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How Employers Can Use Incentives to Promote Bike Ridership

Just because bicycling is affordable, doesn’t mean it’s cheap. When you factor in the costs of rain gear, safety equipment and regular maintenance, it’s easy to see how owning and maintaining a bike can cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars a year. On top of this, our automobile-dominated culture in America makes it hard to convince people that active transportation is the better choice for individual wallets and the economy.

But as Bloomberg reported yesterday, there’s a growing movement for workplaces and schools to promote active commute options like biking and walking as “companies are keen to keep employees fit as they stare down health-care costs that are forecast to rise 8.2 percent to $10,730 per employee in 2011.”

So what can establishments do to encourage skeptics to get out of the car and onto a bike? This was the topic of discussion at PBOT’s Bicycle Brown Bag session on Thursday.

As Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) has shown, it’s actually pretty simple.  By creating a relatively inexpensive incentive or reimbursement program, any school or business can encourage students and employees to adopt active transportation habits.

Bike parking fills up near OHSU.
Photo by Jonathan Maus/BikePortland.org

The Bike Incentive Program at OHSU gives students, faculty and staff more than just one reason to ride a bike to work.  In addition to improving overall health, bike commuters can earn parking space reimbursements, free monthly transit passes, or even a nice $50. To qualify, commuters must make 30 round trips to and from OHSU by bike and log their commutes on the Bike Incentive Program website. These incentives not only help reduce automobile use on the campus, but also reimburse bicyclists for some of the costs they pay to ride and maintain their bikes.

As the Bloomberg story explains, the movement is gaining momentum not just in Portland but also nationally. At Sprint headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas, bike commuters get discounted memberships for the employee fitness center. In Dallas, Texas Instruments is working with local advocates to improve the trail network.

According to OHSU’s John Landolfe, the Bike Incentive Program is “like any other workplace resource.” There are a few rules and guidelines in place for preventing potential abuses, but the program operates mainly on the basis of trust and honesty. In return, this has resulted in a successful, relatively cost-effective incentive program that has produced real results.

Smaller workplaces and schools can adopt active transportation incentive programs without breaking the bank by offering shower facilities, secure bike storage, repair tools, snacks, and free or inexpensive gear to employees and students.  The US tax code also allows for businesses and individuals to receive tax breaks and subsidies for public transit passes and/or bike use.

Creating tangible benefits for employees and students who use active transportation encourages more people to get out of the car and onto the bike or sidewalk.  By creating simple yet motivating incentives, schools and businesses can help build healthier individuals and a healthier community as a whole.

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  1. Scott Permalink  | Nov 19, 2010 05:25pm

    OHSU’s bike incentive program is a narrowly crafted tool designed to solve a problem the institution has with city requirements. They have a parking problem. If they don’t meet city requirements for reducing driving to OHSU they may face limits on their next expansion.

    The bike incentive program is not driven by an interest in reducing pollution or improving health. If the city lifted its requirements, I suspect OHSU would drop the program.

  2. John Landolfe Permalink  | Nov 23, 2010 04:12pm

    Hi Scott,
    You’re partially correct that OHSU’s initial motivating factor was to reduce vehicles driving to, and parking on, Marquam Hill. However, it now includes all OHSU sites. That’s more than 20, including the sprawling West Campus (with ample, free parking). Users can now also calculate stats for health & environmental impact, etc. The foot in the door was parking but it’s not the program’s limit.

    The bike program has already survived significant changes to campus parking & transit infrastructure—not to mention an economic meltdown. The mission isn’t dependant on any specific city requirements. I don’t expect to sell you on OHSU’s particular brand but I think a focused mission on quantifiable issues can be a good thing.

  3. Michelle Permalink  | Dec 01, 2010 03:42pm

    I believe that people really do respond to incentives, whether they are concrete (like, money) or symbolic (like, attention and recognition).

    My bank, First Tech Credit Union, offers me cold hard cash every time I visit it, to repay me for…parking my car. It just breaks my heart. If I ask for $2.30 reimbursement for my MAX ticket (they are located on the MAX line), they say no.

    These little incentives, at workplaces and businesses, add up tremendously and (in this case) destructively. I have seen many businesses spend money with one hand on promoting “sustainability,” and then spend money with the other to promote driving alone to work.

    So I really appreciate it when businesses get serious about incentives for sustainable behavior. And I spend my money there, whenever I have a choice.


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News & Events

Aging brings wisdom, but not on investing

by Mark Hulbert, editor of The Hulbert, Financial Digest, a service of MarketWatch
Publication: The New York Times Company

December 4, 2005

DO people generally become better investors as they age?

Unfortunately, new research has found that the answer is no.

The picture isn't entirely bleak. People do seem to learn some important truths about the ups and downs of the market. As they age, they tend to have more diversified portfolios, which gives them some protection from sharp declines in individual holdings.

But there's a catch, and it's a nasty one. As people grow older, their cognitive ability tends to diminish - a gradual decline that presumably affects decision-making in all facets of life. In investing, the researchers concluded, it makes older people less capable of picking market-beating stocks. The net result - at least for those who trade individual stocks of their own choosing - is that overall investment performance declines steadily with age.

The study - "Does Investment Skill Decline Due to Cognitive Aging or Improve With Experience?" - has been circulating this summer as an academic working paper. Its authors are two finance professors at the University of Notre Dame, George M. Korniotis and Alok Kumar. A copy is available at

For their study, the professors obtained access to an extensive database at a major discount brokerage firm containing the stock holdings and trades in more than 75,000 accounts between 1991 and 1996. The researchers agreed not to divulge the identity of the firm and were not given the names of any account owners, just some demographic characteristics, including age, income, wealth, occupation, marital status and gender.

The brokerage accounts were self-directed, so the professors said they believed it was safe to assume that each account's holdings and transactions reflected its owner's decision-making. Furthermore, after examining other aspects of the database, the researchers said they became "reasonably confident" that these accounts represented the bulk of their owners' assets available for investment.

First, the good news about the research. The professors did find evidence that most investors learn as they age. Older investors were less likely to make all-or-nothing bets on a single stock or sector, for example; their portfolios tended to hold significantly more stocks than those of younger investors. Older investors were also less likely to reflexively sell winning stocks and hold losing ones, regardless of the stocks' prospects; this tendency is a common one and it can be very costly. On both of these particular scores, aging turned out to improve returns, adding about 0.7 percent a year to the performance of the average 65-year-old's portfolio, according to the researchers, relative to the average 30-year-old's.

Now the bad news. As far as stock-picking goes, investors seem to get worse as they grow older. To be sure, no age group was able to consistently pick market-beating stocks. But investors' stock picks tended to lag the market by ever-increasing amounts as they grew older.

The researchers concluded that it was most likely caused by the cognitive decline associated with growing older. "The evidence from cognitive aging research suggests that decision-making ability is likely to deteriorate with age due to a decline in general intelligence and information processing ability," according to the professors. "Effective and timely reaction to new information is one of the key defining characteristics of investment skill."

In terms of portfolio performance, the negative effects of impaired stock-picking ability outweighed older investors' other advantages, according to calculations by the professors. They found that the average 65-year-old investor's stock picks lagged behind those of the average 30-year-old investor's by 1.8 percent a year. The overall effect of the aging process was for 65-year-olds to have an average annual return about 1.1 percent lower than the typical 30-year-old's.

Because every age group in their study trailed the market, the researchers believe that all investors should favor index funds, which mirror the performance of the market and don't attempt to beat it. This advice becomes increasingly important as investors grow older.

If older people nevertheless want to invest in individual stocks, they shouldn't try to pick them themselves, the professors said. "Our hope," they said, "is that older people would recognize the adverse effects of cognitive aging and would try to compensate for those effects by seeking advice from a financial adviser or some other qualified investment professional."

The professors' study does contain a silver lining: the stock market may actually perform better as the population gets older. This tantalizing prospect depends on a number of assumptions. Fundamentally, they said, if older investors are aware of their declining investment skill, they may demand a higher premium for investing in the stock market. Consequently, stock market returns may increase as the population ages.

They concede that this particular consequence of their study is tentative, and they are working on further research to test it. But it at least holds out the prospect that the aging of the enormous baby boom generation won't be entirely bearish for the stock market.

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Jaquim Syntax

Sniper Idiot

Jaquim, or as he prefers to be called Syzor, has been Shadowrunning for nearly his entire life. He wears a long trenchcoat with zippers on the sleeves. He usually wears a pair of heavy boots with holes on the side for his jacks and a pair of black pants with a hole in the ass for his tail. He loves his Ceska Black Scorpions which he has hiding on his back along with his favorite pair of Katanas with his custom rifle strapped right in the middle of it all. He has crisp brown hair and fake green eyes that glow from time to time when he uses the optical magnifiers that have been placed inside of them.

Syzor has been shadowrunning for nearly his entire life. He took an interest in guns after watching Shoot ‘em up and took a great interest in how they work and how to use them. He generally finds himself at long range giving cover fire to his friends with “SnapBang”


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October 31, 2009

From the Road: Another Stephenson star?

Stone Mountain (Ga.) Stephenson sophomore running back Mike Davis is beginning to make a name for himself on a team loaded with talent. The younger brother of former Clemson star James Davis was one of the big-time underclassmen that Rivals.com analysts had a chance to scout in recent game action.

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August 25, 2010

Early grad catches the scholarship offer

Huntington Beach (Calif.) defensive end Charles Burks quietly accomplished a lot this summer. With USC football camps closed to the public, Burks was a standout performer under a media blackout.

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Lola Kenya Screen

International Audiovisual Media Experts Converge at Lola Kenya Screen 2009

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Rut Gomez Sobrino of the Barcelona-based UNESCO Centre of Catalonia — UNESCOCAT — leads the team of mentor experts who will conduct the skill-development programmes at the 4th Lola Kenya Screen in Nairobi, Kenya (2009 August 10-15).

Sobrino, holder of a doctorate and three Master’s degrees with more than 10 years in journalism/communications and media development at international level, is also head of the UNESCO Audiovisual department in Barcelona, Spain.

While in Nairobi, Sobrino shall conduct a round table conference on the UNESCO Audiovisual E-Platform project in the framework of Lola Kenya Screen, show several films—The Children of Darfur, Children of Inkisi—from the E-Platform. However her main mission in Kenya is to facilitate the Lola Kenya Screen Creative Journalism (Festival Press) mentorship programme.

Coming from Denmark armed with an equally impressive curriculum vitae as a television director, producer and concept-maker is Anette Tony Hansen who will facilitate the Television Drama for children and youth workshop with adults. It is expected that at least five TV drama films targeting children will be realised from this hands-on workshop and that thereafter there will be greater interest among TV practitioners to create more professional TV dramas for children and youth.

Employed by the Danish Television in 1968, Hansen is actively involved in co-productions in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.

Fina Sensada

Another expert with vast experience—45 feature films, 22 Telefilms, 200 documentary films, 8 TV series,60 advertising commercials to her credit—is Fina Sensada.

Sensada—who works globally—shall facilitate the Film Production workshop and also showcase her WHITE SAND BLACK SAND film at Lola Kenya Screen. She will also discuss the joys and pains of independent audiovisual media production besides holding a photo exhibition, “Hands that Heal—Humanitarian Photo in Africa”, produced on the mission of “Plastic surgeons without borders” in 2008. This will form the basis of discussion on the importance of humanitarian-social audiovisual media in Africa.

The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, production workshop and market for children and youth explores, identifies and nurtures creative talent among children and youth through hands-on skill-development mentorship programmes in areas such as journalism, filmmaking, arts appreciation, and organisation and presentation of cultural and creative events.

The objectives of the Lola Kenya Screen mentorship programmes, among others, are to equip children and youth with the skills to understand, appreciate, and create quality audiovisual media productions in particular, and arts in general.

While the Festival Press is aimed at uplifting the standards of creative and cultural journalism in eastern Africa, the Film Production Workshop empowers children and youth to make at least five quality, low-budget, moving images per year.

Programme Organisation and Presentation (MCs), as the title suggests, empowers children and youth to organise and present events and programmes. Such children are usually in charge of the programme during the six days of the festival.

The Film Jury, on the other hand, seeks to inculcate in participants skills with which to critically appreciate and appraise creativity in general and film in particular. The jury members watch and award films in competition. The official Lola Kenya Screen Jury consists only of children and youth.

Also attending Lola Kenya Screen will be independent producers from eastern Africa: eastern Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia.

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Nairobi-based full time worshipper at the shrine of arts and culture; writer specialising in issues related to children, youth, media, culture and development, with a bias towards african and children's cinema


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Migration and Struggle in Greece

Amnesty International: Greece continues to violate asylum-seekers’ human rights

Posted by clandestina on 2 February 2012

While over a year has passed since the landmark ruling by the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece, Amnesty International remains profoundly concerned about the treatment of asylum-seekers in Greece.

The organization is deeply concerned that asylum-seekers are routinely detained for prolonged periods of time that can reach up to six months. In particular, the detention of unaccompanied or separated asylum-seeking children continues. Such children are held routinely for prolonged periods while a place is found for them in a reception centre for minors.

Further, detention conditions in various immigration facilities and police stations where asylum-seekers, including unaccompanied or separated children, are being held remain of most serious concern to Amnesty International. At the end of November 2011, the organization’s delegates visited the immigration detention facility of Amygdaleza for unaccompanied or separated male children. The inmates, all minors, were held for prolonged periods and detention conditions were very poor. The children were sleeping on plinth beds, with no pillows and with dirty and old mattresses. They told Amnesty International’s delegates that they were only allowed to exercise outside once a week. A month prior to the delegates’ visit, some of the children set fire to their mattresses in protest at their prolonged detention. As a result, seven children needed to be hospitalized. Earlier, in May 2011, Amnesty International visited the border guard stations of Ferres, Soufli and Tyhero, the immigration facility of Fylakio in Evros region and the Exarheia, Omonoia and Aghios Panteleimon police stations in Athens. In Soufli, Tyhero and Fylakio and in one of the cells in Exarheia, the organization’s delegates witnessed detention conditions which were both inhuman and degrading, and found the remainder elsewhere to be very poor.

Moreover, the vast majority of asylum-seekers, including unaccompanied minors, are left destitute, denied of any support from the authorities. As a result they find themselves sleeping rough or in severely inadequate accommodation. This is also happening against a background where in the past eight months racially motivated attacks against refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants have increased significantly.

In the light of the above, Amnesty International is also profoundly concerned about the paucity of reception facilities and their overall insufficient capacity to accommodate asylum-seekers, including unaccompanied or separated children. The organization considers that — despite the reported creation of two new reception centres in Athens — the overall number of beds available continues to remain extremely limited in relation to the actual needs.

Amnesty International remains concerned over instances of refoulement. For example, it appears that in September and October last year seven asylum-seekers were forcibly returned to Turkey on different dates despite having expressed their wish to apply for asylum and notwithstanding the fact that the Greek Council of Refugees had notified the authorities about their intentions.

Amnesty International is profoundly concerned over the continuing serious obstacles in access to asylum procedures. The organization has received reports that, each Saturday outside the gates of the Attika Aliens’ Police Directorate in Athens, despite the very high number of asylum-seekers queuing to register their claims, the authorities at the Directorate continue to lodge only a very small number of claims from those waiting. Very recently, Amnesty International received reports from the President of the Afghan community in Greece, that in the past two months police in the Attika Directorate have failed to register any applications from asylum-seekers waiting outside the building except from the very few who are able to pay a lawyer to prepare and submit an asylum application for them. The organization is also concerned over recent reports that the Directorate has refused to accept the submission of asylum applications by 25 asylum-seekers who were accompanied by NGO representatives.

While the organization considers as positive the enactment of new legislation providing for the establishment of a new asylum determination authority, it remains concerned that Greece’s financial difficulties and the hiring freeze in the civil service may affect its effective operations. Further, until the new asylum authority starts operating, the continued role of the police as the sole authority responsible for the first stage examination of international protection claims continues to give rise to concern.

Amnesty International remains conscious of Greece’s economic difficulties and the challenges it has faced from ‘mixed migration’ flows in recent years. However, the organization is concerned about the reported inability of the Greek authorities to make proper use of the resources made available to Greece by the EU to help providing adequate reception conditions to arrivals and in assessing their protection needs.

In its ruling in the case of M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece of 21 January 2011, which concerned an Afghan asylum-seeker, M.S.S., whom the Belgian authorities had returned to Greece under the Dublin II Regulation, the ECtHR concluded — among other things — that Greece did not have an effective asylum system in place. In particular, the Court considered that M.S.S. was denied effective determination of his asylum claim because of major structural deficiencies in the Greek asylum procedure. The ECtHR also ruled that M.S.S.’s detention conditions and the circumstances of destitution in which he was left in Greece upon his release amounted to degrading and inhuman and degrading treatment respectively.

The findings in M.S.S. were reiterated by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in judgements delivered on 21 December 2011. In two linked cases, the CJEU found that asylum-seekers transferred to Greece under the Dublin II Regulation faced a serious risk of grave human rights violations there.

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Two Studies to Determine if Verteporfin PDT is Effective & Safe in Treating Multiple Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Skin.

This study has been terminated.
Information provided by:
QLT Inc. Identifier:
First received: November 15, 2002
Last updated: March 1, 2011
Last verified: March 2011

The purpose of the two studies is to determine whether an experimental therapy using a photoactive drug, verteporfin, in combination with direct light exposure of basal cell carcinoma of the skin can safely eliminate these skin tumors.

Condition Intervention Phase
Basal Cell Carcinoma
Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
Gorlin Syndrome
Drug: verteporfin PDT
Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Masked, Multicenter Phase III Study Of Photodynamic Therapy With Verteporfin For Injection (VFI) For The Treatment Of Multiple Basal Cell Carcinoma

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by QLT Inc.:

Study Completion Date: March 2004
Primary Completion Date: March 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin is the most common type of cancer that can be treated with various therapies including surgical removal. A number of factors can lead to the development of multiple BCC of the skin, including genetic disorders (e.g., nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome). Treatment of multiple BCC becomes much more challenging. In these trials, the experimental therapy: verteporfin PDT is compared to placebo PDT. PDT or photodynamic therapy in these studies is the combination of the photoactive drug verteporfin (given intravenously) and red light exposure of skin tumors.

The primary objective is to assess whether verteporfin PDT can completely eliminate multiple BCCs. Eligible subjects will have at least 3 BCCs. Study subjects won't know which treatment they have been been assigned to - this is done randomly (like flipping a coin). After study treatment, the BCCs in each subject will be closely observed and toward the end of the study all will be surgically removed and examined to verify response to study treatment. Safety will be assessed by testing blood samples before and after study treatment, and analyzing adverse events and skin reactions to the study treatment.

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 90 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Currently has at least 3 eligible BCC skin tumors that have never been treated
  • Is willing to have these tumor sites surgically removed

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Has xeroderma pigmentosum
  • Has BCC tumors that are the result of prior radiotherapy or immunosuppression due to an organ transplant
  • Is immunosuppressed
  • Has abnormal liver function
  • Is receiving systemic chemotherapy or has received chemotherapy within the last two years
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT00049959

Sponsors and Collaborators
QLT Inc.
Study Director: Herma Neyndorff QLT Inc.
  More Information

Additional Information:
No publications provided Identifier: NCT00049959     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: VFI MBCC 01 and VFI MBCC 02
Study First Received: November 15, 2002
Last Updated: March 1, 2011
Health Authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration

Keywords provided by QLT Inc.:
Verteporfin PDT
multiple basal cell carcinoma
nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
Carcinoma, Basal Cell
Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple
Abnormalities, Multiple
Bone Cysts
Bone Diseases
Bone Diseases, Developmental
Congenital Abnormalities
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Jaw Cysts
Jaw Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Basal Cell
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
Odontogenic Cysts
Pathologic Processes
Stomatognathic Diseases
Dermatologic Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
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Growth Hormone in the Treatment of HIV-Associated Wasting

This study has been completed.
Information provided by:
EMD Serono Identifier:
First received: June 20, 2007
Last updated: October 21, 2013
Last verified: October 2013

The purpose of this study is to compare physical function and lean body mass in patients getting different doses of somatropin compared to patients not getting the drug.

Condition Intervention Phase
HIV Infections
HIV Wasting Syndrome
Drug: Somatropin; Recombinant human growth hormone (r hGH)
Phase 3

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double-Blind
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Official Title: A Randomized, Parallel Group, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Dose-Ranging, Multicenter Study of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (Serostim) in the Treatment of HIV-Associated Catabolism/Wasting

Resource links provided by NLM:

Further study details as provided by EMD Serono:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • To confirm the clinical efficacy of Serostim compared with placebo, based on an endpoint of exercise function change.

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • To establish an optimal dose of Serostim, based on the endpoint of lean body mass (LBM) change.

Study Start Date: July 1997
Study Completion Date: March 2002

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Have clearly documented HIV infection, determined by the presence of HIV confirmed by one of the following: Western blot, immunofluorescence assay, HIV culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, branched DNA (bDNA) signal amplification or the presence of p24 antigen. These tests may have been performed at any time in the past, but the results must be available for review by Serono prior to entry into the study.
  2. Have evidence of AIDS wasting, with at least one of the following:

    • Documented unintentional weight loss of at least 10%, or
    • In the absence of unintentional weight loss of 10%, weight less than 90% of ideal body weight (Metropolitan Height and Weight Tables), or
    • In the absence of unintentional weight loss of 10%, body mass index < 20 kg/m².
  3. Be at least 18 years of age.
  4. Be receiving at least 90% of estimated caloric requirement on current nutritional regimen, according to a formal nutritional analysis.
  5. Meet the following laboratory testing criteria at the week -4 visit (pre study screening):

    • AST, ALT, and amylase < 3 times the upper limit of normal.
    • Fasting triglyceride level < 500 mg/dl (or <5.64 mmol/l).
    • Fasting glucose < 110 mg/dl (or < 6.1mmol/l).
  6. Be taking an antiretroviral medication that is approved or available under a Treatment IND (in the US) or a temporary approval (outside the US).

    • The subject must have been on the antiretroviral therapy for at least 8 weeks prior to study Day 1.
    • The subject must agree not to change the antiviral regimen during the 12 weeks of study drug administration (unless medically mandated).
  7. Be capable of completing all required study activities and assessments (including all required exercise performance tests).
  8. Understand and sign an informed consent document.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Any medical history of the following:

    • Pancreatitis.
    • Carpal tunnel syndrome (unless resolved by surgical release).
    • Glucose intolerance [for the purpose of this protocol defined as fasting blood glucose ≥ 110 mg/dl (6.1 mmol/l), or 2 hour/random blood glucose ≥ 140 mg/dl (7.8 mg/dl)].
    • Angina pectoris.
    • Coronary artery disease.
    • Any disorder associated with moderate to severe edema (e.g., cirrhosis, nephrosis, congestive heart failure, lymphedema).
    • Allergy or hypersensitivity to growth hormone.
  2. Any of the following medical conditions:

    • Active AIDS-defining opportunistic infection.
    • Any active malignancy, except for localized cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma (fewer than 10 lesions, none of which exceeds 2 cm in size, not on active therapy).
    • A central nervous system (CNS) mass, or CNS process associated with active neurological findings.
    • Chronic diarrhea (defined as 6 or more liquid stools per day).
    • Unstable or untreated hypertension.
  3. Patients with acute critical illnesses in intensive care units due to complications following open heart or abdominal surgery, multiple accidental trauma, or with acute respiratory failure.
  4. Either of the following aspects of the medical regimen in the 30 days prior to study entry (60 days prior to receiving study drug):

    • New systemic therapy for opportunistic infection.
    • New therapy for wasting, including parenteral or oral hyperalimentation, tube feeding, anabolic or progestational agents, or appetite stimulants.
  5. Prior radiation therapy or systemic chemotherapy.
  6. Use of glucocorticoids within the past six months or growth hormone within the past year.
  7. An untreated or suspected serious systemic infection, or persistent fever > 101°F (or 38.5°C) during the 30 days prior to study entry.
  8. Evidence of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, obstruction, or malabsorption as determined by the Investigator.
  9. Active substance abuse which would prevent informed consent or compliance with study activities.
  10. Dementia which would preclude the patient from giving informed consent or complying with the requirements of this protocol.
  11. If female, be neither pregnant or breast feeding.
  12. Use of an investigational agent under another protocol unless discussed and approved in advance by Serono's Therapeutic Director.
  Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.

Please refer to this study by its identifier: NCT00489528

Sponsors and Collaborators
EMD Serono
Study Director: Elizabeth Svanbert, MD, PhD
  More Information

No publications provided Identifier: NCT00489528     History of Changes
Obsolete Identifiers: NCT00013988
Other Study ID Numbers: 9037
Study First Received: June 20, 2007
Last Updated: October 21, 2013
Health Authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration

Keywords provided by EMD Serono:
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Body Composition

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Wasting Syndrome
Wasting Syndrome
Body Weight
Body Weight Changes
HIV Infections
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Lentivirus Infections
Metabolic Diseases
Nutrition Disorders
RNA Virus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Signs and Symptoms
Virus Diseases
Weight Loss
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs processed this record on May 26, 2015


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Chemistry Department Aims to Improve Diversity with $2.7 Million Grant

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The Department of Chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences has received two grants, totaling more than $2.5 million, to help recruit, retain and support graduate and post-doctoral students from groups that are under-represented in the sciences.

The grants, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, come thanks to the efforts of Jenny Brodbelt, the new chair of the chemistry department.

“There aren’t enough women and minorities in the sciences at any level, but the problem becomes increasingly acute as you move into graduate school and beyond,” said Brodbelt, the William H. Wade Endowed Professor in Chemistry. “The College is committed to improving diversity at all levels, and these grants will be an enormous help toward that goal.”

The larger of the two grants is the $2.7 million, five-year Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) grant from the NIH, which was one of only two such grants awarded nationally.

The money will go toward a new traineeship, mentorship and leadership program, called the Collaborative Opportunities for Research Educators (CORE) program, designed by the department to help post-doctoral students in chemistry and related biomedical disciplines, and in particular women and students from under-represented ethnic groups.

The program will also build ties between the Department of Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin and nearby St. Edward’s University and Southwestern University, both of which serve a substantial number of minority undergraduates.

“Our graduate and post-doctoral students get exceptional training in doing laboratory science, but too often they’re left to their own devices when it comes to many of the other aspects of building a successful scientific career over the long term,” said Brodbelt. “You have to know how to manage a lab, how to supervise students, how to apply for grants, how to cultivate connections to other scientists. Women and students of color can end up particularly isolated in some of these areas. That’s what the program is designed to remedy.”

The post-docs will focus on NIH-supported research projects during the first part of the program, then transition to training in research-oriented undergraduate education during the subsequent year.

The educational component of the program, which has a target of 50 percent minority and 50 percent female participation, is modeled on the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI), a pioneering program in the College of Natural Sciences that offers first-year undergraduates the opportunity to advance academically while doing cutting-edge, original, publishable research.

Working under the mentorship of faculty at UT-Austin, St. Edward’s and Southwestern and with specialized training by Research Educators in the FRI, the CORE scholars will get experience managing a lab, supervising young researchers, and thinking long term about the arc of major research projects that involve many people and years. They’ll also have the opportunity to involve FRI students in their own research projects.

Students selected for the program will benefit from a variety of professional development activities that include a CORE boot camp, a Journey to Academia workshop, a grant writing workshop, a series on lab management, a spring symposium to facilitate networking opportunities, and lecture videotaping and critique sessions.

The second grant is a four-year, $60,000 award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will go to support the Program of Exemplary Mentoring in the department. The four main planks of the program are: a professional development course for all graduate students, more targeted professional development efforts for graduate students of color, travel grants to improve recruitment of minority graduate students to the department, and a symposium and seminar series dedicated to linking together past, present, and future scientists from underrepresented groups.

“Increasing diversity in the sciences, in both academia and industry, is a major goal of the College of Natural Sciences’ new five-year strategic plan,” said Linda Hicke, dean of the college. “Grants such as these will be the key to our success in that effort.”

Daniel J Oppenheimer

Dan was publications editor for the College of Natural Sciences from 2006-2013. He is now communications manager for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.

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    Lucia and Jack Gilbert Wednesday, September 11, 2013

    Congratulations, Jenny, and to all the others who may have contributed to obtaining these highly significant and competitive awards. The funds available from these awards will clearly allow an important investment in highly important initiatives that are sorely needed not only at UT, but nationally as well. Kudos to the department but also for the college. We know that the efforts will be successful! All best, Lucia and Jack Gilbert

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    Sandra Bishnoi Wednesday, October 02, 2013

    So happy to see the UT Chemistry Department taking a leading role in this area. Congrats, Dr. Brodbelt!

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#11915 closed Bug (fixed)

language range request should return sublanguage

Reported by: galund Owned by: ambv
Component: Internationalization Version: master
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by ramiro)

If a user's browser includes a request for a language range including a parent language, sub-languages which match should be returned.

For example, if a user's browser sends a header

Accept-Language: pt

And my site has

  ('pt-br', 'Português (Brazil)'),

Then the pt_BR locale files I have should be used. (RFC 2616: 'A language-range matches a language-tag if it exactly equals the tag, or if it exactly equals a prefix of the tag such that the first tag character following the prefix is "-".')

Right now the only way to get the Portugese returned is for me to relabel my local to just "pt" (which works except that the language will now be mislabelled in the Content-Language header).

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comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by ramiro

  • Description modified (diff)
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  • Patch needs improvement unset
  • Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Design decision needed
  • Version changed from 1.0 to SVN

This takes us to the following possible scenario: What if the LANGUAGES setting has, in addition to 'pt-br', 'pt-cv' (Portuguese as spoken in Cape Verde)? How and why should Django choose 'pt-br' in preference to 'pt-cv' (or vice versa) if a translation to 'pt' is missing?

(The fact I'm using pt, pt-br and pt-cv in this example is just incidental, the real issue is what matters)

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by julien

  • Severity set to Normal
  • Type set to New feature

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by aaugustin

  • Easy pickings unset
  • Triage Stage changed from Design decision needed to Accepted
  • Type changed from New feature to Bug
  • UI/UX unset

ramiro: I propose to select whichever language comes first in settings.LANGUAGES.

comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by aerkalov

Just a small comment from my side, not sure at this moment how to solve this.

As it is implemented at the moment function all_locale_paths (django/utils/translation/ always returns "django/conf/locale" (with addition of user added locale path directories). That directory already contains translation files for most of the languages with sublanguages (ar, pt, es, en, ...). In example above where user has defined "Accept-Language: pt" Django will accept this as valid choice (because it does have translation for that language) even though user has only defined "pt_BR" for his own applications. Not really sure how one could decide and make a switch to pt_BR language code.

comment:5 Changed 2 years ago by ambv

  • Owner changed from nobody to ambv
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comment:6 Changed 2 years ago by ambv

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comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by Łukasz Langa <lukasz@…>

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from assigned to closed

In 26e3e7ecb5e4c9af4cd5aa178f65ce1585d3ae07:

Fixed #11915: generic Accept-Language matches country-specific variants

comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@…>

In 3129d190714216cd83d2494a88f537699a42375f:

Merge pull request #1152 from ambv/issue11915

Fixed #11915: generic Accept-Language matches country-specific variants

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Its been over three months since I’ve posted on here…  Sorry guys and gals and anybody else who followed, glanced at, hated or enjoyed this blog up until October of last year.  As many of you may know, I’ve had my hands full helping to open the Pass and Provisions as a bartender and then stepping up as bar manager alongside friend and colleague Sebastian Nahapetien (we are both managers of the bar).  Its been an exhilarating experience just getting the menu out, product in place, managing ticket times for tables, not to mention the feeling of pride that followed our ability to execute the full beverage pairing program in fine dining, tasting menu Pass.  If you get a chance, you should stop on by.  Meanwhile here are a few of the cocktails from our menu.

P&P Winter Cocktails-1First up: The Tequila Rickey.  This is basically our answer to the “Skinny Margarita” phenomenon that has been holding health conscious imbibers’ palates hostage for a few years now.  While ingredients like Splenda, Sweet and Low, and cleverly marketed artificially flavored “Skinny” mixes have usurping their way into the already bastardized classic, I remain a steadfast purist on the subject of acceptable margarita ingredients.  In order for a drink to be called a margarita, it must contain: Tequila (preferably blanco), fresh lime juice and some type of orange liqueur (triple sec, curacao- not the blue shite, Gran Marnier,  etc).  Topics like ice, salt, ratios and the addition of additional sweeteners (agave nectar) are purely discretionary in my opinion, though I prefer mine up, with no salt, in a 2:1:1 ratio.  The fact is, that a margarita made in that fashion –uh the proper way-essentially is a “skinny” margarita as it contains no additional sweetener.  But this isn’t enough for many skinny aficionados who insist on omitting the orange component, thereby making their drink not a margarita any more (see above.)  At any rate, in an attempt to please all palates and dietary fads while keeping the integrity of the cocktail program intact we present the pleasantly refreshing and delicious Tequila Rickey.  One only has to look back to sometime around 1883 when a drink called the rickey was born, likely to have originally been a bourbon or rye highball with the addition of lime and club soda, although it is the gin variation that most people think of when they hear the word.  Ours merely substitutes the gin or whiskey for tequila and we add a bar spoon of agave nectar to balance the acidity of the lime and round out the mouth feel.  Our choice of club soda is none other than taqueria favorite, Topo Chico with its magically never ending effervescence.  We take the tradition of garnishing a rickey with the lime half that provided the juice and freeze it into an ice cube which serves a dual function.  1.5 oz Blanco Tequila, .75 oz Lime Juice, 1 barspoon agave nectar.  Build in glass with lime ice cube, top with soda.

P&P Winter Cocktails-7Up next: The Preamble

This drink was conceived when I was looking for a way to highlight the awesome-ness that is Texas Grapefruit season by preserving the citrus in salt to provide a way keep the ingredient around after the sometimes short window closes on the grapefruit season.  Some of you will remember when I did the same thing about a year ago with limes, inspired by the funky and refreshing Vietnamese Chan Muoi lime-aide, and spun it into a Caipirinha.  Salt preserving as a technique goes back to ancient times and was the primary way to preserve meat up until around 1900 or so, and can likely be solely responsible for the sustainability of many early civilizations.

Muddled sage brings a savory herbal note that integrates wonderfully with the bitter, acidic and salty preserved grapefruit while fresh lime and grapefruit juice  bring refreshing vibrancy.  Spicy rye whiskey provides the  bottom and cassis integrates to give a fruit high note.  The drink is then topped with soda (yep, Topo Chico again) and served with one large format ice cube.  Keep an eye on this one, as it will be one of the first to go as the grapefruit season winds down (they’re still looking nice right now) and our stock of preserved fruit diminishes.

1.5 oz Rye Whiskey, .75 oz fresh Grapefruit Juice, .5 oz Fresh Lime Juice,    .5 oz Crème de Cassis, 1 barspoon Simple Syrup, 3 Sage leaves,                1 preserved grapefruit wedge.  Muddle Grapefruit, Sage and Simple, add the other ingredients in a rocks glass with a large format ice cube, Top with Soda.

Preserved Grapefruit: Dice 3 large Texas Grapefruits, add 1/2 cup kosher salt, vacuum seal using cryovac in large bag.  Rest at least 1 week.

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Finally: El Lechedor

For the final drink of this post, I present you with the Lechedor.  It’s essentially a New Orlean’s style milk punch made with Sotol instead of brandy, rum or bourbon and flavored with violette and orange instead of the traditional vanilla and cinnamon.

Sotol is a spirit made from the Sotol plant (aka: desert spoon or Dasylirion wheeleri), which is actually a slow growing, flowering evergreen shrub (a wild variety of agave) It can be found in West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and in Mexico in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.  The plant itself takes on average fifteen years to mature (that’s 50% longer on average than blue weber agave) and one plant produces a mere single bottle of the distilled spirit.  The production is very similar to that of artisanal mezcal from harvest to distillation, except that sotol must be harvested wild, as it is resistant to cultivation. On the palate, Sotol can resemble characteristics of both its cousins mezcal and tequila, bringing forth a tinge of mezcal smoke and the florality of highland tequilas, there is definitely some fruit in there, think apricot and lime, and there is a distinct oily briny character to the spirit as well.  It is an unbelievably smooth spirit and is quite affordable to boot.

  • 1.5 oz Hacienda del Chihuahua Sotol Plata
  • 1.5 oz Whole milk
  • .5 oz Turbinado Syrup
  • .5 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao
  • .25 oz Crème de Violette
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
  • Shake long and hard to get the milk good and frothy.  Strain into a Collins glass, fill with ice.  Top with powdered cardamom.

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      • 15. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
        Mohanad Awad
        what is output of
        sql> select header_status from v$asm_disk;

        • 16. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
          Mohanad Awad wrote:
          No. But devices /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc seems like local devices? And you showed above these as partitions and partitions used as ASM disks?
          No it's not local device , it's come from storge , and my disk group contain just from one disk memeber ! from storge defination the group created from tow physical hard disk device ,
          If it is not a local device, what storage is used? What is the I/O fabric layer? Fibre channel (FC)? Infiniband? FCoE? Scsi over Ethernet? Something else?

          When a storage server is used, using device +/dev/sdc+ is very likely the wrong device to use. And if you +/dev/sdb+ is also a storage server device, it would also be likely the wrong device to use. The major reason is that these names are NOT guaranteed to be consistent and CAN AND DO often change to another device name after reboot.

          For FC and Infiniband devices, the +/dev/mpath+ or +/dev/emcpower+ devices need to be used. For Ethernet based storage devices, you should define a udev rule to create a symbolic device for it, basing the name on the unique WWID of the device and device path.

          ASM needs a CONSISTENT device name (which means a logical name for a SAN LUN and not local physical scsi device name), that also supports multi I/O paths (which is standard for most SAN storage).

          IMO a lack of knowledge on how storage devices need to be configured and used (not just for ASM, but as a general o/s principle), is a cause of serious concern and a major risk.
          • 17. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
            Mohanad Awad

            From log time this DB install -3 year - and server rebbot many time. without any issue !!

            what i read for my OS version 5.4 :

            Configuring raw disks on RHEL 4 was done via the rawdevices service, which seems to be unavailable on RHEL 5.0 and 5.1. I haven't checked RHEL 5.2 and 5.3, but 5.4 and 5.5 do have it back. Here I will demonstrate how can we use "UDEV" to configure raw devices on RHEL 5.0 and 5.1.

            all my issue is on raw device how to use not more !

            /bin/raw >> exist ! but no raw1 , raw2 ....
            /dev/raw/raw1 >> dose not exist

            [root@XX rules.d]# cd /dev/raw
            -bash: cd: /dev/raw: No such file or directory
            [root@XX rules.d]#

            [root@XX init.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices
            # raw device bindings
            # format: <rawdev> <major> <minor>
            # <rawdev> <blockdev>
            # example: /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sda1
            # /dev/raw/raw2 8 5

            so how it come ?

            Edited by: Mohanad Awad on Feb 27, 2013 3:40 AM
            • 18. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
              One thing you might want to do is search for a book called "Automatic Storage Management - Under-the-Hood - A Practical Deployment Guide". This will give you a great overview of how ASM diskgroups actually work. You really need to understand how ASM does works.
              • 19. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                Mohanad Awad wrote:

                all my issue is on raw device how to use not more !
                The rawdevices approach was used to perform direct I/O on block devices, via a character device I/O interface, as block devices did not support direct I/O.

                This has ceased to be the case a few kernel versions back and block devices can be opened for direct I/O. Thus the rawdevices feature is obsolete and should not be used.
                • 20. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                  Mohanad Awad
                  So to make sure on my case and for redhat 5.4 version no need to use raw device ?
                  • 21. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                    Oracle Support Note *RAC: Frequently Asked Questions [ID 220970.1]*+:
                    Q. What storage option should I use for Oracle RAC on Linux? ASM / OCFS / Raw Devices / Block Devices / Ext3 ?
                    A. Since RAW devices are being phased out of Linux in the long term, it is recommended everyone should switch to using the block devices (meaning, pass these block devices to ASM or OCFS/2 or Oracle Clusterware)

                    Support Note *How To Setup ASM on Linux Using ASMLIB Disks, Raw Devices, Block Devices or UDEV Devices? [ID 580153.1]*+ provides an overview of how to setup various devices for Oracle Grid.
                    • 22. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                      Mohanad Awad

                      - Just make everything clear :

                      I try to test all my question that on virtual machine , i create oracle with ASM disk group Name (DATA) having just one hard disk , named (/dev/sda1) and it ASM accept the partition directly without make any change on it (without raw device) and without (ASMLib) so i mention above as told you that on Linux 5 these no raw device .

                      but one problem i face after reboot the server >> the the ASM instance dose not work becouse the permission lost after reboot ! but the solution is very easy after long search ... (create any file name like below 99-oracle.rules ... you can create any name :)

                      more /etc/udev/rules.d/99-oracle.rules
                      #ASM disks
                      KERNEL==”sda”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
                      KERNEL==”sdb”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
                      KERNEL==”sdc”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
                      KERNEL==”sdd”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
                      KERNEL==”sde”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″
                      KERNEL==”sdf”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″

                      >> Then after restart / reboot the ASM instance work normally without any error !

                      - and about Q is new hard disk must be same size as current one ? the answer is yes ... and this is the explanation :

                      i try to add new hard disk "/dev/sdc1" to current DATA diskgroup which has one disk member "/dev/sdb1" with size 25G ... the new one (/dev/sdc1) with size 200M ...

                      Alter diskgroup DATA add disk '/dev/sdc1'; ........ command run without any issue .. and l look for table

                      select * from v$asm_diskgroup >>> i see that the total_mb column increase ... but the issue happen when the new disk 200M become full and free_MB become zero !!!

                      i execute log DML code to insert record in dummy table ... after the new space become full error appear even so that the old hard disk have free space ...........

                      >>so it must be same size

                      **** NOTE ****when i try alter disk group DATA rebalance; the full one become free and the used one transfer to used one and the database .. and the database work fine ... but when it become full the issue return again and so one ....

                      --- after i add new hard disk with same size 25G and do rebalance... i get and undrstand your answer now.

                      * But My Q : Why oracle ASM dose not do re-balance automatically !!!!!!!!!!! ??????????

                      Thanks all for helps ,
                      Mohanad Awad
                      • 23. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                        Regarding rebalance, it works automatically according to the value of asm power limit. If you you add a device correctly, then ASM will automatically start a rebalance operation. You can monitor the operation in sqlplus by querying the view v$asm_operation (connect to your ASM instance using sqlplus / as sysasm and then query the view). If there is no operation, then the disk was not added correctly.

                        For example, if you want to add disk partition sdc1 to the diskgroup, but you only set ownership and permissions on sdc, then only device sdc will be added to the diskgroup. This only adds 1 MB to your diskgroup, so the rebalance will happen very fast and you will not notice it.

                        Regarding the file 99-oracle.rules make sure you list your devices correctly. If you only want the partition to be owned by oracle then you need to add the partition number to the rule such as KERNEL==”sdc1”, OWNER=”oracle”, GROUP=”dba”, MODE=”0660″. I noticed you were missing the partition number on all devices.
                        • 24. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                          Mohanad Awad
                          yes i put it as sdc1 , sdd1 ..... sure ! i just put an example , on my test yes i put sdc1 .... and ASM member added without any issue and yes i monitor v$asm_operation ! but this not the issue !

                          the issue it seem coz the size for test is very small ! 200 M so my it seem the ASM dose not have time to do rebalance and coz power limit =1 ,, i don't know on which criteria the re-balance happen ? every period ? on which size limit ? .........
                          • 25. Re: Re-size Oracle ASM space
                            Mohanad Awad
                            Thanks All ,

                            Finally done .................... i told you on Redhat 5 no need for using raw device and you can use the hard disk direct ...

                            chown -R oracle:dba /dev/sdc1
                            chmod -R 660 /dev/sdc1

                            vi /etc/udev/rules.d/65-raw-permissions.rules

                            KERNEL=="sdc1", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="660"

                            SQL> show parameter disk

                            NAME                    TYPE     VALUE
                            ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
                            asm_diskgroups               string     DATA
                            asm_diskstring               string     /dev/sdb[1-3]
                            disk_asynch_io               boolean     TRUE

                            ALTER SYSTEM SET asm_diskstring = '/dev/sdb[1-3]','/dev/sdc1' SCOPE=memory sid='*'; -- don't froget to change it alos on pfile (on my case my Asm start from pfile ... )

                            alter diskgroup DATA add disk '/dev/sdc1';

                            -- to check new space :
                            SELECT name, type, ceil (total_mb/1024) TOTAL_GB , ceil (free_mb/1024) FREE_GB, required_mirror_free_mb,
                            ceil ((usable_file_mb)/1024) FROM V$ASM_DISKGROUP;

                            Best Regards :)
                            Mohanad Awad
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I know nothing…but I’m learning

I had a wonderful meandering conversation recently with Co-op Cat, Scott Nine.  We shared ideas and thoughts on a wide range of topics.  But one has really stuck with me: “maybe we should be less focused on knowing and more focused on learning.”  Our educational system and our culture as a whole has seriously privileged knowledge.  To know things, to have knowledge of facts and to possess skills these are the goals, aren’t they?  That is why we teach at, and lecture to, and test and test and test.  Do the kids know the material yet?  What do they know?

The more I think about it, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently, knowing is less and less interesting to me.  It seems that to claim “knowledge” of something is to end a process, the process of learning and growth.  Some things we strive to learn are indeed arrived at via short straight paths.  I want to know the state capitals, my multiplication facts, how to spell “conundrum,” how to tie my shoelace, e.g.  So I memorize and I practice.  It’s easy and relatively quick.  I gain confidence and self esteem and a false sense of my own worth.  I know stuff.  But, in general, the things anyone can claim to know are either of little value (easily Googled facts) or else they are fleeting and illusory or simply not “true,” but rather represent a single perspective (“I know that Columbus discovered America.”)

Long and winding road

In contrast, those things that I am learning, these are things that are worthwhile and will demand my deep engagement and sustained attention.  Things that I don’t yet know (and may never know) often locate me somewhere along a very long and winding road towards something like…where? Wisdom? – Perhaps these paths are infinitely long, with many forks, obstacles and side roads.  In many cases it seems that the more elusive the final endpoint is, the more intriguing, engaging and compelling is the journey.

Since Scott and I talked last weekend, I have become somewhat obsessed with this concept.  So much so that I have shared this dialogue with my amazing class of  eleven 9-12 year-old students:  “So, for the moment, let’s try to forget about what you “know” or “don’t know,” I said yesterday.  “Instead tell me what you think you are learning.”

It took a while for the kids to join me on this ride.  We had to explore these words for a while.  But what they came up with, as I scribbled furiously in my notebook was awesome.  Here’s a taste:

I am learning to listen to people who are younger than me and take them seriously.

I am learning how to handle my worries and fears.

I am learning to keep trying when I don’t get something right away.

I am learning to carry peace with me in my heart wherever I go.

I am learning to trust… other people and myself , too.

I am learning when to be loud and when to be quiet.

I am learning how to listen to my body.

I am learning patience.

Wow!  Okay, these examples were definitely highlights, and it is an edited list for sure, but aren’t these gems?  And in each case is this not something worthy of the long and arduous learning journey?

I love the idea of valuing learning because you can be anywhere along the path, just starting out, or almost there, and you are still learning.  As long as you are on the path, you are not at risk of “failure.”  The work is just as valuable anywhere en route.  Some of these outcomes, which the kids expressed above, will never be fully achieved or attained.  That’s why they’re so hard to measure and assess, but that’s also part of their intrinsic and inherent value.  It is not a reason to shunt them aside as our school system does far too often.  Rather the journeys that involve this kind off learning are what give life meaning.  We need to join kids on the path to exploring big questions and concepts and realize that what kids know or don’t know may be of some interest at times, but it is not what education “is for.”

Here’s to preserving awe and wonder!

Can we imagine an educational system that values learning more and knowing less?   What would it look like?  And what are you learning?  I’d love to hear.

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I am the founding Director of The Salmonberry School in Eastsound, WA. I have taught elementary school in public and private settings for the past 19 years. I serve as a contributing editor for Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice (Formerly the Holistic Education Review.) I also serve on the faculty of the Self Design Graduate Institute. I hold an MA in EDU from Goddard College.

6 thoughts on “I know nothing…but I’m learning

  1. Thanks for sharing this. I love hearing other teachers’ stories of open communication with their students. Sometimes, when I’m feeling like I am a less-impactful teacher because I can’t have genuine communication with my students in Japan (due to the language barrier) reading an article like yours reminds me that even if I can’t speak to my students in this manner, I also can’t read their minds. Your students’ words are in the hearts of all humans; this desire to learn and grow. I imagine my Japanese students have the same thoughts and desires your students have.

    Posted by Terry Dassow | November 19, 2012, 9:05 am
    • I was thinking about pen-pals (or email pals) for a while, but it takes some time to get the teachers I team-teach with to “come up with the idea on their own” if you know what I mean. So, I’ve finally talked about it enough that one of my teachers would like to be able to set up an email or letter exchange with students from an English-speaking country. The grammar topic my students will be writing about is practicing introducing a Japanese cultural item to a foreigner who may not understand it or ever have hear of it. Does this sound like something your class would be interested in?

      Posted by Terry Dassow | December 4, 2012, 10:28 am
  2. Thanks so much Terry. I had a student this fall who wrote a poem that began: I need to learn. It’s a little like eating or sleeping or breathing. If I don’t learn I’m less of a person… I agree with you, this is a universal human need. Having the opportunity to play a role in this natural process of kids’ learning and growing is a gift we teachers have been given. I visited your website and read some of your blog and it looks like you are seizing the chance to play this role judiciously, wisely, humanely and with a great sense of fun. Good for you!! I am sending warm thoughts and hugs to you across the great Pacific.
    Hey, would your kids be interested in having some younger pen pals here in the States? Let me know.

    Posted by Paul Freedman | November 19, 2012, 10:11 am
  3. Paul, thanks for this post – learning feels much more exciting than knowing to me in the same way acceleration feels more compelling than maintaining a constant velocity.

    What do you think about “knowing” as “trusting?” I feel like I fundamentally trust others whom I assume “know” in the same way I do. I’m thinking about matters of empathy, politics, pedagogy, and science here. How does “knowing” color learning and relating to others?

    I don’t mean to be deconstructivist, but I wonder about how we relate to others when we learn to learn, rather than learn to know, given what we already know. You know?

    Posted by Chad Sansing | November 27, 2012, 3:08 pm
    • Hey Chad,
      Terrific. Yes. It feels very safe and comfortable to learn to know, and to trust in others’ knowing that is really just a reflection of ourselves. It’s comfortable but it’s boring. And learning to learn, where the system is an open one; you don’t know the outcome; you’re open to the possibility of transformation as well as the real possibility that you might never “know.” That is scary stuff, scary but absolutely exhilarating.

      Learning to know and knowing that you know? Well, that’s just a no-no. No? SORRY!

      Posted by Paul Freedman | November 27, 2012, 11:36 pm

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#24236 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Undefined variable in edit-form-advanced.php for Post formats

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Related to #24190

Seeing this exact issue w/ $show_post_format_ui and line 424:

<div class="wp-post-format-ui<?php if ( ! $show_post_format_ui ) echo ' no-ui' ?>">

Getting undefined notice for $show_post_format_ui:

"Notice: Undefined variable: show_post_format_ui"

Just like in #24190, this one requires another variable set up above to define it to 0

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In 24148:

Avoid an undefined variable notice. props sc0ttkclark. see #24236.

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In 24149:

Avoid an undefined variable notice. fixes #24236.

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django-sharing 0.0.2

Django row level object sharing app.

Django Sharing

Django row level sharing app limiting content access by user in Django admin.

  1. Provides admin view, change and delete permissions, restricting content access and limiting available actions per user.
  2. Filters ForeignKey fields by view permissions.
  3. Filters ManyToManyField fields by view permissions.
  4. Automatically enables sharing on all admin classes (optional).

  1. Install or add django-sharing to your python path.
  2. Add 'sharing' to the project's INSTALLED_APPS setting.
  3. Add 'sharing.backends.SharingBackend' to the project's AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting.

In order for django-sharing to limit content access your various admin classes need to include the ShareAdminMixin class. For example:

from django.contrib import admin
from sharing.admin import ShareAdminMixin

class ArticleAdmin(ShareAdminMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass, ArticleAdmin)

It is crucial for ShareAdminMixin to be the first ancestor class in the admin class' definition.

Alternatively you can automatically enable sharing for all models registered with the admin site. django-sharing includes an admin_mixin_share method which will apply the ShareAdminMixin class to all models registered with the admin site. Call the method after admin.autodiscover() in

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin

import sharing

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^admin/', include(,

Once the ShareAdminMixin class has been applied your admin change views should include Group and User share inlines and restrict content appropriately.

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Oh, Knitpicks.

I will say that I do enjoy KnitPicks yarns. Sometimes, though, I really don’t like KnitPicks. There are times when it seems like they are trying so hard to follow the trends that they completely miss the mark.

As for example – my inbox told me a couple of days ago that KnitPicks encourages us all to buy the new book No Sheep For You! Awesome, it’s a great book, I’ve been drooling over ‘Morrigan’ and ‘Bacardi’ ever since I saw it. But why, oh why, when the whole purpose of the book is not to knit with any wool or wool-related fibres, has KnitPicks chosen to present the Tomato tee in a cotton/wool blend? It’s not as though Main Line was their only choice, either, they could have easily worked up that pattern to gauge with one or two other non-animal yarns they have in stock. (Shine Worsted, anyone?)

And then there’s the gorgeous After Dark nightie (knitted recently by Mind of Winter) from the Mason-Dixon Knitting book. It’s gorgeous and delicate and sexy, but half the reason it’s gorgeous and delicate and sexy is because it’s knitted lightly in a sport-weight linen at a leisurely 5 sts/inch. KnitPicks, on the other hand, has chosen to present this delicacy in a worsted-weight cotton blend. Again, they could have easily gone with one of their sport or DK-weight cotton or cotton blends, why strangle this pattern with a heavy worsted-weight? That sure ain’t gonna keep me cool in the summer evenings.

Of course, I say all of this as I contemplate that Euroflax Linen I saw a few weeks ago at Lettuce Knit and forgot to check back for last week. Maybe it’ll still be there this week when I go again…Maybe I’ll be able to knit my own luxurious summer nightie…Yeah…Um, right after I finish this sweater and kilt hose that are still sitting around my WIP list. ;)

Happy long weekend to Americans…We had our long weekend last week, so today I will be putting in some time on campus and trying to plug away at the Thesis while my knitting lies in my handbag in case of need. Gotta get that word count climbing. Tomorrow – hopefully a book review!

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8 responses to “Oh, Knitpicks.

  1. wiscjennyann

    Gooooooooo thesis!

  2. I know! It really makes you wonder ‘what on earth are they thinking!’…..
    Looking forward to the book review.

  3. Elinor

    Yeah, I feel the same way. We bloggers should start a campaign to get Knitpicks a good marketing director who is also a skilled knitter. *sigh*

  4. Dear Glenna, I’m trying to adhere to commands from the knitting community. Please answer the following (whether you like it or not).

    1. What do you hope to accomplish with your blog?

    2. Are you a spiritual person?

    3. If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you want to have with you?

    4. What’s your favourite childhood memory?

    5. Is this your first meme?

  5. That’s rather funny – I didn’t notice their choices, I guess I deleted the recent emails and I haven’t been to their site.

    Let’s see your kilt hose!

    [I am glad mine are done, on to knitting for myself now…]

  6. Lady O

    *sigh* But yet I still am waiting for my mother so I can submit two orders (and hope they get here in a reasonable period of time…)

    I was looking at it too… I’m thinking I can justify buying it on the grounds that I intend for it to be a wedding/bridal shower gift…

    I think I might have to go yarn shopping after my fields… though that could be dangerous, given the weakend emotional state I’m sure to be in.

  7. Poor Knitpicks. They try so hard, they do.

    I was totally annoyed with their yarn recommendations, too. Shine Worsted would have been a perfectly fine suggestion (although I find Knitpicks fudges a little with gauge and needle sizes, they tend to give ranges to make their yarns seem more versatile, when old fashioned honesty would actually make it easier to get gauge and whatnot, but that’s a whole different rant). Also, it is silly that they are so excited about their new linen/cotton blend yarn (CotLin) and wouldn’t use the After Dark Nightie as an excuse to promote it.

    Good luck with your thesis! Knitting was the only thing that got me through my (undergraduate) thesis, it gave the illusion of productivity as well as an awards system.

  8. Moggle

    In my humble opinion, Knitpicks are evil! Surely it’s a crime against knitting to stock so many lovely yarns and REFUSE to send them outside North America . Send in the Knitting Police to arrest the lot of them. Send the Knitting FBI too!

    Me bitter? Never!


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United Nations, June 4 (IANS) The UN has reported encouraging, but still-fragile signs of improvement in emerging and developing economies, while a lot of advanced economies continue to face high or even rising unemployment and increasing inequalities.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) made the statement in a report released Monday, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here.

"According to the World of Work report 2013, income inequalities rose between 2010 and 2011 in 14 of the 26 advanced economies surveyed, including France, Denmark, Spain and the United States," Nesirky said at a news briefing here.

"The report shows that middle-income groups in many advanced economies are shrinking, fuelled in part by long-term unemployment, weakening job quality and workers dropping out of the labour market altogether," Xinhua quoted him as saying.

As the global economy continues a slow recovery from the financial crisis, most emerging and developing countries are experiencing rising employment and narrowing income inequalities compared to their high-income counterparts, the report said.

However, the gap between rich and poor in most low and middle-income countries remains wide, the report said, adding that many families who have managed to rise above the poverty line are at risk of lapsing back.

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drop down menus

  • # June 1, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    My drop down menus finally work, but now how can I make them drop down OVER the rest of my page? Right now when the menus drop down, the div’s below are shifted to the right. Any help would be great!

    # June 1, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Try the z-index property. This will allow elements to appear "on top of" other elements that appear after it in the DOM.

    # June 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I didn’t use absolute positioning on my page, will the z-index work withouth that? Is there another way?

    # June 1, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Yeah, I just finished a page that uses the z-index property on the navigation and I’m not using absolute positioning either. I think it will work on any box whose position is absolute, fixed or relative. At the very least, you can make it relative and leave the positioning at zero.

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Midiout port assignment

July 21, 2010 | 1:39 pm

Hi everybody,

could anybody tell me how to set my patch up so that
it automatically chooses the port called: ‘Out To MIDI Yoke: 1′
at startup, cause i wanna build a big midi controller and wouldn’t like
to assign all them ports everytime i startup :).
i’ve tried giving it a message like the help file says but it doesn’t react.

thanx in advance

July 21, 2010 | 7:36 pm

This was hastily extracted from a larger patch so there’s not much in the way of comments, but this may get you going.

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July 22, 2010 | 12:38 pm

Hi chris,
thanx alot for replying!
unfortunately i haven’t had the money to get max 5
so can’t load your patch :(
thanx anyway!

July 23, 2010 | 4:35 pm

In my St.ools there is St.MidiOutport. You can give it an argument with parts of your port name and it will choose it on load…
Get the Max 4 version here:

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