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March 2010
• Volume 2, Number 1
In this issue:
OPINIONQuantitative Imaging is Critical Part of COPD Diagnosis,
Treatment Evaluation By PHILLIP F.
JUDY, PhD
TECHNIQUES Merging CAD and
Quantitative Imaging By MARYELLEN
GIGER, PhD
ONFDA/RSNA/SNM Workshop May 2010 QIBA
BIOMARKERS IN THE LITERATURE PubMed
Search on Quantitative Imaging in COPD and Asthma QIBA in the Literature
Quantitative Imaging is
Critical Part of COPD Diagnosis, Treatment Evaluation
PHILIP F. JUDY, PhD
Through its work characterizing
scanner inconsistencies, QIBA can play an important role in the quantitative
evaluation of COPD using CT.
CT is considered useful in the
diagnosis and evaluation of the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), which is characterized by chronic inflammation and destruction of
the airways and lung parenchyma. Quantitative changes in airway size and wall
thicknesses and density of lung parenchyma measured by CT are considered primary
efficacy endpoints.
Although this narrative has existed
for 20 years, the potential of quantitative CT evaluation of COPD has not been
fully realized-especially in the clinic-due
to a lack of consistency. There is a premium on consistency (long-term precision
and limited variations from scanner to scanner) because the progression of COPD
is very slow.
Despite efforts to match tube
potential, radiation dose, slice thickness, and reconstruction kernel across
scanners, clinical studies have demonstrated systematic differences between
scanners. Fortunately, specific CT scanners with standard calibrations and
quality assurance are stable and scanner inconsistencies can be statistically
modeled in studies involving a sufficient number of cases per scanner. However,
standard calibration procedures are not sufficient to deal with inconsistencies
in CT emphysema biomarkers. These scanner inconsistencies reduce the power of
multi-institutional studies. More cases are required to achieve the required
statistical power, increasing the cost of studies.
There is a tendency to deal with
scanner inconsistency by specifying that the same scanner be used for COPD drug
treatment clinical trials that follow up CT evaluation of cases. However,
specifying the same scanner for each case becomes impractical for large clinical
trials lasting several years. Statistical modeling corrections are not available
for a clinical exam; the number of cases in such a study is one.
Evaluation of COPD is further
complicated because the preferred emphysema CT
biomarkers-percentage of lung pixels less than -950 and the
15th percentile-are histogram biomarkers. These biomarkers are
lung density quantities that are intuitively and empirically related to
histological quantitative measures. As CT biomarkers of bulk density (the central
tendency of lung CT values), these preferred biomarkers are biased by image
noise. Airway size measurements require super resolution techniques. While
solutions for improving consistency are straightforward, they are demanding and
costly. However, the savings for clinical trials in reducing the number of cases
may lead to net savings for sponsors of clinical trials.
QIBA's Role
QIBA can aid in overcoming these obstacles by developing a calibration procedure
to deal with scanner inconsistencies in CT emphysema biomarkers. I believe that a
reference standard, or phantom, using a material with the attenuation and spatial
characteristics of the lung parenchyma needs to be developed. Calibration
procedures using the improved reference standard will be incorporated in the
Profile being developed by QIBA's COPD/Asthma Committee. Ultimately, we will need
to demonstrate that these reference standard "biomarkers" track the differences
caused by variations in scanners and protocols.
Because the preferred CT emphysema
biomarkers are biased by image noise, the relationship between standard image
quality metrics (spatial resolution, image noise, and CT number scale) and CT
emphysema biomarkers must be carefully described in the QIBA Profiles.
QIBA members face interesting,
challenging work in creating the QIBA Profiles for COPD and asthma.
Philip F. Judy, PhD,
is an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of
the Physics and Engineering Division, Department of Radiology, Brigham and
Women's Hospital in Boston. Dr Judy is a co-chair of the QIBA COPD/Asthma
Committee and a member of the Physics Committee of the National Lung Screening
Merging CAD and
Quantitative Imaging
MARYELLEN L. GIGER, PhD
In 2009, the RSNA Toward
Quantitative Imaging (TQI) Ad Hoc Committee developed a working definition of
quantitative imaging: "Quantitative imaging is the extraction of quantifiable
features from medical images for the assessment of normal, or severity, degree of
change or status of a disease, injury or chronic condition relative to
Such image-derived metrics may
involve the extraction of lesions from normal anatomical background and the
subsequent analysis of the extracted region over time (or another parameter) in
order to yield a quantitative measure of some anatomical or physiologic
Computational methods that will
benefit these analyses are being developed by researchers in quantitative
imaging, computer-aided detection (CADe) and computer-aided diagnosis (CADx)
fields. Many times investigators in these areas of research may not be aware of
each others' developments.
Computer-aided Detection and
Diagnosis CAD can be defined as a diagnosis made by a radiologist
using a computer algorithm's output-obtained from an automated
analysis of medical images-in the interpretation of image
data. With CAD, the radiologist makes the final diagnostic decision using the
computer output as an aid. Currently, computer-aided detection (CADe), a
localization task, provides a "second opinion" for the radiologist in locating
suspicious regions within images, as in screening mammography, leaving diagnosis
and patient management to the radiologist. However, the development of CAD
methods is expanding beyond screening programs to include applications in
diagnosis, risk assessment, and response to therapy. Computer-aided
diagnosis (CADx) involves the characterization of a suspicious region or
lesion, such that the computer output characterizes each suspicious region or
lesion quantitatively and/or estimates its probability of disease (for example,
malignancy), leaving patient management to the clinician.
For example, in breast cancer
imaging, investigators are developing computer methods that automatically segment
lesions from the background, extract mathematical descriptors of lesion
characteristics, and merge these features into a "malignancy score." It is
important to note that these classifier outputs are based on the knowledge of
diseased and non-diseased cases from a large database obtained from some
population, which is used to train the classifier.
With a sufficiently large database
that spans the population, it is expected that the output will yield a relative
measure that is related to the likelihood of disease. Note that this differs from
image-based metrics in quantitative imaging in which, for example, the image
voxel value, after some specific corrections and standardizations, may be
directly related to some underlying biological phenomenon.
Segmentation and feature extraction
techniques from CAD may benefit quantitative imaging by delineating the lesion
more objectively, by merging multiple quantitative values for a composite
biomarker, or by yielding a relative value (for example, relative to a known
population with similar lesion characteristics and/or response) that might be
more robust that absolute measures of the underlying biology.
Computerized image analyses of the
types used in CAD combined with quantitative imaging techniques are likely to
yield improved methods of diagnosis and triaging for treatment.
Maryellen L.
Giger, Ph.D. is a professor of radiology and chair of the Committee on Medical
Physics at the University of Chicago. She is vice-chair of radiology for basic
science research and director of the graduate programs in medical physics at the
University. A pioneer in the development of CAD, Dr. Giger is a member of the
RSNA's Imaging Biomarkers Roundtable Advisory Group and Toward Quantitative
Imaging Planning Group.
Mark your
Workshop April 13-14, 2010
Natcher Auditorium on the National Institutes of Health campus, Bethesda,
Registration is open for a two-day
FDA/SNM/RSNA scientific workshop, "Two Topic Imaging Workshop: Day One -
Standards for Imaging Endpoints in Clinical Trials, Day Two - Manufacturing of
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Radiopharmaceutical Products" to be held at
Natcher Auditorium on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, MD.
Free online registration and other information on the workshop is available
The 2007 Prescription Drug User Fee
Act (PDUFA) IV called for the development of a guidance document to address
Imaging Standards for Use as an End Point in Clinical Trials. As a step
toward meeting the requirement under PDUFA, and its overall public health mission
of working with stakeholders to facilitate the development of safe and effective
medical products, FDA is stimulating discussion with stakeholder in the imaging
community on key issues of standardization and optimization of imaging techniques
and practices in clinical trials and drug development.
The workshop is expected to generate
discussion and establish consensus on issues associated with using imaging to
assess endpoints in clinical trials.
The first day of the workshop will
focus on general issues of standardization to control variability and
inconsistency in acquisition, interpretation, and analysis of images in clinical
The second day will focus on the
regulatory framework for PET drugs, including the recently issued 21 CFR Part 212
regulations establishing the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) for PET
drugs, investigational new drugs applications (INDs), and new drug applications
(NDAs) for PET drug products.
QIBA Third Annual Working
Meeting May 25-26,
Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Rosemont, IL
QIBA was established late in 2007
with representation from pharmaceutical companies, imaging equipment
manufacturers, imaging informatics companies, government agencies, imaging
societies, RSNA leadership and clinical trialists. QIBA held working meetings in
May 2008 and 2009.
This year's meeting will provide an
opportunity for QIBA Quantitative PET, CT, MRI, fMRI and COPD/Asthma committees
to report on the past year's progress and meet face-to-face to plan next steps
and future activities.
Specifically, committees will define
groundwork activities they plan to accomplish in the coming year (such as data
collection from reference objects), identify Profile details they plan to work
on, and determine how their activities align with emerging clarifications of FDA
regulatory guidances and pathways.
Through its committee work, QIBA is
engaged in understanding and reducing errors so that quantitative results are
accurate and reproducible across patients, timepoints, sites, and imaging
devices/software from vendors.
Summaries of the May 2009 and other
QIBA meetings are posted on the QIBA Web site. Ongoing
committee work is posted on the QIBA
QIBA always welcomes new committee
participants. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more
Testimony from February 24
House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and
Innovation hearing
Dr. Daniel C. Sullivan was one of the witnesses who testified before the House
Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation
on February 24, 2010. Testimony from the hearing
"How Can NIST Better Serve the Needs of the Biomedical Research Community in the
21st Century?" addressed ways the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) could assist manufacturers, patients, academicians and
regulators by supporting the development of reference objects, procedures and
measurement standards for assessing the performance of biologics, drugs, and
diagnostic tests and devices.
PubMed Search on
Quantitative Imaging in COPD and Asthma
Each issue of QIBA
Quarterly features a link to a dynamic search in PubMed, the National
Library of Medicine's interface to its MEDLINE database.
Click here to view a PubMed search on quantitative imaging in COPD and
Take advantage of the My NCBI
feature of PubMed which allows you to save searches and results and includes an
option to automatically update and e-mail search results from your saved
My NCBI includes additional features for highlighting search terms, storing
an e-mail address, filtering search results and setting LinkOut, a document
delivery service.
QIBA in the
QIBA's efforts and accomplishments
are the subject of a growing list of journal articles which is posted on the
QIBA Web
As of March 2010, the list
Biomedical Imaging/Disease
Diagnosis: Quality and Standards: Making Bioimaging "Measure Up". Reiss, SM.
BioOptics World. 2010 Jan 1.
Online article.
The Use of Volumetric CT as an
Imaging Biomarker in Lung Cancer. Buckler AJ, Mulshine JL, Gottlieb R, Zhao B,
Mozley PD, Schwartz L. Acad Radiol. 2010 Jan; 17(1):100-6.
PubMed citation.
Volumetric CT in Lung Cancer: An
Example for the Qualification of Imaging as a Biomarker. Buckler AJ, Mozley PD,
Schwartz L, Petrick N, McNitt-Gray M, Fenimore C, O'Donnell K, Hayes W, Kim HJ,
Clarke L, Sullivan D. Acad Radiol. 2010 Jan; 17(1):107-15.
PubMed citation.
Volume CT for Diagnosis of Nodules
Found in Lung-Cancer Screening. Mulshine JL, Jablons DM. N Engl J Med.
2009 Dec 3; 361(23):2281-2.
PubMed citation.
Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
Alliance FDG-PET/CT Working Group report. Frank R; FDG-PET/CT Working Group.
Mol Imaging Biol. 2008 Nov-Dec; 10(6):305.
PubMed citation.
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For decades, the Rio Grande Southern was the lifeblood of the Mancos Valley as it carried tons of cattle, sheep and lumber to various markets. Also important was the tourism trade. Early on, Mesa Verde was one of the highlights for tourists traveling on the RGS.
Years later, while tourists had increased in their numbers to Mesa Verde, they had become a part of the trade for the Rio Grande Southern itself. Special open cars were used to take tourists from Durango to Telluride with a special stop at the summit of Lizard Head Pass so the passengers could disembark and take photos of Lizard Head. The number of passengers per train never reached 100 but it was an up-and-coming moneymaker for the train. No doubt had other things been equal and were paying their share of the costs to keep the train functioning, advertising would have been done to increase the number of tourist passengers.
I remember carnivals coming into town on the train and long before my time the first excursion trip on the RGS was in 1896. To the delight of the passengers, the excursions would stop at Lizard Head Pass, Trout Lake, Ophir and Dallas Divide. Picnics and ball games and even just plain old wildflower gatherings were an excuse to decorate a special train for the events.
In my mind, I seem to recall a circus coming to Mancos but even if it was all before my time, the Otto Floto Show's did come to Mancos on the RGS a number of times using three tourist cars, six flats, four stock cars and a baggage car. It also used an old box car with the roof removed that was called The Elephant Car for an obvious reason.
In 1910, and for a few years later, the Mancos basketball team was the one to beat, and it traveled via the RGS with other train connections to Denver and even into Wyoming. The Mancos Girls Baseball Club was another great team but its heyday came in 1908 a few years earlier.
The RGS had two business cars. They were named "Rico" and "San Juan" and many distinguished persons including William Henry Jackson, the famous photographer, who was hired by Otto Mears to take photos along the line so he could send them back east to influence would-be tourists, and William Jennings Bryan, who used the "San Juan" as one of his campaigning cars as he ran for President.
Prior to World War II, the RGS transported Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers to various locations, one of which was Mesa Verde and is still remembered by a good number of us. In June 1946, the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club used the RGS for a two day excursion that included stopping at Mancos and touring Mesa Verde National Park. Change was in the wind; however, and the demise of the RGS was only a few years away.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWashington, DC – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, released the following statement tonight regarding the special election in Massachusetts:
"The victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts tonight represents several simple facts about the current state of American politics:
1. Pendulums swing. The American people, no matter what their political affiliation, are not comfortable with any one party holding supermajorities in Washington.
2. Americans love freedom. When Washington ignores the will of the people, as the Democratic Party has been doing on so many issues, the people respond at the voting booth to reclaim their own voice.
3. Elections are the answer. Whether the issue is health care, abortion, or anything else, when the people feel powerless to change the minds of those in power, they change those in power.
"Priests for Life has launched its 2010 political responsibility activities and will hold a national conference call on Monday night January 25 from 9 to 10pm ET to help individuals, organizations, and Churches do all they can to influence the elections of November 2010. To sign up, see www.priestsforlife.org/conferencecall."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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We Connecticut sports fans thought there would never be another year quite like 2004, when the UConn men, UConn women, Red Sox and Patriots all won titles. But 2013 might be a contender. On Tuesday the UConn women won their eighth NCAA basketball title in a blowout over Louisville.
Today brings the semifinal rounds of the NCAA "Frozen Four" men's hockey tournament in Pittsburgh — and two of the four teams in the tourney are from Connecticut. Indeed, the icemen from Yale and Quinnipiac universities are in different brackets, so if both win today, Saturday's championship will be the War of Whitney Avenue. Who would have thought?
Not for nothing are both schools from Greater New Haven. As The Courant's Dom Amore explains today, New Haven has a long and marvelous hockey tradition: It's the birthplace of modern youth hockey programs, a hotbed of high school hockey, and it was home to some colorful minor league teams over 75 years. When local college hockey got hot, the city embraced it.
And that bodes well for the rest of the state. UConn's hockey team will begin playing in the XL Center in Hartford in 2014, and though it will be in a different conference than Yale and Quinnipiac, the opportunities are there for intrastate rivalries and plenty of exciting games. College hockey is gaining popularity. For once, Connecticut may be the right place at the right time.
Best of luck to coach Keith Allain and his Yale Bulldogs, and coach Rand Pecknold and his Quinnipiac Bobcats. And a note to sportscasters: Quinnipiac is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, not the third, as a basketball announcer did Tuesday night. After this weekend, that mistake is not likely to be made again.


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There are many research centers working closely with treatment centers across the United States and throughout the world. These centers play a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of many serious illnesses such as Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS. Health professionals depend upon new information that comes from scientific research to learn better ways of treating diseases. In many cases, the goal of research is to determine if a new drug or medical procedure is more beneficial than the current standard.
Prior to participating in a study, you may be approached by one of the research staff at your treatment facility about a study that may be of interest to you, or you may come across a research project that is listed at the research center. If you are interested and eligible for the study, you and the research staff begin the process of informed consent.
Informed consent involves more than just signing a document. Informed consent is a process that includes on-going conversations between the potential participant and research staff regarding the clinical study to give you the opportunity to make an informed decision about participating in the research.
Informed consent helps ensure that the research is ethical and adheres to government standards. Informed consent is based on the ethical principle of respect for persons. Informed consent recognizes the importance of individual autonomy, the belief that individuals are able to make self-determined and rational decisions.
There are four key elements to informed consent:
Communication: Information about the study is communicated to the potential research participant.
Comprehension: Refers to the ability of someone to understand what was explained. Individuals must have the opportunity to ask questions about the study and the informed consent document must be written in lay language, free of technical jargon. A research participant must be competent to give consent, or have an advocate assigned to them if unable to give consent.
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To assist people considering participating in a study, the informed consent document should always include the following information about a research project:
Although reading the consent form may seem intimidating, it is important to take the time to understand what is being explained about the study. The research staff is knowledgeable and happy to answer any questions you may have about the study after reading the form. The informed consent process is designed to provide the information you need in making the right decision for you.
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The reality of the church is not seen in the splendor of its buildings, the size of its congregation, the number of its programs, the amount of its budget or the sophistication of its liturgy. It is seen in changed lives--and if there are no changed lives, there is no church. Paul, in rather blunt language, reminds the Corinthians of this truth in the final section of his letter: "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test?" (13:5). The challenge is not an idle one. There is every possibility that the Corinthians--or any church, for that matter--will fail the test, if the vices listed in verses 20-21 are, to any extent, a reality in the life of the congregation (see Rev 2--3).
But before Paul can call the Corinthians to account, he must dispel any notion that he is the one on trial here. All this bragging that he has been doing could sound as if he were mounting a defense that the church, as judge and jury, was called to pass judgment on: Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? (v. 19). In actuality the apostles' only judge is God, in whose sight they speak (v. 19). The Corinthian intruders cared a great deal about what people thought of them, and so they fashioned their preaching to appeal to their audience (11:4). But Paul cared only about God's opinion, which was wholly determined by whether he spoke in Christ (as Christ's representative) or "in himself" (as his own advocate).
The authority Paul received as Christ's representative was intended for constructive, not destructive purposes--although not everyone always saw it that way, especially where discipline was involved. Growth toward spiritual maturity is not always an easy process for the church. Just as correction is a necessary, if somewhat painful, part of growing up for children, so also it serves as a needful part of the maturing process for the church. Yet the church rarely looks on correction in this way. Too often we gravitate toward the pastor or teacher who flatters us and not the one who corrects us.
This is why Paul goes on to say that everything he does is for the church's strengthening. Ta panta (literally, "the whole") is placed first for emphasis. Everything without exception is done for their good--even correction. The good, in this case, is defined as that which "builds up" (NIV strengthens). Oikodome is Paul's favorite term for the church's growth toward spiritual maturity (Rom 14:19; 15:2; 1 Cor 14:3, 5, 12, 26; 2 Cor 12:19; Eph 4:12, 16, 29). The image is of a building that is still under construction. In some cases the work involves laying the foundation of a new church (1 Cor 3:9); in other cases it is erecting the walls of a more established congregation (Eph 2:21). This is what ultimately distinguished Paul from his rivals. He did whatever it took to upbuild the church, while his rivals did whatever they could to upbuild themselves.
The average pastor does not enjoy rebuking a congregation. Paul is no different. For this reason he expresses too fears about his upcoming visit to Corinth. His first fear is that when he comes, he will not find the church as he wants them to be (v. 20). The Corinthian worst-case scenario is formidable: quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder (v. 20)--not to mention impurity, sexual sin and debauchery (v. 21). The eight vices listed in verse 20 typify a community fractured by envy, conceit and selfish ambition. The initial four--quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions--are found in the same order in Galatians 5:20.
Quarreling (or better, "rivalry," eris) heads the roster. The basic idea is fighting over pride of place. Jesus' disciples argued over who was the greatest (Mk 9:33-34) and who was to sit at Jesus' right and left hand (Mk 10:35-38). Pride of place also characterized the Corinthians from early on (1 Cor 1:11; 3:3). Jealousy (zelos) should logically precede quarreling, since it is what often gives rise to it. With the exception of this reference, zelos is a positive attribute in 2 Corinthians, denoting the capacity of passionate commitment to a person or cause ("zeal"; Stumpff 1964a:877). But when zeal is for the things another person possesses, it easily moves--as it does here--toward jealousy. Thymos is passion that wells up or boils over. The NIV's outbursts of anger catches the sense well.
The word translated factions (eritheiai) most likely refers to a self-seeking mindset that views everything from a what's-in-it-for-me perspective. In the New Testament it is commonly linked with envy for what others have (Gal 5:20; Jas 3:14, 16). The next too vices are closely related. Slander is something that is spoken publicly, while gossip (literally "whispering") is something that is whispered behind the back. Both can be (and often are) devastating to the life of the church.
The Greek word translated arrogance (physiosis) means to be "inflated with a sense of one's own importance." It is a problem that crops up repeatedly in 1 Corinthians (4:6, 18, 19; 5:2; 8:1; 13:4). Finally, disorder (akatastasia) renders a term that normally denotes a public disturbance. It occurs in 2 Corinthians 6:5 in a list of troubles accompanying Paul's missionary labors. But here it likely refers to congregational disturbances of the sort implied in 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Timothy 2. Along similar lines, James states that "where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (3:16).
Paul's second fear is that the Corinthians will not find him to their liking when he comes. He prefers to come to them in gentleness. But if his worst fears are realized, he will come to them with the rod that his rivals claimed he was too timid to wield (10:1; compare 1 Cor 4:21). This will especially be the case if he comes and finds impurity, sexual sin and debauchery still in evidence (v. 21). Akatharsia ("impurity") is a general term for uncleanness of any kind--anything that would make a person unfit to enter God's presence (Barclay 1954:265). Porneia, on the other hand, refers more specifically to "sexual sins," which includes adultery but goes beyond (such as prostitution and homosexual offenses [1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10]). Aselgeia ("debauchery") denotes wanton defiance of public decency (Plummer 1915:370).
The trio is startling, especially since concern for such gross sins does not surface earlier in the letter. Indeed, the perfect tense signifies an ongoing state of affairs (proemartekoton), and Paul anticipates that on visiting the Corinthians he will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented (v. 21).
If Paul finds the sins listed in verses 20-21 present on his return, he will, in the first place, be humbled: God will humble me before you (v. 21). How exactly Paul expects to be humbled is not clear. He could be fearful that his third visit will be a repeat of the second one, when he was publicly humiliated and the Corinthians did nothing to support him (2:5-11; 7:8-13). Or he may be worried that on his return the Corinthians will show a preference for the false apostles over him, which would cause acute pain. The most likely possibility is that Paul will be humiliated by the Corinthians' lack of moral discipline. After all, like any good parent he took pride in his Gentile churches, and anything that disgraced them also disgraced him (Plummer 1915:369).
Paul has been bragging about the Corinthians to the Macedonian believers. If his pride in them proves to be false, he will experience no little embarrassment before the Macedonians who accompany him to Corinth. Moreover, such reports of sexual promiscuity would confirm the worst fears of the Jewish community about the Gentiles' ability to live a moral life apart from the Mosaic law. As apostle to the Gentiles and advocate of Christian freedom, Paul could well feel as if he were directly responsible for the Corinthians' lack of moral fortitude.
Continuing sin will cause Paul, in the second place, to be grieved on his return to Corinth (v. 21). Pentheo usually refers to sorrow that expresses itself in a demonstrative fashion (such as lament, wailing, tears). So Paul may fear that he will be overcome by sorrow at the shame brought on the community by the reprehensible activities of some of its members. Then too, if faced with the kinds of sins listed in verse 21--not to mention those found in verse 20--he would be reduced to using his authority in a punitive way, which would cause him great sadness.
It is startling to hear Paul give voice to such ethical misgivings at this point in the letter (Plummer 1915:370). Nothing in the earlier chapters prepares us for what we find here. How is it to be explained? The sins in verse 21 are of the libertine sort that Paul tackled in 1 Co-rinthians ("a man has his father's wife. And you are proud!" 5:2). Verse 20, on the other hand, catalogs some old and some new problems. Quarreling, jealousy, factions and arrogance are old. Outbursts of anger, slander, gossip and disorder are new.
The single ingredient that would account for both the new and the old concerns is the activity of the Corinthian intruders. The list in verse 20, in particular, is symptomatic of the schismatic influence of outsiders on congregational life. Many of these problems were undoubtedly there all along, but Paul had restrained himself in order to address the larger issue of his apostolic authority. After all, if he does not have the Corinthians' loyalty and is no longer confident of their ready obedience, how can he hope to effect a willing change in their behavior? What would be the point of reasoning with them as he did in 1 Corinthians?
Paul's response on finding such sins at Corinth will not stop at shame and grief. He will, third, be forced to act severely toward the Corinthians. If the church does not clean up its act by the time he comes, he assures them that punishment will not be spared them, as it was on his previous visit (1:23).
In the Roman legal system, punishment was meted out on the basis of a verdict reached by a magistrate (and sometimes his council) regarding a person's innocence or guilt. As in our Western legal system today, the process included the drawing up of charges, the formal act of accusation, the solicitation of witnesses, the hearing of evidence and the presentation of arguments for and against the accused (compare Jn 18:28--19:16). At 13:1 Paul turns the tables on the Corinthians and puts them in the position of the accused, while he takes up the role of the plaintiff. The expert witnesses become Paul's visits to Corinth: This will be my third visit to you. "Every matter must be established by the testimony of too or three witnesses."
It is legitimate to put the second half of verse 1 in quotation marks, as the NIV does. Paul is quoting Deuteronomy 19:15, which stipulates that one witness is not enough to convict a person accused of a crime; such matters must be established by the testimony of at least too witnesses. Paul had previously made too visits to Corinth--his founding visit in A.D. 50-52 (Acts 18:1-17) and his so-called painful visit a few years later, at which time he had been humiliated (2 Cor 11:21) and his apostolic authority publicly challenged by someone in the Corinthian congregation (12:3). This third visit will constitute the decisive witness, going beyond the minimum witnesses required by Jewish law.
For some infractions of Jewish and Roman law it was possible to merely give a warning (as in Acts 4:18). Paul's grace extends to giving the Corinthians not one, but too warnings. He had given the Corinthians a warning on his second visit, which he now repeats while still absent: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others. Those who sinned earlier are most likely members of the Corinthian church who were still engaging in the illicit acts mentioned in 12:21 (proemartekoton). Who then are "all the rest" (kai tois loipois pasin; NIV's any of the others)? It is improbable that Paul is referring to those who had fallen into sin since his last visit (Bratcher 1983:143). More likely prospects are those who had come under the sway of the false apostles (M. J. Harris 1976:412) or those who were committing the divisive sins listed in 12:20--although in all probability the too groups are one and the same.
The disciplinary action Paul promises to carry out is not specified. Public censure would surely be a part of it (compare Mt 18:17). Excommunication was what Paul mandated in the case of the incestuous Corinthian Christian (1 Cor 5). Some suppose that supernatural infliction of bodily suffering would be included (for example, Plummer 1915:374). The Corinthians had experienced this early on as a punishment for their disdain of poorer brothers and sisters at the Lord's Supper (1 Cor 11:27-34).
Either way, they will have the proof they are demanding. Paul will clearly show them that Christ is speaking through [him] (v. 3). The Corinthians had apparently insisted that Paul give some convincing sign of his apostolic status. They may well have been looking for some display of miraculous power similar to what his rivals laid claim to. Paul states that he will indeed provide proof, but it may not be the proof that they are expecting. For one, it will not be his power but Christ's: He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you (v. 3). Two, the power Paul speaks of will not be a wonderoorking display but a disciplinary rod used on members of the congregation who continue to sin in flagrant disobedience of Paul's authority.
Paul goes on to warn the Corinthians not to be fooled by his gentle demeanor. It may seem as if he operates out of weakness, but beware: this was the same mistaken estimate that Jesus' adversaries made of him. For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power (v. 4). What Paul means by he was crucified in weakness is debated. He could be speaking of an erroneous human perception, similar to his statement in 5:16: "we once regarded Christ [from a worldly point of view]." By the world's standards Jesus' ministry was a failure. He claimed to be the Messiah and asserted that he would usher in the kingdom of God. But in the end he succumbed to weakness and died a criminal's death.
Yet this reading of the text overlooks the aorist. Christ was crucified in weakness--not "seemed" to be or "was regarded" as such. The opening kai confirms this point: to be sure (NIV), "true" (NEB), "yes" (JB, Phillips). Paul is acknowledging that Christ did in fact die in weakness. The Greek is literally "out of weakness." Ex astheneias can specify the reason ("by reason of weakness," Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich 1979:3f) or the underlying rule or principle ("because of weakness," Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich 1979:3i). Either way, the point is the same: the crucifixion showed Christ's essential mortality. Weak and frail human being that he was, when he was subjected to physical trauma, he died just as we do.
Unlike us, however, Christ did not remain in weakness. Divine power prevailed over human weakness, and he came to life. The same idea is powerfully captured in the familiar lyric by Sandi Patti, "They Could Not":
So, finally upon a rugged cross
They killed the man who would not suffer loss
And when at last they took what willingly he gave
He died--but could they keep him in the grave?
They could not; they could not.
Praise God, they could not!
Not only did Christ come to life, but even more, he now lives by God's power (zh ek dynamews theou, v. 4). The present tense emphasizes ongoing life. So we might translate this "he continues to live by the power of God." As Ralph P. Martin notes, Christ's weakness, as shown in the crucifixion, was not the result of a lack of power. When Christ chose the cross, he did so because he was acting in God's power (1986:475). And as Christ, so the apostle: Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him to serve you (v. 4). Paul places the pronoun hemeis in an emphatic position and broadens the thought to include his associates: we are weak. He undoubtedly is referring to the frailty and hardship that typify the life of the itinerant preacher (11:23-27). His rivals thought otherwise--as did some of the Corinthians. But just as many were mistaken about Christ, so they are mistaken about the lot of the apostle.
Even so, his opponents were right on one point. There is a very real power at the disposal of the Christian. Not only does Paul share in Christ's sufferings and become like him in his death, but at the same time he also shares in the power of his resurrection: By God's power we will live with him to serve you. We will live with him has an eschatological ring to it. But to serve you snaps us back into the present order of things. So what is Paul talking about? How will he live with Christ to serve the Corinthians? Eis hymas (to serve you) is perhaps better translated "toward you" or "in our dealings with you." That is, the same power that raised Christ from the dead and sustains his life even now is the power that Paul will wield on his next visit to Corinth (that is, "by God's power we will live toward you").
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Dancing with wolverines
When a wolverine splayed his huge clawed paw onto my shoulder, the tip of each powerful nail pressing firmly, I was filled with a reckless elation. But I remained still, because I recalled that wolverines have a special molar angled sharply inward that allows them to tear muscle and hide from carrion, pulverize bone.
A wolverine snuffling at your throat commands your attention.
A while back, an acquaintance mentioned he'd been to a clandestine reserve in the Northwest where wolverines scaled him like a tree. A desperate envy swept over me. Wolverines seemed impossibly exotic, like the Antarctic or the jungles of Borneo. If only a couple of wolverines would crawl on me, fill me with strange new sensations, my life might again spring vivid before me.
I pestered my connection for months before I obtained permission for a visit. Finally, on a gray misting day, I turned down an innocuous drive into the well-hidden sanctuary. The owner took me into his office. He said his wolverines -- his "kids," as he called them -- were getting older. He wasn't letting strangers in to meet them anymore. He showed me pictures of the animals, including one of bleary-eyed wolverine kits appearing to hatch from eggs, and seemed disappointed when I wasn't taken in by the Photoshopped image. An hour went by. He led me to an observation platform perched above a large enclosure. Below, 17 wolverines ambled and climbed and wrestled. When another hour passed with no hint of getting closer, I began to suspect I had failed an unspoken test. I determined to be thankful for this rare, if somewhat distant, viewing.
And it was then, when I relaxed into the limits of his offering, that he invited me in.
As we entered, a half-dozen animals came running, bunching and releasing their long bodies as they dodged logs and rock formations. Another scampered down a fallen tree, his hind legs alternately swinging away from his body, then forward, like an Olympian on a balance beam. Though they had met other humans, they had not met this particular human on this particular day, so they advanced, scenting the air, curious.
Devil bear, glutton, ommethatsee ("one who likes to steal") are just a few of the many names given to Gulo gulo, the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family. With the strength to take down a moose caught in deep snow, wolverines thrive in the harshest, most inaccessible terrain. They remain so elusive that some veteran wolverine researchers have never seen one free in the wild. They are empty tracks, blurred glimpses, rumors. They are fear-riddled stories, the inspiration for superhero movies and mass exterminations. Yet here I was, enclosed with 17 of them -- captive animals, true, but not domesticated. "I want my wolverines to be wolverines," the owner said.
I lowered myself onto a stone bench and waited for contact. As they drew near, they edged their lips back and strained the air of me through their teeth, then leapt onto the bench and poked their noses into various nooks and crannies, my armpit being the least personal. A burly fellow, the black in his coat so lush and deep it appeared to hold every color in the universe, licked at my wrist. Another sniffed my hand, took a pinch of skin between his teeth and pulled, releasing it without a mark. When a third nipped at my elbow with a bit more oomph, the owner stomped forward with a clap and the wolverine scurried back –– but only for a second. I heard a crunching at my side and realized one had just eaten the zipper toggle off my rain jacket.
"They like things that dangle," the owner explained. But, despite all the tales of Gulo bloodlust, there was no raking of my face into new arrangements, no crushing snaps of clavicle or femur -- just this presumptuous, almost scientific, investigation.
Not all the wolverines cared to meet me during my hour in their enclosure. Two spent the time tormenting a graying Labrador named Stoney. Over and over, they snuck up behind him and yanked his tail, his resultant umbrage only egging them on. A few napped, paws thrown over their eyes, while others instigated play fights, vibrating the air with the sounds of bloody-throated slaughter, causing the hair on my arm to quiver.
Well-kept wolverines, it seems, are bold and shy, inquisitive and indifferent, playful and grouchy. They might practice somersaults, splash in a pond or decorate a chain-link fence with twigs. The owner has been observing these rare mustelids for decades. He's probably had more direct contact with wolverines than any person living today, perhaps any person ever. He claims to know nothing about them. Each day, he watches his "kids" with the eyes of one who is willing to be surprised.
When I got home from the reserve that afternoon, my two dogs raced to greet me as always, eager to assess who I was in that moment, understanding that every encounter is a meeting of the unknown. And for their effort, they landed in the wildness embedded in my jeans and coat and skin -- the skunky, smoky, old-leather essence of wolverine. Their eyes went wide and they panted and spun and nipped at my clothes, as if the devil bears were even then sneaking up, tugging at their tails. They yipped and danced in ecstatic frenzies, drunk on joyful discovery.
It's hard not to envy my dogs -- for their wolverine dance, a descriptive feat of muscle and voice far surpassing puny words, and for their unshakable faith that no matter how familiar the surface, something new or mysterious or impossibly exotic may be only a sniff away.


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Anton But was scoreless in CSKA's 2-0 loss to Mytischi. Alexei Glukhov did not play in the match.
Vitali Smolianinov was scoreless in Astana's 3-2 loss to Kazan. Ilya Solarev did not play for Astana. Dimitri Kazionov was scoreless for Kazan.
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Anton But was scoreless in CSKA's 3-1 win over MVD.
Albert Vishnyakov had a goal in Novokuznetsk's 7-0 pasting of Riga.
Dimitri Kazionov had 1 assist in Kazan's 4-0 win over Voskresensk.
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Albert Vishnyakov had a goal and was +1 in Novokuznetsk's 5-2 win over Minsk.
Dimitri Kazionov was scoreless and -1 in Kazan's 4-2 win over Omsk.
Ilja Solarev was scoreless in Astana's 2-1 shootout win over Nizhnekamsk. Also on Astana's roster is the immortal Vitali Smolianinov. I kid you not.
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Yesterday marked the innagural matches of the new Russian Elite League, the KHL. So, the season is finally here!
Albert Vishnyakov had 1 assist and was -1 in Novokuznetsk's 5-4 overtime loss to Minsk.
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Harju Receives Positive NewsSubmitted by timothy on August 6, 2008 - 09:55
Lightning prospect followers can breathe a sigh of relief today as the Bolts' highest ranked European prospect, 22 year-old forward Johan Harju, received some positive news regarding the hamstring injury he suffered Monday in Lulea's first practice session for the upcoming season.
Lasse Lundgren, Lulea physiotherapist, indicated that damage is not uncommon for hockey players and expects the left winger to return to the ice in the next few days. The injury was a "rupture" to the hamstring and intends to get Harju running Wednesday or Thursday as part of the usual rehab of injuries such as this. Lundgren said there would be no rush for Harju and that he would be rested for a bit considering the importance of the upcoming season for Lulea.
Harju admitted that he first noticed the hamstring back in July when he was playing land hockey and missed a tackle.
A sixth round pick by the Lightning in the 2007 draft, Harju has scored 32 goals in 106 games over the past two seasons for Lulea in the SEL.
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Norrbottens-Kuriren is reporting that Lightning prospect Johan Harju suffered a possible knee injury during an on-ice practice session with Lulea for the upcoming SEL season. Apparently, Harju went to make a turn and felt a snap in the back of his knee. The team is being cautious with the possible injury and Harju left the ice in order to get a medical examination of the knee by a doctor. No further information about the extent of the injury are known at this time.
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After six years of volunteering in developing countries as a physical therapy (PT) teacher, Assoc. Prof. Deirdra Murphy is still amazed at how much she learns from each international experience.
"I am a better teacher because I always learn something new," says Murphy. "Like my students, I am often shocked at the lack of facilities and physical therapy equipment. But these challenges force us to think on our feet and get creative."
For the past five summers, she has traveled to Peru, Nicaragua and Turkey with UMass Lowell students, helping children and families overcome disabilities. This past June, through Health Volunteers Overseas, she taught workshops to students and faculty at the Universidad Mariano Galvez, a private, non-faith based institution of higher education founded in 1966 in Guatemala City. The goal was to help the university strengthen its PT curriculum.
While there, she scoped out possible service learning projects for UMass Lowell students at a local orphanage. "I really love taking our students to other countries and watching how they handle real-life experiences," says Murphy. "They learn how to be flexible and creative in almost any situation. If patients don't have crutches or speak the same language, what do you do?"
Murphy plans on designing a service-learning project in Guatemala for students in collaboration with alumni fluent in Spanish.


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More calls after murder leaflet campaign
Police investigating the murder of a teenager in Colchester say they've recieved a number of calls after a poster campaign this weekend. Seventeen year old Jay Whiston was stabbed at a house party on Marlowe Way on September 8.
Police asked people gardening over Easter to help in the search for the murder weapon. Detectives say theyr are now following up on the calls.


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Irreplaceable Richard Crenna
By: Legacy Staff
5 years ago
Richard Crenna was an actor who was blessed with career longevity like few others – for more than 65 years, from radio to TV to movies, he created memorable characters. With his first radio role coming when he was just 11 years old – and his final TV role ending only with his death, 10 years ago today – Crenna was truly a lifelong star.
One of Crenna's earliest gigs was playing gawky high-schooler Walter Denton on Our Miss Brooks – both on radio and TV.
Just a few years later, Crenna made the transition from child actor to adult star when he took a role on TV's The Real McCoys. For six seasons, Crenna played farmer Luke McCoy (not to be confused with his brother, Little Luke).
Crenna's start in radio and TV led to a long and varied movie career. His many films included The Sand Pebbles, Un Flic, The Flamingo Kid, Body Heat, and the Audrey Hepburn classic Wait Until Dark.
Perhaps the best-known character Crenna played on the big screen is Colonel Sam Troutman, former commanding officer of John Rambo in the first three Rambo films.
Crenna rounded out his fine career with a recurring role on TV's Judging Amy, the last he would ever take. When he died 10 years ago today at age 76, his character, Jared Duff, had to be written out of the show. Richard Crenna was simply irreplaceable.


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In LR, can one technically be able to accomplish everything in the Basic WB and Tone with curves?
No...the Basic panel of Process Version 2012 has image adaptive logic for highlight recovery and shadow boosting that can not be duplicated using curves. Curves as still useful but more for a precise finesse instead of trying to do the heavy lifting when tone mapping.
The sliders in the Basic Panel and the curve in the Tone Curve panel do different things. While you may be able to use one or the other and not both, the two aren't substitutes for each other.
By "not both", are you saying that the sliders and tone controls cannot be used on the same image? If so, why?....or am I misreading your statement?
By "not both", are you saying that the sliders and tone controls cannot be used on the same image? If so, why?John
No, that wasn't what I was saying. Apologies for the confusion. What I was saying was that you may be able to use either the Basic Panel sliders alone or the Tone Curve alone and that you may not have to use both depending on the image and what you're trying to achieve. That certainly doesn't preclude using both. But the two controls do different things so one is not a substitute for the other.
Bart, I thought the Tone Curve in LR/ACR was a true luminance curve and didn't impact colour. Unlike the Curves tool in PS which, in Normal blend mode, does impact both contrast and colour which is why it's often changed to the Luminosity blend mode.
If I remember it correctly, I had a conversation with Eric on this sometime back...requesting a "switch" to luminosity blending of the curves in LR. He confirmed it did not have it. I don't remember, without searching for the notes, if he said it might be a future consideration. I would love it if it were added.John
Charlie Cramer has a tutorial posted on the site expressly about this subject. It was about 3 months ago. Very informative.
There is a post on here from a couple of days ago where the Digital Dog retells a story about Dan Margulis asking Thomas Knoll to implement a luminousity curve in ACR and he declined much to Dan's chagrin. This was a while back.
As I mentioned above, I would love it...as an on/off switch....I have yet to find an image where it was not fixed by a little negative saturation. It may not be scientifically or mathematically exactly the same as luminosity, but we are playing horseshoes here, aren't we?


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Juan Castillo called himself "a defensive guy that's gotten stuck on the offensive side" as he was surprisingly introduced as the Eagles' new defensive coordinator.
Castillo replaces the fired Sean McDermott, who would later become defensive coordinator with Carolina.
"It's a tribute to the hard work and diligence and the kind of football coach he is, if you have the opportunity to talk to any player, the opportunity to talk to any coach who have been a Philadelphia Eagle," coach Andy Reid. "What might seem a little strange is just a very confident move and one that will take our defense to another level. I look forward to the combination of [new defensive line coach] Jim Washburn and Juan Castillo and the new additions that will play out over time."
Reid said "there are a couple of pieces to the puzzle." The Eagles also announced the hiring of Howard Mudd as offensive line coach.
Reid said he knew of Castillo's desire to be a defensive coach, but said he told Castillo that he would be his offensive line coach until he found someone else who could do the job as well.
"This decision, I take my time making decisions. That's what I do. I evaluate," Reid said. "I am losing a great offensive line coach, I am also gaining a great one. I wasn't going to weaken the offensive line and the coaching there. I had to do a little bit of evaluation and it took a little bit of time to get the pieces together."
Reid was asked about this being another in a string of risks for the Eagles.
"Somewhere Mike Holmgren took a risk and took a line coach and made him a quarterbacks coach," he said, speaking of himself. "I'm sure that wasn't perceived as the prettiest picture. Some of you guys when I came here and you were looking at me going who is this guy. I went from to not being a coordinator to being a head football coach. Jeffrey and Joe, they took a risk. They did their homework to make that risk amongst themselves, a secure risk … There was a confidence there. I understand that.
"It's important for any of us when doors open in life, you have that opportunity, now you take advantage of that opportunity. I have absolute full confidence that Juan will do that … There are certain guys that give you the confidence that they can do anything, and he's one of them."
Added Castillo, "All my life has been a risk .. My life has always been about proving people wrong and I think that's what Philadelphia is."
Reid said the terminology will remain the same. "He knows the terminology as well or better than anbody that we use here. It's not that we have to change that as we make that change."
As for Castillo, he said, "We're going to get back to being physical and fundamentally sound here … Jim Washburn was brought here to get our defensive line up the field. We're going to be fast, physical and fundamentally sound and be the best defense in the NFL."
Reid insisted the Eagles have "good football players" and went on to laud the job by general manager Howie Roseman and his staff.
Castillo is noted for his intensity and energy on the offensive line
"If I can do that with 35 guys, can you imagine what our defense will be like here?" he said. "We want to win the Super Bowl … I wanted to take the philosophy I used on my line and use it with the defensive side."
Castillo mentioned how excited he was and how excited the players are for the future.
"I have been here with a lot of the guys," Castillo said. "They know me as a defensive guy. I am always getting after their butt [on the offensive line] … The players are going to learn what you emphasize."
Reid talked about how excited Washburn and Mudd are to join the staff.
"I am looking for guys that are bringing energy and want to be here and help the Philadelphia Eagles," Reid said. "I have young players who bring energy. I can't wait to get everybody here and get this thing rolling.
The Eagles have openings at linebackers coach and in the secondary.
"Juan and I are going through that process right now," Reid said. "We will take it from here and move."
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H.R. 1315, the Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement ActPosted by on April 26, 2011
The expansive powers given to the CFPB to write rules will have far-reaching implications. Yet, the Dodd-Frank Act makes the CFPB's judgments essentially unreviewable. The Dodd-Frank Act did include a review process, but the process is essentially meaningless . The Act allows the Financial Stability Over-sight Council to review rulemaking by the CFPB, but it must meet virtually impossible prerequisites in order to overturn any CFPB rulemaking.
Among the extreme standards the FSOC must meet to overturn a rule are:
The Consumer Financial Safety and Soundness Improvement Act (H.R. 1315), introduced by Rep. Sean Duffy on April 1, improves the FSOC review process and makes the review process meaningful. H.R. 1315 improves the FSOC review process by changing the vote to overturn a CFPB rule from a super-majority of two-thirds of the FSOC to a simple majority; ensuring the FSOC must set aside a rule if it is inconsistent with the safe and sound operations of United States financial institutions; and giving the FSOC sufficient time to consider the safety and soundness implications of rules.
The opinions expressed below are those of their respective authors and do not necessarily represent those of this office.
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 20, 1996 -- What's the R-value in your walls? The answer used to be simply the R-value of your wall insulation. For standard wood frame construction, determining R-value, or resistance to heat flow, based solely on wall insulation was not too far off.
But because of the increasing use of metal frame systems and other more conductive materials, such as masonry and concrete, in our walls, R-value should now be determined by studying the whole wall, not just the insulation. How? By using a new wall testing and rating procedure developed at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
"We've created a procedure to help users measure the ability of whole walls to hold in heat in the winter and keep out heat in the summer," says Jeff Christian, program manager for Building Thermal Envelope Systems at ORNL's Buildings Technology Center (BTC), a DOE user facility at ORNL.
"At BTC, we test and rate whole walls for users. We can work with traditional wood-frame walls containing traditional materials, ranging from face brick to interior drywall. And we can test metal-frame walls and insulating concrete forms, which are gaining popularity in residential construction."
Previously, rating procedures produced a wall R-value based on measurements at the center of a wall cavity. For example, if a wall's insulation had an R-19 value, the whole wall was rated as R-19. However, this approach fails to take into account increased heat leakages at corners, doors, windows, and studs that offer lower resistance to heat flow than insulation materials. The ORNL approach accounts for these factors.
"Because of the complicated nature of energy flows in buildings, we note a particular need for accurate and comprehensive measures of building energy performance. Limited comparisons such as R-value differences can lead to considerable misrepresentation of benefit. As a result, energy performance measurement research may be the best use of shrinking federal research dollars. The national laboratories can provide the scientific basis necessary to 'level the playing field' without the bias of a particular technology, material, or strategy. ORNL's initiative on whole wall performance ratings is an excellent example of how federal research resources can benefit both industry and the general public," said John M. Talbott, program manager, DOE Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs.
"Several state energy agencies," Christian says, are thinking about adopting the procedure. "We have already worked with seven firms and currently are working with another four. About 36 companies have expressed interest in becoming BTC users and adding their wall system to the electronic base available on the Internet's World Wide Web."
Users pay $3000 to $15,000 each for testing and detailed computer modeling of their systems. A whole wall's resistance to heat flow is measured using steady-state and dynamic testing in BTC's new Rotatable Guarded Hot Box. The test results are then entered into an ORNL-developed simulation model called HEATING, which predicts the thermal performance of the opaque wall (everything except the windows and doors).
Total wall R-value ratings allow builders and buyers to compare thermal resistances of dissimilar walls. This capability is especially important because of the growing use of alternative wall systems and construction materials such as steel, structural ceramics, left-in-place insulating foam forms and structural insulating panels (wood-foam-wood sandwiches).
"We put the wall performance information in a database on the World Wide Web,"
Christian says. "Home designers, builders, realtors, and buyers can use it to
predict ratings for these wall systems customized for their own housing plans."
The Web address is http://www.
Funding for the research is provided by DOE, Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs and the host of private firms developing alternative exterior wall systems for the future.
ORNL, one of the Department of Energy's multiprogram national research and development facilities, is managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research.
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The TPS752xxQ and TPS754xxQ devices are low-dropout regulators with integrated power-on reset and power-good (PG) functions respectively. These devices are capable of supplying 2 A of output current with a dropout of 210 mV (TPS75233Q, TPS75433Q). Quiescent current is 75 µA at full load and drops down to 1 µA when the device is disabled. These devices are designed to have fast transient response for larger load current changes.
Because the PMOS device behaves as a low-value resistor, the dropout voltage is very low (typically 210 mV at an output current of 2 A for the TPS75x33Q) and is directly proportional to the output current. Additionally, because the PMOS pass element is a voltage-driven device, the quiescent current is very low and independent of output loading (typically 75 µA over the full range of output current, 1 mA to 2 A). These two key specifications yield a significant improvement in operating life for battery-powered systems.
The device is enabled when EN is connected to a low-level input voltage. This LDO family also features a sleep mode; applying a TTL high signal to EN (enable) shuts down the regulator, reducing the quiescent current to less than 1 µA at TJ = +25°C.
The RESET (SVS, POR, or power on reset) output of the TPS752xxQ initiates a reset in microcomputer and microprocessor systems in the event of an undervoltage condition. An internal comparator in the TPS752xxQ monitors the output voltage of the regulator to detect an undervoltage condition on the regulated output voltage. When the output reaches 95% of its regulated voltage, RESET goes to a high-impedance state after a 100-ms delay. RESET goes to a logic-low state when the regulated output voltage is pulled below 95% (that is, during an overload condition) of its regulated voltage.
The TPS754xxQ has a power good terminal (PG) as an active high, open drain output for use with a power-on reset or a low-battery indicator.
The TPS754xxQ and TPS752xxQ are offered in 1.5 V, 1.8 V, 2.5 V and 3.3 V fixed-voltage versions and in an adjustable version (programmable over the range of 1.5 V to 5 V). Output voltage tolerance is specified as a maximum of 2% over line, load, and temperature ranges. The TPS754xxQ and TPS752xxQ families are available in a 20-pin TSSOP (PWP) package.


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A Havre Boucher man's body was found by RCMP divers Wednesday in his truck, which was submerged in about five metres of water at the end of the community's wharf.
The 65-year-old man told his family he was going fishing Tuesday at about 4 p.m., RCMP said in a news release.
Family members began looking for him after he didn't return home that evening. Just before noon Wednesday, they located his truck in the water.
Antigonish district RCMP and the Havre Boucher Volunteer Fire Department responded to the call. The RCMP dive team was called in to assist with the recovery of the vehicle.
The man's body was discovered inside the truck at about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday.
An autopsy was expected to be performed Thursday, police said.
The investigation into the fatality continues, RCMP said, but foul play is not suspected.


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Michigan Education Association Gives Up Fight Against Two Teachers Who Exercised Worker Freedom Rights
Union still threatening to ruin the credit ratings of thousands of other teachers who did the same
For Immediate Release
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Ted O'Neil
Media Relations Manager
MIDLAND — The Michigan Education Association has dropped its fight against unfair labor practice complaints filed by two teachers who said they were bullied and intimidated for trying to exercise their rights under Michigan's worker freedom laws, according to Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. The MCLF filed the complaints at the Michigan Employment Relations Commission last October on behalf of Miriam Chanski and Ray Arthur.
"Miriam and Ray have received all of the relief they requested and are now free to enjoy the benefits of Michigan's right-to-work law," Wright said. "The law is very clear. If you work in a union setting, you are not required to financially support the union as a condition of employment."
The MEA has been insisting that its bylaws, which it claims only allow members to resign during the month of August, trumps state law.
Unfair labor practice complaints by several other teachers against the MEA remain active and await hearings before MERC. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation in addition filed a lawsuit Friday in Oakland County Circuit Court on behalf of Susan Bank, a special education teacher in the Novi Community School District, against the MEA over threats to turn her over to a collections agency for not paying union dues.
"There is nothing unique about the situations of Ms. Chanski and Mr. Arthur, yet the MEA insists on treating some 8,000 other teachers differently by threatening to ruin their credit by turning them over to a collections agency," Wright said. "We think the MEA should comply fully with Michigan law and realize that teachers are able to make up their own minds about whether or not they see a benefit to being in the union."
The MEA admitted last Wednesday during a hearing at MERC that it has created a policy to go after about 8,000 teachers who so far have refused to pay dues in cash or give the union credit card or bank account information as part of its "e-dues" scheme. A federal appeals court rejected the MEA's attempts last year to block a state law prohibiting school districts from deducting union dues as a payroll function.
"What public school employees who are still under a union contract have to ask themselves is what is different here," Wright said. "They should ask themselves why the MEA was willing to let these two people go, but appear perfectly willing to stick it to anyone else who attempts to exercise their worker freedom rights."
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Target apologizes for plus-size dress label 'manatee gray'
Target apologizes for plus-size dress label 'manatee gray'
Target is apologizing for describing the color of a plus-size dress "manatee gray."
The label for the same color dress in smaller sizes said "dark heather gray." The label appeared on the company's website.
Shopper Michelle Ho tells the New York Post that Target was "putting down one set of people over another" with the different labels.
Target spokeswoman Jessica Deede called the labeling of the Mossimo-brand "Women's Plus-Size Kimono Maxi Dress" ''an unintentional oversight."
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Check out the brand new trailer for Gerard Butler's upcoming flick Olympus Has Fallen!
The action thriller also stars Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Ashley Judd, Aaron Eckhart, Melissa Leo, and Angela Bassett, among others!
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Here's a synopsis: A former Secret Service agent (Butler) works to prevent terrorists from taking over the White House and holding the President of the United States hostage.
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I. Meeting called to order
II Roll Call
III. Acceptance of Meeting Minutes from July 12, 2011 IV. HCR 125 - Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study issues related to requiring direct payment by health insurance companies and health maintenance organizations to out-of-network health care providers
A. Presentation: Fred Earley, President of the Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield of West Virginia will explain the problems that can arise if such legislation is passed.
B. Presentation: Randy Cox, Spilman Thomas & Battle - On behalf of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the West Virginia HMO Association will also speak about the reasons that the assignment of benefits is not a good idea.
C. Presentation: Joseph M. Letnaunchyn, President of the West Virginia Hospital Association will speak in support of legislation that will require assignment of benefits to be honored.
D. Presentation: The West Virginia Medical Association will also speak in support of legislation that will require assignment of benefit documents to be honored.
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Dallas Cowboys 2013 NFL Draft Review
1 (31) - Travis Frederick, OC, Wisconsin; 2 (47) - Gavin Escobar, TE, San Diego State; 3 (74) - Terrance Williams, WR, Baylor; 3 (80) J.J. Wilcox, FS, Georgia Southern; 4 (114) - B.W. Webb, CB, William & Mary; 5 (151) - Joseph Randle, RB, Oklahoma State; 6 (185) - DeVonte Holloman, OLB, South Carolina
Top Picks Analysis: Frederick is a nice player but the Cowboys were clearly honing in on defensive tackle Sylvester Williams and got a little too smart for their own good by trading down. Frederick had a second- or third-round grade from most. Typical Jerry Jones, who wants to be the smartest guy in every room but all the money in the world can't buy you that. Escobar is a lengthy receiving threat at tight end with an impressive catching radius but he lacks great speed and won't stretch the defense down the seam. Terrance Williams has great size and put together excellent numbers at Baylor but lacks elite speed.
Best Value Pick: Webb has the footwork, quickness and anticipation to be an excellent slot corner as well as a solid return man
Questionable Calls: Frederick will probably spend a decade as a starter in North Texas but the 'Boys could have gotten both him and Sylvester Williams if they weren't so greedy.
Summary: Jones deserves to be graded down for hubris alone but he did make some solid picks also. Yes, Frederick was taken too early but he projects as a long-time starter at the pivot, while Escobar, Williams, Webb and Holloman were excellent value picks.
Undrafted rookie free agent signings: Clemson CB Xavier Brewer; Virginia TE/FB Paul Freedman; South Carolina State FS Jakar Hamilton; Texas A&M CB/KR Dustin Harris; Saginaw Valley State SS Jeff Heath; Eastern Washington WR Greg Herd; Mississippi State LB Cameron Lawrence; Missouri RB Kendial Lawrence; Arizona State LB Brandon Magee; SMU LB Taylor Reed; Cal Lutheran WR Eric Rogers; Wisconsin CB Devin Smith; Akron QB Dalton Williams


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