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Weekly Blogistan Round-Up no. 26/2009
June 29, 2009 /0 Comments/in datadirt, digital, microblogging, social.networks, web news, weekly round-up/by Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer
"Welcome to the world of tomorrow!" No, that's not right. Let me try again: "Welcome to the world of the last seven days!" That sounds better! There's a lot to show-and-tell, so without any further ado, let's jump straight into last week's social media news.
The Future of Facebook
There's been a lot of talk about Facebook's future last week. Regular Geek views the new multiQuery API plus the profile search as two important steps in opening the walled garden:
There is a very strong feeling from developers that a closed system like Facebook cannot succeed. While I tend to agree that a completely closed system will have difficulties, Facebook has slowly opened up little by little to a decently open system. They still have some work to do before they become as open as Twitter, but the foundation has been started.
And Copyblogger, even goes a step further in explaining "How Facebook kills SEO":
But the rise of Facebook creates a growing segment of the web that?s completely invisible to search engines – most of which, Facebook blocks – and can be seen only by logged-in Facebook users. So as Facebook becomes ever larger, and keeps more users inside its walled garden, your web site will need to appear in Facebook?s feeds and searches or you will miss out on an important source of web traffic.
ReadWriteWeb looks even further into the future. My guess is that scenario 4, "distributed social networking", has a huge potential, and Google wave might give this a huge boost:
The next step after Facebook may be no social network in particular at all – it may be social networking as a protocol. A set of standards that let you message, share with and travel to any social network you choose. Suddenly all the social networks have to improve because they are competing on quality of service, over customers that have free will and are able to leave at any time.
From blogging to lifestreaming?
Blogging is dead – that's what they've been saying for a couple of years now. But is lifestreaming here to stay? Of course a social media feed is a welcome guest on many sidebars, and the time budgets are indeed shifting:
It seems as if blogging is becoming old hat, or at least evolving into something smaller, faster, and more portable. I?m with Louis Gray, I?m not going to give up my blog, instead, I think of it as the hub of content, and the rest of the information I aggregate (notice the Twitter bar up top and the Friendfeed integration below). To me, joining the conversation is certainly important, but it doesn?t mean the hub (or corporate website) goes away.
19 Twitter apps compared
Mashable compares 19 twitter clients, from pro-dream-machine to keep-it-simple:
Now that Twitter is older than a toddler, you have a variety to choose from. From apps for groups, Mac and PC specific clients, and apps that let you do a whole lot more than tweet, you can use this guide to help you find the desktop client that?s right for you.
And just in case you don't know what to do with these clients, take a look at his Mashable posting on twitter strategy..
The matrix tie-knot
I found Henry's video on Lifehacker – this one should make many Matrix fans quite happy:
If you're a very sharp-eyed fan of Matrix movie trilogy, you'll recognize the knot captured below as a rare specimen sported by "The Merovingian." The knot itself didn't originate with the movie, and isn't rightfully named "The Merovingian Knot," but the Ediety Knot. Still, it's nearly impossible to find any reference to it independent of the movie, so let's just keep the Wachowski-an etymology for now.
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It took me a couple of tries and my knot is still not perfectly symmetric – but I must say: great video-tutorial!
The cost, the pay-off, the quickie
The Cost (and Payoff) of Investing in Social Media sure is an impressive title. So there's no need for actual arguments, especially when the introduction acts as a series of climaxes:
But is social media right for your business? Could it be a free substitute for a traditional (read: expensive) advertising plan? How much time should be spent in the care and feeding of all those profiles? The answers may surprise you.
It sure did not surprise me – actually, I'd have guessed that the answer would be "maybe". But one thing I do know for sure: SM strategy (read: social media. don't read: Sado-Maso) is not a series of quickies and requires careful analysis and planning. So this is probably one of the dumbest quotes I've read in a while:
Time is money, but Weathers says it's all about how you manage it. "Previously wasted down time like sitting in taxis for 20 minutes or standing in a bank line for 10 minutes is now spent on my mobile phone, bouncing between Twitter and Facebook. It's getting easier and easier, and for branding an entrepreneur, I think it's golden."
While writing the occasional tweet on your way to the airport or answering Facebook messages via Smartphone-client is a great time-killer for geeks, this is not what social media marketing is about.
btw: bad, bad entrepreneur.com! Using a javascript that dangles with the contents of the clipboard when copy-pasting is just… not a good thing.
Most WordPress Themes suck!
And it's Blair Williams who claims that – author of the mighty and highly acclaimed Pretty Links for WordPress. Now we all know that good looks are sometimes sufficient for a night of fun, but if you're thinking about a long-term relationship, there are plenty not-so-visible factor to be considered: in the case of a WordPress template comment formatting, landing pages and many more are among these. In his post, Blair outlines the 10 most common issues with WordPress templates – definitely worth a look if you're thinking about switching!
I'll think a theme looks clean, beautiful and professional ? then I install it, have a look under the hood and realize that it has fatal flaws.
This really makes me wonder how many people are slaving away on their websites and blogs all the while their site is dying a slow death because of a WordPress Theme that they think is fine.
Br?no comin' up
It's been a while since Sacha Baron Cohen shocked the world as Kastachstan reporter Borat. In his new movie he portrays a gay Austrian fashion journalist – I'm so looking forward to see this film – starting on 10th of July. The trailer is *very* promising:
Man's Best Friend is the title of zedzap's bw-shot – very nice pic, no HDR this time :mrgreen:
This movie has got it all: action, car stunts, daring love scenes… unlike the director of the latest Bond movie, Asim Varol did a great job:
And that's it – see you again next week! Thanks for you whuffies and never forget: comments and feedback make blog authors happy :mrgreen:
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Pownce shuts down – And the moral of the story?
December 3, 2008 /0 Comments/in datadirt, digital, microblogging, web news/by Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer
Microblogging-platform Pownce announced its shutdown on 15th of December yesterday. The company was bought by Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type and TypePad. The team will continue to work for Six Apart on new projects – seems the company saw no light at the end of the infamous twitter-tunnel: while Pownce hat a couple of unique features to offer, the community never reached the critical size that turns microblogging-fun into a profitable business.
Pro-users who had to pay 20$ per year for premium features will be notified via e-mail, a new export features enables powncers to export their blog for future re-import into TypePad and/or WordPress, check the official pownce blog for details. My personal grief is strictly limited, as I wasn't a regular user. Why would I? Contrary to blip.fm I didn't see much value in maintaining a second microblogging account; Twitter is already consuming enough of my time. And I was not the only one to abandon ship:
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Guest post by Kim de Vries: Your Friend has just tackled you
November 12, 2008 /1 Comment/in datadirt, digital, social.networks, theoretically/by Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer
Bite, lick, or tackle them back, or click here to theorize about what this all means. I'm very happy to publish the first guest posting here on datadirt. Kim De Vries, who I met via Facebook, wrote a very interesting paper about the symbolic kind of communication we all know so well from social networks like Facebook. "He who never superpoked shall throw the first rock" – enjoy the reading! Dr. Kim De Vries is working at the California State University Stanislaus, you can reach her at kdevries [at] csustan.edu
Though Facebook was initially the province of college students, it has become popular with a broad range of users since opening its door to anyone with an email address in September 2006. However, until very recently, most research on Facebook has focused on the student demographic rather than exploring how Facebook is growing into a massive online society that is inhabited by many different groups using Facebook in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. The academics studying Facebook generally join it and use it in order to observe students; now that more faculty are using Facebook outside the classroom, to organize events and to socialize, turning the focus to our own use of Facebook reveals that our own communities are being affected as well.
As of August 2008, Facebook is one of the most rapidly growing social networks, boasting 100 million active users, translated into twelve European and a growing number of Asian and African languages. The extent to which groups of people connected on Facebook can be defined as communities is highly debatable and a useful alternative has been suggested by Rieder and Sch
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Twitter: cosmetic skin updates
September 21, 2008 /0 Comments/in datadirt, digital, microblogging/by Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer
While US, Indian and Australian users are still able to fully use twitter's great SMS features, European twitter fans dearly miss the fastest and most direct way to receive updates, a proven system that even works with a 10 year old mobile. I was pretty shocked about the seemingly impossible mission to find a partner for the European market, as one would guess that players like T-Mobile should actually be pretty interested in hugging twitter closely. And I don't believe that a few cosmetic design touches will make up for missing SMS support. I hope that twitter finds a way to enable short message service usage in Europe again, but on the other hand that's the best market-entry point for competitors, as long as they are able to offer SMS integration.
There's no doubt I like the new design – no major surprises in here, just a few investments into the future:
The most significant change you'll notice on the logged-in homepage (/home) is that we've moved the tabs that were on the top of the timeline to the right sidebar. We did this for a couple reasons. For one thing, it makes them larger targets and easier to access. But more importantly, it was an investment in the future. We plan to have more tabs, and we'd run out of room putting them along the top. This was the driving factor for this redesign, but you won't see all the benefits until a future release (hopefully, very soon!).
The completely unnecessary archive tab has been removed (finally – it showed exactly the same tweets that are listed on the personal profile page), some more Ajax is supposed to speed up page loading and the customizable design editor has evolved, featuring a couple of standard templates. The "fave" and "archive" icons have not disappeared completely, but they only become visible now when the mouse pointer hovers a tweet.
Like most power tweeters, I don't care much about those things – I don't know a single heavy user who is actually using the web interface, so the look of the skin is not really a big topic here. There's a large number of clients (from iPhone to Linux) available, and brilliant little pieces of software like Twhirl make twittering a lot more fun. I'm really curious about the new features, and I'm pretty sure the next release will not just be cosmetic one.
btw: Friendfeed bought some new clothes as well.
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Get your very own Perpetuum Webile!
July 8, 2008 /0 Comments/in datadirt/by Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer
The social web is all about user participation, right? Well, maybe. Kind of. But the truth is that the web 2.0 these days is all about syndication: call it cross-, auto- or whatever-posting, feeds are running wild. Just take friendfeed: ff posts to facebook, twitter posts to facebook… soup.io, an Austrian Startup, also has nice and nifty auto-syndication features. The same can be said about tumblr. So what happens when you let these two mighty beasts battle, umm, I mean talk to, each other?
Would one achieve eternal RSS action Zen that way? Yes, it is that simple, actually – you don't even have to spend the best years of your live in a monastery:
Set up an account at Soup.io, one at – and if you wish, one at friendfeed.
Enter your tumblr username in soup.io's "external services" list, then enter the soup.io feed as an external tumblr feed. Optional: link both feeds to your new friendfeed account (rss sources).
No third step, you're done: you just built your very own perpetuum webile!
What's going to happen? Let's say you post something on soup. It then gets repostet on tumblr, which again triggers a posting at soup which in turn… you get the point. And friendfeed documents it all. Ain't that great? Finally, the human factor has been eliminated from the communication formula. When I was a kid, one needed an analogue cam, a TV and a darkened room to achieve endless loop-back effects; the results were more vivid, and the visual far more interesting though than my perpetuum webile. I tried this, check it out:
perpetuumwebile.soup.io/
perpetuumwebile.tumblr.com
What really happens is rather boring though: after a couple of reposts the whole process comes to and end: virtual entropy is kicking in… no endless fun.
Can you think of any other such feedback-mechanisms? Of course I integrated my tweets, my friendfeed *and* my blog with my facebook accounts – now triple actions are swarming all around. A hash key as lowest common denominator could probably subdue the chaos – but for now let's rejoice and look forward to the age of machines that are almost as dumb as humans: a true scientific breakthrough.
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7 Reasons Our Troops Are Poor
Cecil Kenmill
For several years, I was a soldier-medic in the U.S. Army. I saw countless military and family members. Now I am a veteran looking back.
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US Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue
Why are our soldiers poor?
"Support the Troops" everyone says without a second thought. Well, if everyone is supporting the troops why are they so poor?
I couldn't imagine myself writing an article about poverty in the military. Simply put: while in the Army I did just fine. The Army was paying off my student loans and I was receiving my signing bonus as promised. I had no other bills or debts. My food, housing and utilities were paid for because I lived on post (on the military base). I didn't have a car so I didn't worry about the gas, insurance, repairs and so on. I didn't have a wife or any children to worry about. It was gravy.
Money and finances were never an issue with me so I didn't understand how fellow service members could live in poverty. Then, as I talked to more and more of our troops, it became clearer and clearer: poverty in the military is very real.
Our troops are drowning in debt and their children are starving. Here's why it's happening and what you can do about it.
DISCLOSURE: I served in the US Army. I cannot speak for the other branches but based on my conversations with other service members, things aren't any better. Also, in this article I will often refer to the soldier as "he," but only to keep things simple. Don't forget there are many female soldiers out there working and fighting just as hard.
First thing's first: these aren't the reasons our troops are poor
I know what you're thinking: this is all a myth! We love our troops and we stand by them 100%! There's no way we'd let them fall below the poverty line! Leave no man behind! Support the troops! Support the troops! [Sudden, inexplicable chest-beating] There may be a few military families having trouble but that's their own fault!
Think so? How many charities are there for active duty service members and veterans? Now how many charities are there for defense contractors and politicians? Thank you.
But if you still think it's a myth, then keep reading. This article will address reasons that soldiers are poor, specific to the Army and/or military policy. These are challenges no civilian will face.
For now, here are a few reasons soldiers are poor but, in fairness, they can happen to anyone at any time.
Many recruits joining the Army are already poor and in debt. For them, the Army is their last hope and by then their financial lives are in ruins. It's not fair to blame the military for this. OK...
Some soldiers turn to drugs or alcohol to cope with the stress of combat. Substance abuse can ruin every aspect of life, especially financial. The military provides many facilities and programs to help our soldiers, including inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment. It's not the military's fault they chose this path. Understandable...
Some soldiers go on spending sprees once they see a regular paycheck. This happens often with young soldiers. DVDs, electronic equipment, pimped out cars and so on. Yeah, I've seen plenty of that before...
Military wives become complacent and bored. They become "baby machines." It's become so bad that the Army offers free vasectomies! Hm... I'd have put this differently but I'll give you that one... (Yeah, I actually saw this reason in a forum somewhere, it made me sick and I don't get sick easily)
Unfortunately DFAS (or Defense Finance and Accounting Service) isn't perfect. Sometimes they slip up with pay and a military family can get behind. And yeah, sometimes it takes tons of paperwork and bureaucracy to get things back on track but they always make up lost payments. They don't rip anyone off. This happens in the civilian world too, especially with large companies. Yup, we've all been there...
7. The Army doesn't pay enough
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OK, now let's get started...
To put it simply the Army doesn't pay enough. Here is the latest pay scale for our lower enlisted also known as junior enlisted. If you enlist--that is, walk into a recruiter's office and sign up--this will be your monthly pay. If you already have a college degree you will probably start at E-4 (Specialist). Not bad in today's economy. But what if you have a family?
If you have a wife and children, each one is considered a dependent. Like you, they will get free medical and dental coverage. Nice! Also, each dependent will get you extra pay per month. Cool! Oh, if you decide to live off post in private-sector housing you will get extra pay per month for that as well. Wow, does it get any better? Well, none of these extra pay raises match the cost of living! Not cool.
All this is done on purpose. See, the Army cannot outlaw you from having a family but it can "punish" you by not paying you enough. The more it hurts your wallet, the less likely you'll tack on another dependent. Now if you're 18 years old that's fine but what if you're 32? Do you have to stop serving the country you love for the family you love?
As for living off post, the military doesn't want its on-post housing empty so it doesn't pay you nearly enough to cover private-sector housing. It's much cheaper to live on post and many families do. Those who don't will feel the pain.
My drill sergeant once yelled "If the Army wanted you to have a wife, it would have issued you one!" Yes, Drill Sergeant!
6. You will need a car
Think of military bases as cities. They have just about anything a soldier and his family would need: hospital, restaurants, department store, school--you name it. However, to access any of these places the military family needs a car. It's urban sprawl.
Now, because of the unpredictable or long hours a soldier often works, he and his family will most likely need two cars. This means all the expenses that come with them: gas, insurance, maintenance, fuzzy dice, and so on.
Some of this is understandable because many soldiers work in dangerous facilities far from residential areas. These are places where soldiers practice tank maneuvers and target missile systems. There's no mass transit.
I didn't have a car. It was a blessing from above that the hospital I worked at wasn't far from the barracks so I walked to and from every day--even when on call. Most weekends I stayed on post, going to the library or hanging out with friends in the barracks. This saved me a lot of pain and suffering because...
5. Predators are everywhere: used car dealers, mechanics, payday lenders*, pawn shops...
You know you're getting closer to a military base because the landscape suddenly changes. From being in the middle of nowhere, businesses you'd expect in our nation's finest inner cities start popping up. These include used car dealers, payday lenders* and pawnshops. There are also cheap apartment buildings and strip malls.
All these cater to the military population. All of these are here to suck money out of you. You'll find strip malls and fast food restaurants anywhere you find people so I'll give them a pass but everyone else is out to get you.
Want to live off post? Live in an apartment nearby! Sure the rent is steep but it's better than a two-hour commute. Are times tough? Pawn some jewelry or get a payday loan*! Need a car but can't afford a new one? Get a used one! Oh, did that used car explode on you? Get it towed and repaired!
The predators are out there and their strike is deadly and cruel. These businesses have no problem gouging service members and their families because they know two things. First soldiers cannot run away or just disappear--if they do they are deserters. Next soldiers get paid every month, no matter what.
The used car dealers are especially tough. They know you need a car so they offer cheap clunkers with high interest loans. It goes in and out of repair shops where the mechanic will be sure to squeeze even more out of you.
You won't feel a much bigger bite until you realize that...
4. Soldiers are reassigned frequently
US, Estonian troops patrol
One day you get a piece of paper. You've been re-assigned to another base. This is called PCS (or permanent change of station). You have three days to wrap things up at your current base and two more to get to your new one. This happens to soldiers all the time with no warning. Your first thoughts are not of your loving wife and family but your piece of cr*p car.
Your new duty station is a thousand miles away. You know that your car can't make the trip (it can barely make it to work). So you have to sell it. But to who? Who will buy it? You'll never find a buyer in time. So, it's back to the dealer and he's waiting. He knows your desperation and will take advantage of it.
Then there are the costs and headaches of moving. Like many people who move, especially families, stuff has to be left behind. It's not worth taking some things so they are sold for pennies on the dollar or just given away.
You'll move so often during your career that these costs add up over time. The Army knows this and compensates you. All you have to do is fill out this form but...
3. Some forms are impossible to fill out
While in the military I moved only twice: from Basic Combat Training (BCT) to Advanced Individual Training (AIT) then PCS to my first and final base. I had no family and all my possessions I could carry on my back so it wasn't so bad.
Whether you're moving or you have orders to travel for classes, courses, medical testing or whatever, you must pay for a lot of expenses beforehand: travel, lodging and dining. Then when the traveling is all finished, you must fill out a form (it's called the "DD-forget-it-you're-screwed") and attach original copies of all receipts to get reimbursed. This form looks like a checker board that's been chewed up by your dog.
I have nightmares just thinking about it. Every time I filled one out, it was returned to me because I forgot something. Every time. When I finally do get things "right," I only get some of my costs reimbursed. It's hardly worth the time.
Some people have the talent to glide through bureaucracy and some don't. Many just don't have the time. Why are things so perversely complicated? Things should be fine as long as you have all your receipts--unless the Department of Defense doesn't want to reimburse you for your costs.
Sometimes forms don't even apply because...
2. Army issue versus Army regulation: there's a big difference
There are two types of equipment in the Army: Army issue and Army regulation. Army issue means that the Army gives it to you for free to use. This includes things like your rifle and helmet. Army regulation is stuff you can buy (out of pocket) and use. Any civilian can buy this stuff. There are strict guidelines on what qualifies as Army regulation but it's reasonable. Army regulation includes equipment like your watch and knife.
OK, this could get me in a lot of trouble. I can feel the hate mail brewing but I'll say it anyway: some of the stuff the Army issues is junk. This isn't often but it is frustrating. When the Army issued me a flashlight it didn't work. My buddy's flashlight didn't work either. We had to buy our own, out of pocket. I'd like to give you more examples but the jingoist chicken hawks might lynch me.
Then there's lots of equipment that the Army just doesn't provide. Technically, the soldier doesn't "need" it but it makes his job a lot easier. Look below and you'll see the Camelbak HydroBak. It's not Army issue but it's Army regulation: you can use it but you'll have to buy it if you do. If you ask your boss why the Army won't pay for it, he'll tell you to shut up and use your Army issue canteen--and he's right. The canteen does its job.
Things were tricky not long ago with how the military handled body armor. First the Pentagon was not issuing any so the troops had to buy their own, which cost them over $1,300 each. Then the higher-ups said that the body armor was no longer Army regulation! How is a soldier barely making ends meet supposed to handle this news? How can he not take it personally?
It's been a few years since body armor has been in the news. I can only pray that things are better. However, there are still thousands of soldiers who buy their own equipment, out of pocket. As former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once said, you "go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
1. The Army won't always hold up its end
The enlistment bonus is pretty sweet. Do your time and get paid. It can easily reach $40,000. If you have student loans, the Army can pay those off, too. All you have to do is sign up, right?
Wrong. See, once you're in, you're in. At this point there are only two reasons to pay your bonus as promised. First, if they want you to re-enlist. Second, so you spread the good word to your civilian buddies. Aside from that the Army doesn't care whether you get your money or not.
In fact, it might do everything it can to get out of its end of the deal. Didn't finish BCT or AIT on time? Bonus canceled. Was your promised MOS (military occupational specialty) overbooked? Bonus canceled. Didn't do you're whole time because you were killed or injured? Bonus canceled. The list goes on.
Just ask Chelsea Wells of Oregon or Jordan Fox of Pennsylvania. There are also the countless cases that don't make the headlines. It's only when these stories are shown on national television does the military wake up.
Then there's this whole student loan business. It's pretty sweet but there are strings attached. There is a ceiling of around $50,000. Also, student loans that are in default or late don't qualify. What? $50,000 barely covers two years of school these days! And late or default student loans don't qualify? Aren't these the soldiers who can benefit the most from this?
Some military families need this extra money. They expect it and plan ahead for it. Then, to see it pulled out from under them is too much of a shock. They are suddenly broke.
Don't get me wrong, the Army pays its bonuses when things run smoothly but when it doesn't it hurts.
Then it's just as tough after you serve
About payday lenders and the military...
* Yes, I know about the Military Authorization Act of 2007. It is very helpful but many businesses are sneaky so only the truly desperate soldiers find a way. Then they're trapped for life. It's pretty much "don't ask, don't tell."
Is this fair? - Be honest here
What do you think? - Comment below
CashBlog LM on October 13, 2013:
Lorelei Cohen from Canada on March 11, 2013:
I don't like to see anyone shafted out of what they are promised and that should never happen. But tough economic times are hurting many individuals and families. There is only one way out and that is to start lowering our national debts so our countries pay less in interest and have more money to offer to it's citizens.
pawpaw911 on January 09, 2013:
They sure don't make it easy. Well done. It took my son a while to recover from being stop lossed, but he is doing fine now.
myspace9 on December 29, 2012:
Very informative and intreresting lens. thanks for squidliking my lens.
Gloria Freeman from Alabama USA on November 09, 2012:
WOW! what a great read, learned so much about the soldier life. Thanks for sharing, blessed and added to my lens..Squid Angel flinnie.
Earnlat on September 30, 2012:
Extremely enlightening work! I've always known of some of the military shortcomings, but this lens is truly intense! Thank-you for the education.
Oh yes, thanx for squid-liking mine as well!!
Lori Green from Las Vegas on September 25, 2012:
Fantastic Lens. BLESSING
Rankography on September 16, 2012:
Thanks for this informational lens. You have put a lot of work into it. Blessings.
Tobint44 LM on September 08, 2012:
This is crazy, thanks for the lens and the enlightenment. We definitely need to do more to assist our troops!
eccles1 on September 08, 2012:
I remember when my father was in the military my parents were always fighting about not having enough money, and I guess it is still happening today some things don't change.
LaurenIM on September 05, 2012:
I agree with the predator issue. Soldiers are recruited when they are very young, without social skills and not enough life experience to be able to handle the extreme world they embark on. Most, grow up in those extreme environments. Anyway, I don't think it's about the money they receive or no. I do believe, we should spend that money on educating them on self-development.
Susan Deppner from Arkansas USA on September 04, 2012:
I just hate reading this, but I know it's true. I know that predators are a huge problem for immature military personnel. I think worse, though, is that so many people are raised without being taught how to handle their money. Young people go into the military and fall into so many of the traps you listed. It's not their fault when the military doesn't come through for whatever reason (and probably because of the bureaucracy in more cases than not) but it's really each person's responsibility to live their life being responsible for themselves and their families. Credit isn't the answer, but society seems to think that it is. I don't have a simple answer for poverty in the military community, but I'd certainly like to see some peer counseling that could be effective in educating these young guys and gals on how to live debt free. Neither of my sons had these problems, but they were taught how to handle money as they were growing up. What a huge difference that made. Excellent lens!

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Neill Blomkamp is re-teaming with his "District 9" star Sharlto Copley for his second feature film, called "Elysium," which is another sci-fi project. But Copley won't be playing the lead role. That part Blomkamp is hoping will go to Matt Damon.
Apparently there is good chance that the director will get his wish, because Damon very much wants to star in the film. "I really, really, really want to do it and I want to work with Neill," said the actor. "I think he's a genius. I loved 'District 9.' It was one of my favorite films last year. So I'm hoping that it happens."
We know that "Elysium" is set in the far future on another planet, but Damon won't reveal anything. "It's a great idea. It's 100% Neill, I'll put it that way," he explained. "I'm not going to be a 10-foot-tall blue alien, though I did have a chance to be in that movie."
Some of you may have already heard that James Cameron was considering Damon for the lead in "Avatar," but the actor had a scheduling conflict. Damon said: "I love Jim Cameron. My schedule didn't permit me to be a part of that one, which is too bad because I think that Jim has really lost a lot at the box office because he didn't have me. So he's probably still upset about it."
Damon is always know for sarcastic funny remarks, this was a good one!
@ Ivor- I don't think he's even familiar with english to be fair. f*ck YOU MATT DAMON, f*ck JIM CAMERON, f*ck YOU BSPENCE (I KNOW YOU'RE THERE YOU MOTHER f*ckER) CINEMA IS DEAD!
Matt Damon is a useless hack who needs to get a grip of life. the actor in the first movie did a terrific job and this guy cant even do half of it!
Apparently all the actors with any level of charisma had prior engagements!
P.S. Boogiel you sure made my day with that ill conceived comment!
Well if you really, really, really want to do it.
Ah, he's just being facetious, no need to tear him up for that, I thought it was pretty funny. If you're going to tear him up for something, make it that twins movie with Greg Kinnear, lol. The name escapes me right now, and I am literally too lazy to search for it.
But Damon's good stuff. I think he can only make this better if he's in it. Nothing against Copley either, though. He was great in D9 and A-Team.
Just as long as he (and his family) doesn't lost on the way to the set .... by way of a corn field shaped like a maze ... then, it's all good.
What colorful insight. You're capture of the essence of what Matt Damon has said is not only perfect and on point, but deep as well.


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Віта́лій Дми́трович Радчу́к — український перекладач і теоретик перекладу, мовознавець, публіцист. Кандидат філологічних наук, доцент кафедри теорії і практики перекладу з англійської мови Інституту філології КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка. Член НТШ (Донецьке відділення НТШ).

Навчання та стажування

1980 захистив кандидатську дисертацію «Проблема вірності художнього перекладу».

1993—1996 — докторант (дисертація «Переклад як інтерпретація»). 1994 — двічі дослідник-стипендіат (в університетах Лондона та Валії).

Перше стажування — в Ілінгському технічному коледжі (1975, тепер Університет Долини Темзи), останнє — в Університеті Страсбурга (1997).

Викладацька робота

Доцент Інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка (кафедра теорії і практики перекладу з англійської мови).

Викладає теорію і практику перекладу та інші перекладознавчі курси (також у НаУКМА та інших вищих навчальних закладах — за сумісництвом).

Наукова робота

Науковий співробітник відділу соціолінгвістики Інституту української мови НАН України.

Автор понад 100 студій перекладу, мови й мовної політики.

Відповідальний секретар редколегії наукового журналу «Теорія і практика перекладу» (1982—1990, упорядкував і видав 10 томів).

2001—2003 — член Фахової ради з філології у справі ліцензування закладів вищої освіти.

Член науково-технічної комісії з питань термінології при Держстандарті України.

Член Експертної ради при Держкомінформі з формування національної програми випуску суспільно-необхідних видань.

Перекладач-синхроніст, має опубліковані переклади, зокрема художні.

2001—2002 — старший науковий співробітник Лінгвістичного музею університету ім. Т. Шевченка (за сумісництвом).

Володіння мовами

Робочі мови: українська, англійська, російська, французька, італійська. Читає іспанською, португальською, польською, білоруською, болгарською.

Громадська робота

Від 1989 голова Товариства української мови Київського університету. 1990—1992 — член Центрального правління Товариства української мови «Просвіта». Видавець газети «Слово» (1989—1990).

1990—1994 — депутат Київської міської ради (працював ц комісії з національних і мовних питань).

Член редколегій газет «Київський університет» і «Студентський вісник».

Працював для Комісії художнього перекладу Національної спілки письменників України й у складі Наглядової ради Міжнародного дитячого конкурсу з української мови імені Петра Яцика.

Голова Громадського благодійного фонду імені Ігоря Білозора.

2004 Радчука прийнято до Товариства білоруської мови імені Франциска Скорини.

Джерела і література
 Сторінка мовознавця
 Хроніка Донецького відділення Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка / Упорядник і редактор В. С. Білецький. — Донецьк: НТШ, 2012. — Число 2. — 192 с.
 Радчук Віталій Дмитрович

Українські мовознавці
Діячі Товариства української мови
Діячі НТШ
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Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra created history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the U-20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Chopra created a new U-20 world record by throwing the javelin a distance of 86.48m and broke the old mark of 84.69 metres held by Latvian Zigismunds Sirmais for nearly two metres. This is for the first time an Indian has won a gold at any World Athletics Championships.


Pattern design is needed for WASEL App.
WASEL is a delivery app, the pattern should be derived from the original app logo.
The pattern should have shapes of lines and should indicate road, speed, and sustainability.
- A designer is required to provide 6 different shapes for the same patterns using (Ai) so the pattern can be used to generate multiple shapes (at least 6 shapes).
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SIDE A Cobra Folie D'ice Gourmandise Vampire La Souris Verte BB Coquin Mr Pickett Un Evenement Tarzan Réglisse SIDE B Moska Babouin Calin La Bombe à Toto Camion Solo Faune Plum Boule De Gomme Bel Angelo En Hop et en Air Maud Gogol Le Lézard Bocal 5 were a No Wave art group composed of Doc Pilot (synths, vocals), Zouka Dzaza (bass), Florian Guillou (synths), Mickey Lepron (electronic drums, bass) and Evy Tinguette (lead vocals). The project was born in November 1980 in Tours, France as the brain child of Doc Pilot. Between 1981 to 1986 Bocal 5 recorded one 7" single and a cassette-only album before taking a year off in 1984 to launch X-Ray Pop. Influenced by Erik Satie, Brigitte Bardot, Suicide and Young Marble Giants, they call their music "minimum naive new wave." "Musique Électronique" is a 19-track compilation of songs recorded across 1983, most of which have never been released on vinyl before. 16 tracks appeared on the "From Bocal 5 To X-Ray Pop" album originally released on cassette by Sound of Pig in 1984. Both tracks from their debut 7" originally released in MB5 1984 are included and show a progression in sound as a result of newer recoding equipment and techniques. Also present is a song from the tape compilation "Andreas N°3 L'Animal" released by Fraction Studio in 1984. Armed with a Korg 770, MS-10, Prophet Pro-One, Roland TR-707 and TB-808 they crafted their own brand of quirky synthesized electronic pop. Songs are short, concise and well structured; richly textured, moving at a quick speed with hardly a pause. Evy's pouting, tongue-in-cheek vocals (sung in French) come together for a catchy, sensuous, danceable, eccentric psychedelic ride. This collection shows the group's sense of humor, vitality and carefree playfulness. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each jacket displays a bright neon green collage of photos and ephemera from the band's archives designed by Eloise Leigh that exudes the project's DIY spirit. Each copy includes a 6-page xeroxed booklet with photos, original artwork and press clippings. https://soundcloud.com/darkentriesrecords/sets/bocal-5-musique-electronique/


Oh, and as far as basic machine operation goes, "This is the MOST important control on your machine" pointing at the hand wheel!
Thanks. I've wandered across that site before but I'd forgotten about it. I'll have to do some browsing.
I'm reading about putting in centered zippers right now. Sigh and moan. I made my first garment fifty years ago and I am still terrified of zipper installation. Just thinking about it puts my tummy in a knot but this dress is for my daughter and I ought to do it properly instead of expecting her to wiggle into a woven--fabric dress without a zipper.
There is this really nice accessory called a zipper foot (for the sewing machine) that makes zippers nice and easy. I hate putting them in without it. If you don't have one maybe you can get one?
I have a zipper foot, Ariadne. It's not the equipment; it's the brain. I'm embarrassed to admit how reluctant I am to put in zippers. Button holes, bias cut, hand embroidery- pieces of cake. Wave a zipper at me and I start to hyperventilate.
Funny, that's how I feel about buttonholes. Sure I can do it. Doesn't mean I want to. I looove button loop elastic. I'll even make my own loop ribbon with fancy silk loops. Make a button hole, not if I can help it.
My old machine make buttonholes for me. Only too bad I usually don't have buttons in my self-made clothes. Zippers aren't difficult, even without a zipper foot. For both, all you need is a bit of practice (and maybe a good manual/tutorial) and it will get better.
Zipper foot is a must.
And "Introduction to Sewing Machine Operation" saves the day. I had a student completely panic on me the instant something went wrong. I had already gone over all the basics with her so I backed her up and handed her some scrap, made her remove her high heel shoes, and then told her to have fun. within 15 minutes she'd gone from panic to sewing smiley faces. After that it was smooth sailing even when, of course, something went wrong. Zorba you rock.


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In Memoriam: The tech that died in 2021
Nothing is everlasting on this world, particularly know-how. This previous 12 months, as we noticed some great improvements that saved us related to the skin world, we additionally misplaced a variety of services and products from the previous. A few of them had been on their deathbeds for fairly a while, others slipped to sudden deaths surprising many. The discontinuation of a product, or service shouldn't be seen as an entire failure, however it highlights the market forces at play. In a 12 months that had its high and low factors, we have a look at the tech that we misplaced in 2021.
LG quits the cell phone enterprise
LG introduced in lots of firsts within the smartphone market, however referred to as its quits earlier this 12 months. Quite a lot of this has to do with the complicated enterprise technique the Korean firm adopted for a few years. But it surely additionally places concentrate on the dearth of acceptance of recent concepts on the trade degree. The South Korean behemoth launched many smartphone fashions together with the LG Wing however it by no means bought the acknowledgment which it deserved. Some imagine LG's efforts got here a bit of late and by the point it had progressive merchandise to indicate, it was too late. LG was, in reality, the world's third-largest smartphone maker in 2013 however in recent times it had struggled to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung on the premium finish of the smartphone market. The exit of LG from the smartphone market is a loss not solely to the trade but in addition to the inventive concepts and keenness for merchandise which can be barely edgy.
The HomePod good speaker was first launched in 2018 for 349 USD. (Picture credit score: Anuj Bhatia/Indian Categorical)
Unique Apple HomePod
Though it didn't come as a shock to tech insiders, Apple killing the unique HomePod was at all times on the playing cards. The HomePod may not have been a failure, however it wasn't a smash hit both. The issue with HomePod was not its steep value, however its positioning. The HomePod is a good speaker and it sounds great however it's not as good as aggressive merchandise from Amazon and Google. The HomePod could have gone, however the HomePod mini exists and it's an important little speaker. Siri nonetheless wants a bit of labor, however is that sufficient for Apple to make a powerful comeback within the good speaker section? Solely time will inform.
The iMac Professional made its debut in 2017. (Picture credit score: Apple)
iMac Professional
After the unique HomePod, one other machine that bought discontinued by Apple was the iMac Professional. When the iMac Professional was launched in 2017, Apple promised "Workstation-Class Efficiency in an iMac Design". It served the aim then, however had began to look a bit pointless of late. The iMac Professional was an experimental product aimed purely on the skilled neighborhood however someplace down the road when the Mac Professional arrived two years later, the all-in-one desktop laptop misplaced its objective. We don't know if Apple has a sequel to the iMac Professional within the works, particularly when Cupertino's whole focus is on pushing Macs with its customized silicon. The M1 iMac is ok for informal customers, and the successor to the Mac Professional (if it comes) could be greater than sufficient for "professional" clients. In that state of affairs, there is no such thing as a want for a separate iMac with "professional" branding.
Challenge Loon was aimed toward beaming the web to rural areas. (Picture credit score: Google)
Earlier this 12 months, Google's dad or mum agency Alphabet put the brakes on Loon, a high-profile enterprise aimed toward beaming the web to individuals in distant areas of the world. A futuristic mission by Google that began a decade in the past needed to be shut down owing to excessive prices and an unsustainable enterprise mannequin. After self-driving Waymo, Loon was probably the most hyped tasks to return out of Alphabet's progressive "moonshot" manufacturing facility. The thought behind Loon was merely to carry mobile connectivity to these areas the place constructing a conventional community was practically unattainable. Loon, the Alphabet subsidiary, used large balloons to beam web however operating the operations proved too pricey even for a corporation as cash-rich as Google. The software program powerhouse first began engaged on Loon in 2011 and launched the mission with a public take a look at in 2013. Final 12 months, it began the primary industrial deployment of the tech in Africa in partnership with Telkom Kenya.
The social video app Houseparty was introduced in 2016. (Picture credit score: Epic Video games)
Houseparty app
The Houseparty app is useless. The social video app that noticed a large uptick in the course of the pandemic was discontinued within the month of October. Houseparty, a video chat service, was launched in 2016 and was acquired by Epic Video games in 2019. In a weblog put up, Houseparty stated will probably be absorbed into Epic Video games to work on "creating new methods to have significant and genuine social interactions at metaverse scale throughout the Epic Video games household." Final 12 months, the app was built-in into the sport expertise of Epic's hit recreation "Fortnite", enabling gamers to see and chat with each other over their smartphones whereas they're enjoying.
Twitter-owned Periscope app went off the air in 2021. (Picture credit score: Periscope)
Periscope app
Periscope, the live-streaming app owned by Twitter, went offline earlier this 12 months. It didn't come as a shock to many when Twitter pulled the plug on the Periscope app, which many thought was already useless. Periscope was a sensation when it was launched, though with the arrival of TikTok and Instagram the app misplaced its attraction. Twitter purchased the start-up behind Periscope in 2015 in a deal reportedly price as much as $100 million. The core options of the Periscope app are already built-in into Twitter within the type of Twitter Stay. In accordance with Twitter, the price of sustaining the app has turn out to be excessive whereas the platform continues to lose customers.
Hike Messenger was India's reply to Fb's WhatsApp. (Picture credit score: Google Play Retailer)
Hike StickerChat
Whereas many noticed it coming, the shutdown of the messaging app Hike was a giant letdown at a sentiment degree. Hike was launched in 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal as India's reply to Fb's WhatsApp however the app struggled to beat its greatest rival within the communication and chat house. Issues weren't dangerous until 2015 when the service had practically 70 million customers. In reality, the startup was valued at $1.4 billion in 2016 however earlier this 12 months the messaging app went off the air with no actual clarification from the promoters. The shortage of a homegrown app that rivals WhatsApp is the place India lacks towards China, which has efficiently managed to create a "tremendous app" within the type of WeChat with over a billion customers. The demise of Hike StickerChat means customers don't have any choice to maintain utilizing WhatsApp, which has an entire monopoly in India.
The Stadia recreation streaming service has been a large flop. (Picture credit score: Google)
Google Stadia video games growth workforce
Google's Stadia recreation streaming service is on steroids, though the possibilities of its success appear bleak now after the tech large introduced earlier this 12 months that it was shuttering its inside recreation studio. From the very starting, critics had doubts about Google's cloud-based gaming service however nobody thought that the corporate would reduce its ambitions. The truth that Google received't be creating its first-party video games for the marque gaming service is an indication that simply by having assets doesn't assure success within the aggressive gaming market. It's a mixture of creativity, entry to the perfect expertise, and endurance moreover a transparent imaginative and prescient.
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Well as much as it's my website, and in theory about me, it really is - at this point at least - mostly about the novel that's here, the novels to come, and the world from within which they derive.
The body of work that went into creating the first novel that you've now got an opportunity to read - and hopefully enjoy - has been an evolving collection of material that became the foundations required to transform what was a one novel concept at its inception, into the first volume of a planned nine volume monster, which will barely touch upon so much of what is referenced. It is work that continues evolving still, aspects of the histories, interconnections, philosophies and theological perspectives changing even within the 'final' draft. The assorted other pages lurking beyond will, therefore, be an ever changing source of information and exploration opportunities.
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Be still. Still as the emptiness between stars.
Be as nothing: void of all but an awareness for all that surrounds you. Let only the gentle rhythm of your breath flow around what I tell and what you hear.
There is no truth but The Truth.
It will not be found within outer experience where illusions are created through the limited perceptions of form, deceptively preventing connection to the wonder of what remains mostly hidden.
There is no physical existence. Only the perception of it.
Manifest existence is a projected illusion convincing us that we experience the most impossible of notions, masquerading as the cause of our experience, when it is instead a camouflage obscuring our reality.
Separateness is a misperception ensnaring us within this illusion of existence.
I am not what you dream within this illusion.
I am not what you perceive within this experience of living.
I am not what you read here in these pages.
I am everything this illusion you call life would deny.
I am eternal. I am unchanging.
I am every where. I am every thing. I am every one.


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Are smartphones the latest addiction to keep your kids away from?
Two of Apple's investors think so and wrote an open letter, pointing to the negative effects of smartphone addiction among children.
Two of Apple's investors think so and wrote an open letter, talking about smartphone addiction among kids.


Good morning, all. We're headed into the last part of September. Can you believe it? Time continues to roll on by whether we're ready or not.
Yesterday we took my Bonus Son 2 to college. We spent an afternoon and morning time getting him settled. One trip to Costco and one to Wallmart later, we had him fully supplied with enough candy and snacks to feed the entire floor. The day we took him to college was also his 19th birthday. I only got to be his Bonus Mom for threeish years, but in that time the line between step and mom blurred. I'll miss his big voice and huge heart in my day-to-day life, but know that it's his time to fly. He's only two hours away. We're already planning when to come up for a visit.
Here at home, the princesses are back to school and thick into schoolwork, swim, and cheer. Bonus Son 2 just started his third quarter of college and works - get this - at a mail and shipping store. How perfect for an author with prizes and books to send out on regular basis!
Best Husband Ever is months into a new job doing smarty tech stuff for a software company that I don't totally understand. Between that, our pool team, and our kitchen remodel, things are busy.
However, I still make time for #ButtInSeat. Tomorrow my 15th novel releases. This is my 4th release of the year, with the 5th coming in November. I've never worked as hard as I have these last several years. I love it. The fun I have writing these books is indescribable, even for a writer.
Today, I sit at my desk contemplating how to describe the particular hue of twilight blue. I was reminded of it last night as we excited a restaurant after a birthday celebration for my bestie, Violet, and her husband. The moon was not quite full. None of us knew if it had just been full, or if it would soon be full. Regardless, the moonlight sparkled over Lake Washington and the sky was that blue of twilight, my favorite color. We were stuffed from steaks and potatoes and heartened by friendship. I thought, remember this moment. Tuck it away as one of the special memories of my life.
Back at my desk this morning, I realized the last paragraph of my current manuscript has my five heroes on the back patio of the newly opened brewery at just this exact time of year and at twilight. I know God has a lot of other important things to do, but sometimes it gives me pause to realize He seems to always be by my side, reminding me to celebrate the beauty of this world through the words of my fiction. I do know I'm not saving the world with my stories, but I've heard from enough of you this year to know they give you pleasure. This is more than I ever hoped for.
Anyway, I digress and really should get back to work on that last paragraph. In the meantime, this is a reminder to grab my new book tomorrow, or today, as it's on pre-order. I think you'll love Violet and Kyle's story as much as I loved writing it. I hope so, anyway. I dedicated this one to my aforementioned bestie, the real Violet. She's as beautiful and smart as my heroine, although not nearly as outspoken! The outspoken part of the fictional Violet is based on my oldest princess, Ella. "We only have one planet, Mom."
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Ruptly signs deal with Russia's Krasnogorsk Archive
Ruptly, the global video news agency, has announced the signing of a deal with Russia's Krasnogorsk Archive to bring a selection of vital and illuminating video materials to the world's markets via its platform.
Krasnogorsk, a Russian state archive and one of the largest audio-visual archives in the world, is home to an extensive film collection spanning the history of filmmaking in Russia. As part of a project titled 100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Ruptly's video news clients around the world will gain access to this rare video footage.
Under the agreement, Ruptly's clients will be able to use extraordinary footage from historic events, including:
The early days of Soviet space exploration: Belka, Strelka, Gagarin, and the space race.
The fascinating story of Robert Robinson, a Jamaican born toolmaker from US auto industry, recruited to work in the USSR and ended up living there for 50 years (1935)
Turning points and significant events from the Second World War, such as the Siege of Leningrad 1941- 1944, Kursk battle 1943, the Tehran Conference 1943, as well as rare shots from the Yalta Conference 1945, the victory flag over Berlin 1945, and Victory Day Parade in Red Square 1945.
Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy meeting in Vienna, 1961
Young Gorbachev, his rise to power, Perestroika, Glasnost, meeting with HRH Queen Elizabeth II and President Ronald Reagan, and his resignation.
Soviet troops withdrawing from Afghanistan, 1989.
Yeltsin in Moscow, during the August 1991 coup attempt.
Tanks at the white house and barricades in Moscow, Autumn 1993.
Andrei Sakharov, scientist, dissident, Nobel laureate.
Russian Presidential Elections, 2000.
Matt Tabaccos, CCO at Ruptly, comments: "This partnership, with a major Russian state archive, allows us to give news clients across the world access to rare footage offering new perspectives on momentous events. By developing and expanding our Archive portfolio, we make our entire video news offering even more attractive."
Director of the Russian State Documentary Film and Photograph Archive, Natalia Aleksandrovna Kalantarova comments: "Making audio-visual documents from our collection available to a wide audience will, I hope, shed light on certain pages of our history and help people gain a more accurate understanding of these significant events."
Ruptly signs distribution deal with Wochit
Ruptly moves to unlimited content model
Ruptly launches new streaming platform
Ruptly boosts live broadcast output with TVU
Ruptly invites content creators to probe Soviet-era mystery with multi-platform project
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Personally, I wasn't sure what to expect, but was amazed that I was actually able to do most of the moves, once I got past my fear of falling. The instructor was great at walking us through the steps, and it was fun to do the class as a group. I was also impressed that the TD Bank execs were right along with us – doing the aerial yoga while wearing their work clothes. That's dedication!
South Boston Yoga offers this intro class on a regular basis – but it's not something I would have done on my own. So, a big thanks to TD Bank for getting me out of my comfort zone, and for my fellow Boston Parent Bloggers for being brave enough to try it out!
Disclosure: TD Bank engaged Boston Parent Bloggers to help coordinate this event.


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Ibrutinib Survival Outcomes in MCL Consistent in Real-World Setting, But Questions Remain
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Jeff Sharman, MD, discusses the implications of real-world ibrutinib findings in mantle cell lymphoma and underscored the need for the development of more effective treatments for this patient population.
Jeff P. Sharman, MD
Real-world survival outcomes for patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma treated with ibrutinib (Imbruvica), one of the most significant new agents in mantle cell lymphoma, were consistent with findings from clinical trials, according to a retrospective study presented at the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting. However, ibrutinib is not a cure for these patients and more research is still needed to improve outcomes.
"How we manage patients with ibrutinib and how we treat them after ibrutinib are remaining questions in the field," said Jeff Sharman, MD, lead author of the study.
Sharman and his colleagues looked at structured and unstructured data pertaining to adult patients with MCL who were ≥18 years of age and had been treated with ibrutinib between November 1, 2013, and October 31, 2016. These patients had not been enrolled in a clinical trial and had made at least 2 visits to a US Oncology Network (USON) clinic. Those with other primary cancers were excluded from the analysis.
Through the USON's electronic health records system, a total of 159 patients with MCL were identified. Most of these patients were male, Caucasian, and had a diagnosis of stage IV disease. About 7.5% (n = 12) received ibrutinib as a first-line therapy, while 54.1% (n = 86) and 38.4% (n = 61) received the agent as second- and third-line treatment, respectively. Ibrutinib was initiated at a median dose of 560 mg (range, 140-700).
Over the course of their treatment, 16.4% (n = 26) of patients experienced a dose reduction, while dose holds occurred in 30.2% (n = 48) of patients; 66.7% (n = 32) of those holds were due to toxicities. Overall, the discontinuation rate was 83.6%, with 34.6% (n = 46) stopping treatment due to progressive disease, and 25.6% (n = 34) due to toxicities. The median duration of treatment was higher in those who received ibrutinib in the third-line versus other lines (14.9; 95% CI, 8.8-17.1). For the overall population, median progression-free survival (PFS) was 19.6 months (95% CI, 16.5-24.3), while median overall survival (OS) was 25.8 months (95% CI, 19.9-not reached).
In an interview withTargeted Oncology, Sharman, director of research at Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and medical director of hematology research for The US Oncology Network, discussed the implications of these findings and underscored the need for the development of more effective treatments for this patient population.
TARGETED ONCOLOGY:What was the rationale for the study?
Sharman:This was a study that was conducted because ibrutinib had been available for several years now and it is clearly one of the most remarkable novel agents across hematologic malignancies. Obviously, it has demonstrated significant benefit across a variety of diseases, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), MCL, and Waldenström macroglobulinemia, and it has an [FDA] approval in marginal zone lymphoma as well. A lot of the data that came out for mantle cell early on was primarily, and understandably, the data that emerged from prospective interventional clinical studies.
What we've seen in several circumstances is that clinical trial populations really represent a small subset of patients with disease who are selected based upon their ability to make it to academic medical centers and have the fitness to enroll in a study, and there's a strong selection bias that renders clinical trial patients not necessarily representative of what we encounter in day-to-day practice. Therefore, this was an effort to evaluate those patients in day-to-day practice, in a clearly clinical oncology setting, and see how they fared with ibrutinib. It's a retrospective [analysis] which is, of course, different from a prospective trial, and it has its limitations, but we wanted to see how [real-world outcomes] compared with those observed in clinical trials. I would say that the assumption in many cases is that these patients aren't going to do as well as is seen in clinical trial because they tend to be older patients with more comorbidities and so forth.
We looked at nearly 2000 patients who had a diagnosis of MCL, pulled out a subset of patients who had received appropriate therapy—for instance, who had ibrutinib prescription—and disqualified a handful of others. We ended up with a population of about 160 patients. We looked at their outcomes based upon what line of therapy they received it in—was ibrutinib given in the first-line, second-line or third-line setting? Ibrutinib is approved for relapsed/refractory disease, so those patients who received it in the first-line were given it outside of the prescribing label—that was a small group of patients, but they tended to be considerably older and probably not fit for more intensive chemotherapy.
TARGETED ONCOLOGY:What were the methods used in this study?
Sharman:US Oncology has a uniform electronic medical record throughout a large number of practices, so we were able to query that database by diagnosis code; that helped us identify the patients with MCL. Then, we reviewed both structured and unstructured data. Structured data is those datasets that have numbers filled in, or populated, [from] lab results and so forth. We can query structured data, for instance, [to find out] whether or not a patient receives a prescription for ibrutinib. Unstructured data elements [include things like] physician notes and the narrative associated with it, and the things that don't necessarily [translate to] codes or numbers. For example, how is the patient doing? Are we doing an interruption? Has the patient been hospitalized? Those are the sorts of history pieces that come out of unstructured data. We looked at the patients involved through both structured and unstructured data elements in order to get the data that then became the substance of the report.
TARGETED ONCOLOGY:What were the key takeaways from the report?
Sharman:When we looked at patients who were treated, the patients who were treated in the first-line—that was a small subset of 12 out of 160 patients—were indeed older patients; I think their median age was about 4 or 5 years older than the patients who were treated in the second- and third-line, respectively. The second- and third-line [patients] represent, therefore, the much more common [population with MCL]—these were a substantial fraction above age 65, which is typical of the diagnosis. [There were more] males than females, which is also common with this disease. We had patients who generally had advanced disease, which is pretty standard for MCL, with probably two-thirds having stage IV disease. Performance status was a mix of zeros and ones, so no real surprise there. We looked at the dosing and those patients who were treated in the first-line oftentimes started with a lower dose. The approved dose in MCL is 560 mg and that was the most common dose for patients in relapsed/refractory disease. However, you can see with the first-line setting patients, [physicians were] maybe a little more cautious about dosing, probably because of the patients themselves.
We did see that a lot of patients had dose interruptions [and] reductions were fairly common. Dose holds occurred in about one-third of patients and the main reason was the side effects of the medication. When we looked at the length of treatment, I think that the numbers were probably biased. Those patients who were receiving therapy in the third-line may have had more indolent MCL because if patients make it to third-line therapy, they're better patients than patients who pack away after second-line of therapy. I think that some of the numbers were skewed in favor of the patients who received it later, but it was probably because they had more indolent disease.
If we look at the whole group, our numbers for the typical treatment duration and PFS were actually very similar to the prospective trial by Michael L. Wang, MD, et al that was published [in theNew England Journal of Medicine] and then led to the approval [of ibrutinib].2Our numbers are actually pretty consistent with the prospective study.
Since we picked a relatively early timepoint, most of our patients had stopped therapy—83%, had stopped therapy—but that's because we started pretty early in the time frame, so patients are going to experience either progression or stop [therapy]. The main reason people stopped was progression, but toxicities and "other" were [reasons 2 and 3], and if you take toxicities and "other" combined, there were more patients who discontinued for that than disease progression, which I think speaks to the fact that ibrutinib does have side effects and that there really remains an unmet medical need in MCL for improved therapies. While this is great, these patients are not cured by this therapy, so they will experience reasons to come off therapy—whether due to progression or side effects. MCL remains an unmet medical need in our minds.
TARGETED ONCOLOGY:What are the next steps for this research?
Sharman:We've done a similar study in CLL, another disease for which ibrutinib is approved [by the FDA], and we're working to generate manuscripts for both of these. In fact, they are pretty close to being done, so those will be submitted for publication soon. I think next steps really [has to do with] working with our pharmaceutical colleagues to try to create either new drug treatment strategies or [figure out] how to improve patient outcomes. We will also be conducting a very large MCL prospective registry study where we are going to be working to actually capture these [data] in a prospective manner, and that should be opening within the next month or 2.
TARGETED ONCOLOGY:What are some other investigational treatment approaches for MCL that you're excited about?
Sharman:We are excited to see additional novel agents [in the space]. For example, venetoclax (Venclexta) in combination with ibrutinib appears to be very exciting. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies holds a lot of opportunity and promise for patients with relapsed disease. There are other novel molecules coming forward as well—lenalidomide is approved [by the FDA] for [the treatment of patients with] MCL, but we're seeing data with lenalidomide in combination with rituximab (Rituxan) that has shown favorable outcomes in MCL. So, there's a number of emerging strategies that I think hold promise for these patients.
Sharman J, Kabadi S, Clark J, et al. Treatment patterns and outcomes of 159 ibrutinib-treated MCL patients in the United States: a retrospective electronic medical record database and chart review study. Proceedings from the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting: December 1-4, 2018; San Diego, CA. Abstract 4163. ash.confex.com/ash/2018/webprogram/Paper118848.html.
Wang ML, Rule S, Martin P, et al. Targeting BTK with ibrutinib in relapsed or refractory mantle-cell lymphoma.N Engl J Med. 2013;369(6):507-16. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1306220.


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