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Investigators at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have demonstrated that a disabling bone disorder, osteonecrosis of the hip, is surprisingly common among patients with HIV infection.
The study results will be presented during the Infectious Diseases Society of America's annual meeting September 8 in New Orleans.
Concern that the disorder might be a new and unrecognized complication of HIV infection prompted the investigation, a collaboration between the NIH Clinical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Magnetic resonance imaging was used to evaluate 339 study volunteers, all patients with HIV. While none of the study participants had the hip pain typically associated with osteonecrosis, 15 (4.4 percent) were found to have the disorder. As a comparison, 118 patients without HIV were tested, and none were found to have osteonecrosis.
"These 15 patients with asymtomatic osteonecrosis had lesions in one or both hips," noted Dr. Henry Masur, critical care medicine chief at the NIH Clinical Center. "Many of the lesions were large. Our concern is that the lesions will lead to clinical symptoms ultimately requiring total hip replacements."
The reason for this unexpected complication of osteonecrosis -- bone death -- is unclear. "We've been following patients with HIV at the NIH Clinical Center for more than 17 years and had not seen this complication until about a year ago," said Dr. Joseph Kovacs, also of the NIH hospital's CriticalCare Medicine Department. "Longer patient survival, new therapies or lifestyle influences may somehow contribute to the development of this disorder. It's important to find out why it's happening."
While researchers can't yet pinpoint a specific cause, patients in this study found to have osteonecrosis were more likely to have taken testosterone, lipid-lowering drugs, and corticosteroids, all prescribed therapies for the acute and chronic complications of HIV infection or other common medical problems. They were also more likely to have been involved in weight-training and body-building.
The occurrence of osteonecrosis was not associated with the level of immunodeficiency or any particular pattern of antiretroviral use.
"In 1999, four of our patients with HIV developed hip and groin pain that was subsequently diagnosed as osteonecrosis, also known as avascular necrosis," added Dr. Masur. "In evaluating these cases, we learned that other physicians around the country were seeing a small but increasing number of HIV-infected patients with osteonecrosis. To prevent the development of osteonecrosis, it was clearly important to find out how many of our asymptomatic patients were developing these lesions and pinpoint contributing factors."
"Researchers from both NIH Clinical Center and NIAID conduct numerous research studies at the NIH hospital in Bethesda currently involving about 600 volunteer patients with HIV infection," noted Dr. John I. Gallin, NIH Clinical Center director. "Participants in this study were drawn from this cohort of patients. A critical mass of patient volunteers enables research at the NIH Clinical Center to track how diseases such as HIV evolve."
A longitudinal study is under way to determine how many patients will develop these lesions and how many will ultimately need hip replacement. Larger studies are needed to identify factors that contribute to the development of osteonecrosis, Dr. Kovacs said. "If we can identify what's causing the disorder among these patients, we are hopeful we can determine a way to prevent and treat it."
The Clinical Center and NIAID are components of the NIH. The Clinical Center is the clinical research hospital for NIH. Through clinical research, physicians and scientists translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and interventions to improve the nation's health. NIAID supports basic research in immunology as well as research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases and immune-mediated disorders, including HIV disease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.


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sox is probably the one linux program that continues to frustrate me. At the same time, I am awed by what it can do, and I'd like to get close to being fluent in it, if not mastering it.
Today, I've spent about 2 hours trying to get
sox to read bytes from
parec via a pipe.
parec bytes are a
pulseaudio "sink". In order to get them flowing through the pipe, I used this answer from askubuntu.
This is the command I've been using:
$ parec -d telephonControl.monitor | sox -b 16 -e signed -c 2 -r 44100 - -t pulse hmm.ogg silence 1 0.50 0.1% 1 2.0 0.1% : newfile : restart
and this is the error I get:
sox FAIL formats: can't determine type of `-'
write() failed: Broken pipe
What's more, oggenc parses them just fine:
parec -d telephonControl.monitor | oggenc -b 192 -o telephonControl.ogg --raw -
Encoding standard input to
at approximate bitrate 192 kbps (VBR encoding enabled)
I have absolutely no idea how to make
sox digest those bytes.
$ parec -d telephonControl.monitor >> somebytes
$ soxi somebytes
soxi FAIL formats: can't determine type of file `somebytes'
But I do know that they are raw audio, 16 bit signed little endian, 2 channel 44100kHz:
>>> list-sink-inputs
1 sink input(s) available.
index: 17
driver: <protocol-native.c>
state: RUNNING
sink: 2 <telephonControl>
volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%
0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
muted: no
current latency: 92.86 ms
requested latency: 23.20 ms
sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
resample method: (null)
module: 7
client: 53 <ALSA plug-in>
media.name = "ALSA Playback"
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The current rating is not so important when it is above the 150 mA which are required. You can use a PS with 70 A rating although this is of course completely overdone.ultravista wrote:I have many power supplies that are labeled as 12-15V and 100-150ma but when measured, are nowhere near the printed output. All are over voltage and current.
The bigger problems are:
a) Noise free transformer power supplies are rare to find. In some countries they are kind of forbidden because of energy wasting. You only can buy switched PS which cause RF noise.
b) If you are still lucky to find one on ebay or similar it is often not clear whether the 12 V are stabilised or not. In many cases they have no stabilisation and the voltage drops maybe from 16 V to 10 V when a load is connected. Additionally they have a big 100/120 Hz hum on the output.
I cannot give an advice where to find a suitable readymade PS because this depends on where you live and which sources are available in your area. But generally small stabilised wallplugs with a transformer are rare. Sometimes you can still find some on ebay. But make sure they are stabilised. And be careful: Some sellers do not understand the difference between a switched PS and a transformer PS and label their offers wrong!
I am afraid this is all a difficult matter nowadays.
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Fusion's bold exterior was a feat of clay for Ford artist
The next time you spot one of Ford's boldly styled Fusions, give Josue Maldonado some credit for the extreme - and highly successful - makeover.
The 35-year-old sculptor helped transform renderings of the sexy midsize sedan's body into three-dimensional objects made of clay. It's a crucial step in evaluating how a design will look in the real world.
Seems the Ford design studio team did their homework. Ever since the redesigned Fusion debuted as a 2013 model, it's been gunning for the Toyota Camry, the perennial top seller in the high-volume midsize sedan segment.
Maldonado provided Houstonians some behind-the-scenes look at how today's cars take shape at a recent presentation at The Orange Show.
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He hadn't been at Ford long when he saw the Fusion's renderings for the first time.
"I was really excited. It looked cool. We're creating something no one's ever seen. As an artist I love doing that and getting to work with a huge group of people that all have different opinions and we want to make something beautiful.
"Designers are working with me as my tools are moving along the lines on the vehicle, and they're observing while I handle the clay," Maldonado said. "I collaborate with designers to make adjustments, and we help each other through the process to come up with a tangible, detailed model."
Working side by side with designers allows Maldonado to add his own touch to the lineup. "Everyone has their own way of sculpting - you can almost see who sculpted certain things," he said. "When I'm making something, my tools, my hands and the way I work create something subtly different from what another modeler would create.
"I apply as many different techniques as I can. One thing I love is Japanese calligraphy - the brush strokes, the way they hold the brushes when they're doing Japanese calligraphy is the way I like to hold my tools when I'm sculpting."
Craftsmanship and attention to detail is in Miami native's DNA. He has an uncle who's a welder, his dad is a mechanic and his grandfather was a jeweler who showed him how to mold clay when he was 10.
Ironically, the Miami native didn't start driving until he was 22 because he was studying industrial design at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, lived in a dormitory and didn't need a car.
But he's making up for lost time. His two favorite cars are his 1973 Chevrolet El Camino and the 1972 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
"It was a toss up. I was going to buy either one of those cars, but I found the El Camino first," Maldonado said. "I love its forms. A friend who's a designer said the front end has a very distinctive outline and all the lines of the forms of the car stretch from that outline to the back. It looks like someone's pushing their fist through a sheet of plastic and all the knuckles leave lines that stretch behind it."
There's also a Fusion in this Ford artist's future. Describing the car as "dynamic and elegant," Maldonado points out that though the Fusion "is not meant to be a sports car, it still feels fast. I like driving them. I can't wait to buy one."


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Supreme Court Set to Review Landmark Gay Marriage Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court will review two major gay marriage laws on Tuesday and Wednesday and the court's decisions have the potential to change the entire landscape of marriage in America.
When the Supreme Court takes on the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's 2008 Proposition 8 which upheld traditional marriage, the justices will be tasked with making some very important decisions. The justices can uphold traditional marriage on a federal level, they can block the ban on gay marriage across state levels, or they can keep the decision in the hands of voters in each individual state.
"There aren't many Supreme Court decisions that have the potential to be as transformative," said Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the University of California Irvine School of Law, according to Yahoo News.
Currently, nine U.S. states, and the District of Columbia, have legalized same-sex marriage. Support for including gay couples in the definition of marriage has been growing, with a Fox News poll last week showing that more Americans support this inclusion than oppose it.
In the March 17-19 poll of 1,002 registered voters, with a ± 3 percentage points sampling error, 49 percent of respondents said they support gay marriage, while 46 percent said that they oppose it.
A growing number of politicians, including former president Bill Clinton, who signed DOMA in 1996, his wife and former sectary of state Hillary Clinton, as well as the current White House administration, have all said that DOMA is unconstitutional and that gay couples who are legally married in their states should not be denied federal benefits. A number of religious and conservative groups, however, have warned that such a change could harm the established family unit and be detrimental to children.
Dr. Richard Land, executive editor of The Christian Post, previewed the major cases related to those laws that the justices will review this week, most notably Hollingsworth v. Perry, which is focused around Prop. 8, and U.S. v. Windsor, which is tied to DOMA.
Land predicts that the justices will "take the path of least judicial activism and most judicial restraint" and leave same-sex marriage to be decided by each individual state. He warned that any larger decision that seeks to impose a change on states that currently are opposed to it would further divide America on this sensitive issue.
The Fox poll last week reflected that prediction, with 53 percent of respondents expressing that states should be allowed to decide on their own, and 45 percent disagreeing.
Should the Supreme Court produce a surprise and legalize gay marriage across all states, America will become the 12th country in the world to fully embrace the practice.


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The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful predators in the Amazon and one of the largest eagle species in the world. This winged hunter preys on monkeys, sloths, reptiles, rodents and other birds, and the sight of a harpy eagle snatching a monkey from a tree branch with ease is one you won't soon forget if you're lucky enough to witness it on International Expeditions' Amazon river cruises.
Harpy eagles make their homes in the the jungles of Central America and the Amazon, but due to deforestation, this predatory bird is classified as "Near Threatened" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. These massive birds are thought to live anywhere between 25 and 35 years. They stand more than three feet tall and have a wingspan of more than six feet from tip to tip. Their powerful talons are the key to successfully hunting large animals, as they are about five inches long. Sloths make up more than one third of the harpy eagle's diet
This bird is one of the most unique-looking animals in the Amazon, with dark gray wings, a white chest and light gray feathers around the face. Harpy eagles have double-crested heads, and when they are agitated or attempting to instill fear in other creatures a few large feathers that stick up and give them a silhouette not unlike ancient Aztec designs. Their faces are similar to those of owls — flattened with large eyes placed close together in the center of their faces. This likely assists the eagle's hearing and sight to help them better judge distance and spot prey.
When nature travel takes you to the Amazon, don't expect to see many of these magnificent creatures, as each nesting pair needs about 10 to 15 miles of hunting territory. Keep an eye on the tree branches for a chance to see these hunters waiting patiently for their dinner. These daytime hunters will perch on branches for long periods of time while they wait for the perfect opportunity to snatch up their prey. They have to be quick to grab their meals, and can reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour when they dive bomb their dinner.


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"It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on others' ideas always requires permission," Stoltz says. "The overriding message of this curriculum is that students' time should be consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on corporate profits."
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|PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
Release 2 (9.2)
Part Number A96624-01
PL/SQL Language Elements, 41 of 52
RETURN statement immediately completes the execution of a subprogram and returns control to the caller. Execution then resumes with the statement following the subprogram call. In a function, the
RETURN statement also sets the function identifier to the return value. For more information, see "Using the RETURN Statement".
This is an arbitrarily complex combination of variables, constants, literals, operators, and function calls. The simplest expression consists of a single variable. When the
RETURN statement is executed, the value of
expression is assigned to the function identifier.
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RETURN statement with the
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A subprogram can contain several
RETURN statements, none of which need be the last lexical statement. Executing any of them completes the subprogram immediately. However, to have multiple exit points in a subprogram is a poor programming practice.
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RETURN statement must contain an expression, which is evaluated when the
RETURN statement is executed. The resulting value is assigned to the function identifier. Therefore, in functions, there must be at least one execution path that leads to a
RETURN statement. Otherwise, PL/SQL raises an exception at run time.
RETURN statement can also be used in an anonymous block to exit the block (and all enclosing blocks) immediately, but the
RETURN statement cannot contain an expression.
In the following example, the function
balance returns the balance of a specified bank account:
FUNCTION balance (acct_id INTEGER) RETURN REAL IS acct_bal REAL; BEGIN SELECT bal INTO acct_bal FROM accts WHERE acctno = acct_id; RETURN acct_bal; END balance;
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Does the following relation between sets have a name or any special properties:
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Does the following relation between sets have a name or any special properties:
$X\bigcirc Y$ iff $X \cap Y = \emptyset$ or $X\subseteq Y$ or $Y\subseteq X$.
Although this is rather basic, it is part of something much grander.
I don't know if there is any better terminology but such families of sets (either disjoint or containing one another) are said to form a Laminar family or a hierarchical system. There is a bijection between Laminar families from a set S and S-rooted forests. If a laminar family has the additional property that each element in S is contained in at least one member of the family then one calls it a complete laminar family. The enumeration of laminar families is open.
I agree that this is a natural and interesting property of a family of sets.
From my (arithmetic-geometric) perspective, the most prominent examples of such families are the disks in an ultrametric space. As Gjergji points out, there is indeed a deep connection to tree-like structures here: see for instance
Already the first paragraph in the introduction underscores my point.
So, although it is certainly not standard, there would be some logic in calling such families "ultrametric".
Good luck with your grandeur. There's plenty of fuel for it in this case, I think.
For the special case where $X$ and $Y$ are intervals of the real line, the complementary relation to this --- i.e. $X \cap Y \neq \varnothing$ but $X \not\subseteq Y$ and $Y \not\subseteq X$ --- is used to define overlap graphs (a.k.a. circle graphs). This is an intersection model of graphs, where vertices are labelled by intervals of the real line, and two vertices are adjacent if and only if those intervals overlap (intersect without nesting).
There is a related concept dealing with separations as opposed to sets. A separation of a set $U$ is an ordered pair $(A,B)$ such that $A$ and $B$ are disjoint subsets of $U$ whose union is $U$. We say that two separations $(A,B)$ and $(C,D)$ are nested if $A \subset C$ or $B \subset D$. Otherwise, we say that the two separations cross. So, if $X$ and $Y$ are both subsets of $U$, then $X$ and $Y$ have your desired property if and only if the separations $(X, U - X)$ and $(Y, U-Y)$ do not cross. I think the term crossing separations is pretty standard, at least in the case of separations of graphs as opposed to separations of sets.


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Syria: the sectarian and terrorist plot now being fused with nationalism by the "axis of evil"
Murad Makhmudov, Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
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The "axis of evil" involving the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Turkey, France, Qatar, and others, witnessed "a vacuum" in Syria after uprisings emerged in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen respectively. In every above case the original leaders were usurped from power and in the case of Libya the leader was humiliated, tortured, and butchered by the new forces of hatred. Of course, the situation in Bahrain was different because America, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, support the crushing of the uprising because it suits their agenda.
However, the "real jewel in the crown" is Syria because this nation is independent and refuses to bow down to America, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The "two cornerstones" of America in the mainly Arabic speaking Middle East are Israel and Saudi Arabia. Not surprisingly, you have had little major disturbances in both nations and the other major power in the wider geopolitical game applies to Turkey.
Turkey is a very powerful ally of America when it applies to the Middle East, the Balkans and the Caucasus region. The NATO angle and energy routes which weaken the Russian Federation and Iran are also tied up with the political objectives of the United States towards Turkey.
The farcical Syrian National Council (SNC) listened to its pay masters in America, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other nations. Therefore, with the sectarian and terrorism war in full swing and building up more momentum because of numerous ratlines. Now the SNC with the blessing of Washington is hoping to create a nationalist element. For this reason the puppet "Abdelbaset Sayda" was picked thereby replacing the French puppet "Burhan Ghalioun."
In Washington they have come up with a great idea of picking a Kurd called Abdelbaset Sayda in the hope of encouraging Kurds and other minorities to join forces with sectarianism and terrorism. This means the "axis of evil" involving anti-Syrian nations is now supporting sectarianism, terrorism, and nationalism, against the secular government of Syria.
Of course, given the role of Turkey in supporting terrorism and sectarianism it is abundantly clear that Abdelbaset Sayda is a "Kurdish puppet" and traitor to the Kurdish people. After all, he is joining forces with Turkey which is the biggest persecutor of Kurds in the world because vast numbers of Kurds have been killed by the state apparatus of Turkey.
Of course, with Turkey being on the "right-side of history" for cleansing Christianity in 1915 and throughout the 1920s, applies to the murder of millions of Christians during the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. Then not being content with this, Turkey then highlighted its anti-Christian bias by also ethnically cleansing northern Cyprus of Orthodox Christians after the 1974 invasion. This was followed by encouraging Turkish settlements but of course the international community did nothing against this NATO member because of the "Washington agenda." Turkey also shows that its anti-Armenian agenda remains by supporting Azerbaijan over the disputed region called Nagorno-Karabakh.
The historian Thomas M. Franck commented that "Once its objective had been achieved by the collapse of the Greek junta, however, Turkey went on to occupy a disproportionate part of the island, precipitating large-scale ethnic cleansing – The UN system, although of necessity positioning its peacekeepers along the resultant line of demarcation forged by events beyond its control, firmly rejected – and, almost three decades later still rejects — the island's forcible partition in violation of the "territorial integrity" endorsed both by the Council and Assembly."
Therefore, Abdelbaset Sayda is betraying the tens of thousands of Kurds which have been killed in modern day Turkey. After all, the religious and ethnic bias in Turkey is the foundation stone of this nation. This can be seen by the anti-Alevi and anti-Kurdish policies of Turkey.
Recent massacres in Syria are based on the policies of the "axis of evil" which are allowing Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations to spread their sectarianism. At the same time the economic war against Syria is aimed at creating poverty and putting enormous strains on the economy. This is then manipulated by the media war whereby major agencies like the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and many others, have been caught out by their mass bias and manipulations. Also, major agencies report from fabricated organizations like the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which is based in London and which is openly hostile to the government of Syria.
The new plan of "Washington" also highlights that the Obama administration is pro-Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria. This means that secularism and the 12 to 15 million Coptic Christians in Egypt have been abandoned in the name of the "Obama radical Sunni Islamic doctrine" with its close ally Saudi Arabia. Of course, mainstream Sunni Muslim religious leaders in Syria like the Grand Mufti support the unity of Syria under the current government. However, the "axis of evil" is spreading the dangerous Salafi ideology along with Al Qaeda inspired terrorism.
Several years ago in Syria you had no tensions and at no point was the government of Syria involved in being against the people of this nation. On the contrary, the secular government of Bashar al-Assad welcomed Christians, Muslims, Shabaks, and others, who were fleeing the brutal Sunni Islamic terrorist uprising in Iraq. Of course, the United States abandoned all religious minorities and this led to the biggest exodus of Christians in the history of Iraq since this nation state entered the modern world.
Thousands of Syrian military personnel have been killed by the proxies of the "axis of evil" for defending their homeland. The Syrian military is multi-religious and is trying to defend all citizens of Syria from the evils that are being supported by the "axis of evil."
Now a new front alongside the media war, sectarianism, terrorism, economic sanctions, military support of the mercenary opposition, sedition, criminality, Salafi ideology, Al Qaeda ratlines, and other cruel methodologies, is being used against the secular government of Syria. This applies to trying to create a Kurdish uprising. Therefore, the "axis of evil" is now also going to utilize nationalism in order to weaken the military of Syria by hoping to create tensions in other parts of this nation.
The United Nations is "impotent" because powerful nations are not being held accountable for spreading sectarianism, terrorism, sedition, and nationalism. This is a very dark day in the world because these actions are being perpetrated in front of the entire world. However, the role of the mass media and major media agencies is distorting everything. Therefore, the United States which was a victim of Al Qaeda terrorism is now on the same side – this highlights the reality of the "axis of evil."


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--May 1, 2018.
The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network is pleased to announce that its project "Heritage, Culture and Communication: Balancing Traditional and Digital Media in a Changing World" has received funding through the Department of Canadian Heritage's Official Languages Funding Program, Community Life Component. The amount of the grant, which will be awarded over two fiscal years, is $107,825.
According to the heritage network, against the backdrop of an "ever-shifting digital landscape, organizations are being challenged to come up with creative ways to communicate their mission, message and programming." Coping with the reality of technology that seems to "evolve at a dizzying pace," the organization notes, is "a daunting task for many historical societies, museums and other community-based organizations."
Within that context, the activities associated with this exciting project, including a series of one-day regional conferences, will explore a range of questions relating to modern communications. What are the most effective (and cost-effective) ways for non-profits to communicate? What are appropriate technologies to use? What skills are needed to navigate the range of media available? How can traditional media, such as print publishing, best be integrated with web-based publishing, social media, mobile apps, online marketing, and other digital communication tools? Can non-profits afford to use them all? If not, how do they build a strategy that works?
QAHN Executive Director Matthew Farfan is delighted the value of this initiative has been recognized. "QAHN has a long track record of managing innovative projects that provide real value to the heritage and cultural sectors of English-speaking Quebec," he says. "This project will enable us to build on other recent successes, such as initiatives that have focused on volunteerism in the heritage and cultural sectors, funding diversification for non-profits, and others."
QAHN President Simon Jacobs echoes these sentiments. "Heritage, Culture and Communication," he says, will enable us to continue working to strengthen the institutions and the individuals that keep our community vibrant -- and relevant -- in this century."
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A $7.3 million parking garage project with a looming deadline is moving ahead in downtown Sarasota, although some have questioned whether the company recommended to lead the project was the right choice.
The State Street Parking Garage, which is planned at State Street and Lemon Avenue, is required to be completed by February 2015 and is supposed to blend into the Pineapple Square retail area.
"This is a real linchpin to the future of downtown, and what happens to that corner is extremely important," said Tony Souza, chairman of the Downtown Sarasota Alliance, who said he does not support the process the city used to select the engineering and construction management team.
Five city officials ranked the eight companies vying for the bid and narrowed it down to A.D. Morgan, which is headquartered in Tampa, and Gilbane, which handled the Palm Avenue Parking Garage and is based in Providence, R.I.
Three of the five Sarasota officials selected A.D. Morgan to lead the preliminary design and engineering phase of the project, which could cost up to $462,633. Commissioners will vote on the recommendation next week.
That is usually the way such decisions are made, although often there is also an outside expert who is part of the group, Sarasota's Chief Planner Steven Stancel said.
Souza and several others said the process should have been more open.
"There's 53,000 residents in this city and only three people made this decision," said Ernie Ritz, head of the Downtown Improvement District.
A.D. Morgan's proposal states the group has "Industry Leading Experience: 1,000+ Parking Garages."
However, Ritz said the company presented suburban parking garages rather than the urban look Sarasota is going for. In addition to about 400 parking spots, the State Street Garage is supposed to have least 10,000 square feet of commercial and retail space, according to city documents.
"All they concentrated on is parking, when in fact that building is going to be an iconic building in our downtown," Ritz said.
A.D. Morgan's president Rebecca Smith did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
The company has four other Florida offices, including one in Bradenton. Because the Bradenton office is within 20 miles, A.D. Morgan was given local preference during the selection process. According to city documents, their design team consists of an architect and engineering consultants from Sarasota, as well as a parking consultant and construction group with out-of-state headquarters.
The out-of-towners will help manage the contract but the majority of the work will be subcontracted locally, Sarasota Purchasing Manager Mary Tucker said.
There is a benefit to using local companies whose reputation is on the line if they do not deliver, said Chris Gallagher, who is on the city Planning Board and was on the runner-up team for the State Street project.
He would have been the project manager for the Sarasota-based architect, Jonathan Parks Architects, that was working with Gilbane. Their team completed the Palm Avenue Parking Garage, which won national awards. Many of members of the team also worked on the Floridays hotel downtown.
"We had demonstrated it in downtown Sarasota. We had the knowledge and experience to pull it off," Gallagher said, adding that the group is well-acquainted with the local design and permitting process.
"Is that of no value to anyone here?" he asked.
Commissioner Shannon Snyder shared Gallagher's concern.
"Why throw overboard a group that hit two home runs for you?" Snyder said. "What does that tell everyone else in town if you do a great job for us?"
Criticism for company picked to build garage
A $7.3 million parking garage project with a looming deadline is moving ahead in downtown Sarasota, although some have questioned whether the company recommended to lead the project was the right choice.


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So Amerikira: The Battle for Neo Des Moines has found its Kaneda and potentially its Kei. Now, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Warner Bros. wants to lock down the movie's Tetsuo by Thanksgiving. The shortlist at this point includes:
D.J. Cotrona (the Detroit 1-8-7 star who just wrapped the role of Flint in G.I.Joe 2: Retaliation), Logan Marshal Green (who appeared in the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil and will be seen in Ridley Scott's Prometheus), Toby Kebbell (he caught the eyes of Warners execs with RocknRolla and is in War Horse), Richard Madden (Robb Stark in Game of Thrones), Rami Malek (appeared in The Pacific and has a supporting role in Twilight: Breaking Dawn-Part 2), and Michael Pitt (the breakout actor on HBO's Boardwalk Empire). Also retesting for the role are Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens) and Alden Ehrenreich (Tetro).
Misgivings about the mere existence of an America Akira notwithstanding, I don't find that group particularly offensive. It's definitely an expansion from the last batch of Tetsuo rumors we heard. Also, I imagine the screen test mostly involved the candidates screaming the characters' names.


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Popular interest in "smart" military technologies like stealth, drone and robotic systems tends to obscure this enduring reality: Our military might rests on something far more prosaic–steel. With its diverse array of applications–from military vehicles, tanks and equipment to civilian transportation, infrastructure, machinery and renewable energy systems–steel remains central to our nation's military well-being and our larger economy.
While U.S. steelmaking hasn't dominated the world economy in decades, and employment is way down, the sector remains a key contributor–and has achieved notable strides in recent years.
How far have we fallen? The world's dominant steelmaker from the late 19th century through most of the 20th, the United States at its peak in 1969 produced 141.3 million tons, writes historian John Steele Gordon. But by 2012, our share of the world market had fallen below 6 percent, according to the World Steel Association–behind China (46 percent), the European Union (11 percent) and Japan (7 percent). And India–at 5 percent and gaining–may soon overtake the United States to claim fourth place.
Grim? Yes. But consider also:
- U.S. producers generated 88.6 million tons of crude steel in 2012, up from the 2009 trough of 58.2 million tons, WSA reports.
- Steelmaking directly employs 153,700 people in this country, and directly or indirectly supports more than 1 million U.S. jobs, according to the American Iron & Steel Institute. Every one job in domestic steelmaking supports seven jobs in the U.S. economy.
The juggernaut that is China continues to gain market share, growing even during the recent recession when the EU, Japan and the United States all contracted. In 2012, China produced 716.5 million tons of crude steel.
Given these trends, is it reasonable to believe the U.S. steel industry won't soon disappear? Is there any hope we can at least slow our loss of market share?
Perhaps. U.S. policymakers took one step in the right direction in April, when the Department of Defense reversed a 2009 decision governing procurement. For 35 years, DoD had been required by law to purchase military steel that was 100 percent made at home. But as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan boosted demand, the department in 2009 redefined "domestically produced": Only the secondary finishing process need be done here. This change allowed foreign-made steel to enter the supply chain for armor plate used on U.S. military equipment. It also generated concerns that foreign-made steel might lack the integrity necessary for military applications.
As the Iraq war has wound down, however, and as U.S. steel manufacturers have increased capacity, lawmakers persuaded the department to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations; the 2009 definition of "produced" no longer includes "quenching and tampering" of steel.
But action is needed on many more fronts, such as:
- Enforcing fair trade laws. AISI and others have long lamented China's currency manipulations, which unfairly advantage its exports while curbing imports, and its use of state ownership to distort world markets. U.S. leaders must continue to aggressively insist that foreign competitors comply with the spirit and intent of remedies, including the Berry Amendment.
- Boosting natural gas. More steel producers are using recently discovered North American natural gas to cost-effectively fuel the melt and manufacture processes. We must do more to discover and safely access these deposits.
- Increasing R&D into new steel alloys. The U.S. auto industry owes part of its resurgence to the development of advanced high-strength steels, as designers have exploited their characteristics–superior formability, lighter weight and dent resistance–to produce safer and more fuel-efficient vehicles. Public-private partnerships devoted to metallurgy research would accelerate gains like these.
- Continuing to emphasize sustainability. Steel is 100 percent recyclable; more steel was recycled last year than aluminum, copper, paper, glass and plastic combined, AISI reports. Supporting further innovations in sustainability would reduce both the unit cost and the environmental impact of producing steel.
Do we as a nation have the political will to take the decisive and sustained actions necessary to rebuild our steel industry? Or will we stand helplessly by as this once-mighty sector–which remains vital to our economic well-being and military security–fades further into memory?
Jack Welch had it right: "Control your own destiny, or someone else will."
James M. Terhune is president and CEO of T&T Materials Inc.
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Before we start with today's shows, let's catch you up on Friday's events. The Smooth Chihuahua, GCH CH Sonnus Filho (Sanchez), added another BIS to his group leading total at yesterday's Ponce Kennel Club show in San Juan Puerto Rico.
Joining Sonnito in judge Frank Sabella's final were his RBIS, the Golden Retriever, GCH CH Aliiebeckscion Love On The Rocks, the 13" Beagle, CH Woodland West's Mirror Mirror, the Boxer, GCH CH Windward & Happytail's Gamechanger, the White Bull Terrier, Like a Virgin (Palafox) FCMK, the Lhasa Apso, GCH CH Xeralane's Kid Rock, and the Australian Shepherd, Tanglewood's Cyclone of Prestige.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Getaway game gets away
When you don't hit home runs you have to rely on station-to-station baseball, and that means it takes four guys to score a run instead of one. And when you play for one run then one run is all you'll get. I like crooked numbers, but the team is just not built that way, they are built to hit three singles and not score. But that's, by comparison, a minor issue in the big scheme of things. Hell, at least they get hits. They couldn't do that last season. The big issue is the lack of consistent performance from key relievers. Another series on the road ends with bullpen disasters. This team needs to get outs in those "close-and-late" situations, and can't afford to let games like this get away from them. Tonight the Giants let one get away and now head for Pittsburgh to face the first-place Pirates for the final series before the Break.
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- nomisnala said...
Affeldt is either good or bad, and when he comes in to shut down the offense in a game that Cain leaves with a lead, I cringe. Mark Derosa with a double. Mr broken wrist Derosa. Then a switch hitter batting 107 gets an infield hit off of Affeldt. Does it seem when giants hit the ball 120 MPH back to the pitcher, our guy is always out, and when someone else does it to the giants, their guy is always safe. Casilla seems to come in just a tad before he settles down. He gives up a double, by making a mistake pitch. Not a closer pitch. Then he mishandles a bunt. They get a lucky bounce hit. Tie the game. Then we load the bases and get a questionable out at the plate. Then he throws a double play ground ball, but it there is a poor throw on the pivot and Belt cannot scoop it out. I don't know why that is not an error. He would have been out with a good throw. Yes I can assume the DP. So instead of going into the 10th inning with hope, the giants go to pittsburgh having just been swept. Would it kill Bochy to let Romo face at least one batter in the ninth? I think that HBP by Romo. where the batter did not move out of the way of the ball, and let his elbow guard get hit, moved the lineup one player, which could have been a key to the nationals have their best guys coming up in the 9th.
- Thu Jul 05, 10:20:00 PM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
He took one for the team, that's for sure. But it should have been 8-1 and the drama would have been moot.
- Fri Jul 06, 07:05:00 AM PDT
Given the way the Giants imploded (exploded?) 8-1 may not have been enough. Two starts where our starters did not pitch well enough, followed by one in which Matt did, only to have the bullpen blow it. Meanwhile, Cincinnati, who looked so good in SF is looking like crap in LA as the Giants descend from first just as quickly as they gained it. K&K were talking about Espinosa's hbp in the eighth. That should have been ruled a strike, as should any hbp in the strike zone. Either the pitcher gets the strike zone or he does not. Kuip mentioned, however, that call is NEVER made. Affeldt - no outs. Casilla - basically no outs as a result of his own error before the game was as good as lost. Deeply disappointing. I have to give the Nats credit - their hitters are monsters. But yesterday, we choked big time.
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Autism Diagnoses Have Risen by 78% over the Last Decade
How many children must be sacrificed before we get honest answers?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new report that says 1 in 88 American children has some form of autism spectrum disorder—a 78% increase compared to a decade ago. Boys are five times more likely to have autism than girls.
While some of the rise in autism rates may be due to greater awareness of autism spectrum disorder and therefore more diagnoses, this alone cannot account for the huge jump.
What most mainstream physicians and most autism specialists seem determined to ignore is its likely link to administering so many vaccines to children at a very young age. The CDC recommends twelve different vaccines be given to children before their second birthday, many of them starting at birth.
The human brain develops most rapidly between the third trimester and through two years after birth. Fifty years ago, when the immunization schedule contained only four vaccines (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and smallpox), autism was virtually unknown. Autoimmune disorders are also seeing a dramatic rise in children—from type I diabetes (it afflicted 1 in 7,100 children in the 1950s; now it affects 1 in 400), to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and bowel disorders.
Health officials consider a vaccine to be safe if no acute bad reactions occur—like seizures, intestinal obstruction, or anaphylaxis. The CDC has not done any studies to assess the long-term effects of its immunization schedule. Besides autism and ADHD, Dr. Joseph A. Mercola lists a number of neurological disorders associated with vaccinations: encephalopathies, epilepsy, convulsions, mental retardation, depression, anxiety, central nervous system disorders, paralysis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, nerve deafness, blindness, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
The blood–brain barrier, or BBB, is a semi-permeable network of blood vessels with closely spaced cells that makes it difficult for many substances to leave the blood and cross the capillary walls into the brain tissues. But this barrier, which might protect the brain from the toxic effects of vaccines, is not fully formed at birth, making very young children especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of some vaccines.
The age at which the BBB is fully developed is open to some debate, though most experts believe it matures somewhere between six months and two years. Even if it is fully formed, the BBB can be broken down by high blood pressure, a very high concentration of a substance in the blood, microwave and other forms of radiation, infection, physical trauma, and inflammation.
Children may show signs of autism before the age of 2; it becomes most noticeable when children start to develop communication skills (speech, babbling, gestures, or social skills) and then regress. NIH has published a list of the signs of autism, some detectable as early as 12 months.
Not surprisingly, doctors working to update the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association and considered the psychiatry "bible," have proposed significant changes to the definition of autism. If the changes are carried out as expected in 2013, this could reduce the number of children being given a diagnosis.
The reason this is important is twofold. First, the media will note the drop in the number of autism diagnoses, and will no doubt trumpet the change as a significant reduction in the number of children actually afflicted—which of course is nonsense. And second, many of the authors of the DSM-5 have ties to the drug industry. In an analysis of DSM workgroup members' financial disclosures, most of the conflicts of interest were in groups where drugs are the frontline of therapy. These also happened to be the groups whose proposed changes to the diagnostic categories were the most controversial.
A diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is usually followed with treatment that relies heavily on a pharmaceutical approach. SSRIs, tricyclics, antipsychotics, stimulants (like Ritalin), and anti-anxiety medications are the most common drugs prescribed.
You may recall our previous coverage of British physician Andrew Wakefield, the author of the controversial British study published in The Lancet linking autism and vaccines. As celebrated investigator Tim Bolen has revealed, the controversies seem to have started because of one man, a freelance journalist named Brian Deer. He wrote a series of articles in the London Times deriding Wakefield's scientific work. After that, he wrote a similar crop of articles in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ then accused Wakefield of perpetrating an elaborate fraud, and the Lancet retracted his paper.
Since last October, many of the individual elements in the case against Dr. Wakefield have started to crumble. Here is the story as reported in the online newspaper The Age of Autism: Wakefield's colleagues have been exonerated; the charges of the General Medical Council (which removed his right to practice medicine) have been mostly eviscerated; and the BMJ seems to have been caught in a lie when they said all their allegations against Wakefield had been externally peer-reviewed, which was not the case; moreover, very little fact-checking took place, and one of the editorial's co-signers was a member of a company backed by a large pharmaceutical company.
Brian Deer may have been dropped by mainstream media in Britain—again according to Tim Bolen. Last year Deer submitted a proposal for an article to Nature magazine—an attack on the British medical hierarchy for not treating Andrew Wakefield harshly enough. Nature responded with a simple contract offer, requiring Deer to legally and personally stand behind his writing, indemnifying them against any legal actions that might arise from Deer's article. (They were understandably skittish after the Wakefield affair.) Deer not only refused, but attacked Nature publicly, and waged a public war of words with the magazine.
Dr. Wakefield has moved to the US and has now filed a defamation suit against Brian Deer, the BMJ, and Fiona Godlee, BMJ's editor and the writer of the two editorials alleging fraud. The suit claims that Deer's article and the two BMJ editorials "contained unfair, incorrect, inaccurate and unjust criticisms of findings previously reported by Dr. Wakefield and twelve other co-authors" and made "false and defamatory allegations."
Last year, Tim Bolen ran a searing three-part exposé about what the CDC knew, and when they knew it, about the devastating side effects of thimerosal in vaccines—and how they covered up that information. It is long, but well worth reading. Part One shows that in 1998, an internal CDC study on vaccines clearly pointed out the dangers of the autism vaccines, but CDC management changed both the data and the findings. Part Two discusses the lawsuit that biochemical scientist Brian Hooker (who has an autistic child) filed against the CDC, while Part Three offers a shocking timeline of events regarding thimerosal in infant vaccines.


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