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Many consider hatred and conflict inevitable, owing to a fundamental clash of values and interests. Fifty years ago, U.S. President J.F. Kennedy showed that peace could be achieved even in the most difficult circumstances. His courage, vision, eloquence, and political skills are an affirmation that the path to peace must always be preferred to the dead end of war.
NEW YORK – Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy did the seemingly impossible. At the height of the Cold War, he moved the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, toward peace. The lessons of Kennedy's act of leadership – one of the greatest of modern times – are directly relevant today.
I recount this remarkable story in a new book, To Move the World. To many, war between the two superpowers seemed inevitable. The Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 created a global air of fear and pessimism, and certainly the belief that the US and the Soviet Union could not be reconciled.
Kennedy knew better. He understood that much of the dangerous tension stemmed from each side's hardliners, who acted as if peace were impossible. Their actions on one side would provoke the other side's hardline response, fueling an upward spiral of distrust that strengthened the extremes in both camps.
The "experts" of that era spoke of the balance of nuclear power. They believed that neither side would use nuclear weapons, owing to the fear of retaliation. But Kennedy recognized something far more dangerous: Accidents, misjudgments, bluffs, provocation by hardliners, or tactical mistakes could easily throw either side into panic. In the Cuban missile crisis, the US and the Soviet Union stumbled to the precipice of nuclear war, not because of any desire for one (except among a few hothead extremists), but because of a series of miscalculations and pressure exerted by hardliners.
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Following the crisis, Kennedy was determined to pull back from the precipice for good. In his extraordinary "Peace Speech" of June 10, 1963, he suggested to Americans that there was a way to make peace with the Soviet Union. Rather than issuing a list of demands, Kennedy did something far more interesting and unusual: he called upon Americans to reconsider their own attitudes about war and peace.
"First: Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself," Kennedy said. "Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man."
Kennedy diagnosed the problem succinctly:
We are both caught up in a vicious and dangerous cycle in which suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
And his assessment of its solvability was equally concise: "[B]oth the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race."
Kennedy's speech provoked a highly positive response from his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, who called in the US envoy and told him that the speech was the finest by any American president since Franklin Roosevelt. Within a few weeks, both sides had agreed to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Five years later, the first treaty led to a second, and even more important, agreement: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Kennedy had proved a powerful truth. "[H]istory teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever," he said. "However fixed our likes and dislikes may seem, the tide of time and events will often bring surprising changes in the relations between nations and neighbors.
That lesson applies powerfully today. The US is again caught in a spiral of distrust and uncertainty with other countries (and the same is true of countless conflicts around the world that do not involve the US). America's conflict with Iran is one such powerful case; others include its conflicts with Cuba and North Korea, and also the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which the US is deeply engaged as a supporter of Israel.
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In all of these cases, many people consider hatred and conflict inevitable, owing to a fundamental clash of values and interests. But this is rarely the case. Even though the US and Iran are in a spiral of distrust, for example, there could be grounds for reestablishing a far healthier bilateral relationship.
To be sure, the two sides are now dangerously divided. Their conflict has spilled over into Syria, where the US is now planning to arm the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad in no small part because his regime is aligned with Iran. Syria's civil war is therefore increasingly a proxy fight between Iran and the US (and other anti-Iranian countries), with Syrians dying in massive numbers as victims of somebody else's conflict.
Now that the Iranian people have elected a new president, Hassan Rowhani, the opportunity for a new peace overture is at hand. Yes, there are important matters to discuss, notably Iran's nuclear ambitions; but several countries in Iran's neighborhood already possess nuclear weapons, threatening the entire region.
Related: Iran: New Leader, New Hope?
US President Barack Obama should take the next steps, both with Iran and with other countries (including North Korea and Cuba). A decade of US secret and not-so-secret wars, drone attacks, and covert operations is enough. We now urgently need US leadership that envisions peace rather than war as the solution.
Fifty years ago, Kennedy showed that peace could be achieved even in the most difficult circumstances. His courage, vision, eloquence, and political skills provide a model and inspiration for the US and other countries today. Then, as now, the path to peace must always be preferred to the dead end of war.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, as well as being the founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. Sachs has authored numerous books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth. In 2004 and 2005, He was named among Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World".
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Why 'Gentleman' Could Be Psy's Next Video to Break a Billion Views
Just three days after its release, PSY's followup to his record-smashing YouTube hit "Gangnam Style," an anthem to gleeful malice with the ironic title "Gentleman," has astonishingly set a pace that, if maintained, would rocket it past its predecessor's one billion viewings in less than a half of the time.
The video currently has 92 million views, having been watched 50 million times in just its first 24 hours — a total that vaporized the previous record of 8 million held by fellow Scooter Braun client Justin Bieber for the May 3 release of his video for "Boyfriend."
But what's truly remarkable is that if "Gentleman" simply tracks the growth rate of "Gangnam," it will take over the all-time record in a little over a month, and hurdle 4 billion in 45 days. And in just 75 days, "Gentleman" would project out as hitting 12.6 billion views.

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Lets be honest. Youve never heard of most of the movies available to stream on-demand through Netflix. Many are ranked by users between the one and two star range. But, where these films lack in such things as say, plot, they often makeup for their cinematic shortcomings with explicit nudity. The below list of streaming Netflix films containing hardcore sex was compiled in part from titles cross listed on MrSkin.com under the category, "real explicit sex." While I have seen many of these titles, for the others Ive had to take faith in the fact that Mr. Skin categorized these films alongside the hardcore sex tapes of Kim Kardashian, Kendra Wilkinson, Montana Fishburne, and Tila Tequila. (via Daily Loaf.)
Okay, I lied. Commenting now. The movies cited include 9 1/2 Weeks, 9 Songs, Caligula, Inside Deep Throat and Last Tango in Paris, at least some of which you've probably heard. And they are not just available through Netflix. You can also watch many of the films on demand through Amazon Prime.
Of those, 9 Songs (2004) is the most recent and possibly the most interesting, at least at this point.
Caligula (1979) was fun when it came out because it was sort of the Claytons of dirty movies: the porn you're having when you're not having porn. Lots of sex, but a gloss of culture (which was maybe just the gloss of money) that made it seem somehow less disreputable, lent to it in large part by a cast that included Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, and Malcolm McDowell. Plus history and costumes, which always lend a bit of gravitas. (Witness Downton Abbey.)
And both Last Tango in Paris and 9 1/2 Weeks were more or less sensations when they came out—because they were what Caligula only pretended to be: serious movies (or attempts) that nonetheless featured what was supposed to be serious sex. But looking back at those two now that the sensation has faded, it's clear they weren't very good movies, and the sex wasn't all that great either. I think they're almost unwatchable, whereas Caligula at least has the virtue of being campy and silly, cheesy, and that has a certain pleasure to it, whereas the seriousness of the other two now just seems dreadfully pretentious.
9 Songs is also trying to be a serious movie with serious sex in it. But—and this is a big difference—the sex is pretty good.
Though we might need to think about what constitutes "pretty good sex" in this context. Genuine hardcore porn is very focused stuff, in more ways than one. The camera angles, depth of field, lighting, even the cutting are all directed at maximizing scopophilia and sexual arousal. And you're never in any doubt about what is going where at any given time (though in group scenes you may occasionally loose track of exactly whose whats are involved). And you're never in doubt about when the action has reached its… climax. It is designed to have a direct appeal to our nether regions, and I find that directness appealing in its own way.
The sex in 9 Songs is not that. It is not hardcore sex, whatever the Daily Loaf might think. It's sex. Sex as you (hopefully) know it, assuming you haven't been utterly conditioned by porn. It's a little vaguer. The people are focused, internally and on each other, but the scene, the details are more blurry. It's not brightly light and in sharply focused close-up. And the camera spends much less time in what I think of as gynecological intensity mode. It is real sex, both in the sense that the actors are genuinely doing the things they seem to be doing on the screen, and in the sense that it is sex as people outside of movies (in Western society) often/generally experience and enact it. At least when they are that age.
Here's what Roger Ebert had to say about the sex in his fairly positive and very smart review:
The sex scenes betray the phoniness of commercial pornography; when the Adult Film Awards give a prize for Best Acting, they're ridiculed, but after seeing this film you'll have to admit the hard-core performers are acting, all right; "9 Songs" observes the way real people play and touch and try things out, and make little comments and have surprised reactions.
What Mark Kermode found most interesting about the film was that director Michael Winterbottom had made "the least titillating, most explicit movie around." He found the movie irritating, but still appreciated what Winterbottom was doing with the sex. But he hated the people.
As for it being a serious movie, a movie that is serious about being a movie and actually tries to think through what that means… Well, it was made by Michael Winterbottom who I find to be one of the more interesting directors currently making movies. His movies aren't always good, but they are always interesting, even if on no other level than as attempts to interrogate productively what it means to be a popular film, and how popular films might be other than they are, or tend to be (i.e., everything from Transformers: The Dark of the Moon to The Master). His filmography includes Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland, 24 Hour Party People, and A Cock and Bull Story. He's an intelligent and interested filmmaker, interested in what it means to make films, who thinks about what popular narrative cinema is and might be, and about how to push against the medium and its structures and expectations in (hopefully) productive and engaging ways.
9 Songs doesn't always work. Both the narrative and the characters feel a bit too sketchy, and that's pretty fatal. Kermode's irritation with, even hatred of, the two main characters is not, sadly, a wildly idiosyncratic response. But I think it gets an A for effort, or at least a B, for giving us such good sex—that is, such real sex—in something approaching a mainstream English-language film, and doing that within a film that tries to play productively with both the visual and narrative qualities of mainstream film. (It also has a very good soundtrack.) It's not an art film, and it's not pornography. It's something kind of new. Possibly the beginning of something.
For more…
- The Story of a Love Affair, in the Language of the Body – New York Times.
- 9 Songs :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews.
- Mark Kermode – 9 songs – YouTube.
- Michael Winterbottom – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- 9 songs – Unrated Full Uncut Version – Amazon.com
- Caligula (Unrated Edition) – Amazon.com
- Last Tango in Paris (Uncut Version) – Amazon.com
- 9 1/2 Weeks (Original Uncut Version) – Amazon.com
- Pure Nude Yoga: Zen Garden Goddess – Amazon.com – not hardcore, but still…


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Jim Boeheim feuds with reporter over retirement question
- Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was annoyed Saturday with the first question in his news conference
- Boeheim and a columnist got testy when the coach was asked about retiring
- Boeheim%27s Orange lost in the Final Four to Michigan and he will be 69 in November
ATLANTA — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was annoyed Saturday when the first question in his news conference after a Final Four loss to Michigan was about whether he'd be back next season as head coach.
"Why would you ask that?" Boeheim said, addressing CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyel. "I expect it from you. I know you."
Boeheim protested the question further, asking Doyel if he was going to ask the same thing of Michigan's John Beilein or Louisville's Rick Pitino.
"I'm not going to answer that question unless you ask every coach that question. Are you going to ask John if he's going to retire or not coming back next year? I've never indicated at any time that I'm not coming back next year — ever."
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The exchange got testy when Doyel pointed out that media members ask players frequently after NCAA tournament games if they plan on coming back next year.
"And they handle it better than you," Doyel remarked.
Boeheim will be 69 in November, and with Syracuse moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference next season, there has been speculation he might retire. He made remarks earlier in the season that fed into that speculation but tweaked his standard answer in the postseason, saying repeatedly he plans on coming back.
Boeheim circled back on the topic and said, "Just to answer the question, so everybody knows, I've answered all the questions, even though I get mad. I have never said I was not going to be back next year at any time ever. I'm frankly tired of being asked that question.
"I don't mean to be personal on anybody. Anybody that asked that question I would have been upset because, you know, I just think — I don't know why. Just 'cause you get old. Because I'm old? I mean, what is it?"
Doyel said, "Honestly, my theory with you is you don't want to coach in the ACC because of your Big East loyalty."
Boeheim replied, "I'm sorry, I apologize. It wasn't you. Anybody that asked that question, I would have been mad."
The coach and columnist then made up, with each apologizing to the other and Doyel blowing him a kiss.
Boeheim wrapped up his news conference with the following:
"But, no, I've heard this. Roy Williams has got a bet on it, somebody else has got a bet on it. I love the Big East, but if the Big East was the same as it was, or even remotely the same, I would quit because I wouldn't be happy.
"The Big East is not there at all. In fact, there's more Big East teams in the ACC than there are Big East teams in whatever the conference is, American whatever.
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"So I should be happy because there's more teams that I know in the ACC. I've always thought that the two best leagues in the country were the ACC and the Big East over the last 34 years. I've always thought that. I mean, somebody can prove me wrong in a number of ways, but it's just my opinion. I always thought they were the two best leagues.
"For us to be able to stay on the East Coast, and predominantly all our games are an hour and a half, almost all, and in the Big East, without this crazy expansion, we had to go to Florida, we had to go to Marquette, Notre Dame anyway. So we had long trips. We'll have the same long trips that we had. When you're chartering now, it's mostly an hour, most of these trips.
"I mean, the ACC has absolutely zero input into whether I would not coach next year. The only reason that I would not coach next year is because I didn't feel I could do a good job or wanted to do it, and I have no feeling at all now that that will be the case. Usually right now I would have that feeling. If I don't have it now, I'm not going to have it in September.
"And I don't want anybody to be thinking, like I don't want to ever say, I'll think about it and tell you later. I'll never do that. I'll never do that. I think that's not the way to do it for the program, and I wouldn't do that.
"But I've enjoyed this team as much as any team I've ever coached. They've achieved more than I ever thought they could. And I always think they can achieve a lot.
"You know, I like where we are. Everything in me intends to be back coaching next year. And I always say this at the end, that's probably why people ask me the question: there's always a chance that somebody might think, you know, you get back into coaching, you get in the thing, you just don't feel it. If that happens, you know, I don't want to ever let it be said that I misled anybody.
"As far as I know, I'm 100% coaching next year. You know, that's really kind of where I'm at right now."


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Nobody Loves Me Like You
The Flamingos were on the roll of their career. The Chicagoans had been recording since 1953, first for Chance and then Parrot and then Checker (where they hit in '56 with I'll Be Home and A Kiss From Your Lips) before signing with Decca in '57. Then they landed at George Goldner's New York-based End Records.
Founders Jake (their bass singer) and tenor Zeke Carey were still on board when The Flamingos signed with End, along with original baritone Paul Wilson and lead tenor Nate Nelson, who came in during their tenure on Parrot. Future soul star Tommy Hunt was there, as was tenor Terry 'Buzzy' Johnson, who doubled on guitar. He and Wilson co-wrote and co-fronted the group's first End hit Lovers Never Say Goodbye. Both that and their '59 smash I Only Have Eyes For You, their career peak (it's on our previous edition), were dreamy ballads. Sam Cooke's pen provided an upbeat change of pace.
"I had asked Sam to write us a song, because I loved Sam Cooke," says Johnson. "We were very dear friends. And I wanted a song like 'You Send Me' or 'For Sentimental Reasons,' all those beautiful slow ballads that he sang. And I was waiting for him. He said, 'I'll write you a song! I'll write you a song!' He had his own office. He had really elevated in life. He said, 'I'll write you a song.' And every time we'd see him, I'd say, 'Where's the song?' He'd say, 'I'm working on it.'
"One day at the Regal Theater, Sam came in and he said, 'Buzzy, give me a guitar! I got your song!' And he played it, and it was slow, the way he did it. And George Goldner heard it fast. And I liked it slow, because it had more of a feeling. But then George Goldner wanted it to sound more like 'Shout,' those chords.
And Sam didn't mind. He said, 'Well, just get the song out there. I don't care.'"
Released in February of 1960 as Nobody Loves Me, End quickly repressed Cooke's tune, led by Nate and Terry, as Nobody Loves Me Like You (Besame Mucho gave way to a Johnson-penned You, Me And The Sea as the flip). Nobody Loves Me Like You rose to #23 R&B and #30 pop.
The Flamingos scored four more charters at End, but Mio Amore, a lilting Your Other Love (a Drifters-styled Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman composition), Kokomo (which they'd previously cut for Parrot), and Time Was failed to crack the Top 40. Hunt, Johnson, and Nelson left before the end of 1961, Hunt scoring a solo hit that year for Scepter with the dramatic Human. The Careys pointed The Flamingos in a soul-oriented direction that led them back to the R&B charts in '66 with The Boogaloo Party. Nelson died June 1, 1984; Wilson passed May 6, 1988; and Jake and Zeke Carey left us in December 10, 1997 and December 24, 1999 respectively.
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1. Q: What is involved in a prostate biopsy?
A: A prostate needle biopsy is not a pleasant experience, but it is not that bad either because prostate biopsies are now done with local anesthesia.
You prepare for it by taking antibiotics by mouth and a Fleets enema before going to the doctors office. You lie on your left side and the doctor does a digital rectal examination of the prostate gland and then inserts the ultrasound probe into the rectum. The doctor injects a local anesthetic through the probe into the tissues on each side of the prostate and then scans are taken of the prostate gland from several angles.
The volume of the prostate gland is measured from the scans. After the local anesthetic has had a chance to work, a biopsy gun is used to take 12 to 20 or more biopsy cores through the ultrasound probe. You can feel the manipulation and the clicking, but you should not feel pain.
You take antibiotics for two days after the biopsy procedure. Complications such as fever and heavy bleeding occur in fewer than 1% of patients. You might have blood in your urine, bowel movements, and ejaculate for days or weeks following the procedure.
Patients may resume normal activity after the procedure but should take it easy for 24 to 48 hours.
2. Q: How long should the urologist wait after administering the local anesthetic before taking biopsy samples?
A: I believe the longer the better, but at least 5 minutes. If the anesthetic is injected at the beginning of the ultrasound scan procedure, a good time to begin the biopsy sampling is after all the scans have been printed and measurements taken.
3. Q: Does needle biopsy of the prostate spread prostate cancer cells?
A: Evidence suggests the answer is no. And countless patients have been cured of prostate cancer after having had many needle biopsies.
4. Q: How soon after ultrasound and rectal needle biopsies can a man have sex?
A: I recommend waiting for one week. It is not uncommon for blood to be in the semen weeks to months after biopsy, but this blood is not harmful to either sexual partner.
5. Q: Why do men need a digital rectal examination (DRE) if they take the PSA blood test?
A: Some very early cancers can be felt on a rectal exam before they cause the PSA level to be elevated. Other cancers will elevate the PSA level before they can be detected on the rectal exam. To maximize the accuracy of screening, its best to have both the test and the examination. In addition, some high-grade or Neuroendocrine forms of prostate cancer do not produce much PSA. They can be detected on the DRE before the PSA becomes elevated.
6. Q: What are grade levels for prostate cancer? What is a Gleason grade? (For a more complete explanation of
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A: Prostate cancers when looked at under the microscope can look like normal prostate tissue or they can look wild and disorganized.
When these disorganized-looking cells (cancer cells) are found, they are graded on a scale called the Gleason grade of between 2 and 10. Two is the very best a low grade, slow growing prostate cancer. Ten is the worst a rapidly progressing, very aggressive prostate cancer.
It turns out that only about 10 percent of tumors are grade 2, 3, and 4; 10 percent are 8, 9 and 10; and the vast majority are Gleason grades 5, 6 and 7.
7. Q: Should a biopsy of the prostate be done at the same time a TURP is performed to relieve symptoms of an enlarged prostate?
A: I believe that a biopsy should be performed before the procedure, because, if the patient has prostate cancer, the TURP might complicate the subsequent treatment with surgery or radiation.
8. Q: My doctor says that he is going to take a 12-core biopsy and that he will use anesthetic for the procedure. How does the anesthetic work?
A: The need for repeat prostate biopsies was a common occurrence in men with elevated PSA levels or a suspicious digital examination whose initial biopsies did not show prostate cancer.
Now, with the ability to perform a local anesthetic block of the prostate, more biopsy cores are obtained with less discomfort to the patient.
Using this technique, it is likely that fewer cancers would be missed on initial biopsy sessions and the need for repeat biopsies decreases.
Men should confirm that their biopsy will be done with a local anesthetic and that at least 12 biopsy cores will be taken.
The urologist should wait at least 5 minutes after administering the local anesthetic before taking biopsy samples, but the longer the better.
If the anesthetic is injected at the beginning of the ultrasound scan procedure, there is usually good anesthesia by the time that all of the scans have been printed and measurements have been taken.
9. Q: What is the best thing to do in handling the pain of a biopsy? I have heard of two options: A gel absorption method and an injection method to the nerve bundles.
A: An injection is far more effective.
10. Q: What is meant by a soft prostate?
A: The normal prostate is soft and spongy, so a soft prostate is a benign-feeling prostate.
The normal prostate is soft and spongy, so a soft prostate is a benign-feeling prostate.
With cancer, the prostate often becomes hard and unyielding.
A "doughy" prostate sometimes refers to a swollen, congested prostate that can occur with inflammation.
11. Q: How or can a doctor tell if prostate cancer is confined to the prostate from a biopsy if the biopsy doesn't include tissue surrounding and outside the prostate?
A: One cannot tell for certain. The doctor is guided by the findings on digital rectal examination, trans-rectal ultrasonography performed
in conjunction with the biopsy, abdominal-pelvic CT or MRI scan, bone scan, PSA level, Gleason grade, and amount of cancer present in the biopsy cores.
Taken together, and sometimes used in tables or nomograms, they provide a fairly accurate estimate of whether the tumor is confined.
12. Q: Why can't an MRI be used to confirm prostate cancer instead of a biopsy?
A: There is no imaging study, including PET scan, MRI scan or spectroscopy that can identify microscopic prostate cancer with the same degree of certainty as a biopsy.
Since critical treatment decisions often follow biopsy results, biopsy remains the gold standard for prostate cancer diagnosis.
13. Q: My husband's doctor found a nodule on his prostate gland during a routine physical. His PSA test was not elevated. So, his physician advised him to wait six months and if the nodule is still there, he'll order a biopsy. Is it risky to wait for a biopsy?
A: It is risky to wait for a biopsy, even if the PSA test is low. (See other questions and articles on this site relating to the importance of the digital rectal exam.)
There are some prostate cancers that can be very aggressive but do not produce much PSA.
The only hope of diagnosing these cancers are through a digital rectal examination and appropriate follow-up.
Accordingly, I would not advise waiting 6 months to see whether the nodule is still present.
14. Q: Could the PSA go up for a certain time after a prostate biopsy due to inflammation?
A: Yes, always. Sometimes it can remain elevated for many months too.
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You may already know that TasteStopping has a new home. But if it's news to you, take note: the official second home for your rejected food photographs is taking up residence at a fancy-shmancy new URL: http://tastestopping.com. If you have so kindly linked to this site, now is the time to edit your links and point to the best second chance your photos will ever have.
And now TasteStopping offers even more Bells and Whistles. Rejected food photos are still the heart and soul of TasteStopping, but you'll be happy to know, the newly created "Drive-Thru" offers a chance to post a photo and link to your fresh content. Who said instant gratification couldn't be good for you? And "Judge, Jury, Execution" offers bloggers a chance to kibbutz on each other's work, exchange advice and tips on how to improve a particular picture or commiserate on a fine photograph that didn't make the cut elsewhere. Read more about both of these features here and find out how you can submit your photos.
And one last word. TasteStopping is sponsoring a contest to find a logo. Think you have mad design skillz? Put them to the test creating a 165 X 90 logo that will hang in the top left corner of the site. You'll see the title and tagline there right now, so go, get, check it out. What are you waiting for? Except maybe this beauty: the winner will receive a bounty of gourmet treats courtesy of kitchen witch. Rules and guidelines can be found on the Contest page; any questions can be emailed to info (at) tastestopping (dot) com
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Scientists from several nations are working together to launch a flagship program to explore a major mountain range buried by a large continental ice sheet and bounded by numerous subglacial lakes. Exploring the history of the East Antarctic ice sheet and lithospheric structure of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains are primary goals of the International Polar Year (IPY).
The combined projects under the AGAP partnership are multi-national and multi-disciplinary and include aerogeophysics, traverse programs, passive seismic experiments and ice core and bedrock drilling. The surveys are targeted at understanding the tectonic origin of these enigmatic mountains to provide crucial new inputs into ice sheet and climate models and provide key site survey support for the ice and bedrock drilling efforts.
Our international team will address four fundamental questions: 1) What role does topography play in the nucleation of continental ice sheets? 2) How are major elevated continental massifs formed within intraplate settings but without a straightforward plate tectonic mechanism? 3) How do tectonic processes control the formation, distribution, and stability of subglacial lakes? 4) Where is the oldest climate record in the Antarctic ice sheet?
Our education and outreach plans are closely linked to larger IPY education and outreach initiatives leveraging the excitement of "uncovering" a phantom mountain range, larger than the Alps but virtually unexplored since they were discovered during the International Geophysical Year in 1958.


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NEW parameters on PrimeLab: ID162: Hyd. Perox. HR / ID163: Dissolved Oxygen**
Please load down the latest catalogue!
All that you ever wanted to know about water.
H2O: Chemical compound from hydrogen and oxygen, boiling point = 100ºC, freezing point = 0ºC, highest density of 1g/cm3 = 4 degrees, most important solvent (Encyclopedia).
More than 71% of the earth's surface is covered by water. Covering more than roughly 1,384,100,000 km³ of the earth's surface, water is the most prevalent natural substance of which 97.5% is salt water in the world's oceans.
Less than 1% is left for soil moisture content, ground water, lakes and rivers, atmosphere, and living creatures! One water molecule remains in the ocean on average for roughly 3,000 years before it evaporates again. Around 800 Litres falls yearly on 1 m² (in Germany).
Water does not disappear but has been moving in all types of circulatory systems since primeval times.
Worldwide rivers transport 39,000 km³/year, which corresponds to 127,000,000,000 liters per day.


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In this story out of Canada, I'm fairly certain you can substitute the words "United States" for "Canada" and not change the accuracy in any way. Unfortunately, it takes an incident to draw public attention to North America's various security holes. In this case, four Algerian guys stowed away on a bus on a container ship, then "sprinted away from the commissionaire staffing the entrance of the Cerescorp container terminal in Fairview." Those dudes must have been fast, because it took five hours to catch them. What the incident has done is get people talking, which is good: "Right now, they throw a lot of publicity at it and they say the system's working well and they got these guys," said Bruce Brine, who headed the Halifax ports police more than a decade ago. "And I can appreciate that. They're police executives and they have to maintain a positive public image. But basically, we're wide open and this incident the other day just shows it. "They were just illegals trying to get in. If they were actually organized, they would have been more covert. ""What it amounts to is anybody who wants to get into the country illegally can." Brine is advocating for a dedicated ports police force. That may be a solution to the problem - there may be a number of solutions to the problem. The important thing is that people take the problem seriously, then apply whichever solutions make the most sense. Here's the scary stuff: "With that, I think they've accepted a tremendous liability for the taxpayers of Halifax," Mr. Brine said. "Let's say an American cruise ship comes in and something happens, somebody gets at it because there's no waterside security and the thing's blown up and we have hundreds of people killed. Who is going to get sued?" It would probably take a major terrorist attack in a Canadian port to revive the ports police, said Mike Toddington, executive director of the International Association of Airport and Seaport Police. "Had the port police been around at the time of 9-11, there would have been absolutely no consideration of getting rid of the port police," said Mr. Toddington, who used to head the Vancouver ports police. Brine seems like a well-meaning guy, but I'm a little more worried about the "hundreds of people killed" than I am about who's liable for for the lawsuit. Doesn't that seem incredibly cynical? Security isn't about saving money, it's about saving people. Until governments (and the public that elects them) start valuing life a little more highly, security is always going to be an after-thought, something governments deal with because they don't want to look bad.
Ports are a problem
This blog, by Paul Ragusa, the editor of Security Systems News, offers thoughts, news, and a forum for discussion for those who work in and around the physical security industry, integrating and installing security systems in North America.


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An extra $52 billion could be injected into the New Zealand stock market by 2066 if 80 per cent of workers were in KiwiSaver and the contribution rate was raised to a combined 10 per cent, according to research commissioned by a financial services lobby group.
Infometrics figures provided by the Financial Services Council project that $312 billion would be channelled into KiwiSaver by 2066 if no change was made to the existing regime, of which $39 billion could potentially be invested in locally listed stocks.
But if its suggested changes were made, the amount in KiwiSaver would more than double to $731 billion with $90 billion going to the local bourse and a further$3 billion potentially availablefor unlisted companies.
That would make a "considerable impact" on whether firms decide to list in New Zealand, says Peter Neilson, chief executive of the council.
"Often the ones that are going to grow rapidly and have a wide customer base are the ones that go overseas [for funding]."
It could also make the sharemarket more attractive for foreign investors, he said.
Neilson said talking to KiwiSaver members showed the retirement savings scheme was already making a difference to the way they invested with more putting money into growth companies.
"Before KiwiSaver most of that money would have gone into highly liquid stocks."
Knowing the money was locked in people's accounts until they turned 65 allowed investment managers to take a longer-term view, he said.
"These are the companies with the biggest potential, they were the ones that frequently had to sell themselves to somebody else in order to be able to grow."
The council wants all workers including the self-employed to start contributing to KiwiSaver from 2015, starting at 1 per cent a year and increasing by a percentage point a year to 10 per cent by 2024. Those who are already in KiwiSaver would also increase their contributions from 2024 from a combined 6 per cent a year to 10 per cent.
At present employees have to contribute a minimum of 2 per cent and employers a further 2 per cent. From April that will go up to 3 per cent each to a combined total of 6 per cent.
Last year the Government deferred a proposal to automatically enrol all workers who are not already in KiwiSaver until after 2014/15 because of the added cost.
The proposal would have cost the taxpayer an extra $514 million over four years to bring in.
Neilson said the added expense could be overcome by the incentives being dropped if the scheme became compulsory for workers. 'If you make it compulsory, do you need to keep the incentives?"
The Government now puts in $1000 when people sign up to KiwiSaver and contributes 50c for every dollar saved up to $1043 a year.
Neilson said the Infometrics research was prompted by a desire to look at the business case for KiwiSaver and what difference it could make to the potential size and benefits of the savings pool.
The council picked 2066 because the forecasting model used Census data and because it took into account the full retirement savings period for a graduate.
"People who are teenagers today will be retiring around then."
Around two million people are already in KiwiSaver but only 55 per cent are considered to be actively contributing to the scheme.
Sharemarket boost?
*The Financial Services Council wants 80 per cent of workers to be in KiwiSaver.
*New members to join by 2015 at 1 per cent, rising one percentage point a year to 10 per cent by 2024.
*Existing members to increase combined contribution from 6 to 10 per cent from 2020 to 2024.


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Guys, I'm sick of skinny jeans. For a few months now I've been on the hunt for a pair of not-so-skinnies that I can wear with flats or booties, even heels. I finally struck gold with the above pair of Chimala painters jeans in sulphur indigo denim that were on fire sale from their original breathtaking $430 price tag. When I took them into Denim Doctors last week for hemming the guys freaked out at the triple stitch seams and the soft Japanese denim. They're kind of awesome.
Prior to my major Chemala score, however, I turned to three trusted girlfriends in the biz for their favorite alternatives to the skinny jean. Are we totally ditching our skinnies? Not just yet. But here are some fresh and chic silhouettes to mix it up.
Kim Friday, Senior Fashion Editor, Sportswear, Women's Wear Daily
THE SILHOUETTE: Now…(rubbing hands together like Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail when he's about to type)…boyfriend jeans. They are back with the vengeance. You must get a pair!
THE MAKERS: I am a huge fan of Citizens of Humanity, MiH, Current/Elliott, AG Adriano Goldschmied, and Levi's Made and Crafted for this style, all of which are slouchy but not crazy oversized and would look equally good with a flat or a heel.
Lizzie Garrett Mettler, blogger, freelance writer, and author of Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion
THE SILHOUETTE: I'm liking and coveting YOUR Chimala painter pants. They've got a simple utilitarian silhouette and I find them to be a nice alternative to the slouchier "boyfriend cut."
Chimala: Pricey heirloom-quality denim that nods to the workwear roots of jeans.
Raleigh Denim: American-made standards that will weather trends and actual weather.
A.P.C.: These jeans are so buttery when worn in that APC actually will buy back your old pair, fix 'em up, and re-sell them (at least at the WeHo store). I don't think there's anything more valuable in the denim world than a perfect fitting old pair of APCs.
Levi's Vintage Clothing (LVC): LVC painstakingly recreates actual designs from the Levi's archives, it's like finding that incredible vintage piece, but you're the first to wear it. This includes 501s.
Amy Keller, fashion stylist for personal clients, as well as advertising campaigns such as Levi's and Madewell
THE SILHOUETTE: Midrise is what I'm feeling right now in terms of denim in general, and my own personal style. I like a fashionable jean for myself after I have my staple jeans covered. I'm bored with a skinny jean, I know a lot of editors still wear them, but skinny jeans are not flattering for a lot of women. For my clients, I've been thinking about the new silhouette and in general I have three that I'm really hopped up on…
Dior Homme, circa 2005: They're so good—a simple and chic boys jean that runs small and has a nice stretch, but not stretchy like a sausage. It's just a great silhouette that looks good on everyone. Wear with a heel or flip flops.
J. Brand Boot Leg: Think Jackie O, Carolyn Bessette, simple, classic, preppy women. The bootleg balances the hips and the bum, it's a visual trick that makes all women longer and leaner, taller and thinner. J. Brand has nailed the dark denim wash, and they have the best pocket placement. Stay away from pockets that are too big and far apart, they make your bum and hips look extra wide.
Closed Pedal Pusher Tapered Leg: They have a perfect dark indigo wash and there's just enough give so they're comfy so you look expensive instead of looking like a sausage.


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Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin
ORLANDO, Fla. – George Zimmerman's defense attorneys on Thursday released photos and text messages from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's cellphone ahead of a hearing that will determine whether they can be used at Zimmerman's murder trial.
Zimmerman is charged with fatally shooting Martin last year during a confrontation at a gated community in Sanford. He is pleading not guilty, claiming self-defense. His trial starts next month.
The photos show Martin blowing smoke and extending his middle finger to the camera. The photos also show a gun and what appears to be a potted marijuana plant.
In the text messages, Martin tells a friend that his mother has told him he needs to move out of her house and move in with his father since he was caught skipping school.
Prosecutors have filed a motion asking Circuit Judge Debra Nelson to prevent the photos, texts and other personal information from being used at the second-degree murder trial. The hearing is set for next Tuesday.
Zimmerman's defense attorney, Mark O'Mara told The Associated Press last week that the materials could be relevant if prosecutors put a spotlight on Martin and his character.
"If the state puts at issue Trayvon, who he was. If the state makes that an issue, we get to respond to that," O'Mara said.


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I searched for a recipe and found a sprinkle cookie recipe on Stephanie Cooks~Thanks Stephanie!
The broken m&m bits remind me more of confetti than sprinkles, which I mixed right into the batter. The result is a buttery cookie with just enough m&m's in there to satisfy your chocolate craving and add some pizazz:)
I love how they look!
Before you start the cookies, place some m&m's in a ziploc bag and use a rolling pin to smash them up!
Confetti (Sprinkle) Cookies (adapted from Stephanie Cooks)
2 1⁄2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup crushed up m&m candies
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl and set aside.
3. Combine the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth. Stir in the flour mixture until just combined.
4. Stir in 1 cup of the m&m confetti bits and mix well with a wooden spoon.
5. Use a medium (walnut size) cookie scoop and place cookie scoops on parchment-lined baking sheet(I used my stoneware~no need for parchment) about 3 inches apart.
6. Bake for about 10 minutes or just until the edges begin to brown.
7. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
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posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 12:25 pm
Anyone have an example of a program comparing two covariance matrices only, with no latent factors?
posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 1:10 pm
For say 3 variables, you can simply state
y1 with y2-y3;
y2 with y3;
in the model statement and then apply any degree of equality across the groups.
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posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:46 am
I began EFA on my data but quickly noted that the correlation matrix which came in the output does not match the corr matrix produced in stata with the same data. The correlations are higher in Mplus. Any ideas on what to do? The data are binary and there are missing data. Naturally, I don't want to continue with the analysis if the matrices don't match.
posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 5:30 pm
Mplus produces tetrachoric correlations with EFA of binary outcomes - perhaps the other program treats the variables as continuous?
posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 9:35 pm
Thank you and yes, Stata treats the variables as continuous. But, even when I don't tell Mplus that my variables are binary, the two matrices don't match. In other words, if I have Mplus create the correlation matrix as if my variables are continuous.
After some more research on this, I am now sure that it is a missing data issue. I understand that mplus performs listwise deletion when there are missing data (unless analysis = missing is indicated in the input). However, it does not seem to be doing listwise deletion by default when creating the corr matrix. I know this because if, in stata, I drop all cases with missing data and transfer that no-missings-data set over to mplus and ask for the corr matrix, only then can I get mplus's corr matrix to match stata's corr matrix.
Is it true then that for some reason Mplus not default to listwise in the case of corr matrices? What is Mplus doing with the missing data here?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 5:25 am
The Mplus default in all cases is listwise deletion. There is no difference for correlation matrices. There must be another issue. For example, perhaps you are not reading the data correctly in Mplus. If you want to send me the listwise data set, the data set with missing, your Mplus output, your Stata output, and license number to
, I will be happy to let you know what is happening.
posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 11:35 am
Your comment about "not reading the data correctly" actually led me to the resolution.(I'm posting it in case anyone has a similar situation in the future.)
I used stata2mplus to transfer my data. My missings in stata were identified with periods. I didn't realize that the stata2mplus module would turn my periods into "-9999". Now that I am specifying my missings as such in mplus, the correlations do, of course, match perfectly.
Thank you for your help. (I'm still happy to send you all of the info, if you want it for any reason.)
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 1:17 pm
No, that will not be necessary. It sounds like you solved your problem.
posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:16 pm
Howdy, this is Michael Mitchell (the author of stata2mplus). Indeed, the missing values are written out at -9999 by default (and you can change that if you wish with the "missing(#)" option. Feel free to write me at
with any future questions on this and I would be happy to help.
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DU hockey: quick hits on Bozak, Maiani, Testwuide, Gifford
Freshman center Tyler Bozak, who leads the Pioneers with 18 goals and 34 points, acknowledged Wednesday that he will continue to be auditioning for NHL scouts at this weekend's NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.
Bozak, who turned 22 last week, is an undrafted free agent. Rumors are he's a hot free-agent, and I've heard the Anaheim Ducks are interested, and have seen Ducks assistant GM David McNab at many DU games this year.
"I'm sure there's going to be a lot of scouts there, but it's really not on my mind," Bozak said Wednesday before practice. "I'm just trying to help us get to the national championship . . . I definitely want to play (in the NHL). I have my advisors and stuff, and they're dealing with everything right now. I'm just trying not to think about it, and wait for the summer and see what happens."
For DU fans, perhaps your only hope to keep Bozak around for another season is to keep him away from Burger King and strength coach Mike Sanders. Bozak said he weighs 170 pounds, quite skinny for a 6-foot kid.
"I definitely know I need to put on some pounds," Bozak said. "We're going to work hard all summer and see what happens."
MAIANI. Before the freshman wing's game-winning goal last Friday against North Dakota at the WCHA Final Five in St. Paul, his parents and young sister were involved in a frightening car accident en route to St. Paul.
"They were driving from Michigan, about a 12-hour drive, and about 100 miles away, the weather was pretty bad and they did a 360 on the highway, ran into a ditch and flipped on the side," Maiani told me. "They all got out OK. I found out before the game. Police took them to the nearest hotel in Wisconsin, and the game was on TV and they watched it there . . . Going into the game, I wasn't even thinking about scoring the game winner or anything. I was worried about my family."
TESTWUIDE. I had the pleasure of visiting with Janet Testwuide last weekend in St. Paul. She, of course, is the mother of DU's junior defenseman J.P. Testwuide and CC sophomore forward Mike Testwuide.
Mike helped the Tigers win the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA regular-season champions, and J.P. helped the Pios win the Broadmoor Trophy as WCHA playoff champions.
One, big happy family, and I couldn't get any "payback" quotes from J.P., who is 1-6-1 against his brother.
"I wouldn't call it payback," J.P. said. "(The Broadmoor Trophy) is nice. Both trophies are back in Colorado, so it can't be any better than that. We (the Pioneers) just happen to be playing good at the right time."
GIFFORD: DU coach George Gwozdecky said sophomore F Brian Gifford will not play this weekend. Gifford missed the Final Five because of a ankle injury.


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Nvidia is planning for the GTX 660 Ti to become the new weapon of choice for gamers. The card does offer good gaming performance but the frail, sub-€300 price range, it is the price that often dictates the weapon of choice. Nvidia probably had a god reason for the last minute pric change and the suggested retail pricing for the Geforce GTX 660 Ti 2GB is €259 + VAT.
Good news is that almost all Nvidia partners decided to bundle Borderlands 2, which will be available for download on 21st of September. The game supports PhysX, meaning that Geforce owners will indulge in more realistic effects like cloth simulation persistent particles and dynamic fluid simulations.
Many partners will take part in today's launch of the GTX 660 Ti. There are already some non-reference coolers and there are factory overclocked models as well. Today, we'll show you Gainward's GTX 660 Ti Phantom 2GB and EVGA's GTX 660 Ti Superclocked 2GB cards in separate reviews of course. Additionally, we'll show you some other Nvidia partner designs and list some basic specs.
Kepler architecture is not solely performance focused and aims at delivering good performance per Watt ratio, which is pretty much clear when comparing the current to the previous generation. The GTX 660 Ti is said to have a 150W TDP, which is similar to the GTX 560, but the GTX 660 Ti churns out superior performance. The GTX 660 Ti typically draws up to 134W of power in most non-TDP applications. Typical board power for GTX 670 is about 141W while the TDP is at 170W.
The GTX 660 Ti is based on the GK104 GPU, which is used on GTX 690/680/670 cards as wel. The card packs the same number of CUDA cores as GTX 670, 1334 CUDA cores and 7 SMX units. GTX 680 comes with 8 SMX units and 1536 CUDA cores.
The base clock speed is 915MHz, while typical Boost clock is 980MHz. The GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670 run at same clocks and have the same number of CUDA cores but a reference clocked GTX 660 Ti can't catch up with the GTX 670 due to less ROPs (from 32 on GTX 670 to 24 on GTX 660) and the 192-bit memory interface.
Note that as with previously released Kepler cards, the boost clock speed is based on the average GTX 660 Ti running a wide variety of games and applications and that the actual Boost clock will wary from game to game depending on actual system conditions. We've seen that some partners set the base clock beyond 1GHz at launch.
Memory interface is reduced to 192-bit from the 256-bit on GTX 670 cards. There are three 64-bit memory controllers. Interestingly, GTX 660 Ti memory controller supports mixed density memory module operation and we'll also see GTX 660 Ti cards with 3GB memory.
GTX 660 Ti s memory speed is 1502MHz (6008MHz effective), which means that the memory is clocked the same as on GTX 680/670 cards.
GTX 660 Ti looks almost identical to the GTX 670. The reference model is 9.5" or 24.1cm long. Since the GPU is like the one used on GTX 670 cards, Nvidia had to ensure adequate cooling. This is why the company used a quite hefty dual slot cooler, which is actually only about one centimeter shorter than the one on GTX 680. GTX 680, 670 and 660 Ti's fans are the same type and size.
Just like on the GTX 670, Nvidia used a shorter PCB for the GTX 660 Ti. The company ended up using a shorter PCB, which is only 17.2cm long. At the same time, this is the reason why the power connectors aren't at their standard spot, towards the end of the card. GTX 660 Ti cards come with two 6-pin power connectors. Inexperienced users often forget to connect the power cables. Thankfully, as of GTX 680, Nvidia started using low power notification message that is displayed at boot up and reminds the user to plug-in the power connector.
The following photo shows EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked Ti 2GB from the rear. EVGA is planning to launch 3GB versions as well.
Video outs include two dual-link DVIs (only one is VGA capable) and standard HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. Note that all four outs can be used simultaneously.
The GTX 670 comes with two SLI connectors usually found only on Nvidia's high end cards. This means that users can daisy chain more cards in a Quad GTX 660 Ti system. We're actualy not sure whether Quad SLI is possible, since Nvidia officially supports only 3-way SLI, however, we're talking about driver restrictions, so anything is possible. If you remember the 301.42 driver adds Quad SLI support for GTX 670.
Motherboard: EVGA X79 FTW
CPU: Sandy Bridge-E Core i7 3820 (3.6GHz)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright HR-02 (Thermalright-Europa Distri www.PC-Cooling.de).
Memory: 8GB ADATA DDR3 1600 XPG Gaming series
Harddisk: OCZ Vertex 2 100 GB
Power Supply: CoolerMaster Silent Pro 1000W
Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos II Ultra Tower
Operating System: Win7 64-bit
Nvidia 305.37-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-english
AMD 12-8_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe_whql
3D Mark11
Aliens vs Predator
Crysis 2
Metro 2033
With EVGA's card we managed to get GPU clocks similar to those on overclocked GTX 670 cards.
Gainwards's card reaches very high GPU overclock.
Thermals and Noise
The fan is not very loud and working next to a GTX 660 Ti is quite comfortable, even when the card is under full load.
Power Consumption
The GTX 660 Ti is a good card for gaming up to 1920x1080. Suggested pricing is €259 + VAT, which pits it against the HD 7950 rather than versus HD 7870. HD 7870 cards currently start at €260, while the 7950 can be found at €290. As far as performance goes, the GTX 660 Ti is somewhere in between, largely depending on the game and resolution.
We've seen that the GTX 660 Ti is capable of beating the HD 7950, but the highest resolution and antialiasing take their toll on the GTX 660 Ti.
The card has a nice performance per Watt ration and quiet cooling. Perhaps 1344 CUDA cores and 2GB of memory on the GTX 660 Ti may harm GTX 670 sales, but the latter still has the upper hand. The GTX 660 Ti comes will less ROPs and 192-bit memory interface, which shows in the tests.
Overclocking the GTX 660 Ti matches the GTX 670's performance, not too shabby considering that the GTX 670 goes for €370. On the other hand, the GTX 670 is a fine overclocker itself, and it lets you match the GTX 680, so let's not go down (or up?) the rabbit hole.
If you're lookign for a new graphics card, the GTX 660 Ti will provide all the benefits of the Kepler architecture. We've seen in our tests that the GTX 660 Ti outran the last year's top card the GTX 580, which really says enough.
GTX 660Ti-DC2-2GD5 – 2GB GDDR5 915/980/6008MHz, 6+6 Pin
GTX660 TI-DC2OG-2GD5 – 2GB GDDR5 1029/1098/6008MHz, 6+6 Pin
- iGame GTX 660Ti ARES X – 2GB GDDR5 1019 / 1097 / 6008, 6+6 Pin
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Superclocked 2GB
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Camp continued on the fields today but there's also stuff happening off the field.
Friday night is the annual Phan Fest at Bright House Field. Saturday night, Karen and Jamie Moyer are receiving he humanitarian award from the Clearwater For Youth organization at their annual banquet. They certainly deserve the award.
All players are undergoing eye exams split over today and tomorrow. Sunday Mickey Morandini comes in as a guest instructor for a couple of weeks. He'll spend time in both the majors and minor camps.
Just think, there'll be no baseball games this weekend. That won't happen again until after the World Series in October.
Alumni Memories
Daily feature here are spring training memories from our Alumni. They were asked three questions (1) First spring training and their remembrances; (2) What they liked the most about spring training, and (3) What they liked the least.
Dallas Green (RHP, 1960-64; 1967; MGR, 1979-81)
"1956, Bob Conley, Don Cardwell, Chris Short and I were invited to a mini-camp before the big league camp opened in Clearwater. We stayed at the West Coast Hotel, three to a room. We weren't allowed to have cars so we walked everywhere. Short and I road the train from Wilmington, DE. We were kept around to throw BP, Hamner, Jones, Ennis, Ashburn and those guys. We were young, wild, could throw hard and we were trying to impress everyone. The vets hated us, didn't want to face us. Later, I was sent to Bennettsville, SC, where the Phillies low minor league players trained. I wore 177 or 176. The next year, I was drafted by the Army at the start of spring training. I thought my career was over before it started. Took a bus back to Philly for a physical exam. The following day, we were lined up to get on a bus for boot camp in South Carolina. Four of us were called out of line and taken into a little room. They told me I had failed my physical because of a hernia. So, back on the bus for spring training. During the early days, you were always trying to impress someone. I was nervous, scared but excited to be rubbing elbows with Roberts and Simmons. In '56, the younger players used the old clubhouse at Athletic Field, the field we called Iwo Jima. We weren't allowed at Jack Russell Stadium. That old clubhouse was awful. You almost had to dress and shower in shifts. The hardest part was being sent down and having to pack and move. You might go from Clearwater to Plant City and then to Bennettsville or Leesburg."
Next post: Monday, March 1. Taking a short break.
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Love the alumni memories. Great work for a retired guy.


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Stephanie Tilenius, who is an EIR at Kleiner Perkins, wrote an interesting post on curated marketplaces last week. She mentions our portfolio companies Lending Club, Etsy, and Kickstarter in her post.
Stephanie argues that the old rules of building marketplaces, that led to big businesses at eBay (where she worked) and Amazon, are giving way to a new set of rules. This line, in particular, got my attention:
Consumers now demand beautifully designed and curated experiences, especially in a mobile-only marketplace.
I agree with Stephanie that marketplaces need to be simple, beautiful, and easy to use on mobile in order to succeed in the world we live in now.
We have a lot of marketplaces in our portfolio. I think they may be the single largest category of investments that we make. They are the commerce instantiation of our large networks investment thesis. So we talk and think a lot about them.
There is a tension between curation and being open to all comers. Lending Club curates its market by limiting borrowers to those with sufficient credit rating. That provides benefit to the lenders on the platform and has led to relatively low default rates over the years. Kickstarter states that "We never curate projects" but they do have guidelines on what can be posted on Kickstarter and what cannot. Etsy doesn't "curate" either but they do have guidelines on what can be posted in an Etsy shop, and those guidelines were changed last week to make Etsy open to a wider range of sellers.
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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons have consistently tried to do one thing this season _ take care of their side of the court.
That is what they did Friday night at Allen Arena in a 3-0 sweep of North Florida in Atlantic Sun competition.
The Lady Bisons won by scores of 25-11, 25-19 and 25-17.
"I thought our girls did a great job of executing our game plan," Lady Bisons' coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "UNF is a dangerous team. Coming out in the first set we really set the tone. Moving into the second set there was a little bit of a letdown.
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As part of "Dig for the Cure" in connection with "Breast Cancer Awareness" Month the Lady Bisons wore pink shorts and Rosenthal dressed in a pink jacket, shirt and tie.
The Lady Bisons held a 37-26 advantage in digs. Four Lady Bisons had six digs in the match.
"Defensively, I thought we did a great job," Rosenthal said. "We did a lot of little things really well and put a lot of pressure on UNF. You don't necessarily see it on the stat page but there were errors they had to make because we played a pretty solid defense.
"We always preach team defense. More than ever now you look at the stat sheet and no one person really stands out. Alex Kelly and Jake Pease lead the way there, but we also have Katie Rose, Meghan Hinemeyer, Dot Dotson and Stephanie Rex. That's what makes our defense tough because it is not just one person."
The Lady Bisons are 17-6 overall, 6-0 in the conference. North Florida slipped to 5-19 overall, 2-5 in the conference, extending its losing streak to four matches.
Kelly led the way with a match-high 14 kills. She also had 16.5 points, a .400 hitting percentage and six digs.
Opposite Charlyn Ursell posted a .500 hitting percentage with six kills, five assists and four block assists.
"The biggest thing about the assists for Char is not forcing the issue," Rosenthal said. "At the beginning of the year she was trying to force it.
"We have very talented players around her. She can make the smart play and let her teammates play the ball around her. One of our keys this week was to not make errors that we don't need to make." Hinemeyer had nine kills, two service aces and six digs.
Pease had 34 assists, two kills and six digs.
"You look down the line and Katie Rose hit .625 and Char hit .500," Rosenthal said. "It is like that all the way down the stat sheet. When we do that we are going to win games."
The Lady Bisons are back in action Saturday at 2 p.m. when Jacksonville visits Allen Arena. Jacksonville lost 3-0 at Belmont Friday night, falling to 12-13 overall, 3-4 in the A-Sun.
"The challenge we have is that Jacksonville has height and speed," Rosenthal said. "Jacksonville is playing for its tournament life. It is going to be a challenge for us to match their intensity."
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Contrary Opinion: UCLA Story Salacious, But Nothing New HerePosted by AMurawa on February 29th, 2012
Yesterday about this time, when news broke that George Dohrmann would be publishing a "highly negative" piece about the UCLA basketball program, there were plenty of people who immediately expected the worst. I, for one, figured that today I'd be writing about potential NCAA violations and speculating on who may be the next basketball coach for the Bruins. While the Sports Illustrated piece is certainly not something that is going to be framed and hung on the wall in Ben Howland's office, compared to those previous expectations, Bruin fans can take a deep breath and relax. Sure, there are loads and loads of very unflattering portraits of former and current players, and mostly of Howland, but still the most damning fact against Howland is a 14-18 record in 2010 and a 16-13 record right now; this Dohrmann piece just explains how the program got to that point. And while there are plenty of salacious details and anecdotes, none of them really change what we already knew about the UCLA program before yesterday.
At the bottom of this piece, the finger points squarely at problems with a couple of recruiting classes — the groups of 2008 and 2009. The 2008 class featured guys like Jerime Anderson, Drew Gordon and J'Mison Morgan, while the 2009 class ominously included Reeves Nelson, but also Anthony Stover, among others. There are allegations of drug use among these players (and other players on recent UCLA teams), but the bottom line problem was Howland's inability to sufficiently discipline these players for their numerous missteps. The poster child here is, of course, Nelson. There are stories seemingly by the barrelful about how bad of a teammate he was. After 2010 recruit Matt Carlino sustained a concussion early in his freshman year causing him to miss time, Nelson repeatedly railed on him for being soft, called him "concussion boy" and went out of his way to instigate contact with Carlino during practices, eventually helping to drive Carlino out of the program. Nelson also had repeated altercations in practice with another eventual UCLA transfer, Mike Moser. There are reports of Nelson abusing people all over the Bruin program, from student managers all the way up to assistant coaches. And all that is just scratching the surface of what is in the article, knowing full well that there are plenty of incidents that didn't make the piece and never even reached Dohrmann's ears. And, until this season, Howland did nothing about it.
Now, certainly, that's a huge mistake by Howland, but the fact is things like this go on all over the place. You hear people say that John Wooden would never have allowed drug use in his program, but then you think about guys like Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton. People say a team must get along in order to succeed on the court, but then you hear stories about Christian Laettner tormenting Bobby Hurley during the pair's wildly successful tenure at Duke. Howland supposedly never would have put up with this kind of nonsense when he was at Pittsburgh, but then you hear about Chevy Troutman and Carl Krauser raising hell back then. Really, the fact is, if you turn over enough rocks around any college basketball program in the land, you'll get stories like this on a regular basis. After all, these are young male college students we're dealing with here, people in the prime of their "doing-stupid-stuff" life. Throw in the fact that these guys are "big men on campus" from the moment they show up and you're going to have plenty of bad behavior from time to time. I'd guess if you threw a dart at a list of the 345 Division I teams and then sent Dohrmann to dig up the dirt on that program, the results would make UCLA look positively angelic in comparison.
The real question for a coach is not so much the bad behavior, but how he deals with the bad behavior, and there is little argument that Howland did not discipline his players, especially Nelson, either quickly or severely enough. However, all indications are that this is a problem that was ongoing in the past and got progressively worse, but now Howland has put an end to it and turned the ship around. Dohrmann himself said this morning on The Jim Rome Show that all indications are that morale is improving in the UCLA program. Part of that is due to the removal of the Nelson cancer from the program, but Howland has also been more hands-on and has begun to lay down the law more, specifically with sophomore big man Joshua Smith, showing that the head man is capable of learning from his mistakes in the past and adjusting going forward.
Still, even before this piece, Howland was squarely on the hot seat for failing to make the NCAA Tournament twice in three years (assuming his team doesn't win four games in four days in the upcoming Pac-12 Tournament), and there is little doubt that this does nothing to bolster his cause. But at the end of the day, for the people who have followed the UCLA program closely, there is absolutely nothing revelatory in this article. Reeves Nelson is a jerk, Drew Gordon was immature, Ben Howland isn't a player's coach; yeah, we knew that already. So, we're back to where we were prior to this firestorm. Does Howland deserve another year in Westwood? There are plenty of Bruin fans who had already had enough prior to this article, but the decision ultimately lies with athletic director Dan Guerrero and chancellor Gene Block. Both have expressed their disappointment with the article in statements that say little or nothing, but the fact is, Guerrero is already under fire and cutting bait on Howland may be the last move he makes. With Howland already bringing in a couple key recruits next season (Kyle Anderson and Jordan Adams) and with his sights still firmly set on a couple more (Shabazz Muhammad and Tony Parker), there is plenty of reason for hope in the Bruin program. It remains to be seen if, and to what extent, this piece negatively effects recruiting, but in the short-term with the UCLA program arguably trending up (albeit from some depths over the past three years that a program of this caliber should never reach), there is nothing in this article that should push the UCLA administration to beat a hasty retreat from their current head coach. He's still one of the better coaches in the land, he just compounded one big mistake (bringing in recruits of questionable character) with another (not laying down the law when those questionable characters misbehaved).


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- Dr. Ray Baker
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Prostate cancer can be treated with surgery to remove the cancer tissue, castration to remove the hormones that stimulate tumour growth, drugs that inhibit production, secretion or the activity of tumour-stimulating hormones, radiation and chemotherapy. As well as the common side effects of surgery and chemotherapy, temporary urinary tract obstruction, erectile dysfunction and loss of libido are frequently caused by these treatments. Detected early, improved rates of long-term remission are obtained for patients with prostate cancer.
PSA controversy
There is disagreement about whether PSA screening, performed on all men over a certain age is a good idea. Proponents of routine PSA screening point out that it improves early diagnosis of a common, curable cancer at an earlier stage than can be detected by physical exam. Those who oppose routine screening state that it is costly and will result in unnecessary, invasive biopsies and treatment of people whose prostate problems would not have resulted in significant disease. Although the jury is still out on this, the reader might be interested to know that I, and just about every middle-aged male physician I know, pay the price to have periodic PSA testing done. Screening protocol recommendations vary, but most experts agree that rather than the absolute PSA level, it is the relative change that is important. So, a baseline level at 40 to 45 years old is valuable because PSA levels can be rechecked every few years and compared to it. This provides a very sensitive alarm system to pick up cancers early.
The bottom line
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer experienced by men. Although there is controversy about the best methods of screening and treatment, there is general agreement that earlier detection results in better outcomes.
Watch for changes in urinary stream: difficulty beginning the urine stream in the morning, slower bladder emptying, pain or discomfort. Get regular physical exams, and if you are over 40, expect a rectal exam. Consider asking for a PSA, but don't be surprised if you have to pay about $40 for it.
In this aging man's opinion, it just seems like pretty cheap insurance.
Dr. Ray Baker is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He has been awarded fellowships in both Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He has been a practicing physician for over 23 years. From 1993 to 1997 he represented Canada on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, North America's credentialing body in this specialized area of medicine. His area of special clinical expertise is in assessment and treatment planning of the worker disabled by one of the "invisible disabilities", stress, depression, chronic pain syndrome or substance use disorder.
Dr. Ray Baker, BSc (Hon), MD FCFP, FASAM
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