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Doctors in Berlin claim to have found a "cure" for HIV (BERLIN PATIENT, 2010) (TIMOTHY BROWN, THE BERLIN PATIENT, 2010)
Dec 18, 2010
Hi Dr. Bob. I was on the internet and ran across this article:http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1577949/ I was wondering what you think about its potential and whether you think it holds up scientifically. I'm currently in medical school and am amazed by HIV. This also makes me hopeful because I exposed myself to HIV through unprotected heterosexual vaginal sex (I'm the guy) and am getting tested today. I have a very bad feeling but this has made me hopeful that even if I am infected a cure may be found in my lifetime.
Take care and hope you are in good health!!
Response from Dr. Frascino
We have been following the story of "The Berlin Patient" for a number of years. Due to a recent publication in the medical journal "Blood," the story has resurfaced with great fanfare. So it's time for an update on not only what happened, but also on what it all means. You asked if I thought the story "holds up scientifically." Yes, it does, but most people don't understand the whole story or it's potential relevance. Consequently, let me recap briefly.
Timothy Brown is an American with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who was treated at the Charite-University Medicine Berlin in 2007. Mr. Brown developed leukemia after having been diagnosed HIV positive. Talk about bad luck! But his luck then changed big time! The treatment for AML involves chemotherapy, radiation therapy and stem-cell transplants. In essence the doctors needed to completely wipe out Mr. Brown's existing immune system and attempt to reconstitute it from scratch using donor stem cells. This is a very dangerous procedure with a significant morbidity and mortality rate. It's also incredibly expensive -- hundreds of thousands of dollars! (And that's if all goes well).
So how does this relate to an HIV "cure"? Glad you asked. This part gets a bit confusing, so pay attention. HIV needs certain receptors on cells in order to gain access to and infect immune cells. The most common type of receptor is termed "CCR5." If a cell doesn't have a CCR5 receptor, HIV viruses that require this receptor are essentially locked out. Put another way, the person lacking CCR5 receptor is immune to HIV virus requiring CCR5 to gain access and infect immune cells. A very small portion of the general population is lucky enough to have a mutation of the CCR5 gene that they inherited from both their parents (homozygous). Timothy Brown received a stem-cell donation from a donor who had the mutation and luckily his stem-cell transplant was eventually successful. (He had a relapse of his leukemia 13 months after the initial treatment and required a second round of treatment including another stem-cell transplant from the same donor.) As his new immune system grew, it too had the CCR5 mutation. Consequently, HIV-requiring CCR5 couldn't enter or infect new cells. Mr. Brown has now been off antiretroviral drugs for 3.5 years and shows no sign of HIV. It's an amazing story. But before you decide to fly to Berlin and ask for the same treatment, it's important to realize the following:
1. Not all HIV viruses require CCR5 to infect cells. Some viruses use an entirely different receptor (CXCR4).
2. Wiping out your immune system is extremely dangerous carries a significant risk that you could wind up dead as a doornail. It only makes sense when you have a disease like acute myeloid leukemia, which is already killing you quite rapidly.
3. Most folks do not have several hundred thousand dollars lying around, unless they're among the top 1% of Americans who will benefit from extending the Bush tax breaks for gazillionaires.
4. Finding someone with the delta 32 mutation that blocks CCR5 viruses from entering cells is extremely difficult. According to Tony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, only 1% of Caucasians and 0% of blacks have the mutation. Plus, you would need to find not only a donor with the mutation, but also a donor that was a "match" for you (immunologically compatible).
The bottom line is that this treatment will never be ready for prime time. It may, however, open new doors into research toward a cure that could. As always, we'll keep you posted as this story continues to evolve.
Dr. Bob
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text: Hello fellow Beowulfers, IMNSHO, Marketing Departments should be jailed... or at least not allowed to do the "technical specs" pages for networking products. And at a minimum, they need to be flogged with a wet noodle... :-) The following technical buzzwords used[1] to mean something when they were included on the "technical specs" (now turned into "glossy brochures") for a network switch: non-blocking wire speed full backplane bandwidth X Gbps backplane bandwidth (replace X with some random number) X Gbps aggregate bandwidth These days, the above are pretty much the buzwords/buzphrases that are on every commodity switch even if they don't apply. (Along with various dubious management "features".) See this switch which I looked at earlier this week... It's technical specs clearly have an error relative to the marketspeak on the same page: http://www.netgear.com/products/details/GS748T.php At the very top it says: "Non-blocking bandwidth" Yet near the bottom of the same page it says: "Bandwidth: 40 Gbps" It's a 48-port Gigabit Ethernet (on every port) switch... for it to truly be non-blocking, it would have to have at least 96 Gbps bandwidth. (Or 48 Gbps if you are not counting in both directions... but AFAIK, you do need to count for bidirectional... and thus 96 Gbps of internal bandwidth would be required to be non-blocking on 48 GigE ports.) Now, this could just be a simple typo, where the tech specs from a smaller 16 or 24 (20?) port switch were copied... but that still wouldn't be right, and well, just copying tech specs from one device for use in another brochure seems very wrong to me. Why include the tech specs if they are not for that device... But if they had said "96 Gbps", I still wouldn't really believe them, since I've seen too many where it was obvious the marketers just multiplied the port count by 2 Gbps, which had no correlation to the performance of the internals of the switch. Does anyone know of a magazine or organization that regularly benchmarks and tests these performance claims for the *commodity* networking industry? I know about the Tolly Group and http://www.networkworld.com/ which periodically are commissioned to benchmark the latest & greatest switches, etc. from the name brand vendors (latest I see is a test of a 10 Gbps/port 24-port Force10 switch, which was of course very impressive... and way out of the price-range for the clusters I'm typically asked to help design). What I've been looking for is benchmarks of the switches that are under $1000. Anyone know of any that have been done? I wish buying network equipment was like buying orange juice, where it really didn't matter much which brand you got, and you could read the carton to look for things like fortified with Calcium, or whatnot... and then look at the pricetag for $/ounce and make your choice. Anyway, off my soapbox, and back to dissertation writing... I'm almost done... but not done yet... Footnote [1]: Maybe those buzzwords never really meant anything, and it is just me being foolish thinking they did at some point have meaning... our original 32-port Fast Ethernet switches on KLAT2 back in 2000 had all the right buzzwords... yet were clearly not capable of their claimed performance (I checked the true tech specs of the chips they were built with, once we had purchased them, and, well, after they started dying. But that was years ago, and those switch carcasses (um, evidence?) are long gone... Hmm, didn't I say I was getting off my soapbox... ;-) FYI - here are some links to a variety of 48-port commodity GigE switches, that may be worth looking at (but as another poster indicated, these might actually all be the same switch built by an OEM and just rebadged. One can only really tell by opening one up and looking at the PCB and chips that are inside.): LINKSYS SRW2048 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833124055 D-Link DGS-1248T http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817111041 SMC8648T TigerSwitch http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProductDetail&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1192 TRENDnet's TEG-448WS http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productID=3466617&info=Tech#tabs NETGEAR ProSafe GS748TNA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833122155 (This is the one with the funky tech spec mismatch I talked about above.) On 3/30/06, Bruce Allen <ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:01:03PM -0600, Bruce Allen wrote: > >> After discussions with some of their technical people, the conclusion was > >> that the switch had enough buffer memory to run wire speed with MTU=1500 > >> but not with MTU=9000. > >> > >> Our testing results are here: > >> http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/~parmor/Network-performance/netperf.html > > > > But according to that graph, the Dell 2716 switch gave performance > > substantially below wire speed for ALL MTU sizes, including 1500. So > > what's up with Dell's "wire speed but only at MTU=1500" story? > > You'll have to ask Dell! I agree that their explanation does not make > sense, for exactly the reason that you gave. We didn't see wire speed > performance even at MTU=1500. > > Cheers, > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net/


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The Associated Press offers a surprisingly candid appraisal of the Democrats' position, as they struggle to do something with their majorities in Congress:
Swept into power by voters clamoring for an end to the war in Iraq, Democrats have seen their efforts falter under a reality more complicated than they found on the campaign trail.
While the public is fed up with Iraq, there is little consensus over what to do.
Internal party divisions, Republican opposition and a president who – while weakened – still appears to have the dominant voice on the war have all left Democrats flailing in search of a way to change the war's course.
The Democrats' symbolic measure disapproving of President Bush's troop buildup passed the House only to stall in the Senate. Their plan to place strict conditions on war funding appears to lack enough support within their own ranks to succeed. Another bid to narrow the 2002 resolution authorizing the war is unlikely to garner the 60 votes it would need to be approved in the Senate.
The first signs of impatience among Democrats' allies are sprouting.
The AP has a slightly more recent version of the same story here, which buries the account of the Democrats "flailing," but emphasizes that anti-Iraq war initiatives have stalled in both the House and the Senate. In the House, Nancy Pelosi has distanced herself (wisely) from Mad Jack Murtha's "slow bleed" strategy, and instead says: "Let me be very clear: Congress will fund our troops." In the Senate, Harry Reid has shelved, at least for now, a measure to repeal 2002's Authorization for the Use of Military Force In Iraq.
The Democrats are floundering because in reality, they don't have a policy on Iraq. They know that the American people's first choice is victory, but that is the one option that, for them, is not on the table. They would like to surrender, but know that the consequences would be far worse than the situation we now face in Iraq and the Middle East. And they haven't yet figured out a "third way" that is anything more than a PR slogan. So the drift continues.
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UC Irvine has been picked to finish second in the Big West Conference, according to a preseason poll of coaches released on Thursday.
The Anteaters, who are ranked No. 30 in the preseason by Collegiate Baseball and No. 33 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Assn., received 82 points, including one of 10 first-place votes to land behind defending champion Cal State Fullerton.
The Titans, who have won 10 Big West titles in the last 17 seasons, had nine first-place votes and 99 points.
Following UCI in the poll are: Long Beach State (75 points), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (68), UC Santa Barbara (58), Hawaii (57), UC Riverside (38), Cal State Northridge (34), UC Davis (25) and Pacific (14).
UCI is led by first-team all-conference pitcher Andrew Thurman, who was 8-3 with a 2.66 earned-run average as a sophomore in 2012.
The Anteaters open their season with a three-game home nonconference series against Baylor, beginning Feb. 15 at 6:30 p.m.
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Three members of the court named in the chairmen's statement—County Judge Dean Fowler, Pct. 2 Comm. Cole Hefner, and Pct. 3 Comm. Frank Berka—subsequently defended themselves against the complaint. Berka accused County GOP Chairman Cynthia Ridgeway of raising the issue partly to aid her daughter, Ronnica Ridgeway, in her current campaign for County Judge against Fowler.
In a written statement released to The Mirror, Mrs. Ridgeway and Democratic Chairman Dan Miles Jr. said the court plans to eventually reject the proposed EA, but doesn't want to go on record as doing so now at a time when three of its members are up for election (Fowler, Hefner and Pct. 4 Comm. Mike Spencer, who was not mentioned by name in the chairmen's statement).
The latest discussion about hiring an Administrator began Dec. 3, when four of the County Election Commission's five members (including the two party chairmen) expressed or implied support for it at a commission meeting.
The only one who did not was Fowler, who did not indicate how he stood. But the Commissioners Court took no action on the proposal at a Dec. 31 meeting after some court members expressed reservations about it.
The court would establish the position, but the Election Commission would hire the Administrator.
One Election Commission member, County Tax Assessor-Collector Sherron Laminack, has said that registering voters interferes with her office's other duties, and that some persons object to elected officials handling elections.
Another commission member who favors hiring an EA, County Clerk Barbara Winchester, declined to contract with the two major parties to hold their March 4 primary elections, saying her workers were "stretched." She also cited the cost to the county.
Also supporting the EA proposal is Judy Moore, a Gilmer ISD secretary who oversees early voting in school elections. But County Libertarian Chairman Vance Lowry and Peggy LaGrone, the only candidate seeking the Libertarian nomination for County Clerk, have expressed opposition to it.
During the Dec. 31 meeting at which the court declined to act on the EA proposal, citing various reasons ranging from the potential expense to the difficulty of firing an administrator, Mrs. Ridgeway urged the court perhaps put off action till January and "dig into this."
But in her and Miles's statement, they said "our current requests for bringing the question back before the court have finally been denied as of. . . February 7 by Judge Fowler, who says 'I am not going to put the EA position back on the agenda until one of the Commissioners requests it.'"
The chairmen's statement continued, "Despite the court's ability to delay a proposed EA's employment start date, Judge Fowler told each of us that in his opinion, consideration of the EA didn't need to take place until 'during the budgeting process,' and that Oct. 1 would be the earliest possible hire date, even if the position was approved."
"This makes it highly unlikely that an EA could be prepared to contract for the November general election. It seems obvious that the Court intends to reject the idea, no matter the pleas of Republicans, Democrats and other election jurisdictions, who are more familiar with what all is required to insure a pure election process.
"It has also become increasingly clear that our Court just does not want to go on record with their decision. Could it be because we are currently in an election cycle containing three of their own positions?" the statement asked.
"It is our belief that the security of the election process is a priority concern for voters of all jurisdictions or political parties," the chairmen continued. "The decision to vote on hiring an Administrator should not be influenced by the timing of an election."
The chairmen wrote that when they brought the proposal to the court, "two major objections were raised by Commissioners Berka (money) and Hefner (politics). Because the court was obviously unwilling, or not informed enough to take action on our request, we suggested tabling the vote until January, to allow more time for research."
Addressing the question of the expense of creating the position, Mrs. Ridgeway and Miles said in part that "while the law limits what our respective political parties pay the county for elections, that is not the case for schools and cities. Also, historically the county may have actually undercharged these groups, and by raising those charges it may recover any potential extra expense of an Administrator, and still save them money."
The chairmen cited recent newspaper articles saying that "by being forced to contract with a third party" instead of the county to help hold the election, "both Gilmer ISD and the City will face greatly increased costs for their election services. . . This scenario will now be repeated in every election throughout the county; costs paid with our taxes!" (Under state law, city and school elections may be canceled if no races are contested.)
The statement continued, "We respectfully appreciate the Court's frugality with the use of our money, but clearly hiring an elections administrator would create no significant cost increase for the county. Neither do we agree that another layer of government is added by creating a position that inherently eliminates another position.
"Also, we consider the argument bogus that an administrator who must answer to ten people is as easily persuaded as one elected official who currently tabulates ballots, even for their own election," the chairmen said.
They added, "As for difficulties in firing a bad Administrator, we suggest that the process is much quicker and easier to correct than waiting to vote out a bad official elected to a four year term!"
Replying to the statement, Fowler said, "This is my question: why didn't the party chairs bring the request for an Election Administrator to the Commissioners Court during our budget preparation last summer, so it could have been included in our current budget? We are five months into our 12-month budget and cannot simply create and fund a new department. The correct time to discuss this matter is during our budget process.
"The fact that the party chairs are attempting to convince the public this is a critical issue, that must be decided RIGHT NOW, is nothing more than a thinly veiled political attack right in the middle of early voting," Fowler concluded.
Said Hefner, "I do not believe it is responsible or prudent to create a new department in county government before we begin our budget process. By law, we cannot fund a new department in the middle of the budget year. Even if approved, we could not hire for, nor fund the new department until Oct. 1, 2014.
"As a conservative Republican, I do not believe the solution to a problem that does not exist is solved by creating more government. I have talked to several citizens from my precinct, and I have not found any support for a new department in our county government. Some people want to make this about politics. It's not about politics. It's common-sense business.," Hefner added.
Wrote Berka, "This is not news. This subject was thoroughly discussed for over an hour during the Dec. 31 Commissioners Court meeting, and subsequently reported on (in a newspaper). . . The 'complete' story, as Mrs. Ridgeway calls it, can be heard on the county's website at www.upshurcountyclerk.com. Click Commissioners Court, agendas, 2013, Dec. 31, item #6.
"Unfortunately, Mrs. Ridgeway finds it necessary to stir the pot in order to promote the people whom she endorses, most namely, her daughter. In case she hasn't noticed, the citizens of Upshur County have begun to believe this Commissioners Court does take care of business and have no stomach for things the way they used to be," Berka concluded.


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Huskers Collapse in 70-31 Loss To Badgers
INDIANAPOLIS -- Nebraska coach Bo Pelini spent nearly four hours watching Saturday night's debacle.
He needed less than 10 minutes to pin the blame on himself.
Wisconsin's Montee Ball ran for 202 yards and three more touchdowns, and the dominant Badgers blew out No. 14 Nebraska 70-31 in the Big Ten title game.
It's the third time in four years, the Cornhuskers have gone home empty-handed and this one was the most embarrassing of all.
"We failed. We failed to win a championship, that was the goal coming in and we didn't get it done and I apologize for it," Pelini said. "I apologize to the football team, I apologize to the coaches, the fans, like I said, everybody associated with it because at the end of the day, it falls on me. I'm the one responsible for it and we didn't get it done. "
Nebraska (10-3, 7-1) was looking for its first league title since 1999 and most expected the drought to end against Wisconsin.
Instead, the Badgers (8-5, 4-4) emptied the playbook and ran right over the Cornhuskers famed Blackshirts, gouging them for 539 yards and producing two 200-yard rushers in one game for the first time in school history.
The most painful part: Nebraska had no answers.
After a head-shaking first half put the Cornhuskers in a 42-10 halftime deficit, Nebraska still gave up scoring runs of 9, 57, 68 and 10 yards in the second half.
It was the first time Nebraska had given up 70 points in a game since a 76-39 blowout against Kansas in November 2007, and it marked the end of a six-game winning streak that began after a 63-38 loss to Ohio State.
"Shock doesn't even begin to explain it," Pelini said. "It was like a leaking boat. It was one thing after another, one problem after another. There were some things that we corrected and then it happened again. I've never been a part of a game like that as a coach. "
Ball and the Badgers running backs did lots of damage.
Ball broke the Football Bowl Subdivision career rushing touchdowns record, getting to 76, tied the FBS record for most games with two or more scores (25), topped the 5,000-yard mark and was the game MVP.
Not a bad night for a guy whose numbers weren't even the best on the team.
Melvin Gordon opened the scoring with a 56-yard TD run and had a career-high 216 yards on nine carries. Three different Badgers threw passes, including running back James White who ran for 108 yards and four TDs and threw for a touchdown on the first pass of his college career. He helped the Badgers capture the most improbable Big Ten title in their three-year run.
The Badgers are the first five-loss team to reach the Rose Bowl, and became the first Big Ten school since Michigan in the late 1970s to earn three consecutive tickets to Pasadena, Calif.
"As my AD tells me all the time, you haven't one won yet," coach Bret Bielema said. "We're going out there to win. That's the mission, and I appreciate all the fans coming out to Madison East."
Indiana has quickly become a second home for the Badgers.
Wisconsin is the only Big Ten team with a win at Lucas Oil Stadium and has won 10 straight in the Hoosier State. It played three games in Indiana this season, rushing for 1,570 yards and 19 TDs while outscoring opponents 170-59 in those three games.
But Saturday was the biggest night of all.
Wisconsin finished with the fourth-highest rushing total in school history (539) and tied a conference championship game scoring record. Texas also scored 70 points in the 2005 Big 12 championship game.
It was a fitting end to a wacky Big Ten season.
Wisconsin only reached this year's title game because Leaders Division champion Ohio State (12-0) and division runner-up Penn State (8-4) were both ineligible for postseason play.
But on Saturday, the Badgers took advantage of their good fortune by piling up 639 yards of total offense.
The defense dominated, too. In the first half, Taylor Martinez was sacked three times, fumbled twice, losing one and had an interception returned for a touchdown.
He finished 17 of 33 for 184 yards with two interceptions and six sacks. He also rushed 19 times for 140 yards, scoring on a nifty 76-yard run, but fumbled twice.
Bielema countered by emptying the playbook and running right over the Nebraska (10-3, 7-1).
The onslaught started fast.
Gordon took the ball on an end around, made two cuts and sprinted 56 yards for a 7-0 lead on the fourth play of the game.
On the next offensive play, a falling Kenny Bell tipped Martinez's pass up in the air and Wisconsin's Marcus Cromartie picked it off and raced 29 yards. It was already 14-0 after only 2:07 in.
The `Huskers finally counterpunched with Martinez's long run and then got a 32-yard field goal to make it 14-10.
Then the Badgers opened things up.
With the ball on the right hash, they sent seven players to the left hash and had Curt Phillips throw a pass to Derek Watt on the right. After two more conventional runs, White ran two plays out of the wildcat formation, scoring on the second one from 9 yards to make it 21-10.
White scored again on a 1-yard plunge right after Phillips caught a 27-yard pass from receiver Jared Abbrederis. And after Ball's record-breaking touchdown dive made it 35-10, Gordon went 60 yards on an end around to put the ball at the Nebraska 3 with 6 seconds left in the half. This time, White lined up in the wildcat, ran right and lobbed a 3-yard TD pass to Sam Arneson for a 42-10 halftime lead.
And Nebraska never challenged again.
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WOODSTOCK – The health department commissar checking to make sure the hand-washing stations at your church potluck are set up properly won't be packing heat.
In the wake of concealed carry taking effect in the coming months, the McHenry County Board is setting down rules forbidding employees who are not law enforcement from carrying handguns during their official duties.
Under the proposed rules, county employees and volunteers will not be able to carry concealed weapons while on the clock, store them in county-owned vehicles or use their private vehicles for county business if they contain firearms.
The law already forbids carrying a concealed weapon into government buildings.
The Management Services Committee is expected to review the rules Monday and make a recommendation, which will be voted on later by the full County Board.
The Illinois State Police will start to accept applications for concealed-carry permits Jan. 5.
A 2012 federal appeals court ruling struck down Illinois' total ban on concealed carry, the last statewide ban of its kind among the 50 states. A 69-year-old downstate woman who owned handguns and had concealed-carry permits from two other states sued to overturn the ban after being brutally attacked in her church during a 2009 robbery – her weapons were at home because it was illegal to carry them outside.
State lawmakers earlier this year hashed out rules for carrying a concealed weapon, and overrode an amendatory veto by Gov. Pat Quinn with hours to spare before the ban was set to expire under court order.
The law allows Illinois residents to obtain a five-year concealed-carry permit for a $150 fee after completing a 16-hour training course, the longest of any state. Nonresidents must pay a $300 fee for a permit. Illinois does not recognize concealed-carry permits from other states, although the new law allows nonresidents passing through to keep their weapons in their cars.
Besides government facilities and courthouses, carrying is forbidden in parks and festivals, mass transit, schools and colleges, hospitals, stadiums, bars, and dining establishments that make more than half of their revenue from alcohol sales.
Business owners can ban concealed weapons from their properties, but must place a sign designed by the state police at the entrance. However, the law allows people to store their weapons in their locked vehicles in parking lots where carrying is banned by law or by the establishment owner.
State lawmakers Tuesday passed a trailer bill cleaning up some of the language of the law and clarifying some gray areas.
Besides sheriff's deputies and correctional officers, the county's deputy coroners can carry handguns in specific instances at the sole discretion of the elected coroner. Deputy coroners asked to be able to make that decision themselves during negotiations for their first union contract, but a state arbitrator last year sided with the county and denied the request.
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The docking is improving and your e-Lessons are very helpful. We've had our boat out 5-6 times and each time coming back to the dock has been easier. Thank you.
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I had already checked out your website and had already decided to get the book on docking the boat, so will be sure to get the pontoon version. And even though I'm an Eagle Scout and thought I knew in my knots well, I've already also decided to order the book on knots! It sounds like you've developed a lot of great resources!
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Abstract: A Cretan in Korea and a Korean in Crete: Restoring a Late Byzantine Chapel of the Cretan School
In the summer of 2010, research officially commenced for the Pyrgiotissa Cultural Heritage Project (PCHP), an attempt to document and preserve the unusually rich cultural heritage of the western Mesara through the millennia. Co-directed by Christoforos Vallianos, (director, Museum of Cretan Ethnology) and Despoina Hatzi-Vallianou (Honorary Curator of Antiquities and President, Cultural Association of the Mesara), its initial ethnoarchaeological focus was a natural extension of questions raised earlier by the author's archaeochemistry research at archaeological sites across Crete.
In the process of exploring the Pyrgiotissa landscape, attention was brought to the small chapel of Agios Georgios at Mesiskle, which appears to have been built at the same time as the southern nave of the nearby Agios Phanourios church at Valsamoneriou Monastery. El Greco's family reputedly owned a country estate to the immediate south and he is said to have honed his craft in the Cretan Style at the monastery before leaving for Venice in 1567. More recently, a Cretan shepherd has been single-handedly restoring the Agios Georgios chapel for six decades due to an oath he swore while fighting on the bloody battlefields of Korea. Antonis Zacharioudakis was raised in the shadow of Mt. Ida and distinctly remembers the daring capture of General Heinrich Kreipe, the German military governor of Crete smuggled through Pyrgiotissa by British SOE operatives during World War II. With the support of the Korean embassy in Athens and the Korean Ministry of Veterans' Affairs, PCHP is coordinating the completion of the chapel's restoration, focusing on revealing its whitewashed wall paintings with the ultimate goal of transforming the site into Crete's memorial for Korean War veterans.
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DO4M asks: Assuming that Management allows a Weapons Pack SKU, could Mattel make an official poll for fans to choose the items in it?
Matty: (Design would choose the colors for said items) It is possible but no plans at this time.
Marvelous One asks: Is there a way to include a spot inside Castle Grayskull where one could hang both Swords of Power and Protection crisscrossed like it was shown in the Filmation series? Maybe even include 2 new versions of the sword to look like their Filmation counterparts. Both sword being the same size?"
Matty: This is something we are looking into but we can't confirm final details right now
Domingo.Hernandez71 asks: We've seen the Palace Guards, We've seen the Snake Guys, I'm pretty sure we'll see the Horde Troopers in the future. Is their any chance we could see an army for Skeletor?
Matty:Always possible but nothing to announce right now.
Jason.Lee.718 asks: Speaking of the snakemen, easy guess we may get these in different colors but I wonder about seeing something like a Coral snake pattern or diamondback with the snakemen troops and speaking of the coral snake, there is a non venomous version and the idea of a this one being made into a hero would be a neat twist. It sees the destruction done and has no stomach for it so vows to stop his brethern.
Matty:We'd love to do new versions of Snake Warriors in time. Nothing to announce right now however.
jayson.zachery asks: Is it true that the mini figures like Kowl, Loo Kee, and Imp cost as much to make as a normal sized figure? And if so, is there a better way to get them into the line? 3 packs? 2 pack? Singles?
Matty:No, they do not cost as much as a standard figure to make.preternia.com
Q: If the Castle Grayskull project goes through, do you intend to have the box art be done by Rudy Obrero so that it will be consistent with previous boxed releases?
A: Yes, we will ask Rudy if he will do this! (Editor's note, they WILL be doing this as they announced today)
Q: Has a decision been reached on Snake Face's staff being cut or not?
A: Yes,it will be included as noted at NYCC.
Q: With prices increasing, is there any chance future non sub items will be able to be ordered ahead of time and combined with sub shipments so we can save a little on shipping?
A: This is something we are looking into but nothing to confirm yet.
Q: Any new news on Mini Masters?
A: Not yet, we are still looking for a home for these guys.
Q: The green Clawful mace is my favorite part of the Great Unrest Weapons Pak, any chance of a slightly off-color Clawful release to go with it? Maybe with a 200x head?
A: Can't say that is at the top of our list but anything is possible.Kastor's Korner
Kastor's Korner: Is there time for Octavia's tentacles to be designed to be bendy? We're grateful she won't feature the foam materials from Snout Spout, but we have seen a better-designed bendy material utilized for King Hssss and Monster High's Meowlody that seems like it would work perfectly for Octavia.
Mattel: There is time, but due to fans overwhelmingly not liking this feature on Snout Spout we won't be repeating it.
Kastor's Korner: At NYCC last year, it was stated new flight stands were being worked on. Is there any update on this plan, given it has been just about a year?
Mattel: Yes, we should have these to show at NYTF.
Kastor's Korner: Given how well TOD Sorceress sold at Power Con, has there been any consideration to increase the size of future Convention tour exclusives, such as a themed multi-pack? While their Collector's Clubs are obviously a different model than a major toy company, GI Joe Con and BotCon have both seen lots of success with Con exclusive multi-packs.
Mattel: Definitely something we will look into.
Kastor's Korner: Much like the infamous Harley Quinn, recent figures such as Frosta and Uncle Sam seem to feature more grey than white on their light-colored parts. The next figure set to feature a lot of white deco is Netossa, but will she feature the same off-white coloring or actually be white?
Mattel: We are constantly looking into issues like this to improve.toyhypeusa.com
If MOTUC Snake-Face's staff gets cut, would Mattel be willing to sell it individually?
Toyguru: Possible, But it turns out it will not be cut.
Castle Grayskull being made is one of the best announcements Mattel has made all year regarding this line. Was this one of the special surprises you spoke of Scott when the 2013 subscription sold enough subs? Are there more surprises in store for us in 2013?
Toyguru: Actually no. It is not the surprise we have for NYTF. That is something else.
The MOTUC Battle Ram vehicle was only shown once back in 2010. Would Mattel be willing to show us the prototype again? Would it be possible for Mattel to bring this to New York Comic-Con?
Toyguru: No,we aren't going to show an item that is not going forward. We don't want to give false hope.
The small gift for MOTUC Frosta, is it an accessory for her or something else? Also just wanted to thank you personally and Mattel for doing this. It's a very nice genture and much appreciated.
Toyguru: We don't know at this point. We are still costing out items.
Do you think we will ever see more multipacks like the Legion Of Superheroes sold on Mattycollector?
Toyguru: Highly unlikely due to the huge amount of work needed for something like this.Motula.org
Why Sorceress chose Man-at-Arms to raise her clone? Was this choice the way Man-at-Arms knew that Castle Grayskull really existed and wasn't only a legend? Or he already belonged to a Grayskull protector's order.
The Sorceress knew Duncan very well and trusted him.
To optimize the $200.ºº - $250.ºº that the Castle Grayskull approximately will cost and use all the budget in details and a great sculpt of the Castle, it would be great that you could release all the accessories that came with the vintage castle as an article outside the sub, like you did with the Weapons Rack.
That is a cool idea but no plans right now.
When Blast-Attak gets a release date, will he have the Snake Men logo on his chest?
We don't have plans for him right now so you'll have to wait and see!
A new faction/era has been introduced; "He-Ro, the Son of He-Man", do you think it will be one more era for the bios only? Or do we have a chance to get more than one M.o.t.U.C. figure from that era in the future?
Anything is possible, but no plans to announce right now.
Toyguru, we have seen apparently some contradictions between the bios and the 3rd. mini comic content, please, if you can clarify in each case which version must prevail as an official M.o.t.U.C. story
We didn't have enough room in 12 pages to show everything that happened in this battle. Many things happened between pages and even between panels! We had to pick and choose what events to show with the limited page count we had. As for Mekaneck, see the very first line of the intro title page copy from issue 1 for an explanation! (as well as the comic book for the last unfinished episode of the 200X series!)Hordak.de
1. After the fast sell-out of the Snakemen 2-pack could you imagine going back into production on this set and just change the colour scheme of the two figures? This would make an awesome out-of-sub item to help get some more tooling dollars in and would surely sell well, just don't produce as many as the first set!
Definitely not. We tried going back into production and doing second runs and the only figure that came even close to selling well was He-Man. While there are many fans online asking for this, the reality of it is the actual customer base is just not there. A few people asking over and over online does not wind up actualizing into sales that justify production.
2. You tried to save on costs by using black plastic, but that kind of backfired. Now the figures are pressed very tight into their packaging. Could you imagine reducing the rubber bands or simply just quit them? In the past they sometimes even did damage to some figures (first Grayskul . It would save at least a little bit and every dollar saved is good for the line, is it?
We are always looking into new ways to improve figures.
3. You told us that Castle Grayskull will be 200$, maybe a little bit more. Can you tell us also something about shipping costs, so international customers can calculate how much it will cost after taxes in the end? (Frage wurde bereits Ende September gestellt, daher nicht aktuel
No, we do not have this info right now. But assume it will be a very big box and shipping will be significant.
4. Fans have spoken a lot about what they want and we finally are getting the 200x Keldor swords and MAA arm cannon. But what about including 200x heads? Are they still off the table?
The weapons you are referring to are 200X weapons but "Classicized". When you classicize He-Man's 200X head you get the current He-Man head! So we already did this.
5. A question for Terry Higuchi: Do you have an idea, what Cy-Chop's head looked like before his "accident" and if so, will you convince Scott to include an alternate head for your guy with an upcoming figure?
Terry has mentioned due to fan requests he is working on an illustration of Cy-Chop in his pre transformation mode. No word at this time on a figure based on this.elkkthunderstoyroom.com
Will subscribers continue to get emails of announcements as they are happening like Power-con for NYCC and in 2013?
This is something we hope to do, but no plans at this time.
The planned thermometer for Castle Greyskull, how often will it be updated? Can it reflect daily pre-orders?
We will likely update it daily.
Will the subscriber bonus for Frosta be a new tooled piece or some form of repaint/accessory?
That is unknown at this time. We are still reviewing concepts.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MOTUClassics.Com
MOTUClassics.Com Asks: For Toy Guru: What "concept" figure are you most bummed about having to cut out of the road map?
Scott Neitlich: It is just too hard to make a call on this since we don't know how many or few slots we will have next year. Ideally I hope to get to everyone on the original roadmap and more in time. But we will prioritize vintage and important animated figures for 2014.
MOTUClassics.Com Asks: The "He-Ro, Son of He-Man" faction sticker is cool, but with the current state of the line is there a chance we'll ever see it used again after King He-Man? Should the sticker give us some collectors hope for that faction to grow despite the change to the roadmap?
Anything is possible. We'll have to see how many skus we get in 2014.
MOTUClassics.Com Asks: If the Pre-Order goes through, does the Castle's robot/armor have increased chances of getting made? It's time to move beyond the sticker!
We can't do the Robot as a figure (with the castle) but are looking into possible ways to include him. Nothing to confirm but it is on our "want" list if we can get it in somehow.
The sites listed below are the sites who want to participate in the Q&A round-up in these threads and on the He-Man.org homepage news entry.
Be sure to check out their sites! There's a lot there to see in addition to the Q&As.
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toyhypeusa.com NEW!!!
All other sites haven't gotten back to us yet about participating, or have asked not to be included which we completely understand and respect.
So, please do not post the actual questions and answers from any site not listed above.
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Producers from the Dr. Phil Show are in talks with the family of Dylan Redwine, the teenage boy who disappeared last year from Vallecito, about appearing on the television show.
Its not a maybe, its going to happen, said Mark Redwine, father of the missing boy. Its just a matter of getting it coordinated.
Denise Hess, who has helped coordinate search efforts for Dylan, also confirmed the plans.
The family is ready to go at any moment, she said. Were waiting on Mark to decide.
Producers wanted the Redwine family to tape the show this week in California, but Mark Redwine was unable to attend, he said. Now, the producers want to tape on Wednesday or Feb. 27.
It is unknown when the show would air.
Dylan, 14, was reported missing Nov. 19, 2012, from his fathers home north of Vallecito Reservoir. He was visiting his father as part of a court-ordered visitation during the Thanksgiving holiday.
The boys mother, Elaine Redwine, and his older brother, Cory, 21, also plan to appear on the show.
Elaine and Cory Redwine have criticized Mark Redwine for what they perceive as a lack of communication and a lack of involvement in the search for Dylan. They held a rally in front of the fathers house last month in an effort to encourage him to become more involved.
Mark Redwine said appearing on the Dr. Phil Show could raise awareness about Dylans disappearance and reach millions of viewers across the country. But he doesnt want it to turn into a tabloid feud between family members, he said.
There is a lot of personal conflict between myself, Elaine and Cory as a group, he said. These all go back over time. It has nothing to do with Dylan. I think Dylan missing has magnified that to some degree.
Im not afraid of the truth, he said, but what I dont want to see is it turn into a Jerry Springer Show.
We need to unite for Dylans benefit. ... Hopefully, Dr. Phil will take a position where he can address some of those issues and help us as a family focus on what is really important right now. We dont have time to be pointing fingers and making blame or standing out in front of my house like a bunch of idiots holding this (stupid) rally to call me out.
Elaine and Cory Redwine were ready to appear on the show this week, Hess said, but Mark Redwine wouldnt commit to it and didnt give a reason why.
She was glad to hear he is committed to doing the show.
(Dr. Phil) has been one of the people that weve been aiming for right out of the gate in the beginning in our effort to gain national media attention around this case so that we can get Dylan into the homes of millions of people, she said. The more people that know about it, the more people we have looking. So were thrilled to have this opportunity to do that.
Elaine Redwine has appeared by phone to talk to Nancy Grace on her legal-affairs show on the CNN-affiliated Headline News.
Hess said she wouldnt be surprised if Dr. Phil delves into the family dynamics.
A lot of people that Ive spoken to who do watch Dr. Phil have said that he goes right in and starts digging for the dirt, she said. Hes not afraid to ask the hard questions.
Mark Redwine said he doesnt want to place blame.
Quite frankly, I dont care who has Dylan or for what reason they have Dylan, he said. The fact is that they need to let him go and reach out to somebody in his family. And whether that means dropping him off at the nearest Walmart or the nearest post office or the nearest police station or whatever the case may be, let him go.


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On an acquisition tear of late, Valeant Pharmaceuticals appears to be mounting another hostile takeover, fixing its sights this time on Botox-maker Allergan Inc. with activist investor William Ackman providing some of the ammunition.
Valeant /quotes/zigman/122461/delayed /quotes/nls/vrx VRX and Ackman's Pershing Square Management have filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, announcing they intend to seek a merger with Allergan. /quotes/zigman/217110/delayed /quotes/nls/agn AGN
Released after the closing bell Monday, news of the plan sent shares of both Valeant and Allergan skyward in after-hours trades. Allergan jumped by a fifth, retreated somewhat and shot back up to more than $170 a share for a 20% gain in recent action. Valeant, meanwhile, was up nearly 16% at one point and settled back to a gain of about 9% in recent after-hours deals to $137.40.
Allergan spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs had no comment on the action. Officials for Valeant and Pershing did not respond to requests for comment.
In its SEC filing, Valeant and Ackman — who holds nearly 10% of Allergan — said they expect to do a cash and stock deal with the cash component at roughly $15 billion. But if Allergan's shares remain at their now-lofty levels, that makes the stock component worth another $35 billion. Valeant's new-found market cap wrought by Monday's after-hours action puts the company's total value at roughly $46 billion, but it's also unclear how Ackman and Pershing Square figure into a prospective deal.
Allergan makes consumer-oriented health-care items that, along with the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, includes the lap band and dry-eye medication Restasis. Valeant, meanwhile, has bought a number of smaller consumer medical product makers of late, the most notable being last year's purchase of Bausch & Lomb.
Already in 2014, Valeant has purchased a dermatology firm and Solta Medical, which specializes in cosmetic medical products. Since 2010, the company has reported more than two dozen transactions to either acquire companies outright or a portion of their assets. Valeant itself was bought by Biovail in 2010 but kept the Valeant name and is operating out of the old Biovail headquarters in suburban Montreal.
But Valeant officials say they're constantly on the prowl, and make roughly 25 deals a year mostly involving assets that are too small to report. It tried to buy Cephalon Inc. in 2011 but ultimately lost out to Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceuticals. /quotes/zigman/10294855/delayed /quotes/nls/teva TEVA
Ackman's stake in Allegan is said to be his largest, but it's unclear how the dynamic will work between him and Valeant. In their filing, the two parties say they want to merge the companies and form a jointly owned entity. Activist investors like Ackman and Carl Icahn have been gaining prominence, but there is some question as to whether they offer any value to rank-and-file shareholders.
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Elizabeth Schepelman, 90, Wabash, died at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 7, at Miller's Merry Manor East, Wabash.
She was born Sept. 22, 1922 in Wabash to Henry and Lena (Ammeter) Schepelman. Elizabeth was a 1940 graduate of Anderson High School. She was a telephone operator with General Telephone Company, Wabash, retiring after 25 years. She was a member of the Wabash First United Methodist Church, and a 59 year member of the Wabash Order of the Eastern Star. She enjoyed traveling, and traveled all over the U.S. and visited Switzerland. She also enjoyed knitting and crocheting.
She is survived by her longtime friend, Sue McElveen, Wabash. She was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.
Graveside services and burial will be in Falls Cemetery on Wednesday, April 10, at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Kurt Freeman officiating. Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, Wabash.
The memorial guest book for Elizabeth may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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Chicken Kofta Recipe in Makhani Curry
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Chicken kofta is not your average meatball. It's packed with Indian spices, garam masala and chiles. To top that off, in this recipe the kofta are drenched in a rich, creamy curried, tomato sauce made with tomato, onions, cashew nuts, lemon juice, ghee, cream and a few spices.
Seriously, what's not to love? Any time you can say "meatball" and "cream sauce" in the same sentence, something delicious is probably going on. We often make this for dinner parties because it's a little too rich to serve on a regular basis. Having said that, I find myself coming up with "special" occasions all the time as an excuse to make this dish. If you try it out yourself, I bet you will too!
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"Probably, in the Russian context, something like this was inevitable."
That's how Pavel Durov who ran VKontakte — Russia's equivalent to Facebook — summed the situation up after being forced out of the company he founded for refusing to share users' personal data with authorities, according to media reports. He's now been replaced with someone very close to President Vladimir Putin, a move seen as part of the Kremlin's efforts to gain control of social media and tighten its grip on the Internet.
"Unfortunately, the country is now incompatible with Internet business at the moment," Durov said in an interview with TechCrunch. "I'm afraid there is no going back [to VKontakte], not after I publicly refused to co-operate with the authorities. They can't stand me."
Durov — sometimes referred to as the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia — was asked by law-enforcement agencies to share details on Ukrainians who had used the social network to set up anti-government protest groups. He was also told to shut down a group that supported Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
He refused, then sold his shares in the company so he could continue to "make the right decisions", he said.
"Today VKontakte goes under the complete control of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov," Durov said. "I'm happy we lasted seven-and-a-half years. We did a lot. And part of what's been done can't be turned back."
Sechin and Usmanov are no strangers to the Kremlin and have close ties to the Russian elite. Sechin is a top boss at state-owned oil company Rosneft and Putin's former deputy chief of staff. Usmanov, the richest man in Russia according to Forbes' billionaire list, made his fortune in the iron-ore and steel business, and is now a major investor in telecom and media firms such as Megaphone (Russia's second-largest phone operator), Kommersant (one of Russia's biggest business dailies) and Facebook. He's also one of the biggest shareholders of London-based soccer club Arsenal.
While Durov may have been forced out by pro-Putin forces, he's not leaving the online world for good. He told TechCrunch he'll probably start building another social network this year. It just won't be in Russia.
"I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back," he told the news site.
Durov's ousting comes just as big brother Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed /quotes/nls/fb FB prepares to report first-quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday. It also comes as tensions flared up again in the Ukraine, with the U.S. set to move troops near Russia and Kiev looking set on restarting military action against pro-Russia activists.
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text: Andrew de Quincey wrote: >> Felix Domke wrote: >> >>> Though I didn't test this, i strongly agree that we need this. I don't >>> think it should be user selectable, though (except for the "SIMPLE" >>> mode) - either the frontends supports a specific algorithm or not. >>> Otherwise i fear that user applications start to workaround frontend >>> driver bugs by selecting another algorithm... >>> >>> What's the exact difference between HW and ADAPTIVE? Isn't "it's done in >>> hardware" the same as "it's done in the frontend driver", as far as the >>> API is concerned? >>> >>> Some frontends support blindscanning, but require heavy software support >>> for this (Fujitsu mb86a15 for example). Such code is not really suitable >>> in the kernel (it sleeps, includes complicated algorithms etc.), so i >>> think the best would be to make it a userspace library with frontend >>> specific private ioctls, providing more or less direct register (or even >>> i2c) access. What do you think? >>> >> After a while, i would like to continue this discussion from where we >> left off last time. In this regard i did some basic homework ( no code >> yet ) >> but did come to the thoughts that a userspace library would be indeed >> the solution. In such a case i was drawn to the conclusion that a >> userspace i2c like extension which interfaces from the kernel to the >> userspace in such a manner that it interfaces to the Host Bridge directly. >> Why i would think that a generic i2c interface probably might not be the >> solution is because almost all Host Bridges have General Purpose Input >> Output (GPIO) for controlling some peripherals. for ex. frontends. >> >> Under such a circumstance i made my ideas into block diagrams for easier >> self explanation, without too many words. >> >> But in any case i would like to make a small outline on the very same. >> We could add just 2 IOCTL's to the existing API for making it compatible >> with applications such that applications can choose between these two >> and or switch between the interfaces. >> Currently i came to a conclusion something like this. >> >> http://www.thadathil.net/dvb/msg_transfer_interface/interface_desc.txt >> >> >> There are other advantages more than what was discussed earlier on this >> aspect than just tuning algorithms. Some of the advantages are >> >> * we don't loose anything as all these communications that are exchanged >> are low speed communications >> * lesser bloat in kernel >> * being in userspace, things can be easily debugged >> * cards with lot of cross definitions can be easily implemented, without >> the need of huge arrays in kernel >> * the application can get a better control of the drivers (the frontend >> thread could easily be in the application, rather being in the kernel) >> But will need to keep the existing one as it is for compatibility reasons. >> * userspace can handle math libraries compared to kernel. >> * we can do tuning algorithms specific to frontends too.(such that we >> can make use of the hardware features) >> > > Yeah, I like this idea. If we keep on as we are, we're not really going to get > anywhere; it is becoming increasingly obvious that putting all the tuning > code in the kernel is hampering things a great deal. Many of the window > drivers I have examined have a similar architecture as well: raw device > access in kernel land, with the "interesting" stuff happening in userspace. > > This way means we can support the old system so it provides minimum disruption > to existing users, but that we can also develop the more advanced stuff > required by others at the same time. > > I also like the idea of an i2c-like communications (but not i2c itself). i2c > itself is a very neat idea well understood by many people, so it makes sense > to mimic it. Obviously we can't use the kernel i2c layer directly because we > don't want to impose a dependency like that, since not all DVB devices > support i2c. > > I suppose there might be an argument that we should "emulate" an i2c host for > non-i2c based DVB cards - personally I don't like this since IMO it would be > overkill, but I thought I should mention it for completeness. > > We could even do interesting things like have a python/perl interface to the > tuning system for rapid prototyping of tuning/frontend drivers - something > that sounds good to me. > Yeah sounds cool, i think we should go for the dip then.. Thanks, Manu


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The information in this HOWTO pertains to Turbine 2.2. Please refer to the Migrating from 2.2 to 2.3 page for information on migating to Turbine 2.3.
This document describes the basic steps needed to migrate an application written for Turbine 2.1 to Turbine 2.2 using the decoupled Torque.
You may find that migrating to 2.2 is not all that difficult. Of course, this depends quite a bit on how much of Turbine your application actually uses. You may find migrating to 2.2 to be quite a chore, but it is well worth the effort. Most of the pain in figuring out this migration process has been documented in the mailing list archives, but is summarized here for your convenience.
Start off with deleting all of the objects that Torque generated for you. I am talking about om.map.* and om.Base*. You will be able to regenerate them later during the migration process.
The structure of the build files used by Turbine has changed quite a bit with the 2.2 release. The easiest way of obtaining a reference set of property (and build files) is to install version 2.2 of the TDK and generate the demo application.
From the demo application you should:
See the Torque Properties Reference for full details of the available properties.
Turbine and Torque use updated versions of a number of libraries (jar files). Take a look at the WEB-INF/lib directory of the TDK sample application to see which libraries have been updated and replace the files in the lib directory of your application as needed.
Note that if you have applied local changes to Turbine itself then you should ensure that your changes have made it into the Turbine 2.2 and Torque 3.0 releases. If any of your changes have not made it then you will need to port these changes forward and build your own versions of the Turbine and Torque jar files (while you are there you may as well create patches and submit them to the relevant modules in Scarab so that they can be included in future releases).
By default Torque will utilize a set of Velocity templates that you need to extract from the Torque jar file (see the torque.templatePath property). Unless you have a need to alter these templates you may prefer to use these directly from the jar file. To do this you need to set the torque.useClasspath property to true in build.peoperties. In any case, you should either replace or delete the old versions of these templates from your existing project.
Many of your import statements will need to be changed. This is due to the decoupled version of Torque. This will take care of most of the changes due to refactoring. There will still be a few cases (discussed later) where the methods have been changed and/or moved to different classes.
[Here] is list of the most common import changes.
org.apache.turbine.util.db.DBConnection is gone. The replacement is java.sql.Connection. This was a wrapper class from the Connection object. It was returned when you asked for a database connection. The new version of Torque will simply return a Connection object.
org.apache.turbine.services.db.TurbineDB is gone. The replacement is org.apache.torque.Torque. This was mainly used to obtain database connections and the name of the default database. All of this functionality is in the new class.
Below is an example of how you might have been obtaining database connections in version 2.1.
DBConnection dbConn = null; try { dbConn = TurbineDB.getConnection(); // Do something with the connection here... } catch (Exception e) { // Either from obtaining the connection or from your application code. } finally { try { TurbineDB.releaseConnection(dbConn); } catch (Exception e) { // Error releasing database connection back to pool. } }
Using the new version of Torque this would be rewritten as follows.
Connection conn = null; try { conn = Torque.getConnection(); // Do something with the connection here... } catch (TorqueException ex) { // Either from obtaining the connection or from your application code. Log.error(ex); } finally { Torque.closeConnection(conn); }
Support for transactions has been moved from org.apache.turbine.om.BasePeer into org.apache.torque.util.Transaction. The method names have changed slightly as well. Here is an example of using transactions in 2.1.
DBConnection dbConn = null; try { dbConn = BasePeer.beginTrasaction(TurbineDB.getDefaultDB?()); someObject.save(dbConn); someOtherObject.save(dbConn); BasePeer.commitTransaction(dbConn); } catch (Exception e) { // Either from obtaining the connection or from your application code. BasePeer?.rollbackTransaction(dbConn); }
This would now be written as shown below.
Connection conn = null; try { conn = Transaction.begin(Torque.getDefaultDB()); someObject.save(conn); someOtherObject.save(conn); Transaction.commit(conn); } catch (TorqueException ex) { try { Transaction.rollback(conn); } catch (TorqueException ex2) { Log.error(ex2); } Log.error(ex); }
Methods generated by Torque that previously had a return type of Vector now have a return type of List. If you have not already been doing so you should switch to retrieving the results of these methods into variables declared as List. While you are at it you might like to update any of your own code to use ArrayList in preference to Vector.
Methods generated by Torque now throw TorqueException rather than Exception. You might like to update your code to match.
Note that the exception thrown by save() methods is determined by the Torque property torque.saveException which defaults to Exception.
See Extending Turbine User How-To for this information.
Read over the Torque Schema Reference to find out what to change in your project-schema.xml file. The main changes are the deprecation of sequence and autoIncrement idMethods and the addition of the javaType attribute to column elements (Torque can now work with object types).
If you used inheritance, you will run need to specify abstract="true" for the tables which have abstract base classes. When you do this, you will need to implement the copy() method in your subclasses. An example is provided below.
public <base class> copy() throws TorqueException { return copyInto(new <sub class>()); }
Atributes defined as primary keys are no longer generated as NumberKey objects. They are now Integer or int (depending on the javaType specified in project-schema.xml).
If you have a turbine-schema.xml file in your WEB-INF/conf directory, the project-om ant task will generate all of the Turbine*, BaseTurbine*, and map.Turbine* objects for you. These will not be used by Turbine. They will only confuse you. The best thing to do for this is to rename your turbine-schema.xml file to something like turbine-schema.nogenerate.
My TurbineResources.properties did not have settings to configure the secure options. This caused initialization of the service to fail. To fix this, I simply obtained all of the configuration settings from the TurbineResources.properties included with the source version.
The service does not listen on the loopback interface by default any longer. There were no other changes that are required to get this service up and running under T2.2.
You may like to consider using Maven to build your project. The document Starting your project and database with TDK2.2 and Maven provides some information that can be adapted for this purpose (jump down to the "Moving The Sample" heading for the documentation relevant to an existing project).


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Odessa Police Searching for Armed Robber
You can help Odessa police catch who robbed the Bush's Chicken in the 2700 block of North Andrews Highway Wednesday night.
Around 9:30PM, an employee tells police that he was cleaning the floor in the back of the restaurant when a man came in and pointed a gun at him and demanded money. The employee started arguing with the robber and that's when another employee walked into the room to see what was going on.
To prove that the gun was real, the robber is said to have racked a round from the gun. The employees began approaching him as the robber was backing away. According to the employees, the robber fired a shot towards them, hitting the door.
The robber then took off.
A third employee tells police that he had walked around the back of the restaurant when the robber pointed a gun at him and demanded money. The employee told him no and walked inside.
Thankfully, no one was injured.
The robber is described as around 18 years old, about 5'11" and was wearing a black mask, black long sleeve shirt and dark pants with black gloves.
If you have any information that could help in this investigation, call the Odessa Police Department at 432-333-3641 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at 432-333-TIPS.


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So, two of my good friends were 1v1-ing at ggrim (Crickhollow's designated 1v1 area) and in the middle of their 1v1, boom, they both got banned for 7 days for rank farming. They both filed tickets, emailed several times, demanding explanation. I did the same. I turned tickets in in-game and online to assure those two people are legit players and are not even close to farmers. It's been 3 days and their ban is not getting lifted. Even after one of the friends who got banned demanded detailed explanation from Turbine on what exactly triggered the ban, no clear responses... How would we know what to avoid from now? Can we not 1v1 anymore?? It was a daily, casual, friendly 1v1 between friends. We are all in Raidcall, and we fight until death (some of us lag like crazy, so we stop, if the other is not fighting back). We follow the strictest rules of no CDs, no morale pots, and not even debuff pots if one is lower rank, to make the 1v1 more interesting and challenging (burgs and wargs 1v1 without stealth, if they have good sportsmanship). It is a form of sports within PVMP when the action is dead or it's just massive zerg out. One of the main reasons why I love pvmp is because of 1v1s. 1v1s are the true test of your skills. Everyone and anyone can zerg, it's no brainer. Not everyone can 1v1 well.
The responses my friends got were:
(1) Turbine looked into their 1v1s and they claim their decision to ban my friends are warranted.
(2) They were watching the 1v1 and they noticed one of them was not fighting back fully.
These two people are high ranked players: one is a Rank 11 Burg, another is a Rank 12 Warg. The burg is probably the second best on Crickhollow, the warg is the best on our server. I've known both of them for a long time, and they have never farmed, and they will never farm. They are highly skilled players who can go out solo, charge into a zerg and get a kill before dying. No need to farm.
I do highly respect the decision Turbine has made to finally ban rank farming. Thank you for that. I am a Rank 12 Captain, highest ranked captain on our server and I hate farmers. I've earned every single renown legitimately and respect others who have done the same. I actively call out farmers when I witness suspicious activities, and I've even made a forum about a repeated farmer in the past, before the time rank farming was officially against the code of conduct.
My friends also noticed that they got banned after two other players passed by them. Those two players are known 1v1 gankers. Very, very famous for it. I've even heard those people ask in OOC, where the 1v1s? then show up with a group and zerg all 1v1-ers. Pitiful pvmp players. My friends believe that those two players who 'personally hate' 1v1s, submitted an intentionally illhearted, false report to put my friends into trouble.
What I would like to know are:
(1) Are we not supposed to 1v1 anymore? Because the two people who got banned are as legit as a pvmp player can be. If their 1v1 is bannable material, what 1v1 is not?
(2) How was Turbine watching the 1v1? Across the servers when there are so many 'actual' farmers out there in the delving, behind the rocks near Isendeep, away from all activities (definitely, not in the middle of ggrim, where a lot of people pass by to check for 1v1s...??) And if they were watching, could you please explain in detail what exactly triggered the ban? So that none of us will ever do that to get banned.
(3) Is there a way to prove/ verify the reports from other players? If some illhearted person make a false claim regarding rank farming (which I suspect will happen more than we like, because of the nature of pvmp triggering hatred towards each other, especially in emotionally non-mature players, and some may just abuse this new system to get legit players get banned, which I suspect is what happened here), can Turbine verify that?
I would love to hear a response from Turbine. I also encourage all pvmp players who have been falsefully banned for rank farming recently, or know people who have been falsefully banned, to respond to this thread. Please make sure to be mature about your responses, however. Let's not use curse words, let's not be hateful.


text: 16 April 2014 Dry Bulk | Breakbulk Atchison Topeka improved the efficiency of its UK operations by consolidating multiple food distribution centres into a single facility that transfers powdered food ingredients from bulk bags into bulk tanker trucks. The plant's new closed-loop bulk transfer system consists of a bulk bag discharger integrated with pneumatic conveying equipment that blows bulk material into the trucks, while recirculating displaced air and recovering dust from the airstream. To meet food industry standards, the process was required to comply with BRC (British Retail Consortium) requirements in three areas: bulk tankers, warehousing and palletized distribution. While the facility would be handling a variety of food ingredients, analysis showed that most exhibited bulk densities of approximately 650kg/m3. Most were also free-flowing or semi-free flowing, with an angle of repose of 40° to 60°. One of the ingredients, however, was relatively hygroscopic and prone to bridging, so the equipment needed to prevent cavitation. At the heart of the bulk transfer system (manufactured by Flexicon) is a BULK-OUTTM Model BFC bulk bag discharger configured with a cantilevered I-beam, electric hoist and trolley, flow promotion devices and a hopper equipped with a rotary airlock valve. The dilute phase pneumatic conveying portion of the system consists of a positive displacement pressure blower, pneumatic conveying line and a filter receiver located downstream from the bulk tanker truck. Automated controls orchestrate operation of the flow promotion devices, rotary airlock valves, blower and filter receiver.All material contact surfaces throughout the system are of 304 stainless steel finished to food standards. To start the process, a forklift or pallet jack is used to place a bulk bag in front of the discharge frame, where an operator attaches four bag loops to clips on the unit's bag lifting frame and, using a pendant, activates the hoist to raise the bag, and the trolley to move it into the frame, and after which it is lowered onto the spout connection point. A Spout-LockTM clamp ring, which is mounted atop a Tele- TubeTM telescoping tube, securely connects the clean side of the bag spout to the clean side of the equipment, after which the telescoping tube exerts continuous downward tension on the bagspout. Theoperatorthenreleasesthebagspout's drawstring, allowing material to fall freely into the hopper with no dusting. Flow FlexerTM plates raise opposite bottom edges of the bag into a steep 'V' shape, loosening compacted material, while constant downward tension exerted by the telescoping tube as the bag empties/elongates promotes complete discharge from the bag. Material in the hopper is fed through a rotary airlock valve and pneumatic pick-up adapter into a pneumatic line that runs horizontally for 1m and at an incline before penetrating the exterior wall of the building to discharge material into a tanker trailer. The air stream provides sufficient force to blow the material the full length of the trailer's interior. A return line vents displaced air and dust to the filter receiver that collects any carry-over material for later reintroduction to the pneumatic conveying system. LOOKING FORWARD The design of the bag-to-truck solution utilizes modular components that will allow the distributor to re- purpose its process for other applications, such as transferring powders from trailers to bulk bags, or new materials with varied handling characteristics. Along with consolidating operations, the dust-tight bulk bag discharger with totally enclosed pneumatic conveying prevented contamination of the product and plant environment, eliminated the need for a clean room, and simplified quality control procedures. The Droitwich facility builds on the distributor's 20-year record for clean, safe handling of food materials and maintaining rigorous standards for public health and safety.


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The honeymoon period is officially over for Kevin Kolb in Arizona.
After an uninspiring start to his Cardinals career, Kolb finds himself in a fight to keep his job as training camp begins. John Skelton was the better player last season, and the quarterbacks now embark on what's believed to be an open competition.
This would appear to be a much different scenario than this time last summer. But Kolb doesn't see it that way.
"Well it's funny because they said the same thing last year, so that's the way (Ken Whisenhunt) works and this coaching staff works," Kolb told NFL Network's Rebecca Haarlow at Cardinals camp. "It's nothing new for myself, throughout my entire career I've done that from the word 'go,' even when I went to Philadelphia with Michael (Vick) and Donovan (McNabb).
"It's something I'm used to. It's always a grind, it's always tough to come and compete every single day, but I look forward to doing it."
This is a good bit of Jock Speak from Kolb, nothing more. The Cardinals gave up plenty both in the way of personnel and cash to make Kolb their franchise quarterback. He was their guy last season. He now must convince them that's still the case.


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Here is the latest Inspiration + Illustration series by Melanie Boychuk, illustrator contributor for FV. Here, she shows you her source of inspirations [ Harpers Bazaar May 2012 photo ] to create her illustration and photo media collage. Love the bold black statement and back drop today Mel!
You can also check out her website, missmel.com to view more of her work and to contact her if you need an illustrator for any projects.
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ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., Feb. 25, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRLI) announced today it plans to issue earnings results for the first quarter 2014 before the open of market trading on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The Company's earnings conference call is to take place the same day at 10:30 a.m. EST. The call will be hosted by Marc D. Grodman M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer.
The live Web cast will be available at the Company's corporate Web site, www.bioreference.com and through www.streetevents.com. To listen to the live call please go to the Web site ten minutes before the conference call is scheduled to begin. You will need to register as well as download and install any necessary audio software. The Web cast will be archived, on both Web sites, for 30 days following the call.
About BioReference Laboratories, Inc.
BRLI is a clinical testing laboratory offering testing, information and related services to physician offices, clinics, hospitals, employers and governmental units. We believe that we are the fourth largest full-service laboratory in the United States and the largest independent regional laboratory in the Northeastern market. BRLI offers a comprehensive list of laboratory testing services utilized by healthcare providers in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring and treatment of diseases. BRLI primarily focuses on esoteric testing, molecular diagnostics, anatomical pathology, women's health and correctional health care.
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