart of the refinery for months.
The safety board said in a public meeting April 5 that Chevron missed multiple opportunities to replace the pipe blamed for the blaze.
Chevron's own investigation revealed four "causal factors" that triggered the fire, which injured several workers and sent more than 15,000 people to area hospitals. The four factors were:
Political leaders said the report was further evidence that the fire should trigger big changes at the refinery and within the refining industry.
"Chevron's report underscores the need to conduct a full independent safety culture audit of the refinery as ordered by the county's Health Department last week," county Supervisor John Gioia, of Richmond, wrote in an email Friday. "It is clear that the refinery's process safety culture and decision-making procedures about equipment replacement need to be thoroughly reviewed."
Chevron officials hailed the report as a cause for refinery safety improvement.
"Our report concludes that the causes of the incident were multifaceted," Chevron said on its company Facebook page. "The refinery's management and our entire work force are implementing a comprehensive set of actions, not simply to address the issues underlying the August incident, but also as part of our commitment to continuous improvement."
In the report, Chevron emphasized what it described as numerous improvements in safety procedures and comprehensive component screenings to ensure that another incident does not occur.
Chevron has inspected every piping component "potentially susceptible to sulfidation corrosion," according to the report, a total of 4,600 pipes and pipe components in the massive refinery. Inspectors found four pipes that required replacement, according to the report.
Moving forward, the refinery will adhere to a new policy of inspecting 100 percent of piping components during inspections, rather than just selective screenings.
The Chevron report also suggested the refinery, which has long guarded technology secrets and prohibits visitors from taking photographs while on the property, will open up to more peer review and outside technical experts to get additional opinions on safety procedures and component quality.
The Chemical Safety Board is expected to go even further in its recommendations next week. CSB officials have said that regulators and outside experts need more access to refineries and must play a greater role in ensuring that safety procedures are followed and new science is incorporated into those standards.
The Aug. 6 fire shut down the No. 4 crude unit until last week, when the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) gave Chevron the green light to restart operations. Chevron anticipates resuming production in the unit by the end of June.
Friday's report comes ahead of a highly anticipated unveiling of the Chemical Safety Board's investigation findings and safety recommendations, scheduled for Monday. A community meeting on the findings is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. April 19 at the Richmond Civic Center.
Cal/OSHA issued more than 25 violations stemming from the fire and slapped the energy giant with more than $900,000 in fines, the biggest in the agency's history.
"As early as 2002 ... the Richmond refinery could have taken timely action to replace the piping that failed on Aug. 6," said Dan Tillema, the Chemical Safety Board's lead chemical incident investigator, during a public hearing April 5. "However, Chevron failed to do so."
Contact Robert Rogers at 510-262-2726. Follow him at Twitter.com/roberthrogers.


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Having been engineering director at one company that became public, and a founder and CTO of another, as well as a long time professional software engineer working at such companies as Matushita Electric (Panasonic), and even Rand McNally, yes, the people that make maps, I must admit, in all those occupations, I have at most rather infrequently encountered these Microsoft Windows operating systems I hear so many people talking so much about.
I recall Rob Limo once tried switching to using one of these Microsoft Windows systems for all his work, for a period I think of one week, so that he could write about the experience. I have on occasion seen these systems used by others of course. It is also not that I have no familiarity with those systems at all, but rather I have had enough experience that I'm not sure I would have the fortitude to endure something like that.
Perhaps I just don't understand the industry I work in, or why it would be so desirable to deploy insecure and unreliable operating systems provided by a sole source provider who has a history of illegal business practices. Perhaps we are failing to understand why these systems appear to be so popular. Some suggest it is about having desktop 'eye candy', though much of the eye candy I have seen being promised by Microsoft is already available in free operating systems today, without requiring one to purchase new hardware. Others suggest it is about games and applications, though I must confess I don't play games when I am at work, and I have not found any application I actually required in my professional career that a free software implementation did not exist for. Perhaps then it is something else holding back GNU/Linux desktop adoption, at least in the enterprise.
I am not suggesting GNU/Linux is immune to viruses, trojans, and spyware. However, software freedom, especially when combined with the exercise of sound software design practices, does I believe greatly reduce the prospects for virus outbreaks, as well as limiting the scope of damage that malware can do. Perhaps this is where the problem lies. Perhaps GNU/Linux is not doing well in the desktop market because it is failing to meet user expectations! Clearly the quality of the software is simply too high!
Perhaps what is needed is a crash course for our community in how to better write buggy and insecure code! Maybe we need to research how to make it necessary for the user to reboot a GNU/Linux desktop more often! Based on the market, major applications should clearly offer hooks for unintended installation of trojans and spyware, for we must conclude based on the proliferation of such software and soon to be widespread "Defective by Design" Digital Restriction Management, that users must actually enjoy or desire being spied upon. Even better, GNU/Linux vendors could work on developing the secret of product activation and validation, and offer the ability to claim the software some users have purchased is invalid, with the possibility to pay to call telephone support lines to provide them the means to re-purchase their existing software all over again. Clearly, if the computer industry is truly operating as a free market, and not in the hands of some monstrous predatory monopoly, this is the only logical conclusion we can reach!
Next week I will be away at conference; I am speaking at cluecon in Chicago. I am sure I will have something interesting to write about after that.
Cannot agree
The quality of OS software varies greatly. There are outstanding project and lousy ones.
The problem for the Desktop is user acceptance. Most of them are familiar with windows.
They need to change habbits.
Furthermore, getting started is often a pain in the ass if you are a newbie
Have you ever tried to setup a printer in KDE as a newbie? Plenty of question and no clue what they are referring to.
I could name other examples.
It is of course far easier for the admin, but if the boss feels happy with Windows you'll have bad cards trying to convert him. OS offers to many choices for most people. They are lost in the ocean of offers.
MS offers them the one solution to it all combined with excellent marketing.
No, it's about ease of setup
Honestly, it really is still about ease of setup. Not the basic install, which is already amazingly easy, but things like networking, sharing disk partitions, and printing.
On Linux systems we have venerable "old ways" of doing these things which are far more powerful, but sadly, still require some skill to get right. Then we have fledgling GUI ways to do them, but they are still buggy, have poor UI design, or are simply not advertised well enough to the user.
We still rely on people networks to communicate these things, and if you have the uncommon luck to have a Linux-savvy friend to help you out, you will generally find that they know and prefer "the old way" to do things. So, even if there is a fancy GUI config tool, they may not know or care about it, and therefore may not tell you about it.
Fewer people using the GUI, means less testing, which means buggier software, so that contributes to the slow acceptance of new solutions as well. Also, the fact that you don't have to re-install Linux very often means that we don't place much value on making the installation and setup easier, whereas this is one of the most active and well-maintained parts of Windows.
I don't particularly like doing these things on Windows, because I find the "think for you" interfaces more irritating than helpful, but if you don't know what you're doing, then defaults are good.
A good example is the current state of Linux Printing. I always use lprng on my home LAN, because I know how it works, but the current baby is CUPS, which is still pretty alien to me, and from what I've read, has an obtuse and unhelpful UI design, and from experience, is not as reliable as I'd like (e.g. my Mom managed to destroy her print queue in some irreparable way, though we still haven't figured out what happened).
Of course, her latest complaint is not being able to play WMV files (sigh). I still don't know of any free application that can do that, and I'm pretty sure it's currently illegal to write one in the United States, because of the DRM reverse-engineering issue.
Of course, momentum is a bigger factor than most people realize, too. There are a large number of factors that prevent people from switching O/S, regardless of what their present choice of O/S is.
Mepis setup less than 20 mins - windows about an hour with no ap
Mepis takes me about 20 minutes to setup entirely, windows takes over an hour not including office another 15 minutes. Mepis Linux has saved me so much time on the systems I've built and upgraded. Linux setup now is so much easier than windows. Installing Linux on older computers is easy and quick also. Last month I put Damn Small(DSL) on a friends old AMD K62/366, it took less than 10 minutes from boot to install!!!
Yeah, but...
Yeah, but how long would it have taken your friend to put it on there, without your help? Also, I'm not talking about getting it to boot, I'm talking about having the networking set up with his ISP, getting his printer to work, etc.
I personally have no problem setting up GNU/Linux systems, and I can get Debian going in far less time than Windows. But that's because I know what I'm doing.
At least part of the reason why Windows takes me longer is because I don't use Windows, so it's utterly alien to me. Most people are looking at it through the other end of the telescope, though.
RE: No, it's about ease of setup
All Linux boxes i have set up home and for others use CUPS without any bother, lprng is the one that causes problems on recent distros if you dare try it. You didn't mention your distro, but a search on google "WMV on firefox" or mozilla will bring up many hits.
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But there you go: why should
But there you go: why should lprng be a problem?
You've got two competing systems, and the trendy new one is playing havoc with the old one. That's precisely the sort of problem I'm talking about. And who's to say it's "lprng's fault" rather than "CUPS' fault" when the two don't get along!
why should lprng be a problem? A: It is not.
CUPS and lprng are alternatives, you don't usually run both at the same time.
CUPS is really nice, try it sometime. It comes installed on many modern distros, http://localhost:631.
Hope that helps.
Ubuntu is very very easy...
Ubuntu is very very easy... It was easier find my home network on ubuntu than on windows... updates are all at one click, install programs too... its safe, you install once and don't need to reinstall from time to time...
Still people are afraid of change, but they are not afraid of using old software like Windows XP SP2, even if they have no suport nor updates... they get trouble from time to time...
Ubuntu is like sex, if you haven't you won't miss, if you have...
Why are you guys taking this blog entry so seriously?
I can't help but feel that you may have missed the tongue in David Sugar's cheek on this entry.
Don't be silly, Dave...
Of course we recognize the sarcasm, but the sarcasm is begging the question. If it's not something foolish like this, then what is the "real" reason why Windows is so entrenched? This article feels to me like it's "playing dumb", pretending there are no legitimate problems with desktop GNU/Linux relative to Windows. Of course it does make a solid point that Windows is less secure, but that's preaching to the choir, I suspect!
I doubt there's just one reason, but the fact is that there are some good, solid, even technical reasons why Windows is still preferred by a lot of users.
There are good reasons to think that the benefits outweigh the costs, but I think it's still true that Windows still wins over novices because it has significant advantages right up front, when you're trying to get it to work. And once it has its foot in the door, the user isn't going to want to switch, even if there are significant long-term advantages to using Linux.
Developers (and power users) don't have much natural inclination to worry about those start-up problems, because they are a nuisance for a short-time only, and so we quickly forget that we even had those problems. At least until it comes time to set up some newbie friend or family member's computer. So it takes some extraordinary effort to get developers interested in solving these kinds of problems. Commercial enterprise distros may be a good source for that kind of effort, since they routinely need to install large deployments. Developing country computer reclamation programs may be even better, since they have the same problem, but on more diverse hardware.
Mind you, it's gotten better by leaps and bounds. I remember spending over two weeks getting ALSA 0.5 to work on my Thinkpad laptop a few years ago, while today, with ALSA integrated into the Linux 2.6 kernels, it's a snap, and I almost never have problem with sound configuration anymore. Due to the prevalence of proprietary 3D graphics cards, however, I continue to have major pains installing high-end graphics (e.g. to support video playback, open GL applications and games, etc), or I have to spend extra effort finding hardware that is supported. David says he doesn't have to worry about that stuff for work, but I do. Besides, for me and a lot of other users, the fun and games part matters -- my computer is for home as well as work.
Yeah sure...
If ease to setup and use is what users want, then why isn't the Mac the most popular platform?
Taking it seriously
Dave: Even if meant humorously I think it can still spark a serious discussion.
It's an interesting subject to me because I'm a fairly proficient Windows user who wants to switch to GNU/Linux. Even though familiar with Unix servers from my job, it's been daunting for me to learn how to use GNU/Linux on the desktop. It's not so hard to install and get started, but the prospect of being able to competently maintain the system and completely move away from all of my Windows apps is cause for much trepidation.
I've been using Windows for about 11 years now -- kind of a latecomer considering my first computer was a Commodore VIC20 -- and in that time I've become completely mired in it. It's very stable for me and I have a ton of apps and data that I use. Well, not a ton, but a lot. I like it, but I have a much stronger desire to be free than I do to stay with what I know and am comfortable with.
Maybe I'm just a dummy, but I think if people like me are struggling to make the move it demonstrates the challenge in front of us to increase the rate of adoption. Even with the will, the way can be hard. Now think about the people that don't even acknowledge the need for the change.
(I've heard many people make the argument that we shouldn't care about if people switch or not. I disagree. As a free sofware believer, I think we need people to make the switch, although I'm going to save that discussion for another time.)
I think we'll have a better chance of getting the Moms and Aunt Millies of the world to start using GNU/Linux. People that have never really used Windows or computers and have less to transition/relearn. I'd set my Mom up with GNU/Linux except that I don't feel confident yet in my ability to keep it running. (And I know that there are a lot of Moms and Aunt Millies that are computer savvy and men that aren't -- why didn't I pick on Uncle Elmer?)
Anyway, we take it seriously because we care :-)
I was going to say...
"Even if meant humorously I think it can still spark a serious discussion."
I know, I know. I just felt like no one acknowledged it, that's all.
Anyway, seriously, discuss on.
RE: The secret of GNU/Linux desktop adoption
My experience is similar, having used Linux exclusively for many years both at home and to get work done for the Corporation before retirement. I have installed Linux on x86, x86_64, SPARC and Mainframes. Guys at work were somewhat puzzled when they knew I was using Linux as my sole OS for doing all the stuff they could do on Windows and then some - considered a "Linux Bigot" as I was once introduced to a customer seeking advice on installing Linux on his Mainframe. Now, these guys were professionals working on Mainframes and SPARC servers, right up at the high end, but were welded solidly to Windows. The main apps I needed for work were X3270, xdm to login to multiple Solaris partitions, StarOffice/OpenOffice.org, Lotus Notes under wine, Citrix Linux client and Cisco VPN client for Linux.
I have a few people, one 75+ year old and one 66+ year old, both new to computers and they have Linux installed as their sole OS, doing word processing, spreadsheets, email, surfing the web, skype, Instant messaging, playing music CD's, WMV files, digital cameras, printing, wireless (66+ year old), LAN and cable modem setup (75+ year old) and all the usual stuff, no complaints about something not working, computer running slow caused by virus infections, spyware or malware as with people running Windows and asking a dyed in the wool Linux guy like me to fix their problems.
One thing I noticed in my long career is that computing folk are not the easiest to get to embrace change and the same goes for the majority of the populus. As on colleague once recounted, you would see a guy in the office intense at his laptop, seemingly super productive, then when you get close, he's muttering, "I thought I'd saved that", "XYZ doesn't work", "I think I have a virus", "I'll reboot and see if that fixes it", etc., etc. - the same guy who will tell you tomorrow that he has no problems with Windows - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when it comes to desktop computing.
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RE: The secret of GNU/Linux desktop adoption
"...the same guy who will tell you tomorrow that he has no problems with Windows - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when it comes to desktop computing."
But this can apply to GNU/Linux also, right? I occasionally have problems with Windows, but I suspect it's no different with Linux or the Mac. For the guy who says his Linux installation is rock solid, we'll never find him struggling with the beast?
device drivers missing
Another reason people don't want to switch to linux is that some device drivers are missing for linux, so they can't use their favorite hardwares (e.g. printer, camera).
Some companies don't provide device driver for linux.
I had emailed to them but they don't want to provide device driver for linux because the demand is low. It is a catch-22 problem. Too small demand, too small supply and too small supply, too small demand.
Rob Limo?
Who's this Rob Limo guy? I guess you mean mr. Robin Miller a.k.a. "Roblimo"?


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There have been several recent wrecks around town and many of them were deadly. News 12 shows you a growing program in Columbia County hoping to stop teen wrecks.
Greenbrier student Jessica Beall has only been driving for eight months, but has already learned some rules of the road.
"Most of the time it's not that bad. In the parking lot here at school it's really crazy because everybody's trying to leave at the same time. That's the only time it's really bad," said Beall said.
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And just down the street from Greenbrier High School is a daily reminder for all students. On William Few Parkway is a small memorial for Ryan Powell, a Greenbrier student who died when a car crashed into this pole more than a year ago.
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29.01.2013 - Instead of renewing his contract, Bayer Healthcare AG Chairman Jörg Reinhardt (56) is seeking new opportunities.
The member of Bayer's Executive Council is standing for election as Director and non-executive Chairman at Novartis, and hopes to follow Daniel Vasella in the post. Board member Wolfgang Plischke will take over Reinhardt's role at Bayer. The pharma executive is returning to his roots. He began his career with Sandoz in 1981, which became part of Novartis 15 years later. In 2008, Reinhardt became COO of the Novartis Group, and in 2012 he was appointed to the Board of Lonza Group AG in Basel.
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Sylvia Hacker, 95, of Montevideo, died on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at the St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud.
Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday, May 15, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Montevideo with Rev. Donald S. McKee officiating. Interment was in Sunset Memorial Cemetery.
Sylvia (Molden) Hacker was born on February 16, 1917 in rural Watson to Eddy and Clara (Hanson) Molden. She grew up in the rural Watson area and graduated from Montevideo High School. She attended Normal Training in Monte-video and taught in rural schools for two years. On June 19, 1938 she was united in marriage to Henry W. Hacker in Watson. They farmed in the Montevideo area for many years. She was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church and was involved with women's church groups She enjoyed card playing, bowling, going out for coffee, cooking, baking, dancing, and music. She also enjoyed traveling, politics, collecting recipes, learning new things and planned and designed her home.
She is survived by four children: Clara Aly of Pasadena, California; Henry E. Hacker of Hopkins; Betty (Charlie) Harguth of Maynard and Paul Hacker of Montevideo; grandchildren: Rhonda (Harguth) Helm, Vincent Harguth, Abigail Hacker and Henry P. Hacker; great grandchildren: Jennessa and Makayla Helm and KaiteLynn, Jessica and Andrew Harguth; as well as by a number of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Henry in 1993, and by two sisters, Margaret Christensen and Olga Hilden.
Organist: Tim Burns
Vocalist: Brenda Santa-mont, "One Day At A Time"
Congregational Hymns: "Amazing Grace", "Now Thank We All Our God", and "Beautiful Savior".
Casket Bearers: Grand-children Rhonda Helm and Vincent Harguth; Abby Hacker and Henry P. Hacker, great grandchildren Jennessa, Makayla, KaiteLynn, Jessica and Andrew.
Arrangements were with Anderson Funeral Home of Montevideo.
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