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This publication contains general information about Paget's disease of bone. It describes what Paget's disease is, its causes, and treatment options. Highlights of current research are also included. At the end is a list of key words to help you understand the terms used in this publication. If you have further questions, you may wish to discuss them with your health care provider.
Paget's disease of bone is a chronic disorder in which excessive breakdown and formation of bone tissue can lead to bone enlargement, weakening, and fractures, as well as pain and arthritis in the joints near the affected bones (see box "Bone Biology").
Unlike some other bone diseases, which affect all of the bones of the body, Paget's disease typically affects just one or a few bones. The most commonly affected bones are those of the pelvis, skull, spine, and legs.
A less common form of Paget's disease, called early-onset familial Paget's disease of bone, shows up in a person's teens or twenties. The early-onset form is similar to the classic form of the disorder except that it is more likely to affect the skull, spine, ribs, and small bones of the hands. It is also associated with hearing loss early in life.
Just because you have stopped growing taller, doesn't mean your bones have stopped growing. Bone is living tissue that goes through a constant process of growth and renewal, called remodeling. This process, which is designed to supply the body with strong, healthy bone for a lifetime, occurs in two stages: bone resorption and bone formation. During resorption, cells called osteoclasts on the bones' surface absorb old bone, creating small holes in the bone. During formation, the holes are systematically filled by bone-forming cells called osteoblasts.
When the process is working as it should, resorption and formation are balanced and responsive to the stresses placed on the bone. Much like muscles, bones that are worked grow stronger to meet the demands placed on them.
In Paget's disease, however, this process is disrupted. Early in the disease process, bone resorption begins to outpace bone formation—old bone breaks down faster than new bone is built. Over time, your body overcompensates by speeding up bone formation. The new bone that is formed is abnormally large, weak, brittle, and prone to fractures.
For many people, Paget's disease causes no symptoms. Some people have symptoms, but attribute them to other causes. Often people don't realize they have the disease until they see a doctor about complications from it. Symptoms, when they occur, can include:
Symptoms get worse slowly, and the disease does not spread to other bones.
Beyond Bones: How Other Parts of the Body Can Be Affected by Paget's Disease
Although Paget's is a disease of bone, its complications can affect other body parts and functions, as well. Following are some of the possible complications.
Uncommon in people under age 40, Paget's disease grows more common with age. The condition is more common in people of Anglo-Saxon descent in certain geographical areas including England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe. It is not common in Scandinavia, China, Japan, or India.
Paget's disease tends to occur in families. Research suggests that having a close relative with Paget's disease makes you 7 to 10 times more likely to develop the disorder than someone without an affected relative.
Doctors do not know the exact cause of Paget's disease, but the fact that the condition tends to run in families suggests that genes play a role. Several genes have been identified that appear to increase a person's chances of having the disease.
However, genes alone are unlikely to cause the disorder. Though it has not been proven definitively, many doctors believe that something in the environment contributes to the development of Paget's disease in people who are genetically predisposed. Some scientists are studying the possibility that a slow-acting virus may cause Paget's disease.
A diagnosis of Paget's disease is often made or confirmed by x ray. X rays of bone affected by Paget's often show characteristic features. These may include a classical v-shaped pattern between healthy and diseased long bones, known as the blade of grass lesion, and patches of bone thickening, typically in the skull, referred to as the cotton wool pattern because of its poorly defined and fluffy appearance on x ray.
Other tests used in the diagnosis of Paget's disease are:
Paget's disease is often diagnosed and treated by endocrinologists or rheumatologists. Endocrinologists are doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating hormonal conditions. Rheumatologists are doctors who specialize in disorders of the joints, connective tissues, and muscles.
Other doctors may treat different specific symptoms or complications of Paget's disease. These include:
The goals of Paget's disease treatment are to control excessive bone breakdown and formation, reduce the risk of complications, and ease bone and joint pain. In more severe, advanced cases it may also involve repairing fractures, correcting bone deformity, and replacing joints damaged by the disease. Treatment includes the following:
Several types of medications may be used in Paget's disease treatment.1 They include:
1All medicines can have side effects. Some medicines and side effects are mentioned in this publication. Some side effects may be more severe than others. You should review the package insert that comes with your medicine and ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have any questions about the possible side effects.
Several over-the-counter (OTC) medications may help ease the pain associated with Paget's disease. For more severe pain that does not respond to OTC medications, doctors may recommend a prescription pain reliever.
Although medications can often regulate bone growth and minimize complications, surgery may be necessary to correct problems that result from irregular bone growth, including:
Aside from following your doctor's prescribed treatment, there are things you can do to be healthier and help reduce risk of complications. Here are some to do now:
Recommended Calcium and Vitamin D Intakes
|Life-stage group
|Calcium mg/day
|Vitamin D (IU/day)
|Infants 0 to 6 months
|Infants 6 to 12 months
|1 to 3 years old
|4 to 8 years old
|9 to 13 years old
|14 to 18 years old
|19 to 30 years old
|31 to 50 years old
|51- to 70-year-old males
|51- to 70-year-old females
|>70 years old
|14 to 18 years old, pregnant/lactating
|19 to 50 years old, pregnant/lactating
Definitions: mg = milligrams; IU = International Units
Source: Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 2010.
Paget's disease is rarely fatal. For most people with the disorder, the prognosis is good, particularly if they begin treatment before major changes have occurred in the affected bones. Because early diagnosis and treatment is important to minimize complications, doctors may recommend that family members of people with Paget's disease (who face an increased risk of the disorder themselves) have an alkaline phosphatase blood test every 2 to 3 years beginning around age 40. If the level is elevated, suggesting possible Paget's disease, bone scans or x rays may be used to verify the diagnosis, so that treatment can begin early in the disease process. Although treatment is effective at controlling symptoms and minimizing the risk of complications, it cannot cure Paget's disease. A small percentage of people with Paget's disease—perhaps less than 1 in 1,000—develop a rare type of bone cancer called osteosarcoma, which may be treated with surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy.
Researchers are working to identify the most effective and safe treatments for Paget's disease and looking for new targets for drug therapy.
Researchers are also beginning to target factors that link bone resorption (or breakdown) and bone formation, two processes that must work in concert to provide us with healthy bones (see box "Bone Biology"). In Paget's disease, the processes of bone resorption and formation remain coupled, but both proceed at abnormally high rates, producing excessive bone of poor quality. Scientists are also continuing to examine the causes and mechanisms of Paget's disease, including the genes that are involved. Identifying and better understanding the genes involved in the disease could help doctors predict who may be at risk for it and could lead to the development of specific therapies not only to slow damage, but perhaps to stop and could even reverse the damage. The role of environmental factors—such as viruses—in the development of Paget's is just beginning to be clarified. Researchers are exploring whether such factors contribute to the development of the disease in people who are genetically predisposed.
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Alkaline phosphatase blood test. A test that measures blood levels of an enzyme made by bone cells and overproduced by bones affected by Paget's disease. A highly elevated level of this enzyme may indicate a diagnosis of the disorder.
Bisphosphonates. A type of medication that works to control excessive bone breakdown and formation that occurs in Paget's disease. Bisphosphonates are commonly used medications to treat Paget's disease.
Blade of grass lesion. A v-shaped pattern between healthy and diseased long bones that may show up on x rays in people with Paget's disease. The presence of the pattern is useful in diagnosing the disorder.
Bone biopsy. A test in which a small sample of bone is removed and examined under a microscope. Biopsies are sometimes used to confirm a diagnosis of Paget's disease or to rule out bone cancer.
Bone scan. A test in which a small amount of radioactive dye is injected into a vein in the arm and allowed to circulate through the bloodstream. A special camera is then used to scan the bones and detect areas of increased blood flow or bone-forming cells. Bone scans may be used to diagnose Paget's disease and to determine its extent and activity.
Calcitonin. A medication derived from salmon. It is similar to a hormone made by the thyroid gland that regulates blood 18 levels of calcium and phosphate and promotes the formation of new bone. It is sometimes used in Paget's disease treatment.
Cotton wool appearance. A fluffy, poorly defined patch on an x ray, typically of the skull, due to bone thickening. Its appearance is useful in the diagnosis of Paget's disease.
Endocrinologist. A doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions involving hormones and metabolism. Endocrinologists commonly treat Paget's disease.
Heart failure. A condition in which the heart is unable to deliver enough blood to meet the body's needs. In people with extensive Paget's disease, the heart may have to work harder to pump blood to affected areas of the body. If the heart is already damaged, the increased workload may lead to heart failure.
Osteoarthritis. A joint disease that occurs when the cartilage that cushions the ends of the bones where they meet to form joints wears away, leading to pain, stiffness, and the formation of bony outgrowths called spurs. Osteoarthritis is a common long-term complication of Paget's disease.
Osteoblasts. Bone-forming cells. In Paget's disease, overactivity of osteoblasts leads to bone that is abnormally large, weak, and brittle.
Osteoclasts. Cells on the bones' surfaces that absorb old bone, creating small holes in the bone to be filled by bone-forming cells called osteoblasts.
Orthopaedic surgeon. A doctor who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of injuries, disorders, and diseases of the musculoskeletal system, which includes bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, nerves, and tendons.
Osteosarcoma. A rare type of bone cancer that can occur as a complication of Paget's disease. It is estimated to affect less than 1 in 1,000 patients with Paget's disease.
Otolaryngologists. Doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions of the ear, nose, and throat. People with Paget's disease may see an otolaryngologist for some of the complications of their disease.
Rheumatologists. Doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating disorders of the joints and muscles.
X ray. A test in which an x-ray beam is passed through the body to create a two-dimensional picture of the bones. X rays are used to diagnose Paget's disease.
The NIAMS gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following individuals in the preparation and review of the original version of this publication: Kenneth W. Lyles, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Duke University and VA Medical Centers, Durham, NC; G. David Roodman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Charlene Waldman, Executive Director, The Paget Foundation, New York, NY; Joan A. McGowan, Ph.D., Director, Division of Musculoskeletal Diseases, NIAMS/NIH; and William J. Sharrock, Ph.D., Director, Integrated Physiology and Genetics of Bone Program, Division of Musculoskeletal Diseases, NIAMS/NIH.
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World's 11 best places for helicopter skiing -- from Alaska to New Zealand
Rob Hodgetts, for CNN • Updated 19th February 2016
Whop, whop, whop, whop. The thump of the rotors fades as the helicopter lifts away. Silence, just for a moment -- a chance to drink in the pristine peaks.
Then the rush of excited chatter as skis or snowboard are clicked on and the group turns to listen to the guide.
Hearts beat faster, like the noise of the aircraft that brought you here. Now it's time to plunge into paradise ...
Heli-skiing is the ultimate challenge for the powder-hungry skier or boarder in the never-ending quest to carve tracks in soft snow.
Leaving the lifts and crowds far behind, it takes winter sports to a higher plane.
Like all of life's luxuries it doesn't come cheap -- and bad-weather days are an occupational hazard. But if powder is the priority, there's a heli adventure out there for everyone from decent intermediates to movie-making hotshots.
As legendary ski film maker Warren Miller puts it: "If you don't go this year, you will be one year older when you do."
1. Alaska -- Chugach Range
The authentic Alaska experience, and the setting for so many extreme ski movies.
Big mountains, big lines, steep and deep.
The Chugach Mountains surrounding Valdez receive an annual average of nearly 700 inches (17.7 meters) of snow.
Being near the coast means the snow is moist and therefore more stable on steep slopes.
Valdez Heli-Ski Guides
specialize in big mountains and small groups, with four guests per ship accessing Alaska's famed spines, couloirs and iconic terrain.
Its benchmark Eurocopter A-Star B2 helicopter delivers passengers atop leg-jellying runs averaging 3,000 to 5,000 vertical feet (914 to 1,524 meters).
Afterward, the Tsaina Lodge offers gourmet dining with views over Washington Glacier. Seven-day packages start at $10,806.
Big-name extreme skier Dean Cummings'
H20 Guides
are based in Valdez, while
Chugach Powder Guides
operate out of Girdwood in the western Chugach.
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2. Alaska -- Tordrillo
The Alaska Range is home to Denali, North America's highest mountain.
Epic terrain, Denali views, stable weather, wilderness lodge.
From Anchorage, a short float plane hop to Judd Lake reaches Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, a luxury retreat featuring two separate wilderness lodges, co-owned by 1994 Olympic downhill skiing champion Tommy Moe.
Tommy's taxis fly people into 1.2 million acres of heli heaven in the shadow of North America's highest peak, Denali (Mount McKinley), at 20,310 feet.
The heavily glaciated Alaska Range is on a grand scale and offers endless terrain options to keep skiers challenged, with runs that top out at 7,500 feet and more stable weather than other Alaskan spots.
Tordrillo Mountain Lodge offers seven days heli-skiing with five hours flying from $13,000.
3. British Columbia -- Bella Coola
Fluffy snow, spiritual setting, heli holy land.
This place is home to the First Nation community of Nuxalk people in the Coast Range of British Columbia, and is a gateway to nirvana for skiers and boarders.
Bella Coola Heli Sports has access to a blade-busting 2.64 million acres of prime Pacific powder -- light and dry in the mellower east, more stable for steep skiing in the west.
That's 325 times the size of Whistler-Blackcomb, 90 times the size of France's vast Trois Vallees and, heck, bigger than the Swiss Alps.
And with only 36 guests between three luxury lodges -- Tweedsmuir Park Lodge features in
TripAdvisor's Top 25 Small Hotels (Canada)
-- you'll never owe anyone a beer by crossing their tracks.
There's so much terrain -- 73,333 acres per person -- powder 11s, not powder 8s, are the order of the day.
Or in the summer there's heli-fishing.
Bella Coola Heli Sports' Classic Vertical package offers seven nights and eight possible ski days -- guests can heli-ski straight from the airport on arrival and departure days -- with 100,000 vertical feet of skiing from $7,834.
At Rocky Mountain National Park, skiers take on highest peaks
4. British Columbia -- Revelstoke
The epicenter of BC backcountry.
What happens when moist Pacific air meets cold, dry air from the Rockies? "Revy" cops the mother lode, that's what -- 40 to 60 feet a year of powder so light and fluffy it could be used to stuff a comforter.
If that isn't enough, there's Bighorn Lodge.
This ultra-luxe alpine-style chalet for 16 overlooking the Columbia River at the foot of Revelstoke Mountain Resort has its own helipad out front.
Guests can choose from one of three heli operators --
Canadian Mountain Holidays
Eagle Pass
-- and soar up to the Selkirk and Monashee mountain ranges.
They'll need pockets as deep as the snow, but floating down open bowls gulping in white champagne, or whooping and hollering through old growth forests with just three pals and a guide is priceless.
costs $79,160 for the lodge in a high-season week, excluding heli-skiing. The helicopter will clock up $1,223 per person, per day.
5. British Columbia -- Mica
Powder of the finest kind + a tree-skier's paradise far from the crowds = Mica magic.
Two hours north of Revelstoke, Mica Heli Sports mines a 500-square-mile claim at the convergence of the Rocky, Selkirk and Accessible only by chopper, Mica Lodge is an elegant stay located high above the Columbia River, with access to 11 valleys with a variety of terrain, from steep alpine lines in Tsar Creek to the forests of Molson and Kinbasket Valleys.
Memories of runs called things like Pillow Talk, Mr. Wiggles, Melt Down, High Sweetness and Saddle Soar will sustain skiers for at least a couple of months back at their desks.
Canadian Mountain Holidays, which pioneered BC heli-skiing when Austrian expat Hans Gmoser set up the outfit in 1965, operate their Monashees base a short hop away.
Mica Heli Sports
, from $9,658 for seven days;
CMH Monashees
6. Switzerland -- Zermatt
Zermatt is one of Europe's leading winter sports resorts.
Big descents amid alpine giants, majestic Matterhorn views, rich mountain culture.
Heli-skiing in Europe is a slightly different game, more limited by where you can drop than by snow conditions.
Air Zermatt lifts passengers above the roofs of the picturesque old town for a quick buzz of the Matterhorn before settling the skids near the summit of western Europe's second highest mountain, the Monte Rosa (15,200 feet).
Surrounded by other 13,000-foot giants such as the Lyskamm and Breithorn, the vast Gorner Glacier stretches out below 8,200 feet of slopes -- via a pit stop at the glimmering aluminum Monte Rosa hut at 9,458 feet.
Other favorite drops are on the Alphubel, the Aeschhorn in the shadow of the mighty Weisshorn or the Testa Grigia on the border with Italy.
Or the chopper can be used as an aerial elevator up the big slogs of the famous Haute Route from Zermatt-Chamonix, saving legs for the many stunning descents.
Air Zermatt charges $394 per person for a drop on Monte Rosa, including the guide's fee.
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7. Japan -- Hokkaido
So Instagrammable. Let's say it with hashtags: #deep #snowfactory #bringyoursnorkel #sushi #sake
Like floating through cold smoke, skiing in Japan is a revelation on and off the hill.
It might be called the Land of the Rising Sun, but in winter Siberian storms dump industrial quantities of snow -- the northern island of Hokkaido receives up to 60 feet of snow annually.
A helicopter just increases the options -- skiing on dormant volcanoes and through perfectly spaced birch trees in powder so deep that a snorkel would come in handy.
Niseko resort is big into night skiing.
Or visitors can relax in an onsen (hot springs) and contemplate life, powder and sushi.
Hokkaido Backcountry Club
runs daily trips to the 3,631 foot Shiribetsu-Dake volcano starting from $852.
8. New Zealand -- Southern Alps
For northern hemisphere dwellers seeking an endless winter, and southerners with a sense of adventure.
Southern Lakes Heli-Ski operates out of Queenstown and Wanaka from July to September, with access to 3,200 square miles across 11 different mountain ranges, including the Clark Glacier.
Most terrain lies between 3,937 and 8,480 feet, with a typical run from 1,968 to 3,280 feet vertical.
Single-day trips are more the norm in
New Zealand
but there is something for everyone -- from three-run intro trips to the full luxury lodge experience, staying at the Minaret Station wilderness retreat or on board a private yacht moored on Lake Wakatipu.
Southern Lakes Heli-Ski's four-run classic trip costs $653, with extra runs at $72.
9. India -- Himachal Pradesh
Heli fun on a Himalayan scale, with a vibrant valley for downtime.
An hour's flight north of Delhi lies the hill station of Manali, known as the Valley of the Gods.
Then it's up to 16,400 feet for lung-bursting descents among Himalayan giants.
The Himachal Pradesh region has everything on the heli hit list, from skiing steep summits to racing down ridges, and plunging into birch, oak and cedar forests.
The action will, literally, take any skier's breath away, if the vast views of nearby 21,325 foot peaks haven't already.
Off the hill, the exotic Kullu Valley and its stimulating culture excite the senses as much as the skiing.
Elemental Adventure
's Himalayan Odyssey package offers six days' heli-skiing including 100,000 vertical feet from $7,607.
10. Russia -- Kamchatka
Untamed, raw, wild and like nowhere anyone has skied before.
Burning thigh muscles might not be the only thing on fire in this remote wilderness.
The vast Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea is home to 200 volcanoes -- 29 of which are active.
But geomorphology isn't why people come here.
It's to ride big Russian choppers up smoking summits and hurtle down volcanic faces, couloirs, open bowls and tree runs until they end up on the beach.
The capital Petropavlovsk is the base, but the UNESCO World Heritage back-country is the playground.
With a highest landing zone at 11,388 feet, some descents can nudge 9,840 feet.
EA Heli-skiing offers a seven-night Fire and Ice package with eight hours of flying time for $6,628.
11. Luxury yacht -- anywhere
Why not?
If an off-the-peg heli-skiing trip is too mundane, luxury yacht owners can simply sail within touching distance of mountains and jump on a helicopter from their deck each morning.
The beauty is they can keep moving, sniffing out new spots.
Skippers can deliver the yacht to the inland waterways of Alaska, British Columbia, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, wherever.
Then it's just a matter of flying into the ultimate in ultimate.
Don't have a yacht but like the idea? That can be arranged. But anyone who has to ask how much it costs probably can't afford it.
Elemental Adventure.
Rob Hodgetts
has worked for CNN Sport, BBC Sport, BBC News and Reuters and reported from numerous Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as the U.S. Masters and Ryder Cup.
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Cyclists mash up Google maps
The cycling community has peddled out Australia's first sophisticated mash-up based on the local street mapping data recently added to Google's local mapping tools.
Google Maps allows third parties to overlay their own data or statistics over detailed street maps on their website and the new mash up Bikely was established to share knowledge of good bicycle routes among the cycling community.
"Bikely is very young right now. What it needs more than anything is people like you to submit your favorite bike paths," the website said.
Until last month, Australians only had access to satellite data and maps on Google Maps excluding place names, roads and streets. Prior to the release of street data, some enthusiasts resorted to creating mash-ups by overlaying their data over basic satellite imagery.
Their contributions range from tourism and special interest sites to general interest mash-ups such as RoadWatch that maps out locations of speed and red light cameras.
Mike Pegg, who maintains the Google Maps Mania blog, said last month that based on the current level of activity he expected a lot of mash ups from Australia. However he wrote on his blog this week that the movement had not progressed as fast as he had hoped.
"The number of new mapping applications created using the Google Maps API and marrying Australian based information has been slow to get off the mark," he said.
While Google Maps is yet to officially launch its local service in Australia, the addition of street data moves the service a step further for users. However the company is yet to introduce sophisticated search functions and other services aligned with its local mapping rollout.
Google first launched Google Maps early last year, which at the time comprised mainly satellite data but also included street maps in USA and Canada. Street maps for Ireland and Japan were introduced soon after, and then the offering was expanded across parts of Europe.
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Ashley Tisdale has apparently decided to switch things up a little bit this holiday season.
The High School Musical beauty was seen leaving the Byron & Tracey in Beverly Hills, CA, Tuesday afternoon, with a new, noticeably darker, hairdo.
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Coats are a recurring topic when it comes to winter fashions and can sometimes be the only form of style expression during the season. I have previously mentioned coats that allow a Fashionista to stand out through its different colours, fabrics and specialty added details but have yet to include a fully patterned winter coat as an example. I was excited to stumble upon this Fashionista due to the fact that her faux fur leopard print coat will finally allow me to write about patterned coats. Patterns always involve risk-taking, and, when we're talking about coats, it becomes comparable to that ever important leap taken before bungee jumping. In terms of right choices, this Fashionista just experienced the jump of her life. Her coat brought excitement and life onto an otherwise cold gloomy winter's day.
Her coat not only resembled a leopard through its similar pattern but also through its fur resembling material. The coat's mixture of pattern and fabric allowed it to be sensed at leopard fast speeds by the style taste buds in my eyes. A fully fur coat can seem to be a bit too extravagant for campus. Leopard print also has the potential to become overbearing. If fur and leopard are put into the same coat, how does the coat become the perfect amount of appropriate? And how can you incorporate other patterns into the outfit without overflowing it with content? The key is in the colours. This Fashionista paired her coat with black leggings, black studded boots, leopard printed fingerless gloves and a gray and maroon tribal patterned scarf. All these colours are muted and provide the perfect contrast against the leopard print and faux fur fabric. Since her scarf is not a repeated methodical pattern, it differed from the leopard print and formed a harmonious symphony of patterns against it.
Do you want to hone into your inner animal during this winter season? These three coats by Dorothy Perkins, By Malene Birger and NASTY GAL will enable to you tack this persona spot on.


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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:26 AM
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Artur Davis: GOP wont make gains with blacks, should focus on Latinos and blue collars
(Yes I know this is a Daily Caller story, but I found this from this black blogger who's not a conservative, and Daily Caller is the only outlet reporting on the former Democratic US rep's comments.)
In the wake of Mitt Romneys defeat, former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, one of the presidents most famous detractors, stressed the Republican Partys need to expand its appeal among Latinos and white working-class voters.
In an post-election interview, the four-term former Democratic representative who seconded the official nomination of Barack Obama in 2008 and went on to speak at the 2012 Republican National Convention told The Daily Caller that Romneys single-minded focus on the economy was a big factor in his loss on Election Day.
The problem with the message that was focused exclusively on the economy is that economic numbers change, he said. And you saw that, over the course of the campaign, it was not uncommon back in January and February for Romney and other Republicans to describe the economy as the worst economy that we had had in fill in the blank, some would say a generation, some would say since the depression. As the year progressed, even though the rate of job growth was tepid by historic standards, you saw measurable movement in consumer confidence over the course of this year.
full interview (3 pages long): http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/09/artur-davis-gop-wont-make-big-gains-with-blacks-should-focus-on-latinos-and-working-class-voters/
Does this Davis guy have ANY principles to stand on? From being a Blue Dog Democrat to a Republican and now admitting that the Republicans will never win among black voters and should just give up already?
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:36 AM
Tutonic (2,522 posts)
1. Ha ha ha. The Daily Caller. That's like eating a turd
and calling it a chocolate chip cookie. It may be edible but you know it ain't right. Sorry.
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:46 AM
iemitsu (2,577 posts)
2. Their problem is the idea that they should target groups
to "win over". The approach is too insincere.
If any political party truly wants to win over voters they ought to offer programs and policies that benefit voters. All voters or most anyway. Not just old white voters, or black voters, or Asian voters or Latino voters, or just the rich, or the poor, but voters, as broad a spectrum of the people as possible. Then offer government that benefits all or most of the citizens.
That is how to attract voters.
Think the republicans will try that strategy?
Response to iemitsu (Reply #2)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:51 AM
bluestate10 (10,942 posts)
3. You're right. Policy is what's killing the republican party. nt
Response to bluestate10 (Reply #3)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 05:09 AM
iemitsu (2,577 posts)
5. Yeah, it doesn't do much for the dems either
but they are way better than repubs.
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:54 AM
Elwood P Dowd (8,753 posts)
4. He is looking to make big $$$$ working for the repukes as a media whore. (nm)
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 05:28 AM
jmowreader (36,143 posts)
6. Quite a few things wrong here
Romney didn't focus only on the economy, unless you want to call repealing Obamacare an economic issue. Romney portrayed repeal as a cure for everything including foot fungus.
Romney's biggest problem is he was going to attack a problem Obama is solving - the economy - with the programs and policies that caused it in the first place. Romney liked to talk about Greece a lot...well, Greece's problem is their repeated attempts to fix an economic disaster caused by austerity with more austerity - so much austerity, in fact, the citizenry has stopped paying taxes. So what does Romney want to do to fix America's austerity program? The same as Greece, but with permission granted to stop paying taxes.
Insanity is defined as any Republican economic policy.
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:45 AM
JoeyT (6,785 posts)
7. No, he doesn't have any principles to stand on.
He's a Republican that barely managed to hide it, and then only some of the time. He actually tried to decrease the minority vote in Alabama by supporting voter ID laws.


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The state Representative for Eureka and most of Pacific, Republican Tim Jones, has been caught on audio tape bragging about trying to lower wages in Missouri.
In the tape, which can be heard at www.progressmissouri.org, Rep. Jones confesses he has been talking with legislators from Michigan on ways to "spin" right-to-work for less legislation to unsuspecting Missourians.
Of course, Rep. Jones knows that residents of right-to-work for less states earn $1,500 less per year than workers in "responsible" states like Missouri, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Mr. Jones was speaking to an audience of corporate bosses and CEO's when he was caught on tape. These folks know they have to "spin" this legislation because it perverts the American belief in responsibility.
In fact, all right-to-work does is allow workers represented by a union to avoid paying dues while still receiving all the representation services and contractual benefits of the union.
In the interests of fairness, I wonder if Rep. Jones is huddling with lawmakers from other states to push legislation that will require corporations, lobbying groups like the Chamber of Commerce, even neighborhoods to provide their goods and services free of charge to anyone that wants them? For example, will neighborhood associations have to put up with the freeloader that moves in knowing there are association fees to provide the pool, park, and road services that make the neighborhood a good place to live?
Mr. Jones could call this right-to-live for less. It could also be called — wrong.
Rep. Tim Jones and his corporate supporters may have gotten used to the idea that society owes them, that they can take from communities without compensation, but most Missourians feel differently.
In a responsible society, responsible people pay for what they use.
Let's hope Tim Jones takes the state motto, the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law, seriously and spends less time chatting with other states' legislators on ways to "spin" lower wages to Missourians and more time proposing legislation to raise the wages of Show-Me state workers.


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- Basketball Prospectus is yet another site using a computer model to rank teams and places Cornell No. 196 out of 345 in the preseason ranking.
- The Syracuse blog, Nunes Magician, speculates that the Orange will still likely attempt to schedule Cornell annually even with Syracuse's pending move to the ACC.
- Hoosier Tracker keeps tabs on Indiana natives playing Division I basketball and writes, "Errick Peck ( Cathedral ) spent most of last year in street clothes nursing a knee injury. As a Sophomore the Ivy leaguer averaged 11 ppg and 3.6 rpg while playing 23 minutes a game. Cornell loses their top two scorer from last year, so Peck will have the chance to step back in a make a difference."
- The Ithaca Journal recaps the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll:
ITHACA — A year after finishing fifth in the Ivy League standings with a 7-7 conference record, the Cornell men's basketball team was picked to finish one place better in the 2012 Ivy League Preseason media poll, announced on Thursday.The Big Red, which returns 10 of its top 12 scorers from last season, received 80 points for fourth place in the poll, voted on by local and national media representatives.Princeton, last year's league runner-up, was the near-unanimous preseason favorite, picking up 16 of the 17 first-place votes and 134 total points. Defending champion Harvard collected the lone remaining first-place vote and was second with 109 points, while Columbia was third.Under Coach Bill Courtney, who is entering his third year on East Hill, Cornell improved its win totals both overall and in Ivy League play in 2011-12 from the previous year, finishing 12-16 overall.Gone from last year's squad are guards Chris Wroblewski and Drew Ferry, the team's top two scorers last year at 11.5 and 11.3 points per game, respectively. Wroblewski graduated as the program's all-time leader in assists and the school's 13th 1,000-point scorer.The Big Red return last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year in forward Shonn Miller (8.9 ppg.) and honorable mention All-Ivy senior guard Johnathan Gray (8.8 ppg.), as well as senior forward Errick Peck, back after missing the entire 2011-12 campaign with a knee injury."We feel like we have some depth and that's going to give us the ability to do some things we want to do, particularly on the defensive end of the floor," Courtney said during Thursday's Ivy League preseason media teleconference. "So we're excited. We're hoping that some guys that didn't get a chance to play as much last year, or guys that did, step up their game another level so that we're ready to compete."Cornell opens its season on Nov. 10 at Newman Arena against Western Michigan. The Big Red faces a rugged out-of-conference schedule that includes games at Wisconsin (Nov. 18), Arizona State (Nov. 20), Vanderbilt (Dec. 17) and Duke (Dec. 19) before its Ivy League opener on Jan. 19, 2013, against Columbia."We really want to test ourselves in our non-conference portion of the schedule," said Courtney. "We feel like that better prepares us for the Ivy League season."
(First-place votes in parentheses)
Rank School Points
1. Princeton (16) 134
2. Harvard (1) 109
3. Columbia 90
4. Cornell 80
5. Penn 74
6. Yale 55
7. Brown 50
8. Dartmouth 20
- Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) scored 5 points (2/4 FGs), grabbed 3 rebounds and 1 steal while contributing no turnovers in 10 minutes of play off the bench as his #2 European ranked Zalgiris team of Lithuania defeated #1 CSKA Moscow of Russia, 76-66 on Sunday in the VBT League. Nenad Kristic had 11 points for CSKA while Victor Khryapa added 8 points. See the recap on the VBT website and some highlights below, including a Foote dunk.
- Jeff Aubry (Cornell '99) finished with 5 points and 5 rebounds as his Halcones team of Mexico's premier league, the LNBP, crushed Lechugueros 81-57. Halcones is 13-5 and in 4th place in the 16-team league. Aubry is averaging 6.7 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
- Excluding Cornell's recruiting class, below is a list of players committed to Ivy League schools in the class of 2013:
Lealand King (Brentwood School) Los Angeles, CA, 6-6, F, Brown
Tavon Blackmon (Gonzaga) Washington, DC, 5-11, G, Brown
Connor Voss (St. Cloud Cathederal HS) St. Cloud, MN, 6-11, C, Columbia
Eli Harrison (Sisters HS) Sisters, OR, 6-6, F, Dartmouth
Mike Flemming (Northfield Mount Hermon, MA) Lincolnshire, IL, 6-1, G, Dartmouth
Hunter Meyers (Douglas HS) Minden, NV, 6-6, F, Harvard
Zena Edosomwan (Northfield Mount Hermon, MA) Hollywood, CA, 6-9, F, Harvard
Dave Winfield (Harvard Westlake HS) Hollywood, CA, 6-8, F, Penn
Tony Bagtas (Westlake HS) Atlanta, GA, 5-11, G, Penn
Hashim Moore (Hun School, NJ) Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 6-5, F, Princeton
Spencer Weisz (Seton Hall Prep) Florham Park, NJ, 6-4, G, Princeton
Steven Cook (New Trier HS) Winnetka, IL, 6-5, G, Princeton
Pete Miller (Northfield Mount Hermon, MA) Northfield, MA, 6-10, C, Princeton
Sam Downy (Lake Forest HS) Lake Forest, IL, 6-9, C, Yale
Anthony Dallier (Northfield Mount Hermon, MA) Wexford, PA, 6-6, F, Yale
JT Flowers (Lincoln HS) Portland, OR, 6-5, F, Yale


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SPORTS >>Rabbits avenge early loss to SHS
Leader sports editor
Sometimes when you play not to lose, you dont.
Lonoke survived a brutal battle in the middle of a brutal 2-4A Conference race on Tuesday night, holding on for a 54-50 win over Stuttgart.
The victory avenged one of the Jackrabbits two conference losses, and improved them to 6-2, right in the thick of a bunched-up conference.
Sometimes you have to play not to lose and win games like that, Lonoke head coach Wes Swift said. Sometimes you have to find a way to win one like that to get confidence to start believing you can win close games.
[The Ricebirds] are a very good ball team. Theyre playing as good as theyve played all year. And were not playing very good right now.
This one appeared to be in the bag several times down the stretch, but the improved Ricebirds would not go away. Lonoke led 46-41 with just over three minutes remaining, but Stuttgart stormed back to tie it with 2:31 left.
Tyrone Dobbins grabbed an offensive rebound and got a stickback with 2:05 left, then knocked down a pair of free throws 15 seconds later to put Lonoke back in front 50-46 with 1:46 left in the contest.
Two free throws by Bradley Spencer with 49 seconds left had the Jackrabbits in front by five again, but Stuttgarts Philip Sykes, who led all scorers with 21 points, went end to end for a layup and a free throw.
Though Sykes missed the charity try, Lonoke turned it over with 19 seconds, and committed a foul on the play. The Ricebirds made one of two free throws to close the gap to 52-50, then grabbed the offensive rebound with 16.5 seconds left. The Ricebirds called timeout to set up a play, but a travel call with 10.2 seconds left gave the ball back to Lonoke.
Spencer made two more free throws with two seconds left to ice it.
In the two conference games we lost at Stuttgart and at Newport, we didnt get stops late, Swift said. I told them, lets get a stop. We finally got one when we needed one. And Bradley Spencer, our senior, stepped up and went 4-of-4 down the stretch.
In fact, Lonoke was gold from the line all night, making 16-of-20, including 9-of-10 in the final period.
Stuttgart fell to 6-3 with the loss, still right in the thick of the five-team race which includes first-place Marianna, Mountain View, Newport and Lonoke.
Lonoke began the game pounding the ball inside to freshman Myles Taylor, who collected six of his 10 points over the first four minutes of the opening period.
After an early second-half basket on a nice feed from Spencer, Taylor hardly touched the ball at all.
I dont know if it was a matter of we could not get him the ball, or that we just quit trying, Swift said. In the first quarter, we had good ball reversal. Then we went back to one-on-one play.
Other than a 2-0 lead off the opening tip and a 4-3 lead at the 5:40 mark of the opening period, the Ricebirds trailed throughout much of the game. They took their next lead at 35-34 on putback basket with 4:46 left in the third period. The Ricebirds led 39-36 before Tony Jacksons three from the right wing sent the two teams into the final period tied at 39.
Lonoke never trailed again.
The Jackrabbits won despite making only 2-of-17 from beyond the arc. Stuttgart missed all eight of their three-point attempts.
Lonoke featured fine scoring balance with five players scoring eight or more points. Dobbins led the way with 12. Michael Howard added 11, Taylor 10, Spencer nine and Clarence Harris eight. Taylor had six rebounds and a block.
There are nights when the offense is going to struggle, Swift said. But you can get big stops when you need them. I thought we did that tonight. Our defense played poorly in man. When we switched to the zone in the fourth quarter, it really slowed them down.
But were good enough we should have been able to guard them in man.
Lonoke hosts Heber Springs on Friday.
Lonoke girls 40, Stuttgart 24
For the second straight game, the Lonoke Lady Jackrabbits put on a first-half defensive clinic.
Just four days after handing Bald Knob its first loss of the season with a stifling defensive performance, Lonoke limited Stuttgart to 1-of-20 shooting in the first half and ran off with a 40-24 win.
Our guards do such a tremendous job staying with the other teams guards, said Lonoke head coach Nathan Morris, whose Lady Rabbits improved to 8-0 in the 2-4A and 15-4 overall. Were not trying to score 60 points. Our goal is to keep people in the 30s. If we can do that we can win.
Lonoke has surrendered just 51 points over its past two games.
Still, Morris wasnt completely happy with the victory, primarily because the Lady Ricebirds were able to get their offense going after intermission. After holding Stuttgart to five points at halftime, Lonoke allowed the Lady Ricebirds to score 11 points in the third quarter, as well as the final eight points of the game.
Were always happy with a win, make no mistake about that, Morris said. But I thought we went a little flat offensively and defensively. We need to finish every game out. There are definitely some things we can work on.
Lonoke got a big night from Asiah Scribner, who posted an impressive line. The sophomore post player scored 13 points, grabbed eight rebounds and three steals, handed out five assists and blocked four shots.
She missed a couple of chip shots or she could have had 20, Morris said. Shes only going to get better. She works tremendously hard.
Scribner and Carrie Mitchell played the high-low to near perfection at times on Tuesday. Mitchell finished with nine points and six boards. She also had three blocks.
Theyre two of our better players, Morris said. We try to get the high low working with them every time.
Mitchell and Scribner scored the first nine points for Lonoke, and Hayley OCains three pointer to close out the first period gave Lonoke a 12-2 lead. It was 22-5 at the half. The lead grew to as much as 38-12 before Stuttgart closed out the game by scoring 12 of the final 14 points.
Ashley Himstedt scored eight points and dished out three assists. Her defense, along with that of sophomore guard Michaela Brown, kept Stuttgart out of sync all night.
Ashley is probably our best on-ball defender, Morris said. And Michaelas best days are ahead of her.
OCain added six points on a pair of three pointers.
Lonoke finished 17-of-38 from the field, while Stuttgart warmed up to make 10-of-42.
The Lady Jackrabbits host Heber Springs on Friday.


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BALTIMORE (AP) Cal Ripken Jr. is moving closer to a return to baseball, and acknowledged Monday that he has discussed the topic with the Baltimore Orioles on several occasions.
But the Hall of Famer, nicknamed "The Iron Man" for playing in a record 2,632 straight games, is just considering it at this time.
REBUILDING: Tough to turn fixer-uppers into winners
"With my son Ryan approaching the end of high school in a couple of years I have been thinking more seriously about a return to the big league game," Ripken said in statement. "I am more excited now to explore all opportunities and find the right situation that could lead me to the next phase of my life."
Ripken issued the statement following a report by FOX Sports that Orioles owner Peter Angelos didn't want Ripken on board because he was fearful Ripken would get all the credit for the team's success.
Ripken said the report was "just not true."
The Orioles have suffered through 12 straight losing seasons since reaching the playoffs in 1997. Although having Ripken on board wouldn't guarantee a turnaround, it would certainly create a stir in a town where he revered.
Ripken said he's talked with Angelos and Andy MacPhail, the club president of baseball operations, about where he might fit on the company ladder.
"I have met with Andy and Peter on a number of occasions to discuss many subjects," Ripken said. "Ultimately our discussions have turned to baseball, the Orioles and me. I have enjoyed those talks very much, and yes the subject has been broached about me potentially joining the organization. I look forward to those talks continuing."
Before winning Sunday, the Orioles had a nine-game losing streak and were off to a 1-11 start. Ripken attributed the report of him being spurned by Angeles to the team's poor play.
"In my baseball experience, rumors and stories seem to break when things aren't going well," Ripken said.
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Accession Number : ADA474059
Title : A New Department of Defense Framework for Efficient Defense Support of Civil Authorities
Descriptive Note : Master's thesis
Corporate Author : NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Personal Author(s) : Liberato, Rodney
PDF Url : ADA474059
Report Date : SEP 2007
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Abstract : The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, triggered a new focus on Department of Defense (DoD) capabilities support to civilian authorities during emergencies. Hurricane Katrina added to this national attention on the role the Department of Defense should play in responding to emergencies. Despite this recognition of the significance of military involvement, little has been done to organize a military framework that can effectively respond to a no notice domestic incident. This thesis analyzes the current context in which DoD capabilities are approved and utilized in a national crisis to examine two core issues: (1) under what circumstances can DoD capabilities be better leveraged in response to a catastrophic domestic event and (2) what are the strategic implications for DoD if they assume a more proactive role in domestic events? Two situational vignettes carved out of the National Planning Scenarios are used to demonstrate that the DoD validation and approval process for civil support operations is slowed by current DoD policy. The study culminates by advocating that DoD reorganize its force structure to most efficiently support a military response to a domestic event. It recommends a new Civil Support Expeditionary Force framework for Defense Support of Civil Authorities.
Descriptors : *CRISIS MANAGEMENT, *DEFENSE PLANNING, LOGISTICS SUPPORT, EMERGENCIES, RESPONSE, DOMESTIC, TERRORISM, CIVIL AFFAIRS, MILITARY CAPABILITIES, THESES, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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People are cognitively very, very bad at taking all costs into account when calculating investment returns. In one haunting example from a New York Times article on real estate, one investor illustrates this perfectly:
By comparison, he views the four-bedroom home he bought for $32,500 in 1965 – or about $200,000 in today's dollars – as a money tree. He and his wife recently listed it for $413,000. That would translate into an annual return of 1.2 percent, taking into account inflation and the cost of two new decks and an extra room.
They plan to move to Texas after it has sold. "I wish I'd bought more real estate," Mr. Larson said.
Regular readers of iwillteachyoutoberich will know that you could earn several times the 1.2% return simply by investing in a simple target-date fund or index fund. We're not properly wired to calculate all costs of our purchases; in this case, taxes, and all the other costs of buying a house.
Sadly, Mr. Larson truly believes that he got a great return.
When I recently asked "What are areas where people THINK they earn a lot, but actually don't?" iwillteachyoutoberich reader Baron wrote a fascinating comment about a group I hadn't heard of before.
"individual stocks. ever heard of the beardstown ladies? they thought they were performing as well as warren buffet. when the accountants went through their numbers, they actually underperformed the market. people screw up accounting all the time whether it's stocks, real estate, or some other investment."
This was news to me, so I dug around. From Wikipedia:
The Beardstown Ladies were a group of older women who formed an investment club, formally known as the Beardstown Business and Professional Women's Investment Club, in Beardstown, Illinois, USA.
In 1998, an article in Chicago magazine asserted that the group's stated returns had included the new investments made by its members, and that when computed in conventional fashion, their annual rate of return for 1984–1993 was actually 9.1%, considerably less than the 14.9% return on the S&P 500 during the same period.[1] Outside auditor Price Waterhouse, hired by the club, confirmed the sub-par 9.1% annual rate for 1984–1993. The auditor also discovered the Beardstown Ladies' annualized return was 15.3% when all of 1983–1997 was included; this was better than the average stock fund at the time, but still worse than the S&P 500 return of 17.2% for the same period.
Here is a great article on the group, and a followup article from the WSJ.
Key takeaways:
- "Investing" does not mean picking individual stocks. Few people can pick stocks and beat the market. Nearly no one can do this with regularity. Instead, as a general rule, invest in low-cost target-date funds.
- Let's break this down by smart, ordinary, and dumb people: Very dumb people don't read this blog, so they don't even think about this and we don't need to waste more time on them as a category. Moderately intelligent people also generally ignore personal-finance advice, or they may eventually listen. Whatever. Let's talk about smart people. Smart people generally believe and adhere to the evidence that you can't beat the market. But here's the twist: Ironically, HIGHLY INTELLIGENT people believe they can out-smart this advice — and the equally smart people on Wall Street, who also fail to beat the market — and invest in individual stocks anyway. They pay the price — though they may never realize it.
In my book, I do an exhaustive review of so-called experts and show you sophisticated tricks that Wall Street uses to trick you into believing they perform better than they actually do.
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text: Hello All- (I apologize if you receive this email twice. I'm unsure whether it is a problem in torque, maui, or both and therefore I also posted it to the torque list). We're still having trouble with this feature, and we are starting to shop around for a torque/maui replacement in order to be able to use it. Before we do that however, I wanted to see if anyone has any thoughts on how to address the problem within torque/maui. Perhaps I simply don't understand the feature. The versions of torque and maui we are using are: torque-3.0.2 maui-3.2.6p21 Yes, we have tried newer versions of maui, but then the option doesn't work at all. Here is the scenario (I also included the conversation from November below for more information). Conceptually, our software is almost infinitely scalable in the sense that there is very little overhead associated with interprocess communication. Therefore, we do not require that all of the processes reside on a small number of nodes. In fact, we can stretch the processors to any and all nodes in the cluster with ~zero loss in performance. So we can literally have one node that has a single process running and another node that has 8 processes running. Since we have that level of scalability, we don't want to have to lock ourselves into having to request resources using the "nodes=X:ppn=Y" style since this style requires that nodes open up or drain in order to use them. Since our users have a big mixture of single and multi-processor jobs, waiting for node drain can really waste a lot of resources. I saw the "procs=#" the Requesting Resources table (see http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs/2.1jobsubmission.shtml#resources for more). It *appears* that this option should be able to allow the user to request simply X*Y processors and the scheduler should be able to schedule them any way it can fit. So using the following #PBS note, we should be able to request 40 processors: #PBS -l procs=40 Instead, we see that the scheduler seems to take this information, read it, and basically disregard it. The reason I know it reads it is because if I ask for say 40 processors and 40 processors are available in the cluster, it works as expected and all is right with the world. Where it gets a bit more choppy is when I ask for 40 processors and only 1 processor is available. The job doesn't wait in the queue for the remaining 39 processors to open up, and instead PBS simply just starts the job on that processor. I can't see how that is anything but a bug. If the user is asking for 40 processors, why isn't the scheduler waiting for all 40 processors to open up? If answering this question will require additional information, please ask. We are at our wits end here. Thanks! -Lance On Nov 18, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Lance Westerhoff wrote: > > Hello All- > > I submitted the following to the torque list, but the more I look at it, the more I think it might be a scheduler problem. It appears that when running with the following specs, the procs= option does not actually work as expected. > > ========================================== > > #PBS -S /bin/bash > #PBS -l procs=60 > #PBS -l pmem=700mb > #PBS -l walltime=744:00:00 > #PBS -j oe > #PBS -q batch > > torque version: tried 3.0.2. in v2.5.4, I think the procs option worked as documented > maui version: 3.2.6p21 (also tried maui 3.3.1 but it is a complete fail in terms of the procs option and it only asks for a single CPU) > > ========================================== > > If there are fewer then 60 processors available in the cluster (in this case there were 53 available) the job will go in an take whatever processors are remaining instead of waiting for all 60 processors to free up. Any thoughts as to why this might be happening? Sometimes it doesn't really matter and 53 would be almost as good as 60, however if only 2 processors are available and the user asks for 60, I would hate for him to go in. > > Thank you for your time! > > -Lance >


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The Wisconsin syndrome? Just days after declaring that he favored collective bargaining for public employees, Florida's Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, changed his tune and said he now wishes it were not allowed in the Sunshine State.
Meantime, in solidarity with the protests in Madison, demonstrations in all 50 state capitals were planned for Saturday. —JCL
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Scott's original remarks came in a half-hour interview on WFLA-FM 100.7 in which he referred to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
"Walker is trying to eliminate collective bargaining," Scott said. "My belief is, as long as people know what they're doing, collective bargaining is fine." He added, however, "As long as people know what they're voting for."
On Friday, Scott gave an interview with Bloomberg TV in Washington, D.C., and changed his tune. While Florida's Constitution protects workers from being compelled to join a union, it also protects union workers by guaranteeing their right to collective bargaining. Scott acknowledged the constitutional protections but announced he'd now like to see that changed.
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"For the past year I have been helping out as a volunteer at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow.
A hospice is a second home where people with terminal illnesses go at a point in their illness where they feel they would like some help.
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Patients may decide to stay in a hospice for many reasons: to give themselves and their families some respite, to increase the level of care they are receiving or, simply to enjoy the last days of their lives in a calm, caring place.
A hospice allows this to happen and gives the patient a chance to enjoy what time they have left without worry.
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Many people do not understand what a hospice is and mistake it as a depressing unhappy place where people go to spend the last days of their life.
However, the hospice is anything but that.
The hospice is a place that is bursting with life and aims to let patients live life to the full in what time they have left.
Here, the focus is not about dying but about life and all the opportunities within it.
Friendly people
I started volunteering there when doing my Duke of Edinburgh award at Craigholme School and have decided to stay because of the friendly people and fantastic time I have when I am in the hospice.
Anyone can apply to become a volunteer in a hospice and it will be one of the most rewarding things you could do.
Fundraising events
Over the past year, I have been working in the fundraising department.
This is the department which organises fun and challenging events to raise money for the hospice.
When I started helping in fundraising, I thought I would be sitting stuffing envelopes or doing something boring like that.
I was completely wrong. Every week I do something different and exciting - I have helped make posters for a parachute jump, phoned companies to raise publicity for a hospice trek, and many other things.
Making a difference
I only volunteer once a week, after school, but in that short time I have great time with the fundraisers while I feel as if I am making a difference by helping the hospice provide its services to its patients.
Volunteering at The Price and Princess of Wales Hospice has been an achievement in my life which I want to continue."
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On 11/3/05 at 4:58 AM, pieter.eendebak at gmail.com wrote:
>I need to plot functions with the same options all over again. For
>Plot[ x^2, {x,0,1}, PlotStyle->RBGColor[1,0,0], Ticks->None]
>Plot[ x^3, {x,0,1}, PlotStyle->RBGColor[1,0,0], Ticks->None]
>Plot[ x^4, {x,0,1}, PlotStyle->RBGColor[1,0,0], Ticks->None]
>I would like to shorten this to
>options={PlotStyle->RBGColor[1,0,0], Ticks->None}
>Plot[x^2, {x,0,1}, options]
>Plot[x^3, {x,0,1}, options]
>Plot[x^4, {x,0,1}, options]
>The code above does not work, I need some `unlist' function for the
>options. Can someone tell me how to do this in Mathematica?
Sequence does what you want. Specifically,
options={PlotStyle->RBGColor[1,0,0], Ticks->None}
Plot[x^2, {x,0,1}, Sequence@@options]
Plot[x^3, {x,0,1}, Sequence@@options]
Plot[x^4, {x,0,1}, Sequence@@options]
Will generate the desired plots.
Another approach to this problem that shortens things even more is to do
Plot[#, {x,0,1}, PlotStyle->Red,Ticks->None]&/@{x^2, x^3, x^4};
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Two weeks into the season and it's already been a rough one for some assistant coaches. Mike Markuson, hired just last winter to lead Wisconsin's offensive line, is out of a job.
Badgers coach Bret Bielema confirmed the move at his Monday press conference, two days after his team lost at Oregon State 10-7 Saturday and dropped from No. 13 to No. 22 in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll.
"(We) decided to move on," Bielema said, according to Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel. "It was really something that wasn't a knee-jerk thing by me."
Bart Miller, a graduate assistant, was promoted to replace Markuson.
This firing comes a week after Houston let go of offensive coordinator Mike Nesbitt. The Cougars were held to 13 points in an opening-game loss to Texas State.
Markuson, 51, spent 14 years coaching offensive lines at Ole Miss and Arkansas, according to the Wisconsin athletic website. The school said that since 2003, six of his players became All-Americans. At time of his hiring, Markuson was hailed by head coach Bret Bielema for "having success at the highest levels of college football. ... Being from Minnesota, he brings the Midwest values that we're looking for."
His best-known player was Michael Oher, the Ole Miss star and subject of the movie Blind Side, who is now with the Baltimore Ravens.
The Badgers' rushing game has stalled so far, gaining 267 yards total in two games. They managed just 35 yards on 23 carries in the loss to Oregon State. Montee Ball, a Heisman finalist last year, is averaging less than 4 yards per carry.
According to the Journal Sentinel, Bielema was not available Sunday but was upset about how the Badgers did not control the line of scrimmage against the Beavers.
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Impulsivity, Neural Deficits and Cocaine Addiction
This study has been completed.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Dallas VA Medical Center
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 19, 2008
Last updated: December 31, 2012
Last verified: December 2012
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The purpose of this study is to assess neurocognitive and associated neural regions/circuitry disruptions relevant to impulsive relapse in cocaine-addicted subjects, and the relationship of the cognitive and neural mechanisms of impulsivity/decision-making to relapse style.
|Cocaine Dependence
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Impulsivity, Neural Deficits, and Relapse in Cocaine Addiction
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Further study details as provided by Bryon H Adinoff, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Determine if the brain regions involved in inhibition and decision-making are altered in cocaine-addicted subjects compared to healthy controls. [ Time Frame: 2 weeks ]
- In cocaine-addicted subjects, determine if neural deficits during disinhibition or decision-making are related to relapse following treatment. [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Assess the predictive validity of self-report measures of impulsive relapse. [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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|April 2007
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This study is designed to explore putative differences in impulsive behaviors and decision making in cocaine-addicted and healthy control subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), single photon emission tomography (SPECT), and neurocognitive tasks. We predict that cocaine-addicted subjects will demonstrate neurocognitive and neural alterations in measures of impulsivity and decision-making when compared to healthy controls. That is, cocaine-addicted subjects will show both decreased activation and decreased resting measures of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) of the brain structures associated with impulsivity and decision-making. Furthermore, neurocognitive and neural deficits associated with impulsivity and decision-making will be associated with each other and with measures indicative of an impulsive relapse and altered decision making.
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Study Population
Patients will be recruited from residential treatment programs at the VA North Texas Health Care System, Nexus Recovery Inc., and Homeward Bound Inc. Healthy controls will be recruited from the Greater Dallas community.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Cocaine-dependence (patient population) or no cocaine-dependence (control population).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other medical or psychiatric disorders that may effect neural functioning.
- Medications that may effect neural functioning.
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Keywords provided by Bryon H Adinoff, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:
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1R01DA023203-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|June 19, 2008
|Last Updated:
|December 31, 2012
Keywords provided by Bryon H Adinoff, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:
cocaine dependence
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cocaine-Related Disorders
Impulsive Behavior
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders
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Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Vasoconstrictor Agents
Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
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Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Dopamine Agents
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First thing: Remember that you and your family are not alone, even if it seems like it sometimes. Having a Child with Autism puts you in a category unto itself, that only other parents with Children with Autism grok. At the Very Least, you now have us on this board to help you with some of the things that you are or will deal with. And while we may not be able to give you a physical hug, we can be with you in text.
To answer your question (based upon my own experience with Connor, also diagnosed at 25 months) Applied Behavioral Analysis, Speech and Language, and Occupational Therapy are a good start, but there are so many ways to address your specific child's needs.
Unfortunately, because each child is different, and exhibits different symptoms (and possibly caused by different biological or psychological challenges) it is a trial and error approach to making them better.
My recommendations for getting information are the Shafer Report and the Autism Research Institute. If you can also get in touch with a Doctor in your area who follows (or is willing to follow) the DAN! Protocols, grab on and don't let go.
We also had an "accidental" son, 20 months after Connor was born and before he was diagnosed, and we watched him like a hawk for ANY regression... He hasnt been vaccinated with anything that I didnt go over with a fine tooth comb. (I personally lean into the Thimerasol Etiology Camp, but I do see some credence in the Measles/Gut Theory as well.) Connor is responding well to B12 shots, a MegaVitamin (Lee Silsby Powder), TMG (Trimethylyglyciene), and B6/Magnesium wafers. We are gearing up for chelation as soon as the doc says Go!
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Fantasy football site 4for4.com has decided to take up a cause that often comes to the forefront near the end of the NFL postseason: the fight to make the Monday after Super Bowl [1] Sunday a national holiday.
Members of the site started a White House petition [2] asking President Barack Obama to consider giving the nation a day off from work and school in honor of its most-watched sporting event.
"We at 4for4.com Fantasy Football petition the Obama Administration to consider declaring the Monday following Super Bowl Sunday a national holiday," the petition reads. "By doing so, the Obama Administration can promote camaraderie among the American people, keep the streets safer for our children on Sunday night and Monday morning, promote a productive workplace when work resumes on Tuesday, and honor the most popular event in modern American culture."
This isn't the first time such a petition [3] has been circulated, citing the difficulties of working the day after Super Bowl parties, and it's unlikely this one will be any more successful than its predecessors. So far, it has just less than 3,000 of the 100,000 signatures it hopes to gain by Feb. 23.


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After two straight playoff berths for the first time since 2006-2007, John Lima will not be back as the head football coach at Brandon.
Lima confirmed via text message Thursday that he is out as coach and declined to comment further.
Brandon ended Newsome's three-year district win streak and handed previously unbeaten Plant City its first loss of the year en route to making the playoffs as the runnerup in Class 7A, District 8. Without leading rusher Tyrell Garner (1,469 yards in nine games), the Eagles lost to Tampa Bay Tech 37-0 in the first round.
Lima was 29-35 in his six seasons at Brandon.
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Townes Van Zandt Biography
John Townes Van Zandt, 7 March 1944, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 1 January 1997, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, USA. A country and folk blues singer and guitarist, Van Zandt was a native Texan and great-grandson of one of the original settlers who founded Fort Worth in the mid-nineteenth century. The son of a prominent oil family, Van Zandt turned his back on financial security to pursue the beatnik life in Houston. He was diagnosed as a manic depressive in his early twenties, and the resulting insulin shock therapy wiped out his long-term memory, a condition that informed his songwriting but also contributed to a crippling alcohol addiction.
First thumbing his way through cover versions, Van Zandts acoustic sets later graced the Jester Lounge and other venues where his bawdy bar-room ballads were first performed. Although little known outside of a cult country rock following, many of his songs are better publicized by the cover versions afforded them by Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Don Gibson and Willie Nelson. This gave songs such as Pancho And Lefty, To Live Is To Fly and If I Needed You the opportunity to rise to the top of the country charts. Much of Van Zandts material was not released overseas until the late 70s, although his recording career actually began with For The Sake Of The Song, released in the USA in 1968 on the Poppy label. Stand-out albums from his recording career include Our Mother The Mountain (1969) and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972), the latter featuring his first recorded versions of If I Needed You and Pancho And Lefty. Van Zandts media awareness belied the debt many artists, including the Cowboy Junkies and the Go-Betweens, profess to owing him. Steve Earle went even further: Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and Ill stand on Bob Dylans coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Van Zandt continued to live a reclusive life in a cabin in Tennessee up to his untimely death on New Years Day 1997, recording occasionally purely for the chance to get the songs down for posterity. Following his death his wife assembled a collection of outtakes and demo tapes. The result, with added session musicians, became A Far Cry From Dead and is an excellent memorial to a highly underrated songwriter. The 2004 film documentary Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt is also highly recommended.
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Post's Kreck continued trend of misleadingly labeling KOA statement on "Gunny" Bob's anti-Muslim remarks an "apology"
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Following a trend among Colorado media outlets, The Denver Post's Dick Kreck reported in his May 21 column that Newsradio 850 KOA "posted an apology" on its website regarding the recent anti-Muslim comments of host "Gunny" Bob Newman. In fact, as Colorado Media Matters has pointed out, KOA's statement simply acknowledged that the remarks may have offended some listeners; it did not express regret.
In his March 21 column, Denver Post media columnist Dick Kreck misleadingly labeled as an "apology" an online statement posted by Newsradio 850 KOA acknowledging that some listeners "may have been offended" by bigoted, anti-Muslim remarks made by talk show host "Gunny" Bob Newman. In doing so, Kreck echoed Colorado media reports that also dubiously referred to KOA's statement as an "apology," as Colorado Media Matters noted.
Kreck wrote as part of a collection of briefs at the end of his column, "KOA 850-AM has posted an apology on its website for remarks about Muslims made by talk-show host 'Gunny Bob' Newman. 'KOA believes in being fair and respectful,' it reads in part."
As Colorado Media Matters noted, Newman was discussing the breakup of an alleged terrorist plot to attack U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix on his May 8 show when he stated that "every Muslim immigrant to America who holds a green card, a visa, or who is a naturalized citizen [should] be required by law to wear a GPS tracking bracelet at all times," and that the government should "bug their places of work and their residences" and monitor "[a]ll mosques and community centers."
Several organizations -- including the American Friends Service Committee, the Mountain States chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, and the Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union -- issued statements condemning Newman's remarks, after Colorado Media Matters reported them on May 9. The progressive organization ProgressNow launched a public action campaign to raise awareness among advertisers, and by May 18 three companies had asked to have their ads removed from Newman's show.
Late on May 16, KOA posted a notice on Newman's Web page stating that the station "understands that some of you may have been offended" by his remarks calling for a law that would eliminate some basic civil rights for Muslim immigrants. KOA, which is owned by Clear Channel Communications Inc., continued: "That was not the intention. 850 KOA believes in being fair and respectful while encouraging discussion and debate of complex issues." The statement did not express regret for Newman's comments, and it did not offer an apology either to listeners who might have been offended or to anyone else.
In contrast to Kreck's misleading characterization, 5280.com's Elevated Voices political weblog on May 17 referred to KOA's statement as "the classic non-apology apology." The blog further noted that "KOA realizes you might have been offended, but since that wasn't their intention, they don't care":
In response to the growing controversy, KOA channeled another Newman: "Alfred E." Their reaction to the outcry against "Gunny" has been little more than "What, Me Worry?"
The station posted a note on the home page of the Web site for the "Gunny" show, which was the classic non-apology apology[.]
In other words, KOA realizes you might have been offended, but since that wasn't their intention, they don't care. That's sort of like punching your spouse in the face and then saying, "I didn't mean to make you bleed."
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Playing Opportunities: The School of Music offers more than 50 different large and small music ensembles. These include two big bands, a 10-piece fusion ensemble, an 11tet featuring original compositions, 15 small jazz groups performing traditional and contemporary jazz (from Miles Davis and Charles Mingus to the Yellowjackets and the Brecker Brothers), a Rock Ensemble, Neo-Soul Ensemble, Praise Ensemble, Stax Records Ensemble, Inter-disciplinary Ensemble, Chorus and Jazz Singers. Violin majors have the opportunity to participate in additional School of Music concerts, musical theater productions and larger inter-arts collaboration concerts.
Location: The University of the Arts is located in the heart of downtown Philadelphia on the "Avenue of the Arts," next door to both the Academy of Music and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. There are 19 professional concert halls, jazz clubs, music clubs and theaters all within four blocks of school that present more than 80 professional concerts, recitals and music performances each week.
Teaching Materials: At the beginning of every school year, each String major receives study materials that have been created by our faculty. These cover all requirements for each year of study.
Program/Curriculum: Students take weekly one-hour private lessons with the violin or other String faculty. Students are encouraged to pursue any musical interests they may have while maintaining a high level of focus in the curriculum. Our String faculty is well-versed in a variety of styles and encourages students to explore a wide range of creative possibilities.


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