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Intro to DBIx::Class
In my opinion DBIx::Class is one of the best ORM solutions out there. Not only can it model your database, including mapping out any foreign key relationships, it can also be used as a canonical point of reference for your schema. This means we can use it not only as an application layer interface to the database, but can also define a versioned database structure using the code, where if you add a field into your result class, you can generate a version of alter statements and a DDL just by running a simple script. Of course this set of alterations can later be applied to your stage and production environments.
It's possible to produce your schema classes with DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader if you have a pre-existing database and are initially generating your DBIC classes, but this article is going to show going from the ground up how to build your database from the code defining the fields and tables as well as the relations, which match to foreign key constraints when the database definition files are generated.
Creating your Schema
This example will be a pretty simple schema but enough to demonstrate generating a couple of tables with a foreign key constraint. Since a lot of people are doing social networking stuff these days we can assume a common use case would be a user who has a bunch of photos. So we'll need to model a user table and a photo table, but first things first, lets create a few basic things, assuming we'll call our application MySocialApp
mkdir -p MySocialApp/lib/MySocialApp/Schema/Result
cd MySocialApp
We need to create a schema file at lib/MySocialApp/Schema.pm that inherits from the base DBIx::Class::Schema
package MySocialApp::Schema;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/;
use strict;
use warnings;
our $VERSION = '0.00001';
So here all we are doing is extending the base Schema and loading the Versioned component. We're setting the directory where DDL and Diff files will be generated into the sql directory. We're also invoking load_namespaces which tells it to look at the MySocialApp::Schema::Result namespace for our result classes by default.
Creating the Result Classes
Here I will define what the database is going to look like
package MySocialApp::Schema::Result::User;
use Moose;
use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';
extends 'DBIx::Class';
user_id => {
data_type => "INT",
size => 11,
is_nullable => 0,
is_auto_increment => 1,
extra => { unsigned => 1 },
username => {
data_type => "VARCHAR",
is_nullable => 0,
size => 255,
{ "foreign.fk_user_id" => "self.user_id" },
This is relatively straightforward. I'm creating a user table that has an auto incrementing primary key and a username field. I'm also defining a relationship that says a user can have many photos. Lets create the photo class.
package MySocialApp::Schema::Result::Photo;
use Moose;
use namespace::clean -except => 'meta';
extends 'DBIx::Class';
photo_id => {
data_type => "INT",
size => 11,
is_nullable => 0,
is_auto_increment => 1,
extra => { unsigned => 1 },
url => {
data_type => "VARCHAR",
is_nullable => 0,
size => 255,
fk_user_id => {
data_type => "INT",
size => 11,
is_nullable => 0,
extra => { unsigned => 1 },
{ 'foreign.user_id' => 'self.fk_user_id' },
Same basic thing here, a photo class with a photo_id primary key, a url field, and an fk_user_id field that keys into the user table. Each photo belongs to a user, and this relationship will define our foreign key constraint when the schema is generated.
Versioning the Database
Create the Versioning Scripts
We have the main DBIx::Class pieces in place to generate the database, but we'll need a couple of scripts to support our versioned database. One script will generate the schema based on the version before it, introspecting which alterations have been made and producing a SQL diff file to alter the database. The other script will look at the database to see if it needs upgrading, and run the appropriate diff files to bring it up to the current version.
First the schema and diff generation script which we'll call _script/genschema.pl
use strict;
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;
use MySocialApp::Schema;
my ( $preversion, $help );
'p|preversion:s' => \$preversion,
) or die pod2usage;
my $schema = MySocialApp::Schema->connect(
'dbi:mysql:dbname=mysocialapp;host=localhost', 'mysocialapp', 'mysocialapp4u'
my $version = $schema->schema_version();
if ($version && $preversion) {
print "creating diff between version $version and $preversion\n";
} elsif ($version && !$preversion) {
print "creating full dump for version $version\n";
} elsif (!$version) {
print "creating unversioned full dump\n";
my $sql_dir = './sql';
$schema->create_ddl_dir( 'MySQL', $version, $sql_dir, $preversion );
This script will be run anytime we change something in the Result files. You give it the previous schema version, and it will create a diff between that and the new version. Before running this you'll update the $VERSION variable in lib/MySocialApp/Schema.pm so that it knows a change has been made.
The next script is the upgrade script, we'll call it _script/upgradedb.pl
use strict;
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
use MySocialApp::Schema;
my $schema = MySocialApp::Schema->connect(
'dbi:mysql:dbname=mysocialapp;host=localhost', 'mysocialapp', 'mysocialapp4u'
if (!$schema->get_db_version()) {
# schema is unversioned
} else {
This script checks to see if any diffs need to be applied, and applies them if the version held by the database and the version in your Schema.pm file differ, bringing the database up to the correct schema version.
Note, in these scripts I've hardcoded the DB info which really should go into a configuration file.
Create a Database to Deploy Into
We need to create the database that our tables will be created in. In the connect calls above we're using this user and password to connect to our database. I'm using MySQL for the example so this would be done on the MySQL command prompt
mysql> create database mysocialapp;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> grant all on mysocialapp.* to mysocialapp@'localhost' identified by 'mysocialapp4u';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Deploy the Initial Schema
Now its time to deploy our initial schema into MySQL. But for the first go round we also have to create the initial DDL file, this way when we make changes in the future it can be compared against the Schema result classes to see what changes have been made. We can do this by supplying a nonexistent previous version to our gen_schema.pl script
$ perl script/gen_schema.pl -p 0.00000
Your DB is currently unversioned. Please call upgrade on your schema to sync the DB.
creating diff between version 0.00001 and 0.00000
No previous schema file found (sql/MySocialApp-Schema-0.00000-MySQL.sql) at /home/jgoulah/perl5/lib/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1685.
And we can see the DDL file now exists
$ ls sql/
Then we need to deploy to MySQL for the first time so we run the upgrade script
$ perl script/upgrade_db.pl
Your DB is currently unversioned. Please call upgrade on your schema to sync the DB.
Now check out what its created in MySQL
mysql> use mysocialapp;
Database changed
mysql> show tables;
| Tables_in_mysocialapp |
| dbix_class_schema_versions |
| photo |
| user |
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
There is our photo table, our user table, and also a dbix_class_schema_versions table. This last table just keeps track of what version the database is. You can see we are in sync with the Schema class by selecting from that table and also when this version was installed.
mysql> select * from dbix_class_schema_versions;
| version | installed |
| 0.00001 | 2009-05-17 21:59:57 |
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
The really great thing is that we have created the tables -and- constraints based on our schema result classes. Check out our photo table
mysql> show create table photo\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Table: photo
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `photo` (
`photo_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`url` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`fk_user_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`photo_id`),
KEY `photo_idx_fk_user_id` (`fk_user_id`),
CONSTRAINT `photo_fk_fk_user_id` FOREIGN KEY (`fk_user_id`) REFERENCES `user` (`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Making Database Changes
Lets say we want to add a password field to our user table. I'd open up the lib/MySocialApp/Schema/Result/User.pm file and add a section for my password field to the add_columns definition so now it looks like:
user_id => {
data_type => "INT",
size => 11,
is_nullable => 0,
is_auto_increment => 1,
extra => { unsigned => 1 },
username => {
data_type => "VARCHAR",
is_nullable => 0,
size => 255,
password => {
data_type => "VARCHAR",
is_nullable => 0,
size => 255,
Then we update the lib/MySocialApp/Schema.pm file and update to the next version so it looks like
our $VERSION = '0.00002';
To create the DDL and Diff for this version we run the gen_schema script with the previous version as the argument
$ perl script/gen_schema.pl -p 0.00001
Versions out of sync. This is 0.00002, your database contains version 0.00001, please call upgrade on your Schema.
creating diff between version 0.00002 and 0.00001
If you look in the sql directory there are two new files. The DDL is named MySocialApp-Schema-0.00002-MySQL.sql and the diff is called MySocialApp-Schema-0.00001-0.00002-MySQL.sql and has the alter statement
$ cat sql/MySocialApp-Schema-0.00001-0.00002-MySQL.sql
-- Convert schema 'sql/MySocialApp-Schema-0.00001-MySQL.sql' to 'MySocialApp::Schema v0.00002':;
ALTER TABLE user ADD COLUMN password VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL;
Now we can apply that with our upgrade script
$ perl script/upgrade_db.pl
Versions out of sync. This is 0.00002, your database contains version 0.00001, please call upgrade on your Schema.
DB version (0.00001) is lower than the schema version (0.00002). Attempting upgrade.
and see that the upgrade has been made in MySQL
mysql> describe user;
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
| user_id | int(11) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| username | varchar(255) | NO | | | |
| password | varchar(255) | NO | | | |
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
So now we've seen a really easy way that we can maintain our database schema from our ORM code. We have a versioned database that is under revision control, and can keep our stage and production environments in sync with our development code. With this type of setup its also easy to maintain branches with different database changes and merge them into the mainline, and it also ensures that the database you are developing on is always in sync with the code.


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Hot on the heels of Heartbleed, a 10 year-old OpenSSL flaw has emerge letting hackers intercept supposedly secure traffic.
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Ok, this question is directed towards more advanced programmers. I'm still a little green when it comes to transfer protocol, and it boggles me when I try to conceptualize the mechanics behind massively multi-player online games. Well, maybe it even boggles some professionals. Just look at Funcom's AO disaster.
Anyway, by chance, is there anyone here who can explain some basic theory, offer some pseudo code, or point out a document that might answer some of these questions (I'll try to be as clear as I can):
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4. This one may be a bit more general, but how much memory would take to host three thousand users playing such a game, how much of the information gets written to hard disk compared to how much actually resides in memory, and how how are the packets sent between users so seamlessly?
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WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key administration posts: Daniel B. Poneman, Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy; Fred P. Hochberg, President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; Francisco "Frank" J. Sánchez, Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce; Miriam E. Sapiro, Deputy Trade Representative; Judith A. McHale, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Department of State; Philip J. "P.J." Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Department of State; Bonnie D. Jenkins, Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs (with the Rank of Ambassador), Department of State; Thomasina Rogers, Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; Lorelei Boylan, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor; David F. Heyman, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security; Andrew C. Weber, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs), Department of Defense; Stephen W. Preston, General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency; and Laurie Mikva, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation.
President Obama said, "Our nation will be well-served by these fine individuals, who all bring dedication to our country and impressive expertise in their fields. I am confident that they will be effective advocates on behalf of the American people as we work to strengthen the economy, keep Americans safe at home and abroad, and make America work for our families. I look forward to working with them in the coming months and years."
President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals today:
Daniel B. Poneman, Nominee for Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy
Since 2001, Daniel B. Poneman has been a Principal of The Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that he was a partner in the law firm of Hogan & Hartson. From 1993 through 1996, Poneman served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council. He joined the NSC staff in 1990 as Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, after serving as a White House Fellow in the Department of Energy. Poneman has served on several federal commissions and advisory panels, and has authored books on nuclear energy policy and on Argentina. He coauthored Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, which received the 2005 Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy. Poneman received A.B. and J.D. degrees with honors from Harvard, and an M.Litt. in politics from Oxford University. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.
Fred P. Hochberg, Nominee for President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States
Mr. Hochberg, formerly the Dean of the New School for Management and Urban Policy has more than 30 years of experience in business, government, civil rights, and philanthropy. From 1998 through 2001, he served as deputy then acting administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), an agency elevated to cabinet rank by President Bill Clinton, with more than 4,000 employees and 100 offices across the country. At the SBA, he directed the delivery of a comprehensive set of financial and business development programs for entrepreneurs, with particular outreach to women and minorities. He also served on President Clinton's Management Council. Prior to that, he was president and chief operating officer of the Lillian Vernon Corporation, where he led the transformation of a small family mail order company into a publicly traded direct marketing corporation, one of the great success stories of American entrepreneurship. He has served on numerous civic and corporate boards of directors including the Human Rights Campaign, where he was co-chair and is currently on the boards of the Citizens Budget Commission, FINCA International Microfinance, Fusion TELECommunications, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Seedco, and the Port Authority of New Jersey.
Francisco "Frank" J. Sánchez, Nominee for Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce
Francisco J. Sánchez served as a Policy Advisor on Latin America to the Obama For America Campaign. He was also the Chairman of the National Hispanic Leadership Council for the Obama Campaign. In 1999, Sanchez became a Special Assistant to the President of the United States working in the Office of the Special Envoy for the Americas. While at the White House, Sanchez worked with the National Security Council, the State Department and the U.S. Trade Representative. President Clinton later appointed Sánchez as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Transportation where he developed aviation policy and oversaw international negotiations. Prior to his work in the federal government, Sánchez practiced corporate and administrative law with the firm of Steel, Hector and Davis in Miami, Florida. Before practicing law, he served in the administration of former Florida Governor (now U.S. Senator) Bob Graham, as the first director of the state's Caribbean Basin Initiative Program. For the last fifteen years, Sanchez has worked with several consulting companies on projects involving complex transactions, labor-management negotiations, litigation settlement, negotiation strategy, alliance management, facilitation and training, most recently as a partner with CM Partners. Among his public-sector engagements, Sánchez headed a team in Medellín, Colombia as part of a "Teaching Tolerance" program. He also advised the president of Ecuador in negotiations to settle the 56-year-old border dispute with Peru. He is a contributing author to Negociación 2000, a collection of essays on negotiation published by McGraw-Hill. A Florida native, Mr. Sánchez attended the University of Florida, received his undergraduate and law degrees from Florida State University and holds a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Miriam E. Sapiro, Nominee for Deputy Trade Representative
Miriam E. Sapiro is President of Summit Strategies International, which advises non-profit organizations and companies on international Internet and telecommunications policy issues. She has more than twenty years of experience as an executive in the private sector and as an official in the government during the administrations of Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. Over the course of her career Sapiro has represented the United States in numerous complex multilateral and bilateral negotiations. In 1999, President Clinton appointed her Special Assistant to the President for Southeast European Stabilization & Reconstruction. Sapiro supervised efforts to revitalize the region, working with USTR and other agencies, as well as other governments and international financial institutions. From 1997 to 1999 she served at the National Security Council as Director for European Affairs, developing and coordinating implementation of security and economic policies. Previously she was a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser. Sapiro received her B.A. from Williams College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review. She has taught international law as an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Columbia University.
Judith A. McHale, Nominee for Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Department of State
Ms. McHale is a leading media and communications executive whose career has been devoted to building companies and non-profit organizations dedicated to reaching out to and connecting people around the world. She is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Communications. From 1987 to 2006, McHale helped build the parent company of the Discovery Channel into one of the world's most extensive media enterprises, with more than 100 channels telecast in over 170 countries and 35 languages to more than 1 billion subscribers. In the 1990s, McHale launched the non-profit Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership, which supplies free educational video programming to more than half a million students across Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. After two decades at Discovery, McHale extended her commitment to helping build opportunity for people in Africa. With the Global Environment Fund, a private equity firm, she worked to launch the GEF/Africa Growth Fund, an investment vehicle intending to focus on supplying expansion capital to small and medium-sized businesses that provide consumer goods and services in emerging African markets. McHale's commitment to global outreach efforts also includes her service on the boards of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the National Democratic Institute, and Vital Voices. She previously served on the board of Africare. The daughter of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, McHale was born in New York City and grew up in Britain and apartheid-era South Africa. Before joining Discovery, McHale served as General Counsel for MTV Networks and helped guide the company's international expansion.
Philip J. "P.J." Crowley, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Department of State
Mr. Crowley is a Senior Fellow and Director of Homeland Security at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. At CAP, he authored a detailed homeland security strategy called Safe at Home and was a frequent public commentator on a wide range of national security issues. During the Clinton administration, Crowley was Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs, serving as Senior Director of Public Affairs for the National Security Council. Prior to that, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. In all, he served as a spokesman for the U.S. government for 28 years, including three at the White House and 11 at the Pentagon. He is a retired Air Force colonel and veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Provide Comfort in 1991. During the Kosovo conflict in 1999, he was temporarily assigned to work with then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana in Brussels. Prior to joining the Center for American Progress, Crowley served as a national spokesman for the property/casualty insurance industry, focusing on strategic industry issues that included the impact of terrorism on commercial insurance in the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy. He is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross.
Bonnie D. Jenkins, Nominee for Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs (with the Rank of Ambassador), Department of State
Dr. Jenkins is the Program Officer for U.S. Foreign and Security policy at the Ford Foundation. Her grant making seeks to strengthen public engagement in US foreign and security policy debate and formulation in order to promote support for multilateralism, the peaceful resolution of disputes, and the rule of international law. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jenkins served on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ("9-11 Commission"), as counsel. She was the lead Commission staff member on counterterrorism policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on U.S. military plans to go after Al Qaeda prior to 9-11. She wrote part of the 9/11 report, which has since become a national bestseller. Jenkins also served as General Counsel to the U.S. Commission to assess the organization of the federal government to combat proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and as a consultant to the 2000 National Commission on Terrorism. She also worked at the RAND Corporation in their National Security Division. She recently served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserves and completed a year of deployment at CENTCOM. Jenkins has worked in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Policy Planning as a consultant of the Kosovo History Project. An expert on arms control and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Jenkins also served for nine years as legal advisor to U.S. Ambassadors and delegations negotiating arms control and nonproliferation treaties during her time as a Legal Advisor in the Office of General Council at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. She began her years in government when appointed as a Presidential Management Fellow. Jenkins is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the American Bar Association. She received a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Virginia; an LL.M. in international and comparative law from the Georgetown University Law Center; an MPA from the State University of New York at Albany; a J.D. from Albany Law School; and a BA from Amherst College. She also attended The Hague Academy for International Law.
Thomasina Rogers, Nominee for Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Thomasina Rogers is a member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. She was first appointed to the Review Commission by President Clinton in 1998 and served as Chairman from 1999 to 2002; she was then reappointed to the Review Commission in 2003. The agency Chairman is responsible for the administrative operations of the quasi-judicial agency, along with participating with the other Commissioners in case adjudication. Ms. Rogers previously served as Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 1994 until its dissolution at the end of 1995. Rogers also served for seven years in the Federal Government's Senior Executive Service (SES). During her time in the SES, she served as Legal Counsel to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where she had primary responsibility for managing the development of the Americans With Disabilities Act employment regulations. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association. Rogers is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Journalism and the Columbia University School of Law.
Lorelei Boylan, Nominee for Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor
Lorelei Boylan is currently the Director of Strategic Enforcement at the New York State Department of Labor, Labor Standards Division. In this capacity she supervises the Apparel Industry/Fair Wages Task Force, a state-wide specialized unit charged with investigating low-wage industries where workers are at risk of exploitation. Under her leadership, the Task Force has flourished into a groundbreaking investigative unit with a high rate of success in the resolution of wage and hour investigations. The Task Force has developed complex investigations, conducted around-the-clock field work and built coalitions with low wage workers' advocates. Boylan has a wealth of experience in the enforcement field, ranging from private monitoring for retailers with social accountability initiatives to affirmative litigation and field investigative experience. Prior to heading the Task Force, Boylan spearheaded the Bureau of Immigrant Workers' Rights, a newly formed division of the Department of Labor, where she formulated innovative policies to respond to the needs of individuals with Limited English proficiency. She is the recipient of the 2008 Frances Perkins Leadership Award for exceptional leadership in developing the mission of the Department. Boylan practiced law as an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General's Office. She was hired under the Honor's Program to represent the State in defensive and affirmative litigation. In this position, Boylan investigated businesses for violations of state and federal labor laws and represented the Department of Health in New York State Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals. Prior to becoming an attorney, Boylan worked for several years for a global monitoring company, counseling firms on compliance with state and federal labor laws, OSHA, Immigration and tax laws. She graduated cum laude from Hunter College and received a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School where she was a Writing Competition and Articles Editor of the Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law. Boylan speaks Spanish and French fluently and is admitted to practice law in New York State.
David F. Heyman, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security
Mr. Heyman is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Homeland Security Program and an adjunct professor in security studies at Georgetown University. Before joining CSIS, Heyman served in a number of government positions, including as a senior adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy and at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on national security and international affairs. Prior to that, he was the head of international operations for a private-sector software/systems engineering firm developing supply-chain management systems for Fortune 100 firms. He has worked in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Heyman has authored numerous publications, including "America's Domestic Security" in Five Years After 9/11 (CSIS, 2006); Model Operational Guidelines for Disease Exposure Control (CSIS, 2005)-which has been utilized by cities and states across the country and was the basis for some of the government's pandemic flu planning guidance; DHS 2.0: Rethinking the Department of Homeland Security (CSIS/Heritage Foundation, 2004); and Lessons from the Anthrax Attacks (CSIS, 2002). Heyman has testified before a number of committees in Congress and has appeared in various media outlets including NPR, CNN, BBC, FOX News, and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Andrew C. Weber, Nominee for Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs), Department of Defense
Andrew Weber is currently an adviser for threat reduction policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he is responsible for Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiatives to reduce the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches a course on force and diplomacy in the Foreign Service Program. He was previously a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, where he served in diplomatic assignments in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Hong Kong. Weber has an MS from Georgetown University and a BA from Cornell University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Julie and daughter Eleanor.
Stephen W. Preston, Nominee for General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
Stephen W. Preston is currently a Partner at WilmerHale, where he is co-chair of the Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice Group, and a member of the Regulatory and Government Affairs and Litigation/Controversy Departments. He joined the firm in 1986, and later returned in 2001 after serving at both the Pentagon and the Justice Department. He was the Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 1993 to 1995, during which time he served for an extended period as Acting General Counsel. From 1998 to 2000, Preston served as General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, a Presidential appointment requiring Senate confirmation. Mr. Preston's responsibilities covered the full range of legal matters confronting the Defense Department and the national security establishment. He was actively involved in criminal, inspector general and congressional investigations, civil fraud and contract claims litigation and alternative dispute resolution. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Preston served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, responsible for civil litigation in the courts of appeals on behalf of the United States. In addition to overseeing work in a wide variety of substantive areas and assisting the Solicitor General in cases before the Supreme Court, he also argued several significant appeals involving constitutional law, statutory interpretation, federal court jurisdiction and testimonial privileges. Mr. Preston holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard University.
Laurie Mikva, Nominee for Board Member, Legal Services Corporation
Laurie Mikva has a strong record of working to aid indigent people to obtain necessary legal services. From 1993-2008, Mikva worked in Champaign, Illinois, as a staff attorney at Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., the legal aid provider for central and southern Illinois. Specializing in areas of family law and domestic violence, Mikva represented clients in cases involving divorce, custody, orders of protection and child support. She helped to establish the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Law, and supervised students in the Clinic. She collaborated with service providers including shelters, victim advocates, prosecutors, and police to address family violence issues in the community. As Family Law Task Force Chair, she oversaw the provision of family law services throughout the organization, and provided support and training to both legal aid and pro bono attorneys. Between 1988-1991, Mikva worked as an Assistant Public Defender in Urbana, Illinois, where she represented indigent defendants in criminal cases, and parents in juvenile abuse and neglect proceedings. Before that, she worked in the Appellate Division of the Maryland Public Defender's Office, where she represented indigent appellants in criminal cases. From 1984-1985, Mikva was a fellow in the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. From 1983-84 she clerked for Judge Luther M. Swygert on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. Mikva received a J.D. from New York University in 1983, where she was a Note Editor for the N.Y.U.Law Review. Mikva is currently employed as a staff attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
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How Do You Know If A TSA Agent Stole An iPad? There's An App For That
from the gimmie-that deptWhile the TSA has already declared themselves this nation's official Humor Police, all while likely profiling based on race, the agency constructed to keep us safe while we fly has another problem to deal with: the thieves that wear the uniform.
ABC News recently conducted an investigation in which they packed travel bags with cash and iPads and took them through security at several major airports, while also going out of their way to leave iPads behind at security checkpoints as well. As the report notes, the bags went through without a problem and most of the iPads were returned per TSA policy. But not all of them.
In case you can't see the video, a TSA agent was taped at work handling the iPad ABC had left behind, and simply decided to take it home with him. When confronted at his home by ABC's Brian Ross, Agent Andy Ramirez denied he had the device until Ross initiated the iCloud application used to track the iPad and its audible alert. Ramirez then produced the iPad and valiantly blamed having it on his wife, who was kind enough to stand next to him and not punch him repeatedly in the testicles on camera.
It may be tempting to simply write this off as the occasional occurrence of bad actors in any sector of any industry, but theft by TSA agents is likely more widespread a problem than you realize. Nearly 400 TSA agents have been fired specifically for theft since 2003. One would expect, of course, that the number of agents fired represents a fraction of those that have actually stolen something.
And to think, they've done all of this thieving without managing to catch a single terrorist.


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Watch Sandy Hook Elementary Students Perform With Jennifer Hudson at Super Bowl 2013
Jennifer Hudson not only turned in a surprise performance at the Super Bowl tonight, but she fronted a choir of 26 children from Sandy Hook Elementary School, site of the one of our nation's most tragic shootings.
Hudson and the children performed a very uplifting rendition of 'America the Beautiful,' leaving not a dry eye in the house. However the real show was just off to the side, where the ASL interpreter was performing with equal gusto (see GIF below).


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Father, forgive me: McDermott's vanishing world
Alice McDermott writes of suburban summers, of first trips on the city bus, and of whistling past the graveyard. She writes of a world where sidewalks are the color of Necco wafers, uncles drink themselves to death, and mothers wear cotton shirtwaists.
Even as a subtext for a more exclusive story about life in Irish Catholic Long Island in the early 1960s, this is a worldview that is inherently familiar. Anyone who has been a child in a grown-up world knows these things. (Except the shirtwaists… what are those?)
The Maeves and Fionas and Theresas and Bridies in McDermott's novels are not entirely fictional. When she won the National Book Award in 1998, McDermott told journalists that sticking with the place and time of her own coming-of-age was an efficiency. "It saves me a lot of research time," she said.
But the enormous popularity of her work (the National Book Award followed two Pulitzer nominations and precipitated many weeks on bestseller lists) suggests a craft detached from research and an audience larger than readers with nostalgia for Queens.
It's about time, says Robert Wilken, president of the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought, who sees "a significant decline in the Catholic literary culture in the last fifty years." Not many people spring to mind, he laments, when one needs a speaker on the topic of "The Catholic Novel."
Luckily, McDermott– whose novels include Charming Billy and Child of my Heart– is also recognized by the Catholic intelligentsia. Perhaps even more importantly, says Wilken, she writes about the Church with sympathy (if not with the reverence of Flannery O'Connor or the torment of Eugene O'Neill).
Fully one-third of UVA undergraduates are Catholic, according to Wilken. Most are kids with no closer association with the ebbing world of McDermott's books than their non-Catholic peers; no one in Child of My Heart goes to public school or needs to fly home for Thanksgiving. The spinster sisters of At Weddings and Wakes knew nothing about Wahoos.
If the last half-century has disrupted every insular ethnic community in America, McDermott's is no exception. But children still board the bus for the first time alone. And regardless of whether they are Catholic, bound for Brooklyn, or kin to a woman who once wore shirtwaists, they probably gape at the passing cemetery. If, that is, they're not busy with their cell phone.
National Book Award winner Alice McDermott speaks on "The Catholic Novel," Wednesday, February 26, at 5:30pm in UVA's Ruffner Hall. She will read from her work at 11am on February 27 at the UVA bookstore. Sponsored by the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the UVA Creative Writing Program. 924-6709.


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Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told her Senate colleague that she believed serious entitlement reform should be part of any "fiscal cliff" negotiations.
"We've got to look at entitlements," the retiring Republican from Dallas said in a speech on the Senate floor. "According to Medicare trustees, Medicare paid $35 billion more to beneficiaries this year than it took in last year in payroll taxes. And its trust funds will be depleted 12 years from now if we don't act to save Medicare in a responsible way," Hutchison said.
Some Democrats have expressed a willingness to discuss Medicare reform as part of a massive budget deal with Republicans. But the party leadership has refused to negotiate on Social Security. Hutchison said it was important to include Social Security in any bipartisan talks.
"The other issue that is not being talked about very much at all is Social Security," she said in the speech. "In 2010 and 2011, Social Security expenditures, the benefits paid to retirees and the disabled, exceeded payroll tax revenue for the first time since 1983. So as a practical matter, we know that the federal government is borrowing to pay the Social Security needs of today.
"So what can we do? We can act now. We can reform Social Security without cutting core benefits and without increasing taxes on people who are working today."
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Wall of shame or honor?: Locals test-drive the free speech wall
Who would have thought that one of Charlottesville's most provocative architectural projects would be a solitary wall?
Yet the bold and simple design that local architects Peter O'Shea and Rob Winstead came up with for the "free speech wall"– a 55-foot long, seven-foot high chalkboard smack in front of City Hall– has had people talking since it was first proposed nine years ago.
In fact, O'Shea didn't think their design would win because of the argument they knew it would trigger. "I was thinking we wouldn't win because of the potential worries about what people might write on the wall," says O'Shea. Ironically, he says, that's exactly why the design won.
"The Jefferson Center and the jury felt that it best embodied the intention of the First Amendment," says O'Shea. "And went further by encouraging people to actively exercise this right in a public setting."
Like many proponents of the wall, O'Shea believes the debate itself embodies the intention of the project. However, critics say it's more about the design being an ineffective and inappropriate way to honor our First Amendment.
Proponents like Josh Wheeler, associate director of the Jefferson Center, which sponsors the wall, see it as a unique way to encourage free expression. "It was a very courageous decision on the part of City Council," said Wheeler after City Council approved the project in 2001, "and an unprecedented statement by elected officials that the exercise of First Amendment rights are not only tolerated but invited."
Rhetoric like this attracted national media attention, as well as the support of a number of Charlottesville celebrities and philanthropists, including Sissy Spacek, Rita Mae Brown, and John Kluge (who eventually donated $125,000 ), to the project. In addition, says O'Shea, at a public hearing before the Council vote, supporters overwhelmingly out numbered critics.
However, wall critic Kevin Cox says that's because Wheeler and the Jefferson Center went around to schools at UVA and in the County to talk up the project before the hearing. "They basically packed the hearing with supporters, which kind of forced Council's arm to approve the project," says Cox.
That's a charge that Wheeler neither confirms or denies. As Cox points out, "Nobody wants to publicly criticize the monument because they don't want to be labeled as anti-free speech."
However, the now defunct Observer ran an editorial calling the proposed wall "untrue to the spirit of free expression" because it would allow people to say whatever they wanted without being held accountable. In effect, it was a coward's form of free speech. As a result, the editorial predicted, the wall would become an eyesore laced with the kind of profanity and inane scribblings found in bathroom stalls.
Local businessman Tyler Sewell also felt the project was ill-conceived. "In theory, the chalkboard for free speech is a great idea," he wrote on a local blog. "In practice, it will be an ugly eyesore covered with profanity and an ugly embarrassment for the City."
Cox, despite being a free-speech advocate, thinks both critics and supporters were too optimistic. "Unlike a keyboard and the Web, rough slate and chalky rocks just don't lend themselves to writing trash or truth," he wrote in response to a Hook cover story on the Wall in June 2005. "With time, the chalkboard will just sit there, blank and uninteresting," he said. "Eventually, we will be left with an odd little wall as a monument to bad design and good intentions."
Although the panels of Buckingham slate have yet to be mounted on the wall, Charlottesville citizens haven't been shy about using the space. On a recent visit to the wall, we found the bare cinderblocks and protective tarp covered with New Year's resolutions, humor, profanity, soft porn, political statements, math formulas, confessions of love, phone numbers to call for a good time, and several things that don't seem to mean anything at all. Is this what we can expect to see when the rest of the slate goes up?
"Just as we expect with the chalkboard, the comments people have written range from the serious to the silly, from the political to the personal," says Wheeler. "Although it was not our intent that people write on the tarp before the monument was completed, we don't mind that they do. And, in fact, it inspired us to reserve a section for people to write their hopes and resolutions for 2006 as part of the First Night celebration."
Wheeler points out that when completed, the monument will function very differently from the way it does now. "For example, whatever somebody writes on the tarp now remains there until the tarp is removed," says Wheeler. "On the completed chalkboard, the expression will change on a daily basis."
For some, like Cox, that's the problem. "The idea that erasing is a form of free speech is bizarre," he says. "Erasing or altering posts on the monument is defined by the Jefferson Center as a private expression, and so it's permitted. On the other hand, censorship by the government is prohibited by the First Amendment."
As a de facto public monument, Cox believes, "it sends a message that the government endorses and permits censorship."
Where Wheeler sees a rich tapestry of human expression, Cox sees inane, juvenile graffiti. "Look at what happened to the fabric covering the unfinished wall," Cox points out. "Much of what was written there was essentially meaningless gibberish. This is an inappropriate way to celebrate the First Amendment."
Obviously, we won't know for sure what people will do with the chalkboard until it's up and running. According to Wheeler, R.E. Lee & Son will start mounting the big slabs of slate in early February.
Charlottesville free speechers have already begun writing on the unfinished wall.


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World Series Game 4 Giant Ingredient: Battery of Rookies
many young pitchers have started in a World Series game? There were only
three before Game 4 of this season, all 20-year old in age Then there came Madison
Bumgarner, a 21-year old lefty. Yes, Game 4 was a battery of rookies
with Buster Posey catching.
is Baseball. Rookie or not, a player has to go out there and play his
role. And Bumgarner did his impressively. He carried himself with ease
that he could be mistaken as a veteran, of which he would remind you of
Andy Pettitte.
He may have walked the first batter without throwing a
strike but it was 3-up, 3-down first inning, thanks to the double play.
Ian Kinsler was the only other batter that he walked. No one even
stepped on second base except for Michael Young, simply because of Juan Uribe's
error in the seventh inning.
Josh Hamilton tried to steal second base, but Buster
Posey was such a thief buster. Hamilton was the third out of the
fourth inning.
As dominating like an ace Bumgarner may be, he
still needed the help of his defense, which really stepped up for some
dazzling favour. There were the double plays, Freddy Sanchez' impressive
stop in the second inning, and Cody Ross' diving catch in the fifth
Giants offense were also good though not so productive. Two Giants hit
their first post-season home runs, a 2-run homer by Aubrey Huff in the
third inning and a solo shot by Buster Posey in the eight. The other run
was generated by Edgar Renteria, thanks to his quick jump to steal second base.
Andres Torres, who got the RBI, went for double.
Madison Bumgarner left the game on 8IP
with just 3 hits, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts, three of which were to Vladimir
Guerrero, and definitely no run. By the way, Bumgarner's post-season
ERA is still frozen at 0.00. Brian Wilson, the ever reliable Giant
closer, stepped on the mound in the ninth inning to seal the game in his
3-up, 3-down performance with two strikeouts. His post-season ERA is
also frozen at 0.00.
4 was definitely in the books, from the ceremonial first pitch to game
proper, which had a lot to offer including the second World Series
shutout of the Giants, their fourth in the post-season.
the great moments of the World Series Game 4, my favourite would always
be what the Giants gave the world – a rookie starter with the spirit of
a post-season veteran.


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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch economy shrank an unexpectedly sharp 1.1 percent in the third quarter, hit by declines in every business sector, falling exports, low consumer confidence and government austerity.
It also contracted by 1.6 percent year-on-year, the statistics agency said Thursday.
The Netherlands, one of the few remaining euro zone countries with a triple-A credit rating, emerged from recession in the first quarter this year. A contraction in the fourth quarter would now push the country back in.
"All in all we are balancing at the edge of recession," Rabobank economist Ruth van de Belt said.
Economists had expected the slow down, but the drop was greater than even the most pessimistic forecast. Rabobank, for example, had forecast a quarter-on-quarter contraction of 0.7 percent while ING saw -0.5 percent
"What we see is that the only thing that has kept us in the positive, exports, has also let us down this quarter," said Marten Van Garderen, an economist at ING. "It's disappointing."
Germany and France each grew by 0.2 percent in the third quarter but the euro zone as a whole slid to recession due to contraction in other places, including the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Greece.
"Lower house prices reduce the savings and assets of households and their purchasing budget, resulting in lower consumer spending," Statistics Netherlands (CBS) spokesman Peter Hein van Mulligen told reporters.
Higher Dutch unemployment, which rose to a 15-year high and reached 6.8 percent in October, also was weighing on spending, economists said.
Dutch exports fell by 2.4 percent in the third quarter compared with the preceding period, consumer spending fell by 0.6 percent, and investments by companies fell by 3.7 percent, the agency said.
The central bank has forecast the economy will clock its worst seven-year performance since World War Two in the period through 2014.
Another round of austerity announced by the new government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte will take total government spending cuts to 46 billion euros by 2017.
The fresh measures will dampen chances of a quick recovery for the Dutch economy, the fifth largest in euro zone.
"The Dutch government is still going for more cuts and more austerity, so we're thinking of a real slow recovery," said economist Van Garderen.
Reporting by Gilbert Kreijger and Thomas Escritt. Editing by Anthony Deutsch/Jeremy Gaunt.


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Brent-tc wrote:So, argue with me all you want about me changing the definition a bit for perfect, but if you really think that I am not allowed to change the definition of a word such as this, then you are simply admitting that the definition of perfect is perfection in and of itself. Thus, perfection does exist, and can easily be reached, depending on your viewpoint.
eMpTy89 wrote:No living thing can achieve perfection, why? think about it that way, something perfect would have no need, like we can move because we need to be able to go get food because we need some to survive, tree's and plants can't move because they have no need to move(since they create their own food) so a perfect being would have no need to eat, so no need to exist...so perfection is so perfect that it doesn't even exist!
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Microsoft: Sony's 1080p Support on PS3 is all Hype
It's not uncommon for companies to downplay features that its products don't have in comparison to
its competitors. Companies will usually talk about how customers won't likely use the feature or how
it's not cost-effective to implement such features at a certain price point. Microsoft has been on the
defensive with its XBOX 360 for quite some time. The company has defended its lack of a built-in
next generation DVD drive, it has downplayed the importance of HDMI with next generation games
and now it is saying that 1080p doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Andre Vrignaud, Microsoft's Director of Technical Strategy for XBOX Live says that 1080p is mostly
hype with the PlayStation 3. He goes on to say that 99% of the PS3 games released will be
rendered at 720p while the only ones with 1080x native support will be arcade ports or games that
sacrifice in-game effects. Here's a snippet from Vrignaud's Ozymandias Blog:
The PS3 has roughly the same pixel-pushing capabilities as the Xbox 360. Don't need to take my
word for it, it'll be obvious soon enough over the next year. Even if this wasn't the case, consider
we now live in a multi-platform development world, and that the current sweet spot developers are
targeting is 720p due to the extremely similar system specifications. Simply put, a developer who is
planning to release their game for both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 will aim for a common attainable
ground. In fact, I'll stick my neck out and predict that that you won't see any 1080"x" games for the
PS3 this year.
Vrignaud goes on to cite Home Theater Magazine's Geoffrey Morrison as validation for his criticisms
of 1080p on today's consoles. Since Vrgnaud notes that 99% of PS3 games will render at 720p,
that leaves the argument for 1080p with movies. "In this case, the only difference between 1080i
and 1080p is where the de-interlacing is done. If you send 1080i, the TV de-interlaces it to 1080p. If
you send your TV the 1080p signal, the player is de-interlacing the signal. As long as your TV is
de-interlacing the 1080i correctly, then there is no difference," said Morrison.
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Active time: 35 min Start to finish: 45 min
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- 2 lb yau choy
- 6 oz bacon, chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion (1 lb), quartered lengthwise, then sliced crosswise 1/2 inch thick
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 lb penne rigate
- 1 oz finely grated parmesan (1/2 cup)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Discard tough ends from yau choy, then chop stems into 1-inch pieces and coarsely chop leaves. Cook stems in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling salted water until just tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in leaves and cook 1 minute. Transfer yau choy with a slotted spoon to a colander (keep water simmering for pasta), then rinse under cold water to stop cooking and drain again. Do not squeeze out excess water.
- Cook bacon in oil in a 12-inch deep heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until golden brown and crisp, 5 to 7 minutes. Add onion and cook, stirring, until golden, about 15 minutes. Add garlic to onion and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until golden, about 2 minutes.
- While onion and garlic are cooking, bring pot of simmering water to a boil. Add pasta and cook until al dente. Reserve 1 cup of pasta cooking water, then drain pasta in colander.
- Add reserved cooking water to onion and cook, stirring and scraping up brown bits, 30 seconds. Add yau choy and toss to combine. Add pasta, cheese, salt, and pepper and cook over moderately high heat, tossing, until well combined, 1 to 2 minutes.
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If my good friend who is a regular at Chicago Dramatists had not insisted that I see A Steady Rain, now playing at Chicago Dramatists, I would have missed an amazing theatrical experience. It was so intense that I left the performance exhausted but with a feeling that all the characters I "met" in the play were still nearby. I am so glad I took her suggestion because there was so much about the experience that was unique and impressive.
The Chicago Commercial Collective brings the return of the Chicago and Broadway hit drama, A Steady Rain, with its original cast and crew to the Chicago Dramatists. A Steady Rain received its world premiere at the Chicago Dramatists in fall 2007 and was an instant hit. The production ran for six weeks before moving to the Royal George Theatre for a four-month run and then opened on Broadway starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in September 2009. Few other productions in recent Chicago history have garnered the rave reviews as A Steady Rain. Its'New York adaptation broke box office records for highest weekly gross of a non-musical production on Broadway and was included in Time magazine's "Top 10 Plays of 2009."
The production, written by Keith Huff and directed by original director Russ Tutterow is the story of two seasoned police officers, Denny (Randy Steinmeyer) and Joey (Peter DeFaria) who find themselves caught up in a series of conflicts between family and duty. When a domestic disturbance call that seems to be routine results in the shocking death of a boy, relationships change. As the horrific truth of the situation is made public, one of the two must take the blame for the fatal mistake. Their life-long friendship is put to the test, as both men struggle with issues of honor, love and loyalty in the face of adversity.
It would be difficult to imagine more skilled acting or a more convincing set, and this with only two actors and a set that is only tables, chairs and windows. The intimacy of this venue brings the audience into the action. On a stage that was essentially bare, with only two actors, we know a wife, a girl friend, children, the boss, a pimp, a victim, a murderer and even a dog. The scenes changed remarkably with the use of music and lighting. The feel of Chicago and its' language was reminiscent of David Mamet's works. Both the venue and the production are Chicago "hidden treasures".
The design team for A Steady Rain includes set designer Tom Burch, lighting designer Jeff Pines, costume designer Samantha Jones, sound designer Mike Tutaj, and stage manager Wendye Clarendon.
I found the ninety minutes of this production riveting, absorbing and compelling. This is great Chicago Theatre. See it soon.
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Chicago, IL
The regular run until September 2, 2012 is Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and are $40 (preview tickets are $35) and may be purchased online at www.asteadyrainchicago.com. Student and group discounts are available
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Health pros warn against thinness at any cost
Eating disorders are a plague hitting an increasing number of Connecticut adults and children, some as young as 10. And experts say that, too often, those closest to the victims don't even know they're suffering.
"You die looking beautiful," said Natalie Hoeffel, site director of the Renfrew Center of Connecticut in Old Greenwich, referring to the unseen internal bodily damage. "People see a good-looking young woman who looks like a model. Her family says she's healthy because she exercises three hours a day and swims and plays lacrosse. But they don't understand that she is going to drop dead on the field if we don't get her into treatment."
She and other authorities in the field said, though thousands of Connecticut adults and children struggle with eating disorders, many suffer secretly because the life-threatening psychiatric condition has gone undiagnosed and untreated.
"It's a pressing public health issue. These are serious psychiatric disorders that can lead to death," said Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
An estimated 30 million Americans have eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, reports the National Eating Disorders Association. In Connecticut, 3.4 percent of the population has an eating disorder, with females twice as likely to be afflicted than males, according to statistics cited by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.
"We're concerned that there are many boys and girls flying under the radar who could be struggling with eating disorders that aren't diagnosed or treated," said Craig Brown, a founder and chief executive officer for Center for Discovery, which operates residential treatment facilities for those with eating disorders at site all over the country, including those in Greenwich and Fairfield.
What are eating disorders?
A combination of biological, psychological and social factors cause eating disorders. Anorexia, which has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, is characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. People with bulimia have recurring binge-and-purge cycles, consuming large amounts of food, followed by self-induced vomiting, over-exercising or the use of laxatives. People with binge eating disorder (the most prevalent type of eating disorder) eat very large amounts of food, but they do not engage in purging behaviors.
Eating disorders can lead to serious medical consequences, including abnormally low heart rate and blood pressure, osteoporosis, kidney failure, hair loss, gastric ruptures, tooth decay, loss of menstrual cycles and death. Treatment options can range from inpatient care and residential programs to partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient services with a team of physicians, psychiatrists, therapists, nutritionists and others. Many people with eating disorders have additional substance abuse or psychiatric conditions, including alcoholism, depression or self-injury behaviors.
More InformationEating disorders in Connecticut
About 3.4 percent of Connecticut's population has an eating disorder. Many of those affected are young. Here are some facts on youth and eating disorders in the state.
Nearly 18 percent of ninth-grade girls surveyed in 2011 (compared to 12.2 percent in 2009) indicated they had not eaten for 24 or more hours during the previous 30 days due to weight considerations.
Food restriction rates were higher for Hispanic teens (11.9 percent) compared to their African American (8.4 percent) and white (8 percent) peers in grades nine through 12 in 2011.
The rate of food restriction among Hispanic male teens grades nine through 12 was 13.3 percent in 2011, up from 10.1 percent in 2009. Hispanic male teens were more likely to restrict food than Hispanic female teens (10.1 percent) in 2011 -- an inverse of national statistics showing females are more likely to engage in disordered eating than males.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveys
In Connecticut, an increasing number of younger teens overall and Hispanic teens in particular engaged in disordered eating between 2009 and 2011, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its Youth Risk Behavior Surveys. Disordered eating refers to harmful behaviors -- such as restricting food intake -- that could lead to an eating disorder.
The CDC data also show that nearly 18 percent of ninth-grade girls surveyed in 2011 indicated they had not eaten for 24 or more hours during the previous 30 days due to weight considerations. Compare that to the numbers from 2009, when 12.2 percent of girls reported restricting food.
Overall, food restriction rates in Connecticut were higher for Hispanic teens (11.9 percent) compared to their African American (8.4 percent) and white (8 percent) peers in grades nine through twelve in 2011.
What disturbs many professionals is that the disorders are popping up in children at earlier ages than ever. "We used to see eating disorders start at 13 or 14. Now we frequently see 10- and 11-year-olds," said Dr. Diane Mickley, founder and director of the Wilkins Center for Eating Disorders in Greenwich.
`Perfect storm' of factors
While definitive answers remain elusive, experts point to a "perfect storm" of factors that may be contributing to the growing number of youth with disordered eating.
"It's tougher to be a kid these days. It's really stressful," said Jennifer Henretty, director of outcomes and research for Center for Discovery. "But it's not easy being a parent, either. Society gives us messages that we should push our children to be well-rounded and top achievers. But many of these factors may be setting up children to be at an increased risk for eating disorders."
The focus on body mass index -- an indicator of fat based on height and weight -- doesn't help matters.
"Medical providers focus on keeping people's weight under control without thinking about quality of life issues and someone's natural body type," said Margo Maine, of West Hartford's Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group and a founder and past-president of NEDA.
Social media exacerbates the problem, from the pressure to look good on Facebook and Instagram to the "pro-ana" (pro-anorexia) and "pro-mia" (pro-bulimia) sites filled with "thinspirational" messages and how-to tips.
"Youth are avid consumers of mass media," Puhl said. "We need to look closely at the messages and values associated with body weight and fitness and how they are being internalized by kids."
Adults are vulnerable, too. "People think Facebook is just for the young. But there are many women at home on the computer who are worried about looking good in selfies," Hoeffel said.
In fact, many eating disorder experts report treating more older women in their 30s through 70s.
"Age does not immunize people from eating disorders," Maine said. "There is tremendous pressure on women to be everything and everything includes being feminine which means being thin, pretty, fashionable and having the right body type."
Early detection
Although early intervention can lead to a full recovery, many people don't seek treatment due to denial and the inability of health care professionals to recognize early symptoms. Other challenges include inadequate insurance coverage and societal pressure to be thin. Just last month, NEDA criticized clothing retailer J. Crew for creating a new triple-zero size.
"A woman who walks into a doctor's office having lost 20 to 25 pounds gets accolades for losing the weight but no questions about how she lost the weight," Maine said.
Identifying males with eating disorders can be tough because they are more secretive and shun treatment. Nationwide, males comprise 5 percent to 15 percent of people with anorexia and bulimia.
"Physicians, psychologists and social workers are less likely to detect an eating disorder in boys and men because they're just not looking for it," said Rebekah Bardwell Doweyko, program director of Walden Behavioral Care in South Windsor, which opened in 2012. "Even when they do admit to having a problem, men are less likely to seek treatment because they're ashamed of having what they consider to be a `female' illness."
Teenage boys face pressure to maintain a certain body type, particularly in sports where weight matters, such as wrestling, gymnastics, football, track and rowing.
"Boys will take extreme measures to fit into a certain weight class and those behaviors can lead to an eating disorder," Doweyko said. "Sometimes coaches can inadvertently make these behaviors worse with their demands. Coaches have a huge role and responsibility in protecting the health of their athletes."
Experts urged families and schools to take a larger role in prevention and detection, and some have answered the call.
School-based strategies to prevent and identify eating disorders and weight stigmatization drew strong support in a recent study from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The initiatives included adopting weight-related anti-bullying policies, adding eating disorders content to the health curriculum, and training staff to spot the warning signs.
While challenges abound, advocates believe increased awareness about the dangers of eating disorders will benefit people of all ages and backgrounds on the road to recovery.
"These are curable illnesses," Mickley said. "There are many reasons to be hopeful."
This story was reported under a partnership with the Connecticut Health I-Team (www.c-hit.org).