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Fiesta Roll-Ups
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Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Picante sauce is spicy, but these rollups are superb!
Serves: 48 appetizers
- 1/4 cup nonfat or light sour cream
- 1/4 cup bottled picante sauce
- 8 flour tortillas (10-inch rounds)
- 1 1/2 cups nonfat or reduced-fat cream cheese
- 1 pound thinly sliced roasted turkey breast, or 1 pound thinly sliced ham, at least 97% lean
- 8 ounces thinly sliced nonfat or reduced-fat Cheddar cheese
- 8 large fresh lettuce leaves
- 1/2 cup chopped black olives
- 24 very thin slices tomato
- 1/2 cup sliced scallions
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- Place the sour cream and picante sauce in a small bowl. Stir to mix well, and set aside.
- Arrange the tortillas on a flat surface, and spread each with 3 tablespoons of cream cheese, extending the cheese to the outer edges. Lay 2 ounces of sliced turkey or ham over the bottom half only of each tortilla, leaving a 1-inch margin on each outer edge. Place 1 ounce of Cheddar over the turkey, and spread with 1 tablespoon of the sour cream-picante mixture. Arrange 1 lettuce leaf over the cheese, and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of olives. Arrange 3 tomato slices over the olive layer, and top with 1 tablespoon of scallions.
- Starting at the bottom, roll each tortilla up tightly. Cut a 1 1/4-inch piece off each end, and discard. Slice the remainder of each tortilla into six 1 1/4-inch pieces. Arrange the rolls on a platter and serve immediately, or cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 8 hours before serving.
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Excerpted from The Best-Kept Secrets of Healthy Cooking by Sandra Woodruff, R.D. Copyright � 2000 by Sandra Woodruff.
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Where should the Heathcare systems go?
By narayanaa on Jun 04, 2007
Recently while having a look at the HL7 BC at the open-esb I felt that there are several issues and challenges that are not yet solved in this domain.
From a philosophical perspective too if we look at, the globalization is happening at great speed and we need interoperability amongst the standards for accessing a patient's record who is diagonalized for a particular disease to be treated at a different geo-political location. Why I m talking about political here is to emphasize the disparate systems via which the patient records pass and heterogeneous health care and insurance systems we have in different geo-political regions.
The following list is not complete. This is only a start for looking at the things. :-) . I might be writing you more if we continue to do work.
Have a look and give your feed back.
Arden Syntax, which is a language for encoding medical knowledge. HL7 adopted and oversees the standard beginning with Arden syntax 2.0. These Medical Logic Modules (MLMs) are used in the clinical setting as they can contain sufficient knowledge to make single medical decisions. They can produce alerts, diagnoses, interpretations, and contain a quality assurance function and administrative support. An MLM must be run on a computer that meets the minimum system requirements and has the correct program installed. Once this is provided, the MLM can give advice when and where it is needed.
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an XML based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics clinical documents for exchange. It is based on the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) and the HL7 Version 3 Data Types,
Interoperability with Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
2 and 3 seem to be pervasive in the Health care domain. Supporting these things would certainly enhance the marketability etc.. Apart from above if we were to be leaders we need to do have the following to with interoperability amongst these protocols in mind (Why interoperability ??? --- for flexibility and transforming one kind of data to the other kind offering seamless transfer of data from one system to another system. This has potential of One kind of record to be looked from another kind of system without the user being switching from one kind of domain to the other kind). Have a look at Open Healthcare, Good European Healthcare Record (GEHR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
Without inter-operable EMRs, practicing physicians, pharmacies and hospitals cannot share patient information, which is necessary for timely, patient-centered and portable care. There are currently multiple competing vendors of EHR systems, each selling a software suite that in many cases is not compatible with those of their competitors.Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), works to address interoperability issues and to establish a National Health Information Network (NHIN) in US. Under the ONC, Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) have been estabilshed in many states in order to promote the sharing of health information. US Congress is currently working on legislation to increase funding to these and similar programs.

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Can anything be said about connectedness of a smooth manifold M from some property of Diff(M) in an analogous way Like C(X) has no idempotents iff X is connected.
Let $M$ be a compact oriented manifold. The following hold if and only if $M$ is connected.
1) $\text{Diff}_0(M)$ is simple.
This was proven by Thurston if $M$ is connected; see
MR1445290 (98h:22024) Banyaga, Augustin(1-PAS) The structure of classical diffeomorphism groups. (English summary) Mathematics and its Applications, 400. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, 1997. xii+197 pp. ISBN: 0-7923-4475-8
If $M$ is not connected, then $\text{Diff}_0(M)$ contains normal subgroups consisting of elements that fix some connected components and don't fix others.
2) $\text{Diff}_0(M)$ does not decompose as a direct product.
If $M$ is the disjoint union of submanifolds $M_1$ and $M_2$, then it is clear that $\text{Diff}_0(M) = \text{Diff}_0(M_1) \times \text{Diff}_0(M_2)$.
If $M$ is connected, then one can show that $\text{Diff}_0(M)$ does not decompose as a direct product by exhibiting elements $f \in \text{Diff}_0(M)$ whose centralizers consist only of $\langle 1, f, f^2, \ldots \rangle$. There are many such constructions; for instance, see
MR0985855 (90i:58151a) Palis, J.(BR-IMPA); Yoccoz, J.-C.(F-POLY) Rigidity of centralizers of diffeomorphisms. Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 22 (1989), no. 1, 81–98.
A famous conjecture of Smale says that such elements should in fact be generic. This was recently proven by Bonatti-Crovisier-Wilkinson for $C^1$ diffeomorphisms; see
MR2511588 (2010g:37035) Bonatti, Christian(F-DJON-IM); Crovisier, Sylvain(F-PARIS13-AG); Wilkinson, Amie(1-NW) The C1 generic diffeomorphism has trivial centralizer. (English summary) Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. No. 109 (2009), 185–244.
$M$ is connected if and only if the connected component of $Diff(M)$ (equivalently, of $Diff_c(M)$) acts transitively on $M$.
Edit: I just remembered, that the Lie algebra of compactly supported vector fields determines the base manifold up to diffeomorphism, see: MR0064764 (16,331a) Reviewed Shanks, M. E.; Pursell, Lyle E. The Lie algebra of a smooth manifold. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 5, (1954). 468–472.
This is also true for larger Lie algebras, and for complex Stein manifolds, see: MR0516602 (80g:57036) Reviewed Grabowski, J. Isomorphisms and ideals of the Lie algebras of vector fields. Invent. Math. 50 (1978/79), no. 1, 13–33.
Moreover, the group of compactly supported diffeomorphisms determines the base manifold completely, but I cannot find the relevant paper now.


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LONDON � The greatest?
When it comes to Michael Phelps, the answer seems obvious with just a cursory glance of the medals table. The guy has won 15 golds � �insane,� says Serena Williams, who certainly knows a thing or two about winning � and now he�s got more total Olympic medals than anyone, with a few more races to extend the record into almost unfathomable territory before he�s done in London.
Even President Barack Obama jumped on the bandwagon, phoning Phelps on Wednesday to congratulate him on his remarkable accomplishment.
�He�s definitely the greatest Olympian of all time,� said South African swimmer Chad le Clos, who�s actually one of the few guys to have beaten Phelps at the Olympics. �He�s my idol.�
But the greatest?
That�s where things get a bit dicier.
While the sporting world � everyone from Masters champion Bubba Watson to Spanish soccer star Gerard Pique � peppered Phelps with praise in the Twitter-verse after he earned the 19th medal of his career, no less an authority than Sebastian Coe was reticent to bestow the ultimate crown.
�My personal view is I�m not sure he�s the greatest,� Lord Coe said on Wednesday, speaking as a two-time gold medalist in athletics and the face of these games as head of the London organizing committee. �But he�s certainly the most successful.�
Other think the sheer magnitude of Phelps� accomplishments leave little doubt about his place in history.
�He�s won more medals that any Olympian in history,� said U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary. �That should speak for itself.�
Indeed, the numbers are mind-boggling:
Start with the golds: Phelps has six more than anyone else. If he wins his last three events in London, he�ll have twice as many as anyone else.
Soviet-era gymnast Larisa Latynina previously held the record for total medals, winning 18 over a span of three Olympics from 1956-64. From there, the dropoff is significant. Next on the list is another Soviet gymnast, Nikolai Andrianov, with 15 medals. Three others captured 13. Just 23 more � in both Summer and Winter Games � have as many as 10. If Phelps was a nation, he would be tied for 57th on the Summer Games medal list and closing in on India, the second-most populous nation on the globe.
Phelps won the most gold medals at a single games, his eight-race sweep in Beijing four years ago. In retrospect, the Great Haul of China looks even more impressive. While it�s said that every record is made to be broken, it�s hard to see anyone topping that mark � equaling it at best, and that will be tough enough.
Williams, who is competing in the Olympic tennis competition at Wimbledon, described Phelps as �the ultimate Olympian.�
�I mean, who does that?� she asked. �No one else could do that. It�s insane.�
In London, Phelps has been a bit of letdown. He didn�t even make the podium in his first race, laboring home fourth in the 400 individual medley, and he settled for the first two silvers of his career, including a shocking loss to le Clos in the 200 butterfly Tuesday. But he finally got his first gold of these games in the 4x200 freestyle relay, taking over with a big lead and cruising home while the roar inside the Olympic Aquatics Centre got louder with each powerful stroke.
Afterward, the announcer proclaimed him �a complete legend� while the Foo Fighters song �Best of You� blared from the speakers. Someone held up a bedsheet with the handwritten message �PHELPS GREATEST OLYMPIAN EVER.�
That seemed to be the general sentiment around the Olympic city, a day after Phelps captured No. 19.
From the shooting range: �Yes, for me he is the greatest,� said Chinese shooter Chen Ying, shortly after winning silver in women�s 25-meter pistol. �Michael Phelps is a role model for all athletes in the world. In swimming, competition is like a battlefield. He inspires others to go for gold as well.�
From the beach volleyball stadium: �For sure,� Natacha Rigobert of Mauritius said, �because he won so many medals swimming for the USA, and to keep doing good like this is amazing. I mean, nobody did that before. It�s great.�
From the world of athletics: �Once you do something that nobody has ever done before, it automatically puts you in that category,� retired sprinter Maurice Greene said. �It�s an arguable debate, but he has to be in the top.�
Coe begs to disagree. Sort of.
�This is the great global pub game. Who is the greatest athlete of all time?� he said during his daily briefing. �Whether he�s the greatest, I don�t know. I could go around this whole room, and we�d come up with different interpretations. You�d have to say he�s up there. Is he the greatest? In my opinion, probably not. But my opinion means no more than anyone else�s.�
Coe was pressed for his choice. If not Phelps, who?
�I could throw out a whole series of names,� Coe said. �I could throw out Steve Redgrave, Daley Thompson,� a couple of home-country faves. �If I wanted to go back a few generations and recall what Jesse Owens did in 1936, it was unbelievable. Nadia Comaneci. I don�t know. It�s the great local pub game.�
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge also was hesitant to put Phelps above everyone else.
�Definitely one of the greatest,� Rogge told The Associated Press. �You cannot reduce everything to the medals. What Larisa Latynina has done with 18 medals and Michael has done with 19 medals is unequaled and is probably going to stay like this for decades to come. But there are other issues that both have. Personality: Larisa is a wonderful personality; Michael is a wonderful personality. There are great iconic athletes who have not won that many medals, but definitely it is a landmark.�
Rogge, too, was pushed to name others he would put alongside Phelps.
�I�m not going to make an exhaustive list,� he replied. �But there are legendary athletes like Paavo Nurmi, Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens and many more that are really idols and icons of the sport.�
Indeed, it�s worth noting that Phelps participates in a sport where it�s possible to win multiple events at a single games. Compare that with someone such as basketball star LeBron James, who is at the top of his game but can only win one gold medal � no more than one medal, period � every four years. And while Phelps swims an impressive array of events, encompassing all four strokes and ranging in distance from 100 to 400 meters, it�s hard to discount Nurmi winning five gold medals at the 1924 Games, including the 1,500 and 5,000 less than two hours apart. Lewis has to be considered for his versatility, winning everything from sprints to relays to the long jump.
�There are a ton of athletes that are in the conversation,� Greene said. �You could debate it for hours and hours. It�s hard to say someone is THE greatest. You have different eras. Eight years from now, it might be someone who comes by and does something far greater than (Phelps) did, in a different event and a different sport and get more gold medals than that.�
But Greene added: �In this era, I�d give it to him.�
Hard to argue with that.
AP Sports Writer Jon Krawczynski, Janie McCauley, Eric Willemsen, Beth Harris, Pat Graham, Steve Wilson and Chris Torchia contributed to this report.


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University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
For Immediate Release, October 23, 1997
(Philadelphia, PA)--Researchers at The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center are leading an international, multi-site study on the performance characteristics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in detecting and diagnosing lesions in approximately 3,000 patients with suspicious mammograms. The study will also examine the extent of cancer growth within affected breasts and will investigate the feasibility of using MRI to assess patients who carry a genetic risk of inheriting breast cancer.
Approximately $5 million has been provided by the National Cancer Institute in support of this study, which marks the largest grant given to date for breast MRI research
Physicians at Penn have long been at the forefront of MR and other imaging research. "This study should prove that MRI is by far the best diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer," says principal investigator Mitchell Schnall, MD, PhD, who serves as Chief of the MRI Section at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. "Breast MRI has the capability of finding small cancerous lesions often missed by regular mammograms and routine self examinations, thereby increasing a patient's chance for survival."
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in the United States and ranks as the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Most missed cancers, however, occur in patients with dense breast tissue. Compared to mammography, breast MRI provides higher soft tissue contrast, which allows for more accurate lesion detection and better image enhancement.
MRI is not routinely used in clinical practice because of its expense, but its use for catching cancer at its earliest stage may ultimately prove cost-effective. Surgical biopsies could be avoided if breast MRI can show that a lesion is definitely benign. Separate studies have already demonstrated the potential for breast MRI to distinguish benign from malignant breast lesions and to detect clinically mysterious cancer.
Another added advantage for using breast MRI is its potential for determining how far the cancer has spread within the breast. "Knowing the extent of cancer within a breast would impact a patient's decision on the type of breast conservation therapy chosen--and that would mean the difference between choosing a mastectomy and a lumpectomy," Schnall explains. "We hope to confirm the results of smaller populated studies, which have proven that breast MRI is extremely effective in image enhancement and very specific in small lesion detection," he concluded.
The 14 clinical sites involved in the four-year study include experts in breast imaging, clinical MRI and MR physics and technical industry experts in the use of MRI equipment and contrasting agents.


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Atorvastatin to Treat Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
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This study will determine if atorvastatin (Lipitor), a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, can help patients with pulmonary (lung) sarcoidosis and replace or reduce the need for patients to take steroids, such as prednisone. Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease that can affect nearly any part of the body. Pulmonary sarcoidosis may resolve on its own or it may progress to irreversible lung damage, disability, and death. Many sarcoidosis patients are treated with prednisone, but the drug is not effective in all patients, and it can cause serious side effects, such as high blood pressure, sugar diabetes, eye cataracts, and bone thinning.
Patients with stage II or III pulmonary sarcoidosis between 18 and 70 years of age who require prednisone may be eligible for this study. Candidates are screened with the tests and procedures described below.
Participants are randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: one group takes atorvastatin; the other takes a placebo (a look-alike pill that has no active ingredient to fight sarcoidosis). Both groups take the pills by mouth once a day for 12 months. When treatment begins, participants begin to have their prednisone dosage tapered (reduced). The tapering is done over 8 weeks until the dose is reduced by 90 percent. Patients are evaluated periodically to determine if the two groups differ in how long they can remain on the reduced dose of prednisone without having their symptoms recur, requiring an increase in the prednisone dose. A full battery of tests is done at the initial screening visit and at the 26- and 52-week follow-up visits, requiring hospitalization for 3-5 days. Additional interim outpatient assessments are done at 6, 12, 18 and 36 weeks.
The full battery of tests at the initial screening and the 26- and 52-week visits includes the following:
- Medical history, physical examination, blood and urine tests, assessment of disease severity and activity.
- Questionnaires.
- Chest x-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) scan.
- Abdominal ultrasound.
- Six-minute walk test (6MWT): test to see how far the subject can walk in 6 minutes.
- Exercise testing and blood gases: Patients exercise on a stationary bicycle or treadmill while their heart and lung function are monitored. During the test, arterial blood gases are measured to determine the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood.
- Pulmonary function tests (PFT): Patients are asked to breathe deeply and, occasionally, to hold their breath. They may be given a medicine called albuterol that dilates the airways.
- Maximum incremental ventilatory performance test (MIVP): Patients breathe normally through a mouth piece. The test system makes it increasingly difficult to inhale. Patients stop when they feel fatigued.
- Exhaled nitric oxide and carbon monoxide (Exhaled NO and CO): Patients breathe out into a tube that collects exhaled air (gases).
- Bronchoscopy and lavage: The patient's mouth and throat are numbed with lidocaine; a sedative and morphine-like drug are given for comfort. A tube is passed through the nose or mouth into the lung airways to examine the airways. Saline (salt water) is then injected through the bronchoscope into the air passage, and a sample of fluid is withdrawn for microscopic examination. Patients who do not have confirmation of their lung disease may also undergo biopsy at the time of lavage. For the biopsy, a small piece of tissue is extracted from the wall of the breathing tubes (bronchi) or the lymph nodes.
Interim testing at 6, 12, 18 and 36 weeks includes PFT, MIVP, Exhaled NO and CO, CXR, questionnaire, blood tests, and 6MWT.
Six months after completing the study, participants fill out a questionnaire.
Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary
Drug: Atorvastatin
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Atorvastatin as a Disease Modifying Agent in Stage II and III Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
- The duration of the steroid sparing period. [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Pulmonary function [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Placebo Comparator: 1
Drug: Atorvastatin
Placebo vs. Atorvastatin
|Active Comparator: 2
Drug: Atorvastatin
Placebo vs. Atorvastatin
Detailed Description:
Sarcoidosis is a multi-system granulomatous inflammatory disease. Pulmonary involvement is most common. Patients typically experience fatigue, weakness and dyspnea. Respiratory muscle weakness, which may be secondary to granulomatous inflammation, is associated with dyspnea and decreased quality of life (QOL). The disease can remit spontaneously or become chronic, with exacerbations and remissions. In some patients, it can progress to pulmonary fibrosis and death. Granulomatous inflammation is characterized primarily by accumulation of monocytes, macrophages and activated T-lymphocytes, with increased production of key inflammatory mediators, TNF-alpha, INF-gamma, IL-2 and IL-12, characteristic of a Th1-polarized response (T-helper lymphocyte-1 response). Corticosteroids are the current mainstay of treatment, but their long-term benefits are not certain. Because steroids often produce undesirable side effects, investigations to identify alternative therapies are warranted. There is sufficient evidence to test the proof of concept that pathways targeted by statins will have a therapeutic effect in sarcoidosis, since, in pre-clinical studies, statins blunt Th1-mediated inflammatory responses.
The study involves a double-blind placebo-controlled, randomized trial which aims to determine if atorvastatin administration results in less steroid use and longer steroid-free intervals in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis who require prednisone treatment.
Patients, who are 18-70 years old, with stage II or III pulmonary sarcoidosis, diagnosed by a compatible clinical history and supported by a lung, lymph node, or tissue biopsy, will be enrolled in the study, if they require prednisone therapy. The patients will be randomly assigned to two groups; as prednisone is tapered, one group will receive placebo and the other, atorvastatin. The two study drugs will be administered for twelve months, during which time patients will be periodically evaluated as to their clinical status and prednisone requirements. Pill counts and patient diaries will be used to determine the amount of steroid use during the study period. Patients with pulmonary fibrosis greater than 50 percent of total lung volume or severe co-morbidities will be excluded from the trial.
The primary endpoint is the duration of the steroid-sparing period. Secondary clinical and physiological endpoints are intended to analyze possible anti-inflammatory and beneficial effects of the drugs. Since there is no gold standard outcome measure in sarcoidosis, four categories of secondary endpoints will be used to characterize the effects of the therapeutic agent on the clinical course of the disease: imaging (high resolution chest CT); quality of life assessments (SF-36, and SGRQ), anti-inflammatory effects (biomarkers and relapse rates), and functional effects (CPET, PFTs). Finally, we will study the utility of exhaled nitric oxide and carbon monoxide in monitoring disease activity.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Patients are eligible for the trial if they are 18-70 years old with radiographic stages II and III pulmonary sarcoidosis, and are on prednisone, methotrexate, or azathioprine for pulmonary sarcoidosis or who are steroid-requiring. Patients with extra-pulmonary sarcoidosis (except cardiac and neurosarcoid) may be eligible as long as they have active pulmonary (stage II or III) sarcoidosis.
Steroid-Requiring History:
A steroid-requiring patient is one who was previously stable but who ultimately experiences (a) increased symptoms associated with radiographic deterioration, and/or, (b) met the criteria for relapse and/or functional deterioration. In addition, patients who were prescribed prednisone for sarcoidosis, but have self-discontinued it (yet still have clinical and symptomatic disease and/or evidence of pulmonary functional deterioration) will be considered steroid-requiring.
This latter group of steroid-requiring patients is eligible for enrollment if they are willing to resume taking their latest stabilizing dose of prednisone for at least four weeks prior to study entry. If their dose cannot be determined, then 40 mg will be used.
Therefore, a history of symptomatic or clinical deterioration leading to therapy initiation, or a history of decline associated with attempts to decrease therapy should be established. Medical records review and discussion with the prescribing physician will be used to establish this history.
Radiographic Stages of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis:
0< TAB> Normal Chest Radiograph
I< TAB> Bilateral Hilar Lymphadenopathy
II< TAB> Pulmonary Infiltration and Bilateral Hilar Lymphadenopathy
III< TAB> Pulmonary Infiltration alone
Steroid-requiring refers to one of three situations:
Patients who meet relapse criteria or functional deterioration.
Functional deterioration criteria that warrants prednisone therapy includes:
If VC fell to 75% of the best recorded value for the patient before any treatment
If VC fell to greater than 50% of predicted value
IF DLCO fell to less than 60% of the best recorded value prior to their treatment
Patients who are on a previously prescribed systemic steroid, or alternative agent such as methotrexate or azathioprine, primarily for pulmonary sarcoidosis. Alternative agents must first be changed to roughly equivalent anti-inflammatory dose of prednisone and the patient should be stable on this dose for at least four weeks prior to randomization.
Patients who have substantial respiratory symptoms (distressing cough or dyspnea, which interferes with daily activities that would warrant therapy as per the standard of practice in the US.
Extra Pulmonary Sarcoidosis:
Patients with extra pulmonary sarcoidosis (except neurosarcoid and cardiac sarcoid) may be eligible as long as they have active pulmonary (stage II or III) sarcoidosis. All patients will be referred to an NIH ophthalmologist. Steroid therapy may be modified based upon the recommendations of the consultants, as well as per the lapse criteria described above.
- Moderate to severe pulmonary fibrosis (stage IV sarcoidosis greater than 50% fibrosis)
- Lung Disease such as asthma, COPD, ILD (other than sarcoid-related)
- History of significant beryllium or asbestos exposure
- Pregnancy; or Active lactation/ child-bearing age female without appropriate birth control methods
- HIV disease
- Hepatitis C and Active Hepatitis B
- Other intervention protocols
- Immunosuppressive therapy (systemic or inhaled) other than corticosteroids or methotrexate
- Significant cardiac disease (NYSHA class greater than III), or serious coronary disease (unstable angina)
- Use of statins within 12 weeks of enrollment
- Allergies or intolerance to statins
- Liver disease (transaminases greater than 1.5X upper limits of normal) or cirrhosis
- Bleeding diathesis that is not correctable
- Inability to perform CPET (cycle ergometer) or PFT maneuvers
- Inability to understand the risks of the trial and the inability to complete the questionnaire
- Malignancy-- requiring chemotherapy or radiation therapy; except certain types of skin cancer that have been excised and have not spread.
- Myopathy, diagnosed via muscle biopsy (other than sarcoid-related myopathy); CPK grater than 1.5 upper limits of normal
- Surgical Risk Category [American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class IV
- Ingestion of grapefruit juice or certain herbal preparations (see below), or medications that are potent inhibitors or inducers of the CYP3A4 system (see section 12.4 under precautions)
- Alcohol abuse (greater than 4 drinks/day)
- Bleeding into the brain or parts of the eyes (retina) (within the past year prior to enrollment)
- Uncontrolled Hypertension (SBP greater than 185 or DBP greater than 100 on two or more visits or assessments)
- Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus (Serum glucose level on two or more tests per day greater than 250 mg/dl or erratic blood sugar levels, noted on at least 2 or more assessments; and/or HgbA1C greater than 2x the upper limits of normal).
- Neurosarcoidosis
- Sarcoid Uveitis (Posterior Uveitis) or any Uveitis that cannot be managed with topical steroids alone, as determined by an ophthalmologist
- (Clinically apparent) Cardiac Sarcoidosis
- Active Smoker (Smoked within the past 2 months prior to randomization)
- Sickle cell disease (SS, SC, and sickle cell-beta thalassemia)
- Aseptic necrosis of the hip joints
Patients taking the following preparations will not be allowed to participate in the study unless they agree to discontinue usage at least two weeks prior to randomization and for the duration of the study period: grapefruit juice and herbal remedies that may lead to severe liver injury and/or muscle injury if taken with atorvastatin, including: Skullcap, Chapparal, Germander, Jin Bu Huan, Valerian, Comfrey, and Eucalyptus. Since other products such as St. John s Wort, oat bran, and pectin can reduce the effectiveness of atorvastatin, they and similar agents, should also be discontinued at least two weeks before randomization and for the duration of the study period.
Subjects with inactive hepatitis B will require antiviral prophylaxis with an agent such as lamivudine, while on prednisone therapy.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00279708
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Joseph R Fontana, M.D.
|National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00279708 History of Changes
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|January 18, 2006
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|March 11, 2016
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|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Granulomatous Inflammation
Pulmonary Function
Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary
Statins (Atorvastatin)
Nitric Oxide
Disease Activity
Quality of Life
Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Atorvastatin Calcium
Anticholesteremic Agents
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Lipid Regulating Agents
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
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Suppose you have a standard sphere $S^n$ and a "standard" $S^{n-2}\subset S^n$. I am really thinking about $S^{n}\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ the usual sphere, and $S^{n-2}=S^n\cap \{x_0=x_1=0\}$. Let $S^1$ be the circle "orthogonal" to $S^{n-2}$, i.e. $S^1=S^n\cap span\{x_0, x_1\}$. Then $S^n$ gets decomposed by the hypersurfaces $S_t:=S^{n-2}(\cos t)\times S^1(\sin t)$, i.e. the distance tubes around $S^{n-2}$ and $S^1$.
Suppose now that $\phi:S^n\to S^n$ is a diffeomorphism such that:
- $\phi$ fixes $S^{n-2}$ pointwise: $\phi\big|_{S^{n-2}}= id\big|_{S^{n-2}}$.
- $\phi$ sends the hypersurfaces $S_t$ to themselves (it is not the identity though).
Question 1: is it true that $\phi$ is homotopic to an isometry of $S^n$ in $Diff(S^n)$?
Here is a (probably) much stronger assumption on $\phi$: fix a basis $x_0,\ldots x_n$ of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, and suppose that $\phi:S^n\to S^n$ preserves any subsphere "main subsphere" $S^{n-k}=S^n\cap \{x_{i_1}=\ldots x_{i_k}=0\}$.
Question 2: is it true that $\phi$ is homotopic to an isometry of $S^n$ in $Diff(S^n)$?
Regarding this second question, my approach was to start deforming $\phi$ to be an isometry on the smallest "main subspheres", and hopefully going up in dimension, but this requires me to know that $\pi_i(Diff(T^k))=0$, $i>0$, where $T^k$ is a $k$-dimensional torus. So here is a third, kind of related, question:
Question 3: is it true that $\pi_i(Diff(T^k))=0$ for every torus $T^k$ and every $i>0$?
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Sure, there's a type of project in Visual Studio that outputs a DLL that people can use. I know that. I'm just wondering what are some of the standards that devs will expect when using my DLL file.
I'll be providing a class that searches for movies in IMDB and returns results for a dev to consume.
Not a webservice, but a local DLL file. (I'm aware that IMDB frowns upon web scraping, but I'm also aware that they give permission to people if asked. My permission is already sent.)
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5 Mind-Blowing Ways That Science Has Done the Impossible
#2. Creating Black Holes
You probably have some idea from science class or, at least, Stargate SG-1 about what a black hole is. Basically, when a star gets big enough, it gets so heavy that it collapses on itself, rips a little hole in reality and starts doing some serious Star Trek shit.
From this description, it should be obvious why we can't (and shouldn't) create a black hole on Earth. We can't just pack a bunch of material billions of times larger than our own sun into a beaker and shake it until it destroys the solar system. No matter what science fiction tells you, we'll never be able to collect so much mass into the same spot that the gravity of it can bend light.
Not like this. Stay in school.
Oh, except that they sort of did, in China, in 2009. And you've probably noticed that we're not dead.
How the Hell?
Scientists in China managed to find a way to "mimic" what a black hole does, on a smaller scale, without all the inconvenient problems associated with dragging a supermassive star into a lab.
The original purpose of their research was to design a more effervescent Michelada.
They created their artificial black hole using a bunch of concentric circuit boards made of "meta-materials," which are man-made substances capable of bending radiation like light through means other than massive amounts of gravity. We probably couldn't give you a schematic that wouldn't melt your brain, but the result is the same as if the light was passing close to a black hole -- it gets sucked into the middle and can't get out.
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It's a scientific map of how Nickelback still manages to sell tickets.
This has only been accomplished so far with microwave light, because it's easier to manage, but scientists are hoping to figure out how to do it with visible spectrum light. Which, in addition to looking super cool, could completely change the way we gather solar energy. Instead of unwieldy giant mirrors, an artificial black hole could just vacuum up a lot of light from a much smaller area. And, sure, these panels probably wouldn't make the roof of your house look like a huge, swirling mass of cosmic destruction, but that's the way we're picturing it anyway.
#1. Creating Something from Nothing
One of the most fundamental rules of the universe is that you can't create matter out of thin air, unless you're a magician. But, like usual, scientists heard this and simply replied, "Anything is possible, as long as we have enough lasers."
So, in the late '90s, scientists used the Stanford Accelerator (the Large Hadron Collider's older brother) to do what David Copperfield can only pretend to do -- create matter out of nowhere.
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"Science is like magic, except it's real and it's not magical." -Anonymous
How the Hell?
To achieve this, scientists did the same thing they do to solve virtually every problem -- they shot two incredibly powerful lasers at each other until science happened. In this case, the energy created by the experiment "broke down the vacuum" into tiny chunks of matter and antimatter.
Of course, breaking nothing down into something sounds like they're living in opposite world, but the reality is that a vacuum isn't really empty so much as buzzing with energy, so what they were really doing is kind of a reverse explosion -- instead of converting mass into energy, they lasered a bunch of energy until mass popped out.
Of course, before you start trying to make a hamburger with a laser pointer, you should know that this requires a tremendously powerful laser. Just one of the lasers they fired was a trillion watts -- equivalent to around 16 billion light bulbs -- and they still needed to add another laser just to squirt out matter that only amounted to a couple of electrons. Still, some theorists say we might be able to ramp up the process. So maybe someday we'll have, like, a pair of Death Star-sized lasers that can collide and make a cup of mashed potatoes. What would be the point of doing that? We told you: lasers.
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Let $\lbrace P_n(z)\rbrace_{n\in\mathbb N_0}$ be a family of polynomials defined by a generating function $g(t,z)=\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty P_n(z)t^n$ or by a contour integral $P_n(z)=\frac1{2\pi i}\oint\frac{g(t,z)}{t^{n+1}}dt$. Are there known sufficient conditions on $g$ or on the $P_n$ themselves that guarantee the existence of a weight function $w:I\to \mathbb R^+_0$ (where $I\subset\mathbb R$ is an appropriate interval) such that the $P_n$ are orthogonal w.r.t. $w$?
Favard's theorem characterizes this in terms of the three-term recurrence. Suppose the polynomials $P_n$ are normalized so that they are monic. Then they are orthogonal polynomials with respect to some Borel measure if and only if there are constants $\alpha_n$ and $\beta_n$ such that $P_n(x) = (x+\alpha_n) P_{n-1}(x) + \beta_n P_{n-2}(x)$ and $\beta_n < 0$. (The sign condition on $\beta_n$ is needed to get a positive measure. I think you still get a signed measure if you have a three-term recurrence with $\beta_n \ge 0$, but I'm not certain offhand.)
This is pretty easy to test for in practice if you are given a sequence of polynomials numerically. Strictly speaking, it doesn't guarantee a weight function as specified in your question, since the measure may not be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure, but I assume that's not what you really care about. If it is, then I'm not sure offhand how to characterize that case.


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When a teacher is great, I spin faster, hold a pose longer or do one more set of core. Even when I don't want to. Especially when I don't want to.
We know when we are in the presence of a great teacher. We can't always put a finger on what makes the class better, but we keep going back and drag our friends along with us. We leave work early for them. We sweat for them. And on great days, we laugh - though maybe through gritted teeth.
"Please, God, have a sense of humor," says Theresa Elliott, owner of Taj Yoga in Seattle. "Humor makes the world go 'round."
When it comes to staying fit, a great teacher can be the difference between being committed and giving up. But what are the qualities that make a teacher great? I consulted with people who think about this a lot more than most - people in the business of fitness and thus in the business of packing their rosters with great teachers who draw a crowd.
Everyone agreed that certification in his or her field and an understanding of technique were mandatory. Teachers must know the body and the rules around what works and what does not.
In addition to training, the best teachers have a natural ability to organize information and intuitively get how to pace a class, Elliott says. They can read a room and shift their teaching style based on what they see.
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The launchpad's beta feature allows to create ubuntu packages using recipes. I got them to work, and I am now able to use them for packaging my project.
However, I have little trouble with the ./debian/changelog file. I need to fill it in with a distribution name ([package name] ([version]) [distribution]; [urgency]). Let's say I put "maverick" there. Then I request a build using the recipe. I choose to build it both for maverick and natty. As the result, the natty package in tha PPA will have it's "distribution" field set to "maverick", which looks invalid (actually, it seems only the changelog will have this incorrect information, but I got aware of that fact, when the notification e-mail I got stated my package was released for natty, but it also said: "Distribution: maverick").
It this OK? I am not even sure whether it is incorrect, but if it is, then how do I use the recipe, to build a package for many ubuntu series, using one changelog file?


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Am I looking for the ratio of burnt dishes to fine dishes? Well-cooked to not? My general happiness? When should I replace a pot or pan? I am unsure where to begin.
I second Joe's advice.
Your pans may be too thin, that would make your dishes burn easily. You can test your pans with a simple experiment. Place a thin layer of water in your pan (an eighth of an inch, or just enough to cover the bottom). Turn on your burner to high. If you have an electric stovetop let the burner glow before placing the pan on the burner. Watch how the bubbles form in the pan. If they are uneven over the bottom (like in the picture),
you have hot spots.
If your pans have hot spots you need to stir more often and maybe lower the heat from what the recipe calls. Pans with thicker bottoms and made with good electric conductors (copper or aluminum) have fewer hot spots.
Then there is what I call the Remick Maxim. Three years ago when I decided I would learn to cook better, I went through many cookbooks and asked a lot of people for advice. A great friend (a French restaurant level cook) told me the best advice he ever got was from the actress Lee Remick, a good cook herself. She said: "the secret to great food is to cook it in low heat." Best advice I got on cooking.
Cook something in a relatively thin layer on the bottom. See if it is obviously hotter in some places than others. Or see if you're constantly cleaning burned food off of some places and not others.
The major selling points of pricey pots are heat distribution and nonstick. You already know if you want more nonstick, so what you want to look for is heat distribution.
This seems like it would be a difficult thing to objectively measure. I personally have never done that. However, I will offer some nerdy ideas and suggestions. These are approaches I would actually try myself if I ever had the time or inclination.
First, I think bmargulies suggestion to try cooking things is a good approach. The intent is to see if there are hotspots. However, I think you might be better off with objective measureable results.
I'd suggest getting a hand-held infrared thermometer (e.g. Fluke 62 Mini Infrared Thermometer [I haven't personally used this]) and measuring different things.
Some ideas:
@Harlans's flour trick works, but the problem is in looking at it afterwards, as it might get stirred up too much to give a good picture.
I would think a crepe would be a good test -- you'd be able to flip it out and get a good picture of how the heat was across the bottom of the pan. An omelet might work well, as well, but they both sometimes have problems with sticking.
You could also try a thin layer of water (maybe 2cm or 3/4"), and put it over high or medium high heat, and watch to see which areas are bubbling.
+1 to the flour trick. An IR thermometer would be nice to test the temp of your pans, but for evenness the flour trick is best. Although I am curious about how hot they actually get--just not $85-curious.
Here are my results with the flour test:
My cast Iron pan has a huge hot spot right in the center. I tested 3 different levels, high (9), medium (5), and low heat (3) on an electric range. The high heat had the greatest hotspot and the coolest edges. The lowest setting heated more evenly but took a long time to heat up, 25+ min. Cast iron conducts heat poorly and unevenly but retains it. I also believe the hot spots occur because the high sides sap heat away from bottom's outer edge. It would be interesting to compare a the pan to a griddle.
My stainless steel pan with the aluminum sandwich core heated very evenly on medium (5). I only tried one setting. Yes, there were minor variances, but nothing compared to the cast iron pan. Also, it heated much faster. Overall I was really impressed by the pan's ability to heat quickly and evenly.
The photos speak for themselves. This is the cast iron on 3, 25+ min vs. stainless w/alu core, ~8 min.
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I'm not... good with a pen. Years of hastily-scribbled notes and quality time spent with my trusty Model-M keyboard have left my penmanship in a sorry state; it's not completely illegible when I take the time to make it so, but the notes covering bits of paper on my desk can be more than a bit difficult to decipher at times.
But... Is this a problem? Granted, it looks sloppy and disorganized, but I can tell what I meant even if my wife scratches her head wondering why I'm headed to the grocery store for "Pondered Scya".
So is there any potential value, productivity-wise, in taking the time to re-acquire this increasingly anachronistic grammar-school skill?


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of gay couples asked a state judge on Thursday to clarify whether he intended to strike down all Arkansas laws prohibiting same-sex marriage when he voided the state's ban last week.
A day after the state Supreme Court effectively halted gay weddings in Arkansas, the attorneys asked Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza to expand his ruling voiding the same-sex marriage ban.
Justices had refused to suspend Piazza's ruling, but noted the decision didn't affect a state law prohibiting clerks from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The high court's ruling prompted the two counties that had been issuing licenses to stop.
"In our opinion, it's not that they denied the stay or issued a stay, when they kinda, I guess, kicked the can down the road," said Thomas Baldwin, of Bryant, who married his partner, Devin Rudeseal, on Monday in Little Rock.
Last Friday, Piazza threw out a 10-year-old ban that voters placed in the state constitution and a separate state law barring same-sex marriages. But he didn't rule on a separate law that regulates the conduct of county clerks, which threatens fines if they issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
"I think it actually makes it a little more muddy," Chris Villines, the executive director of the Association of Arkansas Counties, said Wednesday evening after reviewing the Supreme Court's decision.
The attorneys asked Piazza to clarify whether he intended to strike down all state laws preventing gay couples from marrying or having their marriages from other states recognized.
The justices, in their decision, offered no direction to the county clerks, who knew before the ruling came out that guidance for clerks was still on the books. They had wanted to know what to do with the conflicting findings: the gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional, but clerks aren't authorized to do anything about it.
"County clerks have been uncertain about their responsibilities and couples unable to know definitively whether their marriage will remain valid," said Aaron Sadler, a spokesman for Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. "A stay issued by either the Supreme Court or Judge Piazza would have brought some certainty. Unfortunately, today's decision did not do that."
After Piazza's decision last Friday, clerks in five counties responded by issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Through Wednesday evening, 456 gay couples in Arkansas had since received permission to marry, according to an Associated Press canvass of county clerks. Pulaski and Washington counties issued licenses Wednesday, but said after the ruling they would stop.
Couples that already have licenses can still marry.
The state's other 70 counties had not issued licenses to gay couples, with many saying the Supreme Court needed to weigh in.
Jason Owens, who represented four counties named as defendants in the gay couples' lawsuit, said the counties were correct to wait for further guidance.
"I think it certainly validates that decision to not issue the licenses because there is still a statute in effect that prohibits that," Owens said.
Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane, at Little Rock, initially said he would continue to do so Thursday, but changed his mind after talking to the county's lawyer. Washington County Clerk Becky Lewallen stopped distribution from her office near the University of Arkansas but intended to talk to other clerks about a way forward.
"It's kind of unfair, the ruling, and we are going to suspend it until we get some clarification," Lewallen said.
Also Wednesday, the high court dismissed McDaniel's initial appeal of Piazza's ruling, saying it was premature because Piazza hadn't issued a final order.
Arkansas voters approved a gay marriage ban by a 3-to-1 margin in 2004, but Piazza's ruling cleared the way for the first same-sex marriages in the Bible Belt.
Carroll County, home to the tourist town of Eureka Springs, offered marriage licenses to same-sex couples Saturday, the day after Piazza's ruling, but stopped Monday. Pulaski County started issuing licenses Monday morning.
McDaniel recently said he supported gay marriage personally but would still defend the state's ban.
Seventeen other states allow gay marriage. Judges have struck down bans in Idaho, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Virginia.


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I am seriously considering installing Ubuntu, it looks cool, the tour felt nice and it's a really smooth program.
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For example, how to solve the equation $\sum^{p-1}_{i}x_{i}^{2}=0$ in $F_{p}$? This is not a homework problem. I think it should have a definite answer, so not an open problem. I just don't know how to solve it.
There is a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for finding solutions to diagonal equations of degree less than or equal to the number of variables over finite fields. See Christiaan van de Woestijne's thesis.
(A solution of your example equation can be found much more simply, however: try small integers, not necessarily distinct... . And for quadratic forms, the other solutions can be found by drawing lines through the point and intersecting with the quadric hypersurface: there will either be one more intersection point, or a whole line of points.)
You want to know if the sum of $p-1$ squares can be equal to 0 mod $p$. I'll assume that you don't want to allow the trivial (all-zeroes) solution.
If $k$ is a quadratic residue mod $p$, not equal to $1$, then this is simple; take $x_1$ such that $x_1^2 = k$, take $x_2 = \ldots = x_{p-k+1} = 1$, and take $x_{p-k+2} = \ldots = x_{p-1} = 0$.
So the equation $x_1^2 + \cdots + x_{p-1}^2 = 0$ has solutions mod $p$ as long as there exists a quadratic residue mod $p$ which is not equal to $1$. The number of quadratic residues mod $p$ is $\phi(p)/2$, where $\phi$ is Euler's totient function; if $\phi(p)/2 \ge 2$, or $\phi(p) \ge 4$, then there is at least one non-$1$ quadratic residue mod p. Now for a prime, $\phi(p) = p-1$, so that means your equation has solutions when $p-1 \ge 4$, i. e. when $p \ge 5$. We can check by brute force that $x_1^2 = 0 \mod 2$ and $x_1^2 + x_2^2 = 0 \mod 3$ have only the trivial solutions. So the equation $x_1^2 + \cdots + x_{p-1}^2 = 0 \mod p$ has nontrivial solutions for all primes $p \ge 5$.
(Basically, this is a more explicit version of the second paragraph of Bjorn Poonen's answer.)
This answer is tangential in the sense that it is speaking of the existence of solutions rather than counting them all. But I rather suspect that you would find this interesting.
Suppose you have a quadratic form in at least thee variables over $\mathbb F_p$. Then the Chevalley-Warning Theorem would tell you that it has a nontrivial solution.
If you want to check out more, I refer you to the first chapter of J.-P. Serre's "A Course in Arithmetic", rather than the wikipedia page linked above.


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Approximately 60 workers in the health and human service field from agencies throughout the county attended. The lunch included a motivational presentation given by Dave Kampfschulte, who spoke "with humor about the seriousness of our work!"
ICAN recognized the 2013 ICAN Agency and Community Person of the Year. Sarah McDiarmid from Community Mental Health was awarded Agency Person of the Year for going above and beyond working with families in the community. Christee McNeal from Portland was awarded Community Person of the Year for help with homeless youth within her community.
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Total US production of liquid fuels could equal or surpass Saudi Arabia as early as next year, but crude oil output will still remain short, according to an EIA administrator.
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RIYADH -- Total US production of liquid fuels could equal or
surpass Saudi Arabia as early as next year, but crude oil
production will remain short of that in the Middle Eastern
energy giant, said the chief of the US Energy Information
US crude oil production will hit an average of 8 million bpd
by the end of next year, the highest annual-average level of
production since 1988 thanks to the boom in shale oil, the
EIA's administrator, Adam Sieminski, told Dow Jones
Newswires in an interview in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
This is likely to remain short of crude oil production in
Saudi Arabia, but adding in other liquid fuels, the US could
gain the top spot, he said.
The US also produces around 2.5 million bpd of natural gas
liquids, while biofuels and volumes gains through
refinery processing add another 2
million bpd, he said. Saudi Arabia has around 10 million bpd of
crude production and 1.5 million bpd of natural gas liquids,
Mr. Sieminski said.
"If the U.S. gets up to 8 million barrels a day of crude
oil, and these other numbers stay in the same range... that
would make us equal to the current numbers in Saudi Arabia," he
However, the kingdom could also boost its own production by
ramping up spare capacity or expanding infrastructure, he
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is currently capable of producing up to 11.9 million bpd
of crude oil, versus production in December of just over 9
million bpd.
Despite these shifts, "the important thing is the continuing
relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia and trying to
stabilize global crude oil markets," Mr. Sieminski said.
US crude output was 6.4 million bpd last year and will grow
to above 7 million bpd this year, Mr. Sieminski said.
There is also strong potential for the development of shale
oil and gas outside North America, he said. "I would say that
the potential for the Chinese development of tight gas before
2030 is very strong and the possibility that we will see
something happening in at least some of the European countries... is very good,"
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There is a bracha (blessing) made after the first time a Chosson and Kallah have relations in the case that she was a basuleh (when there was a complete bia.) The makor for this Bracha is the Rosh (Kasubos Perek 1 Siman 15 -- makor in the Gaonim) and is brought by many other rishonim as well (some don't bring it.) However it's brought in Shulchan Arun Evan HaEzer Siman 63 Sif 1. However l'maseh it is my impression that those that say the bracha do so without Shem U'Malkus. If someone didn't recite this bracha by the first bia (or right afterwards) may it be said even after? The question is perhaps not so strong since there is no Shem U'Malchus. However in general is there a reason or an inyun to say it even after the first time if it wasn't said to begin with (not necessarily by the second time the couple has relations, perhaps even at a general time when the person remembers that they didn't say the bracha.)
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See the Chelkat Mechokek to the Shulchan Aruch there who rules that the only reason it isn't recited Over Laasiyatan (before the action, as is generally required with mitzva brachot) is because there is no way to know before hand if the woman is actually a Betulah.
There is a general argument if the requirement of Over Laasiyatan in general is absolute, or if the blessing can still be said after the mitzva post facto. The Rama (YD 19:1) rules like the Or Zarua that post facto the blessing can still be said after the mitzva, but he qualifies that it must still be סמוך = adjacent to the mitzva. Accordingly, it would seem that the allowed time for your bracha is only 'adjacent' to the original time (I don't have an exact number of minutes on that).


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Given the sinusoidal function
$$f(x) = a \cos(n x + b) + c,$$
if I know $f(x_1)$, $f(x_2)$, $f'(x_1)$ and $f'(x_2)$ is it possible to determine $a, b, c$ and $n$, with $x \in [0,\tfrac{2\pi}{n})$
Edit: put bounds on $x$ so that only one complete cycle is considered.
Edit 2: Current progress:
Let $p = p'/n$ and $x = x'-p'$ then
$$f(x) = a \cos(n x') + c$$
$$f'(x) = -an\sin(n x') + c$$
Let $x_2 = x_1 + w$, then we have
$$\frac{f'(x_2)}{f'(x_1)} = \frac{-na \sin(nx_1' + nw)}{-na \sin(nx_1')}$$ $$ = \cos(nw) + \frac{\sin(nw)}{\tan(nx_1')}$$
Rearranging, $$x_1' = \frac{\tan^{-1} \left( \frac{\sin(nw)}{\frac{f'(x_2)}{f'(x_1)} - \cos(nw)} \right)}{n}$$ which gives $p$ from before $(p = (x_1'-x_1)/n)$.
I'm most interested in finding $n$ so even if $a$ and $c$ can't be found it woudn't matter. Perhaps the above can be rearranged to give $n$?
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By Maijaliisa Burkert on Jul 16, 2009
Reviews Interactive recently spoke with OpenSolaris enthusiast and influential blogger Octave Orgeron about the new OpenSolaris 2009.06 release. Octave is a Systems Architect with more than a decade of professional experience in designing, deploying and supporting Solaris solutions for the enterprise. He has been involved with OpenSolaris since the beginning and actively contributes to the OpenSolaris Logical Domains (LDoms) community through blog posts, articles and support.
Octave discussed the new features in OpenSolaris 2009.06 stating "I've found that the desktop integration and increasing amounts of IPS packages to be very helpful and productive for me." Octave also said that Crossbow and Xen have been "of great interest to me" on the virtualization front. However, he claimed the biggest enhancement personally was the SPARC support because of the work and testing he does on the SPARC platform.
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MILLER, Anne (Carpino) of Brilliant, OH, formerly of Martins Ferry, OH, died Sunday, November 25, 2012, at Acuity Specialty Hospital, Steubenville, OH.
She was born in Martins Ferry, a daughter of the late Ross and Mary C. (Marchio) Carpino.
She was a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church, Mingo Junction, OH.
In addition to her parents, Anne was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Melvin Miller; and three sisters, Clara Carpino, Minnie Perri and Mary Heath.
Surviving are her son, Jeff (Pam) Miller of Tucson, AZ; a daughter, Debbie (Tom) Farynowski of Columbus, OH; and four grandchildren, Kevin, Ross, and Jason Miller and Ben Farynowski.
Friends will be received Tuesday 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Heslop Funeral Home, 415 Walnut St., Martins Ferry, OH. Funeral Liturgy with Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, November 28, 2012, at 1 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Martins Ferry with Rev. Tom Marut officiating. Burial follows in Riverview Cemetery, Martins Ferry.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Brilliant Branch, 103 Steuben St., Brilliant, OH 43913.
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U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler says he's not sure what the future holds for him after he leaves elected office in January.
Chandler told the Lexington Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal that he hasn't made up his mind about what he'll do, but he has several options. Some of those include a possible appointment to a government position, lobbying or practicing law.
Chandler also didn't rule out another run for public office at some point in the future. But right now, he says he's looking forward to spending some time with his family at home in central Kentucky. Chandler has served as a congressman since 1994, but held state offices before that.
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Fancy Dress plays a huge part in the event. During the parade the hundreds of flame-bearing Guizers dress-up in anything from the more obvious Viking costume to Men in Drag costumes. This event is now sometimes referred to and nicknamed as "Transvestite Tuesday" due to the sheer amount of men dressing-up as women in the parade and in the watching crowds in recent years.Read more


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9 Oct 2013 7:16 AM #1
GridRowEditing with moving (flowing) cancel & save buttons?
I have GridRowEditing and attached Cancel & Save buttons which are shown in the beginning of the Edit grid row (left corner of edit grid row).
I have lots of columns, and needs to use scroll to go to middle or last columns, after I edit the columns I need to use scroll bar to come back to the beginning to Cancel or Save the changes.
Is there any option /property which can move those (Cancel/Save) buttons with use of scroll bar; I meant make those buttons always present in screen even if I go to last columns?
I would be thankful for any suggestions.
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Thanks for the report - looks like this worked nicely in 2.x to keep the buttons visible at all horizontal scroll positions. I've filed this so we can look into it further.
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Whoops, forgot a workaround:
Try overriding the positionButtons() method in GridRowEditing. You can manipulate the rowEditor's buttonBar field to try to set the position based on the horizontal scroll position.
17 Oct 2013 8:03 AM #4
Thank you Colin for the tip and your time... I will try it...
17 Oct 2013 12:54 PM #5
Hello Colin,
I looked into GridRowEditing api (2.x) positionButtons() is implemented but in 3.x it's has skeleton...
ButtonBar is private in GridRowEditing, and I am not sure how can I get reference of ButtonBar to set position?
Please let me know if you have any suggestions for me....
17 Oct 2013 3:49 PM #6
So it is, sorry about that, thought it said protected. You can still access private fields using the so-called 'violator' pattern - write a JSNI getter to reference the field, and call that rather than using the field itself.


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I have read that both ser and estar can be used with casado to give different connotations to the phrase "to be married." What exactly are the differences, and when would you use each verb?
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"Ser casado" can have two differnt "connotations"
"Estar casado" means clearly "to be married".
This is purely my opinion (no "official" confirmation here).
Once in a while, the term "estar soltero" is used to describe a married man, usually with whimsical or humorous intent. It can range from something like the English slang phrase, "he's batching it this evening" to something carrying some innuendo.
This doesn't directly answer your question, but the use of "estar casado" when "ser casado" might have been expected can be sometimes heard as carrying a bit of humor with it.
Both "ser casado" and "estar casado" can be use without to refer who is the wife.
But only "estar casado" can be use to refer to the wife.


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I there a way to find all files in a directory with duplicate filenames, regardless of the casing (upper-case and/or lower-case)?
If you have GNU utilities (or at least a set that can deal with zero-terminated lines) available, another answer has a great method:
Note: the output will have zero-terminated strings; the tool you use to further process it should be able to handle that.
In the absence of tools that deal with zero-terminated lines, or if you want to make sure your code works in environments where such tools are not available, you need a small script:
What is this madness? See this answer for an explanation of the techniques that make this safe for crazy filenames.
There are many complicated answers above, this seems simpler and quicker than all of them:
If you want to find duplicate file names in subdirectories then you need to compare just the file name, not the whole path:
Edit: Shawn J. Goff has pointed out that this will fail if you have filenames with newline characters. If you're using GNU utilities, you can make these work too:
Sort the list of file names in a case-insensitive way and print duplicates.
Portably, to print all elements in each set of duplicates, assuming that no file name contains a newline:
If you need to accommodate file names containing newlines, go for Perl or Python. Note that you may need to tweak the output, or better do your further processing in the same language, as the sample code below uses newlines to separate names in its own output.
Here's a pure zsh solution. It's a bit verbose, as there's no built-in way to keep the duplicate elements in an array or glob result.
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It is important to know what is new in my scope of interest related to my work. But the problem is that there is so much information on internet and in magazines which I can read that I often spend too much time reading them. That makes my productivity much worse. I lose a lot of time and I feel that I don't know anything new.
How should I best organize a productive work day to stay informed? (Should I plan for half an hour in day to find out what's new, or is there another way?)
And maybe it would be useful to filter information and read only those ones which are most valuable for me. But how to distinguish good articles from the bad, useless ones? Should I filter by the author, by popularity of community, by keywords, or by past experience? How would I get this best overview of authors and articles?


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Having recently written a Crafty Pint feature on the London beer scene, it brought me back to previous posts hailing SE1, and indeed the South, as the place for all things beer. I'm now left pondering whether North of the River is actually out in front. It's keeping me up at nights and no end of counting sheep seems to help.
While the Dean Swift, Rake, Draft House et al are as ever excellent, recent visits to Katzenjammers were dismal. I won't waste too much time on this, but table service should have an element of well service in it and eye contact in some form shows that you're still awake. I may have to get my fix of proper Pretzel and Paulaner elsewhere from now on. Any suggestions on the proper Pretzel front appreciated. Now it's not really that the South on declining. It's just that the case for the North seems to be getting stronger.
In addition to all the usual suspects of the Euston Tap, Mason & Taylor, Jolly Butchers and Cask I seemed to have blanked EC1 out of my mind. Strange as it's a place I lived, worked and drunk in throughout my formative London years. It counts amongst it's great pubs, The Gunmakers with an always excellent beer selection and menu, The Peasant, Jerusalem Tavern, Three Kings, of course the Ye Olde Mitre. The Castle (just inside EC4) tucked away on Furnival Street has consistently good Ale on offer and recently the odd keg of Anchor. This would all be compelling enough in itself. The killer blow has to be the soon to open Craft Beer Co. on Leather Lane. Although sad to see the Clockhouse, a decent enough market pub, close its doors, the fact it will be reopened by the team behind Cask is enough to raise a cheer.
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"Fundamentally, my works are almost always in the nature of a proposal," Thomas Schütte contends, while conceding that, nonetheless, mostly "they exist in the form of models."1 Schütte's notion of models is, consequently, encompassing and complex: at its core lies the proposition, the hypothesis, the speculation. And, given that it is imbued with both a metaphorical and a literal dimension, it has assumed an extraordinarily diverse and multifarious range of formulations in an œvre that now spans more than twenty years.
Décor and scenographic and architectural models formed the vocabulary of Schütte's first works. Vehicles for thought rather than action, they limned a history of the reconstruction and reconstitution of the built environment in the postwar years, and, on occasion, proposed alternatives. Miniaturized worlds that are predicated on a kind of displaced placelessness, they inscribe a restless nomadism that rigorously eschews the settled and established. In his memorials, which followed soon after, the cast of characters ranges from the historically (in)famous to the forgotten and the fictional, from Hitler to the lone Gallic sailor Alain Colas, to the artist himself or his surrogates. As well as a number of large-scale works realized in public sites, he has made a series of speculative tableaux, often constructed from makeshift structures and mundane materials.2 They have the appearance of rapid responses, temporary, even tentative, as if only in such terms can he avert rhetoric and grandiosity, and only through a kind of self-mocking inclusion of his own imago into this pantheon can he confront the perennial issues of glory, fame, and immortality. Ars longa, vita brevis: once a palliative to ambitious but underrecognized artists, in today's era of instant celebrity this precept seems a pointless grail, or a poisoned chalice.
The post-Cold War era has been indelibly marked by the toppling of a virtual army of statues dedicated to political and military luminaries formerly deemed invincible and unassailable. It has also witnessed a host of fractious, unseemly, and inconclusive battles surrounding the creation of memorials to the victims of carnage and genocide. As a science, a Wissenschaft, the discipline of history was invented by Hegel and the great nineteenth-century German historiographers. Today, Germany produces a disproportionate number of historians as the populace attempts to come to terms with its twentieth-century legacy and, more particularly, to negotiate a new German past, resolving a duty to remember with a longing to forget. Together, the etiquette of commemoration and the politics of memory create a charged context in which Schütte's anti-monuments, notwithstanding their apparently playful and childlike forms, strike an acerbic, cautionary note.
A deeply felt yet understated ethic informs Schütte's engagement with the subject of the contemporary monument. The problem, in his view, is not only one of devising a suitable language that bypasses the vacuity into which abstraction has now fallen and the banality of naturalistic representation, but is inherent in the very genre itself, since the foremost role of any monument, he argues, is to fulfill spiritual needs rather than strictly functional ones:
In my eyes the figurative tradition failed at the point when the artist had to create heroes in a democratic system, which nowadays is something television networks can do much more effectively. . . . Power is no longer represented by a king or a single figure; it operates through a system or many, many different, overlapping nets which tend not to be visible but to be hidden away. So the power structure is basically anonymous and it's impossible to give it a face or even a body.3
The numbingly vast sea of crosses stamped repetitively over a half-dozen tabletops in Wo ist Hitlers Grab? (Where Is Hitler's Grave?), 1991, represents but a minute fraction of those killed during World War II. Through its lapidary, low-key form, this anti-monument tersely probes problematic questions: What could constitute an adequate, let alone worthy, representation of such a horror? How best can collective memory be sustained? Would the malign legacy of Nazism be better contained, constrained, and defused if the actual death site of the principal perpetrator were recorded? Would fascistic fantasies be undermined by burying the undead, hence revealing Hitler's grave to be as ordinary and prosaic as any other?4 This sculpture was created some ten years after Schütte had devised his own tombstone, prompted by a walk one day in 1981 through his vast neighborhood cemetery, where all the graves were laid out like a suburban development. Schütte's proposal looks disarmingly small as a wooden model, whereas in the drawing it appears overpowering, gargantuan. Although its brilliant hue demands attention, the laconic text betrays little beyond the fact that its incumbent led an unnaturally brief life. Oblivion and renown meld uneasily in this elegiac tribute.
Contrarian restraint likewise informs Self-Portrait as Candle Holder (1998). The absurdly colossal light, which dwarfs the overburdened artist staggering on his elaborate, lofty plinth, renders the familiar topos of the artist as visionary pathetically comic. The tone grows more sardonic in Die Sammler (The Collectors), 1989/99, where the artist, confronted by his enthralled patrons, grotesquely pirouettes and cavorts, transforming himself in the process from inspired creator into clownish puppet. Their fixation on the maker, instead of the fruits of his labor, reinforces the bathos at the heart of this melancholy portrayal. If the meticulously ordered shoes in The Collectors assume the guise of fetishes, relics of the artist's life, the host of worn-out socks in Mohr's Life, by contrast, take on an architectural function. They create an improvised canopy for the grandee who observes the painter, the Moor, the quintessential outsider, conjuring dreams of the Sublime, cataclysmic visions of destruction and bounty.
Athener Tagebuch (Athens Diary), 1984, is a suite of 144 drawings that Schütte executed while spending several weeks in Greece in 1984 in order to fabricate a forthcoming gallery show in situ. While it takes the form of a visual diary, it avoids biographical revelation. Rapid sketches, lists, proposals, plans, observations, and notations for the upcoming show and for future works, including civic sculpture, coexist alongside homages to artist friends and mentors and to the modest pleasures of daily existence. Proximity to the moment makes this wide-ranging suite at once free and fleeting, as it rehearses in private what might later become public.
The only works in this installation relating to an actual commission are those devoted to the explorer, adventurer, and sportsman Alain Colas, the very epitome of the modern hero. Invited by the lost seaman's native town to construct a memorial, Schütte was struck by the at once fortuitous yet not irrelevant fact that the day on which the lone yachtsman disappeared in 1978 coincided with his own birthday. He sketched several variants: a truncated figure on a column in the local river is submerged up to his shoulders at low-tide, to his lips at high water; alternatively a bust balances astride a buoy, barely keeping its head afloat; in a third maquette, an anchor is appropriated as an armature for the figure, which is leashed to a small and, consequently, ineffectual weight; and finally in the largest of the four, the torso of the affrighted sailor is lashed to a palette—now not only the figure but the artwork itself seems cast adrift, in transit. The fate of the contemporary art object is isomorphic to that of this unrealized monument: no more than the artist can it secure a stable resting point, a sure place in history.
1. Thomas Schütte, "Inside and Outside," conversation with Martin Hentschel, in Thomas Schütte (Bern: Kunsthalle, 1990), p. 82.
2. Schütte realized several public sculptures between 1985 and 1987. Tisch (Table), 1985, commissioned to commemorate Hamburg's resistance movement, consists of an oversized and solemn granite table with twelve chairs. Schutzraum (Shelter), 1986, made for Sonsbeek '86, was a concrete "bunker" set into the slope of a hill. Eis (Ice Cream), 1987, devised for Documenta VIII, took the form of a functioning ice-cream parlor; and Kirschensäule (Column of Cherries), 1987, devised for Skulptur Projekte Münster, continues as a permanent piece in the city's civic parking lot.
3. Thomas Schütte, conversation with James Lingwood, in Thomas Schütte (London: Phaidon Press, 1998), p. 14.
4. Such questions seem possible only as artistic speculation, within the conditions of the model and behind a shield of desperate absurdity, Julian Heynen argues. (See Julian Heynen, "Our World," in Thomas Schütte [London: Phaidon Press, 1998], p. 73.) When Schütte was approached to redesign the House of Remembrance at Neuengamme Labor Camp outside Hamburg he designated his role as that of a consultant not an artist.


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