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Replacement caster assembly for iRobot Roomba 500, 600 and 700 Series Vacuum Cleaning Robots.
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Replacement caster assembly for iRobot Roomba 500, 600 and 700 Series Vacuum Cleaning Robots.WHAT'S IN THE BOX
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(10 of 10 customers found this review helpful)
Very annoying
By canton
from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Comments about iRobot Caster Assembly:
I love my Roomba overall but the castor and wheel design is so below par its ridiculous. The wheel WILL NOT STAY IN PLACE. That means that very little gets vacuumed as the machine cant navigate properly without it. All the while the battery is wearing out for nothing and the unit cant dock so I find it dead somewhere and the carpet isn't clean. Then I have to go on a search mission just to find the wheel which isn't easy due to its size. So instead of coming home to clean carpets I waste time searching for a wheel which thankfully my dogs havn't choked on or chewed. This has to be the most obvious design flaw. The pin would be next to impossible to clean if the wheel isn't removed from the castor so I don't understand what one reviewer is talking about. The biggest downside of Roomba is the constant cleaning of the brushes etc. so if the wheel isn't supposed to be removed for cleaning, make sure it never needs cleaning or make sure the cleaning is possible without it breaking the castor pin when the wheel is removed. Just to remove the castor you have to pull it out by the wheel anyway. Thankfully the part is cheap. Relatively cheap to replace if you don't mind paying for shipping and cheap quality. I love my Roomba but this is disappointing and the fix so easy.
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(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Good price
By Dora
from Louisiana
About Me Homeowner, Pet Owner
We have a golden retriever with long hair. We run our iRobot daily. We've had to buy at least 5 replacement caster assembly's. Do not purchase from Amazon as their price is 4X's as much.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
By TBG
from Beaumont, TX
About Me Homeowner
I am no design engineer but remodeling this wheel to make it out of the same rubber material as the left and right larger ones would make perfect sense. This material would extend the life of the wheel and improve it's use. Come on Roomba engineers.... fix an obvious (however small) problem, that we Roomba owners eventually have issues with! I have purchased over fifteen Roomba units over the years, for friends and personal use. I love the Roomba ...such a great machine, just needs tweaking.
A simple bandaid to the problem
By Chris
from Titusville, Florida
About Me Pet Owner
I have the 545 and after a few times of cleaning the wheel, it began to fall out. I simply take a small piece of foil and wedge it in between the shaft and the holder. The shaft stays in place until you clean it again. The shaft needs to be removed to clean any animal hair that has wrapped around it otherwise the wheel is not free flowing. I've been doing this well over a year with great results and have not had to replace the Caster Assembly. Would be nice if they could fix this but for now I will not buy a new assembly until this no longer works. LOVE my Roomba!!!!
(7 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
This needs to be fixed. Period.
By Kevin Eyewanders
from Seattle, WA
As many have noted, this is the weakest link in any roomba vacuum. This part needs to be redesgined *yesterday*. It will fail. I just ordered 2 in anticipation of this, and thatcost me $20 after tax and shipping. Ridiculous part for an otherwise fantastic machine.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
These are horrible!
By Mike the remorseful buyer
from Crestview, FL
My several-year-old Roomba 560 has a castor wheel that has never needed to be replaced. I have removed the wheel and replaced it countless times to clean the hair out of the axle (which keeps it from turning). My new 770's castor breaks when you remove the wheel so the axle pins will not stay in place and the wheel falls out freely. Is this iRobot's plan to keep me buying castors instead of being able to clean them? Either sell me a castor wheel I can clean, or design it so it won't stop turning when hair wraps around the axle! As for now, I will install some small pins to keep the wheel in place between cleanings, which is a shame that I should have to do on my NEW 770!
(1 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
Works for me
By JRHolly
from NY
Not sure what everyone is talking about with things breaking when they take the caster wheel out. I've taken mine out probably 20 times since buying my Roomba and have never broken anything.
(12 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Problem with Caster assembly design
By abuelak
from Augusta, GA
About Me Homeowner, Own a dog that sheds, Pet Owner
The ball in the caster assembly keeps falling out. After reading other reviews, I found that this is a common problem, so I ordered 2 of them instead of one. Problem with design because you have to take the ball out to remove the pet hair buildup otherwise it won't roll. By doing that, however, the plastic parts break requiring replacement. Bit of a problem, but I love my robot and would not do without it. No big deal to replace such a small part.
(11 of 17 customers found this review helpful)
Don't Take Wheel Out to Clean!
By Coach Glenda
from Toronto, Canada
FYI - I just found out when I called to order some accessories today that we aren't supposed to remove the wheel from the caster assembly to clean it - we are supposed to remove the whole caster assembly itself - that will give us access to clean the wheel and what is behind it.This was not at all clear to me from the instructions. The only reason I didn't remove the wheel was that I physically couldn't. I'm guessing that's why the plastic pins break when we do - the wheel itself isn't supposed to be removed!
(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Caster Assembly Broke in 3 months,
By Pet owner
from Jacksonville, FL
I have three King Charles Cavaliers. I bought the I-robot to help with the hair issue. It rarely gets through a cleaning cycle without stopping bc the brush cage needs cleaning. Also, it seems to get hung up on electrical cords too easily. Requires a lot of time "cleaning" the device. The caster assembly wore out in three months. Wheel keeps falling out. Customer service was nice enough to replace at no charge. It's a good product. I like that it can get hard to reach areas such as under beds and dressers. Just be ware of these issues if you have pets that shed. I'm not sure this will save you time.


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Genesis 6:1--4 tells about the "sons of God" marrying whomsoever they pleased, and the Nephilim---"the heroes of old, men of renown"---were begotten then. How is this to be interpreted?
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Genesis 6:1--4 tells about the "sons of God" marrying whomsoever they pleased, and the Nephilim---"the heroes of old, men of renown"---were begotten then. How is this to be interpreted?
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Dr John Millam, on the Reasons to Believe website, has this to say on the Nephilim (about 1/2 way through, the section entitled The Sons of God/Giants):
Most people I have read on the matter agree that it is highly uncertain who these "Nephilim" actually were, and as a result, speculation abounds. In my thinking it seems problematic to consider that angels, who are purely spirit beings could mate and produce offspring with humans who are a distinct creation of body into which God breathed spirit.
From the wikipedia article:
While the ca. 6th century The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan (a Christian pseudepigraphical work found in Ge'ez) says:
Which seems to make sense to me. Both wikipedia articles contain numerous references which may be of interest for further research and reading.
A second reference to Nephilim occurs in Numbers 13:32-33, but since all of mankind was destroyed in the flood of Gen 9 ff, I don't see how they could be of the same bloodline. So that suggests that Nephilim might be more of a general than specific descriptive term. It may be significant that both groups of men are described as "giants" (note also that Goliath and his kin, "descendants of Rapha in Gath" were described as having six fingers and six toes, which indicates some sort of genetic deformity).
The New Testament teaches us that the Sons of God are the righteous.
That last bit is instructive. "The world knoweth us not, because it knew him not." It hearkens back to the Savior's words:
So we see that the Sons of God are chosen out of the world and are different from "the world." So if the Sons of God married daughters of men, (ordinary women "of the world" who were not living in righteousness,) the children born to them may have been great and powerful, but without a righteous mother to raise them in the truth they would have fallen away from God. This was always a big deal in Old Testament times. In the Law of Moses, marrying outside the covenant was forbidden, and Solomon choosing to ignore this prohibition is explicitly blamed for the decay and downfall of his kingdom.
Others have noted the two keys theories: (a) angels mated with human women, or (b) descendants of the Godly line of Seth intermarried with the sinful line of Cain.
The Bible uses the phrase "sons of God" to refer to angels in Job 1:6, 2:1, and 28:7. It uses the phrase to refer to Christians in Matthew 5:9 (sort of) and Galations 3:26. It appears to use both meanings in the same sentence in Luke 20:36. Note that the exact meaning of the phrase in all these cases is debatable. I suppose advocates of the angels theory have an advantage here in that the phrase in Genesis and the phrase in Job are the exact same Hebrew words ("bni Elohim"), while the statements in the New Testament are in Greek, not Hebrew, and thus different words. Thus the connection is a little more tenuous.
Personally, I find both theories problematic.
RE angels: Is it physically possible for angels to interbreed with humans? I suppose an advocate of this theory could reply, Who can say? How do we know whether it's physically possible or not? In many cases in the Bible angels appeared to people as human males. Often people didn't realize they were not ordinary human males until the angel told them he was not or revealed himself in some way. If angels can appear as human males with apparently-functioning arms and legs, mouths that can speak, etc, perhaps they also have or can have other parts that function like a human male.
Yes, Jesus said that angels do not marry. But does this mean that they don't have sex, or that in Heaven there is some other institution for the expression of sexuality? That's a whole other question by itself.
Any Hebrew scholars here? The King James says that the sons of God "took wives" from the sons of men, but the Hebrew simply says "they took women". As I understand it, Hebrew does not have a word that specifically means "wife". Rather, a man refers to her as "my woman". (Likewise there is no word for husband, but a woman says "my man".) So I don't think this verse necessarily says that they married these women, just that they had sexual relations with them.
RE Godly line of Seth: There's some justification to say that "sons of God" might mean believers, and therefore perhaps by extension a tribe of believers. But I don't know of any place else in the Bible that uses the phrase "daughters of men" ("bnuth e adam") to refer to sinful people, i.e. that "daughters of men" means people who are not righteous. Perhaps the writer invented the phrase here as a natural contrast to "sons of God". But it's an awfully odd way to put it.
But more problematic, how would intermarriage between "good people" and "bad people" result in a race of heroes? (Whether "nephilim" means "giants" or more like the KJV translation, "mighty men", it still tells us that the result of this intermarriage was notable, famous men.) It makes a lot of sense to say that if angels could interbreed with humans, the result would be something extraordinary. But why would good people and bad people intermarrying result in notable offspring? They're both human, one would think their offspring would be ordinary humans.
IMHO, the angels theory is the more natural reading of the text. Instinctively I find it implausible, but it seems to be what the Bible is saying. The Seth/Cain theory just doesn't really make sense. Or maybe there's some totally different explanation.
My answer is these "Sons of god" were men who had advanced in their level of participation in the organized and authoritative bodies of priesthood governance by making covenants to live their lives in a particular manner. And, evidently, as a part of these covenants, they were expected to only marry women that were sanctioned by the word of the Lord.
An example of this can be seen in the practice of the prophet Nathan to give the word of the Lord as to whom King David should receive as a wife. For David to receive a wife solely according to his own choice would in the eyes of the Lord be considered a sinful act that would put him under condemnation and in great danger. Such was also the downfall of David's son Solomon who took many wives and concubines that were not sanctioned by the word of the Lord through the Lord's Anointed Prophet at the time.
Things are much easier to understand when you take the identities spoken of as Adam, Cain, Abel, Seth, etc. as the collective bodies of priesthood that individual men could become members of by covenant. So, all of the "Sons of God" or the "Sons of Eloheim" are in fact members of these societal bodies that had their own collective identity. Their covenant into a priesthood body makes them all in union and therefore collectively "one flesh". They together form a single body, an Eloheim.
Likewise, Adam is a host of men enlightened to the state of the fulness of priesthood authority in order to receive the dominion, glory, etc. of God in God's own image and likeness. Unfortunately, Adam became beguiled through the counsel of Eve (the Bride or the Church) who was beguiled by the adversary.
Looking at things this way enables you to put aside all of the strange and mysterious alien encounters or non-physical beings. These are normal people who are functioning at a high level of accountability who bring severe cursing upon their posterity for violating their sacred oaths and covenants.
This becomes more clear if you read the Book of Enoch and learn that these men were the "watchers". These are who are referred to in the Book of Jude and in 2 Peter chapter 2. They were regular men who were under covenant in the ancient times who conspired to act sinfully and reaped the consequences.
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The two things I know best about $\mathbf{R}^4$ is that it is locally diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{R} ^4$, and that it's contractible. It's easy to see that the contraction can be acheived by a smooth map ${\mathbb{R}}^4\times I\rightarrow{\mathbb{R}}^4$.
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I am Bangladeshi passport holder and I am studying in Bangalore, India. On 15 October 2012 I am planning to go my country. but there are no direct flights to there. I came to India previously by taking transit in Kalkuta, but I don't want to go on this route this time. I am planning to travel through Kuala Lumpur and Dhaka. My transit time will be there 15 hours. Can anyone tell me please if I need transit visa for that?
According to Malaysian Immigration Department you require a VISA to enter Malaysia.
However on their page about types of Visa they also state that:
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One of the most important life lessons I am trying to impart to my own children is that you generally can't have everything you want, at least not all at the same time. And when it comes to my search for the perfect double stroller, I've had to remind myself of these words of wisdom.
Why? Well, as I've looked at different models, it's become clear that there really isn't any model currently on the market that offers every single thing I want. Instead, various double strollers offer different combinations of features, while failing to offer others. The key for a mom on the hunt for her own perfect model is to prioritize which features matter most to her, and to shop accordingly.
In the case of the high-end phil&ted's vibe 2 with doubles kit, this stroller's list of included features is pretty darn impressive, offering a lot of what I've been seeking in a stroller for my two youngest children, toddler Charlotte and infant Georgia. First of all, I have to admit that this stroller's "cool factor" is off the charts, and while I wouldn't choose a model for that reason alone, I have to admit that just like when driving a bright red Ferrari, the bright red phil&ted's model I've been trying out attracts a whole lot of positive attention when I am out strolling the girls. People have been regularly stopping me on the street to ask me what kind of stroller it is, and where they can find one.
As for the more practical elements of this innovative stroller, I absolutely love the high-tech fabric that lines the seats. It's soft and comfortable for both girls, with just the right amount of padding, and it's also easy as pie to wipe clean when needed. The stroller rolls and maneuvers like a dream, even with both of the girls in it (that's 50 pounds of kid total!). The three wheel design makes it possible to steer with one hand when needed, and the large, sturdy wheels comfortably take on even the bumpiest sidewalks in our urban neighborhood without jolting the stroller's small passengers.
The most unique feature of the phil&teds vibe is the ability to use it as a single stroller, or to add the "doubles kit" to turn it into a double. The stroller's design allows this smaller doubles seat to be easily attached behind and below the primary seat, creating a double stroller without any significant change in the stroller's overall size. This is a big bonus—particularly for city dwellers who need to get in and out of shops or buildings without the extra bulk and width of typical double strollers.
While I appreciate the efficiency of the doubles kit design, I am not sure how well this smaller, lower seat will work for my younger daughter when she gets a bit bigger, and wants to sit up completely and look around. For the moment, the slightly reclined position and limited space of the doubles kit seat works well because Georgia is only 8 months old, but I honestly can't imagine an active and curious toddler wanting to ride that way for very long. It would be a bit like being in the trunk while her big sister gets to actually ride in the car and look out the windows. Because of this notable discrepancy in size and position between the two seats of the phil&teds vibe with doubles kit, I definitely would not recommend it for parents of twins because with two same-age children, one or the other of them would always get the "good," larger seat that allows a range of seat positions and a full view, while the other would be stashed away in the permanently semi-reclined "baby seat" attached behind and below.
The stroller is not light or easy to fold and transport, so it wouldn't be the best choice for the frequent in and out car + stroller trips of suburban parents. But for our city walking needs – meaning we rarely fold it up or put it into our car – it works just perfectly.
Given that I have accepted that no double stroller is going to offer every feature and option in one package, I am very happy with the phil&teds vibe 2. I think that I'd really love it as a single stroller. It will be interesting to see how long my younger daughter continues to accept her "second banana" seating status in the vibe 2, but for now, she's happy with the stroller, and overall, so am I.
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The explosion of a NiSource 20-inch transmission line destroyed five homes and severely damaged others in Kanawha County, about 15 miles north of state capital Charleston. The pipeline has been shut off, allowing emergency crews to approach the scene for further investigation.
By BEN LEFEBVRE
A natural-gas pipeline exploded near Charleston, W.Va,
injuring two people and destroying several homes, a
county government official said Tuesday.
The explosion of a NiSource 20-inch transmission line
destroyed five homes and severely damaged others in Kanawha
County, about 15 miles north of state capital Charleston, said
County Manager Jennifer Sayer.
The pipeline has been shut off, allowing emergency crews to
approach the scene for further investigation, Ms. Sayer
Two people suffered minor injuries, with one suffering from
smoke inhalation, Ms. Sayre said.
The explosion occurred after noon, shooting flames into the
air. The fire eventually spread to Highway 77 in Sissonville,
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NiSource employees were working with emergency officials to
assess damages, company spokesman Mike Banas said. Natural-gas
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In 2010, a natural-gas pipeline operated by Pacific Gas
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Hepatitis C is an infection caused by a virus that attacks the liver and leads to inflammation. Most people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have no symptoms. In fact, most people don't know they have the hepatitis C infection until liver damage shows up, decades later, during routine medical tests.
Hepatitis C is one of several hepatitis viruses and is generally considered to be among the most serious of these viruses. Hepatitis C is passed through contact with contaminated blood — most commonly through needles shared during illegal drug use.
Hepatitis C infection usually causes no symptoms until late in the course of chronic infection. In its earliest stages, beginning about one to three months after exposure to the virus, the following signs and symptoms occur in a small proportion of infected people:
Signs and symptoms of chronic infection typically become evident after years and are the result of liver damage caused by the virus. These may initially include the symptoms of acute infection. Then, over time, signs and symptoms may include:
Make an appointment with your doctor if you have any of the above signs and symptoms.
Hepatitis C infection is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV is spread when you come in contact with blood contaminated with the virus.
Your risk of hepatitis C infection is increased if you:
Hepatitis C infection that continues over many years can cause significant complications, such as:
If you think you may have a risk of hepatitis C, see your family doctor or a general practitioner. Once you've been diagnosed with hepatitis C infection, your doctor may recommend you see a specialist. Specialists who see people with hepatitis C infection include:
Because appointments can be brief and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well-prepared. To prepare, try to:
Time with your doctor may be limited, so preparing a list of questions will help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important, in case time runs out. For hepatitis C infection, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions that occur to you during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may allow more time later to cover points you want to address. Your doctor may ask:
Testing for hepatitis C infection in people who have a high risk of coming in contact with the virus may help doctors begin treatment or recommend lifestyle changes that may slow liver damage. This is recommended because hepatitis C infection often begins damaging the liver before it causes signs and symptoms.
People who may want to talk to their doctors about screening for hepatitis C infection include:
Blood tests may help to:
Your doctor may also recommend a procedure to remove a small sample of liver tissue for laboratory testing. A liver biopsy can help determine the severity of the disease and guide treatment decisions. During a liver biopsy, your doctor inserts a thin needle through your skin and into your liver to remove the tissue sample.
Hepatitis C infection is treated with antiviral medications intended to clear the virus from your body. The goal of treatment is to have no hepatitis C virus detected in your body at least 12 weeks after you complete treatment.
Although medications to treat hepatitis C have been available for decades and have gradually improved with time, they have had serious side effects and required that a person be treated from 24 to 72 weeks. Side effects included depression, flu-like symptoms, and loss of healthy red or white blood cells (anemia or neutropenia). Therefore many people discontinued treatment.
Researchers have recently made significant advances in treatment for hepatitis C, combining new anti-viral medications with existing ones. As a result, people experience better outcomes, fewer side effects and shorter treatment times — some as short as 12 weeks. Regimens may vary depending on the hepatitis C genotype, presence of existing liver damage, other medical conditions and prior treatments, but they're generally much more effective today than previously.
Due to the pace of research, recommendations for medications and treatment regimens are changing rapidly, and treatment is also quite complex. It is therefore best to discuss your treatment options with a specialist.
Throughout treatment your doctor will monitor your response to medications.
If your liver has been severely damaged, a liver transplant may be an option. During a liver transplant, the surgeon removes your damaged liver and replaces it with a healthy liver. Most transplanted livers come from deceased donors, though a small number come from living donors who donate a portion of their livers.
For people with hepatitis C infection, a liver transplant is not a cure. Treatment with antiviral medications usually continues after a liver transplant, since hepatitis C infection is likely to recur in the new liver.
Although there is no vaccine for hepatitis C, your doctor will likely recommend that you receive vaccines against the hepatitis A and B viruses. These are separate viruses that also can cause liver damage and complicate treatment of hepatitis C.
If you receive a diagnosis of hepatitis C, your doctor will likely recommend certain lifestyle changes. These measures will help keep you healthy longer and protect the health of others as well:
Protect yourself from hepatitis C infection by taking the following precautions:
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NYU has been named a 2011 recipient of the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. It cited NYU for "creating a global network by expanding its campus beyond U.S. borders, establishing NYU campuses around the globe, and promoting a new kind of mobility for students and faculty."
The award is named for the late Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, a strong supporter of international education and foreign language learning; the awards recognize outstanding and innovative efforts in campus internationalization.
In addition, Fast Company magazine named NYU #1 on its list of education innovators, citing the opening of NYU Abu Dhabi. It said that "NYU is shepherding the most successful and ambitious attempt yet to export overseas a full-fledged American liberal arts university."
NYU President John Sexton said, "Speaking on behalf of the University, we're very pleased by these recognitions of NYU as a Global Network University; they validate the idea of a new architecture for a university in the 21st century, and they honor the great strides we have already made. We see validation, as well, in the actions of other major U.S. research universities, which have begun to emulate NYU's global endeavors. Yet, to the many students and faculty who already participate in the 'circulatory system' of NYU's global network, these recognitions will not come as a surprise; they know the distinctive opportunities it provides for research, for teaching and learning, for building communities, and for preparing students for an increasingly globalized world."
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I am trying to do something simple I thought but it is not working as expected using the Big Table and JPA, I am using datanucleus jpa v2.
public class Inventory extends DatastoreObject {
* List of all inventory items in this object.
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "inventory", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade={CascadeType.ALL})
private List<InventoryItem> inventoryItems = new ArrayList<InventoryItem>();
public class InventoryItem extends DatastoreObject {
private Inventory inventory;
When I look at the Datastore Viewer, I see entities with their correlating relationship columns. This is the inventory table which has a list of ids for the inventory items.
Inventory Table
Key Write Ops ID/Name inventoryItems
agxzbWFydGJhcnNpdGVyDwsSCUludmVudG9yeRgwDA 8 48 [InventoryItem(69)]
Inventory Item Table
Key Write Ops ID/Name inventory_id
agxzbWFydGJhcnNpdGVyEwsSDUludmVudG9yeUl0ZW0YRQw 14 69 Inventory(48)
My question is how do I fetch all the inventory item's where their inventory_id is for example 48. I know I can fetch the inventory object and do an array sublist but this seems really inefficient.
When I try to do a query it doesn't work as expected and I understand some of the reasons as joins are not supported but it seems that it would work if I could access the inventory_id column of then inventory item table but it seems that I cannot.
When I try simple queries this won't work.
"Select from InventoryItem.class.getName() item where item.inventory.id = :inventoryId"
I was hoping this would work in datanucleus, I understand that it is typically a join but if datanucleus knows that it is an unowned relationship and that the inventory object is mapped by it's id couldn't this work somehow? I understand that the .id attribute wouldn't make any sense as it is an arbitrary token but it seems there should be a way to do this type of query with an unowned @OneToMany(mappedBy="inventory") configuration.
I tried the other way also by assigning the object as a parameter but to my surprise this did not work either.
"Select from InventoryItem.class.getName() item where item.inventory = :inventory"
Here I try the query by first fetching the object and then trying to query using that object as the parameter but again this did not work unless the objects was "embedded"
My preferred solution would be the first query operation but I am pretty sure this is not possible using big table. I am still confused though why the second operation does not work.
Any help would be appreciated.


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Is the usage of mainframe decreasing now a days?
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It depends on which part of your question you are emphasizing: importance or usage rates.
Mainframes are still very important. They are still heavily relied upon by the financial industry and for many of the critical operations required by large enterprises. IBM has about 90% of that market. Most vendors have cut back on mainframe software development but IBM has been increasing their R&D in mainframe hardware and has a very fast-growing mainframe software development business.
In terms of overall usage rates, many of the traditional roles of mainframes can now be achieved by networked server farms and even desktop systems. For example:
So, some will say that steadily reducing prices and the economies of large database scale will feed a continuing demand for the largest systems. Other will argue that investing in mainframe technologies is not cost-effective.
Here in Sweden, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency recently switched from their old mainframes (Bull) to a UNIX based system.
The biggest reason for this being that the employees who know something about their old system has either retired or has delayed their retirement for several years to keep the systems running.
I suspect similar migrations will occur in bank systems, since they will soon (or already do) suffer from the same problem.
Cloud computing could bring back the mainframe? Rhetorical but one that is asked in lots of places. You could provision a bundle of large VMs in there.
Honestly if I ran a gigantic IT department, I would whole-heartedly consider IBM iron, likely on lease. With the virtualization and smaller staff (though more expensive) it could make a LOT of sense.
Would I commission COBOL apps on it? No. But surely DB2, Java, XML, and other Linux apps.
As an anecdote, I am just now responding to an RFP for very new Java apps on System Z.
In banks, the answer is a resounding no. There is too much legacy code and too many business rules which are either poorly documented, or written so long ago that the option of moving off mainframe would be too costly.
Fake Steve Jobs (aka Dan Lyons) has a very interesting take on why Mainframes are still hanging around here: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/why-ibm-is-in-trouble-with-antitrust.html
Yes. The people who still use them are consolidating them, and the brave new world of Linux on the mainframe is mostly myth.
I've never heard so much of a rumor of somebody migrating applications or developing new applications on Mainframes in many years. I am aware of many projects where "impossible to replace" COBOL is in fact being replaced, mostly to J2EE applications.
The places still using mainframes, especially non-IBM mainframes, are dysfunctional orgs like government agencies and banks. As the people who know stuff about mainframes continue to retire and die, the nonsense arguments that you actually need crappy legacy code from 1975 will no longer be made, and someone will finally put a bullet in the mainframe.


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'Loser' champ draws on his success to motivate others
|Ann Anderson, shown displaying medals from half-marathons she has run, was inspired by a winner the "Biggest Loser" television show and has lost more than 50 pounds with methods learned from his classes. (Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press/MCT)
Twenty pounds.
That was her goal when she signed up for Pete Thomas' "Lose It Fast/ Lose It Forever" program.
"I'd tried in the past," Anderson says. "I'd lose 10 pounds and gain it - and more - back."
But that was two years and 60 pounds ago.
Anderson lost that weight and became more active thanks to Thomas, a walking-talking testimony to the ability to lose weight, keep it off and become fitter and healthier in the process.
Thomas, 44, of Ann Arbor, Mich., once tipped the scales at 401 pounds. He began dropping weight after becoming a contestant on the hit NBC reality show, "The Biggest Loser." Three months in, in May 2005, he was voted off the show.
But he took what he'd learned there, plus what he learned on his own, to become the show's most successful at-home weight-loss contestant.
He lost 83 pounds on "The Biggest Loser" and another 102 after leaving the show. He has - literally - become half the man he used to be.
Thomas was so excited about what he had accomplished and what he ha d learned that he started teaching others through seminars, boot camps and corporate wellness programs, coaching and coaxing numerous others to shed weight and become fitter.
Anderson, 46, of Pinckney, Mich., had tried to lose weight many ways. She knew she was in for something different the first day of Thomas' 10-week program.
"I'll never forget it," she said. "He said, 'We need to make a decision to commit now or quit.' That really struck me because that told me this guy is not in it for money or fame. We had paid for the class and he was telling us 'I'd rather give you your money back because we want serious people here.'
"Then, when you see that life-size poster of him when he was that 400-pound person, and you see what he looks like now . it's inspiring."
Anderson ended up losing 27 pounds during the class, and eventually shed 33 more. She has kept it off for about eight months now.
What made the difference for Anderson, a hair stylist who'd been overweight all her adult life?
She says she learned how to eat smarter and exercise more in ways that made it stick, and it became so routine she doesn't think about it anymore.
"Every week he focused on a specific topic and gave us homework assignments," she recalls. "It wasn't just coming to class and sitting and listening. He had challenges every week, and he made them fun and interesting."
For example, one day the class went to a grocery store and participants competed to find the lowest- and highest-calorie food items. "Some of the foods I thought were low-calorie, weren't," Anderson says.
Getting active also made a huge difference for Anderson and others. "I remember the first time he told us to run on a treadmill for 15 minutes," she says. "I thought, 'Oh my God! He's crazy.'"
But then he talked her through it. "He said, "Run two minutes, walk one minute.' Well, you sort of feel like you can do anything for two minutes."
The two minutes turned into 15, and five months later, in October 2010, she ran her first half- marathon. This October, she'll run her fifth.
"I think about how crazy I thought he was when he told us to run 15 minutes, and now I've been running two hours every Monday for the past two years," she says.
Unlike Anderson, Ann Guttman, 46, of Ann Arbor was physically active. She biked and she played soccer and field hockey, but over time she packed 20 extra pounds onto her 4-foot- 8 frame.
She didn't think it was possible because she was so active.
But one of the most important things Thomas told her: "You can't outrun your mouth."
Guttman realized she was engaging in self-defeating behavior. "I'd go on a 40-mile bike ride and eat a huge plate of food at the Coney Island afterward," she says. "I'm little, but I can pack away the groceries."
Guttman started the program in February and dropped 20 pounds before the class ended in April. She did it by increasing the amount of exercising she does, adding strength training to her regimen and choosing lower-calorie options when she goes to restaurants.
Not only did Guttman lose weight, but painful symptoms of arthritis disappeared, she says.
She and others say team spirit built into the program - which Thomas calls the secret sauce of success - is also extremely encouraging, both in person in the seminars and boot camps and online through a private Facebook page where members post successes and challenges and connect with workout buddies.
"You can post that you're looking for someone to walk or run at a particular park and a particular time and you're bound to get at least two or three people responding that they'll join you," Guttman says.
Jessica Towers knew she needed to do something when she saw a photo of herself with husband, Matt, and their two daughters, in December 2010.
"I'm seeing that picture and thinking, 'Am I really that big?' "
Towers signed up for the boot camp in January 2011. Six months later, Matt joined, too .
"I learned I needed to cut the amount of calories I was eating by almost half. At first, I thought, 'H ow can I get by eating this little?' I was cranky, irritable. But after about a week, I got used to it," she says.
Both of them also started exercising, including running.
This October, they'll both run a half- marathon in the Detroit Free Press/Talmer Bank Marathon. It'll be her second; his first.
Thomas " has given me the knowledge that I need and showed me that I can do it," she says.
Meanwhile, Towers, who dropped from a size 18 to a size 10, says she feels better than she has ever felt. "I'm wearing sizes I don't even remember wearing in college. It's nice to be able to shop in regular stores."
That's probably the best part."
Matt Towers achieved his goal of getting to 200. The 6-foot- 1 software consultant went from 290 pounds in July 2011 to 200 this past April. He was so encouraged by the program that, at Thomas' suggestion, he became a certified fitness instructor .
He also started a fitness program at his church so he and his wife can share what they've learned with congregants at Peace Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor.
But there's another big bonus.
"I used to love to play basketball in high school and college. There's a group of guys who play at lunch. I used to drive by and watch them play for years and I used to think, 'I wish I could join them.' But I just didn't have the energy."
He plays with them now.
"It's hard to put into words how fulfilling that is," says Matt, who with his wife has 4- and 7-year-old daughters. "I feel great. I have energy to play with my kids at home and the guys at work."
Thomas' plan
Pete Thomas mixes his weight loss story, and those of people he helped, in a new how-to book that he hopes will help others do what the title suggests - "Lose It Fast, Lose It Forever " (Avery, $26).
The book prominently features Michiganders because that is where Thomas lives.
The book maps out the key components of his approach, such as engaging your mind in the battle, developing an individualized plan that involves reducing calories and increasing exercise, using a support team, journaling and viewing weight loss not as a goal itself, but as a means to a healthier, more purpose-driven life.
Thomas' mantra is: "Master your mind, manage your mouth and multiply your muscles."
"My goal is to help people develop a plan that works for them," he says.
Thomas quit his job as a real estate investor to devote all his time to helping others succeed in living healthier lives. "My misery has become my ministry," he says.
He believes the mind is one of the most important tools for healthier living. "The reason we fail is because of broken focus," he says. " Your most powerful weight loss weapon is your mind."
Writing and repeating affirmative statements daily helps focus the mind, he says.
One of Thomas' favorite affirmations: "I feel sexy, strong and great as I maintain my weight."
For more info: www.petethomas.com
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What is the value of the following limit? $$\lim_{x\to 0} x^i$$ Wolfram Alpha gives an insane result, so does Mathematica.
By definition, for $x > 0$ you have $$x^i = e^{i \ln x} = \cos(\ln x) + i \sin(\ln x)$$ As $x$ goes to zero, $\ln x$ goes to $-\infty$. So while $|x^i| = 1$ for all $x > 0$, the argument of $x^i$ decreases to $-\infty$ as $x$ goes to $0$ from above.
Geometrically, this means the vector $(\cos(\ln x),\sin(\ln x))$ rotates clockwise around the unit circle over and over again as $x$ goes to zero from above.
Take $x = e^{-2n \pi}$, where $n \in \mathbb{N}$, then $n \to \infty \implies x \to 0$. Hence, $$\lim_{n \to \infty} e^{-2n \pi i} = \lim_{n \to \infty} (\cos(2n \pi) - i \sin(2 n \pi)) = 1$$
Take $x = e^{-2n \pi - \pi/2}$, where $n \in \mathbb{N}$, then $n \to \infty \implies x \to 0$. Hence, $$\lim_{n \to \infty} e^{-2n \pi i - i \pi/2} = \lim_{n \to \infty} (\cos(2n \pi + \pi/2) - i \sin(2 n \pi + \pi/2)) = -i$$
Hence, limit doesn't exist.
Note that $\vert x ^i \vert = 1$. I think WA is just telling you that the value keeps going around in the unit circle.
Remember that when $z$ is complex, the expression $x^z$ (with positive real $x$, which is the only case where it it unambiguously defined) is just an abbreviation for $\exp(z\ln x)$. So you're looking at $\lim_{t\to-\infty}\exp(ti)$, and you can see for yourself that the limit does not exist. The value spins aroung the unit circle as $t\to-\infty$, and I think that is what the CAS is trying to tell you.


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- This is the African American Alumni Council Award Announcement and Application. This award is being sponsored by the UofL's African American Alumni Council. The plan this year is to award a total of four $1,000 scholarships: 3 to undergraduate students and one (1), "Kim McKnight" scholarship to a graduate student (after this year, the McKnight family will fund the Kim McKnight award). Friday, April 3, 2009 is this year's deadline for students to return their completed application packets to the committee (including letters of recommendation, transcripts and essays). Decisions to the students and to the university will be communicated before the end of the spring semester. For additional information, please contact Richard McKnight at 502.452.3829, (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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Mexico edge Japan
The champions of Asia and CONCACAF went head to head in Ravenna in Group D's opening match at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Predictably, the game was a close one with just one goal separating the sides by the time the final whistle sounded.
With Brazil and Ukraine waiting in the wings, both teams were looking for the best possible start and following a nervous opening, Japan took the lead through Shusei Yamauchi with 11 minutes on the clock.
Mexico got their noses in front in the second period after a Angel Rodriguez penalty and a Jose Cervantes header. Both sides scored twice in the final period. El Tri extended their lead when Ricardo Villalobos smashed a free kick into the net and Shunta Suzuki grabbed a consolation on the half hour mark with a well-taken individual goal.
In truth, Mexico deserved the win and they will take confidence going into their next game against Brazil on Sunday. Japan will be looking to bounce back against Ukraine.


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Relocation Committee Rejects Sacramento Move
In one of the more remarkable comebacks in NBA history, Sacramento appears to have saved its Kings from relocating to Seattle.
In a victory for small-market teams, an NBA relocation committee voted unanimously to reject the Maloof family's proposed sale of the team to a group led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft MSFT 0.84 % chief executive Steve Ballmer. That group planned to move the team to a new arena in the Emerald City, which lost its Supersonics to Oklahoma City in 2008. The league's 30 owners are scheduled to vote on the matter on May 13, but the committee vote means it's likely the Kings won't be moving to Seattle.
Since the Seattle deal emerged in January, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA player, has worked tirelessly to find a group that would buy the team and to cobble together a plan for a new downtown arena. Previous proposals for an arena in Sacramento have fallen through, leading the Maloofs to move to sell the team to the highest bidder, regardless of the future plans for the team itself.
By late winter, Palo Alto software executive Vivek Ranadive had joined with a group of West Coast executives to match the Hansen-Ballmer offer of $341 million for the Maloofs' 65% stake in the team, though the group has yet to gain final approval for an arena deal that still could face a referendum
Hansen, a Seattle native who lives in San Francisco, had worked closely with league executives on the Seattle plan and raised his bid by some $20 million in recent months. However, Commissioner David Stern, who is scheduled to leave his post next February, has given Sacramento the time it needed to arrange a deal to keep the team.
Seattle is the 12th largest television market in the country. Sacramento is the 20th largest, but Seattle is also home to 13 Fortune 1,000 companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Sacramento has none.
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The outage may be up to a few hours, depending on what other servers are getting moved at the same time. I apologize for the inconvenience.


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Goat Simulator is now real, debut trailer introduces us to the madnessWritten by: / / 8 Comments
What started out as a game jam project by Coffee Stain Studios has now ramped up to become a real production, because Goat Simulator has been formally announced for release with a pre-order trailer… and everything!
Goat Simulator is described as "an old school skating game, except instead of being a skater, you're a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff," and while Coffee Stain aims to polish up the game for release on Steam, the team will "keep the funny bugs" and retain the core "silly" gameplay, with plans to allow players to edit their own levels for the game, too.
The developer offered a disclaimer before pre-ordering, writing:
"Goat Simulator is a small, broken and stupid game. I t was made in a couple of weeks so don't expect a game in the size and scope of GTA with goats. In fact, you're better off not expecting anything at all actually. To be completely honest, it would be best if you'd spend your $10 on a hula hoop, a pile of bricks, or maybe a real-life goat."
Make of that what you will.
With a release window of 'Spring' 2014, check out the debut trailer for Goat Simulator below and pre-order over here if it appeals:
Goat Simulator – Pre Order Trailer
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PLANO, Texas (January 16, 2013)--Trustees of the wealthy Plano Independent School District are backing a proposal to hire armed private security guards to patrol all 71 campuses.
The Plano Independent School District board Tuesday night endorsed a plan that could cost $2.7 million.
The action came a month after the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 students and six educators dead.
Superintendent Richard Matkin last week sent a letter to parents indicating he planned "aggressive recommendations" for safety of the district's 55,000 students.
The Plano ISD also has more than 6,400 employees.
The district currently has armed liaison police officers who work for the city and are posted at high schools.
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Using the Slick2D Library for Java, I want to know if there is a way to brighten an instance of
org.newdawn.slick.Image. I'm willing to use other image-manipulation libraries if need be.
I can imagine a few different ways to do this, but which one is the best will depend on your particular situation.
First of all, if it is possible to perform this offline using some image editing software then that would probably give the best result and result in better performance for your application. However, I am guessing that this is not possible in your situation.
Now, the easiest and most efficient online solution that I can come up with would be to simply render the image multiple times using additive blend mode. (g.setDrawMode(Graphics.MODE_ADD)). If you need precise control of the brightness you might be able to render the image with a different alpha value as an intermediate step and then use the result to add to your output image. Here is a small example
If this is not enough for your needs then there is always the possibility of performing the brightness changes manually on a per-pixel basis by rendering 1x1 squares of the desired (brighter) color to the resulting image. There is a Color.brighter(scale) method that could be helpful when doing this. Note however that doing this operation pixel by pixel is likely to be very inefficient.
Please not however that both of the above methods will just uniformly scale the RGB components of the image. This will result in an image that looks brighter, but in order for the image to retain its colors as perceived by the human eye you should instead increase the perceived brightness or something along those lines. This can for example be done by first converting the colors from RGB space to HSL space, increase the L component by as much as you want. Finally you can convert back to a new and brighter RGB color. Some additional resources on this can be found here:


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Chapter 21. Instruction
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Published Online: 13 MAY 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713181.ch21
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The great thing about tonight's meal is that it helped me figure out what to serve for Christmas dinner (and who doesn't plan Christmas dinner in June?). Imagine the pic above with a chestnut and sage stuffing and a cranberry glaze. It's all going down in December. Today's recipe has a nice summery feel and makes use of sweet peaches and apricots in the stuffing and glaze, balanced by cinnamon and ginger. The seitan is both steamed and roasted, giving it a perfect texture. It was a big hit with my visiting in-laws.
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Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
Neha Vapiwala, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: October 24, 2004
This is OncoLink's "It List" of targeted therapies – a sampling of the most promising targeted agents currently being developed and studied. Although these drugs are not yet FDA approved for clinical use, they are all actively under investigation, and thus represent the potential breakthrough "stars" of tomorrow.
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor: Antibody-type Inhibitors
I. Name = ABX-EGF, panitumumab
Company = Abgenix
ABX-EGF is an entirely human monoclonal antibody that targets the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). As described earlier, the EGFR is often found in high quantities on the surface of a variety of tumor cells, including lung, breast, colon, rectal, pancreatic, kidney and bladder tumors. Tumor cells use the EGFR as a critical component in a chain of signals promoting tumor growth and survival. Many currently available targeted therapies focus on EGFR as an important and feasible molecule towards which to direct anti-cancer treatment (see gefitinib, erlotinib, cetuximab ).
ABX-EGF is the farthest along in the competitive race of new potential EGFR antibodies trying to make their way out of the lab and into the clinic. The fact that it is "fully humanized" offers a strong advantage over the current FDA-approved EGFR antibody cetuximab, which is a human-mouse chimera (aka: hybrid, combination). When antibodies derived from a combination of human and mouse ("murine") parts are administered to people, the human body typically launches an immune attack against the mouse component, which it sees as a "foreign" invader. In other words, the patient's natural immune response tries to destroy the drug itself, thus compromising the ability of the antibody drug to do its cancer-fighting job. Furthermore, repeat administrations of the antibody drug would be expected to be increasingly less effective, since the patient's body would recognize it from the first dose and attack it even faster.
In contrast, ABX-EGF is entirely composed of human components and so the issue of an anti-mouse reaction in the patient is theoretically eliminated. However, in order to efficiently mass- produce a "naturally made" antibody, living laboratory animals like mice are still needed to serve as the antibody "factories". So how can we use mice in order to make a "fully human", non-mouse antibody? The production of ABX-EGF illustrates a clever way to accomplish just that using Abgenix's innovative XenoMouse? technology. Here is a simplified explanation of how this works:
- genetically engineered mice are created such that their mouse antibody genes are inactivated and replaced with human antibody genes
- all the other parts of the mouse immune system are left alone and fully functional
- these "altered" mice are then injected with EGFR-positive human tumors
- their immune systems see human EGFR sitting on the tumor cells as a "foreign" object and launch an attack by making anti-EGFR antibodies
- since the antibody genes have been replaced with human ones -- and the target itself is EGFR from human tumors -- the mice serve as mass producers of human antibodies against human EGFR
Indeed, the ABX-EGF data is very promising thus far. It has been shown to be effective at inhibiting tumor growth in mice that are implanted with active human tumor cells, treated with ABX-EGF, and then observed for tumor response. Thus far, preclinical laboratory and animal studies indicate good activity and an acceptable toxicity profile when ABX-EGF is used alone. Furthermore, these early studies have also demonstrated potent drug activity when used in combination with chemotherapy for a variety of human cancer types, including breast, prostate, and kidney cancers, among others.
Based on these preclinical studies and human pharmacology principles, the ABX-EGF doses necessary for maximum antitumor activity in human patients were calculated as 1 mg/kg to 3 mg/kg weekly. This drug is now being studied as part of a large-scale program involving patients with colorectal, kidney, and non-small cell lung cancers. For example, a phase 1/2 trial of ABX-EGF as a single agent in 58 patients with metastatic kidney cancer has produced at least 2 partial responses (reduction in tumor size) and at least 18 disease stabilizations (no reduction or increase in tumor size over time). For patients with metastatic colorectal cancer that has tested positive for EGFR-expression, a response rate of about 13% has been seen with ABX-EGF.
Particularly encouraging are the positive results from preliminary clinical trials using ABX-EGF in heavily "pretreated" patients (ie: patients who have received and failed many conventional chemotherapy drugs).
No dose-limiting toxicities of ABX-EGF have been reported to date. There is a reversible acneiform skin rash that is thought to correspond to drug efficacy and that occurs at the 1 mg/kg dose level.
II. Name = EMD 72000
Company = EMD Pharmaceuticals (parent company is Merck KGaA)
EMD 72000, like ABX-EGF, is also a "humanized" monoclonal antibody directed against EGFR with good antitumor activity seen in preclinical studies. Also, similar to ABX-EGF, EMD 72000 has been shown to have clinical activity in patients with colorectal and kidney cancers. One thing that makes it unique from other EGFR antibody drugs, however, is a longer half-life, meaning it can be given once every 2- to 3-weeks rather than every week without compromising efficacy. Tabernero et al. presented phase 1 data on this very subject at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Conference last year, showing data that support the use of EMD 72000 every 3 weeks.
III. Name = TheraCIM hR3
Company = YM BioSciences
hR3 is a yet another humanized monoclonal antibody targeted against the EGFR. It is a genetically engineered antibody with documented antitumor effects in preclinical studies of EGFR-overexpressing human tumor cells. Interestingly, these studies have also demonstrated some antiangiogenic activity, so this new agent may exert its benefit through more than one mechanism. Thus far the trials conducted in humans have shown a good toxicity profile.
In May 2004, the Journal of Clinical Oncology published the results of a single-center, phase 1-2 trial of TheraCIM hR3 used in combination with radiation therapy (RT) in patients with advanced head and neck cancers ("Use of the Humanized Anti-Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Monoclonal Antibody h-R3 in Combination With Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Patients"). In the study, 24 patients with unresectable head and neck cancers received 6 weekly infusions of TheraCIM hR3 at increasing dose levels (50, 100, 200, and 400 mg), together with the same RT for all patients. The authors concluded that TheraCIM hR3 is well tolerated and may help to improve the response of advanced head and neck tumors to radiation. It appears that TheraCIM hR3 combined with RT gave similar survival rates to traditional chemotherapy combined with RT (chemoradiation), while sparing the patient from the known significant toxicity of the latter.
Given this and other very exciting data, several phase 2 trials of TheraCIM hR3 are currently underway to assess its efficacy in the treatment of advanced cancer patients, particularly focusing on its role as a radiation-effect-enhancing agent.
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor: Small Molecule-type Inhibitors
Name = EKB-569
Company = Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
EKB-569 is an oral drug that specifically and irreversibly targets EGFR. In an initial phase 1 trial, EKB-569's safety has been established for both pulsed and continuous-dose schedules. Patients tolerated it well and developed the typical side effects expected with small molecule EGFR inhibitors: diarrhea and acneiform rash. Dose-limiting diarrhea occurs at doses of 100 mg/day, and so 75 mg/day is currently the recommended dose for ongoing trials.
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: Her2/ neu: Antibody-type Inhibitor
Name = 2C4
Company = Genentech
2C4 is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeted against the HER2 molecule. The area of HER2 to which 2C4 binds is different from that to which trastuzumab binds, making it a unique drug.
Specifically, when 2C4 attaches to its target site, it blocks the joining of HER2 with other membrane receptors of the HER family, such as EGFR. This "joining" process between HER2 and other family members, (also known as heterodimerization), is thought to enhance and amplify the cascade of signals triggering tumor growth. In fact, tumors with apparently "low expression" of HER2 receptors on their surfaces (ie: weakly positive for HER2) may use this "joining" process as a means of "recruiting help from their family members" (ie: other HER receptors) to increase their strength and ability to grow. Thus, by blocking this process, 2C4 may be particularly effective against tumors with low expression of HER2. Initial clinical trials show good results in patients with solid tumors, and several phase 2 trials are underway.
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My ceiling fan + light has stopped working. It turns out that the voltage reading at the ceiling is only 30V. I think that means that the motor on my fan isn't the problem, but that there's some problem with the wiring between the light switches on the wall (one for the fan and one for the lights, both of which get 120V) and the ceiling. Does that sound right? What can I do next to troubleshoot this issue?
With the ceiling fan taken out of the equation, this will likely be a bad connection or a failing switch. The first places to check are in the wiring above the fan, and the wiring at the switch. Try this to track down the issue:
Note: should you be uncomfortable with any of these steps, especially working with exposed wiring or inside of the breaker panel, then please call a professional.
I had a professional come out - it turns out there was a loose wire in not the switch for the light/fan, but on a different outlet a few feet away. $80 well spent.


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Still a newbie, I have taken out the rd4 rotator from my nn180 and installed the NN Ultimate R10 with 2.5 static, clamp my sigma 4,5mm following the R1 pdf file set up. According to the pdf file the NPP for 2.5 degree with three shots is 3.7 for my canon. I do have parallax problem with this setting. I will have to experiment but anybody can share values with me?
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Is $L^p(\mathbb{R}) \setminus 0$ contractible? My intuition says that the answer is yes, but I'm afraid that this is based on thinking of this as somehow similar to a limit of $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus 0$ as n approaches $\infty$, which is of course nonsense. In any case, every contraction I've tried ends up making some function pass through $0$.
Here is something really cheap and dirty. Let $p<+\infty$. Take $g=\frac{1}{1+x^2}$. Then $f(x,t)=e^{-(1+|x|)t/(1-t)}f(x)$ ($0\le t\le 1$) is a continuous contraction of $L^p\setminus\{g\}$ to $0$. (the reason is that your only chance to hit $g$ is to start with it because $g(x)e^{s(1+|x|)}$ is not in $L^p$ for $s>0$).
Let's make it more interesting without making it more abstract. Can we find a uniformly continuous (both in space and time, as usual) contraction of the unit ball in $L^p$ without the center to a point?
An infinite dimensional Banach space is homeomorphic to itself minus a point. Maybe R.D. Anderson or V. Klee proved this.
According to mathscinet, the results of Anderson given in "Topological properties of the Hilbert cube and the infinite product of open intervals" Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 1967 200--216, and "Hilbert space is homeomorphic to the countable infinite product of lines" Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 1966 515--519 show that all infinite dimensional separable Frechet spaces are homeomorphic, and that removing any countable union of compact sets from such a space leaves the homeomorphism type unchanged.
Here is a simple proof for case of a Hilbert space $V$. Since $V$ minus the origin deformation retracts onto the unit sphere $S^\infty$, it suffices to show that $S^\infty$ is contractible, and that will follow if we can show that $S^\infty$ is a deformation retract of the unit disk. Below is a simple proof of that fact taken from my book "Critical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry". (I have an old paper called "On the Homotopy Theory of Infinite Dimensional Manifolds" that proves much more general results of this nature. It appeared in vol.3 of Topology (1966).)
Proposition. If $D^\infty$ is the closed unit disk in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space $V$, and $S^\infty=\partial D^\infty$ is the unit sphere in $V$, then there is a deformation retraction of $D^\infty$ onto $S^\infty$.
Proof. Since $D^\infty$ is convex, it will suffice to show that there is a retraction of $D^\infty$ onto $S^\infty$. Now recall the standard proof of the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem. If there were a fixed point free map $h:D^n\to D^n$ it would imply the existence of a deformation retraction $r$ of $D^n$ onto $S^{n-1}$; namely $r(x)$ is the point where the ray from $h(x)$ to $x$ meets $S^{n-1}$. If $n<\infty$ this would contradict the fact that $H_n(D^n,S^{n-1})=Z$, so there can be no such retraction and hence no such fix point free map. But when $n=\infty$ we will see that such a fixed point free map does exist, and hence so does the retraction $r$. This will be a consequence of two simple lemmas.
Lemma 1. $D^\infty$ has a closed subspace homeomorphic to $R$.
Proof Let $\{e_n\}$ be an orthonormal basis for $V$ indexed by $Z$, and define $F:R \to D^\infty$ by $F(t)=\cos({1\over2}(t-n)\pi)e_n +\sin({1\over2}(t-n)\pi)e_{n+1}$ for $n\le t \le n+1$. It is easily checked that $F$ is a homeomorphism of $R$ into $D^\infty$ with closed image. QED
Lemma 2. If a normal space $X$ has a closed subspace $A$ homeomorphic to $R$ then it admits a fixed point free map $H:X\to X$.
Proof. Since $A$ is homeomorphic to $R$ it admits a fixed point free map $h:A\to A$, corresponding to say translation by $1$ in $R$. Since $A$ is closed in $X$ and $X$ is normal, by the Tietze Extension Theorem $h$ can be extended to a continuous map $H:X\to A$, and we may regard $H$ as a map $H:X\to X$. If $x\in A$ then $x\not=h(x)=H(x)$, while if $x\in X\setminus A$ then, since $H(x)\in A$, again $H(x)\not=x$. QED
I got here via this mathoverflow question. I find I like Dick Palais' simple proof so much that I want to make it simpler. $\newcommand{\from}{\colon}\newcommand{\One}{\mathbb{1}}$
Palais reduces the problem to finding a map $f\from D^\infty \to D^\infty$ without fixed points. Here is an easier proof that such a map exists. Let $T \from D^\infty \to D^\infty$ be the shift map: $T((x_0, x_1, x_2, \ldots)) = (0, x_0, x_1, x_2, \ldots)$. Note that $T$ is continuous and fixes the origin.
Set $\One = (1,0,0,0,\ldots)$. Working with the $L^2$ norm, define $$ f(x) = \sqrt{1 - |x|^2} \cdot \One + T(x). $$ Since $f$ and $T$ agree on $S^\infty$, the map $f$ has no fixed points on the sphere. On the other hand, for all $x \in D^\infty$, the point $f(x)$ lies in $S^\infty$. So $f$ has no fixed points inside the ball. We are done.
Said another way: the Brouwer fixed-point theorem is "obviously" false for $D^\infty$.
EDIT: Problem 36 of the Scottish book, posed by Ulam, asks if $D^\infty$ deformation retracts to its boundary. The book goes on to say that Tychonoff found the required retraction. See page 178 of "Spaces and fixed point theory" by Khamsi and Kirk for a brief discussion.