How prostate cancer therapies compare

The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer treatments stack up to each other in terms of saving lives and cost effectiveness is reported this week by a team of researchers at UCSF.

Appearing in the British Journal of Urology International, the work analysed 232 papers published in the last decade that report results from clinical studies following patients with low-, intermediate- and high-risk forms of prostate cancer who were treated with one or more of the standard treatments ? radiation therapy, surgery, hormone therapies and brachytherapy.

The analysis shows that for people with low-risk prostate cancer, the various forms of treatment vary only slightly in terms of survival ? the odds of which are quite good for men with this type of cancer, with a 5-year cancer-specific survival rate of nearly 100 percent. But the cost of radiation therapy is significantly more expensive than surgery for low-risk prostate cancer, they found.

For intermediate- and high-risk cancers, both survival and cost generally favoured surgery over other forms of treatment ? although combination external-beam radiation and brachytherapy together were comparable in terms of quality of life-adjusted survival for high-risk prostate cancer.

?Our findings support a greater role for surgery for high-risk disease than we have generally seen it used in most practice settings,? said urologist Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH, who led the research. Cooperberg is an assistant professor of urology and epidemiology and biostatistics in the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of the country?s leading research and clinical care centres, and it is the only comprehensive cancer centre in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Many Treatment Options, but Few Cost Analyses
Localised prostate cancer accounts for about 81 percent of the quarter-million cases of prostate cancers that occur in the United States every year, according to the National Cancer Institute. It is defined by tumours that have not metastasised and spread outside the prostate gland to other parts of the body.

There are multiple types of treatment for this form of the disease, including various types of surgery (open, laparoscopic or robot-assisted); radiation therapy (dose-escalated three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy and brachytherapy); hormone therapies; and combinations of each of these. Many men with low-risk prostate cancer do not need any of these treatments, and can be safely observed, at least initially.

Treatment plans for localised prostate cancer often vary dramatically from one treatment centre to another. As Cooperberg put it, one person may have surgery, while someone across town with a very similar tumour may have radiation therapy, and a third may undergo active surveillance. All treatment regimens may do equally well.

?There is very little solid evidence that one [approach] is better than another,? said Cooperberg. The motivation for the new study, however, was that there are also few data examining the differences in terms of cost-effectiveness ? the price to the health care system for every year of life gained, with adjustment for complications and side effects of treatments.

The new study was the most comprehensive cost analysis ever, and it compared the costs and outcomes associated with the various types of treatment for all forms of the disease, which ranged from $19,901 for robot-assisted prostatectomy to treat low-risk disease, to $50,276 for combined radiation therapy for high-risk disease.

The study did not consider two other approaches for dealing with prostate cancer: active surveillance, where patients with low-risk cancer are followed closely with blood tests and biopsies and avoid any initial treatment; and proton therapy, which is much more expensive and has already been shown in multiple studies not to be cost-effective, said Cooperberg.

The article, ?Primary treatments for clinically localised prostate cancer: a comprehensive lifetime cost-utility analysis? is authored by Matthew R. Cooperberg, Naren R. Ramakrishna, Steven B. Duff, Kathleen E. Hughes, Sara Sadownik, Joseph A. Smith and Ashutosh K. Tewari. It was published online on Dec. 28, 2012, by the British Journal of Urology International.

(Source: UCSF: British Journal of Urology International)

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Skin-Cancer Spotting Apps Miss Their Marks

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New smartphone apps now let you snap a picture and upload it for a skin cancer check. Sure sounds a lot easier than trekking into the dermatologist, right? But a new review of these apps finds that most of them are not very accurate. Dermatologists uploaded 188 images of skin lesions to four different app-based services. The apps, which are unregulated, mostly use algorithms to judge?often in less than a minute?whether the spot is benign or something to get checked out. Three of the four apps failed to catch at least one-in-three known cases of melanoma. The apps also falsely identified plenty of benign growths as possibly cancerous. The findings are in the journal JAMA Dermatology. [Joel Wolf et al, Diagnostic Inaccuracy of Smartphone Applications for Melanoma Detection] The fourth app, which did okay, actually used board-certified dermatologists to review images. It was the most expensive at five bucks per assessment and took 24 hours. So next time you're worried about a mole, don?t use an app, get an ap?pointment?with a dermatologist. ?Katherine Harmon [The above text is a transcript of this podcast]

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Judge Backs Photographer In Twitter Case

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A judge has ruled that agencies cannot use photos posted on Twitter without the photographer's permission.

The ruling is a major test of where photographers stand when it comes to use of their images through social media sites.

The judge ruled that press agencies must have the photographer's permission before using their images that are posted on Twitter.

The case centres around Daniel Morel, who took a photo of? a shocked and devastated woman appearing out of rubble just after the Haiti earthquake of 2010. The photo was then taken by several papers, who then distributed it to others through agency networks without Daniel's permission.

The judge decided that Twitter's terms of service don't give news agencies permission to take photos without prior permission from the photographer. The AFP (Agence France-Presse), which distributed the photos, had argued that the photos were free to use as they were freely available online.

The trial for the case doesn't have a set date yet, but this case will have a major effect on photographer's rights in terms of whether photos that are published to social networks can be used in social contexts.

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Apple Recap: iPhone in Demand, A Rating Cut, FaceTime Fun For All

Apple?s (NASDAQ:AAPL) surprisingly solid gains on Wednesday helped the Nasdaq and the rest of the tech sector despite drags from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Dell (NASDAQ:DELL).?Apple bounced 4.2 percent up to close at $506.09, reversing losses from the last two days and heading back into the $500 zone after dropping under on Tuesday. Here is a cheat sheet to the top stories that moved the stock on the day:

People Want More iPhones

A ChangeWave Research survey in North America found that 1 in 2 smartphone shoppers?planned on buying an iPhone?in the next 90 days. This was down from the overwhelming 71 percent figure last quarter, but that standout result came when the excitement for the then-newly launched iPhone 5 was at it peak. ?Historically speaking, it?s a solid showing for Apple,? the research firm said, and it equals the level of demand for the device from last summer. Also, 70 percent of iPhone users were happy with their phone. About 56 percent of?Nokia?(NYSE:NOK) users said they were satisfied, a little higher than the 55 percent figure for Samsung? (Read more)

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United Airlines says 787 fleet flying as scheduled

(Reuters) - United Continental Holdings Inc's United Airlines has inspected its fleet of Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners and all are flying as scheduled, the airline said on Wednesday.

Two of the largest 787 customers have grounded their Dreamliner fleets following the latest safety incident on Wednesday.

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Year-over year US home prices up sharply in Nov.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. home prices in November extended their steady recovery from the housing bust, rising 7.4 percent compared with a year ago. It was the biggest year-over-year increase in 6? years.

CoreLogic, a private data provider, said Tuesday that prices also rose 0.3 percent in November from October. The month-to-month figures are not seasonally adjusted. CoreLogic compiles its indexes by tracking sales of the same homes over time, using data on sales in all 50 states.

The gains in home prices have been widespread across most of the country. And CoreLogic forecasts that prices will increase 6 percent this year.

Prices in November were higher than in November 2011 in all but six states. And only 13 of 100 large cities that CoreLogic studies reported year-over-year price declines. That was down from 20 cities in October.

The sharpest increases were in Arizona, Nevada and Idaho. North Dakota and California rounded out the top five.

Steady price increases are helping fuel the housing recovery. They're encouraging some people to sell homes and enticing would-be buyers to purchase homes before they get more expensive. Rising prices also reduce the number of homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.

"All signals currently point to a progressive stabilization of the housing market and the positive trend in home price appreciation to continue into 2013," said Anand Nallathambi, CEO of CoreLogic.

Despite the gains, home prices nationwide are still nearly 27 percent lower than in April 2006, when prices peaked during the housing bubble.

Some of the biggest gains have been in states that were hurt the worst. Prices in one of them, Arizona, have jumped nearly 21 percent in the past year, the most of any state. But prices in that state are still nearly 40 percent below their peak.

And prices in Nevada have risen 14.2 percent in the past year but remain 53 percent below peak levels.

The states where prices continue to fall include Delaware, where they are 4.9 percent below a year ago, and Illinois, down 2.2 percent. Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania are also reporting declines.

Prices rose 24 percent in Phoenix in the past 12 months, the most of any large metro area. Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif. was next with a 9.7 percent rise. It was followed by Los Angeles, where prices rose 8.4 percent.

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Why Cellular Towers in Developing Nations Are Making the Move to Solar Power

Renewable energy is beginning to replace diesel in cell-phone networks

By Katherine Tweed

When a sweeping power failure blacked out 700 million people in India last July, the cell sites that connect nearly one billion mobile phone users in the country were largely unaffected.

The vast majority of Indian cell-phone base stations, which each include a tower and radio equipment attached to it, had backup diesel power because the electricity goes out frequently, and many run on diesel entirely if there is no power grid in the area at all. Now dirty diesel generators in India are being challenged by clean, renewable energy, and the movement has implications for other developing nations that also have incomplete or unreliable electric networks. Even in developed nations with reliable electricity, changes in the structure of mobile networks could open the door for alternative energy.

In India, which has about 400,000 base stations, the government has mandated that 50 percent of rural sites be powered by renewables by 2015. The decision comes as the Indian government, which heavily subsidizes diesel, looks to lessen the country?s reliance on foreign oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By 2020 75 percent of rural and 33 percent of urban stations will need to run on alternative energy.

The move by the world?s second-largest mobile market after China will likely drive down the price of renewable-powered base stations for other regions with low electrification rates, such as sub-Saharan Africa, according to Mrinmoy Chattaraj, a campaigner with Greenpeace India?s Climate and Energy Unit.

?It?s been a slow rate of adoption,? Eric Woods, research director with Pike Research, says of the telecom industry?s uptake of renewables to date. ?But India?s deployment will have an impact across the developing world. It?s moving the market away from the default position of using diesel.?

There are about five million cell phone towers worldwide, 640,000 of which aren?t connected to an electrical grid and largely run on diesel power. One study estimated that 75,000 new off-grid towers would be established in 2012 alone.

The Indian telecom industry consumed an estimated 3.2 billion liters of diesel in 2011, and the amount could rise to six billion liters by 2020, according to Greenpeace India. Enforcement of new regulation would save more than 540 million liters of diesel annually and cut about nine million tons of carbon emissions by 2015.

Diesel prices have nearly tripled in the past twelve years in India, to about 80 cents per liter in July 2012. The price is expected to increase further with diesel deregulation, according to Chattaraj, as solar technologies become cheaper. Today, solar installations with battery backups are more expensive to install upfront, but the yearly operational expenditure is far lower, recouping the investment in about two to four years. The current annual cost to run a diesel generator for a base station is about $14,510 in India, compared with $8,215 for solar with battery backup. By 2020 the annual cost of using diesel is expected to be more than $20,000 whereas the cost of solar and batteries will likely fall to less than $5,500.

Renewable options also become much more viable as the amount of energy needed to power base stations is reduced. The average cellular base station, which comprises the tower and the radio equipment attached to it, can use anywhere from about one to five kilowatts (kW), depending on whether the radio equipment is housed in an air-conditioned building, how old the tower is and how many transceivers are in the base station. Most of the energy is used by the radio to transmit and receive cell-phone signals. On the low end, a tower that runs all the time uses about the same energy annually as an average U.S. household. Many of the off-grid stations, however, use closer to five kW, according to Pike Research, a market research firm that covers global clean-tech markets.

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SBA extends deadline for U.S. Small Business Week award ...

SBA extends deadline for U.S. Small Business Week award nominations

The U.S. Small Business Administration?s Utah district office is seeking nominations for the 2013 Small Business Week awards.

The deadline has been extended to Jan. 31.

Every year at National Small Business Week, the SBA recognizes small businesses and entrepreneurs across the U.S. for outstanding contributions with awards in a variety of categories.

The categories included among others: SBA Young Entrepreneur of the year, Home-based Business Champion of the Year and Miniority Small Business Champion of the Year.

This year, a new category has been added to the nomination process ? Small Business Exporter of the Year.

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France sends more troops as UN backs Mali intervention

BAMAKO (AFP) - A contingent of 750 French troops has joined the offensive against Islamist rebels in Mali, French President Francois Hollande said in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday after France secured fresh UN backing for its military action.

Hollande, who arrived early Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, added that overnight strikes in Mali had "achieved their objective."

"For now, we have 750 men and the number will increase," Hollande said during a visit to his country's only military base in the region -- Peace Camp in Abu Dhabi.

"New strikes overnight achieved their goal," he added.

A meeting of the 15-nation UN Security Council on Mali expressed unanimous "understanding and support" for the military intervention, France's UN ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters late Monday.

The United Nations also said more than 30,000 people had fled the fighting and accused the Islamists of stopping thousands of them from travelling south into government-held zones.

Hollande arrived in the UAE on a long-planned trade mission, but his aides have insisted he will be kept fully informed of developments in Mali.

Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, originally scheduled to be part of the high-powered delegation, stayed in Paris.

French jets on Monday hit Douentza, 800 kilometres (500 miles) from the capital Bamako. Residents of the town, which the Islamists have held since September, said the fighters had left before the warplanes arrived.

The jihadists have imposed a brutal version of Islamic law in the north for nearly 10 months.

In Timbuktu, where residents have been executed or had limbs cut off in some of the worst abuses, they said the Islamists had fled in anticipation of an attack.

In Gao, another northern city formerly held by the Islamists, they were nowhere to be seen after bombing by Rafale warplanes on Sunday, residents there reported.

Having been driven from their northern strongholds Monday, the Islamists struck back in western Mali, capturing the small town of Diabaly from the country's weakened army. Diabaly lies some 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Bamako.

A spokesman for the Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) group, Senda Ould Boumama, said their withdrawal was a "tactical retreat" to reduce civilian casualties, in comments published on Mauritanian news website Alakhbar.

A leader of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) vowed revenge. "France has attacked Islam. We will strike at the heart of France," Abou Dardar of the Al-Qaeda-linked group said Monday.

Meanwhile French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault acknowledged the plight of the eight French hostages being held in Africa and the risks that the Mali operation might pose for them.

However, he said: "To do nothing and let Mali become a haven for terrorist groups would not have contributed to the freeing of our hostages."

The 750 French troops in Mali are backed up by Rafale fighters and helicopters.

Around 30 French tanks and troop transport vehicles crossed from Ivory Coast into Mali on Monday, escorted by a helicopter, and arrived in Bamako on Tuesday. France has a 450-strong force based in Ivory Coast supporting a UN peacekeeping mission there.

France and other UN Security Council countries want to speed up the deployment of a UN-mandated 3,300-strong west African intervention force in Mali.

Nigeria, which will lead the force, plans to have 600 troops on the ground "before next week," President Goodluck Jonathan said. Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Togo have also pledged troops.

Britain and Canada have offered troop transporters to the French military and the United States says it will share intelligence and provide logistical support.

Algeria said it had closed its 2,000-kilometre desert border with northern Mali to stop Islamists crossing into the country. To the west, Mauritania said it had sent soldiers to close its border with Mali.

Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents meanwhile condemned France's military intervention, warning that it would have "disastrous" consequences.

Mali's Islamists seized upon the chaos of a military coup in Bamako last March to seize the north of the country, sparking widespread international fears that they could set up a terrorist safe haven.

When the UN Security Council approved an African-led intervention force, UN officials said it could not be launched until September.

But the Islamist offensive and France's military intervention led diplomats to predict a review of those plans.

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The Prussian (German) Educational System | Conspirazzi

After the defeat of the Prussians (Germans) by Napoleon at the battle of Jena in 1806, it was decided that the reason why the battle was lost was that the Prussian soldiers were thinking for themselves on the battlefield instead of following orders.

The Prussian philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), described by many as a philosopher and a transcendental idealist, wrote ?Addresses to the German Nation? between 1807 and 1808, which promoted the state as a necessary instrument of social and moral progress. He taught at the University of Berlin from 1810 to his death in 1814. His concept of the state and of the ultimate moral nature of society directly influenced both Von Schelling and Hegel, who took an similarly idealistic view.

Using the basic philosophy prescribing the ?duties of the state?, combined with John Locke?s view (1690) that ?children are a blank slate? and lessons from Rousseau on how to ?write on the slate?, Prussia established a three-tiered educational system that was considered ?scientific? in nature. Work began in 1807 and the system was in place by 1819. An important part of the Prussian system was that it defined for the child what was to be learned, what was to be thought about, how long to think about it and when a child was to think of something else. Basically, it was a system of thought control, and it established a penchant in the psyche of the German elite that would later manifest itself into what we now refer to as mind control.

The educational system was divided into three groups. The elite of Prussian society were seen as comprising .5% of the society. Approximately 5.5% of the remaining children were sent to what was called realschulen, where they were partially taught to think. The remaining 94% went to volkschulen, where they were to learn ?harmony, obdience, freedom from stressful thinking and how to follow orders.? An important part of this new system was to break the link between reading and the young child, because a child who reads too well becomes knowledgable and independent from the system of instruction and is capable of finding out anything. In order to have an efficient policy-making class and a sub-class beneath it, you?ve got to remove the power of most people to make anything out of available information.

This was the plan. To keep most of the children in the general population from reading for the first six or seven years of their lives.

Now, the Prussian system of reading was originally a system whereby whole sentences (and thus whole integrated concepts) were memorized, rather than whole words. In this three-tier system, they figured out a way to achieve the desired results. In the lowest category of the system, the volkschuelen, the method was to divide whole ideas (which simultaneously integrate whole disciplines ? math, science, language, art, etc.) into subjects which hardly existed prior to that time. The subjects were further divided into units requiring periods of time during the day. With appropriate variation, no one would really know what was happening in the world. It was inherently one of the most brilliant methods of knowledge suppression that had ever existed. They also replaced the alphabet system of teaching with the teaching of sounds. Hooked on phonics? Children could read without understanding what they were reading, or all the implications.

In 1814, the first American, Edward Everett, goes to Prussian to get a PhD. He eventually becomes governor of Massachusetts. During the next 30 years or so, a whole line of American dignitaries came to Germany to earn degrees (a German invention). Horace Mann, instrumental in the development of educational systems in America, was among them. Those who earned degrees in Germany came back to the United States and staffed all of the major universities. In 1850, Massachusetts and New York utilize the system, as well as promote the concept that ?the state is the father of children.? Horace Mann?s sister, Elizabeth Peabody (Peabody Foundation) saw to it that after the Civil War, the Prussian system (taught in the Northern states) was integrated into the conquered South between 1865 and 1918. Most of the ?compulsory schooling? laws designed to implement the system were passed by 1900. By 1900, all the PhD?s in the United States were trained in Prussia. This project also meant that one-room schoolhouses had to go, for it fostered independence. They were eventually wiped out.

One of the reasons that the self-appointed elite brought back the Prussian system to the United States was to ensure a non-thinking work force to staff the growing industrial revolution. In 1776, for example, about 85% of the citizens were reasonably educated and had independent livelihoods ? they didn?t need to work for anyone. By 1840, the ratio was still about 70%. The attitude of ?learn and then strike out on your own? had to be broken. The Prussian system was an ideal way to do it.

One of the prime importers of the German ?educational? system into the United States was William T. Harris, from Saint Louis. He brought the German system in and set the purpose of the schools to alienate children from parental influence and that of religion. He preached this openly, and began creating ?school staffing? programs that were immediately picked up by the new ?teacher colleges?, many of which were underwritten by the Rockefeller family, the Carnegies, the Whitney?s and the Peabody family. The University of Chicago was underwritten by the Rockefellers.

The bottom line is that we had a literate country in the United States before the importation of the German educational system, designed to ?dumb down? the mass population. It was more literate that it is today. The textbooks of the time make so much allusion to history, philosophy, mathematics, science and politics that they are hard to follow today because of the way people are ?taught to think.?

Now, part of this whole paradigm seems to originate from an idea presented in The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon (1627). The work described a ?world research university? that scans the planet for babies and talent. The state then becomes invincible because it owned the university. It becomes impossible to revolt against the State because the State knows everything. A reflection of this principle can be seen today with the suppression of radical and practical technologies in order to preserve State control of life and prevent evolution and independence. The New Atlantis was widely read by German mystics in the 19th century. By 1840 in Prussia, there were a lot of ?world research universities?, in concept, all over the country. All of them drawing in talent and developiong it for the purposes of State power and stability.

The Birth of Experimental Psychology in Germany

By the middle of the 19th century, Germany had developed a new concept in the sciences which they termed ?psycho-physics?, which argued that people were in fact complex machines. It was the ultimate materialist extension of science that would parallel the mechanistic view of the universe already under way. This new view of people became more or less institutionalized in Germany, and by the 1870?s the ?field? of experimental psychology was born. The ultimate purpose of experimental psychology was to discover the nature of the human machine and how to program it.

The main proponent of this new experimental psychology in Germany was Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), who is today widely regarded as the ?father? of that field. He is described by orthodoxy as having ?freed the study of the mind from metaphysics and rational philosophy.? Presumably in favor of irrational philosophy. Wundt obtained his PhD in medicine from the University of Heidelburg in 1856, and embarked on the study of sensory perception. His most famous work was ?Contributions to the Theory of Sense Perception? , done between 1858 and 1862. It is described by orthodoxy as the first work of experimental psychology. In 1875, Wundt was appointed to a chair in philosophy at Leipzig, where he instituted a laboratory for the ?systematic, experimental study of experience.? Back then, the phase ?get a life? was not in vogue, and evidently he didn?t have much interpretable experience of his own.

In 1873, he began a year-long writing project which resulted in ?Principles of Physiological Psychology?, which became a ?classic? that was subsequently reprinted through six editions over the next 40 years, establishing psychology?s claim to be an ?independent science?. Wundt also wrote on philosophical subjects such as logic and ethics, but as he did not subscribe to ?rational philiosophy?, his writings presumably yielded irrational interpretations of both areas. It is conceivable that his warped view of humanity and the universe contributed in some small way to the eventual Nazi penchant for experimenting on those they didn?t like, producing for them an irrational experience they would never forget. American students of Wundt who returned to the United States between 1880 and 1910 became the heads of Psychological Departments at major universities, such as Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania, to name a few. Wundt trained James Cattell, who on his return to the United States trained over 300 PhD?s in the Wundt world view. The system of ?educational psychology? evolved from this. Funded by the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, the Wundtian system gains control over educational testing in the United States for soldiers of World War I.

The ?Educational System? Expands

The wave of immigration which began in 1848, combined with the visibility of revolutions taking place all over Europe, helped foster uncertainty in the public mind. Laws requiring compulsory schooling were then legislated. It was all very Hegelian. We wouldn?t want those little tykes to become reactionaries, would we? In 1890, Carnegie wrote a series of essays called The Gospel of Wrath, in which he claimed that the capitalistic free enterprise system was dead in the United States. It really was, since Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan, by then, owned the United States. It was about 1917 that a great ?Red Scare? was instituted in the United States in order to set up a reactionary movement intended to get the public to accept the idea of compulsory schooling ? Prussian compulsory schooling, of course.

The implimentation of the German educational nightmare in the United States met some initial resistence. In Carnegie?s home town of Gary, Indiana, the system was implemented between 1910 and 1916, mostly through the efforts of William Wirt, the school superintendent. It involved no academic endeavor whatsoever. It worked so well in supplying willing workers for the steel mills that it was decided by Carnegie to bring the system to New York City. In 1917, they initiated a program in New York in 12 schools, with the objective of enlarging the program to encompass 100 schools and eventually all the schools in New York. William Wirt came to supervise the transition.

Unfortunately for Carnegie, the population of the 12 schools was predominently composed of Jewish immigrants, who innately recognized what was being done and the nature of the new ?educational system?. Three weeks of riots followed, and editorials in the New York Times were very critical of the plan. Over 200 Jewish school children were thrown in jail. The whole political structure of New York that had tried this scheme were then thrown out of office during the next election. A book describing this scenerio, The Great School Wars, was written by Diane Ravitch on the subject. Curiously, William Wirt was committed to an insane asylum around 1930, after going around making public speeches about his part in a large conspiracy to bring about a controlled state in the hands of certain people. He died two years later.

In order to make sure that the independence of the one-room schoolhouse and the penchant for communities to hire their own independent teachers would cease, the Carnegie group instituted the concept of ?teacher certification? ? a process controlled by the teaching colleges under Carnegie and Rockefeller control. No one knew that the Communist revolutions were funded from the United States. The buildup of the Soviet Union, as well as that of Nazi Germany, would also be funded later from the United States in order to get a reactionary public to bend to the will of controlling political factions. It was a plan that worked well in the 1920?s, and worked well again in the 1950?s in the psychological creation of the ?cold war?, providing funding for the buildup of the military, industrial and pharmaceutical complex. The ?non-thinking? American public never suspected a thing. Such a thing would have been ?unbelievable.?

Because the United States was owned by wealthy businessmen, a synthetic free enterprise system was created and anti-trust laws were passed to prevent anyone else from gaining power. Everything that had already been consolidated was ?grandfathered? out of the law. It was a brilliant scheme, and it worked very well.

Earlier in the century there were ?school boards? in every town. Between 1932 and 1960, the number of school boards dropped from 140,000 to 30,000. Today there are about 15,000 ? all controlled by extensions of the Carnegie-Rockefeller educational complex. In 1959, with the advent of the ?sputnik? and the public realization that ?another country was ahead of us?, the embarassed educational system was forced to temporarily create a synthetic focus on science which produced a generation of scientists and technicians in order to resolve the apparent decifit in the public mind.

In retrospect, in 1889 the U.S. Commissioner of Education assured a prominent railroad man, Collis Huntington, when he protested that the schools seemed to be over-educating (producing too many engineers and people who could think), that schools had been scientifically designed not to over-educate. It was a reference to the German system of education inculcated into the United States between 1806 and 1819.

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Top Ten Reasons Why Writers Should Join Toastmasters: #2 Learn ...

After you?re a famous celebrity writer following your many television and radio appearances, it?s only natural that you be in demand to speak at conferences on the craft of writing. You?d better know how to put together a presentation for the time required that provides value to the attendees and thrills the conference planner. Fortunately, Toastmasters has a program to help you learn the nuts and bolts of putting together a speech. It?s called The Competent Communicator (CC) manual.

The CC manual has ten projects that will get you started speaking and teach you the building blocks of good presentations.

You?ll start with the Ice Breaker project. This is a 4 to 6 minute speech in which you?ll introduce yourself to the club. There are two objectives for this speech: to help your fellow club members get to know you as a person and to help your mentors identify what speaking strengths you already have.

Toastmasters is a strengths-based program, so this project is really where we start building a plan that will help you progress through the rest of the manual successfully.

In the second project you?ll learn the basic organizational structure of a speech or presentation, and in the third, you?ll learn about staying focused on the purposes (general and specific) of your speech.

The second and third projects look very basic, but they form the foundation on which all subsequent speeches are built. Don?t sell them short. Hard work on these projects will pay big dividends for you down the road.

The fourth project is a natural for writers. It?s all about choosing the right words. If you?re like me, you?ll hear cliches and jargon come out of your mouth that you would never put in your writing. This project helps us learn to speak as mindfully as we write.

The fifth and sixth project are about adding vocal variety and body language to enhance your message.

In the seventh project, we learn how to incorporate research into the speech and in the eighth we begin to use visual aids. These are critical skills for your conference presentations and workshops.

The ninth project teaches us how to use persuasion in our speeches and the tenth is where we learn to inspire our audience. These two final projects call for us to pull together all the skills we learned in the previous projects to create a spellbinding presentation.

The CC manual is brilliantly written. Its deceptively simple appearance in combination with the mentoring you?ll receive in Toastmasters provides you the opportunity to develop speaking skills while having fun. I like the CC manual so much that I just finished my 5th or 6th time through it. (I lost count!) I learn something new every time I repeat the projects.

Never fear, however, there is even more to learn beyond the CC manual. I?ll talk more about that in the next installment of The Top Ten Reasons Why Writers Should Join Toastmasters.

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Sony Eyes $1 Billion Building Sale in Japan

A sad state of affairs for the once mega-corporation Sony. The corporation is raising cash by downsizing its operation and selling off its assets to try to right the corporate ship and get back on solid financial footing. On the block now is a Billion dollar two-year old building in downtown Tokyo.

Hirai is trying to revive Sony's operation by initiating a "One Sony" program aimed at realigning its focus on games, digital imaging, and mobile. Hirai has also laid off workers and shed assets.

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Oscar snubs leave Globes with also-ran nominees

Actor Ben Affleck arrives at the BAFTA Awards Season Tea Party at The Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Actor Ben Affleck arrives at the BAFTA Awards Season Tea Party at The Four Seasons Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Miss Golden Globe Francesca Eastwood, from left, Dick Clark Productions CEO Allen Shapiro, Dick Clark Productions President Orly Adelson, HFPA President Aida Takla-O'Reilly, producer Barry Adelman, and Mr. Golden Globe Sam Michael Fox roll out the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards preview day at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 file photo, director Kathryn Bigelow participates in a "Zero Dark Thirty" photo call in New York. The film was nominated for an Academy Award and Mark Boal was nominated for best original screenplay for the film but Bigelow was not nominated for best director. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

This undated publicity photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Jessica Chastain, as Maya, a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives stationed in a covert base overseas, who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures' new thriller, "Zero Dark Thirty," directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Chastain received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her portrayal of the young, obsessed CIA operative driving the search. (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley)

This image released by DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation shows Sally Field and Daniel Day-Lewis appear in a scene from "Lincoln." Fields was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress and Lewis was nominated for best actor on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, for their roles in ?Lincoln.? The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 on ABC. (AP Photo/DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, David James)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Hollywood's junior prom for film honors features quite a different cast than the senior prom at next month's Academy Awards.

Sunday night's Golden Globes are in a rare place this season, coming after the Oscar nominations, which were announced earlier than usual and threw out some shockers that have left the Globes show a little less relevant.

Key Globe contenders lined up largely as expected, with Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln" leading with seven nominations and two CIA thrillers ? Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Ben Affleck's "Argo" ? also doing well.

All three films earned Globe nominations for best drama and director. Yet while "Lincoln," ''Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" grabbed best-picture slots at Thursday's Oscar nominations, Bigelow and Affleck were snubbed for directing honors after a season that had seen them in the running for almost every other major award.

The Globe and Oscar directing fields typically match up closely. This time, though, only Spielberg and "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee have nominations for both. Along with Spielberg, Lee, Bigelow and Affleck, Quentin Tarantino is nominated for directing at the Globes. At the Oscars, it's Spielberg, Lee, "Silver Linings Playbook" director David O. Russell and two surprise picks: veteran Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke for "Amour" and first-time director Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

That forces some top-name filmmakers to put on brave faces for the Globes. And while a Globe might be a nice consolation prize, it could be a little awkward if Affleck, Bigelow or Tarantino won Sunday and had to make a cheery acceptance speech knowing they don't have seats at the grown-ups table for the Feb. 24 Oscars.

That could happen. While "Lincoln" has the most nominations, it's a purely American story that may not have as much appeal to Globe voters ? about 90 reporters belonging to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who cover entertainment for overseas outlets.

The Bigelow and Affleck films center on Americans, too, but they are international tales ? "Zero Dark Thirty" chronicling the manhunt for Osama bin Laden and "Argo" recounting the rescue of six U.S. embassy workers trapped in Iran amid the 1979 hostage crisis.

Globe voters might want to make right on a snub to Bigelow three years ago, when they gave their best-drama and directing prize to ex-husband James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar" over her Iraq war tale "The Hurt Locker."

Bigelow made history a month later, becoming the first woman to win the directing Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," which also won best picture.

Globe voters like to be trend-setters, but they missed the boat on that one. Might they feel enough chagrin to hand Bigelow the directing trophy this time?

Spielberg already has won two best-director Globes, so that might be a further inducement for the foreign-press members to favor someone else this time.

Their votes were locked in before the Oscar nominations came out. Globe balloting closed Wednesday, the day before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its awards lineup.

The Globes feature two best-picture categories ? one for drama and one for musical or comedy. Most of the Globe contenders also earned Oscar best-picture nominations, including all of the drama picks: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ''Life of Pi," ''Django Unchained" and "Zero Dark Thirty."

Yet only two of the Globe musical or comedy nominees ? "Les Miserables" and "Silver Linings Playbook" ? are in the running at the Oscars. That's not unusual, though, since Oscar voters tend to overlook comedy. The other Globe nominees for musical or comedy are "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," ''Moonrise Kingdom" and "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."

Acting contenders include Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master"; Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"; Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained"; Alan Arkin for "Argo"; and Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty."

Globe acting recipients usually are a good sneak peek for who will win at the Oscars. All four of last season's Oscar winners ? Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady," Jean Dujardin for "The Artist," Octavia Spencer for "The Help" and Christopher Plummer for "Beginners" ? took home a Globe first.

Jodie Foster will receive the Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 70th Globes ceremony, airing live from 8-11 p.m. EST on NBC.

There will be a friendly rivalry between the hosts of the Globe ceremony, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The co-stars of the 2008 big-screen comedy "Baby Mama" both are nominated for best actress in a TV comedy or musical series, Fey for "30 Rock" and Poehler for "Parks and Recreation."

The Globes present 14 film awards and 11 television prizes.

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Spnkix motorized skates crash the final Engadget CES podcast (video)

Right in the middle of our final CES podcast, we were mildly interrupted by a man on battery-powered heels. These are Spnkix, a pair of wheel-toting heels that can be lashed to your shoes (Men sizes 6-14, Women sizes 7-15.5). You can expect to push out around 7 miles of coverage on a single charge -- depending on your weight and angle of the surface. Charging takes around 4 to 5 hours, while the battery units are removable if you reckon you'll be making an extended journey. Speeds top out at 10mph, while a wireless controller (that also takes removable batteries) allows you to manipulate the speed, while a stopper on the heel will be familiar to anyone who's roller-skated before. Spnkix Pro, seen here, will set you back $699 and they're available to buy at the source below.

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Kaepernick delivers, 49ers beat Packers 45-31

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) runs for a 56-yard touchdown against the Green Bay Packers during the third quarter of an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) runs for a 56-yard touchdown against the Green Bay Packers during the third quarter of an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) celebrates after running for touchdown with tight end Vernon Davis during the first quarter of an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

Green Bay Packers cornerback Sam Shields (37) returns an interception for a touchdown as he dives past San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) during the first quarter of an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Green Bay Packers cornerback Sam Shields (37) celebrates with outside linebacker Clay Matthews (52) after returning an interception from San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for a touchdown during the first quarter of an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones (89) celebrates after scoring on a 20-yard touchdown reception with wide receiver Jordy Nelson (87) during the second quarter of an NFC divisional playoff NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The unproven kid thoroughly beat the former Super Bowl champion and reigning MVP.

With a strong arm that allowed him to pick the Packers apart from the pocket and speedy legs that helped him break free for big gains, Colin Kaepernick did a little bit of everything in a record-setting, sensational playoff debut ? and Aaron Rodgers just couldn't keep up.

Kaepernick passed for 263 yards and ran the San Francisco 49ers right back to the NFC championship game with a 45-31 win over Green Bay in an NFC divisional game Saturday night.

Kaepernick rushed for a quarterback playoff record 181 yards and two touchdowns and threw two scoring passes to Michael Crabtree. Next up for the Niners: a game on Jan. 20 for a spot in the Super Bowl, against the winner of Sunday's game between the Seattle Seahawks and Falcons at Atlanta.

"It feels good. We're one step closer to where we want to be," Kaepernick said. "I feel like I had a lot to prove. A lot of people doubted my ability to lead this team."

And what a playoff debut it was by the second-year pro making just his eighth NFL start. No doubting Jim Harbaugh's big midseason gamble switching quarterbacks now.

Rodgers never got in sync for the Packers (12-6), finishing 26 of 39 for 257 yards with two touchdowns.

Kaepernick ran for scores of 20 and 56 yards on the way to topping the rushing mark of 119 yards set by Michael Vick in 2005 against St. Louis. Crabtree caught TD passes of 12 and 20 yards in the second quarter and wound up with nine receptions and 119 yards for the Niners (12-4-1) in the NFC divisional matchup.

Kaepernick, sporting a burgundy beanie partially covering his head, was greeted at his locker after the game by former 49ers quarterback John Brodie.

San Francisco had 579 total yards with 323 on the ground, scoring its third-most points in the franchise's storied playoff history.

"Our offensive line did an amazing job today," Kaepernick said. "They shut everybody down inside. Our receivers, our tight ends, blocked great outside, and our running backs were running hard, so it made it easier on me."

Frank Gore and Anthony Dixon each added 2-yard touchdown runs in the fourth quarter for the No. 2 seed NFC West champions, slim favorites on their home field in a rematch of Week 1. They added to their memorable night by setting a franchise postseason record for yards rushing, 119 of those by Gore to complement Kaepernick.

Rodgers, the former Cal star passed up by San Francisco with the No. 1 pick in the 2005 draft, never got going. Rodgers rooted for the Niners as a kid in Northern California.

This was another early exit for the Packers, who lost in the divisional playoffs to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants a year ago and were denied a chance to defend the title they won after the 2010 season.

Those Green Bay road stars of two years ago ? they won three away from Lambeau Field on the way to the Super Bowl ? didn't have it this time against San Francisco's stingy defense and a no-fear, second-year quarterback who would not be denied. A kid who was born in Milwaukee and grew up a big Green Bay fan until the day he was drafted in 2011 out of Nevada.

"I didn't know how fast he was," Green Bay defensive back Charles Woodson said. "Coming in I really never paid attention to it. But he is fast."

San Francisco advanced to back-to-back NFC title games for the first time since reaching three in a row following the 1992-94 seasons, with 1994 their last trip to the Super Bowl.

With the sellout crowd at Candlestick Park waving red flags reading "Quest for Six" ? a sixth Super Bowl title, that is ? Kaepernick did his part and then some to deliver in the first key step. Even after an early interception that gave Green Bay all the momentum in a hostile road stadium.

Kaepernick topped Vick's mark with the 56-yard keeper on an option play in the third quarter. That gave Kaepernick 163 yards on 12 carries, also setting a 49ers franchise record for the postseason.

"The execution for the 49ers on the read option was excellent, but our issues were bigger than that," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "We did not a very good job of keeping him the pocket. He was able to get out of the pocket for a number of big conversions."

Kaepernick joined Jay Cutler in 2011 and Otto Graham in both 1954 and '55 as the only players with two rushing and two passing touchdowns in a playoff game.

David Akers kicked a 36-yard field goal moments before halftime to give San Francisco a 24-21 lead at intermission after Green Bay tried to ice the struggling veteran by calling timeout before his kick.

Mason Crosby's 31-yard field goal tied the game at 24 midway through the third quarter, then Kaepernick took over again. San Francisco's defense handled the rest.

Kaepernick had 11 carries for 107 yards rushing by halftime.

Pick six, no problem.

The strong-armed Kaepernick brushed off the interception he tossed on the fourth play of the game that Sam Shields ran back 52 yards for a touchdown, then took control with his pinpoint passing to his favorite go-to guy ? Crabtree ? and with his quick-burst ability out of the pocket.

"He does a great job of responding," Harbaugh said. "He has done that any time there has been an interception he has thrown, a safety or a turnover, he's responded with a scoring drive. That's rare. I think that's a rare quality. So far he's shown that he's got that ability to come back."

San Francisco, fueled all year by its near miss in overtime of the NFC title game, made it two victories against Rodgers and Co. this season after a 30-22 Week 1 win at Lambeau Field.

Kaepernick bounced back from the early interception and again after a second-quarter taunting penalty in which he threw the ball down in the face of safety M.D. Jennings after being hit by Jennings and Erik Walden. Center Jonathan Goodwin grabbed Kaepernick in an effort to settle him down after his 15-yard run was negated by the 15-yard flag.

Two plays later, Kaepernick found Crabtree for his 20-yard TD as San Francisco capitalized on another Packers turnover.

Rodgers answered right back on the Packers' next chance, driving his team 80 yards on six plays and hitting James Jones on a 20-yard touchdown of his own that tied the game at 21. Green Bay got help from a 15-yard personal foul penalty by Dashon Goldson for a helmet-to-helmet hit on DuJuan Harris.

"We felt like we gift-wrapped them 14 points off turnovers in the first half and our defense was playing all right," Rodgers said. "And then we just didn't get it done in the second half. I knew we were going to have to score some points. We knew we were going to have to put up at least 38 points."

Former California receiver Jeremy Ross fumbled Andy Lee's punt early in the second and C.J. Spillman recovered as San Francisco got the ball back at the 9. Kaepernick threw a 12-yard TD pass to Crabtree three plays later.

Rodgers' streak of 183 passes without an interception spanning the previous five games ended when Tarell Brown picked off the ball on a deep third-down throw in the second quarter. Brown had another interception in the waning moments.

"We expected them to try to get him out on the perimeter. But we didn't expect to let him do what he did," Woodson said. "Give him a lot of credit. He played a great game. He made a lot of great plays out there today. It was hard to swallow."

Harris ran 18 yards for a score in the final minute of the first quarter as Green Bay took a 14-7 lead. Rodgers connected with James Jones on a 44-yard completion one play earlier before Harris easily ran right up the middle into the end zone for a Packers team that managed 45 total yards rushing in the season-opening loss.

Such moments were few against a 49ers defense happy to welcome back All-Pro lineman Justin Smith after he missed the final two regular-season games with a partially torn left triceps muscle.

Notes: The Green Bay defense gave up the most total yards (579), yards rushing (323) and second-most points in the playoffs in franchise history. ... San Francisco improved to 13-3 at home in divisional playoff games. ... The 49ers had 48 offensive plays in the first half to 20 by Green Bay.

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From Black to Unblackened: Black Label Society Deconstructs For A Unique One-Night-Only Engagement at LA's Club Nokia

Concert to Air Live on AXS TV and is Set for Future CD/DVD Release

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard rock legends Black Label Society, fronted by guitar icon Zakk Wylde, have announced Unblackened, a one night only concert at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on Wednesday,March 6(th )at 9:00pm. The showwill feature intimate versions of some of the band's most popular songs, as well as songs from Wylde's best-selling solo album Book of Shadows and Southern rock band Pride & Glory. The show will feature Wylde on guitar and piano, alongside the members of Black Label Society, as well as a four-piece string section, pedal steel, and special guests. The concert will be broadcast live exclusively on AXS TV. A CD/DVD will be released later this year.

"This is something we haven't done yet, and we wanted to give our fans something new," said Wylde. "You can take a song that you've played thousands of times and rearrange it, and all of a sudden it's something totally fresh. The attitude of the songs doesn't change when we play them acoustically-the tunes are gritty regardless."

On August 10(th), 2010 Black Label Society released their eighth studio album, Order Of The Black, which entered the Billboard 200 at No. 4. The release featured two singles, "Parade Of The Dead" and "Crazy Horse". The band then released their ninth studio album, The Song Remains Not The Same, in May 2011, which was a compilation album featuring new, acoustic versions of songs originally released on Order Of The Black. The album reached No. 41 on the Billboard 200.

In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station to become his new guitarist, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over, winning nearly every guitar award imaginable, and becoming a major influence on a new battalion of rock guitarists popular today. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, which inspired him to create the now legendary Black Label Society (BLS) in 1998. Black Label Society members include Zakk Wylde (lead guitar, lead vocals), Nick Cantanese (rhythm guitar), John DeServio (bass), and Chad Szeliga (drums).

For more information on Black Label Society, visit: www.facebook.com/blacklabelsociety, http://www.blacklabelsociety.com/

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Tickets start at $28.50, and go on sale Friday, January 11(th) at 10:00amPT.
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