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Michigan House Members Call to Impeach Gov. Whitmer
Several Michigan lawmakers are calling for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's impeachment after the announcement of the state's new COVID-19 restrictions.
Under the new restrictions that are set to start Wednesday, Michigan high schools and colleges must halt in-person classes, indoor dining is no longer allowed at bars and restaurants, entertainment businesses must close for three weeks and gathering sizes also will be tightened.
Whitmer said the orders are issued lawfully under the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service.
Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock believes otherwise and said that he and a "growing list of Michigan Legislators" will work to impeach Whitmer.
Maddock said fellow Republican state Reps. Daire Rendon, Beau LaFave, Ryan Berman, Shane Hernandez and John Reilly were among the lawmakers who would pursue Whitmer's impeachment.
The group of lawmakers say they believe Whitmer has crossed the line.
Their statement, which was posted to Facebook, included a list of all the reasons he believed Whitmer deserved to be removed from office, including that she "Ignored court orders. Violated our Constitutional rights. Completely ignored due process and the legislature. Weaponized contract tracing databases to aid democrat campaigns."
Tiffany Brown, a spokesperson from Whitmer's office told TV5, responded by saying, "Governor Whitmer doesn't have any time for partisan politics or people who don't wear masks, don't believe in science, and don't have a plan to fight this virus. Right now, she is focused on saving lives. The governor will continue to work hard for all 10 million Michiganders."
In order to impeach a sitting governor in Michigan, a simple majority of the 110 member House of Representatives would need to vote to initiate impeachment hearings. Republicans would hold 58 of the 110 house seats as of Jan. 1, 2021. Two-thirds of the 38 member Senate would be needed to convict or remove the governor.
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California Tells COVID-Positive Medical Staff to 'Return to Work Immediately, Without Isolation or Testing'
The Los Angeles Times came out with a piece Wednesday titled, "With hospitals reeling, California tells COVID-positive medical workers to stay on the job." With more and more patients arriving to the emergency room every day, forced to wait entire days to be seen, there is no one to answer the phones and no one to take out the trash.
Due to the Omicron-fueled surge, healthcare workers are calling out sick in droves, and has "left the medical infrastructure on edge." As a result, California, and other state's officials are examining a "Sweeping policy change that allows asymptomatic healthcare workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus to return to work immediately, without isolation or testing."
Currently, the policy will remain in place through February 1st to avoid staffing shortages. The California Department of Public Health said because hospitals are reaching capacity, providing essential care is extremely compromised.
"Given those conditions, the department is providing temporary flexibility to help hospitals and emergency services providers respond to an unprecedented surge and staffing shortages" said the agency.
On Tuesday, nurses and representatives with the SEIU 721 union spoke out against the measure outside the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting in downtown to L.A. The California Nurses Association also said it planning a "day of action" for Thursday to condemn the state's decision.
"It is absolutely infuriating that Democrats turned our nation upside down, harmed our children and may have even allowed the Democrats to steal an election creating these mandates, only to be forced to throw it all out the window on a whim because they did not work" says Sara Carter
"When President Trump was questioning these things, when I would question these things, when any sane person would question these things, the Democrats tried to make everyone look like they wanted to kill their grandmother and that we were conspiracy theorists" adds Carter.
"Is the situation ideal? No," said Dr. Robert-Kim Farley, an epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. "Is it the lesser of the two evils of having no one to care for patients, versus having staff caring for them that may have COVID? Yes, it's the lesser of two evils."
The L.A. Times adds, "Kim-Farley said the policy is a recognition of the significant strain hospitals are experiencing amid an increased number of patients and decreased number of staff. The chances of transmission from an asymptomatic worker are minimal, he said, particularly since he or she would be practicing precautions, including wearing high-grade medical masks."

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Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-03-24, fight not particularly good between Michel Soro and John Vera: it gets two stars.
Michel Soro entered this fight with a pro record of 31-2-1 (21 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.14 super welterweight in the world. He fought three times last year beating Javier Francisco Maciel (Soro vs Maciel) and Ivan Montero (Michel Soro vs Ivan Montero) but between these two bouts he lost to Brian Carlos Castano (Soro vs Castano).
His opponent, the undefeated John Vera, has a perfect boxing record of 18-0-0 (11 knockouts) and he entered as the No.68 in the same weight class. He also fought three times in 2017 winning over Salim Larbi, Daniel Rosario Cruz and Sunday Ajuwa. Soro vs Vera is valid for the interim WBA World super welterweight title; undercard of Arsen Goulamirian vs Ryad Merhy. Watch the video and rate this fight!


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Sassy Etta Mae, the bad girl of the Miss Julie series gets to tell her story. Working as a CNA, the twice divorced bombshell who has a kind heart is is engaged to Howard Connard, Senior, the wealthy elderly community leader, once the major employer in the area. Unfortunately her boss has told Howard Junior who has immediately come from Raleigh, even though he hadn't visited his father for months, and made plans to move him to a nursing home. Meanwhile, Etta Mae's first ex-husband who had left her with nothing but debt returns to to town to tell her he has a winning lottery ticket he wants to split with her but unfortunately he is on the wrong side of a bunch of big bad guys who are hell bent on getting the ticket. When Etta Mae works out a way to free her fiance and get the wedding done in a hurry, every thing that can go wrong does to comic effect.


The Jasper Quarterback Club is looking to boost its membership heading into the 2018 football season.
In recent years, the Jasper High School Quarterback Club has basically been nonexistent.
While technically there has been a club, it has not been very active, according to the current club president Dell Green.
Green said a decrease in membership has led to less activity in recent years. The group is now in the middle of a membership drive, hoping to attract many more people.
"What we are trying to get across to people is this isn't just a club for people with children who are playing. This club is open to our entire community. Anyone who cares about our football program should be active in the club," Green said.
The club is currently meeting monthly in the Golden Viking Room inside the Jasper High School field house. The group will meet weekly during the football season. During the season, the coaching staff is expected to take some time each meeting to break down film.
During its first meeting in June, the club only garnered about 30 people total. In July, that number increased to more than 100 people.
"That's exciting to see," Moore said.
Green said the numbers were much better in July.
Single memberships in the quarterback club are $100, while a couple is $150. For more information or to join, contact Green at 205-275-1977.
The date of the August meeting has not been set yet, but the Jasper football team will be holding its annual Meet the Vikings Scrimmage on Thursday, Aug. 16 at 6:30 p.m.


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The State of New Jersey grants custody to parents in one of three categories. Sole custody is where the child lives entirely with one parent, and that parent maintains complete control over all decisions and day-to-day care affecting that child.The second category is joint physical custody. Joint physical custody is where the child spends part of the time with each parent, often splitting the days of the week that they spend at each parent's home. With joint physical custody, both parents share responsibility in decision making as well as the child's day-to-day care. The last category is joint legal custody, where the child may physically reside with only one parent, but all major health, education, and welfare decisions must be agreed upon by both parents. The courts determine which category would best serve the needs of the child*. Having a strong advocate and the representation of attorneys can help you and the court determine the best custodial agreement.
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Small Caps Get Squeezed
Smaller companies may have to scramble to meet more-stringent audit committee rules.
Accounting & TaxCFO Magazine
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After a change of heart, the New York Stock Exchange is pushing the Securities and Exchange Commission to include companies with small market capitalizations (under $200 million) in its plans for new independent audit committee rules. Those smaller companies may have to scramble to meet more- stringent rules, which may include requiring audit committees to consist solely of independent directors.
Originally, the NYSE had supported the proposed SEC rules, which would exempt small- cap companies on the grounds that smaller companies would struggle to find board members. But a recent report by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations on SEC accounting fraud cases between 1987 and 1997 reported that most of the fraud occurred at those smaller companies. Now, the NYSE is circulating a letter to member companies detailing its new view. The SEC rules, which will be released sometime this fall, will "take into account" the NYSE's new suggestions, but specific details could not be released, says an SEC spokesperson.
If the SEC heeds the NYSE's suggestions, small-cap companies will face major changes. "In Utopia, there would be no impact," says Rick Martin, director of finance at Pameco Corp., a distributor of heating, ventilating, and air- conditioning equipment, based in Norcross, Ga., with annual sales of $625 million. "The proper controls would already be in place; there wouldn't be an issue."
But that is not the reality, Martin acknowledges. Smaller companies that don't have the proper level of expertise are "homespun in nature, and are used to maintaining books a little loosely, tightening them up at year-end," he says.


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Penguin Random House is buying Simon & Schuster. That's bad for readers.
The German media giant Bertelsmann, which owns Penguin Random House, said on Nov. 25 that it is buying the publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for $2.17 billion in cash. (Michael Sohn/AP)
Ron Charles
Critic, Book World
November 26, 2020 at 12:57 a.m. UTC
It's a small world after all. And if we don't speak up, it will become smaller.
Penguin Random House, already the largest trade publisher in the country, has announced plans to buy Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for about $2 billion. If the deal goes through, the Big Five publishers will become the Big Four — or, really, an industry version of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.
For book lovers, that development may feel like background noise. After all, when looking for something good to read, we choose authors and titles, not publishers.
But don't turn the page on this news yet. No matter what soon-to-be-enriched executives say, the proposed consolidation of the publishing business is bad for authors, bad for readers and bad for American culture.
As the number of publishers shrinks, authors find themselves with fewer potential buyers for their proposals and manuscripts. Bookstores are beholden to a smaller number of distributors. And readers face a shelf of titles further dominated by familiar bestsellers most likely to earn big payouts for massive corporations.
Penguin Random House — the result of an ill-conceived merger back in 2013 — is already too big. The publishing house, which is part of the German conglomerate Bertelsmann, contains 320 imprints that release about 15,000 titles a year. Simon & Schuster publishes 2,000 titles a year.
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In a statement released Wednesday, Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle wrote, "We can successfully unite company cultures and prestigious publishing teams while preserving each imprint's identity and independence. Simon & Schuster aligns completely with the creative and entrepreneurial culture that we nurture by providing editorial autonomy to our publishers."
United but somehow independent, autonomous but also completely aligned — these are Orwellian reassurances. (Conveniently, Penguin Random House publishes "1984.") Dohle's statement is not really a description of corporate culture; it's a preemptive defense against antitrust concerns.
In his own happy statement about the proposed merger, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp suggests that the union was essentially fated in the stars. "From our company's inception," he writes, "there has been much cross-pollination between Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House. In fact, the founder of Random House, Bennett Cerf, met Max Schuster when they were both students at Columbia Journalism School." Karp goes on to assure everyone involved that Dohle "wants to bring Simon & Schuster into the Bertelsmann family with the same thoughtful respect for our creative independence that accompanied the merger of Penguin and Random House."
But there's no reason we should passively accept this trend toward further concentration. A vibrant democracy needs more editorial diversity representing a broader range of tastes and interests. Bertelsmann's omnivorous strategy is particularly alarming because Simon & Schuster plays a unique role in the United States as a leading publisher of high-risk political books, such as John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" and Mary Trump's "Too Much and Never Enough" — both of which President Trump tried to squelch through lawsuits and public intimidation.
Merging such a publisher into an even larger corporation would further diminish competition and make such risk-taking less attractive. If you doubt that, consider the last time McDonald's was a culinary innovator. In the future that Bertelsmann celebrates, we can all read anything we want so long as it's a bestseller by John Grisham.
Not surprisingly, the Authors Guild, the nation's largest professional organization of writers, immediately came out against this proposed merger. In a statement released Wednesday, the group warned: "Less competition makes it even more difficult for agents and authors to negotiate for better deals, or for the Authors Guild to help secure changes to standard publishing contracts — because authors, even best-sellers, don't have a lot of options about where else to publish." The Authors Guild also notes that previous consolidations in the publishing industry have led to "editorial layoffs, canceling of contracts, a reduction in diversity among authors and ideas."
Weeks ago, Barry Lynn, the executive director of the Open Markets Institute, was already raising concerns about the Simon & Schuster sale. "There is no imperative in capitalism, there is no imperative in the business for there to be the kind of consolidation that we already have," he said. "What we want to see right now is not less competition but more."
Wednesday morning, the Open Markets Institute condemned the Penguin Random House deal, saying it "poses multiple dangers to American democracy and to the interests of America's authors and readers." The group called on the Justice Department to "challenge this deal and to make clear that no further consolidation of power will be allowed in America's book publishing industry, which is already too concentrated."
Sally Hubbard, Lynn's colleague and the author of a new book called "Monopolies Suck!" (published by Simon & Schuster), sees a host of problems already arising from the unfettered power of publishing conglomerates, news corporations and social media platforms. "Diversity of speech and a marketplace of ideas are incredibly important," she said. "We're seeing this across the whole economy, whether it's online speech and the consolidation of the control of speech with Facebook and Google or whether it's the destruction of local news and journalism. You start having a less pluralistic society, more concentration of ideas through fewer gatekeepers."
Hubbard said margins already are so squeezed that publishers do not have as much money "to take risks on new authors who don't have followings." Projects that take years of research fall by the wayside. But, of course, the damage to our culture is hard to notice. It's a shelf of books not published.
Hubbard and Lynn agree that the root problem is the swelling power of Amazon. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) They say the Justice Department's fixation on low prices has allowed Amazon to become a dominant buyer and retailer of publishers' books. The online giant is now so large that it can impose increasingly challenging terms on publishers. "That's an extortive and extortionary relationship," Hubbard says, "not a healthy marketplace." Publishers have responded in exactly the way we're seeing this week: further consolidation.
Hubbard said the situation is so extreme that the Justice Department should allow publishers to engage in collective bargaining with Amazon. That could help protect publishers' margins and ensure at least a little variety among our creative gatekeepers.
But unless there's a radical attitude adjustment in Washington, that's not likely to happen. On Wednesday, Dohle told Publishers Weekly that he does not expect any antitrust issues to arise, which is a shameful comment on the attentiveness of the country's antitrust regulators.
Anybody who cares about the biodiversity of our intellectual and creative culture should speak up now. The future of American literature could soon be a forest of lovely trees — all oaks, neatly trimmed.
Ron Charles writes about books for The Washington Post and hosts TotallyHipVideoBookReview.com.
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Parents will tell you that having a baby is one of the most amazing things that a person can experience. Watching them experience the world can be so precious. Then reality hits and the same parents will also tell you that it is one of the most difficult things they have ever done. Some how a little person can make you so exhausted that you struggle to stay coherent and you beg for mercy. Ok. Perhaps it is not that bad but it certainly feels that way. You welcome any and all help. For one family, they found help in their amazing dog that helps them change their baby's diaper!
Like most families, Daniel and Julia have a family pet. It is an adorable beagle named Charlie. He loves to learn new tricks and being a part of the family. Daniel and Julia also have a 2-month-old daughter, Laura Olivia. It just seemed natural for Daniel and Julia to teach Charlie to help them change Laura Olivia's diaper. In this Share Saturday video, you will see Charlie bring over the baby wipes, a diaper, and then even diaper rash cream. This is when it gets real. Charlie even takes care of the dirty diaper. He grabs it off of the changing table and takes it over to the diaper pail. While helpful, we would be concerned that Charlie might make a mess taking care of the dirty diaper.
Enjoy this week's video of Charlie helping to change the baby's diaper!


Bob Bryan from 'Bert and I' passed away Wednesday at the age of 87.
Marshall Dodge and Bryan released their first album in 1958. They started the duo in their Yale University dorm room, writing the characters and bits that epitomized Maine.
Bryan was originally from Long Island, New York, but spent summers in Maine. He learned the way Mainers talked and their great sense of humor.
The original "You can't get there from here" was about Millinocket. Listen to the audio below.
He was also a minister and bought a float plane to worship with fishing villages in Quebec's northern regions.
Bryan died at his home in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Here's Bob Bryan telling a classic 'Bert and I' story on stage.


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	"golang.org/x/net/context"

	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/peer"
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}

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Sorry everyone, today's page isn't finished. We had to work late and through the last weekend at my VFX job to finish a film, so I haven't had time to breathe let alone draw. The spare seconds I have managed to grab have all been going on getting part 3 of Penny Blackfeather printed in time for MCM Expo. So that means I didn't even have time for a cool filler comic or anything.
Hopefully I'll be back up and running by next week. My shots are all finished, but I just need a teeny tiny nap before I can unclench my shaking hand from my wacom pen and massage my eyeballs back into a solid state. I can't talk about it much, but the film is about an entitled arrogant blond-haired jock beating up his misunderstood and troubled foster-brother (for the third time if you count the time he and his overpowered pals ganged up on the poor little guy), and then there are some other guys who show up and who are super mean or something. Anyway, it'll be great, I'm sure, and in cinemas soon. Stay through the credits if you want and laugh at my pain. You might have to search quite thoroughly 2 find my name.


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Classic Pick: Fabric designer Beth Poulter's living room is a testament to her love of travel and artful layering of colorful patterns. A variety of different floral scales are mixed together, and anchored by a deep floral rug with Bloomsbury overtones.
Fresh Spin: Exuberant florals and a Persian carpet inject a freewheeling global touch, but neutral linen slipcovers give the eye a place to rest. A light floor is a clean backdrop, and wood furnishings add warmth.
1. Cream pillow, Kiska Textiles, throw, Haveli Home, pink pillow, blue pillow, lamp, Elte, drapes, Primavera, artwork, Andrew Scott, side table EQ3, rug, West Elm. 2. Linen, Designer Fabrics; slipcover sewing, Tonic Living, rug, ECarpet Gallery, bike, The Door Store; table, 507 Antiques, scarf, Elte, Blossom wallpaper, Mr Perswal.
I would have to say that the classical example is more my style.
The "classic" is a real living space. The fresh spin looks like a studio set-up. The wallpaper is lovely though. But I'd appreciate this editorial approach with a more equal footing.


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Dr. Kathryn Mary Lohre, President of the National Council of Churches, USA and Fr. Aniedi Okure of Africa Faith and Justice Network welcomed everyone to the opening of EAD 2013. Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad of Union Theological Seminary preached on passages from the Book of Exodus and the Gospel of Luke related to the theme of food justice.
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At 34, Lohre is the first Lutheran and the second youngest president of the Council. The Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, an American Baptist, became president in 1979 at the age of 33.
Fr. Aniedi Okure, OP, Executive Director, Africa Faith & Justice Network
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Barbara Kay Lundblad is one of the U.S.'s leading ecumenical preachers, teachers, and inspirational speakers. She is the Joe. R. Engle Preaching Professor at Union Theological Seminary in NYC where her teaching interests include preaching in partnership with the congregation, preaching and social transformation, new forms of preaching, and preaching as an integral part of worship.
For over twenty years Dr. Lundblad she has been a popular preacher on the radio program "Day 1" (formerly "The Protestant Hour"). A pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and member of the Pastoral Team at Advent Lutheran Church in Manhattan, she has preached in hundreds of congregations across the United States and has given lectures at many seminaries in this country and Canada, as well as a Lutheran World Federation conference in Buenos Aires. A frequent speaker at the Festival of Homiletics, her 2008 lecture, "Jeremiah, Martin and Me," challenged preachers to confront the realities of racism in the US, especially in this election year.
Dr. Lundblad is the author of two books Transforming the Stone: Preaching through Resistance to Change and most recently, Marking Time: Preaching Biblical Stories in Present Tense. This recent book is based on the Beecher Lectures which she gave at Yale Divinity School. In addition she has published articles in journals such as Currents in Theology and Mission, Word and World, Journal of Preaching, and The Living Pulpit.
Last year, Dr. Lundblad published several sermons in the journal Lectionary Homiletics, and "Prologue, 'Down by the Riverside,'" in Women's Voices and Visions of the Church: Reflections from North America (2005); her essays on "Narrative Theory" and "Feminism" were accepted for publication by The New Interpreter's Bible Encyclopedia of Preaching.
During her sabbatical in 2004, Prof. Lundblad participated in a study trip to Israel and Palestine, sponsored by the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. Her "journey though that beautiful, troubled land marked by many clashing images" and her "deeply moving visits with people in Israel and the West Bank" have undoubtedly only served to enhance the quality of her preaching and teaching.
Dr. Lundbald received a B.A. in English from Augustana College (1966), the M.Div. from Yale Divinity School (1979), and the D.D. from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. She served 16 years as a parish pastor in New York City, as well as campus pastor at Lehman College and New York University. She has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School, Princeton Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, and in the D.Min. program of the Association of Chicago Theological Schools. In 2007, she served as president of the Academy of Homiletics. Dr. Lundblad's ongoing leadership in the Union community has included being a preacher and worship leader in James Chapel, a member of the Seminary Choir, a participant in the Academic Affairs Committee, an advisor to Lutheran students, and a Faculty liaison to the Poverty Initiative planning group and Advisory Committee. In her leadership beyond Union, she is currently serving as the President of the Academy of Homiletics and is on the Board of the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn.
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Acute aortic dissection: be aware of misdiagnosis
Irene Asouhidou1 &
Theodora Asteri1
BMC Research Notes volume 2, Article number: 25 (2009) Cite this article
Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a life-threatening condition requiring immediate assessment and therapy. A patient suffering from AAD often presents with an insignificant or irrelevant medical history, giving rise to possible misdiagnosis. The aim of this retrospective study is to address the problem of misdiagnosing AD and the different imaging studies used.
From January 2000 to December 2004, 49 patients (41 men and 8 women, aged from 18–75 years old) presented to the Emergency Department of our hospital for different reasons and finally diagnosed with AAD. Fifteen of those patients suffered from arterial hypertension, one from giant cell arteritis and another patient from Marfan's syndrome. The diagnosis of AAD was made by chest X-ray, contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT), transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and coronary angiography.
Initial misdiagnosis occurred in fifteen patients (31%) later found to be suffering from AAD. The misdiagnosis was myocardial infarction in 12 patients and cerebral infarction in another three patients.
Aortic dissection may present with a variety of clinical manifestations, like syncope, chest pain, anuria, pulse deficits, abdominal pain, back pain, or acute congestive heart failure. Nearly a third of the patients found to be suffering from AD, were initially otherwise diagnosed. Key in the management of acute aortic dissection is to maintain a high level of suspicion for this diagnosis.
Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a potentially fatal condition that requires rapid assessment and treatment. However, despite major advances in imaging modalities and noninvasive studies, correct diagnosis is not always the rule, with misdiagnosis occurring in less than half the cases [1, 2].
Classically, acute aortic dissection usually presents with an abrupt onset of severe pain in the chest, back, or abdomen. Patients often describe their pain as tearing or ripping. The severity of pain may precipitate vagal reflexes, including hypotension and bradycardia. If the aortic valve or coronary arteries are involved, congestive heart failure may acutely develop. The patient may present with paralysis of upper and/or lower extremities [3], anuria, dyspnea or pulmonary edema. Additionaly, most patients suffering from AAD often reveal insignificant medical history. The absence of suspicion rising from the patients medical history together with the heterogeneity of the clinical features of AD may lead to misdiagnosis.
Even though certain imaging modalities have been proven helpful in diagnosing AAD, for instance helical computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), coronary angiography and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), they are not always at hand in the Emergency Room. Moreover some of them are time-consuming or not applicable for hemodynamic unstable patients [2, 4]. Since the progress of complications is time-dependent in cases of AAD, choosing the appropriate diagnostic test may prove crucial for the survival of these patients. The aim of this retrospective study is to address the problem of misdiagnosis in AAD, regarding the clinical features, and evaluate the accuracy of the diagnostic studies used.
This study was approved by local Ethics Committee from our hospital. Data from 49 cases of AAD were retrospectively reviewed. From January 2000 to December 2004, 41 men and 8 women referred and/or admitted to our hospital were eventually diagnosed with AAD. The patient's age ranged from 18 to 75 years, with a mean of 54.8 ± 9.2 years. The demographics data of patients who were diagnosed with aortic dissection are showed in Table 1.
Table 1 Demographics and history of patients (N = 49)
From their medical history, fifteen patients were found suffering from arterial hypertension, 1 patient from giant cell arteritis (Horton's arteritis) and 1 patient suffering from Marfan's syndrome. Two patients were transported intubated, so it was impossible to obtain any information from their medical history. Thirty patients were submitted with no significant history (Table 1). Ten patients on arrival to the ER were hemodynamically unstable.
Upon admission to the ER, a detailed medical history was taken and complete physical examination performed, whenever this was possible. Electrocardiogram (ECG) and chest X-ray and blood test were performed in all patients. Depending on the clinical picture and the hemodynamic status of the patient, transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), and/or straightforward contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) and coronary angiography were consequently performed. Transesophageal echocardiography was not available in the ER.
According to the De Bakey classification, aortic dissection Type I was identified in 29 patients, Type II in 14 patients and Type III in 6 patients [5].
Thirty five patients (71,4%) were presented with chest pain as the most common symptom, while 18 patients (36,7%) admitted to the ER with chest pain being the sole symptom (Table 2). In 17 patients chest pain was complicated by back pain (n = 4), syncope (n = 4), congestive heart failure (n = 3), or neurologic deficit (n = 6) (paralysis of lower extremities or upper extremities). Though, anterior chest pain was typical in patients with Type I dissection.
Table 2 Presenting symptoms
According to diagnostic tests, chest X-ray was routinely performed in all patients and revealed a widened mediastinum in 20 patients (41%). Computer tomography was performed as the initial study in 76% (n = 37) and successfully established the dissection in all patients that it was performed. However, in 13 patients (26,5%) CT was not able to evaluate the participation of the aortic valve in the aortic dissection and define the type of dissection. Transthoracic echocardiography was performed in 49% (n = 24) of patients. Findings from TTE studies were positive in 50% of patients and false negative in 50%. Coronary angiography was used as the initial imaging study in 3 patients and it was used as second-line imaging study in 39% (n = 19) of patients. In Table 3 all imaging studies and their accuracy in establishing the diagnosis of AD are depicted in detail.
Table 3 Findings on image studies
Cardiac troponin was tested in 12 patients suspicious for myocardial infarction and turned positive in only one of them.
A total of 15 patients (31%) later found to be suffering from an AAD were initially otherwise diagnosed.
Twelve patients, with normal TTE exam, were for a variety of reasons initially diagnosed with myocardial infarction. One patient had a positive cardiac troponin test and one patient had elevation ST segment at V4–6. Chest X-ray revealed wide mediastinum in 7 patients (58%). Thrombolysis didn't administer in none of 12 patients: emergency coronary angiography performed in 3 patients and AAD was revealed. Emergency CT and/or coronary angiography was performed to the other 9 patients during the first hour due to sudden deteriorating. None of them died before the correct diagnosis of AAD is established and fortunately they were not affected from the delay in diagnosis.
Three patients later found to be suffering an AAD were initially diagnosed with cerebral infarction. These patients presented to the ED without any chest or back pain. Two of them reported acute onset of lower limb weakness and numbness. On physical examination, strength was 5/5 in both upper extremities and 0/5 in both lower extremities while deep tendon reflexes of lower extremities were absent. The third patient presented with left hemiparesis. All 3 patients had only slightly elevated blood pressure. Blood tests, X-rays and TTE studies were normal in all 3 patients, and they were therefore treated for cerebrovascular ischemic disease. In the first two cases the correct diagnosis of AAD was established a few hours later with CT, however in the third case the diagnosis was delayed until two days later. Due to the fact that his condition was steadily deteriorating an emergency CT was performed which showed the present of AAD
Aortic dissection has a myriad of clinical presentations and is for certain a diagnostic challenge. According to the relevant literature, in cases of AAD the most common symptom by far is chest pain, which is usually sharp and sometimes reported as tearing or ripping, while often radiating to the back or the abdomen [4, 6]. In our case series, the acute onset of severe chest pain was the most common initial complain and in 36% of patients it was the only symptom. Chest pain was usually accompanied by back pain, paralysis of lower or upper extremities, symptoms of congestive heart failure or syncope. Less common manifestations included symptoms of congestive heart failure, syncope, lower extremity ischemia and anuria without chest pain.
In our study the correct diagnosis of AAD was straightforward in 69% of patients, making 15 patients who were later found to have suffered an AD (31%) initially misdiagnosed. Our findings are in agreement with data from large series where up to 30% of patients with AAD, were initially given a different diagnosis [7]. According to Spittell et al in 17 patients (28%) the diagnosis of AAD was not made until post-mortem examination [8].
In the present study, twelve patients were initially diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction. According to large series, confusion of AAD with acute coronary syndrome may occur in up to 45% of cases [1, 9, 10]. Examination of cardiac troponin contributed to the correct diagnosis in only one patient of the twelve that were tested. According to Liang et al, results of CPK-MB and cardiac troponin could not discriminate between AAD and MI in a total of 33 patients who suffered from AAD, and this fact contributed to the misdiagnosis in more than half the cases [9]. Hansen et al underlined that the confusion of AAD with acute coronary syndrome not only does delay correct diagnosis but may prove lethal for the patient due to initiation of treatment with antithrombotic agents [1]. Kawano et al also reported a case of a patient who died of AAD while treated for MI [11]. Among the other clinical examinations that might be helpful in distinguishing MI from AAD, D-dimers is a valuable test. However, because it is highly elevated in both acute PE and acute AAD [12] we did not use it as first line test in the ER.
Although pain is the most common presenting symptom in AAD, painless acute aortic dissection may occur in approximately 5% of patients [13, 14]. Syncope occurred in 8% of patients with no accompanying pain. Thus, AAD should be considered in the differential diagnosis of syncope, even in the absence of pain. Acute aortic dissection is associated with neurological sequella in as many as one third of patients [3, 15, 16]. Painless AAD presenting as hemiplegia or paresis is a rare phenomenon, occurring in 2% to 8% of patients [3, 17, 18]. Data from 1,805 patients with aortic dissection showed that 4.2% of patients presented with acute paraplegia or paraparesis [3]. Donovan et al reported a case of a 77-year-old patient who presented with paraplegia, with no chest or back pain and was diagnosed with pneumonia and paraplegia. In this case chest CT was performed on hospital day 4, and revealed a type A dissecting aneurysm extending from the aortic valve leaflets to the take off the renal arteries [19].
Regarding the imaging studies used in our series, most patients had multiple imaging studies performed. Chest X-ray had a specificity of 41% in our series. Widened mediastinum in a chest X-ray is a common finding in 60% to 90% of cases of suspected AD [7], while according to Earnest et al up to 20% of chest X-rays may be negative in patients with AAD [20]. Similarly, in 464 patients enrolled in the IRAD study, chest X-ray revealed no mediastinal widening or abnormality in aortic contour in 21.3% of patients [6].
Various imaging modalities such as conventional angiography, helical computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) are available to evaluate patients with suspected aortic dissection. In the IRAD, the first diagnostic test used was computed tomography in 61% [6]. According to Sommer et al, CT, MRI, and TEE are equally reliable for the diagnosis of aortic dissection. CT of the thoracic aorta is currently the imaging study of choice for the evaluation of patients with suspected AAD, with its sensitivity and specificity reaching 100% [21]. In our unit the first diagnostic test was CT in 76% of cases, with sensitivity and specificity of 100%. However CT failed to define the exact type of AAD in 13 of 37 cases (35%) and further diagnostic investigation was needed. This was due to the fact that aortic valve insufficiency is difficult to depict using CT [4].
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was not the first choice of imaging modality in our Unit, because despite its high sensitivity and specificity (mean value 95%) and accuracy in confirming aortic dissection for high risk patients [4, 22], MRI has certain limitation. These are time delay, restricted ability to monitor patient during imaging [23] and inability to be performed in hemodynamically unstable patients [2]. For the above reasons we use CT as a first line imaging test. On the other hand MRI is favoured for the assessment of chronic dissection [2]
Coronary angiography was performed in 22 patients and was diagnostic in 21 of them (specificity 95,45%). Coronary angiography is time consuming and so, it can not be performed to hemodynamically unstable patients. More importantly the diagnostic accuracy of this examination is limited [24]. According to the European study, sensitivity and sensitivity of coronary angiography for the diagnosis of AAD are 88% and 94% respectively [25]. Transthoracic echocardiography managed to establish the diagnosis of AAD in only 50% of patients.
Although aortic dissection is an old disease, misdiagnosis still remains an unresolved problem as was shown in our study. The diverse manifestations of the disease together with certain limitations in imaging studies contribute to this high rate of misguided diagnosis. However due to clinical awareness and vigilance and high degree of suspicion the correct diagnosis was promptly established in all cases and all patients were submitted to the appropriate therapy. The mortality rate associated with thoracic aortic dissection is high and has recently been reported to increase by 1% to 1.4% per hour when a patient remains untreated, leading to a 68% mortality rate in the first 48 hours [2, 6]. Therefore, prompt and accurate diagnosis and treatment decisions between surgical and conservative intervention are mandatory for reducing mortality among patients with clinically suspected thoracic aortic dissection [26].
Our study is certainly limited by its retrospective nature and the lack of a uniform approach to all cases as many were initially not considered AAD and were evaluated and assessed in a different manner.
Since AAD is a process that may occur anywhere in the aorta, the clinical spectrum of presentation is broad and unpredictable. The initial symptoms, the course of the disease, the ECG and creatine kinase changes of AAD can be easily confused with those of acute coronary syndrome, and special attention should be given to their differentiation. More rare manifestations such as anuria, paraplegia, numbness of extremities should also raise suspicion of aortic dissection. Although the clinical features of aortic dissection have gained wider appreciation, the diagnosis still remains elusive in a substantial number of patients, necessitating clinical awareness and vigilance.
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court handed America Online a victory today, letting stand a ruling that online service providers may not be held liable for defamatory material posted on their systems.
The justices left intact an appeals court ruling which determined that a section of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 gives online firms immunity from liability for information that originates with third parties.
The high court, without comment or dissent, denied an appeal by Kenneth Zeran, who sued AOL for defamation and argued that the case presented the justices with the chance to decide "novel issues of public significance."
Six days after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, an unknown user posted a message on an AOL bulletin board that advertised "Naughty Oklahoma T-Shirts" that featured offensive and tasteless slogans.
Those interested in buying the shirts were instructed to call "Ken" at Zeran's home phone number in Seattle. He received numerous calls, mainly angry and derogatory messages that included death threats.
He called AOL and was told the posting would be removed, but that the company as a matter of policy would not post a retraction.
The next day, 26 April 1995, an unknown person posted another similar message, telling interested buyers to "please call back" if the phone line was busy.
Over the next several days, the unidentified individual continued to post messages on AOL's bulletin board, causing Zeran to receive an abusive phone call every two minutes.
Zeran's problems got worse when an Oklahoma City radio station announcer read the original posting on the air and asked listeners to call the number. Zeran was inundated with death threats and angry calls from Oklahoma City residents.
By 14 May 1995, after an Oklahoma City newspaper published a story exposing the shirt advertisements as a hoax and after the radio station made an an-air apology, the number of calls dwindled to about 15 per day.
Zeran sued AOL in 1996, claiming that the company had a duty to remove the defamatory posting promptly, to notify its subscribers of the message's false nature, and to effectively screen future defamatory material.
Zeran, an artist, photographer, and filmmaker, sought recovery for injury to his reputation and for emotional distress caused by the allegedly defamatory messages.
But a federal judge in Virginia and then the federal appeals court ruled for AOL.
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said the 1996 communications law bars liability lawsuits that would place a online service provider in a publisher's role.
In his appeal, Zeran said the case presented the Supreme Court "with the first opportunity to interpret the limits of immunity granted online service providers" by the 2-year-old law.
AOL urged the justices to deny the appeal. It said that Zeran's disagreement with the ruling really was a disagreement with the basic policy choice made by Congress in the law.
The case turned on Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." That provision makes service providers immune from liability for information published by third parties, the courts ruled.
The provision has been cited in other cases, too. Lawyers for a San Diego ISP, ElectriCiti, cited the clause in fending off a similar lawsuit by San Francisco satanists who claimed the company was liable for anonymous Usenet postings. A US District Court judge in San Francisco dismissed the suit in September based on the CDA provision.


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Видео-а́рт (устаревший вариант написания: видеоа́рт) — направление в медиаискусстве, использующее для выражения художественной концепции возможности видеотехники.

Отличительные черты
Видео-арт (в отличие, например, от музыкальных клипов, трейлеров, телевизионной рекламы или заставок на развлекательных телеканалах) не является только коммерческим продуктом, наоборот, он обычно ориентирован на показ в пространстве искусства (в музеях, галереях, на фестивалях и так далее) и зачастую рассчитан на подготовленного зрителя. Такие особенности массовой видеокультуры, как шокирующий видеоряд, экстремальный монтаж, концептуальный сюжет и спецэффекты не являются приоритетными для видео-арта и могут служить, наряду с другими средствами, лишь способом достижения художественной цели.

История возникновения
Взлёт коммерческого кинематографа и телевидения в Америке, в совокупности со стремлением художников исследовать пространство за пределами традиционных границ живописи и скульптуры, возродил жанр, дремавший в забвении со времён Дюшана, Ман Рэя, Ханса Рихтера и Фернана Леже. Художники, убеждённые в необходимости дематериализовать искусство, обратились к движущемуся чёрно-белому изображению, как к пародии на кинематографический опыт мейнстрима.

Выставка «Documenta-5» (1972), ставшая во многом поворотной для современного искусства, на тот момент одной из первых включила в свою экспозицию раздел, посвящённый кинофильмам на 16-миллиметровой плёнке и видео. В нём демонстрировались, в частности, такие работы, как «Руки ловят свинец (пулю)» и «Руки связаны» (Ричарда Серры), «Отдалённый контроль» (Вито Аккончи), «Войлочное ТВ» (Йозефа Бойса), «Один шаг» (Стенли Брауна), «Муха» (Йоко Оно).

Основная стратегия создателей большинства арт-фильмов того времени состояла в том, чтобы заставить фильм или видео обратить взгляд на себя, внедрить в движущееся изображение саморефлексию, самоотображение. Считалось, что только таким образом можно оценить мощь самого прозрачного из всех средств выражения. Например, канадский художник Майкл Сноу в работе «De La» разместил камеру на конструкции с вращающейся ручкой. Камера могла снимать без перерыва, меняя угол съёмки и скорость движения. Картина транслировалась на четыре монитора, расставленные вокруг конструкции. Вся инсталляция размещалась в комнате, по которой мог перемещаться зритель.

В 1973—1974 годы в продаже стали появляться ручные, доступные по цене видеокамеры. Это способствовало значительному развитию видео-арта. Впечатляющее число художников принялось снимать короткие видеофильмы, в которых высмеивались и пародировались приёмы коммерческого телевидения и доминантной культуры в целом. В шестиминутном видео Ричарда Серра «Телевидение поставляет людей» (1973), на экране появлялись вербальные сообщения, несущие парадоксальный социальный посыл:
«Проект телевидения — это аудитория», «Телевидение поставляет людей рекламодателю», «Средства массовой коммуникации означают, что средство способно поставить массы людей» и тому подобые. Другие художники выбирали более игровые и выразительные формы. Четверо художников и архитекторов — Чип Лорд, Хадсон Маркес, Дуг Майклс и Кёртис Шреер, объединившиеся в группу «Муравьиная ферма» — затеяли публичные хэппенинги по поводу коммерческого телевидения. Например, в перформансе «Медиа-бум» (1972) художники сложили штабель из телевизоров, в который врезался «Кадиллак» с установленной на нём видеокамерой.

См. также
 Мультиматограф
 Киматика

Примечания

Ссылки

 Десятерик Д. Видеоарт // Энциклопедия «Альтернативная культура». — Екатеринбург: Ультра.Культура, 2005

Формы и средства современного искусства
Видео

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nFusz Joins the Microsoft Partner Network
By PRNewswire On Feb 4, 2019
nFusz, Inc., a leader in business-focused interactive video, and the pioneer of Augmented Sales Intelligence software, announced it has executed an agreement with Microsoft to become part of Microsoft's Partner Network. Over the last year, nFusz has engaged in joint solution development with Microsoft's One Commercial Partner Cloud Enablement Desk which led to developing an enhanced and robust platform for nFusz' interactive video applications. Pursuant to, and in accordance with the agreement for MPN membership, nFusz will integrate its proprietary, next-generation interactive video technology into Microsoft's entire product line, beginning with its widely-utilized email platform, Outlook, and other Office 365 services. In addition, as a Microsoft partner, nFusz will have access to Microsoft's "Go-To-Market Services" and technical resources to help nFusz accelerate sales and marketing of the integrated products to Microsoft customers, as well as other partners, all over the world.
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"We are honored to have been accepted into Microsoft's partner program," stated Rory J. Cutaia, CEO of nFusz. "We will now be able to accelerate the integration of our next-generation interactive video technology into the full suite of Microsoft products in partnership with Microsoft to ensure our products are marketed to the largest target audience possible. This agreement is another demonstration of the value creation that is possible through our partnership integration strategy with well-respected, global technology leaders."
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even as this story goes to the press, Gujarat may be witnessing many more clashes over water. From as early as December 1999, when three farmers lost their lives in the riots over water in Jamnagar district, the dread of the dry summer months ahead was felt across the state. "Water availability should have been checked in winter and the municipal corporation should have started economising on water supply then. Nobody would have complained in winter and we would have been better off now," conceded a senior municipal corporation official S Jagdishen, who has been given charge of water supply in Rajkot district.
But the state had missed out on those early opportunities to regulate and control water supply. So much so, that even the industries in the state were given a free hand to extract groundwater for their production purposes. For instance, before the water crisis had escalated to the present levels, the Tata Chemicals factory in Mithapur of Jamnagar district was extracting 14 million litre of water every day from the ground and two other lakes in the area.
Worse, the state government, seemingly unaware of the water related woes of the local people, allowed the Tata Chemicals cement plant to increase production from 1,000 tonnes to 2,500 tonnes per day. Amazed by the government's move, D S Ker, president of the Gram Vikar Trust, a non-government organisation ( ngo ) in Dwarka, was shocked: "How can the government allow expansion of such a water-intensive plant, which will deplete whatever groundwater resources are left in the region?"
This and several such desperate measures to cater to commercial and political interests seems to have taken a heavy toll on the state's groundwater resources. The government has already conceded that all major towns of Saurashtra, Kachchh and north Gujarat and more than one-third of the state's 18,000 villages are struggling for a daily supply of drinking water. Officialssay, that with more than 100 ofthe state's 140 dams having gone dry and the remaining containing water that will last for not more than a coupleof weeks, running trains carrying water tankers to these regions -- as was done in the 1980s -- seems to be the only solution.
Meanwhile, the administration struggles to control tempers frayed by shortage of water while local people rue the government's apathy for bringing matters to such a stage. "Those responsible for water supply overdrew water, distributed it like nobody's business and we are paying the price now," says Arvind Acharya, a social worker. He goes on to add: "We are sitting on a volcano that may erupt at any time." It has, in fact, erupted.
Sharing water A case in point is Rajkot. The government is transporting groundwater collected from Wankaner to quench the thirst of Rajkot. The subsequent fallout of such a measure could spell more trouble as an unrest of sort has begun to brew in Wankaner, where residents may not have enough water to see them throughthe scorching summer months. When the monsoons failed, a 100-kilometre (km)-long pipeline was laid to supply water to Rajkot from Wankaner at a cost of about Rs 75 crore. The project was implemented in an amazingly short period of three-four months.
It was decided that 45 million litres of water would be extracted daily from 125 borewells dug in the Jamboodia Reserve Forest in the Halbar-Wankaner area. "In the four months that groundwater is being extracted from the reserve, the water table in Wankaner has gone down by eight metres," says Digvijay Singh, former Congress Member of the Legislative Assembly ( mla ) from Wankaner. Singh has been severely protesting the transport of water from Wankaner for Rajkot.
Jagdishen, however, maintains that "there has been no significant drop in groundwater levels (in Wankaner)." Water levels in Wankaner are being monitored by the state groundwater board, he says. Throughout Saurashtra, the Halbar-Wankaner area is the only region with a water reserve. Authorities claim that this water will last for two to three years, but there is no way of verifying this claim.
In Rajkot, and in all other cities of Gujarat, water tankers are doing a flourishing business. The Municipal Corporation supplies 2.5 million litre of water by tankers daily. Areas not receiving tap water are given priority by the tankers. "The tap water is erratic. Sometimes we get water after a week to 10 days," says Savitaben, resident of Dhebar Colony in Rajkot.
But the question that remains is from where is Gujarat getting all those filled-to-the-brim water tankers? And how much water is being extracted from which areas? Jagdishen says that tankers fill water from borewells around Rajkot. But no estimates are available for private tankers supplying water to the relatively well-off, but they seem to be doing good business in Rajkot. Shallow borewells have also been dug in the Aji and Nyari river basins. Deep tubewells of about 450-600 metres are dug within a radius of 10 km from Rajkot. These borewells are daily supplying about10-16.5 million litre of water, mainly transported with the help of tankers.
It is also alleged that the supply is obstructed by interference from local political leaders. Households which can afford a tubewell are sharing drinking water with their neighbours. In many localities as many as 300 households depend on a single tubewell. Often one has to dig as deep as 90 metres in order to find water. Appeals to the municipal corporation to dig more tubewells in areas where residents believe water could be found have fallen on deaf ears. "They (the municipal corporation) dig tubewells near the houses of those who are politically well-connected and often enough in such cases water is not struck in those areas," says Bapabhai Jadav of Dhebar colony in Rajkot. "Many of us are coming together to financially support a tubewell for the community. But we have run out of luck as groundwater was not found. We are all waiting for the rains," says Nandkuvarba Rathode, a teacher in Rajkot.
As for meeting future water demands in the state, there seems to be only one recourse left for most districts. "For Saurashtra, water will have to be brought in from outside in the long run since the remaining groundwater will also not last," feels Jagdishen. He adds that before water recharge is taken up on a large scale, geological conditions of the districts need to be taken into account.
At present, however, the hardships of the people in the water-scarce regions of the state have given rise to spectres of largescale migration in the near future.
With inputs from Manish Tiwari.


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Q: Spring RMI: handleRemoteConnectFailure I have a RMI client/server configuration created with Spring 3.0.
When client and server run on the same machine at the url:
  rmi://localhost:1099/myService

everything is ok. When I run the client on a different machine (server run now on 192.168.1.67) and the client "points" to:
  rmi://192.168.1.67:1099/myService

I can see this error message from the client:
  org.spring...RmiClientInterceptor handlerRemoteConnectFailure.
  Could not connect to Rmi Service [rmi://192.1681.67:1099/myService]

The server is configured in this way:
    <bean id="myService" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter">
       <property name="service" ref="myService"/>
       <property name="serviceInterface" value="org.myapp.MyService"/>
       <property name="serviceName" value="myService"/>
       <property name="alwaysCreateRegistry" value="true"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="myService" class="org.myapp.MyServiceImpl" />

and the client:
    RmiProxyFactoryBean rpfb = new RmiProxyFactoryBean();
    rpfb.setServiceInterface(MyService.class);
    rpfb.setLookupStubOnStartup(true);
    rpfb.setRefreshStubOnConnectFailure(true);
    RMICustomClientSocketFactory socketFactory = new RMICustomClientSocketFactory();
    socketFactory.setTimeout(5000);
    rpfb.setRegistryClientSocketFactory(socketFactory);
    rpfb.setServiceUrl(getRmiUrl(address, port));
    rpfb.afterPropertiesSet();

I checked with a sniffer the port 1099 of the server, and when the client starts its process I can see some data "dispatched" on the server side:
 JRMI..K
 ...192.168.1.65..
 ..192.168.1.65....
 P....w"..........................D.M...;.t..myService
 Q....w.....e...7B+@5..s}.....5org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiInvocationHandlerpxr..java.lang.reflect.Proxy.'. ..C....L..ht.%Ljava/lang/reflect/InvocationHandler;pxpsr.-java.rmi.server.RemoteObjectInvocationHandler...........pxr..java.rmi.server.RemoteObject.a...a3....pxpw2.
 UnicastRef..127.0.1.1..../.T~.X.....e...7B+@5...x
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My question is: Why if client & server run on the same machine, everything is ok but on different machines I get this problem? and how to fix it?

A: I run the server on windows and client on linux (ubuntu) and everything was ok.
When I run the server on linux and client on windows I get the problem.
To fix it on linux just run the server with: -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=192.168.1.67.

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