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We asked fifth-graders at two diverse elementary schools in Renton to share their dreams with us. A decade ago, it was hard to imagine what the future would look like for these kids, the first crop born after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
TARAS SUKHOVINSKYY and his buddy, Daniel Ortiz, are sitting on the prickly gray carpet outside their fifth-grade classroom at Tiffany Park Elementary School in Renton, talking about their dreams.
"I want to be an inventor and invent new things so life is easier for people," says Taras, 10, a darling, earnest boy with sleepy eyes. His T-shirt is embroidered with the word "awesome," which pretty much describes him and his plans to invent flying cars and robots that do laundry and take out the garbage.
Taras' playful classmate, Daniel, says he's going to be a video-game designer.
"I'm going to sell it for a lot of money so I can pay my family back," Daniel says proudly. He's grateful, he says, for everything his family has given him.
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Good-hearted, kind, smart, ambitious dreamers. Meet the Class of 2013, fifth-grade edition.
We didn't know what to expect when we asked fifth-graders at two diverse elementary schools in Renton to sit down with us and share their dreams.
A decade ago, it was hard to imagine what the future would look like for these kids. They were the first crop born after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The world seemed so dark then, the future so uncertain, that a pregnant woman was just as likely to get a look of concern as congratulations.
As they learned to walk, scribble, dribble a soccer ball and page through "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," the country endured two wars, a prolonged recession, home foreclosures and job losses in the millions, including some of their parents'. School and family budgets were cut even as income inequality became so skewed that citizens took to the streets in protest.
It was enough to wear down the most committed optimist.
Yet here they are, a spirited parade of humanity clad in jeans and T-shirts, fuzzy jackets and hoodies, ready to claim their future.
These 10- and 11-year-olds, with their coltish legs and smiles unspoiled by the tyranny of orthodontia, have not learned there are things they can't do.
They want to help. They want to be useful.
They want to go to college, and start businesses and build things. They want to take care of pets and their parents.
That's not to say they've figured it out. They're still trying on titles like socks from their parents' drawers: architect/photographer, veterinarian/artist, teacher/pediatrician … Some day, one or more of them will fit.
They know chasing dreams requires hard work and practice.
They are the embodiment of hope, and they're counting on us, the adults, to help them find their way.
They want to learn from us.
We can learn a lot from them, too.
AT THE RIPE old age of 10, Farhiyo Aden already has her eye on business.
"I want to be making clothes or making a restaurant," she says shyly, her head covered by a patterned purple hijab.
The third oldest of seven children, Farhiyo says her mother wants her to be a doctor. But she'd rather be running a restaurant with her sister in France, serving up French fries and pizzas. If not that, then she wants to make wedding dresses and casual clothes, she says.
Farhiyo has only a vague notion of what it takes to run a restaurant: "Ask my mother for more recipes," she offers when questioned about how she plans to make her dream happen.
But her teacher, John Paul, is gradually helping fill in the knowledge gaps.
When he has a few minutes between lessons, he cues up a 3-minute animated Web video featuring America's most benevolent businessman, Warren Buffett, talking in kid terms about managing money and starting a business.
Buffett describes how much work it takes to build a reputation and how easy it is to destroy that reputation with a single act of dishonesty. As he wraps up the lesson, the students repeat the closing line along with him: "The more you learn, the more you earn."
Last year, the Renton School District began encouraging teachers to teach career and college readiness. Paul, 34, who is also a writer and musician, seized on an idea floated by the school's music teacher: Instead of preparing kids to enter the workforce, why not prepare them to be the source of that workforce?
"Resilience is going to have to be underlying everything, no matter what they do," Paul says. "They know they have to go forward and attack that dream."
Paul says many of his students have been affected by the bad economy and "bring it up in a big way."
"With all the bad news, it's tough for people," Paul says. "Things can be pretty bad, but I tell them, 'You can be the person who pulls it off.' "
The students pick up ideas at school, he says, but their exposures outside the class, whether on television or in person, can have a searing effect. For instance, a few weeks earlier, a Renton firefighter came to the school for an assembly. When asked their future plans, four of the 21 students we spoke to in Paul's class said they wanted to be firefighters or paramedics.
ACROSS TOWN, at Talbot Hill Elementary, Melissa McDowell's fifth-graders are already holding down jobs.
The school runs a "microsociety" within the school that includes government, courts, a bank, media outlets and businesses that they manage and work for as employees. Some of them have been promoted to managers, while others have been "fired." Still others make products they sell at the school marketplace, operate a bank, and a magazine and television station.
"They're building real-world skills that give them the confidence to go forward," says McDowell.
The 14 students from McDowell's class who spoke with us were confident, but their choices at this point seem more informed by the people they're exposed to, or stories they've heard, than by the microsociety experience.
"I want to be a nurse in Africa," says Devante Lawyer. "I want to help kids that, like, lost their parents and stuff."
Devante says he began thinking about his career choice last year. He can't put a finger on the genesis, except to say, "I just don't feel like they should … have a life that's unfair, like, to ours. They work hard and don't get as much as they need."
Devante says he doesn't have a specific country in mind, just "one that needs help the most, maybe."
He says he'd like to go to Harvard, and find a mentor to tell him what nursing is like and what steps he needs to follow.
His classmate Helen Chen also has plans for college.
"I really wanted to be, since I was 4, I wanted to be a vet and artist — so probably both," she says.
"I'm fascinated by animals and their distinctive features," she says, warming to the subject. "Since when I learned to read, I've been interested in animals: what they're good at, how they react to predators and prey."
Her favorite: "The duck-billed platypus. They're the only mammal that lays eggs, and they have a sixth sense, too."
THE TALBOT students and their counterparts at Tiffany Park included a few with aspirations to play professional sports, though not in conventional ways.
Amaziah Lynch emerged from the school's library with six paperbacks about the National Basketball Association — study material to prepare her for a career in the NBA, either as a player or coach.
It's a longshot career, and she knows that, she says. That's why she has a backup plan: doctor.
Her grandparents are disabled, and she enjoys cooking for them: greenbeans and corn, waffles, sausage and eggs.
Either way — pro baller or doctor — she says she's headed for college. Adults can help her by telling her the steps she needs to take, and things she needs to learn at an early age.
"I'm pushing myself to be better than my parents were," she says.
Kamyah Alexander from Tiffany Park is determined to play professional football.
"My mom says there's no football girl league, but I tell her I'm going to make one because I want to play," says Kamyah, who, at 11, has more confidence than half of Seattle. Not surprisingly, she wants to play quarterback.
"I'm not a girly-girl," she says, scrunching up her face as if she'd just tasted overcooked broccoli. "I'm sort of tough, a tom boy."
She wants to live in a mansion in Los Angeles or Miami. Maybe Atlanta or Las Vegas. Someplace warm and sunny. She settles back for a minute with her eyes to the ceiling dreaming, a slow smile spreading on her face.
Her classmate, Rachel Knittle, is equally certain about her desire to write fantasy. She's already written at least 10 stories, she says.
"I've liked writing books since second grade, and loved actually spelling things correctly," says Rachel, who got hooked on fantasy, thanks to J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series.
"I started reading Harry Potter, but stopped because it was hard. I picked up again in fourth grade," she says, and got hooked on the details. She's started looking for those telling details for her writing, too, she says, and keeps writing so she won't forget them.
Carlos Silver, who attends Talbot, also has a jump-start on his dream of designing a more interesting smartphone.
His brown eyes widen as he describes the ways they could be better and cooler.
"Maybe it can be a different shape," he says, like maybe triangular, made entirely of blue glass. He's got other ideas, too, that he's sketched at home.
Carlos says he wants to work at Microsoft when he's grown, and says adults can help him get there by assisting him with homework.
ONE OF THE MOST striking things about these young people is how many of them are interested in helping others.
There's Elijah Ogundimu, who wants to be a teacher.
And Liliya Kozub and Karyna Yukhno want to be doctors; Angelique Martin wants to be a doctor or a nurse.
"My mom, she had cancer and I really wanted to help her," Angelique says. "I really want to be a nurse to help people who have cancer."
There's Tyler Ashley, who made a pact with his older sister to become police officers in Renton. But he watched a TV show called "Chicago Fire," and decided to be a paramedic instead.
If one thing is clear, it's that we don't have to worry about their hearts. We do have to worry about giving them the resources and encouragement they need, and about ways to teach them more than academics.
A recent Brookings Institute study shows that social and emotional learning are just as important as academic competency in predicting success in middle school. Children with self-awareness, self-control, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making skills do better in school than a child still navigating those waters, according to the authors. Without those skills, emotional distress takes over.
The more adults expose children to possibilities, and talk about their own successes and failures, what worked and what didn't, the more children will understand the importance of perseverance, says Tiffany Park's Paul.
Because, at the end of the day, after the math and reading lessons, after library and music and art class, there's something else the kids need: hope.
Susan Kelleher is a Pacific NW magazine staff writer. John Lok is a Seattle Times staff photographer.


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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Newmanstown, PA - The 600cc Micro-Sprints provided a thrilling climax to the opening night's program at Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway on Saturday night.
A restart with two laps remaining allowed Tyler Esh to build some momentum, then dive under race leader Chris Gerhart in turns three and four on the final circuit. Esh blasted off turn four, squeezing up and in front of Gerhart to record the victory.
RTS Chassis sponsored the season opener, and one of their former employees, Randy West, captured the 270cc victory. Jesse Maurer notched the 125cc triumph, while Ryan Morris (250cc Four-Stroke) and Ken Miller, Jr. (Sportsman) also visited the winner's circle on Saturday. In addition to the normal payout, each of the five feature winners received a K1 Race Gear Proven Performance Program gift certificate. The gift certificates, provided by Nouse Signs & Graphics, can be used in the purchase of a new two or three-layer custom K1 Race Gear driver's uniform.
The 600cc defeat was a bitter pill for Gerhart, who led 24 of the 25 laps in the RTS Chassis main event.
"Driver error," was his explanation of the winning pass by Esh. "I just missed my mark getting into the corner, and Tyler was really good...he was right there to capitalize on my mistake."
Esh, while realizing that Gerhart slipped just a bit on that final lap, felt that he might have gotten by the leader anyway. "I was goin' for it," said the driver from New Providence, Pa., while he and his family celebrated in victory lane. "The car was awesome, and I think we might have gotten him, even without his mistake. Either way, I've gotta thank my dad and everyone else who supports us; this is a great way to start the season."
Gerhart was a disappointed runner-up, with Heath Hehnly finishing third. Brent Ely (started 11th) and Brittany Brown completed the top five.
With 24 of the 600's signed in for battle, James Morris, Gerhart, and Peter Michael were victorious in the qualifying heats.
In the 270cc feature, Ken Miller Jr. was the hard luck driver, while Randy West became a "super sub" in Fred Falini's No. 74F.
West, from Barto, Pa., started fifth but moved up quickly, snatching the runner-up spot away from Dave Grube on the third trip around the oval.
Miller started on the pole and led the first 19 laps, fending off occasional attempts by West to duck underneath him and grab the lead. With six to go, however, Miller's night turned sour, as Brad Kemp's car gave up exiting turn two. Kemp turned left to head for the infield, but Miller was closing on him so fast that the two cars made contact, with Miller's right-front wheel ending up lodged in between Kemp's engine and rubrail. The incident ended the night for Miller, who believed he had a strong enough car to keep West behind him and win the 25-lapper.
West inherited the lead and kept Falini's A-Main Motors No. 74F in front, beating Jesse Maurer to the checkered flag. Maurer, Bradley Brown, Brian Sholley, and Heath Hehnly rounded out the top five.
Afterward, the winner's thoughts were with Shaun Brandel, who was supposed to be driving the Falini mount this season. Brandel was recently diagnosed with some serious health issues, so West is filling the seat until those issues are resolved.
There were 28 of the 270's in the pit area for the season opener. Heat race victories went to Mike Rutherford, Richie Hartman, and Christi Sweigart. Zack Fouse won the consolation race.
It appeared as though Richie Hartman had the car to beat in the main event for the 125cc Micros. The defending champion of this division, Hartman started sixth and zipped through traffic in a hurry to claim the top spot as lap one was scored.
With ten revolutions complete, Hartman's No. 29 suddenly slowed on the backstretch, handing the lead to Derek Ecenrode. Ninth-starting Jesse Maurer, after an entertaining duel with Dave Grube over several laps, moved into second and set his sights on Ecenrode.
With eight tours remaining, Maurer used a lapped car as a pick, trapping Ecenrode behind the slower car as they roared off turn two. Maurer accelerated onto the backstretch as the new leader, then went on to register the win.
The Mount Joy, Pa. resident charged to the stripe with a margin of almost three-seconds over Ecenrode, who turned in a solid runner-up effort.
Grube, Nick Sweigart, and Brent Shearer finished third, fourth, and fifth.
Maurer and Grube triumphed in the two heat races, as 16 drivers entered the 125cc portion of the program.
Honeybrook, Pa. driver Ryan Morris darted from sixth to second on the first lap of the 250cc Four-Stroke feature. He stalked polesitter and race leader Donna Geib for the next ten circuits before making his move on the frontstretch as lap 11 was scored. Morris steered to the inside of Geib, edging in front as they set their cars for entry into turn one.
The only caution period of the 25-lap event occurred with three laps left to run, and it didn't matter to Morris. He cruised to the victory, with Donna Geib chasing him to the checkered. Kenny Miller III wrestled third from David Ravel near the end, and Eddie Nocera finished fifth.
D. Geib and Ravel won the two heats for the 13-car field of 250cc Four-Stroke Micro-Sprints.
Bret Habecker set the pace for most of the Sportsman feature, going from third to first on the opening lap, then maintaining the point for 17 trips around the banked oval.
Unfortunately for Habecker, his No. 72 broke while riding around under yellow with eight to go, giving the top spot to two-time and defending Sportsman point champ Jason Swavely.
Swavely then led until mechanical gremlins popped up in his car, making it feel as though it was jumping into neutral at times. Tenth-starting Ken Miller Jr. took advantage of his teammate's problem, dashing past Swavely to snare the lead on lap 22.
Miller went on to win, with Swavely hanging on for second place money. Wesley Fasnacht ended up third, ahead of Matt Abers and rookie Anthony Yerger.
Sportsman heats were won by Miller and Swavely, as 19 cars made up the field in this class on Saturday.
Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway swings back into action this Saturday, April 20, with another five-division card of action packed Micro-Sprint racing.
Gates open at 3:30, with warm-ups at 5 p.m. The first heat race goes green at 6:00.
Adult general admission is $8.00, with discounts for Senior Citizens and Students. Youth between the ages of six and 12 are admitted for just $2.00, and children under the age of six are free. And parking is always free at the Clyde!
Coming up on Saturday, April 27, is Fan Appreciation Night. With Animal Resorts sponsoring the program, all spectators will be admitted FREE as the Lanco club displays its appreciation to the dedicated fan base that supports each event at the Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway.
Spectators, as well as the participants, are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item on April 27. The food that is collected will be donated to the Christ Home for disadvantaged youths. Christ Home is located in Paradise, Pa. and many of its residents will be in attendance on the 27th.
600cc Micro-Sprint Feature Finish: 1.Tyler Esh, 2.Chris Gerhart, 3.Heath Hehnly, 4.Brent Ely, 5.Brittany Brown, 6.Ryan Hook, 7.Jared Esh, 8.Chris Panczner, 9.Mike Coen, 10.Ryan Morris, 11.Jered Hook, 12.Will Urkuski, 13.C.J. Tracy, 14.Kelby Stauffer, 15.Rebecca LaMothe, 16.James Morris, 17.Peter Michael, 18.Mike Rutherford, 19.Mark Yoder, 20.Mike Freed, 21.Kory Merkey, 22.Jon Stewart, 23.Travis Esh, 24.Cody Kreger.
270cc Micro-Sprint Feature Finish: 1.Randy West, 2.Jesse Maurer, 3.Bradley Brown, 4.Brian Sholley, 5.Heath Hehnly, 6.Mike Rutherford, 7.Chip Geib, 8.Dave Grube, 9.Billy Logeman, 10.Richie Hartman, 11.Zack Fouse, 12.Dan Lane Jr., 13.Eric Falini, 14.Mike Uhrich, 15.Ken Miller, 16.Toby Blumenshine, 17.Nate Weidman, 18.Brad Kemp, 19.Ricky Sechrist Jr., 20.Danny Braun, 21.Corey Schmuck Jr., 22.Kory Shissler, 23.Christi Sweigart. DQ: Michael Binkley.
125cc Micro-Sprint Feature Finish: 1.Jesse Maurer, 2.Derek Ecenrode, 3.Dave Grube, 4.Nick Sweigart, 5.Brent Shearer, 6.Chase Gutshall, 7.Brie Weiler, 8.Kyle Hehnly, 9.Richie Hartman, 10.Matthew Donley, 11.Adam Minzer, 12.Walt Wampole, 13.James Wampole, 14.Dylan Adams, 15.Dylan Binkley. DNS: Alexis Sheely.
250cc Four-Stroke Finish: 1.Ryan Morris, 2.Donna Geib, 3.Kenny Miller III, 4.David Ravel, 5.Eddie Nocera, 6.Devin Adams, 7.Scott Renninger, 8.Lewis Kepple Jr., 9.Kim Enck, 10.Steve Smith Sr., 11.Chip Geib, 12.Sheila Fetter, 13.Ronald Good.
Sportsman Feature Finish: 1.Ken Miller, 2.Jason Swavely, 3.Wesley Fasnacht, 4.Matt Abers, 5.Anthony Yerger, 6.Charles Hellinger, 7.Tim Ziegler, 8.Robert Shanaman, 9.Jenna Heagy, 10.Kerry Lengel, 11.Jas Hehnly, 12.Dean Spangler, 13.Bret Habecker, 14.Sheena Logeman, 15.Matt Peachey, 16.Caleb Keller, 17.Curtis R. Miller, 18.Brian Becker, 19.Dave Kemp.
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VIDEO: Obama Dodges Question From Chuck Todd on Using Executive Order to Raise Debt Ceiling
During Monday's press conference, NBC reporter Chuck Todd asked President Barack Obama whether or not he would invoke the 14th Amendment in order to raise the nation's debt ceiling without Congress's approval. The president didn't directly answer the question, despite prodding from Todd.
The president replied by saying that if the House and the Senate want to give him the authority in order to avoid taking these "tough votes," he would be "happy to take it." He iterated, however, that Congress orders him to spend, but hasn't followed up with allowing him to actually pay those bills.
"They lay all this out for me, because they have the spending power, so I am required by law to pay these bills. Separately, they also have to authorize the raising of the debt ceiling," he said.
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ceiling debate isn't a "complicated concept," likening Congress's spending to going out to an all-you-can-eat dinner but then leaving without paying the bill.
"If Congress wants to have a debate about, maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner next time [...] that's fine. But, you don't say, in order for me to control my appetites, I'm going to not pay the people who already provided me services, the people who lent me the money. That's not showing any discipline; all that's doing is not meeting your obligations."
"That's not a credible way to run this government ... we've got to stop lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis when there's a clear path ahead of us," he said.
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As some of you may realise- It is 60 years since the Queen- Queen Elizabeth ll- Came to the throne. Britain closes down for the next 4 days with various celebrations being held to mark the occasion. The weekend of Saturday and Sunday is being extended on Monday- because that is a Bank holiday and Tuesday as as that is the anniversary of the accession. So it could be difficult to do business with the UK next week as a lot of people will be taking the rest of the week off aswell. Just a heads up if any of you do business over here.
But 4 days off and what am I going to do with those extra days off work Bit of gardening- bit of shopping and a bit of watching the TV to view the celebrations.
So The next 4 days are something special over here in the UK. BUT what about the rest of you? I propose that there be an unofficial PIE Ride. I say unofficial as the official one is not due till September--But that is a long time away. Usual rules apply- A ride of 15 miles for the experienced amongst us and a shorter ride for the newcomers. Only criteria being that Pie has to be had on the ride. Even if you do not wish to join the UK in the celebration- then you will be able to find another reason for Pie.
So I have 4 days to get a ride in- most of you only have two so work out the route- find the cafe for the break and join me in my celebration of an UNOFFICIAL PIE RIDE.


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When boat owners gather, one of the debates you'll inevitably hear is 'inboard vs. outboard': which is better, in terms of power, efficiency, and maintenance? Now that same argument is being heard in synthesis circles: do we need external hardware or even soundcards to produce our music -- or should we be doing it within our computers?
Now, don't panic: no one's going to make you throw away your precious M1s and K2000s. We're not talking about professional studios here, we're talking about the multimedia world, in which MIDI plays a relatively small, but important role: to deliver high quality music and sound effects behind games, presentations, interactive programs, and other desktop media.
In these circles -- and watch out, they're getting bigger all the time -- the new, superfast CPUs now available for our favourite desktop platforms have spurred a movement to bring the creation of MIDI-controlled music right into the computer's main brain. Thanks to chips like the PowerPC and Pentium, as well as the development of cheap digital-to-analogue converters (or DACs), companies are looking to move the task of synthesizing audio into the computer itself, as a way of bypassing the notorious difficulties of installing soundcards, particularly on MS-DOS machines. IRQ conflicts, specialised driver software, competing synthesis technologies, and sound library incompatibilities frequently make setting up a soundcard and getting it to play a nightmarish experience. If the cards could be eliminated, the thinking goes, but the quality of sound preserved, one of the music-for-multimedia community's greatest headaches would be removed.
Today's machines are so fast that dedicated sound chips are no longer absolutely necessary for a computer to perform real-time synthesis. The technology is pretty straightforward: a bunch of audio samples (or 'wavetables') are loaded into the computer's RAM, and when a command is received by the operating system to play a note, that sample is retrieved, run through a pitch-shifter or other real-time processor, and sent to a DAC to turn it into something we can hear. DACs cost about $50 or so at retail (considerably less at the manufacturing level), and can be found already installed on the motherboards of many multimedia computers, particularly slotless notebooks. From the DAC, the sample then goes out as an ordinary analogue signal to speakers, headphones, or amplifiers. The commands controlling the process are normally in the form of MIDI messages, sent through the computer's operating system using special drivers or extensions, such as Opcode's Open Music System (or OMS; this has been licensed for use in future versions of both Apple's QuickTime and Windows) or Microsoft's Multimedia Control Interface.
The quality of the sound depends on the usual suspects: sample length (8- or 16-bit), and rate. But there's another important factor: the number of simultaneous sounds that can be played at one time. Since the CPU is spewing out samples at a fixed rate, the number of samples it can generate at one time is a function of its speed. Also affecting the polyphony is how much of the CPU's power is available for this task, and how much needs to be reserved for other things like video, graphics rendering, or digital audio. A slow CPU might be able to handle four real-time 'voices' at a time, while faster ones can handle commensurately more. If a system is to be considered a true General MIDI synth, it needs to be able to play at least 24 voices -- if there are fewer available than that, many GM scores will play incorrectly.
Yet another variable is how big the sound set is. A typical GM synth has between 1 and 4 Mb of sample ROM, and for a software synth to have similar capability, all of that has to be available for loading into the computer's RAM.
There are some tricks that designers of software synthesis systems can use to maximize performance without overwhelming the computer. To keep RAM requirements down, a system can 'cache' sounds, loading into RAM only the sounds needed in a particular sequence just before playing it. Another technique is to compress the sounds, using JPEG or a similar algorithm, and decompress on the fly. This requires a coder/decoder (or 'codec'). Codecs and caching put an extra burden on the CPU, however. To minimise CPU load, sophisticated voice-stealing algorithms can limit the number of simultaneous voices sounding at one time, without the music suffering unduly.
There are already nearly a dozen companies involved in software-based synthesis, designing synthesis engines or supplying sound sets, and they are being driven in large part by two very major players: Intel and Apple. But there are many within the music and multimedia communities who think the whole idea is over-rated, that software synthesis is not ready for prime time, and may never be. Whichever view prevails, the result will have a major effect on the future of music in multimedia.
Let's take a look at some of the companies currently active in this area, starting with Apple.
Apple's QuickTime 2.0 multimedia standard includes a set of samples provided by Roland called QuickTime Musical Instruments, which was drawn from Roland's GM sound set and reduced to about half a megabyte. A sequence track, consisting of a standard MIDI File, can be added to any QuickTime movie. When the movie plays, the sequence track plays the QuickTime Musical Instrument sounds. The quality of the sounds depends on the Mac you're using (8-bit for 68030- or '040-series machines, 16-bit for AV and PowerMacs) and the number of voices available ranges from 4-6 on a Mac LC to as many as 30 on the fastest PowerMacs.
The first incarnation of QuickTime Musical Instruments, released early in 1994, was pretty basic. Only a few sounds from each GM instrument bank were present, and when a program change called for a sound that wasn't there, it defaulted to the first sound in the bank. The problem was, somebody goofed in determining the way program changes were interpreted (that old question of 'do we start counting at 0 or at 1?'), and sometimes the wrong bank would get called up. In addition, no real-time control over the sounds, except for note velocity, was possible. Finally, there was a significant delay when playing built-in sounds: the software takes approximately 100 milliseconds to process a MIDI command and play a sound. If you're just playing back files, this is no real problem (all sounds are delayed equally), but synchronising built-in sounds with external MIDI sound sources is difficult, and playing the Mac sounds from a MIDI keyboard is nearly impossible.
The next version of the Musical Instruments extension, 2.1, which will probably be out by the end of the summer, takes care of some of these problems. The program change bug is gone. More multisamples are being used, and real-time controllers including volume and modulation are being recognised. "A lot of GM scores will play almost correctly," says a source at Apple. The sound set is the same, but the system now allows third-party sounds to be included. Apple is reportedly looking closely at Sound Fonts, a standard being developed by Emu Systems, as a way to organise and exchange sounds. There's nothing in the 2.1 version to address the delay problem, but the source says Apple are "going to make an aggressive effort to address it with the next go-round. We're looking to get it down to 10-15 milliseconds".
Another Macintosh system has been announced by InVision Interactive of Palo Alto, California. CyberSound GM, due in October, is a subset of a high-end, professional synthesis system that will be available at a later date. The larger system will support multiple synthesis types including analogue, PCM, and physical modelling, and will come complete with a complex modulation matrix, real-time controllable resonant filters, and programmable time-based effects such as reverb and chorus. The GM set will incorporate all of these technologies, but they won't be under direct user control. The system will load as a control panel, and be playable using either MIDI Manager, OMS or QuickTime. "There's no delay problem," says InVision spokesman Tim Gehrt. "We've specifically paid close attention to latency problems associated with software synthesis. Using technologies such as dynamic sample downloading and intelligent algorithm scaling, the InVision solution manages the synthesizer's load on the CPU and provides better overall performance".
According to Gehrt, CyberSound will ship with two GM sound sets, one for the 68000 platforms and a high-level set for the Power PC environment. The smaller GM set trades off response time for better overall performance, but the high-level Power PC set, according to Gehrt, "will perform equal to all the professional synths out there in terms of response time, sound quality, and performance". Both sets use 16-bit samples, and up to 65 voices will be available on the Power PC, with a minimum of 24 on a 68040 Mac. In addition, CyberSound will include various sounds programmed using the analogue and physical modelling algorithms. The US price was originally projected to be between $200 and $300, but the product is currently being revised to include a sequencer (although specific details are sketchy at present). However, Gehrt maintains that despite this addition, the current price projections are now lower than they were originally. As usual, the only advice one can give with a product in development like this is "watch this space!"...
US soundcard manufacturer Turtle Beach include V-Synth, a set of software-based sounds licensed from Seer Systems (a Silicon Valley company run by Stanley Jungleib, one of the forces behind the seminal synth manufacturer Sequential Circuits) with the cheap Turtle Beach Monte Carlo game soundcard for IBM-compatible PCs. V-Synth is a 32-voice synth engine that works with any 486 or Pentium system, and according to spokesman Roy Smith, "any soundcard with the right drivers". At present, however, the Monte Carlo, a 16-bit SoundBlaster clone, is the only available card that works. The drivers in Windows 95, Smith expects, will make it possible to run the system through any Windows-compatible soundcard. However, since the system depends on the virtual device architecture that Windows provides, it doesn't work with DOS games. Smith also hopes to have the company's SampleVision and WavePatch editing programs available for the new platform.
Another PC-orientated company is Brooktree. This 12-year-old San Diego semiconductor company has developed WaveStream, which works with Windows on 486/33 machines and up. An MPU401 emulation mode allows use with DOS games. The sound set, which contains 16-bit samples, is from Q-Up Arts, and takes up 8Mb of RAM with the sample rate fixed at 22 kHz. A caching system, which loads the sounds required with any sequence, uses anywhere between 600K and 2.3Mb, depending on the emulation quality required.
Real-time control is provided over pitchbend, aftertouch, mod wheel, and sustain, as well as dynamic filters, filter envelopes, and LFO. The number of voices is selectable on the fly, using a feature called 'dynamic polyphony', from 2 to 32 voices. Another feature called MultiSynth will, if there's an FM card present, offload some of the instruments to the card, reserving wavetable voices for when they will do the most good. Senior product marketing manager Joe Monastiero comments: "With a 486/33 we recommend using nine wavetable voices, with the rest in FM."
Although the software was developed on a SoundBlaster 16, plans are to ship it initially only with the company's own MediaStream chipset, which, in addition to audio, handles graphics and video on a PCI card. The release is scheduled for October. Ports to other soundcards are expected shortly, and user-designed sounds will be accommodated through a program called SampleXchange.
Even IBM is getting into the game, with not one, but three software-based systems. Some models of the company's ThinkPad computers have a fairly simple 16-note synth running on the machineUs 80486 processor. More interestingly, IBM's Power Personal Systems division has announced a software synthesis system for the company's PowerPC-based computers. It ships with the NT 3.51 operating system, and can play up to 32 notes simultaneously using 16-bit, 22-kHz samples. Three different configurations are supported, each using a different amount of CPU and memory usage. The first configuration is called BASIC and utilises the subtractive synthesis technique employed in the first ThinkPad MIDI synth. This mode requires a very small amount of CPU cycles and zero sample memory. The second configuration (PREMIER) performs wavetable synthesis using about 2Mb of samples. Finally, the third mode combines the first two modes, offering a combination of wavetable and subtractive synthesis. A stereo audio codec is included on the motherboard, along with a joystick/MIDI port that uses the same cable as a SoundBlaster. The system includes a stereo mixer that can combine up to four signals at any standard MME sample rate or word length, in mono or stereo. IBM reports that Sonic Foundry has ported their highly regarded Sound Forge 3.0 audio editing software to run in native mode on the system.
Finally, IBM are also shipping a third software synth with their PCMCIA card. This makes use of the same samples used in the PowerPC synth (16-bit, at a rate of 22kHz) but does not perform per-voice configurability.
The Kurzweil Technology Group, at the Young Chang R & D Institute in Massachusetts, is working on a software synthesis engine for a number of large PC manufacturers. The sound set is almost the same as the 2Mb ROM that goes into several of the GM chipsets that Kurzweil market to other equipment manufacturers, and features a maximum 32-voice polyphony at a maximum 44.1kHz bandwidth. According to marketing manager Fred Lapitino, "the number of voices will be software-controllable by the user. This will allow you to optimise the synth structure for the varying demands of multimedia applications, and the varying PC hardware on which these are run".
The synth can be loaded with new samples using MIDI Sample Dump Standard, but since a real MIDI cable isn't involved, the operation is quite fast, according to Howard Brown, chief architect of the group. The size of the set is not fixed, but can be expanded up to the RAM available in the host computer. The processing delay for live MIDI control is, according to Brown, "comparable to most MIDI instruments, or under a millisecond, except that the operating system sometimes gets in the way".
And finally, in a surprise entry, Altec Lansing, the Pennsylvania speaker manufacturer, is dipping its corporate toes into software, with a wavetable synthesis system for Windows scheduled for shipment in late Autumn. It uses only 1Mb of RAM, and will run with a 75MHz (or faster) Pentium. The price is minimal too: $29.95. No further details were available at the time of going to press.
Even the sceptics see a role for software synthesis in the future. "Music professionals will never accept the performance," says Turtle Beach's Roy Smith, "but for what the masses need to play back games, it can be quite happening. As time goes on, the proportion of power being taken will diminish by orders of magnitude, until it gets to the point where it's a background task, like a screen-saver."
Emu's Dave Rossum agrees: "In the very long term, as the machines get an order of magnitude faster, we can go from a situation where the software synth occupies 25% of the CPU to 2.5%, and then synthesis becomes small change. Of course, we continue to discover new things -- right now, we're looking at doing 3-D audio from two channels -- that may keep demand on audio performance apace with CPU performance. But people using this in the future, in a room with the disk drives yelling and the kids whirring -- they'll be very happy if they can get from the software the equivalent quality of a 1995 General MIDI synth."
As to who is going to win out among the players, perhaps Fred Lapitino has the right philosophy: "Just as with hardware, the people who have been doing it the longest will do it the best. All wavetable software synths basically do the same thing, but it's the craft of the people putting the sounds together that will make the difference."
And as to how all this affects the professional musician, nobody's going to make you record all your music on this stuff. But just as the professional composer for television checks his work on a 2-inch speaker, the multimedia composer may want to start getting used to hearing what his music sounds like played back on it.
Onboard synthesis is not a new concept. Years ago, you could get a computer to play music by writing a machine-language program that triggered its internal speaker at speeds in the audio range. When you toggled the speaker on and off 440 times a second, you got something approximating a square wave playing the note 'A'. In 1983, Commodore put a 4-voice simple-waveform synthesizer chip known as 'SID' (Sound Interface Device), in its model 64 computer, which was well utilised by game designers for the platform. Then, on the first Macintosh, Apple included a 4-voice, 8-bit, wavetable sound chip that could carry out real-time synthesis on the fly. It was supported by a number of products that let you design sounds and play scores, and even use the sounds with a MIDI keyboard. Later, the so-called 'AV' Macs included a 16-bit high sample rate sound chip, but manufacturers who supported it used it for recording and playing digital audio files, not synthesis.
With so many companies, including some truly heavy hitters, backing software synthesis, is this the inexorable wave of the future? Is hardware, at least as far as PC-based music goes, doomed?
Well, it's probably still a little premature to melt down your soundcards. Even those who are working on software synthesis are a bit sceptical. The reason is that the performance 'hit' on a computer trying to generate 32 MIDI voices in real time -- even a fast one -- can be substantial, and some feel that playing music is not the most efficient use of a CPU's time. According to Kurzweil's Fred Lapitino, "playing 32 high quality voices at 44.1kHz bandwidth uses up almost all of an average 486, and about half the processing power of a 100MHz Pentium". Lapitino's colleague Howard Brown adds: "Software synthesis is a great advertisement for hardware synthesis. The hit is considerable: at 44.1kHz, you're looking at 2 to 5% per voice on a 90MHz Pentium. It's a false economy -- it looks like the synth is free, but actually, it's taking up as much as 60% of your CPU. When you add in the cost of the RAM that is dedicated to making music, you're spending $750 to do what a $150 soundcard can do."
Some would consider Brown's figures to be a bit high, but many in the audio community share his concern. Gordon Currie, audio designer at Microsoft, says software synthesis is "a great idea, but it still has some way to go. It reminds me of a lot of software implementations of stuff that originated in hardware: it's always slower in software, and not as good quality. Everybody and his brother's going towards software, assuming that with the new CPUs there's so much idle time to spare, but if all of your DSP is in software, you end up with a dog-slow CPU that's trying to do everything at once: audio decompression, video, 3-D graphics, and a modem in the background. The hardware is finally fast enough that we can start writing code with fast hardware in mind, but when everybody does it, it's going to slow down again. The user will think 'This is ridiculous -- I paid all this money and it's all hype, the system is slow as molasses!'"
Others point out that with hardware-based synthesis as cheap as it is, it makes more sense to use the CPU for tasks which can't be so easily duplicated in hardware. "A Pentium 120 with 16 megs has enough memory and processing power to do high-quality synthesis," says Microsoft's Geoff Dahl, "but some games would prefer to use the resources for improved 3D rendering, or MPEG video or audio decompression. Maybe you can do one or two of these at once, but it would probably not do a great job with all four at the same time."
Dave Rossum, director of the Emu/Creative Labs technology center, calls software synthesis "a cool thing to use your computer for, but right now the speed of the machines is such that anything that's going to sound interesting is taking a significant hit. If all you're doing is synthesizing music, that seems to work. It's not necessarily the best sound quality and most accurate sequence playback, but I don't retch and vomit when I hear it. But when you get into MIPS-hungry (millions of instruction per second) applications, everyone's going for as many MIPS as they can get, and reasonable synthesis takes 25% or more of performance, so basically, you'll end up sacrificing something".
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but after about 10 seconds it stops: not data is received by the browser or wget anymore and no more queries appear in the logs. However, the HTTP connection is not closed and only about 25kb of data is sent so I expect that the full query has not finished, yet.
What might cause this?
PS: I replaced all smaller-than and larger-than chars by underscores (_) in this post because markdown didn't like them
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Hmmm, the amount of data that is transferred is always 24576 bytes. interesting...
(14 Jan '13, 06:49) foobar
This looks like an issue that is fixed in Fuseki. Joseki is replaced by Fuseki. Try using the latest release of Fuseki.
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I hav a currently working mail system on ubuntu 6.06 32 bit zimbra 5.20
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1. what are the steps to to this without losing data?
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3. Do I have to copy the entire /opt/zimbra/backup to the new server?
greets John


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Santa Clara, Calif., (January 7, 2008) – Leading video games publisher and developer, NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., announced today Tamagotchi Connection®: Corner Shop® 3 for the Nintendo DS™. Available this summer, Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 will feature the most robust store lineup to date, with 13 brand new shops to run and expand, a park to design and visit, and the ability to trade journals with your friends wirelessly.
Business in Tamagotchi Town is booming, and over a dozen new shops have moved in. Help manage these brand new shops and keep customers coming back for more. When the work day is done, relax in the very own park that you've created. You can write in your journal to record the day's events, and share items and journals with your friends over Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection.
"Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 emphasizes the responsibilities of running successful businesses in a fun and creative way," said Todd Thorson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. "With so many new shops, mini-games and Tamagotchis, there is a lot of fun to be had for new and returning players."
Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 includes the following features:
- All New Stores: Find over a dozen brand new stores to run! Bake fresh bread at the Bakery, plan a party at the Event Coordinator shop, or scoop ice cream at the Ice Cream Parlor. Combine and upgrade stores to keep happy customers coming back for more.
- Create Your Own Park: Create a relaxing and fun park to hang out with friends and chat with other Tamagotchis. Decorate your park with fountains, gardens and other items to be discovered. Come back often to see how your park has changed.
- More Characters: The popular Violetchi joins in on the fun with Mametchi, Kuchipatchi and Memetchi to team up with players and help them run the best business they can.
- Connect With Friends: Share items and swap journals with friends via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
For more information about Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 please visit http://www.namcobandaigames.com.
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The previous three installments of this series looked at new features in Edge Rails and other very recent releases of the popular Web development framework. Tomorrow's installment looks at some next-generation gems and next week's regular column looks at nested forms, an addition sure to please every Rails developer, from newbie to master.
Today's installment is something of a spur, because I had intended to write about a different topic. However, today's topic is very clever, certainly on the edge—a first alpha—and useful nonetheless.
Debug Anything with Hijack
I'm a big fan of irb and the Ruby debugger, and use both to explore code and find and fix bugs in Ruby and Rails projects. For a Ruby script, install the ruby-debug gem and then invoke the script with the debugger, rdebug.
$ sudo gem install ruby-debug
Successfully installed ruby-debug-0.10.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for ruby-debug-0.10.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for ruby-debug-0.10.3...
$ which rdebug
$ rdebug some_script.rb
It's also very easy to debug a Rails application: Sprinkle the statement…
… liberally throughout your code and invoke the server with…
$ ./script/server --debugger
Whenever your Rails application hits a debugger statement, ZAP!, the application suspends, presenting a prompt where you can poke and prod variables, instances, and classes, and step through statements. After you address the defect, either remove the debugger statements or omit the --debugger option. In the latter case, debugger statements are simply ignored (although the server reminds you of that with some vociferousness.)
Real world scenarios tend to be a little more challening. What happens when a bug appears after a certain period or occurs only intermittently? Short of divine intervention, your logs, the application database, and anecdotal evidence may be your only clues to the culprit.
But like Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus and returned it to man, developer Ian Leitch has granted we mere mortals a little bit of omniscience. Leitch's Hijack can attach to almost any running Ruby process, interrupt its execution, and let your peer in as if you were truly all-powerful. You can swap in code on-the-fly, too, to add a debugger call wherever you need it.
Hijack works with common scripts and can attach to the Mongrel daemon and Thin, too. However, it does not yet work with the Mongrel script (./script/server) included with every Rails project, nor with the Rails script runner. Leitch has plans to address these shortcomings in the near future. As he said in an email to me, "Hijack was little more than an experiment up until a few days ago when someone mentioned it on Twitter."
As a demonstration, let's attach to a small Rails application and use the available techniques to usurp execution and debug the code. The test machine is a MacBook running Mac OS X Leopard, Edge Rails, and the GNU Debugger, Apple version gdb-966.
Using Hijack with Debugger Statements
Using Hijack is simple. First, install it. Hijack adds a gem and a command-line utility called hijack.
$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
$ sudo gem install ileitch-hijack
$ which hijack
For this initial example, I've left a breakpoint in one of my Rails validators. Typically, mongrel_rails ignores such a statement. However, once I hijack the process, the application goes into limbo when it meanders across line 1.
def validate_novelty
self.errors.add_to_base( 'This location is already defined' ) unless Location.
find(:first, :conditions =>
{ :group_id => group.id, :room => room, :aisle => aisle, :bin => bin } ).nil?
To continue, install the ruby-debug gem (if you do not yet have it) and launch your application with mongrel_rails start.
mongrel_rails start
$ sudo gem install ruby-debug
$ cd ~/Projects/warehouse
$ mongrel_rails start
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with development environment...
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
** Signals ready. TERM => stop. USR2 => restart. INT => stop (no restart).
** Rails signals registered. HUP => reload (without restart). It might not work well.
** Mongrel 1.1.5 available at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Use CTRL-C to stop.
Next, attach to the Mongrel process. Use ps or jobs to find its process ID and invoke Hijack.
$ ps ux | grep Mongrel
7563 s003 S+ 0:04.37 /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/
Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/mongrel_rails start
$ hijack 7563
=> Hijacked 7563 (/usr/bin/mongrel_rails) (ruby 1.8.6 [universal-darwin9.0])
When the Hijack prompt appears, type two commands: hijack_debug_mode followed by hijack_debug_start. (I omitted the former several times in preparing this post, with unpredictable results.)
>> hijack_debug_mode
=> true
>> hijack_debug_start
According to Leitch, the two commands break the hijacking process into two steps intentionally. The first command, hijack_debug_mode, requires ruby-debug and then stops by design so you can insert your breakpoint(s). The next command, hijack_debug_start, connects hijack to the application. (Specifically, hijack connects to a remote debugger which proxies for the application.) debugger calls fire only when the application is connected.
At this point, you are connected and ready to debug. Whenever the application hits the breakpoint, Hijack drops to the debugger. Examine variables and look at backtraces as needed; when finished type continue to resume normal processing.
(rdb:20) p self
#<Location id: nil, group_id: 1, room: "sds", aisle: "dsds", bin: "dsdsd", created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
(rdb:20) continue
Under the hood, Hijack uses the GNU Debugger, or gdb, to inject code that starts a Distributed Ruby (DRb) server. Once DRb is up and running, gdb is no longer needed and Hijack communicates directly with DRb. You must run Hijack on the same machine as the process being scrutinized; you must also run Hijack as the same user as the target process. Both limitations protect your processes from, well, being hijacked for nefarious purposes.
Hijack Running Code
In addition to affecting the execution of a running process, you can also change its code on-the-fly. You can replace both class methods and instance methods.
To replace code, start your server and hijack and type hijack_debug_mode. At the prompt, enter any code you want to "inject". The general template to replace a class method is:
Klass.class_eval do
class << self
def some_class_method
class_eval evaluates the block within the context of the named class, here Klass. The meta-class class << self affects the class methods for Klass. Hence, you can override any class method simply be redefining it. Leitch provides this example.
class << self
Start your Rails application and start Hijack. Type hijack_debug_mode and then paste the following code at the prompt.
ActionController::Dispatcher.class_eval do
class << self
def dispatch_with_debugger(cgi, session_options, output)
dispatch_without_debugger(cgi, session_options, output)
alias_method :dispatch_without_debugger, :dispatch
alias_method :dispatch, :dispatch_with_debugger
Now, if you point your browser to the application, it suspends execution within the dispatch method, which is a reasonable starting point to debug most anything.
The general template to replace instance methods looks like this:
Qlass.class_eval do
def some_instance_method
Returning to my first example, if debugger wasn't already present, I could inject what I wanted with Hijack.
$ hijack 9377
=> Hijacked 9377 (/usr/bin/mongrel_rails) (ruby 1.8.6 [universal-darwin9.0])
>> hijack_debug_mode
=> true
>> Location.class_eval do
?> def validate_novelty
>> debugger
?> self.errors.add_to_base( 'This location is already defined' ) unless Location.
?> find(:first, :conditions => { :group_id => group.id, :room => room, :aisle => aisle, :bin => bin } ).nil?
>> end
>> end
=> nil
>> hijack_debug_start
When I use the application to subsequently invoke the validator validate_novelty, Hijack drops to the debugger prompt.
Grand Theft Ruby
Hijack is in a nascent stage, but already has proven to be a very valuable tool. Expect lots of new features in the next release: pulling people from cars, shooting at cops, and outrunning John Law. Just kidding. This isn't Grand Theft Ruby. Still, the name is catchy.
My thanks to Ian Leitch for midnight tech support.
Happy tinkering.
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Use cloth kitchen towels – cloth is recyclable and will save you money, but if you need to purchase napkins and paper towels choose the recycled products that are now available.
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CT angiography predicts heart attack risks
Coronary computed tomography angiography is effective for evaluating the risk of heart attacks and other adverse cardiac events in patients with suspected coronary artery disease, even if they don't have treatable risk factors.
While the treatment for heart disease often involves addressing modifiable risk factors like high cholesterol, diabetes or high blood pressure, researchers led by Jonathon Leipsic, M.D., of the University of British Columbia, were interested in developing a risk model for patients with suspected heart disease who don't have these cardiac risk factors.
"This scenario, where patients are symptomatic but have no cardiac risk factors, comes up often in clinical practice," Leipsic said in an announcement. "We lack a good tool to stratify these patients into risk groups."
In a study published online in the journal Radiology, Leipsic and colleagues correlated CCTA findings in 5,262 patients with suspected coronary heart disease but no modifiable risk factors. With an average follow-up period of 2.3 years, the researchers identified 104 patients who had adverse cardiac events.
More than one-quarter of these patients had non-obstructive disease or disease related to the buildup of plaque in the arteries, while another 12 percent had obstructive disease with a greater than 50 percent narrowing in a coronary artery "We found that patients with narrowing of the coronary arteries on CT had a much higher risk of an adverse cardiac event," Leipsic said. "This was true even for those without a family history of heart disease."
Leipsic said the findings demonstrate that clinicians need to revise the way they evaluate symptomatic patients who have no medically modifiable risk factors. "Doctors often dismiss [these patients] or do a treadmill test, which won't identify atherosclerosis and only has a modest sensitivity for detecting obstructive disease," he said, adding that CTA angiography could help address these patients.
The researchers rounded up the data from a confirmed registry of roughly 35,000 men and women who ranged in age, ethnicity and risk factors for CAD and CCTA evaluation, according to DOTmed News.
In 2009, researchers determined that using CCTA on ED patients presenting with chest pain reduced diagnosis times, as well as the cost of care.
To learn more:
- see the announcement
- check out the DOTmed article
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Wholesale VoIP Feature Article
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"We are very excited about delivering a mobile VoIP app via Google's incredibly popular Android Market," Pervasip's Chief Information Officer Mark Richards said. "We believe that this venue will give us significant exposure, as this app will be available to over 100 million Android smart phones globally and provide unlimited calls and text to other VoX users globally for as little as $4.95 a month."
The VoX mobile VoIP app, which can be viewed or downloaded here, offers several features that give it an advantage over other VoIP apps, according to company officials. First, the app promises unlimited calling to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
"With our app you can also set it to automatically register with VoX when Wi-Fi is turned on, or keep it registered for 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi," Richards said. "We believe that we can add video calling to this product by the end of the year. This enhancement will enable video calling between an Android phone and an Ojo Vision video phone. As a nimble development technology company, we intend to produce a tablet video app that brings superior video calling to the Android Market."
"We have the ability to easily update plans offered, and we intend to be creative with target audiences that are looking for fixed blocks of calls for a fixed dollar amount rather than charging a monthly fee for services that people don't always use," he added. "This new interface enables us to tailor the plans offered so that we could even offer a $1 plan that only depletes a consumer's cash balance when calls are made. We intend to offer similar creative calling plans to those offered recently by Vonage (News - Alert) and also intend to offer them at competitive prices."
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The savings of Canadian routes are as much as 20 percent, according to John Chisca, vice president of Alcazar Networks.
"Until recent, Alcazar Networks only provided US48 termination but due to overwhelming requests, we have added direct suppliers to our termination offering," Chisca told TMCnet. "Customers that were using multiple carriers will now have the ability to use Alcazar Networks for not only their US48 termination but also for their Canadian termination needs. Keeping quality in the foreground, we are still able to offer our customers termination at a savings!"
Carrie Schmelkin is a Web Editor for TMCnet. Previously, she worked as Assistant Editor at the New Canaan Advertiser, a 102-year-old weekly newspaper, covering news and enhancing the publication's social media initiatives. Carrie holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and a bachelor's degree in English from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
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As discussed in Part 1 and 2 of this white paper, choosing a DID origination provider can be an overwhelming task in today�s thriving VoIP market.
Wholesale Telecom Prices as Volatile as Gas - VoIP Innovations President Podcast
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- Wholesale VoIP Termination
- Wholesale VoIP Tool-Free
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What would-be entrepreneurs and first-time business owners need to know to make smart, sound, insurance decisions.
AUDIO: NAIC President and Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica J. Lindeen discusses small business insurance issues.
5 Tough Questions to Ask
Starting a Business
Take Action Now! 10 Insurance-Smart
Things to Consider Before
Starting a Business
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Home-Based Business
Insurance Information
for the Sharing Economy
The Affordable Care Act
and Small Business
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