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Jersey Flegg Grand Final
Newcastle Knights 20 v Penrith Panthers 22
at Telstra Stadium
Referee: Steve Lyons
Match Summary:
The Penrith Panthers have won the 2006 Jersey Flegg Grand Final with an upset 22-20 victory over Newcastle Knights at Telstra Stadium this afternoon. Minor premiers the Knights led 14-6 at the break before a couple of quick tries from the Panthers brought them right back into the contest.
The Knights opened the scoring in the seventh minute after a flick ball from Callan Richardson found Jonathon Wright down the right hand flank. Wright passed back inside to Scott Dureau for the first try. Luke Walsh converted and the Knights were 6-0 in front.
The Panthers were right back in the contest and in the 14th minute, Liam Campbell bursting on to a short pass to score in the corner. Scores were then level as the fullback Matthew Forwood converted from the sideline.
The Knights then led 14-6 at the break, as two quick tries to hooker Terence SeuSeu and centre Callan Richardson sent the lead out to eight, but still the Panthers were in striking distance.
Penrith got off to the perfect start in the second half, as winger Geoff Daniela made a breakand turned the ball back on the inside to Michael Jennings to score under the posts to put his side just two points behind.
The Panthers hit the front for the first time in the match as captain Jaye Martleitner dived over from dummy half. Matthew Forwood's successful conversion gave Penrith a four point advantage.
Newcastle needed to hit back and they did so as Fijian winger Akuila Uate set off down field from inside his own half. When confronted by the Panthers fullback, Uate stepped inside to score next to the uprights. Halfback Luke Walsh converted and the Knights had a 20-18 advantage.
Just when it seemed the game was slipping away from the Panthers, and with just five minutes remaining on the clock, Jarrod Summut put up a bomb that was knocked backwards by a Panthers player. Wiremu Weepu was there to score in the corner.
The conversion attempt missed, but the Panthers were now up 22-20, which ended up being the full time score.
With just 35 seconds remaining in the match, a Panthers player knocked on and the Knights had one final chance, just 40 metres out from the line. In that set of six, the number six Scott Dureau put a chip over the top but the Panthers second rower claimed ithe ball.
The Panthers this season have won the Harold Matthews Cup, SG Ball Cup and now the Jersey Flegg Cup. They take the Jersey Flegg Cup off last year?s winners St George Illawarra.
Newcastle Knights: 20
Tries: Akuila Uate, Callan Richardson, Terence Seu Seu, Scott Dureau
Goals: Luke Walsh 2/4
Penrith Panthers: 22
Tries: Michael Jennings, Liam Campbell, Jaye Martleitner, Wiremu Weepu
Goals: Matthew Forwood 3/4
By the Clock:
Good afternoon and welcome to the first fixture of 2006 Grand Final Day.In just under 10 minutes it is the Jersey Flegg Grand Final between Penrith and Newcastle.Newcastle were the minor premiers this year,and made the grand final after a 1 point victory over the Dragons last weekend.Penrith on the other hand,finished 5th at the end of the regular season,and dramatically earnt a week off after 2nd and 3rd were both defeated.
Newcastle is as per the program,with Rip Taylor making no chances.For the Panthers,Hazelton comes in to the run on side in to prop with Grant going back to the bench.They are coached by legend Brett Kenny.
Your referee is Steve Lyons.
1 min: Kickoff!
5 min: A kick downfield from Penrith's Jarrod Sammut is charged down and Martleitner knocks on with 40 metres of free space ahead of him.
7 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
The Knights get first blood as a slick backline play results in a flick pass from Richardson on to Wright who passes back inside to Dureau for the first try. The replay on the big screen shows that the pass from dummy half was in fact forward.
Walsh converts the try.
Knights 6-0
8 min: The Panthers get a piggy back down field from a penalty in the own quarter.
9 min: The Panthers are deep on the attack before Lawrence Enosi is ruled to have knocked on in the play the ball,the second rower does not seem to pleased with the decision.
11 min: Uate goes from dummy half on tackle 5 for the Knights and appears to have scored but a good call from the ingoal judge says that he knocked on.
13 min: A penalty against Newcastle as Tupou has allegedly attempted to eye gouge a Penrith player.
14 min: TRY Penrith Panthers
On the back of the penalty,the Panthers hit back as centre Liam Campbell pounces on an overlap down the right hand side.
The kick from the sideline is a beauty from Matthew Forwood.
6 all.
16 min: The kickoff from Dureau is dead on the full!
21 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
Knights hooker Terence Seu Seu scoots out of dummy half,gets tackled on the 10,is not held,gets up,and keeps the legs pumping to score in the corner to get the Knights back in front.
Walsh from the sideline just misses to the left.
Knights 10-6
24 min: NEWS The Panthers throw the ball around on tackle 5 just 10 out from the Knights line before knocking on.
27 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
Callan Richardson extends the margin for the Knights as,five-eight Scott Dureau latched on to a grubber kick on halfway before racing down 50 metres before a try saving tackle by the Panthers fullback Matthew Forwood.On the next play,Richardson wrong foots the marker to score in the corner.
Walsh with the kick hooks away.
Knights 14-6
31 min: Wright has a try disallowed for the Knights in the corner as when putting the ball down,the touchjudge rules he had been bumped tough ingoal.
33 min: Just two out from halftime here as the Jersey Flegg halves are just 35 minutes.
35 min: Halftime in the Jersey Flegg Grand Final - The Knights dominated the opening 15 minutes of the first half,before the Panthers came right back in to the match.Although dominating possession after this,the Panthers still find themselves down 14-6 at halftime.
36 min: NEWS Second half underway!
40 min: TRY Penrith Panthers
The Panthers get the try they needed after the break as a break from Geoff Daniela down the right flank is turned back on the inside to Michael Jennings who scores under the posts.
Forwood converts the try.
Knights 14-12
44 min: A kick downfield from the Panthers is knocked on by Knights fullback Wooden.
50 min: TRY Penrith Panthers
The Panthers are in front for the first time in the match as hooker Jaye Martleitner scores from dummy half.
Forwood converts the try.
Panthers 18-14
53 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
Uate gets the Knights back infront as he busts through the defence inside his own half,comes to the fullback,steps around him to score next to the posts.
Walsh converts the try.
Knights 20-18
58 min: Just 12 out from fulltime as a Panthers penalty finds touch just 20 out from the Knights line.
65 min: TRY Penrith Panthers
The Panthers are infront again with just 5 to go on the clock,a bomb goes up,it looks to be going dead ingoal,but it is knocked back by a Panthers player,and Wiremu Weepu is there to score outwide.
Forwood hits the post with the conversion.
Panthers 22-20
65 min: TRY Penrith Panthers
The Panthers are infront again with just 5 to go on the clock,a bomb goes up,it looks to be going dead ingoal,but it is knocked back by a Panthers player,and Wiremu Weepu is there to score outwide.
Forwood hits the post with the conversion.
Panthers 26-20
68 min: Just 2 minutes to go and the Panthers have the ball just 20 out.
68 min: The Panthers have a try disallowed as the try scorer from a grubber kick is ruled to be offside.
69 min: Some great ball movement from the Knights just the final pass is forward which may have sent the winger down 30 metres to score.
70 min: A knockon from the Panthers and the Knights have 35 seconds and 45 metres to go to win the Grand Final.
70 min: A kick through from Dureau is cleaned up by Corey Vlaciky for the Panthers,and the Panthers will win!
Fulltime - The Panthers have kicked off Grand Final day by winning the Jersey Flegg Grand Final.
Leagueunlimited.com players of the match:
3 - Jarrod Sammut (Panthers)
2 - Scott Dureau (Knights)
1 - Jaye Martleitner (Panthers)


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"Drive" is all about mood but without the edge.
This noir-ish crime story will remind you a lot of Michael Mann's "Heat" in its look and deliberately slow pace. Like that movie, it favors long, smoldering stares over dialogue, punctuated by sudden violence so brutal it becomes surreal.
Ryan Gosling plays a no-name guy who is a part-time stunt and racecar driver, part-time getaway driver for hire. His past and present are pretty much a blank until he meets sweet-faced neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), who becomes the unknowing catalyst for a bloody trail of betrayal and murder.
Gosling is an excellent actor, but his wide eyes and enigmatic smile are a strange counterpoint to his propensity for pounding guys to a virtual pulp.
Thank goodness for veteran actors Ron Perlman, Albert Brooks and Bryan Cranston: They provide some good old-fashioned sleaze and corruption to keep things lively.
As expected for a movie called "Drive," the car chases through eerily quiet L.A. streets are expertly done and keep the tension high. This is a very cool movie to look at, but the filmmakers underestimated the value of a character-driven story.
SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a company in Irvine.
'I Don't Know How' to sympathize with them
"I Don't Know How She Does It" showcases a woman's frenzied life as she furiously juggles the demands of her career and young family. Sarah Jessica Parker does an admirable job looking like the mom who belongs in both worlds.
Pierce Brosnan is excellent as her boss in the corner office. Greg Kinnear plays her understanding husband.
There are many funny moments as the harried pace of her life unfolds in rapid fire. The use of actors talking directly to the camera during their scenes offers an amusing narrative device.
But the troubles suffered by this couple won't ring true for many ordinary people living through the Great Recession.
She works at a major investment bank patterned after Goldman Sachs. He is an architect looking for bigger jobs. She travels constantly, enjoying expensive hotels and power lunches.
It's hard to feel sympathy for people who have little time for their children because they are so successful in their high-powered jobs.
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator.

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As you may know, the field of ultrasound has revolutionized the practice of medicine--especially in the diagnosis of disease. You may ask, "Why become a sonographer (a person who works with ultrasound)?" I believe the greatest reward in ultrasound comes with the satisfaction of knowing that you were able to help a patient--that your skills and abilities made a difference. Another strong attraction of the field is respect. A good sonographer is treated as a competent resource person and is held in high esteem. It also offers rich human experiences and is never dull.
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Moreover, our Program is nationally accredited and for many years, RIT's Ultrasound Program has been graduating leaders in the field. Our graduates can be found in a wide range of positions in hospitals, clinics, doctors offices, industry, education, administration, and research. At RIT, you will be part of one of only few programs offering a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in the country and the world. Embodied in our Program are the following key elements (but not limited to):
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The student's experience in the classroom is supplemented by participation in a clinical internship. We believe these experiences help to develop balanced, well-educated, and competent sonographers. The Program emphasizes and promotes the importance of lifelong learning by keeping current with the new developments in the field and continuing education. This is not only emphasized to the students, but is also considered an integral part of faculty professional development.
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The Program aims to and does produce men and women who not only are technically competent in their professional fields but who also have breadth of vision, a sense of civic and moral responsibility, and devotion to the fundamental values of human life.
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The Program has established affiliations and partnerships with many local, regional and national hospitals, private physician offices, and clinics in the form of clinical internships. Our students are exposed to a diverse pool of professionals, patients, and other individuals who come from various countries, cultures, races and ethnicities. These experiences provide our students an opportunity to make significant contributions to the society, in general, and to the profession, in particular. Additionally, these experiences prepare our students to work in global environments.
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The Program faculty and staff encourage the students to focus on innovation and problem solving. Ultrasound technology is one of the innovative high-tech solutions to health problems. The Program involves its students in case studies, projects, seminars, scholarly activities, clinical scenarios and experiences to think of innovative ways to approach patient care and to develop higher-quality, more efficient and affordable ultrasound devices which could be used more widely.
The Program curriculum is designed to prepare students for success in the field of diagnostic ultrasound. Ultrasound is a bridge between engineering, medicine, and computers and, consequently, it is interdisciplinary. In this light, effective oral and written communications skills are required for success. Our students are exposed to various courses in liberal arts and behavioral sciences which are instrumental in improving their communication and problem-solving skills. Moreover, the Program curriculum provides integrated didactic instruction with the utilization of on-campus ultrasound equipment and clinical experience at various medical facilities where students are exposed not only to the applications of ultrasound but also to other related diagnostic and medical imaging procedures and their impacts.
The Program also provides other options for students., if you are interested in pursuing a medical career and becoming a doctor, our ultrasound program will help you prepare for several of the professional tracts in medicine and research. Approximately 85% of our graduates who participate in the Pre-Medical/Pre-Professional programs are accepted to professional/medical schools.
We are indeed pleased that you are interested in our Program, and we look forward to having you become a part of our proud tradition. We cordially invite you to come and meet our dedicated faculty, staff, mentors, advisors, students and professionals and discover our enriching, supportive, compassionate and welcoming environment.


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Drive. Dedication. Passion.
Giggles. Friendship. Youth.
Such different words, yet they all fit together for the dancers at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy in Laguna Hills. I had a chance to sit down and talk with a dozen of the students performing in this weekend's production of "The Nutcracker," and I don't recall ever meeting a more impressive group of teens.
Let's start with Quinn Mason of Huntington Beach. This 18-year-old Sugar Plum Fairy hopes to be with a ballet company some day, but she's also planning to go into the medical field, most likely physical therapy, after her dance career.
Lauren Denney, 15, who shares the role of Sugar Plum Fairy with Mason, attends San Clemente High School on top of her demanding schedule at the studio.
Then there are the three Maries — Nora Clemente, Victoria Yacap and Sofia Haase, all 14. They want to audition for a company in the future, but say missing college is not an option. For right now though, they all juggle high school and dancing.
"It's a big commitment to do both," Victoria said. "You have to plan everything."
Speaking of commitment, Jennifer Bummer, 14, moved to San Clemente from Montana because she wanted to work with Dmitri Kulev. She shares the roll of Snow Queen with Grace Fulton, 14, who commutes from El Segundo for daily practice, and Gianna Cassidenti, 15, who hails from Laguna Niguel.
And, fellas, don't think it's just a bunch of girls in tutus. Sam Zaldivar, 15, Devyn Lovett, 15, Bryce Lee, 14, and Patrick Frenette, who turns 16 next week, take on different roles for each show.
"We'll practice for four hours just tonight," said Sam, who started dancing because he was always at the studio when his sister took classes.
Bryce started out in much the same way, hanging around while his siblings were dancing.
I asked Bryce, who would like to be a principal with a company and then be a physical therapist, what he would say to other young men about doing ballet, especially those who would pick on male dancers.
"I'd tell other young men, anyone who picked on me, to take a class, pick any class, and see how hard it is," he said.
For Patrick, dancing has opened doors to a whole different place: England. He went last summer and is going again next year, but for now he enjoys his time at the academy.
"There are lots of great relationships," Patrick said. "I'm in class every day with six or seven guys. It's great for partnering and separates us from other studios."
Devyn, who started dancing at the same time as Sam, almost quit three years ago, but then he got serious.
"Dmitri pushes you a lot," he said. "He'll make you do something 50 times in class." But, he said, the students really learn the techniques.
In fact, the theme of a strong, but caring teacher came up with each student.
"Dmitri is very nice and really cares about his students," Mason said. "He puts everything into us."
"I'm happy to contribute to this school," Patrick said. "I'm learning a lot from Dmitri, [his wife] Jennifer and the other coaches."
In speaking to the Maries at the same time and then the Snow Queens at the same time, I picked up very quickly that the studio isn't just teaching technique. It gives the students a chance to make friends, feel at home and grow as people.
The girls laughed and shared inside jokes, proving they are comfortable with each other.
Dmitri was kind enough to give me a front row seat for rehearsals Wednesday night. The students are right. They are amazing, but not just for what they can do in pointe shoes or ballet flats, which was certainly impressive. Beyond that, they have poise, grace and a thirst for life that's incredibly rare to find.
I'll be at Saturday night's show and I hope to see you there.
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If You Go
What: "The Nutcracker" featuring Tiit Helimets
Who: Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy with the Orange County Ballet Theatre
When: Noon and 6 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Where: Northwood Performing Arts Theatre, Irvine
Cost: Tickets are $28 if you call the academy. For group rates, call the academy.
Information: (949) 360-4233 or ocnutcracker.com


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Must See Movie: "Twenty Feet From Stardom"
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If you liked the excellent documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," that focused on the band that played on nearly every Motown hit, here's a movie that you are going to want to check out – "Twenty Feet From Stardom." This documentary focuses on background singers and as the title suggests, these singers are often the glue and soul of a band, yet they are mere feet from becoming mega-famous. You definitely know their voices, but do you know their names? 3 of the stars of the film were on hand at a special screening of the film and they are ALL fabulous! Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love has sung with everyone from Phil Spector to Elvis Presley to the Beach Boys to Bruce Springsteen to U2!!
Merry Clayton has recorded with Neil Young, Tom Jones, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles and is most notably known for singing background vocals on the Rolling Stones' "Gimmie Shelter."
Lisa Fischer has worked with Luther Vandross, Sting, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin and has been a backing vocalist with the Rolling Stones for over 20 years.
Their list of accomplishments is beyond incredible and these amazing voices were happy to be in the spotlight for photo ops with yours truly. Thanks so much Darlene, Merry and Lisa! RESPECT!
You definitely need to see "Twenty Feet From Stardom" which opens in select theaters on June 14, 2013. You can watch the trailer by clicking on the link above and once you see it, there's no way you will miss this movie!


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Registration for the 2014 Governor's Economic Development Conference closes April 8. If you haven't already registered,click here to access our online form. See you there!
Meade County is the 8th fastest growing county in the nation. Learn more about this ranking on the GOED's new blog!
Showplace Wood Products, Carl V. Carlson Company, and Troy's Wood Specialties were all approved for low-interest financing for upcoming projects.
Additionally, aWatertown site was certified under the GOED'sCertified Ready Sites program.
The GOED successfully kicked off its first training session on March 11th when it hosted the GOED Overview for New Economic Practitioners.
Approximately 22 practitioners gathered in Pierre to learn more about the resources available to economic developers. Topics included business development resources, data resources, current campaigns, cooperative opportunities, as well as an overview of the structure of the state office.
"I'm pleased that our first session was so well-received," said GOED Commissioner Pat Costello. "Having the opportunity to reach out to and touch base with our local developers is beneficial to all parties."
The session was one of four - the remaining sessions will be held in Pierre in June 10, September 9 and December 9, and are open to not only new economic developers, but also veteran developers, board members, and other interested individuals. Click Here to send an e-mail RSVP.
The GOED will also be offering training on its Request for Information (RFI) process in Pierre on April 10 and Rapid City on April 25 and in Watertown on June 11.
"The RFI Training is a great session for local economic development offices that wish to work with the state on joint information requests," said Costello. "Staying up to date on our procedures and requirements really helps the process go smoothly when we are under the gun to provide information to a prospect."
To RSVP for one of the RFI Training sessions, please contact your local planning district representative. Contact information and a regional map can be found here.
For a full list of economic development training opportunities, visitwww.sdreadytopartner.com/training.
Jeff Haverly of Rapid City has been selected as the GOED's newest Business Development Representative. Haverly will cover Region 4 - which includes counties in western South Dakota - and will spearhead the office's efforts in the Oil & Gas industry.
Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Nathan Lukkes will be leaving the GOED at the end of April. Lukkes accepted a position with the South Dakota Board of Regents. His replacement is yet to be named.
For more information on the GOED's business development representatives, pleaseclick here to view our map.
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1. What is a strength-based program?
A strength-based program is one in which the focus is to identify and use family strengths, not deficits. The programs all utilize a family meeting or conference
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support or advocate, caregivers, resource and treatment staff, Department of Children and Family Services personnel and a trained facilitator to guide the process.
The family meetings or conferences engage families in developing an individualized planning process and formulate out-come based plans using family strengths to
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Montana Golfer Still Waiting for $18,000 Hole-in-One Prize
Two years ago, a Helena man, Troy Peissig, made a one in a million shot. He aced an $18,000 hole-in-one contest at a charity tournament. So, what is this lucky lad doing with all his winnings? The answer is nothing. What? Why? Well, that is because he hasn't seen even one cent of his winnings.
State authorities have now issued an arrest warrant for Kevin Kolenda, the operator of the insurance company hole-in-one.com, who failed to pay up on the policy purchased by the Missoula tournament. This isn't the first time Kolenda has failed to pay on a policy. He has been sanctioned by insurance regulators in Alabama, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina and Washington. Montana regulators are moving aggressively to try to stop Kolenda from selling his insurance all over the country.
Kolenda claims the hole was too short and didn't meet the 165 yard minimum on the policy contract. Kolenda noted that the normal length for the 12th hole on Missoula Country Club's score card was 130 yards. However, the 12th hole at the Country Club was lengthened for that tournament to specifically meet the policy requirement.
Peissig isn't counting on ever seeing his winnings. The only thing he hopes for now is that no one else would be swindled by this company again. However, it would have been nice for him to have the money as he recently became a new father.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Got Medicare? What People Living With HIV Need to Know About the New Medicare Drug Benefit -- "Part D" -- Starting January 1, 2006
October 16, 2005
About one in five people in HIV care has Medicare coverage and most of those also get Medicaid benefits. For everyone eligible for Medicare, a complicated new program called Part D will help pay for medicines starting January 1, 2006. For Medicare recipients not on Medicaid, the program is optional, but if they choose to enroll after May 15, there will be a penalty of higher premiums. Everyone who gets both Medicaid and Medicare benefits ("dual eligibles") will automatically be enrolled in Part D.
Choosing a PlanBecause the lawmakers who passed it favor free-market capitalism over simplicity, there will be "50 to 100 different plans, all advertising" to consumers, says Tom McCormack, a public benefits policy consultant at Title II Community AIDS National Network (TIICANN). Beneficiaries can select the plan they expect will work best for them. Beginning in late October, extensive information about each plan's formulary, which pharmacies they will cooperate with, and what monthly premiums and co-pays they will charge will appear on www.medicare.gov. Those who do not have access to the Internet can call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). TTY users can call 1-877-486-2048.
If you are on Medicare and your medications are currently paid for by Medicaid, they will no longer be paid for by Medicaid starting January 1, 2006. Dual eligibles will have a plan randomly chosen for them to make sure that they have Part D in place on time and their treatment is not interrupted. Advocates had worried that many dual eligibles would be too incapacitated by their illness to deal with the paperwork to choose their own plan. Still, those who are able to and want to can make their own choice. In October, a notice should be mailed explaining the plan chosen for you (if you are on both Medicare and Medicaid), and how you can choose another plan if you prefer. You can join a Medicare Part D drug plan starting November 15, 2005.
FormulariesNone of the Part D plans may reject a patient for having an "expensive-to-treat" condition like HIV. And all antiretrovirals must be covered by every plan. However, for most classes of other medications, a plan only has to cover a minimum of two drugs for each condition. For example, there are more than two drugs commonly used to treat PCP pneumonia, but under some of these plans, doctors may need to choose between two that are covered by their patient's Part D plan.
McCormack says it looks like there won't be problems getting newer drugs. "The plans don't appear to be chintzy," he says. But if a drug you need isn't on your plan's formulary, there is a "clunky, hard-to-use appeals process" to get the plan to cover it.
Low Costs for Low-Income BeneficiariesPart D doesn't pay for medications outright; it requires even the poorest patients to "share" the expenses. Dual eligibles, and those who are eligible for a Medicare Savings Program or get Supplement Security Income (SSI) benefits, automatically qualify for "extra help" to reduce their out-of-pocket costs. For those with an income below the poverty line (currently $798 per month for a single person, in September 2005), there will be no premiums or deductibles, but there will be a co-pay of $1 for generic meds and $3 for brand-name meds, with no co-pay after total drug expenses reach a certain limit. Dual eligibles with incomes between the poverty line and 135% of the poverty line (currently $1,077 per month for a single person) will have a $2 co-pay for generics and a $5 co-pay for brand-name drugs. Those with incomes between 135% and 150% of the poverty line (currently $1,197 per month for a single person) will pay 15% of drug costs until their out-of-pocket spending reaches $808 -- and then their co-pay will be $2 for generics and $5 for brand names.
People who do not automatically qualify for "extra help" can apply for it if their incomes are below 150% of the poverty line. People in this category need to first join Part D, then complete an application form for the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS, or "extra help") and meet eligibility criteria that will look at their assets and income. Their premiums, deductibles and co-pays will depend on their income. They will not experience the gap in coverage that those without "extra help" will.
Costs Without "Extra Help"Part D beneficiaries without "extra help" will have to pay premiums of about $20 to $37 per month. They will also pay the first $250 of their drug costs (the "deductible"); 25% of their drug costs between $250 and $2,250; and all of their drug costs between $2,250 and $5,100 in one year. After drug costs reach $5,100 in a given year, these are considered "catastrophic expenses," and patients will only have to pay 5% of further drug costs. The period of time when Part D doesn't cover any drug costs is called the "donut hole." During the months a patient is in the "donut hole," she may have to pay many times the amount of money she'll be paying during other months.
People taking antiretrovirals for HIV may end up spending $3,600 out of pocket each year (if their incomes are above 150% of the poverty line and therefore they don't qualify for "extra help"). However, there are other sources of funding that can count toward True-Out-Of-Pocket expenses (TrOOP). If a patient gets outside help to pay for medications while she's in the donut hole, that financial help may count as an out-of-pocket expense, and once total drug costs reach the "catastrophic" level, Part D will pay for 95% of further costs. Fully state-funded State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs (SPAP), qualified drug-company patient assistance programs, family help and donations from private organizations (including charities) count as TrOOP, but any help from AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) does not [as of October 2005 -- there are efforts to change this].
Advocacy Needs"We lobbied to keep co-pays low for poor people," McCormack says of advocates for people with HIV. "But the senators were mentally in the world of country clubs they don't know anyone making $6 an hour at Walmart." There is a pressing need for the HIV community to demand some changes to Part D, he says. "When I was a case manager, I talked to homeless people with 15 prescriptions. With a $5 co-pay for each medication, the overwhelming majority didn't get their prescriptions filled. Co-pays can literally be killers." Currently, he says, advocates are pushing for a maximum monthly ceiling, so that poor people will not have to pay more than $25 in co-pays per month.
Advocates also want to reform the law so that ADAP can be counted toward TrOOP. As it stands, patients can get help from ADAP, but that may mean that they stay in the "donut hole" all year. States can be pressured to maintain ADAP coverage for those on Part D, and even to help fill some of the gaps; for example, including coverage for Part D premiums and deductibles. Also, many State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs only cover the elderly and not the disabled and many states don't have SPAPs at all.
McCormack's biggest concern is that "there's going to be a major train wreck" when millions of people are shifted to Part D overnight, leaving no margin for error and their Medicaid card doesn't work at their drugstore anymore. "Millions will say, 'What is Part D?' or 'I got a letter in the mail, but I couldn't understand it so I threw it out' or 'I called the 800 number and it was busy.' Or 'My Part D plan doesn't participate with this drugstore, and the nearest drugstore that does participate with my plan is 20 miles away, and I don't have a car.'"
Patients can contact their Senators and members of Congress -- especially Republican ones, since Democratic ones are generally on board, McCormack says. "Urge them to amend Part D to
If you need individual help, call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). TTY users can call 1-877-486-2048.
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The Shang Ring: A Novel Male Circumcision Device for HIV Prevention (ShangRing)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00993811
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 14, 2009
Last Update Posted : December 6, 2010
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|October 9, 2009
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|October 14, 2009
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|December 6, 2010
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|October 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|The efficacy and safety of the ShangRIng device for adult male circumcision in an HIV endemic region in Africa. [ Time Frame: Six week post-operative follow up appointment and examination ]
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|Same as current
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|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00993811 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
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|Behavior outcomes (surgical acceptability, satisfaction, problems encountered with the device, compliance with post-surgical instructions, and correct knowledge about the extent of the protective effect of circumcision and safe sex). [ Time Frame: Six week post-operative follow up appointment and examination ]
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|The Shang Ring: A Novel Male Circumcision Device for HIV Prevention
|Official Title ICMJE
|The Shang Ring: A Novel Male Circumcision Device for HIV Prevention
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Shang Ring, a novel Chinese device for voluntary medical male circumcision, in order to improve the provision of male circumcision services for HIV prevention in Africa.
|Detailed Description
Three randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have confirmed the benefit of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in reducing the acquisition of HIV by circumcised men. In Africa, VMMC is most commonly performed with the methods described in the WHO Manual for Male Circumcision under Local Anaesthesia (i.e., the forceps-guided, dorsal slit or sleeve method).
Modelers have estimated that to scale-up VMMC to prevent large numbers of HIV infections will require millions of circumcisions over the next 5 to 10 years, with more than 10 million circumcisions in 2012 based on aggressive scale-up plans.
Neonatal circumcision is a very common procedure and has been the subject of numerous clinical trials. With the use of simple devices, neonatal circumcision is rapid and safe. In contrast, current adult surgical techniques are done freehand. Adolescent or adult male medical circumcision has been a rarely performed procedure in most developed countries. Circumcision has suffered from little or no research that could make possible either (a) comparison or simplification of surgical techniques or (b) development of devices to facilitate the procedure. Current techniques are time consuming and require long training periods to produce skilled personnel. Each procedure typically takes 20 to 40 minutes.
A search for more efficient adult circumcision techniques has been undertaken by consultants for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Preliminary discussions that helped to produce this proposal suggest that the Shang Ring is one of the most promising existing devices that could greatly simplify adult circumcision. More efficient and simpler techniques could potentially:
The Shang Ring is a relatively new device, manufactured by SNNDA, a small company based in Wuhu, China owned by Mr. Shang Jianzhong Shang. It has been approved for marketing in China since 2005, with sales of about 40,000 devices in the past couple of years. The Shang Ring and was awarded the CE Mark by for the European Union in October, 2008. The Shang Ring has the potential to dramatically reduce the time needed for the surgical procedure, from the current 20 to 430 minutes, to an average of about 5 3 to 10 minutes per procedure. This efficiency would greatly increase the productivity of large scale VMMC efforts.
The Shang Ring has several unique advantages compared to other devices that are currently in use, including its suitability for use in adults, small size, simple design, and ease of application. It is a clamp- type device, so there is no need for cautery for hemostasis,, or for suturing for hemostasis, or wound closure. The manufacturer has agreed to negotiate a low public sector price so that it would be affordable for circumcision programs in Africa.
Project goal, objectives and critical milestones: We propose to conduct a multicenter RCT comparing the Shang Ring to standard surgical techniques, with a sample size of 500 men in the Shang Ring group and 500 men in the standard surgery group. We will conduct cost studies to compare time and resources needed for both techniques. We will also assist SNNDA in preparing and submitting dossiers to regulatory authorities in both the United States and at least three African countries, and will assist as needed in SNNDA's application to the U.S. FDA for 510(k) clearance. Circumcision devices are considered class II devices by the U.S. FDA. We will request that the FDA grant marketing clearance for the Shang Ring through a 510(k) process, similar to other recent circumcision device approvals. We propose to conduct these activities over a 30-month period. If successful, they could lead to wide use of the Shang Ring and dramatic efficiencies in scaling up VMMC programs.
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|Phase 1
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
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Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Device: Shang Ring circumcision
novel device for adult male circumcision
Other Name: adult male circumcision
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|Experimental: Circumcision
Males undergoing circumcision
Intervention: Device: Shang Ring circumcision
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|Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Same as current
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|March 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|18 Years to 54 Years (Adult)
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|Marc Goldstein, M.D., Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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You know what's interesting? Sensor data and their associated analytics, especially as it pertains to personal health. I came across this TED talk where Eric Dishman discusses how even the most basic devices like a telephone can be measured in many different ways and provide insight into many different things, such as early detection of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, arthritis, and more. Not to mention wearable devices such as Shimmer that provide data on gait, stride length, and tremor as a few examples. There seems to be so much opportunity to do things better with respect to healthcare, particularly by applying sensor and big data technology. Watch the talk!
I am on a mission. Several actually, but this one is about enabling the masses of PDI and Kettle users to keep their proverbial ducks in a row.
What I'm talking about is the bevy of errant connections that are meant to be straight, but are off ever so slightly. But you and I know better, we see that errant line, the angle that is off by 3 degrees. And it MUST BE FIXED!
Let's look at an example. Below we have a transformation that reads some sales data, does some data cleansing and data enrichment, and outputs the results into a fact table. Now does that look terrible or what? Every line is crooked.
If you're like me, you'll spend extra time making sure every line is truly straight. Then, you'll need to add or change something about your transformation and do the line-straightening thing all over again. Let's face it, that's a waste of time. Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to have our ETL steps automatically lock into place, say, on a grid perhaps? Well you've come to the right place. Open up the Tools –> Options menu.
Switch to the "Look & Feel" tab, and change the "Grid Size" field to something larger. I've found 30 to be a good value to set here, mostly because that's what Lynn Yarbrough suggested during my PDI training class. Thanks Lynn!
Now we can clean up our transformation and straighten everything out with the quickness! Check it out:
See? Look how nice that is.
So there you have it – the best PDI / Kettle tip ever for orderly people. Don't you agree? Learn more goodies like this in our PDI training course!
How to add a column to a data set with Pentaho Data Integration
I have a little project going on right now. I'm trying to build out a demonstration of our software that highlights how the platform could be leveraged for lending risk management. One big problem with this is that I am not a bank, and therefore I do not have the necessary data to illustrate the use case (and Pentaho's capabilities). Therefore, I must create it.
So I found some public data regarding mortgage applications, which is great, but it's still not exactly the right kind of data, though it's a good foundation. It's missing key fields for the use case, like the application date, decision date, and closing date for the loan, not to mention payment status, home price, etc. You know, information that a real bank would have at its disposal.
I set out to sample the data I found (a CSV file), and loaded it into a staging table via a simple transformation:
In this transformation, I'm loading the fields from the CSV file, setting certain field values to null if they contain "NA" instead of a blank entry, sampling 500,000 records (out of the ~15M in the CSV file), and loading it into a staging table. Pretty straightforward.
Now I have a table with about 45 fields in it, but none of them with a specific application date field, which I want to add in. I found a tool called Spawner that can generate fields of various types within certain ranges, including dates. Here's a quick screen shot of how I set up Spawner to generate an ApplicationDate field:
I do want the data to reflect seasonality through the months of a year to reflect the seasonal home buying patterns and the resulting mortgages, so I'm generating a months worth of data at a time. On the output tab I configured Spawner to generate a CSV to hold the number of January dates that I want reflected in the data.
Now the big question is: how do I get this disconnected set of application dates included as a column with the other 45 fields from the public data I found?
I'm not going to lie, I tried a lot of different steps in PDI before it dawned on me. If I'm allocating a certain percentage of the total number of records for each month I'm representing, there is no reason I can't generate a sequence in both the public data set and the generated application dates, and leverage a stream lookup step in PDI to do the match. After this revelation, I added a sequence as my "Id" field in Spawner for my January dates, and I quickly modified the staging transformation to include a sequence. Now every record in the staging table has a unique identifier (a new field called "Id"):
Now in the transformation in which I load the fact table, I can use a stream lookup to load my randomly generated January dates:
The stream lookup is configured to match the Id field from the staging table with the Id field that I generated in the January CSV file, and retrieve the associated ApplicationDate for that specific record. After doing this process for the remaining months in the year (which is admittedly a little bit tedious), the data will reflect the seasonality I want it to show.
So hopefully this will save people some time when they try to figure out how to add new columns to an existing set of data. If you have suggestions on an even more expedient way to achieve the same result, please do leave a comment here or catch me on Twitter and let me know! Also, if you want to give PDI a spin, grab the trial download here and have fun!
Last week I posted about how to define rolling averages in Pentaho Analyzer. Since then, my colleague Andy Grohe pointed out that this could also be done via a trend measure rather than having to use MDX. I found this to be true with a minor caveat, but more on that a bit later. Andy's suggestion is a great one because this method is far more accessible than getting into MDX.
Average Trend Measures
For now, let's look at how to set up a trend measure to calculate averages based on prior periods. Let's start with a simple example. In this data set, we're filtering on March and April of 2013, and showing the numbered week of the year and a count of requests opened during those weeks:
Right clicking on the "Requests" dimension reveals a bevy of useful options, one of which is "User Defined Measures", under which a "Trend Measure" can be defined. From here we can define our new "Average Requests" measure as follows:
Now we've got our new user defined measure included in our analysis, derived from the prior four time periods:
If we switch to a column-line combo chart, we get this view:
Right away you should notice something interesting: the average is based on the prior four time periods, so the line that is plotted is actually kind of a lagging indicator.
Rolling Time Periods
In an attempt to correct this "lag" issue, I thought I would leverage relative date filters in an attempt to force the average to be calculated on a rolling basis, including the weeks from the current and previous month, rather than explicitly filtering on March and April of 2013. For a more detailed discussion of how to set that up, please refer to my prior post on the topic.
After implementing the necessary changes to my schema, I leveraged the new filtering option (note the different filter selection in the filter pane), but the result was the same (still driven from the prior time periods):
I did also try filtering on current and previous 4 weeks (instead of months as above), but the behavior was the same.
This is where I think MDX becomes necessary, since you can use it to specify a formula the explicitly includes the current member as part of the range to be averaged for a calculated measure. For details on how to set that up, please refer to my prior post on the topic.
Using MDX you can achieve average calculations that are potentially as fine as the grain of your time hierarchy (which is very cool), but you may want to forecast expected future values as well. Such capabilities could really enhance decision making regarding resourcing, investment, retention, quality, or cost reduction. Pentaho does support such predictive analytics, but alas, that's a post for another day. In the meantime, feel free to take Pentaho for a test drive.
A week or two ago I had a request for how to create visualizations that leveraged rolling dates. For example, show the event count for the last 4 weeks (rather than specifically filtering on the last four specific weeks of the year). My teammate Wayne Johnson referred me to some documentation on how to modify your Mondrian schema file to enable this capability in Pentaho Analyzer, and it took me a while to really figure out how to get it to work, so I thought I'd share an example that I was successful with.
First, the goal. For this test data set, I wanted to be able to show something like the image below, and have it be correctly up to date each day to show only the prior four days.
So how did I get there? Have a look at the Mondrian schema file:
The key to getting this to work is matching up the annotation format from each dimension level with the values from the date/time dimension table. In this case, the values from my date dimension looked like this:
As such, I had to provide some string literals within the "AnalyzerDateFormat" annotation and use the year for every level. For example, '[yyyy].['Q'q yyyy].[MMM yyyy]' matches the year, quarter, and month format. '[yyyy]' is clearly the year format, but the 'quarter_desc' column in the dim_date table held values that were non-standard according to the documented formatting rules. The 'Q' in '['Q'q yyyy]' matches directly with the data, whereas the 'q' matches with the numeric quarter (1 in the graphic above).
Once I figured out how to configure the format strings, all I had to do was make use of the newly available filtering option for dates. After right clicking on "Date" and choosing "Filter", now I can "choose a commonly used time period" and select a specific number of previous dates (in this case 25, because my data is a little bit old).
If I set my system clock forward a day and re-run the report, we see that the report automatically updates (in this case showing only three days worth of data):
Hopefully this is helpful!
Over the holidays, Pentaho developed and released the 12 days of visualizations, demonstrating the platform's flexibility and how easy it can be to add new ways to visualize data. I of course installed them all, enabling them within Pentaho Analyzer in the Pentaho User Console, but I never did figure out how to get them to run in PDI or Instaview. But today changed everything…
Thanks to my colleague Sal Scalisi, I discovered that those visualizations could be deployed for use in PDI and Instaview by unzipping them to this location:
After restarting PDI, the custom visualizations were all available in the Visualization perspective, as shown here:
I would like to re-articulate the disclaimer made along with the release of these visualizations though:
These visualizations are provided for demonstration purposes ONLY. They are provided with no warranty or commitments regarding the quality of the sample and/or platform support. Many of the underlying charting libraries used in these samples only work on a subset of browsers that are part of Pentaho's official support matrix.
Note that you will be installing these at your own risk. For support purposes, you may be asked to disable these plugins within PDI and Instaview in order to fully debug any issues you may be experiencing.
Also, please note that this is not an April Fool's joke, despite my posting it on April 1st. If you want one of those, see here.
I'm fairly new to the business analytics space, so multidimensional expressions (MDX) are not even close to second nature to me. This week however, I had a request for how to calculate a rolling average for the last five time periods for a particular measure.
Clearly, I was going to need the Avg() function, so I checked the reference for it:
Avg( Set_Expression [ , Numeric_Expression ] )
The numeric expression was the easy part – that would simply be the measure (in this case aggregated by count) I want the average of. The set expression I was less sure about. After a bit of trial and error (and some guidance from Bo Borland), I discovered that I needed to supply a range that identified the set to average based on the date, and that one great way to do that was to leverage ":" operator and the Lag() function. In the end, my new calculated measure looked like this:
Avg({[Date].[Date].CurrentMember.Lag(5):[Date].[Date].CurrentMember}, [Measures].[Events])
In this case, the first occurrence of "Date" refers to the name of the dimension referenced by the cube, and the second instance of the word "Date" refers to the level that describes the actual date of the event. Here are the relevant sections of the schema file I used:
<Cube name="Events" visible="true" cache="true" enabled="true">

 <DimensionUsage source="Date" name="Date" visible="true" foreignKey="date_key" highCardinality="false"> </DimensionUsage> <Measure name="Events" column="id" formatString="#,###;(#,###)" aggregator="count"> </Measure> <CalculatedMember name="Rolling Avg Events" formula="Avg({[Date].[Date].CurrentMember.Lag(5):[Date].[Date].CurrentMember}, [Measures].[Events])" dimension="Measures" visible="true"> </CalculatedMember> </Cube>
<Dimension type="TimeDimension" visible="true" highCardinality="false" name="Date"> <Hierarchy name="Date" visible="true" hasAll="true" primaryKey="date_id">

 <Level name="Year" visible="true" column="year_key" type="Integer" uniqueMembers="false" levelType="TimeYears" hideMemberIf="Never"> </Level> <Level name="Quarter" visible="true" table="dim_date" column="quarter_key" nameColumn="quarter_desc" type="Integer" uniqueMembers="false" levelType="TimeQuarters" hideMemberIf="Never"> </Level> <Level name="Month" visible="true" column="month_key" nameColumn="month_desc" type="Integer" uniqueMembers="false" levelType="TimeMonths" hideMemberIf="Never"> </Level> <Level name="Date" visible="true" column="date_id" nameColumn="date_desc" type="Integer" uniqueMembers="false" levelType="TimeDays" hideMemberIf="Never"> </Level> </Hierarchy> </Dimension>
As a result, I'm now able to show the rolling average number of events in a column line combo chart (or any number of our other visualizations) as well as a convenient tabular view, such as below.
One improvement I haven't quite figured out yet is how to make the value supplied to the Lag() function dynamic instead of it always being 5. But that's a post for another day. Hopefully this one is helpful for anyone looking to create a rolling average calculation for use in Analyzer!
Update, 4/9/2013 – there is an easier way, though it has slightly different results. See my post about it here: http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2013/04/05/average-trend-measures-in-pentaho-analyzer/.
Let me just sum this up for you right up front: If you have multiple sheets in a spreadsheet with different fields in them, use multiple Excel input steps, not just one. Read on for the long version.
This week I got some sample data in Excel format. The file contained 17 sheets, each with a different set of fields in the header row (which was on the 2nd row by the way, not the first). So I dragged an Excel input step into PDI, and went to work configuring it. Based on the data model description (provided in a separate file), I got all 17 sheet names and then narrowed them down to the 3 that I needed for my purposes. I set the start row to "1″ for each (apparently the header row is 0 based), and got all the fields. There were over 800 of them. I narrowed those down to just the 80 or so I needed, and continued to set up the dimension tables via the "Dimension Lookup / Update" step. I was also sure to update the "Spread sheet type (engine)" to Excel 2007 XLSX (Apache POI) to match the file format I was provided.
Once I had it all set up, I ran the transformation, which completed successfully. Unfortunately it only successfully pulled data out of one of the three worksheets. Upon closer inspection, I found that the two sheets from which data was not retrieved had some formatting in them. The cells within that sheet looked like this:
When I hovered over the warning sign, the message was "The number in this cell is formatted as text or preceded by an apostrophe." My first thought was that I needed to get a new data set that had no formatting, and I wasn't sure where to go from here. I asked around, and Sal Scalisi, a colleague of mine here at Pentaho produced a more simple example with the same formatting I had in which everything worked just fine. The difference? He only had one sheet in his Excel file. He suggested that I use one Excel input for each sheet in the Excel workbook, and he was right on the money. I rearranged the transformation, and everything works extremely well. This is the end result:
Hopefully this tip is helpful to some of you out there dealing with Excel data!
"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller
Today I start a new chapter in my career, as a pre-sales solutions engineer for Pentaho, a leading provider of cost effective relational and big data analytics, and I'm very excited about it!
I have a lot to learn, and I look forward to understanding the problem space more completely, mastering the myriad of technologies involved, and communicating the value of the Pentaho platform to customers and prospects in coming years in order to bring valuable business insights into their organizations.
It'll be a lot of work, but this is going to be fun!
I am a solutions engineer for Alfresco Software covering the northeastern United States. As such, I believe it is important to clearly communicate the many ways in which our enterprise content management platform can be used in the financial services industry, which is very prevalent in the northeast. Therefore, I have done some research on current customer use cases as well as potential use cases discovered from a few sources. Namely, the annual reports of some of the biggest banks in the world, and discussions with several colleagues internally and at some of our partner companies. One of those partners agreed to work with me to flesh out the bits and bytes to be able to demonstrate one of the use cases, and so of course I created a site in Alfresco's cloud at http://my.alfresco.com and invited a few folks from the partner company to join and collaborate with me there. I uploaded the document in which I was collecting use case research, and another that included details of the design for the first use case.
And therein lies the problem.
Both of those documents were already in their own folder within our U.S. Solutions Engineering Share site in our on-premise deployment of Alfresco, because I've been collaborating with some of my colleagues on them as well. Now I'm collaborating with two different groups of people on the same documents, and I have to carefully manage updates in both directions. This is why I need Alfresco cloud sync.
Fortunately, Alfresco's product management, engineering, quality assurance, and release management teams are inching ever closer to releasing this capability to the world, upon which time I will gladly begin to take advantage the automatic nature of Alfresco cloud sync. I'll set up synchronization of the folder containing the two documents within our on-premise deployment of Alfresco with the document library of the site I created in the Alfresco cloud to collaborate with our partners. And forever after, I can collaborate on this project seamlessly both internally and externally while maintaining changes and versions from both places.
Seriously, how cool is that?


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Some people like the instantaneous power of a short lever throw. Others prefer the feel of a longer throw. With Contact Point Adjust, you can pick the position you want your fingers to be in when your brakes are engaged. It's a quick and easy way to customize the feel of your brakes without having to move the pads. It's also a way to balance both brake levers to feel exactly the same.


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How is Curbside Rewards different from my current recycling service?
How much can I earn with Curbside Rewards?
How much does a Curbside Rewards subscription cost?
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How can I get Curbside Rewards in my community?
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How can I recycle more to help the environment and maximize my reward points?
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What should I do if I do not receive my mailed rewards within the 5 to 7 day timeframe?
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How many businesses participate in the RecycleBank program?
Will the rewards program change? Will the rewards change?
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Today is a sad, sad day for our City and for everyone who lives and works here.
This is the day that we say goodbye and bid farewell to a number of much loved services and leisure facilities.
We have already seen the closure of the City Farm. By the end of play today we will lose Park Hall Golf Course, the Dial a Ride scheme, Stoke Recreation Centre, Fenton Library and the cafe at Gladstone Pottery Museum.
Communities are devastated by the closure of Shelton and Tunstall pools which will also close their doors today.
There is talk that a private investor is looking to keep these two amenities open but I know a number of councillors have concerns that this is a viable option.
Officers and certain councillors are desperate to further discussions with the individual concerned and to offer assistance where ever possible. I have seen an email in which the potential investor offers sincere thanks to councillors and officers as they try and present a credible business case and secure the necessary funding.
Only time and rigorous scrutiny will tell whether this offer can be taken seriously and until i's are dotted and t's crossed parties are trying to play the matter down for fear of wrongly building up the hopes of the action groups and communities concerned.
Politically, opponents are keen to blame the city council's ruling coalition of Labour, Conservative & Independent Alliance, Liberal Democrats and the City Independent Group for these unprecedented cuts.
Out on the streets though it is a very different matter. The general public are in no doubt as to who is exactly to blame.
The electorate hold the national coalition 100% responsible, everyone I have talked to is angry at the level and speed of these cuts.
For me, it is way too much, way too soon. The fact that we are at the start of what can only be described as a public sector cull, puts our country's recovery from the worst recession in modern history at risk.
Take out the disposable income of the vast number of people who are about to be thrown out onto the scrap heap with the only prospect of landing squarely on the dole queue, and the knock on effect on the economy could be disastrous.
Meanwhile back on the mean streets of Stoke-on-Trent, the effect of these cuts is biting at the very front end of our society. No one is left untouched, the elderly, children, the disabled and the most vulnerable are all to suffer for the indiscretions and downright financial mismanagement of a large number of bankers who thought that they had a god given right to play a game of poker with the worlds finances.
And what has been the effect on the very individuals that put us in this mess in the first place? They are to be rewarded with unbelievably high bonuses often paid out by near state owned financial institutions.
Action groups will carry on fighting for the services and
facilities that they want to save and I pray that there is some success to be had.
£35million pounds have been wiped out of the budget for the upcoming financial year with the inevitability that another £20million will follow next year.
Our elected representatives have faced up to their responsibilities; officers of the council have administrated the cuts based on the balance sheet in front of them. The objectives? To save, to cut, to reduce and to merge services and facilities knowing that their actions are going to hurt the very people they seek to serve.
There have been those both inside the chamber and out in the political scene at large, that have sought to make political gain from the fact that Stoke-on-Trent City Council has had to make cuts. Indeed I know that certain individuals have been told to stay away from the Tunstall Pool Action Group meetings because their number one priority was to make political gain from the fight.
As much as we pontificate locally, in reality we all know there is little we can do to influence the level of cuts metered out to the public of Stoke-on-Trent.
Direct action on a national level is the only sensible recourse to voice our discontent and complete bewilderment over these unprecedented and unnecessary cuts.
The public have to take the issue up with the organ grinder [the national coalition government] as opposed to the monkey [Stoke-on-Trent City councillors], for it is them that have decided to decimate the funding to our City.
The protests in London last weekend attracted in the region of 450,000 people and but for a few hundred anarchists and complete nut jobs they were hugely successful in delivering a very direct message to this government.
That message is very loud and very clear "" There is an alternative!
Peaceful, direct and unwavering protests on the largest scale imaginable would send a clear concise warning and in my humble opinion is the only way to save the services and facilities we value in this city.
So, in summary to save Stoke, we must march via London and parliament square for it is there that the true perpetrators reside.


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The Washington Redskins' leading tackler still is undecided about if he will play in 2013.
Linebacker London Fletcher, whose consecutive games played streak hit 240, told The Washington Post that he's still evaluating his heath and has yet to make up his mind one way or another.
"I think we all, as athletes, have to imagine ourselves not playing football," Fletcher said Wednesday. "If you don't picture yourself not playing, then you won't be prepared. So obviously I have thought about that. I have thought about that for a number of years. So it's just a matter of taking it one day at a time. It's a process, again. I'm not going to rush anything, just continue to see how I feel."
Fletcher not only was the Redskins' leading tackler in 2012 with 139. He was one of the veteran leaders who lined up behind Robert Griffin III as the rookie quarterback took charge during the Redskins' seven-game winning streak into the playoffs.
Losing Fletcher would be a huge blow both on the field and in the locker room. There is no question the 15-year veteran still can produce (tied for eighth in the league in tackles). Whether or not he wants to go through the grind of a 16th season is the only question he'll have to answer.
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Sept. 22, 2007
WATERFORD, Conn. - Senior Brian Jacokes led another impressive team performance for the Engineers at the Connecticut College Invitational, Saturday afternoon. Jacokes finished 18th overall with a time of 26:04 on a fast and flat course to finish one place ahead of junior teammate Trevor Rundell, who closed at 26:07. All five of MIT's scorers finished within 25 seconds of one another.
Despite competing without the services of its top two harriers, MIT's cross country unit performed incredibly well against a talented field, finishing 6th out of 19 teams. Jacokes and Rundell set the pace for an impressive delta for the Cardinal and Gray, while senior Chris Wong finished 36th in a time of 26:30 to complete MIT's scoring.
Senior Joseph Roy-Mayhew finished third for the Engineers with a time of 26:19, while Sophomore Hemagiri Arumugam finished six places and six back after crossing the line 32nd out of 216 competitors. Junior Tyler Abrams, freshman Kevin Kleinguetl and sophomore Jack Bourbonnais all added sub-27 minute efforts in the race to showcase MIT's solid depth.
The meet was won by New York University, which entered the race ranked No. 2 in the country for Division III. Nationally-ranked St. Lawrence, Division II power Stonehill College, and the University of Connecticut also finished ahead of the Engineers.


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We went early-ish, so vendors were still setting up when we arrived there, and though it was a bit smaller than it looks in pictures I had to keep myself from pawing through the nearest piles and rubbing my hot little hands together with glee.
Thankfully, I restrained myself and did not fork over my dollars for the first dress I had a crush on. We wandered and poked about, and I kept in mind a few dresses and blouses that seemed suitable, until we were gearing up to go and I chanced upon this beaut:
I told myself that I would know when the dress I wanted would pop up, I knew I was only going to buy one since prices were heftier than around home, and I wanted it to be a special dress. I wouldn't say this is the most spectacular little number ever--but it's pretty darn good. It's cotton, 40s-styled, floral, mismatched buttons, with little pleats in unexpected places. It's the kind of dress I know I'll probably throw on all summer when the days are hot and unbearable.
So many times I read blog posts from people who have lots of huge flea markets, and I get a little bit bummed. There are a few in my area--one quite close--but I haven't found them to be terribly lucrative for my funny sartorial whims, and some of the larger ones are quite a drive away (worth it, but ugh, getting up early to hop in the car for two hours). It was nice to hit a flea and leave with a hole in my pocket and a dress in my bag.
I finally wore the dress yesterday for an afternoon checking out a local vintage store open only in the evenings. It was heavenly, one of the best I've been to in my area, even though I had to leave the most delicious dress on the rack and save my pennies for car payments. Crossing my fingers and toes and praying that it's still there next week!
(And a sneak-peak at my new haircut!)
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Spent the last week or two with the car on a small set of ramps in the garage while I scrabbled around under it armed with a wire brush and a grim determination.
Now after coating the front end of the car, subframe, chassis rail, garage floor, me, with rust inhibitor and hammerite waxoyl. I just need to get both front wheels off and empty a couple of rattle cans of some more waxoyl into the bits my brush and arm can't reach.
It has been without doubt the messiest, smelliest job I have ever attempted and I've done a couple of stinkers!
Going to have to gee myself up to reverse it in to the garage, whip of the back bumper and do it all again.
On the plus side I located an undertray in Arbroath for not a lot and my £1 front grill from the scrappies has cleaned up great and looks fab with a bit of plastidip on it.
Think I will need to keep a watch on fleabay and gumtree for a spray gun in the future, don't fancy doing the waxoyl with a brush again next year.
Off now for a hot shower!


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24 May, 2012
Up until now, there was not much room on the floors for Standard and Latino dances because mostly the traditional national dancing art would dominate theater stages and restaurant podiums, but the grace of the European-style gliding on the parquet and the fire of the Latino-style male-female rhythmic reciprocation on the arena have caught on Georgian hearts and feet, and swept them into the new world of dancing. Interestingly enough, it absolutely matches the Georgian national character, especially the Latin-American dance vibes, exuding passion and sexuality from every pore of the human skin. Many educated minds around are presuming that ballroom dancing will soon become in Georgia one of the most popular national pastimes, which is already being embraced here enthusiastically. Competitions of various levels are also in store for us to watch and learn, and to let it become part of our mainstream culture. It could also be a solid money-maker: payments for classes are soaring and competitions have slowly but surely started generating higher revenues. Wouldn't also the introduction of ballroom dancing – partially at least – mean the strengthening of our Western image, which we have been adamantly working on in the last quarter of a century? This would mean that there is a certain portion of political rationale in embracing the ballroom dancing too. Listen, if emulating of the West in matters like democracy, market economy and freedom of sex is the token of our westernization, why won't the ballroom dancing play the same role? To further compound our analytical presumptions, dances like Samba, Salsa and Bachata have a huge potential to finally emancipate the Georgian female population. This probably is one of the reasons of the newly-born infatuation by the Latino dancing among our girls. The attractiveness and vigor of those dances definitely add to sexual appeal of our Georgian babes, already liberated enough to jitter and jiggle the exposed parts of their bodies in that fiery Latino style. Forget about the young – even I am excited to follow the trend, filling my stiffened veins up with pep and verve. Suffice it to have a momentary glance at the dancing couple, I want to hop onto the floor, grabbing the first fortuitous female partner to whirl around the inviting arena, forgetting forever the awkwardness of my looks, clumsiness of my skill, ineptness of my body and embarrassments of my age. This is all a bunch of nonsense compared to my yearning to be good and young again, using a dance as a perfect medium for rejuvenation. If I could, I would drop anything I am currently doing to make time for dancing away the rest of my life. Ballroom dancing would definitely be the best modus operandi for this dream to come true. So, let's welcome the dancing on ball room floors in Georgia. What a fascinating change!


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Dear NBA fan,
Hello! Sorry about the lockout. You might miss a full season because millionaires are upset they promised other millionaires too many millions, but there's good news—the National Hockey League season starts today! Here are a few helpful tips to help you pretend to be paying attention to professional hockey while you wait for the lockout to end.
Hockey, as you may or may not know, is a very popular sport in some colder, appropriately economically downtrodden parts of North America. The National Hockey League is a collection of approximately 30 teams of the sport's best players. The season begins tonight, with a doubleheader on Versus at 7 p.m. The Philadelphia Flyers will play the Boston Bruins, followed by the PIttsburgh Penguins playing the Vancouver Canucks. When will your NBA season start? You have no idea. So embrace the certainty. It's that or watch the baseball playoffs. Some guidance for following your new, temporary favorite sport.
Handy player analogues:
Where you would say "Dwight Howard," say "Ilya Kovalchuk."
e.g. "Ilya Kovalchuk scores a lot, but he takes up too much of his team's cap to justify not playing better defense."
Where you would say "Kobe Bryant," say "Henrik Zetterberg."
e.g. "I know Henrik Zetterberg's old, but he can still score with the best of 'em."
Where you would say "LeBron James," say "Sidney Crosby."
e.g. "He's the best all-around player in the game, and he's still young, but can Sidney Crosby really come back from that?"
Where you would say "Dirk Nowitzki," say "Zdeno Chara."
e.g. "They said he couldn't win a championship, but Chara, that big, goofy European turned out to have the heart of a winner."
Handy team analogues:
Where you would say "Miami Heat," say "Washington Capitals," and substitute "goalie" for "center."
e.g. "The Washington Capitals have great scorers, but no great goalie. Do you really think they won't come up short in the playoffs?"
Where you would say "Boston Celtics," say "Detroit Red Wings."
e.g. "The Detroit Red Wings are battle-tested, sure, but they're too old to win it again."
Where you would say "Oklahoma City Thunder," say "Tampa Bay Lightning."
e.g. "What great young scorers the Lightning have! They're gonna make another run this year."
Where you would say "New York Knicks," say "New York Rangers."
e.g. "Fucking Dolan!"
Other things you can say to sound engaged:
"Brendan Shanahan is a huge improvement over Colin Campbell as the league's discipline czar."
Why? All hockey fans despise Colin Campbell. It's true. This is a funny internet thing explaining why. Just be sure to pronounce Colin like you would "colon." (I think it's a Canadian thing).
"Guys, Corey Perry might be the best player in the league."
Why? The Anaheim Ducks winner won the Hart Trophy (that's the NHL MVP) last year. It's conceivable that he could be the best player in the league.
"Anze Kopitar finally has enough talent around him for the Kings to thrive."
Why? It's true, at least until it isn't.
What you CANNOT say:
• Do not ask what icing is. It has a stupid name, but it's awfully intuitive. You can ask about offsides, though I'll tell you it's like the same rule in soccer, a sport you probably started watching within the last two years.
• Do not make jokes referring to the Mighty Ducks series of films. They suck, and hockey fans will think you are an idiot if you bring them up. How would you like it if I didn't shut up about Teen Wolf and Hoosiers? I would be out of the writing biz within weeks.
[Ed. note: At least there isn't a team in the NBA named after Teen Wolf.]
• Do not think you are saying anything smart or new by complaining about the presence of franchises in Tampa or Phoenix. What are you, a McKinsey consultant? Just enjoy the games, and worry less about macroeconomics.
Okay, basketball fans, that's all I have. With any luck, you'll watch so much hockey that you'll know every tuft of Brian Engblom's mullet, and you'll have nicknames for all your favorite players. (Here's a hint: Almost all hockey nicknames take the first syllable of a player's last name and add a "y" to it.) If not, there's always big-time regular-season college basketball!