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New Google cloud VP hire could signal open-source embrace
A former Red Hat executive has apparently taken the reins of Google Cloud Platform, in a move that could signal a bigger embrace of the open-source community by the cloud provider.
Brian Stevens, former Red Hat CTO, has reportedly been hired by Google as the vice president of cloud platforms. Stevens' Twitter and LinkedIn profile list his presumed new title while Google says it doesn't comment on individual hires.
Industry analysts praised Stevens' work with Red Hat, and see the hire as a smart move by Google.
Stevens has been a tireless advocate for OpenStack and drove Red Hat's involvement with the OpenStack Foundation and its leadership within the community, according to Dave Bartoletti, an analyst with Forrester Research, Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass.
"He understands how open source projects need to be supported and nurtured into something the enterprise can actually use," Bartoletti said. "I expect Google sees in him someone who can help them become a leader in open source and OpenStack, and not just a contributor."
Stevens understands the power of open-source and how to set a vision — two attributes that could help Google as it looks to new leadership to direct its cloud strategy, according to David Linthicum, senior vice president with Cloud Technology Partners, a Boston-based consulting firm. Linthicum singled out Stevens' role in getting Red Hat to embrace OpenStack and Docker.
"Were I in charge of the Google cloud strategy, Brian would be on my list of people to tap, so it's not that much of a surprise," Linthicum said.
Google is currently spearheading Kubernetes, an open-source container management project with the backing of some of the biggest vendors in the industry, and Google Compute Engine is compatible with a number of open-source tools. But Stevens can help Google craft an OpenStack strategy and lure developers to Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine, the company's infrastructure- and platform as a service offerings, respectively.
"The battle for the developer mindshare in the cloud will be around API support, so I expect him to help build some bridges between Google's cloud platforms and APIs and the broader OpenStack community," Bartoletti said.
There are huge demands that come with the position of CTO, Linthicum said, and they're not always related to technology. Google and Red Hat are both great companies to work for, but it may have been time for a change.
"I suspect after 12 years of doing that, he may be looking for new challenges," Linthicum said.
"Good for Google, good for Brian, and certainly takes nothing away from Red Hat."
Federal court ruling on data localization could have major impacts on the cloud
A federal court ruling on the government's access to data stored offshore by U.S.-based companies could have far-reaching impacts on the cloud market.
A federal district judge in New York ruled this week that Microsoft had to turn over a customer's emails stored in Ireland in response to a warrant issued earlier this year. Microsoft argued that it's unlawful for prosecutors to seize customer data held outside the U.S., but Judge Loretta Preska told the company that the location of its data was immaterial.
"It is a question of control, not a question of the location of that information," Preska said, according to Reuters.
It's unclear how this could damage the U.S. cloud computing industry, as email has been one of the most popular tools in the cloud. Over the next 12 months, 38% of enterprises plan to deploy the service in the public cloud, second only to test and development, according to the TechTarget Cloud Infrastructure Research Survey Q2 2014.
The ruling comes as Microsoft tries to make inroads in Europe with its Azure cloud and chip away at Amazon's lead in the market. It also follows last year's revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's secretive data collection around the world that the nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation estimated at the time could cost the U.S. cloud computing industry $22 billion to $35 billion over the next three years. Other analysts have put the figure even higher.
Security and data control of environment in the cloud are major hurdles for enterprises, with more than a third of IT pros citing those two issues as obstacles to adopting cloud computing, according to the TechTarget survey.
Providers have been building or purchasing datacenters around the world, in part to help localize data in countries in Europe and elsewhere with stricter storage regulations, but this could open the door for European-based and other localized cloud providers to gain traction in a market dominated by U.S.-based vendors.
The judge's order has been temporarily suspended, as Microsoft intends to challenge the decision in 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in what is believed to be the first case in which a corporation challenged a warrant for data held in other nations. AT&T, Apple Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. all submitted briefs in support of Microsoft's appeal.
The judge's decision centered on a sealed investigation that involved a warrant a New York prosecutor served for a Microsoft customer's emails stored in Dublin, Ireland.
Getting to the bottom of the Red Hat OpenStack support kerfuffle
ATLANTA — Red Hat was the talk of the OpenStack Summit this week after it made headlines concerning an alleged policy of not supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers who use non-Red Hat distros of OpenStack.
Red Hat has chosen not to provide support to its commercial Linux customers if they use rival versions of OpenStack, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.
At first, this drew ire toward Red Hat from attendees at the summit. To quote one OpenStack guru at the time, "What a bunch of [expletive redacted]."
But then, Paul Cormier, president of products and Technologies for Red Hat, issued a denial of this statement from the Journal story on the official Red Hat blog.
"Users are free to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with any OpenStack offering, and there is no requirement to use our OpenStack technologies to get a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription," Cormier wrote.
Just to make sure, I sought further clarification, because the question raised by the Journal wasn't that users are required to use Red Hat OpenStack if they want RHEL — the question was whether RHEL will be supported in environments where another OpenStack distro is in place.
Here is part of the answer I got from Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Group, Red Hat:
"RHEL guests are certified to hypervisor platforms, such as KVM, not to OpenStack per se."
Yeaton went on to say:
Since we are in the business of building mission-critical cloud infrastructure, delivering on stringent SLAs for enterprise customers based on RHEL, KVM, and OpenStack, we must take responsibility for enterprise-readiness and supportability of our RHEL guests on other vendors' hypervisors within their OpenStack platforms, and the underlying Linux that is being used within them.
In Red Hat's enterprise licensing agreement, which is freely available on its website, there is no mention of OpenStack at all in the main body of the agreement, but the following statement can be found in Appendix I:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported solely when used as the host operating system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform or when used as the guest operating system on virtual machines created and managed with this Subscription.
This matches up with what Yeaton said about RHEL being certified to the hypervisor rather than OpenStack itself. The second clause of the sentence appears to allow for other distros of OpenStack, since its scope is limited to the virtual machine, not the cloud infrastructure.
An FAQ page on the Red Hat website states that when third-party software and/or uncertified hardware/hypervisors are the potential suspect in a support case, Red Hat reserves the right to ask customers to attempt to recreate the issue with Red Hat shipped/supported software to aid in determining the problem.
This has a faint whiff of the infamous Oracle VM policy, which many attendees at OpenStack Summit brought up when they heard about the Journal story.
To be fair, Red Hat's language is much less clear than Canonical's in the Ubuntu support agreement, which says, in part that license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with it. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium be free software.
But there doesn't seem to be any evidence in publicly available resources that Red Hat will remove or refuse support to RHEL users running non-Red Hat distros of OpenStack. It would be interesting to see what the documents are that the WSJ reporter has cited — at this point, the onus would appear to be on the Journal to back up its story.
IBM launches advertising blitz against AWS at re:Invent
LAS VEGAS — Advertisements are popping up along the Las Vegas strip this week that challenge Amazon Web Services' position in the cloud market — and the perpetrator is competitor IBM. As an estimated 9,000 IT pros have come to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, Amazon's second cloud conference, IBM has taken the opportunity to promote its cloud services and partnership with SoftLayer, saying that the company powers 270,000 more websites than Amazon. The ads additionally state that "The IBM cloud offerings also support 30% more of the most popular websites than anyone else in the world."
Conference attendees have been buzzing about the ads, which have adorned shuttle buses from the hotels, have been digitally projected across the Fashion Show Mall next to Treasure Island hotel and take up small billboards in hotel hallways, including the Venetian, where AWS re:Invent takes place. Andy Jassy, senior vice president of AWS, addressed the ads during today's keynote address.
"It's creative, I'll say that," Jassy said. "It's a way to jump up and down … to try to distract customers."
No one would argue that IBM has a bigger cloud business than AWS, he added.
This ad campaign highlights how the cloud market is heating up rivalries among vendors. As the industry and the products mature, vendors are looking to rise to the top, fighting against competitors for enterprise customers and market share.
Similarly, in August, Microsoft took shots at Google on its blog, citing that the company has many "hidden costs."
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HyTrust snaps up encryption firm HighCloud
HyTrust will add encryption to its cloud security software following its acquisition of HighCloud Security this week.
HyTrust Inc. already enforces access controls at the management layer of virtual environment so that only authorized users have access to VMs. HighCloud offers encryption of cloud workloads with key management that gets handled at the customer site – an important factor for security-conscious companies considering Infrastructure as a Service.
The two can already be used together, but HighCloud's software will be integrated into HyTrust to make encryption and key management invisible to the end user, according to Eric Chiu, HyTrust CEO in a blog post about the acquisition.
Amazon Web Services drops cloud prices…again
Amazon Web Services has lowered the price of its second-generation standard instances by 10% across the board, continuing the downward trend of IaaS pricing.
The EC2 M3 instances, which debuted last November, triggered a price reduction of the previous generation of instances when they were launched. Now that second generation is seeing prices fall.
The AWS Blog cited two examples of the 10% price cut this morning: the m3.xlarge on-demand instance was $0.50 per hour, and is now $0.45 cents per hour. The m3.2xlarge on-demand instance was $1.00 per hour and is now $0.90 per hour. Reserved EC2 M3 instances are now 15% cheaper, too.
Even as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers continue to cut cloud pricing in an effort to lure new customers, it's not clear just how many IT shops will take the bait and move away from their current cloud computing deployment plans because of a 10% price reduction. Cloud pricing is just one of the many factors that go into the service provider selection process.
Rackspace acquires ZeroVM, says products could take years
There was hope among Rackspace users this week that the company's latest acquisition of LiteStack would improve cloud provisioning times, but Rackspace officials said the technology isn't going to be offered as a product for some time.
LiteStack Inc., the open-source hypervisor company acquired by Rackspace Inc. this week, developed technology based on Google's Native Client that encapsulates applications rather than virtualizing individual servers. This technology, called ZeroVM, can be provisioned in less than five milliseconds according to LiteStack's Wiki page.
IT pros who use Rackspace's Cloud Servers Infrastructure as a Service were immediately interested in how this provisioning time could be applied to improve existing offerings, but company officials said that isn't where the technology is headed.
Eventually, there will be Rackspace product offerings based on ZeroVM, but not for at least a year if not multiple years, according to Bret Piatt, senior director of corporate development and strategy for Rackspace.
Instead, according to Rackspace spokespeople, what Rackspace has really acquired here is the beginning of an open source community that could change the way computing is done when addressing large sets of data, such as with Hadoop. ZeroVM's lightweight containers can be provisioned as fast as opening a browser tab, according to Van Lindberg, VP of intellectual property for Rackspace.
Lindberg said the app can be brought to the data rather than having to bring the data to the app for processing, which could also make big data analytics go much faster.
Analysts say Rackspace could also be after additional open-source programming prowess to add to its development team.
"They're not buying the company so much as they're picking up the software talent that created ZeroVM," said Carl Brooks, analyst with Boston-based 451 Research.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
AWS responds to demand for flexible reserved instances
Amazon Web Services will allow users to change the size of reserved instances – a capability that is high on cloud customers' wish lists.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers were left wanting more when Amazon first relaxed restrictions around reserved instance (RI) networking and geographic location last month. RIs can now be moved among availability zones and between EC2 Classic and virtual private cloud networks.
Several customers had the idea of 'trading in' instances within a certain total pool of resources in order to resize them – and that appears to be exactly what Amazon has done.
The AWS blog has the breakdown of compute units which can be traded between instance sizes. For example, one small instance translates into 64 8xlarge instances, so 64 small instances can be combined into one 8xlarge, or one 8xlarge can be broken up into 64 small instances.
"It's a near perfect answer to the wish we expressed back in September," said Nicolas Fonrose, founder of Teevity, a cloud computing monitoring software startup based in France. "I'm sure this is going to really increase RI usage since it removes something that was really painful for any AWS user."
However, there's still room for even more added flexibility with RIs, Fonrose pointed out. Today these modifications can only be performed within instance families (m1, m2, m3 and c1).
"There's one thing that users are still locked to: instance families," he said.
Developers bandy about AWS API portability at OpenStack meetup
I attended the NYC OpenStack Meetup this week, which focused on understanding what place Amazon EC2 APIs should hold for OpenStack design and implementation. It was billed as the third round of the AWS API debate, with the first two rounds held on the West Coast. And this event did not disappoint.
The audience seemed more focused on enterprise applicability versus a theoretical discussion of AWS APIs. I suppose this was because these enterprise clients and IT bosses want to know if they can make OpenStack work with some of the rogue AWS implementations their companies already own.
Randy Bias, founding CEO, CTO and co-founder of Cloudscaling, was quick to point out the OpenStack community uses an OpenStack version of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API already.
Attendee concerns centered on whether developers could depend on AWS to keep the APIs intact, so that if an OpenStack private cloud developer were to make a call to the API, they're sure it will work. IT pros know that how much you rely on each of the public cloud APIs affects the portability of clouds. So, it was encouraging to hear AWS APIs are not being deprecated and, therefore, are reliable for multi-cloud architectures for the foreseeable future.
Randy Bias, Nati Shalom, CTO and founder of GigaSpaces, and Alex Freedland, CFO of Mirantis, all provided a healthy divergence of how they see OpenStack evolving and what is needed to strengthen the industry.
Freedland postulated that Moore's Law applies to cloud computing; the acceleration of innovation and the financial impact to companies will drive cloud adoption, he added. Bias and Shalom took a more technology-focused, 'If you build it, they will come' view.
But all three speakers agreed there are two things driving the adoption of, or at least investigation into, the use of OpenStack in a private cloud: an IT manager's desire to stay independent of any single cloud provider and the ability to interface any private cloud for resources they don't want to build in-house.
The battle for enterprise cloud takes shape among AWS, OpenStack, VMware
Most enterprise IT managers have been watching the public cloud race as a proof of concept and a way to shake out the contenders. Amazon Web Services has clearly been the winner with majority market share — and at the rate the company is spending money, it would be difficult for any one company to catch them, including IBM. The industry's answer to combat AWS in the public cloud has been the OpenStack alliance of IBM, HP, Rackspace and others. But VMware's recent announcement could put it in the running, too.
In May, Dell dropped out of the public cloud race, VMware entered the private cloud race with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service and IBM purchased SoftLayer. These announcements have created what I believe are the three main choices for enterprise cloud: AWS, OpenStack or VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service.
Most enterprise IT managers look at their infrastructure using VMware-colored glasses; everything must be built on an existing VMware infrastructure. Because of this, they don't need to worry about hypervisor choices to move forward. But that may not always be the way.
From a strategic point of view, it does not make sense to choose a public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider until you understand what your enterprise private cloud design will be. Most enterprises have not implemented a private cloud and are wrestling with ways to implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide more agile and responsive business to their clients, customers, staff and partners, while maintaining a firm risk-management discipline.
Take action; use your enterprise IaaS as a strategic differentiator, and leverage the public cloud for commoditized services, community/B2B, DevOps or global distribution needs.
While in the past, enterprise IT has shunned open source cloud, OpenStack is emerging as an unlikely leader in the long-term race. You can look at past IT leaders, such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, DEC, Novell, Cisco or Sun, as precedents of this kind of turnaround.
The growing number of OpenStack adopters, especially IBM, has made this path more appealing to improve enterprise portability options. Surveys show that many organizations expect to use multiple clouds in the future, and OpenStack offers the widest portability choice today. This is something your auditors will like, and we as enterprise IT managers know how important that is.
AWS is easily the leader in public cloud, with more than 55% market share and a long list of features and functions. Many enterprises IT managers let their developers play there, test their ideas there and when done, bring the app in-house to build for production. For those shops that find the AWS service offerings too appealing to turn their back on, consider installing Eucalyptus for your OpenStack private cloud.
VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service is the third enterprise cloud option, but it's the least mature of the three. VMware owns the enterprise virtualization marketplace, and with that installed base and trained skillset already in the enterprise, vCloud could be a path of least resistance for many organizations.
Cisco, EMC and VMware have teamed up to form VCE, which has products that allow enterprise IT managers to move toward a more automated private cloud. With this path, you can connect easily with CSC, AT&T and Bluelock public clouds. VMware also supports Cloud Foundry as its OpenStack offering, but with the recent hybrid announcement and the departure of the CTO Steve Herrod – who was its leading OpenStack advocate — VMware may be splitting off to defend its own ecosystem.


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He was expelled from school, regularly got into fights and dropped out of college. He had no ambition and low self-esteem.
But fast forward the clock and Nathaniel's life has taken a remarkable turn for the better. So much so that on Saturday he was presented with an award to reflect his dedication to helping young people in Swindon. Nathaniel is now a local hero.
The 18-year-old, a former pupil at Nova Hreod and Stratton Education Centre, has just spent the last year volunteering for the StreetGames Swindon project, which is run locally by Swindon Council in partnership with the charity StreetGames UK and funded by the Big Lottery.
It provides opportunities for young people to take part in all manner of sports and activities and aims to develop doorstep sport in disadvantaged communities.
Not that Nathaniel was interested in such opportunities early in his teens.
"I was a little yob getting into trouble, I was sponging off my mum," said Nathaniel, who lives in Penhill.
"I did not have any motivation and as I was a bit younger I did not really know any way other than being naughty.
"I started getting excluded and I eventually got sent to Stratton Education Centre. I did end up going to college and I passed my courses but it was not what I wanted and I dropped out after a year."
And so there Nathaniel was, a fully-fledged NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training). That was until he received a knock at the door from a neighbour – StreetGames coach Alana Sargent – who invited Nathaniel to one of her sessions.
"Alana asked me to help out," Nathaniel said. "The sessions were for nine or 10 year olds and I didn't really want to get involved, but I was surprised as I really enjoyed it.
"I've been doing it ever since and it gives me a real buzz that the youngsters look up to me and ask for advice. StreetGames paid for me to go on coaching courses and I've completed my FA football course. My CRB is coming through very soon, which means I will soon be in paid employment with StreetGames. I can also then do coaching at other places."
Nathaniel admits he has grown in confidence since joining the StreetGames Swindon project and currently volunteers for 12 hours a week – and is bracing himself for an even busier summer. He has stayed out of trouble and is comfortable leading Doorstep Sports Clubs.
As well as completing his Level 1 FA football coaching course, Nathaniel has passed courses in emergency first aid, safeguarding and child protection, StreetGames Activator courses for table tennis and handball and a Tennis Leaders award.
His levels of responsibility are set to increase still further when he becomes a father for the first time in August.
It is because of the way he has turned his life around that led him to be nominated for a Local Hero Award from StreetGames.
"My family are surprises at what I have done, but they are proud of me," said a modest Nathaniel. "I did not expect to get an award and it was a real surprise."

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This Gatlinburg hotel a bar/lounge on site. There are also several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
The Cherokee Grill
The Park Grill
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed are either onsite or nearby. Fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Basketball on site
- Playground on site
- Ziplining nearby
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 5.00 per stay.
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 5.00 per stay
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This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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I have tried to search up an answer for this but haven't found a really great answer... What would the difference between 3D engines like Irrlicht and Ogre3D be compared to a full-fledged game engine like Panda3D? Disregarding that Irrlicht and Ogre3D are able to make prettier graphics than Panda3D what can Panda3D do that the two 3D engines can't? The reason I'm asking this is because that I read on the Irrlicht website that it has built-in collision detection and that was something that I thought would be only in a game engine so where is the line drawn between an engine that is considered a 3D engine and an engine that is considered a game engine?
Now I'm not asking for an answer specific to those engines but in general. And if it helps the only game programming experience I have is a few months of developing with Dark GDK.
well it took me a second to figure out what you were asking, but i guess that's kind of a good question. I guess I don't really know if there's a true "line" because the definition of a game engine is just any underlying core technology that powers the game. If you break it down though, the term game engine doesn't really have a definition. Personally I consider the qualifications for an engine to be either:
1) the same code has been used to create multiple games 2) a programed designed in a fexible enough way to be incorperated into many different existing game projects
Now notice I'm not saying anything about the quality there.
Unfortunatley the question you're asking doesn't really have an answer. It's just kind of a judgment call from someone who has experience working with them. Even if it did have an answer, no one should base their engine choice off of its classification, its all about the needs you have. If you need better graphics, get a graphics engine. Physics help? get a physics engine? Need to make a game quick? You're getting into map editor territory...
So sorry to give such an unsatisfying answer but... I really don't know what else to say. I guess the straitest answer I can give is that it just kind of boils down to what it was intended to be. If Irrlicht has collision detection + AI + networking, then yes, I would probably call it a game engine. If Ogre just has graphics support, its just a graphics engine. If panda claims to have everything, well, it's an everything engine.
How I see it, a 3d engine is used to "play" 3d content, like a video, while a game engine includes everything to handle the "physical" side of the world as well.
Nothing stops you from making a game using "just" a 3d engine. That said, irrlicht at least is more of a game engine than a 3d engine..
Another way of making the distinction would be to draw the line between "generic" engines and engines that have been used in some game. You can do anything with a "generic" engine, while the other would be more of a modding target.
So in the end it's pretty clear nobody knows what the difference is, and you'll have to study the engines more closely to figure out what they're capable of. =)
Well, I was asking because knowing the "definition" of 3D engines and game engines would give me a better general idea of the feature sets in different engines which are commonly classified as either 3D or game. But I guess like startstutter says, it's really the call of the developer and it can vary greatly. So the only way to find out is to research on the specific engine and see what it can do rather than just looking at the type of engine classification of it.
Thanks for your help! =)
A 3D engine is a rendering engine primarily. It may have associated features, usually in the realms of middleware subsystems, but it doesn't range far from visual technologies.
A game engine would contain one or more different elements that go into a game, meaning: visual, audio, input/output, middleware (AI, physics, networking, etc...) and tools (editors, validators, etc...).
Of course, I have no authority whatsoever to enforce this eminently logical separation...
Thanks for your input, alphadog.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and work with Panda3D, just for it's broad feature set and completeness which should serve a newbie like me well. I think looking into specialized systems and binding together different libraries for different things I will look at some time in the future.
A 3d engine is just that, a realtime renderer that can be used for games.. or something else. Theoretically, it provides a host of additional facilities for rendering a scene above and beyond what is provided in a lower level 3d framework like Direct 3d.
A game-engine is altogether different. It includes a rendering system, as well as systems for AI, collision detection, and everything else required by your core game application.
Further, I would say that a 'game engine' is a singular integrated system of frameworks and facilities that were designed and intended to work specifically together in the support of a game application. By that I mean that if you take a 3d engine, a physics engine, a AI framework, and sundry bits and pieces of cool tech from here and there, you will never reach a point where you have a 'game engine'. You can certainly use all of those things to make a game, but it will require a substantial amount of glue code that is simply not necessary with a 'game engine'.
That is why Ogre is not a game engine, no matter how many extra parts you can download with it, and Panda is. When you see alot of these projects with these feature sets, make sure you know what you are getting. It does not matter if it includes a physics engine or anything else, if its not a game engine you will have to write one to get from those pieces and parts to an actual game...


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Grandma always used full-fat mayo and sour cream, but for anyone wanting lower fat I'm giving you a reduced fat version that uses half fat-free Greek Yogurt, one fourth light sour cream, and one fourth mayo. (For those who don't like mayo, you might prefer From-Scratch Diet-Friendly Ranch-Style Dip with Greek Yogurt and Dill, which is another variation of my Grandma Denny's Dip.)
I always use the full-fat mayo for flavor (even in the lower-fat version), but you can use light mayo if you want to make it even lower in fat. For South Beach Dieters, I love to eat this with vegetables like celery, jicama, sugar snap peas, bell pepper strips, radishes, broccoli, and cauliflower for phase one, and it's great with carrots or sweet potato fries for phase two or three.
(Grandma Denny's From Scratch Ranch-Style Vegetable Dip was updated January 2015.)
sweet potato fries (I ate this over the weekend with my friend Robin and we thought the sugar snap peas were especially good with the dip, which Robin gave two thumbs up!)
Grandma Denny's Original Vegetable Dip
(Makes 2 cups dip, recipe from my Grandma Denny, who was a fantastic cook.)
1 cup full-fat sour cream (I like Daisy sour cream)
1 cup full-fat mayo
1 tsp. grated onion
2 tsp. dried dill weed
2 tsp. Bon Appetit Seasoning Salt
Grate onion into a bowl, using the large side of a box grater or flat grater (not a microplane grater.) Add all other ingredients to the bowl and stir together with a whisk (or you can use a food processor, but it's not necessary.) Chill an hour or so before serving. This will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.
Lower-Fat Version of Grandma Denny's Vegetable Dip
(Makes 2 cups dip, original recipe from Grandma Denny; lower-fat version updated by Kalyn.)
1 cup fat-free Greek yogurt
1/2 cup light sour cream
1/2 cup mayo (or use light mayo for even less fat, but I like full-fat mayo for flavor in this)
1 tsp. grated onion (or more, I use at least 2 tsp.)
2 tsp. dried dill weed
2 tsp. Bon Appetit Seasoning Salt, Beau Monde Seasoning, or Trocomare Seasoning
Grate onion into a bowl, using the large side of a box grater or flat grater (not a microplane.) Add all other ingredients to the bowl and stir together with a whisk (or you can use a food processor, but it's not necessary.) Chill an hour or so before serving. This will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.
Note: If you don't want to grate the onion you could use onion powder (not onion salt.) However, Grandma always used fresh onion and so do I, even though it does make your fingers smell rather bad!
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Eat with low-carb vegetables like celery, sugar snap peas, jicama, bell pepper strips, radishes, broccoli, or cauliflower for Phase One or other low-carb diets. If you're not so concerned about carbs or for phase two or three, this is also great with carrots or sweet potato fries.
Find More Recipes Like This One:
More Healthy Dip Variations You Might Like:
(Recipe from other blogs not always South Beach Diet or carb-conscious; check ingredients.)
Heart-Healthy Shrimp dip Served with Veggie Dippers from Kalyn's Kitchen
Roasted Vegetable Dip with Tahini from Foolproof Living
Greek Yogurt and Tahini Dip for Tomatoes and Cucumbers ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Beau Monde Dip with Cottage Cheese and Veggies from Farm Fresh Feasts
Roasted Red Pepper Dip with Feta and Mint ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
(Want even more recipes? I find these recipes from other blogs using Food Blog Search.)


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An Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Moxifloxacin Ophthalmic Solution 0.5% ((VIGAMOX®) Versus Ofloxacin Ophthalmic Solution 0.3% in the Treatment of Bacterial Conjunctivitis in Chinese Patients
This study has been completed.
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First received: April 6, 2012
Last updated: April 27, 2015
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate Moxifloxacin 0.5% relative to Ofloxacin 0.3% in the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis in Chinese patients.
|Bacterial Conjunctivitis
|Drug: Moxifloxacin ophthalmic solution, 0.5% Drug: Ofloxacin ophthalmic solution, 0.3%
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Moxifloxacin Ophthalmic Solution 0.5% Versus Ofloxacin Ophthalmic Solution 0.3% in the Treatment of Bacterial Conjunctivitis in Chinese Patients
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MedlinePlus related topics: Pinkeye
Drug Information available for: Ofloxacin Levofloxacin Ofloxacin hydrochloride Moxifloxacin Moxifloxacin hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Clinical Cure Rate [ Time Frame: Day 9 ]Ocular signs of bacterial conjunctivitis (bulbar conjunctival injection and conjunctival discharge/exudates) were rated by the investigator on a 4-point scale, with 0=normal/absent; 1=mild; 2=moderate, and 3=severe. Clinical cure rate is presented as the percentage of participants for which the sum of the numerical scores for the 2 cardinal ocular signs of bacterial conjunctivitis was 0 at Day 9 TOC/Exit Visit.
- Microbiological Success Rate [ Time Frame: Day 9 ]Microbiological specimen(s) from the affected eye(s) were collected according to a protocol-defined process. Microbiological success rate is presented as the percentage of participants for which the pre-therapy pathogens at Visit 1 (Day 1) were eradicated at Day 9 TOC/Exit Visit.
|Study Start Date:
|May 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Moxifloxacin
Moxifloxacin ophthalmic solution, 0.5%, 1 drop instilled 3 times per day (TID) in each eye for 7 days with a test-of-cure (TOC) at Day 9
Drug: Moxifloxacin ophthalmic solution, 0.5%
Other Name: VIGAMOX®
Active Comparator: Ofloxacin
Ofloxacin ophthalmic solution, 0.3%, 1 drop instilled 3 times per day (TID) in each eye for 7 days with a test-of-cure (TOC) at Day 9
Drug: Ofloxacin ophthalmic solution, 0.3%
Other Name: Tarivid® Eye Drops
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Chinese.
- Diagnosis of bacterial conjunctivitis based on clinical observation.
- Understand and sign the approved informed consent. Legally authorized representative can provide informed consent for patients less than 18 years old and/or incapable of understanding the informed consent.
- Willing to complete all required study procedures and visits.
- Other protocol-defined inclusion criteria may apply.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women who are pregnant, lactating, or planning a pregnancy.
- Only 1 sighted eye or vision not correctable to 0.6 logMAR or better in either eye.
- Planned contact lens wear during the course of the study.
- Signs and symptoms of bacterial conjunctivitis for longer than 4 days prior to Screening (Day 1).
- Suspected fungal, viral, or Acanthamoeba infection.
- Any systemic or ocular disease or disorder, complicating factor or structural abnormality that would negatively affect the conduct or outcome of the study.
- History of recent surgery.
- Presence of concomitant systemic viral infection.
- Other protocol-defined exclusion criteria may apply.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01573910
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01573910
|Alcon (China) Ophthalmic Product Co., Ltd.
|Beijing, China
Sponsors and Collaborators
Alcon Research
|Study Director:
|Helen Yu, Lead CSM
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|NCT01573910 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 6, 2012
|Results First Received:
|April 27, 2015
|Last Updated:
|April 27, 2015
Keywords provided by Alcon Research:
Bacterial conjunctivitis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Conjunctivitis, Bacterial
Conjunctival Diseases
Eye Diseases
Eye Infections, Bacterial
Bacterial Infections
Eye Infections
Pharmaceutical Solutions
Ophthalmic Solutions
Norgestimate, ethinyl estradiol drug combination
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Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Contraceptives, Oral, Combined
Contraceptives, Oral
Contraceptive Agents, Female
Contraceptive Agents
Reproductive Control Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Anti-Infective Agents, Urinary
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LONG BEACH - The days of chatting over the fence with a neighbor or while out walking the dog have been declining for years now in many neighborhoods in Long Beach and nationally. The same can be said of calling Myrtle on the corner for the latest neighborhood gossip or catching up at the corner hair salon or saloon.
Such quaint notions of communication and interaction have lost ground in what has become increasingly a landscape of mobile, not to mention mobile-using, multicultural populations.
More and more these days, face-to-face interactions are being impinged on by Facebook-to-Facebook communication.
However, physical personal encounters remain the dominant way people stay informed about community and neighborhood issues, according to a 2010 study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That report says 46 percent of Americans still talked face-to-face with neighbors about community issues.
The bad news is Pew also found that 28 percent of Americans don't know any of their neighbors by name and another 29 percent knew only some.
Before the blame is laid on those who seem to bury their noses in their smartphones, many say Internet tools could soon be at the forefront of bringing neighborhoods back together.
Stacy Mungo, president of the El Dorado Estates Homeowners Association, credits online tools for helping keep her neighborhood connected and talking on issues great and small.
She credits the Internet with helping draw 150 residents who crammed into a neighbor's home recently to meet with Long Beach Police Cmdr. Michael Beckman.
"In the history of El Dorado Estates we had never had a meeting with 150 people," Mungo said. "This is how people communicate."
As Mungo recently showed the features of her neighborhood and a page hosted by Nextdoor.com she learned that "Dave," a mail carrier in her neighborhood for more than 20 years, was retiring and residents were going to host an impromptu party for him.
It was the kind of hastily learned, dispensed and acted upon news that won't make a newsletter but brings neighbors together.
Colleen McDonald, president of the Wrigley Association, regularly checks out two Facebook pages dedicated to news and events in the Wrigley area as well as another page on Neighborhoodlink.com.
"I look at it like a party line, if you remember those," she said, referring to the old phone system in which many could listen in simultaneously. "I think it's been very helpful."
A growing digital trend
Long Beach has a reputation as a "connected" city, and e-communication is daily becoming a bigger part of that.
On Friday, Tom Weisenberger of Lakewood launched a Nextdoor page.
"I'm trying to build a neighborhood," he said.
The Neighborhood Resource Center in Long Beach periodically publishes a list of neighborhood groups. The most recent list, available online, naturally, was compiled in 2011. It lists 174 groups, including neighborhood organizations, homeowners associations, community organizations and business associations. Almost all of these contain contact information via e-mail addresses, websites or social media sites.
What they don't include anymore are phone numbers. Such are our notions about privacy and communication these days.
Some groups use e-mail blasts and newsletters. Others have websites where information is disseminated. Still others have Facebook pages or other social media services such as Nextdoor, which describes itself as the first private social network for neighborhoods. In a little more than a year, the free network has hooked up with 40 community groups in Long Beach.
For all the technological innovations and enhancements in recent years, in a number of neighborhoods, the old ways are still the best.
Although Westside activist John Taeleifi answers a call from a reporter on his iPhone, he says many in the neighborhoods where he advocates are not so fortunate.
"West Long Beach is a tough area in all things, including outreach," said Taeleifi, the former president of the West Long Beach Association.
Although while he was the head of the West Long Beach Association, Taeleifi said he helped create a webpage, wlbassn.org, he added that many area residents lack computer access or the necessary language skills to use the site.
"What I use is the ethnic approach to get the word out," Taeleifi said. "We're not all walking around with iPhones. There are very few who are very active (online)."
So Taeleifi reaches out to leaders in the different ethnic communities and they get the word out by mobilizing volunteers to knock on doors, pass out fliers and get word out on the grapevine.
"That tends to work for us," he said.
For those neighborhoods where people are linked up, or linked in, electronic communication is proving very effective in bringing people together.
In addition to posting messages and information on Facebook, McDonald said she sends out e-blasts and newsletters both electronically and by mail.
"It helps neighbors feel closer," McDonald said.
She also has her photo on her posts and says sometimes people recognize her just because of that.
"I've met 10 to 12 people that way," McDonald said. "People I wouldn't have come into contact with otherwise. It's beautiful."
Nextdoor communication
One social media group that has gained traction rapidly in Long Beach is Nextdoor.
Mungo said her group was one of the first in Long Beach to create a page with that company. Kind of a cross between Facebook and Angie's List, Nextdoor differs in that it is hyperlocal and requires verification of identities and addresses in certain areas for members before they are allowed on.
Mungo said nearly 600 residents have joined and more come on daily.
Although El Dorado Estates has had an active community group since Mungo moved in in 2008, the new webpage has ratcheted up interest even more.
Mungo said that through the local page, communication "is ongoing and it's not just an issue that unites us. Moms are using it to set play dates. It's that continued connectivity."
Both McDonald and Mungo said Internet communication has helped safety in their communities and increased neighborhood vigilance.
McDonald said several weeks ago a resident posted a message about a lost dog, another resident who is active online found the animal, and then dog and owner were reunited.
"That was a really nice Christmas story," McDonald said. "I love Facebook."
Mungo has similar stories about reports of local car break-ins and lost dogs recovered and even a Nativity scene that was swiped from a local yard being returned after information was posted.
Because Nextdoor restricts access to neighborhood sites and doesn't sell members information to advertisers, Mungo prefers it.
Nirav Tolia, the co-founder and CEO of Nextdoor, said he and the staff of his company that launched in 2011 "are huge believers in communities both online and offline."
"Americans have lost touch with the people outside their front door," Tolia said.
He said the goal of Nextdoor, which has 7,000 neighborhoods online, is not to replace over-the-fence communication, but to "enhance real world relationships."
The goal, he said, will eventually be to connect local businesses with neighborhood clients, in the way Angie's List does, but with a more intimate and personal touch.
At the end of the day, all the technology in the world can't replace personal involvement. It still needs the McDonalds and Mungos, who are known on- and offline, to keep pages updated and relevant, in the same way community groups depend on their leaders.
"If nobody knows anybody, this won't work," Mungo said. "And if you don't have content, it won't help you. You need people, organization and content to drive success."
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Movie Monday 2/11
We had a very busy week and weekend, culminating in our annual Mardi Gras party Saturday evening. In the old days, we'd have over 50 people here! It's a much smaller affair now, and I get lots of help from friends, but I still felt hungover Sunday, even though I couldn't have any beer at the party! But it was fun and good to see our friends.
So, we only had time for one movie last week, Friday evening:
Have you seen any good movies lately?
So, we only had time for one movie last week, Friday evening:
Have you seen any good movies lately?
Posted by Sue Jackson at 5:38 PM
Labels: movies
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TOTALLY loved it too Sue! Took both my kids and even 11 year old son liked it (though he is still bit guided by his big sister!) Of course we loved the token Australian who we share a surname with..Rebel Wilson - the best singer in Tasmania ....with teeth! Ah laughter...the best medicine. Aiming to catch The Silver Linings Playbook when I get a chance...very different kind of movie I believe! Oh and we LOVED 'Perks of Being a Wallflower" : )ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, yes, she was great!! The highlight of the movie :)Delete
I really want to see Silver Linings Playbook, too, but we rarely get out to the theater.
And people keep telling me both to read Perks of Being a Wallflower AND to see the movie!!
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Mets want to check out Valdespin in infield
After playing outfield in winter ball, second baseman hopes to make opening roster
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Though Jordany Valdespin may finally be growing comfortable as an outfielder, the Mets believe his immediate future lies on the infield dirt.
"He played a lot of outfield in winter ball. This spring, we need to put him back in the infield a little bit," manager Terry Collins said Saturday after Valdespin reported to camp. "We know if need be, we can play him in the outfield. We need to take a look at him in the infield right now."
Though second base is Valdespin's natural position, that may hurt his already-slim chances of making the Opening Day roster. Coming into camp, all four of the Mets' starting infielders are entrenched in their roles, with Justin Turner an overwhelming favorite to secure one bench spot. That leaves one slot open for Brandon Hicks or Brian Bixler -- and Hicks is out of Minor League options, making him the early favorite for the assignment.
Valdespin, who played mostly outfield for his Dominican winter ball team, understands his situation.
"I won't keep my head down if I don't stay on the team Opening Day," he said. "The only thing I can do is play hard and then go up. But my plan is to stay on the team on the Opening Day for all year."
Ideally, the Mets would like to see Valdespin mature both on and off the field before handing him another big league job. On the diamond, Valdespin showed a propensity for chasing pitches during his rookie season, striking out in 19 of his final 68 plate appearances. Off the field, he displayed continued immaturity this winter when he posted a Twitter picture of himself wearing a Marlins cap -- a photo that he claims his cousin posted without his consent.
Regardless of intent, the Mets hope that Valdespin grows both as a person and a player this spring.
"My game is to stay on the bases, steal bases, help my team how I can do it," Valdespin said. "That's my plan for this year. I'm prepared 100 percent in my mind, and physically too, and we'll see what happens in Spring Training."


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What is this medicine?PENTOXIFYLLINE (pen tox I fi leen) improves blood flow. This medicine helps to decrease the pain, discomfort, or cramps you can get from having poor circulation in your legs.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Swallow whole. Do not crush or chew. Take with food. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Do not stop taking this medicine except on the advice of your doctor or health care professional.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
What if I miss a dose?If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
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What should I watch for while using this medicine?Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. You may feel some benefit after 2 to 4 weeks of treatment, but it can take up to 8 weeks before you get the full benefit.
Smoking tobacco or marijuana can make your condition worse by further narrowing the blood vessels. Do not smoke.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
Where should I keep my medicine?Keep out of the reach of children.
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Last night I was happy at home during a big storm that hit the NYC area. I did a little test using Skype and Ecamm Network's Call Recorder. As you can hear it works as advertised:
Skype Call with Leslie by thingstocome
"Install Call Recorder and you'll instantly see recording controls in Skype. Use the Record and Stop buttons, or activate Call Recorder's automatic recording feature. The recorded files are saved into a folder on your Mac, neatly named with the caller's name and the date. That's it!" – ecamm.com
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clean start
Ever feel like starting over?! Ya, me too.
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at least once a week I feel like starting fresh!ReplyDelete
same here.ReplyDelete
(I love the subway tiles in the dining room)
So true- the grass is always greener- or white as the case maybe!ReplyDelete
all the time. ;)ReplyDelete
Oh yes!, almost all the time.ReplyDelete
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sure. that's why i cleaned out my office last week. now waiting for the dh to put up new shelving and figure out some sort of display for my illustrations and inspiration boards. I needed a fresh start. it's just not finished yet!ReplyDelete
LOVE the views out the windows.......dreamy.
I am really wanting to do that with my bedroom! I feel the same.ReplyDelete
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You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Why Not Us ?
How long will he be out?
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Probably know more tommorow.Colts S Bob Sanders left the game with an "arm injury," according to Dungy. The Colts don't know its severity yet.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
But how!? He didn't even use his arms today!
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You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
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Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
It's not a big deal. On the Star this morning he said it didn't hurt. Could be cramps or something.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Dungy just said on Sirius they didn't have any real injury issues coming out of the game.......


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Danny Granger, Darren Collison, Dahntay Jones/Brandon Rush, and two firsts for CP3?
Paul, Stephenson, Price
Hill, Rush/Jones
George, Posey
Nene, Hansborough
Hibbert, Foster
I would start Rush if we kept him, Hill if we kept Jones.
I would expect the Hornets to re-sign West at that point for a reasonable deal.
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Intervention for Anxiety After Falls
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|Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Specific Phobia Anxiety
|Behavioral: Education Behavioral: Relaxation Training Behavioral: Cognitive Restructuring Behavioral: Behavioral Activation Behavioral: Exposure
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Intervention for Disabling Anxiety in Older Adults Injured by Falls
- The Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and Survey of Activities and Fear of Falling in the Elderly (SAFE) will be primary outcomes. [ Time Frame: At initial assessment, following completion of intervention, and 3 months after completion of intervention ]
- Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Reintegration to Normal Living, Health Related Quality of Life, and other measures will be included. [ Time Frame: At initial assessment, following completion of intervention, and 3 months after completion of intervention ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Cognitive Behavioral Exposure Therapy
Behavioral: Education
Learning about anxiety
Other Name: PsychoeducationBehavioral: Relaxation Training
Learning skills to reduce tension
Other Names:Behavioral: Cognitive Restructuring
Learning skills needed to cope better with distressing thoughts
Other Names:Behavioral: Behavioral Activation
Learning to initiate healthy activity
Other Name: Increasing physical activityBehavioral: Exposure
Coaching in how to confront avoided thoughts, situations, and people)
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
Falls are the most commonly occurring cause of traumatic injury among older adults. For many, the consequences include reduced mobility, difficulty performing basic self-care, social isolation, deteriorating health, or even death. Most interventions for falls do not address anxiety in the aftermath of falling.
After an initial study assessment, participants will complete 8 home-based sessions of a Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT). The sessions will be led by a study clinician who will cover the 5 intervention components:(a) education (learning about anxiety and the rationale for treatment); (b) relaxation training (learning skills to reduce tension); (c) cognitive restructuring (learning skills needed to cope better with distressing thoughts); (d) behavioral activation (learning to initiate healthy activity); and (e) exposure (coaching in how to confront avoided thoughts, situations, and people).
Participants will also complete assessments following completion of the intervention and 3 months after completion of the intervention.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|65 Years to 105 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- age > or = 65 years
- English-speaking
- injured due to fall
- hospitalized
- returned home < or = 3 months
- ambulatory
- full or subsyndromal PTSD or Fear of Falling
- residing in one of the five boroughs of New York City
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to understand assessment questions
- Marked cognitive impairment
- Dementia
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression with psychotic features
- Delusional Disorder
- Substance Use Disorder or Dependence
- Active suicidal ideation, intent, or plan
- Active homicidal ideation, intent or plan
- Aphasia
- Acute or severe medical illness or life expectancy < 6 months
- Initiated psychotropic medications < 6 weeks prior
- Initiated mental health treatment < 6 weeks prior
- Psychosocial factors that would compromise study participation (such as not having a telephone)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01268657
|United States, New York
|Weill Cornell Medical College
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|Principal Investigator:
|Nimali Jayasinghe, PhD
|Weill Medical College of Cornell University
|Responsible Party:
|Nimali Jayasinghe, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01268657 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 29, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 13, 2016
Keywords provided by Nimali Jayasinghe, Weill Medical College of Cornell University:
Fear of Falling
Older Adults
Injurious Falls
Exposure Therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Anxiety Disorders
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Mental Disorders
Stress Disorders, Traumatic
Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 20, 2017


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At this year's Wine & Chocolate Walk, I ventured out to try something a little different…homemade lollipops! These are easy to make (although if you are making 325 like I did it will take you some time). Just be patient and don't walk away from the stove! These would be great for a bridal shower or Bachelorette party.
Each recipe makes 16-18 lollipops.
1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon Smirnoff Kissed Caramel Vodka
2 tablespoons cool water
3/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon salt
1) Place silicone mat or parchment paper on baking sheet. Tip – make sure whatever you lay on your cookie sheet is totally flat otherwise your hot candy will run making for some funny looking lollipops. You can also use a lollipop mold but I don't feel it is worth the expense.
2) Mix together 1/4 cup Vodka, water, sugar, corn syrup and salt in a 2-quart saucepan until sugar is wet. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally and gently with a heat resistant spoon.
3) Boil to 300 degrees F without stirring.
4) Immediately remove from heat and working quickly add 1 teaspoon Vodka. Mix well. Be careful – the hot sugar will bubble up.
5) Still working quickly, drop teaspoons of syrup onto the baking sheet. Add stick before the syrup cools. Be sure to twist it so it adheres firmly to the candy.
6) Store lollipops in an air tight container.
Recipe originally posted by Hostess with the Mostess (she shows great step-by-step photos).


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FROM David Pocock to Kurtley Beale, it is a defining month for Australian rugby. Iain Payten looks at the key issues on the spring tour.
1) Is Kurtley Beale the long-term answer at five-eighth?
November shapes as a defining tour for Beale. After a poor start to the Rugby Championship at fullback, Beale turned in three assured performances at No. 10.
Beale is a superb ball-player, capable of creating numbers with his step and speed, but on the softer grounds of Europe, the Rebels star must also demonstrate a clever kicking game; carving out field position for his forwards.
Berrick Barnes' goalkicking is an asset, so don't discount his possible return to fullback.
2) Can the Wallabies get the best out of David Pocock and Michael Hooper?
Don't hold your breath to see them start together. These two outstanding openside flankers both deserve the No. 7 jersey, but only one can wear it. To have both short blokes in the side not only takes out a lineout option but leaves the Wallabies under-gunned for the physical clashes.
Robbie Deans has shown a willingness to use two opensides in the last half-hour, when most Test matches are won and lost.
The $64 question is who starts? Pocock won't be ready to play France and will return via the bench against England, with Hooper starting.
Pocock will likely get his chance with starts against Italy and Wales.
3) Can the Wallabies' re-discover their running game?
They showed great character to finish second in the Rugby Championship, but even a cursory glance at the stats leaves you asking how.
The Wallabies scored the least amount of tries, averaging just one a game, and managed to conjure less than one linebreak per game. Only Argentina scored fewer points.
Injuries robbed the side of several key attackers like Will Genia and James O'Connor.
Only solid defence and the goalkicking of Barnes and Mike Harris turned what could have been a disastrous tournament into a second-place finish.
The Wallabies' backs have to turn to Beale and winger Digby Ioane for half-breaks, and keep bold young centre Ben Tapuaii in the team.
4) Will this tour matter ahead for the British and Irish Lions showdown next year?
You bet - for both the Wallabies and their UK opponents, England and Wales. Deans and Lions coach Warren Gatland will be looking to see which of their prospective troops for next year's series display the willingness to stand up and fight for their jersey.
Lions tours are brutal affairs. Hard men are required, and this month's tour is a perfect audition for the Wallabies.
5) What chance a Wallabies slip-up, and where will it come from?
The Wallabies have an annoying tendency to play like superstars when backed into a corner, only to clock off when the pressure has eased.
So pencil in the clash with Italy as Australia's potential banana skin.
The Azzurri travel overseas as well as a banana at the bottom of a backpack, but at home, with the crowd at their back and a friendly ref swayed by the atmosphere, the Italians can be tricky. They almost beat Australia in Florence in 2010 - only Barnes' goalkicking saved the day - and with improved discipline, they could be dangerous.
Need we mention the precedents - Scotland 2009 and 2012, Samoa 2011?
6) Could a bad tour see Robbie Deans sacked?
Nope. The pressure that existed on Deans' job in TRC was not as cut-throat as commonly believed, with many of the ARU board remaining strong supporters.
A second-placed finish and the draw with New Zealand in Brisbane gave the ARU board all the evidence it needed to stick with Deans for the last year of his contract in 2013.
Originally published as Aussies caught by short and Kurtleys


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Course Details
Course Description
About The Instructor(s)
Session, Dates: 5 (05/13/2013 - 05/31/2013)
Days: MTWR
Time: 01:00 - 03:50 pm
Location: Moon Campus
Room: Wheatley Center 112
Seats Available: 25 Seats
Credits: 3
This course teaches students the processes of close reading, analysis, and interpretation of literature and invites students to make connections between literature and their experiences. Students learn to distinguish between reading for comprehension and reading for pleasure, to recognize key principles of storytelling, and to distinguish types of literary works. Introducing students to texts that are international and multicultural in scope as well as to Western literature, the course focuses on works that treat the themes of initiation and development, especially coming of age.
Connie M. Ruzich, Ph.D.
University Professor of English
English Department
412-397-6453 phone
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...with the qualification that he still has much time in the NBA (provided he is not put into jail)...
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...with the qualification that he still has much time in the NBA (provided he is not put into jail)...
Here, everyone have a : on me
... and I am not a Lakers fan, nor was I a Bulls fan... assuming that Michael Jordan has the title right now...
Here, everyone have a : on me
Oh god, I wouldn't dare post a topic like this here.
Put on your flame-retardent suit my friend..
To answer your question:
I sometimes forget just how young the guy is and the scary thing is that he can only get better. And he probably will. Forget his talent, he has alot of heart and drive to get better.
He's not the best yet but I don't see why he can't be.
He's up there.
"All Around" Player...Garnett has to be up there.
He's easily the best player I've seen since MJ. Their games look so similar as well, Kobe modeled his game after Jordans (as many others have) but no one has ever looked so eerily reminescent.
Still gotta give the nod to the teach right now tho.
Don't get me wrong... I love Garnett much more than I like Kobe... but Kobe wins and Garnett hasn't yet... and Kobe is still SOOO young."All Around" Player...Garnett has to be up there.
Garnett might get the nudge it terms of overall basketball stats because he is taller too and can contribute more on the glass and with blocked shots... but Kobe is C-L-U-T-C-H... he has whatever bug Jordan had..
Here, everyone have a : on me
He is only 2 years younger than KG...but I agree - the man is clutch and you either have that or you don't.and Kobe is still SOOO young.
As for Kobe wins and Garnett hasn't...well, Kobe had one of the most dominant players to ever play the sport by his side.
I still expect a lot more to come from both Kobe and Garnett.
Oh god, I wouldn't dare post a topic like this here.
Put on your flame-retardent suit my friend..
I'm ready... bring it on
I just have so much respect for his game, its incredible... He seems to already have found the magic necessary to help his teammates do better... I love how he has been passing first this entire playoffs (except when the game was on the line tonight)...
Here, everyone have a : on me
IlovethePacers got it right, Kobe has "it"...the same "it" that Jordan had.
Who honestly didn't think that shot was going in when it left Kobe's hand?
Time and Time again he has done "it". That is what makes champions.
Last season he was simply unstoppable. I remember him checking into that season with all those new muscles and alot of people thought he was going to be slowed down. 30/7/6 sure showed them. Respect is the word that comes to mind.
***** No! Reece Gaines Is!
but on a serious note...tmac is better then kobe...
Please explain... really...how do you figure?***** No! Reece Gaines Is!
but on a serious note...tmac is better then kobe...
I don't think he is close enough to lick the sweat off Jordan's balls. If not for riding Shaq's jock for 3 titles he would be in the same category as T-Mac, probably lower.
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
Tmac is not better. He has not won, he has not been clutch. He has shown an absolute lack of heart that is disheartening at his age. Kobe is also a better defender.
Stats wise they are a wash so it has to come down to the intangibles. Kobe sure takes the lead there.
If the forumers here asked themselves honestly who they'd like more on the pacers (kobe or tmac) they'd probably go with kobe in the vast majority.
You could say that without Kobe, Shaq would have 0 titles right now.I don't think he is close enough to lick the sweat off Jordan's balls. If not for riding Shaq's jock for 3 titles he would be in the same category as T-Mac, probably lower.
Without Pippen, Jordan would have 0 titles.
It is a team game, no one is asking Kobe to go out and win a title all by himself. They do ask him to win close games though, and he does a pretty damn good job of doing that.
Kobe has been placed in a better position than Tmac, I don't think that gives you the right to take away everything he has done.
If Tmac was on the Lakers and he won 3 titles, we would be talking about him being like Jordan, but he isn't.
What if, What if, What if... You can play that game all day long.
PLEASE! Kobes defense is a lack of officials calling no fouls! Kobe bumps grabs and holds and completely hacks the ***** out of his defenders. And yes kobe has rode shaqs jock for the 3 titles. His clutch is blown way out of proportion. Tmac is to. But his teammates ***** it up so much. I Remember a game vs philly the magic where down 3 and he had just stole the ball from snow and came down and canned a 3 with a defender draped all over him. What happens next? armstrong fouls iverson with 5 seconds left. Game over. He is clutch, it's just t-mac doeesn't have the supporting cast as kobe does. I Bet you if tmac was in kobes shoes you would all say he's better then kobe. Just wait till he gets to a team who is better. you will see how good tracy mcgrady is.
Hopefully he will come to the Pacers and then we can see for ourselves
Kobe = plays some of the best defense in the leaguetmac is better then kobe...
Tmac = on the losingest team in basketball last year
Kobe = would singlehandedly win 30 games on any NBA team
Tmac = 0 championships
Kobe = 3 championships (with Shaq albeit... I admit that Kobe has lots of help there)
Here, everyone have a : on me
Funny, grabbing and holding is what all the great players gets away with. Kobe gets the same calls tmac does.
But as the other poster said, you can go all night saying what if, what if.
Kobe earned where he is right now. How the hell can you say his clutchness is blown out of proportion.
Did you miss this regular season where he had gamewinners against Denver not to mention the 2 he had in one game against the blazers. And now you can add this one.
Name me one player who is more clutch atm than him.
I'll be back to check tomorrow. Time for sleep.
P.S ILoveThePacers. I agree with your assesment though you could have also said that shaq got alot of help from Kobe. It's a good situation for sure but I think they had an equal part in winning those 3. I don't think it's as simple as putting tmac in the same situation and boom, same result. Not that you said that though I'm just rambling.
Kobe is the Best NBA Player I have seen hit the NBA since the Jordan Era , is he better than Jordan ? Nope not yet but he could be in a Few Years. I watched a amazing program on Kobe the other night forget what channel ( not a sports channel) anyways it really told me alot about Kobe.
hell if that be the case then you could count billups for his game winners he's hit.
Tmac hits game winners to but because he's not on the lakers (and you can't say theres not a bias) it isn't that much shown. Not only you, but ESPN and most sports writers/journalist ride the lakers nuts so bad.
no it's because some of us have basketball knowledge and don't post useless nonsense.


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I told you all so. I was smart not to get my hopes up this time, so though I'm disappointed, I'm also not surprised. At least this time, the wheels came off before the playoffs.
This "defense" is an embrassment to high school squads, let alone an NFL team. And when the offense isn't producing, we have no chance in hell. No more than 5% of this "defense" should be retained next season. And no number of injuries is a legitimate excuse for it being THIS bad. They just don't have any heart.
The bye is about to go bye-bye. Another early playoff exit is on the horizon. I would refer to them as the "Dolts," but they don't deserve to have a "D" anywhere near their name.
Ladies and gentlemen, your In ianapolis Colts. :


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