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I'm not really an organised person, and my maxim is "two weeks of coding will save you two hours of planning". But before every (simple or complex) project, despite how long I'm planning, drawing schemes and thinking about how to do it, always at the end (and/or deadline) I suddenly come up with a solution, that is, in most cases, way easier, more efficient and directly solves the problem.
Is there any technique (which propably is more sophisticated than "just" sitting, thinking about project's flow and analysing the more wicked parts of project), to avoid that?
Or maybe the question is, is this a problem that is not meant to be got rid off, because it's a natural order of self-learning?

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Super Bowl Sandwich Showdown!
Here at D'Artagnan, like much of the country, we've come down with a serious case of Super Bowl Fever. Our "home team" is playing and there are A LOT of football fans on staff (and an equal number who will tune in just for the commercials *cough, cough*) but no matter who we root for or why we watch the big game, one thing is certain – we're all in it for the FOOD.
So for a little staff vs. staff fun, we're staging our own Super Bowl Sandwich Showdown.
Representing the NY GIANTS we have…
D'Artagnan Buffalo Burger with
Old Chatham Sheepherding "Ewe's Blue" Cheese
D'Artagnan Hickory Smoked Bacon
Jersey Tomato
Red Onion
Butterhead Lettuce
on a Zomick's Challah Roll
with North Fork Chips and
Brooklyn Brewery Brown Ale
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And for the Patriots…
Live Maine Lobster
D'Artagnan Applewood Smoked Bacon
Boston Lettuce
Maine Sea Salt Co. Apple-Smoked Salt
Traditional Mayo with lemon juice & chives
in a New England-style split-top hot dog bun
with Cape Cod Chips and
Harpoon's UFO White Wheat Beer
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And for good measure, we threw in a wild card…
PULLED PORK SLIDERS with Apple-Jicama Slaw
D'Artagnan Berkshire Pork Shoulder
Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce
and Apple-Jicama Slaw
on good ol' Martins Potato Rolls
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What are all of you eating this Sunday? Hit us up on Twitter and let us know! And stay tuned for tomorrow's Super Bowl Recipe Post – we'll be sharing lots of appetizer ideas for the big game.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte softball team will play its regular season finale on Saturday, May 4 in Philadelphia when it visits La Salle for an Atlantic 10 doubleheader starting at 11 a.m.
The Niners (22-26 overall, 7-9 A-10) are coming off a split against Winthrop on Tuesday. Charlotte dropped game one 10-3 but rebounded with a 7-1 win in game two. The Explorers (15-29, 3-17 A-10) recently picked up a 5-1 win against Rider on Wednesday.
In their last meeting, Charlotte swept La Salle with scores of 1-0 and 6-1 last April at the D.L. Phillips Complex.
Charlotte's offense is headed by the consistent efforts of Natalie Capone (.363), Chelsea Ingersoll (.361), Jessica Plemmons (.333), Briana Gwaltney (.331), and Samantha Slade (.300). However, the 49ers saw some power from Kalie Lang on Tuesday as she crushed her seventh homer of the season, which is tied for second on the team.
Kendra Heyer leads the Explorers with a .336 batting average. She also leads the team in hits with 38. Megan Hodgson (.298) also contributes with a team-leading 37 RBI and nine home runs.
The Explorers will meet Katie Watkins and Chelsea Lisikatos in the circle on Saturday. Watkins remains fourth in the conference in strikeouts with 140. Watkins has also held her opponents to a .269 batting average. Lisikatos has produced a team-leading 3.75 earned run average.
Mary Cate Scott (7-9) and Alicia Aughton (8-16) have aided the Explorers in the circle. Aughton has recorded 73 strikeouts this season.
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WACO (December 10, 2012)--A state district judge Monday sentenced a China Spring man who earlier pleaded guilty to child solicitation and child pornography charges to prison.
District Judge Ralph Strother sentenced John William Kitch, 52, to serve 10 years on each of the solicitation charges and ordered the sentences to be served concurrently.
Strother also ordered Kitch to spend 10 years of community supervision on the child pornography charge, which will begin after he completes his prison sentence.
Kitch was named on Feb. 1 in four separate indictments charging a total of 22 counts of online solicitation of a minor stemming from what authorities said were graphic web chats with who he thought were teenage girls.
The indictments charged Kitch, who was was arrested last fall after an investigation that started on Oct. 7, 2011 engaged who he thought was a 13-year-old girl in an online chat during which he made several graphic sexual comments, according to arrest warrant affidavits.
The 13-year-old girl was actually an undercover sheriff's investigator in Somervell County, the affidavits said.
During the conversation, the investigator was sent nine pornographic images, five of which were of juvenile females, the affidavit said.
On October 28, 2011, the undercover officer, a McLennan County sheriff's deputy and agents from the FBI and Secret Service, served a search warrant on Kitch's residence and seized his computers as part of an investigation of the Oct. 7 incident.
Investigators determined that on Oct. 23, Kitch, using the same screen name that was used on Oct. 7, engaged in graphic online chats with three people who identified themselves as teenage girls ages 13, 15, and 16, telling one of them, "I would love to get your sexy little body in bed," and asked another if she would like to be stripped "down to just your cute socks," the affidavit said.


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FOLLANSBEE - James Funeral Home and the Center for Organ Recovery and Education again have teamed to encourage people to register as organ donors through an event that included testimony by two local residents whose lives were saved by organ donations.
Tom Derby, pastor of Colliers Way Church, and Michelle Wuyak, a Weirton native and Follansbee resident, expressed their gratitude to those who donated their hearts.
Derby brought photos of Billy Frederick, a 19-year-old Columbus-area man whose heart Derby received after he died in a car accident about nine years ago.
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ORGAN DONATION PROMOTED — On hand to encourage people to register as organ donors at the second Gift of Life Awareness Event held by the Center for Organ Recovery and Education and James Funeral Home were, from left, Shante Wells, director of professional services for C.O.R.E.; Tom Derby, pastor of Colliers Way Church of Christ and an organ recipient; Eric Fithyan, owner of James Funeral Home; and T.J. Roser, funeral director-coroner liaison for C.O.R.E. Derby and Michelle Wuyak, a Weirton native and Follansbee resident, shared how they received hearts provided by organ donors. – Warren Scott
He recalled how Frederick's mother, Nina, asked to hear his heart upon meeting him and that Frederick's father, Bob, told him he understood that many organ recipients question whether they are worthy.
"He told me, 'We think you're more than worthy,'" Derby said.
"Every day I live I try to live in honor of the gift they gave me and the blessings that God gave me," he added.
"Do I believe in organ donation? With all my heart," said Wuyak, who said she received the heart of a woman who had died from a brain aneurysm 14 years ago.
Prior to that, she suffered from a viral infection to her right ventricle and at the age of 31, was told to get her affairs in order.
Wuyak said it didn't surprise her to hear her donor was active in the community, very compassionate and loved life.
Shante Wells, director of professional services for C.O.R.E., said more than 117,000 Americans await an organ transplant, with another added every 12 minutes. Each day 18 of them die, she said.
T.J. Roser, funeral director-coroner liaison for C.O.R.E., said through the donation of organs, a person can help up to eight people while a tissue donor can enhance the lives of 50 people.
He noted people can indicate their desire to be an organ donor while renewing their driver licenses, adding organ donor cards also can be obtained through C.O.R.E. Information can be found at www.core.org.
A national not-for-profit organizations serving West Virginia, Pennsylvania and part of New York, C.O.R.E. is among organ procurement organizations operating in the U.S.
The group has worked with Eric Fithyan, owner of James and Chambers funeral homes, to promote organ donor awareness. Fithyan will fly a flag and display a green light outside the funeral homes at night this month to mark Donate Life Month.
Fithyan was assisted in raising the flag by Follansbee Councilwoman Iris Ferrell, whose husband was a heart recipient and who has received bone transplants herself.


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I have a guy, so good, so great, I transferred him from the deepest corners of South America, trained him and now AC Milan wants him, he has 5 years left in his contract and also an important team player in the age of 25, AC milan makes an offer, not to anger the player I "negogiate" the offer and increase to a straight 70M cash (he is automatically valued 15M now by the computer) AC MILAN makes another offer for 30M and without me accepting it or negogiating it further, my beloved chairman interferes and announces that they have accepted this offer (I dont need this money I have 25M transfer budget in the beginning of summer and already made my transfers i dont even need new players)
now; I have a save game (!) just before AC Milan makes this 30M offer, should I go back to that and set an asking price on players screen for lets say 100M? so that AC Milan does not dare to make that offer at all? what do you guys reckon? basically any tricks to avoid this kind of 'board interferable' offers before they happen?
I know, 30M is a great offer, but I really want to keep him as he is one of the best defenders around and I wanna succeed in champions league this season!
thanks for your time guys


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What does one do when one needs a lot of symbols and one has exhausted the useful symbols of the latin and greek alphabets? (I say useful symbols because letters like iota (ι) and upsilon (υ) seem too close to "i" and "u" or nu (ν) to be useful.)
What is the next most common list of symbols used in mathematics? Or, does one resort to referring entities in equations using longer words?


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"Simple" means that it doesn't use any integral or multivariable calculus concepts.
A friend of mine who's taking a differential calculus course came up with the problem
Prove that among all the quadrilaterals with a given perimeter, the one with the biggest area is the square.
I solved the problem with Lagrange multipliers, using $2h + 2b$ as the function and $hb = A$ as the constraint. But I'm the one who took the multivariable calculus course, not him.
So I'd like to know if there's a way of proving this theorem using differential calculus concepts, or even geometry and trigonometry.


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San Diego Botanic Garden Presents 'Garden Of Lights'
- When Multiple dates from Dec 8 - Dec 30, 2012 [days & times]
- Where San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, CA Map | Website
- Age limit All ages
- Categories Arts, Family, Festivals, Gardening, Outdoors, Painting, Visual Arts
- Cost $4 - $12
Above: Graphic logo for San Diego Botanic Garden.
After the sun goes down, the San Diego Botanic Garden is transformed into a dazzling winter wonderland with over 100,000 sparkling lights illuminating the Garden for a magical holiday experience. Leave the hustle and bustle of the malls behind and enjoy a relaxing evening strolling through the lighted Garden, festively decorated with many varieties of Poinsettias.
Live music fills the air nightly. Enjoy winter fun in the snow! Weather permitting, snow will be here December 8 - 13 and 26 - 30, 2012, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.. Also you can enjoy a horse-drawn wagon ride through the Garden. Children can create a variety of special holiday crafts to take home.
Members, $6 or 1 Guest Admission Ticket
Non-members: Adults $12; Seniors, Military & Students $8
All Children 3-12 $4
Location: San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive Encinitas, California 92024 Google Maps
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Given a constant $k \in \mathbb N$, and a set of $p$ multi-variate polynomials {$P_j:\mathbb N^n\to \mathbb Z$}$\_{j=1...p}$, with $P_j \not\equiv 0$.
Is the following true:
There exists $n$ sets $S_1,\dots,S_n$, and $p$ constants $b_1,\dots,b_p$
with $S_i \subset \mathbb N$, $|S_i| = k$, $b_j \in${-1,1}, such that $\forall \bar{x} \in ${ $(x_1,\dots,x_n)| x_i \in S_i$} : $b_jP_j(\bar{x}) > 0$.
I am interested in this question since the existence of such a set will help me constructing 'witnesses' that I can then use to certify that some multivariate polynomials have to be identical since they agree on all of these witnesses $\bar{x}$.
I have a proof idea, and I am wondering if my idea is correct; if there is a much easier insight showing my claim, and/or how to formalize my proof, since it is currently very vague ;)
I am a computer scientist, and unfortunately lack the necessary knowledge about ?manifolds? and that particular math-area to formalize my proof nicely. Please don't be too hard on me.
I think, the above is true according to "intuitive proof idea" that far away from the origin, we can find a region in space over which each polynomial is either all-positive or all negative and we can thus choose $b_i$ accordingly. (In fact there are many of these regions).
This idea with more details goes as follows:
Consider the polynomials under polar coordinates, ie, $P'_i(\alpha_1,\dots, \alpha_{n-1},r$). Now, define the limits 'function' $Z_i(\bar{\alpha})$ as $\lim_{r\to \infty} Z_i(\bar{\alpha},r)$. Clearly, I want to have $+\infty$ and $-\infty$ be part of the range of the $Z_i$. Now, consider the geometry of the set if values $\bar\alpha$ for which $Z=0$. These cannot contain any (n-1)-dimensional manifolds, since we could thus easily find arbitrarily many points $\bar{x}$ for which $P_i(\bar{x}) = 0$, which contradicts the fact that $P_i \not\equiv 0$. Note, that since $P_i$ are polynomials, they only go to $0$ in a certain $\bar{\alpha}$ direction, if they actually are $0$ at some finite point toward this direction. Further, I think, $Z_i$ are 'some-what' smooth in the sense that if there are $\bar\alpha_1$ and $\bar\alpha_2$ for which $Z_i(\bar\alpha_1)$ and $Z_i(\bar\alpha_2)$ have different signs, then there has to be a point $\bar\alpha'$ on the 'straight' line connecting $\bar\alpha_1$ and $\bar\alpha_2$ for which $Z_i(\alpha')=0$. Soo, since all the zero-regions have at most dimension $n-2$, there has to be a region/manifold of dimension $n-1$ for which a $Z_i$ is strictly positive or strictly negative (all the stuff in between the network that is created by the zero-positions). We can thus find many values that are within that region of direction for which $Z_i$ is either always positive or always negative.
Further, let now point-wise multiply the $Z_i$ to one $Z$, ie, $Z(\bar{\alpha}):= \prod_i Z_i(\bar{\alpha})$. By the same reasoning, there is a region where $Z$ is all positive. Since there are no zero-values in that region, none of the $Z_i$ can have zeros in that region, and we can thus pick $b_i$ appropriately for each $Z_i$ to make it positive. Now, having the $\alpha$-region of dimension $n-1$, we just need to project this out (by choosing a large enough $r$) to get an $n$-dimensional cube that contains enough integers and is still within the captured $\alpha$ region.


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Hawkins. Young. George Johnson.
Don't worry if that last name doesn't sound familiar, or if it sticks out when saddled next to the two most influential saxophonists in jazz history.
George Johnson is best (and perhaps only) known for the tenor sax buried behind layers of youthfully busy polyphony and 78rpm static on Bix Beiderbecke's first recordings with the Wolverines in 1924. If not for the influential cornetist's presence, these fifteen sides would be downplayed as period pop ephemera, the work of rambunctious, untrained kids, unworthy of the continuous remastering and reissue they receive to this day. If Johnson's moaning behind Beiderbecke on "Tiger Rag" and "Royal Garden Blues," or his straight-laced lead and wooden tone on two takes of "Susie" (at about 0:26 in the following clip) didn't generate any imitators, his playing is all the more charming because it's such a singular sound:
The only thing jazz may love more than hearing its saxophone royalty is writing their family trees. Many jazz histories outline a teleology of influences leading inexorably to jazz modernity: Hawkins begat Webster and Berry, who begat Byas, who begat Rollins, who begat Coltrane…and Trumbauer begat Young, who begat Parker, who begat everyone…Earlier artists are just that: musicians who were around earlier than the
mold musicians we all know. Just like a Model A or blunderbuss, they might be interesting historical figures but somehow they're not a fully "developed" product.
Don't take my word for it, just listen to Dan Morgenstern discussing the intrinsic beauties of Duke Ellington's early recordings:
Jazz history, with its obsession for developmental theories, tends to handle music with hindsight and has categorized most pre-1940 Ellingtonia as "leading up to" the indisputable plateau of 'Ko-Ko,' 'Main Stem,' etc…what strikes me most forcibly upon rehearing [Ellington's recordings from the twenties]…is how much each individual piece has to offer just in itself…it is the greatest possible tribute to the genius of Ellington and his famous men that this should be so, for after all, at each given moment of playing, they were making music and not writing chapters n the history of jazz.
For further perspective from another source wiser than this blogger, and regarding a figure who never had the fortune (or PR) to found a lineage, Michael Steinman offers his thoughts on neglected saxophonist Boyce Brown…
The critic Dave Dexter, Jr. got excited about these recordings, hearing [Brown's] volatile style as a precursor of Charlie Parker. I don't find that assessment valuable (must all roads in jazz lead to a Greater Master?) preferring to hear Boyce as someone whose phrases had a certain winding urgency, his notes poised on the front end of the beat. More than a fledgling bopper, Boyce seems to have deeply understood the impulsive leaping playing of 1927 Louis [Armstrong] and Frank Teschemacher. Hal Smith calls him "the hottest alto saxophonist in jazz."
Steinman's language is as insightful as his ideas: all great players have a "deep understanding" of their peers and forefathers, but understanding ain't imitation, or for that matter explanation.
Players like George Johnson and Boyce Brown, or Buster Bailey, Don Murray, Leonard Davis, Cyrus St. Clair and many others are a blessing, because they force the listener to be just that, a listening audience, receptive to what they've never heard and might never hear again, rather than a catalog of sounds and inspirations heard elsewhere. Play it again, George…


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I spent the first two days at the U.S. Open in 2007 at Oakmont Country Club following Bubba Watson.
I was impressed not only with the way he played the game, but how he handled and carried himself.
A gentleman at all times that I saw.
He didn't win, but played in the final group on Saturday and eventually finished fifth. He was in the hunt and it was obvious he would be around the leaderboard when majors rolled around.
Bubba lost in the playoff at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in 2010, a major he sorely wanted to win as his father was losing his battle with cancer.
I was rooting for Phil Micklelson to win his fourth green jacket Sunday at Augusta National, but I was also pulling rather hard for the other left hander.
It is pure joy to watch Bubba play golf.
He has a pink shaft and pink head on his Ping driver.
He hits it a million miles and can seemingly play any golf shot.
Bubba followed his bogey at No. 12 with four straight birdies and eventually beat Louis Oosthuizen on the second playoff hole Easter Sunday with a brilliant 40-something yard hook from the pine straw on No. 10.
Watson has four wins, three coming in extra holes.
He's just good.
The 33-year-old from Bagdad, Fla. and his wife, Angie, whom he met at the University of Georgia, where he played golf and she basketball, just adopted a 1-month old baby boy named Caleb.
How sweet was his Easter Sunday?
After his emotional win, Watson moved to the Butler Cabin to take part in the made-for-television green jacket ceremony, which he received from last year's winner Charl Schwartzel.
Jim Nantz asked Bubba a question about his dreams as a little boy. "I never got this far in my dreams," he said.
What a great statement.
He is a humble man. A humble family man who loves God and, from everything I have read, well-liked on tour.
He showed class.
Of course, that was something that Tiger Woods did not show after he dropped his club and kicked it on the 16th tee Friday afternoon.
Tiger hasn't changed and never will.
"I apologize if I offend anybody by that, but I've hit some bad shots ..."
Tiger, no "buts" in an apology.
Then there is Mickelson, a guy who had the second-to-last tee time Thursday, but was on the first tee at 7:30 a.m. Thursday to watch Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus hit the ceremonial first tee shots.
Mickelson was there in his green jacket and was the only former winner to do so.
More class by Lefty.
One swing by Oosthuizen produced a 2 on the par 5 second hole, the fourth double eagle in Masters history and first on the hole. One swing by Phil produced a 6 on the par 3 fourth.
Golf amateurs really needed to watch how long it took Bubba to hit golf shots. When it's his turn, he's ready. Did you see how long it took him to hit his second shot on No. 18 in the playoff? If he can do it in a playoff at Augusta, you can do it at the local public course.
Pull the trigger people.
Went on Ping Golf website Sunday night about three hours after Bubba had won and there was nothing new on the site. I understand it's Easter Sunday, but, Ping, how do you not capitalize right then and there that you had two staff players in the playoff?
Someone can't change that from home?
Taylor Made CEO Mark King was on "Undercover Boss" Friday night.
He is a wonderful man and a great person.
I was able to play some golf with him when I was a golf pro in San Diego. He is a scratch golfer and a class man to be around.
I talked recently about how NFL teams have to choose, at some point in time, how much character means over talent in an individual.
Well, that's is taking place at the University of Arkansas with head coach Bobby Petrino's latest antics.
The answer from many Hog fans is "He won 11 games last year."
Yeah, but he crashed his motorcycle and lied about having a 26-year-old on the back.
"But, he won 11 games last year and we went to a BCS game the year before that."
On the back of that motorcycle was former Arkansas All-SEC volleyball player Jessica Dorrell. Petrino was placed on administrative leave, with pay, for lying that he was riding alone and for his inappropriate relationship with Dorrell.
"But, he won 11 games last year and we're supposed to be a top five team this year."
Character vs. wins.
Wins will win.
An NBC News producer was fired for editing a recording of George Zimmerman's call to the police the night he fatally shot Trayvon Martin.
That person should have been fired.
Last June, NBC's opening of its U.S. Open coverage Sunday from Congressional Country Club showed men from the military raising the American flag, showing monuments from Washington, D.C., while children recited the Pledge of Allegiance - all but three words - "under God" and "indivisible."
Not once, mind you, but twice.
NBC tried to save face, as if it cared, by issuing a statement on air Sunday that was read by commentator Dan Hicks, "We began our coverage of this final round just about three hours ago and when we did it was our intent to begin the coverage of this U.S. Open Championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation's capital for the third time.
"Regrettably, a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone and we'd like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it."
Just wondering what happened to the people who made that decision?
I understand it's not apples to apples, just wondering though.
(Mathison, a Weirton resident, is the sports editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com).


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All I want is a home page most of the time,when I open a new tab.
Any way to anchor a popular site as the home page?
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Loyola's Center for Sleep Disorders will help you with insomnia, sleep apnea, sleep walking and eating, and other disorders
Tired of insomnia?
About Loyola University Health System
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola University Medical Center's campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of Chicago's Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. At the heart of the medical center campus is a 559-licensed-bed hospital that houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 255-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.
Trinity Health is a national Catholic health system with an enduring legacy and a steadfast mission to be a transforming and healing presence within the communities we serve. Trinity is committed to being a people-centered health care system that enables better health, better care and lower costs. Trinity Health has 92 hospitals and hundreds of continuing care facilities, home care agencies and outpatient centers in 21 states and 119,000 employees.


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Joining the Boston Tea Party (Hardcover)
Liz, Lenny, and Grandma are back for another time-traveling adventure. With the Fourth of July fast approaching, there's only one thing for them to do ...
Join the Boston Tea Party!
With the help of Grandma's magic hat, the twins journey back to Boston in 1773. From powdered wigs and petticoats to Indian pudding and chamber pots, Liz and Lenny get a firsthand look at life in colonial America. But best of all they actually join the "Mohawks" as they dump tea into Boston Harbor and help begin the American Revolution.
Diane Stanley once again blends humor and historical detail in this exciting second installment of the Time-Traveling Twins series. Featuring word balloons packed with comedy and lots of information, and Holly Berry's inviting illustrations, this book will make readers jump at the chance to join the twins as they learn about history by living it!
About the Author
Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year; Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for the body of her work.
Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Praise For…
"Young readers will enjoy...[this] informative introduction to an important chapter in American history."
-School Library Journal
"A great introduction [to American history], and an inspiration for further reading and research."


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Effective Pixels14.1 Megapixels
- Sensor Size / Total Pixels / Filter 1/2.33-inch / 14.5 Total Megapixels / Primary Color Filter
- Aperture F3.5 - F5.9 / Multistage Iris Diaphragm (F3.5 - 5.6 (W) / F5.9 - 7.1 (T))
Optical Zoom4x
Focal Lengthf=6.3-25.2mm (35-140mm in 35mm equiv.)
- Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) 4.7x (4:3 / 10M), 6.8x (4:3 / 5M), 8.4x (under 3M)
- Lens LUMIX DC VARIO11 elements in 10 groups(4 Aspherical Lenses / 7 Aspherical surfaces/ 1 ED Lenses)
Optical Image StabilizerMEGA O.I.S. (Off / Auto / Mode1 / Mode2)Photo & Movie
Digital Zoom4x ( Max. 16.0 x combined with Optical Zoom without Extra Optical Zoom ) (Max. 33.8 x combined with Extra Optical Zoom)
- Focusing Area Normal: Wide 50 cm - infinity / Tele 50 cm - infinityMacro / Intelligent AUTO : Wide 10 cm - infinity / Tele 50cm - infinity
- Focus Range Display Yes
- AF Metering Face / 9 pt/ 1pt
- Shutter Speed Still: approx. 8 - 1/1600 secStarry Sky Mode : 15, 30, 60sec.
- Focus Normal / Macro, Zoom Macro, Quick AF (Always On)
AF Assist LampYes
ISO SensitivityI.ISO / 80 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600High Sensitivity (ISO 1600-6400)
White BalanceAuto / Daylight / Cloudy / Shade / Halogen / White Set(Selectable at Portrait, Soft Skin, Transform, Self-Portrait, Sports, Baby, Pet, High Sensitivity, Highspeed Burst, Photo Frame)
Exposure Program AE
Exposure Compensation1/3 EV Step, ± 2 EV
BacklightCompensation Yes (only in Intelligent AUTO mode)
Light Metering
Intelligent Multiple
- Face Detection Photo
- Still Image Scene Mode Portrait,Soft Skin,Transform,Self-Portrait,Scenery,Sports,Night Portrait,Night Scenery,Food,Party,Candle Light,Baby1/2,Pet,Sunset,High sensitivity,Hi-Speed Burst,Flash Burst,Starry Sky,Fireworks,Beach & Surf,Snow,Aerial photo,Film Grain,Photo Frame
- Shutter Interval approx. 1.2 sec
Self Timer2sec / 10sec
- Auto Review 1sec, 2sec, Hold, OFF
- 4:3 Aspect Ratio (Still Image) 4320x3240(14M) / 3648x2736(10M EZ) / 2560x1920(5M EZ) / 2048X1536(3M EZ) / 640X480(0.3M EZ)
- 3:2 Aspect Ratio (Still Image) 4320 x 2880 (12.5M)
- 16:9 Aspect Ratio (Still Image) 4320 x 2432 (10.5M)
- Motion Picture Recording 4:3 VGA: 640 x 480 pixels, 30fps (Motion JPEG)QVGA: 320 x 240 pixels, 30 fps (Motion JPEG)
- Motion Picture Recording 16:9 WVGA: 848 x 480 pixels, 30 fps (Motion JPEG)
- Motion Picture Recording HD Movie 1280x720 pixels 30fps (Motion JPEG)
- Aspect Ratio 4:3 / 3:2 / 16:9
Unlimited Consecutive Shooting1.5 frames/sec
- Scene Mode Help Screen Yes
- LCD Monitor 2.7" TFT Screen LCD Display (230K dots)AR Coating, Field of View : approx. 100%AUTO Power LCD mode, Power LCD mode, High Angle mode
- Playback Mode Normal Playback, Slideshow, Category Playback, Favorites Playback
- OSD Language English, Spanish
- Recording Media Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
- Interface AV Output (NTSC), USB2.0 Full-speed, DC Input
- Power ID-Security Li-ion Battery Pack (3.7V, 695mAh) (Included)AC Adaptor (Input: 110-240V AC) (Optional)
Battery Life300 pictures (CIPA Standard)
- Built-in-Flash Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off 0.3 - 4.9m (Wide/ISO Auto), 0.5 - 2.9m (Tele/ISO Auto)
- Included Software PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5.0 Edition QuickTime Adobe Reader
- Standard Accessories Battery Charger, Battery Pack, Battery CaseSilicone Jacket, AV cable, USB CableHand Strap, CD-ROM
- Quick Menu Yes
- Continuous Shooting Mode High-speed Burst Mode: approx. 4.6 frames/sec (image priority) (recorded in 3M for 4:3, 2.5M for 3:2, 2M for 16:9)
- Focus Icon Select Yes
- Macro Zoom Yes
- Orientation Detector Yes
- Additional Playback Mode Yes (Motion JPEG)
- Slideshow Mode All / Category / FavoritesBGM Effect (Natural / Slow / Swing / Urban / OFF)
- Delete Image Single / Multi / All / All except Favorites
- Resize/Trim/Aspect Conv./Leveling Yes / Yes / No / No
- PictBridge Support Single / Multi / All / Favorites / DPOF
- iA Direct Button Yes
- Water Proof 3m / 10feet
- Dust Proof Yes
- Freeze Proof -10C / 14F
- Shock Proof 1.5m / 5feet
- Flash Burst Continuous Shooting Mode Max. 5 images (Standard mode)
- Intelligent ISO Control Photo
- Intelligent Scene Selector Photo (Portrait, Scenery, Night Portrait, Night Scenery, Sunset, Macro)
- File Format Still Image: JPEG(DCF/Exif2.3)Motion picture: QuickTime Motion JPEG
- Mode Dial / Mode Button Intelligent AUTO, Normal Picture, SCN, My SCN, Motion Picture
- Color Mode / Color Effect Standard, Vivid, Natural, Black & White, Sepia, Cool, Warm
- Copy / Title Edit / Text Stamp Yes / No / Yes (only Baby, Pet, Travel)
- Weight(lbs) Approx. .38lb with Battery and SD Memory CardApprox. .34lb without Battery and SD Memory Card
- Digital Red Eye Correction (Red-Eye Removal) Photo
- Mode Switch [Recording] / [Playback]
- Composition Guide line Yes (1 pattern)
- Easy Zoom / Zoom Resume No / No
- Thumbnails / Zoomed Playback 12,30-thumbnails / Max 16x
- Calendar Display / Dual-Image Playback Yes / No
- Set Favorites / Rotate Image Yes / Yes
- DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
- Travel Date / World Time Yes / Yes
- Built-in-Memory Approx. 40MB
- Microphone / Speaker Mono / Yes
- Dimensions (W x H x D) 3.95 x 2.5 x 0.85 in / excl. protrusions: 0.81in
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This guy is going to go close for me hopefully
Still in FA Cup and Champions League
This guy is going to go close for me hopefully
Still in FA Cup and Champions League
I once took over Man Utd in the year 2033, and had a regen called Emillio Florio and he bagged 86 goals in one season. Would have been more, but the team hadn't qualified for the CL :/ That's the closest I've ever had to a 100 goal per year player, and honestly, not really been close since.
i got hernandez banging in over 50 a season. but there are no rediculous newgens
The 100 goal a season strikers have been diminishing since the older days. Northern Ireland used to be a hotbed for such exploits. The career 1000 goal scorers thread will list their more exact details in the challenges section.
Using Mr Houghs Rolls back the years tactic i had Rooney do this:
After that season i decided i had to start a new game not using the tactic as it had made it too easy
WOW, nice one
This player scored over 1000 goals for me and he got 159 goals in 1 season:
That's a hell of an International record for a 28 year old too!
Ludicrous! Most I've ever had is about 45 in lower divisions.
Best on FM12 is 74 in Dutch Second Division. Had a regen on FM10 called Paul Taylor who scored 157 goals in a year in Prem and Europe, was crazy.
My team scored 211 goals in all competitions last season! I will settle for that
I am a sucker for squad rotation and developing youths, but I have to say, these are some achievements!
Most I have had is 64, some of these totals are crazy
Had 61 once and was well chuffed.
My record is 56 lol.
No, I'm going to assume you need a player with high consistency and important matches, two things I have not had the pleasure of having in a superstar.
My record this FM is 53 so far :|
For me, these 'Super-tactics' totally just ruin the game for me. How can you enjoy such minimal realism?
How do you play a game with no logos?
I've done it on FM11 with this guy
On FM12,I think the highest I've had is 35!
How is it achieved?
Downloadable tactics or what? It's insane!
Don't think the logos slows the game by a noticeable amount
65 is the most I have ever seen one of my players get
Most I've had is a 40 goal season from a regen.
In the career stats for the current season its shows 4 apperances and 27 goals!!! MADNESS! Love it
I have a game running using Mr Hough's tactic just for fun. I play it at work during the breaks or when i don't have anything else to do.
Ghanian regen, absolute beast. Never wastes a one-on-one, which is good, cause he gets in that situation pretty often.
Still have 3 more matches to go(1 league game, Champions League Final and Russian Cup Final), so he might get to 100. But the truth is that the Russian league is pretty bad in quality, with only Zenit, Anji and CSKA putting up any kind of resistance.
It seems way to easy to get striker to score insane amounts, especially fast striker. Overall the goal distribution seems a tad bit off in that regard.
In my current Arsenal game my main striker is a 23 year old slovenian who is currently sitting at 33 goals from 36 games, has had 40+ the previous 2 seasons as well.
Jesus! Most i've ever got has been 51! I need to find a better tactic..
But many people on these forums don't play the game for realism. They play to see things happen that don't happen in real life, that's what they enjoy. As soon as the new game comes out, this Mr Hough and many others start spending countless hours to find miracle tactics. They think they achieve tactical greatness, but to be honest all they achieve is finding exploits, tactics that the current AI doesn't have an answer for. In real life there is now way a player can score 100 goals. In FM you can achieve it with very offensive tactics. The ME defense and counter attack system is not good enough to counter and punish these exploit tactics.
Just broke my record to get 76 goals. But we played 64 games so it isn't that spectacular.
Got very close with Felipe in my FM10 Oxford save who hit 98 in a single season in all comps (70 league goals). He is just shy of 1100 goals for club and country since i signed him as a 21 yr old and still playing at 38 years of age.
I'd like to know what tactics people are employing to get these freak results, are they your own creations or are you all downloading super-tactics?
I reckon I do pretty well at the game and win trophies, but in FM12 I have not had a player get better than a goal a game, in fact my top scorer this season has about 14 in 24 games and I'm pretty happy with that contribution.
Mine was a simple 4-2-3-1, made by myself. The whole team was set to knock the ball through to my lone stiker who would run on to it and score with ease.
I downloaded one of those super tactics in Mr Hough's 4-1-2-3 and tested it out a bit, it was ridiculous, my player broke his goals in a game record within about 3 games of using it, scored like 7 or 8 in one match which was just stupid so I went back and reloaded without using it.
I imagine this is what the majority of people are using.
Using a tweaked version of the Vodu Chaos tactic (altered my defence to stay back more, midfield to push up more to try and get a better balance between defence to mid to attack).
He was on 99 goals going into the Scottish Cup final against Partick Thistle (last game of the season) and he managed to score 5.
Had anyone done 100 Goals in season for FM 2013? Let see it please
I had Llorente score 108 goals with the grid tactic and Jovetic 104 .. on fm12, the game was toooooo easy hahah fm13 - no chance
This is an old thread of mine!
Maxim Shestakov in FM12
Sometimes he played with 2.x goal-per-game average.
Currently a regen striker at City who looks capable of it on my save. City are declining overall and my side are finally pushing for the title may have to make a bid for him soon just to see.
It is getting ever harder, back on FM09 I was having rampant success and when I got an editor to finally begin looking into it there were next to no 'proper' managers in the premiership. Most were very low CA players who had become managers.
In Spain for a while Rafa Benitez was the only manager with a recogniseable name. Anyway, here is what his team did one season:
They broke the goal counter, it stops at 255 so how many they actually scored is something I never checked out, but despite all my own successes and even when Keirrison was a regular 100+ goal a season scorer, I never did anything like that. Funny thing is when they played an average team in the CL who had a decent manager they lost, and when Benitez left they had a regen manager take over and were struggling to finish top 4.
if for example this one player hit a streak of bad form or worse, pick up a long term injury....then your results on the pitch will probably also take a nosedive
Necid scored 150 or so on my Dortmund save in last year's FM. I might still have the screenshot on my old computer.
on FM 12 rooney was 33 and hadnt really dont anything for a few season but my two top striker got bad injuries anyways played rooney from start of the season and he got to 90 goals, thanks to my two wingers who were assist machines
Not even got close on the newer editions of the game. On FM05 I had a player who had several seasons in a row of being in the 60s for total goals but he was my first-choice CF in my best ever FM team and had near-perfect goalscorer ratings. This year the best I've had is one of my players winning the European Golden Boot with 29 goals, when he only really found any goalscoring form when I took over in January. High hopes for what I can do with him in my first full season.
A few FM's ago I had a Danish regen make it to 100. But EVERYTHING was going through him, it was set up so he could score all those goals. He took the free kicks, penalties, while corners were aimed at him.
Best I've had this year is about 80 or so in all competitions, with a top lone striker in a team set up to attack with top players, though he wasn't the sole goalscoring focus. I'm sure if I'd altered the tactic I'd have got him to 100.
Currently have a striker in my Athletic team who is destroying the la liga defences, I might tweak it to make him the sole goalscorer.
I know some may not believe me, but I did on last years, Steven Fletcher scores 127 goals for my Wolves side. He was absolutely unstoppable.


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A few years ago, somebody told me a lovely problem. I suspect there may be more to it (which I would be interested in learning), and would very much like to find a reference, it makes me uncomfortable to use it in class without being able to point to its source.
The problem is as follows. I'll post the solution I know, which is the reason I like it, as an answer, to give a bit of a chance to people who read it and want to think about it without being spoiled.
Assume the natural numbers are partitioned into finitely many arithmetic progressions. Then two of these progressions must have the same common difference.


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Neurogenic Intermittent Claudication Evaluation Study (NICE)
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Spinal Stenosis
Procedure: Aperius™ PercLID™ System
Procedure: Standalone Decompressive Surgery
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Multicenter Prospective Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of the Aperius™ PercLID™ System Versus Standalone Decompressive Surgery in Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis With Neurogenic Intermittent Claudication
- Mean percentage change from baseline in Physical Function at 1 year follow-up using the patient completed Zurich Claudication Questionnaire [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mean percentage change from baseline in Physical Function, using the patient completed Zurich Claudication Questionnaire [ Time Frame: 14d, 6w, 6, 24m ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Outcomes of the Symptom Severity and Patient Satisfaction domains of the patient completed Zurich Claudication Questionnaire [ Time Frame: 14d, 6w, 6, 12, 24m ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mean percentage change from baseline in Leg Pain VAS Scores [ Time Frame: 14d, 6w, 6, 12, 24 m ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- QoL related outcomes using the patient completed SF-36 v2 questionnaire [ Time Frame: 14d, 6w, 6, 12, 24m ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Proportion of subjects with complications at the secondary surgical intervention [ Time Frame: Full follow up period ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Proportion of subjects with Serious Adverse Device Effects [ Time Frame: Full follow up period ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Aperius™ PercLID™ System
Aperius™ PercLID™ System arm. Patients randomized to this arm will undergo treatment with the Aperius™ PercLID™ System.
Procedure: Aperius™ PercLID™ System
Aperius™ PercLID™ System: implantation with the Interspinous Process Device Aperius.
Active Comparator: Standalone Decompressive Surgery
Patients randomized to this arm will receive Standalone Decompressive Surgery, defined as decompressive surgery without instrumentation or fusion.
Procedure: Standalone Decompressive Surgery
Lumbar decompressive surgery without instrumentation or fusion
Detailed Description:
The NICE study is a Multicenter Prospective Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of the Aperius™ PercLID™System Versus Standalone Decompressive Surgery in Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Neurogenic Intermittent Claudication.
DLSS patients suffering from NIC that would be candidates for surgical treatment without stabilization and/or fusion can be offered participation in the study. After randomization, patients will be treated with either the Aperius™ PercLID™ System or Standalone Decompressive Surgery (SDS). A sample size recalculation reduced the amount of patients to be enrolled from 280 to 128 in both treatment group.
The patient will undergo a study visit at screening / baseline and at 14 days, 6 weeks, 6, 12 and 24 months after surgery. Safety data will be collected during surgery and throughout the 24 months follow up. Procedural details will be collected during surgery and also duration of hospital stay will be collected. At screening / baseline and all follow up visits a physical examination will be performed, the use of pain medication will be documented and the subject will be asked to complete a pain VAS scale (back - leg - buttock / groin pain) and questionnaires (SF36 v2 and Zurich Claudication Questionnaire).
Study subjects are required to undergo X-ray, CT and MRI and fluoroscopy procedures at specified time points during the study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Presence of symptomatic DLSS
- Presence of NIC
- Patient would be candidate for Standalone Decompressive Surgery
- Patient has signed Informed Consent form (ICF)
- Patient is 21 years old or older
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous lumbar surgery
- Patient is candidate for instrumented Decompressive Surgery
- Patient has back pain without leg pain
- Degenerative Spondylolisthesis greater than grade 1 (Meyerding)
- Symptomatic DLSS at more than 2 levels in the lumbar region
- Spinal stenosis is present at L5-S1 level
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00905359
|Australia, Queensland
|Pindara Specialist Suite
|Benowa, Queensland, Australia, 4217
|Ziekenhuis St. Jan - Orthopedie
|Brugge, Belgium, 8000
|Clinique Parc Leopold - Neurochirurgie
|Brussels, Belgium, 1040
|CHU Tivoli - Neurochirurgie
|La Louviere, Belgium, 7100
|Clinique Saint Joseph - Neurochirurgie
|Liège, Belgium, 4000
|Centre hospitalier du Grand Hornu - Orthopédie / Traumatologie
|Mons, Belgium, 7301
|Centre Universitaire Pellegrin Tripode -Orthopédie-Traumatologie
|Bordeaux, France, 33076
|Hôpital Roger Salengro - Clinique de Neurochirurgie
|Lille, France, 59037
|CHU de Nice Hôpital Pasteur - Neurochirurgie
|Nice, France, 06002
|Neurochirurgische Klinik - Campus Benjamin Franklin
|Berlin, Germany, 13353
|Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München - Neurochirurgie
|Munchen, Germany, 81675
|Landspitali - National hospital of Iceland
|Reykjavik, Iceland, 108
|Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea - Neurochirurgia
|Rome, Italy, 00189
|Ospedale di Circolo - Ortopedia e Traumatologia
|Varese, Italy, 21100
|Municipal Hospital - Szpital Miejski
|Toruń, Poland
|Szpital Kliniczny Dziecatka Jezus - Orthopaedics
|Warsaw, Poland, 02-005
|Singapore General Hospital - Orthopaedic Surgery
|Singapore, Singapore, 169608
|Ortopedmottagningen SU/Sahlgrenska
|Göteborg, Sweden
|United Kingdom
|Woodend Hospital - Department of Orthopaedics
|Aberdeen, United Kingdom, AB15 6ZQ
|Principal Investigator:
|Jean-Charles Le Huec, Prof.
|CHU Pellegrin Tripode
|Responsible Party:
|Medtronic Spinal and Biologics
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00905359 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 18, 2009
|Last Updated:
|January 26, 2016
|Health Authority:
|Australia: Human Research Ethics Committee
Belgium: Ethics Committee
Belgium: Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, FAMHP
France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
France: Institutional Ethical Committee
France: French Data Protection Authority
France: Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins
Germany: Ethics Commission
Germany: Ministry of Health
Germany: German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information
Germany: Federal Office for Radiation Protection
Iceland: Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority
Iceland: Ethics Committee
Italy: Ethics Committee
United Kingdom: Research Ethics Committee
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Constriction, Pathologic
Spinal Stenosis
Intermittent Claudication
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Spinal Diseases
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 24, 2016


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The International Energy Agency called on governments around the world to act to adopt better energy-efficiency measures, cut back on the use of inefficient coal-fired power plants, minimize methane emissions from oil and gas production, and accelerate the removal of fossil fuel subsidies.
By SARAH KENT
LONDON -- A global climate
deal that may come into force in 2020 will come too late to
avert a global temperature increase of more than 2 degrees
Celsius, unless governments swiftly implement four new policy
measures to curb carbon emissions, the International Energy
Agency said Monday.
Scientists have warned that a global
temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius could have
dramatic consequences for the environment, including increasing
the frequency of extreme weather events with severe social and
economic consequences.
"Rapid and widespread adoption could act as a
bridge to further action, buying precious time while
international climate negotiations continue," said IEA chief
economist Fatih Birol, the report's lead author.
The IEA, which advises rich industrialized
countries on energy policy, called on governments to act
to adopt better energy-efficiency measures, cut back on the use
of inefficient coal-fired power plants, minimize methane emissions from oil and gas
production and accelerate the removal of fossil fuel subsidies
in order to buy more time before a comprehensive agreement.
Governments agreed at the beginning of the
decade to negotiate a new globally binding climate agreement by
2015 that would be implemented by 2020, but the IEA said
preventing global temperatures from rising by more than 2
degrees Celsius is already "extremely challenging."
Last month, US government scientists said carbon dioxide levels in the
atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time
since monitoring began at Mauna Loa in Hawaii. The United
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says
atmospheric concentrations of CO2 must be kept below 450 parts
per million in order to limit the global temperature rise to
below 2C.
According to the IEA, carbon dioxide emissions rose by 1.4% in 2012 to
reach a record high of 31.6 gigatons. In an April report
tracking the progress of green energy technology, the agency said that the
world had made almost no progress towards reducing the carbon
content of its energy supply in the last 20 years.
The IEA said its four policy measures would leave open the
possibility of limiting a global temperature increase to 2
degrees Celsius in 2020 without harming economic growth.
The suggested policies would benefit nuclear
and renewables-based power plants which would see their net
revenue boosted by $1.8 trillion to 2035, the IEA said.
Existing coal-fired plants would see their revenue decline by a
similar amount and 8% of new fossil-fuelled plants would be
retired before their investment is fully recovered, it
While delaying stronger climate action to 2020
would avoid $1.5 trillion in low-carbon investments over the next
seven years, it would mean an additional $5 trillion in
investment would be needed to get back on track, the IEA
"Climate change has quite frankly slipped to
the back burner of policy priorities. But the problem
is not going away - -quite the opposite," said IEA executive
director Maria van der Hoeven.
UK-based environmental charity WWF said that
the IEA's recommendations were not sufficient. "With the world
on track for catastrophic levels of global warming, as the IEA
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Dr Parthak Prodhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and practices at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Dr Prodhan completed his medical school training and residency from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Nagpur University, India (1994). He followed this with residency training in Pediatrics at Cook County Children's Hospital, Chicago in 2001. He completed his fellowship training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston in 2002.
Dr Prodhan joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children's Hospital in 2004 and currently works as a pediatric intensivist in the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care. He is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care and General Pediatrics. He is a member of many national and international organizations, including The Society of Critical Care Medicine, The American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Society for Pediatric Research/ Pediatric Academy of Sciences. He is also an active member of multi-institutional consortiums working to improve care for critically ill children with heart disease.
His clinical interests include taking care of critically ill children in both the cardiac and the pediatric intensive care units. His research interests include clinical outcomes research at the institutional and multi-institutional level. His focus is in the areas of cardio-pulmonary mechanical device support and anti-coagulation practices for patients on cardio-pulmonary mechanical device support. He has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed publications and presented at major conferences. He is currently the Program Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Fellowship Program, Arkansas Children Hospital, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Director of Clinical Research, Heart Center, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Arkansas Children's Hospital and is the current Chair, Item Development Editorial Board Committee, Society of Critical Care Medicine.
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Small Ship Cruise, Zodiac Excursions, Hiking and Wildlife Viewing Adventure to the Last Frontier
Experience the last utterly untamed place on earth as we cruise to the "White Continent". Explore giant penguin and seabird colonies, the greatest concentration of sea mammals in the world, and a vast, stark landscape of monstrous icebergs, snow covered mountains and endless glaciers.
Embark from Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, cruise through the Beagle Channel and then across the Drake Passage to the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctica Peninsula. During our journey we cross the Antarctic Convergence and start meeting the birds of the Antarctic--albatrosses, pigeons, fulmars and petrels--and encounter our first awesome icebergs.
We sail directly to "High Antarctica", passing the Melchior Islands and cruising through the Schollaert Channel between Brabant and Anvers Islands. On rocky Cuverville Island nestled between the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula and Danco Island, we visit a large colony of gentoo penguins and breeding pairs of brown skuas. On Danco Island we see chinstrap penguins and maybe Weddell and crabeater seals. In Neko Harbour we set foot on the Antarctic Continent in a magnificent landscape of gigantic glaciers. In Paradise Bay with its magnificent icebergs and deep cut fjords, we cruise in our zodiacs in search of humpback and minke whales. After passing through Neumayer Channel, we visit the British research station and post office of Port Lockroy on Goudier Island. We may also land at Jougla Point with its colonies of gentoo penguins and imperial shags. We then sail through the spectacular Lemaire Channel to Pleneau and Petermann Islands where we often see adelie penguins and blue-eyed shags. This is also a prime spot for humpback, minke and finback whales. Sailing back north through Neumayer Channel we arrive again at the Melchior Islands and cruise in our zodiac among the icebergs on lookout for leopard seals, crabeater seals and whales.
The final three days are spent re-crossing the Drake Passage for our return to Ushuaia on the final morning.
The description above is for our 11-day Antarctic Peninsula cruise. See the drop down menu under Trip Details above for access to the dates and prices for the 12-day Polar Circle and Weddell Sea cruises and the 19-day Falklands-South Georgia-Antarctica cruises. The itineraries for each program can be accessed from the Detailed Itineraries link above.
Originally designed as a research vessel for the Dutch Navy, the Plancius perfectly meets the exploratory and educational needs of our natural history adventures. Comfortable but not luxurious, Plancius was completely refurbished for passenger service in 2008 and is fully SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) compliant. It has 54 cabins, all with private baths and showers, accommodating up to 112 passengers plus a restaurant/lecture room, observation lounge and bar with picture windows and spacious open deck areas.
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Is it possible to define explicitly a Lipschitz function $f:[a,b]\times[c,d]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ in term of $f(a,\cdot)$, $f(b,\cdot)$, $f(\cdot,c)$, $f(\cdot,d)$ if I know these functions and they are Lipschitz? Thanks.
If $a=c=0$ and $b=d=1$, define $f$ by affine interpolation between $f(x+y,0)$ and $f(0,x+y)$ if $x+y\leq 1$ respectively $f(x+y-1,1)$ and $f(1,x+y-1)$ if $x+y\geq 1$.
The general case can be reduced to the previous one by an affine transformation.
Also note that the data define a Lipschitz function on the boundary of the square, and recall that any real-valued Lipschitz function defined on a subset of a metric space always admits a Lipschitz extension to the whole metric space, with the same Lipschitz constant. There exists the minimal and the maximal such extension (here's the maximal one).


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Area roadways are being pre-treated to prepare for freezing rain, sleet, or snow expected to move into our area tonight, potentially causing dangerous driving conditions.
Here's some winter weather tips that could help you out of a slippery situation.
Today more than a dozen trucks covered the streets with brine to prevent slick spots.
"Anytime we have a winter storm coming in and it comes in the form of rain we will treat the roads with brine and it's a salt water mixture. It keeps the snow and ice from making a bond with the roadway surface,"says Stacey Beason, Engineer with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
But if you were to hit a patch of ice what should be your next move?
"It's best to not really lock your brakes up because if you go into a skid you can't really control your car. It's best to let up off the gas and to steer out of the skid,"says Beason.
Now we've all heard the myths about how to open that stubborn frozen car door such as a hot cup of water or a blow dryer but what will get that frozen car door open?
"Definitely not a hot cup of water because it will freeze quicker and make it harder to get in there. Use the lock de-icer to get the door open. We also have little tubes of de-icer you can stick into the keyhole and get your door open as easy as possible," says Brandon McKinney, Assistant Manager at Lowe's.
And what about not being able to see out of your windshield?
"The de-icer's in the windshield wiper fluid that will help de-ice your windshield,"says McKinney
When it comes to winter weather it's better to be safe than sorry.
"Ice is definitely the most dangerous. Of course sleet, freezing rain, depending on what the temperature does because when the surface temperature drops and precipitation freezes we have a dangerous situation,"says Beason.
Beason says in case of ice, drive slow and use caution on bridges.
Beason also adds the Transportation Department has salt trucks prepared and will monitor road conditions throughout the night.
And it's not just your car that should be prepared for winter temperatures.
It's also important to winterize your home.
One of the best ways to do so is to block leaks around your house both inside and out to ensure heat is not escaping.
According to the U.S Department of Energy, a home with central heating can lose up to 60-percent of its heat before that air reaches the vents if duct work is not well-connected and insulated.
You should also be prepared if electricity goes out.
"Gas heating, it's better to use propane or natural gas. You don't need electricity in case the ice storm knocks out electricity, and a generator to run anything electric in the house to keep the heat going,"says McKinney.
McKinney adds that weather strips are one of the key ways to keep high energy costs down during the winter months.


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12 Nov 2012 4:46 AM #1
[188.8.131.52] Core classes being added despite exclude -tag core
EDIT: Meanwhile I tracked down the bug further. The problem is that when using "-debug=[true|false] concat", any exclude statements will be ignored. See post #3.
Sencha Cmd 184.108.40.206
ExtJs 4.1.1a
Win 7 x64
command: 'sencha compile'
Using 'sencha compile', ExtJs core classes are being added to the compiled output despite explicitly being excluded with 'exclude -tag core'. This worked correctly in 18.104.22.168
Test Case:
The output of the compiler script below will include several files from src/core which shouldn't be there because 'foundation' and 'core' are excluded via tags.
compile -cl=extjs-4.1.1a/src,app/ union -r -c myapp.Application and exclude -tag core and exclude -tag foundation and -debug=false concat -strip -compress build/all.min.js and metadata -f -o build/all-dependencies.txt
compile -cl=extjs-4.1.1a/src,classes union -r -c myapp.Application and exclude -tag core and exclude -tag foundation and metadata -f -o build/all-dependencies.txt
27 Nov 2012 11:46 AM #2
I found if you use exclude -file ext/src it works.
12 Dec 2012 9:08 PM #3
Can this pls be confirmed as a bug? It has been a month since the first report.
It seems that the entire '-tag' support is broken - not a minor glitch IMHO.
thx for your help. Does that mean you can confirm the bug?
I am currently testing if exclude -f ext/src/core/src is equivalent to exclude -tag core,foundation.
We also use tags for excluding certain files from the production build - have to find a workaround for those as well.
13 Dec 2012 12:11 AM #4
I further tracked down the bug. Any 'exclude' command is ignored if the '-debug=xxx' option on the 'concat' command is used.
This does *not* work (Ext core and foundation classes will be included in the output)
compile union -r -c ClassA and exclude -tag core,foundation and -debug=true concat all.js and metadata -f -o dependencies.txt
compile union -r -c ClassA and exclude -tag core,foundation and concat all.js and metadata -f -o dependencies.txt
Attached is a test project that show-cases the behavior. I excluded the ExtJs distro from the archive.
Run the build with 'sencha @test.sencha'
21 Dec 2012 8:29 AM #5
It is still not working for me in 18.104.22.1683.
I can only assume that this bug is specific to my environment and not a general bug. Otherwise I don't understand why I don't get any official feedback.
I am very confused.
It would be very helpful if somebody could run the test setup and verify the behavior (if the bug can be confirmed or not)
26 Dec 2012 4:58 PM #6
Thanks for the report! I have opened a bug in our bug tracker to see if we can track it down a bit. We use tagging internally so there is probably something special going on here.
7 Jan 2013 8:23 AM #7
Tested with 18.104.22.168.288, still same behavior.
This drives me crazy!
I did further tests to eliminate environment-specific issues - no change.
I also tried to make sense out of this using a 'trace' level log.
However, I think the observation that the compile output works without 'debug=xxx' option, but does not when 'debug=xxx' is added, should already be half the solution. Give me the Java source and I track it down myself
21 Jan 2013 3:15 PM #8
This is urgent. I need a way to exclude a file and be damned sure of it.
Please post suggestions or workarounds for us dunces.
24 Jan 2013 9:05 PM #9
Don, thx for opening the bug report.
Please note that I tracked down the bug in my post from Dec 13 2012. My initial report didn't pin down the problem exactly and might lead your team in the wrong direction.
From your reply I am not sure whether you took notice of that.
Since there is still no helpful reply from Sencha, here is the work-around I found.
If you use a different syntax to configure the 'debug' switch, the excludes will work as expected. Use
This works:
compile -options=debug:false union -r -c ClassA and exclude -tag core,foundation and concat all.js and metadata -f -o dependencies.txt
In our project we use two concat statements to create both a production (minified, debug=false) and a 'debug' bundle (uncompressed, debug=true) in one compiler call. Since we can only specify a single -options flag that applies to all 'concat' actions in the compile statement, we currently have to strip 'debug' code from both the production and the debug bundle.


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Cheat Sheet
Storing & Preserving Garden Produce For Dummies (UK Edition)
Storing and preserving food isn't rocket science; with a bit of confidence and practice, you can fill your store cupboards with your own home-made jams and chutneys. You need only the desire to experience your own home-grown food for as long as possible around the year to make a start. This Cheat Sheet gives you some of the essential, need-to-know info.
Storing and Preserving Home-Grown Fruit and Veg Successfully
Here are a few important do's and don'ts to bear in mind so that you can enjoy your produce at the planning, growing, making and eating stages, which can be several months apart:
Clamping and other simple storage:
Do use breathable natural materials as containers.
Do choose a place where moisture doesn't lurk.
Do store orchard fruits high up in a loft; open the shutters from time to time for a change of air.
Do store roots low down in a cellar: dry, dark and cool.
Do go through your stored produce from time to time and remove any rotten items.
Do work on recognising signs of pests near your stores so that you can eradicate them quickly.
Using sweetness for preserving:
Do make enough time for the whole process.
Do use under-ripe or 'just ripe' fruit.
Do add water but only for the first cooking stage (if the recipe says so). Boil until fruit is properly soft, add sugar at a gentle heat and dissolve totally before whizzing up the heat to setting point.
Do check regularly for a preserve's setting point.
Do pot when warm.
Don't add sugar until your fruit is soft (sugar hardens fruit skins).
Don't over-boil your preserve at the sugar stage (it goes hard).
Making good use of vinegar:
Do use the right vinegar for the job; let your recipe guide you.
Do make sure that your vinegar is 5 per cent acid or more.
Do remove moisture, by salting, from 'wet' produce before pickling.
Do boil chutneys until they're thick and pulpy, and dragging a wooden spoon across the base of the pan leaves a clear line.
Don't worry if your vinegar grows a natural haze; just sieve before using (vinegar is a living product).
Do buy an efficient freezer and defrost it at least once a year.
Do blanch special foods.
Do label frozen food effectively.
Do rotate your produce in your freezer. Open freeze or bag up in useful quantities and wrap produce tightly to eliminate air.
Do check what's lurking at the bottom of the freezer and use it or chuck it.
Don't put warm food into the freezer; chill it in the fridge first.
Don't leave your freezer half empty: fill the space with newspaper or water bottles for energy saving and efficiency.
Drying, salting and vacuum-packing:
Do lay drying produce out in single layers where warm air can circulate and moisture can escape; or use a purpose-made food dehydrator.
Do rinse salted produce well and dry it quickly before it reabsorbs moisture.
Do vacuum pack in useful amounts: you can't easily reseal a vacuum pouch.
Don't overlap drying produce.
Don't use corrosive materials near salt.
Don't vacuum-pack sharp objects: they make tiny holes in the pouches and admit air.
Making drinks for children and adults:
Do make your own cordials free from unwanted additives.
Do store cordials in the freezer or refrigerate and use up within six weeks (unless you heat-treat).
Do make wines and cider from second-quality vegetables and fruit; it transforms these seconds into something special.
Don't leave home-made cordial out of the fridge.
Don't drink all the wine in one go: it's probably stronger than you think!
Do gather recipes from friends and neighbours.
Do read and understand your recipe, jotting down any personal experiences or successful shortcuts you discover along the way.
Do pot up your still-warm produce into sterile, warm jars: a vacuum forms when it all cools down, creating a safe food environment for months of storage.
Do ensure that lids with pop-up centres stay depressed and cellophane jar closures have a smooth, slightly concave shape.
Heeding Food Safety Warnings
Most food safety is common sense: for example, if you drop a jar on the floor and it shatters, don't scrape up the preserve and tuck in! But some dangers are less obvious, so err on the side of caution (especially when feeding children, the elderly or vulnerable people):
Do clean your work surfaces and tools before you start a task and shoo dogs and cats well out of the way. Raw meat, pets and mud can cause cross-contamination and subsequent food hazards.
Don't use corrosive materials for any part of your preserving: no aluminium, enamel or ferrous pans (especially dangerous with vinegar or salt).
Don't use the contents of jars of preserve when the seal is already broken, the lid indent has 'popped' or the produce is dried out, mouldy, smelly or discoloured. If you're suspicious about the quality in any way, throw it away (the most dangerous organisms are invisible and give off no smell).


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I wrote 200 pages in a good sized notebook in my tiny, illegible handwriting and I now have the task of typing it up. I am slightly terrified that I'll do it and find that I have only half as many. Sure, I know the number of pages is not the most important thing, but I would really like to know how many pages I can expect.
Count how many words are on a page or two. It's alright to guess, but try to get it about right. Multiply that by 200. Now you have your wordcount estimate, which is the standard way to talk about a book's length. Contemporary novels tend to go about 80-100k, fantasy gets to be a bit longer, while YA fiction tends to cap at 75k.
If you have 200 words on every hand-written page, you'll have a half-novel of 40,000 words. I have a novella of 40k that measures 137 pages on a 6"x9" paperback. (292 words per page.)
Most fiction paperback books average about 250-350 words per page. The Hobbit is about 95,000 words. My paperback copy of The Hobbit is 303 pages, so with a bit of math we find it clocks 313.5 words a page. You can also get a feel for how type, margins, and dimensions change the page count by googling some of the well known titles on your shelf.
The way computer programs count words (and the way we should, also) is that every 4 characters = "1 word". For a hand-written document, if you don't want to literally count out every 4-character bunch on every page, do one or two pages, and then use that as an 'average' word count per page.


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The 5 Most Mind-Blowingly Huge Machines Built By Science
#2. The James Webb Space Telescope Will Dwarf Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope has been cramming the enormity and beauty of the universe down our throats for over 20 years now. But science just isn't satisfied. That's why, in 2014, they're shutting down the Hubble and replacing it with the obscenely powerful James Webb Space Telescope.
Honeycomb's big ... yeah yeah yeah!
When the Webb launches, hopefully in 2018, it will travel a million miles away from the Earth before settling into orbit. Like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon, the Webb will spread all five layers of its tennis-court-sized solar shield and start forcing the magnificence of the cosmos into our brains through our eye holes.
Its primary mirror, with a diameter of 21.3 feet, is 2.7 times as wide as Hubble's and has six times the area. The reason for this is that the Hubble has just about reached its capacity for how far it can see into the abyss -- as the universe expands, the light from the farthest objects is reduced to a faint trickle of infrared light that the Hubble isn't sensitive enough to pick up.
Its girth can penetrate the depths of space better, is what we're saying.
The James Webb will be able to see light sources 10 to 100 times fainter than Hubble. It will look far into the past to study light from the first stars and galaxies formed just after the Big Bang, as well as check the chemical makeup of Earthlike planets. But mostly it's just going to mess with our sense of worth.
The day we find out we're the least important things in the universe will be the day science wins.
#1. The Large Hadron Collider
We know, you've heard about this before, if only because of all the speculation that it's going to destroy the world. But do you actually know what it does, beyond simply "science?" Do you even know what the hell a hadron is? Did you know the LHC is the largest machine ever built by humans?
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With help from the spider god Atlach-Nacha.
Many of the big mysteries we're still trying to solve about the universe are locked up inside tiny particles like protons (one example of a hadron), which are themselves made up of even tinier particles. To detect them, the LHC needs parts like this:
We believe it's called a widget.
That's a component of one of the particle detectors at the LHC. It's 5 stories tall and weighs 6 million pounds. To find the particles for that thing to detect, we have to smash up the protons. Unfortunately, this is like trying to get the cash out of an adamantium piggy bank. You have to smash them really, really hard.
So the Large Hadron Collider, as its name implies, has two main functions: Smashing protons together, and being really big. In order to get a proton up to the speed required to actually break it apart, scientists have to fire it through a circular tube 17 miles in length. This boosts the particle to an energy level of 3.5 tera-electron volts (TeV), or around the energy of a mosquito. That may not sound impressive until you realize a proton is trillions of times smaller than a mosquito, so it's really like shooting a spitball with the force of Halley's Comet.
This is the physics version of those rotating barrels you get at funfairs.
The purpose of this gargantuan machine is basically to prove the existence of particles that should exist in theory, but we've never actually seen. Stuff with really weird names, like dark matter, monopoles and Higgs bosons. Basically, it's the Mad Hatter's Tea Party of physics.
And doing that, as with all worthwhile projects, requires one giant goddamned machine.
Basically, the LHC is how science plans to find the universe's clitoris.
When Josh E wasn't doing sciency things at school, he was making the series College Daze and the cartoon series High School Daze.
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Larkin Hi-Lo Changing Table, Weathered Pine
- Overview
Our Larkin Hi-Lo Changing Table features beveled edges and a rich, nuanced stain for an heirloom-quality look. Designed for years of use, it transitions easily from changing table to dresser.
- 55" wide x 21" deep x 44" high (with topper)
- Built from solid birch wood, birch veneers on select finishes, and MDF (medium density fibreboard), an engineered wood that lends exceptional strength and ensures that the dresser and changing table will endure over time.
- GREENGUARD Gold Certified. Meets or exceeds stringent chemical emissions standards. Learn more.
- Equipped with three roomy drawers and a side cabinet designed to accommodate a diaper pail. Or, use it with one medium or large Sabrina Basket, one small Nursery Canvas Storage Box or one Nursery Canvas Storage Pop-Up Tote (all sold separately).
- Upper piece features a small cabinet.
- When your child no longer needs it, the changing topper lifts off to create a dresser.
- Detailed with crown molding and vintage-style iron pulls in oil-rubbed bronze.
- Use with our Changing Pad (sold separately).
- Water-based finish provides a durable surface with stain resistant and no odor.
- Wood swatches, below, are available for $20 each. We will provide a merchandise refund for swatches if they're returned within 30 days.
- Anti-tip kit included: comes with safety-tested mounting hardware, instructions and a nylon strap. To prevent injuries from furniture tip-over, this item should be permanently fixed to the wall.
- View and compare all available finishes at Furniture Finish Guide.
- Dimensions & Care
- Rigorously tested to meet or exceed the highest industry safety standards.
- Masterfully crafted with tenon-and-groove joinery for structural integrity.
- All wood is kiln dried for added strength and lasting beauty.
- Removable topper secures with metal brackets (included). A layer of felt on the underside protects the dresser's surface; includes safety straps.
- Drawers feature English dovetail joinery and waxed wooden glides that ensure smooth motion. Sturdy half-moon safety stops keep drawers securely in place.
- The use of veneers results in high-quality furniture with flawless surfaces and consistent color tones.
- Our Rustic Sun Valley finish was developed exclusively for Pottery Barn Kids. Using a dry brush, artisans mottle the finish while it's still wet to reveal the wood's textural grain. Once dry, the surface is subtly distressed for the special warmth and rich patina of a treasured heirloom. A final coat of lacquer seals the finish and adds extra durability.
- All finishes in the same color family are designed to coordinate with one another. For example, Rustic Sun Valley Honey, Sun Valley Honey and Honey all look great together in one room.
- Get tips on how to measure for furniture.
Changing Table
- Overall: 55" wide x 21" deep x 44" high
- Dresser Cabinet: 15" wide x 19" deep x 23" high
- Dresser Drawer (3): 31" wide x 18" deep x 7" high
- Small Top Drawer (1): 11.5" wide x 15" deep x 5" high
- Overall: 34" wide x 17.5" deep x 3" high
- Topper drawer inside small cabinet: 16.5" wide x 11.5" deep x 5" high
- Total Weight: 260 pounds
- Dust often using a soft, dry cloth.
- Protect from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures.
- Blot spills immediately with a clean, damp cloth.
- We do not recommend the use of chemical cleansers, abrasives, furniture polish or wax.
- Shipping & Return Info
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