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Comparison of Surgical Time and Efficiency of Total Knee Arthroplasty
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This study is designed to compare the surgical efficiency of TruMatch™ Personalized Solutions surgical technique compared to conventional (manual instruments) surgical technique. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to collect time data to enhance the existing economic model.
Condition | Intervention |
Osteoarthritis, Knee |
Other: Instrument |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Case Control Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Comparison of Surgical Time and Efficiency of Total Knee Arthroplasty Using TruMatch Personalized Solutions Compared to Conventional Total Knee Arthroplasty |
- Surgical procedure time to compare skin-to-skin time for conventional versus TruMatch primary Total Knee Replacements [ Time Frame: This study compares the use of two different intruments used during the surgical procedure and thus the time frame of the study is during the procedure, while the patient is in the operating room. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]It is anticipated that there will be large within and between site differences in surgical skin to skin time using the two surgical instruments. Therefore,a 2-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) model that contains 'treatment', 'site', and a 'treatment*site' interaction term that adjust for these differences using type III sums of squares will be the statistical test utilized to determine if surgical skin to skin time differences are indicated.
Estimated Enrollment: | 30 |
Study Start Date: | May 2010 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | August 2013 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | August 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Groups/Cohorts | Assigned Interventions |
TruMatch™ Personalized Solutions
Cruciate Retaining and Posterior Stabilized Fixed-Bearing or Rotating Platform Total Knee Arthroplasty (PFC Sigma System) implanted using TruMatch™ Personalized Solutions
Other: Instrument
TruMatch™ Personalized Solutions is the brand name of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. custom patient instrumentation. TruMatch™ is a pair of custom-made cutting blocks that allow distal femoral and proximal tibial cuts to be made according to a predefined surgical plan. The inner surface of the femoral block is manufactured to match the geometry of the patient's distal femur. The inner surface of the tibial block is manufactured to match the patient's proximal tibia. The geometric data is obtained from a CT scan and a preoperative plan approved by the surgeon
Other Name: TruMatch™ Personalized Solutions
Conventional Total Knee Replacement
Cruciate Retaining and Posterior Stabilized Fixed-Bearing or Rotating Platform Total Knee Arthroplasty (PFC Sigma System) implanted using conventional instruments
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The study is designed as a prospective, multi-center, non-randomized, clinical investigation to determine whether TruMatch™ alignment is non-inferior to alignment achieved in a recently completed study (historical control) with conventional instrumentation.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 80 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Males and females who are appropriate candidates for primary knee replacement between the ages of 18 and 80 years, inclusive, with non-inflammatory degenerative joint disease will be considered for this investigation.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject is male or female and between the ages of 18 and 80 years old, inclusive.
- Subject requires a primary total knee replacement and is considered by the Investigator to be suitable for the specific knee prosthesis identified in the protocol.
- Subject has given voluntary, written informed consent to participate in this clinical investigation and has authorized the transfer of his/her information to DePuy
- Subject, in the opinion of the Clinical Investigator, is able to understand this clinical investigation, and co-operate with investigational procedures.
- Subject, who, in the opinion of the Clinical Investigator, are suitable for implantation using TruMatch™ instrumentation. For example, no femoral nails/bone plates that extend into the knee, ie. within 8cm of joint line; no metal device that could cause CT scatter about the knee and no deformities greater than 15 degrees of fixed varus, valgus, or flexion are consistent with TruMatch™ instrumentation.
Exclusion Criteria:
- The Subject is a woman who is pregnant or lactating.
- The Subject has participated in a clinical investigation with an investigational product in the last 3 months.
- The Subject is currently involved in any personal injury litigation, medical-legal or worker's compensations claims.
- The Subject has previously had a prosthetic knee replacement device (any type) of the affected knee.
- The Subject requires simultaneous bilateral total knee replacements.
- The Subject had a contralateral TKA and that knee was previously entered in the study.
- Subject in whom the surgeon intends to implant a knee prosthesis that is not in the PFC Sigma primary knee system.
- Subject who has inflammatory arthritis.
- Subject who has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of ≥ 40. (Please see Table 2-1: Definition of Terms, for BMI definition and calculation formulas).
Contact: Sam Himden, BA | 574-372-7231 | firstname.lastname@example.com |
United States, Indiana | |
Center for Hip and Knee Surgery | Recruiting |
Mooresville, Indiana, United States, 46158 | |
Contact: Sam Himden, BA 574-372-7231 email@example.com | |
United States, Oklahoma | |
Pinnacle Orthopaedics | Active, not recruiting |
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States, 74006 | |
United States, Virginia | |
Commonwealth Orthopaedics | Active, not recruiting |
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Principal Investigator: | Carl Painter | Pinnacle Orthopaedics |
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | DePuy Orthopaedics |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01301950 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 08004 |
Study First Received: | December 2, 2010 |
Last Updated: | March 4, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by DePuy Orthopaedics:
Arthroplasties, Knee Replacement Arthroplasties, Replacement, Knee Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement Knee Replacement Arthroplasties Knee Replacement Arthroplasty |
Knee Replacement, Total Replacement Arthroplasties, Knee Replacement Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement, Total Knee Total Knee Replacement |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis, Knee Arthritis |
Joint Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Rheumatic Diseases |
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Greenland, the world's largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters). Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet (60 meters). Satellite measurements from space and speed measurements on land confirm that Greenland's glaciers are melting and on the move. And although the picture is less clear in Antarctica, the global warming seems to be having an impact there, too.
So the question is: How much—and how soon—will sea level rise?
New research from glaciologist Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues published in Science attempts to better estimate the possible sea level rise over the next century by measuring the speed at which the world's glaciers—in Greenland and Antarctica but also the many mountain ice sheets throughout the globe—are actually speeding to the sea as well as how swiftly they may melt.
"What would the flow velocities of the ocean-ending outlet glaciers have to be," if Greenland alone was to raise sea level by just six feet (two meters)? "The answer turned out to be huge: about 49 kilometers [30 miles] per year, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today," Pfeffer says, "and three times faster than we've ever observed an outlet glacier to move."
Given that Greenland's glaciers are not presently moving anywhere close to that pace—Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, the fastest, reached speeds above nine miles (14 kilometers) per year in 2005—the researchers also looked at ice that could contribute from the rest of the world. Assuming that the largest remaining ice shelves in East Antarctica—Filchner-Ronne and Ross—will remain intact, sea level rise from all other melting ice and the expansion of seawater as the weather gets warmer over the next century would be somewhere between 2.6 feet (0.8 meter) and six feet (two meters)—or nearly twice as much as projected last year by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This does not take into account how much sea level might swell from the metldown of the numerous small glaciers in Alaska, Argentina, Canada and Russia, which already contribute 60 percent of sea level rise from glacial melt. (In fact, Pfeffer notes that they are melting faster and therefore adding to sea levels more rapidly than Greenland and Antarctica combined currently do.) Nor is it clear whether something might suddenly occur to change that upper estimate. "If those two big ice shelves [in Antarctica] go out, then it's an entirely different situation," Pfeffer says. "But there's no good evidence that that's going to happen over the next century."
Ancient melting events suggest that glaciers can disappear in a hurry, however, and raise sea levels by more than half an inch a year. The Laurentide ice sheet that stretched as far south as New York State and Ohio some 20,000 years ago had retreated to eastern Canada, just across the water from Greenland, by roughly 11,000 years ago thanks to increased sunlight (due to the periodic wobble in Earth's axis known as precession). It then completely disappeared by 6,800 years ago in two geologically rapid bursts, shedding enough ice to raise sea levels by as much as four feet (1.3 meters) per century, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience.


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Wine Improves 3D and MAPI Support
This past weekend the Wine project released a new version of its Windows emulator. Apart from the numerous obligatory bug fixes, the release includes improvements to the Direct3D 10 API and an initial support for the Open Audio Library (OpenAL).
With help from Wine software, most Windows applications can also run under Linux. Unlike virtualization solutions such as VirtualBox, Wine translates the system and library calls to their Linux counterparts. This allows Windows applications not only to run in a Linux environment, but to do so somewhat faster.
Alexandre Julliard has now released version 1.1.30 of Wine. The major new features include:
- Support for OpenAL libraries for surround sound
- Enhanced Direct3D 10 API, which runs games as a counterpart to Microsoft's OpenGL
- Improved HTML, JavaScript and MAPI support
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Many minor bugs were also fixed, especially those related to games. The .NET Framework 1.1 now installs flawlessly, the Bioshock game no longer crashes when loading the second level and the Steam client displays correct colors. Erratic behavior in the Myst 4, Prince of Persia and Flatout 2 games was also fixed, as well as a font problem in some games. Irregularities in Corel Painter X, Visual C++ and GNU Emacs were also eliminated. Finally, path problems in the Save dialog were fixed and Internet Explorer 7 startups no longer return
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KenyaSouth Korea (military Base)"definitely A Keeper And Awesome Tool"This flat iron isn't just any ole flat iron, it is an awesome tool to have for thick, coarse hair (or any type of hair you want to look nice, smooth, and frizz free). This solia flat iron just glides thru my hair without snagging or pulling it out. I own a Sedu also which is supose to be the best or at least in the top 2-3, but I actually like the solia better! The Sedu is pretty decent and straightens very well, but my hair definitely responds to the Solia much better. That's not to say that it straightens BETTER than the Sedu but the smoothness and how it just glides thru is better. I just can't say enough about how much I love how it glides thru my hair with so much ease! I also like how I can get a very nice curl and/or flip with the solia that looks very pretty. I can't get the nice curls in my hair with my Sedu without getting dents or it looking just weird because of the squarish shape of the plates. I like it so much that I will be ordering another one so me and my daughters both can enjoy our own! BTW I have type 4a hair that is relaxed.posted Oct 3, 2010Link to this post
Hannah G.NYHairDark BrownCurly HairLove It!I have extremely curly hair that is often somewhat difficult to straighten, and it can take some time. I just got my Solia flat iron yesterday and used it right when I opened the box and it's by far the best I've used. I'm VERY happy with it, soo worth the money! :) (ps in my before photo I combed out my hair before straightening)posted Oct 1, 2010Link to this post
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Natasha B.WashingtonHairBlondeDry HairCurly HairThick or Coarse HairChemically Treated HairThis Iron Is An Investment!I purchased my Solia here on folica roughly three years ago. I am still using it and I am still pleased. I have enough hair to fill two other heads after my own, its blonde, semi-coarse with tight curl and frizz up the yingyang. When I go to have my hair shampooed at a salon they can never get it as straight or silky as me and my flat iron. My Solia still heats up just as fast as when I first got it. It curls my hair better than my marcel grip hot tools 1 inch curling iron and the curl lasts all day. My only disappointments in this product: Even though it doesn't pull them out, the iron does snag some hairs. It is mildly difficult to clean because of the swivel plates I just have to get in there with a toothpick and the joint guard with the logo cracked on both sides and popped off.
Tips: Switch it off when not in use; don't rip the cord out of the wall.
Store it in a heat sleeve and loosely wrap the cord vertically not horizontally-this is to have fewer curves in the wire so its less likely to fracture a wire inside and mess it up.
Clean it!! You can buy expensive cleaners or just get some rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball (damp not soaking) and rub the plates a few times with it while the iron is OFF. Scrape any leftover product out with a toothpick from the sides of the plate. Then get a cotton ball damp with water and "rinse" off the alcohol. Repeat the "rinse cycle" 2-4 times. Turn on the iron and "flatiron" your heat pouch just to make sure nothing is left over. Make sure you smell the iron once it is turned on. You shouldn't smell anything. If you do smell something re-clean it.
Honestly if you take care of your stuff it will last longer. This sucker should last another ten years!
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TeresaNYCHairMedium BrownNormal HairDry HairChemically Treated HairJust What I Had Been Looking For!!I can't believe it took me this long to get rid of my ceramic Chi! Wow- the Solia is so much better. No snagging like with the Chi. Lightweight, heats up fast and adorable colors. This iron glides through my hair so smoothly. Even my husband, who never notices anything, commented on how "shiny" my hair is. What an upgrade from the Chi.
Here's how I use it. After washing my hair, I apply Redken Blown Away and comb through. I then use the hair dryer until my hair is about 90% dry. At that point I pull out my round brush and use it to pull the roots as straight as possible. I then apply Garnier Fructis Brilliante Shine Glossing spray to my hands and run it through my hair, mainly on the ends. I use a comb to comb out sections of my hair as I follow it with the Solia flatiron. I never need to go over a section more than twice. It works perfectly. I am literally through with the iron in less than 5 minutes. I highly reccommend this product!
Also- I ordered this item on a Wednesday morning. It was at my apartment by the time I arrived home on Thursday. I love folica.com!!posted Sep 29, 2010Link to this post -
Denise L.HairDark BrownThick or Coarse HairFlat Out!!!!I just purchased this flat iron in Blk, and I used it a couple of times on my daughter's hair. THIS FLAT IRON IS BETTER THAN A CHI! I had my Chi for only 1 yr, and it went KAPUUT!!!! I was NOT interested in purchasing another one, so I thought I would look up Folica.com. I had been on this site a few times, and I wished I had purchased my Chi from them. Maybe the darn thing would have lasted a bit longer. .... But anyhoo this one is a keeper, me and my girls hair is course so It did the job in about 30 min for each. I lied, because my oldest has fine hair, and it took her hair about 20mins! CAN you say LOVE IT!!! I am a very busy mom, and time is MONEY + PEACE ...so this little item has made my month, because it shaves time off my week. As for the shipping with this site, it too was UNBEATABLE! I also saved a BOATLOAD because I seached for a Online discount off ...it was already on sale! A EXTRA $20 BUCKAROOS MORE OFF! PLUS a 2yr Warranty ....and a free heat pouch ...and free shipping to top the cake! Shall I keep going??? JUST BUY IT ALREADY!! :P
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NoeMiami, FLHairDark BrownNormal HairAwesome, Awesome, Awesome!!!This iron is a miracle worker. Each glide leaves my hair looking radiant and it lasts ALL day!! I live in a place where the hummidity levels are unberable and this iron has managed to leave my hair looking flawless while I'm out and about. I am just really glad I invested in this product :)posted Sep 27, 2010Link to this post
Laura M.VirginiaA FlopI figure if you had really fine hair and not suffering from alot of frizz, then this iron could work for you. i have thick, wavy, course VERY frizzy hair and it didn't do anything. it didn't grip my hair. by no means, am I an expert in flat ironing. but i do think the said iron is suppose to grip your hair. when i placed my hair in between the plates and began to iron downward, it was like there was wax or something on the plates. i read a good iron is suppose to slide through the hair, but really. I let my sister try it, in case it was just me. her hair isn't as thick as mine or as course, and she had much more experience in ironing her hair. she didn't like the iron, either. the only thing i liked about this iron is trhat it was purple.posted Sep 27, 2010Link to this post
Catherine L.TexasHairNormal HairDry HairColor Treated HairThick or Coarse HairI Love This.! It's The Best.!
I Just Received My Straightener From My Boyfriend For My Birthday And The Next Day I Had Put It To Use. Hah It Is The Best Straightener I Have Ever Received.!! Other Than The Chi.!(: Well So Far It Has Been Working Well For Me. My Hair Feels Great After Using It.! It Doesnâ??t Give My Hair That Dry Feeling That I Used To Get With My Old Straightener. It Feels Soft And Silky. I Have Highlighted My Hair Many Times Before And My Old Straightener Would Leave My Hair Looking Dry And Frizzy, Even After I Put Something In My Hair It Still Would Not Look Right. But Now Thanks To My New Straightener It Doesn't Look Like That At All.! I Love My Straightener.! It Is Also In My Favorite Color (PURPLE)* (:
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Local Pet Sitting and Positive Reinforcement Dog Training Company, Rocco's Pack Pet Services, raised funds during the Coconut Grove Bed Race to sponsor low cost spay/neuter services in Homestead, FL, an area identified as high-need based on the rate of pet abandonment, which is higher than many areas in Miami-Dade County.
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Take an in-depth look at the exhibition with Curator William Breazeale The Artist's View: Landscape Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum. Then head into the great outdoors with local artist Sarma Karsiere to learn about drawing tools and techniques while portraying local landscapes in the foothills and the Delta.
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Italian spitfire Bruno Tonioli was destined to dance. He says, "I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk — I just danced. At the age of three, I would leap on the table and dance if I heard music. It was something I had to do — as if my legs were moving for themselves." Bruno spent his childhood catching American musicals in the cinema and watching his parents cha-cha. Despite his passion, a career cuttin' a rug hasn't always come easy. Hailing from a working-class background, Bruno's parents pressured him to choose more "traditional" jobs, like banking (could you imagine?). Finally at the age of 18, Bruno left home to pursue dance. He relocated from Italy to London, England, as a member of the Paris-based dance company, La Grande Eugene. Bruno worked extensively as a freelance dancer, including an appearance in Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" video, before starting a career as a choreographer working with Pamela Stephenson on Not the Nine O'Clock News.
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David, I was also wondering if you could give me some advice on this.
A while back, I was helping someone else on an amateur short. I was talking to the DP of that project, who isn't a professional, either. Personally, I thought both him and the director were talentless and unqualified after working with and getting to know them more (I'm usually not this negative, but I really just didn't have too much admiration at all for them). Anyway, I told him (the DP) I had a project I wanted to make, and I was having a conversation with him about the lighting I wanted. This is a film about a detective investigating a series of bizarre murders. I told him I wanted generally harder lighting, moody, with a considerable amount of contrast in the frame, and especially during the close-ups on the actors' faces. He said it was a bad idea, because using hard lighting would cause the innocent characters to look creepy and guilty. I said to him, "well, first of all, you don't know if he/she is guilty or innocent".
Second, I explained that I wanted the light to be similar to the C.S.I: Vegas style, where there's a considerable amount of contrast and hardness. The guilty and the innocent don't look noticeably different, in terms of the lighting on their faces (at least not to me when I watch, but then again, I'm not really experienced or a professional). The law enforcement characters and the suspects look about the same. I also said I thought it'd be better if the light were to treat both actors/characters roughly the same, and that the scene, itself or the mood of the particular scene was the factor in how the lighting scheme should be decided and not the specific character. Or perhaps, the physical setting of the story (for example if two characters are talking in a kitchen room) should also influence the lighting scheme. The lighting should look like the kitchen light in the story setting is lighting up the shot (whether it be the actual kitchen light itself or a more powerful, artificial set light pretending to be a kitchen light). I think C.S.I does this a bit, since they have elaborate and cool production designs. If a coroner's light is shining on a dead body, the examiner's face is lit up like that morgue light splashing off the coroner's table.
I also mentioned that it wouldn't necessarily be a good idea, regarding lighting continuity if the light (that could very easily be coming from a light that's a part of the setting in the story, or a light that pretends to be so) treats one actor differently that another actor. It wouldn't make any sense, scientifically, if the light is coming from an angle and hits the actors' faces from roughly the same angle when they're positioned roughly the same distance from the light source, whether it be the actual artificial light used on set, or the light that's a part of the story setting. The only response I got from him was, "you don't want your innocent characters to look guilty".
One example I did notice, if you ever watch that movie, Just Cause, (the movie with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne), there's a particularly interesting scene between Sean's character and Ed Harris, who plays a psychotic murderer. Both characters have high contrast and hard light on their faces. However, Ed's character seems to be even more contrast and harder light than Sean. I'm assuming this was intentional? There's one shot where Ed Harris blows up in anger, and right there, he bursts up standing, and all of a sudden his eyes and face just make him look almost like a monster, with the particular lighting scheme they used (which made his face look extremely creepy and his eyes gleam in a really disturbing way).
Do you think that might be a good way to go about lighting/shooting it? (By the way, sorry for the long post and the abundant use of parentheses).


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Chris Perez graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a B.A. in English and a minor in classical studies. During his four years at Penn, Chris swam distance freestyle for the varsity swim team and was voted captain his senior year. Chris has interned in the editorial department at SmartBrief, Inc., as a news researcher and brief writer and has also interned in the editorial department at W. W. Norton Publishing, where he worked on manuscripts ranging from an analysis of free speech in wartime to a Sherlock Holmes anthology to a tribute to the Baobab tree. At the end of his senior year, the College at Penn awarded Chris the Charles W. Burr Book Prize for his independent study of short pieces of fiction and nonfiction. His interests include Russian literature, writing, and economics.
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Shapes fall from the sky, all you have to do is to control how they fall and fit within each other. A simple premise, but add an annoyingly addictive electronica soundtrack (based on a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki, apparently) and you have a revolution in entertainment.
Since Tetris was launched on the world in 1986, millions of hours have been lost through playing this simple game. Since then, we've seen games consoles grow in power, and with it the appearance of everything from Call of Duty to World of Warcraft. Yet block and puzzle games like Tetris still have a special place in our hearts. Why are they are so compelling?
The writer Jeffrey Goldsmith was so obsessed with Tetris that he wrote a famous article asking if the game's creator Alexey Pajitnov had invented "a pharmatronic?" – a video game with the potency of an addictive drug. Some people say that after playing the game for hours they see falling blocks in their dreams or buildings move together in the street – a phenomenon known as the Tetris Effect. Such is its mental pull, there's even been the suggestion that the game might be able to prevent flashbacks in people with PTSD.
I had my own Tetris phase, when I was a teenager, and spent more hours than I should have trying to align the falling blocks in rows. Recently, I started thinking about why games like Tetris are so compelling. My conclusion? It's to do with a deep-seated psychological drive to tidy up.
Many human games are basically ritualised tidying up. Snooker, or pool if you are non-British, is a good example. The first person makes a mess (the break) and then the players take turns in potting the balls into the pockets, in a vary particular order. Tetris adds a computer-powered engine to this basic scenario – not only must the player tidy up, but the computer keeps throwing extra blocks from the sky to add to the mess. It looks like a perfect example of a pointless exercise – a game that doesn't teach us anything useful, has no wider social or physical purpose, but which weirdly keeps us interested.
There's a textbook psychological phenomenon called the Zeigarnik Effect, named after Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik. In the 1930s, Zeigarnik was in a busy cafe and heard that the waiters had fantastic memories for orders – but only up until the orders had been delivered. They could remember the requests of a party of 12, but once the food and drink had hit the table they forgot about it instantly, and were unable to recall what had been so solid moments before. Zeigarnik gave her name to the whole class of problems where incomplete tasks stick in memory.
The Zeigarnik Effect is also part of the reason why quiz shows are so compelling. You might not care about the year the British Broadcasting Corporation was founded or the percentage of the world's countries that have at least one McDonald's restaurant, but once someone has asked the question it becomes strangely irritating not to know the answer (1927 and 61%, by the way). The questions stick in the mind, unfinished until it is completed by the answer.
Game theory
Tetris holds our attention by continually creating unfinished tasks. Each action in the game allows us to solve part of the puzzle, filling up a row or rows completely so that they disappear, but is also just as likely to create new, unfinished work. A chain of these partial-solutions and newly triggered unsolved tasks can easily stretch to hours, each moment full of the same kind of satisfaction as scratching an itch.


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I have been using UltraEdit for well over a decade at work (on Win98 to XP) and was glad to see that it is available for my Linux home computer. I have SuSE SLED 11 SP 1, so it took a few tries to get UltraEdit working since it is packaged for OpenSuSE. The successful installation is for version 126.96.36.199.
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Coonagh Lodge
Coonagh Lodge is a friendly, family run Bed & Breakfast which has been in business for over 20 years. It is situated just outside Limerick city on a large landscaped site. It has private secure parking and ample space for children to play outside, should they wish. It is located 5 minutes (3.5km) from Limerick City/Bunratty Castle & folk park and 15 minutes from Shannon. It is an ideal base for touring the mid west with counties Kerry and Clare easily accessible. All rooms are en-suite and have Tea/Coffee making facilities and have free Wi-Fi access. We have a wide range of rooms, all of which, are en-suite. They are all equipped with tea and coffee making facilities, television and have great views of the surrounding landscaped gardens. The gardens are a great place for children to play as they are enclosed and safe. We also have a common room, where our guests are encouraged to sit and unwind with their friends & family. |
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From Limerick city: Take N18 west to Coonagh Roundabout. Take exit for Coonagh (by Travel Lodge Hotel). House 0.5Km down this road.
From Kerry/Cork: Take N18 west (Toll Tunnel). Immediately after tunnel take exit 3. At Clonmackin roundabout take first left and proceed to Coonagh Roundabout (by Travel Lodge Hotel). Take Small road for Coonagh for 0.5Km.
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Is it normal to get pages and pages of errors in the backup log?
Here is a small sampling of what I see:
Skipped C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\.zreglib Not Supported/File skipped (backup of operating system files and folders ( those that have both system and hidden attributes) is not supported)
ERROR >>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Norton\00000082\00000105\00000349\cltLMS1.dat
ERROR >>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Norton\00000082\00000105\00000349\cltLMS2.dat
ERROR >>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Norton\{0C55C096-0F1D-4F28-AAA2-85EF591126E7}
Is there anyway to clean this up or do I just live with this?
Thank you - see my sigmature for model number of drive.
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Hello Inspector.
Yes, thats quite normal from the looks of it.
The file cltLMS1.dat is a keylogger/rootkit.
The program is giving that error because the file is locked.
It is locked because norton antivirus detected it, and added it to quarantine, and is preventing any program/anyone from accessing - hence it cannot affect your system.
Nb - seagate's util would also give that error if the file was in use by windows.
If you really want to copy over malware, there are means to unlock the file XD.
But I doubt you will. ^_^
(the other case would be, that the virus overtook your system, and pretended to be in a norton child folder!) but I doubt that lol.
To confirm everything - open norton, go into its quarantine area, and look for that file name.
Thank you Grim0x for your reply. The file "cltLMS1.dat" is only one of thousands in my log. As I said I get pages and pages in my log. I just now copied the log and pasted it into Word to find there is 139 pages of errors.
Guess I will just let it be and not worry with it.
Thanks again.
Oh man - I'm having the same problem. Pages of:
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b124f.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1250.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1251.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1252.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1253.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1254.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1255.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1256.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1257.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1258.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b1259.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b125a.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b125b.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b125c.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b125d.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b125e.rbf
Skipped C:\Config.msi\2b125f.rbf
What are these files?? Do I need them if my system crashed? If I do need them, how do I get the external drive to copy them??
Pllleeaassee.......I need a technies help....... (I'm blond ROFLOL)....
I'm having the same problem, thousands of skipped files and error codes that cause me to get an alert of "back up failed!" This has only started within the past week and I've been using my Seagate external for almost a year with no issues until now. Why now??? Thx for any help!
06-13-2010 07:28 PM - edited 06-13-2010 07:30 PM
hello fiona and earthart.
Many things can cause the sort of errors you are getting.
earthart, you need to include a log like fiona did, okay?
According to my research:
"Microsoft's developers, in their infinite wisdom and generosity, created this folder and these files on your system to allow you to back out of an upgrade to Office 2000. In the event that you experience problems with your installation, these files allow you to uninstall Office 2000 and go back to your previous version of Office."
It also seems they apply generally to .msi installations.
So, what the backup utility is telling you - is that it is simply designed not to back up these files, as they are not essential.
So - dont worry about it ^_~
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Real Clear Policy
October 9, 2012
by John C. Weicher
President Obama did not say much about housing in the first presidential debate. In his response to Jim Lehrer's first question, he said, "housing has begun to rise," and left it at that.
But others are making much stronger statements and arguments for him. The Democratic platform boasts that "President Obama took swift action to stabilize a housing market in crisis," crediting him with helping 5 million families restructure their loans, and giving tax credits to first-time homebuyers. Supporters have echoed the platform and expanded on it: in last week's Washington Post real estate section, under the headline "Housing was in a free fall. Obama caught it," Mark Zandi writes, "The Obama Administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall," and "Obama's efforts to shore up housing were well timed." Zandi is chief economist for Moody's Analytics and has been an advisor to President Obama.
Swift, quick, and well-timed? Housing policy has floundered, creating one unsuccessful program after another, while housing production fell through the floor. The first three years of President Obama's term have been the worst three years for housing since World War II. This year is better than any of the last three, but worse than any of the 63 years before them. Each of President Obama's four years has been worse than any year for any of his predecessors back to President Truman in 1945, when resources were being directed to finish the war.
During these four years, American homeowners have been losing ground and losing their homes. After the debate, a vice-president of Realty Trac, a leading producer of housing market data, summarized the situation as follows: "Since Obama took office in January 2009, more than 6 million homeowners have started the foreclosure process and 3.2 million have lost their homes to banks. Meanwhile, home values have plummeted 30 percent from their peak even with recent home price gains, leaving more than 12 million homeowners seriously underwater, owing at least 25 percent more on their mortgages than their properties are worth."
The administration's various efforts to prevent foreclosures have achieved so little that each new initiative is greeted by the housing industry with a shrug. The Home Affordable Modification Program, the first and largest initiative back in 2009, was expected to help 7 to 8 million homeowners by lowering their mortgage payments. The latest report from the U.S. Treasury states that only 800,000 households are being helped, and over 1 million households have been turned down or dropped from the program. Searching for on "HAMP criticism" brings up over 300,000 hits across the political spectrum. There has been nothing so unpopular since the urban renewal program in the 1960s. The program is so unsatisfactory to so many that bloggers on the avowedly progressive website Firedoglake.com have been complaining that HAMP is "hurting liberalism."
Among other failings, "It's making the lives of its participants worse while promising to make it better."
The latest program, the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP 2.0), has been more successful, thanks to the unprecedented low mortgage interest rates, but some lenders are reporting that the volume of activity is slowing down, and the program has been strongly criticized by liberal bloggers because the homeowner is only allowed to deal with the original lender. As far as any homeowner is concerned, the lender is a monopolist.
Zandi, an optimist, forecasts that even with HARP 2.0, another 3 million homeowners will lose their homes through foreclosure. Other estimates are higher. Laurie Goodman, Senior Managing Director of Amherst Securities and a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Commission, told the Senate Housing Subcommittee last spring that she projects 7 to 9 million more foreclosures. That would be at least 10 percent of all homeowners, on top of those who have already lost their homes.
The positive housing news is that house prices, sales, and construction have been improving in recent months, as both President Obama and Governor Romney have noted. For an industry that's been increasingly desperate, any improvement anywhere will be greeted with relief. But meanwhile, the overall economy has been growing more slowly in 2012 than it did in 2011, which isn't good for housing. President Obama was right to be modest.
Senior Fellow John C. Weicher is Director of the Center for Housing and Financial Markets at Hudson Institute. From 2001-2005 he was Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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It was a day of firsts for me as I made my way onto the Anderson Cooper Live set.
Is it just me or is The Balkan storyline just not cutting it on GENERAL HOSPITAL? I've been watching every day hoping that it would take off but I just can't get into it. I admit that the reveal of Theo being The Balkan and even Suzanne being his wife, completely caught me off-guard. I certainly did not see any of that coming. But that's about as interesting as it got for me. Theo is a newbie.
As someone who has lived with a scar for almost all of my life, watching Robin today on GENERAL HOSPITAL brought back some more serious memories of my childhood. As a child, I was burned by boiling hot water and suffered third-degree burns along the backs of my legs, my back and a small area on my elbow. The worst of these was on my right hip, where I still bear a scar today. Living in the hospital for two weeks as a child was terrible and the treatments made it even worse; discussions about skin grafting and surgeries took place numerous times throughout my childhood.
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"The second album from this excellent Swedish trio, something of a supergroup with members from already well-known projects. This time they collaborate with the legendary Jim O'Rourke. With their hypnotic, psychedelic jazz of sorts, they have carved out a different sound than any of the groups they are normally associated with, now enhanced by the vital contributions from O'Rourke.
Sax player, improviser, composer and fervent record collector, Mats Gustafsson is possibly most known from power-jazz trio The Thing. He has also played more than 1,500 concerts and participated on around 150 records with musicians like Peter Brotzmann, Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Joe McPhee and a host of others simply too many to mention here.
Johan Berthling has freelanced in jazz, improvised music, pop, folk and more. He is a founding member of the trio Tape and founded Häpna. Among his current other groups are Animes with David Stackenäs and Raymond Strid and Sten Sandell Trio with pianist Sten Sandell and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Johan is also working as a record producer.
Andreas Werliin, drummer extraordinaire in Wildbirds & Peacedrums, is Fire!'s youngest member and one of the most interesting and acclaimed new percussionists in the creative music scene of Scandinavia.
Probably best known as a member of Sonic Youth and Gastr Del Sol, Jim O'Rourke has played with an impressively large number of musicians and produced albums for the likes of Wilco, Sonic Youth, John Fahey, Smog, Beth Orton, Joanna Newsom and Stereolab, to name but a few. Born in Chicago and long associated with the city's experimental and improv scene, he later relocated to New York before moving on to Tokyo where he now lives and works."-Rune Grammofon


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On Thursday, Feb. 2 the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium was packed, as fishing guides, anglers, and conservationists gathered to listen to plans for restoration of the 80-acre parcel in Cape Haze called Wildflower Preserve. The land was recently purchased by the Lemon Bay Conservancy.
With the help of local fishing guides (who are usually anglers and conservationists as well) and internal tagging, the tarpon population can be tracked for recovery.
The plans to rebuild and re-engineer Wildflower Preserve are impressive. From enlarging the culvert under 771 that connects the property to Charlotte Harbor, to reconnecting the small lakes on the property, the groups coming together to restore the Preserve have their work cut out for them. All of the work, which will begin with hiring a student from the University of Florida to do more in-depth studies of the local population, will have a final price tag of around $300,000.
The Charlotte Harbor tarpon fishery brought $110 million to the state of Florida in 2009, a year that was seen by many as the worst in recent history. The Florida sport fishing industry is estimated to be worth $8 billion each year, more than citrus, cattle, or sugar production.
On Friday, Feb. 3, the Gasparilla Inn & Resort Beach Club was host to the third annual Bonefish & Tarpon Trust fundraiser. The event was attended by a wide cross-section of conservationists, fishing guides, and concerned residents of Gasparilla Island.
On a large screen at the front of the room, a video on tarpon fishing and conservation played. The footage drew a crowd the whole night.
The highlight of the evening was special guest Chauncey Goss, son of former CIA Director Porter Goss and a long time advocate of protecting the Charlotte Harbor estuary. Goss, a former island resident, was on hand to answer questions and raise support.
Goss pledged $10,000 toward the restoration during at the presentation.
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The Manta was designed for the legendary snow kiter and three times world champion Guillaume Chastagnol to help him push the boundaries of this rapidly expanding sport. Every session Chasta finds new methods and new areas to explore so his equipment must be good enough not to hold him back.
If, like Chasta, you are looking for massive amount of useable power and manoeuvrability then a high aspect kite like the Manta is the one to go for. The shape of the Manta is very long and with the thin cross section it means that the Manta penetrates the wind with speed, this creates power and lots of lift and hang time. The shape of the kite also makes it turn very quickly, almost on its tips, giving you the power when and where you need it.
After so many years of snowkiting and discovering what is possible with the terrain and the wind we at Ozone need the most advanced kite designs to take us to the places on the horizons of the sport.
Initially released with a focus on snowkiting we have been surprised by the amount of buggy riders and MTB riders who have adopted the Manta as the kite of choice for high freestyle action with added benefit of de power. This kite is pushing the limits of all kite sports by opening up areas previously thought un-kite-able and having the safety aspects which are imperative to being hooked in.
Take this kite anywhere to fully exploit the wind and the power it can deliver.


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