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Supernatural will soon be reaching the season 10 goal set by showrunner Jeremy Carver, but now it looks as if the series could surpass even that. While at the Television Critics Association press tour this week, CW President Mark Pedowitz revealed that the show's future is up to the people who make the show and the fans who watch it.
Here's what Pedowitz had to say about the possibility of Supernatural season 10, 11 and beyond:
"As a fan of the show, who's seen every episode, as long as I'm here and those numbers hold, God bless them. They can go as long as they want."
Pedowitz has been a longtime fan of the Winchesters – and fans know it – so it's no surprise to hear that, as long as the ratings hold, Supernatural will continue to receive season orders network. Though even if the ratings should fall, it's highly likely that the show will still be able to reach season 10; Pedowitz will just have to flex his power as president more. Anything beyond season 10 would likely be out of his control, however, as it would be dangerous for him if ratings then worsened, as there are many people who would like to become the president of a network.
Of course, if the ratings do hold, there are still (at least) two people who have something to say about it: Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. Both of the Winchesters have already said that they're signed on for season 9 and 10 and, as long as the network orders them, they're ready to continue the journey. When it comes to season 11 and beyond, things begin to get a bit complicated – especially with Ackles.
Ackles is rumored to have given up the role of Hawkeye in The Avengers, and Marvel Studios continues to remind him of its interest in bringing him in to its ever-growing Cinematic Universe. On top of that, Ackles' current relationship with Warner Bros. (through Warner Bros. television) is likely to have DC interested as well, as they know exactly how strong – not to mention valuable – he his as an actor.
Ten years is old for a television series, and both actors watched as Tom Welling made the transition from Smallville, so it's likely that, when it comes to the Supernatural beyond season 10, we'll see both actors make a decision that's best for them and their future, even if it means one staying and one going. After all, Carver has said before that it's his job to make sure the series can continue on.
Perhaps a Sam and Castiel (Misha Collins) series isn't what you want from Supernatural, but this week's mid-season premiere proved that the cast is more than strong enough to pick up the weight that Dean typically carries. Still, there's always the Supernatural spin-off coming up, and that could always be used to help buffer the loss of Ackles – if the show's still around, that is.
Let's just keep it at this: Supernatural – or something based on Supernatural – will be on the CW for quite some time - as long as the ratings hold, of course.
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Fullerton, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara topped all collegians Friday evening in the Titan Invitational when the Gauchos' men won their race and the women finished behind only Cal Coast Track Club.
Freshman Lisette Arellano of UCSB was the third collegiate runner and sixth overall, running the 5k course in 18:32. The winner was Jenni Johnson of Cal Coast Track Club in 17:26. The women placed all 5 runners in the top 16. The meet showed great promise for the Gauchos as four freshman and one sophomore competed while the top 10 women sat out in preparation for the Big West Championships.
Arellano was followed in the top 10 by sophomore Christine Bjelland 10th/18:39 who ran the fastest 5k of her career. Three freshman rounded out the scoring for UCSB as freshman Alyssa Brown (18:43), Stephanie Garcia (18:46) and Nicole Anderson (18:48) finished in twelfth, fourteenth and sixteenth respectively.
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There it is. My very first billboard. This is the inaugural season of the Seattle Sounders FC, the newest expansion team in MLS. Seattle is getting fired up about our soccer team, and it's fun to be a part that excitement. The ad agency I worked with was Wexley School For Girls, which I always enjoy working with.
Now I know what some of you are thinking. Did he paint those people in the background? No. That would have taken way too long. We ended up using a cartoon modeling agency, and hired a few dozen cartoon models to stand in the background. Ok, that's a joke. To give credit where credit is due, Rachael Ludwig is the artist who created the background art. I shot three scenes for this campaign. Fan with a scarf, fan with a flag, and crazy Sounders fans banging on a drum. The ads will be used for billboard, transit, print, and online.
The shoot was at Quest Field, home of the Seahawks and Sounders. Since we were there, I figured I would maximize my time, and take care of some additional business. I have been intending to try out for the Seahawks special teams, so they gave me a quick look. Here are some pictures from my open tackle and field goal trials. And a quick video from the photo shoot.
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Seth MacFarlane may have his critics, but if there's one thing everyone can agree on, it's that the man behind Family Guy and box office smash Ted certainly knows how to keep busy.
In the past two years, MacFarlane has directed his first feature, released an album of jazz standards and hosted the Academy Awards (to some controversy, of course), all while providing his voice talent and creative direction to three animated Fox comedies. Now, however, it seems that one of those shows may be on its way out.
According to The Wrap, The Cleveland Show will likely be canceled, as Fox has yet to order new episodes of the Family Guy spin-off. The series remains the only MacFarlane-produced show that has not been renewed for next season (the other two being Family Guy and American Dad).
It should be noted that Fox has been known in the past to pull animated series (including King of the Hill and Family Guy) from its schedule, only to have them return to the air later in the season. However, the Animation Guild – representing the show's artists – has already announced via its blog that The Cleveland Show will end with season 4 this May, making its cancellation seemingly inevitable at this point.
This doesn't necessarily mean that fans have seen the last of Cleveland Brown (and his "happy mustache face"). Should Fox officially cancel the series, it's quite likely that he could return to Family Guy and bring along other Cleveland Show characters. Mike Henry (who provides the voice of Cleveland) has remained a consistent performer on Family Guy throughout its run, bringing to life a number of recurring characters, including creepy old Herbert and Consuela the maid.
In fact, Cleveland's potential return could provide a bit of a boost to Family Guy. Cleveland, Peter, Joe and Quagmire frequently shared storylines in earlier seasons, and the dynamic at their favorite bar, The Drunken Clam, hasn't quite been the same since the spin-off began. Besides, Family Guy – much like its progenitor, The Simpsons – prides itself on offering viewers numerous wacky recurring characters. Why not add the cast of The Cleveland Show into the fold?
As far as MacFarlane's career, the end of The Cleveland Show might actually prove to be a good thing, as he already has numerous TV and film projects in various stages of development. In addition to his current Fox series, MacFarlane is developing a live-action comedy series for the network with Ted writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, a Ted sequel and western comedy A Million Ways to Die (starring Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi and possibly Oscar winner Charlize Theron).
Are you disappointed to see The Cleveland Show fade into television history, or would you prefer MacFarlane devote his focus to other projects? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Hi everyone, I'm a grad student at Cal looking for a 4.0-4.5 player to hit with for practice/drills/matches. I work on campus and I'm free weekdays after 6 PM. Anytime on weekends is good as well. Let me know if you want to hit!
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Hi James,
I was a grad student at Cal and now am teaching there. I'm in the same boat NTRP-wise. Starting next week, I'll be teaching 4-6pm (on campus, actually not too far from the Hearst courts on Bancroft), so would be free to hit after that.
Hi, fellow Cal grad student here. I'm getting back into tennis after a long time away. Played all through childhood, high school and some in college (intramurally, not NCAA). I'm guessing I'm ~4.0 but not really sure. I'm on or around campus most days so drop me a line if you'd like to meet up! Cheers,
Hi James,
Probably not what you're looking for, but I'm a postgrad Cal neuroscience researcher and I'm looking for someone to hit around with in the afternoons. For fun. Because I am terrible at tennis but want to improve. Drills and practice sound great.
If you have any desire to get your teacher-vibe on, hit me up. If not, I totally understand.
Hi James,
I'm also a grad student at Cal, probably around 4-4.5. I haven't played in a while, but played many years in high school and college. These days my schedule is pretty flexible, weekdays after 6 or weekends would definitely work.
Hi James,
I think I am probably in the 3.5-4.0 range but if that is fine with you, we can definitely hit sometime. Feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com as well.
Hey there! I know this post of yours is nearing ancient, but yours is the first one to grab my attention. I live in Albany, but am going through Berkeley all the time. I like playing competitive matches for fun; I don't enjoy it unless my opponent's skill is equal to mine. My favorite games are fought to the bitter end.
Let me know if you're interested, or still in town for that matter.
Hi there Laura, i just had a lot of free time cleared up from my schedule wanting to play with more competitive people. Im usually play in Berkeley, but courts are hard to find on the weekends. Wanting to know if youre wanting to hit tomorrow. Oh, and this is an invitation for anyone too!
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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Kevin Costner is to say a few words at the New Jersey funeral of Whitney Houston, his co-star in the 1992 blockbuster "The Bodyguard," sources told People.com.
The film's soundtrack featured Houston's signature song "I Will Always Love You." In the movie, Costner plays a former Secret Service agent who falls in love with Houston's character, a pop star he was hired to protect from a dangerous stalker.
Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder are expected to sing at Houston's invitation-only funeral service Saturday, while Houston's longtime mentor, record producer Clive Davis, also will give a eulogy, Houston's representative told the celebrity news Web site.
The funeral for the 48-year-old recording star, who died last weekend after a long battle with drug addiction, is to take place in the Newark church where she sang as a child and teen. Her death remains under investigation and officials have not yet announced what caused it.
"Whitney's family is devastated, but they're getting through it," People.com quoted an insider as saying. "Clive has been a complete rock for her family this entire time. He's been with her since the beginning, and he's been everything to them. They're leaning on him for emotional support. He talks to them hourly, and he's a very big part in planning her funeral. Clive has been a constant presence for them. They're thanking God for Clive."


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The Honda Civic Hybrid receives new exterior styling for 2009 and becomes more premium with the addition of available features that include leather-trimmed seating surfaces and steering wheel; heated front seats and side mirrors; and Bluetooth® HandsFreeLink® on models equipped with the Honda Satellite-linked1 Navigation System™. Vehicle Stability Assist™ (VSA®), also known as electronic stability control, is added as standard equipment.
The Civic Hybrid is rated at 40/45/42 city/highway/combined miles per gallon2 by the Environmental Protection Agency. Contributing significantly to fuel economy, the Integrated Motor Assist (IMA®) hybrid system uses a gasoline engine as the primary source of power and an electric motor to provide both additional power and electricity regeneration capability.
"The Civic Hybrid is an excellent example of how to balance the company's commitment to the environment with many of the elements that make Honda vehicles fun-to-drive," said Dick Colliver, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "For 2009, the Civic Hybrid can better serve more affluent customers seeking the efficiency of a hybrid."
A sweeping roofline and a sleek windshield angle convey an advanced, one-motion profile with a low and wide stance. New for 2009, a revised front grille opening along with a new front bumper cover adopts a new three-port shape at the lower air intake, replacing the appearance of one continuous opening. New headlight and taillight color combinations adopt clear turn indicator lenses with amber bulbs.
Built on a high-rigidity unit-body platform, the Civic Hybrid delivers precise, sharp and refined handling performance with its fully-independent MacPherson strut front suspension and multi-link rear suspension.
The interior emphasizes sophistication with a two-tier instrument panel, comfortable seating and accommodating storage areas with room for mobile phones, MP3 music players, compact discs and more.
The 1.3-liter i-VTEC 4-cylinder engine and a 15 kilowatt electric motor produce a combined 110-horsepower @ 6000 rpm and 123 lb-ft. of torque between 1000 and 2500 rpm. The Civic Hybrid is certified by the California Air Resource Board (CARB) as Advanced-Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle (AT-PZEV) - the best-possible emissions rating for a hybrid vehicle. A continuously variable transmission (CVT) smoothly adjusts transmission ratios for optimal fuel efficiency and performance.
The primary IMA components consist of a 2.8-inch-wide electric motor positioned between the engine and the transmission, an Intelligent Power Unit (IPU) that controls the flow of electricity to and from the electric motor, and a compact nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery pack.
The gasoline engine and electric motor work together during acceleration. When cruising, the gasoline engine and/or the electric motor provide power to propel the vehicle based on driving conditions. In certain steady-state cruising situations, the IMA system can deactivate all four of the engine's cylinders and operate using only the electric motor.
During regenerative braking, the gasoline engine deactivates and the electric motor acts as generator to replenish the battery pack. At a stop, the engine can enter an idle stop mode to save fuel and reduce emissions by turning off the engine until the brake pedal is released. While in idle stop mode, the hybrid air conditioning compressor can maintain operation while the engine is off.
A wide array of standard safety technologies includes the Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure; side curtain airbags; driver's and front passenger's side airbags with a passenger-side Occupant Position Detection System (OPDS); and dual-stage, dual-threshold driver's and front passenger's airbags (SRS).
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Standard features include 15-inch lightweight alloy wheels, P195/65R15 tires, automatic climate control, cruise control, power door locks, power windows with driver-side auto up/down, security system with remote entry and trunk release, a 4-speaker 160-watt AM/FM audio system with CD Player (MP3/WMA3 enabled), USB Audio Interface4, auxiliary audio input jack, center console with sliding armrest and storage compartment, progressive blue illumination instrument panel with IMA operation mode display and battery status meter.
The available Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System has a 6.5-inch motorized display that opens and closes for access to the internal single-disc CD player and a digital audio card reader that can play MP3 and WMA files from CompactFlash®5 cards (via a PC card adapter). New for 2009, the system includes Bluetooth HandsFreeLink, a wireless telephone interface that works with Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephones for hands-free operation via steering wheel-mounted controls. The navigation system features more than 7 million points of interest and the voice activation can control the navigation menus and the audio system, along with entering city and street names. XM® Satellite Radio6 is standard on models with navigation.
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More than 500 other Cambodians have already been repatriated.
The three men were all facing deportation to Cambodia despite having served their sentences and living in the US as lawful permanent residents.
At the annual Overseas Khmer Summit (OKS), rights activists and academics in the Cambodian diaspora denounced the election and appealed to the international community to intervene.
The second annual Overseas Khmer Summit will focus on "unity, peace, continuity, and prosperity".
The demonstrations marked the last push by the opposition to lobby for a boycott of the vote following the party's dissolution by the Cambodian People's Party-controlled Supreme Court in November.
Lawmakers tried again this week to push a bill that would protect some younger undocumented people in the United States.
Cambodian-American Chanda Choun Hopes His City's Voters Give Him Chance to Serve.
Kosal Chhim was sentenced to five years in prison in 2001 for domestic violence and has now been sent back to the country he left as an infant.
Across the United States, there are nearly 2,000 Cambodian refugees facing deportation.
The family of a Cambodian-American jailed awaiting deportation last year are appealing the deportation order after a district court ruled his planned December deportation should be postponed. VOA Khmer's Men Kimseng reports.
In March, a group of Cambodians in Europe gathered to protest at the United Nations Human Rights Council office in Geneva, Switzerland, as the body was due to review human rights situation in Cambodia.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Office of the State
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Dec 19, 2012, 05:01 pm
I'm using a sample UDP program to time reading a packet and I get around 12ms per 1k chars. I've had similar results with Uno. I got Due (and R3 ethernet shield) hoping the bottleneck in reading data was the processor speed but it seems unchanged. Is there a way to speed it up? Maybe upcoming ethernet board? Or Wi-Fi?
My arudino is controlling xmas lighting in remote location and is controlled by computer program. USB or serial cord, even a very long one, is not very practical.
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Dec 20, 2012, 01:33 pm
I could be wrong, but I think there is a general speed limitation overall sending UDP packets. I think more or less the UDP protocol itself will be the limiting factor. Much like how TCP/IP is slower than UDP because of handshaking, etc.. you cannot get around that speed limitation.
SO, I think the limiting factor for UDP speed is the network protocol itself.
what are you doing with UDP? Currently I'm working on fleshing out a UDP protocol for a lighting controller, so I would be curious as to what you're up to.
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Re: Due and ethernet processing speed
Dec 20, 2012, 02:26 pm
network speed will depend on the chip on the Ether shield and SPI speeds. The older w5100 ethernet module doesn't have a burst read/write mode so software has to do extra SPI transfers for each byte transferred. On the UNO, with SPI at 4MHz, I measured data rate of only 0.38mbs (megabits/second) for the W5100, whereas in burst mode (e.g. for w5200), I got 2.6mbs. Running the SPI at 8 MHz, I got .46/3.8 mbs (w5100/w5200).
For the leaflabs maple here are results for W5200, with different SPI speeds and using DMA with SPI
clock(MHz) SPI SPI+DMA
1.125 .7 mbs .9mbs
2.25 1.3mbs 1.8
4.5 1.6mbs 3.3
9 1.9mbs 5.5
18 1.9mbs 7.8
I haven't had a chance to perform DUE W5200 tests ....
UDP is capable of near wire speeds (for 10mbs and 100mbs ethers) from big-computer network controllers, but it can be an unreliable protocol over the Internet (packets can arrive out of order, duplicated, lost, or with errors).
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Dec 20, 2012, 02:46 pm
I'm talking about specifically time to read the message from Udp. Something like this:
int time = micros();
time = micros() - time;
This produces ~12000 per 1024 bytes. I don't think it's anywhere near hitting protocol limitations. As far as burst mode, etc, I'm not familiar with it and will look into it. But what I did see was that there seems to be some kind of buffer in the shield, so shield can accept packets pretty quickly. However, I need a sustained transfer rates. Since it's animating the lights, it's constantly running. So what was happening is the first few packets would be ok but then the buffer would get overrun.
As to what I actually do with it, it's a controller for GE ColorEffects G-35 lights. The program takes advantage of simultaneous bank write commands to write to up to 8 light strings at the same time, instead of writing 1 at a time. All the animation logic is done on the computer though as I find it much easier to just change the code and restart the program than having to run to the basement, reprogram arduino and run back every time I need to test something. And animations could be very tedious to debug.
My arduino code is here (although as is it won't compile with Due):
My pc code is here:
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Re: Due and ethernet processing speed
Dec 20, 2012, 03:17 pm
I'm not familiar with the exact details of the shield you are using, but the W5100 ether module typically can buffer 3 or 4 1K byte packets at close to wire speeds, but the interface to the UNO is via a much slower SPI, so if your SPI can't keep up, UDP packets will be dropped in the ether module. If you want sustained, lossless UDP, you will have to throttle down your remote transmitting device to run at the much slower SPI speeds. You can experiment with various delays between packets on your remote transmitter to see what works on your receiving Arduino. TCP might be a better choice (just as slow or slower) but it adapts to available bandwidth and is reliable.
Re: Due and ethernet processing speed
Dec 20, 2012, 03:36 pm
I realize all of this and that's what I do. But I'd like to increase the speed. Which brings me right back to my original question - is there anything I can do to overcome this SPI bottleneck? Perhaps some other shield?
Also, does SPI depend to the processor speed at all? I thought it might but Due seems to read the data just as slowly as Uno. Sorry if it's a silly question - I'm more of a software than hardware guy.
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Dec 20, 2012, 03:57 pm
Check the specs on the Ether device on your shield. I assume it's the wiznet W5100, and its SPI speed will be the limiting factor. I have a standalone W5200 and its SPI speeds are better (see Maple results in my table in earlier post in this thread), though I had to hack in DMA/SPI to get the best results on the Maple. (It's on my TODO list for DUE). The processor on the DUE has a builtin in Ether controller, but you'll have to wait for another kind of Arduino board that breaks those Ether IOs out -- and then you will need a lot of code/memory to do the TCP/IP protocols ... which is why the wiznet critters are attractive.
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Jan 11, 2013, 10:49 pm
Just for the record, I ran some W5200 tests on the DUE with SPI and SPI+DMA, maple and DUE results are in wizperf.txt at
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Jan 12, 2013, 04:30 am
All of the Ethernet shields from Arduino, including the latest R3 shield use the WIZnet 5100. This chip is quite old and due to the way it was constructed the SPI speed is very slow resulting in what I would describe as just utterly terrible performance.
One of my first sketches was to output a JPEG over http stored on a SD card plugged into the Arduino Ethernet R3. A 62 KB JPEG took over 3 seconds for the Arduino UNO with the shield to send the data to the browser which I timed using a Firefox add-on called Firebug. The performance was very slow, it almost reminded me of dialup days or when I first used an ISDN line.
It's going to take quite some time for another Due compatible board to come out that breaks out the SAM3X8E pins and allows you to hook up an external PHY and additional time for someone to develop the code to run a TCP/IP stack.
I have several WIZnet 5200 and even some WIZnet 5300 chips in the mail as well as the integrated WIZ820io which contains a MagJack and the W5200 chip. Once I receive them, I would be happy to run your benchmarks posted and confirm your findings. If what your benchmarks show is true, we may finally be able to get acceptable Ethernet performance out of an Arduino platform running these newer chips from WIZnet.
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Here's a theme-park–style map of what's happening where and when:
Mainstage USA
The marathon used to be only at the UCB Theater, and you can still spend the whole weekend there, but be prepared for a long line and occasionally getting cleared out for a theater cleaning. You'll see primetime shows, representation of improv from different places, a lot of New York groups in the early hours, the perennial Sunday breakfast with Krompf, and weirdo shit in the middle of the night …but don't think that the second stages don't offer just as much great improv.
- UCB Theater – 307 West 26th St.
Fri 4:30PM to Sun 8PM
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Want to say "I saw so-and-so to friends, family, and co-workers? There's a bunch of opportunities. The Colbert Show writers, John Lutz and Scott Adsit from 30 Rock, Horatio Sanz and Bobby Moynihan from SNL, and more will appear on the pay-per-show 4th stage at FIT*, along with Donald Glover (Community, Childish Gambino) and the rest of viral-video stars Derrick Comedy.
You can also see SNL featured players Vanessa Bayer [Sat 10PM UCB] and Paul Brittain [Fri 10:30PM UCB], Rich Sommer (Mad Men) [Sat 9:30PM UCB], Doug Benson (Super High Me) doing his podcast and bothering stand-ups [Fri & Sat 12:30AM UCB], and the improvisers who play the writers who never talk on 30 Rock [Sun 5:30PM Hudson Guild].
Plus, of course you can see the Upright Citizens Brigade—but probably not Amy Poehler—[Sat 7:15PM UCB] and any famous people who just so happen to show up to something, like past surprises Sarah Silverman and Brooke Shields. And the Sunday 8PM ASSSSCAT 3000 show at Haft Auditorium* is sure to be chock-full of stars finishing up the weekend.
You could call this Tomorrowland. Catch some college teams and spot the next wave of talent. Post-graduation, the standouts you like will head to improv hubs for classes, put together shows all around the country, or pop up on TV and in movies. You might even be able to cheer for your alma mater.
- Urban Stages – 259 West 30th St.
Sat 10AM-2PM & Sun 10AM-5PM
- UCB Theater – 307 West 26th St.
Fri-into-Sat and Sat-into-Sun midnight to 6AM
Improvisers from across the country and Canada (and Finland this year!) make their way to New York for the Marathon. Check out what the improv is like in New York, Chicago, Boston, Austin, LA, DC, Toronto, Vancouver, Philly, Phoenix, Florida, North Carolina, Syracuse, San Francisco, and much more. What's your home town? There might be a group from around there performing and representing.
- noonish to midnight on all stages
Do you like Glee and/or Broadway and/or improv? Check out some musical improv:
- Baby Wants Candy [Fri 7PM Kate Murphy & Sun 5:30PM UCB], Vox Pop [Fri 9PM Hudson Guild], Dumpster Tequila, Broadway's Next Hit Musical, Veal, Rebound! [Sat 11AM to 1PM Hudson Guild], Diamond Lion [Sat 5PM UCB], Hotel Principality [Sun 3PM Hudson Guild], iMusical [Sun 4PM UCB)].
- And North Coast will perform a hip-hopera [Sat 4:45AM Urban Stages].
- Doppelganger [Fri 6:30 UCB], The Amie and Kristen Show [Fri 7:30PM Hudson Guild], Sit Still [Fri 8PM Hudson Guild], Drysdale and Gausas [Fri 9PM UCB], Shmuckler Twins [Sat 7:45AM Urban Stages], 8 Girls Harold [Sat 9:45AM Urban Stages], '92 Dream Team [Sat 3:15PM Urban Stages], Ness and Nance [Sat 10PM UCB], WiseSnatch [Sat 11:45PM Urban Stages], Bea Arthur [Sun 1PM Hudson Guild], The Katydids [Sun 4PM Hudson Guild]
You have to pay extra for each of these big-name shows in a larger venue at the Fashion Institute of Technology, but each is a sure thing, with the funniest, smartest, most talented performers around and names from SNL and 30 Rock and the Colbert Show.
- FIT 7th Ave. at 27th Street, Bldg. D. – Fri & Sat 7 to midnight
- FIT Haft Auditorium – Sun 8PM
A lot of improv is similar to other improv (especially in an all-longform festival).
Here's a few shows with a unique take:
- The performers have to sit in chairs for The Chairmen [Fri 6:30PM Hudson Guild], stand in place for Nailed Down [Fri 8PM UCB], do the show backwards at Twik [Fri 11:45PM Urban Stages], and use only their voices in the dark for BIG BAT [Sat 1AM Hudson Guild].
- The show is inspired by your text messages at Last Day of School [Fri 11PM UCB] and Oregon Fail [Sat 2PM Hudson Guild], and by your embarrassing story at The Law Firm [Fri 11:30PM UCB] and Death By Roo Roo [Sat 9PM UCB].
- Audience members perform at Matt& [Sat 7:45PM Urban Stages] and Adsit and You [Sat 6PM UCB].
- It's an elevator ride at Elevator Action [Fri 9:45PM Urban Stages], a rap battle at The BEATdown [Sat 1AM UCB], a telenovéla at Hispania [Sat 4:15PM Urban Stages], a fishing trip at Bassprov [Sat 7:30PM Hudson Guild], a movie at Rough Cut [Sun 1:45AM Urban Stages], a debate at The Master Debaters [Sun 11AM Hudson Guild], and improv with your iPod as the soundtrack at Mother [Sun 7PM Hudson Guild].
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Thorough! Thanks, Matt = )
Thanks for the Bea Arthur shout-out. Another suggestion to add to your list of lady troupes is WDWMKR from Toronto. They're rad.
So sorry if I overlooked anybody that should've been included in something.
Heads up, Diamond Lion, UCB's musical improv group, has been moved to Saturday at 9:30pm at UCBT. Come out and we will sing your balls off.
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Renowned journalist Tom Brokaw spoke at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on Wednesday where he shared his list of America's "big ideas" and urged students to engage in some form of public service to help move the country forward.
Renowned journalist Tom Brokaw spoke at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on Wednesday where he shared his list of America's "big ideas" and urged students to engage in some form of public service to help move the country forward.
Brokaw spoke to a capacity crowd in the 900-seat Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building.
Brokaw, author of several books, including the best-selling "The Greatest Generation," delivered the Baker Distinguished Lecture. He also was the special guest at a fundraising luncheon to support the lecture series sponsored by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The Baker Distinguished Lecture Series honors notable individuals who exemplify the values of Sen. Baker. Previous honorees include Sen. George Mitchell and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
During his lecture, Brokaw recounted some big ideas that have shaped the nation—from John F. Kennedy's push for America to explore space to Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent battle for civil rights to Richard Nixon's wisdom in opening diplomatic relations with China.
During his lecture and at a press conference with local reporters before the event, he talked about the big ideas coming out of Silicon Valley that have revolutionized technology and communications.
"We're really at the beginning of (the digital age), not the end," he said. "It will condense the world in ways we cannot now even anticipate."
Brokaw said Twitter is changing the nature of news. For example, he said, a Tweet from a Pakistani village was the first word the world got that Osama Bin Laden had been killed.
"It's a form of journalism, but it's on the fly," he said.
He said he tweeted for the first time during the "Today" show's 60th anniversary show last year.
"I got online and said, "I hear it's the 60th anniversary of the 'Today' show. Where's the keg?' All of a sudden I had 20,000 followers."
Brokaw served as anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News" from 1982 to 2004. He is the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: the "Today" show, "NBC Nightly News" and, briefly, "Meet the Press." He covered many significant news stories, including the Challenger disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Hurricane Andrew. He did the first one-on-one American television interviews with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After Sept.11, 2001, Brokaw postponed his retirement to cover the terrorist attacks.
He said that day was one of the most difficult of his career.
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Brokaw concluded his lecture with a pitch for his own big idea—a way to encourage more people to engage in public service.
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For would be-political candidates in California, 2011 must be shaping up as a surreal experience. They want to campaign, but they don't know where.
The uncertainty stems from the new way that congressional and state legislative districts will be organized in 2011 for the 2012 elections.
The state is required by law to rebalance district populations of districts after every census.
This time, however, the process is being carried out by the Citizens Redistricting Commission, courtesy of a ballot proposition passed by the voters in 2008. Previously, districts were created by the legislature, with the outcomes criticized by some observers as self-serving because of the ways lopsided party registration numbers were grouped together, while maintaining equal population sizes. But the new commission will consider populations irrespective of partisan breakdowns.
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All this suggests that incumbents may well fare better in 2012 than reformers had hoped. For challengers who hoped that less partisan districts might open opportunities, their day may have to wait.
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Sven, this is interesting. I just took shermdog01's "Full Source" from the original post, plugged it into a new GWT project running with GXT 2.0.1, and the problem is there. I made no modifications to shermdog01's code whatsoever.
Bring up the app in hosted mode, click on the Submit button for the tabbed form panel example, and you will see that initially the form is invalid. Now click on the "Phone Numbers" tab, then the Submit button again. The form is now valid. This tells me that the "valid" attributes for the fields (and, thus, the formpanel) aren't being computed until the tab (or, more precisely the form fields?) are rendered.
Note, this test code does not use setDeferredRender(false) on the TabPanel. When you do use setDeferredRender(false), this solves the problem. So, my question is are you saying this problem doesn't happen in GXT 2.0.1 IFF you use setDeferredRender(false) on the TabPanel?
Now, the interesting part. In my app, I see the exact opposite behavior (again, running GXT 2.0.1), but I'll wait to describe that until I hear your response (hoping you can try the same thing above with shermdog01's example code) on the above first.


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Lenalidomide and Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Early-Stage Asymptomatic Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01351896
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : May 11, 2011
Last Update Posted : November 19, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Ann Arbor Stage I Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Ann Arbor Stage II Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia With Unmutated Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Variable-Region Gene Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma With Unmutated Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Variable-Region Gene Stage 0 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Stage I Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Stage II Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
|Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Drug: Lenalidomide Other: Pharmacological Study Biological: Pneumococcal Polyvalent Vaccine
|Phase 2
I. To determine the proportion of early-stage, high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients achieving a response (>= 4-fold increase from baseline and/or antibody concentrations >= 0.35 ug/mL in 6 of 7 type-specific anti-pneumococcal antibody levels) after 2 doses of pneumococcal 13-valent conjugated vaccine (Prevnar 13, PCV13 [pneumococcal polyvalent vaccine]) administered concurrent with versus sequential to low-dose lenalidomide.
I. To determine the complete response (CR) rate after 2 years of lenalidomide therapy.
II. To determine the time to first treatment (TFT), defined as the time from diagnosis to first non-lenalidomide therapy for progressive CLL as described by International Workshop on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (IWCLL) 2008 criteria.
III. To determine the incidence of infection and invasive pneumococcal infections following treatment with the PCV13 vaccine and either concurrent or sequential lenalidomide.
IV. To determine the frequency of humoral and cellular immune response to CLL tumor antigens following treatment with the PCV13 vaccine and either concurrent or sequential lenalidomide.
V. To determine the safety and toxicity associated with long-term lenalidomide exposure.
VI. To perform correlative pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic studies and correlate these with vaccine/tumor immunologic and disease response.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM A (concurrent PCV13 and lenalidomide): Patients receive low-dose lenalidomide orally (PO) once daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 28 days for at least 24 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also receive 13-valent protein-conjugated pneumococcal vaccine (PCV13) intramuscularly (IM) on day 1 of courses 3 and 5.
ARM B (sequential PCV13 and lenalidomide): Patients receive PCV13 IM on days 1 and 78 (cycles 1 and 3). Patients also receive low-dose lenalidomide as in arm 1 beginning on day 1 of cycle 4. Treatment repeats every 28 days for at least 24 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 30 days, every 3 months for 1 year, and then every 6 months thereafter.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|48 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study of Lenalidomide to Repair Immune Synapse Response and Humoral Immunity in Early-Stage, Asymptomatic Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (CLL/SLL) With High-Risk Genomic Features
|Actual Study Start Date :
|September 8, 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|July 31, 2020
Experimental: Arm A (Concurrent PCV13 and lenalidomide)
Patients receive low-dose lenalidomide PO once daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 28 days for at least 24 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also receive PCV13 IM on day 1 of courses 3 and 5.
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Lenalidomide
Given PO
Other Names:
Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies
Biological: Pneumococcal Polyvalent Vaccine
Given IM (concurrently or sequentially)
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Experimental: Arm B (Sequential PCV13 and lenalidomide)
Patients receive PCV13 IM on days 1 and 78 (cycles 1 and 3). Patients also receive low-dose lenalidomide as in arm 1 beginning on day 1 of course 4. Treatment repeats every 28 days for at least 24 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Lenalidomide
Given PO
Other Names:
Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies
Biological: Pneumococcal Polyvalent Vaccine
Given IM (concurrently or sequentially)
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- Proportion of patients who achieve an antibody response [ Time Frame: Up to 1 month ]Defined as achieving at least a four-fold increase in post-vaccination serotype-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) titers or serotype-specific IgG concentrations of >= 0.35 ug/mL for 6 of 7 serotypes measured by a standard enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.
- Seroconversion rates [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ]Summarized using descriptive statistics by treatment arm.
- Antibody titre levels for each of the serotypes [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ]Summarized using descriptive statistics by treatment arm. Changes in serotype-specific markers will be graphically evaluated between the two arms and the nonparametric Mann-Whitney rank sum test will be used to compare the geometric mean concentrations.
- Complete response rate [ Time Frame: 2 years ]95% confidence intervals will be estimated.
- Time to first treatment [ Time Frame: From study entry to first therapy for progressive CLL, assessed up to 4 years ]Defined by International Workshop on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (IWCLL) 2008 criteria. Summarized and explored between treatment arms using Kaplan-Meier methods.
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ]Summarized and explored between treatment arms using Kaplan-Meier methods.
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Time from start of treatment to time of disease progression or death secondary to any cause, assessed up to 2 years ]Defined by International Workshop on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) (IWCLL) 2008 criteria. Summarized and explored between treatment arms using Kaplan-Meier methods.
- Incidence of adverse events [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ]Summarized by and across treatment arms, along with the type, severity, and perceived attribution to study according to National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5. The rates of severe (grade 3+) toxicity (at least possibly related to treatment) and non-hematologic toxicity will be summarized; assuming the incidence of severe toxicity is binomially distributed, 95% confidence intervals will be calculated. The maximum grade for each type of toxicity will be recorded for each patient, and frequency tables will be reviewed to determine the toxicity patterns.
- Pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of lenalidomide [ Time Frame: Baseline, days 1 and 2 of course 2 (Arm A) and days 1 and 2 of course 5 (Arm B) ]PK will be graphically evaluated within and across arms to assess potential patterns and relationships.
- Change in serum immunoglobulin [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 4 years ]Pharmacodynamic markers will be graphically evaluated within and across arms to assess potential patterns and relationships.
- Change in anti-tumor antibody levels [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 4 years ]Pharmacodynamic markers will be graphically evaluated within and across arms to assess potential patterns and relationships.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 79 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically identified chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of hematopoietic neoplasms
CLL/SLL cells must demonstrate one or more of the following high-risk genomic features:
- Deletion (Del) (17p13.1) as detected by fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) in > 20% of cells
- Del(11q22.3) as detected by FISH in > 20% of cells
- Complex karyotype (>= 3 cytogenetic abnormalities on stimulated karyotype)
- Unmutated immunoglobulin variable heavy chain (IgVH) (>= 98% sequence homology compared with germline sequence)
Patients cannot meet any of the following consensus criteria for initiating treatment:
- Progressive splenomegaly and/or lymphadenopathy identified by physical examination or radiographic studies
- Progressive lymphocytosis with total white blood cell (WBC) >= 300,000/uL
- Anemia (< 11 g/dL) or thrombocytopenia (< 100,000/uL) due to bone marrow involvement
- Presence of unintentional weight loss > 10% over the preceding 6 months
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) grade 2 or 3 fatigue
- Fevers > 100.5 degrees or night sweats for > 2 weeks without evidence of infection
- Progressive lymphocytosis with an increase of > 50% over a 2 month period or an anticipated doubling time of < 6 months
- No prior therapy for CLL/SLL, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and/or immunotherapy will be allowed
- Estimated life expectancy of greater than 24 months
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 2 (Karnofsky >= 60%)
- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (unless secondary to Gilbert disease)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate-pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) =< 2.5 times ULN
- Creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min/1.73 m^2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal according to the Cockcroft-Gault formula
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500/uL
- Platelet count >= 100,000/uL
- Able to swallow capsules without difficulty and no history of malabsorption syndrome, disease significantly affecting gastrointestinal function, or resection of the stomach or small bowel or ulcerative colitis, symptomatic inflammatory bowel disease, or partial or complete bowel obstruction
- Females of childbearing potential (FCBP) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test with a sensitivity of at least 25 mIU/mL within 10 - 14 days prior to and again within 24 hours of starting lenalidomide; further, they must either commit to continued abstinence from heterosexual intercourse or begin TWO acceptable methods of birth control: one highly effective method and one additional effective method AT THE SAME TIME, at least 28 days before starting lenalidomide; FCBP must also agree to ongoing pregnancy testing; men must agree to use a latex condom during sexual contact with a FCBP, even if they have had a successful vasectomy; a FCBP is a sexually mature woman who: 1) has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or 2) has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months); all patients must be counseled at a minimum of every 28 days about pregnancy precautions and risks of fetal exposure
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have had any treatment for their CLL/SLL, including but not limited to chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or immunotherapy, prior to entering the study
- No corticosteroid use will be permitted within two weeks prior to study, except for maintenance therapy for a non-malignant disease; maintenance therapy dose may not exceed 20 mg/day prednisone or equivalent
- Patients who meet consensus criteria for the treatment of CLL/SLL
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents
- Patients with a recent history (within 6 months of study entry) of deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/pulmonary embolism (PE) are not eligible; patients with a distant history (greater than 6 months before study entry) of venous thromboembolic disease are eligible, but should receive prophylactic aspirin or low molecular weight heparin
- History of allergic reactions attributable to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to thalidomide, lenalidomide or any component of PCV7 or PCV13, including the diphtheria toxoid
- Prior malignancy, except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, or other cancer from which the subject is considered by his or her physician to have a 2 year survival expectation
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study because lenalidomide is an immunomodulatory agent (IMID) with the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects; because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with lenalidomide, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with lenalidomide
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy will be eligible if they otherwise meet required hematologic parameters and are not receiving an antiviral agent with known or potential interaction with lenalidomide; because the primary aim of this study is to measure the immune response to pneumococcal vaccination, only patients with CD4 cell counts >= 200 and viral load < 50 will be eligible
- Patients who have been treated for autoimmune hemolytic anemia or autoimmune thrombocytopenia within the last 6 months or are direct antiglobulin test/Coombs test or indirect antiglobulin test positive at the time of screening
- Patients who have developed erythema nodosum characterized by a desquamating rash while taking thalidomide or similar drugs in the past are excluded
- Because of the potential for H2-blockers to modulate antibody response to pneumococcal vaccine, patients must discontinue treatment with H2-blockers (cimetidine, ranitidine, etc.) prior to beginning protocol therapy
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01351896
|United States, Ohio
|Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
|Principal Investigator:
|John Byrd
|Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01351896 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-02584 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
8834 ( Other Identifier: Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center )
8834 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
N01CM00070 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
N01CM62207 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
P01CA095426 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
P30CA016058 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
P50CA140158 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|May 11, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 19, 2019
|Last Verified:
|September 2019
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
Leukemia, B-Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Growth Inhibitors
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A mobile strategy that puts customers first and employees in limbo
The consumerization of IT will change everything for certain employees, as a mobile strategy that puts customers first attests.
I was at CVS this morning buying toilet paper and checked out at the self-service register. No lipstick. Didn't bother to fix my hair. And certainly not thinking about mobile strategy. I was in and out of the automatic doors without exchanging a word with another soul. A CVS employee was nearby, ready to help, but no help was required for this transaction and there she hovered, like a ghost.
Apart from feeling a subliminal gratitude that buying toilet paper is less embarrassing than it was in the past, I take this type of transaction for granted now. In the blink of an eye, it's become routine for me and tons of other customers at countless other chains. But I couldn't help but wonder how long CVS will see the wisdom in keeping employees whose services are needed less and less every day. There was a time when there was a person in the elevator who got you to the upper floors by pressing buttons.
Of course, as CIOs know all too well, a similar trend is playing out in the enterprise as employees take more control over the technology and data they use to get their jobs done. But this consumerization of IT, as we call it in CIO circles, is just the beginning of the problem. These same apps being leveraged by employees are also being taken over by customers.
A case in point is the story of Phillip Easter, director of mobile apps at American Airlines, who has built terrific mobile apps for customers that are in essence the same application being used by AA frontline employees. The decision to open its systems to customers is at the heart of American's mobile strategy and is seen as an important differentiation from the competition, said Easter, who I met at the Enterprise 2.0 conference (E2.0) in Boston this week.
One of the issues the airline had to come to grips with as it pushed this mobile strategy was who should know what when. As an American Airlines Platinum frequent flyer in my household can attest, passengers with smartphones often discovered that their flight had changed even before the agent at the gate did.
"Now we have new mobile technology in the hands of the employees, so they get the information at the same time as the customer," Easter said. But the synchronization was not made lightly. There was "an interesting debate internally" over whether the employee should get the information "a little sooner" than the customer, he said.
"At the end of the day, we want to be as transparent as possible," Easter said. So now both customer and employee devices use applications with real-time data. Think about that! Customers are able to mine the same data space as employees, without a lag.
Customer comes first, but at what price to the employee?
When it comes to mobile strategy, the data mismatch between customers and employees is becoming a big deal for companies, said Scott Snyder, president and chief strategy officer at mobile solutions provider Mobiquity Inc., and an E2.0 panelist.
For starters, business-to-employee (B2E) apps are traditionally handled by IT, while business-to-customer (B2C) apps "live in marketing." With mobile apps, those two domains need to come together -- or risk the kind of mismatch his firm frequently sees. To wit: a kiosk plunked down in a retail store that allows customer to order directly from an iPad, coupled with store employees whose pay is based on in-store sales.
"You want employees to be ambassadors in the customer experience. You don't want this mismatch," Snyder said. The "ripple effects" of a mobile strategy must be taken into account. His firm, for example, recently built a mobile app for Panera Bread that allows customers to customize their orders and send them directly to the kitchen. What happens when 60 customized orders flood into the kitchen?
Some companies in the retail space are figuring out how mobile apps reorder traditional business operations -- and this sector probably has much to teach other sectors, Snyder said. Sephora, the cosmetics emporium, for example, has managed to meld the store and mobile experience nicely, with store reps armed with customer data, right down to their favorite brands, as soon as the mobile-appified customer walks through the door, he said. Zipcar is also rapidly adapting to the new mobile app reality, as I reported in my last column.
But here's the thing: Whose information is it, anyway? Once the customer gets ahold of the keys to the kitchen, the keys to airline systems data, the keys to the car -- literally -- without going through any middleman, then the service sector (which, by some accounts, has been holding its own in this economy) becomes an endangered species.
Let us know what you think about the column; email Linda Tucci, Executive Editor.
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Kiwicon – The government is your friend
The government is your friend and wants you to be happy.
This is the transcript of a speech given by Thomas Beagle at Kiwicon in Wellington on November 6th, 2011.
Updated: Jailing People for Remaining Silent
The new Search and Surveillance Bill includes provisions to force people who own and manage computer systems to give full access to those systems. This includes the obligation to give up passwords to enable the authorities to access encrypted information.
Of course, this assumes that the person involved actually has the password. It's quite common for someone running a system to not be able to break the encryption used by other users to secure their data. Will the courts understand that? And even if they understand that, will they believe it?


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According to a benchmark test run by John Quinn & Cailin Nelson,
Drupal systems perform very well on amazon ec2, even with a simple single machine deployment. The larger hardware types perform significantly better, producing up to 12,500 pages per minute. this could be increased significantly by clustering as outlined here. The apc op-code cache increases performance by a factor of roughly 4x. The average response times were good in all the tests. The slowest tests yielded average times of 1.5s. again, response times where significantly better on the better hardware and reduced further by the use of apc.
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Source: John & Cailin Blog, "lamp performance on the elastic compute cloud: benchmarking drupal on amazon ec2", January 28, 2008.


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More detailed information about stringed instruments and the history of violin making.
Violin makers and masters: archive "M-O"
Eric Blot, the expert of Cremona and Italian violin making
Markneukirchen: violin making in "German Cremona"
Eugène Nicolas Sartory: the modern classic of bow making
Joseph Alfred Lamy père: a key figure in modern bow making
Antonio Stradivari – a story of sound and echoes
Giuseppe Lucci, Rome 1967: fine Italian viola (certificate Eric Blot)
A comparatively young instrument, this fine Italian viola was crafted by Giuseppe Lucci in 1967 in Rome. With its large and powerful sound, its radiant resonance is an impressive testimonial to contemporary Italian violin making, the significance of which can be too easily overlooked given the (certainly uncontested) relevance of its historic masters. Amongst insiders and musicians, however, it is an open secret that exceptional work was produced by Giuseppe Lucci, who was born in 1910 in Bagnacavallo near Ravenna and studied under Pietro Borghi in Modena. In 1949 Giuseppe Lucci generated quite a stir when he won the international violin-making competition of Cremona with three instruments: a violin, a viola and a cello. During his lifetime he was highly decorated and internationally esteemed, and after his death in 1991 the realisation grew stronger that that he earned a rightful place amongst the most important Italian luthiers of the 20th century. The large and expressively carved scroll is a successful tribute to the traditional elements of the regional style, whereas the highly transparent, oil-spirit varnish which was popular in Italy in the 1960s and 70s is to be seen as one of the more modern characteristics of the instrument. The luminous orange varnish coats the carefully selected tone woods: closely and strikingly flamed maple used for the two-piece back and top-quality spruce with an interesting grain for the top. With its body length of 41.8 cm, this 20th century Italian viola is one of the larger sized instruments of its kind. It came to us in crack-free condition and has been set up and made ready to play at our specialist atelier. We recommend it to demanding musicians who focus on solo performance: it is an outstanding instrument and a solid investment. A certificate of authenticity by Eric Blot, Cremona, is included in the price.
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The Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission was established by the Washington legislature in 1969 to "promote and carry on research and administer specific industry service programs, . . . which will or may benefit the planting, production, harvesting, handling, processing or shipment of tree fruit of this state . . . " The act further provides for coordination with other state, federal, and private agencies conducting similar research. To read the complete act, Chapter 15.26 RCW, link to the Washington State web page at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=15.26
The Commission has nine members: three are appointed by the Washington State Fruit Commission; five are appointed by the Washington Apple Commission; and one is appointed by the Washington Director of Agriculture and represents the pear industry. Commissioners are active fruit growers or have a substantial interest in the production of tree fruit. For more information on current board members, click here.ResearchGrower assessments on fruit produced provide the funds to conduct a myriad of research on every aspect of tree fruit production, from rootstock development to improved post-harvest practices. Research is funded based on the proportion of dollars collected for each commodity. In fiscal year 2017-2018, over $4,000,000 in research funding has been devoted to advancing knowledge, improving practices, and addressing the problems facing the industry.
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The Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel unveiled a new suite honoring a famous Cub.
The Ron Santo Tribute Suite was created in memory of legendary Chicago Cubs' third-baseman and radio broadcaster.
The room was unveiled Wednesday morning with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony. Santo's son, Ron Jr., participated in the ceremony, along with representatives from the JDRF, a diabetes organization that Santo supported.
The suite will be filled with memorabilia, including photographs of Santo donated by his family.
Santo had a life-long struggle with diabetes and helped raise $60 million for the non-profit organization "Ron Santo Walk to Cute Diabetes." A portion of the revenue from the suite will be donated to JDRF.