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A burst of hiring last month added 236,000 US jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7% from 7.9% in January.
The strong job growth showed that employers are confident about the economy despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.
Today's February jobs report provided encouraging details - the unemployment rate is at its lowest level in four years; job growth has averaged more than 200,000 a month since November and wages rose.
It also showed that the job gains were broad-based, led by the most construction hiring in six years.
The unemployment rate had been stuck at 7.8% or above since September. The rate declined last month because the number of unemployed fell 300,000 to just over 12 million, the fewest since December 2008.
More than half the decline occurred because 170,000 of the unemployed found jobs. But another 130,000 gave up on their job searches. People who are not looking for jobs are not counted as unemployed.
The unemployment rate is calculated from a survey of households, while the job gains come from a survey of employers.
However, the figures showed that employers added slightly fewer jobs in January than the government had first estimated. Job gains were lowered to 119,000 from an initially estimated 157,000.
However, December hiring was a little better than first thought, with 219,000 jobs added instead of 196,000.
Robust car sales and a steady housing recovery are spurring more hiring, which could trigger more consumer spending and stronger economic growth.
The US construction industry added 48,000 in February and has added 151,000 since September. Manufacturing has gained 14,000 last month and 39,000 since November. US retailers added 24,000 jobs, a sign that they expect healthy consumer spending in the coming months. Education and health services gained 24,000.
The information industry, which includes publishing, telecommunications and film, added 20,000, mostly in the movie industry.
The US economy is also benefiting from the Federal Reserve's efforts to keep interest rates low. Lower rates have made it easier for Americans to afford new homes and cars. The Fed has said it will keep the benchmark rate that it controls near zero until unemployment has fallen to 6.5%, as long as inflation remains in check.
So far, higher petrol prices and a January increase in Social Security taxes have not caused Americans to sharply cut back on spending. Across-the-board government spending cuts also kicked in March 1 after the White House and Congress failed to reach a deal to avoid them.
Those cuts will likely lead to furloughs and layoffs in coming weeks. The impact of the tax hikes is partly being offset by higher pay and hourly wages rose 4% to $23.82 last month. Wages have risen 2.1% in the past year, slightly ahead of inflation.
A big source of strength has also been home sales and residential construction - new-home sales jumped 16% in January to the highest level since July 2008 and builders started work on the most homes last year since 2008. Home prices rose by the most in more than six years in the 12 months that ended in January. Higher prices tend to make homeowners feel wealthier and more likely to spend.


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When Tracey and Michael Weingarten turned 50 this year, the Carlsbad couple decided to reward themselves and their two daughters with the trip of a lifetime.
But the journey the family will embark on Saturday morning is no pleasure cruise. The Weingartens and their daughters Alex, 14, and Lanie, 11, will be bunking for a month under mosquito nets as volunteers at a Tanzanian orphanage.
The accommodations are less than lux. They family will stay together in a room without air-conditioning or heating (it's winter there now, with temperatures ranging from 45 to 61 degrees). Electricity is spotty at best. Hot water is nonexistent. Laundry is hand-washed with a bucket and soap powder. Reliable Internet access is a one-hour walk into town.
Still, Tracey Weingarten said, the trip is the culmination of a lifelong dream. After being turned down for Peace Corps service in her 20s due to a lack of life experience, she has always wanted to volunteer her time in Africa and teach her children the value of service to others.
"My hope is that they'll love this experience and want to carry on this sort of commitment to others," she said. "I think the experience will be so life-changing it will take on a force of its own."
For the past year, the family has been planning their trip to an orphanage in Moshi, a small village in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. They are allowed to bring five suitcases of donations for the orphanage, and the overstuffed bags are packed and ready to go.
Michael, a director of managed care for Johnson & Johnson, has filled one bag with donations from his company. Another is filled with dental supplies donated by the family dentist and there are bags filled with clothing and shoes. Tracey has filled another with 15 soccer balls, a huge favorite with the boys in Moshi.
Their daughters have also gotten into the spirit. Alex, an incoming 10th-grader at San Dieguito Academy, and Lanie, a soon-to-be 7th grader at Diegueno Middle School, held a series of neighborhood bake sales over the past year that raised $1,000.
The trip was organized through Foot2Afrika, an organization that matches volunteers with needy groups for long-term stays. Tracey said she particularly liked the organization because its expenses are low and its use of donations is transparent. For example, when Alex and Lanie arrive in Moshi, they'll be given a list of groceries and supplies that the orphanage needs and they can go shopping with the $1,000 to buy what they wish.
"My kids worked for this money and I wanted them to get to see exactly how it gets spent, rather than just to write a check and not know where it goes," said Tracey, who works in the computer lab at El Camino Creek Elementary School in Carlsbad.
According to the Foot2Afrika website, the family will be working five days a week in a wide range of tasks, including teaching, care-giving, cleaning, cooking, tree-planting, papermaking, shopping and more. Two simple meals a day are included in the $15-a-day lodging cost.
Tracey said her family is definitely up for the adventure and the learning experience. The family will spend four weeks at the orphanage, then cap off their Africa visit with a safari in late July.
"It's no frills, but that's not what we were looking for," she said. "I don't like the idea of a one-day volunteer thing. I don't think you can really understand the conditions that other people live with until you're really living it yourself."

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Callimachus is getting an update. It's been quiet for a few months over at the framework for data-driven applications based on Linked Data principles, but with good reason, says David Wood, CTO of Callimachus project sponsor 3 Round Stones. 3 Round Stones also offers Callimachus Enterprise, winner of this year's Startup Competition at the Semantic Technology and Business Conference in San Francisco.
Big things were on the menu for this release, which should emerge from beta today. To date, all the RDF that Callimachus has dealt with has been local to it, Wood explains. "People have been saying for ages, 'But I don't want to copy the LOD cloud into Callimachus to deal with it. I want to deal with a lot of data out there in the world, in enterprise systems, an Oracle server, or the LOD cloud," he says.
The new release takes on the challenge of dealing with data that's external to Callimachus.
"We probably rewrote half of the internals of Callimachus in this release," Wood says. "Two big components are an implementation of the persistent URL concept (PURL), and XML pipelining, an XPROC standard from the W3C," which it uses to gather documents from the web, and convert them to RDF. And, once that's done, combine them on the fly, presenting them via the Callimachus template engine in human- or machine- readable formats. The PURL work involved the creation of a new type of PURL, called Active Purl, that actively gathers, creates and displays all results, as the mechanism to implement distributed federated queries. "It's not just redirecting to some other source but actively participating in the creation of data it returns," he says.
The PURL service implementation helps companies that want a single URI they can resolve on the web to serve up everything the company knows about a concept – a disease, for example, for a pharma firm, whether that disease is referred to as a heart attack or myocardial infarction. With the PURL service implementation, clicking on a link to retrieve all known information about 'heart attack' might get some data from an Oracle database, from Sharepoint, from the LOD cloud, or WebMD. "Each of those results comes back in different formats," says Wood. "It's relatively easy to get that data back into a format like XML or plain text or something you can work with. By passing results through XPROC pipeline, you can scan and convert each individual data response to RDF."
"It's a big deal because for the first time Callimachus cannot only serve as a Linked Data management system for local data, but can gather data from outside and still present it live," he says. "Inside the enterprise firewall is a good use of this functionality. There are different formats, different proprietary systems that never were designed to work together. It provides a way to let those systems interoperate that is cheap, lightweight and sits on top of existing infrastructure."
What begins life in the open source Callimachus project ultimately makes its way into the Enterprise implementation, which offers capabilities such as a more scalable RDF database, single sign-on and commercial support. The Enterprise build should follow the open source release a month or two later.


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remember end of prototype 1 ending?
Mercer is a bad guy..
and he is like ooooooooooo i am evil and starts doing evil things... thats all.
I just bought prototype 2. Now i was a big fan of the first one, but more importantly i played through it 3 times.(meaning i know the story).
1. Now in prototype 2, you play as heller. A black guy who lost his family to the virus and becomes an "evolved" From Mercer).
Now the problem here, is that in p1, mercer became what he was from the original virus from GREEN*(pay attention to that). You killed green.
2. The plot in P2 pretty much goes on "mercer is creating the virus outbreak again". Which since i spent 99% of the time in p1 killing virus infected buildings and pretty much stopping the outbreak(hell i even rejected a direct offer to help the virus several times), it seems VERY ODD that Alex Mercer is now attacking and spreading the virus AGAIN. Not only that, what is the gain here? If he's doing it again, since he already broke the city once, whats there to do?
3. "We gotta save people and kill blackwatch since they are killing other people". This whole thing is hypocrisy. I kill at least 1000 people on my way to every mission. But then i get there and its some goddamn priest giving me "don't let them study the mutations". The fuck do i care? there are zombies everywhere and i'm worried that some scientist will experiment? LOL NO.
4. You pick all your upgrades up in the same way. Seriously, is this metroid? I didn't "lose my powers" but i didn't have any at the start.(same shit).
why am i fighting the protagonist of the first game who saved the entire city from a nuke, stopped the virus, and I do believe his sister is dead.
Seriously i'm lost here. How does a the dev team not even play the first one.......
remember end of prototype 1 ending?
Mercer is a bad guy..
and he is like ooooooooooo i am evil and starts doing evil things... thats all.
But but..........i wanna play a bad guy, not a stereotypical black guy!(stupid, says mutha fucka a lot, and thinks scientist are "nerds" during a zombie apocalypse).
Anyway, i remember at the end of prototype 1 he was like "oh shit i did all that" but i don't remember him being a goddamn nazi superior race guy. In fact he was the only one outside of Green, who he murdered........
I'm just lost here. Its like.....halo reach or EDF:IA
A game that really similar to the last, a graphics upgrade........but the soul, the best part, the most interesting stuff..........is gone.
prototype was never about the story..
i beat the game twice myself
and most fun fucking around
jumping form car to car..
story... means very little.
story missions were fun to play.
side missions were crap...
i had fun fucking around in the first one..
and -> from reviews i seen ov second one.. its still there..
but the story is still stale
i will never relate to alex mercer.. he is nothing like me, nor the new black guy...
he will forever be a soulless being like indiana jones and han solo
I hope this game will be as good as the first one :/
Meh.... its was a good game =_= though not really replayable


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"Fishing" operation has failed and BP will move forward with replacing blow-out preventer, Times-Picayune, August 27, 2010:
BP's attempt to "fish" three pieces of pipe from the blow-our preventer of its runaway Macondo well has not worked and the company is preparing to move forward with removing the blow-out preventer and replacing it with a new one.
The pieces of pipe have settled against the blow-out preventer and the company is unable to retrieve them, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said in a press briefing this morning.
Officials made the decision to stop attempting to fish out the pipe "due to the apparent fragility of the pipe, which keeps breaking off ... and the unknown condition of the blow-out preventer," Allen said.
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Killing the Cranes Now Available in Paperback
Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet. In his latest book, Killing the Cranes, Girardet delivers a story of that nation's resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan's last thirty years of war, chaos, and strife.
Released last year in hardcover, Killing the Cranes was nominated for the Helen Bernstein award for outstanding journalism, was praised by the New York Review of Books, and was a finalist for ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year award in History.
Since the release of Killing the Cranes, the United States made concrete plans to end its combat mission in Afghanistan. This is a step in the right direction toward an autonomous nation that can fend for itself and keep corruption and terrorist organizations at bay — but what will be the lasting effects of our occupation?
One could look for clues in Girardet's book, now available in paperback for the first time. Killing the Cranes traces the past thirty years of Afghan history, the forces that have shaped it, and some of the important players that have influenced it.
The paperback edition includes a new epilogue by Girardet. To celebrate its arrival we're putting it on sale for 25% off until September 18.
In this video from PBS NewsHour, Girardet shares his perspective on the current state of affairs in the long-misunderstood middle eastern nation.
Watch Journalist Reflects on Covering 3 Decades of War in Afghanistan on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.


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Simply Fab: Alex Woo Clover Jewels
My good luck charm is a piece of jewelry, but it's not a clover per se. If you're a hardcore Irie or just like the idea of the luck a clover can bring, consider one of Alex Woo's clover jewels. The sterling silver one comes the cheapest, at $148, while the 14k gold and diamond encrusted ones go beyond $600. I also really love the chains they come with — the little joint disco balls. Support the green holiday with something special, something green, something sparkly!


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so much pretty: tights of the hot pink variety
***Note: for those of you who are wondering about the influx of style posts on your readers, So Much Pretty has been moved from an individual blog to a feature on this blog.***
I wore this outfit to ladies' bible study this morning. So many friends commented on my PINK legs. "It's my New Year's Resolution," I said, "to dress more creatively." I love how the scarf ties in with the tights! There's just a touch of pink in that scarf that's the same color.
What? What's that you say? I need to find a new pair of boots for pete's sake? Yes, I know. Please send me a pair. I really want grey suede boots or black engineer boots.
Where did my head go? Well, I'm a little limited when I do self-portraits. We'll call this artsy. Did I like this outfit? Yes! I was able to dress cute and still be comfortable. I'm always comfortable in this cardigan. Also, I tied my belt a la Elaine. This belt tying thing is a new fascination of mine. So are tights, apparently. I must be getting used to this whole dressing creatively thing, because I felt considerably less awkward than I expected to feel.
From top to bottom: InPursuit pink earrings (handmade); Merona purple scarf (gift from my boss); Coolwear black top (
stolen gift from Stargirl); Forever 21 black cardigan; Black belt (from TJ Maxx, $9); Gap denim skirt (from Bangladesh); Old Navy pink tights (gift); Madden girl boots (gift from Stargirl).
On Bella: Super cute pink & black argyle collar and a lot of hair. But someone wasn't careful with their BFF charm, so that's gone missing. Dogs are so irresponsible.


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Question: I am 58 years old retired soldier. I am suffering from a peculiar syndrome. When I go to temple or sit for prayers I get all imaginary fearful and negative thoughts. I always feel guilty as if I have asked God all bad things for me or my near and dear ones. How to get rid of this feeling? How to control the thoughts and bring the mind to peace? Kindly bless me.
Swamiji: In the background of 56 years of addressing devotees and seekers, what I have to tell you is: Do not ever wrestle or fight with any kind of undesirable imaginations or thoughts. Understand that your mind or mind-substance is far 'subtler' and permeating than 'space'. Even in the sea, a number of waves, breakers, bubbles etc. arise. Though they arise, emerge and subside ceaselessly, the sea is not the least affected.
My dear son, your mind is a much subtler sea. Let any imagination, fearful or negative, arise there. As they arise, they will also subside. Understand that they emerge only to subside, and by emergence or subsidence they cannot do anything to the mind-substance.
Will you take to this message and see that your fearful and negative thoughts have no effect on you? If they come up only to subside, why should you take note of them? Can you extract any thought or imagination and then say "here it is"? In as much as they are not extractable, they only emerge to subside. Why are you worried about this occurrence?
To the mind-substance, this emergence and the subsequent subsidence have no effect at all. As I explain, you should understand it and the understanding should become a ground for you to treat your fearfulness and bring it to a state of extinction. This is certainly possible. Try and let me know.
— Swamiji


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Redmond fuels Twins to oust Tribe
Redmond fuels Twins to oust Tribe
CLEVELAND -- It's amazing the difference just a few days can make. Just two days ago, the Twins almost seemed resigned to the fact that this six-game road trip was destined to be a disappointment. Coming off a three-game sweep in Toronto and a first game of the series against the Indians in which manager Ron Gardenhire called the play of his club "embarassing," the Twins admitted they felt like the odds of earning a series victory were quite slim.
And even after taking the middle game of the set, the optimism hadn't really increased with Indians ace C.C. Sabathia taking the mound in the finale on Sunday. But after struggling to get anything going against Sabathia for the first seven innings, the Twins staged an eighth-inning comeback off the left-hander to capture a 4-1 victory over the Tribe at Jacobs Field. So rather than leaving Cleveland with a second straight series loss and falling even further behind in the division, Minnesota somehow managed to eek out two wins and change its momentum. "It's a small step for us," closer Joe Nathan said of the series victory. "Coming off a real bad series against Toronto and to come in here, a place we haven't played real well, and win two of three, that's pretty good." A lot was made of these three games with the Indians and how it might impact the Twins' position heading into Tuesday's trade deadline. A series victory could let the club seek another bat to add to its lineup. A series loss could let the club drop even further behind in the division hunt. And don't think that this win on Sunday wasn't an effort by the team to send a message to its general manager. "No one has given up in this clubhouse," Nathan said. "Even against a tough pitcher like C.C., guys kept at it. It looked like he had us numbered throughout the whole game, so to scratch some runs off him was big." Sabathia had dominated the Twins' lineup for the majority of the afternoon. He had allowed just four hits and struck out 10 batters over the first seven innings while holding Minnesota scoreless. But then came the top of the eighth. Trailing, 1-0, the Twins were able to not only deliver key hits when needed, but they also capitalized on Cleveland's mistakes. The team's rally began when Sabathia drilled Jason Tyner with one out in the inning. Mike Redmond then came up to pinch-hit for Nick Punto. Despite being limited in game action recently due to an injured finger on his left hand, Redmond delivered a two-out double that carried just over the outstretched glove of right fielder Trot Nixon to score Tyner and knot the game at 1. "We needed that spark, needed someone to get that big hit," Redmond said. "Sometimes that's the difference in winning series." The breaks then continued to go the way of the Twins. Joe Mauer came to the plate, having struck out in his three previous at-bats, and on a 2-2 pitch he hit a ball to second baseman Josh Barfield, who found all sorts of trouble. Barfield recorded two errors on the play -- one fielding and one throwing -- which allowed Mauer to reach and pinch-runner Luis Rodriguez to score the go-ahead run from second base. Justin Morneau added an RBI double to left field to make it a 3-1 game. "A big performance there at the end against one of the best pitchers in the league," Gardenhire said. Lew Ford added a solo homer in the top of the ninth off Rafael Betancourt before Nathan came on to record his 22nd save of the season. The comeback was too late to earn a win for starter Matt Garza, who matched Sabathia's brilliance in his outing. Garza struck out a career-high 11 batters and limited the Indians' offense to just one run on five hits over six innings. Most importantly for the Twins, when it looked like disaster might strike Garza, he settled down to make big pitches. With two runners aboard and no outs in the first, Garza struck out the next three batters. He then gave up back-to-back hits in the second, which scored one run, but he recorded three straight outs once again to limit the damage. "Not many [pitchers] are blessed with that arm that can reach back and throw fastballs and get out of things," Gardenhire said. "But he's one of those kids that can throw a fastball and get past good hitters. And that's kind of what he did. He reached back and let it fly." Garza admitted after his outing that there was a little extra motivation to this start, knowing the situation his club now faces to get back in the division race. And beating one of the teams ahead of the Twins is a big first step. Now, the Twins sit two games above the .500 mark (53-51) with 58 games remaining in the season. They are 7 1/2 games back of Detroit for the division lead and trail Cleveland by 6 1/2 games in the Wild Card hunt. It still is a steep hill to climb, but Minnesota isn't about to declare itself out of anything yet. "We have two months to go, and a lot of things can happen in two months," Gardenhire said. "And there is not a double-digit lead. We've been under a double-digit lead before. People can write us off and do whatever they want. But it's going to be what we feel in this clubhouse and how much character we can show over the last two months to see what happens. "We have to find a way to pick ourselves up and get on a roll. That's two good games here, so let's see if that's the start."
Kelly Thesier is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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With three months of the minor-league season completed, who are the Blue Jays top prospects?
We asked scouts for opinions of prospects at Vegas, New Hampshire, Dunedin and Lansing. The rankings and their comments:
1. Third baseman Brett Lawrie, 21, Vegas.
"What a shame he got hurt, they were going to call him when they were in Baltimore (June 3) and two days before he gets plunked on his hand. The hand and the wrist are awful injuries for hitters. I saw him hit one so far it went over the fence and into the Vegas darkness. I'm not sure it ever came down. He'll pull the ball down the left-field line, drive one into the right-field corner or hit one out to centre."
2. Right-hander Kyle Drabek, 23, Vegas.
"So, he had a rough first start at triple-A and his first start without his cutter was worse (2/3 of an inning, five runs). I know 29 teams that want him. Look at the Red Sox rotation. Pretty good huh? Both Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz were sent out three times. The Jays had this kid skip triple-A. I don't think it was a matter of rushing him, not after the way he pitched last September. He'll be back in a month or so."
3. Centre fielder Anthony Gose, 20, N.H.
"Some say he's like Brett Butler, who slapped base hits and stole for Cleveland. For me he's closer to another Devon White when it comes to having pop. His arm is better than Jesse Barfield's, as good as Ellis Valentine. He's been working with (coach) Rich Miller and you can see an improvement cutting down on caught stealings."
4. Shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria, 22, N.H.
"This guy has the best range in the minors. If they keep Yunel Escobar at short, fine. Flip this guy to second. He'll make people forget Aaron Hill in the field in about three games. If they move Escobar to third, this guy is the real deal, some kind of athlete."
5. Right fielder Moises Sierra, 22, N.H.
"He has a chance to be real good, maybe better than anyone except Lawrie. He has a plus arm, an eight, as high as the scale goes. He'll be better than Raul Mondesi, might drive in as many runs as George Bell. Big time power."
6. Right hander Deck McGuire, 22, Dunedin.
"Has done everything you'd expect from a No. 1 pick in his first full season. He sits at 92-94 m.p.h. with a plus slider, a swing-and-miss pitch. I like his change and his curve too. I never like to say pitchers are can't miss — they're fragile thoroughbreds — but this guy is close. Delivery not violent."
7. Right-hander Henderson Alvarez, 21, N.H.
"Headed to the Futures Game and not because Venezuela needed representation (four others were selected). It might have something to do with his fastball touching 98. At Lansing he was 88-92. His change is a pitch to fall in love with. Rushes with men on which leads to those two awful words: 'Ball four.'"
8. Right-hander Zach Stewart, 24, N.H.
"The next few starts will be important. How you going to keep 'em interested in Machester, after you've been to Yorkville? Some guys look around and wonder why am I here? Others, who get back quickly, can't wait to get back. This kid? He'll be OK. He's no Alex Sanchez."
9. Catcher Travis d'Arnaud, 22, N.H.
"I've heard guys say Toronto is deep behind the plate, with A.J. Jimenez at Dunedin, who I like and Carlos Perez at Lansing, who I don't. Doesn't show power. D'Arnaud is the best. I see him as a 15-homer guy, with a plus arm."
10. First baseman Mike McDade, 22, N.H.
"He's the best first baseman and that includes Adam Lind. McDade can't run but has quick feet. He's gonna be like Prince Fielder. McDade can dunk a basketball like Cecil Fielder. Led the Arizona Fall League and now among the Eastern League leaders in hitting."
Next five: OF Jake Marisnick, 20, Lansing; RHP Chad Jenkins, 23, Dunedin; Jimenez, 21; RHP Drew Hutchison, 20, Dunedin; RHP Asher Wojciechowski, 22, Dunedin.
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- Diagnosis
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- Background
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- Vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) and homovanillic acid (HVA) urinary screening – not recommended for general population
- Screening studies do not demonstrate better survival in high-risk groups
- Study recommendations include Japanese Neuroblastoma Screening Study, Quebec Neuroblastoma Screening Project, German Neuroblastoma Screening Study
- Obstetrical ultrasound screening – detects prenatal neuroblastoma
Neuroblastomas are solid tumors of the neuroendocrine system and the most common extracranial solid tumor in infants and children.
- Incidence – 10.5/1,000,000 children <15 years worldwide
- Age – <5 years; median is 2 years
- Sex – M<F (1:2.1)
- Occurrence – mostly sporadic; 1-2% are familial
Conditions Associated with Increased Risk of Neuroblastoma
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
- Hirschsprung disease
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Li-Fraumeni
- Noonan syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- DiGeorge syndrome
- Malignant tumor from undifferentiated or poorly differentiated neuroectodermal cells of the neural crest
- Some infants born with tumors
- Abdominal tumors in ~65% of cases, 40% of which are adrenal
- About 50% of cases have aggressive, fast-growing tumors
- May spread to lymph nodes and other organs before symptoms are evident
Clinical Presentation
- Symptoms determined by tumor location and stage
- Abdominal site
- Most common
- Symptoms can include abdominal pain, distension, swelling, and bowel obstruction
- Local compression of renal vasculature may cause hypertension
- Metastatic tumors
- Frequently associated with crying and irritability, fever, bone pain, weight loss
- Initially may be asymptomatic (~50% of patients)
- Orbital metastases – periorbital ecchymoses ("raccoon eyes") and proptosis
- May be confused with trauma
- Paraspinal disease – paresis and cord compression
- Cervical, apical thoracic disease
- Localized tumors often asymptomatic
- Abdominal site
- Syndromes associated with neuroblastoma
- Horner syndrome
- Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis (associated with thoracic or cervical [neck] primary tumor)
- Hutchinson syndrome
- Limping and irritability associated with bone pain and bone marrow metastases
- Neurocristopathy syndromes
- Congenital neuroblastoma associated with other neural crest disorders
- Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (also called Ondine curse)
- Hirschsprung disease – congenital megacolon
- Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (also called dancing eyes-dancing feet syndrome, Kinsbourne syndrome, myoclonic encephalopathy of infants)
- Involuntary eye fluttering
- Muscle jerking
- Ataxia
- Pepper syndrome
- Massive metastatic disease in infants <1 year involving skin, liver, bone marrow
- Verner-Morrison syndrome
- Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide secretion causing refractory diarrhea, hypokalemia, hypovolemia, failure to thrive
- Horner syndrome
Vanillylmandelic Acid (VMA) and Homovanillic Acid (HVA), Urine 0080470
Method: Quantitative High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Initial test for the diagnosis and monitoring of neuroblastoma
Prognostic determination in individuals with neuroblastoma or medulloblastoma
Cancer Panel, Hereditary, Sequencing and Deletion/Duplication, 47 Genes 2012032
Method: Massively Parallel Sequencing/Exonic Oligonucleotide-based CGH Microarray
Confirm diagnosis of a hereditary cancer syndrome with personal or family history consistent with features of more than one cancer syndrome
Genes tested by sequencing: ALK, APC, ATM, BAP1, BARD1, BMPR1A, BRCA1, BRCA2, BRIP1, CDH1, CDK4, CDKN1B, CDKN2A, CHEK2 common mutations, FH, FLCN, MAX, MEN1, MET, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, MUTYH, NBN, NF2, PALB2, PHOX2B, PMS2, PTEN, RAD51C, RAD51D, RB1, RET, SDHAF2, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, SMAD4, SMARCB1,STK11, SUFU, TMEM127, TSC1, TSC2, TP53, VHL
Genes tested by deletion/duplication: ALK, APC, ATM, BAP1, BARD1, BMPR1A, BRCA1, BRCA2, BRIP1, CDH1, CDK4, CDKN1B, CDKN2A, CHEK2 common mutations, EPCAM deletion only, FH, FLCN, MAX, MEN1, MET, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, MUTYH, NBN, NF2, PALB2, PHOX2B, PMS2, PTEN, RAD51C, RAD51D, RB1, RET, SDHAF2, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, SMAD4, SMARCB1,STK11, SUFU, TMEM127, TSC1, TSC2, TP53, VHL
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Clinical sensitivity – unknown
Not determined or evaluated deep intronic and regulatory variants, breakpoints of large deletions/duplications, sequence changes in EPCAM, deletions/duplications in
- ATM (exon 12)
- BAP1 (exon 1)
- BMPR1A (exon 9)
- CDH1 (exon 1)
- CHEK2 (exons 11-15), with the exception of the c.1100delC variant
- FH (exons 1, 9)
- FLCN (exon 8)
- MSH2 (exon 1)
- NF2 (exons 7, 13)
- PTEN (exon 8)
- RET (exon 1)
- RAD51D (exon 1)
- SMARCB1 (exon 5)
- STK11 (exons 4, 6, 7)
- TSC2 (exons 7,17, 23, 25, 29, 32, 41)
Small deletions or insertions may not be detected
Diagnostic errors can occur due to rare sequence variations
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Looks like you may have to surrender to the shade like me. I get red line with white blotches it looks really weird. So I stay did the shade or inside now. Going to the pool isn't fun anymore. Who wants to get in and out real fast? Oh well we learn to deal.
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For complex keys in maps pr-str should be sufficient and sets could just become JS arrays.
Here is a first version.
The tests could be improved, let met know if that is necessary (almost 3am for me, I could work on that tomorrow evening).
It would also be helpful if someone could run the tests against JSCore for me. Thanks!
edit: I changed the patch to do whitelisting instead of blacklisting of types in
key>js, it should be safer and provide sane default for unknown js objects.
Thanks much. I will check it out tomorrow morning.
This patch looks good, can we get a proper patch attached to this ticket? Thanks!
what's the point of doing eg
(extend-protocol proto default (proto-fn [x] (cond x (string? x) do-a (vector? x) do-b :else do-c)))
rather than using extend-protocol on the specific types
(extend-protocol proto string (proto-fn [x] do-a) IPersistentVector (proto-fn [x] do-b) default (proto-fn [x] do-c)))
(extend-protocol proto default (proto-fn [x] (cond x (string? x) do-a (vector? x) do-b :else do-c)))
(extend-protocol proto string (proto-fn [x] do-a) IPersistentVector (proto-fn [x] do-b) default (proto-fn [x] do-c)))
The second approach will require considerably more code as extend-type to IPersistentVector doesn't work in ClojureScript, you have to enumerate all IPersistentVector types. Also enumerating all those types explicitly closes the door for people to override the default behavior if that's desired. I think the patch is sufficient to cover common usage - I'm inclined to let more sophisticated solutions get sorted out in a contrib if people don't find this implementation sufficiently customizable.
Do we want symbols and keywords to drop their unicode prefixes?
I don't see why they should retain them, I'm leaning towards Keyword & Symbols being proper datatypes - necessary for bootstrapping CLJS.
It triggered my information loss button. Since keywords and symbols are compiled to special strings, would retaining the indicators allow for easier mapping back from a js library into our cljs code?
Wilkes, I am not sure it would be a good idea, JSON libraries (cheshire, data.json etc) are a good example of this, you just fallback to the closest format that makes sense with the host/format. Nothing prevents your to create new Types and extend these protocols if you want to retain more information though.


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The proposed amendment of the Third Restitution Law in Austria endangers the right of Jews to be given back the property of which they were robbed by the Nazis, Dr. Emil Maurrer, newly-elected president of the Vienna Jewish Community, told a plenary session of the Community council today. The meeting elected David Brill, a Communist, and Wolf Herzberg, Austrian Zionist leader, as vice-presidents.
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Fri Feb 24, 2012, 11:45 AM
dixiegrrrrl (51,633 posts)
A book for loners, perhaps...
From a review of a new book about introverts:Why it's OK to be an introvert.
"According to the informal test found early in the pages of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking I am an introvert:
Id rather talk to single good friend than several acquaintances;
I wish all of my communication was in writing;
Im not driven by ideas of wealth and fame;
and I dont like small talk.
Sometimes, I even prefer books to people.
This does not bode well for me. According to Susan Cain, author of Quiet we live in a time when introversion is somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
Anyone who has been to a public school in the past twenty years (if not more) will probably agree.
The ideal person in our culture is extroverted; comfortable in front of crowds, and gregarious. Any deviation from extroversion is a sickness, and we should make it our lifes project to eradicate these traits from ourselves.
But Cain offers a reprieve to all oppressed introverts: not only is it OK to be introverted, sometimes its even advantageous.
Many of the most important cultural and technological advances in our culture have come from introverted people, from Newtons theories to stories of E.M. Forster.
Introverts are more careful; they have concentration necessary to develop expertise in a subject and they are more creative than extroverts.
Pure extroversion, on the other hand, is not necessarily an unmitigated good.
The financial crisis is an example of what can happen when the risk taking extroverts take control. For years traders who took the biggest risks and who were more adept at selling themselves and their ideas prevailed until finally the worst fears of the cautious introverts came to be. Extroverted behavior can be dangerous and even at times downright dishonest."
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Response to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 09:58 PM
BlueIris (29,135 posts)
1. To me, the extreme end of extroversion is brutality.
I think of extroverted behavior as essentially aggressive. Carried out to its most extreme variation, it winds up being violent. There are lots of advantages to having the kind of personality that resists all that.
Response to BlueIris (Reply #1)
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 11:01 PM
dixiegrrrrl (51,633 posts)
2. Wonder what the extreme end of introversion is...?
Response to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 04:09 AM
BlueIris (29,135 posts)
6. Coma. nt
Response to BlueIris (Reply #6)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:10 AM
dixiegrrrrl (51,633 posts)
8. *snort* !!
Response to BlueIris (Reply #6)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 08:58 PM
RKP5637 (47,347 posts)
12. LOL !!! n/t
Response to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 07:29 PM
catchnrelease (1,313 posts)
3. This is my next read
I have had it for a couple weeks, holding off until I finish what I'm currently reading. I keep glancing at the cover, wanting to dive in, but I should get to it by this next weekend. It looks good.
Response to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 05:50 PM
applegrove (78,087 posts)
4. I just got the book. Also there is the book "Going Solo: the Extraordinary Rise and
Surprising Appeal of Living Alone" by Eric Klinenberg. Both books were in the 'books with a buzz' section of the bookstore. I haven't started either book but will let you guys know how good they are.
Response to applegrove (Reply #4)
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 08:43 PM
dixiegrrrrl (51,633 posts)
5. Looking forward to hearing about it.
Response to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 09:28 AM
bemildred (90,061 posts)
7. Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto
Another one ...
The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, allalong with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore, and nearly everywhere one looks, loners are tagged as losers and psychopaths, perverts and pity cases, ogres and mad bombers, elitists and wicked witches. Too often, loners buy into those messages and strive to change, making themselves miserable in the process by hiding their true natureand hiding from it. Loners as a group deserve to be reassessedto claim their rightful place, rather than be perceived as damaged goods that need to be "fixed." In Party of One Anneli Rufus -- a prize-winning, critically acclaimed writer with talent to burn -- has crafted a morally urgent, historically compelling tour de forcea long-overdue argument in defense of the loner, then and now. Marshalling a polymath's easy erudition to make her case, assembling evidence from every conceivable arena of culture as well as interviews with experts and loners worldwide and her own acutely calibrated analysis, Rufus rebuts the prevailing notion that aloneness is indistinguishable from loneliness, the fallacy that all of those who are alone don't want to be, and wouldn't be, if only they knew how.
Response to bemildred (Reply #7)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:15 AM
dixiegrrrrl (51,633 posts)
9. Aha!!!!!
About time.
Thanks for the heads up.
Response to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #9)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:17 AM
bemildred (90,061 posts)
10. I think being a loner is becoming a fad ...
Response to bemildred (Reply #10)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 12:50 PM
dixiegrrrrl (51,633 posts)
11. Crazier the Regressive get, the more alone I want to be.
It all THEIR fault!
Response to bemildred (Reply #7)
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 07:44 PM
BlueIris (29,135 posts)
13. Thanks! I've been looking for this. nt
Response to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 03:17 PM
Myrina (12,296 posts)
14. This book was excellent.
Thanks for the recommendation.


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22 hikers remain on mountains, face fines
The China Post news staff Thursday, June 21, 2012, 12:39 am TWN
The China Post news staff--A few hundred mountain climbers are facing government fines after refusing to leave a mountainous area after the government issued a severe storm land warning. They may be obliged to pay a fee for ineffectively applying the government's rescue resources after violating evacuation orders, Interior Minister Lee Hong-yuan said yesterday. He urged climbers to leave the mountains before the storm affected any road exits.
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The National Fire Agency (NFA) also added that in previous cases, climbers who were granted legal access directly before the land warning were forced to seek refuge in the mountains when the storm hit. It wasn't until Lee announced the fee policy that most hikers were persuaded to leave the trails on Tuesday morning, except for 22 climbers who refused to leave the mountain areas, the NFA reported.
Lee said that there is "no such thing" as taking refuge in the mountains, urging climbers to abandon their hikes immediately. With Tropical Storm Talim heading toward Taiwan at full force, Lee said that the government will be obliged to send out rescue teams if people are trapped in the mountains, but climbers should not willingly abuse the government's rescue resources, especially when they have been warned ahead of time. He also added that rescue teams will be occupied in disaster areas, and climbers should show empathy by leaving dangerous zones before the storm hits.
The NFA said reckless climbers will be fined compensation fees, service fees, and even transportation fees if they refuse to cooperate with officials according to the Disaster Prevention and Protection Act. The NFA also said that if a helicopter is required for rescue efforts, the minimum fuel cost for one trip is about NT$20,000.
The interior minister said that this was a waste of social resources, not to mention putting more rescuers in danger.
The NFA said that until now, no one has been charged with reckless behavior or received any fines. Even wave spectators around seashores have only been issued warning slips, said the NFA.
Nevertheless, the agency reminded the people that any sort of fine or compensation fee could amount to a huge sum, and advised the people to stay away from the restricted areas.
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Eventum includes the Events plugin and comes with many built-in features. As well as this, we also have 30+ advanced paid Directory extensions. These are optional but great if you wish to extend the functionalities of the Eventum theme even further.
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CARMEL >> Thanks to a partnership of park agencies and nonprofit organizations, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, Palo Corona Regional Park and Garrapata State Park could become elements of a unified park system with linking trails.
A memorandum of understanding was signed Wednesday in Palo Corona Regional Park by representatives from the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, the Big Sur Land Trust and the Point Lobos Foundation in order to work together for the preservation of open space and parklands between Carmel and south to Garrapata State Park. The Lobos-Corona Parklands project is the working title of the plan to create a unified park which would consist of almost 10,000 acres.
The project consists of the South Bank Trail and Coast Ranch, which are under the Big Sur Land Trust; Palo Corona Regional Park, the former Whisler Wilson Ranch and high meadows open space under the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District; Hatton Canyon, Carmel River State Beach, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, Garrapata State Park and the former A.M. Allan Ranch under the California State Park System.
"Great communities need great parks," said Bill Leahy, executive director of the Big Sur Land Trust at a news conference announcing the collaboration on Wednesday. "This is a great community and this will be a great park I believe."
The collaboration will allow each group to attain goals toward the Lobos-Corona Parklands Project, which they would not be able to reach independent of each other.
"All of these organizations have unique histories and unique strengths and by coming together we can really leverage those," said Augie Louis, president of the Point Lobos Foundation. "One of the things that the Point Lobos Foundation brings is a long legacy in interpretation and working with the public."
Louis said that Point Lobos is fortunate to be a huge drawing card with a line at the gate to get in on virtually any weekend and a line of cars parked along Highway 1.
"One of the things this Lobos-Corona project can do is give the public additional options. There is some wonderful landscape not too many people know about," Louis said. "To have it open to the public, more accessible, will help make the experience at Point Lobos richer. One of my favorite things is to get up on some of the ridgelands that overlook the ocean and Point Lobos. When you get up on the ridge and watch a whale coming across the bay, it's a whole new perspective. That's what this Lobos-Corona is, it's a whole new perspective."
Each of the groups will provide their own funding for the Lobos-Corona Parklands Project, said Rachel Saunders, associate director of conservation with the Big Sur Land Trust. The groups are also looking at state grants as well as bond funds.
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Stand-up comedian and journalist who also writes for the BBC Three political comedy show The Revolution Will Be Televised. The winner of a Three Weeks Editor's Award at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, Kate's appealing character and articulate address intrigues her audiences as she mesmerises them with her unique observational humour.
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Paul is an award-winning comic who since 2005 has been entertaining audiences across the UK and beyond. His intelligent humour focuses not only on sharp observations from life, but also racial, cultural and satirical subjects, intermingled with strange tales of ordinary madness.
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Ask any college football fan and they will tell you that it seems like an eternity waiting for the season to begin. But, have no fear, the kick-off to the college season is almost here, with Colorado State and Oregon State hitting the field on Saturday, August 26th at 2:30 p.m. ET. On the same day, fans of Oregon State and Colorado State will see an active match-up, and Portland State vs. BYU will also be a huge viewer draw. Add in the 6:00 p.m. game of Hawaii at UMass and the 7:30 p.m. game of South Florida vs. San Jose State – and you are most definitely looking at a full, much-needed, long-awaited day of the colleges you love getting back to gridiron business.
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"M. Bastin" <marcbastin(at)mindspring(dot)com> writes: > Is there a query on some system table that will list all names of > prepared statements? No, since they are never stored on disk. We could think of providing some operation in the FE/BE protocol to list the available statements, perhaps. (In retrospect I guess it was a mistake to have the Describe message raise a hard error for no-such-statement. If it just sent back a message without aborting your transaction, you could use Describe to probe whether you'd prepared a given name yet.) Same comments apply to Portals I suppose. If you'd like to lobby to get this changed, pgsql-novice is not the place; pgsql-interfaces or pgsql-hackers would be more appropriate. regards, tom lane
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First Official Teaser Poster For 'THE WOLVERINE'
20th Century Fox has revealed the first official teaser poster for THE WOLVERINE, clawing its way into theaters on July 26, 2013.
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, THE WOLVERINE finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.
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Toronto's Substance Abuse Problems Require Testing Policy for Councillors Police EMS Fire and TTC
The time has come for a city wide policy of random substance abuse testing for Councillors along with all employees including Police, Fire, EMS and TTC.The use of alcohol illegal drugs and medications have serious adverse impacts in any workplace.
The time has come for a city wide policy of substance abuse testing for Councillors along with all employees including Police, Fire, EMS and TTC.
Over a year and a half ago the city's TTC has had a program for only alcohol testing but close to two years later TTC bureaucrats have NOT finalized the procedures for training supervisors or communicating the policy to staff, according to Nadia Pazzano of the TTC.
Such delays are unacceptable and completely unwarranted and begs the question who if anyone is in control at the T.T.C.?
Peter CLARKE a candidate for Toronto council from North York ward 23 has proposed that a city wide policy for random substance abuse testing be mandatory for councillors along with a condition of continuing employment for all city employees with no exceptions effective January 1st 2011.
All Toronto employees and councillors should reasonably expect to be randomly contacted for alcohol and substance testing on any day/night time during their normal scheduled shift or meetings.
The purpose of such a new policy would be to establish the city's expectations for appropriate on the job behavior.
The city would also provide a means, through the public health department, for supporting councillors, staff and employees who might be dealing with current or emerging drug and alcohol problems. Peter CLARKE believes Toronto must be committed to the health, safety and wellness of all city employees, welfare recipients, its elected representatives and the public.
On the other hand city employees have the responsibility to report to work capable of performing their tasks productively and safely.
The use of alcohol, illegal drugs and medications can and do have serious adverse impacts in the workplace as we unfortunately continue to witness.
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I had the smartxide therapy done on my face almost a month ago for moderate acne scars. I am 37 yrs old, fair skinned. I was told that I would not be satisfied with my treatment, that my scars would most likely require 2-3.
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My down time I found to be minimal. I had it on a Tues am. I found I was incredibly sensitive to the sun and needed to wear an spf 60 on my face. By the weekend, I drove a 5 hr drive to see my sister in another city, but again had to wear spf 60 and wear a scarf in the car over my head, partial coverage of my face. I was still red, peely, but no pain. I had minimal pain post procedure. The burning sensation was gone within an hour.
The procedure itself I found to be much much more painful than I had anticipated. They used numbing cream and some freezing injections, but it just didn't take well on most of my face. They recommend next time that I had some mild sedation as it was quite uncomfortable.
Now, almost a month later, my skin is still a little dry, but pretty much back to normal. I am booked 6 weeks to the day to have my second procedure. I am anxious to see the before and after photos when I go to the clinic again. I am truly hoping I only need to do this one more time. The cost of the second treament is $500.00 CDN.


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Development on new Mass Effect 3 content is still underway and while the game is being used to cross-promote next month's Dead Space 3, new and mysterious DLC should be coming to BioWare's latest sci-fi epic in the near future. While we await the mid-February unveiling of the next batch of Mass Effect 3 content and huddle over the two teaser screenshots, one featuring an armored Krogran wielding a warhammer, one user may have discovered a few hints of what may be coming, and it could be big.
Most of Mass Effect 3's post-launch content, if not, all of it, has leaked before release. From additional maps, modes, weapons and playable characters for the game's four-player co-op mode, and the premises and locations for the story-based DLC. For the next DLC, likely titled the "Reckoning Multiplayer Expansion," (Kingdoms of Amalur reference?) it's going to be adding more than just new maps and toys to play with, but it could be adding story-based co-op.
We knew something big was coming ever since Designer Josh Hendricks took to the BioWare forums to explain that BioWare was going all out on developing the next DLC:
"It's all hands on deck for this one. Pretty much every ME3 DLC writer here in Edmonton is involved. (which would include both Patrick Weekes AND John Dombrow)."
The latest information comes from user TSA 383 on the Clever Noob forums who took a look at the code (and shared it) that came with the latest (and very minor) title update that only addressed the following:
- Fixed a multiplayer issue where users could have all of their weapons use rocket ammunition.
- Fixed an issue with high memory usage when initializing DLCs.
And what was discovered is that the name of the DLC will be "Reckoning" and what it will add is co-op story missions, something fans of co-op desired since the announcement of the franchise's inclusion of multiplayer. Co-op story missions explain the need to bring "all hands on deck" when it came to BioWare's writing staff and it's very telling of what we can expect from the in-development Mass Effect 4, a game that Executive Producer of the Mass Effect series Casey Hudson is looking for fan input on.
"The day of reckoning is nigh! The Reckoning Multiplayer Expansion brings six new never before seen co-op story missions to the game and new co-op gameplay modes. It provides four new maps to conquer and hazard variations of the Earth maps. It also enables reinforcement packs that offer new kits for the salarians, krogans, humans and volus. In-game reinforcement packs now include three new weapons (Chakram Launcher, Blood Pack Punisher and Adas Anti-Synthetic Rifle)."
There's no word on pricing but since it is multiplayer-focused, even though this one's story-based, we expect it to release for free to get more users back into the game. It's monetized by the additional reinforcement packs which are available via microtransactions and in-game credits. If this proves to be the last DLC pack, it's definitely the way to go out, and it would offer a nice end to added content that very much formed based on reactions and desires of the fanbase, so good on BioWare.
For players still playing Mass Effect 3 or looking to get back in before the DLC drops, this weekend's Mass Effect 3 multiplayer event just began moments ago and runs until late Super Bowl Sunday night/early Monday morning.
Operation: FIRESTORM (Feb 1st-3rd)
Event Description: The Reapers have changed their tactics in an effort to prevent us from whittling them down. As they conquer rural areas, their fighting groups are fewer but larger, making them more difficult to assail. Accordingly, we are hitting them in the cities to deliver as much damage as possible before evacuation.
Squad Goal: Earn the "Killstreak 3" squad medal. (As a squad, kill 5 enemies together 3 separate times.)
Reward: Commendation Pack
Are you happy to see BioWare continuing support for Mass Effect 3 nearly a year after release and does it make up for its shortcomings? Are you hoping to see these features come standard in Mass Effect 4 which could release as early as next fall?
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Buckeye appoints new presiding judge
The Buckeye City Council appointed Maria Brewer as the city's new presiding judge for the Buckeye Municipal Court at a special council meeting Jan. 7, city officials said.
"I'm very excited," Brewer said. "I think I can really help the city grow in the direction that it wants to grow in, and I'm looking forward to it."
Mayor Jackie Meck called Brewer a "people's judge."
"During the interview process, Judge Brewer showed us her passion for the justice system, as well as her compassion for the people she serves," Meck said. "We feel very lucky to have her represent the city of
The city began seeking a replacement after the current interim presiding judge, Michael Lester, notified the City Council of his decision to vacate the position.
Brewer will begin her appointment Feb. 10, she said.
The position is a two-year term and has an anticipated annual salary of about $125,000.
As presiding judge, she will hear cases involving all criminal misdemeanors and traffic violations occurring within the city's limits and grant orders of protection, she said.
Before accepting the position, Brewer was the civil hearing officer and pro-tem judge for the city of
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I was just inspired by seeing a CW post from Marty Australia. This type of vase is overlooked and and falsely attributed to many bohemian makers. To the best of my copycat research from others I would call it Franz Welz from late 1920 or 30's. The texture is really special and the colors intense. I will document four colors in this page and try to highlight a different pattern using the same colors in the next page.