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Norma Simbra, a registered dietitian, has a client who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about eight years ago.
"The doctor didn't tell him what to do, so he was confused," said Simbra, who serves as a consultant and who works two days a week at the John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center in Fairmont.
"He came to the clinic and I got to know him and his needs, and I started giving him information on what to expect, like checking his blood sugar and what the normal range is," Simbra said.
The man was adamant about not taking any medication and so he and Simbra decided to work on a plan that would allow him to manage the diabetes without insulin or pills.
"Up to now, he has lost some weight and he's not taking any medication," Simbra said. "He just controls it by diet.
"This is one example of a good outcome. I wish all the patients who have diabetes would be as serious as him."
This Thursday, in honor of the National Nutrition Month of March, sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Simbra will have a presentation in which she will cook a healthy dish. The event, which will be held from 10-11 a.m. at the John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center on Guffey Street, is open to the public.
"Anybody can come who is interested to learn about nutrition," she said. "We emphasize cutting back on fats, sugar and salt. These are some of the dietary guidelines for Americans."
Another recommendation, Simbra said, is to eat whole-grain cereal or brown rice every day as a source of carbohydrates.
"These are good carbohydrates," she said. "We are trying to emphasize the fiber in the diet, because it has been shown through the studies that there is an increased incidence in colon cancer because of a lack of fiber."
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The Budget: A Town Hall Meeting
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- March 20, 2012
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President Obama has laid down his marker for this year's budget debate (assuming there actually is one before the elections), and now comes the House GOP blueprint, which would (among other things) extend the federal pay freeze through 2015, cut the federal workforce by 10 percent and boost employees' contributions to their retirement plans.
If you're wondering where the budget debate is headed, we have an upcoming event that is designed to provide some answers. At our next Town Hall meeting on March 27, we'll look at the ins and outs of this year's budget process, and its implications for federal managers. Our guest will be Phil Joyce, a budget and performance measurement expert at the University of Maryland. He's not only a dynamic speaker, but knows as much as anybody about how the whole process is likely to play out this year and for the foreseeable future.
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Oh, my God.
You know that moment when you realize your parent is right about something even though you thought it was bullshit? I'm having that day today.
For Christmas, my mum gave me smoked paprika. When I unwrapped it and looked at her she held up her flat palm: "look, that is the best tasting thing you will ever use. Forget what you think paprika tastes like - use this. Use it on eggs, on potatoes, whatever. Just use it and you will see what I mean".
I believed her in that double way you believe parents when they recommend something: sounds great but yeah right. Today, I tried it because I had a craving for Toad in a Hole. If you haven't had it, it's a great comfort food: Take two pieces of (preferably high quality) sourdough or your favorite kind of bread, slice a generous piece and cut a hole in the middle. Place on an oiled skillet until you hear a sizzle. Then crack an egg into the hole and let cook to taste. Flip once. At this point is when I filled the yolk of the egg with the smoked paprika and a few leaves of cilantro (because I fucking love cilantro). Once done I transferred to a plate and added fresh cracked black pepper and salt. I cut in and chowed down and - - this is a different meal than I am used to. It's taste is like a campfire that you used to sit in front of as a kid. It's so delicious I had to stop a few times to try to figure out if I was just buzzed or really enjoying this as much as I thought I was. The taste of smoked paprika is ridiculously good. It made an otherwise plain meal. And? The addition of the cilantro added a cool relief to the smoky heat. Om nom nom nom nom.
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Never again will I question you.
PS, notice anything different? This is not the usual pan. It's my first piece of cast-iron cookware. I almost burned the house down trying to season it with olive oil and 5 HOURS in the oven before it turned black like it's supposed to before you start using it. It literally weights about 20lbs. Perhaps I'll kill two birds with one stone: cooking AND toned arms? I'll let you know.


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Dr. Lammers joined the Water Systems Analysis Group at its inception and currently serves as a Co-Director.
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The focus of Richard's research is on Pan-Arctic and global-scale hydrometeorological modeling and analysis. Research interests include:
- Understanding the high latitude hydrological cycle
- Convergence of human and biogeophysical datasets, modeling, and analysis
- Global-scale hydrometeorology
- Uncertainty of estimates based on future scenarios
- Physically-based hydrological models
- Spatial datasets and geoprocessing
- Land surface partitioning
- River networks
- Techniques of Internet-based data serving and analysis
Curriculum Vitae
A pdf version of Richard's curriculum vitae is available here.
Recent Publications
Lammers, R.B. J.P. Pundsack, A.I. Shiklomanov (2007) Variability of River Temperature and Energy Flux From the Russian pan-Arctic Land Mass, JGR-Biogeosciences, in press.
Shiklomanov, A.I., R.B. Lammers, L. Smith, T. Pavelsky, M. Rawlins (2007) Temporal and Spatial Variations in Maximum Discharge from a New River Flow Dataset for the Eurasian pan-Arctic, JGR-Biogeosciences, in press.
Smith, L.C., T.M. Pavelsky, G.M. MacDonald, A.I. Shiklomanov, R.B. Lammers (2007) Rising minimum daily flows in northern Eurasian rivers suggest a growing influence of groundwater in the high-latitude water cycle, JGR-Biogeosciences, in press.
Shiklomanov A.I., T.I. Yakovleva, R.B. Lammers, I.Ph. Karasev, C.J. Vörösmarty, E. Linder, (2006) Cold Region River Discharge Uncertainty - Estimates from Large Russian Rivers. Journal of Hydrology, pp. 231-256.
Rawlins, M.A., R.B. Lammers, S. Frolking, C.J. Vorosmarty (2006) Simulated Runoff and Evapotranspiration across Alaska: Model Sensitivity to Climate and Land Cover Drivers, Earth Interactions, 10, doi: 10.1175/EI182.1.
Serreze, M.C., A.P. Barrett, A.G. Slater, R.A. Woodgate, K. Aagaard, R.B. Lammers, M. Steele, R. Moritz, M. Meredith, and C.M. Lee (2006) The large-scale freshwater cycle of the Arctic, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C11010, doi:10.1029/2005JC003424.


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Friday, August 3, 2007
Chic at the Beach
5 comments:
- mindblob said...
Just discovered your blog and it is simply... "chic". Congrats and thank you. Will definitely read more often.
Chic Regards.
- August 4, 2007 at 7:02 PM
- Sarah Jennings said...
Wow - great blog - I am adding it to my list of favorites! I love the fabric on the chair in this post.
- August 4, 2007 at 8:36 PM
- Cote de Texas said...
Hi, great blog. Loving it. I'm adding you to my google feed. Thanks to All the Best for showcasing you. btw Is this Lindsey????? just checking.
Stop by my blog Cote de Texas.
- August 5, 2007 at 3:23 AM
- Suzy said...
I just found your blog via All the Best, and its great. I'm so jealous of you living in NY and working amongst so many creative people. I'm linking you to my blog to make sure I check it regularly.
- August 5, 2007 at 9:25 PM
- Habitually Chic said...
Many thanks to All the Best for her recent profile! I'm so glad that all of you enjoy my blog! I hope I can keep up the good work and continue to bring you fun and exciting commentary from the design world and New York.
To Sarah Jennings, the fabric on the chair is Chevron from Decorators Walk.
And to Cote de Texas, sorry to disappoint you but I'm not Lindsey. I guess you'll just have to keep guessing ;-)
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When Pfizer and J&J announced that their Alzheimer's drug, bapineuzumab (bapi), had failed to impact this disease in a major clinical trial, there was disappointment. Surprisingly, there was also a fair degree of criticism that these companies had taken the risk of running late stage studies with bapi. The reason for this criticism was that the mid-stage clinical trials with bapi gave equivocal results and plunging into phase 3 was highly risky. Given the phase 3 outcome, the naysayers felt that their concerns were validated.
Yet, a month after the bapi trials were reported, people are asking whether there is "an Alzheimer's Act II in the cards for bapi". This speculation is based on studies reported last week at the European Federation of Neurosciences Society in Sweden. Further analysis of the bapi clinical trial results showed that, while this drug didn't improve memory, it significantly reduced levels of the protein beta amyloid in the brain. The build-up of amyloid is believed to be the cause of this disease. Furthermore, studies showed that bapi reduced levels of another marker of Alzheimer's known as phospho-tau in the cerebral spinal fluid – another sign that the drug is working as tau is a sign of brain cell death.
So, if bapi is working on reducing the biological markers of AD, why aren't we seeing improvements in cognition? The belief is that in these trials bapi was administered to patients whose disease had progressed too far. Given that bapi seems to be effective in lowering AD biomarkers such as beta amyloid and phospho-tau, perhaps bapi needs to be administered to patients at an earlier stage. Thus, some experts in this controversial field are advocating that such a study be done with bapi.
Unfortunately, things are never so simple in R&D. If you are going to run a trial in people who are predisposed to AD and follow them for a number of years to see if they progress, you need to have a VERY safe drug, one that doesn't pose other risks to patients. Unfortunately, bapi doesn't fit that description. While this drug clearly lowered the biomarkers of AD, the clinical trials also showed that bapi caused fluid build-up and bleeding in the brain, as well as seizures.
If you were the CEO of a company and your R&D head proposed doing another bapi study, this time in patients with just hints of AD, would you sign-off on another investment of hundreds of millions of dollars based on these data? The thought of exposing patients to a drug with these side effects for many years has to be worrisome. But there is even a bigger issue. If bapi is doing what it is supposed to in terms of reducing the levels of beta amyloid and phospho-tau, and yet not improving cognition nor reversing brain shrinkage, perhaps the whole amyloid hypothesis is flawed.
Personally, I would pass on further studies with bapi. There are still other compounds in development, such as Roche/Genentech's crenezumab another anti-beta amyloid antibody which is being tested in early stage AD patients. Perhaps these compounds will finally prove or disprove the beta amyloid hypothesis. But despite the intriguing biomarker data with bapi, further studies aren't justified.
Hi John, while I agree that bapi should NOT be pursued further, I think we need to be careful not to over-react and discard the amyloid hypothesis altogether.
Indeed, there is still compelling scientific evidence (i.e., hard data) that aggregation of amyloid *does* cause Alzheimer's disease, despite these latest disappointing clinical results. However, contrary to the common interpretation of the amyloid hypothesis, which suggests that insoluble amyloid plaques cause the disease, most of the evidence now indicates that a toxic soluble oligomeric form of amyloid (an intermediate in the aggregation process) is actually the primary pathogenic species, and forms non-specific porin-like ion channels (holes) in neuronal cell membranes. As more of these holes are formed over time, the cell has to work harder and harder to maintain equilibrium, but ultimately fails as too much calcium leaks through the cell membrane, causing aberrant signalling, hyperphosphorylation, oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis. It's a bit like trying to keep a bath tub full as more holes are punctured in the bottom: at some point the water flowing in through the tap can't keep up with the water leaking out through the holes in the bottom.
What is most interesting is that a very similar mechanism seems to occur in several other degenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, ALS (motor neuron disease), Huntington's disease, CJD, and many others. In each case, a specific protein or peptide has been shown to aggregate into toxic soluble oligomers, which form non-specific porin-like ion channels in the affected parts of the brain or body: alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease, amylin peptide in type 2 diabetes, superoxide dismutase in ALS, huntingtin protein in Huntington's disease, prion protein in CJD, and so on. In fact, the similarity between all these diseases is quite remarkable.
So, while these latest antibody-based drugs have not been effective in treating AD, I would say that the amyloid hypothesis is far from dead: it may just be that these antibodies target the wrong form of amyloid (insoluble plaques vs soluble oligomers), or due to their size they are unable to reach the amyloid and/or stop or reverse the formation of these toxic pores within the cell membranes…
Either way, we need hard data to invalidate a hypothesis just as much as we need hard data to validate a hypothesis: that is the most basic principle of science.
Thanks, and I agree the science is very complex at the clinical level, which is especially frustrating when it seems so simple at the molecular level. My bet would be on small molecule inhibitors of amyloid aggregation that could cross the blood brain barrier and traverse cell membranes more easily than large antibodies, however there have been failures there too…
What happened to the peptide-based amyloid aggregation inhibitors of Praecis (Puretech portfolio company)? Why was the program stopped? Perhaps there were some solubility and/or stability issues (?), but I had big hopes for that one.
Sorry, my mistake, I now recall that the founder of Praecis, Mark Findeis, moved to Satori, so that's what threw me. It's a shame that Praecis' AD program was stopped for non-scientific reasons. The same happened with my own very similar program (small synthetic peptide-based amyloid b-sheet breakers) at Senexis, several years ago.


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"The Tenth Planet" is one of those very important Doctor Who stories which is missing a large chunk from it, specifically, it is missing it's ending. All that remains are the sound track, a couple of stills, and a brief clip of the transition from the First Doctor to the Second.
The episode was the first to introduce fans to the Cybermen. . .and they really looked a lot different back then:
While the first three episodes of "The Tenth Planet" are still with us, the fourth has not been seen since the 1970′s. Thus, in order to bring the story to DVD later this year, the fourth episode will be animated along with the original soundtrack.
At the Gallifrey One convention this weekend, Dan Hall, who has commissioned the classic episodes for DVD, stated "It's a real thrill to be bringing such an iconic Doctor Who episode back to life. Without the events established in The Tenth Planet episode 4, there would be no Doctor Who as we know it!"
The episode will be reconstructed using Thetamation, an animation technique which involves collaborators from around the world working online and mixing traditional line drawing with cutting edge compositing, editing, special effects and storytelling techniques.
Thetamation was recently used to re-create the missing fourth and fifth episodes of The Reign of Terror, another First Doctor serial, which was released on DVD in January.
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The first crew completed a four mile course that ended at New Heights Elementary school. Youths from the school cheered and rallied for the group as they passed. From there, the second leg, including members of the Gulfport Police Department and volunteers, picked up and continued on to US-19 where they ended at Nina Harris reception.
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The only surviving remnant of medieval times in Catania. The reason for this is twofold: earthquakes and lava. The great quake of 1693 basically razed the city and this was one of the few structures to survive.
In the same general time period a huge lava flow destroyed half of the city, and in fact destroyed everything around the castle. It miracalously survived: the lava parted when it encountered the castle's huge moat and swept around either side. To appreciate how amazing this actually is, pause to consider that the castle was once on the COAST. Obviously no longer the case, as the lava extended the coast outward by some margin. [For extra credit there's a huge painting of this event in the cathedral.]
Not to be missed is the eagle perched atop the doorway, put there by (I think) one Roger who wanted to remind the populace that he was always watching them.
The castle itself houses the Museo Civico, which generally holds small art exhibits and houses a few bits of medieval brick-a-brac.
The castle was built between 1239 to 1250 and belonged to Emperor Frederick II, the King of Sicily. At that time the castle was considered impregneable and therefore had important milityry role. After the move of the capital away from Catania and appearance of powder weapons, the castle lost its military role and was used as a prison.
The castle has a retangular plan with a circular tower at each corner and an open air inner courtyard. It was built on a cliff looking out to sea but as the result of volcanic eruption it is now a kilometre inland. The former moat was fiilled with lava, as it could be seen on one of the pictures.
Ursino Castle, located in Piazza Federico di Svevia, at the end of Via Auteri between Via Plebiscito and Via Garibaldi, used to be a coastal fortress before volcanic eruptions extended the coastline. This castle was built by Richard de Lentina on the orders of Emperor Frederick II von Hohenstaufen in the first half of the thirteenth century and subsequently modernized in the manner of those at Messina, Taranto and Bari. It is now a museum open to the public.
Castello Ursino, or Ursino Castle in English, originally stood high above the sea. But as a result of the lava flow caused by the eruption of Mount Etna in 1669, it is now some hundreds of yards from the coast. Ursino Castle is huge. It was built between 1239 and 1250 for strategic reasons. The interior is in a good state of repair and contains a number of works of considerable ancient and medieval artistic interest.
Because of the change in land on which the Castle now rests, it is actually set within what has now become a residential area. Some of the lava from that eruption in 1669 can still be seen.
Although admission to the castle is free, it is only open usually from about 8:30am-1pm (like a lot of other places in Sicily!) However, the castle is illuminated during the evenings, so no matter what time of day it is, you will still be guaranteed a good look at it.
Castello Ursino - was built in 1239 - 1250 from the will of Federico II. The building was destroyed by eruption in 1669 and by earthquake in 1693 and 1818. This port was reconstructed and then become the prison. Today we can find inside the beautiful exposition which covers regional decorations and famos statues (several made also from lava-stone).
13th century castle built by Richard de Lentina, was on the coast before lava extended the coastline. Is now a museum.
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Cosmetic Surgery Regulations to be Reviewed in Britain
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The review is backed by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and will be headed by NHS Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh.
The review comes following yet another breast implants scare in 2011 when the French government recommended that women who had undergone PIP breast implants should remove them as a precaution after it was found that substandard materials were used.
According to figures, more than 47,000 women in Britain have undergone PIP breast implant surgeries with around 7,000 of them currently having checks for fault breast implants. "I am concerned that too many people do not realize how serious cosmetic surgery is and do not consider the lifelong implications it can have. That's why I have put together this review committee to advise me in making recommendations to government on how we can better protect people who choose to have surgery or cosmetic interventions.", Sir Keogh said.
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The purr of finely tuned automobile engines could be heard from Hauppauge to Southampton on Sunday, when the 57th annual Snowflake Rally raced through much of Suffolk County.
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The race isn't so much about speed, as it is about hitting various checkpoints within a set time limit.
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Tea Rose Home shows how to make this easy tulle tutu. She used rolls of tulle from the wedding section of the craft store, and says it took about 30 minutes to make. Think about all the Halloween costumes you could make using this tutu – a fairy, a ballerina, a butterfly, even a witch (with black tulle)! Go to the tutorial.
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I can't spell worth a dime but I always thought I had a pretty strong command of the English language. It turns out that I have been wrong all along.
Language in general must be a problem with me, even foreign languages. Even when several of my high school teachers tried to hard to teach me Spanish it just did not work. I could show you my report card but it's classified. My brain just would not accept any new grammatical rules. You see the problem with Spanish was that I could not learn two separate versions of the same language; one for men and one for women. Lo vs. la, hablo vs. habla, I could not deal with it. Call me an idiot; I won't argue the point. Or in this case call me el idioto or whatever the correct Spanish term may be.
So who would have thought that all these years later I have indeed learned two versions of the English language; one for Americans and several of our close parters in crime so to speak ( and I speak that quite literally), and one for the people who are not as good as Americans (like Democrats). For instance I never realized that in a time of conflict America, and when I say America I mean Israel and the UK as well, "detains prisonersâ€; where on the other hand those less than American other bad nations "kidnap hostages!â€
You see my English language skills have been influenced by my mother, who taught English and science in the New York City school system for about 40 years. But it took the corporate media really learn me good! Here are a few definitions that I was not aware of until the corporate media learned me really goodly about these here words and stuff:
Liberal: It does not really mean anything, it's just a bad name for people who don't like to launch wars on nations that are not threatening us and don't like to arbitrarily kill things.
Communist: Some sort of fag. I learned that one from Ann Coulter.
Lie : This describes any information that results in a negative image for a sitting Republican politician or any information that has been omitted by the 9/11 Commission.
Misspoken, factually incorrect, did not provide an accurate picture, distorted, overstretched the truth, overstated, understated, meant to say, misleading verbiage etc: These are terms to describe when a Republican tells a lie to the country or when the American government tells a lie about a less than American nation.
Enemy: Any nation who has a leader that decides that the citizens of his or her country should benefit from the nations natural resources and assets, like Venezuela.
Flip Flop: When Democrats change their position.
Altar course, adjust strategy, reassess the situation, adapt to win, reversed position, had a change of heart, tried a new approach: These terms are used to describe Republicans changing their minds or flip-flopping.
Anyway, I can go on all day. I have to go on with my day but I am a little on edge right now. You know when you are trying to remember something and you can not…and it just annoys the heck out of you? Well that is happening to me right now. You see I am trying to think of another word for hypocrisy, but I simply can not. Think about it!


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. finished higher Monday, as investors showed their support for the iconic consumer electronics company after it began trading following a 7-for-1 stock split.
Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL +0.55% rose 1.6% to close at $93.70 after earlier reaching a split-adjusted 52-week-high of $93.88 after what was Apple's first stock split since February 2005. Analysts say now that the split is over, the company likely will get down to the business of following up on Chief Executive Tim Cook's word that Apple will enter some new product categories this year.
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Last weekend was packed with institutional Atlanta events such as DragonCon and the Decatur Book Festival, but this weekend marks the third anniversary of a younger civic tradition: Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, a three-month-long exhibition that brings visual and performance art to the BeltLine's twenty-two miles of trails, parks, and rail lines. Festivities kick off tomorrow evening with the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons' lantern parade, in which attendees will convey paper lanterns from Inman Park to Piedmont Park on the soon-to-open Eastside Trail and finish with a party at Park Tavern.
The homemade beacons of light will feel extra symbolic this year. After the recent rejection of T-SPLOST, which would have channeled some $600 million to the BeltLine, and the ongoing Atlanta Symphony Orchestra lockout, both transit advocates and art lovers could use a little spiritual healing.
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It's undeniably hot out on the golf course at Congressional Country Club. I'm going to take the editorial liberty to say that.
But that hasn't stopped residents from Maryland, Virginia and DC from coming out in droves to see Tiger Woods. Those who came to the U.S. Open in 2011 were denied the opportunity when Woods pulled out of the tournament, but the loyals on Friday got a chance to see him shoot three under for the day and two under for the tournament so far.
Woods isn't the only draw for golf lovers.
"It sure beats working," said Jason Sutphin, a Fairfax, Va., resident lounging in the shade at the tournament.
Sutphin came out with two other men. They'd given each other tickets for Father's Day.
"We bought them for each other - with our wives' approval, of course," Jose Santiago, of Ashburn, Va., said.
The tournament was attractive because the three men got a chance to get out and walk a course that is normally closed to the public.
"And the tickets were affordable," Sutphin said.
Gallery passes are $25 per day and allows patrons access to the Congressional Country Club grounds to watch the tournament and follow the players. Grounds tickets per day for the U.S. Open a year ago were double the cost.
Other attendees made the tournament a family affair. Doug Root, of Arlington, Va., brought out his father-in-law Jim Gyuricza, of Oakton, Va.
"We followed Tiger for a few holes," Root said. "It's just great to be out here."
The heat didn't deter either man.
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Gyuricza didn't mind the heat at all.
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Insurers in call for tighter building rules at flooding hotspots (From York Press)
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9:15am Wednesday 19th February 2014 in News By Press reporter
Planners and developers have shrugged off new warnings by insurers against building homes in flooding hotspots such as York.
The head of Aviva, the UK's biggest insurer and one of York's largest employers, has called for houses to be given a flood rating so buyers are aware of the risks.
Mark Wilson, the company's chief executive, is also demanding a house-building freeze on what he calls "defenceless" flood plains.
The insurance boss spoke out in the wake of the devastating floods swamping much of southern England.
But his concerns will also be seen to reflect on schemes such as York's Germany Beck development.
Mr Wilson wants business to work with the Government to reform the house buying system so flooding becomes a "critical factor" in the decision to purchase.
He said: "Better quality, more accessible data should be made available to house purchasers."
The UK insurance industry has paid out more than £5bn to homes and businesses hit by flooding since 2000, compared to just £1.5bn in real terms for the previous decade.
However, Steve Turner, floods expert for the industry trade body, the Home Builders' Federation, said: "Very few homes are now built on flood plains or areas of flood risk.
"In recent years, the number has dropped such that we are now building fewer than at any point since records began – less than five per cent in terms of land-use stats. Indeed we are only building in total in this country each year just over 100,000 homes, very few of which are on flood plains.
"There are 23 million existing homes in this country of which over five million are on flood plains." In the few instances that homes are built on flood plains, extensive mitigation measures are put in place, he added.
"For the last decade to obtain a planning permission housebuilders have been required to produce a Flood Risk Assessment," he said.
"This will have included mitigation measures against the risk of flooding, both of the development and any impact on the surrounding area.
"Ultimately it is local authorities that decide where development takes place, and, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, decide on the suitability of a site in flood risk terms, and what mitigation measures are required."
Darren Richardson, of City of York Council environmental services, said: "We work closely with all applicants through the planning process to ensure that all new homes and buildings that may be proposed to be built in areas where there is a flood risk are suitably protected.
"Equally, we seek that each development does not increase the flood risk through appropriate sustainable drainage solutions.
"The Germany Beck development follows this process and the developer has provided appropriate flood mitigation measures as well as wider improvements on the A19 that will improve York's flood resilience."
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9:57am Wed 19 Feb 14
MrChuckles says...
Not "if" ... but when Germany Beck floods in the future, wont get any sympathy from me. Also, if they take the option to put in flood defenses at Germany Beck, the areas that then flood as a result, as the water is consequently forced elsewhere will have every reason to be majorly pis*ed off!
10:10am Wed 19 Feb 14
Woody G Mellor says...
MrChuckles wrote:MrChuckles has just said what everyone else is thinking, except for the council and developers, as they don't think.
"Cough.... Germany ..cough.. cough .... Beck... cough"
Not "if" ... but when Germany Beck floods in the future, wont get any sympathy from me. Also, if they take the option to put in flood defenses at Germany Beck, the areas that then flood as a result, as the water is consequently forced elsewhere will have every reason to be majorly pis*ed off!
10:18am Wed 19 Feb 14
roskoboskovic says...
10:44am Wed 19 Feb 14
BL2 says...
11:08am Wed 19 Feb 14
Archiebold the 1st says...
now back to my song... ;
Don't build your house on the sandy-land,
Don't build it too near the shore,
Well, it may look kind of nice
But you'll have to build it twice,
Oh, you'll have to build your house once more.
You better build your house upon the rock,
Make a good foundation on a solid spot.
And though the storms may come and go,
The peace of God you will know.
12:21pm Wed 19 Feb 14
Sillybillies says...
3:57pm Wed 19 Feb 14
MarkyMarkMark says...
Maybe some proviso for people who've bought homes which weren't covered by any kind of flood assessment previously, and haven't already flooded in the last 50 years. Say 100% increase in basic premium? Or a stonking great excess?
The real trouble is it take a developer who goes bust because people won't buy homes on a floodplain because they can't get insurance for any kind of market forces to work. And people are hopelessly optimistic/stupid/de
sperate for somewhere to live at a sensible price to not buy in the first place, and developers too greedy, and I suspect to many planning processes subject to vested interests, so what it will take is central legislation. From a government without any mates in the construction industry, probably.
10:55pm Wed 19 Feb 14
gwen4me says...
1:32pm Thu 20 Feb 14
mrcharly says...
The plans have always included a pumping station and a large area of bunded farmland between the development and the A64.
Seems utter lunacy to me, when there is vacant brownfield land that doesn't flood, to build on land that requires additional flood defenses to protect it.
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I have been a registered Republican since high school, and even though I've often thought of changing my voter affiliation, I have never taken the action – until now.
The Republican Party should be ashamed of what it has become and how narrow-minded it is that it would shut down the federal government and make people go without pay just to make a point.
In N.C., it is no better. The hypocrisy of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory taking away benefits for teachers while enriching his own Cabinet is appalling.
Sign me: "Happily Independent."
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Ever wonder what it's like to be pregnant while in prison? What it's like to give birth and breastfeed?
We asked Marianne Bullock of the Prison Birth Project to answer a few questions about what the experience is like in her area of the country. The Prison Birth Project provides prenatal, labor and postpartum support to women who are incarcerated in Western Massachusetts. Policies regarding pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding can vary by state and facility.
How common is it that a woman gives birth while serving a prison sentence?
The percentage of women in prison who are pregnant is about the same as in our general population, so anywhere from 6-10%. The average sentence of a woman in Massachusetts is 18 months, so most of those women will give birth while incarcerated. In our facility the family counselor does work really hard to help get women out before they deliver, so often times we are lucky to be able to serve clients who are back home with their families and support them in having the birth they envisioned for themselves and their baby.
In your area, where do these mothers give birth? What is particularly challenging for them?
The mothers we work with give birth in the hospital. There are many obstacles and tough situations. One of the most prevalent things is that women are transported with handcuffs to the hospital in labor and in the postpartum period are often transported in 5 point restraints, sometimes only 24 hours after delivery.
I think the most challenging thing that I am witness to as a doula is mothers having to hand off care of their children so they can return to the facility. It's never an easy transition, but it is a situation that we work really hard with our clients to prepare for in order to make it the least traumatic as possible. Most of the time that looks like taking a lot of time to listen and plan out what will feel the safest for the mom during that transition and in the days following.
Are mothers who want to breastfeed or provide breastmilk for their babies able to do so in your area?
Breastfeeding is actually one of our biggest areas of success. A few years ago we had our first mama who wanted to breastfeed. We put a call out and the breastfeeding coalition donated a hospital grade pump to the organization. We got it cleared with the jail and trained the staff in how to operate it. Since then we have had a number of women choose to breastfeed and a few chose long term breastmilk for their children (one even for 9 months!). It has been amazing. Even though women only have one hour a week to visit when they can breastfeed skin to skin, it has meant so much for bonding and some women's ability to overcome a feeling of loss of parental control.
What does the Prison Birth Project do?
We hope that you've all had a wonderful World Breastfeeding Week!
At Motherlove, we treat every week as an opportunity to honor and celebrate breastfeeding. Here are some of our favorite reasons why:
Breastfeeding is the natural way for your body to continue nourishing your baby, just as you did during your pregnancy.
Breastfeeding promotes bonding between you and your baby, releasing the "love hormone," oxytocin.
Babies are born to breastfeed, and will even crawl up their moms' chests right after birth!
Human milk is made for the specific needs of human babies.
Breastfed babies are healthier, says the Surgeon General and the American Academy of Pediatrics, among others.
Breastfeeding protects your health, too, from lowering breast cancer risk to promoting your metabolic health.
It's what breasts are for! Your breasts are the only organs which don't fully develop until pregnancy and production of milk for a baby.
Breastfeeding promotes morality and compassion in children.
World wide, increased breastfeeding rates could save more than a million lives annually. In the U.S., it could save nearly 1,000 lives and $13 billion per year in health care and other costs.
Breastfeeding is naturally eco-friendly. It's a renewable resource!
Of course, there are many more reasons to love breastfeeding. What's your favorite?
Were you given a formula "gift" bag as you left the hospital with your new baby? Maybe by your pediatrician or even at an ultrasound clinic?
If so, you'll want to listen to this podcast interview with Marsha Walker, IBCLC. An expert on formula company marketing, Marsha explains why these bags harm breastfeeding, why they're so important to formula companies, what hospitals are starting to do about them, and how you can get involved.
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I wanted a way to combine some of the goodies I bought the other day but something that'd be simple and wouldn't require a lot of hands-on cooking. I was busy frying chicken and making biscuits so putting this in the oven and forgetting about it was just perfect. Although I can repeat this with the vegetables from the supermarket, the incredible flavor of these very fresh carrots made all the difference.
I used sage and rosemary because it's what I had in the fridge. Dried herbs would be just fine for this recipe.
- Red Potatoes, 8 to 10 small to medium size
- Carrots, a bunch
- Sweet Onions, 2 or 3
- Sage, 2 to 3 tablespoons, snipped
- Rosemary, 1 to 2 tablespoons, snipped
- Chicken Broth, 1 cup
- Olive Oil
- Coarse Ground Salt and Pepper
Scrub the potatoes and cut them into quarters.Give your carrots a haircut, as the lovely lady at the produce place says when she offers to cut the greens off for you.Rinse and peel them.Slice them into thick rounds.Slice the onion into rings, including a good bit of the green part.Snip the herbs.Toss the vegetables and herbs together in big roaster pan. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with a little olive oil. Stir it all together until the vegetable are well coated with the oil.Add the broth. I used it to keep them from getting too browned and sticking to the pan. It also added a little extra flavor.Bake at 375 for 45 minutes to an hour, or until they're tender.Stir them up in the roaster pan to mix all the herbs, oil and remaining broth. Dump them into a serving bowl and enjoy!


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Teen killed in crash near Hinsdale identified
By Friday Aug. 10th, 2012 - 12:11pm
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Valley County officials have released the name of a
15-year-old Hinsdale-area boy who died in a one-vehicle rollover about a mile
north of Hinsdale.
Sheriff and Coroner Glen Meier tells The Billings Gazette
that Justin Dale Leatherberry was driving when he failed to negotiate a
curve on Highway 537 Wednesday night. Two 15-year-old girls and an 18-year
old man were taken to the hospital in Glasgow for treatment of injuries.
The Montana Highway Patrol says none of the occupants was wearing a seat belt.


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Mountain lion sighting in Ventura
At least one mountain lion sighting was reported in Ventura Thursday, police said.
A woman reported seeing a mountain lion about 10 a.m. near the intersection of Kalorama Drive and Summit Drive while she was out walking, said Ventura Police Spokesman Sgt. Jack Richards.
The woman told police she spotted the lion on a nearby hillside, and it ran off into the brush after making eye contact with her.
Just under an hour later, a woman jogging at Arroyo Verde Park, 5005 Foothill Drive, reported seeing a bobcat or a mountain lion lying on the trail in front of her, Richards said.
Ventura police responded to the areas where the sightings were spotted, but didn't find big cats in either of the locations.
Police are asking anyone who spots a mountain lion to call 911.
If confronted by a mountain lion, people should face the animal, wave their arms and make noise, Richards said.
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February 11th, 1977
The sky grew dark quickly during this time of year, casting a shadow over everything that walked or roamed the earth. On this particular evening, it darkened the garden over the Manor, dimming the startled brightness of the flowers that winter chose to spare. In its wake, the clouds gathered instead – black, and intimidating – threatening to burst, releasing their contents over anything that moved.
At one of the windows, a curtain moved. Behind it, the Master of the Manor shifted on his feet, eyeing the dying sun with a frown as it fled, leaving the darkness behind. On the ground were stone benches glazed with ice, around them the vines escaped from their stronghold of a nearby fence, and encircled the rest of the furniture. The gardener had given up trying to trim them; every time he did they would grow thicker than before.
His grey eyes shifted their gaze from the wild garden to the sky where the clouds had broken, and unleashed their assault on the ground below. He watched the rain drops strike the glass panes of the windows one by one until they all became merged, and water streamed down the pane as a whole. He took a sip from his tumbler, absently swirling its contents as he looked out at his now waterlogged property.
This house, these grounds, it was hard to believe that they've been in his family for centuries, passed from one Malfoy heir to the other. Now they were in his hands, his responsibility, and part of him thought it was a bit too much for a young man of twenty – three.
He turned away from the window, allowing the curtain to block out the rain even though he could still hear it hit the roof. On the settee across the room sat two women conducting a conversation they had no qualms about anyone overhearing. Both had a similar shade of blonde hair, one whiter than the other, they were pale, with pointed faces which tried to hide the strains of age. The younger of the two smiled at the young man, and beckoned him over.
He bowed his head as he approached them. It was an old-fashioned gesture, outdated, but none of them would have it any other way. "I didn't think you were coming to dinner tonight, Livia." He paused, "Where's your husband?"
The woman known as Livia sniffed, smoothing the invisible wrinkles on her pale blue robes. "I wasn't intending to, but Orion thought it might be best. His father isn't well, so he's gone over to see him."
"Yes," the elder of the two women chimed in. "Besides, it's not right for a lady to be in a house riddled with death."
The young man raised a pale eyebrow. "Really, Mama? I recall you never left Father's side."
The old woman narrowed her eyes. "Don't be cheeky, Lucius, those were different circumstances."
The young man took another sip, hiding his smile behind the glass. "Of course,"
"Anyway, your sister was just telling me about old Cygnus' will," she continued, shooting her son a furtive glance from behind her spectacles. She leaned forward with a coy smile. "Druella and her girls don't get much, if anything at all."
Livia shook her head. "I was surprised when Orion told me, I don't know what they'll do if Cygnus passes."
"You sound a bit too cheerful about your prospects, Livia," Lucius sat across from them in an armchair, tugging at his collar. "Why was he telling you about this anyway?"
"Don't be daft, brother, of course he told me. He tells me everything." She gave him an odd look. "Why?"
"Usually men don't tell their wives about money, that's all."
"Yes, well you could remind me about that when you actually have a wife." She bit back.
Lucius resisted the urge to smile, he sat back in his chair instead, pleased that he could still get away with baiting his sister. She and his mother turned away from him, continuing their conversation about the state of her father – in – law's affairs, no doubt. At twenty – seven years old, Livia Malfoy – Black had amounted a name for herself in society, most of the time it ended with the word 'pariah', but he wasn't about to tell her that.
He shifted his attention to the newspaper someone left on the table between them, the headline announced another murder. He slid the paper off the table and into his awaiting hand. Lucius' eyes scanned the article silently, and the crease in his brow deepened with every line. Below the headline was the image of a skull floating above a small house, with a snake protruding from the vast emptiness of its mouth. It was one of many that he'd seen gracing the front pages of the newspaper for the past few years; however its appearance had grown in frequency over the past six months.
Lucius had been around long enough to know who this sign belonged to, and what it all meant. He heard it whispered in the dark of his dormitory at Hogwarts, and even at the Ministry which surprised him. But in his time there, he discovered that everyone wore a different face for every occasion; so did he. Even his brother talked about it – this man whose name no one dared to utter, a man who could make anyone disappear, and he's proven it several times.
"Master Malfoy," a small house-elf appeared at his side, pulling him back to the drawing room. "Dinner is ready, sir."
Lucius nodded, and the elf disappeared. He folded the paper, and replaced it on the table. He would read it later. Gesturing to his mother and sister, he rose from his chair. "Shall we?"
On the way out his eyes met a similar pair of grey eyes hardened by life and its never ending troubles. He turned away as quickly as he glanced at it, ignoring the overwhelming feeling of unease which had settled in his stomach. He squeezed his eyes shut, allowing the wave to pass, before accompanying the others down a dimly-lit corridor and into a room with a high ceiling.
Cabinets filled with centuries old china lined the walls, hiding the ugly old stone wall from sight. Old portraits sat on the walls, a morbid continuation of the lines of relatives who occupied the main hall. In the centre of this room was a long dining table. Lucius remembered his parents having grand parties in here in the 60s, but that was a different time. Things were less complicated back then.
He paused at the head of the table, it was brief, but still enough time had passed for someone to notice. Lucius met his mother's questioning gaze, and shook his head. He continued down the long line of chairs to where the table was set at the far end, closer to the kitchen. The elves made roast tonight, but suddenly he didn't feel hungry anymore.
His mother and sister chatted about the latest fashions from London, and various other things that failed to catch his interest. It wasn't until he heard the door open again that he was relieved for the interruption, at least he'd have some company now.
Felix Malfoy strode confidently into the dining room with his robes tucked smartly over his arm. His lips were curved into a smirk, matching the one his sister usually wore whenever she got the better of someone.
"How nice of you to join us," Livia commented drily while her mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.
"Good evening, Mother." The youngest Malfoy sibling placed a chaste kiss on his mother's cheek, and rolled his eyes at his sister. "What are you doing here, Livia? Don't you have a husband?"
Livia scoffed. "You and Lucius are exactly the same, it's no wonder you're not married yet."
Lucius winked at his brother. "You should be thankful Mama got you carted off as quickly as possible."
Felix sat next to his brother and grinned at their sister's reddening face. Their faces were almost identical, with their hair cut the same length though Lucius was prone to wear his longer. Their two year age difference was the only thing that stopped people from thinking they were a twin. But as far as appearances went, that's where all similarities ended. Felix enjoyed the luxuries granted to a young man from such a family – he didn't have to meet with attorneys every other week, or control the running of the estate. He was free.
Lucius gave his brother a sideways glance, and listened as the younger man chatted away about his newest purchase – a flying carpet.
"It's a classic," Felix grinned broadly at the approving look on his mother's face, "I'll take you up for a spin, Mama."
Lucius rolled his eyes. "How much did it cost?"
"Look at you, always about the money." He glared at his older brother, his fingers drummed impatiently on the smooth mahogany table.
"How much?" Lucius pressed, he was half-afraid to hear the price.
"One hundred Galleons,"
Lucius looked down at his empty glass; he would need a lot more to drink tonight. As if reading his thoughts, one of the elves appeared with a decanter and poured a generous helping of his poison into the glass.
"No wine for you then?" his mother nodded to the amber liquid in the tumbler.
Lucius shook his head. "No, I guess not,"
She made a noise he would consider disapproving, but he ignored it, feigning interest at the food which had appeared in front of them. For the most part of dinner, the conversation dwindled and the family ate in silence which wasn't out of the ordinary; not since the late master died - the true master of the manor. Lucius kept his head down for most of it, chasing down his peas with his fork even though his mother told him never to play with his food.
"Lucius," his brother leaned close to him, his voice in a low whisper. Lucius raised his head by an inch, never letting his eyes leave his plate. Time taught him to avoid his parents' attention when trying to speak to his brother in secret at the dinner table.
"Have you heard about Benjy Fenwick?" Felix asked quietly.
"It's in the newspaper," Lucius whispered back, eyeing his brother carefully. He's never brought this sort of thing up before. Why now? "What's wrong with you?"
Felix shrugged. "It's just that he was in my year, you know?"
Lucius nodded slowly. Of course he knew. He understood the strange choking feeling whenever someone he knew was killed. It was strange, most people never thought he cared, but he did. It's a hell of a time trying to put the pieces in place when someone who you knew for the past seven years is on the front page of the paper because someone blew him to bits.
With a glance at his brother's plate, he realised Felix hadn't been very hungry either. He pushed his chair away from the table, and stood up slowly.
"Are you all right, Lucius?" his sister asked, her brows furrowing in confusion.
"Yes, I'm fine," he glanced at his mother, and repeated his hollow words for the sake of her reassurance. "I'm not particularly hungry this evening, that's all."
He backed away from the table, and made for the door. Any protests they made were to deaf ears, as his pace quickened. He paused at the drawing room, feeling the skin at the back of his neck prickle. He strode across the room closing the gap between him and the small table where he left his newspaper earlier. Benjy Fenwick's fate glowered up at him in black and white, and he suddenly got the feeling that this was only the beginning.
Author's Note: I'm very nervous about this story, I got a difficult pairing for this challenge, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hope that it works out. I hope you enjoy reading this!


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45. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?J from Bris Jun 26, 2013 7:08 AM in response to alpha9
In the meantime I started using (I think someone mentioned it in this thread) VisualDiffer. It offer compare by content and display in side by side panels similar to TC.
If you are comfortable with command line options, try rsync with the -c (--checksum) option. a bit of learning curve but the best sync tool bar none for any Unix/Linux/Mac system. Especially if you also sync over the net.
I've had times where highly praised FTP programs "successfully" downloaded a large file (couple of GB), only for it to fail CRC check upon extract. I used rsync (it only copy the missing section of the file, not the entire file!!), and file extract without error. i.e. it was smart enough to not only spot the difference, but also only download the difference and patch the local file. (optionally)
about the folder into folder copy issue. I guess that is common for people coming from Windows environment. In *nix the trailing "/" has significance. I've been using Linux and Mac a few years now, and still get it wrong sometimes.
Key to remember without the trailing slash you address the directory with the training slash, you address the content. i.e:
rsync -rc /dir_1 /dir_2
you will end up with /dir_2/dir_1/files
rsync -rc /dir_1/ /dir_2
you will end up with /dir_2/files
If in doubt, use "/*" means the same, but read easier (similar to Windows c:\dir_e\*.*)
46. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?DreamCarrior Jul 6, 2013 5:21 PM in response to macjack
Compare Folder has been discontinued!
47. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?alpha9 Jul 7, 2013 2:05 PM in response to J from Bris
Like OP MurrayE, I'd prefer a visual utility. Not that command line options aren't fine, but we're looking for the most reliable procedure. And human/operator error is typically the source of errors as you said:
I've been using Linux and Mac a few years now, and still get it wrong sometimes.
Syncing can be very complex; situations/needs vary so different solutions will apply to different folks.
For now I've somewhat inelegantly gone with 2 approaches:
1) for situations where lots of interactivity, checking, diagnosing are required, I much prefer TotalCommander browser launching Sync It! . This is especially useful in letting me break a big problem into parts and syncing smaller subsets of the overall fileset: e.g. where I might have a screwy situation with latest updates on either source or target. Doing this by-hand with an elegant UI is easier for me. I could set up rules for a bidirectional sync (in either Sync It! or ChronoSync) but these are hopefully rare, one-off situations and specifying/testing the rules is not worth the effort. For me, Sync It! visually displays what I've asked it to do, and what actions it will take so clear and elegant fashion I have confidence I'm not making mistakes.
2) for standard cases where I dependably know I need a 1-way or whatever type sync, I will rely more on ChronoSync. Standard "production run" sync profiles can be created, named and saved. ChronoSync is designed for such batch runs, although you can be more exploratory if you wish. Running a trial sync produces only limited visual info. Opening the "Analyze" panel gives better visual depiction of what source & target differences are and what is going to be changed where.
I haven't yet needed ChronoSync's sophisticated timing & triggers for syncing. Kind of wish they'd sell just a manual version for less ;-) I don't mind the price, but it is 1 license per 1 mac. Of course, ChronoSync is clearly less hassle & expense if you don't already need to be running Win virtual machine all the time! If readers are interested in going beyond the 1 month free trial, a short term price break was recently announced:
we are running a secret special on ChronoSync. Get ChronoSync for $10 off the regular price of $40 until July 31, 2013. This offer is not posted anywhere on our website, so you need to click on the link below and the discount code will automatically appear at checkout. Feel free to forward this offer to anyone.
If the link doesn't work use a Jul10Off coupon code. Convinced me to get another copy recently ;-)
48. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?hitekme Aug 29, 2013 7:41 PM in response to murrayE
I would recommend www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
49. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?talltom65 Oct 20, 2013 5:06 AM in response to murrayE
Wondering if you ever found a solution to your question. I just checked the scootersoftware sight - no luck for a mac version there yet. I sent them an email asking same.
50. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?talltom65 Oct 20, 2013 5:23 AM in response to murrayE
also wondering if you have tried DeltaWalker and if so what you think of it.
51. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?murrayE Oct 20, 2013 8:37 AM in response to talltom65
talltom65 wrote:
Wondering if you ever found a solution to your question [for an app to visually compare contents of two folders, copy or move newer items from one to the other, etc.].
Unfortunately, no: no OS X app I've tried has the full functionality, ease of use, and transparency of FileWare's Windows utility FileSync (and so far as I can tell, FileWare stopped maintenance of FileSync several years ago).
The best I've found so far for Mac -- and it's a very poor approximation to FileSync -- is VisualDiffer, which I find awkward and incomplete.
52. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?murrayE Oct 20, 2013 9:01 AM in response to talltom65
talltom65 wrote:
also wondering if you have tried DeltaWalker and if so what you think of it.
Yes, I tried DeltaWalker, and it's not especially good compared with what I want (and am accustomed to with the Windows utility FileSync).
53. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?murrayE Oct 20, 2013 9:04 AM in response to hitekme
hitekme wrote:
I would recommend www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
I tried Kaleidoscope, and it's no substantial improvement over VisualDiffer despite having a ridiculously high cost. And it's substantially inferior to the Windows utility FileSync.
54. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?Richard E. Cooke Oct 20, 2013 9:43 PM in response to murrayE
Very cool. And only $4!
Behind the scenes, he is using the FreeBSD/Darwin DIFF command - which is an excellent choice. This allows him to focus on GUI layout and features, letting the Unix command do the heavy lifting. Aside from befing fast, the DIFF command is extremely well tested. If you go into Terminal and enter "man diff" you can see the details. At the end of the man-pages it says this version has been around since 2002.
I am making do with Visual Differ until Scooter Software comes to my rescue....
I also check-in my text (source code) files into Subversion. Which is also free, and there are a number of visual clients for MAC that let you compare the version you have now to any past version.
Time Machine might be able to do something simialr too. But TM and SVN are not intended for comparing simialr or synced folders. Its meant for comparing files in one (or more) fodlers against older versions.
55. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?posimosh Nov 4, 2013 4:16 PM in response to murrayE
Sorry if this has been suggested already, but I use carboncopycloner.app. Does all you have asked (including the convoluted "compare metadata" command if you ask it to.) It'll even destructively merge folders as well...
Deltawalker works well too though it is just a gui ribbon over a couple different command line programs (rdiff and rsync primarily)..
56. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?murrayE Nov 5, 2013 7:20 AM in response to posimosh
posimosh wrote:
Sorry if this has been suggested already, but I use carboncopycloner.app. Does all you have asked (including the convoluted "compare metadata" command if you ask it to.) It'll even destructively merge folders as well...
No, so far as I can see, CarbonCopy Cloner is nothing like FileWare's FileSync. To begin with: it doesn't provide a side-by-side (finder-like) list of source and destination folders -- so that you can see which files on each side differ from the corresponding ones (if any) on the other side and then copy either way.
57. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?OLDsystem Nov 18, 2013 6:53 AM in response to murrayE
I was able to select certain files for copying in Kaleidoscope 2.0.2. You have to click in the middle pane. Arrows pop out and mark it as selected to go in certain direction. Both directions are possible at once. Therefore I find it adequate for such a task as you describe. Its handling of subfolders isn't perfect, but it is working.
58. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?posimosh Nov 18, 2013 6:32 PM in response to murrayE
Actually, it does... It's just buried in the settings. Also, to do this sort of a copy takes forever because it literally checks every single checksum of every single file then keeps the older/newer/whatever you tell it to on a third disk. It's especially good for creating a "master" osx install from two separate disks with installs on them.
The problem is you need to know a bit about the innards of the OS and how the 3+ separate files called "library" relate to each other. If you exempt the essential os components and just "compare and copy" the 2+ sources in to one destination, you will end up with no duplicates/ this is especially helpful if you download a lot of torrents or files from the various "0-day" file locker type sites or have multiple libraries of photos some of which have common file names like "dsc001, img006, mov002 etc". A lot of the "file compare" utilities do a "fuzzy" search for matching stuff which does not have a 100% effectiveness rate by necessity. They do this for a variety of reasons most of which have to do with time and user error mitigation.
Anyway, if you can get the hang of CCC it is one of the better utilities around for osx.
Oh and I haven't used kaleidoscope but have read it works rather well. I have used "delta walker" back in the day, and it used to be rather effective but I'm not sure if it's been updated to be able to handle newer versions of osx file system quirks and encryption.
59. Re: Is there a utility to compare folders visually?jarown Nov 29, 2013 12:34 AM in response to murrayE
DiffMerge? http://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/#


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July 30, 2014
June 5, 2006
A gigantic whale showed up on the lawn of Johnson Elementary school today. Teacher Sue Garnett helped design and create a 70-foot Blue Whale replica. It was part of field day.
Inside the replica, students learned about whales and living systems. In all it took four days to make. The teacher mostly used plastic and duct tape and says it was a lot of fun.
"It was my first time and I am proud that it works, you know my eyes got really big when it inflated, I was like 'hey it really works,'" said Sue Garnett.
The Blue Whale is one of the largest living creatures ever known and can get up to 100 feet long.


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Lincoln Arnett, the sophomore quarterback at Monroe County High School, is quietly making a big impact with the Falcons this season. After playing behind Chad Wilson for the past couple of years, Arnett is now the starter and is stepping up to the challenge. After three games, Arnett has led the Falcons to a 2-1 record.
One person who recognizes what Arnett's been able to do is Barren County High School Coach Jason Esters. The Trojans travel to Tompkinsville to face the Falcons Friday. Kickoff is 7 p.m.
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Cid is dumped by his girlfriend on the evening of their 15th anniversary due to his failure to propose. On the one year anniversary of getting dumped, Cid is still reeling from the break up and deals with the social stigmas of being in your 30's and single. In his struggle
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Campea
Release Date: TBA 2009
Producers: John Campea
Actors: Jason Contini,Manolis Zontanos,Julia Voth,Erin Cummings,Ashley Oxford,Ryan Patrick McGuffey,Dan Callahan,Betsy Cramer,Gavin Grazer,Jana Thompson,Kanesha Washington,Theresa June Tao,Kat Primeau,Christine Moore,Julie Clark,Fay Gauthier,Paige Kimball
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