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Here is the video of the much talked about Swimsuit Pasarela of crowned queen Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wutrzbach. Thanks to a live streaming as seen from FOX TV and shared runway rehearsal uploaded on YouTube by MISS UNIVERSE and Pageanthology 101.
As the narrator fearlessly said it, "Wow! Philippines is in the house!" She's a stunner and a crowd favorite. No wonder all of the judges voted for Pia Wurtzbach.
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In 2008, Dr. Charles Sawyers, currently the president of American Association for Cancer Research, wrote an article for the journal Nature entitled: 'The Cancer Biomarker Problem.' This excellent paper clearly explains what cancer biomarkers are, outlines the different categories of biomarkers, and emphasizes how important biomarkers are in the field of targeted therapies. Predictive biomarkers are indispensable tools that should direct the rational use of targeted drugs in cancer patients. There are additional types of biomarkers, including some that could help evaluate the course of cancer progression or help determine the effective dose of an investigational drug. But this post focuses on predictive biomarkers.
Most 'old' chemotherapeutic drugs, if successful, kill cancer cells (and some normal cells along the way) based on the common feature of many cancers: their rapid rates of division and growth. The common side effects of many chemotherapeutic drugs—nausea, anemia, and hair loss—are consequences of the drugs killing rapidly dividing normal cells such as intestinal cells, blood cell precursors in bone marrow, or hair follicle cells.
Targeted cancer drugs are selective, that is, each one actually targets a specific alteration or mutation in a cancer-causing gene that is present in a tumor, but not in other cells in the body. These are not blunt and toxic chemotherapeutic drugs, but a targeted drug only works if its target (ie, a certain mutated gene) is present in the cancers it is used against. The success of the first targeted drug, Gleevec (imatinib), was, in part, due to the fact that almost all patients with a chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) for which Gleevec was developed, had a genetic aberration in their tumor cells known as the Philadelphia chromosome. The consequence of this aberration is abnormal activity of a gene called ABL. Gleevec inhibits activated ABL and, because most CML patients have this alteration in their tumors, they respond to Gleevec remarkably well.
But what if only 15% percent of patients with CML had the Philadelphia chromosome? In this case, if Gleevec trials recruited all patients regardless of their Philadelphia chromosome status, only a small minority (fewer than 15%) would have responded; in addition, it would have taken a long time (if it could be done at all) to reanalyze the results of any trial with Gleevec and connect the outcomes with the presence of the Philadelphia chromosome.
In most cancers, unlike in CML, the situation is different: tumors with the same names might have different genes mutated. For example, fewer than 5% of patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung have an alteration (chromosomal translocation) known as EML4-ALK. The abnormal ALK is successfully targeted with a specific new drug, Xalkori (crizotinib), producing tumor shrinkage. However, Xalkori is of no use to the other more than 95% of lung cancer patients. This is why patients are tested for the ALK abnormality in order to determine whether they qualify for Xalkori treatment.
This method of testing for mutations to guide treatment decisions is becoming an established practice in oncology, where many targeted therapies have so-called 'companion diagnostics.' The first test of this nature was developed back in 1998. The diagnostics company Dako launched the HercepTest, an immunohistochemistry assay used to identify patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, when it was discovered that only patients with HER2 amplification responded better to Genentech's breast cancer therapy, Herceptin. Since then, a number of companion diagnostic tests were developed and eventually approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These tests can be found on the FDA website. Moreover, in 2011 the FDA issued a guidance for the development and use of companion diagnostics in 2011.
However, there is a serious problem with many clinical trials that explore new targeted drugs in various cancers. For example, a search of the clinical trials database at clinicaltrials.gov returns 347 active trials examining drugs that target a protein called mTOR in a variety of cancers. Indeed, mTOR is abnormally active in many cancers and it makes sense to explore it as a target. It is also well known that when mTOR is deregulated, a protein named s6 becomes modified in a way that is relatively easy to detect in a tumor biopsy. Yet, of the 347 trials using drugs that inhibit mTOR, only a handful include testing the s6 protein in tumors of patients who enroll in trials.
Should mTOR inhibitors be used in patients whose tumors do not have mTOR activated? The answer is: NO. They should be tested for the s6 biomarker first.
Even worse, the few patients in the trial who have abnormal mTOR activity might respond, but these responses will be 'lost' amongst the many cases that have no alterations in mTOR and have not benefited from the drug. Indeed, this has already happened in numerous clinical trials.
Dr. Sawyers wrote 5 years ago: "Despite much discussion on this topic, most clinical trials in patients with solid tumors do not include provisions to obtain additional tissue samples." Apparently, in the last 5 years there has not been a radical shift in the design of clinical trials to include analysis of predictive biomarkers.
The discovery of tumor biomarkers, and the development and validation of diagnostic tests is not an easy matter. Clinical trials are expensive to run and the addition of diagnostic tests to choose the relevant patient population carries an additional cost burden. Obtaining biopsies for analysis of molecular alterations in tumors is also not always trivial. However, in the end, it is a far better choice than administering a targeted drug to patients who are unlikely to respond because their tumors do not have a mutation that a drug targets. If a patient enrolls in a clinical trial, which is something to be encouraged, she or he should ask: do I have a genetic alteration in my tumor that makes me a strong candidate for a good response? Or, in other words, does this trial involve a companion diagnostic test?


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BunnyGo is an "interactive tale" (i.e you decide which way the story goes with a little bit of clickery) about a cute little pink rabbit trying to help his cute little friends in their struggle against an un-cute eco-terrorist beaver. Along the way there are some simple little mini games to play, and there's the option to play again and try out the story choices you haven't already tried. A great one for the kids to play, but probably not one for the cynical old point and click players among you, unless you also have a fondness for pink bunnies. This is episode one, with another two episodes due later . REVIEW::::A Little tooo short for my taste but is cute!
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For the tipping elements in the Earth's climate system, the most important issue to address is how stable is the desirable state against random perturbations. Extreme biotic and climatic events pose severe hazards to tropical rainforests. Their local effects are extremely stochastic and difficult to measure. Moreover, the direction and intensity of the response of forest trees to such perturbations are unknown, especially given the lack of efficient dynamical vegetation models to evaluate forest tree cover changes over time. In this study, we consider randomness in the mathematical modelling of forest trees by incorporating uncertainty through a stochastic differential equation. According to field-based evidence, the interactions between fires and droughts are a more direct mechanism that may describe sudden forest degradation in the south-eastern Amazon. In modeling the Amazonian vegetation system, we include symmetric α-stable Lévy perturbations. We report results of stability analysis of the metastable fertile forest state. We conclude that even a very slight threat to the forest state stability represents L´evy noise with large jumps of low intensity, that can be interpreted as a fire occurring in a non-drought year. During years of severe drought, high-intensity fires significantly accelerate the transition between a forest and savanna state.


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The Manchester Monarchs are a busy bunch. The Monarchs play three ECHL games this weekend and seven times in the next 10 days.
The Monarchs start their stretch with a home game Friday night (7 p.m.) against the Jacksonville IceMen at the SNHU Arena. After visiting Worcester on Saturday night, they return home to play the Railers on Sunday at 3 p.m.
The Monarchs will be facing Jacksonville for the first time. The team was formerly in Evansville, Ind., before being sold to a group in Florida.
Manchester went 2-0-1-0 last weekend, earning five points. The team is tied for first in the North Division of the Eastern Conference.


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OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) - Tropical Storm Hanna continues to move up the Atlantic coast. Forecasters say it's moved into Virginia, on a course toward New England.
Top winds are still near 50 miles an hour.
The storm is expected to bring 4 to 6 inches of rain from central North Carolina through the eastern mid-Atlantic states and into southern New England. The rain could bring flash flooding in some areas.
There are no reports of deaths or injuries in the U.S. from Hanna, which earlier was blamed for disastrous flooding and more than 100 deaths in Haiti.
By midday, almost 100,000 homes and businesses along the East Coast were without power.
In the resort town of Ocean City, Maryland, lifeguards were posted at all entrances to the beach to urge people to stay well back from the waves. But that didn't stop surfers from trying to ride the swells that reached 12 feet by late morning.


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The Best Hole in the Road in Virginia
This little hole in the wall or hole in the road is located in Virginia off highway 23 in Wise, VA.
It is called the Apple House and is owned by 2 brothers. One runs the veggie part and the other runs the food part. It is the best food this side of the Mississippi and I know food. I had a fish sandwich, fish bites and bar-b-que pulled pork sandwich with baked beans. All was home made and yummy!
6878 Orby Cantrell Hwy
Wise, Virginia
Headed south, it is a few miles past Robo Drive in near Pound, VA.
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Trial and Error (aka The Dock Brief)
I am afraid to say that it has taken age-ed Barrister, Wilfred Morgenhall (Peter Sellers), an awful long time to get his first 'dock brief' - defending timid wife-murderer, Herbert Fowle (Richard Attenborough).
Well, it has taken him years and years of study and personal neglect you see, plus many-many more years doodling on cross-word puzzles, until some criminal decides to pick him from the barrister's chambers.
Still, now that someone has, what has he got?
Bird-lover, Herbert, is just irritated every time that his wife, Doris (Beryl Reid), finds something to laugh at. He hated her chuckle when they got married . He loathed her jovial jibes at his aviculturist past times. Plus in addition to this, when they both take in lodger, Frank Bateson (David Lodge), who is similarly attuned to Doris in tone, Herbert is aghast when she kicks Frank out, because she does not want to run away with him.
In fact, Herbert is so forlorn by this turn of events, that he kills her.
Once Wilfred has heard Herbert's strange tale, they both then conjure up possible trial scenarios which will get Herbert off the hook. Firstly, they manifest a 'surprise witness' to come to his aide - something which has its obvious pitfalls. Next, they surmise what would happen if they had the lodger, Frank, on the dock - bad idea, he has an alibi already. And finally, Wilfred devises a plan to attack the medical evidence - ooops - no - not convincing enough I'm afraid.
Though, I suppose that is why when Herbert's trial finally begins proper, nothing really turns out the way it would appear. As barristers bumble - juries stumble - criminals find reprieve - and justice has no time to grieve.
'The Dock Brief' is an early sixties English personable drama, devised and staged as if it was theatrical production. Well, just look at the facts: (1) John Mortimer, the writer of this film, was a novelist, a writer for BBC radio, and originally devised 'The Dock Brief ' for both these mediums plus the theater. (2) The director of this film, James Hill, directed a lot of television programmes in his time, such as 'The Saint', 'The Avengers', 'The Persuaders', 'Worzel Gummidge' and 'C.A.T.S. Eyes'. Oh! Plus the critically acclaimed film 'Born Free' as well. (3) David Lodge starred with Peter Sellers in the television series 'Son of Fred', as well as the 'Pink Panther' series of films too. (4) This movie is known by two names - 'Trail and Error' and 'The Dock Brief' - for no apparent reason what so ever. (5) Beryl Reid played the same part of 'Connie Sach' in two films - 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' and 'Smiley's People'. She won a BAFTA for 'Smiley's People'. (6) Richard Attenborough first film role was in 1942 - 'In Which We Serve'. (7) Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough did star in another film together after this - 'The Magic Christian'. And (8) Back in the day, the people associated with the 'English Law', were from privilege backgrounds only. No 'commoners' allowed.
However, taking all of these facts into account, does that make this film with two names a good film or a bad film? Err - it depends' I suppose.
Personally speaking, I kind of liked it, because it just has that old school charm of yesteryear, whilst conceptually, encapsulating a number of short associated tales together, by joining them all up as if it was just one solid story.
For example, a large part of this tale is about Peter Sellers' character, Wilfred, and how he has had to study very hard to get into the legal profession, only for him to then be shunned by it. Whereas another part of this tale is about Richard Attenborough's character, Herbert, and how he has led a life of drudgery and mixed ideals, which provoked him to kill his irritating wife. Also, in addition to this, this story is 'glued' by a cohesive tale, one relating to Wilfred and Herbert's 'alternate attitudes' towards life and class.
OK, I know that this does not sound like a laugh riot film - and to be honest with you, it's not - it can seem quite sad in retrospect. Still, whilst saying all that, this movie is about the comedy of character, and how certain attitudes and personalities seems to have more depth of humor than the overall story.
My personal favourite part of this film is where Peter and Richard try to conjure up possible outcomes to the trail. Granted, it is not a realistic depiction of a Barrister and Client relationship - but that is precisely my point - the characters progresses the tale because they are who they are.
"And why is that?" you may ask. Simple really - because Peter and Richard (plus David and Beryl) are all great actors, and carry this film from start to finish as if it was a walk in a park. Moreover, the simple and 'plodding' pace of this film is very nice too - with transitions and speed-up effect very well transmitted, conveyed as if I was sitting in the audience of a gala theatre.
Oh! I think that is where I came in... huh?
Great film - of its time - and a must see for lovers of yesteryear.


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Two centuries of Viking raids into Europe tapered off following the adoption of Christianity by King Olav Tryggvason in 994. Conversion of the Norwegian kingdom occurred over several decades. In 1397, Norway was absorbed into a union with Denmark that was to last for more than four centuries. In 1814, Norwegians resisted the cession of their country to Sweden and adopted a new constitution.
Rising nationalism throughout the 19th century led to a 1905 referendum granting Norway independence. Norway proclaimed its neutrality at the outset of WW II, but was nonetheless occupied for five years by Nazi Germany (1940-45). In 1949, neutrality was abandoned and Norway became a member of NATO. Discovery of oil and gas in adjacent waters in the late 1960s boosted Norway's economic fortunes.
The current focus is on containing spending on the extensive welfare system and planning for the time when petroleum reserves are depleted.
Norway is foremost a land for those who love nature. However, it also offers a rich cultural experience for those keen to follow in the footsteps of the Vikings – as well as those of later luminaries such as artist Edvard Munch. You can marvel at the awesome beauty of the Norwegian countryside, with its countless steep-sided valleys, high mountain lakes and unbelievable views.


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NVIDIA has hit a home-run with their new Tegra 4 gaming console. Dubbed Project Shield, this new console plays host to a myriad of games ranging from live streaming PC games to our favorite, Google Play Store mobile games. NVIDIA has outdone themselves with this impressive handheld game console, and IMO will make a believer out of gamers everywhere with their new innovative gaming system.
Are you a fan of doom and gloom? Have a hankering for the smell of dead flesh? Do you wish you could be the sole survivor of a zombie apocalypse battling your way through wave upon wave of flesh eating living dead? Then guess what, this game is for you! On Project Shield's 5-inch Retina Display touchscreen display this game looks amazing.
Players have a weapons arsenal at their disposal (flame thrower included, of course) as they fight through level upon level of awesome zombie goodness. The ultimate goal? Who cares, we get to kill zombie scum from the comfort of our comfy sofa! Head past the break for the video demo.
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Chef's Note
"This dish is a little work but the end result is glorious! The sauce adds an interesting finish. In Spain, this dish is traditionally made with goose, but duck is more readily available here."
READY IN:2hrs
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 duck breasts
- 2 red onions, finely diced
- 1 carrot, peeled and finely diced
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 ripe tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and diced
- 4 green pears, firm
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 ounces blanched almonds, toasted and chopped
- 1 garlic clove
- 3 ounces brandy
- Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed frying pan and cook the duck, skin side down first, over medium heat until brown all over. Remove and set aside, reserving 4 tbsp of the cooking fat.
- Return 2 tbsp of the fat to the pan. Add the onion, carrot and thyme and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes or until onions are soft.
- Add the stock and tomato and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes, with the lid slightly askew, until the sauce has thickened and reduced.
- Cool slightly, then puree in a food processor until smooth. Return to the pan with the duck and simmer gently over low heat for 30-40 minutes or until the duck is tender.
- While the duck is cooking, peel the pears, halve them and core them, leaving the stem intact. Place the pears in a saucepan with the cinnamon and just cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes our until the pears are tender but still firm to the bite. Remove the pears, cover to keep warm and add 1/2 cup of the pear poaching liquid to the tomato sauce.
- Remove the duck from the sauce and keep warm.
- Grind the almonds, garlic and brandy in a mortar and pestle or small blender to make a smooth paste. Add to the tomato sauce, season to taste and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Arrange the duck pieces on a serving platter and pour the sauce over the top. Arrange the warm pears around the duck and serve.
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Who among us hasn't wondered the question as old as time itself: Do these jeans make my butt look big?
Well, Phinneas is here to tell everyone that these jeans make his tail look adorable. He was modeling them along with an Old Navy visor, trying to win the "best dressed" contest at the recent Laurel Dog Show.


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How to Cook a Perfect Roast Beef
A great roast beef should be beautifully browned on the outside and tender pink when it's cut open. Every thin slice should be so moist that it almost melts in your mouth when you bite. There's a lot of conflicting information out there about how to make the perfect roast beef. What temperature should it be? What seasoning? What cut of meat is best? This simple guide will help you obtain the perfect roast beef every single time.
The Cut of Beef
You want to pick a large, tender cut of beef - avoid tough chuck roasts. Rib roast, top sirloin, tri-tip, round roasts, and tenderloin should all result in a nice roast beef. The meat should also be darker in color with a thick layer of fat and good marbling throughout so that it can stay juicy through the roasting process.
Preparing the Beef
Make sure to take the beef out of the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before you cook it. Dress the meat following whatever recipe you choose. For most cuts of meat (especially leaner varieties) you will want to drizzle it well with olive oil (and whatever herbs and seasonings you are using) and rub it all over the roast.
Cooking Temperature
While you are prepping the meat, preheat your oven to 475 degrees Fahrenheit (240 degrees Celsius). Once your oven is ready, pop in the roasting tray. Turn the heat down immediately to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and let the roast continue cooking until your desired rarity is achieved. (Cooking times will vary - the following times are determined from a 3.5 pound roast!)
- For medium-rare meat the roast should take about 50-55 minutes.
- A medium roast will take approximately 1 hour exactly.
- A well done roast will take about 1 hour and 10-15 minutes.
*Another common method is preheating the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit and cooking the roast at that temperature for half the time, and then turning the oven down to 375 for the rest of the time.
- Using a meat thermometer, check the internal temp of your roast. It should reach 150 degrees F for a medium-rare roast, 160 degrees F for a medium roast, and 175 degrees F for a rare roast
Cooking temperatures vary depending on the weight of your roast. For every pound of meat you're roasting, it will take approximately 12 minutes for rare, 14 minutes for medium, and 16 minutes for well-done.
Serving the Roast
When you take the roast out of the oven, make sure to let it rest for at least 20 minutes. This will allow the juices to spread throughout the roast and will make it much more tender and delicious. Carve thin slices, as this will exemplify the tenderness of roast much better.
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[Roast Beef with Dijon-Caper Sauce
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[Roast Beef Tenderloin with Port Sauce
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"Wow wow wow. Clearly, USC alums can cook ;) Loving this easy, simple and oh so delicious and gluttonous treat! This calls for a bundt pan but I've successfully cut the recipe in a third and used a loaf pan."
READY IN:40mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup butter (1 cup)
- 2 -3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 (10 ounce) cans buttermilk biscuits (the non-flaky ones)
- 1 cup sugar
- preheat that oven to 350.
- open up all three cans of biscuits and cut each biscuit into quarters.
- At this time you'll want to combine the 1 cup of regular sugar with 2-3 teaspoons of cinnamon. I use 3 teaspoons of cinnamon and this gives it a fairly strong cinnamon flavor. If you're not so hot on cinnamon, cut it back to 2 teaspoons. Dump these into a 1 gallon zip bag and shake to mix evenly.
- drop all of the biscuit quarters into the cinnamon-sugar mix. Go ahead…all of them. Yes, they're sticking together right now, but just trust me.
- Once all the biscuit quarters are in the bag, seal it and give it a vigorous shake. You might have some excess sugar left over and that's okay.
- Spread these nuggets out evenly in your bundt pan. I suppose you might want to grease this pan before doing this, but I'm pretty sure the gallon of butter we are about to add will keep it safe. Un-greased always works for me.
- melt those two sticks of butter together with 1/2cup of brown sugar. This can be light or dark brown sugar.
- Stir together over a medium-high heat until the two become one.
- Once the brown sugar butter has become one color, you can pour it over the biscuits.At first…it's going to look like too much. It's okay though.
- Bake this @ 350 degrees for about 30-40 minutes until the crust is a deep brown on top.
- If you have the willpower, allow this to cool for about 15-30 minutes before turning it over onto a plate. If it doesn't slide right down onto the plate, give it a few love-taps until it plops. It'll hold.
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It announced August 27 a beefed-up European board, under the leadership of Mainardo de Nardis, 36, former managing director of CIA Medianetwork Europe, as its newly-promoted chief executive.
Reasons for the European restructure are two-fold. Firstly, the aim is to concentrate power more clearly at the center of European operations in London, to ensure cohesion and consistency among all CIA offices around Europe and so retain and win pan-European business.
Secondly, it frees up Chris Ingram, founder and chairman of the CIA Group, and David Reich, chief executive of the group, to focus on other regions. Europe contributes the majority of the group's income, with billings of $3.3bn for 1997.
"Before, we said we couldn't do more than two continents at a time," says Ingram. "Maybe that's lacking in ambition. We thought we'd get Europe and Asia in place. The logical thing now is to look at the Far East and North America."
Ingram wouldn't be specific about U.S. plans but said: "We'd like to be of some significance in the U.S. by the end of next year. We can't understand why people think it's too late to enter the American market."
All CIA offices across Europe will now operate under a single brand - CIA Medianetwork Europe. The network's clients include Novartis, Ericsson, Visa and Harley-Davidson.
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"This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, and ask where the good way is, and walk in it. You will find rest for your soul."
Jeremiah 6:16 NIV
D-Day Prayer June 6, 1944
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This chapter explains how to configure the Java EE containers included in the server. This chapter contains following sections:
This section describes the Java EE containers included with the Application Server.
Java EE containers provide runtime support for Java EE application components. Java EE application components use the protocols and methods of the container to access other application components and services provided by the server. The Application Server provides an application client container, an applet container, a Web container, and an EJB container. For a diagram that shows the containers, see the section Application Server Architecture.
The Web Container is a Java EE container that hosts web applications. The web container extends the web server functionality by providing developers the environment to run servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP files).
Enterprise beans (EJB components) are Java programming language server components that contain business logic. The EJB container provides local and remote access to enterprise beans.
There are three types of enterprise beans: session beans, entity beans, and message-driven beans. Session beans represent transient objects and processes and typically are used by a single client. Entity beans represent persistent data, typically maintained in a database. Message-driven beans are used to pass messages asynchronously to application modules and services.
The container is responsible for creating the enterprise bean, binding the enterprise bean to the naming service so other application components can access the enterprise bean, ensuring only authorized clients have access to the enterprise bean's methods, saving the bean's state to persistent storage, caching the state of the bean, and activating or passivating the bean when necessary.
Sun Java System Application Server 9 conforms to Java EE 5 and EJB 3.0 specifications Therefore a JNDI name will be no longer be required for EJB 3.0 session beans that expose a Remote view. If a deployed Remote EJB 3.0 bean does not provide a global JNDI name, the container will assign it one at runtime. The assigned JNDI name is the fully qualified class name of the remote EJB's business interface. In addition, EJB clients that use the new Remote EJB 3.0 client view will not be required to map their remote @EJB references to a global JNDI name within sun-ejb-jar.xml. If a JNDI name has not been associated with the ejb reference, the container will derive the default JNDI name for the target EJB from its associated business interface.
Applications using this EJB 3.0 feature will no longer need sun-ejb-jar.xml or sun-application-client.xml configuration files. The older method of providing a JNDI name in sun-ejb-jar.xml will continue to work. It will also be possible for the application to map an ejb-reference or @EJB reference to a specific global JNDI name.
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This section describes the HTTP session settings in the Web container. HTTP sessions are unique web sessions that have their state data written to a persistent store.
Use the Admin Console to set the HTTP session timeout value. The session timeout value represents the duration for which an HTTP session is valid.
In the Admin Console, go to Configuration> Web Container > Session Properties. In the Session Timeout field, enter the number of seconds that a session is valid.
For detailed instructions on setting the session timeout value, Click Help in the Admin Console.
The session manager provides the means to configure how sessions are created and destroyed, where session state is stored, and the maximum number of sessions.
To change the session manager settings in the Admin Console, go to Configuration> Web Container > Manager Properties.
In the Manager Properties tab, set the following properties:
Reap Interval value. The Reap Interval field is the number of seconds before the inactive session data is deleted from the store.
Max Sessions value. The Max Sessions field is the maximum number of sessions allowed.
Set the Session Filename value. The Session Filename field is the file that contains the session data.
Session ID Generator Classname value.
The Session ID Generator Classname field allows you to specify a custom class for generating unique session IDs. Only one session ID generator class per server instance is permitted, and all instances in a cluster must use the same session ID generator to prevent session key collision.
Custom session ID generator classes must implement the com.sun.enterprise.util.uuid.UuidGenerator interface:
package com.sun.enterprise.util.uuid; public interface UuidGenerator { public String generateUuid(); public String generateUuid(Object obj); //obj is the session object }
The class must be in the Application Server classpath.
For detailed instructions on setting the manager properties, Click Help in the Admin Console.
To specify where the session store data will be saved, in the Admin Console, go to Configuration > Web Container > Store Properties.
Set the Reap Interval field
The Reap Interval field is the number of seconds before the inactive session data is deleted from the store.
Specify the directory where session data will be stored.
For detailed instructions on setting the session store properties, Click Help in the Admin Console.
By default, the web container returns an HTTP response header with an attribute whose name is "Server" and value is the version of the Application Server Software. For example, on Application Server 9 Platform Edition, the value is: "Server: Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 9.0 FCS". Run the asadmin version command to view the version of your installation. If you want to override this value, define a Java Property named product.name in the server's configuration and initialize it to the value of your choice. This value determines what is returned by the server in the HTTP response. To change the property:
Start the Application Server and log in to Admin Console.
Click Application Server and click the JVM Settings tab.
Click Add JVM Option.
Enter the following value: -Dproduct.name="My Name".
The following section describes settings that apply to all enterprise bean containers on the server:
To override the defaults on a per-container basis, adjust the values in the enterprise bean's sun-ejb-jar.xml file. For details, see the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 Developer's Guide.
The Session Store Location field specifies the directory where passivated beans and persisted HTTP sessions are stored on the file system.
Passivated beans are enterprise beans that have had their state written to a file on the file system. Passivated beans typically have been idle for a certain period of time, and are not currently being accessed by clients.
Similar to passivated beans, persisted HTTP sessions are individual web sessions that have had their state written to a file on the file system.
The Commit Option field specifies how the container caches passivated entity bean instances between transactions.
Option B caches entity bean instances between transactions, and is selected by default. Option C disables caching.
The container maintains a pool of enterprise beans in order to respond to client requests without the performance hit that results from creating the beans. These settings only apply to stateless session beans and entity beans.
If you experience performance problems in an application that uses deployed enterprise beans, creating a pool, or increasing the number of beans maintained by an existing pool, can help increase the application's performance.
By default, the container maintains a pool of enterprise beans.
To set the EJB pool properties using the Admin Console, go to Configuration > EJB Container > EJB Settings.
Under Pool Settings in the Initial and Minimum Pool Size field enter the minimum number of beans the container creates in the pool.
In the Maximum Pool Size field enter the maximum number of beans the container maintains in the pool, at any time.
In the Pool Resize Quantity field enter the number of beans that will be removed from the pool if they are idle for more than the time specified in Pool Idle Timeout.
In the Pool Idle Timeout field enter the time, in seconds, that a bean in the pool can remain idle before it will be removed from the pool.
Restart the Application Server.
For detailed instructions on configuring the EJB pool, Click Help in the Admin Console.
The container maintains a cache of enterprise bean data for the most used enterprise beans. This allows the container to respond more quickly to requests from other application modules for data from the enterprise beans. This section applies only to stateful session beans and entity beans.
Cached enterprise beans are in one of three states: active, idle, or passivated. An active enterprise bean is currently being accessed by clients. An idle enterprise bean's data is currently in the cache, but no clients are accessing the bean. A passivated bean's data is temporarily stored, and read back into the cache if a client requests the bean.
To configure the EJB cache settings using the Admin Console, go to Configuration > EJB Container > EJB Settings.
Adjust the maximum cache size in the Max Cache Size field.
Increase the maximum number of beans to cache to eliminate the overhead of bean creation and destruction. However, if the cache is increased, the server consumes more memory and resources. Be sure your operating environment is sufficient for your cache settings.
Adjust the cache resize quantity in the Cache Resize Quantity field.
When the maximum number of cached beans is reached, the container removes a number of passivated beans from the backup store, set to 32 by default.
Adjust the rate, in seconds, at which the cache cleanup is scheduled for entity beans in the Cache Idle Timeout field.
If a cached entity bean has been idle a certain amount of time, it is passivated. That is, the bean's state is written to a backup store.
Adjust the time, in seconds, after which stateful session beans are removed from the cache or passivated store in the Removal Timeout field.
Configure the policy the container uses to remove stateful session beans in the Removal Selection Policy field.
The container decides which stateful session beans to remove based on the policy set in the Removal Selection Policy field. There are three possible policies the container uses to remove beans from the cache:
Not recently used (NRU)
First in, first out (FIFO)
Least recently used (LRU)
The NRU policy removes a bean that hasn't been used recently. The FIFO policy removes the oldest bean in the cache. The LRU policy removes the least recently accessed bean. By default, the NRU policy is used by the container.
Entity beans are always removed using the FIFO policy.
Restart the Application Server.
For detailed instructions on configuring the EJB pool, Click Help in the Admin Console.
The pool for message-driven beans is similar to the pool for session beans described in Configuring EJB Pool Settings. By default, the container maintains a pool of message-driven beans.
To adjust the configuration of this pool using the Admin Console, go to Configuration > EJB Container > MDB Settings.
Under Pool Settings in the Initial and Minimum Pool Size field, enter the minimum number of message beans the container creates in the pool.
In the Maximum Pool Size field, enter the maximum number of beans the container maintains in the pool, at any time.
In the Pool Resize Quantity field, enter the number of beans that are removed from the pool if they are idle for more than the time specified in Pool Idle Timeout.
In the Pool Idle Timeout field, enter the time, in seconds, that a bean in the pool can remain idle before it is removed from the pool.
Restart the Application Server.
For detailed instructions on configuring the MDB settings, Click Help in the Admin Console.
The timer service is a persistent and transactional notification service provided by the enterprise bean container used to schedule notifications or events used by enterprise beans. All enterprise beans except stateful session beans can receive notifications from the timer service. Timers set by the service are not destroyed when the server is shut down or restarted.
To configure the EJB Timer Service using the Admin Console, go to Configuration > EJB Container > EJB Timer Service.
Set the minimum delivery interval in milliseconds in the Minimum Delivery Interval field.
Minimum Delivery Interval is the minimum number of milliseconds allowed before the next timer expiration for a particular timer can occur. Setting this interval too low can cause server overload.
Set the maximum number of attempts the timer service makes to deliver the notification in the Maximum Redeliveries field.
Set the interval, in milliseconds, between redelivery attempts in the Redelivery Interval field.
Specify the JNDI name of the JDBC resource that will be used as the Timer Datasource.
Restart the Application Server.
By default, the timer service uses an embedded database to store timers. You can set up the timer service to another database.
Sample timer database creation files are provided for Java DB (Derby), PointBase, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and MS SQL Server at install-dir/lib/install/databases/.
To use an external database with the Timer Service, first, set up a JDBC resource for the selected database as described in Creating a JDBC Resource. Then go to Configuration > EJB Container > EJB Timer Service and enter the JNDI name of the resource in the Timer DataSource field. Restart the Application Server.
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Hi there,
I'm new to fmod and have some basic questions using Event System and Designer.
Currently I am programming a project having objects moving in 3D space. I want to assign a sound loop for each of them. I assigned the sound loop using the Designer [i:3bjrhsbn]"loop mode"[/i:3bjrhsbn].
I also set the max playback amount to 3 and the max playback behavior to [i:3bjrhsbn]"steal quietest"[/i:3bjrhsbn]. In my project there can be a various number of objects (up to 10 objects). In order to keep the cpu usage low I want only 3 objects to be heard, that's why I set max playback to 3.
At project initialization I create let's say 10 objects each having an FMOD::Event pointer. I allocate the events by [i:3bjrhsbn]"GetEventByIndex"[/i:3bjrhsbn] and call event->play() to start the loop for each object.
In an update loop I update the position of the events and my listener position.
When updating the objects positions I get an [i:3bjrhsbn]ERR_INVALID_HANDLE[/i:3bjrhsbn] exception.
So here are my questions:
I've alerady read, that I have to set the max playback amount to the maximum number of objects I create in my project. Doing this I'd had to set the amount to 10 (because this is the maximum number that can be created), wouldn't this use a lot more cpu usage?
I thought I could minimize the cpu usage by hearing only 3 objects and expected that the event system would update all 10 positions but playing only the 3 loudest events.
How much more cpu usage would it cost to set the max playback to let's say 30, would the event system allocate memory for 30 events or for just the "real" 10 objects? Why should I ever set the max playback to a small amount, risking to get an [i:3bjrhsbn]ERR_INVALID_HANDLE[/i:3bjrhsbn] exception?
Reading the documentation of FMOD Ex I've read that there are virtual voices allowing me to create 10 sounds, and updating there position using channels which can be virtual if there are outside a given max distance. This concept seams to be excactly what I'd need for my project but I want to use the Event System instead of Ex. The Event System allows me to create my sounds much more comfortable using Designer.
So is there a possibility to use these virtual voices in the Event System? How can I set an amount for audible sounds allowing only the 3 loudest events to be heard?
Thanks in advance for your help
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Hi eberwolf,
The virtual voice system is per voice, so if your events only contain one soundef then you could initialize fmod with 3 real channels and let the virtual voice system handle the rest, a better way would be to use virtual events.
You can set up your own virtual events using the "just fail if quietest" max playback behaviour. The name doesn't completely describe the behaviour it is more like: "just fail if quietest otherwise steal the quietest"
The way it works is you call getEvent every frame for every instance which is not currently active. You do this by setting the position on the INFO_ONLY instance first.
FMOD::Event evt;
eventSystem->getEvent("project/group/event", FMOD_EVENT_INFOONLY, &evt);
evt->set3DAttributes( pos, 0, 0 );
result = eventSystem->getEvent("project/group/event", FMOD_EVENT_DEFAULT, &evt);
if (result == FMOD_OK)
isVirtual = false;
Since the INFO_ONLY instance is positioned, when you call getEvent the second time it tries to create the instance at the position where you had the INFO_ONLY event, and if it is louder than any of the other 3 current events it will steal otherwise it will fail. That means only the 3 loudest will be active at any time.
Hi Peter,
thank you for your feedback!
I implemented your code-snippet but it didn't work for me. I could hear the sound just at the beginning of the scene. As the objects move away from their start position I can't hear the sounds anymore.
The way it works is you call getEvent every frame for every instance which is not currently active.
What do you mean with not active? As I've written I have up to 10 objects which have a sound event playing in a loop. Aren't all these events active?
I had the following construct:
Class My3DObject {
StartOnce3DSound(int eventIndex, Vector startPos, Vector startVel) {
SoundClass::eventProject->getEventByIndex(eventIndex, MOD_EVENT_DEFAULT, &myEvent);
myEvent->set3DAttributes(startPos, startVel);
Update3DSound() {
myEvent->set3DAttributes(myPos, myVel);
FMOD::Event *myEvent;
Vector myPos, myVel;
Class Game {
My3DObject *myObject = new My3DObject[10];
init() {
for (myObject.count) myObject[i].StartOnce3DSound(EVT1, pos, vel);
update() {
for (myObject.count) {
As you can see, I start the event sound loops at the beginning of the scene and update the position in the game loop. There's no stopping of the event so I guess they're active all the time.
This is the new code construct regarding your feedback:
boolean soundLoopPlaying = false;
Update3DSound(int eventIndex, Vector pos, Vector vel) {
FMOD::Event *gotEvent;
SoundClass::eventProject->getEventByIndex(eventIndex, FMOD_EVENT_INFOONLY, &gotEvent);
gotEvent->set3DAttributes(pos, vel, 0);
result = SoundClass::eventProject->getEventByIndex(eventIndex, MOD_EVENT_DEFAULT, &gotEvent);
if (result == FMOD_OK && !soundLoopPlaying)
result = gotEvent->start();
if (result == OK) soundLoopPlaying = true;
else soundLoopPlaying = false;
Class Game {
My3DObject *myObject = new My3DObject[10];
init() {
for (myObject.count) myObject[i].Update3DSound(EVT1, pos, vel);
update() {
for (myObject.count) {
myObject[i].Update3DSound(EVT1, pos, vel);
I don't get any error messages but the sounds can't be heard as the objects move away from their start position. Do you have any other ideas?
Thank you
Try something like this:
[code:hv0gkp74]// First check if our instance is valid
bool unused;
result = myEvent->getMute(&unused);
if (result == FMOD_OK)
myEvent->set3DAttributes(pos, vel, 0)
else if (result == FMOD_ERR_INVALID_HANDLE)
// Attempt to steal
FMOD::Event *gotEvent;
SoundClass::eventProject->getEventByIndex(eventIndex, FMOD_EVENT_INFOONLY, &gotEvent);
gotEvent->set3DAttributes(pos, vel, 0);
result = SoundClass::eventProject->getEventByIndex(eventIndex, MOD_EVENT_DEFAULT, &gotEvent);
if (result == FMOD_OK)
// We successfully stole an instance
myEvent = gotEvent;
result = gotEvent->start();
Thank you, peter 😀
Now it works!
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Ed.D., Learning and Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2006
M.Ed., Arts in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2000
B.M., Performance, The Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA, USA, 1993
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Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2009). The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at American Boarding School. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
GaztambideFernández, R., *VanderDussen, E, & *Cairns, K. (2012). "The mall" and "the plant:" Choice and the classed construction of possible futures in two specialized arts programs. Education and Urban Society. (34 pp.)
Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2011). Bullshit as resistance: Justifying unearned privilege among students at an elite boarding school. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24(5), 581-586.
Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2011). Musicking in the city: Reconceptualizing urban music education as cultural practice. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 10(1), 14-45.Research Grants and Contracts
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My doctoral training was supported through the Research Training Grant of the Spencer Foundation.
Professional Activities
Currently, I am Director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Education at OISE. I am also an editor for Curriculum Inquiry, and I am on the editorial boards of several journals, including Qualitative Sociology and Sociology of Education. I am a former chair of the Curriculum & Pedagogy Group, and I have served on the Program Committee for Division B (Curriculum Studies) at AERA for two years. As a doctoral student, I was a member of the student run editorial board of the Harvard Educational Review.


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ARTIST: Wumpscut
Pumping out a new album every year or so, Wumpscut's Rudy Ratzinger is one of the EBM scene's most prolific producers as well as one of its most enigmatic. His latest gives more than a few nods to classic Wumpscut styles and classic EBM in general, but after the familiar raspy vocals and wavering keyboards of "Rusty Nails from Hell" and sharp synthesizers and breakbeats of "Oh How It Feels," things start to move into less familiar territory. "Foretold" is slow and pitiless, Ratzinger's signature vocal scowl relaxed to a drawl over plucked violin samples and a deep reverberating rattle that sounds like the mating call of some giant cave insect. "Moloch" is equally dark, but its otherworldly depths evoke the void between the stars, not subterranean caverns. While occasional hints of synthesized harp and violin hint at the Medieval direction Ratzinger explored a few years ago, there's also a faint but definite Middle Eastern vibe in evidence. It's most clearly represented on "Voodoo Void," which, despite a title that hints at Caribbean influences, features Arabic fiddle solos as well as harps, but an interest in the region also presents itself on "Rifki," the album's most catchy and aggressive club track, which borrows its name and several samples from the antagonist in seminal Turkish prison movie Midnight Express. The album's most unexpected delight, however, is "Hard to Bear," an instrumental featuring sweeping ambient pads and gorgeous, albeit distorted, keyboard harmonies that all but abandons Ratzinger's usual cynicism for a mood that, though still melancholy, is undeniably pretty, as well. Schadling isn't a drastic departure from the style Ratzinger has established in recent years, but it's an interesting exploration of the elements he's most known for; while not an instant classic, long-time fans will definitely appreciate the way Ratzinger has subtly played with both their expectations and his own songwriting and production techniques.
Visit Rudy Ratzinger online at www.wumpscut.com.
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Electricity rights of way (ROW) or electricity corridors are less than a fraction of a percent of overall federal lands, yet the consequences from not effectively managing the ROW and power line corridors can be significant and catastrophic. When a ROW is not properly maintained, a tree can grow into or fall on to a power line, causing fires and electricity blackouts. The major blackout in 2003 in the Northeast which included New York City was caused by a falling tree in a ROW and left 50 million people in the dark. A similar blackout impacted a number of western states and millions of electricity customers in 1996.
"At a time of poor forest conditions throughout much of the West, we cannot afford to let federal indecision and inter-agency conflicts ignite a powder keg waiting to explode. Catastrophic fires caused by hazardous trees touching power lines only harm the ratepayer and destroy the environment," said House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04).
"Forest fires resulting from downed trees and lack of proactive management pose a direct threat to human health and safety. Failure to actively manage hazardous trees near transmission lines is irresponsible as stewards of the natural environment, and too often we fail to consider the species habitat destroyed in forest fires when making decisions about active forest management. Debris from these resulting forest fires pollutes water supplies for humans and species, and can cost tens of millions of dollars to mitigate," said Congressman Scott Tipton (CO-03). "Ultimately the costs of wildfires caused by failure to remove hazardous trees fall on local communities and ratepayers, who bear the brunt of repair, rebuilding, and, in many cases, unfair liability costs."
Witnesses at the hearing highlighted the need for proactive and consistent vegetative management policies and a timely decision-making process to avoid electricity outages and catastrophic fires.
"It is beyond the time that our federal land managers work collaboratively with electric co-ops to develop common sense reform to their current practices. As one Oregon co-op manager noted, 'we are not the enemy.' These operational and cultural problems will not be resolved overnight and must involve long-term solutions. Co-ops must receive assurances that solutions will be implemented that preserve our history of providing safe, reliable, and affordable electricity to our members." – Dave Markham, President and CEO, Central Electric Cooperative; President, Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association
"The inconsistent viewpoints of Federal land managers creates difficulties for utilities because local authorities are empowered to make their own decisions for what is or is not appropriate in their jurisdictions. The arrangement creates unpredictable directives regarding what is or what is not authorized on utility corridors on Federal lands – in spite of land managers ostensibly working with the same politics and procedures. To provide and understanding of the degree of difficulty can create, recall that PacifiCorp's facilities cross 33 different national forests. Each national forest is divided into three or four districts, each with independent decision making authority., That means PacifiCorp foresters may have to work individually with well over 100 different governing authorities for the USDA Forest Service alone. Add to that a number of regions of the BLM, national parks, and Federal wildlife refuges, all of which have ongoing personnel changes, and one can understand how working with federal agencies can be so problematic and time consuming." – Randall Miller, Director of Vegetation Management, PacifiCorp
"The utility industry is not only concerned about the encroachment of vegetation within the ROW, but also 'hazard trees' growing outside the permitted ROW. A hazard tree is a tree that has been assessed and found likely to fail and cause an unacceptable degree of injury, damage or disruption. These 'hazard trees' can fall into the power lines potentially causing a power outage, or even a catastrophic wildfire. In many cases, the utilities don't have the right to remove these trees. In spite of this, utilities are often held liable for suppression costs and damages when these off-ROW hazard trees cause a wildfire. In recent years utilities have literally paid out millions of dollars to cover these cost ." – Mike Neal, Manager of Forestry and Special Programs, Arizona Public Service
"My hope today is that my testimony and those of others persuade you and perhaps officials from the BLM and Forest Service that things need to change. Adding more rules, regulations, and requirements in an effort to address these problems is not productive nor do they serve the public interest. There are simpler, easier solutions to these problems. Wyoming cooperative stand ready to be part of the solution to help keep the lights on, reduce the chance of forest fire risk, and implement a process to properly manage ROW on public lands." – Michael Easley, CEO Powder River Energy Corporation.
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Suffering from anxiety can be a serious challenge. It can also lead to some incredibly unusual and troubling symptoms. One of the stranger issues caused by anxiety is tingling hands.
That tingling feeling often leads to further anxiety, because it makes people worry that something is wrong with their head or nervous system. It's a fair worry, because tingling hands can be caused by nerve issues, vitamin deficiencies, liver disease and more. Yet it can also be caused by anxiety.
Tingling Hands = Anxiety?
Tingling hands is a very real anxiety symptom. It can also be caused by something more serious, such as diabetes or carpel tunnel syndrome, or it can be caused by anxiety and stress.
Much of it depends on your other symptoms and what your doctor says. I developed a free 7 minute anxiety test to give you an idea of whether your tingling hands may be anxiety related.
Tingling hand can be a frightening anxiety symptom. Some people experience tremendous fear that something is wrong with their heart or brain. Others worry about something less serious, but still a very real problem, like carpel tunnel - especially if you work in retail or with computers/typing.
But tingling hands can genuinely be an anxiety symptom. One thing that's true though - tingling hands almost always comes with other anxiety symptoms. So if you haven't taken my free anxiety test yet, take it now.
What Causes Tingling Hands?
First, it's important to remember that even the "tingling hands" experience may be different for different people. Some might call it crawling hands, others may see it more as hand numbness. There are even those whose hands become somewhat in pain.
The more serious you feel it is, the more you should consider seeing a doctor. Despite the likelihood that tingling hands is caused by anxiety, only a doctor can diagnose you for certain, and it's always a good idea to rule out more serious conditions.
When other issues have been ruled out and anxiety becomes the likely culprit, that's when you need treatment. But what causes tingling hands? The answer is almost always hyperventilation.
Understanding Hyperventilation in Those With Anxiety
Hyperventilation is one of the least understood anxiety issues. It occurs when you breathe out too much carbon dioxide. While your body does need oxygen and generally breathes out CO2, your body needs a healthy amount of CO2 as well. When you hyperventilate, those balances are thrown off.
Most people think of hyperventilation as "breathing too quickly," and indeed that's definitely a potential cause. When you have an anxiety attack/panic attack, you'll often find that you're breathing incredibly fast, and that may cause you to hyperventilate.
But hyperventilation may also occur for other reasons, including:
- Thinking About Breathing When you think about your breathing, your breathing is no longer in your body's natural control. That may cause you to take in or breathe our more air than your body would naturally, leading to hyperventilation.
- Taking Deeper Breaths During an anxiety attack, you may feel like you're not getting enough air, and that may cause you to try to take deeper breaths. Unfortunately, in many cases you did already have enough air and that sensation was misleading, so your response makes your hyperventilation worse.
- Poor Breathing Training Another unusual situation that seems to occur in those with anxiety is that their breathing simply changes. They start to breathe in more from their chest and a bit faster. In those cases, hyperventilation occurs more slowly, until some symptoms occur. Then the person usually thinks about their breathing or tries to take deeper breaths as a result.
Anxiety can often lead to hyperventilation, and when it does it can cause a number of different symptoms, including tingling sensations in the hands.
Other Causes of Tingling Hands
Hyperventilation is the most common reason that tingling hands occur in those with anxiety, but it's not the only reason. Stress itself can have an unusual effect on hands, and so it's possible that stress causes hand sensations in unknown ways.
Also, tingling hands can occur every day for reasons that are not health related. For example, if you are sitting on your hands a certain way or pressing on a nerve it can make your hand start to tingle, and if you have anxiety, you may think about and worry about that tingling more than someone that doesn't have anxiety. It's not unusual for anxiety to cause normal sensations to feel much worse.
Anxiety Over Health
Many types of anxiety can actually cause health anxiety, which is one of the reasons that tingling hands can feel so frightening. Panic attacks, for example, can make people over-sensitive to their own physical sensations, and when they experience some of these symptoms - like tingling hands - they experience this wave of anxiety that feels uncontrollable.
Anxiety can create your tingling hands, and it can make you react very strongly when you experience them. Anyone that says living with anxiety is easy has likely never tried it before.
How to Stop Tingling Hands From Anxiety
Since tingling hands is most commonly caused by hyperventilation, you should start by gaining control of your breathing. Take slower breaths is a start. Also, try not to breathe in through your chest as much. It may feel like you're not getting a full breath, but remember that hyperventilation causes the feeling of needing more air, even though the opposite is true.
You should also start walking. Make sure that you're getting good blood flow. As the muscles work, your breathing will often become a bit healthier, and your hyperventilation should decrease. Once you've got your tingling hands under control, it's time to work on the anxiety itself.
When I've helped people in the past, I tell them that they absolutely need to start with the free anxiety test I developed. I call it the 7 minute anxiety test, because not only does it take just 7 minutes, but in many ways it's a test to see if you have anxiety, how it affects you, and more.
If you haven't yet, take the test now.
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Hayabusa rebooted their Ikusa series recently, adding some sick colors and styles to go with the quality gear you've come to love and expect. Check out UFC fighter Elias Theodorou putting the Hayabusa Ikusa Recast Series to work in this video.
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Contact the Former Bridge Day BASE Jumping Coordinators
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We coordinated all BASE jumping activities at Bridge Day 2002-2014. After finding out about the Bridge Day Commission's overreaching and invasive fingerprinting plan for BASE jumpers, rappellers, and vendors in 2015, we decided to pull out of the event. We invested a considerable amount of money and time into things such as the human catapult system, 16' long diving board, special elevated jumper ramps, tandem BASE jumps, nurturing sponsors like Red Bull (that eventually helped the Bridge Day Commission), a local dropzone, and the skydiving crew that jumped with an American flag for the last three years. Hopefully some of these items can continue and the new Bridge Day BASE Jumping Advisors can make the event even better.
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Winter's Bone Movie & Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger games)
Jennifer Lawrence, the new starlet emerging from Hollywood, was first noticed by everyone in Winter's Bone, she became a star in Hunger Games. Her rapid climb from obscurity is what stardom is all about. For some, it happens in two years, like for Jennifer, while others toil for the same success for years.
Winter's Bone (2010) is low budget at $2 million to make. It has made $13 million. The cast consists of nobody really. Hard pressed to find any recognized name and when it came out, even Ms. Lawrence was in that same group. The movie is a dark, serious drama with a few cuss words, some fighting. I guess that is why it was rated R, I would say it was "overrated".
The movie at its core is about Ree Dolly, a teen girl played by Jennifer L., who lives with her mom and smaller kids in the dirt poor Ozarks where everyone earns a living cooking crank in kitchens. Ree's mom is comatose but not in the literal sense. Her role in the movie is "being there". Ree takes care of her mom and kids. The father is gone and although we hear about him in dialog, he is like Casper the ghost in the movie. Through dialog, we learn he had got busted for making crank and then got out on bail by posting his only possession, a rundown wooden house for collateral. Soon, he misses his court date and the bondsman comes to claim the house. Ree has a week to find her missing dad, otherwise, they will be living in tents.
The Dolly clan is like many drug clans: hicks, backstabbers, low-lifes, and family means little when it comes to drug money. Ree has to go to various relatives to asking about her dad's whereabouts, all claim to know nothing. When she tries to see the grand-daddy elder Dolly, a mean SOB, she gets beat up by his women protectors. Sounds like the Ozarks! Her dad's brother, a whack job strung out on speed, safes here from death. Then, one day, the women folk show up at her door wanting to prove to her that rumors about her dad's death are true. They claim to know where his body is. So, the elder women and Ree go out to a lake at night (why? day would be nice) get in a boat and row to a site.
This is wear I thought Ree was going to be killed. The woman tells her to fish for her dad using her hands and Ree leans over feels something. She pulls the arm up. A chain saw is started. Ree asks, "what are you doing"?. The elder states, "You need proof that your daddy is dead, cut off his hands". So it goes. While the scene sounds horrific, viewers see ZERO anything. No blood, no hand, no body. It has got to be the cleanest hatchet body part ever! With both hands in a bag of her daddy's, Ree walks into the the police station and hands it over to them for fingerprints.
This gruesome evidence saves Ree & family's house. Daddy is dead (was he ever alive?). Soon, the bondsman comes and hands Ree a good chunk of money probably out of pity. Finally, the movie ends.
If Jennifer Lawrence had not been in this movie, it would be a flop. She had the main role and dominated the movie. The movie is worth seeing just because of her acting ability for a teen. Amazing! Like she "made" this movie, she also "made" Hunger games what it is.
I give it 2.5 stars.
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