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WASHINGTON — The landmark Canadian Supreme Court ruling in Chaoulli v. Quebec may stifle recent efforts to expand government control over health care in the United States, a new Cato study contends. The study, “A Seismic Shift: How Canada’s Supreme Court Sparked a Patients’ Rights Revolution,” dismisses the assumption that compulsory, universal health coverage is the key to universal access and to equality of care.

According to the study’s author, Jacques Chaoulli, a physician and lead counsel in Chaoulli v. Quebec: “To the extent that Canada has achieved equality in health care at all, it has done so as Leo XIII predicted, through a ‘leveling down of all to a like condition of misery and degradation’.”

In Chaoulli, the court ruled that the nation’s Medicare program “violated Canadian patients’ rights to ‘life, liberty, and security of person’ ” by subjecting them to unreasonable, “intentional,” and in some cases fatal waiting periods for treatment. Queues averaged 17.7 weeks, according to the Fraser Institute.

The waiting periods resulted from the state-run health care system’s failure to meet the needs of all patients. And, since Canada’s Medicare monopoly effectively outlawed any private health insurance, Dr. Chaoulli watched many of his patients suffer.

Chaoulli writes that this case could serve as a model for overturning other harmful government restrictions on patients’ rights.  The U.S. Medicare program contains a restriction similar to the one struck down by Canada’s Supreme Court.  U.S. seniors “are effectively prohibited from purchasing Medicare-covered services from their doctors with their own funds.”

In addition, Chaoulli argues that “more than 6,000 American patients die each year while waiting for suitable organs,” and that “those waiting lists are caused by the U.S. Congress, which prohibits payments to organ providers and thereby dries up the supply of transplantable organs.”

Recently, a federal court used reasoning similar to that in Chaoulli when it reinstated the case Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach, where terminally ill patients are suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for denying their right to access unproven but potentially life-saving drugs. Chaoulli writes, “That suit accuses the FDA of violating the patients’ rights to life and liberty as protected by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is my hope that Chaoulli can inform the court’s deliberations and that the court will strike down this affront to patients’ rights.”

On Tuesday, May 9th, Dr. Chaoulli will address the issue of private health insurance in Canada at the 7th annual Optimum Reassurance Inc. Seminar on Out-of-Country Health Coverage. For details, please click here.

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This week, we laughed at silly screaming cats, met a heroic firefighter who adopted the kitties he helped rescue, fell in love with Mimo Le Chat, hired a soothing feline babysitter, experienced some retro cool cat cupcakes, hated on Charlize Theron for dissing Hello Kitty, found out what would happen if Dexter got a cat, put together some fancy feline inspired fashion sets, investigated the world of cats wearing snuggies, celebrated Kitmas with The Kitten Covers, turned 2.5 pounds of cat hair into $325 worth of Christmas cheer, and reviewed some of the biggest cat news stories of 2011!

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This week's featured feline comes to us from Karen, who sent in some festive pictures of her beautiful cat Bella, "just chill-laxin" and celebrating her 1st birthday earlier this year.

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Special thanks to Karen for sharing her little party animal with us this week! I hope Miss Bella got plenty of rest, because between Caturday, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's, the celebrations have only just begun!

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Bella is adorable and we love her festive spirit!!...We are so blessed to have you guys in our lives; wishing you all a safe and Merry Christmas, precious and hugs...J, Calle, Halle, Sukki, Mommy Cat, Daddy Cat

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Oh what a cutie! I love the "hangover" photo :-)
I wish you a very happy holiday season!!

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Bella is such a cutie! Merry Christmas Miss Catsparella! And could you open the door, Clooney Claus has a delivery of catnip mousies for Charlie and Priscilla!

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Happy Holly-Days from us, to you!

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@Clooney Merry Christmas my furriends!! Love ya!! xo Thanks for the special deliveries, too!

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26th September 2009, 03:29 PM
Hi there, reading a few posts that our lovely cavvies can eat alot, and others not eating much.. I want to put forward our problem with our 11mth old Blenheim.
My sister's blenheim bitch puppy, is 18wks old and happily eats 3 times a day and she will eat anything else.

Poppy is small for her age; and was the runt of the litter...and think sh may not have been weaned propertly, she will always be small..

She will not eat the food that is given, despite her liking the dry food and Pedigree Puppy Loaf... until she is really hungry... takes a lot of persuasion to start also... been seen by vet's and she is healthy..

Do any of you have any tips/ideas or experienced this yourself?

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Hi! I have had the same problem with our now 1 year old cavalier. At times she will gobble down her morning meal. Other times she doesn't eat all of it. Then in evening she will eat 2 pieces of cooked yam in her food but leave the kibble. Then I started not putting as much kibble in the evening meal. Naturally for the last two evenings she has eaten everything.:confused:

I wouldn't worry about your pup not eating. She will when she's hungry.

Heather R

26th September 2009, 07:19 PM
I was going to say above,Arch sometimes will pick and another time eat all of it,i find when hes been running around alot he seems hungry.

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I think the problem is probably when you say 'it is hard to get her to start' which suggests you are trying to coax her to eat -- talking to her, hand feeding her, whatever.

She has learned that if she just doesn't eat, people will make a fuss over her and give her lots of attention, and she thinks the attention is a lot more fun and interesting than eating. This is a very common problem and the answer is to put her food down, give her 10 minutes to eat; if she touches nothing pick up the food and put away until the next *scheduled* feeding. Don;t pay ANY attention to her after the food goes down, don't try to get her to eat, don;t try new foods, don't give her treats between her meals.

I can pretty much guarantee that if you do this she will be eating normally in a few days.

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5th December 2012, 01:48 PM
Sunday, Elton had extreme diarrhea and I thought it could be a bug so I was going to see if it continued. Yesterday morning his poop was fine. Then I came home and there was a mound of liquid poop with bright red blood. Elton never has accidents.

I have not made any changes to his diet. This morning he hasn't had any bowel movements. I made an appointment awhile ago for this holistic vet who was highly recommended both traditional and holistic trained. The appointment is for full evaluation and is 2 hours.

The continued diarriea is bothersome. He has been drinking fine and no other signs of pain or changes. I am at work now and will go home for lunch to see if any changes. I don't know if he should go to regular vet, wait to see improvement in poop today, wait until Friday???

5th December 2012, 01:54 PM
I'm actually going to see regular vet at 5:30 today. I think I would rather be safe. I'm not sure if all the strain from going to the bathroom has caused irritation? This stuff always scares me

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Poor Elton (and you who has to clean it up). Your right to go to the vet. If you can get a sample, bring that with you. Hope he feels better soon. Keep us updated.

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awww, poor boy. I hope he gets feeling better!

5th December 2012, 05:51 PM
I hope he feels better soon. Has he been under any stress lately? My Tess gets occasional bloody diarrhea when things are going on in her life (moving, etc,). The first time I panicked but the vet said it was not unusual. She said probiotics are helpful sometimes. You might want to add your vet about getting some of those, or if you can give Elton some yogurt with active yeast in it.

7th December 2012, 01:17 AM
Anne, what is the latest word about Elton?

7th December 2012, 03:34 AM
Anne, what is the latest word about Elton?

He is doing much better. The vet did a fecal exam and no parasites or bacteria (whatever they look for). They did give him a probiotic and something else to help. She doesn't think obstruction because of no vomiting, no other changes in behavior, and didn't see any abdominal pain.

Today he had a normal bowel movement. Really don't know why but going to the holistic vet tomorrow. I feel good about that. I just always get scared its an obstruction or something.

Thanks for asking

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My Ebony & Harley had it for 10 weeks. No diahria but straining with spots of blood in the poo. Done the poo tests but nothing. Even chicken & rice or white boiled fish & rice didn't help. In the end I had to feed the vets presciption diet sience hill id gastric. That finally cleared it up. Sometimes the vets don't even know what it is or coursed it. My vet said that they might have eaten something while on a walk but mine stay on the lead so i knew it wasn't that. Hope Elton is better soon.


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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Ben Bishop made quite a first impression on his new Tampa Bay teammates.

The tall goalie earned a shutout in his debut with the Lightning, leading them to a 5-0 rout of the reeling Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.

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Bishop, acquired a day earlier from Ottawa in exchange for promising rookie Cory Conacher, stopped a career-high 45 shots.

"It just got to the point where they were like, `Bishop has this,"' coach Jon Cooper said.

Teddy Purcell, Tom Pyatt and Keith Aulie scored during the Lightning's three-goal second period that broke open a scoreless game.

"Sometimes I'm going to have to be sharp, and sometimes guys are going to have to block some shots in front of me," Bishop said. "They did their job there in the first to keep it a 0-0 game. The offense took over there in the third, and the guys played great in front of me."

Martin St. Louis had a goal and two assists, Benoit Pouliot added a goal and an assist, and NHL goal-scoring leader Steven Stamkos had two assists to help Tampa Bay earn points for the fourth straight game.

The Lightning moved into a tie with Carolina for third in the mediocre Southeast Division.

"It's big for the team -- there's no individuals here," Bishop said. "We're chasing a playoff spot and really just wanted to get off to the right foot and do that with a win."

Dan Ellis stopped 25 shots for the reeling Hurricanes, who outshot Tampa Bay 45-30 but dropped their 10th in 11 games.

They were flying high when they led Washington 2-0 on March 14, but went on to lose that game 3-2. That blown lead started a slide in which they have been outscored 41-15 - 42-15 if you count the goal the Rangers were awarded for their shootout win on March 18.

"It's a little fragile," coach Kirk Muller said. "We're getting enough scoring chances to win hockey games. We're outshooting teams. It seems like we say that every night, but we make a breakdown and it's in our net. We've just got to find a way to eliminate that."

Bishop became the latest goalie to beat them. He earned his third career shutout and second of the season while improving to 5-1 in his last six games.

His imposing 6-foot-7 frame between the pipes proved impossible to beat for a Carolina team that has lost 11 of 15 games against the Southeast and was blanked for the third time and first since Feb. 26 at Washington.

"He's big," St. Louis said, "and he plays really big."

The Lightning, who improved to 4-0 against the Hurricanes this season with all three victories coming by at least three goals, welcomed back captain Vincent Lecavalier, who missed nine games with an unspecified lower body injury.

He didn't score -- but then again, he didn't need to. Not with his teammates striking so often in the second period.

Purcell started it just 26 seconds in when he tapped the rebound of Matt Carle's shot from the blue line. Pyatt made it 2-0 with 4:05 left in the second when he redirected Alex Killorn's shot past Ellis moments after a faceoff. And Aulie capped it with a shot that clicked off the crossbar and in with 42.4 seconds left.

"We started putting pucks to the net," Carle said. "We had a pretty nice faceoff play there, and that got the confidence going."

Two distressing trends continued during that brutal 20-minute stretch for the Hurricanes. They've given up a goal in the first minute of the second period in two straight games and gave up a goal in the final minute of a period three times in two games.

"Honestly, I think we're playing good hockey. I need to make a save," Ellis said. "That first goal, it's a crappy rebound and it changes the momentum of a game. And right now, the way our team is, we need those saves. You need your goalie to go in there and steal a game for you, especially at a time like this where things are difficult to get wins, and I didn't do that tonight."

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  • The Hurricanes have lost six straight at home.
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Project Summary Research Objective 5. The proposal is responsive to the funding announcement, "Preventing Unintentional Injuries (R21)", specifically, research objective 5: Research on implementation and dissemination of effective interventions. The broad goal of this project is to develop better ways of disseminating successful injury prevention programs to those organizations that can use them to decrease injury morbidity and mortality. We will use organizational and administrative factors collected by surveys with US children's hospitals to develop prognostic models for the adoption of an evidence-based childhood injury prevention program, Safe N' Sound (SNS) and develop an audience analysis report and dissemination strategy based on our findings. Importance. Findings from this project will broaden the fundamental knowledge of how programs are translated to nationwide healthcare systems not only to assist the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) in its efforts but potentially other bodies wishing to disseminate prevention programs and practices. Objectives. The specific aims of this project are: Aim 1: Develop and validate empirical models using organizational and administrative factors to predict the adoption of SNS. To accomplish this aim, we will: 7 Develop and launch a web-based survey of children's hospitals to describe current injury prevention programming and factors that are associated with such programming; 7 In partnership with the NACHRI, offer the full Safe N' Sound program package to all member hospitals using the current dissemination approaches employed by NACHRI; and 7 Conduct a follow-up survey of member hospitals to assess SNS program adoption and features of the program that are perceived to be related to its adoption. Aim 2: Evaluate the misclassification associated with the predictive models and from this, generate an audience analysis report and an active dissemination strategy. To accomplish this aim we will: 7 Conduct a CART analysis using follow-up survey data to identify features of the innovation that are related to model misclassification; and, 7 Use these features to enhance the dissemination strategy suggested by the prognostic models in aim 1. Study Design. The proposed project is an observational study, or a natural experiment. Setting: This study will be administratively housed at Saint Louis University and conducted in partnership Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte North Carolina, the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Brown Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Participants. Of the 218 NACHRI members, 187 meet the inclusion criteria for this study, which includes: US- based, full members from either a freestanding children's hospital or a primary teaching hospital or are associate or supporter level members. We will recruit every one of these 187 eligible NACHRI members for this study. Representing each hospital, we will invite the CEO and the Injury Prevention Coordinator to participate and will provide incentives for this participation. Outcome Measures. This R21 study is not designed to change particular outcomes, but to collect cross- sectional information to develop the models and products described above. Generally speaking, we will capture the following information as outcomes of this process: adoption of injury prevention programs in general, adoption of Safe N' Sound, and factors related to adopting or not adopting such programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Project narrative The aims of this project are to develop and validate empirical models of injury prevention programming by children's hospitals and to use these models to develop active dissemination strategies. Findings of this study will allow us to better promote effective injury prevention programs and support their adoption and implementation in clinical settings. By extending the reach of successful programs, we can increase the number of parents who receive such programs, and thus decrease the burden of childhood injuries.


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"We are looking at various opportunities regarding SanDisk, but nothing has been decided yet," Samsung spokesman James Chung told Reuters in response to reports the South Korean firm was interested in the U.S. maker of flash memory, which is widely used in storage devices and digital gadgets.

In a regulatory filing later, Samsung said an acquisition of SanDisk was an option.

Analysts said an acquisition could shift the balance of power in the flash memory industry.

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Since almost every computer these days has at least a CD-ROM drive, burning data to a CD ensures you will be able to at least load or view anything on any other personal computer. Since the CD, newer optical formats such as rewriteable CD and DVD have also become fairly commonplace.

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OmniVision's New 5-Megapixel CMOS Sensor to Rival CCDs in High-End Camera Market

OmniVision Technologies (Nasdaq:OVTI introduced the world's first small-scale, CMOS image sensor with 5 megapixels, the OV5610.

The OV5610 delivers the image quality of more expensive charge coupled devices (CCDs), and is expected to measurably reduce the cost of high-resolution digital still cameras (DSCs).

The OV5610's new architecture is based on OmniVision's recently launched OmniPixel(TM) technology. The sensor's 2.775-micron pixels allowed OmniVision to design its 5-megapixel device with an optical format (footprint) of just 1/1.8", making the OV5610 small enough to meet the increasing demand for smaller, low-cost cameras with high performance.

"The OV5610 comes at the right time because by 2005 the largest segment of consumer DSCs is expected to be in the 5-megapixel category, accounting for approximately 35 percent of the market," said Jason Liu, product manager at OmniVision. According to a March 2004 research report from Japanese market research firm Techno Systems Research (TSR), worldwide sales of digital still cameras will reach 64 million units this year and surpass 76 million units in 2005.

To date, the high-end DSC market has been dominated by more expensive CCDs because CMOS sensors have been unable to match CCDs in resolution and image quality. According to Liu, CMOS sensors lead the lower-end segment of the DSC market because of cost effectiveness, but steady improvements in CMOS image sensors are expected to challenge CCDs in the high-end DSC market.

"OmniVision's new proprietary pixel structure diminishes dark current to unnoticeable levels, a key factor in bringing CMOS image quality to CCD levels," said Liu. "In addition, our OmniPixel technology significantly improves the light sensitivity of the sensor, resulting in a higher signal-to-noise ratio -- meaning the camera will perform better in low-light situations. All this adds up to better performance at lower cost."

OmniPixel Opens New Markets For CMOS Sensors: Digital Camcorders and Hybrids

According to a survey done by In-Stat/MDR, a leading market research firm, digital camcorders are second in popularity to DSCs. Survey results also indicate that the majority of digital camcorder owners take still images with their camcorders.

To date, CMOS image sensors have not had the technical capability to compete in the digital camcorder market; CCDs have dominated this entire market segment. OmniPixel technology aims to change this and give CMOS sensors a strong foothold in the digital camcorder and hybrid (digital still and video combined) markets. The highly integrated OV5610, which includes an on-chip 10-bit A/D converter, can perform continuous digital zoom and in VGA resolution is capable of operating at 30 frames per second (fps), making it the ideal candidate for low-cost digital camcorders and hybrid cameras, which combine real digital video and still images in one device.

Until now, still images from digital camcorders have not reached the quality of DSCs, and DSCs have not been able to offer digital video capture other than short clips. "However, combined with already existing back-end digital signal processing (DSP) technology, consumers can now have one compact camera that can both take high-quality pictures and record real video," Liu added. "This opens up a whole new market in the consumer space and, we believe, offers great potential for our OmniPixel product family."

Market Overview: CMOS Catching Up

"The total image-sensor market will grow more than 30 percent annually in unit terms through 2008," said Brian O'Rourke, senior analyst at high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR. "With increased performance and a lower cost point, CMOS image sensors are expected to grow at roughly seven times the rate of CCD sensors through 2008, enabling CMOS sensors to surpass CCDs for the first time in 2005. This growth is largely driven by camera phones and low-end DSCs."

"Today's research data does not take CMOS sensors into account when it comes to the digital camcorder and hybrid camera market," Liu continued. "This market is now dominated by CCDs because, until today, CMOS sensors have not had the required technical capability. However, we believe this new product changes these market dynamics, which means that CMOS sensor markets may grow even faster than previously expected. OmniVision is currently working with several key customers in the U.S. and Taiwan to incorporate the OV5610 in new products."

In-Stat/MDR indicates that in addition to new purchasers, more than 25 percent of current DSC owners intend to buy another camera within the next 12 months. "Many consumers face the choice between a DSC and a camcorder, and," said Liu, "if the price is right, a hybrid seems like the logical solution."

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The OV5610 is in 1/1.8" optical format and CLCC package. It incorporates a 2592 x 1944 image array and an on-chip 10-bit A/D converter capable of operating at up to 4 fps in full resolution (QSXGA). OmniVision's sensor technology utilizes advanced algorithms to cancel fixed pattern noise (FPN), eliminate smearing, drastically reduce blooming and virtually eliminate dark current. The control registers allow for flexible control of timing, polarity and operation, which, in turn, allow the engineer a great deal of freedom in product design.

The OV5610 is currently in engineering samples with key customers. Production volumes are expected to be available in November 2004, with the first 5-megapixel cameras expected in stores as early as December.

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LiteOn plans to demonstrate both HD DVD and Blu-Ray player prototypes, at the IFA technology show in Berlin.

Liteon's BDP-X1 Blu-Ray player supports reproduction of single-layer Blu-Ray discs, while it is still compatible with standard DVDs and audio CDs.

The company's HD DVD player, the HDP-Z1, is also compatible with standard DVD and CD.

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Lite-On obtained both technologies through joint ventures and licensing agreements with key manufacturers like Philips, BenQ and Toshiba. In the current time-schedule, Lite-On is planning to launch the two players in the first half of 2007.

In its optical disc drive division, Lite-On already announced the introduction of Blu-ray Triple-Writers. The LH-2B1S (internal) and LX-2B1U (external) will be launched in Q4 2006. Lite-On Triple Writers are backwards compatible with DVD and CD formats.

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Demi Lovato’s urge to have children is rising like a skyscraper. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.)

In her latest interview with Latina magazine, The X Factor judge reveals her country roots have definitely been influencing her desires to have kids, causing her to want to become a mom while she’s young.

“I’m a Texas girl, so my instinct is to have babies early, ” the 21-year-old says. “In my heart I’m like, ‘Okay, it’s time to have babies!’ But it’s not. I have so much life ahead of me that I actually have to slow my roll.”

Lovato, who’s rumored to be dating That 70s Show actor Wilmer Valderrama, continues, “We’ll see where my life is in 5 years, but I definitely see myself as a mom in 10.”

In fact, the Glee actress is the type who chooses to take her own path. While others choose to celebrate their big 2-1 with shots, Lovato says she stayed sobered when she reached the big milestone.

“I noticed that there’s this perception, on turning 21, that you have to go out and get drunk,” she tells the publication about her recent birthday. “It’s different for me because I’m in recovery. I also want to set an example for others. You don’t have to booze it up—you can do something else.”

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Lost amidst the hysteria of this Celtic offseason has been the spotlight on the C’s 1st Round pick Avery Bradley. It’s fair to point out that it’s tough to get any spotlight by Shaquille O’Neal, much less the C’s other countless acquisitions, but Bradley particularly has fallen through the cracks given his absence at C’s Summer League due to an ankle injury.

Fast forward to today, where ESPN has introduced a fun series over at the mothership entitled Welcome to the NBA, featuring short interviews with 13 of the NBA’s new rookies, including Bradley.

The most exciting part about this guy folks, is just one year ago he was rated the top High School prospect in America by multiple publications even ahead of John Wall. Danny Ainge has a fairly strong track record in the late 1st Round guard draft department (Rondo, TA, Delonte West) so despite there being virtually no expectations on the 19 year old to contribute this year, the talent is clearly there, making Bradley a nice chip to have in Doc’s back pocket.

  • I love Green

    ROTY. Just give it to him now. Its gonna be to ez for Bradley.

  • http://Aol.com Matthew

    I don’t see Bradley playing much this season unless injurys force doc to play him. His defense may allow him to be on the court but it will be his offense and decision making that will decide if he does or not. We currently have guys with more experience and that play the same position. If we made a trade that included Robinson and a few other pieces I could see him playing. But I don’t see many rookies ready to play minutes on a championship level team. Give him two years and if he isn’t traded he will be playing good minutes.

  • slam

    I like him so far. Nice interview.

  • Rangatiratanga

    Clearly there won’t be enough minutes to go around now that we’ve got more wing players than you can shake a stick at.But his time WILL come.

  • dslack

    Why do you want to shake a stick at wing players?

  • Kevin

    He most likely will be subbing for Ray Allen anyhow. That is what I have heard in the past that he can shoot the rock and he even considers himself more of a SG than a PG. That would be a killer backcourt of Defense with him and Rondo back there if rumors are true that he is a defensive stud.

  • Rangatiratanga

    @dslack i was being silly…..duh.

  • hokinanaz

    cant wait too see him on the floor. rated the best defender of all the rookies by the rookies on nba .com

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Chris Wilcox returned last night, and boy what a return it was. I know one expects a loaded stat sheet after such a sentence, yet Wilcox's impact was not measurable that way. After all, 6 points and 2 rebounds and 1 block would hardly give your fantasy team a push. Yet he did that in 221 seconds. Yep, you read it right. Below you'll find a text-based proof of his impact.

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I thought Chris Wilcox saved the game for us, singlehandedly, with his effort," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "And I thought it was obvious. He didn't do anything but played hard and played with great effort.

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mapFields producing "nan" entry
Morning all,

Sorry, this is a repost, I posted this in the Mesh Utilities forum sometime early last week and haven't received any responses. I thought perhaps this is a better forum to post it, where it might be seen. Anyhow, on to my problem.

I've run into a requiring problem that I can't seem to fix. So, I thought I'd bring the problem here and see if anyone has some familiarity with it or any insight. Additionally, I've posted the problem on

The problem I'm having involves using the mapFields utility on a supercomputing cluster, SAM at Pitt. When I run locally, the utility has no problems. However, when I run on the cluster, the utility likes to create "nan" entries in the pressure fields. The problem then being, when I run my solver, simpleFoam in my case, errors occur when the first "nan" entry is encountered. I get the error:

wrong token type - expected Scalar, found on line 3076 the word 'nan'

file: /home/mkimber/dtl5/confinementStudies/Re_32/R08_A2000_180/1500/p at line 3076.

From function operator>>(Istream&, Scalar&)
in file lnInclude/Scalar.C at line 91.
Its worth noting that I've only seen this error when running large meshes, approximately 1 million cells. Additionally, this is a low speed, laminar simulation, so the velocity in some locations is very small, approximately 10^(-6).

From what I've been able to gather, the reason I only have this problem on the cluster could be due to a discrepancy between the $FOAM_SETNAN entry I have locally and on the cluster, however, when I checked the setting on both, they were the same. As of this point, I am unsure what exactly I should do. I have previously just run mapFields locally and then uploaded the newly initialized time to SAM. However, this isn't a convenient way to do it, and will be extremely time consuming in the future when I have larger, more intensive simulations.

Any help or suggestions?

wyldckat August 7, 2012 07:52

Hi Tyler,

OK, a few questions:
  1. Which OpenFOAM version are you using?
  2. How are you running the commands on the cluster?
  3. You mention "FOAM_SETNAN"... do you mean that the variable is defined? The default value is to have it unset!
    Assuming you're using bash - what does this command output on each system:

    export | grep FOAM_SETNAN
    If it outputs nothing, then there shouldn't be any "nan" values when using mapFields, unless there is in fact an operation that leads to a "nan" value, which would be detected if "FOAM_SIGFPE" was set and should have triggered a crash...
  4. Any chance you have a small example we can use for testing this as well? Perhaps something derived from an existing tutorial case?
Best regards,

tlandfried August 7, 2012 10:02

Morning Bruno,

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the poor first post, you are right about a few things. First to answer your questions.

1. I run 2.1.0 locally, and 2.1.x on the cluster.

2. Sorry, not totally sure if I'm answering this fully but:

#(these two just load the openFoam module for me)
module load openfoam/2.1.x-double-gcc45

mapFields ../R08_A2000_080/ -consistent

I think this is pretty standard use. Except for loading the openFoam module, this is also the same way I run it on the local machine.

3. You are right, I meant to say that FOAM_SETNAN is unset. You are correct, and as you'd expect

export | grep FOAM_SETNAN
didn't return anything.

4. I do have a case, but its pretty large. As in, when compressed, the initialization and the actual test case are over a gig. I can make a simpler version, but am not sure if it will reproduce the error correctly, as I'm only seeing it when extrapolating to larger domains, or large number of elements. Let me think about this some more, as to how I could make a small example.

I do have a possible idea, the more that I'm thinking about the possible problems. So, since like you made clear, the issue is an operation actually producing the "nan" entry. What I'm doing, is taking a standard geometry, a round jet issuing axially into a round pipe, and changing the size of the confinement pipe.

So what I was trying to do, was initialize my simulation using results from a different confinement pipe case. And this seemed to work well, until I tried to do it for large meshes. Which, I suppose the issue is either the increased number of elements or perhaps the increased domain size (due to large diameter)?

Final thought, as I examine in much more detail when the "nan" entries occur, the values around it are very small, 10^(-300), or basically zero. This seems extremely low when considering machine precision.

wyldckat August 7, 2012 10:39

Mmm... there is a rather big difference between 2.1.0 and 2.1.x. You might have gotten a commit from 2.1.x that was midway of a bug fix or an accidental bug might have been introduced. In the log of the applications you run on the cluster, you can see the version and commit hash number for the 2.1.x version you're using.

Originally Posted by tlandfried (Post 375839)
Final thought, as I examine in much more detail when the "nan" entries occur, the values around it are very small, 10^(-300), or basically zero. This seems extremely low when considering machine precision.

I think the limit is around 10^(-308). This looks like a bad field initialization or something similar, like file/memory problems...

The simplest diagnosis might be the following steps:
  1. Get the git commit hash number from 2.1.x on the cluster. Example of the top of a log file:

    | =========                |                                                |
    | \\      /  F ield        | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox          |
    |  \\    /  O peration    | Version:  2.1.x                                |
    |  \\  /    A nd          | Web:                      |
    |    \\/    M anipulation  |                                                |
    Build  : 2.1.x-334ec14f742f

    334ec14f742f is the hash number.
  2. Build 2.1.x on your machine, but after you do "git clone" and before running Allwmake, run this command (example):

    git checkout 334ec14f742f
    Where the hexadecimal number is the hash number you got from your cluster's 2.1.x.
If you're using modules, then you probably know how to have more than one OpenFOAM installation in your machine ;)

wyldckat August 7, 2012 10:44

In case this doesn't do the trick, then creating a variant of this tutorial might be the best way to go: compressible/rhoCentralFoam/LadenburgJet60psi

tlandfried August 7, 2012 12:18

Hm.. oddly enough when I check for the git commit hash it only says '2.1.x'

So.. I'm looking into this some more and will post when I know more.

So on the server and my local machine, I've tried 2.1.1, and an old git repository of 2.1.x. However, when reviewing the results, the "nan" entry only shows up on the supercomputer. Suggesting this is something involved with the settings that are different between the two.

What possibly could be causing this? I know were using two different compilers, gcc44 locally, gcc45 on the server. Possible? Not sure about this.

tlandfried August 20, 2012 10:35

Hey all,

So just looking for more ideas as to what operation may be causing this problem on the cluster, but not locally.

I tried GCC-4.4.4 and GCC 4.5.1, but still had the same issue where mapFields is creating "nan" entries in my pressure field. Any ideas?

wyldckat August 20, 2012 16:37

Hi Tyler,

I think I've forgotten to ask this before, but what operating system and architecture is your cluster using? Because that might influence how OpenFOAM is built, leading to these differences!

Additionally, are you able to create a simple test case, for example one based on the tutorial "compressible/rhoCentralFoam/LadenburgJet60psi"? This way it would be easier to diagnose the issue.

Best regards,

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For nearly a decade, China was one of the largest recipients of grants from the Global Fund for its fight against AIDS, TB and malaria. From 2003-2012, more than $805 million was disbursed to support 15 grants, nearly half of which (46%) contributed to prevention, diagnosis and treatment campaigns for TB across the country.

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The governor also assured that government will pay compensation for houses that will be demolished in the course of road construction and drainage systems.

The governor was accompanied by government functionaries to express government concern and readiness to partner with the communities in providing necessary infrastructure that will curb future occurrence.

Commiserating with the displaced persons over the loss of family members and property including community leaders present at the camp; the governor appealed to the people to always adhere to environmental instructions in order to avoid future occurrence.

Intervention in the camps by government and Non-Governmental Agencies have been on the increase since the disaster occurred with National Emergency Management Agency leading the pack in providing relief materials for the displaced persons.

The United Nations systems comprising Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International Organisation on Migration, Food and Agriculture Organisation as well as UNICEF are also on ground to render assistance to the flood disaster.