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Efficacy Study of Vitamin D and Statins to Treat Hypercholesterolemia
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The investigators planned to research the effect of vitamin D supplementation as an adjuvant therapy for patients with hypercholesterolemia.
Primary Hypercholesterolemia
Drug: vitamin D3 tablets
Drug: placebo tablets
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effect of Vitamin D and Statins on Plasma Lipid Profiles in Chinese Patients With Hypercholesterolemia
- a change in serum total cholesterol level [ Time Frame: after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The primary end point was a change in serum total cholesterol level after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation.
- a change in serum triglycerides level [ Time Frame: after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The change in serum triglycerides level was measured after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation.
- differences in the incidences of treatment-emergent adverse events [ Time Frame: after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs): hypercalcemia, renal insufficiency, constipation
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|December 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Vitamin D supplementation group
drug: vitamin D3 tablets (Vigantoletten; Merck Pharma, Germany); the frequency: 2000 IU vitamin D3 tablets were taken daily; duration: 6 months.
Drug: vitamin D3 tablets
2000 IU vitamin D3 tablets were taken daily for 6 months
Other Name: Vigantoletten; Merck Pharma, Germany
Placebo Comparator: Control group
drug: placebo tablets; the frequency: 2000 IU placebo tablets were taken daily; duration: 6 months.
Drug: placebo tablets
2000 IU placebo tablets were taken daily for 6 months
Other Name: placebo tablets
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Vitamin D is primarily generated in the skin, in response to direct absorption of ultraviolet B radiation. Vitamin D can also be obtained through fortified foods and oral supplements. Lipid abnormalities are common in the general population, and are regarded as a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Recently low vitamin D status has been shown to be associated with increased risk of developing hyperlipidemia. Statins are normally the first-line therapy for hypercholesterolemia. It is also reported that vitamin D can improve serum lipid levels. However, its effects on hypercholesterolemia patients remain unclear. The investigators planned to determine the efficacy of combination therapy with statins and vitamin D in a cohort of hypercholesterolemia patients. This study may shed light as to whether oral vitamin D supplementation can be an adjunct therapy in hypercholesterolemia patients.
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|18 Years to 80 Years
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Inclusion Criteria:
The main inclusion criteria were for hypercholesterolemia patients with the treatment of statins.
Exclusion Criteria:
The exclusion criteria were as follows: patients with chronic renal failure, chronic liver disease, bone disorders, and/or thyroid disorders. Patients were also excluded if they were taking vitamin D3 tablets or other lipid-regulating drugs.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02009787
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|China, Beijing
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|Beijing, Beijing, China, 100853
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|Principal Investigator: Yu Tang Wang, M.D.
|Study Director:
|Yu Tang Wang, M.D.
|PLA General Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Shi Yang, Director of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital
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|Study First Received:
|December 9, 2013
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|December 9, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
China: State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China
China: Ethics Committee
Keywords provided by Chinese PLA General Hospital:
hypercholesterolemia; vitamin D; adjuvant therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Vitamin D
Bone Density Conservation Agents
Growth Substances
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Andrew not ready for competitive match
Worcestershire have not included Gareth Andrew in their squad for this week's County Championship match against Surrey at The Oval despite his surprise appearance in last week's friendly against Oxford MCCU. Andrew was expected to be out of action until … Continue reading
Familiar problems for Rhodes and Worcestershire
Worcestershire's director of cricket Steve Rhodes has identified the familiar shortcomings of too few runs and insufficient back-up for seamer Alan Richardson for the defeat by Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in their opening County Championship match. After bowling out Nottinghamshire for … Continue reading
Andrew on the mend following winter surgery
Worcestershire have played down the significance of all-rounder Gareth Andrew's appearance in their pre-season friendly against Glamorgan at New Road on March 26. Andrew, who underwent major knee surgery before Christmas, is still unlikely to feature before June even though … Continue reading
Klinger to deputise for Hughes until end of May
Worcestershire have signed South Australia batsman Michael Klinger as a locum overseas player until the end of May. Klinger, 31, has been signed to deputise for his compatriot Phil Hughes who has been included in an Australia training camp during … Continue reading
Saeed Ajmal helps Moeen to perfect his doosra
Worcestershire's off-spinning all-rounder Moeen Ali is working on perfecting the doosra and is ready to unveil it in competitive cricket this season. Ali has worked closely with Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who used the doosra to devastating effect in the … Continue reading
Gifford back at New Road after a 30-year absence
Former England slow left-armer Norman Gifford has rejoined Worcestershire after a 30-year absence as the county's new part-time bowling coach. Gifford played for Worcestershire from 1960 to 1982 and captained them to the County Championship title in 1974. He left … Continue reading
Saeed Ajmal agrees to return to Worcestershire
Saeed Ajmal, England's chief tormentor in their series whitewash by Pakistan, will play county cricket again this summer as Worcestershire's second overseas player in the Friends Life t20. The off-spinner took 24 wickets in three Tests against England in the … Continue reading
Rhodes tells ECB to reject 14-game County Championship
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Willis criticism of Saeed Ajmal angers Rhodes
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Hughes signs for full summer with Worcestershire
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The Life and Legacy of Ranching
Wiegand Gallery at the Western Folklife Center
Opening Reception during the
This educational and artful exhibition designed by guest curator Fermín Regadas-Dahl and creative director Carlos César Díaz Castro, showcases the unique landscape, history, living heritage and artistry of the ranching communities of Baja California Sur.
|The geographical focus of the exhibition are the major sierras of Baja California Sur – San Francisco, Guadalupe, La Giganta, and La Laguna - which are inhabited by rancheros. The economy of all these ranches is based on livestock: goats in the northern sierras and cattle in the southern ones. Visitors will learn about the early introduction of agriculture and cattle to the peninsula in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Photo by Fermín Regadas-Dahl
Photo by Fermín Regadas-Dahl
|Visitors will also get a glimpse of the handcrafted living and gathering places on these remote ranches, as well as the technology and modern communications systems being used to stay current. The kitchen, with its typical hornilla (burner) and cooking area; the bedroom with its cama de lias (bed of strips), quilts and shrine; and the working area with a sewing machine, leatherwork table and cheese press. And, most importantly, the "tack room" of trappings unique to Baja California Sur ranch country, including saddles, cuera (tanned leather jacket), and other traditional gear.
|Photographs, paintings and stories depict the seasonal and social activities that are an important part of everyday life for ranch families, including irrigation, orchard and plant production, markets, festivals, dances, fiestas patronales (patron saint festivals), weddings, burials and cabalgatas (horse-back rides).
Photo by Fermín Regadas-Dahl
Some items in the exhibition can be purchased through the Western Folklife Center Gift Shop.
Photo by Fermín Regadas-Dahl
|The Life and Legacy of Ranching in Baja California Sur features the work of: Artist Carlos Cesar Díaz Castro; Photographers Fermín Reygadas Dahl, Javier Rodríguez Descalzo, Harry Crosby, Elizabeth Moreno Damm, Alejandro Rivas Sánchez, Miguel Ángel de la Cueva, Mario Rodríguez Rodríguez, Karla Fernanda Amao, and Javier Arce Meza; and Artisans Dario Higuera Meza, Juan Gabriel Arce Arce, Guillermo Bastida and Yolanda Castillo Cota.
Thank you to the Reygadas-Robles-Gil Collection for the loan of many of the items on display.
Special thanks to these institutions for their contributions: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura, Centro de Artes Tradiciones y Culturas Populares de Baja California Sur, Dirección del Fideicomiso de Turismo Estatal, Christopher Alexter Amador Cervantes, Jose Guadalupe Ojeda Aguilar, Luis Palacios Larrañaga, and the University of California-San Diego, Special Collections & Archives.
This exhibition was made possible through the invaluable support of the E.L. Cord Foundation, Margaret T. Morris Foundation, Nevada Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Barrick Gold of North America, Inc., Newmont Mining Corporation, Sage Foundation, Byrns Painting, Llc, and other businesses and individuals.


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Pueblo City Schools (D60) officials want to know what high school seniors and their parents think about having a Friday afternoon graduation ceremony.
The district recently hosted an online survey to gain feedback on a proposal to eliminate the late Saturday afternoon ceremony and move it to Friday afternoon.
A little more than half of the 140 respondents favored the change, Assistant Superintendent Brenda Krage told the school board Tuesday night.
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Simi Valley Elks to Award Scholarships
The Simi Valley Elks Lodge #2492 will hold a Scholarship Dinner on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 6:30pm.
The proud recipients from four high schools in Simi Valley are: Kanna Ramirez, Apollo HS; Carina Boo, Royal HS; David Borden, Santa Susana HS and Katharine Scott, Simi Valley High School.
The proud parents, family members and friends of the scholarship winners will be there for dinner and the presentation by Exalted Ruler Hector Morales.
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For New York Theater-Goers, Rare Balkan Treats at La MaMa
The New York theater scene will take on a distinctively Eastern European flavor for ten days this month as the Perforations Festival New York comes to La MaMa. The festival, opening Friday, showcases leading contemporary theater from the Balkans, with 12 productions that feature more than 50 artists from Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Macedonia.
"The Balkans have a rich history of performance art," said Zvonimir Dobrovic, curator and producer of Perforations. "It's almost an established format there. But these societies are still in transformation."
Works presented are expected to touch upon both the region's socialist legacy, as well as more recent periods of unrest. "Only now has there been more direct reference to the recent turmoil," Dobrovic said. "People needed more distance in a way. Before it seemed somehow they would not reference that. People just didn't want to, they were too near it."
The trip to New York marks the first time the festival, which opened in Croatia in 2009, has traveled. That means theater-goers will have the rare chance to see these performances have their New York debuts. Plans are in the works for Perforations to travel to France in 2012, according to Dobrovic.
Featuring some of the biggest figures in the Balkan arts community, Perforations Festival highlights will include performances by Slovenia's Via Negativa; Croatia's BADco., which was recently selected to represent the country at the Venice Biennale; and Serbia's Sanja Mitrovic, the 2010 winner of Holland's prestigious Dutch BNG Nieuwe Theatermakers Prijs. The festival opens Friday night with a performance by Bulgarian artist Ivo Dimchev in "Lili Handel."
But Elisabeth Vincentelli, theater critic for the New York Post, cautions not all of the festival will be easy viewing. "It's really difficult to see this kind of theater here. A lot of it has a strong emphasis on the body and can be pretty punishing," she said.
Some strongly physical aggressive content is expected, inspired in part by the late Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski who was known for drawing out especially physical performances from his actors. "I think some of it is going to be pretty demanding of the audience," Vincentelli said. "The story demands you to be invested in this kind of closeness with the actor."
Dobrovic says this year's festival will be a poignant one without La MaMa's founder Ellen Stewart, who died in January. "She's a beloved figure in the Balkans," he said. "We are all her children. If you talk to any arts producer, actor, whatever, in Croatia, she, and La MaMa, is the reference point."
Dobrovic has over 15 years of experience organizing festivals for theater and the performing arts. In 2003, he started his own festival, Queer Zagreb. "That was related more to the recent troubles, to the wars and what wars do to societies," he said. "I felt there was a lack of initiative toward the local and regional independent arts. Those are the artists that are, in my opinion, pushing the limits in terms of creative thinking and theater. And that critical thinking of your own system always leads to improvement."
The Perforations Festival will take place at La MaMa Experimental Theatre at 74A East 4th Street (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue). Performances run from Friday, March 11 to Sunday, March 20. Shows on Friday, Saturday, and Thursday start at 10 P.M. and shows Sunday and Monday start at 8 P.M. Tickets, which can be purchased through La MaMa's box office at 212-475-7710, and online at www.lamama.org, are $15 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors. The performance installation on March 14 is free of charge, but a reservation is required. On Monday, March 21 from 6 to 8 P.M., The New School for Social Research will present "Transgressing Borders in the Balkans: The State of Art," a panel discussion with festival participants, artists, academics, and experts on the region. Location: The New School for Social Research, 66 West 12th Street, Room 510.


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Released March 21, 2005
Hattiesburg– More
than 30 years ago, William Ward Wicht spearheaded the founding of
The University of Southern Mississippi's award-winning All-American
Rose Garden, an icon of the university's Hattiesburg campus that
draws admiring visitors year-round.
Today, Wicht's grandson, William Ward Wicht III, hopes
to do for small business in South Mississippi what his grandfather
did for roses - help it grow and blossom.
The younger Wicht, a Hattiesburg native and a resident
of Ocean Springs, opened his own franchise of Sunbelt Business Advisors
two years ago, which has offices worldwide and now in Hattiesburg
and Ocean Springs. Sunbelt offers services to those interested in
selling their business or in owning their own company by providing
them opportunities to take over an existing business. The company
also values businesses and handles the complete sale transaction
from start to finish
Wicht believes South Mississippi is one of the best
places in the nation for small business development and the area
provides a plethora of opportunities for him to do what he enjoys
- help people achieve the goal of owning their own small business.
"It (small business) drives America," Wicht
said. "A small business can grow faster than a big business,
because it has fewer obstacles for development."
Wicht learned the values that make any business, small
or large, a success from his late grandfather, who served as president
of the Hattiesburg Rose Society when the rose garden at Southern
Miss took shape. The elder Wicht was also a business owner, with
a variety of interests that included beekeeping, a roofing company
and an insulation company, known locally as Wicht Insulation.
More and more people are examining the possibilities
of owning their own small business as a way to maximize their earning
potential and as a shield against the effects of outsourcing and
uncertain economic conditions that have harmed larger businesses,
as well as the movement of many other industries overseas, he said.
"When the (national) economy falters, small business
is what picks it up. It can be a shelter and haven (economically)
and more and more people are taking advantage of the opportunity."
Dr. Harold Doty, dean of The University of Southern
Mississippi College of Business said a firm like Sunbelt that provides
opportunities for small business growth can help the state through
lean economic times. "A real advantage for Mississippi with
this type of service is that small business and entrepreneurial
activity is a primary source of economic development and growth,
and can help lead our state out of problems like our current state
budget crisis," Doty said.
One of the keys to making South Mississippi fertile
for small business is Southern Miss, where Wicht attended college.
He also earned degrees in international business and engineering
from Auburn University and Mississippi State University, respectively.
"(Southern Miss) is an economic engine not only
for Hattiesburg but South Mississippi," Wicht said. "In
addition to providing resources and expertise from its faculty and
students in the College of Business, the university as a whole also
adds to the quality of life in our region through its cultural and
educational offerings, and helps make it a great place to live and
Owning a small business can also help a person achieve
his or her earning potential as opposed to working for someone else.
"When you work for someone else, often you hit an artificial
(earning) ceiling or salary cap," Wicht said. "No matter
how much harder you may work, you can't go further. Owning your
own business allows you to have more control over those factors."
Founded in 1979, Sunbelt is the largest business brokerage
in the United States. The company has approximately 360 offices
and more than $1 billion in transaction values annually. Wicht's
offices handle transactions of businesses with annual sales ranging
from $100,000 to $50 million.
Sunbelt provides an information bank of potential
acquisitions and education for new business owners, as well as assisting
in finding financing for the purchase, among other services. "We
work with a lot of first-time buyers and entrepreneurs who need
assistance from professionals through the process," Wicht said.
The company also helps educate potential entrepreneurs
about the myths about starting or purchasing a business, including
what Wicht said is the false notion that the full asking price of
the business has to be paid up front, or that the asking price is
Wicht encourages buyers to learn the seller's motivation
for putting their business up for sale and determine if it's a viable
investment. "It's important to understand that--to test them
up front about why they want to sell," he said. "Get into
the (financial) books of the company. See if it can support you
and your family."
For those who want to sell a business, Wicht encourages
them to consider helping finance the purchase. "That tells
the buyer that they believe in the success of their business."
Hattiesburg businessman Chris Happ took advantage
of Sunbelt's services when he sold one of his restaurants, Cane
Creek, so he could devote more time to his family and his other
restaurant, Chesterfield's, a longtime favorite among area residents.
"I wanted to spend more time with my kids and
devote more of my energy to Chesterfield's, plus I had begun building
a new house," Happ said. "They (Sunbelt) do a really good
job, and the whole process went rather quick."
Happ said Wicht and his associates were professional
and handled a majority of the details of the transaction, including
providing information for potential buyers in a confidential manner
to prevent any rumors that Cane Creek was closing. "It was
more of a situation where they met with the people (who wanted to
purchase Cane Creek) and they took care of everything. They just
called me a couple of times with questions. I had listed it with
someone else, but nothing came of that, and then I got a recommendation
for them (Sunbelt) and that worked out real well. They were just
real professional."
Jennifer Larson was ready to pursue new professional
interests this past summer, but had mixed emotions about giving
up the popular Gulf Coast restaurant that she and her business partner,
Patty Jenkins, started 15 years ago.
Larson and Jenkins opened Toucan's Mostly Mexican
Café on U.S. 49 in Gulfport in 1989, and over the years enjoyed
a healthy business and a loyal clientele, including Pine Belt residents
traveling home from visiting the Gulf Coast. And although they were
ready to make a break from the restaurant business, a strong sense
of attachment to the eatery made the decision difficult for fear
it would close forever.
"We didn't want to see it go away," Larson
said of Toucan's. "It was like our child. We wondered, 'What
would we do?'"
A call from Sunbelt Business Advisors intermediary
Ben Bulot inquiring if Larson would be interested in selling Toucan's
provided an opportunity to turn the restaurant over to someone looking
to own their own business and still keep the cafe open.
The reasons business owners sell vary from customer
to customer, Wicht said. "We help a lot of people who want
to retire, and on occasion, we have people who want to sell because
of illness, divorce, or who need to cash out the value of their
company. Others may be seeking an investor to help them grow their
business, or like in the case of Chris (Happ) may want to spend
more time with their family and concentrate on one of their other
business interests."
Often Wicht and his associates work with clients with
an emotional attachment to the business that they began from the
ground up. As Larson and Jenkins indicated, making the break can
be difficult. However, finding a new owner can mean an improvement
in the company if the buyer has more resources to grow the business,
or in the case of Toucan's, keeps a well-known venue from closing.
"It's like sending your child off to college,
when you've raised your business from nothing to something and then
decide you want or need to sell it," Wicht said. "But
sometimes it turns out better for the company to divest."
Larson said Sunbelt and its staff helped her and Jenkins
match the restaurant with a suitable owner by screening potential
prospects, allowing her to solicit a buyer confidentially without
putting a 'for sale' sign out or advertising.
Openly advertising the restaurant could have disrupted
its day-to-day operation and unnecessarily upset loyal customers,
Larson and Wicht said.
"I was very happy with their service," Larson
said. "They also sent information about it (Toucan's) to the
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Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML standard, declares that a DRM Web video from Microsoft, Google, and Netflix would be unethical and ineffectual.
Microsoft, Google, and Netflix have proposed a standard for copy-protected Web video, but HTML editor Ian Hickson has dealt it a serious blow by calling it impractical and "unethical."
"I believe this proposal is unethical and that we should not pursue it," Hickson said in a mailing list message this week. "The proposal…does not provide robust content protection, so it would not address this use case even if it wasn't unethical," he added.
The Web video DRM debate — and this one isn't the first — shows the difficulties of reconciling open standards with the constraints of the commercial video industry. Expect more tensions as the the video industry tries to capitalize pervasiveness of the Web.
Web technologies such as Hypertext Markup Language have progressed fast in recent years, and one headline HTML5 feature lets Web pages include streaming video and audio. So far, though, there's no mechanism for digital rights management (DRM), an encryption mechanism that permits only authorized video and audio in an attempt to deter unauthorized copying.
That means companies offering video often resort to browser plug-ins such as Adobe Systems' Flash Player that support DRM and copy protection. Indeed, although Adobe has embraced HTML and related Web standards, it also has declared "premium" video to be a Flash Player stronghold.
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Relying on a plug-in flies in the face of the movement to leave those plug-ins behind — a movement reinforced by Apple's ban of Flash on iPhones and iPads, Adobe's withdrawal of Flash for mobile devices, and Microsoft's banning of plug-ins for the forthcoming IE10 running in Windows 8′s new Metro interface.
Naturally, some Web technology allies would like to accommodate DRM within HTML video, and they've been spurred by the arrival of TV and video companies into the World Wide Web Consortium that standardizes HTML.
Thus, Google, Netflix, and Microsoft published their Encrypted Media Extensions proposal Tuesday and announced it on a W3C mailing list.
"Many content providers and application developers have said they can't use <audio> and <video> because HTML lacks robust content protection. Without this functionality, they cannot move their apps to the Web platform," said Microsoft's Adrian Bateman, Google's David Dorwin, and Netflix's Mark Watson in their mailing list announcement.
This proposal extends HTMLMediaElement to enable playback of protected content. The proposed API [application programming interface] supports use cases ranging from simple clear-key decryption to high-value video (given an appropriate user agent [browser] implementation). License/key exchange is controlled by the application [the Web site software running in the browser], facilitating the development of robust playback applications supporting a range of content decryption and protection technologies. No "DRM" is added to the HTML5 specification, and only simple clear-key decryption is required as a common baseline.
A Web-based Netflix or Hulu application would be convenient for watching streaming video on a wide range of browser-enabled devices and would essentially free the technology from hardware constraints, said Bateman, Dorwin, and Watson. "Many consumer electronics are taking advantage of HTML for both video playback and user interfaces, yet their content protection solutions are typically tied to the device," said.
Google, Microsoft, and Netflix propose adding DRM to HTML video, though much of the technology would take place at a higher level than HTML itself.
(Credit: W3C)
But Hickson is staunchly opposed.
Hickson, aka Hixie, doesn't have veto power, but he is a strong force in the Web standards world. While working for browser maker Opera, he helped shepherd HTML during the dark years when the W3C had left it for dead. Now Google employs him, though his opposition to a Google-backed proposal demonstrates his independence.
Indeed, the present work on DRM and HTML video is taking place despite an earlier manifestation of Hickson's anti-DRM stance. In 2010, he marked a request to support DRM with HTML video as "won't fix." Hickson detailed his HTML video DRM objections with the rationale that "DRM is evil." He also raised a number of more technical and practical objections.
In an interview, he detailed his opposition:
Any technology whose exclusive goal is to stop users from being able to make use of the content they have purchased is, in my opinion, unethical.
DRM takes away users' rights. For example, if I buy a TV show and want to criticise a scene from the show it on my blog, but the TV show is DRMed, how do I extract the scene, as I'm supposed to be able to per my Fair Use rights? How do I use DRMed content for the purpose of parody if it is DRMed? How do I watch DRMed content that I bought on one device on another device? How do I watch DRMed content that I bought, after the company providing the DRM servers goes bankrupt and shuts them down? These are all rights I have, yet DRM prevents me from exercising them.
Instead, he recommended a different mechanism for copy protection: copyright law.
"All video is copy-protected, by copyright law and the courts. If the laws and the courts are sufficient to protect us against guns, why on Earth would they not be sufficient to protect us against people violating copyrights?" he asked. "There's no need for technology to 'protect' content."
Indeed, right now just such an effort is going on with the MegaUpload site. New Zealand authorities apprehended founder Kim DotCom now released on bail) and the United States wants to extradite him so he can face charges of criminal copyright violations, racketeering, and money laundering.
Finally, Hickson said the HTML video DRM proposal was, in effect, plug-ins all over again.
"The DRM proposal is just a plug-in platform in disguise. You still have proprietary plug-ins, it's just that the DRM proposal calls them "CDMs," or content decryption modules, he said. "It defeats the entire point of HTML <video>."
Hickson isn't the only objector. Maciej Stachowiak, an Apple employee who's another influential Web standards developer, raised practical concerns about Web video DRM in 2010.
"I understand the desire of some content providers to have DRM. But I think DRM, by nature, cannot be specified by an open standard. Openly publishing DRM format information allows it to be trivially broken, as you cannot obfuscate what you are doing when there is a published specification for it," Stachowiak said. "This is why existing DRM schemes involve secret information about how the DRM mechanism works."
But given the tremendous success of the Web and the power of the video industry, don't expect the naysayers to have the last word.
DRM has a long history of being cracked so that everything from videogames to movies are available through back channels the video industry despises. But DRM advocates show no signs of giving up on the idea.


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Today's Queue is dedicated to finally get some good drops in LFR. I haven't been able to get my hands on a helm that's worth anything in quite a while, and the tier piece finally dropped for me. Not on a charm roll though (of course not).
Onwards and upwards! There's always more charms today!
Alexey asked:
Has any gray item ever become useful after some patch?
I don't believe so. There have been plenty of items that have turned gray, however, and became totally useless. But nothing in reverse. It'd be pretty strange to see.
I should note that there have been a few here and there that were mislabled gray and should have been white. But that was mainly a bug fix, and usually taken care of in a minor patch.
Akriloth asked:
How did spellcasters increase their damage done with spells in Vanilla WoW? I've been so curious about this since intellect wasn't a throughput stat and spell power did not exist until WotLK.
Gear would have on it a modifier like "+Shadow Damage" that would be for warlocks (not shadow priests, since there really were not any in a large way). "+Fire Damage" would be for mages, and "+Holy Damage" would be for that paladin. The other modifiers, like crit and hit, still worked, however they were not as prevalent as the +damage boosts.
Keep in mind that Vanilla WoW was a different game. There wasn't an abundance of min/maxing things like there is now, and adequate DPS came through a bunch of trial and error, figuring it out on your own. Now that's not to say that theory crafting didn't exist, it did, but it wasn't as prevalent as it is today (nor, I might argue, as necessary).
P/S: All replies to this comment must be: "But I was a shadow priest raiding in Vanilla WoW!"
Wstomlin asked:
But how many raid tiers do you think we'll have? We know it will be at least 3, but do you think Blizzard will fit a 4th raid tier in? (Seems unlikely to be more than 4, on past evidence, but maybe?)
I really would be surprised if it was anything other than three patches with major raid content in them. More than that and I think this expansion would carry on too long, and that's something that Blizzard really wants to avoid. They did better with the end of Cataclysm (although not good enough, in my opinion), and adding an extra tier of raiding at the level of quality players expect would just delay the next expansion longer than necessary.
XorCist asked:
I have the Chest of Shadowy Conqueror token from Raid Finder, and I see it has an Item Upgrade 0/2....can you upgrade it prior to turning it in thus making it a Heroic token? Or what does the upgrade imply?
The upgrade doesn't mean anything for a token. You can turn the token in for your raid finder level tier piece, and then upgrade the resulting piece of gear twice (for a total of 8 iLevels). But that will not bring it anywhere near heroic level.
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Hey guys, did you hear?
Nitrogen and Oxygen hooked up over the weekend, and I was like NO way!
But then, Oxygen and Magnesium totally had a thing, and I was all like, OMG!
How often do I make chemistry jokes? Periodically. But I doubt I'll get any reaction from them.
I'm just going to end the Queue today with that. Have a good one all!
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The Complete-Streets Election?
August 06, 2013
Nicole Gelinas
Maybe the bike lobby is all-powerful. The last time New Yorkers elected a new mayor, in 2001, twenty-first-century transportation policy was on no one's agenda, even before 9/11. The only thing that came close: then-city Comptroller Alan Hevesi's proposal to give teachers free MetroCards. The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, which closely follows the mayoral election, didn't even ask potential voters what they thought about their daily travels. Things have changed a lot—so much that Transportation Alternatives, which advocates for cycling, walking and public transit, is on the list of groups that will sponsor the official candidate debates this fall. Why the change—and which mayoral candidates get it?
The old-fashioned way of thinking about transportation was not to think about it unless something went wrong–e.g., the transit union was on strike. Not anymore. Younger people are embracing mass transit—and not just as a painful way to get back and forth to work until you can afford to park a car in Manhattan or move out of the city.
In mid-July, the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority told its board how "millennials" use transit throughout the day—and night. Twentysomethings and young thirtysomethings would just as soon take a bus home than a taxi after a late dinner. They also embrace incremental change, or, as MTA special-project chief William Wheeler puts it, improvements that "can be implemented in the person's commuting lifetime." They like countdown clocks and things like the Second Avenue Select Bus service.
These are the same folk who view bicycling as a way to get around—and a practical complement to the MTA–not as a radical environmental statement. Since springtime, 64,718 people who have signed up for an annual Citi Bike membership. Thirty thousand people, many of them young office workers, use Citi Bike every day—and more would use it if there were enough bikes.
To the folk who have embraced new subway cars, countdown clocks, better bus service and bikes, transportation isn't supposed to be an ordeal—it's an integral part of quality of life. Plus all of this goes together; one day you may take the train, the next day, the bike. Moreover, bikers need efficient subways and buses to keep cars and trucks from clogging the streets.
But what will happen next?
Despite the massive changes, New York is really in the early phases of this transformation—or should be. To serve all New Yorkers, Citibike should expand up past Central Park and down past downtown Brooklyn as well as into the other three boroughs. Says Adolfo Carrion, who's running for mayor on the Independence line, people in outer Brooklyn "constantly ask me, 'why don't we have the bike program?'" The city also needs fast bus service between boroughs—which means taking lanes away from cars and trucks, like with bike lanes.
But building on the past half-decade requires a mayor who is willing to stand up to special-interest squawkers – whether it's voters who would rather have idling graffiti-covered trucks double-parked in front of their houses than a nice, quiet, shiny new bike dock, or donors who don't like the fact that their drivers can't speed now through Midtown traffic.
We have that in Mayor Bloomberg. As Mickey Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, puts it, "you can pester Bloomberg, but you can't make him do anything"—or not do anything.
Will we have it in the next mayor?
We've got one billionaire candidate, but he's against bike lanes. Supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis said "no" when NY1's Errol Louis asked him if there "should … be more bike lanes in our city. Primary opponent Joe Lhota said the same—although he later said that he's open to more bike lanes and other traffic-calming measures as long as they go through a robust public-hearing process first. (Of course, there already is a robust public process, as anyone who went to Citi Bike community meetings can attest. Bike-lane opposition should be an important marker even for voters who don't ride bicycles. If you oppose a bike lane, you are proposing faster car and truck traffic, with endangers pedestrians.)
The only option, then, may be democracy—e.g. that the next mayor builds on what Bloomberg has done only because enough voters want him to.
There are some positive signs.
First, there's the general polling data. In a Quinnipiac poll of Democratic primary voters this month, 67 percent said transportation was "extremely important" or "very important" to them. Quinnipiac's June poll showed that 57 percent of New Yorkers want bike sharing in their neighborhoods—including half of Staten islanders.
Poll after poll shows majority support for bike lanes and other traffic-calming measures. As Noah Budnick, Deputy Director of Transportation Alternatives, says, this is "the new normal. … No serious candidates is going to run against these things." Candidates can feel pretty confident that even if lots of people don't care either way, there's no huge bloc that's vociferously against bike lanes. In the Manhattan Institute's spring poll, only a plurality of Republican voters opposed them.
Second, thanks to social media and other technology improvements, pro-streets groups have a better chance of congealing their voters into a significant group. That's important, because most New York voters likely won't rank transit and transportation as their top issue; voters are more worried about crime and jobs.
But in what could be a close race, does any candidate really want to run the risk of pissing off the tens of thousands of voters who do care enough to rule out a candidate based on streets issues? StreetsPAC, a new political-action group, is getting candidates on the record via a questionnaire ahead of making endorsements down to the City Council level.
Transportation Alternatives won't endorse, but it wants candidates to commit to bring "safe streets to 50 New York City neighborhoods a year"—including more space for pedestrians and cyclists as well as lower car and truck speeds. Social-media and e-mail efforts, including on Election Day, can affect turnout, especially among young voters who are famous for staying home in non-presidential years. And turnout among any motivated, organized group can change the election outcome.
Advocates have done a good job, too, of making sure they don't confine their efforts to wealthier neighborhoods. Earlier this month, the streets geeks were out in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to inaugurate the poorer neighborhood's first bike lanes, and are constantly making the point at community meetings that the most dangerous streets for children to cross are outside of core Manhattan.
Smart candidates are already responding to this change—if gingerly. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has proposed a tri-borough rapid bus service among Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, complete with its own lanes (meaning less space for cars). Quinn's spokesperson also says she's "open to new bike lanes as long as they go through community engagement process," which they already do, in part thanks to legislation she passed as speaker.
She's also committed to "reduc[ing] pedestrian, cyclist and driver fatalities 50 percent by 2021" beyond Bloomberg's 30 percent reduction. That would necessarily involve slowing cars and trucks—not just through speed cameras, but through better street designs.
Former city comptroller Bill Thompson hasn't said much yet—but as the Republicans showed in their bike-lane answer, sometimes being quiet is better. (And Anthony Weiner has backtracked from his 2011 promise to rip out the bike lanes.)
The biggest risk to the candidates here may be a negative-image problem. Even a voter who doesn't care much about this stuff can tell who is irrelevant and out of touch, and who isn't. As Carrion—who also supports better cross-borough and inter-borough transit—puts it: the "conventional politician" is "on the wrong side of history on this." Even "the conventions of business attire" are changing "to accommodate this new way of living in cities."
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Archbishop Charles Chaput, on the Tragedy in Newtown, CT
You were in Denver when Columbine happened as the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Denver. So I don't know if you are reliving that nightmare now. But what are you reactions to the tragedy in Newtown, CT?
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HH: On a very sad day as no doubt many of you know of the 27 people murdered in Connecticut, including 20 children. I had scheduled earlier in the week to speak with Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and old friend and a great moral force in America. And I'm sorry to do so on this day, Archbishop. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm sorry it's on such a sad and grief-filled day.
CC: Well, I understand that, and Hugh, if you want to cut things short, I understand that, too, if you need to do other things.
HH: Oh, absolutely. I think it's fortuitous that you can talk to us about this.
CC: Well, I'm very happy to do it.
HH: You were in Denver when Columbine happened as the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Denver. So I don't know if you are reliving that nightmare now. But what are you reactions to today?
CC: Well, actually I am kind of reliving it. I remember I was in Wichita, Kansas for the installation of the new Catholic bishop there on that day when Columbine happened, and I came out of the ordination Mass, and was just shocked by the news, and caught a plane as quickly as I could back to Denver, because it really was an event that shaped the whole life of the community for a long, long time to come, just a tragedy for everybody.
HH: What is your advice, Archbishop Chaput, for people that are one or two removed from victims and their families, you know, priests, pastors, friends, family members?
CC: To make themselves available without being intrusive on the sadness of the families. You know, I went around and visited some of the families, Catholic families in the Columbine tragedy, and it was obviously the most important thing for them were friends and pastors being available. Not to say a lot, because what can you say in the face of such a tragedy, but you know, show love and support by just being present.
HH: I resist reporting on them within hours of them happening, because details are often subject to change. They've changed many times today already, and they will change again. But obviously, the execution of 20 children is going to have a powerful impact. It's also going to remind us about evil. Any comments on that?
You know, I went around and visited some of the families, Catholic families in the Columbine tragedy, and it was obviously the most important thing for them were friends and pastors being available. Not to say a lot, because what can you say in the face of such a tragedy, but you know, show love and support by just being present.
CC: Well you know, often, experiences like this often lead people away from God, because they ask the question how is it possible that if God is good and just when people suffer, especially when children suffer. That often happens with parents when their children have a disease like cancer and the like. But equally happening, from this kind of experience, is a return to God. People take life seriously again when they were maybe living shallowly, and they experience how fragile life is, and begin to wonder about what can moor me down, what can give me deeper foundations in the face of this kind of experience. So I think it can lead either direction. So it's important for those who've dealt with the question of evil in their own life, or theologically or in other ways, to be available to listen and then articulate the faith of the Church.
HH: Archbishop Chaput, in terms of just practical stuff, as the leader of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, and previously Denver, there are two very practical issues I want to ask you about. Obviously, you are the head of a school system. You have lots of kindergarten children and first graders and young children in your care as the head of that school system. What do you do, what you think about attacks like this? I don't really know what you can do.
CC: Well, in Denver, it led us to review our security issues. I think sometimes especially in private school situations, we don't worry about security as much as we would in other situations in the public school systems. So I think it led us to review our security issues. And I think as time goes on, sometimes people get a little less focused than they should be on those issues. So I hope that all of us here in Philadelphia and elsewhere across the country will review the security of our schools, because this is just happening so often. You know, I just heard your own program earlier this week talking about the incident in Oregon.
HH: Yes.
CC: And so this is happening just way too often. And we need to focus on the security of our schools again, I think.
HH: And that brings me to the other practical aspect. As bishops in large, urban communities, you have under your domain mental health services. I'm sure you take care of a lot of people who are mentally ill. They're often among the lost and the least. And I'm not going to categorize any particular illness here. I always hear from the mental health community, please don't judge everyone with a mental health issue after one of these savage attacks. But what is your experience with the way American handles the mentally ill now?
CC: Well you know, I don't know that we handled it any better than we did when I was a young priest forty years ago. And in fact, maybe we handled it less well in the sense that we take it less seriously, because everybody goes to a psychiatrist/psychologist. I'm just joking, but it's more common. And I don't know that we worry enough about the possible dangers that are involved with psychological illnesses. I think it's really important for those of us who are involved in that kind of service to people to have our antennas sensitive to that kind of thing so that we can do our best to prevent things from happening. And of course, we also need to make this kind of psychological assistance available to families, and you know, in our schools, other children are going to be frightened now to go to school, and to make sure that we pay attention to those kind of issues, and not spiritualize the problem of evil so much that we don't deal with the day to day deals of children and their parents.
HH: Yeah, fear is going to be a big issue that people won't be able to articulate. John Paul II used to say "fear not" quite a lot in all of his writings. But it's awfully hard for parents of small children not to. And it's very, it's impossible for small children to catch a whiff of this not to be impacted.
CC: That's right. You know, his call, fear not, really was a call to have confidence with God in the face of this kind of evil. And I think we can say that with as much surety and clarity as he did even today. You know, ultimately, we have God who loves us, who's our father, who cares for us. And although we have to be attentive and very, very careful, we can have confidence in God's providential care for His children.
HH: And one last question on this, Archbishop. In your long life as a priest and bishop, you've been a grief counselor to many people. I know you've walked along a lot of people who are suffering. To those in the not near immediate aftermath of this, but years down the road, do you talk to people about their losses? Do you bring them up?
CC: I think it's important to bring them up, and even bring them up quite quickly after an event like this. Not the first moment, you know, because people have to get through the immediate grieving and the funerals and the like. But I think very quickly after that is important for pastors to approach people who they're responsible for to see if they can be of assistance in dealing with the fear and tragedy of these moments.
HH: Now I want to, and again, I assure the audience . . .
CC: And friends should do that, too, Hugh. I don't think it's just the prerogative of priests and clergymen and professionals. I think friends just need to be available to listen to people's fears.
HH: Years ago, I interviewed Rabbi Harold Kushner, the author of The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person. And his number one rule for the PBS special was show up and shut up.
CC: That's exactly right. That's good advice.
The rest of the interview can be read here.
The interview ends with the following exchange.
HH: And Archbishop, I want to finish by going back to Newtown. The President said our hearts are broken today. And what's the word you speak into that situation, because it's clearly the case that people are driving home tonight in Philadelphia and Los Angeles and Hawaii and Florida, grief-filled and worried and full of fear.
CC: Well, I hope people allow their hearts to be broken, and because our hearts aren't broken often enough. You know, we don't take life seriously, whether it being the individual human life or our own life in a general sense of our day to day life with our spouses, our children and the like. And the more we take life seriously, not sadly, but seriously, the more we'll live a transformed life that does good. And I hope this tragedy, the good that can come of it, and it's hard to imagine any good coming from it, but the only good that could come from it is somehow the breaking open of the heart of the people of our country for a long period of time. You know, it happened with 9/11. I experienced it happening of course in Columbine in Colorado. But you know, for a month or two, and then we'd go back to the way it was, and we don't get very far along down the road before the Devil tempts us again.
HH: We were supposed to, today, to talk about immigration, Archbishop. That will have to be another time, but perhaps . . .
CC: It's important, so I hope we do. I'm anxious to talk to you about it.
HH: Absolutely, and with this attitude, perhaps, of open heart. Maybe that's the best way to set that conversation up. I look forward to that conversation in the future. Thank you, Archbishop.
End of interview.
The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. "Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, on the Tragedy in Newtown, CT." Hugh Hewitt Show (December 15, 2012).
Reprinted with permission of the producer of the Hugh Hewitt Show.
The Author
The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. is the ninth and current Archbishop of Philadelphia, serving since his installation on September 8, 2011. He previously served as Archbishop of Denver (1997-2011) and Bishop of Rapid City (1988-1997). As member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, Archbishop Chaput is the second Native American to be ordained bishop in the United States, and the first Native American archbishop. He is the author of the e-book, A Heart on Fire: Catholic Witness and the Next America, as well as Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, and Living the Catholic Faith: Rediscovering the Basics.Copyright © 2012 Hugh Hewitt Show
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480. Mr. Gogarty asked the Minister for Health and Children the arrangements being made to tackle the backlog of orthodontic treatment required by patients here; if arrangements can be made to have treatment abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11884/03]
Minister for Health and Children (Mr. Martin): As the Deputy is aware, the provision of orthodontic treatment for eligible persons is the responsibility of the health boards-authority in the first instance.
I am pleased to advise the Deputy that I have taken a number of measures to improve orthodontic services on a national basis. The grade of specialist in orthodontics has been created in the health board orthodontic service. This year, my Department and the health boards are funding 13 dentists from various health boards for specialist in orthodontics qualifications at training programmes in Ireland and at two separate universit[367]ies in the United Kingdom. These 13 trainees for the public orthodontic service are additional to the six dentists who commenced their training last year and one dentist whose specialist training is nearing completion. Thus there is an aggregate of 20 public service dentists currently in training for specialist in orthodontics qualifications. These measures will complement the other structural changes being introduced into the orthodontic service, including the creation of an auxiliary grade of orthodontic therapist to work in the orthodontic area.
Orthodontic initiative funding of €4.698 million was provided for the health boards-authority in 2001 and this has enabled health boards to recruit additional staff, engage the services of private specialist orthodontic practitioners to treat patients and build additional orthodontic facilities.
In June 2002, my Department provided additional funding of €5 million from the treatment purchase fund for health boards specifically for the purchase of orthodontic treatment. This funding is enabling boards to provide both additional sessions for existing staff and purchase treatment from private specialist orthodontic practitioners. This scheme has also enabled some boards to make arrangements for the treatment of cases by private specialist orthodontic practitioners from Northern Ireland. Children in treatment in the health board orthodontic service receive between 18 to 24 appointments over the course of their treatment period of approximately two years. This attendance pattern is not conducive with the referral of cases overseas for treatment.
The chief executive officers of the health boards-authority have informed me that at the end of the March 2003 quarter, there were 20,272 patients receiving orthodontic treatment in the public orthodontic service. This is an increase of approximately 2,168 patients in orthodontic treatment when compared with the number of patients receiving treatment in March 2002. I expect that [368]the number of patients receiving orthodontic treatment in the public orthodontic service will continue to increase as the measures that I have taken impact further on the service.
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These purple units from VP were fairly typical of the trend: a polycarbonate body (in a fairly standard platform shape) wrapped round a standard steel axle. You can have any colour you like, so long as it isn't black.
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About RecruitMilitary: This Cincinnati-based company connects employers, franchisors, and educational institutions with job seekers who have military backgrounds. All of the company's owners, account executives, and search consultants are either veterans or active or former reservists. The founder and president of RecruitMilitary is Drew Myers, formerly a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Myers founded the company in 1998. RecruitMilitary has produced Opportunity Expos since 2006. The company also offers subscriptions to its database of more than 430,000 registered candidates who have military backgrounds at http://www.recruitmilitary.com, retained hiring services, and advertising space in online and print media. RecruitMilitary distributes more than 36,000 copies of each issue of Search & Employ, a bimonthly print magazine, to over 220 military bases throughout the world, National Guard and reserve units, and job seekers who attend RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expos.