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October 23, 2014 — By Kelly Born
One of our grantees, the Pew Research Center, just released another great report in its series exploring political polarization in the United States, and how that relates to government, society, and people's personal lives.
This latest report, Political Polarization and Media Habits, explores what sources people turn to for news, which ones they trust (and which they don't), who they tend to talk to about politics, and how all of this varies by ideology. The short answer is that ideology predicts a lot.
Several of Pew's findings were not entirely surprising. For example:
But a few things did surprise me:
In short, the most ideologically extreme Americans have very different news consumption and discussion habits, many of which tend to reinforce their own belief systems. And of course those on the farther left and right ends of the spectrum, who together comprise about 20% of the public, have a greater impact on the political process—they vote much more, and are more likely to be driving the political conversation amongst their friends. "Nearly four in ten consistent conservatives (39%) and 30% of consistent liberals tend to drive political discussions. In other words, they talk about politics often, say others tend to turn to them for information rather than the reverse, and describe themselves as leaders rather than listeners in these kinds of conversations."
The silver lining in Pew's findings is that most Americans still do rely on an "array of outlets—with varying audience profiles—for political news. And many consistent conservatives and liberals hear dissenting political views in their everyday lives." Figuring out how to encourage more of this could go a long way toward fixing our dysfunctional politics.
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October 22, 2014 — By Lindsay Louie
Many funders say they have found it challenging to collaborate with other funders in deep, ongoing efforts. Those who seek to collaborate lament the hurdles they need to overcome: each foundation is so independent, singularly focused on its own goals and strategies, and unwilling to be flexible, even when it might mean a better chance of addressing daunting problems. Indeed, our own president has spoken about his experience of trying to foster greater collaboration. For funders who overcome these barriers, it can be a laborious process to get everyone on the same page to work together—time-consuming groundwork, waiting for various funder decision timelines to align, and so forth. But there is real power in successful collaboration, and there are examples where it has worked well. So when Fay Twersky and I began to explore a collective funding effort last year, we held these cautions in our minds yet were determined to overcome them.
Last month, seven funders officially launched Fund for Shared Insight—a collaborative effort to help strengthen and improve philanthropy focused on increasing foundation openness in service of effectiveness. This group of seven includes the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, JPB Foundation, Liquidnet, the Rita Allen Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. We hope that other funders will join the effort, too. Shared Insight plans to make grants of approximately $5 million each year for the next three years. In this first year, we put out an open call for proposals in three categories and received nearly 200 proposals that are currently being reviewed. We will announce grant decisions in November.
What do we mean by "increasing openness in service of effectiveness?" We seek to change the culture of sharing and listening among foundations. We want foundations to be more open about what they are doing, how they are doing it, and what they are learning along the way. We are not just asking them to "be transparent," a request that could mean "share everything," but rather to be open about aspects of their work that could help others better achieve their own goals. And in order for that to happen, foundations have to listen to what others have to share, too—including the people our funding is ultimately meant to help. We believe that with this type of increased openness, philanthropy will be more effective. Further, we don't just want one foundation to change, or five, or ten—we want the entire culture of openness to evolve so that these practices are rewarded and new norms and habits take root. We recognize that foundations are both the targets and the agents of change and that if anyone can help catalyze such a shift, it is foundations ourselves.
While it's still early days, Shared Insight has been highly productive as a collaborative. Together, we co-created a strategy that balanced taking the time to gather everyone's input with a sense of urgency and a desire to get to work. We've moved together from concept to making grants in less than ten months. And even as we've prioritized urgency and made decisions relatively quickly, the materials at Fund for Shared Insight, as well as the thought and research that went into them, are rigorous, thoughtful, and responsive to feedback we've collected along the way (though of course they are not perfect!).
Excellent planning and project management have been critical to what we've accomplished so far. Melinda Tuan does a remarkable job as project manager for Shared Insight. Having this ongoing "backbone" support has been essential—none of the partnering foundation representatives has the bandwidth to manage Shared Insight with the daily attention to detail that it requires.
While planning and strategy have been to central to our success in launching Shared Insight, there is another core element of funder collaboration that may seem at odds with rigor—the serendipity of how it comes together and operates over time when you don't know for sure what will happen. Someone told me once that serendipity occurs when preparation meets opportunity, and it's an equation I love (and try to live by) because you can actually "plan" for serendipity. You can be prepared (at every step of a process or collaboration) and you can choose to embrace opportunity at almost every turn. Funders did just that when they agreed to join this group based on only a strawman strategic framework, and have embraced it at every decision point along the way, from co-creating our strategy, to determining the RFP process, to selecting grant recipients. Rather than view unknowns as a negative thing or something we can't control, the members of this collaborative have embraced the opportunity to hold the space of "not knowing" and make choices together.
The fact that each of the seven Shared Insight funders has made room for serendipity has been a kind of "secret sauce" that has enabled us to overcome many of the hurdles that keep funder collaboration from being more common. I'm grateful to our colleagues for the spirit with which they've approached this work, and excited for the serendipity that we'll encounter on the path ahead.
October 21, 2014 — By Larry Kramer
Every November, the Board of the Hewlett Foundation authorizes a budget for the upcoming year, and, as part of that process, reviews what progress we have (or have not) made in our grantmaking strategies during the preceding year. As this requires Board members to absorb a great deal of complex detail, last November we rolled out a new version of the Board Book, designed to make the material easier to follow. (June Wang wrote a post about the Board Book redesign for our blog.) The revised Book included, among other things, a new "overview" that presented data for the past five years on the number of grants, their average size and duration, and the percentage that were for general operating support (GOS). Here is what the Board saw:
These figures raised questions for a number of Board members, who found them surprising in certain respects. Several asked whether our grants had become smaller in amount and/or shorter in duration than they used to be. Others wondered if we were drifting away from the Hewlett Foundation's longstanding preference for GOS. Still others remarked that it was hard to draw conclusions without seeing the data broken down by program. They asked for a more thorough analysis of our grant trends.
The Board's reaction stimulated a robust conversation among the staff. Had our grantmaking changed in ways that ought to concern us? Have our grants become smaller or shorter or both? Have we moved away from the tradition of helping institutions through general operating support toward a more controlling emphasis on discrete projects? If so, have these changes affected our staffing or the way we work?
Answering questions like these, we soon discovered, is anything but straightforward. On the contrary, our efforts to do so simply raised more questions. For example, the data we used in November presented GOS in terms of the number of grants, which can be misleading because GOS grants tend to be larger and therefore made to relatively fewer organizations. Would it be more accurate to measure GOS as a percentage of grant dollars? Should the data include Organizational Effectiveness grants, which have become numerous in recent years as part of a concerted effort to help grantees, but are—by definition—small and for a single year? How should we classify something like the extraordinary $500 million ClimateWorks grant, which was GOS and paid out over five years, but booked entirely in the year it was made (thus overstating GOS for that year and understating it for the following four)? Similar complications presented themselves when we focused on other measures, like grant size or duration. Even veteran program staff were surprised by the number of potential variations and complications that emerged in our conversations.
We concluded that a more thorough analysis of our grant trends was called for. To that end, we enlarged our review to cover the past ten years, instead of five. Beginning in 2004 made good sense: by then the Foundation's endowment had recovered from the bursting tech bubble and incorporated the assets of Bill Hewlett's estate, and the first stabs were being made to formulate and implement Hewlett's distinctive brand of "outcome-focused grantmaking." In addition to making it a ten-year review, we asked the programs to make separate presentations to explain how and why their grantmaking evolved as it did, incorporating a narrative alongside the statistics. We gave each program thirty minutes with the Board at our July meeting, during which they walked through the past decade of grantmaking and described the kinds of things that had shaped their particular outcomes. The memos they prepared for this purpose are included in my annual letter for 2014.
My task, at the conclusion of these presentations—which we interspersed with other business over the two-day meeting—was to draw things together and make some sense of the overall picture that emerged, if one emerged. (It did.)
My full letter shares what we found. I hope you'll take the time to read the whole thing.
October 21, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
Earlier today, we published our 2013 Annual Report. As in prior years, this report contains the budget memos each of our programs prepares annually for our Board, as well as additional information about the Foundation's finances, personnel, and grantmaking. This year's report also links to a letter from Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer describing an analysis we recently undertook of trends in our grantmaking over the past decade.
October 21, 2014 — By Kelly Born
This week a new nonprofit news site is launching in the U.S. Given the thousands of online news sites that already exist (an estimated 170+ of them nonprofit), you might be questioning why you should care. But you should, because this one is a bit different.
The Conversation is an independent news and commentary site produced by a team of professional journalists who work closely with academic authors to leverage the academics' expertise, apply it to important issues, and make it available to the public.
We recently made a grant to The Conversation through Special Projects, because their work struck us as potentially illuminating on a couple of dimensions. As pretty much everyone who reads news knows, since the advent of the Internet, journalism around the world has been struggling. Two big challenges dominate, at least for those who care about democracy:
The Conversation touches upon both of these problems.
On the business model side, the plurality of The Conversation's funding comes from universities, at least in the U.K. and Australia (the two countries where it has been active to date). Academics benefit from an increased audience for their research, and the universities themselves benefit from increased visibility. Free to read, share, and republish, The Conversation makes its articles available to other news outlets for distribution (see recent publications by the Washington Post here, here, here, and here). In short, the financial side appears promising.
On the ideology side, public trust in institutions is falling across the board. There is some hope that university researchers will be viewed as credible sources of information, at least by some subset of the population. A recent U.K. study found that "90% said they trusted scientists working for universities." But U.K. scientists may fare better on the trust dimension than American ones. Huffington Post recently found that "only 36 percent of Americans reported having "a lot" of trust that information they get from scientists is accurate and reliable. Fifty-one percent said they trust that information only a little, and another 6 percent said they don't trust it at all."
Another source for the same data actually gets to the point of The Conversation—a members-only American Sociological Review study: Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Trust in the United States, 1974 to 2010. The full study has a handy chart showing the changes in trust of science by ideological affiliation, but unfortunately, it's only accessible if you pay for it and figuring out how to even show the chart here, in a legally permissible way, would take a few days to sort out). On top of that, the whole study is a bit hard to read (for a layperson), and it's very long—all challenges with the accessibility of academic knowledge that the Conversation is designed to help overcome.
In addition to the challenges of presenting complex information in a way that a lay audience can understand it, The Conversation also recognizes the challenge of being pigeonholed ideologically—and thus either being ignored entirely, or helping to further the growing problem of U.S. political polarization. Academic authors must "abide by protocols that help rebuild trust in journalism: they sign on to an editorial charter; disclose funding and conflicts; abide by community standards; and write in areas in which they have demonstrated expertise."
Given all of this, I'm cautiously optimistic that The Conversation can find a good foothold here in the U.S. at a time when our public, and our policymakers, badly need to re-find more sources of agreed-upon facts and expert knowledge. I would welcome your thoughts!
October 17, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
Last week I offered a short tutorial on how not to get a grant. Now, by popular demand, I'm sharing thoughts about what you can do—beyond not committing those seven deadly sins—to increase the chances of getting funding for a project from a foundation like ours.
As you read these suggestions, keep in mind two important caveats: First, these are my idiosyncratic views, and represent no more. Grain of salt, and all that. Second, many factors well outside the control of prospective grantees affect their chances of success. These include, for example, a funder's grantmaking budget, the type of strategy being pursued and the particular moment in that strategy's lifetime. When the budget isn't growing and a strategy is already well underway, a funder may find it difficult to start a relationship with a new organization, regardless of the brilliance of the idea being proposed. If, on the other hand, a funder is in an exploratory mode or has recently seen a bump in her budget, she may be actively searching for new ideas and partners. That's a great opportunity just waiting to be seized.
With those qualifications, herewith my best advice:
Let's stick with these eight, knowing that in the Chinese tradition eight is the number associated with one of the most important determinants of whether a pitch is successful: luck.
October 16, 2014 — By Kelly Born, Tom Glaisyer , and Jonathan Kartt
Kelly Born is a Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation, where she works on both Special Projects and our Madison Initiative. Tom Glaisyer is the program director of the Democracy Fund and Jonathan Kartt works in Programs & Evaluation for the Rita Allen Foundation. This is the second of two posts on voter information platforms.
Last week, we shared our early research on voter information platforms and the breadth of exciting new organizations that our research unearthed. The impetus: The Hewlett Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation and the Democracy Fund all share an interest in better equipping voters with the information they need: to participate in elections, vote in ways that reflect their interests, understand candidate positions and ballot issues, and to keep track of their representatives.
We partnered to explore dozens of these platforms, and quickly realized that we weren't sure how best to support the field, or which groups to partner with. So the Hewlett Foundation and the Rita Allen Foundation crafted an RFP to solicit proposals from a handful of potential nonprofit partners, with the goal of funding them in a rapid-cycle innovation project. We were open to all kinds of ideas, and suggested a few possibilities:
Ultimately the proposals we received included some combination of all of these options.
Independently, the three foundations reviewed and assessed the pros and cons of all of the proposals, and between us we are now funding three public charities that responded to the RFP:
All of these projects include a research component to help understand what nonpartisan information resonates with voters, in hopes that we can learn and improve in future election cycles.
We are optimistic about the possibilities of these charitable projects, and about innovations in the sector more broadly - both for-profit and non-profit. These efforts offer hope that in future cycles citizens will have access to—and use—a wealth of information for even down-ticket races.
But we also have (lots of) questions:
We are wrestling with these questions, supporting some research with these partners to test aspects of them, and exploring more broadly how we can aid the emerging community of practice that exists around this next generation of nonpartisan voter information tools. As always, we welcome your comments.
October 16, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (Photo Credit: Rennet Stowe)
Rod Torrez, Executive Director of HECHO (a grantee of our Environment Program), celebrates President Obama's recent declaration of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, and Latinos' role in supporting it:
The San Gabriel Mountains in particular have always been a welcome reprieve from the city for Latinos, especially for hunting and fishing, and have been increasingly valuable as a destination for outdoor education programs, with private organizations and public agencies using the area to connect many Latino urban youth to the outdoors. Moreover, the San Gabriel Mountains watershed provides a significant portion of the region's clean water supply; protecting the health of the resource is paramount to the health of communities downstream. There are many good reasons to celebrate the new national monument. But it is important to note that the San Gabriel Mountains, along with the Rio Grande del Norte, and the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monuments represent a new approach by protecting the land we love and respecting how we have enjoyed the land for generations. It's encouraging to know that we can continue to enjoy these places for generations to come. It's also satisfying to know that Latinos have played a significant role in protecting them.
The San Gabriel Mountains in particular have always been a welcome reprieve from the city for Latinos, especially for hunting and fishing, and have been increasingly valuable as a destination for outdoor education programs, with private organizations and public agencies using the area to connect many Latino urban youth to the outdoors. Moreover, the San Gabriel Mountains watershed provides a significant portion of the region's clean water supply; protecting the health of the resource is paramount to the health of communities downstream.
There are many good reasons to celebrate the new national monument. But it is important to note that the San Gabriel Mountains, along with the Rio Grande del Norte, and the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monuments represent a new approach by protecting the land we love and respecting how we have enjoyed the land for generations. It's encouraging to know that we can continue to enjoy these places for generations to come. It's also satisfying to know that Latinos have played a significant role in protecting them.
October 16, 2014 — By Sarah Lucas
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) won the race to the top in 2014. But if the past few years are any indication, it won't hold onto the top spot for long. Last year the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation took top honors, and in 2012 it was the UK Department for International Development. The fact that the race is on—for increased transparency in foreign assistance—is a huge tribute to Publish What You Fund's Aid Transparency Index (ATI). The Index, in its fourth year of publication, ranks an ever-growing number of global donors (currently 68) on how transparent their spending is.
Last week's launch of the 2014 ATI at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC offered four very different leaders in transparency a chance to talk about how ATI is inspiring agencies to action, and why that matters—one each from a multilateral donor, a bilateral donor, a civil society network, and a ministry of finance.
Ranking tenth in 2012, and forth in 2013, UNDP crept their way up to #1 on the Index in 2014. They took the long-view, built the necessary systems, and in the words of Haoliang Xu, United Nations Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, they made a deliberate decision to change their culture and mindset toward openness—not just at headquarters, but across their 140 country offices.
If UNDP ran a marathon to the top spot, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) ran a sprint. PEPFAR ranks only 30th on the 2014 Index, so why the hype? Well, just last year they were number 50. PEPFAR is a clear case of what you can achieve if you have a real champion for open data in the drivers' seat. Ambassador Deborah Birx, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and head of PEPFAR, is just that. With three decades working in HIV/AIDS immunology, vaccine research, and global health, she came into office with a clear-eyed and heartfelt interest in data. She started at PEPFAR in April 2014, just three months before the cut-off for data collection for the 2014 ATI. After the launch event, a representative of Publish What you Fund mentioned that Birx has asked them what she could do to improve on the Index. No one believed she could move the needle in 2014 because she had so little time. But in the course of just a few weeks, she took the program up 20 spots. Proof positive that political will is more important than the technical or administrative complications of opening the books.
As interesting as the horserace is, it is not nearly as interesting as why UNDP and PEPFAR made these moves. Why do these agencies want to be in the race at all?
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October 10, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
If there's one thing you learn working at a Foundation, it's how not to ask for funding. I imagine every grantmaker has his or her own thoughts about what makes a pitch imperfect. Here's my personal list of the seven deadly sins that prospective grantees sometimes commit when they come to visit:
Unlike the actual seven deadly sins, it's easy to avoid committing these peccadillos. And, mercifully, most of the people we meet with do make good use of the time. When they do, they find we're eager to hear about creative and effective work being done by organizations whose goals we share. We like talking about the field we're in, bouncing around ideas, engaging in the give-and-take of questions and critiques. We like leaving a meeting with new ideas and new professional connections—and sometimes, just sometimes, the germ of a future grant.


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Sun Microsystems' Profits Slightly Up
Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported results today for its fiscal first quarter, which ended September 30, 2007.
Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 were $3.219 billion, an increase of approximately 1 percent as compared with $3.189 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2007. Total gross margin as a percent of revenues was 48.5, an increase of 5.0 percentage points, as compared with the first quarter of fiscal 2007.
Net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 on a GAAP basis was $89 million, or $0.03 per share on a diluted basis, as compared with a net loss of $56 million, or ($0.02) per share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2007. GAAP net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 includes a $113 million restructuring charge, which equates to $0.03 per share.
Cash generated from operations for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 was $574 million, and cash and marketable debt securities balance at the end of the quarter was $5.193 billion.
"We showed continued execution and operating discipline and delivered a very solid first quarter with continued revenue growth, profitability and gross margin expansion," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. "We saw particular strength in our high-end systems lineup, good growth in our subscription-based identity management software offerings, and even more adoption and momentum behind the award-winning open source Solaris 10 Operating System and our virtualization offerings. Growth remains our top priority for fiscal 2008 as we look to capitalize on our UltraSPARC T2 servers, delivering outstanding Solaris and Linux performance with extreme energy efficiency."
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Santhosh Lakshman's 'Everest' is a tale of triumph against adversity
"It is all about attitude, not altitude," says Diana, the protagonist of Everest, a short film directed by Santhosh Lakshman. Diana, played by Kollam-based Aswin Raaj, is a midget who becomes the medium for the message that Everest attempts to deliver in its 18-minute runtime.
The film, which is entirely in English, is a collection of instances from Diana's life, tied together with the underlying story of another young orphan who is poised to give up on her dreams and her subsequent interactions with Diana.
The inspirational concept of rising above physical limitations and achieving success by focusing on personal strengths is given heavy emphasis. That said, the darkness of rejection flows through many shots in the movie and while the difficulties faced by Diana are conveyed amply, the movie seems to jump and stutter between scenes. However, Aswin is a revelation in terms of what people, regardless of shape and structure, can do when given the right opportunities.
Santhosh, who has assisted Major Ravi on some previous ventures including Karmoyodha, believes that people like Aswin often do not receive the respect and consideration they deserve.
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"When I approached this film, I was firm that I wanted to do something different. I have noticed, that in buses and public places, there are special provisions made for the blind and the elderly, but midgets are often ignored, Everest is an attempt to tell a tale of triumph against adversity by overcoming societal perceptions," he says.
The ridicule received as a result of being below average height is a very real thing, according to Santhosh. Aswin, who has done some supporting roles in comedy shows, agreed to do Everest only upon realising that it did not reduce her to comic relief again.
The film chronicles the lead character Diana's early life in an orphanage and her struggles in a harsh world where the only thing keeping her going is the belief that she is not an aberration, 'an alien', as she says in the film.
Everest is slated to hit the film festival circuit in a short while, and as a result is not being screened in the public sphere at the moment. The supporting cast of the short includes Devika Narayanan, Senji Sebastian and Bibi Catherine Anthony.
The film has been produced by R. Saji Kumar under the banner of SQ Films. The music has been done by Sangeetha Varma and Anand N. Nair wields the camera.
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dbmet I assume you are still looking at AC with strip heat? what's the price difference? what are you looking for? price? good humidity control? operating cost? ie best SEER and EER efficiency? sgl stage or two stg condenser? var speed air handler,conventional, or high efficient? lots to consider isn't it? IMO |
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US 6530911 B1 Abstract A cannula or needle set for fluid flow connection with the vascular system of a patient. In one embodiment, the set comprises a hollow, hypodermic needle having a longitudinal axis and a sharp end for skin penetration and connection with the vascular system. A hollow hub carries the needle at a needle opposite to the sharp end. A fluid flow port is defined in the hub at a position laterally spaced from the axis of the needle. An injection site aperture is defined in the hub at a position centrally intersected by the needle axis, the injection site aperture being closed by a recloseable, needle-penetrable wall.
Claims(11) 1. The method of providing fluid flow connection with the vacular system of a patient, which method comprises: inserting a hollow cannula connected to a hollow hub through the skin into connection with a catheter which communicates with the vascular system of a patient; inserting a hollow tubular tip of a suction unit through a recloseable, needle penetrable wall of said hub in a direction substantially coaxial with said cannula, and exerting suction to remove a length of clotted blood from the implanted catheter, through the cannula, the hub, and into said suction unit, whereby said clotted blood can be removed with less extraction of whole blood from the body when compared with the use of a conventional fistula set, said hollow hub defining a fluid flow port surrounded by a sleeve which is an integral part of said hub and which connects to a length of flexible tubing, said sleeve extending transversely to the longitudinal axis of the cannula.
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5. The method of providing fluid flow connection with the vascular system of a patient, which method comprises:
inserting a hollow cannula connected to a hollow hub into connection with a catheter which is implanted in the patient and communicates with the vascular system of the patient;
inserting a hollow tubular tip of a suction unit through a recloseable, needle penetrable wall of said hub in a direction substantially coaxial with said cannula, and exerting suction to remove a length of clotted blood from the implanted catheter into said suction unit, in which said hollow hub is connected in flow relation to a length of flexible tubing which connects to said hub in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the cannula wherein said flexible tubing is spaced from said catheter and positioned outside of the skin of the patient.
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9. The method of providing fluid flow connection with the vascular system of a patient, which method comprises:
inserting a hollow cannula connected to a hollow hub into connection with a catheter which is implanted in the patient and communicates with the vascular system of the patient;
inserting a hollow tubular tip of a suction unit through a recloseable, needle penetrable wall of said hub in a direction substantially coaxial with said cannula, and exerting suction to remove a length of clotted blood from the implanted catheter into said suction unit, in which said hollow hub is connected in flow relation to a length of flexible tubing which connects to said hub in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of said cannula, said suction unit comprising a syringe, said hollow, tubular tip comprising an attached needle or blunt tube.
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Description This application is a division of application Ser. No. 09/116,422, filed Jul. 15, 1998. For hemodialysis and other medical procedures, there is the need for chronic, repeated access to the vascular system of a patient. For example, in hemodialysis, access to the patient's blood stream is required generally about three times a week. Conventionally, this may be accomplished by forming a fistula in an extremity of the patient such as the arm, where an artery and vein of the arm are interconnected. The arterial pressure causes the arm veins to balloon out, and to become good targets for fistula needles, which are commonly straight, sharp needles connected to a length of flexible tubing which, in turn, is connected to an arterial or venous hemodialysis set during use. Alternately, a trocar bearing catheter is used for blood access. The sharp stylet (within a rigid or flexible, dull cannula) provides the cutting means to enter the fistula. Then the sharp, typically hollow-bore trocar is removed leaving the blunt cannula in the vessel. Two such needle sticks are typically required in a hemodialysis procedure, one for the arterial side, and the other for the venous side, i.e, one to obtain blood from the patient and another to return blood back to the patient. Significant disadvantages exist with such fistula techniques. Particularly, a direct inter-connection between an artery and a vein places a burden on the patient of the need for additional cardiac output, since some blood is not passing through the capillary system of the body or effectively delivering its oxygen into the tissues. Accordingly, another type of vascular access is provided, namely implantable vascular access devices such as the vascular device shown in Finch et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,562,617, Prosl, et al U.S. Pat. No. 4,569,675, and also other known designs of vascular access device. Such a device may comprise an implantable fluid chamber which is connected to a catheter, the system being connected to a vein. Vascular access is provided by a needle which penetrates the skin, and then couples with a port of the fluid chamber, to form an access flow path with the vascular system of the patient through which blood may be removed or replaced. This kind of system has an advantage in that, when it is not connected with a needle, there is no shunting between the arterial and venous system of the patient. Typically, when a needle does enter such an implanted vascular chamber, it does so at an angle to the skin, from 30� in some devices up to vertical. Accordingly, there is significant advantage in using a needle set in which the needle extends transversely to its set tubing, so that the needle can penetrate the skin in substantially vertical manner, but the set tubing can be basically parallel to the skin. The prior art discloses 90� bent needles for subcutaneous chemotherapy port access devices. By this invention, an improved set with an angled needle is provided, exhibiting significant advantage of use as a needle for access to a permanently implanted vascular access chamber, to facilitate easy and reliable vascular access. Another preferred object of this invention is the pre-connection of the needle to a blood tubing set. In the prior art of fistula needles or catheters for access to ports or AV fistulas, the needle set must be a separate device from the blood tubing set. This is required because a �clot worm� must be removed via the female luer that is the proximal termination of such device. Similarly, the �heparin lock� must be delivered through this female luer. Only after these preparation steps are finished can the fistula needle set be joined to the blood tubing set. Also, it is well known that sharp needles which are brought into contact with blood are potentially dangerous in the event that the needle accidentally sticks a health worker or another person, since this can facilitate the transfer of blood-borne diseases. Utterberg et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,112,311 discloses a needle protector comprising a slotted needle sheath which slides longitudinally in the direction of the needle axis along the wings of winged fistula needles, to be advanced into a position that encloses the needle tip as the needle is being withdrawn from a patient. By this invention, sliding or rotating protector systems for angled needles are provided to protect medical personnel and others from accidental needle stick of angled needles, particularly after they have been used in contact with blood. A needle-containing set is disclosed for fluid-flow connection with the vascular system of a patient. Typically but not necessarily, the connection is through an implanted fluid chamber connected to the vascular system of a patient. This set comprises a hollow, hypodermic needle having a typical sharp end for skin penetration and connection with the vascular system. In an alternate catheter form the set comprises a hollow cannula typically unpointed and dull at the end. Within this cannula is a sharp, hollow bore trocar, the point of which extends beyond the end of the cannula for needling. The sharp needle or dull cannula is connected to a hollow hub at its end opposed to its sharp end. A fluid flow port is defined in the hub at a position which is laterally spaced from the axis of the needle. Typically, the fluid flow port is surrounded by a connector of the hub, typically a sleeve, which extends transversely at an angle to the needle axis, providing an angled aspect to the needle and hub. The connector is generally connected to a length of flexible tubing to provide a complete needle set. Also, an injection site aperture is defined in the hub at a position which is centrally intersected by the needle axis. The injection site aperture is closed by a recloseable, needle-penetrable wall, which generally may be of conventional design, made of an elastomeric material, and optionally defining a recloseable slit so that it may be penetrated by a blunt member as well as by a needle. In the case of the previously described alternate catheter set, the trocar's proximal end passes through the injection site, and is removed after needling. The term �set� implies a needle and hub connected to conventional and optional tubing, set connectors, branch connectors, branch lines, connected pump tubing, bubble traps, and the like, as may be needed for a desired medical purpose. Such connection may be permanent or via connectors such as male/female reversible fittings. One significant advantage of this system pertains to the issue of the removal of a �clot worm� from a hemodialysis catheter which is permanently implanted in a vein of a patient, and connected to an implanted, needle-pierceable fluid chamber. Typically, when a conventional fistula needle is brought into contact with such a hemodialysis catheter, the first thing that must be done is the removal of the �clot worm�. The clot worm is the length of clotted blood which has formed inside of the implanted venous catheter in the period of time that has elapsed since the last dialysis procedure. This must be sucked out with a syringe. In conventional needle sets, the syringe is applied to an opposed end of the set which connects with the needle at its other end. This results in a significant waste of blood because of the significant spacing between the syringe and the needle, which spacing is created by the flexible tubing of a conventional needle set. However, by this invention, access is provided to the needle through the injection site aperture, which is defined in the hub of the set of this invention at a position centrally intersected by the needle axis. A syringe with an attached needle or blunt tube can be passed through the recloseable, needle-penetrable wall provided, and the clot worm can be removed at that position, which is considerably nearer to the needle itself (or even positioned within the needle), than is a connector of a conventional fistula needle, where the needle and connector are positioned at opposite ends of a length of tubing, on the order of one foot in length. Because of this, there can be less loss of blood in the removal of the clot worm by this invention, since the clot worm is removed from a position at the needle hub, rather than from a position which is substantially spaced by a length of tubing from the needle hub. Similarly, less heparin is needed to provide a �heparin lock� to an implanted catheter or the like, using a needle of this invention. Also, a straight probe may be advanced through the needle of this invention without disconnecting the needle from the set. It is desirable for a needle point protector to be carried by or added to the needle set of this invention so that the users and handlers of the set are protected from accidental needle stick, especially after the needle has been in contact with blood. One way of accomplishing this is to provide an elongated housing, open at one side, which is pivotally attached to the hub to move between a position spaced from the needle and a position where at least the needle sharp end is positioned within the housing, so that the sharp end is shielded to reduce the risk of accidental needle sticks. As another system for protecting users against the needle, a blunt, rigid or flexible rod or tube may be placed to extend through the recloseable needle-penetrable wall, and also through the hollow needle itself, to extend at least effectively beyond the sharp end. In the previously described alternate catheter set the blunt rod would pass through a hollow trocar. This provides protection from accidental needle sticks, since the rod or tube substantially fills the bore of the needle and thus provides to the needle a blunt end rather than a sharp end while it is present. Also, the probe tip may be radially expandable, containing a rubber O-ring or a resilient umbrella shape, to expand outwardly for added protecting action of users from the sharp needle tip when the rod or tube is advanced out of the needle beyond the needle tip. As another embodiment of a needle protector, a tube may be longitudinally and slidably mounted on the hub in a position which is substantially coaxial with the needle. The tube defines a longitudinal slot. The sleeve which surrounds the fluid flow port extends through the slot, and thus carries the tube in longitudinally slidable manner. Preferably, most of the slot is narrower than the sleeve for restrictive retention, but is outwardly expandable by resilient bending of the tube to allow sliding of the tube along the sleeve. Preferably, the slot comprises a first, enlarged portion positioned for receiving the sleeve with the tube retracted to expose the needle. The slot also defines a second, enlarged portion which is positioned for receiving the sleeve in a position where the tube encloses the needle sharp end. Thus, the tube may be longitudinally moved from a position where the needle is exposed, to a position where the needle is recessed within the tube, with the position being retained by snap-fit action created by the resilient resistance of the sleeve to the expansion of the slot, so that the sleeve encloses the sharp needle end until the set can be disposed of Thus, a needle is provided, having substantial advantages when compared with corresponding fistula needles and other needles of the prior art. The needles and sets of this invention may be used with other medical procedures than hemodialysis, for example, peritoneal dialysis, angiography, angioplasty, hemoperfusion, chemotherapy, and the like. In another embodiment of this invention, a set for fluid flow connection with the vascular system of a patient is provided, with the set comprising a hollow cannula having a bore and a longitudinal axis. The cannula may be blunt if desired, contrary to the needle of the previous embodiment, but the cannula is for skin penetration and connection with the vascular system. A hollow hub carries the cannula, with a fluid flow port defined in the hub at a position laterally spaced from the axis of the cannula, in a manner similar to the previous embodiment. An access site aperture is defined in the hub at a position centrally intersected by the cannula axis. The access site aperture is closed by a recloseable, penetrable wall. In this embodiment, a tubular, sharp-ended trocar extends through the recloseable, penetrable wall and the bore of the cannula. By this invention, a blunting rod extends through the lumen defined by the tubular trocar. The blunting rod has a blunt end that projects outwardly beyond the sharp end of the trocar. Thus, the chances of injury caused by the sharp end of the trocar can be greatly reduced when the blunt end of the blunting rod projects outwardly beyond the trocar sharp end. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of an angled needle set of this invention, showing a protector system to protect users of the needle against accidental sticks; FIG. 1a is an elevational view of an end of the hub; FIG. 2 is another embodiment of the needle set of this invention, showing another design of protector system; FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3�3 of FIG. 2, and also showing how the housing can swing to laterally enclose the needle; FIG. 4 is a perspective view of another embodiment of needle set of this invention, shown to be carrying a slotted tube which serves as a needle point protector; FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the slotted tube shown in FIG. 4; FIG. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view of an alternative embodiment of this invention comprising a blunt cannula and a hollow trocar fitting into the bore thereof, shown in disassembled configuration; and FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of the assembled blunt cannula and trocar. FIG 8 is a perspective view of the angled needle set of FIG. 1, showing it in the process of removing a clot worm from an implanted catheter. Referring to FIGS. 1, and 1 a, a needle set 10 in accordance with this invention is disclosed. Needle set 10 comprises a hollow needle 12 having a sharp, pointed (or alternatively blunt) end 14, with needle 12 being retained at its end opposite to the pointed end 14 within a molded plastic hub 16, having a pair of opposed finger gripping handles 18 which are of identical shape, but one of which is broken away for visualization of the rear end of hub 16. Hub 16 has a fluid flow port 21 defined by sleeve 20, which communicates with the hollow interior of hub 16 and thus provides flow communication from flexible tubing 22, which is bonded to sleeve 20. Flow can proceed through hub 16 to the bore of needle 12 when the flow path is unblocked. Fluid flow port 21 can be seen to be laterally spaced from the longitudinal axis 23 of needle 12, with sleeve 20 and the carried tubing 22 extending transversely away from the needle axis 23, as shown. Additionally, an injection site aperture 26 is defined in hub 16 at a position which is centrally intersected by a needle axis 23. Injection site aperture 26 is closed by a recloseable, needle-penetrable wall 28, having an optional slit 30, to permit sealing penetration by blunt rods or tubes as well as by sharp needles. The technology of resealable, needle-penetrable sealing walls is well understood and known to the art. As one preferred embodiment the recloseable, needle-penetrable sealing wall 28 may be an elastomeric material such as a latex which has a thickness of about half to equal to its exposed diameter in aperture 26. Needle or cannula 12 is capable of substantially perpendicular insertion through the skin of a patient into engagement with an implantable fluid chamber 43 (FIG. 8). Chamber 43 is shown to be so-implanted and connected to a permanently implanted venous catheter 39. As previously described, this arrangement permits riot only the effective transfer of blood to and from the patient on a chronic, intermittently continuous basis, but the removal of the clot worm from the catheter is facilitated by the fact that a hollow needle 35, attached to a suction unit such as syringe 37, functions as the suction unit tip. Needle 35 can be inserted through recloseable needle-penetrable wall 28. The clot worm in the implanted catheter 39, positioned under the skin 41 and connected to conventional port chamber 43, can be removed through needles 12 and 35 by suction of syringe 37, with less removal of whole, unclotted blood because of the proximity of needle access site 26 to needle 12, when compared with conventional fistula needle sets which have a length of tubing separating the needle and a connector, aid which also require an interconnector. As an added feature to the device of FIG. 1, solid wire rod or tube 32 may be placed through slit 30 of the recloseable, needle-penetrable wall and advanced through hub 16 and needle 12 to the position shown in FIG. 1, where one end of rod or tube 32 projects beyond the sharp, forward end 14 of needle 12. In this configuration, users of the set are protected from accidental needle stick by sharp end 14, since a blunt end of wire rod or tube 32 projects out beyond sharp end 14. Thus, after use of set 10, such a wire rod or tube 32 may be inserted as shown immediately after or as needle 12 is being withdrawn from the implanted injection site of the patient. Wire rod or tube 32 may be made of stainless steel in the situation shown, or it maybe made of a flexible material if desired, for use with a Huber needle or other hollow needles where the distal, open needle hole is laterally positioned. Thus, such a flexible rod or tube 32 can bend to move laterally out the hole and provide protection against accidental needle stick in that situation. Additionally or alternatively, a similar wire rod or tube 32 may carry a resiliently expandable tip 33 comprising an O-ring, or an umbrella shape, if or as desired. Such a tip 33 collapses radially while the tip 33 of rod or tube 32 occupies the bore of needle 12. Then, when the tip of rod 32 is advanced forwardly of tip 14 of needle 12, resilient member 33 can expand by its natural resilience or springing action into an open umbrella shape as shown in dotted lines, or by use of a collapsible O-ring or the like, to provide added protection for someone handling the needle. Turning to FIG. 2, a similar, angled needle set of this invention is shown, differing from the needle set of FIG. 1 only as described herein and otherwise being similar in structure and general function. Set 10 a comprises a needle 12 a similar to the previous embodiment, and connected to hub 16 a, which has a fluid flow port 20 a extending laterally to the axis of needle 12 a in a manner similar to the previous embodiment, but without handles 18. Flexible set tubing 22 a is connected to hub 20 a in conventional manner. The set of FIG. 2, and the set of FIG. 1, can be part of any desired tubular set for the transfer of blood. The opposed end of flexible tubing 22, 22 a may terminate in any desired medical connector, or it may connect to other tubing to constitute a larger, more complex medical set for blood handling having conventional branch connections, pump tubing, a bubble trap, and the like. Hub 16 a also defines an injection site aperture 26 a similar to that of the previous embodiment on the needle axis and carrying the recloseable, needle penetrable wall 28 a as in the previous embodiment. This set may be used in accordance with the set of the previous embodiment, to gain access to an implanted needle access chamber, and to remove a catheter clot worm with less loss of blood than in current techniques. Also, as a safety means, an elongated housing 34, having an opening 36 at one side thereof is mounted on a pivot 38 which, in turn, is carried on sleeve 20 a. Thus, when it is desired to shield the needle after use, one can pivot housing 34 so that needle 12 a enters the housing through open side 36, and is retained there by snap retainers 40 for protection of the users from accidental needle stick. Needle cover 42 may be used to enclose needle 12 a in sterile manner prior to use, as is conventional. FIG. 3 shows how housing 34 can laterally and pivotally approach needle 12 a and enter into the housing interior through the open side, to be retained there (as shown in dotted lines) by snap retainers 40. Thus, used needles of this design can be protected so that handlers are safe from accidental needle stick. Referring to FIGS. 4 and 5, a needle set of the type of FIG. 2 is shown, with housing 34 and pivot 38 removed and replaced with slotted needle protector sleeve 44. Protector sleeve 44 defines a longitudinal slot 46, which protector sleeve fits upon hub 16 b of the angled needle set 10 b shown in FIG. 4. The set 10 b as shown in full lines is occupying a position in which the laterally projecting sleeve 20 b, which defines the fluid flow port described above, is projecting through enlarged slot portion 48 of protector sleeve 44. In this configuration, it can be seen that needle 12 b is positioned inside of protector sleeve 44, so that handlers of the set are less likely to suffer an accidental needle stick. Alternatively, sleeve 20, 20 b can be a male or female connector for releasable connection with another connector of a tube set. The configuration of set 10 b before it has been used is shown in dotted lines in FIG. 4, with sleeve 20 b defining the lateral fluid flow port, projecting through slot enlargement 50 of sleeve 44, so that needle 12 b is exposed. When the needle set 10 b is ready to be withdrawn from the patient, protector sleeve 44 can be pushed onto hub 16 b, (if it is not already there) with an open end 52 of slot 46 passing around lateral sleeve 20 b until sleeve 20 b occupies enlarged slot portion 50. This process requires outward spreading of the walls of protector sleeve 44, which walls spring back to a more normal position when sleeve 20 b occupies the enlarged slot portion 50, so that protector sheath 50 can be retained and positioned without interfering with the penetration of needle 12 b. Then, needle 12 b may be withdrawn from the patient. Preferably immediately thereafter, protector sheath 44 is advanced, so that sleeve 20 b moves along slot 46, with more outward springing of the walls of sheath 44, until sleeve 20 b occupies slot enlargement 48. In that position, as shown by needle set 10 b in full lines, it can be seen that needle 12 b is completely enclosed within sheath 44 for the protection of those who handle the set until it is discarded or resterilized for reuse. Accordingly, this invention provides a safe, angled needle set, which is particularly intended for use by providing access to implanted vascular chambers for repeated, long term, aseptic vascular access. Referring to FIGS. 6 and 7, another embodiment of the invention is disclosed. A set 60 for fluid flow connection with the vascular system of a patient is provided, comprising a hollow, blunt ended cannula 62 having a bore 64 and defining a longitudinal axis 66. Cannula 62 may be similar to conventional cannulas for skin penetration and connection with the vascular system. Hollow hub 68 carries cannula 62 and also defines a fluid flow port 70 at a position which is laterally spaced from axis 66 of the cannula. Also, as in the previous embodiment, an access site aperture 72 is defined in hub 68 at a position centrally intersected by cannula axis 66, with aperture 72 being closed by a recloseable, penetrable wall 73 as shown, typically a block of elastomer which optionally defines a slit to facilitate penetration while remaining recloseable. A sharp-ended, tubular trocar 74 is provided, for extending through the recloseable plastic wall 73 and also the bore of the cannula, as particularly shown in FIG. 7. Sharp trocar 74 may be used in a conventional manner to gain access through the skin and to the vascular system of a patient along with hollow cannula 62. Then, when trocar 74 is removed, an open flow path is provided through hollow cannula to tubing 78 connected to cannula 62 and hub 68 through fluid flow port 70, as shown. Set tubing 78 may be connected to a tubular stub 80 which surrounds fluid flow port 70. A blunting rod 82 may fit through tubular, sharp-ended trocar 74 as shown in both drawings. Blunting rod 82 is slidable within trocar 74, and may be retracted either before trocar 74 penetrates elastomeric wall 73 or afterward if the wall 73 carries a slit to permit penetration by blunting rod 82. Then, with blunting rod 82 withdrawn, sharpened, tubular trocar can penetrate the skin and be advanced, carrying blunt ended cannula 62 with it into engagement with the vascular system of the patient. Then, blunting rod 82 can be advanced from a retracted relation as shown in FIG. 6 to an advanced relation as shown in FIG. 7, being retained in a hub 86 of tubular trocar 74 in a snap-fit relation when the blunt tip 88 of blunting rod 82 is fully advanced. Thus, the retained blunting rod protects against accidental injury by the pointed end 90 of trocar 74 being held in position by frictional or snap-fit retention between head 92 of blunting rod 74 and a recess 84 proportioned to receive head 92. Thus, users of the system can be protected from injury by sharp-pointed trocar 82. The above has been offered for illustrative purposes only, and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention of the application, which is defined in the claims below. Patent Citations
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For its part, Von Hoffmann is first working on Web-enabling firm order (reprints only) and quote/pricing requests from major educational customers, according to Green. "We will follow this with capabilities for job planning/first print orders and advance shipping notices. Clients will also be given online access to job status, schedule and inventory information."
The book printer is using PRIMAC business management software as the underpinnings of its Tambora implementation, Green says. "The software provides an easily customizable environment and creates an open and highly scalable management system," he explains. ODBC provides the link that enables data to be pulled from the PRIMAC system into a secure Web server, he adds.
Von Hoffmann also has started down the path of electronically linking its internal business management and production systems. "We have developed an electronic job ticket tied into our PRIMAC software and accessed via our intranet. It's basically just the paper ticket we were using before now in an electronic format," Green says. "We don't intend to set up equipment with this digital data, however. We might possibly create that type of link in the future, but it's not high on the priority list right now."
In-house Integration
Indianapolis-based Masco Support Services technically is a captive printing operation, but it functions like a commercial printer and fulfillment/mailing house. Started as the in-plant printer for Delta Faucet, the organization has been expanded to serve the needs of the some 30 home-building product companies that make up Masco Corp., which acquired the faucet manufacturer. It currently has around 110 employs operating several six-color, 40˝ presses, a state-of-the-art prepress department and in-house bindery.
The primary function of the plant is handling the production, inventory management and fulfillment of product literature for the group of companies. This service currently adds up to more than $30 million in work per year.
Given the volume of literature fulfillment it handles, the organization first set out to implement a "finished goods" system with Web-based order entry capabilities, reports Terry Alverson, new business development and special projects manager at Masco Support Services. It found a good place to start in the e-Finished Goods Order Entry module from CRC Information Systems, Alverson says.
The printer has been working with CRC and a local Website developer, called Elavio, to customize its implementation of Web-enabled capabilities, he reports. The software manufacturer's willingness to do customization was reportedly a big factor in Masco's buying decision.
Although not part of the initial plan, Alverson says the system's other e-capabilities were a bonus that Masco is implementing in stages. The next phase is providing an online form that clients can fill out to receive a job estimate, he explains. Data entered into the form is automatically downloaded into the estimating system for processing and then a quote is returned via the Web.
The third phase will involve enabling customers to track jobs online, the project manager says. A notification will be sent when a job enters production and the customer will then be able monitor its progress through prepress, press and bindery. The system will also send an e-mail notice when a job has shipped, with a hyperlink to the shipping service (UPS, FedEx) for tracking delivery.
An "auto-invoicing" function will be available for completed jobs, as well, Alverson adds. "That is going to be a huge benefit for us because it will provide one-button processing. Currently we have one employee processing invoices all day long. With Auto Invoice, it will only take one hour," he claims.
Graphic Communications Corp. (GCC), in Lawrenceville, GA, started Web-enabling its operations about 18 months ago. President Hoyt Tuggle likens the company to a very large "quick printer" because it focuses on fast turnaround in meeting the business printing needs of its clientele. The shop employs about 60 people and currently runs five sheetfed presses—three 40˝ and two 25˝ machines.
GCC has added a secure "Client Access" feature to its Website, which clients can log-on to in order to access a number of online features. These tools include Request for Quote, Current Jobs, Proofs to be Viewed (as PDFs), Job History (for reprint orders) and Invoices (which can be viewed onscreen or printed locally).
Through the "Current Jobs" option, customers can view all of the information gathered by GCC's internal data collection and printing management system, Tuggle notes. While a job is in production, a client can find out exactly which department it is in at any given time, he says. Shipping information is provided for completed jobs so customers can track delivery.
Most of the printer's online tools are powered by the ePace capabilities of its Pace 2020 business management software, from Pace Systems Group. Job information is passed to and from this system. GCC has a Website and interactive media development department that collaborated with Pace to bring the service online.
Tuggle says the company did investigate turnkey e-production/e-commerce services, but management was hesitant about having somebody else retain its job information on an outside server. "We wanted to control the system ourselves," he explains.
The other reason for deciding to build an internal system was to enable the Internet interface to be used internally by GCC's staff, instead of the usual setup of work-stations on a LAN, Tuggle says. "Our staff works with the system in the same way as our customers," he notes, "and our clients can see everything we do except for our costs."
Web Interaction
The company president admits the idea of giving customers direct access to job information led to a big internal debate. His response was to point out that clients already could get the same information by calling and asking, which requires more effort on both ends. Also, the online connection is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Tuggle notes.
"We held focus groups with customers to explore how they wanted to interact with us over the Web," he reports. "They said the only time they might want to find out where a job stood in this way was after-hours. They are not going in every hour to see if a job has gone from prepress to plate, or press to bindery. People don't have the time to be doing that."
No matter how they choose to use them, all of GCC's Web capabilities have been well received by its customers, Tuggle says. "Business-to-business Web services are not dead like people have said. It's going to be the way to do business going forward."
Also in the printer's future is linking its business management system to production, the company president says, but it's only just starting down that road.
Another printer, Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley & Sons, is developing a Web enabling strategy for its operations that will include three components—customer, employee and supplier portals, reveals Eva Chess, director of communications for Donnelley's Business Process Redesign project.
The customer portal allows users to check the status of their orders, from scheduling through shipping. The employee portal, or corporate intranet, is for internal use only and encompasses back-office functions such as order entry, scheduling, inventory and production management. Employees also can access human resource functions, including benefits, policies and online training. The supplier portal enables XML-based transmission of supply chain transactions.
To support its Web strategy, R.R. Donnelley is integrating its order entry and scheduling systems with shop floor execution and data collection systems, as well as inventory control systems, Chess says.
"We have taken a holistic approach in choosing and implementing systems to support our vision of a streamlined supply chain across our enterprise. We are following a phased implementation methodology as the foundation for our approach," she explains.
The software providing the building blocks for this program is the iDiMS! enterprise-wide management information system from a company called DiMS! Organizing Print. The system is an Internet-based, multilingual business solution and is said to be especially suitable for middle- and large-size printing companies. Donnelley has started rolling the system out at two plants, but reportedly plans to use it at its 30 largest graphic divisions in North America.
These examples are just a taste of what is possible when computer management systems are linked to broader printing operations. The full potential will be realized once all processes are integrated into a database-driven environment.
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Urgent! Update and display xml output after user enters field to choose xsl format.
I digress.
Anyways, i'm now scripting a program which allows a user to enter the number representing the xsl interface format via a textfield.
After that, clicking a preview button will result in a popup that will display the xml information displayed in the xsl format he has chosen earlier, assuming the xml has a predetermined xsl format initially, ie it has a predetermined format that can be changed and updated.
Assuming there are several xsl interface formats, say:
1. Horizontal interface
2. Vertical interface
Currently, i have the xml(say abc.xml) directly hardcoded to display a particular xsl.
For example, as follows:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl"?>
And am having a popup window displaying abc.xml after the user clicks on the preview button.
Therefore all that i'm having right now is a predetermined interface format, i'm not able to update yet.
My question is, what scripting do i need in place of "abc.xsl" in
"<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl"?>" so that it can actually be customisable by a click of a button after keying in the number in the field; then actually displaying the updated customised interface in the popup window.
Sorry if this is kinda long, i'm quite incoherent.
I used PHP for a related app, just did an <?php echo $xslfile; ?> or something like inside href="" (I don't really like php, but I had Apache configured with php ready to go, and this was rather simple).
Using proprietary features of IE and Gecko, you can dynamically import XML documents and transform them according to a progmatically picked XSLT document, but I really don't like resorting to that solution.
In theory, W3C defined a "rel" pseudo-attribute to the xml-stylesheet processing instruction, in which you would go:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="doc1.xsl" rel="stylesheet"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="doc2.xsl" rel="alternate stylesheet"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="doc1.xsl" rel="alternate stylesheet"?>
And then the browser is supposed to have a UI interface to switch between the stylesheets. Mozilla does this for CSS documents, but not for XSLT docs. No other browser even has the switch element in their UI.
Errr, I still think a server-side solution is the easiest/most compatible, but if you're interested, I could dig up some examples of dynamically importing XML then transforming it to XSLT and outputting it to a parent node....
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Erm, one question.
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="doc1.xsl" rel="stylesheet"?>
The above is to be coded inside the xml document right ? If so, then 'doc1.xsl' will be again hardcoded as the predetermined xsl interface for the particular xml file ? Or maybe i've misunderstood what you mean ?
Also, may i know how i can disable the attribute for the xsl-stylesheet too ?
I would think a server-side solution will be the best too but this is actually for a school project so i don't exactly have a choice.
Ok, mesa moron spreading misinformation:
Read that for the pseudo-attributes...
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Mm..the website didn't help much in my problem but at least i learned something from there.
Thank you so much for your help.
Anyhow, i've found the solution to the problem, ie using 'switch'.
Below is a snippet of the coding, hopefully it'll help whomever who has a similar problem too.
<form name="myForm1" onsubmit="return allteams()">
That's the form that'll allow the user to type in the value representing the interface format.
And below, is where all the magic lies -->
<script language="javaScript" type="text/javascript">
function xxx()
if (txt>=1 && txt<=4){
switch(txt) {
case '1': txt= window.open("xxxhorizontal.htm"); break;
case '2': txt= window.open("xxxvertical.htm"); break;
case '3': txt= window.open("xxxpictures.htm"); break;
case '4': txt= window.open("xxxpara.htm"); break;
default: txt = "Not a Number";
return txt;
alert("Must be 1-4")


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Some Amazing Chicken Facts
For all the lovers of CHICKEN! here some interesting, but little known, facts about chickens…
- Chicken are pretty fast. The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour when it wants to.
- The largest ever recorded chicken egg weighed nearly 12 ounces, and measured 12.25 inches around.
- Chicken language has real meanings. The birds give different alarm calls depending on which type of predator is threatening them.
- There are more chickens on Earth than there are humans.
- Chickens can cross breed with turkeys. The result is called a 'Turkin'.
- There are four cities in the United States that have the word "chicken" in their name: Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle, Illinois; Chicken Bristle, Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
- The greatest number of yolks ever found in a single chicken egg was nine!
- Chickens experience REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. (I wonder what they dream about?)
- The chicken is the closest living relative of the tyrannosaurus-rex.
- In Gainesville, Georgia, (the chicken capital of the world), a local ordinance makes it illegal to eat your chicken with a fork.
- The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
- China has the most people in the world, *and* also has the most chickens. There are over 3,000,000,000 chickens in China! (The United States has only 450 million.)
- The longest recorded distance flown by any chicken was 301.5 feet.
- The record for laying the most eggs in one day was seven.
- There are more chickens in the world than there are of any other domesticated bird. In fact, there's more than one chicken for every human on the face of this earth.
- Chickens can fly, but not for long. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is only thirteen seconds.
- A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you adjust the lighting in their cages to make them think each day is 28 hours long, instead of 24.
- Chickens eggs come in colors sometimes, (other than white and brown). Some breeds lay eggs in shades of blue or green. Ready-made Easter Eggs!
- The fear of chickens is called 'Alektorophobia'.
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can i please use that picture for my GCSE ICT work, its on chickens and this seems suitible, lots of love beaujob
sure you can use it! Thanks for visiting my website!
thanks, for facts use them for my homework
May I, use that picture for my business logo. Nice Facts I really enjoyed reading them. Good Job
yes of course you can use it! n fyi I didn't make that picture. I got it from somewhere, that i don't know. But anyway you can use it!
i like your facts there AWESOME
wow very good facts
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is this stuff really true
where do they live.
There are four cities in the United States that have the word "chicken" in their name: Chicken, Alaska; Chicken Bristle, Illinois; Chicken Bristle, Kentucky; and Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
Wow Awesome! I am adding it to the list! Thanks for posting!


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Linux Clusters at NIST
Linux has been beneficial in our research. The first device driver for the PCI MultiKron card was done on Linux and was the easiest to write. We use Linux to monitor the cluster, and the tools we develop are either written for Linux first or ported quickly from other UNIX environments. Experimenting with computing clusters would be more difficult with commercial operating systems because source code is generally not available. By having the ability to probe the operating system source code, we are able to accurately measure performance of the OS in addition to the performance of our applications.
Our experiments show that clusters compete very well with traditional parallel machines when running distributed memory applications, generally characterized by large messages. For shared memory applications, which tend to communicate with many small messages, the overhead of the network has a detrimental effect on the application performance. For both types of applications, tuning the network parameters can be of tremendous benefit in decreasing execution time.
The 333 MHz, 16-node Pentium-II cluster has been transferred into a production environment. This cluster will be made available to the entire NIST community and will be managed by the group that supports the traditional supercomputers. We believe Linux-based clusters will provide an effective environment for running many high-performance applications.
Wayne Salamon is a Computer Scientist within the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. He has worked on system software for PCs, UNIX workstations and IBM mainframes for the past 12 years. His current research interests are parallel computing and performance measurement. Wayne can be reached at email@example.com.
Alan Mink is project engineer of the Distributed Systems Technology project within the NIST Information Technology Laboratory. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. His research interests include computer architecture and performance measurement. Alan can be reached at email@example.com.
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Woodman, Spare this Twig!
That is the beseeching cry of Charles Krauthammer in his latest bohemian rhapsody, where he implores the Democratic congress and its Republican tag-a-longs not to cut off General Patraeus's penis before the "surge" is fully implemented.
Just this week, Petraeus said that the one thing he needs more than anything else is time. To cut off Petraeus's [dick] just as it is beginning -- the last surge troops arrived only last month -- on the assumption that we cannot succeed is to declare Petraeus either deluded or dishonorable. Deluded in that, as the best-positioned American in Baghdad, he still believes we can succeed. Or dishonorable in pretending to believe in victory and sending soldiers to die in what he really knows is an already failed strategy.
Eloquent as always, Sir Charles, oh deluded one. And indeed it would be a reeling time for the Republic if both General Patraeus and Senator David "Hey babe what's happening, I'm just about to cast a vote" Vitter were to lose their penises in these rushes to judgement.
Yet I must agree with Whiskey Fire in its fair, judicious, almost Trilling-esque review of Krauthammer's latest cogito ergo sum.
Christ knows these maniacs have come up with some odd arguments in their time, but "you can't take your ball and go home because that might make the General cry" is one of the flat-out weirdest.This [from Krauthammer] is also pretty bizarre:
"We don't yet know if this strategy will work in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods. Nor can we be certain that this cooperation between essentially Sunni tribal forces and an essentially Shiite central government can endure."
We don't know if a strategy of waiting for a shift in allegiance between Sunni tribal sheiks will work in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods? What? As for the "cooperation," the answer is, no. Why should it? Allowing that this is one positive development, why should it supersede all the less happy developments?
The broader point is that if the argument now is that we need to accept an occupation of indefinite duration and uncertain outcomes FOUR YEARS into the war, primarily in order to defeat an enemy that did not exist in Iraq BEFORE the war... even accepting those premises, it is clear that starting the war in the first place was a strategic disaster probably unprecedented in American history.
The precedent being set, the bar being raised, it makes a certain deranged sense that the War Party would try to top its own record with an even bigger, bloodier debacle.


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• More than 100 students from Brooklyn's Yeshiva of Flatbush and their teacher chaperones were kicked off a Southwest airplane from New York to Atlanta yesterday for allegedly unruly behavior. [CNN]
• What makes a Jewish mother? With surrogacy and egg donors, that question can get complicated. [NYT]
• Why so bored, Anthony Weiner? The mayoral hopeful was checking his BlackBerry throughout the most recent mayoral debate. [BuzzFeed]
• The Israeli start-up OrCam is helping the visually impaired see correctly with their small camera and computer-based device. [NYT]
• Prague's Jewish museum, which closed to prepare for potential flooding damage from the heavy rainfall throughout the city, has reopened. [JTA]
• Watch Israeli Education Minister Shai Piron inexplicably crack up while saying 'penentration'—at the Knesset. [Haaretz]