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Donald Trump is still leading the polls for President. Which is amazing, considering how ignorant he can sound. I do have to give him some credit though, he does speak his mind...
Donald Trump is still leading the polls for President. Which is amazing, considering how ignorant he can sound. I do have to give him some credit though, he does speak his mind...
It has been all over the internet the last week. I'm talking about the viral video of the chick in Alaska yelling at a bear for destroying her kayak. It is hilarious, because for some reason, the lady thinks the bear knows English. She yells at the bear, in full sentences, for over 2 1/2 minutes.
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Missoula County Animal Control is looking for information on numerous pet attacks in the Lolo Area.
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Picking apart our interview with Tony Baxter of the "Stealing Banksy?" auctionApril 19th, 2014 | By RJ Rushmore | 5 Comments »
Yesterday we published an interview that Caroline Caldwell and I conducted with Tony Baxter, director of The Sincura Group. That's the private concierge behind last year's sale of the Slave Labour piece formally by Banksy and the upcoming Stealing Banksy? auction, which will have at least seven supposed Banksy street pieces up for sale. Not only do I disagree with a lot of what Baxter said in the interview, but I found many of his answers dodges at best and misleading or shady at worst, so, as promised, here are my thoughts on Baxter's answers…
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Emerging Advances With Cartilage Replacement Techniques
When it comes to cartilage replacement, various promising technologies are now available to foot and ankle surgeons. These authors review the literature on osteochondral lesions of the talus and share their insights on a variety of emerging modalities ranging from fresh osteochondral allografts and autologous chondrocyte implantation to minced cartilage and bone marrow aspirate.
Cartilage degeneration or damage in the foot and ankle is a difficult problem for both the patient and physician. Foot and ankle physicians commonly encounter degenerative joint disease, which may be due to biomechanical deficiencies, trauma, rheumatologic disease or a host of other causes.
Isolated damage to cartilage with or without damage to the surrounding bone most often occurs as a result of trauma. Cartilage damage in the foot has undergone the most extensive study in the talar dome. The study of osteochondral defects (OCD), specifically osteochondral lesions of the talus (OLT), is a very exciting topic in foot and ankle literature with many new evolving technologies.
Berndt and Harty most notably described OLT in their landmark study.1 Their grading scheme has the following four stages.
• Stage 1 is a contusion to the cartilage and underlying bone without visible damage to the cartilage. This is often visible on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after low energy ankle trauma and may be the cause of lingering pain.
• Stage 2 involves a partial detachment of the diseased cartilage. A section of cartilage may be flapped up but is generally still in position and stable.
• Stage 3 involves a full thickness detachment of the cartilage with or without bone attached. This can be relatively stable or unstable, depending on the location and size of the defect.
• Stage 4 is a full thickness lesion with or without bony attachment that is displaced or inverted.
Canale and Belding described OLT as well and found similar findings to Berndt and Harty.2 Scranton and McDermott later described a Stage 5 lesion that involved intact cartilage with a large bony cyst underlying the joint surface.3 This type of lesion occurs more frequently on the medial talar dome and may eventually erode the overlying cartilage.
The lesions of the talus correspond to the mechanism of injury in both location and morphology. Classically, lesions most often occur through a dorsiflexion-inversion injury or a plantarflexion-inversion injury. Those lesions that happened with the foot dorsiflexed tended to be anterolateral on the talar dome and had a more shallow or wafer shape.
Plantarflexion injuries tended to be more posterior and medial. The lesions with these injuries had a deeper, cup-shaped presentation. When looking at the incidence of these two modes of injury pattern, the medial-based lesions occurred in about 60 percent of injuries and the lateral-based lesions occurred in 40 percent of injuries.
All of this historic knowledge has recently undergone re-examination. In a MRI study by Raikin and colleagues, both medial and lateral lesions tended to be in the center of the talar dome as opposed to the aforementioned anterolateral and posterior central descriptions.4
A Guide To Treatment Options For Osteochondral Lesions Of The Talus
Studies have described many treatments for OLT. Conservative treatment consisting of immobilization can be effective in stage 1, 2 and medial stage 3 lesions.2 Steroid injections can provide temporary pain relief. As the disease progresses or conservative measures fail, surgical intervention may be required.
Arthroscopic debridement is the mainstay of early surgical care.5,6 By performing an arthroscopic synovectomy, the surgeon can visualize and address the cartilage lesion. Identify and curette any loose cartilage. Then inspect the underlying bone and resect any cystic bone. Proceed to stimulate bleeding in the underlying bone, which one can do with microfracture or antegrade percutaneous drilling.7,8 Either of these techniques allows blood to flow through the perforations in the subchondral bone. This blood forms a clot and eventually organizes into a type of fibrocartilage, which fills the hyaline cartilage deficit.
If the overlying cartilage is intact with a large underlying cystic defect (stage 5 lesion), the surgeon can perform guided retrograde drilling to resect the cystic bone and backfill the area to allow for solid bony consolidation without disruption of the cartilage.9 Use a targeted drill guide and evacuation system to locate and treat these lesions.
Arthroscopic techniques offer good functional outcomes with minimal surgical intervention. Failures of these interventions or lesions larger than approximately 1.5 cm require other methods. This is the area of treatment where new techniques are emerging and succeeding.
Joint destructive techniques can be effective for these lesions. Ankle arthrodesis allows for consistent pain relief but the loss of motion leads to loss of function and increased stress on adjacent joints.10 Total ankle replacement is an option but is not desirable in younger or active patients.11 These options are certainly viable but preserving or restoring the natural joint appears to be the emphasis of much of the recent literature.
What You Should Know About Autografts And Allografts
Osteochondral autografts have been in use for many years for osteochondral defects in various joints. This entails removing a cylinder of diseased cartilage and underlying bone, and replacing it with an osteochondral graft from elsewhere in the body. The surgeon can perform this by grafting in a single osteochondral cylinder via the osteoarticular transfer system (OATS) technique or by grafting in multiple smaller osteochondral plugs in a method called mosaicplasty. Researchers have described this extensively for OCDs in the knee with some excellent results.12-14
Surgeons typically perform the OATS and mosiacplasty techniques in the talus by replacing the defect with an autograft taken from the patient's knee. Studies have reported excellent results with this application as well.3,15
Critics of this method have highlighted several aspects of the techniques as potential negatives. The harvest of the osteochondral graft requires violation of the healthy knee joint and iatrogenic damage to femoral cartilage. The cartilage in the knee has a different thickness and curvature than that in the talus, and a perfect anatomic replacement is not possible.
A Closer Look At Fresh Osteochondral Allografts
There are several emerging concepts in cartilage replacement that are currently undergoing exploration. These include fresh osteochondral allograft (either mosaicplasty or with bulk replacement), autologous chondrocyte implantation, minced cartilage onlay, bone marrow aspirate application and new mesenchymal chondrocyte technology.
Fresh osteochondral allograft is an exciting concept in the talus. The idea is to replace the diseased cartilage and underlying bone with a fresh and viable cartilage (similar to OATS or mosaicplasty). However, one would use a fresh osteochondral allograft replacement instead of autograft.
There are several benefits to this technique with fresh allograft. These benefits include:
• avoidance of autograft harvest morbidity;
• the ability to obtain size- and side-matched donor tissue to replace the host anatomy very closely; and
• the transplantation of true hyaline cartilage, which matches the demands of the talus.
There are several concerns with the fresh allograft option as well. First and foremost is the question of chondrocyte viability. Authors have explored the process of freezing an allograft to extend its use and shelf time, and have shown that this results in a serious decrease in chondrocyte viability.16,17 That is the impetus behind using fresh allograft stored at 2 to 4ºC as this can preserve chondrocyte viability.
The exact timing is a little controversial. Bench studies have shown that after 14 days of preservation, viability and mechanical properties drop precipitously.18 Animal studies have shown there is a significant difference in postoperative degenerative changes between fresh osteochondral allograft implant before or after 21 days of preservation.19 Human studies in the knee have demonstrated successful implantation of fresh osteochondral allograft as long as 42 days after harvest.20
The issue of timing between harvest of the allograft and implantation is crucially important because of the process of securing a donor specimen. Surgeons should identify patients who are appropriate for this procedure and educate them on it. Take magnification controlled anteroposterior and lateral radiographs. Physicians can subsequently submit them to either a tissue bank specializing in this type of graft or companies like Arthrex that will facilitate the matching process.
The prospective donor is ideally under 40 years old and is free of any degenerative changes in the ankle. After the donor is found, the specimen must go through a rigorous screening process. This process evaluates for a number of potentially infectious processes, according to the American Association of Tissue Banks, and generally takes a minimum of seven days.
The patient and surgeon must then be able to quickly move to tissue implantation. The timing from patient selection to surgical implantation ranges between six and 20 weeks at our institution. This can occasionally be further complicated by patient scheduling conflicts and availability of the donor.
Orthopedic surgeons have used fresh osteochondral allograft in the knee for many years with one study demonstrating graft survival at 20 years of 66 percent.21 In the ankle, the use of this type of graft has ranged from replacement of small osteochondral defects via plugs all the way to complete bipolar replacement of the talar and tibial side of arthritic ankles.22,23
Two recently published studies have looked at bulk fresh osteochondral allografts for the treatment of large talar lesions. Raikin demonstrated excellent and good results in 11 of 15 patients who were followed a minimum of two years from surgery. The researchers reported only two failures in the follow-up period.24 Hyer and colleagues presented two-year data on 17 patients and showed a 94.1 percent success rate.25 This technique is a viable option.
Can Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation Have An Impact?
Giannini and colleagues discussed the use of autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) for treatment of the talus in 2001.26 This concept involves taking the patient's own chondrocytes, expanding and growing them in a lab, and subsequently re-implanting them into the patient's defect.
There are several benefits of this procedure, including the use of autograft, which intuitively is most preferable. There is minimal donor site morbidity as one only needs to harvest 200 to 300 mg of host cartilage, which can even come from the detached osteochondral talar lesion.27 This essentially negates the need for an additional harvest surgery.
After the cells are harvested, they are isolated, cleaned, cultured and expanded. The cell culture medium is changed approximately every three to four days until implantation. The timing to implantation offers flexibility and can be anywhere from around one to six months post-harvest. The cartilage repair tissue appears to be a hyaline-like repair tissue and several studies have demonstrated this repair with biopsy post-implantation.26,28 However, there is conflicting data demonstrating that rather than being hyaline-like, cartilage repair tissue is fibrocartilage, which is the same repair tissue as with microfracture.29,30
One potential limitation of this technique is the replacement of cartilage only, which could make it less useful in those lesions with underlying cystic bone. This obstacle appears to have been overcome with the so-called "sandwich" technique, which researchers have demonstrated in both the knee and the talus.31,32
One would perform this technique through an open ankle arthrotomy with or without a malleolar osteotomy. After identifying the talar defect, remove the cartilage defect and curette any cystic bone from the talar bone. Then fill the defect with bone graft up to the native subchondral bone. Then lay a graft of periosteum over the graft bone and attach it with a suture and/or fibrin glue. Secure a second periosteal layer over this.
Inject the ACI medium between the periosteal grafts. The use of a matrix or scaffold can permit the surgeon to seed the chondrocytes directly onto this medium and adhere the medium directly to the defect, thereby avoiding the tedious process of periosteal graft harvesting and securing.33,34 Disadvantages of this technique include the need for at least two surgeries and the high cost of the ACI process itself.
How ACI Stacks Up To Other Techniques: What The Literature Reveals
Several studies have compared the various cartilage techniques. Giannini and colleagues compared the results of autogenous osteochondral transplant to those of ACI. The authors concluded that both are preferable to microfracture surgery in that a hyaline or hyaline-like cartilage replaces the defect but the authors prefer ACI due to the lower donor site morbidity.35
A level 1, prospective, randomized, controlled trial by Gobbi and colleagues compared chondroplasty to microfracture surgery and autogenous osteochondral transplant. They found no significant differences in the results.36
In a systemic review of the literature involving 11 studies and 730 athletic patients with cartilage defects of the knee, Harris and colleagues compared microfracture surgery to ACI to OATS.37 The authors found that better clinical outcomes occurred with ACI or OATS over microfracture surgery, and microfracture surgery results deteriorated over time. Microfracture surgery was also worse with larger lesions and patients had a lower rate of return to sports. Return to pre-injury level of sports was the fastest with OATS and the slowest with ACI.
Pertinent Insights On Minced Cartilage
Minced cartilage is a very new and exciting concept. Research has shown that one can harvest autologous cartilage, mince it into very small pieces and implant the pieces into cartilage defects. The cartilage particles are a rich source for chondrocyte redistribution and are capable of forming hyaline-like cartilage.38 This process essentially allows for the expansion of the available area of coverage without having to sacrifice a large donor area and without the time delay and cost associated with ACI.
The DeNovo NT (Zimmer) is a new product that uses juvenile minced cartilage to act as an allograft source to this tissue. There are intriguing benefits with an available supply of robust, healthy cartilage and no donor site. The product currently takes some time to get and has a limited shelf life. However, it may be an allogenic alternative to ACI.39
Bear in mind that this process of employing minced cartilage is solely focused on cartilage replacement. Accordingly, one would not be able to manage subchondral cystic formation with this modality. No research or publications have evaluated a "sandwich" technique for this technology.
What Are The Merits Of Bone Marrow Aspirate?
Another recently introduced concept is that of bone marrow aspirate implantation. The technique entails removing bone marrow aspirate from the iliac crest and concentrating it. The concentrated cells are then applied into either a collagen powder or a hyaluronic acid membrane, and mixed with a platelet-rich fibrin gel.
Using an arthroscopic approach, one would debride the talar OCD. Then evacuate the ankle joint of fluid and achieve hemostasis at the subchondral bone interface. Proceed to introduce bone marrow aspirate on a scaffold into the ankle and inlay the scaffold into the defect. Secure the area with the fibrin gel and run the ankle through range of motion to ensure stability.
Giannini and colleagues examined this technique as a quicker and less costly alternative to ACI.40 In a prospective study, the researchers followed 48 patients for a minimum of two years after this type of procedure. Pre-clinical laboratory data confirmed the osteogenic and chondrogenic properties of the bone marrow aspirate. Results were very positive with increasing American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) scores.
In addition, the study showed 94 percent of patients returning to low impact sports at approximately four months and 77 percent of patients returning to high-impact sports at around 11 months. The cartilage also appeared to compare favorably to ACI repair with a hyaline-like cartilage repair.
This is an exciting concept. Further studies will need to evaluate the long-term outcomes of this technique, which may offer a quicker and more cost-effective alternative to ACI.
What About The Potential Of Stem Cell Therapies?
Finally, researchers have discussed the role of cell therapy and mesenchymal stem cells. Several researchers have shown the ability to harvest and proliferate multi-potent stem cells from tissue samples taken from the synovial membrane of adults. One can direct these cells into various tissue types, including chondrocytes. These findings have prompted researchers to propose this technology as a potential way to treat various skeletal pathologies, including cartilage defects.41,42
To the best of our knowledge, there are no clinical studies or products available that utilize this technology. However, cell therapy and the use of these mesenchymal stem cells may offer options in the future for many applications in orthopedics and beyond.
In Conclusion
Currently, the gold standard treatment for articular cartilage defects in the talar dome is debatable. There is a significant history of treatment with microfracture surgery or autologous osteochondral transplant, but both have significant drawbacks.
While there is still no consensus on the ideal way to treat this difficult pathology, numerous emerging technologies are at various stages of development and research. Currently, repair of damaged cartilage is a very exciting topic with significant developments for the future treatment of this problem.
Dr. DeVries is an Associate of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. He is a Fellow with the Advanced Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Fellowship at the Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Center in Westerville, Ohio.
Dr. Hyer is a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. He is the Director of the Advanced Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Fellowship at the Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Center in Westerville, Ohio.
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15. Scranton PE Jr., Frey CC, Feder KS. Outcome of osteochondral autograft transplantation for type-V cystic osteochondral lesions of the talus. J Bone Joint Surg Br 2006; 88(5):614-619.
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26. Giannini S. Buda R, Grigolo B, Vannini F. Autologous chondrocytes transplantation in soteochondral lesions of the ankle joint. Foot Ankle Int 2001; 22(6):513-517.
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30. Horas U, Pelinkovic D, Herr G, Aigner T, Schnettler R. Autologous chondrocyte implantation and ostoechondral cylinder transplantation in cartilage repair of the knee joint: a prospective, comparative trial. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2003; 85-A(2):185-192.
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37. Harris JD, Brophy RH, Siston RA, Flanigan DC. Treatment of chondral defects in the athlete's knee: a systemic review. J Arthrscopic Relat Surg. Accepted for publication Dec 30, 2009.
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40. Giannini S, Buda R, Vannini F, Cavallo M, Grigolo B. One-step bone marrow-derived cell transplantation in talar osteochondral lesions. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2009; 467:3307-3320.
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Colorado and other states may land extra convention trade — and perhaps even businesses — in the wake of Arizona's controversial new anti-illegal-immigration law.
"Yes, we've had some calls from two to three groups so far," said Richard Scharf, president and chief executive of the Denver convention and visitor bureau.
The largest is a 2,000-person convention. Visit Denver is "not out prospecting the groups" for business, he said.
But Scharf also said the inquiries are not unexpected.
Colorado lost an estimated $100 million in business to boycotts between November 1992, when voters passed Amendment 2 — which prohibited laws to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination — and May 1996, when the law was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Scharf said.
Scharf said he heard earlier this week from his Arizona counterpart, who said he had gotten about 200 calls from groups that want to cancel planned meetings.
But if there are groups pulling out of Arizona, Scharf said there will be some that will meet there in support of the law.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association won't be among them. Within minutes of the governor's signing of the law, the association notified the Scottsdale Marriott Hotel that it would not be holding its convention of 300 to 400 people there in September.
Crystal Williams, who serves on the Washington, D.C.-based association's convention committee, called the decision to move the convention "a no-brainer."
She said the group is being "inundated by marketing people all over the country, including a couple in Colorado."
Since conventions and conferences are frequently held at hotels, Scharf said hotel chains will work to keep a group's business by finding a sister facility in another area.
Calls to several downtown Denver hotels to see whether meetings were being moved here were not returned.
While it's relatively simple to move a meeting, it's more difficult to move a business.
Companies that don't have a specific customer base "will make this decision much more deliberately," awaiting court tests of the law and assessing its impact before deciding to move or stay, said Tom Clark, executive vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp.
"Conventions, however, tend to be hot reactors," he said.


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I have no panchromatitc dyes. Sorry. I have blue green and red.
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I have no panchromatitc dyes. Sorry. I have blue green and red.
Kirk- Heck! we both coulda gone through 4 years of Accounting School and become CPAs by now ! But how much fun and challenge would that have been?
These are structural diagrams of organic chemicals. The first two have charged amines in side chains, and the "real" SS dyes have the charged nitrogen in a ring structure called a heterocycle. There is a huge difference between the two types of structure regarding the distribution of charge (electrons) and in the latter case it allows the dye to bind to the surface of the silver halide crystal and to transfer energy from light to the crystal.
The former two may or may not, but even if they do, it would probably be inefficient. Erythrosine is more similar to the former two in a way, and it is quite inefficient in energy transfer and so it is more difficult to use in some cases.
Here's Erythrosine just for reference.
Ok, so if these non-ideal S.S.D. (spectral sensitizing dyes) aren't as efficient, how exactly would that manifest itself? For starters, let's pretend we have an experimental silver emulsion that is completely unsensitized and it has a speed of 100.
The 100 would apply to blue. Presumably green would be much lower (by a factor of what?) and red lower yet.
So if we remake the exact emulsion but add dye X as a "final" (is that when you add SSDs?), how would that effect our distribution of speeds in the blue, green and red portions?
I'd like to roughly understand the practical differences between SSDs like erythrosine, congo red, etcetera (old-school sensitizers) and the ideal cyanine dyes.
I realize this is a dense (in more ways than one!) post.
There are many results possible Chris.
You may end up with no speed at all, matched green and blue speeds or reduced blue speed and some green speed. This includes all variations in between. The answer is "it depends"!
Sorry, too many imponderables. And even if it works, how will you measure it? There are ways, but it takes either equipment or special step wedges.
If I pay you $10 will you just tell me what I want to hear? :laugh:
Ok, so if you add too much SSD, it becomes a desensitizer right?
As for measuring, didn't they use prisms basically to spread out the light? How do they make those wedge spectrograms? It seems simple in theory, but maybe it's harder than it sounds to get an even distribution of spectral colors and with a gradual fall-off.
Yes, most SSDs are sensitizers and desensitizers depending on concentration. That is why I have been doing all the hard work for you guys getting it right! :D
At $100 / gram, you can go broke fast.
And, a monochromator is what you need and what you have described in your post Chris. It is a prism or diffraction grating that splits white light into a rainbow.
What about "Mowrey's Fantastic Panchromatic Sensitize-All" - just add two drops per mole Ag.
There's a winter project for you Ron:p
That is why I have been doing all the hard work for you guys getting it right!
At $100 / gram, you can go broke fast.
I guess that I have been just pounding my Pud all this time!?:(:) Try $150/gram. That is what I paid + a "Convenience Fee". I have requested a new quote. But I am sure that the price has not gone down.:pouty:


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Eric Holder
Eric Holder, Pathetic … And His Pathos Is Right There On The Front Page Of The Times.
February 15, 2010
Poor Eric Holder. The fact is that he is none too smart ... and none too versed in constitutional issues. Although Ronald Reagan did appoint him Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia! Ah, those were the days when Republican presidents appointed Democrats to judicial office and Democratic presidents appointed Republicans to same. Actually, aside from his graduation from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, "second rate" is what comes to mind when you hear Holder's name. Hey, Janet Reno wasn't so brainy either. Holder's mental equipment matters now more than ever.
Obama And His Black Brothers And Sisters
February 09, 2010
Some place in the prints this morning, I saw President Obama characterized as bi-racial. It led me to thinking about the way we read men and women with different proportions of blackness in them. Pretty much up to now, it was the Nuremberg Law model: a little bit of Jewish blood, you're Jewish … a little bit of black blood, you're black. A few weeks ago, in an extraordinary piece, John McWhorter parsed the meaning of "African-American" and found it utterly useless or, worse yet, a lie. "Black" is less and less a scientific category and becoming less and less a sociological category, as well.
People Seem To Have Forgotten The World Trade Center (And Pentagon) Massacre. So The Obama Administration Will Now Have Provided Us With The Ultimate Reminder of Islamic Terror. Good!
November 20, 2009
I understand why the universe of cons and neo-cons has pounced on the Obamae for prosecuting K.S.M. in civilian proceedings in New York. And I find Charles Krauthammer's particular indictment of the venue and legal envelope of the proceedings strong, if not (entirely) persuasive. But I actually think that a public trial several blocks from the scene of the atrocity will etch into (much of) the world's consciousness the intrinsic brutality of the whole ideological system that inspired and brought discipline to that day of terror.
Going Rogue?
November 19, 2009
No, this post will have nothing to do with Sarah Palin. It concerns the hearing held this morning by the Senate Homeland Security Committee regarding the terrorist attack carried out by Maj. Nidal Hassan against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, a hearing called by that Committee's chairman, Joe Lieberman. Given the gravity of this incident and the potential for future such attacks, it makes eminent sense that such a hearing would occur, in order to find out how such clear and visible signals of impending danger were ignored by the Army hierarchy.
The Plot Thins
September 29, 2009
Among those who know me well, few can remember when I covered any subjects other than Al Qaeda and the global jihad. I wrote about Osama Bin Laden when he was "Usama bin Ladin." And so since September 14, all anybody's been asking me are questions about a young Afghan immigrant named Najibullah Zazi and his alleged involvement in the first Al Qaeda cell uncovered in America since the 9/11 attacks. Here are my answers to the four most common questions I've been getting. 1. Is this just another of the government's over-hyped terror plots? U.S.
Time For The President To Press "The Reset Button" Between His Administration And The C.I.A.
September 18, 2009
The FT yesterday used President Obama's own metaphor from Washington's relations with Moscow. He has, that is, resolved to press "the reset button" with Vladimir Putin's Russia But, of course, he can do so only from our side. Putin has sent him a big mazal tov but no reciprocal gift. Quite to the contrary. As the Financial Times points out, Russia has embarked on an aggressive foreign policy in Latin America, partnering with Hugo Chavez, the wild man of the region. Russia is also now doing military exercises with Belarus.
Rahm on the CIA vs. Holder
August 28, 2009
This morning's lede story in The New York Times about the divisions between Leon Panetta's C.I.A. and Eric Holder's Justice Department has a couple of interesting nuggets. Now that Justice is going to be conducting an investigation into detainee abuse, Langley is angry. Rahm Emanuel, when asked by the Times, said of the dispute: "Leon's representing his institutional building," Mr. Emanuel said. "Eric's representing his institutional responsibilities." Translation: One is doing his job, the other is doing what he has to do, politically speaking.
OK, It's a Little Coarse. But the Question Is Worth Asking.
August 25, 2009
Can anyone, and Eric Holder in particular, "find 12 [random] Americans who would vote to convict an American citizen for threatening the life of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?" I doubt it. Not even on the Upper West Side. (The question has been posed by Michael Goldfarb on the Weekly Standard web site.) But not even that fact can dispose of the problem. Which suggests that Attorney General Holder, by foraging into what is by contemporary standards ancient history, has put himself outside the matrix of democratic standards.
Did Holder Have a Choice?
August 25, 2009
Marc Ambinder makes a smart point about Eric Holder's decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogators: There was so much information in the public domain--and so much information that would eventually be released--that the attorney general could no longer argue that no specific instances of lawbreaking had been brought to his attention.
Special Prosecutor to Investigate Alleged CIA Torture
August 24, 2009
Today marks two important moments in the debate over torture: the release of a 2004 report by the then-CIA Inspector General regarding interrogation techniques, and also the decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the violation of torture laws in interrogations (as the AP is now reporting). And it seems that Attorney General Eric Holder has chosen prosecutor John Durham to spearhead the investigations. Durham's was a name that was thrown around as a front runner last month when the idea was growing some initial steam.


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Kim Kardashian is one proud mama!
The reality star shared an adorable photo of herself giving baby North West a kiss goodnight on Wednesday. "Night!" she captioned the sweet snapshot on Instagram.
Earlier in the day, the brunette beauty gushed about the joys of being a mother. "It's the most rewarding feeling!" she told parenting blog "Romy and The Bunnies." "I really love every phase! Just the way my daughter laughs with me, all of the small things in life you appreciate!"
Despite her baby bliss, Kim admitted that there have been challenges when it comes to parenthood, particularly after it came time to head back to work.
"I took a hiatus after I had the baby, and found it challenging to start working again because I didn't want to spend any time away," she revealed when asked about the most challenging aspect of motherhood. "But you adjust and prioritize, and just figure it out!"
Her favorite times with Nori? "Taking a nap with her. We cuddle and fall asleep holding each other. It's my favorite time just snuggling with her."
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Oracle Has Sunny Forecast for Cloud Computing
March 20, 2014 in Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Performance Management (BPM), Cloud Computing, Customer Performance Management (CPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), Operational Performance Management (OPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Social Media, Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Workforce Performance Management (WPM) | Tags: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Database, Database as a Service, IBM, Microsoft Azure, Middleware, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, SaaS, Software as a Service, Verizon | by Mark Smith | Leave a comment
At Oracle's recent cloud computing analyst summit in sunny Palm Springs, the company's executive team insisted that it sees clear skies for its efforts in cloud computing. The summit was led by senior executive Thomas Kurian, who runs the entire product organization and reports directly to CEO Larry Ellison. He affirmed that Oracle intends to offer the full range of cloud computing – public, private and hybrid models – to its customers and partners. As one of the world's largest software suppliers Oracle has much at stake to make its database and all tools and applications available in these cloud environments, including managed cloud services. Our business technology innovation research shows this is a smart bet. Cloud computing is important or very important to 57 percent of organizations, and more than half (55%) of cloud users have been using it for more than a year. I noted in 2013 that simplifying IT and innovating in business are key to its software strategy, and Oracle's efforts since then have executed on this outline.
Oracle has been developing a public cloud for some time, but in the last couple of years it sharpened its expertise and gained customers through acquisitions while refining its focus and investing in technology. Oracle now offers software as a service through its applications team covering HR, customer service, sales, marketing, ERP, finance, the supply chain and other areas. I recently assessed the Oracle HCM Cloud service, which provides a good example of what the company is doing and one that we awarded for 2013 Ventana Research Technology Innovation Award.
Oracle is determined to provide infrastructure as a service and elastic computing services for storage, identity verification, messaging and networking. Here it is competing directly against Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and others. Oracle also offers its platform as a service for using its database and tools in a variety of ways including the Web and mobile to collaborative methods. This strategy also includes analytics and big data. Our big data analytics research found 27 percent of organizations using cloud-based systems for this purpose, and it is gaining momentum as the preferred method of access: 22 percent prefer software as a service for big data analytics, 7 percent prefer a managed service, and 18 percent have no preference. Oracle is confident it can compete on price with other public cloud players. In addition its newest focus in the public cloud is information as a service, which brings corporate and public data together for business needs. Oracle is also strengthening its cloud computing marketplace so its software will be easy not only to access and purchase but also to onboard and use.
The private cloud computing area is somewhat different. CIOs need options to expand their compute power rapidly according to business needs; such a plan once had to be executed in the company's data center, but now the cloud offers alternatives. In a more controlled manner than for the public cloud, Oracle provides the full life cycle of management through Oracle Enterprise Manager across its applications, platform, database and infrastructure, which can help most IT organizations simplify and reduce their focus on managing their infrastructure and enable them to focus on the value of the information and technology they provide for the business. Oracle offers multiple methods of deploying a private cloud: virtual machines for server consolidation, clustered databases for platform consolidation, and multitenant occupancy for database consolidation. Its private cloud platforms can provide a range of computing services to support applications and even enterprise deployments for use of mobile technology.
Oracle also offers a managed cloud service in which it builds and manages a private cloud environment similar to IT outsourcing except that Oracle owns the software being hosted. In this arrangement Oracle can provide in the cloud any of its applications, platform and infrastructure and can also connect to customers' on-premises systems. Oracle says that more than 550 customers around the globe are using this service, processing 1.25 trillion business transactions per day; it stores more than 41 petabytes of data as well. In this offering Oracle competes directly with companies that have been offering this type of service in managed and outsourced approaches, including HP, Accenture and TCS. Oracle has been steadily building a strong position for its own outsourcing and managed approach to cloud computing.
These three cloud approaches have in common the Oracle database, running as a database as a service. Supporting it is the Oracle Fusion Middleware as a service that operates its business applications and is the basis to build custom applications by providing user, process, documents, information and identity services. Middleware is also where Oracle is advancing its support of mobile computing and big data as well as batch-to-real-time integration to applications and data across the enterprise and cloud along with Web services support through the REST and SOAP interfaces. Our research shows that integrating data from cloud applications is important to 80 percent of organizations. Oracle is releasing in the first part of 2014 more technology like Java, document and business intelligence as part of its Oracle Fusion Middleware as a service. Oracle has enlisted its Java technology to support the "as a service" concept to help move on-premises applications to the cloud but also to support application deployments. Oracle has worked to ensure its middleware can operate in the Microsoft Azure and Verizon Cloud services. Also part of middleware is the database as a service that is part of the Oracle cloud and of the compute service for elastic computing; it can be provisioned and used on a subscription or a usage basis; customers also can subscribe to backup as a service. Beneath the middleware and the database is the infrastructure as a service, which provides direct support for computing, storage, messaging, identity and notification services. Oracle supports integration of other cloud computing environments such as salesforce.com with its on-premises applications.
Oracle also is expanding its presence in application-centric cloud deployments. For instance, its Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud service will be available in 2014; here it plans to provide a range of real-time and self-service analytics and integration of data from the cloud and on-premises systems. Oracle already has been supporting its own BI applications in the cloud, but this step will help it compete in a market where many options have been available for several years. Our next-generation BI research found a need for this in 2013, when 25 percent preferred software as a service for enterprise BI and nearly as many (22%) a hosted private cloud. It is even more important for mobile BI: 26 prefer cloud deployment, 30 percent chose hosted by supplier, and 36 percent had no preference; only 9 percent prefer on-premises for mobile BI. For another example, the Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service is now available, based on its Hyperion Planning software. In BI and planning in the cloud Oracle definitely is not first to market and indeed will have to catch up to build a brand and trust with customers in these areas.
Given its size, Oracle is uniquely positioned with server, database, platform, tools and applications all operating in the cloud in public and private approaches and as a managed service. Only IBM is close to providing such an extensive software and technology stack. The competitive edge of preintegrating the entire stack in the cloud is a great position from which to grow its business. Our business technology innovation research finds that cloud computing has improved the availability of applications and information for business; one-third (34%) of organizations said it has improved availability significantly. In addition the research found that cloud computing has lowered costs, improved the efficiency of business processes, boosted communications and knowledge sharing, and increased productivity for more than one-third of organizations. The skies look clear and not cloudy for Oracle, which will be delivering more cloud computing on a very aggressive schedule throughout 2014 and 2015. If you are transitioning to or evaluating cloud computing in any manner, from infrastructure and platform to tools and business applications, Oracle is a provider you can't ignore.
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Oracle Modernizes HR with Mobile and Wearable Computing
February 22, 2014 in Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Collaboration, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Performance Management (BPM), Cloud Computing, Customer Performance Management (CPM), Financial Performance Management (FPM), Information Applications (IA), Operational Performance Management (OPM), Sales Performance Management (SPM), Social Media, Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM), Workforce Performance Management (WPM) | Tags: HR, Human Capital Analytics, Human Capital Management, Oracle, Recruiting, Talent Management, Workforce Management | by Mark Smith | Leave a comment
At Oracle's first-ever HCM World conference, the technology company demonstrated its commitment to human resources customers, explaining its strategy for Modern HR in the Cloud, which is focused on meeting the needs of employees in a large, dispersed workforce. The conference was insightful both intellectually and practically in its discussions of how workforces are changing. Oracle also showed its commitment by having both President Mark Hurd and CEO Larry Ellison present keynotes. This was the first time both have addressed a conference other than the flagship Oracle OpenWorld. It is worth watching the replays of their talks, which reveal the company's motivation and investment in human capital management (HCM). In developing its HCM products Oracle has in mind multigenerational workforces that require software that is adaptable to people, competencies and new technologies such as mobile devices and social collaboration and recognizes the imperative to access workforce information and analytics immediately. The rebranded Oracle HCM Cloud Service has gained significant momentum, as my colleague Stephan Millard pointed out in his recent analysis of Oracle's HCM portfolio. Taking a global approach it supports users in 196 countries, 34 languages and multiple currencies and operates entirely in a cloud environment.
At HCM World Oracle announced updates to its HCM offerings as part of release 8 of Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud. These include Oracle Global Human Resources Cloud, Oracle Talent Management Cloud and Oracle Social Cloud. Introducing updates every quarter is another indicator of its commitment to the HR sector. Among the advances in mobile technology is Oracle Tap for Oracle HCM Cloud, which enables both managers and employees to access their HR information and share tasks on smartphones and tablets. According to our human capital analytics research mobility matters to two-thirds of organizations, and Oracle provides easy access and interact through its mobile offering. Its innovations in mobility continue to lead the market and can be evaluated freely without involving sales people by download from mobile technology app stores.
Also at HCM World Oracle demonstrated its efforts in the new area of wearable computing. This presents mobile technology as part of clothing or attached in other ways to the user's body. Through Bluetooth or WiFi these new technologies can transmit information bidirectionally from the device to the cloud or smartphones. For example, addressing the area of employee wellness, Oracle gave all attendees a free Fitbit tracking device so they can measure their exercise through walking and see how this works with Oracle's software. Presenters at the conference demonstrated how this information is transmitted from a wearable device to a central cloud application and can be accessed and integrated to HCM for promoting wellness in an organization. Wearable computing has the potential to be used for a range of information recording and notifications that employees agree to allow or employers require, and the technology is now available at retail outlets like Best Buy in the United States. Even technology like Google glass are part of the wearable computing technology market. Oracle's work with wearable computing is another part of its commitment to HCM.
In the area of recruiting, Oracle showed how its Oracle Taleo Social Sourcing Cloud Service can help organizations attract applicants through social media. It emphasized integration of data between core HR and talent management products. Oracle also demonstrated advances in mobility for candidate review and social interaction through its integrated Oracle Social Network. Our research on social collaboration and HCM shows that collaboration is important in half to two-thirds of organizations of all sizes. I hope to see more progress in the use of video for conducting and capturing live interactions, which could be used not only in the recruiting process but also across the spectrum of HCM activities. In a related area Oracle has integrated its business intelligence and big data technologies to support interactive analysis of metrics from recruiting processes.
Oracle's biggest area for improvement is in workforce management. The need to support time and attendance tracking for hourly workers continues to grow, as Stephan Millard outlined in his recent assessment of the market. Oracle has multiple offerings for time and labor through Oracle PeopleSoft Workforce Management and E-Business Suite Workforce Management but will need to invest faster and further in Oracle HCM Cloud Service's support for hourly workers to be a force in workforce management. In the adjacent area of labor regulation, Oracle explained how in-memory technology can help with labor rules and monitoring. This furthers its support for industries that need this type of immediate look-up and processing. Oracle has been outlining its new direction in workforce management in the last couple of years at Oracle OpenWorld, and I expect to see more here in 2014.
Adding it all up, Oracle over the last two years has jumped ahead of most of its competitors by taking an integrated approach to human resources and talent management while innovating in analytics, mobile and social technologies and cloud computing. This is why the company received our 2013 Technology Innovation Award in Human Capital Management. Now Oracle continues to streamline work activities to increase employee productivity and, just as important, to improve the employee experience. Oracle's applications for HR and talent management should also be evaluated for organizations and industries that have large numbers of employees in areas such as customer service, field service, manufacturing and sales. These and others should evaluate its products to support efforts to motivate and engage their talent and provide the best possible employee experience.
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TUESDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors coaching new nursing mothers will find little practical advice to share from some of the classic obstetrics textbooks, a new study suggests.
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Ogburn believes that breast-feeding has been a neglected problem for some time, because some physicians have passed the buck -- each seeing it as the provenance of another physician specialty, or of nurses who specialize as lactation consultants.
While doctors in urban areas may be able to defer to lactation consultants, those who have a broader scope of practice in rural areas will miss the training they need on breast-feeding, added Dr. Adam Aponte, chair of pediatrics and ambulatory care at Manhattan's North General Hospital. He was not involved in the new research.
Breast-feeding is not as easy as people think and "needs a lot of encouragement and support early on," he added, and "with frustration, mothers can switch very quickly to the bottle."
On the other hand, gentle and accurate instruction about how to hold the baby to the breast properly can reduce some of the discomfort some nursing mothers experience, Aponte said.
The new review covered what the authors called "the five most popular obstetrics and gynecology textbooks based on sales." Ogburn gave two of the textbooks in the study -- the 2003 edition of Maternal-Feta
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