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"At Risk" Populations and Diabetes
Diabetes impacts nearly 24 million children and adults in the United States—though one-third don't know they have it. Another estimated 57 million Americans have pre-diabetes, which means they are at risk of developing diabetes.
Are You at Risk?
Type 2 diabetes is found at alarmingly high rates in racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., according to Enrique Caballero, MD, director of Joslin's Latino Diabetes Initiative. Diabetes is much more common among African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders than among Caucasians.
Risk for type 2 diabetes increases with age, particularly after age 45. Being overweight or obese is another major risk factor—particularly if the extra weight is around the waist. Therefore, people younger than 45 years of age can develop type 2 diabetes if they have a strong genetic predisposition and are overweight. A recent study conducted by Dr. Caballero and his team at the Latino Diabetes Initiative at Joslin identified that overweight Hispanic children also have profound abnormalities in their circulation (endothelial dysfunction), which puts them at risk not only for type 2 diabetes, but also for cardiovascular disease.
Other risk factors include: family history of type 2 diabetes, an inactive lifestyle, high levels of fat in the blood, particularly high triglycerides and/or low HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, or having had gestational diabetes, or having pre-diabetes.
Having these risk factors does not mean you'll get diabetes, but it does mean you should be screened for it regularly.
Multicultural Care
Joslin has two clinics staffed by bilingual healthcare providers that offer services and resources for prevention and care: the Latino Clinic and the Asian American Clinic. Joslin also offers African American Services.
Once you know you are at risk, there is a lot you can do to try to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
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Microsoft CEO Search Reveals Board Rifts
Directors Have Approached at Least Two Microsoft Executives and Eight Outsiders, Including Ford's Mulally
Microsoft Corp.'s search for a new chief executive is exposing divisions of opinion among directors over the 38-year-old company's future direction and what it needs in its next leader.
Directors on Microsoft's CEO search committee have approached at least two Microsoft executives and at least eight outsiders to gauge their interest in the job, according to people familiar with the matter. Those people said the outsiders include Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally, Oracle Corp. President Mark Hurd and Nokia Corp. executive...

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Obama, Lawmakers Vow to Ease Suffering from Texas Blast
(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama and lawmakers in Washington, D.C., expressed their condolences Thursday after the devastating explosion in West, Texas, pledging federal resources to help.
"Today our prayers go out to the people of West, Texas, in the aftermath of last night's deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant," Obama said in a written statement released to reporters. "A tight-knit community has been shaken, and good, hard-working people have lost their lives."
"I want to thank the first responders who worked tirelessly through the night to contain the situation and treat the wounded. My administration, through FEMA and other agencies, is in close contact with our state and local partners on the ground to make sure there are no unmet needs as search and rescue and response operations continue," Obama added.
Obama called Texas Gov. Rick Perry to offer any federal resources needed to aide in response-and-recovery efforts, a White House official told ABC.
Texas' two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, released a joint statement thanking first responders and pledging any support they can offer.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of the horrific explosion in West, Texas," they said. "We grieve for those who are injured and have lost loved ones, and are grateful to the firefighters and first responders who risked their own lives to keep others safe."
On the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered sympathy for Texas victims and called it a "difficult week," after the attacks in Boston.
"I offer my condolences to those who lost loved ones and who have people who are wounded and injure," Reid, D-Nev., said. "I'm going to do everything I can with my colleagues to ensure that this terrible tragedy has the resources of the federal government available to help the people of that city as they recover from this tragedy."
McConnell, R-Ky., said, "From the media reports we've seen, there have clearly been a great many injuries, and a terrible loss of life. We're all thinking of and praying for the victims and their families. Given the horrendous event at the Boston marathon on Monday, followed by the event near Waco last night. It's been a difficult week for all of us. Our hearts are a little bit heavier."
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One of the most talked about effects at the 2006 Mindvention. It virtually fooled anyone who saw it.
The very latest from Devin Knight's Psychic-Sight series. The first was Farsight and was a runaway hit. Now comes Blindsight.
Performer patters that Blindsight is the apparent ability to see colors and shapes which cannot be seen. You offer a simple experiment. You introduce 4 ungimmicked colored cards: Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. These in turn are sealed into 4 opaque envelopes and mixed so that the spectator doesn't know which color is in which envelope. You ask him to point to any envelope. Free choice, no magician's force of any kind. You hold it up and ask him what color he thinks is inside. Assume he says Blue. You write "Blue" on the envelope. This is repeated 3 more times with the person freely pointing to any of the remaining envelopes. Each time he states the color he thinks is inside and the performer writes it on the envelope.
Performer fans the envelopes out allowing the person to see the names written on each envelope. Magician states he only needs three envelopes for the first part and for the person to remove one envelope and place it off to the side. Let's assume he discards the envelope with the word Yellow written on it.
The other three envelopes are opened one at a time, the spectator has correctly guess what colors were in each envelope. This is pretty amazing in itself but the kicker is still to come.
Magician says nobody could have known what envelope the spectator would discard off to the side. The spectator, NOT THE MAGICIAN, picks up this envelope and opens it. Of course the correct color card is in it, but wait; there is a slip of paper in it and it reads: "THE YELLOW ENVELOPE WILL BE THE ONE YOU DISCARD!"
The magician can then show the other envelopes are empty, in fact all the envelopes can be examined.
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120V, 60 Hz Switching Relay with Spdt switching(Honeywell Carrier)
The RA889A Switching Relay with 24 V controller provides intermediate switching of line- and low-voltage devices from a line- or low-voltage controller and is typically applied in Hydronic heating systems.
Product Specifications
Description Enclosed switching relay with internal transformer, Spdt line voltage relay, plus Spst low voltage relay with Powerpile rating. 120V/60Hz 15 AFL/30 ALR ratings one line voltage contacts.
Application For switching of line- and low-voltage devices from a line- or low-voltage controller.
Electrical Connections (main) No. 8 captive wire clamp screw terminals.
Switching Action SPDT, plus PowerPile• rated low voltage SPST relay
Thermostat Heat Anticipator Setting 0.12A
Transformer Primary Rating 120 Vac, 60 Hz
Transformer Secondary Rating 24 Vac, 12 VA max., 9 VA available for external load. Secondary protected by replaceable 1A automotive fuse.
Temperature Range (F) (Ambient) -20 F to +120 F
Temperature Range (C) (Ambient) -29 C to +49 C
Thermostat Compatibility Honeywell electromechanical and electronic 2- or 3-wire
Dimensions (in.) 6 1/4 in. high x 4 7/16 in. wide x 3 1/2 in. deep
Dimensions (mm) 159 mm high x 118 mm wide x 89 mm deep
Electrical Ratings -Primary Voltage 120V; 60 Hz
Operating Humidity Range (% RH) 0 to 90% RH, non-condensing
Approvals, Underwriters Laboratories Inc Listed: File No. E4436, Guide No. XAPX
Includes Integral transformer, enclosure
Electrical Ratings (Primary Voltage) 120V, 60 Hz
Replacement Parts 32002190-001 Replacement Relays. Replacement Fuse: use a 1 A automotive fuse.
Contacts Electrical Rating Contacts Max. Connected Load 2000 VA
Contacts Electrical Ratings (120 Vac AFL) 15A
Contacts Electrical Ratings (120 Vac ALR) 30A
Approvals, Canadian Underwriters Laboratories Listed: Guide No. XAPX7.
• High load switching capability.
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• Replaceable transformer fuse.
• Long-life DC relay drive control technology.
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If a lawsuit or prior arrest is part of your past, your new employer increasingly wants to know.
As the economy improves and companies add to their ranks, many are taking the opportunity to revamp their hiring processes. And, with many people still out of work and vying for a limited number of jobs, employers can be pickier than ever.
Two years ago, World Wide Technology began conducting criminal background checks on new employees who oversee buying and selling equipment — the first time it required this check in the company's 23-year history.
Now, the systems integration firm, which employs more than 2,000 people, is mulling making criminal background checks a requirement for all new employees.
"That will be the next step, because of our growth and increased visibility and liability" said Paul Koetting, World Wide Technology's director of human resources. "We're always trying to protect the company from all angles. When we were a smaller company, it wasn't as important. When you get bigger, you can become a target."
Maryland Heights-based World Wide Technology, which has about 100 current openings, is one of a growing number of employers making employment background screening a part of the hiring process.
At the AAIM Employers Association, a Brentwood-based provider of employer-related business services to 1,600 Missouri and Illinois employers, the number of companies utilizing the background checks and drug tests that AAIM offers its members more than doubled last year while its membership rose only marginally.
In 2012, 810 companies sought AAIMCheck background checks or drug tests from the organization, up from 392 in 2011.
The group's background checks include employment and education verification, driving records and criminal histories.
However, county civil record searches that detail a prospective employee's past or current civil lawsuits was the category that AAIM saw the most growth from 2011 to 2012, company executives said. A standard search dates back seven years.
Overall, AAIMCheck ran 19,215 background checks in 2012, up from 8,313 in 2010. The number of drug tests it conducted for its members grew from 502 in 2010 to 4,236 last year.
Philip Brandt, AAIM's president and CEO, said the sharp rise in the number of checks isn't due to increased hiring activity by its members.
Instead, employers are increasingly becoming aware of the high costs when they don't pre-screen employers, he said.
"Hiring people costs money," Brandt said. "To get it right the first time is what employers are more focused on now."
An added danger, Brandt said, is the greater exposure companies are faced with when a high-ranking employee is caught flubbing information on his or her resume.
Examples of executives whose resumes contained errors that proved embarrassing for their employer include Yahoo! Inc.'s former CEO Scott Thompson, who was ousted from the company a year ago after news broke that he claimed a degree in computer science he hadn't earned.
"There's more and more awareness when hires go wrong," Brandt said. "That can be devastating for their business."
The increase in activity is leading to growth for AAIM, which currently has 25 employees and plans to hire five employees this year.
The St. Louis Zoo, which employs up to 800 people in the busy summer months, made drug testing mandatory three years ago for all seasonal, part-time and full-time employees.
"We want to know as much as we can about new employees," said Dustin Deschamp, the zoo's HR director. "It is becoming almost industry standard to perform background checks and drug testing because of the liability issues you're facing."
But with the increase, employers need to make sure they don't run afoul of federal law.
"It's a trend that we've been noting for several years, particularly after 9-11," Michelle Rodriguez, staff attorney for the National Employment Law Project, said about increasing number of employers conducting background checks and drug tests. NELP is an employee advocacy nonprofit organization based in New York.
Rodriguez said the number of companies that offer these services is increasing, and technology is making it faster and easier for the checks and tests to be performed.
Her nonprofit group is fielding more complaints from people who say background checks are making it impossible to find work, she said.
"Unfortunately, there are too many companies that have blanket bans" based on criminal history or other factors, Rodriguez said.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provided new guidance last April that said the use of some background checks in hiring can violate prohibitions against employer discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
For example, a company could be in violation of Title VII if it uses criminal history information for applicants in different ways for different groups, based on applicants' race or national origin.
The zoo follows all labor laws when it uses information gleaned from background checks and drug tests, Deschamp said.
"We don't automatically disqualify anybody based on what we see in background checks," he said. "We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to make sure the zoo is as safe as possible for visitors and co-workers."
David Minton, president and CEO of Clayton-based Heartland Bank, said the bank, which employs 300 people, has used background checks and drug tests on all new hires for at least six years.
"We're obviously handling one of customers' most important possessions, their money," he said. "We want to make sure that we do that with employees of the highest caliber."
But even with the information the background checks and drug tests can offer, Minton said employers should also rely on other factors to make their hiring decisions.
"There's no substitute for checking references," he said.
Editor's note: A quote in the story has been updated from a previous version. The correct quote from NELP staff attorney Michelle Rodriguez is: "It's a trend that we've been noting for several years, particularly after 9/11."


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COLUMBUS -- Dozens of Ohio-grown evergreen trees are on their way overseas as part of an annual effort to brighten the holidays for men and women serving in the military.
The Ohio Christmas Tree Association, with help from the Ohio Department of Agriculture and volunteers, boxed 100 trees Tuesday for shipment to troops in Kuwait. The group has been sending trees overseas for nearly two decades.
Amy Galehouse, from Galehouse Tree Farms in Doylestown, coordinates the program as a way to support troops who can't be home for the holidays.
"They're far away from home," Galehouse said shortly after school groups unloaded trees and decorations from the back of her pickup truck. "They can't be where their families are."
A number of trees were donated by farms like Galehouse's in northeastern and eastern Ohio. The list included David Goerig from Leetonia in Columbiana County, Bailey's Christmas Tree Farm in Lordstown, Bob's Tree Farm in Zanesville, Bradley's Tree Farm in Vienna in Trumbull County, the Cambridge Trading Co., Pioneer Trails Tree Farm in Poland, Stepuk Tree Farm in Canfield, Storeyland Christmas Tree Farm in Burghill in Trumbull County and Twinsberry Tree Farm in Shreve.
Donated trees were delivered to the Ohio Department of Agriculture's headquarters in suburban Columbus, where an inspector checked them for disease or pests. They were then tied and packed into long boxes along with cards, hand-made ornaments and other decorations, many provided by school children.
The latter included involvement this year by Hazel Harvey Elementary School in Doylestown, Memorial Baptist Church of Poland, North and Union elementary schools in Poland and St. Peter & Paul Catholic School in Doylestown.
"They put email addresses from the schools (with the trees)," Galehouse said. "Quite often, they get responses back. ... We occasionally have had one of the guys come back and visit a school and say, 'I got your ornaments.'"
The finished boxes were taped and loaded onto a United Parcel Service truck, then sent on their way. Some may arrive in time for next week's Thanksgiving holiday.
The trees cost about $130 each to ship. Galehouse said the Ohio Christmas Tree Association is footing the bill this year and has collected about half the total cost in donations.
Additional information about the program is available on the association's website (ohiochristmastree.com).
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at email@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.


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|HOF Class of '94
Arthur "Ski" Zielinski served the Academy for 30 years as a trainer, a physical instructor, and a gymnastics coach. Arriving at Kings Point in 1946, Zielinski quickly became popular with the midshipmen through his kind and energetic demeanor. In 1958, Zielinkski started a gymnastics club, and in short time, the club was competing in different AAU meets. The Mariners were 6-2 in the 1961 season, which helped the gymnastics club obtain varsity status in 1962. Under Zielinski the team posted a .700 winning percentage and never had a losing campaign.
Along with directing Kings Point's gymnastics team, Zielinski also directed seven international gymnastics competitions in O'Hara Hall. As a result of his involvement in the AAU, he was selected to manage the United States Olympic Team on a six-week tour of South American countries in 1968. Zielinski retired from the Academy in 1973.


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Brussels, 1 June 2010
Telecoms: how the Article 7 consultation and notification mechanism works: frequently asked questions
(see also IP/10/644)
What is the Article 7 procedure?
Article 7 of the EU's Electronic Communications Framework Directive (2002/21/EC) is one of the main EU instruments to regulate the telecoms sector. It is a consultation and notification mechanism that requires national telecoms regulators to inform the Commission, and telecoms regulators in other EU countries, about measures they plan to introduce to solve market problems. The Framework Directive was recently amended as part of the telecommunications package adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in November 2009.
Seven telecoms "markets" (e.g. wholesale broadband access) have been identified as the starting point for analysis by national regulators. These markets are set out in a Commission Recommendation on Relevant Markets (IP/07/1678). Since 2002, under the procedures set out under Article 7, national telecoms regulators have analysed their national telecoms markets, in consultation with the industry, and proposed appropriate regulatory measures to address market failures.
National telecoms regulators must ensure that telecoms markets are competitive. The authorities therefore must define the boundaries of the relevant markets and assess whether one or more market players are dominant on them (i.e. have significant market power - SMP). If operators are found to be dominant, appropriate regulatory remedies must be proposed to ensure effective competition. The national regulators inform the Commission and other national regulators of their findings and proposed measures
The Commission assesses the regulatory measures (notably the definition of markets and assessment of SMP) within a one-month "phase one" procedure, after which it may choose to approve and/or comment on them. If the Commission considers that the proposed measures would create a barrier to the Single Market, or has serious doubts as to their compatibility with EU law, the Commission opens a "second phase" investigation and the procedure's deadline is extended for a further two months. Following this in-depth investigation, the Commission may, if its concerns are confirmed, require a regulator to withdraw the measures they have proposed (a possibility known as 'power of veto').
The revised telecoms rules adopted in November 2009, which the EU Member States must implement into their national law by 25 May 2011, gives the Commission new responsibilities with regard to the imposition and implementation of remedies (see below).
How will the EU Telecoms Reform, as adopted by the Council and Parliament on 13 November 2009, change the Article 7 procedure?
As of May 2011, the new EU telecoms rules will give the Commission the power to oversee remedies proposed by national regulators e.g. on the conditions of access to the network of a dominant operator; or on fixed or mobile termination rates. The objective is to ensure a more consistent, efficient application of those remedies across the EU in a single telecoms market.
Under the new rules, should the Commission, in close cooperation with "BEREC" (the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) consider that a draft remedy would create a barrier to the Single Market, the Commission could issue a recommendation that required the national regulator to amend or withdraw its planned remedy. The new rules also enable the Commission to adopt further harmonisation measures in the form of recommendations or (binding) decisions if divergences in the regulatory approaches of national regulators, including remedies, persist across the EU in the longer term, e.g. on broadband access conditions or on mobile termination rates.
How does the Article 7 procedure work in practice today?
Once a national regulator notifies the Commission of its proposed measure for a particular market, the case is assessed and the regulator may be asked to provide more details or clarifications. The regulator has three working days to respond to such a request. The Commission must carry out its assessment, and comply with the necessary internal checks within one month. At the end of this period, and provided that the notified measure does not raise "serious doubts" as to its compatibility with EU law, the Commission may decide to comment. Regulators should take account of the comments issued by the Commission before adopting the draft measure in question.
When the Commission expresses serious doubts, its investigation period is extended by two months ("phase two" investigation) during which the regulator may not adopt its proposed measure. During these two months, the Commission examines the case in detail and invites interested parties to comment on it. The Commission carefully considers the views of all stakeholders (including national telecoms regulators and market players) in the course of the investigation process.
At the end of the investigation period, the Commission may withdraw its serious doubts (in which case the regulator may adopt the draft measure), make comments (of which the regulator must take utmost account when implementing the draft measure) or require the regulator to withdraw its proposed measure. The regulator may withdraw its draft measure at any time during either phase.
Which electronic communications markets are subject to regulation?
National regulators are expected to analyse seven markets for telecoms services where competition is potentially not yet effective and where consumer benefits would thus potentially be lacking. These markets have been defined in the Recommendation on Relevant Markets (IP/07/1678) and include:
However, if a national regulator notices consistent market failure on another market, it may regulate it, but has to justify its decision.
What kind of market failures need to be tackled?
The general aim of regulation is to ensure effective competition on the market for the benefit of consumers. Market failures include excessive pricing, restrictions of access to networks, barriers to market entry and discriminatory treatment.
What regulatory measures can be imposed, and on whom?
Generally regulatory measures can be imposed only if the markets analysed are not competitive. This is the case when a regulator finds that an operator has significant market power (SMP) and thus decides to impose appropriate remedies. The notion of SMP is equivalent to the competition law concept of "dominance", as defined in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The EU telecoms rules provide regulators with a 'tool kit' of remedies which give them the flexibility to design appropriate remedies to tackle any market failures observed, and so achieve their regulatory objectives. Based on the nature of the problem, obligations imposed should be proportionate and justified.
For wholesale markets, the following categories of remedies are available: transparency, non-discrimination, accounting separation (separation of accounts between various levels of business), access obligations (requirements to provide access to the SMP operator's network) and price control. In retail markets, the obligations may include requirements not to charge excessive prices, inhibit market entry or restrict competition by setting unsustainably low prices, or discriminate between consumers.
What happens when a new technology or service is launched – does the Commission or Member States define a new market?
Whenever a new technology is introduced, the regulator has to analyse whether it provides services comparable to existing ones or provides totally new ones. In the case of a new service, it is justifiable to define a new market.
Has the European Commission used its veto on any measures proposed by national telecoms regulators?
Since 2002, the Commission has issued six veto decisions covering nine cases.
In addition, there have been 41 cases where National Regulatory Authorities have decided to withdraw their proposed measures to avoid a veto decision.
What are the results achieved so far?
As of June 2010, national telecoms regulators have informed the Commission about almost 1100 draft regulatory measures. In all cases, the Commission assessed the notifications within the Article 7 deadlines of one month and required an extra two months when it had serious doubts as to the compatibility of the proposed measures with Community law.
This means that all national telecoms regulators have analysed the 7 markets listed in the Recommendation on relevant markets at least once. The regulators in Bulgaria and Romania, which joined the EU only on 1 January 2007, are still conducting first market analysis.
The Article 7 promotes competition, investment and innovation, and contributes to the consolidation of the single telecoms market. In addition, the Article 7 procedure has:
However, existing rules have been unable to ensure that regulators always choose the appropriate measures to resolve competition problems. Sometimes the choice of a remedy for similar market situations differs significantly from one Member State's regulator to another in areas such as significantly diverging tariffs operators are allowed to charge each other for terminating calls, be it on the mobile or on the fixed network. This distorts competition and consumers may end up not fully reaping the benefits of regulatory intervention.
Overall, however, the existing rules have led to better regulation based on competition principles and contributed to the development of a common European regulatory culture.
Outcome of the notifications closed as of 31 May 2010
How have consumers benefited from the Article 7 procedure?
The regulation of the telecoms market has brought significant benefits to European consumers. As a result of termination rates revision under the Article 7 procedure, today EU consumers pay 34.5% less for their mobile phone calls and text messages than in 2004. Regulation of wholesale broadband markets has provided access to high-speed internet services at affordable prices for more EU citizens. Assuring competition, consumers have better choice of products and services thanks to enhanced investments.
What are the benefits of the Article 7 procedure for telecoms operators?
The Article 7 procedure brings several benefits for telecoms companies:
Do you have a target date to ensure effective competition on the seven markets defined by the Commission?
Effective competition is not achieved by setting deadlines. Appropriate regulatory measures create preconditions for the development of competition. The Commission's revised Recommendation on Relevant Markets shows that some markets like those for mobile access and call origination services are competitive in most Member States. Technical developments and efficient enforcement of appropriate wholesale regulation has enhanced competition on others, like those for retail fixed telephony and leased lines.
What happens once all 7 markets still listed in the revised Recommendation on relevant markets are deemed "effectively competitive"?
One of the main objectives of the Commission is to limit regulation to those markets that will not be effectively competitive without intervention. Successful regulation means that this sector-specific regulation can gradually be dismantled when the EU electronic communications market becomes competitive. At that point, commercial behaviour in the marketplace will be constrained by competition law, just as in other sectors.
The new Single Market Procedure for assessing market definitions and
* BEREC - Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
The new Single Market Procedure for assessing regulatory remedies
* BEREC - Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
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davem3000 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 120 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
We are are rebranding and relaunching http://www.MySecurity.com.au.
The whole site will be updated/changed from what you currently see online with a new sleek/modern design.
MySecurity.com.au is an online portal/directory for the Australian Security Industry. The new site will have the following features:
- Keyword search of directory of security companies
- Category search of directory of security companies
- Feature blogs by leading industry figures
- News articles
- Social Media aspects
- Job Searches
Our target market is as follows:
- Australian base
- Security companies - all types of security, including guards, CCTV, biometric protection, online security, alarms and so on..... everything to do with security.
- Consumers looking for security companies
- Businesses looking for security companies
We are seeking a logo that will focus on the URL mysecurity.com.au.
The logo should encapsulate security. Our current logo (designed many years ago) has a key, which is dated and does not reflected the entire security industry.
The logo will be used on the following:
- Website
- Advertising Media Kit
- T-Shirts
- Caps
- Advertising (print and online)
The logo should be simple, yet effective. Contemporary and modern. Some might say 2.0?
The logo should appeal to businesses that are seeking a security company, so that they will search our online directory.
The logo should appeal to leading security companies so that they have confidence to advertise with us.
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Bendamustine and Dexamethasone in Patients With Relapsed AL Amyloidosis
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01222260
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 18, 2010
Last Update Posted : September 13, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|AL Amyloidosis
|Drug: Bendamustine Drug: Dexamethasone
|Phase 2
Systemic light-chain amyloidosis (AL) is a protein conformation disorder due to a clonal plasma cell dyscrasia. There are no established and approved second-line therapies for patients with systemic AL amyloidosis who fail initial melphalan-based treatment, be it high-dose melphalan with stem cell transplant or oral melphalan and dexamethasone (MDex). Therefore new treatments are needed for those who fail initial therapy and for those who initially respond but subsequently relapse.
Therapy of AL is generally based on treatment regimens used in multiple myeloma (MM). Bendamustine achieves partial response with relapsed/refractory MM. Based on this high anti-MM activity, we anticipate that bendamustine will also be very active in clonal plasma cell disorder associated with AL.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|40 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study of the Combination of Bendamustine and Dexamethasone in Patients With Relapsed AL Amyloidosis
|Actual Study Start Date :
|June 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2019
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 3, 2019
Experimental: Treatment Arm
Subjects with AL will receive Bendamustine and Dexamethasone
Drug: Bendamustine
Patients will start bendamustine at dose level 0 and according to CrCl on day 1 and 2 of each cycle:
Available to qualifying subjects is the option to dose escalate to dose level (+)1:
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Drug: Dexamethasone
40 mg orally on days 1, 8, 15, 22 of each cycle
Other Name: Decadron
- Partial hematologic response rate [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]Only patients who have received at least 2 cycles of therapy are eligible for response assessment. The proportion of patients with PHR two months post-treatment will be estimated, with a 95% exact binomial confidence interval.
- Overall hematologic response rate (OHR) [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]The proportion of response-evaluable patients experiencing OHR will be estimated, with a 95% exact binomial confidence interval.
- Organ response rate (ORR) [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]The proportion of response-evaluable patients experiencing ORR will be estimated, with a 95% exact binomial confidence interval.
- Time to Treatment Failure (TTF) [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]Time to failure will be assessed for each patient from day of first treatment, where failure will be defined as disease progression or death. The survival function of TTF for response-evaluable patients will be estimated using the product-limit (Kaplan-Meier) estimator, along with 95% confidence bounds. The median time to failure will be estimated from the survival function. The analysis will be repeated on all patients who receive any therapy.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female patients aged ≥ 18 years old
- Histopathology of amyloidosis or light chain deposition disease based on detection by polarizing microscopy of green bi-refringent material in Congo red-stained tissue specimens or characteristic electron microscopy appearance or immunohistochemical stain with anti-light chain anti-sera
Demonstrate measurable disease as defined by one or more of the following:
- Serum monoclonal protein ≥ 0.5 g/dL by serum electrophoresis
- Urine monoclonal protein > 200 mg/dL in a 24 hr urine electrophoresis
- Serum immunoglobulin free light chain ≥ 5 mg/dL and abnormal serum immunoglobulin kappa lambda free light chain ratio. The difference between involved and uninvolved free light chains should be ≥ 5 mg/dL (dFLC)
- Demonstrate clonal population of plasma cells in the bone marrow or immunohistochemical stain with anti-light chain anti-sera of amyloid fibrils
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2
- Patients had at least one prior regimen consisting of at least 1 cycle
- If not previously transplanted, patient should be either ineligible for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT), or must have declined the option of ASCT. Patients who have previously had ASCT and have subsequently progressed are eligible, provided other entry criteria are met
- Ability to provide written informed consent obtained prior to participation in the study and any related procedures being performed
Patients must meet the following laboratory criteria:
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 10^9/L
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dl (May transfuse packed red blood cells (PRBC) to meet parameter)
- Platelets ≥ 100x 10^9/L (Must be independent of platelet transfusion)
- Calculated creatinine clearance (CrCl) greater than or equal to 30 mL/min (Cockcroft-Gault Formula )
- Aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Serum bilirubin <1.5 x ULN
- Serum potassium within normal limits
- Total serum calcium (corrected for serum albumin) or ionized calcium ≤ ULN
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients meeting the criteria for symptomatic MM:
- Lytic lesions on skeletal survey or plasmacytoma
Patients meeting International Myeloma Working Group definition of symptomatic myeloma with symptoms only related to associated amyloidosis who would otherwise only meet the criteria for smoldering MM are potentially eligible
- Myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to enrollment or has New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV heart failure uncontrolled angina, severe uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmias, or
- electrocardiographic evidence of acute ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities (not including 1st degree atrioventricular (AV)-block, Wenckebach type 2nd degree heart block, or left bundle branch block. Prior to study entry, any electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormality at Screening has to be documented by the investigator or an authorized physician sub-investigator as not medically relevant). Note: There is no lower limit of left ventricular ejection fraction below which patients are excluded from participation.
- Patients with N-terminal (NT)-proBNP ≥ 1800nb/L or B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) ≥ 400 ng/L, abnormal cardiac troponin T (cTnT) or cardiac troponin l (cTnI)
- Patient has received other investigational drugs within 14 days prior to enrollment
- Any form of secondary / familial amyloidosis
- Serious concurrent illness, which in the opinion of the investigator or an authorized physician sub-investigator would interfere with participation in this clinical study,
- Known HIV infection.
- Inability to provide informed consent or to comply with the schedule of office and treatment visits
- Female subject is pregnant or breast-feeding. Confirmation that the subject is not pregnant must be established by a negative serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test result obtained during screening. Pregnancy testing is not required for post-menopausal or surgically sterilized women(woman not of child-bearing potential is defined as any woman whose menstrual periods have stopped in the past 12 consecutive months or have had a complete hysterectomy or both ovaries surgically removed).
- Diagnosed or treated for another malignancy within 3 years of enrollment, with the exception of complete resection of basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, an in situ malignancy, low-risk prostate cancer, or cancer after curative treatment.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01222260
|United States, Massachusetts
|Tufts Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111
|Boston Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118
|United States, Michigan
|Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|United States, New York
|Mt. Sinai Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10023
|Columbia University
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|Principal Investigator:
|Suzanne Lentzsch, MD, PhD
|Columbia University
|Responsible Party:
|Suzanne Lentzsch, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01222260 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10-012 (PRO10050217) ( Other Identifier: University of Pittsburgh )
|First Posted:
|October 18, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 13, 2019
|Last Verified:
|September 2019
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
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Relapsed AL Amyloidosis
Bendamustine Hydrochloride
Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis
Proteostasis Deficiencies
Metabolic Diseases
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Dexamethasone acetate
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Gastrointestinal Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating


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Shirley L. Meldrom, a former Baltimore Sun secretary who later became a Disney World sales associate, died Oct. 7 of liver failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. She was 82.
The former Shirley Louise Smith was born and raised in Baltimore and was a graduate of Seton Keough High School.
While working as a secretary at The Sun in the 1960s and 1970s, she met her husband, Lawrence Joseph Meldrom, who also worked at the newspaper. They married in 1962.
During the early 1960s, the couple owned and operated a Sun route in Severna Park.
From 1984 to 2010, the former Ferndale couple lived in Winter Haven, Fla., and Mrs. Meldrom worked as a sales associate at Disney World. After her husband's death in 2010, she returned to Maryland to live with a daughter in Arnold.
She was a member of Ferndale Methodist Church and enjoyed reading the Bible and Bible study books.
Mrs. Meldrom liked riding roller coasters, said a daughter, Brenda Aversa of Arnold.
She also was a parishioner of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, 689 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
In addition to her daughter, she is survived by three sons, Ted Weitzel of Linthicum, David Meldrom of Frederick and Wayne Weitzel of Parkville; two other daughters, Janice Dennstaedt of Washington state and Lura Riddel of Port Deposit; eight grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. An earlier marriage ended in divorce.


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Videos of 2012 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grantees
We're happy to say that we now have videos from the annual Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting, held September 20, 2012 at the Old Post Office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought together top researchers in the digital humanities from across the United States.
In these videos below, watch the directors of NEH's Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants give short, three-minute lightning presentations on their projects.
Click any link below to go directly to the video.
Is That You Mr. Lincoln?: Applying Authorship Attribution to the Early Political Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Stowell, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation & Patrick Juola, Duquesne University
The Distributed Text: An Annotated Digital Edition of Franz Boas's Pioneering Ethnography, Aaron Glass, Bard College
A prototype of a syntactically annotated corpus of Appalachian English, Christina Tortora, CUNY Research Foundation, College of Staten Island
The Pathways to Freedom Digital Narrative Project, Deborah Mutnick, Long Island University--Brooklyn
Annotation Studio: multimedia text annotation for students, Kurt Fendt & Jamie Folsom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building an Open-Source Archive for Born-Digital Dissertations, Liza Potts, Michigan State University & Kathie Gossett , Iowa State University
NYC Chronology of Place, a Linked Open Data Gazetteer, Matthew Knutzen, New York Public Library
Encouraging digital scholarly publishing in the Humanities, Bonnie Robinson & Judith Brauer, North George College and State University
Digital Video Navigation and Archival Content Management Tools for Non-linear Oral History Narratives, Peter Asaro, The New School
Digital Humanities in the Classroom: Bridging the Gap between Teaching and Research, Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Tufts University
The Tesserae Project: A Search Engine for Allusion, Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY
FACES: Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems, Conrad Rudolph, University of California, Riverside
English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA): "Ballad Illustration Archive", M. Patricia Fumerton & Carl Stahmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Visual Page, Natalie Houston, University of Houston
ANGLES: A web-based XML Editor, Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland, College Park
Topic Modeling for Humanities Research, Jennifer Guiliano, University of Maryland, College Park
Active OCR, Travis Brown, University of Maryland, College Park
Making the Digital Humanities More Open, George Williams, University of South Carolina Upstate
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Red Hat and Novell decided not to challenge Microsoft on desktop PCs. However, Canonical Ltd is getting ready to release a new version of Ubuntu on Thursday. According to Mark Shuttleworth:
The public perception of open source software is changing fast. French police force was currently deploying 50,000 Ubuntu-powered machines, while Spanish education authorities were rolling out 500,000 desktops with the OS. Hardy Heron also has improved support for multimedia, including photo editing, music sharing and video playback. It's a favorite version of Linux both for specialists and one that specialists would recommend to a cousin, aunt or uncle who want to have a stable desktop internet experience. There are other versions of Linux that are better for a particular purpose – but Ubuntu strives to be a general platform that is secure and self-maintained.
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Joined: 20 Aug 2008
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Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 08:14
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Boot from PCMCIA Compact Flash - alternatives?
Subject description: No BIOS support for CF boot - what other options do I have?
I've been using Puppy for a few months and am extremely impressed, both with it's speed and feature set. It seem to be a very suitable OS for a netbook, once setup.
To this end, I have bought a Dell Latitude X1. This machine is fanless and has Compact Flash and SD Card slots, as well as a 1.8" hard disk.
My initial plan was to boot from the Compact Flash and us the HD only for storing large files, such as movies and photos, hoping that as the drive is not used at boot up it will spin down and preserve battery life.
Unfortunately, I have found that the machine cannot boot from the CF slot due to BIOS limitations. I am now looking for a way to boot initially from the HD and as soon as feasable switch to loading puppy from the CF.
I am not at all sure at which point this would be possible. I notice with Puppy 4.1 that PCMCIA support is loaded towards the end of the boot process. Can this be altered? Or can PCMCIA support be added to the initrd?
Any help, advice or pointers to reading material would be very much appreciated.
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Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 09:44
Post subject: Re: Boot from PCMCIA Compact Flash - alternatives?
Subject description: No BIOS support for CF boot - what other options do I have?
dickieblack wrote:
... I notice with Puppy 4.1 that PCMCIA support is loaded towards the end of the boot process. Can this be altered? Or can PCMCIA support be added to the initrd?
Any help, advice or pointers to reading material would be very much appreciated.
You're not alone in looking for such a solution. We've been discussing this problem in the following thread and its predecessors, for some months now:
We could use your input and feedback in that thread, as there are precious few active participants available to test the tentative solutions.
IIRC, Crash has reported some success in this direction. I haven't been so lucky.
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Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 17:37
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Thanks. That looks like quite long thread, but I'l have a good read and see where things are at.
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Location: Blue Springs, MO
Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 23:19
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I don't know exactly how your system is set up but this is what I would do to get it going.
1. Frugal install to CF, copy your menu.lst somewhere(>boot>grub>menu.lst)
2. Frugal install to HD, Grub in MBR
3. Edit your new menu.lst and replace this HD version with text from the CF version (or just add the menu section to it)
best option (if it works) = the whole CF version of menu.lst
2nd best = hd version but replace initrd and phome and pmedia options with CF version (in other words make it point to the CF) - this basically makes it load vmlinuz from the hd and everything else from CF - depending on if your CF is supported in the kernel or on modules you may have to keep initrd loading from the HD as well
if you still need help post the menu sections of your two menu.lst files
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Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 05:58
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I did something similar to what you suggested. I am using syslinux as my MBR on a USD Flash Drive to boot puppy 4.1.
I did a frugal install to the CF, again with syslinux. I then added a section to the syslinux.cfg of my UFD to give me the option to boot from the CF. The section reads:
KERNEL /pup410/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/pup410/initrd.gz nosmp pfix=pcmcia,ram ide=nodma
This works! I think... I am slightly confused, because on my UFD the puppy files reside in /pup410, along with vmlinuz and initrd.gz. Once initrd.gz is loaded, and the kernel boots, the activity light on my UFD stops and pup_410.sfs loads. Normally this is /pup410/pup_410.sfs, so I am fairly confident it is loading of the CF.
However, this process takes well over a minute instead of the usual 3-4 seconds. I thought a CF card would be at least as quick as the UFD.
Also, my SD card slot now works, but only if I do not save the session. Once saved, on the next reboot the device is not accessible - it simply does not show up in puppy.
And finally, the sessions do not seem to save properly. I get the option, and it points to the right device, but on reboot, the pup_save.2fs file is not present. (I know that the pfix=ram option bypasses save files - if this is not there puppy detects the saves on my UFD.)
More new questions than answers now, but at least I can load puppy from the CF! Time for some more testing!
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Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 06:42
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Some more information:
The SD card seems to work permanently now. I loaded puppy from my UFD with pfix=ram and it showed up. When I shutdown, I created a new pup_save and on rebooting and loading this, the SD card still works. Must have been something in my previous session.
I have also discovered some more wierdness with my CF slot. When puppy boots with a card in the slot, pmount detects it as a floppy. When I add the card after boot, pmount detects it as a usb drive, like my UFD.
How can I find out what is causing this? In my mind, having the card in at boot is causing a different driver/module to be loaded, and this might be responsible for the extremely long boot time when booting from CF. Is this possible? Could the initrd be detecting the CF as a different class of device?
Also,, is there a way I can measure read performance of the CF card once booted, so I can compare it to my UFD and see if it really is slow? And see if not having it in the lost at boot makes it any faster?
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Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 13:31
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Right, so a little bit more testing:
Copying the pup_410.sfs from the CF card to /mnt/ram1 takes 1m35s!
Copying the same file from the CF card in a usb card reader takes 35s. 3x faster, but still slow.
At boot, the "copying to ram" part takes 4-5 seconds.
I've also tested in WinXP and in another system running Puppy with different hardware and get similar results. I'm now thinking I've either got a slow CF card, or a dodgy one, but I have no others to compare it to.
Still, I can successfully boot from one device and load puppy files from another. Once I get a different CF card, I'll try the same thing with the internal HD and the CF card. (I'm not messing with the HD MBR yet)
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Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 14:23
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sounds like you are discovering the downside of CF drives
they are faster at loading many files due to virtually no seek time (such as in a traditional install)
however due to transfer speeds they are typically slower for large files (such as the SFS files in a frugal install)
this gets into read/write cycles of the CF device, wear leveling... and the fact that the flash oriented filesytems are not supported in puppy as far as I know (one alternative is using ext3 with the noatime option set - this prevents files from being rewritten every time they are read)
and yes the type of CF drive makes a big difference - speeds range from 40x to 350x (however over 266x you usually see no difference past their 40MB/sec due to other hardware issues - these are usually the best value for speed vs price) for example
4GB 266X at newegg for $14
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Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 16:48
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Using a 16gb unbranded CF card - mounted in a CF/IDE converter in an old laptop. I ran several tests for boot and such like on comparison to a regular HD mounted in a near twin. Generally the CF was about 10% slower on boots (frugal) and between 10% and 20% slower in general usage.
Keep an eye on your boot times though, I think 4.1 needs about 3 boots before it reaches boot efficiency... If it does infuriate you, you could install it as a full install (which will be quicker for your configuration) - there's no reason why you can't full install a version you're happy with and still have several frugal's on the same machine in the same partition as the frugals just sit in their own directories.
I've been using the CF machine now for a few months as my main machine as it's silent.
Silent - as in permanently silent .. I did have problems with the fan not running when testing the 4.1 betas and did lots of temperature watching as my own nervous perspirations levels matched that of the CPU. Eventually I bottled it, and changed the config to use the fan. I shortly got bored of the fan after my pleasant silent times, did lots of research on CPU temperatures and have now fun fan free for about a month. I don't recommend trying it, you'll probably fry your machine. Mine's been fine though .. I regularly monitor the temperatures. It actually now runs cooler than it used to, I think I must have cooked the dust off some areas and improved cooling efficiency.
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Posted: Sun 12 Oct 2008, 04:51
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Thanks guys, very helpful. My CF card is a Sandisk Extreme 1GB. I guess I didn't do enough research before snapping it up for £5 on eBay - it apparently has a read speed of only 10MB/s, using a usb card reader. If that was what I was getting in my test, then I am getting only 3MB/s in the dedicated CF slot!
Oh well, you live and learn. Will check more thoroughly next time. How can I tell in puppy what sort of hardware the slot is? And if it is 32bit or 16bit? As I said, if the card is in at boot pmount thinks it is a floppy, if the card goes in later, it thinks it is a usb drive. Also, what difference might be caused by the ide=nodma at boot?
Re: the full install option being quicker - is that good for a flash drive? I thought the frugal installs were better because of the minimised writes?
And what file systems are best for flash drives? I was keeping with fat16 for now to retain compatibility with windows systems, but really that isn 't necessary, as once this works properly the drive will never leave the CF slot in the laptop.
Finally - laptop silence. The fanless Dell X1 I have could easily run silent once booted, as the hard disk could spin down after the initrd is loaded. However, it does not seem to be doing so. Is there some way to set the drive spin down time to 1 minute or something similar?
Thanks again,
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Posted: Thu 26 Feb 2009, 09:10
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>Finally - laptop silence. The fanless Dell X1 I have could easily run silent once booted, as
>the hard disk could spin down after the initrd is loaded. However, it does not seem to be .
>doing so. Is there some way to set the drive spin down time to 1 minute or something
hdparm will probably do this, look at -S, -y and -Y parms. Sometimes -Y seems to be a 'sleep until reboot', so sync before testing on your system.
I'm trying to get puppy to run of cf on my dell latitude c600 (hard disk runs long enough to boot, but overheats and stops), using a pcmcia cf adaptor, so this is my plan as well.
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Posted: Thu 26 Feb 2009, 16:03
Post subject: CF - what is needed?
I've run puppy from USB and CD, what do I need to get the initrd to see the pcmcia cf card at boot time?
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Posted: Sat 28 Feb 2009, 16:33
Post subject: Changes to initrd.gz for pcmcia cf card
I've made a couple of changed to initrd.gz, (specifically init). After the load of the yenta_socket module, I need pd6729 (copy from a running system) and the pcmcia-socket-startup from /sbin to run. The settings form the files in /lib/modules/126.96.36.199/ need to be copied for the relevant modules to load with modprobe.
So the steps are:
1) Install to a hard disk or CDROM
2) Save to CF card and setup grub/lilo etc for the CF card.
3) Issue lsmod and record this.
4) Try to boot to cfcard (it will fail)
5) Mount the pup file from the hard disk/cd
6) Look at any modules related to pcmcia and try to insmod them. After each, try pccardctl ident
7) once the card shows up use lsmod.
Use partprobe/fdisk -l/dmesg to make sure
9) reboot to running puppy.
10) Use cpio to extract initrd.gz.
11) Change init
12) Use cpio to rebuild initrd.gz (needs to be somewhere permanent)
13) Try to boot using CF
Steps 4 to 13 will probably need to be repeated a few times
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Posted: Mon 26 Oct 2009, 08:47
Post subject: Patch making 4.1.2 init find pcmcia compact flash in initrd
The following patch if applied to init in initrd.gz configures the pcmcia sockets just as pcmcia-socket-startup normally does later when the system comes up fully.
A downside of this is that changes in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts are ignored as the configuration is hardcoded in the function pcmcia_socket_startup. Because of this pfix=pcmcia must be used to have this code run from initrd. It's also possible to use pfix=pcmcia1 for socket 1 only etc.
This patch makes it possible for me to boot from a cd (can't boot from pcmcia) and run from pcmcia compact flash adapter without any additional modules.
pcmcia init patch for 4.1.2
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Posted: Tue 21 Jun 2011, 11:28
Post subject: Booting from live CD with save file on PCMCIA/CF
Subject description: Is there any puppy which can already do this?
Laptop hardware problems (reboot if it uses much power) preclude use of a hard drive but we have 4.31 booting from live CD and saving to USB flash drive. Attempted to use USB CF reader instead but it crashes half the time (as sda1). If we boot with the CF card in a non-cardbus PCMCIA CF adaptor, it is not recognized during boot, but shows up after booting as hde1, yet Puppy says there is no device we can save to.
We would prefer to use the PCMCIA slot for save file if possible so as to use the USB slot for other things (cameras, etc.) and do not want to spend money on a USB hub. Also we have several old CF cards. (And also a PCMCIA/IDE drive, also hde1 I think).
I do not know how to redo the live CD to make it see the CF/PCMCIA before boot, or to save to.
The laptop does not support pcmcia or USB boot. Circa 2002.
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Pet Therapy Pig May Get Exception from Coral Springs, Fla.
(CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.) -- The city of Coral Springs, Fla., may reconsider its decision not to grant the waiver a local mother sought for her son's miniature pet therapy pig.
Heather Ray got the tiny Juliana pig named Twinkie for her 8-year-old son, Kason. She believes the animal helps Kason with the significant emotional problems he deals with as a result of his Down's syndrome. And since her husband and oldest son suffer from severe allergies, she couldn't get Kason a dog or other type of animal that would cause a reaction.
Her husband and son are not allergic to Twinkie, Ray said.
The city's ordinances prohibit the keeping of pigs because they're considered livestock. Ray wrote to the city about two months ago to request a variance or an exemption, but the officials said they couldn't grant her request. She bought the pig anyway, saying she did some homework and found that federal law governing people with disabilities would apply to her son having the therapy pet.
Now, the city may be softening its stance. On Thursday, Ray told ABCNews.com that the city had written to ask her for more information in order to re-consider her request.
In a letter dated Nov. 27, 2012, City Attorney John J. Hearn wrote to ask her for medical records relating to her husband's allergy and whether his allergy was triggered by the pig's dander.
He also asked her for more documentation from her son's pediatrician. Ray initially submitted a doctor's prescription recommending a therapy pet for Kason but, in his Tuesday letter, Hearn asked Ray to submit a more specific prescription.
"To date we have not received a prescription for the pig, but rather a generic prescription for an emotional support animal. If you have a prescription identifying the pig as an emotional support animal, please provide that documentation," Hearn wrote. "If you provide the additional information, we will be able to reevaluate the applicability of the ordinance."
Ray talked with Hearn on Tuesday and said they could arrive at a compromise. She added that he promised her the family would not be fined and that the city would not remove Twinkie from their home.
Ray had not been fined, but the city had made it clear that she could be charged up to $500 per day for keeping Twinkie.
ABC News attempted to reach several Coral Springs officials after hours on Thursday but did not receive a response.
After the city's initial decision not to grant the Rays an exception, people vented their frustration online, including on the city's Facebook page.
"What's wrong with you people? Let this boy have his pig," user Cari Robinson wrote.
When the city posted on its wall on Nov. 20 to wish its residents "a wonderful holiday season," user Kara Whitehead wrote in reply: "Tell that to the boy that you will not allow to have his pet."
Even though the situation has dragged out for two months, Heather Ray is grateful for the apparent resolution. She plans to deliver the specific prescription to the city on Friday.
"You know, I'm happy," she said. "I'm thankful that they're … being sensitive about it. I'm happy that they're looking at it as what it is and it's not just a pig as a pet and they're no longer ignoring me, I guess, ignoring the situation. I'm happy that they're willing to work."
Twinkie is an indoor pet. When she grows into adulthood, she will measure about 12 inches tall and weigh between 20 and 40 pounds.
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Joe Biden just might go down in history as the guy who forced Barack Obama to publicly announce his private support for gay marriage.
But the vice president is no hero in the West Wing, and administration officials are struggling to cast Obama's truly historic — and risky — announcement as something more than an election-year shotgun wedding.
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Obama's interview with ABC's Robin Roberts capped a frenetic half-week of backstage political maneuvering after Biden said he was "comfortable" with gay marriage during a TV interview that was taped Friday and aired Sunday. It followed the passage Tuesday of an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative in North Carolina that illustrated the divisions in typically cohesive Obama constituencies, including women, Hispanics and blacks. And it exposed a few divisions in the Obama-Biden camp.
Senior administration officials admit that Biden's comment was, indeed, the catalyst for Obama to make his historic announcement weeks earlier than planned.
But Biden's remarks on "Meet the Press" deeply annoyed Obama's team, people close to the situation tell POLITICO, because it aggrandized his role at the expense of Obama's yeoman efforts on behalf of the community and pushed up the timing of a sensitive announcement they had hoped to break — at a time and place of their own choosing — in the weeks leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this fall.
( Also on POLITICO: W.H.: Joe Biden forced President Obama's hand on gay marriage)
Nor did it tickle anyone, from Obama on down, that Biden — who backed the Defense of Marriage Act while serving in the Senate in the 1990s — seemed to be getting more credit in the LGBT community than a president who has actually taken steps to repeal the Clinton-era law that defined marriage as something that could only take place between a man and a woman.
And it chafed Obama's team that Biden had, at times, privately argued for the president to hold off on his support of marriage equality to avoid a backlash among Catholic voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to two officials familiar with those discussions.
An email to a Biden spokesperson wasn't returned. But another administration official sympathetic to the vice president told POLITICO that Biden has been consistent in his support for marriage equality and reports to the contrary were inaccurate.
In the end, people close to the president say, Obama's decision to go public with his support for marriage equality wasn't a tough call after Biden's remarks. The core of their argument against Mitt Romney is that he has no real convictions. Any news story portraying Obama as a political schemer is poison — especially if it appears in newspapers Obama respects, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, according to senior Democrats.
"I've just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," Obama said in a White House interview with Roberts.


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The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday filed a review petition in the Allahabad High Court seeking a review of its November 8 order directing the transfer of Noida Authority's chairman and chief executive officer over lapses in land transfer.
The court had ordered the immediate transfer of Noida Authority chairman Rakesh Bahadur and CEO Sanjeev Saran following a petition filed by Madhav Samaj Nirman Samiti against Bahadur and Saran.
The state government has sought reconsideration of the court's earlier order, following which the High Court issued notice to Madhav Samaj Nirman Samiti and gave it two weeks to respond. The court gave one week to the state government to file a rejoinder.
In his November 8 order, Justice P K S Baghel had also directed the departments to complete pending departmental and criminal probes against the two officials within six months.
The court had also asked the state government not to appoint Bahadur and Saran anywhere in western Uttar Pradesh. The court had observed that there were evidences of irregularities in allotment of land to the hotel industry in Noida.
Both officials were posted in Noida from 2005 to 2007 when Mulayam Singh was chief minister.


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[Verse 1]
And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
In the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
Got a lot farther
By workin' a lot harder
By bein' a lot smarter
By bein' a self-starter
By fourteen they had placed him in charge of the trade and charter
And every day while slaves were being slaughtered
And carted away across the waves
Our Hamilton kept his guard up
Inside he was longing for something to be a part of
The brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter
Then a hurricane came and
Devastation reigned and
Our man saw his future drip drippin' down the drain
Put a pencil to his temple
Connected it to his brain
And he wrote his first refrain
A testament to his pain
Well the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man!"
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
Getcha education, don't forget from whence you came
And the world is gonna know your name!
What's your name, man?
Alexander Hamilton, his name is Alexander Hamilton
And there's a million things he hasn't done
But just you wait, just you wait
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When he was 10, his father split
Full of it, debt-ridden
Two years later, see Alex and his mother, bed-ridden
Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick
And Alex got better but his mother went quick
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride
Somethin' new inside
A voice saying Alex, you gotta fend for yourself
He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf
There would've been nothin' left to do
For someone less astute
He would've been dead or destitute
Without a cent of restitution
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
Tradin' sugar cane and rum and other things he can't afford
Scannin' for every book he can get his hands on
Plannin' for the future, see him now as he stands on
The bow of a ship headed for a new land
In New York you can be a new man
The ship is in the harbor now
See if you can spot him
Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom
His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him
And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him
Alexander Hamilton
We were waiting in the weeds for you
You could never back down
You always had to speak your mind
But Alexander Hamilton, we could never take your deeds from you
In our cowardice and our shame
We will try to destroy your name
The world will never be the same, Alexander!
Yeah, I'm the damn genius that shot him
Writer and star of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda performs "The Hamilton Mixtape" at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009. He was accompanied by Alex Lacamoire.
The song is about Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and is rapped from the perspective of Aaron Burr. Aaron Burr was Thomas Jefferson's Vice President who shot Hamilton in a duel.
Miranda developed this idea further, and it evolved into the Broadway musical, Hamilton.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
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We have decided to split our product line to better target each audience separately. I am in charge of the do-it-yourself side of the product line that will be sold at thisoldgrout.com (view page for theme).
Much of the main page copy will change and be simplified on the homepage to be more SEO and targeted toward the diy market when we make the separation.
We will show 4 products for purchase with a diy video demonstration. As it's relevant, the look of our product will also change.I have a preliminary label design to view at thisoldgrout.com/newlabel.htm I like the rich color and the sort of glossy look to it. The product label will be printed on high gloss label stock.
What we need is a new logo using the name "This Old Grout" (remove & Stone). It needs to communicate simplicity, quality and go with the look of our current site theme and preliminary product label design.It should be suitable for retail sales. The name This Old Grout implies This Old House, the remodeling television show, but for tile and grout.
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Restless Heart celebrates 30 years
Restless Heart is kicking off the 2014 version of the country band's 30th anniversary tour at the Franklin Theatre on March 15.
"That's a pretty good number for the original five guys to be able to do that for this long," said singer Larry Stewart. "It doesn't happen often."
The band has had hits over the years ranging from "The Bluest Eyes in Texas" and "I'll Still Be Loving You" to "When She Cries," and Stewart said they never get tired of playing them.
"We were really blessed because we were able to record some songs we really love," he said. "We've been able to play them and sing them together and we played on all the records and we just created it all ourselves. It makes it special to us. It's not like singing the same songs over and over. We're like a basketball team. It's another game. You throw the ball up and we all play."
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I found this out when I was grid-mapping an area, trying to find the last two goddamn Underground entrances. I ran into two guarded houses this way.
So what is the answer?
It sounds like you are talking about an unmarked liberation mission. Did you find an answer to the above?
I'm at the beginning of Sequence 7, just starting my double-ride with Paul Revere.
Yep. The mission is there, its just not physically shown on the map. The only way it shows is if you run into the guards, then the house where the captive is at/around turns red, and shows on your map. There's literally no way to find it, unless you're looking at every house on every block, and look for the bluecoat-guards outside, or the stocks holding the prisoner in the back yard.
In my search to find the two (still unlocated, dammit!) hidden entrances to the Boston Underground, I was grid-walking the streets of Boston. The way I do it is to run all around the coastline of the city so I get the outskirts of the map. I start at the lower left-most corner of the map possible, then place a marker at the lower right-most corner of the map for directional purposes. Then starting from the bottom, run from left to right across the map, in as straight of a line as I can. When I reach the right side, I move up 10 feet or so, and go back to the left. This should, mathematically, let me find everything I'm looking for.
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Green Spain is a place of pilgrimage, where the Way of St. James conserves its true essence as it crosses landscapes of unique beauty.The Northern Way, which European monarchs used to travel safely to Santiago during much of the Middle Ages, still attracts visitors thanks to its beautiful scenery. Any of its variants, whether the Original Way, the Northern Way, or their many branches, is a wonderful way to experience the intensity and authenticity of this route. As well as discovering a wealth of culture and heritage, the Way brings visitors to other centres of pilgrimage, such as the Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana in Cantabria, and the Cathedral of San Salvador in Oviedo. These holy shrines hold some of the most revered and treasured relics in the Christian world. Acceda al Camino Primitivo.


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Oatmeal provides a simple, nourishing breakfast on its own, but we can easily up our oatmeal game with the help of some super seeds. Chia, hemp and flax seeds are all plant-based sources of protein, fiber and omega-3 polyunsaturated fats. Studies have found that omega-3s may:
- reduce symptoms of PCOS and metabolic syndrome such as insulin resistance,
- boost brain functioning, especially during developmental years and later in life,
- assist in the prevention and treatment of depression and anxiety,
- support eye health through preventing macular degeneration,
- relieve menstrual pain, perhaps better than ibuprofen,
- improve heart health through decreasing triglycerides and improving cholesterol,
- help fight autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's and more.
Any type of oats (steel cut, rolled, or quick) are great, however, steel cut are the least processed and lowest in glycemic load. This keeps blood sugar levels stable and helps us stay energized. I hope you enjoy the great combination of flavors and the numerous health benefits of this gooey, aromatic bowl of super seed oatmeal.
- 1/2-3/4 cup steel cut oats
- 2 cups water or nut milk
- 1/2-1 tbsp hemp seeds
- 1/2-1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2-1 tbsp ground flax seeds
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- fruit toppings
- nut butter
Long Version (steel cut oats):
- Bring water to a boil.
- Add steel cut oats to the boiling water on the stove, turn down temperature to low. Let oats cook for 10 min.
- Stir in hemp hearts, chia seeds, flax seeds, and cinnamon (optional: splash of almond milk).
- Wait for the remaining liquid to soak up.
- Top with fruit and a healthy fat, like nut butter.
Quick Version (rolled or Quick oats):
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- Stir in hemp hearts, chia seeds, flax seeds and cinnamon.
- Cover and place in fridge overnight.
- In morning, add toppings and dig in!
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- chia seeds = high in omega 3s which can help decrease high testosterone and improve egg quality
- hemp hearts = high in protein, fibre, and essential fatty acids (omega 3, 6 & 9) which may improve cholesterol profiles, may reduce inflammation
- flax seeds = may help lower cholesterol and blood pressure, contain lignans which may increase sex hormone-binding globulin and therefore lower blood testosterone levels
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UCSB dropped its first conference match of the season on Friday night, losing to Pacific 3-1 (25-22, 25-21, 20-25, 25-13) at Rob Gym. Coming into the match, the Gauchos had taken 12 of the last 13 meetings between the two teams. However, Pacific has now won the last two match-ups.
With the victory, Pacific improves to 3-2 (1-1 in conference play), while UCSB falls to 2-3 (0-1).
There were not many bright spots for the home team- junior outside hitter Miles Evans led the team in kills for the fifth straight match, and freshman outside hitter Kevin Donohue had a strong performance in relief, picking up eight kills over the two final games.
In the first two games of the match, UCSB struggled mightily with their attacking. Over those two games, the Gauchos compiled 21 attacking errors. In comparison, Pacific had seven errors over that same span. That high error total was no doubt exacerbated by Pacific's blocking corp, who picked up 11 team blocks over those first two games.
UCSB Head Coach Rick McLaughlin shook up his lineup at the outset of the third game, and the move paid dividends. Donohue and freshman opposite Matt Marsh came into the match to aid Evans in the attacking game. Donohue had half of his eight kills in the set, while Marsh, in his UCSB debut, picked up three kills over the final two frames.
Regardless of the output by the freshmen, their presence seemed to boost Evans' game. Miles picked up six of his kills in the third frame, keeping his squad at level pegging with the Tigers throughout the game. With the score knotted at 20-20, an Evans kill sparked a five-point run to win the set. Sophomore middle blocker Evan Licht's strong serving in the final points kept Pacific off balance and forced them into making vital passing errors.
That small victory was short-lived however, as Pacific stormed back in the fourth- restricting the Gauchos to just 13 points in the decisive set. For the game, Pacific hit .556 as a team while UCSB hit just .054.
The final numbers told the story quite succinctly: the Gauchos were outblocked by Pacific 19 to 4.5 and outhit .357 to .141. The team finished with 33 attacking errors, a season high.
After the match, Rick McLaughlin commented on the volatile nature of his lineup: "We have a lot of youth. So we're going to get those guys out there and get them some experience. If they're winning, we'll stick with them. Regardless, our guys will bounce back tomorrow night. We have a real competitive [locker] room in there."
Tomorrow night's match will be against Stanford, currently ranked No. 4 in the nation. Stanford will come into Rob Gym after having been swept by UCLA for their first loss on Friday night. They carry a 3-1 overall record, and a 1-1 MPSF record.
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