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The stitches ran down the left side of Doug Fister's neck. He insisted he never thought of them, or why they were required, as he fought Friday night to find his mechanics and preserve the Washington Nationals' winning streak. He said it had no impact on his performance, however difficult that may be to believe.
After the 10-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants at Nationals Park, which halted the Nationals' magical run at 10 games, Fister revealed the reason for the stitches. Between his last start, Fister underwent a minor operation to remove cancerous skin from his neck.
"I had some skin cancer removed a couple days ago," Fister said. "It had no effect tonight."
Fister did not say anything further about the procedure, other than that he is okay now. A Nationals media relations official cut short a group interview a second after he explained the stitches. Skin cancer is a scourge among baseball players, coaches and scouts who spend hours daily under the sun from spring training through the summer.
"Everything's good with him," Manager Matt Williams said, without revealing details. "He's fine."
So the Nationals had something larger on their minds than the end of the longest winning streak in team history, which doubled as the longest in the majors this season. Their magic carpet ride stopped Friday with an ugly finish. Old nemesis Tim Hudson held the Nationals down, and the Giants piled on six runs in the final two innings on the rare night Fister lacked sharpness.
"We haven't had that feeling in a while," first baseman Adam LaRoche said. "Tough loss, just the way we got beat. Other than that, looking back, it was an awesome stretch. Frustrating, but we're still in great position for this time of the year. We just kind of let one get away from us today."
The Nationals had won 14 of Fister's past 17 starts, and he carried a 2.20 ERA into Friday night. He had not allowed more than three earned runs or multiple home runs in a start since June 15. But the Giants scored four runs off him in six innings that took him an uncharacteristically arduous 107 pitches to complete. Rookie Joe Panik blasted a three-run homer in the fourth, the first homer of his career, for one of his four hits. Buster Posey added a solo blast in the sixth.
"The whole day, I battled myself," Fister said. "That's a constant challenge for me, to constantly keep the ball down. It's something I have to do. If not, I have to pay for it. And that's what happened."
The standard Fister set for himself since he debuted May 9 made his outing seem poor, almost shockingly so. But he still gave the Nationals a prime chance to win, his manager and teammates believed.
"It's not a bad start," Williams said. "They took two really good swings, and that gave them their four runs. Nobody is going to be good every single time."
"You haven't seen that happen all year," center fielder Denard Span said. "It's going to happen. That's a good lineup over there. He still pitched good, in my opinion. He still gave us a chance to win."
Another walk-off, potentially the Nationals' sixth in seven games, still seemed plausible until the eighth, when the Nationals trailed, 4-2.
Williams stuck with left-hander Jerry Blevins after he got out five of the first six batters he faced. But Blevins allowed a two-out rally in the eighth inning, which culminated with Travis Ishikawa's two-run double off the right field wall.
"Things kind of unraveled there," Williams said. "But he's facing all lefties, and we feel confident in him to do that. It didn't work tonight."
The Giants tacked on another four runs in the ninth off Ross Detwiler and the shabby defense behind him. The mess ensured there would be no walk-off, no Gatorade buckets dumped on teammates, no smoke machine in the clubhouse.
In a quiet locker room, the Nationals did not spend much time on reflection. "We don't have time to do that," Fister said. "We got to come back tomorrow ready to play." But they could still appreciate the run they made.
"Some guys were talking about it after the game," LaRoche said. "Let's start up a new one."
The Nationals succumbed to Hudson — again. In 30 career starts against the Nationals, most of them with the Braves, Hudson had pitched to a 2.37 ERA. In June at AT&T Park, he allowed them no earned runs over seven innings. Friday, he held the Nationals to two runs, one earned, in 51 / 3 innings.
The Nationals scored first when LaRoche followed Anthony Rendon's lead and executed a double steal in the first inning. Posey's throw got away from Panik, and Rendon scooted home to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead.
Aided by Asdrubal Cabrera's twisting, jumping play in the second inning, Fister cruised into the fourth, still holding the lead. After two quick outs, Pablo Sandoval hit a nubber just over Fister's outstretched glove, which is no small feat (Fister is 6 feet 8). The infield single kept the inning alive for Michael Morse, whose grounder skipped past Ian Desmond's dive and into center field.
Needing to retire the rookie Panik, Fister made a rare mistake. He left a first-pitch sinker thigh-high and over the middle of the plate. Panik smashed it over the center field fence, just to the right of the 402-foot sign. Fister had not allowed three runs in a start since July 2 in Colorado. With one swing, he trailed, 3-1.
"I just wasn't sharp," Fister said. "I left too many balls over the plate."
Jayson Werth responded in the bottom of the inning. He had battled inflammation in his right shoulder, which required a cortisone shot and sapped his power. But he hooked Hudson's 1-2 splitter into the left field seats for his first homer since the all-star break and slashed the deficit in half.
"They battle and they play hard," Williams said. "We'll see if we can start another one tomorrow. Those don't come around very often. It's pretty rare to see 10 in a row. We got to get back to work."


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Imatinib Mesylate in Treating Patients With Metastatic Melanoma
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RATIONALE: Imatinib mesylate may interfere with the growth of tumor cells and may be an effective treatment for metastatic melanoma.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of imatinib mesylate in treating patients who have metastatic melanoma.
|Melanoma Skin Neoplasms
|Drug: Imatinib mesylate (STI571)
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase II Trial of Gleevec (Imatinib Mesylate, STI-571) in Metastatic Melanoma
- Response rate [ Time Frame: 6 week intervals ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2001
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Imatinib Mesylate
400 mg twice a day orally
Drug: Imatinib mesylate (STI571)
400 mg twice a day orally
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
- Determine the clinical activity of imatinib mesylate (STI571) in patients with metastatic melanoma.
- Determine the side effects of this drug in these patients.
- Correlate molecular studies with responsiveness to this drug in these patients.
OUTLINE: Patients receive oral imatinib mesylate (STI571) twice daily. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 21-78 patients will be accrued for this study within 6-15 months.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patient must have a biopsy proven diagnosis of metastatic melanoma. Patients will be enrolled if at least 20% of the tumor cells stain by immunohistochemistry (see Appendix E for methodology) for:
- PDGF receptor alpha or beta, or
- KIT (CD 117) expression by tumor documented by DAKO antibody staining, or
- c-abl, ARG.
- Patients must have measurable indicator metastasis, defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded) as >20 mm with conventional techniques or as >10 mm with spiral CT scan or in case of obviously visible cutaneous tumors. Besides the indicator lesion(s), the patient must have at least one other biopsiable metastasis in a subcutaneous site or lymph node.
- Radiographic studies used to assess disease must have been performed within 28 days prior to registration. If a target lesion has been previously embolized, perfused or irradiated, there must be objective evidence of progression before start of therapy to be considered for response assessment.
- Patient will not have symptomatic central nervous metastases. However, patients with small asymptomatic metastases will not be excluded provided they are not on steroids and the lesions are not associated with significant edema. Patients with brain metastases as the only site of disease are not eligible.
- Patient may have received prior interferon and/or one other systemic treatment regimen (chemotherapy, biotherapy, or biochemotherapy). Active immunotherapy (cancer vaccines) will not be included in the tally of prior treatments.
- Patient must not have received chemotherapy, biologic therapy or any other investigational drug for any reason within 28 days prior to registration, and this extends to 42 days if the patient received a nitrosourea. Patients must not have had a major surgery within 14 days prior to registration.
- Patient must have a ECOG performance status < 2 or Karnofsky performance status > 60% (see Appendix C).
- Patient must have resolution of transient toxicities from any prior therapy to Grade 1 (NCI-CTC version 2.0, see Appendix B).
Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as assessed within 14 days prior to registration and as defined below:
leukocytes > 3,000/mL absolute neutrophil count > 1,500/mL platelets > 100,000/mL total bilirubin < 1.5 X institutional upper limit of normal AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) < 2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal creatinine < 1.5 X institutional upper limit of normal
Patient must have a hemoglobin > 9 gm/dl (this may be achieved by transfusion if needed) obtained within 14 days prior to registration.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient must not have uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction within 2 months of study, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Patient must not have a severe and/or uncontrolled concurrent medical disease (e.g., uncontrolled diabetes, uncontrolled chronic renal or liver disease, or active uncontrolled infection).
- Patient must not be pregnant or nursing because Gleevec may be harmful to the developing fetus and newborn (see Section 3.0 for more detail). Women/men of reproductive potential must agree to use an effective contraceptive method. Because of the potential interaction with oral contraceptives both male and female patients of reproductive potential must agree to employ a barrier method of contraception (condom, diaphragm) throughout the study and for up to 3 months following discontinuation of Gleevec.Women of reproductive potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to registration. Post-menopausal women must be amenorrheic for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing potential.
- Patient with medical or psychological conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, make the patient unable to tolerate or complete the treatment, or to grant reliable informed consent are not eligible for this study.
- Patient must not be taking therapeutic doses of coumadin (warfarin) as anticoagulation at the time of registration. Patients requiring therapeutic anticoagulation may use low-molecular weight heparin (e.g., Lovenox) or other agents, and mini-dose coumadin (1 mg po QD) as prophylaxis is allowed.
- No other prior malignancy is allowed except for the following: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, adequately treated Stage I or II cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission, or any other cancer from which the patient has been disease-free for 5 years.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00027586
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00027586
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030-4009
|Study Chair:
|Kevin Kim, MD
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|Study Chair:
|Menashe Bar-Eli, PhD
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00027586 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30CA016672 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
MDA-ID-01284 ( Other Identifier: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center )
CDR0000069045 ( Registry Identifier: NCI PDQ )
|First Submitted:
|December 7, 2001
|First Posted:
|January 27, 2003
|Last Update Posted:
|July 30, 2012
|Last Verified:
|July 2012
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
stage IV melanoma
recurrent melanoma
Imatinib Mesylate
protein tyrosine kinases
Gleevec targets
metastatic melanoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Skin Neoplasms
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Nevi and Melanomas
Neoplasms by Site
Skin Diseases
Imatinib Mesylate
Antineoplastic Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action

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Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Maryland
I was married with my husband for for 20 years.he was married before and his wife died.they purchase the house together .after we got married he never change the deed for the home to include my name .my husband adopted a child with the first wife.My husband excluded me from the will even if we were getting along fine.instead,he left all of his property to his sun.i want to know whether my husband will is valid and can he divest me of our marital property or can I renounce the will and collect a portion of estate.thank you
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It is unclear if your spouse died and you need to deal with his estate or whether you are asking hypothetically what will happen if he dies before you.
Typically someone cannot entirely dis-inherit their spouse. Even if the will omits a spouse, the surviving spouse can demand a share of the probate estate. However, not everything becomes a part of the estate and if one spouse gives away or re-titles property before they die, the situation is far more complicated. Assuming that the children are not on the deed and only the husband and the name of a prior wife who died before he did are listed, this would most likely be a part of his probate estate and a portion (but not all) of the estate could likely be demanded as a statutory share.
While this post gives general information, it doesn't offer specific legal advice. You are strongly encouraged to seek an independent legal review of your situation. An attorney can look at the deed and the will and discuss your specific options.


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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton in the number of submitted ballots for voters ahead of the winner of the U.S. presidential election Donald trump is already more than 2.5 million votes. These data were published in the New York Times.
According to her, the gap reached 2 094 526 votes, or 1.9 percentage points.
After trump voted 62 626 216, and Clinton – 65 152 310. The widening gap was due to completion of counting of ballots in such densely populated States as California and new York, where he won a landslide victory for Clinton.
The difference between the submitted candidates votes already five times greater than the gap between George Bush and al Gore in the presidential election in 2000.
Won then Bush, a Republican he had served 50 002 456 votes, while Democrat Gore lost the election, although he was supported by half a million more people – 50 999 897.
This result shows that these exit polls were close to the truth. The results showed the victory of Hillary Clinton over Donald trump with a difference of 3.2%. In the end, Clinton is ahead of trump by 1.9%, but lost.
Recall that the U.S. presidential election held on 8 November. The elections were won by Republican Donald trump, he will become the 45th President of the United States. His inauguration will take place on 20 January 2017.


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"Do you know who I will kill with this gun?" a little boy says into the video camera, waving his toy pistol. "Who will you kill with this gun?" the cameraman asks. "The infidels."
Among those seen in the 28-minute video urging the children to fight and become "martyrs" is a former Toronto resident, Omar Hammami, alias Abu Mansour the American.
The scene appears in a new video by the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab that shows the Somali militant group indoctrinating children, some of whom appear to be toddlers.
The video, distributed on the Internet this week by Al-Shabab's propaganda arm, shows a "children's fair" hosted by Al-Shabab leaders. The boys and girls, identified as the children of "martyrs," are given balloons and snacks and rewarded with toy guns for correctly identifying the late leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, from a picture.
"What brought us together today is the blood of the martyrs," Mr. Hammami tells the children, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group. "So on the necks of the attendants today rests the responsibility of blood. Each of us should assume a part of this responsibility.
"As men, we have to continue the fighting started by those heroes. We have to abide by the principles for which those heroes were martyred. They honoured the responsibility on them."
Mr. Hammami then urges their mothers, who appear to be seated at the back of the room, to encourage the children to "learn military sciences" and tells the kids they "have to work hard and try to be like their hero fathers who were martyred in this path."
The children are later shown holding their plastic guns while waving black Al-Shabab flags in a pose reminiscent of terrorist videos. One child crawls prone on the floor with his rifle while another grimaces and aims his toy AK-47 at the camera.
"We are horrified by these images and by the exploitation of these very young Somali children by senior leaders of the Al-Shabab terrorist group," said Ahmed Hussen, president of the Canadian Somali Congress.
"The central role played by Omar Hammami in the recruitment of these very young children to Al-Shabab proves to us that foreign extremists will stop at nothing to bring further misery to Somalia," he said.
"We hope that this video will unmask the true nature of the Al-Shabab and make Somalis everywhere realize the fact that this group has never cared about the welfare of Somalis despite its rhetoric of doing so."
Al-Shabab is a Taliban-like armed extremist group that is fighting to overthrow Somalia's United Nations-backed government. It is notorious for its suicide bombings and assassinations of government officials, activists and journalists.
Ottawa outlawed Al-Shabab last month due to concerns it was attempting to radicalize and recruit young Somali Canadians. Federal security officials are investigating six Toronto youths who allegedly joined Al-Shabab last year. One of them, Mohamed Elmi Ibrahim, a University of Toronto student, has reportedly died.
Al-Shabab has attracted recruits from Canada, Europe, Australia and the United States. Mr. Hammami is an Alabama-born American Muslim who moved to Toronto in 2005 and married a Canadian Somali. The following year, he travelled to Somalia to join Al-Shabab.
In its annual report to Parliament on Wednesday, Canada's intelligence service described Somalia as a "magnet for international terrorists" who have converged in the African nation to create a Taliban-like state.
It also warned that Canadians who travel there to participate in the conflict "may be drawn into global jihad circles, where they are subsequently recruited to carry out attacks against perceived enemies of Islam."
The RCMP and FBI have said they are concerned that Canadian and U.S. recruits could return from Al-Shabab's camps to conduct terrorist attacks in North America. The CSIS report called the Somali conflict "a direct threat to Canadian and international security." NATIONAL POST H/T Islamization Watch


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The holidays are right around the corner, so I've put together a comprehensive guide for you and you and you because this time of year is frenzied enough as is! To make sure you go through your list and check it twice, don't forget to take advantage of our nifty, little worksheet.


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Asus took a pretty bold step in the mobility department when it launched the Padfone line running Google's Android OS, but that might not be enough as a company official has confirmed that the Taipei-based OEM is exploring Windows Phone 8 as an alternative platform for its hardware. This, of course, makes people think about the possibility that Asus may also be looking into developing a Padfone-like device that will run WP8.
There may be another Windows Phone 8 OEM entering the Microsoft mobile ecosystem soon. An Asus official, Benson Lin, recently told The Wall Street Journal that his company was "interested" in exploring the WP8 platform, and that it just "makes sense" for Asus to expand its mobility portfolio.
While there are no specifics beyond the fact that Asus pondering whether or not it should gamble on WP8, it's certainly exciting to know (from a mobile consumer point of view) that WP8 won't be limited to just a few major brands.
Anyone that has taken the Asus Padfone out for a test drive will also be happy to know that a WP8-Padfone might be just over the horizon. The tablet-smartphone hybrid is a plus when it comes to mobility and productivity on the go.
CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada came and gone with WP8 not making so much as a dent on the attendees and people behind the scenes, so perhaps Asus will do Microsoft a favor and stir up some excitement for the insignificant player in the mobile OS arena come CES 2014.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital for a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month.
According to the Associated Press, Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines said her doctors found the clot during a follow-up exam Sunday. She is being treated with anti-coagulants and was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in order for doctors to monitor the medication over the next 48 hours.
More from GlobalPost: Hillary Clinton faints, recovering from concussion due to stomach bug
NBC News reported that in his statement, Reines said: "Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion. They will determine if any further action is required."
Doctors told NBC that the clot likely started in Clinton's legs and could be dangerous if it breaks free and lodges in the heart or lungs.
Dr. Cam Patterson, a professor and chief of cardiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill did not treat Clinton personally but said that the clot most likely developed after extended bed rest following her concussion.
Patterson told USA Today that deep vein thrombosis, or DVTs, can form when blood flow to the legs is reduced, such as on bedrest.
"When you're not moving around, you don't have as much circulation in your lower extremities, and the blood sits around in your legs longer than usual," Patterson said. "That just makes it more likely that it's going to clot. If blood is moving around rapidly because someone is active, that's less likely."
The signs of blood clots in the legs are usually swelling, redness and pain but according to the Mayo Clinic about half of all DVTs have no noticible symptoms.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Clinton was expected to return to work at the State Department this week but it is unclear if the latest health scare will keep her at home even longer. Officials at the State Department ruled out any foreign travel for the Secretary until at least mid-January.
(UPDATE, Dec. 31, 5:35pm)
Late Monday, Clinton's doctors released more information about the nature of her blood clot, revealing that it is "a clot in the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear," CNN reported.
The doctors said it did not result in a stroke or neurological damage, and added they were confident that she would make a full recovery, CNN reported.
The doctors said Clinton will be released once the medication dose of blood thinners has been established, CNN reported.


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It makes little sense to spend billions to develop electric cars if charging their batteries produces roughly the same amount of carbon dioxide as the most efficient internal combustion engines.
With that in mind, some European automakers are investing directly in renewable energy.
Wind farms, solar installations, hydroelectric power and so-called e-gas plants are among the experiments intended to demonstrate that zero-carbon transportation can be a viable alternative.
In Germany, several recent studies commissioned by the federal environment ministry concluded that in order for electric vehicles to help reduce the levels of greenhouse gases being produced, additional sources of renewably generated electricity must be created.
In other words, the source of the electricity that charges electric cars and plug-in hybrids must not only be clean but also new, beyond existing sources. Today, electricity from renewables accounts for 21 per cent of all electricity in Germany.
With a goal of having 6 million electric cars on the road by 2030, German automakers have a strong incentive to make their newest EVs as carbon-neutral as possible.
Daimler says its third generation of E-Smarts, the first that will be sold to the public, will be carbon-neutral in terms of driving.
To make this happen, the company is buying a wind farm project designed to produce the electricity equivalent to what several thousand E-Smarts would consume - roughly what Daimler expects to sell in Germany in the first year on the market. The turbines would feed electricity into Germany's national grid, offsetting the kilowatts required to charge the $30,000 cars.
Daimler plans to invest in additional renewable power sources if the wind doesn't blow or E-Smarts sell more briskly than anticipated.
''It's a promise to our customers,'' said Matthias Brock, a Daimler spokesman based in Stuttgart.
''Every E-Smart in Germany will run on new, clean energy.''
BMW is concentrating on cleaning its manufacturing process, building four wind turbines to power a factory that will assemble hundreds of electric and hybrid models a day. BMW says it wants the factory, in Leipzig, which is scheduled to begin production of electric cars next year, to become a model of best practices.
Volkswagen, Europe's largest carmaker, already operates a wind park that supplies 20 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. It also has a new partnership with an Austrian power company to cover 10 per cent of the electricity demand of its 12 German plants with hydroelectric power as of 2013.
To reduce greenhouse gases from its factories by 40 per cent by 2020, over the next two years VW will invest more than $1 billion in the production of environmentally friendly energy, including a stake in a giant North Sea wind park.
Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, is the ''e-gas'' pioneer with the ambitious goal of achieving carbon neutrality ''from the assembly line to the pump.''
Its vision is to use wind-generated electricity to produce hydrogen by electrolysis, or splitting water molecules. Then the hydrogen will be used to produce synthetic natural gas, which can power internal-combustion engines.
Audi won't sell e-gas directly to customers, but, as Daimler envisions with electricity, it will feed e-gas into the pipeline network to offset the amount consumed by its e-gas vehicles.
In Morocco, Renault, the French automaker, has opened what it calls a zero-carbon factory. The plant is powered by wind turbines; biomass generators provide steam and heating. Renault is in the process of outfitting its French factories with solar panels.
Why all the effort to be greener-than-thou when there are relatively few electric cars on the road in Germany and France?
One reason is that market research by Daimler and BMW has shown that owners and potential buyers of EVs want their vehicles to be fully sustainable. The carmakers, says Florian Hacker, an analyst at the Berlin-based Institute for Applied Ecology, want to ensure customers who are willing to dig deeply into their pockets that they are getting a truly green car.
Hacker says that the automakers' efforts on renewable energy indicate they are thinking about solutions, even though they're very costly.
''The carmakers are new to this field,'' he says. ''Some of these ideas may pan out, others won't.''
Not everybody is convinced that the dabbling of German carmakers in renewable energies is visionary or even sincere.
''It's a gimmick,'' says Ferdinand Dudenhffer, an electromobility expert at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
''The German carmakers roll out some fancy new thing every now and then to divert attention from the fact they've been so slow in getting their own e-cars on the road.''
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Windows 7
Windows Voice Recognition unresponsive and renders Win7 OS unstable
I've just purchased a brand new Sony Vaio netbook with Win7 Home Premium 64bit, (1.7Ghz CPU, 4GB RAM).
As soon as I activate the Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) software which comes with the Win7 OS, the computer becomes very unstable and fails to open programs, even the task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del). As soon as I close WSR all of the commands (i.e. to open other applications) are suddenly executed.
I have updated the audio drivers, but this hasn't helped.
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Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
Even though this is a new PC, I would run the System File Checker
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Also, usually OEM PCs come loaded with bloatware and trial programs (lousy AV programs, etc.). You might look into seeing what something like PC Decrapifier finds on your system
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Is there voice recognition software out there for Win 7? I would like to control my computer functions with voice.
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Voice recognition
I'm sorry in advance if this thread is already somewhere... Are there any programs that can recognition my voice and log me into my account?
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Bothell Restaurant Reviews
Welcome to our Bothell restaurant reviews guide where you'll find top restaurants off the beaten path, both locally owned and chain. In fact, some of the best restaurants in the Bothell just might be the little mom and pop operations flying under the radar. For some of the best picks in Bothell, you've come to the right place.
Our Bothell restaurant reviews guide can help you make sense of the thousands of options out there. Happy eating!
Also check out our Best Restaurants in Bothell 2016 Guide
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Villa Nuova Ristorante Italiano(01/22/2011)
"We had a wonderful and delicious dinner with our friends. I recomend this place to anyone! they are all very friendly and they never rush you out of the restaurant!! We love it"
Vivendo Restaurant & Bar(08/17/2010)
"I came across this restaurant because a friend wanted to lunch here. Nice, pleasant atmosphere in Country Village, this restaurant was a complete surprise~! The food is excellent, the presentation was very good too. The portion was just right, and the price is very reasonable for lunch ($9.95 was... "
Villa Nuova Ristorante Italiano(01/10/2010)
"Villa Nuova is a neat addition to Mill Creek restaurants. Food is outstanding, a quiet atmosphere, an actual full glass of wine -- we'll come here often."
Villa Nuova Ristorante Italiano(05/19/2009)
"Excellent food, very reasonable prices, attractive settings with attentive and friendly wait staff. As good as any Italian restaurant that I have been in. The storefront outside does not hint at what awaits you inside. The bread is fantastic!"
Beijing Pavilion(01/09/2009)
"My favorite Chinese restaurant in the Bothell area. Lunch prices are great; dinner is a little expensive but its enough to feed multiple people which makes up for the cost. Food is very flavorful and a lot of dishes have a heavy garlic accent to them, including their fried rice. Highly recommen... "
Himitsu Teriyaki(11/16/2008)
"Wonderful food and fantastic owners. I'd recommend thier baked salmon rolls and bento boxes. Both are very yummy."
Beijing Pavilion(04/09/2008)
"it was fantastic!!!!!!!"
Jet City Pizza Co(02/15/2008)
"I know jet city pizza is no Giordano's (Chicago) but I figured they would be better than little Caesars at their worst, but sadly I was mistaken. I guess pizza that is more than just a disk of baked bread is too much to ask for. I guess I will go back to Boboli. At least you get what you pay for..."
Bento Teriyaki(10/06/2007)
"Been coming here since I was in high school. Great place, great value, and there is a comfortable familiarity with the place. Its not pristine clean, but still very cleanly and the food is top of the line, if not for anything else but their teriyaki!"
Bento Teriyaki(06/07/2007)
"love the food. very friendly people. easy access from where I live."
Bento Teriyaki(06/27/2006)
"Love it, Love it....the best Teriyaki hole in the wall you'll find! They make their own sauce that you can buy and have the same experience of great taste at home."
Jet City Pizza Co(03/18/2004)
"Great pizza!! Tasty sauce, good toppings and crust. Speedy delivery from the Kent store."


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NEW YORK — As patients face higher out-of-pocket costs for drugs and more complex treatment plans, they expect greater focus on their needs, like they would get from retail, which creates new opportunities for drug manufacturers, according to a new report from PwC.
The report, by PwC's Health Research Institute, found that drug companies would need to pursue a more sophisticated patient segmentation strategy, focused more on the customer, resulting in patients who "own" their treatment plans and better manage their conditions. the report was based on a survey of more than 700 U.S. consumers regarding their preferences and behavior in selection and use of drug treatments.
"Patients are exerting greater control over their health care, and they want their medication experience to be effective, personalized and meaningful," PwC principal Karla Anderson said. "If their expectations are met, they're more likely to follow the proper course of treatment and remain engaged with customers far longer."
Consumers, the report found, expect the same treatment they receive in other settings, such as retail, banking and travel. They are willing to pay 19% more for a "no wait time" prescription, while affluent baby boomers and Generation Xers with chronic conditions will pay 52% more.
Other findings include that treatment costs are the top reason why people stop taking medications; that baby boomers with multiple chronic conditions have less medication adherence than average, but are willing to address it, and some 41% want do-it-yourself pharmacy health screening stations, while 37% want a mobile app to monitor vitals and provide contextual understanding of their prescriptions. Meanwhile, almost all respondents said drug companies did not play a role in their diagnosis and treatment decisions, suggesting that current pharmaceutical education and communication had limited effect.


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by Christopher Freeburn | January 7, 2014 4:37 pm
[1]Gold fell back on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar rallied against other currencies and U.S. equities moved higher.
The greenback was strengthened by a report from the Commerce Department showing that the U.S. trade deficit slid 13% to $34.3 billion in November, down almost 13% from October. Economists had expected November's trade deficit to come in around $40 billion.
Gold futures for February delivery sank 0.7% to $1,229.60 per ounce on Tuesday, according to CME Group[2]. Gold traded as high as $1,244.70 and as low as $1,224.20. Bullion closed in London at $1,234, according to BullionVault[3].
Silver futures for March delivery fell 1.6%, to $19.79 per ounce. Tuesday's high for silver was $20.28, while the low was $19.63.
Metal funds declined on Tuesday.
Mining ETFs were mixed during the day.
Gold stocks were mixed on Tuesday.
Silver mining shares mostly retreated during the day.
As of this writing, Christopher Freeburn did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Adrian Ash of BullionVault[23] contributed to this report.
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Oil Industry Subsidies
Whose oil is it under the ground? Who "owns" that oil? In Alaska they decided the oil belongs to the People of the state and that the People will benefit if it is extracted. When the oil was discovered they created as part of their Constitution to establish the Alaska Permanent Fund, which collects at least 25% of the proceeds from companies that drill, and use that money for the People of the state for current and all future generations. This means the fund is set up so that after the oil is gone it will continue to benefit the People of Alaska. The fund pays a dividend to Alaska residents each year. They don't pay taxes, their resources are managed so they get a check, $3,269 per person in 2008, $1,305 in 2009.
That's Alaska. Under President Bush's management, our country's resources were treated very differently,
New projections, buried in the Interior Department's just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory over the next five years without paying any royalties to the government.
Now, a story in the NY Times today, As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Billions From Subsidies,
When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig's owner to significantly reduce its American taxes.
. . . At the same time, BP was reaping sizable tax benefits from leasing the rig. According to a letter sent in June to the Senate Finance Committee, the company used a tax break for the oil industry to write off 70 percent of the rent for Deepwater Horizon — a deduction of more than $225,000 a day since the lease began.
It isn't just the little tax breaks here and there, it's the whole thing,
… an examination of the American tax code indicates that oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process.
According to the most recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, released in 2005, capital investments like oil field leases and drilling equipment are taxed at an effective rate of 9 percent, significantly lower than the overall rate of 25 percent for businesses in general and lower than virtually any other industry.
It isn't "anti-business" to ask that these huge monopolistic corporations pay their fair share, it is about fairness and giving other businesses a chance. Imagine trying to compete with this rigged system, if you are an alternative energy startup.
There is much more at the link, and a discussion of the various tax breaks and other government assistance given to giant oil companies.
It isn't just that we're letting these companies take public resources without compensating We, the People for it. It isn't just that they leave behind terrible externalized costs like pollution, climate change, spill cleanups, etc. These companies are also polluting science and our democracy. Here is what I mean:
Inside Koch's Climate Denial Machine,
Who's behind a multi-million dollar campaign to seed doubt about climate change? It's not just Exxon and Chevron—it's also Koch Industries, an oil and gas giant that most people have never heard of, according to a new report from Greenpeace. Koch's extensive funding of anti-climate work makes it the "financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition," says Greenpeace.
Exxon Still Sponsoring Deniers,
ExxonMobil is still funding groups that deny climate change, despite claiming last year that it had stopped doing so.
Hundreds and hundreds of other articles about this.
And not just climate denial. Oil companies have joined tobacco companies and Wall Street funding the right in general. Under Bush it may have even had government help, not just tax breaks.
We, the People are supposed to be in charge of our resources, our laws, and through those laws even in charge of the companies that operate in our country.


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TRIPOLI: The families of Lebanese men killed in Syria last week say their relatives were more interested in nice clothes and vacations than fighting a civil war. Yet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime branded them foreign jihadists – and their deaths set off three days of new spillover violence.
Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in Syria's civil war battled Wednesday in the streets of the Lebanese city of Tripoli. The fighting has killed six people and wounded nearly 60 since Monday, security officials said.
The bloodshed is a sign of just how vulnerable Lebanon is to getting sucked into the Syrian crisis. The countries share a porous border and a complex web of political and sectarian ties that is easily enflamed.
Among the 17 Lebanese men who turned up dead in Syria last week were Bilal al-Ghoul and his childhood friend, Malek Haj Deeb, both 20. Malek's older brother, Jihad, said the two men sympathised with the rebellion, but they were not fighters.
"Malek used to see the videos of dead Syrians and cry," Jihad Haj Deeb told The Associated Press in Tripoli, as gunfire and explosions echoed near his home in the poor neighbourhood of Mankoubeen. "He used to say, 'May Bashar fall soon, God willing.'"
A giant poster hung in the entrance of the home, with photos of three of those killed in Syria and a sign that read: "Our dead are in heaven, and yours are in hell."
Haj Deeb and Bilal al-Ghoul's older brother, Omar, said the men must have been kidnapped and handed over to Syrian authorities by a pro-Syrian Lebanese group. They said their brothers were not members of any political or Islamic group but were observant Muslims.
"My brother doesn't know how to hold a rifle," Haj Deeb said.
The Lebanese men killed in Syria were Sunni Muslims, like the majority of rebels trying to overthrow Assad's regime. Assad and much of his inner circle belong to the Alawite sect, which is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
The fighting in Lebanon comes at a time of deep uncertainty in Syria, with rebels battling government troops near Assad's seat of power in Damascus.
In Brussels, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated concerns that "an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons" or lose control of them to militant groups.
She also said Nato's decision on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey's southern border with Syria sends a message that Ankara is backed by its allies. The missiles are intended only for defensive purposes, she said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted on Wednesday in the Turkish newspaper Sabah as saying that Syria has about 700 missiles, some of them long-range.
Syria has been careful not to confirm it has chemical weapons, while insisting it would never use such weapons against its own people.
But as the regime wobbles, there are fears the crisis will keep spiraling outside its borders. Fighting has spilled over into Turkey, Jordan and Israel since the uprising began more than 20 months ago, but Lebanon is particularly susceptible.
Seventeen times bigger than Lebanon and four times more populous, Syria has long had powerful allies there, including the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. For much of the past 30 years, Lebanese have lived under Syrian military and political domination.
That grip began to slip in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Beirut. Widely accused of involvement – something it has always denied – Syria was forced to withdraw its troops. But Damascus has maintained power and influence in Lebanon.
Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, reported that 17 Lebanese "gunmen" were killed inside Syria last week, and on Sunday, Syrian TV aired footage of the dead.
Bassam al-Dada, a political adviser for the rebel Free Syrian Army, said the group believes the Lebanese men were the victims of a "complicated Syrian intelligence operation" aimed at showing that foreign fighters are involved in fighting in Syria.
According to their relatives, Malek Haj Deeb and Bilal al-Ghoul left their parents' homes a week ago, saying that they were going to downtown Tripoli. Hours later, the families grew concerned and started calling the men's mobile phones.
There was no sign of them until two days later, when local media reported that a group of Lebanese citizens had been killed while fighting in Syria.
Pictures of the men, shown to the AP by their families, showed them clean-shaven and playing in the snow in one of Lebanon's mountain towns, and in front of Tripoli's Crusader-built citadel. "We want their bodies back," Omar al-Ghoul said.
On Wednesday, Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul-Karim Ali told Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour that Damascus has agreed to repatriate the men's bodies.
Lebanon's National News Agency said the countries would soon discuss how to hand them over.
Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the dead men's families on Tuesday and took details about the men, their brothers said


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Pursue Justice
December 27, 2012 in Activism
Amos 5:7-24
Good News Translation (GNT)
7 You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!
8 The Lord made the stars,
the Pleiades and Orion.
He turns darkness into daylight
and day into night.
He calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the earth.
His name is the Lord.
9 He brings destruction on the mighty and their strongholds.
10 You people hate anyone who challenges injustice and speaks the whole truth in court. 11 You have oppressed the poor and robbed them of their grain. And so you will not live in the fine stone houses you build or drink wine from the beautiful vineyards you plant. 12 I know how terrible your sins are and how many crimes you have committed. You persecute good people, take bribes, and prevent the poor from getting justice in the courts. 13 And so, keeping quiet in such evil times is the smart thing to do!
14 Make it your aim to do what is right, not what is evil, so that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty really will be with you, as you claim he is. 15 Hate what is evil, love what is right, and see that justice prevails in the courts. Perhaps the Lord will be merciful to the people of this nation who are still left alive.
16 And so the Sovereign Lord Almighty says, "There will be wailing and cries of sorrow in the city streets. Even farmers will be called to mourn the dead along with those who are paid to mourn. 17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards. All this will take place because I am coming to punish you." The Lord has spoken.
18 How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the Lord! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light. 19 It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall—only to be bitten by a snake! 20 The day of the Lord will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.
21 The Lord says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! 22 When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings. 23 Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps. 24 Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.
This scripture reveals a strong parallel between ancient Israel and modern day America. It is clear that God states every man must be bound to uphold justice ensuring righteousness flows plentiful or there shall be dire consequences for all people of this land.
"Hate what is evil, love what is right, and see that justice prevails"


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Having learned her lesson with the unfortunate "Murder By Numbers", Sandra Bullock is now back in a Romantic Comedy that matches her up against shallow leading man Hugh Grant, who plays a shallow land developer ala Donald Trump (who actually makes a cameo appearance). Offering nothing more and certainly nothing less than what its genre conventions can muster, "Two Weeks Notice" is a somewhat funny, mostly charming, but always harmless way to pass the time.
Sandra Bullock plays Lucy Kelson, a hippie lawyer who becomes the corporate counselor to breezy businessman George Wade (Huge Grant) when George offers her employment in exchange for saving a youth center scheduled for demolition. The thought of Lucy going to work for a corporate pig like George is distasteful to everyone around Lucy, but Lucy reasons that by working for George she can get him to donate vast amounts of money to her causes and at the same time undermine the system from the inside. Or at least that's the plan.
After a year goes by, the two begin to develop feelings for each other. (What, you didn't see it coming?) It turns out Lucy is incapable of keeping a boyfriend and George has accepted his role as second banana to his brother, who is the real power behind the company. When working for the needy and indecisive George becomes too much, Lucy gives him her two weeks notice. Alicia Witt shows up in the second half as Lucy's potential replacement, whose appearance prompts Lucy to confront her feelings for George, and vice versa.
There is nothing very edgy about "Two Weeks Notice", and I'm quite sure that's what writer/director Marc Lawrence, who has directed Bullock in two other Romantic Comedies, intended. The setting is New York City, but the film has as much interest in delving into the world of land development as the screenplay does for studying the effects of a hippie lawyer going to work for a man who destroys the Earth in order to put up tall buildings.
"Two Weeks Notice" is funny enough and its romantic elements are, well, romantic enough to satisfy. The two leads are attractive people and they've played these same roles many times before, and if they're smart, they'll play these same roles many times more. Hugh Grant is essentially playing the same part he did in "About a Boy" and numerous others; and Sandra Bullock, who had gone off the Romantic Comedy reservation a couple of times, jumps back on the horse without missing a beat.
If you like Romantic Comedies, you'll like "Two Weeks Notice".
'Nuff said.
Marc Lawrence (director) / Marc Lawrence (screenplay)
CAST: Sandra Bullock …. Lucy Kelson
Hugh Grant …. George Wade


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Captions Plugin
The Easiest Way to Add Captions to YouTube Videos You Don't Own
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The captions plugin works out of the box with many different video players, even those that don't support captions or subtitles. Supported players include Brightcove, Blip.tv, Flowplayer, JW Player, Kaltura, Limelight, Ooyala, Viddler, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube.
Easy Installation
To install the captions plugin, log into your 3Play Media account and copy the embed code, which is dynamically generated based on your video player and the features you enable. After you paste the embed code in your web page, the plugin will automatically communicate with the video player. You can have multiple captions plugins working with different video players on a single web page. The captions data and search are hosted by 3Play Media.
One Line YouTube Embed
We offer a one click option for embedding YouTube videos with a captions plugin. This works for all YouTube videos, but is especially useful for YouTube videos you don't own. Just click "Publish One Line YouTube Embed," then copy the one line iframe to embed your YouTube video with a captions plugin!
How to Use the One Line YouTube Embed
Video Search
The captions plugin makes your video searchable and easier to navigate. The built-in video search bar lets users search through the captions and jump to any point in the video by clicking the text.
Multilingual subtitles
The captions plugin supports multiple languages and users can select which language to display.
Visit the captions plugin gallery to see examples of how to implement, use, and customize.


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Oct 6 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Theresa May takes swipe at capitalist elite on.ft.com/2dwpXo5
Philip Hammond on Wall Street charm offensive on.ft.com/2dwpkuL
'Fake Sheikh' verdict leaves string of cases in doubt on.ft.com/2dwq2rW
Prime Minister Theresa May laid out her vision for post-Brexit Britain on Wednesday, calling for a new approach to government that serves working-class people who voted to leave the European Union in protest at the elite.
UK finance minister Philip Hammond, on his first trip to Wall Street since being appointed in July, plans to assure some of the top U.S. top banks on Thursday that Britain is still the world's leading global finance hub despite its Brexit vote.
A string of criminal convictions based on undercover investigations by the journalist Mazher Mahmood could be subject to fresh legal appeals after the reporter, renowned for his "fake sheikh" sting operations, was convicted on Wednesday of plotting to alter evidence in a high-profile court case where he was the main witness. (Compiled by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)


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Poetry's strength is unexpected.
It always surprises us, probably because there is lesser and lesser of it around us. It overcomes geographic distance, generational features and language differences.
It drags us to a sublime level, since it moves into a space without reference points and crosses the boundaries of what we can see, hear think and imagine. But how it comes that we speak of poetry for a musical artifact?
Because Sabir Mateen and Silvia Bolognesi, in "Holidays in Siena", are poets, first of all. Far from a worn out romantic concept (inspiration, destiny...) they create sounds, mix, contrasts, silence spots, that show not only contemporary anxiety but also the joy of playing together.
And it is not so easy.
In a duo you can't lower your guard, you can't let a phrase slip out of you hand, as well as an idea, a doubt, a spur that comes from the other. You must take all this in, digest it, polish it and then you must either revitalize it or throw it away, should it bring in a dead end. You must be brave and bold, nimble and patient in a duo...maybe even ironic. Jazz is the mean, the password to access, the common idea. Jazz is the knowledge the musicians have deep inside, ready to use. Never a ritual or a locked place, a sparkling creative path instead. In an ideal continuity, always energized and boosted, it creates the bases for a very intense performance, during which Silvia Bolognesi replies to loads of shining things said by Sabir Mateen by fixing some rhythmic cornerstones, to end up getting excited in building a terrific labyrinth of sounds played with clear class. It does not make much sense, therefore, to mention Coltrane's universal dreams or Rollins' adventurous joy, Mingus' furious pleasure of playing or Holland's sound urge. Not only Mateen and Bolognesi have all this and much more, but they are also driven elsewhere, far away, by their poetic license that set them free.
So far away that somebody will not like "Holidays in Siena". Perhaps the same person in which no consequences are left by Fontana's scratches, by Rothko colors, by Joyce words or by Cage's silences. Because poetry, music, art are for everyone, but not everyone knows it.
Recorded at the Teatro dei Varii (Colle Val D'Elsa - Si)
On Dec 2010
Rudi Records 2011


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Hi guys i'm new to C, and I tried compiling the HelloWorld application.
#include <stdio.h>
printf("\n\nHello World\n\n");
In a linux environment, I compiled with the command:
The file compiled successfully and I got a file, "a.out". I executed the file and it worked.Code:
gcc HelloWorld.c
I again compiled the file, but with the -o option, so that I could get an .exe file.
I then transferred HelloWorld.exe to my desktop on my windows platform, and tried to execute it in the windows environment.Code:
gcc HelloWorld.c -o HelloWorld.exe
Upon execution, a terminal window popped up, and did nothing. No text was displayed.
How do I make a windows-compatible executable? Am I missing any options to include with the compiler?


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SIDB (Scientific Image Database) is a Web-driven database for (scientific) images. Entry of image meta-data is facilitated through the use of user-definable templates. Users have complete control over who else may see the submitted image and data. SIDB offers various views on the actual image data. Thumbnail plus meta-data can be printed, and multiple thumbnails can be combined in galleries. A freeware version of the Huygens software (http://www.svi.nl) can be used to generate projections from 3-D images (most confocal microscope image formats are supported), as well as MPEG movies, showing the individual layers from the 3-D images.
PhpLabware is a database system with features similar to Filemaker and Access, but is completely Web-based. Relational databases can be defined through the Web interface and extended with PHP plugin code. User and group access is regulated at the record level. It was written by and for life sciences research scientists, but should be generally useful as a Web-based front end to SQL databases.
A tool for securing DNS communications between a client and a DNS resolver.
A polyhedral extraction tool (PET).