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Version Mapping
Table 4-226 lists the mapping between the S5720-28TP-LI-AC chassis and software versions.
Appearance and Structure
|Twenty-four 10/100/1000BASE-T ports
|Two combo ports (10/100/1000BASE-T + 100/1000BASE-X)
Modules applicable to combo optical ports:
|Two 1000BASE-X ports
Applicable modules:
|One PNP button
Applicable in V200R012C00 and later versions:
To restore the factory settings and reset the switch, hold down the button for at least 6 seconds.
To reset the switch, press the button.
Resetting the switch will cause service interruption. Exercise caution when you press the PNP button.
|One console port
|Ground screw
It is used with a ground cable.
|Jack for AC power cable locking strap
The AC power cable locking strap is not delivered with the switch.
|AC socket
It is used with an AC power cable.
Port Description10/100/1000BASE-T port
By default, a combo port works in auto mode, in which the port type is determined as follows:
- If the optical port has no optical module installed and the electrical port has no Ethernet cable connected, the port type depends on which port is connected first. If the electrical port is connected by an Ethernet cable first, the electrical port is used for data switching. If the optical port has an optical module installed first, the optical port is used for data switching.
- If the electrical port has an Ethernet cable connected and is in Up state, the electrical port is still used for data switching when the optical port has an optical module installed.
- If the optical port, no matter in Up or Down state, has an optical module installed, the optical port is still used for data switching when the electrical port has an Ethernet cable connected.
- If the optical port has an optical module installed and the electrical port has an Ethernet cable connected, the optical port is used for data switching after the switch restarts.
Indicator Description
The S5720-28TP-LI-AC has similar indicators to those of the S5720-28TP-PWR-LI-AC except that the S5720-28TP-LI-AC does not have a PoE mode indicator. For details, see Indicator Description.
Power Supply Configuration
The S5720-28TP-LI-AC has a built-in power module and does not support pluggable power modules.
Technical Specifications
Table 4-230 lists technical specifications of the S5720-28TP-LI-AC.


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Redefining America through Rock Music after Woodstock and Altamont: Texts and Contexts of Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead and American Beauty
While Europeans have tended to underestimate or overlook the role of the Grateful Dead in the development of rock music, Mikal Gilmore, representative of the opinion prevalent in the U.S., called the band "one of popular culture's most extraordinary epic adventures." That is not an exaggeration. The Grateful Dead emerged as the leading representatives of the West Coast music scene when San Francisco became, temporarily at least, the capital of rock music in 1966/67, and they easily maintained that position for almost thirty years. In popular culture, which is characteristically short-lived—yesterday's heroes are often forgotten today—such a longevity is unusual; but the Grateful Dead are also unusual because of the astonishing continuity that is a hallmark of their career. They did largely without the fluctuation of personnel that marks the life span of many a rock band; in fact, four of the five founding members of the Grateful Dead were still there in early 1995, besides the second drummer, who joined the band in 1967. And though the sound and style of play of the Dead changed over the decades, it was largely immune to fads and fashions. They never obeyed anybody else's musical standards but remained what they were in the beginning and what they did best. They were predominantly a live band, averaging some eighty concerts a year—concerts that were attended mostly by Deadheads, a special kind of dedicated followers who trailed the band on their tours. There are Deadheads who can boast of having seen fifty or more Grateful Dead concerts, and those people are not just moronic dopeheads but respectable business executives or college professors. Deadicated, the title chosen for the tribute album published in 1991, says it all (Deadicated features, among others, Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Dr John, Suzanne Vega, Cowboy Junkies, Burning Spear, and Lyle Lovett).
By the early 1990s, the Grateful Dead had broken just about every record rock buffs would take note of—except one: they never had a singles Nr. 1 hit in the U.S.—and that in itself may well be the most phenomenal record the band can boast of, if one just considers their overall standing. The Dead had only one Top Ten singles hit and one Top Ten album in their entire career ("A Touch of Gray" and In the Dark, both dating from 1987). But in the early autumn of 1988, they played a nine-night stand at the Madison Square Garden, each night before a sell-out crowd of 21,000—the biggest series of concerts ever played in New York history up to that point, and, as it turned out, also the biggest American pop event (and money grosser) of that year. (In their 30-year history, the Grateful Dead appeared in the Garden a record breaking 52 times.)
The Grateful Dead emerged in the Southern Bay area in the early sixties. The place is significant; there, around Palo Alto and Menlo Park, the remnants of the San Francisco Beat Scene met with young people who were attracted by the cultural possibilities offered by the Bay Area. Palo Alto and neighboring Menlo Park were the birthplace of the 1960s counterculture. From today's perspective, one man stands out in this development, Ken Kesey. In 1962, at age 27, Kesey had published his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which till today has sold well over 12 million copies. The book drew on the author's rather diverse personal experiences. Kesey had worked as a night warden in a psychiatric hospital and had volunteered in government-sponsored experiments with LSD and other hallucinogenics. While working on his second novel, Kesey founded a group called the Merry Pranksters, who, combining the liberal use of hallucinogenics with experiments with new recording techniques for sounds and images, tried to achieve a new spontaneity, a new way of turning life into art of the moment, a break-through to a higher consciousness—it was all not so far, albeit fundamentally different, from President Kennedy's call for a break-through to a new frontier. Most notoriously, this higher consciousness was attempted in what was called Acid Tests, events which celebrated a communal high (LSD was not outlawed in California until August 1966), with Ken Kesey as master of ceremony presiding over the event as Captain America and the guitar player Jerry Garcia serving as Captain Trips.

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Then I went through it piece by piece. The pile on the left is cards that are almost finished. For example, the top card (you can barely see it, but's one of the hedgie cards I blogged here), needs the sentiment reattached. Some need colouring. Others need a sentiment. All quick fixes.
The next couple of piles are card bases that are decorated with very pretty patterned paper, but there nothing else done - no sentiments, no images, nothing. They're almost as close as the previous pile, but not quite. Then I have 4x5 1/4 card fronts, and then images. Some of the images are ones I've stamped and some are ones I'm recycling. Not shown is a big bag of scraps that I'm taking with me tomorrow for a friend of mine.
I share all that with you as a long winded way of getting to today's card. Over at Just Add Ink they're having a blog hop and challenge featuring the new envelope punch board and/or the Thinlints Card Dies. I've got a fun birthday card featuring the Create a Cupcake set, Washi Tape and the new candy dots. I have tried to make this style card by hand and it was a LOT of work. These dies are just terrific. I made the base at my demo's studio, as I don't own these yet. I'll definitely be getting at least the circle die frame. That said, the label is growing on me, too, so I could well end up getting both.


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A South Carolina man has been convicted of workers' compensation fraud for bilking the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation out of $143,203.33. Joseph Curto of Conway, S.C., dodged a sentence of up to 18 months in prison, getting four years of community supervision instead. The judge said he had to remain employed the whole time.
Curto will need the paychecks, too, because he must repay the workers' comp bureau.
However, maintaining employment shouldn't be a problem. In fact, Curto's insistence on working while continuing to receive workers' comp benefits is what tipped off Ohio investigators.
When they heard he was working for a trucking company, bureau officials traveled to South Carolina to confront him. Under questioning, he admitted to working seven different jobs since 1999, when he began receiving total disability payments following an injury suffered while working in Ohio. At each, he used his wife's Social Security number to hide the income.


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- The first time you see Link and Ganon fighting (in the third episode of the Stick Fantasy Series) was actually going to be the final fight between them but the file became corrupted and uneditible, so we just decided to use it as a teaser fight and make the actual final fight with another version of pivot.
- The blond (whatever it really is 😉 ) stripe on Link's head was supposed to be the line on his hat, (example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Link_LOZ_with_items.png) but JMAP was confused when the sprite was made so it has been his hair to us ever since.
- The first video ever made by JMAP is: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5438224929537627720&hl=en. He got random images offline threw them together and called it a video!
- JMAP Productions has a video that was never released. It was going to be done as a "solo project for JMAP," yet he demanded a ton of backgrounds from Anthony. It was going to be just Zelda Reorchestrated songs with a gif. or picture throughout the whole song, and at the end a (somewhat) funny clip on Jordan and Anthony (in stick form) fooling around. The whole point was to simply have the viewer just listen to the songs with "visuals as you listen." The video was very close to being put on youtube, in fact, Jordan urged Anthony to upload it as fast as possible; however, arguments went on between Anthony and Jordan over a small sequence where Link in stick form "dances," and in the end the two decided not to release it.
- The earlier videos: Episode Zero and the first version of Episode 1, were done mainly with paint. When Jordan nearly quit over the reception of Episode Zero on Google video as well as boredom, Anthony took over the next scene, which was one of many Metal Gear sequences, but he used Photoshop instead. Ever since Photoshop was introduced to JMAP Productions, the videos have been better animated ever since 🙂
- The idea for the title of Twin Links came from a video game called Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes; likewise, the sequel series of videos to Twin Links, Warriors of Hyrule, are based off Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the sequel to the first game.
- In episode 5 of the Stick Fantasy series, initially Link's hat isn't filled in and Ganon's head is bald, but the next scene of the fight they looked different. The reason for this was because that part of the final Ganon fight was nearly the first thing made for that episode, whereas the rest of it was made after it.
- Twin Links and Phantom Mascot were originally supposed to be released at the same time, but while Dstcoyote22 was hard at work with Twin Links, JMAP stepped aside and simply played World of Warcraft way too much. The first part to Phantom Mascot wasn't released until several months after Twin Links. As of right now, Phantom Mascot may never be continued due to low number of views and reception.
- After the bad reception over Jordan's kid voice in Twin Links, Anthony took over for voices and got a voice changer software, enabling him to voice multiple characters, including women.
- The Annoying Troll, at first was voiced by Jordan's cousin and Anthony's nephew Simon in Twin Links, is now voiced by Anthony using the very same technique used to make voices for Alvin and the Chipmunks: talking really slow then speeding up the recording.
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I don't plan to do anything with it and it gets a few hundreds visitors a day. Maybe you can do better with it than I.
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Currently, I am a physics graduate student in the Theory Group at University of Texas, Austin.
I pursued Integrated Masters in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and graduated in May 2014. I have taken following courses (relevant to Physics) in this programme.
- Electricity and Magnetism from David Griffiths
- Thermodynamics from Zeemansky
- Special theory of Relativity from Resnik
- Optics from A. Ghatak
- Quantum Mechanics form Feynman Lectures Vol III, J.J Sakurai and P.A.M Dirac
- Plasma Physics from F.F Chen
- Atomic Physics from Resnik
- Nuclear Physics from Prof. A.K. Jain notes
- Classical Mechanics from Goldstein
- Statistical Mechanics from R.K Pathria
- Classical Electrodynamics from J.D. Jackson
- Mathematical Physics from class notes
Self-taught subjects
- General Relativity from Carroll (and problems from here)
- Group Theory from Artin
I am also interested in studying topics related to Computer Science like Algorithms and Data Structures. I have taken an audit course on Data Structures. I do coding in my free time. Here are some repositories of the mutators I have written for Unreal Tournament 99.


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It was difficult for the media to generate sustained interest in the announcement by the Kresge Foundation of its intent to kick in $150 million toward the Detroit Strategic Framework plan, modeled on Mayor Dave Bing's Detroit Works project. And it's not surprising that public reaction was ho-hum, at best.
Detroiters have seen plenty of long- and short-term plans with promise that were either scrapped or rejected over the last 60 years. Some were even funded. And judging by the state of the city today, it is obvious that none came to fruition. The decades of decline will only be reversed by immediate attention to the basics, not a far-flung blueprint for the future.
Not every effort on the drawing board is pie-in-the-sky. Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures is an active downtown renaissance participant. The latest potential acquisition by the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans is the 1001 Woodward Avenue office building, the 16th purchase of a downtown property by Gilbert's company since 2011.
Gilbert deserves a pat on the back for putting his own money at risk to transform the city with information technology and knowledge as the prime economic drivers. But despite the fact that downtown Detroit is experiencing a mini-boon, cities typically are not defined by their skylines. A vibrant downtown, to some degree essential for a long-term recovery plan, does not a city make. Too many neighborhoods are being left behind.
To understand the history of the city, it's important to acknowledge that since Detroit was built on the automotive industry, its transition into a new era has been particularly tumultuous. The city has been hit hard: population and income declines, poverty and unemployment increases, crime and social problems becoming more intense and intractable.
High taxation, declining services and education failure contributes to the city losing more than half its residents from a peak of almost 2 million – and most of its jobs, wealth and talent. For the city to succeed in this economic transition new skills, new strategies, new cooperation and new residents are imperatives.
Detroit historically was distinguished by its vibrant neighborhoods. Indeed, the city's strength, diversity and vitality were all rooted in her neighborhoods, where community pride and cultures from all over the world were cherished and celebrated. Each neighborhood had its own personality and distinct appeal. That Detroit no longer exists.
Another contributor to the decline is city government, which has acted as if it were insulated from the powerful forces reshaping the regional and national economy. Confidence in government has been plummeting for decades. The need to cut funding to meet the elusive goal of a balanced budget pressures elected officials to get the most bang for every taxpayer buck. Yet government can't seem to find ways to downsize, consolidate or outsource to meet the demands of a city in transition. Its failings have made Detroit the poster child for inept government. Detroiters justifiably have a deep distrust and disgust with the way government fails to meet minimum but vital objectives.
That said, hats off to the Kresge Foundation for having a vision and a deep commitment to turn the city into a laboratory of experimentation and innovation. Unfortunately Detroit doesn't have 50 years to complete the transition as projected by its plan.
Make no mistake, however. The Detroit recovery agenda for the future doesn't begin with a diagram, it begins with providing hope and opportunity for those living in the shadows of the downtown skyscrapers with public safety necessities. That ultimately involves the prerequisite of a major infusion of cops to make streets safe today.
The role of government ultimately must be performance and product rather than process and perpetuation. There must be zero tolerance for waste, fraud and abuse. We can only hope that Kresge officials have the institutional courage to demand accountability from private-and public-sector customers – lest the future is abandoned to chaos.


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So, this means we need to come up with the rest of our travel money as quick as we can. I've been brainstorming and trying to get my creative juices flowing. We need about $2,300 to have all the funds we need to bring Tucker home. I still can't even believe we've come so far - God is good! With Christmas season coming up and me overhearing folks talking about stockings - I thought I'd make a few and see if they sold.
So, these stockings are hand made and quilted by yours truly. They are $25 each and that includes any name you want cross stitched on the cuff.


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Please don't forget to visit Alison and Mary as part of the Tarot Blog Hop.
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Lame suggestions?! They wuz good suggestions!!! Good call on the vido though, Evil twin!
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ooh, I love that - walked up the aisle to it (Ave Maria, not Night on a Bare/Bald Mountian, obviously, though that might have been fun too. We did sign the register to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWAtoKGjMA&feature=related) :DReplyDelete
Brilliant post Viv :)ReplyDelete
I adore the video idea for this Tarot Hop! Love your writing style -- clever and charming.ReplyDelete
Nice way to combine 3 cards that don't "go together" and LOOOOVE the video!ReplyDelete
You've inspired me to re-watch Fantasia and then Fantasia 2000 as well.Love those films. :DReplyDelete
I had fun reading. I am also looking forward to that rant :)ReplyDelete
Very engaging read, but then again it always is! Jumping in without all the information may be a bit silly but isn't it fun in end?ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to that rant on the New Age, Ribbit. Great post.ReplyDelete


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The Hallmark Channel follows up its annual Kitten Bowl with Sunday's Paw Star Game.
It's July, and that means it's time for baseball, puns and kittens, and not necessarily in that order.
For those cat, sports, and sporting cat enthusiasts out there, Hallmark Channel has followed up its annual Kitten Bowl by taking its kitties to the diamond, just in time for the MLB All-Star Game.
Enter the Paw Star Game.
We here at Extra Mustard previewed the matchup back in April. All you need to know is Derek Cheetah and Jose Catseco are among the players. And, uh, Siamese Sosa.
The game will air at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 12, with plenty of celebrity guests, but more importantly, plenty of cats.
Take a look at some of the expected competitors below.
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All is not well between Kangana Ranaut and Karan Johar. She totally nailed it on 'Koffee With Karan' with her 'nepotism' remark. In a recent interview to Mumbai Mirror, she opened up on this issue like never before. She said,"I can't speak for Karan Johar's understanding of nepotism. If he thinks that it is restricted to nephews, daughters and cousins, I have nothing to say. But, to say that he chose not to give me work is to mock an artiste. As importantly, his memory appears to be poor because we worked together in a movie (Ungli), which was produced by him. And quickly realised our sensibilities did not match."
She also added,"I'm also at a loss to understand how he gave me a platform by inviting me to be on his show.(Johar had said that he gave Ranaut a platform to "give it off to Karan".) I've been on several platforms before with several global icons. To say he helped me voice my opinions is to discredit me as an artiste and a public personality.And, I think, it should be added here that I was invited to be a part of the show in its fifth season. His team requested my team for months for my dates."
She further added,"But what is pertinent here is: why is Karan Johar trying to shame a woman for being a woman? What is this about the `woman card' and the `victim card'? This kind of talk is demeaning to all women, particularly the vulnerable because they are the ones who really need to use them.The `woman card' might not help you become a Wimbledon champ, or win you Olympic medals, or bag National awards. It might not even land you a job, but it can get a pregnant woman who feels her water is about to break a `ladies' seat on a crowded bus. It can be used as a cry for help when you sense a threat. The same goes for the `victim card', which women like my sister, Rangoli, who is a victim of an acid attack, can use while fighting for justice in court."
"Now that Karan is the father of a little daughter (Johar became a single parent of twins, who were born through surrogacy last month), he should provide her with all these cards -the `woman card' and the `victim card', as also the `self-made-independent-woman card', and the `badass card' that I flashed on his show. We will use whatever we need to ensure no one rocks our boat. I'm also a little surprised at the "graciousness" he says he displayed in choosing to not edit the jousty bits on the show. While I'd have blacklisted the channel if something like that had happened, let's also remember that a channel wants TRPs, and he is just a paid host."
"Also, the Indian film industry is not a small studio given to Karan by his father when he was in his early 20s. That is just a small molecule. The industry belongs to every Indian and is highly recommended for outsiders like me whose parents were too poor to give me a formal training. I learnt on the job and got paid for it, using the money to educate myself in New York. He is nobody to tell me to leave it. I'm definitely not going anywhere, Mr Johar."
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Callatay & Wouters – Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg – Callataÿ & Wouters is a leading international software and services provider for the banking industry. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Belgium, Callataÿ & Wouters serves about 50 clients, including retail, direct and private banks in more than 15 countries around the world.
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Integrated Approach to Protecting ICS
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 @ 05:10 PM gHale
Introducing IT capabilities into the industrial control system environment brings with it complex security implications and makes OT systems vulnerable to cyber attacks.
On top of that, systems are complicated webs of proprietary protocols, interfaces and custom software that make standardized tools difficult to develop. As a result, ICS owners have had to patch together piecemeal solutions using manual processes or leverage home-grown technologies.
The following is a cyber security framework whitepaper for deploying and managing best-in-breed cyber threat management products across multiple OEM vendors.
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If there is such a perfect time to realise a new trailer then the super bowl is certainly that moment and Marvel did just that by releasing their Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Super Bowl Trailer last night.
The annual super bowl event is a time where it is not only one of the biggest events in America and arguably the world, but a time where advertisers go nuts. Fans not only eagerly watch the game and halftime show but the adverts as well.
Estimated to cost up to $5 Million USD for a mere 30-second spot to advertise during the super bowl, it is not surprising that they go all in and hold their best moments for it and that is just what Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 Super Bowl Trailer did.
Showing a shortened version of the trailer, the full version can be seen above, we got glimpses of Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Rocket and Baby Groot back in action. Scenes within the trailer included both new and past trailer scenes.
We do get to see newer scenes of cast members that have only briefly been touched on in the past. Both Nebula and Yondu featured more in this trailer along with Mantis who once again features in another funny moment at the end of the trailer.
Most likely this will be the last trailer to be realised for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 as the movie is set for its theatrical realise on May 5th this year.
What do you think of the trailer? What was your favourite moment? Leave a comment below to let us know your thoughts?
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Daylighting only saves energy if it temporarily replaces electric lighting. As a consequence, energy savings due to daylight depend not only on the annual daylight available at a work place but also on when and how occupants use their blinds and lighting controls.
A unique features of DAYSIM is a manual lighting control model, called "Lightswitch". The model combines annual illuminance profiles and user occupancy with behavioral patterns that are based on field studies in office buildings throughout the Western world. For example, the model predicts when users will lower window blinds in response to glare, or when they will switch on the electric lighting.
The original Lightswitch paper can be found in Reinhart 20024 as well as here (chapters 6 to 8)


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Tal-Ya was covered in NoCamels as one of four technologies in an article titled "These Israeli Companies Fight World Hunger with Innovative Technologies" by Roseanne Tabachnik.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
While water scarcity has plagued desert countries for decades, it is no longer an inevitable concern for Israel's desert thanks to technologies like Tal-Ya Agriculture Solutions. The Israeli firm has developed technologies designed to grow more food with less water.
Among the company's technologies are: Reusable plastic trays that capture dew from the air, reducing the water needed by crops by 50 percent. The square tray, which costs $3-$5 per piece, is made of recycled plastic. The innovative trays work by surrounding each plant, collecting dew as the weather changes overnight, and funneling it to plants and tree crops. The trays, which are supposed to last for 10 years, also block weeds that would otherwise compete with crops for water.
Since its inception in 2005, Tal-Ya (which means 'God's dew' in Hebrew) has served farmers in Israel, the US, China, Chile, Georgia, Sri Lanka and Australia.


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"Pulp Fashion" Exhibit at Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in California, through June 5, 2011
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A fascinating exhibit, "Pulp Fashion," by Belgian artist, Isabella de Borchgrave, of rag paper trompe l'oeil elaborate dresses that were inspired by costumes from museum collections and European paintings, is at the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in California through June 5, 2011.
The show includes examples of clothing throughout history from the Renaissance to gowns worn by Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette.
Visit the Legion of Honor website, where you can see a Preview.
White Dresses
Photos are the Museum's.
"GoogleArtProject" Takes Us to Museums' Art
March 9, 2011 § Leave a comment
We can go to various virtual art museums in the world, where we can peruse some of the art there. Wonderful!
Here's the site: http://www.googleartproject.com/
Click either on "view artwork" or "explore the museum" to go into the virtual world.
Video Tutorial about Reusable Moldable Foam Stamps
March 3, 2011 § Leave a comment
Linda Matthews has a good video tutorial on making and using resusable moldable foam stamps. These foam pieces can be imprinted, used, smoothed out again, and re-printed over and over again.


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Filed under: electronic medical records, health it | Tags: emrs, health it, wal-mart
"We're a high-volume, low-cost company," said Marcus Osborne, senior director for health care business development at Wal-Mart. "And I would argue that mentality is sorely lacking in the health care industry."
According to the New York Times, Wal-Mart "is striding into the market for electronic health records:"
The company plans to team its Sam's Club division with Dell for computers and eClinicalWorks, a fast-growing private company, for software. Wal-Mart says its package deal of hardware, software, installation, maintenance and training will make the technology more accessible and affordable, undercutting rival health information technology suppliers by as much as half. … The Sam's Club offering, to be made available this spring, will be under $25,000 for the first physician in a practice, and about $10,000 for each additional doctor. After the installation and training, continuing annual costs for maintenance and support will be $4,000 to $6,500 a year, the company estimates. Wal-Mart says it had explored the opportunity in health information technology long before the presidential election. About 200,000 health care providers, mostly doctors, are among Sam Club's 47 million members. And the company's research showed the technology was becoming less costly and interest was rising among small physician practices, according to Todd Matherly, vice president for health and wellness at Sam's Club.
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog adds: "Wal-Mart has been getting more deeply involved in health care in recent years, drawing a lot of attention for its $4 generic-drug program. It has improved its image in health after drawing criticism for offering stingy health benefits."
And from Chilmark Research's blog:
Wal-Mart/Sam's Club has no credibility, no brand, no nothing in the technology solutions market. Hell, they don't even have a Geek Squad. … if it were our money, we would go with an HIT specific solution provider who has a few years under their belt installing, training and servicing fellow physicians. Wal-Mart brings none of that to the HITECH gold rush.
What do you think?
A. Wal-Mart: A Study in Cool (Health Care Innovation)
B. Wal-Mart, WTF?
C. Whatever, Wal-Mart. We need to go back to the drawing board and completely rethink HIT before it gets out of hand. (One doctor close to us asks: Where's the "Apple of EHRs"?)
Posted by CharlotteGee
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If you haven't heard, Health Affairs has devoted a chunk of its March/April 2009 edition to "stimulating health IT." Today Health Affairs held a briefing on health IT, featuring a whole slew of experts, and the event was covered live on Twitter. One of the articles in this latest edition, and of course much of today's discussion, touched on Web 2.0 in health care: "How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care."
One observer: "The fact that Health Affairs – the leading health services journal – is spending ink on this stuff now is a big deal."
And in a recent conversation, we overheard a leading NYC-area orthopedic surgeon say:
[Health Affairs is a] great journal and hell-bent on meaningful reform and innovation. Their writers are wonderful and insightful – and wouldn't waste their readers' time if they didn't believe this is the next wave. Now you can no longer poke fun at me as I "tweet"… or engage. Patients get it, the "well": public gets it, the press is starting to catch on…. but most docs are woefully ignorant of the changes taking place. I tried to gather support through the medical executive committee to put together a platform so the docs at [hospital name] can be*available* to their patient base… and you would have thought I asked each and every member of the committee to pose nude. They think that only teenagers are using this technology. We still have a ways to go… There are few companies that enable the physicians to adopt this type of wide-reaching and wide-ranging communications platform and docs still feel they simply don't need to engage consumers like this….yet.
Posted by CharlotteGee
Filed under: innovateHealth, innovation, seattle market | Tags: innovateHealth
Here at Next Things First, we're happy to report that the second innovateHealth* event, held on March 3, was a "standing-room-only" success. The event featured Rebecca Williams, RN, JD, of Davis Wright Tremaine and Michael Burcham, a seasoned health care entrepreneur and instructor at Vanderbilt. (Faultline Ventures, Clarity Health Services and iMedExchange have organized innovateHealth's inaugural events.)
Topics for this meeting included the implications of the recent stimulus legislation on health care services and technology companies and entrepreneurial opportunities amidst the market chaos.
- Recap of Tuesday's innovateHealth Event (innovateHealth blog)
- Innovate Health 3/3/09 Event Recap (iMedExchange blog)
And … Save the Date for the next innovateHealth event: The First Annual Capital Meets Innovation Summit on May 12, 2009
* What is innovateHealth, you ask? Well, it's a newly formed, fast-growing group of health care services stakeholders from the private and public sector focused on driving innovation in the health care industry and building awareness of the health care services and technology cluster in the Pacific Northwest. innovateHealth both connects our members within in the cluster and connects the region to the larger national and global market.
Posted by CharlotteGee
Filed under: hospitals, nashville market, quality, value-based purchasing | Tags: hospitals, value-based purchasing
"Value is the watchword in today's economy, and health care cannot be the exception." – Hal Andrews, CEO of Data Advantage
Back in December, we featured a guest post by Hal, where he wrote:
VBP [value-based purchasing], in some form, is headed to a hospital near you. Hospitals have always ultimately adapted to changes in the financing of healthcare, but usually reluctantly and slowly. Value can, and will, be defined for healthcare, and CMS is leading the charge. History suggests that private payers will not be far behind. If you don't know your value proposition today in comparison to your peers, time is not on your side. If you don't join the discussion of how value should be defined, others will fill that void.
That post continues to see quite a bit of traffic. … Google searches for "value-based purchasing" remain high. And the information available on value of care also continues to build: According to the latest edition of the Hospital Value Index™, a study that looks at quality, affordability and efficiency, and patient satisfaction at more than 3,000 hospitals, the value of care offered to hospital patients can vary by as much as 40 percent across the United States. (Data Advantage developed the Hospital Value Index™.)
Just a couple of the study findings:
- The median Hospital Value Index™ score declined more than 8.5 percent since June 2008.
- Hospitals in the Northeast (also known as CMS Region I) have hospital value scores some 40 percent better than those in the Southwest (CMS Region IX). The sharp contrast between Regions highlights the complexity of measuring value. For example, some hospitals provide similar quality at a lower cost, while others provide higher quality at a similar cost.
More here (PDF).
In the announcement, Hal noted: "We found that the delivery of high value care is widely divergent across the country, among regions, and even among markets. Measuring value in healthcare is more complex than measuring solely quality or cost and represents a significant challenge for every stakeholder who wants to improve healthcare." We talked with Hal to get a little more perspective on what all this means.
1) Explain to someone who doesn't know anything about how health care works (say, someone who just goes to the doctor when he gets sick) why your findings are important?
In some ways, consumers and employers have operated under the assumption that "priceless quality" in health care was OK. As consumers increasingly become responsible for shouldering more of the cost of healthcare, we believe that value will become as important in health care as it is in other buying decisions.
Obviously, for matters of life and death, a value analysis will place more emphasis on quality than price; at the same time, for basic health care, like blood tests or X-rays, we believe that understanding the relationship between quality, price (what is charged), cost (what is paid) and patient satisfaction will become more important.
2) I'm a little confused. The data shows that quality scores "significantly" declined since June 2008, but "patient safety, patient satisfaction, and affordability and efficiency scores showed improvement across virtually all hospitals." How does that work?
The Index is a composite number that moves depending on the number and weight of variables. The most recent Index included information about mortality that was not available in the first Index, and including mortality in our calculation of quality offset gains in other elements of quality.
3) How can hospitals, and health care in general, take this data and use it to spur innovation in care? Given the news that came out recently about 50 percent of hospitals being unprofitable in 3Q 2008, there's little cash on hand to pay for staff or facility improvements or IT or anything. Give one example of what a hospital CEO might do to improve her hospital's value rating, now that she's seen this variation in value.
Any unprofitable business should perform an internal and external analysis of its performance. Benchmarking is the starting point in this analysis – a hospital should analyze what service lines are unprofitable (internal) and then compare that to its peer group (external) to understand where the opportunities for improvement are. In anticipation of CMS's proposed Value-Based Purchasing, every hospital should have a clear understanding of how it compares to the benchmarks that CMS will use.
4) How does all this fit in with the current political landscape, with the idea of larger health care reform in general?
CMS first proposed Value-Based Purchasing in the fall of 2007, at the peak of the stock market. Even then, it was clear that "priceless quality" was not sustainable. In the current economic environment in which value is the watchword, healthcare can no longer be the exception.
5) Will having this kind of information at their fingertips drive people to, well, drive to other areas of the country to get care?
We have found wide variance in value across the country, within regions, and within individual markets. Value is different to everyone, and we would hope that people would use the information to make decisions that fit their own personal needs.
Posted by CharlotteGee
CNN's Sanjay Gupta is officially out of the running for the Surgeon General position, as of last night. From the Washington Post:
Speaking on "Larry King Live" hours after news of his decision broke, Gupta said he did not want to stop performing brain surgery, leave his television career or spend extended time away from his family….
He said the surgeon general "has to have a little bit of a higher profile. Whoever takes this job has to be out there really advocating the issues of public health. At no time is it probably more important than right now, as we're dealing with health-care reform. These issues really go hand in hand." …
An administration official said last night that Gupta "was under serious consideration for the job of surgeon general. He has removed himself from consideration to focus more on his medical career and his family."
Gupta, who was once named one of the "sexiest men alive" by People magazine, was never officially named to the post and continued to report for CNN. Sources said the medical journalist told CNN executives that he wanted to devote more time to his medical practice and to his duties at the network.
Posted by CharlotteGee
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I have a feeling we are going to be posting a lot over the course of the next few months on the unsustainable pressure on angel investors – but for now, let's celebrate the fact they are stepping up to the plate when the guys getting paid to do the job shy away. John Cook writes this today in TechFlash:
Despite the struggles in the economy in the latter half of 2008, members of the Alliance of Angels still invested near record totals last year. The Seattle angel group said today that its members invested $6.4 million last year, a 64 percent increase over 2007 and the second highest investment total since the organization was founded 11 years ago.
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For those in Seattle – or those who are looking for an excuse to hop the next flight – check out the meeting of innovateHealth tomorrow night. We will be joined by Michael Burcham (Paradigm Health, Theraphysics) and will be discussing the opportunities for innovation created by the Obama administration's health care reform plans and the bottomless cratering of the economy.
It will be a great chance to see all those folks who you had no idea were working in health care too and to strike up a vigorous debate about health care issues without embarrassing yourself in front of your friends.
RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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As adults, we are expected to handle situations a certain way. When things don't go our way we are to stop, think, then act accordingly… like an adult. We may vent to a friend. We may grab a cocktail. We may mumble and curse to ourselves when in traffic. But usually whatever turmoil we face we keep our cool. Well… most of us. Those that don't get looked at with a side-eye and we shake our heads. But what if adults behaved like toddlers? I saw the below video this morning on Fox News… and boy can I relate! I feel this way SO much. LOL!
So what if we did walk around reacting this way? The world would be a more interesting place. 🙂 This cracked me up. Props to the actress in this video. She is fantastic. LOL! My favorite is the ending. 🙂


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Pressure mounts to release Green Belt
Sam Bowman, research director at the Adam Smith Institute recently stated that, "by rolling back the green belt by just one mile around London, we would have space for one million new homes".
Planning restrictions on land surrounding cities can be traced back in history. In fact, the first green belt around London was ordered by Queen Elizabeth I in 1580 on the basis that a three-mile wide belt would stop the spread of the plague.
Green belt is subject to different considerations in modern times and is aimed at protecting cities from urban sprawl whilst also protecting the 'green and pleasant land' Britain is famous for.
The policy dates back to the 1930's when the Greater London Regional Planning Committee proposed the Metropolitan Green Belt around London. However, it was not until 1947 when the Town and Country Planning Act allowed the local authorities to include green belts in their town plans, while the first green belts were not designated until the 1950's.
Green belt covers 13% of UK land - is it worth protecting?
Today, more than 1.6 million hectares are designated as green belt land in England, covering about 13% of the total land area while in Northern Ireland 16% of land is green belt, Scotland 2% and Wales, with just one green belt zone less than 1%.
However, with mounting pressure to take action on the critical housing supply shortage, the government are now being bombarded with calls to release a proportion of green belt in favour of building more homes.
David Cameron, a former crusader for the green belt cause once said that, "he would no more risk the green belt than risk his own family". He has since had a change in heart stating towards the end of last year that "building on the green belt would make life better for people by helping them onto the housing ladder".
Although it is preferable to build on brownfield sites such as old hospitals or factories, there simply aren't enough sites to go around, particularly in London and the South East where the population is rising fastest. The arguments against developing green belt diminish by the day as they are eradicated by the logical plus points for doing so:
Green belts restrict supply and keep property prices high.
Current green belt policy restricts building for the foreseeable future resulting in premiums being paid for properties in adjacent areas. This is illustrated in Oxford, London and Cambridge where property prices are amongst the highest nationally.
The environmental and amenity value of green belt is exaggerated.
With around 80% of British land remaining undeveloped and just 13% of the total land area protected as green belt, a degree of urban sprawl can easily be tolerated without upsetting the eco-balance.
Developing green belt will reduce housing density in cities.
A large proportion of British families are living in overcrowded homes which places a greater strain on infrastructure in towns and cities while draining local authority budgets.
Strong green belts do not deliver housing in areas people want to live in.
Restrictions on developing green belt forces buyers out to more rural locations which results in longer commutes for work and a higher cost of living.
Green belts increase housing volatility.
Until the recession, average house price volatility in the UK was higher than the most volatile single market in the US (Los Angeles) - largely due to zoning restrictions on planning, particularly on green belt.
Green belt lowers retail productivity.
A report in 2011 showed that a leading supermarket chain had reduced productivity by at least 20% as a result of planning restrictions and 'town centre first' policies.
The majority opinion appears to be that it would not be damaging to the landscape, environment or the economy to release at least some green belt for development, allowing sufficient urban sprawl to deliver homes to those that urgently need them.


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For a long time now, I have been on the look out for the perfect vintage vanity set. Last summer, I found a sterling silver brush and comb set at an antique mall sidewalk sale for $4. It was a reproduction, but that was okay by me because I wouldn't feel bad if something happened to it while I cleaned it.
Last week, while lurking around on eBay, I came across this vintage set, for only $15!!!! The mirror is in perfect condition -- no cracks or dark spots!! It is vintage celluloid and has such a lovely design. I am thinking it might be from the mid to late '20s because of the button hook, but if anyone has a better guess, let me know!! This set kind of matches the power jar I found at a flea market over the summer. My brush and comb don't really match, but I don't mind. I am planning on looking for a comb to match this set and possibly a silver mirror to match the other. A girl can never have too many vanity sets....can she??


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Second Conemelt album, this time on Emissions, also from 1995, part two of your Ripped In Glasgow Xmas treats.
Two double albums in a year? How prolific is THAT??
Before I posted this up, I got in touch with Ashley and Nat from the band just to make sure it was OK to post it, and they were more than accommodating. Here's the conversation highlights, which I think make an interesting read. I'll go blue, Nat can go red and Ashley can go green:
I've just ripped and tagged up the Confuse & Destroy album but thought I'd run it past you before putting it up for the troops. What do you think? If you're cool with it I'll put it up soon, and do you have any comments or anecdotes about any of the tracks?
I hadn't listened to it for a while and had forgotten how good it was, especially the likes of Cuckoo Clock Rock, Espionage and BIG and Clever Track.
Anyway, lemme know what you think.
- moggieboy
Sounds good to me. I haven't listened to it for a while either.
Anecdotally, these tracks were all recorded at the old New Ground Records office that Ashley was renting behind Infectious Records - Tonbridge's dance music shop (from '92-'95) which was run by Spencer Vitnen - he is the man behind the voice that we processed on the Floating Bloke 12" - the 'bonus' track after Mandible Man....talking about mushrooms "tuned in fucking lovely"...a larger than life fellow, and very supportive.
Far better than 'Fuckers' in my opinion and maybe our best. Influences filtering through were more widespread from getting into electric Miles and digging on more contemporary artists like Basic Channel. Flashermac is a reference to Eddie Flashin Fowlkes for example. There's improvisation within the structure - Grant was employing random elements. Very much a case of getting the right take. A highly satisfying voyage of discovery, busy all the time with music... wonderful times...
Interesting - I can definitely hear the EFF on Flashermac.
It's true what Ash says about electric Miles and the Detroit stuff being major listening. Also at that time we were big into the first Shellac 7"s (referenced on the Floating Bloke 12") and the ongoing influence of industrial, T.G. etc. - you can hear that in 'Pushbutton Twist' which is from an older industrial tape that Grant made pre-Conemelt, when all was industrial in Southborough. But I remember Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson and other electric Miles being played a lot in the New Ground office as well as Eddie Fowlkes, Infiniti - Game One, UR, Parliament and lots of other Detroit stuff that Ashley was gobbling up and we were dead into. We tried to combine all those elements into our own thing...
Sounds like a winning combination.
I've just (last night) finished reading the Wreckers Of Civilisation TG/COUM book - insane stuff, TG are my gig of the year for 2009 though, a magnificent show at Glasgow Tramway.
Miles Davis though, wouldn't have guessed that one...
All of Confuse and Destroy was recorded live to 2-track tape. We used TDK SA-90 and then mastered directly from that.
A TDK SA-90?? Wow - that's lo-fi right enough, mind you at least you took the 'chrome' option.
Yeah, big TG fans. I've got my Sordide Sentimental 'We Hate You Little Guys' 7" close to hand as I type!
Aye? That should fund the reunion tour then...
What a nice bunch of guys. Compliments of the season to ya...
Conemelt - Confuse And Destroy
A1 - Misty Traincrash
A2 - Flashermac
B1 - Cuckoo Clock Rock
B2 - Joys Of Surface Noise
C1 - Big Up The Conemelt / Overbite Nightmare
C2 - Espionage
D1 - BIG And Clever Track
D2 - Motorskating
D3 - Pushbutton Twist
Buy it here
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Conemelt - Confuse And Destroy
Second Conemelt album, this time on Emissions, also from 1995, part two of your Ripped In Glasgow Xmas treats.
Ripped by Moggieboy at 16:23
3 comments:
- Mona said...
First Conemelt album I got...brilliant stuff and no I wouldn't have guessed the Miles thing either. Have never read that TG book, obviously recommended then!
- 17 December 2009 at 19:43
- tim f. said...
grabbing it now, cheers moggie! & thank you to conemelt too! :)
- 17 December 2009 at 19:50
- 9f said...
Thank you Moggieboy & Conemelt. Great early present.
- 22 December 2009 at 22:19


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This housing crisis is not the Great Depression
The latest housing report from Capital Economics garnered a lot of attention this week for comparing the last few years to the 1930s. The subject line of one email HousingWire received Tuesday from the Toronto-based firm read: "US Housing Market Monthly - Worse than the Great Depression." Coverage on CNBC, later aggregated by the Drudge Report, stated "the housing crisis that began in 2006 and has recently entered a double dip is now worse than the Great Depression." The economist who wrote the note, Paul Dales, said the level of press coverage surprised him. He said the actual eight-page, 24-chart report focused little on the generational comparison, which happened unintentionally, despite taking prominence in the email subject line. "During the course of my research, I realized that the fall in house prices has been larger and quicker than during the Great Depression," he said. Dales added that the comparison is not a a publicity stunt nor does he believe his research can be extended beyond commentary on housing price volatility. "Granted data around the Great Depression are sketchy, but in no way am I comparing the macroeconomic conditions of that time to the current recovery," he said. "I don't think unemployment will reach 25%, for example, or that another recession is guaranteed." According to Capital Economics analysis of the recent Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index, housing prices recently fell by 33%, eclipsing the 31% fall in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Dales believes prices are likely to fall another 3% this year, resulting in a 5% drop for 2011. Robert Shiller also provided the possibility a doomsday pricing decline of another 10% to 25% fall. But this is for house prices, and not the housing market as a whole. It is not to say that things are rosy in other aspects of housing, home affordability is reaching new highs, but access to credit remains constricted. For every foreclosure currently on the market, RealtyTrac estimates, there are another three in the pipeline. It was a different situation, particularly in regard to foreclosures, in the early 1930s. About half of all mortgage debt was in default during the Great Depression, according to HousingWire research. By 1932, national unemployment reached 25% according to the Kansas Department of Labor. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. estimates about 9,000 banks suspended operations back in the '30s, resulting in losses to depositors of about $1.3 billion. Annual mortgage lending fell 80% and new residential construction dropped by 80% as well. What's more the types of mortgages common in the Great Depression were phased out, potentially because of the relative ease in which lenders could foreclose. According to a research report last year from PMI, in the period before the establishment of the Federal Housing Administration, the Federal National Mortgage Association (the government agency that was the precursor to Fannie Mae), and other government housing agencies, virtually all mortgages were shorter-term (less than 10 years), balloon loans that were callable at any time by the lender. "With depository institutions needing liquidity during the Great Depression, many loans were called — and with prices having fallen sharply, unemployment having skyrocketed, or both, many homeowners could not pay back the principal amounts of their loans or refinance," the PMI note states. "Therefore, many lost their homes even though they could continue to make their payments." This scenario does not exist today. Mark Fleming, chief economist at CoreLogic (CLGX), said accurate housing price record keeping did not start until the 1970s, and he supports Dales assertion that Great Depression comparisons are speculative. "Based on the work of Robert Shiller, in real terms, prices fell prior to the Great Depression between 1916 and 1920 and were relatively stable during the Great Depression," Fleming said. "In more broad economic terms, some have estimated the unemployment rate to have been as high as 25% during the Depression, which is significantly higher than in this or any other recent recessionary period." "By that economic benchmark, this recession is not comparable to the Great Depression," Fleming said. Write to Jacob Gaffney. Follow him on Twitter @JacobGaffney.