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I wholeheartedly agree with you, Kas. This is one that was hyped whereas I don't regret my purchase and will go back for more. Nordstrom's now carries it here. My husband always comments when I wear it, and it's his favorite above all others.
Thread: Anne Pliska. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all those who recommended and talked about Anne Pliska. It finally arrived after many weeks (I've never had to wait so long for any bottle of perfume!). I LOVE it and can't believe I've been without it for all these years! Special thanks to Ladyloneatar for telling me where to purchase it.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you, Kas. This is one that was hyped whereas I don't regret my purchase and will go back for more. Nordstrom's now carries it here. My husband always comments when I wear it, and it's his favorite above all others.
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." -- Mae West
I'm on my second bottle. I've given a lot away though.
KAS! That's fabulous news! Did you buy the parfum or the eau de parfum? Or both? While I can't imagine anything better than the eau de parfum, I look forward (soon, I hope) to getting the parfum. I love the lotion but also want the body creme and body powder. I want it all! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Hi everyone!!
So has anyone tried the lotion, creme, parfum? Are the scents true to the EDP? I want an Anne Pliska collection asap!!
Ladylonestar I bought the EDP. I am now deciding which body product to buy with another bottle of the EDP which I'm about to order!!!!!!!
FYI.....If you're planning on using up the body lotion within a year .... it's great but mine turned on me. So did another girl's.....just thought I'd mention it.
My Anne Pliska body lotion isn't as strong as the fragrance itself but it's very nice. I've had mine quite awhile and it hasn't "turned" -- it doesn't smell off at all. But, you know.... I talk to it. Like I do my plants. I tell it how special it is, how sexy it is. Talk to your fragrances and lotions; let them know how important they are, how gorgeous they are. [smiley=grin.gif] [smiley=grin.gif] [smiley=grin.gif]
(Anyone buy that? [smiley=wink.gif])
I do!!! Um...well okay, maybe it doesn't work for everyone. But it works for me since they talk back!
Anyhoo, I tried Anne Pliska today (thanks to the lovey lady lonestar!) and I'm really liking it. I love ambers, but vanilla and orange without any florals isn't usually my thing, so I thought I'd be dissapointed. But no! Definitely brilliant! I totally get that "chilly" vibe people talk about, and find it a very elegant gourmand-like fragrance. I've got to sample around some others first, but I think I have to have at least one gourmand-like scent in my collection, and this would be perfect! Sweet and chilly and refined, perfect.
Oh interestingly, a man who works in another lab nearby me that often comes into my lab to use certain equipment commented on it. He was sitting across the room! And the funny thing is, I didn't even spray it! Just a drop or two (about 4 dabs) on one wrist! Either Anne Pliska is really strong, or has incredible sillage (since I was over in that area before), or he's just really sensitive to this particular parfume. He mentioned that he didn't have a particularly good sense of smell, but that something similar used to happen with a woman he worked with that wore an estee lauder in modest amounts. He said he could smell which rooms she'd been in before very distinctly! Huh. Go figure.
But back on topic, I'm really liking Anne Pliska!
I do LadyL (talk to them), and I have to contribute here as well - Anne Pliska is a unique scent. One of the best.
Well, it's good to know that Alicka and Silk are as eccentric as I am! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Silk -- my very first wearing of Anne Pliska, I sprayed a little at each wrist and a little at my throat, went to the pharmacy and received two fabulous compliments! One from my pharmacist and one from a stranger who had been "smelling me" from a distance. She had smelled something wonderful, she said, and had been trying to find the source.
Regarding the Estee Lauder -- so many of the EL Classics have this special quality, they remain in a room long after the wearer has left. I've been told that for years regarding Estee, but I know that Youth Dew and Spellbound can also do the same thing.
I had never heard of Anne Pliska fragrance in my life until 2004 while I was at a chat site known as Perfume of Life. A very sweet and lovely lady, VictoriasOwn, was spreading the word about Anne Pliska, her own signature scent. I don't know... if this had been my signature scent, I might have been tempted to keep it to myself -- it's just so very unique and so very rare (at least where I live). But thank goodness Vic wasn't as selfish as I am! And I still look forward to buying the parfum, powder and body creme SOON!
Thanks for the honoralbe mention Ladylonestar! This has been my HG for 16 years.
Anything I can do to spread the joy, makes me so happy!
Hello.. My name is Lille My. I am an Anne Pliska addict.... [smiley=cool.gif]


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Designing Science Inquiry: Claim + Evidence + Reasoning = Explanation
In an interview with students, MIT's Kerry Emmanuel stated, "At the end of the day, it's just raw curiosity. I think almost everybody that gets seriously into science is driven by curiosity." Curiosity -- the desire to explain how the world works -- drives the questions we ask and the investigations we conduct.
Let's say that we are planning a unit on matter. By having students observe solids and liquids, we have helped them define matter as something that has mass (or weight -- don't worry about the difference with elementary kids!) and takes up space. The next step is to start thinking about air: "I'm curious, is it matter? Or something else?" The students are now driven by a need to explain if air is or is not matter. The question becomes clear, and we can ask:
Is air matter?
Next, we can ask our students what data they need to answer the question, and how they can collect that data -- how they can investigate. Students will need to determine if air has mass and/or takes up space. Perhaps they'll suggest that they weigh a basketball multiple times as they use a pump to add more air. Once students conduct the investigation and have data, they can create an explanation. But what does a good explanation look like?
According to the CER model, an explanation consists of:
- A claim that answers the question
- Evidence from students' data
- Reasoning that involves a "rule" or scientific principle that describes why the evidence supports the claim
Your students might suggest the following explanation:
Air is matter (claim). We found that the weight of the ball increases each time we pumped more air into it (evidence). This shows that air has weight, one of the characteristics of matter (reasoning).
The explanation could be made more complete by including evidence and reasoning related to air taking up space.
Introducing CER to your Students
The CER format to writing explanations is not a trivial thing for your students. You will need to explicitly introduce and model it for them. They will need support throughout the year as they get better at writing explanations.
The idea that explanations drive science can be illustrated for students by using NASA's aptly named Curiosity Mars Rover. After watching the video about the mission's science goals, ask your students:
- What are these scientists curious about -- what do they want to know?
- What data will the rover collect?
- How will this data help scientists answer -- make claims about -- their questions?
Jeff Rohr, a fifth grade teacher in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, suggests using the following Audi commercial to introduce students to the components of an explanation by asking them to identify the claim, the evidence, and the reasoning – or rule – that connects the evidence to the little girl's claim that her dad is a space alien.
Let the Inquiry Begin
As you work with your students on CER throughout the year, do the following:
- Introduce CER as the "goal" of science
- Use concrete (non-science) situations, like mysteries, images, artwork, etc. (Download an example PDF worksheet)
- Create an anchor chart
- Use a rubric with students to critique examples
- Provide examples from science or scientists
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text: Mike, Mike Davis wrote: > Brian, > > > My personal preference is to keep scratch on the compute nodes > whenever possible. This reduces network traffic dramatically. The > method that we use for this is to write wrappers for our more common > applications (VASP, G03, DeMon) setting scratch to /tmp on the nodes. > For interactive work such as abaqus the env variables are set to you > /tmp as well. > I usually provide both. Some parallel applications that we run write simultaneously to one file or another and others don't (maybe each process writes out multiple files or simply hits the file system really hard). We have PVFS2 for parallel scratch and we provide /slocal as a local disk alternative (apps like Schrodinger's Jaguar & Qsite run very well under a local scratch configuration). The solution I'm looking for will (hopefully) replace our need for an independent parallel scratch and /home storage. It would be good if we could run both off of one filesystem (you know, administrative overhead and stuff). > We do not make use of Myranet or infiniband at this time and we have > 120 current nodes on one HP modular switch (combo of dual single and > dual dual opterons). I have another 70 dual duals and one 8way dual to > add this year. > > One thing that you might consider for performance is a completely > separate nfs network. Connecting all nodes to a switch with a 10gb > gbic that connects to the thumper or other storage device. This is a possibility... It would be easy to roll out and would provide great benefit for file system use (that and all of our nodes now have dual GigE links). > > We use zfs for some purposes (/home on a number of research machines > sharing a 5.6TB storage unit with a v40z frontend and nfs) but until > now the clusters still use ext3 (yes, I know that there are problems). I was looking into zfs, but the linux "client" appears to run via FUSE. I've heard good things but I've also heard a couple not-so-good things about the performance of userspace file system access. Your thoughts? > > I've thought that Mississippi State's design with individual rack > gigabit switches connected by 10gb gbics was interesting. But we are > getting good performance with all of the nodes connected at 1gb to a > single switch and I think that it is easier to manage. > > I agree with this point about the single switch. If its possible for us to do this, I would prefer to go that route. Otherwise, we have a couple other plans up our sleeves. Thanks for your suggestions! Brian > Mike Davis > > > Brian R. Smith wrote: >> Hey list, >> >> I am seeking some advice regarding our latest project. Currently, >> our shop runs 5 different clusters of varying size and handles the >> maintenance and administration of each. I've been planning for some >> time to finally consolidate all of these machines together under a >> single head-node with a common storage pool (for /home, /opt, >> /usr/local), utilizing SGE for our resource management. A lot of >> times on this list, the point comes up that many things depend upon >> your applications so I'll make it clear here: Our "application" is >> quite varied. Our users come from a wide variety of disciplines and >> the nature of our group is as a sort of tier-2 scientific computing >> lab where we provide hardware, development environments, and support >> for developing and running applications of various nature hence >> general-purpose. >> >> We have fairly robust systems in place for node provisioning (an >> in-house system that utilizes kickstart and anaconda that supports >> multiple architectures), resource management (SGE has proven >> extremely reliable and more than capable of managing our fairly >> quaint resources). >> >> Currently, my two largest problems are figuring out our storage needs >> (in terms of device bandwidth and throughput) and our network needs. >> When all is said and done, this is the hardware I expect to have: >> >> ~60x 16GiB RAM, Dual-Dual-Core AMD Opterons, IB-connected, >> GigE-connected, with modest local storage >> 8x 16GiB RAM, Dual-Dual-Core AMD Opterons & 24x 8GiBRAM, >> Dual-Opterons, Myrinet-connected, GigE-connected, modest storage >> (cluster1) >> >> We wish to add to this cluster the following existing configurations: >> 12x AMD Opteron 246, 4GiB RAM, Myrinet-connected, etc. (cluster2) >> 38x AMD Opteron 246, 4GiB RAM, GigE-connected (clusters 3 & 4) >> ~40x Intel P4 Xeon @2.66GHz, 2GiB RAM, GigE-connected (cluster5) >> >> Yes, I know the last sets of machines are approaching (or already >> are) legacy status (especially the last batch), but these machines >> are still useful at running the problems they were originally >> purchased for (especially the Opterons), and are still very good at >> some other general tasks (Distributed Matlab, commercial FE codes, >> instructional use, etc). >> Currently, each cluster has its own local storage, averaging about a >> 1TB on each. We've currently got about 4TB of total data across all >> of these machines but anticipate this number possibly doubling with >> in the next 12-18 months. The first phase of this plan (which must >> occur in concert with the second) is to consolidate all of these >> disparate arrays into one volume that is accessible by every node in >> the cluster. I know that some of the supercomputing centers like >> NCSA have dealt with much larger-scale storage issues than this so >> I'd love to hear from one of you. The current ideas that we have >> been floating around include the following: >> >> 1. Proprietary parallel storage systems (like Panasas, etc.): It >> provides the per-node bandwidth, aggregate bandwidth, caching >> mechanisms, fault-tolerance, and redundancy that we require (plus >> having a vendor offering 24x7x365 support & 24 hour turnover is quite >> a breath of fresh air for us). Price point is a little high for the >> amount of storage that we will get though, little more than doubling >> our current overall capacity. As far as I can tell, I can use this >> device as a permanent data store (like /home) and also as the user's >> scratch space so that there is only a single point for all data needs >> across the cluster. It does, however, require the installation of >> vendor kernel modules which do often add overhead to system >> administration (as they need to be compiled, linked, and tested >> before every kernel update). >> >> 2. Separate /home and /scratch volumes. /home would be NFS exported >> read-only to all hosts (to prevent writes during run-time). The >> volume would reside on one or two file servers (Sun's Thumper/X4500, >> etc. either on JFS or GFS (or perhaps ZFS???), depending on hardware) >> and at current prices, we would be able to acquire around 20TB. We >> would double this purchase and provide the same setup off-site for >> redundancy (including our tape-backup regime). Bandwidth for reads >> is more than sufficient for the needs of our current users. The >> scratch space would be comprised of 8-12 nodes with 0.5 TB RAID1 >> storage utilizing either PVFS2 (which has worked exceptionally well >> for us previously) or Lustre (which we have not tested very well >> yet). Both require separate kernel modules (this seems to be a >> recurring theme) and hence some additional administration. Neither >> are well-suited for general tasks such as compiling (though there are >> ways around this) or problems involving many short writes, but most >> of the applications being run do not fit this profile. 8-12 nodes >> should provide us between 3-6TB of usable scratch. We would like a >> little more, but again, this is sufficient for our current usage >> patterns. The pricing for this might be somewhat less than the >> proprietary system described above. >> >> Can anyone suggest any other approaches to this problem? >> >> We also have a problem regarding how to link these clusters together >> over a single network fabric (GigE). It will be possible for all >> nodes to utilize this network for Message Passing, but it is highly >> improbable that such a scenario will ever be played out since almost >> all of our MPI jobs will no doubt run on either the Infiniband our >> Myrinet nodes (there are SGE policies in place to help ensure this). >> Currently, each cluster has its own GigE network for provisioning, >> administration, and resource management. Some of these hosts utilize >> it for communications (clusters 3, 4, & 5) and all of them will no >> doubt need to utilize it for filesystem access. Clusters 3 and 4 can >> be consolidated to a single GigE HP switch that will have a couple of >> ports left over. Cluster 5 will have to be kept as-is and clusters 1 >> and 2 will fit on a single switch as well. I have discussed with our >> campus network admin the possibility of using two recent cisco >> switches that would support failover and load balancing as a >> redundant and high-bandwidth "trunk" for each of these networks, >> obviously with the capacity to grow in the future. Each of our >> existing 3 switches would have up to two links to each "trunk" switch >> and our file servers (in which ever configuration we eventually >> choose) would also be attached to these switches. There should be >> enough bandwidth to go around under this plan. I'm just curious if >> this seems doable and if it is, are there any obvious pitfalls that I >> have overlooked? Is there perhaps a better way to approach this >> (perhaps a single, large switch instead)? >> >> Our final problem is a relatively simple one though I am definitely a >> newbie to the H.A. world. Under this consolidation plan, we will >> have only one point of entry to this cluster and hence a single point >> of failure. Have any beowulfers had experience with deploying >> clusters with redundant head nodes in a pseudo-H.A. fashion >> (heartbeat monitoring, fail-over, etc.) and what experiences have you >> had in adapting your resource manager to this task? Would it simply >> be more feasible to move the resource manager to another machine at >> this point (and have both headnodes act as submit and administrative >> clients)? My current plan is unfortunately light on the details of >> handling SGE in such an environment. It includes purchasing two >> identical 1U boxes (with good support contracts). They will monitor >> each other for availability and the goal is to have the spare take >> over if the master fails. While the spare is not in use, I was >> planning on dispatching jobs to it. >> There are a number of unfilled blanks in this plan currently (and I >> have a month with which to fine-tune the rest of this) and so if >> anyone would be kind enough to offer suggestions on how to fill in a >> few I'd appreciate it. >> Thanks to all in advance for any help! >> >> Brian Smith >> >> -- -------------------------------------------------------- + Brian R. Smith + + HPC Systems Analyst & Programmer + + Research Computing, University of South Florida + + 4202 E. Fowler Ave. LIB618 + + Office Phone: 1 (813) 974-1467 + + Mobile Phone: 1 (813) 230-3441 + + Organization URL: http://rc.usf.edu + --------------------------------------------------------


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Hotel Chin Shuai in Taiwan folds into the Pacific during Typhoon Morakot flooding
Last week's Global Environment Forum, organized by the city of Incheon, South Korea, featured United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon. He exhorted the gathering's 1,000 global government, academic, business and civil society organization leaders that they must gain political support for the United Nations COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, this December.
The consequence of not getting politcal support?: global devastation beyond calculation, which the Secretary General detailed.
While Secretary General Ban's message and that of some other speakers were loaded with the impending risks posed by global climate change--stonger typhoons, hurricanes, floods, severe drought, massive human health problems, species depletion--the theme of the conference was in "Low-Carbon High Growth" solutions.
Ironically, as Ban spoke, the remnants of Typhone Morakot deluged the streets outside the convention center. The intensity of this tropical Pacific storm, which claimed more than 500 lives in Taiwan a few days earlier, is being attributed to global climate change by Taiwanese leadership after it dumped more than six feet of rain in two days in a mountainous region.
I was attending the Forum as a representative of Common Current, addressing the conference as part of a panel on Climate Change and Urban Sustainability. My presentation, along with those of many others, focused on sustainable urban solutions.
The upshot of my message was that both existing and new cities will need to scale up profitable ways to plan, measure, manage (using best management practices and the latest IT), finance, build and retrofit sustainability. My case studies focused on LEED-ND, Portland's Brewery Blocks, low carbon or carbon neutral developments, Green and Connected Cities, and large-scaled technological and financial "development ecosystems" such as Masdar City, United Arab Emirates..
Other solutions presented ranged from "low-carbon cities" to preservation or restoration of ecosystem services such as coastal mangrove buffer zones in the face of climate change impacts.
Besides Secretary General Ban, speakers included Ashok Khosla, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature; Yann Athus-Betrand, Charman of Goodplanet.org; environmental or energy/climate ministers from South Korea, the UK, Japan and Tanzania; the head of the European Commission Delegation to Korea; representatives from corporations (Cisco, Philips) and an executive from the development firm that is building the new Korean "Green City" in which the conference was located, Songdo.
Songdo is being built as a section of Incheon that is designed as the world's first ubiquitious IT city. It is also demonstrating significant sustainability attributes (see previous post).
Secretary General Ban praised Songdo as a model for global planning and development: "If we combat climate change with a sustainable, low-emissions approach, just like we see around us in Songdo, we can change the way countries develop," he said.
The bottom line on Copenhagen: developing nations will need to provide financing and technical assistance to developing nations, particularly China and India. I showed a slide demonstrating that in 1975 there were a handful of "Megacites" cities over 10 million in population: by 2030 that number will inrease to almost 500, with most expected to be in China and India.
As Secretary General Ban said, "(Songdo-like development)" will allow developing countries to pursue their mitigation efforts as part of their sustainable green growth strategies and to adapt to accelerating climate impacts. Significant resources will be needed from both public and private sources. Developing countries, especially the most vulnerable, will collectively need billions of dollars in public financing for (climate change) adaptation."
Or, as Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) director Lorents Lorentson put it at the Global Environment Forum, "Copenhagen won't go through unless there's cash on the table for China and India."
And that means there must be new ways of simultaneously planning and financing the new cities of China and India.


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The medium and its message: how new media is changing the dynamic of dissent
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The role of cell phones and new media in mobilizing people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia has evinced as much interest in some quarters as the grievances that lie behind the unrest.
Some commentators dismiss this fascination as a cliché driven by the born-in America phenomena of Twitter and Facebook. But make no mistake: these new types of media are flattening the hierarchical media environments long held in the iron grip of governments and elite owners of the means of communication.
Their grip on these levers of control remains strong, as we have seen in Egypt these past few days, but the advent of new media threatens the continued dominance of top-down communication.
That's a big change; one that empowers ordinary people in a potentially revolutionary way. According to Jason Liebman, co-founder of Movements.org, "these technologies not only shrink the world by allowing us to communicate with more people than ever—but they enable every person to be an activist for peace and human rights".
His organization provides a go-to site for movements around the world where they can find how-to guides, case studies, and blog posts about digital activism.


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Question: On March 7, I flew to Sacramento from L.A. for an overnight trip. I packed light — just a dress, belt, shoes, sweats, nightshirt, a bag of toiletries and my iPad. When I arrived at my hotel and opened my bag, there was a notice that the Transportation Security Administration had gone through my luggage. When I was getting dressed, I noticed my belt was missing. I had carefully packed it in the see-through zipper compartment of my suitcase, as I didn't want it to fall out. It was my favorite belt, old, vintage, worn and funky. I guess someone at TSA liked it because they just took it. You can imagine how infuriated and violated I felt. If someone took my iPad it would have been more understandable, but an old favorite belt?
Sharon Richstone
Answer: "Checking your luggage is asking for trouble," the 1988 movie "The Accidental Tourist" tells us and goes on to say, "And most importantly, never take along anything on your journey so valuable or dear that its loss would devastate you."
That's not to blame Richstone but to remind us that what we love should stay behind, which also seems a great argument for not taking kids on vacation.
Her dilemma also raises several other issues, including how and when to report a loss and what's covered.
Most critical: Report the missing item immediately. TSA screens 23 million bags a year at LAX, so finding an item is a bit like the proverbial needle. If it's gone from your bag, use this TSA link, http://www.lat.ms/1e99fbv, to make a claim. There, you'll discover, according to the website, that "TSA has 16 airports that utilize private screening services and does not handle claims for incidents that occur at these airports." (LAX isn't one of the 16, but San Francisco is.)
It's important to report items as soon as possible because TSA uses closed-circuit TV in its screening rooms, and it may be possible to track what happened. But TSA keeps the video record for only about a month, in most cases.
You may still be suspicious of TSA in light of the report last month about a ring of thieves filching valuables from luggage. That wasn't TSA, but baggage handlers. "Basically everything of value — be it electronics, jewelry and items — that could be stolen in seconds would be removed from bags," LAX Police Chief Pat Gannon was quoted as saying in a March 28 Los Angeles Times story.
That Richstone's iPad remained in her bag provides an opportunity to remind travelers that the loss of some items isn't covered. This is often explained in the airlines' contracts of carriage (sometimes called "conditions of carriage").
For example, American Airlines says it "does not assume liability for … in or as checked baggage: antiques, artifacts, artwork, books and documents, china, computers and other electronic equipment, computer software, fragile items (including child/infant restraint devices such as strollers and car seats), eyeglasses, prescription sunglasses, non-prescription sunglasses and all other eyewear and eye/vision devices whether lenses are glass, plastic, or some other material, furs, heirlooms, keys, liquids, medicines, money, orthotics, surgical supports, perishable items, photographic, video and optical equipment, precious metals, stones or jewelry, securities and negotiable papers, silverware, samples, unique or irreplaceable items or any other similar valuable items."
It's been awhile (like never) since I packed my furs, but I often put a second pair of glasses or my contacts in my checked bag, and I sometimes pack my keys. No more. And I'll certainly leave the silverware at home.
In fact, I'll leave at home anything of value, although I know I've taken along things in the past that I shouldn't have. That includes the teddy bear my father brought home when he returned from (according to him) single-handedly winning World War II. Why would I risk that?
"People take their precious possessions with them, even though logically they know there's a risk of losing them, because when people leave home, they want to take their 'Linus blanket' with them," said Dr. Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills psychiatrist and author who is on the clinical faculty of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. "So they make impulsive decisions to bring things along that make them feel connected to something that comforts them."
I guess that's why there are hotel bars. Sorry, Teddy. Your traveling days are done.
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Masoomi H, Kim H, Reavis KM, Mills S, Stamos MJ, Nguyen NT. Analysis of Factors Predictive of Gastrointestinal Tract Leak in Laparoscopic and Open Gastric Bypass. Arch Surg. 2011;146(9):1048–1051. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2011.203
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Hypothesis Patient characteristics and comorbidities, payer type, and operative technique (laparoscopic vs open) predict the risk of gastrointestinal (GI) tract leak in patients with morbid obesity undergoing gastric bypass.
Design Retrospective database analysis.
Setting Nationwide Inpatient Sample.
Patients Between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2008, patients who underwent open or laparoscopic gastric bypass to treat morbid obesity.
Main Outcome Measures Factors predictive of GI tract leak using multivariate regression analyses.
Results A total 226 452 patients underwent laparoscopic (81.2%) or open (18.8%) gastric bypass during the 3-year period. Most patients were female (80.5%) and of white race/ethnicity (73.6%). The mean age of patients was 43.6 years; 30.0% of patients were older than 50 years. The overall prevalence of in-hospital GI tract leak was 0.7%. The GI tract leak rate was significantly lower in laparoscopic compared with open gastric bypass (0.3% vs 2.0%, P < .01). Using multivariate regression analysis, factors associated with higher risk of GI tract leak were open gastric bypass (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 4.85), congestive heart failure (aOR, 3.04), chronic renal failure (aOR, 2.38), age older than 50 years (aOR, 1.82), Medicare payer (aOR, 1.54), male sex (aOR, 1.50), and chronic lung disease (aOR, 1.21). The GI tract leak rate was unaffected by race/ethnicity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, sleep apnea, hyperlipidemia, liver disease, peripheral vascular disease, or smoking.
Conclusions We identified multiple factors associated with the higher risk of GI tract leak after gastric bypass. Surgeons should use this knowledge to counsel patients and possibly alter operative plans in high-risk patients to minimize this risk.
Gastrointestinal (GI) leak is a serious postoperative complication after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass that contributes to significant morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of GI tract leak after gastric bypass has been reported to be as high as 5.6% and has been shown to be an independent predictor of perioperative death.1-8 In patients with postoperative GI tract leak, the overall leak-associated mortality can be as high as 17%.4,9 High morbidity and mortality associated with GI tract leak are related to the difficulty in the diagnosis and treatment of this condition. Diagnosis of GI tract leak often requires a high index of suspicion, as early recognition and treatment are crucial.
Knowledge of factors associated with the higher risk of GI tract leak is important to aid surgeons in counseling patients, selecting surgical approaches, and developing high clinical suspicion for detection of leak in this high-risk patient population. One study3 to date has specifically examined preoperative factors predictive of GI tract leak. Because the prevalence of GI tract leak after gastric bypass can be low, analysis of factors that may predict leak requires a large series of patients, which frequently is unavailable from most single institutions. In this study, we used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database (http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp) to evaluate the prevalence of GI tract leak among patients undergoing bariatric surgery between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2008, and to identify factors that may be predictive of GI tract leak following gastric bypass.
The NIS is the largest inpatient care US database, in which approximately 1000 hospitals participate, and contains information from almost 8 million hospital stays each year across the country. It is composed of a nationally representative sample of approximately 20% of US community hospitals, resulting in a sampling frame that comprises about 90% of all hospital discharges in the United States. Data elements within the NIS are drawn from hospital discharge abstracts, which allow determination of all procedures performed during a given hospital admission. The NIS also contains discharge information on inpatient hospitalizations, including patient characteristics, length of hospital stay, specific postoperative morbidity, and observed in-hospital mortality. The NIS database has no information available on complications occurring after discharge. Approval for the use of NIS patient-level data in this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the University of California Irvine Medical Center and from the NIS.
Quiz Ref IDUsing NIS data from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2008, we analyzed discharge data on patients with morbid obesity who underwent laparoscopic or open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) procedure codes for laparoscopic gastric bypass (code 44.38) and open gastric bypass (codes 44.31 and 44.39) with principal diagnosis codes of obesity and morbid obesity (codes 278.0, 278.01, 278.8, and 278.1). Smokers were identified by ICD-9 codes 305.1 and V15.82. Gastrointestinal tract leak complication was identified using ICD-9 diagnosis codes for postoperative intra-abdominal abscess (code 998.59) or persistent fistula (code 998.6). Preoperative factors that were analyzed included patient characteristics and comorbidities, payer type, and operative technique (laparoscopic vs open). For clinical interpretation of the results, all factors were analyzed as dichotomous variables, categorized as follows: (1) patient-specific factors (sex, race/ethnicity [white vs nonwhite], payer type [private vs other], and age [≤50 vs >50 years]), (2) comorbidities (yes or no), and (3) operative technique (laparoscopic vs open). Multivariate regression analyses were performed to identify independent predictors of postoperative GI tract leak.
All the values for continuous variables are expressed as the mean (SD). Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed, and the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) (95% confidence interval) was calculated to determine the combined effect of various preoperative factors on outcomes. Female sex, age 50 years or younger, white race/ethnicity, laparoscopic operative technique, and private payer were used as references. All statistical analyses for the NIS data were performed using commercially available software (SAS, version 9.2; SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina), incorporating recommended discharge and hospital weights. Discharge weight was used to create national estimates based on sampling of the data. Statistical significance was set at P < .05 and an OR (95% confidence interval) that excluded 1.
Quiz Ref IDA total of 226 452 patients underwent laparoscopic (81.2%) or open (18.8%) gastric bypass during the 3-year period. Most patients were female (80.5%) and of white race/ethnicity (73.6%) (Table 1). The mean age of patients was 43.6 years; 30.0% of patients were older than 50 years. The most prevalent comorbidities were hypertension (54.7%), diabetes mellitus (30.4%), and hyperlipidemia (20.3%). Private insurance was the most common payer type (73.7%).
The overall prevalence of in-hospital GI tract leak was 0.7%. The GI tract leak rate was significantly lower in laparoscopic compared with open gastric bypass (0.3% vs 2.0%, P < .01). Compared with patients who did not have GI tract leak, patients who had GI tract leak experienced a significantly longer mean length of hospital stay (21.5 vs 2.6 days), higher mean hospital charges ($192 218 vs $39 706), and greater in-hospital mortality (6.8% vs 0.1%) (P < .01 for all) (Table 2).
Table 3 summarizes the multivariate logistic regression analyses for in-hospital GI tract leak. For patient characteristics, factors associated with higher risk of GI tract leak were age older than 50 years (aOR, 1.82]), Medicare payer (aOR, 1.54), and male sex (aOR, 1.50). Comorbidities that were independent factors associated with increased risk of GI tract leak were congestive heart failure (aOR, 3.04), chronic renal failure (aOR, 2.38), and chronic lung disease (aOR, 1.21). Open operative technique (aOR, 4.85) was associated with a higher rate of GI tract leak. There was no effect of race/ethnicity, diabetes, hypertension, liver disease, smoking, hyperlipidemia, peripheral vascular disease, or sleep apnea on the GI tract leak rate.
Quiz Ref IDUsing data from a large sample of patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2008, this study showed a low overall in-hospital GI tract leak rate of 0.7%. Our results demonstrated that GI tract leak is a significant risk factor for morbidity and mortality in gastric bypass, with a leak-associated mortality of 6.8%.Quiz Ref IDUsing multivariate logistic regression analyses, several factors were significantly associated with higher risk of GI tract leak in gastric bypass surgery, including open operative technique, age older than 50 years, Medicare payer, male sex, congestive heart failure, chronic renal failure, and chronic lung disease. Understanding these factors will aid surgeons in counseling patients, selecting the type of bariatric procedure, and developing a high clinical index of suspicion for detection of GI tract leak in these high-risk patients.
Factors associated with GI tract leak after bariatric surgery can be multifactorial. These include systemic variables (age, nutrition, and metabolic disease), local factors (infection, ischemia, and edema), and technical conditions.10 In our study, patient characteristics that were independently predictive of higher risk for GI tract leak were age older than 50 years, Medicare payer, and male sex. Using logistic regression analysis of 3073 open and laparoscopic gastric bypass cases, Fernandez et al3 similarly found that age older than 55 years and male sex were predictors of higher risk for GI tract leak. Studies10-12 have shown that older patients are more likely than younger patients to have surgical wound dehiscence and delayed healing. Our study showed that male patients had a 1.5 times greater likelihood of GI tract leak than female patients. Male patients often have android body habitus and increased intra-abdominal obesity, contributing to technical difficulty during the procedure that may lead to increased risk of GI tract leak.13 Livingston et al14 and Livingston and Ko15 demonstrated that male sex was an independent risk factor for major complications in a multivariate analysis of 1067 patients who underwent gastric bypass. Medicare recipients undergoing bariatric surgery are high-risk patients and may incur greater morbidity and mortality. In our study, Medicare payer status was associated with higher risk of GI tract leak. Examining Medicare databases between 1997 and 2002, Flum et al16 similarly reported that Medicare beneficiaries undergoing bariatric surgery are at risk of early death.
Quiz Ref IDAmong patient comorbidities, congestive heart failure (aOR, 3.04), chronic renal failure (aOR, 2.38), and chronic lung disease (aOR, 1.21) were predictive of increased risk for GI tract leak. To our knowledge, no prior study has examined these comorbidities as factors predictive of GI tract leak. Heart failure and renal failure can contribute to impaired wound healing and may be a cofactor for development of other conditions. In patients with chronic lung disease, hypoxemia is a contributing factor to impaired wound healing. Low oxygen tension has been shown to have a profound deleterious effect on all aspects of wound healing.10-12 In our study, smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, liver disease, sleep apnea, and peripheral vascular disease were not independent risk factors for GI tract leak. Similar to our study, Livingston and Ko15 found no effect of smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, or sleep apnea on the risk of major complications following gastric bypass. Contrary to our findings, Fernandez et al3 reported that diabetes mellitus was a significant risk factor for GI leak; however, their results were specifically related to laparoscopic gastric bypass.
In our study, a procedure-specific factor that was associated with increased in-hospital GI tract leak was open operative technique. This finding agrees with recent study findings that compared outcomes of laparoscopic vs open gastric bypass. In a study of 22 422 patients undergoing laparoscopic and open gastric bypass surgery between 2004 and 2006, Nguyen et al1 reported that the GI tract leak rate after laparoscopic gastric bypass (1.4%) was significantly lower than that after open gastric bypass (3.1%), with an OR of 2.2 (95% confidence interval, 1.8-2.7). Similarly, using 2005 data from the NIS, Weller and Rosati17 found that patients undergoing open gastric bypass surgery were more likely to experience reoperation and anastomotic GI tract leak complications (OR, 1.32). In contrast to our findings, Durak et al18 reported that the GI tract leak rate was considerably higher using laparoscopic gastric bypass compared with open gastric bypass (2.3% vs 0.7%, P < .05) based on data among 1133 patients who underwent primary gastric bypass between 1996 and 2006. However, their results are likely related to a learning curve in the laparoscopic gastric bypass procedure.
There are limitations to this study. The NIS database is compiled from abstracted discharge data, limited to in-hospital stays without outpatient follow-up information. For example, GI tract leak that occurs after discharge would not be captured in this database. Therefore, our calculation of the GI tract leak rate probably underestimates the actual leak rate. Durak et al18 reported that 6 of 17 GI tract leaks (35.3%) had onset symptoms later than 48 hours after surgery, and such late occurrences potentially would not be detected after discharge. Despite this limitation, underestimation of the leak rate in this study does not alter our findings because the primary objective of this study was to examine factors predictive of GI tract leak, not to determine the true prevalence of leak. The NIS database does not have information on body mass index, which could be a predictive factor for increased risk of GI tract leak. We were unable to distinguish gastric bypass performed as primary procedures vs revisional bariatric surgical procedures, most of which are performed as open operations and are associated with significantly higher risk of GI tract leak.3 There are no ICD-9 codes for laparoscopic cases that require conversion to open surgery, and these cases were likely included in the open operative technique group. Finally, unavailable for analysis within the NIS database are other potential factors predictive of GI tract leak, such as individual surgeon experience, annual case volume, and specific details about the operative technique. Despite these limitations, our study is the largest to date that evaluates factors predictive of GI tract leak after gastric bypass.
At 0.7%, the rate of GI tract leak following gastric bypass surgery was low herein. However, GI tract leak is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality after gastric bypass. Independent risk factors for development of GI tract leak were open operative technique, age older than 50 years, Medicare payer, male sex, congestive heart failure, chronic renal failure, and chronic lung disease. Knowledge of these factors may aid surgeons in counseling patients, selecting an operative technique that may reduce GI tract leak, and developing high clinical suspicion for detection of leak in these high-risk patients.
Correspondence: Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, 333 City Blvd W, Ste 850, Orange, CA 92868 (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: May 2, 2011.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Masoomi, Kim, Reavis, Mills, Stamos, and Nguyen. Acquisition of data: Masoomi and Nguyen. Analysis and interpretation of data: Masoomi and Nguyen. Drafting of the manuscript: Masoomi, Kim, Stamos, and Nguyen. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Masoomi, Reavis, Mills, Stamos, and Nguyen. Statistical analysis: Masoomi and Nguyen. Administrative, technical, and material support: Masoomi and Kim. Study supervision: Reavis, Mills, Stamos, and Nguyen.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Previous Presentation: This paper was presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association; February 19, 2011; Scottsdale, Arizona, and is published after peer review and revision.
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I posted this over on G+ but neglected to bring it over here. Better late than never!
I've seen a few people wondering about how Green Ronin's Love 2 Hate game differs from other games on the market. I thought it might be helpful to write up a few clarifying comments.
Love 2 Hate is a party game, using the now-familiar _ + _ style of play. Apples to Apples created the format, the same way Magic: the Gathering created the Trading Card Game category.
Love 2 Hate looks to hit the middle of the road, more edgy than Apples to Apples without stepping over into the "shockingly offensive" category that Cards Against Humanity occupies. No Holocaust/genocide references, no rape/sexual abuse references, nothing that says "This game should have a trigger warning attached." (And this is not a criticism of CAH, just pointing out where Love 2 Hate sits on the scale of A2A to CAH.) The love/hate mechanic is a modest but still unique variation to the format.
Apples to Apples is carried in the mass market at prices independent game stores often can't match, Cards Against Humanity has steadfastly refused to enter the hobby game distribution market in favor of selling direct through Amazon, creating scarcity for hobby stores that want to stock the game. Love 2 Hate is a hobby store friendly game that Green Ronin will make available through hobby distribution.
You can get a feeling for the tone of the game in less than three minutes by watching the video on the Kickstarter page.


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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has issued a scathing condemnation of the main association of Catholic nuns in the United States for taking liberal stances on contraception, homosexuality and female priests.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) said in a statement on Thursday it was "stunned" by the Vatican report which pointed to "serious doctrinal problems" and "unacceptable positions" on a range of issues.
It accused members of LCWR, which represents around 45,000 US nuns, or 80 percent of the total, of "corporate dissent" with the Church's teachings against homosexuality and said it was pursuing "radical feminist themes".
The Roman Catholic Church's main enforcer, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said it had therefore decided to appoint the Archbishop of Seattle, Peter Sartain, to oversee the association and ensure it toes the line.
Sartain will provide "review, guidance and approval, where necessary of the work of the LCWR" and reform its statutes in agreement with the Vatican.
His task will be "to ensure that the scope of the LCWR's mission is fulfilled in accordance with Church teachings and discipline", it said.
Sartain has been in the headlines in recent months for his campaign in support of the US state of Washington's referendum against same-sex marriage.
LCWR said it was "taken by surprise" as its leadership was in Rome for a regular annual meeting and had received no forewarning about the report.
"This is a moment of great import for religious life and the wider Church. We ask your prayers as we meet with the LCWR National Board within the coming month to review the mandate and prepare a response," the association said.
Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby and members of LCWR, said on Twitter: "I think we scare them."
"It's painfully obvious that the leadership of the Church is not used to having educated women form thoughtful opinions and engage in dialogue.
"We haven't violated any teaching," she said.
The Vatican report in particular condemned LCWR for being "silent on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States".
LCWR has come under criticism from the Catholic hierarchy for endorsing US President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, including its provisions on abortion and contraception, in the run-up to the US election in November.
The Vatican said: "Issues of crucial importance to the life of Church and society, such as the Church's Biblical view of family life and human sexuality, are not part of the LCWR agenda in a way that promotes Church teaching.
"Occasional public statements by the LCWR that disagree with or challenge positions taken by the bishops, who are the Church's authentic teachers of faith and morals, are not compatible with its purpose," it added.
The report also said that the LCWR, which was founded in 1956, had taken a position in 1977 against the ordination of priests as a male prerogative and that subsequent speeches on the issue were "a matter of serious concern".
"This public refusal has never been corrected," the Vatican said.
The report, which follows a three-year investigation, also recognised however the value of LCWR's activities in the United States "particularly in the many schools, hospitals and institutions of support for the poor".
Pope Benedict XVI, who headed up the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for more than two decades becoming pope, has recently spoken out against the "disobedience" of Austrian priests calling for major Church reforms.
At the same time he has made overtures to ultra-conservative religious movements such as the Society of Saint Pius X, which this week said it was on its way to re-integrating with the Vatican after breaking away in the 1980s.


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Chelsea duo set to face Ferdinand
Chelsea defenders John Terry and Ashley Cole look set to line up against Anton Ferdinand in Saturday's highly-charged west London derby against QPR.
The Barclays Premier League encounter is the first meeting between the clubs since Terry was found not guilty of using a racial slur against the Hoops' Ferdinand in the corresponding fixture last October.
Terry remains the subject of a Football Association investigation over the charges that he denies, while left-back Cole was a character witness for Terry in the trial. The pair had looked set to miss the Loftus Road clash after picking up knocks on international duty with England, but both trained on Thursday at Chelsea's Cobham training ground.
With both likely to return for the Blues and Ferdinand recovering well after a shoulder injury, there has been speculation as to whether the latter would shake some of his Chelsea counterparts' hands.
That tradition was abandoned in advance of the previous two encounters between the clubs, although, regardless of the tension, the Premier League has no plans to cancel the pre-match handshakes this time.
Press Association Sport understands the body expect them to go ahead and that QPR and Chelsea have been in talks about how to approach Saturday's fixture. An announcement on the matter is expected before Mark Hughes' pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon and follows warnings made by both clubs on Thursday.
QPR published a warning on its official website, www.qpr.co.uk, under the title 'Your Behaviour: A Reminder', while Chelsea posted their own statement called 'The Right Rivalry'.
"Last January's FA Cup match at QPR and the meeting between the sides in April at Stamford Bridge were good examples of passionate and vocal rivalry with the fans of both clubs recognising that abuse and discrimination have no place in a football stadium, nor anywhere else in society," read the statement posted on the club's official website, www.chelseafc.com.
"Chelsea Football Club wishes to see the level of respect at those games continued throughout this campaign, as it has been in our opening matches.
"Both Chelsea and QPR will work together with the police to ensure that anyone using discriminatory or inflammatory language on Saturday is identified, and that the strongest possible action is taken against them."


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The Druid is a monster that appears only in certain dungeons in the west, and does not appear in most scenarios. He has exactly one layer of death protection. This can make it somewhat difficult to kill them with first strikes (particularly for high-damage hitters like the Rogue) but is not going to make them the same kind of daunting foe as the Animated Armor. For the most part, the druid is a relatively weak monster and can be easily killed by a variety of approaches and will only present serious resistance to glass-cannon melee fighters.
One of the most interesting applications of the druid is to use them as fodder for lifesteal. Because they will not die if you attack them, you can lifesteal from a lower-level druid to heal, then allow it to regain its life so you can do so a second time. This approach works with any monster with death protection, but druids have relatively low attack damage compared to other monsters with this special and make relatively good targets. They can also be used to trigger burning effects without killing monsters or to sustain hits in order to activate a dodge using Quicksilver Potion.
If you want to slow the Druid popcorn, always check whether you knocked off its death protection; if you didn't, the 1XP bonus from slow wouldn't take place and you will take damage from it.
Overall, this is a weak monster who you should attempt to prey on for bonus experience. If you need to kill a higher level monster, try to finish it with a fireball so you just need to ignite the burning for the kill.


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Vitamin C affects the immune system, which must be functioning well to combat cancer. White blood cells (WBCs), the immune system's primary fighting force, contain the vitamin. Reviews of the research show that WBCs taken from cancer patents have less vitamin C than do WBCs from healthy people.47,48
Treating cancer with vitamin C has been a controversial issue since Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, began to advocate it years ago. Working with a Scottish surgeon. Ewan Cameron, Pauling decided to investigate the possibility that vitamin C might help patients who already have cancer.49 hundred terminal cancer patients were given 10 grams of vitamin C daily (2.5 grams four times per day) and followed until death. They lived an average of 210 days, compared with hospital records of 1,000 "matched controls" (similar patients) who aver aged only 50 days. A follow-up showed an even wider gap between the vitamin C and control groups.50
The rest of the research community was concerned about these results, in part because the 1,000 control patients received no placebo.51 In other words, the patients taking the vitamin might have lived longer because they believed the therapy might have helped them.* Ironically, while conventional medicine has very little interest in psychological intervention in cancer treatment, medical doctors feel no qualms about using the argument that placebo effect, a psychological intervention, might extend life significantly.
*In a placebo-controlled trial, all patients know they might be receiving a treatment or they might be getting an inert placebo. The function of such a control is to remove the psychological advantage of getting something from the purely physical effects of the treatment. Because patients don't know whether they received the real treatment or the placebo, the real treatment group has no psychological advantage over the placebo group. Otherwise there would be a bias; it is well known that people who merely think they have received a real treatment often do better physically.
The Mayo Clinic attempted to test Cameron and Pauling's results. The Mayo Clinic paper, which did have a placebo-control group, reported that vitamin C did not help.52 Linus Pauling protested that the two trials weren't equivalent because most of the Mayo Clinic patients had had chemotherapy, while his patients had not. This distinction might be important because chemotherapy impairs the immune system; and, as mentioned earlier, one way in which vitamin C might help cancer patients is by boosting immune function. Theoretically, a damaged immune system might not be able to take advantage of supplemental vitamin C.
In response, the Mayo Clinic proceeded to do another study testing vitamin C. This time they used patients who had had no chemotherapy.53 The researchers said that this trial was ethical because "there is no known form of chemotherapy for colorectal cancer that has been demonstrated to produce substantive palliative benefit or extension of survival.''54 For this reason, the second Mayo Clinic study was limited to colon cancer patients. Once again, the researchers claimed that vitamin C was useless.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A relatively large and unexpected meteor streaked across the sky over central Israel Tuesday evening, sparking widespread fears that the nation was under attack by Iran, Syria, or perhaps aliens.
The large bright ball and flaming tail were visible around 8 PM and were seen by thousands of Israelis from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. As soon as the meteor had disappeared, burned up in earth's atmosphere, calls to the police began pouring in.
Panic-striken Israelis were certain that one of Israel's many regional enemies was finally making good on threats to destroy the Jewish state. Just as many callers believed the celestial sighting was a UFO.
Officials said the atmosphere of near hysteria was only made worse by the fact that astronomers had failed to predict this particular meteor would hit earth. One astronomer said he and his colleagues rarely miss predicting such a large meteor colliding with earth's atmosphere.
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The brother of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Kevon Edmonds was a member of After 7, a vocal group that had two back-to-back number one R&B/Top Ten pop singles with "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop" — both written and produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface — as well as several R&B/pop hits during the '90s. Following the group's breakup, Edmonds continued as a solo performer and reached the Top Ten once more in 1999 with "24/7."
The Indianapolis, IN, native grew up listening to "the good stuff": Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, and other classic soul singers. Too shy to sing in the church choir, Edmonds sang to himself "for my own satisfaction" until his teenage years, when he joined his buddies in the junior-high and high-school choirs. While attending Indiana University, Edmonds' musical ambitions began to blossom. The IU Soul Revue, an extensive course on music theory, performing, and the music business, made him seriously consider music as a career. Edmonds, who started the group After 7 with brother Melvin Edmonds and IU classmate Keith Mitchell, would do occasional R&B shows in local clubs. After graduation, the trio worked nine-to-five jobs. Meanwhile, L.A. Reid and Babyface had signed a production deal with Virgin and were scouting around for acts to produce. After they chose to work with their relatives, there was a period where the singing trio wasn't sure of the producers' intent, as they waited for Reid and Babyface to finish other projects. But once things started rolling, they really started rolling.
The first single from After 7's debut self-titled album was "Heat of the Moment," which hit number five R&B in summer 1989. "Ready or Not" parked at number one R&B for two weeks, number seven pop in early 1990. "Can't Stop" with Edmonds on lead went to number one R&B, number six pop in summer 1990; the remixed extended version of the song proved to especially popular. The album After 7 went platinum, selling one and a half million units and peaking at number 25 pop in summer 1990.
The group performed its "Night Like This" single in the 1991 Twentieth Century Fox movie The Five Heartbeats, starring and directed by Robert Townsend. It's included on the Virgin Records-issued soundtrack. The movie, released on Fox Home Video, revolved around the travails of a '60s-era soul vocal group that was loosely based on the Dells. "Night Like This" went to number seven R&B in spring 1991. The group, via concert tours and numerous TV appearances, established itself as a top-flight performing act.
After 7 released two certified gold albums: Takin' My Time (issued September 1992), including the singles "Kickin' It" (number six R&B), a medley of the Originals' 1969 hit "Baby I'm for Real" (written by Anna and Marvin Gaye) and Bloodstone's 1973 hit "Natural High"; and Reflections (issued August 1995), including the singles "Gonna Love You Right" from the Wesley Snipes/Michael Wright movie Sugar Hill, "Not Enough Hours in the Night" on the soundtrack for Fox-TV's Beverly Hills 90210: The College Years, "'Til You Do Me Right" (number five R&B), and a Jon B song, "Damn Thing Called Love."
After 7 went on hiatus just about the time Babyface was looking for real singers to join him in a fictitious group called Milestone for Soul Food, the film he was co-producing. He recruited Edmonds, Melvin, and siblings K-Ci and JoJo from Jodeci. The result was 1997's stirring ballad and instant hit "I Care 'Bout You," which the group also performed in the 20th Century Fox movie starring Vanessa L. Williams. He contributed background vocals to Shanice's self-titled 1999 LaFace CD, and assisted his brother as a choir contractor, assembling just the right voices for studio session choirs, among them those heard on the 1999 Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey duet "When You Believe" from the animated DreamWorks movie The Prince of Egypt. ~ Ed Hogan


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Latvian striker Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, who scored an extraordinary 46 goals in 2011 for Estonian side JK Trans Narva, has moved to Malta to join local champions Valletta FC.
The 26-year-old, who trails only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the ESM Golden Shoe rankings, was linked to clubs in Greece and Turkey in January, but has opted to go with Valletta, who are on target for a 21st domestic title this season. "I have come here with the ambition of winning trophies – the Premier League, the FA Trophy," said Čekulajevs. "
Above all, I have come here to help Valletta advance further in the UEFA Champions League."
Always a powerhouse in Malta, Valletta have long been eager to prove their worth internationally, but have found it hard to battle their way through the qualifying stages of Europe's top club competition. At the turn of the year, they hired Naples-born former midfielder Antonio Esposito as their new technical director, with a special responsibility for foreign signings.
"I was very impressed with the professional set-up at Valletta," Esposito told UEFA.com. "I had talks with Valletta president Victor Sciriha and it was clear immediately that we could work together successfully."
Esposito and his assistant, countryman and former Pietà Hotspurs FC and Sliema Wanderers FC defender Mauro Di Lello, oversaw the move for Čekulajevs, with Sciriha telling UEFA.com: "Since we can field more foreign players in Europe [than we can in Malta], my focus is on getting high-ranked acquisitions for our main objective – advancing further in the most prestigious European competition: the UEFA Champions League."
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text: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > While we're all repenting for our sins against Dell on this Good Friday, > I'd like to add that Dell's DKMS (Dynamics Kernel Management System) is > great: > > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms > > I understand Jeff is relatively new to Dell. Maybe in the future we'll > see his influence improve Dell's clustering situation. I'm sure that he will! And Linux in general. This is potentially a brilliant move on Dell's part. If they set up their own private yum/RPM repository set and preinstall linux with auto-update and a dell.repo for device drivers, special kernels, a pretty GUI tool that lets dumb-dumb new clients shop for free applications and games, and maybe actually build a way for customers to buy proprietary linux apps (e.g. games) via authenticated/keyed access to yum repos, he could singlehandedly create a serious userland linux market. Cut a deal with vmware on the side, add full out-of-the-box lin/win experience, perhaps even make that STANDARD -- Lin on top with open office, firefox and more, vmware, then firewalled xppro, all distributed via yum and he could take the office desktop by storm. Secure windows -- run from inside linux! Oh, he could do so many, so good things... Go Jeff! rgb > > Douglas Eadline wrote: >> And it is good to see a company support Jeff's contributions. >> For those that don't know, Jeff has in the past been a >> BIG contributor to ClusterMonkey.net (he still is by the way). >> He has written articles on parallel file systems and interconnects >> that have a depth and completeness that is often lacking in many >> other venues. >> >> -- >> Doug >> >> For the purpose of full discolsure, I run ClusterMonkey.net, >> an open HPC community web site. Assistance always welcome :) >> >>> Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 19:48:30 Joe Landman wrote: >>>>> As an FYI, Beowulf veteran Jeff Layton wrote up a nice article on >>>>> memory >>>>> configuration issues for Nehalem (I had seen some discussion on this >>>>> previously). >>>>> >>>>> Link is here: >>>>> http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/04-08-2009+-+Nehalem+and+Memory+Configur >>>>> ations >>>> That's a great write-up, gathering all the useful information in one >>>> place. A >>>> must read. Thanks Jeff! >>> I thought it would be a good counterpoint to some of the other list >>> traffic we'd seen on Dell. Jeff, and by association, Dell, contributes >>> significantly to the HPC community. Good guy to know. May not be able >>> to solve the sales issues on the Dell side, but he is a good source of >>> information, ideas and advice. > > -- > Prentice > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977