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Firefighters are making progress in battling a deadly blaze that has become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports from the frontlines where firefighters are holding their ground. So far, two lives have been lost in the wildfire.
Firefighters made some progress battling a massive, deadly wildfire near Colorado Springs late Friday when cooler temperatures, rain and calmer winds swept in, allowing them to increase containment to 30 percent.
Mandatory evacuation orders for thousands of Colorado Springs residents were lifted, according to NBC station KOAA of Pueblo, Colo.
More than 38,000 people were evacuated at the peak of the blaze.
The fire, the worst in the state's history, has killed two people and made ashes of 419 homes.
Authorities were hopeful about being able to stem the blaze.
"We had a real good day without wind in comparison to previous days," El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said at a news conference Friday afternoon. "The cloud cover we got to experience and finally the rain made a tremendous impact especially with that duff that lines the ground and we've seen a lot of smoldering over the last several days. So some things finally turned in our favor ... and I think if you look at it as a fight, we got our tails kicked for a couple days."
The fire raged mostly uncontrolled for days, with a burn zone covering nearly 25 square miles. One of three major fires raging in Colorado, the Black Forest fire is now the most destructive on record in the state.
The two people killed by the fire appeared to have been planning to flee the area before the fire caught up with them, authorities said. The fire's cause will now be investigated as a possible homicide, Maketa said earlier.
Drought conditions fuel blazes in the U.S.
The two victims were on the phone as flames ringed their home, he said.
"It appears as though the individuals were in the garage, the car doors were open as though they were loading or grabbing last minute things, and all indications are from the evidence on scene that they were planning to depart very quickly," Maketa said.
Aircraft dropping flame-retardant chemicals swooped low over the wooded residential areas as 750 firefighters on the ground tried to battle back the licking flames that threatened to encroach on the city limits of Colorado Springs. Military and National Guard personnel have joined in the fight as bone-dry conditions and whipping winds have driven the fast-moving blaze.
The Waldo Canyon fire destroyed 346 homes in the Colorado Springs area last year, making it then the most destructive Colorado wildfire on record. That fire killed two people and forced about 35,000 more to be evacuated.
The U.S. Air Force Academy, located immediately north of Colorado Springs, announced Friday morning that it had opened its Emergency Family Assistance control center to help area residents affected by the fire.
The Black Forest fire has become the most destructive in Colorado history, devouring more than 360 homes. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
A separate wildfire in the state, the Royal Gorge fire, shut down the historic Royal Gorge Bridge and a surrounding amusement park, and caused the evacuation of 900 inmates from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility.
That fire destroyed 48 structures surrounding the bridge, which stretches 950 feet above the Arkansas River and is located 15 miles from Cañon City. It had burned 3,142 acres by Friday night and was 40 percent contained, NBC station KUSA of Denver reported.
"We've see a lot of pictures of the damage, but it's nothing that's not recoverable," Fremont County Commissioner Debbie Bell told the Cañon City Daily Record. "Fremont County and Cañon City are still strong and viable. We are going to survive this."
The Big Meadows fire in Rocky Mountain National Park was reported to have spread over 333 acres by late Thursday, according to NBC News affiliate KUSA. That fire was in a remote area and did not threaten any residences or communities.
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Ever since the social networking fad hit the internet a new genre of photography has become the most popular form of photography in history. It's called "BAD" photography.
For some reason, when Instagram brought out its handful of filters, everyone and all of their cousins were so overwhelmed with the newness of filters they were instantly compelled to use them. They didn't just use the filters for 'effect' or once-in-a-while where it actually fit the subject matter -- they used them on every shot. Thus begins the age of bad photography.
Okay ... so it was 'cool' for you to put up pictures of yourself in a mirror -- or okay to use your cel phone to grab a shot of the hairs on your dog's nose. But seriously folks, when 'bad' becomes the norm, that's a bad reflection on you. I guess the "old washed out Polaroid" filter is the most used. I think most people have that one as the default. And since there's only a few filters, we end up seeing the same tired effect in hundreds of thousands of images.
So you can imagin how we laughed out loud when a reader sent these top ten photos we wish you wouldn't post. We were compelled to post them because it's a pretty good laugh at ourselves. They're funny, but seriously -- not really that funny. We have no idea where they came from or who put this together but BRAVO -- thanks for sending them in.
The Top 25 Photos We Wish We Didn't Have To Look At
So, if you were just getting ready to post your most recent selfie, or feet in the sand, or booz, or dog's nose to Facebook, please think twice. Is it really important? Do you think everyone wants to see it? Is it unique? Does it make a statement? Does it go along with anything else ... in the news or happenings that your readers / viewers will be familiar with? Or, does it just give you self gratification?
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Baking in Glass vs Metal
Do you get different results baking in glass vs metal?
I have made Gourmet's Banana Cake with Coconut Frosting several times recently (one layer cake). The recipe calls for a metal pan, but I've always chosen glass. Am I somehow skewing my results by not using metal?
Glass seems and feels more "clean" to me; also, when I (dish)wash my metal pans, rust drips from the corners and edges, which freaks me out (the pans are new).
PS - this isn't a plug for banana cake; it's just a semi-recent recipe that I found easy to make, and hubby loves it!
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Montreal native battles way to ninth-place finish and two points in drivers' standings after starting 17th on grid for Canadian Grand Prix.
Stu Cowan: Lance Stroll gives hometown F1 fans reason to celebrate
There were lots of hugs and kisses in the Racing Point paddock following Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix — and for good reason.
Montreal native Lance Stroll, who started 17th on the grid, battled his way to a ninth-place finish, earning two points in the Formula One drivers' standings and matching his best finish this season. The 20-year-old placed ninth at the season-opening race in Australia and ninth again three races later in Azerbaijan before failing to earn any points at Spain and Monaco. Stroll has six points from seven races this season with the new Racing Point team that is financed by a consortium led by his billionaire father, Lawrence.
Stroll's father and mother, Claire-Anne, were celebrating with friends and family in the Racing Point paddock area shortly after Sunday's race ended and before their son arrived after getting out of his car.
"It's so exciting … so nerve-racking," Stroll's mother said. "But he deserved it and he did a perfect job today. He managed his tires, he did everything perfectly, so I'm very proud of him. We'll definitely do something to celebrate tonight and it's good that it's here."
The weekend didn't get off to a good start for Stroll after a new engine put in his Racing Point car for this race exploded during the first practice session Saturday and burst into flames. Stroll's mechanics were able to install the old engine in time for the qualifying session and that's the one he used for the race.
What was going through Stroll's mind when he arrived at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Sunday morning?
"Positive vibes," he said. "Home race. Every Sunday is a roll of the dice, if you ask me, wherever we start on the grid and especially here in Montreal. I remember two years ago being in a very similar position and walking away Sunday afternoon with a big smile on my face, and that's exactly what happened today. However, we worked a bit harder for it today, I must say. It was some really bold moves out there that I had to make in order to gain positions and a great strategy by the team."
During his rookie F1 season two years ago, Stroll had the exact same result at the Canadian Grand Prix, finishing ninth to earn his first two career points in the F1 drivers' standings after starting 17th on the grid in his Williams car. Last year, Stroll crashed early on the first lap and fans sitting in the Lance Stroll Grandstand at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve never got a chance to watch him drive past even once.
His fans had a lot to cheer about on Sunday as the hometown boy put on a great show.
The Racing Point strategy had Stroll starting out on hard tires and he was able to move up to ninth place after 10 laps and was in eighth spot when he went in for his one and only pit stop on Lap 46 of the 70-lap race, coming out on medium tires. Stroll was able to pass McLaren's Carlos Sainz on Lap 68 and held on to finish ninth.
"We had good tire management throughout the race," Stroll said. "They really gave me good feedback and I felt I had a good relationship with the tires throughout the race today, which allowed me to go really, really long and start on a fresh set of medium tires with only 20 laps to go and attack Sainz. So that was really a key to the race today."
Stroll's Racing Point teammate, Sergio Perez of Mexico, finished 12th in the race, which was won by Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, followed by the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc. The Racing Point team was formed when a consortium led by Stroll's father bought Force India's assets last summer after the team fell into financial difficulty. Stroll's father had his son replace driver Esteban Ocon on the newly named team this season.
"I looked at it as a business opportunity, coupling that with spending time speaking to F1 to understand their vision from 2021 (when new regulations are expected), which is some sort of budget cap and some sort of a better revenue distribution to the smaller teams," Lawrence Stroll said in an interview with Formula1.com after taking control of the team. "That makes great business sense for a company like this, as this is the model of direction closer to where the future will go.
"Long term, when all the rules change, hopefully we will be one of the greatest teams in the paddock," added the father, who made his fortune in the fashion industry with the Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger brands and has a net worth of US$2.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Sunday was a day of celebration for the Racing Point team and the entire Stroll family. The driver was asked if he can imagine what it might be like if he ever finishes on the podium or takes the checkered flag at the Canadian Grand Prix in front of his family and hometown fans.
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With the PlayStation Network currently suffering major outages, possibly due to a targeted attack from "an outside party" many thought that hacker collective Anonymous had once again set its sights on the network. However, according to the group they are not responsible.
Anonymous backed off the PSN earlier, claiming that hurting consumers was not their plan, but earlier today SCEE spoke out about the recent PSN problems:
As you are no doubt aware, the current emergency outage is continuing this afternoon and all Sony Online Network services remain unavailable. Our support teams are investigating the cause of the problem, including the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party. If the reported Network problems are indeed caused by such acts, we would like to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service.
Over on the OpSony IRC – the main chat system used to plan and orchestrate attacks against Sony, the topic heading is "NO, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO PSN", with users all claiming ignorance to the attack. Equally, no press releases have been released announcing a renewed DDoS assault.
A source close to the original attacks – which brought down the PSN and several Sony sites – did reveal to PlayStation LifeStyle that the new offensive could be being organised by individuals who disagreed with Anonymous' soft stance towards PSN users, but could not elaborate on who they might be,
Has a new organisation formed that has absolutely no regard for consumers? PSLS will keep you updated as the downtime develops.


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First instrument for the JWST is completed and handed over to NASA
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After more than ten years of work by more than 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter's moons, has been declared ready for delivery by the European Space Agency and NASA. The MIRI Optical System, an instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that will eventually take up a position four times further away from the Earth than the Moon. It will now be shipped to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where it will be integrated with the other three instruments and the telescope.
MIRI is the first of the four instruments on board the JWST to be completed. The handover ceremony between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in London today is the culmination of a long term collaboration effort from teams across both continents.
Attending the ceremony was David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, who said:
"MIRI is the impressive result of more than ten years of work, led by Britain in partnership with Europe. With world-leading space research facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, a host of excellent universities and strategic direction from the UK Space Agency, the UK is clearly well placed to contribute to major global missions. I am extremely proud to be here for the handover of MIRI to NASA's James Webb team."
The UK guided the development work by these teams, in addition to employing UK technologies in the construction of key components and carrying out the assembly, integration, testing and ground calibration at the Science and Technology Facility Council's (STFC) RAL Space. The instrument has been subjected to exhaustive mechanical and thermal testing at the same facility to make sure it can not only survive the rigors of a journey into space, but also remain operational for the life of the mission.
Gillian Wright, the European Principal Investigator for MIRI based at STFC's Astronomy Technology Centre said:
"The whole team is delighted that our hard work and dedication has resulted in a MIRI instrument that will meet all our scientific expectations. It is wonderful to be the first to achieve this major milestone for the JWST project. We can now look forward to significant scientific discoveries when it is launched."
MIRI will allow astronomers to explore the formation of planets around distant stars and could even pave the way for investigations into the habitability of other planetary systems.
MIRI offers a sensitivity and resolution many times greater than any other mid-IR instrument in existence today or for the foreseeable future. It will be able to penetrate the dust obscuring distant objects, allowing for smaller and fainter objects than have ever been detected to be mapped in unprecedented detail. Its wavelength of 5 to 28 microns brings a unique scientific capability among the other instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI will therefore have a key role in the study of light that has travelled from the early moments of the universe by JWST. These wavelengths bring additional technical challenges due to the extremely low operating temperatures necessary (-266.5ºc). Unlike the other JWST instruments MIRI will be cooled by a dedicated cooler provided by JPL.
At today's handover, Eric Smith, JWST Deputy Program Director from NASA HQ said:
"The delivery of JWST's MIRI is a significant achievement and an important milestone on our collective journey in creating a space telescope that will dramatically alter our understanding of the universe. On behalf of NASA and the JWST program I want to congratulate the MIRI team for their dedication to scientific excellence and the resulting superb instrument. I'm excited about the upcoming integration and testing of MIRI with the other science instruments and look forward to continued collaboration with the team."
Mark McCaughrean, Head of the Research & Scientific Support Department of the European Space Agency said:
"It is an immensely challenging project, but together with our US and Canadian colleagues, European scientists and engineers have successfully risen to the challenge and are now delivering key parts of JWST to NASA."
Facilities at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory had to be specially designed to simulate the environment the instrument will experience in space and account for it's extremely low operating temperatures. The instrument was assembled from major sub-systems that had already been built-up and thoroughly tested in the partner institutes. The RAL test chamber was then used to test the performance of all the scientific operating modes of the instrument and obtain critical calibration observations. Such rigorous testing promotes confidence in the science it will do when the mission is launched.
MIRI will now be transported the Goddard Space Flight Center in a specially constructed environmental container designed to protect it from moisture and keep the temperature stable. Once there it will start the long process of integration with the other instruments, two years of testing to ensure that they all function together correctly, and then integration and test with the telescope optics. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for 2018.
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MIRI is provided by a nationally-funded consortium of European institutes in a partnership with JPL.
The UK's lead role in the instrument involves taking responsibility for the overall science performance, the mechanical, thermal and optical design, along with the assembly, integration, testing and calibration. These roles are shared between the UK institutions in the partnership as follows:
· UK ATC, Edinburgh – European PI for the instrument; scientific leadership; responsible for the overall optical design and integrated analyses, developing the overall calibration, and providing the spectrometer pre-optics and calibration subsystems.
· RAL Space, Oxfordshire – responsible for overall thermal design and analysis and production of all thermal hardware; assembly, integration, testing & verification of MIRI-OS instrument including provision of bespoke test facilities; instrument ground calibration.
· University of Leicester – responsible for integrated mechanical design and analysis; provision of instrument primary structure (in partnership with Danish National Space Centre); provision of mechanical ground support equipment.
· Astrium – Under project manager John Thatcher, Astrium Ltd is responsible for the European project management and leading the instrument systems engineering as well as providing the product assurance expertise for the consortium in direct support to the principal investigator.
The other ESA member states that are part of the MIRI European consortium are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden.
JWST is a joint project of NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency. It is scheduled to launch in 2018 and will carry four scientific instruments: MIRI (mid-infrared camera and spectrograph), NIRSpec (near-infrared spectrograph), NIRCam (near-infrared camera), and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS).
MIRI provides imaging, coronagraphy and integral field spectroscopy over the 5-28 micron wavelength range. It is designed as a modular system combining multiple optical configurations in a single instrument. The structural heart of the instrument is a highly light weighted bench developed at the University of Leicester that supports all the optics. The integral field spectrometer uses specially developed image slicers, built at the UK-ATC to enable simultaneous spectroscopy over an astronomical object. The challenging thermal requirements meant that a specially designed blanket was developed by RAL Space to protect the instrument optics from the thermal radiation of the observatory.
The work in Europe is funded by the following National Agencies and ESA:
Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), Centre Nationale D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; DTU Space, Deutsches Zentrum Für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Enterprise Ireland, ESA, Max Planck Society, Ministerio de Economy Competitividad , Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Swiss Space Office, Swedish National Space Board, UK Space Agency, Wallenberg Foundation.
MIRI draws on the scientific and technical expertise of the following organisations: Ames Research Center, USA; Astrium Ltd., UK; CEA-Irfu, Saclay, France; Centre Spatial de Liége, Belgium; Consejo Superior de Investigacones Científicas, Spain; Carl Zeiss Optronics, Germany; Centro de Astrobiologa (INTA-CSIC), Spain; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; DTU Space, Denmark; Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland; Durham University, UK; European Space Agency, Netherlands; TAS-ETCA, Belgium; Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; Institute d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France; Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial, Spain; Institute of Astronomy, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh, UK; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA; Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), France; Lockheed Advanced Technology Center (USA); NOVA-Astron Op-IR instrumentation group; Northrop Grumman, USA; Max-Planck Institut fűr Astronomie (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany; Observatoire de Paris, France; Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland; Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland; Physikalishes Institut, Bern, Switzerland; Raytheon Vision Systems, USA; RUAG Aerospace, Switzerland; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK; Space Telescope Science Institute, USA; Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO-TPD), Netherlands; UK Astronomy Technology Centre UK; University College London, UK; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Arizona, USA; University of Cardiff, UK; University of Cologne, Germany; University of Ghent, Belgium; University of Groningen, Netherlands; University of Leicester, UK; University of Leiden, Netherlands; University of Leuven, Belgium; University of Stockholm, Sweden; Utah State Univ., USA.
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Inspired by the gentle sweetness of "Winnie the Pooh," with nothing too scary for even the youngest moviegoer, we asked parents and caregivers to recall those movie scenes that really did frighten their children.
Yes, children's films have always had their scary moments. Bambi's mom dying, anyone? Old Yeller? Cruella De Vil wanting to make those poor little Dalmatians into coats? Scary scenes make the happy ending worthwhile, and most kids can handle some intense moments, especially if mom or dad is right close by.
But sometimes, parents felt that certain scenes came out of nowhere, like the incinerator scene in "Toy Story 3." That franchise has featured frightening moments before — remember Sid's mutant toys from the first film? But the incinerator scene was mentioned again and again, so if it gave your heart a jolt, or stressed out the toddler next to you, you're not alone.
Here are some of the movie moments you mentioned.
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"My 4-year-old son had to be taken out of the theater when he saw the cymbal-clanging monkey in Toy Story 3. Even now, when my daughter (2) wants to watch the movie, he asks — even before I put the DVD in — if I will skip the monkey part. He's not a very frightful kid, but the monkey really scares him." — Liz, Wash.
"Toy Story 3, hands down, was the creepiest "children's" film I have ever taken my children to. Lotso is such a dark character. The incinerator scene in Toy Story 3 scared ALL of my children. We watched the movie in the theater and even my oldest, at age 10, was crying. We have Toy Story and Toy Story 2 on DVD, but I refuse to purchase Toy Story 3." — Jennifer, Minn.Story: Are Woody and Buzz really going to burn up?
What happened to 'Nemo's' mom?
"My 2 1/2 year old son is terrified of the opening scene in 'Finding Nemo,' where Marlin and Coral are attacked by that big fish and the fish eats Coral and all the fish eggs except Nemo. Even if we skip that scene, he refuses to watch that movie; he's convinced there will be a scary big fish in every scene. Strangely, this is the only movie scene he's terrified of — he didn't flinch at all at other movies ('Toy Story 3's' incinerator scene or anything in 'Cars 2,' both of which we saw in the theatres)." — Nicole
Stop those 'Cars'
"I took my niece and nephew to watch 'Cars 2,' while the 1st movie was about friendship, the sequel stepped it up 5 notches. It was between a mix of 'Fast and the Furious' and 007 all in one. I was surprised to see so MANY guns in the movie. So many shoot outs, it was just too much for a 6 year old and a 3 yr old!" — Alma, Georgia
'Ice Age 2,' 'Gremlins,' but not Darth Vader
"The flood in 'Ice Age 2 The Meltdown' had my 5 1/2 year old begging to leave the theater... 'Gremlins' actually scares both my boys, especially the 8 year old ! But not Darth Vader, who scared the heck out of me as a kid." — Kim, S.C.
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'Ratatouille': Shoot those rats
"I asked a ToysRus employee what would be a good movie for my 3-yr-old. I told him that I didn't approve of guns and wanted something he could watch that did not contain ANY guns or violence. He recommended the Disney movie 'Ratatouille' to me. I brought it home and just to be sure, put it in while the kids were napping to check it out. Wham-bam first scene is of a grandmother-type woman pulling out a shotgun and shooting her whole house up trying to kill all of the rats!" — Sarah, Florida
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Bevacizumab to Treat Kaposi's Sarcoma in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00055237
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 21, 2003
Results First Posted : July 26, 2012
Last Update Posted : September 6, 2017
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This study will examine the safety and effectiveness of the experimental drug bevacizumab for treating both non-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). KS tumors depend on the formation of new blood vessels for their growth. Bevacizumab is an antibody to a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) that is produced by the body and is involved in blood vessel growth. Bevacizumab may block the action of VEGF, and thus help shrink KS lesions.
Patients 18 years of age and older with Kaposi's sarcoma that is restricted to the skin and is not life threatening may be eligible for this study. Candidates will be screened with a medical history and physical examination, blood and urine tests, electrocardiogram (EKG), chest x-ray, and, if needed, imaging studies to evaluate internal tumors.
Participants will receive bevacizumab intravenously (by vein) once a week for 2 weeks and then every 3 weeks at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. The first infusion takes about 90 minutes, the second takes about 60 minutes, and subsequent infusions take about 30 minutes. Infusions may take longer, however, if the drug is better tolerated at a slower infusion rate. Patients will be evaluated with the following tests and procedures:
- Physical examination, assessment of drug side effects, measurement of KS lesions, and photographs of lesions once a week for the first 6 weeks of therapy, and then every 3 weeks.
- cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell counts and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral load in HIV-positive patients every 12 weeks.
- Biopsies of lesions: upon entering the study, at week 12, and at the time of a response of the tumor to therapy or at the end of treatment, if treatment ends at week 18 or later.
- Additional biopsies, if requested. (Additional biopsies are not required.)
- Other procedures, such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, if medically indicated.
Patients may continue bevacizumab therapy indefinitely if they are benefiting from it, as long as they have no substantial toxicity or other conditions that would cause them to stop receiving it and the protocol remains open.
|Condition or disease
|Kaposi's Sarcoma HIV Infections HIV Seronegativity
|Biological: Bevacizumab
|Phase 2
This is a phase II study to determine the activity of bevacizumab, a putative antiangiogenic agent, in Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Bevacizumab is a humanized recombinant antibody to vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF), an important cytokine in the pathogenesis of KS.
To assess the antitumor effect of bevacizumab 15 mg/kg administered intravenously once every three weeks in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Other objectives include assessment of the antitumor effect of bevacizumab 15 mg/kg administered intravenously once every three weeks in patients with classical KS; assessment of the toxicity profile of bevacizumab in HIV-infected and HIV-negative patients with KS; exploration in a preliminary fashion effect of bevacizumab on KS progression free survival; and study of a number of biochemical parameters, including stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) expression in KS lesions; human herpes virus-8 (HHV-8) viral load in peripheral blood mononuclear cells; serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels over the course of treatment; and changes in viral interleukin 6 (IL-6) levels over the course of treatment.
Key eligibility parameters include HIV-associated or classical Kaposi's sarcoma, age greater than or equal to 18 years, and life expectancy greater than 6 months. Patients with HIV infection must have either KS progression on a regimen of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for at least one month, or no KS regression while on an optimized regimen of HAART for 4 months or longer.
Patients will be sequentially enrolled, administered a loading dose of 15 mg/kg bevacizumab intravenously on day 1, and then administered 15 mg/kg bevacizumab intravenously every 3 weeks beginning one week after the loading dose. The drug will be temporarily discontinued for toxicity, intercurrent major surgical procedures, or other factors that would pose a safety concern. Patients will undergo a biopsy of a KS lesion at entry, on cycle 4, day 21, and at the time of a formal response or when the patient stops treatment. Patients will undergo a number of other tests as well, including blood tests and non-invasive imaging studies of KS lesions.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|19 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study of Intravenous Recombinant Humanized Anti-Vascular Endothelial Cell Growth Factor Antibody (Bevacizumab) in Classical (HIV-Negative) and in AIDS-Associated Kaposi's Sarcoma
|Actual Study Start Date :
|February 26, 2003
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 15, 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 15, 2010
Experimental: Cohort 1: Pts with HIV-associated Kaposi's Sarcoma
15 mg/kg bevacizumab intravenously on days 1 and 8 then every 3 weeks.
Biological: Bevacizumab
15 mg/kg day intravenously on day 1, day 8, then every 3 weeks.
Other Name: Avastin
Experimental: Cohort 2: Pts with classic Kaposi's Sarcoma (HIV-uninfected)
15 mg/kg bevacizumab intravenously on days 1 and 8 then every 3 weeks.
Biological: Bevacizumab
15 mg/kg day intravenously on day 1, day 8, then every 3 weeks.
Other Name: Avastin
- Response Rate [ Time Frame: 36 months ]Percentage of participants with a complete response (CR) + partial response (PR)per the Modified AIDS Clinical Trial Group Criteria (ACTG) for HIV-KS. PR is a 50% decrease in the number and/or size of previously existing lesions for 4 weeks; or complete flattening of at least 50% of all previously raised lesions lasting for at least 4 weeks; or a 50% decrease in the sum of the products of the largest perpendicular diameters of the marker lesions lasting for at least 4 weeks; CR is the absence of any detectable residual disease, including tumor associated edema, persisting for at least 4 weeks.
- Number of Participants With Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 70 months ]Here are the number of participants with adverse events. For the detailed list of adverse events, see the adverse event module.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Age greater than or equal to 18 years.
Kaposi's sarcoma pathologically confirmed by Center for Cancer Research (CCR) pathology.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status less than or equal to 2.
Life expectancy greater than 6 months.
The following hematologic parameters:
- Hemoglobin greater than 9 g/dl;
- White blood cell (WBC) greater than 1000/mm^3;
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than 750/mm^3;
- Platelets greater than 75,000/mm^3;
- Prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) less than or equal to 120% of control, unless patient has the presence of a lupus anticoagulant.
The following hepatic parameters:
Bilirubin less than or equal to 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) unless the patient is receiving protease inhibitor therapy known to be associated with increased bilirubin:
in this case total bilirubin less than or equal to 7.5 mg/dl and the direct fraction less than or equal to 0.7 mg/dl.
-Examples of protease inhibitors known to increase bilirubin levels include indinavir, ritonavir, nelfinavir, and atazanavir.
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) less than or equal to 2.5 times the upper limit of normal.
Either Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.5 mg/dL or measured creatinine clearance greater than or equal to 60 mL/min.
Either Urine protein less than 1+ or measured 24 hour urine protein less than 500 milligram.
Blood pressure: systolic blood pressure (SBP) less than 160 mm/Hg; diastolic blood pressure (DBP) less than 95 mm/Hg.
At least 5 assessable cutaneous lesions previously untreated by local therapy.
Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection must be willing to comply with a regimen of highly active antiretroviral therapy and be on a regimen of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) selected for best potential efficacy for at least 1 month with evidence of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) progression on the HAART regimen or be on a optimized regimen of HAART for 4 months or longer with no evidence of KS regression.
Patients must be willing to use effective birth control.
Symptomatic, extensive pulmonary involvement.
Symptomatic visceral KS excluding the oral cavity.
Inability to provide informed consent.
Chemotherapy within 3 weeks.
Prior therapy with SU5416.
Supraphysiologic doses of corticosteroids within 3 weeks.
Major surgical procedure (including periodontal) within 4 weeks.
Surgical or other non-healing wounds unrelated to KS.
Breast feeding.
Past or present history of malignant tumors other than KS unless: a) in a complete remission for greater than or equal to 1 year from the time a response was first documented; b) completely resected basal cell carcinoma; or c) in situ squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix or anus.
Evidence of a severe or life-threatening infection within 2 weeks of entry onto the study.
A condition that would require the patient to receive intravenous antibiotics on a day of bevacizumab infusion.
Need for chronic daily aspirin greater than or equal to 325 mg/daily or nonsteroidal medication interfering with platelet function.
Therapeutic anticoagulation with international normalized ratio (INR) greater than 1.5, unless the patient is on full dose warfarin. If a patient is on full-dose anticoagulants, the following criteria should be met for enrollment:
The subject must have an in-range INR (usually between 2 and 3) on a stable dose of warfarin or on stable dose of low molecular weight (LMW) heparin;
The subject must not have active bleeding or pathological conditions that carry high risk of bleeding (e.g. tumor involving major vessels).
History of deep venous or arterial thrombosis.
History of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Clinically significant cardiovascular disease such as uncontrolled hypertension (with systolic BP greater than 160 mm/Hg or diastolic blood pressure greater than 95 mm/Hg), unstable angina, New York Heart Association grade II or greater congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, clinically significant peripheral artery disease, grade II or greater peripheral vascular disease, myocardial infarction.
Substantial central nervous system (CNS) disease including history of CNS bleeding, mass lesions in the brain, uncontrolled seizure disorder, recent history of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) (e.g. within the past 6 months), history of transient ischemic attack (TIA) within the past 6 months..
Patients with unstable bone fractures that are not stress/weight bearing able.
Patients with any other abnormality that would be scored as a grade 3 toxicity, except lymphopenia, direct manifestations of KS, direct manifestation of HIV, direct manifestation of HIV therapy, hyperbilirubinemia associated with protease inhibitors, asymptomatic hyperuricemia.
Previous intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) or monoclonal antibody therapy within 30 days prior to enrollment.
Known hypersensitivity to bevacizumab.
Known hypersensitivity to Chinese hamster ovary cell products.
Known hypersensitivity to other recombinant human or humanized antibodies.
Previous bevacizumab.
Any condition that, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator or Study Chairperson, would preclude the inclusion of a patient onto this research study.
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): NCT00055237
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert Yarchoan, M.D.
|National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
|Responsible Party:
|Robert Yarchoan, Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|February 21, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|July 26, 2012
|Last Update Posted:
|September 6, 2017
|Last Verified:
|August 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
|Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
Kaposi Sarcoma
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Virus Diseases
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Antineoplastic Agents
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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As children grow, they always seem to pick up on what is surrounding them. While we try as parents to watch what we say and do around children, sometimes things 'slip out'. An example of this was while giving Sylvia a bath last night, someone may have said the "S" word. Within seconds Sylvia responded with "s h i t"... Jamie and I tried not to laugh, but it was too funny not to. Luckily, that word has not been repeated since.
Today, Ben and Bonnie watched Sylvia while we looked at some homes. While we were out, they taught Sylvia the world "buttons". As it turns out, she doesn't say 'buttons' well, however she sure can say 'butt' very well. Auntie Liz and Brent also experienced the 'butt' today... It was quite humorous.
While eating breakfast one morning, Jamie finished her cereal milk by drinking it out of the bowl. This habit, unfortunately, was not a one time deal for Sylvia. Ever since, she has been 'drinking' here food out of the bowl. Whether it is yogurt, cereal, or even ravioli, she loves to drink it down!
And here she is smiling with food in her mouth... seriously, where did she get that from?
Happy Monday... and watch out for those bad habits you may have!
Bad Habits
As children grow, they always seem to pick up on what is surrounding them. While we try as parents to watch what we say and do around children, sometimes things 'slip out'. An example of this was while giving Sylvia a bath last night, someone may have said the "S" word. Within seconds Sylvia responded with "s h i t"... Jamie and I tried not to laugh, but it was too funny not to. Luckily, that word has not been repeated since.
Monday, February 22, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:51 AM 1 comments
St. Valentine's Day
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa - Heart, Sylvia
Sunday, February 14, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:52 PM 0 comments
Which looks the best?
Everyone seems to complain about the lack of a dining room in our home, so we stepped it up a bit. I installed a light hanging over the table, and we need to decide on what setting we should go with.
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One hat- two hat
White hat-green hat. Why wear 1 hat when you can wear 2 or 3? Sylvia likes to pick her outerwear out all by herself, so she frequently wears a fall coat instead of her winter coat. I guess she doesn't suffer through the winter like her mother does. Good thing she hasn't started picking out her clothes yet, or we may be wearing short skirts in February!
She has been big into saying yes and no. I think her responses have more to do with her mood than her actual wants. So needless to say, there are many more 'nos' then 'yeses' or as she says them 'yip'.
Sylvia loves her new class at daycare where the kids are much more active than the ones in the penguin room. The new bunnies (as they are called) keep busy all day long with lots of activities. One of these must be dancing, because Sylvia has learned to do the Macarena and the Electric Slide... just kidding, but she has learned how to spin in circles. It is kinda funny watching an 18 month old spin around a bunch than try to walk a strait line...
The other exciting thing is when you ask her to smile she will make a great face. She won't do it for other people, but I caught it so you can see what we enjoy nightly.
Other tricks to keeps to Mom and Dad only include animal noises and telling us how old she is. Maybe one day she will share these great talents with others!
Thursday, February 11, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:33 AM 0 comments
Ice Cream for Breakfast
Per the previous post, you should know by now that the 1st Saturday in February is Ice Cream for Breakfast day.
Last year we built a big fort in the basement and Grandma had her hands full with all the grand-kids and Zach. This year we had a more relaxing day of celebration.
After Sylvia had breakfast #1 we headed over to Aaron and Jen's for waffles, ice cream and a fire.
She wasn't to sure about ice cream on her waffles. Maybe she only likes homemade ice cream?
The rest of us enjoyed some interesting combinations like Maple Nut ice cream with blueberry syrup or Ben & Jerry's Imagine Whirled Peace and applesauce... of course on top of waffles.
Sylvia did a great job of being the 'shy kid' for more than an hour, but then warmed up to Aaron, Jen, and the cats.
All in all it was a great ice cream for breakfast day and we thank Aaron and Jen for hosting. The countdown to next year's celebration is just 362 days away...
Monday, February 8, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:05 AM 0 comments
Don't Forget !!!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:24 PM 2 comments


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Differentiated Instruction Beliefs
- All students are different
- DI is the implementation of strategies to reach multiple learning styles and intelligences.
- Students should be taught content in the best way that they learn.
- DI is for all learners! Big or small, experienced or young, all learners deserve the best opportunity to learn.
- DI should be used in every lesson we teach!
- In order to be fair to all students we must differentiate their learning and our instruction.
- Students have different modalities of learning.
- Depth of knowledge is as important as breadth of knowledge.
- Students need a reasonable amount of pressure to perform at peak academic levels.
- Not all kids learn the same information at the same time or even at the same rate. Not all teachers teach the same and not all curricula can be taught the same. (Robinson, 2008)
Teachers will know...
...practical methods to build interest with students
...how to motivate the unmotivated
...how to use Storytelling for Project-Based Learning
...how to grab and keep student interest
...how to incorporate fun and divergent ways of learning
...how to develop critical thinking in the student's approach to learning
...how this can be modified for all kids and communities
...how to become real to their students
...how to use human graphing to get immediate feedback from students
...how to quickly assess how effective their lesson is going


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School Phobia & School Refusal Mums Network
This is a map to show where all the parents willing to take part in a Networking System are based. The idea came from parents who longed to make more than a 'computerised social connection', preferring to meet with other mums in the same situation with School Phobic/School Refusal children. My idea was to pair mothers up to do just this using their postcodes and pin-map facility.
The pin map currently covers Great Britain but this can be extended for our over seas parents.


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Cellular phones have become a necessary part of today's life. It definitely rare to see a person who doesn't possess a cell phone. Many cancel their home phone because they largely use cellphones. Unlike land line telephones mobile phones are versatile enabling to connect with others anytime and anywhere. They make it simple to check on the kids if they are away from home. If a automobile breaks down, a tow truck is simply a phone call away. It is simple to pay mobile phone as you will find different options available. Companies offer a variety of plans to suit any needs.
There are 2 great options for mobile phone users. There are contract and pay-as-you-go phones. Contract phone plans require an individual to sign a agreement with the company for a particular time frame, something like a year or 2 years. The company gives a discount on a brand new handset and provides the service during this time. There are penalties for canceling the service before the agreement is up. Pay-as-you-go plans are an awesome option if the user won't make countless telephone calls. An individual purchases credits and uses them to make calls. It is an excellent choice for teenagers to teach them to utilize minutes sparingly as they love to talk on the telephone a lot. You can find no extra fees to pay mobile phone under this plan.
All businesses are offering individual and family plans. Each options has plans with different quantity of minutes, depending on usage. Family plans offer savings for adding several lines on one account. It is an excellent way for families to avoid wasting money. Plans usually include free of charge evening and weekend minutes, also free phone calls between phones using the same corporation. There are choices to include text messages and Internet. Charges for these services vary by company. In addition there are non-compulsory ring tones, games and wallpaper. You will discover per item fees associated with these and vary widely. They can be downloaded from the service provider's website or other sites on the Internet.
Nearly every one companies also offer free long distance calls in the US. International phone calls require additional plan purchase or charge a per minute fee. Long distance plans is in many cases customized. One can pay mobile phone calling plans that suit her or his calling needs. Cellphones can as cheap or as expensive as one needs them to be.


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Hail Brave hearts.
The season's change and so do I. Cast off your winter garment, it is spring. The receding snows and baking sun, take the blanket of white away, leaving behind the winter's dead brown world. A cool, late spring, with slow growth, keeps the winter hanging on. It's time for spring, the great wild calls, as the migrating birds arrive and the hibernating animals emerge. It's time for spring, call the adventurers as they pull out their bikes for a ride in the woods. The ski hill closes, the equipment is stored, coats and boots hang in closets. Birds gather in warm pools, waiting for the ice to melt. Come on spring, it's your show now!
Slowly the warming sun, encourages the grass to become green, tiny buds on trees begin to emerge and the promise of a new world becomes real. Mating pairs can't wait to start their families and the tiny offspring need to be warm. Winter has withdrawn reluctantly this year. An inspection of the garden reveals some winter kill. Not all of the plants can survive the winter all of the time, but lets wait, it's still early. Don't be discouraged yet.
Rhubarb has popped it's head up out of the soil. In a few weeks the harvest will start. The berry patch is looking good and weeding is on the "to do" list. Little sparrows look for good nesting sites and the chorus of their song, welcomes spring. Finally! The Earth awakens from her slumber and with this, the grey days pass.
"Come out!" calls the brilliant sunshine. " Come to play in the warm sunshine! Come to see the beautiful new world. Come to investigate the returning wild. Come out! Come out! Don't stay inside. You'll miss this glorious day!"
Spring brings with it a new array of activity. The garden, with it's earthly delights, fragrance, bird songs, color, delectable food. This spells work in the garden, choose your seeds, get ready to plant. The fruit trees are blooming, food is on its way.
After a long winter of rations, eating last years harvest, the fresh rhubarb looks so good. A few more weeks and this can be eaten. Perhaps a new recipe this year. The dandelions are starting to flower and the fresh new shoots are a perfect salad. I won't weed these this year. Instead, I'll let the flowers grow and harvest them for my dinner. Bread and muffins, salad and tea and survival. This is the gift of the harvest, straight from the great planet. Eat and enjoy, for this is sustenance and we gather it.
http://www.grouprecipes.com/68395/pemican.html Pemican
In years gone by, when the country was new, survival was the key to colonialism. Like hibernating wildlife, overwintering and surviving in the great white north, was the most imperative topic of the day. How do we survive? Adaptation and skills, training and education. As humans, we can't curl up in a warm, winters den and sleep the cold away. Preparation and planning, storage, cut wood. A humble cabin, an oasis in the wilderness. Warm, small,dry. It's yours!
Written by Dr. Louise Hayes
May 13, 2018


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Full Time Nanny/Educator Needed - Doncaster
Placement Solutions is currently hiring a Full-time Nanny for a family in Doncaster.
Nanny/Educator needed for 2 children, aged 5 years and 2 years old.
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- Creating a stimulating, nurturing and safe environment for the child/ren
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Placement Solutions are proudly recognised as Melbourne's most trusted Nanny Agency for over 30 years. We are a government approved In-Home Childcare Agency setting the industry benchmarks in childcare and providing quality service for families and nannies since 1988.


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Force-Directed Graph Layout with Barriers and Shared Channels
A graph is a collection of nodes, and edges joining the nodes together. Automatically drawing them cleanly is an interesting problem. Some force-based graph layout algorithms view the edges between nodes as springs, and simulate the forces acting on each node in order to move the nodes into a good position. Connected nodes will pull towards each other until the edges are of an ideal length. We can implement such a layout algorithm in CHP, with a process per node.
To implement the algorithm, the nodes need to be able to find out the current positions of their neighbours (i.e. the nodes they are connected to) and update their own position accordingly. One approach would be to have a channel pair per edge, to enable sending of position information in both directions, as in this graph of three nodes:
I'm going to take an alternative approach of having one output channel per node, on which the node can send its position. The other end (i.e. the reading end) of these position channels will be shared, and these ends will be passed around to all the nodes that connect to the node with the output end. We can also give all the reading ends to a display process. So our wired up graph now looks like this:
A shared channel is represented by a small hollow circle. Each has one writer (the three nodes), and several readers (the connected nodes and the display process). Each iteration, our nodes will offer to send out their current position (as many times as they are asked for it) while also fetching the position of all their neighbours. Then they will all calculate a new position based on their neighbours and go again. One problem with this common discover-then-act design is that if you do not clearly separate the discovery of the neighbours' positions and the updating of the positions, you can get nodes updating based on a mix of old positions (which is what you want) and the new updated positions — a race hazard. To prevent this, we divide each simulation step into two phases (discover and act) using a phased barrier.
A phased barrier is a synchronisation primitive. It allows processes to enroll on the barrier, to resign from the barrier, and to synchronise; processes only successfully synchronise on a barrier when all currently-enrolled processes synchronise. Each synchronisation, the phase of the barrier is moved on (and typically cycles around).
We will begin with some import statements, and declaring a NodeInfo type to hold the positions of nodes. We will also include a quick Num and Fractional instance for our NodeInfo that performs plus, minus, etc element-wise (NodeInfo 1 6 * NodeInfo 3 4 == NodeInfo 3 24):
import Control.Concurrent.CHP import Control.Monad import Control.Monad.Trans import Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL import Graphics.UI.GLUT hiding (alt) data NodeInfo = NodeInfo GLfloat GLfloat deriving (Show, Eq) instance Num NodeInfo where ... instance Fractional NodeInfo where ...
Then we will declare our phase data type, and a helper function to read from a list of shared channels in parallel:
data Phase = Discover | Act deriving (Eq, Show, Bounded, Ord, Enum) readAll :: [Shared Chanin a] -> CHP [a] readAll = runParMapM (flip claim readChannel)
Next, we will define our node process. The main body of the node process first begins the discover phase. It then acts as a sender and receiver in parallel: the receiver reads in the positions of all its neighbours, while the sender continually offers to send out its position. It finishes both of these once the phase changes. To facilitate this, we must enroll on the barrier again, and use one barrier end in the sender and one in the receiver. (If we did not enroll a second time, and tried to use the same single barrier end twice in parallel, this would be a mis-use of the library.) So here is most of the node process:
node :: NodeInfo -> [Shared Chanin NodeInfo] -> Chanout NodeInfo -> Enrolled PhasedBarrier Phase -> CHP () node start neighbourChans out bar = node' start where node' cur = do Discover <- syncBarrier bar (_, neighbourPos) <- furtherEnroll bar $ \bar2 -> giveOutPosUntilBar cur <||> do pos <- readAll neighbourChans Act <- syncBarrier bar2 return pos node' (updatePos neighbourPos cur) giveOutPosUntilBar cur = (writeChannel out cur >> giveOutPosUntilBar cur) <-> do Act <- syncBarrier bar return ()
The sender is the giveOutPosUntilBar process, and the receiver is on the right-hand side of the parallel. By making explicit the phase that we expect to begin with each barrier synchronisation, we both make our code clear (you can see which part is in the discover phase, and which part is in the act phase) and also effectively assert correctness; if the pattern-match fails, your code will produce an error.
Updating the position of the node based on its neighbours is all pure code. This is not a very sophisticated algorithm, but it will suffice for the purposes of illustration:
updatePos poss cur = cur + (0.05 * average [let v = p - cur in v - ideal * normalise v | p <- poss]) where ideal = 0.3 normalise (NodeInfo x y) = NodeInfo (x / mag) (y / mag) where mag = sqrt (x*x + y*y) average xs = sum xs / fromIntegral (length xs)
The draw process is mainly irrelevant OpenGL logic (adapted from my boids example), but the interesting part is that it must act in the discover phase, partly because that's the only time that the nodes will send their position, and partly because it's actually the drawing that drives the frame-rate (a pull-based architecture).
drawProcess :: [Shared Chanin NodeInfo] -> Enrolled PhasedBarrier Phase -> CHP () drawProcess input bar = do displayIO <- embedCHP_ $ do syncAndWaitForPhase Discover bar xs <- readAll input liftIO $ do startFrame mapM_ draw xs mapM_ (drawEdge xs) edges endFrame liftIO (do setup displayCallback $= glRunAs2D displayIO let addTimer = addTimerCallback 500 timer timer = addTimer >> postRedisplay Nothing addTimer mainLoop) where setup = do initialWindowSize $= Size 500 500 getArgsAndInitialize initialDisplayMode $= [DoubleBuffered] createWindow "CHP Graph" startFrame = do clearColor $= Color4 0 0 0 0 clear [ColorBuffer, DepthBuffer] endFrame = do flush swapBuffers glRunAs2D :: IO () -> IO () glRunAs2D draw = do (matrixMode $= Modelview 0) >> loadIdentity (matrixMode $= Projection) >> loadIdentity ortho 0 1 0 1 (-1000) 1000 preservingMatrix draw draw :: NodeInfo -> IO () draw (NodeInfo x y) = renderPrimitive Polygon $ sequence_ [ vertex $ Vertex2 (x + 0.05 * cos t) (y + 0.05 * sin t) | t <- map ((pi/10)*) [0..19]] drawEdge :: [NodeInfo] -> (Int, Int) -> IO () drawEdge nodes (s, e) = renderPrimitive Lines $ vertex (Vertex2 x1 y1) >> vertex (Vertex2 x2 y2) where (NodeInfo x1 y1, NodeInfo x2 y2) = (nodes !! s, nodes !! e)
Finally, we must initialise the nodes and wire up the simulation. For our barrier, we will use the enrollAll_ function that takes a barrier-creation function, a list of processes that take an enrolled barrier as a parameter, and runs them all in parallel with their own enrolled barrier ends (discarding the output). Crucially, enrollAll does the enrolling before any of the processes have begun. If you run your processes in parallel and get them to enroll themselves, you will create a race hazard in your program: one process might enroll and start synchronising by itself before the other processes have started executing. This is almost certainly not what you want. So here is the code:
startNodes :: [NodeInfo] startNodes = [NodeInfo 0 0, NodeInfo 0 1, NodeInfo 1 0, NodeInfo 1 1] edges :: [(Int, Int)] edges = [(0,1), (1,2), (2,0), (1, 3)] main :: IO () main = runCHP_ $ do outChans <- replicateM numNodes oneToAnyChannel enrollAll_ (newPhasedBarrier Act) (drawProcess (readers outChans) : [ let edgesOut = filter ((== i) . fst) edges edgesIn = filter ((== i) . snd) edges connectedNodes = map fst edgesIn ++ map snd edgesOut in node n (readers (map (outChans !!) connectedNodes)) (writer c) | (n, c, i) <- zip3 startNodes outChans [0..]]) where numNodes = length startNodes
The list comprehension uses the edges list to pick out all the right channels for each node (i.e. it translates the connectivity expressed in the edges list into the channel topology). The code in this post forms a complete program. It is not completely effective as I have not added repulsion among non-connected nodes (an exercise for the reader perhaps), but here is a quick screenshot of the result:
My intention with this example was to illustrate the use of shared channels, and particularly barriers. The pattern shown here, of dividing simulations into phases, is one of their most common uses but they can be used elsewhere, sometimes in place of channels; from a more abstract perspective, channels in CHP offer synchronisation and communication, whereas barriers offer purely synchronisation. A one-to-one channel carrying the unit type is semantically equivalent to a two-party barrier with no phase information. The channel has the benefit of not needing explicit enrollment, but the disadvantage of being asymmetric in its use. For example, picking up and putting down forks in the dining philosophers example can be implemented using either two-party barriers or channels carrying the unit type.
Note: As often with my recent posts, writing them revealed that I lacked certain useful helper functions, so you will need the new CHP 1.7.0 (which also includes other changes I will discuss in future) for the above code.
November 24, 2009 at 4:47 pm
What about a nice video? 😀
November 25, 2009 at 4:53 pm
There's recording an animation, and there's off-screen anti-aliased rendering of HD video frame by frame for later playback. In general I want this for everything I'm planning graphically, so "powerpoint" slide shows can be replaced gradually by editing video. It isn't that hard (the second time) to do in OpenGL.
November 26, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Interesting article. I still have to take the time to do more than just skim the code. But just FYI, here is a (small?) performance optimization.
Make your node data strict:
data NodeInfo = NodeInfo !GLfloat !GLfloat deriving (Show, Eq)
November 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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Last summer I taught my fifth iconography class at the Romanian Catholic cathedral in Canton. Every year yields a harvest of fine first icons, varying widely according to the natural ability and experience of the student. But while each of them has been worthy of the Church's blessing and of private veneration, every year I have been blessed with one or two students whose first icon looks like the work of an experienced iconographer.
Last summer I had several obviously gifted students, none less than Paul, a fortiesh Orthodox layman, and a convert from evangelicalism. As the class was the first week of August it fell during the beginning of the two week fast preceding the Feast of the Dormition, which Roman Catholics celebrate as the Assumption. We were both observing the fast, so we took lunch together, seeking vegan meals. And so we got to know one another, and on the Sunday following the week of the class Paul invited me to his friends' farm for a potluck meal. I had met the family – also evangelical converts to Orthodoxy- some time before, and while I did not really know them I instinctively liked them and considered them kindred: six children, a small farm, and the dad, Mel, is even a letter carrier, like me. Still, I hardly knew any of them, and knew Mel's brother, who was visiting, not at all. As my family and I were the only Catholics at an otherwise Orthodox gathering, I was a little apprehensive. But the children immediately hit it off and headed outdoors, the women gathered in the kitchen to talk of babies and herbs and to prepare the meal, and the men in classic form retired to the living room and passed out the beer.
Mel's brother began what I assumed would be small talk: "So, as a Byzantine Catholic where do you come down on the Palamist controversy?" I was a little stunned. I had not studied St Gregory Palamas in any depth, nor did I have any but the sketchiest knowledge about his teaching on prayer or his theory of the divine essences by which God worked in the world. And I didn't know much about the details of the resistance that his ideas had met in the West, though from what I had read his basic thought was not incompatible with the teaching of St Thomas.
But what the heck kind of way was that to initiate a conversation?
So I stammered that Byzantine Catholics commemorate St Gregory in our calendar, and that we are free to be as Eastern as we wish, so long as we refrain from calling the West heretical. Paul, clearly embarrassed by this turn of events, steered the conversation to topics less likely to strain things, to iconography and Tolkien and Wendell Berry.
Then it was time for dinner: a fasting feast of homemade pesto pasta, salad, and fruit. After dinner and cleanup the women drifted out to look at the gardens and the men settled back into the living room.
Mel's brother again began the conversation: "So, as a Byzantine Catholic do feel like" and here I cannot remember if he said "a fish out of water" or "like you are in no man's land?" Caught offguard again, I fumbled through another answer, saying that I felt just fine, thank you. I then spoke of what I perceived as the affinities between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, emphasizing the saints. I mentioned the often-noted kindred spirits of St Francis of Assisi and St Seraphim of Serov, the 18th century Russian starets. I figured no one could argue with manifest holiness, but I underestimated this guy. He started in on how St Francis exhibited every sign of spiritual delusion, and I for once was rendered speechless. St Francis, it seems, could not have been a genuine saint because he often made dramatic gestures and experienced ecstasies and visions, all of which contradicted the goal of the true hesachyst, which is stilling the passions. Just as gnostics and manichees misunderstand St Paul's condemnation of "the flesh" as a rejection of the body and of the physical world, my new friend mistook the holy fathers' struggle against the passions as a damning of the emotions. I can only assume that as a convert of only a few years he was unfamiliar with the visions and ecstasies of the Eastern saints and the affective nature of their devotional lives. They were and are not Dr Spock at prayer. And the antics of the holy fools of Orthodoxy make St Francis look restrained.
But as I said, I was speechless. But I didn't have to defend poor St Francis. Paul did a good job of holding up the ecumenical end of things while I listened. Finally someone asked me what I thought. I said that I was dumbfounded by his attack on St Francis and asked if he had read any of the source material on the saint, the Little Flowers, or the works of Thomas of Celano or of St Bonaventure (he hadn't). And I mentioned St Paul, who had been taken up in ecstasy into the heavens and experienced things beyond human utterance. Then I excused myself, as my very pregnant bride no doubt needed help by now keeping up with Michael Seraphim, who was two and quite a handful.
Michelle got a welcome break, and I followed little Michael around outside, intervening only to keep him from breaking his neck. Mel made his way outside too, leaving his brother and Paul intellectually duking it out. We talked, uncontroversially: postal shop talk, weather, gardening.
As the afternoon wore on Paul and his family left, and I said that we should be going too. Brenda, Mel's wife, spoke up: "Do you have to go? We like you". This was so sweet and guileless that we stuck around until dusk. As we left Mel's brother shook my hand. "I hope I didn't offend you", he said. I told him that I didn't believe he hoped any such thing, and that I would be happy to discuss the things that divide the Churches, that he might be surprised that on most controversies we would be in agreement, but that it would be wise to have such a conversation only after some trust and friendship had been established. I don't know if I said it or just thought it, but it occurred to me that I would not insult a Muslim or a Mormon by attacking those they held to be prophets on a first meeting, but would try to find common ground (admittedly more difficult with a Mormon), let alone someone who in the great scheme of things shared so much on questions of faith.
As offended as I was by his approach to a new acquaintance, it did not occur to me until some months afterward that his question- the fish out of water or no man's land one- hits pretty close to the mark. The Byzantine Catholic, as one who prays and worships in the way of the Orthodox, but who lives in communion with the bishop of Rome, really does feel adrift. Because of the spiritual life we live we feel great affinity with the Orthodox, who often view us with suspicion, if not hostility. Even the friendly ones no doubt wonder why we don't just embrace Orthodoxy and get it over with. And Latin rite Catholics, if not downright suspicious, often misunderstand us. One priest friend insists on calling us "Roman Catholics of the Byzantine Rite", which misses the point entirely and runs counter to the Church's own description, in the Code of Canon Law, of "autonomous ritual Churches". But then popular Roman Catholic ecclesiology, with its absolute papal monarchy, veers pretty far from the Church's official teaching.
I know that a year or so ago on this site, when we were discussing Orthodoxy and Catholicism and the conditions for reunion, my opinions led several posters to suggest that I was on my way out, that I was heading for the Orthodox Church. But that hasn't happened, nor is it likely to. I may have found my spiritual home in an essentially Orthodox praxis, in the Divine Liturgy, in the Jesus Prayer, in iconography. And I may concur with Orthodox criticism of the West on a wide variety of subjects, from the decadence of its religious art to its arbitrary changes of ancient custom, to its tendency to over-define doctrines, and a host of other things. But I will remain Catholic. Why? In a word, ecclesiology.
While it is more accurate to speak in the plural of Orthodox ecclesiologies, as there are a variety of opinions on the various points of contention, it is very common to encounter the idea that Peter's primacy was passed to all the apostles, not just to the bishop of Rome, and even that when Christ spoke of building His Church on "this rock" He was referring only to the newly renamed Peter's ("Rock's") confession of faith. But while I might argue with the way it has been exercised historically, the continued primacy of Peter in the bishop of Rome seems pretty clearly an essential element in the structure of the visible Church.
And if one doubts this, one only has to compare the clarity and simplicity of Rome when it comes to any question of authority with the jurisdictional confusion of the Orthodox Churches, especially in this country. The multiplicity of Orthodox jurisdictions and their various ongoing squabbles in the US run counter to any Orthodox ecclesiology with which I am familiar and does much to temper any attraction to Orthodoxy I may experience.
And so I remain, a fish out in no man's land, under a cloud of suspicion, content to be misunderstood.
Disclaimer: I apologize if anything I have written offends either my Roman Catholic or Orthodox readers. This is not a theological tract, merely an experiential reflection, and should not be taken as reflecting the opinions of any but myself.
—Daniel Nichols


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|Kellie Martin as Capt. Nicole Galassin
(Photo courtesy Lifetime Television/
Army Wives)
Daytime Dial: Your role on "Army Wives" is definitely one your fans haven't seen you play yet. How did the whole thing come about?
Kellie Martin: A friend of mine, a writer friend from "ER," called me up and said: "Would you be open to playing a lesbian military intelligence officer? We're going to explore the world after Don't Ask, Don't Tell." And I thought: "Yeah! That sounds really interesting." I have never played anyone in the military; I've never played a lesbian. That's rare for me to say, since I've been doing this 30 years — I've played everything. But that is something I've never played.
I didn't know that it was going to be as much of a story line as it turned out to be. I did eight episodes. I really feel like they hit the highlights of this woman's life and how fast this couple's world changed after the repeal. The way all of a sudden they were able to have more friends, they got married, they got a baby — it really hit all the high points.
DD: You sound like you really enjoyed playing this character.
KM: Oh yes, I was honored to play this woman. I thought she was so brave and so smart, yet in her personal life, she had to hide. It was really fun to play someone who comes out. And then to have Patti LuPone play my mom again was awesome. That's the third time Patti's played my mom on television. And it was just an honor.
I have so many people who tweet at me or who just come up to me and say, "You don't know how this story line has changed my life." Or, "This is me. This is exactly me. And I've been in the closet for years, and I'm in the Navy." It's nice to make people feel like they are not alone in this often-challenging world. I feel like Capt. Galassin is the girl next door. Everybody knows someone like her. I'm just very proud of "Army Wives" and Lifetime for following through with the story line like they did.
DD: Like with "ER," you came onto an established show with established actors in place; did it make you a little nervous? How is the "Army Wives" cast to work with?
KM: It's funny, because they're both pretty big ensembles. I found on "ER" and on "Army Wives," if you weren't a part of someone else's story line, you never saw them. The cast was very welcoming, and I was super nervous the first day. I had a ton of things to say. I had to put that uniform on for the first time, and I just fell into the character the second I put it on. So, that was a really big help to me. But the cast is lovely. I had a really, really good time. It wasn't easy for me to be away on location so much. I was flying way more than I care to mention, because I don't like to fly, but it was a really good experience.
DD: Do you think Nicole will be back for the seventh season?
KM: I don't know if Nicole's back. She was on a plane to Afghanistan at the end of the season, and there was a lot of turbulence …
DD: Yes, but turbulence can go away, and planes can go back the other way, too …
KM: Absolutely! I had a great time, and I never, ever know where my career's going to head, so it's always interesting for me to see what happens.
|Kellie as Jordan
(Photo: Copyright 2011 Crown Media Holdings, Inc./
Photographer: Alexx Henry)
KM: I've been working with them since 2003 or 2004, and I've really just gotten to love the people over there. I knew the CEO when he wasn't the CEO, and all the publicity people who've been there since I started working with them. It's really the people who keep me coming back. They just are very good to me, and they let me have a bit of input into the work we do, which I really appreciate.
I really have liked doing romantic comedies — the past two movies that I've done for them have been really fun, upbeat and, best of all, I don't have to cry. I love that, because I've spent so much time doing drama that this is a really nice way to lighten things up for me.
DD: What was it about this particular movie, especially the character of Jordan, that caught your attention?
KM: I love the arc she goes through. Jordan starts out as a very tightly wound real estate agent about to get married to a very tightly wound attorney. She has to face who she really is beyond being type A and totally under control. She unravels a bit, and it was really fun to play a character who was unraveling.
DD: How are you and Jordan alike?
KM: Well, unlike Jordan I like to drink. Jordan doesn't drink. I'm Irish, and I do enjoy a good drink. I did marry an attorney, but unlike Peter (in the movie), my husband is a recovering attorney. Eight months after our daughter was born, he said: "You know what? I don't think I want to do this anymore. I don't really like this." I do like to be in control. I like to know what's going on. I like routines, especially having a child. I love the ritual, routine nature of a day, because my daughter has a very strict schedule. We have a very rigid schedule, and that's very much like Jordan.
DD: You had great chemistry with your co-stars, but I especially loved your scenes with Adrienne Frantz. Her character is hilarious, and she did such a great job!
KM: Can you tell we had fun? She's so much fun.
|L to R: Daphnee Duplaix, Adrienne Frantz and Kellie Martin (Photo: Copyright 2011 Crown Media
Holdings, Inc./Photographer: Alexx Henry)
KM: I frequently didn't. There's one scene I could see how they had to cut around our giggling. When we're eating pizza, and Adrianne and I are hysterically laughing, and they had to find the little moments where we weren't laughing because we were total goofballs. But it's so nice to work with someone like her because she is a pro. She's so much a pro that she can let loose, and you can allow for those little surprises to happen. It's just lovely to be in a scene with someone who's so good at what they do that we know we are going to say our lines and hit our marks, but we're going to have fun and allow surprises to happen. And that's what we did. I would love to do a series with that girl. We would have so much fun.
DD: What do you hope viewers take away from the movie after watching it?
KM: I really think it's good to shake up your life every once in a while. I'm not saying to marry someone who's not your fiance, but I think it's good to step back every once in a while and get perspective on your life. Maybe step back and say: "You know what? Let's do something crazy. Let's go to Paris next summer," or "Let's take off school today and go to the park.
Just shake up your life every once in a while and realize you only live once.


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My research makes me think the Smartphone version is the 'poorer' one. Id like to know what sort of functionability ScummVM has on each of these OS.
Please help.
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
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