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Jay Alva's sneakers pounded the treadmill, set to the speed of a brisk walk. Sweat dripped off the 53-year-old as he hit a groove during a recent workout.
For almost two decades, the youth soccer and football coach from Eagan moved like a man who needed a walker. A degenerative hip condition prevented Alva from running with his players or even doing basic things like tying his shoes.
Brushing off a doctor's advice that he was "too young," Alva got artificial hips four years ago. Now pain-free, he moves with the energy of a man in his 30s, amused at the notion that he wasn't old enough for such treatment.
"I am living so much better now in my 50s than I did in my 40s," Alva said.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are receiving medical devices that were once considered nearly exclusive to the elderly. The shift is profoundly changing patient care and expanding the fortunes of the medical-technology industry while amplifying concerns over the safety and oversight of some products.
The movement is so dramatic that the futures of major medical device companies such as Medtronic, St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific — corporate giants in Minnesota — are increasingly tied to younger groups and the new markets they represent.
Middle-age Americans, in particular, are driving this trend as they seek ways to remain physically active. The number of patients ages 45 to 64 who had a hip replacement more than doubled from 2000 to 2010, according to a Star Tribune analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The increase was more pronounced for knee replacements, rising 213 percent.
"This is huge," said Dr. Robert Hauser, a cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute who has studied the safety and effectiveness of heart devices for years. "I think it's a tremendous step forward, but there are issues that need to be dealt with."
Though widely celebrated, some treatments have been shadowed by reports of devices or other medical products faltering — defective wires in defibrillators, failing artificial hips and leaky drug pumps, among them. Patients have suffered complications, severe pain and even death. Every year, 25 to 40 medical devices are recalled due to high risk — meaning a patient's life could be in jeopardy.
Device companies are facing thousands of patient lawsuits challenging the safety of some devices, and federal regulators are under greater pressure to intensify their oversight. At the same time, device makers are spending millions to promote their products to doctors and patients while simultaneously pushing to simplify governmental reviews to quicken their products' path to market.
Doctors and device makers are converting technology to regulate heart rhythms or treat diabetes into new tools for a wider range of ailments, including overactive bladders, anxiety and migraines. The result is a wider range of devices and other medical products being implanted or connected to more nonelderly patients.
But this growing use of medical hardware should be tempered by a call for safety, public disclosure and caution, consumer advocates say.
"We're not talking about computers or cars or toasters," said Lisa McGiffert, director of the Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project, a group that campaigns for better medical practices. "We're talking about things that go inside people's bodies."
Replacement parts — for the body
No area of medicine is seeing more younger patients turn to medical devices than orthopedics.
In 2000, one-third of the estimated 157,000 Americans who had hip or knee replacements were younger than 65. Ten years later, the number had nearly tripled to 430,000, meaning almost half of those procedures were performed on nonelderly patients.
Two contradicting forces are pushing patients toward artificial joints. The rising rate of obesity has led to more cases of deteriorating hips and knees from excess weight. And yet, more Americans are playing sports or exercising in their 30s, 40s and 50s, which puts more wear and tear on their joints.
To get active again — and quickly — patients are more willing to consider joint replacement at a younger age than they were a decade ago, said Dr. Daniel Berry, chairman of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
"We're seeing higher demand," Berry said of younger patients who want a new hip. "And they are going to use it a lot harder than somebody who is older."
Patients who get a device at a younger age usually must replace it more often. Each replacement means an expensive surgery, possible complications and significant rehabilitation.
"You have to find a happy medium," Berry said. "Think about it like the tires on your car. There's no point in getting new tires if you're not driving … but if you speed up, they wear out faster."
Medical device companies are working to create joints that are more durable and feel more like the original. Stryker, an international medical device company based in Michigan, had younger customers in mind when it developed hip and knee products that have more natural range in motion, said Joe Cooper, Stryker's director of global communications.
"Designing implants that return this active and high-demand patient population to their lifestyles and everyday activities is a priority," he said.
TGS Knee Innovations, a start-up device company in Plymouth, created a partial-knee replacement system that is designed to be a good option for younger patients facing a knee replacement, said Wesley Johnson, the company's co-founder.
TGS has a relatively "small footprint" in the orthopedic field, but Johnson sees a future filled with youthful patients who want new knees to do more than they did before.
"For orthopedics, that tidal wave is a broader patient population with higher expectations," he said.
They don't last forever
Most artificial hips have a life span of 15 to 20 years, depending on how much patients weigh and how hard they push their bodies. Some companies developed a hip that used all-metal components in the belief it would improve durability. It didn't necessarily turn out that way.
Many patients reported problems that have included loosening of the hip, dislocation and metal particles circulating in the bloodstream. They question whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which has oversight of medical devices, adequately scrutinized the devices before approval.
Terri Wagner-Morley of St. Paul had what is commonly referred to as a metal-on-metal hip — produced by DePuy Orthopedics Inc. — implanted in 2008. Within two years, the hip began "popping." Soon, the pop turned to pain.
Wagner-Morley had the hip removed, but infection prevented doctors from putting in a new one. Plastic "spacers" were implanted instead, and she was bedridden. Last summer, she had a metal and ceramic hip implanted, but a stress fracture during rehabilitation has left the 55-year-old woman limping and angry. She remains disabled and without a job.
"I have had four surgeries now," Wagner-Morley said. "As I get older, I'm probably going to be wheelchair bound. I might have a positive view, but really, I'm pissed off."
In 2010, DePuy recalled the hip that had been implanted in Wagner-Morley.
That same year, hospitals, patients and med-tech companies reported 230,000 adverse events involving medical devices. About 30,000 of those incidents resulted in hospitalization, according to an analysis by DeviceMatters, a company which interprets data on medical devices.
"You've got to get this right — or people are going to suffer," said Hauser, who discovered flaws in the wires of some defibrillators that led to a major recall.
Alva said he doesn't worry about complications or the durability of his new hips. Being able to pace the sideline of his son's games, ride a bike or refinish his floors overrides such concerns.
"When I need [new hips] again, I'm confident the technology will be better," Alva said. "How can it not be?"
Something old, something new
Minnesota's med-tech giants — Medtronic, St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific — have generated billions in sales over the past 15 years through the development of devices and technology designed to keep the heart beating in aging patients.
Now they are expanding those innovations to treat a variety of other ailments, many afflicting patients who haven't reached their golden years.
Brent Peterson, a former professional hockey player and coach who lives in Nashville, relies on a small, pacemaker-like gadget to calm his Parkinson's symptoms by sending a stream of electricity to a spot deep within his brain.
The 55-year-old is a special adviser to the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League. He learned that he had Parkinson's disease more than a decade ago. At one point, he was taking 25 pills a day.
When Peterson's device was implanted in 2011, his hands immediately relaxed, and his movements steadied. "The day they turned it on, I knew I didn't want to be without it ever again," he said.
Medical device makers didn't set out to adapt pacemakers to treat other parts of the body, but it made sense to expand the technology as doctors explored what else could be treated with an electrical pulse, said Martin Gerber, senior research and development director at Medtronic.
Peterson's device, a Medtronic Activa neurostimulator, can be programmed and adjusted to change as his symptoms evolve. More than 100,000 patients worldwide have received Medtronic's deep-brain stimulation therapy.
The treatment is part of what is called neuromodulation. Implanted devices are used to send medication or electrical pulses into the brain or to the spine to block pain, relax overactive bladders by targeting nerves near the tailbone or ease chronic migraines at the base of the skull. Researchers are exploring electrical stimulation to treat epilepsy, obsessive-compulsive disorder and severe depression for those who have not responded to medication.
The emerging innovations are expanding the products and profits for medical device makers.
At Fridley-based Medtronic, the world's largest medical-technology company, nearly half of its $16 billion in revenues last fiscal year came from treating something other than the heart, its core market. And at St. Jude Medical, based in Little Canada, officials expect sales from the company's nonheart rhythm products to surpass the heart rhythm business this year.
Med-tech executives say they are not specifically targeting young patients with these technologies. But they acknowledge these new treatments are attracting younger patients.
"It's a tremendous growth opportunity," St. Jude Medical Executive Vice President John Heinmiller said. "How can we innovate those technologies to attack these expensive epidemic diseases that are out there? We are looking at investments that treat a broad patient population."
Most patients — more than 14,000 estimated in 2010 — who turn to spinal, brain or other stimulation devices are well below retirement age. Of those patients who had a spinal cord stimulator implanted, an estimated 69 percent were younger than 64, with more than 21 percent between the ages of 18 and 44.
Dr. Mehul J. Desai, director of spine, pain medicine and research at Metro Orthopedics & Sports Therapy in Silver Spring, Md., believes the numbers will continue to climb.
"There has been a push by clinicians to think about these therapies earlier on," he said.
Marketing vs. patient demand
Medical device makers invest heavily to promote their devices to doctors, health organizations and patients.
The average marketing budget for companies of various sizes was $14.4 million in 2013, according to a survey of medical device executives by Medical Marketing & Media.
Most of those funds will not be spent on consumer education, according to the marketing survey. Instead, promotional budgets will focus on persuading health care professionals to use a particular brand of device on their patients.
Medtronic's advertising and promotional spending in 2012 exceeded $128 million, according to Carol Greenhut, president of Schonfeld & Associates, which produces reports on medical device marketing for clients. That same year, Greenhut said, St. Jude Medical spent nearly $45 million and Boston Scientific $20 million.
Medtronic and Boston Scientific declined to confirm those figures, offer their own or discuss their marketing strategies. A St. Jude spokeswoman said Schonfeld & Associates' figure "significantly overestimates our advertising and marketing expenses," but she declined to provide an alternative.
Advocates for more extensive testing say device makers' promotional emphasis remains on sales, not safety.
"One thing is obvious: They spend a lot more on advertising and lobbying than they spend on testing," said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families.
But it remains unclear whether corporate marketing is driving the expanded use of medical devices. Certainly, more doctors are willing to consider them before other options have been exhausted.
In many cases, doctors remain hesitant because they simply don't know how long a device will last and under what conditions, said Joseph Galatowitsch, president of Dymedex, a consulting firm that works with medical technology companies.
"The tension is that clinicians want to use these technologies in younger patients," Galatowitsch said. "But they feel frustrated because they feel forced into weighing the risk versus the benefit."
In the spine business, where many patients begin experiencing pain in their 40s and 50s, Medtronic is seeing a growing demand for more options, depending on their activity, said Rob Fredericks, vice president of global marketing, R&D and strategy for Medtronic Spinal.
For some, the stability of spinal fusion, in which vertebrae are fused together to relieve back pain after a disc has been damaged, might be the way to go. For others who seek greater range of motion, artificial discs may be the best option.
"They want to get back on their feet, back to work, back to activity — more quickly," Fredericks said. Doctors say a patient's age — and how the patient intends to spend his or her remaining years — weighs heavily over the decision to implant a device.
For Doug McConnell, that meant finding a way back into the water. The 55-year-old from Barrington, Ill., is an open water swimmer, swimming hours at a time through tough waves and inclement weather. So, when he suffered two herniated discs in his neck in late 2009, he wanted alternatives to the lengthy downtime and loss of mobility from spinal fusion.
"Quite apart from swimming, I wanted to be able to stay active — work in the garden and play catch with the kids," he said. Then a Chicago physician suggested he try "this whiz-bang thing from Medtronic."
An artificial cervical disc — the Prestige — was implanted. Six weeks after surgery, McConnell was back in the water. Eight weeks after that, he finished a 10-kilometer race.
A year after surgery, McConnell swam across the English Channel.
"It never occurs to us that we have to dial back our activities or interests," he said. "We can anticipate living a lot longer than our parents … and we want to be able to take advantage of that."
'You gave me my life'
Peter Quimby of Plymouth likes to say that he's "the healthiest dying person you'll ever know."
Quimby is waiting for a heart transplant. He received an implanted defibrillator and a left ventricular assist device in 2011 to help his weakened heart pump blood. Doctors told him not to overexert himself — don't run, just shuffle.
To hell with that, Quimby says. The former paratrooper and college baseball player who graduated from West Point uses the devices to get in a good workout — and prove a point.
Six days a week, he sweats through intense workouts. He teaches a spinning class at the Andover YMCA. Recently, he finished the Minneapolis Duathlon, which combines a 15-kilometer bike race with two 5K runs — all while wearing a cumbersome device with wires that extend from his abdomen and batteries tucked into a shoulder holster.
Nobody knows whether the devices will hold up. Quimby said he won't stop. "You didn't give me a life," he tells doctors and device makers. "You gave me my life."
Federal regulators say their primary mission is to determine whether a technology is safe and saves lives — not address longevity or durability, said Christy Foreman, who directs the Office of Device Evaluation in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
"The pacemakers that we had in 1976 were often times implanted in the abdomen because they were so big. And their battery didn't last as long," Foreman said. "We wouldn't say no to the pacemaker … because we thought it was too big or didn't last the entire patient life because we know that it is lifesaving technology. So we have to review it for what it is."
The FDA also doesn't regulate how physicians use medical devices. By law, doctors are allowed to use devices in any way they think will benefit their patients, even if the FDA never approved or cleared the device for that purpose.
Ralph Hall, a University of Minnesota law professor who has worked as a liaison between medical technology companies and the FDA, said the current regulatory approach will have to change as the trend toward younger patients builds momentum. It may not have been critical to assess how long a device would last in an older patient population, he said, but a wave of younger patients requires new ways of determining the life span of devices. The marketplace will demand it.
"This is going to require changes in testing methodology — less on human clinical study and more on bench testing and computer simulations and other types of tools assessing long-term performance," Hall said.
Ultimately, it is up to the patient to decide whether to follow a doctor's orders or the manufacturer's recommended ways to use the device.
Dr. David Feldman, Quimby's cardiologist, is seeing more young patients who need heart devices. Many want a treatment that will last forever.
Feldman explains that medical devices don't work that way.
"What electronic piece of equipment that you buy now do you expect to last more than five years?"
Staff writer Glenn Howatt contributed to this report.


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Mathematics Instructor (Part-Time) Oakhurst Community College Center
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Posting DetailsAnnouncement Information Posting NumberTitleMathematics Instructor (Part-Time) Oakhurst Community College CenterCampus LocationOakhurst CenterStart DateEssential Functions of Position
The ideal candidate will share the Oakhurst Community College Center's commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. As of Fall 2017, we currently enroll over 1,000 students of which 39% are Latinx, 1% are Filipino, 5% are Asian, 3% are Black/African American, 43% are White, 2% American Indian/Alaska Native, and 5% are multiracial. OCCC is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community. The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of curriculum responsive to the students it serves.
Providing instruction in Mathematics in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, on-line or off-campus and large group instruction classes as needed, the instructor will be responsible for:
- Maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position and currency in teaching Mathematics;
- Teaching developmental and transfer mathematics courses offered by the department;
- Using a variety of pedagogies and integrating a wide range of instructional delivery systems including innovative and creative uses of technology for face-to-face, on-line, and/or hybrid formats;
- Communicating effectively with students;
- Using effective teaching methods appropriate to the subject matter, adherence to institutionally approved curriculum course outlines of record;
- Evaluating student progress through tests and examinations, written assignments, oral responses, etc. in keeping with course objectives;
- Providing course syllabi to students;
- Maintaining classroom records in accordance with District Policy;
- Turning in all required student grading and evaluation reports in a timely manner; and
- Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.
- Master's in mathematics or applied mathematics;
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- A valid California Community College Credential;
- The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).
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- Knowledge of the current curriculum and assessment standards in mathematics education;
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- Experience working with students of various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds;
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- Willingness to examine and remediate one's instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students;
- Experience and skill with addressing issues of equity in the classroom;
- Potential for contribution to institutional vitality and growth; and
- Knowledge of the community college and its mission and goals.
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Does daylight saving time bring savings?4 min readReading Time: 3 minutesIn 2007, the dates when we spring forward and fall backward (or lose an hour and then gain an hour) changed with the intention of reducing energy consumption. The general theory was that the change would make people turn their lights on later in the evening, effectively reducing energy consumption. The question is does it actually work?
Although modern daylight saving time (DST) was introduced in theory in 1895 and implemented during the First World War, ancient civilizations adjusted their timekeeping seasonally. They also allowed for more of a change than modern DST does. This article is about this month's DST change, including the history behind it and the energy conservation goals that changed the annual start and finish dates.
The idea of reducing overall energy consumption with the use of daylight saving time swayed most counties in Indiana to adopt the practice in 2005. The estimated reduction was supposed to save the state's residents over $7,000,000 in electricity costs each year. Since then, the University of California has studied the presumed positive effect of the change and found that the outcome wasn't a reduction in energy costs at all, and that it actually increased the amount Indianans were spending on electricity. In fact, Indianans consumed an additional $8,600,000 of electricity, presumably because the increase in daylight also means an increase of hours with higher temperatures. As a result, Indianans came home and turned up their A/C.
The opposing argument is that this will be a short-term (matter of years) trend that will result in Indianans adopting different practices like passive cooling to keep their home cool. From a long-term perspective, an increase can be expected during the period in which people are adapting to the change, and adopting the DST was still the right decision. For argument's sake, and to make sure you can form a more educated opinion on the practice, let's take a look at the pros and cons of the DST change.
Daylight saving time pros
The list of pros for DST is pretty specific, and it is argued that most of these outcomes could not be achieved without DST:
- An increase in physical fitness due to more time spent outdoors.
- An increase in natural vitamin D absorption due to additional sun exposure.
- Increased productivity due to more daylight hours.
- Better sleep patterns (although this one is heavily debated).
- Reduced electricity use due to less time with the lights on.
- Decreased violent crime levels; reported as a 10–13% reduction by U.S. law enforcement.
- Reduction in overall traffic accidents (which is very heavily debated).
- Overall increase in voter turnout.
Daylight saving time cons
There are conflicting opinions about the negative effects of daylight saving time. On one hand, an argument has been made that the negative effects are all related to a period of transition that can be dramatically reduced by preparing for the change. However, another school of thought is that the benefits are not worth the semi-annual disruption to daily routines and the increase in related incidents. In fact, in 2005, the same year President Bush decided to extend the DST period, Kazakhstan abolished the practice, citing negative health effects as the cause. Some of the cons include:
- Dramatic increase in traffic accidents during the period of adjustment.
- Lost productivity during the period of adjustment.
- Disrupted sleep patterns and disrupted morning routines during the period of adjustment.
- A disruption to religious practices and morning prayers.
- An increase in automated process inconsistencies and errors during the change.
Because the majority of our readers live in regions that practice DST, let's return to the initial topic and discuss whether or not changing the start and finish times of DST in 2007 was a good idea (the decision was actually made in 2005 in the U.S. and 2006 in Canada but was not put in place until 2007). We would love to hear what you think about DST in general, as well as your opinion on the decision to change the start and finish dates. Is the adjustment period worth the outcome, and will the earlier start and later finish to DST have the promised environmental impact?
A really cool interactive reference for more information about daylight saving time with many of the stats discussed above can be found at http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
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Police seek answers on 5 bodies found in San Francisco house
SAN FRANCISCO -- Police investigating the deaths of five people in a San Francisco home are trying to determine if it was a case of murder-suicide or if a suspect is on the loose.
The bodies of three women and two men were found Friday at the residence in the Ingleside District the southern part of the city.
Police had little to reveal about their investigation Saturday but tried to reassure neighbors and others that there was no threat to public safety.
Investigators may take days before they can determine whether the suspect is at large or lying among the victims' remains, police spokeswoman Cmdr. Lyn Tomioka said during a press briefing.
Police initially were investigating the deaths of three women and two men in the Ingleside District as a possible murder-suicide.
But Tomioka said that authorities have not determined whether the body of the killer or killers is inside the home, nor do they know what weapons were used.
A woman with access to the home discovered the bodies early Friday morning.
She found one man shot to death in the foyer by the front door, police Chief Greg Suhr said. She then saw a man and a woman dead in the garage before running out and calling police.
When officers arrived, they found the other two deceased women and determined that at least two of the victims were shot.
Tomioka said the crime scene was so tangled it was hard to assess what exactly had happened.
"It could take days to process," Tomioka said. "We are working around the clock to determine what happened here."
Police had not determined a motive, had no suspect information and could not say when any names would be released, but Tomioka said members of the public should not consider themselves at risk because of the killings.
"It is specific to this address and only this address, so there is no threat to public safety," she said.
Yellow police tape sealed off the entire block, as investigators dressed in white hazmat suits walked in and out of the orange row house carrying plastic bags. Police would not say what was in the bags, and reporters were kept at a distance.
A makeshift shrine outside the house grew as more people dropped bouquets.
The neighborhood is home to Lick-Wilmerding High School and San Francisco's City College, and has a thriving immigrant community, largely from Asia.
Neighbors appeared shaken.
"It's calm and peaceful here usually, but nowadays neighbors don't know each other so anything can go on," said Jovi Geaga, 26, a resident and a tutor at a nearby church.
Neighbor Miriam Mendoza Moody said she heard a "loud male person angry or yelling at around midnight" on Thursday, but said she did not hear gunshots.


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Jemima Codrington: General maintenance and inflation can cause the need for a rent increase. But how can landlords go about increasing rent without driving away good tenants. Hi, I am Jemima Codrington and welcome to this week's episode of Crew TV.
So you want to raise the rent on your property, how do you go about doing it and when?
Cindy Wennerstrom, President, Oro Properties
Cindy Wennerstrom: A landlord can raise the rent of their property and rental unit only once in a calendar year with that particular tenant. So if you've been living in a space for 12 months, expect to get a letter about 3 months prior to the end of your lease from your landlord stating that it's time for him to increase your rent. You could also increase rent if you did renovation, but that's a whole another process that you have to apply to the Landlord and Tenant Board direct.
What are the formal procedures for increasing rent?
Cindy Wennerstrom: The formal procedure to be followed when raising rent for tenants is to actually give them a letter in writing at least 90 days prior to the end of their lease that you intend to increase their rent by what the government allows it to increase for that year. Along with that letter should be a signed form by you, that you can provide to the tenant, I think it's Form N1 and that tells the tenant exactly what their rental increase will be. They have 30 days to let you know if they are going to accept the increase or move out.
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Devin P. McComb has joined the firm's Seattle office as a partner in the Real Estate & Land Use practice
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Workers and watchers wander, ghostly, 'round a dilapidated cinema, crowding each other in tight hallways, pressing close in the empty theatre, always choosing the adjacent urinal in depressing bathrooms. The first words are spoken more than halfway through the film, when one character tells another that the theatre is haunted. But it turns out that the other man doesn't understand him - he's a Japanese tourist who has come to the theatre in search of {awkward cough} connection. A film about nostalgia and haunting and the inability to let go. Nothing wrong with it, but I found it all too easy to let go: I don't have sufficient meditative capacity for these long-developing shots that don't, in the end, develop into much beyond silence and endless waiting. The fact that that's the point didn't, for me, make it an interesting point.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
(Taiwan, 2003)
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Volume 15, no. 1 Summer 2000
The Beethoven Journal
Vol. 15, no. 1 (Summer 2000).
Oldrich Pulkert. "Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved." Revised by Hans-Werner Küthen and translated by William Meredith. (pp. 2-18)
Barry Cooper. "The Newly Discovered Quartet Movement by Beethoven." (pp. 19-24)
Paul M. Ellison. "Specter of Austria's Nazi Past Haunts 'Ode to Joy' at Mauthausen." (pp. 25-28)
Ira Brilliant. "Beethoven Auction Report, December 1999 and May 2000." (pp. 29-30)
Helmut Loos. Conference Report: "'Biography and the Creative Process in Beethoven. Foundations, Tendencies, Perspectives,' Berlin, June 30-July 3, 1999." Translated by Robert Portillo. (pp. 31-32)
Patricia Stroh. "Recent Beethoven and Beethoven-Related Books, Music Editions, and Facsimiles (1997-2000)." (pp. 33-38)
Susan Kagan. "The 1999-2000 Season of the New York Chapter of the American Beethoven Society." (p. 39)
"Letters to the Editor." (pp. 40-41)
William Meredith. "Miscellanea. Mortal Musings: Testing the Candidacy of Almerie Esterházy against the Antonie Brentano Theory." (pp. 42-47)


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== Video
== Video ==
When I first ran <tt>mythfrontend</tt> it bombed with a problem with the X server. I was able to fix this by installing the nVidia drivers
When I first ran <tt>mythfrontend</tt> it bombed with a problem with the X server. I was able to fix this by installing the nVidia drivers
# yum install nvidia-graphics
# yum install nvidia-graphics
After that I was able to use <tt>mythfrontend</tt> to watch live TV (sans sound -- see below). But this was on the VGA monitor I had attached, not TV-out.
After that I was able to use <tt>mythfrontend</tt> to watch live TV (sans sound -- see below). But this was on the VGA monitor I had attached, not TV-out.
== Audio ==
== Audio ==
Revision as of 13:43, 8 October 2008
This is a home-built machine with:
- Hardware
- Hauppauge PVR-150
- Antec Overture Media Center case, Piano Black (fairly quiet)
- AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Manchester 2.2GHz Socket 939 67W Single-Core Processor
- MSI K8N Neo4-F 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard
- ASUS EN7100GS512/TD/128M GeForce 7100GS 512MB (128MB onboard) 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card
- X-Gene 01027 Black 86 Normal Keys USB RF Wireless Mini Keyboard with Optical Trackball Mouse
- TP-Link TL-WN550G 802.11g/b wifi card (Atheros chipset)
- Software
- Fedora 8, using KDE (rather than Gnome)
- MythTV 0.22 from SVN
Fedora 8
Database connection: I followed the directions on the page Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora with little difficulty and was able to get mythtv to build and install. (I did tweak the mythweb instructions slightly, to make it the only thing installed on the web server, and as a result to make it install without need of extra configuration). I used qmake-qt4 in place of just qmake, as instructed.
But when it got time to run mythweb-setup I had a problem. At startup I got a menu page asking me for database host, username, password, port, etc, but even though these were correct, it continued to tell me that it could not connect to the database, even though I verified that I could connect to the database "by hand" with those parameters. The error output in the shell window included:
QSqlDatabase warning: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QSQLLITE Unable to connect to database! No error type from QSqlError? Strange... couldn't open db
Searching the web gave some hints about the problem, but no firm answer. But it lead me to figure out the solution: I needed the qt4-mysql package:
# yum install qt4-mysql
and then mythtv-setup worked just fine.
Hauppauge PVR-150
The mythtv-setup program could not connect to the video card, with dmesg giving
ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes) ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
The firmware can be obtained from the IVTV wiki here, along with instructions on how to deploy it. The hotplug firmware directory for Fedora 8 is /lib/firmware
- Hardware status: an easy way to see the status of the hardware after reboot is
$ dmesg | grep tv
When running mythtv-setup I noticed that some of the text of messages was not showing on the screen. But it didn't seem like a big problem -- I could still get around.
But after going through all 5 steps, it kept warning me that I had not set up Storage Groups. Did I want to go back and fix the problem? Yes, I did, but there was no 6th step for setting Storage Groups.
It turns out that the 6th step was there, just not being shown. When I scrolled down past step 5 and hit Enter I was able to go through step 6 and define Storage Groups.
Video Configuration
When I first ran mythfrontend it bombed with a problem with the X server. I was able to fix this by installing the nVidia drivers
# yum install nvidia-graphics
After that I was able to use mythfrontend to watch live TV (sans sound -- see below). But this was on the VGA monitor I had attached, not TV-out.
It turns out the video card only produces output on the composite video output at certain resolutions. On top of that, the card needed to be configured to "clone" the output from VGA to composite video. Both of these things are the default behaviour for the VESA driver, but the VESA driver won't work for video playback.
I solved this by running
# nvidia-settings
This launches a graphical tool for configuring the card. I went to the X-Server display settings, turned on "TwinView", and set the position of the TV display to "Clones". Then "save X configuration" and told it to merge with my previous settings. This resulted in modifications to xorg.conf file, including this Screen section:
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "1" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT: 640x480 +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
Whew, I'm glad I didn't have to figure out all that on my own.
Initially, when the machine booted sound did not work, not even the basic sound test. I could get it to work by reloading the drivers from the Sound Card Detection control. It looked like the OSS modules were being loaded instead of ALSA, but in fact I think that's just the OSS module for ALSA.
But getting sound to work in KDE still did not help sound in MythTV. Setting the audio device to ALSA:default didn't work.
I know that sound should be recorded because the PVR-150 encodes to MPEG-2, which includes the audio channel(s).
I finally got sound playback to work by setting the audio output device in MythTV to /dev/dsp, which goes directly to the output device.
Just testing sound by trying to play a sound file would fail:
$aplay burp.au *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused aplay: main:564: audio open error: Connection refused
I wasn't using pulseaudio, as far as I knew. I was able to fix this by removing the ALSA plugin (and KDE control):
# rpm -e alsa-plugins-pulseaudio kde-settings-pulseaudio
After this I ran alsamixer, which had the Line level at zero. I raised it to 100%. I then found that audio worked with ALSA:default, but not the volume and mute controls. With /dev/dsp the mute and volume up/down controls work, so I'm sticking with that.
MythArchive is a plug-in which allows one to burn recorded programs to DVD. When I tried this, after wending my way through the menus and launching the burn, it hung at the log viewer, with no messages displayed. The solution, as documented here, was to install the MySQL-python and python-imaging packages:
yum install MySQL-python python-imaging
After that, I was able to get log output when trying to burn, but I kept running up against dependencies. Each time I got an error it was because some tool was not installed, so I had to find out which Fedora package contains that tool and install that package. Here is the result:
application Fedora package jpeg2yuv mjpegtools spumux dvdauthor tcrequant transcode growisofs dvd+rw-tools
Additional Notes
- Database Initialization: one observation also about the initialization of the database. Running the file mythtv/database/mc.sql through MySQL only sets up the mythtv database user and user permissions, it does not create the database tables or populate them. That is done later, by mythtv-setup
- PVR-150 Firmware: the video capture card firmware is not loaded once and stored in ROM, it has to be loaded each time the computer is booted.


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State of environment: information networking in Rwanda
United Nations Environment Programme (2010)
During the preparation of the first Rwanda State of Environment and Outlook in 2009, it became evident that there is a lack of reliable core datasets and indicators on the environment. As such there is need for improved collaboration between institutions dealing with environmental information management. All institutions working in the natural resources sector will benefit from the creation of an infrastructure for sharing environmental data. An environmental information network that improves data access at all levels of society will in turn support the country's sustainable development objectives.
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October 27th, 2011 - Happy Halloween and welcome to the official newsletter for all things LiveJournal! Bringing you information about system updates, community events, LJ social outreach, and other newsworthy nuggets from the world of LiveJournal. A quick note before we jump in: we've posted an update at lj_maintenance outlining a service issue that sprung up a couple days ago and was quickly resolved.
Release 86While 'Release 86' sounds like a great name for a horror film from the early 80s, it's actually our recent system update. New additions / changes are brief. Here's the rundown:
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'Help Turkey' vGiftOn October 23rd, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the eastern province of Van in Turkey. Hundreds have been killed and over a thousand injured as an estimated 2,000 buildings collapsed during the tremor.
LJ has created a 'Help Turkey' vGift to support the recovery efforts in the region. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the vGift will go towards aiding the recovery efforts in Turkey.
Halloween @ LJ
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The LJ Interview: Tim Daly speaks about arts advocacy and bullyingDuring the interview, Tim Daly talks about the bullying issue, his role in The Creative Coalition, and his passion for rallying creative professionals around important social issues. Stay tuned, later in the week we'll have an interview in bullying_begone with WWE wrestler Sheamus about his career and how bullying influenced his life.
LJ news and youWe've been experimenting with various formats for presenting the news over the last couple months, In the near future, we'll be shifting news to a fixed-width (most likely 600px wide), newsletter-style entry. We realize this doesn't work for everyone. As an alternative, we've got a few ways to keep up with LiveJournal.
NaNoWriMoNational Novel Writing Month 2011 is right around the corner. Rally together, brave writers, and meet up at lj_nanowrimo! Find support among your literary colleagues and we'll try to ease the writing experience with a couple surprises of our own. Good hunting, writers!
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V-Tech Report Misses Something
- Virginia Tech failed to properly care for a mentally troubled student gunman and waited too long to warn faculty and students after he killed his first two victims in a shooting spree that eventually claimed 31 more lives, including his own, a panel's report concluded.
Had university officials not waited more than two hours to tell the campus about the initial shootings, lives could have been saved when Seung-Hui Cho later began his massacre inside a classroom building, according to the report, released Wednesday night.
''Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference,'' the panel wrote. ''So the earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving.''
- If Virginia Tech hadn't banned guns from campus (even though the State of Virginia recognizes the legal right for citizens to carry concealed), there might have been a dozen or more opportunities to stop this school shooting in its tracks.
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Fans' fancy for female footy
SUFFOLK Park stunner Lauren Funnell is kickin' ass, taking names, and achieving her dreams.
The passionate 24-year-old football player has received a contract to play for a US team in the Lingerie Football League.
Ms Funnell told media she wanted to play in the Lingerie League from the first time she saw a game on TV about five years ago.
"I knew I was interested when I saw my first game, it was something completely different and the female athletes were all just so amazing looking," she said.
"I wanted to play in the States, but it seemed like an unrealistic goal to start with, so I worked closely with the gridiron division in Queensland towards the launch of an LFL here.
"It has been a slow process and although teams for an Aussie LFL have been selected and training has commenced, the league won't officially launch until December.
"After we succeeded in getting the league to Australia I had the chance to visit teams in America and train with them."
This visit led to an offer to play for Cleveland Crush, a team in the US Lingerie Football League, Ms Funnell said.
"I am very excited to be fulfilling my goals."
Ms Funnell will play with the Cleveland Crush for the 2013 season before she heads back to Australia to play the inaugural season as team captain for the Queensland Brigade in 2014.
"It is an amazing sport with a lot of inspiring female athletes," she said.
"It has shown many young women that you can achieve your goals, no matter how unrealistic they may seem."
"[It is] the lingerie that initially gets the audience's attention, and then it is the athleticism behind the sport that keeps them in," Ms Funnell said to The Northern Star last year.
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Lab in a can: New robotic labs are now going mobile to collect ocean samples
It looks a lot like a garbage can-but it's actually a fully functioning laboratory, thrown overboard, to analyze water samples in the open ocean. One day, a machine like it might tell us whether a beach is safe for swimming or water is clean enough to drink. The so-called "Lab in a Can" is nicknamed ESP.
"The ESP is the Environmental Sample Processor. It is an instrument that collects water, allows you to extract particles, and use molecular probe technology to understand the presence of certain organisms and their activities," explains Chris Scholin, president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), microbiologist Scholin and his team at MBARI created the portable ESP to work on its own so the researchers don't have to travel back to the lab every time they want to analyze samples they collect at sea. Using onboard robotics and half-dollar size reaction chambers--called pucks--ESP can do tests ranging from detecting microbes and toxins to basic DNA analysis.
"We have intake valves. We draw in seawater with a syringe and create a vacuum to basically pull the seawater through a filter that collects a particular size of particles," explains marine biologist Christina Preston, pointing to the different parts that make up ESP. "We have a manipulator arm and a carousel that basically drives pucks in different places in order for us to complete our tasks."
"The ESP has enough battery power to last roughly 30 to 45 days," says Jim Birch, director of the Sensors Underwater Research of the Future (SURF) Center at MBARI. "Our goal is to have something that can go out for six months."
Researchers say an ESP network might one day crisscross our oceans, monitoring for problems such as oil spills. ESPs might also be used on farms to detect microorganisms like salmonella in the water that's used to hose down crops.
"Wouldn't it be great if we could detect out in the field before it gets into the packaging plant and onto people's table? We want to provide that early warning system," notes Chris Melançon, founder and CEO of Spyglass, the exclusive commercial partner of MBARI for the ESP.
"Science Nation" caught up with Melançon as he was introducing ESP to fish farmer Chris Newman, creator and president of Santa Cruz Aquaponics. Newman raises both watercress and carp in a closed loop water system to reduce the farm's impact on the environment. Water is pumped from fish tanks to watercress beds located above the fish tanks. The water is filtered and cleaned by bacteria in the rocks and watercress roots, and then pumped back into the fish tanks.
"All people who do aquaculture have to test water every day," says Newman. He is testing ESP to see if it accurately detects bacteria.
"Water quality testing takes an immense amount of time," he explains. "If you get it wrong, a whole bunch of fish can die on you. If you have something like ESP that gives you a database that comes up on a computer screen where you can just look at what your water quality is without having to go out and test, it's revolutionary!"
"It's the kind of device that could be in a water distribution center, in reservoirs, or it could be on beaches or in the back of a van driving around for water quality assessment," says Scholin.
Scholin's work is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). "The ARRA funding has been instrumental in helping to transfer ESP technology from MBARI to other researchers, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies," says Scholin. "It was the catalyst that made it possible to commercially manufacture a suite of ESPs. That first step has in turn spawned a new industry that aims to merge the fields of environmental monitoring with biomedical diagnostics. Nothing like this has ever been attempted before on any appreciable scale."
Now Scholin's team is working to pair ESP with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), so the instrument can go mobile. You might call it "Lab in a Can" 2.0.
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Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70.
His longtime friend and former publicist Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press that Ashford — who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motown's biggest hits — died Monday in a New York City hospital. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment.
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Among the songs Ashford & Simpson penned are "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," ''You're All I Need To Get By" and "Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Hand."
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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You could also work with teams to meet and exceed regulatory compliance, as well as deliver solutions that provide competitive advantages. In all aspects of engineering at Cummins, you'll be involved in testing performance of our engines, fuel, air-handling, lubrication, and after-treatment systems. You'll also learn, participate in, and lead process improvement efforts (Six Sigma).
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You'll support all Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)-specific engineering activities and ensure that the program meets quality, cost and delivery targets.
· Apply basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned tasks
· Assist in developing technical specifications, implementing designs and delivering high performance, low-cost equipment or system results integrated with customers' products
· Interface with sales, manufacturing and marketing teams to design and deliver solutions
You'll test and analyse engines and components for stress, strain, fatigue, noise and vibration.
· Apply standard practices and techniques in specific situations, analyse and correlate data, recognize discrepancies in results and follow established procedures and operations to derive a solution or conclusion
· Vibration / dynamic analysis, strain data, strain gauge, fatigue testing, CFD (computational fluid dynamics), NVH (noise vibration harshness), ANSYS and lots of hands-on experience
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You'll develop the electronic hardware, software and support tools for Cummins products.
· A typical role includes all electronic elements within the system, hardware, software, controls and diagnostics design
· Apply knowledge of engineering principles and practices in many areas of electronics such as: specification development, systems and components design, software implementation and verification
· Troubleshooting, servicing and maintaining of controls, hardware or software issues
You'll make engineering more effective by providing global information technologies and services.
· Require analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements and translation into proper system requirement specifications
· Work closely with IT support organizations to ensure application technical quality, reliability, maintainability, performance and cost effectiveness
· Work with business owners to develop and implement transition plans to common software and / or new versions
You'll ensure that our testing lab operates and meets targets in a safe and efficient manner, and that equipment is available and capable.
· Apply basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned tasks
· Assist in specification, design and maintenance of test environment and instrumentation to support product development and evaluation requirements
· Assist in developing laboratory-controlled test processes to evaluate product performance
· Conduct experiments, analyse data and document results
· Work collaboratively with other engineering disciplines to meet new requirements
You'll identify, develop and support common materials engineering which enable and leverage Analysis Led Design.
· Conduct mechanical property and chemical composition tests and data
· Apply selection of materials for engineering and manufacturing processes to attain design objectives
· Work with global, multi-disciplinary teams to develop solutions to material and manufacturing needs
You'll use Pro-Engineer as a tool in the layout, modelling and analysis of generators, engines, engine sub-systems, engine components and assemblies.
· Apply basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned tasks in the design, analysis and release of products and subsystems through the product life cycle
· Assist in creating design specifications considering application, cost, weight, performance, product life, manufacture, assembly and service
· Verify design using analysis and / or functional analysis, interpret results, drive decisions and assess risk
You'll work with regulatory agencies to influence future regulations, certify current emissions and communicate internally.
· Apply basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned tasks by interpreting, communicating and ensuring all environmental regulations and standards are adhered to as they impact company products
· Determine product and component environmental worthiness and adherence through coordinated testing and evaluation
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You'll focus on enabling new and current product teams to meet customer reliability requirements.
· Focus on elimination of previous failures, detection of current failures and prevention of new failures
· Utilize models, calculations and statistics to determine reason for failure emerging issues
· Apply basic knowledge of statistical tools and warranty databases to analyse existing components or system reliability, provide interpretation of the results and report to the customer
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You'll anticipate tests necessary to validate new product lines for future years.
· Apply basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned tasks in the development, analysis and release of products and subsystems through the product life cycle
· Verify design using analysis and / or functional testing, interpret results and drive decisions
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You'll act as the technical liaison between the global Cummins Service channel and the Engineering,
Quality, and Manufacturing organizations to identify, define, and prioritize product issues and to implement long term solutions.
· Identify and investigate issues and failure trends both in the office and in the field. Define issues including customer impact, cost and failure analysis
· Effectively communication with distributors, OEM's, dealers, and end users and the technical groups within Cummins
· Support development teams and problem solving teams via the installation of field test engines or components
· Solve issues for production and product already in the field
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You'll analyse our products in test cells or test rigs in the field, as well as model performance aspects of the engine, fuel system, filtration or aftertreatment systems.
· Apply basic knowledge of engineering principles and practices to assigned tasks in one of the following areas: combustion, performance, emissions, cool, lube, fuel systems, air handling, system integration, aftertreatment integration, cycle simulation, vehicle system simulation, combustion system simulation, flow simulation, filtration or aftertreatment simulation
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(Kansas City, Kan., April 8, 2011) - Arnette Limited, LLC, a manufacturer of epoxy blends and advanced resins, has agreed to pay a $90,591 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of violations of environmental regulations related to the storage of hazardous wastes and the public reporting of toxic chemicals at its facilities in Richmond, Mo.
According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., in December 2008 the Agency conducted a compliance inspection of Arnette's facility at 8905 Wollard Boulevard in Richmond, and found that it was operating as a hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility without a permit, as required by the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Missouri state regulations.
At the Wollard Boulevard facility, Arnette also failed to conduct hazardous waste determinations on waste vacuum pump oil, epoxy intermediate process water, diatomaceous earth waste and an area of spilled material on the floor of the facility's hazardous waste tank storage area, the inspection noted. The inspection at the Wollard Boulevard facility also noted numerous violations involving failures to comply with hazardous waste generator requirements.
Subsequently, a November 2009 inspection of Arnette's facility at 1002 W. Main Street in Richmond found the company had failed to submit reports to EPA and the State of Missouri concerning quantities of certain toxic chemicals that were manufactured, processed or otherwise used at the facility during 2006, 2007 and 2008. Those chemicals included diisocyanates, 4,4-isopropylideneiphenol and lead compounds (for all three years), phenol (for 2007 and 2008) and isobutyraldehyde (for 2008).
Submission of the annual toxic chemical reports is a requirement of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Under EPCRA regulations, companies of certain size are required to submit annual reports to EPA and state authorities listing the amounts of regulated chemicals that their facilities release into the environment through routine activities or as a result of accidents. The reports provide an important source of information to emergency planners and responders, and residents of surrounding communities.
EPCRA was enacted by Congress in 1986 as an outgrowth of concern over the protection of the public from chemical emergencies and dangers. After the catastrophic accidental release of methyl isocyanate at Union Carbide's Bhopal, India, facility in December 1984, and a later toxic release from a West Virginia chemical plant, it was evident that national public disclosure of emergency information was needed.
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'Modern Family's' Nolan Gould on Hollywood Career
Fourteen-year-old Nolan Gould, who stars as Luke Dunphy on the hit TV show, Modern Family, talks to the WSJ's Lee Hawkins about his career and how his earnings are handled, being a member of Mensa, and the fact that he just started college a few weeks ago.
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FX president and general manager John Landgraf addressed the Television Critics Association during its fall TV previews on Saturday, announcing that the cable network was experiencing growth in viewership as well as in developing original programming.
Here's a breakdown of the highlights:
Anger Management sets premiere ratings records
Anger Management, Now with More Daddy Issues: Only six episodes of the Charlie Sheen-starring comedy have aired, and if it continues with its strong ratings through all 10 episodes, FX plans to order an additional 90 ("a back 90") episodes. Additionally, Landgraf announced that Martin Sheen — real-life dad of Charlie — will guest-star on an upcoming episode and could return as a series regular to play Charlie's on-screen dad Martin Goodson. "It will give an extra dimension to the show and make it multigenerational," Landgraf said.
Louie, Louis: FX has ordered 13 more episodes for the Louis C.K. comedy's fourth season. "Louie is great because it's a completely unvarnished show," Landgraf said.
Katy Perry Not a Fan? FX Is! The network is ordering up seven more episodes of BrandX with Russell Brand, which will air after new episodes of The League.
Wilfred Pending: Landgraf said that he was optimistic for a Season 3 order, but that deals have to be worked out before an announcement could be made. "Wilfred has a many-year future on the channel," he said. "We're happy with the show creatively."
Non-Linear Horror: Landgraf wasn't surprised that American Horror Story was treated as a miniseries by the Emmys this season. "There's no continuing story line... there are no narrative elements from one group of episodes to another, which is the definition of miniseries," he said. He wouldn't give many details about Season 2, but said the story, which takes place at a sanitarium in New England run by the Catholic church, was "unbelievably scary."
Parker Posey on madness, connectivity and Louie
Sons of Anarchy Snub: The FX chief wasn't certain why the show consistently has been ignored by Emmy voters, especially when it features impressive actors like Katey Sagal and Charlie Hunnam. "The show is grungy and blue-collar and violent and profane," he said. "I just think the Emmy voters don't like it that much. I don't see the Emmys at this point giving it any recognition. I could be wrong."
New Blood: New series pilots The Americans (starring Keri Russell) and The Bridge (based upon the Danish series of the same name) were the next series that were expected to be picked up, although no official announcements were made. Additionally, FX ordered the comedy series pilot for Bronx Warrants, about a group of errant warrant detectives starring stand-up comedian Godfrey, Josh Segarra and Shirley Rumierk.
YouTube and Netflix, The Gauntlet Is Thrown: Landgraf, a usually thoughtful and even-keeled speaker, became unexpectedly passionate when he brought up online original scripted series. More specifically, he tasked the critics to demand the likes of Netflix and YouTube to deliver viewership data that would be comparable to network data — numbers that reflect the average of how many viewers watch an entire episode, not how many people sampled the offering for an unspecified amount of time. "They should release data in such a form to be a basis of comparison," he said. "They have more data than we do, more internal server data... but if you want to report ratings on an apples-to-apples basis, you can request them to provide it to you."


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Wireless service providers in the United States are constantly battling each other over which has the largest or fastest wireless network. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile are just big fish swimming in a small pond, though, because none of them can come close to what wireless providers are delivering in South Korea—not even on their best day.
In South Korea, LG Uplus is rolling out 300Mbps wireless service. Meanwhile SK Telecom will reportedly demonstrate 450Mbps wireless at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Those speeds are four to six times faster than the theoretical maximum speeds of U.S. wireless providers and 10 times faster or more than real-world speeds achieved by most US wireless customers.
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