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Beachbody® Restaurant Rescue: Thai EditionBy Stephanie S. Saunders
Thai cuisine dates back 4,000 years, when the region that is now Thailand was part of the major North/South trade route. As a result, this vegetarian-friendly fare has been influenced by China, India, and the Middle East. The United States saw its first immigrants from Thailand in the 1800s, but our true introduction to the cuisine came after the Vietnam War, thanks to soldiers stationed there during the conflict. With its unique tastes and vegetable combinations, a good Thai meal strives to balance five flavors: salty, sweet, spicy, bitter, and sour.
How can one go wrong when ordering from a Thai restaurant? Well, there are several ways. Although not meat-heavy, it can be "fry-heavy," as Thai chefs prefer things "crispy." They're also fond of coconut milk in their curries, and sugary peanut sauce, which is hardly fat free. And the average noodle dish can pack a 600-calorie punch, which is quite a bit if you're having multiple dishes. So, in this installment of Beachbody Restaurant Rescue, let's pay a visit to the land of Siam.
As is often the case, the real danger on a Thai menu lurks in the appetizer section. If you avoid all things fried, you might enjoy one of the following appetizers without doing too much damage to your thighs. And if you must fry it up a little, stay away from the Mee krob, which is a fried caloric nightmare. And be sure to remember that all dipping sauces have sugar in them, and will add 50 to 100 calories to that starter.
For those of us who do not enjoy Thai food regularly, here is an explanation of the appetizers:
Summer rolls are baked tofu, carrots, cucumbers, and red leaf and Thai basil wrapped with rice paper. Curry dumplings are dumplings with shrimp and scallops, served in a light green curry sauce. Satay is bamboo-skewered meat marinated in coconut milk and spices, served with peanut dipping sauce. Egg rolls are fried rice paper stuffed with cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, and vermicelli. Mee krob is crispy rice noodles with shrimp.
|Summer rolls, 1 roll
|1.5 grams
|12 grams
|279 milligrams
|2 grams
|Curry dumplings, 1 dumpling
|5 grams
|51 grams
|324 milligrams
|10 grams
|Satay chicken, 1 skewer
|4 grams
|3 grams
|320 milligrams
|20 grams
|Egg rolls, 1 roll
|8 grams
|40 grams
|330 milligrams
|4 grams
|Mee krob, 4 oz.
|42 grams
|14 grams
|312.5 milligrams
|2 grams
Like all Asian cultures, Thailand has a variety of soups, most of which are fantastic ways to begin a meal. Thanks to Buddhist influence, most Thai soups are vegetarian and fairly good for you, except when based in coconut milk. Like many soups, Thai soups pack a sodium punch, so if you are watching your sodium, try not to overindulge.
Lemongrass soup is a sour soup with oyster mushrooms, traditionally seasoned with lemongrass, lime leaves, bird's eye chili, and lime juice. Tom kha is a coconut soup with oyster mushrooms seasoned with galanga, lime leaves, lemongrass, bird's eye chili, and lime juice. Tofu vegetable soup consists of soybeans, baby bok choy, snow peas, cabbage, carrots, and green onions. Wonton soup is a wonton stuffed with chicken, and shrimp with Asian greens in a hearty chicken broth.
|Lemongrass soup, 4 oz.
|4 grams
|6 grams
|982 milligrams
|16 grams
|Tom kha, 4 oz.
|12 grams
|11 grams
|1,232 milligrams
|31 grams
|Tofu vegetable soup, 4 oz.
|9 grams
|29 grams
|2,134 milligrams
|15 grams
|Wonton soup, 4 oz.
|3 grams
|8 grams
|410 milligrams
|10 grams
Thai salads aren't exactly iceberg, croutons, and ranch dressing. Usually on the spicy side, they tend to include fascinating food combinations. A papaya salad is flavorful, different, and full of some healthy goodness. A Yum tai combines three different kinds of protein and has a lot of kick. Just be sure to avoid the Thai chicken salad, as it is just as bad for you as its Chinese counterpart.
A papaya salad is green papaya with lime juice, fish sauce, chili, bay shrimp, green beans, and a touch of garlic sauce. Pla-goong is grilled shrimp with lemongrass, lime juice, chili, and mint. Yam tai is a green salad with shrimp, chicken, hard-boiled egg, and crushed peanuts with sweet and sour dressing. Yum nua includes slices of herb-barbecued sirloin tossed in lime juice, tomatoes, Japanese cucumber, shallots, scallions, and bird's eye chili.
|Papaya salad, 6 oz.
|6 grams
|22 grams
|829 milligrams
|4 grams
|Pla-goong, 6 oz.
|2 grams
|1 gram
|123 milligrams
|12 grams
|Yam tai, 6 oz.
|7 grams
|54 grams
|720 milligrams
|22 grams
|Yum nua, 6 oz.
|10 grams
|33 grams
|874 milligrams
|25 grams
Main Course
The entrée is where Thai cuisine shows its culturally infused history with an intricate combination of noodles, curries, stir-fries, meat, and seafood. In Thailand, rice is eaten at every meal, and it is always served here in Thai restaurants. Ordering brown rice, if available, will lower the glycemic index of your food, and make you feel satiated much sooner. Again, limiting the amount of coconut milk and fried dishes you order will go a long way toward saving you some calories. Also, remember that Thai food is usually served in large quantities, to be shared with an entire table, so watch your portion sizes.
Pad Thai is sautéed Thai rice noodles with baked tofu, egg, bean sprouts, scallions, and crushed peanuts. Pad see ew features Sen yai noodles sautéed in sweet soy sauce with Asian broccoli and egg. Thai fried rice is jasmine rice sautéed with onions, tomatoes, scallions, and egg. Gra pow is sautéed meat in fresh garlic and chili with red bell peppers, yellow jalapeño, and spicy holy basil. Penang is vegetables and Thai herbs and spices blended in mild chili paste with lime leaves, simmered in coconut milk. Kang dang is meat and Thai spices blended in hot chili paste with apple eggplant, bamboo shoots, Thai basil, and red jalapeño, simmered in coconut milk. Talay Thai is a seafood medley with Thai seasonings of garlic, lemongrass, basil, galanga, lime leaves, and chili peppers. Kang ped is roasted duck in a spicy red curry with pineapple, tomatoes, and Thai basil.
|Pad Thai, 6 oz.
|34 grams
|75 grams
|1,752 milligrams
|34 grams
|Pad see ew, 8 oz.
|6 grams
|103 grams
|1,342 milligrams
|21 grams
|Thai fried rice, 8 oz.
|17 grams
|93 grams
|702 milligrams
|12 grams
|Gra pow, 6 oz.
|4.6 grams
|9 grams
|1,056 milligrams
|20 grams
|Penang, 4 oz.
|40 grams
|15 grams
|786 milligrams
|30 grams
|Kang dang, 4 oz.
|26 grams
|8 grams
|653 milligrams
|22 grams
|Talay Thai, 6 oz.
|6 grams
|33 grams
|2,654 milligrams
|42 grams
|Kang ped, 10 oz.
|52 grams
|19 grams
|328 milligrams
|7 grams
There are a million real Thai dessert recipes out there, but most restaurants don't seem to serve them. Perhaps they would prefer to remain focused on the main courses, and let you fend for yourself after the meal. There's usually green tea ice cream, but that's more of a Japanese dessert. You'll usually find lychee fruit, typically covered in sugar. And a Thai iced tea has enough sugar and fat, thanks to the condensed milk, to satisfy your sweet tooth for a while. Again, if you can do without, avoid the extra calories.
|Green tea ice cream, 4 oz.
|8 grams
|15 grams
|40 milligrams
|3 grams
|Lychee fruits, 4 oz.
|1 gram
|23 grams
|2 milligrams
|< 1 gram
|Thai iced tea, 10 oz.
|5 grams
|35 grams
|20 milligrams
|2 grams
Despite its healthy cuisine, Thailand is also being affected by an obesity epidemic that is astounding. One in five school-age Thai children is overweight, which the government attributes to sedentary lifestyles and an increase in refined sugar. Just like in the United States, children in Thailand are more interested in playing computer games than playing outside.
Unlike U.S. residents, the average Thai person eats out 13 times a week, as it is more economical and convenient than preparing food at home. And although one might think this adds to the obesity problem, eating out in Thailand is a very different experience than the typical American one. Here, we order an appetizer, a few dishes, a sugary drink, and sometimes dessert. In Thailand, eating out means a small bowl of food from a stall in a marketplace, which is eaten while in transit to work or home.
So should you have a craving for some Thai food, perhaps take a cue from the Thai people, and choose a small portion. Sometimes, savoring one dish can be as enjoyable as consuming several. And think of all the hours you will save not burning off coconut milk and peanut sauce. That alone can make any meal more appetizing.
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Climbing Michi's Ladder: BarleyBy Denis Faye
Yes, beer is made from barley, but, no, that does not land beer in tier 1 of Michi's Ladder. Barley is actually a highly nutritious cereal grain with a nutty flavor. But to be completely honest, most cereal grains can be described as having a nutty flavor, so you should probably try it for yourself. It's a great way to get those complex carbohydrates without resorting to wheat.
The nutrition facts
The big draw when it comes to barley is the fiber hit—four times more than you'll get from an equivalent amount of brown rice or oatmeal. One raw ounce is 99 calories, with 1 gram of fat, 21 grams of carbs, 5 grams of fiber, and 3 grams of protein. As for micronutrients, you'll find 19 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA)* for manganese and 15 percent of the RDA for selenium, as well as thiamin, niacin, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus.
How do you eat this stuff?
Barley works pretty much like any other grain, so bread, pancakes, and muffins are all options. You can use cracked or flattened barley to make hot cereal. You can also add it to stews or soups to "beef" them up a little or just add flavor.
|1 cup of barley, pearled, cooked (157 g)
|1 gram
|44 grams
|6 grams
|4 grams
Source: www.nutritiondata.com
Michi's Ladder is Beachbody's guide to nutritious eating. If you only ate from Tiers 1 & 2, you would have a near-perfect diet!
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Prep Your Skin for a Flawless Makeup Application
Let's face it. Most mornings, there's no time to take the extra steps to prep our skin properly for flawless makeup application. Sometimes, we find ourselves subtracting minutes from our morning beauty routine depending on how many times we hit the snooze button on the alarm. However, taking the extra time to prime your skin for makeup when getting dolled up for special occasions, weekends, or holidays can really make a difference in creating a seamless look. Here are some ways to prime your skin for ideal makeup application:
- Exfoliate to help slough off dead skin cells.
- De-puff your eyes so you look more rested.
- Apply a primer to create a protective base and prepare a smooth canvas for makeup application.
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Test Your Grain-Derived Foodstuffs IQ!By Valerie Watson
In this week's newsletter, you've learned quite a bit about barley. Just to keep you well rounded, though, we thought we'd toss you a few questions about some other grains—and the diverse and tasty things made from them. See if you can match the food or beverage with the grain from which it's made:
- Grits - Corn. Grits is a Southern staple similar to porridge in consistency. It's made by coarsely grinding dried corn, cooking it in boiling water, and seasoning it with salt, pepper, butter, pork fat, bacon bits, or anything else you care to toss in. Grits can also be made from hominy, which is dried corn that's been soaked in lye-water to remove the hulls. The technical word for this process is "nixtamalization," but my personal word for it is "blecchhy"—when it comes to food, I'd rather leave my hulls in (more fiber!) and my lye out (less corrosion of my digestive tract!), thank you very much.
- Sake - Rice. Sake, as most people know, is a Japanese alcoholic beverage, but not everyone knows what it's made from: rice. More akin to beer than wine in its fermentation process, sake generally has a higher alcohol content than either. The production of sake dates back to the 3rd century AD, and sake holds an important place in Japanese history and ritual. According to tradition, one should not pour one's own sake. However, if one is alone, extremely thirsty, and not expecting company for a goodly amount of time, what the rest of us don't know (probably) won't hurt us.
- Muesli - Oats. Muesli is a cereal made from toasted rolled oats combined with various types of fruit and nuts. A fairly recent concoction, muesli was developed around 1900 by a Swiss physician, Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner, for the patients in his hospital, and it really began taking off in popularity around the 1960s because the healthful nature of its ingredients meshed well with the growing international interest in diet and fitness. Nowadays, muesli is often sweetened with honey or even used as a dessert topping or ice cream mix-ins, which is probably not exactly what the health-minded Dr. Bircher-Benner had in mind, but then again, he probably never tasted it mashed into a scoop of Peanut Butter Banana Fudge Ripple, either.
- Couscous - Wheat. Couscous, particularly popular throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East, is made from semolina wheat pellets steamed until light and fluffy, then served with broth, stew, vegetables, meat, or fish. Couscous is similar in form and function to pasta or rice, but is at least twice as much fun to say. (Don't take my word for it; go on and try it for yourself.)
- Pumpernickel bread - Rye. Pumpernickel is a dark, heavy bread made either from coarsely ground rye, or from finer rye flour with whole rye berries. Traditional German pumpernickel is characterized by its long, slow baking time; its rich, dark color; and its somewhat sweet flavor, all achieved without later Americanizations like sweetening with molasses, coloring with coffee or cocoa, and/or leavening with yeast. In a delightful example of culinary split personality, pumpernickel is often paired with upscale treats like caviar and smoked fish, even though its name derives from the German words for "to break wind" and "goblin"—it's the rude little creature-emission that made good!
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Back in the mid-1980s, one of the most bizarre copyright lawsuits of all time played out in California. Saul Zaentz, who owned Fantasy Records and copyrights to all the songs John Fogerty had written and released on the label when he was with Creedence Clearwater Revival, sued Fogerty for ripping off the guitar riff from CCR's "Run Through the Jungle" for his 1985 hit "The Old Man Down the Road." That's right: John Fogerty was sued for sounding too much like himself. After getting grilled about the musical similarity between the two songs, Fogerty finally said, "Yeah, I did use that half-step. What do you want me to do, get an inoculation?"
After listening to Fogerty play the two songs and describe his writing process, the jury decided in his favor. Had the jury decided that "Old Man" was indeed a ripoff of the earlier song, Zaentz would have had a legitimate case: Fogerty may have written "Run Through the Jungle," but the singer handed over his copyrights to Zaentz when he was green and hungry for fame, as part of the band's original deal with Fantasy. Under copyright law, that song—along with "Fortunate Son," "Proud Mary," "Who'll Stop the Rain," and everything else Fogerty wrote for CCR—belonged to Zaentz, not the songwriter.
As crucial as copyright and other intellectual property laws are, their execution is sometimes not only absurd but in direct opposition to the very spirit under which they're enacted. Everybody knows John Fogerty wrote those songs and Zaentz had nothing to do their creation. But in a music-biz version of the labor vs. management struggle, Zaentz held all the cards.
That's the kind of situation that holding companies like Acacia Research thrive on. Acacia doesn't create technology. Instead, it purchases the rights to patents that are the result of other people's work, then proceeds to collect licenses from anyone who's using the technology covered by the patent. The company first cashed in when it acquired Soundview Technologies, developers of the V-Chip TV-content screening device. By the time the FCC mandated the technology's installation in new sets, Soundview was running out of money and so sold the patent to Acacia, which went on to earn $26 million in one-time licensing fees. The patent expired in 2003, and an appeals court recently ruled that Sony and other manufacturers were not infringing on Acacia's V-Chip patent with their screening devices.
Acacia surely saw that coming, and by the time the V-Chip patent expired, the company was attempting to collect licensing fees on five other patents involving what the company calls "a system of distributing video and/or audio information [that] employs digital signal processing to achieve high rates of data compression sent over standard telephone, cable, or satellite broadcast channels for later playback and optional recording." In other words, streaming audio and video. This time, Acacia got an early start when it invested in Greenwich Information Technologies, which received the patents in the early 1990s. In 2001, Acacia bought Greenwich and its patents outright.
Since then, the company has pursued patent licenses not from firms like Microsoft and Real that create media players but from content providers that range from Disney and Radio Virgin to a slew of adult video sites. On its face, there's nothing wrong with that. Acacia owns the patents and, as anyone who's watched the stock market since the 1980s knows, a good part of our nation's economy is built on venture capitalists' making money off of other people's creations. (Then again, Karl Marx had this figured out long before Oliver Stone.) We can argue about whether that's a moral or ethical way to make money, but that closing bell's still gonna ring at the end of the day.
Plenty of companies—nearly 170 at press time—decided it's cheaper to license than fight. Those that fought were exactly the ones Acacia probably expected to not raise a stink: a group of adult Internet sites who argue not that Acacia's claim to the patents is invalid, but that the patents themselves were improperly granted. In a case that's made its way to U.S. District Court in California, a judge handed down an initial ruling that, for the most part, went against Acacia. In fact, the judge went so far as to encourage the adult sites to move for summary judgement on significant portions of the suit, an uncommon move that all but admitted the court would side with the Web sites—not on every count, but on enough that the sites were considering the ruling at least a partial victory.
Those within the streaming industry have been following Acacia closely since 2003. By August 2004, the Acacia case received national attention when the New York Times decided it was worthy of coverage. Predictably, those outside the industry took notice, and people for whom streaming is only a tiny part of their business—like videographers and studios who put short video clips on their Web sites—began wondering if they'd be next on Acacia's hit list.
While the Acacia case is certainly worth paying attention to, it's far from worthy of a "sky is falling" panic for anyone but those for whom streaming is a major part of their business, and it would be alarmist and irresponsible of EMedia to treat it as such. That doesn't mean you shouldn't take it seriously if you receive a letter from Acacia offering a licensing agreement for any streaming you might provide. By all means, contact your attorney. But don't assume that just because Disney and some cable companies—all of whom can afford to pay the fees and get on with their business—signed agreements, that it's the right move for you. Because sometimes, as John Fogerty found out, intellectual property law is a whole lot trickier than simply saying "I created it; it's mine."

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Kringle is being served at Gov. Scott Walker's budget signing ceremony.
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Trade agreements and contracts were being signed and the Japanese whose writing was poorly suited to the demands of commercial trade quickly had to simplify the lines of their characters and adopt international calligraphy standards. Many pen manufacturers were set up in Japan during this time.
Ryosuke NAMIKI, a mechanical engineer and professor at the Tokyo Merchant Marine Collage, was captivated by the ingenuity of these fountain pens which his contemporaries called "10,000 year brushes" because of their uninterrupted ink flow. However, at the same time Ryosuke NAMIKI remained convinced about their imperfections
Using his skills in industrial engineering, he created a high quality prototype of his own design. After forming a partnership with one of his colleagues, Masao WADA, he created the NAMIKI MANUFACTURING COMPANY and started producing fountain pens.
Japanese Maki-e Art dates back 1400 years and is a highly respected and rare form of art. There are but a few living Masters of this art form who continue to keep this tradition alive. A skilled Make-Shi (artist) has begun his learning at an early age and works as an apprentice to his master for many years before he may set out on his own.
Maki-e art features Urushi lacquer (sap from the Urushi tree native to Japan), along with gold powder and other precious metals and powders painted and inlaid into the most exquisite of designs that require great skill and precision.
Maki-e is an art of precision and hard work, befitting the character of the people of Japan. It requires tremendous focus and attention to minute detail. The Maki-e Shi use very fine brushes made of the finest hair from various different animals. There are many different brushes and spatulas that are used in the process of Maki-e depending on the technique being applied. In the process of Maki-e there are several steps that are taken and patiently applied to the object over months before an object can be completed.The many levels of technique that are found on pens to name a few are Hira Maki-e, Togidashi Maki-e, Taka Maki-e, Shishai Togidashi Maki-e and Bokashi Maki-e.
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Why CEOs Should Allow Facebook in the Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC]
Many CEOs forbid use of social media at work, but recent research shows that web surfing leads to increased productivity.
This Keas infographic explores the benefits of social media in the workplace, showing that social connections make people happier and a brief recess involving Internet-browsing increases productivity.
An Academy of Management experiment gave three groups of people — a control group bundling sticks, a group taking an Internet-free break and a group browsing the Internet for 10 minutes — the simple task of highlighting as many letter A's as they could among 2,000 words of text.
The three groups then had their mental exhaustion measured. Those browsing the Internet were 16% more productive than the Internet-free break group and 39% more productive than the control group.
The study concludes that taking a break, particularly one spent browsing the Internet, should be encouraged by employers hoping to increase productivity.
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|The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive[...] bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a collector and bibliographer, includes publications that printed original versions of the storyline, as well as various derivative works based on the novel; extensive bibliographies of editions of Dickens's works and scholarly work on Dickensiana, with a focus on Edwin Drood; and travel information and souvenirs from Dickens-related landmarks and events.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Adding an echocardiogram early on in the assessment of critically ill patients with vasopressor-dependent shock may improve outcomes, a before-and-after study showed.
Patients treated after a bedside echocardiogram was added to the protocol received significantly less IV fluid through the first 4 days of the hospitalization than those treated earlier (P<0.05), according to Hussein Kanji, MD, MPH, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
In addition, those who had an echocardiogram had significantly more days free from vasopressors (23 versus 19, P=0.04) and mechanical ventilation (22 versus 16, P<0.001) and had a higher survival rate at 28 days (72% versus 58%, P=0.03), he reported at the Society of Critical Care Medicine meeting here.
Action Points
- Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Note that this prospective case-series revealed that standardized bedside echocardiogram was associated with improved mortality in patients with vasodilatory shock compared with historical controls.
- Be aware that secular trends in fluid managment of ICU patients may have confounded the results.
"Certainly, a future randomized controlled trial looking at this intervention to both define its definitive role as well as confirm these results is, I think, absolutely needed and hopefully will come very shortly," Kanji said.
It can be a challenge to determine the appropriate volume of IV fluid in patients with vasopressor-dependent shock, he said. Initiating and then titrating inotropic therapy targeted specifically to cardiac contractility requires a look at cardiac function, which can be achieved by echocardiography, he added.
Starting on Jan. 4, 2012, patients with vasopressor-dependent shock at Kanji's center underwent a standardized echocardiogram with a handheld scanner within 36 hours of admission to the intensive care unit. A hemodynamic assessment team used the echo to measure cardiac function and volume status, and then made recommendations about further management based on the results. A follow-up echo was done 2 to 24 hours after the initial one.
The current analysis compared outcomes between 74 patients treated after the addition of the echo exam and 104 patients treated before the change. The two groups were generally well matched, with a mean age of 62 in the group that had the echo exam and 60 in the group that did not.
The patients were "very sick," according to Kanji, as indicated by an APACHE II score of 24 to 25.
Most of the patients had vasodilatory shock (69% in the echo group and 63% in the control group).
Of the patients who had an echo exam, 19% had significant valvular pathology and were recommended to get a formal echocardiographic exam. Another 40% had moderately-to-severely depressed left ventricular ejection fraction.
As for volume status, 65% of the patients had no inferior vena cava collapsibility.
Based on the echo findings, recommendations included a restriction of fluids in 69% and an increase in inotropic support in 16%.
The superior outcomes in patients who underwent an echo exam remained even with multivariate adjustment. The odds of dying within 28 days were 67% lower in the echo group (OR 0.33, 95% CI 0.16 to 0.70).
Because of the nonrandomized nature of the study, there could have been some change in practice stemming from discussions about the amount of fluid clinicians were using that resulted in the beneficial changes seen, according to Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, of Erasme University Hospital in Brussels, who was one of the moderators of the session at which Kanji presented the results.
Kanji acknowledged that as a possibility.
"Maybe this is just an element of education, absolutely, but I feel strongly that the effect of that echo at the bedside gives ... confidence to the physician to follow through with what we think is right," he said.
Kanji and Vincent both said that they had no conflicts of interest.
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Source Reference: Kanji H, et al "Early standardized echocardiography improves survival in patients with shock" SCCM 2013; Abstract 18.


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3101.0 - Australian Demographic Statistics, Jun 2009 Quality Declaration
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 03/12/2009
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Australia's population growth: births exceed 300,000 a year
Australia recorded 301,000 births for the year ending 30 June 2009 according to preliminary figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Australia's total fertility rate reached a 30 year high with just under 2 babies per woman, the highest since 1977.
A population growth rate of 2.1% was recorded for the year ending 30 June 2009, up from 1.7% recorded last year. This is the highest growth rate in 40 years (2.1% in 1969).
As at 30 June 2009, Australia's population had grown to 21,875,000, an increase of 443,000 people over the previous year. Australia's net overseas migration contributed to more than half of this growth at 64% or 285,000 people. Natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) contributed 158,000 (36%).
Over the last 12 months, Western Australia continued to record the fastest population growth at 3.0%, followed by Queensland (2.6%), the Northern Territory (2.3%), Victoria (2.1%), New South Wales (1.7%), the Australian Capital Territory (1.6%), South Australia (1.2%) and Tasmania (1.0%).
As at 30 June 2009, the population of each State and Territory was:
New South Wales 7,100,000; Western Australia 2,237,000;
Victoria 5,428,000; Tasmania 502,600;
Queensland 4,407,000; Northern Territory 224,800;
South Australia 1,623,000; Australian Capital Territory 351,200.
More details are available in Australian Demographic Statistics, June Quarter 2009 (cat. no. 3101.0).
For population estimates at the regional level please see Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2007-08 (cat. no. 3218.0) and Population by Age and Sex, Regions of Australia, 2008 (cat. no. 3235.0).
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Jorge Luis Borges Mystery & Detective Fiction Analysis
(Masterpieces of Fiction, Detective and Mystery Edition)
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Jorge Luis Borges was undoubtedly the most "literary" of all practitioners of the detective story; in fact, he stated that he found within himself no other passion and almost no other exercise than literature. His interest in detective fiction stemmed from early encounters with the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, whom he called the originator of the detective story, and G. K. Chesterton, whose combination of mysticism and ratiocination he admired most.
Borges repeatedly acknowledged his debt to the detective-story genre. What he admired most about the form is that whereas much modern literature is full of incoherence and opinion, the detective story represents order and what he called "the obligation to invent." Indeed, the intrinsic relationship between the detective story and Borges's fiction centers on the related issues of order, pattern, and plot, qualities that to him are most pronounced in short fiction. Borges rejected both the naïve realism and the discursive psychologizing of the novel, preferring instead the aesthetic tightness and consequent fantastic irrealism of the short story.
In one of his most famous statements on detective fiction, "Chesterton and the Labyrinths of the Detective Story," Borges notes that whereas the detective novel borders on the character or psychological study, the detective story is an exercise in formal patterning and should abide by the following rules: The number of characters should be minimal; the resolution should tie up all loose ends; the emphasis should be on the "how" rather than the "who"; and the mystery should be so constructed that it is fit for only one solution, a solution at which the reader should marvel.
"The Approach to Almotásim"
Borges's fascination with the possibilities of the detective story as a model for his fiction actually began with an experiment, with the 1936 essay "El acercamiento a Almotásim" ("The Approach to Almotásim"). The work is presented as a Borges review of a detective novel titled "The Approach to Almotásim," written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali. Although Bahadur is fictitious and the novel is nonexistent, Borges summarizes its plot—his own fiction within this fictional review—and characterizes the novel as a union of rational detective fiction and Persian mysticism—a combination similar to that which Borges perceived in the works of Chesterton.
The plot of the fictional novel involves a nameless Bombay law student who kills, or thinks he kills, a Hindu in a street battle between Hindus and Muslims and who proceeds to flee the police—a flight that later turns into a pursuit of a man pure of soul. The novel ends just as the student finds this man, whose name is Almotásim. What most interests Borges the reviewer in the story is Almotásim as an image of the incarnation of the spiritual within the physical—a concept central to the stories of Chesterton. The story also introduces Borges's concern with fiction as a metaphor for reality, rather than reality as a basis for fiction.
Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi
Borges has called one of the chief events of his life his friendship with Adolfo Bioy Casares, with whom he began editing classic detective novels and writing collaboratively in the 1940's. Together they invented a third writer, Honorio Bustos Domecq, the pseudonym for the creator of a fictional detective named Isidro Parodi who is featured in their first collaborative book, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (1942; Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, 1981). Don Parodi, as his name suggests, is a parody of the rational detective; he is the reasoner and practitioner of absolute inaction, an armchair detective who cannot become involved in the events of the solution of a mystery because he is in a prison cell.
"An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain"
Most of Borges's fictions emphasize, in one way or another, the highly formalized literariness and the mystical undercurrent of the...
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A thread of silver runs through the history of Belton House. From the time the house was built in the 1680s by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt. (1659-97), silver was an integral part of the interior. Even the staff of the porter, shown in a painting of about 1720 (but still surviving in the house), had a silver pommel and ferrule.
One of the third Baronet's acquisitions is the rare set of silver gilt chained water bottles, sometimes known as 'pilgrim bottles'.
Later generations of the Brownlow and Cust families continued to add silver. John Cust, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl Brownlow (1779-1853), was one of the first collectors of antique silver. He bought a considerable number of late-seventeenth-century silver items from the royal silversmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. These had been recycled from various royal palaces, where they were considered outmoded. As a result, some of the silver gilt sconces now housed at Belton give a flavour of the decoration of king William III's palaces.
This year there is even more emphasis on silver at Belton than usual, with silversmith Angela Cork working as artist in residence, sponsored by the Goldsmith's Company.


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Missing New Hampshire Teen Abigail Hernandez Sent Mom Letter
Investigators said the authenticated letter gives them hope.
Dec. 6, 2013 -- A missing New Hampshire teen sent her mother a letter that was postmarked weeks after she disappeared, authorities said today.
The letter from Abigail Hernandez, 15, was postmarked on Oct. 23 and received on Nov. 6, according to the FBI and New Hampshire Attorney General's Office.
"When we received this letter, I will tell you it was unprecedented. It gave us hope," FBI special agent Kieran Ramsey said.
Mom Pleads For Missing Daughter's Return
Investigators said they decided to come forward with the existence of the letter because they fear the teen may be in "grave" danger and could perhaps be used for sexual exploitation if she is still alive.
While it was unclear if Hernandez left willingly or was abducted, Ramsey said investigators' "worst fear" is "someone may now be coercing her."
The existence of the letter was kept private at first, Ramsey said, because they wanted to glean everything they could from it and follow every possible lead.
Ramsey declined to reveal where the letter was postmarked or any of the letter's contents. He would also not disclose why it took two weeks from the moment the letter was postmarked for it to reach Hernandez's mother.
New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said investigators were able to verify the letter was from the missing teen because "the tone was a tone Abi would have used."
Young said revealing the existence of the letter may result in a deluge of fakes, however, "our hope is we see another letter[from Abi]," she said.
Hernandez was last seen on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 9 leaving Kennett High School in North Conway.
When her mother Zenya Hernandez came home from her nursing job that night, her daughter wasn't home.
The FBI's search for the teen -- who was last seen wearing black yoga pants and a gray sweatshirt -- has been conducted by air, over rough wooded terrain, and in the nearby Sacco River.
Hernandez's last cell phone call was tracked to a spot near Cranmore Mountain, a ski resort near the missing girl's Village Way home, on the day she disappeared.
Two months later, Young said authorities will continue to chase every lead and asked for the public's help.
"We're asking you. Look at your neighbor. Look at the grocery store. Look at your church," she said. "Is there somebody you haven't seen here before?"


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RBNRMF (Oct06) ftools.caltools RBNRMF (Oct06) NAME rbnrmf -- Physically compresses (rebins) an RMF dataset in channel-space and/or energy space. USAGE rbnrmf infile [ebdfile] [binfile] [fchan] nchan cmpmode [ebinfile] [ebfact] outfile [chatter] [clobber] DESCRIPTION RBNRMF compresses a FITS RMF matrix (redistribution matrix file in an OGIP-standard format) in channel-space and/or energy-space to give a user-defined number of resultant channels and energy bins. The output is a new file containing the revised (compressed) MATRIX extension, and the corresponding EBOUNDS extension containing the nominal energies of the revised set of channel boundaries. Caution is urged before RBNRMF is used. The primary use of the task is likely to be to compress RMF datasets in channel-space such that the resultant number of channels matches that in a given PHA dataset. Hence downstream spectral analysis packages can be used to unambiguously map the channels in the PHA spectrum and Response matrix. The mode (or 'type') of compression performed is specified via the user-defined "cmpmode" parameter. The hidden parameter fchan allows the users to define the first channel no. in the output file. There are three options as follows: (1) fchan=% (by default) which means that the first channel no. in output is same as the first channel no. in input. (2) fchan=0 which means that whatever be the first channel no. in input file, the output first channel no. is zero. (3) fchan=1 which means that whatever be the first channel no. in input file, the output first channel no. is one. CHANNEL COMPRESSION MODES The following modes of compression (only) are currently allowed when binning in channel-space : cmpmode='LINEAR' In most cases (ie for most instruments & operating modes) only a LINEAR compression is allowed. In such cases the compression is such that The compression is such that for a given compression factor F (calculated from the number of channels in the original RMF extension and the number requested by the user), the data applicable to channels 1 to F of the original RMF matrix will be co-added to form channel 1 of the new matrix, channels F+1 to 2*F of the old dataset channel 2 of the new matrix etc. The number of channels requested in the output file should be a factor of the number of channels in the input file. cmpmode='BRIGHT2LINEAR' This is a non-linear compression mode which should only be used on an ASCA SIS RMF which has the 'non-linear' channel-numbering scheme appropriate for 'BRIGHT' datamode data, but which the user wishes to use in conjunction with a PHA file from the same instrument constructed whilst the instrument was operating in another datamode (such as the SIS 'FAINT' datamode). In the 'BRIGHT' datamode SIS PHA spectra have only 2048 channels (compared to 4096 PHA channels available within SIS 'FAINT' datamode). This is is achieved by a non-linear binning-up the PHA dataset carried out on-board ('FAINT' channels 1024 -> 2047 are binned by a factor 2 by the on-board electronics, and 'FAINT' channels 2048 -> 4096 by a factor 4). RMFs constructed for use with 'BRIGHT' datamode data therefore are similarly rebinned and hence have a 'non-linear' channel-numbering scheme. The mode is designed to compensate for this fact, and linearize the channel-number scheme such that it is appropriate for PHA datasets collected whilst the SIS was not operating in 'BRIGHT' datamode. Thus, RBNRMF calculates and applies three separate compression factors (F1, F2 & F3) to the input RMF dataset over the input channel ranges 1 -> (Nin/2), (Nin/2 + 1) -> (3Nin/4), and (3Nin/4 + 1) -> Nin (respectively), where Nin is the number of channels in the input RMF file. The compression factors are calculated assuming F1 = Ni/2 * 4/Nout and F2 = F1/2, F3 = F1/4, where Nout is the requested number of channels in the output RMF matrix. Nout must therefore be Nin/2 or smaller (by a factor divisible by 2) for RBNRMF to work in this mode. The net result is that the resultant RMF file has a linear channel-numbering scheme (equivalent to that used by the 'FAINT' datamode). cmpmode='FAINT2BRIGHT' This is a non-linear compression mode which should only be used on an ASCA SIS RMF which has the linear channel-numbering scheme appropriate for 'FAINT' datamode data, but which the user wishes to use in conjunction with an SIS PHA file constructed whilst the instrument was operating in 'BRIGHT' datamode. The mode is designed to essentially perform the opposite task to the 'BRIGHT2LINEAR' (see above). Again RBNRMF calculates and applies three separate compression factors (B1, B2 & B3) to the input RMF matrix over the input channel ranges 1 -> (Nin/4), (Nin/4 + 1) -> (Nin/2), and (Nin/2 + 1) -> Nin (respectively), where Nin is the number of channels in the input matrix. The compression factors are calculated assuming B1 = Ni/4 * 2/Nout and B2 = 2*B1, B3 = 4*B3, where Nout is the requested number of channels in the output RMF. Nout must be Nin/2 or smaller (by a factor divisible by 2) for RBNRMF to work in this mode. The net result is that the resultant RMF file has a NON-LINEAR channel-numbering scheme, equivalent to that used by the 'BRIGHT' datamode. ENERGY COMPRESSION Only linear binning is allowed when compressing in energy-space. If the ebinfile parameter is set then this file is used to get the compression information otherwise a linear compression with binning factor ebfact is performed. WARNINGS ON USAGE In order to minimise the disk-space requirements, the RMF matrix is stored in compressed form (CAL/GEN/92-002), that is all matrix elements below a given threshold (specified by LO_THRES keyword) are not stored. Unfortunately the LO_THRES keyword is not always used correctly, that is elements below this value are stored. When RBNRMF is used on such a matrix, the values below LO_THRES will NOT be stored. In order to overcome this, users may use the ftool/futil FPARKEY to change the LO_THRES keyword value in the input RMF file. The non-linear compression modes available for use with ASCA SIS data should be used with extreme care. These RBNRMF modes are only required if users wish to perform spectral analysis on a PHA dataset taken in one on-board datamode in conjuncture with a detector response designed for use with PHA data obtained in the other datamode. Users are warned that it is not always immediately obvious if a PHA file using one channel-numbering scheme is used with a matrix using the other (though sharp discontinuities are a dead giveaway). Unfortunately, at the present time it is not possible to provide software checks for such errors, and it is the responsiblity of the user to determine & pay attention to the channel-numbering scheme used to construct the PHA & RMF files. PARAMETERS infile [character string] The name of the FITS RMF file to be compressed (ebdfile) [character string] The name of the FITS EBD input file. The Default, "%", means that it is same as infile. (binfile='NONE') [character string] The name of an ascii file specifying the channel binning information. NOTE the default for this is NONE. If a filename is specified then the parameters nchan and cmpmode are not prompted for. The ascii file format should be of the form : 1 256 2 where 1 is the starting channel, 256 the ending channel, and 2 the compression factor. NOTE : a compression factor of -1, omits the channel(s),ie: 1 250 2 251 256 -1 in this case channels 1 to 250 are rebinned by a factor of 2, and channels 251 to 256 are omitted. The number of channels in each entry should be the multiple of the compression factor. (fchan=%) [character string] The option to define the output first channel no. By default(%) it is same as input. nchan [integer] The number of channels required in the compressed RMF dataset cmpmode [character string] The channel compression mode to be used. Currently the only values allowed are 'LINEAR', 'FAINT2BRIGHT' and 'BRIGHT2LINEAR' (see above), with 'LINEAR' as the default. (ebinfile='NONE') [character string] The name of an ascii file specifying the energy binning information. NOTE the default for this is NONE. If a filename is specified then the parameter ebfact is not prompted for. The ascii file format is identical to that given in the description of the binfile parameter. (ebfact) [integer] The compression factor for energy binning. This must be a divisor of the number of response energies in the input RMF. outfile [character string] The name of the FITS file to be written containing the compressed RMF dataset (chatter = 9) [integer] Flag to indicate how chatty the task is at execution. A value of 9 is the default, with lower/higher values producing quieter/verbose output respectively. (clobber = false) [boolean] Flag specifying whether or not a pre-existing file with the same name as that requested as the output file from this task will be overwritten. EXAMPLES 1. To compress the channel-space in "my_file.rmf" to obtain a new file with 512 channels, with linear compression mode : ca> rbnrmf my_file.rmf 512 linear compress.rmf 2. Suppose my_file has 1024 channels and 2048 energy bins and we wish to bin up in energy space to give 1024 bins : ca> rbnrmf my_file.rmf 1024 linear compress.rmf ebfact=2 BUGS None known SEE ALSO CAL/GEN/92-002 (George etal 1992 Legacy, 2, 51), CAL/GEN/92-002a the ftools/heasarc task rbnpha LOG OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGES v5.0.0 (2006 Oct) Added binning in energy space. v4.4.0 (1998 Jun) Modify the rebinning algorithm. Preserve the group structure. v4.2.0 (1996 Nov) Added option of specifying first output channel no. v3.0.0 (1995 Aug) Added option of specifying binning in an ascii file v2.0.0 (1994 Mar) Added dynamic memory allocation v1.0.0 (1993 Oct) Initial public release PRIMARY AUTHOR Rehana Yusaf HEASARC NASA/GFSC http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ftoolshelp (301) 286-6115
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###i## mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/funtoo
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###i## mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/home
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###i## mount /dev/sda1 /
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=== Restoring from latest backup ===
=== Restoring from latest backup ===
Latest revision as of 05:43, November 12, 2014
This tutorial leads you through the process of backing up and restoring your OS. This process is completed using the
rsync tool that is included in SystemRescueCd.
Why SystemRescueCd?
The usage of SystemRescueCD is quite simple: it enables us to backup the contents of our entire OS.
Backing Up
By default, SystemRescueCd provides a /mnt/backup mount point. We will use this. There is no mount point for Funtoo. We have to create one:
root # install -d /mnt/funtoo
When you use SystemRescueCd to backup you OS for the first time, you also have to create mount points for additional partitions. In this tutorial we assume that there is a /boot and a /home partition. Create the directories in /mnt/funtoo:
root # install -d /mnt/funtoo/boot root # install -d /mnt/funtoo/home
We also assume that we are backing up a sytem to an external drive. Plug in the USB device and power it on.
root # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 512000 sda1 8 2 32768 sda2 8 3 2097152 sda3 8 4 52428800 sda4 8 5 433314823 sda5 8 16 488386584 sdb 11 0 1048575 sr0 8 48 488386584 sdd 8 49 229032928 sdd1 8 52 1 sdd4 8 53 259352576 sdd5
The above command helps you to determine the device name. Lets's suppose that your backup device is /dev/sdd1. Mount the device now - along with your Funtoo partitions.
root # mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup root # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/funtoo root # mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/funtoo/home root # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/funtoo/boot
Now, we backup our Funtoo partition:
root # rsync -aHA --del --force --stats --progress /mnt/funtoo /mnt/backup
Once this command has completed, you can create a snapshot. Create a snapshot folder if there is none:
root # install -d /mnt/backup/snapshot
Give your snapshot copy a name that includes the date. Therefore, you may keep as many snapshot copies as you want and use one of those copies to restore your system to its state at any given date:
root # cp -al /mnt/backup/funtoo /mnt/backup/snaphot/snap-2K014B26-a
In our example, the name of the snapshot tells us that it was created on February 26th (B26) 2014 and it is the first one (a) made on that date.
Log of backups
Logging backups is not mandatory but can be useful. Create a log file and add a descriptive, yet short record for each of your backup. Here is an example:
Date File Description ----------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Feb 26th 2014 snap-2K014B26-a Backup after system update : - New kernel installed
First, you have to boot your PC with SystemRescueCd. Next, create and format partitions as per installation guide. For the sake of brevity, we assume that we are restoring the /boot, / and /home partitions. First, you must create a mount point for Funtoo:
root # install -d /mnt/funtoo
Mount partitions
root # mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup root # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/funtoo root # mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/home root # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
If /home and /boot fail to mount, simply create the appropriate mount points and run the mount commands again.
Restoring from latest backup
root # rsync -aHA --del --force --stats --progress /mnt/backup/funtoo/ /mnt/funtoo
The / at the end of
/mnt/backup/funtoo/ is mandatory -- not a typo.
Restoring from a previous backup
root # rsync -aHA --del --force --stats --progress /mnt/backup/snapshot/snap-2K014B26-a/ /mnt/funtoo
The / at the end of
/mnt/backup/snapshot/snap-2K014B26-a/ is mandatory -- not a typo.
Restoring GRUB2
Once the system has been restored, GRUB2 must be reinstalled. The example below is for a GRUB/Bios partition schema. This assumes that the Funtoo partitions were created on /dev/sda:
root # cd /mnt/funtoo root # mount -t proc none proc root # mount -o bind /dev dev root # mount -o bind /sys sys root # swapon /dev/sda3 root # cp /etc/resolv.conf etc root # env -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM chroot . bash -l root # grub-install /dev/sda
If, for some reason, the partitions were not created on the same devices -- (let's say they were moved from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb) -- please amend
/etc/boot.conf and
/etc/fstab accordingly before running
root # boot-update
You're done. Unmount partitions and reboot.
This is an as-is translation by Guy Fontaine (AKA Aramis_qc) of an original French tutorial written by Sylvain Alain (AKA d2_racing). Some parts were reviewed and modified to reflect Funtoo GNU/Linux instead of Gentoo GNU/Linux.


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Jan. 25, 2013 -- Distracted Driving
Sarah Smith, KMBC/KCWE President and General Manager
I'm Sarah Smith with KMBC and KCWE. Here it is approaching the end of January. Are you still on track with your New Year's resolution? Here is one we can all live with -- literally. Let's all resolve to stop using our cellphones and other electronic devices while driving.
Last year, both Kansas and Missouri had an increase in automotive fatalities, which experts believe is linked to distracted driving. This past week, we reported on the 10 most-dangerous intersections, where 331 crashes happened -- just last year alone! Again distracted driving was cited as the largest factor.
We're distracted because we're texting, checking email, dialing phone numbers and talking on the phone. Every time our attention is taken off the road is another chance we take in causing an accident that could have a fatal outcome.
Nothing is as important as our lives. Let's all pledge to put our own lives, and those of others ahead of our constant need to stay connected. After all you can't stay connected to anyone if you aren't around.


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Here it is time for the party of the month for the SQL Server acolytes and I was running a bit behind. Why? Well, that was due in part to me rushing around trying to do some of what this months topic is. Some would call that pretty could timing.
Hemanth.D (blog|twitter) is hosting the T-SQL Tuesday blogging party this month, and he wants all of us to post about Automation. As Hemanth.D put it on his blog in his own words:
You could write about, what options you would consider when automating something? Where do you draw the line? What are our preferred tools for automation? T-SQL, PowerShell, VBScript or Batch files(?) or maybe just share something that you automated in the last couple of years.
You can read the invite he posted here.
As Hemanth.D mentioned in his invitation, this is not the first time this topic has come up for TSQLTuesday. As it would happen, I also participated in the first go around with my contribution about sizing databases on limited information. You can read that here.
This time around, I have a little bit of a different topic to approach. I hadn't considered this until after having read that Wayne Sheffield wrote about his efforts to verify backup files via script (automation). You can read what Wayne wrote at this link.
Having read that, it seemed painfully obvious to me that I should go ahead and write about my efforts to automate backup restores. After all, if you are verifying the backup files existence, you might also want to test the backups to ensure they are good. Besides, we all need to test our backups anyway, right?
I have a few different methods I have used over the years to automate restores. In one iteration, the restore operations were hard coded in a procedure that was scheduled to run on a nightly or weekly basis. It probably was also just hard coded to be specific to a database. That kind of setup is not super useful except for that one database.
With that in mind, I worked on several iterations to help create a script for myself that would automate the restores of any database, with any number of backup files, to a different server, and not have file paths/names/anything hard-coded. Well – there ended up being one thing hard-coded but that can be changed easily enough.
I decided on a script that would read the backup path for the most recent backup file from the msdb database of the server where the database was backed up. I do this via a linked server that can be created/destroyed in the proc or that can reside permanently (I prefer to leave it in place). Take the filepath of that backup file and restore it to the destination server. All of this via tsql.
Now a caveat with this solution is that the backup path works best if it is a UNC path. Even if you are backing up the database to the local server, backing up to UNC means that the restore operation can just grab that path and not encounter errors due to drive mappings (e.g. backed up to D but the D on the restore server is the cd-rom drive).
What if you don't want to restore the source database with the same name to the new server? Well, that has also been considered and a parameter can be passed to the stored procedure to allow for a new database name. What if the default file paths are different? That consideration has been made too! All of that said, more testing is always welcome.
The script can be evaluated from here.
Next steps:
With the script, the next things to do would be to create SQL Agent jobs to run the script on a routine basis. Test the script and verify it.
User of this script assumes all risk.


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This Is What the Line for Pliny the Younger Looks Like
Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny the Younger is released each February in the Santa Rosa brewpub, and kept on tap there for just two weeks. A few precious kegs of the cult-favorite triple IPA make their way to the Bay Area to be tapped during February while the hop flavors are fresh. People like to say that San Franciscans just like waiting in line (see: Bi-Rite ice cream, Tartine Bakery, Flour & Water), so it's not a huge surprise that a line would form when Pliny the Younger is in town.
A few San Francisco bars kept their score secret, tapping the kegs without fanfare and selling pints to those in the know. But Monk's Kettle in the Mission spread the good fortune around, announcing they'd be tapping their one keg today, and giving 100% of the proceeds to La Cocina.
Hopheads started lining up more than an hour before the doors opened; when I rolled up around 11 a.m., the line had wrapped around the corner. Mind you: it wasn't much of a hardship to wait; once the fog burned off it was a beautiful day, and the crowd was friendly, chatting about their Beer Week adventures and getting pumped up about the IBUs to come.
As noon neared, the line was up to more than a hundred people. Tickets were sold on line to streamline the beer-serving process, and we made it in with the first wave.
The beer is remarkably balanced: for its 100+ IBUs and 10.5% alcohol, The Younger is pretty darn drinkable, rich and fruity but not sticky sweet like some Triple IPAs are. The alcohol is warming, but it doesn't stick out harshly, and the hops meld pleasantly into an orange-peel-canned-peach-mandarin flavor that finishes dry.
We ordered a glass of Pliny the Elder for comparison: in contrast, that brew is drier and more herbal, and it comes across as much more bitter (and more crisp) because it lacks the sweetness of its special-release sibling.
We put both beers to the burger test, because Monk's happens to have one of our favorite burgers in the neighborhood (and because these are pretty intense beers to drink on an empty stomach in the middle of the day.) The sweetness of the ketchup and bacon on the burger made Pliny the Younger a more successful pairing. Its rich body and delicate sweetness stood up to those toppings, and the beer offered enough bitterness to clear the palate, while Pliny the Elder felt a bit aggressive and spare by contrast.
Was it worth the wait? That depends on your philosophy on these things. Was it The Best Beer We've Ever Tried, Ever? Did it make us cry? No, not really. Is it well made, and a great example of the style? Yes, definitely. Was it fun to drink a beer in a crowd full of people who're excited about that beer, and enjoying it together? Sure thing.
Have you tried Pliny the Younger? Do you think it's worth waiting in line for?
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BIG SPENDERS: Where some of the losers' money goes, with historical perspective and records to show examples. Does this change the way you'll think about writing a check? FITZPATRICK
Story coming 1.28.08 (coming tonight) for publication 2.3.08 (before Super Tuesday)
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Lifestyles (Tuesday is Health)
HEALTH WATCH: Weekly health rail, with items on how pet turtles can carry Salmonella, research showing spousal spats may have health benefits, and regular features like Quote of Note and Number to Know.
BODY'S FUEL: Food scientists know body runs best on premium fuel. PEORIA
WHAT'S UP DOC? Explaining cloning. METROWEST
HEALTH PAGE: Centerpiece on fitness expert.
HEALTH VIDEO: Treating arthritis in the thumb (common among women).
GRANLUND SUPER TOONS: Super Bowl-related cartoons from Dave Granlund are packaged here:
DEIRDRE REILLY: Little Hillary and Little Barack need a time out. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/politics/x1151554909
JEFF VRABEL: Beware of spy satellites falling from the sky -- no, really. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/jeff_vrabel/x142937005
O'MAHONEY CARTOON – On Kennedy endorsing Obama. Ledger, on wire now. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/opinions/x254754799
GUEST COLUMN: GEIHSLER: MINUTECLINIC - MinuteClinics Are Not the Panacea To Our Primary Care Shortage. Guest column from CEO of Harvard Vanguard. Patriot Ledger, on wire now
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ILLINOIS FOOTBALL: A day after Illinois announced the indefinite suspension of Erique Robertson, it was learned the Robertson was arrested this weekend on a weapons charge. SUPINIE. Champaign. / Illinois sports and Big Ten. Moving this evening.
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Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book issue of significance. This week it's Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1. Written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier, Richard Stark's Parker), it's the first installment in a controversial series of prequel miniseries to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen.
Before Watchmen has become an ethical minefield for the easily agitated comics community. Many see the project as a disgrace to Alan Moore's legacy and a degradation of the source material; others are excited to see new work by Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner, Adam Hughes, and the rest of the A-list talent assembled for the seven miniseries titles. I'm not going to discuss the moral issues here (feel free to go wild in comments), beyond stating that the sad truth is that Moore has joined the storied ranks of comic-book creators who got fucked by a contract. Watchmen became a corporate product when DC started selling action figures and posters. It was not only adapted for film, but directed by Zack Snyder, a man who has never been praised for his subtlety and sophistication. The era of Watchmen's autonomy has passed.
Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen characters began as stand-ins for characters from Charlton Comics, a company that published books starring Captain Atom, The Question, and others. DC has owned the rights to some of Charlton's characters since the 1980s, so Darwyn Cooke's Minutemen #1 could have easily been Charlton: The New Frontier if DC had decided to forgo the Watchmen connection. I'm glad they chose to go the more controversial route. People are so caught up with the idea that the prequels will somehow diminish Moore and Gibbons' work—which they won't—that they ignore the fact that these new stories could benefit greatly from having a foundation in arguably the greatest comic book ever created. The connection to Watchmen lends Cooke's story a sense of gravitas, but Minutemen #1 makes a deliberate decision to step out from the shadow of its predecessor.
Minutemen begins with four widescreen panels, immediately setting it apart from Watchmen by breaking from Moore and Gibbons' nine-panel page structure. I got the chance to see unlettered copy of the issue's first pages in April, and was immediately impressed by the elegant flow of the images and the way Cooke establishes so much of the world in just eight panels. That changed when I read the words on the finished pages. The opening line, "You come into this world, and your point of view is narrow," reads like an undignified dig at Before Watchmen naysayers, and the following overblown narrations didn't inspire much confidence. Then Hollis Mason says aloud, "This is terrible," and the disparity between script and art in the opening sequence makes perfect sense. Cooke is still delivering a message to readers, but it's not an attack, it's an invitation.
Cooke tries to mimic Moore's philosophically complex writing in the opening, and proves that the book would indeed suck if he wrote the entire thing that way. A lot of Moore's literary sophistication gets lost in the transition, but it's been replaced with the unique creative energy inherent in a story told by a singular writer/artist. Minutemen #1 serves as an introduction to Watchmen's Golden Age-inspired superteam, giving each of the eight team members a short sequence that sets a specific tone for their individual stories. The segments start with an image of the hero from a newspaper or magazine (or in the Comedian's case, a Juvenile Correctional Services card), a clever way of differentiating how the public views each character. Hooded Justice's police sketch depicts a much more dangerous figure than Sally Jupiter's cheeky centerfold, and his scene is stark and brutal whereas Sally's is smooth and sexy.
Phil Noto's lush colors continue to emphasize those distinctions, with Hooded Justice's gray and red palette giving way to the vivid Technicolor of Sally's daytime adventures. The green and brown tint of the Comedian's scene gives the art a queasy quality that matches the character's sick mind. This is a much more cinematic book than Watchmen, and Cooke understands how visuals can pull just as much weight as the story. The most stunning moment of the issue is the chilling two-page scene that introduces Byron "Mothman" Lewis. It's a design marvel that shows how panel layout and visual motifs can add immense depth to a script.
For Lewis' sequence, Cooke brings back the nine-panel grid, but elongates the middle panels to create vertical distance between the top and bottom panels. Lewis' story is all about being high, whether he's jumping off a building or doing morphine in his lavish rooftop home, and each panel works to establish that height. The first three panels show a skyscraper viewed from below, beginning the sequence on the ground before taking off. The vertical lines of the building transition into the next three panels, establishing shots of Lewis' home that continue to draw vertical lines in the home's architecture and the arrangement of items in the foreground. The next trio of panels reveals Lewis standing on the ledge of his living room, with the first two panels spotlighting the curved wire frame of a hang glider. The horizontal wave of the glider introduces a sense of motion that is absent in the earlier panels, creating an illusion of wind that is carried into the next page.
The camera switches sides for the next three panels, showing Lewis' face to the reader. Behind him is a windsock, calling back to the glider's curved shape and now quite literally emphasizing how windy it is at Lewis' height. The middle row of panels returns to the skyscraper imagery that began the entire sequence; now showing the side of the building from the roof instead of the ground, the elongated middle panels accent the distance of the drop. Lewis doesn't move during this scene until the final three panels, in which he swigs a bottle of booze, drops it off the roof, then follows the bottle down. The camera avoids directly showing Lewis once he finishes the bottle, as if the man vanishes once the liquor does. When the final panel pulls back to show Byron's aerial descent, he's just a nondescript yellow shape that looks a lot like that windsock from earlier. In a perfect closing touch, the last thing the reader sees is the white silhouette of the bottle, moments before it shatters on the sidewalk. How long until Lewis crashes with it?
That sense of dread permeates the story, highlighted by the contrast between the bold superhero action depicted on-panel and the ill omens of Hollis' narration. The final shot of Nelson "Captain Metropolis" Gardner smoking a stogie in a bubble bath is accompanied by the caption, "Some would say we've been paying for those benefits ever since." Everything is about to fall apart for these characters, and I can't wait to see how it all comes tumbling down. Minutemen #1 feels like DC's first major effort to create a piece of art in its post-New 52 climate, and it's unfortunate that the behind-the-scenes politics will prevent a lot of people from checking out this stunning new work from one of the industry's best.


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EU businesses could be required to flag up any breaches of their "network and information systems" under a new "strategic" action plan to combat cyber security problems across the trading bloc.
The European Commission is planning to draft new laws on cyber security that could introduce a requirement for businesses to report when their "essential" systems, including the internet, have been disrupted due to "cyber incidents". It has launched a consultation seeking the views of Governments, businesses and others and said the views would help it form its legislative plans.
"The Commission is considering the introduction of a requirement to adopt risk management practices and to report security breaches affecting networks and information systems that are critical to the provision of key economic and societal services (eg, finance, energy, transport and health) and to the functioning of the Internet (eg, e-commerce, social networking)," the Commission said in a statement.
"Feedback received will help the Commission draw up an approach to possible future risk management and security breach reporting requirements that would affect businesses in particular," it added.
The Commission is seeking to expand the existing security breach notification regime that operates in the telecoms sector.
Currently telecoms operators and internet service providers are required, under the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, to "take appropriate technical and organisational measures to appropriately manage the risks posed to security of networks and services" and take measures to "prevent and minimise the impact of security incidents on users and interconnected networks." The Directive requires that the network or service providers notify national regulators of any "breach of security or loss of integrity that has had a significant impact on the operation of networks or service".
Regulators can share details of the incidents with regulators in other EU member states and can require that the public is also notified of breaches if it is in the public interest for the notification to be made, under the terms of the Directive.
The Commission said that the number of cyber incidents are increasing and that there had been a "five-fold increase in companies reporting security incidents with a financial impact between 2007 and 2010". It said its aim is to "enhance preparedness, strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure as well as to foster a cyber-security culture in the EU."
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event by which a person is forced away from home
(Redirected from Banishment)
Exile, or Banishment, means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country), while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return. It can be a form of punishment.
- By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
How can we sing the songs of the LORD
while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
- EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
- Cá nesta Babilónia, donde mana
matéria a quanto mal o mundo cria;
cá onde o puro Amor não tem valia,
que a Mãe, que manda mais, tudo profana;
cá, onde o mal se afina e o bem se dana,
e pode mais que a honra a tirania;
cá, onde a errada e cega Monarquia
cuida que um nome vão a desengana;
cá, neste labirinto, onde a nobreza
com esforço e saber pedindo vão
às portas da cobiça e da vileza;
cá neste escuro caos de confusão,
cumprindo o curso estou da natureza.
Vê se me esquecerei de ti, Sião!
- Here in this Babylon, that's festering
forth as much evil as the rest of the earth;
Here where true Love deprecates his worth,
as his powerful mother pollutes everything.
Here where evil is refined and good is cursed,
and tyranny, not honor, has its way;
Here where the Monarchy, in disarray,
blindly attempts to mislead God, and worse.
Here in this labyrinth, where Royalty,
willingly, chooses to succumb
before the Gates of Greed and Infamy;
Here in this murky chaos and delirium,
I carry out my tragic destiny,
but never will I forget you, Jerusalem!
- Luís de Camões, Cá nesta Babilónia, donde mana, translated by William Baer.
- Here in this Babylon, that's festering
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical QuotationsEdit
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56-57.
- The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book XII, line 646.
- Had we no other quarrel else to Rome, but that
Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all
From twelve to seventy; and pouring war
Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,
Like a bold flood o'erbear.
- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 5, line 133.
- No, my good lord: banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 4, line 520.
- Have stooped my neck under your injuries
And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
Eating the bitter bread of banishment.
- William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, scene 1, line 19.
- Banished?
O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
Howlings attend it: How hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,
To mangle me with that word—banished?
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 3, line 47.


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International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - BIOCOMP BG 2012
Welcome to the official website of the 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP BG 2012, which will be held in Varna, Bulgaria, during the period of September 20-21, 2012. There will be a strong focus on the bioinformatics challenges, arising from the extraordinary developments in high throughput technologies. BIOCOMP BG 2012 aims to bring researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students together so they can exchange and share their experiences, new ideas and research results about all aspects of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, as well as to discuss the practical challenges they have encountered and the solutions adopted to solve them.
The conference aims to provide an ideal platform for people to share research ideas and experiences in the fields of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and related areas.
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