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My son woke up this morning with his
and a rash on the same side of his face and around his lips. His lips are also slightly swollen. His eye does have any puss of anything like that and he said he could see out it when I opened it, its not red on the inside but it is on the outside. He has no fever I don't know what to do. Shouild I just take him to the docters??
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After 2 days with it getting worse, he went to an
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in the
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My six year old son was with me in the backyard and in a matter of minutes his eye swelled
. Assuming it was a grass
, he got some benadryl and went to sleep. It has been 2 hrs and the swelling is reduced but not gone. Any other ideas on what I can do to help him out. I have washed and rinsed the eye numerous times and cannot see anything internal irritant inside the eye.
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9 F and his right eye was
and had blue and red bruises on the
lid and under the
he had also red patches on his legs and hands with small white dots which were itching. I went to the ER and by then the red patches went away almost completely but the eye looked worse, they assumed it was an allergy and gave him Benadryl. That didn't work, the next morning when he woke up and his eye was shut completely I went to a Dr.
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Hello, my left top
lid is
to where my
is almost
. It has been like this for the last 7 days now. My lymph node on the side of my neck (left side) is swollen too and hurts to touch. Doesnt seem to be getting better. Saw my PCP yesterday and started me on Amox Clav and Benadryl. Nothing seems to be getting better only worse. Today it looks like a thin layer of film is trying to cover the inside of my eye.
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i went to pharmacist and he gave me neo deca. the next day my
swelled even more. and now it is almost
and it feels heavy. i am still using the medicine as i have no other option. please help, as eye doctor here is really expensive and i can barely afford.
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I wake up in the morning with the eye nearly
and a sensation that there is something 'wiggling' around under my
in the skin. It really itches and typically disappears after a few days. What can cause this recurring problem (allergens/frequent bike riding)?
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yesterday i noticed that his right
and then today when he woke up both were.we just moved to an area that has poison oak on the property. and last month he was diagnosed diabetic.. and only his eyes are swollen . and i can tell it's bothering him. so if anyone has any suggestion or solutions or a reason as to way this is happening please respond. he is my life. the child i couldn't have. so i don't know if this a allergic reaction to poison oak of some other type of allergy.
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The next day his forehead was so swollen it looked like he had a deformity. We used iced cloths and benadryl. The next morning his left
was completely
. But the swelling of the forehead had gone down. We were so concerned as to what had caused it . Allergies or a insect bite.
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My son also gets
eyes. It only happens when he is sick. The doctors think he is allergic to omnicef so stopped giving it to him. Today it happened after he took motrin. I took him to urgent care and they gave him a antibotic in the omnicef family even though o told them several times he was allergic to it. Thank god I called his regular ped doc before I gave it to him. Doesn't explain why his eyes were swollen to begin with though.
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While out for a run over the weekend, I noticed my left
. I thought that perhaps I got something in it and continued on my run. Soon I had to cut my run short and noticed my tounge was swelling as well. My wife happened to be driving home and saw my face. She thought I had fallen and wanted to take me to the urgent care center in town. I felt that perhaps I was just a bit dehydrated until I saw my face in the mirror. It turns out I was having an alergic reaction to something.
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I should have added, I had my affected eye shut all day, for a period of 24 hours. Is that enough to cause blurred vision? Due to light sensitivity, I am wearing an eyepatch.
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this very same thing happened me today and i really wish i knew why because it was terrible although my eyes had been itching for about a week as well as a sore/itchy throat and nose and i had been rubbing them intensely and i also wear contacts, in approx 15 mins my left
i was leaving the mall. Went to emergency room and got no answers! It was like my eyes said, today is the day no more itching!
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Today he woke up, with left side of his face
. Any recommendations. Please help. No insurance. Thank you.
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My daughter was at an all day concert and now has a sunburn on her face, the left side of her face is swollen, her eye almost shut. I saw a nurse practictioner & she gave her some sulfur cream. I'm worried about the swelling. Is there anything we can do for the swelling? And should I take her to the ER if it gets worse? How long til the swelling goes down?
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My daughter was on Armour and doing great..then 1st trip to ER wih one
, put on Allegra, then 10 days later she almost died...both eyes swollen shut, throat closing, hives, etc. Since that happened a couple of weeks ago she is now allergic to dust, mold, her makeup and lotion...EVERYTHING. She quit Armour obviously, but it looks like the Armour did something to her immune system and now for the 1st time in her life she is allergic to EVERYTHING.
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Many possibilites, styes, allergy to make up, etc. If it get worse see an ophthalmologist. Dr. O.
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At this point, it is happening once to twice a month including
lips and tounge. I have tried allegra, zyrtec, claritin and benadryl. It is now lasting 2 to 3 days. Does anyone know anything about something like this? My glands are not swollen. Thanks.
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and my eyelids are itchy and scaly. I took
medicine but nothing seems to help. What could this be from and how do I remedy it?
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about 9 years ago i was running around my house and both my eyes swelled
it had never done it before but for some reason now every time i run even from my house to my driveway it'll swell it starts with a small lump under my eye them my nose seems to clog up and feel very stuffed and not a minute after i get the small bump both my eyes swell and stay swollen for two days no longer i dont know whats causing it, ive been to the allergist they first told me it was a milk allergy but milk doesn
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And they can likely prescribe a good
medication and
drops to use daily to prevent or relieve symptoms. I personally avoid using commercial drops like Visine, etc that promise to get the redness out, because they work by restricting the blood vessels and if used too often can cause a rebound effect, where the eyes will look and feel 10 times worse. Plus, I find they sting like crazy, making me sneeze which makes my eye water even more...
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I had a severe reaction to temporary caps and now permanent caps and experienced all the things you describe, ending in a trip to the ED with anaphylactic syndrome, swelling throat, wet breathing, and near drowning in my own fluids. It's been 6 months and I still have sores in my mouth and particularly painful, over the front new caps. I was tested by an allergist but had prednisone (steroid) treatment to prevent uh...death...
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Hello, Your symptoms of dry tight throat, uneasiness and difficulty in breathing and headaches are pointing towards the diagnosis of
to onion/ garlic, in any form. Garlic-sensitive patients showed positive tests to diallyldisulfide, allylpropyldisulfide, allylmercaptan and allicin, all present in garlic. Even if garlic is present in a very small amount,it can lead to an allergic reaction.
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So we followed up with the Pediatrician today (his is out for the Thanksgiving Holiday so had to see a different doc) and she said she agrees with ER about allergic reaction not Pink
, took him off the one
drop and gave us Pataday
drops and told me to check in if it wasn't better on Monday. Here are my concerns. After the ER visit my brother mentioned how that happened while they were fishing a week ago but the swelling went away within 15 minutes.
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Hi, Caffeine
Symptoms Caffeine
symptoms range from a minor rash to life threatening seizures. The severity of the reaction depends on what the person is actually allergic to and to what extent a person is allergic. Some of the reactions associated with caffeine allergies include difficulty breathing, shock, tongue, and facial swelling.
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There are some general medical problems that might cause this especially if you wake up with
ankles and hands. You are going to need to see an
MD (ophthalmologist) for a comprehensive medical eye examination. After that you may be directed to your personal physician for a medical evaluation. If none of this helps you may need to see an allergist.
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When I woke in the morning both eyes where massively
, my right
was much worse and was barely open. I assumed the Papaw being quite a heavy vaseline type ointment had maybe not allowed the skin to breathe so I have now avoided it. I applied cooled spoons which after several hours of holding to my eyes seemed to being down the swelling but left my eyes still very red and sort of wrinkly looking.
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i woke up with my left eyelid almost
!! its puffy but has no pain and its not itchy or anything.. my eye sight is fine but when i blink it stings a little but, but not that bad. why is my eye like this????
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I've got an upcoming appointment with the allergist, but I really believe something else is going on (I also frequently develop hives around the puffy eyes).Most mornings I wake up with my eyes almost
. I now have a patch of eczema under one eye. I tried special products, control creams, cortisone (in small amounts-I have to be careful since it is around my eye), vaseline...the list goes on. If anyone has any ideas, I'd welcome them!
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For a few days i had a small bubble on my eye that came and went untill one day in a matter of minites my
was almost
and i had a blotchy rash all on my legs, neck and hands. It keeps coming back but I have only ate things I know i have no food allergy to and have not recently used any new body wash, shampoo (ect.) What could it possibly be?
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From summer to fall – use popsicle sticks for this cute pumpkin craft!
From summer to fall – use popsicle sticks for this cute pumpkin craft!
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Every day when I take the Small Studio orders to be mailed at our little post office, I check my PO Box to see if there is any mail. I got the PO Box so that people who do not use credit cards can mail their order to me. No one has so far. It seems that online ordering is not a problem. The other day, Josh, the mail clerk, started teasing me about being so optimistic every day. He made at least 10 jokes about it that day and every day since. It was cute and funny that he noticed, but it started me thinking. I pay an annual fee for something that is just, well, there. I pay for a gaping hole in the wall. I am optimistic and I do always think that there will be something in there. It must be funny to Josh to see me stand on my tiptoes (my box is on the top row) to peer into the post box and then stick my hand in and feel around the emptiness just to make sure I didn't miss anything. Wouldn't Josh be surprised to see mail in there, maybe lots of mail, maybe decorated mail, maybe weird mail? Maybe something he wouldn't consider mail?
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SG&A expense, as a percentage of net sales, increased 77 basis points for the three month period ended September 30, 2012 compared to the prior year period. The increase in SG&A as a percentage of net sales was largely a result of increases in employee wage and benefit expenses due to increased health insurance costs, in addition to the deleveraging effect of the net sales decline. This increase was partially offset by decreases in other SG&A accounts as a result of cost control measures implemented during the first and second fiscal quarters.
Net advertising expense, as a percentage of net sales, increased 48 basis points during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the prior year period. The increase as a percentage of net sales was driven largely by the deleveraging effect of the net sales decline.
Depreciation expense, as a percentage of net sales, increased 35 basis points for the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to the prior year period. The increase as a percentage of net sales was primarily due the capital spend associated with the 19 net new stores opened during the past 12 months and the deleveraging effect of the net sales decline.
The Company's effective income tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2012 increased to 39.8% from 38.4% in the comparable prior year period. The increase in the effective income tax rate is primarily the result of federal income tax credits recognized in fiscal 2012 under the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010. These credits are no longer available in fiscal 2013.Share Repurchase During the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2012, the Company repurchased 1,198,437 shares of its common stock at a total cost of $8.3 million. The shares were repurchased under the Company's $50 million share repurchase program that was authorized by the Company's Board of Directors on May 24, 2012 and expires on May 23, 2013. As of September 30, 2012, the Company had approximately $30.5 million authorized remaining under the current share repurchase program.
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The Expendables explodes to Blu-ray with Extended Director's Cut
By Patrick Luce Nov 9, 2011, 23:43 GMT
Lionsgate is bringing some action to Christmas with the Extended Directors Cut of The Expendables on December 13th. The new edition will feature 11 additional minutes of footage and a newly recorded introduction to the film by Sylvester Stallone.
Directed by Sylvester Stallone from a screenplay by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, with a story by David Callaham, The Expendables Extended Director's Cut follows a team of hardened mercenaries - including Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, David Zayas, Giselle Itie, Charisma Carpenter, Gary Daniels with Terry Crews and Mickey Rourke - who are sent ont what becomes a suicide mission to overthrow a ruthless dictator.
The Blu-ray will include a featurette on Stallone and his directing career, "Inferno," a feature-length behind-the-scenes documentary that provides a unique perspective on the filmmaking process from Stallone's distinctive point of view plus Spike TV program, "Action: The Expendables" and a music video from Sully Erna of Godsmack.
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Integrating Curriculum through Themes
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StealthWatch and Cisco ISE – Enhanced Identity Awareness and Mobile Security
Lancope, an industry leader in flow-based security and network performance monitoring, now provides integration with the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) to help enterprises advance their security strategy in light of increasingly complex technology and mobile environments. Cisco ISE is a next-generation network admission control system built on the 802.1x standard, which provides customized access to corporate resources based on user/endpoint identity and posture data. Network admission control is an important aspect of an effective security strategy.
In the midst of today's ever-evolving threat landscape, enterprises also require end-to-end visibility of all activities happening across the internal network. Lancope's StealthWatch® System conducts sophisticated behavioral analysis on NetFlow and other flow data from existing network infrastructure to deliver in-depth visibility across both physical and virtual environments, including mobile devices.
Through this integration, Cisco ISE users can expand their security efforts by leveraging StealthWatch to continuously monitor user behavior on the network – no matter which device they are using. With comprehensive network insight from edge to access, organizations can dramatically improve their network troubleshooting and risk posture. The ISE provides StealthWatch with additional identity data and valuable information on the types of devices being used to obtain network access, as well as where the device is physically located on the network. This data from the ISE allows Lancope to link the user, workstation, location, device type and other identity data to the actual network traffic, offering a thorough view of network activity.
Unlike other technologies that only block attacks at the perimeter, or that rely on signature updates, StealthWatch can quickly and easily uncover both externally-launched, zero-day attacks, as well as internal threats such as network misuse, policy violations, data leakage and device misconfigurations. Advanced features including application and identity awareness, as well as automatic threat prioritization and mitigation, further enhance troubleshooting and support other efforts such as forensic investigations and compliance initiatives.
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Cisco ISE is a key element of Cisco's SecureX context-based security architecture for Borderless Networks, and Cisco's TrustSec solution for intelligent access control. It enables tight security and compliance, consistent policy enforcement and a seamless user experience, no matter when, where or how a host is connecting to the network. The ISE authenticates users and denies or authorizes user access to corporate resources based on a wide range of identifying features including, but not limited to:
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In the wake of IT consumerization and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments, the network perimeter has vanished. Approximately 75 percent of companies allow employee-owned smartphones and/or tablets to be used at work.1 Today's enterprises require a more effective means of monitoring and controlling users' access to the network and sensitive resources no matter which device they use to connect.
Through the integration of StealthWatch and the Cisco ISE, organizations can achieve enhanced mobile device security for rapidly-evolving networks. StealthWatch delivers in-depth internal security monitoring that proactively detects issues stemming from any device on the network, without having to install additional software or deploy expensive probes.
StealthWatch can also now incorporate additional device and identity data from the Cisco ISE into its overall view of network activity to further advance security for personal smartphones, tablets and laptops, as well as differentiate traffic by user from multi-user workstations. Advanced network and host information also enables Lancope and Cisco to provide high levels of performance for mobile devices by quickly identifying the root cause of a network slowdown and tracking it to specific users and devices for efficient mitigation.
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If you get on the badside of a recruiter, they'll stop calling.
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Sarah Hendy, presenter of 'Freshly Squeezed' on Channel 4 and host of the E4 Music Zone, has tonnes of live TV experience thanks to three years working on price-drop.tv and 'Destination Three', a late night magazine style show she co-hosted for BBC Three.
In the E4 studio Sarah interviews celebs and generally talks music, film and gossip.
She is able to relate to the man on the street and the celeb on the sofa with equal enthusiasm and tenacity.
Sarah has a law degree from Swansea University and her interests include music, film and fashion. Her real passion is Bikram yoga, for which she is a qualified instructor.
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The next generation of short-course racing includes a TQ 2.4GHz system with sleek internal styling and no-compromise control. That's in addition to a Revo 3.3-inspired wheelbase, TRX 3.3 engine with EZ-Start, Resonator tuned pipe…and more!
- 1/8" (3 mm) thick semi-monocoque, titanium-anodized, 6061-T6 aluminum chassis with an integrated roll hoop and carrying handle.
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A Portuguese Christmas
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December 17, 2010
Amongst the riches of Portugal's musical heritage are many beautiful compositions for the Christmas season. Celebrate the holidays with acclaimed vocal ensemble Exsultemus as they explore this little-known but exquisite repertoire.
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A study found that adult men diagnosed with ADHD as a child are twice as likely to be overweight or obese as an adult:
"It's not uncommon for kids treated with ADHD medications to be fairly thin," Castellanos said. Because parents often worry that thinner boys won't grow as tall, "sometimes [they] will encourage their boys to eat more."
Instead, to help avert weight problems down the road, parents should be alert to poor eating habits. "If anything, you have to pay attention to how many times they're having fast food, how many times they're having fried food, whether they're getting meals supersized," Castellanos said.


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Cut clutter and maximize storage space with these 28 tricks and inexpensive picks
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Bedroom: Dresser with More Drawers
Don't settle for the standard four! A taller five- or six-drawer dresser takes up the same amount of floor space, but gives you a vertical foot or more of storage. Plus, those upper compartments tend to be smaller—and less likely to turn into a jumble.
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October 12 2011
Lyman Enrollment Dips to 351
Lyman Enrollment Dips to 351
Enrollment at Lyman School is down 16 students from the start of the school year approximately six weeks ago.
Superintendent Douglas Eppard told the Lyman School Board Monday night that as of Friday, Sept. 30 351 students were enrolled. "That's nine fewer kids since last month's board meeting," said Mr. Eppard. "But, it is where I thought we might be."
The last day of September is the day schools across the state record enrollment numbers to be used for school funding. Schools may use the actual number or if it is lower than the previous year, it can be averaged with the number from last year to determine the Average Daily Attendance.
Lyman had 370 students enrolled last year.. According to Mr. Eppard, it would be in the best interest of the school to take a two-year average. The adjusted enrollment number will be submitted to the state will be 360.
If nothing changes in current school funding, Lyman will receive about $130,000 less in state funding based on this enrollment number stated the superintendent.
Superintendent Eppard reported on the recent Impact Aid Conference he attended in Washington, DC. While there he learned that due to the number of students enrolled at Lyman that live on tax exempt lands such as the Lower Brule Reservation, Lyman is now classified a Significantly Impacted School which should result in more Federal Impact Aid dollars.
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- Greater Lyman Foundation works toward challenge
- A Season of Giving
- Local Food Pantry partners with Feeding South Dakota
- Senior meal program to end in Lyman County due to declining numbers
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Dr. Drew hosts the cast in front of a live studio audience and sits down with Jenelle to discuss her ongoing battle with addiction. Kailyn struggles to stay calm when Dr. Drew tries to get her to make peace with Jo's girlfriend.
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Valpolicella is set in a hilly area just before the Alps in the Veneto region, a few kilometres from Verona. The area is renowned all over the world for two reasons, firstly for its wines, especially Amarone, considered to be one of the best Italian red wines, and secondly, for its red marble Veronese. A unique feature of the area is its gorgeous villas, in fact, many actors and V.I.P's have recently bought their houses in this part of the country. If you want to spend your holidays in Valpolicella or Verona and like the countryside and wine tasting, Valpolicella is the perfect place for you. Here are some historical tips:
Fumane Grotto - the presence of the humans has been confirmed since the Stone Age era by a grotto near the village of Fumane. Here, there is a refuge called Solinas, named after the man who discovered it, and where a Neanderthal man is said to have lived.
Pieve di San Giorgio - this small 7th century church has frescos and old remains inside. Although it is not particularly famous, it is one of the oldest remains of the province, in Romanesque style. Pieve and cloister in San Floriano - is considered to be one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches of Verona, probably dating back to the 12th century. The historical sites of Valpolicella are fewer than in the centre of Verona and Lake Garda, but its historical wine connection is very important. If you plan to visit Valpolicella during your Verona holiday, we recommend asking us for wine tours and wine tastings, because spending a few hours in the Valpolicella cellars, inside old farms and historical houses in the countryside, is well worth while.


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Politico.com reported today that Ohio's junior senator, Rob Portman, is interested in chairing the National Republican Senatorial Comm
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The website cited two unnamed sources "familiar with his thinking" who said Portman - who was on the short list of potential running mates for GOP nominee Mitt Romney - is considering running for the NRSC job. Portman - who campaigned hard for Romney throughout Ohio - has said nothing on the subject.


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Annual report giving a full account of the Care Commission's activities, finances and organisation over the year.
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Social Capital Over Time and Across Generations: A Data-Driven Learning Guide (ICPSR 339)
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Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates time and generational trends in measures of social capital from 1972 to 2004. The term "social capital" is used to refer to connections among people and organizations. These social networks have important implications for social identity, emotional support, as well as the exchange of goods, services, and information. Research questions that can be explored using this guide include: what factors might account for changes in social capital over time, what are the consequences of high/low levels of social capital, under what conditions might high levels of social capital be detrimental, and low levels of social capital beneficial, whether all dimensions of social capital evolved similarly over time, and whether factors such as race, gender, and social class influence how much and what kind of social capital groups have. Crosstabulation and comparison of means are used in the analyses.
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A Night in the Life of Rihanna (Also: Pictures.)
The 2011 Sexiest Woman Alive on eating, drinking, praying, undressing, and more an extended interview from Esquire's new cover story. With lapdances.
By Ross McCammon /// Photographs + Video by Russell James
ESQ: When you came out of the dressing room, you're wearing the outfit. It's an impressive outfit. What do you call that?
RIHANNA: Like, a two-piece. It's Swarovski.
ESQ: Crystals?
RIHANNA: Swarovski sent us like thousands of crystals, so the artist Tom Binns started putting them together in shapes and painted them. Because they were all shiny.
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Blurty for Lauren.
|Monday, December 22nd, 2003
ummm...i have decided to indefinitely stop with the internet journalin', cuz i just have no use for it. if anyone still looks at this, stop wasting your time.
i love you and you and you. bye.
|Monday, December 15th, 2003
michael ian interviewed matt damon, greg kinnear, the farrelly brothers, and cher. it was hilarious. it was also the oddest thing ever. but everything michael ian does is insane, so...ya know. he's the best.
actually the weirdest thing i've seen in a long time was located in the walgreens on union at 330 am. preston and i were getting some drinks, there was no one in the store besides us, the 2 employees and a man standing between two check-out aisles. this man looked like the huge cowboy villain in the yosemite sam cartoons, but this man had a red t-shirt with dry vomit on it, and he was snoring like a mutha. i couldn't stop laughing....but it was a nervous laughter, like when you realize you are too close to a rabid dog.
courtney, leslie and myself gave taco bell 9 dollars in change last night. sadness.
i miss allison and matt and jay and the caravan kids. i feel isolated. preston's apartment feels like an alternate universe. everything we do together feels distant from everything else. i don't know if that makes sense. i like him much. i like him even more, now that he watched down with love with me twice and loved it. he always laughs at me when i sigh at ewan mcgregor. a girl can't help herself. that high note! that look he has in the dry cleaners! guh.
the cory branan show was weird. he was nervous and people were drunk in the record store. he was beautiful and charming, as always. he played a lot of stuff i'd never heard him play before, which was super fantastic. brent bought my dinner. zao! thanks, buddy.
conan is the shit.
i love love love augustine. i gotta record at least 2 more songs. toby and i are doing a "folk" song. i think it's only considered folk because it's a guy/girl duet. they are doing some really really great things, and i am still so proud and impressed with them.
school seems like a joke. so does work for that matter. work! i get to hang with kurt again. i had forgotten how easy it is to talk to him. i am amazed that we literally talk non-stop until we are in our separate cars. we constantly overlap and interupt each other. it's fun. we watched finding nemo in jeb's office. yeeeeuh.
sorry, my journal is boring to you.
i get to live with my step-dad again! yes! mike is great! my patience is through the roof!
(read between the exclamation points)
i hope i can swing sleeping over in memphis.
"i love you, garth"
"i love you, dream woman!"
a mr. j. vest and i had a meeting with our advisor today. she made it into 2 separate meetings, but said the exact same things, and gave us the same classes. she also gave me the scariest look i've ever seen on a live human face. i'm still getting goosebumps.
wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wanna go to cory branan tonight.
i don't think catching saddam means much change.
|Monday, December 8th, 2003
there are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground
there's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud
if i could take them down off of that mountain shelf
we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now yeah
we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
forty hours television and prescription pills
well i take two a day to make my brain behave
it never does but who's to say at least my doctor gets paid
so that's fine, yeah come by we'll take the afternoon off
we can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
cause i've got nothing real, just empty space to fill
and you're my girl i like your style just imagine all the time we could kill
and time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
so let's just sip it real slow
yeah we can nurse it all night
try to believe that once it's gone
we'll pour another round and come back to life
come right back
i guess i'm moving faster now or that's what they said
and though some days still take forever i can't disagree
because it seems to me that i wake up and sleep
look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between
but i remember counting days down 'til the year could be done
so i could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
and disappear again into a summer's bliss
of staying out sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends
that's gone and i know that it won't ever come back
i accept i won't cling to what i had in the past
but life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest hill
hope for the best, plan for the worst and maybe wind up somewhere
in the middle
and i'm not saying that i know what i want
but i know what i don't, don't want to rot in my room
and never know what could have been
believe what everyone else tells me is true
yeah, they say 'true'
that's what they say
i am listening to bright eyes, eating ice cream, and wallowing in my own self-doubt.
just irritable, i guess.
moods like these make me want alcohol.
augustine's first official gig was last night. they were TERRIFIC. it was just such a good feeling seeing them play, and seeing everyone else see them play. i'm glad i got to be a part of it all. thank you to everyone, for being so nice to me for reasons that i don't know.
i'd like to know why i bruise so damn easily. my entire right leg is aching and purple...as is my left arm.
i'm not really in an update mood.
i lika tha lucero.
there are many shows coming up. i have zero dollars. something's gotta happen.
weekend was good. saw last samurai with jake and jay on friday. it was excellente. i cried. i always cry in war scenes like that. can't help it. i am a big wuss.
i got a new carro. it is muy great. 2000, silver, 4-door, ford focus. finally have a good car. it is pretty and it has a cd player. my sentences have become much worse since i started college. college makes you stupid.
interuptions!! be back
|Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003
Wednesday, Dec. 10 Last Chance Records
7 pm Memphis, TN
Monday, Dec. 15 A Very Special Evening With Cory:
The Birthday Spectacular Memphis, TN
hahahahaha..aaaah...i have no idea what this means for me, but i think it's funny as hell...
You have a lot going for you, but most people will
only remember you for one thing, and a lot of
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it, though. Besides, you've got better stuff.
What band from the 80s are you?
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Well I'm trying to be patient
But the wheels keep turning round
But it's a treadmill and I'm just dragging my feet
I'm so tired of everything
Defeated by routine
By words that don't mean anything to me
At least not anymore now that I'm done...
with a morning of a day without ending
A year of decadence to escape from penance
But I've suffered. I'm over it, yeah
I'm fine now, but I'm sick of it
I was happy being miserable
I used to lay down my head on the bar
And raise one lonely finger for a drink
It doesn't have to be so difficult
just keep coasting by
so you lost a limb
Well hell it'll heal with time
What happens when you love what you've lost?
You didn't have to cut it off
But I did, and I do, and it took everything that I have
I wonder if I could ever get it back...
to how it was when I still thought of love
as a risk I could take if I was willing to make
the commitment to rejection
and the mind games, the deception
The late nights under the covers
pointing the finger at whoever started
whatever we were fighting about
I guess that I'm fine now
everything's better
everything's cooled down
it's all copesetic
We'll move on, off to a better world
To a fresh start where anything's possible
But I'm sick of it
Yeah I'm sick of it
I'm so sick of it
No, I'm sick of it
no, no, no, no, no
I'm sick of it now
I'm just sick of it now
no, no, I am so sick of it
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
But he's sick of it
no, no, no,no
|Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
the fridge in the room does not do a good job of keeping ice cream solid. it's goooey as hell, which is good for my throat. i am sicker than a junt. didn't go to work today. slept and slept and talked to harrison. i sucked it up. i had to see what it would feel like, and i am okay. i'm glad i called, he really needed someone to talk to. i'm really proud of him, too. he sold a sculpture for $3,300!! he's amazing.
anyway! hopefully the dorm will quiet down so i can get more sleep. actually, i'll probably go to toby's for a nap.
DECEMBER 7TH at the CARAVAN:
NEVER CRY WOLF (solo)
(bring your camera for the hotness, ladies)
|Monday, December 1st, 2003
one very happy note: the generics are coming to memphis for a 15 year reunion. HOT DAMN! i'm so excited.
I was getting better every day at it. the memories, pieces of conersavtion--they were slipping from my mind. stupid boy. stupid girl. same old story.
"Is tomorrow just a day like all the rest."
How could you know just what you did?
So full of faith yet so full of doubt I ask.
Time and time again you said don't be afraid.
"If you believe you can do it."
The only voice I want to hear is yours.
I shall ask you this once again.
And again.
He said:
" I am but one small instrument."
Do you remember that?
So here I am above palm trees so straight and tall.
You are smaller, getting smaller.
But I still see you.
today was a weird day. mostly good, though. i had fun with jake. invented new slang. got the cory 7''. ate a lot of ice cream. played some rock 'n' roll. ben had lunch with us today--always brilliant. what a fuckin' camper. he's the best.
i say it over and over...i love the augustine boys. "panama" made me happier than they will ever know. and they all make me happier than they'll ever know in their individual ways.
sean bateman on rules of attraction: "i'd rather have lauren. i wonder why."
that guy i'm dating, who is too cute: "yes...what is it about that lauren." (glaring at me)
i wish i could have one week of no worries with him..where he wouldn't worry about the job or money or anything else..where i wouldn't have to worry about school or friends or who i am. we could just lay there, all day long, listening to the amelie soundtrack and clarity. whyyyy not? i went over to his house last night when i left toby's. i went straight to the couch, went to sleep, woke up to my cell alarm, and left with not so much as a hug. i didn't want to wake him up. it all felt very strange for some reason.
too loud in the dorms. too hot. too much for me. i want to get out. "hello my name is distance, and i really don't care if i ever wake up again."
jake has made updating my weekend obsolete. it's all there. including our retarded conversation. he didn't even mention the imaginary get up kids show....we are stupid....but still the coolest people we know, plus al and ryan.
augustine practice was really good. for a while it was just jeff and toby. then preston got back from his rendezvous and just he and toby played, with toby on piano, doing the stuff i taught him. jeff came back around and they played the most amazing version of 'fail safe' to date. i was blown away.
slept on preston's couch to avoid dorm life. my cell phone alarm worked. i am tired as fuck. it is time for class.
rollin' in the escort for the week!! yayuh.
|Sunday, November 30th, 2003
check out a mini-sample of the statistics new full-length on punknews.org. i am excited. weee!
the weekend was grrrreat, for the most part. went to knoxville wednesday night, got back thursday night. i love my uncle. i love my distant cousin miles and aunt aurie (like aurie from tenenbaums...i think that is neat). got back around midnight. i was too tired to hang out. friday i picked up preston and we headed over to allison's. wellll, on the way over the old bridge, something went wrong. pulled over, jake ryan and allison came and saved me and yadda yadda yadda...my motor is "shot"....fuckin oh well.... i just hate bothering people with rides. still went to allison's and partyed it up. austin invented an amazing game in 2 seconds. it is better than candyland. more fun than most board games i have played. that kid is a genius and 1/2.
gotta go t0 870 with jake...more later
|Monday, November 24th, 2003
freeezing! don't want to go to acad. i am full of complaints today. not really. i'm in a great mood. i only have one class tomorrow. ha! and it's philosophy. so, not a real class or anything. oh, dear, that reminds me of philosophy boy, who i finally had a real conversation with...ryan...he is the only boy that's appropriately compared to cory branan. almost as good looking, charming, nice, foul-mouthed, and liquored up as cory. philosophy boy is no longer an enigma. the loss of the mystery did not take away the intrigue. he's a cool guy.
that was one of the many great moments of saturday night. saturday was just a good day all together. slept laaate with johnny reb. picked up allison. went to saigon le with her, ryan, eddie and new friend regan. we split some rice and veggies and had a gay old time. tom and nathan (not watkins, not shirley) were at the show, which was super. i've never seen someone embrace emo quite like tom. i love that guy. turns out nathan is friends with mike marsh and his wife. turns out that mike marsh is not only my favorite drummer, but bob nanna's as well. turns out hey mercedes was incredible and bob nanna is the first red-headed man i've ever been attracted to. we had a mad crazy dance party with funk circle pit after the show. no violence, just good plain goofy fun. it's really fun looking bob nanna in the eye and singing ''don't want to meet your daddy, just want you in my caddy." allison knows what's up. that was insane. i wish toby and lexie could've come. i wish jonathan hadn't gotten sad. after the show went to toby's, took allison home, and then to preston's. I FINALLY SAW THE DAILY SHOW TAPE!! he doesn't think it's worth seeing, but it is soooo worth it. "preston would you mind re-enacting your re-enactment?" hahaha it was classic. i can't believe he was on the daily show.
also watched a lot of harrison ford. han solo in a new hope.....guuuuuuuh.
slept in late again on sunday. like, late...until 5 pm. some little kid was running around the apartments at 9 in the morning like a retard. he woke everyone in the house up. and i can sleep through huge storms, so that tells you something about mr. roudy pants. saw matrix revolutions with jake and ben. i still say the dialogue in those movies is so frickin campy. i liked the movie though. it was cool. way out there. i'm glad it looked more like the first one. the second one looked kind of weird to me. in the first one, the matrix looked like real life, for the most part...but in the 2nd movie it had an odd look to it. uh, anyway...i didn't think revolutions was as bad as everyone says.
i actually went to theory today. parten doesn't seem as big a douche. that could be the cold going to my head.
|Saturday, November 22nd, 2003
i just saw this on ourmemphis.net and got crazy excited. overly, probably...
Sunday December 7th: The Gunshy, Never Cry Wolf, Augustine
yayayayay kong!
thank the lord, god almighty for allison, jay and robert downey, jr. they saved me last night from my buzzkillin' mood. rd jr is the most adorable person in the world. i think the drug addiction is kind of endearing, don't you? gothika is the in the top 5 creepiest movies i've ever seen. creepy as, if not creepier than, the ring. yeah...i know. crazy. it was awesome, though. almost as awesome as the beuatiful brithish men behind us. they had the preston accent, but it was real. allison and i were rendered useless. so pathetic. ah well. i'm just so glad my night got better. even saw one of america's most beautiful men. wowza.
hung out at preston's afterwards. spent the night. nice, as per usual.
|Friday, November 21st, 2003
|today. oh today. my alarm gave up on me and i slept through my classes. don't know if that is good or bad anymore. so i go to work and as soon as i put my stuff in my office, cam comes over and tells me to come to his office. he had yummy salad and pasta for the both of us. i thought he was just yankin' me about lunch yesterday. we sat by the window and ate fettucini and he has a gorgeous view of the river and downtown and east arkansas in all it's limited glory. we just ate and hung out for a little over an hour until i had to relieve kay on the phones. it was really really nice, and kinda weird. he went with me to bankruptcy court, which is as good a metaphor as any for where he and i would go as far as a relationship. why do i like men that act like little boys? i guess because i am still a little girl. i am naive, but i'd rather be naive than jaded or too cynical. this is the attitude that has me in my current situation with college, too. my mom thinks i'm insane and stupid, and i probably am. i don't know how to explain myself to anyone. i don't think i should have to. but everyone keeps pushing me. and giving me these big sighs and these looks like i'm going to regret my decisions. fuck that and fuck you.
i have 200 dv dollars to spend on food at the u of m, because i was deceived. i bought an abundance of chick-fil-a for toby and jeff and whoever happens to drop by that house, which is the everyone. it's like the matt/jay/alex house of memphis.
yesterday was a really good day. lexie gave me something for my ''headache'' and i had the giggles the rest of the night and i was talking crazy and, well, lexie and i had a great time. looked through jeff's photo album. bleache blonde toby.....NO! awful. it's just something that should never have happened. we all make mistakes.
i order jake to sleep 3-4 hours a night. no more. no less. because he is a trip around the 15th hour. i had so much fun last night. the fucking shins. gaaaah. beautiful, wonderful, good good good show. i really liked the other bands, too. gotta check out the hitone site to get their names. the shins keyboard player is chris parnell of saturday night live. being with brent was awesome, because i love him and he makes me laugh like no one else. he is a crazy sumbitch. i miss jake and brent together....but i won't have to for long! what a duo. "no tiene un bano!"
cam sent me all over town yesterday. he also sent me to bankruptcy court to file amended claims, but he didn't send me with the $26 dollars that it takes to add creditors to the claims. so i had to run back to the office, get the check, give cam shit about it, and run back to court. all under 15 minutes, too. yeah! he's taking me to lunch today. maybe today we will talk about things other than bottle rocket and filing.
the drummer for the first band had carrabba-esque features. he was guappisimo.
i miss being alone with my drummer.
|Thursday, November 20th, 2003
life is here and i am happy with it. i hung out with allison last night and a little bit of matt on the side. i guess jay was the after-dinner mint. i miss allison a lot. i love that girl. i will be home next semester, it looks, so we can hang out like old school days. i better not become a townie, though. that makes me shudder.
the discovery channel did this thing on the jfk conspiracy (i hope jeremy saw it) and they gave all the oliver stone info, but when it came down to the real experiments they did, they just "forgot" to demonstrate all that stuff that would lead you to believe ole lee was not the only one involved. bastards.
bass color is now midnight wine. it just blends better.
SHINS TONIGHT. brent, if you don't have work out the wazoo, call me (901) 830 4145. i miss you, too.
it feels like i've been sitting on the edge of my seat with every situation these days. it's not a terrible feeling. i don't always notice it. but, it's not fun to feel like you are just hanging on to a thread that's attached to someone else, waiting for the tug. i hate being the tugger, though. or the tugee. it's lose/lose in that sense, i guess. whatever. today is a beautiful day.
i don't want to live arkansas.
agh! i just got off the phone with my mom, and she refuses to help me get the bass. had it all together. i was going to pay 15 a month and i would have my bass immediately. fucking....al;dkjfa;dfj. FUCK!
|Wednesday, November 19th, 2003
You are "Lets Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and
to Be Loved)". You are cautious of your
actions and if you feel you'll end up being
hurt in a situation, you avoid it. You like
things in life to be real and pure, and you
hate the News on TV. To you, love is a puzzle
that you once felt a piece of but now you have
learned to focus on other things. You want to
get away from where you are.
Which BRIGHT EYES song are you?
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|Tuesday, November 18th, 2003
now that i put that subject up, by the time you look at the blurty cover page to see a beautiful guy with great hair and a great smile, there will be something hideous up. oh well.
philosophy test was a breeze. it's gross outside. HOWEVER, nothing can bring me down from this gtfu high. best night ever. so cool. can't explain. standing on my chair, giddy out of my soul.
i am ordering a blue agave fender precision bass on friday. shoot me if i don't.
Blurty for Lauren.


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The rainbow flag donated by a local business owner no longer flies over the entrance of West Hollywood City Hall.
This has led to a debate about whether the California city, where 40% of the 34,000 residents are gay men, is moving away from its LGBT identity.
Openly gay councilman John Duran took to Facebook this week to try and quiet the critics.
The five-member council, four of whom are gay men, voted in November to leave it up to City Manager Paul Arevalo to choose which unofficial flags to fly at City Hall.
'There were zero complaints from anyone to motivate our decision,' writes Duran.
The vote was taken because other groups had inquired about flying their flags at City Hall during the appropriate months.
The flag had not flown over the building before but was put up in June and remained in celebration of landmark US Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage.
'We all know the city is UBER gay with 40% of our residents being LGBT,' Duran wrote. 'But 60% of our residents are not. So we crafted a reasonable policy that affirms our diversity and still allows multiple rainbows all year round. Gays and straights living together and sharing this wonderful city.'
The Pride flag will return to City Hall in June during Pride Month and other flags will fly on occasion such as the transgender flag in November and the veterans POW flag at Memorial Day.
The flag that had been flying at City Hall between the US and California flags was donated to the city by Larry Block, owner of the Block Party clothing store.
Block, who said 'tears rolled down my face when the rainbow flag waved above City Hall,' is now asking for the flag back.
'Taking the rainbow flag down is one more way West Hollywood is shedding some of it's LGBT identity,' Block wrote in a letter to the council.
Block added that the city manager, who is straight, 'may not have the sensitivity to the struggles of the LGBT community.'
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Release notes for PyTables 2.0 series
Changes from 2.0b2 to 2.0rc1
- The API Reference section of the User's Manual (and the matching docstrings) has been completely reviewed, expanded and corrected. This process has unveiled some errors and inconsistencies which have also been fixed.
- Fixed VLArray.__getitem__() to behave as expected in Python when using slices, instead of following the semantics of PyTables' read() methods (e.g. reading just one element when no stop is provided). Fixes ticket #50.
- Removed implicit UTF-8 encoding from VLArray data using vlstring atoms. Now a variable-length string is stored as is, which lets users use any encoding of their choice, or none of them. A vlunicode atom will probably be added to the next release so as to fix ticket #51.
- Allow non-sequence objects to be passed to VLArray.append() when using an object atom. This was already possible in 1.x but stopped working when the old append syntax was dropped in 2.0. Fixes ticket #63.
- Changed Cols.__len__() to return the number of rows of the table or nested column (instead of the number of fields), like its counterparts in Table and Column.
- Python scalars cached in AttributeSet instances are now kept as NumPy objects instead of Python ones, because they do become NumPy objects when retrieved from disk. Fixes ticket #59.
- Avoid HDF5 error when appending an empty array to a Table (ticket #57) or EArray (ticket #49) dataset.
- Fix wrong implementation of the top-level table.description._v_dflts map, which was also including the pathnames of columns inside nested columns. Fixes ticket #45.
- Optimized the access to unaligned arrays in Numexpr between a 30% and a 70%.
- Fixed a die-hard bug that caused the loading of groups while closing a file. This only showed with certain usage patterns of the LRU cache (e.g. the one caused by ManyNodesTestCase in test_indexes.py under Pro).
- Avoid copious warnings about unused functions and variables when compiling Numexpr.
- Several fixes to Numexpr expressions with all constant values. Fixed tickets #53, #54, #55, #58. Reported bugs to mainstream developers.
- Solved an issue when trying to open one of the included test files in append mode on a system-wide installation by a normal user with no write privileges on it. The file isn't being modified anyway, so the test is skipped then.
- Added a new benchmark to compare the I/O speed of Array and EArray objects with that of cPickle.
- The old Row.__call__() is no longer available as a public method. It was not documented, anyway. Fixes ticket #46.
- Cols._f_close() is no longer public. Fixes ticket #47.
- Attributes._f_close() is no longer public. Fixes ticket #52.
- The undocumented Description.classdict attribute has been completely removed. Fixes ticket #44.
Changes from 2.0b1 to 2.0b2
- A very exhaustive overhauling of the User's Manual is in process. The chapters 1 (Introduction), 2 (Installation), 3 (Tutorials) have been completed (and hopefully, the lines of code are easier to copy&paste now), while chapter 4 (API Reference) has been done up to (and including) the Table class. During this tedious (but critical in a library) overhauling work, we have tried hard to synchronize the text in the User's Guide with that which appears on the docstrings.
- Removed the recursive argument in Group._f_walkNodes(). Using it with a false value was redundant with Group._f_iterNodes(). Fixes ticket #42.
- Removed the coords argument from Table.read(). It was undocumented and redundant with Table.readCoordinates(). Fixes ticket #41.
- Fixed the signature of Group.__iter__() (by removing its parameters).
- Added new Table.coldescrs and Table.description._v_itemsize attributes.
- Added a couple of new attributes for leaves:
- nrowsinbuf: the number of rows that fit in the internal buffers.
- chunkshape: the chunk size for chunked datasets.
- Fixed setuptools so that making an egg out of the PyTables 2 package is possible now.
- Added a new tables.restrict_flavors() function allowing to restrict available flavors to a given set. This can be useful e.g. if you want to force PyTables to get NumPy data out of an old, numarray-flavored PyTables file even if the numarray package is installed.
- Fixed a bug which caused filters of unavailable compression libraries to be loaded as using the default Zlib library, after issuing a warning. Added a new FiltersWarning and a Filters.copy().
Changes from 1.4.x to 2.0b1
API additions
- Column.createIndex() has received a couple of new parameters: optlevel and filters. The first one sets the desired quality level of the index, while the second one allows the user to specify the filters for the index.
- Table.indexprops has been split into Table.indexFilters and Table.autoIndex. The later groups the functionality of the old auto and reindex.
- The new Table.colpathnames is a sequence which contains the full pathnames of all bottom-level columns in a table. This can be used to walk all Column objects in a table when used with Table.colinstances.
- The new Table.colinstances dictionary maps column pathnames to their associated Column or Cols object for simple or nested columns, respectively. This is similar to Table.cols._f_col(), but faster.
- Row has received a new Row.fetch_all_fields() method in order to return all the fields in the current row. This returns a NumPy void scalar for each call.
- New tables.test(verbose=False, heavy=False) high level function for interactively running the complete test suite from the Python console.
- Added a tables.print_versions() for easily getting the versions for all the software on which PyTables relies on.
Backward-incompatible changes
- You can no longer mark a column for indexing in a Col declaration. The only way of creating an index for a column is to invoke the createIndex() method of the proper column object after the table has been created.
- Now the Table.colnames attribute is just a list of the names of top-level columns in a table. You can still get something similar to the old structure by using Table.description._v_nestedNames. See also the new Table.colpathnames attribute.
- The File.objects, File.leaves and File.groups dictionaries have been removed. If you still need this functionality, please use the File.getNode() and File.walkNodes() instead.
- Table.removeIndex() is no longer available; to remove an index on a column, one must use the removeIndex() method of the associated Column instance.
- Column.dirty is no longer available. If you want to check column index dirtiness, use Column.index.dirty.
- complib and complevel parameters have been removed from File.createTable(), File.createEArray(), File.createCArray() and File.createVLArray(). They were already deprecated in PyTables 1.x.
- The shape and atom parameters have been swapped in File.createCArray(). This has been done to be consistent with Atom() definitions (i.e. type comes before and shape after).
Deprecated features
- Node._v_rootgroup has been removed. Please use node._v_file.root instead.
- The Node._f_isOpen() and Leaf.isOpen() methods have been removed. Please use the Node._v_isopen attribute instead (it is much faster).
- The File.getAttrNode(), File.setAttrNode() and File.delAttrNode() methods have been removed. Please use File.getNodeAttr(), File.setNodeAttr() and File.delNodeAttr() instead.
- File.copyAttrs() has been removed. Please use File.copyNodeAttrs() instead.
- The table[colname] idiom is no longer supported. You can use table.cols._f_col(column) for doing the same.
API refinements
- File.createEArray() received a new shape parameter. This allows to not have to use the shape of the atom so as to set the shape of the underlying dataset on disk.
- All the leaf constructors have received a new chunkshape parameter that allows specifying the chunk sizes of datasets on disk.
- All File.create*() factories for Leaf nodes have received a new byteorder parameter that allows the user to specify the byteorder in which data will be written to disk (data in memory is now always handled in native order).
Enjoy data!
—The PyTables Team