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CAUSE Trial: Patient Specific-Cellular Characterization of Fibromuscular Dysplasia and High-Risk Atherosclerotic Endothelium
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01808729
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 11, 2013
Last Update Posted : November 5, 2013
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The purpose of this project is to see if heritable alterations in the function, biology and vascular repair capacity of vascular cells make a major contribution to the burden of coronary artery disease (CAD), fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), and other vascular diseases.
In more detail, FMD is a nonatherosclerotic vascular disease that primarily affects women aged 20 to 60. It commonly affects the renal and carotid arteries but may involve almost every artery in the body. At the cellular level, FMD is characterized by increased fibroblast proliferation and collagen deposition. This study aims to define some of these cellular problems by directly studying fibroblast cells from FMD patients and healthy control subjects. Similarly, CAD is among the leading causes of death worldwide. However, a large part of the risk for CAD is unexplained. It is thought that a major but undefined risk factor may be gene (genomic) variations causing a change in vascular cell function. Here, we will study important vascular cell types in patients with severe and early onset CAD in an attempt to define these problems. Therefore, in summary, this study will look to define the various cellular-level problems that occur in patients with both in CAD and FMD. These data will be linked to DNA-level analyses to ultimately attempt to define the cause of these conditions.
|Condition or disease
|Fibromuscular Dysplasia Early Onset CAD
The purpose of this project is to see if heritable alterations in the function, biology and vascular repair capacity of vascular cells make a major contribution to the burden of coronary artery disease (CAD), fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), and other vascular diseases.
Patients will be referred for this study by their physician if he/she feels that the patient qualifies for entry into the study based upon the Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria and is expected by their physician to be a suitable candidate. This will include: 1) patients with FMD and non-affected control subjects, 2) patients with early onset CAD in the absence of significant CAD risk factors, or matching healthy controls those with ≥2 cardiovascular risk factors and no CAD (those with angiographically 'normal' coronary arteries). Also, as an extension of this study, patients with rare, undiagnosed or unusual forms of CAD (e.g. unexplained dissection, fulminant calcification, aneurysms etc.) and appropriate controls, will be recruited, particularly if there is a strong family pedigree.
This study will include collection of whole blood for subsequent DNA isolation and sequencing, a plasma sample, and a skin biopsy. Blood will be handled in a standard fashion to obtain DNA from leukocytes and plasma. These will be stored pending later batched analysis. Once the skin biopsy tissue is collected, the tissue will be sent to the lab for further processing. The initial step is that we will derive fibroblasts from the skin biopsies. In brief, the biopsies are washed, cut into small fragments are distributed on a culture dish with growth medium and incubated at 37°C. Over the next 4 - 6 weeks, fibroblasts progressively grow and can be collected. We may then induce these fibroblasts to undergo changes so that they become stem cells (called "induced pluripotent stem cells" or iPSCs). Once we have made iPSCs, we can then make endothelial cells (iPSC-ECs), or in fact, many other cell types. The cells can be frozen until analysis, or until experiments are done in the future. All of the derived cells (fibroblasts, iPSCs and iPSC-ECs) generated under this protocol will be kept indefinitely, and may be used for future studies into the causes and other aspects of FMD or CAD.
This study is not concerned with any clinical events after patient enrollment. Only clinical events that have occurred prior to enrollment (e.g. prior myocardial infarction, stroke, dissection) will be recorded. Once we have obtained these cells, detailed cellular and molecular analyses will be performed to study the particular cellular defects that are associated with these differing conditions. This data will be combined with the DNA- and plasma-derived data in an attempt to define the underlying basis for these disorders.
As this is not a treatment, no alternative treatment options apply. The subject can decide not to participate in the trial. No benefit can be promised to any subject in this study. The information gained may benefit others with the same condition.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|34 participants
|Observational Model:
|Case Control
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|The CAUSE Trial: Genomics of Extreme Trait-Coronary Artery Disease Cells and Fibromuscular Dysplasia Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Endothelial Cells
|Study Start Date :
|February 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2013
FMD or CAD (as appropriate)
The study group will either have FMD, early onset CAD, or other rare/unusual vascular disorder. These differing disorders will be sub-groups within the overall study
Healthy control subjects without vascular disease
Healthy controls will not exhibit signs, symptoms or other evidence of vascular disease.
- Phenotypic cellular differences (fibroblasts and/or ps-iPSC-ECs) between cases and controls [ Time Frame: baseline ]We aim to define the underlying basis of FMD, early onset CAD and other rare vascular diseases using a combination of cellular phenotyping, DNA and plasma analysis comparing data between cases and controls at baseline with data collected from hospital chart review.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
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 and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of FMD based on current guideline criteria and relevant imaging results.
- For ET-CAD (early onset CAD) = patients <50 years of age for males and <55 for females with >60% stenosis in ≥2 coronary arteries or their branches, or SYNTAX score ≥12 (significant CAD), in the absence of acquired CAD risk factors.
- Patients with >60% stenosis in ≥2 coronary arteries or their branches, or SYNTAX score ≥12, will also be eligible for the ET-CAD group as follows: a) <40 years of age for males and <45 for females in the presence of one acquired risk factor; b) <35 years of age for males or females and two acquired risk factors.
- Patients already having undergone revascularization will be eligible if other criteria are fulfilled and an aggregate SYNTAX score of ≥12 would have been reached for all treated lesions, or there was disease in ≥2 coronary arteries or their branches, according to the criteria (1) and (2) above.
- For Healthy Controls = age matched patients who have undergone angiography and who do not have CAD ('normal coronary arteries'; SYNTAX score = 0) but with ≥2 acquired CAD risk factors. Control subjects for the FMD studies will be unaffected family members, or unrelated persons matched for age and gender.
- For all subjects, other inclusion criteria are:
- a. Age >18 years;
- b. Fluency in English or Spanish (Spanish consent forms will be provided);
- c. Freely willing to participate with signed informed consent.
- Acquired Risk Factors are defined as:
- (1) Diabetes for >2 years or HBA1C >10.0%;
- (2) Smoker of >5 pack-years for entire lifetime;
- (3) Obesity (BMI >30kg/m2);
- (4) Dyslipidemia, defined by use of lipid lowering therapy, physician diagnosis of dyslipidemia, serum total cholesterol >240 mg/dL or low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol >100 mg/dL;
- (5) Hypertension according to guidelines or requiring therapy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Smoking >2 packets of cigarettes/day for >12 months;
- Prior total cholesterol level of >400mg/dl;
- BMI >40 kg/m2;
- Uncontrolled or severe diabetes with prior hospitalization due to diabetic complications other than at diagnosis;
- For ET-CAD patients: Uncontrolled or severe hypertension causing hospitalization or direct complications;
- Serum creatinine ≥2.0 mg/dL;
- Heart transplantation;
- Active autoimmune disease;
- Illicit drug use;
- HIV positive;
- Prior malignancy with mediastinal irradiation, bone marrow transplantation or high-dose chemotherapy;
- Adult congenital heart disease;
- For healthy controls only, a positive family history of CAD or FMD.
Also, as an extension of this study, patients presenting with rare, undiagnosed or unusual forms of CAD (e.g. unexplained dissection, fulminant calcification, aneurysms etc.) and FMD and appropriate controls, will be recruited, particularly if there is a strong family pedigree.
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): NCT01808729
|United States, New York
|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
|New York, New York, United States, 10029
|Principal Investigator:
|Jason Kovacic, MD
|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
|Responsible Party:
|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 11, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 5, 2013
|Last Verified:
|November 2013
fibromuscular dysplasia
coronary artery disease
Fibromuscular Dysplasia
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes


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Posted: March 30th, 2011
Institut Pasteur v. Chiron Healthcare & Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, French Cour de cassation, 23 November 2010, Case No. 1194 F-D, with thanks to Pierre Véron, Véron & Associés, for sending in the judgment, summary and translation in English
The French Cour de cassation gives here its first decision in a case for infringement of a molecular biology patent (European patent No. 178 978 relating to "cloned DNA sequences, hybridizable with genomic RNA of the LAV" covering a method for detecting HIV).
It rejects the appeal on points of law lodged by claimant Institut Pasteur against a judgment of the Cour d'appel of Paris, 4 March 2009 available here which dismissed the case.
The judgment confirms how Article 69 EPC should be applied to determine the scope of a patent (in the present case, the court does not admit that, after having narrowed the scope of its claims during the opposition procedure to circumvent prior art, the claimant tries and recapture the initial scope during the infringement proceedings).
It also contains a discussion on infringement by equivalence, according to the French theory whereby "infringement by equivalence presupposes that the patented mean does fulfil a new function" the court decides that the patented mean at issue did not fulfil any new function.
Read the decision (in French) here.
Read the decision (in English) here.
Read the previous post here.


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The Avett Brothers: with guests: Lake Street Dive
Performing Arts - Music | August 17 | 6:30 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre | Tickets sold out
When youre receptive to the forces around you, youll notice theres something powerful in the air.
Its that feeling of inspiration to which The Avett Brothers consistently remain open. Its a spirit that courses through everything that they do. You could call it a creative lifeblood or a muse, but its ultimately indefinable. However, you can hear it and feel it within 2013s Magpie and the Dandelion.
Recorded immediately after The Carpenter with Rick Rubin (marking their third consecutive team-up in the studio with the iconic producer), the North Carolina quartetSeth Avett, Scott Avett, Bob Crawford, and Joe Kwonrode a creative wave that yielded another ponderous, poetic, and passionate collection on the heels of their most successful set to date, no less.
Their eighth studio album went on to debut at #5 on the Billboard Top 200, while they performed on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman as well as joining legendary Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell for a rapturous Pearl Jam tribute on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. A string of sold out shows followed as the boys continued to dream up their next step. Much like their own music, it promises to continue tradition, while making a decidedly personal statement. If you keep your eyes, mind, and heart open, youll undoubtedly feel it.
During 2009, the group made mainstream waves with their lauded major label debut, I and Love and You. It landed at #16 on the Billboard Top 200 and garnered unanimous critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, Paste, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Time, who even dubbed it one of Top 10 albums of the year. 2012 saw The Carpenter hit #4 on the Billboard Top 200their highest bow to datewhile People, USA Today, and American Songwriter lauded the album. The group graced the stage of Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! twice in merely a few months time. During the second performance, they invited the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra along to pay homage to Brooklyn with I and Love and You as personally requested by Mr. Kimmel.
In 2001, banjoist Scott and guitarist Seth formed The Avett Brothers with standup bass player Bob. Growing up in Concord, NC, the boys immersed themselves in their musician dads record collection, falling in love with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. They rose to the status of genre stalwarts over the course of six albums, including 2007s acclaimed Emotionalism. The book is open though, and the next chapter for The Avett Brothers will definitely be the brightest, boldest, and biggest yet.
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Perfect365 is an interesting tool which can give a new look to any photo portrait in a click.
Maybe you're hoping to upload a new photo of yourself to your Facebook account, for instance, but even the best one you have doesn't quite look right. No problem: install Perfect365, open the image, and you'll be able to tweak it with ease.
This may be as simple as choosing an option from the "Instant Look" panel. Click "Natural", say, and the program will automatically remove blemishes, soften skin and whiten teeth. "Smoky Eyes" begins to apply more effects, extending eyelashes, emphasising eye colour, even adding eye liner. "Honey" gets more drastic still, slimming the face and emphasising the nose, amongst other things, and there are 21 options to choose from in total.
If you need finer control, though, the right-hand pane shows you exactly what each "Instant Look" does, and redefine it to suit your needs. Don't like the "Slim face" look, for instance? Then you can adjust the intensity of the effect by dragging a slider, or turn it off altogether by clicking a box. And it's just as easy to, say, lift the cheeks, deepen the smile, recolour eyes, whiten teeth and more.
The success of all this will depend on Perfect365 automatically detecting your subject's eyes, nose, mouth and face position, though. If this doesn't happen properly then the results will look rather odd, but fortunately you can manually tweak the various settings to get everything working again (just click Adjust Key Points).
And once you've finished, the retouched picture may be saved as a graphics file, or shared directly on Twitter, Facebook or Flickr.
Please note, the free version of the program will only save images at a maximum resolution of 600 x 600, but upgrading to the full version will remove that restriction. The price is $29.99, and you can order by clicking Save As > Upgrade from within the program.
Some of its options aren't so effective, but Perfect365 does have quite a few capable retouching tweaks on offer, and the program is also highly configurable and very easy to use.


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Sarah Burke left lasting legacy on Olympics before death
- Before her death in 2012%2C Burke was a driving force behind women%27s skiing halfpipe joining Olympics
- Burke was just 29 years old when she died after a practice run accident in Utah
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia -- If Sarah Burke were here, she and Roz Groenewoud would stand at the top of the Olympic halfpipe and say 1-2, 1-2.
The Canadian teammates always supported each other in that way, even if each saw herself on top.
A pioneer in her sport, the Canadian was a driving force behind getting the sport into the Olympics. It has been two years since her death after a training crash, and yet her dream will live on as halfpipe makes its debut for female skiers Thursday.
GOOD QUESTION:Why two different medal counts?
"My dream was always to win the Olympics," Burke said in the documentary, Winter Sessions: Rory Bushfield and Sarah Burke.
Parts of the film produced by The Ski Channel were shot six months before her death in January 2012 and released after it. In sometimes haunting interviews, Burke discusses her pioneering efforts in the sport, the toll on her body and the dreams it sparked for her.
"I didn't really know what I wanted to do in the Olympics," she says in the film, "but that's what I wanted to do."
Groenewoud will try to do that in honor of Burke now as the freeskiing community keeps alive the memory of one of its best.
"She was extremely competitive, extremely driven, but that never colored her ability to be compassionate and generous with compliments and stuff like that," Groenewoud says. "She was amazing at being able to differentiate those parts that you don't have to be an asshole to be a strong athlete."
When she died Jan. 19, 2012, the loss rippled beyond the skiing community.
To be sure, it was the tragedy of it. Burke was 29, an athlete at the top of her sport with six X Games medals. With an infectious smile, caring personality and magnetism, Burke made an impression on anyone she met.
"She was the bright smiling face at the bottom of the course that brought everybody's spirits up," legendary freeskier Simon Dumont said. "Every time we ski, if there's a thought of Sarah, it makes you feel a little bit better, so she's always with us."
Burke's husband, Rory Bushfield, and parents, Jan Phelan and Gord Burke, have made the trip to Sochi, seeing through a dream she had pursued. It will be difficult, but, with most things tied to Burke since her death, it will be a celebration.
Overcoming fear
Burke was always fearless, her mother says. At 2 years old, she took a tumble down the 16 stairs in their home. Phelan expected to find her daughter crying.
"And she picked herself up, and she declared, 'I meant to do that,'" Phelan says. "She was pretty much heavy duty like that from the start."
To do what Burke did — usher freeskiing from its infancy to a sport rich with opportunities for women — she would need to be. Although Burke started as a moguls skier, she quickly fell in love with the halfpipe.
With the sport still in its early days, that meant at many contests she would have to push to be included and compete among the boys. Early in her career, that became routine when she wasn't turned away from contests.
It also revealed her toughness. Her father remembers a U.S. Open when she returned to the lodge after a training session and burst into tears. She had badly broken her thumb, but she held it together until she got down the mountain.
"She refused to let anybody see her cry no matter how busted up she was," Gord Burke said. "I think the guys admired her for that. She was tough."
PHOTOS: Journey of Sochi medals to the podium
In Winter Sessions, Burke details the myriad injuries she suffered in the sport. Competing in slopestyle, which was not her signature event but one that she lobbied to get into the X Games, she broke her back.
"I think you should scare yourself every day," she says in the film. "I'm a firm believer in getting your heart going and trying something different or new and overcoming it."
As she competed against the guys, Burke pushed to develop the sport for women, encouraging others to compete.
American freeskier Angeli VanLaanen was one of those girls when she met Burke at a camp when she was 16. "That's why I started doing halfpipe," said VanLaanen, 28.
As more women began competing, Burke pushed for more inclusion. Thanks in part to her lobbying, the X Games added freeskiing halfpipe and slopestyle for women. It also became one of the first events to offer equal prize money for both genders.
"Through Sarah pushing the conversation, it just kind of helped us get to that point a little quicker," said Tim Reed, ESPN's senior director, content strategy and sports and competition of the X Games.
The same goes for the Olympics. After lobbying from Burke and others, the IOC added freeskiing halfpipe in April 2011. Burke planned to compete here when she would have been 31.
"Without that, we wouldn't be in the Olympics and we wouldn't be where we are today," says Mike Riddle, a Canadian teammate of Burke's. "We owe a lot to her."
"I don't think she ever saw it as a defining moment for the sport," says Michael Spencer, her agent. "It was just another notch, and then she was going to go on to something else. This was going to be her one chance."
PHOTOS: Men's freestyle skiiing in Sochi
Outpouring of grief
Burke was training in Park City, Utah, when she crashed on a routine trick Jan. 10, 2012. The whiplash severed the vertebral artery, which supplied blood to her brain. She went into cardiac arrest in the pipe and, despite surgery to repair the artery, she remained in a coma until her death nine days later.
The response around the world was immediate and profound. Spencer helped establish a fund to cover her medical expenses since her insurance with the Canadian national team did not cover her while she was training in the USA with a sponsor.
In days, enough money had been raised to cover those expenses and start a foundation in her name. Of the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised, only one donation was in the neighborhood of $4,000, according to Spencer.
"I can't tell you how many $10 donations there were," he says.
If people couldn't donate, they wrote. Phelan received a note from a Polish woman named Magdalena. After Burke's death, the woman went skiing, saw the Celebrate Sarah stickers and was moved to write her.
"I always thought she was mine and was my little girl. That so isn't true," Phelan wrote. "She somewhere along the move into being someone very special and very important to the entire world."
Bushfield, whom Burke married in 2010, received condolences from the prime minister of Canada. The rapper Lil' Wayne created a T-shirt with proceeds going to the foundation.
"I was aware of how much reach she had more than she was, but I wasn't aware by any means as to how far it went, at all. I'm still amazed by it," he says. "People were struck by Sarah. She had that aura about her."
For Burke's teammates, the loss was especially acute. Groenewoud, 24, still chokes up when talking about Burke, whom she met when she was 13.
Like the rest of the team that competed with Burke, Groenewoud has a piece of her jewelry, a purple, studded leather bracelet. Canadian halfpipe coach Trennon Paynter, who was a close friend of Burke's, came up with the idea.
While Olympic rules prevent Groenewoud from wearing anything on the outside of her uniform, she said she might wear it when she competes. Riddle has a silver necklace with the charm of a single ski that he takes to every competition.
"She kind of had that ability (to make others smile) with everybody," Riddle says, "and she always, I think, brought the best out of other people."
Olympic debut Thursday
Shortly after her death, her family established The Sarah Burke Foundation. In May, it gave out its first scholarships, three of $7,500 apiece for promising young athletes who have demonstrated a commitment to their communities.
The foundation also donated $15,000 to St. Jude's Hospital, a place close to Burke's heart. Many times she competed in a triathlon fundraiser for the hospital in the spring. One year, she did a leg of it while recovering from a broken back.
Although nothing can erase the loss brought by her death, her friends and family say the foundation has given them something positive to remember her by.
"It's cool to be able to just carry on the idea of Sarah," Bushfield says. "As she lived her life, she always helped the people that needed it, and so selfless. It's cool to be doing the same sort of things she taught us to do."
There have been other remembrances, although IOC rules prohibit the armbands and stickers bearing her name to be worn here.
Each year on the anniversary of her death, athletes have tweeted their memories with the hashtag #celebratesarah. Activyst is selling limited edition T-shirts bearing one of Burke's favorite sayings, "Dream without fear." Part of the proceeds will go to the foundation.
Last year, Burke was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame as a builder. This month, the Canada Post created a stamp in her honor.
In ways big and small, Burke's memory is kept alive. And that won't change, even without a sticker or armband as the event she so cherished and fought for finally makes its Olympic debut.
"I think she'd be smiling, for sure," Bushfield says. "Just stoked to see all her friends and just happy that she was able to give what she gave and to give those guys that opportunity. You can give a lot of things, but that one's pretty incredible."


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JFace Data Binding/How to Contribute
Contributing Code
Whether you're wanting to fix a typo in javadoc or to implement the next whiz bang feature of JDB you'll need to know a few things before you contribute code.
Checking out the Projects
The project is comprised of the following plug-ins.
- org.eclipse.core.databinding
- org.eclipse.core.databinding.beans
- org.eclipse.jface.databinding
- org.eclipse.jface.databinding.examples
- org.eclipse.jface.tests.databinding
You can check these out from CVS manually or with a Project Set File. You can import the file into Eclipse via File->Import, Team->Team Project Set. This will check out the necessary projects into your workspace. We provide sets for committers and contributors and for HEAD and maintenance branches.
Unit Testing
Testing is imperative to the health of the project. We have a significant amount of tests. The quantity of tests will keep growing as more functionality is added to the library. If you are contributing a fix or writing an enhancement it's a requirement that tests are written. If you don't write them a committer will have to and that could slow down the contribution process.
There are a couple of things that you should know about our testing process:
- All tests are included in org.eclipse.jface.tests.databinding.
- If looking for tests for a specific class look for a class named {THECLASS}Test.java (e.g. UpdateStrategy.java -> UpdateStrategyTest.java).
- To run all tests open the Run Configuration dialog (Run->Open Run Dialog...). Under JUnit Plug-in Test will reside a "JFace-Data Binding Test Suite" (this is contributed by org.eclipse.jface.tests.databinding). When invoked this will run all tests. Before you contribute code you should always run the test suite to ensure that your changes didn't break anything, or at least anything that is being tested for.
- If you create a new TestCase make sure to add it to BindingTestSuite. Your TestCase will then be ran as part of the JFace-Data Binding Test Suite.
- If you want to make a good impression write tests. This goes for any project but especially JDB.
The Build
The Eclipse build is a bit of a mystery to newcomers. But rest assured that if you break something everyone will know about it and we will laugh at you (not really but we might tease you). If you do one thing it should be to sign up for the platform-releng-dev mailing list. You'll receive emails when builds complete and when build and test failures occur. It's always good to pay extra special attention on the mornings after you make a commit or someone makes a commit on your behalf. The normal reaction to "breaking the build" is to log a bug, notify the platform-releng-dev list about it so that others can gauge the quality of the build, and then fix the bug. If your mail client allows it it might be a good idea to setup a filter to flag anything with "databinding" in the message from platform-releng-dev. This will help filter out the signal from the noise.


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Special operations forces will be among the growth areas in the military even as funding dwindles, the Pentagon's No. 2 civilian leader says.
President Obama "made sure that we didn't eat our seed corn in a budget reduction," Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter said Nov. 29 at Duke University.
"And so that meant continuing to invest, and, in fact, we are growing the special operations forces, actually growing them," Carter said.
Special operations forces, many of which have their headquarters at Fort Bragg, are trained and organized to work in small groups, often in hostile areas on sensitive missions. Their jobs range from hunting terrorists to training foreign militaries in the local language.
The United States will increase its focus on the Asia-Pacific region, continue its attention on the Middle East and cope with terrorist threats in Africa, he said. Priority will be given to alliances and partnerships and holding military exercises around the world, he said.
Carter made his comments as part of the Von der Heyden Fellows Program Endowment Fund Lecture Series.
For more on Special Operations, visit the Military.com Special Operations Center.
The U.S. military faces the twin challenges of the national budget crisis and coming up with a strategy as the Iraq-Afghanistan era comes to an end, he said.
Carter and his boss, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, have been warning for months about the danger of automatic across-the-board cuts that will take effect Jan. 1 unless Congress acts to head them off.
"It's not just the amount of dollars, it's the idiotic way that we are required to take those cuts," Carter said. "And, of course, it's idiotic because the intent of sequester was to use the threat of cuts implemented inflexibly, and really mindlessly, to force Congress to enact a compromise deficit reduction plan. That was its intent. It was never intended to be implemented."
Special operations forces will be a key part of "agile, ready, technologically advanced military" in the era after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.
Fort Bragg is the home of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command. The headquarters for the Marine Corps' special operations forces is at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base at Jacksonville.
"We are increasing our funding for cyber, even in this environment," Carter said. "Same for electronic warfare, and electronic protection -- very important field."
The U.S. military is focusing on space and developing "new capabilities to counter weapons of mass destruction," he said.
"All of these areas that are so important for the future," he said.
Carter stressed the importance of "our science and technology base and, of course, new capabilities, novel capabilities that we haven't revealed yet."
In his previous job as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, Carter had a role in overseeing some of the military's largest aircraft and weapons programs.
Reserve forces will be of "a new post-Iraq and Afghanistan concept of readiness for each of our services," he said. "Not an easy thing to do."
Fort Bragg last year became the home of U.S. Army Reserve Command headquarters, which oversees more than 200,000 soldiers.
The top leaders of the Army Reserve and Army National Guard say they want to continue the ready-to-deploy role they came to fill over the past decade rather than reverting to their former Cold War standby status.
"We wanted to preserve a great strength we have built up over the last decade, which is the tremendous talent we have in the all-volunteer force," Carter said. "We both wanted to retain it, and we wanted to respect it."
The United States has new security partners such as India and the Philippines, he said. Fort Bragg will host soldiers from India in the spring for an exercise. Military-to-military relations with China will be enhanced, he said.
The Navy will shift its focus from the Atlantic to the Pacific, he said.
"The Army itself plans to align 70,000 troops to the Asia-Pacific region as part of its new general regional alignment, which heavily weighs the Asia-Pacific region," Carter said.
There will be no change in Marine Corps presence west of the international dateline, although the Marine Corps will be reducing in size at the end of the Iraq/Afghanistan war, he said.
"And in fact, they -- they'll be seeing more of the Marines in the Pacific, and the Army, too," he said. "Why? Because they're not in Afghanistan."


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Woman accuses Casey Anthony's mother of assaulting her
Woman says Anthony grabbed her arm, causing minor scratches, says deputies
MOUNT DORA, Fla. – A Lake County woman who recently sold a video to RadarOnline of Cindy and George Anthony having a yard sale and allegedly selling Caylee Anthony's belongings is pressing charges against Cindy, saying she assaulted her.
According to the deputy report, deputies responded to the Steak and Shake at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Leesburg in reference to a battery, where they found Christina Werner, who told deputies she went to a yard sale on Palmetto Drive in Mt. Dora.
Werner said she drove up in front of the home with her driver's side window down and cell phone video and audio recording. Werner told deputies she made a comment something to the effect of "I can't believe you are selling Caylee's belongings."
According to deputies, Werner said that the suspect, Cindy Anthony, started walking toward her, yelling something like "I can't believe you are doing this, you pretended to be my friend."
WKMG-TV reports when deputies spoke to Anthony later on Thursday, she said while standing in the yard of her home, she yelled to Werner she could not believe what she was doing.
Anthony told deputies Werner said she could do what she wanted because she was on public property. Anthony said she told Warner that her attorney advised her that they could sue her if she did not leave them alone.
Werner said that the Anthony's husband, George Anthony, was yelling for her to stop and not approach Werner's vehicle. Deputies said Werner later realized was attempting to either slap her or grab her by the arm.
Werner believes Anthony made contact with her arm, causing minor scratches, by reaching into the driver's side window of her vehicle, according to a report released by deputies.
Werner said that she immediately sped off before any further confrontation and went to the Steak n' Shake, where she reported the incident.
When deputies spoke with Werner, she said that she went to Anthony home on two other occasions, possibly June 28 and June 29 of this year.
On Friday, Werner said she just happened to be driving by the home when she saw they were having another yard sale. She told deputies when she drove up on the home with her window down and made the comment, this is what upset Anthony.
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The incident comes weeks after the Anthonys' attorney said they may sue over the video sold to RadarOnline.
Deputies asked Werner if it was possible she was stalking the Anthony family due to their notoriety. Werner told them no.
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"My tattoos symbolize life through death, or death through life," Genest said in a "Meet Zombie Boy" article featured on Dermablend®'s website, where he is a brand ambassador. "They've been a part of me forever - before I even got them done. They reveal how I feel on the inside. I'm so used to how I look now that I don't see them anymore."
Discovered by Lady Gaga's personal stylist and Creative Director of fashion powerhouse Thierry Mugler Nicola Formichetti, Genest first appeared on the fashion scene when he was featured by Mugler in the Paris fashion show in January 2011. In addition to walking runways for Mugler and other designers in Milan, Berlin, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Rio, New York and Toronto, Genest has become the face of Dermablend in its award winning Go beyond The Cover video which attracted more than 15 Million views and 650,000 likes on its Facebook. In the process he has become a social media phenomenon, with more than 66,000 Twitter fans and 66,000 Likes on Facebook. Visit his website at http://.RickGenest.com, http://www.facebook.com/ricothezombie and http://twitter.com/ricothezombie.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here you can find answers to frequently asked questions about Genshi.
- What is Genshi?
- Why yet another template engine?
- Why XML-based?
- So then why not just use Kid?
- What are the main differences between Kid and Genshi?
- What other features does the toolkit provide?
- Why use includes instead of inheritance?
- What license governs the use of Genshi?
- What do I need to use Genshi?
- Why is it called "Genshi"?
- How do you pronounce "Genshi"?
- Usage
What is Genshi?
We like to call it a "toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web". The largest feature provided by Genshi is an XML-based template engine that is heavily inspired by Kid. But it also provides a text-based template engine, as well as a collection of tools for working with markup.
Why yet another template engine?
We'll let Ryan Tomayko, the author of Kid, answer this one:
"There's at least four billion and nine text based template languages for Python but there aren't a lot of options that fit nicely into the XML tool-chain. Or, if they do fit nicely into the XML tool-chain, they don't fit nicely with Python."
See his article "In search of a Pythonic, XML-based Templating Language" for the details.
Why XML-based?
Most template engines for web applications are character-stream based: they know nothing about the format of the response body that is being generated. They simply substitute variable expressions, and provide some directives for looping, conditionals, etc. Thus they can be used to generate any kind of textual output, be it HTML, plain text emails, program code, or really anything else.
However, 99% of the templates used by web applications generate some kind of XML/HTML-based markup. We believe that web applications can benefit from a template engine that "knows what it's doing" when it comes to markup. You don't need to worry about generating output that is not well-formed, nor do you need to worry about accidentially not escaping some data, thereby greatly reducing the risk for introducing XSS attack vectors. Furthermore, your templates look a lot more like the targetted output format: an HTML template looks like HTML, a template for an RSS feed looks like RSS. Directives in text-based template languages often result in rather messy templates, or produce excessive amounts of unnecessary white space.
In addition, text-based templates don't even work all that well for many text formats. Imagine you want to generate a plain text email or an iCalendar file. How do you deal with important concerns such as line-wrapping and white-space in your templates? You may be better off using specialized formatters.
So then why not just use Kid?
We think that Kid represents a huge step forward for XML-based templating in Python. Match templates and the generator-based processing model are extremely powerful concepts.
But arguably Kid also has some basic design problems. For example, Kid generates Python code from templates, which adds a lot of complexity to the code and can make the process of locating and fixing template errors a true nightmare. A syntax error in a template expression will cause an exception that points somewhere in the generated code. In addition, as Kid is based on ElementTree, and the ElementTree API doesn't provide location information for parse events, exceptions reported by Kid often don't include information about what part of the template caused the error. (To be fair, this kind of location tracking wasn't even available in the Python bindings for Expat before Python 2.4.)
We felt these problems would best be addressed by developing a new engine form scratch, as opposed to trying to "fix" Kid.
What are the main differences between Kid and Genshi?
Genshi executes templates directly, there's no code generation phase. Expressions are evaluated in a more forgiving way using AST transformation. Template variables are stored on a stack, which means that some variable set in a loop deep in the template won't leak into the rest of the template. And even though Genshi doesn't generate Python code for templates, it generally performs slightly better than Kid (even up to 2x in some of our tests, but the exact differences depend on a lot of factors).
Genshi does not depend on ElementTree. It uses Expat for parsing XML, and is based on streaming slightly abstracted parse events through the processing pipeline. It uses XInclude – instead of Kids' py:extends – to allow template authors to factor out common bits. For match templates, it uses XPath expressions instead of the ElementTree API.
For more details about what's different see GenshiVsKid.
What other features does the toolkit provide?
Beyond the XML-based template engine, Genshi provides:
- a unified stream-based processing model for markup, where
- streams can come from XML or HTML text, or be generated programmatically? using a very simple syntax.
- XPath can be used to query any stream, not just in templates.
- Different serialization methods (XML, HTML, and plain text) for streams.
- An HTML "sanitizing" filter to strip potentially dangerous elements or attributes from user-submitted HTML markup.
- A simple text-based template engine that can be used for generating plain text output.
Why use includes instead of inheritance?
We think that includes are both simpler and more natural for templating.
Template inheritance is a concept that fits well with template languages where a master template provide "slots" that are "filled" by the inheriting templates. However, Genshi has no such feature, and instead uses the more powerful and flexible concept of match templates.
Furthermore, XInclude is a W3C standard, which means that it is more likely to be supported in authoring tools than some esoteric custom notation for including external resources.
See also GenshiRecipes/PyExtendsEquivalent and GenshiRecipes/PyLayoutEquivalent to find out how the Kid directives py:extends and py:layout map to includes in Genshi.
What license governs the use of Genshi?
Genshi is released under the revised BSD license, which is a liberal open source license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
What do I need to use Genshi?
Python 2.3 or later. Python 2.4 is recommended for better performance, plus error messages will include template line numbers and column offsets. Setuptools is optional and only used for installation if it's available.
The template engine plugin (for http://www.turbogears.org/docs/plugins/template.html), which enables usage of Genshi in frameworks such as TurboGears, depends on Setuptools at runtime and installation time. Use of the plugin implementation is optional, though: Setuptools is not required for using Genshi directly.
Why is it called "Genshi"?
"Genshi" (原糸) is japanese and roughly translates to "thread for weaving". Basically, Genshi is a thread for weaving web output. The thread meaning also fits nicely with how markup is presented as streams of events in Genshi.
Prior to release 0.3, the project was called "Markup". The name was changed because:
- there was another Python project using the name,
- it made communication somewhat awkward, because it was sometimes unclear whether someone is talking about the project "Markup", or just plain markup, and
- it was not easy to find the project via search engines.
How do you pronounce "Genshi"?
The "official" pronunciation is "gen" (as in "get") and "shi" (as in "she").
How can I include literal XML in template output?
Unless explicitly told otherwise, Genshi escapes any data you substitute into template output so that it is safe for being parsed and displayed by web browsers and other tools. This saves you from the work of having to tediously escape every variable by hand, and greatly reduces the risk of introducing vectors for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
However, sometimes what you want is to include text in the template output that should not get escaped. For example, if you allow users to enter HTML verbatim (or provide a rich-text editor of sorts), you want that HTML to appear as actual markup in the output, not as escaped text.
Genshi provides a number of ways to do that:
- The Markup class in the genshi.core module can be used to flag strings that should not be escaped. Strings wrapped in a Markup instance get copied to the output unchanged.
- The XML and HTML functions in the genshi.input module parse XML and HTML strings, respectively, and produce a markup stream. Note that this option can be rather expensive, as the text needs to be parsed just to be serialized again. Also, this method fails on bad markup that cannot be parsed by either HTMLParser or Expat.
- If you are generating the snippets in question yourself, you may want to use the genshi.builder to generate markup streams programmatically?. Just as the results of the XML and HTML functions discussed above, the stream produced using genshi.builder will not be escaped in the template output.
Can I add custom directives?
Yes and no. Technically, it is possible to add custom directives by making a subclass of MarkupTemplate or TextTemplate. However, think twice before doing that. Genshi has been designed to get by with a standard set of generic directives; adding additional ones should not be necessary.
Match templates provide much of the functionality you may want to get from custom directives, and are more convenient to boot. For example, let's assume you want a widget library. Instead of writing your own template directives, add an include file defining a couple match templates. As a simple example, assume the following is stored a file called widgets.html:
 <py:match path="w:pane">

${pane.label}
 ${pane.render()}
 </py:match>
That defines one "widget" (<w:pane>) that can be used in including templates as follows:
 <xi:include href="widgets.html" /> <py:for each="pane in panes"> <w:pane data="pane" /> </py:for>
One advantage is that you're using markup to define those reusable components. Another is that you're not polluting the py: namespace.
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Japan reached the final of the FIFA Women's World Cup™ for the first time with a deserved 3-1 win over a Sweden side who had previously won every match they had played at Germany 2011.
Twenty years ago the teams met in the tournament in China PR, with the Scandinavians running out 8-0 winners, but there was to be no such repeat in Frankfurt as the Nadeshiko continued their 15-year unbeaten run against their opponents.
Sweden were dealt a blow shortly before kick-off, when inspirational captain Caroline Seger was forced to withdraw from the starting line-up with an injury to her left calf. The 26-year-old sat out of the Blagult's training session last night, but aggravated the muscle again in the warm-up. Orebro's Marie a Hammarstrom was the late replacement. Japan also made one change, with Nahomi Kawasumi replacing Yuki Nagasato as the focal point of their attack.
There was a large and receptive crowd of 45,434 at the FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium, with the roof not only acting as a shelter from the heavy showers which had affected Hessen during the day, but also as a sounding board for the fans' loud cheers to bounce off.
It was the Swedish supporters who were singing after ten minutes. Homare Sawa's mis-placed pass was latched on to by Oqvist, who powered past Azusa Iwashimizu and hit a shot which flew over Ayumi Kaihori, via a slight deflection off Saki Kumagai, and into the net.
The Sweden forward had a hand in the game's next goal, but unfortunately for the her it was at the wrong end. Following a powerful run down the centre from Shinobu Ohno, the ball was played to Aya Miyama on the left. She crossed into the box and, under intense pressure from Oqvist, Kawasumi's touch took the ball beyond Hedvig Lindahl.
Following a spell in which the teams traded spells of possession, the game's next real chance came when Japan won a free-kick on the edge of the area following Charlotte Rohlin's foul on Kawasumi. Predictably, Miyama stepped up to take the free-kick, which almost caught Lindahl off-guard before she recovered well to push the ball around her right-hand post.
Sweden, on the other hand, were struggling to create any real opportunities and balls played down the channels for Lotta Schelin failed to reach their intended target.
The second-half began at a frenetic pace and the Asians almost took the lead when Ohno's dipping half-volley clipped the top of the crossbar. On the hour mark they managed it. Following good build-up play down the right, the ball was played along the edge of the box before it was swung into the danger zone. Lindahl came to claim it but failed to make it, and Sawa was on hand to head home her fourth goal of the tournament.
Four minutes later Japan doubled their advantage. Lindahl came out to deal with a long ball which seemed destined to reach Kozue Ando, but her clearance fell straight to Kawasumi, who hit a hopeful shot from 35 yards. The 25-year-old forward seemed as delighted as the Japanese fans to see her effort fly over the Sweden goalkeeper and defence and ripple the back of the net.
With a shots on goal ratio of 11 to one in favour of Japan, Thomas Dennerby sent on Jessica Landstrom, Sofia Jakobsson and Antonia Goransson for Linda Forsberg, Marie Hammarstrom and Oqvist respectively, in a bid to bring his side back into the match. Although Sweden enjoyed a greater territorial advantage, the hard-working Japan defence limited them to just a handful of half-chances.
Indeed, it was Norio Sasaki's side who remained the more threatening in the final stages and they closed the game out extremely well to book a place in Sunday's final, also here in Frankfurt, against USA. Sweden, however, must regroup to face France in Sinsheim on Saturday evening in the match for third place.
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text: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Share: March 29, 2009 Land-use & Human Impacts Few themes in literature are more alluring than the lost world. Places such as Atlantis, Shangri-La, Conan Doyle's "Lost World", and now the bestselling "The Lost City of Z" conjure up images of strange landscapes, exotic civilizations and hidden treasures. Their mysteries fascinate readers and movie-goers. Given the high profile of these fictional lost worlds, it is ironic the Earth's real lost worlds get so little attention.Consider Mussel Shoals. A 53-mile-long series of rapids in the Tennessee River (a river three times the size of the Hudson), Mussel Shoals was a complex world of islands and winding channels, shallow enough during the summer to drive a wagon across. Little side-channels filled with minnows and miniature catfish hiding in the riverweed alternated with whitewater and deep green pools. The shoals contained hundreds of species of shellfish and fish.Named for its immense beds of freshwater mussels, Mussel Shoals was one of the richest sites on the planet for freshwater life. The shoals were drowned in 1927 behind Wilson Dam, which was built to improve navigation and provide hydropower and flood control for Tennessee Valley residents. Even if the dam was removed and the acres of accumulated mud cleared away, dozens of species that lived on the shoals are now extinct because of Wilson Dam and other impoundments. Mussel Shoals truly is a lost world.The great tallgrass prairies of the Midwest are another lost world. Cleared to grow corn and soybeans for us, our livestock and cars, these magnificent grasslands once extended from Indiana to Nebraska and from Texas to Manitoba. People always described these prairies as a "sea of grass." The only time I ever saw enough tallgrass prairie to make an impression—an 81-acre patch in West Branch, Iowa—it was indeed impossible not to think of the sea. It wasn't only the way the wind rippled through the grass like a breeze over water—it was the color, too.The prairie was green the way the sea is blue. As the sea changes from deep blue to turquoise to silver and white with the wind and waves, the prairie changed from bright grassy green to silver to dark grey-green as winds and clouds passed. Floating in the sea of grass were countless insects and prairie flowers.Few habitats on Earth have been lost as the tallgrass prairie has been lost. Of the 167 million acres once in North America, only 3 percent remains, much of it degraded and damaged. When the prairie is lost, the animals it supports are lost, too, which has led to the decline of the prairie chicken and the upland sandpiper. The soils held in place by the prairie are lost, too -about half Iowa's topsoil has washed away since its prairies were plowed, and more is lost with each rainstorm.The Earth abounds with lost worlds: the Three Gorges of China's Yangtze River, drowned to provide hydropower for China's growing economy; the great wetlands of California's Central Valley and our own Orange County, drained to grow vegetables and fruits for our tables; the Aral Sea in Russia, turned into a shrunken briny pool when its tributaries were diverted into irrigation ditches for Soviet cotton fields; and countless others.Worlds are lost when we consume the resources we need to support our growing human population and swelling appetite for prosperity. Every time the human population grows, houses get bigger, or we buy fuel-inefficient vehicles, we lose another world.Don't misunderstand me. I'm not scolding humans for using resources; all life requires resources. I'm not even suggesting we feel guilty about what we consume. It seems unreasonable to insist people never take a trip to Hawaii, have a child, drive a car, or eat a fine meal, to avoid consuming resources. We have one life to live, and most of us would be unhappy spending it eating gruel in an unheated mud hut.But I do think it's useful to think about the worlds we lose when we consume resources, and make mindful choices. Of course it would be nice to drive a bigger car, or have the steak instead of the pasta, or have a big house in the country—but is it worth losing another world? What do we want to add to the list of worlds that have already been lost? Share: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Dave Strayer is a freshwater ecologist whose work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and understanding the roles of suspension-feeding animals in ecosystems. Strayer also works on broader issues in freshwater conservation ecology and invasion biology.


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Female bantamweight standouts Kaufman and Smith meet on April 16 in Quebec City
It may have taken a long road to get to this point, but after a little over a year and injuries to two other fighters, Leslie Smith will get her rematch with Sarah Kaufman at the TUF Nations Finale on April 16 in Quebec City.
Smith and Kaufman engaged in a memorable battle in the Invicta promotion last April, with Kaufman taking a close split decision victory. Since then, former Strikeforce champion Kaufman moved to the UFC, but after Shayna Baszler and Amanda Nunes were both forced out of next week's bout with the British Columbia native due to injury, Smith agreed to step up on short notice to make her UFC debut.


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If you've ever wanted to ask NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a question, you might get your chance on Thursday, January 23 at 3 PM ET/12 PM Pacific. The man who revealed the startling revelations about the NSA's Prism program and cell phone metadata collection--and inspired a slew of security-focused apps and services--is lining up for his second official question and answer session tomorrow.
Thursday's virtual town hall meeting is Snowden's second public Q&A, following one hosted by The Guardian and moderated by Glenn Greenwald last June. This time around Snowden will answer questions on freesnowden.is, a leading advocacy site for the whistleblower.
Anyone who wants to submit questions must ask them on Twitter starting Thursday using the hashtag #AskSnowden. Snowden's responses will be logged on the Free Snowden site.
Snowden is also expected to respond to President Barack Obama's speech on NSA reforms last Friday, though not necessarily during the live chat session.
Better the second time?
The Guardian 's original Snowden Q&A was criticized by some as being a PR exercise where the public learned little of real value about the former NSA contractor, so it's something of an open question whether the NSA leaker will satisfy questioning minds this time around.
ProPublica Senior Editor Scott Klein said on Twitter after the last Q&A that the "Snowden chat was handled like a Soviet gymnast's press conference." Tom Watson, a Forbes Contributor and New York University instructor, also took to Twitter with a Russian-themed crack, saying he'd "seen scripted Presidential "town halls" that were less Potemkin Village-like than this so-called #askSnowden 'chat.'"
Snowden is currently living in Russia, where he was granted a one-year asylum in August after the U.S. revoked his passport while he was en route to Cuba.
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Park City, UT — "I have a good feeling," filmmaker Davis Coombe said Monday night at a Sundance Film Festival party. The Denver-based editor wasn't talking about the climate-change doc "Chasing Ice," which had just received a standing ovation at its world premiere. He was feeling good about this morning's Academy Award nominees announcement. His inkling was right.
Denver director Daniel Junge's "Saving Face" — which Coombe produced and edited — is nominated for best documentary short. This is Junge's second run at an Oscar in that category. In 2009, "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner" –about Washington's former governor and his work on die-with-dignity legislation — was up for the statuette.
"Dan's become able to craft films that speak to a wide audience and yet cover delicate and sensitive subject matter," Coombe said after hearing the news.
For "Saving Face," Junge traveled to Pakistan to tell the story of survivors of acid attacks. "He's gone from legal suicide to women burned by their own husbands."
"We worried about him a lot," said his producer. "It was the first time Milkhaus (a local production company and filmmaking hotbed) had to take out a death and dismemberment policy and extraction insurance." HBO will premiere the short in March and Junge also got funds from Britain's Channel Four.
"It's kind of surreal. It's weird after yesterday," Coombe added, a little groggy after the 6:30 a.m. announcement. After all, "Chasing Ice," the Boulder-produced documentary he edited is getting plenty of Sundance fanfare. "This is the opposite of adding insult to injury."


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When a shotshell is fired from a shotgun, the pellets leave the barrel and begin to spread or scatter. The farther the pellets travel, the greater the spread of shot. Shotgun barrels have a choke to control the spread or shot pattern.
The choke of a shotgun acts like the nozzle of a garden hose. As the nozzle is tightened, water shoots out in a long, narrow stream, similar to the full choke on a shotgun. As the nozzle is opened, similar to the cylinder choke on a shotgun, water shoots out in a wider spray.
Your distance from the target determines the choke you need. The choke does not alter the shotgun's power—it just controls how tight or spread out the shot pattern will be at a specific distance.
The spread effect of the most common chokes is illustrated below. The choke controls how much shot will hit in a certain area at different ranges.
- Cylinder choke is an unconstricted barrel. The shot pattern spreads quickly.
- Improved Cylinder choke has a slight constriction. It allows the shot pattern to spread fairly quickly. This is a good choice for quail, rabbits, and other upland game.
- Modified choke has moderate constriction. The shot stays together longer, making the pattern denser and more useful at longer ranges. This choke is used often for dove hunting and is the preferred choke when using steel shot to hunt for ducks or geese. There is also an Improved Modified choke that is slightly tighter than Modified.
- Full choke has tight constriction. The shot holds together even longer, so it's good for squirrels, turkey, and other game shot at 35- to 40-yard ranges. Turkey hunters sometimes use Extra Full or Turkey choke for even denser patterns at long range.


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hrvoje wrote:Is there anyone kind enough who could give me a few pointers, or put together a "boilerplate" minimal, blank core project (for example which only generates a red video background) I could open in Quartus and compile?
Sorgelig wrote:Almost any arcade core can be treated as a template - they are simple and have good point to split original arcade from MiSTer specific part.
hrvoje wrote:Which arcade core would you recommend as a good example?
hrvoje wrote:If I manage to get something working, I will try to contribute with some documentation about the process.
Sorgelig wrote:Doc(Wiki) from first porting experience would be good!
hrvoje wrote:In my current Cyclone IV attempt, I generate VGA with a simple 4-bit R-2R DAC and I know how to make a VGA signal. I've never done HDMI, can you please point me in the right direction - what kind of signal is expected on the HDMI connections (HDMI_R/G/B, HS, VS etc...) from my core? Same values and timings as VGA I'm currently outputting or something else?
Sorgelig wrote:Actually, you can take even Genesis core - it has simple connection to MiSTer API and includes all latest changes to API and framework.
hrvoje wrote:Should I just plug the horizontal/vertical sync and R, G, B as input to an instance of video_mixer module?
Sorgelig wrote:hrvoje wrote:Should I just plug the horizontal/vertical sync and R, G, B as input to an instance of video_mixer module?
yes. And it's very important to provide HBlank and VBlank signals as well.
Also i suggest to use video_cleaner module right after your module which will align the signal properly.
Sorgelig wrote:bits 0..3 are directions (check any arcade core to make sure which direction of each bit).
bits 4..15 are buttons according to OSD option J - you can check arcade cores as well for example J usage. J1 means lock the keyboard in joystick emulation - useful for keyboard-less cores.
logic 1 - button is pressed.
Sorgelig wrote:Open USB console to check there - probably you will see frequent messages about new resolution.
It's because unstable video signal your core provide.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Sorgelig wrote:Cores cannot output text to popup.
As you may already know HDL is not so friendly with text string handling.
Usually emulated systems are self-contained, so they output text using emulated system resources.
For extensive overlay graphics probably you need to add second softCPU with its firmware and overlay display. OSD settings have 31 bits for options. So you can implement these 18 switches as options in menu. Probably some switches can be grouped to simplify the settings.
hrvoje wrote:Is there a way to implement file download asynchronously? That is, if I set ioctl_wait high, the menu will just sit there until it goes low again and download can finish. Can this be done so that the image is "attached" and the core takes as much data as it can process (control the flow with something like ioctl_wait signal) until there is no more left, but the menu isn't "frozen" until the core finishes reading the image?
Sorgelig wrote:ioctl_* is for downloading the whole file at once. You cannot pause it. You can download it whole to SDRAM or DDR3 and then use from there at any rate you want.
Another way is to mount the file (sd_* signals) and read/write it by blocks (512b) at any pace you want. You can see how these signals are used in several cores, for example ZX core.
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Endangered Species Act Protection Finalized for Miami Blue Butterfly
MIAMI— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule today protecting the Miami blue butterfly under the Endangered Species Act. The tiny, bright-colored butterfly once occurred across coastal South Florida but has disappeared from 99 percent of its range and is now facing extinction. Today's rule finalizes protections for the rare Florida butterfly and is in accordance with a landmark settlement agreement reached between the Center for Biological Diversity and the Fish and Wildlife Service speeding up protection decisions for 757 species.
"The Miami blue butterfly is on the very brink of extinction, and this finalized protection gives it a real shot at survival and recovery," said Tierra Curry, a biologist at the Center. "The Endangered Species Act is 99 percent effective at preventing the extinction of the species it covers, so we do have a hope, under the safety net of the Act, of stopping the loss of this beautiful butterfly."
The world's total surviving population of Miami blues is estimated by the Service at only a few hundred individuals. During surveys in 2010, fewer than 50 adults were observed; 2011 surveys yielded similar numbers. The Service is funding a study to search remote areas for additional populations, but none have been detected to date. Attempts to reintroduce the butterfly have been unsuccessful.
The Miami blue, whose adults live for just a few days, was believed extinct after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, but in 1999 an amateur lepidopterist discovered a population in Bahia Honda State Park. In 2010 this population was found to have disappeared; the species survives only as scattered individuals in another population in the Marquesas Keys in Key West National Wildlife Refuge. The butterfly has declined severely due to urban sprawl, fire suppression, mosquito-control pesticides, loss of host plants due to iguana herbivory, severe weather events and rising sea levels from climate change. The Miami blue is about one inch long, and females are drab compared to males.
The Miami blue was first made a candidate for protection in 1984; the North American Butterfly Association sought emergency protection for the butterfly in 1999; then the Center filed a notice of intent to sue the Service in 2005 for failing to protect the butterfly followed by another petition seeking emergency protection for the Miami blue in January 2011. In August 2011 the Service enacted emergency protections for the butterfly.
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