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Carlton Barmore Hutchins was born on 12 September 1904 in Albany, New York. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that state and graduated in June 1926. As a newly commissioned Ensign, Hutchins served on board the battleship Pennsylvania, then attended aviation courses at the Naval Academy and flight training at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. After receiving his aviator designation in February 1929 Ensign Hutchins was assigned to the aircraft carrier Saratoga, serving with Bombing Squadron Two-B and Fighting Squadron Six-B. In June 1929, he was promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade). In the Summer of 1931, he returned to Pensacola as an instructor. The following year, Hutchins began study at the Naval Postgraduate School and continued his higher education at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, from which he received a Master of Science degree.
In the Summer of 1934, Lt(JG) Hutchins reported to Scouting Squadron Five-B on board the light cruiser Memphis and transferred a year later to Scouting Squadron Six-B on the light cruiser Concord. In June 1936, he was promoted to Lieutenant and assigned to Naval Air Station, Anacostia in Washington, D.C. Hutchins next served with Patrol Squadron Seventeen, operating with the seaplane tender Thrush. In November 1937, he transferred to Patrol Squadron Eleven, based on the tender Langley. On 2 February 1938, while piloting a PBY-2 in a tactical exercise off the southern Californian coast, he collided with another VP-11 PBY-2. Exhibiting courage and coolness, Lt. Hutchins remained at his badly damaged plane's controls, allowing members of his crew to parachute to safety, but was killed in the plane's subsequent crash. For his "extraordinary heroism" on this occasion, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Carlton B. Hutchin's remains were not recovered.
USS Hutchins (DD-476), 1942-1948, was named in honor of Lieutenant Hutchins.
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Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Carlton B. Hutchins, USN
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He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" on 2 February 1938 when, as pilot of a PBY-2 patrol bomber, he remained at the controls of his badly damaged aircraft after it collided with another PBY-2 off the California coast, thus affording an opportunity for other crew members to parachute to safety. Lieutenant Hutchins was killed in the plane's subsequent crash, .
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CHICAGO, Jan. 4, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Durata Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:DRTX) today announced additional preliminary, top-line results for its DISCOVER 1 (" Dalbavancin for Infections of the Skin COmpared to Vancomycin at an Early Response") Phase 3 study of dalbavancin, which is under investigation for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) caused by susceptible gram-positive bacteria, including MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus). As reported on December 11, 2012, preliminary top-line data show that dalbavancin achieved its primary endpoint of non-inferiority at 48-72 hours after initiation of therapy, as determined by the cessation of spread of the lesion, as well as the resolution of fever. The subpopulation of patients with MRSA at baseline achieved similar results. The secondary endpoint of clinical success at the end of treatment, the expected primary endpoint for regulatory review in Europe, was also met. Statistical analyses of the results from this secondary endpoint are included below in the updated table of top-line data.
Researchers were comparing two intravenous (IV) doses of dalbavancin given one week apart with twice-daily vancomycin doses for 14 days. Patients randomized to the vancomycin regimen had an option to switch to oral linezolid after three days of vancomycin treatment. The DISCOVER 1 protocol was conducted pursuant to a special protocol agreement (SPA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based on the FDA's Draft Guidance for Developing Drugs for Treatment of ABSSSI. The protocol for the trial was also designed based on scientific advice provided by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). DISCOVER 1 was a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy trial conducted in 573 patients at 92 sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe comparing dalbavancin to a regimen of vancomycin and an option for oral linezolid for the treatment of ABSSSI.
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|US Primary Endpoint
|Early response (48-72 hours)
|240/288 (83.3%)
|233/285 (81.8%)
|1.5% (-4.6, 7.9)
|Patients with MRSA
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|32/39 (82.1%)
|Vancomycin/ linezolid
|Difference in point estimates (95% Confidence interval)
|EMA Primary Endpoint
|Clinical Status (End of Treatment)
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|222/243 (91.4%)
|-4.4% (-9.6, 1.6)*
|Patients with MRSA
|30/35 (85.7%)
|30/31 (96.8%)
|Investigator Assessment (End of Treatment)
|233/246 (94.7%)
|237/243 (97.5%)
|-2.8% (-6.7, 0.7)
|*adjusted for pre-specified baseline variables.
Additional information regarding the trial can be found on clinicaltrials.gov."These data are consistent with our previous phase 3 study, VER001-9, which served as the pivotal study in our prior NDA submission and confirm the activity of dalbavancin in the treatment of patients with serious skin infections," said Dr. Michael Dunne, Chief Medical Officer.
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I began a solo motorcycle trip from Los Angeles on Friday, June 22, 2012, heading north, as far as I'm having fun. I'll be updating my sketchbook with posts from the road, and not necessarily artwork. I'm too beat by the time I'm in camp or in a cheap motel.
I'll continue with the sketches when I get back in a few weeks.
Yeah right! It's been months! I'll get back to it as I finish up some classes and have more time again. Maybe in another month, like in February, 2013.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Underwater Landscape Fantasy Doodle
I used to do illustrated manuscript style art on the edges of my soles of my Converse Chuck Taylors in high school. Maybe this doodling is another extension of that. Not that this resembles illustrated manuscript... Just thinking out loud...
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Seventeen, Birds, a Body, and Towers Doodle
Again, I have no idea... This is from a meeting. I Photoshopped in some grey or gray (I can't make up my mind) to balance out the top and bottom of the drawing. Odd stuff from my mind...
Monday, October 24, 2011
Eyeballs, Cameras, Roses, and Contraptions
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tribal Ink Drawng
I did this one a couple of months ago, after spending some time in a museum looking at Peruvian textiles. Maybe Moche? Yeah. I said textiles. What I mean is some significant robe covered with hundreds of little people and faces, all different, in profile with spears. Other pieces were of stylized birds. I guess if I look at something long enough, it gets engrained.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Reflected Man Ink Drawing
Here's another one from a meeting. Usually they're pretty representative of my inner workings during the time I spend sitting at the table listening to the agenda. I can and do listen attentively, but I need to keep my pen working. I'm not sure what's happening in this drawing. I intentionally drew the reflected image as a general likeness instead of going for a facsimile copy.
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Ancient Aliens Totem Drawing
Coast to Coast AM, a radio show that deals with conspiracies, the supernatural, and aliens along with a variety of other less-mainstream topics. I love this stuff!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Big Eyed Girl Ink Sketch
This drawing is based on images from a dream where I saw my children while living as a Masai in Kenya. My daughter was so pretty with these giant beautiful eyes that it stuck with me and inspired a big eyed drawing.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Nightmare Ink Doodle
Much of my doodle-type art is influenced by what I've been thinking about, books I've been reading, or what's been going on around me. Other stuff, like this, I have no idea where it comes from. With this stuff, I allow the images to develop on their own. Maybe I channel the content into my drawings from an outside source or entity, or it's from my subconscious, but it's often creepy. What does that say about me? I'm perceptive, psychic, or maybe psychotic deep down? Hmm... I don't know.
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Simply distinguish Hawaii and Alaska from the mainland by conditions on the postal code. Remember, the first matching rule will be used, so the rest of the USA does not need a check for the ZIP code any more. In the advanced version, the two rules for Hawaii and Alaska can be merged using the OR operator.
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Name=Shipping to rest of USA; Shipping=8.95
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By setting the shipping costs to NoShipping, the plugin will not check any more rules and will NOT offer any shipping at all. This can be used to exclude e.g. some islands or heavy packages from shipping:
Name=No shipping of heavy packages to a certain area; Weight>100; 8000<=ZIP<9000; NoShipping
Name=Flat rate otherwise; Shipping=15
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First article 3€, each additional article 1€ additional
Weight-dependent shipping, 5€ per kg
Weight-dependent shipping, different rates
Weight<5; Shipping=10*Weight
Weight<10; Shipping=8*Weight
Weight<15; Shipping=7*Weight
Name=Shipping of 15kg and above; Shipping=6*Weight
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Such a cost structure can be expressed by the following rules:
Weight<5; 5*Weight
5<=Weight<10; (5*5)+4*(Weight-5)
10<=Weight; (5*5)+(4*5)+3*(Weight-10)
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Free shipping if the average price per article is at least 5€
Name=Free shipping for average price above 5€; amount/articles >= 5; Shipping=0
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Notice that the OR operator is implemented only in the advanced version.
Name=Rule for several postcodes; 4000<=ZIP<=4229 OR 4300<=ZIP<=4307 OR 4500<=ZIP<=4575; Shipping=12.95
Offering USPS international shipping (condition on Length+2*(Width+Height) of the box) with erring on the safe sideThe USPS apparently has an upper bound for international shipping. In particular, Length+2*(Width+Height) of the box needs to be below a certain threshold. Now, the plugin can not exactly determine how large your packaging box will be, but a nice upper bound can be obtained by simply stacking all products, one on top of each other (this ignores that you can usually put two or more products next to each other). The length of the resulting box will be MaxLength, the width will be MaxWidth, and the height will be TotalHeight. This is a crude upper bound, but if that upper bound already fulfills the condition, then the real box will fulfill them for sure. (On the other hand, if the upper bound does not fulfill the condition, you might still be able to optimize the packaging to fulfill the conditions, but the plugin cannot easily detect this. Mathematically, this is an optimization problem, and far from simple!)
Name=USPS upper bound fulfilled; MaxLength+2*(MaxWidth+TotalHeight)<80; Shipping=25
Checking whether a variable begins with a certain string or number
The ~ (tilde) operator checks wether the left and the right side coincide at the beginning (all characters of the shorter term need to be at the beginning of the longer term):
Name=ZIP starts with string CW1; ZIP~"CW1"; Shipping=10
Name=ZIP starts with numbers 123; ZIP~123; Shipping=1
Canadian postal codes
For Canadian postal codes (alphanumeric), there are five dedicated variables available for the conditions: Canada_FSA, Canada_Area, Canada_Urban, Canada_Subarea and Canada_LDU.
Name=Free Shipping to British Columbia; Canada_Area=="V"; Shipping=0
Name=Chicoutimi (Quebec); Canada_Area=="G" AND Canada_Urban==7 AND "G"<=Canada_Subarea<="K"; Shipping=5
Name=Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine; Canada_FSA=="G0N" AND Canada_LDU=="1B0"; Shipping=7
Please notice that in the third rule, the separate checks for FSA and LDU are better than a check for ZIP=="G0N 1B0", since it will also work if the user enters multiple spaces between the FSA and the LSU.
UK postal codes
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Name="Free shipping to Birmingham"; UK_Area=="B"; Shipping=0
Name="Free shipping to parts of Walsall"; UK_Area=="WS" AND 15<=UK_District; Shipping=0
Name=No Shipping to PO boxes in North London; UK_Outward=="N1P"; NoShipping
For Britisch overseas territories, only the outward and the inward parts are assigned, while the area, district and subdistrict variables are empty.
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Anyone want to take a few more stabs at this with me? Still going on...
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just a few comments...
Is your HDD formatted NTFS.
Also i had a problem before where is was creating .tmp files because it didn't save it properly...you may want to check hidden files...
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NTFS for certain, wouldn't use any other format.
I'm wondering if this problem couldn't possibly be due to a remote access session to a heavily secured, corporate server that my mom had to utilize last month to do her work online. It installed something over my mom's computer and it somehow resulted in knocking out not only the home network to all three systems, but the internet connection and settings also. No idea how that could happen, but it happened... perhaps it also screwed with my NAS too?
Like I've said... the router is functioning at 100% and so is the EHDD... just not over the NAS. I AM still having problems with the network, though (cannot communicate from the desktop computer to laptop, cites "may not have permission" so that could MAYBE be part of the issue here too.
Just brainstorming... never know what's going to spark an idea, right? Haha...
Thanks for the help and I'll check into the hidden files... anything I should be looking for, specifically?
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Not specifically, just to see if there is any indication that why this is not working however I think this could be a problem with SMB2. Don't quote me on this im just stabbing out some ideas. This is a report from 2009 and i think microsoft has a fix out there for it...
I don't want to go into alot of detail in this forum but Read this article...http://www.itworld.com/security/78261/microsoft-says-turn-windows-feature-protect-windows
You can either run the .msi fix or disable manually as follows:
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Amanda Witt on the Immeasurable Value of Wasted Lives
Today I and five other women served a funeral meal for a hundred mourners. The proceedings didn't move me—the deceased was full of years, and besides, I'd never met her, though I did have to walk past her open casket to get to the church kitchen, hurrying my children, not because I was worried about their fragile little psyches but because I simply didn't feel like coping with whatever questions or emotions a dead body might raise. I'd rearranged our complicated schedules and driven across town in icy weather to help serve the funeral meal; that was enough.
Having settled the kids in an empty classroom with their schoolbooks, I rolled up my sleeves and set to work preparing lunch. The other women in the kitchen had known the dead woman, and while we pulled pork and cut cake and stocked relish trays, they talked about her.
They had a 30-year-old picture of her taken at the church building site before the building went up; she had helped start the church youth camp; she had gotten old and gone to live near her children; she'd died and been shipped home to be buried beside her husband. She sounded, in sum, very much like any number of good church women I'd known over the years.
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"I knew her best through our children," one woman said to me. "Her middle daughter, the one she lost, was the same age as one of my kids."
"The daughter died?" I asked, more focused on the package of buns I was trying to open. It was probably a car accident or cancer—the usual suspects.
"Well, first she . . . got pregnant." The almost imperceptible hesitation made me think the girl hadn't been married at the time. "Then it was one of those straight up-and-down decisions. The doctors could save either her life or the baby's. She had a bad diabetic problem."
I looked up from the buns. "She chose to save the baby?"
"Yes. She decided to save him and not herself, and that's how she died."
Another woman spoke up: "Who raised the boy?" They answered by naming a couple of women I didn't know—first he lived with one, they said, then the other. What a hard beginning to a life, I thought. I wondered whether he turned out well, being raised without a mother or father, passed from hand to hand; I wondered what he had made of himself, whether his life was worth his mother's death.
"That baby is a grown man now," they told me, counting up the years. "He must be twenty-four, twenty-five years old. In fact"—one woman gestured through the serving window at the crowded fellowship hall—"there he is."
There he was.
Suddenly my eyes were wet.
I don't know what he has made of himself, whether he is a good man or a bad one, but I do know that I'm ashamed for wondering. If the man who lived has gravely erred, if he has caused all manner of sorrow and suffering, that does not mean his mother should have chosen differently, any more than Christ should have chosen to spare himself and condemn the mess that is mankind. That young mother did what was right. Whether her son does what is right is a separate issue.
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We are so inclined to over-value outcomes, efficiency, even those of us who know quite well that we serve a God of profligate grace, a Lord who rejoices in pure nard squandered on the Messiah's feet, a Creator who strews across fields and through lives full many a flower to "blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Love is worth more than many ledgers; obedience, whatever the cost, is never wasted. In the right-side-up world of the kingdom of God, sacrifice is honored—and sacrifice, with "sacred" at its root, means to give up something for something else of far less worth.
It means that the books don't balance, not on this earth, and that's okay with God. As the prophet Isaiah noted, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the Lord's hand, and my reward is with God" (Is. 49:4).
Some years ago, a philosopher friend—a devout Christian, a conservative theologian who has publicly debated leading atheists—described listening to a man who had been, for 25 years, a missionary in Islamic lands and had won not a single convert for Christ.
"I thought, 'What a waste,'" said my friend. "What a total waste of this man's life. And then I felt an immediate and powerful sense of rebuke."
He is an intellectual, not in the least inclined to emotionalism. If he says he felt rebuked, he was rebuked. And for what? For wishing Muslims had converted to Christianity? For wishing a missionary had been blessed by seeing the fruit of his labor?
Of course not. He was rebuked for forgetting that God does not tally as we tally; he was rebuked for dishonoring one weary man's long faithfulness. As was I, for presuming to weigh—so quickly and thoughtlessly—an old woman's life, a young one's death, and a young man's worth.
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They won it all in 2010, ending a 49-year drought, but had to overhaul their supporting cast due to salary cap restraints. Back-to-back first-round playoff exits followed, but the Blackhawks had a record start last season and beat Boston in the Stanley Cup finals.
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CAIRO - A recent visit by Egypt's army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to Russia has carried five "messages" to stakeholders in Egypt and abroad, analysts opine.
"The visit shows that the incumbent authorities are capable of pursuing a balanced international policy and staying away from solely relying on its relationship with Washington," Mounzer Sleiman, the director of the Washington-based think tank Center for American and Arab Studies, told Anadolu Agency.
Al-Sisi, who is seen as the driving force of the July 3 ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi, concluded a two-day visit to Russia late Thursday.
The visit, Sleiman said, also sends the message that "Egypt wants to diversify the sources of its military equipment".
Egypt depended on US-made tanks, armored vehicles, fighter jets and other equipment for its army for decades since the populous Arab country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1978.
Military relations between Cairo and Washington, however, started to turn tense in 2011 when Egypt cracked down on a group of local and international democracy promotion groups, including US groups, detaining some of their workers.
Washington held back the deliveries of important military equipment and slashed a sizeable amount of the annual cash aid it gives to Egypt following Morsi's overthrow last summer.
Sleiman opines that the visit was also meant to put some international light on al-Sisi before his expected bid to run in Egypt's upcoming presidential election.
Extremely popular at the local level, al-Sisi has not said whether or not he will run for president.
However, former presidential contender Amr Moussa said a few days ago that the army chief had decided to run in the election.
Mokhtar Ghobashi, the deputy head of local think tank Arab Center for Political and Strategic Studies, describes al-Sisi's visit to Russia as an Egyptian "maneuver with Washington.
"It sends the message that Egypt is able to find an alternative if the US rejected al-Sisi's presidential candidacy or tried to pressure Egypt on democracy and human rights record," he said.
"Russia also wants to win Egypt to its side as an ally to guarantee its strategic interests inside Syria by at least neutralizing Egypt," Gobashi told AA.
He, however, said the Egyptian army depends heavily on US weapons and that its new arms' deal with Russia is a mere "strategic maneuver".
The expert believes that Egypt just wants to threaten the US administration that it can find an alternative for it.
Copyright © 2014 Anadolu Agency


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