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let!, the compiler translates that to a
Bind member that you've defined on the monad builder.
Now I see there are Query monads (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh225374%28v=vs.110%29.aspx), where you can say:
query {
for student in db.Student do
select student
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select and
count, for example, will be translated to the
Linq.QueryBuilder.Select and
Linq.QueryBuilder.Count members (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh323943%28v=vs.110%29.aspx).
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FooMonadBuilder() {
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After I got to Pie, I endulged just a bit, one slice of Dutch YUMMY, 2 PB cookies, 1 monster drink. Not feeling like climbing any more, I opted to the quickest route to Henshaw via 79 to 76 with Mark. The others climbed the backside of Mesa Grande and met us at Henshaw where I endulged in more suger, ICE CREAM with 20 miles to go LOL. Few minutes after I digested that, we were off, pace line with me pulling James, Dan and Mark at whatever pace I can handle. Pulled through most of the DH, about 5 minutes or so and moved to the back to restup for the two climbs coming up. The paceline dropped me which was fine, I was used to riding alone and my own pace. Coming up to the first climb, they waited for me and we dropped in line to start the climb. For once on the entire ride, my breathing fell into rythem and I was feeling good + still on my suger high from all the snacks. Took off at my pace where Dan caught me 3-4 miles later near the fork. I let them go ahead on the 6 mile DH down to the taco shop since I can't pedal more then 25mph. Once the grade pitched down I was tucking at 40+ hitting the hairpins to the long straight near the bottom where I made up time. They were about 100yrds ahead of me by the time I got to the taco shop.


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i went to the bike store yesterday for some small stuff to buy and thought i would also take my bike along with me so the dude there can just check if everything is okay. so he is checking it out and then he says something like my bike is being used for rougher riding than it is made for and it is showing on the bike. now i could not ask him to elaborate because they speak in thai and i can barely understand it, but that much that he said has been bugging me.
i really dont do much rough riding, i mean i dont do downhills or anything. i just ride this trail nearby, which i guess is rougher than a normal cross country trail? who knows, i am just assuming that because of what he said? i have never even seen a 'proper' biking trail, i wouldnt even assume things like that exist except from what a lot of western bikers say in their posts? i just needed a dirt path to ride my bike, i found this really short but one that challenges me near my house and i dig it and ride it because of all the mud and erosion and steep but short up and down hills and rocks and roots and what not. i also am not able to do a few sections yet, especially one uphill one, and this one downhill one is steep and takes a sharp turn and scares me but i am getting better. i hope. but until yesterday i thought that was a normal cross country trail. in fact i was thinking i need to get my ass out there and find a more technical trail to learn on, or atleast see what people out there are riding, though i have no idea where to find a place like that.
so having to hear what the fellow said yesterday really threw me off. i dont get it. i have a trek 6500. what the heck kind of riding is that bike supposed to be for? i mean i just bought the bike. i ride it everyday and sure i like to do some stuff around the house too like try jump up on a 6-8" curb or sometimes i place a stack of stones/bricks and try jump over them, just some ****ty normal stuff that i am thinking people on this site would probably not consider rough at all.
i dont get it man. i mean i want to ride my bike the way i want to ride it. does anybody know the trek 6500? what kind of riding is it meant for? i spent a lot of money on this bike. they had one better bike than this, the giant xt or something like that series and it was about a hundred us dollars more than this one but i picked this even though i knew that giant was probably a better one because i could not afford anything more than 600 dollars (we dont get specialised or anything here). do you think i should go and return this bike (they will cut some money before exchanging of course) and exchange it with the giant? is that more suitable for what i am doing? is it a stronger frame? i dont get it. i dont want to spend more money. i would rather save up and change my fork and hubs and get disc brakes.
what should i do? i mean if the bike is showing signs of fatigue already then does that mean this bike is no good? i dont even know what he means by fatigue anyway. he just said that "oh you like to do rough riding eh? the bike is showing signs of it. wear and tear." or something to that effect. damn. i thought the 6500 was a decent bike. they have a few nice forks, a rock shock u turn and a rock shock SID and i want to save up for one of those by this december hopefully and buy that with some disc brakes. but if this bike/frame that i have itself is not so strong then i dont want to add more money into it. i want a good bike that can stand stuff man. something that is not going to make me have to spend on another bike in atleast another 4-5 years. or unless i have a major crash and the frame bends bad. when i asked the fellow though that hey, is the frame good/strong? he said yes. but when i asked him then what do you mean it is showing signs of rough use and wear and tear, i could not understand what he said to that. something like the bike is not made for the kind of stuff you are probably going on and well, i cannot help thinking "then what the hell is this bike made for".
anyway so i thought maybe you guys would know. we dont get too much of a variety out here where i am. i think i have a good bike, except for that fellow saying that to me. and i am not so worried about components, though it would be nice to have good stuff on the bike, but i am just worried about the frame. and anyway, i have already bought the bike. it is mine and i like it and dont want to exchange it, especially for something mariginally better. yknow? i mean i like this bike dammit. it is mine and we go out riding often, the bike and i. i like it. but if it is not so strong or some dumbass **** like that then... zzz i dont know. maybe i am just being paranoid and overreacting. i hope so.


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Their final album, [LOST SKY], will bring an end to 8 years of activity. Remixes will be contributed by labelmates Noir du'Soleil and Spectrum-X, as well as by bands from Japan and overseas that have worked with BLOOD, including sawDUST in me, marlee, Shiv-r, echostream, Tragic Black, and Uninvited Guest. Will also include a remix by Mizuh, the winner of the remix contest that drew more than 200 submissions. A tour in the US spanning January and February has been confirmed in commemoration of the release. Purchases made via the online shop will include a special postcard set and a rare CD from BLOOD's 1st period.
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Music plays an important part in the worship of All Saints with the whole congregation participating fully. All Saints uses the distinctive liturgy of the English Gradual.
The Propers are sung by the cantor and congregation, to the plainchant settings, and the Ordinary of the Mass is sung to a blend of Missa de Angelis and Merbecke.
On a number of occasions during the year, we invite one of the numerous chamber choirs based within the city to join us and a fully choral High Mass is celebrated. Recent settings have included the Missa Brevis by Palestrina, Byrd's Four Part, and the Little Organ Mass by Haydn.
During 2006/7, we are pleased to be able to continue and develop our links with various Chamber Ensembles particularly the Ebor Singers directed by Paul Gameson who will be providing fully choral settings of the Mass on the feasts of; Michaelmass-September 29th; All
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After winning four awards Sunday at the 56th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Seattle rapper Ben Haggerty — who goes by the handle Macklemore — posted an "apology" to fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar on the photo-sharing site Instagram. He wrote, "You got robbed. I wanted you to win. You should have."
Macklemore was referring to his award for best rap album, for "The Heist," a win that came as a shock to rap insiders, since the competition included favorite Lamar and Kanye West, one of the most famous and accomplished rappers alive.
One might say the apology was even more surprising than the win, especially given the (continuing) firestorm it ignited on social media.
But for those who follow American popular music, it was more like déjà vu. Sixty years ago, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck apologized to Duke Ellington for getting on the cover of Time magazine before Ellington.
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"I was so hoping that they would do Duke first, because I idolized him," Brubeck told a reporter. "He was so much more important than I was."
In Brubeck's case, the embarrassment came in part from his admiration for an elder. But the subtext, as with Macklemore, was also race. Brubeck, like Macklemore, was white; Ellington, like Lamar, black.
Thanks to slavery, racism and segregation, America has an ugly cultural history that has resulted in a succession of travesties. The first jazz record, for example, was made by a white group (Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 1917).
White musicians historically have earned 10-fold to a 100-fold what black musicians do, playing the same music — "Stan Getz the money," black tenor saxophonist Lester Young once quipped about his successful white stylistic heir. And Elvis Presley, not to mention the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, made millions playing music "borrowed" from black culture.
Even in our more enlightened, post-Motown era, when black musicians from Smokey Robinson to West also can and do make millions, the paradigm persists. Black innovation; white imitation; white wealth; black anger; white guilt.
In his brilliant analysis of minstrelsy, social historian Eric Lott has dubbed this paradigm "Love and Theft," which unpacks the curious fascination — and envy — white people have had from the start with black culture.
Macklemore was operating squarely in this paradigm, one that should be familiar and comprehensible to all Americans, even if they haven't thought about it.
What they likely haven't thought about is who and how and why people vote in the Grammys, which are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).
To be a voting member, you must have participated — as an artist, engineer, producer, writer of liner notes, etc. — in making a recording. The folks who vote in the Grammys are part of a trade organization meant to honor not only artistic excellence, but also craftsmanship — and, yes, success.
That's why, every year, millions of fans shake their heads, wondering, "Why didn't my favorite cool, new band win a Grammy? They're so much better!"
And the reason for that — other than in the "best new artist" category, which Macklemore handily won — is that the Grammys are not about your favorite cool, new band no one has ever heard of. They are about excellence, craft and success.
That said, Grammy voters also tend to behave like investors — they flock to a perceived winner. Which probably explains Macklemore's wins in three rap categories — best song and best performance (for "Thrift Shop") and best album.
Does he owe anyone an apology? Maybe. Maybe not.
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This is the third installment from the Industrial Decay Network. IDN03 features 30 photographers from countries all over the world including Belgium, Germany, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and various other locations. 145 photographs documenting abandoned industrial facilities from around the globe.
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Joel always said to be careful when using 3rd party libraries. From my initial impressions, JQuery is great. What should I beware of when using it? What are it's limitations? What headaches will I run into later on as I use it more?
I've used it extensively and I have to admit, I'm yet to run into any serious brick walls! I have come up against a couple of bugs which I had to find a quick fix for myself, and then do extra testing with the next jQuery release to ensure that the bug had been dealt with properly, but that's something which applies to any 3rd party library rather than just jQuery.
@ mjc
And/or define a variable, for which to use the jQuery functions on:
One thing I've run into with jQuery is that you end up chaining a lot of items together, and it tends to quickly get unreadable if you are not careful.
an example I can think of that illustrates this is on John David Anderson's blog:
jQuery is great - it can do whatever javascript can do, but quicker, and in less code. Its only limitations are the ones inherent in javascript as a client-side scripting language. Like any tool, it's possible to missuse, but unless your scripting needs are profoundly basic there's almost no reason NOT to use it.
I came across the following in my blog reading. It's not really limitations in jQuery but common mistakes made when using ASP.NET developers using jQuery:
@ BrilliantWinter
jQuery is not at all bloated. It's one of the smallest libraries out there.
All it's functions are extends of the jQuery object, which means you can detach whatever functionality you don't use, and make the footprint of the library even smaller than it's default size (15kb, Minified and Gzipped).
jQuery - and every other library for that matter - provides an API which is the same across all A-grade browsers. This abstraction leaves your code cleaner and less error-prone.
Finally, jQuery is used by major "players". Companies like Google, Dell, Digg and NBC use the library. This is not only a big seal-of-approval, but also an assurance that the developers of jQuery are very careful when revising the library, making sure nothing breaks and no bugs are introduced.
@BrilliantWater - Most people don't use jQuery to "learn", they use it because it's quicker and easier to use and causes less headaches than creating all the methods yourself. And the whole "bloated" argument is totally moot; jQuery is one of the smallest libraries out there and with more and more people getting broadband it's becoming less and less of an issue.
Plus, since jQuery is hosted by GoogleCode it's likely that it'll already be in the users cache since so many websites use it!
jQuery is awesome! I keep saying to myself that I need to learn another library but I really don't. jQuery has everything I need. I know it's not suited to all projects but it certainly has a place in most!
jQuery is tons of fun to code with, and experiment with. It has a fantastic developer community that fields questions very quickly. Just be careful not to get too carried away! :)
You can always consider different frameworks if jQuery doesn't suit. Here's an example of mootools.
I'm a big fan of jQuery (as evidenced by my having written both a plug-in and a Dashboard widget for it).
One thing to be aware of is which browsers jQuery supports. The docs site appears to be having issues at the moment. That's another thing to be aware of... ;-)
I've been using it for about 6 months now and except for some of the slower developers on my team not embracing it (probably because of the intimidating appearance of some of the longer chains) I haven't run into a single problem.
The only downside to jQuery is its too simple and easy to use. You get a very low bar of newbies using it and doing some very strange and close to retarded things. Other than that, jQuery is beautiful and well crafted by a genius and his minions of smart programmers ensuring cross browser quality that reduces tons of work for the developer. Can't go wrong. If you don't like jQuery, you are a little bit off and probably don't bathe often enough.


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Hair, Beard and Body Electric Trimmer Wet/Dry ER224S
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- Trim cleanly with high-performance stainless steel blades
- 5 precision settings for perfect hair length
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Shapes your beard beautifully whether you prefer it short, medium-length, or long.
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- Power Source AC 120V
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- Trims per Charge Approx. 10 trims (5 min./ 1 trim)
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Rated 4 out of 5 by retiredDIYguy Excellent Trimmer The only thing that could use improvement is the charging process. There is no automatic shut off when the unit is fully charged. I ruined the battery of my last unit by overcharging it. Other than that it is a fine product. March 3, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Mr. Wong Panasonic ER224S Excellent hand held shaver trimmer product. I use it to shave my head. Quick adjustable length guide. Cordless is a plus. Comes with charger base. Highly recommend. January 1, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Old Badger 31 Had to replace an obsolete beard trimmer I had no luck finding a replacement cutting head for my older Panasonic (two AA batteries) trimmer, so investigated replacing it. Got great value in modern rechargeable one which is quieter, has a larger cutting head and works like a charm. Bought on sale for a good price, but would have paid full list happily for it. December 25, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Verified Reviewer I think it is in good quality with low price. However the disadvantage is that if the amount of hair cut off more hair accumulate in protective cases, it can not work unless you remove hair in the protective cover frequently. December 14, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Albee44 Best beard trimmer I've ever had. I've worn a beard for over 40 years, and have used many assorted implements to keep it trimmed. I bought the ER224 several years ago, have been using it on a regular basis ever since, and plan to keep using it until one of us dies. My only complaint would be that the comb attachment recently broke, and I am told that it is not possible to obtain a replacement. I was able to effect a repair of sorts, but would have been happier to have been able to replace the part. December 11, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by jwea1 panasonic trimmer Best trimmer I have ever used. It is easy to use and adjust. December 11, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by GMan Useful beard trimmer with one drawback The ER224S trimmer works well for keeping my beard in good shape. Battery life is ok, not stellar. Charges reasonably quickly. I had to order a replacement comb after about 6 months of use - the comb needs to be removed and snapped on for cleaning. It developed a crack from this action which affects the comb's safe seating. Instead of just snapping it on and pulling it off somewhat forcefully there should be a release. November 21, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by Hammerston Just what I wanted The great thing about this product is that the guard is adjustable. My home hair cut kit has to be kept in an old cigar box and getting it out is a chore. This trimmer sits right on the charging base. I've found that I can keep the oil and cleaning brush tucked between the trimmer and the outlet. Everything is off the counter and out of the way. The secondary detailing trimmer extends nicely from the body of the trimmer. I enjoy using this product and even more that it can be put away just by simply placing it back on the charging base. It is all very compact. November 18, 2015
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The Merrell Women's Proterra Gore-Tex Hiking Shoe is a low-profile hiker that will keep you skipping down the trail feeling connected to every bump, but will keep you dry as can be should you step into some mud or puddles. Gore-Tex ConnectFit delivers an incredibly glove-like fit, exceptional breathability, and waterproof performance. The sturdy leather upper features that Stratafuse technology that injects the supportive foot cage directly into the upper to shave weight, enhance durability, and offer a glove-like fit. The bellows tongue seals out dirt and debris, while the breathable mesh lining wicks moisture. Merrell treated the Proterra with M-Select Fresh to keep odors to a minimum, always appreciated by your adventure partners at the end of the day. Underfoot, the molded EVA footbed offers comfortable support, and can be removed if you have a custom, orthotic insert you prefer to use.
The platform for the Proterra gives you excellent ground contact and stability, without totally sacrificing cushioning or comfort. The PU midsole features a 4mm drop for a close-to-the-ground feel and is enhanced with a molded TPU arch shank for extra support and stability. The M-Select Grip outsole features moderate 2.5mm lugs that grip when you need them to but aren't overly aggressive.
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beautiful, but no flex in shoe!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
This is a beautiful shoe...love the colors and that it is waterproof. However, is totally uncomfortable and feels like you're walking in cement shoes. There is no give or flex with your foot when you take a step.
okay shoe
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
These shoes have been very comfortable. I love a big toe box and these are great. I have hiked in the Utah snow and in Death Valley and no blisters or sore feet. However, they are not very durable. After 2 months, there is a hole in the top of one shoe. I am not hard on my shoes, so I expect them to last better than that. Until the hole, my feet stayed nice and dry, now I get a wet spot by my big toe every time it rains or if I'm in the snow. It's really annoying because although I do hike, I bought these shoes to keep my feet comfy AND dry while walking around a college campus all winter. Because of the durability issue, they are overpriced. I would not buy them again.
Would these be warm enough for winter...
Would these be warm enough for winter walking?
Warm enough? No. Dry enough? Maybe. Growing up in Michigan, and now living in Utah when I think Winter Walking I think of trudging through deep snow in very low temps. I don't even like walking on sidewalks in the without a pair of thermal boots of some kind. These shoes are really more for hikes with wet plant life where you might only be stepping in shallow puddles (due to the low cuff). Now if you live in Texas or Southern California then yeah, these will do fine for winter walking, but if you live somewhere with heavy snowfall and very cold temperatures then I wouldn't consider these shoes.
Having recently been on the PCT, and concomitantly having had to hike through torrential downpour / snowy conditions, I would not recommend getting GTX-lined shoes at all. Instead, I would look into Brooks Cascadia 7/8s or their Adrenaline ASR 9s; they are trail runners, but both styles are more breathable mesh, and will therefore allow your feet, should they get wet, to attempt to simultaneously warm up water that may seep over the top cuff into the shoe, drain water that may get in there, and prevent the "walking in bathtubs" phenomenon that happens when you have shoes that won't expel moisture/sweat/water. Believe me when I say that getting your feet wet is bearable, but only if have footwear that will dry relatively rapidly and will vent as much as possible should a mishap occur that dumps mucho agua into your shoe. GTX-lined shoes, in my opinion, spell disaster for feet if you plan on being out in these for days at a time.
depends on where you live. For Utah, they were fine.


text: #577: Problem with step function in signal.scipy.ltisys.py -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: clovisgo | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: needs_review Priority: normal | Milestone: 0.8.0 Component: scipy.signal | Version: Keywords: step function problem | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Comment(by warren.weckesser): r6366 and r6367 are related to this ticket. In r6366, a change was made that is similar to the patch suggested here, so a system for which the smallest magnitude of an eigenvalue is zero will not cause an error when it computes the default time values for a step response. The problem with using step(), however, is that it uses lsim() to compute the solution, and lsim() uses an analytical solution that is only valid if the system matrix is nonsingular and not defective. In r6367, I added step2(), which uses lsim2(), and lsim2() uses odeint to compute the solution. So, until someone implements a more robust version of step(), a work- around for its problems is to use the function step2(). (That's scipy.signal.step2; I didn't add a corresponding method to the lti object.) Example: {{{ In [1]: from scipy.signal import lti, step2 In [2]: s = lti([1.], [1., 0.]) In [3]: t, y = step2(s, atol=1e-8, rtol=1e-6) In [4]: t[:5], y[:5] Out[4]: (array([ 0. , 0.07070707, 0.14141414, 0.21212121, 0.28282828]), array([ 0. , 0.07070707, 0.14141414, 0.21212121, 0.28282828])) In [5]: t[-5:], y[-5:] Out[5]: (array([ 6.71717172, 6.78787879, 6.85858586, 6.92929293, 7. ]), array([ 6.71717172, 6.78787879, 6.85858586, 6.92929293, 7. ])) }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/577#comment:6> SciPy <http://www.scipy.org> SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.


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The San Francisco Entertainment Commission celebrated its 9th birthday at Qi Lounge.
The Commission is integral to the City's thriving nightlife. Established in 2003, it has the powers to accept, review, gather information regarding and conduct hearings for entertainment-related permit applications. It also coordinates City services for major events for which there is no formal organizer, promoter, or sponsor.
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Traffic is a you-know-what; if anyone's happy to be in it, they're off their meds. Rush hour now seems to be any hour, and, particularly during holiday weekends, the sight of bumpers too close to other bumpers can set any traveler on edge.
Driver's aren't helped by the confusing signage some cities seem to take devilish pleasure in providing, as we'll see.
With those cheery thoughts in mind, we present the top 10 most traffic-congested cities in the United States, according to the 12-month rolling Traffic Scorecard kept by traffic data provider Inrix.
Tenth-most on Inrix's current list is our nation's capital. Washington, D.C.'s infamous Beltway keeps cars not moving during rush hour.
Boston? The ninth-most trafficky city? Get outta heah! Traversing Beantown by car can be wicked confusing, as anyone who encountered this helpful sign could attest. It's almost as if Boston transportation insiders enjoy seeing people get lost.
Seattle traffic will slow the most eager of automotive souls. And watch out for slippery bricks or ... wavy bricks?
San Jose, Calif. clocks in on the traffic speedometer at number 7 on the list. Do you know the way there?
In Connecticut, you might guess Hartford would be the traffic nightmare, but according to the Inrix list, you'd be wrong. It turns out Bridgeport tops the insurance haven. Here, a moment of relative vehicular calm has descended on a road into the city.
Signage overload is a constant sight in Times Square, in the heart of the number 5 worst traffic city, New York.
Does it seem sometimes like everyone is moving to Austin? Population growth in the city has helped it scale to number 4 in traffic congestion. Here, a sign in the music-friendly city lays down the loading law. However, musicians being a notoriously anti-authoritarian lot, it might be unwise to try to load or unload them.
Cars sit in traffic in the city by the bay. San Francisco takes the bronze medal in the driver headaches competition.
Los Angeles is forever at or near the top of any list of vehicle tie-up terrors. To make matters worse, its signage can be no less puzzling than the decision to make certain of Hollywood's movies.
Topping the list of worst traffic metropolises is a city in a state many people like to think of as paradise. Honolulu may indeed be an island paradise, but it might not look that way from the inside of a car during rush hour.


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Auds harboring fantasies of driving naked -- alone -- in a Porsche will coddle to "A Friend of Mine," another German film juxtaposing an introverted young man with a brash rule-breaker.
Auds harboring fantasies of driving naked — alone — in a Porsche will coddle to "A Friend of Mine," another German film juxtaposing an introverted young man with a brash rule-breaker. Coolly helmed by Tom Tykwer protege Sebastian Schipper (whose debut "Absolute Giganten" also dealt with male friendship), the pic has the usual X Filme slickness but the few scenes with any meaning feel barely connected to their surroundings. Notwithstanding a publicity stunt that got the two stars in the Guinness Book of Records, B.O. receipts after autumn opening only achieved moderate returns.Solitary, unhappy Karl (Daniel Bruehl) is on the fast track to corporate success, but boss Fernandez (Peter Kurth) assigns him a menial undercover job shifting rental cars, ostensibly to analyze the industry but really to see if he'll react to the provocation. At the garage, Karl is befriended by Hans (Juergen Vogel), a motor-mouthed prankster who loosens Karl up and introduces him to g.f. Stelle (Sabine Timoteo, Vogel's co-star in "The Free Will"). Despite a beautifully played, sensitive scene between Bruehl and Timoteo, the otherwise mundane script fails to make any genuinely insightful inroads into character. Soundtrack is aces.
A Friend of Mine
An X Verleih presentation of an X Filme Creative Pool production, in association with Film 1, Telepool. Produced by Maria Koepf, Tom Tykwer. Executive producer, Sebastian Zuehr. Directed, written by Sebastian Schipper.
Camera (color, widescreen), Oliver Bokelberg; editor, Jeffrey Marc Harkavy; music, Gravenhurst; production designer, Thorsten Sabel; costume designers, Anette Guther, Charlotte Sawatzki. Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (German Cinema), February 10, 2007. Original title: Ein Freund von mir. German, Spanish dialogue. Running time: 83 MIN.
Daniel Bruehl, Juergen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, Peter Kurth, Michael Wittenborn, Oktay Inanc Ozdemir, Steffen Groth, Jan Ole Gerster, Jens Muenchow, Alexander Speck, Alessandro De Tullio.


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What if your hotel bill was like a hospital bill?
February 16, 2012 in Hospital Bills, Medical Care, Medical Debt
Patients and their caregivers are uniquely positioned to recognize inefficiency in the healthcare system but are seldom empowered with information they need to reduce harmful spending.
For doctors, "do no harm" is one of the first principles of patient care and as a result, most clinicians are taught a basic framework to consider patient safety. Unfortunately, in an era when many patients are saddled with increasingly expensive medical bills and insurance premiums, no similar framework exists when it comes to considering issues of cost and value.
Funded with a grant from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, Costs of Care has partnered with medical educators at Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago to start addressing this problem. We are developing a series of web-based medical education videos that use clinical vignettes to illustrate core principles of cost-consideration, including how to communicate with patients about avoiding unnecessary care and reducing overused or misused tests and procedures.
As part of the project launch, we released a new teaser video today called "What if Your Hotel Bill Was Like a Hospital Bill?". The video is a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the challenges patients face in deciphering medical expenses, and their additional confusion when they learn doctors are not trained to consider costs.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia is revamping its Alzheimer's initiative website to provide more information to patients, physicians and caregivers.
The retooled website will be launched this summer. The News & Advance (http://bit.ly/1vnnFZV) reports that the website will include an Alzheimer's database with information on everything from care giving to cognitive impairment.
The website also will give primary-care physicians access to lists of Alzheimer's specialists and clinics that can do memory assessments.
Dementia Services coordinator Charlotte Arbogast says Virginia hasn't had a comprehensive Alzheimer's database until now.
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That got me thinking. Where will you go with your folder when you retire?
I've made up my mind south of France (Cannes) and north of Italy (Portofino and Santa Margherita di Ligure and Cinque Terre) - that's where me and my folder will feel at home.
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For all the Goslings and Grays and Gatsbys on the Croisette, for some, the biggest news at Cannes this year is the return of Alejandro Jodorowsky. The French/Chilean filmmaker, the man behind cult hits "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain," hasn't made a film for 23 years, since 1990's "The Rainbow Thief," is now all over Cannes; a documentary about his ill-fated attempt to film "Dune" is premiering, and his return to directing with "The Dance Of Reality" just screened this morning.
An adaptation of his own memoir that's drawing comparisons to Fellini, we haven't yet caught the film, but the word is pretty good (read Indiewire's take here). To tide us, and yourselves over, a new trailer for the film has arrived from French distributors Pathe, and it looks very, very promising indeed, not least for Jodorowsky fans. Take a look below.


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MELBOURNE, Australia, December 3. ELLEN Gandy, who represented Great Britain while training in Australia for the past five years, is officially working to become an Aussie for sports citizenship purposes.
Nicole Jeffery of the Australian reported today that Gandy and coach Rohan Taylor had been in discussions to make the switch since the Olympics, where Gandy failed to advance to the semifinals in the butterfly events. Gandy had been viewed as a strong medal contender at her home Olympics, but was one of many British swimmers to perform below expectations.
Gandy moved with her family to Australia from Beckenham in the United Kingdom when her father became deputy chief executive at the Melbourne Airport. Since then, she has been training in Melbourne with Taylor while representing Great Britain internationally. Gandy tells Jeffery that the thought of representing Australia had crossed her mind briefly, but was never a serious option in the years leading up to the London Olympics. Being only 21 years old, Gandy wasn't fully ready to end her career, and thought representing Australia was a logical choice.
"The last five years (living in Australia but competing for Britain) have been really, really difficult, especially the travelling," Gandy said. "A lot of the time I felt like I was in limbo because I didn't feel Australian but I didn't really feel British either because I wasn't there all the time."
Unfortunately, Gandy won't be able to swim for Australia at next summer's world championships and swim for a chance to defend her silver medal in the 200 fly. When athletes make sport citizenship changes, they must prove they have lived in their new country for at least a year, and take a year to transition to their new sports citizenship, according to FINA rules:
GR 2.6 Any competitor or competition official changing his affiliation from one national governing body to another must have resided in the territory of and been under the jurisdiction of the latter for at least twelve months prior to his first representation for the country.
Obviously, Gandy has the residency part handled, but the issue lies with the timeframe between representing countries. Gandy last swam for Great Britain on July 31 at the Olympics, where she finished 17th in the 200 fly despite being ranked in the top five globally before the meet. Next summer's world championships starts July 28. The article in the Australian indicates that Gandy's first major international meet could be the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland in 2014.
Gandy could make an immediate impact in the butterfly events for Australia when she dons the green and gold. With Jessicah Schipper stating that London was her final Olympic Games, Australia will look to Gandy to fill the gap in the 200 distance. Samantha Hamill, who swam in the 200 fly at the Olympics, is likely to be Australia's top swimmer in the event during Gandy's transition period, with times among domestic rivals falling off considerably behind her. As for the 100 fly, Gandy will battle Olympic bronze medalist Alicia Coutts for local supremacy in that event.


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Prof. Arnold studies the theory of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions at extremely high, relativistic temperatures, such as in the very early Universe (less than a millionth of a second after the Big Bang) or in relativistic collisions in heavy ion accelerators. Topics he has studied include investigating why there is significantly more matter than anti-matter in the Universe and understanding the properties of quark-gluon plasmas. The theoretical methods used for these very high energy problems (as much as a quadrillion degrees Kelvin) can also be applied to certain problems at very low temperatures (less than a millionth of a degree above absolute zero). In this vein, Prof. Arnold has also made some detours from his usual work on particle theory to study the transition temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases of extremely cold atoms.
For lay descriptions of some of Prof. Arnold's research, click here (quark-gluon plasmas) and here (older work on the problem of matter/anti-matter asymmetry). For Prof. Arnold's HEP-related publications, click here.
P. Arnold, P. Szepietwoski, and D. Vaman, "Coupling dependence of jet quenching in hot strongly-coupled gauge theories," JHEP 07 (2012) 024 [arXiv.org: 1203.6658]
P. Arnold and D. Vaman, "Jet quenching in hot strongly coupled gauge theories simplified", JHEP 04 (2011) 027 [arXiv.org: 1101.2689]
P. Arnold and W. Xiao, "High energy jet quenching in weakly-coupled plasmas," Phys. Rev. D78 (2008) 125008 [arXiv.org: 0810.1026]
P. Arnold, C. Dogan, and G. Moore, "The bulk viscosity of high-temperature QCD", Phys. Rev. D74 (2006) 085021 [arXiv.org: hep-ph/0608012]
For accomplishments in developing gauge theories at high temperature.


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text: On January 15 at Bonhams' "Gentlemen's Library Sale," portrait paintings of pigeons go on the block. The winsome paintings, by French painter J Baldaus and British artist Edward Henry Windred, depict champion homing pigeons from World War II. In The Guardian, Mark Brown reports that a spokeswoman for Bonhams said the paintings were part of a number of lots which paid homage to the animal heroes of the second world war. According to Brown, "the birds were indeed elite; they were trained at a secret location in Kent, and dropped behind enemy lines during the second world war, facing the very real threat of being shot indiscriminately. Some posed as German operatives. The auction lots are oil paintings belonging to the man who put together the crack squad of birds, which were based at four secret lofts known as the XX lofts. Jack Lovell's series of paintings of champion pigeons recall the role pigeons played during the war." Check out handsome Lot 813. In 1890, this pigeon won first place in a race at Bordeaux and came 29th in a race at Dax. Then, in 1891 the bird came 4th in a race at Tours and 40th in a race at Bordeaux. He/she also won the Prix d'Excellence a l'exposition internationale de Mons et a l'exposition du National Flying Club.


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July 1, 2013
Volume 77, Number 7
Administrative Update: Quality, Value and ASA
Norman A. Cohen, M.D. ASA Vice President for Professional Affairs
Memorials and Monuments
As I began writing this column, my wife and I were in our
nation's capital. Taking advantage of a beautiful spring Saturday, we walked past the White House and among the memorials and monuments on the Mall and nearby. We saw the memorials to those who fought and died in the wars of the 20th century, to our presidents who led us through major turning points in our nation's history, and to Martin Luther King, who helped our country right the wrongs of racial segregation.
Our greatest leaders not only had deep understanding of the world in which they lived, they also had a clear vision of the world as they wished it to be – a new country free to create its own destiny, a union united in which all men who were created equal could live as equals, and a country safe from the threats of murderous dictators.
Patients and Perceptions
So what does a patriotic stroll in the District have to do with anesthesiology and ASA? Our ASA presidents and other elected officers similarly strive to address the challenges of the now while navigating toward a desired future for our members and our patients. Former ASA President Roger Litwiller, M.D.
(2004) spoke eloquently about the principle guiding him in these efforts as he led the Society:
"It's all about the patient because we have no other reason to exist." I have no doubt that this beacon still guides your current officers, Board and House.
Our tendency to describe what we do as "putting the patient to sleep" understates the risks and misrepresents our job. I have heard more than a few ASA leaders describe what we do as creating an artificial coma, allowing our surgical colleagues to assault our patients with knives, hammers and other tools, and then bringing our patients back to consciousness with minimal damage done to their long-term health. That's a far cry from "going to sleep" and better describes the active and essential role we play in patient care. What we do is neither simple nor as safe as we often encourage the public to believe.
As physicians, we use our medical knowledge, experience, technical skills and understanding of the surgical requirements and needs of our patients to craft an anesthetic. We do this with careful attention to safety and an aspiration to achieve the highest quality. It is indeed all about the patient.
But how do we know if we have succeeded? Is it enough that the patient is alive when we stop the anesthesia clock? That they have no fewer teeth? That they have not suffered awareness or nausea? Or should we delve deeper and look for lung injury, immune modulation or cognitive dysfunction? When are these consequences our sole responsibility, a shared responsibility or the responsibility of others?
The pursuit of health care quality is a never-ending process of improving what we do to achieve the goal of returning the patient to the best possible state of health. To do this requires us to measure what we do, identify what works and what does not in achieving our goal, and to change what we can influence based both on these findings and the introduction of new knowledge. Wash ... rinse ... repeat ...
These steps are nothing new for anesthesiologists, but, like it or not, quality data is now being used for much more than altruistically improving care.
The Value Movement
The pay-for-value movement is driving reform in health system delivery. Insurers are increasingly paying us based on clinical and economic outcomes rather than on simply the volume of services we render. And they are doing this often using fairly crude performance measures, most of which look only at processes of care. These profound payment changes require each of us to take stock of where and how anesthesiologists can make a difference in value-driven health care. To succeed in such a system, we must have the ability to fairly, transparently, completely and accurately measure our performance across all domains.
Decisions we make in caring for our patients impact surgical outcomes. Glycemic management, fluid strategies, transfusion decisions, pain interventions, choice of anesthetic technique and preoperative optimizations are but a few of the factors that impact length of stay, surgical complications, and overall mortality and morbidity. Determining our contributions in these areas is more difficult than determining traditional measures of anesthesia mortality and morbidity, but such determination is essential, requiring nuanced perspectives on measurement and attribution.
Where We are in Value-based Payment
Publicly available measures of importance to anesthesiology typically evaluate how well we followed a protocol believed to be associated with improved patient outcomes. As some recent studies have shown, these processes may not always result in actual outcome improvement.1
The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a Medicare value-based payment approach designed to incentivize measurement and reporting of quality of care. The fairly small payments initially earned for successfully participating are becoming payment reductions for those physicians and others who do not engage. While there are currently more than 300 measures in the PQRS program, only a few are applicable to most anesthesiologists. The measure set focuses on screening and medical management for chronic diseases, high-cost and high-frequency infections, cancer detection and a number of surgical conditions. You can find out more information at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/PQRS/index.html.
Other programs that include clinical quality measures, such as the Electronic Health Record incentive program and the several Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiatives, essentially have no measures applicable to our specialty. Again, our contributions are given short shrift.
While the focus on reducing admissions and avoiding unnecessary procedures is a laudable goal, the failure to provide equal attention to quality improvement in the perioperative phase ignores the massive opportunity for driving value improvement in this high-cost, high-risk, high-opportunity care arena. Patients will continue to have heart surgery, joint replacements, cancer surgery and many other procedures, no matter how well an ACO manages and coordinates care.
We currently have few measures in part because the measure endorsement process is complex and bureaucratic and in part because we work in a team setting, making attribution at the individual level very difficult. Also, a relatively small specialty such as ours has great challenges successfully engaging when our focus (perioperative care) is orthogonal to the priority areas for the endorsing bodies.
Where We Need to Be
Quality and outcomes will increasingly drive payment. Current discussions in Congress about a permanent Sustainable Growth Rate fix make this exquisitely clear. The technical work we do in the procedural suite will remain a component, but "base + time + outcome" or some variant has already begun to replace our revered and time-tested Relative Value Guide™ payment formula. The greater the responsibility we assume for perioperative outcomes, the greater the opportunity for our specialty to survive and thrive in this new paradigm. Frankly, this is the driving force behind the ASA Perioperative Surgical Home model of care.
ASA has led the way for many years in helping our members improve quality through developing rigorous evidence-informed standards and guidelines, educational initiatives, producing quality monitoring tools, creating and funding the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) and its NACOR registry, and advocating on behalf of our patients and members with regulatory and legislative bodies. These efforts will continue, will accelerate and will be better integrated with our strategic goals.
Cause for Optimism
Recent events make me optimistic. We are in the early stages of developing new performance measures addressing team-based care with a key surgical stakeholder; furthermore, we are jointly evaluating expansion of our ASA Consultation Program with our surgical and perioperative nursing colleagues. Our Committee on Performance Outcomes and Measurement (CPOM) is creatively exploring better and more meaningful measures of anesthesia outcomes. We have a reorganized and much better-staffed regulatory and legislative advocacy group under our newly named Chief Advocacy Officer, Manuel Bonilla. Early indications are that new CMS registry requirements will offer greater flexibility for specialty-developed measures – making AQI even more relevant and CPOM's work timelier. We have a Health Policy Research operation plan in place, led by Tom Miller, Ph.D., M.B.A. We are rapidly refining the specifics of an anesthesiology-relevant alternative delivery and payment model, our ASA Perioperative Surgical Home model. Our physician experts and education staff will be introducing a new quality educational activity later this year. And we have an ASA staff working together better than ever under new CEO Paul Pomerantz.
The infrastructure is in place, our strategic plan is sound and we have the passion of our members. We can shape a better future for our specialty. We just need to remain committed to our principles and envision the future as we want it to be.
Norman A. Cohen, M.D. is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and
Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland.
1. Hawn MT. Timing of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis and the Risk of Surgical Site Infection. JAMA. Surg 2013; 1.
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During the past decade, a number of medical schools made remarkable changes in the design and conduct of their medical students' education programs. For example, many schools replaced the discipline-specific, departmentally controlled courses—that for decades dominated the first two years of the curriculum—with centrally governed courses that present material relevant to a specific topic by integrating content drawn from multiple disciplines. In addition, the lecture format that previously dominated the way faculty presented material to students has been replaced to a great extent by small-group, interactive sessions designed to promote active learning. And in almost all schools, first- and second-year students now gain direct insights into clinical medicine by spending half-day sessions in the offices of practicing physicians.
Once these changes were well established, schools turned their attention to the last two years of the curriculum. In doing so, some schools have made significant changes in the clinical education of their students. Recognizing the growing importance of a number of clinical disciplines, many schools have increased the number of clerkships that students are required to complete before graduation. Neurology, emergency medicine, and sub-internship experiences in medicine or surgery are now requirements in many schools. In addition to changes in the number and scope of required clerkships, a number of schools now allow, and in some cases require, increasing numbers of their students to fulfill their clerkship requirements at clinical sites—both ambulatory-care–based and institutionally based—well distant from the location of the medical school.
Perhaps most challenging, many schools are now making efforts to integrate into the clinical curriculum lecture-based sessions covering material relevant to certain contemporary issues in medicine, issues that are not specific to any of the clinical disciplines per se. Because of the nature of these contemporary issues (e.g., end-of-life care, cultural sensitivity, population health, etc), there is general agreement that they are best covered during the course of students' clinical education. Schools are using various strategies to accomplish this. Some present the material by scheduling several-day blocks between clerkships (inter-sessions), thus allowing students to participate in lecture sessions without having any clinical responsibilities. Others have set aside half-day or full-day periods during several or all clerkships for this purpose.
Not unexpectedly, medical school deans and faculties have faced a number of extraordinary challenges in attempting to implement these far-reaching changes. For example, how can faculty members who are teaching in small-group sessions conducted as part of a multidisciplinary, integrated course access for use in those sessions learning materials beyond the scope of their expertise? How do members of the faculty and the school's administration communicate with students, and distribute to them, course materials of various kinds, when they are dispersed across a large geographic area? How can faculty members conduct core lecture-based sessions for students who are located at different sites? How can the faculty be assured that students assigned to different clinical sites for required clerkships are being exposed to a common set of clinical conditions? Needless to say, these questions, and others, must be addressed satisfactorily if schools are to continue to offer high-quality, coherent educational experiences for their students.
This issue of the journal contains papers that describe a number of innovative information technology applications that have been developed to address these issues. Without the kinds of innovative uses of technology described in the papers, it is difficult to imagine how the far-reaching curriculum changes described above could be effected in ways that would provide effective educational experiences. These applications have been developed in only the past half-dozen years or so, which demonstrates the extraordinary commitment that members of the medical education community have for developing strategies for maintaining the quality of medical education, and their ability to do so.
Lee and her colleagues describe the Tufts Health Sciences Database, one of the earliest institutional efforts undertaken to use information technology applications to enhance the management and quality of education in the health sciences. The program has been highly successful, and it has served as a model for other institutions. Fleiszer and Posel describe the effort under way at McGill University to develop a similar resource. The McGill initiative has spurred the development of collaborative projects involving faculty from several Canadian schools and has led to the creation of a Canadian National Medical Digital Library, a resource that will serve students and faculty at all of the Canadian medical schools.
The experiences of Tufts, McGill, and other institutions have made it clear that substantial resources are required to develop the kinds of sophisticated information technology applications that schools need to maintain the quality of their educational programs. The resources required are beyond the means of many, if not most, schools. This explains to a great extent the rationale for the collaborative effort under way in Canada under the auspices of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, and similar efforts under way in the United States. Candler and his colleagues describe the development of the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), a resource that will make a full array of very sophisticated educational resources available to the faculties of all medical schools that choose to participate in the initiative. And Salas and his colleagues describe the development of the Curriculum Management and Information Tool (CurrMIT), a product developed by staff of the Association of American Medical Colleges. CurrMIT, a powerful tool for managing all aspects of a school's curriculum, is available to all medical schools in the United States, including schools of osteopathic medicine.
Several other papers in this issue provide important insights into how technologies can be used in the conduct of specific educational experiences. Ogrinc and his colleagues describe the lessons learned in using interactive video as the prime means for delivering lecture-based and interactive learning experiences to learners located at sites distant from the institution offering the curriculum. Their observations are noteworthy given the increasingly distributed nature of the educational experiences offered by medical schools. Uijtdehaage et al. identify the barriers that block the free exchange of educational multimedia and the incentives that could be created to overcome educators' concerns. Finally, Crowley and his colleagues, and Leong et al., describe how Web-based resources can enhance the education of learners rotating through individual clinical learning experiences.
Taken as a whole, these papers make it clear that those responsible for the design and conduct of medical education programs are no longer limited by the number and size of the classrooms available at a particular site, the location of faculty with expertise in a specific discipline, or the location of sites where students can gain valuable clinical experience. The challenge that deans and faculties face now, and will continue to face in the future, is how to use available technologies in ways that will truly enhance the quality of their educational programs. Because of the rapid evolution of information technologies and the ways they might be applied in educating students, the specific challenges they will face in the future will not be the same as the ones they are facing today. It is quite clear that all medical schools need to develop strategies for how they will address their current and future education technology needs. Clearly, a new age is dawning for the medical education community.
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