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MESA is committed to the development of MacDiarmid Institute students and postdocs through exposure to the Institute's skills, knowledge and ideas. We work to foster young New Zealand scientists by encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and establishing new networks within the institute and the broader community.
Any student or postdoc whose supervisor is MacDiarmid Institute investigator, at either principal (PI) or associate (AI) levels, is part of MESA. A full list of investigators can be found here.
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- Workshops & Seminars: MESA organizes full-day workshops and shorter seminars, covering science topics (e.g., spectroscopy and synchrotron workshops) and broader topics of relevance to researchers (e.g., entrepreneurship, economics). We also run events in novel formats, such as an annual 3-day 'bootcamp' workshop and hands-on experimental physics. These are complemented by online guides featured on our website, such as how to give a great presentation and an introduction to programming in Python.
- Opportunities & Careers: By helping set up opportunities such as the MacDiarmid Research Commercialization Fellowships for students and postdocs, we aim to provide relevant NZ-based career paths for emerging researchers. This is complemented by alumni videoprofiles, a guide to external listings, to scholarships, and to life in academia, and ties in with plans for upcoming career workshops.
- Networking: With NZ's nanotechnology and advanced materials research spread out across the country, our universities' students and postdocs sometimes lack a sense of community and strong networks. MESA aims to address this through events such as our workshops, seminars and extended multi-day events, highlighted every year by the MacDiarmid Student & Postdoc annual symposium. We are also working to establish a strong MacDiarmid alumni network, an effort started with our videoprofiles.
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For your consideration is another vintage lot consisting of a top quality PARAMO Bench VICE No.6. "Hi-Duty" and "Made in England" embossed in the castings. Weighs in at 90 pounds! Deluxe model with replaceable 6 inch wide jaws. Adjustable jaw is 21 inches long end to end, with at least 12 inches of BITE. It's 9-1/2 inches tall x 9 inches wide. Replaceable jaws in good decent "used" condition and this fine example has no major apologies to include cracks, breaks, chips, excessive bang marks from a sledge, or damage of any sort. The screw has not been "sprung" and opens and closes nice and smooth. Sliding rod on end of screw rod not bent, as many are found --travels freely. Complete and in good working order. Exhibits lite wear from use from over the years, this vice is way better than just most average condition. Sold as found, just a little surface rust here and there from winters condensation, needs a lite clean up and oiling. Well seasoned it has stood the test of time, a testimony of it's mettel. Tools from England have been world renowned for century's and older products are known for the highest quality manufacture. A high quality vice is really a sound investment, with a steady track record of appreciating in value over the years. Y ou can use it for decades, then sell for a profit. So in the long run, this will cost you nothing, ... read more


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Steamboat briefs: Eastbound lane of traffic on US 40 to be closed
May 4, 2010
Steamboat Springs — The eastbound lane of traffic on U.S. Highway 40 through downtown Steamboat Springs will be closed from Sixth to Eighth streets from 9 a.m. to noon today. That eastbound traffic will be detoured onto Yampa Street.
Overnight concrete paving is scheduled for U.S. 40 from Ninth Street to 11th Street from 7 p.m. today to 7 a.m. Wednesday. Traffic will be detoured onto Yampa Street between 12th and Seventh streets during the paving work.
Youth Corps application deadline is extended
The Community Youth Corps application deadline has been extended one week. Applications are due by 5:30 p.m. Thursday. CYC offers youths of the Yampa Valley an opportunity to earn while they learn by contributing to community improvement projects, according to a news release. Participants must be 14 to 16 years old. Applications are available at http://www.steamboatsprings.net/rec, click on Recreation, Teen Programs, Community Youth Corps to download; or at the Parks, Open Space and Recreational Services Department offices. Completed applications can be e-mailed to email@example.com, faxed to 870-0173 or dropped off to the Parks, Open Spaces and Recreational Services Department offices at 245 Howelsen Parkway. Call 879-4300.
BLM announces days it will waive fees on lands
The Bureau of Land Management, in conjunction with other agencies within the Department of the Interior, will waive recreation-related fees for visitors June 5 and 6, Aug. 14 and 15, Sept. 25 (National Public Lands Day) and Nov. 11 (Veterans Day) on many of the public lands managed by the BLM, including areas within the National Landscape Conservation System, according to a BLM news release.
Site standard amenity and individual day-use fees at BLM recreation sites and areas will be waived for the day, according to the release. Other fees, such as overnight camping, cabin rentals and group day use, will remain in effect.
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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says Iraqi security forces are capable of defending Baghdad but are unable to act unilaterally to launch an offensive to seize back territory occupied by a Sunni insurgent group.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey tells reporters the Iraqi forces are stronger around the capital city as they seek to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, speaking at the same news conference at the Pentagon Thursday, says about 200 U.S. military advisers are now in country assessing the situation. The military leader insists the U.S. won't be involved in combat operations years after American fighting forces left Iraq, echoing President Barack Obama's recent statements.


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Pictures of MAC's Arm Tattoos at Rodarte at 2010 Spring Fashion Week
Models Get Inked at Rodarte
When I first saw the photos from Rodarte's runway show, I couldn't help but be immediately drawn to the swirly, geometric arm tattoos worn by the models on the runway. It was a little bit Xena: Warrior Princess and Kat Von D combined. Fab was on the fence about the clothing, inspired by California condors, but as for that well-thought-out tribalesque arm makeup, I was definitely impressed. MAC Senior Artist Chantel Miller, who designed the look, was influenced by the Māori people, an indigenous group in New Zealand. "The idea for the tattoos stemmed from [designers] Kate and Laura's desire to celebrate makeup as art not only for the face, but also for the body in a similar way that Indian culture uses henna. They want women to look at makeup as an accessory for an outfit the way you would a bracelet or a necklace," said Miller.
To find out more about the tattoos, just keep reading.
To create the futuristic tribal look, it took Miller and her team of 40 artists four hours to apply the body art, which consisted of half-sleeve, full-sleeve, and neck artwork — each design customized for each model's distinctive look. "Application is key to creating a body-art look like this, so the brushes play an essential part," Miller said. She used MAC's 252 Large Shader Brush ($29) and 242 Shader Brush ($23) with the PRO Micronized Airbrush in Black Black,
PRO Mixing Medium/Alcohol Base, and Liquidlast Liner in Point Black ($16.50). If you'd like to do a little temporary tattooing of your own, but don't have access to the professional products mentioned above, you can always adapt with a highly pigmented eye shadow, like MAC's Paint Pot in Blackground ($16.50) or a temporary formulation specifically made for the skin, like this Black Face and Body Paint ($11).


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RevoStock Clean And Simple Logo Extrusion In 2K 674821
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After Effects Project - Clean And Simple Logo Extrusion In 2K 674821 by Stencil_Media @ RevoStock
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Clean and simple extruded animated logo in 2K resolution, 2048x1152. Perfect for introducing your videos, using as an ident or as a bumper for your productions.
Well organized project and easy to use. Just drop in your logo, add your website address and you're ready to render! Render comps set up for 2K, 1080p and 720p resolutions to best suit your requirements.
Optical Flares layers are pre-rendered, so no third party plugins are required to work with this template. However, the original OF layers are included for if you have the software and would like to make changes.
This project is provided in CS6 and CS5.5 versions. You will need CS5.5 or later to work with this template.
There's a lot going on in this project with regards to processor intensive effects, so I'd recommend a machine with reasonably decent specs for rendering this logo animation. I wouldn't recommend trying to render this on a 1.7Ghz single core laptop with 2Gb or RAM (for example)!The 2K version rendered fine on my i7 laptop, but it did take three hours. Smaller resolutions or decent spec desktops should result in much shorter render times.
I hope you like it and thanks for looking!
This product is an Adobe After Effects project file. It REQUIRES Adobe After Effects version CS5.5. 3RD PARTY PLUGINS USED/REQUIRED: VC Optical Flares (This plugin is pre-rendered and is not required.)
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Wha-bamm. That's how Gretchen Bleiler describes her body slamming the halfpipe floor during the mid-December Olympic trials at Breckenridge, Colo.
She under-rotated a 900 and dropped about 15 feet to the icy pipe floor. Bleiler, whose fine features and quick smile are easy on a camera lens, is one of the world's elite halfpipe riders. With the fall on her final run, she finished second to Hannah Teter. But this is the first of five Olympic qualifying Grand Prix events, and the 24-year-old Bleiler is pleased. Standing at the base of the pipe, she laughs as she smacks the back of one hand against the palm of the other to create the proper sound effect.


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Invoking 9/11 to defend this administration's policies regarding reproductive rights was an insensitive and divisive overreach.Way to go, Gloria Feldt!
We are all Americans, and we are patriots, too, Ms. Hughes. And we will not cease in our efforts to fight the attempts by this administration and this Congress to restrict reproductive rights, family planning, medical privacy, and so many other important factors in a woman's right to care for herself and her family without intrusion from government or politicians. We do this precisely because we value human life and dignity so much.
Your friends in the administration have repeatedly stated that our troops are fighting for freedom: to allow people to control their own lives and make their own decisions. Yet this administration and this Congress are working to take away American women's rights to make their own decisions.
Update: Karen Hughes says that's not what she meant, but doesn't really say what she did mean.


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A Match Not Made in Political Heaven
Republican and Democrat, wife and husband, political pundits Mary Matalin and James Carville are a dynamic--and sometimes dueling--duo in Washington. The two focused a lot on the 2008 presidential race, each predicting it to be a historical one. The front-runners for the two main political parties already include two minorities and a woman, while Carville predicted a credible third-party candidate and possibly fourth.


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Kadima and Hamas - Virulent Mutations of Unilateral Insanity
A guest from afar, now visiting Israel and the occupied territories, might conclude that a deadly virus afflicts the political opinion of both peoples. One side throngs to join an instant party, directed by a substitute for a leader on sick leave. The other puts its trust in a religious party that entices small children to achieve celestial union with 70 virgins. With a bit of effort, such a visitor might unearth the source of the affliction. This is neither a heavenly decree nor a deus ex machina. This is "chaos ex machina" by the hand of man. Kadima and Hamas are virulent mutations of unilateral insanity.
Kadima is constructed on the ruins of the Israeli public's belief in the prospect of solving the conflict - and on the growing belief in the option of managing it according to the public will: Not negotiation but more unilateral withdrawals, more separation fence, more assassinations and more curfews.
Hamas has risen atop the same ruins among the Palestinian public, and the belief in the option of managing it according to that public's will: Not negotiation but more acts of terror, more Qassam missiles, more control of local authorities and more seats on the Legislative Council.
Those who are entertained by the notion that Hamas' opinion will cool after its representatives warm the seats of the Palestinian parliament would do well to read statements made at the beginning of the week by the organization's leader, Mahmoud a-Zahar, at an election rally in the Northern Gaza Strip: "Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades will grow stronger and will continue to produce and develop arms." In other words, after elections, not only will the military arm of Hamas fail to lay down its weapons, but it will also be empowered sevenfold. To dispel any doubt regarding Hamas' intentions following its integration in the government, a-Zahar added, "We will hound the agents [the Palestinian Authority] by legal means to bring them to account, and they will get what they deserve. We will also settle accounts with those who robbed the people of their money and used the law to achieve their own gains."
The most peculiar phenomenon in Israeli politics is that the winning card in coming Israeli elections is expected to be the assumption that Sharon's heirs will follow in his path. This is the same path that contributed to the transformation of Hamas, in elections slated to take place tomorrow in the territories, into a leading and legitimate force in Palestinian politics. The discovery of an affinity between the disengagement from Gaza and Abu Mazen and the decline of Fatah and rise of Hamas is neither a great revelation nor Monday morning quarterbacking.
At the beginning of summer, 2005, a short while before the originally scheduled date of Palestinian Legislative Council elections, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz summoned Professor Emanuel Sivan, who has contributed his vast knowledge to the research department of Military Intelligence for years, and Dr. Mati Steinberg, who advised two leaders of the Shin Bet security service. Mofaz asked the pair of experts to his office to outline the breakdown of political power relations in the territories. Some time around then, Steinberg apprised the leadership of the Foreign Ministry regarding the same circumstances.
Some of the content discussed during those meetings may be read in an interview with Steinberg published in Haaretz in June, 2004. The following are central statements:
"The centrist, national wing of the Fatah movement led by Arafat adopted the principle of two states. However, when it became clear to them that this pragmatic conclusion did not reap results, they turned to extremism...The process of radicalization was fueled by the political dead end...This is the background against which the 'suicidal society' flourished, which legitimizes suicide bombers considered to be public emissaries. Under these circumstances, the application of ever increasing force, on our part, reinforces the Palestinian notion that there is nothing to lose. In this way, the success of [Israeli] military operations minimized diplomatic room to maneuver. They continuously reinforced a destructive two-state reality which only offered one way out - unilateral withdrawal without compensation, which paradoxically suits the strategy of Hamas."
Steinberg told Mofaz and his advisers that the political vacuum not only made way for Hamas. He warned that those who did not want Fatah as their partner would get Hezbollah, Iran and Al-Qaida. Arab-affairs experts said that postponement of elections would not cure the grave disease and might even exacerbate the symptoms. In addition, they said, it would be preferable for the government to take steps that indicate to Palestinians that the path of pragmatists, the adversaries of Hamas, is more beneficial. Have we already mentioned prisoner release?
Mofaz listened patiently. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom also received the report from members of his administration. They listened and remained silent. Usually, when something disturbs them, they know how to track down the most senior pundits. And perhaps it is not fair to complain. The media would have called them "rebels."
If one considers senior officials in the White House and the U.S. State Department good company, one might say that Mofaz and Shalom are among good company. A short while before the disengagement was launched, a delegation dispatched by Abu Mazen arrived in Washington, pleading that the U.S. government ask Sharon to pretend, at least, that he is transferring the Gaza Strip to the PA. Otherwise, the delegation warned, Hamas would take credit. The emissaries soon understood that President Bush had limited knowledge of the challenge that the Islamic movement posed to the national movement in the Arab world. In response, the president recited the kid-gloves policy [in regard to Sharon] and sent them home to dismantle terrorist infrastructure.
No such thing as half of the Oslo Accords
From a formal, legal point of view, Israel has never had a better case for claiming that the PA election committee must disqualify the Hamas list. Oslo II, signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in September, 1995 clearly declares that the candidacy of parties or individuals who act in a racist manner or encourage racism or use anti-democratic means to achieve their goals must be disqualified. A July, 2005 position paper authored by international legal experts in the Ministry of Justice, before the previous date of elections in the territories, declares that the Hamas does not even approximate these conditions. The position paper notes that, in recent years, Spain and Turkey disqualified parties with platforms similar to that of Hamas and the European judicial system rejected every one of their appeals. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni waved the position paper in front of every European guest and every American-Jewish heavyweight who appeared on her doorstep. A position paper formulated at about the same time in the judicial department of the Foreign Ministry lists Hamas acts of terror and quotes the movement's official documents calling for the cancellation of diplomatic agreements with Israel. Members of the Foreign Ministry professional staff warn that after Israel agrees, even by its silence, to the participation of Hamas in elections, it will be difficult to adopt alternate policies shunning the organization.
"The problem is not at all legal," noted a senior ministry official. "If the political echelon took a decision to engage in battle, we would easily win." But the political echelon, that is, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, passed up the battle. Only when it appeared that the mustangs had already escaped from the corral, did Sharon make a half-hearted attempt to recruit the Americans to wrangle them back in. He asked. Bush refused. Hamas was on its way.
The most commonly accepted explanation, in diplomatic circles, is that Sharon preferred that Hamas set foot in the Legislative Council rather than permit Fatah to make use of Israeli claims against Hamas participation in order to get a foot into the Oslo door. After years of ignoring the interim agreement and making every effort to kill it, Sharon failed to gather the necessary chutzpah to use it to meet his own needs.
Senior officials in the PA prefer the Machiavellian explanation. They are convinced that Sharon was interested in a Hamas victory that would finally liquidate the remains of the Oslo agreement known as the road map. He obviously failed to consider that his heirs, who followed him in opposing Arafat's heirs, would discuss the "peace process" with the heirs of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
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PSquare's Peter Okoye Defrauded By Bank Or New Music Video Promo???
August 3rd, 2014 – Peter Okoye Worried Over Fraudulent Bank Transaction: PSquare's Star Threatens To Reveal The Bank's Name
PSquare star boy Peter Okoye is not happy at the moment after he allegedly saw a fraudulent money withdrawal from his bank account.
According to the message he posted on his official IG account this morning, Peter Okoye said he gave the bank 5 days to return his money or else, he will expose them.
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"Has any1 experienced fraudulent transactions with a BANK before?…. Cos am about to EXPOSE one of the bank i have been with for over 6yrs
Return all my money or I will EXPOSE you and SUE you. I will reveal the BANK on Friday 8th of August. 5days to go #finalwarning"
Sense another video coming on the Friday August 8th ,2014. Stay tuned this is no bank fraud. #wayo marketing trick


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Adonis Bosso and Juan Betancourt, two of the most sought-after male models, are featured in Horizon, an ongoing photo series lensed by Paris-based photographer Rainer Torrado.
Madrid native Torrado describes Horizon as"a black and white, minimalist approach to male beauty."
His work also include lookbook photography for Jean Paul Gaultier and editorial contributions to magazines Neo2, British Vogue, Harper's Bazaar Korea, Vogue Paris, and V Spain.
Ivorian model Adonis Bosso is the latest subject of the series. You may remember him from the new Adidas Originals by Jeremy Scott lookbook, as well as an extensive run in menswear shows from Paris to New York.
Cuban model Juan Betancourt was photographed for the Horizon series last November, in Madrid. He's best known as the face of Tom Ford's grooming line for men. He was recently cast in Loewe's new spring campaign.
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The Library offers a wide range of services to support Flinders researchers.
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- The Flinders Academic Commons is the University's institutional repository and provides an outlet for Flinders researchers to publish open access versions of their scholarly work.
- Services to support eResearch include data management planning advice and support as well as referral to other Flinders services providing high performance computing, collaboration and visualisation tools.
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KLAMATH FALLS — Gravel spit out of the back of the dump truck in a giant arc, landing on the far side of Crooked Creek. The angle changed, sending the gravel to the center and near side. Back and forth it went, the small rocks splashing into the water.
Once the load was emptied, Nell Kolden, restoration director with the Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust, waded into the creek and raked the gravel, smoothing the piles across the bottom of the waterway.
She, along with Christie Adelsberger, a restoration specialist with the trust, were working to improve spawning grounds for native redband trout. The organization works with landowners and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to improve habitat for fish species in the Klamath Basin.
"It's pretty cool to be able to come out, put the gravel in and come out a month or two later and actually be able to see that the fish are using it," Kolden said.
Redband trout are native to the Wood River and Crooked Creek, one of its tributaries. Crooked Creek is a place where the fish may have spawned in the past, but its muddy bottom — the depression where the trout lay their eggs — does not work well for this particular kind of fish.
The gravel the Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust installed in Crooked Creek will be prime spawning habitat for the redbands.
"The more we can help them, the more they can compete with the brook trout and brown trout; two non-native trout species people fish," Kolden said. "But we want to give the natives a leg up, so they can have the chance to compete with the non-natives."
The bottom of Crooked Creek is deep, fine-sediment mud — not ideal for spawning redband trout.
"It smothers their eggs," Adelsberger said. "Basically, it doesn't allow oxygen to get to those eggs, and they die."
Gravel, made of larger pieces with bigger spaces in between, allows the oxygen to reach the eggs.
"They have flow-through and allow the oxygen exchange with the water," Adelsberger said, which helps the redbands.
"They require these gravel additions," she continued. "Typically, that would be a natural habitat available to them. This is an enhancement to help their spawning efforts."
"We basically try to spread out the gravel in a way that will make it available for lots of different redbands to spawn there," Kolden said. "They'll start spawning in the next couple months. We'll be able to come out and see their big redds — where they flush out the gravel and make big depressions where they lay their eggs."
Other additions
At the Crooked Creek project, the rangeland trust also installed tree roots, or wood additions, at each bend the creek takes through the pasture owned by Gerry and Mark Hawkins.
Kolden said wood debris has been removed from many Oregon waterways because people thought rivers and streams looked cleaner without them. But the removal has led to problems, and groups like the rangeland trust are working to put wood back into the river.
"You put one piece of wood in there and all of a sudden the water will start moving differently; maybe scour out a pool," Kolden said. "You get a lot more habitat complexity by adding wood."
For the redband trout, the large tree roots in Crooked Creek will provide natural cover from predators.
"They provide a lot of little tiny spaces for juvenile fish to hang out," Kolden said. "The juveniles can rest in there. They can be protected from whatever predators are around. They're not just stuck in this open water with birds and other fish."
Adding wood and tree roots helps stabilize the bank and encourages more vegetation to grow.


text: Firstly to introduce myself I run a small car lighting company XENONSHOP UK who specialize in LED HID and Xenon lighting. The first thing i wanted to change on my 09 a3 was the awful halogen DRL bulbs so i had these made up theyre quite simply plug n play items and canbus compatible so they wont set off the DIS light failure system which is the usual problem you get with LEDS. They also dim when the indicator is on or the main lights on as they should. After the following thread here where other members expressed there interest and also speaking to voorhees to confirm its ok to go ahead i can bring to you a groupbuy for these LEDs The LEDS actually have SMDs on each unit and theyre very bright for there size there are to fittings available PS19W (Suitable for MY10 latest shape audi a3 models like in my first pic below) and P21W (Suitable for earlier 8p models which have the halogen drl bulbs). I have 20 pairs of the PS19W and 15 pairs of the P21W manufactured ready so the if the groupbuy goes over these amounts ill add second phase to it and make a second order of bulbs so please be aware of this can take 2-3 weeks and i will be sending them out on 1st come 1st served basis. (In order of payments recieved.) Price is £24.99 for each pair including shipping Payment links to order via credit card (please add your name below and also what you have ordered) PS19W MY10 MODELS CLICK HERE TO ORDER P21W PRE MY10 A3 MODELS CLICK HERE TO ORDER NB: RE HIDS + LEDS Please note i also can offer canbus compatible sidelight LEDs in xenon white for if you a3 doesnt have drl bulb and it uses a sidelight instead and i can also offer a premium quality canbus compatible HID kit for the a3 which wont effect the cars wiper motor or electrical system in any way (unlike the the majority of kits you will find on the internet / ebay). Iv had these made up with the newer audis and BMW E90 in mind in particular which are known for being problematic when retrofitting HID / LED. Problem sidelights applies to 2007/2008 s3`s only It has become apparent that some 2007/2008 s3 are having issues - To clarify the LED sidelights we did at near cost they are canbus and work fine on many models but the odd car s3 in particular it seems are more sensitive than others so on these cars you may need some extra PLUG IN DECODERS @ £6.50 a pair not wire in resistors like you may have come accross before. The decoders actually cost more than the LEDS believe it or not but if they work and get them working then its still a soloution to the problem for under £15 total Of course if you would rather have a refund that no issue either. We wasnt aware of this until we ran the groupbuy as i dont have a 2007/2008 s3 to test upon. Please PM me if you having issues on your 2007/2008 s3 car. As for the DRL situation on some the 2008 s3`s also im waiting for one of the members to report back if a fix has worked for him. (will report back soon)


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There is a rumor that Samsung is working on two new high end smartphones that are set to be launched in the last quarter of this year. The Galaxy S2 Plus and the S3 Mini are expected to hit the market before this year's holiday season in a move widely seen as Samsung's attempt to capitalize on the immense success of the S3 and the S2 phones – and in the same breath reach a wider audience with different phone needs. This is however just a rumor as there is no proof that Samsung is working on anything else at the moment besides marketing the Galaxy Note and Note 2 tablet and counting the profits from the S3 launch in June.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini is likely to go for around $200 while the improved Galaxy S2 Plus may go for between $250 and $350. The big question is, why would Samsung work on these devices instead of developing entirely new gadgets? If the rumor is true, it does not seem to make much sense for an improved version of an older smartphone released last year to cost more than a mini version of a newer smartphone, just a couple of months old. Then again, Apple is already rumored to release the iPhone 5 sometime this year and Samsung, being a sworn enemy, may be working on pulling the rug under Apple's feet by launching cheaper but somehow familiar devices ahead of, or during, iPhone 5's launch.
Word is that the Galaxy S3 Mini may be touted as iPhone 4S's competitor as it may feature quite impressive specs and features including a 5MP camera, a 4 inch WVGA Super-AMOLED screen and a Dual core processor. Nothing is known about the features of the Galaxy S2 Plus phone yet from an article that Samsung posted briefly before pulling it down.
If it is going to be an improved version of the galaxy S2, then it is likely that the Galaxy S2 Plus will feature a 4.5 inch AMOLED screen, an 8 megapixel camera, a 1.5GHz dual core processor, 1GB RAM and 16GB inbuilt memory. The phone may come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or better still, Android Jelly Bean.
From the rumor, the Galaxy S2's specs seem to be on a higher end than the Galaxy S3 Mini, which makes perfect sense if it is going to cost $100 to $150 more. What I cannot understand is the strategy Samsung is using to introduce these phone and what, if there is any, their Agenda is. It could be to promote their brand name while targeting mid-ranged smartphone buyers for the Christmas season or it could be aiming at undermining Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 release. For now, we just have to wait and see.


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Is there a 24-bit var in C++?
thanks it's 3 bytes but i can't figerout how to use it.
I tried to use it like this foo=0; and i get the error
error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'const int' to 'unsigned char [3]'
There are no conversions to array types, although there are conversions to references or pointers to arrays
how can i fix this?
you just do:
foo poo;
it will have all the proper operations defined for it.
EDIT: That would, of course, be for the bitfield, not the array. There is no direct way to use the array version.
That was weird it used my friends name. He logged in once on my pc and about a month or so but it shouldn't do that
no wait it get the error:
error C2228: left of '.myvar' must have class/struct/union type
from doing
it acts like a 24bit but it takes 4bytes can this be fixed?
I do sizeof(poo); and it gets 4 if i do
sizeof(poo.myvar) i get the error
error C2070: illegal sizeof operand
I just wanted to see if it was possable and wanted to save some space in ram if i only need to go 16 million. I also wanted to save some space in files but i could just make a fuction to do that my self.


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TORONTO - If Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley proved anything, its that both Gilbert (El Nino) Melendez and Nick Diaz are great champions deserving of top competition.
Melendez embraced Strikeforces newly legalized elbow strikes by unleashing a torrent of the blows on tough Japanese fighter Tatsuya (Crusher) Kawajiri to earn a first-round TKO victory. The win further cemented his spot among the elite lightweights in MMA.
Diaz on the other hand, opted to fight fire with fire and trade punches with dangerous striker Paul (Semtex) Daley. After a couple close calls as a result of power shots from Daley, Diaz dropped the Brit and put him away with punches on the mat to defend his welterweight championship for the third time.
Though each fighter made a statement Saturday night, the current Strikeforce lightweight and welterweight divisions arent deep enough to give them the level of challenge they deserve.
Diaz could meet undefeated prospect Tyron (T-Wood) Woodley. Woodleys wrestling credentials might make that fight interesting, since thats the one area Diaz is weak. However, its still another case of Diaz fighting guys below him in the rankings.
Melendez will likely face K.J. (King) Noons next. Noons moved up to welterweight to challenge Diaz in his last fight in October, but lost a unanimous decision. However, Noons defeated Diaz the first time around in 2007 and hasnt lost at lightweight in over four years.
Though these two fights make a certain amount of sense, Melendez and Diaz deserve marquee opponents.
And besides, fans want to see Strikeforce vs. UFC. Just because UFC president Dana White claims it will be business as usual, doesnt mean we cant lay out a few dream matches for the hell of it.
Diaz vs. GSP
This isnt meant as a slight to Jake Shields. He certainly has the tools to pull off the upset against Georges (Rush) St. Pierre at UFC 129. But if Shields does win the UFC welterweight title, he and Diaz would never face each other. Diaz recently called the thought of fighting a teammate sickening on a Strikeforce conference call.
Even if St. Pierre was to lose, Diaz is a hell of a marketable fight for him. Not only are they both great fighters, but they are polar opposites in terms of personality and fighting style. Diazs I dont give a s--- attitude is the perfect contrast to St. Pierres squeaky-clean reputation.
Diaz is as exciting a fighter as there is in MMA. He will meet you head on and beat you at your own game to prove a point. He comes to fight every time and immediately gets in his opponents face.
His last three appearances saw him play towards his opponents strengths, giving Daley, Noons and Evangelista (Cyborg) Santos the stand-up wars they wanted. Sure he ended up submitting Santos, but it wasnt Diaz who took the fight to the ground.
Hes exactly the kind of guy to push St. Pierre, who looks to minimize risk in his fights. St. Pierre always says he strikes with the grapplers and grapples with the strikers, but its been ages since weve seen him take a chance in the octagon.
St. Pierre would likely stick to what hes good at and look to exploit Diazs undeveloped wrestling skills. But Diaz is dangerous on his back and has a way of breaking guys down with his high punch output and by mixing his strikes to the head and body.
St. Pierres wrestling and athleticism would certainly make things tricky for Diaz. But lets face it, Diaz is probably the last guy in the sport to quit when put in a tough spot.
Melendez vs. LW Champ
Following his destruction of Kawajiri, Melendez wasted no time in proclaiming hes the top 155-pound fighter in the world
I know Im not the UFC champion, but Ive been around this sport a lot longer than Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard, Melendez said in the cage. If you look at the past and what Ive accomplished, Ive accomplished more.
Not to take anything away from those guys. Theyre great fighters. Im just trying to represent my organization and my team.
Its hard to argue those points.
Melendez has fought all over the world and beaten a number of top lightweight fighters. Hes also avenged his only two losses decisions to Josh (The Punk) Thomson and Mitsuhiro (Endless Fighter) Ishida.
He also stacks up well on paper with both Edgar and Maynard.
A strong wrestler who owns a brown belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu, Melendez has also developed his striking over the years and would prove a tough test regardless of where the fight could end up.
Overeem vs. Dos Santos
Theres no denying that Alistair (Demolition Man) Overeem challenging current UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez would make for a great fight.
But call me selfish for preferring to see the Strikeforce heavyweight titleholder and 2010 K-1 kick boxing world grand prix winner take on the best striker the UFC division has to offer, Junior (Cigano) dos Santos.
Besides, since Overeem is busy this year with the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix and Dos Santos is in a title shot eliminator with Brock Lesnar, it could work out both guys end the year holding their respective championships.
If all the right pieces fall into place, this would make for one hell of a fight to kick off 2012.
Overeem to face Werdum
Strikeforce has confirmed the fight card for the next leg of its heavyweight grand prix tournament.
Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum will take place June 18 in Dallas and will feature a headlining bout between heavyweight champion Alistair (Demolition Man) Overeem and Fabricio (Vai Cavalo) Werdum. Josh (The Babyfaced Assassin) Barnett will meet slugger Brett (The Grim) Rogers in the co-main event.
The winner of Overeem-Werdum will advance to the semifinal to face Antonio (Big Foot) Silva, who defeated Fedor (The Last Emperor) Emelianenko via TKO in February. Meanwhile, Sergei Kharitonov, who knocked out Andrei (Pitbull) Arlovski, will step into the cage with the victor of Barnett-Rogers.
Two tournament alternate bouts will also be held. Chad (The Grave Digger) Griggs will take on Valentijn (The Python) Overeem and undefeated heavyweights Daniel Cormier and Shane Del Rosario are set to square off.
The former face of womens MMA, Gina (Conviction) Carano, will also return to the ring on the card. An opponent has yet to be named.
Sonnen breaks his silence
After months of keeping quiet, former UFC middleweight title challenger Chael Sonnen has finally broken his silence.
Sonnen, who was handed a $10,000 fine, two years probation and forced to give up his realtors licence after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, appeared on Mondays edition of The MMA Hour. Sonnen maintained he didnt profit from the alleged fraud, but is fine with the sentence.
I was a real estate professional; I had a license, he said. That means whether I knew or didnt know, I shouldve known.
Listen, this is what men do. We take responsibility for our (mistakes), and thats what I did.
Sonnen also said hes ready to return to the UFC and is prepared to answer to Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer in order to get his fighters license reinstated.
I need to clear the air with him and, more importantly, I need to clear it on the record. My takeaway from the meeting with Kizer was not, We dont want to work with you again. It was simply, Theres been some mistakes. Our reservation is youre going to repeat them.
Thats not going to happen, but what he wants to do is give me an opportunity to speak on the record so that we can get everything recorded and written down and make sure we dont do those things again. If I was in Kizers shoes, I wouldnt demand anything less.
Fight between Henderson and Fedor in works
A dream fight between Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Dan (Hendo) Henderson and Fedor (The Last Emperor) Emelianenko is in the works.
Hendersons title wont be on the line as the two are expected to meet in a catchweight bout.
In an interview with MMA Fighting, Hendersons manager Aaron Crecy said the PRIDE and UFC veteran would face Emelianenko in any weight class.
Dan has indicated hed love to have the fight and he hasnt shied away from that, Crecy said. Hed love to have the fight, and have it at heavyweight. Hes happy to challenge Fedor there.
Dan admires the guy and feels its a challenge hes wanted to take for a long time. Hes embraced the possibility of it for a long time.
The article goes on to cite an unnamed source with knowledge of the situation who claims Emelianenkos camp, M1-Global, has offered a catchweight of 220 pounds.
The fight likely will take place some time this summer.


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World of Streams: How Social Networking in Conjunction with Kanban Transform Offshore Outsourcing
The fast rise of software talent marketplaces like oDesk and uTest represents a profound transformation. Software is no more a world of places – Silicon Valley, Seattle, Bangalore, Krakow or Tel Aviv. Rather, software is fast becoming a world of work streams. These streams are tied together through social networking and collaborative techniques in which virtual team spaces replace the site, the conference room, the metaphorical shelf on which the software artifacts are stored… and the water cooler.
Three trends drive this transformation in software from a world of places to a world of streams:
- Shortage of talent. Have you recently tried to hire highly skilled programmers in areas such as mobile applications or cloud computing? No matter where you site might be located, most of the skills you need in these critical domains are not within a radius of 25 miles from your site. You find the programmers where they reside, not necessarily in your vicinity. This reality applies both to your own company and to the outsourcers it uses, whether onshore or offshore.
- The economics of on-demand computing. Economies of scale in very large data centers have been shown to produce efficiencies that reduce cost of computing by a factor of 5-7X compared to the cost of computing in small and medium data centers[1]. Such economies are not restricted anymore to the monolithic data centers of ITO companies such as EDS, Infosys or Perot Systems. They are available through providers like Amazon to anyone of us who is in possession of a run-of-the-mill credit card. You scale your computing environment as needed in a manner which is not much different from the way you scale gift buying toward Christmas.
- Decomposition of requirements. The Agile movement put a strong emphasis on user stories as tiny, granular piece of client-valued function. Scrum practitioners batch "bite size" stories (and derivative tasks) in sprints whose duration is typically a couple of weeks. Kanban goes an extra step forward by implementing one-piece flow. Each story is tracked individually, not as part of a multi-piece flow. This granular decomposition of requirements uses "a work-in-process limited pull system"[2] to scientifically monitor and manage the stream of stories/tasks. Programmers and testers in your virtual team are out of sight – to you and to other team members – but their work streams and the particular challenges these streams pose are very visible and actionable.
Forward-looking development managers already utilize the three trends to achieve impressive results in productivity, time-to-market and cost of software. They "acquire" talent on a per-task basis wherever it resides through marketplaces such as those mentioned above. They procure computing resources inexpensively, when they need them, through the good services of Amazon Web Services or similar providers. And, they effectively oversee the work stream(s) of dispersed programmers and testers through Kanban tools. These three ingredients of the 'secret sauce' are immediately available to anyone who is willing to take the initiative to use them. The only real challenge in developing software in that manner is that it requires highly competent development managers. These development managers need to be able to break down requirements and oversee their implementation at a very granular level without having the benefit of interacting with a co-located team. Competent and empowered that various members of the virtual team might be, there is no substitute in this paradigm to the skills of the development managers – they must be of the highest caliber.
One could conceivably argue that the advantages of collaboration through cheap and rapid iterations
are largely lostunder the mode of operation described above. I believe this argument fails to take into account the harsh realities of most offshore software projects. Team interactions are systemically difficult across the three ponds separating the West Coast of the United States from Pune, India. And, flying folks back and forth from one continent to another is not quite consistent with the economics of labor arbitrage. The world might be proclaimed flat, but reverting to collaborative software to compensate for time-zone differences is just about the only pragmatically feasible option for teams distributed across continents[3].
With this analysis in mind, one is hard pressed to identify fundamental advantages to outsourcing, let alone offshore outsourcing, over the software development paradigm presented above. No doubt, outsourcers offered tangible benefits, including system management, system integration, centralized transaction processing and private digital voice, data and video networks to their customers during the heydays of the industry. It is not at all clear that similarly sustainable advantages are available to outsourcers in an era characterized by cloud, kanban, mobile and social.
The point is, you don't need an outsourcer to pull together talent for you from far away countries. Use modern tools like LeanKit Kanban, oDesk, Sococo and/or uTest instead. These tools will do the kind of harnessing you need in order to be able to carry out expert sourcing on your own.
The remarkable thing about doing software in the manner described here is that it brings to the fore the unspoken truth of traditional labor arbitrage. To quote colleague and friend Michael Mah:
"… offshore projects exhibited nearly 2.8x higher defects [than US-based software projects]. When factoring in the added time and effort to resolve these higher defects, the cost was nearly the same as US projects, which eroded the advantage of lower labor rates[4]."
There is precious little an outsourcer who parcels out work to offshore locations can do that cannot be accomplished through the combination of competent development managers, global talent marketplaces and the Kanban method. Moreover, the economics of so doing are compelling. For example, the cost per bug reported by uTest is an order of magnitude lower than that achieved through traditional in-house testing.
I would be a little nervous these days if I were in the outsourcing business. My ability to recapture value through labor arbitrage is being eroded by the twin 'brothers' – Social Networking and Kanban. A third 'brother' – Cloud Computing – enhances and accelerates the erosion.
[1] James Hamilton, Internet Scale Service Efficiency, September 16, 2008.
[2] David Anderson, The Principles of the Kanban Method, December 10, 2010.
[3] Jeff Sutherland holds a different opinion on distributed teams in the Scrum context. Click here for details.
[4] Michael Mah, Is the World Not Flat? Cutter Consortium, Business Technology Trends & Impacts, August 31, 2006.
Israel GatIsrael Gat served as Cutter Fellow and the Director of the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence practice from 2008 until 2015.
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Hi Israel,
interesting trend that you are not outsourcing to large companies but through individuals all over the world. I think in order to make this succeed, you need to effectively address the common focus and communication problem. You could leverage social tools like chat, and other tools for this, so a traditional development is becoming a person who support this adhoc/virtual group. This will require different skills as you lack the face-to-face communication.
You can also draw the parallel between how opensource has worked, a group of central maintainers with the aid of a lot of different individuals with different skills. It's great to see organizations adopting this style of working. Very similar to something I experienced at XP days, called wolf pack programming.
While a Kanban visualization can clearly help, it's quite difficult to make reliable estimations of capacity if the people involved fluctuate a lot. The manager will become a capacity manager of the process.
I think the way of working, really needs to be driven by results people deliver, because it's the only way you can see/measure progress. What makes it harder to interview and very the skills of the person that does the job, and with a strict timing, it might be too late before you notice that there aren't good results.
Thanks for insight!
Hi, like the post and agree with the theory, do you have any data on the quality of the artefacts that were generated ?
I have found that some people generate 'better' artefacts if the work is going offsite for implementation then those that would be going in house, so would be keen to know if your case they were similar ?
Israel Gat says:
It varies greatly, Cuan. The #1 factor I noticed is cultural predispositions. For example, folks in Control culture tend to be quite rigorous with their artifacts.
The important thing to be aware of IMHO is that it is a zero-sum game. Time put into elaborate artifacts takes away from the time available for doing development, testing, etc. It is usually time very well spent up to a point, but not beyond.
Sococo says:
Really nice post. I think you hit the key to success very strongly. That key is management; not just process and style, but tools and infrastructure to allow for proper interactions. Agile places an emphasis on facilitating interactions, which is the reason that co-location is so strongly promoted within the Agile community. That's one of our goals- to facilitate rich interactions amongst colleagues.
[…] the full article here. By: Israel Gat February 6, 2011 A nice read on why outsourcing can be a thing of the past if […]
I'm in the outsourcing business, the company has been in this business for 6 years.
My feeling is quite the same, I think decomposition of requirements and the ability to manage quality are very important.
But it will not be a good idea to have your team members in too many separated places, it will give you a better result if you can hold them in one place.
My question is, how social networking change the outsourcing business?
I agree that these innovations offer an opportunity to be game-changing. One of the challenges is institutional knowledge that grows as people become familiar with an application's design and business intent. If you farm bite-sized stories out to a marketplace, it is not clear how to gain the benefits of this experience and knowledge. Perhaps the open source community can lead the way in this loosely-coupled model.
Roy Ritthaler says:
Two thoughts about this –
(1) as others have alluded to, the end product is not always the sum of the parts. It is very important that the dev manager, the architect/designer(s) and the business owners have a clear way and a definitive say in whether the final product 'cuts it'.
(2) If you buy into the comment above, then software is becoming very similar to the 'Hollywood model' of creative development. In fact, I would argue that clear roles, responsibilities and culture on top of an effective collaboration environment that will create the best software. It's not just the director (parallel to the development manager) that makes a great piece of content – it's the team, from the producer on down, and the culture of that team, no matter how virtual.
Successful software production companies will understand this and will have the culture and organization in place to make it happen.


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The City Council finance committee on Monday approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel's revised deal with the private company that manages the city's parking meters.
The vote came after two Chicago aldermen challenged the deal, questioning whether it was the best the city could get.
Ald. Scott Waugespack and Ald. Brendan Reilly offered a substitute plan that would break up the parking meter revision into two parts: the "true-up" settlement and the extended hours. The committee denied the challenge in a 14 to 5 vote stating an independent analysis of the true-up deal is a better deal for the city.
Ald. Waugespack (32nd) said his staff has been crunching numbers and said the private company, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, could actually come ahead in the deal.
Waugespack estimates CPM will lose $7.4 million by giving up Sunday meters in many neighborhoods. However, by extending the hours in River North by three hours and one hour in other areas, Waugespack estimates that will be a $9.4 million dollar gain for CPM.
The city disputes those numbers and says CPM will lose $1 million dollars each year in this trade off.
Waugespack said he believes he knows what the motivation is behind the free Sunday aspect.
"It's about politics; it's not about the bottom line for taxpayers for the city," he said.
Emanuel last month introduced to the City Council a revised agreement to the city's 75-year deal with CPM. Under that plan, most areas of the city would return to free parking on Sundays in exchange for extended hours the rest of the week. Emanuel also said there would be $1 billion in savings over the life of the contract.
"To be very clear," Ald. Reilly (42nd) said, "one of the key components of making this free Sunday swap work is returning the 828 spaces to the operator in exchange for gaining back less-valuable parking lots, is that correct?"


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The old grey Efficient gets into the 2011 $3m Group 1 W S Cox Plate (2040m) courtesy of the discretionary powers of the Moonee Valley Racing Club.
The 2007 Melbourne Cup winner has been a fabulous horse whose reputation would have undoubtedly been higher had it not been for injury.
A top notch three-year-old, Efficient won the Victoria Derby with a terrific burst at the end of 2500m.
2011 W S Cox Plate – Horse profile.
1 Efficient (barrier 5) 59kg
- Eight year old grey gelding
- Record: 22 starts 7 wins 0 second 0 third
- Winning distance range 1400m to 3200m
- Best win: 2007 Group 1 Melbourne Cup 3200m at Flemington
- Trainer: Robert Hickmott, Mt Macedon
- Jockey, Steven King.
- Latest price Luxbet $21.
He was installed early Melbourne Cup favourite for 2007 but his lead up form was thought to be patchy.
In truth Efficient only really started to warm up after he reached 2000m.
The shorter races and those at the distance never saw the best of him after his three-year-old days.
None of his lead up races to the 2007 Cup were above 2040m so when he got to the 3200m of the Melbourne Cup he finished powerfully to win.
That year he raced in the Cox Plate and finished 9th to El Segundo.
Since the spring of 2007, Efficient has only raced nine times due to injury and won once in the 2009 Turnbull Stakes (2000m).
After attempts to get him up for another Melbourne Cup, owner Lloyd Williams has realized the son of Zabeel could no longer stand such a tough preparation.
He has set him for the 2011 Cox Plate and Sandown Cup.
The question remains – can we see the best of Efficient over 2040 of the 2011 Cox Plate or does he need it longer?
One suspects it is the latter as seen by his last start.
Efficient was doing his best work in the final 200m in the Turnbull Stakes (2000m).
He was making ground but was never a winning hope.
Efficient is an all or nothing type of horse.
His record of seven wins and no placings tell you that.
Can he win the 2011 Cox Plate?
The predicted quick pace of the this Cox Plate will suit him.
At 2040m the answer is probably no, but I wouldn't be surprised if he is one of the best runs in the race all the same.
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Nelson Teng, MD, PhD, is Director of Gynecologic Oncology and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Teng is also Program Director for the Stanford/UCSF Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program in Stanford, California.
The basis for using intraperitoneal chemotherapy comes from several randomized studies including the now old Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) study by Armstrong et al, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2006; however, there is a renewed interest in this topic, which has now become an important subject.
In spite of all of the advances that biologics and newer drugs, the so-called triplet combinations, have made beyond the old standard doublet of carboplatin and paclitaxel as first line therapy, for the most part, either the result is not entirely confirmatory with survival data yet or the drug has shown minimal effect in other solid tumors. Case in point is the findings from the ICON7 trial2 and OCEANS trial which are very encouraging, but we don't have the final results. It is not clear whether any of the studies of these new regimens will have the same kind of impact on survival of those that I would consider the most important studies published in ovarian cancer in the past decade.
One of those studies is the one I mentioned, which looked at intraperitoneal therapy, and the other one was published by the Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), and looked at dose-dense (not dose intense, e.g. with marrow transplant or stem cell support) chemotherapy in advanced ovarian cancer. We can compare these two studies.
In the first study, which is well-known, intraperitoneal vs intravenous cisplatin and paclitaxel were compared. Intraperitoneal therapy showed a tremendously impressive extension of not only the progression-free interval, but also overall survival. The median progression-free survival was increased from 18.3 months to 23.8 months (P = .05) and the median survival difference was 49 months vs 65 months (P = .03), a difference of almost 14 months, which is a whopper in any kind of drug study.
Had this study been not on just a procedure, a technique of intraperitoneal devices, but on a drug of some kind, showing this degree of improvement in survival, it would have been an instantaneous hit and the drug probably would be used even without waiting for completion of an additional confirmatory study. There have been at least three randomized trials that have demonstrated superiority of intraperitoneal over intravenous delivery of platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with optimally debulked advanced ovarian cancer, but intraperitoneal therapy hasn't really caught on.
There has always been a question in my mind as to why this should be the case. Then, about a year ago, the Japanese GOG reported results from what I consider to be a very well-designed phase III trial showing the benefit of dose-dense, once weekly paclitaxel. When compared with the patients assigned to the conventional regimen of paclitaxel and carboplatin, those on the dose-dense paclitaxel plus carboplatin regimen showed improvement of both the progression-free interval and overall survival. Progression-free survival was 28.0 months and 17.2 months, respectively (hazard ratio [HR] 0.71; 95% CI 0.58–0.88; P = 0.0015). The 3-year overall survival rate was 72.1% vs 65.1% (HR, 0.75; CI, 0.57–0.98; P = 0.03).
A very interesting correlation can be made concerning the possible mechanism of intraperitoneal therapy and also the weekly dosing investigated by the Japanese study. If we consider the reasons that intraperitoneal therapy works, it becomes obvious that it is not simply just the fact that the drug is delivered directly into the abdominal cavity, where most of the ovarian cancers reside. The major mechanism may, perhaps, be a depot, slow release effect by which the intraperitoneal drug, paclitaxel or cisplatin, actually circulates into the blood systemically over time. We know that paclitaxel, when given intraperitoneally, has a very, very long half-life, hence a "dose-dense" effect.
The dosing in the Armstrong study is actually similar to the dose-dense chemotherapy in the Japanese study that was given weekly. Armstrong and colleagues gave 80 mg of paclitaxel per week for 3 weeks. Carboplatin was given at the standard dose, AUC of 6. If we add up the three treatments of paclitaxel, the total dose was 240 mg, which is higher than what we typically use as a pulsed dose of 175 mg. So, by distributing the dose over time, we may have achieved a similar mechanistic effect to that of the intraperitoneal depot effect.
Another issue is higher hematologic toxicity with intravenous chemotherapy than with intraperitoneal chemotherapy. The real question is whether we are able to use these two studies to advance the field by looking at a different regimen, as well as a more convenient way of administering therapy instead of intraperitoneally, by actually using intravenous therapy.
Currently, GOG is conducting a trial, GOG 252, in which they compare the different intraperitoneal dose-dense regimens and, then, just to do the fashionable thing, will add bevacizumab to all of the regimens, which will be followed by bevacizumab maintenance therapy. It does not directly compare intraperitoneal and intravenous delivery; nevertheless, we may get a useful result. In short, there is a significant contribution to be made by really looking at the therapy that we already have on hand. For example, in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia, significant improvement in survival was achieved in the past several decades without the introduction of any new drugs.
There are several things to consider in these two studies. One common criticism of both studies is the high dropout rate. Of interest, both studies have very similar dropout rates. In fact, in the intraperitoneal study, only 42% of patients received all six cycles of chemotherapy and in the experimental arm of the Japanese study, 48% received all six cycles. However, if all the patients had completed the six-cycle treatment in either of these two studies, the result would have been even more dramatic. The high noncompletion rate was caused, mainly, by severe hematologic and neurologic toxicity, pain, and fatigue.
Another criticism is that the Japanese population might be different from others, so there may be ethnic or racial differences. For example, there is a difference in histologic distribution of tumors, with higher incidence of clear cell carcinoma in the Asian population; clear cell carcinoma carries a poorer prognosis. However, when the Japanese analyzed only the serous papillary tumors, they still observed an improvement in survival. In fact, in their study, using the dose-dense schedule did not show an obvious impact on outcomes in patients with clear cell carcinoma.
There are other differences in the inclusion criteria, such as the inclusion of stage II disease in the dose-dense trial, whereas, only stage III patients were studied in the intraperitoneal trial. There might also be variation in the surgical debulking techniques used. The GOG 252 trial probably will be one of the studies in which these questions can be answered.
There are other intriguing mechanisms involved. For example, paclitaxel, given at a low dose may have, in itself, an anti-angiogenesis effect, which may be synergistic with the chemotherapy regimen, especially when paclitaxel is given in a dose-dense manner. One wonders if this would explain why in the phase III GOG 218 trial, which looked at bevacizumab in women with advanced ovarian cancer, an improvement in progression-free survival was only observed in patients who received continued bevacizumab maintenance therapy. Women treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel, with or without bevacizumab, showed no difference in progression-free survival.4 The anti-angiogenesis effect may already be maximized by paclitaxel, such that the addition of bevacizumab to chemotherapy showed no significant improvement.
By better dosing, which could be a lower dose of both carboplatin and paclitaxel, the hematologic and other toxicities can be reduced. The kinetics may be more similar to that of the traditional low dose, continuous metronomic chemotherapy. Although the verdict is still out on whether these traditional therapies should be pushed aside in favor of biologics, consideration must be given to the side effects of the newer agents, especially longer term and also a serious issue relative to cost.
These two seemingly very different types of regimen may share a common mechanistic fundamental. The result of one study actually affirmed the other. There were two different methodologies, evaluated in very different patient populations, yet showing comparable superior survival curves. Further investigation of the old drugs with innovative dosing and scheduling, and also delivery, may be in order.
Mar 16, 2011 - 10:56 pm
I didn't know what "metronomic chemotherapy" is so I found the following info from the "NCI Bulletin" volume 3 number 26 on the web site dated June 27, 2006:
A New "Target" for Chemotherapy?
Although not typically considered a "targeted therapy" along the lines of drugs like trastuzumab (Herceptin) or gefitinib (Iressa), most chemotherapy does have a general target: rapidly dividing cells. This description applies well to cancer cells but, unfortunately, also describes some healthy cells, such as those in the bone marrow or gut, which also draw chemotherapy's wrath.
But chemotherapy drugs also have another target: endothelial cells that form the lining of newly formed blood vessels, such as those whose creation is orchestrated by tumors to fuel their growth. There is a considerable body of evidence that even very low, nontoxic doses of chemotherapy drugs, when delivered frequently for a prolonged period of time, can retard tumor blood vessel growth (or angiogenesis) by destroying endothelial cells.
Treatment approaches along these lines are now being tested in clinical trials, and they've been coined metronomic chemotherapy.
"The definition of metronomic chemotherapy varies, but generally it refers to repetitive, low doses of chemotherapy drugs designed to minimize toxicity and target the endothelium or tumor stroma as opposed to targeting the tumor," says Dr. Harold J. Burstein of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who has led several early-stage trials of metronomic chemotherapy in women with breast cancer.
"It's definitely an interesting approach that opens up the possibility of using chemotherapy differently than we have traditionally considered," says Dr. Burstein.
The metronomic approach was initially proposed and tested in animal models by Dr. Timothy Browder in Dr. Judah Folkman's lab at Harvard Medical School. In the studies, standard maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) chemotherapy regimens caused cell death of endothelial cells in the blood vessels feeding to the tumor first, followed by tumor cells. But the long breaks needed between the MTD regimens allowed the damaged blood vessels, and thus the tumor, to recover.
But significantly lower doses given more frequently on a prolonged schedule proved to be far more effective, including complete tumor regressions, even in mice that were resistant to the same drug when used in a standard MTD regimen.
Since then, several research groups have confirmed these findings. And studies conducted in cell lines and animal models have also suggested that combining metronomic chemotherapy with targeted anti-angiogenesis agents is more effective than metronomic chemotherapy alone.
"I think the preclinical data together with the clinical trial results seen so far make a strong argument for testing metronomic chemotherapy more aggressively in larger trials, including trials where it's combined with different targeted agents," argues Dr. Robert Kerbel, of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, who has led many preclinical studies of metronomic chemotherapy.
A true metronomic regimen of frequent, low-dose chemotherapy over a longer period has yet to be tested in any phase III trials in the United States. A number of phase I and II trials have been conducted, however, yielding some provocative, if not altogether convincing, results.
Dr. Burstein presented data last December from a phase II clinical trial comparing a common metronomic regimen - a daily low dose of oral cyclophosphamide and a low dose of methotrexate twice a week - with or without the targeted anti-angiogenesis drug bevacizumab. The combination approach was superior to metronomic chemotherapy alone in delaying disease progression, but was not necessarily an improvement upon the results typically seen in similar patient populations treated with a standard MTD regimen.
Concerns about the toxic effects of conventional cancer treatments on pediatric patients also has prompted pediatric oncology researchers to investigate metronomic-like approaches to treatment. Some promising early results have been reported.
Based on the available clinical evidence, says Dr. Burstein, it's unclear in what setting metronomic chemotherapy might prove most useful.
"Those who are enthusiastic about it think it can be used anywhere," he says. "I think it's most likely to be used to treat more indolent, less threatening tumors because it may not work fast enough for those…with more aggressive disease."
Researchers like Dr. Kerbel, meanwhile, are making some headway on better understanding the nuts and bolts of metronomic chemotherapy, such as how to determine the lowest dose that can provide a potent benefit - the so-called optimal biological dose - and identifying biological markers that demonstrate whether the approach is having an anti-angiogenic effect.
Then there's this question: Can chemotherapy be delivered more frequently, even daily, at significantly higher doses than those used in most metronomic regimens but less than in MTD regimens? The toxicity might be greater than a "traditional" metronomic regimen, but so might the effectiveness, including in comparison with standard MTD regimens.
That's exactly what was shown in a phase III clinical trial presented earlier this month at the ASCO annual meeting. In women with locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer, a presurgical (or neoadjuvant), metronomic-like regimen - using higher doses of cyclophosphamide, given daily; doxorubicin; and growth factor support to ensure the continued production of white blood cells - was superior to a standard MTD regimen at eliminating evidence of invasive cancer at the time of surgery. This outcome, explains Dr. Robert Livingston, a co-investigator on the Southwest Oncology Group-led trial, generally has been found to predict superior long-term outcome in patients.
The idea, according to Dr. Livingston, is to try to expose tumor cells to minimum concentrations of chemotherapy drugs for as long as possible.
"I think it's fair to call the regimen we have developed a hybrid," he says. "It can destroy tumor cells and, at the same time, the continuous exposure, particularly to cyclophosphamide, is having an anti-angiogenic effect."
By Carmen Phillips
Mar 16, 2011 - 11:02 pm
This pearl is buried in the above article:
But significantly lower doses given more frequently on a prolonged schedule proved to be far more effective, including COMPLETE TUMOR REGRESSIONS, even in mice that were RESISTANT to the SAME DRUG when used in a standard MTD regimen!
It's been almost five years since that was published...sigh.


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there's no jumper settings on a SATA hard drive. for a dvd burner it would depend on what setting your present dvd burner is set to. i'm assuming it's probably set to master then your new second dvd burner can be set to slave. but some models of dvd burners preferably like to be set to master.
it maybe best for you to open up your GATEWAY computer tower and see for yourself what settings your dvd burner is set to. on ide dvd burners you'll have to set the jumper settings on the back of the drive to master/slave/cable select. i don't suggest using the cable select setting. then make sure you use the correct end of the ide cable when hooking up your new dvd burner. in other words if you're gonna set your new drive to the slave jumper setting it should be using the slave connector on the ide cable. FYI it's best to use a 80 wire ide cable for dvd burners since most new models require it.
Took a look inside, There is a ribbon caple with the extra slave connection For the DVD Burner.
So I schould be all set
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text: RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 11916795 LA English T1 Jesus through the centuries : his place in the history of culture A1 Pelikan, Jaroslav,, PB Yale University Press PP New Haven [Conn.] YR 1985 SN 0300034962 9780300034967 AB Pelikan discusses how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human existence and destiny. Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages - from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is an essential key to understanding that era.--desc. from illus. ed.