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BOSTON (AP) — A massive storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions is sweeping through the Northeast, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to more than a half a million customers.
More than 23 inches of snow had fallen in parts of central Connecticut by early Saturday, and more than 21 inches covered Randolph in southeastern Massachusetts.
The National Weather Service says up to 3 feet of snow is expected in Boston, threatening the city's 2003 record of 27.6 inches.
Throughout the Northeast, more than 600,000 homes and businesses lost electricity. Airlines canceled more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and New York City's three major airports and Boston's Logan Airport closed.
The storm is being blamed on at least four deaths in New York and Canada.
Not quite a superstorm, newest system brings echoes of Sandy along with snow and cold
NEW YORK (AP) — For many in the Northeast, the warnings were eerily familiar: Stock up on food and water. Stay off the roads. Be prepared to lose power.
The snowstorm sweeping through the region brought with it echoes of Superstorm Sandy, if not in intensity, in the dread of residents waiting to see what a new storm would bring.
The snowy, windy system that bore down on the Northeast on Friday was expected to drop 8 to 16 inches on the areas hardest hit by Sandy, a swath including New Jersey, New York City, Long Island and Connecticut.
A moderate storm surge was possible, too — but nothing like the waves that drowned much of the region in late October. Still, the prospect frightened Eddie Malone, a resident of Lindenhurst on Long Island whose house has been under renovation since Sandy's flooding wiped out his first floor.
"I'm not afraid of the snow — instead, the sea surge, it may be 7 feet," Malone said. "I think Sandy was 12 or 13 feet, but 7 feet scares me. ... We had no power for two weeks, and now I'm afraid we are going to lose it again."
APNewsBreak: Report casts doubt on US missile shield in Europe protecting America
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Defense Department studies cast doubt on whether a multibillion-dollar missile defense system planned for Europe will ever be able to protect the U.S. from Iranian missiles as intended, congressional investigators say.
Military officials say they believe the problems can be overcome and are moving forward with plans. But proposed fixes could be difficult. One possibility has already been ruled out as technically unfeasible. Another, relocating missile interceptors planned for Poland and possibly Romania to ships on the North Sea, could be diplomatically explosive.
The studies are the latest to highlight serious problems for a plan that has been criticized on several fronts. Republicans claim it was hastily drawn up in an attempt to appease Russia, which had opposed an earlier system. But Russia is also critical of the plan, which it believes is really intended to counter its missiles. A series of governmental and scientific reports has cast doubt on whether it would ever work as planned.
At a time that the military faces giant budget cuts, the studies could prompt Congress to reconsider whether it is worthwhile to spend billions for a system that may not fulfill its original goals.
The classified studies were summarized in a briefing for lawmakers by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' nonpartisan investigative and auditing arm, which is preparing a report. The GAO briefing, which was not classified, was obtained by The Associated Press.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese New Year is traditionally a time for colorful and noisy displays of fireworks and generous-portioned banquets. This year, the festivities are likely to be a little more austere.
Authorities have asked the public to set off fewer fireworks in Beijing to reduce pollution, a new anti-extravagance drive has prompted government officials and state-owned companies to cancel their banquets at high-end hotels and a campaign against food waste is leading to half-portions in restaurants. Even ads for luxury goods were pulled ahead of Saturday's opening of the seven-day holiday.
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Following a call by China's new leader Xi Jinping to oppose waste, a village just outside of Beijing has canceled its mass dumpling festival that has been taking place for the past 30 years, involves hundreds of people and draws television cameras.
"We planned to make about 50,000 dumplings and now the plan has been canceled," said a woman surnamed Wang from the Liuminying village committee's tourist office. "The flour bought for the festival will be distributed to the villagers and we haven't bought the meat yet. Villagers will make dumplings at home with their own families and they may feel like this is a new experience for them since they haven't done it that way for such a long time."
Obama takes liberal positions in domestic matters but follows Bush's path in war on terror
WASHINGTON (AP) — For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, President Barack Obama is a hawk when it comes to the war on terror.
From deadly drones to secret interrogations to withholding evidence in terror lawsuits, Obama's Democratic White House has followed the path of his predecessor, Republican President George W. Bush. The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remains open, despite Obama's pledge to close it, and his administration has pursued leaks of classified information to reporters even more aggressively than Bush's.
"They have maintained momentum in a lot of important areas that we were focused on, and they've continued to build in those areas," said Ken Wainstein, the White House homeland security adviser and a top Justice Department lawyer under Bush. "You can see an appreciation for the severity of the threat, the need to stand up to it, and the need to go on offense at times."
John Brennan's confirmation hearing this week to be CIA director showed just how much Washington — and especially Democrats — has come to accept the same counterterrorism policies that drew such furor in the first years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Brennan refused to call waterboarding a form of torture but called it "reprehensible" and, if CIA director, said he would not allow it. He also said he didn't know whether any valuable information was gleaned as a result. His more than three hours of testimony was received by a mostly friendly panel of senators, and his confirmation is expected to move forward soon.
Snowy Calif. mountain manhunt imperils police as wanted ex-police officer knows their tactics
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — The hunt for Christopher Dorner in the snow-covered San Bernardino Mountains is expected to resume at daybreak Saturday, when authorities hope clearer skies will allow airplanes to help them in their search.
Relentless snowfall on Friday grounded helicopters with heat-sensing technology and hampered their effort to find the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a deadly rampage to get back at those he blamed for ending his career.
After they found his burned-out pickup truck near at this ski resort town Thursday afternoon, SWAT teams in camouflage started scouring the mountains, aware to the reality they could be walking into a trap set by the well-trained former Navy reservist who knows their tactics and strategies as well as they do.
"He can be behind every tree," said T. Gregory Hall, a retired tactical supervisor for a special emergency response team for the Pennsylvania State Police. "He can try to draw them into an ambush area where he backtracks."
As authorities weathered heavy snow and freezing temperatures in the mountains, thousands of heavily armed police remained on the lookout throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico for a suspect bent on revenge and willing to die.
Hacker gains access to private Bush family emails and photos; criminal investigation launched
HOUSTON (AP) — Turns out even former presidents can fall prey to hackers.
A mysterious email hacker apparently accessed private photos and messages sent between members of the Bush family, including both retired commanders in chief.
The Secret Service is investigating the breach, which appeared to yield little more than a few snapshots and some family discussions. But the incident illustrated how easily hackers can pry into private lives, even those of one of the nation's most prominent and closely guarded political clans.
The Smoking Gun website displayed photos it said came from the hacker, including one that purported to show the elder Bush during his recent stay in a Houston hospital, where the 88-year-old spent almost two months undergoing treatment for complications from a bronchial infection.
The website said the hacker, who went by the online moniker "Guccifer," gained access to the material through Bush family members and friends.
The worst of the flu season could be over, after earlier-than-usual start
NEW YORK (AP) — The worst of the flu season appears to be over.
The number of states reporting intense or widespread illnesses dropped again last week, and in a few states there was very little flu going around, U.S. health officials said Friday.
The season started earlier than normal, first in the Southeast and then spreading. But now, by some measures, flu activity has been ebbing for at least four weeks in much of the country. Flu and pneumonia deaths also dropped the last two weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
"It's likely that the worst of the current flu season is over," CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said.
But flu is hard to predict, he and others stressed, and there have been spikes late in the season in the past.
Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland is Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Golden Globe-winning actor Keifer Sutherland has been awarded the pudding pot after being honored as Man of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
The roast for the actor took place despite a massive snowstorm hitting the Boston area. The Friday evening event, including presentation of the traditional pudding pot, was moved to the Charles Hotel in Cambridge.
The 46-year-old Sutherland has been in dozens of films. He's perhaps best known for his role as Jack Bauer in the television series "24," for which he won Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy awards. He is currently starring in the television show "Touch."
Last year's Man of the Year was Jason Segel.
The 2013 Woman of the Year, Marion Cotillard (koh-tee-YAR'), was honored last week.
Pro and college teams rearranging travel plans as snowstorm blows through Northeast
Several professional and college sports teams were forced to rearrange their travel plans as a massive storm swept through the Northeast.
The NBA's New York Knicks were stuck in Minnesota after playing the Timberwolves on Friday night, hoping to try to fly home sometime Saturday. The San Antonio Spurs were also staying overnight in Detroit after seeing their 11-game winning streak end against the Pistons, awaiting word on when they might be able to fly to New York for their game Sunday night at Brooklyn.
Airlines canceled more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and New York City's three major airports and Boston's Logan Airport closed.
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(Please note that this piece was updated on July 26 to incorporate important comments from Prof. Jan Hengstler)
A study described by one of the world's leading endocrinologists as "beautifully designed and executed" with "fundamentally important implications" for public health is getting no love from the media, despite answering the key question in one of the biggest scientific controversies of the past decade.
The study – which combined the expertise of Battelle researchers working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, one of the nation's top research institutions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – was the first to track the chemical BPA in human blood and urine in volunteers who ate a diet rich in bisphenol-A (BPA) – from lots of canned food – over a 24-hour period. It was e-published in the leading toxicology journal, Toxicological Sciences on June 24 ahead of print publication.
As the lead author, Justin Teeguarden, explained, the time period was important because our exposure to BPA is mostly through food, which means blood and urine concentrations rise and fall throughout the day as we eat. By continuously sampling blood and urine from the volunteers, Teeguarden and his co-authors were able to build the most comprehensive picture yet of human exposure to BPA over a day– and whether biologically active BPA manages to reach our internal tissues.
And yet the media have ignored the stunning finding – double checked before publication – that overturns pretty much everything the press has told the public about this common chemical.
"In a nutshell, says Teeguarden, "we can now say for the adult human population exposed to even very high dietary levels, blood concentrations of the bioactive form of BPA throughout the day are below our ability to detect them, and orders of magnitude lower than those causing effects in rodents exposed to BPA."
The study was entirely funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), while the analytical work was duplicated by two other government laboratories to ensure extra rigor. The researchers used the latest and most sensitive techniques to find BPA as determined by the CDC (LC/MS/MS using on-line 2-dimensional liquid chromatography if you are curious). Moreover, the new study corroborates earlier independent studies which showed that BPA was rapidly absorbed, detoxified, and eliminated from humans.
As Wolfgang Dekant, a Professor of Toxicology at the University of Wurzburg who co-authored the European Union's 2006 risk assessment of BPA notes, Teeguarden's study confirms the earlier work undertaken for the European Food Safety Authority and the Food and Drug Administration on the toxicokinetics of the chemical – how BPA passes through the body.
"This is an interesting and important study for the following reasons," says Professor Jan Hengstler, Head of the Department of Toxicology at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the University of Dortmund: "Some previous studies suggested very high concentrations of BPA in human blood, ranging between 1.4-19.2 nM (Vandenberg, Chahoud et al. 2010). Such very high BPA blood concentrations would require oral exposures to BPA 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than estimated in most biomonitoring studies. If true this would be critical."
But, he says, "the current study clearly shows that the results of the studies of Vandenberg, Chahoud et al., 2010, are not plausible. Teeguarden et al., determined BPA blood concentrations of 20 individuals on a controlled diet with high BPA levels (the exact exposure was determined by urinary BPA measurement). BPA blood concentrations were below the detection limit of 1.3 nM."
What this also means, says Professor Richard Sharpe, Principal Investigator at the Independent Medical Research Center's Center for Reproductive Health in Britain, and a member of the WHO (World Health Organisation)/FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) "expert committee for evaluation of the health risks and research priorities on bisphenol A," is that Teeguarden's findings show "the majority of effects observed in animal studies are probably not relevant to humans because they involved much higher BPA exposures."
Sharpe explains the logic, "what [Teeguarden et al.] have done in the Discussion [part of their paper],is to take one example from the literature of a high quality animal study (induction of pre-cancerous lesions in the prostate of rats after neonatal BPA exposure) in which BPA exposure was measured and show that even in this scenario, one would have to conclude that such effects would not occur in humans unless we are 10 to ~10,000 times more sensitive to BPA effects than are rats. There is no evidence for such a difference, and based on the likely mechanisms of action of BPA in the prostate, this seems inherently unlikely."
Mr. Butterworth,
The commercial press reports what generates revenues. Revenues are generated by sales and web-traffic. A report that does not find a problem is boring and few non-epidemiologists, non-toxicologists, non-public health wonks will read it. A story about the horrors of chromium(VI) in drinking water will generate much more traffic and revenue than a report from the California Department of Public Health which found no excess cancers or health problems in Hinkely (the town of Erin Brockovich fame).
These are market driven decisions by editors. Editors who run dull articles that no one reads drive their publishers out of business. This may not be a very satisfying situation but it is what it is.
Here is where my curiosity gets me (and I am nothing but a concerned stay at home mom), but even though this study was funded by the FDA, who BEHIND the FDA really funded this study? It's amazing what a study can "find" when being funded by the "right" person. If it is truly TRUE, than this is exciting, but if this is another cover-up by a Monsanto-like company, than shame on the FDA!!
" who BEHIND the FDA really funded this study"
Taxpayers. The FDA gets it's money from taxpayers, allocated according to budgets passed by Congress and signed by President.
These conclusions are well-documented and stunning in the way they go against the trend of the discussion RE BPA. However, in sympathy with commenter number two, in answering the question of why the media don't report findings like these, she may have a point. People are much more suspicious of government agency-funded research than they used to be, as can be seen in the ongoing anti-vaccination movement among parents despite a clear public health mandate to vaccinate. I wonder whether a similar study funded by an environmental group would be embraced?
Mr. Butterworth,
I apologize… EPA. You are right and I made a mistake. However, when one questions the validity of our government, do we automatically become a conspiracy theorist? I have long questioned many things in the government, but I consider my self a realist. I don't take things for face value. I DO question the validity of the test because it is our government. They can't even agree on what to do about our staggering debt right now. And as I said, if this is true, I'm excited. And Ms. Haiken is right, find a non-government agency, or privately funded, non-governmental group that has the health of our people at the heart of the findings, have them do the testing and give us the findings. That would be much easier to believe. You did write a wonderful article and I enjoyed it very much, so thank you for your time and energy in writing your article!
Hello shannonfabulous,
I think that the problem arises when a study is questioned *just because* it is funded by the Government. At the end of the day, a study should be assessed by the soundness of the science. If the science is sound, then the science is sound whoever funded it.
It is a common approach for some who find a study whose conclusions they do not like but cannot find anything technically wrong with it to then attack the motives or honesty of the researchers. Since motivational purity and scientific sincerity are difficult to objectively assess, it becomes an entirely subjective assessment. Moreover, it does not get to the issue at hand, the soundness of the science.
Moreover, who else is going to fund a study like this? It is not like there are huge piles of money sitting about to fund projects that are somehow "untainted" by association with somebody. Every research dollar comes from somebody with some interest in the research, or they would not be funding it.
While I would not say that the question of who funds a study is never an issue, it certainly can be, it should not be the starting point. This sort of thing is only an issue when the science is questionable and then the question is raised, "Well, why is it questionable".
This is a great piece of research that should be used to protect and reassure consumers. It's just a shame the media aren't taking advantage of this good news story. This is an issue we also face in the UK and one that we're trying to compete with at the Food Standards Agency.
Andrew Wadge, UK Food Standards Agency


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Futhermore, we have added User Access Level Promotions. User Groups are used in Joomla for access control to content. Membership management extensions assign user groups according to user memberships. Thus, the new XTDir feature manages SobiPro Entries Promotions (ordering) according to user groups. That is to say, XTDir for SobiPro is even a perfect match for advanced membership implementation based on either on ReadyBytes' PayPlans or Akeeba Subscriptions.
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Today, we've released AutoTweetNG and Joocial v7.3.0. On this version, the main feature is a compatibility review for new Facebook Platform Version 2.0.
Facebook Platform Version 2.0 has several updates.
- User IDs and Friends: Graph API v2.0 includes some changes to how user IDs and friends work in order to better protect people's info.
- Login: Facebook Login in v2.0 contains significant differences as compared with the previous version. It introduces more user permission control, and new and optimized permissions.
- Graph API: Changes on endpoints and new endpoints.
- FQL: FQL is still available in version 2.0r, but will not be available in the next version of platform.
- Sharing: Apps can tag friends as part of that story; App Links is an open, cross platform solution; and more.
Biggest impact is on "Joocial - Community Auto Posting" and the audit to authorize Registered User Channels, for more information please, check this slide.
Please, remember to upgrade your site to AutoTweetNG or Joocial v7.3.
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Recallling the 2013 edition, AutoTweetNG ascended from 93 to 79. And, now from 79 to 68!
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April 19, 2012 | Vol. 110, No. 16
Petersburg City Council on Monday unanimously approved ASCR McGraw Constructors of Sitka, the bid of $1,395,800 for phase 3 of the Water Treatment Plant upgrade project.
ASCR McGraw Constructors edged-out Dawson Construction, of Ketchikan, which entered a bid of a little more than $1.5 million.
The council also authorized a contract for $288,000 to GV Jones and Associates administration and inspection services for the project. The project requires specialists for mechanical, electrical and structural inspections, Mayor Al Dwyer.
The contract is for a 12-month project with a "not to exceed" amount.
• The council voted to allow the Petersburg Rod & Gun Club to hold meetings in council chambers.
Police Chief Jim Agner, filling in for club president Chris Cotta, told the council about upcoming improvements to the shooting range.
The club is replacing the outhouse, and will have a caretaker at the shooting range for part of the year, Agner said.
• Mayor Dwyer appointed Ron Loesch, and Patty Norheim to the Transient Room Tax Committee. These are three-year terms.
• The Fire Department has scheduled an Open House during Mayfest on Saturday, May 19 from Noon to 2 p.m.
• The council approved an emergency dredge of the Middle Harbor that will take place sometime next week.
Harbormaster Glorianne Wollen is working out the final plans with the Army Corps of Engineers for the removal of about 600 to 1,000 cubic yards of silt run-off.
"The silt is encroaching on the Middle Harbor float system," Wollen said, adding that the mud was now hard enough to walk on.
The plan is to have Gary Allen of Rock-N-Road "clam out" the mud and put it on a barge for the water to run off. The mud will then be located in an area away from the water.
"We're going to take this back to the original depth, and we are going to take the sentiment to an area that is completely away from salt water," Woolen said. "It's really super organic stuff. I wish we could sell it by the truckload."
Councilman Rick Braun made the motion to contract with Allen to complete the project. The funds for the dredge will come from PDEC.
• The council discussed the possibility of establishing guidelines for public video surveillance. Kupreanof City Mayor Dana Thynes requested the council consider guidelines for the Harbor video surveillance.
In a lengthy discussion council members agree that the security cameras in the three harbors do not pose a privacy invasion risk for Kupreanof residents.
"We use [the system] to identify who's at the crane dock, and who is in long-term parking," said Wollen. "The island of Kupreanof is in the background," she added.
The cameras are set up on a pre-programmed rotation. The cameras have motion sensor recording devices and can be panned and tilted manually.
The tilt function does not allow the cameras to view any of the beach homes with any precision, Wollen explained. At full zoom, the camera view hits about 50 feet below the porches on the beach-front homes.
"I don't see how anyone in the Harbormaster's office can snoop on anyone on Kupreanof," said councilman Rick Braun.
• The council granted a new alcohol beverage permit for Inga's Galley, on 104 North Nordic which offers seasonal, outdoor dining. The permit is for beer and wine sales.
"We have concerns around furnishing alcohol to minors, and open container violations," said Police Chief Jim Agner. "Part of their plan is to put a fence up, and that would be important to me," he added.
Inga's Galley will also have a four-camera surveillance system and signage to notify patrons to not leave the area with open containers.
Inga's Galley is working toward a May 2 opening date.
• A discussion item regarding increasing a DEC loan by $350,000 for a cover for the water system backwash tank was held over for another date. The council discussed applying for grant money to replace the 1970s-era tank instead.
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Improved Scaffolding for Ruby on Rails
In the May 2007 issue of Linux Journal, I described my initial foray into the world of Ruby programming, combining Ruby with CGI and AJAX to produce a Web-based Ethernet Analyzer. Although I had fun putting that particular solution together, my real reason for getting to know Ruby was to allow me to work with Ruby on Rails, the highly regarded Web Application Framework (WAF).
I've looked at a number of WAFs available within the Perl and Python spaces. Way back in the March 2005 issue of Linux Journal, I described Maypole, one of Perl's first WAFs. Since then, I've explored Catalyst (a Maypole fork), Jifty and Gantry. Despite my extensive use of and acknowledged fondness for Perl, Rails had caught my eye, and it was an itch I just had to scratch.
I have one piece of advice for anyone hoping to work with Rails in any meaningful way: get to know Ruby first. I initially had terrible trouble getting my head around what Rails was doing due to my inexperience with Ruby. When I changed my approach and set aside Rails in order to learn Ruby properly, my second pass at Rails made more sense. It was also more productive.
There is little doubt that Rails is a great WAF, worthy of all the praise continually heaped upon it. However, when you first start working with Rails, the default Web pages generated by the framework are anything but impressive. In fact, they are downright ugly, which can be a bit of a disappointment, especially if all you need is a quick Web application mockup. Granted, these default layouts are designed to be replaced by something nicer: professionally designed CSS Web pages. And, to be fair, the Rails folks do go to great lengths to stress this fact. However, if you are in a hurry, stopping to design some customer-friendly Web pages is a drag. What's needed is nice, modern CSS styling for the quick-and-dirty, in-a-hurry types like me. That's where ActiveScaffold comes in.
ActiveScaffold is built on top of the standard Rails environment and is a plugin that, in the words of the project's Web site, "provides you with a wealth of dynamically created goodness". What this goodness means to Rails developers is that ActiveScaffold provides a nice set of CSS pages and methods for interacting with your database tables. ActiveScaffold initially manages to do this, somewhat remarkably, with only a single, trivial code change to an existing Rails application.
In this article, I redevelop the Web-based soccer club database application that I created with Maypole back in 2005, this time using Rails with ActiveScaffold as the development platform. To add a slight twist to the proceedings, I use PostgreSQL as my database, as I've decided to give PostgreSQL a go having read Reuven Lerner's excellent series of articles comparing PostgreSQL to MySQL (see the April, May and June 2007 issues of LJ).
If you don't have PostgreSQL installed (and you are using Ubuntu or some other Debian-based distro), installation is straightforward:
sudo apt-get install postgresql
If your GNU/Linux distribution does not support apt, use your package manager to download and install PostgreSQL. With PostgreSQL running, become the postgres user on your system and create a new soccer_manager user:
sudo su - postgres createuser -U postgres soccer_manager
Be sure to answer n (for no) to each of the questions posed by the createuser program, as the soccer_manager needs to be restricted to working solely within the soccer database (which we'll create in just a moment). Selecting n deliberately restricts the privileges awarded at this stage. Next, create a database, called soccer_development:
createdb -U postgres soccer_development
With the database and user created, enter the PostgreSQL interactive terminal (psql), and give the soccer_manager a password as well as user privileges to use the soccer_development database:
psql postgres=# alter user soccer_manager with postgres-# password 'soccer_manager_password'; postgres=# grant all privileges on database postgres-# soccer_development to soccer_manager; postgres=# \q
Note the use of the quit command, \q, which exits psql. At this point, we are done working directly with PostgreSQL. We could log in to psql as the soccer_manager user and start to create tables within the database using standard SQL, but we'll get Rails to handle these details for us (more on this in a little while).
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Getting the article code to work with PostgreSQL.
A reader, Ken Shaffer, emailed with an issue he had getting the example code (above) to work with his version of PostgreSQL. I initially suggested he try it with MySQL just to get things going but, to Ken's credit, he soldiered on and sorted out his problems. Here's a copy of Ken's e-mail to me letting me know what he did. Both Ken and I hope this information will be of use to other readers experiencing similar problems.
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Hi Paul,
I did succeed in getting a compatible set of gems and activescaffold
for running the soccer club demo. Open source is so dynamic
that it's sometimes tricky getting compatible versions of things --
my hat's off to the people putting Linux distributions together.
For the Ubuntu 8.10 rails 2.1 (rake, rubygems) installed via the
Synaptic Package Manager, use the ruby_pg gem instead of the postgres
I understand the postgres gem has not been supported since 2006.
Also avoid the pg gem, which is not necessary. The activescaffold
install now needs to pick out the rails 2.1 (previous) version.
The following failed to get the rails 2.1 version (got the default 2.2
script/plugin install \
git://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold.git \
-r rails-2.1
Found a code snippit (attached below) which worked.
Another (more painful) approach which worked is to update all the
rails 2.1.0 versions to the 2.2.2 versions (and also update rubygems).
The default activescaffold install will then work.
The below code snippit succeeded in getting the activescaffold version
compatible with rails 2.1
from http://code.google.com/p/activescaffold/issues/detail?id=626
Comment 1 by mr.gaffo, Nov 18, 2008
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Either (in vendor plugin):
git clone git://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold.git
[cd to active_scaffold ]
git checkout origin/rails-2.1
rm -rf .git
Or, pull down the newest rails-2.1 tarball from github.
Again, thanks for a great article. It was the combination of postgresql
and rails that caught my interest. Feel free to pass along any info, no
attribution needed.
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Thanks for that, Ken!
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Dry Gin Martini
I like to omit the standard olive in the recipe in favour of a slice of lemon or lime, and I also prefer my martini stirred, not shaken, (as the original James Bond in the books did).
Dry Gin Martini
dash Dry Vermouth
1 3/4 ounces Gin
lemon peel
thin slice of lemon
Pour the Vermouth and the Gin into a mixing glass with ice
Stir (for about 20 seconds)
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Squeeze the lemon peel to release some oil
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This instructable will show you how to repair a broken guitar neck and, depending on how severe the damage, how to do some minor cosmetic repair. The guitar in question for this example is an Epiphone Les Paul Studio. I actually bought this guitar about a year ago for the very purpose of practicing neck repair - as it already had a broken neck. I fixed the neck about 9 months ago (and you can see the results of that fix in this series).
Fast forward to the arrival of a new puppy... long story short, another broken neck (the old fix held up though!!!) and a chance to create a new instructable.
In the case of the Epiphone, they are great, affordable guitars... And with these broken neck ones (depending on the nature of the break), these can be a great deal for someone with the time and tools to fix them. And if you happen to bust the top off your Gibson ES335, that can be fixed too!
Step 1: Anatomy of a broken neck
A friend of mine snapped the the headstock off my Epiphone Les Paul Custom in a similar way. Used this guide to fix it and it worked out nice. brought all the stuff I needed from Biltema in Norway. Thanks !
I have a gibson to, my neck broke in the same spot
Anyone have any experience on doing this with a 12 string?
The way I see it is if your guitar has suffered so serious an injury that a glass fill repair is the only thing keeping it from the garbage can, you will just have to live with the fact that the repair is visible.
If you make a good clamping fixture that perfectly aligns the two pieces on the same plane, it shouldn't matter much that some voids had to be filled with glass. You can't just leave the voids. If not filled, they could possibly resonated and weaken the bond. Voids are the second most evil thing (after dirtty or oily mating surfaces) that a joint can suffer.
If your neck looks like a drunk beaver gnawed it off, you are gonna face a little unsightlyness, but you WILL play again.
N. Cal
how do you prepare that "glass" fill ?? you mean fiberglass right ? is that difficult to work with ?
Yes, when I say 'glass' I am talking about chopped (not weave) fiberglass in polyester resin.
Is it tuff to work with? It's a lot more hassle than working with wood, so I only use it in especially drastic situations. I'll give you an example.
A good customer of mine was in a metal band that saw a lot of action. He estimates he's played 700-800 shows from 1991 to 1995. His favorite guitar was a 68 Les Paul that was already beat stoopid when he got it. This is how we met. He had snapped the headstock off several times and had it repaired different ways by different shops, none of which stood up to his abuse for very long. He came to my shop and asked if I could reset the headstock for once and for all.
This was a super tuff job because not only would I have to reattatch the headstock, but I also had to remove all traces of the previous repairs, one of which was two pieces of 1/8" x 1/2" x 3" carbon fiber epoxied onto verticle slots about 1/2" apart from one another. All traces of any glue or fillers had to go as well.
This left serious voids that had to be dealt with. For a normal guitar, I'd carefully match and cut pieces from new wood and glue them in and pay great attention to matching the finish as best as could be, but this guitar lives the life of a crash test dummy so unless I wanted to redo this job for free once a year forever, I needed to forget about trying to bring it back to original condition, and set the headstock in a way that will survive like a cockroach, even if it don't exactly look original. Glass fit that criteria perfectly because the rest of this guitar looked like crap (it had more stickers in it than any guitar I haveever seen, most of which were pictures of nekkid fat women), so the visual aspect of the repair wasn't going to be a factor. All that mattered is that it be the last time it would ever need to be fixed.
I explained to the guy that if he could forgo the finish matching, I could make a structurally sound bond that I could guarantee would not fail anything less than getting run over by a truck. That's what what he was hoping to hear, and that's what he got. Eighteen years later, it's still good.
To anyone who may want to try this kind of fix, I would highly suggest that you take extreme care to make sure the alignment of your clamping fixture is perfect and that it is perfrctly clean...because two things in this world you DO NOT want are #1- seeing your parents get it on and #2- having to remove the glass and resin to do it over again if you make a mistake.
N. Cal
It seems pretty clear that conventional wood glues require a very close fit to make them work but epoxy requires a gap between the wood surfaces to ensure a strong fit.
As an example, wooden strips laid side by side to make a hull cannot be clamped too tightly because the epoxy will squeeze out resulting in a weaker joint.
I hope this helps a bit.
My immediate problem is that I need to repair, as a favour, a lengthwise split in the headstock of my brothers semi accoustic guitar. It is the classic type with 2 slots, with three tuning pegs each side. Basically I need to fabricate one of these slots and I am scratching my head as to how to achieve a repair strong enough to take the strain.
Another watch out with the "messy" break - you may have more difficulty getting the ends to "nest" into each other. You might have to remove some of the troublesome splinters to get a good nesting.
Good luck - let us know how it goes!
#1- I could repair it to a state of full functionality but it would be obvious that it had suffered an injury.....for about $150.
#2- I could do a perfect rebuild of the tennon block, which would involve creating a custom alignment fixture laquer tint matching, etc .....for about $500 and six weeks.
He thought I was gouging him at first, but he opted for the quality fix. Turned out perfectly. He was happy as could be.
Then three weeks later he returned to my shop with a V case in his hand and a bad look on his face. I immediately thought the repair didn't hold and I was prepared to redo it at no charge.
Turned out that my neck heel rebuild held up beautifly....but now the headstock was busted all the way off, in the usual area just behind the nut.
His V was on a guitar stand near his fireplace and his wife was vacuuming the carpet and hadn't realized she got her cord behind the guitar stand and she pulled it over frontwards, right on to it's face.
This time the guy couldn't care less how much I would charge. He wanted the highest quality repair possible. He even considered sending it back to Gibson Custom Shop, but since he was happy with the heel end repair I did, he'd give me the job if I wanted it.
Of course I always did due dilligence on every customer repair I ever did, but I took this unlucky 58 Historic all personal and nursed it back to perfect health. I admit, anyone familiar with that kind of crack can see where it was, but to most people, it looked more like a child's hair suspended between coats of laquer than a Frankenstein's Necktie.
The guy was thrilled, he happily forked out almost $500 (even at that price I bet I still lost money on that job, but it was worth it. That job really boosted my reputation and because of it, I eventally did at least twenty similar very high quality headsplints on extremely valuable guitars over the next few years, in which my efforts were rewarded very nicely)
Once I dialed in my idea of using a machinist's cross slide vise under a 4-flute spiral bit in the drill press (think po' manz milling machine) to precisley control the crtitical geometry necessary to build exactly perfect alingment jigs and clamping fixtures, devistating decapitation jobs started comming out of the woodwork.
Sorry, I still get all misty thinkin of back in the day. My point is that hide glue is for people who plan to eventually remove the part in the future. Epoxies are for people who expect the part to function in extreme conditions and don't mind the ever-present black glue line they leave. If you wanna glue wood together for a guitar, use the exact glue that Gibson uses in the first place, which is Franklin Titebond 40 aliphatic resin glue (aka carpenter's glue or yellow glue) If you prepare the joint properly and you take care to avoid contamination, the bond will hold, I promise.
And by the way, the common mahogany neck cracks behind the nut are not a design flaw. Guitars aren't designed for military duty. If you like being able to adjust your truss rod, then the d-shaped cutout under the truss rod cover has to be the size it is. Be nice to your guitars kids.
When I've gone and repaired hand-me-down furniture (that's very old), it's the hide glue that failed first. If the item isn't worth anything and you just want it to hold up forever, then I fix it with wood glue.
i have had plenty of these break and as a matter of fact it is a design failure on Gibson part as they will all break in the same spot given half a chance.
I don't know that I would go as far as to call them a cheap knockoff. Epi's are fine guitars. This is just a design flaw (or "feature" depending how you look at it) that they appear to share with their more expensive Gibson brothers.


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Bryan Merritt, who coached the Chickasha boys basketball team to the state semifinals last spring, has officially resigned his position to take the head coaching job at Norman North.
The Norman North school board offered Merritt the job on June 3 and Chickasha's Board of Education accepted his resignation earlier this week to make the deal official.
The chance to coach a large program like Norman North was something he had to take, Merritt said.
"When you get an opportunity like that, you've got to jump at it," Merritt said. "It's a great opportunity for both myself and my family. I loved my time at Chickasha, and this decision has nothing to do with the town or the team that I had."
There is no indication as to who Merritt's successor will be. He said while he did talk to Athletic Director Yohance Brown about his decision to leave, he will not be involved in naming a new coach.
"I spoke with Yohance Brown and had a good conversation with him," Merritt said. "He was very nice. I think they'll get the best person possible, but I'm not certain as to who they'll bring in."
Merritt grew up in Chickasha and was part of the basketball team that reached the state tournament in the 1970s. He later was an assistant coach of the boys team that reached state for a second time before coaching them to the semifinals last March only to lose to Bishop McGuiness. Merritt had been the head coach at Chickasha for five years.
"I can't say one negative word about Chickasha," Merritt said. "It's a great place. I was born there, I went to high school there, and I even went to USAO. Everyone was great to me. We had a lot of accolades."
Merritt said he considers the state tournament run with the Fightin' Chicks last spring one of the standout moments in his career so far.
"Everyone in the town was so supportive when we reached the semifinals," Merritt said. "It was the best time of my life. I'd have paid any price for those few weeks. And of course, I wouldn't be getting this job without the great players I had."
Merrit has already begun working with Norman North players as the school with an enrollment of more than 2,000 students prepares for the fall.
"We're hitting the ground running," Merritt said.


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|Korea Festivals: September – November
As September rolls around, temperatures start to drop and a collective sigh can be heard across the nation as people everywhere finally feel relief from the summer's suffocating heat. Autumn in Korea, with its mild temperatures and gentle breezes, is a perfect time to travel. Festivals are among the most unique events in Korea, and from September to November they seem to pop-up almost everywhere. Crops ripen and are harvested during this time, giving festival-goers a chance to sample fresh, delicious treats and local delicacies.
Festivals in September
Wonju Hanji Festival
Chungju World Martial Arts Festival
Geumsan Insam Festival
Pyeongchang Hyoseok Cultural Festival
Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival
Andong Maskdance Festival
Gyeonggi International CeraMIX Biennale
Millennial Anniversary of the Tripitaka Koreana
Festivals in October
Jinju Namgang Yudeung (Lantern) Festival
Gimje Horizon Festival
Yangyang Songi Festival (Pine Mushroom Festival)
Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Festival
Jeonju International Sori Festival
Seoul Drum Festival
Jarasum International Jazz Festival
Yeongju Punggi Insam Festival
Busan International Film Festival, BIFF
Seoul International Fireworks Festival
Gwangju World Kimchi Culture Festival
Busan Jagalchi Festival
Seoul Yangnyeongsi Herb Medicine Culture Festival
Namdo Food Festival
Ganggyeong Fermented Seafood Festival
Jeonju Bibimbap Festival
Suncheon Bay Reeds Festival
Festivals in November
Seosan Chrysanthemum Festival
Choenamdan Bangeo Festival
* Schedules are subject to change without notice.


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Adoptions at the Solano County Animal Shelter will be free during the month of December, thanks to the Solano County Animal Rescue Foundation, according to the Solano County Sheriff's office.
Here are the details:
SCARF is a non-profit foundation operated by a group of volunteers with the Solano County Animal Shelter. SCARF provides education, assistance with low-cost spay/neuter clinics, and placement of homeless animals into permanent and loving homes. SCARF facilitates adoption events at a variety of locations in Solano County and also cares for "special needs" animals.
SCARF will pay for all adoptions from the Solano County Animal Shelter during the month of December 2012. To view adoptable pets online please visit: www.solanocountyanimalshelter.com. The shelter is located at 2510 Clay Bank Road, Fairfield, and the hours of operation are:
Tuesday-Fridays: 10am-6pm
Saturdays: 9am-5pm
Closed on Sundays, Mondays, & County holidays
To learn more about SCARF, please visit their website at www.scanimalfoundation.org. If you have any questions pertaining to this press release, please contact me at the below listed telephone number.


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Can you describe the process of your readjustment to life as a woman? How
long did it take? Were there any surprises involved? What, if anything, do you
miss about living as a man?
Living as a man taught me a lot about the things I most enjoyed about being a woman in the world, things I consider to be the privileges of womanhoodthe emotional freedom, the range of expression, the sexual and social power we can exercise over men. Returning to my life as a woman was about reclaiming those privileges and taking greater satisfaction in them. Here's one small example, which may sound hopelessly old-fashioned and silly, but it made me smile so warmly: The other day a clerk in a store turned to me and apologized for having to refer to pornography in front of me during a discussion he was having with a male customer. I found it very thoughtful and sweet. When a man does something like this now, I connect again with all the vulnerability that I felt as a man in front of women, and I remember all the conversations I had with the men in my men's group about their need to take care of and protect women. Not all men behave the way this clerk did, of course, but nonetheless I feel a deep sense of the respect that men like him have for women and I feel grateful for it. It's nice to feel that someone is looking out for you, or trying to, and worries about offending or debasing you even in speech, and this is something I never felt as a man.
It took me months. Probably a good six months to really get back into being a woman. And this is partly because I had some unpacking to do. It wasn't just a matter of returning to myself, because I am a different person now than I was before I embarked on this project. I feel more womanly now, more in touch with my femininity, than I ever did before I lived as Ned, and that has taken some getting used to, though it has been very pleasant.
I don't miss anything about being Ned. The few social advantages I discovered in manhoodthe swagger, the self-confidence, the entitlementI've learned to incorporate into my life as a woman. Everything else I was happy to discard.
How has your concept of being a woman changed since your experience as Ned, in both general and personal terms?
Being able to incorporate the lessons of manhood into womanhood is, I suppose, one of the best examples of how my concept of womanhood changed because of Ned. In my view, this is the greatest liberation of feminism, a liberation that men haven't yet experienced in their own roles. They haven't really been allowed to express traditionally feminine qualities, and they are limited as a result. Having lived as both a man and a woman, it seems to me now that the definition of womanhood, at least as I live it and as I believe our culture defines it, is so much larger, can happily encompass so much more, than the definition of manhood. I can borrow from the boyswardrobe, mien, temperamentand still be all woman. The reverse is not really true, or at least it wasn't for Ned. He had to shed all my female qualities and, as a result, became much smaller. I like to say that in that respect Ned can fit in Norah's pocket.
What influence do you think the media have on sexual roles? Do you see any trends that alarm or encourage you?
I think that the media reflect more than they influence. They show us images of ourselves, often idealized images to be sure, but I don't think they invent out of whole cloth. They're not that creative. Sexual roles are a very intimate business, I think. They change at the microcosmic level first. Individuals, often obscure individuals, are the creative ones, and they're the ones who end up changing the way we think and behave, and the media in turn digest those changes and spit them back at us as trends. If there's a trend that disturbs me it's probably that tendency on the media's part to homogenize originality, to dumb it down and sell it back to us as the norm.
Are there any public figures whom you admire for expanding social definitions of gender? Do you have any heroespersonal, political, or literary?
Though I disagreed with her often, I admire my friend the late Andrea Dworkin. Some heroes/heroines, in no particular order, are: Hamlet, George Orwell, Joan Didion, Graham Greene, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Elizabeth I.
In Self-Made Man, you discuss the relationship between childhood experience and understanding gender rolesfor example, fathers withholding affection in order to create tough young men. What advice would you give to a parent today to help him or her avoid imprinting gender expectations on children?
Having no children myself, I'm hardly in a position to judge, but if I had to say, I suppose I would suggest leniency when it comes to children's self-discovery. Too often parenting is a kind of narcissism. Parents see their children as little more than extensions of themselves, or potential re-enactors of their lost youths and missed chances. This is toxic to any child's self-actualization, especially when it comes to matters as intimate as sexuality and gender identity. If a child shows a proclivity for a particular style of dress or hobby or pursuit that the parent may not deem gender appropriate, or does not himself like, I think it is the parent's duty to resist showing disapproval, or, worse, distaste, and to encourage the child to be most authentically himself or herself in every way possible. God knows, the child will find enough disapproval in the outside world. Our parents are the first and foremost people whose job it is to love us entirely for who and what we are, and that means, when it comes to the expression of our individuality, letting us be.
Short of dressing up as a member of the opposite sex for a year and a half, how can a person begin to break free of gender clichés? Is there such a thing as a beneficial stereotype?
As has often been said, stereotypes are born of truth. I found this in my research. They are useful shorthands that help us to make sense of our world. The danger lies in being slavishly devoted to them, or allowing them to cloud our judgment when it comes to seeing and treating another human being as a person and not a set of categories. Similarly, gender roles are born at least in partperhaps in large partof natural inclination. Women may always be the primary nurturers on this planet, perhaps because something in our hormonal drives directs us toward intimate and interpersonal life or because we give birth. Maybe instinct conditions us far more than we know or may want to believe. The same is true, I think, for men. Perhaps their hormonal drives will always make them more physically competitive and better suited to high-pressure, teleological pursuits. This may mean that no matter how we jigger it, by virtue of who we are as creatures, women will always tend to predominate in the nursery and men the boardroom. This doesn't mean, however, that either sex should be mindlessly shackled to a prescribed or straitjacketed role, even if the vast majority of each sex tends to make a traditional choice. The key word here is choice, the cornerstone of feminism. Women should be able to choose whether to work or stay home, and so should men. Breaking free of stereotypes means being true to yourself and being flexible within your choices. You can, after all, be a stay-at-home mother and not be a shrinking violet, and you can be a type-A breadwinning dad and still join a knitting group if that's what turns your crank, or vice versa and a thousand other permutations as well.
Self-Made Man not only exposes the truth about contemporary manhood but is quite intimate in its discussion of your personal history, sexual identity, and emotions. How do you feel having so much of yourself in the book? How did you decide what to reveal and what to keep private?
I tried to write about everything that I thought was relevant, even if it didn't reflect particularly well on me. I had to overcome a lot of shame, for example, about mental illness in order to write honestly about my breakdown. A number of people who read the manuscript early on told me to take certain things out because they made me sound nuts. But it's precisely the things that embarrass or discomfort you the most that are most important for you to write about. That's the good stuff. I don't mean that endless navel gazing is desirable or makes for good writing. Tempering the urge to overwrite the especially mucky parts is important, but I didn't want to edit out the weird bits altogether simply because I didn't want people to know that I'd been in the bin, or that I'm not always the most attractive person on the planet. Of course, the downside of this is that if you're extremely sensitive, as I am, it means you need to protect yourself from people who take a malicious pleasure in sharpening their blades on your misfortunes and brandishing their cleverness at your expense.
The psychological toll of your experiences as Ned is both frightening and completely understandable. If you did the experiment again, knowing what you know today, whatif anythingwould you do differently? Do you feel that the knowledge was worth the pain?
Ignorance is courage. If I'd known then what I know now, I could never have embarked on the project. Yet, all the same, I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. The knowledge was absolutely worth the pain; especially because part of what I learned was how to better take care of myself psychologically in my everyday life. I listen to my emotions much more carefully now. I take care of myself. I take responsibility for my own psychic health, and that's a daily practice. The lesson I can apply to my next project is that I can never again try to be someone else, someone that I'm not. I can and will immerse myself in situations and environments in order to write about them, but I will never again do so as another person.
Among the people you met as Ned, what range of reactions do you expect the book will receive? Do you think they will recognize themselves?
As a writer friend of mine told me when I embarked on this project, "When you write this intimately about real people, you are an assassin." And he's right. Almost invariably people object to something you've written about them. Either they say you got them wrong, or it didn't happen that way, or that's not how they remember it. I expect some of the Rashomon effect: The story of the same event will be told ten different ways by ten different observers. All the versions will be true and none of them will. The people in the book will recognize themselves. They'll agree with the compliments and they'll object to the disparagements, and that is to be expected.
This was a difficult, even dangerous experiment that consumed a year and a half of your life. What's next?
Ned is going to be an extremely hard act to follow. I've spent a lot of time thinking about what to do next, and I haven't hit on anything definitive yet. I'm trying very hard to resist the Hollywood temptation to find a formula that works and work it to death. I'd like to follow my imagination and have an adventure and that's all I know right now.
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