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A story in Talking Points Memo today suggests that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is being burned by women voters upset by his stance on contraception.
And indeed, Romney's favorability among female voters has dropped significantly, according to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll. Since the last national poll, which was taken in November, Romney's favorable-unfavorable split among women has gone from 33-30 to 30-45.
Democratic pollster Margie Omero told TPM that Romney's position on contraception may indeed be hurting him, even though he has not been as vocal as some of his opponents, like Rick Santorum, who argued that states should be able to ban condoms if they want.
"Romney may not be leading the charge, but he's not telling people to back off," Omero said.
But pollster Peter Brown, who conducted the new Quinnipiac poll, disagrees.
"He's losing women because he's losing," he told Business Insider. "He may be winning tomorrow but in the current matchups he is trailing Santorum by nine."
In fact, Brown notes that in general, Romney actually does better among female voters than male. According to the same Quinnipiac poll, 28 percent of Republican women said they would vote for Romney, while only 24 percent of Republican men said the same. Meanwhile, Republican men support Santorum more than do women, splitting 35-34.
Brown also says the fact that the last national poll was taken back in November, before Santorum became arguably the frontrunner of the Republican field, should be considered. With the ascension of Santorum in the race, the former Pennsylvania senator is getting a larger portion of the electorate, which likely includes women who previously supported Romney.
"I think the contraception issue in the Republican primary is a negligence issue," Brown said.
Neither of these two candidates, however, hold a candle to President Obama, who leads Romney 46-44, thanks in large part to the 49 percent of women who said they would vote for him.


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Pansies, Violas and Violets
Viola spp.
Hardy annuals; may self-seed
Pansies: Height 15 to 18 cm; spread 15 to 20 cm.
Viola: Height 10 to 18 cm; spread 10 to 15 cm.
Violets: Height 10 to 15 cm; spread 20 to 25 cm.
All characterized by bicoloured and tricoloured flowers, in a wide range of contrasting shades, on dark-green foliage.
Try these!
Viola odorata (sweet violet): Wonderful perfume and sweet flavour
Viola x wittrockiana (pansy): Slight wintergreen taste
Viola tricolor (viola): Slight wintergreen taste
Start viola species from seed indoors or grow from young plants purchased from a garden centre.
How much: Six plants; more for ornamental use.
When: As soon as the ground can be worked; very frost tolerant. Plant up to one month before the date of average last spring frost in your area.
Where: Partial shade; bright sun will produce more flowers, but hot sites will scorch plants. Prefers rich, slightly acidic, well-drained soil. Space pansies and violas 15 to 20 cm apart; space violets 10 to 15 cm apart.
Care and Nurture
Viola species are easy to grow! Do not let pansies, violas, or violets dry out: they go to seed quickly if stressed or deprived of moisture. If plants become lanky, cut them back to encourage bushiness.
Because of their excellent frost tolerance, these flowers will likely be both the first and the last herbs you harvest each year.
For best flavour: Harvest mid-morning, after the dew has evaporated and before the day gets too hot.
Leaves: Not eaten.
Flowers: Gather flowers as they open. Clip flower stalk where it attaches to the stem, then cut stalk at the base of the flower head; discard stalk. Eat flowers whole: petals, stamens and all.
Preserving the Harvest
Flowers will keep for several days in the fridge, but they are best used fresh. Petals can be preserved in oil, butter, or vinegar, or they can be dried and stored in a warm, dark, dry place.
- Two perennial violets, common dog violet (Viola riviniana) and wood violet (Viola reichenbachiana), are edible. They have little fragrance but a lovely sweet flavour.
- If you're taking a summer vacation, cut back the foliage by one-third and harvest flowers before you leave; when you return, you'll find another full set of blooms.
- Violets love well-rotted manure added to their soil.
- Yellow and white pansies have a gentle fragrance. That's why I often recommend using these colours in herb gardens.
- Pansies are a good choice for children's garden because the plants are easy to grow, the flowers are reliable and colourful, and kids love the flowers because of the colourful 'faces.'
To Note:
- These flowers are delightful in borders, mixed beds, rock gardens, cottage gardens, windowboxes, hanging baskets, and other containers.
- The name "pansy" is derived from the French pensée, or thought.
- Use violet flowers in potpourri, floral waters, and perfumes.
- The other common name for pansies—heartsease—came from the practice of giving bouquets of these flowers to people with broken hearts.
- The Greeks chose sweet violet as their symbol of fertility.
- Ancient Britons used sweet violet flowers as a cosmetic.
- An infusion made from violet flowers is often used in continental Europe as a substitute for litmus paper as a test for acids and bases (pH). Before litmus paper, violet syrup was used to measure pH. The syrup turns red when exposed to acids, green when exposed to bases.
- In ancient Athens, violets were used to moderate anger, bring sleep, and to comfort and strengthen the heart.
- Violets were once thrown on graves for remembrance.

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This course is also available by contract at your location.
In civil aviation, investigating aircraft accidents is the responsibility of the National Transportation Safety Board (in the United States) or a similar government agency in any country that is a signatory to the ICAO Conventions. Nonetheless, under ICAO Annex 13 and in the US CFR Part 830, every operator of a civil aircraft has certain responsibilities in the event of an accident or incident. These responsibilities include proper reporting, preservation of evidence, and support of the investigation team. In addition, agencies or organizations actively involved in the accident may be invited by the NTSB to participate in the investigation. This would include the operator, airframe and engine manufacturers, and other technical experts. To be qualified to join the investigation, invited participants must have the technical expertise to support the investigation as well as an understanding of the accident investigation process in order to provide accurate and timely support.Read More
These are the regulatory reasons for understanding the aircraft accident investigation process and techniques. There is also another very important reason for understanding accident investigation. The NTSB and the FAA only become involved in those events (accident or incidents) that are reportable under Federal Regulations. But, many events occur that are not reportable which under slightly different circumstances could easily have been an accident and reportable. An effective aviation safety program must be able to identify, investigate, and correct the factors that create near accidents so that a real accident can be prevented.
It is for these two reasons that SCSI has designed and offers this Aircraft Accident Investigation (AAI) course. In this course you will become familiar with the regulatory requirements for investigating and reporting, not only those requirements applicable to the United States, but also those of ICAO Annex 13 upon which almost all modern individual reporting and investigating requirements are based regardless of nation. Once you understand the reporting requirements you will learn about how to comply with the operator's responsibilities to preserve evidence and support the investigation. You will learn how to set up an interim response team that will collect and preserve evidence. You will learn what evidence to preserve and how to preserve it. You will also learn about the hazards at an accident site and how to protect yourself.
You will learn the process of investigation from initial actions and set up to how to investigate each area of specialty, systems, structures, engines, and operations. You will be introduced to the areas of aircraft performance and structures that contribute to aircraft accidents and how they can be identified. You will also learn about specialized areas of investigation such as fire, midair collision, and in-flight explosion. You will learn how the use of recording devices and simulation have enhanced and improved the process of finding accident causes.
Human error is estimated to be a major cause in 85% of all aircraft accidents. You will learn Human Factors to help investigate possible human error. This portion of the course will examine the role of psychological and physiological effects as well as the role of the aero-medical investigator.
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Accident photography is used to document evidence and to illustrate the investigator's conclusions. There are many choices of media today, both chemical and electronic. In this course you will receive instruction in the use of both chemical and digital photography systems and have hands on experience with digital photography systems using the SCSI crash lab (Long Beach only). Although digital cameras will be provided, you may bring your own cameras.
Recent technology advances enable investigators to use the global positioning satellite (GPS) system during aircraft accident investigations. This course will include practical experience in using the GPS system.
This is a hands on course. You will learn by doing: by looking at accident evidence, determining causes, developing findings, and, finally, actually putting together an accident report. You will also review several actual accident reports from various countries. You will learn the strengths and weaknesses of each sample report and thereby be better able to produce a quality report when you participate as part of an investigation board.
The instructors in this course are all experts in their fields, and all have extensive investigation experience. They have taught this course or one similar to it for the former Bureau of Air Safety Investigators of Australia (now part of the ATSB, Australia), as well as to members of the civil aviation and/or investigation authorities of the Philippines, Canada, Singapore, Denmark, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Taiwan, and attendees from manufacturers, operators, pilot associations, and the defense forces from various countries. When you complete this course you will have the knowledge necessary to actively participate in an aircraft accident investigation and to conduct internal investigations of events for your organizations.Read Less
This course is for individuals who may become involved in future aircraft accident investigations in any capacity and need to understand basic investigation technology.
SCSI has assembled several exhibits from all over the world to allow our students a practical hands-on approach to investigation training. We routinely set aside dedicated time within the AAI course for a practical application of techniques discussed in the classroom. The AAI course given in Long Beach has two full days of crash laboratory investigations beginning with small, general aviation aircraft and progressing in tasks to a complex military jet trainer.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation course consists of 10 training days (80) hours of classroom instruction including hands on lab work at the SCSI Crash Laboratory (Long Beach only). Students receive a textbook, lecture outlines, additional reference material and a Certificate of Completion. Classes begin daily at 0800 and end at 4:00 PM on the final Friday. The on-site course coordinator is Denise Davalloo. Denise will be on-site daily during the course to assist in administrative and logistical matters.


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Comcast Delivers Highest Blackhawks Regular Season Game Rating
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Comcast SportsNet, the television home for the most games and most comprehensive coverage of the NHL Western Conference/Central Division first place Chicago Blackhawks, delivered its highest Blackhawks regular season rating ever last night (Thu, January 7) -- a 3.43 household rating for its live coverage of the Blackhawks "Original Six" road battle against the Boston Bruins.
For last night's fifth-straight victory by the Blackhawks (14-3 record in their last 17 contests), Comcast SportsNet attracted approx. 120,084 households for the entire game and posted a 4.25 peak rating during the 7:15 PM quarter-hour (148,793 households). The 3.43 single game regular season ratings record on Comcast SportsNet shatters the previous record set two weeks ago on December 23, 2009 at Detroit (3.27). Source for all ratings information is provided by Nielsen Media Research overnights.
Comcast SportsNet was also the #1-highest rated television network in the Chicago market last night in the male demos of Men 18-49 & Men 25-54 during the game time period of 6:00-7:15 PM. Comcast SportsNet was also #2 overall in the market in the key advertiser demo of Adults 25-54 from 7:00-8:30 PM.
So far this season, the Blackhawks on Comcast SportsNet are currently averaging a 2.09 household rating, a year-to-date increase of 99% compared to last season through 27 telecasts. In addition, Chevy Blackhawks Pre-Game Live ratings are up 146% year-to-date, while Smirnoff Vodka Blackhawks Post Game Live ratings have increased 192%. Comcast SportsNet's next Blackhawks telecast airs tomorrow night (Sat, January 9) as the Blackhawks visit the Minnesota Wild (pre-game coverage gets underway on SportsNite at 6:30 PM, face-off at 7:00 PM). Viewers can also visit CSNChicago.com for the very latest Blackhawks news, highlights, game previews/recaps & blogs from Blackhawks "Insider" Brett Ballantini, along with exclusive videos and much more.


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I used to be able to Duplicate (or split, I forget which) a button and invert one of the in/outs so that it would send a midi note when pressed and when released.
This was really good for being able to hold a button down to have an effect or parameter turn on, and the effect turn off again when the button is released.
But I can't seem to get that to happen in this version.
Is there a different way of achieving this now?


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Smart Ideas Competition
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If you have got a bright idea for a product or service that could benefit the Hunter, the Smart Ideas competition is open for business.
In its second year, the competition is held in conjunction with the Hunter Innovation Festival in June.
Written entries must be 500 words or less, accompanied by an illustration or photographs. Video entries must be less than 3 minutes.
The winner receives $1000 and a $1000 mentoring package from Hunter Founders Forum and Business Centre Newcastle Region.
The top three ideas will be asked to make a 90-second presentation to the Hunter Innovation Festival on 14 June before a winner is named.
Enter via firstname.lastname@example.com or deliver to 28 Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle, by 1 June 2016.


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The first blog in this series addressed some of the frequently asked questions in the industry about exactly what we mean by domestic IT outsourcing. The second delved a bit further into the topic by discussing the advantages of keeping IT outsourcing domestic. The third taught us some little known facts about time zones and how important it is for businesses to understand them.
Now let's move on to some tips on how to choose the best freelancer for you and your business.
Increasingly, company owners are coming to realize that outsourcing their commercial, information technology, and design needs is the best decision they can take in order to be successful on the market and to get a competitive advantage in their niche. The fact of the matter is that hiring a freelance contractor is one of the best methods to save energy, time, and money, while finding talented specialists who can get the job done in a short period of time.
However, because the global and domestic freelance marketplace is filled with thousands of inexperienced freelance contractors, choosing the right one for you may feel like a daunting task. Fortunately, there are a number of websites for locating freelance technology talents which have proven to be genuine and trustworthy. The following freelance websites are among the best when it comes to domestic IT outsourcing…
Top Freelance Websites
1. oDesk: this is probably the most famous freelance website available today. On oDesk you can find a wide variety of jobs for both beginners and professionals. This site is a great resource to start off with, but it is also a powerful resource for companies that are in need of talented domestic IT experts.
2. Craigslist: this well-known platform is much more than a simple website where you can buy and sell random items. Craigslist is a fantastic source of IT freelancers from all around the US, Australia or UK. Regardless of your country, if you are looking for exceptional freelance experts, look on Craigslist in the "gigs" section and post your job there.
3. Elance : this is a great alternative to oDesk, offering a wide variety of potential employees eager to work for you. If you are looking for freelancers who can advise your company on the uses of technology to automate and streamline your business operations, Elance is definitely a great place to start.
4. Outsourcely: a little newer on the scene, but fantastically effective is this site which helps start-ups to find long-term remote talent that specialize in design, development, and content as well as customer service, marketing, and general business services.
How to Choose the Right Freelance Website
In order to make sure that you are making the right outsourcing choice, there are some points to keep in mind when choosing a freelance website. First of all, you need to ensure it is genuine. Whether we are talking about oDesk or Elance, Freelancer, or Guru, all of these sites are known to be genuine. In order to avoid scams, do your research and check for online reviews, such as this in-depth assessment of Freelancer by Time Doctor - Freelancer Review: Gamify your Online Talent Search. Also consider IT forums for comments and suggestions. There is plenty of useful information out there to help you to find exactly what you need.
Make sure the website you decide to choose is accredited and offers all of the services that you need in order to find the best fit for you. Some freelance sites, like Elance, offer additional services that can help you to expand as a company and establish new connections. Services like Affiliate Program, Talent Cloud, Referral Program, or Payroll Program fall into this category as well.
Final Thoughts
Instead of hiring an in-house Information Technology Specialist, why not opt for a freelancer? Your IT needs can be domestically outsourced and you will potentially save both time and money in the process. Additionally, you get to avoid the tedious paperwork process.
And, if you need more than just some occasional freelance work and are considering contracting with an IT firm, check back next week for our blog on some successful ways to do just that.


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As the holiday season reaches full swing, it's more important than ever to eliminate distracted driving. The days grow shorter and many of us may arrive and depart the workplace without any hint of daylight. Dark, rainy weather can cause windshield glare and decrease visibility substantially for people driving cars. Bike lanes may be covered with ice or debris requiring people on bikes to avoid obstructions. Distracted driving only adds to the risks of using the road. Remember to use common sense and eliminate poor driving habits by:
-Leaving cell phones off, in a bag or with a passenger while behind the wheel
-Asking passengers to adjust radio stations or musical preferences
-Program GPS or phone directions before traveling by car
-Eat before or after you get behind the wheel
Use these tips to increase safety during rain, fog or times of low visibility:
-Use low beams. High beams will disperse in thick fog or snow, making visibility worse for you and other drivers.
-Make sure defroster is working properly. This will greatly improve visibility during rainy car trips.
-Turn on headlights to improve visibility, even during the day.
-Replace windshield wipers regularly to prevent situations of low visibility in heavy rain.
Keep those trips to see family, pick up last minute holiday gifts, or trip to the snow park fun and exciting and stay focused when using the road in winter conditions. For more info on all things transportation, check out this great page of winter driving resources from ODOT by clicking Here.


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The Bronx 10 Miler
I almost dropped out of the Bronx 10 Miler this past Sunday. I went on an AMAZING road trip with my family down to Baltimore and DC this weekend and Saturday night I hopped on a train around 10:10pm. When I booked my ticket I just assumed I would sleep a few hours on the train. Not so much, I had the pleasure of sitting next to the world's most talkative man. I tried everything but he just would not leave me alone. Then I didn't get back into the city until 2 am and after 10 minutes waiting on a subway platform and then another 20 minutes trying to find a cab (Always wait for the subway) I didn't get into bed until 3 am. I almost cried when my alarm went off at 6am. I sat up, said to myself, "NOPE NOT HAPPENING," and laid down to go back to bed. Luckily this wasn't my first rodeo and I had set 3 alarms all 3 minutes apart. After the third alarm I decided I needed to at least show up.
I begrudgingly put on my running clothes, stopped to grab a bagel and a coffee, and then jogged towards the train. Once I got to the Bronx I almost turned around to go home 5 different times. I was exhausted, I didn't feel good, I wanted to be in bed, and I was really worried about my knee. Just trying to jog to the train was difficult. I was convinced I was going to have to quit around mile 3. I got in my holding coral and before I could convince myself it was a bad idea, we were off.
One mile turned into two miles and somewhere between miles 3 and 4 my knee mellowed out. It was a miracle! I had SO much fun during The Bronx 10 Miler. There so many runners! I will be completely honest with you, I didn't have a care in the world about how I did. I had no goal time and all I really wanted to do was finish. Here is a big lesson I learned on Sunday: sometimes you just have to have fun.
It's so easy to become consumed with the pursuit of a personal best or just going 100% every single race. I've spent the last few months working my butt off for the NYC Marathon. This was a beautiful reminder why I put myself and my body through the madness in the first place. Running makes me incredibly happy. Instead of focusing on my pace, I looked up. I enjoyed seeing the Bronx for the first time. I enjoyed watching people run together. I took my sweet time and I had a BLAST taking selfies and coming up with silly captions. I love getting lost in a run and that is exactly what I did. I didn't worry about how far I had gone or how far I had to go. I didn't worry about running "a smart" race. I stopped worrying about my knee and I just ran. It was a breath of fresh air and I am SO glad I didn't quit. Sometimes you just to have to do it for you. So without further ado, here is The Bronx 10 Miler:
And there were videos! The way the course was set up we ran one way, did a fun roundabout and turned around. I wasn't even halfway when the front runners came flying by. SO IMPRESSIVE! They are SO fast!
How CUTE are these running shirts?!?!?!
I finally got to meet up with some of my teammates at Team for Kids! Team for Kids is the New York Road Runner's charity and who I am running the NYC Marathon with! I have a hard time making it to team practices because of work but it's nice to meet up at races.
We are five weeks away from the Marathon (can you believe it?)! I have a bunch of miles to log in the next few weeks and I just can't wait to run. My new approach is to make this last stretch as much fun as humanly possible. For me, the best part about running a marathon is the months of training. It's been really great pushing myself and working really hard but at this point I am going to start focusing on enjoying every second. I just can't believe I will be running the New York City Marathon in 5 weeks. It was only two years ago that I couldn't run more than a mile. I can't believe I am a runner. Sometimes I have to pinch myself because it doesn't feel real. It's a pretty amazing feeling. Until tomorrow friends, #RunSelfieRepeat.


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Sterling RUFFLE cuff bracelet
Sterling RUFFLE cuff bracelet
Part of the new SC_STERLING collection, the RUFFLE cuff is hand made using 100% sterling silver. Each cuff is made to order based on your wrist measurement. Using a string and ruler, please measure your wrist and provide that information on the custom order form after adding item to your cart.
The SC_STERLING Collection is crafted entirely by hand by Tia Salmela Keobounpheng in her Minneapolis Studio.
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Women and the Arab Spring
November 2011
Chairwoman Boxer, Chairman Casey and members of the two subcommittees, it is an honor to appear before you today to present my views on the role of women in the Arab Spring, specifically in Libya. The views I express today are my own and not necessarily those of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), which does not take policy positions.
I currently direct USIP's programs on Iraq, Iran and North Africa. My views are informed by my work at USIP which conducts training and field operations and provides tools to help prevent, manage and end violent international conflicts. USIP has been working on the ground in Libya since early this spring, engaging with the burgeoning civil society sector and serving in an advisory role to the Libya Stabilization Team formed by the National Transitional Council (NTC). USIP is also training Libyan civil society leaders in conflict management skills to build local capacity to manage the transition out of conflict and the difficult task of national reconciliation. USIP knows that this is an essential activity following conflict.


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Your main concern at trade shows is how to get bodies into your booth, and David literally wrote the book on attracting a crowd(Be a Street Magician!: A How-To Guide), so getting the bodies into the booth is a cinch. After David passes off the bodies to your sales staff, all they need to do is circle for the kill.
To attract audiences, a small performing area is arranged and the performer uses a microphone. Sometimes, a sign is displayed telling customers when the next show begins.
During the climax of each trick, the audience gets the message.
"And just as easily as this Chinese dagger passed through this man's coat," the magician might say, "our prescription drug goes into the bloodstream and passes through the walls of the lungs…." and then, suddenly, the trade-show attendees are listening to a commercial almost without knowing it.
During the show, while the audience is hooked, David promises that he will show the audience how a David Copperfield trickis done—if the audience members will provide the company with their contact information. Attendees gladly hand over theirbadges to be electronically swiped.


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pipeline Class
SummaryClass that performs pipelined execution.
#include "tbb/pipeline.h"
class pipeline;
A pipeline represents pipelined application of a series of filters to a stream of items. Each filter operates in a particular mode: parallel, serial in-order, or serial out-of-order (MacDonald 2004).
A pipeline contains one or more filters, denoted here as fi , where i denotes the position of the filter in the pipeline. The pipeline starts with filter f0, followed by f1, f2, etc. The following steps describe how to use class pipeline.
- Derive each class fi from filter. The constructor for fi specifies its mode as a parameter to the constructor for base class filter
- Override virtual method filter::operator() to perform the filter's action on the item, and return a pointer to the item to be processed by the next filter. The first filter f0 generates the stream. It should return NULL if there are no more items in the stream. The return value for the last filter is ignored.
- Create an instance of class pipeline.
- Create instances of the filters fi and add them to the pipeline, in order from first to last. An instance of a filter can be added at most once to a pipeline. A filter should never be a member of more than one pipeline at a time.
- Call method pipeline::run . The parameter max_number_of_live_tokens puts an upper bound on the number of stages that will be run concurrently. Higher values may increase concurrency at the expense of more memory consumption from having more items in flight. See the Tutorial, in the section on class pipeline, for more about effective use of max_number_of_live_tokens.
Given sufficient processors and tokens, the throughput of the pipeline is limited to the throughput of the slowest serial filter.
Function parallel_pipeline provides a strongly typed lambda-friendly way to build and run pipelines.
namespace tbb { class pipeline { public: pipeline(); ~pipeline(); void add_filter( filter& f ); void run( size_t max_number_of_live_tokens [, task_group_context& group] ); void clear(); }; }
Though the current implementation declares the destructor virtual, do not rely on this detail. The virtual nature is deprecated and may disappear in future versions of Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB).
Constructs pipeline with no filters.
Removes all filters from the pipeline and destroys the pipeline.
|void add_filter( filter& f )
Appends filter f to sequence of filters in the pipeline. The filter f must not already be in a pipeline.
|void run( size_t max_number_of_live_tokens[, task_group_context& group] )
Runs the pipeline until the first filter returns NULL and each subsequent filter has processed all items from its predecessor. The number of items processed in parallel depends upon the structure of the pipeline and number of available threads. At most max_number_of_live_tokens are in flight at any given time.
A pipeline can be run multiple times. It is safe to add stages between runs. Concurrent invocations of run on the same instance of pipeline are prohibited.
If the group argument is specified, pipeline's tasks are executed in this group. By default the algorithm is executed in a bound group of its own.
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Sedition is being camouflaged as freedom of speech and BJP will not tolerate it, party president Amit Shah said on Saturday and urged party workers to create "awareness" across the country against "anti - national activities".
"BJP workers should work on creating awareness across the country against the anti - national activities.
"Sedition is being camouflaged as freedom of expression. In the name of expression of freedom, the debate on anti - national slogans is being turned in another direction, " he said in his address at the party's national executive at the NDMC convention centre here.
"Anti - national slogans were raised openly in the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University. It was not wrong on (Congress vice president) Rahul Gandhi's part to go to JNU, but speaking in support of anti - national elements there can never be called right, " he said.
Citing the Emergency, when the Congress "crushed the voices of the common people during the period", he said that it had no right to lecture others.
Asserting that the BJP will "never tolerate such anti - national slogans", he said: "We support freedom of expression, but conspiracy to break the unity and integrity of the nation will not be supported. "
"Bharat Mata ki Jai has been our inspiration for years, " he added.
Shah also said that India's unity were due to the unification of states by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the constitution brought together by Bhimrao Ambedkar.
Quoting from his speech, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Shah stressed criticism of the government is fine, but the criticism of nation will not be accepted.
"The Left parties and the Congress are questioning our commitment to freedom of expression. Criticism of the party, leader and government is fully permissible but criticism of the nation shall not be acceptable, " he quoted the party chief as saying.
Shah also took a dig at the Left parties for accusing the government of suppressing freedom of expression.
"Those who worship Maoism and follow Stalin are talking about freedom of speech and expression, " he said.
On the recent controversy of chanting "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" after MIM leader Asadudduin Owaisi refused to say it, he said: "Chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' is in the country since the days of independence. So, after 68 years of freedom, the country will debate whether it should be chanted or not?"
Praising the work of the Narendra Modi government and also hailing Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's 2016 - 17 budget, he said: "The programmes initiated by the Modi government have proven to be a game - changer. This success of the Modi government must be conveyed to the people of India. "
Shah accused the Congress of creating hurdles for the government and asked BJP cadres to tell people about its "anti - development approach".
"Congress and its vice president Rahul Gandhi are suffering from every kind of negative mentality. That is why they have nothing to do except levying false and senseless charges against the Modi government, " he said.
Shah hoped the party will perform better in the upcoming assembly elections.
"The BJP is rising even in unknown territories. We are a serious player in the coming elections, " he said.


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Month July 2015
ANJL Episode 37
This week on the show Avery asks the tough questions about egg yolks, Justin is barely paying attention because of TI5, and Nick raises questions about Lewes's dietary habits. Oh yeah, we also talk about games and stuff. Got another great show for you this week, enjoy!
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The News You Knew Already 7/27/15
ANJL Vidoes Plays The Fall Episode 5
ANJL Episode 36
This week we have another great episode of ANJL for you. We discuss, EVO & other esports events of last weekend, Avery's bizarre reading habits, and talk about the weird SoCal weather. We also got a great email which led to some pretty fun discussion at the end of the show. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
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The News You Knew Already 7/20/15
Once again we were unable to meet to make a video for this week's news. Nick had a busy weekend and I had some family business to help take care of all day on Sunday. As such, we're bringing you The News You Knew Already text edition for the second week in a row. Rest assured we'll be doing our best to get the videos going again ASAP. Until then here are 5 stories plucked from the happenings of last week.
Destiny Weapon Rebalance
This week in their Weekly Update, Bungie announced that update 2.0.0 (aka The Taken King patch) will feature a massive overhaul of weapon balancing. All weapon types are getting tweaks for various reasons in the hopes that a wider variety of weapons will be viable in the Crucible. In addition to base adjustments some exotic weapons will be retuned including: Hard Light, The Last Word, Thorn, Hawkmoon, Ice Breaker, No Land Beyond, and Gjallarhorn. The patch is extremely extensive and if you wish to see all the details follow the link below. While it's great to see weapons getting patched it feels like this is long overdue and may be too late to bring me back.
source: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13147
Xbox One Games Now Stream to Windows 10
This week Major Nelson announced on his blog that anyone with a Windows 10 device, including tablets and PCs with preview software, can now stream Xbox One games to these devices. Using the Xbox One app not only allows you to stream games from your Xbox but also use many of the social features of Xbox Live. If you have an Xbox One and Windows 10 it's great that you can try this feature out before the full release in a couple of weeks. The rest of us will have to wait until July 29 when Windows 10 is widely available.
source: http://majornelson.com/2015/07/17/new-xbox-features-on-xbox-one-and-windows-10/
Blizzard Adjusts Heroes Matchmaking
Heroes of the Storm players have been complaining that new and veteran players get matched in Quick Match far too often. This week in a blog post Blizzard announced that they have altered matchmaking priority to keep new players and veterans away from each other. The new rule will not work as well with parties of mixed skill levels and has increased the matchmaking wait time dramatically. However, keeping players at closer skill levels should improve the experience for everyone. I've been having a blast with this game recently and my matches have seemed more balanced this week. Here's hoping Blizzard can continue to improve the Quick Match experience.
source: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/18300813318
Shenmue 3 Biggest Game Kickstarter Ever
Shenmue 3's Kickstarter campaign closed this week with a total of 69,320 backers contributing $6,333,296. That means Shenmue has beaten out Bloodstained (which raised $5.5 million) as the most successful video game Kickstarter to date. Despite it's great success it was not able to meet all of the available stretch goals and creator Yu Suzuki previously projected a need of $10 million to match expectations. I'm happy for the people that want this game and are excited for it and congratulations to the Shenmue team for raising a good deal of money to get started. Now we'll have to wait and see if Sony will be kicking in any additional money to help fund the project.
source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/description
NPDs and Industry Growth
NPDs for June have come in and Game Informer is reporting that Arkham Knight led the way in sales last month. The better news is that sales were up overall for games in the month of June. Improved sales is a great thing for the industry, especially in a month without too many big releases. In addition, GameSpot has reported that Activision is reporting all-time high of $26 a share. EA also recently reported that their stock has double in the past twelve months. Both of these stories are great news for the overall health of the games industry. Hopefully we will continue to see growth throughout the rest of the year as more big titles release as we approach the holiday season.
source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/activision-stock-joins-ea-in-hitting-all-time-high/1100-6428993/


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I have a page in MOSS 2007 that is displaying a product list andproduct details using connected web parts. The connection works asexpected, so when a user clicks a product in the list, the appropriateproduct details is displayed in the adjacent web part.I would like to be able to pass in a query string parameter to pre-select a product in the list. So I could have a link on another pagethat links to http://server/.../details.aspx?product=123 and it wouldopen my page with product 123 already selected with it's detailsdisplayed.Anyone know if I can set the selected item from a query stringparameter?
That would depend on how the webpart was written. In general it wouldnot be written to accept that type of parameter. If the webpart isbuilt from the SharePoint object model then this may be possible,assuming that the right interface was used when building the connection.
Both webparts are dataview webparts using a sharepoint list as thedatasource. I used SharePoint Designer to add the dataviews.
Then you should be able to pull a query string parameter in using customXML - seeitfootprint.wordpress.com/.../using-query-string-and-data-view-webpart/ for an example of accessing a query string as a parameter.


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Audiophiles have gotten a lot of bad press recently, what with the apparently silly Pono music player (which plays much higher quality audio files despite almost no one being able to hear the difference) and the news from Wired magazine that "burning in" your headphones has no discernible effect on sound quality. Reading about the truly insane things audiophiles will do in pursuit of the perfect sound, I can't help reflecting back on that unfortunate period in my life when I almost fell down the same rabbit hole.
For me it started with a simple search for better headphones. I think I typed "best headphones under $50" into Google, and what came back was a series of lists, like this one or this one, ranking the best headphones at a series of price ranges. I settled on a pair pretty quickly, and when they arrived I loved them, but those lists had planted their hooks in my brain. How much better would my music sound if I were willing to spend just a little bit more?
I decided to research what headphones I would buy the next time I had saved up a decent amount of money, and my research led me to my first (and really only) foray into Internet forums: a website called Head-Fi, where enthusiasts gather to discuss, argue, and bond over their love of headphones and headphone-related accessories. It was a remarkably friendly place for people who enjoyed tuning out the world, but darkness lurked at the edges. People would post glowing reviews of the headphones they just bought, and others would weigh in about how much they loved those headphones too, but inevitably someone would say how those headphones would sound even better if connected to a decent headphone amplifier. Or a decent digital audio converter. Or how those headphones didn't even compare to these other headphones that just cost a little more.
The perfect headphone set up always cost just a little bit more. Audio nirvana was always just out of reach.
Over the course of three years, I wound up buying one pair of headphones that cost about $100, then another that cost about $150, then a headphone amplifier that cost about $100, then another headphone amplifier that cost several hundred, then a special iPod that had been rewired for better sound, then several more pairs of headphones, each more expensive than the last. It helped that the internet made it easy to resell my previous purchases in order to fund my new purchases. At the height of my sickness, my portable sound system looked like this:
But that was nothing compared to the equipment (and prices paid) by many. The most money I ever paid for headphones was about $300. But the best headphones were going for more than $1000, and the best amplifiers and related devices were many times that. People would post pictures like this:
and I'd wonder what in God's name that would sound like.
I don't think it's an accident that this period in my life was the same period in which I had two children in diapers and an extremely stressful job. After putting the kids to bed, if I didn't have any more work to do, and if my wife wanted to watch TV, I would find a quiet spot in the house and get lost in the increasingly detailed soundstage my gear supplied.
But the specter that loomed over everything was the idea that this was all some big placebo effect. I would occasionally spend an evening listening to a song on my new set of headphones and then on my old set, or with my new amplifier and then my old amplifier. I would make my wife listen to see if she heard a difference. Sometimes she did, sometimes she didn't. Sometimes I didn't. Every once in a while, I'd read a post on Head-fi about someone who was selling everything he'd bought because he realized he was listening to his equipment rather than music. I finally had the same realization and made the same decision. At the time, I felt like a recovering addict, or a victim of a con artist, reformed but slightly ashamed.
I got a new percpective on that period, however, when I this recent piece by Felix Salmon (via Kottke) about converting money into happiness. Salmon is also interested in placebo effects, specifically in the world of wine tasting, where experiments have frequently shown that very few people call tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine, or even the difference between red and white wine. When I first read about those studies, they reminded me of the scene in Brideshead Revisited when a couple guys get drunk and describe the wine they're tasting with increasingly absurd metaphors:
"….It is a little shy wine like a gazelle." "Like a leprechaun." "Dappled in a tapestry window." "and this is a wise old wine." "A prophet in a cave." "and this is a necklace of pearls on a white neck." "Like a swan." "Like the last unicorn."
I had moments almost as absurd with my headphones, when I heard things inside songs I swore I'd never heard before, when I felt as if parts of the music were two dimensional backdrops and then three dimensional shapes would leap out of the picture towards me, or the music would drizzle over my head, or crackle like lightning, or I'd swear I could smell the studio where the song had been recorded, or something.
In other words, I was an idiot. Because on other nights, usually after I'd owned that same set of gear for a little while, I wouldn't hear those things any more, and I'd start thinking that I needed better gear. I needed a new placebo affect.
It's easy to sneer at the placebo effect, or to feel ashamed of it when you're its victim. And that's precisely why I found Felix Salmon's piece revelatory, because instead of sneering at the placebo effect of fancy wine, its marketing, and its slightly higher prices, he thinks we should take advantage of it. If the placebo effect makes us happy, why not take advantage of that happiness?
The more you spend on a wine, the more you like it. It really doesn't matter what the wine is at all. But when you're primed to taste a wine which you know a bit about, including the fact that you spent a significant amount of money on, then you'll find things in that bottle which you love ... After all, what you see on the label, including what you see on the price tag, is important information which can tell you a lot about what you're drinking. And the key to any kind of connoisseurship is informed appreciation of something beautiful.
This idea of "informed appreciation" reminds me of another area of modern life beset by placebo effects: the world of alternative medicine. In a recent article for the Atlantic, David H. Freedman argues that there's virtually no scientific evidence that alternative medicine (anything from chiropractic care to acupuncture) has any curative benefit beyond a placebo effect. And so many scientists are outraged that anyone takes alternative medicine seriously. However, there is one area where alternative medicine often trumps traditional medicine: stress reduction. And stress reduction can, of course, make a huge impact on people's health. The Atlantic article quotes Elizabeth Blackburn, a biologist at the University of California at San Francisco and a Nobel laureate.
"We tend to forget how powerful an organ the brain is in our biology," Blackburn told me. "It's the big controller. We're seeing that the brain pokes its nose into a lot of the processes involved in these chronic diseases. It's not that you can wish these diseases away, but it seems we can prevent and slow their onset with stress management." Numerous studies have found that stress impairs the immune system, and a recent study found that relieving stress even seems to be linked to slowing the progression of cancer in some patients.
Perhaps not surprisingly, a trip to the chiropractor or the acupuncturist is much more likely to reduce your stress than a trip to the doctor. If anything, a trip to the doctor makes you more anxious.
Maybe each of these activities (listening to high end audio gear, drinking high end wine, having needles inserted into your chakras) is really about ritualizing a sensory experience. By putting on headphones you know are high quality, or drinking expensive wine, or entering the chiropractor's office, you are telling yourself, "I am going to focus on this moment. I am going to savor this." It's the act of savoring, rather than the savoring tool, that results in both happiness and a longer life.
Of course, you don't need ultra high end gear to enjoy your music, or ultra high end wine to enjoy your evening, just as you shouldn't solely use acupuncture to treat your cancer. It might be as effective to learn how to meditate. But maybe we all just need to meditate in different ways.


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J Bone Jt Infect 2017; 2(4):208-212. doi:10.7150/jbji.22443
Research Paper
Effect of Sonication on the Elution of Antibiotics from Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA)
University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV), Service of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kummer A, Tafin UF, Borens O. Effect of Sonication on the Elution of Antibiotics from Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA). J Bone Jt Infect 2017; 2(4):208-212. doi:10.7150/jbji.22443. Available from http://www.jbji.net/v02p0208.htm
Background: In the setting of prosthetic joint infections treated with a two-stage procedure, spacers can be sonicated after removal. We hypothesize that the sonication process may cause an increased elution of antibiotics from the spacer, leading to elevated concentrations of antibiotics in the sonication fluid inhibiting bacterial growth. We aimed to evaluate in vitro the influence of sonication on the elution of antibiotics from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) over time and to determine whether these concentrations are above the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for microorganisms relevant in prosthetic joint infections.
Methods: PMMA blocks impregnated with vancomycin, fosfomycin, gentamicin or daptomycin were incubated in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) at 37°C for up to 6 weeks. PBS was changed once a week. Concentrations were determined from samples of each antibiotic every week, and after 5 minutes of sonication at 2, 4 and 6 weeks.
Results: With sonication there was a trend toward an increase of the elution of antibiotics. This increase was significant for vancomycin at 2 and 4 weeks (p=0.008 and 0.002 respectively) and for fosfomycin at 2 weeks (p=0.01).
Conclusion: The effect of sonication could play a role in clinical results, especially for daptomycin and gentamicin for which the MIC is close to the concentration of antibiotics at 4 and 6 weeks.
We conclude that elution of antibiotics from PMMA along with the effect of sonication could inhibit bacterial growth from spacers, resulting in false negative results in the setting of two-stage exchange procedures for prosthetic joint infections.
Keywords: sonication, antibiotic elution, bone cement, polymethyl methacrylate, prosthetic joint infection
Prosthetic joint infections represent one of the most serious complication after prosthetic joint implantation with a cumulative incidence of 1-2% over the lifetime of the prosthetic joint[1]. In Europe, surgical site infections occur with a cumulative incidence of 1.2 % for hip arthroplasties and 0.8% for knee arthroplasties[2]. Sonication of explanted prosthetic implants is known to increase detection of prosthetic joint infection[3-5].
According to the current guidelines[1], patients with prosthetic joint infections with symptoms lasting more than 3 weeks are candidates for an exchange procedure. Depending on the germ, the resistance profile, the soft tissue situation and other factors, the treating team has to choose between a one-stage or a two-stage procedure[6]. The strategy of a two-stage procedure consists of prosthetic component and complete cement removal as well as debridement of infected tissue, followed by implantation of an antibiotic-impregnated bone cement spacer[1,7,8]. After an interval of 2 to 8 weeks[6,9], the second stage procedure is performed with reimplantation of a definitive prosthetic joint. Given that the spacer can act as a foreign-body on which microorganisms can adhere and form biofilms [10,11], it can be sonicated after removal in order to detect possible microorganisms.
Acrylic bone cement consists of copolymer of acrylic acid and acrylic esters leading to a higher hydrophilicity compared to pure PMMA[12]. In addition to this, Bettencourt et al.[13] showed that under contact with fluids, the cement surface is changing to a more hydrophilic state. Antibiotic release from bone cement depends on the surface and the water-absorbing properties of the cement[12]. Antibiotic loaded bone cement are used in clinical practice for the treatment of osteomyelitis and prosthesis infection and have proven to be able to maintain therapeutically relevant levels of antibiotics[14].
Some in vitro studies have shown that low-frequency ultrasound could increase the release of gentamicin[15] or vancomycin[16] from acrylic bone cement. We hypothesize that the sonication process may cause an increased elution of antibiotics from PMMA, leading to elevated concentrations in the sonication fluid inhibiting bacterial growth (false negative cultures).
We aimed to evaluate in vitro the influence of sonication on the elution of antibiotics from PMMA over time (up to 6 weeks in accordance with our clinical practice for the two-stage exchange procedure) and to determine whether these concentrations are above the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for microorganisms relevant in prosthetic joint infections.
Test specimens were made of 5.0 g of cement powder, containing undermentioned amount of antibiotics, and 2.5 ml of monomer liquid. First, a spatula was used to mix the two components in a bowl at room temperature and finally round specimens (height = 15.0 mm and diameter = 6.0 mm) were formed by using predefined forms (stainless steel with 20 drill holes). PMMA blocks impregnated with vancomycin (2 g/40 g PMMA), gentamicin (0.5 g/40 g PMMA), daptomycin (1.5 g/40 g PMMA) or fosfomycin (1.5 g/40 g PMMA) were placed in 15 ml Falcon tubes containing 5 ml phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). Vancomycin, daptomycin and fosfomycin cements contains in addition 0.5 g/40 g PMMA of gentamicin. These loads of antibiotics correspond to the formulation of bone cement used in clinical practice for spacers (i.e. Copal® G+V, Heraeus Medical GmbH, Germany). Tubes were incubated statically at 37°C for up to 6 weeks in order to mimic human conditions. The PBS was changed once a week in order to imitate the physiological turn-over and to prevent to build up high concentrations that could limit further release. Samples, in triplicate, were taken every week, before changing the PBS, in order to determine the antibiotic release over time. In addition, at 2, 4 and 6 weeks, tubes containing each antibiotic and PBS in triplicate were sonicated for 5 minutes at a frequency of 40 Hz, then samples were taken in order to determine the effect of sonication on the release. Sonicator BactoSonic (Bandelin GmbH, Berlin, Germany) was used.
Samples were stored in -80°C until all samples have been collected. The antibiotic concentrations were determined by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The lower limits of quantification were 0.1 μg/mL for vancomycin and daptomycin, 0.5 μg/mL for gentamicin and 1.0 μg/mL for fosfomycin.
In order to determine whether these concentrations are above the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for microorganisms relevant in prosthetic joint infections, we used breakpoint tables from the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST)[17], which are summarized in table 1.
Clinical minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) in µg/ml (from EUCAST breakpoint tables [17])
|S. aureus
|Coagulase-negative staphylococci
|Streptococcus spp
|Pseudomonas spp.
|Enterococcus spp.
|Corynebacterium spp.
|Acinetobacter spp.
|Gram positive anaerobes
For statistical analysis, unpaired t test was performed using Prism 5.0 (GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA). A P value <0.05 was considered to be significant. Results are presented as mean and standard deviation of triplicate experiments.
The release of antibiotics during 6 weeks of incubation in PBS is shown in Figure 1. A burst release was observed during the first week of incubation for fosfomycin, daptomycin and gentamicin with mean concentrations of 414.3 µg/ml, 31.4 µg/ml and 83.2 µg/ml respectively. These concentrations are 13-30 times higher the MIC for most bacteria relevant in the context of prosthetic joint infections. Release of vancomycin was stable over the 6 weeks with a mean concentration between 6.6 and 8.8 µg/ml (7.9 µg/ml during the first week) and are above the MIC for most bacteria.
Fosfomycin concentration decreased to 13.3 µg/ml after 2 weeks of incubation and became undetectable after 6 weeks. Daptomycin concentrations decreased gradually from 5.9 µg/ml after 2 weeks to 2.6 µg/ml after 6 weeks. These concentrations remain above the MIC. Concentrations of gentamicin decreased from 17.8 µg/ml after 2 weeks to 6.0 µg/ml after 6 weeks and these values remain above the MIC.
Antibiotic release in PBS at 37ºC during 6 weeks. Mean and standard deviation of triplicate experiments.(Click on the image to enlarge.)
Figure 2 shows the effect of sonication on the antibiotic release from PMMA at 2, 4 and 6 weeks of incubation. With sonication process, there was a trend toward an increase in the elution of antibiotics. A significant increase in concentrations after sonication was observed for vancomycin at 2 weeks (10.6 µg/ml vs 8.6 µg/ml, p=0.008) and 4 weeks (12.3 µg/ml vs 8.8 µg/ml, p=0.002) and for fosfomycin at 2 weeks (19.6 µg/ml vs 13.3 µg/ml, p=0.01).
Considering the MIC for most relevant bacteria in the setting of prosthetic joint infection, concentrations of vancomycin always remained above the MIC. Daptomycin and gentamicin concentrations decreased but remained above MIC at 4 and 6 weeks. On the other hand, fosfomycin concentrations were below the MIC, except for the elution at the first week.
The major finding of this study was a trend toward an increase in antibiotics elution from PMMA after sonication process. Although significant difference was only found for vancomycin and fosfomycin, this trend was observed for all studied antibiotics and remained over time, up to 6 weeks. This observed effect could play a role in clinical results, especially for daptomycin and gentamicin for which the concentration of antibiotics at 4 and 6 weeks were close to the MIC.
Our results are in agreement with the work of Wendling et al.[16] who found that low-frequency ultrasound (25.5 kHz) increase elution of vancomycin from PMMA, and with the study of Hendriks et al.[15] that showed an increased release of gentamycin from bone cement using ultrasound at 46.5 kHz frequency. The present study used sonication at 40 kHz. The selected intervals of 2,4 and 6 weeks for sonication process correspond to different potential time points in clinical practice for reimplantation[1,6,9]. Our results support the hypothesis that sonication could lead to false negative results in clinical practice, in the setting of two-staged exchange procedure.
Observed elution rate of antibiotics were close to in vitro experiment of Galvez-Lopez[18] for gentamicin, vancomycin and daptomycin, although antibiotic concentrations in the cement and the method used was different than the ones used in our study. Observed elution kinetics were similar to elution reported in a study from Gasparini et al[19] although in this study a different methodology was used.
In an in vivo study, Hsieh et al.[20], using 4 g vancomycin and 4 g aztreonam per 40 g PMMA hand-made spacers, found high levels of vancomycin with more than 1000 µg/ml on postoperative day 1, and still more than 500 µg/ml on day 7. However, in another in vivo study, using 2 g vancomycin per 40 g PMMA, different concentrations of vancomycin and gentamicin from spacers were measured, with peak mean concentrations of 37 µg/ml, and 21 µg/ml respectively[21]. This study found higher concentrations of antibiotics in the drainage fluid from beads than from spacer (2-6 time higher), due to their larger surface area, according to the authors.
Most studies[18,19,22] showed a burst release of antibiotics during the first hours or days, followed by a more stable rate of elution from PMMA. Nevertheless, Galvez-Lopez et al.[18] found three different patterns of elution depending on the antibiotic tested. The majority of antibiotics showed a triphasic pattern with a progressive increase in the first 24 hours, following by a decrease and a final phase with a low and steady decline, but some antibiotics like vancomycin and gentamicin showed constant elution kinetics during 30-days. We found similar results, although some differences were observed during the first week as we found no burst release for vancomycin.
Effect of sonication on antibiotic release. Mean and standard deviation of triplicate experiments. *indicates statistical significance (p<0.05).(Click on the image to enlarge.)
In a prospective study, Nelson et al.[23] followed 36 patients undergoing a two-stage procedure. They found that positive sonication of spacers was predictive of failure (defined by reinfection at 2-year follow-up). Fifty percent (9 of 18) patients with positive sonication were reinfected, compared to 11% (2 of 18 patients) with negative sonication. In a recent prospective analysis of 50 spacers, Esteban et al.[24] showed that high colony counts from sonicate culture of antibiotic-load cement spacer was associated with worse clinical outcomes.
However, sonication reliability of bone cement remains unclear. Some discrepancies between sonication results and clinical outcomes following two-staged procedures were reported. Sorli et al.[25] found clinical failure in 18 of 55 patients following a two-stage procedure. Among these failures, only 7 had been diagnosed with a subclinical infection (positive culture from sonicated spacer fluid or two or more tissue specimen positive). These results are in agreement with our personal experience, according to which sonicated spacers often are culture negative. This fact could be explained by the elution of antibiotics from spacer by sonication according to the results of the present in vitro study.
There are however some limitations in this study. First, this is an in vitro experiment and, although samples were kept at 37° and the PBS was changed once a week to mimic physiologic fluid turnover, only assumptions can be made for application in clinical practice. In most in vitro studies on antibiotic elution PBS is changed once a day the first week, even more often the first 24 hours[18,22,26,27] in order to accurately analyze antibiotic elution. However, the main objective of the present study was to examine the effect of sonication, whereas antibiotic elution was a secondary objective. We used blocks of PMMA impregnated with 1.25-5 % w/w concentrations of antibiotics. Giving the variety of PMMA shapes and antibiotic concentrations in PMMA used in clinical practice, elution rate could be very different and could lead to concentrations apart from MIC. In such cases, sonication process could have no effect on the final result of spacer sonication. Despite these limitations, we think that results from the present study could be useful in clinical practice in the setting of two-stage exchange procedures and suggest to be careful in case of negative sonicated culture.
We conclude that the sonication process increases antibiotic elution from PMMA, leading to higher antibiotic concentrations in the sonicated fluid, and could therefore lead to false negative culture results of sonicated spacers.
PMMA: polymethyl methacrylate; MIC: minimum inhibitory concentration; PBS: phosphate-buffered saline; EUCAST: European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; PCR: polymerase chain reaction.
Author Contributions Statement
Anne Kummer: substantial contributions to the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the paper.
Ulrika Furustrand: substantial contributions to research design, and the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data; revising the paper critically.
Olivier Borens: substantial contributions to research design, and the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data; revising the paper critically.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.
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Corresponding author: Prof. Olivier Borens; Unit of Traumatology, Unit of Septic Surgery, Service of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV), Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne. Phone number: +41 21 314 27 52; Fax number: +41 21 314 2379; olivier.borensch
Received 2017-8-19
Accepted 2017-10-11
Published 2017-11-13


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A plank is an isometric exercise that strengthens and tones the muscles of the abdominals and lower back. It requires no equipment and little space, making it one of the easiest ab exercises to squeeze into your day.
When performing a plank, you should feel the work in your abdominals, bottom, and fronts of the thighs, instead of the arms and lower back. All of these exercises are done in a plank position on your elbows and your toes. You can modify the exercise by raising yourself onto your hands or by dropping to your knees, similar to a modified push-up. Whichever version you choose, remember that your shoulders should be aligned and your body in a straight line without the pelvis too high or too low. The American Council on Exercise provides helpful instruction on how to perform a basic front plank .
Start by doing each of these plank exercises for 30 seconds. As you grow stronger, continue to add 15 seconds to your time. Once you work up to 1 minute, repeat each exercise to complete 2 to 3 sets.
Side Plank Rotation
From the elbow plank, come up onto your hands. Position each hand directly under your shoulder. Shift your weight to your right hand and rotate your left shoulder above your right shoulder. Raise your left hand into the air. Keep your body in a straight line from your ankles to your head. Rotate back to the starting position. Shift your weight to your left hand and rotate to hold the side plank on your left side. Continue alternating side planks throughout the exercise time.
Plank with an Arm Reach
From the elbow plank, shift your weight to your left arm. Extend your right arm out in front of you and tap the floor with your fingers. Return to the starting plank position and then tap the floor with your left hand. Continue to alternate the arm reach and finger tap. Concentrate on holding the core tight, and try to keep your hips from rocking back and forth with the movement.
Plank with a Leg Lift
Keep your hips level as you lift your right toe off the floor raising your leg about 6 inches. Return the right leg to the starting position and raise the left leg. Continue alternating leg lifts as you hold the elbow plank.
Plank with a Toe Tap
Shift your weight to your left foot, move your right leg out towards the right, and tap your toe to the floor about 6 inches from the starting position. Return your foot to its original spot. Move your left leg out to the left and tap your toe. Continue to alternate toe taps from side to side as you hold your core muscles tight.


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Stare at sunken Irish graves unmarked in Leadville's Evergreen
The bagpipe has stopped playing.The folk singer has ended her
warm up song.
The stories are so moving,colorful, funny & tragic of
equal measure.
I recall being at the Little Big Horn.
We like to call battlefields---hallowed ground.
At one time Leadville was forty thousand ---eighty percent
Irish. Mostly lead & silver miners making three dollars
a day at ten thousand feet.
Too broke to put up a tombstone. Dying like flies in their
twenties. Dying as infants, mothers in childbirth.
My friend Jim Walsh, says they would come out of the heat
of the mines in winter & have their sweat soaked
clothes freeze right to their skin like being armored in
ice. Pneumonia,
TB, influenza, no wonder these survivors of the famine,
maybe two thousand died; now lie in sunken, forgotten
graves in a high alpine meadow with old pine growing
in amongst their spent bones.
Yes, hallowed ground, not of military battle, but fierce
class war.
Once again saying the history of America can never
be told by Disney.
The strike leader—Michael Mooney—had the audacity
to say he & his owned a corner of our flag because
they sweated & bled for it.
That is why it is a sacred place to begin to understand
the heart breaking truth about this land of promise &


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Chris and Jenny are missionaries currently serving in Germany, who were married in April last year. I had the privilege of photographing them for a sweet newlywed session when we were all in Paris for the prestigious Paris Photo in November. There is something so magical about Paris in the fall, the light grey sky pairs perfectly with the soft colours of the city; Paris was meant to be shot on film.
This newlywed portrait session was recently featured by international fine art wedding blog Wedding Sparrow. For more information on my travels + shooting schedule, send me an email. xo.


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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The NYC Subway Terror Attack 2017
Friday, August 25, 2017
Fall TV Preview 2017
Time To Tune In
1. Biggie: The Life Of Notorious B.I.G.
This documentary, authorized by Biggie's estate, explores the life and career of the rap icon. The miniseries features interviews with his widow Faith Evans, his mom Voletta Wallace and a who's who of rap legends, such as Nas, Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs. (Monday, September 4, 8 p.m., A&E)
2. The Deuce: Go back in time to New York City, specifically Times Square in the 1970s, when the area was a haven for porn. The show stars James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal and was written and created by David Simon ("The Wire").
(Sunday, September 10, 9 p.m., HBO)
3. The Orville: Seth MacFarlane created and stars in this live-action sci-fi comedy series that offers the "Family Guy" guru's take on the likes of "Star Trek." He plays the captain of the ship, who is paired with his ex-wife (Adrianne Palicki) as his first officer. (Sunday, September 10, 8 p.m., FOX/5)
4. The Vietnam War: The legendary documentarian Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tell the story of the Vietnam War in this 10-part, 18-hour series that culls from almost 80 interviews, tons of footage, and more. (Sunday, September 17, 8 p.m., WNET-13)
5. Star Trek: Discovery: Finally, after too many years, we get a new "Star Trek" series. The show has faced some issues, delays and staffing changes, but the early footage has been pretty great. The show, set before the original series, stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Spock's half-sister. (Sunday, September 24, 8:30 p.m., CBS/2, CBS All Access)
6. Young Sheldon: Spinning off from "The Big Bang Theory" comes this prequel following Sheldon Cooper at age 9 (Iain Armitage), a boy genius attending high school. (Monday, September 25, 8:30 p.m., CBS/2)
7. Me, Myself & I: Follow Alex Riley from childhood in 1991 at age 14, to now in 2017 at age 40 and in the future in 2042 at age 65. Starring Jack Dylan Grazer, Bobby Moynihan and John Larroquette. (Monday, September 25, 9:30 p.m., CBS/2)
8. The Brave: Anne Heche takes the lead in this new military drama about undercover soldiers tasked with saving innocents all around the globe. (Monday, September 25, 10 p.m., NBC/4)
9. The Good Doctor: Not a spinoff of "The Good Wife," this medical series, based on a South Korean show, is brought to the states from producer David Shore ("House") and certainly shares a bit DNA with "House." Freddie Highmore stars as a super surgeon with autism, working in pediatrics at a California hospital. (Monday, September 25, 10 p.m., ABC/7)
10. The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Former "Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper is the latest funnyman to take the former slot of "The Colbert Report," and aims to mock the alt-media on both sides. (Monday, September 25, 11:30 p.m., Comedy Central)
11. Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders: The long-running franchise hops onto the anthology trend with this new spinoff that will chronicle real-life cases, starting with the trail of Lyle and Erik Melendez.
Starring Edie Falco, Anthony Edwards and Heather Graham.
(Tuesday, September 26, 10 p.m., NBC/4)
12. Seal Team: David Boreanaz's post-"Bones" career begins with this military drama about one of the Navy SEALs' elite units, focusing on the tight group of soldiers as well as their family life. (Wednesday, September 27, 9 p.m., CBS/2)
13. Will & Grace: More than a decade since going off the air, the popular comedy starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes is revived, allowing you to catch up with the characters for this 12-episode run. (Thursday, September 28, 9 p.m., NBC/4)
14. Marvel's Inhumans: This Marvel series begins unusually - with the first two episodes getting a limited run in IMAX movie theaters starting on Friday, September 1 (and then run again on TV). The series follows the powerful Inhuman Royal Family and your sure-to-be favorite character is the giant teleporting dog named Lockjaw. (Friday, September 29, 8 p.m., ABC/7)
15. Ghosted: The awesome duo of Craig Robinson and Adam Scott take the leads in this series about a skeptic and a believer who are brought in by the government to explore unusual occurrences going on around Los Angeles. (Sunday, October 1, 8:30 p.m., FOX/5)
16. Wisdom of the Crowd: An inventor comes up with an app that helps crowdsource murder investigations to help find out who killed his daughter. Starring Jeremy Piven, Richard T. Jones and Monica Potter. (Sunday, October 1, 8:30 p.m., CBS/2)
17. Ten Days in the Valley: Kyra Sedgwick stars in this drama about a television producer who is searching for her missing daughter. Also starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kick Gurry, Erika Christensen and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. (Sunday, October 1, 10 p.m., ABC/7)
18. 9JKL: This new comedy, based on the life of star Mark Feuerstein, follows a New York family living in three consecutive apartments. Feuerstein plays Josh Roberts, a divorced actor moving back to the Big Apple, taking an apartment wedged between ones inhabited by his parents on one side and his brother and sister-in-law on the other. Also starring Elliott Gould, Linda Lavin, David Walton and Liza Lapira. (Monday, October 2, 8:30 p.m., CBS/2)
19. The Gifted: This Marvel series in the "X-Men" world focuses on a family with young mutants forced to go underground to keep away from the government in this series. Directed by Bryan Singer, who is no stranger to the Marvel mutants. Starring Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung and Coby Bell. (Monday, October 2, 9 p.m., FOX/5)
20. The Mayor: A young rapper runs for mayor of his California town for publicity and wins. Hilarity ensues. Starring Brandon Micheal Hall, Yvette Nicole Brown and Lea Michele.
(Tuesday, October 3, 9:30 p.m., ABC/7)
21. Kevin (Probably) Saves the World: The great Jason Ritter stars as Kevin in this series about a man who returns home to live with his widowed twin sister and her daughter. And then he gets divine intervention, telling him to save the world. (Tuesday, October 3, 10 p.m., ABC/7)
22. Valor: Yet another military show, this one following a team of helicopter pilots tasked with secretive missions. (Monday, October 9, 9 p.m., CW/11)
23. Dynasty: The long-running 1980s prime time soap opera about bickering rich families gets rebooted, starring Grant Show, Nathalie Kelley, Elizabeth Gillies, Alan Dale and more. (Wednesday, October 11, 9 p.m., CW/11)
24. Mindhunter: This streamer is based on the book "Mind Hunter: Inside FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit" by Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas, and is being brought to life by famed director David Fincher. Set in 1979, it stars Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany as a pair of FBI agents investigating a nefarious case. (Friday, October 13, Netflix)
25. White Famous: Jay Pharoah makes the jump from "Saturday Night Live" to his own series, where he plays a young, up-and-coming comedian, an African-American talent looking to find a bigger audience let the show's title give you a clue. This is loosely based on the life of executive producer Jamie Foxx. (Sunday, October 15, 10 p.m., Showtime)
26. At Home With Amy Sedaris: The delightful Amy Sedaris takes you to her home to showcase her homemaking skills in this comedy. Each episode will be centered around a theme and will feature a guest such as Scott Adsit or Sasheer Zamata. (Tuesday, October 24, 10:30 p.m. Tru TV
27. The Last O.G.: Tracy Morgan stars in this new comedy about an ex-con returning to his old Brooklyn neighborhood, now gentrified, after a 15-year sentence. (Sunday, October 22, 10 p.m., TBS)
28. S.W.A.T: Shermar Moore stars in this remake of the 1975 series, later remade into a 2003 movie. Moore plays a sergeant in the tactial unit in Los Angeles, taking on some of the most dangerous missions. (Thursday, November 2, 10 p.m., CBS/2)
29. Future Man: This streaming series from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and starring Josh Hutcherson and Eliza Coupe, follows a janitor with some serious video game skills who is recruited by some people from the future to save the world. Sounds a little like "The Last Starfighter," which is totally cool with us. (Tuesday, November 14, Hulu)
30. Marvel's Runaways: Young superheroes unite to take down their evil parents in this latest Marvel property, based on a modern comic book classic from Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona (Tuesday, November 21, Hulu)
31. She's Gotta Have It: Spike Lee's 1986 feature film gets turned into a series starring DeWanda Wise as a woman juggling relationships with three men. (Thursday, November 23, Netflix)
Saturday, January 7, 2017
The Second Avenue Subway: Three New Stations E 72nd, 86th & 96th Street Are Open For The Public
By Ryan Ngala
Digital Reporter, STN New York
[Upper East Side, New York] Finally The Wait Is Over, As The Highly Anticipated Second Avenue Subway Will Open On 3 New Stations, Many People Doubt That It Will Never Happen, But As Many People Except To One Day Come True, But In Reality I Will Believe It When I See It Come To Pass, As The Stations Will Resume To Be Opening At Noon.
After Years Of Building In The Underground Railroad On The Upper East Side Of Second Avenue, Train Workers and Construction workers have worked their way around the clock, as they build the ultimate subway station that will one day run on the New York City Transit System in twenty seventeen of the month in January.
The First Phase Of The Project Completes The Final Steps Of Building The East 96th Street, 86th Street And 72nd Street Stations with an all new Glass Design Featuring Not Only Escalators But Also Subway Elevators For Each Individual Subway Station, As The New York City Police And The State Of New York Officers Are Beefing And Tighten Up Station Entrance For The Opening Of The New Three Stations 72nd, 86th & 96th Street Lines.
It's the largest expansion in the system in 50 years, expanding more than thirty blocks and costing roughly $4.6 Billion Dollars, that had been rejected so many times over the years, It has first been proposed in 1920, then it has been delayed in the 1930's, 1940's & 1970's that the skepticism are remained high long after the second ave subway project construction restarted In 2007.
The MTA Announces The Introduction Of The New Second Avenue Subway, Starting With The Q Line Service Beginning At The 96th Street Subway Station as New Yorkers and tourists gets excited to be into the subway station to get a front row seat, On Monday, January 9th, 2017 late night service will begin from 10PM through 6AM, shortly going from between Coney Island – 57th Street – 7 Avenue uptown to downtown on second avenue, and for the early morning rush at 6AM – 10PM service from 96th Street – 2 Avenue.
As I walk up my way to 63rd Street & 2nd Avenue I saw the glass design as it came about very much perfect and ready to go as the billboard calling the Q Line Service quote "Second Avenue Subway: Upper East Side to Coney Island A one-seat ride" end quote and showing it on the subway map as an example of where the Q line would travel to and from as it reach to it's destination.
Many businesses from second avenue would have there hands full with customers, as for many who get off from the second avenue subway station, from not only restaurants but also in supermarkets too as for many who will be posting it on Social Media as they follow the Second Avenue Subway Social Media Page On Twitter.com/2ndAvenueSubway, Using the hashtag #SecondAvenueSubway, #FirstRide & #MyRide, this will become the greatest second avenue subway station, not only for New York City but also in New York State.
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Monday, January 2, 2017
STN News: The Second Avenue Subway In Photos
The Second Avenue Subway That Is Set To Open On New Years Day, Has Officially Open It's Doors To Not Only Tourists But Also Visitors As Well.
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Rap Star Barbee Eselebor Attends The Olastyle Fashion Talent Show At The Webster Hall
Rap Star Barbee Eselebor Attends The Olastyle Fashion Talent Show
At The Webster Hall
By Ryan Ngala
Digital Reporter, STN E.T.C NEWS
What if you imagine that a rapper wanting to become a fashion model with many photographers flashing their photos as she strike a pose, the 26 year old Faith Jackson Eselebor also known as Barbee Eselebor spoke to STN E.T.C News exclusively about having herself a good time while she was at the event in support of Olastyle Fashion, as she was wearing a hoodie but she also has great talented right in front of her both in rapping and modeling skills.
According to a website of RepeatingIslands.com, A United States – based actress, dancer, and singer Barbee Eselebor (whose real name is Faith Jackson Eselebor and whose parents hail from Jamaica and Nigeria), joins in suppport for the Olastyle Fashion Talent Show At The Marlin Ballroom In Webster Hall.
- What Is Your Age, Name And Where Are You From?
BE: My name is Barbee Eselebor and I'm 26 years old.
- How was the event exciting for you at the Webster Hall?
BE: I love the event, it was smashing to me.
- How Was It Like To Perform on the runway on this historic occasion?
BE: I love it, It was an amazing historic moment to witness.
- How was it like seeing a venue this big for you to perform in?
BE: It was very inspiring to work even harder to get where I am to perform at the Webster hall, It was such a blast.
- Any Comments You Would Want To Add. (Ex. Social Media)
BE: The fans can follow me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/officialBarbee.
While our conversation was over many photographers wanted to start taking more photos and also knowing that she is just an excellent woman at what she does, a dozen of gorgeous poses means a couple of photos from the photographers in an venue space for a special event Trish Ramado was the Host and Emcee for the Olastyle fashion talent show but out of all the models I seen, she will always be a one in a million.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
18 Models Takes Center Stage At The Webster Hall The Dresses And Bikinis: Celebrity Designer Ola Hawatmeh Takes Over Center Stage And A Big Standing Ovation For The Love Of Fashion Designing
Monday, May 18, 2015
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|23 May 2010
stream videos to tv wirelessly
I saw on the tv commercials that you can wirelessly stream video to your tv and I just wanted to know how to do this.
I have searched the net for an answer and can`t find any info on this topic.
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
Welcome mardav111,
See if this helps you out, and if you have any more questions you can post back.
Windows Media Center | Learn More | Using extenders | Help > FAQ: Wireless networks
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
I know how to setup a network,but I don`t know how to setup my tv to recieve wireless signals.
If I need an extender then I MIGHT AS WELL CONNECT MY PC TO MY TV.
I am goig to get a little sarcastic hereand wonder if this is just a sales pitch for win 7,because the comercial doesn`t say anything about any other hardware needed to do this.The way I understood it was that it was just a push button thing.
If I need some other hardware then what do I need?
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
Well since you already know how to set up a network I probably don't need to post this link but here it is anyway.
Windows Media Center | Learn More | Using extenders | Tutorials > Setting up a home network
There is always something to setup, so to answer your other question, no it is not just a push button thing.
That's the best answer I can give you, maybe someone else has a better one for you.
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
I see now.I do need more hardware and that is the answer that I was looking for.
Thanks for your time and effort derikimo.I just wish that the commercial had made this apparent so there would not be any confusion on my part.
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
You're Welcome,
It does appear much easier in the commercial, but that can be said about alot of products.
There always seems to be "additional equiptment required" or " Your experience may vary" , of course that part is usually in fine print or almost invisible to see but that is how the market works.
Well if you need anything else feel free to come on back and ask.:)
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
If you do need additional hardware do you mind sharing the requirements with me, as im trying to do a wireless setup as well.
Also I havent looked into it yet but I think there is a way you can do it with a Ps3 or Xbox.
|My System Specs
|23 May 2010
If you do need additional hardware do you mind sharing the requirements with me, as im trying to do a wireless setup as well.
Also I havent looked into it yet but I think there is a way you can do it with a Ps3 or Xbox.
Windows 7 Compatibility for TV Devices: Extenders for Windows Media Center Hardware: Download Device Drivers
X Box is listed there.
|My System Specs
|25 May 2010
Windows 7 Ultimate
Now that would be a nice "invention" if your TV could actually connect to the Internet and then be able to dl media. Hmm, that might be something to drink to, lolI am sure someone some where is in their basement at this very moment trying to figure a way to implement some sort of gadget that could either connect to your TV, or it be already built in, so that it could connect to the Internet. "It lives, it lives hahahahahaha
|My System Specs
|25 May 2010
You know what I just gave up with it, Im using my PS3 to watch/listen/view my video/music/pictures. The best part is that you don't need 7 to do this, my next computer will be a Mac.
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