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84 year old, Henry Morello, was found alive in an Arizona desert after five days of being stranded there. He took a wrong turn while driving home from the Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek on Feb. 7, and ended up in a ditch after making a U-turn.
We thought his survival skills were especially good for a man his age, and worth noting. First he ripped a chrome piece off of his car and put it on the roof hoping someone would see the reflection and find him. His phone and car battery went dead, so he used car mats to stay warm and read a car manual from cover to cover to pass the time. But the most interesting part of it all is how he chose to stay hydrated. Since he didn't have access to water, he filtered windshield wiper fluid through a napkin and drank it as a substitute.
He was found alive by a group of hikers after five days. Though his kidneys are damaged, he arrived at the hospital in good condition, considering all that he had been through. He learned a few lessons from this adventure, the main one being to never drive without water.
We'd like to reach out to Morello and let him know that his story is a lesson to all. Do not leave the house without your reusable stainless steel water bottle, and make sure it's full of filtered water before taking a trip. And, in case of an emergency, make sure you have some napkins on hand, in case you do need to drink windshield wiper fluid. (We'll soon be testing out the filtration skills of a napkin, so stay tuned for a video on that.) In the meantime, get prepared for any emergency that may strike, by stocking your survival kit with these items from Filters Fast. Clearly, Morello would have been much better off with a Katadyn Bottle Water Filter.


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Earlier this week, Business Insider ran a post on the declining cost of a television set. The chart seems surprisingly apt on news that Best Buy missed analyst expectations.
During its conference call this morning with investors, company executives noted that even as it sold more television units, the declining prices kept the division from posting positive comps.
Read that as follows: No matter how much promotional activity you attach to these sets, you cannot grow the business (particularly as competitors like Amazon, Walmart, along with its own website, eat at its brick and mortar sales).
We recently ran this as a Chart Of The Day.
The company managed to eke out same-store sales growth of 0.3%, as the mobile and tablet market picked up share.
Best Buy was also hard hit by declines in its entertainment and gaming units. New data from Nielsen shows DVD sales contracting 9% this year. Combine that with difficult comparisons on TV sales, and it's an uphill battle for Best Buy.
Take a look at Best Buy same-store sales over the past decade:

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Math: Wolfram Functions Site
- Audience: Mathematics educators
The Wolfram Functions Site provides formulas and visualizations of mathematical functions. The site was developed as an encyclopedic resource to the educational, mathematical, and scientific communities and is partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
- Database Provider: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Express Link (bookmark): http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=wmfs


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Yes, yes... I've been gone for quite a while! This was my OOTD.
This is a brand new Harley Davidson Biker jacket. I saw it and I fell deep in love with it. It just goes exactly with my style. I wore it with some DIY black skinny ripped jeans, and one of my latest pairs of Steel boots from one of my latest catalogs (where you can check the photos HERE and the commercials HERE). Obviously with the same silverwear but with some new changes. I've decided to bleach my hair to pale white. You're probably wondering "why would someone who wears black all the time bleach her hair?" well, let me just ask you one question, can't you see the contrast between the black clothing and the pale hair? It's simply beautiful. It's still not finished though, you can tell there are some differences between the edges and the roots, but I'll finish this work by the end of February and make sure it gets to white.
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As a college student in California, Laura Paulus often looked for ways to make and give inexpensive Christmas gifts out of necessity. Now married with four children, and living in Hillsboro, she still enjoys putting her creative mind to work and finding ways to make inexpensive gifts for giving, even if she does not have to.
"I just love collecting old dishes, wine glasses, and antique glassware," Paulus said. "My friends and relatives even collect stuff for me and give it to me for my hobby."
Paulus' hobby involves turning used items into original centerpieces. She combines different types of glass or wood items, glues them together with epoxy, and adds decorative touches for a one-of-a-kind table display.
"I've used pickle jars, empty glass candle holders, even old wood candlesticks to make the centerpieces," she said. "I just like to take random things and put them together. It's a lot of fun to see what can evolve."
The most common items Paulus likes to use are wine glasses. Inverted, they make a nice base for a dinner plate or pickle jar. Paulus often attaches a handle or peg on top for further decoration.
"I found that I could write on the plain glass plates with sharpie markers," she said. "If you bake the plate after writing on it, the markings are permanent and can be washed and used without rubbing off."
Paulus said she first got the idea of combining different types of castoff glassware to make decorations from Pinterest, but she has taken those ideas to a much broader level.
"I use just about anything," she said. "There really is not limit to the imagination."
Paulus makes lighted displays by putting battery candles under wine glass bases. She uses colored Christmas balls or figurines to create unique displays.
"Once you get started doing this, it really is hard to stop," she said. "I'm always wondering what I might do with that piece, or what I could combine with that one."
Paulis displayed and sold her unique centerpieces on Saturday at the Christmas Soiree in Hillsboro. She enjoys giving many of her creations as gifts but also takes special orders from interested customers.


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Is There Inspiration in Your Media Diet?
Video: At her TEDx talk, YES! magazine editor Sarah van Gelder discusses the "mean world syndrome" caused by excessively negative news coverage, and describes how solutions journalism creates a more balanced—and hopeful—point of view.
2012 was a year of superstorms, mass shootings, debt strikes, and the most spendy election ever. Here's how last year's most important stories will shape 2013.
How worker co-ops are expanding despite the rust-belt economy.
Working fewer hours could save our economy, save our sanity, and help save our planet.


text: Well, Tonight is the night all the conference tournaments in College Basketball begin, and it is actually the beginning of the "Big Dance" or "March Madness". Some or most would say that only when the 64 team NCAA Tournament begins you can say it's "March Madness" time, but I believe that it starts a week earlier, like tonight. Besides deciding tournament champions for each Conference, who will get in or out of the tournament it can be a factor in deciding how many Big East teams get a number one seed, and who will get it at all. More


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Dr. Christian Campagna is a Senior Managing Director globally responsible for Accenture's CFO & Enterprise Value practice in Accenture Strategy. In this role, he helps CFOs address their most pressing challenges and develop strategies to transform the finance function and influence their broader organizations.
Dr. Campagna has more than 25 years of experience developing strategies for finance and other general and administrative functions including Digital Finance and Enterprise Data and Analytics strategies. In addition to overseeing numerous, large-scale transformation projects, he has worked with clients around the world to improve their efficiencies and effectiveness, create competitive digital strategies, and refine their business models and processes.
Prior to assuming his current role, Dr. Campagna served as lead for the Accenture Finance & Enterprise Performance group for Europe, Africa and Latin America. In addition, he managed the global Integrated Operating Model practice, developing solutions to help businesses and governments gain greater value from their shared services organizations.
He began his career with a nine-year stint at KPMG Consulting, where he specialized in the finance function and the CFO agenda. He also served for five years as European managing director at The Hackett Group, helping to build that company's European practice.
Dr. Campagna has a Master of Engineering and a Ph.D. in economics and management from the Technical University Berlin.
Dr. Antonio M. Oftelie conducts research, teaches, and advises on how law, policy and technology can be aligned to create exceptional environments for organizational innovation and adaptation.
Based in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Antonio administers the Harvard Innovation Award program, is faculty lead for the Public Safety, Health and Human Services, Chief Financial Officer, Next Generation Operations, and Public Sector for the Future summits, and since 2004, has developed and taught in more than forty Harvard executive education programs.
Antonio has created practitioner-recognized frameworks and maturity models for organizational innovation and value creation including the Shared Services Horizons of Value, the Uptake and Edge Innovation Matrix, and the Human Services Value Curve. As an application of his research, Antonio advises senior government and business executives on organizational transformation by helping them to adapt their mission and strategy, ideate new business and service models, build dynamic capacity, and create performance and value measures. In this capacity, he has directly advised three governors, public and private organizations and two White House administrations.
Antonio holds a BS in Management and Ethics from Crown College, an MPA with a Business and Government Policy concentration from Harvard University, where he focused his studies on leadership, finance, and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and on strategic management, technology, and innovation at the Harvard Business School, and a Doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University, where his studies and research focused on constitutional and administrative law, technology and society, and institutional transformation.


text: From the creators of Animatrix comes this visually-stunning new anime film based on a popular Japanese manga written by Taiyo Matsumoto. In Treasure Town, where the moon smiles and young boys can fly, life can be both gentle and brutal. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White, two street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. Tekkonkinkreet is a dynamic tale of brotherhood that addresses the faults of present day society, true love lost, and the kindness of the human heart. A brutal elegy for our changing times as well as a tour-de-force of visual artistry, Tekkonkinkreet is a deeply resonant story with a heart. The title Tekkonkinkreet is a play on the Japanese words for 'concrete,' 'iron,' and 'muscle,' and it suggests the warring images of steel and concrete cities amassing against the powers of the imagination. Until now, at least in imports abroad, anime style has almost entirely been characterized by wide-eyed heroes, big robots, and uninspired plotting. Tekkonkinkreet jettisons these stereotypes in favor of a more realistic, European ethos, successfully incorporating engaging child characters and a complex action plot into a poetic, engaging story.


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In 1998 Rupert Murdoch was made a Knight Commander of St Gregory. He had apparently been recommended for the honour by Cardinal Roger Mahony, after giving money to a Church education fund. A year later he donated $10 million to help build Los Angeles Catholic cathedral.
Is it right that papal knighthoods should be awarded in this way? The honour is supposed to recognise a person's service to the Church. Certainly, Murdoch's money has helped the Church; but surely there are many, many faithful Catholics, whose tireless service to the Church goes unacknowledged, who deserve to be honoured much more.
And is Rupert Murdoch a person the Church should celebrate? He owns – or did own – a newspaper that lost its moral bearings; he ought to bear some responsibility for that.
On the other hand, rescinding his papal knighthood might be difficult to justify. Other papal knights may also have flaws. Where do you set the bar?
So, should Rupert Murdoch's papal knighthood be rescinded? Or is it fair to honour someone who has helped the Church financially?


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Was 2012 the hottest year on record for the United States? And if so, does that offer any proof for the theory of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, or AGW? Happily, the answers to those questions are "no" and "no."
But that hasn't stopped the usual global-warming alarmists from hyperventilating and offering up the usual torrid headlines. Typical of the so-called mainstream media (MSM) response to a press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the breathless January 8 video report from NBC News' Anne Thompson, and a companion print article by NBC News' Elizabeth Chuck. Entitled "NOAA: 2012 was warmest year ever for US, second most 'extreme,'" the Anne Thompson piece leads off with this claim: "Last year was one for the history books, as a long-term warming trend brought two record highs for each record low between 2000 and 2010. And even more concerning, in the past year there were five record highs for each low recorded."
Elizabeth Chuck's article reported:
2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States, according to scientists with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher than the previous warmest year recorded — 1998 — NOAA said in its report Tuesday. All 48 states in the contiguous U.S. had above-average annual temperatures last year, including 19 that broke annual records, from Connecticut through Utah.
"We're taking quite a large step," said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist from the NOAA National Climatic Data Center, which has recorded temperatures in the contiguous U.S. for the past 118 years.
It was also a historic year for "extreme" weather, scientists with the federal agency said.
"The unprecedented warm weather wasn't contained to the United States," the NBC report continued, a little further on. "A corresponding rise in global temperatures," it further claimed, "prompted the World Meteorological Organization to call the rate at which the Arctic sea ice was melting 'alarming' in its Nov. 28, 2012, report."
To underscore its already over-the-top, lop-sided editorializing disguised as reportage, the NBC article prominently displayed and linked to an earlier NBC posting by John Roach entitled, "'Horrible' sea level rise of more than 3 feet plausible by 2100, experts say."
How many times can they get away with crying "wolf!" and doctoring the data?
It all does indeed sound rather "horrible." Which, of course, is the point. Those who favor a centrally-planned, United Nations-administered global regime know that in order to get the American people and the peoples of the world to surrender their sovereignty, independence, and freedoms to an international authority, they must be subjected to non-stop horrible scenarios scary enough to justify the transformation. That is precisely what UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and UN climate czarina Christiana Figueres called for at the recently concluded UN climate summit in Doha, Qatar. As we reported here and here, Figueres openly declared, "the whole climate change process is a complete transformation of the economic structure of the world." She averred the climate "crisis" is so severe as to require a government-mandated "guided transformation" and "centralized transformation" that would affect "the life of everyone on the planet."
In order to justify this wrenching transformation the would-be global transformers have kept a steady avalanche of apocalyptic predictions going for the past two decades: melting polar icecaps and glaciers, rising sea levels swamping major coastal cities and countries, more and larger hurricanes and extreme weather, dying forests and oceans, droughts, floods, plagues, pestilence, etc., etc.
But what does the real science say? First off, was 2012 the hottest year ever for the United States? To arrive at the desired outcome of a record-breaking temperature year, it appears that the folks at NOAA engaged in some dodgy and deceptive "science." That is not in the least bit surprising, since NOAA, like NASA, the Met Office, WMO, IPCC, HADCRUT, and other highly politicized institutions promoting global-warming alarmism, has been caught more than once tilting the data and tweaking the computer models, as we have reported here.
In a January 9 posting entitled, "2012 Didn't Crack The Top Ten For Record Maximums," Real Science blogger Steven Goddard points out:
NOAA has inflated the 2012 record maximum number by adding new stations which didn't exist during the hot years of the 1930s. That is a completely illegitimate approach, suitable only for government workers.
An apples to apples comparison uses only the same stations. When that is done, 2012 doesn't even crack the ten hottest years.
And he notes, in a response to a reader's comment, that "Any station which has been added in the last 30 years will have 366 all-time records set during the last 30 years."
The previous day, January 8, Goddard posted an equally important blog entitled, "The Big Lie Becomes Official At NOAA," which notes that the alarmists are continually revising the records to make them say whatever fits the political expediencies of the moment. He reproduces a graph from a 1999 article by NASA's AGW alarmist-in-chief James Hansen that flatly contradicts NOAA's assertion (as reported above by NBC) that 1998 was the warmest year on record. In fact, it was only the fifth warmest year recorded, well below the heat-wave years of 1921 and 1934. Goddard writes:
In an article which NASA published in 1999, Hansen showed that 1998 was only the fifth warmest year, after 1934, 1921, 1931 and 1953. In fact, 1998 was 0.6C cooler than 1934.
Goddard reproduces Hansen's 1999 NASA graph of U.S. Annual Mean Temperatures and U.S. 5-Year Mean Temperatures, which pictorially contradicts the alarmist meme that the past century has seen planet Earth in the grip of a deadly fever, with a steady and alarming rise in temperatures. Goddard concludes:
Over the past decade, NASA and NOAA have continuously altered the temperature record to cool the past and warm the present. Their claims are straight out of Orwell's 1984, and have nothing to do with science.
Cooking the Books: Standard Operating Procedure at NOAA, NASA, Met, IPCC
The latest wave of "hottest year on record" stories demonstrates once again the hand-in-hand complicity of the major media with the climate alarmist "scientists" who repeatedly have been caught in flagrante delicto cooking the data. When confronted with requests for access to their raw data to address the errors, deception, and egregious breeches of scientific procedure in their research, the climate alarmists have resorted (à la Climategate) to stonewalling, destroying the data, and/or the equivalent of "the dog ate it" or "it got lost" excuses. With all the history of cooking of the data and the "secret recipe" excuses for not sharing the data with other scientists and the public for independent analysis, the climate pronouncements from NOAA, NASA, the Met Office, and similar institutions should be featured on the Food Channel or Comedy Central rather than MSM news programs. However, the MSM lapdogs at NBC, ABC, CNN, AP, Reuters, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, etc. can be counted on to bark and yap in unison every time a new climate alarmist press release is issued.
The watchdogs of the independent media, though, continue to make major headway in discrediting the alarmists and their MSM lapdog choir. One of the most tenacious watchdogs dreaded by the alarmists is meteorologist Anthony Watts, who has caught the alarmists in numerous errors, fabrications, exaggerations, misrepresentations, and lies.
Anticipating NOAA's release of its "hottest year" propaganda, on January 6 Watts released the results of his own very significant investigation of NOAA's database and its regular practice of releasing incomplete and biased data to feed the MSM alarmist frenzy.
His blog post entitled, "Does NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) keep two separate sets of climate books for the USA?" is another of the climate debate game changers for which he has become justly famous. Again, it is no surprise that the usual suspects have been caught again in duplicitous manipulation and fabrication of data to further a political agenda. The good news is that calamitous scenarios the alarmists are all in a tizzy over are, well, not worth getting tizzied over.
About Those Three-foot Sea Level Rises
For those in a panic over the claims of catastrophic rising sea levels, there is also good news. As reported here recently, a new study by Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, one of the world's top experts on sea levels, should allay unwarranted anxieties about coastal real estate sinking under rising oceans. In the study, issued on December 7 with the unequivocal title, "Sea level is not rising," Dr. Mörner says the constant fright peddling about non-existent rising of global sea levels constitutes a "very grave, unethical 'sea-level-gate'" scandal.
Among the many stunning revelations Professor Mörner makes concerning this ongoing alarmist scandal are these:
• At most, global average sea level is rising at a rate equivalent to 2-3 inches per century. It is probably not rising at all.
• Sea level is measured by both tide gauges and, since 1992, satellite altimetry. One of the keepers of the satellite record told Professor Mörner that the record had been interfered with to show sea level rising, because the raw data from the satellites showed no increase in global sea level at all.
• Sea level is not rising at all in the Maldives, the Laccadives, Tuvalu, India, Bangladesh, French Guyana, Venice, Cuxhaven, Korsør, Saint Paul Island, Qatar, etc.
Marc Morano at ClimateDepot.com has assembled a large assortment of commentaries by scientists on NOAA's "hottest year" controversy, as well as the latest admissions by alarmists and MSM that there has been no measurable global warming since 1998.
Related articles:
UN Climateers and the "Complete Transformation of the World"
UN Summit Fails to Enact "Complete Transformation" of the World
Climate-change Computer Models Fail Again — and Again, and Again
Study Shows Global Warming Data Skewed by Bad Monitoring
New Report: Man-made Global Warming Is a Farce
Hundreds Die in Cold Waves — Media Keep Flogging Global Warming
Forget Global Warming; COLD Kills
Blaming Climate Change for Hurricane Sandy
Talks of Carbon Tax After Hurricane Sandy
"Save the Polar Bears" Scientist Guilty or Not Guilty?
CFR Pushes End to Sovereignty at UN's Doha Climate Summit
Global Climate Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago, UK Met Office Admits


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"A blood test for men with prostate cancer could detect if the illness is likely to be life-threatening," the Daily Mail has reported. In some cases prostate cancer can be benign, but in others it can be life-threatening and require treatment such as surgery or chemotherapy.
The news is based on research that looked at whether scanning for genetic abnormalities in various types of tissue could be used to predict whether prostate cancer would rapidly relapse after treatment. To conduct the research, scientists looked at samples of blood, prostate tumours and healthy prostate tissue from 238 men who had undergone surgery to remove their whole prostate gland. They compared genetic differences to the different outcomes the men experienced.
The researchers found that prostate cancer patients had high numbers of genetic mutations called "copy number variations", in which sections of DNA are abnormally repeated or missing. Particular repeats and deletions were more common in patients who went onto have a rapid relapse, and the size of copy number variations tended to be larger in these patients as well. The researchers then used this information to create prediction models based on the DNA in different types of tissue samples.
This study is exciting because it raises hope that one day a test could help predict the outlook for patients with prostate cancer, which could in turn aid treatment decisions. However, these findings will have to be further validated, and a simple, inexpensive test developed and tested before this is a realistic option for doctors.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and was funded by the American Cancer Society, the US National Cancer Institute and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. The study was published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Pathology.
The Daily Mail's coverage of the story was generally accurate, although it may imply that the research could help discern benign prostate tumours from life-threatening ones before treatment. However, the research was conducted in patients after a round of treatment where they had already had surgery to remove all or part of the prostate. Also, the Mail's headline suggests that the test has been developed and is soon to be implemented, which is not the case. The story correctly stated that "it is likely to be several years before the academics are able to develop a blood test to predict the speed prostate cancer will spread."
What kind of research was this?
Prostate cancer is not typical of most cancers, as men can live with the condition for many decades without any symptoms or the need for treatment. This is because in most cases the cancer progresses very slowly, at such a rate that they will probably die of other causes or even old age before it causes ill effects on their health. However, a minority of men with the disease experience a more rapid progression of their cancer that requires treatment, such as a prostatectomy (surgery to remove all or part of the prostate).
This cohort study of men with prostate cancer examined whether the presence of genetic abnormalities in various types of tissue could predict whether a person with treated prostate cancer would relapse. It looked at the amount of genetic abnormalities in tumour tissue, normal tissue adjacent to a tumour and in blood.
The specific type of genetic abnormality the researchers looked at is called a copy number variation. This occurs when duplications or deletions in the genetic code cause an abnormal number of copies of a region of DNA. The researchers initially looked at samples from 238 men who had had radical prostatectomy (a surgical procedure where part or all of the prostate gland is removed), and three cell lines (a type of isolated cell used in lab research). They then validated their findings on an additional 25 samples.
This study was appropriately designed to see whether patients who have different outcomes have differences in copy number variation. However, before this technique can be used as a test, it will have to be trialled on a much larger cohort of people, so that researchers can get a clearer picture of its use in clinical settings. For example, researchers will need to know how often the test might miss patients that are likely to relapse, and also how often the test incorrectly suggests a person's cancer is likely to relapse, which could lead them to have unnecessary further treatment. Also, as the authors note, the techniques used in this study need high-quality DNA, so may be difficult and expensive to perform.
What did the research involve?
The researchers looked at prostate cancer samples, samples of healthy tissue taken from next to a tumour, and blood from men who had had a radical prostatectomy to treat prostate cancer. The researchers extracted DNA from these samples, and then looked at their genome, the entire genetic code they contained. The researchers then compared the results from this analysis to the outcomes experienced by the prostate cancer patients:
- Approximately one-third of the patients had a relapse soon after surgery, with a median time to progression of 1.9 months.
- One-third had a relapse but much more slowly, with a median time to progression of 47.4 months.
- One-third of patients in the cohort were free of cancer for at least five years.
Based on the associations they found, the researchers developed an algorithm for predicting whether a patient would relapse, and how quickly they would relapse. This was based on whether the genetic code at specific locations was repeated or deleted, or on the size of copy number variation found across a person's genome. They then tested their prediction model on an additional 25 samples.
What were the basic results?
The researchers found that the prostate cancer samples had a large number of genetic abnormalities. Deletions of specific regions occurred at high frequency, and amplification (abnormal repetitions) of other regions occurred in a subset of samples. Healthy tissue adjacent to a tumour also had similar amplification and deletion patterns. The blood of patients with prostate cancer also contained copy number variations, and some of these variations occurred in the same locations within the DNA as they had in the prostate cancer samples.
The researchers then developed a tool to predict whether a cancer would relapse based on DNA regions that had a significant proportion of amplification or deletion in prostate tissue samples (both cancerous and healthy) from patients who relapsed, but not in patients who did not relapse.
- The prediction model looking at cancer tissue samples could predict a relapse correctly 73% of the time. It had a 75% accuracy for predicting rapid relapse (relapse with a short PSA doubling time).
- The prediction model based on examining healthy tissue samples could predict a relapse 67% of the time. It had a 77% accuracy for predicting rapid relapse.
For blood samples, looking at amplification and deletion of specific regions did not distinguish patients who relapsed from non-relapsed patients. Instead, the researchers looked at the size of copy number variations throughout the genome, as they had observed that the size of variations in patients who relapsed was significantly larger.
This blood-based prediction model had an accuracy of 81% for predicting relapse, and a 69% accuracy for predicting rapid relapse.
The researchers then validated their models on a further 25 samples:
- The cancer tissue analysis tool had an accuracy of 70% for predicting relapse, and 80% for rapid relapse.
- The healthy tissue sample tool had an accuracy of 70% for relapse and rapid relapse.
- The blood sample tool had an accuracy of 100% for relapse and 80% for rapid relapse.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers said that copy number variation analysis of blood, normal prostate tissue or tumour tissues "holds promise to become a more efficient and accurate way to predict the behaviour of prostate cancer".
This novel study looked at genetic abnormalities in patients who had prostate cancer and whether they could be used to predict whether the cancer would relapse and, if so, how soon. It found that prostate cancer patients had high numbers of "copy number variations", where there is an abnormal number of copies of a particular DNA region. These regions were also often large.
By comparing particular amplifications and deletions and the size of copy number variants, the researchers were able to build a prediction model to identify patients who would relapse and those who would relapse quickest (as demonstrated by a rapid increase in PSA levels). The prediction models could be used on DNA extracted from prostate cancer tissue, normal prostate tissue or blood.
This study is exciting because it raises hope that a test may one day predict the prognosis of patients with prostate cancer, which could in turn aid treatment decisions. However, this will only be possible once these findings have been further validated and a simple, inexpensive test developed and tested.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Blood test for missing or damaged DNA could provide hint of a prostate cancer relapse
Daily Mail, 7 May 2012
Links to the science
Yu YP, Song C, Tseng G et al.
Genome abnormalities precede prostate cancer and predict clinical relapse
The American Journal of Pathology, 2012;180:2240-2248


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Raven Torrey Smith made the day of one of Baltimore's needy dogs when he adopted an impossibly cute puppy Wednesday afternoon.
Smith, a well-known dog lover who embraces his pit bull Prince on billboards for the "Show Your Soft Side" campaign against animal abuse, adopted his puppy from the Baltimore Animal Care and Rescue Shelter, which just happens to sit in the shadow of M&T Bank Stadium.
He chose a black and white one with a bandit eye patch, a very tiny puppy that looks to be a pit mix.
"It's official," he Tweeted late Wednesday. "We have adopted 'Mama.'"
A bit earlier he Tweeted a picture of Mama, saying he was thinking about bringing her into his family. Fans immediately went wild. "You have to!" one Tweeted. Another simply wrote: "AWWWW omg do it do it do it."
BARCS also posted a congratulations to Smith on their Facebook page, showing him grinning with Mama and the shelter's executive director.
By the way, if you can't get enough tough guys who love animals, you might want to hit Pawject Runway tonight at Bay Cafe. The fashion show that benefits BARCS Franky Fund will feature some of the "Soft Side" campaign celebs walking adoptable animals in outfits down the catwalk.
Look for MMA fighter John Rallo, 92Q's Lil Black and boxer Chris Nissley.
The event runs 6:30 to 9:30 tonight at Bay Cafe, 2809 Boston St. Tickets are $20.
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I used to have a kid (Not really a kid, but not really a man either. He was around 30) who worked for me claiming he was antifa. I personally don't give a shit one way or another what he believed in as long as he worked hard. All i can say is that this was the lazyest sod I ever highered. He may have lasted a month or so on the job. He used to pretend he was French too. It's basicly how I feel about the entire "organization".
haha what kind of work was it?
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this whole thing is disgusting and fucked (on ""antifa's"" part obviously) but they are organizing, disrupting and pissing off what they see as the "enemy". ill just echo the sentiment that if yall are so ""extreme"" and genuinely outraged maybe take a cue?
It sounds like a small gig will start IVth Reich or something like that.
all im saying is that these "antifa" people are going around and fucking up events and pissing off people who they see as the "enemy", "scum" and any number of terms that people here use to describe them (the "antifas"). all the 'extreme' metal people who are all up in arms do nothing except whinge about "censorship" (which is pretty ironic coming from someone who has a fascist outlook). this certainly isnt a call to arms or anything (im pretty much left of left of left, though obviously i think this "antifa" group is off it's rocker and COMPLETELY lost). merely pointing out that "antifa" seems to be actually doing things against people they see as the "enemy" whereas "extreme metal"'s (for lack of better word) actions are putting out "devastating" CDs that will "eradicate all scum in it's path" or some similar nonsense.
The problem is that "extreme metal" is not actually at fault for pussying out or backing down. It's not like ANTIFA threats have ever had an impact on a given concerts attendance or anything of the sort. They always threaten either the venue owner or the media that they will be in attendance to disrupt this or that. The point is that anyone other than these sacks of shit, who happen to operate with the silent approval of powerful interests, get away with what people would argue constitute terrorist activity.
If ANYONE else said "We will put a stop to the next ______, with violence if neccessary", do you think for a moment that the public or the authorities would tolerate it? It is because they invoke the only taboos this worthless "society" has, that they enjoy the means to do what they do.
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yeh, ive actually talked on that point with someone. i have no suggestions for recourse or no desire to formulate them, haha. it just seems like someone dedicated to 'eradicating all scum' or whatever would come up with something other than a CD that 100 bubble people will hear.
it's certainly way trickier to do something in retaliation from the "extreme metal" side especially in germany. but as i said before, if you really care beyond hollow sentiments, figure it out, fuck it up and dont get caught. which seems to be what "antifa" is accomplishing.. with government support.. ugh, arent they supposed to be 'anarchists'?
whole thing is a shit show. SEACREST OUT!
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it just seems like someone dedicated to 'eradicating all scum' or whatever would come up with something other than a CD that 100 bubble people will hear
2.) Otherwise I agree:wink: , but that basically means the end of this discussion unfortunately. I have no interest in discussing quasi-terrorist activity on a public internet forum with a tagline that is also my stagename.
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Grafvolluth wrote:
I used to have a kid (Not really a kid, but not really a man either. He was around 30) who worked for me claiming he was antifa. I personally don't give a shit one way or another what he believed in as long as he worked hard. All i can say is that this was the lazyest sod I ever highered. He may have lasted a month or so on the job.
Typical, it's always left wing extremists defending and having their mouth full of the 'working class' while hardly any of them really work themselves!
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probert wrote:
[ putting out "devastating" CDs that will "eradicate all scum in it's path" or some similar nonsense.
Yeah, you want a war, you've a got a war, you play with fire, you'll eventually get burned. You love the second world war, well stay at home and read a book.
there's enough negativity in this world already
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I can't count the times I had an Antifa discussion in a local leftist pub. Although it is run by highly intelligent and open minded folks (lots of Metal is aired there, never had problems when setting up gigs in there, and wow, two of them are even bald headed) the urban Antifa gathers a lot there. They can't just imagine a random guy like me to be neither left nor right winged. Some guys really try to convince me (in poor language of course) to fight against the police and support exactly their ideas of society.
Last August I helped out at the Burial Invocation European tour (another complicated topic). Nevertheless Funeral Whore and Deathronation were support. On the third and last day some people left the venue as protest towards them, just by the fact that nearly all members had bald heads. Some were really afraid of getting a bad reputation through extreme leftist internet platforms caused by those fuckheads.
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baldness is a third reich problem.
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Dodens Grav wrote:
X.S. wrote:
The thought police knows no jurisdiction. The question is..Will you continue to allow them to question your ability to reason as an autonomous being, and permit them to invade your sovereignty of mind? Or will you repell their psychological and physical attacks, meet aggression with aggression, and exercise your natural right of self defense? The choice is obvious.. NO PACIFISM AND DEFEAT, KNOW VIOLENCE AND VICTORY!! CRUSH THESE SCUM!!!!
skeletor666 wrote:
its just highlight s how most people into black metal are spineless shits otherwise these cunts wouldnt see it as such an easy target ,because its all they want "an easy target "
stick a knife in one of them or smash their teeth with something ,then they will listen or fuck off,
i would love to see every antifa cunt swinging from a gallows a mile long .
Kaos wrote:
What is bizarre is that people somehow have lost touch with extremity as a genre. Extreme metal should be dangerous, and rightfully feared.
Praise holy death.
Well black metal doesn't really go in that group... at all.... Black metal is all witches and warlocks and graveyards....
We are finally free from gods or men who claim to be.
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probert wrote:
it just seems like someone dedicated to 'eradicating all scum' or whatever would come up with something other than a CD that 100 bubble people will hear.
And in two words, you summarize the problem of the far-right:
"bubble people"
That also describes all of the left, but that's another matter.
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Conservationist wrote:
Art should explore the unknown, feared, hoped, etc.
N. wrote:
well, it's the same old story, people always going out of their way to point out flaws of others, finding things they dislike and putting their noses in what doesn't concern them.
Quite. Extremity is interesting on many levels, whether it's the madness of the Westboro baptist church, a Howard Chaykin comic book or a recording by Nicole 12. I'd rather it be in existence and
our existence, casting some light on areas of life that repel and appall the herd, than it be extinguished due to moralistic tripe. The irrational behaviour by this brigade of do-gooders is absurd. PMRC similarities stated are correct.
Is this group active in targeting right wing political movements too or is it just heavy metal concerts with bands that have tenuous links to the right wing or perhaps even a Darwinist philosophy that are of a concern to them? Ludicrous.
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Arma Satanica wrote:
already written on the subject
, but you provoked a second response from me with this thread.
We must face the fact that a huge part of the blame for what happened lies not on the antifas. I have researched all the sources available and concluded that there was no direct antifa violence (Hell, did even the announced antifa meeting on 18:30 at Sunday actually happen?!) and no straight prohibition of the gig by the authorities, the orgs and club owners simply backed down under threats. All this happened without any prior informing of the gig attendants (e.g., there was no explanation when it was moved from Slaughterhouse to Blackland), and only later the public was presented with an accomplished fact. And I'm not even discussing the smartness of the original booking of the gig at a place which appears to be well known as lefties' hanging out place.
I wonder what would have happened if the gig wasn't cancelled and at least half of the crowd that attended NWN! would come to Blackland to see the bands or simply protect the event. Or could them?
What actually happened looks like second defeat in a row after the antifas ("shavki", as we call them in Russia) have pressured the Iron Bonehead shop into closure.
Well said, and you have hit the nail on the head alright.
German "Antifa" appears only that powerful because the "Brothers of Metal" (over here, at least) are spineless creatures by and large. As you have said correctly, the gig was
not prohibited
by local authorities. It's questionable if "Antifa" would or could have prevented the concert from taking place by their own efforts. They have
turned up to protest against any Metal-concert whatsoever, and they have
bothered to go out and to physically confront any "Metalhead" over his "fascist views", either. I should know, for obvious reasons.
It's not as if they lack the means to stage a protest turning violent in front of a venue holding a Metal-concert, or else. They just don't need to bother, because they understand the "Brothers of Metal" will be sufficiently intimidated by verbal threats and abuse alright. Rather than challenging "Antifa" by doing what you think is the right thing to do, as if they don't even exist, it does happen - like in this particular case - time and again that you read lengthy statements by organizers and bands alike, explaining why "Antifa" is wrong and how you feel all misunderstood and mistreated. Yet in the end, you will do as they ask and kick this band off the line-up or write that disclaimer ("No Politics - Just Music", blabla) in your next release.
Blackland not needed to cancel this event, no one has forced their hand to call it off. They did that of their own accord. Why, because they were surely afraid they'd share the fate of "Metal & Hell", that one record store in Berlin attacked by "Antifa" at the time of 2nd NWN-festival and closed down two weeks later. Was there any "Brother of Metal" rushing to aid and to support this store? None of the major Metal-magazines from Germany, be them print or online, did report, much less, did condemn the political violence against a record store selling Metal music. Nor did any German Metal-band of distinction voiced their disgust at this infringement of the freedom of art and expression. They all kept their mouth shut, because they all are too afraid to be accused of "guilt by association" themselves. Or worse, they are "leftists" themselves and even welcome what happened to "Metal & Hell" (like they did when Polish "Antifa" attacked Kroda in 2009).
For as long as Black Metal-bands and fans remain passive and indecisive when it comes to defending their free speech and all, they will get fucked by "Antifa" time and again. "Antifa" won't ever stop regardless of how many elaborate statements you are going to publish. Grow some balls and stand up to your adversaries; that way you'll not only earn self-respect but the respect of those who wish to challenge you over your beliefs, as well.
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What you just described is probably an order of magnitude greater then anything we have had happen here. There was some serious conflicts of a legitimately political nature in the early 90s between "Anti-Racist Action" supporters and the "Heritage Front", but thats the extent of it.
How feasible do you think your suggestion is, given Germany's "anti hate " laws? Im not as familiar with the situation as I would like to be.
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How feasible do you think your suggestion is, given Germany's "anti hate " laws? Im not as familiar with the situation as I would like to be.
Well, I don't see what ZOGermany's legislation does have to do with quit whining over "Antifa" abuse. What would be the first step to be taken, actually. I am really tired of lengthy statements by Metal-bands and promoters in response to some silly stunt pulled off by "Antifa"-kids.
I don't care to read any of them, so do you think they bother reading them?
Thing is, you can't even say their ("Antifa") arguments are all moot and invalid. Because they ain't. There are interviews, there are lyrics, there are affiliations of some kind... Plenty of these, mind you.
Just don't give a fuck and do what you want to do. Like, making this concert with every one of the bands going to happen. If you can't pull it off in the first place, then don't even bother trying. Now it's "Antifa" who can claim another easy victory, and they will surely keep pushing for more. If you'd dig deep enough, then you could turn up all sorts of "shit" on quite a few bands, even the really popular ones. Luckily (for the bands as well as the promoters), "Antifa" does not even know where to look, because they are outsiders to this scene.
Let's keep them out and don't give them any power and influence over what's going to happen in (Black) Metal, I'd say. It's that easy.
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because they are outsiders to this scene.
When you go to the local squad with a Satanic Warmaster shirt, no one will bother you, but a Burzum shirt would be a tough choice. At our local PC-Antifa-Club Negative Approach weren't allowed to play, because they are somehow affiliated to Seth Putnam (I think they played on his wedding or something stupid like that). Toxik Holocaust was vacant too, not because they have a split with Vomitor but for using the word
in their bandname
there's enough negativity in this world already
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Re: G3/S3* - IRAN/US/ISRAEL/ENERGY/MIL - US fears Iran weeks from producing 20% enriched uranium
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from producing 20% enriched uranium
I think that the new claim in the article is that Fordow may be weeks away
from producing 20% enriched uranium. Previously, the only facility the
Iranians had that had the capabilities to enrich to 20% was Natanz. While
it certainly isn't cause for panic, if Iran is able to produce 20% at two
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uranium, which cannot be used in nuclear weapons, but can be used as feed
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Subject: Re: G3/S3* - IRAN/US/ISRAEL/ENERGY/MIL - US fears Iran weeks
from producing 20% enriched uranium
Yeah, we've seen reports of Iran claiming to be able to enrich/working on
enriching uranium to 20% back in August.
On 12/15/11 7:07 AM, Michael Wilson wrote:
20% is still not useful for any weapons capabilities. Also Iran at least
has already claimed the ability to enrich up to this level right? for a
while now
On 12/15/11 4:40 AM, Ben Preisler wrote:
how do we gauge the credibility of this?
US fears Iran weeks from producing 20% enriched uranium
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Islamic Republic's production of material that can be used to make
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Hello I am Maryam'
I was born in Africa, not muslim but i bacame one after i met my husband 16 years ago.Today we have 4 children.My question is that, since i am still learning and we have always live in a foreign country,from early in our mariage my husband has always taugh me into him marrying a second wife in the foreign country to get citizenchip.I was never ok with it but he did it anyway in the first country even if they lived apart.But after many years of sacrifices it didn't work out.So we move to a new place.Now and while the oldest child is almost 16yrs, he start the same issue again and even go on date evey weekend and spend all his time on the net or on his phone texting.He greater excuse it that coran allow to do so if it is for a genuine raison like this one because he need to have that paper to move around easily and be able to stay with his family.The pressure on me and the kids are so much ,last week we had a fight after i ask him many time nicely to keep his business outside and he ignore it. He text girl even in bed naked with me.So he said i make his life complicated and disrespect him in front of the kids and move out.Anyway i have been pressuring him to take his own place to do his insanity because i didn't not want it and was worried it was going to affect the kids too.Now his friends and family are calling out to me to apologise and ask him back home. But my heart tell me otherwise and i know he will not stop until he get what he want even though all the kids are citizen of the western world and only he and i are not.
What does Islam say about that? And what should i do? I am not happy and feel being stepping on and usulted.Am I wrong for not wanting him back in those conditions?What about the vertue of family? Raising the kids right?
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You have several issues going on. One is basic respect- he should not be bringing "other women" into your house- through texting etc, and in bed with you. That is rude and disrespect.
2nd marriage. Yes he can marry a 2nd. Your decision is whether you would want to stay in those conditions.
I think you need to get some type of help- an imam who can do counseling etc. He clearly wants another wife. You do not. Not sure why he wants you back if you'd be unhappy.
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Maryam it is forbidden in Islam to enter into the most sacred contract, marriage, only to deceive and trick to obtain nationality. Muslims are not to use Islamic law to cause hardship to their wife and children, or to deprive a national of a Western country of their right to a marriage based upon trust. Your husband's actions are both unethical, and illegal. For him to suggest the Quran allows this, is even more shameful and despicable. Maryam you deserve better, and we ask Allah to help you.
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Two weeks ago I popped into my neighborhood liquor store. I'm fortunate to have a very good store right in my neighborhood, though my bank account would probably disagree. As I walked into the store, I noticed a familiar face greeting customers – Heaven Hill Master Distiller, Craig Beam. Craig and his father, Parker (namesake of this particular bourbon I'm reviewing) are two of the nicest guys in the whiskey industry. It was great chatting with Craig, hearing what's going on at Heaven Hill, but most importantly learning that his father was doing well in spite of his battle with ALS.
Each year, Parker Beam and Heaven Hill select a special expression of whiskey to release under the Parker's Heritage Collection label. This year's release is a 10 year old single barrel from high up in Rickhouse EE – one of Parker's favorite spots to select barrels. On top of that, the 2013 PHC release is titled the "Promise of Hope" bourbon as a result of a partnership between Heaven Hill and the ALS Association's "ALS Promise Fund". For every bottle sold, Heaven Hill is donating $20.00 to promote awareness of the disease, as well as to help raise funds for research and patient care. Kudos to Parker, Heaven Hill, and the ALS Association for coming together for such a great cause.
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Finish: Caramel and warmth from the wood spices linger long.
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"David Bowie Is," the exhibition catalog for the "David Bowie Is" retrospective that opened recently at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (currently breaking museum-attendance records, and running through August), is vast. "David Bowie Is," the coffee-table book, is also a pleasant orange. That's the first thing you notice: The front is orange, the back is orange, many interior graphics are orange; on the front, faded into a sunset hue, Bowie as youthful and spiky, that iconic lighting-bolt makeup slashing his face, and on the back, Bowie in his 40s, haggard and stricken. But composed. Always composed. There is not a picture in this doorstop — toothy Bowie at 6, sitting for what appears to be a school photo; cool Bowie at 20, cigarette at his side, staring questionably at the camera on a London rooftop; disguised Bowie several decades later, in a silver wig and disorientingly exact as Andy Warhol, on the set of the movie "Basquiat" — that appears candid or not self-consciously aware that someday, someone will wonder about this image, its meaning and how to replicate it.
Indeed, it's hard to say where to begin with this thing, because, as the exhibition's open title suggests, it's impossible to say where Bowie's headed. The book, like the show, is organized more by its themes — influences, style, sexuality — than a boorish collection of rock-star artifacts, though there are those: album covers, concept sketches from videos, mannequins wearing every conceivable Bowie costume.
And the stuff Bowie has kept — he reportedly has an archive of 75,000 pieces — is fun to stare at, the album-shoot contact sheets always telling. But the writing winding between the stuff, from music critic Jon Savage, Camille Paglia and others, lends context and picks away at Bowie with such insight — Paglia writes of Bowie's "genius for using the camera as others use a paintbrush or chisel, not from behind the camera but before it" — that it's a rare hagiography with soul. It's also, without a plane ticket, the closest you're going to get to this exhibition for some time. It's expected to tour, but that, like the man, remains a mystery.
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MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker's administration has signed a $58 million information technology contract with Accenture, the same company that was paid millions of dollars but failed to deliver a fully functional voter registration system to the state seven years ago.
Deputy Department of Administration Secretary Chris Schoenherr told the Associated Press on Thursday that Accenture learned from its mistakes that led to the voter registration contract being canceled in 2007.
Wisconsin awarded Accenture the contract to oversee a previously delayed complete overhaul of the state's various computer systems last month. Accenture scored higher than the only other bidder, Cherry Road, and the bid process was reviewed by an independent law firm and found to be fair and impartial.
Accenture is one of the country's largest technology consulting firms. President Barack Obama's administration recently turned to Accenture to take over control of running the much-maligned federal health insurance website.
Still, Democrats raised concerns.
"Given their spotty track record I'm worried taxpayers are going to get ripped off again," said Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine.
Schoenherr likened Accenture's job on the voter registration contract in Wisconsin to a football team that loses some games in the regular season but is still good enough to play in the Super Bowl.
"We expect them to bring their A team, bring their A game, and have a Super Bowl-level performance," Schoenherr said.
A message left with Accenture was not immediately returned.
Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, of Kenosha, said there should be some level of legislative oversight to make sure taxpayer money isn't wasted given Accenture's record in the state and past problems with other information technology projects.
"We don't ever seem to get it right," Barca said.
Wisconsin's elections board and the company reached a settlement in 2007 in which included Accenture agreed to pay $4 million to avoid a lawsuit. The Government Accountability Board had paid the company about $9 million before ending the deal because elections officials said it had not created a fully functional voter registration system.
Colorado, Florida, Kansas, and Wyoming also canceled contracts with Accenture over delays in delivering similar systems.
Accenture's $58 million contract on the new Wisconsin information technology project is more than four-times bigger than the voter registration one.
But the $200 million project has a checkered past.
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's administration spent about $11 million over three years to upgrade the state's various outdated computer systems before pulling the plug in 2008 in light of a half-billion dollar budget shortfall at the time. The work was only about 5 percent done before it ended.
Doyle had planned to restart the project in 2009, but it never happened.
Now, the project is starting again with the goal of having all the computer systems upgraded or replaced within three years. The total cost is expected to be about $200 million. All of the money to pay Accenture has already been allocated or will be borrowed and paid back over 15 years, Schoenherr said.
When completed, disparate state agency administrative systems to support financial, human resources, payroll and procurement activities will be replaced with one integrated system. Schoenherr said that will allow the state to operate more efficiently and over 10 years save an estimated $100 million.
The state's current operating systems, some of which are more than 30 years old, were identified by Doyle nearly a decade ago as needing to be replaced. Schoenherr, who oversaw two similar transitions in the private sector, said he was shocked at how out of date some of the state's IT systems are.
The state's payroll system was implemented in the mid-1980s and are COBOL systems, a computer language so out of date it's hard to find technicians who can work with it, Schoenherr said. One of the state's accounting systems is 21 years old and no longer supported by a vendor.
Schoenherr said the state's top information technology workers have been brought together to work with Accenture on the transition.
Given the scope of the project, and problems it's had in the past, many people don't believe it can get done, Schoenherr said.
"The No. 1 issue for us is we want something that works," he said.


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