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Double Dipping Is Not Illegal
Let it be said, up front, Celoron clerk Shirley Sanfilippo has done nothing wrong.
After retiring from the city of Jamestown, she was asked by Jack Keeney to serve as Celoron clerk. She is more than qualified for the job and, by all accounts, Mrs. Sanfilippo has done a good job as clerk during her time in the village – including the difficult time recently when Keeney's illness kept him away from village affairs. We can understand, then, how Mrs. Sanfilippo and her supporters were upset when a raise included in the village's 2013-14 budget proposal was questioned by former village officials Rick Slagle and Warren Gertsch. The raise is about $1,000 a year for a part-time position, but it is also nearly the same amount as the village's proposed tax levy increase.
Slagle contends Mrs. Sanfilippo shouldn't be paid any more from the village because she also receives a taxpayer-funded pension from her tenure as Jamestown City Clerk. According to the tentative Celoron budget, the clerk/treasurer position is to be paid $31,000. That wage doubles when pensions come into play. The average worker in Celoron earns $27,898 a year, according to 2010 Census data. Census data showed more than 50 percent of the village's 1,112 residents were jobless – 38.4 percent of Celoron residents weren't in the labor force with another 15.4 percent listed as unemployed. Slagle reasons the proposed $1,000 raise is unnecessary because, with Mrs. Sanfilippo's municipal pension factored in, she would earn twice the wage of the average Celoron resident.
Again, Mrs. Sanfilippo has done nothing wrong. There is nothing illegal going on in the budget.
Celoron is just a small example of a national trend known as double dipping, which happens when a municipal worker retires from their job with a public pension and then begins working for another municipality. It's costly – and perfectly legal. A local analysis hasn't been done yet, but a 2012 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle analysis showed double-dipping by state employees is costing taxpayers $192.7 million in salaries and pensions. The number of state employees collecting a public pension has increased 47 percent since 2010.
As pension costs skyrocket for municipalities statewide, withholding municipal pensions for retirees who re-enter the municipal workforce is becoming an increasingly popular idea. Given the stranglehold rising pension payments pose for local budgets, it is also the right idea.

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Randomly Sort A ColdFusion Array (Updated) - Thanks Mark Mandel
I had recently posted a ColdFusion solution to randomly sorting an array. Mark Mandel graciously pointed out that in Java, there is already a way to do this utilizing the java.util.Collections class. The java.util.Collections class is comprised solely of static methods that manipulate collections. It just so happens that it has a method: Shuffle().
Implementing it in ColdFusion could not be easier:
- <!--- Create an array. --->
- <cfset arrGirls = ListToArray(
- "Sarah,Ashley,Anna,Libby"
- ) />
- <!--- Shuffle it (ie. randomly sort it). --->
- <cfset CreateObject(
- "java",
- "java.util.Collections"
- ).Shuffle(
- arrGirls
- ) />
The code is compact so it may be hard to read. First, we are creating an instance of the Collections class:
- <cfset CreateObject( "java", "java.util.Collections" ) />
This class has NO constructors, which is why we are not calling any Init() methods. Once we have the instance, we then call the static method Shuffle() and pass in the array, arrGirls. This method does not return a value. It is updating the array by reference, not value.
This should accept anything that implements the list interface, java.util.List.
How easy is that? Thanks a bunch Mark Mandel! Man, I really need to learn more about the Java 2 class libraries. There is so much stuff in there that is SOOO awesome for ColdFusion.
Reader Comments
Wow, that's so much simpler than my method of getting a random selection of sidebar buttons from a SQL query (which basically entailed getting the first random number, getting the second and checking it wasn't the same as the first, getting the third etc...).
Not what you'd call efficient code, but I couldn't see an alternative!
What can I say, Mark Mandel is the man :)
THANKS for this... I've recently been dabbling in what I can do with utilizing the base java libraries and this is just slick!
Heh, awesome. I spend five minutes refamiliarising myself with CF's built in randomizing functions in preparation for thinking through a solution to randomizing an array. Then on a whim I google it and BAM, first result, a solution in one line of code. I love CF - thanks Ben (and Mark)!
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Many thanks! Love your site!
wowwwwwwwww! This cannot be easier!
This can be used to shuffle a list as well.
Put them into my framework ;-)
Thanks Ben and Mark.
Yeah, that Collections is pretty awesome. When Mark showed this to me, it totally blew my mind.
Hmm.. I found that using an array of 5 elements or less causes repeats. E.g. aMy = [1,2,3,4,5]; shuffle(aMy); may return [1,1,4,4,5] or [1,2,2,3,5]...
If the array greater than 5 elements repeats doesn't occurs, just random sorting.
Great post, thanks. And thanks Mark :)
Why do you think this is the case. I tested with the following code and over 1000000 tries I never once got a duplicate.
- for (var t=0; t lte 1000000; t=t+1) {
- javaCollections = CreateObject( "java", "java.util.Collections");
- lhs = createObject("java", "java.util.LinkedHashSet");
- aMy = [1,2,3,4,5];
- javaCollections.shuffle(aMy);
- //remove duplicates
- lhs.init( aMy );
- aMy.clear();
- aMy.addAll( lhs );
- //still 5, if no dump
- if (arrayLen(aMy) NEQ 5)
- writeDump(aMy);
- }
- abort;
Thanks for your time! My fault, I accidentally misled you.
Correction: "I found that using an array of 4 elements or less causes
repeats. E.g. aMy = [1,2,3,4]; shuffle(aMy); may return [1,1,4,4] or [1,2,2,3]"
I ran the test with 4 items, 3 items, and 2 items in the array.
I have a lot of duplicates using your code. Railo 3.2.005 (jdk 1.6.0_22). Bug maybe?
Hmm, I ran mine against ACF 901. Maybe that is the difference. I will run it against my Railo and see what happens.
Sure enough. It fails under Railo. Lots of duplicates.
Interesting. I wonder why? Java versions?
Good to know.
@Alexey, @Curt,
Hmm, that is very curious. I haven't use Railo myself; but, since we are invoking a Java Collections explicitly (and not some CF class), you'd think that the behavior would be exactly the same. If anyone gets to the bottom of this, I'd be interested in hearing what it is.
Since I will assume the Java classes are the same (the Core java classes), I will assume that it has something to do with the Java class uses to implement the Array. Maybe there's a threading issue or something?
Just an FYI: This was brought up on the Railo group recently. As soon as we get an answer from Micha, I'll post something here to clear it up. Someone suggested that it may be because Railo passes by reference, not by value.
Sweet, thanks for the update Todd. Its funny because I hadn't really thought about this at all until yesterday and was just looking back into it.
@Curt: Apparently this was a bug that was already fixed:
First, we have solved the problem
Problem was the implementation of the method java.util.List#set(int, java.lang.Object), this method is never used by Railo, but supported because we have implemented the List interface for ArrayImpl (for compatibility reason) and of course the "shuffle" method use this method. the return value of the "set" method should be the element previously at the specified position, but railo has returned the object set to the array, like every set action in Railo does and because of that the failure was happening.
BTW: this has nothing to do with "pass-by-value", java does not know the "pass-by-value" concept for objects, this is just happening in ACF and to do so, ACF clones array before passing/returning to/from a UDF or assign to a variable, in this case ACF does not clone the array as well.
@Michael and @Todd,
Sweet, Thanks for the update. I hadn't used it on Railo since I discovered this. Glad to know I can now. (I probably should have filed the bug for this, my bad).
Anyway, great work.
@Curt: Slacker. ;)
Kudos to the Railo guys for addressing this one so quickly.
If you want to use the Shuffle method in railo and like me either can't wait for the new release or are incapable of compiling the patch :-), the following work-around seems to work.
Basically it avoids using the railo Collections implementation by converting the CF Array to native Java objects, does the shuffle on those and then converts back to a CF Array again. It should work in both Adobe CF and Railo.
There may be a more efficient way to do the final conversion back to a CF array, but I'm only ever working with a list of 3 elements to be shuffled in my app :-)
<cffunction name="arrayShuffle" returntype="array">
<cfargument name="arrayIn" type="array">
<!--- NB: Only designed to work with single dimensioned arrays
<cfset var jArrayList = CreateObject("java",
<cfset var cfArray = ArrayNew(1)>
<cfset var objIterator = "">
<!--- Shuffle jArrayList --->
<cfset CreateObject(
) />
<!--- Now convert it back to a ColdFusion Array --->
<cfset objIterator = jArrayList.iterator()>
<cfloop condition="objIterator.hasNext()">
<cfset ArrayAppend(cfArray, objIterator.next())>
<cfreturn cfArray>
Awesome stuff - you guys are so fast on the bug fixes. I am consistently impressed with your team!
Cool stuff; but, the real question is - can you add the arrayShuffle() to the list of globally available functions of the language? I keep hear about how the Railo codebase can be programmatically extended. This seems like one of the coolest features.
Hey Ben - I actually wasn't aware of this, but it appears that you certainly can.
I just found a blog post describing how it's done if you don't mind me posting the link:
This is awesome. Saved my bacon today. Or shuffled it anyway.
Thanks! Worked like a charm.
Everyday I'm java.util.Collections.Shuffle()'ng
This is just the bees knees. I was trying to figure out how to randomise an orm entity array. This worked perfectly.


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By Sgt. Jeannette McAllisterNovember 7, 2012
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md., -- The 6-foot-2-inch Army Reserve Soldier appeared even taller as he rigidly stood to have his height carefully measured as dozens of Soldiers waited in line behind him.
The Soldiers representing 10 Army Reserve major commands were at the 200th Military Police Command headquarters Nov. 3-4 as part of a unique selection process for the Presidential Inaugural Parade for the United States Army Reserve Command scheduled for January in Washington D.C.
As Sgt. Mark Horn, who is assigned to the 818th Maintenance Company, 377th Theater Sustainment Command, stepped out from under the small white, metal bar marking his height, he said he remembers standing in the cold to watch the parade four years ago.
The 377th TSC, which is the Army Reserve's largest command, has more than 36,000 Soldiers across 34 states and four countries.
This year, Horn, a Washington, D.C. native, said his dream to march in the parade will be reality. He said when the call came in for volunteers, it was a no brainer.
"We must support our commander in chief, regardless of political party affiliation. This is the highest honor for any service member and a part of American history," he said.
With Horn, Spc. David Shobe, from Indianapolis, Ind., moved through the various in-processing stations to ensure the Army Reserve is well represented when they step onto Pennsylvania Avenue for the historic parade.
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to be there for our President and commander of all American forces, and (it's) an opportunity to support our nation," said Shobe.
As a half dozen forms were filled out and height and weight was carefully recorded by Master Sgt. Robert Wood, 200th MPCOM operations sergeant, Reserve Soldiers from the 1015th Quartermaster Company, 377th TSC, discussed why it was important for them to take time away from their families and friends to be here.
Pfc. Kasmere Thomas said only five Soldiers of a formation with more than 200 were chosen to represent citizen warriors within her company.
"It was not only an honor but a great opportunity and learning experience for any young Soldier," she said.
Sitting near Thomas was Spc. Darrius Redd who said he agreed with Thomas and added, "When we're NCOs one day, we can share our experience of Inauguration Day."
Spc. Matthew Volpe, 312th Psychological Operations Company, out of Upper Marlboro, Md., said, "It's a great opportunity to be a part of something bigger than myself, my unit and our command."
The 312th POC is assigned to the Army Reserve's United States Army Civil and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) out of Fort Bragg, N.C. with more than 12,000 Soldiers across 39 states and Puerto Rico.
Next in the long line to have their Army Service Uniform inspected was Spc. Michael Bullis, who also volunteered for the high-profile mission. Bullis said his parents are extremely proud that he is participating in the parade.
"This is the first presidential election where I can vote," he said. "So I thought it was a great opportunity to do both."
As uniforms were inspected under the watchful eye of several senior NCOs, the long day continued with more briefings, preparation and going outside to get back to the basics of drill and ceremony.
With a mass formation filled with enlisted and officers, the Reserve professionals set aside rank to ensure the ranks and columns were near perfection. Young specialists stepped up and marched small platoon-sized formations around the large parking lot before coming together into one formation.
1st Lt. Mary O'Neill Charles, who lives in nearby Chester, Md., stood shoulder-to-shoulder with two sergeants as marching orders were given.
"We live in the greatest country on Earth," she said. "We have freedoms others dream about. We have the right to vote and the inauguration represents one of our greatest rights, the right to elect our own leaders."
Charles is assigned to the 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) or "Desert Medics" which is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. and has more than 8,200 Soldiers in 22 states and one territory.
As the daylight came to an end, the temperatures outside dropped, but inside the heat was on and final inspections continued.
Watching from a distance, Maj. Gen. Sanford Holman, commanding general of the 200th MPCOM, said he is proud of all Army Reserve Soldiers and the sacrifices families make across the entire Army Reserve.
"Today is the first step we make toward marching in the historic event, and I know our Soldiers will not only represent the Army Reserve to the highest standard but all service members -- past, present and future."
Holman said his staff took on the challenge of bringing Soldiers from 10 different commands to the 200th MPCOM headquarters, ensuring all Soldiers were a match for the mission and everyone knew the importance of the Inaugural Parade for the American people.
"We are a nation that prides itself on peaceful transfer of power," he said. "This is a unique opportunity not only as a citizen Soldier but as an American."
He said Reserve Soldiers come from all walks of life. From police officers and doctors, to teachers and postal workers, Holman is excited to see the melting pot of Army Reserve command standing in the formation.
"Today and during the inauguration parade we will march as Soldiers, but more importantly stand proud as Americans to support the President and command in chief," he said.


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It has been 30 years since management guru/author Tom Peters published "In Search of Excellence," named one of the "Top Three Business Books of the Century" by National Public Radio.
Since then, the pace of change in society and business has been "absolutely enormous," he says. "You could wake up tomorrow morning and find 23 startups in your space that weren't there when you went to bed—there's always someone out there who's living 2022 in 2012."
Despite this whirlwind, the "bedrock values" most important to consumers—service and integrity—haven't changed. Companies that forget their bedrock values risk becoming unglued from their moorings, he warns, "like a lot of your peers in the financial services world have."
In the first of a three-part interview, CUNA President/CEO Bill Cheney visits with the man Inc. magazine recently named the "Red Bull of management thinkers."
Peters will share more of his thoughts—and strong opinions—during the America's Credit Union Conference, June 17-20 in San Diego.
Cheney: Tell me about your "reimagine manifesto." How did this come about?
Peters: When I started working on this it was pretty close to Sept. 11, and we were all shaken up. That's an understatement. And economically, we'd just watched the dotcom bubble burst.
Even though it's commonplace to say you always have to be moving and changing, it was pretty darn clear on every dimension—from national security to careers to business—that people really needed to change fast. I decided that "change" was a grossly overused word and that we really needed to rethink things in a fundamental way.
That's where "reimagine" came from. Quite obviously, not only have things not slowed down since 2001, they've accelerated many times over from the bio sciences to the use of information technology (IT), to the financial crash, to the incredible rise of China, to the outsourcing of everything.
When you look at the changes coming down the pike, you might be justified in saying we ain't seen nothing yet. The financial crisis was a big darn deal but that's not really the story. It's about globalization and the use of IT, which has us all in its thrall. God alone knows—and I'm not even sure God is up to it—what the world will look like in 15 to 20 years.
One of my favorite quotes comes from [Secretary of Veterans Affairs/retired U.S. Army General] Eric Shinseki: "If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less."
I love that quote. It strikes me as particularly descriptive.
Cheney: You advise companies to "destroy and reimagine." What does that look like?
Peters: I have a strong bias that you act your way into thinking more than you think your way into acting. That means no one is smart enough to know what will work all the time. So the essence of "destroy and reimagine" is to try new stuff, with quick feedback loops and tests here and there.
I'm a strong supporter of decentralized organizations with energetic and talented people who are allowed to try any darn thing that comes to mind. During a seminar in Australia years ago, a successful businessman told me he lived off of six words: reward excellent failures, punish mediocre successes.
Cheney: What did he mean by that?
Peters: We start project after project with grand and glorious aims—and then two years later we wind up implementing something very moderate. Don't always play it safe—try new things. If we fail faster, we'll succeed sooner.
I would like to put an asterisk to "destroy and reimagine." You represent institutions that didn't forget their core values like a lot of those in the financial services world have.
I've spent 40 years on one topic: putting people first. So values such as service and integrity were the bedrock, are the bedrock, and will remain the bedrock.
The co-founder of Gore-Tex, Bill Gore, used to come to my seminars. He would tell employees "you're allowed to change anything above the water line." But not below the water line; those are the bedrock values.
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EU and IMF go to war over rescue deal for Greece
THE EU and IMF have clashed over how long to give Greece to get its debts down to a sustainable level.
Euro zone finance ministers suggested yesterday that Greece should be given until 2022 to lower its debt/GDP ratio to 120pc but chief Christine Lagarde insisted the existing target of 2020 should remain.
"We clearly have different views. What matters at the end of the day is the sustainability of Greek debt so that country can be back on its feet," Lagarde said in an unusually public airing of disagreement.
Behind her sharp exchange with Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker lies a rift over whether euro zone governments need to write off some of Greece's debt to make it manageable. IMF officials have pressed for such a "haircut" while Germany, the biggest contributor to euro zone bailout funds, has vehemently rejected it as illegal.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has signalled she wants to keep Greece in the euro zone but is determined to avoid losses for German taxpayers before a general election in September 2013.
With so much stake, diplomats remain confident that a deal will be done to release a €31.5bn tranche of bailout money which Athens urgently requires to avert bankruptcy.
But it is a way off yet.
Financial markets took a dim view of the failure to agree. The euro dipped to a two-month low against the dollar and safe-haven German Bund futures rose to two-month highs.
"Few people would think that the euro zone will desert Greece. Still, the market will be frustrated by lack of a clear picture. I expect the euro to keep falling gradually," said Ayako Sera, senior market economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
Juncker, who heads the 17-nation group of euro zone finance ministers, said a further Eurogroup meeting would take place on November 20 and officials said more negotiations could be required the week after that to nail down a new deal.
The delay leaves Athens scrambling to meet a €5 billion bond repayment deadline on Friday, but EU officials were confident that it would not default.
With Greece's overall debt pile set to hit 190pc of GDP next year, the IMF has set 120pc as the target, saying that anything much above that is not sustainable given Greece's low growth prospects and high external borrowing requirements.
"All avenues in order to reduce debt on Greece are being explored and will continue to be explored in the coming days," Lagarde said.
If the IMF, which is concerned about its own integrity, were to walk away from the Greek bailout, the euro zone would have to contribute extra funds, and its reputation in financial markets could be severely damaged.
The euro zone ministers did agree yesterday to give Greece two more years to make the spending cuts demanded of it but by doing so they face an extra funding bill of around €33bn, according to a document prepared for the meeting.
Discussion on how to close that gap will be high on the ministers' agenda when they next meet.
A target was set in March for Greece to achieve a primary surplus of 4.5pc of GDP in 2014. That will now be moved to 2016 giving Athens some breathing space to temper a deep recession that is to all intents and purposes a depression.
Despite Greece approving a tough 2013 budget last week, which it hoped would meet conditions for the release of the next tranche of emergency loans under its second bailout programme, Lagarde said more work was needed to cement the budget measures.
"That clearly needs to be reviewed a little bit, to make sure that all prior actions contained in that budget law are actually taken," she said. "There will be a few, only a few additional prior actions to be verified in the coming days."
Loans have been held up since Athens, which has received two bailout packages from the euro zone and IMF, went off-track with promised reforms and budget cuts, partly as a result of holding two elections in the space of three months earlier this year.
Until the bailout money flows, Greece will issue more short-term paper to keep itself afloat. Athens will sell one- and three-month T-bills later on Tuesday to refinance the €5 billion issue maturing on November 16. Its debt agency expressed confidence the issue will be fully funded.
Three officials said the troika had concluded that Greece's debt burden will fall only to 144pc of gross domestic product in 2020 and roughly 10 percentage points lower two years later if current policies do not change.
To get the higher figure down to 120pc of GDP requires lopping the best part of €50 billion off Greece's debt pile.
Among the new instruments under consideration to reduce Greek debt are the removal of the 150-basis-point interest above financing costs on €53 billion of bilateral government loans to Greece, and lengthening the maturity of the loans.
Greece may also borrow from the euro zone bailout fund to buy back its privately held debt, of which there is €50-60 billion, taking advantage of the deep discount it trades at to save money on redemptions and interest payments.


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Early Saturday morning, the Virginia Department of Transportation will open 14 freshly paved miles of highway on the I-495 Washington Beltway unlike anything drivers in the area have ever seen. The road-widening project has been a decade in the making. And it will constitute, VDOT Secretary Sean T. Connaughton boasted earlier this week, "a high-tech wonder," the latest and one of the country's largest attempts at a new generation of highway infrastructure – and a new model of paying for it – that could turn up in cities far from the capital.
The expanded roadway – two lanes in each direction, from the I-95 interchange to Tysons Corner – will be made of High-Occupancy Tolls, or HOT lanes. Carpools of three or more, buses and motorcycles (but not hybrids) can drive them for free. Anyone else who wants in will have to pony up according to a dynamic pricing scheme, and there's no limit to what that could cost.
The $2 billion system was built in a public-private partnership between the state and Fluor Transurban, an engineering and construction conglomerate. Virginia put up about $400 million. The private firms paid for the rest (with the help of a hefty federal loan) in exchange for the right to collect the toll fees for the next 75 years.
Fluor Transurban is guaranteeing a minimum speed on the HOT lanes of 45 miles an hour. That means the toll price will vary according to demand to maintain the steady flow of traffic. The companies estimate that the average ride will cost between $3 and $6 (tolls will be in effect at all hours of the day, not just during rush hour). But there's no ceiling to what the system may charge drivers to achieve that goal, if it turns out everyone heading to Tysons Corner is willing to pay a ton of money to get there.
The whole concept has been touted by the state and its private partners as a novel solution to pay for infrastructure, to incentivize carpooling, and to cut down on congestion on the Beltway even for cars traveling in the old-timey lanes.
But the model also invites some uneasy questions: If this infrastructure is now managed by private companies, will their interests always align with the public good? Fluor Transurban, for instance, stands to lose money with every carpool that enters the lanes for free. And isn't there something ethically dubious about enabling drivers who've got the money to pay for faster commutes, while low-income commuters continue to pay for transportation with their time?
These toll lanes will offer the equivalent of driving in first class. But some public money did go into providing that premium experience, and the lanes will be patrolled by publicly funded state police.
For transportation engineers, the project poses just as many logistical questions as philosophical ones. Will people really use this system the way Fluor Transurban expects them to? How much will they be willing to pay? And how long will it take drivers to catch on to the new infrastructure? The technology itself is so complex the Washington Post even published a user's guide for its readers (no, the price of the toll won't change on you while you're driving; yes, you will be caught – and pursued by collectors – if you try to beat the system).
Everyone but the motorcyclists must obtain a kind of E-ZPass transponder. Carpools require a special one that toggles between an empty-car setting (pay the toll) and an HOV one that passes into the system for free. This means ad-hoc carpools without the right technology will be out of luck.
Virginia, already convinced the whole idea is a good one, has signed a new contract with the same companies to expand HOT lanes onto I-95 south of the city, where carpools and buses today enjoy a remarkably smooth ride in HOV lanes that they will soon have to share with paying vehicles. This may be good for cash-flush single-occupancy drivers but bad for them. As for whether (or how much) this concept will benefit the whole area on balance – that will take some time to learn. In the meantime, Saturday morning offers an excellent chance to witness thousands of puzzled drivers encountering the high-tech highway of the future for the very first time.
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In an era of austere federal funding for urban public transportation, light rail seemed to make sense. Did the little trains of the 1980s pull their own weight?
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More Americans hospitalized for cardiac arrest are surviving now compared with a decade ago, a new study finds.
Researchers are not sure of the reasons for the improvement. But they suspect it's changes in how hospitals treat cardiac arrest, and possibly the way bystanders respond when they see someone suddenly collapse.
The study, which appears in the journal Circulation, found that in 2009, the death rate among Americans hospitalized after cardiac arrest was just under 58 percent. That was down from almost 70 percent in 2001.
Researchers based their findings on a national hospital discharge database that included nearly 1.2 million Americans who were hospitalized for cardiac arrest. They stress that the numbers account only for cardiac arrest victims who survive long enough to be admitted to the hospital.
Many people die before ever reaching the hospital. And in fact, of the more than 300,000 Americans who go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year, less than 8 percent survive.
"So this does not say anything about the rates of mortality of all (cardiac arrest) resuscitation attempts," senior researcher Dr. Alejandro A. Rabinstein, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said in an email.
"But the study does have a clear message," Rabinstein said. "If you have a cardiac arrest and you get to be hospitalized, your chances of surviving the hospitalization are getting better."
Cardiac arrest occurs when a problem in the heart's electrical activity causes it to stop beating normally, making it unable to pump blood to the body. It's fatal within minutes unless the normal rhythm can be restored with a shock from a defibrillator.
Since 2001, a few advances have been made in treating cardiac arrest, Rabinstein's team says.
One is that experts now recommend that bystanders do "hands-only" CPR, which means chest compressions alone and no mouth-to-mouth breathing. It's believed to be easier for laypeople to perform, and may have made more people willing to perform CPR on a stranger. (The American Heart Association has video instructions at bit.ly/Nzb1SU.)
Some research has suggested that the switch to hands-only has helped cardiac arrest survival inch up.
The public also has more access to devices called automated external defibrillators (AEDs) — portable, layperson-friendly versions of the equipment doctors use to shock an arrested heart.
It's possible, Rabinstein said, that those steps have helped.
But even if cardiac arrest victims get to the hospital alive, they are not out of the woods.
In recent years, doctors have started doing angioplasty in certain patients soon after they arrive at the hospital. And Rabinstein said he thinks that may be helping.
He also suspects that a newer in-hospital treatment for people who remain comatose after cardiac arrest is making a difference.
It's called therapeutic hypothermia, and it involves cooling the patient's body using cold IV saline, cooling blankets or ice packs. A day later, doctors slowly re-warm the patient. (For more on therapeutic hypothermia, see reut.rs/edTRww.)
The cooling therapy helps protect the brain, which is often severely damaged by cardiac arrest. And research suggests it allows more people to survive with their brain function intact.
The rising survival rate in this study came at the same time hospitals starting using therapeutic hypothermia.
"The effect of therapeutic hypothermia is mainly improving survival with (brain) function, rather than survival itself," Rabinstein said.
But he added that there is some evidence the therapy is boosting overall long-term survival as well.
Still, the researchers point out, U.S. hospitals have been fairly slow to adopt therapeutic hypothermia. So it's hard to know how much of an impact the therapy might be having on the national level.
SOURCE: bit.ly/NIMoms Circulation, online June 27, 2012.


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Don't forget debouncing.
You could try to do something externally with a comparator and a latch, but it would probably be more complicated than it's worth. Use a pull-down resistor so that the output goes to gnd when the wiper is not connected to a pole, and set the comparator to signal when its input goes lower than the lowest value of the switch. Feed that into a latch, and the output of that can go to an interrupt pin. You'd need to reset the latch after each read, though.


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KDE and Wikipedia Announce Cooperation
Today Jimmy Wales, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced the beginning of a cooperation between Wikimedia and the KDE project at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. As the first applications, like the media player amaroK, start to integrate Wikipedia content the idea is to create a webservice API to access the information from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia or Wiktionary. There are also plans for a KDE API.
Wikipedia in amaroK
The API would allow KDE applications to easily embed Wikimedia content, data could even be fetched from a local database depending on your online/offline status. First progress can be seen in Knowledge, a Qt 4 based offline reader for Wikipedia.
Jimmy was also searching for people who want to help with the design of this API, so if you want a good API for your application join the efforts!
Re: Translation
>I mean the principle of wiki: low entrance barrier for participation.
Not suitable for translating software
>Diffs are your friend.
By rinse at Sun, 2005/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Translation
>>I mean the principle of wiki: low entrance barrier for participation.
>Not suitable for translating software
Equally unsuitable for an encyclopeadia then, since you need to maintain quality there too.
By David at Mon, 2005/06/27 - 5:00am
Re: Translation
Well, you should at least keep in mind that a wiki encyclopeadia could contain errros.
This is not the case with software documentation, if you find an error and correct it, the improved docs won't be available until the next version of the application, which could take 6 months or even longer (depending on the release cycle the application uses...)
So in short, while a wiki encyclopeadia with a large audience would quite fast gain in quality, it would take a lot longer before software documentation would reach the same quality level if it was translated in the same way.
Also, users who don't upgrade everytime a new version of the application comes out, will be using the documentation with errors for a very long time..
By rinse at Mon, 2005/06/27 - 5:00am
Re: Translation
That's indeed commonly claimed to be a weakness of wikis.
By ac at Mon, 2005/06/27 - 5:00am
Re: Translation
Well, if you don't want to spent time looking at the specs that the translation team of your language uses, the chance that your translation is actually useable is very small.
By rinse at Sat, 2005/06/25 - 5:00am
Re: Translation
Same problem for wikipedia. Your small team cannot keep up with 3rd party applications. In wikipedia we have the quality offensive.
you can also lock parts as you can lock pages.
you can enable comments as in the wiki discussion page
> 20 minutes of your translation on the fly would mean 1 hour of my time trying to correct your errors in consistency, etc.
Don't think so. the usual process would be not to adopt the patch and say "see this spec, improve and resubmit".
It is all about getting people involved.
By Andre at Sat, 2005/06/25 - 5:00am
Re: Translation
>the usual process would be not to adopt the patch and say "see this spec, improve and resubmit".
Yes, and the new, improved and resubmitted version comes in one day after the release of the software resulting in an unfinished translation shipped with the application.
Wiki is great for what it is meant for: instant publishing of articles.
By rinse at Sun, 2005/06/26 - 5:00am
Local Wikipedias
I think it would be better if it automatically redirected you to the local Wikipedia, if available, else it should fall back to the English WP.
(P.S. It would be cool to integrate KWorldClock with WP, just click on a country/city/area et voila...)
By Bram Schoenmakers at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Local Wikipedias
Actually it should behave just like specified in your KDE settings:
By Torsten Rahn at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Local Wikipedias
Wiki language setting should not be tight with Regional/Language setting of the entire KDE. Wiki would need a separate setting.
By Milan Svoboda at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Local Wikipedias
Sorry but this is unnecessary featurecreep and nonsense.
By Torsten Rahn at Sat, 2005/06/25 - 5:00am
Re: Local Wikipedias
Is there a way to add languages to this dialog in the controle centre without installing complete i18n packs?
For example, I'd understand a french wikipedia entry (and would like to read some in french) but I wouldn't ever use KDE in french or read some application's docs in french. So normally no reason to install kde-i18n-fr. But IIUC I would not be able to add french to the regional settings language list then, would I?
By cm at Sat, 2005/06/25 - 5:00am
Re: Local Wikipedias
Another thing that's tied to that list: Content negotiation for the WWW. Sometimes (if the quality of the german translation of a site is just too bad) I would like to change the precedence of the languages and put english in the first place but AFAIK that would require me to switch the language of the complete desktop...
Is there a hidden setting to tweak this? Will the Wikipedia interface have one?
By cm at Sat, 2005/06/25 - 5:00am
Re: Local Wikipedias
This is where an API would come in very handy. Currently its difficult to know what languages are a given topic is in without first choosing a language and downloading its whole page.
By Ian Monroe at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Mediawiki specific?
Hopefully this will be more broader than just Wikipedia, mayby mediawiki specific? There are so many other good wikis :) For example kdevelop could use http://gpwiki.org/ for help pages when doing game programming etc.
This project sound really exiting can't wait for the new amarok to arrive to Debian.
By Petteri at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Mediawiki specific?
Yes, whatever will be done will be a MediaWiki plugin and not special Wikipedia service.
By Ævar Arnfjörð B... at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
this is cool
I got nothing really useful to say, other than this is really cool. I think this could add a lot of power and neat features to many applications, and the KDE desktop in general.
By Bojan at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Wikipedia in amaroK sounds nice, but...
...when do we get a Wikilyrics? A Google search shows one with this name, but the site appears to be dead. Wikipedia already has lots of info on albums, it would be nice if it could have lyrics, too.
By mmebane at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Wikipedia in amaroK sounds nice, but...
For copyright reasons, I don't think you could ever have that.
By KDE User at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Wikipedia in amaroK sounds nice, but...
By Jim at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
generic api?
Would this api be specific to KDE? or can any application use the webservice (like a gtk app, windows app, osx app, etc). It seems to me that this is just a webservice and I am confused as to why kde is involved.
By Derek Slovin at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: generic api?
> Would this api be specific to KDE?
The Wikipedia one? No. The one within kdelibs? Sure.
> I am confused as to why kde is involved.
KDE is the one to initiate this and the first one to use it.
Remember, KDE - the desktop with momentum. ;-)
By Anonymous at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: generic api?
Yes, others will be able to use the mediawiki API. Its just that a KDE app, amaroK, is already showing how Wikipedia can be used in applications.
It appears a KDE API is also being planned, to make it easy for any KDE app to insert Mediawiki content (basically a wrapper around the webservice, perhaps with offline features). That would be specific to KDE.
By Ian Monroe at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Could the help system use this?
By Zot at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Wikihelp?
Sounds like a great idea.
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Sausage rolls are very popular in Ireland, served as party appetizers or sold in bakeries as take-away food. Sausage rolls made using American sausages lack the distinctive flavoring of Irish or English sausage meat.
To recreate the flavor of my childhood I have come up with a recipe for sausage filling, with seasonings that mimic the original taste of Irish sausages.
When you look at the ingredients above you will notice a lot of spice jars. The key to success is the right blend of spices for the sausage meat.
And so, here's my recipe for Irish style sausage rolls made with American ingredients…
Ingredients For Irish Sausage Rolls:
- 3 puff pastry sheets
- 1 egg (beaten for brushing pastry )
Sausage Filling
- 1lb ground pork
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried marjoram
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon dried sage
- 1/4 teaspoon of dried fennel (optional)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 garlic clove (minced)
- 1 egg (beaten)
Directions For Irish Sausage Rolls:
Large spice leaves never speckle Irish sausages. To create an Irish sausage spice blend, I grind all of the spices in a coffee grinder.
The photo above is a mixture of thyme, marjoram, basil, rosemary, parsley, sage, salt and pepper. I also added a 1/4 teaspoon of fennel, but be warned fennel has a very strong flavor. I only use 1/4 teaspoon, but if you are not keen on the hint of liquorice it adds to the sausage meat, leave it out.
Grind the spices together until a dry powder results.
Toss the ground spices and minced garlic clove into the breadcrumbs in a mixing bowl.
Mix the breadcrumbs and spices together.
Add the ground pork and seasoned breadcrumbs together.
Use your fingers to mix the breadcrumbs and ground pork together.
Add half of the beaten egg, and mix through the sausage meat. Only add the additional egg if it is required to moisten the sausage.
Use your hands to roll and form the sausage meat into cylindrical shapes about 3/4 of an inch wide. At this point wash your hands well, before proceeding to handle the pastry.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
Open the first sheet of puff pastry on a floured surface. The puff pastry I buy already has three indentations where it has been folded over in the package. I use these as guidelines for cutting the pastry into three strips, each about 3 inches wide.
Place a piece of sausage meat on the pastry which comes very close to the pastry edge.
Roll the pastry around the sausage meat, overlapping the pastry by about one inch at the seam side.
Cut the pastry with a knife. The puff pastry sheets I used yielded 6 sausage rolls. Each one third strip ended up being cut in half.
Roll the pastry back a little, and brush the inner side of the lower piece with egg wash.
Reroll the pastry sealing it at the bottom. Using a sharp knife cut two diagonal slits in the top of the pastry roll. This will allow steam escape during the cooking process and prevent the pastry case bursting open.
Lay the sausage rolls 1 to 2 inches apart on the baking tray and brush the tops with egg wash. Pop them in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Make sure the oven is fully heated to 400 degrees F. The pastry will not rise well if the temperature has not reached the desired level. Turn the heat down to 350 degrees F after 20 minutes and cook for a further 5 minutes. This ensures the sausage is cooked through, without burning the top of the pastry.
I stuck a food therometer into the center of a cooked sausage roll, to demonstrate how the temperature had exceeded the mandatory 160 degrees F for fully cooked ground pork.
Place the cooked sausage rolls on a wire tray and allow to cool slightly, before eating.
I always like to eat my sausage rolls when they are still warm, but I know some like to munch on them when they are cold. These pastry snacks freeze well, and can be reheated in a toaster oven.
Hope you enjoy this Irish American spin on a sausage roll. Remember they are a perfect appetizer for any party. Here is the printable version of the recipe:
Irish Sausage Rolls
|Prep time
|1 hour
|Cook time
|25 minutes
|Total time
|1 hour, 25 minutes
|Meal type
- 3 Puff pastry sheets
- 1 Egg (beaten for brushing pastry)
Sausage Filling
- 1lb Ground pork
- 1 teaspoon Dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon Dried marjoram
- 1/2 teaspoon Dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon Dried rosemary leaves
- 1 teaspoon Dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon Dried sage
- 1/8 teaspoon Salt
- 1/8 teaspoon Black pepper
- 1 cup Breadcrumbs
- 1 Garlic clove (minced)
- 1 Egg (beaten)
Sausage Filling (Optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon Dried fennel
|Step 1
|Grind the spices, salt and pepper in a coffee grinder.
|Step 2
|Add the ground spices and minced garlic to the breadcrumbs in a large mixing bowl and mix together.
|Step 3
|Add the ground pork to the seasoned breadcrumbs and combine using your fingers. Add half of the beaten egg and mix thoroughly until the meat mixture begins to stick together. Discard the excess egg.
|Step 4
|Using your hands roll the sausage, forming 4 cylindrical shapes about 3/4 inches thick and 10 inches long. Set meat aside.
|Step 5
|Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking tray with parchment paper.
|Step 6
|Open a thawed puff pastry sheet on a floured surface. Cut into 3 strips about 3 inches wide and 10 inches long.
|Step 7
|Place a 3 inch piece of the pre-formed sausage meat on the pastry close to the edge. Roll the pastry around the meat, overlapping underneath by one inch.
|Step 8
|Cut the pastry roll, then roll it back to brush the lower layer with egg wash. Re-roll and seal the lower seam.
|Step 9
|Using a sharp knife, cut two diagonal 1/2 inch slits in the top surface of the roll. Repeat the procedure to form 18 sausage rolls.
|Step 10
|Lay the prepared sausage rolls on the baking tray in rows and one inch apart.
|Step 11
|Brush the top of the pastry with egg wash.
|Step 12
|Bake in a 400 degree F oven for 20 minutes. Lower the heat to 350 degrees and bake for a further 5 minutes.
|Step 13
|Remove from the oven when golden brown on top. Cool the sausage rolls on a wire rack.
|Step 14
|Serve hot or cold as desired.
Check out my complete recipe list here.
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Over the past few months I have received many e-mails from readers requesting information on where to purchase Irish food items in the United States. And so for anyone in America interested in purchasing pre-made sausage rolls or other Irish food treats check out the Food Ireland website. They have a wonderful selection of Irish goodies which can be shipped throughout the United States.
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- The baroque Neues Palais: hard to miss on a stroll through Sanssoucci Park.
"You're American? What are you doing here? Usually Americans just visit Berlin."
This was the response I received after a vendor asked me a question in German. Apparently, most American tourists forego 1,000-year-old Potsdam, Berlin's neighbor just 20 kilometers away.
However, the most famous King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, spent more time in Potsdam than in Berlin. This was because the aptly named Sanssouci summer residence is located in Potsdam (in French Sans souci means "no worries" or "carefree"). If Berlin's Tiergarten was not enough of respite from the city rhythms, I highly suggest taking a 30-minute train ride to Potsdam.
Regional trains stop at all Berlin's main stations, and the roundtrip ticket costs about $9 USD. The biking culture extends from Berlin into Potsdam, so be on the lookout for flyers at the Potsdam station that advertise bike rentals.
Being avid walkers, we decided to walk across the Lange Brücke bridge to the old market or "Alter Markt." After seeing the highlight of this area, St. Nicholas Church, we grabbed a bite to eat and bought some food to snack on during a visit to Sanssouci Park.
Built in 1744, the elegant landscape of Sanssouci Park is an ensemble of palaces, gardens and fountains from various epochs. Interspersed among the lavish grounds are pathways to stroll among the sprawling greenery leading to various points of interest. I suggest to let the beauty and hidden corners of the park lead your day rather than determining a strict itinerary for your visit.
If aimlessly wandering the infinitesimal Sanssouci Park is not your preference, purchase a day pass for 14 Euros, which will give total access to enter all 30 palaces and museums.
Some charming constructions that we bumped into during our walk were the Chinese tea house, Orangery Palace, the Dragon house, Caputh Palace, a Dutch windmill and the Roman Baths. Also, we came across the first independent museum building of Germany, a picture gallery created during 1755-1763 housing prominent artists, such as my favorite – Caravaggio.
But a visit to Sanssouci Park would not be complete if one does not at least visit both the ornate Sanssouci Palace and the Neues Palais ("New Palace"). One has to stand so far within the gardens that extend from the obelisk to the Neues Palais in order to capture in a single photo the sheer enormity of the Neues Palais, with 450 statues outlining its perimeter. Frederick the Great had the impressive baroque structure built after the Seven Years' War to glorify Prussia's status of power.
Among the lush vegetation surrounding Sanssouci Palace is also the grave of Frederick the Great. Some visitors place potatoes on his tombstone since this king popularized potatoes as the staple crop of Germany.
Despite the breathtaking edifices, nature beckons your attention. A lot of the park's features are in their original form, such as the grand vineyard arbors and the oak trees that are almost two centuries old. In the 19th century, more gardens were added, including the Charlottenhof, the Marly Garden, the Nordic Garden and the Sicilian Garden.
When you visit you may be charmed to realize why: 1) Sanssouci Park was a deemed a UNESCO site; 2) Sanssouci Park is nicknamed "The Versailles of Potsdam"; and 3) Sanssouci Park was also the home of J.S. Bach and Voltaire.
Winding down our carefree day, we proceeded to the Dutch quarter and, encompassed by more interesting architecture, enjoyed some beers from one of the many pubs and restaurants of the area.
Yankeedoodle July 23, 2013 @ 3:16 p.m.
We were there in May. Pretty nice. Lots of classic horse chestnut trees in full bloom.
ragmaniac July 23, 2013 @ 7:44 p.m.
Thank you for mentioning the horse chestnut trees. I was born and lived in Germany many years ago and will never forget these shade-giving trees with their large long leaves. In my days, outdoor beer gardens were frequent places where these trees gave the guests some shade from the summer sun. Not to forget the Pilsner beer. And, as a child, it was great fun to take the chestnuts out of their thorny green shells. We found out really quick that these are not food; too bitter.


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To Tweet the Oscars is to watch the Oscars. Or is it?
There are so many journalistic benefits to this rapid-fire digital world of Tweeting, Instagramming, Tumblring and so forth. We can share information more quickly. We can broaden our search for sources. We can connect personally and intimately with our audience.
But here's one conundrum that weighs heavily on Entertainment journalists during the January-February Awards season. If we're spending the entire evening Tweeting or live-blogging about the Golden Globes (or Grammys, or Oscars), are we really able to watch them? And if we aren't really able to watch them, are we really able to critique them?
I'm a big fan of the Oscars. Always loved that broadcast (a close second to the Kennedy Centers in my opinion). I was excited last year by the prospect of covering them for the Post. Only problem: I spent the entire evening editing blog posts and monitoring Twitter feeds. Other than a few stolen glances at the television set across the newsroom, I didn't see a minute of the show. What was Angelina wearing? The only way I knew was when someone set up an "Angelina Jolie's Leg" Twitter account.
It was fun. I enjoyed reading the pithy comments from our critics and writers, and watching Tweetdeck was almost as exciting as watching the show itself.
The problem is, the morning after the show, I didn't have anything intelligent or critical to say about it, because I effectively didn't see it. Neither did our critics, who were feeding the beast all evening, as it were. We spent most of the time producing content in a frenzied bid for clicks, rather than taking in the show and putting it into our brains to use as context for when we write about this year's Oscars.
It's clear we need to find a way to participate in the moment, but also spend some time thinking more deeply about the event so we can wax intelligently on it in the days following. So what's the salve?
The answer is not to stop Tweeting. The world's gone way beyond that. Certainly, we have to be in that mix.
The answer is to train our brains to consume information, process information, react to information in real time, and tuck away into our memories those important images or moments to draw on later – all at once. It's not what we were taught to do as children, which was: Pay attention to one thing at a time, think thoroughly before reacting to it, and choose your words with care. But we're learning.
The question for readers is this: What's the best thing we can offer when it comes to events like awards shows? Getting a critic's reaction in the moment, or waiting a day or two for something more substantive? As we look forward to the increasingly hectic digital future, what will readers and advertisers find most valuable?


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Harken, Peter Oscar - 2014 Hall of Fame
Peter Oscar Harken
"I grew up in the Far East tropics, but my parents were Dutch and Swedish, so I had their DNA and took to winter sports."
August 18, 1937 —
Birthplace: Surabaya, Java, Indonesia
U.S. Citizen: December 18, 1968, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dropping the Balls
While he was struggling with the math involved with engineering at University of Wisconsin at Madison, Peter Harken had a part part-time job at Gilson Medical Electronics. The rule at Gilson was designers had to build their own prototypes, so as a draftsman, Harken had gotten friendly with the machine shop. One night, some plastic ball bearings he had found to solve a problem in a refrigerated environment rolled off the bench onto the floor. "I was amazed at how high they bounced," he recalls. "The less mass, the further things accelerate – that's what pulleys do on a boat, stop and start all the time." The standard blocks at the time were brass, sometimes with brass ball bearings that were heavy and sluggish. Harken had upgraded to stainless bearings for the blocks he had been making for his E-Scow and ice boat. They were were soon replaced by blocks with lighter, more lively plastic bearings, and that day yachting hardware took a giant leap forward. Harken had learned engineering wasn't all math: "Sometimes it's just bloody common sense." But he switched to economics anyway to play it safe.
Peter and his brother Olaf were born in Indonesia, where their father was a Caterpillar Tractor representative. Peter remembers crouching under the dining room table during bombings when the Japanese attacked. The children and their mother escaped to Eastern Borneo, spent a year in New Zealand and a year in Australia before they were reunited in 1949 with their father, who had survived a Japanese prison camp against all odds. Off the family went to the Philippines (for Caterpillar) where the boys attended grammar through high school. Both won swimming scholarships to colleges in the U.S.
"Olaf would often come to Wisconsin," Peter says, "because the partying was better, and we both got to like the place and the people." Sailors, both of them got involved in Wisconsin's famed scow and ice boat fraternity. Peter bought a raw wood E-Scow hull and finished it himself, new blocks and all. "The other guys noticed how easily my boom went out in light air," Peter says, "so I was making blocks for them early on."
Over the past 40 years, Peter Harken has traveled extensively, setting up global Harken dealerships and solving problems. Most recently he returned from Palma, Majorca, where he was evaluating custom Harken installations on J-Class yachts.
- Roger Vaughan
Overview of Peter Harken and Harken, Inc.
From Peter Harken's interview with Wisconsin Eye for the pilot of a program called "Trade Secrets"
Peter Harken: Customer Service
From Peter Harken's interview with Wisconsin Eye for the pilot of a program called "Trade Secrets"
Peter Harken: It's Not Easy
From Peter Harken's interview with Wisconsin Eye for the pilot of a program called "Trade Secrets"
Buddy Melges, Bill Mattison and Peter Harken talk iceboating at Strictly Sail Chicago, January 31, 2009.
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Olaf Harken's Hall of Famer page
"Headings: Olaf Harken Sounds Off" - Feature story in December, 2004 Practical Sailor (PDF)
"Olaf Harken: Hardware Developer and Scow Sailor" - article in April 25, 2002 Sailing World
History of Small Boat Blocks - from Harken.com website
"Harken Yacht sails high seas of growth" - article in July 2, 2006 BizJournals.com
Wikipedia page for Harken Yacht Equipment
History of Harken - livinglakecountry.com
"Anchored our way" - article on Harken in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


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The analysis of trojans, viruses, rootkits, spyware, and other nasty malware has been a subject of interest to many types of computer organizations over the years, and Microsoft is no exception. The Redmond-based software giant just released its third volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), covering the period between January and June of 2007. The report, available in both Microsoft's XPS and Adobe's PDF format, looks at the types of malware released during that period and also tracks the effectiveness of Microsoft's own Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which is currently bundled as part of products like Windows Defender and Windows Live OneCare. Microsoft claims that data from the MSRT shows that infection rates are "significantly lower" among Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 systems compared to older Windows operating systems.
The Microsoft report states that nearly 3,500 software vulnerabilities were discovered in operating systems and third-party softwareduring the first half of 2007, with the majority being medium- and high-risk in severity. This is up slightly from the second half of 2006 and up significantly from 2003, when the figure was closer to 500. Microsoft noted that a decreasing percentage of these vulnerabilitiesapply tooperating systems, with third-party applications showing a multiyear trend of having a higher percentage of the total. The report says that it "may be inferred that applications are becoming a more attractive target to security researchers, relative to operating systems."
Microsoft noted that the percentage of vulnerabilities in its own products that have actual exploit code available dropped from 29.3 percent in 2006 to 20.9 percent in 2007. In addition, the report suggests that newer versions of Microsoft products have "a distinct decrease" in the number of exploitable vulnerabilities. Windows XP and Office XP ranked equally in terms of the number of vulnerabilities discovered between 2006 and 2007, while Server 2003, Vista, Office 2003, and Office 2007 showed significantly fewer vulnerabilities. While the report doesn't say so, the change is almost certainly due to the dramatic shift in company policy towards security issues that happened all over the Microsoft campus around the Windows XP SP2 timeframe.
Data from the MSRT was also used to promote the idea that more recent Microsoft products are safer than older versions. For the first half of 2007, Windows XP (without service packs) had the highest percentage of systems cleaned, at 32.9 percent, with Windows XP SP1 trailing slightly behind at 20.9 percent of systems. Windows XP SP2 systems comprised 7 percent of the total, while Windows Vista machines were the smallest percentage at 2.8 percent. These numbers were normalized (divided by the percentage of machines running that particular OS) to account for the fact that there are many more XP computers in the wild than Vista machines, so the statistics do suggest that Microsoft's operating systems are becoming less vulnerable to infection over time.
The MSRT also removed significantly more malware in 2007 than in previous periods: one out of every 217 computers was cleaned this yearcompared to one in 409 back in 2006. Microsoft explains this increase by citing improvements in the MSRT's detection capabilities. The average number of infections per computer has stayed remarkably constant since MSRT's inception, at about 2.2 infections per machine.


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Gronberg noted that the system also sends alerts when RVs are being driven excessive miles and has a virtual odometer that tracks mileage independently of the vehicle's odometer to help combat odometer fraud. "Having that information handy has eliminated any disputes with customers who might argue about the distance they drove in one of our RVs," said Gronberg.
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Over the next few days, we'll take a look at each position on the Jets roster and take a look ahead at what the Jets might expect and might need to address this coming offseason. Up next, the Tight Ends.
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Dustin Keller -- A little over a year ago Keller looked like he was en route to a big eventual payday from the Jets, but since then his quarterback (who favors him) has imploded, his offensive coordinator has proved to be a mistake and he was injured much of the season it's hard to justify a big contract for him. That said, Keller caught a scorchin 78% of passes thrown his way this season, an amazing stat. Keller expressed that he doesn't want to be franchised, but that doesn't seem very likely at this point by the Jets and their cap concerns this year. The Jets might transition tag him, but that's nothing more than a first right of refusal and won't work to the Jets favor in this instance. Keller has expressed a real desire to stay in New York, but with a new GM, what will happen between him and the new man in charge? A new OC might have a lot to say with the value someone like Keller could offer the team in 2013 but even so, the Jets might not be willing to give Keller a contract with any serious cap implications in year one and based on his injury concerns this year, they don't want to push any gaurantees back too far either ... an idea which Keller might not like. Keep lines of communication open, but let Keller test free agent waters.
Jeff Cumberland -- Cumberland was a creation of former GM Mike Tannenbaum and 2012 was the year we finally got to see how he could contribute. Cumberland had some high points and low points during the season, but he actually graded out as the 31st best TE in the league via Pro Football Focus. The Jets have been careful to protect him in the past and Cumberland might have shown some of his potential this year. Granted, his receving ability is not on par with Dustin Keller, but he could be a competent replacement at the spot if the Jets are really hard up on cash. As a restricted free agent, the Jets choice seems easy. Low tender him and bring him back as a #2 at the very least in 2013.
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Konrad Reuland -- Reuland linked up with the team late enough that his production might be questioned by his unfamiliarity with the offense. That said, Reuland was one of the absolute worst run-blockers in the league, and that's got to get cleaned up if the Jets want to keep him around in 2013. Expendable, but should compete with Hayden Smith and Josh Baker for a spot.
Josh Baker -- I loved what I saw from Josh Baker over the summer, but that brutal knee injury against the Panthers ruined his chances. The Jets offense seems to highly value the F-Back type of tight end and Baker is a great example of one of those. Baker is a hard-nosed player and might be in the mix for the #2 or #3 spot in 2013 based on who they draft.. If there is one silver lining, it's that his injury occurred so early in the season that he should be close to full speed for spring practices. Let him compete for a higher roster spot.
Hayden Smith -- Smith has come a long way quickly. As a former rugby star, Smith saw a very little bit of time at the end of the season. In one of the best complements I can give a guy transitioning from other sports to a new one at the highest level, Hayden Smith didn't do anything to dissuade those inside the organization from giving him more opportunity moving forward. Smith is a capable blocker and could really make a jump next year in production. Knowing his roles and keys that much better will make him less hesitant and better able to channel his obvious killer instinct. More time this year working with coaches on and off the field can only help him. Let him compete for a higher roster spot.
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