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|Jan 31, 2002
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|James Armand Baldwin, Peter T. Barrett
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|Microsoft Corporation
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/061,829 , filed Jan. 31, 2002, which is incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.
This invention relates to television entertainment architectures in which program data is generated, processed, and distributed to low resource clients, such as set top boxes. More particularly, this invention relates to fragmenting the program data in advance of delivery to the client so that the data fragments fit in memory blocks of pre-specified size at the client.
Electronic program guides (EPGs) enable TV viewers to navigate through an onscreen program guide and locate shows. With the guides, viewers can look at schedules of current and future programming, set reminders for upcoming programs, or enter instructions to record one or more shows.
Program data for an EPG is stored in the client memory. The amount of program data available for the EPG is dependent upon the resource environment at the client. In a low-resource environment, meaning the client has limited memory and/or processing resources, the amount of memory reserved for program data is limited. Making this situation more difficult is that every time a free memory call is made, the limited amount of memory is fragmented. This fragmentation effectively uses up memory space unless a de-fragmentation or garbage collection process is run. In the low-resource environment, however, such memory management techniques are too resource expensive to be viable options.
Accordingly, for such low-resource environments, there is a need to improve the way program data is stored and accessed at the client.
Program data for use in electronic program guides is fragmented in advance of delivery to a low resource client. In the described implementation, the program data is fragmented into equal size fragments. The size of each fragment is selected to guarantee that the data fragments will fit in pre-allocated memory segments at the client. When the program data is delivered to the client, the client stores the data packets in the memory segments without making system calls to the memory.
The following discussion is directed to television entertainment systems, such as interactive TV networks, cable networks that utilize electronic program guides, and Web-enabled TV networks. Clients in such systems range from full-resource clients with substantial memory and processing resources (e.g., TV-enabled personal computers, TV recorders equipped with hard-disks) to low-resource clients with limited memory and/or processing resources (e.g., traditional set-top boxes). While aspects of the systems and methods described below can be used in any of these systems and for any types of clients, they are particularly well suited for systems with low-resource clients. Hence, the following discussion describes the systems and methods in the context of a low-resource environment.
Television Entertainment System
The EPG data is transferred as an electronic file 104 from the publisher 102 to a data center 106. As one example, the program data 104 is transferred using a file transfer protocol (FTP) over a TCP/IP network (e.g., Internet, UNIX, etc.) to the data center 106. The electronic file 106 is stored in an EPG database 108 at the data center 106.
The original version of the EPG data contains all of the programming information for multiple days. An EPG server 110 resides at the data center 106 to process the EPG data prior to distribution. The processing involves one or more techniques to condition the EPG data so that a low resource client can handle the data more effectively. Low resource clients, such as a set top box, are typically characterized as having limited memory and/or processing resources. Such clients may not be able to store the entire original version of the EPG data. With limited resources at the client, the processes performed by the EPG server 110 are helpful to precondition the EPG data into a more suitable form for storage and processing at the client.
Among other processes, the EPG server 110 is configured to reduce the amount of EPG data so that it can be stored at low-resource clients. The EPG server 110 might also alter the format or structure of EPG data 104 to enable easier searching or other processes at the clients. The EPG server 110 might also compress the EPG data prior to its distribution.
The EPG server 110 creates different versions of the program data for different head end services to account for programming preferences and lineups. For example, the EPG server 110 limits the EPG data to those channels that are relevant to the respective head ends. In the illustrated example, the EPG server 110 creates multiple versions of the EPG data, which are designated as EPG1, EPG2, . . . , EPGh, and stores them in respective databases 112(1), 112(2), . . . , 112(h). The data center 106 transfers the head end versions of the EPG data as electronic files 114 to associated head end services 120(1), 120(2), . . . , 120(h) using, for example, FTP or other suitable transfer protocols over a network.
At individual head end services, as represented by service 120(1), the EPG data is stored in a head end database 122. A carousel file system 124 repeatedly broadcasts the EPG file 126 over an out-of-band (OOB) channel to the clients 130(1), 130(2), . . . , 130(c). The distributed EPG file 126 may or may not be identical to the file 114 received from the data center 106. Distribution from the head ends 120 to the clients 130 may be accommodated in a number of ways, including cable, RF, microwave, network (e.g., Internet), and satellite.
In the illustrated implementation, the clients 130 are embodied as set top boxes (STBs) connected to associated televisions 132(1), 130(2), . . . , 132(c). The clients 130 are often equipped with sufficient processing and storage capabilities to store and run an operating system and a few programs. Examples of programs stored on a client might include a Web browser, an electronic programming guide, a personal scheduler, and so forth. Although the STBs are shown separately from the television sets, they may alternatively be built into the television sets as integral units. Furthermore, in other implementations, the clients may be embodied as other devices capable of handling EPG data, such as a broadcast-enabled computer, an information appliance, or the like.
Exemplary EPG Server
One or more programs are stored in memory 204 and executed on processing unit 202 to process the EPG data. The programs include a data structure fragmenter 220, a program table constructor 222, a time-based data selector 224, and a data compressor 226. The EPG server 110 also runs an operating system (not shown), such as a Windows� brand operating system from Microsoft Corporation, or a Unix-based operating system.
The various processes performed by the EPG server 110 are intended to place the EPG data in better condition for handling by the low resource client. The data structure fragmenter 220 pre-formats the data at the server for use by the client. The client 130 has previously designated an arbitrary data set size for a particular application, such as an EPG application, and allocates a block of memory in segments of that size. The arbitrary size is communicated to the EPG server 110, and the data structure fragmenter 220 "fragments" the data in advance of delivery to the client 130. The client-designated arbitrary data size is thus guaranteed by the server 110 to be the size of data transmitted to the client. Therefore, when the client 130 receives the data, the client can allocate the data packets to the pre-allocated segments in memory without making system calls to the memory.
The data sorter 222 pre-sorts EPG data to improve searching at the client. The EPG data is pre-sorted according to a type of field, such as a title. The data sorter 222 constructs a table with the pre-sorted data and this table is used by the client to facilitate fast searches, even though the client has limited processing resources.
The time-based data selector 224 selects which program data to be included in the file to be downloaded to the client. Low resource clients may not be able to store and display program schedule information for multiple days because of limited memory. The time-based selector 224 selectively stores more data for a current time period represented by the EPG (e.g., the current day) and progressively less data over time for subsequent time units (e.g., next several days). This enables a rich display of information for the time period in which viewers are most likely interested, while offering some additional subset of data for future programming.
The data compressor 226 can be used to compress data destined for the client to a compressed format that remains easily searchable at the client. In one implementation, the data compressor 226 makes an initial pass through the data and constructs a table identifying the most frequently used character sequences. During a subsequent pass, the data compressor 226 compresses the data string by substituting a value for the most frequent character sequences. The data compressor 226 constructs a code table that tracks which values are substituted for the character sequences. The compressed data file and code table can then be downloaded to the client for decompression.
It is noted that the processes carried out by the EPG server are described as being implemented in software. However, in alternative implementations, some or all of these processes may be implemented in firmware and/or hardware.
Exemplary Client
One or more memories are coupled to ASIC 304 to store software and data used to operate the client. In the illustrated implementation, the client has random access memory (RAM) 310, read only memory (ROM) 312, and flash memory 314. RAM 310 stores data used by the client, including the EPG data file 126 as well as any compression table used to decompress the file. ROM 312 stores an operating system (not shown).
One or more programs may be stored in the ROM 312 or in the flash memory 314. In the illustrated example, the flash memory 314 stores a decompression program 320 that can be executed to decompress the EPG data file 126. An EPG program 322 is also stored in the flash memory 314 to operate on the EPG data 126. The EPG program 322 may include a search engine 324 to search the EPG data in response to queries submitted by the viewer. The search engine might be used, for example, to locate particular television shows by title, or find shows with a particular rating, or identify programs with selected actors.
The client 130 may further include other components, which are not shown for simplicity purposes. For instance, the client is typically equipped with hardware and/or software to present a graphical user interface to a viewer, by which the viewer can navigate the EPG, or (if enabled) to access various Internet system network services, browse the Web, or send email. Other possible components might include a network connection (e.g., modem, ISDN modem, etc.) to provide connection to a network, an IR interface, display, power resources, etc. A remote control may further be provided to allow the user to control the client.
Fragmentation of Program Data
Low resource client 130 has limited memory resources. For example, set top boxes are typically manufactured with a fixed amount of memory that satisfies the manufacturer's price/performance criteria. A portion of this memory is allocated to hold EPG data. The amount of EPG data to be transmitted down to the set top box might be expected to consume, for example, no more than 500K bytes of memory.
Accordingly, one process performed on the EPG data prior to delivery to the client concerns formatting the EPG data into multiple blocks of a predetermined size. The client 130 designates an arbitrary data size and allocates a portion of its memory in segments of that size. The arbitrary size is communicated to the EPG server 110. The data structure fragmenter 220 "fragments" the publisher-created EPG data 104 stored in the EPG database 108, or a subset of that data, in advance of delivery to the client 130.
When finally delivered, the fragmented data fits neatly into the pre-allocated segments of the client memory. As a result, system calls to the memory for purposes of accessing EPG data are greatly reduced or eliminated, resulting in less fragmentation of memory and more efficient storage of the EPG data. It is noted that the fragmentation process may be performed at other computing sites in system 100, including at the head end services 120.
At 402, the client 130 designates an arbitrary data size and allocates a portion of its memory 310 into segments 420 of that size. As one example, the memory segments 420 are equal size segments of 16K bytes. This memory allocation size might alternatively be specified by the manufacturer.
At 404, the client 130 communicates the size of the memory segments 420 to an upstream server, such as EPG server 110. Alternatively, the segment size of the client memory may be a parameter that is already known to the EPG server 110. For instance, the clients may be configured during manufacturing to allocate the memory designated for holding EPG data in certain size segments. This parameter could then be provided to the EPG server 110 as the target size for the data fragments. It is also noted that other servers besides the EPG server 110 may be employed to perform the fragmentation techniques as described herein, such as servers at head end services 120.
At 406, the EPG server 110 begins producing the EPG data file for delivery to the client. The EPG server 110 may structure and format the data file in many ways. One approach is to construct multiple tables that hold various types of EPG data to be sent to the client. For instance, there may be different tables for program listings, schedules, stations, channel numbers, and so forth. The tables may contain all or a portion of the EPG data as published by the publisher 102. The tables are arranged in a data structure, which is represented as structure 422 in
The table data structure 422 is broken into multiple chunks 424 that may or may not be the same size. Each chunk 424 is atomic, containing a range of records and an index to describe where the records in the table(s) fit within the context of the whole EPG data file. Each chunk 424 may hold parts of one table or up to multiple tables. Individual tables know in which chunk they reside. Table boundaries are therefore different than chunk boundaries, although they may coincide.
At 408, the data structure fragmenter 220 fragments the table structure 422 into smaller size fragments 430. Each structure fragment 430 is capable of fitting in a corresponding memory segment 420. More particularly, in our example, the EPG data fragments 430 are of a size that is guaranteed to be less than or equal to the arbitrary size designated by the client 130, or less than or equal to 16K bytes. Notice that the fragment boundaries may or may not coincide with the chunk boundaries and/or table boundaries.
At 410, the fragmented data file 114 can be delivered to the client 130 via the head end service. When the client 130 receives the fragmented data, the client stores the data fragments 430 in respective pre-allocated segments 420 without making system calls to the memory. When the client subsequently makes a call to free memory, the memory is provided in the fixed-size segments. In this way, fragmentation is constrained to the fixed-size spaces that can be more easily managed, thereby eliminating the need for memory management techniques such as de-fragmentation or garbage collection processes.
Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described. Rather, the specific features and acts are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention.
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|U.S. Classification
|725/54, 725/142, 725/134
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jul 30, 2014
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|Dec 8, 2014
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The final eight players vying for the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event title are now set, and considering the star-power that will be sitting at Saturday's final table this could very well be one for the ages. Headlining the final table are Steve O'Dwyer (who finished second in this event last year), Lock Poker pro and online legend Chris Moorman, and Team PokerStars pro Theo Jorgensen. Joining the trio of big names at the final table will be some lesser-known but very dangerous players in Ruben Visser, Mantas Visockis, Olof Haglund, Tamer Kamal, and Cristophe Frank.
O'Dwyer will take a solid chip-lead into the final table with the lone American remaining in the field the only player to cross the 4 million chip-mark –O'Dwyer actually surpassed the 5 million chip-mark, and has nearly a 2 million-chip advantage over his closest competitor Dutch poker pro Ruben Visser.
Moorman and Jorgensen will have some work to do as the two poker superstars have 1 million and 1.5 million chips respectively. With the blinds at 20,000/40,000 and a 5,000 chip ante at the start of the final table they won't have very much time before they find themselves in push/fold situations.
Here is a look at the final table seating assignments and chip counts heading into Saturday's action:
* Seat 1: Mantas Visockis — 1,510,000
* Seat 2: Olof Haglund — 2,755,000
* Seat 3: Ruben Visser — 3,640,000
* Seat 4: Steve O'Dwyer — 5,270,000
* Seat 5: Chris Moorman — 1,075,000
* Seat 6: Theo Jorgensen — 1,550,000
* Seat 7: Tamer Kamel — 960,000
* Seat 8: Christophe Frank — 2,570,000
The tournament began earlier this week with two Day 1 flights that produced a total field of 647 players; a significant drop from the 691 players that entered the EPT London Main Event last year and the 730 players who registered in 2011, but still enough to make this the third-largest EPT London tournament in the nine-year history of the tour.
The total prize-pool for the £5,000 event crossed the £3 million mark, and the winner of the tournament will walk away with £700,000. Here is a look at the complete final table payouts for the 2013 EPT London Main Event:
* 1st place: £700,000
* 2nd place: £455,000
* 3rd place: £245,000
* 4th place: £183,000
* 5th place: £146,000
* 6th place: £112,000
* 7th place: £79,950
* 8th place: £57,000
Action at the final table will get underway at Noon local time with PokerStars live-streaming the final table until a winner is crowned.
[Chip-counts and payouts courtesy of the EPT website: www.EuropeanPokerTour.com]
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Languages spoken: English
- Grill
- Heating
- Balcony/Terrace
- High Speed Internet
- Linen provided
- Mountain Views
- Parking Included
- Balcony/Terrace
- Clothes dryer
- Dishwasher
- DVD player
- Hair dryer
- Iron
- CD player
- Refrigerator
- Satellite TV
- Microwave
- Stove
- Telephone
- Toaster
- Washing machine
- Cycling Trips
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Horse riding
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5 Stars
I spent a week enjoying Taos at this property with my sisters. Everything was wonderful! The house is lovely. It's just a few minutes from town, but very private and secluded. Equipped with everything you could possibly want/ need. It has a true Taos vibe! Inviting and comfortable. The grounds and views are truly spectacular. I would highly recommend this beautiful property. The owner was so fantastic to work with. After our departure, he notified me that some valuable jewelry had been found- inadvertently left behind by one of my party. He then proceeded to figure out best way to return it to us. Had to insure, ship, etc. Way above and beyond! I travel to Taos frequently, and am so looking forward to my next stay at this fabulous property.
Recommended for: Families with Young Children, Sightseeing, Girls Getaway, Adventure Seekers, Age 55+, Romantic Getaway, Families with Teenagers
5 Stars
Our stay was almost two full weeks. The home has a lot of New Mexico charm and the views are spectacular! It's a safe place to stay too, no worries about the area. We want to give a shout out to George, the property manager for the great tips on places to visit. We loved the Ghost Ranch! Also, want to mention the excellent medical care in Taos that my daughter received when we unfortunately had to make a trip to ER. I highly recommend this vacation home for travelers with families. The Taos and surrounding area is a great place to spend a vacation!
Recommended for: Sightseeing, Age 55+, Families with Teenagers
5 Stars
We really enjoyed our stay in this beautiful home. The sunsets were absolutely stunning.
Recommended for: Families with Young Children, Sightseeing, Romantic Getaway, Families with Teenagers
5 Stars
We've stayed at many places in different areas and different states and this particular location was different than anything we'd experience. In short, because of its location in the middle of open fields and the architecture of the house, we felt we took in a piece of New Mexico back with us. The kids just loved the place, inside, outside, there was always something to stay entertained with (there's board games and tv with lots or movies to watch and wifi works great). The views outside were awesome. A spent two evenings and two mornings outside with coffee, camera, and tripod. Being isolated from the rest of society was new to us but that's what made our stay memorable. We would definitely stay here again as the owner's hospitality around his home is felt without his precense.
Recommended for: Families with Young Children
5 Stars
Had a most enjoyable stay. Will be staying many, many more times!
Recommended for: Families with Young Children, Girls Getaway, Families with Teenagers
5 Stars
This was the perfect house for our family reunion. Quiet mornings drinking coffee together, cool nights at the fire pit, and exploring Taos and northern New Mexico during the day. The views are spectacular and the sunsets breathtaking. Thank You!
Recommended for: Sightseeing, Girls Getaway, Adventure Seekers, Age 55+
5 Stars
This is a hoise I would highly recommend to those heading to Taos. The house is about 6 miles South of Taos - close enough to be in Taos in 10 minutes but out far enough to have great views and spectacular sunsets! We spent mornings and late afternoons outside just taking in the scenery. We really enjoyed the Hummingbirds and rabbits.. The house is situated ideally for day trips, having great access to the major highways. The owner is extrememly accommodating as well! The house is set up with several rooms ideal for reading while enjoying the scenery outdoors. There are books and DVD's for everyone and the kitchen is great with all the necessities. If you're coming to Taos, this is the house for you!
Recommended for: Families with Young Children, Sightseeing, Girls Getaway, Age 55+, Romantic Getaway, Families with Teenagers
5 Stars
It was what I wanted- close to the city but private and wild. Lots of birds, funny cottontail rabbits, some more daring than others, almost complete silence (except for the birds and an occasional distant barking dog). One can see for miles and miles, and the changing colors of sunrises and sunsets are a spectacle to watch. My only complaint (addressed to myself)- it was so relaxing and peaceful to be in the garden around the house that I gave up on half of my sightseeing/hiking plans.
Recommended for: Sightseeing, Adventure Seekers
5 Stars
This house is very nice and has fantastic views {they were enjoyed by all of us}. We found the the house was really equipped with everything you needed to cook at home and have family meals that we could enjoy when we wanted. The fire pit was really nice on the cool nights to do some star gazing. It is very close to Hot Springs and a short drive to Taos. I really enjoyed watching the humming birds at the feeder they almost landed on my finger.Thanks for sharing your home with us Randy & Diane
Recommended for: Families with Young Children, Pet-friendly, Sightseeing, Adventure Seekers, Age 55+, Romantic Getaway, Families with Teenagers
5 Stars
Our family of three plus photographer brother stayed here for 10 days in late July. We had a great stay. The house was beautiful, spacious, well furnished and well decorated in a comfortable southwest style. The beds were extremely comfortable. Loved the birds. Bought and left a hummingbird feeder outside the sun room.The hummers kept us entertained daily. Almost every night we sat outside and watch spectacular lightning storms off in the distance. But it rarely actually rained. The house is outside of town, but just a few minute easy drive to the center of Taos. Lots of great restaurants. Especially loved the old Rancho de Taos Plaza Grill. The best red chili sauce we found. Be sure to funyak the Rio Grande Gorge. Taos was smaller than we expected, but charming and friendly. The surrounding area has great hikes and history. After leaving Taos we spent a day in Bandolier National Monument, another in Chaco Canyon, and a third at Acoma Pueblo. I highly recommend all three. Thanks, Stephen, for sharing your great spot with us. We hope to return one day.


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Download Almaany.com Arabic Dictionary apk 2.8 free for Android smartphone
Posted by معجم المعاني Almaany.com dictionary in Education | June 22, 2016 | 30 Comments
Apk file size: 32.0 MB
Almaany.com Arabic to Arabic dictionary for offline use. The application contains summarized results. with active internet connections, search can be broadband to online website.
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معجم المعاني Almaany.com dictionary part of our Education and have average installs from 500000 to 1000000. Last Update June 22, 2016. Google play rating is 89.7228. Current verison is 2.8. Actual size 32.0 MB.
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Sorry if the Question title made no sense ; I will try to elaborate. I was "t boned" by a negligent "driver" who failed to stop at an intersection as I went through it. I got the first attorney I spoke with thinking they are all the same and this is an obvious slam dunk case with no defense for the other party or dispute of guilt. This guy has done nothing on the case for 2 years. After I harassed him He finally sent a demand letter and he accepted the first lowball ($2,000- my car was totaled and I was injured and have been out of work since) offer from Mercury without my authorization. He also cashed the check. I have signed nothing... cont. belowHe should be removed for cause but I'm worried he will claim he spent all this time which he has not and then try to put a lien on whatever I get. (he can and presumably will make up bogus hours spent.I say this because he and his paralegal have been repeatedly caught lying to me and the doctors I treated with. Apparently they know and take advantage of the fact that they really have no oversight, so like common thugs devoid of a moral compass, do whatever they want and then laugh at you like " what are you gonna do about it" when confronted,which has actually literally happened in this case) To mitigate his ability to lie I want to lock down a figure on paper now before trying to fire him. Pity I have to come up with such a strategy. :(
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Leave it to Akiko is the 49th episode of Dr. Slump and Arale-chan.
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In the 1950s, Herbie Mann frequently shared the spotlight on record dates with other flutists. This V.S.O.P. LP, a reissue of a set originally for Mode and also out for awhile on Premier, matches Mann (who here also plays piccolo, clarinet and tenor) with Buddy Collette (switching between flute, clarinet, tenor and alto) in a quintet with pianist Jimmy Rowles, bassist Buddy Clark and drummer Mel Lewis. The results are generally pleasing, if somewhat lightweight, with such obscure tunes as "Here's Buddy," Rowles' "Pop Melody," "Here's Pete" and Mann's "Theme from 'Theme From'" alternating with three standards and Chico Hamilton's "Morning After."
Reissue with latest DSD remastering. Comes with liner notes. With the cheers and huzzahs from their 1976 one-off reunion still resounding, the reconstituted Miles Davis Quintet minus Miles went on the road in 1977, spreading their 1965-vintage gospel according to the Prince of Darkness to audiences in Berkeley and San Diego, CA. In doing so, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, plus interloper Freddie Hubbard seem to pick up where they left off, with a repertoire mostly new to the five collectively and developed from there.
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Reissue with the latest remastering. Comes with liner notes. George Benson's first LP for Columbia – a hard, heavy, soul jazz slammer that bears no resemblance to his overproduced work of the 70s! The album's a real cooker – recorded hot on the heels of Benson's classic work on Prestige with the Jack McDuff group, and sounding a lot like McDuff's hard wailing organ jazz of the same time. George is working with a group that features a young Lonnie Smith on organ, plus Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Ronnie Cuber on sax, and Charlie Persip on drums – all tightly coming together, and jamming hard on the album's short cooking tracks. Tracks include "Clockwise", "Jaguar", "Hello Birdie", and "Bullfight". Plus, the CD adds five bonus tracks, including "Sideman", "Minor Chant", and the previously unreleased "J.H. Bossa Nova" and "Clockwise (Alternate Take)".
Reissue with the latest remastering. Comes with liner notes. One of Barney Kessel's greatest albums ever – a rare Italian-only session that has a sparkly Brazilian groove! The record was recorded in Rome in 1970, and it's got Kessel's guitar fronting a combo with organ and some very tight percussion – all dancing around in a fast samba mode that's different from virtually anything else he ever recorded – very groovy, very upbeat, and very much what you might expect when the talents of a west coast guitar giant meets the best of the Italian studio scene of the time! There's loads of original tracks on the set – like "Freeway", "Lison", "BJ's Samba", and "On the Riviera" – and the whole thing has a breezy dancing feel that's really wonderful!


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Hi folks,
I've been following the serverless youtube tutorial trying to get the todos example working. I get stuck at the point where I should be able to create a dynamoDB table and save an item by POSTing to the endpoint. The tutorial sets up a DynamoDB table in the YAML as well as the permissions to use it, and also adds a create handler and script to update the table when the end point is hit using the aws-sdk.
It just isn't working.
This is the tutorial I'm attempting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAiAK-DmPbs
When I try and use curl to post some data I am getting {"message": "Internal server error"}.
Viewing the log gives me:module initialization error: TypeErrorat require (internal/module.js:12:17)
I've tried to run it locally using serverless invoke (I'm not sure if this should work or not, I'd expect it to get further than it does). It gives me an errorMessage of "Cannot read property 'DocumentClient' of undefined", errorType "TypeError".
This seems to say that it's not instantiating the aws-sdk dynamodb object, but I see no reason why it wouldn't be? I've installed it with npm install --save aws-sdk. I've included require('aws-sdk') and have done new AWS.DynamoDb.DocumentClient() (which must not be working).
Please help
Did you solve this? I had the same problem. The tutorial has a few typos in create.js
Line 5 should be:const dynamoDb = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();
const dynamoDb = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();
The author wrote "AWS.DynamoDb" with a lowercase "b"...and around line 37 you need to pass JSON.stringify() the same argument you called dynamoDb.put() with around line 28. They should both be result or results
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A Hiatus
Dear loyal readers:
After nearly three years of blogging at American Healthcare, it's time for a several-month break and for a chance to work on other things.
A new project is underway: more to come as it evolves!
Dear loyal readers:
After nearly three years of blogging at American Healthcare, it's time for a several-month break and for a chance to work on other things.
A new project is underway: more to come as it evolves!
I recently finished Thomas Friedman's excellent book, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations. In it, Friedman makes that case that we are living through an unparalleled time, marked by what he calls "accelerations" that are happening faster than humans are able to adapt. He argues that we are living through the most dramatic inflection point since Gutenberg and the subsequent Reformation in Europe.
Friedman argues that the three primary forces shaping events are advancements in technology, global interconnection and climate change. What is notable about these three forces is that they all show signs of exponential change, not linear.
As an example, here is an illustration from the book showing the exponential drop in the cost of DNA sequencing, plotted against the trajectory that we would have seen according to Moore's law (which would predict a doubling of computing power every 1-2 years).
The problem with these "hockey-stick" exponential curves is that technological change happens more and more quickly (aided by the"standing on the shoulders" of earlier technology). The change happens faster than human's abilities to adapt.
I'm taken by Friedman's arguments. I'd argue that one of the reasons that healthcare workers have felt so discombobulated over recent years is exactly this issue of unimpeded technical acceleration that exceeds physician's abilities to acclimatize.
Atal Gawande touched on this during his Stanford commencement speech in 2010, reprinted in the New Yorker:
The truth is that the volume and complexity of the knowledge that we need to master has grown exponentially beyond our capacity as individuals. Worse, the fear is that the knowledge has grown beyond our capacity as a society. When we talk about the uncontrollable explosion in the costs of health care in America, for instance—about the reality that we in medicine are gradually bankrupting the country—we're not talking about a problem rooted in economics. We're talking about a problem rooted in scientific complexity.
Besides discombobulating physicians, I'd argue that scientific and technical complexity also threatens to overwhelm patients. Our ability to do increasingly exceeds our ability to decide what to do… You can see this dynamic during every complicated end of life discussion, where the technical promise of immortality seems often at odds with human needs.
In an earlier post I wrote about the concept of "human scale"
In philosophy and design circles there is a concept known as "human scale". The general idea is that we humans are best able to engage with a world that is similar in scale to the way we are built. In a universe that ranges from atomic to cosmos-sized, measured by time periods ranging from subatomic to geologic, we humans optimally engage with what the brilliant scientist Richard Dawkins calls the "Middle World."
This Middle World is measured in pounds and feet, and in minutes and lifetimes. Steps, corridors and wall-heights in our buildings reflect the length of our legs. Our senses and intuitions work best at this scale: nobody has "commonsense" ideas about the orbit of an electron, but we do about, say, catching a bus. When things become too big or complex, they can become abstractions and our "commonsense" no longer applies.
Here's my bet: going forward, physicians aren't going to need to be technical experts. Instead, in the age of computer learning, the physician is going to need to be the person who makes healthcare human scale. That's the important work ahead.
Friedman, incidentally, arrives at a similar conclusion. He writes:
…the highest-paying jobs in the future will be stempathy jobs— jobs that combine strong science and technology skills with the ability to empathize with another human being.
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Last week I was driving through Phoenix when I saw this sign at an intersection:
It struck me that this was a perfect example of what happens when clever business folks figure out a way to short circuit the normal laws of consumer behavior. How's it work? Bring your car in and the glass shop bills your insurance company directly and either rewards you with cash, or at least pays your deductible. Presumably folks who have insurance that will pay a lot get the $100 and folks with lower-end insurance only get $50… It's a perverse incentive which disrupts the usual laws of consumer economics.
Driving, I was immediately reminded of a similar situation in healthcare: pharmaceutical copay coupons. A couple of weeks ago HBS professor Leemore S. Dafny and colleagues published a compelling perspective piece in the New England Journal discussing the corrosive effect of "copayment coupons" offered by manufacturers directly to consumers.
Like the auto glass example , these pharmacy coupons given to patients and are used at the point of sale to offset the patient copays. For example, using a copay coupon, a patient can purchase a $1000 drug at less out-of-pocket cost (to him) than a comparable $20 generic which might have a $5 copay. The net effect: aggregate pharmacy costs past on the the insurer are far higher because there is no patient incentive to use less expensive but comparable generics.
My favorite example of this is the contemptible drug Nexium, which for all purposes interchangeable with the generic Prilosec (Omeprazole). (In fact, before it was non-generic, Prilosec was the "purple pill" [™ I'm sure] and Nexium inherited the title once omeprazole was generic at pennies a pill).
According to GoodRx, today 30 tablets of Nexium cost $300 cash price at most national pharmacies, whereas 30 tablets of generic Prilosec cost just $24. For the user using the Nexium Savings Card, Nexium costs $15 as compared to a generic co-pay that might be $20.
The problem with the coupons is that they dramatically undermine the insurance company's/ PBM's abilities to "tier" medication, which is the primary leverage they have over pharmaceutical manufacturers. Dafny writes:
By severing the link between cost sharing and the value generated by a drug, copayment coupons can undo the beneficial effects of tiering. With such coupons, consumers' cost sharing may actually be lower for higher-tier brand-name drugs than for lower-tier therapeutic substitutes or generic bioequivalents. Since insurers typically cover about 80% of the total price of a prescription, however, the combined amount that the insurer and the consumer spend for higher-tier drugs remains substantially greater.
According to the authors, over half of all non-generics now have coupons available. It's come at a terrible cost to the system:
We estimate that coupons increase the percentage of prescriptions filled with brand-name formulations by more than 60%. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that, on average, each copayment coupon increased national spending on all drugs by $30 million to $120 million over the 5-year period following generic entry. In our sample, consisting of 85 drugs facing generic competition for the first time between 2007 and 2010, we estimate that spending on the 23 drugs with coupons was $700 million to $2.7 billion higher than it would have been if the coupons had not been issued or had been banned.
At the end of the day, this Jiu-Jitsu at the point of sale only drives up the aggregate cost of medication, which is then necessarily passed onto consumers in the form of higher premiums. As an old colleague was fond of saying, and which I repeat often, healthcare is a balloon: squeeze one area and another bulges. This spigot of money flowing to the drug companies needs to be offset by reduced spending elsewhere, or by higher annual premiums. It's a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons, where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting resources through their collective actions.
If you think that these increased premiums don't matter, consider Ms. Rosa Ines Rivera, a cafeteria worker at Harvard's School of Public Health who, with colleagues, is on strike, primarily to protest proposed increases in health insurance costs that Harvard wants to pass to employees. I was struck by an opinion piece she submitted to the New York Times yesterday:
Why is the administration asking dining hall workers to pay even more for our health care even though some of us pay as much as $4,000 a year in premiums alone? I serve the people who created Obamacare, people who treat epidemics and devise ways to make the world healthier and more humane. But I can't afford the health care plan Harvard wants us to accept……the cost of premiums alone could eat up almost 10 percent of my income.
It's the same conversation that many employers and employees are having, as they realize that drug company revenue "optimization" has come at a steep cost to the average American.
Here's a personal story about medical overuse and willful ignorance. Stay tuned for the punchline.
First, a little background: a couple of weeks ago I came across a great study on medical overuse, specifically adherence to national recommendations published in 2012 regarding the use of the PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test to screen for prostate cancer. Continue reading
I have family in Canada, and so often find myself flying from Boston to Toronto. There are two ways to fly: you can take Air Canada from Logan to Toronto's International Airport a couple of times a day. Or, for the past 10 years, you can fly on a small turboprop operated by Porter Airlines from Logan to a small municipal airport located on an island in Toronto's harbor.
Since it started flying in 2010, I've always preferred Porter because it's a scrappy little airline that successfully disrupted the big guys by offering great service, friendly staff and easy airports. To me, the airline was always a textbook example of how small entrepreneurial companies that have a relentless focus on the customer can win.
I recently ran into an old colleague who works as a consultant to one of the large national pharmacy chains. We got to talking about the various clinical services that the pharmacy has explored over the years, beyond low acuity retail care. It turns out that, after an auspicious start, the big national pharmacies are increasingly shying away from providing clinical care and are beginning to lease their in-pharmacy clinics to local healthcare systems to run.
The Boston Globe recently ran an article discussing layoffs at Baystate Health, a large health system in Western Massachusetts. The system is planing to lay off 300 employees to try to close a $75M deficit. According to the Globe, the deficits are mainly driven by declining Medicaid reimbursement, but, more interestingly, by a $23M hit to Medicare revenue driven by a mistake made by Partners Healthcare, a health system on the other side of the state.
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Happy to see it completed, or at least cooking now. Been following your build all along the way. I've gotten some ideas, techniques from your posts.
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DoodleQ, I am thuroughly impressed with the smoker. I am looking at doing a smoker almost the same, wasn't thinking of insulating it though. I have a couple questions that could really help me if you wouldnt mind.
1. Do you feel that insulating the fb and wb helped out enough to justify the extra cost. Was there a noticable fuel saving because of insulation?
2 When you smoke in the cc and wb do you close off the cc chimney and exhaust through the wb only? If so does it effect your cook (amount of smoke on meat in cc do to exhaust being at grate level) or temp fluxuations. And is smoke presence/penetration even throughout both chambers while utilizing both?
3. what are the temps and variation in different modes. i.e. smoke in cc only not in wb, smoke in both cc and wb. smoke in wb only closed cc.
Appologize for all the questions just don't want to waste my time and money having to fix things that don't work the way I'm looking for. Thank you
Thanks for the compliment...it was fun to build, and it's been nice to cook on. I'll try to answer best I can...
1 - I can't really give you a comparison before/after as far as fuel, as I've not cooked on anything but this (in relation to its' size...but if you look at the wood box up front, that's about 12-14 hours worth. I'm usually cooking 10-12 hours, and I've never exhausted that much wood. I add a coffee can of charcoal when I'm first lighting it to help establish and ash bed, but that's it. I burned more fuel in the double drum unit I had, so I'd guess it must be related (plus I'm not losing heat with the thinner metal).
2 - I have let low priority stuff (jalepenos, cabbage) "smoke" in the warmer, but I haven't cooked directly in there. By the time I'm opening it up, I've likely foiled anything with a great deal of mass (pork shoulder or brisket), so smoke isn't an issue. Anything that's still taking smoke would be ribs or chicken based on a shorter total cook time and trying to finish close. They have less need of deeper smoke anyway. I do have to bump up feeding the fire a bit when both are fully operational to keep the cc chamber up, but not that much. I also have the opening directly from the fb to the warmer, which can allow a small bit of ash up...again, not an issue since for the most part stuff in there is foiled. Probably not enough to really worry about anyway.
3 - After everything's warmed up, and vented over (there's a bit of touch to this, so I'm sure I could change it), if I run 250 or so on the external thermos, I'll be running 150-175 on the externals on the warmer. I haven't run a direct comparison on internals, as the warmer is less critical.
Hope that helps. If I had to change anything...well, I wouldn't change much, except to perhaps leave a little more length on the cc pipe. It's just slightly tight loading ribs if I'm really trying to load it up.