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So excited when i heard that Bali (Indonesia) will be the next leg after Australia. i still can't believe that TAR visit Indonesia 2 seasons in a row. i live in Bali, i hope i can see the teams racing
There is no Australia for the next season.
Need that location please! can anyone help?
Quote from: georgiapeach on November 21, 2012, 08:20:46 PMADDress??Its on 24 Pho Nha Chung Street Located in the red rectangle of the image.Here is linkhttp://wikimapia.org/#lat=21.0252673&lon=105.85474&z=17&l=0&m=b
Several teams apparently on an AIRNZ flight from Auckland to Christchurch landing within the next 30 minutes. Will keep an eye out, interesting the fact that Christchurch has had the major Earthquake recently yet bouncing back incredibly fast.
Quote from: timmyb15 on November 17, 2012, 10:42:15 PMSeveral teams apparently on an AIRNZ flight from Auckland to Christchurch landing within the next 30 minutes. Will keep an eye out, interesting the fact that Christchurch has had the major Earthquake recently yet bouncing back incredibly fast.Witnessed the first 4-5 teams arrive in CHCH at 7pm Sunday night (18/11/12) despite searching for clues within Christchurch found nothing, would guess they drove somewhere in the Canterbury Region. Not much left in Christchurch post earthquake except roadworks.
Maybe a local thing; according to Wikipedia, "kl-ites" is a demonym.
Human chess is a variant of chess, often played by people who take on the roles of the various chess pieces (king, knight, bishop and so on). This is typically done on an outdoor field, with the squares of the board marked out on the grass. A move resulting in a piece being taken from the board will cause a choreographed fight to be played out to determine whether the piece is actually taken.Human chess played in Vietnam follows the general rules of Chinese chess. The concept is recognizably similar to Western chess, but with a different-sized board and different pieces, including cannons and guards, each of them marked with a distinct Chinese character. In the game, there are 32 people in all. One side consists of 16 boys and the other of 16 girls. Each team wears a different colour.The chessboard is marked by paint on flat ground. Village festivals usually use the yard in front of a communal house or pagoda or a nearby field. Organisers select players plus a referee well in advance. All should be children of families with a good reputation. The referee and the two generals should come from wealthier families so they can treat their players to food. As the selection finishes, the referee convenes the 32 people, describes the costumes, and tells each person how to move as a chess piece. Players may sit on chairs and wear hats if it is sunny. They either wear boards with the Chinese names of their pieces or carry sign poles with the characters. The generals wear traditional costumes. The two contestants who direct the pieces have their own seats outside the board.The atmosphere often become bustling with the human chess competition. In the early morning, many people gather and wait for the competition. There is often three drum-rolls signaling the start of the game. Two players in Vietnamese traditional dresses appeared, sitting on two high platforms behind chessmen. The first player starts the game by shouting and a chessman left the position to perform martial arts techniques before reaching another position on the chessboard. The second player's turn, he also shouts and his chessman moves and performs beautiful skills of martial arts. They in turn play the game. If one of them lost his chessmen, these have to leave the chessboard. The spectators triumphantly cheer whenever there is a nice performance, making chessmen try their best to show their skills. After nearly two hours, the human chess competition finishes. However, the spectators often do not want to go home, they would like the organising board to continue the game.http://travel.org.vn/vietnam-culture/vietnam-culture-value/2012/05/joining-vietnamese-village-festivals-to-play-a-traditional-game-human-chess.html
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Comparison of Three Treatments for Pneumocystis Pneumonia in AIDS Patients
|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: NCT00000730
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : May 30, 2012
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|Condition or disease
|Pneumonia, Pneumocystis Carinii HIV Infections
|Drug: Trimetrexate glucuronate Drug: Methylprednisolone Drug: Pentamidine isethionate Drug: Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Drug: Leucovorin calcium
|Phase 3
There is at present no scientific information about the best treatment for an AIDS patient with PCP who is not improving while receiving the standard therapies (SMX/TMP or PEN). New drug treatments are available, including steroid therapy and TMTX, but there is no information proving that these new treatments work better than the standard therapies.
Hospitalized patients who have failed to respond to at least 4 full days but no greater than 14 full days of therapy with SMX/TMP or PEN are randomly placed into one of three study groups. Patients are stratified for (1) mechanical ventilation at enrollment, (2) prior zidovudine therapy of at least 4 weeks duration, and (3) first versus subsequent episode of PCP. One group of patients receives TMTX by intravenous infusion for 21 days and LCV for 24 days. The second and third group of patients receive either PEN or SMX/TMP depending on which therapy they have already received and not improved on. The difference between the second and third group is that the second group receives the conventional therapy (PEN or SMX/TMP) and a placebo (inactive medication) and the third group receives the conventional therapy and prednisolone. Neither investigators nor patients know whether patients receive methylprednisolone. Patients continue study treatment until a study end point is reached or for a minimum of 21 days (unless there is toxicity).
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|240 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Comparative Trial of Trimetrexate With Leucovorin Rescue Versus Standard Anti-Pneumocystis Therapy Versus Standard Anti-Pneumocystis Therapy With High Dose Steroids for AIDS Patients With Pneumocystis Pneumonia Who Appear to Be Refractory to Conventional Drugs
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 1989
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
- physiologic replacement doses of steroids.
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in patient who is HIV positive by ELISA, HIV culture, or p24 antigenemia, or is a member of a risk group for HIV infection.
- Failed at least 4 but not > 14 full days' therapy with either sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (SMX/TMP) or parenteral pentamidine. Patients must have received therapy with only one of the two conventional agents prior to enrollment.
- Patients in whom an unequivocal diagnosis of this episode of PCP has been or can be established by morphologic confirmation of three or more typical Pneumocystis carinii organisms in sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, or lung tissue obtained by transbronchial or open lung biopsy within 15 days prior to study entry.
- Patients in whom no significant improvement in arterial-alveolar oxygen pressure (defined as a decrease of at least 15mm Hg) is observed in the 24 hours prior to entry.
- Patient is willing to have maximal medical support, including pressors, invasive monitoring, and/or mechanical ventilation, during at least the first 7 days of protocol therapy if such support is necessary. Continuation of maximal medical support beyond 7 days is at discretion of investigator and patient.
- Patients with history of hypersensitivity less severe than type I may be enrolled if, in opinion of investigator, these adverse effects do not prohibit rechallenge with the drug.
Prior Medication:
- At least 4 full days but no greater than 14 full days of parenteral and/or oral therapy with sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (SMX/TMP) or pentamidine.
- Zidovudine (AZT).
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
- Patients with history of type I hypersensitivity (urticaria, angioedema, anaphylaxis), exfoliative dermatitis, or other life-threatening reaction secondary to trimetrexate, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, or pentamidine.
- Presence of any process that, in the opinion of investigator, would be adversely and seriously affected by steroid therapy.
- Failure to meet inclusion criteria.
Concurrent Medication:
- Zidovudine (AZT).
- Myelosuppressive agents.
- Nephrotoxic agents.
- AZT may be resumed at completion of study.
- Patients with history of type I hypersensitivity (urticaria, angioedema, anaphylaxis), exfoliative dermatitis, or other life-threatening reaction secondary to trimetrexate, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, or pentamidine.
- Presence of any process that, in the opinion of investigator, would be adversely and seriously affected by steroid therapy.
- Failure to meet inclusion criteria.
Prior Medication:
Excluded within 4 days of study entry:
- Any other investigational agent.
- Excluded within 14 days of study entry:
- Steroids (other than physiologic replacement doses).
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): NCT00000730
|United States, South Carolina
|Julio Arroyo
|West Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29169
|Study Chair:
|Masur H
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
11006 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 30, 2012
|Last Verified:
|May 2012
Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii
Folic Acid Antagonists
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Antiprotozoal Agents
Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Lung Diseases, Fungal
Pneumocystis Infections
Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
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Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
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WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the "fiscal cliff" facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach agreement on a comprehensive deficit reduction deal rather than a short-term solution.
Senate Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on the details, and House Republicans continue to resist any discussion of tax increases. But lawmakers and aides say that a bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around an ambitious three-step process to avert a series of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts.
First, senators would come to an agreement on a deficit reduction target — likely to be around $4 trillion over 10 years — to be reached through revenue raised by an overhaul of the tax code, savings from changes to social programs like Medicare and Social Security, and cuts to federal programs. Once the framework is approved, lawmakers would vote on expedited instructions to relevant Congressional committees to draft the details over six months to a year.
If those efforts failed, another plan would take effect, probably a close derivative of the proposal by President Obama's fiscal commission led by Erskine B. Bowles, the Clinton White House chief of staff, and former Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, a Republican. Those recommendations included changes to Social Security, broad cuts in federal programs and actions that would lower tax rates over all but eliminate or pare enough deductions and credits to yield as much as $2 trillion in additional revenue.
Finally, they would vote to put off the automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, and tax increases scheduled to hit all at once in January — but with some deficit reduction down payment to signal how serious Congress is.
Mr. Obama has said he would not allow Congress to simply pass a new law to override the $1 trillion in automatic cuts agreed to in the Budget Control Act of 2011, but senators said they believed the White House would go along with a deal that locks in as much as four times those savings in exchange for canceling the automatic cuts.
With both sides awaiting the outcome of the election, negotiators will not even try to determine how much money would come from the three components until after the voting, when, presumably, the victorious side would emerge with new leverage.
"A lot of what happens and when it happens depends on the outcome of the election," said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader.
House Republicans, favored to retain control regardless of the presidential and Senate results, have not been part of the Senate talks so far and could be difficult to sway to back a package with significant new revenue even if it wins bipartisan Senate support.
Democratic leaders are already signaling a major stumbling block: they will accept no deal that extends Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, even for six months.
"President Obama has clearly stated he will not extend the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, and I fully support his position," Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said in a statement. "Americans are sick and tired of simply kicking the can down the road and avoiding our nation's financial issues."
Other senators, like Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, have counseled a more incremental approach to head off mandatory deep military cuts next year. Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, had suggested finding enough savings for a six-month delay on taxes and cuts to give negotiators more time.
But Mr. McConnell compared the government to a ship sinking under the weight of Medicare and Social Security and said that temporarily holding off the automatic budget cuts and tax increases would not avert a disaster.
"Even if we rearrange the chairs, fix the tax thing, fix the sequester, the ship's still going down," he said in an interview. "I want to deal with it altogether. The next best opportunity is the end of the year."
With their party leaders's encouragement, Senators Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, and Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, have begun talks on legislative language to lock a deficit reduction framework into law.
And pressure for a deal continues to grow. On Monday, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center released a new study estimating that if nothing is done, the expiration of all the Bush-era tax cuts would raise taxes by more than $500 billion next year alone, an average increase of $3,500 per household. Middle-income families, it said, would see taxes rise by an average of almost $2,000.
Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said figures like those and forecasts anticipating a recession if nothing is done have prompted some consideration for postponing any tax increases or spending cuts for a year. But he said lawmakers want to lock in action on the deficit now.
"You have to have the framework of a plan," he said. "We need to find something that's going to make us come to the table and put our fiscal house in order."
The two parties will have only weeks to reach an agreement between Election Day and Dec. 31, and they remain far apart on some fundamental issues besides tax cuts for the wealthy. House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio says he will not accept any deal that raises tax rates or "decouples" the Bush-era tax rates by extending some but allowing others to expire.
Senators have also failed to agree on a mechanism to enforce a deficit reduction plan. Mr. Durbin has suggested that if Congress cannot agree on changes to the tax code, entitlements and spending in six months, the automatic spending cuts and tax increases should go into effect.
But the bipartisan group of senators says that medicine has already proved too tough to swallow. Instead, the backstop should be an acceptable deficit reduction program like Simpson-Bowles.
"The idea is to put in place an end product upfront that is already fairly agreeable," said a Senate official familiar with the plans. "You'd basically be giving Congress six months to improve upon it."
After so many false starts, even those involved in the talks are reluctant to express much optimism.
Mr. McConnell and other Republicans said only the president could make a deal happen.
"I encourage all these discussions," he said. "They're all good. But we need the president, whoever that is, to not be a bystander like this president, to step up to the plate, and do three things: make the deal, deliver the members of his party and sign the bill."


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An Update On The 'INVISIBLE MONSTERS' Film - Director Attached
Earlier this week I got an update from Cameron MacLaren, the producer who owns the option on the Invisible Monsters movie adaptation. Today, Cameron made the news public by way of a newsletter blast. Check out below for some updates on the production, including someone officially sitting in the director's chair.
Dear Fans of Invisible Monsters,
Finally the time has come! An update of epic proportions for all you devoted followers anxiously anticipating the release of what is sure to be the most sensational and talked about film of the past decade!
First off, we are currently still adapting the novel into a script. Rest assured, I have spent the last twenty months of my life working day and night to adapt and perfect this wildly imaginative story into a script that will exceed your standards. Upon reading a very early draft of the script, Chuck mentioned that the "screenplay is amazingly faithful to the original book". He was very generous with his notes and suggestions of how it could differ in order to stylize it for a visual medium.Therefore we took his feedback into great consideration and are confident that IM will not only rival but far exceed Fight Club and Choke!
Secondly,we have attached an AMAZINGLY TALENTED director who is a HUGE fan of Chuck's work. This guy is as big of a fan as me, which I didn't think was possible. His name is Samir Rehem and he's been the most vital piece of the puzzle to get the project to this point, so we are extremely happy and pleased that he will be bringing Chuck's vision to the big screen.
As of right now, we are still in development,which means we are raising money and building awareness for the film. Currently, we do not have any actors attached to the roles but we are being very mindful of all your suggestions. We will keep everyone updated more regularly on casting and general updates in the future.
That's all for now. Please stay tuned for more official updates as we prepare for production! Remember to SPREAD THE WORD AND DEMAND THE FILM BE MADE! Also, we read EVERY message posted on our Facebook site and email sent to our inbox email@example.com so be sure to share your opinion. I cannot guarantee a response but I can guarantee it will be read!
All the Best,
Cameron MacLaren & The Invisible Monsters Production Team
Read more about the project at our Invisible Monsters movie page (including our original interview with Cameron MacLaren) and also be sure to keep up with the film's development via it's official site.


text: 3 Day Work WeekThe second richest man in the world is advocating a Three Day Work WeekAs reported by the Financial Times CNN Carlos Slim the World's 2nd-richest man advocates a 3 day work weekSource: NEW YORK (CNN Money)Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is suggesting that workers shift to a three-day work week. The catch: He would require 11-hour work days and workers to stay on the job until age 70 or 75.The Financial Times reported that in a speech at a conference in Paraguay, Slim advocated a radical change in the typical five-day work week."People are going to have to work for more years, until they are 70 or 75, and just work three days a week -- perhaps 11 hours a day," the paper quotes him as saying.Related: The world's shortest work weeksThe paper said that workers at Telmex, the telecom company that has made him the world's second richest man by some estimates, now can retire before they are 50 years old in some cases.But it reported that those eligible for such early retirement are given the option of a four-day work week at full pay upon reaching retirement age.Related: The 10 hardest working countries"With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life," Slim was quoted as saying. "Having four days [off] would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied."For U.S. workers, the 40-hour,. five-day work week became the standard in 1938. Despite gains in productivity and predictions of a significantly shorter work week that would follow, it has remained the standard for more than 75 years. Australia Business News Article: 140721154110 Updated: 12 Feb 2020Owner: Garry Visit myFacebookTwitterPersonal WebsiteCommunity WebsiteBusiness Website


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So you want to do reflection?Scala 2.10 will come with a Scala reflection library. I don't know how it fares when it comes to reflecting Java -- I'll look into it when I have time. For now, my hands are overflowing with all there is to learn about scala.reflect.
So, first warning: this is not an easy library to learn. You may gather some recipes to do common stuff, but to understand what's going on is going to take some effort. Hopefully, by the time you read this Scaladoc will have been improved enough to make the task easier. Right now, however, you'll often come upon types which are neither hyperlinked, nor have path information on mouse-over, so it is important to learn where you are likely to find them.
It will also help to explore this thing from the REPL. Many times as I worked my way towards enlightenment (not quite there yet!), I found myself calling methods on the REPL just to see what type it returned. At other times, however, I stumbled upon exceptions where I expected none! As it happens, class loaders play a role when reflecting Scala -- and REPL has two different mirrors.
There's also a difference between classes loaded from class files versus classes that have been compiled in memory. Scala stores information about the type from Scala's point of view in the class file. In its absence (REPL-created classes), not all of it can be recomposed.
Bottom line: having the the code type check correctly is not a guarantee of success, when it comes to reflection. Even if the code compiles, if you did not make sure you have the proper mirror, it will throw an exception at run time.
In this blog post, I'll try to teach reflection basics, while building a small JSON serializer using Scala reflection. I'll also go, in future posts, through a deserializer and a serializer that takes advantage of macros to avoid slow reflection calls. I'm not sure I'll succeed, but, if I fail, maybe someone will learn from my errors and succeed where I failed.
As a final note: don't trust me! I'm learning this stuff as I go, and, besides, it isn't set into stone yet. Some of what you'll see below is already scheduled to be changed, other things might change as result of feedback from the community. But every piece of code will be runnable on the version I'm using -- which is something between Scala 2.10.0-M4 and whatever comes next. I'm told, even as I write this, that Scala 2.10.0-M5 is around the corner, and it will provide functionality I'm missing, and fix bugs I've stumbled upon.
Warning: I'm writing this with 2.10.0 ready but not yet announced, and I've just became aware that, at the moment, reflection is not thread-safe. See issue 6240 for up-to-date information.
The Reflection LibrariesWhen Martin Odersky decided to write Scala's reflection library, he stumbled upon a problem: to do reflection right -- that is, to accomplish everything reflection is supposed to accomplish -- he'd need a significant part of the compiler code duplicated in the standard library.
The natural solution, of course, would be moving that code to the standard library. That was not an enticing prospect. It happened before, with some code related to the XML support, and the result speaks for itself: the standard library gets polluted with code that makes little sense outside the compiler, and the compiler loses flexibility to change without breaking the standard library API. As time passes, code would start to be duplicated so it could be changed and diverge, and the code in the standard library would become useless and rot.
So, what to do? Odersky found the solution in a famous Scala pattern: the cake pattern. Scala reflection is a giant multi-layered cake. We call these layers universes, and in them we find types, classes, traits, objects, definitions and extractors for various things. A simple look at what the base universe extends gives us a notion of what's in it: Symbols with Types with FlagSets with Scopes with Names with Trees with Constants with AnnotationInfos with Positions with TypeTags with TagInterop with StandardDefinitions with StandardNames with BuildUtils with Mirrors.
The base layers provides a simple API, with type members defined by upper bounds where minimal functionality is provided. That base layer is available in the standard library, shared by all users of reflection API: scala.reflect.base.Universe. This provides replacements for the now deprecated Manifest and ClassManifest used elsewhere in the standard library, and also serves as a minimally functional implementation of reflection, available even when scala-reflect.jar is not referenced.
The standard library also has a bare bones implementation of that layer, through the class scala.reflect.base.Base, an instance of which is provided as scala.reflect.basis, in the scala.reflect package object.
Take a moment and go over that again, because it's a common pattern on the reflection library. The instance basis is a lazy val of type Universe, whose value is an instance of class Base.
Upon this layer we can find other layers that enrich that API, providing additional functionality. Two such layers can be found on a separate jar file, scala-reflect.jar. There's a base API on package scala.reflect.api, which is also called Universe. This API is inherited by the two implementations present in this jar: the java-based runtime scala.reflect.api.JavaUniverse, and scala.makro.Universe, used by macros. By the way, the name of this last package will change, at which point this link will break. If I do not fix it, please remind me in the comments.
Now, notice that these are APIs, interfaces. The actual implementation for scala.reflect.api.JavaUniverse is scala.reflect.runtime.JavaUniverse, available through the lazy val scala.reflect.runtime.universe (whose type is scala.reflect.api.JavaUniverse).
At any rate, the JavaUniverse exposes functionality that goes through Java reflection to accomplish some things. Not that it is limited by Java reflection, since the compiler can inject some information at compile time, and keeps more precise type information stored on class files. You'll see how far it can go in the example.
There are more layers available in the compiler jar, but that's beyond our scope, and more likely to change with time. Look at the image below, from the Reflection pre-SIP for an idea of how these layers are structured.
And that's what I meant by reflection libraries in the heading: there are multiple versions of this library, exposing different amounts of API. For example, at one point the Positions API was not available on the standard library, something which was latter changed through feedback from the community. On the compiler, scala.tools.nsc.Global extends SymbolTable with CompilationUnits with Plugins with PhaseAssembly with Trees with Printers with DocComments with Positions, which exposes much more functionality (and complexity) than the layers above.
What's it for, anyway?
- Runtime reflection where one explores runtime types and their members, and gains reflective access to data and method invocations.
- Reification where types and abstract syntax trees are made available at runtime.
- Macros which use reflection at compile time to access their context and produce trees and types.
- What are the members of a certain kind in a type?
- What are the types of these members as seen from an instance type?
- What are the base classes of a type and at which instance types are they inherited?
- Is some type is a subtype of another?
- Among overloaded alternatives of a method, which one best matches a list of argument types?
That doesn't mean we can open a class and rewrite the code in its methods -- though macros might allow that at some point after 2.10.0. For one thing, bytecode doesn't preserve enough information to reconstruct the source code or even the abstract syntax tree (the compiler representation of the code).
Speaking of macros, I'd like to point out the suggestion that "reflection" might be used at compile time. Reflection is usually defined as a run time activity. However, the API used by macros (or the compiler) at compile time will be mostly the same as the one used by programs at run time. I predict Scala programmers will unassumingly talk about "reflection at compile time".
"This is all getting a little confusing..."
scala> import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._ import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._ scala> typeOf[List[Int]] res0: reflect.runtime.universe.Type = List[Int] scala> res0.member(newTermName("head")) res1: reflect.runtime.universe.Symbol = method head scala> res1.typeSignature res2: reflect.runtime.universe.Type = => A
The initial import made the runtime universe, the one that makes use of java reflection, available to us. We then got the the type we wanted with typeOf, which is similar to classOf. After that, we got a handle to the method named head, and, from that handle (a Symbol), we got a Type again.
Note that the type being returned by the method is "A". It has not been erased, but, on the other hand, is not what we expected from List[Int]. What we got was the true type of head, not the type it has on a List[Int]. Alas, we can do the latter quite easily:
scala> res1.typeSignatureIn(res0) res3: reflect.runtime.universe.Type = => Int
Which is what we expected. But, now, let's make things a bit more general. Say we are given a instance of something whose static type we know (that is, it isn't typed Any or something like that), and we want to return all non-private methods it has whose return type is Int. Let's see how it goes:
scala> def intMethods[T : TypeTag](v: T) = { | val IntType = typeOf[Int] | val vType = typeOf[T] | val methods = vType.members.collect { | case m: MethodSymbol if !m.isPrivate => m -> m.typeSignatureIn(vType) | } | methods collect { | case (m, mt @ NullaryMethodType(IntType)) => m -> mt | case (m, mt @ MethodType(_, IntType)) => m -> mt | case (m, mt @ PolyType(_, MethodType(_, IntType))) => m -> mt | } | } intMethods: [T](v: T)(implicit evidence$1: reflect.runtime.universe.TypeTag[T])Iterable[(reflect.runtime.universe.MethodSymbol, reflect.runtime.universe.Type)] scala> intMethods(List(1)) foreach println (method lastIndexWhere,(p: Int => Boolean, end: Int)Int) (method indexWhere,(p: Int => Boolean, from: Int)Int) (method segmentLength,(p: Int => Boolean, from: Int)Int) (method lengthCompare,(len: Int)Int) (method last,=> Int) (method count,(p: Int => Boolean)Int) (method apply,(n: Int)Int) (method length,=> Int) (method hashCode,()Int) (method lastIndexOfSlice,[B >: Int](that: scala.collection.GenSeq[B], end: Int)Int) (method lastIndexOfSlice,[B >: Int](that: scala.collection.GenSeq[B])Int) (method indexOfSlice,[B >: Int](that: scala.collection.GenSeq[B], from: Int)Int) (method indexOfSlice,[B >: Int](that: scala.collection.GenSeq[B])Int) (method size,=> Int) (method lastIndexWhere,(p: Int => Boolean)Int) (method lastIndexOf,[B >: Int](elem: B, end: Int)Int) (method lastIndexOf,[B >: Int](elem: B)Int) (method indexOf,[B >: Int](elem: B, from: Int)Int) (method indexOf,[B >: Int](elem: B)Int) (method indexWhere,(p: Int => Boolean)Int) (method prefixLength,(p: Int => Boolean)Int) (method head,=> Int) (method max,[B >: Int](implicit cmp: Ordering[B])Int) (method min,[B >: Int](implicit cmp: Ordering[B])Int) (method ##,()Int) (method productArity,=> Int) scala> intMethods(("a", 1)) foreach println (method hashCode,()Int) (value _2,=> Int) (method productArity,=> Int) (method ##,()Int)
Please note the pattern matching above. Tree, Type and AnnotationInfo are ADTs, and often you'll need pattern matching to deconstruct or to obtain a more precise type. For the record, the pattern matches above refer to methods without parameter lists (like getters), normal methods, and methods with type parameters, respectively.
EDIT: A recent discussion indicates that pattern matching with types may not be reliable. Instead, the code above should have read like this:
def intMethods[T : TypeTag](v: T) = { val IntType = typeOf[Int] val vType = typeOf[T] val methods = vType.members.collect { case m: MethodSymbol if !m.isPrivate => m -> m.typeSignatureIn(vType) } methods collect { case (m, mt @ NullaryMethodType(tpe)) if tpe =:= IntType => m -> mt case (m, mt @ MethodType(_, tpe)) if tpe =:= IntType => m -> mt case (m, mt @ PolyType(_, MethodType(_, tpe))) if tpe =:= IntType => m -> mt } }
I decided to put up this edit as quickly as possible, so I'm just posting the revised version of the method, instead of revising the post with usage, etc.
To finish up the examples, let's see some manipulation of code:
scala> import scala.tools.reflect.ToolBox import scala.tools.reflect.ToolBox scala> import scala.reflect.runtime.{currentMirror => m} import scala.reflect.runtime.{currentMirror=>m} scala> val tb = m.mkToolBox() tb: scala.tools.reflect.ToolBox[reflect.runtime.universe.type] = scala.tools.reflect.ToolBoxFactory$ToolBoxImpl@5bbdee69 scala> val tree = tb.parseExpr("1 to 3 map (_+1)") tree: tb.u.Tree = 1.to(3).map(((x$1) => x$1.$plus(1))) scala> val eval = tb.runExpr(tree) eval: Any = Vector(2, 3, 4)
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My program VCL in OnClose event should take these steps:
1. If the Desktop is not created then create a folder named MyFiles.
2. Load a file to the TMemoryStream.
3. Save this file to Desktop in the MyFiles folder with the encoding UTF-8. If the file exists, then overwrite it. The file has an extension .ini
I can not find С++ examples with Desktop anywhere. I only know the second step:
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String path = (ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0)));
path = path + L"setup.ini";
std::unique_ptr<TMemoryStream> SFile(new TMemoryStream());
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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) January 31, 2013
RegLink News, in its monitoring of developments at regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) agencies around the world, is accustomed to reporting on decisions as to coverage or not of new drugs and medical devices. This week's HTA news has significance well beyond a particular product: A study funded by the European Commission has just concluded that the formula used by the UK's healthcare cost containment watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), doesn't work – and in so doing has sparked off a debate on the subject of determining patient access to new therapies.
The study, conducted by the European Consortium on Healthcare Outcomes and Cost-Benefit research (ECHOUTCOME), examined the scientific validity NICE's formula – Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) – and found that it doesn't reflect real world needs and preferences of patients.
QALY weighs the number of life years and the improvement to quality of life, and is the basis for reimbursement decisions delivered by many health technology assessment (HTA) agencies around the world, including – in addition to NICE – those in Canada and Australia. The metric has, however, been rejected by some HTA bodies, including notably Germany's IQWiG.
The ECHOUTCOME group's report on NICE's methodology comes right out and says that the use of QALY "produce[s] hugely inconsistent, wrong results, on which important [reimbursement] decisions are based." The report concludes that all four of the assumptions which allegedly support the use of QALY are invalid: (1) that time and quality of life can be measured in consistent intervals; (2) that life years and quality of life are linked; (3) that people are neutral about risk; and (4) that willingness to sacrifice life years is constant over time. The head of the ECHOUTCOME study group is quoted by the UK's Independent as saying that "agencies such as NICE should abandon QALY in favor of other approaches," and that "European health technology assessment agencies currently looking to adopt the NICE model must seriously reconsider."
Stephen Whitehead, chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said the study "shows why NICE so often delivers conclusions that are out-of-step with other bodies and can undermine clinical work in the UK and most importantly deny UK patients in need, access to new and proven treatments."
RegLink partner Ansis Helmanis points out that "the European debate is timely and should be taken up on this side of the Atlantic as well," and that "reimbursement gatekeepers here, both public and private, are gearing up for health care reform and are refining the criteria they use – or will be using – to make the same kind of decisions that are being made by European gatekeepers such as NICE. Something flawed yet determinative as to whether patients will or will not get access to a new and possibly life extending therapy should not be used."
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As Obama concluded his address, around 9 p.m. local time, shelling on the rebel-controlled suburbs around Damascus surged according to activists reached by Skype and telephone.With any promised military response from the United States to the Assad regime's murder of over 1400 people, including over 400 children with illegal nerve gas, put off for at least ten day while President Obama seeks congressional approval, Bashar al-Assad enjoys the best of both worlds as a result of the chemical weapons attack he perpetrated. On the one hand, he can continue to gain all the political benefits, like renewed support at home, in the Arab nation, and in the US Left, that comes to him as a result of being in a direct military confrontation with US imperialism. Never mind all the dead babies, for some he's the anti-imperialist resistance fighter again. On the other hand, any real damage or pain, as usually accompanies US air strikes, is delayed for weeks if it ever comes at all.
For now, he is assured of no US attacks, but since they are only postponed, not canceled, their propaganda value remains intact. In fact, it is enhanced, because an attack this weekend might have proven to be slight and then the whole intervention might be declared over and the whole episode soon fade into history. This way Assad faces weeks with the threat of US military assault hanging over Syria. Not only does this give him a lot of time to prepare and thus mitigate the effects of any air assault, the details of which have already started leaking out with more certain to follow while the mission is on hold, it also gives him a lot of time to shift the focus from his brutal war against his own people to this "war on hold" with the mighty US imperialists.
Meanwhile the world's attention has been shifted away Assad's continuing war crimes in East Ghouta with its hundreds of babies shoveled into mass graves to the possibility of a US attack on Syria.
We all know how President Barack Obama doesn't shy away from putting those he considers "bad guys" on his kill-list. Barack Obama's own government has just determined that Bashar al-Assad has used illegal chemical weapons to murder 1,429 civilians including 426 children, that makes him a "bad guy." Few doubt that Bashar al-Assad could wake up dead before sunrise tomorrow if Barack Obama willed it.
Instead he gets treated to this diversion from his war crimes and this PR refreshment of his credentials as an "anti-imperialist resistance fighter." This is just what the doctor ordered.
Is there any thing else Barack Obama could do to make things better for his good buddy Bashar al-Assad?
Like I've been saying:
Obama's Dilemma and Assad's Opportunity
Barack Obama's Courtship of Bashar al-Assad
Obama Denied Gas Masks to Assad's Victims
Barack Obama's Courtship of Bashar al-Assad Exposed!
Obama "green lights" Assad's slaughter in Syria
Assad's Redline and Obama's Greenlight!
Chemical weapons use in Syria, Has Obama's red-line has been crossed?
AP weighs in on Obama's Green Light for Assad's slaughter in Syria
Syria: Obama's moves Assad's "red line" back as SOHR reports 42,000 dead!
SecState John Kerry and his "dear friend" Bashar al-Assad
How Obama's 'No MANPADS for you' policy in Syria is backfiring
More thoughts on Obama's 'No MANPADS for you!' policy
Obama: Did the CIA betray Assad's opposition in Syria?
World Time is reporting:
In Syria, Relief and Anger as Obama Delays Strike
As Obama backs down from an immediate attack against Syria, the country's civilians grow suspicious that the U.S. isn't committed to stopping President Bashar Assad's regime
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Aug. 31, 2013
As U.S. President Barack Obama made his case for strikes on Syria in retaliation for the "certain" use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against its own people last week, only to follow with the announcement that he would seek Congressional approval before launching a strike, Syrians simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief and gasped with incredulity. Civilians may have been spared the mayhem of yet another missile barrage in a country that has been at war for more than two years, but to see the U.S. suddenly standing back after much impassioned rhetoric about punishing the regime of President Bashar Assad dismayed opponents of the government.
As Obama concluded his address, around 9 p.m. local time, shelling on the rebel-controlled suburbs around Damascus surged according to activists reached by Skype and telephone. To many it was a signal of defiance by the regime, and proof that the sense of impunity that Obama in his speech warned would grow if the U.S. took no action against Assad was already a reality on the ground in Syria. "We don't understand what more than the use of chemical weapons against innocent people the world needs to topple this dictator," says Abu Hasan, a logistics coordinator for the rebel group the Free Syrian Army, speaking by Skype from Damascus after the speech. "History will remember how the whole world stood aside while a nation was being slaughtered." More...


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It's going to be difficult talking about this next character from Adventure Time with Finn and Jake because he is not an actual he. Up next I will fill yet another request made by a Dragoart member to make a tutorial on "how to draw Beemo", step by step. If you watch Finn and Jake you should already know who Beemo is, and you should also be excited that you are going to draw him soon. Beemo is a walking, talking video game player that is also known as being Finn and Jake's roommate. If you really look at Beemo, he sort of resembles the very first GameBoy by Nintendo. He shouldn't be a difficult character to draw so I'm almost positive that you will do great when it comes to drawing Beemo. You might want to grab some extra tools besides your pencil and eraser, and grab a ruler. That's pretty much all I have to say, I think the lesson covers the rest. Have fun and remember to upload your finished artwork is done. Peace out folks, and enjoy!
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Our kitchen and dining room overlook a lovely garden, with a couple of old trees where lots of adorable little squirrels have made their nest. Every now and then, a big, bushy gray tail pops up on one of the windows, a sign that they are watching us and wondering if what we are putting on the table is more or less interesting than their usual fare. This week our little fuzzy friends might be paying us more visits: the ingredients I laid out to bake for Tu' Bishvat are an irresistible attraction.
In the Jewish Tradition, Tu' Bishvat may be technically a minor holiday, but its special eco-message that we should connect with God through nature resonates very deeply with many of us. Many people celebrate this special "Birthday of the Trees" eating dried fruits and nuts, particularly those associated with the Promised Land! A kabbalistic tradition teaches that eating three different types of fruits creates a mystical connection with the Tree of life from the Garden of Eden. The first type are those fruits and nuts with inedible exteriors and edible insides, like oranges, bananas and many nuts. The second type are those fruits that have soft edible exteriors but a hard pit inside (like dates, apricots, etc). Finally, fruit that is eaten whole, like figs and berries. You can taste all this fruity-nutty goodness in these special honey-rye breads. For more Tu' Bishvat recipes, you can check my old posts here.
- 2/3 cup dried figs
- 1/2 cup dried raisins
- 3/4 cup medjool dates
- 1/2 cup almonds and/or hazelnuts
- 1/2 cup shelled walnuts and/or pistachios
- 1 tsp candied citron, if liked
- tbsp pine nuts, if liked
- 1 organic orange
- shot of grappa or brandy
- 1/4 lb fresh rye bread dough (recipe http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2010/01/new-york-deli-rye-bread/ )
- large pinch of cinnamon if liked
- 3/4 cup honey
- butter and flour to grease cookie sheet (or use parchment)
Soak the raisins in hot water until soft, drain and pat dry. Coarsely chop all the nuts and dried fruit and place them in a bowl with the raisins. Add the grated orange zest and the orange juice, and the grappa or brandy. Allow to restfor at least 6 hours at room temperature (overnight is great). Add the rye dough (for the rye dough, I used Smitten Kitchen's recipe: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2010/01/new-york-deli-rye-bread/ ) and combine well, kneading until everything is well combined. Divide into two parts and shape two oval, slightly flattened, breads.
line a large cookie sheet with parchment, or grease it with butter and dust with flour.
Place the breads on the cookie sheet (allow space for raising) and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 F for about 40 minutes or until golden. Allow to cool. Melt the honey in a small saucepan on low heat, and brush it over the fruit breads. Enjoy on their own or with the addition of whipped cream.


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On Wednesday morning, a 15-year-old Illinois boy with ASD, Stephon Watts, was shot and killed by police officers who responded to a call from the teen's parents asking for help in managing his violent behavior. According to news reports, the boy didn't want to go to school that morning. His father took away his computer in response, resulting in an outburst from the young man, who subsequently brandished a knife (there are conflicting reports regarding the type of knife) and cut the arm of an officer. There were five police officers on site, at least one of whom had a taser. However, they made the decision that the only way to subdue the young man was to shoot him.
My heart goes out to the family. What's more, I am deeply concerned about how this boy was failed by the systems that should have been in place to support him. While his death was at the hands of a few police officers, as a nation we must bear the responsibility for our inability to adequately address the needs of autistic teens and adults who engage in aggressive behaviors.
Since June 2010, police had been called 12 times to help deal with Stephon's behavior. In an incident in December—on the boy's birthday—Stephon hit his mother in the face. He then fled from officers with a knife and was apprehended through the use of a stun gun. Stephon's parents indicated in interviews that they were told by social service personnel that the only way to access psychiatric hospitalization for the young man was to call the police first. It is also worth noting that Stephon attended a school for children with autism.
I will leave it to others to discuss what the police officers should have done differently. Instead, I want to focus on the support needs that were clearly unmet in Stephon's world. While it has been reported that Stephon had an Asperger's syndrome diagnosis, it's reasonable to question whether he had a co-morbid psychiatric condition as well. If this is indeed the case, was that condition being treated and monitored? Is it true that the only way Stephon could get mental health care was through police intervention? If so, this means that mental illness was being addressed via crisis management, not through ongoing care.
Then there's the issue of training for people in Stephon's "Circles of Support." What kind of Behavioral Support Plan was in place at school, and did his family receive any guidance in implementing similar strategies at home? It's crucial that IEP planning for transition into the community focus on behavior as well as academics. It's not easy to know what to do in the face of an outburst on the part of a 220-pound 15-year-old. It can take some real pros to de-escalate such a situation. Is it possible that family training in how to manage oppositional behavior might have helped? If so, is there a network in place to provide parents with this education?
The police did have a bit of training in autism. The officers had participated in a three-hour workshop designed to help them respond to incidents involving people with ASD. It doesn't sound like much, but it's better than nothing. The problem is—as anyone who has parented or worked with folks with autism can attest to—there's no rulebook here. Behavior management is individual-specific. Also, most workshops on autism don't address what to do if the individual involved has uncontrolled psychiatric issues in the mix.
If Stephon's altercation with police was an isolated incident, it would be terrible enough. But it's not. Autistic adults have run-ins with the law on a regular basis. Fortunately, the majority of those incidents don't result in fatalities. But what's going to happen as increasing numbers of autistic adults enter their communities without adequate behavioral and mental health supports? Are we going to expect law enforcement personnel to step in? If so, we should expect an increase in events like Stephon's shooting. The nature of police work is to respond to crises. People make different decisions in a reactive situation than they do in a proactive one. And it's not reasonable to expect our police officers to become behavior management specialists.
The story of Stephon's death provoked a number of responses on the Autism After 16 Facebook page. One parent posted, "This my worst nightmare, my son is also aggressive, the school called the police just today." We need to think long and hard as a community and as a country about how to keep this kind of nightmare from becoming increasingly all too real. We need state social service systems--agencies that are charged with providing medical and behavioral supports—to make good use of resources rather than tying dollars up in layers of bureaucracy. Otherwise we will find that we have simply exchanged one institutional system for another as an increasing number of adults with autism find themselves facing police.


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This song is from Crawl Babies' newest record Death Dance, due out at the end of March.
I love this video, and this song, but, having had the chance to listen to the whole record, I also have to tell you it is amazing. A veritable garden of (sometimes puzzling) delights that oscillates gently between Twin Peaks-flavored dreaminess and country-rock swagger.
On the subject of puzzling delights, back to the video at hand. It takes a subtle but distinctive turn for the freaky about halfway through, and becomes an accurate visual representation of what happens when people get left alone in their own heads for too long.
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The Model High School of the University of Kentucky was formally opened in September of 1919 as a secondary school offering four years of course work. Before this time the Model High School had been under the partial control of Lexington's school system and had been operated as a junior high school. The teachers were furnished by the city and the building and equipment by the University. In 1919, the Model High School was made a part of the Department of Education at the University of Kentucky.
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The Model High School was a four-year high school meeting all of the requirements for college and university entrance. It was fully accredited in the University of Kentucky to supports its function in the training of university seniors and graduate students for public school service.
The Model High School was located in the Education building on the University's campus, occupying the entire third and fourth floors. The third floor contained four large classrooms and the Principal's office. The fourth floor contained the assembly room with one hundred and twenty desks, the physics laboratory, and the home economics labs. There was equipment for sewing, cooking and a model dining room. The first floor held the art room and the football locker room.
While the primary function of the Model High School was to provide the opportunity for University seniors and graduates to receive training as practical teachers, it was seen as an educational laboratory. The school was meant to show no distinction between the rich and the poor. They sought to instill a sense of personal and collective responsibility, the dignity of hard work, and the respect for the rights of others. The students were trained to think independently, quickly, and correctly. They had the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate literature, music, and art.
In addition to academics there were numbers social activities. The annual publication was the Mohian with representation from a student in each class. The monthly school paper was published entirely through the efforts of the students. There was a Radio club to promote debate and public speaking (although its membership was limited to the male students). The school was a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association and had football, baseball, basketball, track, and tennis.
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The program expanded to include k-12 education, but the kindergarten closed in 1961 and the elementary school in 1962. In 1964, a committee was charged with reviewing the Model High School, then called University School. The committee concluded that it was too expensive and that the limited program and facilities did not achieve the purposes for which the school was established. Later in 1964, President Oswald recommended to the Board of Trustees that the school be closed.


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As the war ends, America is forever transformed by the violent and bloody conflict. And while many herald the peace, others worry about democracy at home.
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|Rig'n'Roll Truck racing game, sequel to the famous Hard Truck series. Drive authentic trucks along real Californian roads, deliver cargo, take part in truck races or establish your own cargo transportation company.
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About games, we pay around 52% of taxes of which, 35% is only importing fees, so don't come tell me that you are taxed by 25% on everything, because my situation is worst than yours.
And even with that, I still do what I said and I'm not even rich!
Let's not take this toward that direction. Everyones situation is different regardless what tax bracket your in, or country you're from. This would lead to hard feelings toward one another, and in the end you'll both be right where you are now. It will serve to solve nothing.
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I See the post of alot of players complaing, About how unrealistic the game feels. I thought I would put my 2 cents in. I play almost if not ever 18 Wheeler game out! I drove in 1999 to 2000. I curently went back to driving Little after these game came out. I well say yes it has bugs And some what not real, However its closer than most games as been. Did a great job on showing you what the truck really looks like. Makes Look more Rewarding Than it really is, But never the less I driven almost ever single truck in this game if not all. They hit right on with looks. Handling Well Its a Computer game Lets face it nothing like the real thing. Messed up on not backing though. Should give the drivers a taste to what its like in the real wourld. All and all Good game pretty good job, Could be Better But it does do better than most Driving games. Its is some what close. All thought they make CA look better than it is. lol Been throw all South of Cal And Middle It has different and alot to see, But my Opinion looks better on the game! Person note. To all you play this game in feeling a dream, Or Kids thinking of be coming a driver for real. Be sure thats what you want in life. Its not an easy life High demands! Low cost! If you have a family Even harder!!!! This is best in a single mans wourld. Just thought I would say that, Warn the wanbees thats harder than appears. But Hey This life chooses the driver not the other way around. Be safe For the real drivers, known Enjoy Actting like one! Have fun!
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Today the USA celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (1929-1968). As we all know, Dr. King preached nonviolent activism in the global civil rights movement. Ironically, the other two persons honored with national holidays are Christopher Columbus and George Washington, two powerful slaveowners who advocated (and in Washington's case, waged) genocidal violence against people who fought for their civil rights.
Calls for the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day began almost as soon as King was assassinated in 1968 but it wasn't until 1983 that president Ronald Reagan signed it into law, over the objections of vocal opponents including Senator Jesse Helms and then-Arizona Congressman John McCain -- primarily over King's objections to the US's bloody invasion of Vietnam.
Outside of the US, the holiday is observed in Hiroshima, Toronto and probably elsewhere. But let's not get it twisted, his principles of nonviolence, as well as those of Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi before him, were not merely calls to pacifism -- silently accepting the rule and direction of those in power. On the contrary, they were calls to action.
Today, one of the most articulate (if not loudest) voice on behalf of the civil rights deprived of the world's indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognised or occupied territories is UNPO, or, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. The idea was conceived by Tibetan activist Tsering Jampa and Uyghur activist Erkin Alptekin, who were dismayed by blood-lusting global media's single-minded focus on violent struggles for independence such as have characterized Palestine's fruitless struggle through 65 years of occupation.


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Boylston is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1786 and was previously called Shrewsbury. It can be found in Worcester county and is a part of the Worcester registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 221 Main St., Boylston 01505. On the attached map, Boylston is shown as 26 in Worcester county.
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Student Reinterprets 'On the Road' Via Google Maps
"Head northwest on W 47th St, toward 7th Ave. Take the 1st left onto 7th Ave. Turn right onto W 39th St. Take the ramp onto Lincoln Tunnel."
That's the gripping opening of Jack Kerouac's revered 1957 novel "On The Road," reinterpreted by Google Maps — or more accurately, by Gregor Weichbrodt, a German college student who reduced the novel into a 55-page set of driving directions. In his newly released e-book, "On the Road for 17,527 Miles," Mr. Weichbrodt virtually retraced Kerouac's cross-country journeys by plugging all the landmarks into Google's direction service.
Mr. Weichbrodt, 26, isn't a die-hard Kerouac fan. He didn't even finish "On The Road," he says. Instead, he relied on a list of 130 landmarks that other Kerouac fans had compiled. Then he wrote a computer code that would allow him to enter a bunch of locations into Google Maps as a single, continuous route. He typed in the places Kerouac and his Beat cohorts traveled to, then waited for a few seconds for Google to spit back directions. The whole thing took him less than an hour, he says.


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A $995 billion version of the federal farm bill passed the U.S. Senate Monday afternoon. Next week, the House is expected to take up its version of the five-year plan for the nation's agriculture and food programs. Only one thing is for sure: You can bet the farm many who make a living in Colorado's agricultural industries, as well as the state's universities and federal labs, are anxious for a decision.
While the Senate bill cuts spending by $24 billion over the next decade, including a $4 billion from the food stamp program, the House reportedly wants to cut $40 billion over 10 years, including $20.5 billion from food stamps, in its $940 billion package. The 2008 farm bill has been extended twice since it was up for renewal a year ago. The two chambers have until Sept. 30, when the current extension expires, to settle their differences.
Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, both Democrats, voted for the farm bill Monday. Bennet, a member of the Agriculture Committee, authored some of its provisions, his office said.


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How long do stem cells live?
When patients receive a bone marrow transplant, they are getting a new population of hematopoietic stem cells. Fresh stem cells are needed when a patient is low on red blood cells, as in anemia, or white blood cells, which can be caused by cancer or even cancer treatments such as irradiation or chemotherapy. The problem is that a bone marrow transplant might not succeed because the transplanted stem cells don't live long enough or because they proliferate too well, leading to leukemia. To help determine how long a bone marrow (stem cell) graft will last, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) have developed a mathematical model that predicts how long a stem cell will live and tested those predictions in a mouse model. The study, led by Christa Muller-Sieburg, Dr. rer. nat., was published online the week of February 28, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"It has long been assumed that stem cells are immortal – they continue to self-renew, thus generating more stem cells that collectively can outlast an individual's life," said Dr. Muller-Sieburg, professor in Sanford-Burnham's Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology Program. "But now we have found that each stem cell is pre-programmed to self-renew only for a set amount of time that, in mice, ranges from a few months to several years. So we created a computer program that predicts that lifespan."
Researchers drew blood from transplant recipients, took a few initial measurements of the mature white blood cells generated from the transplant, and entered those parameters into a computer program that predicts their lifespan. This information was then compared to the stem cells' true lifespan. Some stem cells lasted five months and others more than three years, but again and again the computer program predicted survival time with surprising accuracy.
Dr. Muller-Sieburg and her colleagues found that stem cell self-renewal is strictly regulated to successfully negotiate a precarious balance: too much self-renewal results in leukemia, while too little leads to bone marrow failure. This new understanding now allows them to better predict the conditions that lead to normal stem cell proliferation.
Not only are these findings relevant to bone marrow transplants, they could also have implications for regenerative medicine. The safety and efficacy of using embryonic and other stem cells for tissue regeneration will depend on harnessing and precisely controlling their proliferative capacity. By providing a better understanding of how stem cells proliferate, and when they die, this lifespan prediction program could help improve their therapeutic potential for diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and other conditions.
Mathematical modeling has other benefits, too. According to lead author Hans Sieburg, Dr. rer. nat, "Computer simulation allows us to generate a hypothesis, make predictions about what should be true, and then better plan our experiments in a way that requires fewer animal experiments."
Source: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Other sources
- How long do stem cells live?from Science DailyFri, 4 Mar 2011, 20:30:34 UTC
- Reducing cancer patients' painful treatmentfrom PhysorgFri, 4 Mar 2011, 17:02:44 UTC
- How long do stem cells live?from PhysorgTue, 1 Mar 2011, 19:30:35 UTC
- How long do stem cells live?from Science BlogTue, 1 Mar 2011, 15:30:58 UTC


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"Mom" is the latest title for Christina Applegate, who is also a cancer survivor.
The "Married, with Children" actress and fiance Martyn LeNoble had a baby girl on Jan. 27. The baby, named Sadie Grace LeNoble, is the first for Applegate and weighed in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces. Applegate, 39, had previously confirmed her pregnancy back in September.
She famously overcame breast cancer with a double mastectomy, and credits LeNoble, a founding member of the 1990s rock group Porno for Pyros, with helping her get through her health issues. The pair got engaged last Valentine's Day.
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"I have a small but mighty support system and Martyn has really been an incredible part of my life," Applegate told Us magazine. "Without him, I don't know if I could've gone through any of it. He came around at a time when there was a lot of loss in my life on many levels, so he's been a really incredible help."
Applegate, who played Kelly Bundy on the long running TV show, was previously married to Johnathon Schaech from 2001-05. She has been dating LeNoble since 2008. She had a double mastectomy in 2008 after being diagnosed with cacer in one breast. She took the extra precaution in part because her mother is a breast cancer survivor. She has been a visible activist for Stand Up to Cancer and other charities devoted to raising cancer awareness and funding research into possible cures.
Selected Reading: Us Weekly, Standup2cancer.org, IMDb.


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It's a big week for social networking sites.
Seven years ago on Thursday, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sent his first tweet into the Twitterverse. The microblogging site celebrated its seventh birthday with a video on YouTube, which coincidentally had its own milestone on Wednesday. YouTube announced that it had hit 1 billion monthly unique users.
"If YouTube were a country, we'd be the third largest in the world after China and India," YouTube wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. The Google-owned site did not explain when it reached the 1 billion user mark.
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"As we've grown, Twitter has become a true global town square — a public place to hear the latest news, exchange ideas and connect with people all in real time," Twitter's editorial director Karen Wickre wrote in a blog post. "This is where you come to connect with the world at large. Get on your soapbox to critique elected officials, or go sotto voce to the neighbor next to you."
The birthday video highlights landmark moments in its 7-year history: tweets about the dramatic U.S. Airways plane landing on New York City's Hudson River, the first tweet from space and tweets from Tahrir Square during Egypt's revolution in 2011.
The video ends with the introduction of its own video service Vine, which launched in January.
Twitter now has over 200 million users, who send over 400 million tweets each day, Wickre said, a user base that its start-up team only "dreamed about back in 2006." This is a marked increase from last year, when the company said it was seeing 340 million tweets per day.
YouTube credits its growth to a group of people Nielsen calls Gen C, a generation of young people, ages 18 to 34, characterized by high connectivity through smartphones.
YouTube viewership on smartphones from this group shot up 74 percent from last year, according to Google. Sixty-seven percent of members of Gen C watch YouTube on multiple devices, compared to 53 percent of the general population.
Young users are tuning in while waiting in line, commuting and during TV commercials, according to Google, and advertisers take notice. Google says all of Ad Age Top 100 brands have campaigns on YouTube.
YouTube had another milestone last December when Korean pop star PSY's music video "Gangnam Style" was the first in Internet history to hit one billion views.


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Compaq CQ2009F Desktop PC may seem bare bones to some people, because it is essentially the least that can be assembled and still called a computer in 2009. This is a moot point, it wasn't manufactured to be a beastly gaming PC, or a high end performance machine in any fashion. The goal was simple: create an affordable, functioning desktop.
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ISKME necesitaba un nuevo diseño de fondo de Twitter y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
OER Commons (http://www.oercommons.org)
About OER Commons:
OER Commons (http://www.oercommons.org) is an open teaching and learning network launched by ISKME in March 2007 to stimulate an education ecosystem that thrives on interaction and knowledge sharing. The site has 16,400 registered users, averages 50,000 visits a month from 195 countries. OER Commons offers an infrastructure for teachers, students, curriculum experts, and others to collaborate around the use and improvement of high-quality educational resources. In 2007, ISKME was named an Education Laureate for Technology Benefiting Humanity, by the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, for its development of OER Commons.
OER Commons is an Initiative of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). ISKME is a leader in research on social learning and open education. ISKME integrates a range of collaborative practices using open-source learning content, or Open Educational Resources (OER), with a research-based pedagogy focused on participatory learning for K-20 teachers and learners.
ISKME catalyzes teachers and learners in the shift from a consumer culture for educational resources, to one in which teachers gain leadership and support to adapt and develop resources for their own needs, and then share those resources with others.
Teachers, Students, Lifelong Learners, Open Educational Resources (OER) Advocates...People looking for educational resources on any topic and people who are experts on OER (to answer questions). Our goal is to help the crowd of experts around OER to help OER-seekers find a free-to-use learning resource that is as good as or better than resources available for cost.
We want an OER seeker to take one glance at our Twitter profile and get the message that they can send an @Reply request for an open learning resource under the Hashtag #oerlib and receive a referral response to their request from a crowd of volunteer OER Experts.
We want an OER Expert to take one glance at our Twitter profile and get the message that they can send a reference request response with the hashtag #oerlib and it will show up in our stream.
The design mood we would like to convey is that this is an open collaborative space that inspires the crowd to serve as OER Advocates and teachers and learners to feel welcome to ask questions.
Twitter Background Design Needed for @OERCommons Profile.
Project Title: #OERLibrarian
We are developing a crowdsourced support service for finding Open Educational Resources hosted through our Twitter account @OERLibrarian.
Here's what the process will look like:
Step 1: A question comes in through an @ Reply to @OERLibrarian that is tagged with the hashtag #oerlib
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There surely are cases where a "good guy" with a gun saves the day by shooting a "bad guy." However, the most tragic gun incidents are those where the "bad guy" turns out to be a kid with weak impulse control. It's a pretty poor outcome for society and humanity if our only way to prevent and dissuade him (or her) is by shooting him down after he's already shot one or two people. Fortunately, yesterday's gun-fight at an Atlanta middle school ended without fatalities. But really: must we live like this?
The gun violence in the nation's schools visited Atlanta yesterday, when a student shot a 14-year-old classmate in the back of the neck with a handgun, apparently after a dispute, sending a wave of fear and panic through parents and the school community. The victim was not seriously harmed and was released last night from a hospital.
After multiple shots were fired, the shooter at Price Middle School was subdued by an off-duty police officer working security at the school. The unidentified officer made the student drop his weapon and took him into custody.


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Rookie's rise gives Brewers scouts butterflies
MILWAUKEE -- Brewers Rule 5 Draft pick Wei-Chung Wang officially made the unprecedented jump from the rookie leagues to the big leagues on Monday night, and he said he made it through a scoreless inning against the Cardinals by "trying to pretend I'm not nervous." Up in a suite, Brewers pro scouting director Zack Minasian knew the feeling.
Many Brewers officials had a hand in the unorthodox selection of Wang, from area scout Charlie Sullivan all the way up to general manager Doug Melvin, but Minasian is in charge of the team's Rule 5 Draft prep, and he had a close eye on Wang since the 21-year-old left-hander first arrived in Spring Training.
He had to wait until the Brewers' 13th game of the season to officially debut.
"It was fun to watch," Minasian said Tuesday, a day after Wang threw 13 pitches, nine strikes in a scoreless ninth inning against St. Louis. "You definitely feel a large responsibility … Charlie Sullivan was probably nervous watching it. He sent me a note today.
"For the pro scouting staff, we just try to put players in order and make our recommendation. I feel like we put him in the right order, and that led to Wang being here. Any time a guy you acquire goes out and performs, there are butterflies."
Wang was not your typical Rule 5 pick. The native of Taiwan agreed to a lucrative international deal with the Pirates in 2011, but the deal was scuttled after a physical exam revealed a torn ligament in his pitching elbow that required Tommy John surgery. Wang re-signed with the Pirates later that year, so by rule he was eligible for the Rule 5 Draft unless protected on Pittsburgh's 40-man roster. The Brewers had a similar situation with right-hander Cody Scarpetta several years ago and had to protect him.
Wang did not pitch at all in 2012, then went 1-3 with a 3.23 ERA in 12 games, 11 starts, in 2013 for the rookie Gulf Coast League Pirates. Now he is in the Major Leagues, and by rule the Brewers must keep him there, or offer him back to the Pirates for half the original $50,000 claim fee.
The Brewers' hope is that Wang throws enough strikes to be effective in long relief this season. Then they could decide in the fall whether to convert him back to a starting pitcher.
"Our hope is that our starting pitching is good enough this year that we can basically steal a prospect," Minasian said. "The thing I tried to sell was, if we agree with Charlie's report, if you put this kid in the [June] Draft, this kid would be a legitimate first-round pick and maybe a Top 10 pick. I compared him to a guy everyone is talking about now going No. 1, Carlos Rodon. I said, 'If we could take Carlos Rodon right now and just put him on our Major League roster, would we do that? Would we give up a spot for that?'"
The Brewers were willing to do it, especially in light of forfeiting their first-round Draft pick last year for signing free-agent starter Kyle Lohse. Wang was rated Milwaukee's No. 11 prospect by MLB.com entering this season.
Minasian stressed that Wang's debut on Monday night was only a first step.
"You have to put it in context; it's only one inning," Minasian said. "But for the guy to go out and throw strikes after such a long layoff, to be on the attack, it was fun to watch. I'm happy for the kid."


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Appeal over missing woman, 70
Police are urging people in East Lothian to check their gardens and sheds following the disappearance of a 70-year-old woman.
Christine Robb, who has Alzheimer's disease, was last seen in Haddington at around 2.45pm on Monday.
She was spotted at that time in Lodge Street, walking towards High Street, and was reported missing around and hour and a half later.
Police Scotland said inquiries have been carried out, but so far there have been no sightings of her.
She is described as 4ft 11ins, with a slim build and white hair.
She was last seen wearing dark trousers, a light blue or grey waist-length coat with a hood, dark beanie hat and brown boots with a fur lining at the top.
Inspector John Scott, of Haddington police station, said: "Christine suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has no money or mobile phone with her.
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"If you have seen a woman matching Christine's description, please contact police immediately."