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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Of Graham Harrell and Kafka
Harrell's experience here reminds me of a story by Kafka. In honor of Harrell and the Captain (who I believe is a Kafka fan), here is a very slightly paraphrased version, adapted for Harrell. (Original here.)
Before the NFL
Before the NFL sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from Texas who asks to gain entry into the NFL. But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment. The man thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in sometime later on. "It is possible," says the gatekeeper, "but not now." The gate to the NFL stands open, as always, and the gatekeeper walks to the side, so the man bends over in order to see through the gate into the inside. When the gatekeeper notices that, he laughs and says: "If it tempts you so much, try going inside in spite of my prohibition. But take note. I am powerful. And I am only the most lowly gatekeeper. But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other. I cannot endure even one glimpse of the third." The man from the country has not expected such difficulties: the NFL should always be accessible for someone who has thrown for over 15,000 yards and 130 touchdowns, he thinks, even if he did play in a Mike Leach system.
But as he now looks more closely at the gatekeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose and his long, thin, black Tartar's beard, he decides that it would be better to wait until he gets permission to go inside. The gatekeeper gives him a stool and allows him to sit down at the side in front of the gate. There he sits for days and years. He makes many attempts to be let in, and he wears the gatekeeper out with his requests. The gatekeeper often interrogates him briefly, questioning him about his homeland and what it was like to throw to Michael Crabtree and what it was like to beat Texas on the last play and whether Mike Leach is really that weird and many other things, but they are indifferent questions, the kind great men put, and at the end he always tells him once more that he cannot let him inside yet.
The man, who has trained vigorously for his journey, tries out with everyone to win over the gatekeeper. The latter observes it all but, as he does so, says, "I am doing this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." During the many years the man observes the gatekeeper almost continuously. He forgets the other gatekeepers, and this first one seems to him the only obstacle for entry into the NFL. He curses the unlucky circumstance, in the first years thoughtlessly and out loud; later, as he grows old, he only mumbles to himself. He becomes childish and, since in the long years studying the gatekeeper he has also come to know the fleas in his fur collar, he even asks the fleas to help him persuade the gatekeeper. Finally his eyesight grows weak, and he does not know whether things are really darker around him or whether his eyes are merely deceiving him. But he recognizes now in the darkness an illumination which breaks inextinguishably out of the gateway to the NFL. Now he no longer has much time to live. Before his death he gathers in his head all his experiences of the entire time up into one question which he has not yet put to the gatekeeper. He waves to him, since he can no longer lift up his stiffening body. The gatekeeper has to bend way down to him, for the great difference has changed things considerably to the disadvantage of the man. "What do you still want to know now?" asks the gatekeeper. "You are insatiable." "Everyone strives after the NFL," says the man, "so how is that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?" The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, "Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I'm going now to close it."
18 comments:
- MGoBlogs said...
I don't know why a team like the Lions take a chance on this kid.
I mean I think he has more have a chance than Drew Stanton. The only thing he's got going is his 2nd round pick status.
Of course that pick could have been Trent Edwards, but that's why they are the lions.
MGoBlogs, simple. The Lions already drafted Matt Stafford. They simply do not need to waste a pick on an another QB. Why bother spending another pick on a position where you only play one player on the field at all time?
- Aaron Nagler said...
Ron Wolf used late round picks on QBs all the time and he had Brett Favre. Its silly to say 'the Lions drafted Stafford, their set' - you can never have too many good QBs. Now, is this kid a good QB? The NFL appears to think not so much...
- - Think Tanker said...
Go to the NFL web site look at the QBs listed in the players section.
I can't belive this guy is not on a squad as at least a developmental player.
- Will said...
Aaron is right. Even though they had Favre, the Pack drafted Mark Brunell and Aaron Brooks, later trading both.
In any case, hopefully Harrell will go the Warren Moon route and reappear in the NFL in a couple of years.
This is the best thing to happen for Harrell. He will get a real chance to earn a starting role and make an impression, and most of all enjoy himself playing in a league that actually still cares about football, and not just about money.
Otherwise he would have just been riding the pine in the No Fun League.
He will fit in nicely in Regina, SK, as it is basically the lost twin city of Lubbock, TX.
Can't wait to see him pass to 6 receievers!!
Go Riders!!!
- War Eagle AC-47 said...
Joe Theismann, one of my all time favorite quarterbacks, played Canadian football. It is not the kiss of death.
Instead of waiting at the gate, he went in through another door, and played quarterback.
Aaron, that's in a different draft. That'd be an idiotic move by Mayhew by drafting two QBs in one draft. The Lions went 0-16 and they needed help everywhere. Drafting 2 QBs in one draft would not help the Lions.
Still not convinced that he's better than Kliff Klingsbury.
Every year dozens of graduating D-1A quarterbacks don't even sniff the pros. Nothing sets Harrell apart other than the gaudy stats, which everyone on the planet now knows is inflated by the Tech spread.
The "gatekeeper" theory is backwards from reality. The NFL did not start out discriminating against airraid quarterbacks. They thought Tim Couch's stats were real and drafted him as such. Then he busted. Then they drafted the whole slew of Leach's quarterbacks in the low rounds and they didn't do anything. Only after ten years of continual disappointments is Harrell now "kept out".
This is by no means unique to Airraid spread quarterbacks. Teams discount more and more the stats of Tedford QB's from bust after bust. So too Hawaii quarterbacks, Spurrier WR's, UTexas players in general. In the future Tebow will see his stock take a big hit because of Alex Smith. Future UM QB's will see the same thing after Pat White fails to do anything in the pros.
In the infancy of baseball sabermetrics people used to clamor for the Ken Phelps allstars, guys stuck in the minors whom the advanced stats of the day valued much more than their teams valued them. Then the stats became much more complete. And we saw there was usually a reason they were stuck in the minors. Same thing is happening in football. People clamored for guys like Brohm much more than the teams did. Turned out he couldn't beat Matt Flynn on the depth chart.
"That'd be an idiotic move by Mayhew by drafting two QBs in one draft."
They didn't need to draft him, obviously he went undrafted. They could have just brought him in as a free agent, the Lions would have nothing to lose.
- Aaron Nagler said...
"That'd be an idiotic move by Mayhew by drafting two QBs in one draft." Ted Thompson did it last year - it's not idiotic. Yes, the Lions went 0-16. If one Harrell turned out be a player, he becomes valuable trade bait, a la Brunell, Hasselbeck, Brooks, etc.
This is the league that drafted Tom Brady with pick #199 and didn't even draft Kurt Warner. Just cause you didn't get drafted doesn't mean that you can't or won't be a great NFL player. (It certainly doesn't help though..)
Very good post loneweasel.
I didn't see much in Harrel to differentate himself from a Kingsbury or Josh Heuple.
I don't think it is so much that an air raid QB can't be sucessful in the NFL, as many former BYU/Norm Chow QBs who used a very similar system have been sucessful. It is just that the air raid makes every QB look great (a testament to the system and how guys like Leach/Mumme teach it). To make it to the next level you need the numbers plus the tools to be sucessful in another offense.
Philip Rivers played in a very simlar offense set gaudy records and there were a lot of question marks about him, but he was 6'5"" with a strong arm and ripped it up at the Senior Bowl playing in a pro style offense. When Harrel had a chance to do similar he didn't produce.
Now for my money, I would have taken a flier on Harrell if I didn't have to waste a draft pick on him, but its not like a bunch of teams haven't been able to take a look and have decided to pass.
I am as much a stat geek as the next guy, but when 30 teams decide to take a pass on a free option, I am guessing it is not worth much. I have to believe there is something the statistics aren't telling me.
Maybe Harrell can prove all the doubters wrong in Canada.
"Ted Thompson did it last year - it's not idiotic."
Well both players have no trade value unless Aaron Rodgers is out for an extended period of time and one of them steps up as a fill-in starting QB. It's likely not going to happen because 1. Rodgers is relatively young, 2. Rodgers played through injury, 3. they won't see time on the field if any at all and 4. why would anybody trade for an unproven backup QB when they have never see significant time on the field. If you think that they may have trade value, good luck on trying to find a suitor.
- Aaron Nagler said...
"why would anybody trade for an unproven backup QB when they have never see significant time on the field." - you just described Ron Wolf's trade for Favre. ;)
"Well both players have no trade value unless Aaron Rodgers is out for an extended period of time and one of them steps up as a fill-in starting QB."
That's just not true. Matt Hasselbeck had a total of 29 attempts when he was dealt. Mark Brunell had 27, Aaron Brooks had 0. Ty Detmer left as a free agent but considering at least one team wanted him (and that he continued as a backup for years after being in Philly) he had *some* value, same for Doug Peterson. And of course none of them started a game in Green Bay.
"Teams discount more and more the stats of Tedford QB's from bust after bust."
Except none of the Tedford QBs who busted in the NFL had particularly great college stats to begin with. (Neither Smith, Harrington, or Boller cracked 60% in career completion percentage.) It wasn't a problem of teams getting bamboozled by the stats, it was a problem of teams drafting based on wishful thinking.
So, um, way to make your point!
- Dennis Prouse said...
I am a Canadian and a CFL fan, and also a huge NFL and NCAA geek. (We were running shotgun spread here long before you guys ever caught on. :-))
There is no question that Harrell is facing some discrimination based on the failure of similar style QBs in the past. (Let`s not forget David Klingler and Andre Ware and the numbers they put up running the John Jenkins system at Houston.) Even in a pass happy league like the CFL, a number of QBs who came from shotgun spread schools have crashed and burned. Andre Ware came up here to try to revitalize his career, and didn`t make it. New Uof W coach Steve Sarkisian put up ridiculous numbers playing at BYU, but couldn`t make it in the CFL. More recently, Timmy Chang flamed out here, and I thought for sure he would be a successful CFL
To me, the biggest issue is arm strength. In the NFL, of course, you have to be able to gun it through a pinhole, because the athletes on D are just so good. You don`t get the mismatches you sometimes see in NCAA. In the CFL, the issue is the dimension of the field. Our field is 65 yards wide, not 53, and that extra space means that you had better be able to gun it out to the flat, or it is going for a pick six.
It`s too bad Harrell didn`t sign in the CFL six weeks ago, as he would have been able to get into camp and compete right from the get go. Saskatchewan already has former North Carolina QB Darian Durant as their starter, and he looks like he might be coming into his own. CFL observers are wondering if Saskatchewan signed Harrell simply to showcase him, then trade him to a more QB needy team. Regardless, he will get his chance eventually, and as a big fan of Mike Leach I truly hope he makes the most of it!


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Lean and Green wrote:Goob like Rock Solid the rapper says "Type to eat everything in the fridge, LIKE SWOLE". Get your bulk on
That's the plan right now
This morning when i weighed myself I was right at 164 pounds. That's just under 4 pounds in a week. At this rate I'll be a fat slob just in time for summer
Anyway, today I started with barbell squats with my trainer. It was supposed to be more of a "learn to do squats" day than a real workout, but my legs still ended up pretty rubbery at the end. I did better than I expected, so I'm pretty happy about today.
I keep telling myself that I should be keeping better track of my workouts and my progress, but I still haven't got around to that. I'm not really so sure how serious I am taking this just yet actually. It's not so bad right now I suppose, while I have someone to push me when I'm in the gym, but I'm going to have to make a better plan before too long.

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Connacht 22 Ospreys 10
Connacht claimed the scalp of the in-form Ospreys as they beat the reigning RaboDirect Pro12 champions for the first time since 2008.
The Ospreys had won the last nine contests between the teams but they faltered at the Sportsground, allowing 17-point hero Dan Parks to dictate.
They traded tries in the first quarter, Kahn Fotuali'i striking first for the Ospreys before Willie Faloon replied with his maiden effort in Connacht colours.
Parks slotted two of his three penalty attempts to move Eric Elwood's men 13-7 ahead at half-time.
Penalties cost the westerners when going down to the Scarlets last weekend, however this time they gave the Ospreys – conquerors of Ulster last week - precious few chances to close the gap.
Matthew Morgan slotted a 69th-minute penalty, but Parks rubber-stamped the home victory with two second-half penalties and a late drop goal.
Although the visitors had the better of possession early on, Connacht snuck into a seventh-minute lead as Parks punished a scrum infringement by Cai Griffiths.
Playing into the wind, a good spell of ball retention duly paid off for the Ospreys on the quarter-hour mark. Morgan was held up short before his half-back partner Fotuali'i quickly tapped a penalty and burrowed over from close range.
Morgan converted but the Ospreys lead lasted barely four minutes as the hosts hit back in determined fashion.
Connacht attacked from a solid scrum with John Muldoon and Michael Swift linking on the right wing. The ball was recycled and flanker Faloon's clever line took him over past two defenders.
Parks landed the difficult conversion for a 10-7 lead and was narrowly wide with a subsequent penalty from long distance, with the Ospreys front row coming under further scrum pressure.
Faloon was unceremoniously dumped in an apparent spear tackle that the match officials failed to penalise, as the game continued to canter along at a brisk pace.
Connacht had the final scoring opportunity before the break and Parks stepped up to widen the gap to six points, rewarding his forwards for another power-packed scrum.
The wind advantage was with the Ospreys for the second period, but a Kyle Tonetti block and a subsequent three-pointer from Parks kept Connacht on course.
The Ospreys failed to follow up on a promising lineout maul, while Parks' cross-field kick helped the returning Gavin Duffy bring Connacht downfield.
The former Scotland international drew a drop-goal attempt wide and as time ticked by, the Ospreys continued to make errors and struggle for accuracy.
Alun Wyn Jones' first start for the Welsh region since October was not going to plan, and Danie Poolman went close to collecting a loose ball during a dangerous counter-attack.
Minus a raft of Wales internationals, the title holders brought on Rhys Webb and Jonathan Thomas and a gradual improvement led to Morgan's lone penalty goal.
Steve Tandy's men probed from the restart, yet a crucial turnover from Duffy relieved the pressure on Connacht.
Then a pinpoint kick from Parks allowed Robbie Henshaw to hammer Richard Fussell in the tackle and the Ospreys full-back coughed up a penalty for holding on.
Parks clipped the place-kick over from the left for a 19-10 scoreline and the final nail in the Ospreys coffin was driven in by the out-half's sweetly-struck drop goal, two minutes from time.
Those kicks took the losing bonus point away from the Ospreys and James King's yellow card for a dangerous tackle on Faloon saw them end the match with 14 men.


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Sitagliptin Therapy and Kinetics of Inflammatory Markers
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02536248
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2015
Results First Posted : May 13, 2020
Last Update Posted : May 13, 2020
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|Condition or disease
|Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
|Drug: Sitagliptin Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
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|August 1, 2015
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 30, 2017
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 31, 2017
Experimental: Sitagliptin first, then Placebo
Sitagliptin 100 mg/d for 6 weeks
Wash-out 14 days
Placebo for 6 weeks
Drug: Sitagliptin
Sitagliptin 100 mg/d for 6 weeks
Other Name: Januvia
Drug: Placebo
Placebo for 6 weeks
Placebo Comparator: Placebo first, then Sitagliptin
Placebo for 6 weeks
Wash-out 14 days
Sitagliptin 100 mg/d for 6 weeks
Drug: Sitagliptin
Sitagliptin 100 mg/d for 6 weeks
Other Name: Januvia
Drug: Placebo
Placebo for 6 weeks
- Measurement of C-reactive Protein Production Rate With Stable Isotope During Postprandial Period [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]
- Measurement of Serum Amyloid A Production Rate With Stable Isotope During Postprandial Period [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]
- Measurement of L-selectin Production Rate With Stable Isotope During Postprandial Period [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ]
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- Males 18 to 65 years of age.
- Post-menopausal women under age 65 on stable medical therapy for 6 months before the study (the patient should have demonstrated stable lipid panels)
- Women should not be on hormone replacement therapy (no recent starting or stopping)
- Type 2 diabetes as defined by the American Diabetes Association.
- Non-smoker.
- Body mass index between 25.0 and 40.0 kg/m2.
- Baseline glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) between 6.5 and 8.5%.
- Baseline fasting plasma glucose < 15.0 mmol/L.
- Plasma triglyceride levels between 1.5 and 8.0 mmol/L (135 and 710 mg/dl) at screening and week -4.
- Patients having received stable doses of metformin for at least 3 months before randomization.
- Subjects must be willing to give written informed consent and able to adhere to dosing schedule, visit schedule and phone follow-up assessment.
- Patients should be otherwise generally healthy, without elevations in hepatic transaminases or abnormal renal function or coagulation.
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- Patients with extreme dyslipidemias, such as familial hypercholesterolemia will be excluded.
- Patients with type 1 diabetes, secondary form of diabetes or acute metabolic diabetic complications will be excluded.
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- Patients taking any other hypoglycemic agent, other than metformin.
- Subjects will be excluded if they have cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease or peripheral arterial disease) or if they are taking other medications known to affect lipoprotein metabolism (e.g. steroids, beta blockers, thiazide diuretics, lipid lowering agents, significant alcohol intake etc.).
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|Laval University
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
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Volkswagen's 2013 Super Bowl ad, featuring a white guy walking around his office speaking in a Jamaican accent is being called racist by some out there on the interwebs. Whether it is or not, you'd think they would have seen this coming.
So, is it?
Here is what the AP is reporting:
NEW YORK (AP) — A Volkswagen Super Bowl ad that hit the web Monday, featuring a white office worker showing his happiness with a Jamaican accent, is stirring up online controversy.
The ad shows a worker from Minnesota trying to cheer up co-workers in an accent often associated with black Jamaicans, because he has been made so happy by his Volkswagen. Pundits on NBC's The Today Show, a Wall Street Journal blog and elsewhere have questioned whether the ad is offensive.
Online comments on Youtube and elsewhere were split, with many saying they found the ad funny, not offensive.
Volkswagen says it intended the accent in the ad to portray a relaxed, cheerful demeanor.
The company says it has no plans to pull the ad.


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Police search for bear after possible crash with car
Motorist reports crash to 911 dispatcher
Police said a 120-pound black bear was spotted around Johnson Road in Springdale on Wednesday.
Authorities said the crash happened near a school crosswalk at Don Tyson Parkway and 48th Street.
"I hit either a dog or a bear with my car," the driver said during a call to 911.
The driver said he was going about 20 mph when he hit the animal. He said he pulled over to the side of the road and called police.
"I would recommend staying in your vehicle because we did have a bear running around loose earlier," a dispatcher told the motorist.
The driver said the animal headed west toward 48th Street, and the crash did some minor damage to the vehicle.
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologist Matthew Melson said if it was the bear that was hit, the driver would have had to be traveling a bit faster to hurt the bear.
"Bears are extremely tough and resilient. It would take a direct large vehicle collision to even injure one," Melson said.
Tranquilizer guns and darts are used by authorities to capture large animals lost in cities so they can be moved back to the wild while asleep.
"This is probably a sub-adult male that has been winged and is looking for new territory, and Springdale just got in its way," Melson said.
While the bears are typically known to be friendly, Melson said they can snap.
"It would have to be a cornered animal or something to that effect. You literally have a better chance of being struck by lightning in the United States as opposed to being attacked by a bear," Melson said.
There were no sightings Thursday. Wildlife officers said not to leave out any domestic animal food in yards or near open windows because that can attract bears.


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Emule Options To Lower Cpu/resources. (7/25/03)
Posted 19 July 2003 - 11:52 PM
General Tab:
1) Uncheck Show Splashscreen.
1) Slide the Progressbar Style to Flat.
2) Uncheck Show Transferrates on Title.
3) Uncheck Show download info on Catagory Tabs.
4) Check Disable Known Client List.
5) Check Disable Queuel List.
6) Check Don't Recreate Static Graph on Resize.
1) Uncheck Show Overhead Bandwidth.
2) Close all programs that are currently using your internet connection. Go to a site that can check your bandwidth and test your connection. For example, a DSL connection might get results like 1200 down/ 110 up.. Now, click on the wizard button. Select one of the three settings for Concurent Downloads. Then enter in the results of your bandwidth test into the True Download Bandwidth box and True Upload Bandwidth box. Press apply
1) Check Remove Dead Server After __ Retries. Also set the number of retires to 1.
1) Increase the delay times for the things you don't montor as much. (Graphs Update delay, Statistics Tree update delay).
2) If you don't use the graphs at all.. Slide the Graphs Update delay all the way to the left for disable.
3) If you don't use the statistics at all. Slide the Statistic Tree delay all the way to the left to disable them.
Extended Settings:
1) Uncheck Verbose(additional program feedback)
Number of files downloading
Also, try not to download a huge amount of files at once. eMule has to try to handle all these files and sources at once. This can also get you banned by some servers.
Be aware that software firewalls usually don't like P2P's. They were not intended to have to monitor the amount of traffic a P2P generates. Although ZoneAlarm is a great firewall, it can consume a lot of memory and hog your CPU (Or even freeze your system) trying to keep up.
Hope this helps some out there.. Good luck.
Warning: I will keep this thread open for discussion.. But most likely will update the main post periodically with the good information and corrections and delete the added posts to keep this thread clean.
Posted 03 December 2003 - 05:47 PM
If your using windows XP you can save a lot of CPU resources by launching emule with this command:
Start /Low F:\Progra~1\EMULE\emule.exe
This will give emule a low processor priority, ideally you would have a batch file to avoid having to type this out every time.
Posted 04 December 2003 - 07:41 AM
Posted 15 December 2003 - 07:42 PM
Thanks for the tip, but this is too difficult for me.
I just bought more RAM and a faster CPU.
Voila! My computer is faster than ever.
This post has been edited by Idiot: 15 December 2003 - 07:44 PM
Posted 16 December 2003 - 04:26 PM
They've been very useful.
Posted 08 January 2004 - 03:00 PM
Just a note about the firewall....I am using Zone Alarm 4.5 with emule and I have absolutley NO problem with ZA.
I have Mcafee virusscan pro, PC alert, Accelerator, ZA, emule, APC running simultaneously with a CPU usage of around 7%
I don't think zone alarm is getting enough credit its one of the BEST firewall out there.
Oh, follow the instructions above they are great for reducing CPU usage.
Posted 30 January 2004 - 06:21 AM
Sakuya, on Jan 30 2004, 01:18 AM, said:
I personally like http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Posted 31 January 2004 - 12:03 AM
Posted 07 April 2004 - 01:28 PM
leerees, on Dec 3 2003, 07:47 PM, said:
Start /Low F:\Progra~1\EMULE\emule.exe
This will give emule a low processor priority, ideally you would have a batch file to avoid having to type this out every time.
Decreasing the CPU priority will not save any CPU resources for you, it will just make other programs more responsive. The bad side effect is that if any other program will decide to eat 100% of CPU time for a few seconds (while running with Normal priority), eMule will drop some or all downloads, because it doesn't have the CPU power to process these downloads.
Posted 15 April 2004 - 05:09 PM
Posted 16 April 2004 - 11:23 AM
if i will down the emule cpu usage the preformence of the emule will go down to?
i mean dose the download and the upload become weaker?
Posted 16 April 2004 - 05:34 PM
timi2004, on Apr 16 2004, 01:23 PM, said:
if i will down the emule cpu usage the preformence of the emule will go down to?
i mean dose the download and the upload become weaker?
As I said above, this will adversely affect eMule's performance if you run some CPU-hungry application, such as archiver, mp3 encoder, movie player, 3d game, web-site with flash, etc. If such application takes all CPU time for a few seconds, eMule will find itself unable to handle all connections and will drop some or all of them. This isn't the end of the world, though. As soon as CPU is freed, eMule will recover and start downloading again. Of course, you will lose your position in the queue and so your downloads will finish a bit later... If you don't want that, don't decrease eMule's priority. If you find that it slows down your other applications, you might want to increase their priority instead of decreasing eMule's.
A simple example. You are running eMule in the background, typing a report in MS Word, use your e-mail client and need to uncompress the attachment with WinZip. There are two options:
1) Decrease the priority of eMule to LOW and leave all others at NORMAL. Then when you start unpacking a large file, eMule may not have enough CPU and drop some connections. Bad.
2) Increase the priority of MS Word to ABOVE NORMAL. Thus the program you spend most time in will be the most responsive. It is also unlikely yo take over all CPU power and so will not harm eMule. This time, when you start unpacking the file in WinZip, both WinZip and eMule will have normal priority and so will share the CPU time. The file will unpack for a few seconds longer, but eMule will not drop any connections. Good.
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MaxLogBuff= 64 / 128
I'm saving the verbose log and the eMule log, so, if I set MaxLogBuff to a small number (eg. 2) I get nice 'screenfuls' of status messages that are progressively cleared.
Pros/Cons: Logging more status items might trim the results of a logged item.
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Posted 03 November 2007 - 01:17 PM
Reaktor, on Nov 3 2007, 02:13 PM, said:
Add files paused and resume a file when a file is finished.
Banning from servers hardly ever happens for too many files. But you overload the server when you pick a server that cannot handle the number of file you share.
Trouble connecting to a server? Use kad and /or refresh your server list
Strange search results? Check for fake servers! Or download morph, enable obfuscated server required, and far less fake server seen.
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Posted 03 November 2007 - 01:46 PM
I frequently leave my PC and can't follow the process of download, maybe I can do this automatelly?
Posted 03 November 2007 - 03:35 PM
Absolutely useless. there is no server that allows so much shared files. Max hard limit is set to 10000.
You don't need to do anything to keep downloading files, just let eMule running
Your rate do not depends on number of files shared but on data uploaded.
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U.S. authorities have barred fishing in areas of the U.S. Virgin Islands where rare species spawn, officials said Monday.
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands U.S. authorities have barred fishing in areas of the U.S. Virgin Islands where rare species spawn, officials said Monday.
The Caribbean Fisheries Management Council has banned fishing at the Grammanik Bank, a shallow stretch of sea south of St. Thomas.
The area is a spawning ground for dwindling numbers of several threatened species including the Nassau grouper -- a candidate for the endangered species list and federal protection, said Dean Plaskett, commissioner of the U.S. Caribbean territory's Department of Planning and Natural Resources.
Fishing is banned in the area from Feb. 1 to April 30 based on two studies last year that found, unless spawning areas are closed seasonally, the fish will not be able to repopulate, Plaskett said.
Researchers from the University of the Virgin Islands studied the area last year and recommended the council close the area to fishermen during the spawning season.
Though it is illegal to catch Nassau grouper, many fishermen get away with it by filleting the fish at sea, making the type of fish difficult to identify.
In March, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers conducted a two-week study of fish populations around St. John and Buck Island in the territory and found fish size and population to be dangerously low.
The NOAA team saw just one Nassau grouper, which scientists say was nearly fished out of existence in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming federally protected.
Overfishing and destruction of fish habitat, such as coral reefs was to blame for a lack of size and population, the researchers said.
The council has begun drafting proposals that would prohibit fishing of the Nassau and Goliath grouper, and the queen conch -- which experts say have been over-harvested -- in parts of the U.S. Virgin Islands and neighboring Puerto Rico for 15 to 30 years so the fish can regenerate their populations.
The planned bans have drawn the ire of local fishermen who claim researchers are misreading data. The fishermen say overfishing in Puerto Rican waters is falsely blamed on Virgin Islands fishermen.
The fisheries council plans a series of meetings starting Jan. 26 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to draw public reaction to the planned closures.
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First up, I want to remind everyone that the FAQ exists. Probably once a month someone asks some question like how to post links, or change their avatar, or some other question that would have been easily answered by reading the FAQ.
Second, I wanted to ask your help identifying what topics are missing from the FAQ. Either ones that I could write an answer for, or ones that I could just include links to past discussions. For instance, I'm going to add a question for "How do you sort your LEGO?", and then put in some links to past versions of this discussion.
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Interaction between categorical and continuous variables
From PsychWiki - A Collaborative Psychology Wiki
Testing interactions between categorical and continuous variables follows the same basic steps as testing interactions between two continuous variables so there is content overlap between this page and the page describing interactions between two continuous variables.
Two approaches are described below:
(1) three steps to conduct the interaction using commands within SPSS, and
(2) Interaction! software by Daniel S. Soper that performs statistical analysis and graphics for interactions between dichotomous, categorical, and continuous variables.
*For a description of what is an interaction and main effects, please see the accompanying page about What is an Interaction?.
Three Steps using SPSS
There are three steps involved to calculate the interaction between two continuous variables.
► Center the continuous variable
- Why center the variable?
- To increase interpretability of interactions numerous researchers (e.g. (Aiken and West, 1991); (Judd and McClelland, 1989)) have recommended centering the continuous predictor variable).
- If the variable is not centered there are possible problems with multicolinearity, which means that if the IVs are not centered their product (used in computing the interaction) is highly correlated with the original IV.
- How to center the variable?
- You center the continuous variable by subtracting the mean score from each data-point. In other words, use SPSS, or another statistical program, to find the mean value of the variable. Then, use the "Compute" command in SPSS to create a new variable that is the original values minus the mean.
- As a concrete example,
- Suppose you have 200 subjects (N=200) for which you have their IQ score and whether or not they studied for an exam. Thus, there is one continuous variables (X1=IQ) and one categorical variable(X2=studied or not studied), and your dependent variable is the test score (Y=test score).
- Imagine that the average IQ score is 100. To center the IQ variable, 100 needs to be subtracted from every every subject's IQ score. So if a subject has an IQ of 115, their centered IQ score is 15. If a subject has an IQ of 90, their centered IQ score is -10. For easy reference, lets called the newly centered IQ score as "IQ_c".
- To check your transformation has been performed correctly you should compute the mean of your IQ_c variable. If the centering process has worked the mean score for IQ_c should be 0. It is important that the mean score you subtract is as accurate as possible. Typically this means your mean score should be entered to say at least 4 decimal places (though the number of decimal places needed will depend on your data). If you have rounded your mean score your centered variable may not have a mean of zero.
- There is a macro available that will center the variables
- Macros are useful when you need to perform the same statistical procedure for lots of variables or imagine in the future you will be performing the same analysis over and over again. In other words macros may take some initial time to learn but in the long run will save you time.
- See this website and download the file.
- Open and select run all from the pull-down menu.
- At the bottom of the downloaded file is the following text
- /* --------------------------------------------------------- */.
- /* The macro is called by:
- /* Center IDVar = variable containing casenumbers
- /* /VARS = variables
- /* /DVARS = new variables.
- /* --------------------------------------------------------- */.
- /* --------------------------------------------------------- */.
- You should re-write that text to reflect your current study. For example, remove the "/*" because that is telling SPSS to ignore the enclosed text. Then, insert your variable names into the text, such as
- CenterIDVar = subjects
- /VARS = IQ, study
- In the above example, 'IQ' is the variable names in SPSS given to the IQ. 'Subjects' indicates the variable containing the case numbers, in this case 1-200 as there were 200 subjects in the study.
- Highlight the text, and click run selection. A new SPSS data editor window should be created at the end of which should be the new SPSS variables IQ_c. You should now save this spss file with a new name.
► Create the interaction term
- How to create the interaction term?
- Simply multiply together the newly centered variable and the categorical variable.
- In our example, multiple IQ_c x study (e.g., "study" is the variable name for whether the subjects studied for the exam or not).
- In SPSS this is accomplished using the "compute" command and typing "IQ_c * study" in the open box.
► Conduct Regression
- How to conduct the regression analysis?
- In SPSS, click on "linear regression" and enter the test score variable as the DV.
- Enter the newly centered continuous variable and the categorical variable as the IVs in the regression analysis.
- Click "next" and enter the same two variables AND the new interaction variable as the IVs.
- Run the analysis.
- In the output, look at the second model in the "Coefficients" box. An interaction is depicted as a significant value for the interaction variable. A significant value for the centered variables can be conceptualized as a "main effect".
- If your interaction term is then significant it is recommended you produce plots to assist the interpretation of your interaction.
Interaction! software
- Given the tedious nature of using the three steps described above every time you need to test interactions between categorical and continuous variables, I was happy to find Windows-based software which analyzes statistical interactions between dichotomous, categorical, or continuous variables, AND plots the interaction graphs.
- The software is called Interaction! from a graduate student in the Information Systems department at Arizona State University. I found it very easy to use. There is also a good Help section on the website.
- When using the software to test the interaction between a categorical and continuous variable, you should center the continuous variable first in SPSS before using the Interaction! software to analyze the data.
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A High Court battle royal begins today over where the remains of King Richard III should be reburied.
Distant relatives of the monarch have formed an alliance and brought the action in what has been described as "the (legal) Wars of the Roses part 2".
Richard's battle-scarred bones were discovered under a council car park in Leicester and the controversial plan is for them to be re-interred at the city's cathedral.
The Queen has spoken of her shock at learning of the resting place of her 14th great-grand uncle.
Now the Plantagenet Alliance Ltd, formed by the distant relatives, are fighting for the remains to be buried at York Minster, claiming it was the king's wish.
They are bringing judicial review proceedings against Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council.
Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 - ending the Wars of the Roses and the Plantagenet dynasty - and his body was taken to Leicester by supporters of the victorious Henry VII and buried in Greyfriars church, now the site of the council car park.
At the heart of the case is a Ministry of Justice decision to grant a "section 25 licence" under the Burial Act giving archaeologists from the university licence to excavate, and the university permission to decide where to re-bury the bones, which were exhumed some 19 months ago.
The university later announced it intended the reburial would take place in Leicester Cathedral.
The Plantagenet Alliance argues the Ministry of Justice failed to consult widely enough, or take into account the wishes of the king's descendants, or the wishes of the long dead king himself, if they can still be determined.
Matthew Howarth, the partner and judicial review expert at Yorkshire law firm Gordons representing the alliance, said: "Quite why our opponents have declined the obviously sensible option of independent adjudication, preferring to incur substantial legal costs - including for the taxpayer - and tie up considerable court time, is inexplicable.
"Although many people are astonished we've got this far, we'll go to the hearing with every confidence in our position, intending to state our case clearly and believing there's every chance the licence will be quashed.
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They are advanced students who have been together for five terms. Even if you come up with the ice-breaker to end all ice-breakers, they may have had it inflicted on them before. I would just introduce myself very briefly, and then get each student to introduce the student on their right and tell me one interesting thing they know about that person. This is a little different from the self-introductions they have probably done many times, and might bring up an amusing little anecdote. It will also give you an opportunity for follow-up questions if you wish.
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Fall prevention is a crucial part of keeping elderly adults healthy and safe. Seniors are already at higher risk of suffering a fall, due to a range of age-related risk factors. When these falls occur, elderly adults face much a higher risk of serious injury. They also face a much lower likelihood of recovery from these injuries.
At Visiting Angels®, we help address these risks through our Safe & Steady Fall Prevention program. This program teaches seniors, families, and care providers how to make falls less likely by creating a safer home environment.
A big part of this program is learning how to spot warning signs and risk factors before falls happen. Even if you don't think that your mom, dad, or grandparent is at high-risk right now, it's a good idea to learn about these warning signs. That way, you can be proactive about fall prevention as soon as these signs appear.
Elderly adults' increased risk of falls stems from a number of age-related issues. As we grow older, our strength, sense of balance, and eyesight decline, making falls more likely. We're also at increased risk of conditions that can result in falls, such as diabetes or dementia. We're also more likely to take medications, some of which have side effects that increase our risk of falling.
As these risk factors start to build up, seniors face every higher risk of suffering a fall. And if that happens, the results can threaten a senior's living situation. In fact, falls are the number one reason that seniors lose their independence! Worse yet, falls are often life-threatening. A serious fall can result in a hip fracture, which can dramatically reduce life expectancy.
That's why, at Visiting Angels, we recommend monitoring elderly loved ones for common warning signs and risk factors. This doesn't mean you need to monitor your loved one constantly. But you should be keeping an eye out for:
When you're looking for fall prevention warning signs and risk factors, you'll want to keep an eye on two things: your loved one and your loved one's home.
First, you'll want to monitor for signs that your loved one is at increased risk of losing his or her balance. Some of the risk factors to watch for include:
At the same time, you'll want to look out for hazards that increase the risk of trips and slips at home. Try to keep an eye on areas with poor visibility, obstacles that could be tripped over, slippery surfaces, and areas with unsteady footing. In particular, be watchful of:
Remember, your loved one could be at risk of falling with only one or two of these risk factors present. So, don't wait for several warning signs to build up before you take action. If you suspect your loved one is at risk of a fall, be proactive.
If you suspect your loved one is at risk of a fall, what next steps should you be taking? Broadly speaking, there are a number of avenues you can take.
For one thing, you can encourage your loved one to eat healthy foods and partake in regular exercise. Diet and physical activity will reduce the risk of your loved one losing his or her balance, plus countless other benefits.
At the same time, you can look at making fall prevention improvements to your loved one's home. Simple changes like additional lighting, secure handrails, and less clutter can make a world of difference.
You might also want to think about having someone around your loved one more often. This might mean having family members visit more often, or it might mean hiring a caregiver. That way, someone will be there to lend support, reducing the risk of falls. And if a fall occurs, a bystander can ensure a quick response.
But before you do that, we suggest reading our Safe & Steady guide to elderly fall prevention. This guide will give you more detailed information about fall risks and fall prevention, including a wealth of suggestions on how to reduce the risk of falls and a home safety fall prevention checklist.
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More news from camp Verizon, concerning the upcoming Motorola Droid phones. The Droid 2 Xtreme and Shadow have appeared on Verizon's inventory, according to photos sent in to Droid-Life, suggesting release is imminent.
Both names have been bandied about a fair bit, with the Shadow being left in a gym only last week. Our tipster confirmed it has an 8MP camera, 4.1-inch screen, and runs Android Froyo on a Snapdragon processor.
Now though, we've heard from several different sources claiming that the keyboard-less phone found in the Verizon gym (and the Verizon brochure before that), is actually the Droid Xtreme, with the Droid 2 Shadow (which has appeared on Verizon's inventory in the last few days) actually containing a keyboard and not as much internal storage—2GB, compared to the Xtreme's 16GB. It's a basic update to last November's Droid, with a slightly better keyboard, according to the rumors.
Both phones are rumored to be unveiled next month in June, with a July release proving likely. If anyone's got any more details/photos on these two phones—you know where to find us. [Droid-Life via Electronista]


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Florida teen, 14, charged with first degree murder
A 14 year old Florida teen, is charged with first degree murder after she gives birth in the family bathroom – strangles her 9 1/2 pound baby boy and hides his body in a shoe box that she dumps in the bottom of her closet and covers it with dirty laundry. Her mother finds the baby days later cleaning her daughters closet and claims she never even knew her daughter was pregnant – even though her closest friends had questioned her the entire summer as to why her daughter was gaining weight.
Everything about this story screams out to us as a humanity to ask ourselves what the hell are we accepting and allowing when the world we exist in continues to FAIL our children.
How much more suffering will it take before we each one stand up and take responsibility for the fact that we have failed to communicate, educate or even behave in a humane manner to each other and the children we claim to be raising.
Generation after generation, children are becoming the fear product of who we are as parents running around trying to make it within a money system that thrives on competition and greed, and the fact remains, the children are the ones that suffer. It's time we all took responsibility for these crimes against life that are occuring daily.
The majority of us, we bow down to the 'rich and famous'. Hell, we pay their salary and dream of becoming them as we sleep walk through our enslaved lives. All the while barely paying any attention to the children we're bringing into this mess we refer to as life.
Can you imagine being a baby born into our current world/money system to the likes of us as the parents we've become. Supporters of our own Enslavement…
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When someone you love needs help to stay safely and comfortably at home, finding the right person can be a challenge. Even though the benefits of having help are clear, the idea of inviting a stranger into your home understandably makes many people feel uncomfortable. Add to that the challenge of finding a caregiver and it can seem easier to just take care of everything on your own.
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Hiring an independent caregiver may seem more affordable than a home care agency at first glance. However, you need to consider employment laws and regulations since in-home care is considered to be an employer-employee relationship. As such, you are responsible for federal and state employment taxes, which can swiftly escalate the cost above a simple hourly rate. You may also need to carry special insurance to protect yourself in the event of an accident – a simple homeowner's policy is probably not enough. Information on federal employment tax requirements can be found in Publication 926 from the IRS. For state requirements, contact your state employment department.
In addition, you will need to have a fully-developed job description and employment agreement. You should conduct a thorough review of any private caregiver's background, and may want to consider checking credit as well. Be sure also to verify that the candidate meets any state licensing requirements to provide "hands-on" care. The caregiver will need to fill out an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 and you need to keep a copy. This verifies that the person is legally entitled to work in the United States. The I-9 form and Publication 926 can be downloaded at www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html or ordered by calling (800) TAX-FORM.
Most people find that choosing a home care agency is the better option, both in terms of managing the caregiver and the peace of mind an agency can provide, as an established, reputable home care agency takes the entire burden off of you.
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Health Canada Approves Esbriet® as First Treatment for Fatal Lung Disease
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BRISBANE, Calif., Oct. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - InterMune, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITMN) today announced that Health Canada has approved Esbriet® (pirfenidone) for the treatment of mild to moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in adult patients. IPF is a progressive and uniformly fatal disease that affects approximately 5,000 to 8,000 Canadians, is characterized by scarring of lung tissue, and has a similar short life expectancy to that of many forms of cancer, including lung, colorectal and breast cancers. Health Canada designated Esbriet for Priority Review and completed the accelerated review according to target guidelines of 180 days.
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"After over a decade of failed clinical trials of multiple innovative drugs for IPF, today's announcement of Health Canada's approval of Esbriet is an exciting one for IPF patients and the larger IPF community," said Charles Chan, M.D., an IPF researcher and Consultant Respirologist at University Health Network, Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine, University of Toronto. "I am very pleased to finally have a treatment option with proven benefit for patients with this challenging disease."
Pirfenidone is the first and only medicine approved anywhere in the world for the treatment of IPF. In addition to Canada, pirfenidone is approved in 29 European countries under the InterMune trade name Esbriet and in Japan and South Korea where it is marketed by Shionogi & Co. Ltd under the trade name Pirespa®. Under different trade names, pirfenidone is also approved for the treatment of IPF in China, India, and Argentina. InterMune is conducting an additional Phase 3 study, ASCEND, to support the regulatory registration of Esbriet for the treatment of IPF in the United States.
"With the approval of Esbriet by Health Canada we are very pleased to have made another big step toward our objective to bring Esbriet to as many IPF patients as possible – and as soon as possible," said Daniel Welch, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of InterMune.
While Health Canada has now approved Esbriet for the treatment of mild to moderate IPF in adult patients, it is not yet available for sale in Canada. InterMune expects that Esbriet will be available on January 1, 2013. The company is currently working to secure reimbursement of Esbriet from private insurance providers and the public (provincial) drug reimbursement plans in Canada. Approximately one-third of IPF patients in Canada are covered by private insurance and InterMune expects to secure private insurance coverage from some private insurance plans in the first quarter of 2013 and from substantially all of the private insurance plans in the second quarter of 2013. Public (provincial) drug reimbursement plans cover approximately two-thirds of IPF patients in Canada and reimbursement of new medicines from these plans is typically secured within six to 18 months of launch.
Preclinical and in-vitro evidence suggests that Esbriet has both anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects. In its clinical development program, Esbriet was demonstrated to be effective in decreasing decline in lung function, slowing the progression of the disease and preserving exercise tolerance.
Esbriet was also safe and generally well-tolerated with the most frequent side effects reported being rash and gastrointestinal symptoms. The safety and tolerability of Esbriet in IPF patients is well-characterized based on both clinical studies and the expanding post marketing experience. Safety results from ongoing studies of Esbriet demonstrated that long-term treatment with Esbriet for up to 7.7 years was safe and generally well-tolerated, with a long-term safety profile similar to that observed in Esbriet's original clinical study program.
About Esbriet® (pirfenidone)
Esbriet is an orally active drug that inhibits the synthesis of TGF-beta, a chemical mediator that controls many cell functions including proliferation and differentiation, and plays a key role in fibrosis, or scarring, of the lung. It also inhibits the synthesis of TNF-alpha, a cytokine that is known to have an active role in inflammation.
On February 28, 2011, the European Commission granted marketing authorization for Esbriet in adults for the treatment of mild to moderate IPF. The approval authorized marketing of Esbriet in all 27 EU member states. Esbriet has since also been approved for marketing in Norway and Iceland -- and now, Canada. Esbriet is now commercially available in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden, and is expected to be made available in France by the end of 2012.
About IPF
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive, debilitating and ultimately fatal disease characterized predominantly by fibrosis (scarring) in the lungs that compromises lung function and hinders gas exchange. Approximately 5,000 to 8,000 patients are estimated to be living with IPF across Canada, of whom 3,500 to 5,000 are estimated to have mild to moderate disease. IPF is a progressive disease, meaning that over time, lung scarring, symptoms, and functional limitations increase in severity. The median survival time from diagnosis is two to five years, with a five-year survival rate of approximately 20-40 percent, which makes IPF more rapidly lethal than many cancers, including ovarian, colorectal, and breast. Patients diagnosed with IPF are primarily between the ages of 40 and 80, with a median age of 63 years. The disease tends to affect slightly more men than women.
About InterMune
InterMune is a biotechnology company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative therapies in pulmonology and orphan fibrotic diseases. In pulmonology, the company is focused on therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal lung disease. Pirfenidone, the only medicine approved for IPF anywhere in the world, is approved for marketing by InterMune in 29 European countries and Canada as Esbriet and is currently in an additional Phase 3 clinical trial to support regulatory registration in the United States. Additional information about the study is available at www.ASCENDtrial.com. For additional information about InterMune and its R&D pipeline, please visit www.intermune.com.
Other factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in detail under the heading "Risk Factors" in InterMune's most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 29, 2012 (the "Form 10-K"), most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 8, 2012 (the "Form 10-Q") and other periodic reports filed with the SEC, including but not limited to the following: (i) the risks related to the uncertain, lengthy and expensive clinical development process for the company's product candidates, including having no unexpected safety, toxicology, clinical or other issues and having no unexpected clinical trial results such as unexpected new clinical data and unexpected additional analysis of existing clinical data; (ii) risks related to the regulatory process for the company's product candidates, including the possibility that the results of the new 52-week Phase 3 clinical trial (ASCEND) having an FVC endpoint may not be satisfactory to the FDA for InterMune to receive regulatory approval for pirfenidone in the United States; (iii) risks related to unexpected regulatory actions or delays or government regulation generally; (iv) risks related to the company's manufacturing strategy, which relies on third-party manufacturers; (v) risks related to our ability to successfully launch and commercialize Esbriet; and (vi) InterMune's ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protections. The risks and other factors discussed above should be considered only in connection with the fully discussed risks and other factors discussed in detail in the Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and InterMune's other periodic reports filed with the SEC, all of which are available via InterMune's web site at www.intermune.com.
Esbriet is a registered trademark of InterMune, Inc.
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Health Care Ruling a Victory for Federalism and Individual Liberty
Today's ruling vindicates the constitutional first principle that ours is a government of delegated, enumerated, and thus limited powers. Like Judge Hudson in the Virginia case, Judge Vinson recognized that the individual mandate represents an unprecedented and improper incursion beyond those powers: the federal government, under the guise of regulating commerce, cannot require that people engage in economic activity.
And this is as it should be: if the only limit on congressional power were Congress' own assessment of the wisdom of each assertion of such power, the Constitution would be obsolete — as would any conception of checks and balances. James Madison, the author of the Federalist Paper (51) explaining how man's non‐angelic nature requires explicit limits on those who govern, would spin in his grave. As even would Alexander Hamilton — perhaps the Framer most favorably disposed to strong central power — who cautioned that courts should not be in the business of evaluating the "more or less necessity" of a piece of legislation but rather define judicially administrable rules to guide (but also limit) Congress's actions.
And so today's ruling, in a lawsuit that now has 26 states as plaintiffs — with two others challenging the health care "reform" separately — represents the latest and most significant victory for federalism and individual liberty. This will not end until the Supreme Court has its say, but the tide is clearly running in freedom's favor.
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Take a look at these beaded beauties! Dangling from lever backs, a large lapis lazuli bead gives way to a two-tone scrollwork detailed cap. Seven strands of additional lapis lazuli beads dangle below. This tassel design, paired with the lever backs, gives this pair of bold beauts a plethora of natural movement.
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Vermeil Plating:
Pronounced "vermay," vermeil is an electroplating process in which 14K gold or higher is coated over sterling silver. Officially designated by the jewelry industry, items may only be sold as vermeil if they have a minimum thickness of 100 millionths of an inch (2.5 microns) of gold over the silver. Regular gold plating is less than 2.5 microns.
The "vermeil" technique of plating sterling silver with gold originated in France in the 1750s. It differs from "gold filled" or "gold plated" in terms of the thickness or thinness of the microns over sterling silver. "Gold filled" pieces have a much thicker layer, between 15 and 45 microns, which is mechanically bonded to the base metal with heat and pressure. Vermeil is a more expensive version of "gold plated". It does not wear off as quickly as gold plating does. However, over time, vermeil wears off and therefore will require re-plating.
Gold/Platinum Embraced Silver or Bronze:
Our platinum and gold embraced collections feature layers of platinum or gold over sterling silver or bronze for a lustrous, radiant finish everywhere you look and touch.
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Lapis is a strong blue microcrystalline rock composed primarily of the mineral lazurite. Its value decreases with the presence of white patches called calcite, while small veins of golden pyrite inclusions are often prized. Top quality lapis lazuli comes from Afghanistan, but small quantities are also found in Siberia, Chile, the United States, Pakistan and Canada. It is one of the most valuable semi-opaque stones and is a relatively soft gem, ranking 5.0-5.5 on the Mohs Scale.
First mined in Afghanistan in 6000 B.C., lapis lazuli was used to heal eye maladies and was thought to help one acquire wisdom and serenity. The Romans believed it was a powerful aphrodisiac, while the Egyptians used lapis for cosmetic purposes and often carved it into vases and figurines. The ancient city of Ur had a thriving trade in lapis lazuli as early as the fourth millennium B.C. The name comes from the Latin word "lapis," meaning stone, and from the Arabic word "azul," meaning blue.
In the Middle Ages, lapis was thought to free the soul from error, envy and fear. Used by artists during the Renaissance , ground lapis created a beautiful blue pigment for paintings. The stone was inlaid in the columns of St. Issac's Cathedral and the panels of the Pushkin Palace, both in Petersburg. Today, lapis lazuli is traditionally given as a 9th wedding anniversary gift. It is believed to free the wearer of melancholy and strengthen total awareness, creativity and ESP.
A selection of our jewelry is made of sterling palladium alloy. Palladium is a member of the platinum group of precious metals. By replacing a portion of the copper content used in standard sterling silver with palladium, this proprietary formula renders a precious metal with superior performance attributes. Sterling palladium is five times more tarnish-resistant than standard sterling silver and has strength similar to that of 14K gold.
Palladium has been used as a precious metal in jewelry since 1939, originally as an alternative to platinum for making white gold. Its naturally white color requires no rhodium plating. Additionally, palladium is proportionally much lighter than platinum and is ideal for use in heavier gemstone jewelry. It is a more expensive alloy than nickel, but it seldom causes the allergic reactions that nickel alloy can.
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Earring Back Types
Butterfly Back: A double looped piece resembling a butterfly that fits over a post. Variations on this design are called push back clasps. The basic post and butterfly back are usually used for stud earrings and lighter weight drop earrings.
Hinged Snap Backs: This clasp features a hinged post that snaps into a groove on the back of the earring. It is commonly found on hoops. Sometimes the hinged post is curved to provide more room to fit around the ear, sometimes called a saddleback.
Hook Backs: This earring backing is simply a long, bent post that fits through the piercing. Hooks have several variations, most notably the shepherd's hook and the French hook. While thin wire hooks reduce the weight of long earrings, making them more comfortable, they aren't as secure as other clasp styles.
Lever Back: A hinged lever snaps shut against the curved post to form a closed loop around the ear lobe. This clasp is very secure and good for large or medium sized styles that drop just below the ear.
Omega: Also called French clips, this clasp has a straight post and a looped lever. The hinged lever closes around the post and is held against the ear with pressure. The omega clasp is the most secure clasp, especially for the larger, heavier earrings.
Screw back: This backing is a slight variation of the standard post and butterfly nut back. Instead of pushing on the back, the nut twists onto the threaded post. A screw back post design is often preferred for expensive diamond stud earrings that require increased security.


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Release Date: 1994 |
Album Rating: 5.0About time someone reviewed this
Album Rating: 4.0I figured I might as well while I had the opportunity.
I was expecting soothing and epic songs with this... boy was I wrong!
I've only listened to the first 3 songs, I always fall asleep. That's a good thing though. Maybe I'll chuck on some random songs later and give a more thorough comment.
The first song, Cliffs, is lovely. Radiator is the scariest song I've ever heard, that "REEERGH!" sound that gets louder and louder... erg!
Album Rating: 4.0Epic, yes. Soothing? Mmm.. sometimes. I think there are more creepy tracks than happy ones. Creepy can be soothing sometimes, though.
Very nice work. This genre has always interested me for strange reasons. Perhaps I may finally check it out! :eek: For than I shall be able to make a truly intelligent comment on the album!! :amazing:This Message Edited On 09.21.05
Album Rating: 4.0I insist that you check it out immediately.
Album Rating: 5.0Electronica is one of the best genres
Great review. Aphex Twin is great.
I'm listening to it now on massive speakers. Nearly finished. The track 'Spots' was on, and it freaked the hell out of me, the simple sight of my dog was enough to make me jump.
Rhubarb is indeed awesome.
Well I like the contrast between the two disks, the first is more relaxing and minimalistic while the second is gosh darn freaky and has a lot more going on.
Awesome, ambience at its best, though it had to grow on me, and like most ambience, having crappy speakers that rumble when making loud noises etc. kinda ruins the experience.
Album Rating: 4.0Good stuff.
Goddamn it I have got to get this. I just need to somehow find it. They don't have shit cd's out here in Las Vegas.
Love this album. Trees is my favorite song, and Cliffs. :D
Album Rating: 4.5This album has been in my possesion for a couple of days, and it's easily the most powerful cd i've ever heard.
I actually well up when I hear Curtains, it's just so haunting, yet at the same time beautiful. The hopelessness in the music says more than words ever could.
This album is Changing the way I look at (Listen To) music.
And this CD has got to be the most bang for your buck anywhere. 2 Cd's for a little over 20 Bucks, and each of the 2 cd's are nearly 80 minutes. And the tracks are either very good or amazing. This album is similar to an Acid Trip/Salvia Trip in an abandoned warehouse. Easily the best Double Cd ever created.
My Fave Songs:
Window Sill
White Blur 2
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Album Rating: 3.5Could somone please explain to me how to get the best out of this album? Ive had it for about 4 months now and i love aphex twin, but this cd is different to his other stuff, please somone tell me how to enjoy this???
Album Rating: 3.5actually, don't bother telling me, this album is amazing lol. The first disc has got to be the best, the way it starts with the high pitched relaxing sound of cliffs, all the way through to the eerie wind chimes of white blur. Grass has got to be my favourite track.
I've only heard a few songs off of the first disc and the overall sound is drastically different from Selected Ambient Works 85-92. It has a much eerier, darker atmosphere that's kind of cool.
[quote=Zebra]It has a much eerier, darker atmosphere that's kind of cool.[/quote]this makes me really want this.
I have one Aphex Twin CD, but I don't know where to go from there. Anyone have any suggestions?
I Care Because You Do is his overall best, it's a mixuture of his ambient and crazy techno styles. Get Selected Ambient Works 85-92 if you want his strongest ambient stuff but if you want crazy Aphex Twin go for Richard D. James Album.
Or you could get Drukqs if you want some weird stuff.
I have Richard D. James, and I have access to Drugks and I Care, so I'll probably check out the latter soon. I'm not huge on Ambient stuff, but maybe I'll pick up this or the other SAW.
thanks a bunch Zebra.
Yeah, I Care Because You Do is good stuff.
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Three-Fifths Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The debate was over if, and if so, how, slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes. The issue was important, as this population number would then be used to determine the number of seats that the state would have in the United States House of Representatives for the next ten years. The effect was to give the southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than they would otherwise have had, allowing the slave interests to largely dominate the government of the United States until 1865.[1] The compromise was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman.
The Convention had unanimously accepted the principle that representation in the House of Representatives would be in proportion to the relative state populations. However, since slaves could not vote, white leaders in slave states would thus have the benefit of increased representation in the House and the Electoral College. Delegates opposed to slavery proposed that only free inhabitants of each state be counted for apportionment purposes, while delegates supportive of slavery, on the other hand, opposed the proposal, wanting slaves to count in their actual numbers. A compromise which was finally agreed upon—of counting "all other persons" as only three-fifths of their actual numbers—reduced the representation of the slave states relative to the original proposals, but improved it over the Northern position.[2] An inducement for slave states to accept the Compromise was its tie to taxation in the same ratio, so that the burden of taxation on the slave states was also reduced.
The Three-Fifths Compromise, is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution which reads:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
The three-fifths ratio originated with a 1783 amendment proposed to the Articles of Confederation. The amendment was to have changed the basis for determining the wealth of each state, and hence its tax obligations, from real estate to population, as a measure of ability to produce wealth. The proposal by a committee of the Congress had suggested that taxes "shall be supplied by the several colonies in proportion to the number of inhabitants of every age, sex, and quality, except Indians not paying taxes."[3][4] The South immediately objected to this formula since it would include slaves, who were viewed primarily as property, in calculating the amount of taxes to be paid. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his notes on the debates, the southern states would be taxed "according to their numbers and their wealth conjunctly, while the northern would be taxed on numbers only."[5]
After proposed compromises of one-half by Benjamin Harrison of Virginia and three-fourths by several New Englanders failed to gain sufficient support, Congress finally settled on the three-fifths ratio proposed by James Madison.[6] But this amendment ultimately failed, falling two states short of the unanimous approval required for amending the Articles of Confederation (only New Hampshire and New York were opposed).
A contentious issue at the Constitutional Convention was whether slaves would be counted as part of the population in determining representation of the states in the Congress or would instead be considered property and, as such, not be considered for purposes of representation.[7] Delegates from states with a large population of slaves argued that slaves should be considered persons in determining representation, but as property if the new government were to levy taxes on the states on the basis of population.[7] Delegates from states where slavery had become rare argued that slaves should be included in taxation, but not in determining representation.[7]
The proposed ratio was, however, a ready solution to the impasse that arose during the Constitutional Convention. In that situation, the alignment of the contending forces was the reverse of what had obtained under the Articles of Confederation. In amending the Articles, the North wanted slaves to count for more than the South did because the objective was to determine taxes paid by the states to the federal government. In the Constitutional Convention, the more important issue was representation in Congress, so the South wanted slaves to count for more than the North did.[citation needed]
Much has been said of the impropriety of representing men who have no will of their own. ...They are men, though degraded to the condition of slavery. They are persons known to the municipal laws of the states which they inhabit, as well as to the laws of nature. But representation and taxation go together.... Would it be just to impose a singular burden, without conferring some adequate advantage?
Impact before the Civil War
The Three-Fifths Compromise gave a disproportionate representation of slave states in the House of Representatives relative to the voters in free states until the American Civil War. In 1793, for example, Southern slave states had 47 members but would have had 33, had seats been assigned based on free populations. In 1812, slave states had 76 instead of the 59 they would have had; in 1833, 98 instead of 73. As a result, Southern states had disproportionate influence on the presidency, the speakership of the House, and the Supreme Court in the period prior to the Civil War.[10] To these must be added the equality of slave and free states, which was maintained until 1850 and safeguarded the Southern voting bloc in the Senate as well as Electoral College votes.[clarification needed]
Historian Garry Wills has postulated that without the additional slave state votes, Jefferson would have lost the presidential election of 1800. Also, "slavery would have been excluded from Missouri...Jackson's Indian removal policy would have failed...the Wilmot Proviso would have banned slavery in territories won from Mexico....the Kansas-Nebraska bill would have failed."[10] Other historians, however, have criticized Wills' analysis as simplistic.[11] While the Three-Fifths Compromise could be seen to favor Southern states because of their large slave populations, for example, the Connecticut Compromise tended to favor the Northern states (which were generally smaller). Support for the new Constitution rested on the balance of these sectional interests.[12]
Repeal and subversion after Reconstruction
Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment (1865), the three-fifths clause was nullified, as all people were now free. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) later superseded Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. It provides that "representatives shall be apportioned ...counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."
After the Reconstruction era came to an end in 1877, however, the former slave states subverted the objective of these changes by using various strategies to disfranchise their black citizens, while obtaining the benefit of apportionment of representatives on the basis of the total populations. These measures effectively gave white Southerners even greater voting power than they had in the antebellum era, inflating the number of Southern Democrats in the House of Representatives as well as the number of votes they could exercise in the Electoral College in the election of the president.
The disfranchisement of black citizens eventually attracted the attention of Congress, and in 1900 some members proposed stripping the South of seats, related to the number of people who were barred from voting.[13] In the end, Congress did not act to change apportionment, largely because of the power of the Southern bloc. The Southern bloc comprised Southern Democrats voted into office by white voters which comprised a powerful voting bloc in Congress until the 1960s. Their representatives, re-elected repeatedly by one-party states, controlled numerous chairmanships of important committees in both houses on the basis of seniority, giving them control over rules, budgets and important patronage projects, among other issues. Their power allowed them to defeat federal legislation against racial violence and abuses in the South.[14][not in citation given]
The large-scale migration of African Americans to the Northern and Western states starting in the 1910s was driven largely by economic forces, but at the same time reenfranchised black citizens, and resulted in reapportionment away from the Southern states and increasingly added to the calls for reforms and black civil rights. By the 1960s the African-American civil rights movement and its sympathizers successfully directly challenged the Southern disfranchisement of black citizens, besides other abuses.
See also
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- ^ "We Hold These Truths to be Self-evident;" An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism & slavery in America Kenneth N. Addison; Introduction P. xxii
- ^ Paul Finkelman, "How The Proslavery Constitution Led To The Civil War", Rutgers Law Journal Volume 43 Fall/Winter 2013 Number 3, p405
- ^ Wills pg. 51
- ^ Hannis Taylor (1911). The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution: An Historical Treatise. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 131.
- ^ Wills pg. 51-52
- ^ Wills pg 53.
- ^ a b c Constitutional Rights Foundation. "The Constitution and Slavery". Retrieved November 21, 2007.
- ^ Hamilton pg. 237
- ^ Jonathan Elliot, ed. (1866). The Debates In The Several State Conventions On The Adoption Of The Federal Constitution, As Recommended By The General Convention At Philadelphia, In 1787. J.B. Lippincott & Co. Washington: Taylor & Maury. p. 237.
- ^ a b Wills pg. 5-6.
- ^ "A SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM? Thomas Jefferson and Slavery". Hoover Institution. January 19, 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- ^ Banning, Lance (August 31, 2004). "Three-Fifths Historian". The Claremont Institute. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Committee At Odds on Reapportionment, The New York Times, 20 Dec 1900, accessed 10 Mar 2008
- ^ Richard H. Pildes, "Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon", Constitutional Commentary, Vol.17, 2000, p.10, Accessed 10 Mar 2008
- Wills, Garry (2003). "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-34398-9.
- Walton, Hanes, Jr.; Smith, Robert C. (2006). American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom (3rd Edition ed.). New York: Pearson Longman. ISBN 0-321-29237-5.
- Wiencek, Henry (2004). An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-52951-5.
- Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice


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|Cheap imitation of "American Graffiti" is not without its funny moments. Beverly Hills teens, lead by Newbomb Turk (Wuhl), are displeased that their hangout--Tubby's Drive-in--is being shut down by those no-fun adults. So they decide to retaliate. Set on Halloween Night, 1965.
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