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And here we thought you were too prestigious for us now. Welcome back!
Too prestigious? Definitely not. Too damn busy? Yeah.
Class has only been in session for a week and it already feels like I've been here for a month or longer.
Hope you're enjoying it
Thanks. It's been good so far, but some of my profs have been pretty tough when it comes to expressing opposing viewpoints or questioning some of their opinions. Nothing serious though.

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The average human lifespan is a lot longer than it used to be. But we're barely into triple digits here and if we individually want to see anything awesome we're gonna have to stick around for a few degrees of magnitude longer. That immortality thing or whatever. Why haven't we done that again?
Luckily Vsauce has provided us with a quick rundown of some of the highlights we will be missing, like super novae in our galactic neighborhood, the collision of Andromeda and the Milky Way, and the Moon's orbit degrading such that it no longer eclipses the sun. There are so many Instagram opportunities we're going to miss if we don't refocus on an expansive tree of life search.


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"The economic signals are in place for restocking to begin this year," says Randy Blach, CattleFax CEO. "All we need now is a little encouragement from Mother Nature."
Between snugger cattle numbers, relative to feedlot and beef packing capacity, and anticipated continued strong U.S. beef export demand, Kevin Good, CattleFax analyst, expects calf prices to gain another 15% this year for an average of $175/cwt. (550-lb. steer). That equates to an average increase of almost $157/head. He sees a seasonal price range of 15%, from $162-$188/cwt. with the highs coming in the spring.
According to the Jan. 1 USDA Cattle Inventory report, the beef cowherd is the smallest since 1962. Last year's calf crop was the smallest since 1950.
Speaking at the CattleFax 2012 Industry Outlook in February, Good added that feeder cattle prices (750 lbs. steer) should average near $150/cwt. in 2012. That would add up to about $145/head more on average. He also expects seasonal feeder cattle prices to trade across a 15% range, from $139/cwt. to $160/cwt.
Good sees the fed cattle price average at $122/cwt. in 2012, with support at $110-$115/cwt. and resistance at $130-$134/cwt.
See Table 1 for price estimates from the Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC).
Though cow-calf producers aren't yet generally in an expansion mode, Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University agricultural economist, says the first sign of such intentions came in USDA's latest Cattle Inventory report. It indicated a 1.4% year-to-year increase in the number of beef replacement heifers.
Tonsor cautions that the higher heifer retention rate needs to be considered relative to the previous year's historically paltry number.
During February's inaugural Beef Cattle Economics Webinar – co-hosted by BEEF magazine, Tonsor said projected historically high returns per cow over cash costs – due to the nosebleed-high prices mentioned earlier – will likely be enough to entice some producers to begin expanding.
Using LMIC data, Tonsor says the average return over cash costs was about $80/cow in 2011. It's estimated to reach $150/cow or more in 2012 and 2013.
Despite shifting drought conditions, Blach expects cattle inventory numbers to decline slightly in 2012 and bottom in 2013.
Tight supplies of cattle and beef will be compounded by continued growth in the export markets. Blach adds that an increase in average carcass weights will partially offset the decline in inventory numbers.
In general terms, CattleFax analysts say cow-calf producers are in the driver's seat this year with anticipated record-high cattle value that should more than offset increasing input costs. They explain profit margins should continue positive for stocker producers and backgrounders, but with narrower margins than the last couple of years.
Another constant is that, in all instances, market volatility and equity requirements have reached gut-wrenching levels. CattleFax predicts the fed market in 2012 will vary by up to $300/head from high to low. The daily trading range for spot live-cattle futures in 2011 was $1.35/cwt., or $15-$20/head.
As for equity, the CattleFax folks say that operating a cow-calf operation in 2009 required 60% more capital than in 2000. Assuming 20% equity to feed a calf, the required investment has grown from $170/head in 2000 to more than $300 today.


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BEIJING -- Three-time world table tennis champion Zhuang Zedong, a key figure in the groundbreaking "pingpong diplomacy" between China and the United States, died yesterday, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. He was 72 and had struggled with cancer since 2008.
Zhuang won fame by presenting a gift to American player Glenn Cowan, who had inadvertently boarded a bus carrying the Chinese team at the world championships in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971.
Zhuang and Cowan were photographed together, creating an international sensation at a time when China and the United States were bitter Cold War rivals.
Under orders from Chinese leader Mao Zedong, the 15-member American team was then invited to China at the end of the Nagoya championships for an ice-breaking visit. Ten months later, President Richard Nixon made a surprise visit to China, leading to the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1979.
Zhuang became a favorite of Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, a member of the notorious Gang of Four, which held sway during the radical turmoil of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Jiang appointed Zhuang to a number of political posts in the sports ministry.
Zhuang came under investigation after the Gang was deposed and Jiang imprisoned following Mao's death in 1976, and subsequently spent years coaching the provincial team in the northern province of Shanxi. He returned to Beijing in 1985. -- AP


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It seems as if the political world is in a constant state of flux, but one institution is in the midst of historic stability: the presidency.
As his second inauguration approaches this weekend, President Obama is poised to be the nation's third-straight two-term president -- something that hasn't happened in nearly two centuries.
Just three presidents in 18 years. That hasn't happened since the "Virginia dynasty" of Thomas Jefferson (1801-09), James Madison (1809-17) and James Monroe (1817-25).
Two presidential terms is relatively rare in any event.
Of Obama's 42 predecessors, only 14 completed two full terms.
President Grover Cleveland has an asterisk; he served two non-consecutive terms, and is listed as both the 22nd and 24th presidents. And the list includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served a little more than three complete terms.
The last two-term threesome -- Jefferson, Madison, Monroe -- were allies who hailed from the same party.
The modern triumvirate -- Clinton, Bush, Obama -- is a more diverse group, with two Democrats and a Republican.


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Did 'Power of Touch' Help Giffords From Brink?
Love and support has made all the difference, doctors say.
Jan. 13, 2011 -- Five days after being shot in the head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes of her own accord.
In a display that surprised doctors and elicited tears of joy from her loved ones who were present, Giffords reportedly reached out toward husband Mark Kelly in an attempt to give him a hug.
Doctors say it is difficult to tell whether the frequent company and physical contact she has had with her loved ones contributed to what her physicians are calling a quick recovery -- but some medical experts say it is possible.
Giffords began the struggle to open her eyes and lift her left arm in response to the support and encouragement of friends Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who visited Giffords at the hospital Wednesday evening.
"It was just, really, it felt like a miracle," Schultz, a Florida Democrat, recounted to reporters on the return trip from Tucson aboard Air Force One. "It felt like we were watching a miracle. [W]e just both wanted so badly to be there for her as her friends.
"But you could ... clearly see the determination in her face that she was struggling to get her eyes open because she was responding to our voices. It was like she wanted us to know that she knew we were ... there."
In response to the doctor's examinations, Giffords had been partially opening her eyes starting Sunday, but Wednesday evening marked the first time she opened them voluntarily in response to the "familiar" presence of others.
Such a response is "very different" in terms of measuring recovery, Giffords' doctor, Dr. Michael Lemole, said at a news conference today.
Soon after opening her eyes in response to commands, Giffords' husband urged her to give them the thumbs up, and instead she stretched her left arm toward him
"And we were just in tears of joy watching this and beyond ourselves, honestly," Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, told reporters. "And then Mark said, 'You know, touch my ring, touch my ring.' And she touches his ring and then she grabs his whole watch and wrist. And then the doctor was just so excited.
"He said, 'You don't understand, this is amazing, what's she's doing right now, and beyond our greatest hopes.'"
Dozens of doctors across various medical specialties expressed their thoughts to ABC News on how patients might be helped by touching and other forms of physical contact with friends and loved ones.
Some supported the idea; others were skeptical. But Lemole, chief of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona, agreed with Gillibrand and Schwartz that the presence of close friends had made all the difference.
"Dr. Lemole ... literally said to us, 'You know, I've discounted ... emotion ... and friendship and family -- really, I've sort of discounted that as meaningless out loud,'" Schultz said. "He said, 'I just witnessed the impact of friendship and what you guys' -- he said, 'you did this here today.'"
Giffords Makes Strides in Recovery
In a hospital news conference today, Lemole reported that Giffords has reached several milestones in her recovery since that visit. Although she remains in critical condition, Giffords has been yawning, rubbing her eyes, moving both right and left sides of her body, and continues to respond to commands. She has also begun physical therapy and was sitting up with her feet dangling off the bed.
"The most important thing with neurological recovery is consistency," he said, noting that ongoing responses to prompts from her friends and family is a good sign.
Concerning her first voluntary eye opening Wednesday in the presence of friends from the Senate and Congress, he said, "It was the combination of the unexpected but the familiar [that] really inspired her to open her eyes and look around. This is the part that doctors have the hardest time with. We can't quantify that component that family and friends bring, but we know that it exists."
When asked if Giffords' recovery should be considered miraculous, he replied: "Yes, miracles happen everyday and, in medicine, we like to contribute them to what we do [as doctors], but a lot of medicine is outside our control and we're wise to acknowledge miracles."
The next step in gauging Giffords' progress will be the removal of the breathing tube and assessment of her verbal ability, but this will not occur for a few days, he said.
Can Love and Support Speed Healing?
Past research showing the positive healing affects of prayer (even when the patient is unaware that they are being prayed for) has been controversial, but most doctors admit that they can see the difference in a patient's response, healing and mood when they are cared for and touched in a loving way.
"There is no question that love and support from family, friends and others one is close to can make an enormous difference in the recovery process," said Nadine Kaslow, vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta.
Other doctors noted that providing reassuring touch as a doctor was also an important element to encouraging healing.
"I ... believe that a doctor's 'healing touch' is very important to patients," Dr. Joan Von Feldt, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said. "The patients somehow feel reassured when you lay your hand on their shoulder, or place your hand on their forearm. It may be placebo, or it may not be, but I believe that if patients think they are cared for or loved, they improve."
But quantifying the extent to which loving touch or emotional support affects recovery, as Lemole noted in the news conference, is difficult, if not impossible, leaving some doctors dubious about whether the presence of loved ones, especially in instances of coma or unconsciousness, really has any impact.
There is preliminary research from Northwestern University, however, that suggests that even those in comas may benefit from having familiar voices around. Theresa Pape, a research assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern, has found that those in a vegetative show brain activation when listening to familiar voices, but not to unfamiliar voices. Another study is underway to determine if listening to recorded "stories" told by family members several times a day will help speed neurological recovery for those with traumatic brain injury.
Once the patient is able to perceive the presence of others, however, many doctors counted doctor, family and friend support as an important booster to a patient's will to pull through particularly exhausting recovery processes.
"Recovery from most trauma is a biological process, but the unquantifiable element is the will to progress," Dr. Bruce Chabner, clinical director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, said. "Without it, any recovery is difficult. Especially in recovery from a neurological injury, which is a notoriously slow and painstaking process, will is key in sustaining progress."
Rep. Wasserman Schultz noted that Giffords' efforts to open her eyes, which took about 30 seconds of effort, seemed motivated by sheer will, and said that they could see "all the strength pouring out of her to touch her husband."
By bolstering the patients motivation to soldier on through the difficult stages of healing, having loved ones around can be essential to the recovery process, many doctors note.
Giffords Aware of Surroundings
Dr. Alan Weintraub, medical director of the Brain Injury Program at Craig Hospital in Denver, said that because family members can often elicit response or action in brain trauma patients, more so than health professionals, he tells families that they "are the medicine for wakefulness and purpose."
"The core emotional centers of the brain are very deep and frequently provide the fuel to jump-start a person's more wakeful and purposeful capacities," he added.
With Giffords, Lemole said, her response to her husband and her friends shows that not just the parts of her brain that process simple commands are there "but the parts of the brain that allow us to wake from sleeping. She's starting to become aware of her surroundings ...," he said, "and that's an important step in her recovery."


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Apparently, Delta Goodrem can't dance.
That's according to the actor, Marlon Wayans, who is most famous for his role in 2004's buddy-cop film, White Chicks.
The pair happened to be cavorting next to each other on Monday night as Beyonce and Jay Z brought the house down in Pasadena, Los Angeles. A couple of nights earlier a man's figertip was bitten off during the married couple's concert.
As Goodrem busted out some hands in the air, teenager-at-a-Miley-Cyrus-concert vibes, Wayans took the snap that could throw doubts on Goodrem's considerable dancing ability.
"Man I got the most UNRHYTHMIC WHITE WOMAN dancing next to me at the jay and bay concert," he said on Instagram.
"This bitch dancing to AC/DC."
Marlon's expression said it all, contempt, surprise and fear, all rolled into one sideways glance.
In the process he managed to dismiss two Australian music stars in Goodrem and AC/DC, and ignited the ire of his social media followers.
Wayans is the 42-year-old star of the Scary Movie franchise and, with his brothers Keenen, Damon and Shawn, one of the "Wayans brothers".
Since publishing the image, it has been "liked" almost 24,000 times on Instagram and gone "viral" on the internet, picked up by news outlets around the world.
Wayans has pumped out some pretty interesting dance moves in the past himself.
Favourites include "the baseball" and the "home-run," from this late 1990s skit in The Wayans Bros.
While White Chicks was a commercial success for the four Wayans brothers, it got panned by critics.
The Chicago Sun Times film critic Richard Roeper rated it the worst firm of 2004 and criticised it for its racist undertones. While also noting its average use of prosthetics.
"When they did the make up, they should have gone onto the set and said guess what everyone, go home, we don't have a movie," he said in 2004.
Despite the apparently spontaneous nature of Wayans' photo, it does appear as though Goodrem and Wayans are aware of each other's existence.
They follow each other on Instagram.
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Jamie's Birthday Cake
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Fall Celbration
Even though the weather didn't cooperate this year, we were still able to prepare for the fall festivities and end of the day, things worked out OK.
Sylvia wanted to test out the pinata prior to our friends coming over and Violet watched on.
The pumpkin carving crew
Sylvia showing many of her "happy" faces throughout the night.
It's time for the pinata!!!
Everyone trying to get the shot of the pinata breaking.
Chili Time!
Kids upstairs, downstairs, and in the garage...
The older kids enjoyed a movie out in the garage while the parents talked smart and enjoyed a couple beverages in the basement.
We would of enjoyed spending time outside and sitting around the campfire, but the party still seemed to a success. Until next year... Happy Halloween.
Sunday, October 21, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:17 PM 0 comments
This video is a month or so old, but we finally got it uploaded.
Basically Violet is watching Jamie film her... she thinks the faces Mommy is making are funny, and then starts to mimic Jamie sticking out her tongue.
Monday, October 15, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:32 PM 1 comments
Big Truck Day
Violet was all smiles when sitting in the big tractor tire
Sylvia and Simba also enjoyed the seat.
While we hope there is some time prior to the snowfall, Violet was minuscule next to this snow plow.
The rest of the day was spent enjoying the beautiful fall day. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!
Monday, October 8, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:22 PM 1 comments
Safety First
It is never too soon to start wearing safety equipment. Here Violet is helping Dad do some vacuuming in the back of the car. Sometimes the vacuum scares her a bit, but not with these sweet ear muffs!
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Magic Carpet Ride
Bobby Harrop's original '64 Max Wedge Stocker
In many respects, 1964 was a catalytic year for America. The Beatles heralded the advent of the British music invasion, Lyndon Johnson, who would escalate the war in Vietnam, became the nations new president, and the baby boomers were reaching adulthood. For American cars buyers, the year heralded the advent of the Pontiac GTO, the Ford Mustang, and the new 426 Chrysler Hemi.
The Hemi was the big news that year, but the final Stage III versions of the 426 Max Wedge were no slouches. During the early months of the year, the new 64 Max Wedge cars won nationally-sanctioned drag races at Daytona, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; Pomona, Bakersfield, and Lions, California; as well as local events around the nation. That included wins for a young driver from New Jersey named Bobby Harrop.
For longtime readers of this magazine, his name will be familiar (we published an in-depth interview with Harrop back in January 1992). By 1964, he had been nicknamed Harrop the Arab by sponsor Bob Pohle, and his car was called the Flying Carpet. Pohle owned Crescent Dodge in Collinswood, New Jersey, and, more importantly, was a director for the 50 or so dealerships that were part of the Philadelphia Region Dodge Dealers. With those kind of connections, Harrop got the best stuff the factory released, as well as a paycheck for his racing efforts.
Once track-ready, the new Flying Carpet II Max Wedge was a real runner in the northeasts growing stock ranks, and Harrop continued to campaign it the rest of the year, putting a different driver in it when he received a 64 Hemi car in June. As a result of his successes with these two vehicles, he was chosen as one of the lucky dozen who got full Detroit backing and radically altered 65 A/FX model funny cars the following season; the rest is history.
At the end of 1964, the car was sold through the dealership to a group of local amateur racers and then changed hands a half dozen times before becoming part of Rick DeMarcos collection. DeMarco had his own reasons for chasing this particular Dodge 330 race car down.
When Vineland Raceway (in Vineland, New Jersey) was still open, this car was the first Super Stocker I ever saw run. Ive never forgotten that experience, so it was important to me to locate it. We traced it through several owners and I was able to bring it back here to New Jersey in 1996.
Of course, the years had taken their toll on the car, which was basically a primered body with an updated roll cage when it came home to the Garden State from a collection in Georgia. However, the super rare, super fragile aluminum 64 nose remained intact, and DeMarco began the work of bringing the machine back to life, which took the better part of a year.
Some things had changed over time and it was decided to leave them be since the car would see some track time. This included a set of wheel tubs that had been installed in the rear, a minor rear axle relocation done in keeping with then-current Super Stock practice (this was after Harrop sold the car), and certain safety upgrades. Once the sheetmetal and aluminum were straightened out, the paint and bodywork was done by Robby English at the Restoration Connection in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, while the lettering was applied by Bill Halfman. The interior was redone by Ron Murry of ABC Upholstery, who restored a front bench seat and installed a set of door panel from SMS in Oregon.
For motivation, Rick turned to none other than NHRA Stock racer Jerry Stein. Stein, also from New Jersey, has run Max Wedge cars for decades, and he put together a engine that would propel the car down into the 10 second range with ease. Behind this is a Dynamic Transmissions-built A727, a narrowed Dana 60 with a 4.56 ring, and a set of big 10.5-inch slicks.
Helping Rick finish the job was nephew John Finelli and good friend Bob Dyer, who serves as crewchief on all the cars in DeMarcos collection. While Dyer has driven the car as well when Rick isnt behind the wheel, its best-known occupant is also its original owner, Bobby Harrop. Since Harrop still lives nearby, outside of Camden, New Jersey, Rick gave him the opportunity to actually debut the car in competition after its completion in 1997.
Harrop acted as if he had never left the drag strip, recording a great 10.60 second time. Now, with nostalgia super stock racing continuing to grow, it remains quite possible that Bobby Harrop will again be in the winners circle, thanks to DeMarcos efforts.


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WASHINGTON — A week shy of taking office, President-elect Barack Obama already is putting his persuasion skills to a high-stakes test with Congress as he seeks access to the second half of the $700 billion financial bailout fund.
Obama planned to be in the Capitol on Tuesday to meet with Senate Democrats. And his transition team prepared to dispatch top aides to meet with Senate Republicans this week in anticipation of a possible vote Thursday on whether to release the money from the embattled Troubled Asset Relief Program.
In the House, the Financial Services Committee scheduled a hearing on the program in advance of legislation offered by committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., that would place tough new restrictions on recipients of the money and require spending to reduce mortgage foreclosures.
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The legislation is scheduled to reach the floor of the House on Wednesday, with a vote set for Thursday.
That flurry of activity comes in the wake of President George W. Bush's decision Monday to act on Obama's behalf and ask Congress for access to the remaining $350 billion of the money Congress authorized to rescue the nation's financial sector. The request reached Congress as lawmakers and Obama also were assembling a spending and tax-cutting stimulus package of $800 billion, or possibly more.
"It is clear that the financial system, although improved from where it was in September, is still fragile," Obama said Monday.
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Obama's stimulus package could provide a "significant boost" to the sinking economy. But he warned in a speech prepared for the London School of Economics that such a recovery won't last unless other steps are taken to stabilize the shaky financial system.
Although Bernanke has previously endorsed the notion for a fresh round of government stimulus to lift the country out of a recession, it marked the first time the Fed chief has referenced the roughly $800 billion recovery plan now being worked on by Obama.
Bush's notification set a 15-day deadline for Congress to disapprove of the request. The Bush administration's handling of the money has met bipartisan criticism in the House and Senate. Lawmakers have complained that the Treasury Department's use of the money has been muddled and misleading, that recipients of the funds have faced little accountability and that the program has done nothing to reduce home foreclosures.
If the Senate rejects a motion to disapprove the funds, it would pave the way for Obama to begin dispensing the money about a week after he assumes office Jan. 20.
Congressional Democrats said they hoped Obama's desire to place greater restrictions on the money and broaden its goals to loosen more credit would build support among otherwise skeptical lawmakers. The House tentatively scheduled a vote for next week. If both chambers refuse to release the money, it would be up to Obama to issue a veto — a dramatic first act by a new president — in hopes that Congress would not override him.
The request by the Bush White House made it clear that the money was to be used by the incoming Obama administration. It directed lawmakers to a letter Monday from top Obama economic adviser Larry Summers that vowed to make significant changes in the way the program is administered.
In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was encouraged by Obama's efforts to add more conditions and to require greater accountability for the use of the money. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voiced skepticism but left open the possibility that he could be persuaded.
"I would be hard-pressed to support additional funding for the TARP without sufficient assurances this money will not be wasted, misspent or simply used for more industry-specific bailouts," McConnell said.
Summers' letter, however, was not as detailed as the legislation proposed in the House by Frank. That bill would set new conditions on the institutions that receive the money, requiring limits on executive pay and an end to owning or leasing private jets. It also would require spending at least $40 billion from the fund on foreclosure mitigation.
Financial services industry lobbyists said they opposed a provision in Frank's bill that would allow the Treasury Department to apply executive pay restrictions to banks that already have received government money.
Scott Talbott, senior vice president at the Financial Services Roundtable, said the group would like to see Congress' concerns addressed without the retroactive provision. The Roundtable represents 100 of the largest banks and insurance companies, including such government fund recipients as Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Some lobbyists hoped Summers' letter would reassure lawmakers and make legislation such as Frank's less likely to pass. Summers' letter doesn't address the question of retroactive limits on executive pay.
At the same time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued a directive Monday asking banks and other financial institutions to track how the federal money or guarantees they received helped them boost "prudent lending" and efforts to help at-risk borrowers avoid foreclosures.


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LOS ANGELES -- Since manager Don Mattingly had a few choice words for his team last week in San Diego, the Los Angeles Dodgers haven't been going away quietly.
Elian Herrera singled in the go-ahead run with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Dodgers to a 3-2 victory over the National League West champion San Francisco Giants on Monday night that kept their postseason hopes alive.
"It's really exciting," Herrera said, grinning after his first career walk-off hit and fourth game-winning RBI of the season. "They are playing so good. They just have to keep playing like that."
The Dodgers' sixth consecutive victory tied a season high and kept them two games behind St. Louis for the second NL wild card. Their win prevented the Cardinals from clinching a playoff berth after St. Louis beat Cincinnati 4-2. The Dodgers and Cardinals each have two games remaining.
"Hopefully the Reds can get out to a good lead and turn it over to their bullpen, which is very strong," A.J. Ellis said.
Los Angeles' winning streak began after opening a three-game series in San Diego with a 2-1 loss Tuesday. Mattingly talked to his players in a meeting described by Ellis as "pretty tough."
"He called us on the carpet," Ellis said. "Since then, guys have looked themselves in the mirror stronger."
Mattingly's message involved having "players take more accountability," the catcher said.
"I'd like to be clinched at this point," Mattingly said. "But the guys have kept fighting. We'll take care of our business and hope for help."
Hanley Ramirez led off the ninth with a single off Santiago Casilla (7-6), advanced on a sacrifice by Shane Victorino and was held up at third on Luis Cruz's single. Ellis was intentionally walked, and Herrera lined an 0-1 pitch off the glove of second baseman Marco Scutaro for the winning run.
"That ball was smoked," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said of Herrera's liner. "We were in a tough situation there. Marco made a great effort."
Brandon League (2-6) got the win after pitching a scoreless ninth inning.
"The energy has really picked up this week," Dodgers starter Aaron Harang said.
The Giants tied the game at 2-all in the eighth. Angel Pagan doubled to deep right with one out, and Scutaro singled off Kenley Jansen and took second on the throw. Scutaro extended his hitting streak to a major league- and career-best 18 games.
After scoring 18 runs in a three-game sweep of Colorado, the Dodgers' offense stalled. Slugger Matt Kemp went 0-for-4 after hitting homers in his previous two games.
Los Angeles rallied to take a 2-1 lead in the fourth. Andre Ethier hit his 20th homer -- a two-run shot -- on the first pitch from Matt Cain after Mark Ellis singled to open the inning.
San Francisco led 1-0 in the first on Buster Posey's double to deep left field with two outs, scoring Scutaro, who had walked.
Harang allowed one run and two hits in six innings, struck out three, and walked two while facing the Giants for the first time this season. He finished the regular season with his lowest career ERA, 3.61.
Cain gave up two runs and four hits in five innings, struck out two, and walked one. He is scheduled to start the Giants' playoff opener.
"It was a good overall season, but it's something that I don't want to be sitting on," he said. "I want to have a good bit more starts in the postseason."
Game notes
Ethier's homer was the first Cain has allowed since Sept. 2 against the Chicago Cubs, a span of 30 1/3 innings. ... Ethier has 20 or more homers for the fourth time in five seasons. ... The Giants had their three-game winning streak at Chavez Ravine snapped. ... Dodgers 1B Adrian Gonzalez hit his career-high 47th double in the sixth, extending his hitting streak to 13 games, tops on the club this season. ... Posey was replaced by Eli Whiteside in the bottom of the eighth because of back spasms. ... Cain turned 28 on Monday.


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Bona-fide Torrance-based, non-profit groups may submit events to be included in the Torrance citywide calendar pending approval. The City of Torrance Citywide Calendar System Administrator (Office of Cable and Community Relations) is responsible for determining which events are appropriate for posting and then approving a calendar entry. The administrator also has the capability to submit the event to other calendars so that your event may be posted on more than one calendar if appropriate. Events must occur within Torrance city limits to be considered for inclusion and submitted within the categories already identified within the calendar. Upon submission, the following information should be included: How To Submit
THIS IS ME (South Bay Conservatory Musical Theatre Company: Summer 2019 Cabaret)
- Date: 07/27/2019 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
- Location: George Nakano Theatre
3330 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, California 90503
The South Bay Conservatory Musical Theatre Company: Summer 2019 Cabaret presents THIS IS ME in the George Nakano Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive.
Admission $20/$15. Tickets are General Admission available at the door for $20. For further information access www.southbayconservatory.com or call 424.262.9722.
Join in for an evening of summer fun! Twenty amazing kids performing solos, duets, trios, and ensemble numbers from some of Broadway's and Hollywood's greatest shows, including: The Greatest Showman, La La Land, Waitress, Hairspray, Funny Girl, Chicago, Anastasia, Moana, Mamma Mia, and more!


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Casey Conrad is president of Communications Consultants, a Wakefield, RI-based company that provides sales and communications seminars and is a 16-year veteran of the health club industry. She can be reached at (800) 725-6147.
With January upon us both club owners and sales people are breathing a sigh of relief; January means membership sales! What many managers and owners fail to see, however, is that January can often mean lost sales due to sloppy skills and disorganization. So, to maximize your best sales quarter, perform the following check-up before the chaos begins.
1. Information call technique. The incoming call is perhaps one of the most important skills to master because the caller is highly qualified and motivated.
- Does each phone where sales people sit have a phone script?
- Is each sales person totally comfortable with the script so as to not sound as though they are reading? Role-playing is a must.
- Does each sales person know how to handle the "I just want prices" objection?
- Have you had someone mystery phone shop the club lately and record it for training purposes?
2. Closing skills. Because of the high volume of prospects walking through the doors, January sales numbers can be deceiving. Specifically, the outcome may be good, but the closing percentage could be low. With a small increase in closing skills, many more sales could be made.
- Do all sales people know the six steps to overcoming any objection (Be quiet, align, question nicely, isolate, discover solution and re-close)?
- Do all sales people know the most common objections heard at your club?
- Do sales people use qualifying questions to uncover and pre-handle those common objections?
- Have your sales people memorized scripts for point-of-sales situations when pre-handling doesn't succeed?
- Is management role-playing objections weekly with all sales people?
3. Lead management/follow-up systems. Of course, with increased sales traffic, even a strong sales person will have quite a few prospects to follow up with. These could be easy sales if someone simply persists with professional contact.
- Do all sales people use a universal lead-tracking system so that management can inspect?
- Is management spot-checking follow-up regularly to ensure that it is being done?
- Does the club use e-mail systems to increase contact rates?
- Is the club doing mailings to non-joining tours each month as a safety net follow-up system?
The first quarter of the New Year should be strong for all club operators. By taking the time to tune-up sales and organizational skills, your club can perform even better.


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I Need Some Air
September 4, 2011
I just glitterized the crap out of my metal fabric shears and the fumes from the nail polish (enamel sticks to metal) are burning my sinuses. When I do my next pair (gold!) I'll make sure to be in a well-ventilated area. Poor brain cells.
This morning, before I decided shiny shears were of the utmost importance, I cast on a second Envy for someone in the UK. The plan was to work on it after Beatnik but my hand injury delayed progress and I hear it's already getting cold over there. It's a quick knit though so should be finished by this evening and in the mail by Tuesday.
Hope everyone is having a great Labor Day weekend, I'll be at the beach with Lily Buns tomorrow!
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Thursday, 26 May 2011
Family law is failing kids - The Drum Opinion ABC http://ht.ly/53qP6
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Monday, 23 May 2011
Surrogacy Counselling
Michael CondonI delievered a paper yesterday by Michael Condon to the Fertility Nurses of Australia conference. Michael's paper was about surrogacy counselling. Michael is a well known and respected psychologist and infertility counsellor. He is the senior counsellor for the Queensland Fertility Group. Here is Michael's paper:
Surrogacy Counselling
Pre-surrogacy Counselling
The primary purpose of counselling prior to surrogacy is to ensure as much as possible that the welfare of any future and existing children is best achieved. Surrogacy counselling aims to fully inform all parties of psychological and psychosocial surrogacy considerations, as well as assist them to see future and plan for future needs resulting from the surrogacy.
Counselling prior to surrogacy is a legal requirement in all Australian States that permit surrogacy. The Australian andNew Zealand Infertility Counsellors Association (Anzica) has developed draft surrogacy guidelines to provide consistency of counselling for all clients involved.
Surrogacy requires both the commissioning parents and the surrogate and partner to have a high degree of trust in each other. Counselling can engender that trust by ensuring that all potential aspects re the surrogacy, positive and negative, are openly and fully discussed prior to a conception, both by each couple, and between couples. This can lead to an openness of communication, as well as an open discussion regarding what may or may not happen, how it will go, and if this will be positive to both couples. It is wise not to presume that everybody is on the same page at all times.
Surrogacy is a new area for most people contemplating surrogacy. Counselling can assist by helping people understand the psychological aspects in surrogacy, and how to handle psychological and psychosocial aspects, from the perspective and with the guidance of a counsellor experienced in surrogacy. The counsellor can assist people to examine the issues involved, identify any potential difficulties, as well as help problem solve any difficulties that may present themselves in advance or in the future.
The hope for most people is a baby, and that all will turn out well. However, all parties need to be aware that a baby may not happen, or that what is planned by all may not eventuate. Looking at how they may handle disappointments, how the surrogate will handle pregnancy, handing a baby over and separation issues, the surrogate's family response to surrogacy and handing a baby to another couple, and acceptance of that baby not only by the commissioning couple, but also by the wider family.
More basic aspects include whose eggs and sperm to use, and if donor is used, will the donor be identifiable to the child in the future. Gestational surrogacy, where the surrogate does not use her own eggs, is recommended. If using her own eggs, then there may be a greater chance of separation issues following birth, as well as potential issues for the existing children.
Once a child is conceived, considerations need to be given to who else needs to know, when will the child be informed and how might this happen, the needs of existing children of either couple and other family members, and future contact between the surrogate and the child. As Alice Kirkman, the first child born by surrogacy in Australia in 1988, has raised, a child has "two mothers", but only "one mum". The two mothers are important in a child's life, not just the "mum". These aspects all need to be discussed before conception, rather than a "wait and see what happens" approach. This means that most aspects can be pre-discussed and thoughtfully contemplated. Final decisions are not made until if and when needed.
Psychological stability of both couples is important. Counselling can explore aspects of mental health history, as well as explore personality aspects and psychological vulnerabilities which may create difficulties during or after surrogacy, especially aspects of relinquishing a baby, and accepting a baby.
Areas often covered in counselling include physical and mental health histories, stress factors and management, relationship stability, details of surrogacy and pregnancy considerations, handover, future psychological implications, future disclosure to a child and others, and needs of the existing children and wider families. Also covered are aspects of potential difficulties during pregnancy, pregnancy loss, prenatal screening and possible implications, refusal of handover or acceptance, psychological aspects of handover, possible disability of child, possible change of mind at any time, and future relationship between the couples and the child.
Detailed questions covered in surrogacy include
- Relationships between the couples and implications of surrogacy (capacity to make independent decisions- are there any financial or emotional dependence issues between the couples?). When meet, how and ongoing relationship.
- Commitment to and motivation for surrogacy and its unique demands, potential benefits and costs to surrogate, including motivations to use or be a surrogate.
- Reproductive and infertility history of the commissioning couple, how these have been coped with, and the reproductive history of surrogate.
- Informed consent for all parties, and change of mind for a party before or during the process. Do all fully understand the need to be fully informed, and that a change of mind at any time is possible by each couple.
- Significant stress factors in your life, any recent major upheavals or transitions, current life stresses and coping strategies used to manage these stresses or upheavals.
- Physical and mental health history (including aspects of depression, anxiety, and other psychological difficulties) and current physical and mental health of all parties.
- Psychological and marital/relationship stability of both couples. This includes a brief relationship history of each couple, as well as how each couple get on with their respective partner.
- Implications for any existing children of either party and risk factors (any loss issues and how parents intend to deal with them), as well as psychological implications for any child born through the intended surrogacy arrangement. This includes if the children have been informed, how they have responded, if not yet informed how this could occur and when and how it is felt they would respond.
- Possibilities of complications that may affect couples or individuals: e.g. relationship breakdowns, medical problems, even death of an individual. What would happen to the surrogacy and future child.
- Attitude of both parties to prenatal screening and/or termination, has this been jointly discussed and is agreement in principal present.
- Issue of relinquishment or possible refusal to do so by surrogate, refusal to accept a child by the commissioning couple. How would this be handled by each couple.
- Dealing with a disabled child, refusal by commissioning couple to take on such a child.
- Ideas re future relationships between each couple and any existing or future children. The child has a mother and a birth mother. All need to be aware of the importance of this for a child over time, and how this can be best managed. Future openness to children is essential.
- Intentions re disclosure to child re birth parent and surrogacy, openness and honesty to a child over time, and explanations to others, timing of same.
- Differences in parenting styles between the couples. If the couples are close to each other, would this have any future impact?
- Awareness and acceptance of legal ramifications. Has legal advice been given yet, and are everyone aware of and accepting of the non-legal binding of a surrogacy
- Abilities of commissioning couple that may lead to good parenting. Abilities of the surrogate to engender a healthy pregnancy.
18. Financial stability to raise a child and plans re early care of the child by the commissioning couple.
19. History of all parties: including for each person of current or prior alcohol, smoking and illegal drugs, history of abuse or neglect, and wider family mental health and physical health aspects.
20. Future acceptance of any child by wider family of commissioning couple, as well as response's by surrogate's family to the proposed surrogacy.
A brief personal history of each person is taken, including schooling/education completed and when, work history, relationship history, and immediate family history.
Post Surrogacy Counselling
Post Surrogacy Counselling is required in an application for a Parenting Order in both Queensland and New South Wales. In Queensland the Counsellor must be appropriately qualified, different to the pre-surrogacy counsellor and independent of any medical doctor involved in the surrogacy.
For example, in Queensland, The Independent Counsellor must prepare a Surrogacy Guidance Report for the Court that includes (see Surrogacy Act 2010, Queensland)
(a) The independence and appropriate qualifications of the counsellor;
(b) that, for the application, the counsellor interviewed the birth mother, the birth mother's spouse (if any), another birth parent (if any) and the applicant, or joint
applicants, (the relevant persons);
(c) the date or dates of the interviews;
(d) the counsellor's opinion formed as a result of the interviews relevant to the application for a parentage order including, for example, about the following
(i) each relevant person's understanding of—
(A) the social and psychological implications of the making of a parentage order on the child and relevant persons;
(B) openness and honesty about the child's birth parentage being for the wellbeing, and in the best interests, of the child;
(ii) the care arrangements that the applicant, or joint applicants, have proposed for the child;
(iii) whether the making of a parentage order would be for the wellbeing, and in the best interests, of the child.
Surrogacy Support Counselling
Each clinic needs to have the availability for client support counselling at any time. This can include doctor, nursing and counsellor support. Similar to IVF support, counselling support from a nurse counsellor or clinic counsellor needs to be available (if needed) during and after all procedures to gain a pregnancy, or if any procedure or the overall surrogacy is unsuccessful.
Counselling during and after pregnancy
Dr. Martyn Stafford-Bell, CanberraFertility Centre, has been practicing surrogacy since 1990 in Australia. Dr. Stafford-Bell is a strong advocate of counselling, and has done much to shape surrogacy counselling in Australia. As well as the above counselling, Dr. Stafford-Bell suggests counselling at 12, 28, 35 weeks of pregnancy, and 6-8 weeks post-partum, and 3, 6, 12 months after delivery. He also recommends that the patient or surrogate is able to contact the clinic nurse or counsellor at any time if concerned.
Clinics need to be aware that issues may arise for people in the future, including the surrogate and partner, the commissioning parents, and any existing or future children. Clinics will need to plan for this possible future need in resource allocation.
Thank You
Michael Condon
Senior Counsellor
Queensland Fertility Group
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"Parental alienation syndrome": It's not a real disease, but some people want it to be. Slate Magazine http://ht.ly/50lDz
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
I am on Queer Radio 4ZZZ tomorrow night at 10.40pm talking about surrogacy
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
IVF doctor calls for uniform surrogacy laws: Courier-Mail http://ht.ly/4U6nk
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
Surrogacy in Queensland a legal minefield, say I| Courier Mail http://ht.ly/4SA0B
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Why counselling is needed: mother of Qld's first surrogate baby regrets giving him up: Courier-Mail http://ht.ly/4QOh5
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The Wisdom of the Crowd: Finding the Most Promising Innovations to Teach Value
By Vineet Arora, MD MAPP, Chris Moriates, MD, Andy Levy, MD, and Neel Shah MD MPP
Earlier this year, we launched the Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Competition in conjunction with Costs of Care and the ABIM Foundation. Why a competition? Not surprisingly, traditional "literature review" yielded little by way of promising strategies for educators who wished to learn how to teach about value. However, we had all learned of isolated stories of success, occasionally through attending professional meetings, sometimes via networking with colleagues, or more often through just plain word of mouth. To help bring these stories of success to the fore, we relied on a crowdsourcing model by launching a competition to engage a larger community of individuals to tell us their story. Of course, there were moments we wondered if we would get any submissions. Fortunately, we did not have anything to worry about! In June, we received 74 submissions, from 14 specialties with innovations and bright ideas that targeted both medical students, residents, faculty and inter-professional learners.
Reviewing each abstract to determine the most promising practices that could be easily scaled up to other institutions was not an easy task. One interesting struggle was the inherent trade-off between feasibility and novelty – what was feasible may not have been so novel, while you were left wondering whether the most innovative abstracts would be feasible to implement. Fortunately, due to the outstanding expert panel of judges, we were able to narrow the field. While all the submissions were interesting and worthy in their own right, it was clear that there were some that rose to the top. For example, while every submission included some level of training, the most promising innovations and bright ideas employed methods beyond traditional training- such as a systems fix using electronic health records, a cultural change through valuing restraint, or oversight or feedback mechanisms to ensure trainees get the information they need to assess their practice at the point-of-care.
Perhaps it is not surprising that several of our winners came from innovations or bright ideas developed by trainees or medical students. After all, the junior learners are on the sharp end of patient care and in the position to see the simplest and most elegant solutions to promote teaching value. Giffin Daughtridge, a second year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania proposed linking third year medical students to actual patients to not only review their history, but also their actual medical bill. As emergency medicine residents at NYU, Michelle Lin and Larissa Laskowski were inspired by Hurricane Sandy to develop an easy to use curricular program for her peers. While at Yale, Robert Fogerty instigated a friendly competition among medical students, interns, residents and attending physicians to reach the correct diagnosis with the fewest resources possible during morning report style conferences.
The methods employed to achieve success were equally diverse, ranging from repurposing traditional tools to using new methods altogether. Building on the traditional clinical vignette, Tanner Caverly and Brandon Combs launched the "Do No Harm Project" at the University of Colorado to collect vignettes about value to learn from. This program also informed the launch of "Teachable Moments" section in JAMA Internal Medicine that is now accepting submissions from trainees. Meanwhile, Amit Pahwa, Lenny Feldman, and Dan Brotman from Johns Hopkins University proposed individualized dashboards that would make lab and imaging use for each trainee available for feedback and benchmarking against their peers. And Steven Brown and Cheryl O'Malley at Banner Health proposed a local high-value competition that resulted in more than 40 entries from trainees. Drs. Brown and O'Malley plan to implement the most promising ones.
These are just a few of the innovations and bright ideas that were submitted. You can check out the entire list of innovations and bright ideas on the Teaching Value forum. Our hope is that this is just the start of developing a network of individuals interested in working together to transform medical education by incorporating principles of stewardship. So, in this case, we recommend that you follow this crowd.
Vineet Arora, MD MAPP on behalf of the Teaching Value Team members including Chris Moriates, MD, Andy Levy, MD, and Neel Shah MD MPP


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April 14, 2011 -- Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson has issued a voluntary recall of 57,000 bottles of its Topamax epilepsy and migraine drug due to complaints of an "uncharacteristic odor" associated with the tablets.
The announcement came from Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, a division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, which is a Johnson & Johnson company based in Titusville, N.J.
J&J spokesman Mark Wolfe tells WebMD the recall involves two lots of 100-milligram tablets totaling 57,000 bottles. Each bottle contains 60 tablets, he says.
He also says the company believes only 6,000 bottles remain on the marketplace that have not been consumed.
While not describing the odor, Wolfe tells WebMD it is caused by trace amounts of a compound called TBA that is a by-product of a chemical used to treat wood in some countries. The wood is used to construct pallets on which products are transported and stored.
Patients who detect the odor or who have concerns should contact their doctors or the company at 866-536-4398, Wolfe says.
The company says in a statement that the two lots involved in the recall were shipped between Oct. 19, 2010, and Dec. 28, 2010, and distributed in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The recall includes Topamax with NDC code 50458-641-65 and lot numbers OKG110 with an expiration date of 06-2012 and OLG222 with an expiration date of 09-2012.
The recall stems from four consumer reports of an uncharacteristic odor thought to be caused by TBA. No serious adverse effects have been reported by the TBA in Topamax.
Investigation Under Way
The company says that in January 2010 it took steps to reduce the potential of TBA contamination, including requiring suppliers to verify that they do not use pallets made from chemically treated wood.
It says it is investigating what has happened to cause the consumer complaints and is trying to understand how the chemical is "impacting our supply chains and what we can do to further mitigate this exposure."
The recall is being implemented in cooperation with the FDA. J&J says TBA is not considered toxic but can generate an "offensive odor" and that a "very small number of patients" have reported temporary gastrointestinal symptoms.
People who notice an odor may return the tablets to their pharmacist or contact their health care professional, the company says in its statement.


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JDOQL is a powerful query language, but there are times when it is not enough. Maybe you're migrating a JDBC application to JDO on a strict deadline, and you don't have time to translate your existing SQL selects to JDOQL. Or maybe a certain query requires database-specific SQL your JDO implementation doesn't support. Or maybe your DBA has spent hours crafting the perfect select statement for a query in your application's critical path. Whatever the reason, SQL queries can remain an essential part of an application.
You are probably familiar with executing SQL queries by obtaining a
java.sql.Connection, using the JDBC APIs to create
Statement, and executing that
to obtain a
ResultSet. And of course,
you are free to continue using this low-level approach to SQL execution in
your JDO applications. However, JDO also supports executing SQL queries
through the
javax.jdo.Query interface introduced in
Chapter 11, Query. Using a JDO SQL query, you can
retrieve either persistent objects or projections of column values. The
following sections detail each use.
Kodo also supports embedding SQL into standard JDOQL queries. See Section 9.6, "Query Language Extensions" in the Reference Guide for details.
PersistenceManager has two factory methods
suitable for creating SQL queries:
public Query newQuery (Object query); public Query newQuery (String language, Object query);
The first method is used to create a new
instance with the same properties as the passed-in template. The
template might be a
Query from another
PersistenceManager, or a
Query that has been deserialized and has lost
PersistenceManager association. The
method works for any query, regardless of the language used.
The second method was designed specifically for non-JDOQL queries.
Its first parameter is the query language to use. For SQL
queries, the language is
javax.jdo.query.SQL (in
case you are wondering, the official JDOQL language string is
javax.jdo.query.JDOQL). Its second parameter
represents the query to run - in this case, the SQL string.
The example below shows these methods in action.
Example 17.1. Creating a SQL Query
PersistenceManager pm = ...; Query query = pm.newQuery ("javax.jdo.query.SQL", "SELECT * FROM MAG"); query.setClass (Magazine.class); processMagazines ((List) query.execute ()); query.closeAll (); Query template = deserializeTemplateQuery (); query = pm.newQuery (template); processMagazines ((List) query.execute ()); query.closeAll ();
While JDOQL queries have separate result, filter, grouping, and ordering
strings, a single SELECT statement encompasses a complete SQL query.
Thus, most methods of SQL
Query objects throw
an exception. In particular, you cannot call the following methods:
setCandidates (Collection)
setFilter (String)
setResult (String)
setGrouping (String)
setOrdering (String)
declareImports (String)
declareVariables (String)
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NEARLY 1000 police officers were used on just one morning at the height of last year's Grocon dispute - about one in every 13 sworn police in Victoria.
The massive response is underlined by police data - released under freedom of information - that reveals 3067 police shifts were worked in just two weeks at Grocon's Myer Emporium site in central Melbourne in August and September.
Victoria Police refuses to disclose how much the dispute cost it - and taxpayers - as a legal case against the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is under way. But it defended its response as necessary to ensure safety.
CFMEU state secretary John Setka denied the union was to blame for the costs and said the number of police used was an ''absolute disgrace''.
He said it was not the fault of police, it was a result of Premier Ted Baillieu backing Grocon chief executive Daniel Grollo. ''It's just one little rich boy helping another little rich boy.''
The data reveals that on August 31 - 10 days into the bitter dispute - 967 police were used in an early morning push to seize control of the site from protesters.
The 3am push encountered little opposition. Police took control of the site and erected a fence that blocked two lanes of Lonsdale Street. The move allowed about 30 Grocon workers to return to work, about one-third of the usual number.
A week before the push, Mr Grollo had formally asked Chief Commissioner Ken Lay for help. In a letter dated August 24, released under FOI, Mr Grollo said he made the request reluctantly. ''Our employees are keen to return to work but are presently unable to do so - from our perspective, the timing of any attempt to return will be determined solely with their safety in mind,'' he wrote.
Mr Grollo also said there were long-term issues for Victorian businesses arising from the blockade. ''There are of course longer-term multi-site issues relating to companies seeking to go about their lawful business in the face of unlawful activity in the state of Victoria,'' he wrote.
Mr Grollo said his request was made with ''reluctance'' and acknowledged that it ''poses a burden on your (police) time and resources''.
In the fallout from the dispute, the CFMEU is facing a $10.5 million damages claim from Grocon and is also being pursued by the federal building industry watchdog for fines and damages.
Mr Setka, who was union assistant secretary at the time, played a central role in the dispute and has been accused in court documents of having used phrases to Grocon employees such as ''you're a f---ing dog'', ''scab'' and ''rats''.
Mr Setka said police officers had told the union they did not want to be there, had been pulled from country stations and were upset at ''being used as political pawns''.
''I don't blame the Victorian police for a moment, they're sent where they're ordered to go,'' he said.
The dispute remains unresolved and Mr Setka said the union was planning further action. ''To be honest, it's a bit like a military operation,'' he said.
Police Association secretary Greg Davies said the costs from the dispute would be significant but said the scale of the police response had helped ''dampen the enthusiasms of anyone for any sort of altercation''.
''It is a big number [of police] but then we had a reasonably recent experience, the World Economic Forum at Crown casino, where we were under-resourced,'' he said. ''If it's all going to turn to porridge, it's the police that will bear the brunt of it.''
A police spokeswoman said the large response was justified. The FOI data shows a heavy police presence on other days, with 763 police used on September 4 and nearly 700 the following day.
''A large number of police resources were used to maintain a presence at the site during this period. We believe the number of police deployed was sufficient and necessary to ensure the safety of the public, our people, Grocon employees and any other person involved in the dispute,'' the spokeswoman said.


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Ahead of a key NATO summit next week, the bids of Ukraine and Georgia to join the world's premier security organization are in rough waters – crowded out by priorities such as Afghanistan and missile defense and opposed by influential members such as Germany.
Advocate nations argue – former Warsaw Pact states particularly vociferously – that a blanket denial of the bids will have major geostrategic implications: It will thwart the fragile democratic "color revolutions" in those states, allow Moscow time to bully the states back into its control, and constitute a veto by Russia over NATO membership.
"This is dramatic high-stakes stuff," says Ronald Asmus, a former US diplomat who is now director of the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. "We might look back at loss, we might get a deal – it will go down to the wire. I hope we have a Plan B. Maybe we do, but I haven't heard about it. It will need to be a lot of substance – substance more than words."
While three Balkan states are due to be admitted for membership, Ukraine and Georgia are looking for an "invitation to an invitation" to join. But some influential member states, led most visibly by Germany, doubt the two suitors' readiness.
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is coming as a guest, accession for the two ex-Soviet states is one of the most crucial questions now in play. In particular, it sees the strategically central Ukraine, a cradle of old Russia, as a "red line" that can't be crossed.
'The future of NATO is Afghanistan'
President Bush, who on Wednesday announced that he would make a special post-summit trip to Russia to smooth things over with President Putin, has supported Ukraine's and Georgia's bids. He will visit the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on his way to the summit in Bucharest, Romania.
But experts say the White House has not worked the question hard enough to overcome the opposition of Germany, Italy, and Spain, and now France. State Department sources last week confirmed that the membership action plan (MAP) – is not the highest priority.
That view is echoed in France ahead of the summit as well. "The fact that NATO can be defeated in Afghanistan puts the Ukraine-Georgia question far down on the list of priorities," says Thomas Gomart, director of Russian Affairs at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) in Paris. "For us, the future of NATO is not enlargement. It is Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan.
"If we get Georgia or Ukraine into NATO, it transfers the nature of the alliance from military to a political club.... We have enough trouble in the world without adding tensions with Russia," he adds.
Putin's presence in Bucharest is slightly sensitive. No consensus exists among NATO members as to whether he is coming as a potential friend, a vetoing competitor, or a victor in a legacy battle to reassert Russia.
Opponents of accession for the two former Soviet states argue that their objection is one of timing, not substance, saying that membership is not a matter of "if, but when." Whether or not Putin or President-elect Dmitri Medvedev agree is another question. This may be a finessing of language, experts say, since members can't suggest that Russia has a veto over NATO. But, as one Baltic diplomat put it: "Ukraine and Georgia won't join NATO because of Russia, but Vladimir Putin doesn't have a veto over NATO?"
Following the accession four years ago of a half-dozen states including ex-Soviet neighbors Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, Moscow sees a further "enlargement" of NATO into its sphere of influence – together with US plans for missile defense components in Poland and the Czech Republic – as a threat to its security.
"No state can be pleased about having representatives of a military bloc to which it does not belong coming close to its borders," said Mr. Medvedev in a Financial Times interview published this week.
Germany leads the opposition
Unlike the 1990s, when German-US relations were the engine behind some 10 new former East bloc nations in NATO, substantial differences now exist between Washington and Berlin. President Angela Merkel openly opposed MAPs in Moscow this month, and refused to meet either President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine or President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia in Brussels March 13, when they sought talks on NATO.
Vladimir Socor of the Eurasia Daily Monitor calls it "an all-out, public campaign" by Germany, though others say Berlin is simply the most vocal opponent.
"NATO for Ukraine would be a public humiliation for Russia that would last generations," says Heinrich Kreft of the foreign-policy team for Merkel's Christian Democrat party. Yet Mr. Asmus says that Ukraine and Georgia should receive a bundle of concrete action plans short of an invitation – "say, 80 percent of MAPs .... a NATO staff presence, exercises, beefing up visits, making schedules of activities, doing things that are real, and that will give people a reason to hope."
At a recent conference in Brussels, Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Rietkins said, "I know how it is to be at the doorstep [of NATO]," but that joining helped "reform society, caused us to rethink our military structure, and allowed an internal dialog where there wasn't one before."
In Georgia, public opinion is 77 percent in favor, but the country has two regional "frozen conflicts."
Ukraine has been in dialogue with NATO since 2005; this January, President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated its readiness. Skeptics cite low opinion polls (17 percent), close ties with Russia's military, and an eastern section of the country that is solidly pro-Moscow. Advocates say an invitation would change the polling data.
Russia is playing off the divisions in a bid to thwart Ukraine's membership hopes.
"Russia has been against NATO enlargement from the beginning," says Oleksandr Sushko of the independent Institute for Euro-Atlantic Integration in Kiev. "But now they are more active than ever. They understand that, in Ukraine's case, they might succeed, because they see there is no consensus in NATO, and there is no consensus in Ukraine, so they feel they might succeed in blocking.... All diplomatic stops have been pulled out, and approaches have been made to wavering NATO countries."
NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer hopes NATO will be seen as nonthreatening by Moscow and, two weeks ago, hinted Russia might participate in a "supporting" logistical role in the Afghan mission. "Engagement with a capital 'E,' " he argues. With Putin in Bucharest, he favors "openly discussing Kosovo, missile defense, [Conventional Forces in Europe treat], and enlargement."
• Fred Weir contributed from Moscow.


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Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, PROCESS. The exhibition features work by: Sebastiaan Bremer, Christopher Bucklow, Lynn Davis, Susan Derges, Lalla Essaydi, Adam Fuss, Richard Learoyd, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Joel Meyerowitz, Abelardo Morrell, Vik Muniz, Robert Polidori, Thomas Ruff and Victor Schrager. The show begins on Thursday, 27 January and runs through Saturday, 26 February 2011.
In light of the extraordinary wealth of technology available to contemporary artists, this exhibition addresses the recent shift in the public's perception of what constitutes a photograph and explores the techniques utilized by some of today's leading photographers.
From the advent of photography, it was generally assumed that a photograph was a mechanical record of what the artist saw in reality, but it did not take long for photographers to start to disrupt that notion and draw attention to the idea of stopping time, distorting the image, staging the scene, or making substantial changes in the darkroom.
Although art audiences have been able to observe and understand those nuances over time, the quick rise in technology and the multitude of options has caused some confusion about how contemporary works are made and how to describe the medium.
In the making of photographs today, each artist is able to choose which technique will be most suitable for their particular artwork. Some artists choose to work very traditionally, while some incorporate certain aspects of digital technology, and other artists might use exclusively digital techniques. And at the same time, there are a number of artists who still utilize 19th century processes for creating their work.
For each object chosen for this exhibition, the technique will be explained and discussed in detail, so that the viewer will be able to learn about some of the various processes, and then be able to start asking the larger questions of why the artist chose this process and what the technique signifies in the broader scope of the artist's career and the greater history of the medium.