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NASCAR's Matt Kenseth knows Auto Club Speedway well, having won three Sprint Cup races at the Fontana track.
NASCAR's Matt Kenseth knows Auto Club Speedway well, having won three Sprint Cup races at the Fontana track.
But he earned the victories driving for Roush Fenway Racing and is still looking for his first win on the two-mile oval since moving to the Joe Gibbs Racing team last year.
Kenseth took the step toward a fourth win Friday by winning the pole position for Sunday's Auto Club 400 as NASCAR's new knockout-style qualifying format was used at the Fontana speedway for the first time.
"They gave me the car and all I had to do was not mess it up," Kenseth said of how crew chief Jason Ratcliff and the rest of his team prepared his No. 20 Toyota.
"It's a really fun race track, especially when our car is driving good," said Kenseth, 42, whose pole-winning lap was 187.315 mph.
Brad Keselowski, who won two weeks ago in Las Vegas, qualified second in his No. 2 Team Penske Ford with a lap of 187.105 mph.
Jimmie Johnson, who has a record five Cup wins at Auto Club Speedway, qualified third. Kevin Harvick, another former Fontana winner who won earlier this month in Phoenix, was fourth.
Under the new qualifying format for the 43-car field, all the cars qualified in the opening 25-minute session and the 24 fastest advanced to the 10-minute second round. The 12 fastest in that round moved to the final five-minute session.
Among the drivers who failed to reach the final round included Denny Hamlin (who qualified 13th), Kyle Busch (14th) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (15th).
Many of the drivers ran only a single lap in each session because the Fontana track is particularly abrasive and the teams are allowed only one set of tires for qualifying.
Track slashes capacity
Owing to a lack of sellouts, Auto Club Speedway has slashed its grandstand capacity in the last year to 68,000 seats from 92,000, a track spokesman said Friday.
The 24,000-seat reduction reflects the pullback in NASCAR's surging popularity during the mid-2000s, caused in good part by the severe economic recession that started in 2008.
Auto Club Speedway's parent, International Speedway Corp., had told Wall Street analysts last summer that it planned to cut capacity at certain tracks to escape the "quagmire" of too many empty seats.
It did not identify the tracks at the time. But the company's most famous track, Daytona International Speedway, also is undergoing a renovation that will slash its grandstand seating to 101,000 from 146,000.
International Speedway Corp. is controlled by the France family that also owns NASCAR.
At Auto Club Speedway, the grandstands stretch from Turn 4 through the main straightaway and along Turn 1. Most of the removed seats were located at the end of Turn 1, track spokesman David Talley said.
Those seats had gone unsold for the last few NASCAR Sprint Cup races and were covered with a tarp. No seats were removed in Turn 4, he said. In 1997, Auto Club Speedway was host to its first Cup race; and from 2004 through 2010, the track was host to two Cup races a year. But NASCAR removed one race from the track's annual schedule starting in 2011 amid sagging attendance.
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Collaboration player Atlassian has added support for the Git distributed version control system (DVCS) to its provision of the Bitbucket free code hosting service. The company says that it has taken this move strategically to give developers access to Git and so that Bitbucket customers can now have unlimited private and public repositories for both Git and Mercurial in a single account.
Having also just acquired SourceTree, a Mac client for managing repositories from Git and Mercurial DVCS systems, Atlassian is making SourceTree free for a limited time. Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO and cofounder of Atlassian has said that SourceTree provides "relief to the headache" of managing multiple repositories, allowing developers to manage and interface with multiple Git and Hg repositories visually through a client instead of the command line.
Atlassian says that Bitbucket has just had a strong year of record growth — more than tripling the number of developer accounts and adding over 350 improvements, bug fixes, and new features. The proposition is that by now adding Git support, Bitbucket offers programmers the ability to use both Git and Mercurial repositories within a single code hosting and collaboration service, without limiting the number of private or public repositories users can create and manage within a single account.
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Indo–Omani Relations in the Reign of Sultan Taimur Bin Faisal Al Busaidi (1913-1931 AD)
- Mahmmoud Al-Jbarat
This paper relies on primary resources dealing with the history of Oman along with British documents, which are the most important materials that dealt with the situation in the region, in general, and in Oman in Particular, at a time when Britain had power, presence and military control over India through the Government of British India. At that time, Britain tried to open lines of communication and forge agreements with the Arabian Gulf countries in order to secure its control over this vital region and secure communications with its colonies in India.
This study focuses on the economic and commercial relations between the two countries including trade of spices, textile, weapons, slaves, dates and other goods, the currencies used in these commercial exchanges, and the volume of trade. It also explores the volatility of these relations in different periods.
The study also examines the social and cultural relations, mutual migrations, and military and political ties. In addition, it explores various aspects of reciprocal influence between the two areas in different periods and during turbulent times for the sultanate of Oman and the region, prior to, during and after the First World War. It investigates these relations from signing of the treaty of AL-Seeb in 1920 and the stabilization phase it created up to the end of the study period.
The study has reached a number of conclusions about the development of these relations and the factors influencing this development at a time when sultan Timor tried to maintain independence in running the country despite the British influence. It also focuses on how the sultan attempted to benefit from Britain's need to secure shipping lines by enhancing the sultanate's trade with India until India became the first economic and trade partner with the sultanate during this period. The sultan tried to maintain a friendly relationship with Britain and India, where his currency was mined and where he used to stay for recuperation.
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CAMBRIDGE — "Yes I'm perfectly fine, I think it's brain cancer." That line from Sharr White's 2011 play, "The Other Place," could just stop you in your tracks, and it's not the only one. After a while, you might wonder why the usher failed to equip you with a rewind button, or at least one labeled stop, when she showed you to your seat. "The Other Place" keeps jumping from one place to another, and from one story to another, and you can't believe everything you see and hear.
Eventually, White takes you to "the other place" (it's on Cape Cod) and lets you get your bearings, which is almost too bad, since disorientation is replaced by sentiment. And the otherwise fine 90-minute (with no intermission) production from the Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater that's now up at Central Square Theater doesn't maintain the suspense as long as it might.
Juliana is a biophysicist — "sharply charismatic," says the playwright — in her early 50s, and at the beginning of the play, she's giving a lecture in the Virgin Islands, or maybe she's promoting a new protein drug to fight dementia. Juliana has had an "episode," she tells her oncologist husband, Ian, whom she's divorcing. She carries on almost simultaneous conversations with a Dr. Teller — what kind of doctor isn't clear — and on the phone with her estranged, Mahler-addicted daughter, Laurel, who ran off with Juliana's postdoctoral scholar and had twins.
At least, that's what Juliana tells us. But no matter who she's talking to, she always seems to be having an "other" conversation. At times, "The Other Place" promises to be a mystery story with Juliana as the detective who's going to figure out why Ian is so adamant that she shouldn't reconnect with Laurel. At others, it seems we're in some "other" place, one reminiscent of Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone."
Janie E. Howland's minimal set — and minimal is what the playwright calls for — comprises a dining table and chairs to represent Ian and Juliana's house plus a pair of additional chairs where Juliana sits for her sessions with Dr. Teller. The rear wall is a scrim through which Laurel and her husband, Richard, can be seen talking to Juliana on the phone. Chris Brusberg's lighting changes provide clear signals as to which reality Juliana is in.
But whereas White asks that, "In the first scenes especially, the pacing of this play should stay crisp, tense, and impulsive," the Nora/Underground Railway production, as directed by Bridget Kathleen O'Leary, is casual, leisurely, and comic. And for all that Debra Wise is a terrifically accomplished Juliana, she plays to the audience in a way that soon lets the cat out of the bag.
David DeBeck as a haggard-looking Ian also drops the unavoidable odd clue (it's a peculiarity of the play that what's ambiguous on the page cannot be so in performance, since the actor knows the truth about Ian), but he matches Wise's authority. Angie Jepson seems too young for Dr. Teller; she fares better as Laurel and best of all as a woman offering comfort and Chinese food toward the end of the play. Jaime Carrillo is an effectively harassed Richard.
Indeed, once the mystery is unlocked, all four actors combine to heartwarming effect. But if you want a clue early on, listen closely to the pre-curtain Mahler that sound designer David Remedios has chosen.
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I'm repartitioning the drive for the first time. When attempting to open the drive using
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Excel has a cool feature called "data bar" conditional formatting that allows the user to partially fill a cell background to create histograms based on cell contents. Here is a screen clip example from a workbook:
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91.41 & \cellcolor{green!25}90.81 & 38.76 \\
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A muddle and a cock-up. For all the talk of parliament reasserting itself, last night's vote on Syria showed a parliament that voted, twice, to oppose actions it actually supports. David Cameron has been humiliated but this was hardly a banner day for Ed Miliband either.
The House of Commons has, for now, cut off its nose to spite its face. Perhaps surgery can repair the damage. Perhaps it can't. Because the longer and more deeply one contemplates yesterday's events the more evident it seems that there were no winners.
The government motion was defeated. So was Labour's amendment. Since these motions were, in essence and in most practical respects, identical one wonders what on earth has happened. Put together more than 450 MPs supported either the government motion or Labour's amendment.
Neither motion authorised immediate military action. Neither motion handed the government a "blank cheque". Both motions acknowledged more time, more evidence, more discussion would be needed before any final decision was taken. And both were defeated. Work that out if you can.
Parliament has voted to shut down debate even though a clear majority of MPs favour more debate. Heckuva job, chaps. For now, at least, Britain has opted out of any punitive strike on Bashar al-Assad's regime. Few people emerge from this debacle with their credit enhanced.
The Prime Minister's mismanagement of his party is as well-documented as it is unfortunate. Worse, however, was its handling of the debate itself. I have no idea why Nick Clegg – of all people – was permitted to make the government's closing statement rather than William Hague.
But at least we know what David Cameron believes. The same cannot be said about Ed Miliband. The best one can say for the Labour leader is that he is hopelessly confused. Perhaps he lost control of his party too. Alternatively, his approach reeked of low cynicism. Indeed, Miliband's approach reminded me of the kind of stuff you see in student unions across the country. Juvenile and petty; point-scoring and obstructive simply for the fun of it. That doesn't matter much at the university level; the stakes were rather higher yesterday.
It takes some gall to extract major concessions from the government that results in a motion substantively in line with your own expressed preferences and then to vote against that motion anyway. That, however, is what Miliband appears to have done. I have no idea why Labour opposed the government motion yesterday. It did not do so on any point of principle (that would have been fine). In the circumstances, I've some sympathy for the government source who described the Labour leader as a "fucking cunt" and a "copper-bottomed shit".
And I write that as someone deeply sceptical about the usefulness or wisdom of military action in Syria. "I'm not with those who rule out action" Miliband told the House yesterday. Except now he is, whether he means to be or not. The best one can say of Miliband's approach is that it has been incompetent.
It is fine for parliament to vote against government policy. It is less fine – a lot less fine – for parliament to vote to have no policy at all. But that, thanks to yesterday's muddle, is what it seems to have done. It is not leadership; it is abdication. At least for now. And that is not something of which to be proud.
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I read a super thread on twitter today starting with "what's the worst thing about brexit? ...and it's nothing to do with Europe". The answer was all about impunity for political cockups (e.g. 100s of letters going out to uk legal residents telling them to leave the country, no call for the home sec, HO minister or even immigration minister to resign) and conspiracies,
To me that is 2016/7 politics all over, the same shit in the US despite they have no brexit.
I expected the answer to be the legitimisation of victimisation of europeans and non-ukers. The expansion of bad behaviour by the state is an example here too, e.g. in Samim's deportation case. But also on the streets. And the expansion of bad faith all round.
I'll post the thread if i can find it again.
It's odd how abstract the actual europe issues are compared to the non europe issues, perhaps the worst is yet to come in both


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Hey, Lisa. In all honesty, I became an atheist around the same time as yourself. I haven't told my family, beyond my sister, but I think it's implied that I don't believe what everyone else believes. But to address your question about revealing your position to your mother, I wouldn't right off. Unless she asks or you feel that her religious position is imposing on your life (which I assume you'd be against), then reveal that to her.
This is shocking and saddening news. I'm truly sorry to hear about your loss.
My sister passed away on Aug 31, 2012. At one point, when I was at a particularly weak point, I sobbed into my brother's arms. And he, believing me to still be a believer in fairy tales, tried to comfort me with the words "we do not mourn as they do." Meaning everyone around us, "those who have no hope." I darned near punched him out. We do not mourn as they do. Of all the arrogant exaltations of pathetic denial...
I mourn as a human being does, a human being who has suffered loss and recognizes that time only goes in one direction. It is a sad and beautiful and REAL thing. The Christian "hope" robs us of the reality of loss and mourning. We lost a beautiful and wonderful person, and he's treating it like "see ya later!"
No. No we won't.
And that's sad. And real.
My sister now lives in the memory of everyone who ever loved her. She would have appreciated the honesty if she had come to the understanding about faith that I have. I truly miss her. I truly mourn her. As others do. As others should.
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"Her lower register has become ever-richer toned, yet fluid, while higher up her silken soprano remains undiminished . . . Fleming is utterly ravishing in Ravel's Shéhérazade, and her performance of Messiaen's Poémes pour Mi is sensational . . . Here is a singer with the sumptuousness, character and burnished luminosity this score demands. Her control at the end of 'L'épouse' is effortless, yet there is no holding back, with fire and steel where needed . . . Fleming is simply intoxicating."
BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 (CD review: "Počmes")
One of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence as she continues to grace the world's leading opera stages and concert halls, now extending her reach to include other musical forms and media. She has appeared with all the major orchestras of Europe and North America and collaborated with such renowned conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, the late Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Antonio Pappano, André Previn, Christian Thielemann, Michael Tilson Thomas and the late Sir Georg Solti.
Renée Fleming was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Rochester, New York. Her parents were both teachers of singing, and music formed part of her upbringing. She went on to study at the Juilliard School, holds degrees from the State University of New York at Potsdam and the Eastman School of Music, and was a Fulbright Scholar for study in Germany. Early awards include the 1988 Metropolitan Opera National Auditions, the Richard Tucker Award, and the George London Prize. The soprano's breakthrough came in 1988 when she made her debut as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze de Figaro. Further signature roles include Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title roles in Dvořák's Rusalka, Massenet's Manon and Thaďs and Richard Strauss's Arabella, Countess Madeleine in Capriccio and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.
Renée Fleming is also a champion of new music and performed in the world premiere of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles at the Metropolitan Opera, sang in the first performances of Floyd's Susannah at the Met and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and created the role of Blanche in the world premiere of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire with the San Francisco Opera. She also gave the world premiere of the song cycle Le Temps l'horloge, written for her by Henri Dutilleux, with Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan in 2007.
In 2009 Fleming performed Messiaen's Počmes pour Mi at the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala welcoming new Music Director Alan Gilbert. On New Year's Eve of 2010 she was Hanna Glawari with the Dresden Staatskapelle under Christian Thielemann at the Semperoper. Some highlights of 2011: Rossini's Armida, Strauss's Capriccio and Handel's Rodelinda at the Met, Verdi's Otello in Paris, and Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia in San Francisco. 2012 brought a new role to her repertoire, Strauss's Ariadne, which she sang with the Dresden Staatskapelle under Thielemann at the Baden-Baden Festival, as well as Verdi's Desdemona at the Met, and Strauss's Arabella in Paris. Her engagements in 2013 include Capriccio in Vienna and at Covent Garden, Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Chicago Lyric Opera and Carnegie Hall, concerts with the San Francisco Symphony (Tilson Thomas) and New York Philharmonic (Gilbert; world premiere of a new work by Anders Hillborg), a US duo-recital tour with Susan Graham and a solo recital tour of China and Taiwan.
Renée Fleming has been an exclusive recording artist with Decca since 1995 and has made numerous prize-winning recordings. For her album The Beautiful Voice – a collection of favourite songs – she was awarded in 1998 a prize from the Académie du Disque Lyrique and her first Grammy® for the "Best Classical Vocal Performance". She has also won three Gramophone Awards – the "Recital Award" for I Want Magic – a collection of American opera arias – and the "Opera Award" and "Record of the Year" for Rusalka, with Ben Heppner and Sir Charles Mackerras. In 2002 she won a Grammy® with her recital album Bel Canto, and in 2006 an Echo Award for her recording of Strauss's Daphne. Other notable recordings include Great Opera Scenes with the London Symphony Orchestra and Mozart's Don Giovanni, alongside Bryn Terfel, both recordings conducted by Sir Georg Solti and both receiving Grammy® nominations. The recording Homage – The Age of the Diva (2006) comprises rarely-heard works associated with legendary singers of the past. 2008 saw the release of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs (Echo Award "Lied recording of the Year" 2009). Her last two solo albums, Verismo, a collection of rarely-heard Italian arias, and Počmes, comprising Ravel's Shéhérazade, Messiaen's Počmes pour Mi and works by Dutilleux, won the artist her third and fourth Grammy® awards for "Best Classical Vocal Performance". DVD releases include La traviata from Los Angeles Opera, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Valery Gergiev from the Met, Richard Strauss's Arabella from the Zurich Opera, Der Rosenkavalier with Thielemann from the Baden-Baden Festival, Massenet's Thaďs, Rossini's Armida and Strauss's Capriccio, all from the Met, A Musical Odyssey in St Petersburg together with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Handel's Rodelinda from the Met with Andreas Scholl, under Harry Bicket. 2013 will bring the release of a new solo album and, on DVD, Ariadne auf Naxos.
Renée Fleming has been honoured with numerous other awards. She received two Classical Brit Awards – as "Female Artist of the Year" (2003) and for her "Outstanding Contribution to Music" (2004), Honorary Doctorates from The Juilliard School, The Eastman School of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University and Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music, the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur from the French government (2005) and Sweden's Polar Prize (2008). In 2012 she was named "Singer of the Year" at Germany's Echo Awards.
The "people's diva" has been sought after for numerous distinguished occasions, from the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to performances in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games. Also in 2008, Ms. Fleming became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala. On January 18, 2009, she sang for the televised We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial concert for President Obama. She has performed for the United States Supreme Court, HRH The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace and at the 20th anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution" in Prague, at the invitation of Vaclav Havel. In 2012 she sang in the Diamond Jubilee Concert of HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. She is also frequently seen and heard on television and radio: over the past few seasons she has hosted many broadcasts, including the Met's Live in HD series for movie theatres and television, and Live from Lincoln Center on PBS. Her book, The Inner Voice, was first issued in 2004. An intimate account of her career and creative process, the book is also published in the UK, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia.
In 2010 Renée Fleming was named the first-ever creative consultant at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the Board of Sing for Hope and the Advisory Board of the White Nights Foundation of America.


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Kimberley Park and Sherwood Forest Elementary Schools were the first to begin Safe Routes to School Programs after they hosted Safe Routes to School workshops in 2006. During the 2010-11 school year, those two schools were part of a SRTS pilot project with these schools: Clemmons Elementary, Forest Park Elementary, Kernersville Elementary, and Kernersville Middle School. Funded by the NC Safe Routes to School Program, the grant focused on education and encouragement programs at these schools.
Here are some of the SRTS activities at these schools:
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In subsequent years these additional schools have participated:
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Although total U.S. medical school enrollment increased nearly 23 percent between 2000 and 2010, many of those newly minted physicians won't choose primary care specialties and they won't settle in states with the most severe primary care shortages. Those issues are discussed in a new study in the December issue of Academic Medicine.
According to study co-author Andrew Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, the opening of more allopathic and osteopathic medical schools in the past decade was a direct response to widespread concerns about a U.S. physician shortage. "We've seen an unbridled expansion of medical schools without anyone guiding or overseeing that overall expansion," says Bazemore.
"This research is important, because states are making decisions right now about what they want and, more importantly, what they need, to take care of the people in their states. We've taken a midstream look at whether medical schools are being built where there is the greatest need."
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In the study "State Patterns in Medical School Expansion 2000-2010: Variation, Discord and Policy Priorities,(journals.lww.com)" Bazemore and his co-authors note that the reality of budget constraints at the state and federal level, combined with calls for lower costs and more accountability in the health care system and in physician training, have added urgency to a growing problem.
Story highlights
- Researchers found that despite a total U.S. medical school enrollment that increased by 22.9 percent between 2000 and 2010, many states still face primary care shortages.
- Data indicate that uncoordinated expansion of medical schools may not solve health care access challenges.
- States should develop and implement policies that make primary care more attractive to students and encourage new physicians to remain in the state in which they train.
"Despite evidence tying access to primary care physicians to improved community health outcomes and decreased costs, medical student interest in primary care and, thus, medical school output of primary care physicians, has been declining," say the researchers.
For the study, the researchers calculated population growth and medical school enrollment in individual states and examined the relationship between medical school expansion and states' needs. They wanted to know how many medical students return to practice in the states where they graduate and what states were successful in increasing their primary care workforces.
The authors knew from previous research that students who attend both medical school and residency training in the same state are more likely to remain in that state to practice medicine. They found that although 63 percent of medical students enter a medical school in their home state, only 39 percent of M.D. and D.O. graduates who complete an out-of-state residency return to their home state to practice. This retention rate was higher (47 percent) among students who attend public schools.
"Increasing medical school enrollment in states without sufficient GME (graduate medical education) positions and with medical student retention rates below the national median may not be a prudent investment," say researchers.
"Although the 22.9 percent increase in total U.S. medical school enrollment from 2000 to 2010 will increase supply of physicians, as the COGME (Council on Graduate Medical Education) suggested, an increase in supply 'will not in and of itself address issues of maldistribution of physicians,'" they conclude.
Research by the Numbers
Researchers determined that from 2000-2010, median state population growth was 7.4 percent and median medical school enrollment growth was 14.7 percent, but there were wide variations across states. For example, Nevada had a population surge of 35 percent, while medical school enrollment increased by 274 percent. West Virginia's population grew by just 2.5 percent, and yet, the state expanded its medical school enrollment by 80 percent.
Study authors also compared states' primary care physician supply with medical school enrollment in 2010. Michigan and New York, for example, reported a good number of M.D. and D.O. students per 10,000 people and a larger-than-median number of primary care physicians in practice.
Other states, including Missouri and Nebraska, were above the national median for medical students per capita but fell below the median for the number of primary care physicians per capita. And some states, such as Florida and Utah, didn't have sufficient numbers of medical students or practicing primary care physicians to serve the populations in those states.
When researchers looked at the rate at which graduates return to the states where they graduated from medical school to practice primary care, they found that retention rates varied widely -- from just 10 percent in New Hampshire to 67 percent in Wyoming.
Recommendations for Future Planning
Bazemore says he was not surprised that the expansion of medical schools did not correlate at the state level with primary care population ratio measures of need.
"Some would say expansion of training in the United States is driven as much by market and political forces as it is by demonstrated population need and effective policymaking," says Bazemore. "This is just one more piece of evidence that highlights the need for policy coordination if we're going to produce the physician workforce capable of serving in the medical specialties and locations of greatest need."
Bazemore suggests that the research findings could be useful in conversations between family physicians and their state legislators -- who are funding medical school expansion with state tax dollars -- about how to direct and allocate state resources most effectively.
The research team also asks policymakers to
- look at local and regional health care needs and study population growth, access to care and the geographic distribution of physicians before making decisions about medical school expansion;
- consider replicating the coordinated training model used by the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) program in which neighboring states share resources with the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle;
- implement policies that encourage primary care at medical school preadmission, admission, and curriculum levels, and prioritize the admission of students "with known intentions and characteristics conducive to choosing primary care"; and
- assess medical schools' success in turning out primary care physicians by following graduates five years after graduation.
Finally, the researchers call on state and federal stakeholders to learn from past mistakes, including the uneven manner in which medical school expansion occurred after warnings were raised a decade ago about physician shortages.
"When GME training slots are increased … we recommend that state and federal stakeholders find ways to coordinate expansion to meet societal needs for more equitable distribution of physicians according to specialty and geographic location," the authors conclude.
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Data Illustrate Geographic Dispersal of Family Physicians, Other Primary Care Professionals
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The Week of The Dark Knight
Just got back from a screening of The Dark Knight (IMAX). Will not bother reviewing it since you can read any number of reviews about Heath Ledger's brilliance anywhere on the web with one quick click.
Just see it. That's all.
Focusing instead on commentary that film critics are too high brow to note....and that is The Hotness. The Multiple Hotness. There is Hotness all over this f&cking movie.
Thought I was going to cry out from lust every time Christian Bale appears as Bruce Wayne. He is so beautiful, I defy you not to let out a low moan every time he rocks that suit. The yacht...look for the yacht.
And then that sexy beast Gary Oldman...maybe not as sexy as he was as Sirius Black but there is a part when Commissioner Gordon kicks some ass in a swat team uni and there you go... that's what Uma wanted way back when.
But if your loins aren't moving for Oldman or for Bale, it'll be Aaron Eckhart. Am not a fan of Aaron Eckhart. Am a fan of Aaron Eckhart under the direction of Christopher Nolan who makes Tim Burton, not exactly a lightweight, look like Santa Claus.
My Maggie. Girlcrushing hard on Maggie Gyllenhaal, more than ever before. If you're about to write to me telling me she's ugly... save it. We can't all look like Cindy Crawford. But when you DON'T look like Cindy Crawford and you're still sexy as hell because you're smart as hell and you look great in a waistcoat with a pair of tailored pants, then maybe not looking like Cindy Crawford is just as attractive. Or more.
So in honour of The Dark Knight, the Freebie Five has been updated.
Go see it soon. And preferably on IMAX.


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The Backend API is deprecated as of March 13, 2014. Although Google will
continue to support the Backend API in accordance with our
terms of service, it is strongly recommended that all new applications
use the Services instead.
For information on converting existing apps using the Backend API to services, see Converting Apps to Services
Backends are designed for applications that need faster performance, large amounts of addressable memory, and continuous or long-running background processes. They are exempt from request deadlines and have access to more memory (up to 1GB) and CPU (up to 4.8GHz) than normal instances. Unlike normal instances, backends are billed for uptime rather than CPU usage.
A backend may be configured as either resident or dynamic. Resident backends run continuously, allowing you to rely on the state of their memory over time and perform complex initialization. Dynamic backends come into existence when they receive a request and are turned down when idle. Dynamic backends are ideal for work that is intermittent or driven by user activity. For more information about the differences between resident and dynamic backends, see Types of backends and also the discussion of Startup and Shutdown.
Backends do not automatically scale in response to request volume. Instead, you
must specify the number of backend instances you require and change this number
by performing an
update or
configure command.
The number of instances is usually set in proportion to the size of a dataset,
the degree of processing power required, and your budget for your application.
Backends are
configured using
. You
can list each backend and specify its properties, such as the number of
instances, the memory and CPU class, whether it is
public or private, and other
options. Backends share the
handlers defined in `app.yaml`
with the main
application version. You can place your backends in a separate application root
directory if you want to avoid sharing code or handlers, or simply mark the
relevant handlers with
login: admin.
Properties of backends
The following table compares backend instances to default App Engine instances.
|Default Instances
|Backend Instances
|60-second deadline for HTTP requests, 10-minute deadline for tasks
Requests to backends can run indefinitely. A backend can choose to
/_ah/start and execute a program or script for many
hours without returning an HTTP response code.
|Flexible, billed by instance hours
|Configurable from 600MHz–4.8GHz, included in the hourly price of the instance uptime. See Instance Classes for more information.
|Low memory cap (128MB).
|Configurable memory limit, from 128MB to 1GB of memory per instance. See Instance Classes for more information.
|Instances are evicted from memory based on usage patterns.
|You can configure backends to use resident instances, which remain in memory, so state is preserved across requests. When backends are restarted, you usually have 30 seconds to finish before shutdown (see Shutdown for more information).
|Startup and shutdown
|Instances are created on demand to handle requests and automatically turned down when idle.
Backends are sent a start request automatically by App Engine in the
form of an empty request to
/_ah/start. A backend that is
stopped with
appcfg backends stop command or using Shutdown in the
Administration Console has 30 seconds to finish handling requests
before it is forcibly terminated.
See Backend States for more information about startup and shutdown.
|Instance addressability
|Instances are anonymous.
Instances are individually addressable at a URL of this form:
If you have set up a wildcard subdomain mapping for a custom domain, you can also address a backend or any of its instances via a URL of the form:
where instance is a small integer identifying a particular instance and where backend_name is the name specified in the backend configuration file.
Alternatively, you can use the URL form:
You can reliably cache state in each instance and retrieve it in subsequent requests.
|App Engine scales the number of instances automatically in response to processing volume.
You configure the number of instances of each backend in
. The number of instances usually corresponds to the size of
a dataset being held in memory or the desired throughput for offline
work. A dynamic backend is configured with a maximum number of
instances; the number of live instances scales with the processing
volume. You can adjust the number of instances of a backend very
quickly, without stopping instances that are currently running, using
|Public versus private HTTP Requests
|Instances can handle private and public requests.
|Instances handle private requests by default, but you can configure them to handle public requests.
App Engine provides the following command-line tools allowing you to interact
with the Backends configured in
When running
dev_appserver.py, pass
--backends to enable backends support.
appcfg backends <dir> update [backend]
- Creates or updates a backend configured in
backends.yaml. You can update a single backend by specifying a backend name, or all of the backends by running this command without specifying a backend. If the backend was in the
STARTstate before the update, it remains started after the update; if it was in the
STOPstate, it remains stopped after the update. Updating a backend causes instances that are currently running to shut down before new instances come up. Instances will not be shut down until the final step of the update, so that any incremental errors during an update do not result in downtime.
appcfg backends <dir> rollback <backend>
- Rolls back a backend update that was interrupted by the user or stopped due to a configuration error. Updates that have been successfully applied are not eligible for rollback.
appcfg backends <dir> list
- Lists all the backends configured for the app specified in
appcfg backends <dir> start <backend>
- Sets the backend state to
START, allowing it to receive HTTP requests. Resident backends start immediately. Dynamic backends do not start until the first user request arrives. Has no effect if the backend was already started.
appcfg backends <dir> stop <backend>
- Sets the backend state to
STOPand shuts down any running instances. The stopped backend cannot receive HTTP requests; if it recevies a request, it returns a HTTP
404response. This command has no effect if the backend was already stopped.
appcfg backends <dir> delete <backend>
- Deletes the indicated backend. After issuing this command, requests to the
deleted backend (for example,
http://backend_name.your_app_id.appspot.com) are routed to the default app version.
appcfg backends <dir> configure <backend>
Dynamically updates settings in
backends.yamlwithout having to stop the backend. Does not affect any code or handlers. Supports only the following configuration settings:
options: public
options: failfast
Backend states
A backend can be in one of two states:
START or
STOP. You can view and
change the state of a backend using the
appcfg or the Backends tab in the
Administration Console. The state controls whether a backend instance is
considered active and capable of handling requests, or is disabled and shutting
Each backend instance is created in response to a start request, which is an
GET request to
/_ah/start. App Engine sends this special request to
bring the instance into existence; users cannot send requests to
Backend instances must respond to the start request before they can handle another request. The start request can be used for two purposes:
- To start a program that runs indefinitely, without accepting further requests
- To initialize an instance before it receives additional traffic
Resident backends and dynamic backends startup differently. When you start a
resident backend, App Engine immediately sends a
/_ah/start request to each
backend instance. When you start a dynamic backend, App Engine allows the
backend to accept traffic, but the
/_ah/start request is not sent to an
instance until App Engine receives the first user request that invokes the
backend. Multiple dynamic instances are only started as necessary, in order to
handle increased traffic.
When an instance responds to the
/_ah/start request with an HTTP status code
of 200–299 or 404, it is considered to have successfully started and can handle
additional requests. If it responds otherwise, App Engine terminates the
instance and re-issues the start request if necessary. Resident backends are
restarted immediately, while dynamic backends are restarted only when needed for
serving traffic. You can specify a
different start
handler for each
backend in
backends.yaml. This syntax is experimental.
When App Engine needs to turn down a backend instance, existing requests are
given 30 seconds to complete, and new requests immediately return an HTTP
response. The shutdown process might be triggered by a variety of planned and
unplanned events, such as:
- You manually stop the backend using the
Administration Console or
appcfg backends <dir> stop.
- You update the backend using
appcfg backends <dir> update.
- Your backend exceeds the maximum memory for its configured class.
- Your application runs out of Backends Usage quota.
- The machine running the backend is restarted, forcing your backend to move to a different machine.
- App Engine needs to move your backend to a different machine to improve load distribution.
If possible, App Engine notifies the backend 30 seconds before terminating it.
There are two ways to receive this
notification. First, the
is_shutting_down() method from
begins returning true. Second, if you have registered a shutdown
hook, it will be called. It's a good idea to register the shutdown hook in your
start request.
If you are handling a request, App Engine pauses that request and runs the hook.
If you are not handling a request, App Engine sends an
/_ah/stop request,
which runs the shutdown hook.
/_ah/stop request bypasses normal handling logic and cannot be handled by
user code; its sole purpose is to invoke the shutdown hook. If you raise an
exception in your shutdown hook while handling another request, it will bubble
up into the request, where you can catch it.
If you are using threadsafe in Python 2.7, raising an exception from a shutdown hook copies that exception to all threads.
The following code sample demonstrates a basic shutdown hook:
from google.appengine.api import apiproxy_stub_map
from google.appengine.api import runtime
def my_shutdown_hook():
# May want to raise an exception
Alternatively, the following sample demonstrates how to use the
is_shutting_down() method:
while more_work_to_do and not runtime.is_shutting_down():
Backend uptime
App Engine attempts to keep backends running indefinitely. However, at this time there is no guaranteed uptime for backends. Hardware and software failures that cause early termination or frequent restarts can occur without prior warning and may take considerable time to resolve; thus, you should construct your application in a way that tolerates these failures. The App Engine team will provide more guidance on expected backend uptime as statistics become available.
Good strategies for avoiding downtime due to backend restarts include:
- Load balancing across multiple backend instances.
- Configuring more backend instances than are normally required to handle your traffic patterns.
- Writing fall-back logic that uses cached results when a backend is unavailable.
- Reducing the amount of time it takes for your backend to start up and shutdown.
- Duplicating the same state in more than one backend instance.
It's also important to recognize that the shutdown hook is not always able to run before a backend terminates. In rare cases, an outage can occur that prevents App Engine from providing 30 seconds of shutdown time. Thus, we recommend periodically checkpointing the state of your backend and using it primarily as an in-memory cache rather than a reliable data store.
Addressing backends
A backend instance can be targeted with HTTP requests to
http://[instance]-dot-[backend_name]-dot-[your_app_id].appspot.com, or at your
application's custom domain. If you target a backend without targeting an
instance using
http://[backend_name]-dot-[your_app_id].appspot.com, App Engine
selects the first available instance of the backend.
The Backends API provides functions to retrieve the address of a backend or instance. This allows application versions to target backends with requests, for a backend to target another backend, or for one instance of a backend to target another instance. This works in both the development and production environments.
BACKEND_ID and
INSTANCE_ID environment variables contain the backend
name and instance index of the instance handling the request.
Note: Google recommends
using the HTTPS protocol to send requests to your app. Google does not issue SSL
certificates for double-wildcard domains hosted at
appspot.com. Therefore with HTTPS
you must use the string "-dot-" instead of "." to separate subdomains, as shown in the examples
below. You can use a simple "." with your own custom domain or with HTTP addresses.
Public and private backends
Backends can be public, that is, directly exposed in some way to users, or they can be private, not user-facing at all. Backends are private by default, since they typically function as a component inside an application, rather than acting as its public face. Private backends can be accessed by application administrators, instances of the application, and by App Engine APIs and services (such as Task Queue tasks and Cron jobs) without any special configuration. Backends are not primarily intended for user-facing traffic, but you can make a backend public for testing or for interacting with an external system.
A backend that is used for offline processing can typically be taken down,
updated, or resized without any user-visible effects. When a backend is
incorporated into a user-visible request flow, updating it requires more care.
Most updates to a backend require existing instances to shut down and new
instances to start up. If startup and shutdown are fast, then updates can be
performed rapidly with minimal impact on user traffic. You can update certain
backend settings without restarting the backend using the
appcfg backends
configure command.
Background threads
Code running on a backend can start a background thread, a thread that can "outlive" the request that spawns it. They allow backend instances to perform arbitrary periodic or scheduled tasks or to continue working in the background after a request has returned to the user.
A background thread's
os.environ and logging entries are independent of those
of the spawning thread.
The background thread API is defined in
google.appengine.api.background_thread. Its
class is like the regular Python
threading.Thread class, but can "outlive" the
request that spawns it:
from google.appengine.api import background_thread
def f(arg1, arg2, **kwargs):
...something useful...
t = background_thread.BackgroundThread(target=f, args=["foo", "bar"])
There is a function
which creates a background thread and starts it:
from google.appengine.api import background_thread
def f(arg1, arg2, **kwargs):
...something useful...
tid = background_thread.start_new_background_thread(f, ["foo", "bar"])
The maximum number of concurrent background threads is 10.
Monitoring resource usage
The Instances Console section of the Administration Console provides visibility into how backend instances are performing. By selecting your backend in the version/backend dropdown, you can see the memory and CPU usage of each instance, uptime, number of requests, and other statistics. You can also manually initiate the shutdown process for any instance.
You also can use the Runtime API to access statistics showing the CPU and memory usage of your backend instances. These statistics help you understand how resource usage responds to requests or work performed, and also how to regulate the amount of data stored in memory in order to stay below the memory limit of your backend class.
Periodic logging
Application logs are automatically flushed periodically during backend requests. You can tune the flush settings, or force an immediate flush, using the Logs API . When a flush occurs, a new log entry is created at the time of the flush, containing any log messages that had not been flushed yet. These entries show up in the Logs Console marked with flush, and include the start time of the request that generated the flush:
Fetching request logs and application logs
For programmatic access to the request and application logs for your
application, you can use the
Logs API, in particular its
fetch() function
This feature allows you to retrieve logs using various filters, such as request
ID, timestamp, and version ID.
Administering backends
The Backends Console section of the Administration Console provides a list
of all backends and gives you the option to start, stop, or delete a backend.
Backends are listed alphabetically, along with any
options you choose when
configuring the backend (such as the option to make the backend dynamic):
Billing, quotas, and limits
Backends are priced based on an hourly rate determined by the backend class. The following table describes the cost for each class:
|Class configuration
|Memory limit
|CPU limit
|Cost per hour per instance
B2 (default)
In general, backend usage is billed on an hourly basis based on the backends uptime. Billing begins when the backend starts and ends fifteen minutes after the backend shuts down. Runtime overhead is counted against the instance memory limit. This will be higher for Java than for Python.
Billing is slightly different in resident and dynamic backends:
- For resident backends, billing ends fifteen minutes after the backend is shut down.
- For dynamic backends, billing ends fifteen minutes after the last request has finished processing.
Changing the class of a backend also impacts billing:
- If you switch from a higher class to a lower class, you pay the higher price for fifteen minutes after the change.
- If you switch from a lower class to a higher class, you begin paying the higher price when the higher-class backend receives its first request.
Quotas and limits
Backends are exempt from the 60-second deadline for user requests and the 10-minute deadline for tasks, and run indefinitely. Backends are subject to the same API quotas, limits, and call deadlines as normal instances, with the following exceptions:
- Backends are allowed to make up to 100 simultaneous API calls
- Task Queue tasks have a 24-hour deadline when sent to a backend
The default limits for the number and size of backends depend on the location of the application and whether it has billing enabled.
|Resource type
|Free app limit
|Billed app limit
|Backends per application
|Instances per backend
|Total configured backend memory, either resident or dynamic, per app


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Some time ago, while putting my nose in the Sloane's Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, I came over the sequence A019568 defined as follows:
$a(n):=$ the smallest positive integer $k$ such that the set $\{1^n, 2^n, 3^n,\dots k^n\}$ can be partitioned into two sets with equal sum.
In other words, $a(n)$ is the smallest $k$ such that there is a choice of signs + or - in the expression $$1^n\pm2^n\pm\dots\pm k^n \qquad\qquad(1) $$ that makes it vanish. In order to show that this $a(n)$ is a well-defined integer (that is: that at least one such $k$ does exist), a simple observation gives in fact a bound $$a(n)<2^{n+1}.$$ Reason: $(1-x)^{n+1}$ divides the polynomial $$Q(x):=(1-x)(1-x^2)(1-x^4)\dots(1-x^{2^n})=+1-x-x^2+x^3-\dots +(-1)^n x^{2^{n+1}-1},$$ therefore, if $S$ is the shift operator on sequences, the operator $Q(S)$ has the $(n+1)$-th discrete difference $(I-S)^{n+1}$ as factor, hence annihilates any sequence that is polynomial of degree not greater than $n$. In particular, the algebraic sum (1) with the signs of the coefficients of $Q(x)$ vanishes (incidentally, the sequence of signs is the so called Thue-Morse sequence A106400, $+--+-++--++-+--+\dots$.
However, looking at the reported values of $a(n)$ for $n$ from $0$ to $12:$
$$2,\ 3,\ 7,\ 12,\ 16,\ 24, \ 31,\ 39,\ 47,\ 44,\ 60,\ 71,\ 79,$$
it looks like the growth of $a(n)$ is much below $2^{n+1}$ (I have a weakness for sequences that grow slowly, here's possibly the main motivation of this question).
Question: Does anybody have a reference for the above sequence? Can you see how to prove an asymptotics, or a more realistic bound than $a(n)<2^{n+1}$?