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St. Jude Medical Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair Study (SJM PMVr)
This study has been completed.
St. Jude Medical
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St. Jude Medical
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First received: December 6, 2011
Last updated: January 20, 2014
Last verified: January 2014
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this proof-of-concept study is to assess the relative safety and feasibility of the SJM Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair (PMVr) Device.
|Mitral Valve Prolapse
|Device: PMVr procedure (SJM Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair (PMVr)
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Clinical Assessment of the St. Jude Medical (SJM) Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair (PMVr) Device Concept
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: X-linked cardiac valvular dysplasia
MedlinePlus related topics: Mitral Valve ProlapseU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by St. Jude Medical:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Device and Procedural Success [ Time Frame: During the investigational procedure ]
The primary objective is to evaluate the technical feasibility and acute device deployment characteristics of the SJM PMVr Device.
Technical feasibility and deployment characteristics will be defined as:
- The ability of the delivery system to access the mitral valve
- The ability of the device to capture mitral valve (MV) leaflet tissue
- Ability to plicate MV leaflet tissue
- The clip is able to be deployed in MV leaflet tissue
- The delivery system is able to be removed.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Quantification of SAEs reported that are unique to the investigational procedure [ Time Frame: Through 6 weeks post-implantation ]The secondary objective is to evaluate safety of the SJM PMVr device by summarizing SAEs unique to accessing the valve, placing the clip, and removing the delivery system.
|Study Start Date:
|December 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Intevention-PMVr Procedure
Device: PMVr procedure (SJM Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair (PMVr)
A maximum of ten (10) subjects will receive a percutaneous mitral valve clip procedure.
Detailed Description:
Subjects will be followed-up through 6 weeks post implantation.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject has symptomatic or asymptomatic moderate (2+) or severe (3-4+) mitral regurgitation.
- Subject has an ejection fraction (EF) ≥ 30%.
- Subject is of legal age (≥18 years old).
- Subject is planned to undergo surgical repair or replacement of the mitral valve for symptomatic or asymptomatic posterior leaflet mitral prolapse.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject requires a complex mitral valve repair or has isolated anterior prolapse.
- Subject has mitral valve stenosis in which the annulus opening is <10mm. Subject has valve disease other than mitral which requires surgical intervention.
- Subject requires a concomitant procedure.
- Subject has a pre-existing prosthetic valve in any position.
- Subject had stenting or PCI within 6 months before the planned procedure, or is anticipated to require stenting or PCI within 6 months post-procedure.
- Subject has calcification of the mitral leaflets or annulus which in the medical opinion of the surgical investigator would limit repair and /or implantation of the investigational device.
- Subject has renal insufficiency or is on chronic dialysis.
- Subject has had a cerebral vascular accident (CVA) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) within the past 6 months.
- Subject has a history of endocarditis or has active endocarditis.
- Subject has a history of autoimmune disease.
- Subject has significant known carotid artery disease.
- Subject has an aorto-mitral angle of <110 degrees.
- Subject has hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM's Disease).
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01500148
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01500148
|United Kingdom
|Papworth Hospital
|Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sponsors and Collaborators
St. Jude Medical
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|St. Jude Medical
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01500148 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 6, 2011
|Last Updated:
|January 20, 2014
Keywords provided by St. Jude Medical:
Mitral Valve Prolapse
Mitral Valve Disease
Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Mitral Valve Insufficiency
Mitral Valve Incompetence
Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
Posterior leaflet prolapse
Mitral valve degeneration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mitral Valve Prolapse
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Heart Valve Prolapse
Heart Valve Diseases
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center will offer a free one night class on personal safety and self defense as part of its Every Woman's Journey series.
Personal safety tips and other information will be offered during the session, according to a hospital statement.
Participants will also learn basic self defense moves along with tactics useful in detering an attack, the statement said.
The class will be offered at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pomona Valley Health Center in Chino Hills, 2140 Grand Ave.
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A final report from a Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Authority consultant that found California American Water's proposed desalination plant would be considerably more expensive than two other proposals has sparked a debate over how the relative costs were calculated and the relevance of the finding.
The final report, issued by Carlsbad-based Separation Processes, Inc. and released by Carmel mayor and water authority vice president Jason Burnett on Tuesday, employed a considerably higher interest rate of about 8.5 percent for financing for Cal Am's proposal than had been used in an earlier draft report. That resulted in a much wider difference in cost between the projects.
As a result, the report found that Cal Am's project would cost about $3,300 per acre-foot per year, while competing proposals from DeepWater Desal and the People's Moss Landing Project would cost about $2,205 and $2,320, respectively.
Burnett said Wednesday the final report underscored the need for local public financing capable of lowering the Cal Am proposal's overall debt cost. Speaking at a state Public Utilities Commission project cost workshop last week, Burnett said public financing could save ratepayers more than $100 million over the life of the project.
"It illustrates the importance of getting low-cost financing," Burnett said. "That's why I'm so focused on public financing."
Cal Am spokeswoman Catherine Bowie challenged the SPI report's use of a higher interest rate to reach its conclusion, though she said company officials are in talks with the authority on alternative financing plans.
Burnett said the authority is pushing to require Cal Am to include a public contribution in its project financing plan to save ratepayers money, and pointed out that the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and the county have also recommended a public financing requirement. He proposed requiring Cal Am to accept about $90 million in local funding in place of its own equity, and also to count a low-interest state loan as a public contribution rather than company equity. The local funding would likely have to be raised through a surcharge on water bills or some other fee, Burnett said.
That kind of public financing plan, he argued, would save ratepayers about $112 million over 30 years and make Cal Am's project more competitive with the others, improving its chances of ultimately earning the authority's recommendation.
WaterPlus President Ron Weitzman questioned whether ratepayers would be willing to pay a surcharge or make some other upfront contribution to the project cost for a desal plant Cal Am would own, pointing out that the ratepayers would be assuming all the risk in case the project failed.
Cal Am is already in the process of collecting about $32 million from Peninsula ratepayers on the failed regional desal project.
The authority's technical advisory committee is set to meet Jan. 7 and is expected to consider the final SPI report.
Meanwhile, the authority board is expected to make a formal recommendation on which of the three projects it will support in time to submit it as part of official testimony before the CPUC on Feb. 22. An updated report from SPI, expected next month, will help inform that decision, according to Burnett.
Bowie suggested it was misleading for the SPI report to apply the higher interest rate to the company's proposal and pointed out that Cal Am's plan calls for employing both a no-interest $99 million surcharge and low-interest state revolving fund loans, which would lower the overall cost of the project debt to about 4 percent. By that measure, she said, Cal Am's project would end up costing ratepayers about the same as the other two proposals.
Burnett said the surcharge was left out of SPI's analysis of the Cal Am proposal's cost because it isn't guaranteed and wasn't included in either of the other two proposals, and including it would have offered Cal Am an unfair advantage by setting up an "apples-to-oranges" comparison.
He pointed out that SPI was not asked to do a detailed financial analysis, and there was room for more discussion about the findings. He said the authority would rely on the water management district's expertise, or hire a financial consultant, to take a more in-depth look at financing.
Bowie said that Cal Am officials continue to discuss alternative project financing proposals with the authority, and said they share the authority's goals of lowering costs to customers and are committed to an "open dialogue" on the issue.
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Editor's note: This market commentary is provided by the Dairy Division at FCStone in Chicago, Ill.
Class III prices bounced back after a mixed open and lower morning session, with gains across the entire sector (except September) by the time the pit session closed. First-quarter contracts gained 21¢ on the day to $ 21.53/cwt., while the January-December pack gained 9¢ overall to settle at $19.24/cwt.
On a technical basis, the majority of Class III contracts tested or even surpassed near-term support levels early in the day, only to close higher after a spot session that saw continued bids for block cheese. This leaves one to believe that the recent downside activity was no more than a correction off of the highs, and we still have a probability of more upside or at least a re-test of the recent highs.
Cheese markets did very little in the way of business yesterday, and blocks and barrels both went unchanged on the day. With Super Bowl demand winding down, traders will be looking to the export market to see if overseas demand continues its pull of U.S. cheese products.
The Class IV markets were also quiet. Prices were mixed on the day settling anywhere from down 10¢ to up 1¢. This left the 2014 average down 2¢ on the day to settle at $20.92/cwt. We could see a bit of a short–term bounce as the market backs off of overbought levels. It all remains to be seen and could change rapidly if China decides to turn down powder demand as we get into the Chinese New Year at week's end.
While spot butter was up 1¢ yesterday on one trade, the futures contracts did not take it as a sign to follow suit. Butter markets were mixed with a slight bearish lean. We will keep an eye on overseas demand as that could still be a driver for butter in the coming weeks.
Jan. 27 spot session results:
Block cheese: $2.31 (unchanged)
Barrel cheese: $2.275 (unchanged)
Grade A NFDM: $2.05 (unchanged)
Butter: $1.90 (up 1.0¢)
Today's expectations:
• Class III & Cheese futures to open higher
• Dry whey to open steady
• Class IV & NFDM to open mostly higher
• Butter to open mxed
Grain futures
Grains showed a little sign of life early, but got into a choppy mode after export inspections came in right around expectations. The corn market traded in a 5.75¢ range all day to settle out at $4.3175, up 2.25¢ on the day. We have seen this market trade in a really compressed range for the past few weeks. This compressed pattern will continue until we get closer to the spring, when we start to get planting intention news. Beans traded both sides of unchanged to settle up 3¢ on the day to $12.8775. Deferred contracts through March 2015 were mostly negative. Stronger export numbers kept front month contracts higher through the session.
Today's expectation:
Grains look to open mixed within 3¢ of unchanged.
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Michael Chiklis: Hollywood Survivor
After a controversial film and five Years as TV's "Commish," Michael Chiklis's next challenge Is Convincing Producers He's younger than his roles
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Michael Chiklis had been a member of the famed Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills since it was under construction, and this was the first time he'd seen Jim Belushi there. After seven years, Chiklis was not about to lose his one opportunity to square a serious misunderstanding with the actor. He boldly planted himself next to Belushi. Belushi just as boldly glared back, repeating, "You're at the wrong table."
All Belushi could see was the young punk who'd played his brother, the late comic John Belushi, in the controversial 1989 film Wired. He hated the way the movie portrayed John and was in no mood to chat up its star. He got up to leave.
"Please, don't do this," said Chiklis. "I've never met you. Let's sit down and talk about this."
It wasn't that Chiklis needed Belushi's approval for career reasons. The stocky, raspy-voiced actor had spent five years carrying the ABC police drama "The Commish" and three "Commish" TV movies, just made a cameo in the Oliver Stone film Nixon, and was set to star on Broadway in the one-man show Defending the Caveman. It's just that Jim was John's blood, and the last thing Chiklis ever wanted was to hurt the Belushi family.
"'For my part, it was an homage,'" Chiklis told him. "'I was an actor who had an opportunity to play a hero of mine. And I did that gig out of love, respect and homage. And if I caused you and your family any pain, I am so sorry, because that's not what I ever intended.'"
Chiklis stares into a glass of red wine while recalling the story more than a year later. "We ended up almost coming to tears and he ended up giving me a hug, saying, 'Let's let it go.'
"So I feel like that chapter of my life is officially closed," he says. "I didn't really care about anyone else. The people in the business who didn't take meetings with me because of it, that's their whole gig. I don't have to answer to them. Jim I cared about, because he was John's family."
On this cool summer evening, Chiklis--or "Chiky" to friends--has returned to the scene of that tale, the Grand Havana, to unwind after a long day of narrating the Showtime movie Body and Soul, one of four films he made in the past year and a half. A quiet table on the terrace. A soothing jazz riff spilling softly into the air. The glass of red wine. And two cherished Fuente Fuente OpusXs next to his plate.
"It's shocking that they even have an OpusX, because there are waiting lists," he says with a grin, gazing at them the way some of us undress a Toblerone. They're so rare at the moment that the Havana Room is allowing only two per member. "People wait months and months to get them."
Chiklis knows all about the slow build. He acted professionally for nine years before hitting the big time in Wired at 24, endured nearly two years weathering the professional repercussions of its controversy, and spent five years gaining acceptance for his portrayal of a 40-year-old police commissioner--only to find himself at present trying to convince Hollywood that he is just 36. Not only that, but the 5-foot, 9-inch Chiklis--who purposely gained 40 pounds for his roles in Wired and "The Commish"--is working on a physical makeover, meticulously dieting and exercising to return to his athlete's build of 185 pounds.
"One of the ironies of 'The Commish' was trying to show the community my acting range by playing a heavyset, 40-year-old man at 27. Sometimes you can do too good of a job," he says with a laugh. "Now, every interview I have with people who don't know me say, 'Oh my gosh, you're like a young guy.' They're expecting an alta caca to walk into the room."
Of all the ways to be typecast, a conservative police commissioner is about as far as you can get from Chiklis's boisterous, larger-than-life personality. While most established actors are looking for that meaty character role, Chiklis is focusing on simply playing characters his age.
In a six-month run in 1997 in Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman, he was a guy with savvy insight into the female psyche; in Warner Bros.' 1998 sci-fi action movie Soldier, starring fellow cigar maven Ken Russell, he was a space colonist with a heart; in this year's Body and Soul, he was a boxing manager. Then there're his turns as a likable Russian mobster and recovering alcoholic, respectively, in the independent films Taxman, starring Chiklis's buddy and Le Grand Havana Room co-founder Joe Pantoliano, and Carlo's Wake, a comedy with Rita Moreno and Martin Landau. Taxman was due out in August and Carlo's Wake has yet to be released.
Taxman finally gave Chiklis a chance to work with Pantoliano for the first time since they met in the early '90s at a play that Pantoliano was doing in a Santa Monica warehouse. "Joey Pants is the one who made me a member of the Havana Room," says Chiklis. "I love him. He's one of those characters who make you really happy to be in this business."
"He's a good guy with a big heart," counters Pantoliano. "When I did the opening for the Grand Havana, Michael and his wife, Michelle, came to the party dressed completely wrong. When they saw me standing outside in a suit, they immediately ducked into a fancy store and dropped $5,000 on new outfits they had tailored on the spot. In an hour."
Any special reason for their friendship?
Pantoliano thinks carefully. "He gives out really good cigars."
The pair hung out a lot during "The Commish" days, smoking cigars in the bar at Vancouver's Sutton Place Hotel with celebrities, such as Tom Selleck, who were in the city for various productions. After five years there, Chiklis was known as the Pope of Vancouver for hooking up visiting actors with the best restaurants and clubs.
Coming off that kind of career high, his current flurry of work is especially sweet, considering the naysayers who emerged after his series ended in 1995. "If there was any intimidation before, after Wired, 'The Commish' and the one-man show on Broadway, I'm not intimidated by anything anymore," he says. "What's more, my confidence is through the roof. You need conga balls to open on Broadway in a one-man show. Giant, swinging conga balls. And if I can stand in front of 1,000 New Yorkers and make them scream with laughter, I can go into almost any audition, for two people for two minutes."
Chiklis got his acting talent from his mother, Kate; his toughness from his brother Peter, two years older, a real estate salesman who prepped him for rejection with typical sibling rough-ups; and his flamboyance from his father, Charlie, a macho second-generation Greek-American who runs a hair salon in the Boston suburb of Lowell, where Chiklis was born.
"My father is sort of like an Archie Bunker of the '90s," Chiklis says. "He always says his philosophy was formed by 'twirling curls and listening to broads all day.' He has a tremendous amount of insight about people."
Cigars came from Grandpa Peter, Charlie's father, who was never without a smoke in his mouth. "I come from the kind of family where my grandmother would sit me down at the table and somehow massage my head and shoulders the entire time she was cooking something for me to eat," Chiklis says. "My grandfather would tell me how the world works. And after being rubbed, petted, loved and fed, he would give me the $20 handshake and I would be on my way."
His first attempt at cigar smoking was a disaster. "I snuck one in my grandfather's garage and turned green. I inhaled, that was the problem. Who knew? I wouldn't suggest it for people who are five years old. I really picked it up in college, when I was playing a character in You Can't Take It with You that smoked cigars. I stayed with them ever since, although my taste got more refined over time. Now, I have a routine. An OpusX is a perfect smoke for a game of golf, because it's a daytime smoke. It's milder than my favorite cigar, the Montecristo No. 2, a very powerful cigar, which I only smoke after a full dinner with an after-dinner drink, like a Bas-Armagnac.
"Of course, a good cigar after sex is always great--much better than a cigarette," he says with a laugh. "Those, you want to be like sex: long, long lasting and very powerful. So, again, the Montecristo No. 2, and the Cohiba Esplendidos."
So what does that suggest about ring gauge?
Chiklis rolls his eyes. "Oh it's gonna be that kind of interview."
A natural-born ham, Chiklis got his first professional acting gig at age 13 in a regional theater production of Romeo and Juliet. He spent his adolescence juggling school, sports and professional acting, eventually turning down college football and hockey scholarships to study drama at Boston University's demanding School of Fine Arts. Of 80 freshmen chosen from 2,500 candidates, Chiklis was one of only 18 to graduate.
Chiklis's early professional experience was ultimately a godsend, because no amount of schooling could have prepared him for the bizarre professional roller coaster he would encounter as an adult. Chiklis was 24 and living in New York City when he shot to national attention--and vilification--by landing in Wired as John Belushi, the "Saturday Night Live" and Blues Brothers icon who died of a drug overdose in 1982. The film and the Bob Woodward novel it was adapted from were panned by critics and lambasted by Belushi's family and friends, who felt that the comedian was unfairly portrayed as a drug addict. But Chiklis, who had been toiling in the anonymity of Off-Broadway and regional theater and who had weathered 12 auditions over three years for the role, saw it only as a career-launching opportunity--or so he thought.
For 18 months--from the time he was cast to six months after the film's release in 1989--Chiklis could not get called in to read for parts. "After Wired, everyone was afraid to touch me for fear of reprisal," he says. "It was a bittersweet situation. All of a sudden, I was starring in a major motion picture and the next thing you know, I'm being asked by reporters, 'Do you think you'll be blackballed?' I literally went from appearing at the Cannes Film Festival, with the whole international press corps asking me questions, to being alone in my one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with the phone not ringing. All the dreams and aspirations I'd ever had in my life were in question. It was a humbling, scary experience."
Eventually, Chiklis found work in episodic television--"Miami Vice," "B.L. Stryker," "L.A. Law," "Murphy Brown"--crisscrossing the country before finally relocating to Los Angeles in 1991. It was during four episodes of "Wise Guy" that one of its writer-producers, Steve Kronish, noticed Chiklis's potential for a pilot he was writing called "The Commish," then slated for CBS.
As if the Wired saga wasn't enough, this second big break has its own tale of angst. Chiklis was all but cast until then-network chief Jeff Sagansky found out how young he was and nixed him. It was the last time Chiklis ever saw Sagansky. The show was shelved and was optioned by ABC later that year. But it wasn't until ABC suits spotted him in "Maverick Square," an ABC pilot that aired but never became a series, that they realized they had found the star of "The Commish."
"When my manager told me, I thought he was busting my chops," says Chiklis. "It took me a minute before I realized he was serious."
It was the second of two monumental changes in fortune for Chiklis within a short time. A few months before, Chiklis's buddies had dragged him to a party. The actor was on painkillers, recovering from a torn Achilles tendon from a basketball game gone bad and in no mood to party. A pretty actress named Michelle Epstein was dragged by her friends to the same party.
Chiklis was in his usual state--holding court--when Michelle spotted him. "He was the most electric person I'd ever seen in my life," she recalls. "I thought, 'Wow, who is that guy? I have to know him; and I'm going to marry him.' "
For Chiklis, Michelle was a wake-up call. "At the time, all I could think of was my career," he says. "Hurting my leg forced me to slow down. It was almost as though life was saying, 'You have to stop right now so you can meet this girl.'"
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As I said, working it out isn't really possible. You have more cars means more data between cars, but you also have more cars having more effect on the track and this information needing to be relayed. The first post contains actual reading results, it's as accurate as it can be really up to the number of cars listed. We'll be able to get higher readings during the open test I'm sure.
Tim, I know that each car generates surface changes, but:
1. Any car generates some changes for its own. I suspect client sends only those changes - after that it means it will not affect exponent of the server traffic function.
Then we get function
y = (x+surface_changes)2
2. In worse case, server might send to clients whole surface state. I said in worse (in opposite to sending changes). But even if, the data traffic will be only greater by such amount of data and not depending on car quantity. It's quite intuitive I think.
then we get function
y = x2 + surface_state
I really cannot imagine how we may get something like exponent 3.
But there is nothing left than wait for release... and then for fixes I believe.
MaXyM, I guess you could calculate a worst case scenario which would assume that all clients are receiving the most detailed updates possible. You should then be able to come up with a basic calculation. Then you would know that in the worst case you will need X amount of bandwidth. But could probably get away with less do to the throttling that rF is capable of. Again, only speaking of experience with hosting in rF1. But I can't believe rF2 will be much different. Who knows, we may even have options to disable live track and weather to reduce the bandwidth requirements even more.
with great sadness I have to say that almost 90% of countrys in Latin America dont have a conection like rF2 need to host. it's a shame left out in this way
Actually we can safetly host 40 cars with 5mbp simetric.. i know in rF2 will be much more data to transmit but if your info is correct, the bandwidth in rF2 has to be five times rF1 needs
rF1 (as well as other games with the same client-server model) matches what I said: server traffic is quadratic function of competing clients. Throttling is a feature which makes traffic lower in some situations (let's say in most). But with throttling or not function doesn't change exponent.
That's why I'm still surprised about rF2 traffic measurements. it is not about numbers in overall. SInce there are more features - I would not problem even with 100kBps sent by single car. The same with 23Mbps needed - if features requires such traffic, it must be.
But how numbers grow in relation to cars number- this is what I'm talking about. It simply cannot be exponent 3 function if everything is done correctly.
I know that South Americans are a minority of the customers of rFactor and that it is very difficult to adapt the engine to send less data and that our low bandwidth is our fault and not ISI's fault, I know that it is not worthwhile to remove features to the other customers because of a minority that cannot find or pay for high bandwidth servers in their countries.
Knowing all that I will anyway ask ISI for a favor: please consider an option to remove features and reduce the bandwidth requirements, something like 10 megabits per second upload for 30 cars is affordable in South America, asking more than that the prices spike up and most teams will not be able to pay for a server in their country, needing to use a distant server and having much latency.
Though that latency can be tolerated, is not very nice really, it complicates things, causes accidents, etc.
Maybe livetrack, marbles, drying path of the cars, etc. could be disabled and save those bytes to reduce bandwidth to acceptable levels in our region.
This would be a feature useful for two years only.
I know its hard, I know that it is anoying, so, if it is not implemented I will understand and will not have hard feelings.
I am afraid though that maybe people here will stay with rFactor 1 instead of using a distant server if thats not implemented.
So, you have my wish and my fingers crossed! :-)
Thanks a lot for listening and.... KEEP UP THE SUPERB WORK! rFactor 2 seems to be shaping up to be a piece of art and not a simulation program.
Great but i rent my server because you leave a pc on 24hrs and at some point it will go on fire lol
Must be the tropical weather in the UK
Ok, no dedicated Linux server.. but at least it can run/has been tested with "wine" ?
Joe mentioned wine, but it's not officially supported in any way - yet.
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British dairy farmers are threatening to dump milk ― in protest of falling pay prices ― which could leave supermarket shelves empty during the Olympic Games.
"We can let our milk go down the drain. It will not even leave the farms," David Handley, chairman of Farmers for Action, told the Financial Times.
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Organizers have set an Aug. 1 deadline. If nothing is resolved by then, "disruption of the milk supply chain will take place," Handley is quoted in this story by The Independent.
Arrangements will probably be made to ensure adequate dairy supplies for Olympic athletes, even if it means bringing in product from other countries. But a milk strike would be awkward from a public-relations standpoint.
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Heyward day to day with lower back soreness
ATLANTA -- Jason Heyward exited Monday afternoon's finale vs. the Padres due to lower back soreness.
Heyward, listed as day to day after undergoing treatment following his departure, will wait to see how his back responds from Atlanta's flight to Los Angeles before deciding if he can play on Tuesday.
"Being smart, after this flight, I'm going to have to absolutely see how it feels tomorrow," Heyward said. "If we've figured out what the spot is and we work it well enough, I'm not counting [a return on Tuesday] out. But being smart, we're just going to see what happens. Nothing major."
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez added: "He came in just before his first at-bat and he goes, 'Skip, my back's tightening up on me a little bit.' Hopefully, tomorrow he wakes up and he feels better. I know that the trainers have been working on him since that third inning. Hopefully, we get him back on the field here in the next couple of days."
Ryan Doumit took Heyward's spot in right field prior to the top of the fourth one day after starting in place of Heyward on Sunday. Heyward played three innings in the field and grounded out to first base in his only at-bat. His early exit snapped a streak of reaching base in 16 consecutive games.
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Kevin Grandia | December 29, 2009
By Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 10:15
The Daily Mail is reporting that it might be, "Chinese hackers linked to 'Warmergate' climate change leaked emails controversy."
The Mail's revelation came about after they tracked a convoluted trail of IP (internet Protocols) addresses, through to a, " Chinese environmental institute, the Research Institute of Forest Ecology and Environment Protection, based near Beijing."
Phlogiston replied on Permalink
Chinese won at Copenhagen
One thing you can say about the Chinese, they look out for number 1. In this case their industrial development policy. No way were they going to agree to a deal that in any way inhibited their move up the World pecking order, even if it means opening one coal-fired power station every week.
They called the liberal West's bluff. If the "science" is "settled" then China faces ecological disaster. Funny they don't seem to agree.
Actually, China is enacting new laws boosting renewable energy: http://climateprogress.org/2009/12/28/green-giant-beijing%e2%80%99s-crash-program-for-clean-energy/
RickJames replied on Permalink
when you have 1.3 billion
when you have 1.3 billion people, you do everything including wind, solar, nukes and lots more coal.
John Lefebvre replied on Permalink
Now you've stooped
CamMacKay replied on Permalink
China the new world power
I used to be somewhat afraid of china assuming the role of the US as the worlds superpower. Although seeing them in action over the past decade they seem to be very pragmatic, non-interventionist and steer the globe towards rational and reasonable objectives and actions.
No big grandstanding, no unreasonable target like cutting emissions by 50% is 3 weeks. Just rational reasonable objectives. With all the carbon fever that has infected the western world, we should be glad at the new found clout that china has on the international stage.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Good post
I was wondering about the Daily Mail article.
What I would love to know, is how much the international "net police" are tracking down the hackers. They should be able to get a clue, particularly if records are kept of hack failures. I do not believe that just one climate research center was targeted, and even less so since hearing of the Victoria burglaries/attempted penetration.
I'm guessing that, unfortunately, most of the information from the cracks isn't available to the public since they're part of police investigations.
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Mark Francis replied on Permalink
Dead end. if accurate
I agree with Kevin. There's nothing concrete to demonstrate where the hacking took place from. Indeed, anyone smart enough to hack email, is smart enough to leave a false trail. There are widely available tools to hide in an IP cloud, and to spoof what IP you are.
JR Wakefield replied on Permalink
spoof what IP you are
Irrelevant if this came from an inside job. That has not been ruled out. Though the warmers wish it not the case.
Mark Francis replied on Permalink
Nothing's ruled out or in
Nothing's ruled out or in because the evidence is unreliable. That's the point behind the post.
Inside/outside job seems irrelevant to me. What damage there is has never been from the emails, but from the false defamation campaign constructed around them.
Yup, disregarding FOI
Yup, disregarding FOI requests is no big deal folks. Move along, move along.
Seriously don't you think
Seriously don't you think competent people or the FBi for instance won't know where those hackers are hiding? I really doubt a simple proxy can save you.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Is it really that big of deal?
Isn't it true that because of the gravity of what the science is suggesting, that sooner rather than later these emails were going to be open to examination anyway?
The principle of freedom of information demands it.
The climate scientists are recommending that we make vast changes to the world and how we live. It's necessary to look under the hood before we buy this vehicle.
Richard Steckis replied on Permalink
Criminal Act?
You state:
"Plots by the Russians in league with the Chinese makes for great headlines, but they do run the risk of drawing attention away from much more plausible theories about who is behind these criminal acts. "
If as is most likely, the emails were released by a whistle blower then the act was not criminal but sanctioned by British law as a legal act. Therefore the if person who released the emails is internal to CRU he has NOT acted illegally or criminally.
There have been IT analyses of the CRU leak that indicate the leak originated from within the CRU.
Article by David Keith
Article by David Keith on scientists' self-interest:
"…Don't trust the climate science because of what institutions like the United Nations say in summary documents: trust it because of the individual self-interest of scientists working in a system that rewards them for finding flaws in the work of others.
While there is much healthy dispute about the details, I am not aware of a single scientist who gets his hands dirty doing real work in atmospheric science who thinks that the world will not warm this century if we keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere…" http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/denial+climate+science/2381409/story.html
What we do know
Well, the Daily Mail's leaps of logic aside, there are a few things we do know about the CRU crack:
(1) the time zones recorded in the .zip file are all -0400/-0500
(2) the e-mails were processed using a non-standard method to arrive in their current form
(3) there are 5 Microsoft Word files (.doc) which have 13 extra bytes added at the end
(More details at http://ijish.livejournal.com/ , a sub-blog which I created for discussion and analysis of the crack. Consider this to be a shameless plug. (-: )
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This gives us a young center prospect that we could give time behind Roy just to see what he is. Give him some minutes and see what he can do. The Magic haven't played this kid since they drafted him, so I don't know what the situation is, but I think it is worth the value of giving them cap space for a potential center. Especially if you can put him with Hibbert and let him learn a little bit more. Maybe he isn't coachable, maybe Stan Van Gundy is a douchy coach that wouldn't consider playing young guys. I don't know.


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An interview with Sean Bruich, head of measurement and Graham Mudd, head of measurement market development both at Facebook, about measuring engagement on Facebook.
"Something's wrong when the guys at Facebook are more dressed up than everyone else here," – Chris Moody said before introducing Sean Bruich and Graham Mudd of Facebook.
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Standardization is the huge challenge. As Graham put, "Innovation is hard for the people who have to react to it." It's really hard to deviate from standards that brands have in place. While brands may want to jump into the deep end with online media, it's difficult to take those chances on something that is so far removed from what they're accustomed to. Some people who might benefit from innovation aren't in a place to justify the changes.
So how does Facebook build this new set of standards? Investments. Facebook wants to invest in the people who can build new measurement platforms, and it's not just about Facebook. They want cross-platform solutions for marketers to use to optimize and understand their consumers and online media. "We do believe strongly in the platform; we believe strongly in the user side but also in the developer side," said Sean. "The data is massive and there's a lot of expectations around privacy, both user and marketer privacy. From a stability and access perspective we understand a lot, but we still need to hear from our users and marketers."
While tough questions where asked, Graham says it's not important to focus on why brands like GM pulled their Facebook advertising, but rather on the larger issue. Facebook believes it's their responsibility to provide companies the insight and direction that actually has impact. Facebook isn't the same as television and shouldn't be approached with the same strategy. Whether or not that's why GM pulled out, Facebook wouldn't elaborate, but it's a clear indication of the importance of measurement that companies at Big Boulder could potentially help to solve.
Facebook was tight lipped about product plans, but real time insights are important to FB. They want marketers to be able to see data as it happens. But there are challenges with this. From a measurement perspective, it's not clear that marketers will even be able to take advantage of this data. As developers, Facebook wants to solve those problems too; how do we enable faster decision making through the tools they build? On a deeper level, Facebook wants to enable marketers to make decisions on a day-to-day basis, but it's hard to have the level of intimate understanding of the data. If Facebook can get this feedback from it's core marketers, they can better serve marketers and the end consumers.
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Brochure and Ads, Cambridge Architectural Mesh
Shaw-Jelveh Design, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004
As part of our larger branding effort, we designed a comprehensive product catalog and a series of ads to run in trade publications, such as Architectural Record and Interior Design. The catalog was a desktop reference guide to architectural mesh and a printed companion to Cambridge's new website. The ads introduced CAM's new identity and generated interest among those unfamiliar with architectural mesh.
In both the ads and the catalog, we again chose to focus on the material itself. The catalog presents each weave rendered at actual size, the intricate patterning filling full catalog spreads. The ads show various meshes pristinely photographed at a monumental scale to stand out from the clutter of architectural trade magazines. In both instances we allowed the beauty of the product to speak for itself, keeping graphic elements and text to a minimum.
Our ads were chosen as Architectural Record's "Best in Show" by a panel of architects who are readers of the magazine, and the series generated consistently high reader-response rates in all of the publications in which they were placed. One architect who called CAM to get more information confessed to a sales rep that the ads had "stirred him."
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After years of living under vulnerable circumstances being a member of the only Jewish family in Marine City, by the time Gloria Novak left her hometown for California in the 1950s she'd established a lifelong relationship with three friends.
The family -- a Catholic family -- of one of the friends treated Novak as one of their own, she said.
That friend is the one who called Novak this week to inform her that her younger brother, Harry Berkowitz, had died.
Novak had already been reeling from the loss of her next door neighbor which happened one day earlier.
"I didn't have a chance to read the newspaper until the next morning," she said. "I was really surprised to read this incredible article about how much my brother was loved by his students. I thought that was absolutely wonderful."
A clear motive behind what led to the death of the Birmingham Public Schools teacher is still unclear, but more details are beginning to emerge about Berkowitz, who died of multiple gunshot wounds inside his Franklin home Tuesday.
The man accused of killing Berkowitz -- Thomas Ian Matthews, 33 -- died of a self-inflicted single gunshot wound to the head after driving to a Royal Oak home, according to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office. Berkowitz' death was ruled a homicide.
Childhood in Marine City
Berkowitz, 72, grew up in Marine City, in St. Clair County, on Belle River Avenue, said his sister, Gloria Novak, of Nevada City, Calif.
"He was always a nice kid," Novak, 78, said.
Novak, Berkowitz' only sibling, described Marine City in the 1940s as a particularly interesting environment to grow up in. Their family, including their parents Julius and Rose Berkowitz, were the only Jewish family in town.
"Most people were Catholic and it was particularly difficult," Novak said.
The time represents a particularly volatile period for Jewish families in southeastern Michigan. By the time Harry Berkowitz was born, controversial Roman Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin of Royal Oak's Shrine of the Little Flower Church, known for using his weekly radio broadcasts to spout anti-Semitic viewpoints, was off the air.
But the influence of Coughlin was immense and played a part in Novak's upbringing in Marine City.
"I would get beaten up," she said. "This was when I was little, like, 6 or 7 years old, so that was tough ... I didn't understand what was happening to me."
But, Novak said, she wasn't exactly sure if Harry Berkowitz received similar treatment from locals.
Novak said their father garnered the nickname "Julie the Junk Man" across town from working in the scrap business.
She and Harry had a distant relationship -- not to an extreme, but "we didn't hang out much," Novak said, mostly due to their six-year age gap.
Although the two lived rather opposite lifestyles, Berkowitz clearly inherited some of Novak's independent and outgoing traits.
Novak said her brother dated a number of girls "he was really close with," while he attended Marine City High School from 1954 to 1958.
His senior yearbook photo, obtained by The Oakland Press through the Marine City Public Library, lists a variety of activities he was involved in during his junior and senior years, including monitors club, National Honors Society, "senior play," Varsity Club and Golf.
According to Diane LeTourneau, branch assistant at the Marine City Public Library, Berkowitz was voted Most Industrious, Teachers' Pet and Chatter Box in the senior year mock election.
Strained family ties
Julius and Rose Berkowitz always had dreams of living in California, Novak said. When she was a freshman in high school, the family actually moved out west for one year, she said.
"(My parents) thought if they sent me to (the University of California-Los Angeles), then everyone would move to California," she said. "Well, that didn't happen."
She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as a freshman. The following year, during a brief stint at UCLA, her family came out to visit.
While they were in town, Novak said, "I told my parents, 'forget it.'"
"I didn't want to have anything more to do with them," she said. "I got a job and didn't tell them where I was."
Novak soon after enrolled at the University of California-Berkeley where she would go on to earn a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies and a Master of Library & Information Sciences degree.
That's when ties in the family started to become strained.
In the mid-1960s, Julius and Rose Berkowitz divorced, Novak said.
Much is unknown about Julius Berkowitz from that point forward, but, in 1971, when she was 54-years old, Rose Berkowitz� remarried to Paul Lambertz, a man almost two-decades her senior, according to Oakland County's Genealogy Research Service.
Lambertz died only a few years later, on March 10, 1974.
How a teacher for 47 years managed to sustain himself financially in a town where the median income runs into the six-figures is unclear. Novak did provide some clarity as to how Harry Berkowitz ended up in the village of Franklin on a plot of land next to none other than Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert.
"What I think happened (is) my mother really bought the house," sometime after Novak visited the family with her daughter, Genya, in the 1960s, she said.
Novak said she thinks her mother, who assumed Lambertz' last name, inherited a large sum of money through her divorce with her father as well as through Paul Lambertz' passing.
"I have a feeling she must've gotten quite a bit of money from that," she said.
From that point forward, Harry Berkowitz never seemed to be able to leave his mother's side.
Novak's pursuit of living independently ultimately played a role in how ties between the remaining family were severed.
"My mother didn't like me, I don't think she ever did," Novak said.
She added that she hadn't spoken with Harry Berkowitz since the 1990s.
"I had a terrible falling out with my mother," she said, reminiscing about the event. "I called and Harry answered. So he and I were talking and I was trying to convince him to move out of the house ... to really live his own life because he had lived with (their mother) for so many years."
Unbeknownst to Novak, her mother was on the line.
And she wasn't pleased with what Novak was telling her younger brother.
"She really went into me," Novak said. "That was the end of the relationship."
Harry remained loyal to their mother, continuing to live under the same roof as her until Rose Lambertz passed away on July 28, 2003, according to the county's register of deeds.
"Harry was so close to my mother," she said. "Even though he and I didn't have a directly negative relationship, I think because he was so close with my mother, I guess his relationship with his sister was no longer possible."
Novak said she'll be in town Monday for the funeral service at Clover Hill Park Cemetery, arranged by Harry Berkowitz' friend Diane Brown, an instructor at Marygrove College.
Brown declined requests for comment.
The outpouring of positive remarks about her brother from colleagues and friends in recent days has Novak reflecting on their past and contemplating what-if scenarios.
"Here he was, this really generous, kind person, and I didn't have the opportunity to have a true relationship with him," Novak said. "My daughter (and I), we don't have a family. It would've been so nice if she had real contact with her uncle. It just didn't happen."
"That's really sad for me," she added. "That's the biggest loss as far as I'm concerned."
Harry Berkowitz' funeral service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday, May 13 at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham, the same location where his mother is buried. It's located at 2425 E. 14 Mile Road. He is survived by Novak, friends and colleagues.
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I'm beginning to think score first point guards who aren't insane athletes are like run first QBs in the NFL, they eventually get figured out by defenses. I think Kyrie might be on deck.
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I'm beginning to think score first point guards who aren't insane athletes are like run first QBs in the NFL, they eventually get figured out by defenses. I think Kyrie might be on deck.
Tristan was averaging 19 and 10 in the Cavs first two games. He had 2 and 4 tonight in 35 minutes on 5 shots. West, Scola and Roy absolutely took his lunch money
Just for comparison with our rookie
A. Bennett - 0-6-0-2-0
S. Hill - 4-3-1-0-1
Hill did this in less minutes
There is a reason everyone was shocked at him being drafted first. It really seemed like the Cavs would rather bunt on the draft than draft someone who would actually help them.
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Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
^^ This shows the kind of baller you want on your team.
He learned it from AJ Price.
I felt that way about him last season too.
Thinking PG was being a bit sloppy, could be shooting better, could be playing better defense, could be playing better overall.
And he'd put up ridiculous stats while holding his opponent to a terrible shooting percentage.
He's just special.
I think that Mahinmi just has to accept this role. He should be a purely defensive minded Player with one purpose on the floor....to defend the paint.
When it comes to his offensive game....well, it's just offensive IF he decides to try to score on his own. It's just that I sometimes see him go all "Dahntay....I think I'm Kobe Bryant...Jones" on us sometimes and I question who on Earth told him to dribble the ball for more than 3 seconds...much less try to score on his own. If he let's the offense comes to him....via put backs and making easy baskets when the defense isn't paying attention from him near the basket....then he'll get his points.
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No Kyrie will still have a great year we just happen to always play him great. In 3 career games against us coming into this game he was averaging 10 points on 35 percent shooting so we have figured him out but he will still do good things this year for his team.
If Roy could catch Lance's simple behind the back pass we would see a lot more highlights this year. Oh well.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Sooo...Lance is kinda exactly what Cleveland hopes Dion Waiters turns into, right?
Here's an important stat:
Paul George FG% this season: 48.1%
Paul George FG% last season: 41.9%
Obviously 3 games is a small sample size, but that's a nice leap so far. He will be an offensive machine if he can keep that up. He shot roughly 50% against the Heat in the ECF's last year and also shot close to it in the pre-season. If he can stay near that 48% throughout this season, then we're talking about a guy who is looking at being a top 5 player in the league.
It's special what we have in this guy. I'm as big of a Reggie fan as anyone, but Reggie didn't have the ceiling that Paul has. Paul has the tools to easily be the greatest player in franchise history. The national media has increasing interest in him. This guy is on his way to becoming one of the biggest names in the NBA.
Great game, and good start to the season...
Looking forward to seeing how we play against an actual contender though, before I start getting excited.
However, I think I can start getting more excited about our second team now, as they look to have a much different look, a much improved one. Mahinmi has taken the defense up a real notch so far this year. Scola as a mid range shooter is a very big deal. Watson is most certainly not a liability. OJ and Lance can really add an offensive punch. Chemistry looks like it will grow over the season.
That alone could be a game changer for us this year.
What's great about development of Stephenson/bench (hopefully continued) is that there really is no wrong move to make with DG33. Start DG33? Lance will murder the other team's bench, and you can still treat DG's minutes with great care as you can bring Stephenson off the bench early if need be since he's fully capable of playing with starters. Start Stephenson? Similar results we're seeing now, plus I don't think this bench puts sole pressure on DG to be THE scorer (though certainly will need to work his way into being A scorer).
People act like it's a major problem, figuring this out. And yeah, I'm sure there will be some amount of mistakes/adjustments that need be made. But I look at it as a case where there's really no wrong move to make. They're afforded a ton of flexibility to tweak minutes/lineups as they see fit, and will have the luxury of being able to do so on an opponent-by-opponent basis as well.
PG got the first double double for a Pacer. Just shows that the starting five the Pacers have can all do a bit of everything. PG and Lance have to be among the best rebounders at their positions.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
If the Cavs keep sucking at drafting, I don't see how Kyrie stays. Tristan is solid, but I get the pick, there wasn't really anyone else. Taking Waiters was a huge mistake as well as Bennett. haha No wonder LeBron left.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
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He looks like a wolf. What a badass.
Winter is coming.
"And Tottenham do not know what hit them...well I can tell you, it's Theo Walcott!"
"And it's Tony Adams put through by Steve Bould, WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! That...sums it all up."
I don't think any one has pointed it out yet, but even Sloan held his own out there. This bench is awesome. Larry Bird is amazing.
Tell that to Stephen Curry, Damian Lilard and Tony Parker. Kyrie is just having a tough few games, he will be back on track.


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WESTLAKE -- Police have located a missing Westlake senior in Canton, according to Westlake Police Capt. Guy Turner.
William "Sonny" Tichenor, 82, who suffers from dementia, took a cab to Canton on the night of Nov. 6. Canton police located him early Wednesday evening in Canton. He is in good health and police took him back to Life Care Center nursing home in Westlake.