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Waiting for the Afghan Apocalypse
A film like the depths of the Afghan soul. Filled with the experience of immeasurable pain and yet never at a loss for a good joke. A tragicomedy about the US and international military presence in Afghanistan that is clever enough to wrap up its criticisms in a humorous package. Over wide stretches this works, but not always.
Director Siddiq Barmak was under great pressure to succeed with this film. Following the critically acclaimed "Osama", the international film scene was awaiting a worthy repeat performance from the 46-year-old author. When "Opium War" was awarded the "Golden Marcus Aurelius" for best film at the Rome film festival in late October, at least a bit of the strain lifted from Barmak's shoulders.
Human beings amidst the horrors of war
Viewers will need a few minutes before they are able to immerse themselves in the fictional world of the film. After all, the reality of Afghanistan tugs like a lead weight on the mind of any halfway politically informed cinemagoer.
The story centres on two US soldiers, a white officer and his black aide-de-camp. Together they have just barely survived a helicopter crash. Soon these heroes will become helpless victims. But at the same time the frozen masks the soldiers usually wear suddenly take on more human features. This is Barmak's dream: to show "the human side" of people enmeshed in war and hostile dealings.
And then the grotesque comes into play: women and children fearlessly place themselves in the path of the American soldiers. The soldiers now only use their guns as telescopes. Even the helicopter wreck ends up as the spoils of the resident farming family, who use it as emergency housing.
Fantasy unmasks the dullness of reality
Out of this absurdity grow many strong images. All the fantasising about the impossible has the effect of revealing how dull the reality truly is.
But the reversal of roles is not complete. The Afghan family, which lives underneath a Soviet tank in a hole in the ground, remains on the dark side of life. The harvest from their opium field is not enough to subsist on.
Because of his debts, the father is forced to marry off his daughter to armed militiamen who suddenly appear out of nowhere in their green burkas. Are they Taliban or Al Qaida fighters? "They could also very well be Mujaheddin or simply everyday criminals", Barmak explains, alluding to the chaos that actually prevails in the country, where there is no such thing as certainty.
The armed men in burkas vanish just as fast as they came. Here as elsewhere, the director gives us only hints. This has a fragmenting effect, leaving many riddles unanswered.
Has man failed as a species?
The comedy takes a time-out when both the US officer and the old Afghan begin to ponder the apocalypse and a 'global Armageddon'. "As humans we have proven ourselves incapable of administering this planet", one of them philosophises. "Why is God?", asks the other.
This is a dark prophecy. If we are to believe Barmak, the film faithfully evokes the mood in present-day Afghanistan. At the same time, it reflects decades of deprivation and dashed hopes. After all, the old man in the film knows that: "The Americans will leave eventually, just like the Russians."
"Opium War" leaves the viewer with a feeling of helplessness. As if he himself were travelling through the contradictory reality of today's Afghanistan. There seems to be no escape from the country's plethora of problems. And all of the suffering here is man-made.
The only thing promising some relief from the catastrophe is opium. The foundering American heroes as well as the Afghan farmers take turns benumbing themselves with this drug. Suffocating the pain – an understandable weakness in the face of so much misery.
The child in the ballot box
"Is this doomsday?", asks an Afghan woman when a helicopter threatens to carry off her house. Donkeys come over the mountains bearing huge ballot boxes on their backs. Men in suits and black sunglasses, embodying the Kabul mafia, appear as heralds of the new democracy. But the act of free voting, just like everything else, functions anything but smoothly. In the dust a pregnant woman gives birth to her child. Instead of ballots, the newborn is laid in the ballot box. A poetic, bitter lament about the inchoate democracy that has been imported into Afghanistan.
Whether or not this rich symbolism will find favour with a large audience remains to be seen. "Opium War" is scheduled for cinematic release in Europe in early 2009.
Barmak has at any rate proven his courage. There are few filmmakers who address their subjects in the head-on manner he has chosen here. After all, there is something to lose. The US government is still the cook in Afghanistan. All others are at best waiters.
Martin Gerner
© Qantara.de 2008
Translated from the German by Jennifer Taylor
Interview with Siddiq Barmak
The Front Lines
In 2003, film director Siddiq Barmak shot the first highly-acclaimed Afghan feature film based on the rule of the Taliban. The film,"Osama", received a series of awards and accolades. The film marked the return of Afghan culture on the international stage. Siddiq Barmak just completed shooting on a new feature-length film project, entitled "Opium War". Martin Gerner spoke with him in Kabul
Interview with Siddiq Barmak
An Afghan View of Suffering
"Osama" is the first full-length film to emerge from Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime. It is an attempt to come to terms with the country's history – and it already won a Golden Globe Award. Amin Farzanefar spoke with the film's director, Siddiq Barmak
Kabul International Film Festival
The Screen as Political Battlefield
For the second year in a row, the International Film Festival in Kabul was overshadowed by violence, but the screenings of approximately 20 current productions from Afghanistan and neighboring countries were outwardly unaffected by the attack. Martin Gerner was on the scene


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IRAN - Explosion destroys much of underground Fordow installation
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:
Explosion destroys much of underground fordow installation.HT: IsraelMatzav.(WND).A major explosion has hit Iran's underground Fordow nuclear facility, where it was enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. The explosion has trapped some 240 Iranian nuclear personnel underground. The source for the report is Reza Khalili, a former intelligence officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who acted as a spy for, and eventually defected to, the United States.
An explosion deep within Iran's Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.
The explosion occurred Monday, the day before Israeli elections weakened Netanyahu's political control.
According to a source in the security forces protecting Fordow, an explosion on Monday at 11:30 a.m. Tehran time rocked the site, which is buried deep under a mountain and immune not only to airstrikes but to most bunker-buster bombs. The report of the blast came via Hamidreza Zakeri, formerly with the Islamic regime's Ministry of Intelligence and National Security,
The blast shook facilities within a radius of three miles. Security forces have enforced a no-traffic radius of 15 miles, and the Tehran-Qom highway was shut down for several hours after the blast, the source said. As of Wednesday afternoon, rescue workers had failed to reach the trapped personnel. The site, about 300 feet under a mountain, had two elevators which now are out of commission. One elevator descended about 240 feet and was used to reach centrifuge chambers. The other went to the bottom to carry heavy equipment and transfer uranium hexafluoride. One emergency staircase reaches the bottom of the site and another one was not complete. The source said the emergency exit southwest of the site is unreachable.
The regime believes the blast was sabotage and the explosives could have reached the area disguised as equipment or in the uranium hexafluoride stock transferred to the site, the source said. The explosion occurred at the third centrifuge chambers, with the high-grade enriched uranium reserves below them. The information was passed on to U.S. officials but has not been verified or denied by the regime or other sources within the regime.
Though the news of the explosion has not been independently verified, other sources previously have provided WND with information on plans for covert operations against Iran's nuclear facilities as an option before going to war. The hope is to avoid a larger-scale conflict. Israel, the U.S. and other allies already have concluded the Islamic regime has crossed its red line in its quest for nuclear weapons, other sources have said.
However, this information was not revealed for security reasons until several days ago when sources said the regime's intelligence agency, through an alleged spy in the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, had learned of the decision to conduct sabotage on Iran's nuclear sites on a much larger scale than before.
As reported, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an urgent meeting Tuesday with the intelligence minister, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and other officials to discuss the threat, and now it's clear the meeting included the sabotage at Fordow.
Sources in the Islamic regime previously have revealed exclusively to WND the existence of:
•A secret nuclear site in Najaf Abad.
•A list of Iranian scientists working on a nuclear bomb.
•A secret uranium enrichment site in Khondab, where the Russians and North Korean scientists are helping with Iran's nuclear bomb program.
•The secret bio-weapons site in Marzanabad, where, with the help of Russia, Iran has mastered production of eight microbial agents, arming its missiles with biological warheads.
•Another nuclear site at Bonab, where, with the help of Russians, uranium enrichment is taking place using laser technology.
While this is obviously great news assuming that it's true, there is still a long list of other facilities that could potentially endanger countries within bombing range of Iran that need to be destroyed. But getting rid of this facility is definitely great news, because the others apparently can be bombed from the air. I wonder who did this.... Heh. Read the full story here.

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Statin therapy and physical fitness amounted to a one-two punch for lowering mortality risk in a large cohort of middle-age and older patients with dyslipidemia followed for 10 years.
Patients who took statins and were physically fit had as much as a 70% reduction in the risk of dying during the follow-up period as compared with the least physically fit patients who were taking statins, according to Peter Kokkinos, PhD, of George Washington University in Washington, and colleagues.
Physical fitness also had an independent effect on mortality risk among patients who were not taking statins, reducing the likelihood of death during follow-up by as much as 47%, they reported online in The Lancet.
"Statin treatment and increased fitness are independently associated with low mortality among dyslipidemic individuals," the authors wrote. "The combination of statin treatment and increased fitness resulted in substantially lower mortality risk than either alone, reinforcing the importance of physical activity for individuals with dyslipidemia."
Expert and consensus panels on lipid management have endorsed statin therapy and lifestyle changes, including increased physical activity, to reduce cardiovascular risk. The benefits of statins have been demonstrated in multiple large clinical trials, and evidence from large epidemiologic studies has shown robust inverse associations between physical fitness and mortality risk in healthy individuals and those with cardiovascular disease.
Studies to date have provided limited information about the combined effects of statins and physical fitness on mortality risk or other clinical events. No study has evaluated the potential of increased fitness to lower mortality risk in dyslipidemic patients who cannot take statins, the authors noted.
To evaluate the combined effects of fitness and statin therapy on mortality risk, Kokkinos and colleagues identified dyslipidemic patients who had exercise tolerance tests at two Veterans Affairs medical centers during 1986 to 2011. Investigators rated each patient's fitness on the basis of metabolic equivalents (METs).
The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality, adjusted for age, body mass index (BMI), ethnicity, sex, and history of cardiovascular disease, drug therapy, and risk factors.
The search of medical records identified 10,043 patients, who had a mean age of 59, mean BMI of about 29 kg/m2, and peak MET of 7.4. The cohort comprised 5,046 statin users and 4,997 who were not taking statins.
Statin users tended to be older and had lower exercise capacity, higher BMI, and higher rates of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and use of cardiovascular drugs.
The lipid profile for statin users at baseline and after a median treatment period of 70 months was:
- Total cholesterol: 238 mg/dL and 172 mg/dL
- High-density lipoprotein (HDL): 47 mg/dL for both time points
- Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) 164 mg/dL and 101 mg/dL
- Triglycerides: 142 mg/dL and 134 mg/dL
In the nonstatin group, the lipid profile at baseline and at last follow-up with lipid assessment (median 51 months) was:
- Total cholesterol 234 mg/dL and 199 mg/dL
- HDL: 47 mg/dL for both time points
- LDL: 156 mg/dL and 140 mg/dL
- Triglycerides: 134 mg/dL and 134 mg/dL
During median follow-up of 10 years, 2,318 patients died. The statin group had an overall mortality of 18.5% compared with 27.7% among patients not taking statins (P<0.0001).
Mortality decreased with increasing physical fitness in both groups. In the statin group, the most-fit patients (>9 METs) had 70% lower mortality risk compared with the least-fit (≤5 METs) patients (P<0.0001). In the nonstatin group, the least-fit subgroup had a 35% increase in the mortality hazard (P<0.0001), whereas the most-fit members of the group had a 47% reduction in the hazard ratio (P<0.0001).
For the entire cohort, each 1 MET increase in exercise capacity was associated with a 12% reduction in the mortality hazard (17% in the statin group, 11% in the nonstatin group).
The study had some limitations, most notably the male veteran patient population, making it difficult to generalize the results to women. Also, the authors did not have data for cardiovascular interventions or cardiovascular mortality. Finally, there was no data on adverse effects of statins especially if the treatment interfered with exercise capacity.
In an accompanying commentary, Pedro Hallal, PhD, from the Federal University of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and I-Min Lee, MD, from Harvard Medical School in Boston said that the prescription of physical activity should be placed on a par with drug prescription.
"The cost of becoming physically active is lower than that of buying drugs, and moderate intensity physical activity has fewer side effects" they pointed out. "Unlike statins, physical activity should be part of everyday life."
From the American Heart Association:
- ACSM/AHA Physical Activity and Public Health: Updated Recommendation for Adults
- ACSM/AHA Physical Activity and Public Health in Older Adults
The study authors and the commentary authors reported no conflicts of interest.
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The LancetSource Reference: Kokkinos PF, et al "Interactive effects of fitness and statin treatment on mortality risk in veterans with dyslipidemia: A cohort study" Lancet 2012; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61426-3.
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The LancetSource Reference: Hallas PC, Lee IM "Prescription of physical activity: an undervalued intervention" Lancet 2012; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61804-2.


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David C. VanLiew, 89, went to be with his Lord and Savior Dec. 30, 2012. David was born March 14, 1923 in Okanogan, Wash., and lived in Okanogan until moving to East Wenatchee last year. He was a proud graduate of Washington State University, earning his degree in history. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, David left active Naval service but remained a member of the Naval reserves, retiring as a Lieutenant in the 1970s with over 20 years of military service.
After the war, David worked for the U.S. Forest Service. During the course of his duties with the Forest Service, he came upon two people involved in an accident and saved them by heroically pulling them from the wreckage. David was a jack of all trades and found success working as a businessman, maintenance worker, and orchardist. He retired as an employee of Okanogan County in the 1970s. Although David was skilled in a variety of occupations, his true calling was public service.
Both as a Navy officer and as an active member of many civic and fraternal organizations, David was committed to serving his country and his community. He was post commander for the Okanogan American Legion, was a loyal Mason and Shriner, was active in 40/8, and a member of the Episcopal Church. His selfless and charitable ways also extended to members of his family for whom he provided security and created opportunities when they were in need.
David loved to read about history and always kept up on news and politics. He was a man of strong convictions and an ardent believer in democracy and equality. He was always game for a spirited debate, well-informed about the issues of the day, and had an unequaled grasp on their context in history.
He is preceded in death by his father, William VanLiew; and his mother, Mabel VanLiew. He is survived by a sister, Josephine Fancher of Omak; niece, Janice Fancher of East Wenatchee; nephews, Jon Fancher of West Richland and Bill Fancher of Okanogan; and numerous grand- and great-grand nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were at 10 a.m., Saturday Jan. 5, 2012, at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Omak. A graveside with military honors immediately followed at Okanogan Valley Memorial Gardens. Afterwards, a reception celebrating David's life reconvened at St. Anne's. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in David's name to the Okanogan County Shrine Club, 111 Eastlake Road, Oroville, WA 98844.
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Panetta Praises Hagel as Choice for Defense
In a press conference at The White House, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta touted nominee Chuck Hagel's work on national security and public service. Obama has nominated Hagel to replace Panetta. Photo: Getty Images.
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Probably few things are more reminiscent of Italian home cooking than basic polenta, which is nothing more than a cornmeal porridge. In its simplest guise, it is served in that form with butter and a hard grating cheese, or with a soft, runny cheese. Or it can be topped with a meat or mushroom sauce or a stew. But polenta can also be turned out onto a marble slab or another hard surface, allowed to become firm, then cut into squares. These pieces have endless uses, especially for antipasti. Whether fried or sautéed in olive oil, or brushed with olive oil and grilled, they become crostini di polenta, delicious crunchy "toasts." Note that polenta must be made from polenta cornmeal. Cooked ground corn used for corn bread will not result in an edible cornmeal porridge.–Julia della Croce
LC Plain Old Polenta Note
This bare-bones basic polenta recipe isn't embellished with customary indulgences such as milk or butter or cheese. It's intended to be rather spare in its charms so that it doesn't draw undo attention to itselfs when layered with a rich meat sauce into a lasagna-like panful of goodness. Although lovely on its own, if you intend to serve it as a breakfast or a side, by all means, fancy it up.
Basic Polenta
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6 to 8
- 7 cups water
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 2 cups polenta cornmeal
- Boiling water, as needed
- 1. Bring the water to a boil in a deep pot. Add the salt and bring the heat down to medium. Add the cornmeal very slowly, almost in a trickle or, as the Italians say, a doccia, "like a shower." This gradual introduction of cornmeal to the boiling water prevents lumps from forming.
- 2. Keep the polenta at a constant simmer and, from the instant the cornmeal is added to the water, continuously stir it with a long-handled wooden spoon or whisk, always in the same direction. After all the cornmeal is absorbed, continue to stir until the polenta is thick and pulls away easily from the sides of the pan. If the polenta is quite thick but still not pulling, add a little more boiling water and continue to stir until it is ready. It should be thick, creamy, and perfectly cooked in 25 to 30 minutes.
- 3. If serving the polenta loose as-is, pour the hot polenta onto a platter at once, dress according to your recipe, and serve.
If making polenta crostini, pour the hot polenta out onto a clean oiled work surface or rimmed baking sheet. Using a rubber spatula, spread it to a thickness of 1/4 inch. Allow it to set. If desired, refrigerate overnight. Then cut into shapes and grill or fry or bake, as preferred.
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Event: The grand finale event of Star Gold Sabsey Favourite Kaun was held at Taj Lands End.
Guest List: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade, Arshad Warsi, Maria Goretti, Neil Mukesh, Sophie Chaudhary, Katrina Kaif, Celina Jaitley, Ranbir Kapoor, Minnisha Lamba, Sayali Bhagat, Rishi Kapoor, Tulip Joshi, Neetu Singh, Tanisha Mukherjee
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Date: 23-Dec-2007
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
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Nipple discharge is any fluid that comes out of the nipple area in your breast.
Alternative Names
Discharge from breasts; Milk secretions; Lactation - abnormal; Witchs milk; Galactorrhea; Inverted nipple; Nipple problems
Sometimes discharge from your nipples is okay and will get better on its own. You are more likely to have nipple discharge as you get older and if you have been pregnant at least once.
Nipple discharge is usually not a symptom of breast cancer. But it is important to find out what is causing it and to get treatment. Here are some reasons for nipple discharge:
- Pregnancy
- Stopping breastfeeding
- Rubbing on the area from a bra or t-shirt
- Infection
- Inflammation and clogging of the breast ducts (mammary duct ectasia)
- Injury to the breast
- Non-cancerous brain tumors
- Small growth in the breast that is usually not cancer (intraductal papilloma)
- Severe hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland)
- Fibrocystic breast (normal lumpiness in the breast)
- Use of certain medicines, such asbirth control pills, cimetidine, methyldopa, metoclopramide, phenothiazines, reserpine, tricyclicantidepressants, or verapamil
- Use of certain herbs such as anise and fennel
- Widening of the milk ducts
Sometimes, babies can have nipple discharge. Your doctor or nurse will call this "witchs milk." It is caused by hormones from the mother before birth, and should go away in 2 weeks.
Cancers that can cause nipple discharge are:
- Breast cancer
- Paget's disease of the breast (a rare form of breast cancer)
Nipple discharge that is NOT normal is:
- Bloody
- Comesfrom only one nipple
- Comes out on its own without you squeezing or touching your nipple
Nipple discharge is more likely to be normalif:
- It comes out of both nipples
- Happens when you squeeze your nipples
The color of the discharge does not tell you whether it is normal or not. The discharge can look milky, clear, yellow, green, or brown.
Squeezing your nipple to check for discharge can make it worse.Leaving themalone may make the nipple discharge go away.
Exams and Tests
Your doctor or nurse will examine you and ask questions about your symptoms andmedical history.
Tests that may be done may include:
Prolactin blood test Thyroid blood tests Head CT scanor MRIto look for pituitary tumor Mammography Ultrasound of the breast Breast biopsy
- Ductography or ductogram, an x-ray with contrast dye injected into the affected milk duct
Skin biopsy, if Pagets disease is a concern
Once the cause of your nipple discharge is found, your doctor or nurse can recommend ways totreat it. You may:
- Need to change any medicine that caused the discharge
- Havelumps removed
- Have all or some of the breast ducts removed
- Receivecreams to treat skin changes around the nipple
- Receive medicines to treat an underlying health condition
If all of your tests are normal, may not need treatment.You should have another mammogram and physical exam within 1 year.
Outlook (Prognosis)
In most cases, nipple problems are not
Possible Complications
Nipple discharge may be a symptom of
Skin changes around the nipple may be caused by Pagets disease.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
If you are a man and have nipple discharge, make an appointment with your doctor or nurse right away.
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Katz VL, Dotters D. Breast diseases: diagnosis and treatmentof benign and malignant disease. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL,eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap15.
Leitch AM, Ashfag R. Discharges and secretions of the nipple. In: Bland KI, Copeland EM III, eds. The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disorders. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2009:chap 4.
Gray RJ, Pockaj BA, Karstaedt PJ. Navigating murky waters: a modern treatment algorithm for nipple discharge. Am J Surg. 2007;194:850-854.
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Sometimes I feel like classical physicists must have felt when quantum mechanics first came marching through the door...
Lance Fortnow chats with Scott Aaronson about what physicists need to know about complexity, and Dave Bacon (almost)-snarks that maybe we should be asking what computer scientists need to know about complexity.
He is referring to quantum complexity of course, the premise being quantum computing represents the definitive description of all "efficient" computing devices, rather than a poly-time (or randomized poly-time) classical TM.
I'd like to think that all my years spent learning classical algorithms and complexity haven't gone to waste ;), but something Scott said on the podcast was very interesting. He argued that one should not expect that a QP algorithm will solve an NP-hard problem. Now I don't know if this is a view shared by the quantum computing community in general, but it's definitely something I didn't expect: I had always imagined that the odds were in favor rather than against BQP containing NP.


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AIDS Project Rhode Island is also recruiting restaurants.
"The goal is to get as many restaurants on board as possible, and get them filled with diners," said event coordinator Amy Stein.
Interested restaurants or volunteers with contacts at restaurants should contact Stein at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, visit www.aidsprojectri.org or follow them on Facebook. AIDS Project RI is a division of non-profit Family Service of RI.


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TORONTO — Ryan Kelly stopped walking down the hallway at Staples Center during a recent chat, a look of concern spreading across his face.
He took several quick, long steps and knocked on some wood paneling. He had just been asked about his perennially sore foot. He felt the need to make sure it remained a nonfactor.
"I've had no problems at all," he said.
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Android has long been the target of many lawsuits from large patent holding companies, especially Apple. As a Google owned patent for the notification bar as we know it, filed for in 2009, nears a possible approval, the tables may finally be turned.
When it comes to features, Google's Android is ahead of, or on par with, every mobile operating system available today. But there's one area where Android's severely lacking: patents. Google released an operating system without owning any patents on a lot of the key technologies used to make it function. If Android would have never taken off, this probably wouldn't be a problem. Instead, as Android has become a success, it's become the target for what is arguably the most powerful company in the technology industry, Apple.
Lawsuit after lawsuit from Apple has left Android and the manufacturers using the platform trying their best to fight back. If a patent on Android's notification bar is approved any time soon, Apple may be the one fighting back next.
In 2009, Google filed a patent for Android's notification bar. If you've used iOS 5 or know anything about Apple's "Notification Center," you know that it's a direct, blatant rip off of Android's notification bar. According to the filing, Google would own the patent for "a computer-implemented user notification method includes displaying, in a status area near a perimeter of a graphical interface, a notification of a recent alert event for a mobile device, receiving a user selection in the status area, and in response to the receipt of the user selection, displaying, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail regarding a plurality of recent messaging events for the mobile device."
Since Google doesn't own the patent to the notification bar yet, they can't do anything but sit back and watch Apple use it in all of their most popular devices. Even the latest version of the Mac's operating system, OS X 10.8, uses Notification Center. If Google's patent application for Android's notification bar is approved, there's little to reason to believe it wouldn't be an easy victory for Google, should they decide to take Apple to court over it.
It will be interesting to see what Google does with the patent should they manage to secure it. Will they immediately take Apple to court, or would using it as leverage in other patent negotiations make more sense? This will definitely be worth keeping an eye on.


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Adobe's Open Screen Project, which combines such companies like Nokia, Moto, Cisco, Sony Ericsson, Verizon, Qualcomm and Marvell, aims to make Flash more like Java. Namely, they want to make sure the platform Flash runs on is consistent, meaning developers can code once instead of many times. The project will try to encompass phones, desktops, mobile internet devices (internet pads), and set top boxes.
The big steps Adobe is going to take to make this work are:
- Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
- Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
- Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
- Removing licensing fees - making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free
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With Tuesday night's announcement that will change the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats to Hornets, here's a look at the history of the nickname that dates to the Revolutionary War.
Charlotte was incorporated in 1768 and named for Princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who would become George III�s queen. Since the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, one of the many anti-British resolutions written in Colonial America, was composed here, the town was targeted by the British government during the Revolutionary War. In 1780, British military officer Lord Cornwallis received such hostile treatment when he occupied the city that he dubbed Charlotte �a hornet�s nest of rebellion.� The city later proudly adopted the nickname for sports teams in baseball, football and, finally, basketball.
The baseball Hornets, who played from 1940-72 in the 3,200-seat Griffith Park in Charlotte�s Dilworth neighborhood off Magnolia Ave., won titles in 1902, 1916, 1923, 1931, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1952 and 1971.
Among the eventual major league stars who played for the Hornets were Van Lingle Mungo (1929), Early Wynn (1936), Harmon Killebrew (1956), Tony Oliva (1962) and Graig Nettles (1967).
League membership (with years):
1892 � South Atlantic League
1901 � Virginia-North Carolina League
1902 � North Carolina League
1905 � Virginia-North Carolina League
1908-13 � Carolina Association
1914-17 � North Carolina State League
1919-30 � South Atlantic League
1931-35 � Piedmont League
1936 � Carolina League
1937-42 � Piedmont League
1946-53 � Tri-State League
1954-62 � South Atlantic League
1963-72 � Southern League
The football Hornets, who played at Memorial Stadium for parts of the 1974 and 1975 seasons, were born out of the renovation of old Yankee Stadium. The New York Stars moved in October 1974 but the team � and upstart World Football League � would fold in October 1975 after 2 1-2 seasons.
The Hornets were coached by Babe Parilli and among the players for the short-lived team were former Shelby High and South Carolina standout Robby Reynolds, former East Rutherford High and North Carolina standout Lewis Jolley, former Charlotte Olympic High and Georgia Tech standout Randy Rhino and former New York Jets Super Bowl winner Gerry Philbin.
League membership (with years):
1974-75 � World Football League
The basketball Hornets, who played at the since-demolished Charlotte Coliseum off Tyvola Road, led the NBA in attendance nine of its first 10 seasons and had a record 364-game sellout streak that lasted from December 1988 to November 1997.
The Hornets featured popular standouts like Muggsy Bogues, Dell Curry, Larry Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, Glen Rice, Anthony Mason, Jamal Mashburn and Baron Davis and advanced to the playoffs seven times in 14 seasons.
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Phoenix Regional Heat Mitigation, Planning, and Response Research
This archives houses peer-reviewed literature, data sets, reports, and other materials generated by ASU researchers that may be informative for local and regional efforts mitigating the adverse impacts of heat. The collection is intended to serve as a resource for students, faculty, and staff collaborating on research initiatives related to heat as well as for community, local, state, and regional partners and other interested parties contributing to heat planning, preparedness, and response activities.
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- Cooler Phoenix Research Symposium 2017
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies: Phoenix
- Understanding Your City's Heat Islands: Overview and Key Considerations
- Impact of shade on outdoor thermal comfort—a seasonal field study in Tempe, Arizona
- Sky View Factors from Synthetic Fisheye Photos for Thermal Comfort Routing—A Case Study in Phoenix, Arizona
This study investigates the impact of photovoltaic canopy shade and tree shade on thermal comfort through meteorological observations and field surveys at a pedestrian mall on Arizona State University's Tempe campus.
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Budget £250-750 GBP
I would like a Mac application developed that builds a slideshow of any artwork found in the folder for a given album playing in iTunes, as follows:
1. There should be a fade transition between images.
2. The length of time for display each image should be the length of time of the currently playing track divided by the number of images in the album folder.
3. As the track changes there should be a smooth transition to the first image for the next track playing.
I would also like various metadata from the currently playing track to be displayed below the artwork - e.g. track name, artist, album, year, etc.
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DeKALB – National artists Greg Greenway, Joe Jencks and Pat Wictor each have made their mark as veteran touring singer-songwriters and have come together to form an exciting and popular trio. The Brother Sun Trio's harmonies and lyrics will provide a great evening of song and fun on Thursday, July 18, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb, at North Fourth and Locust streets in DeKalb.
Fusing folk, Americana, blues, pop, jazz, rock and a capella, Brother Sun is an explosion of musical diversity and harmony. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 18 at the church. Tickets are $15 each, and the doors open at 7 p.m.
Brother Sun's new CD, "Some Part of the Truth," debuted at No. 1 on the folk chart and remained there for nine consecutive weeks. The first track of the CD, "Lady of the Harbor," also debuted at No. 1. It remained there for four weeks and still is in the Top 10.
For more information, visit www.brothersunmusic.com or call Dan Kenney at 815-793-0950.


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I have some concerns about too much weight loss while breastfeeding:
- My baby girl is 9 months old
- I am 5' 6"
- pre-pregnancy:118 lbs
Now am at my all time lowest of 110. I eat about 1800 calories, and eat whenever I am hungry. I am not exercising at all.
Should I be concerned about the quality of my milk? My daughter is healthy and always happy, but I'm not sure I can stand to loose much more weight. Any others out there with this issue? I feel obnoxious talking to my friends about it, they don't really want to talk to me about being too skinny


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Accuray Incorporated to Speak at 10th Annual Needham Healthcare Conference
Mar 28, 2011, 12:21 ET
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that its management is scheduled to present at the 10th Annual Needham Healthcare Conference in New York City on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. ET/7:00 a.m. PT.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available online from the investor relations page of the Company's Web site at http://www.accuray.com. The webcast replay of the presentation will begin approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live presentation and will be available for approximately 30 days.
About the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System
The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is the world's only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively. Using continual image guidance technology and computer controlled robotic mobility, the CyberKnife System automatically tracks, detects and corrects for tumor and patient movement in real-time throughout the treatment. This enables the CyberKnife System to deliver high-dose radiation with pinpoint precision, which minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue and eliminates the need for invasive head or body stabilization frames.
About Accuray
Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is a global leader in the field of radiosurgery dedicated to providing an improved quality of life and a non-surgical treatment option for those diagnosed with cancer. Accuray develops and markets the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, which extends the benefits of radiosurgery to include extracranial tumors, including those in the spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas. To date, the CyberKnife System has been used to treat more than 100,000 patients worldwide and currently 222 systems have been installed in leading hospitals in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.accuray.com.
SOURCE Accuray Incorporated


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Roman and Jacob are waiting for you in a car in Alderney. Jacob and Roman point to a mysterious car nearby; they're Pegorino's men. Make a U-Turn. It looks like a U-Turn is impossible, but Jimmy's men will shoot the car's tires up a bit to make this U-Turn easier. Drive after Jimmy's goons. They will weave on and off the highway, so drive carefully and make sure to keep up. After a few minutes, the chase will finish in Northern Alderney near Leftwood. Be careful not to send the car into flames by then or you'll fail.
The target vehicle drives to an abandoned casino, Pegorino's apparent hideout. A cutscene shows Niko's car sliding to the side and stopping. Niko, Jacob, and Roman get out, take out their weapons and gain cover behind the car. Niko tells Jacob to take Roman home and take care of him until Niko really needs their help. Jacob and Roman run away as fast as they can and leave Niko to clean up Pegorino.
Get cover behind the trunk of the car and take out the men on the casino roof. After that, run closer to the casino and use one of the crates of salt as cover. Finish off as many goons as you can. Remember that grenades and a rocket launcher will help to get the last of them. Make sure there are no goons left standing, and then walk to the door at the front of the casino. Get cover on the right side of the door.
Upon entering the casino, use an Assault Rifle to take out most of the men. If there are any goons hiding, use a rocket launcher to finish them off. Once most, if not all of them are dead, run inside and get the first aid kit on the left wall if you need it. Kill the last of the men and go to the big hole at the back left of the casino.
Cutscene: Pegorino will run up some stairs screaming, "You motherfucker! Don't think for a second that this was anyone's fault but your own!" Then he leaps out of the sky door.
Chase him up the stairs and out onto the roof. Don't shoot Jimmy - he has infinite health at this point so you're wasting bullets. Focus only on killing the goons - some of them have a nice, bloody death.
Slide down the stairs up ahead and gain immediate cover. Use a strong firearm to take out the last of the men protecting Pegorino. Take out a rocket launcher once Niko rounds the corner to take out the goon's car. Alternatively, go down the ladder after killing the goons up and use a "chaos strategy" to waste the other goons. Keep running left and right but straight and keep shooting the goons and not wasting time by taking cover and all that. Once the goons on land are dead, two of Pegorino's guys will come up in a car and try to do a drive-by at you. Take your M4 or AK and shoot at the car. It will turn upside down, and once the goons come out of the broken car, shoot them while they are opening the doors.
Find Jimmy in a nearby boat and get on the motorcycle beside it. Stick to the coastline - don't lose Jimmy! It might be a bit hard to drive on the sand but don't worry about it.
As you are chasing Jimmy, you might see Roman and Jacob's helicopter passing over Niko's head. Roman explains that he will chase and kill Jimmy but Niko says "Not without me you're not!" Accelerate and go off the ramp highlighted on the radar.
Cutscene: Niko ditches the bike and grabs onto the chopper's platform.
Work your way onto the helicopter and Niko will take the steering. Fly at a medium altitude - don't fall into the water! Pegorino will shoot several rockets at the chopper; try to hold your ground. Once Jimmy has one rocket left, Jacob will use his own rocket launcher to send the boat in flames. The sharp blow causes Pegorino to fall over and accidentally smash the trigger of his launcher, blowing up the heli as well in a surprising turn of events.
Cutscene: Both the boat and the helicopter lose control and brutally crash at Happiness Island.
There will be a few of Pegorino's goons on the island. Finish them off and you will automatically get a two-star wanted level.
Approach Jimmy at the side of the Statue and kill him normally with any weapon (you can kill him while he is running).
Cutscene: Niko explains to the dying Pegorino that the Old Families thought that Jimmy was "a fat fucking joke". Niko turns around and laughs hysterically. Jimmy, with his last strength, raises his gun in hopes of killing Niko, but Niko turns around shoots Pegorino in the head with his AK-47, killing him for good.
- Fill your Assault Rifle as this will be the dominant weapon in this mission. Have at least half ammo on the SMG as well.
- Find cover in heavy shootouts as Pegorino's men have heavy firearms.
- There are alternative strategies available at various points in the shootout:
- Upon reaching the casino, go up to the steel fence and take out your rocket launcher and blow up all the goons' cars with it, killing most of them. Then take your M4 Carbine or AK-47 and blast the other of Pegorino's goons.
- When your car skids to the side and Jacob escapes with Roman, go to the back of the casino. Climb up the back ladder and get rid of the three snipers on top. Use their spot to eliminate all of the men by the front of the casino. When all seems quiet, jump off the casino and proceed with the mission following the tips above. This method is easier however will get Niko to lose more health.
- If you're a risky type or have full Health and Armor, go onto the roof of the Casino and proceed to the main "Roof" of the place. You should see some broken areas - you can kill the goons inside the casino from here.
- When you start chasing Pegorino in the casino, switch to your SMG to get to the bike quicker.
- Ignore the game prompt to stay low in the helicopter. If the helicopter is too low in an attempt to destroy Pegorino with the helicopter miniguns, the helicopter might sink into the river.
- Go First Person during the helicopter part. It's much easier to dodge rockets since you can see them coming better. Remember to bank a lot and change altitudes since just turning makes you an even bigger target.
- When you reach Happiness Island, immediately get out your sniper rifle and shoot Pegorino multiple times. Doing this will kill him right away and you won't have to chase him and you won't have to kill anymore of his thugs.
- When grabbing onto the helicopter and you're playing on the PC, the game says that you have to repeatedly tap the SPACE key to get on. However, this does not always work.


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Effect of Gender and HIV Infection on Zidovudine and Lamivudine Pharmacokinetics
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01386970
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 1, 2011
Last Update Posted : May 3, 2017
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
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- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|Drug: zidovudine 300mg and lamivudine 150mg as Combivir
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|51 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Sex and Disease Dependent Nucleoside Analog Toxicity
|Study Start Date :
|May 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2010
Active Comparator: HIV-negative
This group was used to compare intracellular ZDV- and 3TC-triphosphate concentrations to the HIV-infected group and in men versus women.
Drug: zidovudine 300mg and lamivudine 150mg as Combivir
twice daily for 12 days in the HIV-negative group and indefinitely for their care in the HIV-positive group
Active Comparator: HIV-infected
This group was started on ZDV-3TC based therapy. Intracellular ZDV- and 3TC-triphosphate concentrations were compared in men versus women and the HIV-negative group.
Drug: zidovudine 300mg and lamivudine 150mg as Combivir
twice daily for 12 days in the HIV-negative group and indefinitely for their care in the HIV-positive group
- To compare zidovudine (ZDV)- and lamivudine (3TC)-triphosphate concentrations in women versus men. [ Time Frame: 12 days ]1st dose and day 12 dose compared after 12 days
- Change in mitochondrial DNA before and after blood analysis [ Time Frame: day 12 (HIV negative) up to 2 years (HIV-infected) ]To investigate relationships between ZDV- and 3TC-triphosphate concentrations and changes in mitochondrial DNA
- To investigate relationships between ZDV- and 3TC-triphosphate concentrations and the incidence of clinical side effects. [ Time Frame: day 12 (HIV-negative) various longer duration in times (HIV-infected) ]To investigate relationships between ZDV- and 3TC-triphosphate concentrations and changes in mitochondrial DNA
- Drug levels compared between HIV negative and HIV infected subject [ Time Frame: 1st dose and day 12 dose ]To compare ZDV- and 3TC- triphosphate concentrations in HIV-negative versus HIV-infected subjects.
- genetic associations with ZDV and 3TC disposition [ Time Frame: study time frame ]Variability in genes encoding proteins influencing the disposition of ZDV and 3TC will be correlated with ZDV and 3TC disposition.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Documented physician-diagnosed HIV-infection (HIV+ antibody or plasma HIV-RNA+); HIV-negative volunteers must have a negative HIV-ELISA.
- Age 18 to 55 years;
- Either antiretroviral naïve, or no HIV-therapy in the preceding 6 months;
- Planned antiretroviral regimen includes standard doses of ZDV plus 3TC as part of the antiretroviral regimen. Once- or twice-daily 3TC will be allowed.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any medical condition that in the opinion of the investigators would jeopardize the intent of the study.
- In the opinion of the investigator, any concomitant immunomodulatory medications, chemotherapeutic agents, investigational drugs, and alternative therapies, including, glucocorticoids, recombinant growth factors or cytokines (e.g. Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, interferon-alpha or gamma, human growth hormone, etc), ribavirin, birth-control pills, and sex hormones that could interfere with the cellular pharmacology of the study medications;
- Concomitant medications that interfere with renal drug clearances including, tenofovir, adefovir, cidofovir, ganciclovir, probenecid, or any similarly problematic medication in the opinion of the investigators;
- Concomitant warfarin or daily aspirin (to prevent excess bleeding from biopsy).
- Pregnancy or a plan to become pregnant, or menopause;
- Any > or = grade II abnormality in hemoglobin, absolute neutrophil count, routine liver function tests, serum creatinine, or other organ function abnormalities.
- Any medical or personal condition that, in the judgment of the investigators, may influence the subject's ability to comply with study conditions, such as active mental illnesses, or plans to leave the geographical area.
- Inability to give informed consent.
- Triple nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase regimens.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01386970
|United States, Colorado
|University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
|Principal Investigator:
|Peter L. Anderson, PharmD
|University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center
Publications of Results:
Other Publications:
|Responsible Party:
|University of Colorado, Denver
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01386970 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01AI064029 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|July 1, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 3, 2017
|Last Verified:
|May 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|No plan to share.
Keywords provided by University of Colorado, Denver:
antiretroviral therapy
nucleoside analogs
mitochondrial toxicity
clinical pharmacology
cellular pharmacology
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lamivudine, zidovudine drug combination
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-HIV Agents


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< Sec. of State Drops In On Afghanistan
Mar 28, 2013 06:46
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Category: General News
New President Of The U of I
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho State Board of Education has named Donald Burnett as interim president of the University of Idaho. Burnett is the dean of the College of Law at the Moscow-based university. The board voted unanimously yesterday to place Burnett in charge while it searches for a permanent replacement for Duane Nellis, who is leaving to become president of Texas Tech University.


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No, There Hasn't Been A Big Shift Away From US Datacenters... Yet
from the give-it-time dept
Despite speculation that the recent PRISM revelations would result in a mass exodus from American data centers and web hosting companies, Netcraft has not yet seen any evidence of this. Within the most popular 10 thousand sites, Netcraft witnessed only 40 sites moving away from US-based hosting companies. Contrary to some people's expectations, 47 sites moved to the US, which actually resulted in a net migration to the US.Of course, I think it's way too early to conclude much about this at this point for a variety of reasons. First, we're still learning about the extent of the surveillance, and some of the more damning revelations have really only just started to trickle out. Second, moving your hosting services is not generally something you just do overnight. It can take quite a bit of time. Third -- and this is a big one -- I'd argue the bigger concern is less about companies moving, but that the next generation of users will never agree to use US servers. And, finally (and perhaps most importantly), prior to these revelations, the market for more private and secure hosting and communications was fairly limited. Some have pointed out that even for those who wish to leave US services, it's not clear where to go.
This trend is also reflected by the entire web server survey, where a net sum of 270 thousand sites moved to the US from other countries (in total, 3.9 million sites moved to the US, while 3.6 million moved from the US). Germany was the most popular departure country, with nearly 1.2 million sites moving from German hosting companies. This was followed by Canada, where 803 thousand sites hopped across the border to the US.
But I am expecting that's going to change. One thing that these revelations have made clear is that current solutions are not as secure or private as people expected and that this is an issue that many, many people and companies are concerned about. As such, it seems quite likely that there will be investment and entrepreneurship focused on these areas over the next few years -- and I fully expect that a number of more secure and private solutions, who actively promote themselves on these features, will hit the market.


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The 2012 Presidential Campaign heated up this past week with President Obama "coming out of the closet" on gay marriage. Whether it helps or hurts his 2012 chances remains to be seen.
Was anybody shocked at his support for same sex unions when voters in 32 states now have said " NO" to this issue? Don't worry, Iowa is still being protected via Senator Gronstal's refusal to let the good citizens of Iowa vote on this issue. ( He may be thinking you and I are too dumb to get it right? ) His concern for you and I does bring me to tears.
Last week I caught the headline in the newspaper at my local Caseys store that the JFK Profiles in Courage Award this year was going to the 3 Iowa judges we booted off the bench a couple of years ago over this same gay marriage issue. If this JFK award came out of Washington, rest assured, we got it wrong here in Iowa when we dropped kicked those 3 judges through the goalpost of life. Apologies may be in order?
Now I hear this morning that Obama picked up a cool $15 million in cash at George Clooney's last night as a result of his "coming out" announcement. (Pardon me, while I wipe away another tear of joy) I must digress at this point to Hollywood and primetime TV. Experts in the field will tell you most Hollywood movies today are aimed at the 14 to 21 year old group. This has been the case for many years. As a result, Hollywood and TV have a major influence on American culture today. Helps explain why opinion polls today are pretty much split 50/50 on the gay marriage issue. It also is no secret that the gay and lesbian population in the Movie and TV industry is much higher than that of the general population. Ask yourself, when was the last time you saw a movie showing the gay lifestyle in a negative light? When was the last time you saw a movie where critics of the gay lifestyle were shown in a positive light? Hollywood is THE great bastion of political correctness today in the USA. Given their fine record on drug abuse, alcoholism, sexual immorality, etcwhy would we not look up to them to set the moral standard for our country today?
Connecting the dots on gay marriage, Hollywood's $15 million to Obama and the American people's opinion on the subject is an easy task. What is not easy for an old guy like me is making up my mind on this issue. You need to understand my 60's generation was homophobic all the way. The World War 2 generation was also against gay marriage as well and their parents felt the same way. In fact, we may have had it "wrong" for the past 5,000 years or more. Even my Sunday School teacher may have had it wrong?
In conclusion, however, there is an ancient book that gives us the answer. "There is nothing new under the Sun." That Old Book has a lot of good stuff in it. You may want to read it sometime. And this, my friends, is something to think about.
Too old to be fooled,
Larry Loeschen
Estherville, Iowa