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As of Friday, the average price nationally for a gallon of unleaded was $2.82, and in Arkansas it was $2.71up about 30 cents from about a month ago.
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Has Hamilton changed the game… again?
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15th May 2012, 22:27 at 10:27 pm
Cast your minds back to the beginning of 2010. We've just been to Bahrain and had the most boring race in years and people everywhere are asking what's wrong with F1, worrying that the ban on refuelling and the ultra durable tyres have destroyed F1. Then, in the next 3 races, Lewis Hamilton pulls off something like 40 competitive overtakes, almost single handedly changing everyone's opinion of the new F1 to an exciting, wheel to wheel extravaganza.
Now come back to the present. Can the same driver being doing something similar once again? After Bahrain, many people were worried that the tyres were too fragile, not lasting more than a few laps. More importantly, any driver pushing, or attacking a car infront, would immediately be punished by tyres that dramatically fall off the "cliff".
But then, we go to Spain, and Hamilton seemingly defies both of these theories. Not only does he make one set of tyres last 31 laps, and pull off a two stop strategy that nobody believed to be possible, but he does so whilst attacking drivers infront, pulling off many overtakes, including a contender for overtake of the season.
So, could we be witnessing something similar to 2010, when one driver single handedly extinguishes many of peoples worries about the state of F1?
15th May 2012, 22:32 at 10:32 pm
Then, in the next 3 races, Lewis Hamilton pulls off something like 40 competitive overtakes, almost single handedly changing everyone's opinion of the new F1 to an exciting, wheel to wheel extravaganza.
You know, it's surprising. For someone who has supposedly "single-handedly changed everyone's opinion", this is the first time I've heard that particular statistic.
If you want to credit someone with "extinguishing many peoples' worries", then perhaps you should give equal credit to Messrs Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Vettel and Maldonado. They're the ones who have actually achieved something this year. Claiming Hamilton is the only one to have done anything, thereby revolutionising the sport is wildly overstating his influence.
15th May 2012, 22:45 at 10:45 pm
it was a statistic that was mentioned a lot at the time. I think the exact number may have been about 36. I'm not claiming Hamilton is the only driver to achieve something this year, in fact I said nothing of the sort. I'm simply suggesting that in 2010 he had a big influence on changing a lot of people's opinion of the sport, and that performances like the one he gave in Spain could do something similar again. Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Vettel and Maldonado have all won races brilliantly this year. But that's not what I'm talking about, and in the specific context that I am talking about, they have in fact achieved nothing.
15th May 2012, 22:58 at 10:58 pm
But you're acting as if one man overtaking a lot and making a two-stop strategy work has somehow revolutionised the sport on a level that has not been seen before, making everyone else's contributions redundant.
Sorry, but I just see all of this as heaping excessive praise on Hamilton. Especially when the title of this thread is "Has Hamilton changed the game … again?" – that sentence instantly turned me off this discussion, because I knew straight away that it would be about how Hamilton is so fantastic and he's the only thing making the sport worth watching, which is not true at all.
15th May 2012, 23:09 at 11:09 pm
hmm, strange that you bothered to comment on a thread you say you weren't interested in.
"On a level that has not been seen before" – didn't say that
"Hamilton is so fantastic and the only one making the sport worth watching" – Again, didn't say anything of the sort.
What I did say is that Hamilton changed a lot of people's opinions of what F1 was in 2010, and then attempted to raise a debate about whether his performance in Spain could start a similar effect this year.
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@prisoner-monkeys stop being thick you.
@jake was just saying that Hamilton seems to be showing that you can make a less-stop strategy work, while pushing and overtaking people. People were saying "Oh you can't push, you'll kill the tyres, you can't overtake because you'll kill the tyres" but @jake is saying that Hamilton is showing people, "Hey, you know what? It can be done, actually."
16th May 2012, 1:58 at 1:58 am
He did it once, and under extreme circumstances – he started 24th, so he had nothing to lose. It's hardly proof-positive that it can always be done.
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It's positive proof it CAN ALWAYS be done. It doesn't, however, prove that it WILL always be done – which is closer to what I think you were trying to say.
Hamilton has showing that by the correct manner of setting up a car and correct manner of driving – it is indeed possible.
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Castillo is the running game coordinator, so I think he'll be more responsible for the run blocking scheme. He's kind of between the OC and the OL coach, but, again, with more of a role in getting the running game kick started again.
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Juan Castillo was always a great believer in power man blocking schemes. We went to a lot of ZBS stuff in 2011, but kind of got away from that this season especially towards the end when we were pretty much running out of power man exclusively, maybe that had something to do with Juan joining the team late. It clearly works better for us, we have the players suited for that scheme.
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The Ravens, maybe more than any team I can think of, has a collaborative philosophy. The origins of their culture goes all the way back to the Bill Belichick days in Cleveland. Ozzie credits Belichick as a big influence on his approach -- everyone is expected to contribute a point of view and come prepared to argue that point, and then there is an ultimate decision maker who needs to be able to sort through all the information his guys have assembled.
This culture only strengthened under Bisciotti whose own business focused on mining the talent of the people you hire.
I've always felt that Billick and Cameron struggled in such as system. Whereas Harbaugh and Caldwell seem well suited for it. I have to think that it's an ideal place to work for certain guys. I can only assume that Castillo is going to enjoy being able to focus on what he likes to do, develop linemen, but also feel like his voice his heard and respected. When it comes down to it that's what we all want in our jobs. Let me do the work I like doing, but respect my point of view and listen when I want to express it.
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Put J.O in a time machine and send him back 15 years. That'll do the trick at LT!
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You do not need an all-pro...that may be true but I think you need a guy who can play at a high level at that spot. Its exactly why 2 LT prospects (Fisher, Joekel) will likely go in the top 5. I expect the Ravens will address the position even if its just a short term fix that buys them time to develop/look at a guy like Cornell under or a draft pick under Castillo.A linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football,
-Ray Lewis
Re: Interesting Perspective on Juan Castillo hiring
I agree, you need solid play across the line with Joe, getting an effective pass blocking left tackle is a big help, which is why McKinnie was such a big help, he's not high motor enough to really do a great job in the run game, but as a pass protector he keeps his guy clean.
Re: Interesting Perspective on Juan Castillo hiring
If you're investing a huge chunk of money into your QB, you're just not gonna be able to afford a top LT. That does not mean you have to end up with the line Pitt has, where they depend on Ben to evade pressure as much as anything. And at the same time, you'll probably be drafting fairly low, so you aren't gonna get a top guy in the draft.
Look at what Flacco was able to do in the playoffs with a decent pocket to step up into. McKinnie wasn't superb. But KO, Birk and Yanda did keep the middle pretty clean so Flacco could step up. I don't think I'd seen Flacco step up as much as he did then all season.
Maybe Jah Reid and Bobby Williams should share the team MVP. :D
I think about the Big Whopper...he has his ring and Ray is gone. What or who is going to motivate this fella?"The Ravens are not taking Jimmy Smith at 26!" -- Me, the day before the 2011 Draft
"On their way to the podium, the Ravens FO is going to collectively step over my dead body and select...Breshad Perriman." -- Me, the day before the 2015 Draft
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Re: Mapping to Create Nested Loops
Do you want to gather the entries of all the arrays in 3 large lists, or do you want to generate red, blue
and green lists for each array separately? In the first case you could try
Cases[{myArray1, myArray2, myArray3}, {__, __, #, __, __, __}, Infinity] & /@ {red, blue, green}
which searches all levels of {myArray1,...,myArray3} for the given pattern. In the second case you could
do something like
Function[{lst}, Cases[{lst}, {__, __, #, __, __, __}] & /@ {red, blue, green}] /@ {myArray1, myArray2, myArray3}
Then %[[1]] would give you the red, blue, green lists for myArray1, etc.
On 1 Jun 2011, at 09:32, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm trying to learn how to use pure functions and mapping to create what amounts to nested loops.
> Suppose I have a 50 x 6 array called myArray. The third element of each row is the word red, blue, or green. If I wanted to break down the array into three according to the value of the third element, I could do this:
> Cases[myArray, {__, __, #, __, __, __}] & /@ {red, blue, green}
> But what if I needed to do this for more than one array? Suppose I had three 50 x 6 arrays as
> myListOfArrays = {myArray1, myArray2, myArray3} or perhaps the arrays might be imported from files.
> Regards,
> Gregory


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Michael Dickey founded Atomic Labs in 2007. In April 2012, when the company received $5 million in Series A funding led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital, Atomic Labs became Cloudmeter. Ronit Belson, Cloudmeter's vice president of marketing and business development, showed me how Pion Replay shows a user's mouse movements on multiple web pages. Pion creates reports that can show where users come from, what they search for and demographic information by integrating with Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics. Knowing where users click helps web designers lay out web pages with an optimum number of pictures and ads. The software works with traditional data warehouses as well as with newer big data storage solutions like Hadoop. It also works with Chicago-based OpinionLab's Voice of Customer (VoC) software that can capture web, mobile and in-store user feedback.
It's also getting easier for businesses to screen potential employees. Job candidates need more than a resume and references. They need to demonstrate skills that solve real problems. Concern for unemployed graduates from good schools led Keaton Swett, Trent Hazy and Rohan Puranik to form MindSumo. MindSumo is funded by angel investors and seed money from Google Ventures. Google provides design, user experience and engineering support to startup teams.
MindSumo enables students and recent graduates to prove their worth by solving challenges offered by hiring companies. Kayak, Box and the Smithsonian Magazine are using the service. About 80 percent of the challenges are for computer scientists, engineers or scientists.
Recology, a San Francisco garbage collection and recycling company, came to MindSumo seeking ideas for recycling waste glass. Selling it for glassphalt (asphalt that uses crushed glass) and shipping it to artists were just two of the many suggestions resulting from MindSumo's contest. Total prize value was $500. Recology showcases an Artist in Residence program that provides Bay Area talents with studio space and discarded materials for their creations. Facebook offered $200 each to of five winners to come up with a way to display mobile ads. Winners came from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and MIT.
MindSumo wants to control the quality of challenges and build relationships with companies. Prize websites have been criticized for exploiting labor by not paying all entrants. They've also been lauded by students for giving them a chance to prove their worth and by employers for introducing them to productive candidates, affordably and quickly. MindSumo usually gives five to 10 prizes for each challenge, at two levels: Winners and Honors. Merely entering a contest can improve a student's chances of getting hired, for the employer can see his contributions, even if they are not prize-winning.
InnoCentive offers prizes, typically in the thousands of dollars. Google is celebrating its 10th year of Google Code Jam (registration starts March 12th), which started with a $10,000 prize that has now been raised to $15,000. Kaggle offers great challenges for data scientists. As MindSumo grows, I suspect its prize money will increase. Being able to perform well in a contest is becoming a pre-requisite for getting hired.


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In this case, the first party to file the financing statement has priority in the collateral. By filing the financing statement first, a party can perfect a security interest in the collateral. This makes the party a secured creditor, and protects that secured party's interests of most creditors who would then acquire a security interest after the filing of the financing statement. The later creditor who acquired the security interest still has a valid claim against the collateral. However, this later creditor is a junior creditor, meaning that their security interest has a lower priority than the party who filed the first financing statement. In this way, it is still possible for the junior creditor to have some means of recovering their loss. If the collateral was foreclosed upon, the priority secured creditor (in this case HFC) would get their debt satisfied first. If there was anything left over, the junior secured creditor would receive payment as well. It does not matter that the later secured party did not have actual knowledge regarding the financing statement. By filing the first notice, the first secured party creates constructive knowledge for all future creditors. Therefore, in this case, Hi Finance Company (HFC), who properly filed a financing statement with the state, perfected their security interest in the collateral first. While Metro Bank does have a claim, (as they also perfected a security interest), it is a claim that is junior to that of HFC. As discussed earlier, it does not matter that Metro Bank had no actual knowledge; they are deemed to have constructive knowledge of HFC's earlier financing statement.


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Victoria lures leading judge
THE Victorian Government has recruited one of Australia's finest judges to the state's highest court.
Attorney-General Rob Hulls yesterday announced Justice Mark Weinberg after almost 10 years as a judge of the Federal Court will join the Court of Appeal.
Justice Weinberg, 59, widely regarded as a brilliant jurist and lawyer, is a former Commonwealth director of public prosecutions. He also served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island and is former dean of Melbourne University's faculty of law.
But his appointment also highlights a controversial tax burden some Commonwealth judges including High Court and Family Court colleagues face under superannuation law.
Those judges appointed between 1997 and 2005 face heavy debts after the Howard government introduced a surcharge in 2005.
The surcharge, designed to target tax deductions for high-income earners, exposed the judges but not their state colleagues who won a challenge to the High Court to accruing liabilities. If unpaid, the growing debt, estimated to be about $250,000, would reduce the judges' pensions.
Justice James Allsop, another Federal Court judge caught by the surcharge, was recently appointed president of the NSW Court of Appeal.
Legal sources told The Age that state attorneys-general, ever keen to snare quality judges, are alert to the judges' predicament.
A spokesman for federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland told The Age the Government was aware of concerns by some judges about the surcharge and was considering them.
"The surcharge was a tax imposed by the previous government for all high-income earners and applied to federal judges between 7 December 1997 and 30 June 2005," the spokesman said. "Legislation was passed last year to correct some technical problems with the surcharge and give judges subject to the surcharge the ability to commute their surcharge debt. The Government is continuing to consider these issues."
Mr Hulls yesterday also announced the appointment of three County Court judges, including magistrates Jane Patrick and Barbara Cotterell, who will be an acting judge.
David Drake, a barrister for almost 30 years, was made an acting coroner, and solicitor John Bentley, a former prosecution and defence lawyer, was appointed a magistrate. Both were part of the legal team that last year represented triple murderer Peter Dupas.
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MERCED — Local donors have now contributed nearly $1 million to support the expansion of the Joseph Edward Gallo Recreation and Wellness Center at UC Merced. A new phase of the fund drive, the Bleacher Seat Campaign, aims to raise additional dollars through donations from community members. Donations will be recognized on a plaque located near the bleacher seats in the center's NCAA-sized basketball court. Already, community members have contributed about $45,000 to the bleacher seat effort - approximately 10 percent of the goal for this phase of the campaign.
"Since the entire community will someday enjoy basketball games, concerts and other exciting events from the gym's bleacher seats, we decided that was the best place to focus the final phase of this very successful drive," said Mike Campbell, associate vice chancellor for university relations at UC Merced. "The bleacher seat campaign is designed to allow members of the community to contribute toward a lasting legacy at UC Merced."
An initial gift of $2 million from the Joseph Edward Gallo family in 2002, along with borrowed funds, allowed the university to begin planning for the original $10-million Joseph Edward Gallo Recreation and Wellness Center. The center has always been planned as an integral part of UC Merced, furthering the university's goal of promoting balanced well-being for students.
However, additional funds were needed to create a center that would be large and well-equipped enough to serve student needs as the campus grows, as well as to host enjoyable community events like NCAA basketball, concerts, graduation ceremonies and more. Sandee Boese, Mike Gallo, Billie Razzari, Ken Robbins, Mike Salvadori and Ralph Temple came together with UC Merced administrators in Fall 2004 to begin the Gymnasium Expansion Campaign, aiming for $1.36 million in funds from local individuals, families and businesses.
Just a few months later, generous gifts from community-minded individuals such as Greg and Cathie Hostetler, Bob and Evie Ayers, Mike Salvadori, Patty Prine, Carol Schrole, Don and Betty Stewart, and Ben Wells have brought the Gymnasium Expansion Campaign appreciably close to its goal. The campaign will now close with a Bleacher Seat Campaign portion to raise the final funds needed to complete the facility.
Donors can be recognized on a plaque next to the seats for contributions starting at $1000. The bleachers will overlook the Greg and Cathie Hostetler Court, the NCAA-sized court being funded by a $500,000 gift from the Hostetlers that kicked off the Gymnasium Expansion Campaign in the fall of 2004.
Parties interested in contributing to the Bleacher Seat Campaign should contact one of the campaign committee members mentioned above, or contact UC Merced's Mike Campbell at (209) 724-4402.
UC Merced, the 10th campus of the University of California system and the first major research university to be built in the United States during the 21st century, will open in fall 2005 with 1,000 students, ultimately growing to a student population of 25,000. A select group of graduate students began work at UC Merced in August 2004. The university has a special mission to serve the educational needs of San Joaquin Valley residents, and is already serving area students through partnerships with community colleges, outreach programs and UC summer session courses offered in Fresno, Bakersfield and Atwater. UC Merced currently employs more than 300 educators and other professionals who are working to develop the physical and academic infrastructure of the campus.


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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: > Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi> writes: >> On 2010-05-30 06:55 +0300, Robert Haas wrote: >>> I've often wished for the ability to constrain a tale to hold just one >>> row, so I don't find that use case implausible at all. > >> As I pointed out in >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-05/msg01177.php , you >> can already do that. > > Yes. This is NOT about constraining a table to hold only one row. > It's about requiring all its rows to hold the same value (in some > column(s)), without predetermining exactly which value that will be. > I think the use-case for that is really extremely narrow. It probably is pretty narrow. After all, exclusion constraints in general are something that not everyone needs, and the ordinary use case of preventing two intervals or regions from overlapping will doubtless be far more common than this one. Still, I'm not sure how that's relevant. The fact that not very many people will want to do something is not a reason to prevent it. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company
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Re: Partial diff equations
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, David Boily wrote:
> I have a not difficult to integrate but huge system of partial
> differential equations that I would never attempt to solve by hand. So I
> tried to feed it to mathematica and got the message bellow. I got annoyed and
> tested DSolve with a trivial problem only to realize that, apparently,
> mathematica is not very good when it comes to partial diff equations.
> Indeed, how come mathematica can't solve this simple system:
> DSolve[{D[f[x,y],x]==2 x y^2, D[f[x,y],y]==2 x^2 y}, f[x,y], {x, y}]
> the solution is trivial (f[x,y]=x^2 y^2), but if I enter the above
> command I get:
> DSolve::overdet:
> The system has fewer dependent variables than equations, so is
> overdetermined.
> any info would be appreciated,
> Thanks,
> David Boily
> Centre for Intelligent Machines
> McGill University
> Montreal, Quebec
Hello David,
At present, DSolve can handle general first order partial differential
equations (they can be linear, quasilinear or nonlinear) and a limited
class of second order partial differential equations. A fairly
detailed description of this functionality is available in the
Advanced Documentatation for DSolve in Mathematica 5.1.1.
There is no support for systems of partial differential equations such
as the one given by you, although this is planned for a future release.
One issue with solving a system of this type is that it is overdetermined
(that is, there are more equations than unknowns) and hence there may
be no solution. The DSolve::overdet message in earlier versions indicates
this difficulty. It is not generated in Mathematica 5.1 because the
message is confusing in situations where a solution does exist.
Here are two suggestions for solving the system sent by you.
We begin by setting up the system.
In[1]:= $Version
Out[1]= 5.1 for Linux (February 20, 2005)
In[2]:= sys = {D[f[x, y], x] == 2*x*y^2,
D[f[x, y], y] == 2*x^2*y};
Next, we solve the first member of the system, which is a
single first order linear partial differential equation,
using DSolve.
In[3]:= sol1 = DSolve[sys[[1]], f, {x, y},
GeneratedParameters -> g]
2 2
Out[3]= {{f -> Function[{x, y}, x y + g[1][y]]}}
Here, g[1][y] is an arbitrary function of y. It can be determined by
using the second member of the system to arrive at the solution of
the system.
In[4]:= sol2 = DSolve[(D[f[x, y], y] /.
sol1[[1]]) == 2 x^2 y, g[1], {y}]
Out[4]= {{g[1] -> Function[{y}, C[1]]}}
In[5]:= f[x, y] /. sol1[[1]] /. sol2[[1]]
2 2
Out[5]= x y + C[1]
A slightly different approach is to look for polynomial
solutions of the system as follows.
In[1]:= f[x_, y_] = Sum[c[i, j]*x^i*y^j, {i, 0, 3}, {j, 0, 3}];
In[2]:= InputForm[Solve[(#1 == 0 & ) /@
Flatten[CoefficientList[{D[f[x, y], x] -
2*x*y^2, D[f[x, y], y] - 2*x^2*y}, {x, y}]],
Flatten[Table[c[i, j], {i, 0, 3}, {j, 0, 3}]]]]
Solve::svars: Equations may not give solutions for all "solve" variables.
{{c[0, 1] -> 0, c[0, 2] -> 0, c[0, 3] -> 0, c[1, 0] -> 0, c[1, 1] -> 0,
c[1, 2] -> 0, c[1, 3] -> 0, c[2, 0] -> 0, c[2, 1] -> 0, c[2, 2] -> 1,
c[2, 3] -> 0, c[3, 0] -> 0, c[3, 1] -> 0, c[3, 2] -> 0, c[3, 3] -> 0}}
In[3]:= f[x, y] /. %[[1]]/. c[0,0] -> c
2 2
Out[3]= c + x y
Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this limitation.
Devendra Kapadia,
Wolfram Research, Inc.


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It was something to savour – a born and bred Geordie playing at centre-half in a team that had been reduced to 10 men just before half time, yet Paul Dummett still managed to put Newcastle ahead 2-1 after 56 minutes with a really well taken goal – his first goal for the club – and the look on his face immediately after he scored said it all. 😀
Paul Dummett – after calming down a little – great goal
It turns out that both Mike Williamson and Paul Dummett were nursing injuries and Willo was a big doubt and it says something about the Stroke-born center-half that he had another solid game at the back for Newcastle in the 2-2 draw against Liverpool – we would have taken that result with 11 men never mind 10.
Alan Pardew was full of praise for Paul Dummett, who again came on and put in a good performance in the Newcastle first team:
"We throw up an unusual player to give us the lead, out of our Academy. We love him to bits, Paul Dummett, he's a local guy and I know what it meant to him, it was brilliant that moment. That will be the biggest moment I take away from the game, his face. I think he had a little hop and a jump."
"It was tough for Newcastle fans and the manager, we put such effort in that we deserved a point for sure. So therefore you are kicking every ball, defending every ball, our fans were great and they stayed with us. It was just a great game of football. If you love football that is what you want to see."
"I keep saying we are trying for a more offensive look and we need to be able to defend as well, we conceded another two today. We are going to score goals and I'm going to make sure that we keep every attacking flair in the team." "We had Sammy, Papiss, Shola, Obertan on the bench, all our players are playing well, offensive players."
"Now we just have to tighten up, that is important for us." "Willo was struggling for this game and Paul Dummett trained yesterday in the first team, I think it helped as it focused him. That if Willo got injured in the first fifteen minutes, he was going to play."
"Therefore when he came on he was ready for the game, the goal was a great bonus."
We're not sure of the status of Steven Taylor and whether he will be fit for the Sunderland game – but we'd like to see Paul given a chance – every Geordie should be given the chance to play in the local derby.
And Sunderland went down 4-0 at Swansea this afternoon through four second half goals, and now have one draw from their first eight games – and we hope we can keep it that way after the game at the Stadium of Light next Sunday.
We have to make up for what happened in the last derby game in April.
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Book: Guide to Voice and Video over IP
Guide to Voice and Video over IP: For Fixed and Mobile Networks
Lingfen Sun, Is-Haka Mkwawa, Emmanuel Jammeh and Emmanuel Ifeachor
Published by Springer in January 2013 (ISBN 978-1-4471-4905-7).
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Speech Compression
Chapter 3: Video Compression
Chapter 4: Media Transport for VoIP (RTP/RTCP)
Chapter 5: VoIP Signalling (SIP/SDP)
Chapter 6: VoIP Quality of Experience (QoE)
Chapter 7: IMS and Mobile VoIP
Chapter 8: Case Study 1 – Building up a VoIP System Based on Asterisk
Chapter 9: Case Study 2 – VoIP Quality Analysis and Assessment
Chapter 10: Case Study 3 – Mobile VoIP Applications and IMS
Errata: (If you find any other errors in the book, please contact me. Thank you.)
Chapter 2:
- Page 19, 1/8000 = 0.125 è 1/8000(Hz) = 0.000125 sec = 0.125ms
- Page 31, 180/8000 = 22.5ms è 180/8000(Hz) = 0.0225 sec = 22.5ms
Chapter 8:
- Page 196, item 6, svn command, the target directory is missing.
sudo svn co http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6 è sudo svn co http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6 1.6
Chapter 9:
- Page 232, Section 9.8, add the following Note, before Start Wireshark capture:
Note: Open sip.conf and add the following line under [general] context before continuing to the next steps.
Asterisk by default tries to redirect the RTP media stream to go directly from the caller to the callee. If this is set to "no" then the entire RTP media stream will go through the Asterisk server. Setting it to "no" is required if you want to control the traffic at the Asterisk server (This is what we intend to do in the next steps).
Chapter 10:
- Page 242, "java verion" è "java –version"
- Page 243, svn command, a space is missing between http URL and local directory.
svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de /svnroot/repos/openimscore/ser_ims/trunkser_ims è svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de /svnroot/repos/openimscore/ser_ims/trunk ser_ims
svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de /svnroot/repos/openimscore/FHoSS/trunkFHoSS è svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de /svnroot/repos/openimscore/FHoSS/trunk FHoSS
- Page 243, "Add the following lines in /.bashrc file", a tilde is missing, è "Add the following lines in ~/.bashrc file"
- Page 245, ./startup è ./startup.sh
- Page 245 "echo JAVA_HOME" è "echo $JAVA_HOME"
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Janie's Fruit Salad
Recipe by Recipe Baroness
My aunt gave me this recipe. It's an old family favorite. Its texture and colors make it a great dish for any formal occasion, or holiday meal! Chill for about 2 hours total.
Top Review by Susie D
This was a huge surprise and earned a spot for our coming Easter dinner table too. I had that stray box of lemon jello in the pantry and decided to try this. My family was so glad I did and we've found a new favorite too. I made as directed other than substituting 48 mini colored marshmallows for the 12 large ones. The bottom layer is stuffed full of fruit and would be excellent on it's own, but the pineapple custard like layer puts this over the top! Yum! Thank you and Aunt Jane for sharing the recipe. Made for Spring 2013 Pick A Chef.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (6 ounce) cansliced pineapple in syrup, drained (reserve juice)
- 2 (3 ounce) packages lemon Jell-O gelatin
- 2 medium bananas, sliced
- 12 large marshmallows
- 1 (10 ounce) can fruit cocktail, drained
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1 cup Cool Whip Topping
- lettuce leaf (optional)
Directions See How It's Made
- Make the Jello according to package directions and add the other ingredients inches
- Pour into rectangular casserole dish and chill according to package directions.
- Mean while add the first 5 topping ingredients together in a small sauce pan and cook slowly until you get a custard like consistency
- add the 1 cup of Cool whip.
- Pour over the chilled Jello mixture and chill an additional hour.
- Cut in squares and place on individual lettuce leaves for serving.


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Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor, is known as mediator of endothelial cell dysfunction and atherosclerosis. Circulating ADMA levels are correlated with cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperhomocysteinemia, age and smoking. Accordingly, clinical studies found evidence that increased ADMA levels are associated with a higher risk of cerebrovascular events. After the acute event of ischemic stroke, levels of ADMA and its analog symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) are elevated through augmentation of protein methylation and oxidative stress. Furthermore, cleavage of ADMA through dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolases (DDAHs) is reduced. This increase of dimethylarginines might be predictive for adverse clinical outcome. However, the definite role of ADMA after acute ischemic stroke still needs to be clarified. On the one hand, ADMA might contribute to brain injury by reduction of cerebral blood flow. On the other hand, ADMA might be involved in NOS-induced oxidative stress and excitotoxic neuronal death. In the present review, we highlight the current knowledge from clinical and experimental studies on ADMA and its role for stroke risk and ischemic brain injury in the hyperacute stage after stroke. Finally, further studies are warranted to unravel the relevance of the close association of dimethylarginines with stroke.
Stroke is the primary cause of disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide [
In clinical and experimental studies, elevated levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), are associated with endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerotic burden [
ADMA is an endogenous NOS inhibitor which is produced as a by-product of protein modification processes in human cells and can be found in human plasma. It originates from the proteolysis of proteins with methylated arginine residues [
ADMA acts as a mediator of endothelial cell dysfunction, representing the first step in the pathophysiological process of atherosclerosis. ADMA affects the integrity and the function of the vasculature itself through diverse mechanisms [
Elevated plasma ADMA levels have been reported in patients with vascular risk factors, such as hypercholesterolemia [
Experimental models indicate potential mechanisms by which vascular risk factors increase ADMA. In a rat model glycated bovine serum albumin, which stands for an advanced glycated end product, inhibited DDAH activity and vascular relaxation in aortic rings [
It is hypothesized that hyperhomocysteinemia might increase production and decrease metabolization of ADMA (
Several studies investigated the association of ADMA with the intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery. Nanayakkara and co-workers showed a significant positive correlation between plasma ADMA levels and the carotid IMT in chronic renal insufficiency patients with a creatinine clearance of 15 to 70 mL/min per 1.73 m2 (according to the Cockcroft-Gault equation). The correlation remained significant even after adjustment for risk factors of atherosclerosis [
As has already been mentioned, ADMA is closely associated with vascular risk factors and promotes atherogenesis, suggesting a role of ADMA in cardiovascular events. Indeed, several studies have reported the predictive value of plasma ADMA levels for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events [
An increasing number of clinical studies investigated the association of high plasma ADMA levels with cerebrovascular disease [
Vascular risk factors, which are associated with elevated circulating levels of ADMA, are modifiable by lifestyle or pharmacological treatment. Although antihypertensive drugs via renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockade have been consistently demonstrated to reduce ADMA levels, the impact of other drug classes on ADMA levels remains unclear (Maas 2005 [
Data from the Framingham Heart Study showed that women with early natural menopause (<42 years) had an increased risk of ischemic stroke [
Also, the regulation of DDAH has been investigated as a therapeutic target in cardiovascular disease [
While the role of ADMA for stroke risk becomes more and more evident, the role of ADMA in acute stroke injury remains unclear. After the event of stroke, cellular damage and proteolysis induce oxidative stress in the region of the lesion (for a review see Chen
Plasma ADMA levels in the acute stage of stroke independently predicted adverse outcome at 90 days. ADMA levels ≥0.566 μmol/L at day 3 and ≥0.530 μmol/L at day 7 after symptom onset were independent predictors of an unfavorable outcome [
Interestingly, plasma SDMA has been also shown to be increased after ischemic stroke and might be associated with outcome. In our study, in patients with unfavorable outcomes, increased plasma SDMA levels were observed from 24 h until three days after stroke. Of note, plasma SDMA levels at 24 h could independently predict adverse 90-day outcome, as well [
ADMA increase and its association with stroke outcome might represent not only a marker but also a mediator for brain injury after acute stroke. One effect of ADMA might be the restriction of cerebral blood flow (CBF). ADMA could play an important role on cerebrovascular compliance and CBF in resting conditions and after the acute stroke by inhibition of NOS, since NO is the most important endogenous vasodilator for regulation of CBF [
Moreover, in cell culture models, ADMA promotes inflammation via increased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines [
In comparison to ADMA, studies investigating the pathophysiological role of SDMA are rare. Experimental data showed that SDMA in concentrations of 1–10 mmol/L indirectly interferes with NO synthesis through impairment of intracellular
ADMA, an endogenous nonselective NOS inhibitor, is closely related to the development of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis, and is suggested to be involved in an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. By its pathophysiological role, ADMA might have additional predictive value for stroke beyond traditional risk factors, which could guide new treatment approaches for stroke prevention. Additionally, accumulated clinical studies indicated that high ADMA concentrations early after stroke might predict stroke outcome. However, the role of elevated ADMA levels for brain injury after acute ischemic stroke remains unclear. Further studies are warranted to elucidate the involvement of ADMA but also of its analog SDMA in the pathological process after ischemic stroke.
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The synthesis and metabolism of ADMA and SDMA. Orange area: synthesis of ADMA and SDMA; red arrow: positive regulation; PRMTs: protein arginine methyltransferases; PRMT I: protein arginine methyltransferase type I; PRMT II: protein arginine methyltransferase type II; DDAH: dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase. AGXT 2: alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase 2. Mostly ADMA is degraded by DDAHs; to a minor degree, it is eliminated by other pathways. Acute ischemic stroke and risk factors of stroke activate oxidative stress, which could upregulate the expression of PRMTs and downregulate the activity of DDAHs, leading to increased levels of ADMA via increased production and inhibited degradation of ADMA.
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What The Heck Is "Hypnosex"?
Alrighty folks, this is a new one for ya. Apparently, the sexual mash-up of the moment is called "erotic hypnosis" or "hypnosex," i.e., a person performing hypnosis on another for sexual gratification. It's essentially about mental control rather than physical. So how does this work? An erotic hypnotist (they're called "hypnodommes"— you can find plenty of them on the interwebs) meets a client for an in-person session where they hypnotize them and talk them through a sexual fantasy. Hypnodommes also sell sexy mp3 recordings that claim to do the same. A hypnodomme can also supposedly help the "hypnosub" (I just made that word up) break through sexual blocks and barriers. I just listened to one recording by a "hypnodomme" named Isabella Valentine and it was kind of like Pink Floyd meets Enya in a really creepy way. I'm still not sure I get the point if you just forget the whole thing afterward because you were hypnotized. But it sounds safe enough—no actual physical contact—and the trend is really taking off. Perfect for the person who likes to fall asleep right after having an orgasm. Oh wait … that's every guy in the world. [Asylum]


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For reasons of equity and fairness, Victoria's preschool system needs reform.
Perhaps because a well-run kindergarten is such fun for children, kindergarten teachers have had trouble convincing successive Victorian governments that the task of organising structured play is a specialised skill. For years now, the Australian Education Union, which represents preschool teachers, has been calling for them to have pay parity with primary school teachers (they undergo the same amount of tertiary training) but to no avail. The most highly paid preschool teachers receive almost $7500 a year less than top-of-the-scale school teachers, have average class sizes of 28 and no maternity leave. Their method of payment is also anomalous. In Victoria, kindergarten teachers are not employed by the Department of Education, as they rightly are in other states, but by the Department of Human Services. This not only creates a bureaucratic barrier to their ambition of achieving pay parity with other teachers but a philosophical barrier as well. The arrangement diminishes, by implication, the educational significance of a kindergarten teacher's work.
Frustrated kindergarten teachers have rejected the Government's offer of a 3 per cent wage increase over three years, and are planning industrial action on Wednesday. The standoff comes at a time when recognition of the benefits of early childhood intervention, particularly for underprivileged children, has never been stronger at the federal level. In the long, pre-election run-up, both the Government and the Opposition have promised to invest more in programs for preschoolers. Such investment is sound and enlightened. Children who receive appropriate stimulus in the preschool years are more likely to adapt well at school and therefore to benefit from their later education. It is wonderful that such results can be achieved by teachers trained to emphasise the playful and enjoyable aspects of learning. Kindergarten teachers may not have the curriculum and correction burden of school teachers but their responsibilities are just as great, and research consistently shows that their influence on a child's later learning can be profound.
Last year the Bracks Government acknowledged the importance of kindergarten when it boasted that preschool participation in this state had reached a record high of 97.2 per cent. The Australian Education Union disputed the figures, however, and argued that about 8000 Victorian children did not have access to preschool, citing rural isolation and staff shortages (the relatively poor pay preschool teachers receive has led many to leave the job). The cost of preschool fees is another concern: in 1994 average fees were about $40 a term, last year they averaged $150 to $160 a term. For reasons of equity and fairness, Victoria's kindergartens need reform and its preschool teachers deserve a better deal.


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Progress BeginsPosted by Overkill on October 20, 2007 at 9:21 pm under Uncategorized
I've been making a LuaVerge middleware code wrapper in my spare time for some time now with the cooperation of Zeromus. I figured this week that the Gruedorf competition would be a fancy way to show off some of the features. It's fairly spiffy. So I made a sidescrolling engine!
Get it here!
Now I can hear, "This looks kind of neat, but also really useless. What do you actually need a sidescrolling engine for? Why did you even bother porting it to Lua?". At the moment, yes, it is a VERY useless engine. I put in the basic movement and jumping, nothing splashy. It's a port of a port of a port of some silly code (VergeC -> Java (trouser engine) -> ika -> LuaVerge). I decided that of these languages, Lua's probably one of the ones I'm finding most comfortable. VergeC's crippled, Java's too verbose, Python's very nice, but ika's got a bunch of quirks and a somewhat awful toolset. LuaVerge is nice, since now that I've got a useful Lua wrapper, I've tackled most of the quirks with using Lua to map nicely to the C functions (like int-to-boolean coercion always being true). Plus LuaVerge means I get to use a fairly nice scripting language, keep some familiar dev tools, and get software raster rendering rather than hardware texture rendering.
Signal is the codename for a sidescroller project that's been bouncing in my head for months saying "do me, do me!" but I never got around to taking it past the idea stage. The game is going to be set in large explorable two-dimensional world with a nice mixture of action and puzzles. What makes this game different is the player has next to no abilities on their own. The player is in fact, quite frail alone. However, there are transmitting signal beacons scattered all throughout the world that can be interpretted by the player's suit. When the player's in range and has good reception, they obtain a variety of abilities and gain physical enhancements to strength, mobility and environmental resistance.
As you move around, some signals die out, while new ones are received. Environmental factors like thunderstorms or magnetic fields will interfere with the player's ability for reception. Strategy comes into play as you maintain the signal beacons in order to advance, applying repairs, enhancing signal strength, pushing the beacon to another location to get it past environmental factors, or into range. In some areas, signals broadcasted by the beacons can be switched with another beacon's power.
The signal you receive is interpretted in digital "levels", where a low level denotes bad reception, and a high level denotes a great reception. As signal levels increase, so do the powers. Your physical appearance will fade in and morph as your strength increases, and you will also be able to see when you're at risk of losing strength and abilities by a "static" distortion effect on various artwork. This is going to take lots of artwork layered on top of each other, but it's almost essential to get a nice in-game display. I wanted the game to have a very minimal HUD, since too many little icon things on screen easily get distracting and confusing. Physical appearance changes, on the other hand, make it easier to see, and keep your eyes on the player in situations where it counts, like if there were to ever be an area with both signal interference and intense action. I was thinking when the game was paused, I'd give a more detailed view, but when the game is in action and you have to constantly monitor several factor that can get annoying. That way, you get the best of both worlds.
So what would be on the HUD? Probably just a minimap, your health which fades out when it's not being affected, and (perhaps) the player's weapon reception when it changes.
The game is going to try to keep exploration fairly free and non-linear, limited more by your cleverness than story factors. I'd ensure that hopefully the game can be beaten without getting stuck often, but have several rewarding things for those who go out of their way and explore the world in greater detail. I want to have puzzles, but I don't want people to hate me for unbeatable puzzles in areas that are essential to completion of the game. I also don't want frustratingly impossible action in the main portion of the game. I think challenging puzzles and intense action will have their place as side-quests, and I will try my best to make it interesting and rewarding enough to inspire the player to get through difficulty. Maybe an unlockable ending or something, but I'll make sure that the player can actually go back if they missed something, because nothing pisses me off more than New Game+. I mean, it's a cheap way to force replay. There are some things I don't want to do over again. I mean, I love rewards. But please don't make me replay the game just to get them. I mean, sure, I'll replay games I really liked, but these are exceptions. If somebody wants to play my game once and get everything and be done with it, I want to leave that as an option. None of this stupid starting over and repeating painful game areas over just to get a goofy prize.
I don't really like backtracking either, so it's going to be minimized to a reasonable amount, because as nice I think my maps could be, I think variety is important. Exploration implies backtracking to an extent, but I will try to have multiple routes to locations, and make sure that you don't go back and forth too often. Metroid and Castlevania both do well for the most part, but you can find the odd area where you have to do frustrating backtracking because you fall down a hole or something stupid. I want to avoid punishing the player wherever possible.
Oh, and here's some old artwork I drew a while ago, but I'm not sure how much of it will actually be used for this project:
The mockup's especially out of date, because the HUD's way too cluttered for my tastes, and it doesn't use the grass or water tiles I made. The grass tiles were going to have dirt tiles underneath, but I couldn't find a satisfactory texture that had enough realism and tiled well. The water tileset has an example of the old dirt I had, but it's too simple and flat in comparison to the bushy grass.
Darien drew this very sexy edit of my sprite:
I'd bug Darien to actually give me a hand on the project, but I know he's busy with school overseas in Ireland. I could modify his sprite, but the problem is, there's no way in hell I can animate something that large in efficient time. If I did anything it would most likely look ugly and unsatisfactory to me. Meanwhile, my hero sprite is too flat and not worth the time to animate. I'd rather use my weekly updates for code and design than drawing because I'm sufficiently bad at artwork.
Anyway, I'm done blabbing for now. If you are a talented pixel artist, drop me a line. I'll want a hand with this project, because artwork is a big time-consuming ordeal for me. I'm also looking for a musician, ambient in the deserted map areas, but bombastic and epic in the action-filled areas (possibly with chiptunes). Comments? Concerns? Criticism?
See you next week.
Tags: gruedorf, lua, LuaVerge, resonance, verge
Opponents Acquired.Posted by Overkill on October 15, 2007 at 8:53 pm under Uncategorized
Nemeses? More like Nemesissies! Har har.
So, it turns out SDHawk, and Thrasher are also up for the challenge. They are my primary opponents! It's a sexy, violent triangle. Maek Gamz Team vs. FUNK vs. Your Mother! Who will be the victor? Only time will tell.
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A New DawnPosted by Overkill on at 7:21 pm under Uncategorized
Ahoy! It is I, Overkill, the mythical hero spoken highly of in delusional online legends! I am a 19-year old Canadian student in my second year at the University of Guelph, Ontario. I've always been creative and moderately talented, or have liked to think so, anyway. Since infancy, I've been playing a vast library of video games, and trying to make game ideas into a reality. I learned how to program in Grade 7, and now that I'm much older and wiser, I know a large palette of programming languages and know many ways not to finish a game project.Sadly, I haven't really done anything notable with any of these talents, because of an encumbering mass of laziness. I guess I made a few demos or something, but do they really count? Pretty much all game projects I've had have lasted a maximum of three weeks before they've fallen. They were primarily nothing more than learning experiences, because I quickly grew annoyed or discouraged progressing these ideas further. So yes, you could say I'm just a giant mass of wasted talent.
What does a silly nobody like Overkill need a journal then? It's clear he doesn't get laid and isn't making games. Isn't this just going to turn into a repository of emotional whining about deprival and inactivity?
The answer is uncertain! However, I'm not alone– at least in the latter respect of not making games. In fact, this journal was inspired by McGrue and Kildorf, two of my most hated rivals (also: loved friends), who are currently engaged in fierce and valiant combat! Thrusting at each other with all varieties of magical crystals and sleepy-headed amnesiac protagonists, greater enormities are arising from the midst of this choas! Heroic magical artifacts, called VIDEO GAMES bubble and pop with mystical creative glowing energy. Mr. McGraw and Mr. Peveril are boastfully posting journal entries, and making weekly updates to their games in order to stir up competition and to instill shame in the lazy!
I thought I'd join this cruscade against laziness, and hence this journal! There is still hope. I have yet to decide on my game idea, but I will, soon. I don't want to die in failure. Wish us all luck, and may this journalized game-makin' battle yield desirable results!
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Our corrected POA & other documents appear to be taking a nice Caribbean vacation in Antigua, West Indies, courtesy of FedEx.
They are supposed to be redirected to Guatemala and be there by Monday.
Off to the endo, g-d help me.
... because I like the bitter aftertaste
Well, at least they will get some good tan time.
Seriously? That sucks.
I hope the endo goes very well
I hate FedEx sometimes.
I hope it does indeed get where it needs to go by Monday.
ugh. i hate waiting. every delay must kill you a little more, huh? hang in there. good luck with the new doc.
Argh, that's a bummer! I just don't understand how they mess that up- we had documents go to Afghanistan instead of Minneapolis. WTH?? I'm sorry, Art-Sweet! Hang in there!
For the grief they're putting you through I assume they will reimburse (small compensation) and perhaps promise to pay extra special attention to the next one you send.
Tell them a baby's life is in balance. See if that gets their attention.
Even better, why not e-mail Frederick Smith, the Fedex CEO. From searching around, I think his e-mail address is email@example.com.
Explain to him how disappointed you are by their lack of service. I'll bet that you get a quick call back from someone at FedEx.


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Here's a rather grim analysis from the Associated Press of Merck's (NYSE:MRK) current status. The company's stock was recently downgraded by two analysts after last Friday's earnings call didn't go very well (links added by me below):
Future sales of Vytorin, a controversial combination drug on sale since 2004 that includes Zocor, and prospects for a crucial experimental osteoporosis drug called odanacatib were thrown into question Friday as Merck announced its fourth-quarter results. Company executives made some cryptic comments, suggesting significant problems with both drugs...
Merck said Friday that it won't apply for approval of odanacatib, a new type of osteoporosis drug, until 2014 instead of by this June. Management said it was reviewing safety and efficacy data from one study and now won't apply for approval until they have longer-term data from an extension study.
Executives also said a committee monitoring its 18,000-patient study of Vytorin, called IMPROVE-IT, had requested a new interim analysis of patient data in March. The study is meant to determine whether Vytorin reduces risk of heart attack, stroke and death in heart disease patients -- the ultimate purpose of cholesterol drugs -- but Merck executives, grilled by analysts on a conference call, wouldn't say that they're confident the study will show that benefit.
I wouldn't, either, if I were in their shoes. The Vytorin story has been long and complex, and that complexity comes from two sources: the drug's unique mechanism of action (at least the ezetimibe part), and the uncertainties of human lipid handling and its relationship to cardiovascular outcomes. Honestly, these things could go any way at all, and the same goes for Merck's high-profile push in CETP. A lot of the company is riding on some very uncertain science.
But I wonder, as I was speculating on in that last link, if that isn't where the whole industry is these days. By now, we've attacked all the things that we believe we really know something solid about. What's left is often big, important, potentially very profitable -- and risky enough to make you leave fingernail marks in the armrests of your chair. The higher up you sit, and the nicer the material that chair is made of, the more damage is being done to it.
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