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Normally, when a repository item is loaded from the database, properties in each table are loaded at the same time. By default, all primary table properties of a repository item are loaded when
getItem is called for the first time on the item.
You might need to modify this default property fetching behavior. For some applications, the database activity required to load all primary table properties can adversely affect performance unnecessarily. For example, an application may want the SQL repository to load a large GIF property only if it is specifically asked for. This is known as lazy evaluation. On the other end of the spectrum, you might need to load properties from different tables immediately. For example, an application may want to always load a user's last name whenever a profile is read from the database. This is known as prefetching. Finally, some applications want to group properties so when one value is requested, all values in this group are loaded—for example, loading a zip code and state code whenever a street address is loaded.
You can achieve a finer level of control over property loading by using cache groups in your repository definition. By default, the cache group of a property is the same name as the table that the property is defined in. You can set the cache group of a property with the
group attribute in the property's definition in the repository definition file. All properties with the same
group attribute are fetched whenever any member of the group is fetched. Only those properties that are in the same cache group as the repository ID (or, if there is no ID property, all the properties in the primary table) are loaded when
getItem is called for the first time on an item. While generally you define a cache group with the
group attribute in the property's definition in the repository definition file, you can also define a cache group with the
setGroup method of
For example, an address might be composed of several properties, like this:
<property name="address1" group="address"/> <property name="city" group="address"/> <property name="state" group="address"/> <property name="zip" group="address"/>
group="address" attribute ensures that the whole address is loaded whenever one element of the address is accessed, even if the properties are stored on different database tables. So, if you call
getPropertyValue for the
city property, the
state, and
zip properties are also loaded.
If you want to assure that only the repository ID is returned and none of the repository item's other properties, you can isolate the repository ID in its own cache group:
<item-descriptor name="user" default="true">
<table name="usr_tbl" type="primary" id-column-names="id">
<property name="id" data-type="string" group="id"/>
<property name="name" data-type="string" group="info"/>
<property name="age" data-type="int" group="info"/>


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Two New Old Books!stevejb68 on May 4, 2014 in collections, Film & Books
Saturday, May 3rd, was free comic book day so I went to St. Cloud to pick up a few at Granite City Comics. I arrived downtown early to get a good parking spot so I decided to walk around to get some exercise and to see what kind of stores were in downtown St. Cloud these days. After all, I had not been shopping downtown for years. There has been no need for me to go downtown since this was on the east side of town and most of the big stores and shopping malls were on the west side of town, closer to where I live.
While I was walking the streets I noticed that there was a used bookstore a block away from the comic book store. I did not realize there was such a store in the downtown area so I decided I needed to check this place out when I was done at Granite City Comics. And I did.
There were two main types of books I looked for once I arrived at the used book store, science fiction and old Scouting books. I was lucky enough to find two old Boy Scout themed novels written in the early 1900's. Both were in pretty good shape considering that they were over 100 years old. One was The Boy Scouts Of The Eagle Patrol written by Howard Payson, published in 1911. The other was Boy Scouts In An Airship by G. Harvey Ralphson, published in 1912. I was able to pick up the two of them for under twenty dollars.
As I laid them on the counter I thought to myself, I hope I do not already have these books. I could not remember if they were already part of my collection or not. Oh well, if they were I would now have two of them. I could always use one as a prize at a Scout Roundtable or something. I was happy to discover when I arrived at home that I did not own either one yet. I also discovered that I have the ebook version of The Boy Scouts Of The Eagle Patrol on my computer.
Do you collect old Boy Scout novels? How many do you have? Where do you find them?

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METRO VANCOUVER -- The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating Surrey's fifth homicide of 2013 after a man's body was found on the side of a road in South Surrey on Monday morning.
Cpl. Adam MacIntosh said police were called at 9:20 a.m. to a grassy area in the 12300-block of Colebrook Road, a rural area north of Highway 99 on the Surrey-Delta border, where the body was discovered.
The identity of the man is still unknown and the cause of death has not yet been released.
"We are in the early stages of this investigation and we are working to find out if this latest homicide is related to gang activity," said MacIntosh in a statement.
It has been a violent month in Surrey, after four men were murdered in a spate of shootings that took place in a 48-hour period.
Manjot Dhillon was shot on Jan. 13, while Edward McGiveron and Geordie Carlow were killed the same day. On the morning of Jan. 15, Manjinder Hairan was killed. The killings of Dhillon and Hairan have been linked to gang activity.
Monday's discovery also wasn't the first time that a body has been found on Colebrook Road.
In January 2007, the body of 15-year-old Amrita (Jyoti) Kaur Sidhu was found just east of 152nd St., two days after the teenager walked away from hospital.
In 2001, the body of Angie Williams, a Vancouver sex trade worker, was found dumped on the same country road. The woman died of a drug overdose.
Police are asking anyone with information about the death, or who saw something suspicious in the area on Sunday night or Monday morning, to contact the tip line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Are you free? Can you say whatever you want? Do you really have "freedom of speech" in the United States of America? Are you being watched? Can you be arrested for something you type in the heat of the moment? Can you be arrested for posting lyrics to a song that you didn't write?
The answer to all those questions is YES. You're free to do all those things but if government officials interpret your postings as a threat they will disrupt your life to detain and study you.
Sadly, in America, not only has someone been arrested for posting lyrics to a song that he didn't write but he has been detained without any referral by friends or family members. Yes folks, big brother can come and take you from your family to have you evaluated.
Brandon Raub is a Marine Veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Brandon was recently arrested by the FBI and local police for "resisting arrest". He is being held for thirty days so that the government can study him and conduct an "mental evaluation" all because they didn't like what he was saying on Facebook.
Where is the mainstream media on this? Well the family clearly doesn't trust them but they spoke to Adam Kokesh with Adam vs The Man in this exclusive interview.
Brandon Raub's sister Brittany said "Brandon Raub is the most sane person I know, there is no question about his sanity in anyway" "He loves his country, he is a true patriot." "He is willing to stand up when others will walk away". Raub's brother, Brent Raub, said "the people need to know that they need to question everything, I am not even trying to convince you right now, I would ask that you take this and you go question it" "do not believe everything you hear do not believe the media"
Cathleen Thomas, mother of Marine Veteran, Brandon Raub continued saying "alternative sources and places to look for the truth instead of Fox, CNN, and NBC, listen
"they're all bought" okay, they're all bought, they're all sold out, and they're all in bed with "big brother" and they're not going to tell you the truth and they don't want to tell you the truth, they want you to be comfortable keeping you where they want you. With emphasis she continues by saying "they create everything that you want to see and they call that truth"
"It's a dangerous time for our country" said Cathleen. "There are stories going on all over our country, and I mean horrific stories from mothers that I've spoken to where their children are being detained, this isn't new, they're trying to shut people up."
The Rutherford Institute is stepping up and offering Raub legal assistance. The Rutherford Institute, is a nonprofit civil liberties organization, that provides legal assistance at no charge to individuals whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated.
According to a press release written By Ray Daudani of WWBT NBC12 "Law enforcement officials have stated in press reports that Raub was not arrested. However, as attorney John Whitehead points out, if the police have put handcuffs on you and you're being held against your will, that qualifies as an arrest. In a hearing before a judge on August 20, government officials again pointed to Raub's Facebook posts as the sole reason for their concern and for his continued incarceration. Ignoring Raub's explanations about the fact that the FB posts were being read out of context and his attorney's First Amendment defense, the judge agreed that Raub should be incarcerated at a VA hospital for up to 30 more days. Rutherford Institute attorneys are working to challenge Raub's detention and the highly unconstitutional nature of the government's actions."
Here is a telephone interview Adam Kokesh with Brandon Raub at the John Randolph Medical Center near Richmond, Virginia.
What's the buzz about anyway? Here is a link with Brandon's Facebook rants in a video (for those who couldn't see his Facebook because you refuse to have one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj4yXCzhsZs
How many other people have been detained for making comments about the government? How many of our vets undergo "mental evaluations" by the government due to their Facebook rants? This is something we should all be alarmed about! There is no liberty. What happened to our Freedom of Speech and expression? Have we lost our way? What are we going to do to get it back? Life is too short to live without liberty!


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WATCH: Cam Newton jealous of Michael Vick's Madden speed rating, voices frustration
Michael Vick's speed rating in Madden NFL 2004 — a perfect 99 — will likely never be seen again for a quarterback in a video game. And Cam Newton is jealous.
The Panthers quarterback thinks he deserves a better speed rating in this year's version of the popular game and pleaded his case Wednesday during an event — Madden NFL: 25 Years and Running, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, N.Y.
SN's Jesse Spector was in attendance recording the exchange.
The men on stage, from left, are Former NFL running back Marshall Faulk, Andrew Anthony (voice of EA Sports "It's in the game!"), Newton, Dave Swanson (Madden engineering director) and Vick.


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Recognising the importance of Tourism as an instrument for socio- economic development, Chhattisgarh Tourism Board was established on 18th January 2002. As nodal agency the Chhattisgarh Tourism Board is responsible for infrastructural and institutional development, investment in facilities & hotels, wayside amenities and above all aggressive marketing & promotion for the comprehensive development.
CTB is also focussing on manpower training and employment generation to create a manpower pool for travel trade and hospitality industry of this state.
The Board intends to promote tourism in a sustainable manner. CTB is also trying to incorporate carrying capacity analysis to the resource utilization. The state is covered with nearly 45% of the forests and 32% of tribal population, therefore, it offers immense opportunities for Eco-Ethno, Adventure and Cultural tourism.
CTB has some amazing properties set in the picturesque locations which run on alternate energy source being solar energy. CTB boasts of 36 properties, out of which 28 hotels, motels and wayside amenities are operated on management contract and 8 motels are run by CTB itself.
Chhattisgarh has positioned itself as the destination full of surprises with some of the amazing destinations which could certainly lead to the growth of tourism in the future. It has created a niche for itself on the tourist map of India.


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Baked cake doughnuts
Traditional-made doughnuts are made with yeast dough, and deep-fried to make a fluffy, delicious spongy cake. It requires a lot of work to cook them, though, but for quick snacks (Sunday breakfast maybe?) the easier way are the baked cake doughnuts—which are spongy, fluffy and delicious too! You can enjoy them bare (like cakes), or glazed (like traditional yeast doughnuts), or stuffed if you overfill the form by any chance! :-)
German Zimtsterne (cinnamon almond cookies)
I always wanted to make these, and finally got the guts — oh boy, I wasn't really prepared for the amount of nitty-gritty with making these. I started with original German recipe that called for 500g of almonds, but that ended up being 2 full baking sheets and lots of sneaky snacking between steps ;-) But the result is good, and these cookies are worth the effort.
Orange cheese-tart
I didn't plan to make this cake at all, what I did plan was apple tart with apricot jelly... Well, sometimes I just change my mind, especially while experimenting in the kitchen :-) The result is interesting, refreshing and citrusy! :-) If you don't like the strong orange aroma, you can replace them with any soft and sweet fruit: peaches, pears, and apricots should do fine!


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Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
Verso, 2007 - 442 pages
Once themost lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long beenone of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In thelate 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or "theflood," sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backeddictatorial rule. After winning a landslide election victory, in 1991the Lavalas government led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wasoverthrown by a bloody military coup. Damming the Floodanalyzes how and why Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the US and Francemade sure that his second government, elected with another overwhelmingmajority in 2000, was toppled by a further coup in 2004.
The elaborate international campaign to contain, discredit and thenoverthrow Lavalas at the start of the twenty-first century was perhapsthe most successful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the ColdWar. Its execution and its impact have much to teach anyone interestedin the development of today's political struggles in Latin America andthe rest of the post-colonial world.
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Please note that this is not a guide to Las Vegas hotels, there are many that will be left out of this post, I've chosen to focus on hotels that are best for attendees at conferences being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
I've attended numerous conferences held at the Las Vegas Convention Center and I can tell you that the place is massive. Located at 3150 Paradise Rd. in Las Vegas Nevada, the LVCC features millions of square feet of meeting, event and convention space. A walk from the North Halls to the South Halls (or vice versa) is alone a significant distance, not to mention all the walking that's done (oftentimes while carrying your laptop) inside the halls while attending conferences.
As a chiropractor, I almost feel it's my duty to share what I've learned from years of experience in regards to choosing the best hotels when attending conferences at this location. We are talking Las Vegas, and things that I think are a plus (like no-smoking hotels) may be a negative to others, so this guide won't suit everyone. Also, I have no affiliation with any of the hotel's being mentioned, this is purely my opinion based on my own experiences.
Our reference starting point: Las Vegas Convention Center at 3150 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89109
Here's my list of factors you may find important when making a decision on which hotel to choose.
- Proximity to LVCC (North Hall versus South Hall)
- Non Casino Hotels
- Non Smoking Hotels
- Proximity to other Casino Hotels
- Hotel Proximity to LV Monorail
- Quality of Hotel
- Hotel Resort Fees
- Hotel Parking Fees
- Walking
- Taxi
- Travel by Car (but daily parking at LVCC)
- WiFi in Hotel
In selecting a hotel, I'd suggest using the above factors and place them in the order that best suits your needs. For me proximity is a big factor. While often times not the official conference hotel, my number one choice is going to be the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel owned and operated by Marriott. It's located directly next to the Las Vegas Convention Center South Halls and it meets several of my desirable factors. Besides its location, it's a non-casino hotel, a non-smoking hotel (I believe), is nearby the Las Vegas Monorail, is of good quality, and has WiFi (for a fee). On the downside it's not located near the strip, where many of the after hours conference parties take place. There are daily resort fees and daily parking fees and if you're not driving expect to add taxi fees (or least monorail fees) to your expenses.
My recommendation is to stay at the Renaissance when attending a conference held in the South Halls, and purchase a monorail pass so you can visit the Las Vegas strip.
Nearby convention center hotels that are non-casino and also operated by Marriott include the:
Courtyard Las Vegas Convention Center
3275 Paradise Road
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Residence Inn Las Vegas Convention Center
3225 Paradise Rd
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Las Vegas Marriott Hotel
325 Convention Center Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89109
If selecting any of these three hotels, expect to walk quite a bit more than if you were staying at the Renaissance. For that reason, I've personally never chosen either of those three hotels when attending a conference in the South Halls. It's a different story when attending a North Hall conference, but when that's the case I lean towards potentially staying at the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton).
It's been many years since I'd consider the LVH a quality casino hotel but its location to the Nouth Halls makes it a good choice if you don't mind walking. As an added bonus there is a monorail station at the hotel which you can use to visit numerous hotels on the Las Vegas strip. There's also a Las Vegas Convention Center monorail station so if you choose this hotel when attending conferences in the South Halls, the monorail comes in handy. Hotel rates at the LVH are reasonable which I consider a bonus, but there's plenty of smoking, and as far as I can recall there are daily resort fees. I really hate daily resort fees.
If you're not selecting hotels that are closest to the convention center, other factors may become more important to you, and you'll likely start looking at hotels located on the Las Vegas Strip. I can tell you, again from experience, that if you're going to the convention center at least once a day (over several days of attending conferences) I'd advise selecting a hotel that has easy access to the monorail (I'm a big fan of the monorail since it costs less than taxis and is better for the environment).
The problem with hotels on the Las Vegas Strip is that many appear to have good monorail access but that's not truly the case. Last year while attending 2011 PubCon Las Vegas I stayed at the PH Towers Westgate (now Hilton Elara). While I loved the one-bedroom suites with in-room Jacuzzi tubs, the walk from the hotel to the monorail station at Bally's felt like it was 2 miles. What you don't see in online maps is that in many cases, there's no access to the monorail at street level, forcing you to snake your way through casinos in order to gain access. Obviously that was part of the plan but it stinks if you're a business traveler and not a tourist.
Bally's itself has much better monorail access, as does the MGM Grand, and the Imperial Palace and Harrah's Las Vegas hotel (all located on the strip) have easy access as well. The MGM Grand and Bally's are fairly good quality (I've chosen Bally's for conferences many times) and Imperial Palace is pretty much the dive of the Las Vegas strip. Harrah's is fair. Note that Bally's, Harrah's and Imperial Palace (as well as the Flamingo which is also in that hotel cluster) are all part of Caesars Entertainment (Total Rewards) and there's no resort fees and free parking, a big plus for me (especially when driving my Jeep).
Oftentimes conferences held at the Las Vegas Convention Center feature official conference hotels, which often results in special rates, and possibly more importantly opportunities to spend time and network with other conference attendees. If that's a greater priority to you, choosing any of the hotels listed here (unless one of them happens to be the official conference hotel) may not be your best choice. If that's the case I'd read my conference guide and take cabs or shuttles with other attendees.
You may think that if taking a taxi it doesn't matter which hotel you stay at in Las Vegas. I used to think that until I sat in traffic each morning as the taxicab meter ticked, while eagerly waiting to get to the convention center. Both the Wynn and Encore hotels (near five star quality too) are a short cab ride to the LVCC, these are top hotel choices (especially if somebody else is picking up the hotel tab). You will have resort fees but they are arguably the most luxurious hotels located nearest the convention center. Hopefully local search results will improve before you book at either of those hotels.
I hope this information is useful to you, have fun in Las Vegas!


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Mass Effect 3 will use Kinect. But how, you ask, will that work? How dorky will I sound yelling things at my TV set? Watch this clip to find out.
It's...well, it doesn't look too bad! Though these commands are all rather sterile. How well it works with my eyes full of tears or my heart racing could be a different story entirely.
Also, you'll note there's news there of the beta going live on Xbox 360 on February 14. Even though it was supposed to be in January.
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UPDATE - The vid was down, but now is back. Thanks Heliophage!


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Game on for Millions of Smokers Across EU as European Commission and FC Barcelona Launch 'Quit Smoking With Barça'
01 Dec, 2012, 12:00 GMT
BARCELONA, December 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- Pioneering campaign focuses on benefits of becoming an ex-smoker
- Smokers to receive personalised advice from Barça stars
From today, smokers across Europe will be able to 'Quit Smoking with Barça' as a unique public health programme goes live.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121201/580157 )
The campaign, a joint initiative of the European Commission and FC Barcelona uses a unique, science-based approach to help those who love life, Barça and football to quit smoking for good.
The latest innovation of the European Commission's successful "Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable" campaign that has run across the 27 EU countries for the past two years, 'Quit Smoking with Barça' (quitsmokingwithbarca.eu) is powered by the 'FCB iCoach', a free, dedicated online resource and mobile app that provides tailored guidance and support straight from the mouths of Barça players, coaches and staff.
Building on the success of "Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable" (exsmokers.eu) and harnessing the support of Barça's millions of fans, this unprecedented partnership between a sporting institution and the European Commission can help many more of Europe's 140 million smokers tokick the habit forever.
'Quit Smoking with Barça' is built around the FCB iCoach - a personal health coaching programme. When a smoker registers, he or she completes a short questionnaire that determines the type of coaching needed to quit. Based on the answers, the individual receives personalised tips, information and motivation directly from Barça players, coaches and staff. The club's four captains: Carles Puyol, Andres Iniesta, Victor Valdes and Xavi are among those offering advice as are President Sandro Rosell, coach Tito Villanova, Guilermo Amor, and other club experts.
Speaking at a press conference at Camp Nou ahead of Barça's La Liga game v Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona President Rosell called on football fans across Europe to get involved: "At Barça we have the best fans in the world and we want to take care of them. Our motto 'Més que un club' means we're committed to a philosophy that should be evident in all we do. We always act with a social consciousness and another way for us to do this is to stand side by side with the European Commission as we launch 'Quit Smoking with Barça'. Making our facilities and our stadium smoke-free was an important milestone and the next one is today - the launch of the FCB iCoach. When you sign up to the FCB iCoach, the whole club will support you every step of the way giving you the expert knowledge of people within the club to help you in your fight to quit cigarettes for good. We want all smokers to consider quitting. If you can commit to trying we can commit to standing by your side every step of the way on your journey to a smoke-free life. There has never been a better time to quit than now".
A major catalyst for the European Commission and Barça working together was their shared commitment to protecting people's health, says Director-General for Health and Consumers in the European Commission, Paola Testori Coggi: "I'm proud to be here today announcing the next phase in the European Commission's mission to create a smoke-free Europe. I'm delighted that the success of our award-winning "Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable" campaign has led to collaboration with such a prestigious institution of world sport. Nearly 300,000 Europeans are currently trying to quit with iCoach. We hope that the experience, tools and lessons gathered from our extensive experience of anti-tobacco initiatives, combined with the status of Barça, can inspire even more people to live a smoke-free life."
Fan Support
To mark the launch of the campaign, a team of 11 Barça fans from different EU countries have been chosen to become the first people from their nation to sign-up to the FCB iCoach. The 11 'Quit Smoking with Barça' Fans will tonight be guests of honour at the Barça v Bilbao game where they'll carry onto the pitch a campaign flag while a video is played in the stadium to encourage smokers within the Nou Camp to join the campaign.
Speaking of their pride at being the first Barça fan to sign up to the FCB iCoach, Michael said: "It's been so exciting and so inspiring to be part of this campaign. I love Barça so it's a huge honour to be here today as an ambassador for this campaign. I know quitting smoking is one of the toughest things you can do, I've tried many times with little success. I hope this time I can do it for good. Having the support of my heroes behind me could make all the difference to me achieving my dream of a smoke free life."
To find out more about 'Quit Smoking with Barça' and the FCB iCoach visit http://www.quitsmokingwithbarca.eu
Further Information:
The "Quit Smoking with Barça" campaign
The "Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable" campaign
The official homepage of FC Barcelona
'Quit Smoking with Barça' is a joint commitment between FC Barcelona and the European Commission to take a stand against smoking and the nearly 700,000 preventable deaths caused by tobacco in Europe each year. Harnessing the power of the European Commission's "Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable" campaign and Barcelona's 'Sense Fum' initiative, the campaign will encourage and support the 28 million smokers* across Europe in the 25-34 year old age group to kick the habit and become unstoppable ex-smokers for life (http://www.quitsmokingwithbarca.eu).
iCoach (http://www.exsmokers.eu) is a free, proven digital health tool already helping nearly 300,000 people across Europe in their quest to give up smoking for good. iCoach is available from today as an app for both for iPhone and Android (http://www.exsmokers.eu/mobile).
SOURCE FC Barcelona and The European Commission


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The best way to generate jobs and growth is for the government to spend more, not less. And for taxes to stay low — or become even lower — on the middle class.
(Higher taxes on the rich won't slow the economy because the rich will keep spending anyway. After all, being rich means spending whatever you want to spend. By the same token, higher taxes won't reduce their incentive to save and invest because they're already doing as much saving and investing as they want. Remember: they're taking home a near record share of the nation's total income and have a record share of total wealth.)
Why don't our politicians and media get this? Because an entire deficit-cutting political industry has grown up in recent years — starting with Ross Perot's third-party in the 1992 election, extending through Peter Peterson's Institute and other think-tanks funded by Wall Street and big business, embracing the eat-your-spinach deficit hawk crowd in the Democratic Party, and culminating in the Simpson-Bowles Commission that President Obama created in order to appease the hawks but which only legitimized them further.


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In Sussex County, a potential DART plan is creating some concern from seniors and disabled people. The plan would mean that 80 percent of paratransit trips would be cut in the county. The Delaware Transit Corporation (NEMT), said they are considering the change because the paratransit system is not sustainable. http://paratransitlife.wordpress.com/2014/...to-paratransit/
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You know what hate-watching is. It's when you despise a show so much that you have to keep watching it, week after week, just to see HOW TERRIBLE IT DARES TO BE WHY IS IT SO TERRIBLE. What science fiction or fantasy show caused your most incurable case of hate-watching, and why?
Of course we want pictures and clips. Because we want to be sucked in, too! What else are we supposed to do this weekend, other than hone our rage to a fine point and hurl it at fictional characters in a fantasy world?
My pick is Heroes. It was so great, and then it developed some problems. And tried to solve those problems by heaping on more of the stuff that caused the problems in the first place. Plot hole? Create six more nonsensical plots. Incomprehensible numbers of aimless characters? ADD SEVENTEEN MOAR CHARACTERS WHY NOT. Show failed? Make a @#$% spinoff! And so on. I could be here all day smashing my keyboard but I'll let you get to it in comments below.


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Do not base your order on the picture presented.
Description of the Fabrication Enterprises Webbing Back Hook and Loop Fastener
Standard back woven-back bulk loop material can be sewn or glued to object. Standard, non-adhesive webbing back. Loop material can be mated with hook material to create a secure, yet removable bond. 2" loop material, 10 yard, tan
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In 2011, the B.C. forest industry returned nothing to investors who have been waiting since before 2005 for a return on their capital that matches the risk of putting their trust in a cyclical industry beset with problems.
Consultants PwC, who track industry performance, say that even though the B.C. pulp sector turned in a relatively good performance, lumber companies were hammered by low commodity prices — and that's on top of challenges like the mountain pine beetle and taxes on American softwood lumber sales.
PwC is now analyzing data on the year, but preliminary indications are that 2011 was another dark period for the beleaguered industry.
"Return on capital employed [ROCE] is going to be very poor," said Kevin Bromley, a partner in PwC's forest and paper practice in Vancouver. "It's likely going to be zero."
Chronically poor returns are keeping the industry from realizing its potential, said Bromley. "We are reliant on commodity markets, but we should be extracting more value from the fibre," he said.
But developing new, value-added products — such as biofuels and nanofibres — will take more capital. To attract that capital companies must be more profitable. And for profits to climb, it's going to take stronger pricing in global markets.
Most observers don't see that happening until 2013. Some, like Bromley, see a gradual increase in demand and prices as the U.S. economy and housing sector starts to recover.
Others, like consultant Peter Woodbridge, are forecasting a "super-cycle" that will push prices up dramatically, fuelled by beetle-driven supply-side shortages and declining timber strength in third and fourth-generation yellow pine plantations in the southern United States.
"Consolidation has been happening [among U.S. distributors], but now even those consolidated companies are disappearing," said Woodbridge.
"There was the equivalent of a 50-inch pipeline [for lumber distribution between Canada and the U.S.] at one time. It has now shrunk to a fraction of that. There will be impediments getting stuff to markets. People will hardly be able to get what they want. There will be big price spikes, not just for primary products but value-added products."
Ironically, the challenges facing the industry — timber shortages; a decimated remanufacturing and distribution system in the U.S., where demand for forest products has been at near-record lows for five years; and falling market share in the U.S. attributable to the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement — should become opportunities for B.C. forest companies as the turnaround kicks in.
The softwood lumber tax rate, which has added 15 per cent to the cost of B.C. lumber in the U.S. for the last five years, drops as the price of lumber climbs, in accordance with the terms of the 2006 softwood lumber agreement. Prices have improved this year to the point the tax is now only 10 per cent. By 2013, if the super-cycle emerges, the tax should disappear.
To overcome the supply problems, companies are already positioning themselves.
Canfor Corp. president Don Kayne sees fibre as a major challenge.
"For us, the key factor is fibre supply, and making sure that whatever we do is based on strengthening our fibre position, which we have been focused on for the last few years," Kayne said.
"We think that is absolutely critical to our long-term sustainability and success."
To achieve that long-term sustainability, Canfor has invested in technology to better convert pine beetle wood to lumber, as well as in timber tenures in the province's southeast, which was largely spared by the beetle.
Canfor and rival West Fraser also have strong balance sheets as they emerge from the recession, which gives them the ability to attract fresh capital.
Strong balance sheets are what investors are looking at now, Bromley said, until the forest sector can get its earnings back on track. He noted, however, that B.C. companies are still small on the global scale. Of PwC's top 100 forest companies in the world, Canfor's rank was only No. 44.
Bromley expects to see consolidation as lumber companies strive to keep up with customers like Home Depot, which has a market capitalization 70 times as large as Canfor's market cap.
As the larger companies grow, however, a new generation of forest companies will likely rise to fill the middle ranks of the B.C. industry, says John Innes, dean of the faculty of forestry at the University of B.C. These companies, he says, will be 21st-century versions of the smaller, family-run businesses that were bought out a decade ago.
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Shamus Plays: WoW #9: No Murloc, No Wedlock
A pair of lovestruck teenagers live a stone's throw apart. Naturally, this means that getting them together requires murder, alchemy, and a conversation with grandma.
I am seriously enjoying how you keep flipping the morality on dear old Norman. It's rather hilarious.
Norman is coming along nicely >)
Sorry, my connection is on the rag
Omnomnom! isn't that something to imagine XD
I'm predicting a descent into the darker side of Norman in the future. Looking forward to it.
Did anyone else read "candlejerk" as "candlejack?" I certainly di-
My my, the slow descent of Norman to full fledged Warlock, Master of Dark energies etc. etc. is coming along nicely.
I like the hardening of Norman so far. He is quickly losing that idealism that he had at the beginning.
Soon Norman will be a true warlock!
Its all so true, players attack monsters on sight, monsters do the same. Who is more in the right? Players destroy relentlessly in the name of good. Nothing is taboo, not even the murder of children, so long as it isnt a "good" child.
Your utopian MMO is EVE Online. There was a quest where I had to go rescue some marines, which I did, though out of carelessness my ship got blown up in a battle on the way back to base, and the marines were destroyed with it, and I couldn't cancel and re-accept the quest.
So in the one-out-of-two-times I ever communicated with another player during the month I played EVE, I asked in general chat what I should do. Somebody told me to check the auction house. Sure enough, the auction house had "marines," plenty of them, and they weren't that expensive either. So I bought them and the quest-giver happily accepted those.
Back when I played D&D, we went evil instead of good for one simple rason: Wipng out an entire community of Dwarves was better XP than wiping out a colony of Goblins, and more profitable. It was the exact same thing, just wearing a different team's colors and it was way a better payoff.
I would like to see you go through stonetalon mountains-> southern barren-> 1k needles. Those quests are allot more interesting then the ones you are going through. Your writing is allot of fun but I feel you are relying a little to heavily on the impracticality of the quests and neglecting story development in favor of character development.
I have to say I've been absolutely loving this series. The way you go through each quest and consider the logic (or complete and utter lack of) involved in each one is hilarious and awesome. I hope you keep it up for some time!
Your justification of the nonsense that most quests require is well put. Look forward to this feature more than Zero Punctuation these days.
This is quickly becoming my favorite thing on the site. You think we can get bigger or more frequent updates? I know you have a TON of stuff on your plate at the moment, but this series tops ZP in my book. Anyways great work as usual Mr. Young, keep it up and if you ever feel like releasing a Friday or Monday update you won't hear any protest from me. :)
If the denizens of Azeroth weren't all lazy, crazy, or stupid, they would obviously feel no need to do their chores by giving all their riches and magical treasures to shiftless bepauldroned mercenaries. Though I sympathize with Norman's plight, I myself happen to be a shiftless mercenary not yet rich enough to afford pauldrons. If he keeps trying to rock the boat, he might just find himself in a merchantile accident in which his head gets traded for some copper and a pair of nice gloves if you know what I mean.
Tsk, tsk... descending to slavery now? LOL!
i was always evil because i made more XP and gold from robing a quest giver then from actaully doing the quest. if hes going to pay you for the quest then that means hes got the gold on him so juat kill him and loot it.
About half of the item-based quests in Vindictus are for freely available, freely traded vendor trash. So when you get new quests, your first stop is the Trading Post, where massive supply, absurdly low NPC sell values, and a lack of anything else to do with the items in question means you can often complete your quest instantly for less gold than it returns.
While I enjoy the gameplay, the overall design needs some work.
Er, "they would"?
Well done I was entertained and I lol'd at some parts X) I wonder what level Norman is going to be when this series comes to an end.
Everquest, especially the older areas, works like that too. As you get higher level, and the content gets more modern, tradable quest items become rarer (so you have to actually loot the corpse yourself) and eventually they added a real Quest Log system, but for years and years there was virtually no quest state saved anywhere outside the inventory.
Monsters dropped what they dropped regardless of who killed them, any NPC (even other monsters) could be handed any item, and that was it. If you'd read a spoiler you never had to encounter any quest text at all. I learned about a ton of quests just by finding an item I didn't recognize, and yes, I ended up with a bank full of quest junk that I never got around to finishing.
All sorts of rumors and theories swirled around any item with no known use. Many were just outright useless, and many quests were broken and uncompletable, but every once in a while someone would work something out and a years-old mystery would be solved.
I really loved Everquest questing, it was such a community exercise. It's a shame no modern MMO could ever get away with anything similar.
I can't wait to see how these two react to Rolf and Malakai's
XD Phenomenally well done as always.
Isn't that like saying that sending someone to art school is a good deed unless they become a professional artist? It won't necessarily happen, but it is the natural result of such an event, especially in a world in which they have yet to invent contraceptives.(I think that Azeroth doesn't have contraceptives since it is a roughly medieval setting, but I may be wrong).
On the second page there is an OOC comment regarding what if: everything was available all the time..
Medieval people had some contraceptives, but none of them worked very well. Little better than nothing at all, essentially. And then you had "contraceptives" that were actually abortifacents (bring on abortion). Herbals usually listed them as "Bringing on the woman's flow"... but it was by making them not be pregnant any more.
I love how cynical norman is getting real quickly.
I was playing Vindictus the other day and this old guy asked me to go out to the perilous ruins to find a flower his wife liked because it was the anniversary of his wifes death. Due to the mission based nature of Vindictus, going there to find the flowers WITHOUT killing everything between me and them was simply not possible, turned out the boss was carrying them anyway. Do you know how many gnoles i had to KILL for just a few flowers so this guy could feel better about his wife being dead?
Yeah... it's hard to feel like you have a stake in the world when saying no to killing stuff for no reason does nothing but leave you with less XP.
I'm pretty sure the medieval world didn't have warlocks, demons and floaty green names above everyone's heads either, though, so I wouldn't rely on it too much as a guide. ;)
And all-the-time, all-the-where loot drops? Oh gods no! I have trouble with inventory space as it is! (Unless it could all stack into a pile of "stuff I don't know what it does yet".)
Ah, those silly Demons and their logic. people of the light don't need logic. they have GOD on their side
I agree. His education is coming along quite nicely.
I hope in the next episode it goes into Norman's training... he must have leveled up a few times now right? Maybe he can have a dilemma about using darker magic.
Aw, shucks. And I came to the comments page only to do that.
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Following our local perspective, here's Brad Barrett, one of DiS' regular contributors' dazed and bemused tales from beside the seaside for this year's Great Escape...
I'm sure you all know the figures – 300 bands blah blah blah, 30 venues yadda yadda – but as I listened to every single artist playing this year before attending, I can safely recommend around 10 - 15 percent of those acts. Believe me when I say the rest aren't worth a second listen.
But that's still a huge amount for fussy 'ole you and me. So let's wade through the mire of my memory and work out the highlights and lowlights.
The most rewarding times at a metropolitan festival like this is when there's an all day, all evening venue that provides bands that never dip below entertaining. Such a situation is rare, but it happens on the Friday of The Great Escape this year, beginning with Dad Rocks! at the Pav Tav (the Pavillion Tavern for those unfamiliar with the fond nickname). The solo project of Mimas' Snævar Njáll Albertsson, the dual violin four-piece weaves a wonderful swathe of ebbing melody around Albertsson's delicate picking and quirky, joyful lyrics. A burst of In-Flight Safety at the Queen's Hotel reveals there's not much fun in paying attention to something tried and tested. There's not much more forgettable than what you've heard many times before.
Back at the Pav Tav, locals Cat Matador are stitching stuttering, chiming rock with soaring violin and at one point shred a crescendo Arcade Fire would find it difficult to top. Social Club are undeniably Weezer, but when has that been a bad thing? But the top of the daytime menu at the shockingly packed pub is Tall Ships. This Brightonian trio have been quietly stirring up some elegant, tectonically-complex tunes for a while now. Their gallant, galloping pop manages to treat climaxes as mere punctuation. Excellent nonchalant anthems. Moving on to Audio for the DiS celebrations sees the excellent Team Me in fine form, joyously snatching circular melodies out of the air, with 'Dear Sister' - and its addictive sherbet volcano of a melody - a hyperactive highlight. The Phantom Band, meanwhile, continues to be peerless. Madrigal chanting, warped electronic bass and shuddering to higher peaks all wrap around each other as the Scottish sextet fit their jigsaw pieces into intriguing musical shapes. Back into the cramped confines of the Pav Tav, The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club continue to baffle the majority with their succinct and uncompromising kilter-destroying pop. With two thirds of Reuben and a portion of Hundred Reasons, Freeze The Atlantic has every right to be incredible. That they're not is only slightly cushioned by the fact that Guy Davies is drumming again and he's possibly this writer's favourite drummer in the UK. Watching him play is like poetry in frenetic motion. Having said that, there is some heavy promise here as long as the wander further away from the more generic edge of post-hardcore. Stagecoach deliver more noisy, punkoid-fuelled energy with melodies lost in the increasingly crowd-addled stage. By the end the band can't hold the masses back, and don't even try. For sheer fun and atmosphere Stagecoach triumph. But it isn't until The Xcerts come on at a weary 1:15am that the Pav Tav becomes truly cataclysmic. The likes of 'Scatterbrain', 'Distant Memories' and 'Slackerpop' from their second album has the assembled throng yelling their lungs out. Older favourites 'Crisis In The Slow Lane' and 'Aberdeen 1987' reach fever pitch, but it's the churning, stampeding 'Hurt With Me' – with frontman Murray leaping from speakers onto the crowd, thrashing his guitar into oblivion – when the broiling sea of bodies really kick off and end up pulling the chandelier-like light fixture down into the face of yours truly. Brushing it off while the bothersome light gets carried off into the night, chants of "one more song!" are answered with current set closer 'Nightschool'. Bouncers look bemused, amused and exhausted; those witnessing feel euphoric and wrecked; and The Xcerts are just shaking their heads in disbelief. It's almost as if their time is upon us and they hadn't a clue.
Bookending the extraordinary events at the Pav Tav during the weekend are a slew of excellent bands too. Norway's Blood Command, fronted by blonde and blue-eyed screamer Silje Tombre, clamber over hardcore, kicking it in the face in the process while Brisbane's DZ DEATHRAYS merely pummel their instruments – guitar and drums – like punching bags, making a whole heap of ferocious and exhilarating noise in the process. Frank Turner continues to rise and rise and with songs from his excellent new album _England Keep My Bones _ getting a warm reception during both his afternoon HMV instore and Coalition set, bodes well for a very successful year. Anyone brave enough to write an a capalla folk song about the death of King William of Normandy's son on the hunting grounds of the New Forest deserves that much. Idiot Glee from Kentucky sings reverberating hymns and electronic soul songs – including a surprisingly ace cover of Bill Withers' 'Ain't No Sunshine' as a set closer – in Shipwright's Yard and is as faltering as ever. However this amateur charm endears us to him, especially in this forgiving suntrap, and his best moments outweigh his off-key mistakes. Daughter is a suitably calm, if heart-wrenching, beginning to Saturday. Her shy persona – as she trys to hide behind the mic – lends itself well to the familiar songs of love and loss, but there are moments when her voice hits a sweet spot that sounds undeniably incredible. That's when the pain, the joy, the anger spills out almost visibly. An intriguing young songwriter. Finally, DiS favourites Braids fill Komedia on a sunny Brighton afternoon. Sheltering from the sun in the dank, dark venue Braids easily soundtrack the contrast with a wavy flurry of notes cascading upon phased beats and the gentle intoning of Raphelle, giving us an aural glimpse of outside. But it's merely pleasant. None of the hooks are sufficiently barbed enough to grip you, and the humming swirling sonics are a breeze rather than a maelstrom. Which seems a shame, but Braids are what they are; a satisfying diversion for a half hour away from the outside world.
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Retrial begins for woman accused in Rwandan genocide
Prosecutors say woman lied on immigration forms
The federal retrial of a Manchester woman accused of lying about her role in the Rwandan genocide is under way in Concord.
Beatrice Munyenyezi, 43, is accused of lying about her role in the 1994 genocide when she applied to become a U.S. citizen.
During his nearly 45-minute opening statement, U.S. Assistant Attorney Al Chakravarty told jurors that the case is not about the genocide. He said jurors have to decide whether Munyenyezi lied on immigration forms that granted her refugee status and ultimately led to her becoming a U.S. citizen.
Chakravarty said prosecutors will prove that Munyenyezi failed to disclose that she was a member of a political party that engaged in the genocide and that she was "part of the machinery" that identified people to be separated out for slaughter.
Defense attorney David Ruoff said that the case is about the genocide. Ruoff asked jurors to be skeptical about the stories they would hear from witnesses. He said that in Rwanda, it is a crime to deviate from the Rwandan government's version of the genocide, suggesting that witnesses could be jailed if they deviate from the party line.
Ruoff said that in several investigations of the genocide, no one mentioned his client's name, but now, after the first trial ended with a mistrial, several new witnesses have appeared.
After opening statements, Dr. Rooney Zachariah was called as a witness. He was serving in Rwanda at the time of the genocide in the town where Munyenyezi lived. He said he went through some of the roadblocks where killings took place, but he wasn't able to link Munyenyezi to those acts.
The second witness, a Rwandan man, said he was able to link Munyenyezi and her husband to the MNRD, a political party that prosecutors said was involved in the killings. He said Munyenyezi was seen many times wearing the traditional clothing of that party.
The trial is expected to last about two weeks. If convicted, Munyenyezi could be stripped of her citizenship and deported back to Rwanda.


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If you've ever fried an expensive CPU trying to overclock the thing, you should check this out. Intel is introducing something called the Performance Tuning Plan, which in plain English means overclocking insurance.
Yes, for $20-$35 your Core i-whatever processor can be covered against you screwing up an overclock, with a one-time condition that your CPU can be replaced entirely. Brand new.
The PTP is currently in a pilot phase at the moment, available for a six month span. As PC Gamer notes, though, serious overclockers are more likely to crap out something on the motherboard rather than the CPU itself.
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Satriani ponders his next move at the mixing board during the recording of Unstoppable Momentum. Photo by Arthur Rosato
Unstoppable Momentum is even more about the melody than many recent Satriani works, too. Having proven himself many times over as a guitarist's guitarist, here he regards pyrotechnics as an afterthought—and this is especially apparent in the ballad "I'll Put a Stone on Your Cairn," one of Satriani's strongest melodic statements on record. The guitarist says, "On this record I wanted every moment to be super melodic. I didn't care at all about being physically impressive. I wanted the strongest possible melody, all the better with the strongest riff. Once I was satisfied the songs had met these requirements, the technique would follow."
Satriani also put a lot of energy into the compositions and arrangements, which led somewhat circuitously in directions that he hadn't previously explored. For example, he wrote brass parts for the boisterous-sounding "Three Sheets to the Wind."
"I drove my wife crazy, obsessively playing this tune a million times over the course of a month on my Ibanez JS prototype—which has a Strat-style layout—through a vintage Fender amp, totally dry," he says. "I kept getting the sense that I was playing this very strong melody in the meekest possible way. I recorded it into my phone and listened to it when I was out doing errands. Then I realized that the melody was so strong it didn't deserve to be played on guitar. So I tried demoing it on keyboards—a [Hammond] B3 organ kind of thing—but it still demanded to be expanded to its full potential. Initially I resisted doing it on horns, because that's generally not what I do. But then I thought, 'What the hell, let's see what it sounds like,' and the brass arrangement ended up being exactly what the melody was calling for."
The same track also reveals Satriani's tendency to compose in a filmic way—a practice not necessarily apparent to the listener. "When I was writing the tune, I had this movie going in my head about a dapper young guy in a natty suit stepping out of a fancy apartment in a groovy city. The tune is all about this guy drinking copious amounts of champagne, getting into all kinds of trouble, and stumbling back to his apartment at dawn, unharmed. I told Mike [Keneally] the story and he did this barroom type of piano that really made things swing."
Just a few of Joe's go-to axes at the ready in the studio. Photo by Arthur Rosato
Home Pyrotechnics
For all the focus on melody and attention to compositional detail, Unstoppable Momentum is not without its fireworks—for this is, after all, a Joe Satriani album. Fans of the pyrotechnical will find great satisfaction in the wah'd-out Dorian solo on the aforementioned "Three Sheets to the Wind" and the punishing tapping excursions and tripped-out whammy-bar antics on "Lies and Truths," to say nothing of the outright neoclassical shredding on "The Weight of the World." In his own defense (not that he needs one), Satch says, "Again, I tried to play exactly what the songs called for without ever going overboard."
In fact, not only are these shredding moments models of appropriateness, the solos on the record also exhibit a strong compositional logic, as well as a certain polish that owes much to Satriani's recording process. The Silver Surfer of yore has a home studio that's essentially always on standby, ready to receive his ideas and sketches at a moment's notice. Having such a convenient setup allowed Satriani to avoid the pressure of a more formal setting and capture the very best approach for many of the solos on the record. "I recorded some of the solos with a Millennia Origin STT-1 direct into Pro Tools," he says. "That way, I didn't need to get caught up in the sound and had the luxury of choosing the most inspired solos for the record. Later, I re-amped some of these solos and sent them out to a Marshall and fine-tuned the sound in the studio."
The solos also reveal a keen attention to harmonic detail and, despite their clean execution, a refreshing spontaneity. This sophistication is at least in part indebted to one of Satriani's unlikely mentors, the jazz innovator Lennie Tristano—a pianist and composer celebrated for the complexity he brought to the language. "He always said, 'Only play what you want to play. Never play what you think you should have, could have, or would have played. Never live in the subjunctive mode,'" remembers Satriani. "I've tried to follow those lessons my whole career."


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Due to circumstances beyond our control, Terry was unable to be with me while I woke up from surgery. I woke up way past the kids' bedtimes and they were both unfamiliar with my family and unwilling to let someone watch them so Terry could stay with me. My brother bravely volunteered.
This is his account of his experience in the Cardiac ICU.
Warning: The following is not safe for work. It contains graphic language and situations.
I left the entire text unedited because it displays my brother's shocked and overwhelmed mind perfectly.
in the cardiovascular icu… how to describe it. it is futuristic. mostly white and glass. white walls, white floor, white ceiling. big sliding glass doors, all wide open. outside of the room is a desk with a bunch of screens. some are touch screens. others just computer terminals with keyboards. There are a few of these rooms arranged in an arc, like pods, organized around a few of these desks.
inside the room. there is a sink on a small surface. some drawers. the male nurse has a sliding silver tray, on wheels, chest height. he's mostly flipping through and writing on papers. it's somewhat dark; the lights are turned down but everything still looks white.
My sister is lying on this crazy, futuristic looking bed with all types of controls and buttons and i swear i remember there is a joystick built into it as well. it's white. there are adjustable railings on the side with many buttons.
to the left there is a hanging stack of these module things… taller than longer. I think there is six or maybe eight of them. digital readouts on them all displaying something i don't recall. all of them connected to small diameter transparent tubes leading off to somewhere in the grand circus of small diameter transparent tubes in that room.
small diameter transparent hoses running all over like spaghetti heaped on a plate. they would run into several T-junctions with little adjustable knobs and attachments and branch off into other directions going every which way.
to the right of the bed is the freaking big-screen heart monitor output. geez this thing is touchscreen and it must be like 19 or maybe 22 diagonal inches big. it outputs her heart beat in four different ways, all with funky graphs. holy crap it's a badass screen. i don't really comprehend anything it is displaying.
i have to admit i really don't know the bio and science knowledge necessary to deceipher or even comprehend the things i saw in that room.
also to the right is the ventilator. this is the mother-fucker. this is the badass son of a bitch that you never want to meet in a dark alley in the middle of the night. don't fuck with this fucker.
the ventilator is whats breathing for my sister. it is programmed to keep a certain pace and i'll never forger seeing what it was like to watch my sister's forced breathing, mimicking what the screen is showing, again in graph form. those line graphs where she's breathing in and the line is slowly ascending… then she exhales and the line quickly drops and the pattern repeats and is obviously forced. it's breathing for my sister.
this ventilator has its own lcd screen, showing three different line graphs representing her breathing in some way. the nurse explained, as she comes out of the sedation, they reprogram the son of a bitch to allow my sister to breath overtop of it, and that's how they leave it until it's ready to come out.
the process of getting the fucker out of my sister... shit. all i want is to get the mother fucker out of my sister. when she came out of sedation, she came out quick. i think it caught them off guard.
let's back up a bit, i'm going to make a novel out of this while i still remember.
dad and i, and terry and the kids got there, and in the hallway outside the family waiting room you had to hit an airphone intercom system to be buzzed into icu. terry had the kids and they were a handful so dad and i went in first. tawny was completely in sedation, the male nurse never really left the room. he mostly had some clipboard action going on and occasionally would adjust some of the hose thingys and buttons on the… the hanging stack of module thingys… i should have given them a name when i introduced them earlier.
machines in the room would start beeping. the nurse would adjust buttons and knobs. the beeping would stop. other things would start beeping. the nurse would adjust other buttons and the beeping would stop. the nurse explained there are walking beeps, and running beeps.
when she stirred a little bit i held her hand. she instinctively was trying to lift her arms to her face to swat at the breathing tubes. because she called it. just the previous day she said she would do that, and she said the aenesthasa ...as if i can spell that... would make her nauseous.
the nurse is on it and asked tawny to squeeze his hand and she does. then she kinda settles back down and the thing stops beeping that i had just noticed had started beeping at some point.
the nurse gets restraints put on my sisters arms upon hearing the news that she has a history of this and is going to be swatting at the breathing tube. it seems cruel at the time but obviously necessary. and these aren't any kind of barbaric restraints or anything. he also doses her with something into one of the transparent tubes to help with the naseau. but it isn't gravol because he says gravol would put her back to sleep, we want her to wake up.
the male nurse says she's almost ready for some final tests and they will clean up and wipe off some of the surgical fluid, i'm assuming, iodine or some modern new anti whatever stuff… she seems to be right back to deep sedation.
dad and i go out to the waiting room so the nurse can do these tests. we hang out on the weird high-arm furniture and watch tv and play angry birds and watch tv and dad reads the paper and logan jumps around and rolls around on the furniture on the other side of the room and lane wants to be in terry's arms and gives everyone the "i'm on to you!" eyeball.
i think dad was pretty upset by it all, i was upset by it all, and lane seemed to be showing signs of sickness, and all of this being so much of a shock to them. and above all i think none of us where prepared to see tawny like this. terry had to get the kids back to the hotel it was getting pretty late, this must have been approaching ten o'clock, i can probably verify by the text message updates i had been sending to terry throughout the night
He said the tests went great and couldn't have been better. He said he just stopped the flow of the sedation drip thingy controlled by the… dammit... the hanging stack of module thingys.
i stayed in the room. i sat on the chair. the nurse did hose thingys and button thingys and clipboard action.
what seemed like hours but couldn't have been more than twenty minutes, the nurse was clipboarding with another nurse and my sister kicked and kinda shot her head up a little bit and i could see her left eye open a tiny little bit then close and she settled back down in the pillow. she was awake. the nurses bolted to action.
she's clearly choking and gaging. and it seems so horrible i can't even describe. her eyes fluctuate quickly from open to close, never fully open, and always darting in different directions. i hold her hand. the nurse on the other side of the futuristic bed holds her head down and says "relax" and says "don't move your tounge, keep your tounge flat, it will help" ...why don't i know how to spell tounge?
she kinda settles on it a bit more and i worry about the ventilator mother fucker. from my primitive comprehension i'm thinking we need to adjust that mother fucker now that she's awake but that doesn't seem to be a priority right now.
the nurse says "open your eyes" and she does. she looks at him. she's uncomfortable. she's clenching her fists and sometimes pounds on the bed in her restraints. he says "squeeze my hand" and she does. she looks like she's starting to comprehend what is going on. he says "hi tawny, you're here in the icu you are doing great and everything went well, just try to relax, my name is Darren i'm going to take care of you. your brother is here" …she looks at me… he continues, "you're doing so great just try to relax". she looks back at him, she squeezes my hand she is uncomfortable, she is naseous and dry heaving… i will never ever forget these moments.
as seconds or maybe minutes pass, i don't know it seemed like forever… she slowly starts to settle in on it and is still clearly uncomfortable but not so much choking anymore. they still haven't done anything with the mother fucker. the nurse explains what's going to happen. he says she has to pass some physical tests, and a blood test, before they can remove the ventilator. i didn't really comprehend much of it. i consider myself smart but this was over my head. in summation it had to do with making sure she could breathe for herself, she was fully awake and aware, her lungs were working properly, her blood pressure remained at a certain level for a certain period of time, i don't know it's was all so overwhelming seeing her like that.
the nurse takes the blood for the blood test and another green-suited person comes along and fucks with the mother fucker. i get the explanation that she is now breathing on her own completely unassisted, and based on the outcome of the blood tests and physical test, they will be able to take out the breathing tubes. i just want them to get that mother fucker out of my sister.
the physical tests involved getting her to lift her head off the pillow, and breathe into some apparatus. the green suited person, this time a shorter blonde woman, unpacks this big gauge thing that looks like a compression test for vehicles engines. she unplugs my sisters breathing tube from the mother fucker and plugs into the gauge and has my sister breathe in and out as hard as she can. and then she takes it off and reconnects the breathing tube to the mother fucker. also there is this bubble thing in her throat that they deflate at the start of this test, and reinflate at the end.
they say all the test are back and are great and they can pull the tubes and i back away as other apparatus comes in and two more green suits and they are doing stuff and i need to sit down. i'm so scared but so happy the breathing tube is finally coming out. i don't see much of it but at the last second i see one of the smaller tubes coming up and out and then into a bag-lined bucket. and i see the big clear one coming up but i look away before its all the way out and it goes into a bag-lined bucket.
and once they are all out, two suits leave and i stand up i go to the bed and my sister tilts her head and looks over to me and says "how was work today?" i look at her and laugh and smile and i'm so fucking relieved and i want to cry but i'm being a rock and say to her "work? what are you asking me about work for? look at you, you're doing great and everything went great and they couldn't have been happier and you're going to be fine you're going to be great…" and i just kept going on and on because i know she probably hasn't comprehended any of this yet as she just woke up and i don't even know if she's going to remember. and i hold her hand and i think i even petted her head and i tell her "dad was here and terry and the kids were here and they love you and they miss you and tanj and mark and chels will be here tomorrow and you're doing so great and i love you".
and i stayed in the white-not-bright room and she teased me about working and asked about tanj again and she told me about lane and a ball pit and logan driving boats at the west edmonton mall.
and she drifts in and out between brother-sister banter and she's occasionally quite nauseous and dry heaving and they finally give her gravol which makes her sleepy and i say she should sleep and i tell her i love her. she seems out like a light and i ask the nurse what happens next and he explains.
he is going to stay with her all night. she'll likely sleep through the entire night and they will wake her around 8am in the morning if she doesn't wake herself. he says around 11am they will be able to move her out of icu, of course pending some tests. i thank him and i thank him and he's a great person and is doing some clipboard action as i leave my sister to sleep.
- Written by my brother Davan
I thank my brother with all my heart for staying with me during these hours. I don't remember much, but I do remember him squeezing my hand and saying that everything was going to be OK, sis.
The whole experience is terrifying for both patient and family members, but if you read a little deeper into this story you'll see a few striking things.
1) Was I gonna let a little anaesthesia knock me out for long? HELL NO! I was gonna wake up early and with a fight.
2) Was I gonna let some machine do my breathing for me? HELL NO! Get that mother fucker out now!
3) Did I just score a sponge bath from a hot male nurse? BOOYA!
4) I have the best family in the entire world. :)


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Stroll the 1.3-mile Hudson River Walkway in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. — taking in the exhilarating view of water, treetops and sky — and you could almost forget that we live in a world designed for the automobile. Here, the environment belongs not to those who roar by at 70 mph, but to pedestrians like you.
The concept of pedestrian bridges isn't new — Venice's Rialto Bridge dates back to 1588, and even the Brooklyn Bridge architects made room for walkways alongside the car lanes. But just recently, since around the turn of the millennium, we've rediscovered the notion that regular people are important enough to deserve some spectacular feats of engineering.
This latest generation of newly constructed or retrofitted pedestrian bridges — where cars are strictly off-limits — takes a number of forms. Some exist primarily to thrill tourists. You have to take a harrowing cable car ride up a lush Malaysian mountain just to get to the aptly named Langkawi Sky Bridge. It's a curved bridge to nowhere that dangles 2,300 feet above the dazzling Andaman Sea.
Other pedestrian bridges elevate the everyday business of getting from point A to point B. From Buenos Aires to Bilbao, routine errands are imbued with grandeur thanks to Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's dramatically sculptural footbridges.
The most successful fall somewhere between spectacle and conduit because they blaze a path where no one felt the need for one before. The newly built Bob Kerrey Bridge linking Omaha, Neb., to Council Bluffs, Iowa, surely attracts tourists, but it has also changed life for the locals. Footbridges encourage new patterns of development geared toward human-powered pace, especially along the nearby waterfronts.
That's been the case in upstate New York, where a 17-year grassroots effort to repurpose an industrial railroad bridge as the Hudson River Walkway is now reaping rewards. Since its October 2009 opening, the walkway has spurred a neighborhood revival and attracted more than 750,000 tourists — three times the expected amount.
Sure, these pedestrian bridges make a big impression with sweeping views and innovative features like solar-powered LED lighting or the ability to levitate and roll upwards into a wheel. But above all, they reward us for traveling, whether on foot or two wheels, with our own muscle power.
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Mitt Romney's new economic plan: Did it just fizzle?
An important speech by Mitt Romney in Detroit, with just days before Michigan voters go to the polls in a primary, probably didn't go as well as the Republican presidential candidate had hoped.
It was billed as a major speech, but the Associated Press described it as offering "few new policy ideas."
Video footage showed Mr. Romney talking to a crowd of some 1,200, gathered in the middle of a football stadium with tens of thousands of empty seats in the background. (Actually, the bad visuals arose because tickets for the speech sold out at the Detroit Economic Club's initial location, leading to a quick change of venue.)
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And even as he tried to connect with the car culture of Motor City, the Michigan-raised Romney made a comment that could cement a rich-plutocrat image with many voters: He said his wife drives "a couple of Cadillacs."
So will this be known as the flop at Ford Field?
If he ends up losing the state's primary vote on Tuesday, perhaps. But as a statement of policy and purpose, the speech offered several items of note. So here's a look at the more substantive points of what Romney said.
ECONOMIC PLAN. First off, although much of what Romney said wasn't new, the speech revealed that the candidate does have a real economic plan.
That doesn't mean voters all agree with it, and independent economists are still wondering if the numbers all add up. But Romney has put forward a number of concrete ideas connected to a larger vision.
"I want to restore America's promise," he said, citing the nation's tradition as a magnet for optimists, risk-takers, and innovators. He argued that a growing presence of government in the economy means that "we are inches away from no longer being a free economy."
His economic plan includes some elements that are new this week (even if they weren't introduced in the speech itself). Before a Republican debate Wednesday, the Romney campaign fleshed out a tax-reform plan, calling for all personal income-tax rates to drop by 20 percent.
ENTITLEMENT REFORM. Romney also offered some new insights on entitlement reform. He blasted President Obama for saying he would make Medicare and Social Security solvent for future generations, but not offering serious plans.
"A few common-sense reforms will ensure we make good on our promises to today's seniors while saving Social Security and Medicare for future generations," Romney said.
He called tax hikes "off the table" and said there will be no change for those at or near retirement.
On Social Security, Romney said a slow rise in the retirement age, coupled with slower growth in benefits for higher-income retirees, could fix the program's looming cash-flow imbalance.
On Medicare, Romney has embraced a "premium support" concept in which seniors could choose among insurance providers (including traditional Medicare) and receive government support to ensure they can afford that coverage. Lower-income seniors will receive the most generous benefits.
He said the new system should start for new retirees in 2022. "We will gradually increase the Medicare eligibility age by one month each year," Romney said. "In the long run, the eligibility ages for both programs will be indexed to longevity so that they increase only as fast as life expectancy."
Those are substantive ideas, albeit not ones that necessarily get crowds cheering – even members of the Detroit Economic Club. TAX REFORM. Romney's income-tax plan, meanwhile, has drawn some significant conservative approval this week.
The former Massachusetts governor linked the tax-cut plan to job growth, calling low tax rates an incentive for hard work and risk-taking. More than half of all workers in the US, Romney said, are employed in businesses that pay taxes under the personal-income code, not as corporations.
SIZE OF GOVERNMENT. Romney also pledged to downsize government by cutting programs, capping federal spending, and ultimately balancing the federal budget.
On this front, budget experts say he still needs to flesh out how to accomplish those goals. His tax-reform plans don't bring in new revenue, so balancing the budget – at his announced spending cap of 20 percent of gross domestic product – would require sizable cuts at a time when much of federal spending goes to programs like Social Security that are mandated by law.
Entitlement reforms are one vital step toward solvency, as Romney noted. He also pledged a thorough review of whether programs could be eliminated entirely or transferred to states. With social-welfare programs including Medicaid, he suggested that many could be turned into block grants to the states, with a cap on the rate of future federal spending.
But the specific program cuts Romney outlined in the speech were few, including Amtrak subsidies and funding for Planned Parenthood. He pledged to maintain military superiority.
AUTO INDUSTRY. In a paean to Michigan, Romney said that his policies would help Detroit retain global leadership in the auto industry.
But both GOP rival Rick Santorum and the Democrat-backed group MoveOn.org have come out with ads pointing to Romney's opposition to a bailout for the auto industry during the financial crisis.
And Romney's recounting of the multiple American-made cars that he and his wife drive, coming on top of gaffes made earlier in the campaign, could hurt Romney with some voters, adding fuel to the notion that he's an out of touch multimillionaire.
Yes, the speech didn't appear to be a crowd-wower – and Romney could use a few of those. But it showed a candidate who at least appears to have done his homework.
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Multiple Myeloma (MY-eh-LOH-muh) also called Plasma Cell Myeloma, Bone Marrow Cancer or Smoldering Myeloma.
Multiple myeloma cancer begins in plasma cells, a type of white blood cell. These cells are part of your immune system, which helps protect the body from germs and other harmful substances. In time, plasma myeloma cells collect in the bone marrow and in the solid parts of bone to become plasmacytoma. Plasmacytoma is plasma cell myeloma as a single lesion or tumor. When the plasma cell myeloma develops into multiple lesions it becomes multiple myeloma. Often multiple myeloma symptoms go unnoticed, delaying a myeloma prognosis.
Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in the United States and, sadly that population is growing, climbing to 6.36 cases per 100,000 people in 2010 from 5.6 per 100,000 in 1993. Over in the UK, more than 4,600 new cases are diagnosed annually, or 5.4 people per 100,000 are diagnosed countrywide. And, across Europe, the incidence rate is 3.8 cases per 100,000. Given the disease is primarily diagnosed in older patients, with a median age of diagnosis around 70 years, a longer living global population suggests the need for effective treatments is growing, not shrinking.
The five-year survival rate (percentage of people who survive at least five years after the cancer is detected, excluding those who die from other diseases) of people with multiple myeloma is about 43%. However, several factors affect an individual's survival, such as the person's age and overall health. For instance, it is known that survival rates are higher in younger people than in older people. That's why cancer survival statistics should be interpreted with caution. These estimates are based on data from thousands of people with this type of cancer, but the actual risk for a particular individual may differ. It is not possible to tell a person how long he or she will live with multiple myeloma. Because the survival statistics are measured in five-year intervals, they may not represent advances made in the treatment or diagnosis of this cancer.
Living with a Multiple Myeloma Prognosis
This deadly form of cancer has no known 100% cure. However, with proper cancer treatments many multiple myeloma patients can lead fairly normal lives by using various medications that are proving to be very successful in the containment of the plasma cancer cells and control of multiple myeloma symptoms.
Early Multiple Myeloma Symptoms May Include:
- Bone pain, often in the back or ribs
- Broken bones
- Weakness or fatigue
- Weight loss
- Repeated infections
- Loss of energy
For more information about myeloma, please visit the IMF website.