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Food Is Medicine
Judging by research released this month in the American Journal of Medicine and an article in The Atlantic, people are catching on to the fact that access to good food can be a form of preventive medicine.
Nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. Researchers at Harvard and the University of California at San Francisco studied data from the 2011 U.S. Centers for Disease Control's National Health Interview Survey, and of the 10,000 adults who reported that they had a chronic disease such as diabetes, asthma, arthritis, high blood pressure, stroke, a mental health problem, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, nearly one in five said they had problems affording food during the past 30 days, qualifying as "food insecure." Nearly one in four said they had skipped medication dosages because of cost. More than one in ten said they had problems paying for both food and medication. Among those whose illnesses were most diet-related, like diabetes and heart disease, individuals were particularly concerned with finding the right food needed to stay healthy.
Our foundation as New York City's leading provider of medically-tailored home delivered meals for men, women and children living with serious illnesses was built 29 years ago during the first years of the AIDS pandemic, delivering meals to clients to combat the wasting effects of the diagnosis. As the trajectory of the disease has changed, so has the way in which we deliver nutrition. At God's Love, we know firsthand what more and more research proves every day: food is medicine. When people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are food secure, they are more likely to take their medications, and keep doctors' appointments. They are more likely to have higher CD4 counts and undetectable viral loads, and are more likely to engage and remain in care.
What is clear from all this is that PLWHA should not have to choose between food and medication if we are to attain our goal of an AIDS Free Generation. The Ryan White Program offers the most comprehensive package of food and nutrition support in the country, but it is still not enough. A recent longitudinal study of PLWHA in New York City demonstrated that 42% of PLWHA who were receiving food assistance were still food insecure.
The article in The Atlantic focuses on how Medicaid could help patients afford their medications and also suggests screening tools to help doctors connect patients to existing food programs, like SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps). But other options go unmentioned. Food and nutrition services (FNS), especially medically tailored home-delivered meals for the most at-risk individuals, could be incorporated into medical care through coverage in private and public insurance, resulting in massive cost savings for providers, and better health outcomes for patients.
To put the cost savings in perspective, MANNA, our sister FNS agency in Philadelphia that delivers medically tailored home-delivered meals, recently mounted a rigorous pilot study matching MANNA clients to a control group within a local managed care organization to compare healthcare costs on and off the MANNA FNS program. The results were stunning. Average health care costs for MANNA clients fell 62% for three months after beginning services (for a total of almost $30,000). For PLWHA, the cost savings were even more dramatic, falling over 80% in the first three months.
Compared to medical care, food is cheap. You can feed a person a home-delivered diet tailored for their unique medical circumstances for $20 a day. Hospitalization can cost $4,000 a day. If food services prevent one day of hospitalization for a person with chronic illness, the medical cost savings would feed them for more than half a year. The impact of providing patients with the right food for their medical situations is undeniable, and yet, there remains great resistance to the concept of "food is medicine" in healthcare.
There are some positive signs. Progressive states, like New York and Maryland, have already incorporated FNS into the Medicaid benefits package for their most at-risk populations through federal waivers. Although FNS programs, like God's Love, are small relative to the need and are centered largely in urban areas, we are demonstrating successful outcomes. Our hope is that modeling cost-savings and positive health outcomes will encourage other states to follow suit. Until they do, some of the most vulnerable among us will be forced to choose between two forms of medicine.
To learn more about God's Love We Deliver, visit www.glwd.org.
Alissa Wassung is director of policy and planning, God's Love We Deliver, New York City.


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Study: Surgery Protects Against Heart Attack, Stroke
By Salynn Boyles
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Reviewed by LLaura J. Martin, MD
Jan. 3, 2012 -- Weight loss surgery lowers the risk of having a heart attack or stroke, and the risk of death from these and other heart-related causes, in people who are obese, according to new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The findings come from an ongoing Swedish study comparing long-term outcomes among obese patients who did and did not have the surgery.
Over an average of 14 years of follow-up, the bariatric surgery patients lost much more weight and had fewer heart attacks and strokes than people who did not have the surgery.
They were also almost half as likely to die of heart attacks and strokes.
Weight Loss Surgery and the Heart
But weight loss alone did not appear to explain the difference in outcomes among the two groups, and a patient's pre-surgery weight -- as measured by body mass index (BMI) -- did not predict the amount of heart health benefit obtained from the bariatric surgery.
Bariatric surgery was associated with about a 30% reduction in the incidence of both heart attacks and strokes, says researcher Lars Sjostrom, MD, PhD, of Sweden's University of Gothenburg.
While pre-surgery BMI did not predict surgical health outcomes, having diabetes or risk factors for diabetes was a strong indicator of surgical benefit.
200,000 Surgeries Annually in U.S.
About 200,000 weight loss surgeries are performed each year in the U.S., a tenfold increase since the mid-1990s.
Bariatric surgery has been shown to be very effective for achieving weight loss and for treating type 2 diabetes, but its impact on heart attack and stroke risks has not been widely studied.
The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study includes around 2,000 bariatric surgery patients and a similar number of obese people who did not have the surgery.
Most were in their 40s and 50s when recruited for the study between 1987 and 2001, and all were followed until the end of 2009.
Not surprisingly, patients who had the surgery lost much more weight than those who did not.
The average surgery patient had lost 23% of their body weight two years after the procedure and 16% after 15 years, compared to 0% and 1%, respectively, among the non-surgery group.
Ultimately, bariatric surgery was associated with a 53% reduction in deaths from heart attack and stroke and a 33% lower incidence of these events.
'Belly Fat Better Death Predictor Than BMI'
The finding that having diabetes risk factors such as high blood sugar were a better predictor of surgical benefit than BMI could have implications for selecting candidates for weight loss surgery, Sjostrom and colleagues conclude.
Weight loss surgery researcher Edward H. Livingston, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, agrees.
In an editorial published with the study, Livingston writes that obesity alone may not be associated with reduced life span in some people, especially those who don't carry extra body fat in their belly area.
Body fat that accumulates around the midsection, especially around the area's organs, is a serious risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
"We know that weight loss is a very good treatment for most forms of diabetes," he tells WebMD. "I think we should be focusing on diabetes and not BMI when we consider who should have this surgery."
Bariatric surgeon Mitchell Roslin, MD, agrees that BMI alone is a poor predictor of outcomes from weight loss surgery. But he says the main message from the new research is that the surgery prevents heart attack and stroke deaths in many patients.
Roslin is chief of obesity surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
"Heart attack and stroke are major killers of obese people," he tells WebMD. "This study proves this surgery saves the lives of obese patients with a high risk for heart disease."
SOURCES: Sjostrom, L. Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 4, 2012.Lars Sjostrom, MD, PhD, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Edward H. Livingston, MD, professor of surgery, division of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.Mitchell Roslin, MD, chief of obesity surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York.News release, JAMA Media.Maciejewski, M. Journal of the American Medical Association, June 15, 2011.
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Time for October's challenge for the Dulce Romanie project. This time My fancy cake came up with the idea of baking cupcakes.
I loved this idea, especially since lately I watched one of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie and Miranda were devouring some cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery.
After doing a bit of research on the internet I found the recipe for Magnolia Bakery vanilla cupcakes.
Oh yeah…I knew that was the winner, in combination with chocolate buttercream frosting.
The recipe is pretty simple and the results is simply amazing.
magnolia bakery vanilla cupcakes
makes 12 cupcakes
171 grams flour
119 grams butter
225 grams sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
Start by lining 12 muffin tins with cupcake papers. Pre-heat the over to 175 C.
In a mixing bowl cream the butter until it reaches a smooth consistency, then add the sugar gradually and beat until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time. Add the dry ingredients gradually, alternating with the milk and vanilla, mixing well after each addition. Make sure you don't overbeat the batter. Carefully spoon the batter into the cupcake papers. Do not fill the liners otherwise the cupcakes will raise over the top of the papers – just fill them 3/4 to achieve an even top that can hold nicely the buttercream frosting.
Bake them at 175C for about 20-25 minutes or until they are cooked.
Chocolate buttercream frosting
2 egg whites
100 grams sugar
125 grams softened butter
100 grams chocolate
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Start by beating the egg whites with the sugar over bain marie. Whisk them until reaching 65 degrees C or until the sugar melted and the mixture is warm.
Remove from the heat and whip until fluffy and cool. Slowly add the softened butter. Meanwhile melt the chocolate over bain marie and allow it to cool to room temperature. Add the cooled chocolate and the vanilla extract to the butter mixture. Mix well, making sure the chocolate is well incorporated.
Pipe the buttercream over the cupcakes.


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Karl Rove, the Republican political savant George W. Bush dubbed "Turd Blossom," has an election-week tradition worthy of his nickname: He dumps a load of manure on the American public and watches to see if it will flower.
Like clockwork, this year's shipment was delivered via the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, which on Thursday published Rove's prediction that "sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48% with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more."
Rove may be right — but only in the sense that a stopped clock is right twice a day. Let's review his previous predictions:
In November 2000, two days before the election, he forecast that Bush would beat Al Gore by six percentage points and win 320 electoral votes; in reality, Bush lost the popular vote and got to 271 electoral votes only because the Supreme Court essentially awarded him Florida's.
On the eve of the 2004 election, Rove predicted an easy victory for Bush, asserting that he was ahead in eight of 10 battleground states; on Election Day, Bush's 286 electoral votes were only a slight improvement over 2000.
In the days before the 2006 midterm elections, Rove confidently predicted a "Republican Senate and Republican House"; Democrats took control of both. Even before the Democratic landslide in 2008, Rove saw a path for John McCain to "be America's 44th president."
Rove is an easy target because his motive — conveying a false sense of momentum for Republicans — is so transparent. But he has plenty of company among prognosticators who confidently predict that which they cannot possibly know.
There's Nate Silver, a statistician-blogger at the New York Times, who predicts with scientific precision that President Obama will win 300 electoral votes and beat Romney by two percentage points in the popular vote. He gives Obama a 79 percent likelihood of winning.
I give Silver a 50 percent likelihood of being correct.
The truth is anybody who claims to know what is going to happen on Election Day is making it up and counting on being lucky. For that reason, this has been a humbling election for people who follow politics. We have filled countless hours of airtime and gone through untold gallons of ink over the past six months, but we are essentially where we were when we started: It's a dead heat, with the likeliest voters appearing to favor the challenger but the battleground states appearing to give a narrow edge to the incumbent.
There have been ups and downs — it appeared that Romney's campaign was collapsing in September, only for the Obama campaign to swoon after the first presidential debate — but the 48-percent-to-48-percent tie in the Gallup tracking poll this week is basically the same as it was on April 20, when Gallup had Romney with 46 percent and Obama with 45 percent.
Though this outcome is humbling for the pundit class, it's depressing for the country. It means that Americans remain evenly split, and that, for at least two more years, our government is likely to remain bitterly divided — with neither side able to claim much of a mandate to fix the nation's problems.
The enduring stalemate also confirms a failure of imagination, and of leadership, in both candidates and both parties. Both men ran timid campaigns, refusing to talk about the tough choices ahead and devoting most of their energies to rallying partisans who already supported them.
Obama's attempt at outlining a second-term agenda amounted to too little, too late: a 20-page pamphlet full of photos sent to households in swing states in the campaign's closing days. The content was mostly scaled-back and repackaged ideas from his first term.
This, though unimaginative, was slightly superior to what Romney offered: a five-point set of platitudes and a detail-free pledge to remake the tax code. Even that vague agenda was left in doubt after Romney's last-minute rush to the middle, disavowing many of the positions he had taken during the campaign. Missing from both candidates' pseudo-agendas was anything approaching a specific plan to avert a debt crisis.
Had one of the candidates risen above the caution and the timidity and used the election season to build a consensus for a governing mandate, the Election Day forecasts would have been easy to make. And that man would have deserved to win.


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Gold Weight in the form of a sword with serrated edge and hooked end
early to mid-20th century
Object Place: Ghana
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Bronze, (copper alloy)
Not On View
Asante goldweights were used to counterbalance scales for the purpose of weighing gold. Originally made from wax moulds, the goldweights were an essential component of business transactions and were used by both the royal treasury and common people. Among the goldweights, there is a dynamic range of motifs that include abstract geometric patterns derived from Islamic sources, representational figures that relate to Asante proverbs, European military equipment, and royal regalia. Goldweights were highly valued by their owners and were treated with great care. Similarly, the smiths that made the goldweights were employed by local chiefs and enjoyed special status within the community. By the 1920's most of the goldweights being produced were made for European collectors, who particularly liked the inventiveness of form and the miniature size of the highly detailed goldweights.
Less ornate swords were carried by fly-whisk bearers in royal processions. This goldweight may be a representation of such a sword.
Early 1990s, sold by Christie's, London to George Abrams, Waban, MA; 2009, gift of Abrams to the MFA. (Accession date: January 20, 2010)
Credit Line
Gift of George Abrams in memory of Maida Abrams


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Kurt Buschs 2011 season ledger remains unblemished. Busch drove his No. 22 Pennzoil/Shell Dodge Charger to victory in Thursdays first Gatorade Duel (60-lap, 150-mile) at Daytona International Speedway.
Just as in his win in the Budweiser Shootout under the lights Saturday night, Busch had help from a drafting partner. This time it was Regan Smith. The two paired up early and stayed together the entire race, swapping positions occasionally to keep their…Read More


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By Jason Offutt
The telephone, to me, has always been a tool. You know, one of those woogly ones you bought 10 years ago to replace the faucet in the bathroom and haven't used since.
I've never like telephones. I've always figured anyone who wants to talk to me badly enough to call must have some sort of separation anxiety and should probably work on that in therapy instead of bothering me while I'm on the toilet.
So it really bothered me when I realized I traveled enough it would only make sense to invest in a cell phone for safety reasons. That was eight years ago. I got the cheapest I could, a stone box you probably saw on "The Flintstones." The one with the bird inside who carved the telephone conversation into granite and flew it off to whomever Fred was trying to call.
My cell phone was marvelous. I could call people on it. Period. I couldn't text, I couldn't take pictures, and if I ever wondered who played the oldest Von Trapp kid* in "The Sound of Music," I could just wait until I got home to look it up. Seriously. It wouldn't even bother me.
That phone was the size of a deck of cards that was missing most of three suits, and hardy as a Scotsman. I dropped it into a lake in 2008 and it still worked fine.
Of course, the day came when I had to get a new one. I held on as long as possible, but it was as hard to find parts for my talk-only phone as a 1946 DeSoto. When the battery went, I knew technology had past me by.
So my wife and I went to the phone store. It wasn't called the phone store, but it was a store that sold phones, so it should have been.
Walking around the phone store was like walking around the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. There were more screens flashing, chirping, and warning us we were approaching the Klingon Neutral Zone than should have been possible in such a small room.
With any of these telephones, the user could text, email, IM on Facebook, Tweet, update their blog, watch "The Walking Dead," order pizza, and maybe – just maybe – place a telephone call. I bet any one of them could solve that Von Trapp kid problem if I'd bothered to touch one.
I'm not anti-technology. I love technology. Hulu is fantastic, I'm still somewhat humbled by the microwave, I like wiping a thermometer across a forehead instead of having to, uh, you know, and I appreciate, although am somewhat terrified by, the fact that I can see the outside of my house from my computer screen without ever having to get up from the couch.
So I was more than happy when my wife and I made it out of the store with a brand new cell phone each. Ones that we can call people on.
I'm surprised a company still makes them.
*Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich von Trapp) played Peter Parker in "The Amazing Spider-Man" TV series from 1977 to 1979. I don't really care about "The Sound of Music," but I do care about Spider-Man.
Jason Offutt's latest book, "Across a Corn-Swept Land: An epic beer run through the Upper Midwest," is available at The Daily Forum.


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The Bureau of Land Management will allow an extra 45 days of public comment on the expansion of a large drilling project in Wyoming's Red Desert. Doug Randall reports. Some students at Pine Bluffs Junior-Senior High are getting a hands-on lesson in business. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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What are the facts? Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women aged 35 to 50 in the United States. An individual woman's risk of developing breast cancer in this country is about one in ten. Approximately 130,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the United States. About 25-35% of these women die from their cancer. The incidence of breast cancer increased by 23% from 1947 to 1975 and by another 21% from 1975 to 1985. Women over 50 have up to a ten times higher risk of breast cancer than those under 50. Between 1975 and 1986, the incidence has increased by about 23% for women over 50 and by 9% for women under 50. Native Hawaiian women have the highest incidence of breast cancer, followed by whites, then blacks. Asian and Pacific Island women, along with Hispanics in New Mexico, are somewhere in the middle. Native American women have the lowest incidence of breast cancer. Studies of Polish and Japanese women show their risk of breast cancer to be significantly higher if they migrate to the United States than if they stay in their native countries.
What is my risk of breast cancer? l) Family history - Your chance of getting breast cancer doubles if your mother or sister had it.The risk is even greater if more than one of your immediate relatives had it. 2) Menarche and menopause- - The longer you continue to have menstrual periods, the higher the chance of getting breast cancer. Women whose menarche (onset of menses) began after age 13 and who experience menopause before 45 have the lowest risk. This suggests that a prolonged, uninterrupted presence of high levels of estrogen in the body may predispose to breast cancer. Women who have anovulatory cycles due to anorexia, obesity, or other reasons, may actually be somewhat protected against breast cancer. 3) Pregnancy - Women who are nulliparous (have not borne children) or whose first full-term pregnancy occurs after age 30 are two to five times more likely to develop breast cancer than women whose first pregnancies occured before age 18. Abortions or miscarriages, though they do interrupt the menstrual cycle, do not appear to offer protection against breast cancer. 4) Hormones - There is a strong suspicion among many people, including myself, that taking estrogen, either in the form of birth control pills or as estrogen replacement therapy after menopause, may increase the risk of developing breast cancer. There is not yet conclusive scientific evidence to back this up. It is common practice to give progesterone along with estrogen in postmenopausal women who still have their uteruses. This is because estrogen replacement alone may cause cancer of the uterus and progesterone has been shown to decrease this risk. One recent study of 23,000 women in Sweden found the women who were given progesterone along with the estrogen to have a four times higher incidence of breast cancer. 5) Dietary fat - There seems to be an increasingly stronger correlation between a high intake of dietary fat and breast cancer. The United States, the Netherlands, and Great Britain, which all have very rich diets, also have the world's highest rates of breast cancer. Japan and Romania, both having lean diets, have one-sixth to one-half the rate of the United States. 6) Weight - Excess body weight and caloric intake definitely predispose to breast cancer. 7) Alcohol - Alcohol consumption of more than one drink of beer, wine, or liquor a day has been as-sociated with a 40% increase or risk of breast cancer. 8) Fibrocystic breasts - This factor may be overrated in regards to breast disease. It appears that only certain types of cystic breasts, as confirmed by mammogram rather than just a breast exam, actually result in a greater risk of breast cancer. 9) Caffeine - Many women find their breast cysts to go away when they remove caffeine from their diets, however there is no evidence yet that women who have high caffeine intakes are more likely to develop breast cancer.


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June 2009
Honduras, officially named the Republic of Honduras, covers an area of 43,278 sq mi and is slightly larger than Virginia. Honduras is located in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua. Tegucigalpa is the capital and largest city; San Pedro Sula is the next largest city. The terrain is mountainous and the climate is tropical to subtropical, depending on the elevation. The country has only a short Pacific coast but a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited eastern Mosquito Coast.
About 90% of the population is mestizo. There also are small minorities of European, African, Asian, Arab, and indigenous Indian descent. Most Hondurans are Roman Catholic, but Protestant churches are growing in number. While Spanish is the predominant language, some English is spoken along the northern coast and is prevalent on the Caribbean Bay Islands. Several indigenous Indian languages and Garífuna (a mixture of Afro-indigenous languages) are also spoken. The restored Mayan ruins near the Guatemalan border in Copan reflect the great Mayan culture that flourished there for hundreds of years until the early 9th century. Columbus landed at mainland Honduras (Trujillo) in 1502, and named the area "Honduras" (meaning "depths") for the deep water off the coast. Spaniard Hernan Cortes arrived in 1524.
The government of Honduras is a democratic constitutional republic. Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. Honduras' agriculture-based economy was dominated in the 1900s by U.S. companies that established vast banana plantations along the north coast. Foreign capital, plantation life, and conservative politics held sway in Honduras from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. The President of Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales was elected 27 January 2006 as both chief of state and head of government. The next scheduled election is November 2009.
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Syntax highlighting allows files of a certain type (for example, Python programs) to have parts of the text highlighted to distinctively show keywords, comments, or other components. When editing, Vim can lose track of the syntax and may highlight text incorrectly. The
:syntax sync command controls how Vim synchronizes the syntax state that should apply at a particular point in the text. The most accurate but slowest result occurs from having Vim always rescan the buffer from the start. Often the syntax file (for example,
$VIMRUNTIME/syntax/python.vim) uses
:syntax sync to specify the synchronization method to be used for a particular file type.
Highlight from start of fileEdit
For the most accurate but slowest result, set the syntax synchronization method to
fromstart. This can be done with an autocmd in your vimrc:
autocmd BufEnter * :syntax sync fromstart
Highlight from an amount backwardsEdit
Vim supports highlighting synchronization by searching a variable amount backwards from the current position for a recognized syntax state. An example for C, from
$VIMRUNTIME/syntax/c.vim, is:
if exists("c_minlines") let b:c_minlines = c_minlines else if !exists("c_no_if0") let b:c_minlines = 50 " #if 0 constructs can be long else let b:c_minlines = 15 " mostly for () constructs endif endif exec "syn sync ccomment cComment minlines=" . b:c_minlines
c_minlines is the minimum number of lines that Vim goes backward to try to find the start of a comment for syntax highlighting. If the line which starts a comment is outside that range, highlighting may be incorrect. Your vimrc can define this setting, for example:
let c_minlines=500
Larger values improve accuracy, but slow down syntax highlighting.
Rather than using
fromstart syntax highlighting, you may get accurate but faster results with something like:
syntax sync minlines=200
Using a mapping to fix when brokenEdit
The procedures discussed above attempt to ensure that syntax highlighting is always correct, at the cost of slower performance. Another procedure is to tolerate occasional highlighting errors, and correct the problem when it arises by entering a command like:
:syntax sync fromstart
If wanted, mappings can be defined to make entering the command easier:
noremap <F12> <Esc>:syntax sync fromstart<CR> inoremap <F12> <C-o>:syntax sync fromstart<CR>
Now you can press F12 to clean up most syntax highlighting problems. Sometimes, pressing Ctrl-L to redraw the screen helps.
- :help :syn-sync
- Search for 'sync' in your favorite syntax file in the
$VIMRUNTIME/syntaxdirectory (use
:echo expand('$VIMRUNTIME/syntax')to see its location).
I have tweaked the wording, but haven't considered the content much. The autocmd is a bit extreme (applying to all files). It's not clear why the extract from
syntax/c.vim is useful. When synching breaks for me, I find that scrolling up/down often fixes it, with no need for the more elaborate ideas here. This doesn't happen often, so I'm not sure what is actually needed, or whether anything helpful can be said about scrolling. JohnBeckett 10:06, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
Surprisingly, I've actually found :syntax sync fromstart to be faster than only reading back a few hundred lines. This is on a fairly long and complex HTML file with embedded CSS and lots of Javascript.
Recently an issue was brought up where syntax highlighting fails for a big file after jump or search on vim 8.
More information here:
One of the main reasons for this is that the redraw time is insufficient. To ensure syntax highlighting always works on large files, simply increase the redraw time in your .vimrc file.
set redrawtime=10000


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The University of Amsterdam is, in contrast to the other three universities of the Netherlands in the 1950s, (Leiden, Utrecht and Groningen, which were state universities), an institution of the city of Amsterdam. It grew out of the Athenaeum, which was founded there in 1632. The occasion for its founding was the wish of the citizens of Amsterdam to have their sons educated in their home town, and their love of intellectual liberty, which created a field for scholars of Arminian belief. The Athenaeum was a university in miniature; in 1732, at the celebration of its centennial, it had only two professors. In 1815 it was recognized as having equal rights with the national universities. At the beginning of the 19th century D. J. van Lennep was its guiding star. But after the law of 1876 was passed, which reformed university teaching and gave the Athenaeum the rights of a university (including the right to grant degrees), and the city opened the university in 1877, the school made a sudden, undreamed-of growth, and acquired its five faculties: theology, law, medicine, philology and philosophy, and natural sciences. In the old Athenaeum there had, to be sure, been an occasional chair of theology; usually, however, theology was left to the seminary, which was founded in 1632 by the Remonstrants and transferred to Leiden in 1873 for ecclesiastical reasons. In 1817 the Lutheran seminary was added. The denominational division was sharp; even the professors in the aula were separated from their colleagues by a dividing wall. Genestet wrote a merry little verse about the Lutheran, the Remonstrant and the two honest Mennonites, who were separated by a wall as if they were antichrists. After 1946 Reformed theological students also had opportunity to study at the Amsterdam university through the appointment of two theology professors by the Reformed Church. Since the theology students already held a diploma of graduation from a gymnasium or have passed the state examination, they took two examinations at the university, the so-called Propaedeutic examination that covered Hebrew and philosophy, and the Candidaatsexamen, that covered the Old and New Testaments, church history and history of doctrines, comparative history of religion, ethics, and philosophy of religion. After these examinations the students studied further at their own seminaries. They might also take the doctoral examination at the university.
The seminary professors might also be professors at the university at the same time; this happened regularly. The Mennonite seminary professors, de Hoop Scheffer, Hoekstra, Cramer, de Bussy, Kühler and Appeldoorn were also university professors, and in 1950 Leendertz also.
There is a second university at Amsterdam, founded in 1906, called the Free University (Vrije Universiteit). It was created by Dr. Abraham Kuyper and is supported by the Gereformeerde Kerk, the strongly Calvinistic body that separated from the Dutch state church known as the Hervormde Kerk in 1892 under the leadership of Kuyper.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 66-68.
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This past Wednesday was my first Wednesday Noon Ride up Old La Honda. The previous week was going to be my first, but I had some mechanical issues which prevented me from doing the climb after arriving to the base with the group. This time, however, I had everything under control and I reached Old La Honda with the surprisingly small noon-ride group.
On the approach I chatted with Chris Evans who declared he was going to begin the climb hard. He'd done a sub-17 the week before, he said, and since he was more tired today, was shooting for 17:30. That was the goal I had set for myself on Strava, so it seemed like he was a good pacing match for me. But It was just my first time doing Old La Honda this year, and I'd been riding a relatively lot due to trying to prepare for the upcoming Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge so was a bit tired. These factors meant a really fast start didn't seem wise. Instead I decided to let Chris have his fun early and just try to pace myself.
I was without power data for the ride, since I was using my Reynolds carbon tubular wheels rather than my Powertap clincher wheel: I'd had the tubulars on the Fuji for the Berkeley Hills Road Race, and had kept them on for the Pescadero Road Race, which I'd ended up skipping due to allergies/sickness the week before. It's not that big a deal to switch wheels, but it also requires changing brake pads, which is a slight hassle. In any case, I wanted to test my road race configuration on the 84 descent which follows the Old La Honda climb. I've never descended well on the carbon rims, with my Zero G brakes and Swissstop yellow brake pads. Sure, and there was the fact the carbon wheels were light and likely fast. It's always nice to shave a few seconds off an Old La Honda time if possible. The downside is I wasn't carrying a spare so if I flatted I was going to have an interesting time getting back to work. I didn't flat, however.
Chris shot off the front of the group heading to the base of the climb, and I followed, although he opened a small gap. The gap exploded when we hit the bridge marking the start of the timed climb. True to his word, he was starting quickly. I just tried to tap into what I thought was a good pace: a decent effort but sustainable. If I'd had the PowerTap I'd have tried to keep it in the 300-watt range here, but instead I had to rely on perceived exertion. Chris' gap stabilized before he was out of sight, though, and I spent the rest of the climb monitoring my progress relative to the distance between us.
Along the way I noted the trees bending in the wind. There's usually not much wind on Old La Honda Road, as it's protected from the ocean breezes by the mountain ridge. The wind was a headwind during at least one corner. I'm not sure if it netted out to head or tail.
As we reached the end game, a large truck descended the road. I could see Chris squeeze by: he later told me he'd ridden on the dirt off the side of the road. As the truck approached me, I could see it was making no accommodation for my presence. After all, if I failed to get out of his way, he'd be the only witness, so what risk was it to him? So picking survival over OLH time, I pulled off the road, and stopped.
The truck passed without slowing, and when it had I clipped back in and set off. The recovery + adrenaline gave me a short-term boost which made up some of the 7 seconds lost on the road edge before reality kicked back in and I resumed a regular climbing pace. This incident probably cost me a net 3-4 seconds, factoring in the recovery gained with the delay.
Chris had gained time on me here, though, and was further up the road. It was just a few more corners to the finish. I hit my lap time at the stop sign in 17:12. I think that's my 4th or 5th best time ever (after 16:38, 16:49, 17:03, at least) Chris had beaten 17 for the second week in a row, so it was a nice result for him, confirming his climbing was good right now.
Since I didn't have a power meter, I had to analyze pace by looking at my altitude, distance, and time. I assumed CdA = 0.4 m2, air density = 1.2 kg/m3, rolling resistance coefficient = 0.4%, body mass = 57 kg, bike mass = 6 kg, extra mass = 2 kg, and drivetrain efficiency = 97% (note this corresponds to SRM or Quarq or Vector power, not Powertap power). Here's the result:
I started a bit fast, despite my goal to start conservatively. But on Old La Honda this probably isn't a bad thing: it's a short climb, so the penalty for a fast start is less than it would be for a climb twice as long, for example. I faded during the climb, but I never cracked. I lost a bit when I stopped for the truck. I was able to get back above average power after this, but this surge probably cost me my finishing kick. So the truck definitely cost me time.
I had to be happy with this effort. Under better circumstances: less wind, no stopping, and going into the climb fresher, I clearly would have been able to break 17. Whether my 16:36 from two years ago is still accessible is another question.
As an aside, here's some data from previous efforts. My power from this one stacks up nicely, although these were measured with a PowerTap, which doesn't include drive-train losses. Neglecting the 3% drivetrain loss my estimated power on this one was 277 watts @ 57 kg = 4.86 W/kg, so this was a competitive but not exceptional effort if you don't consider the wind and the stop for the truck. Note I have a tendency to go out a bit hard. But as long as I don't fade badly, that's probably not a mistake, as I noted: Old La Honda is a relatively short effort.
Also note in every one of these previous efforts I managed a decent upturn in power at the end. This time I didn't. The reason is likely that I spent my surge capacity in the adrenaline-rushed acceleration after being stopped, so I had nothing left for a strong finish. Just looking at the seconds including and following the stop, I might convince myself I was able to make up most of the lost 7 seconds, but I paid a price for that later.
Of course, comparing PowerTap data to estimated power data is not very precise. There's errors on both sides of the comparison. The wind alone, even if relatively light on the hillside versus exposed ridges, is a large source of potential error. This sort of analysis is no substitute for a well-functioning power meter.


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HOWTO: Configure ALSA to handle a USB sound card
This guide is targeted towards people who have a USB sound card and want to use it as the default sound card.
First step is to figure out the Vendor id and product id of the sound card: Open the Konsole type su and then type the root password. Once you have become root type in the command (# should not be included! # means that you are root)
Mine gives the following result:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 145f:0090 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c046 Logitech, Inc. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 050d:0237 Belkin Components
An example id is 145f:0090 The ID is made up of 2 part: the first (145f) is the Vendor ID (aka Manufacturer ID) and the second (0090) is the product ID. This is my sound card.
A good next step is to permit ALSA to build its own default configuration. As root, type the following command:
#sudo alsaconf
Just choose everything as it defaults, and let 'er go.
After alsaconf is done, there is a configuration file for us to edit. Type the following command being root:
#sudo kwrite /etc/modules.d/alsa
You should see the ALSA configuration file in the Kwrite editor. I changed mine to look like this:
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore # Set this to the correct number of cards. I have 2 so options snd cards_limit=2 #Trust. #This is my USB card so I set it's index and parameters to 0 so that is becomes default. Do the same. alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 #Remember the IDs ? We use them here. Just put 0x in front. options snd-usb-audio index=0 vid=0x145f pid=0x0090 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-usb-oss #Intel. This was already here because I had run alsaconf. Then I changed everything from 0 to 1. # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.14rc2 --- alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 options snd-intel8x0 index=1 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp1 snd-intel8x0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
Once you have saved the file alsa goto your Konsole and as root type the following:
#update-modules -f
That should reload modules.You should see the console returning OK for each module loaded. Reboot and your done! Don't forget to use Kmix or any other volume controller to set your volume levels.
There are some circumstances, especially after a full system update, in which the above is not quite sufficient. You can see evidence of it in Audacity; check the available playback devices, and you may see the one you don't want set at zero (possibly 0.0, 0.1, 0.2) and the one you do want as 1. So if it's still not working after the above is done, edit (or create anew, that's what I had to do) /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. Here is mine:
# Prevent other drivers from grabbing index 0 options snd-card-1 index=-2 options sound-slot-1 index=-2 # Set internal soundcard as index 0 options snd-usb-audio index=0
Index zero is the default sound device, always. You'll then want to type the following again:
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Screengrab: WiredObama Does AMAs on Reddit Sure, during a campaign a candidate has to reach out to as many voters as possible, but when President Obama put himself in front of the masses on Reddit, he officially stepped up the game of being Up with People. Asked about online openness, he replied: Internet freedom is something I know you all care passionately about; I do too. We will fight hard to make sure that the internet remains the open forum for everybody – from those who are expressing an idea to those to want to start a business. And although their will be occasional disagreements on the details of various legislative proposals, I won't stray from that principle – and it will be reflected in the platform. Photo: ImgurAfter Said AMA, the Campaign Puts a Shitty Watercolour on Its Tumblr During the aforementioned AMA, the president was given the honor of getting welcomed by Reddit's premiere bad artist Shitty Watercolour. The campaign put the image up on the Obama for America Tumblr – the same Tumblr that once engaged in a Darren Criss GIF-off with Vh1. Image: Shitty Watercolour via TumblrObama Knows How to Handle a Lightsaber During a fencing demonstration and rally in Washington, D.C. in 2009 aimed at bringing the 2016 Olympics to his hometown of Chicago, the president wielded a toy lightsaber as his weapon of choice against American Olympic sabre fencing silver medalist Tim Morehouse. Very wise, young Jedi. Photo: Pete Souza/White HouseObama is Superman (At Least in His Jokes) Ok, this one's kind of a cheat. This happened during the 2008 election, not during Obama's first term. But still. You guys. During the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner that year Obama joked that "Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth." Senator John McCain was in the audience. Zing. Pow! 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Makes 117 truffles
24 ounces bittersweet chocolate, preferably Valrhona Manjari, finely chopped
8 ounces milk chocolate, preferably Valrhona 42 percent, finely chopped
2 cups heavy cream (not ultra-pasteurized)6 ounces Jasmine tea11 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups cocoa powder (not Dutch processed), preferably Valrhona, for rolling
1. Line a 13-by-9 1/2-inch rimmed baking sheet with plastic wrap; set aside.
2. In a heatproof bowl, set over (but not touching) simmering water, melt 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate and milk chocolate together until it reaches 120 degrees.
3. Place cream in a small saucepan over medium heat; heat until cream just comes to a boil. Place tea in a medium stainless steel bowl. Pour cream over tea and let steep 10 minutes. Strain cream mixture through 4 layers of cheesecloth.
4.Remove chocolate mixture from heat and add to 1 1/3 cups cream mixture, reserving any remaining cream for another use. Using a heatproof spatula, mix together, starting from the center of the saucepan and working your way to the outer edges until mixture is emulsified. Add butter and mix with an immersion blender until well combined. Pour mixture into prepared baking sheet, evenly spreading mixture with an offset spatula; cover with plastic wrap, pressing down gently on chocolate mixture to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate at least 2 hours, and up to overnight.
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7.Melt remaining 16 ounces bittersweet chocolate in a heatproof bowl, set over (but not touching) simmering water. Place cocoa powder in a shallow dish. Place some of the melted chocolate in the palm of your hand and roll a chocolate ball in the melted chocolate to coat, then roll in cocoa powder. Repeat process with remaining chocolate balls. Transfer truffles to an airtight container, stacking truffles no more than 2 to 3 inches high, and refrigerate up to 2 weeks. Bring truffles to room temperature just before serving.


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Dam No. 22
Big Wewoka Creek Watershed Dam No. 22, known as Sportsman Lake, was constructed in 1958 by the City of Seminole and the Seminole County Conservation District with the assistance of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Program.
The dam was built for flood control and recreation and is operated by the City of Seminole. The lake has 354 surface acres and 15 miles of shoreline.
Recreational facilities include a boat ramp, boat dock, fishing dock, campsites, camper parking, electrical hookups, picnic areas, grills, restrooms, playground, group shelter, showers, and equestrian trails.
The dam is one of 41 flood control dams that have been constructed in the Big Wewoka Creek Watershed (30 in Seminole County and 11 in Hughes County).
Before the dams were constructed frequent flooding occurred in the watershed. From 1923 to 1942 there were 41 floods that covered over one-half of the flood plain and 92 smaller floods. Floods would wash out roads, bridges, and railroad tracks; destroy crops; and drown livestock. The larger floods would cause damage in the cities of Wewoka and Seminole. This most disastrous flood occurred in April 1945 when seven people lost their lives.
In 1955 the Hughes County and Seminole County Conservation Districts and the Wewoka Creek Water and Soil Conservancy District requested the Soil Conservation Service (now Natural Resources Conservation Service) for technical and financial assistance in developing and implementing the Big Wewoka Creek Watershed Project. The 41 flood control dams were built between 1957 and 1967. Thousands of conservation practices were also applied in the watershed as part of the project to reduce erosion and sedimentation.
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This is one of 2,107* examples of how local, state and federal government agencies have worked together to utilize the Natural Resources Conservation Service Watershed Program to address natural resource needs and improve the quality of life for thousands of Oklahomans.
Benefits of the Forty-One Dams in the Big Wewoka Creek Watershed
Provides $1.2 million in average annual benefits from reduced flood damages
Provides flood protection for bridges, county roads and railroad tracks
Provides flood protection for 543 farms and ranches
Impounded water has created fish and wildlife habitat and waterfowl nesting areas
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Sidney Lumet, who died in Manhattan from lymphoma on Saturday at the age of 86, was the director of more than 40 feature films, including several that have been hailed as landmarks of American cinema. From "Twelve Angry Men" in 1957 through the gritty street dramas of the 1970s ("Network," "Serpico," and "Dog Day Afternoon") until his 2007 swan song, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," he was recognized as a master who explored both the darker recesses of the criminal psyche and the higher moral planes to which people sometimes can ascend.
But when he was at home in his East Hampton house — where he spent weekends and summers since the 1960s — he was better known for sleeping.
In 2007, he told The Star that he used his days off as a rare opportunity to stay in bed.
Tony Walton — who served as a production and costume designer on several of Mr. Lumet's films, and was reached for comment this week by The Star — confirmed that on the East End Mr. Lumet "had a lot of time religiously set aside for snoozing and watching ball-games."
The downtime was a crucial release after the breakneck pace he set during the filming of his intense dramas, and his highly demanding rehearsal schedule.
Mr. Lumet was nominated for an Academy Award for best director four times, but never won. Instead, he was given a lifetime achievement award at the Oscars ceremony in 2005.
His filmmaking was characterized by two things: his slavish devotion to his actors' performances and the naturalistic look and feel of the sets and production, often on location in New York City. He had acted himself in the Yiddish theater in the city as a youth, and on Broadway, he was quoted more than once explaining that that experience had taught him never to exploit an actor to get a scene. He grew tired of the emotional exposure necessary for success as an actor, he said, and that is what led him to pursue directing when he returned from service in World War II.
Mr. Walton, who was until recently a Sag Harbor resident, recalled on Tuesday that Mr. Lumet had "an unusually long rehearsal period of three or four weeks. The same way you would rehearse for a theatrical production. And he was mobile all of the time, moving about the actors, becoming the camera in his head." The process allowed Mr. Lumet to know before he even entered the set "about 80 percent of what he wanted to do. He saved 20 percent for lucky accidents," according to Mr. Walton.
At the same time, he was also a brilliant technician. As he noted in his book, "Making Movies," in 1995, "A movie is like a giant mosaic made of thousands of tiny tiles." He was responsible for all of them.
"The lenses are the eyes of the movies," he once remarked, in a talk in New York City in 2007. For example, " 'Prince of the City' is a story of betrayal, so one of the things I did was throw out the normal lenses. Thirty-five or 40-millimeter lenses are considered closest to the eye. I used wide angle and telephoto so that distance was never what you expect."
Mr. Walton told The Star that in that same movie, in which he served as production designer, Mr. Lumet's vision became more stylized as the detective played by Treat Williams, taking heat from narcotics cops during a corruption investigation, disappeared further and further inside his head.
In a scene where the color was very controlled, "the prop master popped a bright red milk carton into the camera frame. It destroyed the design scheme we had made up." He credited Mr. Lumet's collaborative process with helping to see how jarring the color of the carton was to the rest of the scene. "He would insist that you as the designer look through the lens for the setup of each shot." This was unusual in a business where there was often competition or tension between the camera and design departments.
"Working with Francois Truffaut," Mr. Walton said, "I was not able to look through the lens, but on 'Murder on the Orient Express' and every film I worked on with Sidney, he encouraged closeness with the cinematographer."
Mr. Lumet's work sometimes brought him out to the South Fork, as in "Deathtrap," a 1982 movie with exteriors shot in East Hampton. Rather than use the Connecticut farmhouse setting of the original play, Mr. Walton said, they decided it would "be more fun to have the couple live in East Hampton where their home could be a converted windmill," using the unusual structure in a spooky and strange way reminiscent of the Hitchcock film "Vertigo."
In one scene, he said, "Dyan Cannon fears that the villain played by Christopher Reeve might be getting at her, and he is actually climbing the windmill and holding onto the blades, and she can see the grinding of the gears above her as she lies in bed in the scary moments before he breaks in." They also filmed in and around the South End Burying Ground and Town Pond, as well as in Springs and at the East Hampton train station.
Mr. Walton added that the play "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick, which had a run at the Jewish Repertory Theater in 1996 and was directed by Mr. Lumet (with his set designs) had its origins at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor.
Friends will remember fondly Mr. Lumet's birthday parties in East Hampton. He was born on June 25, and shared his birthday with Bob Fosse, another moviemaker with a varied résumé, who died in 1987. The screenwriter Peter Stone and the stage and screen director Gene Saks would give "historically hilarious speeches about one or both of them," Mr. Walton recalled, that were always eagerly anticipated and uproariously received.
"He was just one of the most lovable people imaginable," Mr. Walton said, "and the closest and best collaborator and friend."
Although he spent practically his entire life in New York City, which became the setting for most of his films, Mr. Lumet was born in 1924 in Philadelphia to Baruch and Eugenia Wermus Lumet. They moved to New York when he was still a baby, and he became involved in his father's Yiddish-language theater troupe by the age of 4; according to Time magazine his first Broadway role came when he was only 11. After wartime service in Burma and India he returned to the States as a director. He worked in theater and television before moving to film.
He is survived by Piedy Lumet (née Mary Gimbel), his wife of three decades. She was at his side through his decline in recent months; friends said that they were the sort of couple who never seemed to want to spend an hour apart. He is also survived by his daughters from his previous marriage to Gail Jones, Amy Lumet and Jenny Lumet (the screenwriter of "Rachel Getting Married"), as well as a stepdaughter, a stepson, nine grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. His marriages to Gloria Vanderbilt and Rita Gam, like that with Ms. Jones, ended in divorce. A private service will be held in New York City this weekend with a memorial service to be planned at a future date.


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A Modern Space
- Location: multiple locations and online
- Specialty: Furniture, Lighting & Accessories
- Price range: $$-$$$
- Website: amodernspace.ca
Store History
- Founded: 2012
- Founded by: Patrick Hajas
- Headquarters: Ottawa, ON, Canada
A Modern Space is at the crest of the new wave of design-led furniture shops in Ottawa, ON. Owner Patrick Hajas stocks the kind of modern, iconic brands which, until recently, were hard to come by in Canada's capital. His sharp eye and edited approach is perfectly in line with the needs of the area's homeowners, but the furniture, lighting and accessories sold here are also available online, with delivery across Ontario and Quebec.
Name/Title: Patrick Hajas/Owner
Open/launch February 2012
Inspiration for opening: I worked in the high end furniture industry for many years and I noticed there was a lack of stores in Ottawa offering great quality original modern furniture and lighting at a more accessible price point. I also realized that square footage was becoming more of a premium for most people so we wanted to offer products that were not only of great design at a mid-price point but that could also work in smaller spaces such as condos. We also don't believe in selling reproductions of modern classics; there are plenty of really cool products available out there that just need a place to be showcased. And that's where A Modern Space comes in!
Merchandise source: We carry a select group of modern furniture companies in our Ottawa showroom like Blu Dot, Emeco, &Tradition, Bend, Fermob, RoomB, and Design House Stockholm. Rather than carrying an extensive number of product lines our approach is to have a smaller, well curated collection of original modern furniture companies so that we can showcase their products properly for our customers.
Best selling item: 1) Diplomat Sleeper Sofa by Blu Dot 2) Navy 111 Chair by Emeco 3) Mega Bulb by &Tradition
Your favorite item: I love the new Broom Chair by Emeco. The chair is made from 90% pre-consumer industrial waste, stacks, can be used indoors/outdoors and a $204.00 CDN price is extremely reasonable.
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AMAPO-TUCP is in the midst of a bitter union organizing campaign in the contractors of Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries Corp. Philippines in Subic Bay. The Union reports illegal dismissals, harassment, discrimination, sexual incidents, physical abuse, diminution of benefits, and hundreds of other unfair labor practices, including transfers of work sites, illegal detention and death…Please send protest letters to Philippine authorities using the attached template or your own letter.


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SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (Reuters) - A Muslim woman alleged in a lawsuit filed this week that U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF.N) forbade her from wearing her head scarf while working at a northern California clothing store owned by the company.
Hani Khan filed her federal lawsuit on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, with support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center.
The suit accuses Abercrombie of violating Khan's civil rights by discriminating against her on the basis of religion when she worked at the San Francisco Bay area store Hollister Co., which is owned by Abercrombie.
Khan alleges that when she was hired in October 2009, she was told she could wear her head scarf, or hijab, as long as it matched the company's official colors.
But four months later, a pair of managers asked her to remove the hijab while working, and when Khan refused she was suspended and then terminated, according to the lawsuit.
A representative for Abercrombie did not return calls.
Khan's lawsuit echoes similar complaints brought against Abercrombie in the past by black, Latino and other minority workers and applicants who alleged the company had a "look policy" that discriminated against them.
In 2004, Abercrombie reached a $40 million settlement in a federal class action lawsuit by the minority plaintiffs, and the company agreed to take steps to improve its hiring and recruitment of minority workers.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) joined in that previous legal action against Abercrombie, and this week the agency supported Khan by filing a federal lawsuit against the retailer that also accused Abercrombie of violating her civil rights.
"Growing up in this country where the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, I have felt let down," Khan said in a statement.
Attorneys' attempts to reach an out-of-court settlement in Khan's case broke down in January, according to the Council on America-Islamic Relations. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Peter Bohan)


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Ubuntu backs off dumping Oracles Version of Java.../
In a not to surprising move Canonical has backed off it's earlier stance to drop the Oracle version of Java from it's distrobution Ubuntu. They were attempting to do the free and opensource thing and use OpenJDK instead. The problem with that is that not all of the Java Application servers support it let alone small Java apps. The differences aren't that commonly found but when they are they are extremely hard to trouble shoot. We are glad to see them choose the practical approach rather than a hard line stance that would have hurt functionality of the platform.


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We have analyzed the likely impact of Mitt Romney's economic plan on the country's national debt and deficit.
Our analysis suggests that the Romney Plan will radically increase America's debt and deficits over the next 10 years.
Importantly, this is not to say that the Romney plan will be bad for the economy.
By providing additional stimulus in the form of massive government deficit spending, the plan may well reduce the unemployment rate and accelerate GDP growth faster than current law (which calls for "Fiscal Cliff" spending cuts and "Taxmageddon" tax increases early next year). If the country is to incur this much additional debt, we would prefer that such deficit spending include a major infrastructure investment and rebuilding program. But the debt growth itself may not be bad.
Based on our analysis, though, the idea that the Romney plan will ease our debt and deficit problem is laughable. Under almost any realistic scenario, it will make the problem worse.
Let's go to the charts >
To conduct our analysis, we started with the Congressional Budget Office's official 10-year budget projections and then made assumptions about the impact of the Romney Plan.
We ran two scenarios:
- "Best Case" scenario, in which the Romney Plan sharply accelerates economic growth, and
- "More Likely" scenario, in which the Romney Plan modestly accelerates growth
We did not run a "Worst Case" scenario (too depressing).
Importantly, our goal was to determine what is actually likely to happen under the Romney Plan, as opposed to what the Romney campaign vaguely says will happen. For example, we did not accept Romney's premise that he will eliminate enough loopholes to make his tax cuts revenue neutral. Romney has not identified one single tax loophole he is willing to cut, and he has suggested he will protect some popular ones. So we think it is highly unlikely that Romney will eliminate enough tax loopholes to make his plan revenue neutral.
We also did not accept Romney's premise that he will cut federal spending to 20% of GDP by 2016 from the current 24%. Again, Romney has not identified a single government program that he wants to cut (other than general non-defense discretionary spending, which is already at an all-time low as a percent of GDP). We assumed instead that Romney will reduce government spending to about 22% of GDP, not all the way to 20%.
Importantly, we made several assumptions that are very much in Romney's favor. We did not include the negative revenue impact of all of Romney's proposed tax cuts, for example (e.g., eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax). We also assumed that Romney's plan will significantly accelerate growth. In fact, we assumed a strong economy for the next 10 years with no recessions—a streak of uninterrupted economic growth that has rarely happened in U.S. history. A recession during Romney's term, which is highly likely, would reduce government revenue and increase the debt and deficit beyond what we have shown here.
Our analysis concludes that Romney's plan will radically increase the country's debt, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP.
Let's go to the charts >
Projecting the economic impact of tax and spending policy changes is a subjective exercise. The conclusion depends on assumptions about GDP growth, consumer behavior, tax revenue, government spending, global trade (economic climate), and many other factors. As a result, all forecasts like these should be viewed as directional approximations rather than precise estimates.
That said, we have tried to be very reasonable in our assumptions. And, in many cases, we believe we have given the Romney plan a significant benefit of the doubt.
For example, Romney's defense of the plan is based on his belief that it will accelerate America's economic growth. We believe Romney's confidence about this is based on a misdiagnosis about what is wrong with the economy: Contrary to Romney's assertions, we don't not believe the economy is choking under "regulatory uncertainty" or a lack of incentives for investors and entrepreneurs. Rather, we believe the economy is suffering from a lack of demand: Consumers don't have enough money to spend. Nevertheless, to give Romney's plan the benefit of some doubt, we have assumed that Romney's plan will radically accelerate economic growth.
We have also assumed that there will be no recessions or economic slowdowns for the next 10 years. Adding to the last three years of economic growth, this would produce a streak of 13 years of straight economic growth. We think there is an extremely low likelihood that this will occur. Rather, we think there will be at least one and possibly two recessions in this period. But, again, to give Romney's plan the benefit of the doubt, we have assumed steady and strong economic growth throughout the 10 years.
Also, we have not included the negative revenue impact of all of Romney's proposed tax cuts in our revenue analysis. For example, we have not included the impact of Romney's plan to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax or further reduce today's low taxes on dividends and capital gains. Instead, we have focused on the personal income tax cuts and corporate tax cuts. We have also given Romney credit for eliminating some loopholes, which will reduce the revenue impact of these cuts.
In short, we have made many assumptions that are very favorable to the Romney plan.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Part of the problem with Romney's plan is that it provides so few specifics. For example, the Romney campaign insists that the plan will be "revenue neutral" and will accelerate economic growth, but it offers no numbers or assumptions or specifics to back this up. If the campaign actually has numbers and assumptions to back up its claims, we would be eager to analyze them. If we find the campaign's logic persuasive, we will revise our conclusions. Similarly, if readers make persuasive points about why we should change our assumptions, we will change them. So please weigh in.
(But please don't try to persuade us by yelling that we're obviously "in the tank" for Obama just because we're trying to figure out what Romney's plan will do to the debt and deficit. The debt and deficit are big problems for the country. For everyone's sake, we need to take an objective look at them, not immediately descend into partisan rooting.)
Here are the basic assumptions in our two scenarios:
- We assume Romney will cut income tax rates by 20% across the board and cut the statutory corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% (a 28.5% cut).
- We assume Romney will eliminate some loopholes to reduce the impact of the income tax cuts, resulting in an effective income tax cut of 17.5%.
- We assume no revenue loss from Romney's planned elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax and reduced taxes on capital gains and dividends (there will almost certainly be some revenue loss).
- We assume economic growth for the next 5 years (2013-2017) accelerates to 8.4% annually (nominal). This is more than 1 point above the CBO's "Alternative Scenario," which calls for 7.1% annual growth. It is also an enormous acceleration over current economic growth, which is about 4% nominal.
- We assume economic growth of 6.5% per year from 2018-2022 (nominal). This is a more normal rate of growth and inflation than we've seen in the past few years, but one that still represents a significant acceleration over the CBO's forecast (5.5%) and current economic growth (~4%).
- We assume no recessions or slowdowns for the entire 10 year period (highly unlikely).
- We assume Romney cuts income tax rates by 20% across the board and cuts the statutory corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% (a 28.5% cut). [SAME]
- We assume Romney eliminates some loopholes to reduce the impact of the income tax cuts, resulting in an effective income tax cut of 17.5%. [SAME]
- We assume no revenue loss from Romney's planned elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax and reduced taxes on capital gains and dividends (there will almost certainly be some revenue loss). [SAME]
- We assume economic growth for the next 5 years (2013-2017) accelerates to 6.6% annually (nominal). This is slightly below the CBO's "Alternative Scenario," which calls for 7.1% annual growth. It still represents an enormous acceleration over current economic growth, which is about 4% nominal. [SLOWER THAN "BEST CASE"]
- We assume economic growth of 5.5% per year from 2018-2022 (nominal). This is in line with the CBO's forecast (5.5%) and comfortably ahead of current economic growth (~4%). [SLOWER THAN "BEST CASE"]
- We assume no recessions or slowdowns for the entire 10 year period (highly unlikely). [SAME]


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How to keep your baby safe on the road this holiday season
Keeping your little one healthy at home is hard enough, so what about once you hit the road? "It's not as tough as a lot of people fear," says Laura Jana, M.D., an Omaha, Neb.-based pediatrician and author of Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality. Healthy babies as young as a few weeks should be fine, but keep these tips in mind for safe travel:
Fend off germs. Frequently wash everyone's hands, especially after touching airplane armrests or trays. If your baby is due for immunizations, get them before you go.
Buckle up. You know to never take your baby out of her car seat while driving, and it's a good idea to buy her an airplane seat and keep her strapped in as much as possible, says Jana. "Turbulence is completely unpredictable," she cautions.
Keep baby's ears clear. For those babies who experience discomfort during takeoff and landing, sucking on a pacifier, bottle or breast can help, as can gently rubbing the ears.
Remove your baby's coat for road trips. A bulky jacket creates dangerous slack in car seat straps.
On Guard At Grandma's Hazards may abound in the homes of family or friends who aren't used to having little ones around. Be aware of these common dangers:
Old cribs The crib you slept in as a baby probably does not meet today's safety standards. Make arrangements to have a newer one or a portable version available.
Medications Make sure grandpa's pills are stowed away and childproof caps are secure.
Pets Never leave your baby unattended around an animal.
Holiday trimmings Christmas trees can tip over. Bulbs can break. Babies can pull on electrical wires or put pine needles in their mouths. The risk list goes on and on, so be extra vigilant.


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