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Market is always an exciting time — and this market was certainly no exception. Right from the start our new collections have been getting great responses from dealers, designers, and end-consumers alike.
and the Carson Mirror (center back).
the new End Table (right) and the Large Console (back).
the Console, and the new Bench.
the Ventura, Euro, Camino, and Providence 36" Dining Tables.

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Man dies in Limington crash involving 3 vehicles, including school bus
LIMINGTON, Maine (AP) � Police in Limington, Maine, say the driver of a car has died in an accident that also involved an SUV and a school bus.
Police say 76-year-old Ronald Tripp of Waterboro appeared to pass a stop sign at an intersection on Route 117 about 6:40 a.m. Tuesday when he collided with an oncoming SUV. Police said it appears that Tripp was killed instantly.
Police said the impact caused the SUV, driven by 44-year-old Russell Hawkes of Limington, to spin around and strike a school bus that was stopped.
Neither the driver nor two elementary school children on the bus were injured.
The York County Sheriff's Department is investigating.


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Browse FAQs
No power out from some outlets on a Smart-UPS
Published date: 15 August 2019
Browse FAQs
First, check the output breakers on the back plate of the UPS. If an attached device draws too much current the output breaker for that outlet(s) will trip as a safety measure. The breakers on the back of the unit are generally of the pop-up variety, and will stick out approximately 1/2"" when tripped. Press the breaker plunger to reset. Please note that pressing in on an un-tripped breaker may cause a momentary loss of output power.
If all breakers are un-tripped and your UPS features a user replaceable backplate, verify that there are no loose or disconnected wires on the backplate. For a tutorial on how to remove and replace the backplate on a Smart-UPS, please refer to FA156589.
SMT, SMX, and SRT Series:
SMT, SMX, and SRT series Smart-UPS support switchable outlet groups that can be controlled via software or via the front panel LCD. In addition to checking the output circuit breakers, you would want to ensure that the outlet group(s) is turned on. From the ""Control"" menu on the UPS, you would scroll to each outlet group and choose ""TurnON - No Delay"". This will restore power to the outlets in that group. If the outlets are already ON, ""TurnON - No Delay"" will not be an option in the menu.
For additional information on the functionality of switched outlet groups on SMT/SMX units, please review APC Application Note #177 "Software Interface for Switched Outlets and UPS Management in Smart-UPS"


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Welcome to the 5th annual Maine election prediction pool. The contest has grown every year and the prizes just keep getting better.
Whomever comes closest to predicting the actual results of the election on Tuesday will win a $50 gift card to Best Buy, courtesy of the Bangor Daily News (although I should note that this contest is being run by me, independent of the newspaper).
The entrant in second place will receive a copy of Tea Party Talk, a book full of quotations from right-wing governors co-authored by my fellow BDN blogger Amy Fried.
To enter, click here and fill out the form with your predictions for the vote percentages for all the federal races and the seat totals for the Maine House and Senate.
The pool closes as the polls open, so make sure to have your predictions in by Tuesday morning.
Recent polling: President, U.S. Senate, CD1, CD2, Question 1, Bond Issues


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Last month, the yearlong prison sentence of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a schoolteacher and activist involved in nonviolent civil disobedience in the West Bank, came to an end. But an Israeli military court refused to release him, on the grounds that he would resume his activities if freed.
Abu RahmahŌĆÖs crime was organizing illegal demonstrations in a West Bank village where all demonstrations are by definition illegal. Abu Rahmah, 39, had long been involved in peaceful, multiethnic protests in the village of BilŌĆÖin, where IsraelŌĆÖs separation wall has cut Palestinians off from hundreds of acres of their land. Though barely covered in the American press, his conviction was protested by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Catherine Ashton, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, among others. ŌĆ£IsraelŌĆÖs attempt to crack down on this effective resistance movement by criminalizing peaceful protest is unacceptable and unjust,ŌĆØ said Desmond Tutu, one of Abu RahmahŌĆÖs supporters.
American Jews often ask where the Palestinian Gandhi is. What few realize is that if such a man exists, heŌĆÖs probably sitting in an Israeli military prison.
Right now, thereŌĆÖs a small but significant nonviolent resistance movement in the West Bank. The important recent documentary Budrus tells the story of its beginning in 2003. ThatŌĆÖs when Budrus community activist Ayed Morrar, with the help of his astonishingly intrepid 15-year-old daughter Iltezam, succeeded, through peaceful but resolute protest, in thwarting plans to build the wall on their villageŌĆÖs land. Their modelŌĆöcommunity-based, grassroots efforts to protect their propertyŌĆöspread through neighboring villages, including BilŌĆÖin.
Over five years in BilŌĆÖin, demonstratorsŌĆöa mix of Palestinians, Israelis, and foreignersŌĆöheld weekly demonstrations against the building of the wall, which annexed much of the villageŌĆÖs land into a nearby Israeli settlement. IsraelŌĆÖs Supreme Court ruled the wallŌĆÖs route illegal, saying, ŌĆ£We were not convinced that it is necessary for security-military reasons to retain the current route that passes on BilŌĆÖinŌĆÖs lands.ŌĆØ But construction continued. For most of the world, this village of 1,700 clearly has justice on its side. And though there has been some rock throwing, Abu Rahmah and other activists have done their best to prevent it and to maintain the moral high ground.
As Ethan Bronner wrote in the New York Times last year, the BilŌĆÖin movement ŌĆ£is one of the longest-running and best organized protest operations in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it has turned this once anonymous farming village into a symbol of Palestinian civil disobedience, a model that many supporters of the Palestinian cause would like to see spread and prosper.ŌĆØ
Much rides on the fate of the BilŌĆÖin model. With peace talks going nowhere, thereŌĆÖs a lot of talk among Palestinians about a new uprising, a third intifada. There are Palestinian leaders who, for both tactical and moral reasons, are desperate to make it nonviolent. Everyone concerned about the future of the Middle East has good reason to hope that they succeed.
ŌĆ£I believe our future depends totally on the rise of the nonviolent movement,ŌĆØ the liberal Palestinian activist Mustafa Barghouti said over lunch recently. Nonviolent resistance, he said, is ŌĆ£why I live.ŌĆØ
Barghouti, who finished second to Mahmoud Abbas in the 2005 Palestinian National Authority elections, believes that continued settlements are making the death of the two-state solution imminent. As a last gasp, he wants Palestinians to unilaterally declare a state within 1967 borders and challenge the world to recognize it. ŌĆ£If the world community does not accept our approach of recognizing a Palestinian state immediately in ŌĆÖ67 borders, and forcing Israel to accept that, you will be witnessing the death of the two-state option,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£And then we will have a very long struggle against apartheid. Nonviolent.ŌĆØ
This, as Barghouti knows, would be profoundly threatening to Israel. ŌĆ£For them, I am more dangerous than those who do military action, because I expose their system,ŌĆØ he said. IsraelŌĆÖs actions suggest that at least some in the military agree, because the Palestinian nonviolent movement is being systematically crushed.
In 2005, as Human Rights Watch reports, Abdallah Abu RahmahŌĆÖs brother Rateb Abu Rahmah was shot in the foot and arrested for stone throwing and assaulting a border policeman. During the trial, video evidence proved that the policeman had given false testimony. Eventually, the policeman confessed to fabricating his story, and Rateb was acquitted.
Mohammed Khatib, another leader of the BilŌĆÖin protests, was arrested in 2008 and charged with stone throwing. He later proved that he was on the Pacific island of New Caledonia at the time of the alleged incident. Nevertheless, he was held for nine months and only released on the condition that he report to the police station weekly during the time of the protests. Since May 2008, according to Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, an umbrella group for the nonviolent village-based movements, there have been 119 arrests in BilŌĆÖin. The Israeli army has started using live ammunition against the demonstrators, and four unarmed anti-wall protesters have been killed.
Last December, Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the BilŌĆÖin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was arrested in a 2 a.m. raid on his home. In a particularly absurd twist, he was charged with weapons possession, because heŌĆÖd once collected used tear gas projectiles and bullet casings to demonstrate the types of ammunition that the IDF was using. Eventually, he was acquitted of that charge, but he was convicted of organizing illegal demonstrations and of incitement, which, under Israeli military law, means an ŌĆ£attempt, verbally or otherwise, to influence public opinion in the Area in a way that may disturb the public peace or public order.ŌĆØ
Abu RahmahŌĆÖs wife Majida has been denied permits to visit him in the Israeli military prison where heŌĆÖs been held. He hasnŌĆÖt seen his 1-and-a-half-year-old son since the baby was 6 months old. HeŌĆÖs not even allowed to make a phone call.
ŌĆ£We are concerned that his continued detention on charges of incitement and organizing and attending demonstrations is intended to prevent him and other Palestinians from exercising their legitimate right to nonviolent protest against the annexation of Palestinian land to Israel,ŌĆØ said a statement by the British Foreign Office. ItŌĆÖs hard to come to any other conclusion.
Of course, the challenge to nonviolence isnŌĆÖt only coming from Israel. ThereŌĆÖs hardly a consensus about the need for nonviolence among the Palestinian population: A 2008 poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that an overwhelming 84 percent of Palestinians supported a deadly attack on a West Jerusalem religious school that took place that year. But itŌĆÖs at least conceivable that such support for violence could diminish if Palestinians believed there were other routes to freedom. One of the jobs of any social movement, after all, is to build ideological support for positions that might at first seem na├»ve or absurd.
ŌĆ£This is the Palestinian alternative to despair,ŌĆØ Jonathan Pollack, one of the leading Israeli activists working with the Palestinian protesters, said of nonviolent civil disobedience. ŌĆ£Both to the despair of futile negotiation, and to the despair of armed struggle. If Israel manages to kill this movement, to put this movement down, the consequences are going to be grave, both for Palestinians and for Israelis.ŌĆØ


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Invader Studios, the small Italian developer that's probably best known to most here as the developer that made the Resident Evil 2: Reborn gameplay demo in the Unreal Engine and later on was invited to come visit Capcom HQ, just put up their Kickstarter for their first original/solo project; Daymare: 1998. Whilst the trailer linked to in the text there is an old trailer, it absolutely shows signs of heading in the right direction. However, if you need more to be convinced that Daymare: 1998 is one to keep an eye on, it's worth noting that the team has received plenty of praise from a variety of members of the development teams of various Resident Evil titles.
If you're curious about the finer details about the goals of the project and general info on what's been said by whom, who's doing what and what to evt. expect from the final product, I suggest dropping by their Kickstarter page, read up, show your support if you're lusting for more, and spread the word. This is absolutely a case of a game being worked on by the fans, for the fans.
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Court tells Daily Voice to pay up!
Former employees of the Daily Voice news website will get their hard-earned overtime pay, following a court settlement in U.S. District Court in New Haven.
The employees and the hyper-local news site, based in Norwalk and Westchester County, have agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed against Main Street Connect LLC, which does business as The Daily Voice.
Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall approved the settlement May 20. The terms were not specified in the judgment, but Hall granted $113,300 in fees for the plaintiff's lawyers, including Richard Hayber of Hartford.
Mark Chapman and Nancy Guenther Chapman, who both worked for the Daily Voice in Norwalk, said they received separate letters last week with the amounts they'd been awarded.
The payouts are based on a formula that considered an employee's base salary and the number of hours they were compelled to work without overtime pay, Mark Chapman said.
"We've been told we'll get our checks in a month or two, or by September,'' said Chapman, who said he was originally hired as a managing editor, but worked for the site as a reporter and copy editor.
The Daily Voice continues to operate many hyper-local sites, generating comunity-specific content in several Fairfield County towns including Norwalk, Stamford, Danbury and Greenwich, and 30 municipalities in Westchester.
The company is in the midst of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
Erin Lynch, David Desroches, Deborah Gauthier and John M. Lupton were the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
Daily Voice chief executive Carll Tucker and his wife, Jane Bryant Quinn, were named defendants.
"It was a negotiated settlement reached with my former company," Tucker said. "That company no longer exists."
In court papers, Tucker blamed the Daily Voice's bankruptcy filing on the federal lawsuit by former reporters under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Mark Chapman said that Tucker, the multi-millionaire founder and original CEO of the Daily Voice sites, ran into conflict with the CEO that Tucker named to replace him -- Zohar Yardeni -- and took back control of the company in March 2013.
"That was on a Friday,'' Chapman said. "Some of us got e-mails over the weekend to come to a meeting on Monday, and everyone who showed up got laid off. All of the Daily Voice sites in Massachusetts were closed at the same time.''
"All that is ancient history," Tucker said.
Hayber did not return a reporter's phone call Friday;
Tucker said his companies have had their bumps and "this was the biggest."
But he said expansion plans are on the horizon.
He said Daily Voice websites get "500,000 monthly unique visitors, according to Google Analytics."


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As you can read on the "about me" page, music plays a big roll in my life,
I am a emotional person, and I learnt through the years that music is a one or maybe the only method to express one's feelings the best way. I remember one time my father told me that he always knew in what state of mind I was, just by listening to the music I was playing.
I did not have any musical training. I tried it once, but got bored because after hearing the training piece I started playing it and in the mean time I was trying to figure out what the music notes on the paper meant. There was no connection between reading on the paper and playing the song at all.
I am gifted in the way that when I hear a song I can play the most important part of it directly. That is sometimes very frustrating, because when composing music I sometimes hear a melody that I recognize form something else, and immediately I am stuck to that song.
When creating music I always combine the sounds with images. Combining those two makes the emoting stronger and helps me drift into the music I am creating. An other method of making music is just to start with the sound of an instrument or a rythme. It triggers something in me and a new song is born.
Over the years I have create some albums. Most of them are somehow inspired by Vangelis. Of all the music I love his music the most. Not only for the music itself, but also the method he uses to create his music and his philosophy about music. I was fortunate to have attended one concert of him.
I hope you enjoy listening (or buying) my music as much as I have creating them. In the menu on the right you will find my albums.
If you need some special music for some creative project or want to use my music for a commercial project, just let me know.
With my company KSK Productions, we are able to create any kind of music or soundscape you need.


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hi i was wondering if (and how) you can create nested methods in c#.
c# seems to do it with size like below.
something.Size returns a value but also something.Size.X returns a value.
how can i do something like this myself?
i would like to do sumit like:
Thanks OllieCode:Civilian civ = new Civilian(); bool[] licenses = civ.Licenses; // returns bool array of all the licenses bool drivingLicense = civ.Licenses.Driving; // returns true/false if they have a driving license bool aviationLicense = civ.Licenses.Aviation; // returns true/false if they have an aviation license


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UAB Department of Music Wind Symphony and Symphony Band Concert
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Spring 2020 Exhibition Allyson Comstock's "Antarctica: A Disappearing Continent"
In 2013, Alabama-based artist Allyson Comstock spent six weeks living and making art in Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers program, working...
Spring 2020 Exhibition Focus IV Eclipse of the Hudson River School: Selections from the Koleszar Collection
The Hudson River School is known as the first American artistic fraternity which began in the mid19th century under artist Thomas Cole, a British immigrant who brought with...
AEIVA and Department of Art and Art History Present 44th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
The 44th Annual Juried Student Exhibition features more than 35 works created by University of Alabama at Birmingham students and selected by guest juror Allyson Comstock. Allyson...
UAB Institute for Arts in Medicine and Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater Present Raising Our Voices
Artistic Co-Directors: Suzanne Costello and Stuart Pimsler Stories of breast cancer told through movement, music and voice. Living with cancer can prove isolating for patients, caregivers, and loved...
UAB Department of Music Won Cho + Chris Steele
Won Cho, bass-baritone Chris Steele, piano A Voyage of Songs A program of art songs by French, Italian, and German Composers.
UAB Department of Music High School Honor Choir Showcase
Choral students from all over the state work with clinicians and perform together.
MTA: Eric Essix and Friends
Birmingham's own Eric Essix is not only a jazz legend but a historian. His music tells a story and teaches us about the lives of those that came...
Panel Discussion Communicating Climate Change: Art, Action, and Antarctica
Please join us for a panel discussion on climate change featuring Dr. James B. McClintock, Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology, UAB; Dr. Julie G. Price, Assistant...
Aeolians of Oakwood University
In honor of Black History Month, the ASC welcomes the Aeolians of Oakwood University. The Aeolians of Oakwood University were originally organized in 1946 by the late...
UAB Department of Music Adjunct Faculty and Friends Recital
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Lunch and Learn The Chieftains
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ArtPlay Presents President's Day Mini-Camp
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The Irish Goodbye Tour The Chieftains
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Amanda Wingfield, a faded remnant of Southern gentility, now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical...
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Me'shell NdegéOcello
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UAB Department of Music Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk + Yakov Kasman
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The Texas Rangers chose a college pitcher with their top pick in the Major Leauge Baseball draft.
The Rangers took right-hander Alex Gonzalez from Oral Roberts with the 23rd overall pick. They had last used their top choice on a college player in 2008.
Texas got high school shortstop Travis Demerritte with the 30th overall pick, their compensation for slugger Josh Hamilton signing with the Los Angeles Angels during free agency last winter. Demeritte hit .404 with 12 home runs for Barrow High School in Winder, Ga.
Gonzalez was 9-5 with a 1.83 ERA and 126 strikeouts in 113 1-3 innings. The Southland Conference pitcher of the year went to Oral Roberts after being an 11th-round pick by Baltimore three years ago out of Boca Raton High in Florida.
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The United States likely will need almost 52,000 additional primary care physicians by 2025 to meet the country's health care utilization needs. That's the conclusion reached by a team of researchers whose work is highlighted in an article titled "Projecting U.S. Primary Care Physician Workforce Needs: 2010-2025.(www.annfammed.org)" The research was published in the November/December Annals of Family Medicine.
The research team sought to put a number on the anticipated demand for primary care physicians following passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The law will add 34 million people to the ranks of Americans with health insurance coverage.
However, researchers found that a trifecta of circumstances led by population growth, exacerbated by the aging of the population and fueled by the health insurance expansion would drive the demand for primary care doctors.
Specifically, the authors said the country would need
- 33,000 additional primary care physicians to account for population growth,
- 10,000 more physicians to accommodate an aging population, and
- more than 8,000 additional physicians to cover people previously uninsured.
Researchers estimated that America's current primary care workforce would need to expand by 3 percent between 2010 and 2025 to keep up with the country's health care demands.
- Researchers project that America will need an additional 52,000 primary care physicians by 2025.
- The increased demand is the result of population growth, population aging, and health insurance expansion.
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is responsible for adding 34 million Americans to insurance rolls.
According to corresponding author Winston Liaw, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's Fairfax Family Medicine Residency program, the data collected by the research team would help policymakers identify specific geographical areas most likely to experience a physician shortage.
"At the end of the day, hopefully these data can be used to help improve patient access to care," said Liaw in an interview with AAFP News Now.
Liaw noted that other researchers predicted less severe physician shortages that ranged from 44,000 to 46,000 physicians.
"Our number (52,000) is a little larger primarily because (unlike the other research) we took into account the realities of practice," said Liaw. He pointed out that most physicians don't spend 100 percent of their time seeing patients. Rather, physicians often devote some portion of their day to other tasks, such as completing administrative duties, teaching, conducting research or making hospital rounds.
The study authors noted that some researchers have suggested that U.S. policymakers should focus more on the country's physician distribution problem and less on a perceived shortage of physicians.
"Others contend that current primary care scarcities are due to geographic maldistribution, which may not improve even if the supply increases without specific policies regarding training, recruitment and retention," wrote the authors.
"Moving forward, it would be great to have more data about places that have inadequate resources to meet projected increases in utilization," said Liaw, adding that the question then becomes one of distributing physician resources to places that really need them.
Still, the study authors maintain that, whatever distribution problems there may be, the need for additional physicians is real: "Regardless, as insurance expands, use of primary care physicians will change, raising concerns about the adequacy of the current workforce."
Additional Study Highlights
For purposes of the study, authors identified primary care physicians as those specializing in family medicine, general practice, general internal medicine, general pediatrics or geriatrics.
Researchers used the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) -- administered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -- to determine the number of annual primary care office visits. According to MEPS, Americans made 977 million office visits in 2008. Of those, 462 million visits were to primary care physicians.
Furthermore, researchers found that
- women made more office visits than men,
- older adults saw their primary care physicians more often than younger adults,
- insured individuals made more visits than uninsured individuals, and
- men were more likely to be uninsured than women.
Researchers calculated that in 2008, an estimated 206,369 primary care physicians provided office-based primary care. That's one practicing primary care physician for every 1,475 persons. Primary care physicians averaged 2,237 patient visits each that year.
Additionally, they noted that U.S. Census projections indicated that the U.S. population will increase an estimated 15.2 percent from 2010 to 2025, with the older-than-65 group increasing by about 60 percent. By comparison, the population of Americans under the age of 18 was projected to increase by just 13 percent.
Finally, the authors projected that the total number of office visits to primary care physicians would increase from 462 million in 2008 to 565 million in 2025.
"By 2025, the United States would require nearly 260,687 practicing primary care physicians, an increase of 51,880 from the current workforce," the authors concluded. "Most of this increased need is attributable to gradual population growth and aging.
"In contrast, the increase from insurance expansion will occur more abruptly, with the bulk of the increase expected in 2014 and 2015," they added.
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Study authors pointed out that the ACA included several provisions intended to support growth of the U.S. primary care workforce. For instance, the government made a one-time investment of $168 million to help increase the number of medical school graduates entering primary care residency programs.
"This one-time investment is expected to produce 500 additional physicians, so even if these positions were maintained for 10 years, only 5,000 additional primary care physicians would be trained," said the authors.
In addition, $75 million was allocated to train physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and another $11 billion was set aside to invest in community health centers during the next five years.
The ACA also included measures intended to make primary care a more attractive choice to medical students.
Still, the study authors maintain that continued effort is essential: "Capacity building thus requires both immediate and long-term attention to deliver on the ACA's promise of better, more affordable, and more accessible care."
Liaw reiterated that the ultimate goal is to improve patient access to primary care. He added that most researchers and primary care physicians agree that access to care in the primary care setting -- as opposed to the fragmentation of care that can occur when patients seek primary care services at urgent care clinics and emergency rooms -- was key to keeping patients healthy.
Liaw was unwilling to take a firm stand on whether the looming primary care shortage could be averted.
A few checkmarks in the positive column, including increased student interest in family medicine and a stronger effort on the part of policymakers to increase interest in primary care, suggested a brighter future, said Liaw.
"Whether that's enough is unknown. But definitely, the movement is in the right direction," he said.
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Cisco's Edison Peres outlines channel strategy
Edison Peres was recently named the new channel chief at Cisco, and I had the opportunity to sit down with him and find out what he has planned for channel partners over the next few quarters. Here is a basic rundown of Peres' top five strategies and what Cisco partners can expect:
1.) Build capabilities for architectures and verticals — Peres plans to help partners move from product orientation to more of an architectural practice and build capabilities in priority verticals, especially healthcare and education.
2.) Earn loyalty by optimizing value exchange — According to Peres, for Cisco, the foundation of partner relations has been value-based vs. volume-based. Identifying the value of the partners as the program evolves is a critical component in building loyalty — it's making sure that partners see the value. One of the key elements of how to work with partners is a collaborative sales model that provides incentive for Cisco to work with channel partners to deliver on what customers need. Continued »
Avnet adds to SolutionsPath lineup
This week, Avnet announced the addition of four new tracks to its SolutionsPath roster: mobility, energy, retail and financial. Previously, Avnet's SolutionsPath lineup included only virtualization, storage, networking, security, government, and healthcare.
While none of these additions are really a surprise, it is interesting that Avnet is taking such a close look at them. Energy, retail and financial are givens — verticals are hot, and with stimulus money still available in the energy sector, the retail sector growing again, and the financial sector in dire need of trustworthy partners who understand the regulations. With Avnet's hands-on and in-depth training, partners are guaranteed a rich education about these markets.
HP adds new networking certification tracks
This week, HP announced the addition of networking certifications for partners built very similarly to Cisco's certifications, even acknowledging partners who have Cisco certifications. HP's new certifications allow partners to "leapfrog" pre-requisites if they have comparable Cisco certification.
What's the point of all this? "The idea is to reduce the barriers to an open networking convergence," said Rebekah Harvey, HP's director of learning product management. "Professionals can differentiate themselves [with HP's certifications]."
The beginning level certifications start with the Accredited Integration Specialist (AIS) in network infrastructure, network security and IP telephony. This level is closest to CCNA/CCDA. The next level up is the Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE), in network infrastructure, wireless networks, network security and IP telephony. This middle level is closely related to the CCNP/CCSP/CCVP. The expert level is the Master Accredited Systems Engineer (MASE), in network infrastructure and wireless networks only. This is most closely related to (you guessed it) CCIE.
Essentially, HP will grant you certification automatically if you have the same requirements fulfilled from Cisco. The automatic certification will save partners a lot of time and actually generate interest in the program. If someone's been in networking for 25 years and are a CCIE, would they want to have to start from the beginning? Absolutely not. And even if you aren't a CCIE but have years of knowledge and experience, HP will administer an assessment to decide where to best place you.
For more information on HP's converged infrastructure certifications, check out this news story from Barbara Darrow, Senior News Director for SearchITChannel.com.
Cisco revamps its SMB channel offerings… again
We've been covering Cisco's SMB partner program changes over the last year, and they just keep coming. This past week, Cisco announced a number of upgrades to the program, including a streamlined partner development fund, limited lifetime warranty guarantees, a customized web portal called My Cisco, and a number of new products, including SMB switches and IP phones.
As we've said in the past, it's a lot of work for networking solution providers to try to translate enterprise-level solutions to a solution fit for a 25-person company. And I've even heard from partners who say they previously avoided the space because they knew they would lose business to the Shoretels of the world.
But with these new developments, Cisco seems to be doing all that the networking giant can to encourage its partners to go after the SMBs. To see how useful these changes are, I spoke to Gary Nordine, CEO of NetXperts, a ten-year Cisco partner.
Sexism in IT: Still rampant after all these years?
Whether you've been in IT for a short amount of time or a long amount of time, I am sure you are aware that IT has traditionally been viewed as a man's world. I am proud to say that in my experience, times are changing, and especially in the channel. There are a number of highly ranked female execs in major companies, including Cisco's Wendy Bahr, NetApp's Julie Parrish, Brocade's Barbara Spicek, plus dozens of others. Even in our organization at TechTarget — SearchNetworkingChannel.com, SearchITChannel.com, SearchStorageChannel.com, and SearchSystemsChannel.com all have women at the helm.
Unfortunately, not all people in IT have moved along. Jimmy Ray Purser, a blogger for Network World, recently posted this blog post, titled "Who's the HOTTEST video game chick?" I personally love how "hottest" is capitalized.
Besides the fact that this has nothing to do with networking and it's a poorly written blog, it made me go "hmm" because of the underlying sexist vibe behind it. Note to Jimmy: Women don't like being called chicks. (Though in his defense, I guess he only called a couple of fictional characters "chicks.")
But that isn't even as blatantly sexist as this Network World post from Michael Morris, titled "Hottest Booth Girl,", equipped with photos and captions.
"But, based on the votes from the expert panel of judges (ok, just the geeks on my team) the winner of this year's Hottest Booth Girl Contest goes to Bluecat Networks for the race car girls. These ladies were definitely too tall for me (not that that matters at all!). 🙂 "
So the "geeks on his team" wandered Cisco Live combing for the "hottest booth girls" they could find. I don't know what's worse — that this guy is blogging about it, or that Lancope paid two busty Asian women to don ninja "outfits" (I use the term loosely… the term outfit infers that the body is actually covered) to attract men to the booth.
Come on, people. This is IT — it's not a bikini car show. And I am NOT a prude. I do musical theater — we prance around in lingerie on stage all the time. I have no problem with scantily clad women being where scantily clad women are expected — I don't expect to see Katy Perry wearing a full business suit when she performs at the VMAs. Bring on the "Daisy Dukes and bikinis on top." But I also don't expect to walk up to a Bluecat booth when I'm working and be towered over by two semi-naked models dressed like race car drivers hired to attract men with their "assets." It makes me not want to hear anything Bluecat has to say.
For the record, I have never been leered at or treated inappropriately at a channel conference. The only time that has happened is at non-channel conferences, and I'm starting to understand why. And I would have the same issues with it if vendors hired semi-naked gorgeous men to do the same thing.
What do you think? I'd love to hear from both ladies and gents. Have you seen workplace sexism, or been the victim of it? Do you think it's something we should just learn to deal with, or do you think it's disappeared? Send me an email at email@example.com.
Brocade expands its channel friendliness
In this new story from SearchITChannel.com, senior news director Barbara Darrow examines the recent growth in Brocade's channel. Brocade has opened up more of its IT services to its partners and is reducing the number of direct sales accounts to open up more business to the channel.
What does this mean for networking solution providers? Brocade is obviously not as large as Cisco or HP, but what they do, they do well. With the acquisition of Foundry, Brocade's SAN products became some of the best in the market. And judging by recent technological trends, storage and network convergence is becoming more and more commonplace, plus creating more business for Brocade's networking partners.
Juniper channel video redefines weird
Juniper has taken "weird" to a whole new level. In a recent video posted on their YouTube channel, Steve Pataky and Ranjeev Gupta from Global Channels at Juniper decide to do a brief discussion about the program… while taking their clothes off and getting into drag. You can't make this stuff up.
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Surviving the recession: Words of advice for VARs
It's no surprise — the recession clobbered everyone, including VARs. CompTIA recently released a VAR post-recession survey, and while the end results were not surprising, the takeaways are valuable for everyone who would like to be prepared for the next (hopefully a long time away) recession.
Key takeaways:
- The majority of VARs focused extra efforts on maintaining existing customers and providing excellent customer service to keep them coming back.
- VARs also included social media in their marketing efforts in an attempt to garner new business in a non-traditional way.
- Focus on verticals.
- Manage cashflow tightly — including prepaying.
- Stay on top of quality service.
Cisco's channel changeups — Who will replace Wendy Bahr?
Yesterday, Cisco confirmed on its channel blog that there are major changes happening in its channel executive team. Here is a basic outline of the changes:
- Edison Peres, senior VP of worldwide channels go-to-market, will become senior VP of worldwide channels and Cisco's channel chief.
- Wendy Bahr, senior VP of U.S. and Canada channels and Cisco's channel chief, will become senior VP of global and transformational partnerships.
- Dave O'Callaghan, Cisco's worldwide distribution chief, will become the VP of worldwide commercial sales, accelerating growth in the SMB market.
- Cisco will be actively searching for someone to replace Wendy as heading up the U.S. and Canada channels, and a new worldwide distribution chief to replace Dave.
So, what does this mean for partners? Wendy Bahr has always been a friend to partners, and those are some hard shoes to fill. But in her new role, it appears that she can take her expertise to a global level. Edison Peres, in the new role of channel chief, isn't stepping too far out of his comfort zone.
But it'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out and who ends up stepping into the empty roles. We'll also be keeping an eye on Cisco's further commitment to building out its SMB channel.
Is your customer's Dell not working? Check the capacitor
Wow. Everyone knows Dell to be the go-to vendor for cheap computers. But is the cheap price worth an exploding capacitor that will leak fluid and might start a fire? Probably not.
According to this story from the New York Times, Dell has known for years that it sold millions of computers with faulty capacitors in the motherboard. Internal emails suggest a cover up and urge employees to "emphasize uncertainty" to customers. A study from Dell suggests a 97% fail rate for computers with these capacitors.


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LOS ANGELES — A space telescope has detected signs of water on the largest object in the asteroid belt.
A team led by the European Space Agency noticed water plumes spewing from two regions on Ceres, a dwarf planet about the size of Texas. The source of the water is still a mystery. There may be a layer of ice below the surface that gets heated, or the plumes could come from ice volcanoes.
There are only a few other objects in the solar system known to have active plumes of water.
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Fast cars, like roller coasters and dive bars, are all about risk. We like to feel like we're toying with something dangerous.
Is it wise to build up your '92 Mustang to 500 horsepower and go sliding around that country road out past your house? No. Do we, as a society and as a species, do it anyway? Of course.
One course in particular came up a lot today. Bill Caswell explained to us that the problem with Pikes Peak isn't the new pavement, but a lack of practice up the mountain. Still, the some questioned why anyone would sit in a race car at the bottom of the course and head up the mountain with so much danger up ahead.
Gamecat235 made it a question of risk.
The hill climb is among the longest running races in the USA (second oldest according to the article and numerous other sources). And yet there have been only two driving fatalities in the history of the event. That should tell you all you need to know.
Why would you drive across a bridge on a windy day? Why would you hike along a mountain ridge? Why would you buy a 500HP Mustang? There are risks in everything. Just because the race takes place on a mountain doesn't mean that the racers don't do everything they can to mitigate the risks. And so far, they seem to have been pretty successful. This year there were a pair of Motorcycle riders in the 1205 class that broke the previously unbreakable 10 minute barrier. On motorcycles. These men (and women, and sometimes, technically, children) are taking a challenge and doing everything they can to prove that they can achieve a goal against this very daunting course. Darwinism has nothing to do here, unless the people involved didn't take the necessary time and resources to make this as safe a process as will be allowed.


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— Already looking at a possible prison term, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. could face new trouble over his apparent failure to file a financial disclosure report that is required when lawmakers leave the House.
Meantime, his campaign has been warned by the Federal Election Commission about missing recent deadlines for public reports.
Jackson will be sentenced July 1 for misusing more than $750,000 in campaign cash to buy luxury goods and other items. He resigned Nov. 21 and later pleaded guilty to a felony.
Under the federal Ethics in Government Act, representatives who leave office — on their own or because voters sent them packing — must file a disclosure within 30 days. Before the report is due, a lawmaker may ask for an extension of up to 90 days to file the report.
Disclosure reports and extension requests appear on the House clerk's website, but none have shown up for Jackson. House officials declined this week to say whether they're aware of anything in the pipeline.
A disclosure report is supposed to list outside income, investments, major liabilities, gifts and travel paid for by outside groups. Failure to file is punishable by a fine of up to $50,000, according to a manual from the House Ethics Committee, where an official declined Tuesday to comment on Jackson.
Jackson's attorneys did not return Tribune requests for comment.
Robert Walker, formerly the top lawyer for the Ethics Committee and now with the Wiley Rein law firm, was asked about Jackson's apparent failure to file, and said: "It's certainly not a housekeeping matter and it is taken seriously."
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The FEC is also seeking information from Jackson's campaign. Last week an FEC official wrote to Chicago attorney Vickie Pasley, the campaign's treasurer, saying that Jackson's political organization may have failed to file a report for the first quarter of this year. The official warned that not filing could result in a civil financial penalty, an audit or other action. Pasley did not respond to Tribune requests for comment.
The FEC letter was the second it has sent to Jackson's campaign this year: The agency warned in February that the campaign may not have submitted its year-end 2012 report.
Jackson's war chest contained more than $105,000 on Nov. 26, according to an earlier report to the FEC.


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The start of the rainy season in the Philippines (around June) usually coincide with the start of school. So the beginning of each bring back jaunted memories of smell of new pencils and erasers (rubber), smell of the plasticky-rubbery new umbrellas, bags and shoes, wet grass, newly wet earth, cool humid afternoons.
In a way, the rains are welcome respite from the intense heat and humidity of the preceding March-April. Though at the back of the mind is that wariness of the typhoons that are sure to come anytime to wreak havoc on people's lives and properties. For kids, typhoons are greeted with joy - school's closed, no classes! They bathe in the rain, some even in flood waters (not safe). But for me it comes with that snug feeling of warmth with all the family forced by the weather to be inside the house. My grandparent's house in Cavite where I grew up had those sliding capiz windows. They're not water or windproof so come typhoons, we grandkids with our aunts race around the house stuffing edges and joints of windows with rags to prevent the rainwater from coming in. While my lolo (grandpa) goes out with these big abaca ropes to tie down the haligi (pillars) of the house and other trees around their yard.
After all the chores are done, since there was usually no electricity (so no TV to watch), my aunts would take out playing cards, sungka, checker boards, chess boards, etc. to keep us occupied. It was great fun really with us learning solitaires, pekwa, pares-pares, 21, and other card games. When it gets a bit dark, someone will regale us with ghost stories or listen to some scary drama shows on the radio. This will cause us kids to all stick together no matter where one goes - even in the toilet! Hahaha. ;)
As for the food, since there was no market, all our food are simple and lots of times comes from the 'victims' of the typhoon. So we often had the crops of those uprooted and damaged by the wind - kamote (sweet potatoes), saba banana, butuhan banana, balinghoy (kamoteng kahoy, cassava), kangkong (tung choi), talbos ng kamote (sweet potato tops), etc. These are cooked simply - meaning boiled or steamed - then eaten hot. Sometimes when the storm lasts for several days and we've had enough of boiled this and boiled that. My grandma would grate some balinghoy and steam it then serve with freshly grated coconut sprinkled with sugar. We call this 'kalangkang'. The combination of the soft, slightly gelatinous cassava and sweet grated coconut is simply divine! Sometimes the simple things in life are the best.
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Theratechnologies Inc. (TH.TO) CEO Exits Role as Company Tightens Third-Quarter Loss
MONTREAL, CANADA--(Oct 11, 2012) - Theratechnologies Inc. (TH.TO)(THER) announced today that John-Michel T. Huss will be leaving his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and as director of the Company, effective immediately.
On an interim basis, Luc Tanguay, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will fulfill the duties of President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Tanguay has been a member of the management team since 1996 and a member of the Board of Directors since 1993.
"The Board and management thank John for his time with the company and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavours. As a result of his departure, the management team has been tasked to prepare a revised business plan for the Company, which will be communicated to shareholders via conference call by the end of the month," stated Paul Pommier, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
As a result of this announcement, Theratechnologies will not hold its Third Quarter of 2012 Results Conference Call originally scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, October 12, at 8:30 a.m.
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Theratechnologies (TH.TO)(THER) is a specialty pharmaceutical company that discovers and develops innovative therapeutic peptide products, with an emphasis on growth-hormone releasing factor peptides. Further information about Theratechnologies is available on the Company''s website at www.theratech.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Securities and Exchange Commission''s website at www.sec.gov.
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Published: November 8, 2012
LSNA parent mentors applaud "Licenses for All" road safety campaign.
In the wake of Tuesday's elections, immigration rights groups are planning to toss another major issue on the post-Thanksgiving plates of Illinois legislators: driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
The groups, led by the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, were planning their sure-to-be-controversial push long before Election Day results that showed Hispanic voters as a major factor in Democratic Party successes.
But armed with those results, they are now hoping to dissolve some of the opposition that made a similar proposal too much for lawmakers to digest five years ago.
Among those taking a leadership role in favor of the proposal this time is Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran, a Democrat turned Republican who also underwent a transformation on immigration reform.
Once accused of running a department that profiled Hispanic drivers, Curran now is an outspoken defender of the undocumented and says allowing them driver's licenses makes sense for everyone, including law enforcement.
With Lake County's 21 percent Latino population, much of it undocumented, Curran said routine traffic stops involving immigrants have become an unnecessary drain on both police and judicial resources.
That's because undocumented immigrants caught driving without a valid license have to be detained and then end up in the court system, Curran explained, noting that most of the individuals involved would be eager to get a license if only there was a procedure allowing them to do so.
"They would love to not violate the law, but they need to feed their families, and they have to get to work," Curran said.
On top of that, allowing these drivers to be licensed would result in more people on the road who have been tested, Curran said, and once they have a license, more could obtain auto insurance — arguments echoed by former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican who served as secretary of state.
"That to me is just common sense," said Edgar, who thinks it would also be good politics for Republicans trying to reconnect with Latino voters driven away from the GOP by the national immigration debate.
Driver's licenses for illegal immigrants have always made sense to me, too.
These individuals are already driving and will continue to drive, so why not get them identified, tested and insured.
It will take a tremendous amount of the fear and uncertainty out of their lives while all of us are waiting for Congress to figure out the larger immigration picture.
But I know from past experience that those arguments haven't been enough to overcome opposition from those who believe this would only legitimize "illegals" who the government ought to be arresting and deporting.
Tuesday's election results, and the demographic trends they portend for the future as Latinos become a larger percentage of the voting age population, should cause some opponents to reconsider.
"That's the main takeaway [from the election]: that both parties have more to gain by supporting immigrant rights than denying immigrant rights," said Bridget Murphy of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, which kicked off a "Driver's License for All" campaign Friday with testimonials from undocumented immigrants on the hardships of not being able to drive legally.
One Logan Square woman reported that her husband had been jailed in Indiana, then deported, for making a right turn on red while not having a driver's license.
Lawrence Benito, ICIRR's executive director, said the coalition hopes to advance its driver's license legislation in the General Assembly's fall veto session at the end of the month.
That could be a tall order considering the measure is still being drafted.
Instead of seeking a special driving "certificate" as was proposed five years ago, the coalition wants a regular driver's license but remains flexible on the details.
Still undetermined are such issues as whether licenses for undocumented immigrants would be visually distinct from other driver's licenses. For instance, it might say "For Driving Purposes Only," which strikes me as unnecessarily limiting.
Curran said he believes licenses for undocumented drivers would require some extra safeguards, including a requirement for either a fingerprint or DNA sample from the applicant to help establish identification.
"We need to be certain this person is who they represent themselves to be," he said.
Current Illinois law requires driver's license applicants to have a Social Security number, for which they have to be documented, said a spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White.
This could be an interesting first post-election test of whether Republicans would rather fight or switch.
See also: ¿Licencias para todos? Video de Telemundo Chicago.
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Stephen Abram has lived a bit of a charmed life. He's somehow managed to be the Vendor That Everyone Kind Of Thinks Has Our Best Interests At Heart Even If He Is A Vendor. Meanwhile, he's also headed up the Special Library Association. Meanwhile, he's also been a sought-after voice in the library community. And did I mention he's done all this while being a vendor? No small feat.
There've been some bumps along the way, to be sure (I'm lookin' at you, SLA realignment name change drama), but for the most part he's managed to keep people from looking too closely at his vendor status.
And then he authored a report on open source ILS platforms.
From WikiLeaks:
This document was released only to a select number of existing customers of the company SirsiDynix, a proprietary library automation software vendor. According to our source it has not been released more broadly specifically because of the misinformation about open source software and possible libel per se against certain competitors contained therein.
SirsiDynix is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with one of the largest public libraries in the U.S. (Queens Borough, NY) and this document does illustrate the less-than-ethical nature of this company.
The source states that the document should be leaked so that everyone can see to what extent SirsiDynix will attempt to spread falsehoods and smear open source and the proponents of open source.
I'm sure that others far better versed in these matters will write cogent and thoughtful responses to the document itself. I know of an effort underway to mark up the report and respond with some actual research to back up the counter-claims. With all of this serious thinking going on, I think I'll just play court jester and point out my four favorite bits of the report.
- The ubiquitous Asian woman who appears on every page and on the cover sheet, and always next to Abram's name, making it seem like maybe that's what he looks like.
- The totally information-less charts that appear on page 4 straight out of the "If there's a chart for it that makes it fact" school of rhetoric.
- "Proprietary software has more features. Period. Proprietary software is much more user-friendly" (p. 6).
- "Rogue programming teams may decide to create a better version, while exclaiming 'Damn the torpedoes'" (p. 6). (I just love the "damn the torpedoes" phrase.)
Dear Stephen, we've seen your infomercial colors now. Next time you write such a report, please cite some sources. What you have here wouldn't last 5 minutes on Wikipedia.


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Selected Research Results by Date
Research spotlights of selected studies are shown below. For a full list of published NCCIH Research to-date, see PubMed.
Spotlights for 2013
Chelation Shows Benefit in Diabetic Patients After Heart Attack, But Findings Do Not Support Its Routine UseNew secondary analyses of data from the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) suggest that the EDTA-based chelation treatments produced a marked reduction in cardiovascular events and death in patients with diabete (November 2013)
Results of a recent study cofunded by NCCAM suggest that one day of intense mindfulness by experienced meditators led to biological changes including expression of certain genes that play roles in inflammation and pai (November 2013)
A recent clinical trial has added to knowledge about what goes on in the body and brain when people with chronic low-back pain receive spinal manipulation (also known as spinal manipulative therapy). (October 2013)
Findings from the largest and most rigorous, randomized dose-response study of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) for chronic low-back pain suggest that 12 sessions (SMT) may be the best "dose" for people w (October 2013)
Although the number of studies involving mind and body research for smoking cessation is small, results of a recent review suggest that yoga and meditation-based therapies may help people quit the habit. (September 2013)
Results of a recent study in mice suggest that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) can target immune cells—specifically B cells, a type of white blood cell—and enhance immunity. (August 2013)
An analysis of research conducted on acupuncture as an adjuvant (booster) treatment to in vitro fertilization (IVF) found that, overall, acupuncture did not increase pregnancy rates. (July 2013)
Weekly and Twice-Weekly Yoga Classes Offer Similar Low-Back Pain Relief in Low-Income Minority PopulationsResults of an NCCAM-funded study found that once-weekly yoga classes relieved pain, improved function, and reduced the need for pain medication just as well as twice-weekly classes in minority and low-income populatio (July 2013)
Chronic pain is a widespread health problem. A new review by NCCAM researchers in Nature Reviews Neuroscience looks at recent research on pain and the brain. (May 2013)
Grapefruit "nanovectors" may be a step toward new drug-delivery systems. (May 2013)
Regular and long-term practice of yoga may improve pain tolerance, according to a recent study. (May 2013)
Results of a recent study suggest that a new technique to distinguish between nearly identical compounds in the milk thistle plant may allow researchers to study highly complex natural products more powerfully and eff (March 2013)
Preliminary study results suggest that a biomarker may be associated with the ability of young and middle-aged people to fight off a cold caused by a particular rhinovirus. (February 2013)
A recent NCCAM-funded study measured the physical demands associated with seven commonly practiced yoga poses in older adults. (January 2013)


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About VelaClock
A world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface.
Besides displaying local times, users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, current phase of moon, time zone information, and much more. The interface can easily be configured to use a minimum amount of screen space or, if the user wishes, multiple lower panes can be opened to display more information and take up more screen space.
The top pane of VelaClock displays a list of cities and corresponding local times. For more detailed information about the currently-selected city, the user can choose whether to display up to four additional panes (each pane has a full and a minimized version):
- A light level bar that gives the user a picture of the 24-hours of natural light (bright daylight, three kinds of twilight and night) for the current day. A thin white bar indicates when the moon is visible. Daylight duration and the change in minutes of daylight from the previous day are also displayed.
- Specific times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset. Begin/end times for civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight can also be displayed.
- An image of the moon as seen in the sky above the currently-selected city. This image accurately depicts the angle of the moon's crescent. Because this angle can change dramatically within the span of an hour, it is updated once a minute, as is the moon's phase. This view also contains the name of the current phase, as well as local times for the next and previous phase events (new, quarter, full).
- An analog clock and time zone information. The relative time shows the number of hours the selected city is ahead or behind the current time zone, as set in System Preferences.
No internet connection required. VelaClock is a unique widget in that it is completely self-contained. Many widgets are light weight front-ends to web services; such widgets require an Internet connection. By contrast, VelaClock is designed to function without an Internet connection, and so is particularly useful for laptop users away from their home or office. Astronomical calculations are performed by an internal code module.
What's New in this Version
- Updated Daylight Saving Time rules for Fiji and Samoa.
Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.


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Query settings for conversion between groups
[max_compact,min_dense] = H5P.get_link_phase_change(gcpl_id)
[max_compact,min_dense] = H5P.get_link_phase_change(gcpl_id)
retrieves the settings for conversion between compact and dense groups.
max_compact is the maximum number of links
to store as header messages in the group header before converting
the group to the dense format. Groups that are in the compact format
and exceed this number of links are automatically converted to the
dense format.
min_dense is the minimum number of links
to store in the dense format. Groups which are in dense format and
in which the number of links falls below this number are automatically
converted back to the compact format.
gcpl = H5P.create('H5P_GROUP_CREATE');
[max_compact, min_dense] = H5P.get_link_phase_change(gcpl);


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Just wanted to share one more article on the Plane Clean Air Filter that was published over at Gadling, a popular travel blog.
The Plane Clean Air Filter made the list of "Kid Friendly Travel Products for your Upcoming Summer Vacation." Most of the products on the list are unabashedly designed for children: rolling luggage that looks like a tiger, a "tadpole" iPod case and headphone kit, Disney luggage, etc.
While the Plane Clean Air Filter does not sport any vibrant colors or the likenesses of any popular animated personalities, it does do one thing exceptionally well: it removes 99.5 percent of bacteria, germs and viruses from the air. Given all of the recent talk about Swine Flu and the H1N1 virus, it may be the most beneficial item to make the list.
But these viruses are by no means the only reason to look into the Plane Clean Air Filter. Since there are always a few coughing, aching and sneezing passengers aboard any given flight, it would be wise to invest in any device that stands to ward off illness or sickness, especially if you are sharing a long flight with such people..
Plane Clean Air Filter makes list of top "Kid Friendly Travel Products"
Just wanted to share one more article on the Plane Clean Air Filter that was published over at Gadling, a popular travel blog.


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Sports Equipment in Canada industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2009-13, and forecast to 2018). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Canada sports equipment market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.
Report Highlights
- The sports equipment market consists of equipment for ball sports (baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, cricket, hockey, etc.), adventure sports (camping, hunting and firearms, skin diving and scuba, water skiing, surfboarding and sailboarding, etc.), fitness (exercise bikes, home gym, rowing machine, hand/wrist/ankle weights, treadmill, jump rope, stepper), golf (clubs, bags, balls, gloves, carts, etc.), racket sports (tennis, squash, badminton, etc.), winter sports (downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, etc.), and other sports such as archery, billiards, indoor games, bowling, in-line skating, martial arts, wheel sports, pogo sticks, and fishing equipment.
- The Canadian sports equipment market had total revenues of $3,162.3m in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.1% between 2009 and 2013.
- The adventure sports equipment segment was the market's most lucrative in 2013, with total revenues of $943.3m, equivalent to 29.8% of the market's overall value.
- The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 1.7% for the five-year period 2013 - 2018, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $3,447.3m by the end of 2018.
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Key Features of this Report
Save time carrying out entry-level research by identifying the size, growth, major segments, and leading players in the sports equipment market in Canada
Use the Five Forces analysis to determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of the sports equipment market in Canada
Leading company profiles reveal details of key sports equipment market players' global operations and financial performance
Add weight to presentations and pitches by understanding the future growth prospects of the Canada sports equipment market with five year forecasts
Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the Canada economy
Questions this Report Answers
What was the size of the Canada sports equipment market by value in 2013?
What will be the size of the Canada sports equipment market in 2018?
What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Canada sports equipment market?
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