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Hiring a consultancy to help you re-structure IT? Drill down 3 levels during the evaluation.
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4/5ths of IT execs say they are re-assessing their IT organization with the intent of finding ways to run leaner. Many of these firms will use a consultancy with a practice in re-engineering IT organizations. And a number of these firms are asking me what they should look out for when they evaluate these consultancies. Why are they asking me this? First, these re-engineering projects cost a lot, 2nd, clients aren't expert in how to evaluate who's strong and who's weak, and 3rd, our clients have one shot at getting these re-structure projects right, and don't want to pick the wrong firm.
I ask them to drill down three levels into the methodology boxes and arrows charts that they bring to their sales calls.
Say, for example, that you're evaluating how they'll help you implement governance. At the first level, they should show you what they mean by governance (not a trivial exercise as there are 6 definitions by my current count), what are the components of governance and which groups are responsible for defining and overseeing it. That's good level 1 coverage, but you need to go deeper. At the next level ask about these groups - how are they measured, what are their deliverables and what works and doesn't? Now we're cutting through the marketspeak that any consulting firm can provide. But let's go deeper. Ask for example, of measurements and deliverables from engagements, contacts within other firms and any real numbers they have on the costs and benefits of governance.
Let me illustrate with a few good examples from the just-completed Forrester Wave.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) provided all the usual level 1 material – a good definition, roles, etc. But they went well beyond that and described different governance scenarios, such as Growth, Asset Utilization, and Profit. For each scenario they showed the drivers, metrics, governance mechanisms and other elements. However, they didn't feel this was enough so they also described decision rights for different roles in IT and the business and how they changed based on the style of governance.
Deloitte provides a similar detailed response to this question and added the application of these elements to an operating model for IT - a logical clustering of IT functions. Similarly, they provided leading practices and flow charts showing how decisions are made. And they show where in the redesign of an IT organization, the Governance is defined, along with the Activities, Tools, Deliverables and Tips.
IBM went one step further and showed how governance is implemented as part of Vision, Planning, Enhancing, Designing and Implementation steps. For each step, they identifed elements including decision makers, decision criteria, the information required, decision events, and what a communications plan would include.
All three are examples of consultancies that go beyond simplistic and such obvious truisms about governance requiring senior commitment, being important to alignment with the business and other clichés. Whether you agree with their recommendations or not, they demonstrate a familiarity with the subject that comes from repetition.
Now a caveat – don't expect every consultancy to provide everything you want during the sales cycle. Good consulting firms will have much of this packaged up and the experts that lead these engagements will know most of this off the top of their heads, but consultants are problem solvers – not marketeers. That they haven't scrubbed examples for every aspect of their methodology is not a deal-killer. And some firms' methodologies are so detailed that understanding every step would take months and, by itself, not solve anything. Finally, some very good consultancies are just too busy solving problems to pull this together. So get an overall view of how they do engagements like yours and drill down three levels into half a dozen areas that are most important to you. If they give you great details on 4 out of 6, they're doing pretty well.
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Inhaled Sargramostim in Treating Patients With Melanoma Metastatic to the Lung
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RATIONALE: Inhaling sargramostim may interfere with the growth of tumor cells and may be an effective treatment for melanoma that has spread to the lung.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of inhaled sargramostim in treating patients with melanoma that is metastatic to the lung.
|Melanoma (Skin) Metastatic Cancer
|Biological: sargramostim
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Dose Finding Study of Aerosolized GM-CSF in the Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma to the Lung
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Up to 6 years ]
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Up to 6 years ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 6 years ]
- Objective response rate [ Time Frame: Up to 6 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2002
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: sargramostim
Patients receive aerosolized sargramostim (GM-CSF) twice a day on days 1-7 and 15-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 2 courses. Patients with no disease progression after completion of course 2 may continue on treatment until disease progression. Patients are grouped to 1 of 2 dose-escalation regimens (part A vs B).
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed at 3 months, every 2 months for 1 year, and then every 3-4 months for 5 years.
|Biological: sargramostim
Detailed Description:
- Determine immunomodulatory effects of aerosolized sargramostim (GM-CSF) in patients with metastatic melanoma to the lung (part A).
- Determine toxicity profile of this therapy, in terms of pulmonary and hematologic toxicity, in these patients.
- Determine, preliminarily, the therapeutic effects of this therapy, in terms of progression-free survival, overall survival, and objective response rate, in these patients.
- Determine the maximum tolerated dose of GM-CSF in these patients (part B).
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation, multicenter study.
Patients receive aerosolized sargramostim (GM-CSF) twice a day on days 1-7 and 15-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 2 courses. Patients with no disease progression after completion of course 2 may continue on treatment until disease progression. Patients are grouped to 1 of 2 dose-escalation regimens (part A vs B).
- Part A: Cohorts of 5-10 patients receive escalating doses of GM-CSF until the optimal immunostimulatory dose (ISD) is determined. The optimal ISD is defined as the dose at which at least 7 of 10 patients experience immunostimulation. Once the optimal ISD is determined, 10 patients receive aerosolized GM-CSF at a dose halfway between the optimal ISD and the preceding dose. Dose escalation is discontinued if at least 2 of 5 or at least 4 of 10 patients on a particular dose level experience dose-limiting toxicity.
- Part B: Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of GM-CSF until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. At least 6 patients are treated at the MTD.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed at 3 months, every 2 months for 1 year, and then every 3-4 months for 5 years.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 85 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Histologically confirmed metastatic melanoma to the lung for which no known standard therapy exists
- At least 1 unidimensionally measurable lesion
- HLA-A2 positive (part A patients only)
- Previously treated CNS metastases allowed provided there is no evidence of disease progression within the past 3 months
- 18 and over
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Life expectancy:
- At least 12 weeks
- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,000/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 75,000/mm^3
- Hemoglobin at least 8.0 g/dL
- Bilirubin no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST no greater than 3 times ULN
- Creatinine no greater than 2.5 times ULN
- No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease
- No pulmonary disease requiring concurrent active therapy (e.g., supplemental oxygen or bronchodilator)
- FEV_1 at least 65% of predicted and at least 1.5 L
- No known immunodeficiency state
- No known autoimmune disease
- No uncontrolled infection
- No active psychotic disorder requiring pharmacotherapy
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy:
- More than 2 weeks since prior biologic therapy
- More than 2 weeks since prior immunotherapy
- More than 4 weeks since prior filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF)
- No other concurrent biologic therapy or immunotherapy
- No concurrent G-CSF
- No concurrent GM-CSF other than study drug
- More than 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin)
- No concurrent chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- More than 2 weeks since prior corticosteroids
- No concurrent glucocorticosteroids
- More than 2 weeks since prior radiotherapy
- No concurrent radiotherapy
- Not specified
- More than 7 days since prior parenteral antibiotics
- No concurrent parenteral antibiotics
- No concurrent immunosuppressive agents
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00017121
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|Study Chair:
|Svetomir Markovic, MD, PhD
|Mayo Clinic
|Responsible Party:
|Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00017121 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2012-02385 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trials Reporting System) )
CDR0000068654 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
|Study First Received:
|June 6, 2001
|Last Updated:
|July 1, 2016
Keywords provided by Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology:
stage IV melanoma
recurrent melanoma
lung metastases
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Nevi and Melanomas
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
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Each year the Museum researches and creates a new annual exhibit focusing on some aspect of ski history. Exhibits from previous years can be seen at the Museum's satellite locations, which are presently located at Bretton Woods Mountain Resort and the Intervale Scenic Vista on Route 16 several miles north of North Conway.
Current Annual Exhibit in New England Ski Museum:
The Mountain Troops and Mountain Culture in Postwar America
On November 15, 1941 a new kind of specialized U.S. Army unit, the 1st Battalion of the 87th Mountain Infantry, was activated at Fort Lewis, Washington. Within the next few years two more mountain infantry regiments would be combined into the legendary 10th Mountain Division. In recognition of the activation of the 87th seventy five years ago, the New England Ski Museum presents a new exhibition that focuses on the profound influence that 10th Mountain veterans had on the direction that skiing and outdoor recreation would take in postwar America.
The exhibition, The Mountain Troops and Mountain Culture in Postwar America, can be seen at the Museum in Franconia Notch State Park through mid-April 2017.
The War Department engaged the National Ski Patrol to fill the ranks of the new mountain troops, and this unique recruiting method brought together thousands of like-minded men oriented to a life in the outdoors.
Three intensive winters of experimentation with military mountain doctrine and high altitude training, two of them at Camp Hale, Colorado, hardened 10th Mountain Division soldiers to an elite level of fitness and skill in mountain operations. When the 10th entered combat in the Apennine mountains of Italy in January 1945, they distinguished themselves in a series of brutal battles in the waning days of World War II.
After the war, many of its veterans drew upon the skills that had gotten them into the mountain unit, and turned them into modes of living, and of earning a living, in the mountain environment. Some of their efforts resulted in thriving educational and business in the outdoor recreation field that would boom in the 1950s and thereafter, and a selection of these veterans and their contributions are profiled in the exhibit.
Montgomery Meigs Atwater, known by all as Monty, founded the field of avalanche science in this country, then trained a small network of collaborators and established a Forest Service seminar that dispersed the findings widely throughout the west. It is given to only a few to invent a field of endeavor that confers wide benefits to a segment of the population. Monty Atwater and his virtual creation of the process of American avalanche study and mitigation was one who achieved this prominence.
In 1945 Gerry Cunningham began producing and selling outdoor gear, beginning with teardrop climbing packs and updated, lighter versions of the rucksacks and packboards that he had used in the 10th. Gerry Mountain Equipment's unique products ranged from lightweight tents that were tested on Himalayan expeditions, the knee-length, down-filled Gerry Slope Coat that was ubiquitous on ski slopes in the 1960s and 1970s, the backpack Kiddie Pack, and the humble but still-pervasive cord-lock that Cunningham invented and patented.
Paul Petzoldt came to the 10th with a reputation as one of the foremost mountaineers in the country, having climbed to 26,000 feet on the 1938 K2 expedition, as high as any American had then ascended. A medic in the 10th, Petzoldt was tasked with developing methods of high angle evacuation of casualties. In 1965, Petzoldt established the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, Wyoming, and brought fellow 10th veteran Ernest "Tap" Tapley with him. Using the Wind River Range as their classroom, Petzoldt, Tapley and a corps of instructors combined outdoor education and environmental awareness with month-long wilderness treks and mountaineering ascents. The school, now with over 250,000 graduates, continues to expand on the precepts of its founder.
Passing over the chance to get in on the ground floor of the postwar ski development at Aspen, former battalion sergeant major John Rand settled into a long career as director of the Dartmouth Outing Club. He was involved with all aspects of the DOC, including many that involved the college's ski programs. At a time when search and rescue in New Hampshire was not so formally organized as it is at present, Rand and the outing club provided much-needed manpower and oversight for large incidents. Over his four decades with the DOC, Rand influenced generations of Dartmouth students as they learned outdoor skills that for many became lifelong pastimes.
Explorer, mountaineer, television broadcast pioneer, mountain rescue authority, author and American Alpine Club Honorary President, former Lieutenant William L. Putnam was larger than life. Putnam was chairman of the Appalachian Mountain Club's Mountain Leadership Committee in 1958, when it organized outdoor leadership workshops leading to certificates for those who led summer camp and other groups in the White Mountains. This effort was seen as generally very successful, and disseminated mountain sense to a good number of youth leaders.
In this way, lessons in mountain living learned in the harsh winters of 1943 and 1944 at Camp Hale were not forgotten, but passed on to future generations of highland travelers.
Skiing and ski area development would also prove to be a fertile field for 10th veterans searching for a way to make a living in the mountains. Colorado was the first state to see the influence of returning 10th soldiers, not surprising given that thousands had been exposed to the alpine allure of the high Rocky Mountains at Camp Hale. Aspen, Arapahoe Basin, Vail, and Beaver Creek all had veterans among the founding fathers, as did Mount Bachelor in Oregon and Crystal Mountain, Washington. Former mountain troopers were important in hundreds more ski-based activities that were not in the limelight. For decades after their self-selected military service in the alpine world, veterans of the 10th shaped how America skied.
Current Exhibit at Bretton Woods Ski Area Base Lodge:
Green Mountain, White Gold: Origins of Vermont Skiing.
Bretton Woods Mountain Resort has been host to a Ski Museum exhibit in recent years. Located in the ground floor of the Bretton Woods base lodge, the exhibit usually consists of about fifty photographs and text drawn from the annual exhibits seen at the Ski Museum. A single chair from the 1940 Mount Mansfield chair lift, once the world's longest, is also on display here.
The emergence in Vermont of skiing as a popular pastime and engine of winter economic growth is the topic of an exhibition of the New England Ski Museum titled Green Mountain, White Gold: Origins of Vermont Skiing.
The Woodstock Inn first opened in the winter in 1892, as hotelkeeper Arthur Wilder sought to attract a fraction of the tourists that flocked to the state via rail for long visits in the summer. Snowshoeing, ice skating, and some limited touring on skis were the popular winter pastimes in Woodstock for the next four decades. In 1934, another pair of Woodstock innkeepers, Robert and Elizabeth Royce, facilitated the first rope tow in the country, freeing skiers from the need to climb.
Despite its primacy in time, Woodstock was soon overshadowed by the city of Brattleboro, the home of Fred H. Harris, who was enthralled by skiing as a youth. Harris had a major talent for organization, and was personally responsible for the founding of the Dartmouth and Brattleboro Outing Clubs, both of which introduced thousands to skiing. The Brattleboro Outing Club's ski jumping tournaments attracted spectators in the thousands to the 1920s and 1930s version of today's X-Games. Best known for these huge jumping audiences, Brattleboro skiers also initiated an early junior ski program, built a 40-mile cross-country ski trail, and helped build a downhill ski area at Hogback Mountain. With the rise in interest in Nordic skiing, the Putney area near Brattleboro produced scores of competitive cross-country skiers, including Bill Koch, the only American to date to have won an Olympic medal in cross-country and the overall Nordic world cup championship.
The state of Vermont provided substantial assistance to emerging ski areas, always within the context of boosting, not preempting, the role of private enterprise. State forester Perry Merrill was a constant presence from the 1930s through the 1960s, arranging for the Civilian Conservation Corps to cut ski trails during the Depression, and after the war leasing state mountain lands to ski area builders and working with the legislature to appropriate state highway funds for ski area access roads. From the legendary Nose Dive, the 1934 CCC trail cut on Mount Mansfield, to the construction of roads that made possible the development of Killington, Mount Snow, Okemo, Stratton Mountain and others in the 1960s, Perry Merrill was a consistent force in developing skiing in Vermont.
In contrast to the open, low-elevation pastures of Woodstock where lift-served skiing got its start, by the 1960s Vermont ski areas were built on some of the highest mountains, and areas like Glen Ellen, Sugarbush, Mad River Glen, Killington and Mount Mansfield became known for their major vertical drops and expansive trail networks.
As the economic hard times of the early 1950s in rural Vermont gave way to 1960s prosperity, new forms of skiing and new institutions appeared on the scene. Nordic skiing grew phenomenally in the 1970s, and the earliest Nordic touring center was born at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe. The concept of ski racing academies arose at Burke Mountain in 1970, and spread rapidly around the state, then the country. The germination of the largest snowboard manufacturer in the world came about at Stratton Mountain, where Jake Burton Carpenter began building snowboards in Emo Heinrich's wood shop.
The proliferation of skiing-related endeavors that swept the state of Vermont would be an unimaginable wonder to Fred Harris, who just wanted to get outside in the winter, and a likely source of quiet satisfaction to Perry Merrill, who opened the state forests to skiers.
On Display at the Bethel Historical Society, 10 Broad Street, Bethel Maine:
The Mountains of Maine: Skiing in the Pine Tree State
In the annals of New England skiing, the state of Maine was both a leader and a laggard. The first historical reference to the use of skis in the region dates back to 1871 in New Sweden, where a colony of Swedish immigrants had been induced to settle in the untamed reaches of northern Aroostook County. The first booklet to offer instruction in skiing to appear in the United States was printed in 1905 by the Theo A. Johnsen Company of Portland. Despite these early glimmers of skiing awareness, when the sport began its ascendancy to popularity in the 1930s, the state's likeliest venues were more distant, and public land ownership less widespread than was the case in the neighboring states of New Hampshire and Vermont, and ski area development in those states was consequently greater.
Only in the 1950s did the construction of alpine ski sites become commonplace in Maine, many of them conceived as economic development initiatives. From 1950 until the mid-1970s ski areas sprouted all over the state, until ski area creation slowed nationwide. Maine's relatively late start allowed its ski area builders to benefit from the expertise of ski resort planners like Sel Hannah and the Sno-engineering firm, and permitted its state government to enact environmental legislation before overdevelopment marked the landscape as it had elsewhere. Numbered among Maine's distinctive impacts on skiing are far-ranging Nordic marathons; inventions and improvements in snow grooming tractors and implements; a unique university program that trained students for varied careers in the ski business; and the organizational and financial know-how one ski area owner employed to create an assemblage of ski areas on a national scale.
The Maine ski exhibit consists of some 60 photographs and artwork with text and captions drawn from the collections of New England Ski Museum, with the considerable assistance provided by members and directors of the Ski Museum of Maine. The Maine exhibit will be on display at New England Ski Museum until early June 2016.
Current Exhibit at the Intervale Scenic Vista:
Skiing in the Mount Washington Valley
The history of skiing in New Hampshire's Mount Washington Valley is the subject of a traveling photographic exhibit located in the Intervale Scenic Vista Visitor Center on Routes 16 and 302 several miles north of North Conway village, where there is a sweeping view of Mount Washington over the alluvial plain of the Saco River.
The skiing history of the region is rich, and it can be argued that Jackson and North Conway were the first towns in the US where a ski business arose. Beginning in 1936, professional ski instruction and a pioneering ski tow were available in Jackson, and with the opening of a comprehensive resort at Mount Cranmore in 1938, it became the first mechanized American ski area located in a populated village, a combination that favored further ski industry developments.
The exhibit begins with a grainy image of three female skiers taken at the Eagle Mountain House in Jackson in 1887, and concludes with a photograph dating from the early 1970s of cross-country skiers in the same location. In the intervening years several unique contributions to skiing originated in the Eastern Slope Region, as the area was known in the decades before the 1960s. The first overhead cable ski tow of original design in the country was installed at what is now Black Mountain in the winter of 1936; the first (and with one exception, the only) Skimobile lift came to Cranmore in 1938; the first systematic ski area grooming in the country was performed at Cranmore in the early 1940s; and the first state ski lift safety board was chaired by Phil Robertson, a North Conway man.
Two further unique features of the area's ski history are the residence of master ski teacher Hannes Schneider beginning in 1939, and the looming presence of Mount Washington's Tuckerman Ravine, a natural snow collector where skiers can find snow well into the springtime. Schneider, who devised a system of ski technique and instruction in Austria and was considered by many to be the father of modern skiing, relocated to North Conway prior to World War II after being forced out of his native land by political turmoil. It was one of Schneider's Austrian protégés, Toni Matt, who captured the imagination of the skiing world when he schussed (ran straight) the Headwall of Tuckerman Ravine in 1939. The steep slopes and precipitous gullies of Tuckerman were not all skied until the early 1950s, when Brooks Dodge of Jackson made a concerted effort to descend them all.


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Analyze the Hodgkin-Huxley Model with a Computational App
Amlan Barua November 10, 2016
In a previous blog post, we discussed the physiological basis of generating action potential in the excitable cells of living organisms. We spoke about the simple Fitzhugh-Nagumo model, which emulates the process of depolarization and repolarization in a cell's membrane potential. Today, we analyze a more advanced model for simulating action potential, the Hodgkin-Huxley model. We also go over how to use a computational app to streamline this type of analysis.Read More
Amlan Barua October 7, 2016
In 1961, R. Fitzhugh (Ref. 1) and J. Nagumo proposed a model for emulating the current signal observed in a living organism's excitable cells. This became known as the FitzHugh-Nagumo (FN) model of mathematical neuroscience and is a simpler version of the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) model (Ref. 2), which demonstrates the spiking currents in neurons. In today's blog post, we'll examine the dynamics of the FN model by building an interactive app in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.Read More
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In a previous blog post, we discussed integration methods in time and space, touching on how to compute antiderivatives using integration coupling operators. Today, we'll expand on that idea and show you how to analyze spatial integrals over variable limits, whether they are prescribed explicitly or defined implicitly. The technique that we will describe can be helpful for analyzing results as well as for solving integral and integro-differential equations in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.Read More
Temesgen Kindo October 5, 2016
Cylindrical coordinates are useful for efficiently solving and postprocessing rotationally symmetric problems. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software has built-in support for cylindrical coordinates in the axisymmetry physics interfaces. When defining custom partial differential equations (PDEs) using the mathematical interfaces, paying close attention to their meaning is important. The PDE interfaces assume partial differentiation in a Cartesian system, requiring manual coordinate transformations to change to a cylindrical system. See how to account for such coordinate transformations when using your own PDEs.Read More
Björn Bretz September 27, 2016
To help optimize your modeling processes, we are continuously striving to enhance the quality of our meshing capabilities. The recent improvements to the algorithm for generating tetrahedral meshes in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software are one such example. Follow along as we guide you through the process of generating a tetrahedral mesh to highlight this improved functionality and its correlating features, while discussing its role in helping you obtain better simulation results.Read More
Amelia Halliday September 20, 2016
To optimize your modeling processes, there are a number of built-in materials available for you to use in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Along with these materials are features and functionality that allow you to efficiently assign materials to geometric entities in your model. These tools help expedite the process of assigning materials, specifying material properties, and even comparing the impact of different materials on your simulation results. Here, we'll highlight three tutorial videos that showcase how to use such tools.Read More
Hanna Gothäll September 14, 2016
When addressing your geometry- and mesh-related support questions, we've noticed an increased use of STL files originating from 3D scan sources and meshes in NASTRAN® file format as bases for geometries. Performing simulations on these realistic objects can be challenging, particularly when preparing the geometry. Dealing with these files is now easier thanks to updates in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Learn how to utilize this functionality as well as how to achieve good results when importing STL and NASTRAN® files.Read More
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Temesgen Kindo September 1, 2016
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Does your simulation take a large amount of computational time to solve? One potential reason for this is that your mesh is using too many elements. In cases such as this, you may want to switch to user-controlled mesh to manually build and edit the meshing sequences available in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software as an alternative to using the default meshing sequence. As we'll highlight with a tutorial example, this can help reduce memory requirements while providing accurate results.Read More


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Tim Nowak decided has decided he'd rather play his college lacrosse closer to home.
After originally verbally committing to Marquette University, the senior attackman/midfielder from St. John the Baptist (N.Y.) has had a change of heart. He will sign a National Letter of Intent to attend Hofstra University during the fall signing period Nov. 14-21.
"After a while of thinking, I decided to decommit from Marquette because of the distance and weather.," Nowak told LaxLessons.com. "After visiting a few schools and getting to talk to the coaches, I felt a comfortable fit with Hofstra because of the distance and the great lacrosse program they have. It is also a lot easier for my family to come see my games."
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Bergen Catholic (N.J.) junior Chris Blewitt,a multi-faceted attackman, has decided to take his playmaking skills to St. Joseph's University. …Mike Lange, an athletic left-handed defenseman for Southington High School (Conn.), is another player who opted to play at the D-I level close to home, verbally committing to Sacred Heart.
Two former Long Island high school standouts -- Dylan Feeney, a defenseman who attended Centereach High School and Kenny Meinsen, a midfielder who played at John Glenn High School – are now teammates at Suffolk County Community College.
They remain teammates at the Division I level next year when they join the newly launched Division I program at Furman University.
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The Eye of Orion was known to be one of the most tranquil places in the universe. Tegan Jovanka likened it to "Earth after a thunderstorm." According to the Fifth Doctor, it achieved its calming effects from the "high bombardment of positive ions." (TV: The Five Doctors) It may have been an entire planet — based largely on the Sixth Doctor's insistence that its beautiful moonset was the "ideal tonic for the weary time traveller" — but was at least a specific spot on a planet. (AUDIO: Arrangements for War)
The Fourth Doctor once considered taking Leela to the Eye of Orion but quickly dismissed the idea, claiming that it was not in season. (AUDIO: Last of the Colophon)
The Fifth Doctor deliberately took Tegan and Turlough to the Eye immediately after their encounter with the Master and Kamelion in March 1215. Turlough had been there before on his own. (TV: The King's Demons) While there, the Doctor updated the look of the TARDIS console. Soon after stepping out of the newly-refurbished TARDIS, the Doctor experienced "cosmic angst", before discovering that his past selves were being separated from him. (TV: The Five Doctors)
The trio returned to the Eye and were about to play cricket when a Raston Warrior Robot, delivered by Ryoth's use of a Time Scoop, attacked them. They hid behind rubble until they were joined by the Eighth Doctor. Using the principle of Buridan's ass, they approached the robot with an equal distance between them and the robot. Confused as to whom to target and their similarity, the robot deactivated. Ryoth later sent a a squad of Sontarans to try and stop the Eighth Doctor from continuing on his travels along his timeline. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
The Sixth Doctor delighted in bombarding his companions with tales of the Eye, but had difficulty actually going there. It would have been the first destination to which the post-regenerative Sixth Doctor would have taken Peri Brown, but he had trouble remembering the co-ordinates. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
Later in their travels, Peri was so tired of his hype she preemptively blocked the suggestion of the Eye as a suitable holiday spot: "I've heard all about that elusive place once too often." She suggested that the Eye had no native life-forms and that even tourists were scarce. When the Doctor described Andromeda — by which he might have meant either the constellation or the galaxy — as having "some of the most magical sights in the entire universe: astral starbursts creating a myriad celestial bodies against a timeless royal blue backdrop", Peri said he always described the Eye of Orion in precisely the same way. (TV: Timelash)
Likewise the Sixth Doctor made several promises to take Evelyn Smythe to the Eye, but never managed to do so. In one of the two accounts of Melanie Bush meeting Evelyn, the then-former companion Evelyn specifically asked that he take her home by way of the Eye. Mel, for her part, was the only companion of the Doctor ever described as having actually visited the Eye. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness)
The Seventh Doctor and Ace sat and meditated on the Eye of Orion during their search for the Timewyrm. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)
The Eighth Doctor once suggested taking Charley Pollard to the Eye of Orion. (AUDIO: The Man Who Wasn't There)
The Dalek Time Controller told Liv Chenka and Molly O'Sullivan that there was a Dalek facility at the Eye of Orion. It posed as a retreat from wars. The facility took in refugees of war, the Daleks using them for experimentation. Markus Schriver had a lab in the facility where he created the Eminence. (AUDIO: Eye of Darkness)
When the Ninth Doctor was showing the Eye of Orion to Rose and Jack, they found the planet geohacked by Taggani. Although the Doctor called in the Shadow Proclamation to clear up the mess, the face of Jack Harkness remained on the side of a moon of the Eye of Orion for some time. (COMIC: Hacked)
The Tenth Doctor intended to take Gabby to the Eye, but went to Wupatki instead. (COMIC: The Singer Not the Song)
After defeating House, the Eleventh Doctor suggested to Rory that they go to "somewhere restful" like the Eye of Orion, but admitted that he wasn't terribly "good at restful". He left it up to the TARDIS to choose whether the Eye was where he needed to go. The TARDIS set a course and dematerialised, but it was unclear whether they made it to the Eye on this occasion. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
While trying to plan a family holiday, the Eleventh Doctor suggested the Eye of Orion as it was "coming into season." (COMIC: Summer Wholiday)
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Martha Jones may have visited the Eye, as well. She wrote that it had been a thriving holiday resort, but after the Last Great Time War was converted into a shrine of the war, with only a small memorial, nameless due to the many who died in the war. At this point, the only other structures were scattered ruins. During its time as a shrine to the war, the Eye of Orion was still and quiet, covered in ruins, grass and mist. The Tenth Doctor apparently imparted details about the Time War to Martha whilst there. (Martha Jones's Myspace blog)


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Sloan's system probably wasn't going to win a championship, but how the hell can you say he sucked as a coach, is having 50+ win seasons every season in one of the smallest markets in the NBA bad, because I don't consider it.
If Sloan really sucked as a coach with numerous 50 win seasons, than Ty Corbin might be the worst coach in history under what your standards of Jerry.
While yeah, the Jazz could have maybe gone after Matthews, but we would have been big time over the cap/luxury tax, and the Jazz are one of numerous teams that don't want to go over the cap/luxury tax too much. Matthews contract was pretty frontloaded and a lot. Jefferson's contract might not be the best ever, but who we're the Jazz going to get in the mean time while we have Paul at PF, and who at C when Okur has/was been out for this long?
Harrison Barnes and Terrence Jones are probably going to be the best available if we're at 7-10 range, their good wing players that we might need. A Center wouldn't be a bad pick-up, but you're going to have to do something with Okur/Jefferson or Millsap.
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Hollywood isn't hurting for "yes" men just waiting to spout ego-stroking compliments, but for Ashton Kutcher, he'd rather hear the truth about his work - even when it's uncomfortable.
"I know exactly what films I've done that f***ing suck donkey, and I know the ones that are good," Ashton told Esquire in an interview for their March issue. "I know it not because of the box office, because the box office is not going to tell you the truth -- I know it because I have friends that don't hold back.
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800g chicken breast, cubed
3 eggs
100g plain flour
120ml vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 piece of ginger, chopped
splash of vinegar
200ml honey
20ml soy sauce
1 red chilli
In a sauce pan add a little oil and heat.
Carefully add the chopped onion, ginger and garlic along with the chilli, sweat until all are soft but not browned.
Add the honey, vinegar and soy sauce.
Bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer then cook till you reach the required consistence.
Once ready drain the sauce through a fine sieve and set aside for later use.
Place the cubed chicken pieces into a bowl and season with a little salt and pepper.
Break the eggs into a bowl and beat well.
Toss the chicken pieces in the flour and then add to the beat egg mixture.
Heat the oil in a fry pan till it gives off a heat haze.
Carefully add the chicken and cook until it becomes golden brown all over, making sure you turn it regularly.
It should take around 6 to 8 minutes, and you may choose to reduce the heat slightly to ensure the chicken cooks without burning.
Remove the chicken from the oil and place on some absorbent paper.
Discard the hot oil.
Place the cooked chicken into your warm honey sauce and then onto your serving plate and serve immediately.
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Christofer MowryPresident, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Chris Mowry brings 30 years of experience in the energy and infrastructure to General Synfuels International Inc. He has managed firms with business footprints across Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the power, oil and gas, automation and process industries. Prior to taking the helm at GSI, he was founder and chief executive officer of Generation mPower, LLC, a multi-billion-dollar engineering and construction venture that became the globally recognized leader in its field. Prior to that, Chris worked at The Babcock and Wilcox Company as chief business development officer and then as president of the nuclear energy P&L. During this time, he led the commercial nuclear market's return to the U.S. in 2010, with more than $200 million per year in revenues, and restructured the nuclear energy P&L into global market-facing divisions. From 2004 to 2007, he was president and chief operating officer at Welding Services Inc., where he transformed WSI into a recognized global leader in the energy and infrastructure industrial sectors. At GE, he was president of Reuter-Stokes, general manager of commercial solutions for Energy Management Systems, and then general manager of GE Hydro Projects. Chris serves as a director on several company boards, including Advanced Reactor Concepts, LLC (ARC), a company developing advanced small modular reactor (SMR) technology. He was a director at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) for four years, and chaired the board of directors for both Generation mPower and GSI. Mowry has bachelor's degrees in engineering and astronomy from Swarthmore College and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University.
Michael LockhartVice President and Chief Science Officer
Mike Lockhart brings more than 30 years of experience to GSI as a senior analyst and research scientist in environmental engineering, the synthetic organic and analytic chemistry fields, and applied optical physics. The developer of the comprehensive technology strategy for GSI, he has developed more than 30 patentable technologies, and his experience includes running R&D projects for General Dynamics and several government agencies. Mike has master's degrees in organic and nuclear analytical chemistry from the University of Virginia.
Charles BridgeChief Financial Officer
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Our Oceans Aren't the Only Ones in Danger
November 7, 2011
Adam Taylor is an Australian advertising photographer represented by Glasshouse Assignment. An avid skateboarder and surfer, Taylor picked up photography at 15 when he began shooting his friends skateboarding in black and white 35 mm film. At 19, Taylor had to reevaluate his direction in life when an injury prevented him from pursuing a professional career in surfing. Photography, which had been a hobby, moved to the forefront of his focus.
After years spent obtaining a photography degree and extensive travels around the world to assist photographers and explore his own personal voice, Taylor's status as an acclaimed photographer has blossomed. Taylor says he is "drawn to human interaction and our restless search for a place in the world," and he has translated that sense of longing and vastness into his work. He has been awarded gold and silver at Cannes and a place in Luerzer's Archive as a Best Advertising Photographer Worldwide four years running.
To add to his collection of honors is the 2011 Advertising Photographer of the Year Award from the International Photography Awards (IPA) for his campaign "Our oceans aren't the only ones in danger" for client the Surfrider Foundation. Collaborating with Leo Burnett Sydney creative directors Andy Dilallo and Mark Harricks, art director Brendan Donnelly, and copywriter Guy Futcher, the talented team produced a series of haunting and gritty advertisements that show the effects of pollution on ocean wildlife, and consequently, mankind.
The creatives from Leo Burnett Sydney approached Taylor after working with him a handful of times. Taylor had spent some time traveling with them the year before while on a job for Australian Tourism. He also surfs with Donnelly and Futcher, who share his love for the immenseness of the ocean. After seeing the mockups of Donnelly's concept, he instantly began to visualize how he would translate them into photographs.
The concept was to take the typical image of fatally injured oceanlife and to replace the sea creatures with humans. Instead of birds trapped and dying in the sludge of oil, a daughter cries over her deceased mother, both covered in oil. A man floats underwater, bound by the plastic rings that entrap fish and other animals. A skeleton lies on the beach, its entrails made of garbage. Taylor explains, "By replacing creatures such as turtles or seals with actual people, we had a bold idea to lead with and one that effectively hit home the key campaign message that we all suffer from the harmful consequences of polluted oceans and waterways."
The team all agreed on the importance of authenticity and immediacy. Taylor chose to work in a documentary style, with little reliance on retouching except what was necessary to achieve the execution of the concepts. He shot the project with a 35 mm digital camera and relied on minimal artificial lighting. The aim was to evoke a raw and impactful atmosphere.
Each scene was shot in a different location and presented its own challenges. As surfers, Taylor, Donnelly and Futcher were privy to the knowledge of perfect locations along the Australian and New Zealand coastlines. The beachscape for the oil slick layout was photographed on the coast of New Zealand in the winter. The freezing climate and desolate area created a rugged atmosphere that set the tone for the gritty message. The mother and daughter were photographed separately in a studio in Sydney and then digitally placed in the scene. Real oil could not be used on the talent, so Donnelly and Futcher also took on the role of scientists and concocted a formula of heated molasses, honey and vegemite after countless attempts to counterfeit oil in a realistic yet harmless formula.
For the underwater image, the team travelled to the south coast of NSW to an ocean pool at the base of the cliff. "Photographing underwater is never straightforward," Taylor says. The turbulent waves achieved the look of a body being brought in by the tide, but created a violent setting to work in and limited the amount of communication with the talent.
The last shoot took place at a beach 3 hours south of Sydney. They had outsourced the production of the skeleton, and the distressing process took three weeks to achieve the authentic look they required for the image. Leaving the beach with an untouched look also proved challenging, resulting in the hiring of a high-powered leaf blower to backtrack over any steps made by their feet.
Taylor found that the success of the campaign was owed to their preparation, research and discussion. "We all believed in the strong, uncomplicated concept and shared a vested love for the ocean," he says. He and Donnelly hope that the campaign will encourage society to eradicate the depositing of human waste and debris into our oceans.
"Our oceans aren't the only ones in danger" can be seen in surf industry publications including Australian Longboarder, Surfing World Magazine, Sufers' Path, Surfing Life, Curl, and New Zealand Surfer along with Surfrider.
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That sucks! I knew someone who also had a dog who'd go through windows. They couldn't ever trust him not to, and I guess that's where you are now. One of mine went through a screen once, but luckily he went through the first floor, into our fenced back yard. Crazy dogs. At least now you know, and you have a crate, so you can prevent it from ever happening again.
I don't understand why your neighbor would be upset with you, if it was her dog running up to yours. You said "tried to attack" so that means there wasn't any actual attacking going on. People need to control their own dogs, and if they're running around and they get into trouble for doing it, people need to be accountable for it. It's unfortunate that you're not getting along because of this, but if her dog got hit by a car instead, then I guess she'd just blame the driver? That's ridiculous.
|It is very upsetting and really didn't help the bad relationship I already have with this neighbor. It's mostly over the dogs because Eko tried to attack her off-leash doxie after he ran up to us. I did ask if maybe she would like to try and help both of our GSDs not be so reactive to each other and she said she'd have to think about it, that she was too upset at the moment. I hope that maybe after a day or two and she calms down that she'll decide to work with me.
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Eko has broken another window... I can't believe it. This one in our bedroom. We have film on all of our windows, you can see shapes and colors, not much else. I just had the other window replaced!
He was in the bedroom because a guest had just come over and for their safety we put him in the bedroom to calm down for a few minutes like we always do. I was just going to let him right back out so I didn't crate him. All of a sudden I hear the neighbor's dog barking right in front of our house (right in front of the bedroom window) and the neighbor yelling NO at her dog. Eko started barking and I was walking to the bedroom saying NO when I heard glass breaking and my neighbor scream. She was not hurt in any way, I made sure of that, she was just startled. Eko was somehow not hurt either, I think because this window didn't break as bad as the other one. The window wasn't shattered like the last one, but it was cracked all along the bottom and a large chunk is missing now. Thankfully we have a storm window that we can use to cover it until it's fixed. Everyone is very upset with him I know that it's my fault, though. He should have been in his crate.
Edit - I forgot to add that I asked my neighbor once I made sure she was okay if the dogs had seen each other. She said no, her dog had been barking at my cat who was sitting on my porch. They were directly under the window and once Eko heard her GSD he went crazy.
|Thanks Susan! I have a Lowe's and a Menard's near me, I will be going there today The windows I need to cover aren't that big so I will just cover the whole thing. Your story made me laugh, thinking of a GSD on their hind legs looking over the film lol!
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Yes, I know I was told about some film I could put over the windows he likes to look out of in the meantime that let light in but he wouldn't be able to see anything outside very clearly. His nemesis is my neighbor's female GSD that is just as reactive as he is, the second they see each other they both go insane. The neighbor and I are not on great terms, I just try to get him to focus in me when we pass by them but when her dog is making a huge scene too it's hard for me to compete.
|Yes, I know I was told about some film I could put over the windows he likes to look out of in the meantime that let light in but he wouldn't be able to see anything outside very clearly. His nemesis is my neighbor's female GSD that is just as reactive as he is, the second they see each other they both go insane. The neighbor and I are not on great terms, I just try to get him to focus in me when we pass by them but when her dog is making a huge scene too it's hard for me to compete.
Wow, that could have turned out bad. My GSD went through one of the window panes in the garage door, suspected the mailman was cutting between the garage door and car. He was not as lucky and required some medical attention. You're lucky this time.
You really need to work on his reacting to the neighbors dog. It could happen again.
Eko broke a window!!!
I was asleep when it happened, Eko was out with my boyfriend, so I don't know all the details but... Basically, Eko was in the guest bedroom, saw my neighbor's dog outside through the window, started scratching and pawing at it while he barked and snarled (the other dog was barking at him too). The window shattered, it scared him, and he bolted out of the room. We have been doing so well with working on his DA... Very disappointed with him.
Also, he is ok, no cuts from the glass. I checked his paws and legs for any cuts, none I could see and no blood anywhere.
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Leonard Slatkin to Lead LA Phil in TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR at the Hollywood Bowl, 8/15-16
The Los Angeles Philharmonic's annual tradition at the Hollywood Bowl -Tchaikovsky Spectacular with Fireworks, will take place Friday and Saturday, August 15 and 16, at 8 pm. Conductor Leonard Slatkin leads the orchestra in an all-Tchaikovsky program, featuring Marche slave and selections from Swan Lake. The evening includes the Hollywood Bowl debut of young French violinist Alexandra Soumm performing Tchaikovsky's famous Violin Concerto, and concludes with the USC Trojan Marching Band, directed by Dr. Arthur C. Bartner, joining the orchestra to perform the thrilling 1812 Overture accompanied by cannons and a spectacular fireworks display.
Internationally acclaimed American conductor Leonard Slatkin began his appointment as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in September of 2008. August of 2011 marked the start of his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon, France. In addition, Slatkin continues to serve as Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a post that began in the fall of 2008. Following a 17-year tenure as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Slatkin became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. in 1996. Other positions in the United States have included Principal Guest Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he founded their "Sommerfest"; first Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra's summer series at the Blossom Music Festival, a post he held for nine years; Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl for three seasons; and additional positions with the New Orleans Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.
French violinist Alexandra Soumm is a multi-faceted artist who is equally at home in concerto and chamber repertoire. Orchestras with which she has collaborated in recent years include the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony, National Philharmonic of Russia, Israel Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Tokyo Symphony. She made her debut in the U.S. in November 2013, working with the Detroit Symphony under Mo. Slatkin's baton. As a chamber musician, Soumm has given recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Wigmore Hall (London), City of London Festival and Toppan Hall (Tokyo). She has also appeared at international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deauville, Menton, Montpellier, St Denis, Strasbourg, Verbier and the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. She is very involved with the Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland and has been taking part in the project for the past 10 years. Soumm enjoys an ongoing relationship with many leading orchestras in France. In addition to the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, she has also performed with the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Orchestre National de Lyon and Orchestre National de Montpellier. In the UK, she was a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme 2010-12, during which time she worked with most of the BBC ensembles. She maintains her connection with the UK through her position as a London Music Masters awardee 2012-2015.


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