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Ah yes, on closer inspection that is the case. The older column is slightly thicker and the new 1500 reels won't fit into the old 1235 tank.
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I'm sure most of you have watched the beautiful series called Planet Earth that was first aired on the BBC in 2006. The film crew spent 5 years documenting the high – def footage. I was pleased to see them using a Nikon D200 in some of the time lapses, not because I work primarily with Nikon but because it goes to show that if you know your gear you can produce 'miracles'. I'll call this series a miracle because it combines unexplored terrain with pure art.
I was introduced to the idea of watching the series on mute, while playing an album in place of the narration. Strangely enough, friends and I discovered a perfect match up when we paired the "Caves" episode with Tool's 10,000 Days album. Of course you need to start the music where the footage begins and the music fits perfectly with the imagery throughout the entire episode. I went on to discover that Beef Terminal's 'The Grey Knowledge' fits just as well with the "Caves" episode. Point being… if you're looking for a way to sweep yourself away into oblivion with inspiration, try experimenting with different albums paired with different episodes.
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| Icyfire4w5 chapter 1 . 6/12/2010
I agree with all the other reviewers that this poem is well-written. You've succeeded in painting a vivid picture with simple but well-chosen words. I would like to give the girl a hankie and tell her not to cry. :)
| Garneau chapter 1 . 6/7/2010
I like the poem. It is very descriptive yet brief. I can picture the image you are painting with words.
I like the how you have sort of swapped the idea of tears and rain.
"And as tears fall slowly down upon her
The small pail fills with the rain of her heart"
It creates another dimension within the poem.
It is so simplistic, yet strangely beautiful.
I often find that some people in their poetry, repeat words, but you have avoided doing this. I really like it when there isn't big repetition. It's such a innocent concept. I didn't know what the Morton salt umbrella girl was , so I goggled it and it fit exactly to what I had pictured when you described her.
Great work. This a very good piece of writing.
Keep it up,
| natmarie chapter 1 . 1/30/2010
I love the vivid imagery in this and how the bright happy colors contrast with her crying...the last line is my favorite.
| CuriousContradiction chapter 1 . 10/24/2009
I was just thinking about the Morton Salt Girl the other day, actually. I haven't seen the box around my house for awhile, but this poem brought the image back in my head. I loved the contrast of the yellow pail and the red umbrella and the grayness all around. The only thing I'd change is take out the comma between "battered" and "red" because I heard that if you have an adjective and a color, there's no comma in between. Everything else was lovely though. You're a great poet. :)
| young and the reckless chapter 1 . 10/22/2009
"the pail fills with the rain of her heart"
that is so simply profoud, so lovely :)


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Callaloo Greens – The Jamaican Spinach
Variety is the spice of life, so how many different foods have you tried lately? Here is information about one you might not have.
Callaloo is a vegetable which contains four more times calcium, twice the iron and twice the vitamin A of broccoli. Callaloo or aramanth is a leafy green vegetable referred to as the Jamaican spinach.
It's flavor is less bitter than spinach, and when preparing it for eating, the entire plant is used, stem and leaf. The stem is "shredded" to make it less bulky and easier to digest. The vegetable is chopped into small pieces and steamed.
While callaloo is loaded with nutrients it also contains oxalic acid which in large dosages can prove to be harmful. Some of this green is very healthy and the phytochemicals found in the plant can help fight cancer, but too much can cause liver damage.
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It is used in any recipe spinach is used in; such as soups, quiche, omelets and sides. For a recipe using callaloo in a tasty Jamaican soup use this link.
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The prom is a staple of any high school senior's last moments before graduation. But for some students, the opportunity to attend the big night isn't always there. That's why some Lincoln High School students helped their fellow classmates enjoy the moment Saturday night.
"A couple kids cried when we first told them, 'Hey, you're going to get to go to prom. Do you want to go?'" Special Education teacher Kim Hibma said. "And they were like, 'Yeah, are you serious?'"
For eight seniors who are part of the special education department at Lincoln High School, attending prom was something they never thought would happen.
"I have a perfect date for me and I decided to ask her to prom on Friday and she said yes, so that made me smile," Special Education student Alex Campbell said.
Student council member Liz Magnuson came up with the idea and soon other members from the Council teamed up with seniors from the special education department.
"We were thinking about it, and you know prom is a special thing and we think they deserve to go to prom too," Student Council member Liz Magnuson said.
But good food and friends weren't the only things these seniors would enjoy before hitting the dance floor.
"I'm excited and can't wait for what the surprise is," Campbell said. "I heard there's a surprise."
Of course prom couldn't be complete without arriving in style.
"They want to be just like everybody else, and do everything just like everybody else does, so it's cool that they get the chance to be all dressed up, have a fancy meal, go ride in a limo, go to prom, have a date just like anyone else," Hibma said.
And for Campbell, he was ready to bust a move before the limo stopped.
"You just like this and go like this and you dougie," Campbell said.
And once they arrived in downtown Sioux Falls, these seniors walked inside the El Riad Shrine, ready for the night of their lives.
The Lincoln High School Student Council members who organized this special night encourage the other high schools in Sioux Falls to do the same because their special education department has a lot more students in the program who can make prom a special night they won't forget.


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The game of politics reared its ugly head last year with major decision after major decision facing delays because of the do-nothing Congress. Yesterday President Obama avoided yet another delay by appointing Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) while Congress is in recess. This recess appointment was met with both praise and scorn.
According to a Fox News article, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was so riled by the Cordray appointment that it may suing the Obama administration.
"To say we are disappointed in the move by the president today would be a gross understatement," Chamber President Tom Donohue said in a statement. "This controversial appointment is unprecedented, constitutionally questionable, and puts the authority of the director and the validity of the bureau's work in legal jeopardy. What's more, it ignores repeated calls to reform the bureau by restoring basic checks and balances." Source: Fox News
While one may think that the support of Cordray's appointment would closely follow party lines, this is not the case. The Huffington Post is reporting that Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts supports this recess appointment.
I'm more concerned with what the CFPB will do to protect everyday Americans, you and I, than I am with what the Chamber of Commerce or a Republican senator thinks of the appointment. So what kind of protections can we expect out of the new agency?
The agency aims to educate the public on personal financial topics, enforce federal consumer financial protection laws and research consumer complaints. The agency will also keep an eye on new financial products that may prove risky for consumers.
Learn more about how the agency can help you by visiting the White House blog: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 101: Why We Need a Consumer Watchdog.
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AudioTester released - Multi-format audio file test utility, test FLAC, MP3, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis audio files for integrity and repo
AudioTester released - Multi-format audio file test utility, test FLAC, MP3, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis audio files for integrity and repo
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A new program, Audio Tester, by James Chapman has been released. It is an all-in-one solution that replaces his former OggTester and FLACTester apps. This new utility works on Windows 2000, XP and Vista, and allows you to drag and drop folders of audio files to be tested for errors.
The program is multi-format aware, and automatically tests the integrity of FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and WavPack files. An easy to use, graphical interface rounds out this handy utlity to test the accuracy of your audio files. Easily find errors and possible corruption in your audio collection files.
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is this program still recommented to use?
i scanned my whole library with it about one year ago and deleted all the TRUNCATED, CRC ERROR and rebuild audiostream (with foobar)
where i had sync errors or bad id3 header. afterwards those were gone.
now i checked my library again and there are again thousands of files with sync errors.
the foobar file integrity component does not find any problem with those files, nor can i hear any when listening to them
but i want my whole library to be perfect and without uncompliant/corrupt files.
should i continue using audiotester? should i care about those sync errors? should i use the "rebuild stream" functionality in foobar? (does it reencode the file and thus have generationloss?)
should i rather switch to mp3diag for scanning mp3 files and foobar for scanning my flacs? (since it just checks the embedded md5 sum, like flac -t)
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I've been reinstalling my PC, hence the late reply.
should i use the "rebuild stream" functionality in foobar? (does it reencode the file and thus have generationloss?)
That's the only question I can answer, and it does not re-encode the audio, only rearranges the valid frames. It might discard anything unrecognised as valid MPEG audio or unknown tags, so if you're reliant on something non-standard embedded in a .mp3 file or even hoping to recover a bad frame somehow, make a backup of the file first.
As to having thousands of sync errors, unless you're getting MP3 files from dubious sources I'd be suprised if it wasn't a change to some tagging standard or lame header (silent MP3-compliant frame) that occurred since 2007 that's being misinterpreted by old software that I've never used myself.
I'd have expected foobar2000's console will probably report any genuine problems in any format for which it has a decoder, and I presume the file integrity component would do a test decode of every file (otherwise use the Decode Speed Test component and view the console). The console should report any errors worth knowing about, and despite the disclaimer for the File Integrity component, it says it decodes, so I'd have thought this would cause the same information to be logged in the console.
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The Future Of Virtualization
Last week, InformationWeek held a single-day event called the "Future of Virtualization." Along with me and Charles Babcock, InformationWeek editor at large, were reps from Citrix/XenSource, VMware, Sun, and Blue Lane. You'd expect some contention from this group, and that's exactly what we got. But there was some agreement, too. Everyone agrees that while the Hypervisor is tricky technology to get right, it's also relatively well understood, at least in terms of taking the four or so cores on today's chips and divvying them up amongst a larger number of processes. The real battle (the place where vendors will make money, and you'll spend it) will be for management, including security.
While it may seem as though Blue Lane was the odd vendor out for this event, Greg Ness showed that the Blue Lane team has put a lot of thinking into the tools and processes necessary for managing and securing data in a highly virtualized environment. This was in relatively stark contrast to the three users who provided insights into their virtualization efforts. While they'd certainly put plenty of thought into how to run their environments, they weren't concerned with their security posture.
Each of the three had done substantial work to virtualize at least a part of their operations, and one, who was from a division of Time Warner, reported moving average server utilizations from 5% to 85%. And while security wasn't high on the list of concerns, management was. More particularly each was concerned about how they'd charge back for their virtualized environment and how their licensing costs would change as a result of virtualization. Our December 3rd cover story explored the latter issue, and we spent a good bit of time later in the day quizzing the vendors on the former.
Their answers to the resource monitoring and charge-back question say a lot about each vendor's approach to the virtualization business. Sun was the only vendor who readily had an answer for the question - albeit for Solaris Containers. But Sun says that xVM is all about management, and points to its Ops Center as the right tool for managing the virtual environment. It's typical Sun - we know data center management needs, and we'll supply the tools.
Citrix, in a nature befitting Xen's roots wants someone else to provide the functionality. That's where the extended development community comes in. Citrix will make plenty of good management software, but resource tracking is a bigger deal. You may, for instance also want to track storage usage, and use of computing resources beyond that virtualized by Xen. Wouldn't it be smarter to find a vendor who wants to become expert in all that?Art Wittmann is a former editor for InformationWeek. View Full Bio


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NEW YORK — FX Networks says that Tracy Morgan's new series is waiting for him once he's well, but that his recovery is all that matters now.
Tuesday's statement updates the status of the TV project planned for the comic who was critically injured in a highway crash Saturday in New Jersey.
Morgan's recovery is expected to take weeks. The company says that whenever he decides he is ready to work, "his show will be waiting for him."
His half-hour comedy was scheduled to start filming in August for a January premiere on the FXX network.
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All family and friends are requested to meet at the church at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Mr. Strait died Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at his residence.
Born Oct. 29, 1935, in Hall County, he was a son of the late Wayne Strait and Estelle Medlin Redmond. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, Tony Strait; and siblings, Richard and Audrey.
Mr. Strait was a retired medical assistant with the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was an active member of Unity Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher. Mr. Strait spent his life dedicated to the service of his country in the United States Army, his family, his church and his Savior, Jesus Christ.
He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Regina Bacon Strait of Clarkesville; children, Joseph Strait, Timothy Strait and Andy Strait, all of Clarkesville, and Laura Strait Bearce (Dennis) of Lavalette, W.Va.; grandchildren, Ronald, Nathan, Victoria, Elizabeth, Megan, Amanda and Chris; three great-grandchildren; and siblings, David, Sue, Fran and Carol Ann.
The family will receive at the funeral home from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. today, June 18.
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When I heard "Walk, Don't Run" by The Ventures ...
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I was four and my dad brought me back a youth guitar from his trip to Madrid. He scored a Paulino Bernabe that sounded so good when he played it. I did not stay with it then; he wanted to teach me flamenco and I wanted to be one of the Beatles. Still loved the instrument and took it up again at 19 when I heard Van Halen. Nowadays I don't play as much as I would like but still love the guitar as much as ever.
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"I'm a sinner and I hope I never change"
Glen Campbell, William Tell Overture... This was not the SPECIFIC performance, I couldn't find that clip... it was on Hee Haw I'm sure. That was the first moment I notice guitar playing, not just that there was a guy playing guitar... it blew me away... I was 5 or 6
Back in 1984, I went to see Huey Lewis & the News in Charlotte. He had a young guitslinger named Stevie Ray Vaughan opening for him. SRV totally blew me away, and I knew right then that I had to play the guitar.
I was 15 years old when "La Bamba" came out and I was hooked! No joke, all I wanted to be was a kid living in the late 50s/early 60s in California and playing a custom colored Strat. I've said that I was born in the wrong era. While my classmates in high school were going crazy over Poison, Winger, Warrant, Crue...I was dreaming of playing with the Ventures, the Kingsmen, the Beach Boys, and Dick Dale. It all changed when I bought an copy of Guitar World with SRV on the cover in '87 and it had article about Billy Gibbons at some guitar show showing off the current values of various guitars.
I would spend my summers with my grandparents outside DC in Fairfax, VA and have them take me to Southworth Guitars near American University. The coolest guitar I ever saw was a real '62 Tele Custom in a greened LPB with a decal of Barney Rubble under the bridge. I was bitten hard. In fact in '88, I bought a lefty Strat bridge from my pal Brian Meader at Abbey Music in VA Beach and gutted my '87 Squier Strat! Then I began the "aging" process...I did terrible things to that guitar to make it look like it had been played for YEARS - this was all pre-Relic time. I scratched, scraped, rusted, sanded, and burned that thang to a kinda cool looking "fine aged" instrument. Sadly, about five years ago I tried to refinish the old girl and left her outside for just a little too long while applying the stripper and the body popped apart at the glue seems...sad.
Yeah, its been years of suffering from the guitar-bug.
I don't have any great "awezome moment" story I'm afraid
I wanted to start to play guitar because I was really bullied in middle school and thought
that if I could play guitar like the "cool rock kids" things would turn around, so I picked the guitar up at age 15.
On the flip side though, once I got that guitar, I had the incentive and drive to practice my ass off for years
to come, and noticed I easily learned techniques quite naturally.
Over the first 2 years though, I realized I gradually began playing and practising less for for some notion of improved self-worth,
and more for the love of actually playing the instrument and writing my own music. So around age 17-18 when my technique was good enough to
play what I wanted to play (and my "self-worth" or whatever you want to call had also solidified) I might say that my true "love-affair" started.
Moving from my hometown at age 16, and "starting fresh" at a new school, but still having that "itch" to prove myself helped out too!
My dad caught me jumping off my bed wielding my newly constructed Gibson Explorer. It was a copy of Matthias Jabbs' white-with-black stripes, done in cardboard, with a genuine scrapwood neck, real string strings, and 1 V 1 T with knobs from an old TV. I thought he was going to smack me, but he asked me if I wanted to take guitar lessons, and the next day I was the proud owner of a Hondo strat copy and a Fender Sidekick 10. When I figured out how to overdrive the little bugger, I just kept wailing on the low "E" string and laughing. Wonder they didn't kill me then.
FYI was visiting the folks this past weekend, many things are still intact in my old room, including the old fake-splorer in the corner. It apparently suffered a headstock break over the years...maybe something the PTC could look into ...but still looks good.
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When i got my first guitar from mother in 84,a japanese strat copy called Legend plus a battery driven amp called Smash.Hearing Dio-Holy diver,Ozzy-Diary of a madman,Kiss-Alive 2 and Fools by Van Halen helped too.Still a love affair,the best meditation and relaxation i can ask for.
I was a keyboard player in high school and college bands. But I doubled on guitar, though I was only mildly interested in it.
In college, I saw that it'd be a lot of fun to be able to take an instrument with me to parties, or to hang out with friends who played. Couldn't shlep a B-3 around.
So I got a D-18. That's when I really fell in love with the instrument. I'm guessing this was about 1970.
My wife has been singing her whole life. She loves to sing with an acoustic guitar accompanist. Well after we were married I went to a coffee house set she was doing and I noticed that I didn't like how intimate it seemed on stage (so jealousy). So, the coffee shop also sold guitars. When the set was over I went to the wall, got down an Epiphone acoustic and bought it. I taught myself to play because I wanted that intimacy of music between my wife and I. I had no idea how much in love I would fall with the guitar itself......we still play and sing together all the time and it is awesome.
- Dane
He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo.
My mom and dad played an old Martin and I grew up listening to them. When I was old enough to hold it I learned 3 chords and started playing the same old folk songs. It just went on from there. I still have Mom's old Martin.
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Mom and Dad singing and playing around Campfires. Something I just looked forward to as a kid. Funny thing is that I tried Piano first, but I couldn't get into it. But I grabbed a guitar one day and just caught on instantly.
I first picked up a guitar at the age of 8. Battered acoustic with high action, couldn't intonate and I would play "I'm a believer" and "I'm not your stepping stone" on it.
Graduated to a POS electric that I bought for $25 at the age of 13....If I had another $250 I could have bought the NOS 1968 Gibson Les Paul hanging on the rack at Buddy's Music in Brooklyn. This POS lasted for 5 years, and allowed me to further de-volve my (lack of) skill.
Continued playing various POS's until my 40th B-day....bought an American Standard Strat in 1995....and that's when I realized that a guitar could actually sound good. Played through a decent amp...it sounded even better.
First fell in love with a guitar in 2004...that's when I first traded up to my '00 CU24 with birds and ten top. That's when I first realized that I could play leads to songs like "Reelin' in the years" that sounded something like the actual version.
the rest is history. I sublimated all my hobbies and collecting into guitars, and since then well over 100 PRSi have moved through my hands, with at least 3 dozen taking up "permanant residence" in my collection.
4th grade came and all the kids had to pick an instrument to learn. Most never practiced and gave up at end of the year. I picked the flute after seeing a clip of Jethro Tull on somewhere on TV. I thought Jethro (I was 9 and didn't know his name was Ian Anderson) could rock out on a flute!
Another student, a girl, also picked flute since she had learned to play a bit from her mother. So the teacher focused on her since she already had some skill... me, I suffered from dizzy headaches since the dork didn't bother to teach me to breath correctly. After 3 weeks of complaining about my head, he finally took the flute away and handed me a guitar saying "try this, you won't have to breath so much". Took me another 5 years of whining to convince my mother I was serious about learning to play more than the couple of chords I learned that year. Got my first junk guitar at 15 and think my current guitar addiction is due to the suffering I went through in those early years.
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I've played drums since 3rd grade (I'm now 57) . But during junior high, my brother was in a band. The guitarist was a nice guy and he was the only person I knew in my circle of friends that did play guitar. I asked him if it was hard to play. He looked at my fingers, at my nails, and said "you'll never play guitar, your nails are too soft."
What did I know? I played drums and he was actually in a band and playing guitar. So, I never pursued it very hard. I did managed to get a cheap Fender 12 string acoustic before I went off to college. I'd play at playing it for a while until my fingers got sore and then I'd put it down for weeks. That was a good recipe for not getting anywhere... Friends don't let friends start playing guitar for the very first time on 12 string acoustics...
Then, when I was 48 I went to a guitar center. I had heard somewhere along the way that electrics were easier to play. I decided that if I could play on an electric (what little I could play at that point ) for more than 15 minutes without my fingers hurting, I'd buy it. It was a Mexican Strat and I played at playing it for almost 2 hours! The sales staff was indulgent - it was obvious that I could not play, but I stuck at it for so long, I think they were actually rooting for me..
I bought that Strat that day, December 7, 2002, and never looked back. A friend found out that I had just bought a guitar and he said, "you have to go look at PRS guitars."
Since then, I have been in lessons more on than off and my guitar collection is somewhere over 50, half of them being PRS. In a month or so, I will finish the music studio in the basement and I plan to be playing at playing for a long time to come.
I just started kinder garden and the guy living downstairs had an acoustic he let me play with. I didn't want to stop - ever.
John, Paul, George, and Ringo on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Anything that made teenage girls scream like that was something I had to have.
Later I learned it could do other cool things too. Like make music. And change the world.
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In about '72/'73, when I was about 3 or so, our Dad bought a "Best of the '50s" 8 track tape and played it non-stop. I very distinctly remember how the solo on Buddy Knox's "Party Doll" made me feel. I knew it was the guitar, and even tho I know nothing about them, I knew I wanted to play one. I didn't actually get one and start playing till '79, but have pretty much played since then......and have no intentions of ever quitting.
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|The Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM) survey approach is comprised of systematic random sampling coupled with radiation scanning to assess acceptability of potential hot spots. Hot spot identification for some radionuclides may not be possible due to the very weak gamma or x-ray radiation they emit-these hard-to-detect nuclides are unlikely to be identified by field scans. Similarly, scanning technology is not yet available for chemical contamination. For both hard-to-detect nuclides and chemical contamination, hot spots are only identified via volumetric sampling. The remedial investigation and cleanup of sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act typically includes the collection of samples over relatively large exposure units, and concentration limits are applied assuming the contamination is more or less uniformly distributed. However, data collected from contaminated sites demonstrate contamination is often highly localized. These highly localized areas, or hot spots, will only be identified if sample densities are high or if the environmental characterization program happens to sample directly from the hot spot footprint. This paper describes a Bayesian approach for addressing hard-to-detect nuclides and chemical hot spots. The approach begins using available data (e.g., as collected using the standard approach) to predict the probability that an unacceptable hot spot is present somewhere in the exposure unit. This Bayesian approach may even be coupled with the graded sampling approach to optimize hot spot characterization. Once the investigator concludes that the presence of hot spots is likely, then the surveyor should use the data quality objectives process to generate an appropriate sample campaign that optimizes the identification of risk-relevant hot spots.
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One of the most puzzling statements I've ever come across in the Holy Bible is found in Deuteronomy 8:2, in which Moses makes the following statement to the children of Israel: "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands."
A statement like this can be puzzling because it leaves one with the mistaken impression that God puts us through tests from time to time because he is desperately seeking information and knowledge about the condition of our hearts. Since when does God need to be informed about anything? He's omniscient, all-knowing. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He sees every wrong decision or foolish turn we're going to make before we do. Is it possible that although God is omniscient, there are things about us that even He doesn't know? Is the condition of our heart so hidden from God that the only way he can discover what is truly in us is to take us through a test so that He can be educated? Of course not. Why, then, does God put us through tests?
He tests us in order that we may learn a thing or two about ourselves. He tests us in order that we may be enlightened and educated concerning areas in our lives in which we are weak and need to be changed. It would be wonderful if God would simply dispatch an angelic messenger our way in order to inform us about weaknesses in our lives that need to go or be changed, but that's not the way he does it. Simpler yet, would be a divine recommendation to read a certain book which deals with that particular weakness. Whether we like it or not, God is able to get his point across much better after we've miserably failed a test or are going through that test.
Sometime ago, in a communist country where it is against the law to worship Christ, some Christians gathered secretly for a Sunday morning meeting. With no warning, armed soldiers came charging through the front doors of the building where the believers were meeting. Screaming to the people, they said, "You are going to be shot for your faith. We will, however, give you one last chance to escape with your lives. All those who are willing to die for their faith, stand to the right side of the wall. All those who wish to renounce their faith and live may leave now." The only ones who were willing to stand to the right side of the wall were the pastor, his wife, and a few little old ladies. Everyone else "peeled wheels for Jesus" by bolting out the front door. After the "renouncers" left, the soldiers smiled, put down their guns, and said, "Praise the Lord! We too are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we have come to worship. We simply did not wish to worship with hypocrites!"
Did God put that church through a test because He was in need of information? No. He allowed them to go through that frightening ordeal in order to educate them and show many of them that their commitment to Christ was not as they thought it was. The pastor could have preached on commitment that day, but it probably would have fallen on deaf ears, since many of the people believed that they were already committed to Jesus. After all, they were in church, weren't they? But the test revealed the truth and taught them a lesson that none of them would soon forget, didn't it?
If you have recently failed a test, don't be discouraged. After all, today's success was yesterday's failure. Today's Christ-like characteristic was yesterday's fault. God allowed you to go through that test (knowing that you would fail) because there is something that He is trying to teach and change in you. There is something that He is trying to bring to your attention - something that He will help you with if you'll only reach out to Him.
When we find ourselves going through a difficult test, we shouldn't look up to Heaven and ask, "Why?" Instead, we should ask, "What? What is it, Father, that you are trying to change or produce in me?"
Perspective is everything. If we learn to look at life's tests as instruments in the hands of a loving God, instead of weapons in the hands of Satan, this will determine whether or not we yield or resist, which in turn will determine whether we succeed or fail.
May God, in his grace and goodness, grant all of us a teachable spirit when going through the difficult tests of life. May he do this, that Christ might be glorified in us, and we in Hhm.
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With all due respect, my teaching does not contradict the biblical text at all. According to your interpretation, God is not all-knowing; therefore, he needs to test man in order to seek information and learn things. This is a direct contradiction to what we see in the Scriptures. In Saint John's Gospel, John wrote as follows: "Jesus did not need man's testimony about man, FOR HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN A MAN." Jesus is God, is He not? God is omniscient. As such, He already knows what is in a man. God's knowledge of us is unlimited. All throughout the Old Testament, we see many situations in which God tests His people in order to determine if they will follow Him or not. This does not mean that God does not already 'know' what is in their hearts or how those being tested will respond. He tests us in moral experiences in order that we might know the true condition of our hearts and where we stand with Him. God doesn't test us in order to find out information He doesn't already know. Rather, He tests us so that we can learn about ourselves and His love, power, forgiveness, and faithfulness. Do you want Biblical proof of this? Jesus knew that Peter was going to be tested by Satan, who asked to sift him. Jesus also knew that Peter was going to initially fail the test. Listen to what He said to Peter, "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. AND WHEN YOU HAVE TURNED BACK, strengthen your brothers." Peter swore up and down that he would never deny the Lord. "Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death," he said. But Jesus, because He was omniscient, already knew that Peter would fail. Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me." God allowed Peter to be tested, not because He needed to acquire information about Peter, for he already knew that Peter was going to fail. He allowed Peter to go through the test and to fail so that Peter might learn something about himself. Before the test, Peter swore undying faithfulness and loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ. In his mind, he was strong, courageous, faithful, and ready to die for Christ. But the test proved otherwise, didn't it? Jesus already knew that Peter would fail the test. It was Peter who needed to learn these things about himself. Catholic.net encourages feedback from its readers, but we ask that when doing so, you conduct yourself in a Christlike manner and express your thoughts with gentleness, love, and respect. To accuse me of "making up my own message" and "changing the text in order to suit my omniscient presuppositions about God" is unfair, unjust, and uncharitable, to say the least. Dialog is encouraged at all times here at Catholic.net, but it must be carried out in a manner befitting children of God, for we are to imitate Him in all things. As Christians, we are to love one another, support one another, and edify one another. We are called to build up, not to tear down. I respectfully ask you to keep this in mind should you choose to particiate in any forums here at Catholic.net. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing, but when we express that disagreement in a manner that contradicts Christ's teaching then we bring great reproach to the Name of our Lord.
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|Your explanation contradicts what the biblical text says, in other words, you're honestly making up your own message.
The text clearly states that God tested Israel not only to humble them but to both know what was in their hearts and whether or not they would obey his commands. It seems to me that the clear reasons for God testing Israel are clear for all to see, why change the text meaning to suit your omniscient presuppositions about God?
What you're arguing for is a philosophical idea you have about God which is either false or (if true) is based on another bible verse which clearly contradicts this one. Either way, one can't make any sensible conclusions about God's omniscience seeing that this is a confusing (if not contradictory) topic.
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Hi guys : From a systems programming perspective, how different are the os x, linux and unix kernels ? Would systems level function calls and code at this level port well and perform similarly ?
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Mac OS X is based on
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If you write software in C or C++, without using OS X-specific GUI or other libraries, then it should not be very hard to compile it on OS X as well as on Linux.
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As @jesper says, most will work the same. The problem is that "most" is undefined and impossible to discuss in general. The exact results vary with versions, and you have at least two sets of versions, one for OS-X and one for Linux. Plus throw in the Java Native stuff that probably has a version of its own.
From my experience as a systems programmer, Java would not be the language of first choice. Machine independence is the last thing that a systems programmer usually wants.
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Well... Just out of curosity.....
Could you directly call systems level methods against
The jvm? Since all the jvm does is abstract
Lower level methods like open() read(), etc.....
Could you actually program directly against the jvm
Rather than using the I/o classes?
I know this would be silly... But I was just wondering.
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Perhaps we have different definitions of systems programmers.
For me, a systems programmer is doing very low level work. Not using a Socket (as a Java programmer) but implementing the socket code at the OS level. Doing that can get down into the hardware level, with device drivers, etc. None of that is something you want to do in the JVM. The JVM works at a high level to the operating system. Systems programmers work in or below the operating system.
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Yeah that makes sense... But I'm wondering wether doing operations directly against the jvm might even be possible at all.
Maybe a question for another post....?
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When my job title on my business card said "Systems Programmer", that meant that I worked with operating system internal code that was not available to applications programmers. The concept of having a separate corporate department for that kind of function is pretty much non-existent outside the mainframe world, but there were reasons for the title - our code HAD to work or the entire company would shut down, and we worked with stuff that the bulk of the programmers were denied access to for security reasons. It carried a significant premium in salary for that reason.
Technically, BTW, I believe that BSD is 100% considered as "Unix". Linux is not, although for 90% of everything, the differences are mostly cosmetic. SCO's lawyers notwithstanding.
To tap into low-level OS functions from Java, you need to create JNI classes (Java Native Interface). These are classes that, instead of being implemented in bytecodes like regular Java classes are, are implemented in hardware/OS-specific binary executable code. I can consider this as systems-level programming, since the usual protection mechanisms aren't effective. You, as the native-code class developer can do anything you like, including violation of the usual Java security processes. And, if the class fails, it will take down the entire JVM.
In over a decade of work, I've not done any JNI since at least Y2K. Java these days is pretty complete, I'm not needing direct access to specialized hardware, and the JVM optimizers are sufficiently powerful that in almost all cases a good Java algorithm can more than make up for the time and expense needed to code a critical routine in machine code.
Still. there are times when you need it, so it's good that it's there.
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Well, what I'm actually asking is, can you do "assembly" style programming at the JVM level. i.e. would byte code programming be a "JVM" equivalent of assembly language ? And if so, would it be possible to learn the basics of computing and assembly language by coding against the JVM ?
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Yes, you can program the virtual instruction set of the JVM just like you can any other assembly language. That is, in fact, what JVM-interpreted languages like Jython do. There exist libraries to help in the manipulation of bytecodes although I'd have to google to see if there's a full-blown assembler. JDKs come with a disassembler.
The only major difference between this approach and coding actual hardware machine language is that the Java protection rules are built into the JVM, so it won't let you do things that violate Java's run-time restrictions.
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If you would like to try programming with Java bytecode directly (just like programming in native assembly language), then you could try using a look like
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Can we afford the consumer economy?
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We're spending less on things that are getting cheaper
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May 31, 2013 In February, then March, Americans spent more money than the month before. But today there's news that consumer spending dropped a tenth percent in April.
What's behind the uptick in consumer spending?
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Signs of weakness in how much we make and how much we spend
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Apr 26, 2013 A Visa study finds that prom costs about $1,100 -- but kids from families with incomes under $50,000, and kids with single parents, spend more on prom. Turns out there's a long tradition of chastising the poor for spending "too much" on big life events.
Personal income, spending up for American consumers
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Apr 1, 2013 Consumers had a strong February -- spending jumped 0.7 percent and personal income rose 1.1 percent.
Chinese consumers hit tough times
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch Welcomes Endorsement of Former Democratic Candidate Bobbie Rose in 1st Congressional District Contest
For Immediate Release
Contact: Catherine Christman
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CHARLESTON, SC. January 30, 2013 – Two days after Bobbie Rose withdrew from the race for the 1st Congressional district, the former Democratic candidate announced she was throwing her full support behind Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
"I believe that many of the issues District 1 is facing will be tackled most effectively by Elizabeth Colbert Busch. I enthusiastically endorse her candidacy and I urge my supporters to spend their time and efforts getting her elected. I am honored to accept the role of Special Advisor to her campaign."
In response, Colbert Busch said, "I am honored to receive Bobbie's endorsement. She has been a tremendous voice for those who have had no one who would speak for them. I am gratified that she will continue to be a strong Democratic presence and advocate for the people in District 1, and as a Special Advisor to my campaign, I will welcome her insights on issues of importance to our community."


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WalMart – There, I said it. I find when speaking with generally anybody, for each person there is an opinion about the low cost retailer. Aside from personal opinions, WalMart excels at what it does- Existing as the low cost leader. So when the business pledged in 2010 to double its local produce sales […]
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The WalMart-ization of Local Agriculture
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Fungicide or Bisphenol A (BPA) with Your OJ?
May 3, 2012 – 3:34 pm
So, I may as well have been met with an unsuspecting mouse behind the cupboard door. My expression represented absolute dumfounded-ness meets "WTF?!". While routinely pouring my child's favorite morning beverage, and our new preferred brand of orange juice, I felt a particular curiosity to check the recycling number of the plastic container in which […]
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Food Integrity
June 10, 2011 – 6:54 pm
Our soups are safe to eat right from the jar. One of our Two Guys in Vermont soup's is a Curried Apple Butternut Squash that is bi-serveable, delicious heated or chilled! Without sounding self-promoting, just put our glass jar in your fridge and it's ready-to-eat when your mood strikes (I'm fond of eating right out […]
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January is National Soup Month
January 3, 2011 – 1:20 am
I recall speaking about soup being a food for all seasons while vending at our first farmers markets this past summer, Stowe, VT, 2010. It was at those markets where soup's seasonal versatility was confirmed for me while ladling and selling pretty warm soup on quite hot days. Weather-wise conditions were wicked different compared to […]
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Nestled in lush green mountains, picturesque water sheds aplenty, overlooking an inviting rolling valley's new crop row harvests, I find myself silently shouting out at the top of my lungs "Hooray, yippee!". I am excited to share new Two Guys in Vermont news, muse about "Know your farmer", and chat about an emerging regional food […]
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Soup's On!
August 15, 2010 – 8:51 pm
These are exciting times, and these are nail-biting down-to-their-cuticles times. Exciting in that we're only days away from Two Guys in Vermont's first scaled-up cooking "test" batches. This is where we increase our kettle size and figure-out how much more in fresh veggies, spices, liquids and other natural ingredients each of our soup recipes need, […]
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Introduction, Our First Blog Post!
July 27, 2010 – 3:24 am
Since this is our first blog post I feel it's courtesy to say "Hi", and take a moment to thank you for your interest with Two Guys in Vermont. We are a new small scale food company located in Vermont making delicious all natural soups. We are just beginning to go out and ask stores […]
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Cars.com Podcast: 2011 Kia Optima and 2011 Kia Sportage
This week, editors Kelsey Mays and David Thomas tackle the two newest entries from Korean automaker Kia. The new Optima isn't on sale yet, but Mays thinks it's a stunning entry in a competitive field. The Sportage's looks also won over Thomas. Find out their thoughts about what was under the skin of these two Kias in this week's podcast.


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Greensburg Aerobic Center manager hopes to step up Christmas fundraiser
Marianne Anzovino, Greensburg Aerobic Center general manager, hopes to inspire her members to get involved in helping soldiers once again.
She wants them to take part in Operation Christmas Stocking, sponsored by the Barnhart Funeral Home, East Pittsburgh Street in Greensburg.
A few years ago, about 200 aerobic center members stuffed stockings for soldiers overseas, Anzovino said. The number has declined since.
"We really need people to do this," Anzovino said.
The funeral home at 505 E. Pittsburgh St. will hand out stockings between Wednesday and Nov. 27.
Participants stuff the stockings with recommended items such as socks, small reading materials, lotions and greeting cards and return them to the funeral home by Dec. 2.
The funeral home will send the stuffed stockings to soldiers in Afghanistan in time for Christmas, Jeff Barnhart said.
Over the past four years, the funeral home has sent about 4,000 stockings to soldiers, he said.
"We often get kind words, tears, especially from those with family as soldiers," Barnhart said. "It's been very well received."
Anzovino said she plans to put stockings at the front desk of the fitness center and take them to classes.
She attributed the decline in center involvement to people believing the war is over in the Middle East, when it's not.
"Everybody should be doing it," Anzovino said. "They love the care packages."
The funeral home is glad to help, Barnhart said.
"We've just always had vets on the top of our minds, and we're pleased to be able to do this for them," he said.
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If clients didn't already know where Rock, Paper, Scissors salon was, they'd never be able to find it, said owner Jen Snyder.
Set back from the road in a little shopping center at 455 Carlisle St. in Hanover, the salon has hung no street or store sign along its neighboring ones advertising Curves and Simplicity Cycles.
Without the client base Snyder brought from her previous position in Gettysburg, the salon would never have survived, she said.
"The only walk-in business I get is from my surrounding businesses," Snyder said. "We joke that I run a speakeasy salon."
Since applying for a wall sign in January, Snyder has been struggling with communication issues with Hanover Borough. Her application was denied because of incorrect zoning, she said, which marks the building housing Curves, Simplicity Cycles and the salon as residential.
It took eight months for Trone Rental Properties, which owns the building, and the borough to come to an agreement on signage that benefitted all three businesses, according to the borough codes department. Trone could not be reached for comment.
Outdated regulations?
It would be nice if the borough was more willing to work with area businesses instead of handicapping them with outdated or obscure regulations, said Timeline Arcade owner Brandon Spencer.
Though Spencer didn't have an issue procuring permits for the arcade's signage, he is currently battling a borough amusement tax ordinance.
Since May, Spencer has been fighting a $5,400 amusement tax levied on his business, accounting for $50 in taxes for each arcade machine. After multiple letters back and forth, Spencer appeared at the July 16 finance meeting to argue his case, stating the tax does not apply to him as his establishment doesn't have coin-operated devices as the borough's policy requires.
While the finance council is currently taking Spencer's case into consideration, a number of borough council members, including Kim Griffin and Robert Marcoccio agreed with him.
"The times have changed and I feel like they need to look at these regulations," Spencer said. "I think the borough is trying, but they may be holding back businesses from being an asset to the town."
While Spencer and the borough have now opened communication on the topic, confusion remains regarding why the salon's sign permit was denied.
Borough code enforcement officer Dennis Northcraft said Snyder's sign request was denied because of illegal signage the building already had, specifically including a street sign, wall sign and sidewalk sign.
"We aren't going to issue a permit for another sign when there are already ones on the property out of compliance," Northcraft said, referring to signs posted by Simplicity Cycles.
If things had been approved properly, each business would be able to hang a sign, not just the building as whole, he said. Although, only one sign is permitted per wall on any building or structure, according to chapter 298 of the borough code.
Borough Manager Barb Krebs added that the property is actually zoned as office and apartment space, not residential as is applied to areas appropriate for family living, and had nothing to do with denial of the permit.
In response, Trone Rental Properties submitted an application for a new street sign which would feature all three businesses. It took three months for the design to be approved and in compliance, Northcraft said.
The new sign is set to go up the week of July 30, said Simplicity Cycles owner Kirk Lindskog, but once it does, his sign above the store has to come down because there's no permit for it.
"I know I picked up the paperwork for a permit, but it was four years ago and I don't remember if I got one or not," Lindskog said. "To me, the whole thing should be up for discussion, but instead we're told we have to do it their way because that's how it's always been done."


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Dr. Robert Jackson was the first to swing a sledgehammer at the 'wall-breaking' to kick off construction at Martin Luther King Health Center's new clinic.
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Renovations are underway at Martin Luther King Health Center's new home in Shreveport.
Doctors and nurses who volunteer at the free clinic traded their stethoscopes for sledgehammers during a ceremonial wall-breaking Friday to kick off construction at the building on Olive Street. The new clinic will replace leased space that's no longer available.
"I don't really think I had a vision for the clinic," said founder Dr. Robert H. Jackson. "It just happened. But for the last 20 or so years, I've strongly believed we needed our own place where we could grow." ...


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The York County Solid Waste Authority will accept electronics from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its facility in Manchester Township.
Residents, businesses and non-profits can drop off computers, monitors, mobile phones, modems, fax machines, stereos and many other electronic devices.
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Sweater – Suno // Skirt – Anthropologie // Shoes – J.Crew (similar) // Bag – Kate Spade // Sunglasses – Banana Republic // Necklace – Bauble Bar // Rings – Vintage, Saint Laurent If you look closely, those might be reindeer on the sweater. At least that's what I thought when I first saw it. […]
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More than ever, young people are turning away from meat, eggs, and dairy products and a growing number of food companies are answering their calls for vegan products. peta2, PETA's youth division, has nominated several grocery-store brands and products for the eighth annual Libby Awards. "Libby" is for "liberation"—as in animal liberation—and this year's meat-, egg-, and dairy-free choices are more delicious than ever, PETA officials say.
Nominees for Best Vegan Cheese—a new category this year—include Daiya's Swiss Style Slices, a meltable choice for grilled cheese, veggie burgers and more. Quickly rising plant-based meat company Gardein's in the running for Best Vegan Meat, thanks to its Sizzling Szechuan Beefless Strips, an addition to stir-frys, pastas, and skewers. And competing for Best Vegan Snack is GoPicnic's Hummus & Crackers box, an on-the-go kit that includes a square of dairy-free chocolate.
"Animal rights is one of the fastest-growing social movements in America and worldwide, and young people are leading the charge by insisting on cruelty-free eating," says PETA director of iouth outreach and campaigns Marta Holmberg. "All our animal-friendly nominees are winners because they're offering some of the best and most delicious food products on the market."
Other food-related categories include Best Vegan-Friendly Restaurant Chain and Best Accidentally Vegan Snack. Voting ends on December 13. Winners will be chosen by peta2 based on several factors, including vote count, and will be announced on December 17.


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|Hemodynamic responses to different levels of alpha-adrenergic interruption in congestive heart failure.
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|PMID: 2908715 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The effects of prazosin, clonidine, and indoramin on central and regional hemodynamic parameters and left ventricular performance were analyzed in a congestive heart failure population to compare the pharmacodynamic responses to different levels of alpha-adrenergic interruption in this condition. The sympathetic nervous system is blocked at the peripheral alpha1-receptor by prazosin, at central nervous system alpha-receptor sites (via alpha-adrenoceptor agonism) by clonidine, and at peripheral and central sites by indoramin. Prazosin and indoramin produced reductions in total systemic and pulmonary vascular resistances, mean systemic and pulmonary artery pressures, and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure with little change in heart rate. Both agents selectively increased hepatic blood flow. Clonidine also decreased pulmonary artery pressure and vascular resistance, but evoked negative inotropic and chronotropic activity and did not alter regional blood flow. In contrast to prazosin, indoramin and clonidine did not augment cardiac output or stroke volume. In the setting of congestive heart failure, the central and regional hemodynamic effects and the responses in left ventricular performance vary considerably depending on the site of alpha-adrenergic interruption.
|A P Good; D V Unverferth; C V Leier
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|Created Date: 1991-05-01 Completed Date: 1991-05-01 Revised Date: 2007-11-15
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|Department of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.
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Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists
therapeutic use
Clonidine / pharmacology, therapeutic use
Extremities / blood supply
Heart Failure / drug therapy*, physiopathology
Hemodynamics / drug effects*
Indoramin / pharmacology, therapeutic use
Liver / blood supply
Liver Circulation / drug effects
Middle Aged
Prazosin / pharmacology, therapeutic use
Regional Blood Flow / drug effects
Stroke Volume / drug effects
Vascular Resistance / drug effects
Ventricular Function, Left / drug effects
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|Special section on medical bionics.
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|The full text of the Preface is given in the PDF file. References [1] Nagayam B A et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065001 [2] Wise A K et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065002 [3] Davis T S et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065003 [4] Daly J et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065004 [5] Meffin H et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065005 [6] Tahayori B et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065006 [7] Mauger S J et al 2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 065007.
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What Happens When You Throw Lego Bricks Into a Washer for Science
It's a tale as old as time: College co-eds get together on a Saturday night. Drinks are flowing. Hearts beat fast with excitement. The wall starts pounding with the steady thump-thump-thump of passion. You know, because some masters and doctoral students decided to see what happens when you toss a bunch of Lego bricks… »


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What a funny guy! Mark Wahlberg made his friends laugh by whipping out his camera phone for an impromptu paparazzi photo shoot. (It's also possible that his buds laugh at everything Mark does because, you know, he's rich and famous and when they suck up to him, he pays for lunch.)
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You may receive a "1607:Unable to install InstallShield Scripting runtime" error message when you try to install software in Windows XP
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When you try to install software on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer, the installation fails and you may receive the following error message:
1607:Unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime
This problem may occur if one of the following conditions is true:
To resolve this problem, use one of the following methods:
Reinstall the InstallScript engineTo reinstall the InstallScript engine from InstallShield Developer, follow these steps:
Running Setup from a virtual driveIf you are running the Setup program from a virtual drive created by using the SUBST command, you can delete the virtual drive and instead run the Setup program from the physical hard disk. To delete the virtual drive, click Start, click Run, type subst drive_letter: /d, and then click OK.
Register Idriver and MsiexecTo register Idriver and Msiexec, follow these steps:
Change PermissionsLog on to the Windows XP computer with an administrator user account, and verify that you have the correct permissions for the C:\Windows\Installer folder. Follow these steps:
Stop other instances of Windows InstallerTo stop other instances of Windows Installer, follow these steps:
Reinstall Windows XPFor more information about reinstalling Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
978788The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 getting Android 4.2.2
The Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note 2 Android 4.2.2 update release date has been revealed as this month
The Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 will get the Android 4.2.2 update sometime this month, according to a new source.
A tipster told International Business Times the update would be rolling out to devices during July 2013, but it's not clear when just yet.
However, IB Times then refers to PhonesReview saying it ran a story confirming this, but there's nothing on Phones Review to suggest it would be rolling out (apart from much older stories).
In May, a pre-release was rolled out to the Samsung Galaxy S3, based on the Samsung Galaxy S4 UI.
- Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.2.2 update leaked - coming July
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The update included changes to the TouchWiz UI, but little else.
If we take the pre-release version to be true, we can expect a whole host of new features to arrive on the Galaxy S3 and Note 2 updates including:
- Galaxy S4 lockscreen with multiple widget support
- "Light" unlock effect
- Improved unlock ripple effect
- Widget size adjustments
- Adapt Display screen mode
- Daydream lock screen
- Driving mode
- Actionable notifications
- New notification tray with more toggles
- Tabbed interface for phone settings
- S-Voice updated
- More voice commands added
- Full-screen Samsung Apps
- Smart widget
- White background in 3D mode for gallery
- Smart Stay
- Smart Rotation
A video of Android 4.2.2 running on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 leaked earlier this month too, although it's actually the rooted version of Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
The Android 4.2.2 update has already started rolling out in Europe, but those with the device on T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T will have to wait a little longer for it to hit our ground.


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