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[3MAR2016 Note: A much newer, better method has been developed and is documented in this post.]
A common question among commenters to this blog when I write about my Stratasys FDM 1600 is "how did you hack the cartridge?" Newer Stratasys machines such as the Dimension series (P-Class machines – I assume named after the Prodigy, which I think was the first Stratasys machine to use cartridges) don't have plain old wire welding type spools like the old FDM series – instead, they have the filament stored in a large cassette. This is nice as it keeps the filament dry without having to keep it in a dry box and it makes loading in new material (or swapping colors) a breeze. On the down side (as many Stratasys owners have apparently discovered), Stratasys went the route of inkjet printer manufacturers and have 'chipped' their cartridges so that you can't simply refill the cartridge with material and continue on. While this isn't a hindrance to me and my old machine, I've still been curious to know if there's a way around this (if I ever come across a Dimension for cheap, I'll need a way to feed it as well). Note: I understand the big T-class machines (named after the Titan model, I assume) still use large spools, though I believe the spools also have a chip module (but hey, if you can afford to buy a T-class, the consumables cost probably isn't a big concern).
Inside each Stratasys cartridge is a Maxim DS2433 one-wire EEPROM (in a SO-8 package) that the machine communicates with. This is a simple 4kb (that's kilobits – only 512 bytes of storage) device, and reading/writing them is reasonably straightforward – a library most likely exists for 1-wire communication no matter what your microcontroller of choice is (Arduino enthusiasts, look here). Dumping the contents of one yields hexadecimal gibberish, unfortunately. What's more, you can't simply clone one of them, as each has a unique 48-bit serial number lasered onto the die at the time of production, and this serial (presumably) is used as the seed to encrypt/obfuscate the EEPROM data. This has been enough to dissuade most tinkerers from playing further with the system, though Bolson Materials may very well have cracked the code, as they are able to provide new EEPROMs with their cartridge refill spools.
Thanks to some hacking by the shadowy figure known as 'Dervish', it's been found that only a small portion (12 bytes) of the EEPROM is dedicated to storing how much material is left on the spool. As a cartridge was used, the EEPROM was read out at various points and only bytes 0x58-0x63 changed over the life of a cartridge. Specifically, here's the layout of data on the EEPROM as known thus far as a result of reading EEPROMs from several brand new cartridges:
0x00-0x41: scrambled data (commenter lgg2 noted that 0x28-0x2F is identical to 0x30-0x37, highlighted in purple)
0x42-0x45: 0x00000000
0x46-0x47: scrambled data
0x48-0x4A: 0x55AA55 (highlighted in green)
0x4B-0x4D: scrambled data
0x4E-0x4F: 0x71BE, 0x72BE, 0x73BE, 0x74BE, or 0x75BE
0x50-0x51: scrambled data
0x52-0x57: 0x000000000000
0x58-0x63: filament remaining (scrambled data, highlighted in yellow) – on an unused spool, 0x62-0x63 is always 0x4BB9, but this gets modified (along with 0x58-0x61) as the cartridge is used. Perhaps 0x62-0x63 is an unencrypted checksum?
0x64-0x67: 0x00000000
0x68-0x70: 0x535452415441535953 ('STRATASYS' in ASCII, highlighted in dark blue)
0x71-0x1FF: scrambled data
Simple enough, right? Just read in the EEPROM at 100% full, respool it with generic material when empty and write the 100% full data back to the EEPROM… Well, not quite. You can certainly use this respooled cartridge in a different machine, but not in the same one, as they remember what cartridges they've already used (that serial number on the EEPROM). This is where Dervish tore into the guts of the machine and began the really clever hacking. When you open up the side panel of a Dimension, here's what you see (image taken from Brad Rigdon's Print To 3D gallery):
Brad also has a nice video on youtube that shows the full workings of the machine. The electronics appear to be composed of 3 boards – the large PDB (Power Distribution Board) on the left, the SBC (Single Board Computer, just a PC) in the center right above the hard drive, and what appears to be a motion controller board (in the upper right, connected to the SBC via a 16-bit PC/104 header). As per the troubleshooting section of the Dimension/SST Service Guide, the motion controller board in the upper right is known as the '186 board'. The SBC pictured appears to be an Ampro P5v, though some Dimensions use a Nova-600. After connecting a keyboard and monitor to the SBC, Dervish found that the computer is running Linux (Red Hat 8, specifically – not Fedora 8, but the circa 2002 version with a 2.4.x kernel).
By rebooting the system he was able to enter single user mode (at the LILO prompt, enter 'linux single') and could change the root password to whatever was desired (type 'passwd' at the prompt, enter a new password, then enter again to confirm). After rebooting once more into standard mode as root with his newly minted password, he modified /etc/sysconfig/iptables to open up port 22 so that he could ssh into the system and hack remotely without having to be at the console itself (the sshd daemon does not run by default, so adding the line '/etc/init.d/sshd start' to /etc/rc.local is also required). While he had been able to modify temperatures on the machine by using Stratasys's 'Maraca' software (the CatalystEX software offers no ability to tweak the system), direct access to the SBC allows much greater control over process parameters such as adjusting rollback. All the configurations are stored within the /mariner/config tree (the hard drive image covers multiple models), and it can be tricky to determine which 'gender' (kona, lanai, spinnaker, oahu etc.) corresponds to a given machine, but noting which directory has the most recent modification date is a dead giveaway.
The holy grail turned out to be the discovery of an innocuous sounding file named 'system.dat' located in the root directory. This is where the Dimension apparently stores a list (in binary) of all the cartridge EEPROM serial numbers that it has seen before. Delete this file and the machine gets amnesia, allowing respooled cartridges (with the EEPROM rewritten to show 100% full) to be used again. I assume creating a cron job to delete this file periodically (or using rc.local to delete it on startup) would also work.
As far as I know, this constitutes the cutting edge of Stratasys hacking – I've heard rumors before of people having bypassed the cartridge EEPROMs, but this is the first concrete information I've seen on how to accomplish it. If anyone has further information, please leave a comment!


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This has been a big year for colour on laptops, with most manufacturers launching machines with coloured lids. If you already own a laptop, you don't have to miss out on this personalisation, as you can opt for a removable skin.
Urban Retro offers a wide range of sizes and has designs from an amazingly diverse number of artists. Available in 12-inch up to 17-inches in size, they'll fit any standard laptop.
The skins are referred to as Gelaskins and are easy to fit; simply peel off the backing and firmly fix to your laptop. The skin is extremely thick and while they're not the cheapest we've seen, they certainly feel worth the asking price.
If you're in the mood for updating the look of your laptop, these are the most striking designs we've seen to date.

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The following commands compile the source code for each application with the PGI C and Fortran compilers. These commands assume the source code has been saved to the file name provided in the comment at the beginning of each example.
pgcc -fast -mp -Minfo -Mconcur=allcores matrix-omp.c -o matrix-omp
pgcc -fast -acc -Minfo matrix-acc.c -o matrix-acc-gpu
pgfortran -fast -acc -Minfo matrix-acc.f -o matrix-acc-gpuf
The command line arguments to the PGI C compiler (
pgcc) and Fortran compiler (
pgfortran) are:
-fast: Chooses generally optimal flags for the target platform.
-mp: Interpret OpenMP pragmas to explicitly parallelize regions of code for execution by multiple threads on a multi-processor system.
-acc: Interpret OpenACC pragmas.
-Minfo: Emit useful information to
-Mconcur: Instructs the compiler to enable auto-concurrentization of loops.
The Portland Group also provides a profiling capability that can be enabled via the
PGI_ACC_TIME environment variable. By default, profiling is not enabled. Setting
PGI_ACC_TIME to a positive integer value enables profiling while a negative value will disable it. The profiling overhead is minimal because the runtime only reports information collected by the GPU hardware performance counters. The wealth of information gathered by the runtime profiler can be seen in the output generated by
matrix-acc-gpu after setting
[email protected]:~/PGI/example1$ ./matrix-acc-gpu Accelerator Kernel Timing data /home/rmfarber/PGI/example1/matrix-acc.c main 21: region entered 1 time time(us): total=139658 init=88171 region=51487 kernels=43848 data=7049 w/o init: total=51487 max=51487 min=51487 avg=51487 25: kernel launched 1 times grid: [63x63] block: [16x16] time(us): total=43848 max=43848 min=43848 avg=43848
Example 5: Runtime profile output when PGI_ACC_TIME=1 for matrix-acc-gpu.
This output from the PGI runtime profiling tells us that the application spent 7 milliseconds transferring data and 43 milliseconds computing the matrix multiply kernel.
It is possible to create a timeline plot using the NVIDIA Visual Profiler (nvvp), which runs on Windows, Linux and Mac computers. (The nvvp application was previously known as computeprof.) The timeline is a new feature in the CUDA 4.2 release and is extremely useful!
Notice that there are:
- Three host to device data transfers at the start of the computation. These transfers correspond to the
copyin()clauses for matrices
bplus the
copy()clause for matrix
- A GPU computation that requires 39.1% of the time for kernel
main_24_gpu. A helpful feature of the PGI OpenACC compiler is that it intelligently labels the kernel with the routine name and line number to make these timelines intelligible.
- A single data transfer back from the device to the host, which was required by the copy clause for matrix
cat the end of the kernel.
The visual profiler provides an interactive display of the timeline. A larger screenshot would show the calls to the driver API for the CUDA context setup and the data transfers along with a host of other information. In addition, the nvvp profiler will analyze the application and provide automated suggestions. This requires running the application many times. It is recommended to look at the timeline first as this only requires running the application once.
For example, the following screenshot shows the initial analysis of the timeline shown in Figure 1:
Matrix Multiply Is an Ideal Case
Most computationally oriented scientists and programmers are familiar with BLAS (the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library. BLAS is the de facto programming interface for basic linear algebra.
BLAS is structured according to three different levels with increasing data and runtime requirements.
- Level-1: Vector-vector operations that require
O(N)data and
O(N)work. Examples include taking the inner product of two vectors, or scaling a vector by a constant multiplier.
- Level-2: Matrix-vector operations that require
O(N2)data and
O(N2)work. Examples include matrix-vector multiplication or a single right-hand-side triangular solve.
- Level-3 Matrix-vector operations that require
O(N2)data and
O(N3)work. Examples include dense matrix-matrix multiplication.
The following table describes the amount of work that is performed by each BLAS level assuming that
N floating-point values are transferred from the host to the device. This table does not take into account the time required to transfer the data back to the host.
|BLAS level
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Table 2: Work per datum for the three BLAS levels.
Matrix multiply is an ideal example for OpenACC acceleration because the data transfers become less important as the size of the matrices increase. Matrix multiply is a level-3 BLAS operation that performs
O(N) work for every floating-point value transferred to the device. The effect of this high computational density can be seen in the following plot of wall clock time on a dedicated system as the problem size increases. Multiplying 1k by 1k square matrices results in a 1.7 speedup of matrix-acc.c over matrix-omp.c when running on an NVIDIA C2050 GPU compared with a 2.65 GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5630 processor. Increasing the matrix sizes to 11k by 11k shows a 6.4x speedup over OpenMP. This empirically demonstrates the high work per datum runtime behavior of matrix multiply. Similar speedups will occur for other high work-per-datum computations as well.
Figure 3: Runtime behavior by matrix size of OpenACC and OpenMP implementations (lower is better).
The Three Rules of Coprocessor Programming
Matrix multiply is an excellent teaching tool but most real-world calculations do not exhibit such ideal behavior. Instead, the programmer must be creative and pay close attention to data transfers and computational density on the OpenACC device(s). High performance can be achieved when the compute intensive portions of the application conform to the following three rules of high-performance coprocesser programming. If not, expect application performance to be either PCIe or device memory bandwidth limited.
- Transfer the data across the PCIe bus onto the device and keep it there.
- Give the device enough work to do.
- Focus on data reuse within the coprocessor(s) to avoid memory bandwidth bottlenecks.
Using the Create Clause to Allocate on the OpenACC Device
It is easy to create the matrices on the OpenACC device and initialize them. Creating and initializing data on the OpenACC device conforms to the first rule and avoids data transfers. The following example, matrix-acc-create.c demonstrates the use of the create() clause in a kernels region.
/* matrix-acc-create.c */ #define SIZE 1000 float a[SIZE][SIZE]; float b[SIZE][SIZE]; float c[SIZE][SIZE]; int main() { int i,j,k; #pragma acc kernels create(a,b) copyout(c) { // start of kernels // Initialize matrices. for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) { for (j = 0; j < SIZE; ++j) { a[i][j] = (float)i + j; b[i][j] = (float)i - j; c[i][j] = 0.0f; } } // Compute matrix multiplication. for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) { for (j = 0; j < SIZE; ++j) { for (k = 0; k < SIZE; ++k) { c[i][j] += a[i][k] * b[k][j]; } } } } // end of kernels return 0; }
Example 6: matrix-acc-create.c
Following is the nvvp timeline showing that two kernels are now running on the GPU.
The Visual Profiler shows that only one data transfer occurs at the end of the data region as required by the
copyout() clause.
Removal of the data transfers speeds the OpenACC performance over the OpenMP version:
- Speedup with
copy()clauses over OpenMP: 6.4x
- Speedup with
copyout()clauses over OpenMP: 6.9x


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White German Shepherd Dogs - Should Not be a Separate Dog Breed
White German Shepherd Dog Information
I have been receiving so many emails from my readers, looking for White German Shepherd dog information. Although I own the regular black-and-tan German Shepherds, and not the white one, yet I can share my little bit of knowledge on white German Shepherd Dogs that I have gathered by studying about them all these years.
Greif - the grandsire of the first registered Shepherd – Horand von Grafrath was a white dog. Hence the gene for the white coats has always been a part of the German Shepherd Dog breed since it's very inception around 1898. Strong efforts had been made by Germany and other countries of the world to eliminate the white German Shepherds, but an increasing popularity have been noticed with passage of days. Around hundreds of whites German Shepherd Dogs are being registered in Canada, and thousands in the United States each year.
The white color was made disqualification in GSD Breed Standard by the German Shepherd Dog Club of America sometimes around 1960s. Up until that time, the White German Shepherd Dogs were allowed to compete in conformation show rings. Since white GSD has been disqualified from the AKC and CKC show rings, most GSD breeders do not breed white dogs. Fortunately the White Shepherd clubs in North America has been pursuing the target of breed separation for the white GSD for years now, in the hopes of getting the proper recognitions that the beautiful White German Shepherds actually deserve.
Extensive studies have been carried out with the White GSD breed and has been finally determined that there exists a significant gene pool that make it a separate breed… naming it as White German Shepherd Dog!
- 1999 – The UKC officially recognized White German Shepherd Dog as a separate breed from April 14, effective from May 1, 1999.
- 2002 – The FCI officially recognized White German Shepherd Dog as a separate breed, naming it as "Berger Blanc Suisse".
My view about White German Shepherd Dogs
My view is that, this is just a misconception that white coated German Shepherd Dog will be best treated by separating it as a distinctive breed altogether. Why should the beautiful White GSDs be outcast, just because of their natural white recessive gene? Just the white color of the coat (by natural recessive gene) cannot be the basis for breed separation. Good news is that the White German Shepherd Dog Club of America (WGSDCA) does not support breed separation.
Just like any other pure bred GSD, the white coated German Shepherd Dogs are quite a lot versatile and can be found working with police forces, in drug interdiction units, bomb detection squads, tracking, community activities, attack work, rescue departments, herding flocks, guiding the blind, assisting the handicapped, working as therapy dogs, guarding the home and what not???
Stay tuned… up next the White German Shepherd Dog FAQs!


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Physicians experience increased effort, uncertainty in cross-coverage of radiation oncology patients
Radiation oncology physicians who encounter an unfamiliar case when cross-covering for another physician experience higher levels of perceived workload and may also affect performance, according to research conducted at the University of North Carolina.
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Radiation oncology physicians who encounter an unfamiliar case when cross covering for another physician experience higher levels of perceived workload and may perhaps also effects on performance, according to research conducted at the University of North Carolina.
In a paper presented at the 2013 American Society for Radiation Oncology conference, study authors Prithima Mosaly, PhD, and Lukasz Mazur, PhD, assistant professors in the UNC Department of Radiation Oncology; Bhishamjit Chera, MD, assistant professor of radiation oncology and Lawrence Marks, MD, Sidney K. Simon Distinguished Professor of Oncology Research and Chair, found a significant decrease in performance and confidence when physicians were asked to plan the treatment of an unfamiliar patient.
Eight radiation oncologists participating in the study, three experienced physicians and five resident physicians, attended two sessions where they were tasked with planning the procedure of a patient based on information from an electronic medical record. Researchers measured the subjective and quantitative experiences of the participating physicians during each session.
During the first session, designed to simulate a "cross-coverage" scenario, radiation oncology physicians were presented with the records of an unfamiliar patient undergoing a routine radiological procedure - palliative 2-field opposed lateral brain fields. The second session represented a "regular-coverage" scenario where the radiation oncology physicians were presented with the same case after 48 hours.
After each session, the physicians evaluated their experience using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Task Load Index (NASA-TLX). Performance was measured using completion time and willingness to approve the generated plan. Overall, the results during cross-coverage revealed a significant increase in perceived workload as quantified by NASA-TLX score and decrease in performance as quantified by longer completion time and reduced approval rate.
The radiation oncology physicians presented with unfamiliar cases in the first session experienced a relatively-high perceived workload and a reduced level of performance. They took more time to complete the tasks and were more reluctant to approve a treatment plan, when compared to the second session where they were more familiar with the case. The level of professional experience of the radiation oncology physicians did not influence the results.
"We had people not willing to approve treatment when in a cross-coverage scenario, but we had 100 percent treatment approval when they were under regular coverage scenario," said Mosaly.
The team's research builds on insights from industries such as aviation, nuclear power plants and transportation that have relied on similar variety of workload assessments to develop safety standards for decades. With the growing use of information technology systems, Mazur said that it is important to develop workload limits for human-computer interaction in order to optimize patient safety.
"It is important for us to look for these boundaries, so that when we have a system it actually builds on human strengths and understands the limitations," said Mazur.
This study was supported in part by the University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care System and a research grant from Elekta Limited.
Link to study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187985001300129X


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Last year I switched from the iPhone to the Samsung Galaxy Note II. Going from the slender Apple device to the five-inch "phablet" took some getting used to, but these days I hardly notice it's larger than guy-sized phone, thanks largely (tee) to my oversized paws. I'm not sure those paws are ready to handle the eight-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0.
Coming to North America in the second quarter of this year, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is the iPad Mini of the Note line, falling in-between the Note II and the 10-inch Note 10.1. It's a bit prettier than the Mini, its 1280 x 800 display kicking out 189 pixels-per-inch to Apple's 163. It's sporting Samsung's 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos 4 processor, 2GB of RAM and comes with either 32GB or 64GB of storage. It's a powerful little tablet with an okay screen.
And it's also a phone. A phone so big you could rest it against your face and take a nap on it.
From a gaming perspective I love the form factor. I've said it before and I shall say it many more times—seven to eight-inch screens are the sweet spot for mobile gaming. If you're going to get a device solely for mobile gaming, that's where you should go.
But as a phone?
Maybe if I were big into Bluetooth headsets I'd consider it. It would look great sitting on my desk with a wired headset hooked up. I just couldn't see myself tooling around town with it in my purse. Not that I carry a purse, but I would pretty much have to if this were my primary phone, and then where would I carry my makeup?
Hit up Gizmodo for hands-on impressions of the Galaxy Note 8.0. If only I had bigger hands.


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Illustrations of side and front views of Rattlesnake head showing the eye and nostril (black arrows) and facial pit (red arrow).
The facial pit is a sense organ that detects infrared heat, such as body heat. This enables the snake to locate its warm blooded prey even in the dark. Rattlesnakes, Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and a variety of other venomous snakes that have this pit are grouped together in the pit-viper family, a name that commemorates this unique organ.


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text: Tech safety and making the best buying decisions were the focus of Smart Tech for Solo and Small Firms, the final Free on Fridays CLE held on August 30th. Tom O'Connor partnered with Craig Bayer to lead a very direct discussion on how to meet the technological needs of a law practice with an attention to budget, efficiency, and ethical obligations. O'Connor began by pointing out that two of the biggest ethical complaints made against attorneys are in terms of missed deadlines or fee disputes. Office management programs can easily solve both of these issues while mainstreaming the system. A lawyer with a background in software applications for litigation support, he was able to explain why document encryption is necessary on cloud services as well as laptops. Cloud technology is still an area of concern and O'Connor was able to explain that the state bars that have taken a position on using cloud services for documents have stated that encryption satisfies the need to take reasonable precautions with client information. Bayer was able to build on that theory in terms of encrypting not only a laptop or documents, but to encrypt wifi with a password, even for the guest access side. They delved into other areas such as private versus public cloud, best ways to backup a system, and purchases that work for mobile lawyers.


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DPS: Jasper woman dies after car goes airborne
A 23-year-old Jasper woman has died following an early morning wreck.
Kimberly Dinsdale, 23, was traveling southbound on FM 1747 around 3:30 a.m. Friday when she lost control of her 2009 Pontiac car, causing it to strike an embankment and go airborne, according to information from the Department of Public Safety.
Dinsdale was not wearing her seatbelt and was ejected from the car. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
DPS reports that the driver was traveling at an unsafe speed when she lost control of the vehicle, and blood specimens have been submitted to the lab for analysis.


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Ultrasound Probes may also be referred to as :Ultrasound Transducers | Ultrasound Sensors
Tips for buying Ultrasound Probes Parts1. Modern diagnostic ultrasonography uses probes containing an acoustic ultrasound transducer (or several transducers) to send pulses of ultrasound into matter. Whenever the mechanical wave encounters a border between two different materials (different acoustic impedance) some energy is reflected back to the ultrasound transducer. This echo is detected by the ultrasound probe. The time it takes for the echo to travel back to the ultrasound probe is electronically measured and used to calculate, as well as to display, the depth of the tissue.
2. The frequencies used for medical ultrasonography are generally in the range of 1 to 15 MHz. Higher frequencies have a lower wavelength, producing images with a greater resolution. However, the attenuation of the wave is increased at higher frequencies, so in order to better penetrate deeper tissues, a lower frequency (3-5MHz) is be used.
3. Ultrasound transducers produce images of muscle and soft tissue, useful for delineating boundaries between solid and fluid- filled spaces. It provides live images, enabling operators to select the most useful sections for rapid diagnoses. It shows the structure and function of internal organs. Ultrasound probes provide a useful way to examine the musculoskeletal system to detect problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons, and joints. Ultrasound probes also assist in identifying blockages, stenosis, and other vascular abnormalities.
4. Modern, high-class ultrasound probe systems use the best transducers technology, which is coupled with excellent processors and a user friendly user interface. The image quality depends mainly on the ultrasound transducer, which is the front end that transmits and receives the mechanical energy. Modern ultrasound transducers give users unparalled and unsurpassed multi-modality ultrasound experience.
5. The most common ultrasound applications are:
- Portable ultrasound machines
- OB/GYN ultrasound machines
- Cardiac ultrasound systems
- Abdominal ultrasound machines
- Urology ultrasound machines
- Vascular ultrasound machines
- 3D ultrasound
- Muscoskeletal ultrasound machines
- Transcranial Doppler systems
- Small particles scanners
- Ophthalmology ultrasound
- Veterinary ultrasound units
6. The most used types of ultrasound probes are:
- Linear ultrasound probes
- Phased array ultrasound probes
- Convex ultrasound probes
- Real time 4D ultrasound probes
- Endocavity ultrasound probes
- Endovaginal ultrasound probes
- Laparoscopic ultrasound probes
- Intravascular ultrasound probes
7. There are many new applications being discovered all the time for ultrasound transducers including:
- Carotid ultrasonography is used to assess blood flow into the carotid arteries, as well as the intra-cerebral arteries.
- Echocardiography, which is basically an ultrasound that shows the movement of the heart as the muscle dilates and contracts.
- Emergency medical technicians often use a form of ultrasound probe. Also, it is used in the ER as a routine method of quickly assessing the cause of a patient's abdominal pain.
- Urologists often use ultrasound transducers to detect the level of fluid that is in a patient's bladder.
- Gynecologists may perform a pelvic sonogram using an ultrasound probe to view an image of the pelvic floor in women and diagnose any abnormalities.
- Another use for ultrasound machines is for more detailed images of the tendons, nerves, muscles, ligaments and other soft tissue areas that may have been affected by injury or trauma.
- Arterial ultrasound probe is used by cardiologists to check for possible obstructions in the arteries, or to diagnose DVT.
- In gastroenterology, doctors can view the abdomen using an ultrasound probe to view organs such as the aorta, pancreas, gall bladder, kidneys, liver and spleen.
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Chances are that you have heard about the iPhone 4's notorious antenna problems. Basically, users can reduce signal reception and drop calls by holding the iPhone in a certain fashion (popularly termed as the death grip). Apple is officially denying that there is any problem, but the explanation offered by them is suspicious to say the least.
As it turns out, the death grip has a simply solution – use a case. This prevents the insulating wedge on the phone's left hand side from getting bridged by the user's hand. Unfortunately, Apple's official bumper cases cost $29. I don't need to say this, but being forced to shell out another thirty bucks just to make calls with a premium smartphone simply sucks.
The good news is that Mobile Fun is currently giving away free iPhone 4 cases, which they claim will solve death grip related reception issues. The Mobile Fun case wraps around your iPhone and its non-conducting silicone material prevents death grip problems from occurring.
If you live in the UK, here is how you can take advantage of this offer:
1. Add this iPhone 4 Case to your basket.
2. Enter the Promo Code DEATHGRIP
3. Proceed to checkout. You will still have to pay for shipping, but the case itself would be free.
This is a limited time offer and is valid until 30th July 2010 or the stock runs out. So hurry up and grab your free iPhone 4 case now. If you are not happy with this free case, Mobile Fun has plenty of other iPhone 4 cases, but they will cost you.
Update: After distributing almost 5,000 cases, MobileFun has closed their promotion as Apple has officially decided to issue free bumper cases to iPhone 4 owners.


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Search the phrase "sudden wealth syndrome" in Google and you'll find thousands of Web pages replete with tales of lottery winners, women who married wealthy men, and successful entrepreneurs who all have one thing in common:
They can't handle their new riches.
It's almost become a truism that those who find themselves with a sudden windfall will blow it. In fact, the chance that a wealthy family will still be wealthy three generations down the line is less than one in 10. Experts who deal with such families say it's true that the chips are stacked against them.
"Yesterday's wealth is no guarantee of tomorrow's success," said Sarah Bull, a principal and member of the KJH Private Services team at KJ Harrison & Partners Inc. in Toronto. "When people receive wealth for the first time they don't really know how to handle it. There are often emotional issues around handling it, and they don't know how to spend responsibly, and they don't understand the math."
A growing body of evidence points to disturbingly low levels of financial literacy among Canadians, and one of the symptoms is the spending habits of the nouveau riche. A study released this month by research firm TNS found that only 13 per cent of Canadians could answer three basic risk-literacy questions correctly, and suggested that most consumers have very little grasp of the basic principles of financial risk.
It asked participants to assess the relative payout of two lotteries; the relative risk and returns from two investment funds; and the relative risk of investing in a single stock versus a basket of stocks. Sixteen per cent of Canadian men and 9 per cent of women answered all of the questions correctly. Those who had attended university fared better than those who hadn't, but both groups had dismal results.Read more
Jacoline Loewen, finance expert, Author of Money Magnet: Attracting Investors to Your Business.


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Making Treatment Decisions
Receiving the news that you've been diagnosed with cancer is a difficult and stressful event that leads to numerous questions and concerns. It may take a number of days before you can begin to think clearly about this information. The inclination may be to follow whatever the person delivering the news tells you. This may or may not be the best option for you. You have time to think through your diagnosis and what type of treatment fits you. People who have been through the diagnosis of lung cancer tell us the best way to get through it is to seek out support and don't rush into a treatment you may not be comfortable with. There are many resources at Siteman that can help you explore your options.
Getting the Information to Make a Decision:
- Write down your questions and biggest fears and bring them with you when you visit your doctor.
- If there is something you do not understand, don't be afraid to ask questions. Keep asking until you understand the answer. Otherwise, you can't make the best possible choice for yourself.
- Bring a friend or family member when you visit your doctor. Because you will have a lot on your mind, a friend can help you remember what was said. Your friend also can take notes and remind you of questions to ask. You may also want to record the conversation with the doctor's permission.
- Find other people who have had the same condition and talk to them about what was important to them about their treatment. Also realize that because we are all different, their outcome may not be your outcome for the same treatment.
- Don't accept the first treatment recommendation you receive and don't be afraid to get a second opinion. You may be at Siteman for a second opinion because the physicians here lead in their fields. Without a second opinion you won't know options you may have. One doctor may recommend less or more treatment than you think you need. Get as many opinions as you need to feel comfortable about your decision. You don't have to decide today.
- Learn what you can about your cancer, but don't over-study it. Just research the parts you need to know now to make a decision. It will help you ask the right questions. When researching your cancer and treatment information on the Siteman website, make sure you have the right name and subtype of your cancer. Otherwise, you may be unnecessarily alarmed. Also, keep in mind that tumors that used to be deadly may now be much more manageable or curable.
Finding Support for Putting Treatment Into the Context of Your Life and Family
Palliative Care: Palliative care provides a specialized approach to medical care for people with serious illnesses, focusing on relief from symptoms of the illness and the treatment, and incorporating the patient and family members to improve your quality of life. Palliative care is provided by a specially-trained team of doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers and chaplains who work together with a patient's surgical, radiation or medical oncologist to provide an extra layer of support. It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and is provided along with curative treatment.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that palliative care is about foregoing treatment for the disease and dying. Its real goal is to help you manage your symptoms and treatment effects so you can tolerate the treatment better and have a life during treatment, not put your whole family on hold. The palliative physician, as a consultant to the doctors managing medical care, makes recommendations on extended pain management and any other support the patient or family needs. Palliative care takes the proposed treatment plan and looks at how it integrates into the family's life, taking into account family status, socioeconomic issues, and spiritual needs in the plan of care. You can request a palliative care referral from your doctor.
Decisions to Make About Your Treatment:
At any given time, Siteman Cancer Center has more than 350 clinical trials in progress. Lung cancer patients who come to Siteman have access to novel or more advanced treatments than you could get in a community hospital. If your doctor feels a clinical trial is appropriate, he or she may suggest it. You can review the clinical trials currently in progress or ask your treatment team about appropriate trials available to you.


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After much thought, I have come to the decision to step away from this blog for the time being.
Given the current state of Canada's fighter selection, and the fact that the Saab Gripen is not even officially being considered at this time, there seems to be little reason for me to continue.
Do not worry; I still believe that the Gripen is the best fighter for Canada, and I will be continuing on at bestfighter4canada.blogspot.ca. Please check it out if you have not already.
I will keep the Facebook group going, and all members there are welcome to join up with the bestfighter4canada Facebook group as well.
If things change that make the Gripen more of a contender for Canada's CF-18 replacement, I will begin updating this page with a vengeance. Until then I hope to see you at bestfighter4canada.blogspot.ca!


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Some Things to Consider When Measuring Player Value
By Eriq Gardner
Let's pretend we have two teams each drafting one batter at C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF1, OF2, OF3.
The roster of Team A is the following: Alex Rodriguez, Mark Reynolds, Jason Bay, Jayson Werth, Nelson Cruz, Ben Zobrist, Elvis Andrus, and Mike Napoli.
The roster of Team B is the following: Adrian Gonzalez, Nick Markakis, Ryan Zimmerman, Adam Jones, Robinson Cano, Alex Rios, Orlando Cabrera, and Bengie Molina.
Team A should be the far superior team if you go by any Average Draft Position measure. These are all heavy hitters who contribute some nice speed; however, when we take a look at projections, we're not quite that certain that Team A would finish ahead of Team B.
Here are the projected team statistics for Team A:
And here are the projected team statistics for Team B:
As you'll see above, Team A has the clear upper-hand in HRs and SBs. However, Team B holds a small edge in RBIs and Rs and a big edge in AVG. How did we pull this trick?
The answer tells us something important about player value and is something to keep in mind when using player raters and managing a roster into the season.
Team A is a squad comprised of the top-rated players at every position who each project for less than 550 at-bats.
Team B is a squad comprised of players who are rated relatively lower compared to the other squad, but who each project for somewhere between 575 to 650 at-bats.
In other words, the extra ABs translate to added counting numbers, particularly important in context stats such as R and RBI. In addition, more ABs mean a bigger contribution to the overall team average. Last year's best best performers against draft position included Aaron Hill, Chone Figgins, and Victor Martinez. Is it a coincidence that each of these players led their position in ABs?
We're all trained to weight heavily the categories that are seemingly dependent on core skills like power and speed; player raters in particular give a little bit of extra credit to steals because of the overall scarcity. But HRs and SBs aren't the only categories worth considering when taking a look at a player. And core skills are not the only factors worth examining. Teams doing well in undervalued categories and teams healthy enough to gain a playing time advantage can find their way to fantasy success, perhaps to the astonishment of their league-mates.
For more on competitive factors in fantasy baseball, check out Bloomberg Sports' fantasy kits.
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Neighbors complaints prompt rule change; thong-clad couple vows to fight
BOULDER, Colo. - A woman gardening wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has brought neighborhood complaints and new rules from a housing authority in Colorado.
Several passers-by told Boulder police earlier this week that 52-year-old Catharine Pierce was topless while tending to her yard. Last year, she was threatened with eviction for gardening wearing only pasties and a thong.
Police responding to Wednesday's reports decided Pierce wasn't breaking any laws.
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The L.A. County Sheriff's Department marked a milestone Thursday, the first time the facility has had enough participants in educational programs to stage a graduation ceremony.
For many of the 59 men completing 12-week programs in things like computer training and art, it was their first time experiencing the classic graduation ceremony: music, inside jokes that only the students understand, and of course, walking across stage to receive a certificate.
"Actually, it meant a lot," said Mario Munoz, graduating from computer class. "It kind of feels good. I'm proud of myself."
Munoz, 20, says he was in and out of juvenile halls and jails throughout his teens. When he was in the general population in places like Twin Towers, Munoz says, he was doing what most jail inmates do: "pretty much, you'd just be in your boxers, watch t.v., you play card games, you tell your little war stories. It's a waste of time."
Transferring to Pitchess, he was put in a dorm that's exclusively men participating in educational programming, and Munoz said it feels completely different.
"We try to keep it as respectful as we can," Munoz said. "You bump into somebody, you say 'excuse me,' little respectful things you just got to have in mind."
If L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca has his way, the entire jail system will someday look like these educational wings—it's the cornerstone of Baca's philosophy of jailing.
For the 150 years or so that the sheriff's department has been responsible for incarcerating people in Los Angeles County, said program Director Brant Choate, that philosophy has changed.
"We've had chain gangs, we've had honor ranches, we've had maximum security facilities," he said. "And now, we have EBI.
Currently, such programs are up and running in each jail, with over 40 percent of the jail population participating in some manner.
James Beard, a life skills instructor at Pitchess, says that's unusual for a jail system.
"It's unheard of," he said.
That's because it's typically difficult to start programs in jails, which have highly fluctuating populations. But as more inmates are serving longer sentences in jails, there's more and more interest in finding positive ways for them to spend their time.
Jesse Mejia is in on a 17-month sentence. He said when sheriff's deputies approached him about taking classes, he said yes, but only because he thought he'd get access to paper and pencils, and other things that are coveted behind bars.
"I was thinking of ways to manipulate the system to get free things so I could sell it, make it through here and whatnot," Mejia said.
Mejia says at first, he didn't adapt well to the full day of classes, sitting still, and taking directions from deputies. But he says he realized he couldn't just sit around wasting years behind bars.
"To be able to learn something and accomplish something daily is another important thing to me," Mejia said. "And this place has helped me to realize that."
Mejia gest out in May. He says he's "a little nervous" about getting out, with no job and no place to live lined up. But, he says he's sure that this time, he's not coming back.


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2016 West Virginia Code
§61-8B-1. Definition of terms.
In this article, unless a different meaning plainly is required:
(1) "Forcible compulsion" means:
(a) Physical force that overcomes such earnest resistance as might reasonably be expected under the circumstances; or
(b) Threat or intimidation, expressed or implied, placing a person in fear of immediate death or bodily injury to himself or herself or another person or in fear that he or she or another person will be kidnapped; or
(c) Fear by a person under sixteen years of age caused by intimidation, expressed or implied, by another person who is at least four years older than the victim.
For the purposes of this definition "resistance" includes physical resistance or any clear communication of the victim's lack of consent.
(2) "Married", for the purposes of this article in addition to its legal meaning, includes persons living together as husband and wife regardless of the legal status of their relationship.
(3) "Mentally defective" means that a person suffers from a mental disease or defect which renders that person incapable of appraising the nature of his or her conduct.
(4) "Mentally incapacitated" means that a person is rendered temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling his or her conduct as a result of the influence of a controlled or intoxicating substance administered to that person without his or her consent or as a result of any other act committed upon that person without his or her consent.
(5) "Physically helpless" means that a person is unconscious or for any reason is physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.
(6) "Sexual contact" means any intentional touching, either directly or through clothing, of the breasts, buttocks, anus or any part of the sex organs of another person, or intentional touching of any part of another person's body by the actor's sex organs, where the victim is not married to the actor and the touching is done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party.
(7) "Sexual intercourse" means any act between persons involving penetration, however slight, of the female sex organ by the male sex organ or involving contact between the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another person.
(8) "Sexual intrusion" means any act between persons involving penetration, however slight, of the female sex organ or of the anus of any person by an object for the purpose of degrading or humiliating the person so penetrated or for gratifying the sexual desire of either party.
(9) "Bodily injury" means substantial physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition.
(10) "Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death, which causes serious or prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ.
(11) "Deadly weapon" means any instrument, device or thing capable of inflicting death or serious bodily injury, and designed or specially adapted for use as a weapon, or possessed, carried or used as a weapon.
(12) "Forensic medical examination" means an examination provided to a possible victim of a violation of the provisions of this article by medical personnel qualified to gather evidence of the violation in a manner suitable for use in a court of law, to include: An examination for physical trauma; a determination of penetration or force; a patient interview; and the collection and evaluation of other evidence that is potentially relevant to the determination that a violation of the provisions of this article occurred and to the determination of the identity of the assailant.
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I tacked this clip onto last night's QOTD but figured Christie-haters would enjoy seeing it get some extra attention. Everyone knows the history between these two, yes? Quote:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) declined an invitation to go to Virginia and campaign on behalf of Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, according to MSNBC's Chuck Todd.
Citing an unnamed Republican source, Todd said on-air Tuesday night that "some senior conservative Republicans" asked Christie to campaign for Cuccinelli, but the re-elected New Jersey governor passed.
Cuccinelli was bested by Democrat Terry McAuliffe on [election day], although the margin was smaller than many observers expected.
The report calls to mind Christie's decision to decline an invitation to campaign in Pennsylvania for Mitt Romney days after Hurricane Sandy battered New Jersey.
Since Cooch is, I believe, the only semi-prominent Republican in the country who's calling for Christie to step down, I'm going to go ahead and treat the story about Christie snubbing him on the trail as now confirmed. Needless to say, though, unless and until Jersey Dems tie Christie to Bridgegate directly, there's not a whisper of a chance of it happening. Resigning as head of the RGA would be a tacit admission that this scandal is a Very Big Deal and that Christie's so tainted by it that he can no longer be effective as a fundraiser. Once he admits that, he's done in 2016. So he'll press on and hope it either goes away or turns him into some sort of martyr of lefty media to Republican audiences. That's the way GOP pols are betting: When Myra Adams asked two Republican strategists whether he should quit the group, they told her "Hell no" and "Outside of the liberal media, this Christie 'scandal' has no legs." Christie had been scheduled to fundraise last weekend with Rick Scott in Florida before Bridgegate broke, and while Scott's team reportedly debated whether to rescind the invite, they ultimately went ahead with the event, calculating apparently that a charismatic northeastern governor was still an asset on balance with wealthy Floridians even post-scandal. The only tweak to the Christie/Scott meeting, as far as I know, was that details were kept more secretive than usual — although, if you believe one of Scott's donor, that was at Christie's behest, not Scott's. Maybe the big guy just didn't want to be inundated with media asking about Bridgegate when he's busy trying to demonstrate his cachet to swing-state voters.
I'm surprised, actually, that tea partiers haven't made a bigger deal about urging Christie to resign from the RGA. If you want to brand him permanently as damaged goods before 2016, forcing him to shed his role as a party standard-bearer is the way to do it. How can you qualify to be your party's nominee if you can't qualify to head the RGA?


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In this workshop, you will explore approaches to migrating applications, walk through concerns and considerations to take into account while planning a migration, and learn how to implement a migration plan to move applications from on-premises (or traditional hosting) to Windows Azure.
In order to get the most out of this workshop, you'll need to set yourself up with a Windows Azure subscription. If you don't already have a Windows Azure subscription, see below to learn more about your options to trial Windows Azure for free. You will also need to download the Windows Azure Training Kit and tools.
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To get the most out of what is presented in this workshop, please activate a Windows Azure Trial Subscription using one of the three options outlined below. The Windows Azure Trial Subscription will allow you to deploy websites, virtual machines, create highly scalable applications in a rich PaaS environment and create a backed for your Windows 8 client app in minutes. It will also help you follow along during the hands-on labs!
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The Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs and presentations that are designed to help you learn how to use the latest Windows Azure features and services. These workshops will make use of the Windows Azure Training Kit.
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Previously, Astrotec's flagship hybrid model, AX60, turns out to be quite a disappointment. Not only its sound signature is nowhere close to that of AKG K3003, which is claimed reference target of the IEM, but also the sound quality itself is simply not up to the standard set by other Chinese manufacturers, such as Unique Melody or Vsonic.
Meanwhile, AX35 is Astrotec's low-end hybrid, featuring a ⌀10 mm dynamic woofer and a balanced armature tweeter. There is nothing too fancy about AX35: The filter is not replaceable, and only one pair of normal size sleeves come with the IEM. What can possibly be expected from such normalcy?


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Deluxe 4000 Memory Foam Mattress
The Concept Memory Sleep memory foam mattress 4000 is made with premium quality high-density memory foam and a superior underlying Reflex foam layer that helps distribute your weight evenly through the mattress.
The unique heat and weight reactive properties of memory foam allow you to gain a sleeping posture that helps support your neck back and spine.
The mattress is available in sizes ranging from 2ft6 to 6ft and comes complete with a luxurious dry-cleanable zip off cover.


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ESA Bulletin 157 (Feb 2014)
Inside this issue of the ESA Bulletin we have the first instalment of a comprehensive chronology of ESA, its predecessor organisations and the history of European cooperation in space. Read online
We join the celebrations as the space community marks the anniversary of the construction of Europe as a space power and 50 years of unique achievements in space. Fifty years of European cooperation in space is an anniversary for the whole space sector in Europe, which can be proud of its results. But what lessons can we take from this first 50 years?
ESA's Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain introduces our special features: a foreword written by guest contributor Dr John Krige, followed by the first of three installments in a complete chronology of important events over this period of European space history. Dr Krige has just published a book that describes the history of ESA from its origins in the two intergovernmental organisations, ESRO and ELDO, that preceded it in the 1960s, through its establishment in 1975 and on up to the present. Dr Krige answers the questions, 'What image do we get of ESA from this study?' and 'What are the lessons of this detailed history?'
'Copernicus: Moving From Development to Operations' is timed to coincide with the launch of Sentinel-1A, the first Copernicus satellite mission, at about the same time as the launch of the EU Copernicus programme. These events mark the beginning of the Copernicus operational phase and a major milestone for Earth observation in Europe.
In 'Getting 'Space' Experience on Earth', we take a look at the portfolio offered by ESA's Education and Knowledge Management Office for experiments to be built by university students. These range from drop-tower tests, hypergravity centrifuge tests, sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons campaigns - all designed to help young people gain and maintain an interest in science and technology.
Next there is the annual look back at highlights of the previous year - and some images that we didn't get to publish at the time but we think they're still impressive enough to share.
We round off with a reminder that every spring, ESA's ESRIN centre opens its doors to primary and secondary students, aged 8–13 years, together with their teachers. This event, which has taken place for the last 14 years, attracts children and teachers from over 30 schools in the Rome area. This year, the event is held between 18-21 March. Click here for more details.
The ESA Bulletin is published four times a year to inform the space-interested public of ESA's activities. In addition to a wide range of articles, every issue provides an overview of the status of ESA's major space projects.
The full archive of Bulletins is also available at ESA's Publications web site, www.esa.int/publications


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Gender And Molecular Gastronomy
Laura Shapiro on gender and molecular gastronomy in the New York Times, Kitchen Chemistry Is Chic, but Is It a Woman's Place?:
Maybe all the machines and chemicals are contributing to a revolution other than the one about frozen air and warm gelatin. "Restaurant kitchens were organized like military brigades, because that was the only way to turn out such a volume of work and make all the fast decisions that were necessary," said Mr. Goldfarb of Room 4 Dessert. "Now it's more like the modern military, using technology as opposed to brute strength."
But many women dreaming of a restaurant career still may not see the appeal of a laboratory kitchen. Ms. Yung and Ms. Sanchez have been struck by how few women are in high-end restaurant kitchens of any sort. "We're always wondering where the girls are," Ms. Yung said.
If you've read recent articles about women in technology, this article pretty much runs through the same old tropes as those do, just set in kitchens instead of boardrooms.
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Here is a feel-good story that I found in a display of "mood boosting" books at the library. If your mood needs even more encouragement or this is your favourite type of read, there are even people who produce lists for such things, so these should keep you going!
'A Street Cat Named Bob' is the true story of a cat who saves the life of a homeless drug addict in London, UK. It speaks to the power of pet love and the power of being needed. We all need meaning in our lives and unless we feel connected and useful, it is easy to become discouraged and make poor decisions. Here is a very good short documentary that will not detract from the reading of the book.
When James Bowen was earning his living on the streets and just barely scraping by, he found an injured ginger street cat. Two lost souls found each other and created a partnership that turned both their lives around. What I liked about the book is that it gives a human face to the homeless. These are people with stories and worth. They have fallen on hard times but perhaps a bit of kindness could turn things around and make a difference. I've always given to buskers because I appreciate the mood boosting music they provide in a dingy subway tunnel, but now I shall give even more generously and gleefully.
The best part about this heartwarming story is that the animal does not die at the end of the book! In fact there is a sequel as well with more adventures. I haven't read it yet, but The World According to Bob has firmly established James Bowen and Bob as celebrities who sign copies together at bookstores! From busking to bookstore attraction! What's not to love?


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For the first time in 45 years, homicide dropped out of the top 15 causes of death in the United States in 2010, according to a new government analysis of mortality trends.
Crime rates have been falling for decades, fueled by a range of social, demographic and law enforcement factors, but the just-released death figures from the National Center for Health Statistics underscore the decline.
"No one will believe you when you say assault is where it was in the 1960s," said Gary LaFree, director of the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland. "Homicide started to rise in 1963 and peaked in 1975."
The 4.3 percent drop in assault deaths last year was part of a larger good-news trend that saw a slight increase in U.S. life expectancy -- now 78.7 years -- and declines in the age-adjusted death rates for seven of the 15 leading causes of mortality, including heart disease and cancer, according to preliminary figures.
Overall, the adjusted death rate fell to a record low of 746.2 deaths per 100,000 people, with a total of more than 2.4 million deaths. Hawaii was the state with the lowest mortality, with an adjusted rate of 589.6 deaths per 100,000 people. Mississippi had the highest death rate, 961.9 per 100,000 people.
Rates for five of the top 15 causes of death went up, including increases of 3.3 percent for Alzheimer's disease and 4.6 percent for Parkinson's disease.
"It's the aging population," said Dr. Roy N. Alcalay, an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center. "They're not dying of these other diseases, so they're dying from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's."
Deaths from heart disease fell 2.4 percent, cancer deaths were down 0.6 percent, and deaths from chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke and accidents all fell by more than 1 percent.
Deaths from the bloodstream infection called septicemia fell by 3.6 percent and deaths caused by flu and pneumonia dropped a significant 8.5 percent.
"We're doing a number of things right," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert and chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Far fewer people died from influenza -- 494 deaths in 2010 vs. 2,918 in 2009 -- largely because of the impact of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, which spared older people and led to widespread vaccination and immunity, Schaffner said.
"More people were protected," he added.
Deaths from pneumonitis, or pneumonia caused by aspiration of bits of food, liquid or other substances, rose to 17,001 in 2010, up from 15,948 in 2009.
It's not clear why those deaths jumped by 4.1 percent last year, said Dr. Norman H. Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. Aspiration can be a complication of medical procedures, but it can be prevented by following basic precautions such as not eating for several hours before an operation.
That troublesome lung condition rose to become the 15th top cause of death in 2010, bumping homicides out of that ranking for the first time since 1965.
LaFree, the Maryland criminologist, said there are several recognized factors that have led to the drop in violent assault deaths, including more people in prison, better law enforcement practices, the end of the crack cocaine drug epidemic of the late 1990s -- and the aging of a large swath of the population made up of the baby boom generation.
"I think that the key factor for crime going up is a legitimacy crisis," said LaFree. "When people don't think things are fair, they're more likely to act out."
Here are top five causes of death in 2010:
1. Heart disease
2. Cancer
3. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4. Stroke
5. Accidents
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Joe Pug with special guests Ganges will perform through the Hope College Concert Series on Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Snow Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
Tickets are free for general admission, and will be available at the door.
On the day before his senior year at the University of South Carolina, Joe Pug packed up his belongings and drove the longest route possible to Chicago. Working as a carpenter by day, the 23-year-old Pug spent nights playing the guitar he hadn't picked up since his teenage years. Using ideas originally slated for a play he was writing called "Austin Fish," Pug began creating the "Nation of Heat" EP.
In May of 2008, Pug played the first headlining slot of his young career to a sold out crowd at Chicago's storied Schubas Tavern. Two weeks later he released "Nation of Heat," which has garnered near-universal critical acclaim. John Killingsworth, deputy editor of "Paste Magazine," has said of Pug, "While most singer/songwriters are content to warble out a few semi-clever turns of phrase, Pug's scorching poetry and soulful, 'every phrase could be my last' voice will stop you cold. If you want to read the actual endorsement, touch the Braille stretching up my arms. Twenty years from now, lazy journalists will compare every halfway decent songwriter to Joe Pug. Mark my words."
Ganges will be opening the show. Now based in Chicago, Ganges is originally from Holland. Ganges is led by Rob Kenagy, a 2008 Hope graduate whose previous projects have included They Were Thieves as well as original solo works.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.
The doors will open at 7:15 p.m. the night of the concert.


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Colleges Week feature: Many seniors and recent graduates of Catholic colleges have gotten a boost into the workforce from networks of graduates — or from satisfied employers impressed by their predecessors.
As Kayla Kermode began her senior year at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., last fall, she planned to put off serious job hunting until her second semester. Then recruiters from Wellpoint, a health insurer, were sent to campus by an alumnus. Now Kermode has a job waiting for her at Wellpoint.
Classmate Nathan Dunlap has a similar story. He'll be working for Pixomondo, a computer-animation firm. He was hired by the friend of his brother, a TAC alumnus who has been mentoring him for several years.
These students are typical of many seniors and recent graduates of Catholic colleges who have gotten a boost into the workforce from networks of graduates — or from satisfied employers impressed by their predecessors.
"They were looking for someone analytic, with problem-solving skills," Kermode said. "They'd already interviewed at several business schools, and this alumnus said, 'Okay. Why don't we try Thomas Aquinas? After all, you are pleased with my work, aren't you?'" They were and did.
"Apparently, they want people who don't just look at the numbers, but who can step back and see the big picture," Kermode explained.
This is precisely what is taught at Thomas Aquinas and other schools devoted to the Great Books approach. Students study classical writings, and then they explain and critique the works.
Dunlap is confident the program will serve him well: "Studying the philosophers — and watching movies — makes me think that the best stories are based on a good understanding of what it is to be a human being."
Thomas Aquinas spokeswoman Anne Forsyth says the college's learning approach "gives our students an edge. They aren't prepared for any particular job, but their reasoning has been honed by four years being challenged to analyze and defend ideas. That's good training for any job, and prospective employers know that."
About 10% of the school's grads go into the priesthood or religious life. Others go into the military, attend architecture or law schools, or pursue teaching, journalism, public-policy work and, lately, medicine.
John Paul the Great University in San Diego, which opened in 2004 with the mission to "Impact the Culture for Christ," is preparing students for the film industry and new media. The school offers undergrad specializations like video gaming, screenwriting and producing, as well as theology and New Evangelization; internships are procured with film companies such as Metanoia Films (maker of Bella). The school also offers master's degrees in business and biblical theology (see related stories in this section).
School spokeswoman Colleen Monroe, herself a recent grad, hopes for a career in costume design but expects she may have to create her own job. John Paul the Great stresses entrepreneurship. A film professor at the school has set an example by starting Yellow Line Studio, which produced a feature thriller, Red Line, in which many students, including Monroe, contributed.
Last year's graduating class includes a sister and a postulant with the Sisters of the Vineyard Chaldean Convent, who are helping to run an online TV station for Catholics in the Middle East; the owner of a start-up wedding videography company; a graphic artist making TV commercials; a Catholic blogger; a writer and story developer at Yellow Line Studio; the owner of a start-up brewery; and a "biomimicrist" who works at the San Diego Zoo studying animal behavior that could solve engineering problems.
Matt Salisbury started a motion-graphics company when he graduated in 2009. "We were inspired by An Inconvenient Truth and some of the spots being done for the Obama campaign, but we wanted to work for pro-life and Catholic organizations," Salisbury said. Now, seven JP the Great students and graduates work part time for Creative Rhetoric.
"I was always entrepreneurial," Salisbury said. "But I'd probably be working for others if JP the Great hadn't forced me to take accounting and business planning."
At Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, a survey of 2010 grads revealed only 4% are jobless, with 85% employed full time, in religious life or attending graduate school.
Nancy Ronevich, the director of career services at Franciscan, said its students have a reputation for being good thinkers with a well-rounded education. Many teach or nurse in Catholic institutions and join diocesan or parish staffs. Others go into the armed forces or work for such government agencies as the FBI. Many also go on to law or medical school.
Informal networks of alumni provide job tips and mentor current students. Franciscan also offers a fraternity-like group of "households" that not only live and worship together when on campus, but provide an ongoing link between the school and alumni in the workplace.
The University of Dallas has educated five of Patrick Fagan's children. Fagan, the director of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, said that the university "provides preparation for life. If you come away with a good grade-point average, employers know you are bright and can work hard."
Fagan's son Thomas, UD '07, a stockbroker, says the largest grouping of Dallas grads outside of Texas is in the Washington, D.C., area, as he is; most work in government or public-policy jobs. He found his job through a friend.
His sister Margaret, '05, also found her teaching job at a Maryland Catholic school through a friend. Though UD has an education program, which she did not enter, what she did study "gave me a very structured perspective with the subjects all interwoven. It gave me a love of poetry and eye for beauty and a love of ideas."
Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.
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- Certified Labels (such as "Animal Welfare Approved," "Certified Humane," and "USDA Organic") are defined by a formal set of publicly available animal care standards, and compliance with those standards is verified by a third-party audit. Consumers should look for these labels.
- Unverified Claims (such as "cage free," "free range," and "pasture raised") are relevant to animal welfare but the standards are vague and/or weak, and compliance isn't verified by an independent audit. While not as reliable as certified labels, consumers should choose these products over products without any welfare claims.
- Meaningless or Misleading Claims (such as "natural," "no added hormones" when used on poultry or pork, and "cage free" when used on meat chicken or turkey) are meaningless or misleading in terms of animal welfare. Consumers should avoid products with these claims.
When consumers in a survey by Demeter Communications were asked what they would like to know about food production that they didn't currently know, more than two-thirds said they wanted to know what farmers are doing to ensure animal care. In another survey commissioned by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, 70 percent of consumers said their food purchasing decisions are influenced by how food is grown or raised. However, while consumers want this information, they are not currently receiving it from package labels – the preferred source of information for a large majority of shoppers. For example, only 2 percent of consumers responding to a survey conducted for AWI were able to correctly identify the definition of "natural" when used on meat products.
"The welfare of animals raised for food is important to consumers and is increasingly a strong consideration in buying food," said Dena Jones, AWI's farm animal program manager. "Unfortunately, few people outside the food industry and U.S. Department of Agriculture understand the meaning of the various claims used on packaging. This guide helps consumers decipher label claims and make decisions consistent with their values regarding how animals raised for food should be treated."
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The search for the next Crestview head football coach and athletic director heats up this week. Thursday marks two weeks since Kevin Pettis filed his resignation to accept the job as head coach at Sebastian River High School in Indian River County. Pettis� last day on the job was Friday.
The search for the next Crestview head football coach and athletic director heats up this week.
Thursday marks two weeks since Kevin Pettis filed his resignation to accept the job as head coach at Sebastian River High School in Indian River County.
Pettis� last day on the job was Friday.
A search committee has begun the process of reviewing potential candidates. I will do everything I can to get information about the search and how things are going.
One name that won�t be on the list of possible candidates is Crestview assistant principal Dexter Day. Day, a finalist for the job two years ago, is in charge of the search committee.
When I started hearing rumors that Pettis might be leaving, I wrote a column endorsing Day as the right man to helm the Bulldog football team and athletic program.
Day would have been the perfect choice. He is a former Crestview standout in football and baseball and he's a no- nonsense disciplinarian, well respected by everyone I�ve spoken with in the Crestview community. Day talks the talk and walks the walk.
In hearing the scuttlebutt within the community, it�s obvious there are factions within the Bulldog family that don�t see eye to eye. Frankly, the family is fractured and divided; it needs a coach that can bring it back together.
Day could have united the community and helped heal some of the hurt ailing the Bulldog program.
With Day seemingly out of the picture to take the job, it's reassuring that he�s the guy leading the search for the new coach and athletic director.
Day�s lifelong love for his school and community will help guide the committee as it evaluates potential coaches. Day knows football's Xs and Os, he knows the Jimmys and Joes who will take the field for the Bulldogs in the fall, and he knows what kind of coach Crestview needs to be successful.
Crestview's new coach must get the Bulldogs back to winning after a pair of 4-6 seasons in which the school finished 2-3 in district play each year and failed to make the playoffs.
The coach also will be responsible with guiding the Bulldogs up into their recently announced 7A classification.
This job is not one for the faint of heart.
The new coach�s job got harder last week, when junior All-State defensive end Denzel Ware withdrew from the school and announced on Facebook he was enrolling in school in Opp, Ala.
Since the job also includes an athletic director's administrative duties it�s important to have someone who cares about all the school's sports calling the shots.
In reality, the job is that of football coach first.
The coach/athletic director will ultimately be judged by the number of football games his teams win. No matter how successful the baseball team or girls soccer team might be, he will first be judged as the football coach and then as the athletic director.
It�s no stretch to say this hire might be the biggest in the Crestview football program's history. The right hire has the potential to set the program on a course for success for many years to come.
So let the search begin.
Here�s wishing the committee success in this all-important hire and the new coach a long and happy career at Crestview.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524


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