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Searching for many of my Canadian ancestors has been facilitated by them having lived for many generations in the province of Ontario. Records in Ontario for births, marriages, and deaths have been available through the Ancestry site. The Ontario records are indexed and there are digital images available of the records that can be saved on a personal computer. But, it is not free. Access to these records requires a subscription to the Ancestry site.
There are some means that can be used to obtain the same records for free but none of those opportunities mean staying at home. You could visit the Archives of Ontario or a Family History Centre to search through microfilm reels and print copies of the records you want, or perhaps your local public library has an institutional subscription to Ancestry, allowing you to find the records and save them to a USB key. Those research trips can be fun but still are not free with the cost of transportation and most importantly, time.
The province of British Columbia (B.C.) however, is leading the way by becoming the first Canadian jurisdiction I am aware of to post their vital records online and for FREE! As was reported by Dick Eastman on December 2nd, B.C. has posted more than 700,000 digital images attached to their fully indexed vital records.
My research has been halted, or at least slowed at times by what seems to be the inevitable migration of families to the west. So for example, a family living in Ontario during the latter half of the 19th century is attracted to and leaves Ontario for the chance at greater prosperity, often with free land awaiting, in the Canadian prairies. Eventually, family members venture a little further west into Alberta and B.C. That is certainly the migration pattern that I have seen with my wife Ellen's family.
I'll use Ellen's paternal grandfather, Louis Jacob Gordon Wagner (pictured to the right) to illustrate this point. Louis was born in Ontario in 1886 but by the early part of the 20th century, Louis had moved to Saskatchewan where he married Ellen's grandmother, Charlotte ('Lottie') Faulkner in 1912. By the end of his life, Louis was in B.C., living near his son Gordon in Comox on Vancouver Island, where he died in 1968.
BC has made available their records for births (1854 - 1903), marriages (1872 - 1936), deaths (1872 - 1991), colonial marriages (1859 - 1872), and baptisms (1836 - 1888). The records, as stated, are indexed and can be searched using a basic search or advanced search screen.
Here is what the search result looked like when I searched for Louis Wagner's death record.
In addition to basic data being provided in the listing such as gender, age, date and location of event, the listing includes a link to the digital image of Louis' death certificate. Louis' death certificate is typed so it is easy to read with the exception of the attending doctor's certification as to cause of death which is hand written and may be difficult to decipher.
With this record (and several others for other family members in both my family and Ellen's), I was able to enter additional facts with source citations included in my RootsMagic database and attach the record digital images to the events that each supported.
I'm hoping more Canadian provinces follow the lead of BC in making these records available and easy to access. As a Canadian researcher, life would be so much better.


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This Plan takes us a giant step closer to getting additional funding for autoimmune disease research. Congressional approval is now needed to implement and fund the Plan. The Foundation is asking everyone to advocate for this Plan by contacting their Senators and Representatives and urging them to support it. This effort is being coordinated by the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), which worked closely with NIH on the development of the Plan. Virginia Ladd, Executive Director of AARDA, said: "It is important for all patients with any autoimmune disease to fight for funding for this plan. Supporting autoimmune disease research will help all patients, regardless of their particular illness."
The Plan provides specific recommendations on future research directions and demonstrates the commitment of NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services to continue a robust program of autoimmune disease research. The plan also calls for educating the medical community and the public about autoimmune diseases.
"This plan highlights many unprecedented opportunities to increase our understanding of autoimmune diseases at the population, individual and molecular levels, with a conceptual focus on the underlying mechanisms shared among many autoimmune diseases," said Elias Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health. "This strategy should ultimately allow the translation of new knowledge into more effective treatments and prevention strategies."
Autoimmune diseases result when the immune system attacks the body's own organs, tissues and cells. Physicians and scientists have identified more than 80 different autoimmune diseases. Some are well known, such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and systemic lupus; others are less familiar, such as autoimmune hepatitis, Sjögren's syndrome and pemphigus.
Highlights of the plan include the following:
- The Burden of Autoimmune Diseases: Studies will more accurately determine the incidence, prevalence and severity of autoimmune diseases in the United States as well as the number of deaths that result from these disorders.
- Cause of Autoimmune Diseases: The plan calls for researchers to identify the genetic and environmental factors that lead to autoimmune diseases and to investigate the relationship between them. Other studies will examine more closely what happens to the immune system during autoimmune diseases. To facilitate this research, new animal models of autoimmune disorders will be created.
- Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention: The plan calls for developing centralized, broad-based clinical research centers with the capacity to test potential new treatments and diagnostics with multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary clinical studies. The plan encourages public-private partnerships in creating new treatments. Scientists are also challenged to improve the screening processes that identify at-risk individuals.
- Training, Education and Information: According to the plan, new training and career opportunities must be available to scientists considering a career in autoimmune disease research. For physicians, continuing medical education materials on autoimmune diseases should be created to update them on the latest research advances. For the general public, autoimmune disease information will be made available via the internet and ongoing public education campaigns.
Print copies of the Plan can be ordered by writing to the NIAID Office of Communications and Public Liaison at the following address: 31 Center Drive MSC 2520, Bethesda, Md. 20892-2520. The Plan can also be found on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/autoimmune/Documents/adccreport.pdf.


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You heard me. Encapsulation is an obstacle to the reuse of code.
When I say encapsulation, I mean having a region of your program that knows or has access to some information about the implementation of something, and hiding that information from the rest of the program. If you have another definition of encapsulation, I'm not arguing against that.
Why do software engineers encapsulate? I claim it is for two major reasons: (1) to reserve the right to change the encapsulated code later without breaking anything, and (2) to minimize the propagation of assumptions through the program. To illustrate this, consider the following C code which uses a (supposedly) abstract List type:
int sum(List* list) { int i; int accum = 0; int length = List_length(list); for (i = 0; i < length; ++i) { accum += ((int*)list)[i]; } return accum; }
This code breaks encapsulation. It assumes that List is represented as an array. So if we wanted to go back and change List to a linked list because it is more efficient in the majority of cases for which we are using it, sum would break. (In this example, it would break very badly — i.e. it might not even segfault but instead return some nonsense number)
Here is an example of code that correctly respects encapsulation.
int sum(List* list) { int i; int accum = 0; int length = List_length(list); for (i = 0; i < length; ++i) { accum += List_get_elem(list, i); } return accum; }
If you're about to object that we should have exposed an iterator interface instead of a indexed get interface because we knew we wanted to change it to a linked list, I preemptively respond that we didn't know that at the time — as in most code, when you are encapsulating, you don't usually know what you're going to come back to change — if you did, why didn't you just write it like that in the first place?
The two reasons above are noble. They promote flexibility and simplicity, so that the minor decisions we make do not ripple their way through our architecture, making it impossible to change or understand. It takes the pressure off.
Although I agree with the goals, I believe this is the wrong solution. I think we should turn the barriers inside-out, and use only encapsulation's dual: abstraction. When I say abstraction, I mean code that is defined polymorphically with respect to its assumptions. The above C code is abstract with respect to the list argument, since we can pass it any list we like. It is not, however, abstract with respect to the the List type and its operations — it fixes a single choice.
Encapsulation and abstraction are duals in the following sense: let's say your program is defined in two parts A and B. A knows some information C, and B does not. There are two ways to look at this. A encapsulates C, or B is abstract with respect to C. That is, if you change C, you have only affected the specification of A, and B reacts polymorphically. So just divide your program at an information boundary — one side is encapsulating, the other side is abstracting.
While mathematically they are two sides of the same coin, there is a very real software engineering difference between them. Let's say you are have three functions which use your abstract interface: sort, reverse, and frobnicate (some complicated business logic that can't be written in 5 lines). With encapsulation, you might have this sort of usage graph:
And then, in one fell swoop, you can change it to:
That's power, that's flexibility. But… it's lacking something. Now we have another part of our program which uses arrays, and I sure wish we could use that sort code we've already written. But we need that sort code for lists. Hmm, well we could copy and paste. But that sucks, maybe we could go back and make sort polymorphic in the list type. Yeah, that's the right way to do it.
But, then why didn't we just do that in the first place? Look what happens when we do:
Look at all those combinations. Those are the possibilities for code reuse without changing anything. Imagine if every encapsulation you made was an abstraction instead. Your usage graph would be basically black with arrows. But these aren't bad dependency arrows, these are good reuse arrows. These are your possibilities for correctly using code that has already been written.
So I suggest: instead of advertising your guarantees and hiding details, advertise your assumptions and abstract over details. This has a pretty profound effect on the way your code is structured — like I said before, it turns all the encapsulation barriers inside-out.
My inspiration for this idea came from studying the form of mathematical theorems. They advertise their assumptions prolifically: "given a ring R with (+) and (*) as operations, …", as opposed to "a real number has (+) and (*) and some implementation details". This allows theorems to be maximally reusable, since although the mathematician was thinking about real numbers when he proved the theorem, he realized the same logic could work on any ring — including the integers, modular integers, matrices, and new things that were discovered later.
Object oriented programming seems to get close. One can consider a class (or an interface) as the specification of an assumption, and an instance the implementation of an assumption. Then you just take parameters that correspond to your assumptions, which are nicely bundled into classes so you don't have to say "I use (+) and (*) and (-) and absolute value and …". But this essential idea is muddied up by all sorts of crap, both in the language design and in popular usage.
I started to list the features we need to add/remove from OO languages to make them support this style, but it just got long and nitpicky. So I'll just say this: I think we should be using objects differently. Objects as implementations of assumptions, not as "agents". A natural number is not an object, The Natural Numbers is an object. As generics gurus are noticing, this:
interface Number { Number operator + (Number y); }
has got to go. The assumptions are not specified properly — you are requiring that + take any kind of number whatsoever, when we probably mean the same kind of number as on the left side. What does it mean to add 2 (mod 4) to 7 (mod 13)? Instead we are learning to write:
interface Numeric<N> { N operator + (N x, N y); }
That's the right way. Notice that, although it is specified with different notation, N is just another abstract member of Numeric. We specify the set and its operations together, but the set is distinct from the interface. The interface is the name for the assumption of such a set. In some cases the interface and the set can be bundled into one, and it is these cases that provide most of the study material for OO design. But inside the soul of pop OO lies a form of modeling that is so much more powerful.
To reiterate, this is not breaking the guarantees of encapsulation — anybody who uses Numeric gets encapsulation for free. They are not allowed to see the details of N, just as if you had encapsulated it. It's just that now you can swap out different N's in the same code, where you couldn't before.
I am pleased to see software engineering practice slowly converging on this already. I just thought I would point out the uniform rule behind it. Next time you write an encapsulation, ask yourself, what would it look like to make the users of this code abstract instead? Is it a small enough notational burden to do it that way? If not, what kind of language would allow it to be?


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"This is a marvelous piece of work . . . fascinating, eye-opening, and practical. Love and health are intimately related and the evidence is well documented. Read it and start living a heart healthy life."
–Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles
"Paul Pearsall's long-awaited book is brilliant, heart-opening, and enthralling. Interweaving his personal health story–a life-saving immune system transplant–with his work as a well-credentialed psychologist studying heart transplant patients, Dr. Pearsall makes an astoundingly strong case for the underrated heart as the seat of the mind and altruistic soul."
–Candace Pert, Ph.D., author of Molecules of Emotion


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A US$310 million project to dredge Boston Harbour received federal funding when President Obama signed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, legislation that authorises $12.3 billion for water projects throughout the country.
"This bill gives a green light to 34 water infrastructure projects across the country, including projects to deepen Boston Harbor and the Port of Savannah and to restore the Everglades," Obama said before signing the act into law. "And with Congresss authorisation, these projects can now move forward", reported The Boston Globe.
The Boston project will deepen the navigation channels in the harbour, increasing the size and number of ships that can be handled by the Port of Boston. Dredging is expected to allow Boston to capture some of the New England-bound cargo that now docks in New York.
The project will also deepen Chelsea Creek, a common path for the regions petroleum shipments.
Many ports on the East Coast are dredging their navigation channels to prepare for larger container ships that will be coming through the expanded Panama Canal.
Under the legislation, the federal government will fund $216 million, or about two-thirds, of the Boston project. The state and the Massachusetts Port Authority will split the additional costs.
The project is expected to take about five years, according to Massport.
"By making the necessary investments in our nations ports and water infrastructure, this legislation creates new economic development opportunities in Massachusetts," said Governor Deval Patrick in a statement. He added that the project would create jobs, increase trade opportunities, and ensure the competitiveness of the port.


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Wanda Patterson and Octavius Davis hope their positive attitudes bode well for them at this year's One Spark by winning crowd-funded support for an online radio station that boasts positivity right in its call letters.
They are the Jacksonville co-owners of WPOD.com, an online radio station whose call letters follows those of traditional radio stations by beginning with a "W" and ending with three other letters. The "POD" stands for positivity on demand.
The company originated in 2012 because Patterson and Davis were disappointed with the quality of local radio.
WPOD is an internet radio station that aims to serve Jacksonville with inspirational and contemporary Christian music. The station is different from Pandora and Spotify, which allows users to select the type of music they want to hear. Unlike on-air stations, it has no disc jockeys.
WPOD is attempting to merge the best of traditional radio and the Internet. Patterson said traditional radio is extremely costly, but Internet radio is much more cost efficient. She also said that digital media is the wave of the future.
"We've fused contemporary, inspirational, gospel and R&B that's clean and positive," Patterson said. "We're excited for Jacksonville to tune into POD FM so they can experience good music."
Davis heard about One Spark in 2013, and he knew he had to participate this year as a creator for WPOD. The pair hope to raise $300,000 to help expand their enterprise, which includes funding for several positions.
"One Spark will allow us to position ourselves to receive more capital for the company," Davis said. "POD FM is one of three stations that we plan to launch. We want to launch a sports radio station that features historically black colleges and universities, a station for teenagers and young adults which will feature positive hip hop, R&B and Christian music."
Davis said he is hopeful to win at One Spark and have the opportunity to be funded by investors who are encouraged by WPOD Media.
"Our product is different from traditional radio stations. Some people cringe because of the types of songs that come on the radio," Patterson said. "We want to receive funding so we can provide positive content that makes people want to keep listening."
Davis said POD FM regularly reaches 45,000 listeners, and they look forward to broadening its audience through One Spark.
This story was reported by Ignite Media, an independent news bureau created by University of North Florida students.


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Teaching an Old Dog New Sticks
My name is Steve, and I'm a shotgun-a-holic.
I don't mean the "get off my lawn!" kind of shotgun. Or the "I can only drink beer when I do it creatively" kind of shotgun. I mean the "riding along side a friend, controlling the radio, making phone calls, and allegedly looking out for the street signs" kind of shotgun. That is where I feel at home.
There are a lot of rules to calling shotgun, and many of them change depending on what group of friends you're with. But here are my basics:
1) The car must be within sight.
Some people may disagree with me on the first two. And they're allowed to, because the most important unwritten rule of shotgun is that house rules rule. The second most important unwritten rule is that no one fewer than five feet tall is ever allowed to call shotgun in a compact car.
The reason shotgun is so important to me is because I can never call "driver." Not legally, anyway. I, like at least four other Americans above the age of 16, do not have a valid driver's license. And I don't mean like the Portland Trailblazers don't have driver's licenses, because that was the jury's decision. I don't have a license because I've never had one. And up until now, I've never needed one. But now that I do, I'm screwed.
I am in the middle of a cross-country road trip, and in the past month, I've been in 13 different states. I've driven in more than half of them (Shhh, don't tell), but it's only when we have the luxury of time, when we're in really bad traffic, or when everyone else is drunk. And when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE. If there's a paraplegic with a clubbed-foot and a tic nursing an O'Doul's in the corner of the room, he'd be a better bet than me.
For the amount I've been driving, I'm not that bad. Compared to anyone else, however, I'm atrocious. But that's because you only get good at driving as you do more of it. Driving is like sex that way. While some people are more naturally in tune with the process, you can't really learn any more by reading the manual. Though some guys read those manuals constantly.
We all learned to drive at some point, but people act like they always knew. They expect me to know what I'm doing, even though I've already told them I just started learning. Maybe I should take that as a compliment, since they expect I can learn quicker than other people. Though "you damn moron, can't you drive?" is an odd way to phrase a compliment.
So I, along with many 15-year-olds, am doing the best I can to learn what millions of people already know: how to find the slope of a sine curve. Also, how to drive. Thankfully, I can concentrate on driving without worrying about how I'll do on the SATs.
I do want the freedom that comes with being able to drive. But not the thousands of dollars in insurance payments that come with that. Did you know it would cost me $8,000 to insure a car? That's right - because I'm a new driver, live in New York, drive more than four hours a day, and am under 25, I have to pay more to insure my car than I do to own it. Which seemed sort of silly, at first. That's like buying an $800 computer and paying $1000 for the warranty. But then I realized that, when operated incorrectly, a computer won't kill anyone. Except if you operate it incorrectly by dropping it on someone's head.
I will be able to drive by New Year's, I promise. And I mean legally drive, not the crap I've been doing. If I continue to practice while we're on the road, I will probably drive in more states than most people have been in, even before I get my license. It helps that I recently drove from one side of the "Welcome to Virginia" sign to the other. (Take that, North Carolina!)
In the meantime, I will continue to operate the radio, misfold the map, and use up all of the night and weekend minutes I can. And, like any good passenger would, I will continue to drive my friends crazy.
And don't you dare try to call shotgun.


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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
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Thanks. However, I have kindof lost interrest in hackthissite.org,.. If i'm here, it's just to check my profile comments & privmsgs...
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keep it up ;)
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Lack of time :/ hardly get the chance of going onto HTS.
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Get back on my site.
The forums need you.
lack-o-time !
... and money
How come you don\'t come on etqw with me!
ET still rocks :) haven\'t played MOHAA except for playing offline on somebody elses\' pc.. wasn\'t that bad :)
lol, the only games I play (played) are ET and MOHAA :p
yeah, CoD4 is GREAT :)
it took me a lil\' longer than 2 days to do the single player one (started in veteran mode 1st time i played it, and played it cinematic style :p)
to level up on multiplayer in 1 server, only doing team deathmatch it took me about 1day12hours to get to lvl 55... :)
I usually play with some friends on saturday nights. (only time i play, actually :p)
you play cod4?me to i have finished the game in 2 days........lol i liked it very much
haha, keep dreaming.
Only times you kill me is when you jump up and hit the mouse button by accident...
(headshot EVERY TIME when you do that >.<)
So I can\'t wait when I will be owning you at COD4
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I used to play Quake 3 Arena, but that was years ago. then i played Enemy Territory for a few years fulltime, changed over to CoD2, and now planning on getting CoD4 :)
Do you play Quake?


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After four years of planning, reconstruction of the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame is set to begin early next year. But just how much of the famous sidewalk of stars will be repaired?
"We'll go as long as the money lasts," said Leron Gubler, president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber is still working to raise money for the restoration project's $4 million proposed budget.
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"We're not there yet," said Gubler. "We will start one way or the other. It's just a question of how far we are able to go."
Gubler said the Walk's most damaged sectors are to be repaired first and further renovation will continue based on funding.
February 8, 2010 marks the 50th anniversary from when construction first began on the Walk. Since then more than 2,300 entertainment moguls have been honored with a star for their contributions to film, television, radio, music or theatre. The Chamber's goal is complete reconstruction in time for an anniversary gala slated for next November.
"We'd love to bring the Walk back to its original condition," said Gubler.
Though several entities, including the Los Angeles Metro and Community Redevelopment Agency, are contributing to the project's budget, more donations are needed.
"We need stakeholders… businesses to step forward and preserve this national treasure," said Gubler.
One way the Chamber has filled some of the financial gap is by creating the Friends of the Walk of Fame initiative. The program awards corporate supporters of the renovation with an honorary star, on private property, adjacent to the Walk of Fame.
Jeff Lotman, CEO of brand licensing company Global Icons, brought the idea of creating the Friends of the Walk of Fame to the Chamber.
"I think it's critical. When you have an asset like the Walk of Fame… you need to take care of it," said Lotman.


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HONG KONG, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group Ltd. (HKEx: 0460) ("Sihuan Pharmaceutical" or the "Company"), a leading pharmaceutical company with the largest cardio-cerebral vascular ("CCV") drug franchise in China's prescription market, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB ("NeuroVive"), a leading international mitochondrial pharmaceutical development company, to develop two innovative products, CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT®, which are used for the treatment of heart reperfusion injuries and traumatic brain injuries respectively.
Pursuant to the collaboration agreement, NeuroVive will grant Sihuan Pharmaceutical an exclusive license to develop, market and sell CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT® in China, as well as the intellectual property rights and knowhow in connection with the products to pass clinical trials. Both CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT® reach international standards, and they are currently undergoing the third and second phases of clinical trials respectively. Both medical products contain cyclosporine A, which is mainly used for the treatment of heart reperfusion injuries and traumatic brain injuries. By protecting the mitochondria of cells, CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT® ensure that energy production is preserved and the normal regenerative mechanisms of damaged cells can act to repair and maintain the cells. Therefore, the two products act to prevent the destruction of the mitochondria in damaged cells and the cascade of intracellular biochemical events that lead to secondary tissue damage following a traumatic injury. As there are currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment options for these types of injuries, the two products have enormous market potential. The current market size of exclusive drug products with similar efficacy is over RMB1 billion. According to MENET, the CCV market amounts to approximately RMB100 billion with an annual compound growth rate of more than 20% and is the largest segment in China's pharmaceutical market.
Sihuan Pharmaceutical shall make upfront and milestone payments totalling RMB35 million and RMB12 million to NeuroVive in respect of CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT® respectively. In addition, the Company shall pay a royalty representing 10% of the net revenue from the two products for a period of 10 years from the time they are launched.
Dr. Che Fengsheng, Chairman and CEO of Sihuan Pharmaceutical, said, "The important collaborative agreement with a renowned international pharmaceutical development company marks a breakthrough for our business development. The collaboration will bring together Sihuan Pharmaceutical's competitive advantages in product development, marketing promotion and distribution network and NeuroVive's advanced drug development technology. This will enrich our product portfolio, raise the level of our product resources and widen our revenue stream. We believe that CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT® will become new drivers of our sales, sustain our growth in the long run, and consolidate Sihuan Pharmaceutical's leadership in the CCV drug market."
Mr. Mikael Bronnegard, CEO of NeuroVive, said, "Our agreement with Sihuan is a transformational event for NeuroVive and provides strong validation of the huge potential of mitochondrial medicine and specifically the work we have done to develop the cyclophilin D inhibitors CicloMulsion® and NeuroSTAT®. Sihuan is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in China and through this agreement will add significant resources, product development and marketing expertise that will greatly accelerate the development and commercialization of our products in China. I look forward to a long and productive partnership with Sihuan that I am confident will lead to the launch of NeuroVive's products for the treatment of acute cardiovascular and neurological conditions in the Chinese market."
Listed on the AktieTorget of the Swedish stock exchange, NeuroVive is a leading pharmaceutical development company that is focused on the treatment of acute neurological conditions. NeuroVive is dedicated to developing a portfolio of products to treat acute cardiovascular (including traumatic brain injuries, stroke, spinal cord injuries and heart attacks) and neurological conditions through mitochondrial protection.
Sihuan Pharmaceutical currently offers a portfolio of 37 types of CCV products. According to IMS Health Incorporated, the market share of the Company's CCV drugs for hospital purchase was 7.5% (new statistics from IMS include traditional Chinese medicine prescription drugs) as at the end of June 2012, 2.7% ahead of the second-largest player in the Chinese CCV prescription drug market. As at 2011 and the first half of 2012, the total revenue of Sihuan's CCV products accounted for a respective 90.1% and 91.9% of total revenue of the Company.
About Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group Ltd.
Founded in 2001, Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group Ltd. is a leading pharmaceutical company and the largest cardio-cerebral vascular drug franchise in China's prescription market. The success of the Company can be attributed to its differentiated and proven sales and marketing model, extensive nationwide distribution network, diverse portfolio of market-leading drugs and strong research and development capabilities. The Company's current products encompass the top five medical therapeutic areas in China: cardio-cerebral vascular system, central nervous system, metabolism, oncology and anti-infectives. Its major products -- such as Kelinao, Anjieli, Chuanqing, Qu'Ao, GM1 and Oudimei -- are widely used in the treatment of various cardio-cerebral vascular diseases.
About NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB
Listed on the AktieTorget of the Swedish stock exchange, NeuroVive Pharmaceutical is a leader in neurological medicine, health and wellness in the field of drug development for acute neurological conditions (traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and heart attacks). NeuroVive's products are based on cyclosporin-A and cyclosporine derivatives acting as cyclophilin inhibitors for disease prevention and control through mitochondrial protection.
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Which Industry will Fuel the Chinese Motion Controls Market?
IMS Research report sees high demand for motion control products used in end-equipments, machinery in Chinese GMC market
According to the IMS Research report "The Chinese Market for Motion Controls – 2010": Because of the high demand for motion control products used in end-equipments and machinery, the Chinese GMC (general motion controls) market is forecast grow to $1.65 billion by 2014, and the CNC motion controls market to $1.25 billion.
According to Wilmer Zhou, market research analyst, "Industry sectors such as machine tools, and textile, rubber & plastics, printing, and packaging & labelling machinery, accounted for nearly 80% of the Chinese motion controls market in 2009 in terms of revenues. These industries use many motion control products, and will continue to dominate the Chinese motion controls market in the coming years.
Although the electronics & electronics assembly and semiconductor machinery markets experienced a huge decline in 2009, they have rebounded in 2010, as demand for semiconductor and electronics products has recovered. China is one of the world's most important electronics & electronics assembly production bases. Sales of motion controls to this sector are forecast to continue to grow strongly over the longer term. In addition, sectors such as food, beverage & tobacco and medical & scientific equipment, which are closely related to stable consumer markets, were less affected during the economic downturn.
Another market driver is the increasing utilization of motion controls in new applications and industries. With OEMs becoming more familiar with motion control products, motion controls are increasingly being used in ''non-traditional'' sectors. Although such industries represent only a small portion of the motion control market, they offer good opportunities for small and medium sized motion control suppliers to establish business.. For instance, in the last two years, some newcomers have achieved tremendous growth in wind-power pitch system applications and pumping unit solutions. Other industries in this group include glass working machinery, material transformation machinery, material handling equipment, paper & paperboard machinery, renewable energy, and woodworking machinery.
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– Edited by Gust Gianos, CFE Media, Control Engineering, www.controleng.com


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The other night, the local boys brought in a patient for a psychiatric evaluation. He had been suicidal, and had attempted to shoot himself. Something had gone awry; perhaps the gun has misfired, and perhaps he just missed. It wasn't clear. But he barricaded himself in his house when the police responded, and he had fairly clearly been attempting suicide by cop. He remained armed, and was deliberately provocative and uncooperative. In many cases, this will result in a police shooting. But the fact that the police knew in advance that he was suicidal, and that he repeatedly asked them to shoot him, led our local police force to take a carefully restrained approach to the situation.
Just for reference, for those readers not acquainted with law enforcement practices, typical police procedures when confronting an armed individual does allow deadly force, with a fairly low threshold for action. If a suicidal person is holding a gun in his hand, he is as capable of pointing it at the police as himself, and the police will shoot to protect themselves and their fellow officers if they must. "Make sure you go home at the end of the day," is not just a cliche in law enforcement. So, to be clear, the situation that our cops were in would have justified deadly force with no question whatsoever.
But they did not shoot him. They remained under cover as much as they could, and did their best to negotiate with him. After much effort, this was unsuccessful, and he was disarmed and taken into custody with a combination of a K-9 team and a much-maligned less-lethal weapon.
Truth be told, the dogs did a fair bit of damage, and I had some suturing to do to fix up his face and arms. The patient (drunk, of course) was extremely upset that they has sicced the dogs on him, and was completely oblivious to how close he had come to perishing in a hail of bullets.
The thing that struck me, seeing the patient after the fact, was what an incredible job the police had done in saving this person's life. He would have shot himself, without intervention, and could easily have killed a police officer. This could easily have been the leading story on the evening news. Had they shot him, no inquest board in the world would have faulted them. But they held their fire, remained safe, and managed to defuse the situation with a combination of perseverance and creative thinking.
That's professionalism, and you've got to respect it when you see it.


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This setting determines the duration of time the system remains silent when the snooze function is activated.
Adjusting the snooze time
Applies to:
on the remote, press and hold alarm setup/menu until "setup menu" is displayed
Alarm Setup/Menu
press tune/playlist > once until "snooze- 10 min" is displayed
Tune/Playlist >
press time - or time + to change the snooze time. the snooze time can range from 10 to 60 minutes (in 10-minute increments)
Time -
Time +
press alarm setup/menu to exit the setup menu or wait 10 seconds for the setup menu to end automatically


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Simply connect your Bluetooth stereo devices wirelessly to the speaker system and forget the hassle of wires, you are all set for high-quality audio.
The aptX audio codec ensures high-quality Bluetooth audio playback with its superior low-latency Bluetooth connectivity. Seamless wireless audio is now a dream come true.
You can now enjoy realistic surround sound for your favorite 5.1-encoded movies, games or music simply by plugging the speakers via a USB connection.
With the innovative Swivel-Speaker-Array design, you can switch from stereo to surround mode easily by rotating the top portion of each satellite speaker..
The powerful Creative SLAM™ subwoofer is tuned to perfection to bring you realistic heart-thumping lows for a completely engaging gaming or movie experience.
Two high-end drivers on each satellite bring you full-bodied mids and soothing highs for a pleasant all-rounded audio experience.
The speaker system's satellites can also be wall-mounted, making them ideal for TV speakers in the living room. Simply remove the detachable satellite desktop stands and they're ready to be mounted (brackets not included).
The handy all-in-one digital control pod gives you easy access and control over the speakers' functions. Select the audio source (Bluetooth, USB or AUX-in), adjust the volume or initiate Bluetooth pairing. For private listening, you can also output audio to headphones.
Control your speakers from across the room with the included IR remote. Select the audio source, adjust the volume or control music playback with ease.
The speaker system comes with the Creative BT-D1 transmitter, which will transmit the high-fidelity stereo sound wirelessly from your desktop or notebook - PC or Mac with its Bluetooth and aptX technology. That is not all, you can also get the BT-D52 transmitter for use with your iPhone and iPod. Also featuring the Bluetooth and aptX technology, you can just simply plug and play without any additional drivers to enjoy seamless audio!
1 Minimum system requirement: available USB port, 5.1 decoder software on PC/Mac.
2 The BT-D5 is compatible with iPod touch (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation), iPod classic (this refers to the 6th generation iPod or later), iPod nano (3rd, 4th 5th and 6th generation - iPod nano 5th generation's radio feature not supported), iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. The BT-D5 is not included in the package and can be purchased separately from Creative.com.
The sound clarity and bass continue to be amazing after four years. Hope Creative would revive this model and make it even better with APTX Low Latency and APTX HD.
Overall, the product is quite excellent in terms of sound output. The bass is really strong for those who like heavy bass. It's a bit pricey and can be more attractive if cheaper.
Requirements for 5.1 surround sound:
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Ryan Rosenbaum's first goal as a Southern Methodist University soccer player won't soon be forgotten.
Rosenbaum launched a 95-yard kick that bounced over the Tulsa goaltender's head and into the goal.
SMU was leading 2-1 at the time when Rosenbaum cleared the ball from the SMU end of the field. The high kick took a giant bounce off the grass and ended up in the net giving SMU a 3-1 lead.
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SMU went on to win the game, 3-2, upsetting the 16th ranked Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
An interesting note, Rosenbaum, a defender, had not taken a shot on goal in his first four games.


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Cold Sichuan Noodles with Spinach and Peanuts
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There are many lessons I learned during my month-long Vegan Experience last year, but one of the most useful—and one that I still use all the time—is that you can make vastly tastier and healthier food by reversing the ratios in starch-based dishes. That is, rather than having pasta with sauce and vegetables, have vegetables with sauce and pasta. It's a trick that works well for Italian pasta dishes, but perhaps even better for Chinese and other Asian-style noodle dishes. Try out Bok Choy with Chives, Black Bean Sauce, and Chow Fun, for instance.
Dan Dan Mein—the hot and numbing cold noodle staple of Sichuan street food—is one of my favorite dishes ever, but I can't help but think to myself, "I'm sitting here eating refined wheat starch coated in chili oil." Now I'm no health nut, but I'm not looking to die young either, and if I can not only have a healthier version of the dish, but one that actually tastes more exciting as well, then why not?
In this version of the classic, I replace a good chunk of the noodles with blanched spinach that I wring dry then cut into thin, thin ribbons. In many ways, spinach ribbons are superior to noodles. The offer some flavor of their own, but they also pick up the chili oil and vinegar-based sauce perfectly, making every bite more flavorful.
The key to perfect sauce is to make your own chili oil. I tend to make mine in large batches so I'll always have some on hand, but you can make just as much as you need for this recipe. It's simple: Just toast chilis (and Sichuan peppercorns if you'd like), add oil, and let it sit. You'll end up with something infinitely better than any bottled chili oil you might pick up.
The dish is hot, but the cold noodles help temper that heat. It's perfect fare for a hot late summer evening, and it comes together in about half an hour.
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Friday, July 25, 2008
DNS and the Cyber TARDIS Problem
I'm not referring to the TARDIS of Doctor Who, although centrality of "Time" is the reason I used the TARDIS theme. I mean Time and Relative Data in Security. Time and Relative Data were the key issues in the DNS issue. Who knew more about the problem, and when? Halvar understood this in his post, when he estimated that a savvy attacker would need 1/4 the time of a normal security person to understand the nature of the DNS problem, given the same starting point.
Since Halvar's speculation, Matasano's confirmation, Metasploit's weaponization, and Dan's elaboration, there's been a flurry of offensive and defensive activity. It reminds me somewhat of Y2k: am I still able to use the Internet because DNS administrators have been patching, or are not enough bad guys trying to bother me? It would be nice to see some academics query whatever data (hint) they can find on recent DNS activity to produce some practical research, rather than trying to decipher five year old worm data or yet another port scan. According to this Arbor Networks Blog post by Jose Nazario, his group might have some data to share soon.
I'd like to highlight some of my favorite thoughts from the past few days. I liked FX's post Perception of Vulnerabilities:
The Kaminsky DNS attack is definitively regarded as the most important vulnerability this year. This, I find highly interesting , as we have seen two other gigantic security failures already in 2008. Debian's NRNG (non-random number generator) is most certainly one of them. But honestly, raise your hands if you have even noticed SNMPv3... SNMPv3 is used to manage routers - the routers that forward all your traffic around the world, including your DNS queries. Managing a router means being able to configure it; a.k.a. super user access. Attackers who can configure a router in your path can redirect everything, without you knowing, not just traffic that relies on name resolution.
The weaponization discussion has been great. On one side are people like Hoff and Rich Mogull, who believe the Metasploit team was wrong to weaponize the exploit. I place myself on the other side. I agree with a lot of Andre Gironda's argument in comments on Rich Mogull's post. I think it's important to be able to test if your DNS implementation is vulnerable, as noted by Ron Gula in But I patched our DNS servers ....
With the growing importance of the cloud, and the customer's increasingly reliance on software he/she doesn't control, are we to be satisifed with promises of applied patches, or even the effectiveness of said patches? If you always believe your vendor (i.e., you're naive), answer yes. If you trust but verify, answer no -- and start testing. Metasploit (exercised via a pre-existing, contractual agreement that permits such customer testing) is one way to see if your vendor really is as safe as it claims to be.
People who care about reality -- facts on the ground -- care about testing. Such people also care about monitoring. Prior to Halvar's speculation, probably the best place to try to figure out how to detect what "might" be coming was the Daily Dave mailing list. Since Halvar's post, there's been a lot of monitoring discussions on Emerging-Threats. Monitoring types have been trying to work around implementation challenges in popular tools like Snort, with alternatives like Bro getting more attention. Some historical articles on DNS intracies have helped people understand DNS better, now that we know exactly what to observe.
I believe the actions of the past week have been for the better. Sure, the bad guys have a tool now, but as Druid noted in the Metasplot blog:
I was personally aware of multiple exploits in various levels of development before, during, and after HD and I wrote ours, so we felt at this point publishing working exploit code was fair game.
Poke around for five minutes and you'll find other implementations of exploit code beyond Metasploit anyway, never mind the private ones.
Public speculation followed by weaponization has elevated the issue for those who had to produce "proof" in order to justify patching, as well as helping level the knowledge field. Those of you who object have got to understand this point: real bad guys always win in the Time and Relative Data arena. Their paid job is to find ways to exploit targets. They have the time and knowledge to identify vulnerabilities in DNS regardless of what Dan Kaminsky says or doesn't say. I know whole teams of people who avoid the most elite public conferences because they don't learn anything new.
Defensive-minded security person -- how do you spend your time? Are you like me, balancing operations, planning, meetings, family, and so on, across thousands of systems, with hundreds of classes of vulnerabilities, and nowhere near enough time or resources to mitigate them? Do you know as much about the latest attacks and defenses as the people who discover and exploit them, for a living? Probably not.
Even assuming such adversaries do not know about the DNS problem prior to Dan's disclosure, as soon as they acquire the scent that problems exist (and especially if patches are released), they point their collective noses at the newest victim and tear into it. Halvar's N/4 estimate was very conservative, although he recognized real bad guys probably work a lot faster than that.
I think Dave Aitel put it best:
The motto of the week is that you can't hint at bugs or people will just find them. Either full disclosure or no-disclosure wins, because there's no point doing anything else.
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- CG said...
good post Richard
> Defensive-minded security person -- how do you spend your time?
Honestly? Pursuing my hobbies. Doing anything else is a waste of time. We're either already owned, in which case I know what to do, or going to be owned, in which case I wait until we are and then research and fix us to become unowned.
All the time in the middle is spent working on my king-side attacks as black.
Oh, and I know enough and speak eloquently enough to basically be on salaried retainer.
This is an excellent post Richard. It sums it all pretty much concisely. Thank you.
- kurt wismer said...
"Either full disclosure or no-disclosure wins, because there's no point doing anything else."
i wonder if covert disclosure was included in that estimation...
being a fan of full-disclosure in the first place, it's easy to point and gasp at the 'circus' but difficult to agree with no disclosure at all.
perhaps kurt says it best; let's not forget about covert disclosure. so, maybe dk had it about half-right. at least give vendors a three second head-start before crying havok and running like hell from the dogs of war...but only three seconds; let's not start coddling.
as always, excellent post brian..
<-- egg on face.
i just hit "enter" while sitting here talking to my friend brian.
now he thinks he's in richard's league.
pardon me while i go bang my head against a wall.
excellent post....RICHARD
Regarding the SNMPv3 bug.
I guess the lesson for developers is that hardcoding could actually be good practice when it comes to digest lengths.
It is easy to get SNMPv3 wrong by applying the wrong view control policies. I have seen places where a SNMPv3 user could simply create a new SNMPv3 user with better rights because the VACM policy did not lock down the VACM tables correctly for the original user. The vendor manuals do not contain sufficient guidelines on how to do it right.
Really good read. Thanks Richard.
- dre said...
Wow... a lot of great quotes there. This is a well-put-together post. I really like your work here.
One thing I would like to add is that one possible TARDIS explanation is not only that intelligent adversaries have more time and resources -- it's also that they have less of one very important thing: Ethics.
For example, I can beg Paul Vixie over email, harass him on AIM (assuming he even uses it, which I'm sure he doesn't), etc -- but he's never going to tell me about a DNS security issue.
An unethical adversary could just hold him at gunpoint and make demands.
- Dan Weber said...
Either full disclosure or no-disclosure wins, because there's no point doing anything else.
What does he mean by "no-disclosure." Were people supposed to just update their DNS servers because new patches were out?
For better or for worse, Dan Kaminsky got a lot of people to patch DNS who wouldn't have bothered otherwise (despite the efforts of some in the community to stifle him), and he did it without blowing the whole lid off of the tea-kettle right away.
- Unknown said...
Amen on this post, Richard. Well-written and takes the words right out of my virtual mouth.
- Morgan Storey said...
Dan did a good thing whatever way you look at it. He got a fair chunk of vulnerable servers patched in a timely manner. I still myself think their may have been attacks prior to his release of the info, as I was brought in on a case a few months ago and I could find no fault with the companies DNS, or their forwarders, packet capturing, watching tcp/ip sessions, nothing. Switching their forwarders fixed the problem permenantly.
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I have been getting many queries requesting me to upload tutorials on how to write algorithms for a program in the ISC Computer Science Practical Examination.
Teaching how to write algorithms by writing an article on it is not that effective, but I decided to put down algorithms of two different programs which would serve as examples on how you should proceed with writing algorithms of your program.
Note: There are various ways in which you can write algorithms. I am putting down the easiest form of writing algorithm. This style is completely acceptable in ISC Computer Science Practical Examination and really easy to understand. All you need to do in order to understand the algorithms and write them, is by having in front of yourself, the program whose algorithm is given below. Go through the program and the algorithm and you will get an idea on how to write algorithms.
After all, writing algorithms isn't a mammoth task as we see it to be. They are just logical steps written in order in an easy to understand language which when put together in a programming language will result in the solution.
Also Note: Before writing your program in your answer sheet, you need to write the algorithm for it. Now what I would suggest you to do is, when you get your answer sheet, solve the program you have selected using pencil at the end of your paper (last 2-3 pages). Write "Rough" above the pages.
Once you are done with writing the program in pencil, begin writing your answers in fair from the front page. Begin by writing the algorithm by seeing the rough program you wrote at the back.
Then Write the program in fair using pen, just after your algorithm. Then erase what you wrote in pencil at the last pages of your answer sheet.
I know you have to write the program twice but it has its own advantages like:
1) You can easily write the algorithm by seeing the program
2) Your final program in fair will be neat as you will just be copying it from the back pages.
3) If you started a program with pencil and after 10 minutes you realize that you should choose other program, you can do so as you haven't written anything in pen yet.
Example 1:
Example of Algorithm of a program which contains only main() method
First see this program: http://www.guideforschool.com/1260759-java-program-to-print-circular-spiral-matrix/
Step 1 : Start of algotithm
Step 2 : Input the size of circular matrix and store it in integer variable 'n'
Step 3 : Create an integer square array of size 'n*n' which will be the circular matrix
Step 4 : Declare and initialize variables k = 0 (for filling the matrix), c1 = 0 (for storing index of first column), c2 = n-1 (for storing index of last column), r1 = 0 (for storing index of first row), r2 = n-1 (for storing index of last row)
Step 5 : Start a while loop till k<=n*n and repeat steps 6 to 10
Step 6 :
(a) Start a for loop from i = c1 to c2, where 'i' increases by 1 every time and perform step (b)
(b) Store the natural numbers in the first row using A[r1][i] = k++
Step 7 :
(a) Start a for loop from j = r1+1 to r2, where 'j' increases by 1 every time and perform step (b)
(b) Store the natural numbers in the last column using A[j][c2] = k++
Step 8 :
(a) Start a for loop from i = c2-1 to c1, where 'i' decreases by 1 every time and perform step (b)
(b) Store the natural numbers in the last row using A[r2][i] = k++
Step 9 :
(a) Start a for loop from j = r2-1 to r1+1, where 'j' decreases by 1 every time and perform step (b)
(b) Store the natural numbers in the first column using A[j][c1] = k++
Step 10 : Update the variables c1, c2, r1 and r2
Step 11 : Display the circular matrix A[ ]
Step 12 : End of Algorithm
Example 2:
Example of Algorithm of a program which contains other methods along with the main() method
First see this program: http://www.guideforschool.com/358-isc-2013-question-3-practical-paper-solved/
Note: In such cases, start with first writing the algorithm for the main() method and then the algorithm for the other methods.
Algorithm for main() method :
Step 1 : Start of algotithm
Step 2 : Input the sentence and store it in a String variable 's'
Step 3 : Convert the sentence into upper case
Step 4 : Create a StringTokenizer object 'str' to extract tokens (words) from the sentence using space and other the punctuation marks namely '.', '?', '!'
Step 5 : Count the number of tokens (words) and store it in an integer variable 'c'. Also create a String array word[ ] of size 'c'
Step 6 : Start a for loop from i = 0 to less than 'c' and store the tokens of the sentence into the word [ ] array
Step 7 : Declare an integer variable 'count' and initialize it with 0
Step 8 : Start a for loop from i = 0 to less than 'c' and repeat step 9
Step 9 : Call the function isPalin() as : ob.isPalin(word[i]). If the returned value is 'true' then increase the count variable and print the word.
Step 10 : If count of palindromic words is not equal to zero, then print the value stored in the variable 'count'
Step 11 : End of algorithm for main() method
Algorithm for function boolean isPalin(String s) :
Step 1 : Start of algorithm for function isPalin()
Step 2 : Find the length of the String 's and store it in an integer variable 'l'
Step 3 : Declare and initialize a String variable rev="" for storing the reverse of the String 's'
Step 4 : Start a reverse for loop from i = l-1 to 0 and repeat step 5
Step 5 : Extract characters from the end of the original string and add them to the variable 'rev'
Step 6 : If the reverse word obtained (rev) is equal to the original String (s), then return true, otherwise return false.
Step 7 : End of algorithm for the function isPalin().
Similarly if you have more functions, then just write their algorithms in a similar fashion one after the other.
This is how you can write algorithms in your ISC Practical Examination. So, as you see, this is nothing but step wise solution to the given program in English language. So just relax! It isn't a big deal to write algorithms now. You can easily get a 10/10 in the algorithm part now. Smile.


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2 stabbed in Burlington; man arrested
A man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing two people early Sunday morning.
Christopher Earl Blackwell, 46, of Burlington, was charged after an incident around 3:45 a.m. at his home at 304 Apple St.
Terrence Lamont Farrish, 21, and Jerard Antwon Wardlow, 22, were found stabbed in a vehicle parked in front of the home.
Farrish was stabbed twice and taken to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, Burlington police said. Wardlow had a cut to the arm and was treated at the scene.
Farrish and Wardlow got into an altercation with Blackwell, police said. Blackwell assaulted the two with a kitchen knife, according to arrest warrants obtained by newsgathering partner the Times-News.
Farrish was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill. He was held under a $50,000 secured bond in the Alamance County Jail.
Wardlow was charged with injury to personal property and was held under a $500 secured bond.


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|Small Magical Beast (Fire)
|Hit Dice:
|7d10+14 (72 hp)
|+7 (+3 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative)
|30 ft.
|Armor Class:
|16 (+1 size, +2 natural, +3 Dex), touch 14, flat-footed 13
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|Slam +8 melee (1d6)
|Full Attack:
|Slam +8 melee (1d6) and flare +5 melee touch (1d4+2 fire)
|5 ft./5 ft.
|Special Attacks:
|Ember, Swift, Flame Wheel
|Special Qualities:
|Smokescreen, fire resistance 12
|Fort +8, Ref +9, Will +4
|Str 10, Dex 17, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 16
|Hide +6, Listen +6, Spot +9
|Weapon FinesseB, Improved Initiative, Dodge, Mobility
|Any land
|Usually solitary
|Challenge Rating:
|Usually neutral
|8-11 HD (Small), 12-15 HD (Medium)
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This echidna-like creature rears up on its hind legs as you approach. It eyes you warily but stands its ground, and its back erupts into flames as it prepares to fight.
The evolved form of Cyndaquil, Quilava is a moderately powerful fire-beast. Its agility is its greatest asset.
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Quilava have a few moves unavailable to Cyndaquil, and are overall more effective fighters.
Quilava can attack with the flames on its back as a melee touch attack. This is a secondary attack (and thus takes a -5 penalty to the attack roll), but Quilava may add its Constitution modifier to its attack and damage rolls.
Ember (Su): Quilavas have a minor breath weapon; they can breathe fire. A Quilava's ember attack strikes in a 20 ft. line and deals 1d8 + HD + Cha mod in fire damage. Creatures in the area may halve the damage on a successful Reflex save, DC = 10 + Quilava's Charisma modifier + ½ Quilava's Hit Dice. Quilavas may not use Ember for 1d4 rounds after having used it. The sample Quilava's Ember attack inflicts 1d8+10 fire damage with a save DC of 16.
Swift (Su): As a standard action, Quilava may launch one star-shaped astral energy projectile, plus one more for every three Hit dice it has (maximum 8 projectiles), at its foes. Each projectile strikes unerringly, as magic missile, and does 1d6 + ¼ HD + Charisma modifier damage (the damage is force-type). Quilava may aim at any number of targets, up to its number of projectiles, as long as no two are more than 40 ft. apart. Swift is only usable a limited number of times per encounter; the limit is equal to Quilava's Wisdom bonus, minimum 1 use/encounter. The sample Quilava launches 3 projectiles in its Swift attack, each projectile does 1d6+4 damage, and it may use Swift 2 times/encounter.
Flame Wheel (Su): Quilava adds 1d8 fire damage to any attack it makes as part of a charge. An attack it makes as part of a charge also has a 10% chance to set an opponent on fire.
Smokescreen (Su): As a standard action, Quilava can fill a cylinder centered on itself with a 15-foot radius and 15 feet high with with smoke from the flames on its back, similar to an obscuring mist effect. Fire-subtype creatures can see further through the smoke; for them, creatures 10 feet away have only concealment and creatures 5 feet away are not concealed.
The smoke dissipates after 4 rounds. This is a [Fire] effect.
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28 December 2012 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Frost & Sullivan: EU health IT services market to be $1.93 bn in 2017
Frost & Sullivan report: European healthcare IT professional services market earned $1.58 billion in 2011
Singapore: New analysis from Frost & Sullivan titled, 'Analysis of the European Healthcare IT Professional Services Market', highlighted that the market earned revenues of $1.58 billion in 2011 and will reach $1.93 billion in 2017. The research covers consulting, training, integration and implementation as well as support and maintenance services.
Although the need to enhance healthcare delivery is driving the market for IT professional services in Europe, adoption levels are being hampered by budget cuts and end user reluctance to invest in such services. These trends have triggered several changes in the market, including consolidation and the adoption of inorganic growth models. The need of the hour is for cost effective solutions that promote clinical and cost efficiencies. Service providers, on their part, will have to place cost optimisation on the top of their agendas.
Mr C K Somsainathan, research analyst, Frost & Sullivan, said that, "Hospitals are now increasingly dependent on IT solutions to support their day-to-day, reduce human errors, limit operational costs and stay ahead in terms of technology. As the penetration of healthcare IT rises, hospitals are investing in professional services to optimise the use of these solutions."
"Lower cash inflows have motivated hospital CIOs to revisit investments into IT solutions and services. Simultaneously, the market is being negatively affected by certain pre-conceived end user notions. For instance, some IT services, especially training and consulting, are perceived as adding very limited value to existing IT infrastructure and solutions," he added.
"Newer architecture and delivery models, such as cloud services, will revive the market for healthcare IT professional services in the near future, as more and more hospitals are looking to improve their technology set up," concludes Mr Somsainathan. "Ultimately, the need to reduce costs through the effective use of technology and the optimum utilisation of financial resources will help in improving the penetration rate of IT professional services in Europe".


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(Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, the majority owner of Clearwire Corp, has offered $2.1 billion to buy the rest of the wireless service provider but it may have to raise its offer to get enough shareholder backing to secure a deal.
Clearwire, which said it is reviewing the offer, saw its share jump almost 15 percent on Thursday, suggesting that shareholders hoped for a higher bid.
Sprint offered $2.90 per share and said it would also provide interim financing of $800 million to cash-strapped Clearwire if shareholders agree to the $2.90 offer.
Sprint, which already owns 50.45 percent of Clearwire, needs approval from holders of 24.8 percent of Clearwire shares before it could take control of the company.
One Clearwire shareholder Crest Financial, criticized Sprint's offer on Thursday saying in a public statement that the deal was not in the interests of Clearwire shareholders.
Crest said it "intends to take whatever actions it can, including petitioning the Federal Communications Commission, to protect the rights of Clearwire shareholders against unfair dealing by Sprint and other parties."
Several other shareholders also told Reuters on Thursday that they were not happy with Sprint's current terms for the deal as they believe the company is worth more.
"This deal should happen. It's good for Clearwire. It's good for Sprint. $2.90 is not the right price," said a representative for one shareholder who suggested that a per share offer in the $5 to $8 range would be more acceptable to investors.
The person asked not to be named due to a lack of authorization to talk in the public about investments. Other shareholders also cited $5 as the lowest threshold for a deal.
Analysts also said that Clearwire shareholders would be very unlikely to accept Sprint's offer, which would allow the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider to take full control of Clearwire's spectrum holdings to bolster its own wireless data services.
While Clearwire has been looking for new financing, analysts said that its need is not so urgent that it should accept Sprint's offer which they described as a "starting point."
"With a year of liquidity on the books and the alternative of raising additional equity or refinancing debt at this level, Clearwire is hardly without options, and we don't see why the company would necessarily jump at a the $2.90 bid," JPMorgan analyst Philip Cusick said in a research note.
Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche said Sprint's offer price compared poorly to other deals in the U.S. wireless industry that involved sales of wireless spectrum holdings. She calculated that comparable deals had valued wireless spectrum at fifty percent more than Sprint was offering to pay Clearwire.
Sprint declined to comment on whether it would revise its offer. Its proposed price is 5 percent higher than Clearwire's closing stock price on Wednesday, but more than double its $1.30 price on Oct 10.
Clearwire shares have risen sharply since then on increasing investor speculation that loss-making Sprint would use new financing from Japan's Softbank Corp to buy Clearwire. Sprint agreed in October to sell a 70 percent stake to Softbank for $20 billion.
Clearwire, which also counts Sprint as its biggest customer, has long been seen by analysts as an acquisition target for Sprint, which needs to improve its network to compete with bigger rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T.
Clearwire said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it is currently in talks with Sprint regarding a "potential strategic transaction" and that a special committee of its board of directors has been reviewing the potential deal.
It did not offer an immediate response to the $2.90 offer.
Clearwire, which has been looking to raise more financing to upgrade its network and to keep the business afloat, has said that it has enough money to last it until the third quarter.
The Sprint offer values Clearwire at around $4.2 billion.
Another shareholder Mount Kellet Capital Management LP and has recently expressed concerns over a deal with Sprint, suggesting that Clearwire should look at other options.
Between Mount Kellet and Crest the two investment firms own nearly 15 percent of Clearwire's publicly traded shares.
Crest financial filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Clearwire and Sprint to try to thwart a deal after reports emerged about discussions between the companies.
Clearwire's other minority shareholders include Intel Corp and Comcast Corp, which own around 12.4 percent between them. Sprint has been in discussions with those companies about purchasing their shares, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mount Kellet did not comment on the offer on Thursday. Intel said it was evaluating Sprint's offer while Comcast declined to comment.
A purchase of Clearwire would also need the approval of Softbank and is contingent on Sprint's planned sale of 70 percent of the company to Softbank, Sprint said in the regulatory filing. (link.reuters.com/san64t)
Clearwire shares closed up 41 cents or more than 14 percent to $3.16 on Nasdaq after the news. Sprint Nextel shares closed down 2 cents at $5.64 on New York Stock Exchange.
Additional reporting by Nadia Damouni in New York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Rodney Joyce, Nick Zieminski and Alden Bentley


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I recently wrote about delighting your customers and partners using six key platform principles. Those principles are:
- Customer trust is key for consumer-facing platforms.
- Customer control of their data is central to earning and keeping that trust.
- Customer control demands that they be able to choose with whom they share data.
- Customer control also requires that they be able to disconnect any partner, including the platform provider.
- Customers like the assurance of being able to export a copy of their data.
- Partners need confidence that the customer is in control of their data and its retention, not the platform provider.
Now I'd like to examine how we came to and applied these principles while I was at RunKeeper.
Your health and fitness are influenced by many interrelated factors: Exercise (cardio, strength training, yoga, etc.), what you eat and when, your weight, the number of steps you take while going about your everyday routine, how much and how well you sleep, and much more.
In building "the personal trainer in your pocket" at RunKeeper, we realized early on that we needed to connect all of the above variables in one place. This correlated data could be used to motivate, guide, and nudge individuals towards healthier choices with just the right advice, at just the right time. We saw the need for an open platform that would provide a win-win for customers and their health partners of choice.
In order for individuals to be comfortable uploading their data into such a platform, they needed to know how they would maintain control over the access, storage, and deletion of their data. And they needed certainty that they could export their data and take it with them, if they ever chose to do so.
Similarly, partners needed assurance that when a customer connected their app, service, or sensor to the platform, they would have access to that customer's collective health and fitness data in the same manner and amount as all other customer-connected partners. Should a customer disconnect a partner from their platform account, that partner needed to know they would have the option (with the customer's permission) to retain a copy of any data that partner had previously read out of the platform on that customer's behalf.
When we surveyed the health and fitness landscape looking for such a customer-centric, open, partner-friendly platform, we found none. The existing platforms were all in various ways closed: Vertically integrated, only offering private APIs to a select few partners, not allowing customers to save a copy of their own data, etc.
So we pulled the trigger: RunKeeper committed to building the open Health Graph platform based upon the six principles above, guaranteeing customers control of their data and a level playing field for all partners.
RunKeeper's commitment to those principles has paid immense dividends. As I write this there are more than 26 million customers with platform accounts, hundreds of millions of fitness activities and health measurements in the platform, and millions of API calls made daily. RunKeeper has welcomed more than 150 publicly launched integration partners, from one-person shops to big players in the health and fitness space including MyFitnessPal, Withings, CarePass from Aetna, and Jawbone UP. There are hundreds more private integrations live on the Health Graph platform as well, with the total number of Health Graph API developers in the thousands.
So long as partners respect the customer's right to control the access and flow of their data and abide by the customer-centric API Policies and Terms of Service meant to ensure that, all are welcome. Even other activity trackers, including iSmoothRun, Caledos Runner, and Digifit (all partners who are also competitors to RunKeeper).
All platform providers must decide how to best grow their customer base through partnerships. That growth in large part hinges on the trust that providers build with their customers and partners. And that trust hinges on those customers and partners feeling secure that the data they rely upon can't be yanked away on a platform provider whim.
If you'd like help in putting these platform principles to work yourself, please contact me today.
Thinking recently about my time leading RunKeeper's Platform team, I've distilled the key lessons learned down to six principles platform providers should embrace to delight their customers (read "users" if you prefer that term) and partners alike:
- Customer trust is key for any consumer-facing platform to reach its maximum potential. This trust enables customers to fully embrace your own and your partners' apps, services, and devices. Always keep customer trust top-of-mind.
- Customer control of the flow and access to their data is central to earning and keeping that trust. Note that I said "control", not ownership, as it's become very clear that the notion of data ownership is murky, especially in realms such as health and fitness.
- Customer control demands that they must be able to choose with whom they connect their account and share data. If you agree with this, you should default to opt-in, not opt-out.
- True customer control also requires that they be able to disconnect any partner they choose, including the platform provider (i.e. delete their account and data). Extra customer love and bonus points from many partners if the platform enables the customer to allow or disallow data retention when they disconnect. Don't assume you know what's best for the customer, let them choose.
- Customers like the assurance of being able to export a copy of their data (a la Google Takeout and RunKeeper data export). Even if they never choose to use your export feature, customers may see a lack of export functionality as equivalent to a closed platform, and hence never fully trust your platform offerings or commit themselves fully to them. Said another way, data export capability future proofs your platform for customers.
- Partners must have confidence that the customer is in control of their own data and its retention, not the platform provider, if a platform provider is to be fully trusted. This future proofs your platform for partners.
Interested in applying these lessons to your platform and partnerships? I'd love to help. Please contact me today to discuss!
I scale companies to thousands of partners and millions of customers. I love running agile teams of engineers, designers, and business development professionals. I have a passion for evangelizing technologies powering massive growth.
If you need assistance with product, business development, or evangelism, I'd like to help.
Email email@example.com, phone +1.918.994.2112, or contact me via Twitter @billday.
As part of our ongoing review of internal programs, RunKeeper (@runkeeper) has determined that our Elite Affiliates program has not generated enough new RunKeeper Elite memberships to justify the ongoing support and engineering effort required to continue the program. Because of this, we have decided to shut down the Elite Affiliates program.
If you are not an existing participant in the Elite Affiliates program, this does not affect you and no additional action is required on your part.
If you are an existing participant in the program, you can continue to accrue Elite Affiliates earnings for one more week, until Friday 4 October 2013, at which time new earnings will cease. We want to ensure you are able to remove any outstanding earnings you have accrued in your Affiliates account. Therefore we have removed the $50 USD minimum balance requirement (i.e. you may withdraw any amount of money you have accrued). Please withdraw your accrued earnings to your PayPal account within the next thirty days, by 27 October 2013, via:
Thank you for partnering with RunKeeper!
Cross-posted from the Health Graph blog.
A quick note for all Health Graph platform (@healthgraphapi) partners:
RunKeeper's (@runkeeper) recently announced integration with MyFitnessPal enables users to connect their accounts on the two systems to automatically sync MyFitnessPal tracked calories consumed (i.e. calories added) into RunKeeper while also syncing RunKeeper tracked fitness activities (calories subtracted) into MyFitnessPal. Weight measurements are also synchronized bidirectionally between the two systems so that your latest weight is consistent between the two.
But there's an added bonus for other RunKeeper partners and members of the Health Graph community. Both calories consumed and weight measurements synchronized from MyFitnessPal to RunKeeper are available to all Health Graph API developers. Calories appear as
Nutrition sets with values in the
calories field and weight measurements appear in
Weight sets. Both of these nutrition and weight sets will have a
source value of '
MyFitnessPal' to indicate their origin.
We hope that access to the additional MyFitnessPal-originated data will help you build even more amazing things for our collective user community!
Cross-posted from the Health Graph blog.
DietBet (@dietbet) enables runners and other RunKeeper (@runkeeper) users to lose weight socially by challenging their friends to a fun weight loss competition. Below we discuss how DietBet uses the Health Graph API & platform (@healthgraphapi) to help motivate people and keep their weight loss journeys fun.
Bill Day: Please tell us about yourself and your work.
Adam McClean: I've been a product manager for almost eight years with a primary focus in e-commerce and consumer brands. I'm also training for a mini marathon later this year.
BD: What is the "elevator pitch" for why someone should use DietBet?
AM: DietBet is the best way to jumpstart your weight loss and access the support necessary for success. It's a great mix of behavioral economics (loss aversion and financial incentives), community, and accountability. Players put money on the line and commit to losing 4% of their starting weight in 4 weeks. During the game players make friends, talk smack, and track their progress as they approach their goal. Everyone who reaches the 4% goal ends up splitting the pot — and making some extra money!
BD: How did you get started using the Health Graph API?
AM: I've been using RunKeeper and saving my personal data to the Health Graph for a long time. After I participated in my first DietBet, it was clear the two should integrate.
BD: How will the Health Graph platform benefit your business?
AM: Running and weight loss have a symbiotic relationship: Losing weight helps you improve your running time and running helps you burn calories and lose weight. Players who connect with RunKeeper will be able to send weight updates and running activities directly into their DietBet game. Also, any weight updates made on DietBet will be saved back to the player's Health Graph account.
BD: Which portions of the Health Graph API do you use, and why?
AM: Since DietBet players are required to submit their weight in order to play the game, we wanted to allow them to do this from both DietBet and RunKeeper. We are using Weight Measurements to get/post all of the weight data. We are also grabbing running details from Fitness Activities, so other players can see the hard work being done to help a player make their 4% goal.
BD: What do you like about the Health Graph API?
AM: We love the simple approach to tracking changes using Root Resource and Change Log. This lowers the overhead on our end and lets us post activities and weight updates within minutes.
BD: If you could request any new feature from the Health Graph platform, what would it be? How would you use it?
AM: Most weight data is inputted manually using the honor code. Because we have a team of referees and a photo-based verification solution, we'd like to be able to indicate when weight entries are "verified" vs "manual" the same way you can specify a "tracked" vs "manual" fitness entry.
BD: Can you share any future plans for DietBet? What's coming next that people will be excited about?
AM: We're hoping to expand beyond the current game (4% in 4 weeks) and allow users to play games with longer timelines and larger weight loss goals. We also want to reward players for maintaining their weight or establishing healthy habits.
BD: Is there anything else we should know about you or DietBet?
AM: Organize a game today and use promo code
HEALTHGRAPH. If you get 8+ other players into the game, we'll refund your bet!
Cross-posted from the Health Graph blog.


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Unite Now necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Unite Now
Serving a global community of individuals and organizations who desire to make a greater impact on the world around them, UniteNow.Org provides an innovative approach to advocacy and activism by providing an online venue to help groups gather and create positive action.
As a result of our extensive work in the development and production of human aerial art installations over the past 15 years, we have seen a consistent need for a consolidated and centralized set of resources to empower the mobilization process, especially for organizations with multiple locations.
Human rights, the environment, world hunger, the depletion of our natural resources, disease, and the daily extinction of plant and animal species are just a few of many life-threatening issues that concern billions of people throughout our world today. Organizations such as Greenpeace, Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund and others are fighting for each of these issues every day. However, the average person has no idea where to go and how to best get involved with these organizations. We have a centralized destination to where you can link to all these organizations.
Read more about Unite Now here:
There are two distinct audience segments...
Event Organizers - these could be large non-profits (such as Amnesty International) or small community-based action groups (such as your local food bank).
Event Participants - these are the individuals that are passionate about an issue and join events -- both in the real-world and on the Unite Now site.
To better understand the types of advocacy events that Unite Now has been involved with, designers are encouraged to visit http://www.unitenow.org. This simple site contains examples of the epic events that Unite Now's team members have produced.
This site represents only the impression of the larger multimedia social network that will be built. However, the images of advocacy are indicative of the powerful emotions that the site hopes to harness and spread.
Although it is presently only in draft form, the logo that is presently on the site illustrates several important requirements:
- the brand must convey sincerity, activism and unity
- while the logo should be powerful and meaningful, it should not overwhelm the power of the event imagery
- logo should be usable in every medium possible, including online, video, print and promotional items
Beyond these requirements, the brand is open to interpretation.
It is worth noting that some preference may be given to a design that features the combined "un" icon, as is presently seen in draft form on the site. The idea here is to feature the initials of the brand (U and N) and to represent a coming together... unity in action/advocacy.
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Going to be trying something to try and help encourage a bit of casual rp and on occasion it may be used to host a session here and there!
Scheduling can be a pita at times, so hopefully this will be a way to help bring players together for a little fun now and then by giving the means to schedule in advance or serve as a reminder.
If a SH would like the time space for a session - its all yours!
Just post saying you would like it, and I will be more then happy to relinquish the time to you.
I would also like using this as an experiment as well. Such as every now and then providing themes for the RP (kind of like how our bored button works for limbo but for a larger scale - such as holidays!).
Participation will always be open, and signing up will not be necessary but encouraged for the sake of figuring out that dreaded scheduling monster.
The time is also flexible (unless it is surrendered to be a session), so if a majority needs to start sooner or later we can always make a note!
Realm (Sirian or Vaxia) will be determined day of (unless it is surrendered to be a session then realm will be whichever one the session is for).
So come, have fun!


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Founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare includes community and specialty hospitals, a health insurance plan, a physician network, community health centers, home care and long-term care services, and other health care entities.
Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and Partners is a national leader in biomedical research.
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