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Friday, April 22, 2011
Celebrating prize-winning MGH research
The presentation of the MGH's top research prizes was a highlight of the April 13 Celebration of Science, held in conjunction with the annual Scientific Advisory Committee meeting. The Joseph B. Martin Awards for the best 2010 basic and clinical research papers went to Vamsi Mootha, MD, of the Department of Medicine and the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR), and to a team led by Eunice Kwak, MD, PhD, Jeffrey Clark, MD - both of the MGH Cancer Center - and A. John Iafrate, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology. The Howard Goodman Fellowship, awarded to a young investigator with demonstrated leadership potential, was given to Sekar Kathiresan, MD, of the MGH Heart Center. Each of the team leaders spoke about their studies at the event.
Award-winning researchers: From left, Kwak, Kathiresan, Mootha and Perocchi
The Martin Awards are named for the former dean of Harvard Medical School and previous chief of MGH Neurology. This year's basic research award honors a paper in the Sept. 16 Nature describing the discovery of a protein that plays an essential role in transporting calcium into mitochondria, tiny cellular structures that provide much of the energy required for biological processes. While it has been known that mitochondria can store excess cellular calcium, an important signalling molecule, exactly how calcium is transported across mitochondrial membranes has been unknown. Mootha's team - with lead author Fabiana Perocchi, PhD, of the CHGR - pursued a novel strategy to identify the first mitochondrial gene that regulates calcium uptake.
The clinical Martin Award recognized a paper by Kwak's team in the Oct. 28 New England Journal of Medicine, describing how a new targeted drug halts or reverses the growth of lung cancers driven by mutations in a gene called ALK. Although most phase 1 clinical trials involve administering new drugs to a broad range of patients to test for toxicity and investigate how the medication works, this study also enrolled a subgroup of patients known to have ALK mutations. Kwak described how many such patients exhibited a powerful response to the tested drug and how the results of the trial moved this drug into a large-scale phase 3 trial in record time.
Kathiresan has led several major studies that identified gene variants associated with the risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases. In October his team announced finding genetic mutations in a family with extremely low levels of triglycerides and both types of cholesterol, a discovery that suggests a completely new mechanism for regulating lipid levels. The Goodman Award, named for the founder of the MGH Department of Molecular Biology, will support further investigation of the activity of this gene and its potential as a therapeutic target.
Talks by the award-winning researchers were preceded by the annual poster session, where more than 240 teams presented displays describing their investigations, 10 of which were named posters of distinction. In addition, students from the James P. Timilty Middle School, East Boston High School, the Boston Engineering School and the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers displayed posters of their projects. The day concluded with the keynote address by Joseph Goldstein, MD, SAC chair and Nobel Prize recipient, who described how the interaction of the hormone ghrelin with growth hormone helps organisms survive conditions of starvation.
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I've got problems with the secondary antibodies in some vectastain kits. Everything has been OK until I took a new charge of an anti-mouse and an anti-rabbit kit. Up to this changes my routinely made controls (omitting the primary antibody) have been lovely white. Now I've got a very beautiful (but not intended) fiberstain of myelinated fibers on my brain-sections. I am working with the tissue of amphibians which is fixated with 4% PFA and in a TBS-buffer system and DAB as a chromogen. Does anybody remember similar problems and if can she or he tell me what reason this strange reaction might have and what I can do? O, sometimes I am going to hate all this immunocytohistochemical stuff. Thank you everybody in advance Markus

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Thread: Etude house Minime Ms Hot
In Korea, I picked up a perfume stick from the local brand Etude house, called Minime Ms. Hot.
The Minime come in little plastic figurines copied from the successful Harajuku series. One would expect comparable quality, but the Ms. Hot above is actually a pleasant, light, very fresh green floral with a nice note of grapefruit skin. Nothing out of the ordinary, and not as good as, say, AA Pamplelune, but priced right at $10 and miles above freshly chemical abominations a la Light blue. A good way to steer 5 year olds who must have little dolls in the right olfactory direction (if one cannot afford Chanel Eau de Cologne, that is).
Has anybody else tried the Minime series? I just quickly smelled the others in the series, but was unimpressed. but perhaps I dismissed them too quickly.
Minime Ms Ever is a dead ringer for Tommy Girl!
I haven't tried Ms Ever, unfortunately. Well, it seems at $10, many of these unassuming dolls are just perfectly ok.


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Fort Lauderdale local, Hi-Rez continues his grind to the top by dropping some visuals for his hit track "Do What You Love" . This track is just one of the many unbelievable tracks off of Hi-Rez's latest mixtape 'The Window". Hi- Rez is all about living his dream and making it to the top of the Hip-hop scene. With the dedication, support and lyrical talent of Rez expect to be hearing his name in the near future. Make sure to check out his Facebook page to stay updated with his music, also to stay up to date on the games up and comers follow @HipHopisLove on Twitter!


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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $100 million in financial assistance to acquire permanent easements from eligible landowners in four counties and assist with wetland restoration on nearly 24,000 acres of agricultural land in the Northern Everglades Watershed.
The wetland restoration will reduce the amount of surface water leaving the land, slowing water runoff and the concentration of nutrients entering the public water management system and ultimately Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades.
This is the largest amount of funding Florida has ever received for projects in the same watershed through the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) in a single year.
"Protecting and restoring the Northern Everglades is critical not just to Floridians, but to all Americans," said Vilsack.
"Today's announcement demonstrates the Obama Administration's strong commitment to conserve our national treasures, enhance the quality and quantity of our water, and secure the economic opportunities afforded by a healthy Everglades ecosystem.
"This announcement would not be possible without our local conservation partners and our relationship with private landowners who play a critical role in restoring wetlands and protecting wildlife in this unique habitat."
Vilsack also participated in a signing ceremony with A.J. Suarez of Hendry County Nursery Farms — a landowner who will benefit from the funding.
Suarez signed an agreement with USDA to start the process to acquire the easement rights to 3,782 acres.
After the signing ceremony, Vilsack toured the 550-acre Winding Waters Natural Area, a site restored with $1.5 million from WRP in 2007. The nature area, owned by Palm Beach County, is home to bird species such as little blue heron, snowy egret and great egret, white ibis and Florida sandhill crane.
It also contains large areas of pine flatwoods, Cyprus forests, freshwater marshes and wet prairies.
Under WRP, landowners sell development rights to land and place it in a conservation easement that permanently maintains that land as agriculture and open space.
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USDA plans to purchase these permanent easements from eligible private landowners and assist with wetland restoration in Glades, Hendry, Highlands and Okeechobee Counties.
The easements will contribute to the connection of public and private lands and help form a conservation corridor from the Kissimmee River to Everglades National Park.
Easements on existing conservation lands provide the large open spaces, food resources and connectivity needed to sustain wide-ranging animals like the federally endangered Florida panther.
Other species found on these lands include the crested caracara, Florida black bear, red-cockaded woodpecker and the whooping crane.
USDA continues to demonstrate its commitment to restoring the Northern Everglades through increased financial and technical assistance to landowners. USDA has provided a total of $189 million in WRP funding during the past two fiscal years to help farmers protect and restore wetlands in the Northern Everglades.
Last fiscal year, USDA obligated $89 million through WRP to acquire easements on almost 26,000 acres of land in the Fisheating Creek Watershed, located in remote Highlands County.
Four landowners on five adjoining ranches enrolled the nearly 26,000 acres into the program, making it one of the largest contiguous easement acquisitions in WRP's history.
An additional 12,000 acres were acquired through WRP in other counties, bringing the total potential acres acquired since 2010 to more than 60,000.
Working with conservation partners and others, USDA helps communities find local solutions to natural resource issues such as protecting a large-scale ecosystem like the Northern Everglades.
Placing easements on working agricultural land like those announced today helps improve watershed health, the vitality of agricultural lands and aesthetics, and the economies of local communities.
"Our working lands provide abundant food, fuel and fiber and are an essential piece of vibrant and diverse rural communities that are part of the fabric of our nation," Vilsack said
"Well-managed private lands also support healthy ecosystems that provide clean water, wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities and other environmental services that benefit the public."
For information about WRP, please visit http://www.nrcs.usda.gov. Click on Programs and Services on the left side of the page. Click on Alphabetical Listing of Programs and scroll down to the Wetlands Reserve Program.


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Medical bills, adoption expenses and business startup costs are just a few big-ticket items for which you may consider racking up huge credit debt. But before you whip out the plastic, you may want to consider using creative fundraising techniques to convince family, friends and even strangers to help defray your costs.
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People often think of fundraising as something that charities do, but consumers can apply the same principles to their personal causes, says Marc A. Pitman, a fundraising expert and author of "Ask Without Fear: A Simple Guide to Connecting Donors With What Matters to Them Most." "People are much more generous than we know, but they need to be asked clearly and respectfully," says Pitman. Whether you're seeking to fund medical expenses, a movie project or a trip abroad, here's how to get others to foot some of the bill.
1. Tell potential donors a story. Don't expect people to automatically understand why your cause is important. "People aren't driven by numbers and statistics; they're driven by personal stories," Pitman says. So if you're raising money to send your mom on a retirement cruise, describe how this is the first time she's taken time for herself in 20 years. Or if you're raising money for a loved one to attend college, explain how the student has dreamed of becoming a veterinarian since his first pet became ill. However, be positive when telling your story since whining about how tough things are or trying to guilt people into helping could turn them off, Pitman adds.
2. Get loved ones involved. When Shanda Hill, a filmmaking student in San Francisco, needed to raise $2,000 to travel to Malawi to be part of a documentary film team, she called her closest friends and family members and asked them to post a link to a donation Web site on their Facebook pages. Her mother called friends and relatives and also asked them to donate. After 30 days, Hill was able to shave nearly $500 off of her costs, with some of the money coming from people she didn't personally know. Not only can you reach more people by asking others to share your plight, but you show potential donors that others have already backed your cause.
3. Look beyond yourself. One way to encourage people to give is to show how your personal plight is part of a larger issue. "If you're trying to get help with medical care, you could talk about how this disease is impacting kids all over the world," Pitman says. Not only might people recognize that they, too, could find themselves in this situation, but they may feel more moved to help you if they feel that their contribution is making a difference in society at large.
4. Make the donor the hero. People are more likely to give if they feel like they're doing a good deed, so you want to focus your request more on how they can help rather than on what you'll be doing with the money, Pitman says. For example, if you're raising money to go on a humanitarian mission in a third world country, you don't want to talk about how much good you'll do. Rather, you want to let potential donors know that by donating funds, they're helping people in that Third World country, too.
5. Cast a wide net. Everyone isn't going to be willing or able to give. In fact, if you ask 100 people and get one donation, you're doing pretty good, Pitman says. To raise your odds of getting a "yes," ask people more than once. It also helps to use multiple ways to reach people since some are more responsive to phone while others might do better hearing the message via email or social media, Pitman says. Also, start early. While Hill raised part of the $2,000 she needed in a month, "if I had started earlier I think I would have raised more," she says.
6. Make payment convenient. The more ways you can accept funds the better, so letting people pay by cash, check, credit card or Paypal will ensure that people can easily donate. Online fundraising sites such as GoFundMe.com, GiveForward.com and Kickstarter.com provide even more options for potential donors. "Traditional fundraising campaigns -- whether it's a bake sale, car wash or direct mailers -- require a lot of physical overhead and effort," says Brad Damphousse, chief executive officer of GoFundMe.com, which has helped people raise money for such things as medical bills, educational expenses and birthday celebrations. Not only do online fundraising campaigns make it easy for people to contribute with credit or debit cards, but the campaigns can potentially go 'viral,' spreading quickly via email and social media and giving users the ability to reach more people than traditional fundraising methods, Damphousse adds.
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Django model mixins and utilities
Project description
Django model mixins and utilities.
django-model-utils supports Django 1.8 to 2.0.
This app is available on PyPI.
Getting Help
Documentation for django-model-utils is available https://django-model-utils.readthedocs.io/
Please file bugs and send pull requests to the GitHub repository and issue tracker. See CONTRIBUTING.rst for details.
master (unreleased)
3.1.2 (2018.05.09)
- Update InheritanceIterable to inherit from ModelIterable instead of BaseIterable, fixes GH-277.
3.1.1 (2017.12.17)
- Update classifiers and README via GH-306, fixes GH-305
3.1.0 (2017.12.11)
- Support for Django 2.0 via GH-298, fixes GH-297
- Remove old travis script via GH-300
- Fix codecov and switch to py.test #301
3.0.0 (2017.04.13)
- Drop support for Python 2.6.
- Drop support for Django 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7.
- Exclude tests from the distribution, fixes GH-258.
- Add support for Django 1.11 GH-269
2.6.1 (2017.01.11)
- Fix infinite recursion with multiple MonitorField and defer() or only() on Django 1.10+. Thanks Romain Garrigues. Merge of GH-242, fixes GH-241.
- Fix InheritanceManager and SoftDeletableManager to respect self._queryset_class instead of hardcoding the queryset class. Merge of GH-250, fixes GH-249.
- Add mixins for SoftDeletableQuerySet and SoftDeletableManager, as stated in the the documentation.
- Fix SoftDeletableModel.delete() to use the correct database connection. Merge of GH-239.
- Added boolean keyword argument soft to SoftDeletableModel.delete() that revert to default behavior when set to False. Merge of GH-240.
- Enforced default manager in StatusModel to avoid manager order issues when using abstract models that redefine objects manager. Merge of GH-253, fixes GH-251.
2.6 (2016.09.19)
- Added SoftDeletableModel abstract class, its manageer SoftDeletableManager and queryset SoftDeletableQuerySet.
- Fix issue with field tracker and deferred FileField for Django 1.10.
2.5.2 (2016.08.09)
- Include runtests.py in sdist.
2.5.1 (2016.08.03)
- Fix InheritanceQuerySet raising an AttributeError exception under Django 1.9.
- Django 1.10 support regressed with changes between pre-alpha and final release; 1.10 currently not supported.
2.5 (2016.04.18)
- Drop support for Python 3.2.
- Add support for Django 1.10 pre-alpha.
- Track foreign keys on parent models properly when a tracker is defined on a child model. Fixes GH-214.
2.4 (2015.12.03)
- Remove PassThroughManager. Use Django's built-in QuerySet.as_manager() and/or Manager.from_queryset() utilities instead.
- Add support for Django 1.9.
2.3.1 (2015-07-20)
- Remove all translation-related automation in setup.py. Fixes GH-178 and GH-179. Thanks Joe Weiss, Matt Molyneaux, and others for the reports.
2.3 (2015.07.17)
- Keep track of deferred fields on model instance instead of on FieldInstanceTracker instance. Fixes accessing deferred fields for multiple instances of a model from the same queryset. Thanks Bram Boogaard. Merge of GH-151.
- Fix Django 1.7 migrations compatibility for SplitField. Thanks ad-m. Merge of GH-157; fixes GH-156.
- Add German translations.
- Django 1.8 compatibility.
2.2 (2014.07.31)
- Revert GH-130, restoring ability to access FieldTracker changes in overridden save methods or post_save handlers. This reopens GH-83 (inability to pickle models with FieldTracker) until a solution can be found that doesn't break behavior otherwise. Thanks Brian May for the report. Fixes GH-143.
2.1.1 (2014.07.28)
- ASCII-fold all non-ASCII characters in changelog; again. Argh. Apologies to those whose names are mangled by this change. It seems that distutils makes it impossible to handle non-ASCII content reliably under Python 3 in a setup.py long_description, when the system encoding may be ASCII. Thanks Brian May for the report. Fixes GH-141.
2.1.0 (2014.07.25)
- Add support for Django's built-in migrations to MonitorField and StatusField.
- PassThroughManager now has support for seeing exposed methods via dir, allowing IPython tab completion to be useful. Merge of GH-104, fixes GH-55.
- Add pickle support for models using FieldTracker. Thanks Ondrej Slintak for the report. Thanks Matthew Schinckel for the fix. Merge of GH-130, fixes GH-83.
2.0.3 (2014.03.19)
- Fix get_query_set vs get_queryset in PassThroughManager for Django <1.6. Fixes issues with related managers not filtering by relation properly. Thanks whop, Bojan Mihelac, Daniel Shapiro, and Matthew Schinckel for the report; Matthew for the fix. Merge of GH-121.
- Fix FieldTracker with deferred model attributes. Thanks Michael van Tellingen. Merge of GH-115.
- Fix InheritanceManager with self-referential FK; avoid infinite recursion. Thanks rsenkbeil. Merge of GH-114.
2.0.2 (2014.02.19)
- ASCII-fold all non-ASCII characters in changelog. Apologies to those whose names are mangled by this change. It seems that distutils makes it impossible to handle non-ASCII content reliably under Python 3 in a setup.py long_description, when the system encoding may be ASCII. Thanks Simone Dalla for the report. Fixes GH-113.
2.0.1 (2014.02.11)
- Fix dependency to be on "Django" rather than "django", which plays better with static PyPI mirrors. Thanks Travis Swicegood.
- Fix issue with attempt to access __slots__ when copying PassThroughManager. Thanks Patryk Zawadzki. Merge of GH-105.
- Improve InheritanceManager so any attributes added by using extra(select) will be propagated onto children. Thanks Curtis Maloney. Merge of GH-101, fixes GH-34.
- Added InheritanceManagerMixin, InheritanceQuerySetMixin, PassThroughManagerMixin, and QueryManagerMixin to allow composing their functionality with other custom manager/queryset subclasses (e.g. those in GeoDjango). Thanks Douglas Meehan!
2.0 (2014.01.06)
- BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE: Indexing into a Choices instance now translates database representations to human-readable choice names, rather than simply indexing into an array of choice tuples. (Indexing into Choices was previously not documented.) If you have code that is relying on indexing or slicing Choices, the simplest workaround is to change e.g. STATUS[1:] to list(STATUS)[1:].
- Fixed bug with checking for field name conflicts for added query managers on StatusModel.
- Can pass choices_name to StatusField to use a different name for choices class attribute. STATUS is used by default.
- Can pass model subclasses, rather than strings, into select_subclasses(). Thanks Keryn Knight. Merge of GH-79.
- Deepcopying a Choices instance no longer fails with infinite recursion in getattr. Thanks Leden. Merge of GH-75.
- get_subclass() method is now available on both managers and querysets. Thanks Travis Swicegood. Merge of GH-82.
- Fix bug in InheritanceManager with grandchild classes on Django 1.6+; select_subclasses('child', 'child__grandchild') would only ever get to the child class. Thanks Keryn Knight for report and proposed fix.
- MonitorField now accepts a 'when' parameter. It will update only when the field changes to one of the values specified.
1.5.0 (2013.08.29)
- Choices now accepts option-groupings. Fixes GH-14.
- Choices can now be added to other Choices or to any iterable, and can be compared for equality with itself. Thanks Tony Aldridge. (Merge of GH-76.)
- Choices now __contains__ its Python identifier values. Thanks Keryn Knight. (Merge of GH-69).
- Fixed a bug causing KeyError when saving with the parameter update_fields in which there are untracked fields. Thanks Mikhail Silonov. (Merge of GH-70, fixes GH-71).
- Fixed FieldTracker usage on inherited models. Fixes GH-57.
- Added mutable field support to FieldTracker (Merge of GH-73, fixes GH-74)
1.4.0 (2013.06.03)
- Introduced FieldTracker as replacement for ModelTracker, which is now deprecated.
- PassThroughManager.for_queryset_class() no longer ignores superclass get_query_set. Thanks Andy Freeland.
- Fixed InheritanceManager bug with grandchildren in Django 1.6. Thanks CrazyCasta.
- Fixed lack of get_FOO_display method for StatusField. Fixes GH-41.
1.3.1 (2013.04.11)
- Added explicit default to BooleanField in tests, for Django trunk compatibility.
- Fixed intermittent StatusField bug. Fixes GH-29.
- Added Python 3 support.
- Dropped support for Django 1.2 and 1.3. Django 1.4.2+ required.
1.3.0 (2013.03.27)
- Allow specifying default value for a StatusField. Thanks Felipe Prenholato.
- Fix calling create() on a RelatedManager that subclasses a dynamic PassThroughManager. Thanks SeiryuZ for the report. Fixes GH-24.
- Add workaround for https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16855 in InheritanceQuerySet to avoid overriding prior calls to select_related(). Thanks ivirabyan.
- Added support for arbitrary levels of model inheritance in InheritanceManager. Thanks ivirabyan. (This feature only works in Django 1.6+ due to https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16572).
- Added ModelTracker for tracking field changes between model saves. Thanks Trey Hunner.
1.2.0 (2013.01.27)
- Moved primary development from Bitbucket to GitHub. Bitbucket mirror will continue to receive updates; Bitbucket issue tracker will be closed once all issues tracked in it are resolved.
- Removed deprecated ChoiceEnum, InheritanceCastModel, InheritanceCastManager, and manager_from.
- Fixed pickling of PassThroughManager. Thanks Rinat Shigapov.
- Set use_for_related_fields = True on QueryManager.
- Added __len__ method to Choices. Thanks Ryan Kaskel and James Oakley.
- Fixed InheritanceQuerySet on Django 1.5. Thanks Javier Garcia Sogo.
1.1.0 (2012.04.13)
- Updated AutoCreatedField, AutoLastModifiedField, MonitorField, and TimeFramedModel to use django.utils.timezone.now on Django 1.4. Thanks Donald Stufft.
- Fixed annotation of InheritanceQuerysets. Thanks Jeff Elmore and Facundo Gaich.
- Dropped support for Python 2.5 and Django 1.1. Both are no longer supported even for security fixes, and should not be used.
- Added PassThroughManager.for_queryset_class(), which fixes use of PassThroughManager with related fields. Thanks Ryan Kaskel for report and fix.
- Added InheritanceManager.get_subclass(). Thanks smacker.
1.0.0 (2011.06.16)
- Fixed using SplitField on an abstract base model.
- Fixed issue #8, adding use_for_related_fields = True to InheritanceManager.
- Added PassThroughManager. Thanks Paul McLanahan.
- Added pending-deprecation warnings for InheritanceCastModel, manager_from, and Django 1.1 support. Removed documentation for the deprecated utilities. Bumped ChoiceEnum from pending-deprecation to deprecation.
- Fixed issue #6, bug with InheritanceManager and descriptor fields (e.g. FileField). Thanks zyegfryed for the fix and sayane for tests.
0.6.0 (2011.02.18)
- updated SplitField to define get_prep_value rather than get_db_prep_value. This avoids deprecation warnings on Django trunk/1.3, but makes SplitField incompatible with Django versions prior to 1.2.
- added InheritanceManager, a better approach to selecting subclass instances for Django 1.2+. Thanks Jeff Elmore.
- added InheritanceCastManager and InheritanceCastQuerySet, to allow bulk casting of a queryset to child types. Thanks Gregor Muellegger.
0.5.0 (2010.09.24)
- added manager_from (thanks George Sakkis)
- added StatusField, MonitorField, TimeFramedModel, and StatusModel (thanks Jannis Leidel)
- deprecated ChoiceEnum and replaced with Choices
0.4.0 (2010.03.16)
- added SplitField
- added ChoiceEnum
- added South support for custom model fields
- Added QueryManager
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ARLINGTON, Va. — Low-speed front-into-rear crashes occur frequently in urban traffic, and the vehicles often sustain expensive damage. Bumpers can reduce this damage, but only if they line up so the initial contact in an impact is bumper to bumper. Then the bumpers on the colliding vehicles have to absorb the crash energy, keeping damage away from expensive sheet metal, lights, and other components.
Car bumpers are required by a federal standard to match up reasonably well. However, no such requirements apply to SUVs, and some of these vehicles don't have bumpers. So mismatches in crashes are increasing, and the resulting repair costs from low-speed collisions are escalating. The Institute's new series of 10 mph front-into-rear crash tests demonstrates this mismatch problem.
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The Institute's tests involved five pairs of vehicles, each composed of a car and a midsize SUV from the same manufacturer. The pairs included a Ford Taurus and Explorer, a Chevrolet Malibu and TrailBlazer, a Dodge Stratus and Jeep Grand Cherokee (both DaimlerChrysler products), a Nissan Altima and Murano, and a Volvo S40 and XC90.
"We paired vehicles from a single manufacturer because we thought that, at a minimum, automakers should be paying attention to the compatibility of the bumpers across their own fleets," Institute chief operating officer Adrian Lund explains.
In the tests, a car going 10 mph struck the back of its paired SUV, which was stopped. Then the configuration was reversed, with the SUV striking the back of its paired car. Results of these low-speed impacts varied widely, from a total of about $1,250 damage in one test to more than $6,000 damage to the paired vehicles in two other tests. In some cases, the low-speed crash damage included major leaks from broken radiators. In real-world collisions like these, the motorists couldn't even drive away. If they did, their vehicles could overheat and the engines could be permanently damaged. So in addition to paying for costly repairs, the drivers would face the aggravation of having to get their vehicles towed.
In both car-into-SUV and SUV-into-car tests, the vehicles with the lowest repair costs, by far, were the Fords. This is almost entirely because the bumpers on the two Fords match up better than the bumpers on the other vehicles. Virtually none of the damage from the Explorer-into-Taurus impact was apparent during a cursory inspection after the crash. The damage was hidden underneath the plastic bumper covers.
"It's likely that motorists in collisions like this would assume there wasn't any damage," Lund says. "An owner would have to go to a repair shop for disassembly of the bumper system to determine whether damage had occurred and how much. So in many cases the damage would go undetected and unrepaired. This shouldn't pose a safety problem but could worsen the damage in any subsequent low-speed collision."
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In a 10 mph front-into-rear crash test, damage was less (total $1,256) than to other pairs of vehicles in the same test.
Mismatached bumpers on DaimlerChryslers
Bumper mismatch is the main reason damage repair costs exceeded $6,000 in the same 10 mph front-into-rear crash test.
The other pairs of vehicles sustained much more damage than the Fords, mostly because their bumpers don't line up. The bumpers on some vehicle pairs completely bypassed each other in the tests. "This was the pattern," Lund points out. "When there was underride and override between the car and SUV bumpers, that's when we saw a lot more expensive-to-repair damage than most people would associate with a 10 mph impact. Bumps at this speed involving Volvos and DaimlerChryslers produced more than $6,000 damage to the two vehicles."
This Nissan Altima sustained a total of $4,507 damage when it struck the back of a Nissan Murano at 10 mph.
Most of the repair costs from these tests weren't because a heavy SUV inflicted damage on a lighter car. The SUVs also sustained expensive damage. Even when one SUV hit another SUV, the damage was costly.
The Institute conducted another 10 mph crash test to show that the problem isn't confined to crashes between cars and SUVs. In this impact, the front of a Toyota RAV4, a small SUV, hit the back of another RAV4, producing more damage than in any of the car-into-SUV or SUV-into-car crashes. "When one RAV4 struck the other, it didn't engage the rear bumper because this SUV doesn't have a rear bumper. Instead the striking RAV4 hit the spare tire mounted on the tailgate," Lund says. "This spare tire was the 'antibumper.' It didn't absorb any energy. It didn't prevent any damage. In fact, it caused most of the damage to both vehicles. The spare damaged the hood and grille of the striking RAV4. It also crushed the tailgate on the struck RAV4."
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Damage $3,230
When a Toyota RAV4 (left) hit the back of another RAV4 (right) at 10 mph, more total damage occurred than in any of the car-into-SUV or SUV-into-car tests. This is mainly because the RAV4, a small SUV, doesn't have a rear bumper, and the spare tire on the back exacerbated damage to both vehicles.
A federal standard specifies a zone on cars for bumper protection extending from 16 to 20 inches off the ground. This means car bumpers line up reasonably well. When two cars collide at low speeds, the bumpers are more likely to engage. Then they have a chance to absorb energy and prevent damage. But no such bumper requirements apply to SUVs, pickup trucks, or minivans, so these vehicles often have flimsier bumpers than cars. The heights of their bumpers often are different from the mandated heights for car bumpers.
As SUVs have proliferated in recent years, so has bumper mismatch. Now SUVs account for about 1 of every 4 passenger vehicles sold in the United States. Together pickups and SUVs account for almost half.
Because SUVs don't have to meet the bumper requirements established for cars, automakers are free to equip these vehicles with minimal bumpers or, like the rear of the RAV4, no bumper at all. If an SUV does have bumpers, they aren't required to line up with those on cars.
"The federal rules should be changed to make SUVs and cars more compatible. The manufacturers already are working on this for high-speed collisions, and they ought to be doing it for low-speed impacts like these tests. SUVs can have the same utility they do today and still be equipped with decent bumper systems that extend down to where they match up with those on cars," Lund concludes. "Until then, motorists who bump into mismatched vehicles, even at very low speeds, will have no choice but to open their wallets."
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This large and powerful butterfly is one of our most widespread fritillaries and can be seen flying rapidly in a range of open sunny habitats. The males look similar to the High Brown Fritillary, which is far rarer but sometimes flies with them on bracken-covered hillsides. The two can be distinguished from the underwing markings, visible when they are feeding on flowers such as thistles.
The Dark Green Fritillary has declined in parts of central and eastern England but remains locally abundant in western England, around the coast of Wales and in Scotland.
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- European status: Not threatened
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Occurs in a range of flower-rich grasslands often with patches of scrub, including: coastal grassland, dunes and scrub; chalk and limestone grassland; moorland and wet flushes; acid grassland with bracken; and occasionally woodland rides and clearings.
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The Old Timer of Royal Oak, Mich., was a regular contributor to H&P years before we ever even heard of the internet. But most of his advice is just as ueful — and interesting — today.
So rather than leave his wisdom printed on pages archived in our storage room, I pulled out issues from the late 1980s and early 1990s and have been reproducing relevant entries in this blog. Here is my 16th entry, which was originally published in the April 1989 issue:
Seeing is believing
It seems the labels and nameplates on pneumatic components and equipment always say something about "100 psi." Most shop people know how difficult it is to get 100 psi air — especially when the compressor is two buildings away and getting old, four new loops have been tapped into the main since it was installed, and every air tool on the premises is running simultaneously. They also know that most of the pneumatic equipment will run just fine at 90 or even 80psi.
However, we had some production people who had seen and remembered that 100-psi note and used it as a ready-made excuse for every production slowdown — air pressure is too low. They caught the ear of the management team with this and the order came down, "Get the air pressure on that line up to 100 psi quickly and make sure it stays there!"
We knew there were a lot of things we could do to improve that air system, be we also felt there was no real urgency to any of them. My boss decided to buy some time for this project.
His method: replace all the air gauges on that production line with new liquid-filled pressure gauges. Install a short 1-in bore cylinder with 5/16-in rod between the line and the gauge. Connect system pressure to the cap-end port; connect the gauge to the rod-end port after filling that end of the cylinder with oil.
We now had a little pressure booster in each path to the gauges. Ignoring friction, 90 psi in the system generated 99.8 psi in the annulus end of the cylinder, and that's what the gauge registered. The production people now could see that they had the 100 psi they thought they needed, and they had to look for other cures for production problems while we worked on the air system at a more leisurely pace.


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Gch Builder
The Gch Builder provides a similar interface for precompiled headers on gcc like the PCH builder for msvc. Dependencies of shared objects and static objects are autogenerated.
- different gch's for shared objects and static objects are required, thus there are two builders Gch and GchSh
- mixing Gch and GchSh for the same header file is not possible, since gcc seems to look only for one gch
- TIP: GCC supports multiple precompiled headers (with different compiler options) by putting them in a folder named "headername.gch" with different names. The builder could use this to create a pch for each set of options used...
Explanation and additional usage instructions
This way we check if an object file depends on the original header from which precompiled header was generated. To use modified tool with build dirs you modify the build environment in
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#!python env.Prepend(CPPPATH=['.'])
which will ensure that the compiler looks for (precompiled) header in a build dir before the source dir. I'm not sure if this can be automated somehow.
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text: Hi all, I am not an expert on anything either, but I would follow Adam in saying Frank should look at geometric algorithms. I also think, depending on the problem it should be possible to avoid to evaluate all point pair distances. I think, there should be algorithms, which determine hyperspaces from properties of the original set (convex would be nice). Using these hyperspaces one should be able to reduce the amount of sorting significantly. In 2d there are ways to cut the original set using hyperspaces (in this case lines) and search only in the area determined by the cuts. Unfortunately I do not know anything more about this, sorry. Good luck, Joerg Adam Getchell wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > I'm not an expert or anything, but I happen to have "Introduction to > Algorithms" by Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, and Ronald Rivest ("CLR" > for short) and Chapter 35, Computational Geometry, might have what you're > looking for. > > The closest points algorithm they used is based on divide and conquer, and > runs in O(nlgn) time. It's a 2-D algorithm, but I don't *think* generalizing > to n-dimensions will change things since the first step is to do a sort on > the X and Y coordinates which is O(nlgn) time per dimension, but done > serially so running time shouldn't be affected. (Well, actually, you store > your points in an appropriate data structure and keep a table of pointers > for each dimension and sort those ....) > > However, if you want more immediate satisfaction the basic algorithm is also > described here: > > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cs409-sp99/Lectures/Lecture%2010/sld002.htm > > The divide part shouldn't be hard, since the line will still divide your > region in to (XL, XR) (YL,YR) (ZL,ZR) ... for each dimension. I'm not > certain how constraining your "box" will be; for 2-D you can reduce it to > checking 7 other neighbors, but generalized for a hypercube of n dimensions > the points might be a bit larger. You say 12 dimensions? CLR mentions using > L-distance (or Manhattan distance) instead of Euclidean distance ... perhaps > that may make it more tractable. > > A practicing computer scientist probably has a much better idea than my > naive ramblings .... > > Hope that helps, > > --Adam > acgetchell at ucdavis.edu > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Joerdens" <frank at joerdens.de> > To: <beowulf at beowulf.org> > Cc: <ttt at archi-me-des.de>; <adam at archi-me-des.de>; <deadmovintarget at web.de> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 6:48 AM > Subject: OT: computationally hard or not (algorithm question) > > > I've been lurking on this this list for a few months cuz I think > > beowulfs are cool - but so far I've had neither the money nor any use > > for one. Now I have a problem which might fall into the general vicinity > > of beowulfery (but then again, it might not). You might have a pointer > > to the relevant resources (Yes! I am willing and able to RTFM!): > > > > Consider an n-dimensional array containing something on the order of > > 10^4 (i.e. thens of thousands) elements, where each number may assume an > > integer value between 1-12. For the sake of the argument (it's easier to > > visualize; actually, n would be something on the order of a dozen), > > assume that n is 3, so you're basically looking at a box-shaped cloud of > > dots in 3-D space, where each dot's position is defined by its > > three-dimensional carthesian co-ordinates which are stored in the array. > > > > Now, take any one of those dots, search for the 10 (some figure on this > > order of magnitude) dots which are closest to it, and order those by > > proximity to the origin of the search. This sounds pretty hard, > > computationally. Not for 3 Dimensions, since there the number of > > possible positions is only 12^3 = 1728, but for 12, its 12^12 = > > 8916100448256. I guess you'd have to find some efficient shortest-pair > > algorithm that works for n dimensions (my algorithm book only has one > > that works for 2), find the shortest pair, remove it from the array, > > then find the next value etc.. > > > > Does anyone have an idea, or a pointer to some reading matter about it, > > as to how computationally expensive that would be? Any guess as to what > > kind of hardware you'd have to throw at it (I could settle for less > > dimensions if it turns out that I can't afford the hardware) when I want > > the result set within a couple of seconds at the _very_ most? > > > > Does anyone have a link to an article about the best algorithm for this > > kind of problem? > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > Frank > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Jörg Kaduk Tel.: 1 650 325 1521 x 416 Carnegie Institution of Washington FAX: 1 650 325 6857 Dept. of Plant Biology 260 Panama Street joerg at jasper.stanford.edu Stanford, CA 94305-4150 http://Jasper.Stanford.EDU/joerg/


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Funny how a single, random event can sometimes change a life forever. If floodwaters had not risen over Brian Willott's family farm in Missouri in June of 1993, he might be there today, managing corn and soybean production.
Instead, he is learning a new language and a new culture, and is experiencing firsthand the sometime harsh realities of producing cotton and soybeans in Bahia, Brazil.
Willott grew up honing his agricultural skill and learning patience on his family's flood-prone, bottomland fields around St. Peters, Mo. When he graduated from college in May 1993, his plan was to return to the farm to carve out a living. But that spring, floodwaters rose twice after planting, the last leaving him with nothing to do that summer. He went to work as a research associate for the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, in Columbia, Mo., where he had worked while in school. He stayed with FAPRI for 10 years and earned a masters degree.
In June 2003, a group of farmer/investors approached him about starting a coffee production enterprise in Brazil. Unmarried, adventurous and more than a little concerned about Congress' seemingly low priority for funding FAPRI, Willott accepted the deal, and struck out a month later for South America.
"I realized that if I stayed at FAPRI, I needed a PhD to keep advancing, or I could come do this. Either way, I had to pay some dues for four to five years. But I always wanted to farm and I realized that if I was ever going to do it, this was my shot."
Willott encountered a few early bumps in the road. Although he and his investors had put together a business plan to produce coffee, "when I got here, coffee prices were low. The group decided to change the investment plan to produce cotton and/or soybeans. Willott spent the next year "just looking around, trying to learn the language and find some land with a good deed."
Willott would end up in the city of Barreiras, the gateway to the agricultural region of western Bahia. Barreiras, a fast-growing city of 140,000 people, with a crush plant and a dozen or so cotton brokers, also has a large concentration of U.S. cotton farmers.
A second bump in the road was high land prices. Willott knew from his research that land values in Brazil had bottomed out. But the lure of cheap land had attracted many American investors apparently willing to bid prices back up.
Many of them, apparently unaware that land could be had dirt cheap, paid as much as 200 sacks of soybeans, or around $800 per acre, for land that Willott said is closer in value to $400 an acre. A sack is equivalent to 132 pounds of soybeans, which at the time of this writing was worth about $10.
"Coming from a research background, one thing that bothers me is that no one tells the truth about this place," Willott said. "About half the people want to tell you how great it is, how land is cheaper, labor is cheap, people are nice and you can make lots of money. Some of that is true. Land is cheaper here. But it's not like land in the Mississippi Delta. This soil doesn't have much fertility."
The solution for Willott is to rent land, which he is able to do for about 5 sacks per acre, or $20, a fraction of the cost to purchase the land. "If I could rent for 2.5 percent of the value, I'm better off. A lot of producers think something is a great deal because it's cheaper than land in Iowa. But I tell you, this ain't Iowa."
Indeed it isn't. Life here may not necessary be better or worse than in America, but it sure is different. Willott lives in the city, his farm office in one room of a rented house. Living on the farm would have been difficult, with neither cell phone coverage nor rural mail delivery.
On one hand, Bahia soils can produce some high-quality and high-yielding cotton, with proper fertility. In fact, Willott's cotton yields approached 3 bales per acre this year. But he had to spray a fungicide four times and sprayed up to 25 times for insects.
Willott plants conventional cotton, what the local farmers refer to as legal cotton. They're straight out of another era by American standards — DP 90, Opal and ST 474. Bt cotton has been approved for planting for the 2006-07 season, but Willott's seed company won't sell him a bag of Bt seed unless he purchases an accompanying bag of conventional seed — which must be a variety offered by the seed company. He's mulling the offer.
Willott says some farmers still plant Bt cotton illegally, claiming it's cheaper to pay the fine than take the loss from worms. "But we keep it legal."
Willott winds up cotton planting each year around Christmas, when temperatures are hovering around 100 degrees. There is always plenty of rain during the growing season, but often, there's too much. When it stops, producers crank up their harvesters, and often enjoy a long, open harvest season.
Willott produced a lot of high-quality (31-2) cotton this season, but an unfavorable real-to-dollar exchange rate has kept him and other high-quality producers out of the export market. Local buyers for the domestic market have used the resulting glut of cotton to their advantage, refusing to pay any more for high quality than they do for low quality.
Willott sold some cotton at harvest "to get expenses behind me. The rest of it I'm going to store. People just say they're not going to pay the premium for high quality. It hurts to not have a subsidy program, where you can put cotton under loan and draw what you actually produce. I worked all year to make quality cotton, now everybody tells me they want junk."
"Every day," Willott says when asked how often he deals with poor road conditions in Brazil. "In this region, there is one artery to drain of all our soybeans, corn, cotton, coffee and papaya."
Last year, truck drivers barricaded the road to bring attention to the poor conditions. Then farmers barricaded it because they were upset about low prices.
Brazilians are happy to have Americans in the region, even if it's mostly for their money, Willott says.
"A lot of Brazilian farmers have been in crisis and there are a lot of Brazilian farmers who want to rent me their land or who are looking for employment."
Willott and his investors knew they would encounter problems adjusting to a different culture and growing conditions, one reason why they're growing the business slowly. Still, Willott sounds like a farmer who has made up his mind to make a go of it. His Portuguese is improving to the point where his friends compliment him. He's fond of the country's natural, untamed beauty.
"I would say my experience here has been positive. Learning the language was tough, then learning the labor laws and the tax laws. But there isn't any other way to do it than to immerse yourself in it. You have to pay your dues."


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