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Segovia, city (1990 pop. 55,188), capital of Segovia prov., central Spain, in Castile-León, on the Eresma River. It stands on a rocky hill (3,297 ft/1,005 m high) crowned by the cathedral and the turreted alcazar (fortified palace). Under the Moors, it was a flourishing textile center but has since declined. Agriculture is now the main industry, and tourism is important. Segovia is of ancient origin and was favored by the Romans, who built (probably 1st cent.) the aqueduct (c.900 yd/820 m long) that still carries water to the city it is built of uncemented limestone blocks and is one of the greatest Roman monuments in Spain. The city was repeatedly taken and lost by the Moors from 714 until Alfonso VI conquered it in 1079. It was a favorite residence of the kings of Castile. Isabella I was proclaimed queen in the alcazar (begun in the 11th cent. built mostly in the 15th cent. restored in the 19th). The late Gothic cathedral (16th cent.) has a fine cloister. Of the many medieval churches and palaces, the Romanesque churches of San Martín and San Esteban are the most notable. Spain's artillery academy is in Segovia.
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Do you do something to address these black swan type events (at a cost) or do you say screw it and just keep on trucking with your usual set up?
A surge in online shopping this holiday season left stores breaking promises to deliver packages by Christmas, suggesting that retailers and shipping companies still haven't fully figured out consumers' buying patterns in the Internet era.
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Managers and owners of small businesses are always on the lookout for methods to help to improve their business. One way to do this that is very popular with small business owners is to implement a small business management software solution. These are web based applications which enable anyone within the business to sign in and work remotely from anywhere in the world. However this is just one of the reasons why a small business management software solution is perfect for a small business. So why does your business need a small business management software application?
�This will save you and your employees a great deal of time each working day. With only one application in use there is no need to be constantly switching between applications to complete on task.
�Integrated calendars will help business owners and managers to see what staffs are doing with ease.
�Project planning is made simple with small business management software � just create a project and assign it to a member of staff. Then track its progress by simply clicking into that project, no more chasing employees up to see where they are with a project.
�Quoting and invoicing is made much more straightforward by creating both through one application. This means that sales leads can be followed up with ease by simply checking which quotes have been created and not followed up. When a quote is then accepted it can simply be changed into an invoice which means even more time is saved.
�Document storage, which can sometimes be an issue for small businesses, can be streamlined with small business management software. Now as soon as a document has been created it can be saved directly onto the application, it can then be accessed by any employee with the correct level of access. So no more waiting for documents to be emailed from employee to employee, by saving them all on one application they can be retrieved quickly and easily. In addition to this small business management software can help a business wave goodbye to missing documents, something that everyone will welcome.
�Small businesses with up to 50 employees can use small business management software, which means that you don't have to be a tiny company to benefit from it.
�Any business that has off site employees that need to fill in timesheets can use small business management software to track employees working hours. Off site employees can log into the application, fill in their timesheet and managers or owners can use this information to work out wages. When this is compared with the time it can take to chase up time sheets from various employees it is clear to see why this type of software is so useful.
As you can see there are numerous reasons why small businesses need small business management software. It can cut down the time spent on tasks drastically; this is easy to access and has business wide functionality. It is the practical and simplistic way.


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A girl's name of English and Hebrew origin that is often used as a nickname. Sally was most popular in 1947 and is currently not among the top 1000 U.S. girls' names. Meaning: English: princess. History: Sally Ride, an American astronaut, became the first U. S. woman in space.
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He is joined by a feisty Elle Fanning, a priggish Jared Harris, a conflicted Isaac Hempstead Wright and off-the-wall Simon Pegg, along with a mischievous crew of bad bunglers in Tracy Morgan, Richard Ayoade and Nick Frost.
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ETSU faces 13th ranked Arizona State on Saturday, Hawai'i Sunday
HONOLULU, Hawai'i (Nov. 27, 2009) - After having a few days to sightsee and adjust to the five hour time change, the ETSU women's basketball team is set to return to the hardwood on Saturday evening as the Lady Bucs take on No. 13/17 Arizona state. Tip time is set for 2 p.m. (HT), 7 p.m. (ET) inside the Stan Sherriff Center.
The Lady Bucs are looking to snap a two-game losing skid on Saturday, but it won't be an easy task as the Sun Devils - who reached the Elite Eight in 2009 - were picked second (media) and third (coaches) in the Pac-10 Preseason Polls.
After knocking off in-state rival Chattanooga by 24 points two weeks ago in its season opener, ETSU has went on to drop back-to-back games at Mississippi State and Arkansas.
The Lady Bucs are led by senior guard/forward TaRonda Wiles (Danville, Va.) and reigning Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Siarre Evans (Griffin, Ga.). Wiles currently leads the A-Sun in scoring with 20.3 points per game. Meanwhile, Evans looks to post her third straight double-double of the
season. In the last two games, Evans is averaging 18.5 points and 13.5 rebounds in 38 minutes of action.
Arizona State (2-1), who opens tournament play with host Hawai'i on Friday evening, is coming off a 59-46 loss at No. 9 Xavier back on Nov. 21. The Sun Devils picked up wins over South Dakota State and Yale earlier in the year.
The Sun Devils are led by 6-5 junior forward Becca Tobin, as she enters play averaging 12 points and 7.3 rebounds per contest. As a team, Arizona State is outscoring its opponents 67.0 to 56.3 (+10.7) and out-rebounding them by 15.7 per game (46.3 to 30.7).
Like the Lady Bucs, Hawai'i brings a 1-2 record into this weekend and is led by first year
coach Dana Takahara-Dias. After knocking UC Riverside 63-58 in their season opener, the Rainbow Wahine has dropped games at UCLA (98-52) and CSU Bakersfield (105-75).
Freshman guard Shawna Kuehu leads the team with 13.0 points per game, while Keisha Kanekoa is pitching in with 11 points. As a team, Hawai'i is shooting 42.2 percent from the field, but are being outscored - 87.0 to 63.3.
Live stats will be available for both games, while video and audio will be provided for the game versus Hawai'i. To access live stats and video, visit http://hawaiiathletics.com or click the link above.
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Edson Spencer, who as head of
Inc. first battled
dominance of the computer market in the 1980s, then gave in and focused his company on automation and aerospace technology, has died. He was 85.
He died Sunday at his home in Wayzata, Minn., after battling progressive supranuclear
, a neurodegenerative brain disease, his family said.
In his 34-year career at Honeywell — known as Honeywell International Inc. since its acquisition in 1999 by AlliedSignal Inc. — Spencer rose from an aeronautical engineer to the company's chief executive from 1974 to 1987. Midway through his tenure, Honeywell's top competitor in mainframe computers, International Business Machines Corp., settled a long-running antitrust investigation by the
that had constrained its growth.
IBM's "power wasn't recognizable before then," Spencer told Computerworld magazine in 1986. With the antitrust case behind it, IBM invested in new factories and took on Japanese competitors, "and the government permitted them to go after new market share without fear of antitrust reprisal. That's when the name of the game changed, and that's the point at which we had to redirect our own strategies."
Within a year after that interview was published, Honeywell, then located in Minneapolis, spun off its computer unit into a venture shared with
and Groupe Bull SA,
state-owned computer maker. As part of the restructuring, Honeywell pledged to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the Associated Press reported. It also purchased Sperry Aerospace Group, maker of electronic gear for military and commercial aircraft, from
In a statement at the time, Spencer called the purchase "an outstanding opportunity for Honeywell that positions us for the long term in a market that is expected to have significant growth for the next 10 years, commercial and military aviation."
Today, Honeywell's aerospace unit, which makes cockpit controls and auxiliary power units, is the second-largest of the company's four divisions, behind automation and control solutions. It had $11.5 billion in sales last year, or 31% of total sales of $36.5 billion for the company, now based in Morris Township, N.J.
Edson White Spencer was born June 4, 1926, and raised in Chicago, the son of William M. Spencer, chairman of the North American Car Corp., which leased and operated railroad cars, and the former Gertrude White. His maternal grandfather, F. Edson White, was president of the Armour & Co. meat-packing business and served on the board of Chase National Bank.
After being discharged in 1946 as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he graduated from Williams College and earned a master's degree from
, which he attended for two years as a Rhodes scholar.
He worked for
Roebuck & Co. before joining Honeywell in 1954. He became an executive vice president in 1969 and was promoted to president and chief executive in 1974. After stepping down as chief executive in 1987, he remained chairman for another year.
U.S.-Japanese relations were among his passions, and he served on the U.S.-Japan Business Council and the Trilateral Commission.
Spencer and his wife of 62 years, the former Harriet McClure Stuart, were founders and longtime supporters of the Yellowstone Park Foundation. She survives him, along with a daughter, three sons and nine grandchildren.


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I recently penned an article about high-priced stocks worth every penny, noting that the bottom line for investors doesn't change regardless of what you pay on a per-share basis. Presuming everything else is equal, one share of a $1,000 stock has just as much profit potential or risk as 1,000 shares of a $1 stock.
That said, it's impossible to ignore the psychological barriers to price. Why do you think companies regularly institute stock splits or reverse splits? On a basic level, those moves change nothing about the business — but they do affect perceptions.
If you just can't bring yourself to buy a three-figure stock and want a "cheap" pick that will allow you to buy 100 shares, here are 7 stocks under $10 to consider.
I'll keep my commentary brief to provide as many picks as possible, so please make sure you do some digging on your own beyond my brief analysis:
I have been beating the Alcoa (NYSE:AA) drum since December (disclosure, I personally own shares). And after its most recent earnings report and pop in shares, I remain convinced it's still a great buy. Earnings are improving, thanks to a lean and mean restructuring, and the valuation remains cheap at a price-earnings ratio around 12. The pairing of strong baseline demand and the near impossibility of lower aluminum prices also limits your downside risk. (Get a full analysis of Alcoa here in my April 12 earnings recap).
Semiconductor stock LSI (NYSE:LSI). makes high-tech gear for networking and media services, among other applications. I highlighted this pick as a cheap stock to buy back in January, and it's up 18% since then — double the Nasdaq. LSI is in the middle of a transformation away from data storage and into chipmaking. Back in 2010, approximately 37% of revenues came from storage and 63% from semiconductors — but in 2011 it divested its data storage operations to NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) so it can focus on the higher margins of being a chipmaker. The evolution is ongoing, but it appears to have been a shrewd move that has revitalized the stock and brought it back to 2007 levels.
Pulte Group
There's no shortage of commentary either way on the housing market, so I'll leave it up to you to decide whether we're at or near a bottom. But if you're in the camp that believes there's opportunity in housing and homebuilders — in the long term if not in the short term — then consider major player PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM) as a cheap stock for your portfolio. Yes, the company is still losing money. Yes, revenue is way down. But Pulte is sitting on $1 billion and cash and inventory worth $4.6 billion at the end of 2011. So it's not going bankrupt any time soon. Of course, if you call a bottom and you're wrong this cheap stock may get even cheaper…
SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD) is an oil and natural gas exploration company that operates mainly in West Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Back in 2008, SandRidge was one of those commodity stocks that everybody wanted a piece of. It doubled from around $30 to over $60. . .and then crashed with oil prices to under $10. SandRidge might never get back to its previous share price. But the company is actually tracking a revenue number not seen since its 2008 peak. If you believe the upwards march of energy prices will continue, consider Sandridge a cheap alternative to Big Oil.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE:SMFG) provides various consumer, commercial, corporate banking and other financial services in Japan. Like domestic financials, SMFG has seen a very nice run year-to-date, tacking on 20% since Jan. 1. The difference is that Japanese stocks are much more conservative than their American peers, and thus not as exposed to leverage or lingering risks in the mortgage market. Sure, macroeconomic fears have hurt Sumitomo over the past few years — but revenue leaped from $33.5 billion in 2010 to $43.5 billion in 2011, and earnings soared 43%. Forecasts are robust for 2012, too. For more background, check out a Forbes column about the strength of Japan's banking stocks – which also outlines the obvious risks these banks post, being closely tied to Japan's rather ho-hum economy. That limits risk, but could limit upside too.
Telecom Corp. of New Zealand
You may think if you're shopping for cheap stocks, then that will exclude you from big dividend payers. Not so — Telecom Corp. of New Zealand (NYSE:NZT) is an overseas investment, but one that pays a juicy dividend. Last quarter it paid 42 cents per share against a share price of less than $10. Annualized, that's a stunning yield of over 16%! However, the dividends are very volatile and unreliable. Last march, for instance, the payout was less than 13 cents a share. But if you're looking for yield, this cheap pick is worth a gander.
I also talked up Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) in January in great detail as part of a cheap stocks to buy feature, and few of my initial reasons have changed. The sale of lagging Arby's Restaurant Group backed out some revenue, and restructuring costs have been a short-term drag. But the sale has allowed Wendy's to focus on its healthy chain and not get bogged down in the struggling Arby's brand. The leadership of Emil Brolick — who successfully rejuvenated fast-food giant Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) through international expansion is a huge plus, too. (My colleague Tom Taulli just weighed in on the pros of Wendy's stock recently, too.)
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com, and author of "The Frugal Investor's Guide to Buying Great Stocks." Write him at [email protected], follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP. As of this writing, he owned a long position in Alcoa but none of the other aforementioned stocks.


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How much data do you need in your cellphone-data plan? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer on how to use WSJ's Wireless Savings Calculator.
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On Our Radar: Ugly-But-Useful Corporate Websites
Interested in starting a business? The Journal has launched a new blog, The Accelerators, where you'll find guidance from successful entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, and technology and business thinkers. –Leslie Kwoh
Quartz offers a heartfelt paean to ugly-but-useful corporate websites, such as the one that greets you at BerkshireHathaway.com. —Nikki Waller
In selecting their frontrunners for CEO of the Year, Morningstar looked for a track record of strong performance over time, rather than a single year of success. They asked whether CEOs built a wide economic moat for their business, and allocated capital in a way that provides strong returns for shareholders. Morningstar also posed the question: Why this company, now? — Allison Lichter
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Smith Scores 34 in Wabash's 71-54 Winby Brent Harris • November 26, 2010 Share:
Senior guard Wes Smith scored a season-high 34 points to guide Wabash to a 71-54 victory over Otterbein University in the second game of the 2010 Pete Thorn Invitational. The Little Giants will face second-ranked Randolph-Macon College in Saturday's championship game after the Yellow Jackets defeated Wisconsin-La Crosse 71-47 in game one.
View photos from the Little Giants' victory here, here, and here.
Smith tied his career-best effort by hitting 14 field goals, equaling the 14 shots he made against Hanover in 2008. He has also helped Wabash to open the season 5-0 --- the best start by the Little Giants since the 1980-81 season --- by averaging 25.6 points through the first five games.
Both teams got off to a slow start, with neither squad scoring in the first four minutes of the contest. The Cardinals led by one point on two different occasions in the first half before a 20-6 run by Wabash put the Little Giants in front to stay. Smith scored nine points during the run. Junior AJ Sutherlin drilled two huge three-pointers as well during the scoring spurt to give Wabash the 14-point advantage. Sutherlin would add driving layup along the left baseline to put the Little Giants up 36-20 with 1:56 left to play in the opening period, the same differential that Wabash would take to the locker room at halftime.
Smith canned one of his two three-pointers to open the second half, extending the lead to 19 points. Otterbein would get as close as 13 points in the final period thanks to Brice Rausch and Nathan Edick before Wabash stretched the advantage to as many 25 points.
Smith was 14-of-19 from the field, including 2-of-5 from beyond the three-point arc. He was perfect from the free throw stripe, connecting on all four attempts. He also grabbed seven rebounds to go with a steal and a blocked shot. Sutherlin and freshman Pete Nicksic (right) each finished with eight points. Nick Curosh had nine rebounds to help the Little Giants take a 40-29 rebounding advantage over Otterbein. Brian Shelbourne dished out six assists and had three steals.
Rausch led the Cardinals (1-2) with 14 points, while Edick scored 11. Zach Bakenhaster paced Otterbein with seven rebounds.
Otterbein and Wisconsin-La Crosse will play the consolation game at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon before Wabash and Randolph-Macon meet at 3 p.m. in the tournament title game.
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Magnetic cells put biologists in a spin
Trout's nose might hold secret to homing sense
Scientists have long believed that some kind of magnetic sense lies behind some animals' navigation ability, which in the case of some fish and birds seems to operate without the need for obvious landmarks. Now, a German researcher believes he has tagged individual cells that respond to magnetic fields.
Doing so needs a fair bit of patience, however: Stephan Eder of Munic's Ludwig-Maximilians University first surrounded his collection of cells with a rotating magnetic field, and then watched to see which cells began to spin.
The rainbow trout was chosen because, back in 1997, a researcher called Michael Walker identified possible magnetoreceptors in its nose, spotting cells that contained iron crystals.
Eder confirmed this – but the crucial cells aren't easy to spot. Placing the tissue samples in a slowly rotating magnetic field, he found that just one in 10,000 started spinning in time with the field.
According to this report over at Discover, the rarity of the cells isn't a fluke: study leader Michael Winklhofer said "The cells are strongly magnetic, and if they are spaced too closely, they interfere with each other, which would deteriorate the sensitivity of the magnetic sense."
The cells' sensitivity to magnetic fields also turned out to be much stronger than expected, as is noted in the abstract of Eder's paper, published in PNAS. ®


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Carnival has arrived, and even the most experienced paradegoers could use a little reminder of how to thoroughly enjoy the season.
Here are a few suggestions that can help you — rookies and veterans — get the most out of one of the area's largest traditions:
-- The sometimes unpredictable south Louisiana climate can be very warm or very cold, so plan accordingly. Wear comfortable shoes, sunscreen and layers of clothing, and bring jackets no matter what. If worse comes to worse, all you will have to do is take off extra layers to make the conditions around you more tolerable. Also, don't forget sunscreen and sunglasses. In south Louisiana, you always run the risk of getting burnt on a sunny day.
-- Bring blankets or beach towels to sit on, clean with or wrap up with for warmth.
Here are some things to pack:
-- Snacks and drinks. These are especially important during warmer day parades or with children in tow. In Houma and Thibodaux to a lesser degree, vendors offer some of these items for sale, but to be on the safe side, bring plenty of chips, sandwiches and sports drinks.
-- Barbecue grills and coolers are optional, but both can make parade-watching into a better time by allowing your own "krewe" the opportunity to enjoy the wait with burgers, hot dogs and drinks.
-- Don't forget chairs. Unless you feel the need to stand up indefinitely, you should make sure to bring something comfortable with you to sit in.
-- Leave glass bottles, firecrackers, silly string, bomb bags or other similar gags or explosives at home. These items are not allowed at local parades. Police also advise paradegoers to leave pets at home to avoid the risk of animals harming other people or causing disturbances.
Large crowds of people are on the street, and it is very easy to get separated. Make sure everyone, especially children, know where to meet in case anyone gets lost. In the event of this happening: make sure each child knows parents' full names, their address and phone number; tell them to look for police; and make careful notes of what they're wearing, so you can offer a detailed description to police.
-- Do not let children run into the streets after floats or throws.
Lock your vehicle doors when parking for parades.
-- Use a designated driver.
Picking the perfect spot to watch a parade is crucial and can mean the difference between a fun and stressful Carnival.
Here are some of the best spots to catch a parade in Houma:
-- If you want to catch a parade twice or get home early: Staking out a spot by Southland Mall, the starting point for west-Houma parade routes, allows crowds to catch the beginning of the parade and then hurry home — or hurry to another spot farther along the route for a second dose of floats and throws. But caution: standing along Bayou Gardens Boulevard, which runs adjacent to the mall, can net you few throws. Instead, stand along West Park Avenue, which also runs alongside the mall.
If you want an alcohol-free time: The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council for South Louisiana reserves the area by Good Earth Transit's main terminal at Barataria Avenue and Main Street in Houma as an alcohol-, drug- and tobacco-free zone for all parades using the west-Houma route.
-- If you're looking for family time: Areas near Southland Mall and the intersections of Columbus and Main streets offer more space for children to play.
Best spots to catch a parade in Thibodaux:
-- If you want to catch a parade twice or get to another parade: Audubon Avenue along the Nicholls State University campus is typically a favorite for crowds hoping to catch the beginning of a Thibodaux parade then rush to Houma for a second parade, as well as those planning to do the opposite: catch a Houma parade, then shift to Thibodaux to catch the end of a parade there.
-- If you want a more family-friendly time: Thibodaux parades travel through neighborhoods along Menard Street, Audubon Avenue and Jackson Street. You can find lots of families gathered in those spots, enjoying time with children.
-- If you want to barbecue and enjoy the sunshine: The medians along Canal Boulevard offer space to set up a grill and play in the sun while enjoying parades.
-- Police and sheriff's office deputies are working in overdrive during Carnival. During Mardi Gras they have to be tolerant of usually unacceptable behavior. Long shifts, drunks, car wrecks, lost kids (and sometimes adults), fights, rowdy crowds, nuisance complaints and other incidents keep them busier than ever. If an officer tells you to do something, do it — unless you want to risk sitting in jail until the courts reopen after Carnival.
-- It's okay to consume beer openly on the streets as long as it's in a can or cup; no glass or bottles. However, there is a drinking age and it is enforced. Officials with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office said if caught with glass containers on a Terrebonne Parish parade route, authorities will tell you to discard the bottle and issue a ticket with a fine set by the Terrebonne Parish District Attorney's Office. Officials with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Department said you will be asked to discard the bottle and ticketed with a fine, at the discretion of the deputy or officer, set by the Lafourche Parish Council.
-- Located in the section called — what not-to-do — is being difficult, a smart aleck, overly drunk, obnoxious or behaving irrationally in public and lifting your shirt. It is not amusing to police, and is a very easy way to get arrested. Buying beads are cheap, but getting out of jail isn't.
5 ways you can get the most out of Carnival 2013
Carnival has arrived, and even the most experienced paradegoers could use a little reminder of how to thoroughly enjoy the season.


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On May 30, 2012, OCR resolved a Title VI compliance review of Dearborn Public Schools. Based on its investigation, OCR concluded that the District discriminated against national-origin minority, limited English (LEP) parents and English language learner (EL) students on the basis of national origin in violation of Title VI. OCR found that the District did not provide LEP parents with meaningful access to important information about their children's education in a language they can understand. The District did not adequately notify LEP parents of important school-related information that is made available to non-LEP parents. OCR also found that the District denied EL students, on the basis of their national origin, access to nonacademic and extracurricular programs, services and activities, such as guidance and counseling services. Under the Resolution Agreement, the District will develop and implement a comprehensive, written plan to provide language assistance services to LEP parents that ensure that they have meaningful access to the District's programs and activities; the plan will include providing interpreting and translation services for LEP parents for non-English languages (this could include the use of various services, such as onsite translators/interpreters, telephonic translators/interpreters, and effective translation programs); develop and implement a process for notifying EL students of the availability of nonacademic and extracurricular programs, services, and activities, such as guidance and counseling services; revise its home language survey to ensure that it accurately identifies LEP parents in the District needing language assistance; and develop and implement procedures to ensure that EL students receive special education and related services as appropriate.
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Shuttleworth explains that the big opportunity for Ubuntu (and Linux in general) comes with Windows 7 and netbooks. "Windows 7 for us is a level playing field where we'll be competing with a new version of Windows that can play on netbooks, which has a price attached to it," Shuttleworth explained, "We think we can deliver a very compelling value proposition up against that."
So, let me get this straight. Linux was supposed to make inroads into the desktop market when Windows Vista proved to be a flop. Linux failed. Linux was supposed to make inroads when the netbook market emerged. Linux failed. Linux was supposed to make inroads once KDE4 came onto the scene. Linux failed. Linux failed to compete with an operating system from 2001, and it failed to compete with an operating system with a reputation about as bad as it can get.
And now, Shuttleworth believes Linux can compete favourably with an operating system of which the beta release has been met with nothing but universal praise? I use Linux myself, and I enjoy it very much, but I find this a very odd train of thought, and I can't help but be extremely cynical about it.
Shuttleworth further states that there is another opportunity for Linux to gain inroads, thanks to the changing focus of desktop users. "The next billion PC users won't be as interested in compatibility with Microsoft Office as they are in connecting to Twitter and staying connected to their social network through the Web," Shuttleworth said, "The business models are changing and it means that the growth of the PC industry is going to be strongly attracted to alternative to Windows - that's my belief."
I'm sure some in the comments section will start pointing fingers towards Microsoft, OEMs, websites, whatever - but maybe it's time for the Linux community to engage in some introspection, and start looking where it can improve itself. The world isn't hell-bent on obstructing Linux, as the interest by so many OEMs clearly shows. I think the problem lies within the community itself, but where, how, and what - I really have no idea.
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The Department of Art, Art History and Film of Wagner College provides much more than a traditional art school: the chance to study the visual arts while obtaining a liberal arts education. Comprised of experienced practicing artists and art historians with a strong commitment to teaching, it has a full curriculum of courses in both disciplines. At Wagner, students develop their visual and analytical talents while gaining the breadth of knowledge, intellectual curiosity and writing skills that only a liberal arts education can provide. The Fine Arts program includes study in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, and Graphic Design. Students develop and hone observational, practical, and analytical skills, while also developing their own artistic voices both in and outside of the classroom. Experiential study provides students with the opportunity to reflect on their work and to be independently motivated and engaged in the field.
The Art History program introduces students to global and local visual traditions. Introductory courses and advanced seminars are offered in a vast array of sub-disciplines including Modern and Contemporary Art, Medieval Art and Architecture, 19th Century Urbanism, Islamic Art and Architecture, Egyptian and Near Eastern Cultures, and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. Courses in the studio arts and languages help to provide students with needed skills and experience. Students study works first hand and conduct independent research through required internships at New York's premier museums, galleries and art collections. The art department offers the following degrees:
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Yesterday was a big day in the smartphone world: First, Motorola announced three new Android smartphones at a launch event in New York; and just hours later Nokia responded by announcing two new Lumia handhelds that will run the upcoming Windows Phone 8 software from Microsoft.
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Motorola DROID RAZR M
The DROID RAZR M is currently available for pre-order on Verizon Wireless's website, and it's expected to be released on September 13.
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Motorola hasn't announced any specific pricing or release details for either of the new RAZR MAXX devices, but they're expected to become available "before the holidays." Both the DROID RAZR M and the DROID RAZR HD will be available in black and white, but the RAZR MAXX HD will initially only come in black. You can find more information on all three new devices on Motorola's website.
The Nokia Lumia 820
The Nokia Lumia 920
Both Nokia Lumia devices are compatible with a new wireless charging "pillow," called the FatBoy, though the Lumia 920 has built-in charging functionality and the Lumia 820 and needs an external shell to enable the feature.
The Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone will be available in yellow, red, grey, white and black, and the Lumia 820 will come in red, yellow, grey, cyan, purple, white and black. Nokia says both Lumia phones will be available in pentaband LTE and HSPA+ variants. And they'll be available for purchase some time later this year. No pricing information is available at this time.
Read more about the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 on Nokia's website. And read the company's press release for technical specifications and more details.
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Nonprofit and NGO Studies is a center at NIU focused on nonprofit excellence. We offer a Nonprofit and NGO Studies (NNGO) and a Certificate of Undergraduate Study in Nonprofit and NGO Studies to NIU students; act as a resource for researchers; offer tools, training and events for nonprofit leaders; and promote research in topic areas that align with the Nonprofit and NGO Studies mission.
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To help strengthen the nonprofit sector in northern Illinois, the United States and globally; engage students, faculty and nonprofit leaders in important issues of civil society; and, educate the next generation of students who want to make a difference in their careers through the academic programming and engaged learning.
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The term "NGO" originated with the United Nations and stands for "nongovernmental organization," which typically refers to organizations that are not part of a government but are not traditional for-profit private businesses. The World Bank defines NGOs as "private organizations that pursue activities to relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community development" (Operational Directive 14.70). The difference between NGOs and nonprofit organizations is slim and debated; however, the term NGO is not generally used to describe U.S.-based nonprofit organizations. According to the Foundation Center, NGO activities include, but are not limited to: environmental, social, advocacy and human rights work. They may also promote social or political change on a broad scale or very locally. NGOs play an important role in developing society, improving communities and promoting citizen participation.
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In the United States alone, there are close to 1.5 million nonprofit organizations with more than 14 million employees. Approximately 80 million Americans volunteer with these organizations, which make up 7 percent of GDP with $4.3 trillion in assets. Nonprofits fill an important gap in society by regularly addressing social or economic needs that are not being met by either the government or the for-profit sector.
Aren't nonprofits small charities run by volunteers?
There are many small nonprofit organizations that carry out important missions, but some nonprofits are large, international organizations with highly recognizable names like the United Way, American Red Cross, Amnesty International, The Sierra Club and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Volunteers are vital to most nonprofit organizations, but the reality is that nonprofits typically have staff members that are paid to carry out their essential functions.
What is the Nonprofit and NGO Studies major?
This major prepares NIU students for careers in the nonprofit sector, with government agenciesand other areas of social responsibility. The major allows students to customize course selection according to their interests. Its interdisciplinary nature ensures that students will take a broad range of courses in areas such as, anthropology, communication, economics, history, journalism, political science, public administration and sociology, among others. The major emphasizes service-learning, internships and volunteer opportunities so that students can apply what they have learned in the classroom to practical situations.
How do I become a Nonprofit and NGO Studies major?
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Hey slippery, June 26 (Monday) works for me too. How's about other folks?
I am up for the 26th....lets see,,,,hummmm,,7 caches the last time, what do you guys have in store for me, and should I book vacation time now? Last time well you all heard it before...10 days to get home, an I met Dragonfrey's after retrieving his wayward cache can.
Email me when where and how's. As usual I am done around 4:30 PM.
The event has been published: Bison Madness: Cache'n the UofM!
Where: University of ManitobaWhen: Monday, June 26 at 5:00 PMMeet: N49 48.543 W97 07.993 ( G.U.E. Magic Scroll Cache #69,105)Park: University of Manitoba Parking MapOptional Supper:Where: Boston Pizza, 2729 Pembina HwyWhen: 8:00 PM.
Boston Pizza will provide unlimited pizza and pop to our group for $11/person. That is, they keep bringing two topping pizzas and pop to our table until we can't eat anymore. The only catch is everyone has to agree to it. Otherwise we can order individually off the menu.
What do people think? $11 P&P or "Off the Menu"?
Please log your preference on Bison Madness: Cache'n the UofM! ASAP so I can let BP know our decision.
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As part of a group caching outing last week which was good times all around, it has been suggested to me that we perhaps make this more of a regular thing. We would meet up at a designated spot (or two, depending on the interest and the number of people coming) and do some caching in that area and then off for some good eats and cache talk! If there is enough interest, I will post as an event (or some other thing) for all to come and enjoy. I can't post here as not everybody reads these forums. How about Thursday May 25, say 5pm? Place TBA? Tobey of 3T's&aG, MBGA Event Co-Ordinator


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War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet. The corpulent print mogul announces that Morgan has won a Christmas dinner, to be prepared by the magazine's housekeeping expert Barbara Stanwyck in her own Connecticut home. The catch: Not only does Stanwyck not have a home in Connecticut, but she's never been in a kitchen in her life! She also doesn't have a husband (as her articles claim), so Stanwyck's erstwhile beau Reginald Gardiner is pressed into service as the hubby. As for the cooking, that will be handled by master chef S. Z. Cuddles Sakall. This solves everything, right? No way, Jose. Long dismissed as a lesser film farce, Christmas in Connecticut has its own irresistible charm, and has in recent years become a perennial Christmas-eve TV attraction. Pay absolutely no attention to the 1992 TV remake, starring Dyan Cannon and directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Karl Knaths was introduced to European modernism in 1913 when he was a guard for the Chicago venue of the Armory Show. Working independently, Knaths developed a highly original style of Cubism that was particularly influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse. Design is always Knaths's first consideration. His paintings are at once spontaneous and sensual even as they rely on a system of unique color harmonies carefully chosen in advance, as well as a generally developed structure of spatial proportions.
The highly abstracted Cin-Zin, with its layered planes of vivid color, emphasizes the interrelationship of patterns and shapes in an ordered progression from the smallest unit, a circle, to the final total unity of the containing rectangle. Knaths has completely eliminated any dimension with the image, emphasizing the flatness of the picture plane. Like the Cubist experiments of Braque and Picasso, Knaths includes abstracted letters, in this case "CIN" on the central bottle refers, perhaps, to the Italian vermouth Cinzano.
Duncan Phillips was a big supporter of Knaths and admired his individual style. In an exhibition of Knaths's work at the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Phillips wrote in the catalogue, "When I first saw the paintings of Karl Knaths…what impressed and charmed me were the integrated qualities of fresh vision and self-reliant invention. Then, too, I was fascinated by the unusual combination of angular calligraphy with subtle color and sensitive brushwork." Cin-Zin, acquired by Phillips in 1945, exemplifies all of Knaths's talents that Phillips so highly regarded.


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The Transactions Overview Guide contains information on how to use JBoss Transactions to develop applications that use transaction technology to manage business processes.
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The Transaction Fundamentals describes what transactions are, why ACID transactions are good in most cases but extended transactions are necessary in other areas, and other useful information to best use JBossTS.
This guide is most relevant for developers who want to understand the details behind transaction systems.
This chapter deals with the theory of transactional services. If you are familiar with these principles, consider this chapter a reference.
Consider the following situation: a user wishes to purchase access to an on-line newspaper and requires to pay for this access from an account maintained by an on-line bank. Once the newspaper site has received the user's credit from the bank, they will deliver an electronic token to the user granting access to their site. Ideally the user would like the debiting of the account, and delivery of the token to be "all or nothing" (atomic). However, hardware and software failures could prevent either event from occurring, and leave the system in an indeterminate state.
Atomic transactions (transactions) possess an "all-or-nothing" property, and are a well-known technique for guaranteeing application consistency in the presence of failures. Transactions possess the following ACID properties:
Atomicity: The transaction completes successfully (commits) or if it fails (aborts) all of its effects are undone (rolled back).
Consistency: Transactions produce consistent results and preserve application specific invariants.
Isolation: Intermediate states produced while a transaction is executing are not visible to others. Furthermore transactions appear to execute serially, even if they are actually executed concurrently.
Durability: The effects of a committed transaction are never lost (except by a catastrophic failure).
A transaction can be terminated in two ways: committed or aborted (rolled back). When a transaction is committed, all changes made within it are made durable (forced on to stable storage, e.g., disk). When a transaction is aborted, all of the changes are undone. Atomic actions can also be nested; the effects of a nested action are provisional upon the commit/abort of the outermost (top-level) atomic action.
Transactions have emerged as the dominant paradigm for coordinating interactions between parties in a (distributed) system, and in particular to manage applications that require concurrent access to shared data. A classic transaction is a unit of work that either completely succeeds, or fails with all partially completed work being undone. When a transaction is committed, all changes made by the associated requests are made durable, normally by committing the results of the work to a database. If a transaction should fail and is rolled back, all changes made by the associated work are undone. Transactions in distributed systems typically require the use of a transaction manager that is responsible for coordinating all of the participants that are part of the transaction.
The main components involved in using and defining transactional applications are:
A Transaction Service: The Transaction Service captures the model of the underlying transaction protocol and coordinates parties affiliated with the transaction according to that model.
A Transaction API: Provides an interface for transaction demarcation and the registration of participants.
A Participant: The entity that cooperates with the transaction service on behalf of its associated business logic.
The Context: Captures the necessary details of the transaction such that participants can enlist within its scope.
Associated with every transaction is a coordinator, which is responsible for governing the outcome of the transaction. The coordinator may be implemented as a separate service or may be co-located with the user for improved performance. Each coordinator is created by the transaction manager service, which is in effect a factory for those coordinators.
A coordinator communicates with enrolled participants to inform them of the desired termination requirements, i.e., whether they should accept (e.g., confirm) or reject (e.g., cancel) the work done within the scope of the given transaction. For example, whether to purchase the (provisionally reserved) flight tickets for the user or to release them. An application/client may wish to terminate a transaction in a number of different ways (e.g., confirm or cancel). However, although the coordinator will attempt to terminate in a manner consistent with that desired by the client, it is ultimately the interactions between the coordinator and the participants that will determine the actual final outcome.
A transaction manager is typically responsible for managing coordinators for many transactions. The initiator of the transaction (e.g., the client) communicates with a transaction manager and asks it to start a new transaction and associate a coordinator with the transaction. Once created, the context can be propagated to Web services in order for them to associate their work with the transaction.
In order for a transaction to span a number of services, certain information has to be shared between those services in order to propagate information about the transaction. This information is known as the Context. The context is often automatically propagated and processed by transaction-aware components of an application:
Contents of a Context
Guarantees global uniqueness for an individual transaction.
The endpoint address participants contact to enroll.
Figure 2.1. Context Flow
The coordinator cannot know the details of how every transactional service is implemented; in fact it is not necessary for it to do so in order to negotiate a transactional outcome. It treats each service taking part in a transaction as a participant and communicates with it according to some predefined participant coordination models appropriate to the type of transaction. When a service begins performing work within the scope of a transaction it enrolls itself with the coordinator as a participant, specifying the participant model it wishes to follow. So, the term participant merely refers a transactional service enrolled in a specific transaction using a specific participant model.
A two-phase commit protocol is required to guarantee that all of the action participants either commit or abort any changes made. See Figure 2.2, "Two-Phase Commit Overview" which illustrates the main aspects of the commit protocol: during phase 1, the action coordinator, C, attempts to communicate with all of the action participants, A and B, to determine whether they will commit or abort. An abort reply from any participant acts as a veto, causing the entire action to abort. Based upon these (lack of) responses, the coordinator arrives at the decision of whether to commit or abort the action. If the action will commit, the coordinator records this decision on stable storage, and the protocol enters phase 2, where the coordinator forces the participants to carry out the decision. The coordinator also informs the participants if the action aborts.
When each participant receives the coordinator's phase 1 message, they record sufficient information on stable storage to either commit or abort changes made during the action. After returning the phase 1 response, each participant who returned a commit response must remain blocked until it has received the coordinator's phase 2 message. Until they receive this message, these resources are unavailable for use by other actions. If the coordinator fails before delivery of this message, these resources remain blocked. However, if crashed machines eventually recover, crash recovery mechanisms can be employed to unblock the protocol and terminate the action.
Figure 2.2. Two-Phase Commit Overview
During two-phase commit transactions, coordinators and resources keep track of activity in non-volatile data stores so that they can recover in the case of a failure.
Besides the two-phase commit protocol, traditional transaction processing systems employ an additional protocol, often referred to as the synchronization protocol. With the original ACID properties, Durability is important when state changes need to be available despite failures. Applications interact with a persistence store of some kind, such as a database, and this interaction can impose a significant overhead, because disk access is much slower to access than main computer memory.
One solution to the problem disk access time is to cache the state in main memory and only operate on the cache for the duration of a transaction. Unfortunately, this solution needs a way to flush the state back to the persistent store before the transaction terminates, or risk losing the full ACID properties. This is what the synchronization protocol does, with Synchronization Participants.
Synchronizations are informed that a transaction is about to commit. At that point, they can flush cached state, which might be used to improve performance of an application, to a durable representation prior to the transaction committing. The synchronizations are then informed about when the transaction completes and its completion state.
Procedure 2.1. The "Four Phase Protocol" Created By Synchronizations
Synchronizations essentially turn the two-phase commit protocol into a four-phase protocol:
Step 1
Before the transaction starts the two-phase commit, all registered Synchronizations are informed. Any failure at this point will cause the transaction to roll back.
Steps 2 and 3
The coordinator then conducts the normal two-phase commit protocol.
Step 4
Once the transaction has terminated, all registered Synchronizations are informed. However, this is a courtesy invocation because any failures at this stage are ignored: the transaction has terminated so there's nothing to affect.
The synchronization protocol does not have the same failure requirements as the traditional two-phase commit protocol. For example, Synchronization participants do not need the ability to recover in the event of failures, because any failure before the two-phase commit protocol completes cause the transaction to roll back, and failures after it completes have no effect on the data which the Synchronization participants are responsible for.
There are several variants to the standard two-phase commit protocol that are worth knowing about, because they can have an impact on performance and failure recovery. Table 2.1, "Variants to the Two-Phase Commit Protocol" gives more information about each one.
Table 2.1. Variants to the Two-Phase Commit Protocol
Presumed Abort
If a transaction is going to roll back, the coordinator may record this information locally and tell
all enlisted participants. Failure to contact a participant has no effect on the transaction outcome. The
coordinator is informing participants only as a courtesy. Once all participants have been contacted, the
information about the transaction can be removed. If a subsequent request for the status of the transaction
occurs, no information will be available and the requester can assume that the transaction has aborted. This
optimization has the benefit that no information about participants need be made persistent until the transaction
has progressed to the end of the
If only a single participant is involved in the transaction, the coordinator does not need to drive
it through the
When a participant is asked to prepare, it can indicate to the coordinator that no information or data that it controls has been modified during the transaction. Such a participant does not need to be informed about the outcome of the transaction since the fate of the participant has no affect on the transaction. Therefore, a read-only participant can be omitted from the second phase of the commit protocol.
In order to guarantee atomicity, the two-phase commit protocol is blocking. As a result of failures, participants may remain blocked for an indefinite period of time, even if failure recovery mechanisms exist. Some applications and participants cannot tolerate this blocking.
To break this blocking nature, participants that are past the
prepare phase are allowed
to make autonomous decisions about whether to commit or rollback. Such a participant must record its decision, so
that it can complete the original transaction if it eventually gets a request to do so. If the coordinator
eventually informs the participant of the transaction outcome, and it is the same as the choice the participant
made, no conflict exists. If the decisions of the participant and coordinator are different, the situation is
referred to as a non-atomic outcome, and more specifically as a heuristic outcome.
Resolving and reporting heuristic outcomes to the application is usually the domain of complex, manually driven system administration tools, because attempting an automatic resolution requires semantic information about the nature of participants involved in the transactions.
Precisely when a participant makes a heuristic decision depends on the specific implementation. Likewise, the choice the participant makes about whether to commit or to roll back depends upon the implementation, and possibly the application and the environment in which it finds itself. The possible heuristic outcomes are discussed in Table 2.2, "Heuristic Outcomes".
Table 2.2. Heuristic Outcomes
Heuristic Rollback
The commit operation failed because some or all of the participants unilaterally rolled back the transaction.
Heuristic Commit
An attempted rollback operation failed because all of the participants unilaterally committed. One
situation where this might happen is if the coordinator is able to successfully
Heuristic Mixed
Some participants commit ed, while others were rolled back.
Heuristic Hazard
The disposition of some of the updates is unknown. For those which are known, they have either all been committed or all rolled back.
Heuristic decisions should be used with care and only in exceptional circumstances, since the decision may possibly differ from that determined by the transaction service. This type of difference can lead to a loss of integrity in the system. Try to avoid needing to perform resolution of heuristics, either by working with services and participants that do not cause heuristics, or by using a transaction service that provides assistance in the resolution process.
Interposition is a scoping mechanism which allows coordination of a transaction to be delegated across a hierarchy of coordinators. See Figure 2.3, "Interpositions" for a graphical representation of this concept.
Figure 2.3. Interpositions
Interposition is particularly useful for Web Services transactions, as a way of limiting the amount of network
traffic required for coordination. For example, if communications between the top-level coordinator and a web
service are slow because of network traffic or distance, the web service might benefit from executing in a
subordinate transaction which employs a local coordinator service. In Figure 2.3, "Interpositions",to
prepare, the top-level coordinator only needs to send one
prepare message to the subordinate coordinator, and receive one
prepared or
aborted reply. The subordinate coordinator forwards
prepare locally to each participant and combines the results to decide whether to send
a single
prepared or
aborted reply.
Many component technologies offer mechanisms for coordinating ACID transactions based on two-phase commit semantics. Some of these are CORBA/OTS, JTS/JTA, and MTS/MSDTC. ACID transactions are not suitable for all Web Services transactions, as explained in Reasons ACID is Not Suitable for Web Services.
Reasons ACID is Not Suitable for Web Services
Classic ACID transactions assume that an organization that develops and deploys applications owns the entire infrastructure for the applications. This infrastructure has traditionally taken the form of an Intranet. Ownership implies that transactions operate in a trusted and predictable manner. To assure ACIDity, potentially long-lived locks can be kept on underlying data structures during two-phase commit. Resources can be used for any period of time and released when the transaction is complete.
In Web Services, these assumptions are no longer valid. One obvious reason is that the owners of data exposed through a Web service refuse to allow their data to be locked for extended periods, since allowing such locks invites denial-of-service attacks.
All application infrastructures are generally owned by a single party. Systems using classical ACID transactions normally assume that participants in a transaction will obey the directives of the transaction manager and only infrequently make unilateral decisions which harm other participants in a transaction.
Web Services participating in a transaction can effectively decide to resign from the transaction at any time, and the consumer of the service generally has little in the way of quality of service guarantees to prevent this.
Though extended transaction models which relax the ACID properties have been proposed over the years, standards such as OASIS WS-TX provide a new transaction protocol to implement these concepts for the Web services architecture. The are designed to accommodate four underlying requirements inherent in any loosely coupled architecture like Web services:.
Requirements of Web Services
Ability to handle multiple successful outcomes to a transaction, and to involve operations whose effects may not be isolated or durable.
Coordination of autonomous parties whose relationships are governed by contracts, rather than the dictates of a central design authority.
Discontinuous service, where parties are expected to suffer outages during their lifetimes, and coordinated work must be able to survive such outages.
Interoperation using XML over multiple communication protocols. XTS uses SOAP encoding carried over HTTP.


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The Maraviroc Darunavir/Ritonavir Once Daily Pharmacokinetic Study
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01348763
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 5, 2011
Last Update Posted : May 21, 2014
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This is a phase I, open label, prospective, two phase pharmacokinetic study. Subjects currently attending for HIV care at St. Mary's Hospital, London will be eligible.
The study will describe the steady state pharmacokinetic parameters and short term safety of maraviroc/darunavir/ritonavir dosed at 150/800/100 mg once daily with and without tenofovir/emtricitabine 245/200 mg once daily in HIV-1 infected subjects.
Fifteen HIV-1 infected subjects will be recruited. Eligible subjects will currently be receiving antiretroviral therapy comprising:
- tenofovir/emtricitabine 245/200 mg daily plus
- darunavir/ritonavir 800/100 mg daily
On day 1, subjects will modify their current antiretroviral therapy to the following:
- tenofovir/emtricitabine 245/200 mg daily plus
- darunavir/ritonavir 800/100 mg daily plus
- maraviroc 150 mg daily On day 10 subjects will undergo an intensive pharmacokinetic visit.
On day 11, subjects will modify their current antiretroviral therapy to the following:
- darunavir/ritonavir 800/100 mg daily plus
- maraviroc 150 mg daily (i.e. tenofovir/emtricitabine will be discontinued) On day 20 subjects will undergo an intensive pharmacokinetic visit. Following completion of this study phase, subjects will recommence their usual antiretroviral treatment regimen and attend for a study follow up visit.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: Maraviroc
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|12 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|A Phase 1 Pharmacokinetic Study to Assess the Steady State Pharmacokinetic Profile and Short Term Safety of Maraviroc Dosed With Darunavir/Ritonavir All Once Daily, With and Without Nucleoside Analogues, in HIV-1 Infected Subjects
|Study Start Date :
|October 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2012
Experimental: Truvada, Darunavir/r and Maraviroc
Participants will be taking Truvada, Darunavir/r before entering the study. On day 1 they will add maraviroc then on day 11 they will stop the Truvada
Drug: Maraviroc
Maraviroc 150 mg daily
- maximum plasma concentration [ Time Frame: 20 days ]On day 10 of the study the maximum and minimum plasma concentractions of darunavir, ritonavir maraviroc tenofovir and emtricitibine will be measured and the time to reach these levels. On day 20 of the study the maximum and minimum plasma concentractions of darunavir, ritonavir and maraviroc will be measured and the time to reach these levels.
- Changes in haematology and biochemistry laboratory tests [ Time Frame: 35 days ]full blood count, elelectrolytes and lipids will be measured to assess for changes
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infected males or females
- signed informed consent
- plasma HIV RNA < 50 copies/mL at screening and on at least one other occasion over the last 3 months
- currently receiving an antiretroviral regimen comprising of: tenofovir 245 mg daily,emtricitabine 200 mg daily, darunavir 800 mg daily and ritonavir 100 mg daily
- no previous protease inhibitor resistance documented on HIV-1 genotypic resistance testing if an HIV resistance test available
- Between 18 to 65 years of age, inclusive
- subjects in good health upon medical history, physical exam, and laboratory testing
- BMI above or equal to 18 and below 32
- Female subjects who are heterosexually active and of childbearing potential (i.e., not surgically sterile or at least two years post menopausal) must practice contraception as follows from screening until 8 weeks after completion of the study:
- barrier contraceptives (condom OR diaphragm PLUS spermicide) or oral, implant or injectable hormonal contraceptive PLUS a barrier contraceptive or
- IUD /IUS PLUS a barrier contraceptive
- Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test.
- Male subjects who are heterosexually active must use two forms of barrier contraception (e.g., condom with spermicide) during heterosexual intercourse, from screening through completion of the study.
- Have no serologic evidence of active HBV infection evidenced by negative hepatitis B surface antigen and no serologic evidence of hepatitis C virus infection evidenced by a negative HCV antibody at screening.
- Have screening laboratory results (haematology and chemistry that fall within the normal range of the central laboratory's reference ranges unless the results have been determined by the Investigator to have no clinical significance
- CCR5 tropic HIV virus based on a genotypic tropism assay from either a stored plasma sample where available or fresh plasma
Exclusion Criteria:
- current alcohol abuse or drug dependence
- positive urine drug of abuse screening
- pregnancy
- active opportunistic infection or significant co-morbidities
- current disallowed concomitant medication
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01348763
|United Kingdom
|Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
|London, United Kingdom, W2 1NY
|Principal Investigator:
|Alan Winston, MB BH
|Imperial College London
|Responsible Party:
|Imperial College London
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01348763 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2009-014924-42 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Posted:
|May 5, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 21, 2014
|Last Verified:
|December 2011
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
CCR5 Receptor Antagonists


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While 2012 has come and gone, the images taken by White House photographer Pete Souza will last forever—literally. As Souza told Time in October, the Presidential Records Act prohibits him and his team from deleting any photograph.
From those millions of digital files, Souza has culled his favorite photos of 2012 and complied the collection on the White House Flickr account. Below are a few standouts from the year that was. All photo captions are by Souza:
Jan. 24, 2012
"One of the most memorable moments of the year was when the President hugged Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as he walked onto the floor of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his annual State of the Union address." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Feb. 21, 2012
"Egged on by B.B. King, at right, the President joins in singing 'Sweet Home Chicago' during the 'In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues' concert in the East Room. Participants include, from left: Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews, Jeff Beck, Derek Trucks, B.B. King, and Gary Clark, Jr." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
March 17, 2012
"David Lienemann made this action photograph of Vice President Joe Biden and his security detail literally running during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh, Pa." (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
April 18, 2012
"We were doing an event at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Before speaking, the President was looking at some of the automobiles and exhibits adjacent to the event, and before I knew what was happening he walked onto the famed Rosa Parks bus. He sat in one of the seats, looking out the window for only a few seconds." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
May 1, 2012
"For the President, this was one of the most poignant moments of the his first term. He was visiting wounded warriors in the intensive care unit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. He had just presented a Purple Heart to Sgt. Chase Haag, who had been injured by an IED just hours before. Sgt. Haag was covered with a blanket and it was difficult to see how badly he was injured. He was also seemingly unconscious, or perhaps just asleep. The President whispered in his ear so not to wake him. Just then, there was a rustling under the blanket and Sgt. Haag, eyes still closed, reached his hand out to shake hands with the President. 'I'll never forget that moment,' someone else in the room later told me." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
June 18, 2012
"We were in Mexico for G20 Summit. While the President was waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin to arrive for their bilateral meeting, he stepped outside to talk with Chief of Staff Jack Lew." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
July 5, 2012
"'Anyone want to try a piece of my strawberry pie,' the President asked those at adjacent tables during a stop for lunch at Kozy Corners restaurant in Oak Harbor, Ohio. A young boy said yes and came over for a big bite of pie." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Aug. 8, 2012
"Overcome with emotion, eight-year old Make-A-Wish child Janiya Penny reacts just after meeting the President as he welcomes her family to the Oval Office." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Sept. 14, 2012
"The President grasps the hand of the Secretary of State after his remarks during the ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, marking the return to the United States of the remains of J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya; Sean Smith, Information Management Officer; and Security Personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were killed in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Oct. 26, 2012
"The President pretends to be caught in Spider-Man's web as he greets Nicholas Tamarin, 3, just outside the Oval Office. Spider-Man had been trick-or-treating for an early Halloween with his father, White House aide Nate Tamarin in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. I can never commit to calling any picture my favorite, but the President told me that this was HIS favorite picture of the year when he saw it hanging in the West Wing a couple of weeks later." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Nov. 15, 2012
"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg views a map with the President during an aerial tour to view damage from Hurricane Sandy in Breezy Point, the Rockaways and Staten Island in NYC. Also onboard were New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Dec. 16, 2012
"Two days after the shootings at Newtown, the President traveled to Connecticut to meet with the victims' families and give remarks at a prayer vigil. The President spent hours greeting family members. Difficult as that was for everyone, the one moment that helped sooth the pain was when he posed for a photo with the siblings and cousins of Emilie Parker, one of the 20 children who died that day in Newtown. I see both sadness and hope in this photograph, and I know after a lot of tears that day, it meant so much to the President that everyone was able to smile for a moment in this family photo. Thanks to the Parker family for allowing us to show this photograph publicly." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
See all of Souza's favorite photos from 2012 at the White House Flickr page.


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This is called the Balrog and it's a body kit from French car stylist Jeremie Paret, former editor at luxury tuning mag Modify. Frankly, it looks like a Cayenne fought a Nissan GT-R and lost.
What you get for your hard-earned Euro is a widebody kit over bigger wheels and an all new nose which apparently took eight months to develop. Somehow. It's complete with halo headlights and though the Balrog technically has no performance upgrades, it's supposedly a bit quicker due to improved intercooling and brake cooling. Whatever. We think the only thing it needs is more fiery whip, or perhaps just more fire. We need more spaces in the Ten Ugliest Custom Porsche Cayennes list.


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I am just putting some stuff here right now, because you have such nice color coding in your wiki. Maybe I'll turn it into a tutorial if I figure out what I am doing.
I found this snippet here (french). I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but it seems to work.
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, uic
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) widget = uic.loadUi("demo.ui") widget.show()
app.exec_() Of course you will need to make a ui file called demo.ui for this to work.
This code really works.
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui
from PyQt4 import uic
from PyQt4 import QtCore
class DemoImpl(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, *args): QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self, *args)
# just pass self uic.loadUi("mainWindow.ui", self)
#this line makes sure that we are only looking for a string #if we want a bool as well we can add @QtCore.pyqtSignature("bool") @QtCore.pyqtSignature("") def on_button1_clicked(self): print "You Clicked the button!" @QtCore.pyqtSignature("") def on_button2_clicked(self): print "You Clicked the button2!"
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) widget = DemoImpl() widget.show() app.exec_()
You will need User:Axiom/demo.ui too.