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By Elizabeth Denton
Perrie Edwards' Brown Smoky Eye
Who: Perrie Edwards
The Expert: Celebrity makeup artist Adam Burrell (Instagram: @adamburrell)
The Look: Brown Smoky Eye
The Tip:
1. Prep your skin with an oil-free primer to keep your makeup in place. (Adam used Clinique Superprimer Face Primer on Perrie.)
2. Use a lightweight foundation to cover any blemishes, and a concealer to brighten under your eyes. (Adam used Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Ultra-Light Skin Perfecting Makeup SPF 15 and MAC Select Cover-Up).
3. Fake Perrie's bold brows by filling them in with a shadow that matches your eyebrow color (Adam used the HD Brows Palette in Bombshell on Perrie.)
4. Apply a brown eye crayon all over your lids and along the lower lash line, blending it out to create a soft, smoky eye, winging it out at the corners. (Adam used Barry M Soft Eye Crayon in Brown). Set it with a bronzing powder, like Barry M Natural Dazzle Bronzer.
5. Define your lash line by drawing a thin line just along the root of your lashes with black eyeliner. Add two coats of black mascara.
6. Use bronzer to add a warm glow around your cheeks, temples, and forehead.
7. To get Perry's sultry pout, use a soft, brown lip pencil (Adam used MAC Lip Pencil in Stripdown) to define the edge of your lips, feathering it into the center. Finish with a light brown lip gloss, such as Barry M Lip Gloss in Toffee.


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Quasi-probabilistic Human Reliability Assessment (QHRA)
InterAction of Bath recently worked closely with the Sea Systems Group at the Defence...
This article discusses the methods InterAction of Bath adopts in optimising workstation design.
A workstation designed for the anthropometry, tasks and cognitive abilities of the user is essential in realising the intended capability and safety of military systems. Unfortunately examples abound where Human Factors issues were neglected or insufficient in scope or timing, and the success of the development programme was compromised.
Burgeoning interest within the defence sector in Human Factors issues testifies to the importance of ensuring a fit between human and machine.
Among its various chapters, Defence Standard 00-25 explains in detail the requirements for workstation design. The stipulations within this standard are often cited in System Requirements Documents as contractual criteria that must be met. We have considerable experience translating the standard into workable recommendations to designers.
We also have detailed knowledge of ISO standards relevant to workstation design, including ISO 10075-2 (mental workload), ISO 11064 (control-room design) and ISO EN 13407 (interactive systems).
The physical fit between user and workspace determines how efficiently manual tasks are performed. Well-chosen anthropometry is critical and the choice depends on the user population and environment of use. For example, the design of a vehicle cab must take account of the drivers' gender, age, type of clothing and nationality - all these things affect the size ranges expected for the user population. Furthermore, a design typically must accommodate users of dimensions between the 5th and 95th percentile, i.e. the 'middle' 90% of the user population.
Careful attention to anthropometry ensures:
InterAction of Bath uses various sources of anthropometric data for accurate design of workspaces (including MoD data and the commercial package PeopleSize). We ensure the final workstation accommodates spatial requirements of the users and the tasks they perform.
Workspaces should take account of reach envelopes of users
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Control panels and control rooms
Considerations of anthropometry also apply to control panels and control rooms, but there are additional factors affecting operability here, including the layout of controls and data displays to support team work, aid understanding and maintain situational awareness.
Control panels set distinct Human Factors challenges
Specifically, much of InterAction of Bath's work in this area is aimed at:
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Human-Computer InterAction (HCI)
When human beings interact with computer interfaces, such as those on VDU screens, they bring with them expectations of how the computer will react to their commands and how data will be displayed. Optimising HCI is partly craft and partly science, achieved through the application of style guides, principles of human information processing and best practice, and usability assessment through prototyping.
From its very beginnings InterAction of Bath has been involved in HCI, and we hold high level expertise in designing and evaluating computer interfaces, particularly graphical user interfaces in military domains. Our main areas of work are:
Careful HCI design results in highly operable systems
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Quality assurance
InterAction of Bath continually improves the quality of its services. We are certified to the quality standard ISO 9001:2000 and committed to our quality management system. We employ experienced and knowledgeable Human Factors professionals. Our reports are clear, concise, incisive, and peer reviewed.
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Endocrinologists Recommend Describing Dramatic Reversals of Diabetes Symptoms As
How careful should healthcare workers and patients be in describing a total remission of diabetes as a "cure?" That's a question that has taken on increasing urgency in the wake of reports about dramatic reversals of type 2 symptoms after gastric bypass surgery and the cessation of symptoms in people with type 1 diabetes after pancreatic islet replacement. To answer it, a group of endocrinologists met earlier this year to come up with descriptions and definitions that accurately describe what happens when people with diabetes experience a reversal of symptoms.
Their answer, recently published in Diabetes Care, is that caregivers should use the term "remission" rather than "cure" as the preferred word. Their reasoning was based on the difference between what they call "dichotomous" diseases, like cancer, and diseases that exist on a continuum, like diabetes. In other words, with a disease like cancer, you either have it or you don't. With diabetes, which is defined by the level of hyperglycemia, the symptoms can be well controlled day by day even as the underlying cause of the disease remains uncured. At most, then, the disease can be said to be in remission if the hyperglycemia is successfully controlled over a prolonged period.
The endocrinologists agreed on certain definitions for describing remission in type 1 and type 2 patients:
* "Partial remission" is when hyperglycemia remains below the diagnostic thresholds for diabetes for at least one year without the assistance of drugs or ongoing medical procedures.
* "Complete remission" is when a patient consistently achieves normal non-diabetic glycemic levels for at least one year without the assistance of drugs or ongoing medical procedures.
* "Prolonged remission" is a complete remission that lasts at least five years.
Although the endocrinologists reported that prolonged remission could be considered "essentially equivalent to a cure," for now "prolonged remission" is the closest they want to come to using "cure" to describing dramatic, enduring changes in diabetes symptoms. They reasoned that "remission" is more accurate than "cure" because therapies for type 1 and type 2 will probably always leave patients at risk for relapse.
For type 1 diabetes, the endocrinologists described remission as a consequence of immune system modulation or islet replacement that doesn't require continuing immune suppression via drugs. They also said that in people with type 1 who have undergone transplants and require continuing doses of immunosuppressive drugs, the term "remission" should not apply.
Remission in type 2 patients, they said, could follow bariatric/metabolic surgery or changes in diet, exercise and weight that produce a reversal of hyperglycemia. However, in the case of devices such as gastric banding, remission cannot be said to have occurred until the patient no longer requires adjustments to the device and has been living with it problem-free for some time.
The endocrinologists noted that even if treatments given to type 2s result in A1c levels of 6.5 percent or below-levels that some might consider to indicate an absence of diabetes-those levels continue to be a sign of impaired ability to properly produce or use glucose. Thus, the best they can do in describing such lower A1c levels is "partial remission."
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> Many years ago my good friend brought this bottle from Napa and gave it
> to me, I suppose in the mid-80s. �It has slept ever since, although
> traveled many thousands of miles by truck and container through our
> moves. �The level and color were good (mid neck) but the cork crumbly
> and I wished for a better worm on the screw. �With a fine salt marsh
> gigot we toasted our patron and distant friend Tom, (who now lives in
> Napa and works in the biz).
> Discreet nose of plums, mushrooms, leather. �In the mouth a classic
> claret style, leather, slight mint and coconut over deep cherry fruit
> that grew as the wine opened in the decanter. �Interestingly almost
> no dregs, clearly filtered.
> A fine old gentleman, perhaps a few years past middle age, but with
> great class, and no dotard. �All the more enjoyable for its source
> and the memories it brought back of other days. �Thanks again, Tom!
Thanks for the notes Emery. I haven't opened a Cakebread Cab in years
but I have a few bottles from the 90's that I've been holding on to.
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Very cozy and comfortable, as in During the blizzard we had plenty of firewood and stayed in the cottage, snug as a bug in a rug. This expression, thought to allude to a moth larva happily feeding inside a rolled-up carpet, was first recorded in 1769 and probably owes its long life to the rhyme.
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105 East Harmon Avenue, Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, NV 89109, United States of America – Show map
Excellent location – rated 9.2/10! (score from 855 reviews)
Rated by guests after their stay at The Carriage House Las Vegas.
- Few minute walk to strip - No smoking - Small kitchens in rooms - Free Wifi - No salespeople or resort fee - Nice, updated rooms - Covered parking right in front of small hotel
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Comfort, secure, clean and quiet. Staff was very helpful. Room was great and hotel close, within walking distance of casinos.
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Located 1 block from the Las Vegas strip, this hotel has spacious accommodations with a full kitchen or kitchenette. It features an outdoor pool, a tennis court and free Wi-Fi.
The contemporary rooms at The Carriage House Las Vegas feature a flat-screen cable TV, a DVD player and an iPod docking station. All guest rooms include a free in-room safe.
The modern gym at The Carriage House has cardio equipment with individual TV screens. The hotel also features a hot tub. Guests can enjoy free on-site parking during their stay.
Bally's/Paris Las Vegas Monorail Station is a 5-minute walk from this hotel. University of Nevada, Las Vegas is an 8-minute drive away. McCarran International Airport is 3 miles away.
Las Vegas Strip is highly rated by guests for: Culture, Excursions, Musicals
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Marriott's Grand Chateau 1 & 2 Located just one-half block from the Las Vegas Strip, this hotel has air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV. Facilities include an outdoor swimming pool.
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Hilton Grand Vacations Suites on the Las Vegas Strip On the north end of the Las Vegas Strip, this hotel is a 10 minute walk from area casinos. A steam room and beauty treatments are available at eforea: spa at Hilton.
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This all-suite hotel on a beautifully landscaped property has an outdoor pool and spa facilities. The hotel is attached to a casino, less than a mile from the Las Vegas Strip.
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A large pool on the 8th floor features sweeping Las Vegas views at this hotel and casino. A flat-screen cable TV is available in all modern rooms. Fashion Show Mall is 2 miles away.
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The staff was friendly.
The bathroom needs to be updated with new fixtures.
Décor very good. parking very good. Close to The Strip with good self catering facilities. Knowledgeable Concierge.
Nice room, no smoking facility,no casino in house, no flashing lights or major advertisements. An unspectacular island in Las Vegas, where you really can relax.
No in house restaurant/breakfast option. Strange smell on the 3rd floor (the room was ok though)
Helpful staffs, good and safe location, good services
Noisy air conditioner, a little cold at night without air conditioning.
- Few minute walk to strip - No smoking - Small kitchens in rooms - Free Wifi - No salespeople or resort fee - Nice, updated rooms - Covered parking right in front of small hotel
Carpet/walls were dated. However, they are doing construction now so it will all be more updated soon.
Quiet, clean, comfortable beds, spacious rooms.
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Great value, good location (close to Strip). Nice accommodations.
Heating unit/Air cond was a bit loud.
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Somewhat outdated, room was small, bed was kinda springy and sloped toward the middle, not especially clean. Just an ok hotel, but proximity to the strip is good.
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Tub back up that required switching rooms. Construction noise that started at 7am. Weird old smell in room. Dated facilities.
Good location, free wifi worked well and everything was comfortable.
Comfort, secure, clean and quiet. Staff was very helpful. Room was great and hotel close, within walking distance of casinos.
Room was a good size. Location was fantastic. Just one block back off the strip but right in the middle. Easy to walk everywhere. Free parking was a big plus for us. Room had cooking facilities which would have been great if we could have found a grocery store.
No breakfast. Could hear a lot of noise from room next door.
There is no casino, so it is very quiet The room was very well furnished with an excellent kitchen that included a hot plate. It is just a block away from the strip and half a block from the miracle mile
There was nothing to not like
Location was great for where we we wanted to go.
The hotel is in need of updating and redecorating in the rooms and especially the bathrooms and the furniture in the living area. Was okay for one night but would not like to stay any longer than that unless these changes were made.
The single beds that pop out of the chairs in the lounge were excellent. They were the perfect size for our two 10 year old boys who were so exhausted from sleeping together in double beds everywhere else on our trip. The location was perfect because it's 1 street away from the strip so it's quiet and clean and you can walk from the strip through the air conditioned miracle mile arcade and then simply cross at the lights and you're home.
It's not really worth writing down but when we arrived the bed bug inspectors who'd checked the room before our arrival left all the furniture pushed out from the walls and the floor was covered in wood chips from them digging around behind cupboards and cabinets. Maybe those guys should fully 'close' (rectify and clean) a room before they move onto the next one. We were going to be moved to another room but it took too long so we cleaned up ourselves.
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Expensive compared to other hotels WITH casinos. Poor hotel amenities; small lobby, poor rec room.
I love that there is no waiting in long lines for check in,also I love that when you back to the hotel it's safe and not noisy
Kitchenette very convient. Clean.
It would have been nice if upon arriving a couple hours early, if we could have checked in.
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The Brother HL-4040CN is a moderately priced single-function laser printer for workgroups or small offices. The $400 printer is network-ready and offers some interesting features, such as reprint and secure print, as well as great print quality. On the downside, it's a bit slower than the competition, but we think the positives outweigh the negatives. This is a good, cost-effective printer for offices with standard printing needs.
The Brother HL-4040CN is a boxy and standard-looking color laser printer. The navy-and-gray unit sits 16.5 inches wide, 18.7 inches deep, and 12.5 inches tall, and weighs a hefty 64 pounds. All the connector ports (USB and Ethernet) and the power port sit on the rear of the printer. There's also a front-mounted USB port for connecting PictBridge cameras or USB flash storage drives for PC-free printing.
The HL-4040CN's paper tray holds as many as 250 sheets of plain paper and can be configured to handle a variety of media sizes, including legal. (Brother doesn't offer an optional second input tray for the HL-4040CN.) The navy front panel folds down to serve as a 50-sheet manual input tray with adjustable paper guides and a pull-out flap to support long pages. The well in the top of the printer is the output tray and another flap folds out to corral long prints.
The control panel on this printer is basic, befitting the printer's basic functionality. Four multidirectional buttons let you navigate the menu, while the Reprint and Direct Print buttons let you make prints without touching your PC (more on this in the Features section). Rounding out the control panel is a backlit, two-line text LCD. Surprisingly, the LCD is mounted on a swiveling plate, which lets you flip it up for easy viewing. This type of feature is normally limited to graphical LCDs on photo-oriented inkjet printers. The LCD displays four bars that inform you of the toner levels.
The HL-4040CN's toner cartridges can be found by flipping open the printer's entire front panel. A pull-out tray reveals the four cartridges, lined up in a horizontal row. It ships with standard cartridges; the black is good for about 2,500 prints and each of the three color cartridges will last for about 1,500 prints. The cost to replace these is $60 and $70 (per color), respectively. Brother also offers high-capacity versions: the black one prints about 5,000 pages ($93) and the color ones print about 4,000 pages ($130 each). Using the high-capacity cartridges, per-page costs work out to about 1.9 cents for a black-only page and 11.7 cents for a full-color page--inexpensive for black prints and about average for color prints. The recommended monthly duty cycle (that is, the suggested monthly print volume) is 35,000 pages, making it better suited for busy workgroups or small offices than for home users. The printer's driver also has a Toner Save mode, which helps reduce your print costs by using less toner; obviously, the print quality will take a hit.
As a single-function color laser printer, the HL-4040CN doesn't feature much to discuss, but what it does offer is novel and interesting. It ships with a 300MHz processor and 64MB of onboard memory. You can upgrade the memory to a maximum of 576MB. It's network-ready, with a built-in Ethernet port, but you can also connect via USB. The HL-4040CN lacks a duplexer, and Brother doesn't offer one as an add-on. The HL-4040CN's driver helps you with manual duplex tasks, though.


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5 Amazing Mountain Bike Trails in Cape Town
Picking our top five favourite mountain biking trails in Cape Town is like parent to pick their favourite child: we love them all for different reasons! -
Get 'Wild' at Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town
Rob Peters
"If ever you miss a dinner date with your girlfriend, common sense tells you that you'd better have a good excuse. Which I did… on both counts. And my excuse was outstanding. I was attacked… by a lion… at an office party… in a strip club… in Jo'burg. Well… ok… let me go back to the beginning." And so starts 'Wild', a highly-entertaining one-man show starring multi-award breaking comic Robert Fridjhon. -
Your #lovecapetown weekend:What's on from Friday 23 January to Sunday 25 January, 2015
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10 ways to beat the heat in Cape Town
Cape Town is a top summer destination and with good reason. Sultry summer days are always going to be a big draw with the beaches and rooftop bars across the city spilling over. But what about when you want to cool off after a day of soaking up the rays or escape the heat altogether? Don't worry we got you covered with our top 10 ways to beat the sizzle in the Mother City!
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Some of the coolest jobs to have in Cape Town
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5 City parks to host a tree-planting legacy project honouring Madiba
In honour of the late Nelson Mandela, The City of Cape Town's Parks Department are hosting a tree-planting ceremony at five selected parks in Cape Town.
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Environmental Monitoring of Reinier de Klerck House, Jakarta
The Institute is helping to protect some of the cultural heritage of Indonesia through its support for AusHeritages work at Reinier de Klerck House, an original 300 year old colonial era building which formerly housed the National Archives of Indonesia in Jakarta. The restoration of this building to create a local cultural centre with a strong educational mission won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage 2001 Award of Excellence.The main objectives of this project are to assist Reinier de Klerck House to identify possible causes of environmental damage and to suggest potential solutions.
High temperatures and relative humidity are the major causes of deterioration to cultural collections in Indonesia and alternatives need to be found to the use of air conditioning,which is very expensive to install and maintain. This project will be invaluable to all cultural institutions in Indonesia (museums, galleries, libraries, archives, historical buildings, etc) and will be used as a case study to train small museums in Indonesia on environmental standards and passive climate control options.
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Resolve to Make Health Care More Equitable in 2013
A member of the Navajo Nation, Lisa Palucci, MSN, RN, is a nurse consultant at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico. This post is part of the "Health Care in 2013" series.
As the nation trudges forward in its quest to improve health care access for all Americans, I think it is essential that we continue to make progress in decreasing the health disparities and social determinant of health gaps that continue to be ignored in mainstream health policy initiatives. Throughout the course of my PhD program at the University of New Mexico (UNM), we have had numerous opportunities to experience nursing and health policy in action by attending national conferences, meetings, and orientation programs. To my disappointment, discussion about improving health disparities and social determinants of health are seldom a topic on the agenda. This poses the question: Aren't the health disparities and social determinants of health what got us to the point of an inequitable health care system in the first place?
As health care professionals we are challenged with the multiple and complex demands associated with an ever changing health care system. However, what remain steadfast are the values, beliefs, and morals our patients, families, and communities have thrived on for many generations. The development of a "patient-centered" approach to improve America's health care system is a step in the right direction. Patient-centered care is defined by the Institute of Medicine (2001) as health care that establishes a partnership among practitioners, patients, and their families. When appropriate, patient-centered care ensures that decisions respect patients' wants, needs, and preferences. Its premise is that patients have the education and support they need to make decisions and participate in their own care. I challenge each of you to ponder: To what extent have individual patients and their communities had a voice in determining what "patient-centered" means?
All too often the "patient-centered" concept is tailored to individual consumers rather than to patients and families from tribal communities. As an American Indian nurse, I am inspired by the progress our Tribal communities have made to improve their health care system, but we have many miles to travel and bridges to cross before we can sustain a health care infrastructure that is safe, efficient, and cost effective.
Tribal governments need to take action to identify and integrate patients, families, and community perspectives in "patient-centered" care. American Indian/Alaska Natives have a unique opportunity to contribute to the needed changes and improvement within America's health care system by providing their insights to support a more meaningful and relevant definition of population/community focused care.
The alignment of clinical decision making with patient's values and beliefs will allow us to build a sustainable health care infrastructure that can accommodate and support patients who also rely on traditional practitioners for care. Even though the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 empowered tribal governments to structure and provide their own tribal health care, we have yet to define an approach that meets the diverse needs of tribal communities. It is my hope that through my PhD research, I will further develop the concept of 'self-determined care' from an American Indian perspective and identify the specific components of 'self-determined' health care.
It is also my hope that 2013 will bring a renewed interest in decreasing the current and long-standing gaps that contribute to health disparities and social determinants of health. The U.S. health care system is on the edge of enormous changes that need to occur in order to meet the challenges of improving the quality of care delivered and received with a "patient-centered" approach. I challenge each of you to initiate and plan each meeting with health disparities, health inequities and social determinants at the forefront of your health system improvement agendas. Whether it is policy debates on health care practices or payment regulation, conducting patient satisfaction surveys, educating a new population of health care professionals…the list is endless. We must all give voice to this vital discussion and consistently contribute in order to advance improvements in America's health care system. I choose to believe our acknowledgment of past failures with health care inequities, health disparities and social determinants of health will lead us to a sustainable and equitable health care system in the future.


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Once-thriving city reduced to ruins in the Philippines
One of the most-powerful storms ever recorded devastated Tacloban, Philippines and the stunned survivors in the city of 220,000 sought desperately for food, water, shelter and even a way to escape the area.
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Typhoon Haiyan developments
Death toll: More than 1,700 people are confirmed dead and 82 missing, Maj. Rey Balido, spokesman of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, told reporters Monday. About 1,600 people died in the Eastern Visayas region alone, where Leyte is, he said. In 2012, Storm Bopha killed 1,067 and left 834 missing.
State of calamity: On Monday night, Philippine President Benigno Aquino declared a state of "national calamity" — a maneuver to cut red tape and speed up the government response. He ordered all measures to end looting. Since taking office in 2010, Aquino has spoken out against national and local corruption, and the government said it would make sure that the money and food arriving in the devastated areas winds up in the right hands.
Aid efforts: Nations across the region moved quickly to help the Philippines, a country in which 40 percent of the population live on $2 or less per day. The U.S. Agency for International Development announced $20 million in immediate aid. The Defense Department has dispatched about 215 U.S. troops to provide initial assessments, according to statements from the Marine Corps. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which carries 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft, and other Navy ships to the Philippines from Hong Kong. Support has flowed in from more than 20 countries, Philippine authorities say. Australia announced $9.4 million in assistance. Japan said it would fly in medical staff. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released $25 million in emergency funding.
Estimates of needs: According to the United Nations, about estimated 660,000 people have been displaced and 2.5 million people are in need of food because of the disaster, and the risk of malnutrition is "extremely high." A U.S. disaster team in Leyte province, one of the hardest-hit regions, suggested that 90 percent of housing has been significantly damaged or destroyed.
Economic toll: Losses will be $12 billion to $15 billion, or about 5 percent of economic output, according to an estimate by Charles Watson, director of research and development at Kinetic Analysis, a disaster-modeling firm. From 50,000 tons to 120,000 tons of sugar may have been lost due to crop damage in the area, which accounts for more than half the nation's sugar plantations. The agriculture department said 131,611 tons of rice were lost, accounting for 1.8 percent of the last quarter's production target.
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TACLOBAN, Philippines — Decomposing bodies still lie along the roads, like a corpse in a pink, short-sleeved shirt and blue shorts facedown in a black, muddy puddle 100 yards from the airport.
Just down the road is a church that was supposed to be an evacuation center, but is littered with the bodies of those who drowned inside.
When a wind-whipped ocean rose Friday night, the ground floors of homes hundreds of yards inland were submerged within minutes, trapping residents like Virginia Basinang, a 54-year-old retired teacher, who suddenly found herself struggling in waist-deep water on the second floor of her home.
Screaming people bobbed in the water that surged through the streets, many grabbing for floating debris.
"Some of them were able to hold on, some were lucky and lived, but most did not," she said, adding that 14 bodies were left on a wall across the street when the seawater receded a half-hour later. The bodies are still there, and the odor of their decay makes it impossible for Basinang and her family to eat meals at home.
Typhoon Haiyan, among the most powerful in history, slammed into the eastern Philippine city of Tacloban four days ago and cut a path of devastation barreling west across the archipelago nation.
In its wake, corpses lay along roads lined with splintered homes and toppled power lines, as the living struggled to survive, increasingly desperate for fresh drinking water, food and shelter. The damage to everything was so great that it was hard even to tally. Mass graves began to fill as relief efforts struggled to get under way.
The roads of this once-thriving city of 220,000 were so clogged with debris from nearby buildings that they were barely discernible. The civilian airport terminal has shattered walls and gaping holes in the roof where steel beams protrude, twisted and torn by winds far more powerful than those of Hurricane Katrina when it made landfall near New Orleans in 2005.
One of the saddest and deadliest moments came when hundreds of people flocked to Tacloban's domed sports arena at the urging of municipal officials, who believed its sturdy roof would withstand the wind. The roof did, but the arena flooded, and many inside drowned or were trampled in a frenzied rush to higher seats.
The top civil-defense official of the Philippines said in an interview after inspecting the damage that the storm surge had been the highest in the country's modern history, perhaps explaining why so few thought they needed to flee inland and instead went to evacuation centers near the coast.
Nothing like this had ever happened. The sea level rose 10 to 13 feet and filled streets and homes deep in the city, propelled by sustained winds of at least 140 mph and gusts that were far stronger.
"It was a tsunami-like storm surge; it is the first time," said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Tacloban has been hit by typhoons for decades, but never had the sea risen high enough to pour over the swath of low salt marshes and inundate the city's shady streets, he said.
As a violet sunset melted Monday into the nearly total darkness of a city without electricity, lighted only by a waxing half moon, dispirited residents walked home or lay down in the ruins of the airport terminal after another day of waiting at the airport in hope of fresh water, food or a flight out. Grocery stores and pharmacies across the city had been sacked over the weekend, leaving bare shelves for a city quickly growing hungry and thirsty.
A coast guardsman said he had helped fill a mass grave in the nearby village of Hernani. "I personally threw in one body earlier, and it was a relative of my friend in Manila — I haven't told her yet because I can't get a signal" for cellphone usage, said the coast guardsman, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The same friend in Manila has lost her grandfather, whom the coast guardsman threw in the mass grave, as well as her aunt and two cousins, the guardsman added, saying that other relatives who survived the typhoon had confirmed the identities of the dead.
This regional capital, the hometown of Imelda Marcos, was among the hardest hit in a nation accustomed to misery blown in from the sea. But this storm was like nothing before it, and its devastation was not yet fully understood. Villages along the coasts may have been wiped out, and the toll — at least 10,000 in Tacloban alone are feared dead — was just an estimate. Relief efforts were complicated by a persistent and heavy rain.
Miriam Refugio, 60, waited in the crowd at the airport seeking a scarce place on a flight to Manila.
"Our home was destroyed, there is no food in this town, so we have to flee," she said, standing with her teenage granddaughter who held their only drinking water, a nearly empty plastic bottle that could hold perhaps 2 cups.
They were trying to decide whether to drink water from a nearby pump, even though the granddaughter, tugging at her stomach for emphasis, said they were certain to become sick if they did.
Del Rosario said the government was still sending out helicopters Monday to look for communities that had not been heard from since the typhoon.
But one of the biggest questions involves the many people who seem to have disappeared, possibly sucked out to sea when the ocean returned to its usual level.
Rosemary Balais, 39, said a very large proportion, possibly more than half, of the 5,000 people in her hometown Tanauan, near Tacloban, seemed to be missing.
"My sister and their children were there, and we have not heard from them since last Thursday," she said, adding they had lived only about 300 yards inland.
"There was a neighbor who had won a lottery and had a big house, and even that house was flattened," she said.
Compounding the damage was the extraordinary force of the wind. Palm trees are naturally resilient, flexing and bending in high winds. But entire groves were flattened and their trunks left in tangles on the ground as though giant boxes of toothpicks had been tipped over.
In a country cursed by a succession of natural disasters, from earthquakes to violent storms to volcanic eruptions, the typhoon was especially deadly and destructive. "It's going to be classified as one of the worst, if not the worst, in decades," among disasters that have struck the Philippines, said Ricky Carandang, a presidential spokesman.


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I honestly can't remember a year as loaded for League Pass teams as this one. The teams towards the top should be fun or whatever, but who cares about them. It's the one towards the bottom that have me excited. My No. 30, lowest-ranked League Pass team still features three recent, intriguing lottery picks, one of the league's most oddly exciting back-up point guards, a hilarious number of small forwards and a guy with alopecia. And that's the least interesting team to watch in the NBA this year. Holy crap, there might not be five games total in an average week that you can afford to skip as a basketball fan this season!
Assuming you can't maintain that kind of base-level schedule, however, some prioritizing might be in order. In which case, as we did last year, we encourage you to watch more of the League Pass teams towards the top of this list than the bottom. Yo, Slick, blow.
30. Detroit Pistons (Last Year: #27)
Yeah, I was talking about the Pistons up there. You could probably argue that all that stuff — mostly the lottery trio of Greg Monroe, Brandon Knight and Andre Drummond –means they should be a couple slots higher, but eh. It's still the Pistons, a team that hasn't been relevant in five seasons and wasn't all that much fun even when they were good. If they prove that last season's second-half surge was legit, then they can easily climb higher, but this team has been too lousy for too long to just be "entertainingly young" anymore.
29. Chicago Bulls (Last Year: #11)
Kept out of the bottom spot mostly out of respect, but there's nothing worse on League Pass than a once-elite team downgraded to merely good status, as the Bulls appear to have been this year. If Derrick Rose was still around for the whole season, he's exciting enough to bump them up a handful of spots on his own. But he's out for most of the year, and as fun as Nate Robinson is to have around, he's not quite the same thing. Bulls fans themselves don't even seem too excited about watching this team this year, so why should we be? (Ed. note: Accurate.)
28. Orlando Magic (Last Year: #29)
This team could easily end up as the toughest to watch in the league — is there even a lottery pick on the entire roster besides J.J. Redick? — but I have a soft spot for year-after teams, and even though I won't be so dense as to suggest this team could be a sneaky-good League Pass team, I imagine I'll still end up watching my fair share of Jameer Nelson-Nic Vucevic pick-and-pops. Plus, of Moe Harkless and Andrew Nicholson, you just know one of those guys is gonna end up being good for some reason. Right?
27. San Antonio Spurs (Last Year: #25)
I'd have to check the non-existent archives for this column, but I'm willing to bet the Spurs haven't ranked in the top 20 of this list once since 2005. (Maybe they coulda snuck to No. 18 or 17 that year they traded for Richard Jefferson — remember when we all thought that trade was a big deal?) Anyway, if the Spurs added a single interesting player or entertained a single interesting subplot this off-season, I sure as shit ain't heard of that. Only reason they're even this high is that the Spurs somehow turned into a decently fun team to watch the last two years, and Pop interviews (rare and sparse as they may be) are never less than essential viewing.
26. Cleveland Cavaliers (Last Year: #22)
There's been some buzz about the Cavs as a potential League Pass power player, but I just don't see it. Outside of Kyrie Irving, who I don't even think is quite as breathtaking as most seem to (in the first 46 minutes of the game anyway), who on this team is fun to watch? Tristan Thompson has been disappointing, I couldn't be less sold on Dion Waiters in his first season, and I still can't stand the sight of Anderson Varejao or Boobie Gibson due to their association with the LeBron days. Besides, I hate to dispute with Grantland's resident aesthete, but those unis are just straight blah. Unless Tyler Zeller ends up being weirdly compelling — not impossible — I can't endorse heavy watching of these guys.
25. Portland Trail Blazers (Last Year: #28)
Things are looking up for the Blazers, who cut ties with both of their Ghosts of DNPs Past and added one of the most exciting rookies in the league (Damien Lillard) as well as a guy whose name sounds like it would make a great sandwich (Meyers Leonard). Both are unquestionably positive developments, but there's still a little too much mediocre on this team, and extending the quintessentially uninteresting Nic Batum like they did is a League Pass Cap Space killer, assuming such a concept exists. Check back in a year or two, though.
24. Washington Wizards (Last Year: #15)
Why are the Wizards nine spots lower than last year? I don't have a great answer, besides that the field is just stronger this year, the new retro unis aren't quite as exciting in year two, and neither Nene nor Emeka Okafor will ever be as compelling a figure as JaVale McGee. John Wall and Bradley Beal should make a potent backcourt duo, but Wall is starting the season hurt, Beal doesn't look like a difference-maker yet on his own, and somehow I feel this Wizards season is already over before it even begins.
23. Dallas Mavericks (Last Year: #10)
Not even the '06 Heat got this unrecognizable this quickly, I don't think. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as good teams need to add new parts to stay interesting, but there are so many new parts with this Mavs team over the last two seasons that it's hard to tell what core, if any, they're even augmenting, especially with Dirk on the shelf to begin the season. Excited for Darren Collison and O.J. Mayo getting fresh starts as starters once again, and it's interesting to see the '06 Clips of Chris Kaman and Elton Brand reunited in the frontcourt, but this team is suddenly badly lacking in League Pass identity.
22. Phoenix Suns (Last Year: #26)
Same deal as the Mavs, pretty much — too many spare parts, not enough of an identifiable core — but the Suns rank higher due to being totally free of the burden of expectation. If this team won 20 games this year (and they might), would anybody really mind? Seems unlikely, and in the meantime, I plan on enjoying Michael Beasley gunning for 35 every night and Goran Dragic and Marcin Gortat probably coming up with some weird sort of chest-bump routine or secret handshake or something. Plus, the attempted reclamation case of Wesley Johnson and tissue re-animation of Jermaine O'Neal will be fun little subplots. It's better than Steve Nash waiting around to die, anyway.
21. Indiana Pacers (Last Year: #7)
The difference between being a young, exciting team and an established, but possibly low-upside team. The Pacers basically are trotting out the same team as in 2011-12, but having already won a playoff series and taken the Heat to six games, the Pacers need to keep improving to maintain our interest. And it's suddenly not so easy to see them doing that. I maintain that this team should cut Danny Granger for League Pass reasons — they'd be infinitely more entertaining, if not necessarily more successful, without his inefficient, uninspiring 20 points a game mucking up the works.
20. Atlanta Hawks (Last Year: #23)
A different look this year without Joe Johnson, anyway, and there's definitely potential for intrigue here, especially if Josh Smith and Al Horford can stay healthy all this season. But some words of wisdom from someone who watched nearly every game (and certainly every meaningful game) Lou Williams played in his career as a Philadelphia 76er: Lou Williams will not help your team win nearly as much as the experts seem to think he will. Yeah, yeah, I know what all the advanced stats say, but advanced stats don't convince me why Lou Williams is underrated, Lou Williams convinces me why advanced stats are overrated. Just trust me on this.
19. Utah Jazz (Last Year: #16)
Always a trade away from vaulting a half-dozen spots or more on this list, but until then, they're a solid middle-of-the-pack LP team with their surfeit of curious bigs and unexpected glut of M. Williamses. Speaking of trades: The Sports Guy dismissed this idea summarily, but I've been intrigued with it for almost a year now — Why not trade Derrick Favors and Gordon Hayward for James Harden? I fail to see how that doesn't make both teams better. Anyway, if the Jazz hold on to all four big guys until the end of the season, I'm filing a protest.
18. Memphis Grizzlies (Last Year: #6)
After being League Pass darlings for the better part of a half-decade, the Grizzlies are finally starting to lose their luster a little bit. Like Branch Rickey says, you always want to stop watching a League Pass team a year too early rather than a year too late. With their ceiling possibly having already been reached, it might be the beginning of the end for the Grizz. Still, Rudy Gay, Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, Tony Allen … a team with that kind of roster can never be entirely non-entertaining.
17. Toronto Raptors (Last Year: #29)
Hey, the Raps could actually be watchable this year! Operation Steve Nash sadly fell short, but now there's Kyle Lowry and Jonas Valanciunas in his stead, and with Andrea Bargnani back in the fold, there's definite potential for entertaining basketball here. Landry Fields doesn't help all that much, and Terrence Ross seems kinda whatever for a No. 8 pick, but I'll give 'em a shot, certainly. (Side note: After about a decade of having at least two unwatchable teams at any given point in time, the Atlantic Division is finally the most stacked LP division in basketball, with the Raps registering as by far the lowest at No. 17. Good for you, Northeast.)
16. Oklahoma City Thunder (Last Year: #13)
As with last year, OKC scores relatively low on this list by virtue of having a lot of nationally televised games, few new players or interesting subplots, and basically being shoo-ins for home court advantage in at least the first round of the playoffs. Curious to see what, if anything, the team can get out of Perry Jones III and Hasheem Thabeet, but I'm already sick of the James Harden saga and I'm already dreading the first 5-24 Russell Westbrook game and the ESPN columns and First Take debates that will ensue. Wake me up when the post-season starts.
15. Miami Heat (Last Year: #5)
Similar to OKC, the defending champs should be pretty boring this year (minus the couple requisite LeBron dunk assassinations), which is probably just how the Heat fans like them — dull and predictable and cruelly efficient as they pile up wins and start gearing up for the playoffs in February. They get the edge over OKC with the addition of Ray Allen, whose presence in a Heat jersey will be difficult-verging-on-impossible to get used to, but who should have a couple games where he hits something like seven open threes in a quarter. Should be a time.
14. Los Angeles Clippers (Last Year: #3)
Since extending DeAndre Jordan and trading for Chris Paul, the Clippers have gone about trying to make an exciting team as unexciting as possible. I mean, look at the guys they brought in: Jamal Crawford, Lamar Odom, Grant Hill, Willie Green. And as if all that wasn't enough, they extended Mr. Anti-League Pass, Chauncey Billups. If I wasn't convinced that Blake Griffin was gonna have a breakout, near-MVP type season this year that I'm intent on catching as much of as I possibly can, I'd be very tempted to rank this team in the lower half of the list, just to prove a point. You can't take your team's watchability for granted, new General Manager Gary Sachs.
13. Golden State Warriors (Last Year: #18)
As with the team's chances at winning, health is a key here. Though I'm not all that sure if, once the novelty of watching the Warriors play with an actual competent center wears off, having Andrew Bogut on the team doesn't actually hurt their League Pass appeal. Still, the intrigue is there, and having Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes launch 20 threes a game between them will undoubtedly help restore the old Warrior excitement. Just as long as injuries don't strike again and we end up watching way too much Brandon Rush, Carl Landry and Jarrett Jack.
12. New Orleans Hornets (Last Year: #9)
Well, last year in New Orleans wasn't quite as fun as I anticipated, hence my pre-emptive bumping down of them a little year. I'm pessimistic about Eric Gordon's health, about Austin Rivers' rookie season, and about Ryan Anderson's ability to thrive away from Dwight Howard (at least at the same level). The only thing I'm totally in on is Anthony Davis being a must-watch even in his raw, under-developed first year. There's just no way that if this guy's on the court, that he won't be totally transfixing. Oh, and also Greivis Vasquez. Love that guy.
11. Milwaukee Bucks (Last Year: #20)
A full season of the Monta/Jennings back-court. That's about it here — besides more Ersan Ilyasova box score weirdness and Drew Gooden regular weirdness — but what more do you need, really?
10. Boston Celtics (Last Year: #17)
The Celtics embark on what should be their third or fourth official Last Stand, with the most entertaining supporting cast they've had in ages. It's hard to believe how deep this team is — Jason Terry! Jeff Green! Jared Sullinger! DARKO! — considering they had to play Keyon Dooling and Marquis Daniels serious minutes in the playoffs last year. Of course, that means that all but three of the Celtics' rotation guys are going to get injured and they're somehow gonna end up starting important games with Leandro Barbosa and Fab Melo, but for the time being anyway, they look like one of the most interesting contenders in the league.
9. Charlotte Bobcats (Last Year: #24)
Yeah, it's probably not rational, but I'm fascinated by this damn Bobcats team. I fell in love with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist after one Summer League game, I can't get enough Byron Mullens shooting threes, and Kemba Walker and Bismack Biyombo … well, at least one of those guys is gonna turn out to be half-decent this year, right? Brendan Haywood and Ramon Sessions probably won't help this team's LP potential tremendously, and winning 25 games would probably be a huge reach, but I bet this team ends up being way more fun than anyone anticipates. Hey, once you have the worst season in NBA history, pressure's off, right?
8. Sacramento Kings (Last Year: #4)
Like the reverse Spurs, the Kings have been a perennial top ten League Pass team as they finish well into the lottery seemingly every year, always trading on the potential that this is the year that they've amassed so many lottery picks that they have to start actually winning games. Maybe it'll be 2012-13, maybe it won't, but the presence of DeMarcus Cousins alone makes them essential viewing. And with yet another top five pick in tow (Thomas Robinson, hard to get a read on) and Jimmer and Tyreke still waiting in the wings, the Kings aren't falling into the League Pass lottery anytime soon.
7. Minnesota Timberwolves (Last Year: #1)
With their number of intriguing off-season signings — a resurrected Brandon Roy, a rescued Andrei Kirilenko, whatever the hell Greg Stiemsma ends up being in this league — the Wolves looked likely to repeat as LP champs in 2012-13. But with Kevin Love missing the beginning of the season and Ricky Rubio still out, and with the Wolves being so miserable at the end of last season, I'm just not sure they'll be all that watchable without their two franchise cornerstones. If Derrick Williams wants to step up to expectations in the absence of those two, I'd be happy to bump 'em back towards the top, but I sense disappointment from a suddenly impatient T'Wolves franchise this year.
6. Houston Rockets (Last Year: #21)
There's a chance they'll be too bad to be fun, but failing that, wow is this Rockets team interesting. Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik were the big signings, and obviously whether or not Linsanity gets any kind of sequel will be the biggest story with the team, but I'm nearly as intrigued by the team's trio of first-round rookies — four if you count Donatas Motiejunas, who looked awesome in the Summer League — and guys like Patrick Patterson and Marcus Morris, who should finally get some playing time with a little of this roster's clutter removed. Darryl Morey may not have succeeded in making this team a contender yet, but in gutting the roster and handing the keys to a bunch of rookies and unprovens, he definitely made them a must-DVR, which is arguably just as important.
5. New York Knicks (Last Year: #2)
Knicks fans probably wish this team would rank a little bit lower, since a boring team would likely mean a stable one, which the Knicks have been anything but the last five years. Still, the instability made for the best television of last year in the NBA, and should be good for another half-dozen quality mini-dramas at MSG this year. Will Carmelo end up playing the four? Will Amar'e come off the bench? Who's playing point guard? Who's keeping tabs on Rasheed Wallace to make sure he doesn't wander into the crowd during the games for no reason? Will Kurt Thomas and Marcus Camby forget which one of them is which? There's no better recurring drama on primetime than the New York Knicks.
4. Philadelphia 76ers (Last Year: #14)
If you don't think Andrew Bynum in Philly is at absolute least the third most compelling storyline of the NBA season, I don't know what to tell you. Except this, maybe — have you seen his hair yet? And that was like a week after being traded. The potential for weirdness with this guy as a franchise player in the City of Brotherly Love is practically limitless. Not to mention that he might actually make the team better, too. Health is a concern, but assuming he's on the floor for at least half the season, Bynum will do a half-dozen crazy things at a minimum that give bloggers seizures over the course of the year. He's already started to rub off on the rest of the team, as evidenced by Spencer Hawes' other-worldly mullet.
3. Brooklyn Nets (Last Year: #19)
I'm not sold on the team actually being good, but there's no denying that they'll be a must-watch in almost every game this year. Hell, even the pregame routines and halftime shows at Barclays this year are gonna be essential viewing for at least the first month of games. Everything about this team in its new location is exciting, with the possible exception of the players they took with them, and even those guys will have their moments. Brook Lopez and Kris Humphries are easily the league's most inherently hilarious frontcourt, Deron Williams is good for at least four or five OH SHIT games a season, and no team with Reggie Evans on the roster has ever been completely unlikeable. The Brooklyn shine will be there regardless, and the inevitable Celebrity Row should be entertaining — Maino and Maggie Gyllenhaal on the same Jumbotron!
2. Denver Nuggets (Last Year: #12)
Can a roster that looks like it was designed for maximum League Pass watchability contend for a title? Masai Ujiri will find out this year, and we will certainly enjoy watching the experiment. Not one player on this team's roster is boring (with the possible exception of Kosta Koufos, who passes if for no other reason than because his name is Kosta Koufos), and with the addition of do-everything-but-score All-Star Andre Iguodala (reunited with Andre Miller!), they might actually have a shot at being elite. Those looking for a respite from the overbearing star power of the Lakers and Thunder (and to a much lesser extent, the Spurs) will certainly love following the No Sticky Hands Nuggets in their second full year post-Melo, and they will certainly play a role in some of the year's most entertaining, high octane regular season games.
1. Los Angeles Lakers (Last Year: #8)
Of course, going no-stars is great and all, but it still can't compete with getting four stars on the same team for the first time. No matter how you feel about the Nash-Howard-Kobe-Gasol Lakers, they're easily the biggest must-watch team since the post-Decision Heat, and even though half their games will undoubtedly end up on national TV, the other half will still be the most essential games on the schedule, no matter who they're playing. Can Nash and Kobe co-exist? How much does either have left? What does a Nash/Dwight pick-and-roll look like? How many alley-oops can Pau volleyball to Dwight a game? Holy shit, is that really Metta World Peace looking so weirdly slim? All essential questions, all which desperately need answering in this 2012-13 season. The Timberwolves just can't compete with that, and neither can anybody else.


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DNS - Accessing your Database before DNS change
(In the following article, items in bold are placeholder hostnames, and should be replaced with your own hostnames.)
To access your SQL database, you need a unique hostname (domain name) for your MySQL server. This can be any name you wish, so long as you have registered it, but it is commonly a sub-domain of "yourdomain.com" called "mysql.yourdomain.com". This arrangement is convenient to use with DreamHost's MySQL installations, as the servers can be created and managed all from within DreamHost Web Panel > Goodies > Manage MySQL.
However, during a server or host migration, the registration entries for "yourdomain.com" may not point to DreamHost's name servers, so you wouldn't be able to use a sub-domain of "yourdomain.com" for the MySQL hostname.
With DreamHost's setup, your MySQL server (which hosts all of your databases) is accessible from any domain or sub-domain that you assign to it. So you can still access your DreamHost-hosted MySQL database by assigning it a temporary subdomain which points to DreamHost. And that's easy to do.
Add a sub-domain
Add a free dreamhosters.com sub-domain at DreamHost Web Panel > Domains > Manage Domains > Add Domain / Sub-domain [1], scroll down to the "Mirrored" section, and create a mirror of "yourdomain.com" named "yourdomain.dreamhosters.com". Make sure to leave ".com" or ".net" out of the middle of this sub-domain name.
Add a MySQL hostname
Then add a hostname for your MySQL server to your new subdomain, with DreamHost Web Panel > Goodies > Manage MySql > Add New Hostname. Enter the hostname of your choice (commonly "mysql"), and select the new sub-domain using the dropdown menu.
So if your domain is "yourdomain.net" and your MySQL hostname is "mysql", your new sub-domain will be "yourdomain.dreamhosters.com" and the SQL hostname will be "mysql.yourdomain.dreamhosters.com".
Access the database with phpMyAdmin
Once the DNS changes propagate, you will be able to access the phpMyAdmin SQL management utility at "mysql.yourdomain.dreamhosters.com", using the SQL server login information you specified when you set up the MySQL server on the DreamHost panel. Or, assuming your sub-domain is up and running, you can access the admin app right away by pointing your browser to http://yourdomain.dreamhosters.com/dh_phpmyadmin/mysql.yourdomain.com.
If you try to access phpMyAdmin before the sub-domain's DNS records have changed, dreamhosters.com's phpMyAdmin interface will be unable to recognize your login information; this does not mean your installation is broken, just that DreamHost can't yet access your sub-domain.
See also DNS_-_Viewing_site_before_DNS_change
A caveat for DreamPress. Since you can't (easily) alias the MySQL server, you'll need to get your SQL server name from Panel > Goodies > MySql Databases. It looks like this:
The important information is the name: wpsql1890xxx - You'll want to edit your wp-config.php file to make your MySQL hostname look like this:
/** MySQL hostname */ define('DB_HOST', 'wpsql1890xxx.dreamhostps.com');
Then your site will work fine.


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A Revolutionary Reading List: The Intellectual Tradition that Influenced the U.S. Founding Fathers (Released April 2010)
In the second chapter, Paine criticizes monarchy as a form of government. He points to Biblical precedent as being in opposition to monarchy, discussing in detail the appointment of the first king of Israel. He points to the line of English kings as springing from a usurper in William the Conqueror. He, moreover, criticizes hereditary monarchy as being of dubious precedent and subjugating future generations to choices they had no part in making.
Finally, Paine presents a two part argument for seeking independence. The third chapter focuses on the inevitability that the Americans must separate from Britain. He points out the difficulty of being legislated by a government so far away and ridicules the idea that an island should rule a continent. He enumerates some of the grievances that the colonists have suffered at British hands. Further, he points out American vulnerability by having to be drawn in to British hostilities that are not shared by American inhabitants, and the difficulty of dealing with threats when rule occurs from afar. He also points out that England legislates the American colonies to the advantage of England, not to that of the colonies. In the fourth chapter Paine emphasizes the reasons he thinks the current time is right to separate from England stating that the colonies should be sufficiently populated and well experienced from the recent wars to be ready to defend themselves. He points to the current interdependence of the colonies as a unifying force that will erode as the colonies become more self sufficient. He also states that time will entrench bad habits and make it more difficult to form a functional government.
Common Sense was successful in engaging the colonists in the idea of Revolution, but the reality of the Revolution was much more trying and drawn out than they initially expected. As Christmas of 1776 approached, the initial enthusiasm of the enlisted men was wearing thin. Many soldiers were contemplating leaving the army when their enlistment expired at the beginning of the new year. In response, Paine wrote The Crisis No. 1, the first of a series of essays that he had published between 1776 and 1783 during the Revolutionary war. It opens with the memorable lines, "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Paine encourages the soldiers to make the best use of the winter before them. He states what is at stake in fighting the war, and insists that the gains will be worth the sacrifice. He writes of his own experience as a soldier and offers reason to believe that the American forces will prevail against British troops.
George Washington read Paine's essay to his troops and together with a personal appeal from the general, managed to convince many men to reenlist. Paine was one of the more radical of the American founding fathers. Never-the-less, his ideas of common sense, endeavor and personal merit, human rights, and a rejection of inevitability in human history were strongly grounded in Enlightenment thinking. His courageous prose helped to galvanize resolve and bolster confidence in the Revolutionary cause at a critical moment in American history.
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Huselius on the shelf 4 to 6 months
Blue Jackets winger Kristian Huselius suffered a torn pectoral muscle lifting weights in Sweden last week and will be having surgery in Columbus on Thursday. Huselius is expected to miss 4 to 6 months. GM Scott Howson told Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch that he expects to start receiving some calls from teams looking to move a winger.
Pronger' slow recovery
Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger could miss the start of training camp for the second straight year, via Broad Street Bull:
"I would say I'm quite a bit behind where I would be, training-wise, and workout-wise," he said on TSN. "Whether I'm at camp or not, I don't know that yet. It's still early to tell. I would guess I would not be starting camp, just from the mere fact that I haven't been able to work out at all yet. I'm skinny to begin with, and now I'm looking really skinny."
Bill Watter's distasteful July 3rd joke
Great stuff yesterday from Pension Plan Puppets that tackles comments made by Toronto radio host Bill Watters about Cody Franson:
"Well, I'm at a loss. The only… you've got to look through his statistics, he's got some offensive flair, he is not what you would call a rugged, truculent, testosteronic, guy… He's more of a 3rd of July parade guy. He likes to enjoy the good life and I don't, I just can't put a reason behind why you'd give up on a 6'5 defenceman with offensive skill unless he's just a bit too soft."
If Watters intended this as an anti-gay slur, it is unacceptable. Leafs fans haven't had a lot to be proud about over the last few years as far as on-ice matters are concerned, but off the ice, the Leafs organization has given us several reasons to cheer. The Leafs have been at the forefront of the developing movement to confront and eliminate homophobia in hockey.
NHL 12 to feature "signature traits"
According to a producer's blog, NHL 12 will feature player traits that will match up more closely with their real-life counterparts. Joe Thornton will set up down low and look for teammates in the slot, Matt Cooke will drive opponents through the boards long after the puck is gone, Henrik Sedin won't hit anything, and Roberto Luongo will presumably fail to show up for important games on the road.
Leonsis' great expectations
It's quotes like this one from Capitals' owner Ted Leonsis that keep our own Rick Moldovanyi up at night hoping for failure, all in the name of writing some quality Leonsis jokes:
"The team will make the playoffs, as I promised, 10 to 15 years in a row. There is a 10 to 15 year horizon. Woody Allen said, half of success in life is showing. Well, you've got to make the playoffs in order to compete for the Cup."
Kevin Westgarth to marry Bill Cowher's daughter
L.A. Kings tough guy Kevin Westgarth is set to wed Meagan Cowher, daughter of former NFL coach Bill Cowher, on August 12th. Meagan was a basketball standout at Princeton, so it's probably a safe bet that any offspring will be blessed with some athleticism. Better hope they don't get stuck with grandpa's angry face, though.
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Reading Guide
The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor
William Trevor has long been regarded as one of Ireland's most evocative writers, a prose stylist of the highest order with a Chekhovian awareness of the emotional undercurrents of his characters' lives. And in The Story of Lucy Gault, Trevor lives up to, perhaps even surpasses, that reputation in a novel that explores the tragic consequences for one family of Ireland's deep-seated political strife.
The Story of Lucy Gault is set in provincial Ireland in the early 1920s at the height of civil turmoil and anti-English violence. Everard Gault, a retired Anglo-Irish army captain married to an Englishwoman, shoots and wounds one of the boys who has come in the night to set their house afire. This act sets in motion a chain of events that are to have grievous effects on the Gault family. Convinced their attackers will return, Everard and Heloise decide they must leave Ireland. But their daughter Lucy, heartbroken at such a prospect, runs away. When some of her clothes are found by the ocean shore, her parents assume she has committed suicide. In their grief they decide to travel, aimlessly at first, before settling in Italy and then Switzerland, losing touch entirely with Ireland. They remain unaware that Lucy did not die but has lived out the years waiting for their return, unable to forgive herself for her youthful recklessness. And, indeed, the problem of forgiveness lies at the heart of The Story of Lucy Gault—forgiveness for the act of terror that drove the family away, for Everard and Heloise's mistaken conclusion that their daughter had drowned, and for all the words left unspoken that might have changed their fates.
With a subtlety and emotional insight rarely matched in contemporary fiction, The Story of Lucy Gault follows the inexorable unfolding of a few chance events that alter the lives of a family and unforgettably illuminate the contours of the human condition.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. Among his books are Two Lives, My House in Umbria, The Collected Stories, Felicia's Journey,After Rain, Death in Summer, and The Hill Bachelors. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and lives in Devon, England.
- The Story of Lucy Gault is as much about what doesn't happen, or what almost happens, as what does. Lahardane is almost set afire, Lucy comes close to marrying Ralph, Everard writes letters to Ireland but does not send them. What other instances reveal the significance of things not happening? Is the novel saying that what we do not do shapes our lives as much as what we do do?
- What role does chance play in the novel? What crucial turning points are brought about by chance occurrences? Does this preponderance of chance events suggest the hand of fate directing the characters' lives, or rather a meaningless randomness, the absence of fate?
- Lucy blames herself, her rash decision to run away, for her parents' leaving; her parents blame themselves for not being more sensitive and honest with their daughter. "We told her lies," Everard says (p. 31). How should the blame be apportioned between Lucy and her parents? To what extent are larger historical and political forces to blame for what happens to the Gault family?
- Lucy's mother and father conclude that Lucy is dead when they find some of her clothes along the ocean's shore. What are the tragic consequences of this misreading? Why aren't they able to search the woods, to think of other possibilities? What is the novel saying about the role of misinterpretation in our lives?
- Why does Lucy reject Ralph's impassioned marriage proposals? What are the consequences of this rejection, for her and for Ralph? Was she mistaken to turn Ralph down, or was her rejection her only real option, given her peculiar history, her character, and the circumstances of her life?
- Heloise Gault imagines uncovering her feelings to her husband: "She heard her voice apologizing, and talking then of all she didn't want to talk about; before she closed her eyes she found the sentences came quite easily. But when she slept, and woke after a few minutes, she heard herself saying she couldn't have that conversation and knew that she was right" (p. 84). Why can't she have that conversation? How might it have helped her? Where else in the novel does the inability to communicate openly and directly have disastrous consequences?
- Why does Lucy visit Horahan, the man who as a boy helped set in motion the events that caused so much pain, after he's gone insane and been confined to the asylum? Are her visits an act of forgiveness? What effect do these visits have on Horahan? On Lucy herself?
- In retelling the story of the Gault family, travelers and people in the surrounding towns embellish the narrative. "In talk inspired by what was told, the subtleties that clogged the narrative were smudged away. The spare reality of what had happened was coloured and enriched, and altogether made better. The journey the stricken parents had set out upon became a pilgrimage, absolution sought for sins that varied in the telling" (p. 70). What are the subtleties that clog the narrative? Is the parents' journey a kind of pilgrimage? Have they sinned? Why are subtleties so important in truly understanding a story?
- Compared to much contemporary fiction, The Story of Lucy Gault is an uneventful, quiet book. How does it achieve such power in the absence of dramatic action? How does Trevor draw out the spiritual implications of his story? What are those implications?
- At the end of the novel, the nuns visit Lucy, drawn by her extraordinary peacefulness. "Her tranquility is their astonishment… Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel. Calamity shapes the story that is told, and is the reason for its being: is what they know, besides, the gentle fruit of such misfortunes' harvest? They like to think so…." (p. 224). Are the nuns right in sensing a transcendent calm in Lucy? If so, how has she achieved this peace? Can her life be said to have been, on balance, a good life?


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SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that legal action by Washington along with 44 other states has resulted in drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, LLC (GSK) paying the states $105 million to resolve claims of deceptive marketing and promotion of non-approved uses of certain drugs. Washington's share is $2.1 million.
The attorneys general allege that GSK unlawfully promoted its asthma drug, Advair, and antidepressant drugs, Paxil and Wellbutrin.
The Complaint and Consent Decree filed today in King County Superior Court allege that GlaxoSmithKline violated the Washington State Consumer Protection Act by misrepresenting the uses and qualities of these drugs. This resulted in the drugs being prescribed to patients for "off-label" uses that the Food and Drug Administration had not approved.
"GlaxoSmithKline gambled with consumers' health to increase profit," said Ferguson. "I'm pleased our legal action will put a stop to future deceptive business practices."
Today's action will result in major changes in GSK's sales practices to remove incentives for the sales and promotion of off-label uses.
Overview of Consent Decree
In addition to the $105 million payment, the Consent Decree requires GlaxoSmithKline to reform its marketing and promotional practices. GSK shall not:
• Make promotional claims, unless approved or permitted by the FDA that a GSK product is better, more effective, safer, or has less serious side effects than what has been demonstrated by substantial evidence;• Provide samples of GSK products to health care professionals who would be expected to prescribe the sampled product for an off-label use; and• Disseminate information describing any off-label use of a GSK product, unless such information is consistent with applicable FDA regulations.
The Consent Decree also requires GSK to:
• Continue its Patient First Program through March 2019 which reduces financial incentives for sales representatives to engage in deceptive marketing; and• Require scientifically-trained personnel to be responsible for developing and approving unbiased and non-promotional responses to health care provider questions.
Washington participated in this legal action along with Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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The Office of the Attorney General is the chief legal office for the state of Washington with attorneys and staff in 27 divisions across the state providing legal services to roughly 200 state agencies, boards and commissions. Attorney General Bob Ferguson is working hard to protect consumers and seniors against fraud, keep our communities safe, protect our environment and stand up for our veterans. Visit www.atg.wa.gov to learn more.
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The Callback pattern — which I convered on the previous episode — is useful when you are issuing granular I/O simple operations either fail or succeed.
But if you have an object that is more complex, like a TCP connection, you may want to perform some actions when the connection is opened, when it is closed, when some data arrives and when there is an error.
This pattern is sometimes known as the pub-sub pattern where there is the event publisher and zero or many event subscribers.
The principles here are similar, but the nomenclature changes a bit: there is the event emitter part which generate events that can be listened by event listeners.
Here is an example of a simple TCP Server:
var net = require('net');
var format = require('util').format;
var server = net.createServer();
server.on('connection', function(conn) {
var printPrefix = '[' + conn.remoteAddress + ':' + conn.remotePort + '] ';
function print() {
var formatted = format.apply({}, arguments);
console.log(printPrefix + formatted);
conn.on('data', function(data) {
print('got some data:', data);
conn.on('end', function() {
conn.on('close', function() {
conn.on('error', function(err) {
print('error:', err);
server.on('error', console.error);
Here we're using several event emitters.
First, the net.createServer
returns a net.Server
object that is an event emitter. Besides other event types, this object emits a connection
event every time a client connects to it.
Here we're registering a listener for this event type on this object by using the .on(<event type>, <event listener>)
method. This method binds the specified event type — connection
in this case to the event listener — our callback function.
The callback function then may get some event-type-specific data as is the case of the conn
argument, which is of type net.Socket
. This connection object is also an event emitter on its own, and can emit, among others, data
, close
and end
Let's test this server now.
The event type is represented by a string, usually lower-cased and containing only letters. Each event type passes arguments to the listeners, and these arguments are specific to the event type — some documentation should be provided about which arguments the listeners for this event type should expect.
The event listener is just a simple JavaScript function, either declared inline (like in the previous example) or declared in advance.
You can either declare it inline like this:
server.on('connection', function(conn) { ...
or name the function:
function handleConnection(conn) {
server.on('connection', handleConnection);
Also, you can have more than one event listener for the same event type on the same event emitter, it's just a matter of registering it using the .on()
If some events will happen only once, at most once or if you're only interested in the first instance of that event, you should use .once
instead of .on
like we did on the socket close
and end
conn.once('close', function() {
After it is registered, you can remove an event listener from the event emitter by calling .removeListener(<event type>, <event listener>)
. For this, you will have to name the functions like this:
function closeHandler() {
emitter.on('close', closeHandler);
// ...
emitter.removeListener('close', closeHandler);
The event type is just a meaningless identifier that is used by the event emitter to dispatch events with the exception of the error
event type.
If an event of type error
occurs and the event emitter has listeners for it, everything goes as planned.
But if there are no event listeners for when an error
event occurs, an uncaught exception is thrown into the event loop.
You can still catch that error if you register for the global uncaughtException
event type emitted by the global process
object like this:
process.on('uncaughtException', function(err) {
The usage of the process uncaught exception handler is not advised for things other than logging since it's not contextualized and you may have left a series of resources unattended for — open connections, hanging requests, etc.
As a rule of thumb, always listen to the error


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Hey, you need to put CLOWN PARADE on this thread too ;-). I like the trio pic of BETTY FORD. All of them are nice but that one stands out this go round. Julia |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 5, 12 at 16:20
Julia, there was just the one bloom today, but there are a dozen scapes on Clown Parade, so it should put on a show this year. kay |
- Posted by anniegolden z7a (My Page) on Sat, May 5, 12 at 16:22
Love, love love Choral Fantasy. I have her on order from Maryotts. can't wait. Christine |
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Your Choral Fantasy is looking good but Betty Ford wins my vote for todays favorite. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 5, 12 at 16:30
OH MY GOODNESS KAY. Its impoosible for me to pick my favorites this time.I just love every one of them.They are all gorgeous .Clown Parade is a beauty, and johnny cash, too and wild one. all are beautiful. Jean |
Oh, oh, oh, the blooms just get better & better! If I had to pick a favorite here, it would probably be Betty Ford because of those 3 perfect blooms. |
They are all wonderful, but Crazy Ivan is my favorite! |
Stunning group Kay hard to pick a favorite but if you held my feet to hot coals I might have to go with Wild Thing. Linda |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sun, May 6, 12 at 9:50
Thanks Jean, your season is picking up steam too. I really like your Mississippi Man bloom. Ngraham, you know I love to get clusters of blooms when I can...I love them too. Thanks Debra. I am hoping my Ivan will bloom more like yours does this year. Linda, I love the hot looks too....you know those are usually the ones I pick when you post photos. |
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Monday, August 5 2013
HBO's 'Casting By' Highlights Film's Creative Rapports
"I don't like casting," says Woody Allen, in his version of how crucial he finds his longtime collaborator, casting director Juliet Taylor, "I don't like to meet people in any area."
Thursday, January 15 2009
The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008
Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.
Thursday, October 2 2008
If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual.
In the Land of the Blind
Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Jose Saramago's Blindness fails because the source material doesn't easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.
Monday, September 8 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Wednesday, June 18 2008
Be Kind Rewind
Uneven and a little muddled, Be Kind Rewind might be a prime candidate for the very fan remixing it portrays.
Friday, February 22 2008
Be Kind Rewind
A set of relationships -- father and son, past and present, fiction and something like history -- forms the foundation of Be Kind Rewind, another gently antic film by Michel Gondry.


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