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Born 105 years ago today, Eve Arden may have been our all-time favorite teacher. Arden wasn't really a teacher, of course, but she played one on TV. And though Arden took on a wide variety of roles in her five-decade acting career, we remember her best for portraying a pair of educators – one so iconic and beloved that Arden received real-life teaching job offers.
Debuting as a radio program in 1948, Our Miss Brooks brought listeners into the world of a funny and well-loved high school teacher. Arden's Miss Brooks was sarcastic, confident, chronically underpaid but highly valued by students and friends. Like many real-life teachers, she feuded with the principal, inspired love from her good students, and was both smart and clever. She was the teacher that many fans wished they could have had. In 1952 the popular show made the jump to television – but it remained on radio too, giving fans twice as much Miss Brooks to enjoy.
After four years on TV, nine on radio, and a feature film, it's no wonder that Arden was cemented in our minds as the perfect teacher. Indeed, she was made an honorary member of the National Education Association and received an award from the Teachers College of Connecticut's Alumni Association "for humanizing the American teacher." According to her 1990 obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Arden even received offers to teach in real schools. Arden "did not accept, but she did begin speaking at PTA meetings." Years after Our Miss Brooks, Arden was the obvious choice to play another iconic educator.
Though her role was smaller in Grease and Grease 2, Arden's Principal McGee got off a few zingers in the tradition of beloved Miss Brooks. And her casting in a plot set in the 1950s was no accident. The students of Rydell High probably would have gone home each afternoon to catch Our Miss Brooks on their radios and TV sets… after enduring a talking-to from Principal McGee.
Eve Arden's long career included many much-loved performances … but there was only one Miss Brooks. And she's how we'll always remember Eve Arden.


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(Denver, Colorado – April 20, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe a $200,000 brownfields grant to clean up and revitalize the Old White Horse Day School property on Bureau of Indian Affairs Route 4 (White Horse Road).
"Strengthening our nation's Tribal communities is one of EPA's top priorities," said Carol Rushin, EPA's Acting Regional Administrator in Denver. "This grant will help the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe transform a contaminated property into a community asset that provides new economic opportunities and jobs."
EPA is providing the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe a $200,000 brownfields grant to clean up the Old White Horse Day School site in the community of White Horse. From 1952 to 1995, the Bureau of Indian Affairs built, maintained, and ran the school. The site is contaminated with metals, PCBs, and inorganic contaminants. Following cleanup, the Tribe is interested in constructing a new community building at the site, along with space to house the reservation's fire truck.
Nationwide, EPA is providing $78.9 million for brownfields projects in communities in 40 states, four tribes, and one U.S. Territory. This funding will be used for the assessment, cleanup and redevelopment of properties, including abandoned gas stations, old textile mills, closed smelters, and other abandoned industrial and commercial properties.
In total, EPA is awarding 304 grants through the Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants programs:
· 188 assessment grants, totaling $42.56 million, will conduct site assessment and planning for cleanup at one or more brownfields sites as part of a community-wide effort.
The brownfields program encourages redevelopment of America's estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated sites. As of March 2010, EPA's brownfields assistance has leveraged more than $14 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding, and 61,277 jobs in cleanup, construction, and redevelopment. Many of these investments target under-served and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, providing for much needed jobs, jumpstarting businesses and reducing environmental and human health risks.
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Are the Colorado Rockies Blessed?
Examining God's effect on the baseball diamond.
The Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox will play for the World Series starting Wednesday night. Colorado and Boston aren't just the best teams in baseball—they're also perhaps the two most faith-based organizations in the game. The Colorado Rockies' emphasis on Christianity was first reportedby USA Today in 2006 and has recently received more coverage. In recent years, the Red Sox have also had an abundance of evangelical Christians in their clubhouse, including Curt Schilling, Tim Wakefield, and Jason Varitek. In 2000, David Plotz asked why so many athletes have strong religious beliefs and tried to figure out whether God is ever responsible for on-the-field heroics. The article is reprinted in full below.
It wasn't so long ago that sports fields were the devil's playground. Babe Ruth could commit five of the seven deadly sins before noon and hit three home runs by dinner. In Damn Yankees, it was Satan, not God, who offered the Washington Senators a pennant in exchange for a player's soul. (Lesson: Offense wins games. Demons win championships.)
But today there are Angels in the Outfield, and God seems to be following pro sports more intently than any Vegas bookie. Several months before the Super Bowl, St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner, a devout Christian, declared, "The Lord has something special in mind for this team." The Rams won the Super Bowl last week because of a Warner touchdown pass. As the clock ticked to zero, the quarterback yelled, "Thank you, Jesus!" In post-game interviews, Rams receiver Isaac Bruce—who claims that uttering the word "Jesus" saved him from injury in a car crash and healed a pulled groin—described catching the winning pass: "That wasn't me. That was all God. … I had to make an adjustment on the ball, and God did the rest." (Thanks to God's invisibility, the Rams were not penalized for having 12 men on the field.)
Why is God so busy on the gridiron?
Though sports heroes boosted attendance at 19th-century tent revivals, the modern era of "Muscular Christianity" began in the late '40s, when Billy Graham began recruiting born-again athletes to profess their faith publicly. Sports stars have espoused all kinds of religion—Notre Dame built a Catholic football dynasty; Muhammad Ali invoked Elijah Muhammad at the beginning of every interview (much to Howard Cosell's annoyance)—but evangelical Christianity has been by far the most successful in recruitment. Emotional, highly personal, nondenominational Protestantism has supplanted Catholicism as America's dominant sports religion.
Graham and other pastors have pursued a trickle-down theory of religion. It relies on holy jock-sniffing: Fans who see their heroes following Christ are more receptive to Jesus. "We develop athletic influencers into Christ-centered leaders," says Athletes in Action, a sports evangelizing group. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes has been organizing at schools and colleges since 1954. (Bill Bradley was briefly an evangelical FCA member.) Today Athletes in Action, Pro Athletes Outreach, Champions for Christ, and Christian Athletes United for Spiritual Empowerment target pro athletes for spiritual help, making them perhaps the most heavily proselytized group in the world.
The evangelizing has especially borne fruit in the NFL. There have been publicly religious players in the NFL since the '60s, but their numbers have surged since the '80s. The increasing number of African-American players has added to their ranks, as has the proselytizing of stars such as Mike Singletary, Reggie White, and Deion Sanders. Post-game prayer circles include players from both teams. Every NFL team has a chaplain—invariably an evangelical—who holds Bible studies and weekend chapels. (One anachronism in Any Given Sunday, the Oliver Stone pro football movie, is that a Catholic priest leads the team prayers.) According to Athletes in Action, which provides half the NFL's chaplains, 35 percent to 40 percent of pro football players are evangelical Christians, compared to about 25 percent of the rest of America.
Coaches like religion in the locker room because it can straighten out otherwise wild or reprobate players. And evangelicals are thrilled about it. "They believe that God has raised up big-time sport as a means to evangelism," says Wheaton College Professor James Mathisen, co-author of Muscular Christianity: Evangelical Protestants and the Development of American Sport. The faithful are theologically obliged to share their "testimony" with others, and Christian athletes use their encounters with large crowds and the media to spread the gospel. Warner's endlessly repeated story—from stock boy to MVP, backed by Jesus—will draw folks to church. Testimonies are usually simple, reflexive professions of faith. Announcer: "Tell me about that catch you made on third-and-10." Player: "Well, first I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ …" Journalists often treat this testimony like a fart. They wince and pretend nothing happened.
"Athletes are very pragmatic and outcome-oriented," says Mathisen. It is no accident that many athletes believe in God's involvement in all aspects of life, including football. Athletes want results, and they want to see them when they pray. Former Green Bay Packer White, the most outspoken of Christian athletes, says he knows God acts on football games because God intervened in David's battle with Goliath. The Atlanta Falcons chaplain recently declared that God cares about field goals. When quarterback Randall Cunningham had a great season in 1998, he said that God was showing his appreciation by letting Cunningham win 16 games. Athletes are also superstitious, searching for ways to control games that are inherently chaotic. Some view faith as magic, a "genie in a bottle," as Cleveland Browns chaplain Tom Petersburg puts it. Pray, and good fortune will follow. According to GQ, the Rams' Bruce recently credited God for answering his prayers after a poor first half: "God really manifested in the third quarter. I had 89 yards."
It goes without saying that non-evangelicals reject the idea that Jesus is throwing passes and making tackles. But it is also the case that, except for athletes such as Bruce who make claims about God's on-the-field heroics, few evangelicals accept the "Jesus in the Backfield" theology either. Team chaplains, theologians, pastors, and most Christian players are skeptical, calling it "facile," "immature," and even "heresy." Some argue that football is too trivial for God's concern. "God does not give a rip about who wins or loses. God is engaged in the world, but not in things like athletic contests. That is too frivolous," says Emory University theologian James Freeman, an expert on sports and religion. "I think God could care less who wins or loses," says James Mitchell, former Tennessee Titans chaplain and national director of outreach for Pro Athletes Outreach. God may intervene at times when it truly matters—when Hitler threatens to conquer the world—but He doesn't concern Himself with boys' games.
Other evangelicals, including the FCA and AIA, hold that God may care who wins the game and may even intervene, but that it's foolish of players to presume to read His mind. "Does God care? I would say yes, but we don't know who He wants to win. God has plans for you however the game comes out," says Petersburg. AIA spokesman Greg Stoughton says that while God may answer a player's prayer for a win, "victory to God may look a whole lot different than it does to the player. … Even if you lose, God is about building character."
The "genie in a bottle" theory, they note, is incoherent about defeat. If God wants you to win because you are faithful, does that mean He wants your opponents—who profess equal devotion—to lose? If your opponents lose, does that mean they didn't have enough faith? If you lose, does that mean you don't have enough faith? The genie has no answer.
Most evangelicals turn the "genie in a bottle" theology on its head. That theology views God as the instrument. God proves Himself to you by making the catch or causing the fumble. But most evangelicals see the player as the instrument: The player glorifies God by playing his best. Petersburg says that his Browns players never pray for victory. They pray "that they play with honor, that that they play to their best ability, that they honor God in the way they play, that they play injury-free." It's not about who wins and who loses. It's about how they play the game.


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WHEN LYNNE SCHAEFER STARTED HER position as vice president for administration and finance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2005, the institution's financial reporting tool left much to be desired. Developed internally to pull data from UMBC's PeopleSoft ERP, the tool has produced complex reports that make it "hard to find exactly what pieces of information you're looking at," she says. "This creates frustration, especially for the untrained eye. ... I'm sure in some cases it has resulted in people throwing up their hands and just hoping it all goes ok."
Taking the time to try to fully understand and analyze the data often creates situations where colleagues aren't seeing the same information. "Depending on what aspect of the report gets pulled you can get a different answer. This creates doubts about the validity of the whole administrative system," explains Schaefer, whose department is in the process of implementing a financial reporting tool from iStrategy Solutions.
Sean Mallin, iStrategy's chief operating officer, notes that these issues are common on campuses today. "One department writes a report and has structured the query one way. Another person accesses information and structures the report a different way." When both reports are brought into a meeting, time is spent arguing about "whose numbers are right instead of making a decision," he adds.
The implementation anticipation is building for UMBC administrators, many of whom have already been using an iStrategy solution for student information-related reporting. "The excitement on campus is pretty amazing considering it's a financial reporting tool," Schaefer quips.
Perhaps President Freeman Hrabowski is its biggest cheerleader. "Without a system like iStrategy, it takes longer to get answers to basic questions," he says. Dissecting the data requires more back-and-forth and he might be less likely to have time for analysis before a meeting.
"The role of the president is to be very curious," Hrabowski continues, adding that encouraging conversations and problem solving among administrators across campus takes a deliberate effort. "It means working to create a culture that focuses on critical thinking."
A culture change surrounding how financial data is accessed and how decisions are made based on it requires having the right technology tools as well as training and support. So officials at a growing number of higher ed institutions are making sure their teams are well equipped—both with the systems and the know-how.
Moving Toward Better Reports
"You want the people who make decisions about budgets, expenses, and costs to be able to access the information quickly, and with confidence that it is correct," says Robert Dolan, the worldwide government and education executive for business analytics and performance management at IBM. "The key here is having one version of the truth." With the current economic situation, it's especially critical that people are looking at the same numbers.
Simply viewing the numbers in an accessible format has traditionally been seen as a challenge, even with the sophisticated systems used today. For example, the transaction-based ERP system at Broward College (Fla.) lacked both data manipulation techniques and real reporting capabilities, according to a case study about the implementation of SAS Financial Management across the community college's eight campuses. "Information was keyed into Excel spreadsheets from hardcopy financial reports or mainframe screens, and/or downloaded in text format and then modified into a specific report format," shares Liz Mendez, associate vice president for budget and payroll at the college. The ability to pull multiple years of data for comparison or summarize various accounts was limited. Now the data automatically flows from the college's ERP system into SAS, and administrators on any campus can see a budget-to-actual summary of financial data any day of the month.
As anyone in a complex organization who relies on data knows, having information on separate, individually created spreadsheets as Broward used to have can wreck havoc.
"I'm a firm believer that shadow systems create more problems than they solve," says UMBC's Schaefer. "We're hopeful that with the new system, it will be so easy to use and the data consistency will be such that people rely on this and get rid of the shadow system."
"I think there's recognition that these tools need to change," says Moira Kirkland, the senior product manager for financial solutions at Datatel. "The tools are changing. It's a primary focus for us here." She has seen a shift from transactional reporting to being "more about what you can glean on the back end" in terms of what the data means. The real challenge, she adds, is making the reports user friendly.
Reaching that goal is a must as data-based decision making becomes more deeply rooted on campus ground. "While instinct, gut, and experience may have solved problems in the past, people are begging to look more holistically at all information to make decisions today," says Phil Strand, director of performance management for SAS' Education Practice.
A move toward self-service is another reason for enhanced reporting tools. For a president like UMBC's Hrabowski, self-service means answering 10 questions on his own, and then having "enough detail to really ask a serious question of his people," says Mallin. "People are more self-reliant and have to do their own analysis and get strategic."
For administrators at each of Broward's campuses, it's about being able to manipulate the data to, say, compare themselves to another campus or see budget numbers for all eight campuses, explains Mendez. Her department uses SAS FM to develop budget vs. actual quarterly reports for the board of trustees and to assist in development of a cost report for the state. "The extraction of the data to create these reports takes only minutes and has saved many man hours that can now be devoted to spending more time analyzing the data, rather than extracting the data, or being devoted to other projects," she says.
At Calvin College (Mich.), which was a beta tester for iStrategy's financial tool, the easy access to longitudinal spending data has been key in making quick decisions, says Henry DeVries II, vice president for administration, finance, and information services. The prior practice, budget officers across campus getting a "standard vanilla monthly report" using data pulled from Calvin's Datatel ERP, meant that anyone needing an accurate picture in the middle of that month would have to make a specific request and wait for someone else to generate an updated report.
Now administrators can really think on their feet. As DeVries and his team worked on the 2010-2011 budget, a member of the faculty senate was looking at budget trends over the past 15 years and questioned why costs in institutional support had grown so much, especially compared to instructional support and student support costs. "I said part of it was benefits, and he said, 'What's the rest of it?,'" recalls DeVries. DeVries was able to go back to his office and break down the institutional costs to see specifically which offices are growing and taking up resources.
"From an administrator's perspective, [the reporting tool] really allows you to answer the tough questions that faculty are asking," he notes. "The faculty are engaged [in the budget process] and they want answers. And we have to get answers."
Laying the Groundwork
Finance officials must get an answer to this one question before others across campus are trained in financial reporting: Who needs access?
At Broward, Mendez explains, there are three categories: system administrators, who support SAS FM software and system setup; finance users, who build and publish reports for other departments or internal use; and campus users, who are on the receiving end of published reports and can manipulate the data within them. Campus users include cost center budget managers, business deans, and upper-level management in need of direct access.
Oakland University (Mich.) also uses multilevel access to data, with each Banner system module owner being responsible for approving access to that module's data, says Robert Saunders, director of development information services. For his department, access is granted to anyone who can make the case for needing to see the data to perform his or her job, and the level of access is determined accordingly.
Another pretraining action worth some thought is forming a committee to focus on report generation and analysis issues and goals. "We have a reporting committee made up of representatives from across the university who come together to talk about what kinds of reports we need, how the current ones are working, and what improvements need to be made," says UMBC's Schaefer. The group was formed several years ago to work with the existing reporting tool, but having that infrastructure in place was useful when the decision was made to purchase the iStrategy financial solution.
"We have found it's very valuable to bring all the parties together to talk through what information is needed and how best to deliver it to the various users," Schaefer says. "The business managers, research faculty, principal investigators on grants, chairs and deans, the president and vice presidents all have different takes on what information is important to them."
UMBC also has a committee to help in the reporting requirements for accepting and spending grant money. "It's one single group specifically looking at how to improve post-award grant management, including financial reporting," she explains.
The University of North Texas is also using cross-campus groups to help with reporting. A steering committee comprised of a provost and vice presidents from various departments with different constituencies and data needs meets quarterly, according to William Senn, director of decision support. "The steering committee guides the decision support family, which meets monthly and discusses similar issues at a lower level, including what tactics are needed to make the report or analysis possible," he says. Senn's team has developed a number of budget reports through the IBM Cognos business intelligence platform that allow budget officers to "look in and dive as deeply as they'd like" into the data.
Training for Self-Service Reporting
A few months ago, when Dolan met with an IBM Cognos customer, he says campus leaders' "biggest concern was, 'How do we get people within our organization embracing this culture and getting them to understand that they can run their own kinds of reports without breaking the system?' "
Yet once people start running their own financial reports, "they embrace it very, very quickly," he says. IBM offers users training on how the software works, how to build reports, and how to use the information they can now access. "It is all about self-service, getting it into the hands of users who make decisions," he adds.
In Strand's experience at SAS, clients will get department leaders together for a few days of training to get them up to speed on how to use the financial management software. "They learn how to develop a simple or complex report for their department, school, campus, or whole system," he says. Broward and SAS jointly offered initial training for the institution's senior management, and then one-on-one retraining has been offered to reinforce the value of the software, says Mendez, adding that a guide to the tool was developed for all users to consult.
A recommendation for iStrategy clients is to choose a problem, such as creating a budget, and explore its solution during a training session, Mallin explains. Then the institution can incrementally add to and grow the application. At many institutions, administrators "just want to solve every problem at once and won't roll out until they do that," he says. "What happens is they go on for a year, funding gets cut off, and nothing gets done."
For Oakland University's development team, the training goal was to allow the finance person associated with each academic program to learn the origin of a specific gift.
"If the school of nursing business manager sees $1,000 of revenue that hit last night because a gift was processed, we give a training program that teaches them how to go backwards and see who that gift actually came from," says Saunders. The development team can go onto Banner Advancement and see who made a particular gift, but in the past, those using Banner Finance couldn't do so. The users also have to be trained to understand the difference between gift and pledge revenue, he explains. With pledge revenue, they must understand that "there's no money in the bank yet."
At Calvin College, training for the iStrategy solution is through 30- to 45-minute "Lunch Bytes" sessions, during which participants bring their own lunch and the school provides beverages and cookies, DeVries says.
DeVries and others recommend taking advantage of natural "power users" in getting people up-to-speed on using reporting tools. Ideally, there should be someone in each department that others can go to for help in creating an ad hoc report, Datatel's Kirkland says, adding that the institution should make sure the person has the support (e.g., time) to play that power user role.
Also important is making sure that the president and others at the top lead by example. "It's all about accountability. It's about communicating that the college or university leadership has made this decision to implement this solution," says Dolan, adding that once people get going with the technology "it's infectious."
One way to help potentially reluctant users get started is to ensure that the training approach is a match for the participants. DeVries suggests paying attention to whether the group is more likely to be quantitative or qualitative in their decision making and then tailoring the training approach accordingly. For instance, Calvin's president, Gaylen Byker, has a business background and is very quantitative.
"The more data you can put in front of him, the better," DeVries says. "If the group is qualitative—say, I'm talking to the whole faculty—my job is to give the data and then tell the story ... so it's accessible to them." That might mean sharing faculty salary data for the past 15 years and then explaining how the trends aren't going to be sustainable for the college in the long run.
What will become of self-service reporting in years to come? "It will be important even as budgets hopefully begin to increase," Kirkland says. "Now they're robbing Peter to pay Paul. If budgets get bigger, they're going to have to decide how best to spend on exciting new initiatives and how it fits within the strategic plans of the institution"—and reporting will help get the job done.


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Pauline M. Poffley, of Plattekill, NY entered into rest Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at St.Luke's/Cornwall Hospital-Newburgh Campus. She was 94.
The daughter of the late Michael and Elizabeth Riska Yablonsky, Pauline was born May 9, 1919 in Newburgh.
Pauline was a member of St. Patrick's Church.
Survivors include her loving husband, Francis Poffley at home; daughters, Paula Gliedman and husband, Jeffrey of Wallkill, Sandra Gabriel of Villa Rica, GA.; sister-in-law, Mary Henry of Wallkill; as well as grandchildren and great- grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Pauline was predeceased by her son, Fred Henry.
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If desired, please make donations in Pauline's memory to St. Patrick's Soup Kitchen, 55 Grand St., Newburgh, NY 12550.
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July 25, 2007
I'd like to welcome everyone to The Body PRO's coverage of the 4th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, known as IAS 2007, which took place in Sydney, Australia. This is Bonnie Goldman, Editorial Director of The Body PRO, and I'm here with Dr. Joel Gallant, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Welcome, Dr. Gallant.
Well, the third and final day of IAS 2007 has come and gone, and it's been chock full of interesting presentations. Dr. Gallant, what did you take away from this last day of the conference, in terms of first-line therapy?
Well, there's been a lot of interesting information about the use of novel drugs for first-line therapy. But I think one of the most important subjects that's been discussed here, both in terms of presentations, and also just in terms of debate, has been the question of when to start therapy. For a number of conferences now, there have been more and more data, especially coming from observational cohort studies, suggesting that we really should be treating people earlier than we are now. And there were several studies corroborating that idea at this conference.
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For example, there was a large study from the CASCADE cohort, representing almost 10,000 patients with about eight years of follow-up.1 Looking at deaths, and the relationship between CD4 count and deaths, they found they had almost 600 deaths in that cohort. They found that over half of them were due to non-AIDS-related causes, or at least what we typically think of as being non-AIDS-related causes. And they found that CD4 count was strongly related to mortality. That includes the current CD4, the nadir CD4, and the time spent at a CD4 count below 350. These were, not surprisingly, associated with AIDS-related deaths. But more interestingly, they were also associated with some of the non-AIDS-related deaths, specifically, severe infection, liver disease and malignancy.
This is consistent with data we've seen from other cohorts, including HOPS2 and SMART3 and D:A:D,4 showing that people can have so-called "non-HIV-related complications" that are CD4 dependent and arguing that, in fact, they are HIV-related complications that we may want to be preventing with antiretroviral therapy.
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The HOPS study cohort: There were several presentations from HOPS, one showing that people who started with higher CD4 counts were less likely to develop significant resistance mutations,6 and another showing that people who started with higher CD4 counts were less likely to develop complications from nucleoside analog therapy.7
Then, finally, we heard data in a symposium about the fact that, in SMART, the D-dimer levels were higher in people not on therapy, went down in people who started therapy, went back up in people who interrupted therapy, and were ultimately associated with a risk for cardiovascular disease and bad outcomes.8 And of course, D-dimer levels are often used to make the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, and may help us to explain why we're seeing increased cardiovascular disease in people not on therapy.
So there was a lot of interest in this, and some debate about whether we need to have a randomized, controlled clinical trial to decide when to start therapy, or whether we have enough convincing data from these observational cohorts, with all their weaknesses, to begin arguing for earlier intervention.
What's the magic number? I know it used to be 200. Is 350 the new 200?
Well, 200 is definitely out. I think, although it's not reflected yet in the guidelines, certainly 350 is a number that makes sense. The real question is where in the range above 350. So, for example, 350 to 500, in what part of that range would you start therapy?
My own feeling is that the more relevant question is: When would you not treat a patient? I think that's more interesting than when do you treat a patient. You could make an argument for the treatment of almost anyone, but I think the notable exceptions are people who are not likely to be adherent or people who may be long-term nonprogressors, who seem to be handling HIV well on their own with low viral loads and normal CD4 counts.
Were there any new drugs that were focused on treatment-naive patients that you noticed?
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Of course, there were more CNS [central nervous system] side effects with efavirenz, and greater triglyceride elevations with efavirenz. But otherwise, the adverse event profiles were pretty similar across all the groups. So the results here were quite promising.
Regarding the treatment of multidrug-resistant HIV-infected people, were there any studies that caught your attention?
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Now, one of the problems with the study design was that they had enrolled people who were naive to lopinavir/ritonavir, but could have been resistant to lopinavir/ritonavir. So it didn't really mimic what we would do in clinical practice, where we would normally not give somebody lopinavir/ritonavir if they were resistant to it. But they did account for that, and even after taking out the patients who were resistant to lopinavir/ritonavir, there still was significant benefit favoring darunavir. So, encouraging results for that drug. It was noteworthy that diarrhea appeared to be a little more common with lopinavir/ritonavir and rash a little more common with darunavir.
Any other studies? Today, there were some interesting studies.
Now, if your background regimen was good, and you had a lot of active drugs, then you didn't see so much of a benefit with the addition of etravirine. We have also seen some resistance data with etravirine really showing that there is no single mutation that hurts this drug. K103N seems to have negligible impact. The more important mutations are at codons 181 or 190, but with those mutations alone you really don't see much of a loss of etravirine activity. It's only when they are present in the company of several other NNRTI mutations that you begin to see a loss of activity, which is good news, since hopefully most patients with NNRTI resistance have relatively few mutations and should respond to this drug.
Do you think this study will change practice?
Well, etravirine is now available on expanded access, and we hope that it will be approved this year. Certainly this study, I think, is by far the most important of the two -- there are actually two studies that are fairly similar. I think these are the most important studies that we have for deciding how to use etravirine, and I think they are very encouraging studies. There had been a little bit of a buzz about etravirine, that 181 was a bad mutation. If you had that pathway, you weren't going to do well. These studies really suggest that that's not the case, unless it's present with a lot of mutations. So it looks very well tolerated. It doesn't have much in the way of CNS side effects. I think it will be good news for people who have already failed efavirenz or nevirapine [brand name: Viramune; also known as NVP] with relatively few NNRTI mutations.
Overall, what do you think was the most critical study at IAS 2007 that will impact practice? Do you think it was this study, or was it another study?
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The raltegravir results: We had already seen the 24-week data. The 48-week data simply confirmed the durability of the drug. And of course, the more important raltegravir results were the ones presented at CROI [Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections] -- the BENCHMRK results with treatment-experienced patients, because those are the patients this drug is going to initially be used to treat.14,15 I don't think it's initially going to start out as a strong first-line contender, although with time it's possible that that could change.
Can you talk about the issues with maraviroc regarding testing for tropism and the cost of the tests?
Yes. It's true that maraviroc comes with some baggage. We saw several presentations at this meeting looking at the tropism issue. It's very clear, especially in treatment-experienced patients who already have maybe a 50% chance of having dual/mixed or X4-tropic virus, that you can miss that with a standard tropism assay 5 to 10% of the time. So if you do the test -- of course, you have got to figure out a way to pay for the test, which is going to be fairly expensive -- then you already can exclude about half the patients who are treatment experienced from being able to use the drug. Then, of the other half, there is going to be a proportion who are going to have falsely reassuring tropism assays. The risk there, of course, is that you could be using maraviroc in a regimen where it really wasn't effective against all the patient's viral population, and then you could have breakthrough with resulting resistance to the other drugs in the regimen. So of all the new drugs, this one has the most complexity, in terms of figuring out how to use it.
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I want to change subjects now and discuss hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir [brand name: Ziagen; also known as ABC] and the new test for it. Can you talk a little bit about that test, and what it means for practice?
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Do you think this kind of genetic testing will be used extensively in the future, and we'll be customizing therapy to optimize it for our patients?
Well, it would be nice to think so. Unfortunately, there's no test quite as good as this one. There is no other example yet of a test that's as good as this test, in terms of predicting a reaction. People have been looking at a test for nevirapine hypersensitivity and other drugs, but none of them yet have stood out as being this simple and predictive.
So right now, this is the one we have got, and it's clinically available. You can order it through standard labs. But I'm not aware of any other tests that we should be doing at this point, in terms of genomic screening.
Thank you. One last thing I wanted to cover was switching treatment. Were there any new data presented regarding switching?
That's also consistent with the final three-year data at this meeting from the Gilead 934 study: again, showing that, in comparison with zidovudine/lamivudine, tenofovir/emtricitabine was more effective virologically, but also associated with less lipoatrophy.21 There's a steady decline in limb fat in people on zidovudine/lamivudine over three years, whereas there's a steady increase in people on tenofovir/emtricitabine -- also supported by the six-year data now from the Gilead 903E study, which was a rollover for people who had been in 903 for three years, either randomized to stavudine [brand name: Zerit; also known as d4T] and lamivudine [brand name: Epivir; also known as 3TC] or tenofovir [brand name: Viread; also known as TDF] and lamivudine.22 Those on the stavudine switched over to tenofovir. So there has been six-year data now, again showing increases in limb fat and stable renal function.
But that brings us to probably the most important of the switch studies, the BICOMBO study, which was a large study in Spain where patients who were on a nucleoside-based regimen were randomized to switch to either abacavir/lamivudine [brand name: Epzicom, Kivexa; also known as ABC/3TC] or tenofovir/emtricitabine.23 Although it's not the kind of trial that's ongoing now, where people actually start on those drugs, it's the first good comparison we have of those two nucleoside backbones. What they found was that, overall, tenofovir/emtricitabine had better results in terms of treatment failure, and that was primarily the result of a greater dropout due to abacavir hypersensitivity reaction in the abacavir/lamivudine arm. And of course, they did not use the HLA-B*5701 screening test.
If you looked strictly at virologic failure -- so you're not looking at those people who stopped for toxicity reasons -- then the results were more similar: 2.4% with abacavir/lamivudine and 0% with tenofovir/emtricitabine had virologic failure. So they could say that at least from that standpoint, abacavir/lamivudine was non-inferior to tenofovir/emtricitabine.
Of course, toxicity is an issue. Needless to say, there were more discontinuations due to abacavir hypersensitivity with abacavir/lamivudine. There were very few renal problems in this study in either group, and no significant differences between the arms. In fact, renal function remains stable in both arms, by standard GFR [glomerular filtration rate] measurements.
They also looked at limb fat by DEXA [dual energy X-ray absortiometry]. Both groups had significant increases in limb fat, as you would expect in people on these drugs, that don't appear to cause mitochondrial toxicity. No real changes in bone density.
As far as cholesterol and lipids, tenofovir/emtricitabine appeared to have the edge in terms of triglycerides, total cholesterol, and LDL [low-density lipoprotein] cholesterol, whereas abacavir resulted in improvement in HDL [high-density lipoprotein] cholesterol. There was really no significant liver toxicity.
So I guess the bottom line here is that both looked good. There was not the clear benefit in terms of renal issues seen with abacavir/lamivudine that some might have suspected there would be. And probably, had they been doing the HLA-B*5701 screening, the overall results might have been more similar than they were. The real advantage, in terms of tenofovir/emtricitabine, was largely due to the dropout due to hypersensitivity.
Okay. Well, thank you. It continues to be an exciting time in HIV research, with lots of new therapies progressing in development. So thank you so much, Dr. Gallant, for your comprehensive report on IAS 2007.
Thank you, Bonnie. It's been a pleasure.
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J.J. Henry shoots 60 to take the first round lead of the Shriners Hospitals for Children event at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. J.J. Henry / Getty Images Ronald "J.J." shot an amazing bogey free -11 under par 60 to top the leaderboard in the first round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children competition, making an Eagle 3 putt of 50 feet on the par 5 ninth hole, his last of the day. He said it was just one of those days; "It was one of those days, there wasn't much wind and the greens were pretty soft. It was nice to make that putt on the last hole to make lunch taste that much better. I played solid on the front nine. It's still pretty cold in the morning, I was just trying to get my feet wet and shoot a couple under par. Any time you start with the round I had, it gives you a lot of confidence for the rest of the week. I thought it was important to get myself off to a good start.I finally made some putts, I've always felt like I've been a pretty good ball-striker, and when I make some putts I seem to climb the board." Just one shot back on -10 under par, following his opening round 61 is Andres Romero. He said he had stayed focused on his golf game; " I was focused on my game and I was trying to do my job, and that's all. I feel very good and focused on the game and on every shot. So I wasn't paying attention to the leaderboard and the other guys." Tied in third place are James Driscoll, Jonathan Byrd and Jeff Overton, at -8 under par after their first rounds of 63. James had an edgy start to his round, electing to play a provisional ball of the first tee. The hooked drive was found, and James went on to make par, he said he then got it figured out, he also spoke about the Eagle; "After that, I kind of figured things out, after the first couple of holes, everything kind of felt pretty good. I got the putter going and hit a lot of 3-woods out there off of the tees. I kept it in play and gave myself a lot of chances. I actually hit a decent drive and it caught the left bunker. I had to lay up to like 90 yards and had a pretty good number and been working on my wedge game pretty good, so I felt pretty confident over it, and it kind of took a nice little kick for me and went right in the hole." Jeff holed out for Eagle on the first hole; " I don't ever remember holing out on the first hole any golf tournament, so it was pretty of cool. I kind of felt uncomfortable for some reason on the first tee, kind of pulled it and kind of had a tough little shot underneath the tree and hit a little low snap hook pitching wedge and it rolled about 30 feet and just died right in the center and I'm like, `Sweet.'"


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Plainfield — A firefighter and active member of the U.S. Navy joined two Plainfield police officers on Tuesday to rescue a man whose car flipped over in a crash and landed upside-down in a pond.
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Mountain bike endurance racing specialist Rebecca Rusch (Specialized) took her latest victory in the duo category with Nat Ross at the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo aboard Specialized's new women's-specific 29er hardtail. According to the 'Queen of Pain', the Fate Carbon 29's light weight, comfortable ride quality, and fast rolling wheels and tires were just the thing for conquering the Arizona desert.
"What I have available to me for bikes with Specialized is the pick of the litter, which is sweet," she told BikeRadarjust a couple of hours before her first lap. "I've been riding the Fate almost exclusively since Leadville last year and somewhat experimentally with stage racing, taking it to Costa Rica for La Ruta [de los Conquistadores] and Trans Andes."
"I wasn't sure about four days in the saddle on a hardtail," she continued. "But I've been really pleasantly surprised. I think a 29er just gives you slightly more cush. In a lot of those endurance races the lion's share of riding isn't super-technical, and the fact it's so light [means] it rides like a road bike on dirt roads and stuff like that, so I'm pretty stoked with it."
Rusch is keen to point out that her switch to 29in wheels wasn't driven by sponsor pressures or marketplace trends, but rather back-to-back testing in race conditions. "A few years I did my own little experiment where I rode my 26in Era for half the laps and a 29er Stumpy hardtail for the other half. It was really interesting doing the exact same course for a whole day and comparing the two bikes for myself – that's really what sold me. I can ride over stuff better and hands-down, the wheel size is faster. Now they've gotten lighter with carbon wheels, there's no excuse."
Claimed weight on the Specialized Roval Control Trail SL 29 wheels is just 1,530g, thanks in part to carbon fiber rims
Indeed, Rusch certainly couldn't have pointed to a heavy bike if things didn't happen to go her way – actual complete weight as pictured here is just 9.14kg (20.15lb) without the bottle and computer. Helping things along are a SRAM XX group with the lighter-weight World Cup brake option and 140mm rear rotor, a carbon fiber crown and steerer on the Specialized/RockShox SID World Cup fork with Brain inertia damper, carbon rimmed Specialized Roval Control SL 29 tubeless wheels, and lightweight aluminum and carbon fiber cockpit goodies from Specialized and Truvativ.
Rusch wisely doesn't prioritize weight above overall function, however, particularly in the context of a 24-hour event where reliability is key. "I'm running the Control tires here, which are thicker, because of thorns and that kind of stuff," she told us. "That's a slight weight penalty but I've found that sometimes it's really worth it. A flat can cost you five minutes and then once you've got a tube in in the desert, you're kind of screwed, so I'm going for a little bit of insurance on the tire casing."
Slim tubes on the rear end of the Specialized Fate carbon 29er hardtail promise a smooth ride
Another change from previous setups is the Truvativ Noir T30 handlebar, which is uncut at 700mm across and boasts a generous 10 degrees of backsweep, but is 70g heavier than Truvativ's lightest option. "What I'm finding is that for comfort, control and keeping your hands from falling asleep, that's been a really good move for me," she told BikeRadar.
A switch to Carmichael Training Systems for coaching services has prompted the last major changes to Rusch's bike– a Quarq power meter and Garmin Edge 500 computer, which she now uses full-time for both racing and training. "I've got a new coach and they're all about the power – and I really wanted to try it," she said. "I first saw the new Quarq power meter at Interbike and there's hardly a weight penalty. I rode Trans Andes and recorded all the power for that and I'll record all the power here so it'll be really interesting to compare the first and last laps."
Rusch says the weight penalty on the Quarq SRAM S2275 BB30 power meter is so minimal that she has no issues running it for both training and racing
Rusch has rightfully earned her reputation as the dominant force in women's endurance mountain bike racing but what's also impressive is how well she knows her equipment – after all, cycling is a sport of man and machine. Be it tire pressure, tire construction, fork pressure, bar width, bar sweep or gearing, 'Reba' can not only pedal like mad but also knows what she's pedaling – pun intended.
"I'm a new rider and I didn't learn to mountain bike when I was five like a lot of these people and I've found that I need to stack the odds in my favor," she said. "I'm interested in the gear and I want to learn about it. I didn't know anything so it's been a fun education but I'm way off the back – the gear changes so fast. But I figure that if I'm going to tell people about it or if women are going to ask me, I need to say, 'this is why I chose this', instead of, 'oh, my mechanic put it on my bike.'
Ergo-style Specialized Body Geometry grips provide lots of cushioning and surface area
"That's part of the beauty of endurance riding – I don't always have a mechanic working with me so I've got to assemble my bike myself, I take it apart myself. I don't like to work on my bike but I have to sometimes, so it's been good. Then I don't just hand it over to somebody and have no clue what's going on." While that tech knowledge makes Rusch better equipped to handle questions from fans and clinic attendees – she's the headline attraction for SRAM's Gold Rusch Tour – it also directly helps her sponsors.
For example, Rusch noted that RockShox's printed-on air pressure guidelines only go down to a rider weight of 140lb. "A lot of men and women I know are lighter than that!" she said. According to Rusch, SRAM gave her a guideline of dropping 2psi for each 5lb of rider (plus gear) weight but she suggested simply extending the chart to eliminate the guesswork – something that SRAM are apparently considering for future production.
Rusch will use this same bike this August to defend her Leadville 100 title. The Queen of Pain undoubtedly will hope for an incident-free ride but even if some sort of mechanical does occur, it sounds like she'll be well prepared.
Complete bike specifications
- Frame: Specialized Fate Carbon 29, 17in
- Fork: RockShox/Specialized SID World Cup 29 w/ Brain inertia valve damper, 80mm travel, 80psi positive/negative
- Headset: FSA Orbit integrated, 1-1/8 to 1-1/2in tapered
- Stem: Truvativ Stylo T30, 90mm x -5°
- Handlebar: Truvativ Noir T30 10S Flat, 700mm
- Grips: Specialized Women's BG Contour Locking
- Front brake: Avid XX World Cup, 160mm HSX rotor
- Rear brake: Avid XX World Cup, 140mm HSX rotor
- Brake levers: Avid XX World Cup
- Front derailleur: SRAM XX
- Rear derailleur: SRAM XX
- Shift levers: SRAM XX trigger
- Cassette: SRAM XX, 11-36t
- Chain: SRAM PC-1071
- Crankset: SRAM S2275 Quarq MTB Powermeter BB30, 39/26T, 175mm
- Bottom bracket: S-Works OS, PressFit 30
- Pedals: CrankBrothers Eggbeater 11
- Wheelset: Specialized Roval Control Trail SL 29
- Front tire: Specialized Fast Trak Control, 29x2.0in, 25psi
- Rear tire: Specialized Fast Trak LK Control, 29x2.0in, 27psi
- Saddle: Specialized Ruby Expert
- Seatpost: Specialized S-Works SL Carbon 2-Bolt
- Bottle cages: Specialized Zee Cage Right
- Computer: Garmin Edge 500 computer
- Other accessories: Custom etched Carbon-Ti X-Clamp seatpost clamp and X-Lock skewers
Critical measurements
- Rider's height: 1.7m (5ft 7in)
- Rider's weight: 61.2kg (135lb)
- Saddle height, from BB (c-t): 714mm
- Saddle setback: 36mm
- Seat tube length, c-t: 432mm
- Seat tube length, c-c: 398mm
- Tip of saddle nose to C of bars (next to stem): 548mm
- Saddle-to-bar drop (vertical): 25mm
- Head tube length: 90mm
- Top tube length: 575mm
- Total bicycle weight: 9.14kg (20.15lb w/o bottle or computer)


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DUE WEST, S.C. – The Coker women's tennis team suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday afternoon , falling to Conference Carolinas foe Erskine College 9-0.
The Cobra women battled hard against a very tough Erskine team, but Coker was unable to pick up a victory. The best games of the match came at No.1 doubles and No.3 singles.
In No. 1 doubles Alyssa Blanchard (Columbia, S.C.) and Stephanie Medley (Sumter, S.C.) played the Fleets duo of Tessa Rheault and Britton Bignon to a 9-7 game to open the match. Then at No.3 singles Cora Berna (Torrevieja, Spain) narrowly lost to Abby O'Reilly 7-5, 6-4.
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Geeks of the world rejoice: Futurama is back. After a long wait, today is the official release date of "Bender's Big Score!", a 90 minute direct-to-DVD film, that will later be chopped up into the first four episodes of the new season. Filled with geek and nerd references, Futurama is a popular American cartoon series, by Simpsons' creater Matt Groening, that sadly got cancelled way before its time by the Fox Network. Now, it's back, and the opening sequence, a big slap in the face of the Fox Network executives, is already a classic. I have already seen the new film, and as a big, big Futurama fan, I can tell you it will not let you down. Three more direct-to-DVD movies are already planned, so go out, buy the DVD, and just like Family Guy, let's get it back on a regular schedule! My personal favourites: Zapp (s03e02): "That young man fills me with hope and some other emotions that are weird and deeply confusing to me." And of course the classic sign over Amy Wong's parents' house (s04e06): "You came to the Wong place."


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How about a battery free RAMdrive? The Viking ArxCis-NV writes to flash if it loses power
Subject: General Tech | October 20, 2011 - 11:35 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Viking, ramdisk, DRAM to SLC, flash, super cap
Move over Fusion-io and RAMdisks with battery back up, Viking Technology has a surprise in store for you. Their DDR3 ArxCis-NV works as a standard DIMM in your machine, making installation and compatibility a snap. The difference is the super capacitor, available in a variety of sizes, which provides power long enough for the entire contents of the DIMM to be dumped to SLC flash for non-volatile storage in the case of a power outage or expected shut down. Once power is restored the contents of the SLC flash is dumped back to the DIMM and once again your storage media is back to running at DDR3 speeds. The slowest part of your storage will be the flash drive! If that sounds like something you'd like to know more about head to The Register.
"Viking Technology is a division of Sanmina-SCI, and its DDR3 ArxCis-NV is a DIMM that comes in 2, 4 and 8GB capacity points and operates at DRAM speed. It integrates into industry-standard x86 motherboards and functions in the host environment as a JEDEC standard DDR3 registered DIMM. If there is a power failure, or a host driven command, the ArxCis-NV will save all data in the DRAM to SLC (single-level cell) flash; upon power being restored, the data is written back to the DRAM ready for the system to access immediately following boot-up, provided there's sufficient operating system-level support for such a restore."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Major Chinese supplier halts rare earths production in attempt to boost prices @ Engadget
- Nvidia Tegra roadmap slips a year @ SemiAccurate
- Unbricking and upgrading an ASUS wl520 router @ Hack a Day
- Rosewill Wireless-N WiFi USB Adapter @ Benchmark Reviews
- ARM's Cortex A7: Bringing Cheaper Dual-Core & More Power Efficient High-End Devices @ AnandTech
- Can AMD survive Bulldozer's disappointing debut? @ Ars Technica
- Leaked Intel roadmap reveals PCIe flash kit @ The Register
- AMD taps Papermaster as CTO @ The Register
I feel obligated to point out that a company called Netlist (and perhaps others) has made a very similar product for a while now (RAM with a capacitor-powered backup to flash memory on power loss).
It's a cool idea, and it's always nice to see more applications for SUPERcaps!
I'm familiar with the battery powered ones, but I haven't run into Netlist before
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The KDE project has delayed the release of KDE 4.0 by two months. "We, The Release Team, hereby announce that we are extending the KDE 4.0.0 schedule 2 months by inserting an extra 2 Betas, as follows: September 24: Beta3. October 22: Beta4. November 19: Total Release Freeze. November 21: RC1. December 5: RC2. December 20: 4.0.0 tagged. We feel that there are crucial elements of the release that need more development time. The feature freeze (less exemptions) remains in effect."


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Once we identify a function for government to handle (and pay for) on an on-going basis, the impulse from the Left tends to be "federalize it." The impulse from the Right tends to be "eliminate it."Also, the basic difference between "universal voter registration" and the idea of eliminating voter registration is the difference between centralization and decentralization of the databases.
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Mr. Dechert,
Is Open Voting Consortium currently working on the legislative steps required to enable "universal voter registration" for federal elections? I suggest by the federal government assigning each of us a specific federal voter identification number, the Republican fantasized voter fraud allegations would be appropriately dealt with.
Each state could duplicate federal voter registration by continuing to have local registration. Considering how Republicans have politicized the mechanics of both voter registration and voting, I'd expect most (particularly southern) states would continue local registration.
It would be a challenge for the Republican/Tea Party US Senators and Representatives to oppose our democratic ideal of: one citizen, one vote. With tens of millions (felons, college students) of federal voters who could not be state/local voters, hopefully the contrived disenfranchisement will trigger both an outcry and a change.
Kindest Regards, Robert (Bob) Goodrich
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40. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!TradeWind Feb 14, 2012 3:40 AM (in response to Goomi)
Hi Goomi...what software package did you choose to replace Adobe?
41. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Goomi Feb 14, 2012 3:50 AM (in response to TradeWind)
Since most of my work is in web design and front-end development I am going to use Coda instead of Dreamweaver and Axure instead of Fireworks. I still use Lightroom 3 for my digital assets and use Premiere every now and then even though most of the features I need are build-in to iMovie and even directly in YouTube (if I upload content there).
I use CS3 now and can't find any reason to change.
In a freelance gig I currently working at I have a beast Mac desktop with 4 quad core xeon processors and CS5.5 has the same old buggy issues. so what's the point?
42. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Roberio Oliveira Feb 14, 2012 4:05 AM (in response to Goomi)
Hope Adobe Premiere will listen to their customer base. We will keep the Adobe platform at least for one year more. Everythings depends on CS6, and I'm not telling about resources, but support, bug fixes mainly. I don't expect to get a bug free application at the release. But they didnt fix the audio loop bug while working with XDCAM HD 4:2:2, reported 8 months ago. Embarrassing.
43. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Jim_Simon Feb 14, 2012 9:53 AM (in response to Goomi)
Mac desktop...same old buggy issues
Works great on Windows, especially when you build your own.
44. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking firstname.lastname@example.com Feb 17, 2012 8:38 AM (in response to Roberio Oliveira)
Entitlement minded people are annoying and don't get it.
45. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!entremaneur Feb 20, 2012 8:09 PM (in response to firstname.lastname@example.com)
Agreed. The folks at Adobe should listen to paying customers instead of thinking they are entitled to our money with no responsibility for quality or usability. After all, a paying customer is entitled to a working product... right?
46. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!entremaneur Feb 20, 2012 8:24 PM (in response to Jim_Simon)
Yeah, it works great when you don't use it for more than 30 minutes or so and you only keep one file open. Start using Dreamweaver for extended periods, if you don't experience one or two crashes a day you will be the first person I've spoken with who had that experience. I've run Dreamweaver on 5 or 6 PC's and a MAC. Two of the PC's I built, the rest bought. I've had issues on every one of them. Photoshop, however, has never given me a problem. Nor has Illustrator. But Dreamweaver and Fireworks glitches occur regularly. I'm just curious why Adobe skips over so many cries for fixes, requests for interim patches, and basic updates to keep Adobe's web development products on par with their open source (free) competition. No LESS support? No Coffeescript? No jQuery support (jQuery Mobile, but not jQuery?? What were you thinking?). And what about apps? Adobe's version of "extensions" is so 1999. Adobe fanboys can write this off as a rant. But I'm speaking the truth, and I've spent long enough in the community that I can say with confidence that anyone who uses Dreamweaver or Fireworks professionally will agree. I personally paid $3k Adobe licenses this past year, and everything I'm mentioning is supported by virtually every single one of Dreamweaver's competitors: notepad++, textmate, sublime, WebStorm, and many others. And most of them are free. $3k folks. That gives me anyone a right to rant.
Adobe, please make good on your promise to people like me who want your products to work so badly that we paid seriously rediculous amounts of cash to use them.
47. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!TradeWind Feb 21, 2012 4:14 AM (in response to entremaneur)
I think your general point is valid - if you pay for software, it should work. That is not a statement I'll ever disagree with.
Now, while I'm not exactly disagreeing with you, I do question one thing...you're telling me that all of these free or open source web developing software packages have a half dozen features that Adobe doesn't provide in Dreamweaver? I don't know whether this is true or not since I'm a video guy, so I'll take your word for it. I use Dreamweaver CS3 on an intermittent basis and it works fine for me and my limited usage. I got what I paid for, at least. So I can't speak to CS4 or CS5 at all, and for all I know you are 100% correct.
My only question, then, is why are you paying for Dreamweaver at all if it doesn't give you anything that you can't get already for free in other software? I know you're not just being a generous guy and giving Adobe your money for no reason. Dreamweaver's capabilities are usually spelled out pretty clearly on the website, so if it doesn't do something you need then you should hopefully have known that from the outset. Even if you did purchase without knowing Dreamweaver's limitations, you could have at least gotten your money back with Adobe's 30 day refund policy (assuming you read about the return policy).
This isn't all to say that Adobe SHOULD NOT include more and better features in each upgrade of Dreamweaver (or any software they sell). And like I said, it goes without saying the the software should work on the average system if they're going to be charging money for the usage of the software. I just can't figure out from your previous statement why you're even paying for Dreamweaver at all if you're already getting everything you need from free software packages.
48. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Jnz77 Feb 26, 2012 4:59 AM (in response to John T Smith)
I thank you too. but creative suite has a lots of bugs unsolved throughout versions and versions. sorry.
so every new version now contains useless childish features but there are dozens of "simple" things unsolved or hard to achieve.
Flash - crappy bugy pen tool continues drawing at random points (not from the last point of the actual line),
color panel alpha slider jumps back to 99%, crashes, no way to set the line tool to "no scale" mode without workaround. etc...
Photoshop - no way to preview an effect if it is on a layer containing only small things, because you cant see any underlaying layer.
no real preview for effect like lens blur.
no way to organize fonts - I have to scroll over all the oriental characters even if I won't use it (on Windows platform), and there's no other way to organize fonts to different families too.
the rendered fonts are ugly as H |= LL !! --> if you can use 3d for childish useless basic 3d modelling, you can do it for advanced visual rendering.
the graphic card integration is chaotic.
the wacom tablet support is even no close to include tool ID. the fancy 3d brush-cursors are jumping around, while the pen moves.
illustrator tools doesn't catch tool keystrokes in the air.
I have to click with the tool (whatever it is, and whatever I do in this step what I don't want to do, and therefore I have to undo it before changing-tool-with-shortkey)
I'll wait for the bugs to be fixed.
I don't care the new features, because I hadn't even got what I payed for in CS4, so I am skipping CS5 CS5.5.
AND when the bugs will be fixed, i pay for the upgrade, and checksum how much did it cost e.g.
a flawless pen tool for flash. b/c none of the versions till these days have a flawless basic vector pen tool.
But I think little by little people will migrate to open source solutions, b/c it is very hard to work with crappy softwares 8-10 hours a day.
Useless of thinking all the time about fancy features, b/c the whole world of design will tend to shortcut for open source friendly or low cost ways,
skipping things that doesn't worth the effort with the struggle.
if there are no bug fixes it is no reason to upgrade. you folks got to decide: you want to create toys for children or professional tools for WORK.
if you want to create toys, you can create another title such as Adobe Fun Suite.
49. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Jnz77 Feb 26, 2012 5:04 AM (in response to Jim_Simon)
It isn't true, sorry.
50. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!TradeWind Feb 28, 2012 8:07 AM (in response to TradeWind)
FWIW - Adobe announced the discontinuation of CS Review "on April 12th, 2012). So I'll draw the following conclusion:
1) The new Adobe CS Cloud service will be announced that day (just days before NAB)
2) The new Adobe CS Cloud service - and the new CS6 - will be available on that same day (boxed products being available later).
Makes sense, given the timing of the discontinuation, the previous statements that indicated this exact timeline, the intent of Adobe to begin going to the digital download (and subscription route) and the fact that NAB is and has been a perfect launching pad for these things.
It ain't fact until Adobe sez so...but you may want to consider this bit of logic for your own purposes.
51. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Jim_Simon Feb 28, 2012 9:56 AM (in response to TradeWind)
Adobe announced the discontinuation of CS Review "on April 12th, 2012
Uh...where'd you see that? My understanding was that it was free until then, being a paid service thereafter.
53. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!TradeWind Feb 28, 2012 11:39 AM (in response to Jim_Simon)
I'm sure the idea is to steer folks to the new Creative Cloud service. Otherwise they'd have two similar concurrent services.
I never cared for CS Review as it was implemented...the Premiere Pro integration was great but the user experience for editors and clients left a lot to be desired once reviews were actually online.
54. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Jim_Simon Feb 28, 2012 12:40 PM (in response to TradeWind)
Well that is disappointing. I used the service quite a bit, and found it the best method so far for client review and correction.
I wonder if the same holds true for Story, which was also suppose to be free until the 12th, being paid thereafter.
55. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!TradeWind Feb 28, 2012 1:25 PM (in response to Jim_Simon)
Regarding Story, read the rest of the FAQ.
As for CS Review, so many of my clients complained about it. They didn't like creating accounts, they didn't like the slow playback, they didn't like the low quality, they found the controls unintuitive.
As for creating an account, that is a bit annoying. Simply asking them to use a password would be nice enough. The slow playback was an issue for my clients on fast connections (talking corporate lines, big city, "no expense spared" type stuff). As for being unintuitive...well, I never found that to be the case, but then I'm more tuned into this stuff than I would expect your average attorney or business owner or school teacher to be.
Anyway, the fact that it was free for CS Review was great, but the service itself was the source of complaints by my clients so rather than blow them off, I gave Adobe CS Review the pink slip. I have been doing my reviews on Vimeo Pro for a while now and it's much easier for my clients. There is a private review page and comment area and as soon as the client approves the final video online, I click a button and it goes live on the main site. Easy.
The one feature - the "killer app" - that CS Review had that held my interest the most was the integration to and from Premiere Pro. As far as I can tell, that worked fine (although recently - after having stopped my use of CS Review - I did notice that the CS Review tab in PPro caused issues at launch every time I opened a PPro project). But you know, Clip Notes had that feature before and both then and now (or then and then), the feature was almost unused because no matter how well I explained it to my clients, they just ended up making notes on a notepad as they watched the videos and then sending the edit notes to me in an e-mail.
The only time that feature really shined for me was when I had some editors collaborating on a piece. They easily understood how to use CS Review. So for those purposes it is great. That's just not what I was working with the other 90% of the time when the reviewer was the end client.
So while I'd agree with you Jim that it is disappointing news, it's only disappointing because it was a feature that sat there unusable for most of the time that I "owned" it. So I for one am looking forward to what Adobe brings along for the review space in Creative Cloud.
56. Re: Adobe CS6 - Breaking News!Jim_Simon Feb 28, 2012 9:29 PM (in response to TradeWind)
As long as it's integrated, and will jump to the same frame in a sequence that a comment is made on, I guess I won't complain.
(So basically, as long as it's CS Review+)


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