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'What about the road between Tuxedo and Monroe?'
To: U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and State Senator William J. Larkin Jr.:
What about the road between Tuxedo and Monroe?
I am very pleased to read about the planned improvements to the Tuxedo Sloatsburg corridor as well as the Woodbury Transportation Hub.
These are wonderful things but what I don't see is any mention about paving the road between Tuxedo and Monroe - the road I've always heard referred to as Old 17.
Believe me, Old 17 is really, really old. I have lived in Monroe for more than 22 years and can't recall its ever being paved. The road is filled with potholes.
The potholes are patched. Some portions of the road are more patch then road.
It snows, the plows pull up the potholes. What's the point?
Possibly of even greater importance to me personally is that a couple of years ago my husband and I were in a single-car accident on this road. If there had been another car anywhere near us, it could have been fatal.
Because on a lovely day in February with no precipitation (no warnings of black ice) we skidded on an ice-filled pothole. The car did a full 360 spin-out and hit the rail (thank you for that rail!) on the other side.
Happily, we walked away from this and the car was repairable.
I note that I tried writing to Governor Cuomo at that time, via email, but was blown off in with a useless, pompous and insulting reply. I have many reasons for regretting that I voted for Governor Cuomo. I will not make that mistake again.
So, again, kudos for what's being done - but when will my road be fixed?
I am a registered Democrat and I vote.
Nedda F. Tichi
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stratgic rewards For SAS
Throughout the course you have been developing a final research paper addressing an HR/Compensation Rewards Systems for a particular organization. The Evaluation Research Project asks you to evaluate the appropriateness of a specific organization's HR compensation and benefit policies and practices in terms of their strategic goals, objectives, and mission. The subject of your paper is human resource practices, policies, and function. Your 8-10 page APA formatted, double-spaced paper will be the result of your having:Selected an organization that will allow you access to its human resource department and strategic materialsCollected information from the company regarding its HR/Compensation policies and practicesExamined information from the company's publications (e.g., Annual Reports, Web sites, etc.) concerning its performance and practicesAnalyzed and evaluated your findings, pinpointing practices and programs that (a) should be changed or modified to better meet the organization's performance objectives and (b) those currently in use that are optimal for their objectivesAssignment Checklist:Evaluate the relationship between strategic reward systems and an organizations ability to achieve business objectives.Examine company policies and procedures and practices found in company publications and articles on the organization completed by researchers.Evaluate findings, practiced, programs to determine correlation between strategic rewards systems and organizational success.Recommend reward initiatives to improve the relationship between rewards systems and organizational success.


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British Airways A318 g-eunb, originally uploaded by merlyn.pauley.
British Airways has launched a new executive service that is reminiscent in both route and patronage to the glory days of luxurious flying boats.
Carrying the Concorde's old route number (BA001*), passengers on this service depart London City Airport (EGLC) in the adorable (but short-legged) "Baby bus" A318, make a pit stop in Ireland for refuelling and US customs pre-clearance, then hop acoss the pond to New York/John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport (KJFK).
Jon Ostrower at Flightglobal's FlightBlogger has more details and a series of videos from CNN's Richad Quest. WARNING: Mr. Quest seems to be doing his best (and most annoying) Robin Leach impression of over-emoting at innocuous and unimportant details.
As for the service itself, I think there may be enough of a niche market sweet spot there to pay the bills. It might take a little longer than a nonstop flight, but there are some advantages. The prices are high enough to ensure that you wouldn't be flying with somebody's screaming brats, and the refuelling/customs delay might be just long enough to ensure that the plane won't be packed with patience-impaired instant-gratification junkies like celebutards.
There's something to be said for travelling in the company of those for whom the quality of the journey is more critical than its speed. I'd be willing to pay for such premium service from Toronto's downtown airport, if it were ever allowed to offer such a thing.
* Unlike other BA flights, Concorde typically had its aircraft type inserted into its callsign (for ease of ATC identification and handling), so "BA001" would be rendered "Speedbird Concorde 001."


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By Lana Yarosh – http://lanayarosh.com/2014/06/whitelist-chat-as-a-strategy-to-protect-children-online/
The ability to interact with other players is one of the most compelling aspects of online multiplayer games. However, in games for young children, there are obvious privacy and safety concerns in allowing unrestricted chatting. The state of the art solution, implemented in practically every online community for kids is "whitelist" chat (on some websites, combined with live monitoring). Whitelist chat means that only real dictionary words are allowed (bonus: helps spelling!) and certain real words (e.g., names of place and numbers) are excluded from this list. As an enthusiast of children's online communities, I've been fascinated by the many ways that children have found to get around these restriction. In this blog post, I will use the children's online game Petpet Parkas an example, though honestly it could be one of any number of communities (Roblox,Club Penguin, etc.).
In Petpet Park, children play a creature who does quests around town, plays mini games, buys clothes and toys, and decorates their own little corner of the world. The website combines a strict set of whitelist restrictions and live monitoring to ensure safe chat. However, kids always find a way!
Consider the public chat to the right (username removed for privacy). This person has found a creative way of combining real words ("train i dad" = Trinidad) and references to cultural landmarks ("cowboys" = USA, "place with that arch" = St. Louis) to discuss places of residence (a taboo topic on a children's website). I want to be clear that I am not criticizing Petpet Park. In fact, I was impressed that this discussion was almost immediately shut down by a live monitor (booting the over-sharing child off the server), but this behavior is quite common and the damage could be done before a monitor steps in. Here are some common ways that I've seen children getting around the rules:
- Typing a single letter on each chat line to spell out a forbidden word. (Not possible on all websites — Petpet Park does not allow this, for example)
- Using the letter "i" to convey numbers. (e.g., "I am i i i i i i i years old")
- Spelling out a non-whitelisted word using first letters of allowed words. (e.g., "Read only first letters. My name is Like Amazing Nutty Almonds.")
- Using the meanings of allowed words to convey forbidden information. (e.g., "I go to the school that's named after the guy that flew the kite.")
The point that I want to make is that no online community is going to be 100% safe. In particular, the state of the art whitelist strategy is only effective when augmented with live monitoring (and even then, it may be too little too late). Safe chat is not a replacement for parental engagement and keeping open lines of communication about online rules. The other thing to remember is that no online filter will ever be able to enforce empathy and kind interaction online or be able to protect the child from being excluded or hurt by others. Both conversations should be an important part of raising digital citizens.


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Shaping amplifiers are often used following the charge sensitive preamplifier stage and perform three functions: First, they provide an output pulse having a much faster return to the baseline than the charge sensitive preamplifier output pulse. This is especially important at high count rates, where pulses from consecutive events can 'pile up'. Secondly, shaping amplifiers filter noise from the preamplifier output signal. Finally, shaping amplifiers can also be used to provide extra gain to the signal, which may be very small (sub mV) at the preamplifier output.
In the example below, two oscilloscope traces are shown: the input (blue) and output (yellow) of a shaping amplifier (1μs shaping time) reading pulses from a charge sensitive preamplifier in the presence of noise. Not only does the shaping amplifier amplify the small pulses, but more importantly the fall time is quickened, greatly reducing the problem of pulses 'piling up' on the tails of preceding pulses. Also, the filtering effects of the shaping amplifier significantly filters the noise. This allows for pulses to be clearly detected that would be otherwise completely buried within the noise.
Cremat offers the CR-200 series of shaping amplifiers. They are available in eight different shaping times: 50ns, 100ns, 250ns, 500ns, 1μs, 2μs, 4μs, and 8μs. Each has a fixed gain. To achieve greater gains, a broadband amplification stage should be added between the charge sensitive preamplifier and the shaping amplifier. Cremat offers an evaluation board for the CR-200-X series amplifiers (CR-160-R7), which contains such a broadband amplifier. The combination of a CR-200-X series amplifier with the CR-160-R7 evaluation board creates a low noise shaping amplifier module complete with BNC connectors, variable gain and reversible polarity.
For pulse detection requiring medium to high counting rates or high resolution we recommend also using the CR-210 baseline restoration module.


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I was very excited about this month's SOS Kitchen Challenge ingredient of parsnips as I have never worked with them. I had ideas swirling in my head, and couldn't wait to get started. Plans went awry on November 10th when I was in a car accident. I am alright (my car is not), but I haven't really been up to a lot of baking.
I finally got to the first item this past holiday weekend, and have to say that I was very pleased with the results. These muffins are moist, and just exactly right for tossing in your lunch as a snack. The Monkey gave them a 10, and even my mother agreed that they were good (high praise). So without further ado, mostly as I am running out of time, here are these wonderful muffins.
Parsnip Applesauce Muffins
60 grams sorghum flour
30 grams brown rice flour
30 grams arrowroot starch
60 grams coconut palm sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
4 ounces applesauce
4 ounces non-dairy milk
2 ounces melted coconut oil
1 egg (or equivalent)
6 ounces grated parsnips
2 ounces raisins
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger. Combine milk and egg (substitute) together in a glass measuring cup. Add applesauce and coconut oil, and mix well. Stir in parsnips and raisins until combined. Pour into a greased 12 muffin pan, and bake for 30-40 minutes. Let cool and enjoy! Makes one dozen.


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Archive for February, 2013
Damn you @ThatKevinSmith!!!0
I have said many times, how much I truly loathe Grant Morrison… but Mr. Smith's podcast made me rethink the basis for my displeasure. Still think his run on Batman stinks… but… I sense a post coming soon.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.0
I sent @BestBuy an email about my 'experience' at store 1185… #fb0
I know, I know… sometimes I just can't drop something. My opinions about DC's New 52, Beast Wars and Grant Morrison have been hashed over and over in many different media forms. My last trip to Best Buy on the 19th has just really really rubbed me wrong. For those unfamiliar you can see all the details here.
On Wednesday, I penned an email (with my Reward Zone Number) to Corporate to see if they care about their 'Silver Members' and their opinions. Anyone want to make bets? *chuckle*
Oh, and this post is a test in traditional Tom Croom style.
Edit: And my test failed…
Strange things are afoot at the CircleK… #FB0
Yesterday's post made me realize I really need to update this much more often… but I also got an email from DC Entertainment today.
I have already 300+ hours in Borderlands 2… I really need to write something about that, and my Raspberry Pi experience (along with Xbian and OpenELEC), and my 2 Asus Tablets I have had since i wrote last about android tablets, and my opinions on Dredd, and how I don't buy comics any longer, and my visit to "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter", especially after I recently read my previous blog post about it.
I just need to write… and stuff. I haven't been complaining enough on the internet, though reading my older posts… I really am more 50/50 in my internet writing. My negative writing is just much more 'colorful'.
Today @BestBuy #1185 angered me to the point of writing again… #FB1
As much as I buy online, there are a number of things I need to feel and touch before I decide to make that major purchase. Those are normally Laptops, tablets and few other electronics. I also have a major issue with instant gratification. Yes, I know I can buy it later… cheaper, but I need it *NOW*. This is why I waited 2 hours in line at GenCon for a copy of Netrunner, that I have still never opened, but could have waited just 4 months and bought it from my local store, cheaper. I needed it NOW! I have bought from Best Buy a good bit, just looking at my Reward Zone account can tell you how much of my weekly take home goes to the electronics giant.
My dear wife, Katie McAwesome, turns the big 3-0 this weekend and I finally got her to tell me what she wanted; a waterproof camera for our upcoming anniversary cruise. We trekked far and wide looking for cameras, and finally found one she liked at Best Buy. Pretty simple… so you would think!
Tonight she's over at her friend's house doing their exercise 'thing'. BINGO! I can zip by and pick up the camera from the local Best Buy, lovely store #1185, the pride of Warner Robins. I drop by the computer section to take a look at Microsoft Surface Pro, maybe on the off chance they have a 128GB version available. A very nice man, Zavier, did some checking for me and was unable to find one, but told me to give the store a call on Friday morning. If I was lucky, I may be able to secure one. I shook his hand, and headed over to the keyboards. Picked up a K400 for my XBMC machine upstairs. So far, so good, a real positive experience… head over to the camera section. Mrs. McAwesome decided on a Fujifilm camera, so I decided to drop by and check the stats on the camera she wanted. Then things got bad…
I stood there for a few minutes and circled the camera section… two customers approached me thinking I worked there. After the second person approached me I posted a snarky comment to Foursquare…
Please remind me again why I even try to buy from here? (@ Best Buy) 4sq.com/XtctdF
— Joey Snackpants (@JoeySnackpants) February 19, 2013
This is when things really got Twilight Zone level weird… Normally when I am at a Best Buy, I have so many 'associates' crawling up my back, I can't shake them. That might be the case because I am normally in the PC/Tablet area, but here in the camera section, it is was like I was wearing a weird stealth suit, or maybe they thought I worked there, like the rest of their customers did. I got to that 'I can't believe this is happening' state, and then attempted to make eye contact with the 'blue shirts' as they walked by. I was dumbfounded, three passed me by, not even giving me a second glance. I was then growing completely irritable, when I saw coming from the back room, earpiece in, keys jingling, with his, "I'll be right up front in a moment" statement over the radio, the Manager on Duty. I moved to try to get into his path of movement and ZOOOOM he went by… Which of course sent me into the stratosphere and this tweet…
Wow @bestbuy the MOD and 3 'associates' walk right by avoiding eye contact. I'm done. Guess my money isn't good here. — Joey Snackpants (@JoeySnackpants) February 20, 2013
At that point I was fit to be tied. So I walked back to the keyboard section, put my K400 back on the shelf and promptly walked out the store. AND NOT A SINGLE ASSOCIATE SAID A WORD TO ME. Not the three grouped together talking in the cell phone section, not the girl restocking the BluRays, not the two headed to the break area, and not even the Loss Prevention guy at the door. I am not shocked in the least that Best Buy is closing stores around the country and why people view it as a show room for Amazon, because that is where I will be purchasing my camera from this evening.
Oh you want to know the real capper to this story, the proverbial 'cherry on top'? Even though there was a model on display… the camera was NOT EVEN IN STOCK!
"Best Buy Support" was very 'nice' to give me an apology
@joeysnackpants I'm sorry to hear that, they should have asked if you needed assistance. ^BI
— Best Buy Support (@BestBuySupport) February 20, 2013
I am reminded of something my best friend, Mr. Tom Croom once said,
If Best Buy would like to fix the problem, I will be happy to talk to them, or even if the Store Manager or MOD would like, I'm open to that. Please drop me a line at "JoeySnackpants (at) Hotmail (dot) com"…
Tomorrow will probably entail me calling people at corporate, because this blog post made me realize exactly how upset I truly am.


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Time : 60 minutes TOTAL MARKS : 60
1. Write an essay on any ONE of the four topics given below, in about 300 words:
a) Uses of Public Library
b) Smoking Should Be Banned In Public Places
c) Festivals Of India Abroad
d) The Qualities Of A Good Citizen (20 marks)
2. Attempt a Precis of each of the following passage in your own words, reducing it to about a third of its present length and assigning a short appropriate title. (20 marks)
Now Jumman had an old relation, a maternal aunt, who had some property. This she transferred to him by a deed on the understanding that she would be well-looked after. So long as the deed remained unregistered, none was so obliging to the old lady as her nephew, none so considerate to her. Her every wish was anticipated and cheerfully carried out. But every thing changed the moment the deed was registered. Jumman who used to wait dotingly on his old aunt now became supremely indifferent. His wife, Kiariman, went even further. She grudged even the little food that the old lady ate. The meal was now served to her without Kariman letting loose a barb or two dipped in gall or poison. The very bread that the aunt ate seemed to be seasoned with the meal of abuse. And this went on mounting. Kariman would say, "How long is the old lady going to live? By giving us a few acres of waste land, she thinks she has bought us. She is a great lady who can't swallow a morsel without her dal being seasoned with ghee! We could have purchased a whole (village with the money sped on her feeding".
(202 words)
3. Your brother Niraj loves to keep himself busy in reading books during his leisure hours. He stays in his study most of the times. Write a letter to your brother advising him not to be a book-worm. (20 marfks)
You are requested to read this and try to write in your own words
1. (a) Uses Of Public Library
"Some books are to be tasted; other to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested". These are the oft-quoted words of famous writer, Francies Bacon. In the present - day economic situation, what with inflation and high cost of living and the exorbitant price of books, it has become increasingly difficult for the common man to buy books, however much, he may want to do so.
But one's interest in books does not diminish. So, if you cannot buy books, how do you satisfy that craving for tasting, swallowing, chewing and digesting them? The answer is-a public library?
A public library caters to your reading tastes at a reasonable cost which is well within the reach of most people. On becoming a member of such a library, you can borrow books from it for a set period of time. Even if you are not a member, in most libraries you can make use of the reading room and benefit from a large selection of books.
The variety of books offered by a public library is stupendous. Not only are all the branches of knowledge represented, but within each section there is a wide range of authors and material. Besides, there is a reference section which has the most important books on every subject. At these cannot be borrowed and taken out of the library, they are always available to a person who wants to check up on something at short notice. You can sit and read any book of your choice, make notes if you like, or even get the relevant pages Photostat, for these days most of the big public libraries offer this facility.
A public library caters to the tastes of all sorts of readers highbrow or lowbrow. The intellectual finds enough in it to occupy his (or her) mind; the professor can browse among the word's best writers on his particular interest; the student can gather research material and the lay reader all the pleasures of a whole range of imaginative literature from the classics to the latest fiction. And if you want to look up some facts on the flora and fauna of Polynesia, you can simply take down the relevant volume of an encyclopedia and find out all you want. If it is not to be found in one encyclopedia, it is bound to be there in another. After all, it is not practicable to buy all the encyclopedias of the word and store them at home.
So, if you are a bookworm and of moderate means of income, where else can you find happiness except in a public library?
2. Title: Ingratitude
Jumman had an old aunt, She had some property. She gave it to Jumman on assurance that he would maintain her. Before the registration of deed he was hospitable to her but after, registration he neglected her. His wife's treatment was rose. She abused her while giving even the little food she (aunt) ate and wished her early death. The aunt's troubles increased every day (66 Words)
3. ANANDAN.A. 2, M K Amman Koil Street Mylapore, Chennai 600004
Date: 18.4.2013
It is said: All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. It is gratifying that you have stood first in the Board Examination. Boy! we are proud of your performance. But sorry, this top position at what cost? If any thing is obtained at the cost of health, is no plus point at all. You know very well that health is wealth. If you lose the true wealth then, you are a loser in the battle of life. Brain is better than brown (muscle power). But mind you, I do not want you to be a wrestler or a body-builder but at the same time I do be a wrestler or a body builder put at the same time I do not wish to see. You sick and ailing.
Read the much of books what is necessary. A trail and weak person has no place in the society. The weaker must go to the wall. An ailing person is a liability for himself as well as the society. He cannot do any good to anyone. Too much studious is bad-thing. What pleasure do you derive by being a book-worm?
Leave you bed and books early in the morning. Go to some park or garden. Play one game or the other. Have jogging quite after. Go out for a long walk or a patrol. Enlist your name to a game club. Boy, do play the game of your choice. Take plenty of exercises. Inhale and exhale your breath in the lap of nature. Inculcate the habit of deep breathing. Be in the company of birds, flowers and green grass.
Cleanse your lungs of all smoke and dirt. Massage your body once a week. All good things of life can best be enjoyed by a healthy person.
With love,
Yours affectionately,


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By following the instructions in Section 17.0, Installing the GroupWise 2012 Software, you have installed the GroupWise 2012 MTA for the primary domain. You have also copied the GroupWise 2012 data dictionary (.dc) files to the primary domain. To finish updating the primary domain, you need to start the GroupWise 2012 MTA. The MTA uses the new domain dictionary file (gwdom.dc) to update the domain database to version 2012.
Stop the previous version of the GroupWise MTA in the primary domain.
Follow the instructions for your platform to start the GroupWise 2012 MTA for your primary domain.
The MTA then updates the primary domain database (wpdomain.db) to GroupWise 2012.
IMPORTANT:Before you update post offices in the primary domain or any secondary domains in your system, make sure that the primary domain database has been updated.
In ConsoleOne:
Select the GroupWise System object, then selectin the drop-down list.
Click, move from the list to the list, then click .
When the database version for the primary domains displays 12 (short for 2012), you are ready to proceed further with the update process.
IMPORTANT:Updating a large domain database can take 20 minutes or more. If you do not wait until the update runs to completion, you might encounter database versioning discrepancies. If such discrepancies occur, see
MTA Fails to Update the Domain Database Version in
Strategies for Agent Problems in GroupWise 2012 Troubleshooting 2: Solutions to Common Problems.
To update secondary domains, continue with the next section, Updating Secondary Domains.
To update post offices in the primary domain, skip to Section 20.0, Updating Post Offices.
To update additional GroupWise agents or applications in the primary domain, see:


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Sunday Dec. 6 marks the birthday of Evelyn Underhill…
Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 – 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.
In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century. No other book of its type—until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy—met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911. (via Wikipedia)
Mysticism was a central focus of Underhill's work. She defines it:
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. The mystic is a person who has attained that union in greater or less degree; or who aims at and believes in such attainment.


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- Research
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The effect of extremely narrow MLC leaf width on the plan quality of VMAT for prostate cancer
© The Author(s). 2016
- Received: 6 November 2015
- Accepted: 21 June 2016
- Published: 23 June 2016
To investigate the effect of multi-leaf collimators (MLCs) with leaf width of 1.25 mm on the plan quality of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for prostate cancer.
A total of 20 patients with prostate cancer were retrospectively selected. Using a high definition MLC (HD MLC), primary and boost VMAT plans with two full arcs were generated for each patient (original plan). After that, by shifting the isocenter position of the 2nd arc by 1.25 mm in the cranio-caudal direction, we simulated fluences made with MLCs with leaf width of 1.25 mm. After shifting, primary and boost plans were generated for each patient (shifted plan). A sum plan was generated by summation of the primary and boost plan for each patient. Dose-volumetric parameters were calculated and compared.
Both the homogeneity index (HI) and conformity index (CI) of the shifted plans were better than those of the original plans in primary plans (HI = 0.065 vs. 0.059 with p < 0.001 and CI = 1.056 vs. 1.044 with p = 0.006). Similarly, the shifted plans for the boost target volume showed better homogeneity and conformity than did the original plans (HI = 0.060 vs. 0.053 with p < 0.001 and CI = 1.015 vs. 1.009 with p < 0.001). The target mean dose of the original plans was closer to the prescription dose than that of the shifted plans in the case of sum plans (81.45 Gy vs. 81.12 Gy with p = 0.001).
Use of extremely narrow MLCs could increase dose homogeneity and conformity of the target volume for prostate VMAT.
- Multi-leaf collimator
- Leaf width
- Volumetric modulated arc therapy
- Prostate cancer
Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) has been widely adopted in the clinic due to its superior ability to generate optimal dose distributions that deliver prescription doses to target volumes while reducing dose to radiosensitive organs [1–3]. Moreover, VMAT is more efficient in delivery than is intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), spending fewer monitor units (MUs) as well as taking less time to deliver a dose distribution to the patient [4–6]. To acquire the optimal dose distribution, VMAT modulates photon beam intensities by varying multi-leaf collimator (MLC) positions, gantry rotation speed and dose rate, simultaneously, while rotating the gantry around the patient [1, 7–9]. For VMAT, the resolution of the modulated photon beam intensities, i.e. the resolution of fluence, is determined by the MLC leaf width, just as in IMRT [8, 9].
The resolution of the fluence can affect the quality of a plan, which impacts treatment efficacy as well as complications due to radiotherapy. Therefore, several studies have investigated the relationship between MLC leaf width and the quality of IMRT plans [10–12]. They showed that finer leaf widths can result in more conformal dose distributions for target volumes and less dose delivered to normal tissue when the target volumes were small and IMRT was used. Rodal et al. demonstrated that MLCs with fine leaf widths were advantageous for biologically adapted radiotherapy, showing the highest tumor control probability (TCP) and compartmental equivalent uniform dose (EUD) when using the finest MLCs among those they tested, which were MLCs with leaf width of 2.5 mm [11]. Shang et al. demonstrated the dosimetric advantage of utilizing narrow MLC leaves in terms of target volume coverage of prostate IMRT when the treatment was adapted to consider daily prostate movements for simultaneous irradiation of both prostate and pelvic lymph nodes [12]. For VMAT, few studies have investigated the effect of MLC leaf width on the plan quality [10, 13]. Hong et al. have shown the dosimetric advantage of using MLCs with leaf width of 2.5 mm for VMAT for C-shaped head and neck (H&N) cancer by performing a phantom study [10]. Lafond et al. demonstrated that finer MLCs could reduce dose to organs at risk (OARs) for H&N cancer by analyzing a total of 16 VMAT plans [13].
Although several studies have reported the effects of MLC leaf width on the plan quality of VMAT, those studies were performed with currently available MLCs such as the high-definition 120™ MLC (HD 120™ MLC, Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA), Millennium 120™ MLC (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA) and the Beam Modulator™ (Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden) [10, 13]. Therefore, those studies were limited to the leaf width of 2.5 mm, the narrowest leaf commercially available at present. Consequently, the effect of MLC leaf widths narrower than 2.5 mm on VMAT plan quality is unknown. Since it is not clear whether the use of extremely narrow MLCs with leaf widths less than 2.5 mm is advantageous for VMAT plan quality or not, we investigated the impact on plan quality by simulation of virtual MLCs with leaf width of 1.25 mm. Since there is currently no commercially available MLC with 1.25 mm leaf width, we simulated VMAT plans with those MLCs as described below. We generated two full arc VMAT plans with the HD 120™ MLC for prostate cancer, with shifting of the isocenter position of the 2nd arc by 1.25 mm. Although the width of the MLC leaves were still 2.5 mm for each arc, due to VMAT plans consisting of each arc summed together, a 1.25 mm resolution could be simulated through the superposition of two arcs, with a 1.25 mm shift between the arcs. Although this was not a VMAT plan with real MLCs, we assumed that it was a single arc VMAT plan with fluence resolution of 1.25 mm. After simulating the plans, we compared dose-volumetric parameters between the original VMAT plans with two full arcs and no patient shift against the shifted VMAT plans with two full arcs which were assumed to be a single arc VMAT plan with 1.25 mm MLC leaf width. By doing this, we investigated the effect of MLCs with leaf width of 1.25 mm on prostate VMAT plan quality in this study.
Validation of the fine resolution MLC simulation by CT image shift method
To examine the validity of the simulated 1.25 mm width MLCs, created by shifting the isocenter position of the 2nd arc by 1.25 mm using an HD 120™ MLC, we simulated 2.5 mm width MLCs by shifting the isocenter position of a solid water phantom by 2.5 mm with 5 mm width MLCs (Millennium 120™ MLC) in the Eclipse™ system (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA). After that, the dose profile of this simulation was compared to that of real 2.5 mm width MLCs (HD 120™ MLC).
For the simulation of 2.5 mm width MLCs by using a CT image shift, one Millennium 120™ MLC in the middle was fully retracted and other MLCs were fully closed. A 10 MV photon beam with 100 MU was delivered to a solid water phantom at a source to surface distance (SSD) of 100 cm. After that, phantom CT images were shifted along the cranio-caudal direction by 2.5 mm and the photon beam with 100 MC was delivered again. A dose profile was analysed along the cranio-caudal direction at a depth of 2.5 cm. For acquisition of the profile with the real 2.5 mm MLCs, the HD 120™ MLC leaf in the middle was fully retracted and other MLC leaves were fully closed. A 10 MV photon beam with 200 MU was delivered to the solid water phantom at 100 cm SSD. After that, only neighbouring upper and lower MLCs from the middle MLC were opened, and a photon beam with 100 MU was delivered. A dose profile was analysed along the cranio-caudal direction at a depth of 2.5 cm. In addition, a dose profile of the 1.25 mm MLC simulation with the same method as the 2.5 mm simulation was acquired with the HD 120™ MLC.
Patient selection and simulation
A total of 20 patients with prostate cancer who received VMAT in our institution were selected retrospectively for this study. All patients underwent CT scans with a Brilliance CT Big Bore™ (Philips, Cleveland, OH) with slice thickness of 1.5 mm. The resolution of the CT images was 0.98 mm × 0.98 mm (the size of CT voxel = 1.5 × 0.98 × 0.98 mm3). Patients were immobilized with a Smart Rest™ (Chunsung, Seoul, Republic of Korea), which is a combination of kneefix and feetfix, in the supine position.
Generation of original VMAT plans
Dose volume constraints for target volumes as well as organs at risk
Initial dose volume constraints
Relative priority
Primary plan
Primary PTV
D100% ≥ 99.5 % of the prescription dose
D98% ≥ 100 % of the prescription dose
D2% ≤ 101 % of the prescription dose
Dmax ≤ 102 % of the prescription dose
Rectal wall
V44Gy ≤ 20 %
V30Gy ≤ 50 %
V44Gy ≤ 20 %
V30Gy ≤ 50 %
Femoral heads
V23Gy ≤ 50 %
Boost plan
Boost PTV
D100% ≥ 99.5 % of the prescription dose
D98% ≥ 100 % of the prescription dose
D2% ≤ 101 % of the prescription dose
Dmax ≤ 102 % of the prescription dose
Rectal wall
V22Gy ≤ 20 %
V18Gy ≤ 50 %
V22Gy ≤ 20 %
V18Gy ≤ 50 %
Femoral heads
V12Gy ≤ 50 %
Simulation of VMAT plans using MLCs with 1.25 mm leaf width (generation of shifted VMAT plans)
To simulate VMAT plans using MLCs with leaf width of 1.25 mm, i.e. half of 2.5 mm, we generated two full arc VMAT plans, and the isocenter position of the 2nd arc was shifted in the inferior direction of the patients by 1.25 mm. Although the width of the MLCs were 2.5 mm for each arc, the resolution of a fluence for a VMAT plan consisting of the two arcs would be 1.25 mm due to the superposition of those two arcs. We assumed those VMAT plans were a single arc VMAT plan with fluence resolution of 1.25 mm (shifted plan). When shifting the isocenter position of the 2nd arc by 1.25 mm, we ensured that the target volumes were fully covered by 2.5 mm MLCs (inner MLCs of HD 120™ MLC). All conditions when generating shifted VMAT plans, including dose-volumetric constraints used during the optimization process, were identical to those of the original VMAT plans with the exception of the shift of the isocenter position of the 2nd arc. Both primary and boost plans were generated and normalized to cover 97 % of the target volume by at least 97 % of the prescription dose, just as in the original VMAT plans. The sum plans were generated by summation of the primary and boost plans.
Evaluation of dosimetric changes in the shifted VMAT plans compared to the original VMAT plans
From the sum plan, the mean dose to the boost target volume and D1%, D99%, D95% of the boost target volume were calculated. For the primary target volume, the mean dose to the primary target volume and D99%, D95% of the primary target volume were calculated. For OARs, mean dose, V70Gy, V47Gy and D50% of rectal wall as well as bladder were calculated. For each femoral head, D50% and the maximum dose were calculated. To investigate dose spillage in the normal tissue, V81Gy (100 % of 81Gy), V72.9Gy (90 % of 81Gy), V64.8Gy (80 % of 81Gy), V50.4Gy (100 % of 50.4 Gy), V45.36Gy (90 % of 50.4 Gy), V40.32Gy (80 % of 50.4 Gy) and V8.1Gy (10 % of 81 Gy) of the primary target volume subtracted from the body structure were calculated. To investigate the statistical significance of the differences between the original and shifted VMAT plans, p values were calculated using the paired t-test, with p values less than 0.05 regarded as statistically significant in this study.
Validation of the fine resolution MLC simulation by the shift method
Differences in dose-volumetric parameters between original and shifted primary VMAT plans
Average dose-volumetric parameters of primary plans
Original plan
Shifted plan
Primary target volume
D1% (Gy)
51.99 ± 0.36
51.71 ± 0.31
Mean dose (Gy)
50.70 ± 0.22
50.50 ± 0.20
D99% (Gy)
47.87 ± 0.36
47.94 ± 0.32
D95% (Gy)
49.33 ± 0.08
49.30 ± 0.07
D5% (Gy)
51.58 ± 0.33
51.32 ± 0.31
99.07 ± 0.36
99.15 ± 0.35
Conformity index
1.06 ± 0.05
1.04 ± 0.04
Homogeneity index
0.07 ± 0.01
0.06 ± 0.01
Normal tissue
Gradient measure (cm)
1.86 ± 0.18
2.01 ± 0.26
Monitor Unit (MU)
532 ± 115
572 ± 117
Differences in dose-volumetric parameters between original and shifted boost VMAT plans
Average dose-volumetric parameters of boost plans
Original plan
Shifted plan
Boost target volume
D1% (Gy)
31.43 ± 0.24
31.26 ± 0.31
Mean dose (Gy)
30.71 ± 0.17
30.57 ± 0.17
D99% (Gy)
29.18 ± 0.10
29.25 ± 0.09
D95% (Gy)
29.92 ± 0.05
29.89 ± 0.04
D5% (Gy)
31.20 ± 0.22
31.02 ± 0.24
99.24 ± 0.22
99.38 ± 0.21
Conformity index
1.02 ± 0.02
1.01 ± 0.02
Homogeneity index
0.06 ± 0.01
0.05 ± 0.01
Normal tissue
Gradient measure (cm)
1.66 ± 0.26
1.94 ± 0.47
Monitor Unit (MU)
470 ± 59
495 ± 61
Differences in dose-volumetric parameters between original and shifted sum VMAT plans
Average dose-volumetric parameters of sum plans
Original plan
Shifted plan
Boost target volume
D1% (Gy)
83.00 ± 0.39
82.55 ± 0.34
Mean dose (Gy)
81.45 ± 0.32
81.12 ± 0.28
D99% (Gy)
77.98 ± 0.44
78.11 ± 0.37
D95% (Gy)
79.76 ± 0.33
79.68 ± 0.29
Primary target volume
Mean dose (Gy)
77.33 ± 2.22
77.04 ± 2.25
D99% (Gy)
55.11 ± 4.17
55.01 ± 4.23
D95% (Gy)
59.42 ± 6.27
59.16 ± 6.32
Rectal wall
V70Gy (%)
10.56 ± 3.08
10.38 ± 3.08
V47Gy (%)
32.40 ± 10.04
31.21 ± 9.51
D50% (Gy)
32.18 ± 11.35
31.22 ± 11.43
Mean dose (Gy)
36.68 ± 7.05
36.06 ± 6.97
V70Gy (%)
6.44 ± 4.42
6.37 ± 4.36
V47Gy (%)
14.35 ± 8.62
14.19 ± 8.51
D50% (Gy)
12.58 ± 10.11
12.39 ± 10.00
Mean dose (Gy)
20.62 ± 9.52
20.43 ± 9.46
Right femoral head
D50% (Gy)
15.09 ± 2.31
14.88 ± 2.39
Maximum dose (Gy)
27.51 ± 4.10
27.54 ± 4.44
Left femoral head
D50% (Gy)
15.01 ± 3.55
14.79 ± 3.51
Maximum dose (Gy)
26.68 ± 3.62
27.34 ± 4.65
Whole body including target volume
V81Gy (cc)
60.92 ± 14.85
48.96 ± 11.68
Body – primary target volume
V81Gy (cc)
0.12 ± 0.13
0.07 ± 0.08
V72.9Gy (cc)
19.23 ± 4.74
18.77 ± 4.59
V64.8Gy (cc)
43.53 ± 9.61
43.08 ± 9.65
V50.4Gy (cc)
117.78 ± 23.83
117.06 ± 24.26
V45.36Gy (cc)
163.60 ± 31.56
163.02 ± 32.28
V40.32Gy (cc)
226.73 ± 42.88
226.39 ± 44.16
V8.1Gy (cc)
2963.81 ± 366.10
2979.18 ± 366.93
In this study, we investigated the effect of creating finer resolution fluences on the plan quality of VMAT for prostate cancer by simulating MLCs with 1.25 mm leaf width. The results of both primary and boost plans showed that the dose homogeneity as well as target conformity could be improved by using MLCs with leaf width of 1.25 mm, which was simulated in this study (all with p < 0.007). When generating a sum plan, piling up the dose distribution of a boost plan on the homogeneous dose distribution inside a primary target volume can produce high dose conformity to the boost target volume in a sum plan. Therefore, conformity of the boost target volume in a sum plan was much improved by using fine resolution MLCs, while maintaining the same dose coverage of the target volume (V81Gy of normal tissue of the original vs. shifted sum plans = 0.12 cc vs. 0.07 cc with p = 0.083). In sequential radiotherapy of a patient, improved dose homogeneity and conformity of the primary and the boost plan induced by the fine resolution MLCs were beneficial for the improving the conformity of the boost target volume in a sum plan. The results showing improved conformity by using fine resolution MLCs were in agreement with the results of previous studies on MLC leaf width [10, 13]. The previous studies also demonstrated that fine resolution MLCs (up to 2.5 mm leaf width) can reduce dose to OARs. In this study, the dose-volumetric parameters for OARs indicated slight reduction of dose by using 1.25 mm MLCs, however, no statistically significant differences between original and the shifted VMAT plans were observed for OARs. For each primary and boost plan, the average values of GM of the shifted plans were higher than those of the original plans, which indicated more irradiation by the intermediate dose in the shifted plans. However, the differences were small: 1.5 mm for the primary plans and 2.8 mm for the boost plans. Moreover, the normal tissue volumes irradiated by certain doses (Table 4) of the shifted plans were always smaller than those of the original plans except for V8.1Gy. Therefore, no clinically significant differences were observed in normal tissues between the original and the shifted plans in this study. Since the present study was not performed with real 1.25 mm width MLCs but rather performed with the superposition of 2.5 mm width MLCs by shifting the isocenter position of the 2nd arc by 1.25 mm, the degree of freedom of modulation was limited in the present study. For example, if one MLC retracted and delivered 100 MU at a specific control point, the MUs of two neighbouring beamlets (width of beamlet = 1.25 mm) by this MLC were both 100 MUs. Therefore, this limitation of degree of freedom in optimization might cause less improvement in dose-volumetric parameters of OARs and also normal tissues. In addition, the original plans were generated with two full arcs while the shifted plans were generated with a single arc with fluence resolution of 1.25 mm (2 full arcs with 2.5 mm resolution vs. 1 full arc with 1.25 mm resolution). Since previous study has demonstrated that the plan quality of a VMAT plan with multiple arcs is better than that with a single arc, distinguishable improvement in OARs might not be observed in this study [18]. Although 1 full arc was used for the shifted plans, the target conformity and homogeneity were better than those of the original plans with 2 full arcs.
To simulate VMAT plans with 1.25 mm MLC leaf width, we shifted the isocenter position of the 2nd arc. Therefore, we couldn't evaluate the negative effect of MLCs with leaf width of 1.25 mm, such as increased tongue-and-groove effect or greater interleaf leakage at the leaf junctions. Although this was a limitation of this study, we were able to identify roughly the advantage of MLCs with narrow leaf width on clinically relevant dose-volumetric parameters in this study. This data could serve as a basis as well as a motivation for the development of new MLCs with extremely narrow leaf width.
The dosimetric advantages for OARs in sum plans were observed, although the differences between the original and shifted VMAT plans were not statistically significant. Moreover, MLCs with 1.25 mm leaf width may reduce irradiation of normal tissue by high and intermediate doses in sum plans. The decreased doses to the OARs are meaningful in conjunction with the observed improved dose homogeneity and conformity of the target volume. If we increase the number of samples, statistically significant differences might be acquired. This will be done as a future work.
In theory, MLCs with extremely narrow leaf width can allow a better match of the beam aperture to the target projection, and allow high resolution photon beam optimization with generation of precise field apertures [10]. Consequently, some clinically relevant dose-volumetric parameters, such as dose homogeneity in the target volume, conformity of the prescription dose to the target volume and slight reductions of doses to OARs and reduction of normal tissue irradiation by high dose were improved, while maintaining the same target coverage as conventional MLCs in this study. The improved dose homogeneity of the target volume was beneficial, especially for sequential treatment such as radiotherapy for prostate cancer, since the improved homogeneity of a primary plan induced improved conformity in sum plans. Thus, VMAT plans with extremely fine resolution MLCs might have an important role in tackling challenging prostate cases such as prostate patients with rectal wall very close to the target volume. Moreover, the reduction of high dose irradiation of normal tissue as well as the improvement of conformity of the prescription dose to the target volume by using MLCs with extremely narrow leaf width could be beneficial in many other treatment situations. For example, reducing the maximum dose delivered to OARs located nearby the target volume, such as during stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) of spine cancer. Although in this study we investigated the dosimetric advantage of fine resolution MLCs only on VMAT plans for prostate cancer, other tumor sites which could take advantage of MLCs with extremely narrow leaf width will be investigated as a future work.
We investigated the effect of MLCs with extremely narrow leaf widths of 1.25 mm on VMAT plan quality for prostate cancer. We simulated 1.25 mm MLC leaf widths by shifting the isocenter position of the 2nd arc of the VMAT plans using an HD 120™ MLC. The VMAT plans with the simulated fine resolution MLCs showed better dose homogeneity inside the target volume, better target conformity and less dose to normal tissue nearby the target volume, which was irradiated by high and intermediate doses, while maintaining the same target coverage by the prescription dose. It seems that MLCs with extremely narrow leaf width are beneficial during sequential radiotherapy due to the reduction of dose to normal tissue nearby the target volume.
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Our data included the patient information, so we cannot share our planning data.
AAA, anisotropic analytic algorithm; CI, aonformity index; D n%, dose received by at least n% volume of the structure; DVH, dose-volume histogram; EUD, equivalent uniform dose; FWHM, full width at half maximum; GM, gradient measure; H&N, head and neck; HD 120™ MLC, high-definition 120™ multi-leaf collimator; HI, homogeneity index; IMRT, intensity modulated radiation therapy; MLC, multi-leaf collimator; MU, monitor unit; OAR, mrgan at risk; PRO, progressive resolution optimizer; SABR, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy; SSD, source to surface distance; TCP, tumor control probability; VMAT, volumetric modulated arc therapy; V n%, volume irradiated by at least n% of the prescription dose
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2015R1C1A1A02036331).
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2015R1C1A1A02036331). It included the study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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At first I was going to write few words about my favourite Samael record "Ceremony of Opposites", an album that is very important to me and which I love ever since I heard it for the first time back in 1994. But then I realized that no one ever talks about "Rebellion" EP from 1995, so I changed my mind and here's short "Rebellion" review instead.
Definitely the time between 1994, when "Ceremony..." was released and 1996, when "Passage" came out, was a period of great change in Samael sound and style. The band had been drastically walking away from their original style and basically became completely different band. "Rebellion" is like a great bridge between both albums. It combines the darkness and harshness of earlier Samael with symphonic and sort of futuristic sound of what was yet to come with album number four. I have to say that I'm big fan of "Ceremony of Opposites" as well as "Passage". I like both albums a lot, so I obviously love to listen to "Rebellion" as well, because there are some fantastic songs on it.
First there's a title track, which is very much in the vein of songs from "Passage", but yet with the sound and atmosphere closer to "Ceremony...". I love this song, it's so damn catchy and memorable, there are great vocals of Vorph in it, some good keyboard parts. It's still quite harsh and aggressive sounding tune and it's probably one of the last such songs in the long Samael career, which I believe can speak to the fans of their older albums.
Some of these fans of old Samael may have problems with new versions of old classics "After the Sepulture" and "Into the Pentagram". Some people just don't like to hear their favourite songs in new versions, especially from bands, which used to have such a cold and obscure sound like Samael on their debut LP. And which later went through such a (r)evolution. I don't care, I have no such problems at all and I can only say that they are fantastic re-recordings and they didn't loose anything from their original powerful sound and dark aura. The band redone them in great way, they basically match the "Passage" era perfectly, with keyboards having a big influence on them now... but the riffs still sound great and heavy, I like these versions a lot.
A real jewel on the whole EP is definitely Alice Cooper's "I Love the Dead" cover. Wow, just wow! What a killer track! I never knew the original song, only few years ago I played it to check what is it like (and I didn't like it so much haha). But damn, Samael did a very good job with it. This song sounds like an instant catchy motherfucker, the chorus, when Vorph sings (!) "I Love the Dead" is awesome and you just have to like it. With the keyboards and relatively not-heavy riffs, this song is very easy to listen to and even your mother will like it, I bet haha.
And everything is completed with two versions of "Static Journey", which is basically an instrumental ambient song. The first version is quite nice orchestral piece, which sounds good as an intro or something. The second version is completely unnecessary in my opinion and I usually skip it. Anyway, I have to say that "Rebellion" is fantastic EP and it is definitely one of my favourite Samael releases.
Standout tracks: almost all of them!
Final rate: 90/100


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Thoughts on Hope – 9
It was a chilly, overcast day when the horseman spied the little sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. Reining in his mount, he looked down and inquired of the fragile creature, "Why are you lying upside down like that?"
"I heard the heavens are going to fall today," replied the bird.
The horseman laughed. "And I suppose your spindly legs can hold up the heavens?"
"One does what one can," said the little sparrow.
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Health Care Reform Update: Notice to Employees about the Exchange Notification Requirement
The US Department of Labor (DOL) issued new guidance on the Employer Requirement to Notify Employees about the Health Insurance Exchange. This guidance is effective immediately and can be followed until DOL issues new information.
The notice must be provided in writing, either by mail or electronically, to all employees, even if they are not eligible for health insurance coverage under your plan.
The information attached reflects federal guidance as of May 2013. We'll keep you updated when new guidance becomes available.
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Win a Holiday with Trivago, in the Tuscan Countryside
Have you already thought about your next holidays?
The delightful medieval town of Casole d'Elsa, located near Siena (Tuscany) hosts a residence called Borgo al Cerro offering several apartments endowed with any kind of comfort and many services dedicated to the guests' wellness, such as massages, swimming-pools, keep-fit area and much more.
Borgo al Cerro is a wonderful Residence near Siena placed in the middle of the countryside and surrounded by the Tuscan rolling hills. From here, it's possible to easily reach several famous and interesting Tuscan cities and ancient towns, like Florence, Volterra or San Gimignano
In addition, this year Borgo al Cerro joins the fabulous initiative promoted by Trivago, Europe's biggest hotel price comparison, which make you win a free holiday!
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My name is Krystof Litomisky.
I solve problems. I like adventure, engineering, photography, and a whole lot of other stuff.
I have a passion for creating intelligent systems. I'm currently the CEO at Ecogate, where we make the world's most advanced control system for industrial dust collection. Before that, I wrote computer vision code at KeyMe, which is revolutionizing the key-copying process and the locksmith industry in general. Prior to that, I spent some time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, primarily working on the DARPA ARM robot.
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Unikernels, and the Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System
The Communications of the ACM have just published an article that Dave Scott and I wrote providing a broader background on the concept of Unikernels that we've been working on since about 2003, when we started building Melange and the Xen toolstack. You can read either the print article (requires an ACM subscription) or the open access version on the ACM Queue. There's been some interesting discussion about it already online:
On Reddit, a number of queries about how it fits into the space of containers, microkernels and other experimental operating systems.
Coverage from eWeek, InfoWorld and Linux.com, and a couple of interviews on InfoQ covering Mirage and my book on OCaml that give more background on the project.
Two of the most interesting bits of feedback for me personally came from Butler Lampson (via Jon Crowcroft) and Robert Harper, two computer scientists who have made key contributions to operating systems and programming languages and provided some broader perspective.
Butler Lampson points out (edited for the web):
I found the Mirage work quite interesting: a 21st century version of things that we did at Xerox in the 1970s. Of course the application domain is quite different, and so is the whole-program optimization. And we couldn't afford garbage collection, so freeing storage was not type-safe. But there are lots of interesting parallels.
The "OS as libraries" idea was what made it possible to fit big applications into the Alto's 128k bytes of memory:
Lampson and Sproull, An open operating system for a single-user machine, ACM Operating Systems Rev. 11, 5 (Dec. 1979), pp 98-105. ACM.
The use of strong type-checking and interfaces for an OS was pioneered in [Mesa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language%29) and [Pilot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(operating_system%29):
Lauer and Satterthwaite, The impact of Mesa on system design, Proc. 4th ICSE, Munich, Sep. 1979, pp 174-182.
Redell et al, Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer, Comm. ACM 23, 2 (Feb 1980), pp 81-92 (from 7th SOSP, 1979). ACM
Robert Harper correctly points out some related work that was missing from our CACM article:
FoxNet is an implementation of the standard TCP/IP networking protocol stack using the Standard ML (SML) language. It was part of a wide-reaching project at CMU in the 1990s that made seminal contributions in proof-carrying code and typed intermediate languages, among many other things. The FoxNet stack was actually one of my big inspirations for wanting to build Mirage, since the elegance of using functors as a form of dependency injection into a system as complex as an OS and application stack is very desirable, and the reason we chose to build Mirage in ML instead of another, less modular, language.
Ensemble (website now offline but here's a SOSP 1999 paper) is a group communication system written in OCaml, developed at Cornell and the Hebrew University. For an application builder, Ensemble provides a library of protocols that can be used for quickly building complex distributed applications For a distributed systems researcher, Ensemble is a highly modular and reconfigurable toolkit: the high-level protocols provided to applications are really stacks of tiny protocol "layers", each of whose can be modified or rebuilt to experiment.
Both Ensemble and FoxNet made strong echoes throughout the design of Mirage (and its precursor software such as Melange in 2007). The Mirage command-line tool uses staged-computation to build a concrete application out of functors, and we are making this even more programmable via a new combinator-based functor types library that Thomas Gazagnaire built, and also experimenting with higher kinded polymorphic abstractions.
My thanks to Butler Lampson and Robert Harper for making me go re-read their papers again, and I'd like to leave you with Malte Schwarzkopf's OS Reading Group papers for other essential reading in this space. Many more citations immediately relevant to Mirage can also be found in our ASPLOS 2013 paper.


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Sunday house fire displaces several cats in Gregory Heights neighborhood
BTB Reader Marilyn wants everyone to know that on Sunday (Feb. 9), there was a house fire at 160th SW and SW 8th in Burien's Gregory Heights neighborhood, displacing several cats.
"I am requesting for the owner a shout out to her neighbors," Marilyn said. "She bred ragdoll cats. One escaped when the first responders got there. She lost several, but there are 3 others that haven't been found. So there is at least one and maybe 4 cats that were indoor only and now out in the world scared. She does not have any pictures of them, but the breed is long haired and she had lynx and seal point ones."
Marilyn adds that "the owner is devastated and it would mean so much if she could at least get the one back that we know escaped."
If you've seen any of these cats, please call Normandy Animal Hospital (her vet) – Dr. Serratore's number is 206-248-3345.


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Sesame Salmon with Stir-Fried Vegetable Medley
1/4 cup KRAFT Lite Asian Toasted Sesame Dressing, divided
4 skinless salmon fillets (1 lb.)
2 tsp. olive oil
2 carrots, cut into matchlike sticks
1 cup sugar snap peas
1 red pepper, cut into strips
1 green onion, thinly sliced
Heat oven to 450ºF.
Reserve 2 Tbsp. dressing for later use. Place fish on baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray; brush with remaining dressing.
Bake 12 to 15 min. or until fish flakes easily with fork. Meanwhile, heat oil in large nonstick skillet on medium heat.
Add next 3 ingredients; cook and stir 4 min. or until crisp-tender. Remove from heat; stir in reserved dressing.
Spoon cooked vegetables onto serving plate; top with fish and onions.
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If you love the glamour and excitement of the Oscars, try hosting your own Oscar Party. The 81st Acadamy Awards presentation will be held Sunday, February 22nd.
This Film Canister Invitation is a great way to invite your guests to a night of Hollywood fun.
Turn your party into a red carpet affair and ask your guests to dress in their best attire. Don't forget to lay out the red carpet for their grand entrance and photograph your guests as they arrive. Use the pictures as party gifts for a night to remember. Provide each guest with a ballot to pick their winners. At the end of the night, determine who picked the most winners correctly and give them a special prize or award them with their own Oscar .
Decorate with glitz and glamour by using color schemes with black, silver and red.
Plum Party Supplies has some great decorations to choose from.
Have a first class buffet set up with items like Parmesan-Stuffed Dates and other great recipes found from Epicurious.
Chocolate desserts are a must for this party. Fill champagne flutes with chocolate mousse or serve chocolate truffles to end the meal.
Serve champagne from this Top Hat Ice Bucket or serve The Red Carpet Fizz from the Oscars website.
This party will be great to enjoy the glitz of Hollywood, discuss new fashion trends and try to pick the winners of the night. I hope that your party is an award winning extravaganza!


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Both Jason Harvey and Matt Hargreaves have seen a friend suffer the heartbreak of losing a child to cancer.
Aaron Hester and his late wife Sianne co-founded the Live for Lily Foundation in honour of their daughter Lily, who died in August 2014.
The foundation hopes to find a cure for childhood cancer, so that no child or parent has to endure what they did.
In that spirit, the Bendigo-based friends are joining an eight-day, 1300 kilometre bicycle ride to raise awareness of childhood cancers.


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The Local is a free concert series put on by Campus Events Board, the largest student programming organization at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. On September 16th, we will have live performances by Crumbsnatchers, High Heat, and Hardcastle. In addition, there will be food, games, prizes, and more brought to you by the local community! Come join us for some good music, fun, and to see what all Knoxville has to offer!
The first part of the series will be held at 7pm at Fred Brown Amphitheater! This year's series will be held on September 16th and October 21st. More details coming soon! Visit CEB's website for more info!!
Crumbsnatchers music !!! on Soundcloud heard on WUTK for years! https://soundcloud.com/crumbsnatchers
Listen to High Heat right here.
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The Juara Foundation started as a student organization at the University of Michigan in 2009 with the goal of developing a closer relationship between research, education, and conservation in the Pantanal region of Brazil, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today, the organization has grown from its first project, Pantanal Center for Education and Research (PCER), into a variety of projects on health, education, and sustainability in the area and across the world and was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in the state of Michigan in September, 2014.
The Juara Foundation is dedicated to conservation efforts through collaboration with local communities and expansion of educational opportunities. We work to connect American researchers, volunteers, and students with foreign residents of areas with high conservation value because the best way to preserve these crucial areas is to foster an exchange of ideas, sense of urgency, and friendship across the communities. The Foundation aims to enhance education, sustainability, conservation, and international diplomacy both in the US and abroad.
In the Pantanal, we operate an ecological research field station, and run workshops on locally sourced sustainable technologies, music education, and first aid and health. The Foundation focuses on communities in remote and under-developed areas, where access to education is often limited. We collaborate with a variety of existing local organizations, with partners including experienced educators, scientists, American students, and local community members.
Juara Foundation is named after a word in the Guató language. The language is now nearly extinct, but was historically spoken by indigenous people in the Pantanal region of Brazil. The name of our organization comes from the word ǰuára, meaning "to learn," and pays homage to a language on the brink of extinction as well as reminding us of the region and the people where our interests in conservation were born.
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Withholding Tax: EFCC Recovers N27.7b From 6 Banks
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered over N27.7billion from six banks being unremitted withholding tax on dividends.
Also, about seven more banks were said to be on the radar of the anti-graft agency for similar infractions.
According to a fact-sheet obtained by our correspondent, the EFCC was expecting recovery of more withholding tax.
The document reads: "The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered a staggering sum of N27, 712,334,455.06 as withholding tax on dividends payment by six Nigerian banks.
"The banks are Zenith Bank Plc, First Bank Plc, Access Bank Plc, Standard Chartered Bank, Unity Bank Plc and StanbicIBTC Bank.
"The recovery by the Bank Fraud section of the Lagos office of the Commission was made through direct intervention by the Commission and indirectly through the assistance of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of some states as well as the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
"Zenith Bank alone allegedly accounted for more than 80 percent of the amount as a whooping N26, 468,223,358.24 was recovered from the bank between November and first week of December, 2017.
"Of the sum, the EFCC directly recovered N4, 207,235,701.06 from the bank, while N22, 260,987,657.24 came through the intervention of FIRS, the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, the Internal Revenue Service of other states and the RMAFC.
"The balance of N1, 244,111,097.43 was recovered from the other five banks. The investigation is still ongoing.
"Seven other banks are currently under the Commission's radar with respect to withholding tax on dividends.
"We are certain to record more recovery by the time the investigation is completed."
Meanwhile, the EFCC has arrested 13 suspected internet fraudsters for conspiracy, possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money under false pretence.
The suspects are- Badejo Tobi; Abiola Dimeji; Anthony Godwin; Osoba Adeboye; Adeleken Abiodun and Awokoya Oriyomi Yusuf.
Others are – Oyatayo Ismail; Coffie Meschark; Sylvester Amaddin; Olawale Farouk; Adeniran Tolani; Taiwo Michael and OyekanmiAyodeji.
According to the Commission, the suspects were arrested on Saturday, December 16, 2006 in some parts of Lagos and Ogun States, following intelligence report received by the Commission about their activities.
The EFCC said: "The suspects allegedly confessed to be involved in phishing, love scam, forgery, spoofing and business email compromise, among other offences.
"Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
"Spoofing, on the other hand, is a type of scam where an intruder attempts to gain unauthorized access to a user's system or information by pretending to be the user.
"Some of the suspects, who live flamboyantly without any known sources of income, were said to have bought houses and exotic cars from the proceeds of their criminal activities.
"They were allegedly found to be in possession of forged contract papers of multinational oil and gas companies, banks' instruments and forged data page of international passports of foreign nationals, among other documents.
"Other items recovered from the suspects included laptops, flash drives, modems, one Range Rover SUV, one Toyota Highlander, Two Toyota Corolla and one Toyota Camry.
The suspects will soon be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded."


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Here you will find information on the audio hit 'The Scarifyers' which Stars David Warner, it is produced and directed by Simon Barnard from Bafflegab Productions. Read below for details of the episodes available and where to buy it from direct from www.bafflegab.co.uk
Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) is finding the business of single-handedly saving Great Britain from the forces of darkness rather taxing.
And Lionheart? Lionheart is missing.
When the only clue to his disappearance seems to lie in a twenty-year-old murder investigation, Dunning turns to the one man who might have the answers: Lionheart's erstwhile colleague Harry 'Thumper' Crow (David Warner).
Harry doesn't hold with supernaturalism, but over the next few days he's going to see some very strange things indeed: a string of murdered magicians, a dead music-hall star come back to life, and a pensioner from the depths of hell.
Can Crow and Dunning find Lionheart? A terrible truth awaits, as they unearth the long-buried secrets of THE MAGIC CIRCLE.
This is the sixth adventure of THE SCARIFYERS.
A brand new episode of the Scarifyers is now available from Bafflegab Productions, titled The Horror Of Loch Ness! it also features the late Philip Madoc who starred with David many years ago in Welsh Police Detective series 'A Mind To Kill'.
See below for the full synopsis and terrific artwork, it can be purchased from the Bafflegab Website now, (Click Here)
Celebrated speed ace Sir Malcolm Campbell (Alex Lowe) is carrying out speed trials on Loch Ness when a bank of fog suddenly descends. When it lifts, Sir Malcolm and his boat have mysteriously vanished...
MI:13's Harry Crow (David Warner) and Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) are soon shaking up the sleepy loch-side village of Inverfarigaig. Aided by kindly local GP Dr Pippin (Philip Madoc), they discover a connection to the erstwhile Laird of Boleskine and Abertarff - occultist, bon viveur and occasional nudist Aleister Crowley (David Benson).
Crow and Dunning swiftly realise that there's more to Inverfarigaig than meets the eye: fraudulent Nessie hunters, demonic bed sheets, Caledonian witches and things that go bump in the night. Joined by Crowley, their investigations into Sir Malcolm's disappearance will lead them into terrible danger, as an old foe threatens to unleash...
This is the seventh adventure of THE SCARIFYERS.
New Scarifyers Release - The Thirteen Hallows Out On December 3rd 2012 From Cosmic Hobo
The excellent Scarifyers series continues this December with the 3rd release which stars David Warner entitled The Thirteen Hallows. It also features the other Star of the series Terry Molloy and guest stars Gareth David Lloyd. The fantastic artwork and synopsis is below click on it to go to Producer and Directors Simon Barnard's Bafflegab Website where you can order this and previous titles of the Scarifyers.
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When a haunted chess set causes consternation at the British Chess Championships, and a horse magically materialises in Kettering Agricultural Museum, MI:13 are called to investigate.
Harry Crow (David Warner) and Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) follow the trail of inexplicable happenings to an unremarkable terraced house in South Wales, home to the mysterious Mr Merriman (David Benson). He's very old, and very mad; but is there more to Merriman than first appears?
Meanwhile, in the South West of England, famed archaeologist Ralegh Radford (Ewan Bailey) is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the age. Britain's Tutankhamen, the press are calling it. But what he certainly isn't expecting to unearth is boisterous 1400-year-old knight Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr (Gareth David-Lloyd).
As Crow and Dunning unravel an unlikely plot to resurrect Britain's greatest-ever hero, the race is on to stop sinister forces at home and abroad from finding… THE THIRTEEN HALLOWS.


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ISTE – International Society of Technology Education is holding their annual national conference in Philadelphia. Last year, QAE teachers (5 of us!) attended the conference in Denver. It was the perfect way for a bunch of strangers to connect and share our selves with one another. It worked! This year is kind of bitter sweet on two levels: First, my daughter who is now three REALLY understands when daddy is absent. Our departure was like out of the movies – lots of tears, "just one more hug" and a car slowly pulling away with screams in the distant – end scene. On a happy note, we were able to Face Time this morning and share little videos here and there. She is being strong for her daddy! Second, I am without my QAE friends. I am attending the conference solo style. While I will miss my partners, I will find time to blog and take healthy notes, only to bring back and share. I also have the option of making a friend or two from the predicted 7,000 attendees.
To save the school funds and add to my adventure, I decided to stay out of the city and drive in from New Jersey. It was the difference between $350 and $140 – and since I was staying four nights, I decided that the 20-minute drive (that was today, wonder what Monday morning will be like?) would be worth it. When asked a few times today where I was staying – I enjoyed replying in my best accent, "New Jewsey".
Getting to the conference early this morning allowed me time to get a lay of the land (Philadelphia Convention Center is HUGE) and prepare my schedule for the next few days. There are 13 sessions I will be attending, along with two panel discussions and student exhibits.
After finding a large comfy chair to settle into and begin organizing, a stranger asked if she could sit down next to my chair. We immediately began talking. Her name was Rowena and she teaches Environmental Science at Miami Country Day School. Soon, she whipped out her MacBook and started slide shows of her students and school. I quickly started asking questions about the amazing green house and garden (totally edible). We then started talking about some of the projects she develops with her students – that lead to us to defining what makes a project. "Anything that engages, invites students to work independently or in groups with clear guidelines and finishes with a unique product is a project", says Rowena. An organization that guides her planning is iEARN, (International Education and Resource Network) the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world. Score! This could be a starting place for us as we begin developing project ideas for QAE students.
My first session was actually a "stumble into" – I liked the name of the product, Safari Montage, and was intrigued by tag line – Total Solution for K-12 Digital Media Management and Distribution. Safari Montage has access to thousands of video clips (National Geographic, Scholastic, PBS, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, School House Rock, etc…) and allows teachers to create playlists and modules for their lessons/projects. Modules can include video clips, web links, images, PDF attachments, quizzes, and state standard connections. The Internet allows us to bring "experts" into the classroom and teach concepts and ideas using a wide variety of multimedia. Safari Montage packages project resources in an organized way – it also runs on devises such as iPhone and iPads.
My lunchtime score was from a new friend, Todd, who asked if he could join me. We talked a lot about his school in Maryland and his technology integration as a reading specialist. He shared interesting stories about his son (fourth grade) who is super bright, but has difficulties staying on task and following directions. Basically, his son doesn't like what his teachers are asking of him (he has an IEP for emotional and social issues). The only time he's on task is when he's engaged and learning. Todd shared a great iPad app that keeps his son interested. Toontastic allows the user to create animation with sound. Way cool!
So the stage is set for the next three days of learning! Future blogs will be shorter and hopefully include great learning apps and resources, as well as interesting ideas and things to think about. Let me know if there is something you'd like more information.
s. michael minard
7/6/2011 07:05:37 am
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