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Hydrothermal Circulation Beneath and Within Active Vent Deposits: A Preliminary Model of the Effect of Chemical Reaction on Fluid Flow
DOEI Project Funded: 2002
Proposed ResearchSeafloor hydrothermal vent sites are the locus of significant exchanges of heat and mass from the deep Earth to the ocean. The mineral deposits that exist at these sites range in size from 10 to 150 meters and form as a result of complex and poorly understood interactions among hydrothermal fluid, seawater, solid substrates, and biological organisms. In addition, these deposits and the ocean crust directly beneath harbor important chemosynthetically based biological communities. In this project, we will model fluid flow at hydrothermal vents with the goal of understanding the interaction between source fluids and the feedback between mineral precipitation and fluid flow at these sites.
Final ReportWhat were the primary questions you were trying to address with this research?
Seafloor hydrothermal vents are the locus of heat and mass exchange between the solid earth and the overlying ocean. The goal of this study is to develop a model to map out thermal and chemical regimes, including fluxes, within active vent sites. The modeling results can provide important information on ore deposit formation, and possible habitats for microorganism and macrofauna.
What have you discovered or learned that you didn't know before
you started this work?
We used a modified 2-D finite element code SUTRA to simulate density-dependent fluid flow and energy transport at the TAG hydrothermal mound. Our simulation results indicate that heterogeneous permeability structure is required for vent fluid to flow out from the main conduit into the surrounding mound. We also demonstrated that fractures within the mound can serve as fast conduits for flows, and these fast conduits may play an important role in the mixing of the high temperature vent fluid and cold oxygenated seawater.
What is the significance of your findings for others working
in this field of inquiry and for the broader scientific community?
It has been recognized that in order to adequately map out the range of environments in which microbes may reside, we must have a better understanding of how high temperature reduced vent fluids and cold, oxygenated seawater interact within the outflow portions of vent sites. Our work will elucidate the factors that control the distributions of related focused and diffused flow, the precipitation of important mineral deposits, and the likely thermal and chemical environments present within and at the seafloor vent sites.
What is the significance of this research for society?
Seafloor vent deposits are analogs of a type of economic deposit (volcanic-associated massive sulfide). Our research will elucidate the factors that control the distribution of economic metals (i.e., Ag, Au, Cd, Sb, Se, Co) within these types of massive sulfide deposits.
What were the most unusual or unexpected results and opportunities
in this investigation?
This project provided the opportunity for 3 researchers (Wen-lu Zhu , Ann Mulligan and Meg Tivey, who is a DOEI fellow from 2001-2004) with very different background to apply their combined expertise to model a complex system. Our most surprising result was that we could simulate the existing thermal regime within the TAG mound simply by assuming that there exists a constriction within the vent conduit.
What were the greatest challenges and difficulties?
The numerical model is complex and requires tight controls on computational progress. This results in simulations that require a significant amount of time to run. This difficulty will ultimately limit either the size of the vent system or the geologic complexities that can be represented in the model.
When and where was this investigation conducted?
This research presents a new analysis of existing data, and took advantage of M.K. Tivey's expertise in seafloor vent deposits, Wen-lu Zhu's expertise in fluid transport properties, and Ann Mulligan's expertise in hydrogeology and groundwater modeling.
Is this research part of a larger project or program?
The numerical modeling is done on PCs.
What are your next steps?
This study led to a new NSF proposal "Numerical modeling to elucidate factors controlling distributions of focused and diffused flow at mid-ocean ridges" (PIs: Ann Mulligan, Meg Tivey, and Wenlu Zhu, submitted 8/15/2004).
We have developed a modified version of the 2-D finite element code SUTRA to simulate the flow filed at the TAG mound. Our immediate next step is to refine our model by incorporating feedback mechanisms to best reproduce the field observations. We will apply this model to other vents sites such as East Pacific Rise (EPR) hydrothermal field and Endeavour Hydrothermal field.
Please provide some biographical information, such as place of birth, degrees earned, significant awards or honors, research interests, reasons why you became a scientist or why you are interested in this line of research, and any personal interests, hobbies, or details that you are willing to share. You can find a few good examples here:Wen-lu Zhu is an associate scientist in the G&G department. She received the Mineral and Rock Physics Best Student Award (1997) for her Ph. D. thesis work at SUNY Stony Brook. Her research interest is to understand fluid transport processes in the Earth's crust and mantle, and their geological implications. Ann Mulligan is an assistant scientist in the Marine Policy Center. Her research interests are in groundwater-seawater interactions and modeling fluid flow in porous media.


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Dave White
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
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Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
He's got the whole world in his pants. Read full review
Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
It's tastelessness like this, served up as fair-game dish to a Downton Abbey-loving audience, that sours the flavor of this tittery production.
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The setting is vivid but the film is lifeless, despite many innuendos dropped about FDR's alleged infidelity.
Mr. Murray gives a fascinating performance, even though his FDR was conceived and written as a fairly small guy at the center of a small film that, for all its considerable charm, miniaturizes its hero in the process of humanizing him.
Bill Murray as FDR? It takes a few minutes to get used to, but once he settles into the role of the 32nd president, the idiosyncratic comic actor does a wonderfully jaunty job of it in Hyde Park on Hudson.
See all Hyde Park on Hudson reviews at Metacritic.com
OK for kids 16+
Presidential drama is well acted but short on passion.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Hyde Park on Hudson is a light period drama focusing on a fateful weekend when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) played host to the king and queen of England. Against a rich backdrop of pre-World War II history, an infatuation develops between the president and his distant cousin, Margaret Stuckley (Laura Linney). The movie offers a decidedly intimate portrayal of the president, following him into his bedroom. One fairly sexual scene takes place in a car; nothing graphic is shown, but movements and gestures imply that a woman is using her hand to pleasure a man. A naked woman is also seen in the background of another scene (fuzzily), and there's also some swearing and plenty of period-accurate smoking and drinking.
Messages: Men and women of greatness are human, too -- with their own foibles and failings. So perhaps it's best not to lionize them, but to appreciate what they bring to the table without losing sight of their humanity.
Role models: Daisy is loyal and true to FDR from the start. She's genuinely interested in him as a person, not as the president of the United States. Still, he is a married man, and both of them are culpable in how they act on their attraction to each other.
Violence: A little yelling.
Sex: One scene shows a couple in a car -- it's strongly implied that she's using her hand to pleasure him. Viewers don't see much more than their faces and the backs of their heads, though there's bouncy movement that hints at what's happening. Later, characters discuss one person's rampant infidelity and speculate about another's sexuality. In the background of one scene, a naked woman is seen (fuzzily and from somewhat of a distance).
Language: Relatively infrequent language includes "damn," "hell," "son of a bitch," "whore," "oh my God," and "goddamn."
Consumerism: Not applicable
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Lots of era-accurate smoking. Some characters also drink cocktails to relax, though they bear the brunt of another person's disapproval for doing so.
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Man charged in dog shootings case
Man charged in dog shootings case
A Sioux City man accused of shooting and killing his two dogs has pleaded not guilty to two weapons charges.
Sioux City television KCAU reports that Jon Holloway won't be prosecuted on animal abuse charges. Sioux City Police Lt. Mark Kirkpatrick says it's technically not illegal to shoot your own pets.
Holloway is charged with reckless use of a firearm and discharging a gun within city limits.
Authorities say the 51-year-old Holloway shot his two dogs Tuesday with a rifle in his backyard.
Police say Holloway had been arguing with his sister about the dogs being aggressive.
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How did the English picture the native peoples of America during the early phases of colonization of North America? This lesson plan will enable students to interact with written and visual accounts of this critical formative period at the end of the 16th century, when the English view of the New World was being formulated, with consequences that we are still seeing today.
Students examine Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington and consider how the title of Puryear's sculpture is reflected in the meanings we can draw from it. They learn about Booker T. Washington's life and legacy, and through Puryear's ladder, students explore the African American experience from Booker T.'s perspective and apply their knowledge to other groups in U.S. History. They also gain understanding on how a ladder can be a metaphor for a person's and a group's progress toward goals.


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Ian Desmond had a night to forget in the finale of a memorable series.
Desmond committed a key throwing error and got plunked in the right thumb with a fastball as the Washington Nationals lost to the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 on Thursday night.
Steve Pearce homered and Adam Jones and Nelson Cruz drove in a run each for the Orioles, who built a 4-0 lead in the third inning and held on. Baltimore took two of three from the Nationals in this rain-shortened, home-and-home interleague showdown between division leaders.
Baltimore's final run came when Desmond fielded an infield single by Cruz and threw wildly to third base from his shortstop position in an effort to get Jones drifting off the base. The throw soared over the head of Anthony Rendon, allowing Jones to score.
That ended Washington's 13-game errorless streak, which matched the team's longest run since the franchise moved from Montreal in 2005.
"I felt like I had a play at third," Desmond said. "It was just one of those instinct plays. I think you've seen me make that play before. That throw just got away from me. You take chances and sometimes you have to pay for the consequences."
In the eighth, Desmond was struck by a pitch from Darren O'Day and left the game in the bottom half.
"It doesn't feel good, but it's not broken," Desmond said.
The Orioles won the opener in Washington, needing 11 innings to do so, before rain postponed Tuesday's game until Aug. 4. The Nationals used three homers to prevail on Wednesday before coming up short in the down-to-the-last-out finale.
Although the teams are based only 40 miles apart, enthusiasm for the series isn't exactly Mets-Yankees or Cubs-White Sox. But there's still hope.
"It was a good series. It was very well put together," losing pitcher Gio Gonzalez said. "It showed that there's a lot of hope for a Beltway Series. They looked good and we looked good. Everyone had some fun."
Jayson Werth homered for Washington and Ryan Zimmerman had two hits and an RBI.
Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen (9-3) gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings, walking none and striking out six. The Taiwanese left-hander is 6-1 in 12 starts since May 3, and his nine wins are most on the team.
After O'Day worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, Zach Britton got three outs for his 15th save, capping his 22nd consecutive scoreless appearance at home by retiring Werth with a runner on first.
"That's a very good team," Jones said. "We love the competition, and we love the fact that you never know what could happen in October. You could have a Battle of the Beltway when it's a little colder and bring the fans back out."
Gonzalez (6-5) allowed three earned runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings. His streak of 22 consecutive scoreless innings ended when Pearce connected in the first.
Gonzalez won his previous three starts without giving up a run and was unbeaten in four starts following a one-month stay on the disabled list with a shoulder injury.
"I felt fine," he said. "It's a tough lineup, all the way down to the last guy."
Pearce put the Orioles in front for good with a drive to left on a 2-0 pitch. It was his 11th home run, more than his previous three seasons combined.
Following Baltimore's three-run third, Zimmerman hit a two-out RBI single in the fourth. Washington got runners on the corners with two outs in the fifth before Chen struck out Rendon on three pitches.
The Nationals closed to 4-3 in the sixth. After Werth homered on an 0-2 pitch — his second long ball in two nights — Zimmerman doubled and Desmond chased Chen with an RBI double off the scoreboard in right field before Tommy Hunter retired Wilson Ramos on a groundout.
Ramos later flied out with the bases full in the eighth.
NOTES: Baltimore optioned RHP Bud Norris to Double-A Bowie and recalled RHP Preston Guilmet from Triple-A Norfolk. Norris pitched Wednesday and won't be needed against until after the All-Star break. ... The Orioles host the New York Yankees in a three-game series before heading into the All-Star break. Miguel Gonzalez (4-5) faces New York's Hiroki Kuroda in the opener Friday night. ... Washington closes the first half with a three-game series in Philadelphia. Jordan Zimmermann will start for the Nationals on Friday night. ... Ramos extended his career-best hitting streak to 13 games, but teammate Bryce Harper went 0 for 3 and is in a 1-for-20 skid over his last six games.


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After 2012's centennial celebration and last year's post-flood show, the 2014 Calgary Stampede was plain old fun in the sun, and that seemed to be just fine with the 1.26 million people who passed through the gates this year.
"We came out of the mud last year and into the sun this year. It felt good," Stampede board president and chairman Bob Thompson said at a post-event news conference Monday.
Citing the best weather in decades, the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth saw its second highest attendance on record, after the 2012 centennial year.
"It was a great, hot, sweaty celebration," Thompson said.
New attractions, such as the Agrium Western Event Centre, strengthened the Stampede's ties to its ranch and range roots, said Stampede CEO Vern Kimball.
"We will continue to work hard to create up-close and personal interactions between critters and kids in the Ag barns," he said.
The completion of the Agrium complex, which was 20 years in the making, will now provide a year-round opportunity for Calgarians to pull on their westernwear and sample a taste of country life.
So far, the centre is slated for several livestock events this year, including a rodeo and horse shows.
For eight-year-old Olivia Walker, the opportunity to see rodeo stars first-hand was a highlight of the 2014 Stampede. The young barrel racer was ecstatic about her chance to meet with champion barrel racer Lisa Lockhart during the 10-day event.
"It was like a dream come true," she said. "She was very encouraging and she was a very nice lady."
"It was very fun to see professional people do what I do because I use them as my role models, because I want to be here one day."
The Stampede's role in creating a brighter future for children was also on the mind of chuckwagon racer Rae Croteau. The third-generation racer placed second in the Rangeland Derby, but he became emotional when talking about the contribution his team made to the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre, which works to end physical and sexual abuse against kids.
The Croteau team raised $15,000 during the 10-day fair with its #chucks4bucks social media campaign, which donated a dollar to the cause every time a picture of the wagon was posted to social media with the hashtag.
With his two girls in tow, aged 6 and 9, Croteau explained they were the inspiration for his involvement with the campaign to end child abuse.
"Hopefully we can stop it from happening," he said.
Other money raised during the Stampede will go toward supporting the city's vibrant corporate charities, while business deals aplenty were struck through a vibe of "networking on steroids" said Thompson. He noted business delegations from all over the world, including the United Arab Emirates, attended the Stampede to get a sense of business opportunities in the city.
And more are likely to come Calgary's way with new opportunities for development along Olympic Way, as plans for the East Village will bring the city to the park's edge. The addition of Enmax Park on the east edge of the Stampede grounds will allow for more public space and greater access to the grounds through bike and pedestrian pathways along the river.
The Enmax Park is slated to open for the 2016 fair, Thompson said, but he expects the Stampede's new situation in the heart of the city will also bring corporate investment in the form of hotels and other infrastructure near the grounds.
In all, this year's Stampede was the work of 2,500 volunteers, 1,200 permanent staff and 4,000 seasonal employees. One in five visitors experienced the Stampede for the first time, something that was a testament to the diversity of Calgary's growing populace, said Kimball.
"The differences between our cultures all disappear at Stampede," he said.


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Skill, Not Magic
To practice these imagery exercises you will need 10 to 30 minutes of quiet, undisturbed time. You may need to put up a "Do Not Disturb" sign and turn off the telephone. Wear loose, comfortable clothing. Sit in a comfortable chair or lie on a pad or carpeted floor with a pillow under your head. Do whatever you can to enhance your comfort. Dim the lights. Put on soft music if you like. You may wish to use a guided imagery audiotape (see below).
Don't expect miracles. Some relief may come immediately, but often these skills take time to acquire. You may need several weeks of practice before you really start to notice benefits. Practice the techniques once or twice a day, or if that's not possible, at least three to four times a week.
Watch Out
Imagery techniques are generally very safe. However, if you have symptoms such as pain, diarrhea, dizziness, nervousness, or depression, make sure you first have an appropriate medical evaluation. These imagery techniques may also change your need for certain medications, so be sure to check with your doctor. Don't practice imagery or self-hypnosis while in a car or in any situation where your safety requires full alertness and quick responses. If you experience very distressing sensations or feelings while practicing these techniques, stop and get professional help.
The Juicy Orange
You are standing in your kitchen. Imagine the time of day, the color of the countertops, the appliances, the cupboards. You hear the hum of the refrigerator. You notice a large, plump, juicy orange lying on the cutting board. You pick it up and feel its weight. You feel the texture of its dimpled, glossy skin. With a sharp knife, you carefully cut a large slice.
As you cut into the orange you notice the rich, liquidy, fragrant juice trickle onto the counter top. You see the bright whiteness of the pulp in contrast with the orange flesh. You see the small drops of orange juice forming on the cut surface. Now imagine lifting this dripping slice of orange to your mouth, and smelling its sweet, fresh scent. Your mouth begins to water as you slowly bite into the orange. It releases a flood of sweet tangy juice into your mouth.
This juicy orange imagery exercise causes most people to salivate. Just the words and multi-sensory images are enough to trigger a physiological response.
In this case it's the flow of saliva. You can learn to use the power of your imagination to control other body functions.
Rx Create Your Special Place
The purpose of this guided imagery exercise is to help you imagine a special place where you feel safe, comfortable, and relaxed. This place can be anywhere.
It might be somewhere you have been, or a place you know well. It could be a place you create from scratch, or by taking bits and pieces from places you know. You may choose to put a dwelling in your landscape: a cabin, a castle, or a cave. Here's what to do:


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What are you doing now-a-days?
I am a young lady wearing many hats these days! I became a first time auntie to Grace Elizabeth this past July. By day, I work as a Client Relations and Marketing Associate at Adams Consulting Group, LLC. During my breaks and after work, I am building my career as a writer of children's literature. My annoyingly tenacious passion for writing has led me to many conferences, teaching engagements and my own place in the Society of (where one of my poems was bought this past May). I am also currently a student at the Institute for Children's Literature.
What does it mean for you to have worked in SALD-O-JEC?
Working for SALDO-O-JEC remains a true blessing in my life and an experience I look back upon with genuine appreciation. I thrived on the hours with Mo, Trish, and Gwen and my peer co-workers to create a leadership program that would benefit Bennies and Johnnies. At present, I work with dozens of people on a daily basis and remember well how to utilize my leadership style (per ILCP) to be an effective and successful worker-all with a smile on my face. Most importantly, being a part of SALD-O-JEC gave me a wonderful family throughout college and beyond. I don't get back to campus as much as I'd like but I know I have a home in those offices because of the people there. I'm truly humbled and forever grateful.


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Helmut Oehring
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Helmut Oehring is of the most striking young composers to emerge from East Berlin * Experiences as a child of deaf-mute parents led to highly original perspective on the nature of sound and communication * Early influences of rock and jazz, then at age of 23 embraced Western composed music, while continuing to play and compose for electric guitar * Inspired by cinema and other visual media, including cutting techniques in Fassbinder's films * A number of works integrate simultaneous sign-language performance by deaf-mute artists * Music programmed at leading festivals including Munich Biennale, Wien Modern, Spoleto, Donaueschingen, Witten, Almeida Opera and Biennale Venice
Works by Helmut Oehring include:
MARIE B. (Seven Chambers) (1997) for string quartet
PHILIPP (1997/2001) solo instrument (versions for trombone, trumpet, clarinet and others)
UNSICHTBAR LAND (2004/05) opera
GOYA I (2006) Symphony
GOYA II (2007) 'Memoratorio'
With his expressive musical language, Helmut Oehring has responded to the demand to relate music to reality in a new way. – Gisela Nauck
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COUNTY - "Music has no walls or bars, it bridges time and space...."
COUNTY - "Music has no walls or bars, it bridges time and space...."
Join the Wayne Choralaires as they celebrate music and summer this coming weekend with their concerts titled "Let Me Be the Music."
The Choralaires, under the direction of Patricia Spoor, are now in their forty-fourth year of entertaining appreciative local audiences.
This summer's fare comprises a wide range of popular vocal music, including patriotic songs, spirituals, folk songs, and show tunes.
Performances will be Sunday, June 29, 6 p.m. at Queen of Peace Church in Hawley; and Monday, June 30,7:30 p.m. in Central Park, Honesdale.
Piano accompanist for the concert is Tim Farrand, who just graduated from Honesdale High School and who heads to Penn State this fall.
A number of area students will also be featured among the soloists.
The concert will begin with a singing of our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," followed by the jazzy "Get Happy." Next is "Mack the Knife," with solos by Jane Bunnell and Jim Mould.
Two spirituals in the first half of the concert are "Rockin' Jerusalem" and "Wade in the Water," with solos by Carol Becker, Dennice Barbour and Betsy Black.
Then comes a medley of catchy Abba songs from the show "Mamma Mia."
Soloists include Maggie Murphy, who is going into the seventh grade at Wayne Highlands Middle School, Johanna Black, who is entering sixth grade at Canaan Christian Academy, Valerie Hyduchak, Kris Murphy, and Melanie Hansen.
The second half of the concert begins with "Turn the World Around," by Harry Belafonte and Robert Freedman, followed by the popular spiritual "Deep River."
Other offerings in the concert include the medley "American Folk Rhapsody," the lovely "Sing Me to Heaven," and the concert's theme song, "Let Me Be the Music." The concert concludes with "God Bless the U.S.A."
There is no fee for Choralaires concerts, but a free-will offering will be gratefully accepted to help defray the cost of music.
Please bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating at the park concert. The rain venue for the Honesdale concert is Central United Methodist Church on Church and 11th Streets.


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Hi everyone.
Imagine a way of programing and be able to say 100% security against buffer overflows????
Sounds to good to be true doesnt it
Since buffer overflows have todo with data going into the memory, think what if that data would be encrypted?
Im no good in explaining this, so lemme quote it a bit.
This was taken from HEREStackGhost
Authors: Mike Frantzen
Mike Shuey
Download: OpenBSD 3.0 -CURRENT diff
Description: StackGhost is a patch to the OpenBSD kernel for the Sparc architecture. StackGhost transparently and automatically protects applications' stack frames; more specifically, it guards the return pointers. The protection mechanisms require no application source or binary modification and imposes only a negligible performance penalty.
On Sparc processors, the kernel is ultimately responsible for saving registers to the stack and restoring them from it. When a function is called, the registers are saved into a hardware circular buffer. When the buffer is about to overflow, the processor traps into the kernel which saves the oldest registers to the userland stack. When functions return, the last set of registers is popped off the ring buffer. If the registers are not in-hardware, the kernel is invoked to restore them from the stack. Please see the below whitepaper for a less diluted account.
StackGhost interfaces with the kernel trap handler that would normally write out registers to the stack and the handler that would read them back in. By XORing a cookie into the return-address saved in the user stack when it is actually written to the stack, and then XOR it out when the return-address is pulled from the stack, StackGhost can cause attacker corrupted return pointers to behave in a manner the attacker cannot predict. StackGhost can also use several unused bits in the return pointer to detect a smashed return pointer and abort the process.
A more sophisticated mechanism is under development that will keep a seperate per-process but kernel-space stack of the userland return addresses. If the process attempts to return to an address that is not associated with a function's caller, the process will be aborted. Since the return-address stack is in protected kernel-space, an attacker can under no circumstances access the return-address stack. There are still some serious threading and setjmp/longjmp issues to iron out.
Performance: The SPEC95int benchmark suite showed a StackGhost overhead of less than one percent over the geometric mean. Further benchmarks indicate that the deviation was more attributable to noise than StackGhost. One round of benchmarks actually showed a StackGhosted system was a percent faster than an un-StackGhosted machine.
Compatibility Issues: The only issues to date have been the breakage of GDB (the GNU Debugger). Time permitting, we will remedy the problem via the kernel core dump mechanism.
White Papers: Only a draft and its a bit raw in parts.
Mike Frantzen and Mike Shuey. "StackGhost: Hardware Facilitated Stack Protection." 2001. Published in USENIX Security Symposium '01. [ps] [pdf] [html]
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Copyright (c) 2001 Mike Frantzen, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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You may see the following error code and message when you try to use Games for Windows Live:
Error: Can't connect to Live. The logon error code is 0x80151004
This may mean that the Xbox Live service isn't available.
To resolve this problem, wait a few minutes before trying to connect to Xbox Live again.
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I think that over the last several years it is becoming apparent that goaltenders just don't bring that return. You weren't going to get a star in waiting on an ELC...especially with the cap going down. You aren't going to get an established star on reasonable contract to step in as a game changer up front or on the blueline. If you trade Schneider for "now" you get filler I'm afraid. The only choice is to trade a goaltender for future and only one goaltender provided any sort of return in that regard.Mondi wrote:I thought the idea was to go for it with this core. And the idea in trading CS was to acquire parts to help this season.
It's nice to have a good prospect, but this guy isn't projected to be a franchise player so I fail to see how this deal helps the Sedins, Kesler and gang win this season or next.
Is Bo Horvat going to lead us to the promise land in 2020? Is that the idea here?
Ignore projections at this time. Projections don't mean shit. Giroux didn't project to be a franchise player yet within a handful of years he was. Fact is the experts have no clue about who and who isn't a franchise player beyond the first pick or two.
I still think the Isles, Florida, and Flyers are kicking themselves.


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Demolition of the Hilton Hotel began on April 18. Bobcats in the upper floors remove the interior walls and dump it down to the ground. The excavator separates the recyclable materials.
February 21, 2014
January 14, 2014
Crews have removed most of the debris from the garage. The second and final phase is the demolition of the actual hotel that will start in early April. The hotel is still operational.
January 10, 2014
Traffic on US 1 near FLL shifted west into the runway and taxiway structures. The shift is part of the reconfiguration of traffic flow for US 1 in conjunction with the South Runway Project. The traffic shift occurred just north of Griffin Road.
December 10, 2013
A demolition company began removing the building that previously housed Dania Boat Sales. This building, the Hilton Hotel, and parking garage are in the runway protection zone of the South Runway under construction. They must be demolished to open the runway in late 2014. The protection zone must be free of any obstacles for planes to take off and land on the new runway.
TimelineCrews will demolish the hotel's garage in January, 2014 followed by the eight-story hotel in April, 2014. The demo of the garage and removal of the debris will take about one month. It will take an additional four months to restore the property.The properties are located just east of I-95 and north of Griffin Road. Broward County Aviation Department acquired the properties as part of the runway construction. They contracted with a company to demolish the buildings.
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September 25, 2013
The construction of the South Runway is about a year away from substantial completion. Below is an update on the four major aspects of the project.
September 9, 2013
Workers from Archer Western recently assembled a concrete plant that will produce the concrete for the South Runway project. About 480,000 square yards of concrete will be needed to build the 8,000 x 150 foot runway, taxiways, and aircraft holding aprons. This is enough concrete to build a two lane highway 24 feet wide x 34 miles long.
This plant is mobile and moves to different construction sites. It was trucked to FLL in several segments and then assembled similar to an erector set. The photos show the wheels built into the segments.
Before the paving begins in late September, Archer Western will prepare numerous concrete samples for testing so that it meets strict requirements. Dump trucks will transport the concrete from the plant to a specialized paving machine that will cast the concrete to form the runway and taxiways.
July 30, 2013
An old radar tower was demolished to make room for the new South Runway. Workers removed bolts and cut the tower's steel supports to prepare for the demolition. An excavator (off the photo) then pulled down the tower with a cable. The cable is to the right of the tower. Over the next several weeks, crews will break up the tower, demolish the building behind it, and then remove the debris. Click on the image for a larger version.
July 12, 2013
Crews placed the first beams across the walls of the southbound US 1 tunnel. Click on the image for a larger version.
The second major milestone is the completed negotiation to acquire the Hilton Hotel and Dania Boat Sales. Both properties are in the Runway Protection Zone and will be demolished in 2014.
At the end of June, FLL received a $20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the South Runway Project. They will contribute a total of $250 for the project but are awarding the grant in installments over 12 years. Also in June, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) awarded FLL a $6 million grant. FDOT will contribute a total of $129 million for the runway over the next several years. The total cost of the South Runway Project is estimated at $791 million. The remaining funds for the runway will come from passenger facility charges.
The Airport is monetarily self-supporting. The Aviation Department does not use any Broward County tax revenue to fund the operations, maintenance, or capital improvements. The Aviation Department generates funds through user fees, rentals, and other charges. Fees and grants (state and federal) fund the capital improvement projects. Any surpluses are reinvested into the airport facilities.
April 17, 2013
A section of the Greenbelt will close to allow work associated with the expansion of the South Runway. Starting the week of April 29, 2013, construction crews will install a temporary safety fence along the Greenbelt's north border and northwest section.The 30-acre Greenbelt is a landscaped earth berm. The berm marks the airport's southern boundary running from the Dania Cut-Off Canal eastward. The vehicular entrance is located at the intersection of Griffin Road and Northwest 10th Street. The Greenbelt serves the community by providing a passive park containing a viewing area, walking path, diverse vegetation, and wetland areas. The majority of the Greenbelt will remain open from sunrise to sunset including the parking lot, walkway east of the parking lot, and the walkway under Griffin Road. Once construction workers install the safety fence, they will begin the following work:
View a map (PDF) showing the construction area of the Greenbelt.
March 15, 2013
A new ramp from the Airport to Port Everglades opened on Thursday, February 28, 2013.The new ramp allows traffic leaving the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport direct access to Port Everglades. Motorists now traveling from the Airport to the Port will no longer have to detour north on US 1 to SE 30th Avenue. With the opening of the new ramp, Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) closed the temporary U-turn in the grassy median of I-595, east of I-95. This U-turn was created to accommodate heavy weekend Airport-to-Port bus and taxi traffic. This was an FDOT construction project not associated with the South Runway Expansion Project but part of the $42.5 million Eller Drive project.
Read the FDOT new release (PDF).View a map of the ramp opening (PDF).
If you drive along I-95, you may have noticed a new structure at the end of the North Runway. This is the recently completed navigational aid called a Doppler VOR/DME (DVOR/DME). Construction started in August, 2012.This is a short-range radio navigational aid system for aircraft arriving at FLL. VOR is the acronym for Very High Frequency Omni Range. It enables aircraft to determine their position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a fixed ground radio beacon. The Doppler provides a more dynamic and robust signal. Another navigational aid co-located with the VOR is the Distance Measuring Equipment also known as DME. It measures the slant range between the aircraft and the facility. Slant range is the line-of-sight distance between two points which are not at the same height relative to a specific point. The original VOR, built in 1962, had to move because of the extension of Taxiway C. The relocation of the VOR/DME is occurring in three phases to maintain uninterrupted operation of the signals. First, construction crews removed all the overhead utility lines in the vicinity of a new, temporary VOR/DME. They then replaced the overhead lines with underground cables. These included mainly power and phone lines. Overhead utilities lines interfere with the radio signals. For the second phase, crews installed a temporary VOR/DME near the western end of the North Runway. It became operational in November 2010. Once the temporary VOR/DME was operation, crews demolished the original VOR/DME in December 2011. The temporary VOR/DME will remain operational until the commissioning of the new permanent DVOR/DME.The third phase was the construction of the permanent DVOR/DME. Crews completed this phase in late December 2012. The FAA's electronics group will then calibrate, test, and fine tune the equipment. The FAA will flight check the DVOR/DME in February 2013. They will commission it in May 2013.
As construction continues for the South Runway expansion, three northbound lanes and three southbound lanes of U.S. 1 (Federal Highway) have shifted slightly to the east. All three lanes in each direction (six lanes total) remain open. For safety reasons, the speed limit is reduced to 40 miles-per-hour. This lane shift is just north of Griffin Road.
Traffic is scheduled to shift back to the newly aligned U.S. 1 in June 2013.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — To gauge the limits of the tea party's ability to frighten re-election-seeking Republicans into a rightward panic, spend time with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
One day he's blasting tea party hero Rand Paul on the Senate floor, calling the Kentucky senator's 13-hour filibuster — which criticized U.S. drone policy — wrong-headed and "ill-informed."
Another day Graham is at a groundbreaking ceremony in Greer, S.C., mixing jokes and politics in a fashion even his enemies have to admire. Citing a January CBS News poll showing Congress' approval rating at 12 percent, he asked: "Who are the 12 percent, and what do they like?"
Three years ago, South Carolina Republican clubs were condemning Graham, calling him too moderate and too willing to cooperate with President Barack Obama and other Democrats. Nikki Haley, now the state's governor, supported the censures. Graham seemed a prime candidate for the type of tea-party-backed insurrections that ousted GOP senators in Utah and Indiana, and prompted other senators to steer hard right to save their jobs.
Today, even his critics say Graham is on track to win a third Senate term next year.
"His approval numbers are pretty high," said Lin Bennett, executive director of the Charleston County Republican Party, one of two major groups that censured Graham three years ago for supporting a bank bailout and for being too accommodating on immigration.
"He offers great constituent services," Bennett said. "One unhappy county isn't enough."
Graham calls himself a proud conservative. But he makes no apologies for sometimes seeking compromise with Democrats, which some tea partyers consider villainy.
"How do we get out of this mess?" Graham asked the Greer crowd, referring to the nation's economic troubles. "The same way the country has survived and thrived for the last 200 years: find common ground. Try to find a way to make everybody a winner instead of everybody a loser."
Graham's bipartisan talk contrasts with the recent tones of Senate Republican leaders Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn. Both men face possible GOP primary challenges from the right next year, and they have sharpened their criticisms of Democrats.
Graham didn't pass judgment on fellow Republicans. But he said politicians needn't kowtow to ideological groups if they visit their home districts regularly and explain their positions forthrightly.
"I've been fortunate enough to be judged by the body of my work," he said in an interview in his Senate office. "I don't worry obsessively about my political re-election. And I've become a very good senator. If you don't overly worry about losing, you become hard to beat."
All politicians and states are different, so Graham's lessons and luck may not apply elsewhere. But by any measure he's folksier and friendlier than the standoffish McConnell. He's far more visible in his home state than was Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, defeated in last year's GOP primary. And he seems unlikely to be caught off guard by hard-right insurgencies, as were Republican senators in recent years in Utah and Alaska.
Graham "is a ferocious campaigner, especially when he gets back home," said Katon Dawson, a former South Carolina Republican Party chairman and a major Graham fundraiser. "Lindsey doesn't have a lot of hobbies." The Senate and politics are "a lifestyle, and he works hard," Dawson said.
Some South Carolina tea partyers still hope to challenge Graham in next year's primary. But they lost perhaps their best prospect when state Sen. Tom Davis — a libertarian-leaning former top aide to Gov. Mark Sanford — declined to run.
Another state senator, Lee Bright of Spartanburg, might try. Graham's criticisms of Paul's filibuster "kind of pushed me over the edge," Bright said.
But some South Carolinians see Bright as a fringe candidate.
Meanwhile, Graham has a formidable campaign fund of more than $4 million and rising. Assuming Graham survives the GOP primary, as expected, he is "completely bullet proof" in a general election against a Democrat, Dawson said.
Non-South Carolinians might be amused to hear Republicans debate whether Graham is conservative enough. Four years before being elected to the Senate he was one of 13 House managers for President Bill Clinton's impeachment. He sharply criticizes Obama at times, calling presidential budget plans "a road map to disaster."
Like his pal and mentor Arizona Sen. John McCain, however, Graham often carves an independent path. Despite conservative attacks on Republican senators who have voted to confirm Obama's judicial nominees, Graham says presidents should get their choices barring something that's clearly disqualifying.
"I don't know how to construct a world where we get all of our judges, and they never get any of theirs," he said.
Graham says he would consider higher tax revenues in exchange for serious changes to Medicare and Social Security. He says immigration reform must include a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Both stands are anathema to many conservative activists.
Graham most recently drew their fire for joining McCain in denouncing Paul's highly publicized filibuster. Paul — a libertarian Republican weighing a presidential bid — demanded White House assurances that unmanned aircraft will not be used to kill American citizens on U.S. soil and not engaged in combat.
Graham called the question groundless and defended Obama's use of deadly drones against terrorist suspects overseas. He shrugged off the resulting torrent of angry tweets and e-mails, saying he and Paul get along fine.
"Rand and I play golf together," Graham said. They differ on surveillance and other anti-terrorism policies, he said, "but these differences have been around forever in the Republican Party."
Graham supports a "big-tent" GOP, which is disdained by those conservatives who say Republicans have become too wishy-washy and too willing to compromise.
"Partisan ideas, on big issues, never fare well over time," he said. He cited Obama's embattled overhaul of health care as an example.
As for the nation's economic challenges, he said, "the path off the road to becoming Greece is a shared path."
If the Republican Party is to thrive, Graham said, it must have "tea party libertarians, tea party conservatives, married up with traditional Republicans. That's the coalition of the future."
So far, most South Carolina Republicans seem disinclined to punish him for that vision.
Collins reported from South Carolina.


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A person applying a pesticide to their land was recently fined for spray drift that damaged desirable shrubs and garden crops on a neighboring property. In two other recent cases, individuals were fined for improper pesticide storage and illegal disposal of pesticide containers. Each of these cases had one thing in common: a failure to follow the pesticide label.
"The pesticide label is not something you can glance through or read once and commit to memory," says Jack Peterson, associate director, Environmental Services Division, Arizona Department of Agriculture. "It is a legal document, and any use inconsistent with the label is a federal and state offense."
There are countless good reasons for reading and following the label and having it immediately accessible. Here are some of the unfortunate (and illegal) consequences that can happen when you don't:
1) You may apply the wrong product…or the right product at the wrong rate. Various brands and packaging can look similar, but the products may be very different – containing different active ingredients or concentrations. Make sure the product contains the desired active ingredient(s), and use the application rate the label specifies. The rate will vary based on the specific concentration(s) of the active ingredient(s) found in the product.
2) You won't know if the label has changed since the last time you purchased the product. Labels can change at any time, so read the label each time you buy a product, and every time you use it, even if you think you know the product well.
3) The site you are treating might not be on the label. "Sites" include everything from specific crops, turf species and ornamentals to foundations, indoor surfaces, and pets. There are important reasons a product cannot be applied on certain sites – for example, it may injure certain plants, pose toxicity concerns to people, result in unacceptable pesticide residues on food or feed crops, or lack sufficient research data.
4) You might apply a product that doesn't control your pest(s). It is not enough to know the product type (herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, etc.); you must also look at what weeds, insects, diseases or other pests are on the label, and know what pests you have.
5) You might mix products that are incompatible. The label may tell you if certain products can or cannot be mixed, and how to test for compatibility of products that are not listed on the label.
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6) You might make the application at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or too often. Many herbicides, for example, will not control weeds that are too large. Pests that are in the soil may require different product placement than pests on leaves. Insecticides and fungicides often indicate a maximum number of applications and minimum interval between applications.
7) You won't understand the toxicity concerns associated with the product. The label contains a Caution, Warning or Danger signal word, which is based on the acute (single exposure) toxicity of the formulated product. The signal word reflects the most toxic category resulting from dermal, oral, inhalation or eye contact. Caution indicates that the pesticide formulation is slightly toxic by any of these four ways of contact. Warning indicates that at least one of the ways of contact is moderately toxic. Danger indicates that at least one of the ways of contact is highly toxic.
8) You will not know the required personal protective equipment (PPE). If the label states that certain PPE is required (for example, a particular respirator or glove type), you are breaking the law and putting yourself at risk if you don't wear the PPE for the specified task. If you are an employer and your employees are applying pesticides as part of their job, you must follow all appropriate laws concerning their use of PPE as well.
9) If you are accidentally exposed to the product, you won't know what to do and might not have the needed supplies on hand. The First Aid section of the label (found under the heading Statement of Practical Treatment) indicates what to do for different types of exposure. You also need the label readily available so you can answer questions from emergency personnel. Do not wait until you have symptoms if the label indicates that immediate medical attention is required.
10)You won't understand the possible hazards to people, pets and the environment (air, water, soil or wildlife), and whether the pesticide may pose any fire, explosion or chemical hazards. If any of these hazards exist, they will be clearly indicated in the Precautionary Statements on the label.
11)You will be unaware of other critical information. The label contains a wealth of information, which varies depending on the product. Some examples are: when not to treat (wet surfaces, presence of pollinators); what to avoid (spray drift, surface runoff); and how long to wait (before entering the treated area, planting certain species into treated soil, or harvesting a crop for food or feed).
12)You won't know how to store and dispose of the product. Pesticide labels will often indicate temperature requirements, security needs and what should not be stored with the product (food, feed, seed, etc.) The Disposal section of the label will often address how to clean an "empty" container, and disposal options for containers, unwanted product and anything contaminated by the pesticide.
"Anyone handling a pesticide can be held liable for any unintended consequences that the pesticide may cause," says Peterson. "Read the label carefully before you purchase the product and each time you are planning an application. Make sure you are willing and able to follow the entire label, and keep the label readily available at all times."
If you still have questions after reading the label, call the pesticide manufacturer, your Cooperative Extension Service http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension or your State Pesticide Regulatory Agency http://www.aapco.org/officials.html.


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Often, tonsils and adenoids are surgically removed at the same time. Although you can see your tonsils by taking a mirror and looking in your throat, adenoids aren't directly visible. Doctors use a special scope to get a peek at the adenoids, and sometimes will order a head X-ray for a better idea of their size.
So, what are adenoids exactly? They're a mass of tissue, located at the back of the nasal cavity. Adenoids filter out bacteria and viruses entering through the nose and produce antibodies to help the body fight infections.
Adenoids begin to shrink after about 5 years of age. They often practically disappear by the time you're a teen.
Because adenoids trap germs that enter the body, adenoid tissue sometimes temporarily swells as it tries to fight off an infection.
Symptoms associated with enlarged adenoids include:
If your doctor thinks you have enlarged adenoids, he or she might:
If an infection is suspected, your doctor may prescribe oral antibiotics.
A doctor may recommend surgical removal of enlarged or infected adenoids if they're bothersome and medicine is not controlling the problem (this procedure is called an adenoidectomy).
Surgery may be recommended if a person experiences one or more of the following:
Having adenoids removed is especially important when repeated infections lead to sinus and ear infections. Badly swollen adenoids can interfere with the ability of the body to ventilate the middle ears. This can sometimes lead to infections or temporary hearing loss. Therefore, people whose infected adenoids cause frequent earaches and fluid buildup may need to get an adenoidectomy at the same time as ear tube surgery.
And although adenoids can be taken out without the tonsils, if someone has tonsil problems, the tonsils may need to be removed at the same time.
During an adenoidectomy:
After an adenoidectomy, the patient will wake up in the recovery area. In most cases, a person can go home the same day of the surgery.
The typical recovery after an adenoidectomy often involves several days of mild pain and discomfort, including sore throat and stuff nose and sometimes an earache.
In less than a week after surgery, everything should return to normal. There are no stitches to worry about, so the area where the adenoids were will be left to heal naturally.
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hello! I 'm doing a research about Computer Crime, and I looking for some real computer crime case such as Hacking or Phishing. Can anyone share any website to me?
You've come to the right place!
Just look around you'll find plenty to pick from! Typing ' hacking ' into the search turned up 1849 responses...
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The case I found most interesting is Dmitry Sklyarov v. Adobe.
Not only because of the specific nature of the crime, but also international legal considerations.
Dmitry Sklyarov broke Adobe's rot13 based ebook encryption scheme. He published his findings and proof of concept in his native Russia. In Russia the Adobe ebooks had legality issues to begin with as they could not be backed-up as required by Russian law (and as allowed by American law). Dmitry was arrested by the FBI for violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in Las Vegas after speaking at a convention.
This case somewhat mirrors the DeCSS case, which eventually spiralled into the land of absurdity with t-shirts and ties covered in the DeCSS code as a way of making it a free speech argument. Unfortunately, offhand I do not believe any arrests or criminal charges were introduced during the DeCSS case making it less useful to you.
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hello! I 'm doing a research about Computer Crime, and I looking for some real computer crime case such as Hacking or Phishing. Can anyone share any website to me?
wanna some case? do your own -> realize a honeypot.
For example me. I am working on thesis which is talking about digital forensics. My friend was writing thesis about honeypot, so he made the honeypot and connected it to Inet. After couple of days we have both material for work up And really interesting material...
But if you want some popular case, you found a lot of. Without Kevin David Mitnick or Kevil Poulsen, which I take as exeptions, you can write for example about actions and after arresting of group The Deceptive Duo (type it into google) .. it was famous enough.
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This is a book about some of the OG's of hacking. An interesting read to say the least.
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Do a google search for a guy named "Kevin Mitnick".
Haha, I've never heard of him is he some kind of famous hacker or soemthing?
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To the left of the entry enjoy the breakfast bar with stools. On the other side of the bar counter is where you can easily prepare food for your entire gang. There is a double kitchen sink, a three burner range with microwave above, plus additional overhead cabinets, and a hutch. On the opposite side along the interior wall there is a refrigerator and pantry.
The side aisle bath found as you head toward the rear of the unit includes a sink with overhead storage, a toilet, and a shower with seat.
The rear master bedroom features a slide out queen bed with overhead cabinets, a counter for a TV, plus a wardrobe and shelves along the rear wall. A second entry/exit door allows easy access to the bedroom and bath from outside.
On the outside you are sure to enjoy the camp kitchen which comes complete with a grill, sink, and overhead cabinets to store your outdoor camp and grilling necessities, plus more.
The front pass through storage compartment comes in handy when loading and unloading your outdoor camp gear.
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Stock# 161127
|36 ft 11 in
|Ext Width
|8 ft
|Ext Height
|11 ft 2 in
|Int Height
|6 ft 9 in
|Hitch Weight
|1071 lbs
|Gross Weight
|10500 lbs
|Dry Weight
|8208 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|49 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|63 gals
|Black Water Capacity
|33 gals
|Tire Size
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How Are Lung Carcinoid Tumors Diagnosed?
Certain signs and symptoms might suggest that a person could have a lung carcinoid tumor, but tests are needed to confirm the diagnosis.
Medical history and physical exam
If you have any signs or symptoms that suggest you might have a lung carcinoid tumor (or another type of lung tumor), your doctor will take a complete medical history, including your family history, to learn about your symptoms and possible risk factors.
A physical exam can give your doctor information about your general health, possible signs of lung carcinoid tumor, and other health problems. During your exam, your doctor will pay close attention to your chest and lungs.
If your symptoms or the results of the exam suggest you might have a lung carcinoid tumor (or another type of tumor), more tests will be done. These might include imaging tests, lab tests, and other procedures.
Imaging tests
Imaging tests use x-rays, radioactive particles, or other means to create pictures of the inside of your body. Imaging tests are done for a number of reasons, including to help find a suspicious area that might be cancer, to learn how far cancer may have spread, and to help determine if treatment has been effective.
Chest x-ray
A chest x-ray is often the first imaging test a doctor orders if a lung problem is suspected. It might be able to show if there is a tumor in the lung. But some carcinoids that are small or are in places where they are covered by other organs in the chest may not show up on a chest x-ray. If your doctor is still suspicious or if something is seen on the chest x-ray, a CT scan may be ordered.
Computed tomography (CT) scan
A CT (or CAT) scan is more likely to show small lung tumors than routine chest x-rays. A CT scan can also provide precise information about the size, shape, and position of any lung tumors and can help find enlarged lymph nodes that might contain cancer that has spread from the lung.
The CT scan uses x-rays to produce detailed cross-sectional images of your body. Instead of taking one picture, like a regular x-ray, a CT scanner takes many pictures as it rotates around you while you are lying on a narrow platform. A computer then combines these into images showing slices of the part of your body being studied.
Before any pictures are taken, you may be asked to drink 1 to 2 pints of a liquid called oral contrast. This helps outline the intestine so that certain areas are not mistaken for tumors. This is not needed if the CT scan is only looking at the chest and lungs. You may also receive an IV (intravenous) line through which a different kind of contrast dye (IV contrast) is injected. This helps better outline structures in your body. The injection can cause some flushing (redness and warm feeling). Some people are allergic and get hives or, rarely, more serious reactions like trouble breathing and low blood pressure. Be sure to tell the doctor if you have any allergies or have ever had a reaction to any contrast material used for x-rays.
A CT scanner has been described as a large donut, with a narrow table that slides in and out of the middle opening. You will need to lie still on the table while the scan is being done. CT scans take longer than regular x-rays, and you might feel a bit confined by the ring while the pictures are being taken.
CT scans can be used in several ways:
- To help determine the exact location and extent of the tumors.
- To stage a cancer (determining the extent of its spread). This can help to determine if surgery is a good treatment option.
- To guide a biopsy needle precisely into a suspected tumor. For this procedure, called a CT-guided needle biopsy, you stay on the CT scanning table while the doctor advances a biopsy needle through the skin and toward the mass. CT scans are repeated until the needle is within the mass. A biopsy sample is then removed and looked at under a microscope.
- To see how effective treatment has been.
Radionuclide scans
Scans using small amounts of radioactivity and special cameras may be helpful in looking for carcinoid tumors. They can help find tumors or look for areas of cancer spread if doctors aren't sure where they are in the body.
Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy: The most common scan is somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS), also known as the OctreoScan. It uses a drug called octreotide bound to radioactive indium-111. Octreotide is a hormone-like substance that attaches to carcinoid cells. A small amount is injected into a vein. It travels through the blood and is attracted to carcinoid tumors. A few hours after the injection, a special camera can be used to show where the radioactivity has collected in the body. More scans may be done in the following few days as well. Along with showing where tumors are, this test can help tell whether treatment with certain drugs such as octreotide and lanreotide is likely to be helpful.
I-131 MIBG scan: This test is used less often. It uses a chemical called MIBG attached to radioactive iodine (I-131). This substance is injected into a vein, and the body is scanned several hours or days later with a special camera to look for areas that picked up the radioactivity. These would most likely be carcinoid tumors, but other kinds of neuroendocrine tumors will also pick up this chemical.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan: For most types of cancer, PET scans use a form of radioactive glucose (sugar) to find tumors. But this type of PET scan is not very useful in finding carcinoid tumors. Instead, PET scanning for carcinoid tumors usually uses a radioactive form of 5-hydroxytryptophan, a chemical that is taken up and used by carcinoid cells. A special camera can detect the radioactivity. The usefulness of this test for lung carcinoid tumors is still being studied. This special type of PET scan is not available in every hospital.
Sputum cytology
Even if an imaging test such as a chest x-ray or CT scan shows a mass, it's often hard for doctors to tell if the mass is a carcinoid tumor, another type of lung cancer, or an area of infection. Tests may be needed to get a sample of the abnormal cells to be looked at under a microscope.
One way to do this is called sputum cytology. A sample of sputum (mucus you cough up from the lungs) is looked at under a microscope to see if it contains cancer cells. The best way to do this is to get samples taken early in the morning, 3 days in a row.
This test is not as good at finding lung carcinoids as it is at finding other types of lung cancers.
In many cases, the only way to know for sure if a person has some type of lung cancer is to remove cells from the tumor and look at them under a microscope. This procedure is called a biopsy. There are several ways to take a sample from a lung tumor.
Bronchoscopy and biopsy
This approach is used to view and sample tumors in large airways. The doctor passes a long, thin, flexible, fiber-optic tube called a bronchoscope down the throat and through your windpipe and bronchi to look at the lining of the lung's main airways. Your mouth and throat are sprayed first with a numbing medicine. You may also be given medicine through an intravenous (IV) line to make you feel relaxed.
If a tumor is found, the doctor can take biopsies (small samples of the tumor) through the tube. The doctor can also sample cells from the lining of the airways by wiping a tiny brush over the surface of the tumor (bronchial brushing) or by rinsing the airways with sterile saltwater and then collecting it (bronchial washing). Brushing and washing samples are sometimes helpful additions to the bronchial biopsy, but they are not as helpful in diagnosing carcinoids as they are with other lung cancers.
An advantage of this type of biopsy is that no surgery or hospital stay is needed, and you are ready to return home within hours. A disadvantage is that this type of biopsy may not always be able to remove enough to be certain that a tumor is a carcinoid. But with recent advances in the lab testing of lung tumors, doctors can usually make an accurate diagnosis even with very small samples.
Bleeding from a carcinoid tumor after a biopsy is rare but it can be serious. If bleeding becomes a problem, doctors can inject drugs through the bronchoscope into the tumor to narrow its blood vessels, or they can seal off the bleeding vessels with a laser aimed through the bronchoscope.
Endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS) and biopsy
If a CT scan shows lymph nodes are enlarged on either side of the trachea or in the area just below where the trachea divides, this test can be used to biopsy these nodes to see if they contain cancer.
Ultrasound is a type of imaging test that uses sound waves to create pictures of the inside of your body. For this test, a small, microphone-like instrument called a transducer gives off sound waves and picks up the echoes as they bounce off body tissues. The echoes are converted by a computer into a black and white image on a computer screen.
For endobronchial ultrasound, a bronchoscope is fitted with an ultrasound transducer at its tip and is passed down into the windpipe. This is done with numbing medicine (local anesthesia) and light sedation.
The transducer can be pointed in different directions to look at lymph nodes and other structures in the mediastinum (the area between the lungs). A hollow needle can be passed through the bronchoscope to get biopsy samples of enlarged lymph nodes or other abnormal areas. The samples are then sent to a lab to be looked at under a microscope.
Needle biopsies
Doctors can often use a hollow needle to get a small sample from a suspicious area (mass). An advantage of needle biopsies is that they don't require a surgical incision, but in some cases they might not get enough of a sample to make a diagnosis. There are two types of needle biopsies, based on the type of needle used:
- In a fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy, the doctor uses a syringe with a very thin, hollow needle (thinner than the ones used for blood tests) to withdraw (aspirate) cells and small fragments of tissue.
- In a core biopsy, a larger needle is used to remove one or more small cylinders (cores) of tissue. Core biopsies provide a larger sample than FNA biopsies.
If the suspected tumor is in the outer part of the lungs, either kind of biopsy needle can be inserted through the skin on the chest wall. This is called a transthoracic needle biopsy. The area where the needle is to be inserted may be numbed with local anesthesia first. The doctor then guides the needle into the area while looking at the lungs with either fluoroscopy (which is like an x-ray, but the image is shown on a screen rather than on film) or CT scans. Unlike fluoroscopy, CT doesn't give a constant picture, so the needle is inserted toward the mass, a CT image is taken, and the direction of the needle is guided based on the image. This is repeated a few times until the needle is in the mass.
A possible complication of this procedure is that air may leak out of the lung at the biopsy site and into the space between the lung and the chest wall. This can cause part of the lung to collapse and could cause trouble breathing. This complication is called a pneumothorax. If the air leak is minimal, it often gets better without any treatment. A large pneumothorax is treated by putting a small tube into the chest space and sucking out the air over a day or two, after which it usually heals on its own.
An FNA biopsy may also be done to check for cancer in the lymph nodes between the lungs. This can be done in two ways:
- Transtracheal FNA or transbronchial FNA is done by passing the needle through the wall of the windpipe (trachea) or bronchi (the large airways leading into the lungs) during bronchoscopy or EBUS (already described above).
- In some cases an FNA biopsy is done during endoscopic esophageal ultrasound (which is similar to EBUS, except that the scope is passed down the esophagus instead of the windpipe) by passing the needle through the wall of the esophagus.
Surgical biopsies
In some cases, the types of biopsies above can't remove enough tissue to identify the type of tumor, and your doctor may need to do surgery to get a biopsy sample. Different types of operations may be used. They are most often done in the operating room while you are under general anesthesia (in a deep sleep).
Thoracotomy: For a thoracotomy, the surgeon makes an incision (cut) in the chest wall between the ribs to get to the lungs and to the space between the lungs and the chest wall. In some cases if the doctor strongly suspects a carcinoid or some other type of lung cancer, they may do a thoracotomy and remove the entire tumor without first doing a biopsy.
Thoracoscopy: This procedure is also used to look at the space between the lungs and the chest wall, but it does not require a long incision like a thoracotomy. The doctor inserts a thin, lighted scope with a small video camera on the end through a small cut made in the chest wall to look at the outside of the lungs and the space between the lungs and the chest wall. (Sometimes more than one cut is made.) Using this scope, the doctor can see potential areas of cancer and remove small pieces of tissue to look at under the microscope. Thoracoscopy can also be used to sample lymph nodes and fluid and find out if a tumor is growing into nearby tissues or organs.
Mediastinoscopy: This procedure may be done if imaging tests such as a CT scan suggest that the cancer may have spread to the lymph nodes in the mediastinum (the space between the lungs). A small cut is made in the front of the neck and a thin, hollow, lighted tube is inserted behind the sternum (breast bone) and in front of the windpipe to look at the area. Instruments can be passed through this tube to take tissue samples from the lymph nodes along the windpipe and the bronchi.
Blood and urine tests
Because carcinoid tumors can secrete hormone-like chemicals into the blood, these tumors can sometimes be found with blood or urine tests. This is especially true if you have symptoms of the carcinoid syndrome, which is caused by excess levels of these chemicals in the blood.
Serotonin is made by some carcinoid tumors, and probably causes some of the symptoms. It is broken down by the body into 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), which is released into the urine. A common test to look for carcinoid syndrome measures the levels of 5-HIAA in a urine sample collected over 24 hours. Measuring the serotonin levels in the blood or urine may also give useful information. These tests can help diagnose some carcinoid tumors, but they are not always accurate. Some other medical conditions, as well as foods and medicines, can affect the results, and some carcinoid tumors may not release enough of these substances to give a positive test result.
Other tests used to look for carcinoids include blood tests for chromogranin A (CgA), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), cortisol, and substance P. Depending on where the tumor might be located and on the patient's symptoms, doctors may do other blood tests as well.
These tests are less likely to be helpful with lung carcinoid tumors than with carcinoid tumors that start elsewhere in the body.
Pulmonary function tests
If a lung carcinoid is found, pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are often done to see how well your lungs are working. This is especially important if surgery might be used to treat the cancer. Because surgery will remove part or all of the lung, it's important to know how well your lungs are working. These tests can give the surgeon an idea of whether surgery is a good option, and if so, how much lung can be removed safely.
There are a few different types of PFTs, but they all basically have you breathe in and out through a tube that is connected to a machine that measures airflow.
Last Medical Review: February 5, 2015 Last Revised: February 24, 2016
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