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Undergraduate Division
The Jacobs School of Music offers a number of music courses, performance study options, and ensembles especially designed for students majoring in fields other than music. In addition, qualified nonmajors are welcome to participate in music major academic courses, performance courses, or ensembles on a space-available basis. Under certain conditions, credit for these courses is accepted toward degree requirements in other schools and departments. At the time of registration, proper approval must be secured from the chairperson of the student's major department or the dean of the school, as well as from the director of undergraduate studies in the Jacobs School of Music.
Minor for Students Whose Majors Are Outside the Jacobs School of Music
Applications for minors may be made at the Music Undergraduate Office, Merrill Hall 011, Bloomington campus.
Applications should be submitted to the Undergraduate Office when course work is nearing completion.
Information about the minor can be found at http://music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/general-studies/index.shtml
The minor must include at least 20 credit hours, of which at least 15, including a minimum of one core course, must be taken at the Jacobs School of Music. Any course in which the student receives a grade below C- may not be used to fulfill a requirement on this minor.
6 credit hours
Z111 Introduction to Music Theory (3 cr.) and Z101 Music for the Listener (3 cr.) [T109 Rudiments of Music (3 cr.), and/or T151 Music Theory and Literature (3 cr.) may be substituted for students who qualify].
Ensemble/Live Performance
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- Ensemble [1-2 cr.]; X001 All-Campus Ensemble (1 cr.); or by audition, X040 University Instrumental Ensembles (2 cr.), X050 Marching Hundred for Non-Music Majors (2 cr.), X060 Early Music Ensembles (2 cr.), X070 University Choral Ensembles (2 cr.), or X030 Ballet Ensemble (2 cr.)]
- Z100 The Live Musical Performance (2 cr.)
- Z161 Steel Drumming (2 cr.)
- Z162 Hand Drumming (2 cr.)
Music Electives
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Courses with a Z Prefix that may be taken as Music Electives
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VivaGel phase 3 study results
Melbourne Australia: Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX: SPL, OTCQX SPHRY) today announced the results of its two phase 3 studies of 1% SPL7013 Gel (VivaGel®) for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis (BV). Both studies showed that VivaGel® achieved statistically significant Clinical Cure and resolution of patient-reported symptoms of BV at the End of Treatment visit (EOT, 2-5 days post treatment). However, the primary endpoint of Clinical Cure 2-3 weeks after the cessation of treatment (Test of Cure, TOC visit) was not met.
A new drug application (NDA) for VivaGel® for the treatment of BV will not be filed with the FDA at this time due to the lack of statistical significance at TOC, although other claim strategies (e.g. symptomatic relief) and other regulatory jurisdictions may well be available and will be fully explored.
Importantly, although not sustained for the full 2-3 weeks after cessation of therapy, the highly statistically significant Clinical Cure achieved with VivaGel® compared with placebo gel at the EOT time point, 2-5 days after the end of treatment, confirms, in these large scale clinical studies, that VivaGel® can have a significant impact in the treatment and management of BV.
Each study (SPL7013-015 and SPL7013-016) enrolled approximately 250 women. In each study 50% and 57% women, respectively, achieved Clinical Cure with VivaGel® versus just 17% and 21% with placebo (p<0.001) at EOT. At TOC, the Clinical Cure rates for VivaGel® and placebo were 27% versus 21%, respectively, in SPL7013-015 and 28% versus 28% in SPL7013-016.
Vaginal discharge assessed by the clinician was resolved in 71% and 74% of women (statistically significant versus placebo, p<0.001), while 61% and 68% of participants reported absence of abnormal vaginal discharge (p=0.033 and p<0.001, respectively, versus placebo). Vaginal odour, as assessed by the clinician ('whiff' test) was resolved in 72% and 70% of women (p<0.001) at EOT, while 76% and 72% of participants reported resolution of unpleasant vaginal odour (p<0.001).
The results are entirely consistent with the strategy being pursued to address prevention of recurrence of BV, for which ongoing therapy every second day with VivaGel® is intended to achieve a reduced risk of recurrence of the condition.
Indeed, the demonstration of statistically significant Clinical Cure at EOT, which was the key secondary endpoint of these studies, is highly supportive of VivaGel® for prevention of recurrence of BV, and there is no negative impact of these phase 3 results on the investigation of the product for this indication. The phase 2 study of VivaGel® (SPL7013-014) for prevention of recurrence of BV is ongoing, and results are anticipated in Q1 2013.
These phase 3 results at TOC are in contrast to the results from the 2011 phase 2 BV treatment study in which highly statistically significant Clinical Cure was achieved for VivaGel® 1% at both EOT and TOC. There appear to be several potentially confounding factors in the phase 3 studies, including unusually high placebo Clinical Cure rates at some sites, and the fact that these placebo cure rates increased between the two time points (EOT to TOC), rather than decreased. Both of these factors may have contributed to the inability to achieve the required primary endpoint and reproduce the phase 2 results.
Other potentially confounding factors, all of which are known to impact BV, may include rate of condom use, decreased sexual activity in the placebo-treated groups due to ongoing symptoms, and the possibility of placebo participants with unresolved or ongoing symptoms changing their behavior or seeking other therapies to ameliorate their symptoms. These potentially confounding factors are currently being thoroughly investigated and will be discussed at planned meetings with the US FDA and other regulatory authorities as soon as practicable.
While the primary endpoint in these studies was not met, these results do demonstrate efficacy of 1% SPL7013 Gel in treating BV, and are supportive of the hypothesis that recurrence of BV could be prevented by ongoing therapy (every second day), as is being investigated in the current phase 2 prevention of recurrence study, SPL7013-014.
Patients treated with VivaGel® also reported rapid resolution of their symptoms (discharge and odour) within just 2-3 days of starting treatment, and this symptomatic relief was sustained in a significant proportion of women at the later (TOC) time point. This finding is another promising indicator for the performance of VivaGel® in the prevention of recurrence indication as it shows that onset of the effect is rapid. This rapid onset of action in symptom control was matched by very encouraging patient feedback on acceptability (see below).
Dr Jackie Fairley, Starpharma Chief Executive Officer said: "We are surprised and disappointed in not meeting the phase 3 FDA endpoint for the treatment indication in these trials, given the phase 2 trial results; however, we are also greatly encouraged by the statistically significant efficacy and excellent symptomatic relief shown for VivaGel® at the end of treatment in these studies and we do plan to fully explore the potential for regulatory filings based on these data. In addition we, and our expert clinical advisors, see the efficacy demonstrated with VivaGel®, the excellent safety profile and patient feedback as very positive for the prevention indication,"
"With total global sales of ~$300-350M, the treatment market is significantly smaller and more competitive than the prevention of BV recurrence market. In that market – estimated to be at least 3 times larger – there are no approved products and VivaGel® would be first in class. Partner interest in the prevention of recurrence indication continues to be very strong," Dr Fairley added.
Due to its chronic nature and the high prevalence of recurrent BV (40-50% of BV sufferers), estimates by analysts, partners and Starpharma concur that the prevention of recurrence market is more than $1 billion (range 1-2 billion).
Expert clinical advisor to the program, Professor George Kinghorn, OBE, who is Clinical Director at NIHR Clinical Research Network, Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Hallamshire and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the UK, commented: "Unfortunately the primary endpoint of these studies was not met, but the results showing statistically significant Clinical Cure of BV at the end of treatment are important, and combined with high patient acceptability and an excellent safety profile for the product, are highly encouraging in terms of the demonstration of a clinical effect of VivaGel®, and the potential utility of the product for prevention of recurrent BV, and as a potential adjunct in primary treatment using existing therapies."
The safety profile of VivaGel® in these phase 3 trials was excellent, with very low rates of both genitourinary and non-genitourinary adverse events, and was consistent with administration of a locally applied, non-systemically absorbed agent. Importantly, there were very few instances of candidiasis reported in women taking VivaGel®, with just 1.6% and 3.2% of women in 015 and 016, respectively, being diagnosed with the condition during the treatment and follow-up periods. This finding is in significant contrast to other BV treatments for which published candidiasis rates are around 10-20%. Following prolonged use of metronidazole, as many as 59% of women are reported to experience episodes of candidiasis, which result in further cost and inconvenience for women with BV. The safety profile of VivaGel® in these studies is, again, highly encouraging in terms of the prevention indication.
Given its good performance in symptom resolution in patients, not surprisingly, women rated VivaGel® significantly higher than placebo in terms of effectiveness and overall satisfaction (p<0.001) in a treatment satisfaction questionnaire for medications (TSQM) undertaken at EOT. Twice as many women were satisfied to extremely satisfied with VivaGel® compared with the placebo (p<0.001).
In addition, formal market research undertaken with trial participants and key opinion leaders elicited substantial positive feedback on VivaGel® both in terms of effectiveness, rapid onset of effect and desirability of the formulation compared to current products. In this research, women with BV reported "constantly worrying" about "embarrassing" and "absolutely horrible" odour and discharge. Women also report the existing therapies as tasting "horrible", causing unpleasant side effects such as an "upset stomach", candidiasis (thrush) and interfering with sexual intercourse. The clear gel and localised nature of VivaGel® use was preferred by women. Women who used VivaGel® reported very quickly noticing a "huge difference" in their BV.
Ultimately, the inability to meet the primary endpoint in either SPL7013-015 or -016 means that an NDA for VivaGel® for treatment of BV will not be submitted to the FDA as originally planned based on these data in Q1 2013. However, because of the positive results at EOT, the beneficial impact of the product on patient-reported symptoms, and the potentially confounding factors, discussions with the FDA and other regulators are certainly warranted to investigate the product options which may be open based on these data. These interactions will be scheduled as soon as practicable.
Partnering discussions are already underway for VivaGel® with a significant number of parties and will continue. Given that the majority of potential licensing partners have emphasized the importance and value of prevention of recurrence of BV indication for VivaGel®, it is expected that the achievement of statistically significant Clinical Cure at EOT in two large phase 3 studies, along with symptomatic relief and the excellent side effect profile, will assist in advancing these discussions.
In addition, these phase 3 study results have no negative implications for the condom coating products, as the marketing claims being pursued for condoms relate to the potent antiviral activity of SPL7013, the active dendrimer ingredient in VivaGel®. Many of the phase 3 study findings, including the demonstration of significant control of unpleasant vaginal odour, may have potential commercial applications in some geographic markets, while the excellent safety data add to the increasingly large database on the safety of SPL7013.
"In conclusion, despite this disappointing result the fundamentals of Starpharma's strategy have not changed. We have a platform technology that has broad applicability with the potential to generate multiple revenue streams. We have already demonstrated through our three development programs our ability to secure multiple partnerships with large, leading international companies. Starpharma remains in a strong cash position, with a cash balance of $37.6M at 30 September 2012. This balance excludes the newly announced $5.3M in estimated cash from R&D tax incentives and together these will allow Starpharma to continue to progress the multiple VivaGel® programs, as well as drug delivery and agrochemical programs as planned." Dr Fairley concluded.
Posted: November 2012
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Psychol. Soc. no.37 Durban ene. 2009
HIV/AIDS: management and stigma
Kerry Frizelle
School of Psychology University of KwaZulu Natal Howard College Campus Durban 4041 Email:email@example.com
Deacon, H with Stepheny, D & Prosalendis, S (2005) Understanding HIV/AIDS stigma: A theoretical and methodological analysis. Cape Town: HSRC Press. ISBN 0 7969 2104 0 pbk. Pages 120.
Vass, J & Phakathi, S (2006) Managing HIV in the workplace: Learning from SMEs. Cape Town: HSRC Press. ISBN 0 7969 2161 X pbk. Pages 108.
In the course of offering HIV/AIDS training I have had the opportunity to work with two particularly interesting groups of individuals; the first group included a number of artists, and the second a number of trainee farmers. On both occasions I was asked to cover the basic facts about HIV/AIDS and to discuss and debate possible ways in which each group could respond to the challenges of the virus within their areas of work. This proved to be a difficult task. While a few artists may group themselves into small businesses, many of them come together periodically for commissioned work (disbanding when the project is over) or are self-employed. The farmers, on the other hand, manage groups of workers, many of whom are contract workers and a relatively transient group. In preparing for this work I found it difficult to access relevant literature and information on how these individuals could respond to the epidemic. While there is a large body of literature on the impact of the virus on large companies and a number of existing HIV/AIDS programmes and services that have been designed around the needs (and budgets) of large companies, there is very little that deals with the impact and management of HIV/AIDS on, and in small businesses and even less on how the virus impacts on the informal sector and how this can be prevented and managed. The HSRC monograph Managing HIV in the workplace: Learning from SMEs is therefore a welcome, but long overdue, addition to the body of research and literature on HIV/AIDS in the workplace.
The monograph reports on the findings of in-depth case studies of six small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The qualitative case study methodology differs from the largely quantitative survey methodology of existing research and aimed to give voice to both the employers and employees of the companies randomly selected for the study. I was, however, disappointed to find that most of the companies (five of the six) included in the study were described as medium sized, consisting of between 150 and 250 employees. Only one company was described as small and consisted of 62 employees. In this way the needs and challenges of small companies, which can include considerably smaller numbers than 62 employees, were largely overlooked by this study.
If we consider the industry of many of the medium sized companies in this study (two of the companies are in the automotive industry) and that six of the companies are in a position to offer permanent employment it is not likely that they face the severe resource constraints of much smaller companies with smaller budgets. In a country with an increase in entrepreneurial enterprises there is surely a need to focus on the role of smaller businesses, with temporary and contract staff, and limited budgets, in mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS. Going back to the discussion of the artists and the farm workers, how do we develop effective and sustainable interventions for these groups of individuals? While it is possible to draw on some of the ideas discussed in this study, I would argue that small companies run the risk of mimicking the programmes of medium sized companies who have an entirely different set of needs and challenges, just as the medium sized companies in this study were largely seen as mimicking the interventions of larger companies.
One of the reasons for the lack of programmes in SMEs was identified and discussed in the literature review, where it was argued that HIV/AIDS service providers tend to view SMEs as uncertain markets. This highlights Elizabeth Pisani's (2008:288) concern with what she refers to as the HIV/AIDS industry, where "most people do whatever projects pay them to do". While the literature review acknowledges that SMEs might be unwilling to pay for HIV/AIDS services, one cannot overlook the fact that many service providers are part of a larger HIV/AIDS industry and that they will design their services for larger companies who have the budget to pay and in the process the needs of much smaller businesses are overlooked.
Three interesting and valuable sources of information emerge from the findings of this study. Firstly, a wide range of possible HIV/AIDS risk factors for SMEs are identified and critically discussed. One of the more interesting findings was "a case in which the low HIV-prevalence rate contradicted the predicted outcome based on the company demographic profile" (Vass 2006:81)1. The workforce in this company is mainly made up of African and Coloured, semi-skilled females, which reflect a high-risk group, yet the HIV prevalence level was low amongst these employees. The study concludes that possible reasons for this contradiction are the age profile (the women were older) and the stability of employment (the length of continuous service was on average 13 years). While the latest DOH (2008) prevalence study suggests an increase in the infection rate amongst older women, the case study discussed above highlights how a number of factors interact in complex ways to either increase or decrease risk of HIV infection. For example, Vass suggests that long service may be key to life style stability, which in turn is considered to contribute to the adoption of safer sexual behaviours. In conclusion Vass argues that "it seems plausible that those in relatively stable long-term employment, in which they have accumulated considerable skills and experience, may be more likely to engage in risk aversive behaviour to protect their own accumulated personal capital (a family, a home, personal status in community and social aspirations)" (p82).
Secondly, various approaches to managing HIV/AIDS by SMEs are explored, highlighting some innovative responses, while also acknowledging those factors that may be undermining the success of these programmes. Some creative responses included forming a partnership with an external service provider, another included developing a "co-funding arrangement" between management and the employees to pay for disease management. Disturbingly, but not surprising, was the lack of faith companies had in the government antiretroviral programme. Vaas (p89) states that "Perceptions of chaos in the rollout of the government programme" means that companies do not see it as a possible resource.
Thirdly, measures indicative of the impact and effectiveness are discussed alongside the challenges that constrain SMEs' ability to develop appropriate and sustainable programmes. The most disturbing finding for me, and yet again not a surprising finding, is the role stigma plays in undermining the effectiveness of existing programmes. Vass comments that in the focus groups employees "seemed embarrassed to receive or give information on the number of people infected in the company" (p91). Vass also reports on a company who was considering the possibility of using self-administered HIV tests "to alleviate employees' fears around failures of confidentiality" (p92).
In sum, the findings suggest that although SMEs are committed to responding to the HIV epidemic in the workplace, a number of internal and external factors, unless dealt with, will undermine the effectiveness of their interventions. One particular issue that needs to be further researched is the powerful role stigma and discrimination plays in preventing employees from accessing available services. Interestingly the HSRC has produced another monograph on the topic of HIV/AIDS related stigma.
The monograph Understanding HIV/AIDS Stigma: A theoretical and methodological analysis firstly, provides a critical overview of a large body of interdisciplinary literature on stigma, secondly, through the review process, identifies key areas in need of further research and thirdly, explores a number of appropriate methodologies that can be used to conduct this research. The monograph concludes by discussing some existing interventions that, although potentially useful, require further evaluation before being taken up in practice. The monograph will therefore be an excellent tool for those interested in the theory of stigma, the research of stigma and intervening to minimize stigma and its impacts. More specifically, it will be of value to those wanting to develop an advanced understanding of HIV/AIDS related stigma.
One of the strongest features of this monograph is its recognition of the importance of grappling with theories of stigma before deciding on a research agenda, research methodology and interventions. As Deacon (2005:3) argues, the way we "define stigma structures our understanding on how it operates and how to address it". The first seven chapters of the monograph provide an excellent critical discussion of existing theories of stigma with the aim of developing a theory of disease stigma. These chapters cover a number of important conceptual areas. For example, the difference between stigma and discrimination is critically discussed, the importance of exploring stigma from the position of the stigmatiser and the stigmatized is highlighted, and the difference between instrumental stigma and symbolic stigma when trying to understand HIV/AIDS related stigma is debated.
Chapter 8 moves on to using the gaps identified in the theoretical review to develop a research agenda and questions for research on HIV/AIDS stigma in southern Africa. Deacon concludes that there is a need to change the kinds of questions being asked in research. She argues that there is a need to move away from researching questions that have already been answered, from simply measuring stigma or exploring the link between stigma and inequality. There is, for example, a need to develop improved theoretical models of stigma, to explore local beliefs around HIV/AIDS, the histories and politics of stigmatising ideologies, the relationship between stigma and discrimination, and how PLHA (people living with HIV/AIDS) respond to stigma and discrimination. In chapter 9 interdisciplinary methodologies that are considered to be appropriate for these research areas are identified and discussed. Deacon (p74) argues that "we need to expand our range of methodological tools beyond the standard interview and content analysis" and suggests the inclusion of innovative participatory approaches including body mapping and stigma mapping. Chapter 10 concludes the monograph with some preliminary thoughts about how, in Deacon's words, "theoretical and methodological approaches could be translated into anti-stigma and anti-discrimination interventions" (p75).
I believe the strength of this manual is not only in the content it covers, but also in its "design", that is, that it illustrates the importance of theoretically informed research and interventions. I will certainly use this monograph as a tool in research supervision with my postgraduate students. I will also use the content covered in my workshops with professional psychology students to develop their understanding of the theory and impact of stigma and its link to HIV/AIDS. Hopefully the Employment, Growth and Development Initiative of the HSRC will also make use of this theoretical and methodological analysis when thinking about the role of HIV/AIDS stigma in the workforce.
Department of Health (2008) The national HIV and syphilis prevalence survey South Africa 2007. Pretoria: Author. [ Links ]
Pisani, E (2008) The wisdom of whores: Bureaucrats, brothels and the business of AIDS. London: Grant Books. [ Links ]
UNAIDS (2008) Report on the global AIDS epidemic. Geneva: Author [ Links ]
1 While the monograph is co-authored by Vass and Phakathi, each author has identified which chapters they have written and I have therefore referenced them as such in the review.


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LOS ANGELES – Passover, the commemoration of the biblical deliverance of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt, begins at sundown today.
Jews will gather for a ritual meal called a Seder, which means order. It features six symbolic foods, including matzo, a cracker-like unleavened bread symbolizing the Exodus from ancient Egypt when there was not enough time to let the bread rise.
While Passover rituals vary in different cultures, Jews are traditionally not permitted to eat or possess any foods made with wheat, barley, rye, spelt or oats.
Bitter herbs, often horseradish, represent the bitterness of slavery; parsley dipped in saltwater symbolizes the tears the Israelites shed in bondage; and an apple, nut, spice and wine mixture called charoset represents what the Old Testament describes as the mortar used by Jewish slaves to build Egyptian edifices.
A number of contemporary scholars believe the story of the Exodus is apocryphal and that the Israelites were never among the peoples subjugated by the ancient Egyptians. Most rabbis believe that historical debates should not obscure the themes of Passover, including faith, freedom and redemption, inherent in the biblical tale.
According to the book of Exodus, the enslaved Israelites used the blood of lambs to mark their doors so the Angel of Death would "pass over" their homes and instead slay the firstborn sons of Egyptians — the 10th and most horrific of the plagues that finally persuaded the pharaoh to agree to Moses' demand: "Let my people go."
During the Seder, people drink four cups of wine or grape juice, symbolizing the promises that God made to the Israelites, including deliverance from bondage. Also as part of the ritual, a child traditionally asks "the four questions."
The introductory question of "Why is this night different from all other nights?" is followed by "Why is that on all other nights during the year we eat either bread or matzo, but on this night we eat matzo?" "Why is it that on all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables, but on this night we eat bitter herbs?" "Why is it on all other nights we do not dip even once, but on this night we dip twice?" and "Why is it that on all other nights we eat either sitting or reclining, but on this night we eat in a reclining position?"
The purpose of the questions is to spark discussion and learning, as teaching the Exodus story to children is one of the most important elements of the Passover Seder.
The meal is accompanied by reading from the Haggadah, or "narration" book, which tells the story of the Israelites' deliverance from bondage.
Passover commemorates the time between the Exodus from Egypt on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nissan and the parting of the Red Sea seven days later.
The holiday is observed for seven days in Israel, with one Seder, and eight days outside Israel, with two. This is because it is held that people in ancient times who lived far from Jerusalem could not know when a new month under the Hebrew lunar calendar had been officially declared and, in turn, could not be sure of the exact date.
Passover is an entirely home-based ritual observance, which does not require a rabbi. Unlike most Jewish holy days, there is no synagogue service for Passover, although some congregations and other organizations conduct Seders.
"Passover is about seeing the horizons of the possible for this is what it means to be alive," said Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe Bernhard, president of The Board of Rabbis of Southern California. "So we remove leavened products because leavening is a process of decay and therefore associated with death and death occurs when possibilities cease to exist, when time is reduced to quantity alone.
"We clean away the old and stale that block out light. We remember who once we were and how we have changed. And we gather as a community to reaffirm that the life of the possible is not for one person alone, but exists in how we relate to, support and strengthen each other."


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This is a continuation of my series of web service related articles exploring interoperability, albeit in simple cases. Oracle XE's ApplicationBuilder is based on Oracle's most used Application Express, which was formerly called HTML Db.
Creating the Web Service in Visual Studio 2005
It is very easy to create a web service using Visual Studio, especially for this simple, basic example. In fact the default web service, HelloWorld, is used.
Create a web site from File –>New Website. This opens up the New Web Site window where you choose an ASP.NET Web Service. The URL should be pointing to the localhost. Change the default site name from WebSite to something suitable. In this case the site name is TestingService as shown in the next picture.
The program adds a Service1.asmx file which has been changed to HelloOra.asmx. The Service Class file appears as follows:
Imports System.Web Imports System.Web.Services Imports System.Web.Services.Protocols <WebService(Namespace:="http://tempuri.org/")> _ <WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo:=WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)> _ <Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DesignerGenerated()> _ Public Class Service Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService <WebMethod()> _ Public Function HelloWorld() As String Return "Web Service Created to test an Oracle Client""" End Function End Class
The Solution Explorer will be as shown in the next picture. The asmx file is the web service file.
The Return value has been changed to "Web Service Created to test an oracle client" above. You may build this, and by browsing the HelloOra.asmx file it can be seen that the service is functional as seen in the next picture.
Displaying the Soap-Endpoint
The service may be invoked by clicking the hyperlink, HelloWorld and the success of the HTTP-post is seen in the next display when you invoke the service.
The WSDL Web Reference
In the earlier screen if you were to click on the hyperlink for Service Description you would see the WSDL file, which contains the complete description of the service. A node compressed view of the displayed wsdl file is shown in the next picture.
The URL of the WSDL is going to be used while configuring the Oracle client application. This url is:
{mospagebreak title=Creating the Client Application in Oracle 10G XE}
Oracle 10G XE has an ApplicationBuilder Interface which can be used to create a client application that will access the service created and described earlier. You need to create a web service reference. You will be using a wizard to accomplish this task. The wizard will examine the web service reference either from a UDDI registry that you will point to by browsing the available ones, or the WSDL URL reference you will provide. This was the reason we made a note of the WSDL's URL reference. The ApplicationBuilder also allows you to create a form based on a blank web page which may be posted to the web service.
Creating an Application
Log on to the HR database using username: hr, password: hr by accessing the URL from the short cut, Go To Database Home Page. You may have to review an earlier article which describes how you may log in as SYSTEM and give permission to the hr database.
Click on the down arrow of the Application builder to choose "Create Application" as shown.
Give a name to the application, in this case GetNetSvc as shown. Keep the other defaults, and click on the button Next. From here on, you will go through several steps till you reach the "Confirm" stage as you can see on the left of this page. The applications are serially numbered, this being 103.
In this section you will add different items such as a blank page, form, report and so forth. These are all empty, to start with some basic functional items. The default page has been changed to OracleClient. Click on AddPage; this takes you to the next screen. This screen shows the page you added as well as the source of data, if it depends on data. In this case there is no data (this is in case the page is for a form or a report). You may add another page, if you like, or click on Next.
This takes you to the "tab" stage of the CreateApplication wizard. You choose "No Tabs" since we do not require any, as shown. Click on the Next button.
The shared component choice has to be made as shown in this picture. The web service happens to be a shared component; choose the "Yes" button and click on the Next button.
For application attributes we choose no authentication as shown for Authentication Scheme, and accept the other defaults. Click on the Next button.
For the UI, we choose the default, Theme 1. Click on the Next button.
In the confirm stage keep the check mark, Save this definition as a design model a design for reuse. Later on, we will recall this model and make changes. Click on the button Create.
This takes you to the application creation success page and the breadcrumb changes to Application103 as shown.
{mospagebreak title=Creating a Web Reference}
Now click on the down arrow of the SharedComponents icon. From the drop down choose Logic–>Web Service References as shown and click.
This takes you to creating the reference. Click on Create a reference. Watch the 'breadcrumb'!
You have two choices in creating the reference as shown in this picture. You can either create it from the UDDI registry, or your own URL reference. Since you will be using your own reference choose that option (No) and click on the Next button.
Note that the wizard skips the tModel which would be accessed had you chosen the UDDI. Now you are asked to fill in the URL of the WSDL file. Browse to that page on the web browser and copy the URL, or if you have noted down the URL you can just type it in as shown.
If you click the up button it will take you to only two of its sites, as shown in a different window. We will close this as we will not be using either of these. Just enter the URL in the previous screen as shown and click next.
This will take some time as the program has to access the service and analyze the WSDL file to make sure everything is okay. This will then lead to the next screen which shows the web service reference's details: the name of the service, and the input and output from the service. Remember that the service we created has no input, but returns an output. The asmx file we created is correctly recognized as the soap-endpoint.
Create Reference button when clicked will create the reference and let you know it has been successfully created. You can view the web service reference which will just show your URL. You can also create a form or a report. The form when submitted will call up the service. Click on the icon Create Form on Web Service.
{mospagebreak title=Creating a Client Form}
In this 'breadcrumb," Create Form on Web Service, you choose the service and you choose the operation. "Service" corresponds to the service created in Vb.Net (in this case) and the operation corresponds to the web method in the service. There could be multiple web methods. In this case there is only one, HelloWorld as shown. Click on the button Next
Using the Reusable Page
In this screen you need to choose the page. Since we already created a page we click on the up arrow by the side of default Page2, which opens up a new window where there are two choices, the 101Login and the page we created earlier, OracleClient (not to be confused with the OracleClient program). Choose OracleClient and click. This will make Page1 replace Page2.
The next page is for input, if any. Since for this service there is no input (this screen shot is not shown), click Next.
This is the output parameter stage of the page creation. Clicking on the button Next will take you to the "tabs" stage of the page creation wizard, but since there were no tabs in this page, the wizard wisely skips this and goes to the "Confirm" stage as shown.
Now click on the button CreateForm to create the form. We could have also started with a form in the first place. This brings you to the successful end of creating the form. You can run the form, or edit the form by choosing to click on either of these icons. Let's try "run" by clicking on it.
{mospagebreak title=Displaying results from Web Service}
When you click on the icon "Run Page" you will see the form as shown in the next picture. This is the template you chose to work with. The form creation added the "Submit" button and the other controls to this blank page, and wired them up for network access.
When you Click on the "Submit" button, the form gets submitted to the web service and the result from the service gets entered into the HelloWorldresult textbox as shown. Looks like there is more work to do to increase the size of the textbox! But that will be for another session.
It is relatively easy to create a web service client from the Oracle10g XE IDE. The UI is very attractive and extremely flexible. It supports the choice of creating reusable web pages of various forms so that several steps can be skipped depending on the model chosen, which should help with much more rapid development. One of the differences that may be noted while using this IDE is the lack of support for browsing the internal (local web server) WSDL resources. Visual Studio 2005 has a better interface in this regard. In Oracle 10g XE you have either the UDDI or the other two public APIs.


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Stacy Gregg's books The Princess and the Foal, The Island of Lost Horses and The Girl Who Rode The Wind have won the NZ Post Book Awards Children's Choice Award for Junior Fiction for the past three years in a row.
Stacy's research has taken her to Spain, Jordan and Italy. For her 2016 novel The Diamond Horse she travelled to Moscow to create a story based on real-life events during the reign of Catherine the Great.
Stacy is of Ngati Mahuta descent and was educated at Ngaruawahia High School and Kings College. Her first series, Pony Club Secrets, was based on a fictional version of the Ngaruawahia Pony Club. The thirteen books in the Secrets series chart the trajectory of an average pony club kid on her journey to become a world champion. Pony Club Rivals, Stacy's second series, was set in Kentucky, USA at an exclusive bluegrass boarding school where the best riders from around the world gather to compete in a variety of equestrian pursuits.;
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8 Great Linux Apps Worth Bragging About, part 1
Silly FUDwagons RollThere is such a wealth of great Free and Open Source software applications it's almost an embarrassment of riches, and we're going to look at 8 of them in this two-part series. Yes, we keep hearing the repetitive klaxon of the tireless FUDwagon: "Linux is no good because everyone needs Adobe Flash and Reader, Photoshop, and Games". I have news for those silly FUDsters: there is a whole galaxy of great software beyond silly old Adobe, Photoshop, and gory fragfest games.
Adobe Flash and Reader run on Linux, and I'm not sure why anyone would want them. Flash is all right, but it's a closed-source application prone to security holes. Gnash and Swfdec, which are good FOSS Flash clients, both work well on a lot of sites including YouTube, though they gag on some sites. But then so does Adobe Flash, if you have the gall to be a point release behind.
Photoshop? Give me a break. 90% of Photoshop users are not professionals; they have it only because they glommed pirated copies, and they feel all happy because they got an expensive program for free. They have no idea how to actually use it, and all the functionality they need is in Microsoft Paint.
Games? If the only thing a person uses a computer for is playing Windows games then Linux is not for them. Windows isn't either; they should be using a gaming console. A user who needs both Linux and Windows could do a smart thing, and that is use Windows only when they absolutely have to, and never ever connect it to any networks.
Current Favorites: Audacity Audio Recorder and EditorAudacity is an awesome audio recorder and editor. It is licensed under GPL2/3, and it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. If you're into digital audio production at all you've probably seen a lot of criticism of Audacity, calling it a toy and other uncomplimentary names. The people who say this aren't making informed judgments, because Audacity is a powerhouse that is easy to learn. It's great for turning a laptop into a portable recorder and editor, or a workstation into a high-powered recording studio. You can convert any legacy media to CD or DVD, record live music, make podcasts, convert your studio master files to all kinds of different formats, and edit recordings to your heart's content. It supports all kinds of special effects and fixits.
You can record up to 16 tracks at one time, and create any number of tracks until your computer keels over. You can edit and tweak multi-track recordings, and you can export to 5.1 and 7.1 surround. But if you're into heavy-duty multi-track mixing and studio wizardry, then Audacity probably doesn't handle it in a way that would be pleasing to you. It does not have individual per-track level meters or per-track notes and bookmarks, and it doesn't have the nice synchronization tools of powerhouse audio mixers and editors. For simpler multi-track editing it's fine.
Any audio hardware that works in Linux works with Audacity. Combine it with a real-time (rt) kernel and JACKD, the super-low latency sound server and audio router, and you have one sweet powerhouse digital audio recorder. I use it for recording my favorite band and making CDs, converting legacy media to CD, and a whole lot of other audio tasks. It makes beautiful high-quality recordings, and I wouldn't trade it for any number of fancy expensive commercial apps.
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A number of troubleshooting procedures involve an inspection of the dead message queue (mq.sys.dmq). The following procedure explains how to carry out such an inspection by using the QBrowser demo application.
Locate the QBrowser demo application.
See Appendix A, Platform-Specific Locations of Message Queue Data and look in the tables for "Example Applications and Locations."
Run the QBrowser application.
Here is an example invocation on the Windows platform:
cd \MessageQueue3\demo\applications\qbrowser java QBrowser
The QBrowser main window appears.
Select the queue name mq.sys.dmq and click Browse.
A list like the following appears:
Double-click any message to display details about that message:
The display should resemble the following:
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Inventure Foods Jamba Green Fusion Smoothie Kit Combines Taste with Vitamins
The Jamba Green Fusion fruit and veggie smoothie is the latest in a long line of frozen at-home smoothie kits developed by Inventure Foods Inc. in partnership with smoothie retailer Jamba Juice Co.
Green Fusion combines green apple, mango, pineapple, kiwi, banana, broccoli, spinach and spirulina to offer a sweet yet hearty smoothie appropriate for morning commutes, post-workout recovery or a better-for-you snack. Each 8-oz. glass contains just 120 calories, when prepared according to directions using apple juice, and provides a full serving of fruit. In addition, each glass provides 100 percent of the recommended dietary allowance of vitamin C, 40 percent of the RDA of vitamin A and 25 percent of the RDA of vitamins D, E, K, B1 and B6. The new smoothie kit comes in an 8-oz. bag, which yields two servings, and is merchandised in the frozen section of grocery stores. The suggested retail price is $2.99-3.49.


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When he joined Team 4Life in 2011, Stewart was an elite athlete lifting 600 pounds. During the past seven years, he's increased his lift by 200 pounds and become one of the sport's strongest athletes.
Brady is a four-time U.S. National Champion and three-time North American Champion, taking his third North American victory just last year at an event in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when he pulled off the heaviest lift of 786 pounds (356.5 kg).
Vice President of Communications Calvin Jolley: "We've been behind Brady through wins and losses. During the recent festival, he almost pressed 800 pounds for a world record on his first lift, but couldn't quite lock it out. But what Brady has taught me over the years is that success is not defined by a single lift, but the overall strength-building process. He's a world champion. The record is there for him to set."
With 14 Olympic sports and more than 75 sports and events total, the Arnold Sports Festival is the world's largest multi-sport fitness exposition. More than 200,000 spectators gathered to watch approximately 20,000 athletes compete in sports like powerlifting, cheerleading, baton twirling, boxing, gymnastics, table tennis, and archery. One of the festival's highlights is the bodybuilding competition, which, when the festival debuted in 1989 as the Arnold Classic, was the only event.
Stewart: "Athletes, like 4Life distributors, take calculated risks. We don't aim low. We push ourselves. We grow."
4Life has 24 offices around the world to serve a global network of independent distributors and their customers.
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- Cama-i, quyana tailuci!
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- "Greetings, thank you for coming!"
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The pages associated with this website provide Alaska residents an opportunity to critique school facilities in their districts. By their very nature, critiques highlight both the positive as well as negative aspects of the thing being critiqued. To that end, your responses to the Post Occupancy Questionnaire will provide valuable insight into what needs improving as well as what's being done right.


text: At 01:54 PM 3/9/2007, Geoff Jacobs wrote: >Gerald Davies wrote: > > On 08/03/07, Jim Lux <James.P.Lux at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > >> Has anyone tried using the LinkSys NSLU2 (aka, the "slug") as a > >> server in a small demo cluster? > >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 for more info) > >> Seems that people get 5 MB/sec sorts of speeds with NFS or FTP. While > >> no ball of fire speed wise, it is an inexpensive widget that might be > >> handy for a "toy" cluster to serve as a boot server. > >> > > > > IIRC, this was mentioned in a previous thread somewhere :) I've not > > had a play with it, but i agree, it's possibly a useful tool. > >Looks like people are seeing speeds of roughly 5MB/s up and 3MB/s down >with NFS. FTP is faster. > >Not great, but we're talking a power envelope of 15W. and something that fits in your pocket. Imagine this scenario.. A slug with a big flash memory dongle and a wireless AP. People have a bunch of laptops, and they set them up to netboot across the wireless. Instant (low performance) demonstration cluster. Mind you, it's not clear that you can actually do PXE across wireless in a laptop. I've done PXE boot and clustering with wireless interfaces, but it was with external 802.11a "modems", so the node actually doing the booting thought it was just seeing the wired ethernet. But... imagine this.. you can walk into a consumer electronics store with your "head node" in a backpack, push the reset button on all those laptops on display.. All your base belong to us.. etc James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Introduction to the Best Friends Approach to Dementia Care for Professionals
- Cost:
- $50 if requesting CEUs, $35 if not requesting CEUs.
Additional Information
Offered in conjunction with the University of Southern Indiana. This program will provide dementia care training for professionals in the internationally recognized Best Friends Approach(™). Taught by Tonya Cox, a Master Trainer for the Approach, this method celebrates the concept of friendship and applies it to dementia care. The Best Friends Approach(™) has been shown to improve the quality of life and reduce challenging behaviors in persons with dementia. participants will learn new techniques to engage and care for persons with dementia and will come away with a refreshing new perspective on dementia care. Nurses and Indiana social workers, health facility administrators, occupational therapists, and dental professionals will receive up to 5.25 contact hours with attendance at the entire program and completed program evaluation.
University of Southern Indiana (USI) College of Nursing and Health Professions is (1) accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation; (2) an approved provider of continuing education for social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and other professionals licensed in the state of Indiana; and (3) approved by the Indiana State Board of Health Facility Administrators as a sponsor of continuing education programs for health facility administrators.
This event will be held at the University of Southern Indiana Health Professions Center Rm 1027, 8600 University Blvd, Evansville, IN 47712, on October 24, 2013, from 9:30am-4pm. Lunch provided.
Advanced registration by October 17th and payment required. $50 if requesting CEUs, $35 if not requesting CEUs. To register or find out more, call the Alzheimer's Association at 1-800-272-3900 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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2013 Vauxhall Astra review
* 2013 Vauxhall Astra driven * Cosmetic updates; new options available * On sale now; priced from 12,995...
The Vauxhall Astra is currently the fifth-best selling car of 2012, but it's about to face an onslaught from some tough new rivals, including the Seat Leon and Skoda Octavia and VW Golf.
Thats why Vauxhall has just launched this revised model, which features a number of changes to help keep the Astra competitive.
Most of the changes are cosmetic. All hatchback and estate versions have a new front grille, bumpers and headlight lenses, plus additional chrome trim detailing.
A new BiTurbo diesel version joins the line-up, and there are some new high-tech options, including a Driver Assistance Pack (750), which includes Forward Collision Alert, Lane-Departure Warning and Traffic Sign Recognition systems.
Vauxhall has launched this revised model to help keep the Astra competitive against rivals
What's the 2013 Vauxhall Astra like to drive?
We drove two versions: a 1.6T SRi model which has a turbocharged 177bhp petrol engine and lowered, sports suspension and the Biturbo, which uses a 192bhp twin-turbocharged 2.0-litre diesel engine, and also features sports suspension.
As before, the Astra is decent enough to drive; the SRi's suspension sharpens the handling compared with Active, Tech Line, SE and Elite versions, without making the ride too firm.
Biturbo models get a 192bhp diesel engine and an agressive bodykit
Body movement is well controlled and the Astra is agile enough. However, the steering is curiously heavy around the straight-ahead, yet doesnt weight up consistently enough when you turn into a bend.
The imprecise gearshift is also disappointing, although not as frustrating as the 1.6T engine. It sounds good at low revs and pulls quite hard, but mid-range acceleration is nowhere near what you'd expect from a car with 177bhp. The engine is breathless and boomy at higher revs, too.
It's a similar story with the Biturbo. The engine never feels as muscular as the numbers suggest, and there isnt much urgency below 2000rpm. Whats more, the flow of power tails off dramatically towards the top of the rev range.
The engine sounds decidedly clattery when pushed, too, although refinement is at pretty good elsewhere, with a bit too much wind noise at cruising speeds the only other complaint.
Steering is heavy around the straight-ahead, yet doesnt weight up consistently when you turn in
Whats the 2013 Vauxhall Astra like inside?
The Astra's cabin is unchanged, so it continues to delight and frustrate in equal measure.
First impressions are good, thanks to top-quality materials and a smart design. The sports seats that come as standard in the SRi model we drove are also supportive and comfortable.
The centre console falls only just short of being an ergonomic disaster, though; there are too many small, similar-looking buttons, so its tricky to find the one you want at a glance. The infotainment system (including the optional sat-nav system fitted to our test car) is overly complicated, too.
Cabin space is on a par with rivals', with plenty of space for four adults and a decent boot.
The Astra's centre console falls only just short of being an ergonomic disaster
Should I buy one?
The majority of Astras are sold as company cars, thanks to attractive leasing rates and reasonable company car tax bills.
The 1.6T petrol is nowhere near clean enough to be of any interest to company car drivers, but the Biturbo might be if youre looking for something reasonably powerful, because its CO2 output of 134g/km is far from outrageous. However, with a starting price of 24,095, your monthly tax bills won't be cheap.
We'd suggest looking at the 1.7 CDTi 130 Ecoflex S/S Tech Line. CO2 emissions of just 99g/km mean this Astra falls in the lowest band of company car tax for diesel-powered cars, while performance is plenty brisk enough for most tastes.
As a private buy, the Astra makes less sense. True, big discounts are available if youre prepared to haggle, but your Astra will lose a lot in depreciation during the first three years.
If buying privately, our money would go on a 1.6 VVT Tech Line, which has a list price of 17,270, but a Target Price of 15,065.
However, with a brilliant new Seat Leon and VW Golf just about to hit showrooms, the Astra has its work cut out.
Most Astras are sold as company cars, thanks to attractive leasing rates and reasonable company car tax bills
Read the full Vauxhall Astra review >>
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ASUS takes its name from Pegasus, the winged horse in Greek mythology that symbolizes wisdom and knowledge. ASUS embodies the strength, purity, and adventurous spirit of this fantastic creature, and soars to new heights with each new product it creates.
Taiwan's Information Technology industry has grown enormously over the last few decades and is now a dominant force in the global market. ASUS has long been at the forefront of this growth and while the company started life as a humble motherboard manufacturer with just a handful of employees, it is now the leading technology company in Taiwan with over 17,000 employees worldwide. ASUS makes products in almost every area of Information Technology too, including PC components, peripherals, notebooks, tablets, servers and smartphones.
Innovation is key to the success of ASUS. Having unveiled the PadFone to a rapturous audience at Computex 2011, this year, ASUS chairman Jonney Shih raised the bar once more by announcing the TAICHI™ and Transformer Book dual-purpose ultraportables.
ASUS TAICHI™ is an Ultrabook™ with a unique double-sided multi-touch display that allows it to switch between a tablet and notebook in an instant, simply by lifting its lid. Transformer Book is a convertible Ultrabook that is both a notebook with hard drive and storage and a multi-touch SSD tablet, thanks to its backlit keyboard dock.
Together with its exciting new range of Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets, ASUS has a dazzling array of innovative products that will surpass users' imaginations as the world enters a new era of cloud computing.
This visionary approach is the reason ASUS is able to bring high-quality innovation and design to all, and the reason for its widespread acclaim. In 2015, ASUS earned 4,368 awards from some of the most prestigious international organizations and media groups worldwide. ASUS has consistently achieved significant year-on-year growth in terms of consumer notebook units shipped too, and closed 2015 on a high with revenues hitting US$14 billion.


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How to overcharge laptop battery; solve laptop batteries over-charging problem and make laptop battery not overcharged.
Some Laptop users might meet this case that the batteries have been charged because you carelessly forget to pull them out. The over-charging occurs to your laptop battery. Laptop battery overcharged means that your battery compartment with your hand is warm or hot to the touch. In other word, the charger keeps the battery at a temperature that is warm to touch (body temperature) while in ready condition. The forcing of current through a cell after all the active material has been converted to the charged state and continued charging after reaching 100 percent state-of-charge. Meanwhile, fully charged battery is stored for identification of the performance, after 12 months in storage, after fully charged, the 0.2C discharge, time should not be less than 4h.
When you find your laptop battery overcharged, please unplug the power source immediately. Most modern laptops, cell phones and most electric vehicles use Lithium-ion batteries (sometimes Li-ion battery or LIB). Lithium-ion batteries can rupture, ignite, or explode when exposed to high temperature. The charge time is about three to five hours, depending on the charger used. Generally, laptop-types' batteries can be charged at 0.8C, where C is the current that would discharge the battery in one hour. Charging is usually stopped when the current goes below 0.03C but it can be left indefinitely depending on desired charging time.
Contrary some suggestions, these batteries actually last longest if the battery is frequently charged; fully discharging them will degrade their capacity relatively quickly. When storing however, lithium batteries degrade more while fully charged than if they are only 40% charged. Degradation also occurs faster at higher temperatures. Degradation in lithium-ion batteries is caused by an increased internal battery resistance due to cell oxidation. This decreases the efficiency of the battery, resulting in less net current available to be drawn from the battery.
Tips to Prolong Li-ion Batteries Pack Life
Keep Lithium-ion batteries cool and they may be stored in a refrigerator. The rate of degradation of Lithium-ion batteries is strongly temperature-dependent and they degrade much faster if stored or used at higher temperatures. Li-Ion batteries require a Battery Management System to prevent operation outside each cell's Safe Operating Area (over-charge, under-charge, safe temperature range) and to balance cells to eliminate SOC mismatches, significantly improving battery efficiency and increasing overall capacity.
More tips: Sunvalleyus Product Knowledge about Laptop Batteries, Keyboards, AC Adapter, etc.
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KSP Contest, aka "Kite Strapless Pro"
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I don't think conditions at Mauritius were very ideal for aerial type moves... Patri, Airton, Mitu, etc. are all certainly talented in this area....
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they're all really good at that stuff. I just think the competition rules don't reward that type of riding. which is unfortunate.
I was there when they had the KSP in Cape Verde. The conditions were PERFECT for that stuff (as evidenced by those guys doing insane stuff before the contest).
But, they decided to cancel the entire event because the waves weren't good enough. For some reason head high with side-off 25mph wind wasn't good enough...I was glad, cause it meant I could kite, but I felt bad for all the pro's who went there to compete...
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KSP Contest, aka "Kite Strapless Pro"
Here's how I see it… a surf contest with kites is still a surf contest. A kitesurf contest should allow and reward any moves possible with the kite/surfboard/wave combination. Otherwise it's just a tow in surf contest. Yawn.
But then again, I'm not into contests.
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Can praying improve your reasoning? I once questioned a student about his suspicious behavior during a logic examination. He confessed that he was praying for the correct answer. I felt this was cheating. Even if God did not give him the answer, the student was soliciting the answer from Someone Else.
– Dartmouth philosopher Roy Sorensen, in A Brief History of the Paradox, 2003
This gave me a chuckle. It sounds more like an excuse to me, I mean, who prays for the right answer, huh? .... exactly!
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I suppose it would be cheating, if the person actually believed they'd be given the answer.
I sir, dont have the equal ability to pray, because It's not in my character to beleive in a god. So maybe it IS cheating. lol Not like he would get the answer anyway.
I think the person in this case does believe they're getting the answer by some sort of revelation, Dave; if not - why pray?
On the other hand, I think this student was just stalling.
I thoroughly dig that. :)
He would be cheating if the answers were written on the palms of his 'praying' hands.
Gives me a chuckle too.. but ,really..people do it..i mean pray for the right answer..i think they might be the same people who say after a terrible car crash , oh!! thank god no body was hurt to bad.. this gives me a chuckle..i say why not thank the person who worked for twenty years in the R & D department of an obscure company to develope the technology that actually saved the people in the terrible crash..math and science save people everyday but you never hear " thank math that nobody was hurt " : ) ... i mean really , its a tad bit more complicated than just lighting a candle..


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Tim Tebow's only remaining goal is to escape the hellish landscape that is the New York Jets' 2012 season with both his dignity -- and sanity -- intact.
Sure, Tebow could make a stink about being passed over as the starting quarterback by Rex Ryan again after the Jets learned Thursday that Greg McElroy was dealing with concussion symptoms. But what's the point?
Tebow used the beginning of the week to deny he'd asked out of the Jets' Wildcat package last week. Beyond defending his reputation on that dicey topic, Tebow really gains nothing by saying another word ... about anything.
Ryan did him a minor disservice by telling the media Thursday that Tebow was "obviously not happy" to hear Sanchez would start against the Buffalo Bills. During his media availability, Tebow said (via Newsday) he isn't angry with Ryan and added he'll do anything the team needs Sunday at Buffalo.
Tebow added the understatement of the year when asked to summarize the past four months. He replied: "It's been interesting."
That's one way to put it. Tebow can rest easy in the knowledge that Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan has a great big bearhug waiting for him on the other side of all this madness.
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EU states sought to reassure France on Friday that its culture would be shielded from the might of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, urging Paris not to block a free-trade deal with the United States that could boost transatlantic business.
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Paris has refused to join the 26 other EU governments that want talks to start in July, unless television, movies and developing online media are left out of a deal.
EU trade ministers meeting in Luxembourg tried to resolve the issue at a closed-door session on Friday, but officials told Reuters that France stuck to its position in initial exchanges. The bloc needs French agreement not just because it is Europe's second largest economy but because under EU rules, trade deals touching on cultural issues need unanimous support.
"I would say the chances for an agreement are 50-50," said Alexander Stubb, Finland's minister for Europe and foreign trade, as he went into the meeting. "There is nothing that threatens the French or the European film industry and I shall certainly continue to watch all of my beloved French movies even after this free trade negotiation," he told reporters.
French Trade Minister Nicole Bricq told fellow ministers that France rejected outright any mandate that did not clearly exclude the audiovisual sector.
She said the United States already had a 60 percent share of European cinema screens but Europe's share in America was between 3 to 6 percent. "Who is open and who is closed?" she said, according to a copy of her speech circulated by diplomats.
Free-trade advocates such as Germany and Britain say it is vital to push ahead with what would be the world's biggest trade agreement, because of the economic benefits it would bring, especially when much of western Europe is in recession.
They also fear excluding an industry from the talks would prompt a similar U.S. opt-out, such as to protect its closed shipping sector, a concern for Denmark and Greece with their large shipping industries.
"In the maritime area, the agreement would make it easier for Danish shippers to sail into the USA. That is a vital element," said Danish Trade Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr.
Together the United States and European Union account for half of global economic output and a third of all trade.
A trade deal, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), could boost the EU economy by 119 billion euros ($159 billion) per year, and the U.S. economy by 95 billion euros, according to an EU-commissioned study.
The European Commission, which negotiates the bloc's trade deals, is ready to give member states a much greater say on cultural issues in the talks with Washington.
Richard Bruton, the Irish minister chairing Friday's meeting, said the latest proposal guaranteed EU members' rights to maintain existing quotas and subsidies and allowed the EU to pass future legislation on Internet and digital services.
In addition, EU trade chief Karel De Gucht would have to consult EU governments before negotiating any aspect of access to European movie, television and online entertainment markets.
If France agrees to the compromise proposal, European leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama plan to use a summit of the Group of Eight countries next week to launch talks.
The United States already sells the European Union far more music, movies, radio and television programs than it buys from Europe. Its net surplus for the sector averaged 1.5 billion euros ($2 billion) a year from 2004 to 2011.
France fears this imbalance will only increase under a trade deal as digital and Internet services - already dominated by U.S. technology companies - become ever more popular.
EU and U.S. negotiators aim to finish their work by the end of next year.
(Additional reporting by Robin Emmott; Editing by Jon Boyle)


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A single phone call in 2000 changed everything for Craig Robinson.
It came from newly hired Northwestern men's basketball coach Bill Carmody and eventually led to Robinson, a Mt. Carmel graduate, joining the Wildcats' staff as an assistant.
Making the decision to join Carmody was difficult, seeing that Robinson was a successful investment banker who would be taking a hefty pay cut to reconnect full-time with his true passion - basketball.
"It was very challenging from a salary standpoint," said Robinson, now in his second year as the head coach at Brown University. "But I thought to myself, 'I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and I would still have more than I had then.' It took me full circle, though, and immersed me in something I love."
Robinson's connection to Carmody dated to when Robinson was a star for Princeton in the early 1980s and Carmody was on Pete Carrill's staff. Robinson had dabbled in coaching even while working in the Chicago financial community, with short stints as an assistant at the Illinois Institute of Technology and as the head coach at University High in 1999-2000.
Though Robinson was a coaching novice, breaking into the college ranks in Evanston proved a good fit. He soon found many similarities between Northwestern's culture and the one he encountered Princeton two decades earlier.
Although he developed into one of the best players in Princeton history (he is still the program's No. 4 all-time scorer), the difficult transition that he underwent was still fresh in his memory.
"Like all high school players, I thought I was a really good player," remembered Robinson. "I thought the main part of the game was scoring, but playing for Coach Carrill was an awakening for me. Once I got to Princeton, I recognized that it was a process. I learned how to play basketball in a different way."
Once acclimated, he thrived under Carrill's team-first system. He was the first two-time Ivy League Player of the Year, sharing the award as a junior and winning it by himself the following season. He helped lead the Tigers to NCAA Tournament appearances as a sophomore in 1981 and two years later, when Princeton upset Oklahoma State in the tourney's first round.
Robinson was also transformed off the court during his time at Princeton.
"Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I wasn't prepared for Princeton, both socially and academically," he said. "It opened my eyes to a different world."
He expanded his horizons further after graduation. Robinson was a fourth-round pick of the Philadelphia 76ers but didn't stick on the roster after training camp. But he wasn't ready to hang up the sneakers, so he played for two seasons in Manchester, England. The salaries overseas weren't as high as they are now, so Robinson decided to put his Ivy League degree to use.
He landed a position in the Loop at Dean Witter Reynolds and had subsequent tenures as a Vice President at Continental Bank from 1990-92, Vice President for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter from 1992-99, and as Managing Director for Loop Capital Markets, where he worked when Carmody came calling.
"Investment banking is a great career," said Robinson, who also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1992. "It's challenging, lucrative, competitive -- it's a good fix for an ex-athlete. But the whole time, I was thinking that 'This isn't something I'm passionate about.' "
The passion Robinson has for basketball has already served the Brown program well.
His first Bears team was picked to land at the bottom of the Ivy League but came in fifth, with a 6-8 league record and an 11-18 finish overall. The season included a win over Big East member Providence and Brown was competitive with perennial Big Ten power Michigan State, holding the Spartans to 45 points. Robinson was named Ivy League Coach of the Year.
The turnaround has continued this season. The Bears enter the final week of regular season play in second place in the Ivy League (17-9, 9-3 in conference) after a 64-57 win over Princeton last Friday and a 75-43 rout of Penn Saturday.
The Ivy League is the only conference in the country without a post-season tournament, so undefeated Cornell clinched the league's lone NCAA Tournament bid over the weekend. But with one victory in this weekend's final two games, Brown would set the school record for wins in a season.
Although the school is in Providence, R.I., it's no coincidence that there's a Windy City flavor to Brown's roster. Four freshman hail from Chicagoland -- guards Sean Kane (Carmel) and Garrett Leffelman (St. Joseph) and forwards Jelani Floyd and Peter Sullivan (Loyola). Sullivan broke into the starting lineup in the middle of the year and has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week three times.
"I still view Chicago as one of the hotbeds of talent for all levels," said Robinson. "I'm excited about the direction the program is going."
Getting Brown headed in the right direction has sapped plenty of Robinson's energy but he's made time to keep a close eye on the presidential campaign of his brother-in-law, Illinois senator Barack Obama, who is married to Robinson's sister, Michelle.
He's been able to speak at several Obama events and is as involved on the campaign trail as his schedule allows.
"I'm able to give my views and impressions of them (the Obamas) and Brown has been very understanding of my desire to be involved," said Robinson.
His involvement in politics reminds him a bit about the time in his life when he was balancing his financial career with a smattering of basketball. Being a Division I head coach is important, both to him, his staff and players and the university, but pales in comparison to the possibility of his brother-in-law running the world's most powerful nation.
"It's kind of ironic -- there's a competitive aspect to both," said Robinson of the connection between politics and athletics. "I get to wear a couple of different hats while helping out the campaign. It's been terrific and very exciting but I'm more nervous for them than they are."
The Missouri Valley Conference completed its men's basketball regular season schedule Saturday with former Chicago-area products residing at or near the top of five of its major statistical categories.
Illinois State sophomore guard Osiris Eldridge (Phillips) tied for the league lead in scoring with Drake's Josh Young (16.3 points per game). Eldridge's best game came in a loss to Indiana State Feb. 16, when he poured in a career-high 34 points. He came back the next game with 24 points against Missouri State and was named MVC Player of the Week for his effort, the second-such award he's won during his career.
Southern Illinois junior guard Bryan Mullins (Downers Grove South) was narrowly edged out for the league's top spot in both steals (2.2 per game) and assists (5.03 per game), finishing behind Indiana State's Gabe Moore and Drake's Adam Emmenecker, respectively. Mullins had one more steal than Moore but played in one more game. Mullins has been a member of the league's All-Defensive team the last two years and was the 2005-06 MVC Freshman of the Year.
Drake junior forward Jonathan Cox (Barrington) finished second in rebounds, pulling down 8.3 boards per game. He also was 17th in scoring (11.6 points per game) and third in three-point shooting percentage, converting 37 of 83 tries from long range (.446).
Evansville freshman forward Isiah Martin (Morgan Park) easily claimed the league blocked shots title, swatting away 55 shots (1.9 average). He also averaged 5.7 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest and was twice named the conference's Men's Basketball Newcomer of the Week.
The MVC also held its Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend, with host Northern Iowa winning both the men's and women's team titles.
The women's meet saw three local products turn in winning performances. Illinois State senior Devon Williams (Oswego) was a double champion, taking home the top prize in the 60 and 200 meters. Her time of 7.41 in the 60 eclipsed the meet record she set last year; she won the 200 in 24.31. Williams had won the 60 meters at the last two indoor conference meets and defended her 200 meter title from a year ago.
Coming in right behind Williams in both races was Southern Illinois senior Andrea Norris (Lisle). Her time in the 60 meters was 7.50 and she clocked in at 24.62 in the 200.
Southern Illinois senior Brittany Riley (Homewood-Flossmoor) improved on her own meet record by winning Saturday's weight toss with a top throw of 79-02*#189;. That effort eclipsed the winning toss the 2007 national champion uncorked in last year's meet by more than 3½ feet. Riley was also fourth in Sunday's shot put with a throw of 45-10 despite fouling on five of her six attempts.
Williams was named the meet's Most Outstanding Track Athlete for the second straight year, while Riley repeated as the Field award winner.
Also claiming a top prize was Indiana State sophomore Lauren Martin (Conant). She was second in Saturday's long jump with a personal-best effort of 19-9 and followed that by winning Sunday's triple jump with a top leap of 40-10½. Martin also ran a leg on the Sycamore's winning 4x400 relay team to end the meet Sunday.
Illinois State senior Suzy Turner (Palatine) finished third in the 3,000 meters (9:56.53) and fifth in the mile (4:58.07). Turner also ran a leg on the Redbirds' distance medley relay, which came in third (11:56.90).
Also scoring for ISU was freshman Caitlin Roberts (York), who tied for fourth in the high jump (5-6).
The top local finisher on the men's side was Northern Iowa sophomore Mike Beese (Naperville North), who got third in the pole vault with a top clearing of 16-3¼. He was fifth in the same event at last year's indoor meet.
Illinois State's men's team was represented by junior Mike Richardson (Buffalo Grove), seventh in the 3,000 meters (8:31.47). Freshman Robert Kamentsev (Wheeling) finished just out of the scoring with a ninth-place finish in the triple jump (44-04¾).
The Big Ten also held its Indoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend. At the men's meet in Madison, Wis., the host Badgers claimed their record eighth straight team title.
Michigan junior Adam Harris (Wheaton North) was one of the meet's brightest stars, winning the long jump and 60 meters. His best effort in the long jump was 24-10½ and his winning time in the 60 meters was 6.61, which broke the facility record. He became the first athlete from Michigan to win the long jump since 1984.
Also scoring for the Wolverines was sophomore Sean McNamara (York), eighth in the 3,000 meters (8:23.11). McNamara's high school teammate, sophomore Roger Billhardt (York) was on the distance medley relay team that finished fifth.
Purdue sophomore Adetayo Adesanya (Naperville North) was the only other Chicagoan to win an event, the high jump with a top leap of 7-¼. He finished fourth in the same event at last year's outdoor conference meet.
Illinois senior Nick Brown (Proviso East) finished sixth in the long jump (23-10¾) after entering the meet with the conference's top mark this season. He rallied for a fourth-place finish in the triple jump on Sunday (50-06¾). Fighting Illini freshman Joshua Gist (Thornwood) was fifth in the 60-meter hurdles (8.10).
Ohio State junior Patrick Whalen (Jacobs) finished fourth in the shot put with a top throw of 59-1½. He was also fourth in the same event at last year's indoor conference meet.
Whalen's high school teammate, Wisconsin redshirt freshman Evan Jager, chipped in to the Badgers' winning effort by finishing second in the mile with a time of 4:22.54.
Another high finish for the Badgers came courtesy of junior Matt Withrow (Tinley Park), third in the 5,000 meters (14:29.85).
Iowa sophomore Ray Varner (Warren) got on the board with a sixth-place finish in the 400 meters (48.52). He also ran a leg on the Hawkeyes' winning 4x400 meter relay team.
The Big Ten Women's Track and Field Championships, held in Minneapolis, featured strong showings from three local products.
The host Gophers won the team title and the highest finish among Chicagoans was from Michigan junior Casey Taylor (Marian Catholic), who took second in the long jump (47-¾). Taylor's senior teammate Serita Williams (Crete-Monee) was seventh in the 400 meters (56.32).
Michigan State senior Jackie Walton (Hinsdale South) was sixth in the 60-meter hurdles (8.48).
The Horizon League also held its Indoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend. Wisconsin-Milwaukee won the men's team title and Youngstown State claimed the top team spot in the women's competition.
For Illinois-Chicago's men's team, which finished third, junior Mike Savegnago (West Chicago) defended his indoor conference pole vault title. Savegnago took first with a top leap of 15-7 and also won the heptathlon with 5,026 points.
UIC senior Joe Bailey (Thornwood) took third in the weight toss (16.57 meters).
Loyola senior distance runner Joe Mahalick (Joliet Catholic) won the 800 meters in a personal-best of 1:51.98.
Valparaiso junior Chris Honig (Glenbard South) took second in the mile (4:14.72) and sixth in the 3,000 meters (8:48.89).
Wisconsin-Milwaukee senior Lynn Koepke (Crystal Lake) took second in the 200 (22.20).
On the women's side, Illinois-Chicago senior Idara Essien (Wheaton-Warrenville South) finished fourth in the triple jump (36-10¼) after winning the event both indoors and outdoors at the conference meet in each of the last two years.
The Flames also got points from sophomore Monique Bostert (Glenbard East), who came in fourth in the weight toss. Her best throw was 16.29 meters, which blew by the school record of 15.5 meters she set in January.
UIC sophomore Lauren Fogarty (Glenbard East) took seventh in the long jump; her best leap at the meet was 5.13 meters.
Loyola junior distance runner Pam Staton (Grant) was fifth in the mile (5:04.47) and eighth in the 800 meters. Junior Ashley Raymond (Glenbard South) also scored for Loyola, finishing seventh in the 3,000 meters (10:27.56).
The Big Ten's Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich., wrapped up Saturday and several former Chicagoans pitched in for their respective teams.
Michigan junior Curtis Dauw (St. Charles East) was a key contributor as the Wolverines easily claimed their 33rd team title. He was named first-team all-conference and scored points in four events. Dauw swam the third leg of Michigan's winning 200 freestyle relay Thursday and also had top five finishes in three individual events. He was third Saturday in the 200 butterfly (1:44.53), fourth in Friday's 100 butterfly and fifth in Thursday's 200 IM.
Iowa freshman Conor Dwyer (Loyola) was fifth in Friday's 200 freestyle (1:37.07). His preliminary time of 1:36.44 was a provisional NCAA qualifying mark and the fourth-fastest time in Iowa history.
Michigan State freshman Kevin Puskaric (Lincoln-Way East) scored for the Spartans by coming in sixth in the 200 breaststroke in 1:59.83.
Purdue junior Zach Schultz (Brother Rice) placed in all three diving events. He was fifth in Friday's 3-meter diving competition with a score of 390.75, eighth in the 1-meter Thursday, and ninth in Saturday's platform diving.
Also scoring for the Boilermakers was sophomore Sam Wilcher (Christian Liberty Academy), who clocked a 1:46.39 in the 200 butterfly, good for sixth place. His time of 1:45.53 in the prelims set a school record.


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A recent study from the chief economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Andrei Kirilenko, throws another batch of data into the argument about whether high-speed trading helps or hinders the traditional investor.
Place Kirilenko squarely in the \"hurts\" camp.
The New York Times reported this week that a paper by the CFTC economist found that high-speed traders, \"make as much as $5.05 each time they go up against small traders buying and selling one of the most widely used financial contracts\" for S&P 500 futures.
The newspaper reported that the CFTC has not endorsed the economist\'s work, which is currently under peer review. The finding have, not surprisingly, encountered opposition among market players and other economists.
The New York Times report quoted CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton as saying on Monday that, "What the study shows is that high-frequency traders are really the new middleman in exchange trading, and they're taking some of the cream off the top."
The discussion of high-speed trading in general is important right now because regulators are focused on drafting new rules on the practice. The Times report says that making new rules is difficult because the market\'s technological innovations outpace regulators\' ability to keep up.
Kirilenko said his research is intended to address that problem, and told the Times, "We're not estimating," he said. "Our data is excellent."
— Greg Morcroft
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