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Sabres G Miller upset over lockout
After rejoining his Buffalo Sabres teammates on the ice for the first time in some nine months, goalie Ryan Miller had a few lingering frustrations to get off his chest regarding the NHL lockout.
''The best thing to do is acknowledge that it was stupid,'' Miller said Friday, before turning his attention to Sabres fans. ''I appreciate their patience. I know it's a hard situation. I still don't even know the right message because it was just a stupid, useless waste of time.''
Miller, who played a role in negotiations, called himself ''embarrassed'' that it took more than six months of negotiations to reach an agreement. At one point during talks, he gave up on the possibility of there being a season this year.
And he laid the blame on owners, specifically singling out Commissioner Gary Bettman, whom he accused of being the reason why the four-month lockout wasn't resolved sooner.
''In my mind, it always had to be January in Gary Bettman's mind,'' Miller said. ''Obviously, he had something in his head and he was going to see how far he could take it. So there's really no going up against Gary, when he has something in his head.''
For someone who hasn't played in a competitive game since April 5, the ever-outspoken Miller seems already in midseason form.
''It's exciting to be back. It's the way you that you're supposed to feel,'' he said. ''It's not in the board room, so that's good. It's getting back on the ice, and that's the important part.''
Spending much of his offseason in southern California, Miller arrived in Buffalo on Thursday, and was on the ice for what's expected to be the players' final informal practice at a suburban arena. Training camp is tentatively set to open Sunday, and a 48-game regular season to start a week later.
A seven-year veteran, Miller is the face of the franchise, and regarded as a team leader. His arrival was welcomed by the Sabres, and also by numerous fans. About 300 onlookers - the largest turnout this week - lined the boards to watch the open practice.
Aside from his frustrations regarding labor talks, Miller was in an upbeat mood. Walking out of the locker room with his mask perched above his head exposing a familiar patchy beard - ''It's my lockout beard'' - he then flashed a big smile and waved his glove hand before taking the ice.
Before taking any questions from reporters afterward, Miller first wanted to find out what's been happening in Buffalo, and then shook hands with each member of the media.
''There,'' he said. ''We're reintroduced again, eight months later.''
Now it's time to get to work in what will be a shortened season, and for a high-priced Sabres team that was among the NHL's biggest busts after missing the playoffs last season.
Buffalo (39-32-11) finished ninth in the Eastern Conference and was hampered by a rash of injuries, including Miller missing a nine-game stretch because of concussion-like symptoms. On the bright side, Miller hopes the team can pick up where it left off after closing last season on a 15-5-4 roll.
The challenge for Miller is getting himself ready to carry much of the load during a tightly packed stretch of games.
''Hockey-wise, I'm in a pretty good spot,'' he said. ''Mentally, I always kind of knew it was going to be a short sprint kind of situation. It's not a surprise for anyone of us.''
Coach Lindy Ruff has already projected that he's targeting Miller to play between 36 and 38 games.
Miller hasn't given any thought to how many games he'll play, but has been accustomed to being the Sabres workhorse.
He's appeared in 59 or more games in each of his past six seasons. That includes 2009-10, when he was the NHL's Vezina Trophy winner after going 41-18-8 in 69 NHL regular-season games, and six more games at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he led the United States to win a silver medal.
''I just want to be that guy, and we'll go by that,'' Miller said. ''I think if I'm playing at a high enough level, I'd like to be in net.''
Unlike some NHLers who spent part of the lockout playing overseas, Miller elected to stay home. He said the insurance premiums on his contract proved expensive. He also noted that he wanted to make sure there were no lingering effects from the head injury he sustained last year.
Miller spent much of his time working out in California, where he skated between three and four times a week. He mostly worked out with numerous members of the defending Stanley Cup-champion Los Angeles Kings such as Jarret Stoll, Brad Richardson, Justin Williams and Rob Scuderi. Several other NHLers, including Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby, spent a few months also working out with them.
''I've been skating pretty consistently since June, but it's not the same as playing with your teammates,'' Miller said. ''It's been missing from my life for the past eight months, that's a long time.''


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Workers rolling a case containing parts of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter equipment into the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Image credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.
A large spacecraft destined to be Earth's next robotic emissary to Mars has completed the first leg of its journey, a cargo- plane ride from Colorado to Florida in preparation for an August launch. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an important next step in fulfilling NASA's vision of space exploration and ultimately sending human explorers to Mars and beyond.
The spacecraft's prime mission will run through 2010. During this period, the project will study Mars' composition and structure, from atmosphere to underground, in much greater detail than any previous orbiter. It will also evaluate possible sites for future martian landings and will serve as a high-data-rate communications relay for surface missions.
"Great work by a talented team has brought Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to this milestone in our progress toward a successful mission," said Jim Graf of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., project manager for the mission.
The spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on April 30 aboard a C-17 cargo plane and was taken to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to begin processing. It was built near Denver by Lockheed Martin Space Systems. Launch is scheduled for Aug. 10 at 7:53:58 a.m. EDT (4:53:58 a.m. PDT), at the opening of a two-hour launch window.
The spacecraft will undergo multiple mechanical assembly operations and electrical tests to verify its readiness for launch. A test this month will verify the spacecraft's ability to communicate through NASA's Deep Space Network tracking stations. A June test will check the deployment of the spacecraft's high gain communications antenna. Another major deployment test will check out the spacecraft's large solar arrays.
In July, the spacecraft will be filled with hydrazine fuel for the "Mars orbit insertion" engine burn, which will be used to reduce the velocity of the spacecraft and place it in orbit around Mars. The fuel also will be used for attitude-control propellant. On July 26 the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will be encapsulated in the Atlas V fairing prior to being moved to its launch site on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The Lockheed Martin Atlas V arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Antonov cargo plane on March 31 and was taken to the high bay at the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center. The Atlas booster will be transported in May to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 to be erected. The Centaur upper stage will be transported to that facility for hoisting atop the booster in June.
Prelaunch preparations will include a "wet dress rehearsal" in July, during which the Atlas V will be rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad on its mobile launch platform. The vehicle will be fully fueled with RP-1, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and the team will perform a simulated countdown. The Atlas V will then be rolled back into the Vertical Integration Facility for final launch preparations.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will be transported from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center to the Vertical Integration Facility on July 29. It will be hoisted atop the launch vehicle to join the Atlas V for the final phase of launch preparations. The spacecraft is scheduled to undergo a functional test on August 1, followed by a final week of launch vehicle and spacecraft closeouts.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is the prime contractor for the project. International Launch Services, a Lockheed Martin joint venture, and Lockheed Martin Space Systems are providing launch services for the mission.
Information about Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is available online at http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro.
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In this act, we hear from the rowdier, drunker late-night patrons of the Golden Apple. A guy walks in with two young women, hoping to go home with one of them.
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What happens when you want your dad to change—and he wants to change, too—but there's literally nothing that can be done to change him. Jon Sarkin was a chiropractor with workaholic tendencies.
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Founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor, flourished in the sixth century. The year of his birth is uncertain, but according to the testimony of the Irish annals it must be placed between 510 and 520; his death is said to have occurred in 602 ("Annals of Tighernach" and "Chronicon Scotorum"), or 597 (Annals of Innisfallen). He was born in Dalaradia in Ulster near the place now known as Magheramorne in the present County Antrim. He seems to have served first as a soldier, and on his release from military service he is said to have studied at Clonard with St. Finnian, and at Clonmacnoise with St. Ciaran, who died in 549. We next find him in Ulster in an island on Lough Erne accompanied by a few friends following a very severe form of monastic life. He intended to go to Britain, but was dissuaded from this step by Lugidius, the bishop who ordained him, at whose advice he remained in Ireland and set himself to spread the monastic life throughout the country. The most famous of the Comgall is Bangor, situated in the present County Down, on the Southern shore of Belfast Lough and directly opposite to Carrickfergus. According to the Irish annals Bangor was founded not later than 552, though Ussher and most of the later writers on the subject assign the foundation to the year 555. According to Adamnan's "Life of Columba", there was a very close connection between Comgall and Columba though there does not appear to be sufficient authority for stating that Comgall was the disciple of Columba in any strict sense. He is said to have been the friend of St. Brendan, St. Cormac, St. Cainnech, and Finbarr of Movilla. After intense suffering he received the Eucharist from St. Fiacra and expired in the monastery at Bangor.
Comgall belonged to what is known as the Second Order of Irish Saints. These flourished in the Irish Church during the sixth century. They were for the most part educated in Britain, or received their training from those who had grown up under the influence of the British Schools. They were the founders of the great Irish monastic schools, and contributed much to the spread of monasticism in the Irish Church. It is an interesting question how far Comgall, or men like him, had advanced in their establishments at Bangor and elsewhere in introducing the last stages of monasticism then developed on the Continent by St. Benedict. In other words, did St. Congall give his monks at Bangor a strict monastic rule resembling the Rule of St. Benedict? There has come down to us a Rule of St. Comgall in Irish, but the evidence would not warrant us in saying that as it stands at present it could be attributed to him. The fact, however, that Columbanus, a disciple of Comgall and himself a monk of Bangor, drew up for his Continental monasteries a "Regula Monachorum" wound lead us to believe that there had been a similar organization in Bangor in his time. This, however, is not conclusive, since Columbanus might have derived inspiration from the Benedictine Rule then widely spread over South-Western Europe. St. Comgall is mentioned in the "Life of Columbanus" by Jonas, as the superior of Bangor, under whom St. Columbanus had studied. He is also mentioned under 10 May, his feast-day in the "Felire" of Oengus the Culdee published by Whitley Stokes for the Henry Bradshaw Society (2nd ed.), and his name is commemorated in the Stowe Missal (MacCarthy), and in the Martyrology of Tallaght.
APA citation. (1908). St. Comgall. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04152c.htm
MLA citation. "St. Comgall." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04152c.htm>.
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Columbia Scientists Identify Key Cells in Touch Sensation
Skin cells use new molecule to send touch information to the brain
NEW YORK, NY, April 6, 2014 — In a study published online today in the journal Nature, a team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers led by Ellen Lumpkin, PhD, associate professor of somatosensory biology, solve an age-old mystery of touch: how cells just beneath the skin surface enable us to feel fine details and textures.
Touch is the last frontier of sensory neuroscience. The cells and molecules that initiate vision—rod and cone cells and light-sensitive receptors—have been known since the early 20th century, and the senses of smell, taste, and hearing are increasingly understood. But almost nothing is known about the cells and molecules responsible for initiating our sense of touch.
This study is the first to use optogenetics—a new method that uses light as a signaling system to turn neurons on and off on demand—on skin cells to determine how they function and communicate.
The team showed that skin cells called Merkel cells can sense touch and that they work virtually hand in glove with the skin's neurons to create what we perceive as fine details and textures.
"These experiments are the first direct proof that Merkel cells can encode touch into neural signals that transmit information to the brain about the objects in the world around us," Dr. Lumpkin said.
The findings not only describe a key advance in our understanding of touch sensation, but may stimulate research into loss of sensitive-touch perception.
Several conditions—including diabetes and some cancer chemotherapy treatments, as well as normal aging—are known to reduce sensitive touch. Merkel cells begin to disappear in one's early 20s, at the same time that tactile acuity starts to decline. "No one has tested whether the loss of Merkel cells causes loss of function with aging—it could be a coincidence—but it's a question we're interested in pursuing," Dr. Lumpkin said.
In the future, these findings could inform the design of new "smart" prosthetics that restore touch sensation to limb amputees, as well as introduce new targets for treating skin diseases such as chronic itch.
The study was published in conjunction with a second study by the team done in collaboration with the Scripps Research Institute. The companion study identifies a touch-activated molecule in skin cells, a gene called Piezo2, whose discovery has the potential to significantly advance the field of touch perception.
"The new findings should open up the field of skin biology and reveal how sensations are initiated," Dr. Lumpkin said. Other types of skin cells may also play a role in sensations of touch, as well as less pleasurable skin sensations, such as itch. The same optogenetics techniques that Dr. Lumpkin's team applied to Merkel cells can now be applied to other skin cells to answer these questions.
"It's an exciting time in our field because there are still big questions to answer, and the tools of modern neuroscience give us a way to tackle them," she said.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The research was supported by NIH (R01AR051219, R21AR062307, R01DE022358, T32HL087745, F32NS080544, P30AR044535, P30CA013696, and P30CA125123), a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (24-7585), and the McNair Foundation.
The other authors of the paper are: Srdjan Maksimovic (Columbia), Masashi Nakatani (Columbia and Keio University, Japan), Yoshichika Baba (Columbia), Aislyn Nelson (Columbia and Baylor College of Medicine), Kara Marshall (Columbia), Scott Wellnitz (Baylor), Pervez Firozi (Baylor), Seung-Hyun Woo (Scripps Research Institute), Sanjeev Ranade (Scripps), and Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps).
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In 2009, Charity Helvie, 35, left a successful career in the investment industry to start a home-based business, MadiBella, a custom clothing boutique featuring her handmade children's clothes and women's accessories.
Arlington momtrepreneur Charity Helvie, who makes custom children's boutique clothing and accessories through her business MadiBella, works on wristlets in her home office.
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The decision to leave a lucrative job and start a small business during a struggling economy was an extremely difficult one, Helvie said. And then there was one additional challenge.
"I didn't even know how to sew on a button," she said.
Regardless, the Arlington mother felt a spiritual calling to leave the corporate world and work from home, where she could be more accessible to her children, now ages 10 and 13.
"I just felt this tug from God to be a stay-at-home mom, and then it came to me that I needed to learn how to sew," she said.
So she bought a sewing machine, read some books, and began deconstructing some of her old clothes to try to re-create their patterns. It was a trial-and-error process – "lots of tears were shed" – but she eventually got the hang of it. Three years later, MadiBella is proving successful, with a loyal base of repeat customers and a steady growth in new ones.
In this modern era of catchy coined descriptors, Helvie is known as a "momtrepreneur," one of a growing number of mothers starting businesses inspired by a shift in personal values, financial necessity or circumstance, such as an unexpected job loss. While there are no concrete statistics on how many U.S. mothers own businesses, in May 2011, USA Today business writers used U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor statistics to estimate that at least 4 million mothers in the United States – about half of the nation's women business owners – own businesses or are self-employed.
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Arlington momtrepreneur Charity Helvie makes custom children's boutique clothing and accessories. Her wristlets recently were featured in swag bags at the Annual CMA Awards.
Looking back, Helvie says when she started MadiBella she had no concept of everything that starting her own business entailed.
"It cost more to start a business than I ever imagined," she said. "I thought that by working at home, I wouldn't have a lot of overhead. I was wrong. I also learned that branding is super important."
She started raising brand awareness by creating a Facebook page and a MadiBella website (madibella.com) and building a subscriber base for email newsletters. She sent emails to editors and journalists throughout the Mid-South to tell them about her product. And while social media and email has been crucial to her marketing and PR efforts, she also places just as much emphasis on face-to-face networking.
"I try to do four to six craft shows a year, and even if I don't make a single sale at them, I definitely reach a lot of people. Just to hand them my card – it drives traffic to my website."
She also joined The Artisan Group, an art promotions group representing artisans around the globe at Hollywood's most prestigious celebrity gift lounges. Through the group, she was able to distribute MadiBella's wristlet handbags in gift bags at the 46th annual Country Music Awards last month.
"I'm a huge country music fan, so when that opportunity came along, I grabbed it," she said.
And she's glad she did. Since then, her website traffic and wristlet orders have significantly increased.
Rik Tiwana, a Memphis-based independent public relations professional who has provided agency representation for major clients such as Verizon Wireless and Terminix, says Helvie is doing everything right. He encourages small-business owners on a budget not to be intimidated by the PR process. When undertaking their own PR initiatives, small-business owners can sometimes be just as, if not more, effective as a professional PR representative can, he says.
"When I'm pitching something for a client, I really need to think about the product from a consumer's point of view – what aspects of this product or service will interest a potential customer," he said. "In Charity's case, she is her customer. She's a mom, she's marketing to moms, so she has a distinctive perspective that an agency representative might not have."
He advises momtrepreneurs and other small-business owners to make sure their emails to journalists are brief and compelling enough to make people want to know more.
He also can't place enough emphasis on networking, and suggests carrying visuals and "leave-behinds" to keep the conversation going.
"Distribute business cards with product pictures on them or at least the link to your website, or use digital tools such as your smartphone so you can quickly pull up a picture during a conversation. Sometimes you can let the product itself do the talking for you."
Helvie's advice to mothers who are considering starting their own business is simple: Go for it.
"If you have that creative side and you're feeling that inspiration, just do it," she said. "You can't be afraid to fail. If you do, so what – you can just try something else. We're so programmed to succeed that sometimes we get locked into something that's not right for us. But we make our paths, and sometimes we have to be still and quiet to figure out what that path should be."
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Mark McGwire, in full Mark David McGwire, byname Big Mac, (born October 1, 1963, Pomona, California, U.S.), American professional baseball player, considered one of the most powerful hitters in the history of the game. In 1998 he set a major league record for most home runs in a season (70), breaking Roger Maris's mark of 61. See Researcher's Note: Baseball's problematic single-season home run record.
As a senior in high school, McGwire attracted more attention with his pitching than with his swing. The Montreal Expos drafted him as a pitcher in 1981, but instead he attended the University of Southern California, where he moved to first base, a position he was to maintain in the majors. Selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 1984 draft, McGwire joined the major league club in 1987 and quickly displayed the strength that would become his trademark. His 49 home runs that year set a rookie record (which was broken in 2017) and helped earn him American League Rookie of the Year honours. In 1989 his .343 postseason batting average guided Oakland to the World Series championship. Injuries, however, soon plagued McGwire, and from 1993 to 1995 he missed 242 games. In 1996, after briefly contemplating retirement, he became the 13th player to hit 50 home runs in a single season. The following year he was traded to the National League's St. Louis Cardinals, for whom he posted 58 homers and with whom he elected to continue playing, ruling out free agency.
Attempts to top Maris's 37-year-old single-season home run record dominated the 1998 season. McGwire and the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa thrilled fans with their home run derby, and midway through the year McGwire hit one of the longest homers of his career (545 feet [166 metres]). On September 1 he broke Hack Wilson's 68-year-old National League record (56 home runs), and six days later he tied Maris's mark. On September 8 McGwire hit his shortest home run (341 feet) of the year to break the record. The following year he became the second player (Sosa was the first) to hit 60 home runs in two seasons. McGwire held the home run record for only a brief period; the record was broken by Barry Bonds on October 5, 2001. (Bonds hit 73 home runs that year.) McGwire announced his retirement from baseball after the 2001 season. He ended his career with 583 home runs and 1,414 RBIs.
McGwire's legacy was tainted shortly after his retirement as a result of speculation that he had taken performance-enhancing drugs during his playing days. He thrived during the so-called "steroids era," when the assumed use of steroids by baseball players cast a pall over many of the batting records set in the 1990s. Additionally, McGwire admitted to taking a then-legal steroid precursor during his home run chase of 1998. In 2005 McGwire and five other active and retired major league players testified at a U.S. congressional hearing on steroids. McGwire's repeated refusal to answer direct questions about his alleged steroid use damaged his reputation with many baseball fans and brought new scrutiny to his achievements. Despite his 12 All-Star Game appearances and 583 career home runs, he was not elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his initial years of eligibility.
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At this point, I think you are all pretty familiar with my dislike of wearing things like rings because I feel they get in the way and are too restrictive, not to mention my fear of never being able to get them off once I get them on. However, I still enjoy looking at and posting about really cool rings that I happen to come across while I am browsing my favorite websites. Speaking of cool rings, I think I have found one that any fan of the Nintendo NES console will love! And yes, I know saying Nintendo NES is redundant but I feel like it is the style I want to write in for once so deal with it! 😛
Etsy seller mooredesign13 is selling these handmade NES controller rings for just $200! The rings feature the NES controller on a brick pattern with rubies as the A and B buttons. The ring itself is made of sterling silver.
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I just joined a (relatively) small development team that's been working on a project for several months, if not a year. As with most developer joining a project, I spent my first couple of days reviewing the project's codebase.
The project (a medium- to large-sized ASP.NET WebForms internal line of business application) is, for lack of a more descriptive term, a disaster. There are three immediately noticeable problems with the coding standards:
- The standard is very loose. It describes more of what not to do (don't use Hungarian notation, etc..) than what to do.
- The standard isn't always followed. There are inconsistencies with the code formatting everywhere.
- The standard doesn't follow Microsoft's style guidelines. In my opinion, there's no value in deviating from the guidelines that were set forth by the developer of the framework and the largest contributor to the language specification.
As for point 3, perhaps it bothers me more because I've taken the time to get my MCPD with a focus on web applications (specifically, ASP.NET). I'm also the only Microsoft Certified Professional on the team. Because of what I learned in all of my schooling, self-teaching, and on-the-job learning (including my preparation for the certification exams) I've also spotted several instances in the project's code where things are simply not done in the best way.
I've only been on this team for a week, but I see so many issues with their codebase that I imagine I'll be spending more time fighting with what's already written to do things in "their way" than I would if I were working on a project that, for example, followed more widely accepted coding standards, architecture patterns, and best practices. This brings me to my question:
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DALLAS, TX – A Weekly World News Exclusive Super Bowl Update!
Another 'wardrobe malfunction' occurred during this year's Super Bowl halftime show!
The incident in question took place during the Black Eyed Peas' halftime performance of their song "I Gotta Feeling." In the middle of the song, band member Taboo squatted down and pointed out into the crowd. According to eyewitness accounts, as Taboo crouched into his unassuming stance and reached the lyrics "tonight's gonna be a good night," his pants came apart at the seams, revealing his diminutive genitalia, partially covered by a bedazzled piece of jewelry.
The incident went largely unnoticed by fans in the stadium and network cameras, likely due to the fact that Taboo's genitals were too small to be seen by the naked eye.
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Developer Chris Walsh has apparently done what software giant Microsoft has failed to accomplish: let anyone with a Windows Phone 7 device install the first two operating system updates.
On Monday, Walsh released code that appears to let WP7 users download the so-called No-Do update, which adds the capability to cut and paste as well as other performance enhancements. If users haven't yet gotten the first update, they can download that too. Users are reporting that the updates work well.
Walsh notes that there is no process for reverting the phone and that users should try it at their own risk. Via Twitter, he also said that using his update method won't prevent users from getting future official updates from Microsoft.
Microsoft did not immediately reply to a request for comment about Walsh's method for installing the updates.
The company's effort to roll out two updates has been riddled with problems. The first issues started with an update that was designed to make the update process smoother. That software made some Samsung phones unusable.
It has also struggled to push out the update known as No-Do, with the cut-and-paste capability. According to a status page the company maintains, just two of five phones eligible for the updates in the U.S. are getting it now. Microsoft started trying to roll out the first update in late February.
Walsh and two other developers became known in the Windows Phone 7 community when they released a tool that would let users upload applications to the phones that aren't approved in the Windows Marketplace. But Microsoft approached the trio, promising to do more to let developers test applications on their phones and noting that its update would close the hole that allowed the unlocking tool to work.
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"They are not doing the right thing. What children did not know, they are getting to know about. Who are being called (to the panel discussion)? Many of them are involved in pornography. They claim to be social workers but are actually working for money. Talk showsare nothing but money shows," she said.
She promised to file charge sheet against the accused in the Barasat incident within one month seeking death penalty.
Accusing a section of the media of blowing up rape cases, she said, "One or two TV channels under the influence of CPI(M) are projecting them in such a way as if the people are not able to walk on the streets freely."
"One or two cases had indeed taken place and we do not support them, but that does not mean that everything has turned bad in this state," she said addressing a panchayat election meeting here.
She claimed that "CPI(M) knows that they will be defeated in the panchayat election and that is why they are constantly making false accusation against us with the help of some tv channels."
Referring to the NCRB figures showing West Bengal having the highest number of crimes against women, Banerjee said, "It has been prepared without informing the state."
Unlike in the previous Left Front regime, now FIRs were registered against the crimes against women, she said. "Crimes against women were the regular feature during the Left Front regime. FIRs were not allowed to be filed at that time."
"At Keshpur in West Midnapur district there was series of crimes against women but police diary (complaints) were not allowed to be lodged during the Left Front rule," she said.
During her speech, Banerjee also turned her ire against the Centre for seeking huge interest on loans taken by the previous Left Front government.
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Brooke Hogan To Join IMPACT WRESTLING On SpikeTV On May 31
Television personality and recording artist Brooke Hogan is joining the cast of the highly-rated weekly wrestling program, TNA's "IMPACT WRESTLING" starting Thursday, May 31 on Spike TV. Brooke's role will be as the Executive in Charge of the female wrestling division, The Knockouts. Brooke will join a star-studded cast of the biggest names in professional wrestling, including her father, wrestling legend Hulk Hogan. TNA's flagship series, "IMPACT WRESTLING," telecasts on Spike TV and is one of the network's top-rated series on Thursday nights with young men and currently ranks among the top shows on cable in its timeslot with Men 18-34.
In addition to overseeing the traditional duties of the Knockouts Division, Brooke will bring a new energy and direction to the role working with the girls in a variety of capacities.
"I have really gotten to know Brooke by working with her on her music career this past year and a half," said Dixie Carter, President of TNA Wrestling. "When we did talk wrestling, I not only loved her passion and knowledge of it, but the fresh, creative ideas she would come up with. She is very savvy. I asked if she would consider teaming up with me in this capacity while she also worked on her music, and I was thrilled when she said 'yes.' A big personality runs in her genes, obviously, and I know she is going to take an already exciting division of Impact Wrestling to another level."
Brooke is heading to New York next week for a media tour to promote her addition to the IMPACT WRESTLING team. Brooke will also promote "IMPACT WRESTLING's" move to 8 PM and that the series will telecast LIVE for the summer starting Thursday, May 31. TNA's 10th anniversary SLAMMIVERSARY pay-per-view-event is set for June 10th in Dallas, Texas.
The TNA roster features many of the top names in wrestling including the aforementioned Hulk Hogan, Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Bobby Roode, Sting, James Storm, Rob Van Dam, and the lovely and lethal Knockouts.
Brooke Hogan, a native of Tampa, Fl, is a successful television personality, singer and songwriter. Brooke starred in two acclaimed non-scripted shows on Spike's sister network, VH1, including "Hogan Knows Best" and the spinoff, "Brooke Knows Best." Both were #1 rated shows for the network. Brooke has also released two albums, "Undiscovered" in 2006 which peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "The Redemption" in 2009. Her song, "Everything To Me," peaked at #1 twice on Billboard's Top Single Chart. Hogan's film credits include "Little Hercules in 3D," "Sand Sharks," and "Devour.


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It is also important to remember, what I have said previously more than once, all of the content of FamilySearch.org is available for free and if you go to a FamilySearch Center, the content Ancestry.com is also available for free.
There seems to be an undercurrent of conspiracy theory going around trying to claim that FamilySearch is somehow giving records to Ancestry.com exclusively. If anything it is the other way around, FamilySearch is getting the benefit of the records. Quoting from the FamilySearch Blog:
Will people have to pay to see records indexed by FamilySearch volunteers?Further, this agreement increases the benefit from the records' availability:
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Any indexer who gives because they want to help others experience the joy of finding their ancestors should feel even more excited at how their gift is being utilized to benefit even more people. Not only will records indexed by volunteers continue to be freely available to visitors of FamilySearch.org, but they will also be accessible to researchers and patrons of other sites and services.
Who will have access to records that are indexed by FamilySearch volunteers?If you are questioning your role as an indexer, here is the response:
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Mark D. Neuman, MD, MSc
Horatio C. Wood Professor of Anesthesiology
Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Attending Anesthesiologist, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Director, Penn Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation (CPORT); Co-Director with Meghan Lane-Fall 2019-2022
Investigator, Penn Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training
Affiliate Faculty, Penn Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center (PAIR)
Research Associate, Penn Population Aging Research Center (PARC)
Associate Scholar, Penn Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Faculty Director for Medical Student Scholarship, Perelman School of Medicine
Director, Partnered Research Programs, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Educational Officer, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
423 Guardian Drive
308 Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
308 Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215)746-7468
Fax: (215) 349-5078
Fax: (215) 349-5078
Education:Permanent link
BA (English Language and Literature)
Yale University, 1999.
MD (Medicine)
University of California, San Francisco, 2004.
MSc (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
BA (English Language and Literature)
Yale University, 1999.
MD (Medicine)
University of California, San Francisco, 2004.
MSc (Health Policy Research)
University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
Description of Clinical ExpertiseI provide operative anesthesia care to patients undergoing general, urologic, gynecologic, orthopedic, and bariatric surgery. I have a focus on clinical decision-making, and the use of statistical methods in prediction of health outcomes.
Description of Research ExpertiseI am a practicing anesthesiologist and health services researcher. My research seeks to understand the health-system level determinants of long-term outcomes of surgery and acute care among older adults U.S., with an emphasis on examining how variations in care delivered in discrete settings—such as acute-care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities—each ultimately influence the end results of care. In particular, my work focuses on examining variations the care and outcomes of older adults with acute hip fracture, a common and morbid injury that occurs over 300,000 each year in the U.S. and requires the coordination of surgical, anesthetic, medical, rehabilitative, nursing and social work services across a range of care settings. To date, my research output has employed a range of methodologies to obtain a multifaceted view of current patterns of hip fracture care and outcomes. These methodologies have included observational studies using administrative databases, meta-analyses and a telephone- and web-based survey of health care administrators. Additionally, I have conduced qualitative research incorporating interviews of physicians and analyses of documentary evidence. This work has studied the social and cultural influences underlying current patterns of utilization of surgical care services in the U.S. as a means of understanding the mechanisms underlying institutional variations in performance and health care outcomes.
Selected PublicationsNeuman M, Bitton A, Glantz S: Tobacco industry strategies for influencing European community tobacco advertising legislation. Lancet 359(9314): 1323-30, Apr 2002 Notes: Editorial - Gray N: Tobacco industry and EC advertising ban. Lancet 359(9314): 1264-5, Apr 2002.
Neuman MD, Fleisher LA, Even-Shoshan O, Mi L, Silber JH: Nonoperative care for hip fracture in the elderly: the influence of race, income, and comorbidities. Medical Care 48(4): 314-20, Apr 2010.
Neuman MD: Surgeons' decisions and the financial and human costs of medical care. The New England Journal of Medicine 363(25): 2382-3, Dec 2010.
Wijeysundera DN, Beattie WS, Karkouti K, Neuman MD, Austin PC, Laupacis A: Association of echocardiography before major elective non-cardiac surgery with postoperative survival and length of hospital stay: population based cohort study. BMJ 342: d3695, Jul 2011.
David G, Neuman MD: Physician division of labor and patient selection for outpatient procedures. Journal of Health Economics 30(2): 381-91, Mar 2011.
Wijeysundera DN, Mamdani M, Laupacis A, Fleisher LA, Beattie WS, Johnson SR, Kolstad J, Neuman MD: Clinical evidence, practice guidelines, and β-blocker utilization before major noncardiac surgery. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 5(4): 558-65, Jul 2012.
Neuman MD, Bosk CL: What we talk about when we talk about risk: refining surgery's hazards in medical thought. The Milbank Quarterly 90(1): 135-59, Mar 2012.
Neuman MD, Goldstein JN, Cirullo MA, Schwartz JS: Durability of class I American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical practice guideline recommendations. JAMA 311(20): 2092-100, May 2014 Notes: Editorial - Shekelle PG: Updating practice guidelines. JAMA 311(20): 2072-2073, May 2014.
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The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Last updated: 09/15/2023
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania


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Burnham's Beat has a great post about the walled gardens that are most under siege in an open, searchable, post-scarcity, edge-controlled world. They're all the classified categories — real estate, jobs, stuff-for-sale, personals — that technology took away from newspapers. I've long contended that this was only a temporary move: expensive, monopolistic, and inefficient marketplaces (newspapers) were replaced by cheaper, more efficient marketplaces (Monster.com, eBay, et al). But they're still centralized marketplaces in a decentralized world. Search, Google Base, microformats, structured blogging, and so on will slay the monsters that slayed newspapers' businesses.
: The one category that has been less open than the others is real estate: the most irksome, closed, anticompetitive, quasimonoplistic, overpriced service out there. What they do is simply not worth 6 percent. But because brokers control access to the multiple listing pool, you're pretty much screwed without them.
When I started working on the internet a dozen years ago, I predicted that would be one of the first walls to fall. I was wrong. But I think it's teetering under constant barage from community (see: CraigsList), would-be competitors, technology (see, again: Google Base and microformats.org), and customers eager to be set free.
The New York Times writes today about banks trying to fight the huge lobbying power of Realtors to offer competition. Factoids:
The association's power has swelled during the heady days of the real estate boom. Its ranks have grown by more than 500,000 in the last five years. With almost 1.3 million members, it is the largest trade association in the country. One out of every 203 adults is a dues-paying member, according to August statistics from the association and the United States Census.
The boom has enriched many brokers. With the average cost of a home reaching historic highs, consumers paid roughly $61 billion in brokerage fees for residential real estate in 2004 as some 6.8 million homes changed hands. Last year, the industry was on track to sell almost 7.1 million homes, according to estimates in December.
I have no idea what percentage of real estate sales people belong and so this calculation is suspect, but if you divide those numbers and then give the brokerage half of the take, it works out to $23,400 per. After the boom and the invasion of all the new market factors above, that is bound to shrink.
I'll be that you're going to see a lot of former Realtors as competition and openness encroach on their turf.


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BOS Mosonszolnok
LCC Production since 1992
BOS Mosonszolnok is the biggest plant of the BOS Group.
Since 1992 nearly all products of BOS have been produced at Mosonszolnok in high quality and at optimum costs. Outstanding is the assembly competence of demanding mechatronical systems, special laminating processes and the BOS-own production equipment shop. Moreover, Mosonszolnok is an efficient development site within the BOS Group.
At the moment the new European technology and competence center for panorama roof systems is established at BOS Mosonszolnok.
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Vertex Post-Processing
- Vertex Specification
- Vertex Processing
- Vertex Post-Processing
- Primitive Assembly
- Rasterization
- Fragment Shader
- Per-Sample Processing
Vertex Post-Processing is the stage in the OpenGL Rendering Pipeline where the vertex outputs of the Vertex Processing undergo a variety of operations. Many of these are setup for Primitive Assembly and Rasterization stages.
After vertex processing, the following steps occur in the order they appear on this page.
Transform Feedback
Transform feedback is a way of recording values output from the Vertex Processing stage into Buffer Objects. Only the last vertex processing stage can perform transform feedback.
Primitive Assembly
Primitive assembly takes the vertex stream and converts it into a sequence of primitives, in accord with the Primitive type specified in the rendering command. Primitives can also be discarded at this point, to allow transform feedback without rendering anything.
Primitives generated by previous stages are collected and then clipped to the view volume. Each vertex has a clip-space position (the gl_Position output of the last Vertex Processing stage). The viewing volume for a vertex is defined by:
This volume can be modified by depth clamping as well as the addition of user-defined clip-planes. The total volume that primitives are clipped to, including user-defined clip planes, is the clipping volume.
The way primitives are clipped to this clipping volume depends on the basic Primitive type:
- Points
- Points are not really "clipped". If a point is in any way outside of the clipping volume, then the primitive is discarded (ie: not rendered). Points can be bigger than one pixel, but the clipping remains; if the center of the point (the actual gl_Position value) is outside of the clipping range, it is discarded. Yes, this means that Point Sprites will disappear when the center moves off-screen.
Platform Issue (NVIDIA): These cards will not clip points "properly". That is, they will do what people generally want (only discard the point if it is fully outside the volume), rather than what the OpenGL specification requires. Be advised that other hardware does what OpenGL asks.
- Lines
- If the line is entirely outside of the volume, it is discarded. If the line is partially outside of the volume, then it is clipped; new vertex coordinates are computed for one or both vertices, as appropriate. The end-point of such a clipped vertex is on the boundary of the clipping volume.
- Triangles
- A triangle is clipped to the viewing volume by generating appropriate triangles who's vertices are on the boundary of the clipping volume. This may generate more than 1 triangle, as appropriate. If a triangle is entirely outside of the viewing volume, it is culled.
When primitives are clipped, new per-vertex outputs must be generated for them. These are generated via linear interpolation (in clip-space) of the output values. Flat-shaded outputs don't get this treatment.
Depth clamping
The clipping behavior against the Z position of a vertex (ie: ) can be turned off by activating depth clamping. This is done with glEnable(GL_DEPTH_CLAMP). This will cause the clip-space Z to remain unclipped by the front and rear viewing volume.
The Z value computations will proceed as normal through the pipeline. After computing the window-space position, the resulting Z value will be clamped to the glDepthRange.
User-defined clipping
Additional clipping can be specified by the last active Vertex Processing shader stage, through the output array gl_ClipDistance.
Each array element represents a distinct condition for clipping a primitive. Each array element has to be enabled independently via glEnable(GL_CLIP_DISTANCEi), where i is the index of the clip distance in the array. The maximum number of clip distances is GL_MAX_CLIP_DISTANCES, which has a minimum value of 8.
For each enabled clip distance, the corresponding element in the gl_ClipDistance array is checked during the clipping stage. If the distance is non-negative, then the primitive is considered to be within that clipping area. If the distance is negative, then it is outside of that clipping area.
When rendering point primitives, if the point's vertex is outside of one of the enabled clip distances, then the point is culled. For lines and triangles, these primitives are clipped at the place where the interpolated value of the gl_ClipDistance goes from negative to non-negative. If multiple clip distances are enabled, then clipping works through the intersection of all such distances.
In order to write to the gl_ClipDistance array, you must first redeclare this array with an explicit size: the number of array elements you intend to use. If you have GLSL 4.10 or ARB_separate_shader_objects, you must redeclare the entire gl_PerVertex output Interface Block:
out gl_PerVertex
vec4 gl_Position;
float gl_ClipDistance[3];
Before GLSL 4.10 or ARB_separate_shader_objects, gl_ClipDistance must be redeclared as follows:
out float gl_ClipDistance[3];
Note that, despite redeclaring the output, you still have to glEnable the specific clip distances you intend to use. If you enable a clip distance, but do not write to it from the last vertex processing stage, you get undefined behavior.
User-defined clipping can be used for many things. The classic use is to clip all vertices in a scene that are beyond a certain plane. The clip distance in this case is the distance to the plane, with the visible side of the plane providing non-negative distances.
Such distances are easy to compute in vertex shaders. The traditional plane equation consists of the equation , where A, B, and C are a unit normal for the plane, with D being the distance from that plane to the origin in that coordinate system.
Given such a plane, one can compute the clip distance with a simple dot product. Given a 4D vector position (with W = 1) in the same space as the plane equation, you simply compute dot(position, plane).
For example, in GUI elements, it is often desired to ensure that objects inside a GUI window cannot be drawn outside of that window. There are several tools one could use to ensure this, including changing employing Scissor Testing.
However, most of these solutions have one important downside: the parameters can only be changed between rendering calls. Which means, if you have a large batch of work that you want rendered, where parts of that batch are in different windows, you must do break it up into multiple rendering calls. This decreases performance.
User-defined clipping can help. These parameters can be per-vertex values, sampled from vertex arrays. The Vertex Shader, or other final processing stage, will be able to use them to set the gl_ClipDistance outputs.
The key is to set the clipping parameters based on the requested clipping region and the world-space position of the vertices.
There are some downsides to this approach.
First, it requires an additional per-vertex attribute, who's values will typically be shared among many vertices. And this attribute would likely have to be a full 2D clipping region: an XY position and width+height. Storing such positions would probably require 16-bits per component, as 8 bits would not provide enough resolution for most displays. So that's a total of 8 bytes added to each vertex.
It is possible to mitigate this by using a UBO to store an array of clipping regions, with each vertex simply specifying an integer index into that array.
Second, when user-defined clipping is used together with Multisampling, GUI elements may be drawn outside of the clipping region. User-defined clipping happens at the vertex level, not the fragment level. So it remains possible for multisampled Rasterization to generate Fragments outside of the pixel area assigned by the user-defined clipping region.
Perspective divide
The clip-space positions returned from the clipping stage are transformed into normalized device coordinates (NDC) via this equation:
Viewport transform
The viewport transform defines the transformation of vertex positions from NDC space to window space. These are the coordinates that are rasterized to the output image.
The viewport is defined by a number of viewport parameters. These parameters are set by these functions:
void glViewport(GLint x, GLint y, GLsizei width, GLsizei height);
void glDepthRange(GLdouble nearVal, GLdouble farVal);
void glDepthRangef(GLfloat nearVal, GLfloat farVal);
The second two functions set the same parameters, the near and far values of the depth range.
Given the viewport parameters, we compute the window-space coordinates via these equations:
Where x, y, width, height, nearVal, and farVal are the viewport parameters.
Viewport array
|Core in version
|Core since version
|Core ARB extension
Multiple viewports can be used in OpenGL. The specific viewport for a particular primitive can be set by the Geometry Shader. If the GS does not specify a viewport, then viewport number 0 is selected. The computation works as above, except where it says "the viewport parameters", it means "the viewport parameters for the primitive's viewport index".
There are sets of viewports, indexed on the half-open range [0, GL_MAX_VIEWPORTS). Each index has its own depth range and viewport coordinates. The previously defined functions will only set the value for viewport index 0.
To set the viewport parameters for a particular index, use this pair of functions:
void glViewportIndexedf(GLuint index, GLfloat x, GLfloat y, GLfloat w, GLfloat h)
void glViewportIndexedfv(GLuint index, const GLfloat *v)
void glDepthRangeIndexed(GLuint index, GLdouble nearVal, GLdouble farVal)
The index is the viewport index to set the parameters for. glViewportIndexedfv takes an array of 4 floats, in the same orders as the parameters for glViewportIndexedf.
Multiple viewport indices can be set with a single function, via these APIs:
void glViewportArrayv(GLuint first, GLsizei count, const GLfloat *v)
void glDepthRangeArrayv(GLuint first, GLsizei count, const GLdouble *v)
The first index is the first viewport index to set. count is the number of viewport indices to be set by the function. v is an array of viewport values, which contains count * 4 or 2 values, depending on the function being called. The values for a single viewport index are in the same order as the arguments in the regular function calls.


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Google Glass may have been pulled from the consumer marketplace, but one team of researchers is still trying to improve it for workplace applications.
Jibo He and Barbara Chaparro of Wichita State University in Kansas have developed an optical lens that dramatically expands the field of view for the camera on Glass.
The attachment, called Google Lens, can boost the camera view from 54.8 degrees horizontally and 42.5 degrees vertically to 109.8 degrees and 57.8 degrees, respectively, according to the researchers.
"The current Google Glass has a limited field of view, which reduces its applications in professional settings," He said via email.
Google Lens is a simple optical attachment that clips onto the arm of Glass over the camera. It can be fitted with interchangeable lenses including wide-angle lenses.
Apps such as Livestream can turn Glass into a live broadcasting device from a user's point of view. He and collaborators developed their own app called uSee that's designed for mobile usability research and two-way communication. It allows remote observers to send text messages that display on the Glass monitor or a linked smartwatch. Users, meanwhile, can tap on the Glass touchpad to mark important events.
By bringing more into the view of the Glass camera, Google Lens could also open up possibilities for workplace applications, according to He. Medical trainees, for instance, could see more when watching the perspective of an instructor via the wearable, and student pilots could look through Glass for an instructor's view of the cockpit.
Better applications could mean a lot for Glass, which saw the closure of its consumer-oriented Explorer program last month when the device "graduated" from the Google X lab. But the search giant has continued to promote its Glass at Work program, noting that startup Augmedix recently raised US$16 million to make Glass a time-saving device for doctors through an automated note-taking app.
Other medical possibilities for Glass include a trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston that involves using the device to provide mothers with a view of babies being treated in the newborn intensive care unit.