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(Bismarck Tribune)
A McCleary will be coaching the Napoleon wrestling team again this season, but it won't be Barry.
Barry McCleary has handed the reins over to his son Kelly and former pupil Justin Weigel after 26 years as the Imperials' head coach. McCleary, who had been involved in Napoleon wrestling since the 1979-80 school year, said the stepping down process began three years ago.
"I did it little by little. I just decided that last year would be my last," he said. "Kelly and Justin took over much of the coaching the last couple of years and they're ready. I feel I'm leaving the program in great hands. This retirement thing is going to be a little rough because I know I'm going to miss it, but I'm feeling good about what we were able to accomplish in my years here."
McCleary's resume is impressive to say the least. He coached nine state team champions as well as six state dual champions. Napoleon won six consecutive team and dual titles from 2002 through 2007. That streak included three tournaments in which it scored more than 200 points - 227 in 2005, 200.5 in 2006, and 219 in 2007. The 227-point output in 2005 is a state record. In fact, no other team in Class B wrestling has scored 200 or more points in a state tournament.
In addition, McCleary's teams won 437 duals.
McCleary served as an assistant coach under Bert Gums for six years, during which the Imperials won three state championships.
"It was a great ride. What more can I say?" McCleary said. "All of those state championships, all of those great kids. Lots of great memories. I enjoyed it ... every minute of it."
There are memories galore, but the one that stands out most is Napoleon's team victory in the prestigious Bismarck Rotary Tournament in 2007. Napoleon, which at the time had an enrollment of about 80 high school students, scored 194.5 points and had eight placewinners including four individual champions in a tournament that featured 15 North Dakota Class A schools and a number of top-flight wrestling teams from South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana.
"Winning the Rotary that year was the most amazing accomplishment," McCleary said. "Here we were, a small school with under 100 kids and we went to Bismarck and beat all of those big schools. That was a very special group of kids. Their goal that season was to win the Rotary. They believed they could do it. We've always sent teams to the Rotary because it's such a great experience for the kids. We've usually done well there. It's one of the highlights of the year, wrestling with the big boys."
McCleary, the Class B coach of the year in 1989 and 2005, coached 23 wrestlers who won individual state championships, including sons Kyle, Keith and Kriss. Kriss won four straight state titles (2005 through 2008). Two other sons, Kelly and Kevin, were state finalists.
There was at least one McCleary in the Napoleon lineup every school year from 1997-98 to 2007-08.
"At first, I didn't think I would coach long enough to coach any of my sons in high school, but I wound up coaching all of them," McCleary said. "It's a tough thing coaching your kid and I admit that sometimes I had a hard time dividing being a parent and being a coach. But it was a great experience, though. They won a lot of matches and they did real well in state tournaments. I'm very proud of all of them. It was great to be there and watch it all happen."
McCleary watched his wrestlers claim a total of 37 individual state championships.
He coached 10 multiple champions.
"The greatest feeling I got was when a kid jumped into my arms after winning a state championship," he said. "It's because I know how much they wanted it and how hard they worked for it. I knew a lot of those kids since they were four or five years old, and I watched them go through the program from start to finish. To see them reach that ultimate goal is something special."
McCleary is especially proud that Napoleon has been able to churn out high-quality wrestling teams despite having a high school enrollment of under 100 most years.
"The community's commitment to sports is second to none," McCleary said. "Why have we been so successful? Let's start with the kids. They love to compete ... they love to be on the mat. They're the ones who put in the time that is needed to be better. The parents are a big part of it, too. We have great families here, families who support their kids in wrestling or whatever sport they're in. That makes a big difference."
McCleary had a number of opportunities to coach elsewhere but never seriously entertained thoughts of leaving Napoleon.
"People would ask me why I didn't go to a bigger school, but I would always tell them, 'Why should I when I'm having so much fun?'' McCleary said. "Napoleon is a place that loves its wrestling. It's a great place for a wrestling coach to be."


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Thromnambular is a mystical wishing skull from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. In the series, he has the power to grant nine wishes, and upon the ninth is freed from his imprisonment within the skull. The wishes often go horribly awry. Thromnambular always speaks in rhyme. He is voiced by Dwight Schultz.
In FusionFall, there are nine Thromnambular skulls scattered throughout the world, one for each wish. They are marked with a Roman numeral from 1 to 9 (I to IX) and must be done in ascending order. Each skull has an associated hint mission given by another NPC, which must be completed before the skull's mission can be activated. Upon completion of the hint mission, the NPC will give the player a clue as to the whereabouts of the skull. The first eight skull missions are regular missions. The final skull grants a unique set of armor and a backpack accessory. Apparently, due to their remote locations and inability to fight or move, all 9 skulls were found and destroyed by the monsters in the future.
In The Fissure, there is a Wishing Skull V covered in Fusion Matter. For the time, this one is not related to any mission. As there is another Wishing Skull V on Bravo Beach. Thromnambular may be able to create and replace some of his skulls if they get destroyed.
Thromnambular I
|Thromnambular I
|Eternal Vistas
|Clue By
- Mission level: 8
- Location: Bottom right corner of the gated area, tucked behind a headstone
- Mission objectives:
- Fight Joke-O-Lanterns for Joke-O'-Lantern Head
- Return to Thromnambular
- Fight Bloodsuckers for Bloodsucker Wing
- Return to Thromnambular
- Fight Spookas for Spooka's Tail
- Return to Thromnambular
- The Him Mission is called "Make a Wish."
Thromnambular II
|Thromnambular II
|Genius Grove
|Clue By
- Mission level: 8
- Location: Northwest of Genius Grove behind a tree
- Mission objectives:
- Enter the Sweet Revenge Infected Zone in Candy Cove
- Reach the Crow's Nest in 120 seconds
- Return to Thromnambular
- The Billy Mission is called "Wish Upon a Weirdo."
Thromnambular III
|Thromnambular III
|Goat's Junk Yard
|Clue By
- Mission level: 8
- Location: On top of the first building to the right upon entry into the Infected Zone of Goat's Junk Yard
- Mission objectives:
- Defeat the Scrap Scrappers for three Metal Scraps
- Return to Thromnambular
- Defeat the Scrap Tyrants for three Large Metal Scraps
- Return to Thromnambular
- The Stickybeard Mission is called "Pirate's Wish."
Thromnambular IV
|Thromnambular IV
|City Hall
|Clue By
|The Scotsman
- Mission level: 16
- Location: Northeast of City Hall near the Great Machine, where the Monkey Skyway Agents are.
- Mission objectives: spider egg
- Go to the Sunken Mall in Townsville Center for a party hat
- Return to Thromnambular in 300 seconds
The Scotsman's Mission is called "A Wee Wish."
Thromnambular V
|Thromnambular V
|Bravo Beach
|Clue By
- Mission level: 18
- Location: Near the southeast corner outside of the Infected Zone near a lifeguard tower.
- Mission objectives:
- Defeat eight Squish Scalers
- Return to Thromnambular
- Retrieve Saltwater Taffy from the wharf
- Return to Thromnambular
- The Grim Mission is called "Skullburned."
Thromnambular VI
|Thromnambular VI
|Steam Alley
|Clue By
- Mission level: 22
- Location: Near Fusion Numbuh One's fusion portal.
- Mission objectives:
- Defeat five Putrid Spawns
- Defeat six Oil Ogres
- Defeat seven Gear Goliaths
- Defeat eight Baleful Brutes
- Return to Thromnambular
Mandark makes you talk to Thromnambular VI in "Mag-Ick"
Thromnambular VII
|Thromnambular VII
|Devil's Canyon
|Clue By
|Agent Duffey
- Mission level: 23
- Location: On a rock near the zip line on top of the central plateau near the Pneumatic Bears.
- Mission objectives:
The clue to this skull is from Agent Duffey in Devil's Bluff in the mission, "Something Smells Clawful"
Thromnambular VIII
|Thromnambular VIII
|Monkey Mountain
|Clue By
|Plumber Carol
- Mission level: 27
- Location: In the southwest corner on a ledge behind a hill with a crater.
- Mission objectives:
- Place three bananas in the Monkey Mountain Infected Zone
- Return to Thromnambular.
The clue is revealed by Plumer Carol in Forgotten Falls in the mission "Armor Race"
Afterward, enjoy the break from the saga until level 34.
Thromnambular IX
|Thromnambular IX
|The Precipice
|Clue By
- Mission level: 34
- Location: Northwest corner near the bridge to Fuse's Lair behind a rock.
- Mission objectives:
- Talk to Billy to obtain some kind of memorabilia for the skull
- Return to Thromnambular
The clue to this skull is from Demongo in the mission "The Last Skull"

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We are hosting a James Beard Foundation Celebrity Chef dinner tonight, raising money for Falmouth Hospital. One hundred lucky guests will dine under a tent next to Quicks Hole (our farm-to-table restaurant) overlooking Woods Hole harbor and under the stars.
This will be a summer meal to remember…
The meal is being prepared by Chef Cal Peternell (of Chez Panisse, Berkeley CA), Anna Kovel (former food editor Martha Stewart Living) and our own Stephanie Mikolazyk (executive chef at Quicks Hole). You can read more about the chefs here. The guests come from Woods Hole and all over the world, foodies who unite in their passion for fine dining and a great cause.
Preparations for this special meal began over a year ago when I met the amazing and talented Cal Peternell, continued this winter when we went to cook with his crew at Chez Panisse, and heated up this spring with the help of many volunteers who came together to plan all the details for tonight.
Today, the parking lot next to the Inn will be transformed with a tent, shrubs, hydrangeas, long wooden farm tables, linen napkins, stylish rental chairs, flowers. At the same time, the kitchen will bustle with a different energy as lobster tacos are put away for the day and our crew boils stock, shucks oysters, steams lobster, mixes chickpea flour panisses, prepares smoked blue fish pate and much more.
I am eternally grateful to our sponsors, local companies who understand partnership, ambitious food and creative friendship: Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, Bank of Martha's Vineyard, Robert Paul Properties, and the Sea Crest Beach Hotel.
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If you have any underlying food allergies or sensitivities you should avoid those foods. A study conducted on eighty eight children under one with allergic rhinitis, asthma, or both were placed on a hypoallergenic diet for 6 weeks. 90% of the children experienced significant improvement in one week of starting the diet. (Ann Allergy. 1977; 39(1):8-11.) Other studies have found symptom improvement with just avoiding food additives such as MSG and sulfites which can also evoke an immune response in sensitive individuals.
It should be noted that skin prick and RAST tests for type 1 IgE food allergies are not the most reliable for identifying foods that make seasonal allergies worse. The most reliable way to identify problematic foods is by eliminating all the common foods from your diet and re-introducing them back one at a time. This is known as an elimination diet or a food challenge diet. Mediator Release Testing (MRT) and the LEAP immuno-calm diet program is another option. It identifies all non-IgE food and food chemical sensitivities that cause an immune response in the body.
Allergies are an inflammatory response, so eating an anti-inflammatory diet can help. In addition to avoiding food allergies and food sensitivities, also eat plenty of antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables and foods rich in omega 3 fats. Limit sugar and saturated and trans fats as these promote inflammation. A study published in the June 2006 issue of Public Health Nutrition found that people who had higher concentrations of carotenoids, reflective of a diet rich in various fruits and vegetables, were less likely to suffer from allergic rhinitis. Similar results were found in children in Greece who consumed a Mediterranean diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, whole grains and olive oil. These children suffered less from allergic rhinitis, asthma symptoms and skin allergies. (Thorax 2007;62:677-683)
A 2005 study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a high intake of omega 3 fatty acids was associated with a reduced risk of allergic sensitization and allergic rhinitis. Good food sources of omega 3 fats include fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, and anchovies. Flaxseed and walnuts are the best plant-based sources of omega-3 fats. If you dont eat these foods then consider taking a high-quality 3rd party tested fish oil supplement.
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Jim Fain Do you remember the carnivals when you were a kid? Most of the time there would be an assortment of colorful performers and, almost always, someone who would guess your age and, if wrong, you'd get a stuffed animal or maybe an ashtray. Here are some surefire ways of completing that collection of ashtrays by looking younger as you get older.
Wrinkles - a sign of wisdom or not enough L-carnosine? The beneficial impact of this amino acid on skin and connective tissue is well established. Skin (and connective tissue) benefits by having its life span increased. It can continue to divide and remain healthy longer. As we age, the connective tissue cells in the inner layer of skin dwindle due to the inability of the cells to divide. This leads to inelasticity, wrinkles and poor wound healing. Carnosine reverses this and, according to Dr. William Campbell Douglas, helps prevent aging throughout the body. Carnosine is a powerful antioxidant.
A good antioxidant supplement will go a long way. Antioxidants do a lot of different things and are greatly beneficial. This is partly why a diet rich in fresh, colorful veggies is so good for us. An antioxidant supplement should include vitamins A, C, E (natural), B2, B6, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, alpha lipoic acid, L-cysteine and L-glutathione (reduced). Some include CoQ10 but I like to supplement with larger amounts than typically found in most antioxidant formulas. I still strongly favor vitamin E, as well.
"Vitamin E intake, from foods or supplements, is associated with less cognitive decline with age." Mind you, this was from an article in a prestigious neurology journal. Another published study from a different neurology journal proclaims benefit for a variety of conditions such as anorexia, depression, Alzheimer's, cardiac disease, including heart attack, and more.
According to Dr. Ronald Lawrence of U.C.L.A., a surprise benefit of taking about 2,000 mg/day of MSM is that folks may notice benefits such as softer skin, harder nails, thicker hair and softening of scar tissue. Hmmm... better hair, nails, softer skin with less wrinkles - sounds good, Ponce de Leon, watch out.


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Netflix reaches deal to end lawsuit over closed captioning of streamed movies, TV shows
Netflix Inc. has reached an agreement with the National Association of the Deaf to ensure that all movies and television shows it streams on the Internet will be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired within two years.
The association, along with the Western Massachusetts Association of the Deaf and Hearing Impaired and Massachusetts resident Lee Nettles — who is deaf — sued the California-based company over the issue in 2010. In June, a federal judge in Springfield found Netflix and other online providers that serve the public are subject to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the first ruling in the country to recognize that Internet-based businesses are covered by the act. Such Web-based businesses did not exist when the law was enacted in 1990, but according to the judge, it was intended to adapt to technology changes.
Nettles, who works at the Stavros Center for Independent Living in Springfield, said Netflix discriminated against the hearing impaired by forcing them to pay for more expensive DVD rentals, many of which are close-captioned.
Netflix began streaming shows in 2008 and started captioning them in 2010. Currently, 90 percent of programming hours viewed are closed captioned, according to the company.
"We got the attention because we were pioneers to streaming video, but the interesting thing is we are so far ahead and much more evolved in providing quality captioning than any of the other streaming services,'' said Netflix spokesman Jonathan Friedland.
Friedland said he did not know how much the closed captioning requirement will cost the company.
Other streaming services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, iTunes, and Hulu, will now also be compelled to offer closed captioning, said Arlene Mayerson, directing attorney for the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, who represented the plaintiffs in the suit. The case has wide implications for the 48 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the United States who want to be part of the social mainstream, she said.
"Deaf and hard of hearing people need 100 percent of the content to be closed captioned so that they can access this wonderful new service in the same way that hearing people can,'' Mayerson said.


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If you have ever had the need for a thermal imaging device then you know how expensive they can be. Well this latest Kickstarter project looks to change all of that by utilizing your iPhone and a new clip on thermal imaging camera. The project which is currently running on Kickstarter, was developed over a need to find leaks in a home owners property to curtail spiraling energy costs.
I have a 100 year old house that can be drafty and hard to heat in the winter. I have been wanting a thermal imaging camera to help find leaks ever since we bought this house. The cheapest one I could find was $1,500 so I finally just made my own. This is the IR-Blue.
The IR-Blue lets you see the temperature of things around you. It uses a 64 zone non-contact InfraRed sensor array to read the temperature of what you are viewing. The IR-Blue connects using Bluetooth to your iPhone or Android device to show the temperature readings as colors on the screen.
The IR-Blue has already smashed its funding target of $20,000 and currently sits at over $112k. Thankfully it is not too late to grab a piece of the early action. You can make a pledge starting at $145 for a self-assembly kit or $165 for an IR-Blue fully assembled.
This is certainly an accessory that I would be interested in, I have an old stone built house that leaks energy like a sieve. With one of these attached to my iPhone I could pin point all of the problematic areas with ease. What do you think of the IR-Blue?
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Minor Earthquake Detected near Socorro
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., May 23, 2007 – A minor earthquake occurred last night, May 22, near the central New Mexico town of Socorro, measuring at local duration magnitude 2.9 at almost 11:17 p.m.
(See the seismic record of the earthquake.)
Seismologists at New Mexico Tech in Socorro recorded the earthquake activity on the university's array of seismic stations located throughout the state, and determined that the epicenter was located eight miles directly west of Socorro at a depth of 3.7 miles in the same vicinity of the last broadly felt earthquake in the area on October 29, 2005.
Newsrooms at Albuquerque television stations fielded felt reports about the tremor from several Socorro residents.
"The quake was not unusual given the historic record for this region, and is part of an ongoing swarm of activity," said Rick Aster, a geophysics professor at New Mexico Tech. "Earthquakes of this magnitude are expected to occur every year or so in the Socorro vicinity, and events occurring this close to the populated Rio Grande corridor will be widely felt, even for small magnitudes."
The central Socorro County region from Socorro north to Bernardo is historically the most seismically active portion of New Mexico, largely due to the presence of a mid-crustal magma body located about 12 miles beneath the Rio Grande rift.


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HK Marathon Registration Opens Oct. 24Oct 23 (Tue ), 2012
Registration for 2013 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon to Open 24 October 2012
The first phase of registration for the 17th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, featuring the Marathon, Half Marathon and Wheelchair Races, will start tomorrow, 24 October 2012 at 7am.
Registration for the 10km will commence on 31 October 2012. Entry quotas will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, and the registration deadline is 30 November 2012.
The 17th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon will take place on 24 February 2013.
Chairman of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2013 Organizing Committee, William Ko, said, "We expect the majority of participants will register through our online system. To avoid online traffic congestion, two separate registration periods are offered to participants joining different races. We hope this will smooth out the enrollment process."
The entry fee is HK$300, and applicants registering online via the official website will receive instant confirmation upon successful application.
Marathon participants are reminded to assess their own fitness prior to registration to decide which race category to enter, and to allow themselves adequate preparation and proper training to achieve optimal performance on race day.


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Middle-age masterpieces
Danish churches, and in particular village churches, house an impressive wealth of visible murals and frescos. Around 1,800 of Denmark's 2,400 churches date as far back as the Middle Ages and church frescos have been uncovered in over 600 of them so far. This is estimated to be the highest concentration of surviving church murals anywhere in the world.
Public paintings
Many murals were uncovered in the 19th and 20th centuries from under layers of lime and restored, having been hidden for centuries. They are a unique and easily accessible attraction and they're free to admire. The oldest frescos date back to the 12th century and were painted in the Romanesque style by artists from elsewhere in Europe. The frescos painted from the 14th century onwards are Gothic, a style favoured by native Danish painters. These frescos are an extremely valuable Danish cultural and artistic resource.
Further reading
The Kalkmalerier website (church fresco website) is in Danish but it can be used as a visual resource, with striking picture galleries of frescos around Denmark.
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Dinner and a movie.
Yes, I realize it represents a profound failure of imagination, but this was the date I had proposed to my wife for Valentine's Day next week. But sometimes life's obligations (not to mention two kids) limit your options for an evening out, so you flail around, punt and resort to an old standby. It still beats takeout and loading the dishwasher, right?
Maybe not. A cursory glance at the theater listings reveals a slate of movies not exactly geared toward anyone whose age or IQ exceeds 30. "That Awkward Moment"? The one about the infantile guys chanting "bros before hos"? Didn't that phrase go out with low-rise jeans? Pass. "The Lego Movie"? I believe that's currently playing on our living room floor. "Labor Day"? Did you read the reviews? No reason not to skip ahead, enjoy a slice of peach pie and call it a night.
And we've already seen "About Last Night" and "Endless Love" back when Lionel Richie and John Waite ruled the charts and Rob Lowe looked ... well, exactly as he does now. Maybe that Valentine's dinner should include kale and a brisk power walk back to the car ... that we parked five miles away.
My point is: Somewhere, somebody is at this very moment asking: Where have you gone, Garry Marshall? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo. (Or, eew, eew, eew, depending on how you feel about "Valentine's Day" and "New Year's Eve.") Just when did "date night movie" lose its place on studios' release schedules?
Typically this time of year, there's still some awards-season leftovers hanging around in theaters, movies aimed at grown-ups and among the biopics and historical epics and serious-minded whatnot, you might occasionally get a whiff of love in the air. Last year we watched those two kooky head cases in David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" fuss, feud and dance and give each other renewed purpose in life to the strains of Stevie Wonder and the White Stripes. It had us at "Hey!"
This year there's another movie from Russell, "American Hustle," but the emotional connection between its con artist lovers, played by Christian Bale and Amy Adams, feels like it's hidden somewhere beneath the elaborate comb-over that Bale's character sports. Meanwhile, there's a lot of sex in "The Wolf of Wall Street," even some between a husband and wife, but not much in the way of romance unless you broaden the definition to include a candlelit dominatrix.
Among the other best picture nominees, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney never have the chance to pair off in "Gravity," while, thankfully, nothing of that sort ever happens between 79-year-old Judi Dench and Steve Coogan during their trip to our nation's capital in "Philomena." Bruce Dern and June Squibb give us a glimpse of long-standing love in "Nebraska." It's not always pretty, but it also proves considerably more affecting than you'd expect from the way the movie begins. Like Tom Hanks' Capt. Phillips, you might even think that, in his younger days, Dern's character might write a goodbye note to his wife in the event he was captured by Somali pirates.
Then there's "Her," the Spike Jonze romance about Theodore (the great Joaquin Phoenix), a lovelorn man with a "tiny little hole" in his heart falling for his computer's sexy, sentient operating system and as a result, finding himself reengaged with his life and other flesh-and-blood people. "You always wanted a wife without the challenge of dealing with anything real," Theodore's bruised ex tells him. But she's speaking out of spite. After their breakup, Theodore had isolated himself and retreated into technology. It was the mechanized world that allowed him to feel again and shed his solitude.
Jonze was jokingly asked at the Toronto Film Festival whether "Her" was his way of getting rid of all the real women in the world and replacing them.
"The movie, to me, is about our desire to connect or the need to connect," Jonze answered, "and how quickly technology has changed our lives in this newest incarnation — the Internet and digital technology. But I was also always trying to make a relationship movie and a love story and examine relationships."
It's arguably the most interesting look at love attempted on film in ages. And as such, my wife and I have already watched "Her." Twice.
In the end, we decided we'll return on Valentine's night to a movie possessing all the elements of a great romance — friendship, fun, a little sex and Nina Simone singing Duke Ellington.
That's right. I'll be watching "The Big Lebowski" with my Special Lady Friend. You're not dealing with morons here.


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freenode/#lisp - IRC ChatlogSearch
2:52:23 beach Good morning everyone!
3:16:09 blep-on-external hello beach
3:16:48 blep-on-external how do i get all the class slots of a class? i've tried sb-mop:class-slots but it doesn't have applicable methods for the symbol or an instance of the class
3:18:53 pillton blep-on-external: (sb-mop:class-slots (find-class 'my-class))
3:18:59 blep-on-external never mind, found it.
3:22:45 blep-on-external oh, i was missing find-class.
3:23:25 blep-on-external cl-mop:slot-names seems more specific to what i want to do
3:23:34 blep-on-external thanks though
3:27:51 beach mop class-slots
3:27:52 specbot http://metamodular.com/CLOS-MOP/class-slots.html
3:28:19 beach blep-on-external: What is the class you are trying with?
3:29:21 beach blep-on-external: More generally, what are you trying to do?
4:05:11 blep-on-external i'm done
4:05:24 blep-on-external i just wrote a method to turn message objects into json strings
4:06:20 blep-on-external https://pastebin.com/X5TVZDMD
4:11:43 beach blep-on-external: Either you have TABs in your code that pastebin can not handle, or you line starting with COLLECT is incorrectly indented.
6:51:29 shrdlu68 "In general, Common Lisp is a type-safe language. A Common Lisp compiler is responsible for inserting dynamic checks for operations whose type safety cannot be proven statically. However, a programmer may indicate that a program should be compiled with a lower level of dynamic type-checking." -- What does (safety 0) do?
6:52:10 shrdlu68 Does it mean I won't get the usual "var is of type X, expecting type Y"?
6:52:18 beach shrdlu68: Depends on the implementation.
6:52:34 beach shrdlu68: Array bounds checks may be omitted.
6:53:12 beach shrdlu68: It may believe you when you say something is a fixnum, and act accordingly.
6:53:20 shrdlu68 Hmm, meaning one could get a segfault?
6:53:24 pillton The standard allows array bounds checks to be omitted at safety 3.
6:53:26 beach Oh, definitely.
6:53:38 beach pillton: Oh, OK.
6:53:54 beach shrdlu68: Yes, definitely segmentation faults are possible.
6:54:40 pillton clhs 22.214.171.124
6:54:40 specbot The ``Arguments and Values'' Section of a Dictionary Entry: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/01_ddc.htm
6:54:53 pillton "Except as explicitly specified otherwise, the consequences are undefined if these type restrictions are violated."
6:55:27 pillton The standard defines no exceptional situations for aref.
6:56:22 beach Yeah, that surprises some people.
6:56:39 pillton It surprised me. SBCL made me lazy.
6:56:59 White_Flame also, a big ol' "In general," in the beginning of shrdlu68's quote leaves leeway there, too
6:57:17 pillton Even using ELT on a list is unsafe.
6:57:34 pillton "Should signal an error of type type-error if index is not a valid sequence index for sequence. "
6:58:28 pillton Anyway, what the standard allows and what sane people do are two different things.
6:58:52 shrdlu68 I should pay closer attention to exception types, never noticed array out of bounds exception was not standard.
6:58:54 pillton Oh, I am not implying that the standard is insane.
6:59:12 pillton Well, not all of it.
6:59:16 pillton I digress.
6:59:35 White_Flame sanity is relative to time frames. Pathnames, for instance, are kind of insane nowadays
6:59:41 beach The purpose of WSCL is to clarify many such situations, like requiring errors to be signaled in safe code.
7:00:23 pillton I must admit. I have never really understood the definition of safe code given clhs 188.8.131.52.
7:01:25 beach Oh, you are putting too much interpretation into the word.
7:01:56 beach The definition is that SAFETY is 3.
7:02:15 beach It's like "simple" rewrite systems. There is nothing simple about them.
7:02:34 pillton Well, that solves that mystery.
7:03:11 pillton Thank you.
7:03:15 beach Sure.
7:03:27 beach But I understand what you feel. Hence WSCL.
7:11:06 shka_ UB area is CL is large
7:11:22 shka_ writing portable code is not super easy
7:11:38 shka_ so, yeah, WSCL makes sense
7:19:38 p_l Hmm, large UB? Anyone got a metric for that?
7:23:37 akkad there is sbcl, and nothing else. portability a non-issue
7:23:54 beach Hard to quantify of course, but it is probably worse than most people think after a casual read of the Common Lisp HyperSpec. But I am guessing it is not as bad as some languages like C.
7:30:16 phoe akkad: d'oh, other implementations are used as well
7:33:35 akkad awesome lisp says to just use sbcl
7:35:12 akkad phoe: what do you use?
7:43:59 jackdaniel what is awesome lisp? also, that is pretty dumb advice, unless provided as a simplified instruction for a real newbies.
7:44:25 jackdaniel if we didn't care about portability, but "just write" for sbcl there wouldn't be a need for a standard and we'd be in a similar situation python or clojure are
7:44:33 jackdaniel that is - specification defined by implementation
7:44:38 phoe akkad: sbcl and ccl on x8664, ecl on android and abcl on JVMs
7:46:08 jackdaniel clisp on minix3; ecl on haiku :)
7:46:33 jackdaniel and lispworks on producation (that's what I've been told)
7:46:53 jackdaniel ;p getting back to my (hopefully portable) toys
8:01:45 d4ryus1 ** NICK d4ryus
8:08:40 beach jackdaniel: The concept of a standard that is independent of implementations and of the organizations that supply implementations is pretty hard to grasp, especially these days, when single-implementation languages and benevolent-dictator languages are not only commonplace, but also used by industry projects that think of themselves as being serious.
8:17:17 jackdaniel I like to look at standards from the humanism standpoint
8:17:51 jackdaniel I can imagine our civilization getting doomed; only printed standards and programs survived
8:18:06 jackdaniel and some alien civilization recreating virtual machine to run our "heritage"
8:18:40 jackdaniel of course I'm half-joking here, but looking at standards this way may help making the topic a little easier to grasp
8:19:30 beach You have a vivid imagination. :)
8:19:59 jackdaniel thank you
8:21:24 beach But, and I know I have said this before, for any industry project that thinks of itself as being serious, using a language with an independent standard is a must, or else they must take precautions and figure out what to do if the "language" they have chosen should disappear, quit being maintained, or be altered in some major way.
8:21:46 beach They might have to hire compiler experts then. And they probably don't even know where to find one, nor what to pay such a person.
8:28:00 dim beach: what about companies using their own home-grown and home-steered projects/language, such as Google with Go or Mozilla with Rust (I think), or Oracle with Java?
8:30:46 ebrasca They are big.
8:30:53 beach dim: That's fine because they will then have hired people who are capable of maintaining that stuff.
8:30:57 shka and not so smart if you ask me!
8:40:06 shrdlu68 t/ex
8:40:29 aeth akkad, jackdaniel: I find a good compromise between painful portability and no portability is to write for one implementation and then test it on one or two supported others. Technically, they could all violate the standard in the same way, but at least you're not tied to *one*
8:42:49 aeth It's pretty easy to run on both SBCL and CCL. On the other hand, ABCL and CLISP are probably the hardest to support.
8:43:17 Cymew Aren't CLISP that old crap that should just go home and die?
8:43:28 Cymew Hmm. "Isn't"
8:43:43 aeth CLISP is... unusual. I think its fixnum is 48 bits. Its long float is arbitrary precision. etc.
8:43:46 beach Cymew: What is the point of such utterances?
8:44:06 aeth ABCL is more excusably unusual. It has to run on the JVM.
8:44:13 aeth If you *really* want to be portable, test on them.
8:44:43 dim I'm still missing the ABCL facility to create a .jar from a .asd
8:44:44 Cymew beach: If that is the old implementation I'm thinking of, I think it is such a corner case that it can be disregarded for compatibility reasons.
8:45:18 beach Cymew: That is no excuse for inflammatory phrases like your first one.
8:45:23 Cymew I probably should have been clearer, yes.
8:45:24 dim as soon as that's possible, I'll have a look at having pgloader.jar and also using JDBC on that platform, that'd be great really for supporting some commercial databases and other niche ones
8:45:43 aeth Cymew: CLISP is the interpreted implementation that's semi-active (no new release in a long time, but not dead), but tons of resources from 2000-2010 recommended it so it'll live for a long time.
8:46:00 White_Flame I don't recall CLISP ever being characterized as being incompatible
8:46:01 aeth It's also possible that it'll be active again because it's not dead.
8:47:01 White_Flame the 3 major things is that it's slower than native compiled implementations, it has fast bigmath, and it's easy to get running on new/unsupported platforms
8:47:05 Cymew White_Flame: I have read descriptions of its implementation of CLOS to be very peculiar.
8:47:26 beach Cymew: karlosz is in fact writing a Cleavir-based compiler for CLISP as a GSoC project.
8:48:07 Cymew Interesting idea.
8:50:03 aeth I'd say that the most annoying thing about CLISP is that it doesn't support single-float and double-float specialized arrays. When a specialized array isn't supported, you just get T arrays instead. *Tons* of libraries assume float arrays (or byte arrays) even though the standard only requires bit and character arrays. Those libraries will (slowly) run in CLISP, but without any sort of benefit in the type system.
8:51:23 aeth Implementations with long-float (not just CLISP) also have an interesting issue with pi. pi is technically long-float, but in most implementations that's also a double-float so some people erronously assume pi is a double-float. So CLISP has the opposite issue there, where it supports something (long-float) that most popular implementations don't.
8:52:19 aeth s/long-float/a long-float larger than a double-float/
8:53:00 aeth (don't replace "pi is technically a long-float" with that substitution, though.)
8:55:39 aeth (CLISP does support byte arrays, so I might have been unclear there. I was just saying that that's another thing libraries assume.)
8:56:55 White_Flame as specialized vectors or simple arrays? :-P
8:57:17 White_Flame that's a problem I keep hitting. Half the libs want specialized VECTOR, the other half want specialized SIMPLE-ARRAY
8:59:06 _death when I started learning lisp I used clisp on windows (and sbcl on linux) .. it was slow, but usable for many tasks.. it also has a small image size
8:59:19 aeth White_Flame: a (simple-array single-float (*)) is a (vector single-float *) afaik (but not the other way around afaik)
8:59:49 aeth _death: And there's the right answer for what you do NOT want to use SBCL for. When you need a small image size!
8:59:52 _death it also has a nice manual
9:00:38 White_Flame yeah, flexi-streams will build a vector for me, then I need to convert to simple-array to give it to the websocket lib
9:02:09 _death flexi-streams has many faults.. some of them can be fixed without creating backwards compatibility issues, but that particular one I'm not sure
9:02:16 aeth A simple-array is usually what you want if you even remotely care about performance (assuming you're not using one of the features that a nonsimple array has). It gives more guarantees as to the structure of the thing.
9:02:23 aeth At least a 1D simple-array.
9:04:34 White_Flame yep, I think a real failing of the spec is that simple-vector cannot be specialized
9:05:28 White_Flame however, when you think about it, when you're dynamically building up a buffer from a stream, the backing data can't be simple
9:07:16 aeth Yes it can. You could e.g. just have a fixed size.
9:08:17 aeth You would need some way to communicate that it's only meaningful up to a certain index. A general library should probably just use the 2nd return value to do it, but I'd personally put it in a struct to store the value.
9:09:07 aeth Obviously this is probably going to waste space (but also risk running out of space), but make things faster.
9:09:10 aeth A tradeoff.
9:12:14 White_Flame and re-copy to larger ones manually, or keep a chain of them, etc
9:12:23 White_Flame because you don' tknow the size ahead of time
9:12:44 White_Flame could be 16 bytes, could be 16MB
9:14:34 aeth You could even have the user be in control
9:14:59 aeth i.e. feed in the array, if it's too large, then allow the user to continue
9:15:13 aeth So you as the user would be checking the 2nd return value
9:19:08 aeth s/if it's too large/if the data is too large for the array/
9:43:23 mrm ** NICK l
9:43:30 l ** NICK mrm
9:58:32 lthms hi
9:58:53 beach Hello lthms.
10:01:26 beach lthms: Are you new here? I don't recognize your nick.
10:01:53 lthms I am indeed, I am here thanks to borodust
10:02:01 beach Oh, OK.
10:02:05 beach Welcome then.
10:02:23 lthms thanks!
10:04:16 White_Flame aeth: needing human involvement in a communications crossbar doesn't seem like the greatest idea...
10:04:54 White_Flame "oh, I need to wait for the admin to notice the server's sldb window before my response gets returned"
10:05:14 phoe Afternoon
10:06:13 beach Hello phoe.
10:06:48 phoe Hey beach - been a while.
10:07:04 phoe I got sucked up by various things to do in life.
10:07:06 phoe (again)
10:07:11 beach Oh!
10:07:22 beach Sorry to hear that (I guess).
10:07:25 lthms i was wondering, has anyone here tried to write some async database code in common lisp? do you have anything to advice?
10:07:36 phoe lthms: what kind of database do you mean?
10:07:57 lthms anyone really, I don't have any strong opinion on the matter
10:07:59 phoe beach: I'm alive, I just did things that I didn't really enjoy doing. The stuff that's required to function and such, but nothing really enjoyable.
10:08:37 phoe lthms: that's a pretty big question when it comes to choosing databases though; what are your needs? what kind of data will you store? what functionality for modifying and retrieving it will you need? how is your data modeled and structured?
10:08:51 White_Flame lthms: threads, messages, just the same as any other language. Just make sure your DB connector library is threadsafe
10:09:16 phoe because there are object stores in pure Lisp, there are bindings to various SQL and NoSQL databases out there.
10:09:47 White_Flame lthms: depending on your workload, maybe put your requests into a job queue and have some fixed number of DB connections pulling from it
10:10:15 White_Flame but again, that's no different in Lisp than any other language
10:10:45 phoe well, yeah, I've been using postgres recently and it's just a matter of making ten connections to the database, and suddenly you can have ten DB queries running at once.
10:11:30 lthms phoe: which lib did you use to use postgres? I saw there are plenty
10:11:52 phoe lthms: postmodern
10:12:14 phoe I saw it used very commonly around here
10:14:37 antoszka Yeah, I second postmodern.
10:16:17 lthms okay, I will try to have a look. Thanks!
10:16:49 phoe lthms: no problem
10:17:00 phoe ask us any questions you might have
11:14:44 ebrasca Can I do someting like in unix?
11:14:45 ebrasca (with-open-file (file #P "/dev/sdc1")
11:14:45 ebrasca (loop :repeat 10 :do (write-byte (read-byte file))))
11:19:19 loke ebrasca: cat?
11:19:36 loke You want to cat the first 10 bytes of /dev/sdc?
11:19:39 ebrasca How to read files like /dev/sdc1 or /dev/random with pure common lisp?
11:20:03 loke ebrasca: What you did should work
11:20:15 loke it doesn/t
11:20:16 loke ?
11:20:34 ebrasca #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /dev/sdc1" {10052C9813}> is not a binary input stream.
11:21:03 ebrasca I like to make my fat32 portable.
11:21:14 loke ebrasca: (with-open-file (s #p"..." :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)) ...)
11:22:54 ebrasca loke: Thank you.
12:12:18 jmercouris I'm trying to take a long string, and split it into stringths of a max length, but only at word boundaries
12:12:32 jmercouris so something like "this is a very long string" could split at "a"
12:12:48 jmercouris rather than splittin in between "ve" and "ry" from "very"
12:12:55 jmercouris s/splittin/splitting
12:14:41 jmercouris any lib anyone know of? or will I have to implement this?
12:16:48 Xach jmercouris: i don't know of a public library
12:17:32 jmercouris Interestingly enough, I am asking because I want to make "pargraphs" of text in Vecto
12:17:47 Xach I have done that so many times for my graphics toys.
12:17:55 jmercouris Do you have a snippet you can share?
12:18:18 Xach The general strategy I use is to categorize characters as breakable, then add words, and when a threshold is reached, go back to the last breakable character.
12:18:19 TMA jmercouris: if it is meant for human consumption, I recomend you to look up the algorithm used in TeX.
12:18:31 Xach So a space is breakable, in some contexts a hyphen is breakable
12:18:56 jmercouris TMA: it is meant for humans, but not really, it is just a legal requirement, nobody reads it
12:19:52 Xach jmercouris: https://www.xach.com/tmp/paginator.lisp
12:19:59 TMA jmercouris: then use a long line with a scrollbar :)
12:20:27 jmercouris Xach: Thank you
12:20:31 jmercouris TMA: I have to produce a graphic
12:20:39 jmercouris For printed purposes
12:20:40 Xach jmercouris: that generic algorithm can be used to break arbitrary things into lines.
12:21:51 LdBeth TeX use the notion "badness" to break lines
12:22:41 jmercouris So I have to transform my strings into a list of objects?
12:23:33 Xach jmercouris: Who is that question for?
12:23:37 jmercouris Xach: For you
12:23:55 jmercouris because I see these defgenerics, and I assume I have to implement methods for them
12:24:20 Xach jmercouris: You could specialize them on characters, and use other context to give meaning to "width".
12:24:55 Xach jmercouris: https://www.xach.com/tmp/glyphlayout.lisp shows how i used it for http://wigflip.com/minifesto/
12:27:02 jmercouris Hmm, I see
12:27:18 jmercouris Okay, I understand
12:27:26 jmercouris I think I will write my own implementation, for the educational value
12:27:45 jmercouris thanks for the example Xach
13:04:01 dlowe I have a really amazingly awful but extremely succinct thing that will do it
13:06:30 dlowe (cl-ppcre:all-matches-as-strings "\\S(?:\\S{0,79}|.{0,79}(?=\\s+|$))" str)
13:06:55 dlowe replace 79 with whatever width you want.
13:07:45 antoszka what are you catching with that regex?
13:07:45 dlowe I managed to work that out for a tiny irc client I wrote. I needed something to break long titles in a tooltip
13:07:55 dlowe antoszka: bugs :D
13:08:00 antoszka ah
13:08:05 dlowe nothing, actually
13:08:17 dlowe (?: starts a non-capturing group
13:08:56 dlowe (?= is a positive lookahead
13:11:19 dlowe The main work is done by .{0,79}(?=\s+|$) which says, basically, any number of characters up to 79 which is followed by a space or end of line.
13:14:03 jackdaniel mm, regexp
13:29:49 dlowe \S{0,79} captures the case where there wasn't any space, so it just breaks it at the boundary
14:36:52 jmercouris how can I do (loop for item in list do ...) and also have an index? e.g. a count of how many elements I've iterated?
14:37:03 jmercouris is there something in the loop macro, or do I need a separate counter?
14:40:09 beach (loop for item in list for index from 0 do...)
14:40:28 jmercouris Thanks
14:40:33 beach Sure.
14:40:34 jmercouris I literally just figured it out just before you said it
14:40:41 jmercouris I didn't realize that you could have multiple for clauses
14:40:47 TMA jmercouris: add another for clause: (loop for i in '(a b c) for j from 1 collect (cons i j))
14:40:51 beach clhs loop
14:40:51 specbot http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/m_loop.htm
14:41:18 jmercouris but I also had written my second for clause stupidly
14:41:23 beach jmercouris: See that page? ↑
14:41:34 jmercouris I had written "for index from 1 to (length list)"
14:41:42 jmercouris I see that page, but I don't understand its grammar
14:41:43 beach jmercouris: See the * in {variable-clause}*
14:42:05 beach jmercouris: That's the Kleene star.
14:42:09 jmercouris I see that star
14:42:16 beach jmercouris: meaning 0 or more occurences.
14:42:20 beach occurrences.
14:42:30 beach jmercouris: It is standard in language theory.
14:42:48 beach jmercouris: Similarly, + means 1 or more occurrences.
14:43:08 beach jmercouris: So there can be 0 or more VARIABLE-CLAUSEs.
14:43:23 jmercouris Okay, so far I am following
14:43:33 beach jmercouris: And a VARIABLE-CLAUSE can be a FOR-AS-CLAUSE.
14:44:06 jmercouris that's from this line: variable-clause::= with-clause | initial-final | for-as-clause
14:44:07 jmercouris ?
14:44:13 beach jmercouris: So you can have as many FOR-AS-CLAUSes as you like.
14:44:17 beach Yes.
14:44:29 beach The vertical bar means OR in BNF.
14:44:45 jmercouris Ah, this is a BNF grammar, right I remember we talked about this months ago
14:44:51 beach BNF means Backus Naur Form
14:44:54 jmercouris I don't remember under what context
14:45:01 jmercouris I'm familiar, and I even knew it at one point
14:45:07 jmercouris I was playing a lot with lex and yacc, and wrote a lisp in C
14:45:44 jmercouris IIRC the CLHS is not a pure BNF they have some different syntax?
14:45:46 beach jmercouris: Notice also that every VARIABLE-CLAUSE must precede every MAIN-CLAUSE.
14:46:15 beach So you can't have a FOR-AS after a WHILE clause, for example.
14:46:21 jmercouris ah, so all the VARIABLE-CLAUSEs must appear before the MAIN CLAUSES
14:46:43 beach clhs 18.104.22.168
14:46:43 specbot Modified BNF Syntax: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/01_dab.htm
14:46:45 jmercouris and you know this because of this line: [name-clause] {variable-clause}* {main-clause}*?
14:46:52 beach jmercouris: Yes.


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- California Climate Action Registry
- Partnership with UC Davis
- Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings and Facilities and Programs
- Yolo Agricultural Marketing Initiative
- Monitoring State Legislative and Regulatory Actions
- Transportation and Fleet Vehicles
- Personnel Training
- General Practices
- Research Projects
On January 23, 2007 the Yolo County Board of Supervisors established a working group consisting of Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad, Deputy County Administrator Dirk Brazil, and outside consultant, John Mott-Smith, charged with determining a course of action for Yolo County on the issue of climate change.
Although such a course of action will involve policies and procedures within the range of jurisdictional powers of the county, the working group thought it appropriate to first examine and review actions taken by the county to put its own house in order on this issue. Accordingly, participation by Yolo County General Services Director Ray Groom and Planning & Public Works Director John Bencomo was solicited to assist with development of a list of actions and activities the county has already taken to reduce energy usage and greenhouse gas production.
Due to the foresight and leadership of Mr. Groom and Mr. Bencomo, and prior to the formation of the working group, significant actions have been taken on the issue of climate change. Moreover, the county has recently adopted important additional measures.
Climate Change Accomplishments to Date
Yolo County staff and experts have examined current county climate-change policies and have developed a listing of accomplishments in its buildings, fleet, and general practices. This list is meant to be illustrative, rather than all-inclusive; there are undoubtedly many more programs that could be mentioned.
Cool Counties
On September 11, 2007 the Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that Yolo County was joining with 13 other counties in the United States to participate in the Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration, thereby making Yolo County one of only 13 charter counties in the entire country making this commitment. This is a significant act of leadership and commits Yolo County to seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the year 2050.
California Climate Action Registry
Since 2006, Yolo County has achieved the distinction of Climate Action Leader(TM) through the California Climate Action Registry. The California Climate Action Registry, a program created by the California legislature in 2000, is a non-profit, public/private partnership that helps companies and organizations throughout the United States track, publicly report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The results are certified by independent third-parties to ensure compliance with Registry protocols and standardization across participants and sectors. Organizations that are willing to meet the accounting standards and third-party certification requirements of the Registry show their serious intent to address climate change. The Registry has been widely recognized as a gold standard for public reporting of greenhouse gases.
Partnership with UC Davis
Arrangements have been made with University of California at Davis Professor Debbie Niemeier in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (also, Director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment) for her students in Urban Sustainability to assist the county in studying its carbon generation and in developing policies and strategies to reduce emissions. This partnership with UC Davis will both support and supplement the audit requirements of the county's application to the California Climate Action Registry.
Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings and Facilities and Programs
The following are examples of actions and programs undertaken in the Yolo County organization to increase the efficiency (and thereby reduce the cost) of energy used:
- Replaced incandescent lights with compact fluorescent bulbs. This energy retrofit has dramatically saved energy and lowered costs.
- Conducted a countywide energy conservation retrofit program in 2004 resulting in retrofitted county building light packages, boilers, economizers, chillers, VFD's (vacuum fluorescent display), fans, water heaters, motors, and HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) for increased energy efficiency and a projected savings of nearly one half million dollars per year over a 15 year period.
- Conducted a countywide computer energy management program in 2004 to install electronic computerized climate control in all major county buildings, including establishing standard thermostat levels for summer and winter for buildings that are controlled by the energy management system.
- Participated in several rebate programs though the county's energy provider (PG&E), including rebates for solar installations, critical peak pricing, the "demand bidding program" that trades kilowatts for dollars by reducing load, and the countywide energy conservation retrofit program.
- Installed cogeneration capacity at the Monroe Detention Facility, as part of the countywide retrofit program, with an estimated savings of $30,000 per year over a 15 year period.
- Established a building closure program to close older, less energy-efficient buildings, including demolition of certain buildings with extremely high energy costs, for an estimated annual savings of nearly $200,000 per year over a 15 year period.
- Proceeded with a countywide appliance replacement program to replace, in conjunction with utility rebates, older, energy inefficient appliances, such as refrigerators (the county has more than 50 that are over 20 years old), with energy efficient Energy Star appliances.
County Landfill
Yolo County captures methane gas from the Yolo County landfill, using it to generate electricity (generates about 2½ mega watts). Currently, the Integrated Waste Management (IWM) division has contracts for landfill gas and energy production rights and royalties. IWM is also working with the state on a pilot program for an anaerobic "green waste" digester, which will also generate methane. If this program is successful, it could produce enough methane to power one or more micro turbines for on-site use, or sale of the gas to an adjacent customer such as City of Davis.
Several ongoing pilot projects to increase the rate of methane production and energy generation have placed Yolo County at the forefront of waste management in the country.
Construction of New Buildings
Yolo County adopted Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards (LEED) for new county buildings. These standards set benchmarks for achievement of different levels of energy, resource, and water efficiency in new construction. These standards, as applied to the new Herbert Bauer, M.D. Health and Alcohol, Drug & Mental Health building, address a variety of features, including water usage, building location and orientation, provision for bicycle parking, landscaping, parking, waterless urinals that can save more than 400,000 gallons of water per year, energy generation, time-of-use metering, building reflectance, energy efficient appliances, recycling and salvaging, use of paint with low levels of volatile organic compounds, etc.
The building also includes a solar panel installation. The panels produce 40% of the building's power needs, and the use of hybrid heating/cooling reduces the energy required to operate the building.
Looking forward, Board of Supervisors direction has been given that the construction of the new jail be as energy and resource conservative as permitted by law.
A recycling program has been implemented for county buildings in which paper, cardboard, cans and bottles, fluorescent tubes, oil, computers, rigid plastics, agricultural plastics, PVC pipe, toner cartridges, cell phones, batteries, and electronic waste are recycled.
Currently, the county has agreements with each of the incorporated cities for a battery drop-off program. The county charges Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, and Woodland a fee for battery pickup for each drop-off site when a container is full. There is no fee for recycling the batteries. However, as the program (state-mandated) is for residential waste, the recycling containers must be placed in public areas and be accessible to the public for battery drop-off. Businesses and agencies that do not permit public access are not allowed in the program and are required to follow the requirements for a conditionally exempt, small quantity generator.
Integrated Waste Management (IWM) has a small grant ($7,000) from the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to set up a fluorescent tube/bulb drop-off recycling program. Yolo County is working with a consultant to determine how to set this up in public buildings and retail stores as well as to provide for continued funds for the program.
Yolo Agricultural Marketing Initiative
The Yolo County Agriculture Commissioner has initiated a program to promote local agricultural programs and to reduce "food miles" (and therefore CO2 emissions) required to provide fresh food and vegetables to local consumers, markets, and restaurants. One of their most recent accomplishment was the launch of the A Taste of Yolo website chocked full of information about Yolo County food, wine and farms
Monitoring State Legislative and Regulatory Actions
Yolo County staff has been attending meetings of the California Air Resources Board, the Climate Action Team, and other state bodies charged with implementation of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, as well as monitoring activities of the California Supervisors Association of California and the League of California Cities. Implementation of state programs and policies to meet mandated reductions will involve many different parts of county government, including planning, land use, emergency services, solid waste management, and transportation. By monitoring these agencies the Board of Supervisors will be advised of opportunities and potential issues.
Transportation and Fleet Vehicles
Yolo County has installed charging stations for electric vehicles at the Herbert Bauer, M.D. Health and Alcohol, Drug & Mental Health building and will add to all future facilities as well. The first charging station was installed at Planning and Public Works. The county conducted a pilot project with all electric vehicles that did not serve its purposes except for limited commuting between local county facilities, and currently utilizes an electric vehicle at PPW for that exclusive purpose.
Integrated Waste Management is planning to install a fueling station (small above-ground gasoline and diesel tanks) at the landfill to significantly reduce the number of trips the staff must make to Woodland to refuel vehicles and purchase fuel for use in on-site equipment. The operations contractor already has a much larger diesel tank on-site for heavy equipment.
Yolo County received a grant in the amount of $287,580 from the California Air Resources Board for the purchase of low polluting construction equipment.
Lastly, the Yolo County Transportation District's YoloBus fleet has been converted from diesel to natural gas use.
Personnel Training
Yolo County requires planning staff to attend California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and climate change courses at UC Davis Extension.
General Practices
A tree-planting program has been initiated. Currently Planning & Public Works operates a small nursery and provides tree planting for county facilities.
All new development is required to provide landscaping, energy efficient designs, and increased densities to promote infrastructure and utility efficiencies.
The Director of General Services has set a goal of a 10% annual reduction in energy usage over the next 5 years.
Integrated Waste Management is working on a Construction and Demolition (C&D) recycling ordinance to require 50% of construction and demolition debris be recycled and diverted from land filling. (Marin County uses this fee to partially fund an energy management specialist in county government).
Integrated Waste Management is also working to construct and operate a mixed C&D sorting facility at the landfill that will recycle a minimum of 50% of the material sorted at the facility. (The cities of Woodland and West Sacramento have C&D ordinances).
Research Projects
Current energy and greenhouse gas related research projects that Planning & Public Works staff and interns are working on include:
- Pilot and full-scale bioreactor (wet cell) landfill operation, which increases the rate of waste decomposition and increases the rate of methane production for more efficient methane collection and use.
- Groundwater phyto-remediation using kenaf, a tropical plant used for cordage and textiles.
- Green waste anaerobic digester to generate, collect, and sell/use methane prior to aerobically composting the green waste.
- Substitution of canola for kenaf in the phyto-remediation project for local market. (There is no local paper manufacturing or fiber market for the kenaf).
Where Do We Go From Here?
No universal list of actions exists that all local governments take to address climate change. Instead, it varies according to the particular circumstances of each local government. The programs and policies that are appropriate for Los Angeles County, for example, may not be what are best for Yolo County. The county can be proud of its actions to date and is now in a position to look outward from its own facilities and fleet to the broader community. The following steps appear to be common to the planning process undertaken in other communities.
Step One: Establish a baseline for energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions.
Step Two: Create a target for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Step Three: Develop a plan to meet the target goal.
Step Four: Implement the plan.
Step Five: Monitor the results over time and adjust as necessary.
Yolo County, through actions already taken, and in conjunction with its application to the California Climate Action Registry, is a good way along the path to completion of Step One. Creation of a target for the amount of reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas production, as well as a date by which this target should be met, and a plan for getting there, should appropriately involve the community in a discussion of methods of achieving these targets.
Going forward, to achieve a minimum reduction of 10% each year, as referenced in the Cool Counties initiative, the following actions will be necessary and are currently under consideration:
- Develop a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) adverse purchasing policy that mandates all purchases of electrical equipment meet or exceed the PG&E Energy Star rating. This would require departments to purchase improved efficiency refrigerators, microwaves and related appliances that have greater power efficiencies and less GHG impacts.
- Mandate that departments replace refrigerators and related electrical appliances over a two-year period with Energy Star units. This project would replace all old appliances in the county that are not energy efficient and reduce consumption. For example, the county has more than fifty refrigerators that are over twenty years old. These can be replaced to save energy (as well as reducing older ozone damaging refrigerants). Going to an energy star unit will reduce electrical consumption and therefore emissions by 5-7%.
- Request departments reduce their use of electricity by turning off lights, computers and monitors when not in use.
- Request departments reduce their use of vehicles by 10%, which will reduce the county's carbon footprint by more than 180 metric tons.
- Transition to smaller engine vehicles reducing emissions by 8-9% each year resulting in a greater than 30% reduction in five years. That will reduce carbon emissions by approximately 172 metric tons each year.
- Approve a cogeneration modification project as a component of the Monroe Detention Facility Expansion Project. This project would use the current natural gas cogeneration unit to produce most of the electrical demand from the jail expansion. The unit currently has excess capacity and the addition of the jail expansion load will make the unit more efficient. The cost will be included in the jail expansion project and result in a substantial energy savings. The county will apply for PG&E rebates once designed.
- Proceed with a County Wide Computer Energy Management Conservation Project Phase 2. This project is planned to utilize the computer energy management system to adjust building operations to reduce energy consumption. In addition, the project will look at specific energy conservation measures that can be implemented to reduce energy consumption. Each potential reduction measure will be evaluated for cost benefit. An example is the administration building automatic doors on the first floor. The doors currently are too wide and both doors stay open too long on automatic operation, thereby wasting energy. Reducing the size of the openings and making only one of the doors open will reduce temperature loss by 60%. The lighting in the administration building and the courthouse also will be evaluated as there are new lighting technologies that will increase efficiency with less emissions and lower environmental impact, and will reduce operating costs.
- Direct General Services to make appropriate heating and air conditioning adjustments that will reduce the use of hydrocarbon consuming equipment. This would mean that buildings would be cooled and heated a little less, but could result in reduced GHG emissions by hundreds of tons of carbon annually.
Involving the Community
The residents of Yolo County have considerable expertise and interest in the subject of climate change, and the county would benefit from tapping into this reservoir of knowledge and expertise.
Meet with Leadership: As the county embarks on this path, will involve the leadership in the cities, the University, the Port, and school districts in order to: (a) advise these jurisdictions of its plans; (b) solicit information on what each jurisdiction is doing in the area of planning for climate change, and, (c) explore the potential for synergy and partnerships between the county and these other governmental entities. The first focused discussion with Yolo County jurisdictions was held on December 17, 2007 on the UC Davis campus. Attendees included representatives from the county, all the cities, school districts and UC Davis.
Public Forums: In conjunction with local leadership, the county will consider conducting public forums in each region of the county in order to solicit ideas, suggestions, and views from Yolo County residents on the subject of climate change and the development of targets for energy and greenhouse gas reductions. These forums would take the form of "brainstorming sessions," the purpose of which is to collect each and any idea a resident may bring forth. The ideas will subsequently be analyzed for cost-effectiveness, policy, feasibility, and other factors before being forwarded to the Board of Supervisors for discussion.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – April 23, 2007) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that his Office will be increasing enforcement efforts against retailers who illegally sell tobacco products to minors. In cooperation with the Arizona Department of Health Services and local law enforcement agencies, the Arizona Attorney General's Office will be conducting more undercover investigations of retailers to reduce sales to minors across the state.
"I'm committed to reducing youth tobacco use in Arizona," Goddard said. "Our youth compliance volunteers will be determining if retailers are following state law. Selling tobacco products to minors is against the law, and those who do will be held accountable."
Arizona law prohibits the sale or furnishing of tobacco products to people under 18 years old. Statistics show that about 80 percent of adult smokers begin before age 18. Every year in Arizona, over 6,000 young people under age 18 become smokers. Approximately 21 percent of Arizona high school students say they smoke, and over 14 million packs of cigarettes are smoked or purchased each year by Arizona kids.
The Attorney General's Office uses youth volunteers to work undercover with its agents and local police officers to identify retailers making illegal tobacco sales. Since 2002, more than 10,000 undercover inspections have been conducted throughout Arizona.
This year's "Counter Strike" campaign begins this week in Yavapai County. The campaign starts with a newspaper ad in the Prescott Daily Courier reminding retailers that selling tobacco to minors is illegal. Compliance investigations will take place later in the week in Yavapai County. A follow-up ad will run on May 6, reporting the names of retailers that passed or failed the compliance checks. The Attorney General's Office will continue its campaign in May in Mohave, Pima, Yuma and Maricopa Counties.
Goddard offers the following tips to increase compliance with the law:
- Train employees to card anyone who appears to be under 30 years old.
- Install devices that prompt employees to request identification whenever a customer attempts to buy tobacco.
- Post signs informing customers that they will be required to show identification and denied access to tobacco if they are underage.
- Discipline employees who make such sales.
- Reward employees who refuse to sell tobacco to minors.
To report illegal tobacco sales to minors or for more information on how to participate in the Counter Strike program, please call the Counter Strike Hotline toll-free at 1-866-342-7855. If you are calling from within the Phoenix area, dial 602-542-1809.


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Monica Bray's survey looks at dysfluency in Down's syndrome and at the success or otherwise of different treatment approaches.
We know that the percentage of people with Down's syndrome who show characteristics of dysfluency is high. Studies such as those by Preus (1973) and Devenny and Silverman (1990) suggest that between 42% and 59% of their subjects with Down's syndrome were dysfluent. The nature of the dysfluencies is unclear and there is argument as to whether they are stuttering or cluttering or other dysfluency types (Preus, 1973). Preus reported (1990) that the dysfluencies are often accompanied by other language and speech difficulties.
Little has been written about the treatment offered. Preus's study (1990) gave case history treatment information for three clients with Down's syndrome but the pattern was of general language and articulation work, not direct fluency intervention. Other studies discuss treatment of clients with learning difficulties among whom there are some with Down's syndrome (Thurman et al, 1986).
It is worrying that so little is known about the symptoms of dysfluency with which clients with Down's syndrome present and about ways of working with these clients, given that many of these children and adults present with 'stammering' alongside other speech and language disorders. As a so-called 'expert' in the area I receive numerous phone calls asking what can be done about the stammering from parents, clinicians and organisations such as the British Stammering Association - but my knowledge base is limited by our lack of data.
The survey
This preliminary survey set out to explore some of these factors. Twenty-seven speech and language therapists from around the country responded to a questionnaire, and provided information and discussion about the identification of dysfluencies and the nature and success of treatment they had offered to clients of all ages with Down's syndrome.
We recruited therapists through a letter in the Bulletin, through the national SIG in disorders of fluency and through personal contact and word of mouth. They represented a number of different work contexts and specialties (some worked with more than one group):
- work with pre-school children - 6
- work with school aged children - 14
- work in adult learning disabilities - 8
- work primarily with stuttering - 10
- other (AAC) - 1
Clients with Down's syndrome formed a small proportion of the case load: seven respondents saw fewer than 1%; most (14) had only up to 9% on their case load.
Most of the therapists dealt with children and young adults up to 21 years of age.
We asked respondents to identify from a list which dysfluencies they saw most often in their clients. Table one shows their responses:
It is noticeable that among the most identified dysfluencies are repetitions, blocks and struggle behaviours - all of which would be clearly identified with stuttering. In fact re-working of the information into the categories of stutter-like dysfluencies versus others based on Yairi' s work (1997) shows that nearly 90% of the identified features fell into the stutter-like category (part-word or monosyllabic word repetitions, dysrhythmic phonation and tense pause).
The respondents worked in several ways; most had a generalised and eclectic approach. The treatments offered were:
- direct work on fluency: 10 responses
- general language work: 11 responses
- speech production: 6 responses
- communication skills: 13 responses
- self-esteem and confidence building: 13 responses
- working on communication interaction of others 15 responses
When they were asked to identify the nature of the direct and indirect work undertaken in more detail, the therapists gave the following information:
- 50% of the therapists had tried some form of fluency work ranging from directing clients to slow down, through use of the Lidcombe programme (a behaviour modification programme which mainly rewards fluent speech) to general relaxation. Therapists had also worked on encouraging clients to use looser articulations, easy-relaxed starts, control of breathing and syllable timed speech. Some work had been done on identification of the fluency difficulties.
- All therapists had worked indirectly on the fluency in some way. Most had worked on changing the communication environment and the reactions of the listener. Nine therapists had tried parent-child interaction therapy and other life-style changes; seven had used special time. A few had tried other approaches such as the use of alternative means (signing and reading) as a way of reducing pressure on communication.
We asked respondents to list the outcomes they felt had been achieved. We also asked them to write a short account of work with a client, thus providing some qualitative information. There was not much enthusiasm about the use of direct fluency work. Therapists all commented on the lack of generalisation of any speech change. Comments such as "can use techniques with constant reinforcement" and "is less dysfluent in sessions" were the most positive.
However, there were a number of positive comments about general change seen in clients. Comments such as "more willing to send a range of messages", "more confident" were made, and some definite positive changes were seen in other language aspects for example "increased length and complexity of sentences", and "improved self-monitoring". Positive change in the way in which others (teachers and parents) dealt with the dysfluency was also noted. Unfortunately, there was no way of telling whether a particular approach led to a particular outcome, as most therapists used a range of treatments with their clients.
The qualitative data gave more detail about what was done and whether it worked. Eighteen stories were told: five were of adults, nine of children over 10 and four under 10. More specific work on slowing the speech and on relaxation was done with the adults than with the younger clients. Therapists did more general communication skills work with the over-10s and more indirect work through others with the under-10s. No positive change was reported in the fluency of the adult clients although therapists noted some improvement in confidence. The nine children/young people over 10 showed varied responses but respondents perceived their lack of awareness and lack of cognitive maturity as having an impact on their ability to succeed. Respondents commented more positively on the under-10 year old group's improved fluency - this was generally linked to parent or teacher awareness and changed response to the dysfluencies.
The survey, although small, appeared to represent the range of therapists who see clients with Down's syndrome and the techniques they use. It was interesting to see that the dysfluencies identified appeared to be predominantly stuttering-like in nature. It is also interesting to note that very few clients were identified as showing awareness - a few showed some embarrassment or concern - and almost none were seen as actively avoiding words or situations. This could well link with the lack of cognitive maturity therapists identified.
Manning (1999) considers cognitive and emotional maturity necessary for success in stuttering therapy and certainly the clients reported here showed little change in their speech behaviours. What change occurred was seen in either general language improvement and/or in confidence. These changes probably occurred without or despite of any work on the fluency. Attempts to teach control of fluency might well be contra-indicated - too much pressure put onto a vulnerable linguistic system in the absence of good self-monitoring is the recipe for failure, self- doubt and reduced self-esteem.
- Devenny DA, Silverman WP. Speech dysfluency and manual specialization in Down's syndrome. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research 1990; 34: 253-260.
- Manning W. Progress under the surface and over time. In: Ratner N, Healey EC (eds). Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the gap. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999; 23-130.
- Preus A. Stuttering in Down's syndrome. In: Lebrun Y, Hoops R (eds) Neurolinguistic Approaches to Stuttering. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.
- Preus A. Treatment of mentally retarded stutterers. Journal of Fluency Disorders 1990; 15: 223-233.
- Thurman S, Barnes-Brett T, Ryan C, Tierney L. Reducing stammering in adults with mental handicaps. Mental Handicap 1986; 14: 62-64.
- Yairi E. Disfluency characteristics of childhood stuttering. In: Curlee R, Siegel G (eds). Nature and Treatment of Stuttering: New directions. Second edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997; 49-79.


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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) Freshman Josh Scott scored 14 points in his first game for Colorado, leading the Buffaloes to a 74-59 victory over Wofford on Friday night in the season opener for both teams.
Askia Booker and Spencer Dinwiddie added 13 points apiece for the Buffaloes, who improved to 30-3 in home openers at the Coors Events Center, including a string of five straight. The school unveiled a banner before the game commemorating last season's Pac-12 tournament championship, when the Buffaloes won four games in four days to advance to the NCAA tournament for the first time in nine years.
Karl Cochran scored 22 points to lead Wofford, playing the first of seven straight games away from home to start the season. Spencer Collins added 16 points for the Terriers, who began the season with seven freshmen on their roster.


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Jason Aldean has filed for divorce, kicking last week's news of separation from his wife up a notch.
"This is a really tough time for my entire family," the country singer told Us Weekly in a statement about the divorce, noting that he and Jessica Ussery had been together since they were teenagers — he's 36 now — and had had ups and downs along the way. They would have been married 12 years in August.
"I've learned that everyone always rushes to judgement when they hear news like this," he told the mag. "That's really hard because no one knows anything about our relationship but us. I understand that because of my job, I have to go through a lot of this in the public eye, but for my girls' sake I really wish people would give us some level of privacy and at the very least be respectful of them."
That rush to judgment most likely involves the smooching scandal from last October, in which Aldean "acted inappropriately at a bar" -- his words -- with Brittany Kerr, an "American Idol" contestant-turned-NBA cheerleader.
Kerr, who had to shut down her Twitter page after being called nasty names, said at the time she didn't know Aldean was married, though he was seen wearing his wedding ring in pictures taken as he left the bar.
The divorce filing came Friday in Tennessee, the same day word of the couple's separation hit the news, according to TMZ. "Irreconcilable differences" were cited as the reason for the split.
On Friday, Aldean's rep was coy with a response to People and other outlets, saying, "I can confirm that Jason and his wife are having problems, but there is nothing more to share with the press at this time."
The couple has two children, 10-year-old Keely and 5-year-old Kendyl. Aldean was born Jason Aldine Williams, and the divorce document was filed under the names Jason Williams and Jessica Ussery Williams.
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PARIS (AP) — Will the future see flocks of sheep baaing beneath the Eiffel Tower and bleating by Notre Dame cathedral?
Paris is enlisting a few hungry sheep to keep the city's grass trim, replacing gas-guzzling lawnmowers.
The initiative, which started this week, sees four sheep from an island in Brittany put to work munching the bountiful grass of the Paris Archives.
The eco-experiment, which could expand around the capital from October, follows on from a stint last year by two goats that the Louvre hired to mow the lawn of Paris' famed Tuileries gardens.
Already, private companies have hundreds of operational sheep mowing lawns of big companies around Paris.
"(It') efficient... and cheap," says Paris City Hall's Fabienne Giboudeaux. "I can imagine this very easily in London. And New York... even Tokyo."