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By Pat Payne
Special to The PREVIEW
Even though we are almost midway through October a rain is about to hit Pagosa, "A Steady Rain."
A new play by Keith Huff will be opening Oct. 12 at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, presented by Thingamajig Theatre Company. This drama, about two Chicago cops, deals with questions of loyalty, friendship, trust and the thin blue line.
The author, Keith Huff, has an extensive career in both theatre and television, and might be best known for his work on the television series "Mad Men."
"A Steady Rain" premiered on Broadway on Sept. 29, 2009, starring megastars Daniel Craig (James Bond) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine). The play was warmly received by both audiences and critics alike.
Huff was inspired to write the show because his father in-law was a police commander in Chicago and he told Huff countless stories of moral quandaries faced by Chicago cops. One of the script's strengths is how Huff portrays the two characters (Denny, played by Thingamajig's artistic director Tim Moore, and Joey, played by New York Actor Craig Dolezel). He doesn't make either character 100-percent good and the other 100-percent evil; they are human beings, with flaws and strengths just like everyone else, which makes them very appealing and relatable for audiences.
As mentioned, the two actors playing the cops are accomplished and experienced actors. Tim Moore was just seen in the company's "Last 5 Years." While Denny is a much different role than Jaime in "Last 5 Years," Moore is excited about the opportunity to dive into such a deep character. Moore said, "Not often as an actor does one get to delve into a character with the journey of Denny. It is great to be able to find so many moments for this character to be right even when, to others, he might not be. It is also great to have such a great partner on stage."
That partner is Craig Dolezel, a New York-based actor who has his M.F.A. from Rutgers University and who has appeared in off-Broadway and regional work throughout the Northeast. Dolezel is excited to be in Pagosa Springs. "The town is so beautiful, the people are so nice and the folks at Thingamajig are so welcoming, I love working with Tim and I look forward to being a part of this wonderful production."
The production is directed by Denver-based director Pat Payne who was with Thingamajig last season for "The Lion in Winter." Payne has had a busy year, mostly directing large scale musicals ("Assassins," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "A Chorus Line") and is excited to be directing this two-man play.
"It is such a treat to get to work on this play," said Paynes. "Mr. Huff has given us such great dialogue and storytelling devices, the key to this show is simple is best."
Laura Moore (Thingamajig's producer) said of the choice to bring Payne in to head this production, "Pat understands rhythm and pace and does a masterful job in making this two man play move and creates a world for these two characters to tell their story in that will keep audiences on the edge of their seat."
The staff is rounded out by Denver and regional lighting designer Jacob M. Welch who just did the lighting design for "Last 5 Years," "Chicago" and "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" at Thingamajig. Payne calls Welch "a magician," and says that the lights play an important part in telling the story.
"The lighting allows us to know where we are, since the play is told in a bit of a story-teller-like fashion in one moment and then a flashback in the next, it is important that the lighting helps visually cue the audience. Jacob has done an amazing job in taking a simple set of platforms and a table and allowing me to create the world the way I want the audience to see it," Payne said.
By the time "A Steady Rain" opens on Friday, the cast will have been together for a grand total of seven days, with rehearsal days sometimes lasting 10-11 hours. The company will have all the finishing touches ready to go in order to take the audience on the ride of their life, a ride that will challenge them, make them question their own moral compass and will leave them breathless.
"A Steady Rain" opens Oct. 12 with a special Champagne Opening and continues its run Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through Oct. 28 at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts. It is rated R for graphic language and content.
Show tickets for opening night (doors open at 6 p.m.) are $25 in advance and $30 at the door and include a glass of champagne and hors d'oeuvres as well as a talk-back with the cast and crew after the show.
All other performances are $18 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at www.pagosacenter.org or by calling 731-SHOW.
"A Steady Rain" is the first of five shows of Thingamajig Theatre's winter season. Season tickets for the winter season are on sale until Oct 12. Perks of being a season ticket holder include attending the Champagne Openings at no additional cost, the option to reserve your favorite seat, invitations to special events like the Wine and Cheese Open Rehearsal held last spring for "Chicago" and the ease of the onetime reservation process.
The following shows are also part of Thingamajig's winter season: "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play," "The Accounting Division of Dynacor Puts on Office Space, The Musical," "Vagina Monologues," and "Hidden: Stories of the Dutch Resistance." There are three options for season tickets this year: the Five Show Pack, which includes admission to all five shows with five champagne opening upgrades; the Three Show Package for the snowbirds who will be coming and going this winter, which allows entrance to any three of the Five Shows as well as one of the Champagne Openings; and the Early Bird Package, which is the steal of a deal — five shows for only $75. The Early Bird tickets are only good for the first Saturday and first Sunday of each show. Season tickets can be purchased online at www.pagosacenter.org or by calling 731-SHOW.


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The key to establishing a thriving small business is hard work, but the one thing that sets any creative project alight is a labour of love – love for the idea, love for the process and hopefully, the love of the customers for the end result.
Small business owners in regional Australia pour their heart into their creative endeavours, creating bespoke products that showcase skills honed by dedication to their craft and their community.
And the ease in which these passion projects can be taken to the international stage via Facebook and Instagram has allowed the heart and soul of these projects to spread far and wide beyond the local area.
The Small Folk's story started small: a humble Instagram account of a creative side-project.
Founder Anna was on maternity leave with her third child and was frustrated by the lack of play pieces available online. Anna and her partner Simon, both early childhood educators, decided to establish their own collection of made-with-love playthings and showcased them to families all over the world via Instagram.
"What began as a little side project in our attic has grown beyond our wildest dreams, and we feel incredibly blessed to support families in establishing spaces within their own homes," she says.
Through this passion-project has grown a community of mums, supporting each other while maintaining strong kinship bonds a world over.
Spiritwoods Botanicals founder Nicole Watt agrees that a passion-project is so much more than a simple business.
"It is especially so with small business, which is often the extension of a soul project or deep passion for the owner or owners," she says.
"For me, social media (in particular Facebook and Instagram) turns my business into a more three-dimensional being, enabling me to share small insights into the heart of the business and the peripheral experiences that inspire and feed into the products and their creation.
The dedicated team at Spiritwoods Botanicals create restorative remedies and apothecary formulations for those who "seek to nurture their spirit and wish to reclaim their intimate conversation with nature and her primitive simplicity".
Nicole's thoughtful approach to her products, inspired by her gratitude for her other-worldly Tasmanian surrounds, combine to create a bespoke range ideal for self-care rituals.
One of her best selling products, Arms of Morpheus Aromatic Pillow Mist, encapsulates this approach. Containing natural Tasmanian lavender extracts, this harmonising mist can be used for the body or home in creating a peaceful environment for relaxation.
Nicole channels her mindful approach to her craft through her careful selection of natural, sustainable ingredients in Spiritwoods Botanicals.
"Through this venture, I wish to restore a world where time is slowed and actions are purposeful; where there is no place for extraneous ingredients, mass-production, fad components or synthetic substitution," she says.
Aboriginal elder Kylie Lee Bradford, a proud Murrumburr woman, shares this vision of made-with-love products that sidestep unsustainable mass-production and instead focus on an organic approach.
After her young children developed skin irritations from fabrics that had been grown and dyed with toxic chemicals, Kylie set out to change the baby clothing space.
Kakadu Tiny Tots was born. The team create organic baby and children's clothing featuring hand-painted art and designs. Facebook has allowed this indigenous company based in the NT to reach customers all over the country.
The team behind Kakadu Tiny Tots spread the love further than just their handmade production techniques. Kakadu Tiny Tots champion a community of 'Eco Sellers' – entrepreneurs who can build a micro-business under the Kakadu Organics brand to help give back to indigenous communities. The aim is to build sustainable communities and reduce indigenous poverty.
Purchase a little piece of the love with Kakadu Tiny Tots' Bush Candles, hand-made from Australian natural soy candles and imbued with native Australian scents to create an outback experience, wherever you are.
The savvy duo behind Noel & Gladys also champions a thoughtful approach to retail that focuses on 'conscious living' – advocating a sustainable environment for both their stockists and their customers.
Noel & Gladys was founded by Anna Heyligers and Luke Fordyce, who work exclusively with small-scale makers who share beliefs in ethical production, environmental issues and human rights.
The result is a store carefully curated with heart and soul; creating bonds between the owners and customers no matter what the distance. The pair says Instagram has been beneficial in cultivating these relationships.
"We love the way we can connect with people all around the world through one little app," says Anna.
"We are constantly using our Instagram messages to keep in touch with our local customers who ask us questions or ask us to put products aside until they can come in to purchase. We have developed true relationships with so many of our in-store customers and we love it when they share scenes in their stories using our products or in our store, it's such a buzz."
Same-sex couple Tara Baker and Arlia Hassell agree. The pair is the founders of Dancing With Her Magazine, a celebration of women in love. The pair say building a like-minded community on Instagram has been pivotal to their magazine's success.
"We want people to feel like they are a part of the Dancing With Her story because they absolutely are," Arlia says.
"On Instagram, we can be a part of wider conversations that affect our LGBTQ+ community outside of the wedding space and we get the opportunity to be involved in engagements and weddings across the globe through social media."
The pair originally founded the loved-up project on Instagram after noticing a gap in the wedding magazine market for same-sex relationships. They aim to empower women in love to be proud to join the institution of marriage and to feel welcomed and celebrated as couples in the community.
"Without Instagram, I don't think Dancing With Her would exist - and what a sad thought that is! The reach it's allowed us to have from day one really has been incredible," says Tara.
You can support small business this holiday season, and buy a gift that's been made with love – for someone you love. Check out the Facebook & Instagram Annual Gift Guide.
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Mike Frost is a Program Manager for Progress Software.
In recent years, the Java ecosystem has evolved quite dramatically on a number of fronts. As a result, IT organizations are taking advantage of an array of new technologies that promise to streamline Java development cycles and reduce operating costs.
In complex enterprise computing environments, however, everything is connected and not all architectural components evolve in concert. Therefore, the introduction of advanced technologies at specific points in the architectural stack often exposes many downstream technological limitations.
As a result, businesses struggle to realize the return on investment promised by these new technologies and in some cases, even experience problems that take them a step backward rather than forward. Today, enterprise architects and developers experience this phenomenon when they task overmatched Type 4 JDBC database drivers with the ever-increasing demands of the modern Java environment.
The JDBC Driver: An Architectural Afterthought
The JDBC API specification and the drivers it enables have certainly evolved over time, from the original JDBC-ODBC bridge to the native-protocol Type 4 drivers that are so prevalent today. At this point, however, that evolution is stagnant. The majority of Type 4 JDBC drivers essentially offer the same basic features and capabilities, so for many developers, JDBC access is essentially an architectural afterthought that requires little attention.
This perception grew with the increasing adoption of Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) technologies (JPA, Hibernate, and Spring, among others), or application servers such as JBoss that sit on top of JDBC. With these modern development platforms, many developers no longer program directly to JDBC.
With no access to underlying JDBC calls, developers almost never think about JDBC or what JDBC driver to use as part of determining a data access strategy. Therefore, product evaluation means simply selecting a JDBC driver based on "checklisting." If there is a free Type 4 JDBC driver available, the driver is automatically assumed to be adequate for any use case.
Beyond ORM adoption, there have been other key technological advancements at work in the Java universe. Virtualization now delivers massive scalability on an affordable growth curve, placing a much higher value than ever before on optimum performance throughout the entire application stack. The increasingly complex features of relational databases frequently involve complicated and proprietary implementations that make them all but inaccessible to most applications. These strategic technologies are quickly finding acceptance in the enterprise marketplace, directing renewed attention on JDBC components, and placing a revealing spotlight on the shortcomings on Type 4 drivers as well as the negative impact these shortcomings have on IT performance and costs.
Type 4 JDBC Driver: Glaring Limitations
Despite superiority over other JDBC architecture types, Type 4 drivers have failed to keep up with the evolutionary advancement of complimentary Java technologies. As a result, most Type 4 drivers come with glaring limitations in today's Java-based enterprise application environments.
- Slow or Inconsistent Performance. The response time and data throughput performance of many Type 4 drivers is poor or inconsistent, particularly when deployed into certain runtime environments (such as different JVMs) or with modern data access models (ORMs and app servers).
- Unavailable or Inaccessible Functionality. Enabling or tuning critical functionality with many Type 4 JDBC drivers requires access to JDBC code, which is not available to applications deployed with ORM frameworks or in app servers. New database or driver functionality may also not be available across all supported JVMs or environments.
- Poor Resource Efficiency. Most Type 4 JDBC drivers use excessive amounts of CPU and memory resources during data access. Tuning options, if available, are inaccessible or limited. This leads to excessive usage of CPU resources and a disproportionately large memory footprint.
- Application Deployment Restrictions. Most Type 4 JDBC drivers require multiple JAR files to support different JVMs or database versions. They also typically require the deployment of platform-dependent DLLs or shared libraries to support certain driver or database functionality, limiting what environments they can be deployed to.
- Proprietary Implementation. Many Type 4 JDBC drivers require proprietary code for applications to leverage features such as BLOBs and CLOBs, high availability, and XA. As more and more data sources must be accessed from a single application, the amount of application code, and potential for bugs, increases significantly.
Many developers and architects find out the hard way, after a project has gone into production, that even the most common Type 4 JDBC drivers exhibit most, if not all, of these limitations. As businesses look to new technologies such as virtualization to improve performance and reduce costs, the cost of dealing with the deficiencies of Type 4 JDBC drivers will only increase.


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New rules on vehicle emissions could see the price of imported cars rise up to 1 per cent, according to the New Zealand Transport Authority.
But car dealers say buyers won't see any difference in showroom prices.
The Government clarified rules around exhaust emissions which would require new and used imports to be tested on arrival and arrive with documentation to prove they meet emission standards.
It will bring New Zealand up to international standards for new vehicles adopted by Australia.
The Transport Agency said the price of new vehicles could rise by up to 1 per cent as a result.
But Perry Kerr, chief executive of the Motor Industry Association which represents new-vehicle importers, said new imports would cost no more. They were already meeting international emissions standards and had been for several years, meaning cars arriving here were already equipped with the required technology.
"A model cycle is about four years, so over a four-year period you're getting the complete change in terms of the vehicles that are entering the fleet - it's been progressive," he said.
"Basically if they know the standard is going to change in two years, they'll build that in when the model is released so they don't have to make a technology change."
Imported Motor Vehicle Industry Association chief executive David Vinsen said consumers would not notice an increase in prices to used imports either.
"There is no increased cost, there's no change in process, there's no disruption whatsoever, in
What do you think? Are we taking the clever approach with these standards, or kidding ourselves? Find this article on nzherald.co.nz/driven and let us know. fact this change will be implemented unnoticed by the trade or the public."
Mr Vinsen said Associate Transport Minister Simon Bridges was clarifying the rules for the industry.
Vehicles must go through a compliance process requiring documentary proof they meet exhaust emission standards. That proof would come from the manufacturer or from other sources.
The vehicle has to meet a physical tail pipe exhaust emission test in addition to this.
"It's not an either-or situation, it's a both - it's always been the case but there's been some confusion about it. All this amendment does is remove all doubt," Mr Vinsen said.
Beshar Qastom, manager of the Infinity Cars dealership on the North Shore, said he was not aware used cars were required to have documentation saying they met exhaust emission standards.
Pay more for your car?
The New Zealand Transport Agency expects the cost of imported new and used cars to rise by up to 1 per cent, as New Zealand follows Australia's lead on exhaust emission rules.
It said it was not cost effective to manufacture new vehicles specifically for the New Zealand market so it was likely that vehicles with newer emissions technologies would be available here about the same time as they were introduced to Australia.
Motor Trade Association communications general manager Ian Mr Stronach said there had already been a slight increase in the cost of imported vehicles.
"It will be minimal, because it's up to what the New Zealand consumers can afford."
He said the rule requiring vehicles to be tested at the wharf and be accompanied by documentation proving standards were met during assembly wasn't entirely new.
The Government had effectively extended a rule that applied to used vehicles arriving into New Zealand to new imported vehicles.
"Industry won't be surprised by it and it makes good sense because it provides some continuity instead of constant yearly changes," he said.
Carbon dioxide compliance - how it works
New and used vehicles arriving in New Zealand will have to meet new tests for safe exhaust emissions in a push to meet international standards.
The standards relate to emissions that are directly harmful to human health, but do
not test fuel economy or emissions of carbon dioxide.
All vehicles imported into New Zealand from November next year will need documentation from the manufacturer, or approved body.
Associate Transport Minister Simon Bridges said existing rules that allowed compliance with an emissions standard to be shown by a simple test on arrival had been misinterpreted by many.
Wider tests would now be carried out to show they complied with the full standard.
The new rules include stricter requirements for reduced emissions from other parts of
vehicles, such as evaporative emissions from fuel tanks.
''It's important for both people's health and the safety of vehicles entering the fleet that
this rule is updated,'' said Mr Bridges. ''In general, the newer the vehicle, the higher the
standard of safety features.''
He said his officials would also look at how to reduce harmful emissions from vehicles
already on New Zealand roads.
Why we need emissions standards
*The Motor Trade Association found air pollution from road-going motor vehicles is responsible for about 255 premature deaths a year, costing about $940 million.
*The Motor Industry Association says New Zealand is the only country with an emission standard but no emission testing regime.
*The new rules will not address up to 2.4 million vehicles already on our roads.
*Used cars imported into New Zealand have to meet the international Euro4 standard.
*New cars imported into New Zealand have to meet the international Euro5 standard.
*The Euro6 standard is in place overseas but New Zealand will not follow that standard until Australia does.
*The most harmful particles for human health tested under the standards are fine-particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen. The particles attach to the lungs and
cannot be removed.
*NZTA says the allowable levels of pollution have come down by up to 99 per cent since 2000.
*NZTA says the standards are the lowest that can technically be achieved to date, but Euro6 will go a bit further.


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Comparison of Liquid Kaletra and Low Dose Kaletra Tablets
|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: NCT00762320
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 30, 2008
Results First Posted : March 24, 2014
Last Update Posted : March 24, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Low dose Kaletra tablets
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|8 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Liquid Kaletra and Low Dose Kaletra Tablets in HIV-Positive Children
|Study Start Date :
|October 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2011
Experimental: Low dose Kaletra tablets
Patients will serve as their own controls as they are switched from the baseline treatment with liquid Kaletra to the study intervention treatment with Low Dose Tablet Kaletra (100mg/25mg)
Drug: Low dose Kaletra tablets
Lopinavir/Ritonavir tablets 100mg/25mg
Other Name: lopinavir/ritonavir 100mg/25mg
- Absolute CD4 and CD4 % [ Time Frame: Baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks, 26 weeks ]Number of participants who had no clinically significant deterioration in absolute CD4 and % CD4 count for the duration of the study. Absolute CD4 and Percent CD4 counts were determined by single or dual platform analysis performed on blood samples by Phoenix Children's Hospital Laboratory, Sonora Quest Laboratory or Labcorp Laboratory. Clinically significant change was determine to be a deterioration in both Absolute CD4 to less than 500 and %CD4 to less than 25%.
- Lopinavir (Lpv) and Ritonavir (Rtv) Maximumu Plasma Concentration (CMax) Liquid [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Cmax values at baseline (participants are taking liquid Kaletra as part of baseline treatment). Time points for data collection: 0, 2hrs post dose, 4 hrs post dose, 8 hrs post dose.
- Lopinavir and Ritonavir Area Under the Curve (AUC) Liquid Kaletra [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Area under the curve values for lopinavir at baseline when participants are taking liquid Kaletra as part of their baseline treatment. Time points for data collection: 0, 2 hrs post, 4 hrs post, 6 hrs post, 8 hrs post.
- Lopinavir AUC Ratio of Baseline:Week 4 [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 4 ]Ratio of AUC at baseline (liquid)to week 4 (reduced dose tablet). AUC data were collected at 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 hours post dose.
- Viral Load (VL) [ Time Frame: Baseline, Week 4, Week 12 and Week 24 ]Number of participants who maintained their Viral load undetectable (< 20 copies/ml) for the duration of the study
- Lopinavir (Lpv) and Ritonavir (Rtv) Cmax at 4 Weeks [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]Lpv and rtv Cmax at 4 weeks when participants are receiving study intervention, low dose Kaletra. Time points for data collection: 0, 2hrs, 4hrs, 6hrs, 8hrs
- Lopinavir and Ritonavir AUC on Low Dose Tablet [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]Lopinavir and Ritonavir AUC at 4 weeks when participants are receiving the study intervention, low dose tablet formulation of Kaletra. Data collection points for AUC were 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 hours post dose.
- Patient Satisfaction [ Time Frame: Baseline, 1 month ]Patient Satisfaction Survey. Eight item Likert scale of patient satisfaction with their HIV treatment regimen for patients 7 years of age and older. Items scores are summed to compute a total score. Total scores are reported with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 32, with higher scores indicating higher satisfaction.
- Symptoms Across All Patients [ Time Frame: Baseline, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months ]Cumulative tally of symptoms for each patients across all visits. Targetted symptoms were asked for at each visit and patients and parents were encouraged to report additional symptoms that were experienced. Each patient got a score for the total number of symptoms at each visit. Scores were totalled, but it the same symptoms occurred continuously it was counted as 1 symptom.
- Parent Satisfaction [ Time Frame: Baseline, 4 week, 12 weeks and 24 weeks ]Parent Satisfaction Survey. Eight item Likert scale of parent/guardian satisfaction with the child's HIV treatment regimen. Item scores are summed to compute a total score. Total scores are reported with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 32, with higher scores indicating higher satisfaction.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Years to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV+ children aged 3-18.
- Baseline treatment includes liquid Kaletra
- currently on a stable (on same regimen > 3 months, Viral Load< 5,000), Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) regimen
- able to take pills or willing to undergo pill training prior to enrollment
- weight must be greater than or equal to 15kg
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to swallow pills
- Concomitant treatment with Rifampin or St. John's Wort which have been shown to decrease plasma concentrations of lopinavir.
- Concurrent use of drugs primarily metabolized by CYP3A, which metabolizes ritonavir: Astemizole, Cisapride, Dihydroergotamine, Ergonovine, Ergotamine, Flecainide, Lovastatin, Methylergonovine, Midazolam, Pimozide, Propafenone, Simvastatin, terfenadine, Triazolam
- Baseline treatment does NOT include Kaletra
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): NCT00762320
|United States, Arizona
|Phoenix Children's Hospital
|Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85016
|Principal Investigator:
|Janice Piatt, MD
|Phoenix Children's Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Janice Piatt, Medical Director, Bill Holt Clinic, Phoenix Children's Hospital
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|First Posted:
|September 30, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|March 24, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|March 24, 2014
|Last Verified:
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RNA Virus Infections
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Shirley's talk included every aspect of what TED stands for: technology, entertainment, and design. She's a tech icon, fiercely intellectual and focused. The talk's humorous asides and dramatic arc added the entertainment value. And she describes a different kind of design problem, but one entrepreneurs can relate to: How do you create and grow an IT company, powered primarily by women who work part-time and from home as programmers, at a time when most women didn't have careers? Here's how she described that process:
My company, called Freelance Programmers, and that's precisely what it was, couldn't have started smaller: on the dining room table, and financed by the equivalent of 100 dollars in today's terms, and financed by my labor and by borrowing against the house. My interests were scientific, the market was commercial -- things such as payroll, which I found rather boring. So I had to compromise with operational research work, which had the intellectual challenge that interested me and the commercial value that was valued by the clients: things like scheduling freight trains, time-tabling buses, stock control, lots and lots of stock control. And eventually, the work came in. We disguised the domestic and part-time nature of the staff by offering fixed prices, one of the very first to do so. And who would have guessed that the programming of the black box flight recorder of Supersonic Concord would have been done by a bunch of women working in their own homes.Shirley added deft humor when she chose to measure her company's accomplishments by recalling the snide comments of men in the industry as she made progress again and again:
When I started my company of women, the men said, "How interesting, because it only works because it's small." And later, as it became sizable, they accepted, "Yes, it is sizable now, but of no strategic interest." And later, when it was a company valued at over three billion dollars, and I'd made 70 of the staff into millionaires, they sort of said, "Well done, Steve!" You can always tell ambitious women by the shape of our heads: They're flat on top for being patted patronizingly.I'm so glad that, at age 81, Shirley took her story to the TED stage so she could tell it on her own terms--you get the idea that that's how she does things. What can you learn from this famous speech?
- Wear color: If I had a nickel for every woman speaker who wears black for a TED talk, I'd be a millionaire, too. Shirley stands out with a multi-colored blouse, vibrant and creative and a good foil for the dark background. No fading into the backdrop here.
- The founder's story never gets old: We are endlessly fascinated with how companies began, no matter how big or small they are today. These are stories no one else can tell as well as the founder (although every employee of any company should be able to tell, in a compelling way, the founding story). That this story includes universal elements to which anyone can relate--the dinner table founding, the small amount of capital, the employees working at home--makes it even more approachable, sticky in the memory, and captivating.
- Keep your cool: Not seen on the edited video, but very apparent at the conference, were a few false starts to this talk, thanks to faulty audio equipment. Frustrating as that was, Shirley kept trying that beginning until the problem was solved. It's a moment when practice, and lots of it, comes in handy, ensuring that you won't forget your start after one try.
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The Commonsense Eating Option!
You probably already know that choosing organic food helps protect your family from toxic pesticide residues commonly found on fruit and veggie skins. But there are much broader benefits to choosing organic, too, including feeding the world.
In fact, in 2008, the United Nations found that African farmers who switched from chemical to organic systems enjoyed double the yield in many instances. Last year, the Rodale Institute, a nonprofit organic research institution, wrapped up a 30-year, side-by-side trial of chemical and organic crops. In normal years, both types of farming created about the same amount of food. In years of drought, though, organic came out on top.
Organic also makes perfect sense when it comes to your household dinners. If you're dealing with family members who don't see the benefits of eating organic—or if you still don't see the point—read on for some inspiration.
1. It's raining corn chemicals. U.S. farmers are using so much glyphosate, the main component of weedkillers like Roundup, that researchers are finding it in rain, the air, and streams. According to USDA data, farmers sprayed a whopping 57 million pounds of glyphosate on food crops in 2009—mainly on genetically engineered corn and soy crops. Because glyphosate is a systemic chemical, it actually works its way inside the plant and winds up inside of food at alarming levels. The chemical is linked to potentially irreversible metabolic damage, infertility, obesity, learning disabilities, and birth defects. What to do about it: Make as many of your food purchases organic as you can to keep this hormone-disrupting chemical out of the environment—and your body. If you live in an area where glyphosate in drinking water is a problem, the Environmental Protection Agency recommends granular activated carbon filters to remove glyphosate from water.
2. We're eating shampoo chemicals. A 2010 study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that hormone-disrupting phthalates, common fragrance chemicals used in soaps and shampoos, are winding up inside produce. A potential source? Human sewage sludge applied as a fertilizer to farm fields. The sludge can be tainted with shampoo chemicals that wash down the drain—and wind up at the water-treatment plant, the source of the sludge. Luckily, the use of human sewage sludge is banned in organic farming. What to do about it: If you buy your produce from local farmers who aren't certified organic, be sure to ask them how they fertilize the soil. If you use store-bought compost in your backyard garden, avoid compost that lists "biosolids" as an ingredient and bagged blends that are heavy and caked together or that put off an ammonia or sewer smell. High-quality compost should be crumbling, earthy, and dark.
3. Pesticides are making us fat. Both pesticide applicators and farmers who use synthetic chemicals are experiencing a troubling health trend: an increased risk of becoming overweight and obese. Pesticides, even at very low doses, threaten the general public, too. Many chemicals commonly used to grow nonorganic food are hormone disruptors, and scientists are starting to discover that they tamper with our body's natural weight-loss chemistry. (They actually call them "obesogens.") Certain bug-killing organophosphate pesticides are linked to obesity, a known risk factor for many other diseases, including cancer and type 2 diabetes. What to do about it: Eating organic for just five days can rid the body of virtually all pesticide residues. Think you can't afford it? Look for in-season deals at local farmers' markets, buy in bulk, and preserve the excess to enjoy during the winter months.
4. Pesticides may raise your diabetes risk. In addition to acting as obesogens, pesticides are linked in a growing number of studies with diabetes. Though obesity and genetics remain the two biggest risk factors for the disease, certain pesticides may interfere with the way our bodies produce the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin. In one of the most recent studies looking into pesticides and diabetes, scientists concluded that it may not even be the active pesticide ingredients causing the problems but the "inert" ingredients added to formulations to aid with application, help the pesticide seep into soil, or prevent the formulation from washing away. What to do about it: You can avoid diabetes-inducing pesticides by switching to an organic diet, but one of the inert ingredients used in pesticide formulations, phthalates, can crop up in common household items. Protect yourself completely by avoiding synthetic fragrances, soft vinyl products, and "slow-release" or gel-coated medications, all of which contain phthalates.
5. Pesticides could be interfering with your vitamin D levels. There's a class of pesticides called organophosphates that includes roughly 20 pesticides, which together account for 70 percent of the pesticides used in the U.S. And a study in the online journal PLoS One found that those pesticides could interfere with vitamin D, the miracle vitamin that wards off cancer, diabetes, infections, heart disease, and broken bones and boosts your immune system. It's thought that these pesticides interfere with your body's metabolism of vitamin D, so even if you're getting enough, the pesticides prevent your body from absorbing it properly. What to do about it: In addition to eating organic, get your recommended amount of vitamin D by spending at least 10 minutes of every day outside when the sun is at its strongest or by taking a 600 IU supplement of vitamin D3, which is a more beneficial form of the vitamin than vitamin D2, another supplement you might see at the store.
6. Factory-farmed meat can make you old, fast. Factory farming, the process of raising thousands of animals in small, cramped spaces, has become so filthy that farmers not only inject low levels of antibiotics into animals, breeding antibiotic resistance in humans, but they've also had to resort to other questionable techniques to prevent e. coli and other bacteria from getting into the food supply. One example: After slaughter, factory-farmed chickens are washed in chlorine baths that contain 30 times more chlorine than an average swimming pool. To mask the chlorine odor and, ostensibly, according to chicken producers, to keep the bird moist while cooking, the chickens are then injected with a solution of water and phosphate, a chemical that can increase the risk of chronic kidney disease, weak bones, and even premature aging. What to do about it: Opt for organic meat or meat produced by a local farmer. Most small-scale chicken producers don't bother with chlorine baths, and even in large-scale organic operations, chlorine baths can contain no more chlorine than is allowed in drinking water.
7. Organic farms could save rural economies. Thanks to an increased reliance on pesticides and machinery, farms have been able to grow in size while cutting back on labor. And though that sounds like a winning formula for increasing profits for farmers, it doesn't. The Rodale Institute has found that organic systems are nearly three times as profitable as chemical agriculture systems. Organic systems see an average of $558 in net returns per acre per year, versus just $190 per acre per year for chemical systems. Research from the United Nations and others has also shown that organic farms provide 30 percent more jobs per hectare than nonorganic farms, and that organic farmers net $45,697 in profit, compared with just $25,448 for nonorganic farmers. What to do about it: Find a local, organic farm to support, and keep your food investments in your own community.
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It was believed that new Bears coach Marc Trestman would keep Jeremy Bates, the quarterbacks coach whose strong relationship with Jay Cutler commenced when they were together in Denver.
But the Bears have now announced that Bates is out.
It's the first tangible action taken by the Bears with which Cutler possibly will take issue. And he possibly won't resist speaking his mind about it.
The Bears also announced that offensive coordinator Mike Tice, linebackers coach Bob Babich, tight ends coach Mike DeBord, receivers coach Darryl Drake, offensive line coach Tim Holt, running backs coach Tim Spencer, and defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli will not return.


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Before Justin Smith is able to ride or rope, he's going to have to get back in the saddle.
According to Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com, the 49ers defensive tackle was held out of practice Wednesday, after missing most of the second half of Sunday's game with the Patriots with a left elbow injury.
Coach Jim Harbaugh said earlier this week he was optimistic to player known as "Cowboy" would be able to play.
Asked for an update Wednesday, Harbaugh said: "We'll see. We'll see how he feels today and tomorrow."
Smith has a streak of 185 straight starts, missing only one game in his 12-year career. The 49ers defense was noticeably different without him Sunday, as his ability to tie up blockers helps their pass-rush. That's just as important against the Seahawks, even though Russell Wilson's a slightly more mobile target than Tom Brady.


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If you let users sign up for accounts online, most likely you will be automatically
giving them temporary passwords after signup. Sometimes these passwords are given out
through email or instantly presented on a web page. Either way, you need to be able to
provide users with passwords that are dynamic and secure.
A simple, yet time consuming way would be to populate a database with
pre-configured passwords and then randomly select records from a record set. This is a
functional, but very limited approach. The next approach, which is very scaleable allows
you to specify a length for a randomly generated password.
We will use a function to nicely organize everything and allow easy access
to generate passwords. Next we need to create an array of all the characters,
symbols, and numbers to include in the generated password. I'm going to use all upper case
letters and numbers 2-9. I will be excluding, O, 0, I and 1. These look too much alike and
will confuse users. You can use the following code with or without the function. If your
only going to generate one password, you may want to include the code in the ASP page
without using it as a function, but it will work fine either way.
Dim strPasswd
Dim intPassLength
Function rndPasswd(intPassLength)
Dim araChars(33) 'Create the array and add the content below
araChars(0) = "A"
araChars(1) = "B"
araChars(2) = "C"
araChars(3) = "D"
araChars(4) = "E"
araChars(5) = "F"
araChars(6) = "G"
araChars(7) = "H"
araChars(8) = "J"
araChars(9) = "K"
araChars(10) = "L"
araChars(11) = "M"
araChars(12) = "N"
araChars(13) = "P"
araChars(14) = "Q"
araChars(15) = "R"
araChars(16) = "S"
araChars(17) = "T"
araChars(18) = "U"
araChars(19) = "V"
araChars(20) = "W"
araChars(21) = "X"
araChars(22) = "Y"
araChars(23) = "Z"
araChars(26) = "2"
araChars(28) = "3"
araChars(29) = "4"
araChars(30) = "5"
araChars(31) = "6"
araChars(32) = "8"
araChars(33) = "9"
strPassword = ""
Do Until Len(strPassword) = intPassLength
strPassword = strPassword &
rndPasswd = strPassword
End Function
Now you can generate a random password by passing a number to specify the
length of the password to the function
rndPasswd(intPassLength). Because rnd() will create a number between 0 and
1, multipling the random number by the number of elements in the array and then converting
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Angels Landing my blog post 11/4/2011 with links
Zion my blog post 10/13/2011 with links
I'm so happy Ms Jenny has decided to do another round of Alphabe-Thursday! This is such a fun meme! Thank you, Ms Jenny! Come and join in the fun! You will be charmed and even enlightened in a delightful way! See more entries HERE. This week our letter is "B." (B is for Beauty!)
I'm also participating in SkyWatch Friday, another fun meme with lovely photographs from all over the world! SkyWatch Friday is hosted by Wren, fishing guy, Sylvia, Klaus, and Sandy.
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Transparent proxies: This kind of proxies dosen't hide anything from the server about the user. It sends it the user's IP address, which makes them not usable for anonymity purposes. Stay away from those is you're trying to keep your anonymity over the internet.
Anonymous proxies: This kind of proxies hide the user's IP address, but tells the server the request is routed via a proxy. If you use that kind of proxies the server will be able to know you use proxy, but won't know who you are. If you just need to mask your identity, and don't care the server will know you're using a proxy, that's the right way to go. Otherwise, read on about Elite proxies.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Shrinky Dinks 101 Video
In this video, I explain some beginner tips focusing on stamping on the shrinky dinks papers. Thanks for watching and please leave a comment and let me know what you think...would love to hear your thoughts!
If you want to watch it at YouTube instead, click HERE.
HERE is the first card shown in the video. This is the second card shown..... Visit http://www.shrinkydinks.com/ to purchase shrinky dinks paper and paint markers and to also view their video of the shrinky dinks baking!
Be back soon...
7 comments:
- ivy said...
thanks for the video! i need to pull out my shrinky dink sheets again!
- March 9, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- Virginia L. said...
AWESOME video! Your card is gorgeous with the shrinky dinks!I'm inspired to try it again...(my last time was 12 years ago)! Congrats on the HA Twitter!
- March 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Kathy (krolski) said...
Your video is GREAT! I love the shrinky dinks on your cards! Fabulous idea! Thanks for the tutorial.
- March 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- Froggietalks said...
Question: couldn't you flip the right white paper over and colour the image on the other side with Sharpies? Sharpies are solvent like Staz On, which is why they mess up the Staz On image... you could also draw with the Sharpies to make your image.
- March 9, 2010 at 11:06 PM
- Joan said...
Great video! Got me excited about shrinky dinks again. Was kind of sick of it after making about 200 pins to sell for a fund raiser a couple years ago. Thanks for sharing.
- March 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Nancy said...
Thanks Heather, your video was so informative! I have sheets of Shrinky Dink from years ago and now I can get them out and use them with new inspiration!
Found this on HA Twitter
- March 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- Carla said...
This was a great video! Thanks so much for making this...I know I have some of that paper somewhere! I really love the hearts butterfly on the white, cute!
- March 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM


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Nutritional intervention not effective for preventing weight gain following kidney transplant
Intensive nutrition intervention programmes are not better than standard nutrition care in preventing weight gain in kidney transplant recipients 1 year after the operation, a recent study has found.
The single-blind randomized controlled trial included 36 adult kidney transplant recipients who were randomly assigned to receive the intensive intervention (n=18; mean age 49.2±14.6 years; 67 percent male) or standard nutrition care (n=18; mean age 48.3±13.9 years; 72 percent male). Weight at 6 months after the transplant was the primary outcome.
Mean body weight for the whole cohort increased from 78.0±13.7 kg at baseline to 79.6±13.0 kg at 6 months and 81.6±12.6 kg at 12 months, reflecting a significant 4.6-percent increase.
Analysis of covariance showed that mean weight at 6 months was statistically similar between both groups (intervention: 77±12.4 kg; control: 82.2±13.4 kg; adjusted mean difference, 0.4 kg; 95 percent CI, –2.2 to 3.0 kg; p=0.7).
In terms of secondary outcomes, no significant group-by-time interaction was observed for body mass index (p=0.354), waist circumference (p=0.484), hip circumference (p=0.608), total body fat (p=0.697), total body protein (p=0.861), total body potassium (p=0.175), resting energy expenditure (p=0.260) and other measures of anthropometry and body composition.
Both intervention groups likewise yielded similar outcomes in terms of grip strength (p=0.986), gait speed (p=0.304), sit-to-stand-to-sit test scores (p=0.167) and weekly physical activity (p=0.602), indicating comparable efficacies in terms of physical function.
In comparison, control participants showed significantly better general-health quality of life between 6 and 12 months (p=0.003), while total energy intake significantly decreased from baseline to 6 months in the intervention group (p=0.02).


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Top Japan Stories From WSJ: Tax Hikes, Fast Retailing Forecast, Sony Building
Your daily round-up of the best of the Journal's Japan coverage:
Tax Hikes to Hit Japan's Wealthiest: Japan's new government will likely soon follow the U.S. and France in raising taxes on its wealthiest citizens, amid continued concerns about the country's massive government debt. (Subscriber Content)
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I ask this because my account has recently been banned for 'Abuse of the Economy' and I've been using a VPN to log in from my university where WoW is blocked. I haven't bought gold, received large amounts of gold or items from anyone and honestly cannot figure out what else might be the problem.
When using the VPN it logs me in from a Chicago server and I live in NY so I'm wondering if this is the issue. Has anyone else ever had this issue and if so were you able to dispute your ban successfully? Is it better for me to call blizzard support and talk to someone on the phone and try to explain or should I submit an appeal online? Or am I just SoL? =/
I did read through the ToS this morning and didn't see anything regarding using a VPN, but perhaps I don't fully understand how a VPN works or what it is, any insight anyone can give would be very much appreciated =/


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Our political analysts Ethan Strimling and Phil Harriman both agreed this morning that "Democrats have been masterful" in tying the hospital payment plan with expanding health care. Whether that will be good for the state of Maine is a point of contention.
Ethan sees this as win-win; hospitals get paid and 70,000 people get health insurance. Phil see it as win-lose. Yes, hospitals get paid, but covering 70,000 new people simply re-creates the financial problem we are trying to solve.
They also comment on the Governor's first campaign pledge of the 2014 campaign; "Eliminate the income tax!" Click below to hear it all.


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In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate illusion created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus and Trinity in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.
1. The Matrix (1999)
2. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
3. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
4. The Matrix Revisited (2001)
5. The Animatrix (2003)
 The Matrix (1999)
Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the "Matrix"--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson (Neo), pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.
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 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix. As their quest unfolds, Neo learns more about his super-heroic abilities, including the ability to see the codes of the people and things around him. Simultaneously, now, more humans are waking up out of the Matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers grow, the battle moves to Zion--the last real-world city and center of human resistance.
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 The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
It is a dark time for the world. Neo is trapped in the "Train Station", between the Matrix and the Source. Zion is doomed to be crushed under an unstoppable army of countless Sentinels. But it is not only the human race that is in peril. The machines press ever onward against the humans, unaware that one force within the Matrix has slowly been growing, and has taken over that world completely: Smith. There is only one hope for both races, the one force that can stop Smith, and that is Neo. One final battle must ensue. And the outcome of this battle will decide the fate and future of both races.
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 The Matrix Revisited (2001)
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 The Animatrix (2003)
The Animatrix is a collection of nine animated short films, detailing the backstory of the Matrix universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.
"Final Flight of the Osiris": The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. "The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2": The story behind the war between man and the machines, how mankind scorched the sky, and the creation of the Matrix. "Kid's Story": A teenager is contacted by Neo, and manages to escape the Matrix. "Program": Two warriors battle in a samurai training simulation when one decides to betray his crewmates and re-enter the Matrix. "World Record": A champion sprinter manages to break free of the Matrix by sheer physical effort during a record attempt. "Beyond": A young girl searching for her cat discovers a haunted house caused by a glitch in the system. "A Detective Story": Private investigator Ash tracks a hacker named Trinity through the looking glass. "Matriculated": A group of humans capture a machine scout and insert it into a 'human matrix'.
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Drug delivery via intravenous needles is commonplace in a doctor's office or hospital. Whether you are getting your vaccinations as a child or getting an updated tetanus shot, many drugs are administered with needles. Shown here is a transient, free-surface simulation of an injection needle modeled using cylindrical coordinates in conjunction with FLOW-3D's Moving Objects Model. The needle itself is a few hundred micrometers wide while the syringe section is a few millimeters. A time-dependent prescribed velocity is applied to the plunger to generate the motion. In this application it is important to understand the injection force required on the plunger while squeezing out a shear thinning fluid. FLOW-3D's non-Newtonian viscosity model is used to account for these effects. FLOW-3D can include other viscous effects such as thixotropic fluids, temperature-dependent viscosity, a Carreau model or power law. Strain and shear stress are calculated to determine whether proteins and/or cells are damaged.
FLOW-3D is used to predict transient injection forces on a plunger and strain rate for various solutions of shear thinning medical fluid. Medical fluids contain essential components that undergo high strain through shear thinning at the syringe-needle interface. FLOW-3D can be used to model various syringe-needle geometries and fluids to analyze the strain experienced by fluid in passage through the needle as well as the force generated on the plunger for automated injections.
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The construction of the arrays from the split lines consumes a fair amount of CPU. As does the allocation of the buffers for reading into and writing from. As does the searching of the 4K buffers to locate the line ends. And the search of the lines to find the tabs.
But still, the minimum elapsed time is dominated by the time it takes to a) read 80 GB from disk; whilst simultaneously writing ~5 GB back to disk. On my system 2.6 GHz 4-core Q6600 + 7200 RPM SATA2 disk with 16MB ram, that reading and writing process -- with no other processing; searching; memory allocations etc. -- requires a minimum of 56 minutes.
The difference between that and your 5 hours comes in two parts.
If you can overlap the IO and the internal processing, you can claw back some of that difference.
Have you tried my two processes solution?
With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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Collaborating with local partners, the scientific expertise of these institutions complement the start-ups' technical development in the fields of electronics, nanotechnology, telecommunications, navigation systems, nuclear science, bio-engineering, radiology, life science, and Earth observation.
ESA BIC Flanders start-ups are hosted at Innotek's two technology houses, one in Geel and the other one in Mol, with offices and laboratory space for entrepreneurs.
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Innotek carries out economic development projects, offering a firm seedbed for innovative ideas and contributing to the increase of employment in Belgium's Flemish region.
As Innotek is not located close to an ESA aerospace centre, it has teamed up with the renowned Flemish research institutions VITO, SCK•CEN and IMEC to act as technical partner for the ESA BIC Flanders.
Our current and former start-up companies
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Middlebury Sets New Record for Fulbright Recipients
May 14, 2014
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Middlebury hit double digits for the first time with the number of Fulbright fellowships awarded this year. Nine Middlebury seniors and three recent alumni will spend the next year researching and teaching abroad through the Fulbright program.
The U.S. State Department's Fulbright program is named for former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright, who in 1945 introduced a bill in Congress to support student exchanges. The program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools in more than 140 countries worldwide.
Current Middlebury seniors who have received Fulbright fellowships for the coming year include:
Elena Cutting will spend next year on a Fulbright research grant at the National Center for Oncologic Investigation in Madrid, Spain. There she will research the role of BRCA mutations in prostate cancer and also shadow oncologists, in order to learn more about the Spanish healthcare system. With majors in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Spanish and Portuguese, Cutting completed a summer internship at a research lab at Mount Sinai Medical Center specializing in prostate cancer research. With other members of the Mount Sinai research lab, she recently published a clinical review paper in Therapeutic Advances in Urology on a novel chemotherapeutic agent and its ability to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. On campus, Cutting has volunteered as a medical translator with the Open Door Clinic and is a studio monitor for the Ceramics club. She plans to attend medical school with the goal of becoming bilingually certified to practice medicine.
|Elena Cutting
|Sam Finkelman
|Madeline Gilbert
|Anna Mack
|Alec MacMillen
|Mary Righi
|Connor Wakayama
|Napol Wills
Samuel Finkelman will spend next year teaching English in Russia. Finkelman majored in International and Global Studies, specializing in Russian and East European Studies and decided to pursue a Fulbright, he says, after falling in love with Russian language and literature at Middlebury. Finkelman has been a member of the Men's Rugby Club and plays music with his band, Thank God for Mississippi. Following his Fulbright, he is considering graduate study in Russian, journalism, or law.
Madeline Gilbert will be teaching English next year in Brazil, where she plans to immerse herself in Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language and help her students develop English skills and cross-cultural understanding. A Spanish and Portuguese major, Gilbert studied abroad in Uruguay and has shared her language skills as an interpreter at the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury and as a volunteer teacher at the Monkton Central School. Following her Fulbright grant, Gilbert plans to pursue graduate study in Linguistics, focusing on linguistic phenomena related to Spanish, Portuguese, specifically in the area of phonetics and phonology.
With her Fulbright grant, Anna Mack will explore how disability is experienced in modern-day China. By conducting interviews with adults with disabilities and policy analysts, she will investigate the relationship between community and policy and how this may enrich an understanding of international disability policy. Her Fulbright research proposal developed out of her senior work on the relationship between international disability discourse and rights advocacy work in China, as well as from her engagement with the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity's Life Stories Project. Mack was the recipient of a Mellon research grant that enabled her to pursue research at a Chinese disability rights advocacy organization following her semester abroad in Kunming. In addition to her Fulbright selection, she was also awarded a Critical Language Scholarship by the U.S. State Department to further her study of Chinese this summer. Following her Fulbright grant, Mack plans to continue her focus on disability advocacy and U.S.-Sino relations.
During his Fulbright year, Alec MacMillen will serve as an English Teaching Assistant in Jordan. While in Jordan, he also plans to study the relationship between English language proficiency and economic outcomes. MacMillen majored in International Politics and Economics and studied Arabic in Lebanon and Egypt, with the support of a Boren fellowship. At Middlebury, he has been a member of the Academic Judicial Board, worked as a research intern at the Rohatyn Center, sang a capella, and served as a mentor to a young student through the Community Friends program. Following his Fulbright, MacMillen plans to remain connected to the Middle East and work in translation, diplomacy, or research.
Mary Righi will spend next year in Chennai, India, teaching English at a secondary school. Righi has previously taught English as a second language in three countries—Guatemala, Thailand and Costa Rica; experiences that inspired her to apply for the Fulbright. As an English and American Literatures major, she wrote a senior essay on the evolving relationship between food and maternity in fairy tales. She is also deeply interested in health issues, and plans to work with her local community in India on child nutrition programs. At Middlebury, Righi has written for the Campus and volunteered at the Charter House, a local shelter for homeless families. Following her Fulbright, she plans to pursue a career in community development and public health with an emphasis on maternal health, nutrition, and literacy.
Mary Robinson (not pictured) will be teaching English in Poland next year with the Fulbright program. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she plans to examine the acquisition of English language syntax by native Polish speakers. Robinson is an Independent Scholar at Middlebury, with a deep interest in language and linguistics. She has studied three languages at Middlebury—Russian, Spanish and Japanese; studied abroad in Russia and Uruguay; and is the co-founder of the Linguistics Club. She has also been an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Following her Fulbright year, Robinson plans to pursue graduate study in linguistics, focusing on the morphosyntax of Slavic languages.
Connor Wakayama received a Fulbright Grant to serve as an English Teaching Assistant in Russia next year. As an International and Global Studies-Russian and East European Studies major, Wakayama has a deep appreciation for the importance of language in cultural understanding. He received a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. State Department for summer study of Russian, and continued with the Middlebury School Abroad in Yaroslavl. He also sings bass and has performed with choirs on campus and in Yaroslavl. Following his Fulbright year, Wakayama plans to continue his focus on Russia and international policy by working with the U.S Department of State or a think tank.
Napol Wills is a German and American Studies major who will spend her Fulbright year as an English Teaching Assistant in Germany. Wills began her study of German at Middlebury and spent a semester studying in Mainz. She received a Mellon research grant to support research for her senior thesis about Black Germans in the post-war period and their U.S. connections. On campus, Wills has been active in the College Radio Theater, the German Club, and the German Theater Group. Theater has been particularly important to Wills, and she plans to incorporate the arts into her teaching. Following her Fulbright experience, she plans to pursue graduate study in African-American History or Library Science.
Three recent alumni have also earned Fulbright fellowships through Middlebury's fellowships office. Sophie Morse '11 will conduct anthropology research in Colombia. Jessie Williamson '12.5 will do ecology research in Ecuador. And Cara Myers '12.5 will conduct economic development research in Brazil.
By Stephen Diehl, Photography by Matthew Lennon '13.


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The ad will air in the Sioux City, Iowa market and the target date for the ad for its initial airing is Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
Last week C4P posted the following statement of thanks to financial donors who made the airing of the ad possible;
"Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible."
They added;
"What we do next after the television ad goes up is a more difficult question. If this ad is able to build some momentum for the Governor, the best way to keep that momentum going may be to commission a national GOP primary poll that includes the Governor as one of the options. We'll see if it's possible given our resources. We're open to other ideas but the greatest challenge may be that time is running short for her to reconsider."
Palin herself has not yet offered any opinion of the groups attempts to make herreconsider her earlier decision to not run but even if Palin were to reverse her earlier decision, getting on the ballot in most of the primary states will be impossible. Most state deadlines for ballot access passed in late October. So if for some reason she was to try to run in the primary, Pali would have to do so as a write-in candidate and that will be twice as hard as a normal campaign. In addition to trying to win on the issues and with a creative, well organized, campaign strategy, Palin would also have to run an educational campaign that would instruct voters on how to write-her name in on the ballot. And because of different systems and rules, those instructions are different not only in the various sates, but in many cases, they are different even in the various counties of the various states.
But beyond an attempted write-in candidacy in the Republican presidential primaries, is the possibility of a third party presidential candidacy. For that, Palin still has the time needed to get the signatures and fulfill the different requirements necessary to get on the ballots of the individual states. That too is not easy, but at this point in time, it is more realistic than a run for the Republican presidential nomination.
However, if Palin were to dare make an independent run for President, like Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, she would be more likely to cause the Democrat to win than get herself elected.
Still, the drive behind this "Reconsider" movement is there and it is probably stronger than any support movement behind any of the eight major candidates currently running for the Republican presidential nomination. At the moment there is even a Draft Sarah Palin Facebook page, Draft Sarah Palin website, and dozens of similar smaller, state and local groups.
Now that some of the most aggressive moves to draft Sarah Palin are being taken with this new ad, the question becomes, where do they go from here.?
According to Conservatives4Palin that is "a more difficult question" but they say;
"If this ad is able to build some momentum for the Governor, the best way to keep that momentum going may be to commission a national GOP primary poll that includes the Governor as one of the options. We'll see if it's possible given our resources. We're open to other ideas but the greatest challenge may be that time is running short for her to reconsider."
How Palin reacts to the ad and how much steam the effort builds has yet to be seen, but while many Palin fans, including myself, would have liked to see Sarah go for it, many others, again like myself, believe that her decision should respected and in my case, can not be reversed in time to run in 2012.
Adrienne Ross, an active player in C4P has herself made that case on C4P.
In an editorial to Palin fans who have become active players in this "Reconsider" movement, Ross writes;
"Conservatives4Palin has been fortunate enough to be considered among the cream of the crop in all things Palin. With that status comes a certain responsibility to act responsibly. As far as I'm concerned, any decision to engage in never-ending Make Palin Reconsider efforts is not acting responsibly, not on the Governor's behalf and not on behalf of the people who have found us worthy of their time and attention. Therefore, I deem such efforts to be a violation of the trust placed in us."
She adds;
I have great appreciation for the many people who have invested themselves into their support of Governor Palin. I trust that as we observe the roads God takes her–or doesn't take her–down, we will honor her decisions, we will respect one another even when we passionately disagree, and we will continue to be for her. For me, part of that process is taking her at her word, focusing on what I can do to promote what she's committed to now, and watching the mighty impact we will make. Now, that is the kind of earthquake that will do her proud.
I believe it was difficult for Adrienne Ross to take such a strong stance in opposition to the enthusiasm of her usually like-minded friends. She, like I, share their enthusiasm, faith, trust, and belief in Sarah Palin, her judgement, her instincts, and her abilities. But like Adrienne Ross, I too believe that when calling upon that judgement, those instincts, and that ability, becomes akin to pulling teeth, that is the time when you when you must let things fall where they may. And it is important for Palin fans to remember that they should not give up on the cause. The fight continues, we just have to use different weapons and by actively participating in the Republican presidential nomination, they can help us pick the strongest weapon available for us to fight with in next November's election. And you can bet that Sarah Palin will be there to help us.
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UB Around the Globe: To Ukraine, With Lviv
Category: Alumni
Oleh Voloshyn, M.S. '99, traveled back to his hometown of Lviv, Ukraine, in June while on business promoting Covalent Energy International, for which Voloshyn serves as vice president of finance and country manager for Ukraine.
"Lviv is my birth city, and it is always in my heart," Voloshyn says. "If you visit Lviv once, you will never forget it. It is a jewel of Eastern Europe." The historic city center, called Ploscha Rynok (the Market Place), where Voloshyn is pictured, is on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage List.
"Because of the city's romantic atmosphere with always-surprising buildings, narrow streets, small balconies in [bloom] and many coffee shops and small restaurants, Lviv is nicknamed the 'Little Paris of Ukraine,'" Voloshyn explains.
Lviv was selected to host three games of the 2012 Union of European Football Associations' European Football Championship this past summer—a big deal on the soccer-adoring continent across the Atlantic. In preparation for the event, Lviv received several new facilities and facelifts for many historic sites. And the statue of Neptune in Ploscha Rynok got into the spirit with a Ukrainian national soccer team jersey.
Have you traveled around the nation or abroad recently and snapped a photo of yourself proudly sporting your UB gear? Email your photos or send them to the UB Office of Alumni Relations, 1130 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201. (And next time you head overseas, don't forget to wear your UB apparel.)