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Nice to see the Washington Post show pro basketball icon Gilbert Arenas riding his bike w/o helmet and giant headphones downtown. This article was on the front page of today's sports section.
Nice to see the Washington Post show pro basketball icon Gilbert Arenas riding his bike w/o helmet and giant headphones downtown. This article was on the front page of today's sports section.
Why start the earphone discussion again?
I say good for him. At least he is not in a cage.
Anyone who does not use a bike for 99% of the transportation should not lecture others about ear phones.
Listen the radio in your car?
good for him. he's on a bike.
"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world". ~Grant Petersen
Cyclists fare best when they recognize that there are times when acting vehicularly is not the best practice, and are flexible enough to do what is necessary as the situation warrants.--Me
It doesn't look like the headphones are even on his ears in the photo.
It's great to see an NBA star riding a bike for fitness and transportation. He could be chauffered around everywhere in a fleet of bulletproof SUVs like Dick Ch#n*y. Regardless of how he rides, that single photo will probably do more for cycling advocacy than one hundred decked out perfect vehicular commuters.
The notion that an adult human needs to wear a bicycle helmet for every little ride is utterly ridiculous.
i believe lebron james mountain bikes and owns part of cannondale
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I have no problem with that, at least he's not in a car.
Not too much to say here
whats he ridding
is that a hardrock?
I'm more offended that he rides on the sidewalk -- which is illegal in that part of DC -- than that he rides without a helmet.
nice.Arenas wore headphones but no helmet -- "I look goofy in it" he said -- and mostly stuck to the sidewalks -- "there's cars in the street, I'd rather hit a person than a car any day," he said.
Plus the article says he's been eating sea bass every day, contributing to overfishing and depletion of the oceans . Role model indeed.
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The point is he is not a typical "adult human". He is a public figure and is highly influential on the general public, especially children. Those in that position have a different level of conduct they are expected to abide by. By him saying that he is too self conscious and embarrassed to wear a helmet ("I look goofy in a helmet"), that sends the wrong message.
A LAB Road 1 course would be helpful in correcting this line of thinking. On the sidewalk wearing headphones and dark colors, he is not only a hazard to pedestrians, but stands a much better chance of getting hit by a car than if he were on the road. Not taking cars into consideration for a moment, he also stands a better chance of being injured on the sidewalk. He should at least read "Bicycling Street Smarts:"there's cars in the street, I'd rather hit a person than a car any day," he said.
Riding Confidently, Legally and Safely" by John S. Allen.
I don't really care if he chooses not to wear a helmet. Although I do think vanity is the wrong reason to not wear one.
I don't agree that wearing a bicycle helmet is so important as to justify vilifying someone who chooses not to wear one, for whatever reason, even if that someone is a role model. 'Wear a helmet every time you get on a bike' is not a message that needs to be sent or deserves to be sent. If Gilbert Arenas chooses not to wear a helmet when he rides, that's his business. Meanwhile you are free to wear yours and that's your business.
Bike helmets are not so effective as to warrant the status they have been elevated to in North American cycling culture. It approaches mass hysteria.
The whole article is about his recovery, very inspiring.
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"Wall Street Republicans' dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016"
I don't know how many times I have to repeat this line before it finally takes hold, but we live in time when it is the ruling class vs. the rest of us — from the open mockery by a sitting President of "teabaggers," to a governmental attack on private citizens (Limbaugh, Bundy, the Koch brothers), to the declared war establishment Republicans, who can never bring themselves to actively reject the progressive agenda in any forceful way, are set to wage on constitutionalists, who make up the base of the party no matter how desirous Mitch McConnell or Jennifer Rubin or Karl Rove are to see that Reaganite contingent tamed if not marginalized as out of touch extremists.
To note that the cat is out of the bag is an understatement. Because not only is the cat out of the bag, but he's wearing spats and a monocle, and flaunting his use of illegals to do his domestic work and maintain the landscaping of his Fairfax VA estate.
The biggest parlor game on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms these days is guessing whether former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president and save the GOP's old establishment base from its rising populist wing.
The second most popular game is guessing what happens if Jeb says no.
Two dozen interviews about the 2016 race with unaligned GOP donors, financial executives and their Washington lobbyists turned up a consistent — and unusual — consolation candidate if Bush demurs, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn't recover politically and no other establishment favorite gets nominated: Hillary Clinton.
The darkest secret in the big money world of the Republican coastal elite is that the most palatable alternative to a nominee such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky would be Clinton, a familiar face on Wall Street following her tenure as a New York senator with relatively moderate views on taxation and financial regulation.
"If it turns out to be Jeb versus Hillary we would love that and either outcome would be fine," one top Republican-leaning Wall Street lawyer said over lunch in midtown Manhattan last week. "We could live with either one. Jeb versus Joe Biden would also be fine. It's Rand Paul or Ted Cruz versus someone like Elizabeth Warren that would be everybody's worst nightmare."
Most top GOP fundraisers and donors on Wall Street won't say this kind of thing on the record for fear of heavy blowback from party officials, as well as supporters of Cruz and Rand Paul. Few want to acknowledge publicly that the Democratic front-runner fills them with less dread than some Republican 2016 hopefuls. And, to be sure, none of the Republican-leaning financial executives are so far suggesting they'd openly back her.
But the private consensus is similar to what Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said to POLITICO late last year when he praised both Christie — before the bridge scandal — and Clinton. "I very much was supportive of Hillary Clinton the last go-round," he said. "I held fundraisers for her."
People close to Blankfein say the same calculus applies to a Jeb Bush-Hillary Clinton race as it would to a Christie-Clinton contest. "Those would be two very good choices and we'd be perfectly happy with them," a person close to Blankfein said. Blankfein is a self-described Democrat, but his comments about Christie and Clinton reflect the ambidextrous political approach that many Republicans and Democrats on Wall Street take.
Leaving aside the ludicrous bombast by Politico that this is the "darkest secret n the big money world of the Republican coastal elite" — many of us have been writing on the one-party system that the federal government truly is for years now, as any reputable journalist with access to a search engine surely knows — what we have here is a clear indication of where we are in our trajectory toward European socialism, which is really nothing of the sort: that is, the end game is a social welfare state with declining levels of "income inequality," but it one run by a permanent ruling elite, policed by its bureaucracies, with citizens turned dependent subjects, and the beneficiaries of this "fundamental transformation" being those in power colluding with those in industry and finance to form the perimeters of liberal fascism, itself a form of corporatism, cronyism, and aristocratic government architecture that is often camouflaged with rigged elections (whether through voter fraud, the illegal immigrant / dead vote, gerrymandering, or control over campaign money by the Party hierarchies (see, eg., Cuccinelli, Ken), and control of the messaging by a mainstream media that has become an arm of the government) and a mirage of market capitalism that is undermined entirely by governmental interference, corporate welfare, and attacks on the middle class and small business that serve to reduce competition and dissuade risk taking, and with it, innovation.
None of this is new. This is statism, and statism leads to tyranny of necessity. The signs have long been there, with a recent study concluding that on compromise legislation, the movement is of policy is 95% to the left.
Call it the long march. Pretend it's historical materialism. Potato, potah-to.
Today's GOP establishment realizes that, win or lose, they will benefit financially from a powerful centralized government. And the introduction of the TEA Party into the political arena has upset the charade that we have an adversarial system in any serious sense. This is what so frustrates the Boehners and McConnells, who exist to cut deals, to lose more slowly, to stand for nothing other than their own entrenched power and influence.
We are their enemy. The left, as much as they are to be despised for where they wish to take us, at least have the courtesy of occasionally dropping the mask. The GOP establishment, alternately, is busy trying to rebrand conservatism to comport with Jeb Bush's / Mitt Romney's "center-rightism," which 50 years ago would have been aligned quite closely to LBJ's Great Society agenda. They wish to hijack "conservatism" and marginalize constitutionalists as "extremists."
I no longer suffer GOP apologists lightly. They are pernicious, and a very real danger to an already crumbling constitutional republic.
Wearing a flag pin in your label and mouthing platitudes that sound vaguely conservative but lack the tell of conviction is no longer a workable camouflage. And in truth, Wall St and the statists have us boxed in. Should conservatives stay home, assuming the media and the establishment Republicans can force feed us a Bush or Christie, Hillary wins. And because she's both an ideologue and a power realist, she'll happily play ball with corporatists and crony capitalists in exchange for finishing off the Cloward-Piven strategy to wreck our country from within.
In Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy's fictional socialist Utopia, the federal government becomes the country's biggest employer, its bigger lender, its biggest "charitable donor," etc. And so eventually it just subsumes the large corporations it original colludes with and cuts out the middle man.
Seems he was prescient. History shows that the romanticized Utopia Bellamy envisioned, when proponents of his brand of socialism grabbed the reins of power, turned into a Dystopian nightmare, with misery among the subjects the only form of "equality" that remained.
Well, that and mass graves.
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Would not mind ordering something of quality but all we have had is repackaged boring rip off merchandise. Wembley rammed down our throats, along with other renditions of the magic tour. When will Hyde Park, Rio 85', Hammersmith etc get released?


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For Licensed Heavy Equipment or Licensed Automotive Technicians, we will work closely with the Apprenticeship Board to get you the training you need to be licensed for this position. A positive commitment to customer service, pride in workmanship and a desire to grow with an aggressive company are all requirements of joining our team. The ideal candidate will have previous experience working in a large fleet environment or in a dealership setting.
Maintenance, trouble shooting, and repair of all truck systems used in our product line.
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Utilize department chain of command (service writer, service administrator, lead hand, foreman, service manager, service director) when managing their job duties and solving problems.
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Groton — Electric Boat now says it will lay off about 200 fewer shipyard workers than expected after the loss of two major repair contracts, but it is still estimating that 300 designers could lose their jobs.
On Monday, 85 carpenters, painters, sheet metal workers, ship fitters and divers were told they will be let go Nov. 15, bringing the total number to 234 after EB issued layoff notices to 55 carpenters in July and to 94 trades workers in August.
The union that represents the shipyard workers had said last month it was told by EB that 450 to 500 employees could lose their jobs in the coming months because of the Navy's decisions to scrap rather than repair the USS Miami and to use workers from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, instead of EB workers, to repair the USS Springfield. Just over 12,000 people work for EB, of which 9,200 work at either the Groton or New London sites.
Company spokesman Robert Hamilton said he does not expect that any more employees will be affected by the change in plans for the two submarines because EB spread out some of the work that needs to be done on Virginia-class submarines over the coming months and adjusted the workers' shifts.
But, he said, EB is notifying the union that represents the designers that there will be some adjustments as major design projects finish, including the project to modify two older submarines to serve as moored training ships.
Fewer designers will be needed as the design for a new ballistic-missile submarine to replace the Ohio-class boats moves further along, Hamilton added. He said the company estimates 300 designers could be laid off between this year and next year.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said he continues to work with the Navy to find additional work for EB to reduce the number of layoffs and "protect critical personnel."
"We cannot allow large numbers of layoffs to just sort of happen," he said Monday.
Courtney said it was too soon, however, to make any announcements about those efforts since so much will depend on what happens with the federal budget.
The government is funded only through Sept. 30 and the necessary appropriations bills have yet to pass. Congress must either pass the bills or a continuing resolution to extend the current spending rates, or the government will shut down.
"It's like five-dimensional chess right now to keep track of all the challenges that surround this," Courtney said.
More than 350 people were hired at EB late last year and early this year to work on the Miami (SSN 755) and to perform maintenance work on other submarines. The Groton-based submarine was severely damaged at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in May 2012 when a civilian worker set a fire on board during a planned 20-month overhaul.
The Navy announced in August that the cost estimate for the Miami repairs had increased from $450 million to $700 million and, given the current fiscal constraints, top Navy leaders had decided to change course. EB also was expecting to repair the Springfield.
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Do Princesses Make Happy Campers? written by Camela LaVigna Coyle. Illustrated by Mike Gordon.
This is the newest book in the series, Do Princesses…..?. In this book, the family goes on a camping trip and have many fun experiences. The princess tries to help pack up the camping gear, but tries to take everything from her room. In the car, she keeps repeating, "Are we there yet?". When the family finally gets to the campsite, princess tries her best to put up the tent. The family soon realizes that this has to be a family event. Mother has to convince princess that she can't take home all the critters she finds. The whole family enjoys putting on a play when it rains, making s'mores, fishing, and going on a nature walk. Princess loves how she can see the stars extra twinkly and bright before going to sleep. The last page of the book shows princess and her dog wearing mirrored sunglasses and telling all to "look on the bright side".
There is minimal text written in rhyming couplets. The illustrations are whimsical and cartoon-like. Readers will enjoy seeing if the princess is "a happy camper'. The book is recommended for children 3-7. Parents will enjoy reading this book to their children.
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When a mouse pointer is on some instance or metal layer, the instance name or layer name has to displayed in a window or in dialogue box.
can anyone suggest some ideas for this?
If you are using Cadence 6.1.x, under the Options menu there is a Dynamic Display form. From here, you can turn on a popup balloon that will display the shape and layer or an instance and it's name. There are many options on the form you can play with.
If you are working in an earlier version of Cadence you'll have to write your own solution. For us, we wrote a wrapper routine for the select command. When a user selects an object using the left mouse button, information about that object is displayed in the CIW. This is simple enough to do:
hiSetBindKey("Layout" "None<Btn1Down>" "reportMouseSel()")
procedure(reportMouseSel() mouseSingleSelectPt() when(obj = css() case(obj~>objType ("inst" printf("Inst %s of cell %s\n" obj~>name obj~>cellName) ) ("rect" printf("Rectangle on %L\n" obj~>lpp) ) (t printf("Object is %s on lpp %L\n" obj~>objType obj~>lpp) ) ) )); proc
This is just an example. You can add as much or as little as you want to the reporting routine.
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thanks for your reply.
i would like to know wat does css() mean?
moreover if there are multiple objects at single selected point like when there are overlapping metals and contacts how can i display the properties of all overlapping metals and contacts at a location?
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Hi Ramya,
css() is shorthand for car of selected set . I don't think that it is documented, so it would actually be better to use something like the following in your code:
For interactive things in the CIW css() is probably fine, but I would use the longer form above in any code stored in files. If you run the above longer form through the SKILL Lint checker it will achieve a good score, or at least it will not reduce your score. However, since css() is not documented (probably, I haven't checked recently), it will reduce your overall score. You want to aim to reach 100 or be as close as you can for the Lint score.
For the second question, here you cannot use css() or geGetSelectedSet() as they refer to the set of objects that are selected. You will want something that takes an input point and gives you the shapes underneath. Let me look into that and get back, it is likely that you will want to use dbGetOverlaps() or dbGetTrueOverlaps() but these are a little more complex.
You could use gePointQuery to get a quick result:
procedure(reportMouseSel() mouseSingleSelectPt() gePointQuery(hiGetCurrentWindow() hiGetCommandPoint() "myFilter")); proc
procedure(myFilter(obj) let(() when(eq(obj car(geGetSelSet())) printf("SELECTED: ") ) case(obj~>objType ("inst" printf("Inst %s of cell %s\n" obj~>name obj~>cellName) ) (t printf("%s on lpp %L in cell %s\n" obj~>objType obj~>lpp obj~>cellView~>cellName) ) ) ) ;let) ;proc
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Many thanks for your reply.
I tried using dbGetOverlaps() and dbGetTrueOverlaps() . But i got error mesaage saying invalid bounding box.
my code was,
list=dbGetTrueOverlaps(geGetWindowCellView() b)
Can you suggest me some example for using these functions?


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Faulty Self-Assessment: Why Evaluating One's Own Competence Is an Intrinsically Difficult Task
Version of Record online: 20 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00031.x
© 2007 The Authors
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 346–360, January 2008
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Carter, T. J. and Dunning, D. (2008), Faulty Self-Assessment: Why Evaluating One's Own Competence Is an Intrinsically Difficult Task. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2: 346–360. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00031.x
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- Issue online: 20 NOV 2007
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People's perception of their competence often diverges from their true level of competence. We argue that people have such erroneous view of their competence because self-evaluation is an intrinsically difficult task. People live in an information environment that does not contain all the data they need for accurate self-evaluation. The information environment is insufficient in two ways. First, when making self-judgments, people lack crucial categories of information necessary to reach accurate evaluations. Second, although people receive feedback over time that could correct faulty self-assessments, this feedback is often biased, difficult to recognize, or otherwise flawed. Because of the difficulty in making inferences based on such limited and misleading data, it is unreasonable to expect that people will prove accurate in judgments of their skills.


text: I have seriously gotten back into riding the last few years. I was hot and mostly cold for the previous 10. Last year I really pushed myself quite a bit to improve performance and had no problems. Now with only about 700 miles on the clock shince the weather broke I am getting pain behind my right knee. Not under the knee cap but in back of my knee. Like a tendon type of thing. I did a little reading and tried lowering the seat a bit and doing a little for and aft adjustment too but it's not helping. When not riding I can feel it when I climb stairs, but otherwise it is gone. I have riden speedplays forever so it is not a float issue. I have never had this before.


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The Grimmen Bitter Truth: Helmut Kohl Promoted Angela Merkel Because She Is Female, Competent and East German. It Is the Last of These That Is Essential to Understanding Why One Day Even She Might Be Prepared to Ditch the Euro
Gimson, Andrew, New Statesman (1996)
On Saturday morning, I caught a train from Berlin into the land of forests and lakes that stretches north all the way to the Baltic Sea. As soon as one gets out of the city, it feels like one is stepping back in time to an older and more modest Germany. This is a country of birch and pine, sandy tracks, cobbled roads, abundant meadows, dilapidated orchards, and unassuming houses and churches.
Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, was brought up here in Templin, in the Uckermark district, the daughter of a Protestant clergyman. A great part of her appeal to German voters springs from her provincial origins and the way she has remained true to them. There is nothing moneyed about Merkel: one cannot imagine her wishing to ingratiate herself with the super-rich. At the weekend she retreats with her husband to their house near Templin, reached by a cobbled road through the forest.
I had decided to go further north, through Brandenburg and a wonderful profusion of lakes, into Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Otto von Bismarck is supposed to have said that when the end of the world comes, one should go to Mecklenburg, as everything there happens a hundred years later.
I changed trains in Neustrelitz and proceeded through a series of tiny wayside halts--Gnevkow, Sternfeld, Utzedel, Demmin, Rakow--before alighting, at the end ofa three-hour journey, in front of the derelict station building in the small town of Grimmen, about a dozen miles short of the Baltic.
Until 1990 this whole tract of territory was in East Germany. In December that year, in the first elections held after reunification, Merkel stood, at the age of 36, as the Christian Democrat candidate for the district of which Grimmen is the administrative capital, and won. She has represented this bit of Pomerania ever since and I hoped during my visit to gain some insight into her politics.
My friend Leon Mangasarian, who works for Bloomberg News in Berlin, told me that Grimmen has a dynamic Christian Democratic mayor, Benno Ruster, who has prevented local youth from falling into the hands of the neo-Nazis by setting up a successful stock car racing club. Ruster is also anxious to develop the oil that has been discovered beneath the town: "Grimmen is swimming on a huge sea of oil. It could produce a flood of tax revenue for us. Look, we're not going to get a Mercedes factory here."
Merkel, with typical caution, declines to say whether she wants the oil to be exploited: she fears upsetting environmentalists, who in turn insist that oil wells would wreck the region's tourism industry.
On the day I visited, Ruster was ill, so I was unable to ask him if he felt let down by Merkel. But I agree with him that Grimmen needs all the help it can get. Since reunification, the town's population has shrunk from 15,000 to 10,000. The unemployment rate is 14.7 per cent and many people complain that wages are very low.
The first sight that greets the visitor walking into town along Bahnhofstrasse is a monument to Karl Marx; his genial countenance is portrayed in bas-relief on a gold medallion attached to a small boulder. A few yards further on, one comes to a small Soviet war cemetery containing 16 graves. Such memorials placed in prominent spots reminded the East Germans who was in charge.
Grimmen's old town contains five brick Gothic structures from the 14th century: the church, three gateways and the two-storey town hall. But although it is evident that large sums of money have been spent since 1990 on restoring the fabric of the place, it still has a stunned feel. The first woman who I asked about Merkel said: "She was here last week. She was received with enthusiasm. She can make great speeches but whether she can do things is not so sure. Here, everything is closed."
On Saturday afternoon almost everything in Grimmen is, indeed, closed. The one lively event I stumbled upon was a flea market held in a primary school. …


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A new article in Consumer Reports begins:
If gas stations worked like health care, you wouldnt find out until the pump switched off whether you paid $3 or $30 a gallon. If clothes shopping worked like health care, you might pay $80 for a pair of jeans at your local boutique and $400 for the identical pair at the nearest department storeand the clothes wouldnt have price tags on them.
Why cant you or I as a consumer ask what its going to cost and be met with something other than a blank stare? asks Will Fox, a principal with Milliman, a national health actuarial consulting firm. The answer, he says, is that neither providers nor health insurers really want consumers to have that information.
Heres why: The contracted prices that health plans negotiate with providers in their networks have little or nothing to do with the actual quality of services provided and everything to do with the relative bargaining power of the providers.
Heres what this system means for consumers:
- Not even staying within your plans network will guarantee you low prices. Providers who have a lot of market clout, such as a prestigious university hospital, may command prices several times higher than providers who dont.
- It may be difficult, if not impossible, to find out the price of health care ahead of time, especially for complex services such as elective surgery. Thats a special problem for people with high-deductible plans, who may be responsible for the first $5,000 or even $10,000 of their health expenses every year.
- If you go out of network, whether on purpose or involuntarily, you may be hit with a five-figure bill that your insurance company isnt obligated to pay.
- There are ways to protect yourself against being blindsided by a huge bill. But theyre often not easy and dont always work.
And it includes this table:
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MRI's have been around for over 40 years. The problem in medicine is frequently you have to get worse before diagnostic tests reveal what's wrong. Older MRI's sometimes require a repeat study but the newer MRI's identify the problem on the first exam. That machine costs more and improve patient outcomes which warrants higher insurance reimbursement. Otherwise diagnostic facilities would not have motivation to modernize their equipment.
The above matrix would be fine if all surgeons had identical skills. Medicine is not like changing an oil filter in a car. The practice of medicine is not just a science but an art. The skill and experience of a surgeon results in an assessment that helps the patient choose the procedure that is best for the patient with the best risk reward ratio for the outcome the patient seeks.
There are NO objective measures to assess MRI's, surgeons, or any other Medical Services, except lab tests. How do you measure "quality" of a surgeon? Nortin Hadler and Otis Brawley's books about treating what does not need to be treated are critical to read. Type 2 Malpractice as Hadler calls it, doing well what should not have been done in the first place. Consumer Reports is absolutely correct. Medical Services should be quantifiable and should have known outcomes and known prices ahead of time. Why would someone pay $100,000 for a procedure that can't be evaluated or the outcome known? Doctors supposedly use 'science' to produce results. Where are the results to measure doctors services?


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The present disclosure is related to a control system and method of selecting profiles for broadband communication lines.
The traditional process for making performance adjustments to broadband communication lines, such as digital subscriber loop (DSL) lines carrying voice data, is based on measurements of line performance parameters such as signal noise margin and relative capacity. These line performance parameters do not directly measure the actual voice quality provided by a broadband connection. Line performance adjustments can also be made utilizing a manual process that depends on a particular technician's preferences, experience, and judgment. This manual process often leads to inaccurate performance adjustments and is typically error-prone.
Even after a broadband line has been adjusted, the actual voice quality of the line may be better, the same, or may be worse since the customer experience and voice quality are subjective and cannot be directly measured or calculated during the typical adjustment process. Voice applications are real-time applications, and real-time applications are much more sensitive to delay than traditional applications. With the increasing demand for real-time applications such as voice communication and network gaming, the demand for line optimization becomes more important. Accordingly, there is a need for an improved method and system of adjusting broadband line performance.
It will be appreciated that for simplicity and clarity of illustration, elements illustrated in the Figures have not necessarily been drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements are exaggerated relative to other elements. Embodiments incorporating teachings of the present disclosure are shown and described with respect to the drawings presented herein, in which:
A system and method for improving the transmission quality of a broadband link by selecting alternate profiles is provided herein. The broadband link can be implemented by a fiber solution like fiber to the home or fiber to the neighborhood, a cable solution, and/or a digital subscriber loop (DSL) line offering such as an asynchronous digital subscriber loop (ADSL) line or some other DSL line. DSL line offerings are collectively referred to herein as xDSL line offerings. The following discussions focus on VoIP services in xDSL implementations, but the teachings should not be limited to the specific embodiments discussed herein. The teachings may have broader application than the specifically referenced services and transports.
A user of a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone may receive a level of service that is determined by the amount of code violations, line delay and line speed of the line connecting the user. When the condition of an xDSL line degrades due to a lowered signal noise margin (SNM), increased impulse noise, increased interference, or other adverse conditions, the line may experience dramatic increases of code violations. Voice quality over the broadband line can degrade rapidly when there is an increase in code violations.
Voice applications can be transmitted, for example, over xDSL lines utilizing a user datagram protocol (UDP). If a code violation or line error hits a voice UDP packet and causes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error, the UDP packet is often dropped or lost. Lost data leads to lower quality of service and can significantly degrade the quality of voice transmitted over broadband links like xDSL lines. Unlike transmission control protocol (TCP) over Internet protocol (TCP/IP), UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services. Instead UDP/IP provides a direct way to send and receive "datagrams" or data packets over an IP based network. The errors occurring on a line carrying UDP over Internet protocol (UDP/IP) that cannot be corrected by the error correction of a coding algorithm, do not result in packet re-transmission as with other protocols but in packet loss.
In an xDSL implementation, if an xDSL line experiences a high degree of code violations, it might need to be moved to a lower speed profile that is more resistant to interference, or moved to an interleaved channel profile (if it is currently running at a fast channel profile) where the interleaving provides superior error correction ability. The line's code violation count can often be greatly reduced with an appropriate new line profile. But, a lower speed profile or interleaved channel profile can result in inadequate data throughput. In the case of interleaved channel profiles, lowered data rates are the result of delays that comes from frame scrambling, buffering, and error detection/correction.
The system and a method disclosed herein includes setting a threshold for voice quality and determining a number of acceptable code violations that can occur without compromising the voice quality of the broadband link. When the actual number of code violations exceeds the determined number of code violations, an alternate profile is selected for the broadband line. The present disclosure provides a system and method that can be utilized to determine when a line should be moved to a different profile in order to maintain or increase the voice quality supported by the line. A performance tradeoff can be made between a current profile with a high line speed having a high number of code violations and a lower data rate profile having a lower number of code violations. Therefore, whether or not a troubled line needs a new profile and which new profile should be selected, may depend on the availability of a profile that can achieve a high enough UDP/IP throughput (high enough data rate) with low enough code violations. The disclosed system and method is useful for improving time sensitive transmission over a broadband connection.
In one configuration, the performance adjustment system and method can measure the frequency of code violations and select a new line profile based on the measurement. In accordance with the teachings herein, the frequency of code violations occurring on a broadband line can be correlated to an acceptable voice quality, thus, a line profile maintaining lower code violation counts can provide improved voice quality. In other configurations line parameters such as line speed and end-to-end-transmission delay are measured and considered in selecting a profile.
Referring to
The aggregation node 102 can also consist of, or be coupled to, either directly or remotely, a terminal device 128 having a display 132. In an illustrative embodiment the xDSL code violation measurement unit 120 is responsive to, and takes measurements of code violations occurring on xDSL lines 130, wherein the voice quality estimator 118 can "subjectively" and/or objectively measure the voice quality of a line.
During operation, xDSL lines 130 can carry data such as voice data to and from residences such as first residence 104, second residence 106, third residences 108, and fourth residence 110; and to and from businesses such as first business 112, second business 114 and third business 116. Although only a few xDSL lines 130 and subscriber types are illustrated, the system and method taught herein could be utilized to service thousands of DSL, ADSL or xDSL lines and all different types of subscribers or customers. In one embodiment the processor 124 can be coupled to the transmission line profile database 122, the voice quality estimator 118 and the xDSL line measurement unit 120. Depending upon implementation detail, the memory 126 can include a software routine that, when executed causes the processor 124 to communicate with the xDSL code violation measurement unit 120 or the voice quality estimator 118 and identify xDSL lines 130 that have higher levels of code violations or other substandard parameters.
In an illustrative embodiment, the processor 124 helps to facilitate reports, including graphical displays and charts, on a display 132 of a terminal device 128. In a particular embodiment, the terminal device 128 is a remote device that includes a web browser interface and is coupled to the processor 124 via a distributed data network such as wide area network (WAN) 128 (not shown).
Based at least partially on the measured parameters, processor 124 may select an improved transmission line profile from the transmission line database 122 and apply the newly selected profile to an underperforming xDSL line. The frequency of code violations on a specific line, may, for example, be correlated to voice quality, and in one configuration an acceptable number of code violations for a selected time period may be determined. For example, the number of code violations over a time period such as a one, five, ten, or fifteen-minute time period may be utilized to determine if an xDSL line is underperforming. The frequency of acceptable code violations will typically vary depending on the configuration of the line such as the hardware and the protocol utilized to implement the line.
Selecting a code violation threshold that provides acceptable voice quality can be a subjective process. Depending upon implementation detail, a voice quality threshold can be set based on many standards. One such standard is a perceptual speech quality measurement (PSQM) score and another is a mean opinion score (MOS). In one embodiment, a code violation threshold is set based on the voice quality threshold and a line configuration. Different line configurations may include different types of voice coders/decoders (CODECs), different line lengths and may utilize different communication standards.
For example, a line complying with a G.726 specification, (a standard promulgated by the Telecommunications Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)) may be able to sustain many more code violations and yet be able to provide better voice quality than a line complying with the G.711 standard. Accordingly, the code violation threshold may be at least partially dependent on the voice quality threshold and the configuration of the line. In operation, when the frequency of code violations exceeds the code violation threshold or the voice quality is suspect, the profile of the xDSL line may be changed to another profile. In practice, processor 124 may produce a "reconfigure signal" indicating that the line is underperforming and the profile of the line is to be changed to a different/improved profile.
The different profiles may help balance different line speeds and error rates by implementing a fast channel, an interleave profile, a specific depth of interleave profile and different line speeds or any other suitable format. A fast channel can provide superior speed, but is often susceptible to outside interference and has limited error detection and correction. An interleaved profile can provide superior error correction but also has inherent delays due to the required buffering of data. Interleaved profiles have different depths, wherein lower depths introduce less delay but compromise the error correction ability. Line speeds can also be adjusted, which may help to reduce outside interference. A profile may be chosen based on whether it is a slow data rate that does not provide enough data or the fast communication speed that is causing too many code violations. After a profile is selected to minimize code violations and maximize communication speed, a line profile may be altered—hopefully resulting in an improved quality of the voice over the broadband line.
Referring to
Depending upon implementation detail, the initial transmission profile can be a fast channel that has the bandwidth to provide superior voice quality unless interference is present on the line, wherein a slower channel with error correction can be selected to provide superior voice quality.
In practice, information may be developed and maintained that correlates a number of code violations during a given period of time to a perceived voice quality. In some implementations, the threshold value may correspond to toll quality. For example, a typical Plain Old Telephony Service (POTS) quality may be set as the quality floor.
Referring to
In one configuration, a MOS score of between 3 and 6 and/or a PSQM of between 2 and 3 may be used when setting a threshold that provides acceptable voice quality. In accordance with the present teaching, it may be determined that there is a correlation between the frequency of code violations occurring in UDP transmission and the voice quality provided by the UDP transmission. Thus, code violation rates of 1,080/minute could relate to, or be correlated with, a PSQM score of 2.25. In this case, and in accordance with appropriate lab test results, when the code violations on a specific line remain below the correlated value, the voice quality can be maintained at an acceptable level. To further understand a possible correlation between voice quality and code violations reference may be made to
Referring back to
In one embodiment, when the number of code violation is less than the threshold value the process proceeds to determine if the voice quality is acceptable at decision step 312 and when the voice quality is acceptable the method proceeds to select another xDSL line for analysis. When the voice quality is unacceptable, possibly determined by prompting a user or measuring voice quality, then the voice quality threshold is reset at step 314 and a new code violation threshold will be set at step 304 as the process reiterates.
When, at step 310 the number of code violations for the selected broadband line exceeds the threshold number it is likely that the voice quality on the selected line is being compromised and a different profile can be selected and applied at step 316. The profile selection process can be a "smart" process that learns from the resulting improvement and/or degradation associated with past selections. This "experience" data may help in making a better choice when selecting a specific profile to improve specific parameters and enhance the performance of an underperforming line. The profile(s) that have been implemented may be logged at decision step 318 and the process may revert to step 308 where data is collected on the newly implemented profile. When all profiles have been tried, the process proceeds to step 314 to reset the voice quality parameter, otherwise the process can end at step 320.
As illustrated, the method may optionally be repeated for a plurality of different broadband lines such as ADSL lines. In a sample network, there may a vast number of DSL lines, and a selected profile may be determined for each of the DSL lines. The above-described method may be automatically performed using a computer system to determine a selected profile that provides the highest UDP/IP performance and preferably a high quality voice connection.
Referring to
The curves 402, 406 and 406 illustrate when the frequency of code violation increase, the voice quality decreases. A voice quality threshold can be set at a PSQM of 2.2 and correspondingly when a G.726 standard is utilized, the code violation threshold can be set at 1350/15 minutes as illustrated by line 408 to maintain a PSQM voice quality of 2.4. Likewise, for a G.729 line standard the code violation threshold can be set at 16400 as illustrated by line 410.
Unlike traditional ADSL optimization, which is based solely on line performance parameters such as signal to noise margin and relative capacity, the system and method presented herein may be based on several factors like UDP/IP transmission speed, code violations and other level one protocol parameters. Specific implementations of the methods and systems presented may be based on experimental results of lab testing.
In practice, utilizing the teachings herein may help providers to keep the voice PSQM score above acceptable levels when the code violations do not exceed the predetermined threshold. For example, if an xDSL line utilizing a fast channel profile consistently experiences code violation levels that exceed the predetermined code violation threshold, the xDSL line can be switched to a different profile such as an interleaved profile or to a lower speed profile in order to improve the voice quality. The hardware/software standards and configurations supporting the line can require different thresholds and correlations to be set for the xDSL line. In this manner, an automated system and method has been described to provide for increased UDP/IP packet transfer performance over an entire network of xDSL lines.
In practice, an automated system may be used with the system of
The above-disclosed subject matter is to be considered illustrative, and not restrictive, and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications, enhancements, and other embodiments that fall within the true spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, to the maximum extent allowed by law, the scope of the present invention is to be determined by the broadest permissible interpretation of the following claims and their equivalents, and shall not be restricted or limited by the foregoing detailed description.
In a particular embodiment, the digital subscriber line control system comprises a computer readable medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions to manipulate a processor to: determine a number of code violations resulting from voice UDP packet transmissions communicated via a broadband link during a first period of time; compare the number of code violations against a threshold value; and select a different operational profile for the broadband link if the number of code violations exceeds the threshold value.
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This AD Round Up is dedicated to unbuilt classics, a selection of projects and ideas that, although never built, contributed greatly to the canon of twentieth century architecture. In 1920, Buckminister Fuller designed the Dymaxion House, which displayed forward-thinking innovations in sustainability and prefabrication. In 1924, Le Corbusier's radical plan for Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) had an extensive influence upon modern urban planning and led to the development of new high-density housing typologies. In the same year Friedrick Kiesler introduced his "Endless House", the basis for his subsequent manifesto of Correalism. Eight years later in 1932, Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock curated the "Modern Architecture: International exhibition" at the MoMA, introducing the emerging International Style and laying the principles for Modern architecture. And finally, one of Archigram's most famous utopian visions, the Plug-In City, proposed by Peter Cook in 1964, offered a fascinating new approach to urbanism and reversed traditional perceptions of infrastructure's role in the city.
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Linguistic theory: syntax, morphology, and grammatical categories, Structure of Russian and Polish, Polish culture, Language and public discourse, The music of Shostakovich
T C 357 • Diaspora & Identity: Ethnicity
42960 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 200pm-330pm CRD 007B
Patterns of origin and dispersal have occurred continuously over the course of human history as people have spread throughout the world and spontaneously developed definitions of group identity in new and changing environments. Scholars are now engaged in innovative multidisciplinary approaches to the study of human diaspora, synthesizing the knowledge and methodologies of individual disciplines such as archaeology, cultural and physical anthropology, linguistics, geology, and genetics, aided by sophisticated computer simulations. In fact, diaspora and the reinvention of group identity in a new environment is the norm, not the exception, and it continues before our eyes.
The course begins by looking at the grand-daddy of diasporas, the spread of our species beginning 50-60,000 years ago, from its origin in Africa throughout the globe. The idea is to understand the mechanisms by which, in simpler times, ethnic and other group identities developed and were transmitted over time. In the second half we will `apply' these principles to their modern analogues in our more complex environment: immigration, life in diaspora, and the confrontation of indigeneous peoples with their conquerors. An important element of modernity is the creation of administrative states and the ideology of nationalism, designed to reinforce, suppress, or manipulate more spontaneous self-identities of social and ethnic identity. While we will read sociological, anthropological, even legal texts, the focus will be on artistic genres of literature and even film, marshaled to confront issues of origin and identity in diaspora as individuals and groups continue to negotiate who they are ... and aren't.
The class will be conducted in seminar format with an emphasis on synthesizing information from various sources, formulating a position, and presenting that position effectively in both written and oral form.
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. 2000. Genes, peoples, and languages. New York: North Point Press.
Olson, Steve. 2002. Mapping human history: Discovering the past through our genes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Renfrew, C. 1990. Archaeology and language: The puzzle of Indo-European origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells, Spencer. 2002. Journey of man: A genetic odyssey. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Several films will be viewed, including 'Do the Right Thing' (1989) or 'Jungle Fever' (1991) by Spike Lee, 'Mississippi Masala' by Mira Nair, 'El Norte' (1983) by Gregory Nava, and 'The Gods Must be Crazy' (1981), by Jamie Uys.
Papers: 60%
Two shorter papers (~1000 words each)
Term paper (at least 3000 words, expanding on one of the shorter papers)
Oral presentations (summaries and interpretation of the readings): 25%
General active class participation: 15%
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Fall 2011 RUS 330/REE 325/HMN 350/CL 323 "Historical Survey of RUssian Music"
Degree credit. This course:
- Satisfies core curriculum requirements for an undergraduate degree with flags for Writing and for Global Cultures;
- Satisfies the Fine Arts/General culture Area D requirement for a B.A., Plan I, as an Alternative course
- Counts toward a major or minor in either Russian or in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Can serve as an elective in any degree plan
- Under certain conditions (consult the graduate advisor) it can count toward the M.A. degree in:
- Slavic Languages and Cultures; or
- Russian East European, and Eurasian Studies
Prerequisites: Upper-Division or graduate standing. Exceptions may be granted with permission of the instructor. No knowledge of Russian or of how to read/play music is required.
Content: The course will survey the following four general areas of music associated with Russia over the course of its history:
- Art (classical) music in Russian is widely considered to have begun with Glinka (1804‑57), but its development in the 19th and 20th centuries includes many great names in the history of art music, such as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich, along with other outstanding figures and movements. We will focus on Glinka as the pioneer, then the most Russian of the Russian composers, Mussorgsky, followed by the mystical Skriabin, Stravinsky in his Russian period, and Prokofiev and Shostakovich in the Soviet period.
- Sacred (religious, ecclesiastical) music was intimately bound up with the history and practice of Christianity in Russia, which was officially adopted from Byzantium in the tenth century. Special attention will be paid to the role of music in the religious rites practiced today (documented by the Moscow Patriarchate on its website!).
- Traditional (folk) music in Russia is extremely rich and varies greatly over the wide terrain of the country. We will sample the variety of genres and structures used in various rites of passage (especially courtship/ weddings and laments), calendar rites, work songs, lyric songs, epics, and dances. Not to mention the famous Russian chastushka, which exercises wit, linguistic invention, and competitive skills.
- We briefly illustrate the role of popular music in both Czarist and Soviet times, including the popular `romances', the Soviet invention of the `mass song', the `bards' of the 60's and 70's, and, time-permitting, contemporary popular music.
While the course will survey of the fundamental and indispensible notions of musical structure and genre, the focus of the course is the role of music in its social and historical context. We will be particularly interested in questions of interpretation/reception and the cultural function of music
Texts: There is no textbook for the course. There will be numerous handouts and postings on the course Blackboard site, including lecture notes, which should be kept in a loose-leaf binder. Course packets may be made available for purchase.
Fall 2011 RUS 324 "Third-Year Russian I"
Course Content: This course is the fifth semester of Russian language instruction. It is a practical advanced all-round language course, based on the communicative-functional approach to language learning. We have two goals.
- Develop functional linguistic proficiency in the four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
- Acquire practical linguo-cultural competence, encompassing both high and popular culture.
The textbook by Rifkin, a systematic review of Russian grammar, serves as a skeleton for the course structure. It will be supplemented by Paperno's DVD course, with a plethora of multi-media materials, along with various other authentic materials determined by student interest, to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Special attention will be paid to the contemporary mass media not only as linguistic material, but also as a point of access to Russian culture in its various forms. The course is conducted in Russian. At the end of the year (after this course and its successor Russian 325), most students should have achieved a proficiency level of 2 on the ILR scale (comparable to Advanced on the ACTFL scale).
The textbook has 25 chapters. We will cover chapters 1-12 in the fall semester, spending more time on some than on others.
Graduate Courses
Fall 2010 RUS 390/REE 385 Medieval Slavic Manuscripts
Course Description
Old Church Slavonic (OCS) is the first literary language in the Slavic world, defined by a set of religious texts translated by the Apostles to the Slavs (Cyril and Methodius) and their followers in the ninth through eleventh centuries, first in Moravia (today's Czech Republic), and then in Bulgaria. This historical language served as the linguistic model for ecclesiastical texts in the Orthodox Slavic world and remains a source of stylistic richness in the corresponding languages today, exploited in everything from poetry to journalistic writing.
This course is anchored by the selective study of historical texts forming the OCS canon, but will range from there to include:
The historical and social context in which those original texts arose.
The spread of Church Slavonic literacy in the early Middle Ages and its adaption to local circumstances (including the Dalmatian tradition in Catholic Croatia!)
The medieval evolution of Old Church Slavonic into local 'recensions', with special emphasis on the Russian recension.
The use of Church Slavonic for religious purposes in the Russian Orthodox Church up to today, including:
Inscriptions, which identify icons and other forms of religious art.
Religious hymns and prayers
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2 May 2011 9:08 AM #1
Modal Buttons in Grid
I'm trying to add buttons to my grid, which will open up a modal window. I have buttons in my grid that alert the row index and I have a button outside of my grid, which can open a modal but I can't seem to get the grid buttons to open the modal. I tried adding the window creation to the actioncolumn's handler but that's not doing it.
{ xtype: 'actioncolumn', width: 50, items: [{ icon : 'assets/ext-4.0.0/resources/themes/images/default/button/arrow.gif', // Use a URL in the icon config tooltip: 'Sell stock', handler: function(grid, rowIndex, colIndex) { //var rec = store.getAt(rowIndex); Ext.create('widget.window', { title: 'Layout Window', closable: true, closeAction: 'hide', //animateTarget: this, width: 600, height: 350, layout: 'border', bodyStyle: 'padding: 5px;', items: [{ region: 'west', title: 'Navigation', width: 200, split: true, collapsible: true, floatable: false }, { region: 'center', xtype: 'tabpanel', items: [{ title: 'Bogus Tab', html: 'Hello world 1' }, { title: 'Another Tab', html: 'Hello world 2' }, { title: 'Closable Tab', html: 'Hello world 3', closable: true }] }] }); //alert(rowIndex); } }] }
One other quick thing. What's the best way to fill the tab's html elements? Can I write a page and then just pass in a path? Are there any good examples of that out there?
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Are you sure it's a good idea to have an inline functoin?
Shouldn't the handler be a member function. a reference to which get embedded in the column definition object in the method which defines the columns like
getColumnDefinition: function() { return .... ,{ xtype: 'actioncolumn', width: 50, items: [{ icon : 'assets/ext-4.0.0/resources/themes/images/default/button/arrow.gif', // Use a URL in the icon config tooltip: 'Sell stock', handler: this.sellStock, scope: this ....
And you need to show the Window.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
Scope: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.ph...642#post257642
2 May 2011 11:28 AM #3
Lol, yea. Just forgot to show it. Thanks.
I'm planning on moving the function. Just had it there for convenience at the time.
On a semi-related note, what would be the best way to make it so that this button only shows up ever x rows as opposed to them all?
I'm also still trying to get the URL property to work. I would think that I just need to replace html: with url: followed by a relative page path. When I do that, however it's just blank.
2 May 2011 2:48 PM #4
I've tried it now with a relative path, a full physical path and a web one, however none of them seem to be getting accessed
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One middle school in the east took time out Thursday to say thanks to our military men and women.
Farmville Middle School held its first annual military appreciation day during its football game against C.M. Epps Middle School..
A handful of military veterans marched out a halftime to have their name announced while the fans in the stands thanked them with cheers.
The Farmville Central High School R.O.T.C. performed a routine drill during halftime as well.
Lionel Kato, the principal of Farmville Middle School says military appreciation day will be an annual event.
The final score of the game, Farmville Middle School lost to C.M. Epps 28-14.


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SIZE: One Size About 28 x 28 in. (71 x 71 cm)
CORRECTIONS: (applied May 23, 2012)
2 ripples = about 4 1/4 in. (11 cm) When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be
sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what
the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person.
If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller
size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles.
Making a Gauge Swatch
sc2tog (sc 2 sts together) Insert hook into st and draw up a loop. Insert hook into next st and draw up a loop. Yarn over, draw through all 3 loops on hook - 1 st decreased.
This project is worked in a ripple crochet pattern. The ripple pattern is easy to do, but its important to remember that you may need to work several rows before the ripple pattern becomes clear.
Learn to Crochet Instructions: http://www.lionbrand.com/learnToCrochet.html


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#YouStink Grows Up To Pose Real Challenge to Lebanese State
Over the past few weeks protesters in Lebanon have reemerged after a short slumber in great numbers, talking over downtown Beirut. "You Stink" protests, which started as result of a "garbage crisis" and government incompetence have been met with extreme repression leading to one death and hundreds of injuries. Bay Area Intifada reached out to a comrade on the ground who has been engaged in the demonstrations. Leyla is a anti-authoritarian queer from Beirut in their early 30's. The following interview was conducted on Monday August 30th- Tuesday Sept 1st. No changes or edits have been to the text. Read the rest of this entry
Lebanon, August 2015: Notes on Paralysis, Protests, and Hope
by Maya Mikdashi
The past ten years in Lebanon have been a study in political paralysis and escalating anger and frustration among citizens and residents of the country. To recap only the most basic of facts, since 2005 the country divided and polarized into two "camps"—March 14 and March 8, led by the Future Movement and Hezbollah, respectively. In these ten years there has been a war with Israel, armed clashes between these two camps, and a series of political assassinations. These years have also brought the military destruction of a refugee camp (Nahr Al-Bared), armed clashes between the army and Islamists in Saida and Tripoli, a war in Syria that has again polarized the population, a series of bombings by radical Islamist groups across the country, and an ongoing war against ISIS in the north of the country. Lebanon has become a front in the international war on terror, according to the US, Israel, and the Lebanese government. Politicians have failed to form governments, leading to power vacuums and a series of caretaker governments and the degradation of government services and institutions. There has been a presidential vacuum for over fourteen months, and Parliament has illegally extended its own term twice so far. In short, there is no legitimately elected political representation in the country. Read the rest of this entry
Iraq, winds of hope
Since the end of July, and despite continued terrorist attacks by the so called Islamic State (IS) against Iraqi civilians, massive popular demonstrations have taken place in the capital Baghdad and several cities in the south of the country mainly to denounce corruption in the country and the political bankruptcy of the ruling sectarian political parties. Demands of the protesters notably included the dissolution of parliament, the end of the domination of the clergy on the structure of the Iraqi state and the modification of the Constitution to end the sectarian quotas. The demonstrations also condemned the continuing failures and power outages, deteriorating public services and increasing social inequalities. Read the rest of this entry
Nasrallah's blood-soaked road to Jerusalem
By Budour Hassan
In early March of this year, about 6,000 smuggled photographs of torture victims in Syrian regime jails were leaked on the internet and published on various web sites.
The eyes of parents, siblings, partners and relatives of Syrian detainees became transfixed on their screens. Sorting through pictures of hardly-recognizable corpses, they wondered if they might find a trace of their loved ones.
Known as the "Caesar" photographs, in reference to the pseudonym of the defected Syrian sergeant and forensic photographer who smuggled the images out of Syria, the photographs inevitably lead us to question the morality and ethics of disseminating graphic portrayals of dead bodies on the internet. Read the rest of this entry
SYRIA: Film – Ecos del Desgarro
A self-managed and collective documentary about the Syrian revolution
and counter revolution, interviewing Syrian activists.
In Spanish/Arabic with English subtitles
Source: http://camaranegra.espivblogs.net/
Syria's multi-party conflict and multi-way war
[this is a translation of the original Arabic that will shortly appear in therepublicgs.net]
Shiar Youssef *
Four years after the start of the Syrian revolution, much of the dominant analysis and commentary on the revolution and the subsequent war remains dominated by simplistic, dualistic world views and equally simplistic and dualistic policies and proposals. This article is an attempt to analyse the Syrian revolution as a multi-party conflict of interests and values, and the war in Syria as a multi-way war. Read the rest of this entry
Call for a first Mediterranean anarchist meeting by FA, IFA and Le Commun libertaire
Tunisia, March 2015
Today, the Mediterranean region continues to be one of the regions in the world beset by popular uprisings and protests. These range from north to south of the Mediterranean, following the global economic and financial crisis, causing an increase in insecurity and poverty and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
PALESTINE: Take Action: Free Lina Khattab, imprisoned student and folkloric dancer
[Tahrir-ICN note: Lina's next court hearing scheduled for 18 January]
SYRIA: #Douma4 Relaunched
PALESTINE: The war is not over
As you walk in the streets of Ramallah, with its aesthetically appealing buildings and the chaos of shoppers and street vendors the silence here is deafening.
We continue to protract this bubble deeper into the echelons of denial and complacency. The ululations in the summer for Gaza, and the metamorphosis into a population of cheerleaders continues to etch its indentation. We offered blistered tongues and Gaza offered its soul. Read the rest of this entry


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