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Awesome Apples: 39 Apple Pie Recipes
Apple pie is a classic fall dessert that will never go out of style. Whether you're looking for a foolproof recipe like grandma used to make or an updated take with creative add-ins, we've got the recipes you need to master everyone's favorite apple treat.
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Apple Blintz Hand Pies
These sweet little pies have a lovely filling that combines tart and sweet apples with farmer cheese and cinnamon.
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Posted by Bryan Kava on Jan 12, 2008 in Kava Information | 24 comments
We're thrilled that we've become one of the most popular informational places to find authoritative and useful information on Kava Kava, and as a result, we get a great many questions regarding this herbal supplement. So, we do our best to turn as many of your Kava questions into blog entries.
Without a doubt, our #1 most-asked question is some variation of "Where to Buy Kava", which we answer in vivid detail in our article of that same name. The topic of this blog entry, though, answers our 2nd most-asked questions which ask us, in one way or another, to dispense medical advice. Unfortunately, we have only one, required by law answer for every one of those questions. If you're reading the entry, there's a good chance you're one of those treasured visitors who has asked a question such as that, and have been pointed to this article. So, we offer this in relation to the law, which is extremely clear on the position we (or anyone who offers herbal supplements or information on herbal supplements) must adhere to:
We are not medical doctors, so we do not have the authority to answer any question that relates to any medication, drug interaction, potential allergic reactions, the safety or effectiveness of Kava, or the use of Kava as a relief from any medical symptoms. We do not offer information that is intended to diagnose, treat or cure any illness or health condition. Any health or safety-related issues rising due to individual application of Kava should be further researched, and the advice of a medical professional requested for allergic reactions to individual ingredients to any products described on Kava dot com.
Whew. Truly, we wish we could offer more in this department, and we know how so few doctors (from the large number of e-mails we receive) know anything in relation to the use of herbal supplements in general, including their history, the clinical and/or anecdotal evidence that exists (often from thousands of years of use) in favor of an herbal supplement such as Kava that has proven to be as safe and effective as Kava has proved to be.
The only thing we can offer, from personal experience is this: We have friends who have used Kava Kava in their family for generations without a single report of medical harm. This is also why we often find ourselves recommending the blog that we wish we wrote at Kona Kava Farm; the present spokesperson (and part owner of the family-owned farm) has a very personal, candid, and informative blog at one of the places we highly, highly recommend for any Kava purchase; Kona Kava Farm. We receive no commissions (you can tell by the fact that there's no tag of any kind attached to any of our links), and simply hope to share our personal experiences with a plant that is so integral to our well-being.
Is Kava safe to take if women are pregnant? I'm interested in trying this root but m pregnant so I'm not to sure if it's safe? The last thing I want to do is put my baby in harm.
Our daughter was prescribed 10mg of Prozac. She has anxiety and worries that her mom and dad will get in an accident, about storms and when staying at a friend's house calls us to get her before bed time. We do not like what we hear about Prozac and want to use all other alternative sources first. I read about Kava and like what I read, but need further information. Our daughter is 9 and I would like to know what is the recommended amount and frequency? I would love to have our little girl grow up with a happy face and not allow her worries take over her happiness. If you do not suggest amount and frequency then who should we discuss this with? Any suggestions?
I occasionally rake kava Kaveri root to help me sleep. How long will it stay in my system and will it show on a urine drug test? I will be taking a uds for a new job and didn't consider that it may negatively affect the results. If so, anything I can do to flush it out beforehand?
I understand pregnancy questions are tricky. I am in no way asking for medical advice. With the lack of REAL study data (thank you big pharma!), no one can truly say if Kava is safe during pregnancy (Though I would bet on it all day, if only god could settle this debate.) What I do have data on is the horrible affect of pills on my friends and community for the sake of the almighty $. So many ruined lives. Who would have thought smack and artificial smack is bad (lol)? I also am not an MD, but I'm thinking Kava is safer (pregnant or no) for stress. No good, natural sedatives have been researched (in respect to gestation and lactation) because of, you guessed it, money. So instead of ask for medical advise, I would like to start at the point we are truly at, the ethnobotany. What does the tribal wisdom say on the matter of Kava and pregnancy (as a point of historical FACT, not advise.)? P.S Look up Opuntia Streptacantha, one of the few plants as awesome as Kava (and I'm a farmer who specializes in awesome)!
Hi! I am currently on the prescription, zpack… I have also been taking 5htp for my anxiety…i got some kava capsules.recently to take on trip to calm my panic.and anxiety even more… Are these 3 ok to take together? Thanks!
Dear Kava… I am not so sure people read before they ask.
Will Kava cure my husbands dumbness? LOL Just kidding.
I buy my Kava from the Kona Kava Farm and also recommend it to others.
Hi I am just wondering I am going to Fiji in 3 weeks just wanting to know is it a bad thing if I have kava when i have very low platlets levels? Cheers
I have restless less would this help. I have tried many things.
Hi! I am interested in taking Kava to help with stress, sleep, and occasional anxiety. I as looking at my local Whole Foods at the variety of Kava supplements, tinctures, etc, and wondered if there were any other brands that seem to be good..? I didn't see the ones from Hawaii that I saw you all recommend in the other pages…
Thank you!
Hi There,
I've been drinking kava daily for the last two weeks with the last three days drinking about 4-5 ounces in a session. Yesterday I stoped for a break and decided to take a melatonin to get to sleep…a couple hours later i was wide awake, wired and feeling restless. Today i had a panic attack at work and have felt wired/restless all day. Please note i also take 10 mg cipralex but didn't feel any bad effects while just taking kava. I wonder if it's the melatonin that interacted with the kavalactones? I know you're not a doctor, but just wondering if this is unheard of or usual…thanks
Thank you Kava.com,
Just an update…last night i decided to have a drink of kava and it worked it's magic and took the ill feeling and paranoia away that i experienced from mixing the melatonin and kava. I feel fine today, so it must have been an interaction that didn't sit well with me.
I thought for a minute I might have to give up my Kava! (just no more kava and melatonin at the same time)
thanks again
Hi There….I have been prescribed Klonopin (a benzodiazepine) for a few years now for general anxiety and horrible insomnia. I have an upcoming drug test for clinical clearance in a little over 2 weeks. I am stopping the bezo 14 days prior to this drug screen. Even though it is prescribed to me by an MD, since they are selecting candidates….I figure this is something they do not need to know. I have just ordered kava from the kona kava website and intended to use in lieu of the benzo (and who know's, I may not need the benzo anymore if the kava lives up to its reputation). My question is, if taken nightly, could this kava potentially show up as anything on this drug screen? It is extremely important so I cannot take any risks. Any solid info is appreciated.


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You can't run around in full body armour while doing parkour or freerunning, guys. You have to be able to use every inch of your body freely. Also, safety does go first. You start very low and go slowly higher. If you are not sure that you can perform a move/jump, then you don't do it. Sure, you still can injure yourself but not that bad.
I've been doing parkour for a year now and I've never injured myself. Only a few bruises and pain in the muscles from overdoing it.


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Ohio farmers have ample time to prepare to seed forages on the thousands of acres that haven't
been planted because of wet field conditions, points out Stan Smith, an Ohio State University Extension agent in Fairfield County.
"Our spring weather issues offer a unique opportunity for forage growers to be prepared to make the perfect summer seeding when August arrives," says Smith.
In particular, he says soil samples can be pulled now so lime and fertilizer applications can be made in a timely fashion. "The extra time available to prepare for new seedings this year also allows growers to eliminate perennial weeds and control the annuals that continue to germinate while abundant precipitation persists throughout the state," he adds.
Mark Sulc, Ohio State Extension forage specialist, lists these key management steps toward successful establishment of forages later this summer:
- Apply lime and fertilizer according to a soil test. Since the stand will be used for several years, ideally the soil test should have been taken within the past year.
- Control problem perennial weeds ahead of seeding. Be careful with herbicide selection because some have residual soil activity and will harm new forage seedings if proper waiting periods are not observed. Be sure to read the labels of any herbicides being considered.
- Plant new perennial forage stands as soon as possible in August. Seedlings require at least six to eight weeks of growth after emergence to have adequate vigor for winter survival. In northern Ohio, plant during the first two weeks of August. In southern Ohio, plant by Aug. 30. Later planting may work, but there is greater risk for failure and the stand may have lower yield potential next year. The new stand should have 6-8" of growth before a killing frost. Slow-establishing species should be planted as early as possible. Fast-establishing species like red clover, alfalfa and orchardgrass can be seeded up to the dates listed above if moisture is present. Kentucky bluegrass and timothy can actually be seeded 15 days later than the dates listed above.
- It's risky to place seeds into dry soil – there may be just enough moisture to germinate the seed but not enough to get the seeding established. Either plant soon after a rain when soil moisture is adequate, or when a good rain system is in the forecast.
- No-till seedings conserve moisture and can be very successful provided weeds are controlled prior to seeding. Remove all straw from fields previously planted to small grains. Any remaining stubble should either be left standing or clipped and removed. Do not leave clipped stubble in fields because it will form a dense mat that prevents good emergence.
- If you're going to use tillage, don't over-till and be sure to prepare a firm seedbed. Loose seedbeds dry out very quickly. Deep tillage is not ideal for late-summer seedings. A cultipacker or cultimulcher is an excellent last-pass tillage tool. The soil should be firm enough that your boot leaves a print no deeper than 3/8" (you can bounce a basketball on it).
- Plant the seed shallow (1/4-½" deep) and in firm contact with the soil. Carefully check seeding depth, especially when using a no-till drill. A drill with press wheels provides the greatest success with summer seeding. Broadcasting seed on the surface without good soil coverage and without firm packing is usually a recipe for failure in summer.
- Use high-quality seed of known forage-type varieties from reputable dealers. Cheap seed often results in lower yield and shorter stand life. Check out variety performance trials for Ohio and neighboring states at the following Web sites: Ohio, oardc.osu.edu/forage2010/; Kentucky, www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage/ForageVarietyTrials2.htm; Pennsylvania, pubs.cas.psu.edu/FreePubs/pdfs/uc068.pdf; and Michigan, fis.msue.msu.edu/.
- Make sure legume seed has fresh inoculum of the proper rhizobium to ensure nitrogen fixation. If the seed is pre-inoculated, check with the seed supplier to ensure the seed was stored under conditions that guarantee viable inoculant.
- Don't plant new alfalfa immediately after an older established alfalfa stand. Autotoxic compounds released by old alfalfa plants inhibit the growth and productivity of new seedlings. You can seed alfalfa in late summer to thicken up a new alfalfa seeding that was made this spring because the autotoxic compounds are not present in young plants.
- As the stand develops this fall, do not be tempted to harvest it. No matter how much growth accumulates, it's usually best to let the cover protect the new crowns during winter. The only exception to the no-fall-harvest rule for late-summer seedings is perennial ryegrass. If perennial ryegrass has tillered and has more than 6" of growth in late fall, clip it back to 3-4" in November or early December. Finally, scout new seedings for winter-annual weeds in October. Apply herbicides as needed. Winter-annual weeds are much easier to control in late fall than they will be next spring.


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Hm. Yet another problem with removal of verbs.
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Dennis Kucinich | PBS
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Broadcast Date: Jan. 4, 2008
Thousands of media outlets descended on Iowa, erecting a powerful wall of TV cameras and reporters between the voters and candidates. Bill Moyers talks with Dennis Kucinich who knows well the power of the press to set expectations and transform the agenda.
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It's quite fun to adjust your treasured pictures and add a filter to them. I take hundreds of photos on my iPhone as it's always with me and makes for some great snapshots. Artify allows you to add an impressionist style effect to your photos – producing results that I've found to be rather clever.
It's a simple matter of adding the effect. You can either take a photo from within the app or use one that you've previously saved to your iOS device. Then it's a simple matter of pressing the Artify button and the effects are immediate. You can leave it at that as 9 times out of 10, it looks rather beautiful anyhow or you can adjust it to your taste. This is quite simply done with a couple of taps of a button. You can add to the effect by using the paint tool or you can erase some of the impressionist filter which is particularly useful if you want to accentuate a face in a portrait photo for example. You can adjust color intensity too and the size of the brush you use as well as the level of the effects. It's all simply done yet potently effective too.
Of course you need to be able to do something with the image once you've modified it. Sharing features via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter are available, and you can always save it to your library again.
Artify's a simple little app with one very specific purpose. It's quite cool though. Every time you put a photo through the process, it comes out slightly differently making for some original effects. It can also make some quite mundane photos look really rather attractive. In the screenshots here, somehow the effect doesn't come out as well as it does on my iPhone but it does look like what you'd expect from an impressionist style.
If you take photos often and you like being able to mess around with them, especially on the move, Artify's worth a shot. It's so inexpensive, even if you only use it a handful of times, you'll feel like you've got your money's worth. Even better, the developers suggest in the app that they'll be adding new styles soon which will make it even more useful.
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Introduced in 2005, the EC725 has seen combat service worldwide, including in Afghanistan.
Evolved from experience gained with the Cougar family, the EC725 is the latest version of this medium lift (11-ton class) helicopter.
The EC725 has operated from ships and ashore.
It is a truly multi-purpose, versatile military asset.
Redundant human-machine interface
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One single Flight & Navigation Display (FND) provides all flight parameters at a glance
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The First Limit Indicator displays the available power in all situations
Automatic computed pattern to hover:fix trans down, geographic waypoint,radar plot, map display mark
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Unrivalled stability in height, whatever the surface below
Joystick in the cargo to track target
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Engine air intakes provided with sand filters and de-icing capability
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Sure, thanksgivng and holidays in general aren't my cup of tea but I love an excuse to take a day of work to spend with family!
We would take something old and tired and common — coffee — and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.
- Howard Schutz, CEO of Starbucks
after staying up until 2am & getting up at 7 to get everything going my sister & I decided we earned a coffee break before everyone woke up and started to arrive.
This was the highlight of the holiday for us!
In order to get a photo of the adults my niece took some photos for us but each of cut someone out so unfortunately my parents didn't make the cut but these are 3 of my sibilings & spouse's.
Yummy thanksgiving dinner… my favorites are turkey, mashed potatoes & gravy and stuffing.
My stepfather just about to carve teh turkey. (its an iconic photo & I wanted to be sure not to miss it this year)
When my parents come into town they always bring a bunch of veggies & meats from the farm and I'm pretty sure this squash weighs as much as my nephew!
I helped my littlest nephew (soon to be second youngest nephew get ready & he just couldn't not wear his little dragon costume, I certainly wasn't going to stop him, I mean seriously how adorable.
The weather here in utah was perfect we spent most the time outside.
A highlight of our family get togethers is the conversation. it varies from politics, reminiscing, books, movies and of course there is plenty of teasing!
Right now its hard to say where I will be for the holidays next year, I only know I'll be here in Utah until April but after that I just don't know, maybe I'll be here for the holidays, but thats not really the goal… it would be nice to spend another summer here though
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We're sure Robert Pattinson loves his girlfriend's nearly-naked look — she's beautiful!
Kristen Stewart looked amazing in Breaking Dawn, and now this newly-released still from the movie shows more of her than ever!
K-Stew, 21, dares to go bare in this beautiful, feather-filled new pic from the film. She looks radiant — there's no wonder the movie has consistently been doing so well at the box office!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers — is this K-Stew's sexiest look yet?
– William Earl
More 'Breaking Dawn:'
- Robert Pattinson Says: 'Breaking Dawn' Is Just Like 'Teen Mom'
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In the sex scene Kristen totally shows a side shot of half her nipple when her and rob are sitting up kissing and embracing in bed. I think it is during her flash back memory scene the morning after. It was hard to notice because like myself I'm sure most all the women who saw the movie were only looking at Robert during this scene. My husband pointed it out to me after the movie was over. So when I went to see it a second time with my friends I made sure to look and sure enough it was there. Rob even mentioned it in an interview on a late night talk show. He said they could only show half a nipple….and she did!
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I thought I was seeing things until I saw it the second time too. I was shocked. My son saw it and said it was the.best part of the show …..truly had to laugh. I am surprised the press hasn't eaten that one up. Bet that won't make one of the still pic releases….lol. Anyway Kristen is truly georgeous in clothes or out. Rob you better treat this lady with kid gloves or someone is gonna steal her from you!
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There is no doubt that women today are under more stress than ever. One of the "gifts" left to us by the women's liberation movement is that we not only get to fry-the-bacon-up-in-a-pan at night, but we are also frequently out there in the workforce bringing-home-the-bacon as well.
Add to that the demands of children, homework, soccer practice, PTA, church and other civic activities, our cup truly RUNS over! Super Girl has nothing on us! It's no wonder that heart disease is the number one killer of women. Sisters, we have STRESS in our lives!
Just how bad our stress level really is was recently brought home in a very real way to me. One of my best girlfriends just had the "pleasure" of a one-night stay at the local heart "hotel" (hospital). This definitely wasn't her destination when she left for work that morning. She's a single-parent of two small preschool children. She's a widow and has no backup at home. (Are we getting the stress level picture yet?) In addition, she works for a company that's been laying off workers for months and outsourcing jobs overseas. She's been working 70-80 hour work weeks for months in an effort to ensure her job stays in the good old USA. (Bingo! Stress level gets a 120%!)
As she recalls it, her chest began pounding and hurting unbearably. She was short of breath and couldn't breathe - sick to her stomach, sweating, dizzy and lightheaded. The pain radiated down her left arm. She tried to ignore it for a while but as the day progressed, the symptoms only increased in intensity. Finally, she phoned the nurse on call with her insurance company who promptly sent her straight to the hospital for evaluation.
Fortunately, this hospital visit had a happy ending. She was diagnosed with a panic or anxiety attack. Some of the symptoms of a panic attack are similar to those of a heart attack. Panic attack symptoms include: chest pain, sweating, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, hyperventilation (very rapid breathing), and dizziness/faintness. In addition, a panic attack may also be accompanied by a sense of fear or impending disaster.
Well, the first time I had a major panic attack and anxiety attack, the doctor put me on xanax treatment but it messed with my head really badly and I had memory issues. My discharge papers noted that while medicated by it I had little to no acknowledgement of externally inflicted bodily harm/pain. What I do remember is waking up the next day with a swollen ankle and multiple bruises that hurry like hell from walking into things or just letting the car door close on me. I was a living hell!
Later, a friend recommended me this treatment, and I'm very grateful with it, i can go anywhere i want without problem, no anxiety, no panic attacks, i'm a new person now. Watch this review, it helped me a lot and i hope that it could be a help for you : www.panicsolutionkey.com
Chest pain from anxiety can really feel just the same as a heart attacks and it's very frightening. Here's a quick technique that stops anxiety-induced chest pain in less than a minute: http://www.natural-alternative-therapies.com/chest-pain-and-anxiety/
September 8, 2013 - 12:59amIt is common for individuals to see a women heart attack and symptoms associated with it as a panic or anxiety attack. When a woman is having a panic or anxiety attack, it is common for her body to start making a large amount of hormones. Hormones will lead to different changes in our body which leads to heart attacks. The best way to prevent women heart attack is to see your doctor before it occurs.
April 20, 2013 - 2:49amI have been having what i think are panic attacks for about 5 months now. i have had 3 ekgs ( one was done while i was having an attack) 2 sets of bloodwork, a back and chest x-ray, and an ultrasound, all of which were normal. i am a 28 year old female with no heart problems throughout my life and no knowledge of heart problems in my immediate family ( not at a young age anyway) also 3 doctors have listened to my heart and everytime they check my bp it is fine. i sometimes get the shortness of breath but i don't feel it when my mind is distracted,and i have the chest discomfort sometimes. is this just anxiety or should i still worry about my heart.
January 15, 2013 - 1:21pmThis is a great post. I know when I experienced my first panic attack, I was sure I was having a heart attack. It was the absolute scariest moment of my life. Thank you for sharing this with us, Mary!
June 17, 2012 - 6:56amI love your name - anxietyangel - - I LIKE IT!!!!
My first panic attack was no fun. I was scared but pretty sure that it was a just a panic attack (thought I was too young for heart disease) but my doctor sent me straight to the ER and wouldn't even see me in the office. At the time, I was mad since the ER is obviously more expensive than an office visit. But then, I didn't know then what I know now about heart disease. In retrospect, he made the right call because you really don't know and unfortunately, there is no such thing as being too young for a heart problem. I know a young woman who just had her first heart attack at age 31. Scary.
Thanks so much for reading & taking time to post. I appreciate it! Mary
July 8, 2012 - 9:51pm
I forgot something else in that last comment. The ekg, xray & ct scan were normal. My heart rate is about 60-70 at resting, and I'm always conscious of every breath I take. Which in turn makes me feel like I'm hyperventilating often, & I get out of breath doing small things that I shouldn't get winded from. I also quit smoking a week after I left the hospital. All you women on here are so strong, someone help me feel that way.
February 12, 2012 - 6:58pmHi Anon... You had a terrible experience at the hospital. Because you're young and at a healthy weight, they may have not viewed you as a candidate for a heart problem HOWEVER, that's not an excuse. The truth is that sometimes people have heart trouble who don't fit the "mold." I know you mentioned that you don't have insurance and I can related to that because I was recently without insurance for over two years. But, if you're still having trouble, you need to see a doctor. I'm sorry that the hospital let you leave without giving you answers. You are your own best health advocate. Since they didn't give you answers - go find a doctor who will. It's possible that there is something else physical causing these symptoms other than heart disease. You might want to see an internal medicine doctor and have the results from the hospital tests sent to the doctor. They may be able to help you determine if something else is causing this or if it's heart related. Or, you could go directly to a cardiologist and have them look at the records and go over current symptoms. Regardless of what you choose, I'd recommend making a list of your questions and taking them into the appointment with you and don't leave until they've answered your questions or given you a plan for how they are going to get the information needed to answer your questions. You are your own best advocate - don't be afraid to stand your ground about your health if you aren't getting answers.
I don't mean to sound hard but when I was your age, I was sick and kept having doctors brush me off - very patronizing and sent me away. It turned out that I have a chronic incurable condition that could have been treated years before if they'd listened to me. It wasn't until one of them made me so mad that I decided I wouldn't put up with it anymore and found a doctor who actually took the time to listen. When they finally listened, they were able to diagnose. My one regret is that I didn't get aggressive about my healthcare sooner. I knew I was sick but the professionals said I wasn't. Doctors are people just like us and sometimes make mistakes. If you're still having problems, find a doctor who will listen and don't be afraid to be your own advocate. Good luck and keep us posted.
March 26, 2012 - 7:58pmHello everyone on here. I'm looking for some advice, as soon as possible actually. I'm 21 years old, and on the 2nd of january this year, a little over a month ago, I spent the night in the ER because I was experiencing chest pain & pressure & what I felt like was an irregular heart beat. They rushed me in, asked me questions & asked me to disrobe from the waste up for an EKG. as I laid there, nervous & scared starting at my fiancée standing in the corner, they took 6 vials of blood. Shortly after they moved me into a room, hooked me up to a heart monitor to hero track of my heart rate & my blood pressure every hour. Then they took an x-ray of my chest & I waited...for 3 hours, for anyone to get back to me. At that point I was going to leave, I looked at my fiancée n said I guess there's no rush to help the chest pain girl, n he went to get my nurse. She came in & asked me if they came to get me for my CT Scan yet. I said no, & no ones seen me in hours why do I need a cat scan? She told me the doctor wanted to make sure I didn't have a pulmonary embolism. I looked to my fiancée once again, he told me you can wait for it or we can leave. I waited. It was scary & it hurt. But an hour later, at 3 in the morning, my doctor told me I was fine. I was free to go. But I left with no answer to my questions. Why did I feel this way? I was fine for about a week or so, & then out of no where I began to feel the pain again. Its usually anywhere in my chest, sometimes on my left side around or under my breast. Sometimes in the middle or right side too. N its always worse at night, especially the pressure, its intense. So much so that I can't get to sleep, I feel like I will stop breathing if I don't make a conscious effort to remember to breathe. Every breath i.take all day is like that. this pain on a scale of 1 to 10 is anywhere from a 4 to a 7, its more annoying & scary than anything. I feel like they missed something & I'm going to die.suddenly. My heart rate is low I think, but my fiancée & mother say thats normal. I'm 21, I'm 5' 2'', 120 lbs, I'm in good shape but don't work out every day or eat the best things. My mother has anxiety n has taken 1 mg of lorazepam (ativan) every day since I can remember. I just don't want to let this go if its really bad. Besides the chest pain I have pain in my back, shoulders & arms. Today I thought I had jaw pain. I'm freaking myself out. But this is almost a month its been happening. I'm always tired, SO tired, but idk if thats bc the lack of sleep or something else. I feel out of breath more than I don't. I'm scared. The only thing holding me back from going back to the ER is the $6,480 bill I have sitting here because I have no insurance. Someone help please.
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Once upon a time not so very long ago and a place right close by, there was a land conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. Now, reality is, this land was never really the shining city upon a hill as some folks liked to claim but even with all of its problems, it still managed to make the phrases "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" enough substance to be a bit more than a slogan on a statue.
Now? Eh, not so much.
Back just a few decades ago, the US had the reputation for Social Mobility, helped greatly after WWII by the GI Bill. The basic access to a public education also helped this mobility (contrary to Rick Santorum's belief.) Nowadays, this has "turned on its head" (via the New York Times):
WASHINGTON — Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins to economic heights. "Movin' on up," George Jefferson-style, is not only a sitcom song but a civil religion.
But many researchers have reached a conclusion that turns conventional wisdom on its head: Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe. The mobility gap has been widely discussed in academic circles, but a sour season of mass unemployment and street protests has moved the discussion toward center stage.
It is not just education and Social Mobility where the US has problems nowadays. The World Health Organization ranks the US Healthcare system 37th just behind Costa Rica and Dominica and just ahead of Cuba and Slovenia.
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There's a USB socket on the front of the unit, and headphone, line in and line out 3.5mm sockets on the back. The back panel also includes spring-clip speaker posts. And there's a small remote control with far too many buttons on it.
Load a CD into the slot, and the Brennan allows you to copy it straight to its hard-drive. Variable compression ratios are available, from 128 to 320kbps, and copying is done at 12-times playback speed.
The 160GB hard-drive should be big enough to store more than 2000 CDs. Music can also be moved to or from the unit using the USB input.
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The Mariana Trench lies east of the Mariana Islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. It is roughly 1,500 miles long, and it averages about 43 miles in width. (The trench is shown on the Indian and Pacific Oceans Floor Map. Open the PDF version of the map and then zoom in on the western Pacific Ocean.)
Like many other deep ocean trenches, the Mariana Trench follows the boundary between two of the earth's crustal plates: the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate. (These plates are shown on the World Plate Tectonics Map). Along this boundary, tectonic forces are slowly causing the Pacific Plate to slide beneath the Philippine Plate. This process is called subduction, and areas where it occurs are called subduction zones.
Scientists will soon have the chance to learn more about the Mariana Trench. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts has developed a new undersea research vehicle named Nereus that is specifically designed for surveying and collecting samples from the greatest ocean depths. The WHOI, in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, plans to send Nereus to explore Challenger Deep in late 2008 or early 2009.
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Tyler, Texas (KETK) — California engineer Tom Waschura said, "I was laughing at Boehner, until the mail came today,"
We passed "Obamacare," and now we're finding out what's in it.
I won't even get into the computer problems today.
The following is from the San Jose Mercury News which is not exactly a republican paper:
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.
"Welcome to the club," said Robert Laszewksi, a prominent health care consultant and president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates in Virginia.
"For years, the nation has been embroiled in the political rhetoric of "Obamacare," but this past week the reality of the new law sank in as millions of Americans had their first good look at how the 3 1/2-year-old legislation will affect their pocketbooks."
"I really don't like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family's pocket each year, that's otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy."
Ahh, and so it begins...
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The most insightful political film of 2012, "SPLIT: A Deeper Divide," written and directed by Jared P. Scott and Kelly Nyks, is an educational documentary that delves into America's broken political system and its 50–50 bipartisanship. Our political system was set up to create checks and balances, but "SPLIT" shows the us versus them mentality that is tearing the country apart. There hasn't been a divide this big since the Civil War, and if it weren't for President Abraham Lincoln we most likely would not have a President Obama.
The release of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" was ideal timing. It's up for Best Picture at theAcademy Awards and Daniel Day Lewis may win Best Actor. Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will be officially sworn in at the White House and begin his new term. He will swear with his hand not only on Lincoln's Bible, but also Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Bible.
On the eve of the beginning of the three-day presidential inauguration, Examiner Dorri Olds sat down with Jared Scott in a New York City cafe to discuss his new film, upcoming award at Sundance, and his passion for social and political documentaries.
Dorri Olds: What is the name of your new film?
Jared P. Scott: "Artificial Leaf." It's one of the final five nominees of the prestigious Focus Forward competition called "Short Films, Big Ideas." Kelly and I leave tomorrow for Sundance. We're being flown out there by Focus and are so excited.
What is "Artificial Leaf" about?
Chemist and MIT Professor Daniel Nocera and his simple formula for saving our planet through the creation of an artificial leaf. His research led him to an innovative idea to mimic how plants convert light from the sun into chemical energy for fuel.
What were the parameters of the contest?
Filmmakers from all over the world were asked to make three-minute shorts about a world changing innovation. Only 12 other films from the competition will be shown at Sundance, and we've made it to the top five. No matter what happens at the awards we already feel like winners. It's such an amazing honor to have made it this far and we are so grateful.
You'll be among the who's who of the documentary world at Sundance, right?
Yes, the other four filmmakers are Morgan Spurlock ["Super Size Me"], Albert Maysles ["Grey Gardens," "Gimme Shelter"], Alex Gibney ["Taxi to the Dark Side"], and Steve James ["Hoop Dreams"].
When will you know who won the first prize of $100,000?
The winner will be announced at Monday's awards ceremony.
Just curious, where does the name Jared come from?
A character on the show "Big Valley." I tell people I'm an urban cowboy at heart. [Smiles] My brother was named Adam for one of the guys in the show "Bonanza."
It seems your folks liked TV about the Wild West, eh?
[Laughs] It would seem so.
Let's talk about the tremendous momentum of your full-length film, "SPLIT: A Deeper Divide," and its upcoming worldwide distribution.
We're thrilled that it has been embraced throughout Europe. Soon it will be used as an educational tool, internationally. The film's main focus shows how there would be no reason to argue about facts if we were all able to access them. Facts are inarguable. But these days, Americans base their opinions on skewed media reports, not facts.
Do you mean that anybody can say anything on the Internet and people may believe it as fact?
Exactly. And we cannot allow ideological media to define journalism. For example, NPR delivers straightforward news but it's always going to be presented with a tainted left-leaning view. And the same holds true for right-leaning sources like FOX. "SPLIT" is a snapshot of our problematic political system. Our aim is to educate people about this warped media phenomenon.
Are you trying to change the world?
Yes, I humbly would like to think so. Films have a powerful way of doing just that. Kelly and I feel we have a responsibility as filmmakers and storytellers to make the best films possible about the most important social issues of our time. We want to provide education, inspiration and make an impact.
What's next for you and Kelly and your film company, PF Pictures?
"Requiem for the American Dream," is a film about the financialization of America that focuses on the historically unprecedented consolidation of power and wealth and what may be the death of the middle class in our country.
Chemist and MIT Professor Daniel Nocera and his simple formula for saving our planet through the creation of an artificial leaf. His research led him to an innovative idea to mimic how plants convert light from the sun into chemical energy for fuel.
I had not heard about this, but for years I have been wondering why we do not make machines that can extract CO2 from the atmosphere the way a forest does. If the machine were able to also convert light into energy...so much the better.
And while we are at it...since we Americans have some areas that are costing people gazillions of dollars because of flooding...and other areas where there is damn near no water...why can we not find a way to pipe water from the one to the other, solving both problems. We can pipe oil!
I guess though, we need to use the money that would be required for those kinds of projects--to make bombs to kill people.
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I know we should put you out to pasture, have a seat on the porch,
You're scared to death to pass this new legend the torch.
Change from Lucifer after Dead Man in a casket,
You mess with me, I'll put you to Hell in a hand basket.
Talking Hellfire, tellin' people you the devil,
You's a flamer punk and you're not at my level.
You can't sacrifice me, my name aint Mideon,
I'll go waco on your ass, like a Branch Davidian.
Tellin' people you the devil.. shoutin 666,
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Camp Hague, Okinawa
In 1955-56, I was with Engineers at Tengan and did maintenance work at the different camps, Camps Hague, Easley Range (Camp Hansen) and White Beach. The photo of the mess hall is one that I remember well as having moved a scullery machine from one side of the building to the other. I had to jack hammer the deck all of the way across the building in order to run the drain line. When I closed the ditch and concreted it in, the difference in texture and color cause it to stand out. In 1968 I returned to the emergency crew out of Camp SD Butler and was called to that same mess hall on an emergency call and that same old scullery machine was still there as was the bleach white concrete patch.
Always wanted to go back, just got to old to quick.
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Mary L. G. Theroux on the Epic Life of Willard Garvey Recorded: Sunday, November 17, 2013
Mary Theroux, Senior Vice President at the Independent Institute, is interviewed by Bob Weeks of WichitaLiberty TV. Mary reflects on the accomplishments of her father's life as told in the book Willard Garvey: An Epic Life authored by Maura McEnaney.
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Mary L. G. Theroux: Private vs. Public Disaster Relief 2013 Summer Seminar for High School Students Recorded: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Mary L. G. Theroux, speaking from experience, explains why the non-profit sector and business do much more to serve those most in need than politicians and bureaucracy can achieve. Talk given on July 24, 2013 in Oakland, CA.
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Alexander Tabarrok on 3 City Gun Buy-Back Event Recorded: Friday, February 22, 2013
Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with Lyanne Melendez of KGO-TV on city gun buy-back programs.
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Apology, anyone?
Revisiting my post from Friday, June 18, where we saw John Kerry jumping on what he thinks is another opportunity to exploit an event for political gain, he stated:
"This administration took its eye off of al-Qaida, took its eye off of the real war on terror in Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan and transferred it for reasons of its own to Iraq, and the American people are paying billions of dollars now because of that decision. And most importantly, American families and American soldiers are paying the highest price of all… It is clear that the president owes the American people a fundamental explanation about why he rushed to war for a purpose that it now turns out is not supported by the facts, and that is the finding of this commission." source
Not supported by the facts? Or not supported by the LIMITED facts released for all the world to see? Kerry, you really ought not try to capitalize on the fact that some evidence supporting the admiinistration's actions is actually classified for the protection of national security. Because the moment you try to seize on this intellectually dishonest line of debate, you once again are proven to be the schmuck we all thought. Let me elaborate.
Here's what came from UPI today:
WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) — The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has received new information indicating that a senior officer in an elite unit of the security services of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein may have been a member of al-Qaida involved in the planning of the suicide hijackings, panel members said Sunday.
John F. Lehman, a Reagan-era GOP defense official told NBC's "Meet the Press" that documents captured in Iraq "indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaida."
Now that there are "facts to support the purpose", I wonder if John Kerry will offer the required apology to the American public, and more importantly, the families and American soldiers who are paying the highest price of all?


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WOW! Amazing! Who gets to see this but us lucky enough to live here! Seeing things like this always makes it worth the dreary days of drizzle!


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Whither Piperka
Let me tell you a story. There was a stone and a pot. And everyone was well fed by the stone soup. I may have skipped over a bit.
Let me talk about motivation, that is, mine, and let me talk about Piperka. I've been running it for over eight years now, which is a long time for doing anything. In many ways, it remains the same that it was from the start, the basic idea was there from the beginning and much of what I have been doing since has been auxiliary stuff or refinements. Besides the ever-so-present need for fixing crawler issues and adding a few thousand comics.
My motivation matters since I'm the only person behind Piperka and nothing much happens unless I do it. And it's not anything as simple as turning a profit, either. I had aspirations of commercial success when I started doing it, but that idea has been laid aside along the years. It's been a great way to practise my coding skills and accumulate proof of thereof. It has helped me get jobs. I can use it to explore techniques that I wouldn't have the opportunity for at my day job. I've been doing it for fun, and out of curiosity to see how people would react, and sometimes in anticipation of positive reviews.
It's been a fun ride, but right now I'm in a bit of an impasse. I've seen less progress last year than what I'd like. I changed jobs a year ago (to a much nicer one) and moved to a city where I can have a social life, again. Both of which have made me to neglect Piperka. I've had less time and when I've had it, I haven't necessarily felt like touching Piperka. Yet I'm not about to abandon Piperka, if only because I use it myself and I couldn't imagine reading web comics without, or with someone else's software. It's frustrating, seeing how Piperka could be better but feeling like I'm being the bottleneck, preventing that from happening.
I've tried. Build and they come, they say. I released Piperka's source code when it became feasible and I convinced myself to take the leap, inviting people to participate, and that's gone nowhere. One thing that I should have done already back then would be to arrange some other point of communication besides emailing me, personally. I've set up a public development mailing list, feel free to join to say what you'd like to see fixed or improved, or just follow along. A blog is fine for (sadly, infrequent) announcements but I hope that a mailing list would lend itself to a more open discussion.
So far, Piperka's story hasn't been that of the stone soup. It's been all me. I could have tried to commercialize it, but that's not the route that I wanted to try to take. I could have made look all serious and rename it as something less whimsical, as something that actually had something to do with web comics, but I didn't want to. Piperka's quirky and odd and so personal that there are days when I feel like taking it down just to avoid having others look at it, and I like it that way. I'm not sure how trying to get others to participate in running a web site would even work. I can release the source code but there will still be only one Piperka, which I control. That's something I can't even try to meaningfully change before the support would be there.
I'll say a few words about Piperka's crawler, comic updates and the database, to give a picture of what's involved in trying to share the burden of maintenance. It's about the plumbing, the hidden part which becomes visible only when it doesn't work properly. I take users' privacy seriously and that alone means that I'm not giving direct access to the database to anyone. I could, in principle, strip it of user data and make the crawler code contained in there available for people, in hopes that I would receive help in maintaining it. I'm not going to do it at this time. First off, I need to be convinced first that releasing the web site's source code was a good idea, even, before I release even more. I don't want to do it only to see nobody care. Maintaining it is unglorious janitorial work which even I find too much like work at times, and I don't expect people to jump in for that. Beyond that, there's the same problem I had with regard to the source code itself. If I made a dump of the data and someone improved on it, then there would be no easy way for someone to send me the fix, nor for me to accept the changes. It doesn't live in a version control system but in a database, and the web comics' archives it tries to reflect is quite an ephemeral bunch. Beyond that, it's not just a matter of fixing the comic archive index, but there are ways that the data is tied to users' settings. For example, when a page needs to be removed from Piperka's index, all the bookmarks need to be bumped down by one page to reflect the change. One future development plan I have is to allow users make annotations on a comic's archive page and that'd only make it more necessary to consider user data when updating the comic data.
What I'd really need to improve on Piperka's crawler would be a better user interface for the maintenance work. I do it all currently on a shell on the server, calling scripts to invoke the crawler or update the database directly via SQL queries. It works and updating a comic, on a comic per comic basis, doesn't usually take all that long. But it could be improved on, and all that effort does add up. I would have saved the time used for that many times over, had I used the time to build a better user interface for the work. There would be another benefit, too, if I had the interface: It would enable me to hand over parts of the maintenance to others.
Ultimately, this is a question of what kind of a site Piperka is. In a sense, its purpose is to stay out of the way. Nobody visits Piperka to see Piperka itself, but to get to read the web comics. But how does it do that, how does it present itself to people and who's working on it behind the scenes. I find myself unsatisfied with how the answers to these stand now, and I'd like to see that change. To put it simply, I want to make running Piperka feel like fun again.
Piperka Map
Force-directed graph algorithms are fun. Imagine a collection of particles, each repelling each other much like electrical charges do. Add springs between some of the particles, and let them all bounce around until they attain a rest position.
Hence, Piperka Map. I've modelled user data as a force-directed graph and put it available on a map page. The bigger the circle, the more readers it has. Relative closeness means that the comics have common readers. I've deliberately de-emphasized the exact subscriber count from the map. Mouse wheel zooms and the map can be panned by dragging. Clicking a comic opens up controls, where you can open up the comic's info page or, if you are logged in, subscribe to a comic. The quick search dialog is available on the map.
I've added links to the map from comics' info pages and from users' profiles. There's the option of highlighting another user's comic picks. Only comics with readers get a place on the map.
The map viewer code is my own and I haven't paid all that much attention to cross browser compatibility. It's built using SVG, which can require more support from a browser than some other technique. It works best on Chrome, with some glitches on Firefox and I've no idea how IE copes though I'm certain nothing below version 10 would work. The map is a snapshot from today, but I'll enable daily updates later on. I may yet alter the algorithm in ways which would change its layout. This isn't something where there would be some intrinsic right way of doing this, but it's all determined by aesthetics. As for my graph layout program itself, I'm considering releasing it as an independent project.
I suppose Piperka's subscriber data is pretty challenging from a data mining perspective. Most people read xkcd and any algorithm would find that out first. I may yet write about the current related comics algorithm, the one that is still labelled as "experimental". It, too, involves graphs but in a more abstract sense and something alike Gaussian blur from image processing. It's my original work, which rarely is a good endorsement for something like this. I may replace it with something yet, but for now, it stays.
Piperka Map was inspired by Ruslan Enikeev's The Internet map. When I saw it, I got immediately the idea that I had similar data in my hands and wanted to do something similar. With the amount of data I had, I could well do it all with plain old CPU code. Kudos to AMD for my FX-8350 which dutifully crunched numbers during my numerous attempts at getting something sensible looking out. The first thing I did was to make my code run in parallel.
This all doesn't have much to do with catching comics' updates. Then again, Piperka isn't necessarily about that only. It was interesting so I wanted to do it.
Getting social
I'm introducing a few social networking features to Piperka. Never fear, none of this will affect you unless you choose to use them. I've found myself checking out the comics' lists of readers, to see if can spot familiar names, and I thought that there's a case for making that kind of information more prominently available.
You can now follow other users. That means that comics that they read get hilited (currently, with a small "F" letter) in the listings, and there's a new profile privacy setting, protected, which lets other users see your comic picks once you give them the permission.
When you follow another user, they (and only they) can see a link back to you on their followers page, unless your profile is set as private. This means that with the private setting, you can only follow public profiles. Following is an asymmetrical relation, so being followed doesn't mean that you need to reciprocate. Permissions to view a profile are separate from the followee status. Having a permission but no followee status just means that the profile is visible but it won't be hilited.
Private profiles are as hidden as ever. Trying to see them makes Piperka neither confirm or deny that the user exists. Viewing a protected profile without a permission lets you ask to see their profile. I've made all the existing profiles either private or public and new users will get protected as their default setting.
I'm still going to work on how Piperka lets you access this information and on the presentation, but the basic ideas should be in place already. I'll see first whether anyone else cares to use this feature besides me.
I may do some data mining on the relationship data and show the results publicly. Nothing that would identify any single user. Basically the same thing I do with the comic subscription data, or would do if that part still wasn't pretty underdeveloped. I won't be giving anything sensitive to any third parties and I hope that you already expected that of me.
As an aside, singular they is weird.
The story so far, 2013
It's been a while. I've purposefully not tried to stick to any update schedule, but I guess I could have written something earlier, already. So far, there have been two larger, yet not all that visible changes to Piperka this year.
But before I go into that, I should tell of an old bug. I redid the account and login handling code two years ago. After that, the new account creation code discarded the user's email instead of storing it. Please go check your account information page and check that you have an email address there. You'd need it for password recovery.
The rest of this post is going to get, unavoidably, more technical. In March, I introduced support for banner uploads. Prior to that, they were submitted as plain old text links. It worked, but it was a rather ungainly way of doing it. The comics have banners submitted more frequently now, so it seems that it solved a problem. I had to clean up quite a bit of old code to make that work, starting with how I was calling Mason. And since I'm using AJAX submits instead of plain old Web 1.0 submits, I had to use File API. I opted for simpler code and just tell older browsers that banner uploads are not supported.
The second, more recent, change is a bit fancier. I made the listing pages (top, browse and profile) navigation use AJAX calls and History API. The (un)subscribe buttons use AJAX now, too. It was remarkably easy to leave the old code path in place for browsers without working History API support. All I needed to do was to not add event hooks to the navigation links and let the old links work as is. By my rough testing, it looks like I made page load time drop by 25% and the page loads won't flash content anymore. I suppose I could further squeeze a pageful of comics to MTU, but that's a project for some other day.
Both changes introduced some bugs that some of you ran into and thankfully told me about. They have been fixed.
I solved a few annoying bits along the way and got to practise some HTML5 techniques. If I had to work on invisible parts of Piperka, I suppose that making the crawler errors easier to manage would have been better used time. But my whim took me here.
If you're interested in even more details than this, then I should remind you that Piperka's source code is available. Of which not all that many people are aware, even those who have contacted me about technical matters. I ought to add a link to a page about the source code to Piperka's templates.
Behind the scenes: bookmarking
I updated the bookmarking code on Friday and it looks like that went smoothly. The front end interface is pretty much unchanged and most of what I did for that part was to touch up the messages. Pretty dull and it's something that just works. But the back end has been rewritten, fixing up a lot of old cruft and making my life easier all around. The best patches are those that remove the most lines. Since I don't have anything new to tell about this feature (it still works, just more so), I'll write about something old instead.
As I planned it originally, Piperka wasn't going to even keep a table of all the archive pages of a comic. Piperka got its start as a refinement of my personal comic grabbing scripts. You can find such programs on freshmeat.net, if you like. For that use, I only needed to store the last known page. But, add more users to that, who will have a different number of unread pages waiting for them, and the leap to just putting all the comic's pages in a table wasn't all that big. Using that stored information the other way around, to recognize which comic and which page it was, came naturally after that. It was just a too obvious a use to miss. But I didn't exactly plan on having it as an feature.
Truth to be told, not much of the initial Piperka was planned. I just started coding and features fell into place. I was surprised at having people trying to feed a comic's home page to the bookmarking code, but it made sense to add that.
Piperka stores archive pages in three parts. There's a common base containing the protocol, "http://", domain and a part of the path, and a tail, which is something like ".html" or just empty. The content part contains the variable part, be it a date, a number or something else. It does other preprocessing too, like strip out the protocol and any initial "www." from the URL. That would fail if somebody hosted different comics under "www.mycomic.com" and "mycomic.com".
My first version of bookmarking was as simple as (sorry for the raw SQL):
The next version of the code lived in a perl module. The biggest update was that it used the domain in the given URL to match with the corresponding comic before trying to match the specific page. To deal with multiple comics residing under the same domain, I added special cases to the code, where they would add a bit more to the initial part of the string used to match with a comic. I had to update that special case code by hand if I had new comics using the same domains and it eventually grew to be tens of lines long. Another weakness of the code was that it was unable to handle comics that have identical initial parts up until the variable part. Try feeding, for example, "http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=" as a bookmark to see how it currently handles that case.
I thought, at that point, that I'd need some persistent data structure to store the initial parts, automatically separated to tell apart the comics with similar domains and initial paths. I wrote a daemon to handle bookmark requests. I was never quite happy with that approach, and it had some bugs that I never got around to fix. Worst of all, it had a habit of sometimeseating all memory until OOM killer reaped it. I had the web server code restart it if it wasn't running when it was needed, but it was still a problem. And I had to manually tell it to refresh its index whenever I made a change to a comic's entry.
My latest change threw out the daemon code. No more RPC and socket handling, it's all done as PostgreSQL procedures now. No more code maintaining an index in its own process, but instead just use PostgreSQL's own indices. They can do matches based on the initial part of a string just fine, and it can do its job in a few milliseconds. As usual, it's the approach I should have taken in the first place. I'm not sure if I would have come up with it if I had just read PostgreSQL's fine manuals a bit more and not just enough to get started. Perhaps, perhaps not. It's been seven years and I'm sure I have developed as a coder along the way. Pretty often the best design choice has been to not start coding, yet.
One other thing which got removed with this change was the code that offered support for using Piperka without registering as a user. That never worked as well as with using accounts and I suspect that it has been broken ever since I added the CSRF protection. I don't know if anyone ever used that at all. I'm thinking of adding an option for logging in with OpenID, which would (hopefully) lower the barrier for anyone to try Piperka out. Not that I'd expect that to matter all that much, but it'd still be a nice feature. There'd be no need to come up with a password for Piperka if I added that.


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Demi — your doormat days are done! Congratulations, you've just saved your self-respect.
I'm sure that you, Demi Moore, are feeling absolutely terrible about throwing the towel in on your marriage, but you shouldn't.
When you said your vows with Ashton Kutcher six years ago, you were madly in love and you thought you were committing forever.
But after the humiliation of Ashton allegedly cheating with 22-year-old blonde Sara Leal during a wild night of partying, AND allegations from then 21-year-old Brittney Jones that she hooked up with your husband a year ago — you need to think about what's best for yourself and your three daughters.
Your statement makes it very clear that cheating was NOT OK with you. The rumors that you had an open marriage with Ashton must have been driving you crazy.
"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton," you wrote in an official statement. "As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life."
In other words Demi — you're giving the world a clear message that YOU held your marriage vows sacred. That as a wife and mother YOU had values. And those values were NOT compatible with cheating or an open marriage. I applaud you Demi for making a courageous decision to stand up for yourself.
You are a beautiful, talented, intelligent woman who will be loved again. Just because Ashton, at 33, is too immature to make a commitment to monogamy, doesn't mean that you're not worthy. You are!
And you need to stop punishing yourself for god-knows-what by not eating. Demi — you may think that controlling your food intake is a way to make up for not being able to control your soon-to-be-ex-husband's behavior, but it absolutely isn't.
So please start eating, spend time with people who love and support you and wash that cheating man right out of your beautiful hair.
Your divorce filing is the first step in healing yourself and your self-respect.
Good luck — you deserve it!
— Bonnie Fuller
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Posted at 5:59 PM on November 19, 2011
Demi brought it on herself by marrying a boy young enough to be her son. NO self-respecting individual would do that to begin with. And now to cry out "oh woah is me, he hurt me, have pity" is just another of her many dramas through the years. At least he didn't go out & file against her, he gave her the reason & the priviledge to do it herself since it was the only way her talons would let him go. People really need to read between the lines & grow a brain. She's been doing weird things for years in order to gain the public's sympathy & attention while walking away unscathed. Think it's time for people to wake up, look at her lack of morals *her values are only for herself*, & the things she does to put herself in these positions. She's an admittandly self-obsessed person & a mind-player!
Posted at 9:46 AM on November 19, 2011
Posted at 6:31 PM on November 18, 2011
Ok, that's what happens when you marry someone young enough to be your son, and when that son never grows up, your just constantly being a "mother" image not a wife. Now he's doing what young men do before they get married, fooling around!!! The game is always fun until someone cheats, or somebody gets hurt and then Mom has to step in and say "enuf" already, you kids get along and "wait til your father gets home". lol
Posted at 5:51 AM on November 18, 2011
It was all an illusion from the start. She, in search of someone who could help sustain her youth, and he a naive, not so clever young man, in search of acceptance. Along comes this gorgeous woman who sees him and … he realizes that its just not the Botox and cosmetic surgery that's not feeling right.
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Posted at 8:01 PM on November 19, 2011