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BOSTON — You may remember that Andrew Ference hadn't played a game since April 4 before tonight's Game 1 of the Boston Bruins' Eastern Conference semifinal series with Carolina at TD Banknorth Garden.
But if you watched the Bruins' 4-1 win and didn't know the history of Ference's undisclosed injury, you wouldn't know there was ever anything wrong with the veteran blueliner. Ference logged 20:09 of ice time and played his typical solid, all-around game.
"I talked to coach this morning, and it was 'we will see how it goes. If it goes well, play as normal,'" Ference said after the game. "It's nice to get back to what I am used to. That is right around what is normal for me. Dennis (Wideman) helped me out, he carried me around a little bit out there, at the start. It was a good transition."
Ference started skated just before Boston closed out Montreal in the first round and began practicing with the team earlier this week. And he earned the major minutes by impressing his coach.
"He's in great shape, he felt 100 percent ready to go and that's the only reason that we would've put him in. … I liked the way he handled himself tonight, very poised, and kept his game simple and I utilized him for the way he played and that was a pretty solid game on his part," said head coach Claude Julien.
The Bruins managed to win games without Ference, but they obviously needed him back. Now they have a series lead again with him in the thick of it all.
"It's good," he said. "Obviously, you work hard for home-ice advantage for a reason. It's what it's all about. You want to take those leads and make the most of your time off and utilize the fact that everybody is feeling pretty healthy and feeling pretty good. If you squander them away, it's a shame on you."


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PHOENIX — Goran Dragic scored 32 points in 32 minutes and the Phoenix Suns routed the Knicks 112-88 on Friday night for their season-high sixth victory in a row.
Eric Bledsoe added 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists, Markieff Morris scored 16 and Miles Plumlee had 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Suns, who led by 22 at halftime and 32 in the third quarter.
Carmelo Anthony scored 21, seven below his season average, and Amare Stoudemire 19 for the Knicks, blown out for the second time in three games on their five-game western trip.
With Memphis' loss at Golden State, Phoenix pulled a half-game ahead of the Grizzlies for the No. 7 playoff spot in the West. The Suns are a game ahead of Dallas. The Knicks fell two games behind Atlanta for the eighth spot in the East.
Dragic, who scored 18 in the first quarter, returned to start the second half after getting five stitches to repair a cut just above the left eye, the result of a second-quarter collision with Tyson Chandler's massive arm.
Phoenix's streak is its longest since the Suns won 10 straight four years ago.
The smaller Suns dominated the boards 56-37 and had a 46-24 advantage in points in the paint.
It wasn't quite as bad for the Knicks as their 127-96 embarrassment against the Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, but it wasn't close after the first 1 1/2 quarters.
The Suns, a season-high 15 games above .500, outscored the Knicks 24-6 over the final 8:49 of the half to lead 62-40 at the break.
Most of the run occurred without Dragic, who took a swipe to the face from the arm of Chandler and got a cut over his left eye. Dragic had 20 at the half on 8-for-10 shooting, including 3-of-4 on 3s.
Phoenix shot 52 percent in the first half to the Knicks' 39 percent. The Suns were 8-of-20 on first-half 3s, the Knicks 4-of-13. The smaller Suns even outrebounded the Knicks in the first two quarters 26-17.
Anthony, the No. 2 scorer in the NBA at 28.2 points per game, had 10 in the first half on 4-of-10 shooting.
Things got worse for the Knicks early in the third quarter. Dragic made two 3s and Bledsoe one to put the Suns up 78-47 and Plumlee's reverse jam on an alley-oop pass from Bledsoe made it 82-50 with 6:40 left in the period, Phoenix's biggest lead against anyone this season. But New York finished the quarter with a 13-4 run to reduce the lead to 88-66 entering the fourth.
The Knicks cut it to 92-75 in the fourth quarter, leading Suns coach Jeff Hornacek to put Dragic and Bledsoe back in the game. The lead quickly expanded to 104-75 on Plumlee's rebound dunk with six minutes to play.
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Archive for May 2009
Announcement of the 2009 International Paper Contest
The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce its tenth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2009 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 6 -11, 2009.
The theme of this year's paper contest is: "Thriving on Diversity – Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World".
The theme may be addressed at either the country or regional level issues. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme, such as, but not limited to the following (mainly adopted from the conference theme):
* Multilingual information systems
* Cross-language information retrieval
* Accessibility and cultural factors in system design and information services
* Cross-border data flows
* Open access and cultural diversity
* Information literacy and challenges of harmony versus hegemony
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* Digital inclusion
* Social networking in a linguistically and culturally rich environment
* Information behavior in diverse contexts
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There will be up to six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including Hong Xu (Chair), Jonathan Levitt (Co-Chair), Aaron Bowen, Nadia Caidi, Yunfei Du, Daqing He, Macia Lei Zeng.
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Papers will be selected through a peer review process. The judging criteria will be based on:
* Originality of paper in the developing world environment (originality of the project described, etc.)
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* Style. The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors.
The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 6 -11, 2009.
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Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Ś Malcolm Armstead and his Wichita State teammates told each other they could be a Final Four team last summer.?Now the Shockers are one win away from a place the program hasnÆt been since 1965.?They rolled past La Salle 72-58 in the West Regional semifinals on Thursday night. Next up is No. 2 seed Ohio State in SaturdayÆs regional final.?ōItÆs a big game and I am feeling another upset,ö reserve guard Nick Wiggins said. ōWe belong here.ö?Armstead scored 18 points, Carl Hall added 16 and freshman Ron Baker had 13 for the ninth-seeded Shockers in their latest win, proving their upset of No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the third round was no fluke.?ōTo see weÆre one game away from it, itÆs like a dream come true,ö Armstead said. ōBut you still have to stay focused on this next game. You canÆt bypass it and look forward to the Final Four yet.ö?Wichita State overwhelmed La Salle from the opening tip on its way to the schoolÆs first final eight appearance since 1981.?ōItÆs like IÆm in a dream still with this whole Elite Eight situation,ö Hall said.?The Shockers opened the game on a 14-2 run and ended the first half with a 9-1 spurt. They started the second half by hitting back-to-back 3-pointers for a 22-point lead.?La Salle never got closer than 11 points in the second half, when the Explorers outscored the Shockers 36-34.?ōIt took us a half to kind of adjust to the level they were playing at,ö La Salle coach John Giannini said. ōThe second half was pretty evenly played, but we were in just too deep of a hole.ö?Ninth-seeded Wichita State (29-8) tied the schoolÆs 2010-11 team for most victories. That group won the NIT title. These Shockers want much more.?ōWe need one more win to seal this deal and go back home and get ready for the Final Four,ö Baker said. ōWeÆre just going to grab this opportunity the best we can.ö?The Shockers beat Kansas by two points to get to the final eight in 1981. They didnÆt need to take down a giant this time, just a 6,500-student school from Philadelphia that scrapped its way 2,754 miles from an at-large berth in Dayton, Ohio, to Los Angeles.?ōThat was the game plan early on, try to wear them down, pound it inside, and get inside-out shots, and thatÆs what we came up,ö Armstead said.?Jerrell Wright and Tyrone Garland led the Explorers with 16 points each. Ramon Galloway, who averages a team-leading 17.4 points, was held to 11 for a program that won the 1954 NCAA championship and reached the 1955 national title game.?La Salle (24-10) didnÆt have the depth to hold its own against Wichita State, which owned a 47-29 rebounding edge and outscored the Explorers 40-26 in the paint, helped by Hall, who had 14 points in the first half.?ōIt was kind of an easy night for us on the inside because they only really have one post player,ö Hall said.?The Shockers limited La Salle to 36 percent shooting Ś the same as Gonzaga shot in its third-round loss.?ōThey were all over the place. They came to play,ö Galloway said.?Hall sat down with his third foul while La Salle was busy whittling its deficit to 11 points by attacking the rim. But the Explorers never got within single digits, and Armstead scored nine straight points to push Wichita StateÆs lead to 62-47. Another 6-0 spurt, capped by Cleanthony EarlyÆs dunk, made it 68-48.?ōArmstead was huge at that point,ö Giannini said. ōHe had three, four big buckets in a row and we were scoring. But if we get the stops, that 10, 11, 12-point game is a four- to eight-point game, and then you really have a chance. But Armstead wouldnÆt allow it. When we threatened, he was the one that really responded.ö?The Shockers hit two straight 3-pointers to open the second half and push their lead to 22 points.?La Salle turned aggressive, answering with a 10-0 run to close to 44-32, with Wright scoring the first seven points and Galloway making a 3-pointer.?The Explorers got shocked to start the game, with Wichita State outscoring them 14-2. The Shockers ended the half on a 9-1 run, including five by Baker, to lead 38-22 at the break. La Salle was held to 27 percent shooting, while Wichita State shot 53 percent and dominated the paint 24-10.?HallÆs teammates repeatedly found him down on the block and he muscled in layups over the smaller Explorers.?Galloway missed his first six shots. He finally made a 3-pointer that drew the Explorers within eight, but Wichita State quickly restored its lead to double digits.?Although 6-foot-11 center Steve Zack was cleared to play, he didnÆt and the Explorers missed his added height and inside presence. Zack had been out the previous six games with a sprained foot.?ōHe had a lot of soreness today, and we didnÆt think he could move well enough to help us in the game,ö Giannini said.
LA SALLE (24-10) Ś Peterson 0-0 0-0 0, Duren 3-7 2-3 8, Mills 2-8 2-2 7, Wright 6-9 4-5 16, Galloway 4-15 1-2 11, Dunn 0-0 0-0 0, Hunt 0-0 0-0 0, Garland 5-15 2-4 16, Brown 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 20-56 11-16 58.?WICHITA ST. (29-8) Ś Armstead 7-15 2-2 18, Early 4-11 0-0 8, Hall 7-11 2-3 16, Baker 4-6 3-4 13, Cotton 3-7 0-0 6, Lufile 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Wiggins 1-2 0-0 2, Orukpe 1-3 0-0 2, Van Vleet 3-9 0-0 7, White 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-67 7-9 72.?Halftime Ś Wichita St. 38-22. 3-Point Goals Ś La Salle 7-18 (Garland 4-7, Galloway 2-6, Mills 1-4, Duren 0-1), Wichita St. 5-12 (Armstead 2-3, Baker 2-3, Van Vleet 1-2, Williams 0-1, Early 0-1, Cotton 0-2). Fouled Out Ś None. Rebounds Ś La Salle 29 (Galloway 8), Wichita St. 47 (Orukpe 9). Assists Ś La Salle 8 (Duren 4), Wichita St. 12 (Armstead 4). Total Fouls Ś La Salle 13, Wichita St. 13. A Ś 18,232.


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August 16, 2011
Rilpivirine (RPV) is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of a combination antiretroviral (ARV) regimen for treatment-naive HIV-1-infected patients.1 The FDA also approved a fixed-dose combination tablet of RPV/tenofovir (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC) as a one-tablet, once-a-day regimen.2 This communication includes important information about available NNRTI options that must be carefully considered when choosing an NNRTI-based regimen as initial therapy for treatment-naive patients.
In two large, multinational, randomized, double-blind clinical trials, RPV (25 mg once daily) was compared with efavirenz (EFV) (600 mg once daily), each in combination with two nucleos(t)ide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). In a pooled analysis of the two studies, 83% of RPV-treated subjects and 80% of EFV-treated subjects had plasma HIV RNA <50 copies/mL at 48 weeks.3,4 Although RPV demonstrated noninferiority in this analysis, it was noted that for participants with higher pretreatment HIV RNA (>100,000 copies/mL), virologic failure occurred more frequently in participants randomized to receive RPV. Furthermore, subjects receiving RPV who experienced virologic failure were more likely to have failure with genotypic resistance to other NNRTIs (EFV, etravirine [ETR], and nevirapine [NVP]) and to have resistance to their prescribed NRTIs. Drug discontinuations because of adverse effects were more common with EFV than RPV. The frequency of depressive disorders and discontinuations because of depressive disorders were similar between the two arms, whereas dizziness, abnormal dreams, rash, and hyperlipidemia were more frequent with EFV compared with RPV.
RPV must be administered with a meal (preferably high fat). Its oral bioavailability can be significantly reduced in the presence of acid lowering agents. RPV should be used with caution with antacids and H2-receptor antagonists. RPV use with proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) is contraindicated.
Based on limited data on durability of treatment responses (48 weeks), the lower virologic response compared with EFV in subjects with pretreatment HIV RNA >100,000 copies/mL, and the greater likelihood of NNRTI resistance with failure, the Panel recommends the following with regard to NNRTI use as part of an initial ARV regimen:
a Preferred regimen = regimen with optimal and durable efficacy, favorable tolerability and toxicity profile, and ease of use.
b Alternative regimen = regimen that is effective and tolerable but has potential disadvantages compared with preferred regimens. An alternative regimen may be the preferred regimen for some patients.
c Acceptable regimen = regimen that may be selected for some patients but is less satisfactory than preferred or alternative regimen.
EFV should not be used during the first trimester of pregnancy or in women of childbearing age who are trying to conceive or who are not using effective and consistent contraception. Data on the pharmacokinetics (PKs) and safety of RPV use in pregnant HIV-infected women are insufficient at this time. RPV is not recommended for adolescents younger than 18 years of age because appropriate dosing information is lacking.
Caution should be exercised when using RPV in patients with plasma HIV RNA >100,000 copies/mL, given the higher RPV virologic failure rates and the greater likelihood of having broad NNRTI resistance at the time of failure observed in this population in clinical trials.
Clinicians should refer to Tables 5a and 5b of the January 10, 2011, Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents5 for a list of preferred, alternative, and acceptable ARV regimen options for the treatment-naive patient.
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A look at the upcoming area sports slate
Thursday, Oct. 4
Boys soccer - Illini Bluffs at DePue, 4:30 p.m., PHS at Sandwich, 4:30 p.m.
Cross country - DePue at L-P (Veteran's Park), 4 p.m.
Volleyball - Little Ten Tournament semifinals at LaMoille, 5 .m.; Hall at DePue, 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 5
Football - St. Bede at Amboy/LaMoille, Princeton at Macomb, Fulton at Bureau Valley, 7:30 p.m.
Volleyball - LTC finals at LaMoille, 5 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 6
Boys soccer - Monmouth-Roseville at DePue,1 p.m.
Girls tennis - PHS, St. Bede at Mendota Invite, 8:30 a.m.
Football - Hall at Newman, noon.
Monday, Oct. 8
Cross country - Hall, PHS, SBA at Amboy Columbus Day Invite, 10 a.m.
Golf: Boys - Princeton at Belvidere 2A Sectional. Girls - Princeton at Lincoln 1A Sectional.
Tuesday, Oct. 9
Volleyball - PHS at Mendota, 6:30 p.m., HBR at LaMoille/Ohio, St. Bede at IVC, 7 p.m., BV at Prophetstown, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 10
Boys soccer - Alleman Regional: Princeton vs. DePue, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 11
Volleyball - L/O at Newark, 7 p.m., Morrison at BV, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 12
Football - Amboy/LaMoille at Bureau Valley, Kewanee at Hall, Princeton at Hamilton West Hancock, Riverdale at St. Bede, 7:30 p.m.
Girls tennis - IHSA Sectional at Ottawa.


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Concept cars of the 2013 Detroit Auto Show
You don't see too many pie-in-the-sky concept cars at auto shows these days. Automakers instead focusing their efforts on styling exercises with clear production intent. With that in mind, here are some of the cars of the not so distant future on display at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
An update of a concept that first debuted at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, the NSX Concept takes Acura's futuristic new supercar one step closer to the production version that is expected to go on sale in 2015. The two-seat coupe features an all-wheel-drive hybrid powertrain anchored by a mid-mounted V6 engine and is being developed in the United States where it will also be built.
A preview of one possible look for a future Genesis luxury sedan, the V8-powered HCD-14 features suicide-style rear doors and an infotainment system that tracks the retinas of your eyes and movement of your right hand, which allows you to choose functions by simply looking at them on a screen and control them by moving your hand.
It may be the meanest looking off-road truck at the show, but the 800 hp X-Trux is also one of the greenest with a projected 70 mpg fuel economy rating courtesy of a plug-in hybrid powertrain similar to the one in the Chevrolet Volt.
The Corolla is one of the best-selling cars in America and the world, but it's never been much to look at. That could change for the next generation of the compact if potential customers show a liking for the edgy, dramatic styling of the Furia concept.
With multifaceted styling inspired by the "innovation era" and a "VIP lounge" interior design, the hybrid-powered Resonance is a preview of Nissan crossovers to come, and makes the automaker's funky Juke look almost conventional.
The flowing lines, elegant interior and double-bow grille of Lincoln's take on the popular Ford Escape compact crossover are almost certainly destined for showrooms soon as the company looks to expand its lineup into this increasingly popular segment.
A new Honda Fit subcompact is on the way next year, and it will be joined by a stylish crossover model that will slot in under the CR-V in Honda's lineup. Expect hidden rear door handles for a coupe-like look and the Fit's signature folding "magic seat" for functionality.
Far from the most futuristic-looking concept at the show, Volkswagen's first three-row SUV nevertheless gets a high-tech plug-in hybrid diesel powertrain good for the equivalent of 89 mpg when operating electric mode and 35 mpg as a hybrid.


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Dempsy – a New Real-time Framework for Processing BigData
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Real time processing of BigData seems to be one of the hottest topics today. Nokia has just released a new open-source project - Dempsy. Dempsy is comparable to Storm, Esper, Streambase, HStreaming and Apache S4. The code is released under the Apache 2 license
Dempsy is meant to solve the problem of processing large amounts of "near real time" stream data with the lowest lag possible; problems where latency is more important that "guaranteed delivery." This class of problems includes use cases such as:
- Real time monitoring of large distributed systems
- Processing complete rich streams of social networking data
- Real time analytics on log information generated from widely distributed systems
- Statistical analytics on real-time vehicle traffic information on a global basis
The important properties of Dempsy are:
- It is Distributed. That is to say a Dempsy application can run on multiple JVMs on multiple physical machines.
- It is Elastic. That is, it is relatively simple to scale an application to more (or fewer) nodes. This does not require code or configuration changes but done by dynamic insertion or removal of processing nodes.
- It implements Message Processing. Dempsy is based on message passing. It moves messages between Message processors, which act on the messages to perform simple atomic operations such as enrichment, transformation, etc. In general, an application is intended to be broken down into more smaller simpler processors rather than fewer large complex processors.
- It is a Framework. It is not an application container like a J2EE container, nor a simple library. Instead, like the Spring Framework, it is a collection of patterns, the libraries to enable those patterns, and the interfaces one must implement to use those libraries to implement the patterns.
Dempsy' programming model is based on message processors communicating via messages and resembles a distributed actor framework . While not strictly speaking an actor framework in the sense of Erlang or Akka actors, where actors explicitely direct messages to other actors, Dempsy's Message Processors are "actor like POJOs" similar to Processor Elements in S4 and to some extent Bolts in Storm. Message processors are similar to actors in that they operate on a single message at a time, and need not deal with concurrency directly. Unlike actors, Message Processors also are relieved of the the need to know the destination(s) for their output messages, as this is handled inside by Dempsy based on the message properties.
In short Dempsy is a framework to enable the decomposing of a large class of message processing problems into flows of messages between relatively simple processing units implemented as POJOs.
The Dempsy Tutorial contains more information.
InfoQ had a chance to discuss with Dempsy's creator, NAVTEQ Fellow Jim Carroll.
InfoQ: What is Nokia planning to use Dempsy for?
Jim: Dempsy has a several potential use cases within Nokia and several departments are considering it. It was originally built for implementation of the next generation vehicle traffic processing engine responsible for taking in billions of discrete raw traffic data-points per day including roadway sensors, traffic incidents, and GPS locations, and providing roadway traffic information to various end products like in vehicle navigation systems and web based map displays, among many others.
We recognized that the analytics required to produce these end products from the enormous amount of raw input data in near-real-time with the least amount of lag constituted essentially a "real time BigData" problem.
InfoQ: With different existing implementations, why did you decide to write your own implementation?
Jim: We originally evaluated different approaches for our new traffic engine including CEP (which Streambase supports), and various actors models like S4 and Akka.
CEP is really trying to solve a different problem. If you have a large stream of data you want to mine by separating it into subsets, or isolating a particular subset, and then performing analytics on the result, then CEP solutions make sense. If, however, you're going to do the same thing to every data-point in the stream, then you will be underutilizing the power of CEP. Underutilized functionality usually means an increased total cost of ownership, and Dempsy is all about reducing the total cost of ownership for systems that do this type of processing.
That leaves other distributed stream processing systems. At the time of our evaluation S4 and Akka were both available.
Akka appears to be focused on a different problem. The Akka team is really focusing on being an implementation of a pure Actors Model for the JVM, an "Erlang for the JVM" if you will, rather than on a distributed stream processing engine. As a result, for example, the Akka team is focused more on resolving issues like Software Transactional Memory, rather than on simplifying a distributed deployment, an effort that makes sense to pure actors model implementations but it wasn't what we were looking for.
That left S4. S4 was exactly what we were looking for as far as the processing model goes. The problem we found with S4 was that it was too immature for us to get consistently running in a large production environment. This view was confirmed when the S4 team themselves forked the Apache codebase and began building a new version of S4 (S4-Piper).
When Storm came out at the end of September, 2011, we were well into development. We liked Storm. However, we found that our framework had some advantages over Storm.
First, Storm isn't a "fine grained" actors model. Because of this, when implementing the same use case for both systems we found that the Dempsy implementation was smaller.
Also, because of Dempsy's emphasis on "Inversion of Control" the resulting applications were easier to test. With the exception of annotations, Message Processors, which are the atomic unit of work in Dempsy, have no dependency on the framework itself. Bolts in Storm (and Processing Elements in S4) need to be written to use the framework's APIs.
Also, in following the adage to never require the system to be told something that it can deduce, in Dempsy, the topology of an application's pipeline is discovered at runtime and doesn't need to be preconfigured. This is primarily a byproduct of the fact that Dempsy was designed from the ground up to be "elastic" and as a result, the topology can morph dynamically.
This means that applications with complicated topologies with many branches and merges can be trivially configured since the dependency relationship between stages is discovered at runtime by the framework.
InfoQ: In several places you describe Dempsy as intentionally not an application server. What do you mean by that?
Jim: Application servers, as you would expect, serve applications. You tend to "deploy" an application to an application server. An application server will then provide access to a set of cross-cutting services, maintain application isolation, and provide for communication between applications. A distributed application server may add computational resource management and support for fault tolerance.
But why would a framework that's been built following the old Unix adage to "do one thing, and do it well," implement these things, when they are already readily available, or when these features are likely to conflict with what's already available? Hasn't the industry noticed that the majority of these tasks has been handled for years by the operating system itself? And when the system is deployed into a cloud environment with a set of robust IaaS tools, who's responsible for the automatic provisioning of new resources or reprovisioning of failed resources? Should it be specialized software built into an application server, or the IaaS tool responsible for it across the enterprise?
Dempsy is therefore built to cooperate with these services through the implementation of "elasticity," so that as the IaaS tools provision new system or reprovision old systems in response to load, the application responds automatically. This keeps Dempsy simple and focused while cooperating with, rather than conflicting or competing with, tools built for their specific purpose in a synergy that ultimately produces a more robust ecosystem with a lower total cost of ownership.
InfoQ: What does Dempsy use as a messaging transport?
Jim: Dempsy is built on a set of abstractions that allow the framework itself to be easily extended and adapted. These include things like routing strategy, monitoring, serialization, and cluster management. It also includes message transport. Final default implementations of these abstractions has been done in an order that the team deemed most important. Both serialization and message transport are toward the bottom of that list.
Therefore, while we plan on using Netty for the transport (and there has been discussion of using Zero-MQ) prior to a 1.0 release, currently there's a simple TCP implementation in place.
InfoQ: How is routing implemented in Dempsy?
Jim: Dempsy routes messages to message processors based on a message key. The scheme for determining what key a message has is specified by the application. But that key becomes the address for a specific message processor instance distributed on a cluster of machines. Routing is then a two stage process. First, determine which node of a cluster that message processor lives in by using what we call a "routing strategy." Second, once the message is received at that node, find the specific message processor responsible for that message.
The default routing strategy divides a message's key space (that is, the collection of all possible keys for a particular message class) across a set of "bins." These bins, along with their meta information, are dynamically assigned to running nodes through a distributed negotiation scheme. That is, there's no central manager or broker involved. This is similar to the "leader election" negotiation use case for Apache ZooKeeper but in the case of Dempsy it's "bin ownsership" for each and every bin.
InfoQ: How does Dempsy support scaling of individual messaging processors?
Jim: Message processor granularity and independence is the key, which is really part of the application design. If the key-space is in the millions rather than in the teens, then Dempsy will be able to distribute it linearly among the set of computational resources to the point where the network infrastructure becomes the only limit to linear scalability.
InfoQ: What mechanism is Dempsy using to redistribute message processors when topology of Dempsy cluster changes?
Jim: Dempsy relies on the notification capabilities of its cluster information management implementation. As mentioned, cluster information management is one of the abstractions within the Dempsy framework so the implementation can be swapped out. By default, when running in a distributed mode, the cluster information management is implemented leveraging Apache ZooKeeper.
When the topology changes, every upstream node that's affected is notified of the change and adjusts its understanding of which keys correspond to which nodes. Other nodes within the affected cluster are notified and renegotiate for bin ownership.
InfoQ: What will happen when one of the message processing nodes fails?
Jim: Message processing node failures are a special case of physical topology changes. When a node fails other nodes in the same cluster are notified and renegotiate for the newly available bins. This negotiation leads to upstream notification of the physical topology changes and they adjust accordingly.
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"Dempsy is comparable to Storm, Esper, Streambase, HStreaming and Apache S4."
This is simply not the case. Dempsy cannot be compared to any of these products.
In order to qualify as an ESP or CEP it must offer 1. a DSL 2. windowed processing 3. combinators and temporal pattern matching 4. continuous query. It offers none.
Dempsy is a very basic cluster implementation with primitive distributed stream processing support is made available with some convenience annotations. No more.
Perhaps this project has utility for certain projects, especially those leveraging spring. I wish it the best. But the elastic limit on technical reporting has been exceeded
by comparing to products, frameworks and technologies that are clearly in a different league to Dempsy.
Dempsy is in my view an incomplete, work in progress, non-production prototype.
Not citing Storm, Esper, StreamBase, HStreaming and Apache S4 would have been appropriate. Comparing this framework from a clustering / distributed systems perspective to Akka (2.1's clustering is based on Riak, which in turn is based on Amazon's Dynamo - not good enough?) and Erlang/OTP does not work in the projects favor.
Premature articulation, bad journalism! - but I hope the project finds use and develops into a framework worthy of attention and in some way comparable to technologies and frameworks cited.
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Jim Carroll
You are correct, Dempsy is certainly a work in progress (currently at 0.5 with 1.0 expected by October).
I think the article makes clear it is not trying to solve problems in the same category as any CEP product, or Akka, which was the point in mentioning them. However, as far as use cases that apply, it certainly is in the same category as S4 and Storm (lack of DSL not withstanding).
All the best.
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Jim Carroll
As pointed out below Dempsy is a work in progress and I expect to be updating the documentation with a new section each week. We're also working on fully deployable examples. You can follow us on the issues list and feel free to comment.
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Darach Ennis
Thank you for the clarification. My comments are directed more at Boris/InfoQ than Dempsy. I'll
check again near October when a fair comparison can be made between Dempsy and S4 and Storm.
As for CEP, minus the DSL, framework elements that facilitate multi-dimensional windowing, filtering,
combinators and temporal pattern matching within and across streams would be great, especially for
environments that don't require all aspects offered by commercial CEP/ESP engines and platforms.
DSLs are a double edged sword. On the one hand they raise the abstraction. On the other they diverge
from well understood, practiced and supported OO and FP habitudes. So a middle ground that offers a
subset of CEP (windows, combinators, temporal pattern matching within/across streams, continuous query)
but using familiar technologies to OO and FP developers (most of us, basically) would be valuable.
Best of luck with Dempsy. I look forward to seeing what you have in store for 1.0.
All the best.
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Jim Carroll
I hope you're not disappointed. Dempsy (and as far as the last time I check, S4) isn't aimed at most of the things in your list. Storm has it's transactions and batches which probably get you most of the way there but your insight in seeing Dempsy as "a very basic cluster implementation with primitive distributed stream processing support [and] made available with some convenience annotations. No more." is exactly what Dempsy is aiming at.
There are many use cases were that's the right solution (like the one described in the article), and if Dempsy can make those use-cases trivial to implement, maintain, and run in a very robust manner, then it's fulfilled its mission.
We really are trying to "do one thing, and do it well."
I'll be eager to get your view when the time comes.
Thanks again.


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WINTER HAVEN | Bald eagles are a relatively common sight in Polk County, but they're a really common sight around the Polk County Sheriff's Office Operations Center.
WINTER HAVEN | Bald eagles are a relatively common sight in Polk County, but they're a really common sight around the Polk County Sheriff's Office Operations Center.
This fall as many as 60 of these large birds of prey have been roosting at night atop the 190-foot-tall communications tower near the building.
Reinier Munguia, president of Lake Region Audubon Society, noticed the roost a few weeks ago.
He invited other Audubon members to watch the nightly gathering Monday.
"This is unusual,'' Munguia said, explaining he discovered the roost during his work in monitoring the local bald eagle population in connection with the coming nesting season under a program called EagleWatch.
The birds are primarily immature eagles. Bald eagles don't get full adult plumage and begin to look for mates until they're 4 or 5 years old.
However, a few of the eagles on the roost had adult plumage.
Lynda White, retired director of the EagleWatch program at Audubon's Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland, was among the crowd Monday afternoon.
She said the adult birds were either birds who hadn't found a mate or birds who had lost a mate.
White found the roost encouraging news for eagle conservation.
"This shows the population is increasing,'' she said.
Bald eagles, which have been protected for decades by various federal wildlife laws, were placed on the endangered species list in 1967 because of drastic population declines in most of the country as a result of exposure to pesticides, habitat loss and some illegal shooting. Bald eagles were removed from the endangered species list in 2007, but remain protected from shooting and harassment.
White said the only other large communal roost she knows about in Florida is in Osceola County and attracts only about 20 birds.
According to a survey from 1997 to 2004, most of the bald eagle roosts in Florida contain only a handful of birds.
Unlike wading birds' roosts, where birds arrive in flocks, the roosting eagles arrived in groups of one or two.
Many appear to be coming from around Lake Hancock or from the nearby North Central Landfill.
As they arrived, Audubon members recorded the progress.
"That's number 31," someone yelled out.
As darkness fell, the total grew quickly.
By dusk, the number crept toward 40.
Counters were briefly distracted as a flock of mosquitoes began roosting on their bare skin, one of the minor hazards of wildlife watching in Florida.
The roosting progress was recorded on video from the ground by Susie Warren from the Audubon center.
She said the video will be posted on their Facebook page.
Matt Smith, White's successor at Eaglewatch, said he had heard about the roost and had to drive over from Maitland to see it for himself.
"This is a really cool thing to see,'' he said. "It will be interesting to see what they do when the weather gets chilly.''
In colder climates, bald eagles typically roost in less exposed areas, such as forests, to escape the cold as much as possible.
The experience was not just a visual treat.
The eagles' high-pitched chattering calls were clearly audible on the ground.
"They're very social birds,'' Smith said. "The young ones tend to be gregarious."
Not all of the observers traveled from Orange County.
Ken and Judy Rogers of Lakeland said they stopped by after getting an alert from Audubon.
They said they'd never seen anything like this except during a trip to Alaska, which has the United States' largest bald eagle population.
According to some accounts, 3,000 to 4,000 bald eagles congregate along the Chilkat River in Alaska during salmon runs.
For Polk County Sheriff's Office employees, the roost is quite an attraction, said spokeswoman Donna Wood.
"We see them in the morning and the evening; it's so cool to see that many," she said.
Wood said seeing that many eagles in flight is impressive.
She and her colleagues have been taking photos, too.
"It's unique and it's right here,'' Wood said.
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Smith Co Officer Injured While Transporting Inmates
TYLER - A Smith County Deputy and two inmates were taken to the hospital this morning following a traffic accident in Tyler.
Police say the two vehicle wreck happened around 6:20 a.m. today at the intersection of Gentry Parkway and Palace streets. It's unclear at this time how the wreck occurred.
Smith County Chief Deputy Bobby Garmon tells us the inmates were being transported from the low risk facility to the main jail Downtown when the wreck occurred.
Deputy Justin Jordan and the two inmates were transported to the hospital where they were treated and released.
Garmon said both inmates assisted in getting deputy Jordan out of the squad car after the accident.
Tyler Man Shot at a Party
TYLER – Police are looking for a person who dropped off a shooting victim at the hospital early Monday morning and then drove off.
Police say the victim, Kertral Damon Murphy, 18, suffered a gunshot wound to the lower back and was in surgery. Police said the shooting took place at a party in the area of W. Erwin and Glenwood around 2:06 a.m.
Police were advised by hospital employees that Murphy was dropped off at the emergency room in a tan or gold colored vehicle with tinted windows.
The shooting remains under investigation.
Woman Held at Gunpoint While Walking her Dog
TYLER - On Saturday, April 21, 2012 at approximately 8:10 a.m.,officers responded to the area of Donnybrook and Second in reference to an aggravated assault. Officers met with a female victim who told police she was walking her dog when she was approached by a Hispanic male who pulled up next to her and pulled a gun on her and advised her to get in the car.
The victim advised that she refused to get into the car and ran to a nearby house for help. The suspect then drove off. The victim described the suspect as a Hispanic male driving a white four door car. Officers have no further information at this time. The case is under investigation.
Judge Denies Bond for Texas Nurse accused in Baby theft
CONROE, Tx. — Bond has been denied for a nurse accused of fatally shooting a young mother and then kidnapping the woman's newborn.
Verna McClain did not speak at a Monday bond hearing in Conroe.
Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon argued the 30-year-old nurse committed a cold, calculated and premeditated murder. Defense attorney E. Tay Bond had asked for a bond of $100,000 or less for McClain.
The shooting last week outside a pediatric center north of Houston killed 28-year-old Kala Golden. Her 3-day-old son was abducted but found safe hours later with McClain's sister.
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Andrews University held its first summit on social consciousness from April 11-14, 2012. The theme for the summit was "Lessons from Rwanda" and it featured Carl Wilkens, a former ADRA director in Rwanda, as the keynote speaker. Organizers hoped to reveal injustice and seek healing and reconciliation through the summit, which included a prayer meeting with testimonies from survivors of the Rwandan genocide, a film showing, an interview with Carl Wilkens and his wife, breakout sessions, and a concert by the Girls of Mercy.
Wilkens was the only American to remain in Rwanda during the genocide. He lived in Rwanda from 1990-1996 with his wife and three children building schools and operating clinics. When the genocide began, Wilkens and his wife made the decision for him to stay behind alone to try to protect the two young Tutsis who worked for them. During the genocide Wilkens worked to bring food, water, and medicine to stranded people around the city of Kigali.
In his keynote address on April 14, Wilkens recounted some of his experiences in Rwanda. An estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed during the 1994 genocide, which erupted between the ethnic majority Hutus and the ethnic minority Tutsis. He emphasized the importance of telling these stories because he believes that stories move people to service, which can ultimately change the world. His address included a particular call to action in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which had 300,000 members in Rwanda in 1994. "We need to talk about these things and consider how our infrastructure responds to these situations," he said, pointing out the need to learn from Rwanda to better prepare for similar situations in the future. In spite of all the violence, Wilkens chose to look beyond the genocide. "Rwanda is so much larger than that three month window of genocide," he said, describing the strong sense of love and community he saw in the Rwandan people. "Our losses and our sorrows do not dominate our lives. We have this hope that we will be together again one day." An offering was collected at the end of the service for Life Lifting Hands, a nonprofit organization that provides education to orphans and donates cows to poor families in Rwanda. The summit concluded with a concert by the Girls of Mercy that evening.
|Carl Wilkens, a former ADRA director in Rwanda, was the keynote
speaker. Wilkens said he couldn't have stayed in Rwanda when he did
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On the final day of the summit, university leaders and pastors made a statement about the genocide and led the congregation in a litany. "This Summit was a fitting gesture of affirmation and support from our University community to them," said Christon Arthur, dean of the School of Graduate Studies & Research and one of the main coordinators of the event. A large number of Rwandans live in southwest Michigan and several were in attendance at the summit. "On reflecting on their tragic loss, we affirmed their humanity and dignity, condemned the atrocity, and acknowledged their pain," Arthur explained.
Carl Wilken's book I'm Not Leaving is based on records of his daily experiences during that period and he was featured in Frontline's "Ghosts of Rwanda" and the American Radio Works documentary "The Few Who Stayed: Defying the Genocide." For his efforts, Wilkens was awarded the Dignitas Humana Award from St. John's School of Theology Seminary and the 2005 Medal of Valor from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is the cofounder of the nonprofit educational and professional development organization World Outside My Shoes and now works full time giving lectures on his experiences in Rwanda.


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Mayor's Office
The City Parks and Recreation Department will extend evening hours to 9 p.m. at the Belmont Community Center, 1234 Judson, any day the heat index is expected to be above 100 degrees at 6 p.m. The "F" Street Community Center, 1225 "F" Street, also is open until 9 p.m. on weekdays. The local chapter of the Red Cross is helping to provide volunteers to staff the two centers.
Weekend hours at Belmont and "F" Street also may be extended if needed. If the heat index is above 100 degrees at 1 p.m., Belmont, which is normally closed on summer weekends, will be open from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. "F" Street is normally open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday. The center will remain open until 9 p.m. both nights if conditions warrant.
Children age 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult in order to use the centers from 6 to 9 p.m.
Those without air conditioning also can cool off during regular hours at libraries, senior centers and other recreation centers. Hours for City facilities can be found at lincoln.ne.gov.
City facilities will be closed on July 4 for Independence Day.
Information on local weather, the heat index and safety precautions is available at the NWS Web site weather.gov. More health information can be found at the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cdc.gov.


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Missouri Weather Patterns and Their Impact on Agriculture
Grant Darkow
Department of Atmospheric Science
The impact of weather and climate on Missouri agriculture and farm planning or decision making is sometimes subtle, other times pronounced and obvious. This publication focuses on the weather patterns that are responsible for the major episodes either highly favorable or unfavorable to agriculture. Special attention is given to patterns that tend to produce extremes in precipitation resulting in unusually wet or droughty conditions and extremes in temperature, either abnormally warm or cold.
Source regions of air over Missouri
The character of air over Missouri on any particular day or series of days is dominated by the source regions from which it comes. Missouri's mid-continental location makes it subject to air flows from a variety of source regions with markedly different properties.
The state is close enough to the Gulf of Mexico that warm air with high humidities can flow into the state from a southerly direction at almost any time of the year. This warm, moist air is the principal source of spring, summer and fall precipitation and, occasionally, in winter as well.
In contrast, air arriving over Missouri from semi-arid to arid regions to the southwest is warm or hot and usually dry.
Air that has moved from west to east over the Rocky Mountains arrives warm and dry, having lost most of its low-level moisture as it climbed the west side of the mountains. Such air may arrive over Missouri with surface winds from southwest through west to northwest.
Abnormally cold air in the winter and cold summer air with only very small moisture content arrives over Missouri from the northwest or north. The air has acquired its coolness in the polar and arctic source regions of Canada, Alaska, and, at times, Siberia. Occasionally, when a low-pressure center passes eastward or northeastward to the south of Missouri while a high-pressure center is passing eastward to the north, air will enter Missouri from a northeasterly direction and will tend to be cool and moist. Steady light precipitation-rain or snow-may accompany this air.
Normally, the flow from one of the principal source regions will last for two or three days before switching to a different direction and source region. These transitions typically are accompanied by a frontal passage during which the change in wind direction, temperature and moisture content, or any combination, is concentrated. These typical and frequent variations give rise to short-term variability in Missouri weather in which natives, such as Mark Twain, take some pride.
In some instances, however, a particular flow pattern may be very persistent or dominant for a period of weeks or even months. These periods can lead to wet, dry, hot or cold spells that place stress on normal agricultural processes or activities. A look aloft where flow patterns are less complex and variable than at the surface provides a better understanding of the atmospheric factors that determine the surface flow patterns present at any one time or persisting for an abnormally long time.
Upper air flow patterns
Several simple yet striking features are apparent from studying the flow in the atmosphere just two to four miles above the earth's surface. The basic flow is from west to east around the hemisphere. Superimposed on this basic west-to-east flow are wave-like meanders. These upper-level waves tend to migrate slowly from west to east but, at times, they can also become essentially stationary.
The location and strength of the upper-level waves dictates the type of flow that will exist at the surface and serves to determine the tracks of migrating lows and highs at the surface. If the upper-flow pattern remains unchanged for an extended period of time, the surface-flow patterns also tend to persist in time and place for longer than normal, producing extended wet, dry, hot or cold spells.
Unfortunately, many of the brief weather presentations made as part of a television newscast do not show or discuss upper air flow patterns. If, however, a display is shown of the "jet stream" location in the upper atmosphere, it can be assumed to be basically parallel to the major flow patterns aloft and along the axis of maximum wind speeds.
Upper air flow patterns and associated surface weather patterns
The precipitation-producing case
A cold front moving toward the southeast extends southward and southeastward from the low center. Ahead of the cold front a strong surge of warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico is pulled northward into Missouri and surrounding states. In this warm, moist air, numerous showers and thunderstorms will develop, usually reaching peak frequency and intensity by late afternoon and evening.
The dry-drought producing case
The upper air flow pattern shows air flowing in a broad arc over the central plains with higher speeds in southern Canada than over the United States. The southern plains are characterized by a weak clockwise circulation. This upper air pattern tends to steer storm systems coming off the Pacific Ocean across the extreme northwestern states and across southern Canada.
As long as this upper flow pattern persists, the warm-dry associated surface pattern will also persist, giving Missouri day after day of hot, dry, droughty weather. This is frequently the case in summer, especially during July and August.
The cold-dry case
The upper air flow is characterized by an abnormally strong flow out of the north and northwest. This flow pattern favors bringing cool low-level air southward out of Canada across the northern plains and Great Lakes areas. As the leading edge of this air clears the east coast and moves southward into the Gulf of Mexico, a strong cold front is created. The west edge of this cold air frequently nudges into the front range of the Rocky Mountains, where it becomes stationary. A cold high-pressure center develops over Iowa and adjacent states and tends to drift slowly southeastward.
In the winter this high-pressure center would be characterized by bitterly cold early morning temperatures, particularly in areas of clear skies and existing snow cover.
The extremes in the weather and climate affecting Missouri agriculture are characterized by a few easily recognized and, at times, persistent flow patterns. The more complex flow patterns at the surface, as seen on the daily weather maps presented on television, are controlled by much simpler flow patterns aloft. Monitoring the upper air-flow patterns helps not only to understand the short-term changes in the surface flow, but gives guidance to the potential persistence of the surface flow patterns.


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UPDATE: Officials Probe How Dead Wisconsin Toddler Got In Trunk
BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (AP) - An investigator says he wishes searchers had thought earlier of forcing open the trunk of a car where a western Wisconsin toddler was found dead.
A deputy found the body of 2-year-old Isaiah Theis in the trunk of a car at his parents' home near Centuria Wednesday night. The father repairs cars there and the car belonged to a customer.
Polk County Chief Deputy Steve Moe tells reporters investigators didn't have access to keys to the cars. He says they had presumed the boy wandered off Tuesday night, which he had a tendency to do, and that all the customers' cars were locked.
Moe declined to speculate how Isaiah ended up in the trunk. He says the autopsy is being expedited but he doesn't expect results Thursday.


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text: Warc downgrades global ad spending forecast, boosts U.S. projection Published on June 28, 2013. London—Global ad spending will increase 3.4% this year, according to a downgraded forecast from media intelligence firm Warc. The prediction is down from a January forecast of 4.0% growth. Next year, Warc projected, global ad spending will rise 5.4%. In the U.S., ad spending will increase 1.8% this year, according to Warc's latest forecast. In January it had predicted a 0.3% decline. The fastest-growing medium globally this year will be the Internet, with ad spending up 13.9%, followed by out-of-home (3.1%), TV (2.5%), cinema (1.6%) and radio (1.4%), Warc projected. This year, ad spending in newspapers will be down 4.3% and ad spending in magazines will be down 4.6%, according to the latest forecast. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Hunting dogs and those that love to take to the woods and swamps, or those living by water, are especially vulnerable. On a chase, with his nose to the ground, a dog can inhale spores that harbor in the soil. If the dog has a healthy immune system, there is likelihood that the disease will not develop. If, however, the spores are abundant, or if the dog's immune system is compromised, there is risk of infection. Spores travel down the airways of the lungs, and the disease begins. It then spreads throughout the body and can affect the skin, eyes, bones, lymph nodes, subcutaneous tissue, brain, and testes. Blastomycosis can wax and wane with symptoms improving, only to worsen later.
Refer to this checklist of symptoms if you suspect your dog has been exposed to this organism:
Treatment options include the oral administration of
Itraconazole. This is an expensive drug, and some dogs cannot tolerate it.
Injectable Amphotericin B can also be used. It is administered intravenously and under close veterinary supervision.
Ketoconazole (Nizoral) is another treatment option, especially helpful in mild cases of the disease and where cost is a factor.
Please note that, with Blastomycosis, prevention is easier than the cure. Avoid taking dogs to regions of high risk or incidence and places with disturbed areas of moist soil. Awareness of the disease and its symptoms is the best defense against it.
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iPhone outsells RIM's BlackBerry in Canada for the first time
But sexting Middle Eastern teens remain loyal to BBM
The iPhone is outselling the BlackBerry in its home territory, Canada, in another humiliating mark of decline for mobe-makers RIM.
BlackBerry sold 2.08 million handsets in Canada in 2011 compared to iPhone sales of 2.85 million, according to figures from IDC and Bloomberg.
Canadians have remained loyal to Ontario-based RIM for years, with BlackBerrys outselling iPhones by five-to-1 in 2008 and sales still outstripping iPhones by half a million in 2010. But even patriotism can't keep the falling sales alive in the face of relentless growth from iPhone and Android.
Bloomberg reports that BlackBerry remains popular in certain sectors - among Canada's government and business bod as well as teens in many of the world's emerging markets. RIM's sales are still nearly twice those of Apple in the Middle East and Africa, where teens can get around local religious and cultural practices by using secure and free instant messaging service BBM to chat to members of the opposite sex.
But this won't be much consolation to new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, who picked up the reins in February and faces dropping sales, a falling share price and a lack of killer products – especially in the tablet space.
RIM appears to be exploring software development as a way to reinvent the company. A job posting from RIM seen today shows that RIM is looking for iOS developers. The hire-in could be a sign that BlackBerry is making a move into mobile device management software that would work on different platforms. A service such the touted BlackBerry Mobile Fusion platform would bring BlackBerry functions such as BBM to iOS on a Blackberry app. ®


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Groundbreaking report details status of US secondary Earth science education
The Center for Geoscience Education and Public Understanding at the American Geosciences Institute has released a landmark report on the status of Earth Science education in U.S. middle and high schools, describing in detail significant gaps between identified priorities and lagging practice. The report, "Earth and Space Sciences Education in U.S. Secondary Schools: Key Indicators and Trends," offers baseline data on indicators of the subject's status since the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in April 2013. Establishing clear aims for the subject, the NGSS state that the Earth and Space Sciences should have equal status with the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Technology, and Engineering. However, the report shows that school districts and other organizations fail to assign the Earth Sciences this status.
Only one of the nation's 50 states requires a year-long Earth/Environmental Science course for high school graduation, whereas 32 states require a Life Science course, and 27 require a Physical Science course, according to the report. Only six states require that students are taught Earth Science concepts as part of their graduation requirements. Detailed and analyzed are key indicators including: presence of Earth Science topics in state and national standards; consideration of Earth Science as a graduation requirement; evaluation of Earth Science concepts on high-stakes assessments; and acceptance of Earth Science courses for college admission.
Recommendations for better treatment of Earth Science subject matter include changes in the subject's relevance to graduation requirements, the discipline's presence on assessments, designation of Earth Science courses as laboratory courses, and establishment of an Advanced Placement Earth Science program.
Source: American Geosciences Institute
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- Status of US secondary Earth science educationfrom Science DailyFri, 18 Oct 2013, 2:30:15 UTC
- Groundbreaking report details status of US secondary Earth science educationfrom PhysorgThu, 17 Oct 2013, 21:00:30 UTC


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Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Haim Steinbach, and Philip Taaffe are some of the principal artists whose work has been categorized as Neo-Conceptual. In a Duchampian mode, these artists incorporated ready-made objects drawn directly from the commercial realm into their sculptures and installations.
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For several seasons, pest control advisers, growers and University of California researchers have been on alert for an Australian strain of fusarium wilt in San Joaquin Valley cotton.
Concerns were raised several years ago that Australian cottonseed for dairy rations may harbor a particularly virulent strain of fusarium wilt from that country.
It has not been found, but apparently a California kissing cousin has been. The California cousin has been identified as race 4 of fusarium oxysporum f.sp.vasinfectum (4 FOV for short).
University of California Extension Cotton Specialist Bob Hutmacher said at the recent California Cotton Growers Association annual meeting that this newly found race shares one particularly troubling trait with its Australian kin, it is not associated with root knot nematode.
Until now, fusarium in the valley has been linked with significant populations of root knot nematode. This new race been found in finer textured soils not associated with large root knot nematode populations.
The good news is that the Australian strain has not been found in the valley. The bad news is that its kissing cousin has been. The worst news is that this California kin takes a particular hankering to Pima cotton.
With a very large Pima acreage for the valley this year, Hutmacher and his UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors are sounding the clarion to be on the lookout early this year for 4 FOV. A special fusarium management guideline packet is available on the UC cotton Web site.
Last year all widely grown commercial Pima varieties were more seriously damaged than tested Acala and non-Acala cotton varieties. However, the uplands did show infection last year. The damage and symptoms were less.
Scout early
Hutmacher said the best time to scout for this new race is earlier than when growers and PCAs start looking for weed or verticillium wilt problems.
"Fusarium affects plants as early as the one to two-leaf stage and more typically around the five to 12-node growth stages," Hutmacher wrote in a special cotton management guideline issued about this new problem. As a vascular disease, fusarium can restrict nutrient and water uptake by the plant.
Don't wait until peak bloom or later in boll development to scout for fusarium, said Hutmacher. It is more difficult then to identify infected field areas because damaged plants may be too small to identify under canopy cover or partially recovered plants may have recovered to mask the affected area.
Hutmacher says fusarium staining looks different from verticillium staining. FOV staining is more continuous, dark brown color compared with the irregular, flecking stain of the vascular system typical of verticillium.
Visual fusarium symptoms include general wilting featuring patchy leaf yellow and necrosis that begins on the leaf margins of the lower leaves. As the disease progresses, the vascular system appears stained dark brown when cut at a diagonal.
In seedlings and young plant, cotyledons and leaves wilt and drop, resulting in bar stems. On older or mildly affected plants, lower leaves will show symptoms, but survive with reduced vigor.
Preventing spread
It requires laboratory testing to determine if it 4 FOV. UC farm advisors and specialist are equipped to do that testing.
Identifying it is important because there is no effective control measure. The only way to prevent its spread is containment by:
Removing infected plants by hoeing them out and burning them or killing with herbicide.
Controlling fusarium-harboring weeds during the season or between crops.
Controlling equipment from infected areas moving to clean areas. Farmers are urged to clean soil and plant debris from equipment exiting an infected area.
Managing irrigation water to prevent spread from infected to non-infected areas.
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There is only one spot in Israel where it is safe to kitesurf in east wind. where the wind is side shore. this spot is calle the Quiet beach. In Haifa.
For years there was an arrangment with the beach operators so that kitesufers can launch their kites from the beach/
for different internal political reasons in the city of Haifa, between the kitesurfers and the sailing club, the arragnment was canceled this year.
We ask the monicipality to press the beach operator to reconsider.
We ask you help by signing on this pettition http://www.atzuma.co.il/shaket . tourism is very important to the city of Haifa. foriegn signature can help us a lot.
the only mandatory field is the name. address is important as well. of course if you can say how important is to have such a location will add as well
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Kabir Singh Born in Portland Oregon is the 2009 and 2010 Winner of both of the major Bay Area Stand up Comedy Competition beating over 160 comics from all over the U.S by coming in First place in all Three rounds BOTH YEARS! Kabir has since then headlined a night at every major comedy club in the Bay Area including selling out the SJ Improv 4 times including a Friday Night as well as headlining a whole full weekend at Pepperbellys Comedy club in Fairfield and selling out shows at the SF Punchline and SAc Punchline. He is a regular at every major comedy club in Northern ,CA and has performed at every major comedy club in the LA including headlining the Long Beach Laugh Factory and selling out all 400 + seats. You can ctahc Kabir all over the U.S featuring for many of the best comics in the business including Anjelah Johnson, Damaon Wayans JR and Dat Phan and has performed on the same stage as Dave Chappell, Bill Burr, Bobby Slayton, Aries Spears and many many more!
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