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BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter August 22, 2012 10:34AM
Members of the Chicago Teacher's Union picketed outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters, 125 S. Clark St. Wednesday morning. CTU president Karen Lewis held a news conference. | John H. White~Sun-Times
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Chicago Teachers Union officials Wednesday charged that nine months of contract negotiations have only produced "very limited
progress'' and so far, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's longer school day is not a better school day.
An 11th-hour longer school day that began in the one third of the system's schools last week with year-round calendars has been implemented "haphazardly" and "ridiculously,'' CTU President Karen Lewis said Wednesday at a news conference.
"It is not a better school day yet and if we just leave it up to these guys, it will never be a better school day,'' Lewis charged shortly before CPS officials gathered for the Chicago School Board's monthly meeting.
Chicago Public School CEO Jean-Claude Brizard disagreed with Lewis on the longer school day.
"Our focus is on our kids, and we're putting them first," Brizard said in a statement. "School is off to a great start this year and both teachers and students are enthusiastic to be back. The full school day is working, and now is not the time to turn our backs on our kids just as they are making progress in the classroom."
Board members are expected to vote on a budget that has been denounced by civic and advocacy groups for, among other things, draining the system's reserve funds to help plug a $665 million deficit.
During Wednesday's board meeting, Chicago School Board members were asked to authorize spending up to $25 million on a contingency plan in the event the CTU does go on strike. The plan would be implemented only upon the receipt of a 10-day notice to strike — something CTU officials would have to issue by Saturday if they want to preserve the right to strike on Sept. 4, the first day of classes for most of the system.
The contingency proposal authorizes the nation's third-largest school system to begin hiring vendors to provide "non-instructional services" and to start arranging access to shelter and meals for students left adrift by a strike.
Meanwhile, CTU President Lewis and School Board President David Vitale seemed to share an olive-leaf moment during the public participation section of Wednesday's board meeting. Lewis warned board members that "we're still pretty far apart'' at the negotiating table.
But with her vitriol turned down, she added that, "We'd like to get a contract settled. We know there will be one. It's just a question of when. We're hoping for movement in the next few days.''
School Board President David Vitale sounded receptive, agreeing that, "We'd like to get this solved and we'll work with you.''
Lewis said earlier in the day she didn't expect the union to issue a 10-day intent to strike notice on Wednesday, but union officials are expected to seek input from delegates during a meeting late Wednesday afternoon at Lane Technical High School on the Northwest Side.
Teachers don't want a strike, "but I say this. If it's necessary to do so, we will,'' Lewis told reporters Wednesday morning outside Chicago Board of Education headquarters, before the board meeting.
She spoke as about 50 CTU members picketed behind her and later chanted "They say cutback. We say fight back.''
Chicago Public School officials have insisted that progress has been made at the bargaining table.
Lewis, though, charged that with the extra instructional minutes teachers must teach during the longer day, the 10 days added on to the school year, the "itty bitty'' 2 percent raise being offered "is not acceptable.''
The union also is balking at the board's insistence on freezing additional increases for experience and extra credentials, often called "steps and lanes." The union wants extra increases, on top of a raise, that recognize "experience and educational attainment,'' Lewis said.
The union is not "stalling,'' Lewis said. Instead, "we've given them proposal after proposal'' that's been ignored. She said the CTU does not have a "drop dead'' deadline by which they want the contract resolved and warned "our members have walked picket lines in December, so it's not about when.''
"We're going to reach an agreement. We'll have a contract,'' Lewis said. It's up to CPS on whether the two sides reach it the "easy'' way or the "hard" way, she said.
The deal that allows students the longer school day promised by Emanuel during his mayoral campaign while not substantially increasing the teacher's day has so far has been "a slogan'' more than a "better day,'' said CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey.
Some librarians have not had time to stack and order books for children because they have lost their preparation time under the deal, Sharkey said. Counselors are being recruited to use their prep time to supervise lunch or recess.
One school is spending the first hour of the day on "club time,'' without teacher supervision, Sharkey said. In another, mandatory recess for third graders was being held in classrooms, he said.
So far, Sharkey said, "it just looks like a longer day, not a better day to us."


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I saw a huge cockroach at my patients house
- 0Aug 6, '12 by 50kni was assigned this private duty case (night shift) ---the patient is a 5 months baby. my company said that the case is lvn case and pays only at lvn rate. i am an rn but other patients houses are far from my house, i just vaguely accepted the case.
at the house yesterday, while family members were sleeping, i was with this baby, and saw a huge cockroach. i have seen cockroaches only a few times in my life, but this one was so big and had light brown color. i was so terrified. i saw cockroaches twice throughout the night though i dont know if they were the same one or different roaches.
anyway, i am scared of cockroaches. according to my company, i was supposed to work with this patient 5 days a week but after i saw the cockroaches, i decided to call my company tomorrow and tell them i would not be able to work 5 days a week, probably i would be able to work only two days a week. (i actually dont want go back to this house but until i found the next job, i should work at least a little).
is there somebody who refused the case because of horrible environment (such as cockroach, spiders and ants )?
- 0Aug 6, '12 by caliotter3I haven't left a case due to vermin or heavy degrees of lack of house hygiene. I've left more often due to issues of personal safety or the clients just taking too much advantage of me.
- 0Aug 7, '12 by merleeTell your supervisor what you saw. Don't just leave. Make sure the child is safe. Get over it. If there is one large roach, there are dozens others.
You don't say where you are, but someone may need to call the health department. Leave that to someone at your agency.
Take some bug spray with you, but do not spray anywhere near the baby or the baby's furniture.
- 0Aug 7, '12 by iluvivtThey need to have some professionally removed with an exterminator. My company actually paid for one of our pts hotel room while her apt complex had the exterminator get rid of the cockroaches. Is this a single family home or an apt complex b/c its much more difficult to get rid of them in building with multiple units. They tend to come out at night and I think they are very creepy and jumpy and make me sick too. They will not hesitate to get on you either or crawl right across a bed or furniture. I would let my agency know and they can assist with an exterminator as part of social services. Your assessment shows an unhealthy environment with infestation and it needs to be addressed.
- 0Aug 7, '12 by nursel56 GuideI can't stand cockroaches. I did have a family with a horrible ant problem, which I had no difficulty working around.
Then, I had a patient who had cockroaches living either in or under his vent!!! I understand they gravitate toward things like phones, radios and microwave ovens because the electricity generates heat. Yes, the RT was aware of the situation, which finally got resolved because she was even more skeeved out than I was.
If you aren't able to get a bug specialist in to get rid of them, remember they hate light, but are specialists at hitching a ride to your house in your stuff. I would bring the absolute bare minimum of stuff in the house with you, and keep it in sealable containers. I'm so paranoid about them, I would change clothes outside my house, too.
If it were me it wouldn't make much difference whether I was grossed out 2 nights a week vs 5 nights a week if I really needed the money, though. Best wishes!
- 1Aug 7, '12 by SDALPNRoaches are very common in PDN. Most agencies won't do anything about it to avoid upsetting the family. I hate roaches and worry about the health of my patients when they are present. The fact that the agency will only pay you an LPN rate and knows the environment they sent you in tells me the agency isn't very concerned. Plus 5 days open is rare unless its a bad case that nobody wants to go to.
- 0Aug 7, '12 by 50kni think so too, probably nobody wants to go to the house. as i saw the medical record when i went to the house last time, previously several lvn had worked with the patient, but after 2- 4 days every lvn stopped visiting the house. last week nobody worked there except me working on saturday. i don't know the real reason why lvns who have been sent to the house keep quitting, but the lvns might have seen cockroaches, then they quit. and opening is not only 5 days; actually the scheduler says that there are 7days opening at the house. anyway, i can work there only 1-2 nights, but i cannot deal with cockroaches any more than that.
- 0Aug 8, '12 by tothepointeLVNYou've have freaked out at the place I was doing a hospice shift at. There were cockroaches (tiny ones though) everywhere. And a secret hole in the bathroom floor covered by a carpet so you couldn't see it as you fell in.
- 0May 4, '13 by LPN4life2004I had a place that I went to with bed bugs. In my area, they weren't a problem and my bite reaction didn't show up for about 4 days after. I only went there 1 time a week, and when I finally figured out what it was from (at first I thought it was hives until I noticed the pattern) I called my office and they didn't believe me. I told them I wasn't going to be able to go back as I couldn't risk an infestation in my house. Thankfully I didn't get one from being there before I realized what was going on. I also saw a mouse a few times an promptly reported that too. Thankfully I don't scare easily or the family would have woke up to screaming!
- 0May 4, '13 by KATRN78I saw a roach in a clean looking house of a rich family's home. I was not expecting that.
I once went to a home that was so filthy, feces on toilet seat, trash on floor, animal feces on floor, stench of cat box in the air, a swarm of fruit flies buzzing in the kitchen, an old fashion sticky fly trap hanging over the sink, covered in old dried dead flies, just totally filthy. I did not stay for orientation.
I reported it all to my office.
The baby had a central line, colostomy, feeding tube... etc. he died 9 mos later. Another nurse told me that he kept getting septic.


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"For those of you that own firearms, train hard and well and teach those that do not know how. Be good stewards of the right to bear arms, for we are the last line of defense against tyranny." (Wallace)
I cannot envision a day when law abiding American citizens would take up arms against our own government. I hope that never changes. We are better than that, choosing instead to carry out our revolts every four years at the ballot box. Our system, as it stands, is still a system of checks and balances. It has been very successful in constraining a radical President, so far.
Rather, if grave calamity strikes, my firearms will be used to prevent direct harm to me and my family, from thugs, thieves and those foolish enough to trespass with ill-intent.
I love my country, the United States of America, and would never take up arms against her. The only thing that would make me reconsider is if my country took up arms against me, and I just don't see that happening. This isn't pre-WW II Germany. We can thank our melting pot for that.


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Changing Family Life, Are Games And Gadgets To Blame For Obesity In Children
Michelle will get nostalgic on her childhood and considers happy families and health.
Do you think back at the childhood with rose tinted spectacles? Individuals care-free days where summer season were really warm, and also the days appeared to visit of for good. Hurrying lower your breakfast which means you could avoid the home to visit your buddies and spend hrs curler-skating, climbing trees, and riding around on proper scooters which had large wheels, with tassels fluttering out of your handlebars, nothing like these modern micro-scooters you receive today.
How occasions have transformed! Using the new computer generation of youngsters, you will probably locate them looking in a monitor than mowing the lawn. Or you do place one really outdoors walking within the outdoors, they appear to become permanently mounted on a telephone, either speaking, texting or having fun with their aps! Hardly as exciting or physically challenging as climbing a tree could it be?
So might be video games, phones along with other electronic devices really the reason for the increase in weight problems among the present generation of kids?
A children's health insurance and family existence could be seriously impacted by weight problems. Resulting problems could be transported on into teen years, and finally, to their adult years. Obviously, whenever a child is overweight they are able to become targets of faculty bullies, which can lead to lots of mental problems you will have to tackle together with how much they weigh problem.
Getting kids right into a regular routine from an earlier age that includes lots of healthy exercise may be one of the most crucial steps to prevent attaining being overweight, and addressing your loved ones health needs. Getting outdoors for a little of family outside fun is a superb initial step. Heading out for any family walk or character ramble at weekends, or take with you some sports gear to make use of at the local park, for example rackets, different sized balls, jump rope, hula hoops, beanbags, a frizbee or perhaps a kite. Carrying this out regularly may also cause them to become uncover a task or sport they wish to occupy, like the school football, netball or athletics team. It might even cause them to become occupy an from school activity for example Cub Scouts, Rainbows and Brownies, or joining a golf club to understand fighting techinques. Each one of these activities are healthy both physically and psychologically, and can promote good associations along with other children and grown ups.
Banning children by using the pc or gaming system is only going to cause bitterness, so why wouldn't you encourage child & family health using the playing of sports or activity games where everyone could possibly get involved. You will find several options with modern consoles for games that enable you to get up from the sofa and become physically active to experience the games. Good examples are tennis, golf, bowling, hula-hooping, ski-jumping, slalom skiing, baseball, and much more! You will find even games targeted more at more youthful children which involve jumping over imaginary objects, jumping around catching flying animals, and balancing games. So there is no excuse for just getting games which do a maximum of exercise your thumbs any longer!
Having your children to consume healthy food choices can often be difficult. Therefore if they previously consume a particular healthy food choices without fuss, for example apples and celery, why don't you try to boost the amount by an additional portion each day. Provide them with an additional apple after dinner rather than a sugary pudding, or then add raw carrot stays for their lunchbox when they happily eat celery using their dinner. Try serving fruit salad with natural yogurt like a dessert two times per week, changing a stodgy pudding. Rather than sweets, buy in certain dried apricots, dates and raisins. Have healthy cereal bars and snacks with folded oats and dried fruits rather than eating ready-made biscuits, that are filled with body fat, sugar and chemical chemical preservatives. Browse the nut portion of the snack isle within the supermarket. Choose walnuts, cashews, or mixed fruit and nuts instead of unhealthy crisps. Make sure to make small changes instead of jumping in and changing everything at the same time. Phase out one unhealthy snack at any given time, when your son or daughter accepts the choice, start the following.
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A Cambria Heights attorney who was the court-appointed guardian for an elderly Queens woman has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 from the woman's estate.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Yves-Merry Telemaque, 49, has been charged with second-degree grand larceny, according to a statement issued by his office on Tuesday afternoon.
She faces 15 years in prison if convicted.
Brown said Telemaque was appointed to oversee the affairs of Cleo Veal in May 2007. Veal died in November 2008 at age 92.
"The defendant was appointed by the court to look out for the financial affairs of a person incapable of doing so for herself," Brown said in a press release. "It is unacceptable that she then allegedly took the money for her own use."
Brown's statement alleges that Telemaque stole property from the estate between August 2008 and March 2013.
She received permission from the courts to sell real estate belonging to Veal shortly before the woman died, and was directed to deposit the proceeds from the sale — more than $311,000 — into a special bank account.
Bank and court records allegedly show that Telemaque made two deposits into the account totaling just over $315,000 in August and November 2008.
An investigation carried out by a forensic accountant on the district attorney's staff, and the office's detective bureau, determined that there was a balance in the account of only $13,426 as of March 29 of this year and that "the defendant did prior to that date make withdrawals in excess of $50,000 without authority or permission."


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Sports Marketing Student Learns 'The Ripken Way' During Internship
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Sports Marketing senior Chelsea Konarzewski landed an internship with The Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The Ripken Experience, founded by former Major League baseball players Cal Ripken Sr., Cal Ripken Jr. and Bill Ripken, hosts youth baseball camps and tournaments, as well as training programs for high school and college baseball and softball teams.
Some of Chelsea's responsibilities include assisting players at camp check-in, coordinate opening rituals, and compile player welcome packets and gift bags. Chelsea previously interned for the men's basketball team here at Ferris and is now learning the ins and outs of baseball.
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My name is Amelia Reynolds and I am a Sophomore transfer student at Ithaca College. I am currently majoring in Journalism and minoring in Theater. My mother is a professional portrait painter and my father worked in his fathers' radio station for twenty years; needless to say, I was raised in a household passionate about artistic expression. A passionate writer since grade school, I selected Journalism based on my love for communication in the arts. Hungry for a large spectrum of experiences I inserted myself heavily into the theater department in high school, co-hosted a radio show my freshman year at Skidmore College, and climbed my way to editor of my high school's literary magazine, Prism. Attending a Quaker high school for nine years instilled a sensitivity for stewardship, so I find joy in activism and philanthropy (some examples found in my resume). Accepted into the Philip's Exeter's School Year Abroad Program in Viterbo, Italy my junior year broadened my horizons to the meaning of truth and experience. The cultural differences and prevalence of opinion sparked in me a need for continuous knowledge from a variety of perspectives. I want nothing more than to travel the world, taste the foods, see the arts, then record, inspire others to experience the same joy.
Though my literary experience has been primarily in writing, my courses in journalism as well as the first-year seminar S'Park: Ignite Your Future in Communications has trained me to perceive the everyday with an objective eye. The S'Park class' extensive exploration of the ever-changing world of communications (on the heir of technology and mass-media) has both informed about the struggles of the trained journalist (with the thrive of citizen journalist so prevalent in the Facebook-age), and reassured the importance of multi-faceted resourcefulness. We were trained to know how to inform using Twitter, mobile phones, blog posts, etc., with the added credibility of accuracy, eloquence, and precision that a large portion of the virtual community do not have. In a world of instant-gratification, I plan to write with meticulousness, but with color and care.
My experience with theater and the arts has given me the sensitivity to language and fearlessness that make me both adaptable and resourceful. The challenges of today's job market requiring expertise in a wide range of technology will give those majoring in computers and those who are in general more tech-savvy a leg up, but I'm a fast learner and very willing to take on assignments of any field that are required of me. Sound advice that has resonated with me from the S'Park class were those of distinguishing yourself and making personal connections. As an educated female journalist amongst a number of others I plan to take advantage of Ithaca College's study abroad and internship programs. As my travels in Italy have become a distant memory, I plan to pick the language back up and ideally acquire fluency, though I do not plan on limiting my travels in college and beyond to the country I am familiar with. I would love to pursue either the fiction-writing aspect of journalism, or become a feature writer. Becoming a well-versed journalist with a respected eye for the arts is my ultimate goal here at Ithaca College.


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NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- Investors who allocated a portion of their capital abroad have been experiencing a whole lot of performance envy lately.
For instance, those who concentrated their dollars in the S&P 500 last year savored 30% price appreciation, while those who allocated some money to the MSCI EAFE Index struggled to come to terms with a disappointing 18%. Heaven forbid you believed that emerging market valuations were so cheap that you had placed a small stake in the MSCI Emerging Market Index; exchange-traded funds tracking the index actually lost value in 2013.
Perhaps unfortunately, U.S. Federal Reserve "tapering" is liable to increase borrowing costs and dent currencies in developing countries. Couple the reduction in electronic dollar printing with an exodus of capital from up-n-coming regions, and the prospect for a turnaround in Vanguard Emerging Markets
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Not everything is as gloomy abroad as it seems at first blush, however. A flash eurozone manufacturing indicator in January jumped to its highest level in two-and-a-half years (53.9). What's more, whereas the U.S. central bank (i.e., Federal Reserve) feels pressure to taper (a.k.a. "tighten") or maintain its current level of monetary accommodation, the European Central Bank actually has room to loosen its policy to support investor sentiment as well as boost economic growth. With price-to-earnings ratios in the U.S. at lofty levels by most traditional measures, the eurozone has been looking better.
This is not to suggest that Europe is without risk. On the contrary: The entire continent has plenty of walls of worry to climb. Nevertheless, it is worth noting the month-over-month differences between key foreign developed stock ETFs and U.S. stock ETFs. Might the percentages represent a January barometer of relative strength?
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Riven Rock Farm is located in beautiful Highland County, Virginia. We strive to offer a place where the wild meets agriculture, a place where healthy ecosystems and biodiversity are priorities over monocultures and dollars.
Our mission at Riven Rock Farm is to develop and nurture a holistic, sustainable mountain farm- and to share our products, services and experiences with like-minded people.
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Riven Rock is comprised of 600 acres of hardwood forests, mountain meadows, and high sweeping pastures. The old celtic word "Riven" means- to split or shatter- and we certainly have our share of split rock formations, cliffs and caves here in our forests and ridges.
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Soft tissue tumors: Clear cell sarcoma
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Soft Tissue Tumors:Uncertain differentiation:Clear cell sarcoma of the soft tissue
Other names Clear cell sarcoma of the tendons and aponeuroses Malignant melanoma of the soft parts Nests of clear polygonal cells delineated by fibrous septa (H&E, 200x).
Clinics and Pathology Disease Soft tissue tumour, presenting as a slow growing mass intimately associated with tendons and aponeuroses, in young adults. Note To be distinguished from clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, to which it is unrelated. Embryonic origin mesoderm Epidemiology rare sarcoma affecting primarily young adults Clinics slowly growing tumour mass, causing pain or tenderness, particularly frequently (up to 95% of the cases) situated in the extremities, with a predilection for the foot and the ankle. Cellular smear almost exclusively showing dispersed spindle cells. Their oval nuclei are only slightly irregular and contain a large nucleolus. The cytoplasm is rather scant (MGG, 400x) (Courtesy of Dr. J. Willems, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ziekenhuis Aalst, Belgium). Pathology Polygonal or spindle shaped cells with abundant eosinophilic or clear cytoplasm displaying a uniform, nested to fascicular growth pattern, delineated by fibrous septa. Melanin deposits can be demonstrated using specific stains, but is more readily detectable by immunoreactivity against melanoma antigens (e.g. S100 and HMB45) in the vast majority of the cases. Left to right: A: Typical clear cell sarcoma with eosinophilic cytoplasm (H&E, 400x); B: A reticulin meshwork surrounds the individual nests (reticulin, 200x); C: Strong S100 immunoreactivity, a consistent feature (S100, 400x). Treatment radical surgical resection, adjuvant radiotherapy should be considered in incomplete resections, large (>5 cm) tumours and/or high grade lesions. Clear cell sarcomas seems to display little sensitivity to conventional soft tissue sarcoma multi-agent chemotherapy protocols. Evolution special attention should be paid to the occurrence of late recurrences (median time to recurrence: 4.2 years). Prognosis Generally, clear cell sarcoma is characterised by an adverse prognosis, only 40 to 50% of the patients being long-term survivors. As recurrences may occur late, 5-year survival rates tend to misjudge prognosis. Established prognostic features include: tumour size, necrosis and local recurrence. Cytogenetics Cytogenetics
The cytogenetic hallmark of clear cell sarcoma is the presence of the t(12;22)(q13;q12). This translocation has been described in the majority of reported clear cell sarcoma cases, not however in other malignancies. The translocation is readily identifiable with G-, R- or Q-banding. The t(12;22)(q13;q12), as identified by G-banding. Cytogenetics Molecular Fluorescence in situ hybridisation based approaches can be used to demonstrate the t(12;22), using chromosome painting probes or to demonstrate EWSR1 and ATF1 gene rearrangement, using gene specific probes. Although the t(12;22) has been reported as the sole chromosomal aberration in clear cell sarcoma, most cases display additional cytogenetic anomalies, including +7, +8 and structural and numerical aberrations of chromosome 22. dual colour in situ hybridisation the EWS cosmid G9 (green) and the ATF1 CCS2.2 cosmid (red) demonstrating a juxtaposition of 5' EWS to 3' ATF1 sequences, indicating the presence of a EWS/ATF1 genomic fusion (arrowheads). Probes EWSR1 probes: 5' EWSR1: G9 cosmid; 3' ATF1 probe: CCS2.2 Variants No variant translocations, creating EWSR1/ATF1 fusion transcripts, have been described. Genes involved and Proteins Gene Name EWSR1 Location 22q13 Note also called EWS. Dna / Rna EWSR1 is transcribed from centromere to telomere at 22q12. The coding sequence contains 1971 bp, comprising 17 exons and spans approximately 32kb. Alternative splicing creates the EWS-b variant, lacking exons 8 and 9. Protein The EWS protein contains a C-terminal RNA binding domain and has indeed been shown to display RNA binding properties. The functions of the EWS protein, however, largely remain elusive.
Gene Name ATF1 Location 12q13 Dna / Rna ATF1 is transcribed from centromere to telomere at 12q13. The coding sequence contains 816bp, comprising 6 exons and spans approximately 43kb. Protein ATF1 encodes a member of the CREB/ATF basic leucine-zipper type transcription factor family and binds to cAMP inducible promotors.
Result of the chromosomal anomaly Hybrid Gene detection protocole: as described by Antonescu et al. (the data given are virtually identical to the Table 1 from the mentioned reference) Description The EWS/ATF1 fusion transcript is detectable in up to 90% of the clear cell sarcoma cases. As described in other EWS rearrangements, the transcript fuses 5' EWS to 3' heterologous sequences. The reciprocal ATF1/EWS fusion probably does not contribute to malignant transformation since it is out of frame. Transcript Several alternatively spliced transcripts have been described, the more frequent being the type 1 fusion: EWS exon 8 fused to ATF1 exon 4. Fusion Protein Oncogenesis The EWS/ATF1 oncoprotein converts ATF1 to a constitutive transcriptional activator that represses p53/CBP-mediated transactivation. Other genes implicated (Data extracted from papers in the Atlas) Genes
Translocations implicated (Data extracted from papers in the Atlas) t(12;22)(q13;q12) EWSR1/ATF1 t(2;22)(q34;q12) EWSR1/CREB1 External links Mitelman database t(12;22)(q13;q12) - Mitelman database (CGAP - NCBI) t(2;22)(q34;q12) - Mitelman database (CGAP - NCBI) COSMIC Histo = - Site = soft_tissue fibrous_tissue_and_uncertain_origin (COSMIC) arrayMap Topo ( C47,C49) Morph ( 9044/3) - arrayMap (Zurich) Bibliography Malignant melanoma of soft parts. A reassessment of clear cell sarcoma. Chung EB, Enzinger FM The American journal of surgical pathology. 1983 ; 7 (5) : 405-413. PMID 6614306 Cytogenetic findings in clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses. Malignant melanoma of soft parts. Bridge JA, Sreekantaiah C, Neff JR, Sandberg AA Cancer genetics and cytogenetics. 1991 ; 52 (1) : 101-106. PMID 2009504 Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissues. Mayo Clinic experience with 35 cases. Lucas DR, Nascimento AG, Sim FH The American journal of surgical pathology. 1992 ; 16 (12) : 1197-1204. PMID 1463095 Malignant melanoma of soft parts. Further cytogenetic characterization. Speleman F, Colpaert C, Goovaerts G, Leroy JG, Van Marck E Cancer genetics and cytogenetics. 1992 ; 60 (2) : 176-179. PMID 1606560 EWS and ATF-1 gene fusion induced by t(12;22) translocation in malignant melanoma of soft parts. Zucman J, Delattre O, Desmaze C, Epstein AL, Stenman G, Speleman F, Fletchers CD, Aurias A, Thomas G Nature genetics. 1993 ; 4 (4) : 341-345. PMID 8401579 The EWS-ATF-1 gene involved in malignant melanoma of soft parts with t(12;22) chromosome translocation, encodes a constitutive transcriptional activator. Fujimura Y, Ohno T, Siddique H, Lee L, Rao VN, Reddy ES Oncogene. 1996 ; 12 (1) : 159-167. PMID 8552387 Malignant melanoma of the soft parts (clear-cell sarcoma): confirmation of EWS and ATF-1 gene fusion caused by a t(12;22) translocation. Speleman F, Delattre O, Peter M, Hauben E, Van Roy N, Van Marck E Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc. 1997 ; 10 (5) : 496-499. PMID 9160316 Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissues in children and young adults: the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital experience. Parasuraman S, Rao BN, Bodner S, Cain A, Pratt CB, Merchant TE, Pappo AS Pediatric hematology and oncology. 1999 ; 16 (6) : 539-544. PMID 10599094 EWS-ATF-1 chimeric protein in soft tissue clear cell sarcoma associates with CREB-binding protein and interferes with p53-mediated trans-activation function. Fujimura Y, Siddique H, Lee L, Rao VN, Reddy ES Oncogene. 2001 ; 20 (46) : 6653-6659. PMID 11709699 Molecular diagnosis of clear cell sarcoma: detection of EWS-ATF1 and MITF-M transcripts and histopathological and ultrastructural analysis of 12 cases. Antonescu CR, Tschernyavsky SJ, Woodruff JM, Jungbluth AA, Brennan MF, Ladanyi M The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD. 2002 ; 4 (1) : 44-52. PMID 11826187 Molecular genetic characterization of the EWS/ATF1 fusion gene in clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses. Panagopoulos I, Mertens F, D��biec-Rychter M, Isaksson M, Limon J, Kardas I, Domanski HA, Sciot R, Perek D, Crnalic S, Larsson O, Mandahl N International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer. 2002 ; 99 (4) : 560-567. PMID 11992546 REVIEW articles automatic search in PubMed Last year articles automatic search in PubMed Contributor(s) Written 11-2002 Bruce Poppe, Ramses Forsyth, Karl Dhaene, Frank Speleman Citation This paper should be referenced as such : Poppe, B ; Forsyth, RG ; Dhaene, K ; Speleman, F Soft tissue tumors: Clear cell sarcoma Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2003;7(1):48-51. Free online version Free pdf version [Bibliographic record ] URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Tumors/ClearCellSarcID5074.html
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At high school I studied Latin and Greek for 5 years, but I fell in love with English. I wanted to be an architect and a forester. Then I took a Master's of Science in Communication. I dreamt to be like Melanie Griffith in Working Girl, but after six years as an employee and event organizer I eventually understood that it was not my cup of tea. I read cinema magazines for years, learning the names of every actor and director by heart. I opened a swimming fan club with my best friend, and for four years this took us around Italy – and Europe – to cheer up the Italian team with the national flag painted on our faces. I attended an advanced English course, a graphics course and a wedding planner workshop.
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In February 2009 I opened my blog, Juls' Kitchen, in order to give a voice to this passion. Then I learnt to express it through words and images. Now Juls' Kitchen is a diary of my life in Tuscany as seen through my experiences with food.
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While we're on the subject of multi-act bills, two interesting ones are scheduled for next weekend. First up is Surreality, an electronic-music throw-down headlined by a handful of out-of-towners: Dave London, DJ 43, DJ Dara, and Jason Dunne. But Surreality is especially notable for its wealth of local talent. Almost two dozen area DJs will appear, including Tray Stylz, Mark J, Lacy, Frankie Vega, Michael Todd, Squirt, Phooka, Mundo, Lil Soozee, Ed Crunk, Booth, Eric Entity, and Space Mountain Bob. (Though those are eye-catching names, the best handle of them all hangs on Austin's Muppetfucker.) The shindig happens June 3, and doors are open from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Check www.valence2000.com for more details. Also on June 3 is Indie Fest 2000, a hip-hop extravaganza at the Gypsy Tea Room sponsored by Digital187.com. It's a solid lineup, featuring sets by The Living Legends Crew (The Grouch, P.S.C., Sunspot Jonz, Murs, Scarus, Eligh, Asop, and Bizzaro), The Family (Shabazz 3, Mental Chaos, and The Free Agents together onstage), Hysteria 51, The Destructicons, and The M.E.N.U. All of a sudden, we feel really out of touch...
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As we enter the fall, it is so rewarding to look back on a busy 12 months. Apart from acquisitions, we enjoyed successful professional golf events at Firestone Country Club (World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational), Las Colinas Country Club (North Texas LPGA Shootout), Mission Hills Country Club (Kraft Nabisco Championship), and Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate (the Web.com Midwest Classic), and held fun national Member events at Firestone and, once again, Pinehurst. I'd be remiss in not thanking our incredible team of more than 15,000 Employee Partners for taking such great care of you and your guests. While it has been a record-breaking year for us, the best is yet to come!
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Open Letter to the Lebanese Minister of Internet
Allow me to tell you the date today: February 23, 2010... Kindly concentrate on the last part... We're in 2010... Not 1985... As I write this, speedtest.net tells me that my internet connection's speed is... Well you can see it to the right... Can you see that ping latency!?!? I mean even with the Lebanese security and Mossad watching me, that's still a high latency of 1.4 seconds... No?!? And that's from Beirut to Damascus... Al okht Damascus is only what?? Ten minutes away?!!? Cause the transatlantic latency between San Francisco and Hong Kong is actually 0.15... New York to London is seeing a 0.077 currently!! And seeing that we're warming up to our Brethren Syrians, you'd think Mr. Jumblat will be requiring a faster internet connection to command center in Damascus...
What's worse is what you would get if you check network performance averages (see right)... You see where I currently stand and where the world stands!!?? And Mr. Minister... I work for a web technology company... WE NEED fast internet... We need to deploy our developments to clients' networks; we need to connect to servers around the world; we need to download resources to use in our day to day work; we need to attend webinars to learn new issues; we need (but we don't cause who are you kidding) to video conference with clients and suppliers...
And for a person like me, I NEED to work... In order to do that, I need to be done with reading the newspapers daily brainwashing me into who I'm supposed to hate and who to love of you politicians... I need to be done with checking where all my friends sihroo mbere7, and who managed to get reservations where on Facebook... I shouldn't have to have lunch break to leave youtube open to stream a two minute video clip and return from lunch two hours later and it's still buffering?!?! When playing games online, I always lose because of the slow internet connections, and so I find myself compulsed to replay these games to try and win... HOW do you expect me to work under such conditions with such a slow internet connection??! How?!?!
Now, just to be fair, I don't like you par default bisabbabb myoolak... ill siyessiyeh (yalli kamen bte3koss myool tenyeh) bass anyways, I tried to give you a chance as I did petit Bassil, who after so much time in the ministry did.... (scary movie music) NOTHING!!! The internet speeds in Lebanon still suck... Our mobile network stumbled from bad to worse with absolutely no additional services introduced, and we're still paying one of the highest rates of internet in Lebanon... So I pay $45 for a 0.5Mbps connection... The US according to this (I'm not even gonna attempt to compare myself to Japan (we need 20 nuclear bombs dropped on us to get their drive)) is paying $3.3 for a 4.8Mbps connection?!?! IS THIS SANE???!?
I know ya ma3ali ill wazzeer inno ill tirkeh t2eeleh (mitil damm honeek 3alam, but let's not go there) but what are YOU doing about it?!??! Petit Bassile promised us early 2009 that we will get TWENTY (read twenty) times faster internet sometime in the spring of last month... We still await... Ba3dein according to my friend Charles, we're supposed to hook on some other internet line and get faster connections in mid-2009... I don't await... I learnt not to have high expectations anymore...
When are all these promises going to come true in realization of the potential that the Lebanese have when they get better hooked on the internet?!? A proper internet connection is no longer a luxury... It is a right... And I know we lack so many basic rights already, say electricity, but this is something TRIVIAL that we could overcome and quick... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
Someone who has very high doubts he'd ever vote for you if you run for office...
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ambivalent whether i should laugh or whether i should cry...ReplyDelete
Very well said tk!!
You're right Lara, it's sad, but I'm actually on my knees ! :PReplyDelete
TK, fishaytelli khil2e ! 3a fikra, hejir 3a Finland ... lahza wait the link is still opening... oops ok here you go : http://bit.ly/bvn9f5
- Sergio LeonFebruary 24, 2010 at 1:01 PM
Ok! Well first i'm completely disappointed with our local connections. You can't have a descent connection here in a leb and it's really frustrating.ReplyDelete
If i should blame some1 it would b all our x prime ministers in telecom and treasury.(means orange bleu and jounblat parties sorry bass jounblat ma ba3rif chou lawno:D). They are all responsible.
As a network admin, i'd think we have one weak optical backbone. In order to increase the amount of bandwidth of zis backbone u need money good planing and time. wala element bi ra2yeh mawjoud. In z past few years, they concentrated on end users by implemented dsl in order get revenues while omitting a good traffic delivery. :( Sad fact but true.
My need is a 10 mb/s connection with a real ip and no limitation. I have barely a 256k unlimited traffic p2p restricted surely with no real ip.Believe it or not, other countries R reachin @ z moment z 1 G :S
All traffic in lebanon is passing throw Ogero. Things should change. I'd b happy hearing some suggestions some solutions.
Lebanese R good in criticisms in pointing @ problems without suggesting a solution or solving it
Ok... Your point that the Lebanese are good criticizing and not suggesting a solution: VERY true... That is what I did here... But seeing that I am not a network specialist and O lack the knowledge needed, I'm not going to nazzir 3al 3alam and present solutions...ReplyDelete
What I do know, as you said, that we have limited connections to the outside world and the Feb story of last year was that we were going to tie up to Syria and Jordan (again, not sure of the mechanism) in order to increase bandwidth...
In this post, I criticized the fact that we did NOT do that... Petit Bassil announced it, said it was going to cost the government nothing (read the linked sites) and yet nothing happened...
A certain genre of people in Lebanon, also like to criticize, not give credit when it's due, and take credit when not due (read above) and blame one certain position which is the Prime Minister... I DISAGREE with that approach, because the decision of the council of ministers and the prime minister, first stem from the minister and are then approved by the Prime Minister and the President... So you can't just always blame the Prime Minister... I could blame all the explosions that happened on the Minister of Interior using that logic, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that that is illogical... (Be that as it may, the Prime Ministers of past and present have failed the Lebanese on so many levels... I'm not saying they are saints, but you can't blame them 3al tali3 will nezzil as people still blame loads of issues like the debt for example on Rafic Hariri)
Hala2 according to the link fo2 Petit Bassil said "that the Lebanese government will not spend any money from its pocket on this cable" so you can't blame the Ministry of Finance or the Prime Minister for this... And if THEY were to blame, I assure you we would have never heard the end of it on tayyar.org and orange media... I, personally, would have backed Bassil if that was the case... Also, he should have raised the issue to the attention of the people that look, I'm trying to introduce an issla7 here, but Hariri or Siniora back then is not allowing it..." But Bassil didn't do that... Instead the country was at a standstill because he should become minister again, and that Aoun DEMANDED the Minsitry of Telecom...
WORST PART IS, to date, no one knows why we're still lagging behind so much in the telecom field, and no one knows why the internet is so slow, or why the upgrade mentioned above did not happen...
- Sergio LeonFebruary 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Well I know that many things happened and changed in telecom business 4 better during z past 3 years more than z last 2 decades.ReplyDelete
Joubran bassil ma3 7ofz el alkab is no longer in telecom sector. You can't say it wasn't a bright period than ever.
We hav a big gap right. Things can't move on with just a click.
OH on that one I DEFINITELY disagree...ReplyDelete
During Bassil's era all he managed to do was: grow a beard!
Yes the telecom sector was bad before he came along (I would actually trace it back to a person who I blame for billions of dollars of debt: Jean Louis Qurdahi, who in my opinion is one of the most stupid ministers we ever had), but you can't say he did anything good... If anything, in my opinion, he made things worse...
Gebran Bassil did not introduce Blackberry to Lebanon... Edge which is the backbone technology was available before he came along...
Bassil reduced the calling rates, yes, thus causing the Ministry of Finance's revenues to decrease and the need for Lebanon to borrow more, mazboot (but you'll never hear someone say that he was mass2ool 3an zyeditt ill dein) bass with the decrease of the prices comes a rise in demand on services, because economically when things become cheaper, people want more... Were our networks upgraded to cope with the rise in mobile and data traffic? NO! I work in Berytech in Mansourieh and i have no reception... I live in Jnah next to Marriott and I have no reception... When I am in a part where there is reception the call quality is HORRIBLE and many times the line just disconnects because my phone would tell me of "Network Error" or "Connection Error." I also remember that calling was a hassle where you work!! :)
I'm not gonna delve into how he turned Alfa into a family business and started hiring his relatives and friends fiyya... There are plenty of news articles for that...
I just realized I rambled on for ages on the mobile network... On the internet front, well nothing happened either, no? ADSL was introduced during Hmedeh's era (and I ASSURE YOU that is no compliment to him...) and since ADSL was introduced no changes to prices or bandwidth happened... So unless you want to thank Marwan Hmeideh for introducing ADSL, you can't thank Bassil for the spreading of ADSL accross centrales all over Lebanon...
What say you?!
- Sergio LeonFebruary 24, 2010 at 3:53 PM
Well:S we have 2 opposite opinions. I respect yours.ReplyDelete
As I know the total income in gsm sector increased with z decrease in prizes.
Your right the implementation was not well planned we had a congestion in most of the time. But things went back 2 track 6 months later.
Concerning the adsl subject, 4 ur info z equipments were available and installed partially 6 years if not more b4 z implementation.
Q was what is z reason 4 zis lag?
Serge, you'll notice fo2, I said inno akeed akeed I will NOT give credit to the ADSL deployment to Marwan Hmeideh, and I am with you on wondering why the lag?!ReplyDelete
About the other issues, I disagree cause mobile reception is still almost inexistent where I work, where I live and disconnects a lot in other places... Wu ntorr for the summer, when expats and tourists flood the place wu bisseer mitil 2yemitt ill 7arb baddak tontor ta tekhodd khatt!
Anyways, the main point is what you concluded with which is the lag... Why "zis" lag?? I wonder too... And I hope someone can tell us why to date we have the fifth worse internet connection in the world and no one is doing anything about it...
- Sergio LeonFebruary 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Tarek ur in berytech :D My uniReplyDelete
u will never get good coverage over there ur directly under z transmitter ur inz blank area unless waves install also a transmiter this issue wont b fixed :)it's a technical prob.
*closes browser and writes letter of resignation to senior:ReplyDelete
Dear senior,
I find myself compelled to submit my letter of resignation because there is no network coverage in the area. This apparently is caused cause we're really close to the transmitter which works counter intuitively to my understanding that the closer I am, the better the reception!
Furthermore, it appears that my company should be installing some antenna thing, and not the Ministry of Telecom, and as you have not done so, and I need to run outside everytime my phone rings, I find it impossible to work under such harsh conditions.
It is with regret that I part ways with you, but you know ill waddi3, plus according to my friend Sergio, it's your fault, not petit Bassil or the current leftist!
Best regards,
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 11:16 PM
4 ur info a gsm transmitter can't send signals underneath of it;)ReplyDelete
and for your info, the two mobile operators have a legal contractual obligation to cover all Lebanese territory!!!ReplyDelete
please send me your email,ReplyDelete
I think u "we" need a follow-up letter :PReplyDelete
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I have recently posted two pieces on the potential for an anthropology of world society using the resources made available by the internet.
The digital revolution and me
Studying world society as a vocation
I have made two other attempts at telling my story (both sung to an old Hoagy Carmichael tune):
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About my website.
Banks are slower-moving deposits of fast-moving flows, whether of water, information or money. This website is my Memory Bank, but it is meant to reach out to a public that shares my aims. The two great human memory banks are language and money which are converging into a single network of digital communications in our time. The idea of a 'New Commonwealth' refers to the possibility that money might serve the purposes of economic democracy more fully than it has; but beyond that to the need to make a world society fit for all humanity.
We face an extraordinary moment in history when the old structures are palpably failing. The formation of a global civil society, even a world state, is an urgent task. Anthropology has a distinguished past, but it has an even greater role to play in future, not necessarily as an academic discipline, but perhaps as an interdisiciplinary project: to discover what we need to know about humanity as a whole if we would make a better world. Such a project depends on making full use of the emerging social and technical synthesis entailed in the digital revolution.
Dear Keith Hart, Carlo Cubero and I would like to open a page on the site for the upcoming EASA conference at Tallinn (July 29 -Aug 03, 2014) for the purpose of informing about the basic themes motivating the conference, its organization including the use of media 'labs' and several types of updates. I would like to know if this would be possible and how I might go about it -plus any suggestions you may have.
If positive- it might be best to start a new account ('EASA-2014'?) which would be removed after the conference.
Thank you for your help,
Juan Rojas (& C. Cubero)
I did my PhD research on a market very similar to the one you describe in your article about Ghana informal market. I used your study as a reference and to establish a comparison between them two. I have attached a letter with photos of this northeastern Brazilian market for your better comprehension.
That article was never translated into Portuguese. Therefore, I would ask you if you would give me your permission to publish my translation of your article. My study is part of a group research at the Federal University placed in the interior of Northeast of Brazil: www.gptrabalhoufcg and most members do not read in English. Thus, I thought translating your article to them would be a path towards a better understanding of our object of study.
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Thank you so much Keith. I look forward to networking and learning here. I am a 61 year old History major with a minor in Anthropology. My fall classes begin Monday. I agree with your discernment of the coming role of Anthropology. Now to get this to our public schools...His In Service
Yes, I know. And I find realy interesting your speech for the Conference organized by Marzia Grassi in 2007. I'll keep in touch.
Hallo Keith, its a pleasure to join this comunity, its a real pleasure to get your welcome note. I've just put some more info in my profile, now I'm going to surf here to get to know more about OAC. I'm investigating informal economy in Cape Verde in general, informal workers organizations in particular, but I'm especially interested in the people who chose to live from art, from creation..
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Come read and discuss an essay by Horacio Ortiz and myself posted online in separate parts, either here or on my website.
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An earlier essay, 'Manifesto for a human economy', deals explicitly with the object, theory and methods of a human economy approach. Here I examine some of the precedents for such an approach in the history of modern revolutions, drawing on Kant, Jefferson, Tocqueville, James and Gandhi.
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Chaarat (AIM - CGH), the AIM quoted exploration and development company with assets in the Kyrgyz Republic, is pleased to provide an update on the fiscal regime in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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Furthermore proposals by the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic will permit the negotiation of special concession arrangements with the government. Based on the draft legislation, the size and significance of Chaarat may give the Company the potential to negotiate a more favourable tax arrangement as we move closer to full production. The Board of Chaarat welcomes the certainty provided by the amended Tax Code and will update the market on any further discussions if the additional legislation is enacted.
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I'm working on a new project, migrating an existing site using custom code with a very monolithic design on top of MySQL.
Design goals : Implement all the same functionality using a manageable framework with a small footprint on a distributed NoSQL database.
Small footprint? I'm thinking Code Igniter (CI)… Distributed NoSQL (my favorite part)? I'm thinking Apache Cassandra!!!
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Enough with the questions, I'm very new to CI so this took me about an hour to make it happen. The idea is, CI provides a $this->db object when "database" is one of the auto loaded options. I want to still have this db instance available but providing methods to access Cassandra. I also want this to be auto loaded and available in all controllers… So how?
PHPCassa is probably one of the best PHP client libraries available for Cassandra so the choice on library was about 20 seconds. Since I wasn't going to use raw thrift calls, this choice was even easier.
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The final option is a default column family. This column family is the one that will be available when CI initialises
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That's it for the configuration file… Next up, our Cassandra library or libraries should I say…
At this point its important to say that if you have database being auto loaded then the following may
not be what you want to do.
In application/libraries create a file called db.php i.e. application/libraries/db.php
<?php require_once('phpcassa/connection.php'); require_once('phpcassa/columnfamily.php'); /** * @author Courtney */ class Db { private $CI; // public $db; private $conn; /** * @var ColumnFamily */ private $cf; /** * Init connection for the database using the settings in the cassandra.php * config file... */ public function __construct() { $this->CI = & get_instance(); try { $this->conn = new Connection($this->CI->config->item('keyspace'), $this->CI->config->item('cassandra_servers')); } catch (Exception $e) { show_error( $e->getMessage()); } $this->cf = $this->CI->config->item('default_cf'); // $this->db = $this; } /** * Creates a new instance of the given CF which will be returned * for interaction by cf() * @param string $cf The column family to interact with */ public function setCF($cf) { $this->cf = new ColumnFamily($this->conn, $cf); } /** * Returns the instance of the last column family created by * calling setCF()... If setCF hasn't been called * then the default_cf set in cassandra.php config file is returned, * once setCF is called then the last one to be set is always returned. * @return ColumnFamily */ public function cf() { return $this->cf; } }
This approach is the most simplistic I could think of for this blog post, ideally you'd want to cache
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There will is a basic caching version implemented on the github page hosting this project's files… available here
Its important to name the file db.php if you want to be able to access the database instance using $this->db as you
would if it was the native CI MySQL object. That purely because CI automatically creates an instance of your library
using the name of the file or class (Not sure but file =db.php class =Db.php so…)
The next important step, download phpcassa… Its available here https://github.com/thobbs/phpcassa
Extract its contents and put its files into application/libraries/phpcassa, the structure needs to be in the form
to allow db.php to include "phpcassa/ColumnFamily.php"; etc… You only need the .php files from php cassa and
everything in the Thrift folder, docs and test folder aren't used so they can be left out.
Next you need to change your autoload.php file
the settings need to look like:
$autoload['libraries'] = array('db','otherlib');
Unless I've forgotten something, that should be it…
Now in any of your controllers or files where autoloaded libraries are available, you can use
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