text:
Skip to main content
More Search Options
Download the 2012-2013 Einstein Medical Center Student Guide
Einstein Medical Center is a 440-bed community teaching hospital located four miles north of downtown Philadelphia. Established in 1866, Einstein has a long-standing commitment to providing medical services to its community and to educating future practicing physicians.
A strong commitment to community
Our 35-acre campus encompasses Einstein Medical Center's 440-bed acute care hospital, which includes a Level I Regional Trauma Center and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, 102-bed Willowcrest Center for Subacute Care and 153-bed MossRehab. Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment, a psychiatric hospital, Einstein Medical Center Elkins Park, a 140-bed rehabilitation and acute care hospital, and Germantown Community Health Services are located in close proximity to the main campus and round out Einstein's broad scope of services.
As the needs of our community have evolved and grown, so has Einstein Medical Center. Special facilities on campus include the Minerva & Fred Braemer Heart Center, Center for Orthopedic Sciences, Centers for Organ Disease and Transplantation, Community Practice Center, Cancer Center, Marion-Louise Saltzman Women's Center, and the Drucker Brain Injury Center.
Within this environment, more than 360 residents across 24 residency and fellowship programs share in the learning process. Our medical community includes over 600 physicians and dentists within Einstein Healthcare Network and additional 1200 affiliated physicians.
A strong commitment to education
Einstein Medical Center offers residents and students the resources and advantages of a major teaching institution, without losing sight of the individual. Although we are among the largest tertiary care facilities in Pennsylvania, the Medical Center is a place where each resident and student's individual educational pursuits are of prime importance. Our mission is to prepare residents fully for their chosen career path and to prepare students fully for the rigors and challenges of clinical practice and residency training.
A strong affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University
Einstein Medical Center is a major teaching affiliate of Thomas Jefferson University since July 2000. Einstein participates in Jefferson's physical diagnosis course for second year medical students and provides a broad spectrum of clinical clerkships and elective rotations for third and fourth year medical students. Einstein faculty members actively participate in both resident and student education. In addition, Einstein residents play a vital role in the teaching and supervision of medical students.
This year's winner of the Best Radiologic Technologist Training Program, Albert Einstein Medical Center
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia has just received ACGME accreditation for a new Hematology/Medical Oncology Fellowship Program.
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia School of Radiologic Technology has developed a partnership agreement with Philadelphia University
Congratulations to senior students LeighAnn Sulzbach and Sarah Sliwinski for winning Third Place in the annual Philadelphia Society of Radiologic Technologists' 2012 Student Day TechnoBowl competition
With fierce determination and tremendous aptitude, the team of psychiatry residents from Einstein Medical Center was crowned national champions of Mind Games, a Jeopardy-style game held at the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual meeting.


text:
Develop a Customized Energy Management Strategy
Solutions for Technology
Technology companies across the U.S. can rely on our expertise to reduce risk, realize savings, free capital for investment, and help gain control of expenditures and operations. We understand that the research, development, and distribution of your cost per product or service is essential to your bottom line and we can work with you to customize an energy management solution to meet your energy needs.
Outsourcing your energy infrastructure can provide you with the means to improve financial performance while increasing productivity. By working with us, you can spend less time managing your energy risk and costs and focus more on the innovative aspects of running your business.
Products & Services
Electricity Solutions
We will work with you to develop a customized pricing plan to meet your financial and electricity needs.
Learn More ›
Energy Efficiency
If you are looking to increase energy efficiency and reliability, while more effectively using capital and lowering operating costs, we can provide you with a customized solution.
Learn More ›
Load Response
We can help you achieve economic, environmental, and social goals by combining our market risk expertise with additional demand-side management tools and technical offerings.
Learn More ›
Renewable Energy Certificates
RECs are recognized as an effective way to promote sustainable energy, without requiring the development of an on-site renewable installation, which may not be an option for every business or organization.
Learn More ›
We can design, build, own, operate and maintain on-site and utility scale solar projects that will require no capital outlay from you.
Learn More ›

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The 5 Ballsiest Ways Man Has Replaced Nature
#2. Dubai Controls the Weather
Dubai is in a crazy footrace against Japan for the title of Craziest Tiny Nation on Earth (the prize is "more crazy,") but in this case, we aren't talking about any crazy buildings, or more crazy buildings, but the weather.
But let's not forget, Dubai has some crazy-ass buildings.
In Dubai, as in other parts of the Middle East, it is very dry. This is what scientists call a "desert" and they also note that it is dry because "there is not much rain." But rather than merely accepting defeat by the natural cycles of Earth and either adapting to their environment or just moving somewhere else, Dubai decided that even the weather was something that money could be thrown at if you didn't like it. The technique they used is called cloud seeding and it's a process where either silver iodide or dry ice are dispersed into the air by airplane or rocket which then provokes rainfall.
Shoot nature in the face; she bleeds rain.
This only works if the water in the rain clouds is super-cooled, of course. As long time Cracked readers might recall, supercooled water is water that is below freezing, but still liquid, and needs a "seed" to form crystals. This principle is not only useful for mildly impressing inter-nerds, but also makes heavily laden clouds release that precious precipitation. In Dubai, they flew over the counter-intuitively super-cooled desert rainclouds and dumped dry ice into the sky. Sure enough, they got their rain--possibly at the expense of the wrath of a spurned Earth goddess, but it was rain nonetheless.
Considering Dubai is in a desert, it stands to reason that they don't typically get a great deal of rainfall. But things are slowly changing. The cloud seeding seems to be having a lasting effect, because the amount of annual rainfall has been increasing over the past few years. Incidentally, all the rain has not done a damn thing to stop Dubai from being a desert, but it has increased the number of shrubs in the area, and also scrubs the pollution out of the air. Which is a fine stop-measure for now, until Dubai finally buckles down and just builds themselves a new sky.
#1. Inuvik, Canada - Morning
The Northwest Territories in Canada suffer the same dim fate every year when the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun and plunges the area into prolonged darkness. The kind of bullshit you have to put up with is staggering: depression, cabin fever, cold...
Vampires that seem awesome at first until they start talking...
So what's a good Canadian to do? Blockade the windows, turn on all the lights and drink until you forget what warmth feels like? See if you can watch all the pornography on the Internet? Move to somewhere that doesn't remind you of the impending oblivion awaiting you at the end of life? Nope! Build a motherfucking sun.
Tropicana doesn't just make orange juice; they apparently also make the source of all life as well. As anyone who lives in a part of the world that experiences winter can attest to, the shorter days and cold can have a profound negative effect on people, and most of those people typically get at least some sun. But in Inuvik, they get none and the psychological effects of not seeing a giant orb of light in the air for months on end can lead to seasonal depression or even an upswing in appreciation for Morrissey. So Tropicana stepped up with a giant helium balloon covered in lights - which sounds like kind of a sad replacement until you consider the scale of the thing: The artificial sun was 36-feet across and was roughly 70,000 watts.
The raising of the fake sun was done on the eve of Inuvik's annual Sunrise Festival, which celebrates the return of the sun after weeks of hiding behind the rest of Earth. Wait a second... the "return of the sun" was happening the next day? Tropicana gave Inuvik a sun to fight off the month of darkness on the night before the sun comes back? Way to step up, guys. Vitamin C may improve your immune system and protect against cardiovascular disease, but it apparently doesn't do a fucking thing to help with your sense of timing.
You can find more from David at Daily Chowder and Associated Content
Do you have an idea in mind that would make a great article? Then sign up for our writers workshop! Know way too much about a random topic? Create a topic page and you could be on the front page of Cracked.com tomorrow!
To see how else mankind flips Mother Nature the bird, check out Man's 6 Most Ridiculous Attempts To Take On Mother Nature and 7 Insane Military Attempts To Weaponize Animals.
And stop by our Top Picks (Updated 05.28.10) to see Seanbaby having his way with Mother Nature.
And don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get dick jokes sent straight to your news feed.


text:
Rally In Support Of SB-1070 Dwarfed By The Tens Of Thousands Of People Who Protested Against It
On Saturday, "hundreds" of people gathered at Arizona's state Capitol to show support for the new anti-immigration law SB-1070. The event, organized by Voice of the People USA — which is based on Pennsylvania, not Arizona — featured speeches by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Arizona GOP state Sen. Russell Pearce. "More than 100 motorcyclists showed their support by circling the rally on their bikes," and signs at the event read "Don't pander to non-citizens."
At the rally, the far-right Tancredo not surprisingly used the opportunity to bash President Obama, saying that he is a "greater threat to American liberty today than anybody else I can think of":
I used to think, I used to believe that the greatest threat we ever had to this country — I remember when I was a kid, it used to be Russia with the atomic bombs, and after that it was al Qaeda — but there is somebody who is a greater threat to American liberty today than anybody else I can think of. His name is Barack Obama. He does not see the America that you and I see. He looks at a different place. He looks at the America that you and I love, he looks at the America that the Founders put together, and he says, "I don't like that, I'm going to create something else." And he says, when his friend, the President of Mexico is here, he says, "We are not defined by borders." Well maybe he isn't defined by borders. Citizenship is not important. I can understand why somebody like Barack Obama would say citizenship is not important since he refuses to even produce his own birth certificate!
Watch it:
Although Voice of the People USA claimed on its website that the rally would be "huge," it was actually very small compared to a rally just one weekend before in opposition to SB-1070:
A huge procession estimated at 10,000 to 20,000 people marched through downtown Phoenix to the state Capitol on Saturday to protest Arizona's tough new law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
Marchers from across the country carried signs, banners and flags from the U.S. and Mexico, filling a 5-mile stretch of Phoenix in 95-degree heat and under the watchful eye of police.


text:
Back to Previous Page | Curriculum Home
AACEO3: Creative Thinking AB (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Special Education
COURSE TITLE: Creative Thinking AB
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The critical thinking and creative problem solving course is designed to develop students' higher level thinking, problem solving, and research skills. The course provides challenging critical and creative problem solving opportunities and allows students to make connections across disciplines through problem-based learning activities.
Major Instructional Activities: The course includes a wide variety of interdisciplinary projects and activities with extended learner outcomes. Direct instruction in creative and critical thinking strategies, problem solving skills and inquiry models will be provided. Students will learn how to conduct research in the social sciences to prepare them for developing their own in-depth investigations that include concepts and skills covered in the standard middle school curriculum.
Major Evaluative Techniques: A variety of student products are developed that synthesize the concepts presented and the information gained from individual research. Projects may include dramatic performances, creative exhibits, essays, oral presentations, multimedia creations and literary works. Major evaluation techniques are teacher and student assessment of products and performances. Assessment criteria are established as the assignments are undertaken.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the course, students should be able to
- Be able to identify problems, construct solutions and present findings in various forms.
- Apply their interests, knowledge, creativity, and task commitment to self-selected problems or areas of study.
- Assess their own and others' written and project work.


text:
Possible Duplicate:
gdalwarp in a bash shell for loop
I have several modis images (.hdf) from which I want to use only the one band (NDVI) and create a ".tif" image. I have already finished all the preprocessing and I ended on the command below:
gdal_translate -of GTiff $input documents/test.tif
When I run it, I got the answer: "Too many command options"
BUT when I use the command "echo" and run the model by copy/pasting the result of the "echo" command:
gdal_translate -of GTiff "HDF4_EOS:EOS_GRID:"documents/modis_images/PullDir/0302579596islumc/MOD13Q1.A2011289.h19v04.005.2011307201911.hdf":MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI:250m 16 days NDVI" documents/test.tif
it works fine.
What am I doing wrong???
Thank you!


text:
Is there a safe way to downgrade Compiz to 0.8.6 in Ubuntu 12.04? I don't want to use Unity anymore and due to bug #862430 and bug #933776 Compiz is unusable for me.
I would appreciate any suggestion.
I'm running 12.04 and using compiz version 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1 without any problems. However when I had Unity it was a nightmare.
My solution, since I was upgrading from 10.10, was switch to Xubuntu 10.10 and to remove Unity at each upgrade step.
As a result, I ended up at Xubuntu 12.04 using 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1 with very nice results.
I didn't have to remove Unity when upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04.
You may only have to remove Unity to get where you want to go.
I used the answer to this question for guidance.
Here are the suggested steps for 12.04...
For 12.04
Remove the following packages:
Note: After removing Unity using the above described method, provided LightDM hasn't been otherwise removed, you'll still be greeted with the LightDM desktop manager upon rebooting into Ubuntu. But with Unity removed, LightDM won't have any desktops to manage, and so attempting to log in from LightDM will result in an error message. From LightDM, you can use "CTRL+ALT+F1" to exit into a terminal, from which you can install a new desktop environment, if desired. For example, "sudo apt-get install gnome-core" can be used to install the Gnome Desktop Environment from the terminal, or "sudo apt-get install lxde" can be used to install LXDE from the terminal, etc. You will be given a choice between "lightdm" and "gdm" desktop managers during the desktop installation process. Selecting "lightdm" works with both the Gnome Desktop Environment and LXDE.
Note: When I ran the
Here is the result...!
to downgrade a package
in the version place you have to place whats the version you want to install .
This is a temporary fix for who want to use compiz 0.9.8.
(Do this at your own risk.)
Login to Gnome 3 session, and completely remove compiz. Then hit the following commands on the terminal.
Compiz shuld work better when you log back to Unity or Gnome Classic.


text:
JOPLIN — Neosho took advantage of a critical mistake by Carl Junction to win its first game at the Joplin Tournament on Thursday.
Dustin Hill, who scored one goal, was the only Wildcats player to score yet they still defeated the Bulldogs 2-1. The explanation, of course, is that the Bulldogs scored on themselves — creating the decisive goal that allowed the Wildcats to escape with the victory.
The Wildcats continue play in the tournament on Saturday when they take on Webb City at 10 a.m.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Members of the media who wish to reach students, faculty, staff, or a spokesperson of the College, please email Media Relations or call 802-440-4399.
Bennington College
Office of Communications
One College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201-6003
The Bennington College Program on the Environment is launching a speaker series examining the effects of environmental change, from climate change to urban and suburban development, on infectious diseases for both humans and animals.
The talks are open to the public as well as the campus community. All events will be held at 1:00 pm in the CAPA Symposium.
There will also be opportunities for informal meetings and discussions with visitors.
Dr. Felicia Keesing, Bard College Biodiversity loss and infectious diseases: the case of Lyme disease March 10, 2014
Dr. Keesing and colleagues have done ground-breaking research on the ecological context of the spread of borreliosis—Lyme disease—in the eastern U.S., finding that risk of contracting Lyme disease is a function of complex ecological interactions, including the effects of land-use change and suburban development on patterns of biodiversity loss. Her lecture will build on the Lyme disease example to suggest that patterns observed for tick-borne diseases are found in a wide variety of other disease systems and to suggest powerful underlying mechanisms, knowledge of which could help us reduce disease transmission worldwide.
Dr. Katherine Smith, Brown University Global Change and Disease: Lessons from the Macroscope March 17, 2014
Dr. Smith studies conservation medicine and the biogeography of disease. "Macroecology"—a discipline within ecology—strives to understand patterns in nature from a perspective encompassing large spatial scales, long temporal scales, and large data sets. It is difficult to 'scale up" traditional research approaches such as experimental manipulation to investigate factors that operate at higher levels of organization such as populations, communities, or biogeographical regions. Her lecture will explore application of macroecological approaches to study of the impacts of anthropogenic forces on infectious disease in humans and wildlife.
Dr. George Luber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University The Health Consequences of a Changing Climate: Findings from the 3rd US National Climate Assessment March 31, 2014
At an ever-increasing rate, evidence is accumulating that the earth's climate system is warming and that health consequences of this warming are already evident. From the direct effects of weather extremes on morbidity and mortality, to the potential for changes in disease ecology and geography brought about by "state shifts" in the earth's biosphere, climate change will be a defining issue for public health in the 21st Century. Dr. Luber will review findings of the forthcoming '3rd US National Climate Assessment', focusing on the public health sector, and will describe adaptative actions, already underway, that seek to anticipate these health threats and manage them into the future.
Dr. Karen Lips, University of Maryland Amphibian Population Declines: Complex Causes and Consequences for Global Amphibian Biodiversity Loss April 14, 2014
Unprecedented environmental change, including climate change, is driving massive alterations to the world's flora and fauna. One factor in these changes is the emergence of new infectious diseases of wildlife, forests, food crops, and us. Not all species of wildlife respond equally to these threats, and amphibians are suffering disproportionate biodiversity loss. Dr. Lips' research focuses on why species of amphibians differ in their response to global threats such as emerging infectious disease and global climate change, how those changes affect other parts of the ecosystem, and how we might use this information to prioritize conservation decisions. Her lab uses field studies, experimentation and modeling to study the biology of as they are affected by disease and climate change.


text:
= Julia Draznin Matlzman, MD, Senior Editor
LJS = Lawrence J. Solin, MD, FACR
OncoLink had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Dr. Lawrence Solin about his research and interests in early breast cancer irradiation. He is articulate, eloquent, and well informed while being gregarious and engaging. It is easy to see why he was chosen to receive the Potamkin Foundation Award for outstanding research in the field by the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. I asked him questions about various techniques of breast irradiation, DCIS, and about his predictions for the future direction of breast radiation oncology.
Congratulations on your award from the PA breast cancer coalition. The Potamkin Foundation Award is presented to individuals who perform outstanding work in breast cancer research. I know you have done a lot of work in early stage breast ca/DCIS as well as characterizing some of the late effects of radiation therapy. Can you tell me some more about your interests?
LJS: My interests have evolved over time. First we began by examining ways to conserve the breast and increase survival. Now there is very good long-term data that show that breast conservation is possible (lumpectomy with radiotherapy being in most cases as good as a mastectomy) and many women are surviving this disease. As you cure more people you start to think of ways of minimizing the complications of treatment. The goals now have changed. We want to maximize cure, maximize quality of life, and minimize late effects. Now we have better surgery, better radiology, better pathology, better chemotherapy, and better radiation therapy, and we need to maximize cure without the expense of side effects. That has been a paradigm shift.
Another paradigm shift that has taken place is that now radiation oncologists have to think about general health maintenance issues. We have to talk to our patients about getting screened for other malignancies, keeping their blood pressure low, monitoring their blood sugars, etc. In fact, just yesterday, I was counseling a patient on weight maintenance. Now that the public is surviving from their cancers, they are dying of other diseases. We have to start talking to patients about these issues now because ten years from now when they come down with their second cancer, it is too late.
One of my largest interests is in DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). We have an ongoing collaborative group study that has evaluated over 1,000 patients with real statistical power to look at a multitude of aspects. This collaboration is with radiation oncologists in the US, Canada, and Europe. Over 1,000 people is a large number. We have enough statistical power to look at primary events other than breast cancer. We can evaluate treatments for local recurrence. We can even estimate the rate of unusual events. We just updated our fifteen-year outcomes data for DCIS. This is a huge database with an enormous breadth of information. This is very exciting.
Coronary artery disease, secondary cancers, fibrosis, and maybe necrosis, are these some of the concerning aspects of late effects of radiation therapy?
LJS: We currently have an interest in studying heart disease after radiation treatment. We are studying complications that have not been well described before. We are finishing up a few studies trying to characterize this heart disease and then try to find ways of preventing it. There are some very interesting findings. Definitely heart disease is a potential complication of radiation therapy.
A few months ago the New England Journal of Medicine published two trials evaluating the added benefits of radiation therapy post lumpectomy in early stage breast cancer. These trials, I understand, were motivated by the fact that many women, in fact, would not experience a recurrence with lumpectomy and tamoxifen alone. And, we can now further reduce the risk of recurrence by some of the new hormone drugs available such as Arimidex and Letrozole. Thus women can avoid the side effects of radiation therapy. Can you comment about these trials?
LJS: Yes, these are two randomized, controlled, trials that looked at potentially low risk patients to ask the question of whether there is a subgroup of patients in whom the risk of recurrence is low enough that radiation therapy can be omitted. Both trials were underpowered to look at survival. The Canadian study said that radiation therapy substantially reduces local recurrence even for low risk patients and should be used. The CALGB study suggested that for older women over age 70, with small tumors (T1) radiation might be omitted. It was not powered to look at survival as an end point and had only five-year follow up. We know that the benefits of radiation therapy are increased at five to ten years after treatment. Furthermore, selecting appropriate patients for radiation treatment is nothing new. Radiation oncologists have always been selecting patients suitable for radiation. There are very healthy and motivated 70 year olds who would stand to benefit from radiation, just as there are 85 year olds with many co-morbid conditions who may not benefit from radiation therapy. So, we have already been doing what the study suggested namely offering therapy to people who would benefit, and discussing the pros and cons with the individuals who may not benefit as much and could potentially be harmed.
I should also mention that there exists very good long-term data (NSABP B21) that supports the use of radiation therapy with tamoxifen in small tumors in early stage breast cancer. These data are very strong.
Is there data trying to identify, genetically, for example, which women would benefit from radiation therapy and which can omit it?
LJS: No, not yet. We do know that there are some markers that can show some level of risk but none that can define the appropriate patients for the omission of radiation. It would be interesting to go back to the older trials (for example, NSABP-06 and NSABP- 21) and use the genetic markers to look at local failure. Maybe we can use the GHI panel (Genomic Health Inc, announced last year in San Antonio that their unique breast cancer assay can accurately and precisely quantify the likelihood of recurrence) for example.
Have the newer techniques such as accelerated partial breast irradiation or hypofractionated whole breast irradiation for early stage breast cancer, and changed any of these late effects? How?
LJS: No. We don't know yet. There has not yet been a large randomized, controlled, phase III clinical trial. We will soon open a phase III APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) study here in the US. The goal of APBI is to improve the quality of life without changes in local control rates and cosmesis. We already have very low rates of failure, low rates of cosmetic disfigurement, and low rate of toxicity with standard radiation therapy. If you want to change the paradigm, you have to do it very carefully and only in the context of a controlled clinical trial. This is what happened when everyone was excited about offering breast cancer patients stem cell transplants. It was a great idea intellectually, and medically it made sense. But in the end it did not help, and in fact, people died. Stem cell transplant carries with it a low but very real mortality potential. At Penn, we do not do APBI outside the context of a clinical trial. Furthermore, there are very little long-term data on it.
Partial breast irradiation, as I understand it, was born from the observation that most in breast recurrences occur in the surgical bed. So the thought was to irradiate it rather than the entire breast. Is this correct? It sounds good.
LJS: There are many good Phase I and II data, but now we need a phase III trial to gain a clear understanding of the risks and benefits of these techniques. The history of oncology is filled with ideas that proved to be appropriate after proper testing and those that did not.
There are philosophical reasons why it may not look so good after all. First off large daily fractions have been associated with increased risk of late toxicities. So we need to be concerned about potential toxicities that we currently don't see everyday. We need to be aware of not only local control of breast cancer but also cosmesis. Furthermore, there is some evidence that small even microscopic foci of disease can be found in the remainder of the breast not just the surgical bed. Whole breast radiation serves to sterilize the breast and deceases recurrence. By irradiating only the surgical bed there is a chance of recurrence in another part of the same breast.
You have to do controlled clinical trials. You can't do something because you think it is intellectually correct.
To my knowledge there have been four different approaches to accelerated partial breast irradiation:
LJS: There is very little long term data on any of these. The longest outcomes data have been on brachytherapy. In general, however, patients don't like it, as plastic catheters need to be placed in the breast. The MammoSite was just approved in 2002 so there aren't even five-year data on this technique. The intraoperative technique is used mainly in Europe. It is attractive because the patient does not have to come back. But this is an expensive proposition. The machines we use are enormous and can't be easily wheeled into an operating room. Again, we need properly controlled randomized trials.
Reduction of treatment time has also been a focus. This improves access to care and maximized resources.
LJS: There are a number of studies that show that radiation therapy is limited by (1) distance if a patient lives far from the radiation center, and (2) age older people with other co-morbid conditions may not tolerate it as well. Access in major cities is not really a problem. If you live in Philadelphia, for example, most patients are not very far away from a radiation oncology center.
So partial breast irradiation and hypofractionated treatments have as the main goal reducing overall treatment time. IMRT (intensity modulated radiotherapy), however, is a technique developed to improve dose homogeneity, target coverage, and of course, decrease toxicity. Can you give us your thoughts about IMRT?
LJS: IMRT is more interesting. There are good direct and indirect evidence showing that toxicity can be ameliorated by improved dose distribution. IMRT reduces dose inhomogeneity and reduces toxicity. Unfortunately, there are still no randomized trials. A change in dose distribution while keeping the absolute dose stable has never been tested. Furthermore, IMRT is operator dependent and differs in different institutions. Everyone does it a bit differently. But it is important to understand that this is not a new concept. Radiation oncologists have been employing this concept for decades with wedge filters -- placing wedges at certain angles to maximize dose homogeneity and minimize toxicity. This is not a new concept, just a new name with a higher price.
But you just said that you don't use partial breast irradiation because of lack of phase III data. Why do you use IMRT if it too lacks conclusive phase III data?
LJS: From a practical point of view, testing IMRT is much more difficult if not impossible. As I said, there is too much variation from place to place. Also, the concept is one that radiation oncologists already employ. We routinely use wedge filters to see which homogeneity is better. Plus, it is not a comparison of whole versus partial breast irradiation. You are still irradiating the entire breast, and just optimizing the homogeneity.
What is the future for radiation oncology and early stage breast cancer?
LJS: A few things: (1) integrating genomics to identify those patients who can safely omit radiation. It would be great to identify those patients for whom a directed treatment program is possible. (2) Learn to better use nodal radiation therapy, which something that we have not yet talked about today. And, (3) optimize the integration of therapies such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiotherapy, and surgery.
I have one last question, it's about DCIS...
LJS: Omission of radiation therapy for DCIS is a strong question. Radiation therapy is for local control and this is arguably the most important aspect for these patients as they don't tend to die from the disease. It becomes a question of minimal therapy. There are three trials looking at radiation therapy for DCIS and all are positive. However, there have not been any trials for omission of radiation therapy by contemporary evaluation. Today our criteria are much more selective.
OncoLink is designed for educational purposes only and is not engaged in rendering medical advice or professional services. The information provided through OncoLink should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or a disease. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you have or suspect you may have a health problem or have questions or concerns about the medication that you have been prescribed, you should consult your health care provider.
Information Provided By: www.oncolink.org | © 2016 Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania


text:
I am really thinking about purchasing the R1 or R10 for ease of use for commercial shoots.
If I want to use the R1 with my Canon 5D Mark II, what fixed wide-angle or fisheye lens do all of you recommend? I was thinking about getting the NN5-RD16 setup but I need something that does the job quicker (even though I will lose some detail as a result of using a fisheye).
Also, I would like to be making 180 and some 360 panoramas.


text:
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today.
The Cabinet welcomed the positive international reaction to its call last week for an oil summit, which is scheduled to be held in Jeddah June 22. It reiterated the Kingdom's support for global market stability as well as cooperation between producers and consumers.
On international issues, King Abdullah briefed the Cabinet on his recent contacts and consultations with world leaders and their envoys, including his meetings with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and King Abdullah II of Jordan.


text:
My wife (Polish passport) is planning to travel to the USA (and some European countries) with our son who has dual Polish-British nationality. Would it cause any issues if the young one is travelling on a British passport? It seems especially convenient this way, because Polish citizens still need a visa to get to the USA, which is both expensive and humiliating to obtain. Are they going to experience any issues with American officials?
Technically there's no issue at all with doing this.
However where she could have a problem is in convincing the immigration officials that she is the child's true parent, and has authority to take him across country lines. I'd suggest taking a copy of your son's birth certificate showing that she is the child's mother, as well as a letter from you giving permission for her to travel with him. If her name on the passport is different to that on the birth certificate, such as if it changed at marriage, you'll also want proof of that - such as a marriage certificate.
Here's some additional information on children traveling with only one parent.
Don't forget that you will be required to obtain an ESTA for your son to enter the US under the visa waver program.


text:
A global manufacturer of cosmetics and hair care products is planning to add 211 jobs at its northern Kentucky plant as part of a $42 million expansion project.
Eric Wolff, manager of the L'Oreal USA plant at Florence, says the expansion will enable the company to meet increased consumer demand for hair care brands being produced in Kentucky.
State officials including Gov. Steve Beshear attended the expansion announcement Thursday.
The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority has given preliminary approval for up to $5 million in tax incentives for the expansion. Those incentives are tied to the company meeting job and investment targets.
L'Oreal USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of L'Oreal SA, based in Paris, France. Beshear met with L'Oreal officials during an economic development trip to Europe this summer.


text:
Talking about Assistance PSA for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with Assistance Software
- Posted: Jan 20, 2011 at 2:24PM
- 1,376 views
Right click "Save as…"
To see a demonstation of this product click here
In this video Martijn van der Hoeden from Assistance Software talks to us about their new product, Assistance PSA for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
You know the story if you work in Professional Services. Once the next big deal is won the resulting project is taken into the company ERP system to start tracking time and billing against the project. What would it look like if your CRM system could continue to track the project through its execution and also feed back to the ERP?
Fast forward to now and Assistance PSA from Assistance Software.
The great feature of Assistance PSA is that it can keep you working inside ofone system when an opportunity closes and turns into a real project complete with hourly billing, time tracking and more. In addition the system will also talk to an ERP system so all financials are tracked correctly. The solution is built for both Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 On Premise and Online and really showcases the power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 as a development framework.
Enjoy the Show and check out this grreat product, Assistance PSA
John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Oops, something didn't work.
Comments have been closed since this content was published more than 30 days ago, but if you'd like to continue the conversation, please create a new thread in our Forums, or Contact Us and let us know.


text:
This is already after the fact, since the batch has been consumed but... My pale ale that I made had quite a 'yeasty' taste. It still wasn't bad, though I would have preferred it to be a bit milder. What is a good course of action to take the next time around to help resolve that? More/less time in fermentation? Use secondary? More time bottle-conditioning? Would any of these affect the yeast taste at all? Thanks!
In general, more time in fermentation (said without knowing how much time you gave it) and more time and cold to clear it after fermentation is complete. Also, the strain of yeast you use can play a part.
Without knowing more about which yeast strain you used it is hard to say if a yeasty taste would be expected, but more time in primary and secondary fermenters would likely solve the issue.
Also, if you have available space in a fridge, cold crashing in secondary for a few days to a week before bottling/kegging can help clear the beer and make a lot more of the yeasties drop out.


text:
I would like to be able to script some things that are not exposed via
arcgisscripting or ArcPy.
How do I access ArcObjects from Python?
I would like to be able to script some things that are not exposed via
How do I access ArcObjects from Python?
Download and install comtypes*, put the
For background see Mark Cederholm's presentations for UberPyGeeks on "Using ArcObjects in Python". There are separate ones for VBA and C++ developer perspectives. They use Visual Studio (yes Express is ok) and the Windows SDK, but these aren't required, just ArcGIS, Python and comtypes are sufficient.
Getting the Snippets module
* Note for 10.1+ you need to make a small change to
Next steps
...or: brain gone snaky? Looking at the c# code examples makes your eyes swim, and try as you might you just can't think like a crane? Look here:
Yes, Mark Cederholm's presentation that Matt Wilkie mentions above is a great place to start. The recipe/code that Matt presents is certainly a slick and probably the best way to go about things. I wanted to mention, though, the rather brute force method I am using in ArcGIS 10.0. I have several automation scripts (standalone, outside the application boundary) that I run this way, and they work just fine. If maximum speed is a concern, though, you might just go with Matt's solution and be done with it.
I use the comtypes package to force wrapping of all ArcObjects libraries (.olb). Then Python has access to all of ArcObjects. I got the wrapping code from Frank Perks through an ESRI forum posting. I had my own code that essentially did the same thing, but it was bloated and merely functional, while his is much prettier. So:
Then, pretty much straight out of Mark Cederholm's presentation:
That's it. You should have full access to ArcObjects starting with the pApp object that is IApplication on the AppRef object. In my experience, the wrapping of the ArcObjects libraries on the first run isn't objectionably slow, and for subsequent runs the wrapping doesn't happen. The libraries are already wrapped and compiled, so things are much speedier.
Added: There is a large caution that comes with this. The NewObj function given here assumes the Python script is being run in-process. If not, this function will create objects in the Python process (ie. out-of process), and object references will be wrong. To create in process objects from an external Python script you should use IObjectFactory. See Kirk Kuykendall's comments and tips in this stackexchange post for more info.
If what you are looking for is specific functionality that exists and is in the C++ Arcobjects code, then your best bet would be to create C++ methods to call them.... and then create a python wrapper to access those C++ methods.
There are quite a few ways to access C++ methods from python, and lots of people that do so use a tool like SWIG to auto-generate the python classes from the C++ method signatures. It's been my experience that these autogenerated APIs get pretty nasty when passing non-native C++ types (int, floats) and are never very 'pythonic'.
My recommended solution would be to use the ctypes API. A great tutorial is here: http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html
The basic steps are:
This is probably more general way to reference C/C++ code from within python, it is probably going to be much simpler in the long run if you don't have to deal with COM objects. It also will allow all of the system specific functionality reside in the compilation of the linked library object (so the python will not be system/python implementation specific).
Another option is to use Python for .NET - this is very easy to set up, and can work with any .NET DLLs including ArcObjects.
I've not experienced any issues with in-process obects, and opening up an instance of ArcMap and adding and manipulating layers worked fine for me.
The only requirements are a folder containing the Python for .NET library, and a standard Python install.
More details and sample script here. The sample script can also be seen directly at http://gist.github.com/923954
Unfortunately, whilst this works without problems on a local development machine, deploying it elsewhere requires the ArcObjects SDK, and Visual Studio (including the free Express edition) to be installed. See Deploying ArcObject .NET DLLs
One approach I don't see mentioned in the other answers is to use the same methods that the arcpy libraries themselves use. E.g. in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\arcpy\arcpy\cartography.py, we see Python calling ArcObjects tools using some fixargs and object conversion functions.
I don't how much it's OK to post about it here, since the code says "TRADE SECRETS: ESRI PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL"; but you'll find it elsewhere on the web too. Anyway, this looks like a relatively easy way to call functions like
See Jason's comments below. Sounds like doing the above won't buy you much.


text:
Saturday, March 13, 2010
History of a Village on the Hills
Although my grandfather's stay in Bottrop was short, the history of Bottrop, which means 'Village on the Hills', is everything but short. Bottrop was first mentioned, as Borgthorpe, in 1092 as being part of the assets of a monastery. In 1423 Bottrop received the right to hold markets, a very valuable right at the time. The first time Bottrop shows up on a map is in 1573, the name in use by then is Bortdorpe. The current name of Bottrop is seen on documents for the first time in 1630.
In 1856 a mine is opened in nearby Essen, which is the start of the industrial era in Bottrop. Mining would continue to play an important part of life in Bottrop until well into the 20th century. I know for a fact that Adolph Knura's father, Bergmann Josef Knura, was a miner. Because of work opportunities opening up, there is an immigration wave in 1880 to Bottrop. The industrial era also shows up in advances like electric lights, first seen in Bottrop in 1896, and a tram that runs from the Horsemarket to Essen, which rides for the first time in 1899.
On 1 July 1914, on the dawn of World War I, my grandfather Adolph Knura is born. Four years later, in 1918, the war is over. Bottrop as a community mourns the loss of 1678 soldiers who lost their lives in this war. A scant year later in 1919, Bottrop finally gets city rights, which they had been trying to get since 1905.
In 1923 the city is occupied by Belgian and French troop for two years. As of yet, I have been unable to find out exactly why this was and if it was just Bottrop that was affected or if the surrounding towns, or even a larger area, was also occupied.
In 1930 one of the mines in Bottrop closes. Two years later, my grandfather Adolph Knura leaves Bottrop, where he leaves his parents and several siblings. Considering that a year later, in 1933, the Nazi's hoist the swastika flag at city hall as their first public appearance in Bottrop, he might have gotten away from there just in time. Local parties are put aside, as is the major.
In 1940, World War II starts showing its effects on Bottrop. The newspaper is shut down and the bronze clocks of the churches in Bottrop are melted down for the war effort. In 1942 a wing of the Maria Hospital is hit by a landmine. The hospital is severely damaged. The Althoff Mall is destroyed by a bomb in March of 1943. Aerial attacks do heavy damage in Bottrop in 1944. Especially the neighborhood Ruhröl is heavily hit, about seventy percent of the residential buildings there are destroyed. On 30 March 1945 Americans occupy Bottrop. I don't know exactly when they leave, but considering that there are elections in 1946, I expect the Americans are gone by then.
In the years after the war, rebuilding is a big theme. The Althoff Mall that was completely destroyed reopens in 1951. And in 1954 the first carnival parade is held since the war. In that same year, the last of the destroyed buildings is completely broken down.
Economically, Bottrop is very dependent on the coal mines in the years after the war. In 1955, half of the working people in Bottrop make their livelihoods directly or indirectly from the mines. It's also in 1955 that the first bus starts riding in Bottrop, it's the beginning of the end for the tram lines. In 1958 a new coal mine is opened nearby.
Bottrop and the neighboring Kirchhellen form the new city Bottrop in 1976. In December of that same year, the last tram in Bottrop stops it's service. In 1981 the largest coal processing plant of Europe is opened in Bottrop. In 1987 Pope John Paul II visits Bottrop. In 1996 the biggest sportstadion of Bottrop, the Dieter-Renz- Halle, burns down to the ground.
In the first decade of this century, Bottrop has started large renovations to modernize the city. Neither my grandfather, nor any of his siblings, as far as I know, were alive to see this. For them, Bottrop would always be the city that lived of the mines.
German wikipedia page about Bottrop
This post was written for the 27th edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy.
5 comments:
What marvelous historical facts. you have done a lot of research.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your comment. I must admit though, most of the research was done by others and I used their compiled data about Bottrop to write this piece.ReplyDelete
I read your history of Bottrop with interest -- then with the wonder of google maps at my fingertips I was even more surprised. The area around Dusinberg and Dusseldorf, which does not appear to be that far from Bottrop, was an area of which my great grandparents spoke. Periodically I poke around for a genealogical trail, but then I don't have much to go on -- or much knowledge about the area. I thank you for such an interesting history of the area -- and for nudging my belated work in that area.ReplyDelete
What a conincidence! And thanks for stopping by.ReplyDelete
Very interesting and well done! My daughter lives in the Netherlands now, in 'tHarde near Zwolle, so I will be watching your blog with interest. Thank you for visiting my blog.ReplyDelete


text:
Two Queens in a Royal Treat
Maria Stuarda
The Metropolitan Opera
Through Jan. 26
New York
The Metropolitan Opera celebrated New Year's Eve with its first-ever production of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" (1835). It was festive, indeed, even though the heroine loses her head in the end. Unlike the company's other recent attempts at the bel canto repertoire ("Anna Bolena" and "L'Elisir d'Amore," both uninspiring), this new production boasted a well-matched trio of principal singers, idiomatic conducting and a thoughtful, visually striking staging.
The opera centers on the confrontation of two powerful women: Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Giuseppi Bardari's libretto, based on the 1800 play by Friedrich Schiller, takes considerable liberties with history: The two queens never actually met, nor were they in romantic competition for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. The opera's plot is minimal: Mary, suspected of scheming against Elizabeth, and other crimes, is imprisoned at Fotheringhay Castle. Leicester persuades Elizabeth to travel to Fotheringhay so that Mary can plead her cause. Mary's attempt at submissive behavior fails; when Elizabeth taunts her, Mary lashes out with her own dynastic insults—"Vile bastard," in particular. Elizabeth signs her death warrant. Mary then confesses her sins, bids her followers farewell, and goes to the block.
Donizetti colors this spare outline with a richly imagined sequence of arias and ensembles, and director David McVicar's restrained concept enabled the emotional subtexts to bloom and the singers to shine. Power was the theme, beginning with designer John Macfarlane's show curtain, a riff on Elizabeth's coat of arms, with the lion and the dragon poised for attack and dripping with streaks of red paint. As Elizabeth, soprano Elza van den Heever, grandly bedecked in a series of enormous, intimidating period gowns, stomped around the stage as if she were Henry VIII. As Mary, mezzo Joyce DiDonato, in much smaller black dresses, conveyed her inner strength through straight-backed posture.
Mr. Macfarlane's black, white and red set felt pared down, like an Elizabethan stage, with its raised, raked platform, few props and a handful of telling details, like the blood-red beamed ceiling of Elizabeth's palace and the shadowy steps leading to the execution block. Little directorial touches—the wolf's head on a stick that is carried by Elizabeth's hunting party; the ladies-in-waiting tying on Elizabeth's elaborate silver gown and tall collar—stood out like accent marks.
The chorus costumes were monochrome—white for Elizabeth's court, black for Mary's retinue. Mr. McVicar kept the stage movement spare as well: The sextet that begins the confrontation scene in the forest outside Fotheringhay and the mourning chorus at the start of the final scene were both played in complete stillness, allowing Jennifer Tipton's skillful chiaroscuro lighting and Donizetti's music to tell you everything you needed to know.
Ms. van den Heever, making her company debut, has a big, well-controlled soprano. It is steely and assertive, with the flexibility to pull off Elizabeth's vengeful, vitriolic cabalettas. She conveyed both Elizabeth's autocratic demeanor and the underlying effort required to maintain that facade—the masculine stomping, for example, seemed deliberately awkward, as if the queen were trying on different techniques to display her control.
Ms. DiDonato is a splendid bel canto singer, and her interpretation of Mary has come a long way from her first outing in the role at the Houston Grand Opera last spring. Her singing now has more edge, definition and fire, emphasizing the pride and regal confidence that has endured through Mary's decades of imprisonment, making her a fit antagonist for Elizabeth. Her Mary had many moods. Ms. DiDonato brought a luminous, meditative loveliness to Mary's nostalgic opening aria, in which she thinks back to her home in France; the soft, floating trills were magical. But you could also see the effort required by her attempt at submission to Elizabeth, and her pride resurfaced with ferocious intensity. Equally fascinating was the confession scene, with the turbulence of her guilt giving way to an angelic serenity. Even her final aria—on her way to the block, she forgives Elizabeth—became a demonstration of Mary's victory. She may be losing her head, but as her voice soared above the chorus she had the moral upper hand.
It is the tenor who is the soft touch in this show. As Leicester, Matthew Polenzani brought an ardent, purely sung desperation to the man in the middle, pleading the cause of one proud woman before another and getting nowhere. He is even comforted by Mary in the final scene. Bass Matthew Rose was splendid and fatherly as George Talbot, Mary's jailer and supporter, who hears her final confession (in the libretto he is a secret Catholic priest; Mr. McVicar did without that revelation); their scene suggested the intimacy and interplay of the Germont-Violetta duet in "La Traviata." Joshua Hopkins was properly stiff and insinuating as William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief adviser, who pushes for Mary's execution; Maria Zifchak handily filled out the ensembles as Hannah, Mary's lady-in-waiting. The Met chorus brought weight and sincerity to the final mourning scene. The conductor Maurizio Benini coordinated the ensembles with precision and sensitivity and paced the evening with a firm yet supple attentiveness that let these fine bel canto singers bloom.
Ms. Waleson writes about opera for the Journal.


text:
I want to use different kind of intrusion detection tools like OpenSource Tripwire. Please suggest me some tools which can provide me some additional information to that provided by tripwire? Secondly, how can I get IP addresses of all the clients of my server? Thirdly, Can I merge logs created by all such tools?
First a generality: timestamps are crucial. Use NTP to sync your system's clock, make sure that the clock is not wobbling all over the place. After that, you can move on to the basics.
I would suggest running Michal Zalewski's p0f and logging its guesses about incoming TCP requests. I'm using version 2, but Zalewski has a version 3 out.
CERT at Carnegie Mellon has a vastly updated p0f v2.x fingerprint file.
You can run p0f v2.x in the background with an invocation something like this:
p0f will give you a pretty decent guess about what operating system your attacker uses. You will have to co-ordinate p0f guesses with any other data you collect.
An alternative: SinFP3. I found it a little tricky to install, as it had some non-standard Perl module dependencies.


text:
Featuring a Large Assortment of Microscopes from Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss, Leica & More!
Bidding Starts:
Lots Begin Closing:
Canton, Massachusetts, USA
Sale Currency:
Buyer Premium:
Discount :
A 2% discount will be applied to the Buyer's Premium if payment is received by Wire Transfer/ACH (confirmed) within 3 business days of the close of the auction.
Inspections :
By appointment only. Please contact EquipNet Auctions at 781-821-3482 x2162 to schedule an inspection.
Removal Deadline:
Removal deadline for purchased equipment is Thursday, July 26, 2012
Popcorn Bidding
If there are any bids within 5 minutes of the close of the auction, the close time for that specific item will be extended in 5 minute increments until there are no bids by the end of the following 5 minute block. For example:
If listing 1234 receives a bid at 4:56pm on Friday (4 minutes before the close of the auction), the close time for that particular lot will be extended to 5:05pm. If that lot receives another bid at 5:04pm, the close time is extended to 5:10pm. If there are no more bids between 5:05pm and 5:10pm, the lot will close at 5:10pm.
There is no limit to the number of times an auction can be extended. Therefore, EquipNet, Inc. recommends that you check back often as an auction nears closing time.
Payment Methods
Wire Transfer, MasterCard, Visa
MA Lic # AU 2508


text:
General Admission tickets for our 410 Outlaw Winged Sprint Car Special will be $15.00 with the VIP for $25, and Season Ticket Holders will get to use the VIP this week. Kids are only $2.00, 8 and under are FREE.
Races start at 7:30PM.
Driven by MyRacePassTM
Rapid Speedway | All rights reserved | Terms


text:
I have some home work with problems such as...
Determine whether each of these sets is the power set of a set:
- {∅, {a}}
- ∅
So yes 1 is the power set of {a}.
But what about 2? Since power sets have to have $2^k$ members then no it can't be a power set. It would have to be P(∅) = {∅, {∅}} correct? Since it must contain 2 members. However, when I try to check myself with Wolfram Alpha, it says P({}) = {{}}... why? I thought it must have $2^k$ members!


text:
Consider the following:
def f(implicit a: String, y: Int = 0) = a + ": " + y
implicit val s = "size"
println(f(y = 2))
The last expression causes the following error:
not enough arguments for method f: (implicit a: String, implicit y:
Int)java.lang.String. Unspecified value parameter a.
However, if you provide a default value to the implicit parameter a, there is no issue:
def f(implicit a: String = "haha!", y: Int = 0) = a + ": " + y
implicit val s = "size"
println(f(y = 2))
But the last line prints
haha!: 2
while I would have expected
size: 2
So the implicit value 's' is not picked up. If you instead don't provide any parameters to f and just call
then the implicit value is picked up and you get
size: 0
Can someone shed some light on what's going on here?


text:
Print this page
Artbeads Ratings and Reviews
See All Reviews
Shop Now At Artbeads
Shop Miscellaneous
Choose a Category
Shop Alphabet Beads
Shop Artbeads.com Store
Shop Bags & Boxes
Shop Bali Beads
Shop Base Metal Components
Shop Beading Books
Shop Bracelets & Neckwear
Shop Charms
Shop Clearance Items
Shop Copper Clasps
Shop Copper Components
Shop Copper Pendants
Shop Crafts & Accessories
Shop Cubic Zirconia Beads
Shop Earrings
Shop Freshwater Pearls
Shop Gemstone Beads
Shop Gift Certificates/Cards
Shop Glass Beads
Shop Gold Beads
Shop Gold Components
Shop Hill Tribe Silver Beads
Shop Horn Beads
Shop Jewelry Kits
Shop Limited Edition
Shop Limited Edition Gemstones
Shop Limited Edition Glass Beads
Shop Natural Beads
Shop Natural Components
Shop Pendants
Shop Pewter Beads
Shop Pewter Components
Shop Porcelain Beads
Shop Resin Beads
Shop Seed Beads
Shop Shell Beads
Shop Shell Pendants
Shop Silk Beads
Shop Silver Components
Shop Sterling Silver Beads
Shop Stringing Materials
Shop Swarovski Components
Shop Swarovski Crystal Beads
Shop Swarovski Pendants
Shop Swarovski Rhinestones
Shop Tools & Supplies
Shop Vintage Beads
Shop Watch Faces
Shop Weekly Specials
Shop Wire & Chain
Shop Wood Beads
Shop Wooden Components
Reviews Home
Product Reviews
Small Orange Anodized Aluminum Scale Embellishment
Your designs will stand out with unique color and style when you use the small orange anodized aluminum scale embellishment. This embellishment takes on a simple shape that looks like a dragon's scale. Each scale features a slight fold in the middle of the shape, so they are easy to layer and overlap. When connected in overlapping patterns with
jump rings
, they create stunning scale mail designs. This versatile embellishment can also be used to create belts, floral designs, bracelets and more. This scale displays a metallic orange color with a bright shine. You can wear this embellishment everywhere, as anodized aluminum has increased resistance to corrosion and wear!
Customer Reviews for
Small Orange Anodized Aluminum Scale Embellishment
This product has not yet been reviewed.
Click here
to continue to the product details page.


text:
A Review
This week in zombie news: Humans have discovered the existence of zombies, zombie dogs, zombie sharks that live in streams and, yes, zombie maggots. So make sure your mops are clean to avoid zombie
This is a silly zombie development, yes? And yet, it is not played for laughs in "Resident Evil 6." Zombie maggot monsters will kill you while devilish choir music plays in the background.
Plot: Kill zombies and try to save humanity from evil. I am not kidding. It's that simple.
After playing for five hours, a character finally says to another, "What the hell is going on here?" The other character, who has zombie knowledge, replies, "It's complicated. … It'll make sense later."
OK, sure, fine. Let's kill zombies.
Or let's don't?
I'd rather run past most zombies than kill them, because I don't feel rewarded for shooting them. It takes a gazillion bullets to execute them. I often said out loud at the TV, "How many times do I have to
shoot this guy point-blank in the face to get rid of him?"
The answer is often four bullets to the brain — to kill easy zombies. It takes many more bullets to kill a zombie in the chest. And I never had a good supply of ammo in this game.
I had to scoop up bullets and First Aid plants when I occasionally saw them lounging around on the floor or on a dresser. I ran out of ammo during boss fights. That is not a good feeling. That is a dead feeling.
The only reason to kill all zombies is some give you bullets and "skill points" once they're dead-dead. I used those skill points to pay for nice upgrades, such as more powerful bullets and defensive moves.
To me, much of "RE6" is just running through trains and a plane, across human war zones and in caves, dodging zombies, sometimes engaging in hand-to-hand combat and solving puzzles — but mostly
enjoying pretty movie scenes.
However, harder levels did require I kill all enemies in a room, or slay a zombie shark in a stream (a stream shark?), or murder a three-story-building-size monster.
During those moments, "RE6" comes to life. However, some gamers may detest the quick-time button-response system. (I didn't.) Worse: Big monsters keep resurrecting to an absurd point.
Boss monsters Simmons/Derek kept coming back to life after I killed them repeatedly, a three-hour exercise in futility.
After many hours of Derek withstanding thousands of bullets (thousands?), one character said, "This isn't working." The other agreed: "You're right. We're wasting our time." Amen. I killed Derek
then judged him the most inane game climax this year. I wanted to quit the game because of him.
Overall, "RE6" is neither pure joy nor pure misery. It is a great and terrible cinematic feast, a long romp (four different solo campaigns!). But the game play is barely good enough. Signed, your friendly
neighborhood zombie Elfman.
("Resident Evil 6" retails for $60 for Xbox 360 and PS 3 — Plays OK. Looks very good. Very challenging. Rated "M" for blood, gore, intense violence, nudity, strong language and suggestive themes. Three out of
four stars.)
Doug Elfman is an award-winning entertainment columnist who lives in Las Vegas. He blogs at http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/ Doug_Elfman.html. Twitter at VegasAnonymous.