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Keep your little ones warm and comfortable during colder periods of the year with the new Dooky Footmuff. With a fully detachable front the Footmuff can stay in your pram or stroller without having to remove the whole thing.
These Footmuffs are available in both a large and small size so are universal with most pushchairs and buggys. They are designed for comfort with a super soft lining and a water and wind resistant exterior. Also they are machine washable and have an elastic strap to secure and prevent the lining from moving.
- Dimensions: Large - 98 x 50 x 8cm, Small 70 x 40cm
- Universal: fits 3 and 5 point belts
- Designed for comfort with soft velour lining
- Water repellent and windproof exterior
- Double zipper
- Fully detachable front (can be opened at both ends)
- Recommended age range: Small - 0-9 months, Large 0-48 months
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VMworld Paul Maritz has been CEO at server virtualization juggernaut and cloud computing contender VMware for three years, and he has not forgotten – despite his long experience running divisions of Microsoft – that he got his first job at a mainframe company at the beginning of the minicomputer and PC revolutions. This was back in 1978, after he got his computer science degree.
"I remember that I used to work for a company called Burroughs that no longer exists. And we're going to have to be smart," Maritz said in his keynote address at the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in Las Vegas yesterday afternoon. Maritz was referring to the fact that VMware cannot afford to get cocky and rest on its laurels as it evolves from a clever workstation and server virtualization tool-maker to a complete IT stack for creating and running modern, scalable, webby applications.
Surrealistic CEO Paul Maritz in Chagall clouds
VMware can't stand still because the world is changing so fast, and the opportunity to make money out of this change is fleeting. This would explain why VMware is snapping up companies left and right, building infrastructure clouds (vCloud) and platform clouds (vFabric and Cloud Foundry) as well as transforming the way users experience applications through its View virtual desktop infrastructure, ThinApp application virtualization, and Horizon Application Manager.
The way Maritz describes it, the ties between applications and hardware are becoming more and more loose, thanks to virtualization and application frameworks. This is occurring at exactly the same time that new generations of end users – numbering in the billions and referred to as "the Facebook generation" by Maritz – are becoming less interested in the kinds of applications that automate paperwork. So the companies which figure out how to create business applications that take in streams of data in real-time, and in small digestible chunks, are going to be the winners in the future. And VMware wants to enable these applications.
"When the canonical applications change, that is when you get really profound changes in IT," explained Maritz. "It is not going to be sufficient to gather up data, let it lie fallow, and run reports on it to see what happened."
But before companies can get to these modern applications based on HTML5 and frameworks for Java, PHP, and Ruby, they have to virtualize their Windows and Linux workloads to create operational efficiencies that will free up the cash to invest in developing those futuristic apps. And for the moment, this is a very good business for VMware. Worldwide, there are more than 1 million virtual machines running, and most of them are riding on top of an ESXi or ESX Server hypervisor on an x64-based server. A new VM is "born" every six seconds, said Maritz, and there are 5.5 vMotion live migrations every second globally.
"There are already more VMs in flight than there are aircraft in flight."
There are also close to 1 million VMware administrators in the world, with over 68,000 how having gone through official VMware certification. This is not just a good business for VMware, but a job it can count on.
Maritz is particularly proud of the fact that in the past three years – and in the wake of a particularly embarrassing patch that made its VMs lock up – VMware has been able to deliver new releases of its vSphere server virtualization stack on time.
"It's an enormous achievement," Maritz said. He added that vSphere 5.0, launched in July and shipping last week just ahead of the VMworld event, took 1 million man-hours of programming effort to add its 200 new features. It also took another 2 million man-hours of quality assurance testing to certify vSphere 5.0 running on more than 2,000 different hardware and software products from partners. In his long history of managing big software projects, Maritz said that this is the first major piece of system software that came in on time and with the planned features delivered.
"I feel like I can die now," Maritz said with a laugh. "I've seen it done in my lifetime."
What VMware ultimately wants – and what it thinks it can charge for – is for its virtualization and cloud software to be treated as hardware was in days gone by. "It has to just work," as Maritz put it. And it has to command the kind of premiums that hardware once did.
That is the best reason to believe that VMware will not open-source its ESXi hypervisor, its vSphere add-ons, and its vCloud automation software. The latter delivers operational efficiencies in running virtual servers which complement the hardware efficiencies that come from virtualization.
The other reason to believe this is that the modern programmer doesn't give much of a damn about hardware – virtual or physical. Those modern applications written in HTML5, Java, PHP, and Ruby which Maritz is dreaming about are a revolutionary reaction to the difficulty of programming and scaling Java, C, or COBOL applications in the past.
VMware CEO Paul Maritz
"These applications are going to be written – and I am sad to say for myself – that they are going to be written by people under the age of 35," said Maritz.
These people are not going to read an Enterprise Java Bean bible any more than a Unix C programmer coming out of college 15 years ago would be told they had to create a new application in COBOL and read a stack of IBM manuals. Platform clouds are a statement that programmers are sick of thinking about hardware and all the underlying software plumbing.
"Developers are now willing to give up control over the infrastructure in exchange for key issues such as scaling being taken care of automatically," Maritz said.
And, one might add, they can afford to do so, because hardware and systems software are relatively inexpensive these days, so developers can do this without making their companies go broke.
None of this means that pricing is an easy issue for any software company, VMware included. In a question-and-answer session following the keynote, the first question asked was obviously about VMware backtracking a bit on its vRAM memory pricing scheme. It launched the pricing scheme along with vSphere 5.0 back in July – to much weeping and gnashing of teeth on the part of VMware shops.
"I think the whole industry has to come to grips with the fact that we are moving towards a more virtualized, cloud-based world. And the singular reliance on the CPU as a metric of value is going away," Maritz explained. "Any time you try something new, you have to be prepared for the feedback. There will inevitably be course corrections." ®

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Vote set to eliminate state treasurer
Wis. could become fifth state to eliminate state office
The Assembly is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a constitutional amendment that could make Wisconsin one of five states that don't have a treasurer.
Plans to abolish the secretary of state also have support in the Republican-controlled Legislature, but Republican Rep. Michael Schraa, of Oshkosh, said he wants to address the positions separately.
Lawmakers have tried for six consecutive years to have the two offices taken off the books. This year, Schraa is sponsoring a constitutional amendment that would begin the process of eliminating only the treasurer.
Voters have final say on removing positions from the state constitution. Schraa's proposal must pass two consecutive legislative sessions and a referendum before the positions could be eliminated. The earliest that could happen would be January 2019.


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Hunting the Hunts
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hence, I am out here in front of The Julia Collection. The clock is a fitting prop for this post as we are in fact waiting. I zipped over to Julia's on a hunch and as I suspected a sign was out front. Clicking the Steam Hunt sign gave me a notecard which I will now share in part. One point for good blogmanship.
This is the third Steampunk Grid-Wide hunt! STEAM will take place September 1st-30th, 2010. The gifts will remain available for the entire month... if you can find them!As I was writing this post, I received a notecard and gift from Parajen Homes . Steam 3 is their first hunt and their prize looks pretty special -- as in you and a few of your close friends could live in it *wink*. For non-hunters in the group and just to be especially nice, they sent along a vintage desk with photo frames and old fashioned phone.
There will be Steampunk-themed gifts to find hidden all over the grid in more than 135 participating shops. You'll be offered a variety of gifts as you search for the hidden items. Only high-quality designers have been invited to participate, and their exclusive items will be available only for the duration of the hunt.
As with most hunts, you begin at a starting location. That location will give you the LM to the next, and so on.
However, if you join the group, in September you'll be given a list of all the merchants' shops and you can start wherever you like!
SEARCH the group STEAM HUNT PUNKS and join for free!
I did a quick change into a Steampunk outfit, pulled out a coordinating house and here is a quick look.
Steam Hunt 3 starts at midnight, but there will likely be plenty of stores not quite in the loop at that hour. You know that. For those of you heading over to Twisted, I did a little recon. I remembered seeing a sign at A-Bomb when I was there earlier. Sure enough a notecard gave me the starting point and group info, if not the starting time.
Join the group to stay updated!
Just search groups for 'Twisted Hunt' or visit the landmark
below and click on the 'Twisted Hunt' sign.
Go forth. Find good stuff!
Edit: Here is a list of some of the hunts starting with poster thumbnails, blog links and starting points! Yeah!
My outfit of the eve is made up of some items I found on the Think Pink Hunt today. I know you have seen the same pink prizes over and over, so here are a few new items. The skin is Mynerva lovely and the clothes both come with other items in the pack. The sunglasses are part of a three color pink pack. I started Think Pink at #47 and got stuck at #14, so that gives you some idea of where they are on the trail.
Hair: [LeLutka]-RUSH hair - DuskTillDawn
Skin: ~Mynerva~Sophie~Think Pink hunt
Clothing:{paper.doll} SimpleTank-Top-White Think Pink hunt; ::JZ:: Think P!nk - Girly-Girl Jeans [Paint It Pink] Think Pink hunt (template but I've given up that flag-waving exercise)
Accessories: >IMANI
Poses by: LOTTA
Silent Music
Our hearts can hear the music as easily as our ears.
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Hair: Amacci Hair Carletta ~ Grey
Skin: []::Tuli::[] Jade (tone 4/bl) :: 02a
Clothing: Blue Blood Fantasy and Valeria mix (white)
Shoes: BAX Prestige Boots white
Poses by: SnOok; Behavior Body; Nigotine
The wee small hours of the morn found me opening boxes and straightening inventory. I felt like a casual day; places to go, locales to explore; so jeans seems a good choice. Autumn was on my mind, I have to admit. The seasons do not have to change in SL, but they often follow those of the Northern hemisphere and the mornings have turned chilly in my neck of the RL world.
I also wanted to put in a plug for tattoo layering for tops (thank you WoE for bringing the possibility to my sometimes foggy brain). Here's my pitch. There are lots of cute little mini dresses and bathing suits out there that make great tank tops under pants or leggings. On these pages you see me in minis and their micro cousins, but I almost never wear them in my day to day virtual life. Hence they get abandoned in my "minis" folder, forgotten and forlorn. The strapless top I am wearing is WoE's Tatiana Ruched Dress from last night's post. I am wearing it on the tattoo layer.
And why is that such a big deal? It let's me wear jeans on the undies layer and the "tank" will tuck in. Now these newly released jeans from CandyDoll actually work fine for boots (and come in tons of nicely worn muted colors with and without belts) even on the pants layer. But there are plenty of no mod pants layer jeans that will not. Having a mini dress or one-piece swimsuit come on an additional tattoo layer adds lots of wear-ability points.
The poses above are part of a newly released set from Everglow. There are lots of cute poses in this pack. They fit me which is always a thrill and they are mod so that I can rename them with hints as to positioning -- a great time saver.
I don't get excited about eyes very often, but these Aimesi Eyes are a winner for me. Blue on the outside with hints of rust near the pupil; perfect for red headed days! Earrings and bracelets, I can never have enough. These new ones from Ticky Tacky are both fun and colorful. A matching necklace is available.
My photos above were taken at an art exhibition titled "Textile Tales" by the Australian artist Teal Etzel .
On the way to the exhibit I stopped by LISP Bazaar to check out the Sunday / Monday special and it is very cute. Journey by if you have some prims to spare and a kitchen or dining room to decorate.
Hair: Amacci Hair Lena ~ Dark Copper
Skin: []::Tuli::[] Jade (tone 4/br) :: 05a
Eyes: Aimesi Eyes turkise (new release)
Eyelashes: Amacci ~ Eyelashes "Allure" - Black
Clothing: CandyDoll Just Jeans Greay_Belt (new release); .::Freedo.0m::. Eden Dress Bolero Jacket; :. WoE .: Tatiana Ruched Dress (Steel) (new release)
Shoes: J's Western Boots (Takumi hunt)
Accessories: *Ticky Tacky* Pandora (new release)
Poses by: Everglow
The Next Day
The Next Day is a dark urban role play area that welcomes visitors. It is a photographer's dream -- if that photographer is looking for light against dark, glow amidst gloom and small bits of color punctuating the landscape.
There is an art gallery and a club hidden somewhere amidst the shadows. I didn't find either. What I did find were some dramatic backdrops to show off the new Glam jacket from Blue Blood and the new Tatiana Ruched Dress from WoE.
The Tatiana Rouched Dress from WoE is available in EIGHT different colors. It is simple but stylish and well made of course.
One thing I really love about this release is the choice of layers. There are extra layers. Yep, tattoo layers are included in the mix. There is also a matching thong that comes on both layers and the tattoo layer. You can wear it always and never worry about being completely naked again. That is my plan anyway *wink*. The full dress comes on a tattoo layer also meaning that you could add three other layers on top. Talk about options! You can of course tuck this "dress" into pants and I can pretty much guarantee that will be my favorite use.
Put them together and you definitely have a winning combination!
To get to the main city in The Next Day walk through the mall, down the long ramp and take the teleport sign to the city. Be sure and read the rules if you are going to engage in role play.
Click on any photo for a high rez version. You may need to enlarge further with the zoom tool.
Hair: Amacci Hair Carletta ~ Dark Copper
Skin: []::Tuli::[] Jade (tone 4/br) :: 05a
Clothing: :. WoE .: Tatiana Ruched Dress (Rust; +++BB+++ Glam Jacket BLACK
Shoes: BAX Prestige Boots Black Leather
Poses by: LAP (top) and Nigotine (NLA)
Can You Spell P-I-N-K?
Hunts are starting again as the month rolls into September. Actually I doesn't seem like they stopped starting in August. I suspect you know what I mean. Most of us know that the Twisted Hunt starts in a few days. I am going to give it a try again this year, but I am not that dedicated a hunter.
Meanwhile ----- if you like pink, there is a hunt starting for you. The THINK PINK HUNT starts on Monday August 30th with Candy Doll as the starting point . That is pretty much all the intel I have except that it is a smallish hunt. Obviously it is geared toward gals.
The cute umbrella and beach chair is the prize from {what next}. Both are copy items so you can seat a crowd. The chair has lots of cute animations and /1a adjustments.
Click on any photo for a high rez version. You may need to enlarge further with the zoom tool.
Hair: .:::GARAGE:::.hair-004/Cherry (new release)
Skin: -Glam Affair- SofiaV2- Think Pink Hunt (hunt prize)
Clothing: .::Silenced::. Think Pink Hunt Dress (hunt prize); ~*RunoRuno*~ Teddy Flops
Sprusing Up
Two other shops have some items I want to check out, but so far they don't seem available.
Belle Belle has a dinner system (photo here) with lots of choices for your guests and Alchemy's Attic has an intriguing bread tray with plants and book.
The festive accessory (perfect for holidays around the corner) uses a temp on rez system and is only ONE prim. I have the potting bench that uses this system and love it. There is very little lag generated and the detailing and choices are fantastic.
The special items are available through the weekend.
My super sexy mini dress with the classic back is a new release from Hot Mood. Entitled simple as Black Dress, it has one strap in front. The asymmetrically designed mini also come in white and includes its own stockings. I can't seem to take these one sided ones off though so I opted for a mixed look.
Hair: W&Y HAIR LIMITED Haiti VIP 2 "Delete"ALL (Takumi hunt)
Skin: []::Tuli::[] Jade (tone 4/bl) :: 05a
Clothing: (Hot Mood) Black Dress; Reasonable Desires Cabaret Stockings
Poses by: Amacci
A Little More Emerald Drama
I have another pretty picture post coming soon as I hate to leave these text messages at the top of my blog, BUT I really felt I needed to pass along this extra info on Emerald.
I deleted the Emerald viewer last week amidst all the hubbub. Recently a techie friend of mine (edit: who fends of Denial off Service Attacks on a seemingly weekly basis) and no longer logs into SL but had Emerald on his system, warned me to be sure and delete the support files as well as the program. I did a search for "Emerald" and found a folder full of textures and such that was not uninstalled with the program.
Now these files were texture folders (edit: there were however files besides textures). Trying to send the whole Emerald folder to the recycle bin didn't work. I repeatedly got the "file in use" message. I then systematically started deleting subfolder one by one with good success but for two folders. I think they were "7" and "0". I still kept getting the "in use" message.
I had no open programs and I couldn't see why any programs running in the background -- or any program I currently had for that matter -- would be accessing Emerald files. This didn't make me very happy, especially since one of the Emerald team mentioned that the trojan was hidden in a texture file (edit: possibly WITHIN the texture file folders). Another of the team (no longer with the team) mentioned that there could easily be others that hadn't been found.
I rebooted my machine and immediately deleted the folders, then dumped my recycle bin. I do not know if one of the "in use" files was the trojan that caused the recent exodus from Emerald. When I was Goggling on this topic though, I came across the article from a few months ago when the Avast antivirus system (which I use) was reporting a trojan in the current viewer. Could it have been that Avast was right all along and the "fix" was to hide the trojan better?
An interesting thought.
I was also advised to change my password. This would be especially important if you A. actually have money in your SL account *wink* or B. use the same password for other sites. I do neither but
will change have changed it anyway.
I still wish the remaining team well, but I am afraid the battle to gain back trust is a very uphill one.
Life is a Caberet
While you are checking out the Cabaret set, pick up the free Retro Pin up Pose set. The pose in the second photo is from the newly released VAMP set.
The hair shown is the second hunt prize from W&Y at the Takumi Hunt. As with the other prize, there are color change options for both hair and band.
Hair:W&Y HAIR LIMITED Haiti VIP 2 "Delete"ALL
Skin:[]::Tuli::[] Jade (tone 4/bl) :: 05a
Clothing: Reasonable Desires Cabaret (part of set) (new release)
Poses by: exposure and Reasonable Desires.
Takumi Hunt - The Hair
But you don't need to hunt to find this great free hair from W&Y. Zip on over to the store and grab two styles of very pretty hair. The giant clams await you at the entrance lobby. This, more casual style is my favorite and includes both color change hat and hair as well as a kill script. The other hair is more elegant in that retro "we are in The Great Depression (US - 1930s) but I still have money AND a maid" look. It would be great for period costumes.
I am wearing the new Dressing Room skin from Tuli. Helen is replacing Gina it seems. I was fond of Gina, but life moves along. Helen is considerably lighter in tone than Gina and the premier Gina 01 features subtle violet eye shadow and pale pink lips. To me she seems very demure. The eye opening seem smaller to me than Gina (I am sure Tuli will comment if I am wrong on that ) as I needed to either switch eyelashes or readjust my normal ones. I went back to an older pair -- more demure anyway -- and that worked perfectly.
Helen 01 will be around for two weeks and arrives at The Dressing Room today.
Hair: W&Y HAIR LIMITED Haiti VIP 1 "Delet " ALL (free)
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Helena 01 (new release)
Clothing: >IMANI
Poses by: Diesel Works
Takumi Hunt 2010
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts on Thursday, August 26, 2010
We get so used to how things are done in hunts these days, we think that is the only way. Here's the difference. There are NO landmarks to the next spot in the packages. Some, but not all of the shops have hunt signs. So first you have to find out about the hunt -- in Japanese of course. Eventually I got to what I believe is the hunt blog and translated. Ah, now we have a list of sims taking part and the stores in the sims. That's a start.
I visited several of the sims, found some of the stores and some of the clams. So here are a few of my favorites from the hunt. It is an adventure!
First up is this simple four prim (megaprim) skybox from Cafe Blue Light. A great workbox if you need one. Several other skyboxes come in the pack. My Tunic Jacket comes from ***em*** and includes pants so you can wear as a mini dress as well as a top. The little lamp with lots of light and glow when turned on comes from VaiorinStyle.
The chair which has a very interesting shape, is mod and comes from *MORIMI* . You can change the texture to suit your decor. There is no /1a adjustment to the pose, but the script is mod so if you have some experience you can get a perfect fitting seat -- at least for yourself. Sorry, no landmark, listing on the hunt site OR in the designers profile. Hmmm.
I am wearing a new type of facelight that apparently adjusts itself to the time of day of the region. It is from ** ar ** body coordinate. This might be great or not so; more testing is needed.
There are some nice gray tennis shoes in sizes for both guys and gals from *Mako's Pandorabox* .
Hopefully these links will get you started if you want to hunt. Some came from the hunt objects, some from creator's profiles so "hopefully" is an appropriate adverb in this case. I think it is an adverb anyway, bleariness approaches.
One more prize to mention for the gals is a set of cute black pompom pasties from one of the shops in the MALL DE *ALOALO* . Sorry store name is in Japanese.
Hair: Amacci Hair Lena ~ Hazelnut
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Gina 06
Clothing: ***em*** Tyrolean Tunic
Shoes: *M's Hi Cut Female
Poses by: lost in the shuffle :(
Wake Up SL!
The whole store is on sale for $5. This set includes pants, top, two bra top choice and two belt choices. Gloves are included. $5. Good deal. There are mini dresses, one retro outfit, gloves, eyes, shorts (got a pair of those) and sunglasses. Don't miss the free handprint tattoos over in the eye section. There are dollarbie gift boxes on a table also.
The items I purchased were NO COPY items.
Clad in new duds, I am going off to work on a project. Have a great day.
Hair: Amacci Hair Carletta ~ Deep Copper
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Gina 06
Clothing: IMANI
Shoes: [Decoy] Jully Boots - Forest
Poses by: Diesel Works
Let's Hear It For COLOR!
Posted by Chic Aeon in places on Wednesday, August 25, 2010
I have been exploring galleries in my spare time. I know there is "real art" in SL. I know there is great art. But sometimes finding it is difficult. So I was happily surprised to find myself at the BleueSpace gallery in Nantucket. lala Lightfoot is the artist of these multi-prim works where paintings are given an extra boost with clever but unobtrusive prim additions.
Fun, colorful, creative and vibrant - some works are even animated.
I donned my best orange and blue -- well close anyway -- top to coordinate with the art.
And this is my post of the day. Have a good one.
Hair: Amacci Hair Carletta ~ Deep Copper
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Gina 06
Clothing: Baiastice_New Yippie_orange; Harlot (HW) Rode Hard - Brown
Accessories: [Baubles] From the Earth earrings (NLA)
Poses by: Diesel Works
Emerald and Moving Forward
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment on Tuesday, August 24, 2010
It has been a tough week for lots of folks. Here's hoping next week is closer to sigh of relief time.
I have no insider info. I have only been reading reports from both people who should know and people who think they know what's been going on. There is a difference of course. Tonight someone sent me to a post from a Emerald developer who has left. It was the most informative article that I have read. This seems to suggest that deleting the Emerald viewer would be a good idea, and I will do that tomorrow.
I download the Imprudence viewer the morning before the official announcement and installed it that evening. I am not a creature of change. I deal with it well, but I don't really enjoy it. There were other viewer choices of course, but I wasn't about to get into the Viewer 2 fiasco. I have yet to meet someone who loves it.
So for those of you who are changing viewers, here are a few tips on Imprudence -- should that be your viewer as an Emerald refuge -- as someone on the forums called herself.
Most everything that I used in Emerald is in Imprudence. I missed the derender feature but on writing to the forums found that it was included in a recent (not guaranteed - read beta) release. So I downloaded the newest weekly update viewer and installed it. Happily it goes into a different directory so even if I have issues with it (none so far) I can use the stable (end of June I think) version.
If you know you are going to use Imprudence as your default viewer, then it would be a good idea to agree to associate SLURLS with the viewer on install. If you do not (and I didn't) you have to reinstall in order to get the associations going. Most folks that read this blog use web SLURLs a lot, so being able to click and go is important.
The reason that Imprudence rezzes faster (or appears to) is that it has a stepped rez feature. It basically loads the objects and textures closest to you first and then moves out into the world. If you watch your draw distance pop-up on entering world, you can see that it starts out at 64 and then goes to 128 and beyond. There is a place where you can change the step distance within the program. Update: I notice that the newest version (beta) comes on at 264.
There are several new to me features in Imprudence that I enjoy. I especially like having a button to pop up the sky editor on the bottom taskbar (optional); it is right next to the skies list and the distance bar . There is also an optional AO button for the built in AO. From there you can turn the AO on and off or adjust sits as needed. For those of you that run multiple avatars, Imprudence has your avatar name on the program button in the Windows taskbar so you can tell which button belongs to who. You can also set multiple avatar loading within the program.
The biggest complaint on the forums is that the font is different and larger than the standard LL (or Emerald) font. I don't have any issues with the font style or size, but the font set is missing characters and so some characters show up only as empty boxes. I had to work with a script today with all those missing character boxes and that was pretty scary. I suspect that will be high on the list of changes since so many people are asking about it. While the Profile pane is more user friendly (bigger slot for deliveries as one change), the lines break differently than in the other viewers I have used so you can't really tell what your Picks or About Land info looks like to those in other viewers.
The whole Emerald debacle is both disheartening and disturbing. I am sure it is even more so for those intimately involved. We have no guarantees that this won't happen again with other viewers. All we can do is move on and hope for the best.
Please feel free to comment on this post if I have made any errors.
Third World
Moving towards the end of the month, moving towards the end of summer --
My weekly blogging folder is empty except for a couple of cute props and a few clothing items feed watchers have seen too many times already. Since I hate for The Blog to remain stagnant, I ventured back over to Third World to do more exploring. There was a meeting going on with several avatars in attendance and with lots of scripts running the sim was close to crashing most of the time I was there. Still, I did some exploring and took a couple of photos for you.
Still in yesterday's RunoRuno garb, one of my favorite hanging around outfits. See yesterday's post for details.
Just a Pretty Picture
A new group has just opened for the Hair Fair - Demos! Yeah!
So sign up if you want to try before you shop.
Hair: Amacci Hair Lena ~ Chestnut
Eyes: MADesigns NATURALS - black studio eyes (less veins)
Lashes: Amacci ~ Eyelashes "Allure" - Black
Skin: []::Tuli::[] Tanya (tone 1/br) :: preview
Accessories: ~SIGMA~Jewels/ Clare earring L (silver-pink)~
Imprudence vs Emerald Viewers
Emerald was taken off the Third Party Viewer list sometime yesterday, presumably after they announced a huge shift in the way the organization will be run. I missed the drama and reading last week's blog posts on the Modular Systems site didn't really clue me in. Thing went awry and the head guy evidently did some less than great things. He is no longer part of the Emerald team.
[Morning update: you can read the (very engaging) backstory on last eve's TV show with the Emerald folks here. The audio is up now and the video will be up soon. ]
I downloaded the Imprudence viewer yesterday morning on rumor of some big issues in the works. I can still log in using Emerald and according to the Emerald team's blog post, they are resubmitting the viewer for consideration. For those of you thinking about installing a different viewer, here is my quick feedback.
It works similar to Emerald and the older LL viewer with most things in the same menus. Many of the Emerald improvements have made it into the current Imprudence build (or visa versa). It is a change and there are some things missing , but my biggest problem is with the clarity of the graphics. On the plus side for fashionistas that don't want to go to Viewer 2, the tattoo layers work in Imprudence. On the down side, the secondary attachment points (like nose 2 for a facelight while wearing glasses for a photo) do not. There is no spell check, but I haven't found much that I would miss.
I can confirm that objects and textures rez much faster with Imprudence than with Emerald. This is good and for most people it would be a enough reason to switch. I have been told by folks that have been crashing a lot and with rezzing issues that Imprudence solved their problems. Since I haven't been having those issues (just sloooooow rezzing) I can't verify that information.
What I noticed right off, however, was that the inside of my office looked "off". It wasn't the lighting since I was using the same settings. It was the quality and clarity of the graphics. I did several tests and the photos below show what I, at least, am seeing.
Note: this problem has been solved, but be aware you may find this before makeing adjustments.
Notice the pixelated edges on any of the angled lines. I have written to the Imprudence forums in hopes that there is a fix for this -- something obscure that I haven't needed to turn on or change in the past. I guess I can get used to it if I have to and high rez photos work well. It is just the visuality that is disturbing to me.
It would be a really good viewer for hunts though. I had forgotten how fast things used to load, what was it? Three weeks ago? :D
Just passing my research on in hopes it will be helpful.
Will the Real Chic Aeon Please Stand Up
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment on Sunday, August 22, 2010
Five million sales (it seems like anyway) and a new hunt (starting at 4 pm) highlighted this Sunday's feed features. What really caught my interest though was a post by Raul Crimson. I pay little attention to world news and not much more to the virtual kind. I prefer to do my own thing and enjoy my simple pleasures. I knew that a SL name changing ability was in the works, but I hadn't really thought about what that could mean. People will be able to put in non European letters for their names; a good idea. I didn't understand that we could also lose the hold on our identities.
Now, for some folks that hold is tenuous anyway. We can change shape and sex and skin tone as well as costumes. We can be birds or dragons or robots. But through all that we still keep our names. So now it seems there can be more than one Chic Aeon. Sure, some sleuthing will let folks know who the original one is, but how is that EASIER for the new folks? Is this really a move designed to encourage new users or some smoke and mirror escapade designed to take our mind off the other issues in Phil's land?
When I clicked over to read the very long official post on the changes and watch Torley's video on how it will work, there were already 780 comments. I skimmed quickly and didn't find any positive ones, except for the use of sarcasm. There may be some in the mix; I would assume there would be.
Businesses are closing, signs of desperation appear almost hourly. The Labs keep trying to attract new users rather than keep the ones they have. This makes no sense to me. A smaller, working world, with happy residents seems like a much better plan than the ever expanding model they can't seem to lose sight of.
Then again, I have only run small businesses throughout my life. Perhaps the rules are different when you are a big company.
Towels Anyone?
Yesterday was a busy day for me, so the four of you who start your day at Chic's blog may have noticed the absence of a new post *wink*. I had to smile this morning when I saw Gogo's feature on the new bathhouse from elefantu (a merging of Djinn & Tonic [HOME] with Blackheart & Bailey Builds). She was wearing the same swimsuit I had planned on donning for MY version of show and tell.
By now many of you have the great swimsuit and shoes from G Field at the ICON hunt. I made a special trip over to look for those items as I love the swimsuit. I have shown you before in other colors; it is great as a tuck in tank. Since I also love purple, I was a happy gal. The shoes work with both viewers (sigh of relief).
I am still wearing my RUSH hair from LeLutka as it is so Disco Fever; I love it. For those of you that have this group gift in your closet and may not have experimented, here is a tip. You can turn the headband to many more colors than the quick menu lists by separately editing the tint of the band. You could even add a print if you like, but be sure and make a copy first so you don't lose the original texture.
There are poses built into some of the furniture and you can buy the furniture pack by itself, if you have plans that don't include a glass house. You could use the house as a green house or cabana too. It would be great as a dining area. SO many choices.
If you have lots of prims to decorate with, the complete house is a fun addition to your land. If you are on a prim budget, you can still use bits and pieces in a mix and match manner.
Click on any photo for a high rez version. You may need to enlarge further with the zoom tool.
Hair: [LeLutka]-RUSH hair - ItsNotGinger (group gift)
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Gina 06
Clothing: *GF* Classic Swimwear -purple- (hunt) ; ButterFly EffectZ Fashions **BE** Xenia high waist Capri
Shoes: *GF* Knot Wedge Sanal -purple-
Accessories: [Baubles] Oversized Hoop Earring (NLA)
Poses by: Vain and Adorkable Poses
It's only Thursday, but it seems like the weekend. It has been a busy time for me. Lots of photographs, plenty of exploring. New places found, old favorites revisited.
It has been a busy week for The Labs too. Teens coming to the adult grid (upping the numbers of population in world and saving some dollars), new residents getting to choose their own last names, but not exactly at the beginning? Hmm.
One bit of likely positive intel -- old news really, but I had no idea until yesterday -- is that The Labs are working on an endowment for the arts with an impressive committee. Whether this turns out to be a plus for artist, only time will tell -- but there are possibilities and hopefully a step forward. I am obviously late getting to the party. Wrapped in marketing and fashion and inventory control, I have been remiss in other areas that interest me.
The two FASHION items in this post are the new LeLutka Update Group gift hair which I really love and the {what next} Limited Edition 'Unmentionables' Trunk from the Pantie Raid at Lloyd. Ditto on the "love" for that cute piece of decor.
The hair comes in tons of interestingly named colors (who knows what Overcooked, Syrup or Glucose might be?) which are an adventure to try out. The band is color change too.
The trunk has lots of poses to choose from and at only seven prims, it is a lot of decorating punch at a small cost. There are small [what next] logos on each side, but they aren't overwhelming.
You don't have to be a sleuth to figure out that I am opening a tiny gallery. I am having fun taking photos with an artist's eye rather than that of a fashion photographer. The photos are taken into that post processing dark room called graphics software and turned into "paintings". I don't expect to tilt the art world in any way, but I like having my office next to a gallery -- and on the oceanfront still. What a treat.
Hair: [LeLutka]-RUSH hair - ItsNotGinger
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Gina 06
Clothing: CONCRETE FLOWERS-TWEED PANTS -FOREST; ::GB::DenimShirt White; CONCRETE FLOWERS- NEWSPAPER VEST-important chores-
Shoes: ABOMB Chic Wedges
Accessories: [Baubles] Oversized Hoop Earring - old brass (NLA)
Poses by: the trunk
Romance and Sunsets
Posted by Chic Aeon in shopping on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I am not much into fancy gowns; if you read this blog you know that. But I "am" into retro and while this dress was inspired by Fall Fashion Week 2010, it echos of decades past.
I really wanted to know the history of the peplum. I seem to recall it being big in the 50s maybe? My fashion history recall is not so good these days and Wikipedia failed me. Since fashion styles move in cycles, I am guessing this waist honing tactic has been seen many times before. All you really need to know is that it is stylish, flattering, specially priced through August 22nd, and from --Prim and Pixel Paradise.
Hair: W&Y HAIR COLLECTION 2010 LIMITED
Skin: []::Tuli::[] The Dressing Room :: Gina 06
Clothing: Prim and Pixel Paradise Midnight Gold (new release)
Accessories: [fairy tail] androgynous Necklace
Poses by: BehaviorBody


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The LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group will meet at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle.
Date: Saturday January 26, 2013
Time: 4:30 – 5:30 PM Pacific Time
Place: Washington State Convention Center - TCC LL3
Agenda items:
- Review of the Interest Group mission statement. The following draft created by Marshall as a starting point will be revised and expanded:
The LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group seeks to bring together interested individuals from libraries and from organizations that develop technology products and services for libraries to facilitate collaboration. The Interest Group will address timely technology topics and methodologies with strategic interest for libraries and the community of vendors developing technology products. The current environment, for example, where the service oriented architecture prevails provides many opportunities to extend functionality, exchange data and services among diverse applications, and to create new services through the APIs exposed in these products. The interest group aims to educate the library community regarding current trends and technologies related to the potential benefits of working with APIs and other technologies. The Interest Group invites participation by a broad range of individuals and organizations that create technology products and services for libraries and those in libraries make use of them.
- Continued work on the development of a white paper that describes how the current architectures today offer capabilities for extensibility and interoperability through APIs and how library programmers and other third parties can collaborate with system developers. This white paper aims to be a key educational document for broader audience of systems librarians, developers, and other interested individuals.
- Finalization of program for the ALA Annual Conference:
Connecting Libraries and Vendor Platforms: Have we advanced from the Black Box to Open Systems?
No technology product created for libraries can reasonably satisfy the needs of all libraries "out of the box." Rather, products provide a basic core of functionality designed to serve the general needs of libraries, with configuration options to set operational and cosmetic details for individual implementations. Many libraries, however, need to implement new functionality not delivered with the base product. Libraries might be able to press the developers of the products, developed under either proprietary or open source licenses, to create enhancements to the core system to meet these needs. A more sustainable model involves the use of application programming interfaces (API)s that allow library programmers to write code to extend the capabilities of the product, to enable interoperability with other applications, or to extract and manipulate data. Most of the major library management and discovery applications offer APIs that open up data and functionality to libraries and to third party developers.
This session aims to reveal the extent to which libraries can expect to extend products through exercising the APIs provided with their key technology products. In a dynamic debate format, the moderator (Marshall Breeding?) will explore this topic with the chief technology or strategy officers of the major library vendors and with one or more library technologists involved in projects that rely on APIs.
- Moderator: Marshall Breeding (Co-Chair LITA Industry Vendor IG)
- Andrew Pace or Robin Murray (OCLC)
- Talin Bingham (SirsiDynix)
- Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris)
- Jane Burke or Andrew Nagy (Serials Solutions)
- Bill Schickling (Polaris)
- John McCullough (Innovative Interfaces)
- Brad LaJeunesse (Equinox Software)
Please come and join us for an interesting discussion of these topics.
Marshall Breeding Jan 15, 2013 13:22:41
Link to Posting: LITA Technology and Industry Interest Group to meet at ALA Midwinter in Seattle


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The old saying goes that when you have a hammer all your problems look like nails. I first heard this saying quite late in my life, during a university lecture with one of my more inspired professors. He used it after describing one of his former classes who, enamoured with the latest and greatest chip from Motorola, sought to use it to solve every assignment they were given no matter how much shoehorning it took. The example is counter to all the proper engineering principles you should be taught in university as you should first gather requirements to solve your problem and then find a solution, never the other way around. This also implies a level of critical thinking when tackling any problem rather than rushing in head first in an attempt to solve the problem.
In my career however the opposite has proven to be true more often than it should be. Working on the supply side of the equation whenever a customer came to me with a problem I could do nothing but suggest our product as a solution, lest I gain the ire of my supervisors. Jumping the fence to the other side (where I've spent the vast majority of my career) many "skilled" system administrators have one technology they know well and will never stray from that path. Depending on how much sway they have with the decision makers you can end up in quite the mess when all your problems are only half solved by an inappropriate product. Just ask anyone who's tried to implement SAP or maintain Lotus Notes.
The same can be said for social networking tools. The serivce of choice today is Facebook whether you like it or not as they have the most users and therefore has the highest potential usefulness out of any the applications out there. For many people then Facebook is the medium with with they will communicate with the outside world and those be damned who don't check their feed regularly to keep up to date with them. In essence Facebook has become their hammer to all their online problems and whilst it does a good job at solving quite a few problems it's not the be all and end all of social based tools.
As of right now I'd consider myself an active user of at least 4 (well 5 if you include this blog) different social tools that all serve very different purposes. The first is of course Facebook which I use primarily for things that concern my direct social circle. Sharing pictures, video and anything else with friends and family is so much easier when I can just tell them to look at my wall rather than trying to explain how to view them elsewhere (even the gallery on this blog was far too confusing for many of my family). The second is Twitter which I find perfect for putting out those short updates that used to constitute my Facebook status updates. The difference is that anything I put on Twitter I want to be public whereas Facebook status updates aren't usuallyfor general viewing. Of course I have the two interlinked but that's purely for convenience sake, since not all of my friends have a Twitter account, nor do the majority that do actually use it.
The last two are Foursquare and YouTube. Now neither of these tools have a good chunk of my social circle in them but they both still solve a particular problem, even if it isn't that big of a deal. Foursquare was (and still is really) a curiosity, something I got into after hearing gobs about about it and wondering what the hell all the fuss is about. Realistically all I was doing with it was appeasing my inner hipster that craves to be in on something before it gets cool and my use of Foursquare reflects that. YouTube on the other hand is something that I've come to appreciate after diving into the community a little more and getting a feel for the whole thing operates. In the future I'll be using it to chronicle my various adventures overseas and product demos for my up and coming products, something it appears to be aptly suited for.
Every one of these tools I've described has some overlap with each other but for the most part none of the overlap is their core focus. Facebook could quite easily replace YouTube as a platform for disseminating videos amongst the wider public but it just not as good as YouTube. I could use Twitter to distribute pictures to my friends (and I do from time to time) but without Facebook integration most of them would go completely unnoticed. Each of these tools has a very specific purpose in mind and that's why I'll continue to use most of them.
This idea that a specific tool designed to solve a certain problem is what drove me to create Geon in the first place. Being able to go to a location and find out what's going on there whether by viewing the information available or asking someone in the area isn't solved by any of the currently available tools. Sure there are similar products (and one that if you didn't know any better would swear was in fact Geon built by someone else) but they all go about it in a way that I don't believe actually addresses the issue. Thus I have resigned myself to build the hammer to hit this particular nail, and in that hopefully build something of worth for everyone else.
Does this mean I think everyone should be using a raft of different services to do everything? Hell no. For the most part tools that accomplish several things work quite well for those who don't have the time nor want to use other more appropriate for the task at hand. Thankfully this usually means that they just use Facebook which has done a good job of levelling out the learning curve on new features. Still for those of us who have specific use cases in mind there are tools available that will accomplish our goals much more efficiently, rather than bashing our heads against our platform of choice to get it to work the way we want it.


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Efficacy, Safety and Dose-response of Udenafil in Patients With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Erectile Dysfunction
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01967251
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn
First Posted : October 22, 2013
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2016
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|Erectile Dysfunction Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
|Drug: Udenafil Drug: Placebo
|Phase 2
The drug being tested in this study is called Udenafil. Udenafil is being tested to treat lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). This study will look at the change in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and in erectile dysfunction (ED) in people who take Udenafil.
The study will enroll approximately 950 patients. Participants taking BPH or ED medication will enter a 4-week wash out period. Patients not previously treated and those who accomplished the wash out period will enter a placebo (dummy inactive pill) lead-in period of another 4 weeks. Participants will then be randomly assigned (by chance, like flipping a coin) to one of the four treatment groups—which will remain undisclosed to the patient and study doctor during the study (unless there is an urgent medical need):
- Udenafil 25 mg
- Udenafil 50 mg
- Udenafil 75 mg
- Placebo (dummy inactive pill) - this is a tablet that looks like the study drug but has no active ingredient
All participants will be asked to take one tablet at the same time each day throughout the study, and will be asked to keep a Sexual Encounter Profile (SEP) diary.
This multi-centre trial will be conducted in Mexico. The overall time to participate in this study is up to 20 weeks. Participants will make 6 visits to the clinic.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Triple Blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Trial to Assess the Efficacy, Safety and Dose Response of Udenafil for 12 Weeks in Mexican Patients With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Erectile Dysfunction
|Study Start Date :
|September 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|September 2016
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|September 2016
Experimental: Udenafil 25 mg
Udenafil 25 mg, tablets, orally, once daily for 12 weeks.
Drug: Udenafil
Udenafil tablets
Experimental: Udenafil 50 mg
Udenafil 50 mg, tablets, orally, once daily for 12 weeks.
Drug: Udenafil
Udenafil tablets
Experimental: Udenafil 75 mg
Udenafil 75 mg, tablets, orally, once daily for 12 weeks.
Drug: Udenafil
Udenafil tablets
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Udenafil placebo-matching tablets, orally, once daily for 12 weeks.
Drug: Placebo
Udenafil placebo-matching tablets
- Change from Baseline in Total International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) [ Time Frame: Baseline to Week 12 ]The IPSS is an 8 question (7 symptom questions + 1 quality of life question) tool used to screen for, rapidly diagnose, track the symptoms of, and suggest management of the symptoms of the disease benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The 7 symptoms questions include feeling of incomplete bladder emptying, frequency, intermittency, urgency, weak stream, straining and nocturia, each referring to during the last month, and each involving assignment of a score from 1 to 5 for a total of maximum 35 points. The 8th question of quality of life is assigned a score of 1 to 6. The total score correlates as follows: 0-7 mildly symptomatic; 8-19 moderately symptomatic; 20-35 severely symptomatic.
- Change from Baseline in Erectile Function Domain of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 12 ]The IIEF is a standardised and validated 15-item self-evaluation scale that provides pre-post treatment clinic evaluations of erectile function, orgasmic function, sexual desire, satisfaction in sexual intercourse and general satisfaction. The Erectile Function domain (6-item) provides pre-post treatment evaluations of erectile function.
- Participants with Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]AEs will be evaluated by monitoring participants vital signs, laboratory tests (blood chemistry, hematology, coagulation and serology tests, urianalysis), electrocardiography (ECG).
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|45 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men ≥ 45 years of age.
- Sexually active, with a stable female partner with whom the participant expects to have a relationship for the entire duration of the study.
- The participant has benign prostatic hyperplasia with lower urinary tract symptoms (BPH-LUTS) according to clinical diagnostic criteria, with ≥ 6 months of evolution at the screening visit.
- Clinical history of erectile dysfunction (ED) (defined as the inability to achieve or maintain the penile erection to achieve a satisfactory sexual relationship) of at least 3 months of evolution.
- Freely given informed consent at the screening visit (an essential requirement to participate in the study).
- Bladder obstruction defined by maximal flow rate (Qmax) of 4-15 mI/sec (with a premicturition volume of 150 to 550 mL evaluated by ultrasound, with a minimum micturition volume of 125 mL) at Visit I immediately prior to active treatment initiation.
- Total score of ≥ 13 points in the InternationaI Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) questionnaire at Visit 1, immediately prior to active treatment initiation.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participants that are currently taking nitrates, antiandrogens, estrogens, luteninizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist/antagonist, or anabolic steroids at study entry. Participants that are taking a stable dose level of testosterone are not excluded.
- Post-void residual (PVR) volume ≥ 300 mL, as assessed by ultrasound at the Visit 1.
- Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ≥ 10.0 ng/mL at the Visit 1.
- PSA of 4.0 - 10.0 ng/ml if free PSA is < 0,25 (25%) at Visit 1.
- Clinical evidence of prostate cancer.
- Glycosylated hemoglobin (Hb1Ac) > 10 % at study entry.
- Patients who have undergone bladder catheterization due to acute urine retention.
- Medical history or clinical evidence of any pelvic, bladder or urinary tract condition, or urinary retention that, as judged by the urologist, might compromise protocol compliance.
- Any surgical procedure in the lower urinary tract (including prostate biopsy) within 30 days prior to the Screening Visit.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01967251
|Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico
|Mexico, Estado de México, Mexico
|Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
|Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
|Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
|Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
|Cholula, Puebla, Mexico
|Chihuahua, Mexico
|Study Director:
|Medical Director
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U1111-1146-1278 ( Other Identifier: World Health Organization )
|First Posted:
|October 22, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2016
|Last Verified:
|March 2016
Prostatic Hyperplasia
Phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors
Erectile DysfunctionDrug Therapy
Erectile Dysfunction
Prostatic Hyperplasia
Pathologic Processes
Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological
Genital Diseases, Male
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological
Mental Disorders
Prostatic Diseases
Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors
Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
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Why, in the name of all that is good and holy, is anyone still paying attention to Kirk Cameron? In what way is this former teen television star turned laughable Christian caricature relevant enough to our culture to get a primetime interview slot on CNN? Does anyone really care about his views on homosexuality or same-sex marriage? The stark truth is that his once familiar face, tied to his evangelical Christian views, are the only thing keeping him on the fame radar (albeit in a d-list reality-television manner). However, since there are still folks out there who seem to take Mr. Cameron seriously for some reason, here's a gold-plated proof that no one, not even the most fervent Christian "Growing Pains" star, should give his "crocoduck" theology mainstream attention.
In 2006, Cameron used his "excellent acting talents" to "infiltrate" a Druid ritual. Specifically, a ritual put on by Ravens Cry Grove (part of Ár nDraíocht Féin) in Southern California. Cameron and Ray "Banana" Comfort secretly recorded the ritual, and lied about secretly recording the ritual when questioned about it (because it's OK to lie to non-Christians apparently). You can download the show, here. You can also find an edited version of the segment, here.
Cameron says he thought he got out of there "by the skin of his teeth," insinuating that he felt endangered by a group of California Druids singing, chanting, and sharing fellowship. This is the man who CNN wants to talk about religion with. This is the man Piers Morgan calls "brave" and "honest" for spouting the same old conservative Christian party line about marriage and homosexuality that has fallen increasingly out of favor in the United States. The bitter truth is that Cameron is a sad has-been who depends on someone, anyone, finding him offensive so he can feed his attention-starved ego for a few moments more. Even sadder, mainstream media outlets are obliging, when they could have picked from a thousand theologians, scholars, or religious leaders to opine about morality or marriage. Instead, we have the star of "Left Behind 2: Tribulation Force."
In the future, when CNN or any other major news network decide to give Kirk Cameron precious airtime that could be used to discuss serious issues, or talk with actually important figures, just remember they are instead bolstering the limping career of a man who thought infiltrating a Druid grove in California was a dangerous and worthwhile activity. Cameron's views on marriage and homosexuality are offensive to me, but I'm almost as offended by the media outlets who seem to think giving him a spotlight is a good idea.
ADDENDUM: When I wrote this post yesterday, I quoted a site called "Objective: Ministries." It seems they are a hoax website that specializes in blurring the line between parody and reality. Kirk Cameron really did "infiltrate" a Druid ritual, and really did a radio show where he bragged about his ability to fool the Druids, but the rhetoric I quoted from Objective: Ministries is not "real." Though, it sounded so like Christian rhetoric I've heard elsewhere that I didn't even think to double-check it. So, in short, I was punked. I've removed quotations from that site, leaving everything else intact. Mea Culpa.


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We all know that there is tremendous beauty in manufacturing. But "ultimate factory" assembly lines may show off industrial might at its mightiness, there's also tremendous beauty in small run manufacturing. We saw it in our amazing tour of Ford's Flat Rock plant where the Boss 302S Mustang is built. Now we see it here in the almost bespoke building of the Lamborghini Aventador.
There's nothing about this process — from the molding of carbon fiber to cylinder testing — that isn't beautiful. Watch with us and see what we mean.
Plus, the bold, Michael Bay-esque music Lamborghini continues to use in its promotional videos doesn't hurt the ambience. (Hat tip to DasWauto!)


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Teaching That Emphasizes Active Engagement
Improving Learning for Middle School Students
Have you ever tried to
- Tell a youngster how to tie his shoe?
- Lecture adolescents on the path of a bill through Congress?
- Get an 8th grade class to verify a math problem by writing out the explanation?
Of course you have. And in each situation, learning was superficial until the learner was actively engaged. Teaching that emphasizes active engagement helps students process and retain information. It leads to self-questioning, deeper thinking, and problem solving. Engagement strategies like repetition, trial and error, and posing questions move the brain into active and constructive learning. And such activities can lead to higher student achievement.
So where does a teacher begin?
Preparing classes that actively engage students requires a lot of planning. First, the teacher must prepare the lecture or other type of instruction. Then, he or she must select learning activities that support the content of the instruction and engage students. Here are five steps teachers should follow:
- Thoroughly learn/understand the curriculum.
- Identify teaching objectives and strategies that engage students and build understanding.
- Ask yourself these planning questions:
- What is the goal?
- What order does the teaching need to follow?
- What do the students already know?
- What do I want them to learn?
- Prepare the lecture or instruction of the concepts and skills, based on your goals.
- Construct processing/learning activities that match the concepts, skills, and goals.
To engage students, the teacher must do more than lecture. While teaching the concepts and skills, the teacher must help students draw on their own experiences to build a "scaffold" on which they can "hang" new ideas. When students are actively engaged, they focus on what is being taught and better process new information.
Because the most effective teaching takes place in "chunks," it's best to teach new information or concepts in 7- to 10-minute segments followed by a processing activity.
After teaching several segments, the teacher can use a longer processing activity. This activity should be tied tightly to the concepts or skills previously taught so that it builds understanding.
Processing Activities
A processing activity is an activity that causes students to pose questions, manipulate information, and relate the new learning to what they already know. Such engagements reinforce the learning and help move the learning to the long-term memory banks.
A processing activity can be as simple as a 60-second jotting down of the important points just covered, telling your table partner three things that you just learned, or expressing something in a song. Some examples of longer processing activities are:
- Designing a concept map
- Creating an outline
- Writing a story problem
- Making up a different ending to a story
- Designing mock trials
- Conducting an experiment in a science lab
- Measuring the length of the hallways with triangles
Some examples of teacher strategies and student processes or products that actively engage the learner are:
Teacher Strategy--Student Process
Lecture--Note taking and discussion
Discussion--Drawing a conclusion
Film/video--Sharing with a partner
Guest speaker--Journal writing
Panel--Graphic organizer
Debate--Designing and conducting a survey
Brainstorming-- Designing a concept map
Field trip-- Designing a tutorial on a topic
In summary, when students are actively engaged in their learning, they are processing and retaining information and using higher order thinking. When teachers design activities that promote active engagement, they are reinforcing student learning, keeping students interested and on task, and making learning relevant and fun. Remember, young adolescents want to do things and will do things. Capitalize on that in ways that reinforce their learning.
Pete Lorain, author of articles on middle schooling and other education issues, currently works under private contract. Prior to retirement, he served as a high school teacher, counselor, and administrator; middle school principal and director at the district level; director of human resources; and president of National Middle School Association from 1996 to 1997.


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Big Ten Wrap & Tourney PreviewPosted by Brian Goodman on March 10th, 2011
John Templon is the RTC correspondent for the Big Ten. With action set to tip from Indianapolis on Thursday, get set for the postseason with RTC's regular season wrap-up and postseason outlook.
Postseason Preview
The Big Ten Tournament should prove to be quite the entertaining tournament. With so many teams on the bubble, every game is going to have a do-or-die atmosphere to it. Three of the four quarterfinal games, excluding the one in which Ohio State is playing, could propel teams to NCAA Tournament at-large bids. Another important matchup to watch is Northwestern vs. Minnesota in Round 1 – where they'll probably be playing for an NIT berth.
- Cold Teams: Minnesota, Illinois, and Indiana
- Is Battle Ready For last Stand?: The Nittany Lions' Talor Battle will try to finally make the NCAA Tournament. Can he shoot Penn State off the bubble and into the field?
- Is Nolen Healthy?: Al Nolen hasn't played January 22 against Michigan, but he could return this week. Would it be enough to get the Gophers rolling?
- Can Anyone Stop Ohio State?: The Buckeyes look like a juggernaut, and this isn't the time to be putting big decisions in the hands of the selection committee. In order to feel comfortable about its #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, OSU probably needs to win the Big Ten's first. Northwestern played them close at Welsh-Ryan Arena – is a big upset in the making?
- Will Izzo's Tournament Touch Get Going?: Of the teams playing in the first round, Michigan State seems like the most likely candidate to reach the tournament finals. It seems like Tom Izzo just has a knack for this kind of thing by now.
- Is The Next Generation Ready?: There are nine seniors on the three All-Big Ten teams selected by the coaches, and just one freshman. Are players like Ohio State's Aaron Craft, Illinois' Jereme Richmond, Northwestern's JerShon Cobb and Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. ready to play significant crunch time roles? Or will they wilt under the bright lights in Indianapolis?


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Welcome back… I hope you have visited this blog a few times.
Back to this blog, Robin, a member of the A-Team, said in her comment she posted…
What a challenge! Are we up to it?
I answered back…
We won't know until we try.
You never thought how addictive cabinet cards were didn't you?
They become more addictive when you can put a name on someone's face.
Mother and daughter? That's for sure, but no names, just the photographer's name.
B. F. Ogden, from Springfield, Massachusetts.
That the only clue unless my cousin Sandy takes a look at the women's clothing and tells me when it was in style.
Another one. Again from Springfield, Massachusetts.
I sent all the 31 pictures to Sandy. She wanted to take a look. I am sure she will get hooked and give me some clues on when the pictures were taken just by looking at the women's clothing.
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I'm sure that the man featured in this photo is my great great grandfather Per Ambjorn Sparre. He was an inventor amongst other things and actually created the first perforated postage stamps in Stockholm. He married an Italian woman and spent much of his life in Paris. There is a wealth of information about him in Swedish. He was Louis Sparre's (My great grandfather) father. It was a pleasure seeing this photo for me! I have a painting that looks exactly the same.


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I exclusively reported come Jan 2014 Scott Stringer who is not qualified to be NYC gov comptroller and got there via back room deals in my opinion did in fact remove this press release immediately and put up faux photos of Stringer with People of Color like he was already running a fake pr campaign to be mayor. I allege he did this because he wants Bloomberg and pals like George Artz (lobbyist for HP) backing to become mayor another job he isn't qualified for.
Note HP also had top officials
on the NY Pension Board.
John Liu's Press Release Calling for A Criminal Investigation on 911 ECTP Removed by Scott Stringer Posted on Scribd by QueensCrap
Everyone who called for HP to be terminated is not longer working for NYC Gov and I was a victim of savage violence and threatened by the NYPD and I have audio that sounds like an ADA threatening me -- the goal to shut me and silence me?
Mr. Arzt's was paid for representation of Hewlett-Packard in 2007 and 2008, around the time or immediately after the city's Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications "recommended rebidding the main contract for system integration services with" Hewlett-Packard, a recommendation which "was not followed," according to a 2014 report about ECTP issued by the city's new Comptroller, Scott Stringer. According to online city lobbying records, Mr. Arzt was paid by Hewlett-Packard to lobby former Deputy Mayor Ed Sklyer, the Bloomberg administration official who vocally defended the ECTP cost overruns.
The key HP figure who I allege was over billing is already back with a new contract reaping another company and DOITT knows it!!!!!


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ICNA condemns government brutality in Bangladesh
NEW YORK, NY (May 9, 2013) – Islamic Circle of North America condemns acts of brutality committed by police and paramilitary forces in Bangladesh.
Violence flared on Monday, May 6th, in Dhaka City as protesters gathered peacefully to demanding their religious rights.
Late in the night electricity lines were disconnected and eye-witnesses reported that thousands of heavily equipped security forces attacked while the unarmed protestors were sleeping and fired indiscriminately resulting in many causalities. Accurate figures are not available as government enforced a media blockade.
ICNA condemns any type of oppression and indiscriminate killing no matter what the situation is. We urge the United States State Department to take serious note of this situation where the current Bangladeshi government is abusing the human rights of its own citizens and curbing freedom of expression by imposing ban on independent media and peaceful assembly.
We are also saddened at the loss of over a thousand factory workers due to non-implementation of safety requirements by corrupt government officials. Our prayers and support go out to those suffering from these incidents.
Also see: http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/03/bangladesh-end-unlawful-violence-against-protesters
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Chobani announced Tuesday that it is pulling some of its Greek yogurt from supermarket shelves after customers complained of "swelling or bloating" in cups.
Chobani said in message on its Facebook page that it has investigated the problem and found that a type of mold frequently found in dairy may be to blame.
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A good friend recently asked me why a pause is so important when speaking. His style is usually quite fast and dynamic, and he felt that leaving pauses might disrupt the flow and make his talk seem disjointed.
My first encounter with the power of the pause was when studying the plays of Harold Pinter at high school. Pinter was a master of the dramatic pause. A pause on stage is where the characters are not speaking, but they are perhaps doing something, and certainly thinking, and that adds to the drama. A pause adds importance to what precedes it and to what follows it.
I first realised the power of the pause in a presentation when I was at a private equity seminar in 2008. There were a number of presentations from private equity firms and professors, most of them with predictably ugly slides, and often they were just reading a written speech (most of which was written on the slides anyway).
But then came the closing keynote. It was by Didier Pineau-Valencienne, of whom I had never heard, but I later learned he is a famous French business leader, and honorary chairman of Schneider Electric.
He didn't use slides. He didn't read a speech. He looked at us. He made strong eye-contact. And he spoke slowly, carefully, deliberately, and powerfully. He left pauses regularly so we could reflect on what his words meant for us. Every sentence was well-crafted, yet simple rather than impressively complex. From the way he spoke, it was clear he was a leader. You could have heard a pin drop between his words.
You can think of a pause like a coffee-break. Coffee stimulates our attentiveness, and makes us more influenceable, and the break allows us to catch our breath between work periods. A pause can have a similar effect on you and your audience. Here are three reasons why you should speak slowly, carefully and powerfully, and leave pauses at appropriate times.
1. It gives the audience time to reflect.
This is the single biggest reason to pause from time to time. We don't remember things because we hear them, or because we understand them. We remember them because they mean something to us, and because we remember how we feel about them. But for a message to have personal meaning and generate an emotion, we need not only to hear and understand it: we also need to think about it, to think about what it means for us, and to work out how it fits with the rest what we think we know about life, the universe and everything.
Personal reflection is the glue that makes a message stick. It is as powerful as any story.
The trouble is that most speeches and presentations bombard the audience with sentence after sentence, without giving them the time to perform this personal reflection. Leaving strategic pauses after important points gives the audience time to reflect, and gives your message a chance to stick.
Think of it like painting a wall. You apply the first coat of paint, and then you wait for it to dry before applying the second coat. You wouldn't apply the second coat while the first is still wet. You give it a chance to dry. Do that with your messages too. Give them a chance to stick by letting your audience think about what your messages mean to them.
(And try to make your messages more interesting than watching paint dry…)
2. It gives you time to reflect.
A pause between sentences is not only good for your audience: it is also good for you. It gives you a chance to catch your breath, to relax, and to prepare the next sentence. You are therefore physically ready to deliver the next sentence, and you know what you are going to say, so it will come out smoothly. It also gives you time to gauge the audience's reaction to your talk.
Last week I gave a short talk to young students at a business school about slide design, and during one pause, I noticed the silence in the room. I have never known students to be so quiet (and no, they weren't asleep). They were paying far more attention than most students in most classes. It was a good sign. The pause enabled me to notice it.
I'm not suggesting you should pause at the end of every sentence. Pause to give effect to your point, and that point may have required two or three sentences to make, so pause at the end to let people think, and you can take advantage of that time to catch your breath, check how your audience is reacting, and prepare your next point.
Always remember, by the way, that a pause will always seem far longer to the speaker than it does to the audience. So don't worry if the pause seems long to you: your audience won't think so.
3. It makes you look like a leader.
Many speakers are nervous, nervy, over-excited, worried about how they will be perceived, worried that they might be interrupted, worried that they might run over time, and desperate to get it over with and get off stage as quickly as possible. All these points contrive to make them speak far too quickly. Unless you are a racing commentator, speaking quickly will make people perceive you as a loser.
Remember the four aims of presentation: to be heard, understood, respected and remembered.
If you rattle through everything at lightning speed as if you had a plane to catch or an urgent appointment with the nearest rest-room, your audience might not hear all your words, they might not properly understand, they won't credit you with enough credibility to care what you are saying, and they won't remember it anyway because they have no time to think about what it means to them.
Leaders, on the other hand, are confident. Leaders know that people will listen to them, and not interrupt them. Leaders are calm and collected. In short, leaders speak slowly and in a controlled way, and when they leave a pause, they are saying to the audience: "I am confident that nobody will use this pause to interrupt me." And because they exude this confidence and this sense of leadership, generally nobody does.
Therefore when you use pauses, it makes you look confident and powerful. It makes you look like you are in control. It makes you look like a leader. It makes you look like someone worth listening to. And if the audience thinks you are worth listening to, then speaking slowly with pauses should enable you to achieve all four of the aims of presentation: to be heard, understood, respected and remembered.
Let's finish with a few examples. Here are three fine speakers: Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Steve Jobs, and former French President Jaques Chirac. As you watch these (you probably only need the first minute of each to get the idea), try to imagine how those speakers would have appeared had they spoken extremely quickly. Would they have had the same effect?
In the first part of Dr King's famous Lincoln Memorial speech, he spoke at approximately 92 words per minute. That is extremely slow compared to most speakers, and slower than I would recommend in most professional situations. But it worked for him. Could you imagine him speaking much faster? When your words have as much power as Dr King's, don't dilute that power by rushing through them.
Steve Jobs
Jobs was a master of the pause, and of speaking slowly. In the first 90 seconds of this example (the original iPhone introduction), Jobs spoke at 94 words per minute – and that's not including the time he waited while the audience applauded.
Note how he even paused at the beginning. Of course it wasn't the start of his complete presentation, but it was the start of this section. The long pause would have left the audience wondering what was to come, and it allowed Jobs to collect his thoughts, catch his breath, and prepare for perhaps his biggest ever launch. Again, his words all had such power which would have been lost if he had hurried through them.
Lastly, remember that slow should not mean boring and monotonous. Nobody would accuse Dr King or Steve Jobs of sounding boring. On the contrary, when you slow down and use pauses well, you can give your words far more power and emphasis. Watch how Jobs did this.
Jacques Chirac
In this televised address to mark the end of his presidency, Jacques Chirac spoke purposefully and meaningfully. You may not speak French so this may not mean much to you, but just watch the first 30 seconds and listen to the sound of his voice. He spoke at 120 words per minute in this section, which is right in the range of 110-140 words per minute which I recommend to most speakers. It's faster than both Jobs and Dr King, but still quite slow compared to most speakers who are above 150 words per minute (why not time yourself?).
(I can't embed this one sadly since WordPress doesn't seem to support embedding DailyMotion clips.)
So slow down, and leave pauses. You will have more credibility. Your messages will have a better chance of sticking. And your audience will certainly be grateful.


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The Impact of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) Implementation on SMEs Performance: An Empirical Study in Malaysia
- Goh Yen Nee
- Nabsiah Abdul Wahid
Despite the growing interest in examining ISO 14001 EMS implementation and firm's performance, little attention has been devoted especially among the SMEs in Malaysia. Based upon 61 responses questionnaire survey, this study examines the relationship of ISO 14001 EMS implementation to Malaysian SMEs performances. The findings of this study confirm that ISO 14001 EMS implementation has a positive and significant relationship with SMEs's performance. This finding is consistent with the environmental management literature mostly published in the developed countries. This study is important as the empirical results provide an indicator to encourage other SMEs which has no EMS in place to consider joining the bandwagon. Since the ISO 14001 standard is still on a voluntary basis in Malaysia, this study able to give empirical evidence on SMEs performance appears to be critical at this juncture noting the fact that SMEs contributes to the largest business establishments in Malaysia.
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