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First Residents Graduate From UCF Partnership Internal Medicine Program
College of Medicine Faculty News
By Wendy Sarubbi | June 6, 2017 11:25 am
UCF's first partnership internal medicine residency program will graduate its first physicians June 8, honoring the pioneers who are helping inspire new graduate medical education programs across the state.
The College of Medicine's first residency began in 2014 in partnership with HCA's North Florida Division's Osceola Regional Medical Center and the Orlando VA Medical Center. That program led to a UCF College of Medicine-HCA consortium that is expected to add 600+ new residency slots to the state by 2020. In the past two years alone, the consortium has added 14 residency programs and one fellowship in Orlando, Ocala and Gainesville and will have about 250 physicians in training this summer. Multiple additional new programs are planned.
Residency programs have a direct impact on a community's number of doctors and residents' access to healthcare. That's because in order to practice, medical school graduates must complete residency training in a specific specialty for three to seven years. Florida's number of residency programs has not kept pace with its population growth and increasing number of medical schools, which contributes to the physician shortage.
Increasing numbers of residency programs can help ease that shortage because most residents set up practices where they train. That's true for this year's UCF-HCA internal medicine graduates.
Of the 16, nine are staying in Central Florida. Two will practice in Gainesville. Three are going onto fellowships in specialties such as hematology/oncology and sleep medicine. Three are going out of state to practice.
"Residency programs are part of the promise we made to this community," said Dr. Deborah German, UCF vice president for medical affairs and founding dean of the College of Medicine. "If we have more residencies, we'll have more trained doctors in our community. We'll become a net importer of medical talent."
Many of the graduating residents are becoming hospitalists – internal medicine physicians who specialize in the care of hospitalized patients. In the past, a patient's physician made rounds at the local hospital to visit his or her patients. That practice started changing about 10 years ago to provide more convenient, efficient and coordinated in-patient care.
Hospitalists supervise the care of patients with acute illnesses or complications from chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease. They coordinate care between specialists and because they work in a hospital setting, they order and receive test results quickly to make a diagnosis. Their goal: Diagnose how a serious illness or complication happened and stabilize the patient for life outside the hospital. The career as a hospitalist generally pays more than an outpatient practice and offers a set schedule, which some physicians seek for work-life balance. Several of the UCF graduating residents said they were drawn to hospitalist work because its fast pace gives them the opportunity to treat and learn from diverse patients and health conditions.
"Care in the clinic is usually stable. The hospital environment is more challenging," said Dr. Leslie Soto, a graduating resident who is joining a hospitalist practice in Gainesville. "Being a hospitalist gives you to the opportunity to make an impact on a patient's life at a critical moment."
The UCF-HCA residencies are located at Osceola Regional, North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville and Ocala Regional Medical Center in Ocala. They are in a variety of programs — internal, family and emergency medicine, surgery, neurology, OB-GYN, psychiatry and a transitional year residency for physicians planning to enter specialties such as dermatology and anesthesiology. The new fellowship program — in endocrinology — is located at Osceola Regional. More UCF-HCA residencies and fellowships are planned and the two entities have also partnered to build a joint venture community-based teaching hospital next to the medical school in Lake Nona.
"Educating tomorrow's physicians is a key priority for HCA's North Florida Division, and as the nation's leading hospital network, we are proud to dedicate our resources and expertise to the task," said Joel Jeffries, M.D., vice president of graduate medical education. "Together with UCF, we are committed to providing our residents with an exceptional training and mentorship experience."
Florida currently ranks 41 of the 50 states in residents per 100,000 residents. The lack of training programs exacerbates Florida and the nation's physician shortage. With America's growing and aging population, a study conducted for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts the U.S. will have a shortage of 40,800 to 104,900 physicians by the year 2030. The shortages will occur in primary and specialty care and "pose a real risk to patients," the study concluded. Florida's shortage is worsened because of upcoming retirements. Almost 62 percent of the state's physicians are over 50, according to a 2016 Florida Department of Health report. And in 11 of 14 specialties the report examined, 30 percent of the doctors are 60 or older.
The charter resident graduation will be Thursday, June 8 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the UCF College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd., Orlando, FL 32827


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SANS ISC: A review of Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet - Internet Security | DShield
A review of Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet
While not immediately or obviously related to information security, I was so profoundly affected by my recent read of Andrew Blum's (@ajblum) Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet, I believe it warrants a review for the Internet Storm Center readership. Remember an Internet ice age ago (2006) when Senator Ted Stevens described the Internet as "a series of tubes?" To this day it's a well recognized Internet meme, but Blum's Tubes goes a long way towards establishing discernible credibility for the good Senator's declaration. In this extraordinarily well-written exploration of the Internet's physical infrastructure he acknowledges that "one thing it most certainly is, nearly everywhere, is, in fact, a series of tubes."
Even as an engineer and analyst who has spent many years helping defend one of the world's largest Internet presences I found Blum's book extremely refreshing and deeply insightful. I've been in some of the very datacenters and Internet exchanges he describes and yet sadly have taken for granted that, as this book forces you to recognize, the Internet is a physical, living thing and does indeed flow through tubes.
Blum manages to convey a true sense of the physicality of the Internet while asking lucid questions regarding its core nodes and links. Of a router he ponders that which is invisible to the naked eye. "What was the physical path in there? And what might that tell me about how everything else is connected? What was the reductio ad absurdum of the tubes?" Heady stuff to be sure, but he continues a few pages later indicating that on his journey to the center of the Internet his bare common turned out to be the router lab, and that what he saw "was not the essence of the Internet but its quintessence-not the tubes, but the light." That light, that quintessence, is all about the fiber, the glass tendrils, that make up our incredibly connected world. What Blum's book requires of you to consider and always rememeber is how physical that connectivity really is.
Blum's exploration of the Internet is an actual walk through major network exchanges (PAIX, LINX) and providers (Equinix), to the cable landing station near Land's End in the UK where endless fiber connections terminate before their transoceanic journey via cables to points world wide. He spends time in datacenters near and dear to my heart in the Columbia River Valley while encapsulating the work of visionary people whose work I've long admired, such as Michael Manos.
Blum's digital safari even occasionally wanders into the darker corners of the Internet where much of my worry focuses.
First, he expresses nervousness regarding the "concentrated" nature of the exchanges and datacenters that serve as the core hubs of our Internet and wonders if it's responsible to explore and describe their physicality at such length. Yet, he discovers and concludes that there is an openness derived from the Internet's legendary robustness. "Well designed networks have redundancies built in; in the event of a failure at a single point, traffic would quickly route around it." He points out that one of the more significant threats to the Internet "is an errant construction backhoe." I can't tell you how many times we've lost connections due to fiber cuts while unrelated construction was underway that directly intersected our physical paths, or an anchor dragged the ocean floor in just the right (wrong) spot.
Second, Blum calls into question some of the "disingenuous" and "feigned obscurity" of the cloud "which asks us to believe that our data is an abstraction, not a physical reality." He voices his frustration further referring to that "feigned obscurity" as a malignant advantage of the cloud as it practically demands our ignorance with a "we'll take care of that for you" attitude. Blum points out that our data is always somewhere, often in two or more places, and that we should know where it is. He asserts that a basic tenet of today's Internet is that if "we're entrusting so much of who we are to large companies, they should entrust us with a sense of where they're keeping it all, and what it looks like."
Weigh this premise against revelations brought to light via Snowden's disclosures and you've got some deeper thinking to do as to the true nature of your data and expectations of privacy.
Tubes, A Journey to the Center of the Internet, is quite simply the best book I've read in a very long time. Blum's ability to converge technology and wit, data and philosophy, and dare I say, humanity with the Internet, transcends information security or network engineering. Blum is a gifted writer whose eloquent storytelling and turn of phrase bring many positive returns.
Tubes reminds us that the "Internet is made up of pulses of light" and while those pulses might seem miraculous, they're not magic. Blum asks that we remember that the Internet exists, that it has a physical reality and an essential infrastructure. In his effort to "wash away the technogical alluvium of contemporary life in order to see - fresh in the sunlight - the physical essence of our digital world", Blum succeeds well beyond words that my simple review can convey.
Treat yourself, and a friend or loved one, to Tubes this holiday season and enjoy; you will experience the Internet in a wholly different light.
Russ McRee
Thank you for the great review, Russ. With that, I will certainly take the time to read "Tubes..."
Concerning "feigned obscurity": It is interesting (alarming?) that organizations - often diligent in managing information in their own data centers - are nearly excited by the opportunity to hand over their assets to another company. Basic questions (e.g., where are the physical locations of their intellectual property) are not even considered before signing contracts. It seems that some have the attitude of "at-least-it-is-not-my-problem-anymore..." It is just calling for legal repercussions and complex civil litigation across international boundaries.
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Read your trailer manufacturer's operating manual and follow the towing vehicle's guidelines for towing capability, hitch requirements and other towing information.
Tie Down Engineering vented rotor disc brakes with aluminum calipers have many exclusive features not found on automotive type brakes modified for trailer use. Please see our web site at tiedown.com for further information on features and benefits.
Vented rotor disc brakes are designed to activate when the vehicle's brakes are applied. As the vehicle stops or slows, the momentum of the trailer pushes forward developing pressure in the actuator (master cylinder), used to apply pressure to the brakes.
Read and understand the towing information for your trailer and actuator. Check your trailer frequently for any leaks in the hydraulic system, which includes the actuator, brake lines and brakes.
Your trailer should tow easily. Disc brakes operate at a higher temperature than drum brakes. This is normal and is very similar to the way disc brakes operate on your vehicle. If for any reason your trailer does not tow easily or wants to veer to one side, stop and investigate immediately and solve the problem.
Towing a trailer (even a trailer with brakes) puts an added load on the tow vehicle's handling and braking capabilities. Do not follow to closely; you will need extra distance to maneuver and to stop.
Towing downhill puts added stress on both the tow vehicle and the trailer. Slow down before you start on an incline and maintain a controlled downhill speed with repeated application of brakes followed by a cooling period when brakes are not applied. It is very important to start off with a slow speed and maintain it rather than trying to slow down from a higher speed. Should you feel the brakes on the trailer or tow vehicle are running hot or showing signs of fade, stop immediately on the side of the road and allow the brakes to cool before resuming your trip. Should you feel the tow vehicle and trailer brakes are not working as they should, have the tow vehicle and trailer inspected. Make sure your trailer's GVW is within the tow vehicles capacity. If your trailer has multiple axles, verify that the GVW of the trailer does not exceed the capacity of the brakes, which is 3750 lbs on 10-inch (5 lug) brakes and 6000 lbs on 12-inch (6 lug) brakes, per axle. Some states require brakes on all axles. Check with your state laws and the state laws of where you will be using your trailer.
After long trips or downhill towing, your brakes could be very hot and it is a good idea to let them cool down before submerging in cold water. The change in temperature of very hot brakes submerged in water creates additional stress on the parts and could cause damage to your brakes.
Pads must be replaced when the friction material is 3/32" or less. Original Tie Down Engineering brake pads have a GalvX coated backing plate that aids in corrosion resistance. Replacement pads can also be purchased at most auto parts stores. Use NAPA #TS-7192-M or IBN # 289 and MXD289 (1990 Chevrolet Cavalier front brakes).
Use DOT 3 hydraulic fluid only. DO NOT USE SILICONE BASED BRAKE FLUID.
When backing a trailer with disc brakes, you must have a lockout lever or preferably an electrically operated solenoid to stop brake pressure to the disc brakes. The solenoid is mounted at the rear of the actuator, between the master cylinder and brake line. It has a wire connected to your back up lights to stop or redirect the fluid to keep the brakes form operating.
Removing the brake for inspection or maintenance should be done in a safe location away from moving vehicles.
Elevate the trailer using the manufacturers instructions. Always use jack stands for support. Do not depend on a jack to support the trailer. Block wheels to keep trailer from rolling.
Remove the tire/wheel assembly. Inspect the rotor surface. Check for excessive wear or grooves that may affect braking. Original rotor thickness is .939 in.; minimum thickness is .85 in. or 21.6 mm.
Inspect brake pads. Minimum thickness is 3/32". Pads should be replaced if below this width.
Remove the caliper by unscrewing the slider pins from the mounting bracket. Be careful to hold the caliper in place so that it does not fall and pull on the brake hose. The inside pad is spring loaded in the caliper piston. Pry this pad out gently with a flat blade screwdriver. The outside pad is held in place with two metal tabs. Use a large pair of pliers to straighten the tabs to remove the outside pad.
Clean the rotor with a brake cleaning spray. Replace brake pads in reverse order. The tabs should only be bent enough to hold the pad in place. Do not bend tab too far or the pad will not seat correctly. Outside pad should be able to "wiggle" after tab is bent.
Clean threads on slider bolts and mounting plate and apply a coating of Loctite or similar brand of thread lock. Tighten bolts to 40 ft lbs. DO NOT REASSEMBLE WITHOUT APPLYING LOCTITE® TO THE SLIDER PIN THREADS AND THE BACKING PLATE. SLIDER PINS COULD BACK OUT AND CAUSE PERMANENT DAMAGE TO YOUR BRAKES AND TRAILER.
If your axle has an integral style rotor, hub and rotor is one piece, and will come off as one.
If you have a cap style rotor, the rotor will be removed after the wheel and caliper is removed. The hub will come off separate.
Elevate the trailer using the manufacturers instructions. Always use jack for support. Do not depend on a jack to support the trailer. Block wheels to keep trailer from rolling.
Remove the caliper by unscrewing the slider pins from the mounting bracket. Be careful to hold the caliper in place so that it does not fall and pull on the brake hose. Support the caliper so that it does not "hang" from the brake line.
Remove the grease cap from the hub by prying around the edge of the cap.
Bend the locking tang washer to the "free" position. If spindle is equipped with a cotter key, straighten cotter key to remove.
Remove the spindle nut in a counter clockwise direction and remove the spindle washer.
Remove the hub from the spindle. Be careful not to allow bearings to fall out of the hub.
Clean bearing and cup surfaces, repack with lithium marine grade grease.
Place hub on spindle in reverse order as listed above. Rotate the hub while tightening the spindle nut to approximately 50 ft lbs. This translates into full hand pressure with a 12" long set of pliers or 12" long wrench.
Loosen the spindle nut to remove the torque, do not rotate hub.
Finger tighten the spindle nut until snug, backing out only to line up the locking tang washer.
Bend the locking tang tab in place.
Replace rotor. Clean threads of slider bolts & mounting bracket and apply a fresh coating of Loctite® to the pins as well as the mounting bracket. Tighten pins to 40 ft lbs. DO NOT REASSEMBLE WITHOUT APPLYING LOCTITE® TO THE SLIDER PIN THREADS AND THE BACKING PLATE. SLIDER PINS COULD BACK OUT AND CAUSE PERMANENT DAMAGE TO YOUR BRAKES AND TRAILER.
Replace cap. Install tire/wheel assembly, tighten wheel nuts to Trailer manufacturer specifications. Test wheel for excessive tightness or excessive play. readjust in necessary.
Road test vehicle in a safe place before traveling on main roads in traffic.
On a bare axle attach mounting plate to the brake flanges on the axle. Preferred position is at "12:00" high or to the back side. Exact positioning will be determined by the brake flange. Use 7/16"x1-1/4" zinc hex bolts, lock nuts/washers and torque to 40 lbs. Note: brake mounting plates can have 2 or 4 holes for attaching to the axle.
If installation is on a completed trailer, remove tire/wheel. This would be a good time to repack wheel bearings and inspect the bearing and seals if it has not been done recently.
Install hub (use existing instruction on installing hubs).
4a. If installing a integral or "one piece hub rotor", install rear bearing and seal. Grease bearings, install front bearings (use existing instruction on installing hubs).
Place caliper over rotor and mounting plate. A bleeder valve must be in the up position (see below). Check both calipers for this position. Some calipers have two valves others have only one.
Insert slider pins thru backside of rotor into mounting plate. Use a 7/16" hex socket and tighten both pins to 40 ft. lbs. Check for binding, make sure rotor spins freely.
NOTE: Slider pins have a lock-thread coating. If pins do not have loctite® or if the pins are removed after step 6, the threads must be cleaned and a new coat of "permanent" Loctite® must be applied. Clean and apply Loctite® to threads on the mounting plate. Be careful not to get Loctite® on slider pins or bushings.
Connect brakes lines and bleed brakes before using.
IMPORTANT: When bleeding calipers, always use the top most bleeder valve to allow air to escape from the caliper piston.


Hold Or Sell Crops Now?
In preparing November's cover story, American Agriculturist queried Northeast Extension grain marketing specialists about potential farmer marketing strategies. Carl German's close-up look really mandated that the advice of this University of Delaware crops marketing specialist get to you as soon as possible. So here it is.
Right now may be the toughest time to address 'best' marketing strategies for 2011 corn and soybeans. Prospects for $7 corn and $14 soybeans have slipped by. Even using forward-prices sales as your starting point, the task won't get any easier.
Right now may be the toughest time to address 'best' marketing strategies for 2011 corn and soybeans.
August's dramatic drop in corn and soybean prices are being attributed to the European debt crisis, the September 30 quarterly stocks report showing some demand reduction, plus investor fear resulting in spec funds taking profits while heading to the sidelines awaiting buy signals. Commodity traders may or may not have overreacted to that stocks report. But investors clearly overreacted to the state of the United States and world economies.
Strong bids for corn and soybeans indicate that additional sales may be warranted at this time. Price levels are still high compared to historical price charts. Nearby technical indicators are signaling that prices are trending lower in the near term.
A producer with a short time horizon (a month or two) best be thinking about advancing sales. Those with a longer time horizon (two to six months) might consider holding out for higher prices that might not be offered until after the turn of the year.
Consider the spreads between the nearby and distant futures contract prices. Where possible, take March as the delivery month for sales being made now. That gains 14 cents per bushel for corn and 10 cents per bushel for soybeans as of this writing.
Don't make a final decision on longer term storage decisions until the first to mid-December. Currently, from Dec '11 to July '12, there is a 31 cent spread for corn. From Nov '11 to July '12, there is a 35 cent spread for soybeans.
Come December, the big question will be whether the spreads have a carry or whether they're inverted? If a carry is indicated at that time, then longer term storage could be profitable.
One last point: September's grain stocks report was price negative for corn, but not all that negative. U.S. corn stocks in all positions were reported to be 34% lower than a year ago. Once harvest is completed, the trade will need to determine at what price will farmers be willing to plant 90(+)-million acres of corn in 2012.
Current market volatility is being driven primarily by the stronger dollar, weaker oil prices, plus a weaker and highly volatile Dow. Commodity prices still have room to move. Domestic and world demand will ultimately rule the day on deciphering your best grain marketing strategies.
Farmer's Grain Marketing Primer www.GrainMarketingPrimer.com; or Farmer's Grain Marketing Decision Aid www.webixi.com/grainguide.


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Huawei's Blacklisting a Great Leap Toward Economic Decoupling
By Daniel J. Ikenson
Huawei has been in the U.S. government's crosshairs for over a decade. In 2008, U.S. policymakers convinced the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to block the Chinese technology firm's acquisition of U.S. software company 3‑Com on the grounds that the deal would threaten national security. For many years, I have suspected that the U.S. campaign against Huawei was motivated less by concern over specific security threats than by the desire to respond to China's aggressive, discriminatory industrial policies in the technology space. If Beijing was going to subsidize indigenous innovation, favor companies that registered intellectual property in China, and encourage Chinese companies to "borrow" U.S. technology in a push to challenge American firms at the technological fore, then the U.S. response would be to inhibit the commercial success of the beneficiaries of those industrial policies. Huawei's emergence as a global competitor made it an obvious target.
Although it is certainly plausible that Huawei presents a security threat to the United States, that conclusion has never been demonstrated convincingly in any public forum by anyone with access to the information upon which such a conclusion should be based. There have been closed door hearings in which classified information was discussed and generated, which — if declassified and shared with the public — might convincingly corroborate these threat claims and maybe even justify the administration's decision to put Huawei on the U.S. Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry and Security's "Entity List," a move that could starve Huawei of needed inputs from U.S. companies. But it shouldn't come as a surprise that policymakers who sit on intelligence committees or who serve in security‐oriented federal agencies are probably predisposed to see security threats where others don't or to discern nefarious intentions where the evidence is benign or even to interpret the absence of evidence as proof of the perpetrators' craftiness.
Then again, when the standard of proof is the precautionary principle, the evidentiary thresholds aren't especially rigorous. A threat possibility, however remote, tends to suffice.
Protecting national security is a legitimate function of government. Fulfilling that responsibility sometimes requires that international trade and investment be restricted. Since determinations of threats to national security often are based on classified information, the public has to trust that policymakers have reached the right conclusions and that the prescribed remedies are necessary and appropriate.
It is difficult to trust the Trump administration in this regard, as it has already demonstrated itself an unreliable arbiter of national security threats. President Trump has made a frivolity of the national security rationale for restricting trade. Last year, Trump invoked threats to national security to justify his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. This year he concluded that U.S. security is threatened by imports of automobiles and auto parts. In those cases, the data and analyses "supporting" the national security threat conclusion were not classified, but publicly available. And you can count on your fingers and toes the number of people convinced that steel, aluminum, and auto imports present such threats.
Based on information that the U.S. public hasn't seen, the Trump administration has deemed Huawei a national security threat. That may well be the right conclusion, but the U.K., German, and other governments that the administration has been pressuring to purge their networks of Huawei gear, seem unconvinced, and have resisted.
The Trump administration's latest move to blacklist Huawei escalates already rapidly escalating tensions in the U.S.-China relationship. Putting the company (and 68 affiliates) on the Entity List means that U.S. firms can no longer do business with Huawei without first obtaining a special license, which can only be done after overcoming "a presumption of denial." Earlier today, Google, Intel, Qualcomm, and other prominent suppliers announced plans to discontinue their current commercial relationships with Huawei. It doesn't take a creative imagination to foresee worsening troubles ahead for U.S. businesses operating in China and, well, a deepening process of economic disengagement.
The bottom line is that when U.S. economic policy toward China could be successfully sequestered from the geopolitics, the relationship could be managed. Now our economic problems are viewed and magnified through a geopolitical prism and, for many, the calculations suggest that disengagement and decoupling is the optimum. But that, too, will be enormously costly.
To reiterate a conclusion from a recent op‐ed:
By banning Huawei gear and putting pressure on third countries to do the same, the United States is effectively saying that a huge swath of 21st century trade — an estimated $12.3 trillion in sales activity across multiple industries involved in developing 5G infrastructure and producing 5G enabled products by 2035, according to the Congressional Research Service — will not be subject to the disciplines of the global trading system. If that doesn't consign the WTO to insignificance, the ensuing race to carve up the world into spheres of influence based on competing 5G standards will.
In what will look like a replay of the Cold War, Beijing and Washington will compete for the loyalties of the rest of the world by offering carrots and threatening sticks to countries to adopt their respective 5G standards. Dividing the world into these technology blocs will deprive the technology ecosystem of global economies of scale and open the door to bloc‐based tariffs and other forms of protectionism, making the world a poorer place. Creation of the open global trading system induced a steady climb in global exports from 4% of GDP in 1947 to 26% of GDP in 2015. Erecting tariffs and non‐tariff barriers through that system would undoubtedly cause a decline in global trade and output.
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Potential Factors Influencing Regional Differences and Similarities in Multiregional Clinical Trials
Masahiko Ohishi PhD1
Drug information journal : DIJ / Drug Information Association volume 46, pages565–572(2012)Cite this article
In a multiregional clinical trial (MRCT), determining whether regional differences occur by chance or whether they are due to differences in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, or other prognostic factors is important to accurately evaluate the true efficacy of a drug in patients of each region. The general probability that regional results will differ from total results has been studied using statistical simulation. Consideration from the pharmacokinetic perspective is necessary as well to investigate the causes of regional differences. Patient characteristics may vary among regions, and differences in medical environment such as commonly used drugs and treatment guidelines can affect regional efficacy and safety results. Moreover, bias may be introduced in the data collected due to differences such as in diagnosis, assessment criteria, and reporting conditions. In this research, the factors and mechanism potentially influencing results by region in MRCT are examined, referring to the results of MRCTs already published.
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Ohishi, M. Potential Factors Influencing Regional Differences and Similarities in Multiregional Clinical Trials. Ther Innov Regul Sci 46, 565–572 (2012) doi:10.1177/0092861512443747
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Where should the logfiles go?
If we go with my current plan, we won't have a 1234abcd.log file, because most of these are run by lilypond-book, and this does not have an option to redirect the output from lilypond - so instead we'll have a collated-files.log, which comes from running l-book on collated-files.itely. So the obvious place to put collated-files.log is in git/build?


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March 9, 2017 General315(e), Estoppel, Federal Circuit, inter partes review, IPR, joinder, Judge Robinson, petitioner estoppel, PTAB, shaw industriesJustus Getty
A panel of judges at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("the Board") recently estopped a Petitioner from joining a petition for inter partes review under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(1). The panel's order denying institution and joinder is notable for its interpretation of the Federal Circuit's decision in Shaw Industries Group v. Automated Creel Systems, Inc. 817 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 2016). The panel's interpretation is markedly different from an earlier application of that case by Judge Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
Prior to filing the petition and motion for joinder at issue, Petitioner Great West Casualty Company ("Great West") filed four petitions requesting review of U.S. Patent No. 7,516,177 ("the '177 Patent"). See IPR2015-01706, IPR2015-01707, CBM2015-00171, IPR2016-00453. The Board instituted two of those petitions and consolidated the proceedings for trial (the "Great West Trial"). In a final written decision issued January 17, 2017, the Board held that several claims of the '177 Patent were invalid.
During the pendency of the Great West Trial, Oracle America Inc. ("Oracle") filed a petition for inter partes review (the "Oracle Review") of the '177 Patent on grounds that were different from the grounds previously raised by Great West. Upon institution of the Oracle Review but before a final written decision issued in the Great West Trial, Great West filed a petition for inter partes review substantially identical to Oracle's petition and motion to join the Oracle Review.
One of several issues raised by this fact pattern was whether, as a petitioner who had received a final written decision in a previous proceeding against the '177 Patent, Great West was estopped under § 315(e)(1) from bringing its new petition and motion for joinder. Relying on the Federal Circuit's decision and Shaw Industries, Great West argued that it was not estopped.
In Shaw Industries, the Federal Circuit held that a petitioner is not estopped from later raising an invalidity challenge on a ground that was brought in a petition but denied institution. The Federal Circuit reasoned that because the petitioner could not have raised that ground during the inter partes review, estoppel did not attach. In other words, because an inter partes review begins with an institution decision, the estoppel of § 315(e)(1) – "reasonably could have raised during that inter partes review" – is limited to those grounds actually litigated after an institution decision. Extending this logic, Great West argued that it could not have raised the grounds of Oracle's petition during its prior proceeding (i.e. – after an institution decision) and Great West was therefore not estopped from raising those grounds now.
The panel disagreed. The panel found that the Federal Circuit holding in Shaw Industries was limited to only those grounds raised in a petition but denied institution. To apply the logic of Shaw to the grounds that were never raised would "render superfluous" certain estoppel provisions of § 315(e)(1). The panel therefore found Great West to be estopped, and denied institution of Great West's latest petition.
The panel's interpretation of Shaw Industries is in conflict with that of a recent decision by Judge Robinson. The panel was cognizant of this discord, acknowledging Judge Robinson's decision but ultimately concluding that Judge Robinson's reasoning would not be adopted by the panel:
[W]hile the Board has considered the relevant portions of [Judge Robinson's] decision, and respectfully accord it all due deference, we are unpersuaded that the district court's reasoning should be adopted here.
The reach of Shaw Industries thus remains a topic of debate and disagreement. For the panel in Great West Casualty Co., that reach is limited to grounds raised in a petition but denied institution. As a result, for the moment a more robust estoppel appears to apply to at least one panel at the Board than, for example, in the District of Delaware.
The case is Great West Casualty Co., et al., v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC, Case IPR2016-01534, Paper 13 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 15, 2017).
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by Tech and Teen July 30, 2018
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Young Mustafizur Rahman will play for IPL. Bangladesh's pace ace Mustafizur Rahman has been sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for $208,000 or 1.4 crore Indian Rupees.
His price was fixed during the auction of the Indian premier league on Saturday.
The left-arm pacer is going to join the Indian side, following his remarkable success against Indian national team last year.
Mustafiz's price exceeded the base price set for him at 50 lakh Rupees.
NDTV reports: Sunrisers Hyderabad was first to show their interest on the 20-year-old pacer, mostly known all around the world for his deadly cutters.
As soon as team Sunrisers Hyderabad, mentored by VVS Laxman, called for the Bangladesh wonder boy, Daniel Vettori's Royal Challengers Bangalore hastily made their move to get hands on the 'cutter master'. A stirring round of bidding followed subsequently, according to the report.
It took 19 bids to Sunrisers Hyderabad to emerge as the winners in the race of getting Mustafizur in their team.
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AJC: ACC Coaches heap praise on Pastner, Jackets
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– Having been in the middle of something so rare as what's happening with the Georgia Tech men's basketball team, it was easy to lose cool Sunday as the Yellow Jackets beat Syracuse. It's so wonderful to witness the concept of Esprit de' Corps come to life.
There is more than one way to describe Tech's amazing drive into conversation about a possible NCAA Tournament bid, but the best I could do as junior center Ben Lammers kept flicking jumpers and spinning crafty bunnies was to break press box decorum and yell a few times, "He's like Bill freaking Walton!"
Never mind that the Jackets were picked to finish last, or next-to-last in the ACC before the season.
My colleagues spared me stare downs because, for one, they're also marveling over the way the Jackets are exceeding ALL expectations, and because, well, it was so loud in McCamish Pavilion as Tech registered its fourth whopping ACC upset of the season that perhaps I was barely heard.
That alone is astounding.
The Jackets' mutual bonding and continuous sharing of energy is so remarkable as to be barely precedented.
The buzz is back on The Flats, where Tech students were as loud and jacked as in years and years for a basketball game.
And why not. With that 71-65 win over the Orange, the Jackets went from the "first four out" category that ESPN's Joe Lunardi expertly works during the season to project the NCAA Tournament field to his "last four in."
These are smart young people, and they sense something special.
And the Jackets, now 16-11 and 7-7 in the nation's best conference, feel it back.
It's not just extra winning that's juicing Tech fans, it's the way these young men and first-year head coach Josh Pastner go about their business — all out.
"I think we're all buying into what coach Pastner started from Day One: just playing with energy, leaving it out there, and if another team is better than us, we get beat," said senior Quinton Stephens.
"We're going to stick to our game plan, and play as hard as we can. I think that's why most people enjoy watching us, because we play so hard."
And there's the hallmark of this team. Every squad of destiny has at least one.
Silly as it might seem to compare the Jackets' joyride to the Falcons' shocking run to the Super Bowl out of the 1998 season, or the Braves' worst-to-first turnaround on the way to the World Series in 1991, there are similarities in this unfolding passion play.
Much as a great revisionist might be inclined to say that he or she saw all along freshman Josh Okogie as one of the ACC's best freshmen, or that they predicted that Lammers might be the nation's most improved player, or that the Jackets would be grizzlies on defense, diehard Braves and Falcons fans likewise glowed as their teams surpassed any sane dissection of their prospects ahead of the season.
Those teams, and this one, have a synergy that makes the sum of parts greater than the parts themselves. That appeals.
"From where my bosses, coaches in the league, national media members, [local] media members told me what was going to happen this year, to be where we are right now is nothing short of amazing," Pastner said.
"Literally, it's a modern miracle. God bless our young men. It's a credit to our young men. It's not me, it is our players and what they have done. How they've bonded. It's all about team, team, team and that's a credit to them."
There must be individual components to over-arching success.
In 1991, nobody predicted the Braves' young pitchers would so excel, nor that Terry Pendleton would crawl out of a scrap heap and win the National League MVP award and batting title.
When the Falcons went 14-2 in 1998, I covered that team for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and was stunned time and again by the confluence of surpassing performances and fate.
Quarterback Chris Chandler, like Pendleton, came out of relative nowhere to play the best season of his life. Well-traveled wide receiver Tony Martin, acquired in June via trade with San Diego, paired with Terance Mathis to give Atlanta two 1,000-yard wideouts. Jamal Anderson, previously little more than a burly quote machine, led the NFL with 1,846 rushing yards on an NFL-record 410 carries.
And there was remarkable energy surrounding both teams. Fans went nuts.
So it is now on The Flats, where McCamish Pavilion is feeling quite like Alexander Memorial Coliseum — the Thrillerdome –back in Cremins' days, you know, like when Dennis Scott, Kenny Anderson and Brian Oliver led the Jackets to the Final Four in the 1989-90 season?
They were there Sunday, signing autographs before the Jackets ripped off their fifth straight home win. Tech has beaten four RPI top-50 teams (No. 25 VCU, No. 5 North Carolina, No. 12 Florida State, No. 26 Notre Dame). That's balanced against losses to seven top 50 RPI teams (No. 4 Louisville, at No. 11 Duke, at No. 15 Virginia, at No. 35 Virginia Tech, at No. 38 Wake Forest, at No. 45 Miami and at No. 50 Tennessee).
If there was any doubt something special is happening at Tech, Oliver stepped in for a fan at halftime for the half-court pizza shot — and banked it in off the glass.
The building absolutely roared.
And not for the last time, as the Jackets trailed by nine a few minutes before halftime, and then put together a 28-7 run over the end of the first half and the first nine-plus minutes of the second half.
When junior guard Tadric Jackson buried a 3-pointer with 10:47 left in the game for a 49-37 Tech lead, after one of Lammers' career-high three steals, the place went bananas. Jackson scored 20 off the bench.
It's the new normal.
And much as the Jackets' individual improvements are based in grass-roots work with Pastner and assistants Eric Reveno, Tavaras Hardy and Darryl LaBarrie, months of scheming went into creating that noise.
A long silence has been interrupted with a re-embrace of internal energy.
"The student section was awesome. I remember in the spring and the summer and the fall … I'd go to student groups to try to generate interest from students because everywhere I would go people would come to me and tell me, `You've got to get the students involved,' " Pastner recalled.
"I'd go to student groups and there would be four people, two people, six people, but I didn't care how small the group was, I would go speak. I was hoping that they would maybe catch a little enthusiasm and energy and kind of pay it forward, which is one of my favorite movies of all time.
"I remember going fraternity and sorority meetings, and they're probably looking, like, `What is this guy doing?' But the students really came through."
Players are coming through, too.
Magic moments keep coming.
In 1991, there was no moment better than Francisco Cabrera singling home a sliding Sid Bream in the bottom of the ninth inning of game seven to send the Braves to the World Series.
In 1998, the Falcons crafted many epic moments, like when Lester Archambeau sacked Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe and Chuck Smith returned a fumble 71 yards on the way to a 41-10 win in New England, or when the Falcons returned six takeaways or punts/kicks for touchdowns that season.
Those guys were so much better than themselves because they believed.
Same with the Jackets.
Okogie authored a fabulous snapshot when he scored just ahead of the buzzer on and end-to-end fast break to beat No. 12 Notre Dame on Jan. 28, and he and his teammates are writing a helluva book.
With wins at Tournament-bound VCU, and over No. 9 North Carolina, No. 6 Florida State, No. 14 Notre Dame and Tournament prospect Syracuse, they're paying forward for fans, and themselves.
Even with illness, season-ending injuries (Abdoulaye Gueye), and a slew of sprained ankles (Lammers, Stephens, Josh Heath, Tadric Jackson), they keep charging.
The fans' juice helps.
"Especially if you have any kind of minor injury, once you get going adrenaline usually helps with that especially if you're in front of a sellout," Lammers said after scoring 23 points with seven rebounds and seven blocked shots. "You don't really think about it too much."
Likewise, Pastner's not getting into the business of thinking about what Tech needs to do to earn a tournament berth. He's taking on the movement, and coaching players to do the same.
"It is daily, 24/7 work for me not to get involved in expectations, meaning start thinking about the future, starting thinking about what we have to do, this or that," he said. "Even health-wise, for the stress I put on myself … I constantly try to stay out of expectations or bubble or tournament.
"I used the word `enjoy' to our guys. Like [Sunday], that was our key word. Enjoy the game. Enjoy the sellout crowd. You're playing Syracuse. For me, I told the guys I never sit down. I started the game sitting down. Sellout crowd, I'm coaching against Jim Boeheim, who's one of the greatest ever … so enjoy it."
Everybody's enjoying it. As Stephens said after registering a career-high eight assists, the Jackets lay it on the line. Never mind that sprained ankle.
"I don't think anyone's holding anything back, especially me; this is my last go-round … I'm going after it," he said. "I was bouncy. I was ready.
"Can't get more jacked up than having a sellout crowd, playing against Syracuse, playing with my teammates . . . that energy's contagious so we appreciate all the support … We're all leaving it on the court."
January 18, 2020 Virginia Outlasts Georgia Tech, 63-58
Jose Alvarado leads Jackets with 20 points
Virginia Outlasts Georgia Tech, 63-58
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/EINPresswire.com/ -- TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug 1, 2017) - Superior Plus Corp. ("Superior") (TSX:SPB) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Canada Revenue Agency ("CRA"), which provides for a final resolution of Superior's tax appeal in connection with its conversion from an income trust structure to a corporation on December 31, 2008 (the "Conversion"). The settlement agreement will not impact Superior's cash income taxes for the current year or any previous financial years or Superior's existing 2017 guidance.
Luc Desjardins, President and Chief Executive Officer stated "We are very pleased with the conclusion of the tax appeal relating to the Conversion transaction. It eliminates uncertainty for Superior going forward and enables us to focus on our ongoing Evolution 2020 business initiatives."
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Travis Scott is being sued over the cancellation of a music festival.
The 'Astroworld' rapper has been accused of fraud and breach of contract by Empire Music Ventures, who allege he had agreed to perform at the 2019 Rhythm, Wine & Brews Experience at the Empire Polo Grounds - the same site as Coachella - but after he signed a deal on November 7 and received an upfront part-payment of $217,500 on December 3, his representatives called and cancelled his 75-minute set with no explanation.
On the day the organisers claim to have paid Travis the first installment of his $400,000 fee, they released a message cancelling the event which read: "Due to a last minute cancellation by our festival headliner, we have no other choice than to cancel the 2019 Rhythm, Wine & Brews Experience."
In court documents obtained by The Blast, Empire Music Ventures accused the 26-year-old star and his team of stealing from them.
They wrote in bold and underlined text: "Defendants have stolen Plaintiff's money. [They] refuse to return the money ... each of them have kept it, and wrongfully converted it to their own use. They have stolen 217,500.00."
While no explanation has been given for Travis dropping out of the festival, the contract states that he could not "contract or advertise any other performance within a 120-mile radius for 90 days before or 30 days after March 2", meaning any possible surprise performance at Coachella could be severely limited.
Travis famously met Kylie Jenner - the mother of his daughter Stormi, 10 months, at Coachella, and after sparking an instant connection, the lip kit guru decided to head off on tour with the rapper to really get to know him.
She previously said: "We had a lot of downtime. It was organic. And we would just go to these random cities. We got to not be who we really were. Like, if we were in LA, I feel like it would've been way different. Everything happened for a reason. We weren't going out as 'Kylie and Trav.' We would just be in Cleveland, walking the street for hours. We would go on walks, and no one would bother us."


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How to maintain code quality while having fun
What is code quality?
There are a lot of definitions of code quality out there, but I will try to summarize what I understand when someone is talking about code quality.
One of the aspects of code quality is readability. It is very important that code is readable and comprehensive, not only by your teammates, but also by yourself. Sometimes it isn't that easy to understand a piece of code that you've written yourself some time ago, imagine how it would be like for someone else.
Code should be as readable as possible, so that anyone that comes in contact with it is aware of what it does. This way it is easier to maintain the code, which brings us to the next aspect of code quality: Maintainability
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
As applications grow, so does the codebase behind these applications. Sometimes this can cause that making changes to these applications becomes very hard without breaking existing functionalities. To prevent this, efforts should be made to make code as maintainable as possible. This can be done by focusing on the readability of the code, adding enough tests or writing the application in a way that it is extensible.
An important aspect of developing applications is testing. Whether you are working test-driven or not, there should always be tests! Not only does this help you a lot during development, it also boosts the confidence of whoever will be making changes to the applications in the future. Running the tests after a change will ensure that all the existing functionalities are still working. Note that tests are part of the codebase, and code quality in the tests is as important as code quality in the actual implementations.
Code reviews to the rescue
One of the most important steps to maintain this code quality, is doing code reviews. During a code review, someone else reviews the codechanges that were done and checks it for readability, possible bugs, good practices, if the tests are covering the changes enough, …
Another great aspect of code reviews, besides maintaining the code quality, is learning from each other. If a code reviewer reviews code, it's very well possible that he or she gains new insights or learns new ways of developing. This works in both ways, when a code reviewer notices something that he would have done differently he can provide the author of the code feedback. In this way, the author also learns from the reviewer.
How to make code reviews fun?
Me, 2 of my fellow ToThePoint colleagues and the rest of our team at Liantis invented a way to make code reviews more fun. We introduced the 'Battleship' game.
Make code reviews fun using the battleship method
Every member of the team starts by positioning his ships on his battleship grid. Whenever a code reviewer finds something odd during the review which is:
Breaking one of the good practices
Missing tests
Unused imports
Something else that is to be found extremely stupid by the reviewer and the majority of the rest of the team
every member of the team gets to shoot 'a missile' to the Battleship grid of the author.
Since nobody really likes to lose, this has the great effect that every member of the team is now way more careful with what he or she checks in before the code review. It creates way more awareness during developing to focus on the code quality.
Of course, good code reviews are very importing in the aspect of code quality. So how the keep the code reviewer sharp during the code reviews? Well… If, apart from during a code review, someone finds something odd in the code that breaks our code quality standards, we will backtrack who wrote the code – but also who did the review. In this case, not only the author but also the code reviewer will have to receive a missile shot from every other member of the team.
Whenever someone loses the game, he or she will have to treat every other team member – often with some kind of energy drink.
We are doing this now for almost half a year, and we noticed that introducing battleship had a very good impact on our code quality. The amount of missiles we are launching on each other (in the battleship game of course…) is very low nowadays. Everyone is investing more time in maintaining the code quality – which results in applications that are very maintainable.
Last but not least, we just love this. It's very fun, and it creates a great team-atmosphere.
Kaj Van der Hallen


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Week Twenty-One - Different Cooling Systems
Save 55+ kilograms CO2e per person per year
- Squawk! Mummy, pretend I'm a pirate parrot and pretend I copy everything you say.
- ... said the politician to the union.
This is my last post about how to cool a house in summer. I'm behind schedule because I've been preparing a piece for Canberra's Art, Not Apart festival in March. If you go see it you'll know it's art, because it's made of Lego, not spreadsheets. Until then, back to the spreadsheets.
Fans, air conditioning or evaporative cooling?
Anything that uses a lot of energy emits a lot of carbon dioxide and equivalent emissions (CO2e). How much CO2e do different cooling systems emit?
The traditional wisdom is that air conditioning is energy-intense and fans are eco-friendly. I'm not rich or committed enough to dismantle our evaporative cooler and install a series of temporary replacements to test this out, so I did the next best thing. I compared specifications for portable appliances from OfficeWorks. I've looked at scenarios to keep a family of three cool over summer, being three fans, two evaporative coolers or one air conditioner.
Scenario 1 - two portable evaporative coolers - lowest power use
At only 72 watts combined, the portable evaporative coolers use very little power. This is consistent with my experience of a central unit. I compared our power bills for the three years before and after we installed evaporative cooling, and we only emitted an extra 100 kilograms of CO2e after installing a central evaporative cooler. This is probably why it was so hard for my family to cut back by using the system more efficiently. It's already an extremely efficient system.
Scenario 2 - three portable fans - medium power use
At 340 watts combined, three fans take a big chunk from your total electricity usage, almost five times more than the evaporative coolers above. I also find them far less comfortable. Use fans wisely. Turn them off when you're not in front of them. Pick energy-efficient models.
Scenario 3 - one portable air conditioner - high power use
At 1100 to 1650 watts, the air con units used over fifteen times more power than the evaporative coolers and three times more than the fans. They're even worse if you want to air-condition a whole house, rather than a single room. Air conditioning deserves its reputation for being power-hungry.
Author's note: Last year, our evaporative cooler kept us cool and used much less power than air conditioning. This year, we are choking on bushfire smoke in Canberra which we cannot keep out with an evaporative cooler. I recommend anyone installing a new system look at a very efficient reverse cycle heat pump that cools and heats their house and has an asthma / HEPA / smoke filter attached. This will use less power than standard air con, get you off gas in winter and exclude smoke.
A fan of fans? Choose fans over air con, but use them wisely.
Evaporative cooling emits less CO2e than fans, but it doesn't work in humid climates.
Passive cooling
Passive cooling means keeping cool without using electric cooling appliances. It's generally regarded as the most ecological method. Ideally, it involves original design-and-build decisions, like orientating your house to minimise summer sun on windows and using building materials that provide good insulation. Retrofits might include planting deciduous trees that give summer shade and winter sun, installing awnings, blinds and extra insulation and closing blinds during the day.
There is embedded energy and emissions in building materials. If you're building from scratch, build for passive cooling and passive heating. But if you have to dismantle existing infrastructure and install virgin material in its place, the embedded CO2e may outweight the energy savings. It's a complex calculation to make.
I tested out some passive cooling retrofits. I installed an awning over my study window, a draught-proof dog door to replace our hole in the wall and some cheap window insulation (which promptly peeled off in the 40-degree heatwave). I then monitored our power use over the following three weeks. My household electricity dropped from 108-kilowatt hours per week to 79-kilowatt hours per week. If sustained over summer, this would reduce my per-person emissions by 110 kilograms CO2e. But the heatwave had also ended for that period, so the reduced power use could have been due to the weather. It's impossible to tell.
How much CO2e can you save?
I conclude that anyone could cut 55 kilograms CO2e per person per year with some basic measures, like simple passive cooling retrofits and using their cooling system more efficiently. This is a small cut. As a society, we'd be better off switching the grid to renewables, which would save over 900 kilograms CO2e during summer alone.
If you have central air conditioning, you can save more than 55 kilograms CO2e by turning your air con to a higher temperature / lower power setting, using it more efficiently and adding passive cooling. Do that, but also help us switch the grid at the next election.
Politicians at a recent #StopAdani coal mine protest in Canberra. Some are for real, others mere puppets.
Spreadsheet calculations, notes and data sources in the 'Notes' section, Week Twenty-One.
Week Twenty - Smarter Cooling
Week Twenty-Two - Drinks


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"Quatuor II" (1964) by Betsy Jolas, recorded live from Seully Hall at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee as part of New Music Gathering IV on May 18th 2018.
Micah Brightwell, violin
Samuel Kelder, viola
Benjamin Swartz, cello
with special guest Emily Thorner, soprano
From composer's notes:
"This is a quartet 'with voice' in the same way that in the eighteenth century quartets were written with flute or oboe – that is, for three instruments belonging to the same family and one that is fundamentally different. This does not mean that, in the present case, the voice is used to suggest any other instrument than itself, but only that its functions are instrumental ones.
"The result is a new relationship, that of equals, between the stringed instruments and the singer, who no longer assumes the role of a soloist.
"This relationship will quite naturally govern the placing of the four performers at the concert. The singer, who carries the upper part in the quartet, will occupy, seated, the place of the first violin, and be given a music stand for her score, while the three instrumentalists complete the traditional seating arrangement.
"Such a conception did not seem to admit of a text, the meaning of which, even supposing that it were at times intelligible, would be perceived as 'superprinting.'
"In the absence of a text, the indispensable vocal articulation is obtained through a flexible set of phonemes representing the vocal equivalent of bowings and tonguings.
"Their basic sounds usually imply French pronunciation, consequently French spelling. But in order to avoid meaningful associations in any language, these phonemes are subjected to constant variations of form and color.
"It is therefore recommended that the singer, throughout the work, cultivate what are called faults of diction, i.e., hardly distinguishable and insufficiently articulated consonants and barely formed, constantly fluctuating vowels."
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Why Beijing's closing schools
Sep 2, 2011 (WiC 120)
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Wants to learn, now not able to
If you think raising children is a challenge, try to imagine the life of a Chinese migrant parent in Beijing. Two weeks ago, the government quietly shut down 24 schools for migrant workers in Daxing, Chaoyang and Haidian districts, forcing more than 14,000 students to drop out.
"I felt very sad when I heard the school will be shut down, I have to send my children back to our hometown in Henan," 42 year-old waste collector He Zhongshan told Reuters, at a school closing in the Chaoyang district.
Education officials say they are confident that displaced students will be reassigned to public schools before the school year starts on September 1.
But Xinhua reported that several townships now require migrant parents to provide five sets of documents, including their temporary residential and work permits, in order to enroll their children. For many migrants, that's a problem, as they do not hold the full set of permits.
The Economic Observer says that, of the 800 students in the New Hope Primary School in Haidian district, only 100 parents have all five documents. The students in question now face the risk of not being able to go to school, or having to move back to their home provinces without their parents.
Why are the schools closing? Education authorities say they are only targeting schools lacking the necssary operating permits. They also say that poor safety standards at many school buildings are another reason for seeking their closure.
Yang Qin, a local principal, told reporters that his school had never been singled out for safety problems during many government inspections, nor had it violated any of the local hygiene regulations.
Instead Yang reckons officials intend to flatten areas at existing school sites to build new housing, because of their relative proximity to affluent areas of the city.
Geoffrey Crothall, a director at workers' rights group China Labour Bulletin, agrees: "The closure of migrant schools in Beijing is a cynical ploy by district governments to clear the land for property developers as land values in the outer suburbs continue to rise."
Critics also warn that the shutdown programme is part of Beijing government efforts to force so-called low-quality migrants out of the city.
WiC has mentioned this issue before, with the Chinese capital desperate to alleviate population pressure.
An investigation last summer found that the city's population (those living in Beijing for six months or longer) had topped 19.7 million by the end of 2009. Amazingly, this was 2 million more than official figures had previously suggested.
In response officials announced plans to close down the cheap accommodation often favoured by migrants (the commitment was to complete the process by the end of this year).
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Иван Лазаревич Могильчак (1917—1945) — майор Рабоче-крестьянской Красной Армии, участник Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (1944).

Биография
Родился 8 февраля 1917 года в селе Демидовка (ныне — Тростянецкий район Винницкой области Украины). Окончил девять классов школы в Свердловске и Батайскую авиационную школу Гражданского воздушного флота, после чего работал лётчиком в Иркутском аэропорту. В 1940 году он окончил курсы высшей лётной подготовки.

В 1941 году был призван на службу в Рабоче-крестьянскую Красную Армию. С июля 1942 года — на фронтах Великой Отечественной войны.

К октябрю 1943 года будучи старшим лейтенантом командовал эскадрильей 235-го штурмового авиаполка 264-й штурмовой авиадивизии 5-го штурмового авиационного корпуса 2-й воздушной армии Воронежского фронта. К тому времени он совершил 94 боевых вылета на штурмовку и бомбардировку скоплений боевой техники и живой силы противника, нанеся ему большие потери, лично сбил 1 вражеский самолёт.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении звания Героя Советского Союза офицерскому составу военно-воздушных сил Красной Армии» от 4 февраля 1944 года за «образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования на фронте борьбы с немецкими захватчиками и проявленные при этом отвагу и геройство» был удостоен высокого звания Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» за номером 2827.

Генерал Каманин Н. П. писал:

«Каждый день водили свои эскадрильи наши славные капитаны Григорий Прошаев, Николай Павленко, Георгий Береговой, Петр Шмиголь, Тимофей Лядский, Иван Могильчак… Иван Могильчак! Тот самый, всегда веселый и жизнерадостный, запевала и аккордеонист Иван Могильчак, не знавший страха в бою, герой днепровской эпопеи, воспитавший мастеров штурмового удара — Алексея Красилова, Василия Захарченко, Анатолия Казакова, Сергея Бесчастного. Иван Могильчак первый в полку освоил боевые полеты штурмовиков в горах.

Крестьянский сын из-под Винницы, ровесник Октября, Иван Лазаревич Могильчак перед войной окончил школу летчиков Гражданского воздушного флота и получил хорошую практику полетов над просторами Сибири, над таёжными массивами. Вот почему он был в полку мастером штурманской подготовки, умел прекрасно ориентироваться в полетах. 140 боевых вылетов сделал на фронте капитан Иван Могильчак. 25 раз его грозный штурмовик появлялся над окруженным врагом в районе Будапешта. Последний, 26-й вылет оказался роковым: Герой Советского Союза Иван Лазаревич Могильчак погиб, выполняя боевое задание. Образ его навечно остался в наших сердцах.».

Самолёт майора Ивана Могильчака был подбит в бою над Будапештом. 14 февраля 1945 года умер от полученных ожогов. Первоначально был похоронен в Будапеште, после войны перезахоронен в сквере Козицкого в Виннице.

Был также награждён двумя орденами Красного Знамени, орденами Александра Невского и Отечественной войны 2-й степени.

В его честь названы улицы в Виннице, Тростянце и Демидовке.

Примечания

Литература

 Звёзды на крыльях. — М.: Воениздат, 1959.
 Золотые Звёзды свердловчан. — Свердловск: Средне-Уральское кн. изд., 1970.
 Каманин Н. П. Лётчики и космонавты. — М.: Политиздат, 1971.
 Кузнецов И. И. Золотые звёзды иркутян. — Иркутск, 1982.
 Овеянные славой имена. Одесса. Маяк, 1989.

Лётчики Великой Отечественной войны
Умершие от ожогов
Похороненные в Виннице

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