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Thrombophylaxis in Transurethral Surgery With Dalteparine
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The rationale for thrombophrophylaxis is well known. Without prophylaxis the incidence of objectivlely confirmed, hospital-acquired deep venous thrombosis is approximately 10% to 40% among medical or general surgical patients. In urology the prevalence is 15-40%. The Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy1 recommend against specific prophylaxis in patients undergoing transurethral procedures. Our study is the first double-blind, placebo-controlled study with Dalteparine as thrombophrophylaxis in transurethral surgery. The aim of the study is to proof that thrombophrophylaxis causes not more complications in transurethral surgery than without.
Thrombophylaxis in Transurethral Surgery
Drug: dalteparine (Fragmin)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Thromboseprophylaxe Mit Niedermolekularem Heparin Bei Transurethralen Eingriffen
- Blood loss [ Time Frame: intraoperativ, 6 hours post op and 3 days postop ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: A
5000IE dalteparine
Drug: dalteparine (Fragmin)
transurethrals surgery with and without dalteparine
Other Name: Dlateparine=Fragmin
Placebo Comparator: B
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Drug: dalteparine (Fragmin)
transurethrals surgery with and without dalteparine
Other Name: Dlateparine=Fragmin
Detailed Description:
The aim of our study is to proof that transurethral surgery under thrombophylaxis with dalteparine is safe. The study design is double-blind placebo controlled.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- transurethral surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- oral anticoagulation
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00681785
|Urologische Universitätsklinik beider Basel
|Liestal, Switzerland, 4410
|Study Chair:
|Thomas C Gasser, Prof
|Department of Urology Liestal
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|Maurer Patrick, Dr, Department of Urology, Kantonsspital Liestal
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|NCT00681785 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 21, 2008
|Last Updated:
|May 19, 2008
|Health Authority:
|Switzerland: Ethikkommission
Keywords provided by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland:
thrombophylaxis and transurethral surgery
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Watching THE BIG GUNDOWN for the first time is like falling in love with movies all over again. From the gorgeous locations to the rousing chorus of female voices in Ennio Morricone's score to the lined face of Lee Van Cleef, at once ugly and beautiful, it is something like a perfect movie.
Many spaghetti westerns have desultory storylines - just a peg to hang the action on - but THE BIG GUNDOWN is full of biting political subtext in its story of an aging gunfighter with aspirations of riding his notoriety into high office with the help of a wealthy and unscrupulous sponsor. When Van Cleef's benefactor dispatches him to capture famous Mexican desparado Cuchillo (the brilliant Tomas Milian), Van Cleef is forced to confront his patron's true motives, and his own. Throughout, the action, plot and characterization are fast and smart. This film should have jumped the fence into respectability in the same way Kurosawa's samurai movies. It's that good.
There have been great performances in spaghetti westerns before - Eli Wallach in THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY and Gian Maria Volonte in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE come to mind. THE BIG GUNDOWN features two of the genre's greatest performances in Milian's craven, resourceful, yet ultimately honest bad man; and Van Cleef's morally wavering yet heroic central figure.
In the script based on an original story by Franco Solinas (BATTLE OF ALGIERS, BURN!) Van Cleef can be seen as America, post WWII, on one hand the moral light of the world, certainly the strongest force in the world, and on the other hand, dangerously prone to corruption by wealth and influence. Milian embodies the developing world, and their developing relationship mirrors the state of the world. Though the weight of all this allegory might seem destined to weigh any western down, it all works, and it works perfectly. As a grace note, it's even funny.
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José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, said: "Only if the best brains from academia, industry, SMEs, research institutes and other organisations come together can we successfully tackle the huge challenges that we are facing. This is what public-private partnerships are about, the joining of forces to make the lives of Europeans better, create jobs and boost our competitiveness."
Research partnerships between the EU, the private sector and Member States presented their first calls for projects and partners under Horizon 2020, the EU's €80 billion research and innovation programme.
Worth a total of €1.13 billion in public funding, which will be complemented by a comparable amount from the private partners, the first round of funding will go into projects that will improve people's lives as well as boost international competitiveness of Europe's industry. Topics include new treatments for diabetes and eye disease and a roll out of dozens of hydrogen-powered road vehicles and refuelling stations.
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On Friday, Jonathan Chait chalked up Beltway inaction on the unemployment crisis to DC's insularity:
I live in a Washington neighborhood almost entirely filled with college-educated professionals, and it occurred to me not long ago that, when my children grow up, they'll have no personal memory of having lived through the greatest economic crisis in eighty years. It is more akin to a famine in Africa. For millions and millions of Americans, the economic crisis is the worst event of their lives. … But from the perspective of those in a position to alleviate their suffering, the crisis is merely a sad and distant tragedy.
Though Chait's piece cites two recent events – the Fed's QE3 punt and Ed DeMarco's decision not to offer debt relief through Fannie and Freddie – Brad DeLong points to a longer-arced crap-out of moderate Republican policymaking:
Some of it is–and from my perspective this looms very large–the failure of the moderate Republicans to lay down policy markers during election season or after to create an environment for bipartisan technocratic agreement on policies to create a stronger economy. The Council of Economic Advisers chairs of the George W. Bush administration–Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw, and Eddie Lazear–surely did not go to Washington to be shills for policies that would slow economic growth. Yet that is what they did, and if they had any positive impact on the policies actually pursued by the George W. Bush administration, I do not see it.
Chris Herbert calls out the Fed and the behavior of Congressional Republicans:
Republicans blocked all the administration's effort to hire directly for infrastructure projects, or to transfer funds directly to state's which stops them from firing public employees. These policies would drop the unemployment rate several percentage points. Failing to transfer funds to cash strapped states added a full 1% to the unemployment rate and clipped almost 1% from the country's Gross Domestic Product. Republicans in Congress who blocked these common sense, fiscal reponses that guarantee jobs, now attack the administration for not creating more jobs.


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Vera Nazarian, Lords of Rainbow (Wildside Press, 2003)
It's a course that humanity has followed from the earliest origins of intelligent civilization: the things we don't understand about our world, we attribute to the divine. We witness the mysteries of nature and we personify the forces responsible for them; we must have angered a god of thunder to incur this storm, or infuriated a fertility goddess to warrant a drought. These are the basic starting points of world religions, which we expand upon by imposing on them a hierarchy of individuals who can properly communicate with the divinity in question. Bishops and cardinals, sheikhs, priests and nuns, clerics and shamans and tribal elders and medicine men each of these is closer to the divine than the common man. They are conduits to the gods who hold answers to our questions about the world we inhabit. Moreover, we imbue them with a certain level of trust; we believe the things they tell us as if the gods had spoken the words themselves. But, if they so wish, these conduits could abuse the trust we give them in order to seize the power that comes with it, and to use it for their own gain.
Which brings us to Vera Nazarian's impressively elegant second novel, Lords Of Rainbow. In a story whispered to us by a nameless, perhaps malevolent narrator, Nazarian plunges us into what is literally a black-and-white world a world bathed in silver hues, strangled by monochromatic scenery, in which color exists only in small pockets of light, and red and yellow, orange and violet, and all their contemporaries along the spectrum of the rainbow are misunderstood, revered as divinities, personified as gods. This is the world of Tronaelend-Lis, a city in which the power of its two farcical rulers is overshadowed, first by the power of the Light Guild, creators of colorful orbs which provide a link to a pantheon of deities that some citizens would prefer to forget or ignore, and then by the threat of the Assassin's Guild, killers who hide in the darkness and take the jet-black shadows as their color of choice.
The story follows Rahne, a warrior en route to the city who meets a dignitary on her way. Of course they meet again after an abrupt departure and romantic sparks fly between them. They are supported by dozens of peripheral characters who might be taken straight from the pages of a childhood fairytale: the ominous narrator; a king who remains in a state of suspended animation; the Regent and Regentrix, co-rulers of Tronaelend-Lis; and various citizens of the city as well as representatives of a number of the city's other guilds. I will describe no more of the plot for fear of diminishing the subtle thrill that arises from discovering the story's buried secrets, except to say that, as is also true of history's greatest faiths and traditions and religious orders, diverse and conflicting beliefs often give rise to violence.
You'll be glad I told you the set-up for the story, because you won't realize there actually was any kind of set-up until about ninety pages into the book. To be sure, Lords Of Rainbow is seductively readable, but the first part of the novel shifts from one character's story to another's with such rapidity and frequency, and with such dislocation, as to render this structure somewhat impotent to the point where it becomes a meandering mess, and it almost almost kills the story right from the start. It seems as if Nazarian, being so enamored with her world and her premise, altogether neglects to provide her story with a "hook." There is absolutely nothing in the first couple of chapters that is satisfying enough to draw the reader in and make us beg for more. This is due in large part to Nazarian's tendency to be vague in her descriptions of her world and of the rules that govern the relationships between her characters. So many questions arise in those early chapters who is this person? what are they doing? why did they do that? that the most important question of all falls by the wayside, namely why should we care? Only when we reach the second part of the novel do we realize, with the power of hindsight, that Nazarian's world of Tronaelend-Lis has finally been established, albeit in a very passive way, and that her characters are at last engaged in an irreversible sequence of events: the story is now in motion. From here on out, everything is fine.
Actually, for the most part, it's better than fine. Nazarian's story veers from political drama to romance to pure fantasy to action with spectacular ease, and in addition to being unexpectedly heartfelt (Rahne is an engaging, action-oriented but emotionally insecure heroine) parts of the book are also unexpectedly erotic. Nazarian's characters are intriguing creations, each peppered with his or her own nuances and faults and virtues and values, all of them reaching a high level of believability. Most interestingly, though, her narrative premise also operates as a platform for an intriguing exchange of ideas. Of particular note is a foretold return of color and Rainbow to Tronaelend-Lis, portrayed in the novel as something analogous to the rapture or the Apocalypse. You can imagine, then, what reactions might arise when a new, colorful sun abruptly appears in Tronaelend-Lis, or when Rahne finds herself burdened with the responsibility that comes from a divine spiritual experience a vision of the color violet.
Also interesting is the author's detailed organization of the faith and traditions that have risen in Tronaelend-Lis as a response to Rainbow, including the various postulates of those traditions "Rainbow is Fulfillment," "Rainbow is Pain," "Rainbow is Illusion," "Rainbow is Unexpected Wonder" and the hierarchical structure that surrounds them. Less successful; however, is her difficult, sometimes cringe-worthy mishandling of dialogue. As an example of how bad it can be, consider this: "I am Araht Vorn, Lord Prime, serving the Twilight One, whose name will not be pronounced until I face your Regent. My lord has sent me, his ambassador from the twilight place that is Qurth, to prepare you. I will say nothing more until I stand within these walls and face the one you call Regent. Therefore, open your gates, and let us enter!" Almost every character speaks this way impersonal, officious, cold but thankfully, their actions, their beliefs and their thoughts allow them to make up for the restrictions imposed on them by linguistic limitations.
More than that, such poor dialogue is overshadowed by far more impressive qualities. The book is leisurely paced; this may be the reason for the early vagueness I mentioned in those difficult first ninety pages, but there is also a certain pleasure to be found in the way plot points and mysteries unravel with apparent ease just when you least expect them to. This is a story told by a narrator who does not appear to be hurried by the constraints of time, but who still abides by the unbreakable rule of momentum, and who speaks elegantly, seductively, with a sing-song quality to their voice. Indeed, Nazarian's prose absolutely sparkles with uncountable poetic gems and sentences that force the reader to marvel at their own beauty:
They had spoken in uncomplicated ways, the locals, with nothing beyond the ordinary in the pale silver faces. Their clothing was drab; their skin had been turned dull and coarse in the gray sun-glare, and at the corners of their eyes it crinkled like rice paper. They were merely weather-beaten, like all the others who lived at the edges of the wilderness and were attuned to its natural rhythms. And unlike them she sensed other things in the air, brewing subtle things that swept past their awareness. Things they would never know to tell her. ... There was a crispness, a sense of change in the wind, and it required a sixth sense to feel its encroach. ... a deepening of twilight.For a tale set in a world without color, the sheer energetic vibrancy of the author's prose is a mighty achievement, and it makes Lords Of Rainbow the kind of book best read slowly, bit-by-bit and drop-by-drop, so that every last intricate detail can be savored.
And that's what it's all really about: details. Whether they be the details of a city, or of a person, or of a relationship, there is an inherent beauty and fascination in the small, simple wonders of our world. Those wonders might take the form of a rainbow, or they might take the shape of a thunderstorm. It is part of the character of humanity, however, to rationalize these irrational products of nature: to explain why lightning rages over a village or why color appears in tiny pockets of light in a black-and-white world. We do this to make sense of things that would not otherwise make any sense whatsoever. But rarely do we wonder, as Nazarian does, what might happen if these products of nature took on a life of their own, and forced us to personify them, forced us to explain them, so that they might be more capable of understanding themselves. This twist on her premise allows Nazarian to paint a strong structural through-line on which her story rests one we are not made aware of until we read those final three haunting words: "Always remember me." Could so much turmoil and spilled blood have been the product of a deity's simple wish that he or she not be forgotten? Could our gods be so egotistic would they, in their infinite power, allow such awful human errors and warfare to perpetuate so they could achieve more glory, or greater infamy? It is a haunting notion, but one not so alien to us. Lords Of Rainbow is a distinctly fantastical book set in a faraway world, but the concerns of the citizens of that world mirror the concerns we hold today, and have held for centuries.
The novel therefore works on three levels it is simultaneously an examination of the nature of faith, of the nature of power, and of the relationship shared between those two things; and in these examinations, with a story set against foreboding conflict, Vera Nazarian finds great potency and great relevance to the world we live in today, despite the unfamiliar, haunting, and ultimately unforgettable locale of her tale.
[Daniel James Wood]
Lords Of Rainbow is a print-on-demand book; it is not published in bulk, and it is unlikely that you will find it in a bookstore. However, it is available at various online booksellers, or directly from the publisher. Also, the author herself maintains an excellent Web site complete with reviews, a list of appearances, and her own personal remarks. Both sites are well worth a visit.


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Oregon, Oregon State students to see tuition freeze in 2014
EUGENE, Ore. - Students will pay lower tuition starting in January at Oregon's public universities.
The legislature and governor approved $15 million to reduce tuition.
That along with the special session funding of $25 million, a total of $40 million will go towards the reduction of costs for students across the state.
Since 2002, tuition rates have been going up and up. On average tuition was increasing about 5 percent across the state.
With the new funding, students will save an average of $150 a year at the University of Oregon and $228 at Oregon State.
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Plan to put local bureaucrat in charge of TMAG blasted
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- July 20, 2014
MEMBERS of the arts sector are shaking their heads in disbelief at plans to put a local bureaucrat in charge of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
The job was expected to attract high calibre applicants from around the world because of Tasmania's growing reputation as an arts destination courtesy of MONA and the TMAG redevelopment.
But the State Government announced last week the search for a new TMAG director would be limited to the present pool of public servants.
The $30 million museum redevelopment has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Awards, to be held in Singapore in October.
TMAG attracted more than 560,000 visitors in the year to March 2014, its first year since the redevelopment.
Acting secretary of the new Department of State Growth Kim Evans said the director position was subject to the Government's "vacancy control process" and would only be offered to existing "level two" bureaucrats.
The decision has attracted a stream of scornful letters to the editor from artists, and others.
Contemporary Art Tasmania chairman Neil Haddon said a director needed the skills to build on TMAG's reputation and deliver "intelligent, thought-provoking" exhibitions.
Arts patron and columnist Leo Schofield said an international search was needed to find someone with proven curatorial ability.


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Veteran LAPD officer Eldon Perry is as tough as the streets he 'protects', bending the rules to take down the bad guys. But as the city simmers in the hours before the LA riots, Perry realises that he could be sacrificed by cops far more corrupt than he is.
Clumsy exposition and flat dialogue stop Ayer's screenplay from doing Ellroy justice. Russell, however, joins Nick Nolte (The Good Thief) and Ray Liotta (Narc) in proving that, for character actors needing a career boost, crime does pay.
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Amid Sirens, A Label Grows in Israel
The new Israeli record label, Vega, aims to unite Middle Eastern musicians. Are they ready for it?
Is the timing impeccable, or the worst ever, to build a multicultural music label in Israel right now?
Producer Monica Haim grappled with this weighty question earlier this month, when age-old tensions flared up in Gaza, leaving many for dead and making international headlines once again.
Haim, a Jewish expat from Colombia, recently moved to Tel Aviv, where she is on the verge of collaborating with a new, progressive record label called Vega.
Vega, a Picnic Magazine project created by Israeli editor/publishers Meir Kordevani and Adi Engelman, is open to all Middle Eastern artists, whether or not their nations are political enemies. It is a label that inevitably bears a message: one enabled by shared traditional music roots and a collective desire for peace.
A handful of musicians are already on board, ranging from Israeli dub to Lebanese techno producers. So far, fusion electronic music has been the label's main focus, but Haim doesn't want to impose limits.
"We really want to use the cultural hodgepodge that is Israel and cull all the musicality out of it. The Ethiopian, the Moroccan the Eastern European — there are so many different flavors," says Haim in a phone interview from Bogota. "We want to start being more united, with less of the political rhetoric. What happens on the dance floor? They connect. They embrace. They celebrate."
Then, two weeks ago, rockets hit Tel Aviv. Though Haim's friends, loved ones and Vega cohorts remain unharmed, she had to face the true gravity of the project, and wonder whether or not it's appropriate.
"I was in Miami, and my friend sent me a text message that said he had to get out of a car because 'the sirens went off," Haim recounts. "My mind was blown and I was picturing the worst-case scenario, wondering if my friends were gonna die. I asked, 'Is everyone okay?' and, 'Is it okay to be [working on a music label] now?"
Being so close to the conflict — which has since entered a tenuous ceasefire –was a new experience for Haim. The rockets were, of course, one of countless violent acts in a decades-old, back-and-forth saga between Israel and Palestine. For lifelong residents like dub electro musician/producer and inaugural Vega collaborator Haim Laroz, what is happening today reflects the norm.
"Yeah, things are alright. It's a regular thing. We just keep on living," says Laroz from Tel Aviv, where the streets around him were being emptied as we spoke by phone Friday. "Eh, today, a bus was blown up. Anytime a thing like that happens, people just don't go on the street and stay away from buses…Some people have no safe place to hide. I make it seem easy, because I am just here, making soup."
Laroz (a chef and a vegetarian) has been a musician and producer at home and abroad for 25 years, collaborating with artists from Iran to Jamaica. Despite his true grit, he holds out that music has healing powers, even in Israel. .
"We want to make other people see that we can talk, and that the cultures can meet, not just fight," he says of his participation in Vega. "It sounds bombastic, but we're really trying to be human beings, you know? But of course, it's a confusing and weird time, with all the violence right now, and here we are, talking collaborations and making music together…"
Watch Laroz's video for "Black People" feat. Jamaican artist and activist Ras Haile Malekot
Another Vega collaborator is Morphosis, a techno DJ/producer and a member of the Christian minority from Lebanon, a nation with deeply contentious relations with Israel.
"Artists are seen as black sheep because they ask questions and try to understand things better," says Morphosis on a call from Lebanon (though he is currently based in Berlin). "Also, artists travel a lot, and this puts them in a more critical light by the system and the government. We want to make a situation where they are proud of us, and see that we're bringing out our country's name. But it's very hard. They get very critical, especially when Israelis are involved."
For its part, Vega — at least officially — takes no political stance apart from peaceful music collaboration, though the label's upcoming presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach is partially funded by the Tel Aviv Municipality and the Israeli Consulate of Miami, as well as private investors.
"When two government agencies are willing to get behind something so potentially controversial, it's a good sign. They're tired. And they're not alone," Haim says. "I'm consciously not trying to speak politically. We're not going to give the same arguments that have been said for years and years."
It's unknown how well Vega as a business entity would fare among the turmoil, but there's certainly no shortage of hunger in Israel for music. Concerts in Tel Aviv are canceled incessantly due to conflict, and being wedged between enemy territory means travel is a persistent problem. You can't fly to many Arabic countries with an Israeli stamp on your passport, for example. Also, expect Israel airport officials to grill you if you are on their turf with an Arabic stamp.
And yet, Israel has grown to be a mild rep for metal and trance music over the years, with exports, like Orphaned Land or Infected Mushroom, cropping up every now and again. The information age, too, has brought about a growing indie scene and a wider appreciation for existing veterans like Laroz.
"It's a bit of a time warp. But the kids are catching up," Haim says. "They're smart, they have their ear to the ground in the age of technology. The electronic music scene is so sophisticated now. They're both a little deprived and hungry for it. There's a camp of really interesting musicians that use the sound and the anciency of the region in a modern way."
Despite pitfalls, politics, and nagging philosophical questions, Vega is trekking forth. The label's presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach will take place on December 6. Laroz and Morphosis are slated to perform, as well Yemenite-Israeli singer Ravid Kahalani and the work of Jerusalem-based artist Daniel Kiczales (the top photo is a still from his audio-visual piece, titled The Messenger). In the meantime, the label will seek out a home in the heterogeneous Tel Aviv neighborhood of Jaffa.
"Maybe it's my pathological optimism," she says. "But this might all be a cosmic signal that we're doing the right thing….It's really important for us to express to the world that there is a voice within the country that wants to try something new. A voice that's not pleased with how it's going."
Check out the trailer for Vega's Art Basel event. For more information on the label,visit their website.


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I am your typical Windows user but after seeing so many good things about Linux on other forums I want to try this new world. I have a number of questions so I beg your forgiveness if I seem to rabbit on a bit. :-[
1. I have downloaded Corel Linux and copied it to cd. When I boot from the cd I get the initial linux setup screen but as soon as it loads the graphics drivers my display becomes totally illegible. The display is just large pixels all over the screen. When I move the mouse I can see something moving but what it is I just can't see. Could it be that my graphics card is not supported by the OS?
2. Is this version of Linux really the best for me to learn from? I know I have it now but if there is a more suitable version of Linux would I be better advised to try something else?
Oh that's not too bad. My head was full of questions but it seems if I can get some answers to those 2 questions then that would clear up a few things for me.
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A BMW X1 at a car show in 2010. BMW unveiled six new models of the X1 series in Guangzhou on March 3. (Photo/Xinhua)
Danile Kirchert, vice president of BMW for China, unveiled six new models of the company's X1 series while speaking on March 3 in Guangzhou, reports Chinese-language magazine Time Weekly.
Kirchert said the X1 series prices — ranging from 282,000 to 498,000 yuan (US$44,579 to US$78,759) — are "very competitive." He added that the series is designed for men and women aged 25-35. Audi, one of BMW's main competitors in China, is targeting the same group of consumers with its Q3, which is not set to be released until 2013 and will account for only 4% of Audi's total output in that year.
BMW, on the other hand, has sold 200,000 X1s worldwide since the vehicle's debut in 2009, and has had to begin assembling them in Russia and India because its factory in Leipzig, Germany could not meet overwhelming demand. In China, 15,000 X1s were sold in 2011, year-on-year growth of 185%.
Olaf Kastner, president and CEO of BMW Brilliance Automotive, a Chinese joint venture, told the Time Weekly that his company keeps tight control over the cost of research and development and drives down production costs as much as possible. BMW this month began manufacturing its most advanced twin-power turbo engines in a factory in northeast China's Shenyang, said Kastner. The Shenyang facility is the first BMW factory outside of Europe to produce the engines.
In 2011, the company delivered 232,586 BMWs and Minis in China, representing year-on-year growth of 37.6%. Among them were 33,500 BMW 7s, which sat atop the list of best-selling luxury cars in China for the third consecutive year.
The company is now turning its attention to outpacing Audi, still the top luxury vehicle choice in China.
Wang Sanyun is the Communist Party secretary of the Gansu province. Born: 1952 Birthplace: Shan County, Shandong Province Country of Citizenship: China Education: BA in Chinese, Guizhou Normal ...


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Note: New York Was Tough For Artem Anisimov
At the Columbus Dispatch, Aaron Portzline speaks with Artem Anisimov who says that living in Manhattan was tough for him and he likes his new city of Columbus.
Artie said "This is a good city, good neighborhoods. People have been so nice. And it's so quiet. So quiet."
Anisimov spent his first two seasons with the Rangers in Westchester before moving to Manhattan last season.
Brandon Dubinsky said that he was happy to be in Columbus because of how quiet it is compared to New York.


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New York City's Wishful Declaration of Independence
If Michael Bloomberg wasn't such a practical man, he could be forgiven for preaching secession by now. Yes, independence for New York City — the centerpiece of Norman Mailer's quirky platform in 1969 when, with Jimmy Breslin as his running mate, he campaigned for mayor. They did not, you may recall, win.
Still, New York City, the 51st State, is one tempting notion, unrealistic as it is. New York City carries the state financially, each year sending many more billions of dollars to Albany than it gets back. In return for being New York's economic engine, the city gets the privilege of deferring to Albany for just about everything it wants.
No wonder the mayor's recent State of the City address focused on plans and programs he could not control. Because the city is a creature of the state, where more often than not, lawmakers — in the thrall of unions and other special interests that finance their campaigns — overrule the city to please their patrons. Just as bad, they impose expensive obligations on the city with those dreaded mandates that drive mayors and county executives to distraction.
"The Legislature, with impunity, imposes costs on local governments regardless of the revenues,'' says Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City. "What the mayor and other county executives are saying is, you cannot get blood out of stone. We can no longer operate the state this way. You have to give us flexibility to manage."
Bloomberg's echoes the plaints of many predecessors, going way, way back. As Douglas Muzzio of Baruch College has noted, Mayor Fernando Wood, in vain pursuit of self-government, complained in an angry speech about the "odious and oppressive connection" to the state legislature. "Our burdens have been increased, our substance eaten out.'' And that was in 1861, when New York consisted only of the island of Manhattan.
Mayor Bloomberg would recognize Woods's frustration. He wants the city to regain control over negotiating pensions of city employees, a prerogative lost in 1973 when the Legislature amended state law while the city was approaching financial ruin. Bloomberg wants the freedom to eliminate an annual payment — currently about $12,000 — to tens of thousands of retired police officers and firefighters, to the fury of the police and fire unions who won the payments from Mayor John V. Lindsay.
Bloomberg also wants the city to manage services it now pays Albany to administer, including the supervision of juvenile jails and collection of city income taxes (though he probably is after a fee reduction from Albany, not the authority to collect city income taxes). He wants the right to overturn the last-hired, first-fired system of laying off teachers, and more city representation — now marginal — on the MTA board.
Be careful what you wish for, some political pros warn Bloomberg, cautioning that an empowered City Council, courted and lobbied by the same special interests that now concentrate their firepower on Albany, could represent a new headache for this and future mayors.
That is clearly a risk Bloomberg is willing to take, if he could. His chances of getting reform are not great, if history is any guide. Though for the first time, some are saying it is not impossible. (That, for Albany, is progress.)
The theory: that the state's severe fiscal crisis could force incremental political reform. There are no rabbits left to pull out of the hat and the whole state is hurting. If Governor Andrew Cuomo succeeds in his goal of making it harder for localities to raise property taxes — usually referred to as a property tax cap — then maybe this time, lawmakers will have to lift some mandates so local governments can pay their bills.
"Could there be mandate relief? If the governor leads, and he has not yet,'' said E.J. McMahon, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. "I think there is a critical mass in both houses to rally behind someone to push for reform, but the legislature won't do it unless it has coverage from the governor because mandate relief inevitably involves doing things unions do not like.''
Governor Andrew Cuomo has voiced unspecified support for reform, and named a "Mandate Relief Redesign Team.'' Well, that too, for Albany, is progress, though so far, not hardly enough progress to balance the budget or mollify a smoldering mayor.
Joyce Purnick is a political analyst for WNYC and author of "Mike Bloomberg, Money, Power, Politics," was an editor, reporter and columnist at The New York Times for 29 years and the long-time author of the award-winning "Metro Matters" column. A native New Yorker educated in its public schools, Purnick has, so far, covered six mayors of New York.


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October 09, 2015
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay for the controversial Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers Water of the U.S. (WOTUS) Rule today. The stay is applicable nationwide and will remain in effect until the court determines whether is has jurisdiction to hear the case.
The Alabama Farmers Federation welcomes the ruling and thanked Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange for his steadfast support for farmers.
"Today's ruling is good news for Alabama farmers," Alabama Farmers Federation President Jimmy Parnell said. "The impact on private property rights, agricultural production and the economy could be devastating. The decision to halt implementation is wise, and we appreciate Attorney General Strange for showing leadership in challenging this rule."
Strange welcomed the decision, and said today's ruling underscored the strong case presented by Alabama and 17 other states challenging the legality of the WOTUS rule.
"I am gratified the 6th Circuit has granted the request of Alabama and 17 other states for a nationwide stay of the EPA's flawed WOTUS rule pending its review in federal court," Strange said. "The WOTUS rule is an unprecedented power grab by the EPA that practically extends to every landowner's property. The rule is so far-reaching and overly broad that even the Army Corps of Engineers has expressed serious concerns about its ability to be enforced."
The WOTUS rule went into effect on Aug. 28, 2015, and was immediately stayed in 13 states. Strange joined 17 other states to pursue a nationwide stay from the 6th Circuit on Sept. 9, 2015.
Other states involved in the suit are Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
"We conclude that petitioners have demonstrated a substantial possibility of success on the merits of their claims," the judges stated in the order. "The sheer breadth of the ripple effects caused by the rule's definitional changes counsels strongly in favor of maintaining the status quo for the time being."
Click here to view Strange's full press release: http://www.ago.state.al.us/News-727.


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New (Old) T-Shirts from Fullbleed!
Published December 28, 2011 in Excellent Design T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts. Comments (0)
First off, I hope everyone enjoyed whatever holiday you celebrate–I know I did. Troundup (me) is moving further into the digital age with an iPhone 4s (big post to celebrate that later!), and I'm already liking the change. Let's get to the actual post though, 'cause you probably don't want to read my babblings.
I love Fullbleed, so when they release any type of new design, I jump on it. Now, while these aren't 100% new, they are re-imagined old designs that were out of stock…so they're kind of new. That's good enough for me. I dig all three designs, and you can grab them for $18.00 each over at the Fullbleed store. The designs are printed on American Apparel blanks.
Winter is Coming T-Shirt from Busted Tees: Christmas with Game of Thrones
Published December 22, 2011 in Humorous T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts TV Shirts. Comments (0)
I love this Game of Thrones themed t-shirt from Busted Tees, and I thought it was a perfect post as we move closer and closer to Christmas. "Winter is Coming" is, of course, the slogan of the Starks. This shirt depicts that text, along with a wild looking Stark (is that Ned?) riding in a sleigh pulled by what look like direwolves. It's a pretty funny shirt if you follow the show…if you don't, well, start watching (or reading of course). I also like the idea of Ned delivering presents–it's a funny picture.
You can grab this design for $20 at Busted Tees. If you spend a minimum of $40, you can also get free overnight shipping with the code "FREEOVERNIGHT" and get it in time for Christmas. But yeah, I love this shirt, and I think it's a great way to celebrate Christmas (or the holidays).
Slow Hands T-Shirt from Rise and Resist (RANDR)
Published December 21, 2011 in Artsy T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts. Comments (0)
It's been a while since I've posted anything from Rise and Resist, but they always have cool tees, so I thought I would go ahead and change that. I really dig this one–"Slow Hands". It looks super interesting–the black arms on the white just coming out at odd angles is awesome. I also love how the red nails pop–looks great.
You can grab this design for $25 at the RandR store. It's printed on American Apparel blanks. Check out the product description while you're there–it gave me a chuckle.
P.S. I very much like this model–sleeve tats on girls are awesome in my opinion.
Your Argument Is Invalid T-Shirt from Snorg Tees
Published November 20, 2011 in Humorous T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel Quirky T-Shirts T-Shirts. Comments (0)
I really enjoy the "Your Argument Is Invalid" meme, and I think Snorg Tees perfectly encapsulated the feeling of that meme into this t-shirt. A goat riding one of those super cool old bicycles (that I've told you how much I love)? Sign me up. You're argument is invalid, bro; because there's a mother 'effin goat riding a bike on my t-shirt. It's the perfect way to show a person with weak arguments just how much disdain you have for them (just kidding, kind of). More importantly, it's also just straight up funny. I dig it.
You can pick up this t-shirt and tell people how much their arguments suck by checking out the Snorg Tees store. Remember to always check for a coupon before ordering, so you can hopefully save some money. You better not argue with me about how cool this t-shirt is…
Introducing Why Because: Funny and Punny Type Tees
Published November 4, 2011 in Humorous T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts Type Tees. Comments (0)
I just got an email from Brett about the launch of his new t-shirt brand, Why Because. Why Because uses words and phrases (and some images) to make you laugh from looking at a t-shirt. I'll let Brett explain in more detail:
"My motivation to start the line came out of a love for clever wording and phrases. All of the first run of shirts are based around type. Although they won't always be typed based, they will have a humor edge to them. There are a lot of great humorous shirt brands but I figured there was room for at least one more out there. I plan to achieve world peace through humorous t-shirts. I don't think it's too much to hope for."
I dig the designs they've got up so far–many of them are those type of goofy puns that I enjoy so much. I picked my favorite of the six release shirts to show you. It's called Dim Sum, and it made me chuckle the most out of all the Why Because designs.
Why Because is currently holding a pre-order sale, in which all their tees are only $15. The tees are printed on American Apparel (yay!) and will ship in early December. Go check them out!
Are We Having Fun Yet? Party Down T-Shirt from Busted Tees
Published November 1, 2011 in Humorous T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts TV Shirts. Comments (0)
I was a little shocked, and very happy, when I opened Busted Tees' new release newsletter earlier today. Why would they make a t-shirt based on show that got cancelled years ago? Well, I don't know why, but I sure am glad they did it. Party Down, the show this design pulls its inspiration from, is a super funny and intelligent comedy that starred Mr. Adam Scott (who is currently bringing his humor to another great show, Parks and Recreation). In the show, He's a failed actor famous for his embarrassing beer commercial slogan of, you guessed it, "Are We Having Fun Yet?!?" This shirt immortalizes those words for all of eternity, and ties in the signature Party Down bow-tie for good measure. I think this shirt is absolutely awesome and totally hilarious, though I understand you probably have to be familiar with the show to enjoy it as much as I do.
After you've plowed through both seasons of Party Down (conveniently available for instant streaming on Netflix), buy this shirt from Busted Tees for only $20.00, a small price to pay for the enjoyment it will bring to other Party Down fans. Needless to say (though I'm gonna say it anyway), this shirt will probably be a huge hit at parties and other events where beer is being consumed, as well as life in general. Also, remember to use a Busted Tees coupon to save some money.
So yeah, plop down on your couch and watch some Party Down–you won't regret it.
From the Ashes T-Shirt from Another Safe Landing
Published October 23, 2011 in Artsy T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts. Comments (0)
I'm checking in today to post up another sweet t-shirt that has been lurking around my "Get Reviewed" Inbox. The design, entitled From the Ashes, comes from Another Safe Landing. I hadn't heard of these guys previously, but I definitely enjoy their stuff. This design is both their newest release, and my favorite of their offerings. Astronauts are an inherently awesome topic, and the way they illustrated him/her makes it even cooler. My favorite element is definitely the moon'like body of the astronaut. That, combined with the general style of the design, is quite awesome.
You can pick up From the Ashes for only $24.00. They print on American Apparel 2001 blanks (super comfortable). While you're at the site check out the rest of their stuff as well–they've got some pretty cool designs. I look forward to what they come up with in the future.
Damn It Feels Good To Be A Lannister – Game of Thrones T-Shirt from Snorg Tees
Published September 22, 2011 in Humorous T-Shirts Pop Culture T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel TV Shirts. Comments (0)
I read Game of Thrones way back before there was an HBO series dedicated to it. In fact, it was one of my favorite fantasy series growing up. I don't read much fantasy nowadays, but I did thoroughly enjoy HBO's interpretation of Mr. Martin's excellent story. I also enjoy Snorg Tees take on Game of Thrones' rise to prominence. Despite the Lannisters being, well, major pricks, I still do enjoy this t-shirt. For those who don't know, the Lannisters are an incredibly rich family, making this blinged out shirt very applicable, and very funny.
I give props to Snorg Tees for making a pretty clever and humorous Game of Thrones t-shirt. You can pick it up for only $19.95 at Snorg Tees. I believe they still print on American Apparel. I also recommend that you check out Game of Thrones in either book or TV show form (or both).
Dark Lord–Darth Vader Star Wars T-Shirt from Society6
Published September 12, 2011 in Excellent Design T-Shirts Movie T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel. Comments (0)
I've known about Threadless' print collaboration with Society6 for a while, but I had never delved deeper into the Society 6 website until today. When I did, I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of awesome t-shirt designs they had. I saw a bunch of designs that I loved on just the few pages I sifted through. I only chose one t-shirt today, but I'll show off the rest of my favorites in due time.
This Darth Vader t-shirt, aptly entitled "Dark Lord", is designed by Liam Brazier, and is flippin' awesome. I love the geometric feel (there's probably an official name for that, but I don't know it…). It just looks damn cool. Plus, it's Darth Vader…'nuff said. Black and red were the perfect colors to use, so props there, too. I just overall dig this design, and I'm debating buying it in print form to hang on my wall.
The t-shirt will cost you $22.00 at the Society6 Store. It's printed on an American Apparel 100% cotton tee. You will definitely be seeing more Society6 stuff in the future.
Smith Westerns Band T-Shirt–Insound and Delicious Design Project #4
Published August 31, 2011 in Music T-Shirts Printed on American Apparel T-Shirts. Comments (0)
I've really been enjoying the Insound and Delicious Design band t-shirt collaboration. Therefore, when I saw their newest release was for a band I really like, I was super happy. The fourth installment of their collaboration is a great t-shirt for the band Smith Westerns, who hail from Chicago. Smith Westerns is one of the small number of modern bands I own on vinyl–I enjoy their first album that much. I'm going to be super happy to add this t-shirt to my collection as well. If you're looking to a song to check out, I would recommend Be My Girl. It's definitely one of my favorites from their discography.
So after all that textual praise of Smith Westerns, let's talk about Insound and Delicious Design's actual t-shirt. The design is called Ying-Yang Basketball, and if you look at it, that's exactly what you'll see. I'm not sure why they chose a ying-yang basketball (maybe I'm not up on my Smith Westerns biography and details), but I think the design comes off super cool and retro looking. I probably wouldn't like these particular colors on most t-shirt designs, but I do like how they used it for this shirt. I think it came off great.
So, check out the Smith Westerns if you haven't already, then buy this design for $19.99 at Insound. It's a very limited edition t-shirt. Insound is also currently offering 15% off all their t-shirts, which would make the design only $16.99. You can then use our 10% off Insound coupon to lower the price even further ($15.30 I believe).
I can't wait for the next Insound/Delicious Design release–I've been loving all of them so far.


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AlliOSNews is owned by Clinton Fitch who has been writing, speaking, teaching and otherwise involved in mobile technology for over twelve years. Clinton began his mobile writing at the now defunct Simply|HPC, writing reviews on the hardware and software of Handheld PCs, the predecessor of the Pocket PC. After the demise of Simply|HPC, Clinton co-founded HPC:Factor with a handful of others from the Simply|HPC team. The site, led predominantly by Chris Tilley, has become the #1 resource for information, news, tips and development for the long-since-gone H/PC.
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5 comments:
- angela said...
Merry Christmas :)
- December 23, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- Terri @ em-belle-ish.blogspot.com said...
Merry Christmas my blogger friend. I once learned a song that I held onto for dear life. In the chorus it said, "Late in the midnight hour God's going to turn it around. He's going to work in your favor - Yes He will." That's my prayer for you and yours this Christmas and through 2011.
- December 23, 2010 at 11:14 PM
- Ky said...
Happy Christmas to you all, Crystal! I really hope that 2011 will be a blast of a year for you. xx
- December 24, 2010 at 1:23 AM
- Clover said...
I am so happy to hear you are hearing that small voice. Focus on it and it will become clearer. God is doing a work in you. Make him proud. God uses the ordinary...people, and circumstances to make big statements that we may not even be able to see until it is long behind us. I believe in people and I believe you can find good people where ever you are. They will not look like the people you left.
God Bless and Merry Christmas.
- December 24, 2010 at 1:44 AM
- Jacomijn said...
A blessed Christmas to you and yours !!!!!! Jacomijn
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DOD Needs to Improve Its Performance Measurement System to Better Manage and Oversee Its Counternarcotics Activities
GAO-10-835: Published: Jul 21, 2010. Publicly Released: Jul 21, 2010.
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The Department of Defense (DOD) leads detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs into the United States in support of law enforcement agencies. DOD reported resources of more than $1.5 billion for fiscal year 2010 to support its counternarcotics activities. Congress mandated GAO report on DOD's counternarcotics performance measurement system. Specifically, this report addresses the extent to which (1) DOD's counternarcotics performance measurement system enables DOD to track progress and (2) DOD uses performance information from its counternarcotics performance measurement system to manage its activities. GAO analyzed relevant DOD performance and budget documents, and discussed these efforts with officials from DOD and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
DOD does not have an effective performance measurement system to track the progress of its counternarcotics activities; however, it continues efforts to improve the system. GAO has previously reported that measuring performance provides managers a basis for making fact-based decisions. DOD has established performance measures for its counternarcotics activities and a database to collect performance information, including measures, targets, and results. However, these measures lack a number of attributes, such as being clearly stated and objective, which GAO considers key to successful performance measures. In May 2010, DOD issued new guidance for its counternarcotics performance measurement system. However, DOD officials noted the department will face challenges implementing the guidance. These challenges include creating performance measures that assess program outcomes and ensuring adequate resources, such as expertise in performance management, are available to develop measures. DOD rarely uses the information in its performance measurement system to manage its counternarcotics activities and has applied few practices to facilitate its use. GAO has found that the full benefit of collecting performance information is realized only when managers use it to inform key decisions. However, DOD officials responsible for counternarcotics activities throughout the department told us they rarely use data submitted to the system to manage activities. Rather, they tend to manage programs using data not submitted to the system, such as information obtained in weekly program meetings regarding the cost and timeliness of projects. Moreover, officials responsible for oversight of DOD's activities stated they use the system to develop reports for ONDCP, but not to allocate resources. While DOD has applied some practices to facilitate the use of the performance information in its system, it does not utilize certain key practices identified by GAO, such as frequently and effectively communicating performance information. Absent an effective performance management system, DOD lacks critical information to use to improve the management and oversight of its counternarcotics activities. GAO recommends that the Secretary of Defense take steps to improve DOD's counternarcotics performance measurement system by (1) revising its performance measures and (2) applying practices to better facilitate the use of performance data to manage its counternarcotics activities. DOD concurred with GAO's recommendations.
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Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: DOD concurred with the recommendation. In response, DOD reviewed its counternarcotics performance measures through its Program Objective Memorandum process from May to August 2011 and analyzed these new measures against some of GAO's key attributes of successful performance measures. While the DOD review found that the measures showed some improvement against these attributes, its review did not examine certain attributes including those of limited overlap and balance. GAO found that DOD's fiscal year 2014 counternarcotics performance measures still lacked these attributes. For this reason, we determined that more work is needed by DOD to successfully incorporate all key attributes.
Recommendation: To improve DOD's performance measurement system to manage and oversee its counternarcotics activities, and to address weaknesses identified in DOD's counternarcotics performance measurement system, the Secretary of Defense should direct the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counternarcotics and Global Threats to review the department's performance measures for counternarcotics activities and revise the measures, as appropriate, to include the key attributes of successful performance measures previously identified by GAO.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: GAO identified key practices that agencies can adopt to facilitate the use of performance data--such as demonstrating management commitment, improving the usefulness of performance data, and developing agency capacity to effectively use performance information--and found that DOD had weaknesses in these areas. In response to this recommendation, DOD stated in May 2011 that it was working to improve the functionality and usability of its counternarcotics performance information so that counternarcotics program managers could use this information as a basis for decision making. In January 2012, DOD issued standard operating procedures for developing and documenting performance metrics for its counternarcotics activities. Issuing the guidance helps demonstrate management commitment to the use of performance data. The guidance directs DOD counternarcotics components to develop metrics that improve the usefulness of performance information, and also enhances agency capacity to use this information. Additionally, DOD implemented a series of working groups designed to build the capacity of DOD components to develop performance indicators and use performance information. These actions taken by DOD in 2012 address the weaknesses found by GAO in 2010.
Recommendation: To improve DOD's performance measurement system to manage and oversee its counternarcotics activities, and to address factors associated with the limited use of DOD's counternarcotics performance measurement system, the Secretary of Defense should direct the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counternarcotics and Global Threats to apply practices that GAO has identified to facilitate the use of performance data.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
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Back in May I was lucky enough to be invited to the hallowed grounds of MM Towers to check out the new LittleBigPlanet 2 features they were working on and hang out with some well-known Creators to see what they could do with them. We all knew that Media Molecule were working on an update to the game, introducing brand new tools which make use of the PlayStation Move motion controller, but what we saw was so much more than LBP 2 with added 'waggle'.
15 members of the community from as far afield as the US and France descended on Media Molecule's Guildford studios and to kick things off we were given a brief demonstration of some of the features of the Move Pack.
Looking back, I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised by how much was being given to creators – after all, Media Molecule aren't exactly known for doing things by halves. Aside from features that people are expecting, the Move Pack also includes a wealth of amazing new gadgets and tweaks which Creators have either been asking for forever or don't even know that they need yet, but will soon wonder how they ever did without.
First up was the Manipulator, a power-up which can be dropped into a level to instantly enable Move gameplay. It works just like other power-ups that you're already familiar with; It's equipped when a player walks over it and can be removed with the power-up remover. With the Manipulator, the player aims by pointing the Move controller and can pick-up, move around and carry grabable objects using the trigger. It has a set range (similar to that of the grappling hook) indicated by a translucent orb around Sackboy.
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To illustrate how some of the new features could be used, we were shown a few of the 13 MM-made levels that'll be included in the downloadable pack. It's the largest piece of DLC that Media Molecule have released so far and the variety of gameplay is bound to inspire Creators to come up with even more exciting and original ideas. The main story levels consist largely of puzzle/platformers where you play using with a DualShock or Sub-controller in one hand and the PlayStation Move in the other – a control scheme that was surprisingly easy to get used to. But the mini games are where I was really blown-away. One was a Labyrinth-style game where you had to tilt the Move to guide a ball through a maze-like track. In another, you had to use the Move Cursor to arrange objects, conveyor belts and bounce pads on a board to guide a dumb Sackbot from one side to the other.
Overwhelmed? I was. But grab a cup of tea and take a deep breath because we aren't even nearly done yet!
Next we were shown some of the smaller but equally pleasing new tweaks and tools. Firstly, Media Molecule have been listening and have delivered on a much-requested feature: Multipliers on Score Givers! Huzzah! You can even tweak how often the score is multiplied and by how much. They've also introduced Speed, Angle and Rotation Sensors which you can use to detect an object's movement and orientation, which I'm sure will be music to many Creators' ears. There's also a new Material Slicer tool. This works in a similar way to the Corner Editing Tool but allows you to pick any two points on the edge of a shape and slice it in two – a big time-saver.
Yet another new tool is the Move Recorder – a new logic chip which records the fluid motion of the Move controller. This allows Creators to give realistic, organic behaviour to any object and anyone who's used Sackbots' "Act" function will instantly recognise how it works.
Well, that's about it. Oh wait, no it's not!
Just a small thing really, no big deal, it's just that LittleBigPlanet 2 now has a freakin' paint studio! Move Paint takes you to a whole new interface where the Move controller is your paint brush. Excuse me while I gush here for a moment but it really is no exaggeration to say that the artistic types among you will be able to create fully-fledged masterpieces with this. There's a selection of brush types, shapes and colours to choose from and you can also change the brushes opacity, allowing you to blend several colours together to get that precise shade that you're after. You could also take any existing sticker and use it as a brush or stamp. I used it to make a rather lovely ocean of bright yellow rubber ducks but you could of course get a little more creative with it and compose hundreds of different stickers together into something incredible.
The paintings you make can then be used as stickers in-game, shared in prize bubbles or exported in high-resolution to the XMB.
With all these awesome new stickers you'll be making, you'll want a way to display them in their full glory in your levels. Mm has you covered, yet again, with the new Sticker Panel material. This mysterious new substance is magical; draw out a block of it in Create mode and as soon as you stick a sticker to it, it becomes completely invisible, leaving only the sticker behind. Sticker Panels behave in a similar way to the Hologram material in that it has no physical properties, can pass through other objects and can be stacked on top of one another in the same layer. However, unlike Hologram material, a Sticker Panel doesn't affect the sticker's colour or opacity… unless you want it to of course.
Phew! That about does it for my 'brief' round-up of the LBP 2 Move Game Jam. It was a truly amazing to see some master Creators in action, let loose with some new toys. I really cannot wait to see what the rest of the community does with them. If you have any questions, leave a comment below and I'll do my best to answer it.
A huge thank you to Spaff, Tom and everyone at Mm for making it happen and to everyone who was there on the day for letting me tap them on the shoulder every 10 minutes with a curious "Whatcha dooin'?"


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Recently a Catholic priest from Kerala, South India, has hit the headlines all over the world by his unprecedented gesture of love and sacrifice. Sreeja Raman meets that 'chosen' one, Father Davis Chiramel, who is blessed to alight from the altar only to practice what he preached by sharing his flesh and blood to a needy one.
On February 10, 2010 the State of Kerala witnessed a mass journey,obviously an unusual one. As far as the Keralites are concerned a mass tour or mass journey has nothing to make them agape, as the State is rich with the abundance of poking political parties. But this particular one was different without any shouts of slogans or shots of folded fists towards the sky. The journey started from the State's northern end Kazargodu and ended up at its Southern end Trivandrum in a 20 days' span. The journey was headed by a Shepherd better known to the world as Father Davis Chiramel leading a flock of lambs only to disperse them with a lit-up candle to various remote areas where darkness of negligence and ignorance still persists.
That journey titled as 'Manava Karunya Yatra' (Human compassionate journey) connotes the goal and track of the mission. And that too headed by none other than Father Davis Chiramel, to whom the media all over the world has rendered the title as 'kidney priest'.
Recently an unprecedented act from the southern tip of India, hit the headlines all over the world as "Indian priest donates his kidney to a Hindu man'. It was Father Davis Chiramel who had shown the world with his own blood and flesh that the human body was not worthless as far as it encases a virtuous soul inside. When the media hypes reached the protraction at the brim of religious verbosity, Father Davis had to come to the limelight to inculcate, " I have not given my kidney to a Hindu, but to a human being.". But in a country like India where the Preamble boasts over secularism but human beings are burnt alive in the streets and vote banks heap and leak through the religious pores, it was news, something different – a Catholic priest's Kidney is being grafted inside a Hindu man!
"For me, the possibility of donating an organ of mine to a person unknown to me has become a unique and privileged occasion to participate in Christ's sufferings." Remarked a contented Father Davis Chiramel, soon after the surgery. "To donate a kidney is a grace for me. …..It happened in February but only on June 19 I could understand what I was doing. That day the Pope opened the Year for Priests, and I was in the hospital for one of the analyses…..I immediately realized that I had been given the grace of offering my body to save a man." .
The Catholic kidney is now functioning well with no sign of inhibition inside the Hindu physique of Mr.Gopinathan who had been waiting unwillingly for his death before meeting with Father Chiramel. It was from the murmurs of his parish people, Father Chiramel came to know about a financially poor Gopinathan struggling with renal ailments. In fact the people around where busy raising fund to 'purchase' a kidney from the kidney racketeers to save the life of Gopinathan, father of two small children. At this juncture Father Davis was deciding to donate his own kidney not to leave that poor man to the ghastly kidney mafia. After crossing a prolonged medical and legislative obstacles, that divine act has been undertaken inside the Lakeshore Hospital Kochi on September 30th. Thus the Priest of St.Francis Xavier's Church Vadanapilly, celebrated his Priestly Year inside the hospital with an amputated body and a contented heart by transforming himself a 'comfort for the sick and weary…..a light along the darkened path…a man of mercy… understanding and consoling the grieving..'. You can see at the Chakkamadathil house, where Gopinathan lives now with his family, the framed photograph of Father Davis Chiramel is being installed among those of Hindu Gods.
While the two surgeries were being done in the hospital simultaneously on September 30th, the whole State irrespective of caste and creed was praying for the both.. Especially in Trichur District, where the donor and the receptor are hailing from, temples and churches were buzzing with prayers for the same goal as if in a war time.
Rising from the bed Father Chiramel announced the formation of Kidney Federation of India – an organization aims to promote kidney donation and raise funds to help patients who cannot afford dialysis for transplants. The official inauguration of Kidney Federation of India, first of its kind in the State, has been carried out by none other the than the musical maestro of India Padmashri Dr.K.J.Yesudas on 31st October. But it is a known fact in the whole world that the unofficial launch of the organization was on 30th September itself at the Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi.
While inaugurating the official launch of KFI, Dr.K.J.Yesudas quoted the famous lines from the Bible "Let those who have two give one to those who have none" to the mammoth gathering present there. But Father Chiramel, coming directly from his post surgery bed hardly after one month, told the mass " I ve not done anything to start this venture. I just responded to the cry of a dying man… But when I decided to donate my kidney a lot of people from my side came forward with warning of its dangers and they persisted me to skirt my service with donating money to meet the surgical expenses. This incident prompted me to form a network to tap such generous support to poor families.."
Setting the rarest of rare illustrations of love and sacrifice, Father Chiramel had to sell his own car, besides his kidney to meet the post surgical expenses (around 2 lakhs) of Mr.Gopinathan. Thus the main objective of KFI came to be the propagation of kidney donation to their needy kin by the people in general and by the relatives of the patients in particular. Kidney Federation plans to offer 2 lakhs each to 10 persons undergoing kidney transplantation every year. This is meant towards the cost of transplantation and post surgical medicines to be administered.
Kidney Federation of India is a sole initiative of Father Chiramel who invokes all the humanitarian organization working in the country together to share the experiences and resources so as to maintain a constant move of the organization. The unprecedented act of Father Davis Chiramel has encouraged some kind-hearted people to offer financial support to kidney patients.
Father Chiramel' journey was aimed at various mindsets of the people in the State. "Almost all people including highly educated ones are afraid of donating their kidney fearing a shortening of their life span." Says, Father Chiramel. "See how I'm now. Anything wrong with me? It's becoming only 6 moths past my surgery. I'm as energetic as I was before. I want to demonstrate myself and project myself through this journey that I too can travel and do whatever an ordinary man with two kidneys can." Says a vibrant Father.
Quoting his surgeon Father Chiramel said:"since undergoing a major surgery could subject the donor to mental and physical stress, a totally unrelated person who would donate a kidney to save another human being is now subjected to a minimally invasive surgery to harvest a healthy kidney". He said his doctor who had till then harvested 500 kidneys using laparoscopic technique which is compared to traditional surgery inflicts minimal scar, short hospital stay and fewer traumas that help the donor return to normal life in about 4-5 days.
The 'Manava KarunyaYatra' ended up at Trivandrum on March 2nd. During the journey Father could meet hundreds of renal patients and their bereaved relatives. Meanwhile Kidney Federation of India has done all the set ups for 30 chapters all over Kerala to segregate the workings of the organization at the proximity of the needy ones. They plan to conduct a chain of awareness programs through schools, colleges, residents associations and like gathering points and convey the messages and missions of KFI projecting Father Davis Chiramel as a living and shining example of such a gesture.
First and foremost thing of KFI was to wipe out the unnecessary fear and misconceptions among the public about kidney donation. During our talk Father has quoted an example of a young man who at the brim of his 40's still remains a bachelor just because of his act of donating one of his kidneys to his father when he was 18. When asked about the space for a doctor in his journey of awareness to emphasize the biological facts of least damage to the donor's body, Father Chiramel smiled away, "see, the kidney trafficking is a big business now. If a doctor comes in public to talk about kidney donation, at any cost, it would be misinterpreted. Such is the world".
KFI has distributed more than thousands of free dialysis coupons at the launch itself keeping in mind the bitter fact that in Kerala, more than 10,000 people are surviving on dialysis. Meanwhile they felicitate required paper works for the poor people who need transplantation. In case if the donor's kidney is found not suitable for the receptor they provide 'cross kidney donation' program through which one can serve and another can have the relief, though not known to each other. Father Chiramel has taken initiative to meet the State Health Minister P.K.Sreemathy and asked support from the government side. His request was to subsidize transplant surgery and to provide the costly drugs (usually the immunosuppressant medication which helps prevent organ rejection by the body) cheaply for the needy and the poor. For this, from his side, he plans to set up a chain of renal medical services and to introduce a new insurance product in collaboration with United India Insurance Company. With the full fledged implementation of these things, Father Chiramel is optimistic of wiping out the unscrupulous kidney trades from the soil of Kerala to a certain extent.
'It is more blessed to give than to receive..'. This becomes true with Father Davis Chiramel. So let us now praise him.
Make a call to the mobile number 9846236342, you can hear an affectionate 'hello..' as if hearing a Psalm. Or make an appointment with Father and see, how illuminant that smile is. How warm his welcome is..and feel the pulse of a celeb-obsessed country like India where, to elevate the common thoughts to virtuous deeds how a priest exploits his 'accidental celebrity' while most of the celebs mops at the chore culture through the media hyperbolic.
Don't appraise him as the founder of only a Kidney Federation of India. He is the person behind Janananma and ACTS – two cent percent humanitarian and self-less organizations servicing in Trichur District. There was a time in the State of Kerala (where the literacy is 100%) when people who met with any road accident would bleed to death while the passers by and onlookers simply leave them to the mercy of destiny. Even the kind hearted ones too would do nothing to save the wounded ones only because of the fear of judicial entanglements. ACTS (Accident Care and Transport Services) was born out of these blood stains. It now owns 10 ambulances and many a young activists at various points in the district ready to undertake service at any time. When you pass through the State or National Highways along the District you can see the sign boards of ACTS with mobile numbers printed on. After the launch of ACTS on behalf of this Good Samaritan, the number of accident deaths due to 'increased hemorrhage' has become less at least in the highways of Trichur District amidst the neck-break plies of the vehicles.
While we were talking his cell phone was ringing incessantly. Calls are from far away places, from the needy, from the destitute. After each call Father becomes gloomy for a while and sighs as if in a soliloquy. "Every one needs financial support. After 6 surgeries and some dialysis, I was completely emptied out…what to do..?".
Christ gives himself for the salvation of the world and, every day in the Mass, priests offer the sacrifice of His Body and Blood, without sharing the pains and sufferings of the Lord. But here is a priest, a shepherd who wanders for the lost, who shares his flesh and blood to the needy, who practices what he preaches – 'for many are called but few are chosen'.