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In the spirit of full disclosure, i just posted this question to the ubuntu forums, but i figure more heads working on it couldn't hurt.
I have a multi-seat setup working quite well. Hot plugging input devices works as expected and such. The only issue I am still not able to resolve is getting the audio for each seat.
Here is a summary of my attempts at getting audio to work:
Make ~/.pulse/default.pa dynamically configured based on which $DISPLAY the user logs in at.
- See this pastebin for the details.
Load pulseaudio as a system-wide instance.
- Couldn't get this to work. None of the audio hardware was accessible to the users.
Use udev rules to mark seats in ConsoleKit. Following udev guidelines found here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat
- I didn't think this would work, although it was "guaranteed" to work by someone in irc.freenode #pulseaudio
None of those attempts yielded success, which is why I now turn to the community for help. It is quite possible that the suggested methods work and I just messed some aspect of it up, idk. This is the last piece of the puzzle which is needed before I can go and update the MultiseatX page to include instructions for Ubuntu 12.04.
My understandings on the situation:
Access to pulseaudio is restricted to the active session as marked by ConsoleKit (something about an ACL). CK can only mark one session as active at a time. This simple little fact of life leads me to believe that the solution should involve pulseaudio being run as a system-wide instance. Each user should connect to the pulse server and be limited to a subset of all the hardware. Maybe each user connects to the pulse server via localhost, idk. I do know that regardless of my attempts and their failed results, I was always able to use
sudo aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav to play something to any of the hardware.
I'm grasping at straws and am now down to the last few hairs i can pull out of my head. Please, help me figure this out so we can share the wealth. Any additional information needed will be provided at your request.

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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
Bernardine Damon, the mother of a future Olympian, overheard the youngest of her four children talk about the Olympic Games as a goal during her prep days. It was news to her.
"My jaw just about dropped," she said. "I had no idea she had those thoughts."
That youngest, a daughter, Karol Damon kept jumping. She'd cleared 5-feet, 1-inch as a schoolgirl in Europe.
High jump, Damon later claimed, "was a big fluke. The other girls had all their marks and I didn't know what I was doing." Still, she kept going. It's the essence of the sport.
In high school, she cleared 5-4, leaping as high as 5-10 as a Redlands High School athlete. She was known as "Air Damon."
Girls' prep track had only been established for a little over a decade. In the mid-1960s, Riverside Poly's Rosie Bonds – aunt to eventual HR champion Barry Bonds – had to leave California during her prep days in order to find competitive girls' meets.
Bonds wound up at the 1964 Olympics. It would take about a decade for California to upgrade its athletics program to include competitive girls' programs.
At Redlands, Jim Scribner left the boys' team as its coach to take the girls' squad.
Scribner had bunked heads with the likes of San Gorgonio High's Howard sisters in 1979. One of those, Sherri Howard, won a gold medal (4 x 400, 1984 L.A. Games).
He had to dope out meets against a high-powered Eisenhower High team from nearby Rialto.
Redlands High track & field was one of the campus' top athletic programs. Often, the Lady Terriers had to match their depth with other teams' top performers – winning meets, perhaps, by piling up points by flooding events with a prolific group of performers.
Few Redlands tracksters were legitimate multiple-event winners.
Triple jump star Camille Robertson, a CIF champion in 1983, might have been a multiple event star.
Long jump champion Carolyn Zeller (1977) might have been the Lady Terriers' first female track star.
Like a lot of athletes at Redlands High, Damon was there because her father was in the Air Force. Norton Air Force Base was nearby in San Bernardino.
Dean Olson had taken over as coach from Scribner. He had inherited a track & field jewel. Slim. Perky. Attractive. Lithe. Athletic. Blond. She climbed to a school record 5-feet-10 in actual meets. There were, at times, six-foot jumps … in practice.
"She wouldn't tune you out," said Olson. "She was just tuned into her event."
As a prep star, she was a great interview. Alert. Humble. Knew how to size up her skills. Keen insight into her sport. Didn't soak up many moments. There was much more to conquer. Never took away from teammates' achievements, either.
By rule, prep coaches can only schedule an athlete into four events. That's four events out of 14 (15, when there was pole vault). Damon was good for 20 points in most meets.
In high school duals, event winners are awarded five points.
Four events, max. Five points awarded. That's 20 points. In a dual meet where 65 points is the magic number, that's almost one-third of a team's point total.
Damon was like a 30-points-a-game scorer in basketball. Or averaging 38 kills in a volleyball match. Or hitting .480 in softball.
Damon, who would someday soar into the Olympic games as a high jumper, was always good for 5 ½ feet, or better, at a Redlands meet. She could also hurdle. Sprint. There was the 400. She could run relays. And long jump.
By the conclusion of Damon's prep career at Redlands, she had cleared 5-feet, 8-inches at the CIF-Southern Section championships held at Cerritos College in Norwalk.
Surrounded by Southern California's most prestigious athletes, Damon soared to the 4A (big schools) championship. A week later, she won the CIF-Masters clearing 5-6.
It was AFTER Redlands that she started her ascent to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
It was off to the University of Colorado, where she was a four-time NCAA All-American. She was Big Eight champion in 1990. That year, one season after suffering a stress fracture, Damon had finally cleared six feet.
By 1991, she won the Big Eight title again, clearing 5-11 ½. Heading into the season, she was third at the NCAA Indoors, her best ever at 6-2, third place. After winning the Big Eight, she took third at the NCAA Outdoors (6-feet, ¾-inch).
By 1992, every jump was at around six feet – second at Big Eight Indoor (6- ¾), tied for 11th at NCAA Indoor (5-11 ¼), third in Big Eight Outdoor (6- ¾), fourth at NCAA Outdoor (5-11 ½). A quick note: She was ranked ninth in Track & Field magazine.
For good measure, she tried to claim a spot on the Barcelona Olympic squad, clearing a career-best 6-1 ¼, but tying for 7th at the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials.
By this point, plenty of athletes would call it a career.
By 1996, Damon cleared a personal best 6-3 ½ to finish fourth, one spot out of qualifying for the Atlanta Olympic Games. Appropriately, she was ranked fourth by T & F.
Damon had married high jumper Randy Jenkins, so she was then known as Karol Jenkins in those days.
She participated in most of the big meets – USA Indoors (6- ¼, 5th), Pan Am Games (6-2, 4th), USA Outdoors (6-feet, 9th), clearing a personal best 6-3 ½ in 1995. It was one year before the Olympics. But that 6-3 ½ was one place shy of qualifying.
Veteran star Amy Acuff also cleared 6-3 ½, claiming that third and final spot on fewer misses.
The world record at the time was 6-10 ¼ (Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova). Louise Ritter claimed the American mark at 6-8, twice.
Damon-Jenkins. Quit? No!
In 1997 through the 2000 Sydney Games Olympic year, Damon was among the USA's top five high jumpers. Tisha Waller. Connie Teabury, Acuff.
It was training for the big meets – the USA Outdoors and Indoors, Goodwill Games, World University Games, all in preparation for the world stage.
Held at Hornet Stadium at Sacramento State University's stadium, Karol Damon (now Karol Rovelto – she'd married her coach from Kansas State) – was soaring against the likes of Acuff, Waller and Erin Aldrich.
In a remarkable 6-foot, 3-3/4-inch effort, her lifetime best, the onetime Redlands High star had won the Trials.
It was a Trials dominated by Marion Jones.
Damon-Rovelto was ranked No. 1 by T&F.
It was on to Sydney for the Olympics.
At 1.89 meters, which is 6-feet, 2 ¼-inches, Damon's 24th place finish wasn't all that close to eventual gold medalist – Yelena Yelesina, of Russia (2.01 meters, which is better than 6-8). Damon, like Acuff, failed to reach the finals.
Only a dozen years earlier, Damon was just launching her career from Redlands.
Sixteen years after her Olympic experience, Damon-Rovelto was back at it.
A longtime coach at Kansas State, Rovelto coached high jumper Alyx Treasure and heptathlete Akela Jones at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
You wonder if Bernardine knew about those dreams?


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Boston Block
I have developed several shortcuts using my cut down method.
Basically the cut down method means you sew fabric together and then cut out with a template from the center of the joined fabrics. This allows you to do more intricate designs without handling small pieces. It also eliminates some math. My intention is to make it easier and faster to piece beautiful patchwork quilt blocks into projects or quilts.
Okay we are going to learn to make a Boston Block today. Once you have figured out how to do this you will need to make 4 of them for your quilt block. This is easy to do I promise!!
Here we go........
Cut out one strip of light fabric - 2 1/2" x 16"
Cut out one strip of medium fabric - 2 1/2" x 8 1/2"
And cut out one strip of dark fabric - 3 1/2" x 8"
[if you are using a 3" template you will need to make your strips and squares larger]
Once you have your strips cut then
Cut: 2 -2 1/2" white squares 2 -2 1/2" medium squares 2 - 3 1/2" dark squares
Cut them on the diagonal
You need one light triangle and one med. triangle
Sew the light and med. triangles together
For our quilt block we need the med on the right.
But depending on the quilt block you are making the med can be on either side.
You need to pay attention and make sure you get the med on the rt side in all 4 of your Boston Blocks.
Next sew the joined light /med to the dark fabric
and lay it on a cutting mat. A mini mat is the best if you have one.
Cut with a rotary cutter along the edge of the template.
Make sure you hold the template still as you cut. Don't let it move or you won't have an accurate square. Try to be as accurate as you can because this will make it easier to get a good result later on.
You need to try to make sure your corners of the template are on the seams so you won't get a corner that isn't even on each side of the seam. Here you can see I have more pink than white. When you sew two of these together in a quilt block you will lose points if this corner is off.
You can gently trim it even if you see one after you have cut out the block.
I put the template back on the fabric and retrimmed with the rotary cutter but be careful you don't trim too deeply and end up with a lopsided square.
And here is our
Picking the right fabric:
You want to make sure you have fabrics that are clearly seperate so that you can see each one when you stand back and look at them. If 2 of them blend then you need to exchange one for a darker value fabric.
Light and light - blends too much for me
I seperate them into lights - the background is white or cream or a very very light color
this may or may not have a pattern. Either is fine.
Mediums - This has a color that is not real light nor real dark. there are a lot of variations in this value. I seperate down to a light medium / medium medium/ dark medium
For me I like a medium medium. this falls somewhere in the middle of the color range between light fabrics and dark fabrics.
Darks - This value is as it says dark. this would include Navy or Hunter Green or Black or anything that is darker.
This is my selections
Or you can put a pink with the burgandy
If you are not sure about the color values then lay two together and stand back and look at them. Can you clearly see the med? from the dark? Does the dark stand away from the med?
If you can't tell where one fabric ends and the next one starts then there is not enough contrast to make a good Boston Block.
You can use any colors you like but for the best effect I highly recommend a good contrast between the three fabrics.
Another thing to watch out for are two fabrics that have a print that might connect making the light and med blend. I saw a block made with a flower fabric for the light and another one for the med. Overall they worked okay but there was a flower that matched in both fabrics making it look like the flower flowed from the light into the med. This doesn't stop the eye so the eye sees the two fabrics as one fabric. So you lose the effect you want.
I hope you have a good time trying out my Boston Blocks using my cutdown method. Thanks everyone!!
One more note - I dont' have any problem with bias but if it is an issue for you - use spray starch and spray your fabric. I iron mine dry or you can let it air dry before you work with the fabric.
Also you can check out my original method for Boston Blocks here:
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However, Lester, who threw a 35-pitch bullpen session on Sunday, maintained that his problems aren't physical.
Anything nagging him, Lester was asked?
"Yeah, pitching," quipped the Red Sox left-hander. "I mean, honestly, I don't know how to answer these questions. Honestly, I know it looks weird just with the schedule and you get pushed back. But I've thrown a lot of pitches this year. Like I said, we're just trying to take advantage of the All-Star break and a couple of extra days we have thrown in there. We felt like it was a good time to do that."
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"Obviously, yeah, I'm not pitching the way I feel like I should or want to be," said Lester. "At the same time, I think there are a lot of positives within some of those games that I try to take. I just have to keep trying to build off those. Some of those games really came down to two pitches. If I could minimize those two pitches into positives and limit some of those runs, we're talking about a different deal right now. I feel good with where I'm at the last couple starts. I feel like I've thrown the ball a lot better. I just try to build off that."


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An inmate who escaped from a north-central Ohio prison where he was incarcerated for kidnapping, rape and other crimes was captured Thursday night by people in a general store who tied him up and held him until authorities arrived.
James David Myers was recognized when he walked into the Olivesburg General Store in Ashland on Thursday evening, Ohio State Police Lt. Anne Ralston said.
People in the store subdued, tied up and held Myers until members of the highway patrol arrived and took him into custody at about 6:40 p.m., Ralston said. The store is located just over 8 miles northeast from the prison on rural State Route 545.
Authorities didn't immediately released additional details about the capture.
Myers was returned to the Mansfield Correctional Institution, JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said in a statement.
Myers, formerly of Mogadore, was found to be missing from the Mansfield facility during a head count on Wednesday night, his 47th birthday, according to prison records.
Authorities declined to discuss exactly how or when Myers slipped away from the prison where he worked in the maintenance area while incarcerated.
The facility about 60 miles north of Columbus houses about 2,500 inmates and operated Thursday under stepped-up security, with escorts required each time an inmate was moved, Smith said.
Authorities said a Tallmadge woman listed as Myers' victim was alerted and put under law enforcement protection while investigators searched for the missing inmate.
"We certainly don't want to see something like this happen at our institution or at any other institution, and we'll do everything we can do to prevent that from happening again," said warden Terry Tibbals.
Tibbals wouldn't comment on the types of equipment or tools Myers might have been able to access through his job in the maintenance area. He also wouldn't discuss whether Myers previously tried to escape.
The facility hadn't had an escape since December 2011, when an inmate who was outside of the prison walked away, Smith said.
Authorities refused to discuss whether they were investigating anyone else in connection with Myers' disappearance.
Myers was imprisoned in 2010 on kidnapping, rape, aggravated burglary and other charges out of northeast Ohio's Summit County. Prosecutors alleged he raped a woman at gunpoint and forced her to consume cocaine, and an appeals court upheld his conviction, according to court records.


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We've told you about the planned Tesla Model S , an aluminum-intensive four-door electric sedan. Now Autocar reports the Model S isn't just a single vehicle, but actually a platform expected to yield a variety of different cars and even an SUV. Aside from the use of aluminum instead of the Tesla Roadster's carbon fiber, a new, flatter battery pack mounted at the base of the chassis is said to provide the flexibility needed for a comprehensive vehicle family. Now the question becomes, "when are we going to see these new vehicles?" Jalopnik Snap Judgment: According to Autocar, we should expect to see the Model S sedan in 2010, with the SUV and a four-door coupe arriving around 2015. The word from Tesla is less encouraging, however: The company is hoping to launch the sedan after construction of its new California factory is completed, and they describe the design as "ninety percent" complete. Knowing that the "devil is in the details" — details being at least the last 10% of the design process — and that starting up a factory isn't without its hiccups, we're afraid the Model S may take a little longer to get to market, and any other variants even longer. Of course, with its recent new hires, Tesla could surprise us all. But, although we're hopeful, we've also seen Tesla miss past time deadlines — and continue to miss current deadlines. [Autocar.uk]
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Can democracy survive when voters choose a government that destroys democratic values and institutions? That's the critical question posed by the turmoil in Egypt, where the military has ousted President Mohammed Morsi and arrested many of his supporters.
There's no doubt that Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party took power legitimately, and they have actually won three elections -- for president, for parliament and for a new constitution. 'This was the party that represented the wishes of the Egyptian people,' said Fareed Zakaria on CNN.
There's also no doubt that Morsi badly abused that power, rejecting judicial review, silencing critics, banning opposition parties and encouraging attacks on Egypt's Christian minority.
Reps. Ed Royce and Eliot Engel -- the top Republican and Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee -- made this point in a rare joint statement: 'Real democracy requires inclusiveness, compromise, respect for human and minority rights and a commitment to the rule of law. Morsi and his inner circle did not embrace any of these principles and instead chose to consolidate power and rule by fiat.'
It was encouraging to hear the military government outline a schedule for revising the constitution and holding new elections within six months. But it's clear that elections are no panacea. Democracy is not some magic word that will suddenly reconcile hostile tribes, sects and ideologies into a peaceable kingdom of mutual regard and respect.
In fact, democracy is a highly complex and often misunderstood system. As the congressmen noted, the essence of the concept is not ensuring majority rule, but protecting minority rights. It cannot function well without institutions that check and balance elected power. Independent judges who can overrule even popular legislation. Unfettered journalists who can criticize the government without fear of retribution.
Even more important is a spirit of tolerance and modesty: a common understanding that no party or faction has a monopoly on wisdom. Democracy requires a widely shared trust that elected officials will play by the rules, governing fairly when they win power and yielding peacefully when they lose.
On paper, Egypt had democratic institutions -- courts, parliaments, media outlets. They even had fair elections. What was profoundly lacking was that spirit of tolerance, a culture of compromise.
Morsi and his party, the political arm of the long-banned Muslim Brotherhood, governed as if they alone represented The Truth. Opponents were treated not just as fools but as infidels. Once you believe that, any sort of repression of your critics is justified. Even required.
We've seen this before when Communists won (or stole) elections in countries like Poland and Hungary after World War II and then demolished democracy. The Communists thought they were chosen by history, and the Islamists by God, but the lesson is the same: Hold power by any means necessary.
Some commentators look at Egypt and despair. As David Brooks lamented in The New York Times, 'radical Islamists are incapable of running a modern government' because they 'have absolutist, apocalyptic mindsets.' As a result, 'once in office they are always going to centralize power and undermine the democracy that elevated them.'
Some of those 'radical Islamists' reinforced Brooks' argument, excoriating Morsi and his party for entering politics in the first place. A spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan denounced 'so-called elections (that) are merely hollow chants and slogans used by the West and secularists to trick the people.' An al-Qaida affiliate in Somalia tweeted, 'Change comes by the bullet alone; NOT the ballot.'
Brooks should be taken seriously, but the Taliban and al-Qaida don't prove him right. They prove exactly the opposite. As Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, argued on CNN: 'The last thing we want to see ... is the Muslim Brotherhood give up on conventional politics. We don't want them to feel that violence in the streets (is) their only option.'
Easy to say, extremely hard to do. After all, our own governmental system is more than 200 years old and still doesn't work very well much of the time. Nurturing a spirit of reconciliation in Egypt was made much more difficult by the military, which in a spasm of stupidity gunned down more than 50 protestors in the streets of Cairo. Only the radicals benefit from bloody flags and feuds.
Still, Egyptian democracy demands more time, patience and effort. Institutions have to be strengthened, rules have to be revised, and most important, trust and tolerance have to be encouraged. Will that work? Probably not. But the alternative would be terrible. Too terrible.
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It's been my experience that many museums don't plan for the food and drink interests of their patrons. While visitors may be wowed by the fine art and sculptures, the food offered doesn't quite match the experience. I recently visited Ray's and Stark bar and I'm happy to say that I had a very different experience. Ray's and Stark Bar is located at the LA County Museum of Art or LACMA.
They opened in 2011 and feature a Mediterranean-inspired menu includes dishes locally obtained ingredients and offerings from their wood-burning oven. They feature seasonal cocktails, a California-centric wine list, and artisan beers and spirits. While the original chef, Kris Morningstar, former sous chef Viet Pham has taken over and keeping the restaurant going strong.
The restaurant is actually situated outdoors from LACMA, next to the BP Grand Entrance to the museum. It is well protected by the elements, covered to shield diners from direct sunlight and a glass partition to isolate noise from busy Wilshire boulevard. Eames-style chairs gave the interior a retro-styled look.
Executive chef Viet Pham is a graduate of the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. His mother helped him to become interested in cooking at an early age. Pham became passionate about the farm to table philosophy when he met Philip Tessier from Bouchon. He has worked at Ray's and Stark Bar as their sous chef since they opened in 2011 and was promoted to executive chef in the spring of 2014.
Collaboration and teamwork are essential ingredients which make Ray's and Stark and Bar successful. Viet Pham and "Dragon", the forager, team up to decide what ultimately gets placed on the menu. Pham credited much of the success of the menu to Dragon because of the knack he has for finding the best fruits and vegetables.
The brainchild of Ray's and Stark Bar's water menu is Martin Riese, general manager and certified water sommelier. Flipping through the book, it read much like a wine list, only for water. The water menu included each water's total dissolved solids, sodium, magnesium and calcium. Because water includes local minerals, it varies greatly, much like wine. Read more about the water menu.
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Sorry this is late; it's entirely my fault due to a rather rigorous evening with Swineshead, not in a bum way of course.
Allow mw to indulge you. I arrived home after another fucking useless day at work and caught the tube into town. My intention was to have a few jars with SH and hook up later with Myfwt. I arrived at the 2 Brewers at precisely 6.15 and was joined by SH, and off we went. It was a beautiful evening, I didn't even bother taking a jacket with me, made all the better for being on the pavement watching Londoners opening like flowers in the warm evening sunshine. There was a single tangible mood of lifted spirits and SH and I responded by indulging in cheery and increasingly boozy banter.
After a few we wondered off to a bar in Holborn to meet up with some of his work colleagues. By now I was quite fucked and was re-considering meeting with Myfwt as she was also with work colleagues and the last thing she needed was a pissed up handful cavorting about a bar making a nuisance of himself. Fortunately (and perhaps wisely) she didn't pick up when I called so I recorded a garbled message and left it at that.
One of SH's work colleagues, a 22 year old Kiwi whose name isn't pertinent, made for an interesting drinking companion. In addition to being engaged it transpired she was bisexual with a penchant for fetishism. Without wishing to go into too much detail, I have some experience of this world. Myfwt used to be a model and at some point in her career she modelled some rubber fetish gear, this in turn led her appearing in a feature film (much hyped at the time but a flop in the box office to the point the once acclaimed director hasn't worked since) and on the back of that yours truly got paid to literally lurk in the background in leather. Of course Myfwt was much higher up the pecking order, she had lines, featured on the cover and was paid enough money to keep us in wine, drugs and very good food for a long while after the movie wrapped. Anyway, the Kiwi girl recognised Myfwt by my description and from that moment on we got on famously. It's worth noting SH was rather amused to learn one of his colleagues had rather an extreme kink, it's also worth noting that he was very generous that evening and lubricated the wheel of a marvellous conversation.
On the tube home I started chatting to an enormous African women who was returning from Church (Church? It was gone 11pm) with her baby daughter a huge kid with a big grin on it's face, who was apparently 3. I mention this only to give some indication of my condition, talking to strangers isn't me, if you've been reading Piqued long enough this should be apparent.
When I got home I could see Cunt in his living room so quite deliberately I slammed all the doors as hard as possible and thumped up the stairs. The fucking arsehole then knocked on my door to ask 'are you alright, bruv?' Trying hard not to laugh at the 'bruv' (what a fucking CUNT) I yelled 'NO!' and slammed to door in his face. I was utterly wasted and decided it was best for everyone if I went off to bed without any supper, which I did.
The subsequent hangover slowed me down this morning but I did get up in order to check my e-mails an attempt some sort of work. Normally I wouldn't have bothered but things are slow at the moment I had little choice.
This is why Piqued is late and for that I'm truly apologetic.
Fucking hell, another great director gone, RIP Michelangelo Antonioni. (Is it just me or does anyone else feel fucking annoyed that Michael fucking Winner is still alive?)
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Researching Douglas PagePresenter: V. Ross Pooley
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I'm thinking of some of the array functions. "key", "each", "pos", "range". These are often very useful as local identifiers! I have also seen code that (ab)uses $return, $list, $array, $string. What are other PHP programmers views on this?
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Experimental gene therapy treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy offers hope for youngster
Jacob Rutt is a bright 11-year-old who likes to draw detailed maps in his spare time. But the budding geographer has a hard time with physical skills most children take for granted—running and climbing trees are beyond him, and even walking can be difficult. He was diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy known as Duchenne when he was two years old.
The disease affects about 1 in 3,500 newborns—mostly boys—worldwide. It usually becomes apparent in early childhood, as weakened skeletal muscles cause delays in milestones such as sitting and walking. Children usually become wheelchair-dependent during their teens. As heart muscle is increasingly affected, the disease becomes life threatening and many patients die from heart failure in their 20s.
Today, Jacob is one of 51 children participating in a nationwide clinical trial for a new type treatment that could offer help to those suffering from devastating neuromuscular disease. Clinical researchers at UC Davis Medical Center and a handful other research centers around the nation are testing a high-tech drug designed to fix the underlying genetic defect causing the progressive muscular decline that is seen in children with Duchenne.
"This type of genetic therapy is the most exciting treatment approach I have witnessed in my career for Duchenne muscular dystrophy," said Craig McDonald, professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation at UC Davis, as well as principal investigator of the national clinical trial that Jacob is participating in. "We are hopeful that it will delay many of the disease's manifestations and ultimately improve life expectancy for patients."
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by genetic mutations in the gene for the muscle protein dystrophin. The protein is a stabilizer that protects muscle fibers; without enough functional dystrophin, muscles become damaged, causing them to weaken and deteriorate over time.
Functioning a bit like a bridge over a dangerous chasm, the experimental drug—known as drisapersen—is designed to effectively cover over the specific genetic mutation, allowing the problem area to be skipped and causing cells to produce a slightly shorter – but functional – dystrophin protein.
Because Duchenne muscular dystrophy is rare and the drug addresses only a small subset of the genetic variants responsible for the disease, recruiting qualified patients was not easy. Of the medical centers involved in the study, UC Davis, with its highly regarded neuromuscular disease and physical medicine and rehabilitation expertise, enrolled the largest group of patients in the nation. For more than a year, its eight young participants, including Jacob, have been to Sacramento from as far away as Colorado, Utah and Arizona. For each participant, the clinical trial involved weekly injections, which meant Jacob had to fly from Southern California to the UC Davis clinic every Friday for 24 weeks.
"I've never seen such a complicated study in terms of logistics," said Erica Goude, who serves as the research coordinator at the UC Davis site. "We're collaborating closely with departments of pediatrics, cardiology, radiology and several others, and their outstanding commitment to the project has made our tasks much easier and more efficient. This study is an amazing team effort that I see frequently reflected in the smiles of our patients and their families."
The study also entails extensive physical testing to monitor each participant's progress over time. To assess each child's physical abilities and progress, participants complete a six-minute walking test specifically designed and validated by a UC Davis team that included McDonald and Erik Henricson, a UC Davis muscular dystrophy researcher. The six-minute test is now used worldwide in all ambulatory clinical trials for Duchenne. Investigators also measure muscle strength and the level of dystrophin in the participants' muscles—the latter results obtained through muscle biopsies at several times during study. Of particular interest to the research teams are the residual effects of the drug several weeks after the injection series is completed.
Although McDonald says it is too early to draw conclusions from the current clinical trial, he suggests there is reason to be optimistic based on animal studies and evidence from another clinical trial in Europe. In that trial, patients and study investigators knew which patients were actually taking the experimental drug, meaning it was an "open" study. The current U.S. study is more rigorous because doctors and families are "blinded" about which drug regimen each participant has—either one of two dosages of the drug or a placebo—until the end of the study.
According to McDonald, the antisense oligonucleotide-mediated genetic therapy approach is particularly exciting because of its potential applications to most other variants of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other genetic diseases. Although the current experimental therapy specifically addresses mutations in only one particular region of the gene, the same therapeutic concept can be applied to many others.
"If successful, this approach can be developed into specific gene therapy that represents truly personalized medicine," said McDonald. "Covering a mutation to restore a normal genetic open reading frame for protein synthesis can be a powerful approach for a variety of genetic diseases."
Standardizing the drug as a therapy for Duchenne patients still requires approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Investigators say the therapy could be similar to insulin injections for diabetes. But rather than daily injections, the Duchenne treatment might only involve weekly shots, which youngsters could learn to administer on their own.
Now that the clinical trial is closed at UC Davis to new enrollees, McDonald and his study team are completing the protocol for each participant and analyzing the resulting data. They expect results sometime in late 2013 or 2014 once all the participants around the country have completed the trial.
In the meantime, even though no one knows whether Jacob received the genetic therapy drug or a placebo, his family is feeling good about being in a clinical trial. According to Jacob's dad, Timothy Rutt, the family even hopes to use some of its new frequent flyer miles for upcoming vacations.
"Jake really enjoyed being part of the study,'" said the elder Rutt, who, as the editor of an online news publication called altadenablog.com, has written about his son's participation. "We were proud that he showed a great deal of courage throughout the trial and understood its importance to kids like him."
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Sojourners magazine editor Jim Wallis reflects here on how becoming a father late in life has led him to see that a calendar is a moral document.
"I began to build my speaking and travel schedule," he says, "around things like Little League baseball, or even just putting them to bed at night — which I now do most nights of their lives. After a while, I realized I wasn't just doing this for them — but also for me."
What do our family calendars say about what, and who, we value most? And dads, Happy Father's Day!
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This week, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) defended his court as an adequate bureaucratic check on government surveillance, denying that the court is merely a "rubber stamp," as critics have argued.
The court, after all, famously approves nearly all of the government's final applications for surveillance (PDF).
"It is a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp," Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency analyst-turned-whistleblower, told The Guardian in early June 2013.
But as FISC Judge Reggie Walton noted in July of this year, that view doesn't take into account the collaboration between the FISC and the government to make surveillance applications more palatable.
In a newly published letter (PDF) to top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee dated October 11, 2013, Judge Walton writes:
During the three month period from July 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013 we have observed that 24.4% of matters submitted ultimately involved substantial changes to the information provided by the government or to the authorities granted as a result of Court inquiry or action. This does not include, for example, mere typographical corrections. Although we have every reason to believe that this three month period is typical in terms of the historic rate of modifications, we will continue to collect these statistics for an additional period of time and we will inform you if those data suggest that the recent three months were anomalous. It should be noted, however, that these statistics are an attempt to measure the results of what are, typically, informal communications between the branches. Therefore, the determination of exactly when a modification is "substantial" and whether it was caused solely by the FISC's intervention, can be a judgment call.
"The process remains opaque"
Not surprisingly, civil libertarians aren't very comforted by this view.
"The statistics shouldn't reassure anyone who's worried about the scope of the government's surveillance activities," Jameel Jaffer, an ACLU deputy legal director, told Ars. "The [FISC] can't unilaterally amend the surveillance laws, and those laws give the government extremely broad authority to monitor Americans' communications. And documents made public over the last few months show that the FISA court has generally interpreted those laws in the broadest possible way."
Other legal experts suggest that this new letter raises even more questions than it answers.
"Even after Judge Walton's letter of October 11, the process remains opaque," Ruthann Robson, a law professor at the City University of New York, told Ars.
"As described in Judge Walton's letter, it also places the Court in the position of assisting and advising the Government. What would be more transparent would be the total number of applications submitted and the number granted. Within that number, it would also be interesting to know how many were modified after the Court's suggestion—and whether that modification narrowed or possibly expanded the information being requested."
Fred Cate, a law professor and the director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and Institute for Information Policy Research at Indiana University, also told Ars that the letter "misses the major objections to the way the FISC works today, for example, in secret, without opposition, and dependent entirely on the agencies appearing before it for information on the surveillance, the technologies, the protections in place, and the likely impact."
One former senator who helped pave the way for the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the FISC, has previously told Ars that the court isn't acting how he would like it to be.
"I think one has to be disturbed to learn as we recently have that more than 1,800 applications and [around] more than 1,800 approvals have been made by the court," Gary Hart, a former Colorado senator who sat on the Church Committee, told Ars in June 2013.
"I would be a little more comfortable if there were more rejections," he said.