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HOUSTON (AP) — A week into training camp, some of the Houston Texans' stars are already ailing.
Running back Arian Foster (hamstring), receiver Andre Johnson (dislocated finger) and linebacker Brian Cushing (knee) sat out the morning practice on Saturday.
Johnson hurt his left index finger on Tuesday, the Texans' second day of practice. Foster pulled his left hamstring on Friday, and Cushing has been out all week while recovering from offseason knee surgery.
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Mitsubishi Materials Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of cement, metals, ceramics, and other industrial materials. It is also engaged in fossil fuels, nuclear energy-related services, precious metals, resource-, environment-, and recycling-related products, and real estate. Its operations are carried out through the following segments: Cement Business, Metals Business, Advanced Materials and Tools Business, Electronic Materials and Components Business, and Aluminum Business. The Cement Business segment provides Portland cement, cement-related products, ready-mixed concrete, and building materials. The Metals Business segment provides copper smelting; and copper and copper alloy products. The Advanced Materials and Tools Business segment provides cemented carbide products, sintered parts, high-performance alloy products, and diamond tools. The Electronic Materials and Components Business segment includes electronic materials, chemical products, electronic components, and polycrystalline silicon. The Aluminum Business segment includes aluminum beverage cans, rolled or extruded aluminum products, and processed aluminum products. The company was founded in May 1871 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. More »
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Shari's, a full-service restaurant chain based in the Pacific Northwest, has saved more than $700,000 in utility costs since enlisting Ecova's energy audit services for its 100 locations. Different billing cycles and rate structures across locations made it difficult to approximate how and where to reduce consumption. Ecova was able to create measurable results, which eliminated variable data in order to isolate and compare energy consumption and more accurately plan for future expenditures.
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Imagine sitting down with one of the world's top Catholic educators for a thoughtful discussion of your most important Catholic questions. Now, for the first time, you can listen to Fr. Bill Byron, former president of three Catholic universities, pastor and celebrated author discuss major Catholic questions.
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William J. Byron, S.J. Ph.D., is the University Professor at Saint Joseph's University. He is past president of The Catholic University of America and the University of Scranton, and served as interim president of Loyola University in New Orleans in the academic year 2003-2004.
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He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland, two theology degrees from Woodstock College, a bachelor's degree, licentiate in philosophy and a master's degree in economics from Saint Louis University.
He was the 1999 recipient of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities' Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for his contributions over the years to the advancement of Catholic higher education. In that same year, he received the Council of Independent Colleges' Academic Leadership Award. He holds 30 honorary degrees.
Author of 10 books and editor of two, Father Byron writes the bi-weekly syndicated column "Looking Around" for Catholic News Service and a monthly "What Would You Like to Know?" feature for Catholic Digest. His 1989 book, Quadrangle Considerations, won the Catholic Press Association's best book award in the education category. That same association gave its first place award in the Best Essay category to his "Structural Adjustments for a Church Working Its Way through Crisis," in the Winter 2004 issue of Church magazine.
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Moms need to stop policing one anotherGuest Blogger - Karen Bridson
I want to put a sign on the front door of my house that reads: If this house is messy, if the clothes are unclean, and if the child is unkempt, judge the man of the house as much as you judge the woman.
What I'm talking about here is mother judgment. It's when women hold other women to impossible standards of housekeeping and child-rearing. The critical part of the equation, though, is the part where we talk about one another and how we don't approve of the way she's doing things and point out how much better we believe we are.
In this way, it seems we women police one another and create a pressure to always be "up to standards." I recall one day hearing another mom point out how she was walking along the sidewalk and watching another mother walk ahead of her small child. The mother in the story apparently went a good stretch without looking back to check on her child. The mother telling the story was horrified and invited the other mothers listening to judge her just as harshly.
Meanwhile, it occurred to me that if she was so busy watching this other mom, to the point where she was sure this mom never even took quick glances, how could she have possibly been completely keeping an eye on her own two kids? But then, that's just me judging her!
I just wish we could stop is all, you know? Just be kinder to one another and also not expect so much of ourselves. It truly is the women that society holds accountable for these standards, not men. Awareness of this fact, that society expects certain things from us, is part of why women do up to three times as much housework as their husbands and five times as much childcare. As a ratio, that last number hasn't changed in 90 years!
Do you feel judged by other mothers? Do you judge other moms? Or have you found a way to rise above this stuff?
Karen Bridson is a journalist, TV producer and author of Stunned: The New Generation of Women Having Babies, Getting Angry and Creating a Mothers' Movement (HCI, 2009). She blogs at http://angrymamas.blogspot.com She also produces a parenting show for Canadian Public Television.


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Eight Lessons on "Compassion in Health Care" From the Dalai Lama
"A more compassionate mind is very, very helpful to good health."
"Loving kindness, warm-heartedness are keys to health."
"Each of us has some responsibility to make a contribution."
"You can lead this moment because you practice these things."
These words from His Holiness the Dalai Lama resonated with Mayo Clinic staff and guests gathered to hear a special talk on "Compassion in Health Care" on Monday, Feb. 29, at the chapel on the Saint Marys Campus of Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester. The Dalai Lama's message was especially pertinent in a setting with a strong connection to the Mayo Clinic Value Statements, which include the values of compassion, respect and healing, all of which came up repeatedly in the Dalai Lama's talk and question-and-answer session that followed. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 4th, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Young Stroke Survivor Raises Awareness and Educates
Editor's Note: This guest post is written by Amy Edmunds, founder of YoungStroke.
In 2002, I was a daily commuter to Capitol Hill who worked in sales management. Never did I think I would someday return to testify as a patient advocate at Congressional hearings on behalf of young stroke survivors. But then again, never did I expect to be a stroke survivor at age 45.
On Jan. 11, 2002, with no identified risk factors and no family history, I had an ischemic stroke. Initially, my mother observed my repeating phrases during conversation. Next, she witnessed my temporary blindness. Today, I have no recollection of these events. And my resulting deficit remains some long-term memory loss.
Like many, I mistakenly assumed stroke was an affliction of the elderly. As I attempted to learn more about my own experience, I learned approximately 30 percent of people who suffer a stroke each year are under age 65. And women are at an increased risk for stroke. So, too, are African American individuals – many of whom have significant aftereffects. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 27th, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Celebrating Nurse Anesthetist Education — Florence Henderson, Specialist in Ether Anesthesia
To recognize the 125th anniversary of nurse anesthetist education and the role of nurse anesthetist at Mayo Clinic, Sharing Mayo Clinic will include a series of vignettes highlighting influential Mayo Clinic nurse anesthetists. Those featured received their education at Mayo Clinic and went on to be instrumental in providing anesthesia education and make significant contributions to anesthesia practice.
Florence Henderson (1874-1956) served as nurse anesthetist for Charles H. Mayo, M.D. She graduated from Bishop Clarkson Hospital Training School for Nurses, Omaha, Nebraska, in 1900. As superintendent of nurses at Bishop Clarkson, she learned and taught to administer ether and chloroform anesthetics. Hired by the Mayo brothers in 1904, Henderson moved to Rochester, Minnesota, and worked with Alice Magaw, known as the "Mother of Anesthesia." Under Magaw's expert mentorship, Henderson became an ether specialist.
At the Nurse Alumnae Convention in 1909, Henderson spoke about the importance of nurse specialists in delivering anesthetics and also debated the use of ether versus nitrous oxide anesthesia with Agatha Hodgins, future founder of the National Association of Nurse Anesthetists (a forerunner of the current American Association of Nurse Anesthetists), who was a nitrous oxide specialist. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 1st, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Celebrating Nurse Anesthetist Education – Edith Graham Mayo
To recognize the 125th anniversary of nurse anesthetist education and the role of nurse anesthetist at Mayo Clinic, Sharing Mayo Clinic will include a special series of posts throughout the coming year. These vignettes will describe how nurse anesthesia education has changed over time and will highlight influential Mayo Clinic nurse anesthetists. Those featured received their education at Mayo Clinic and went on to be instrumental in providing anesthesia education and make significant contributions to anesthesia practice.
Written by Darlene Bannon and Evadne Edwards
In every pioneering achievement, there are visionaries, those who theorize and dream beyond the safe haven of the present. However, the visionary's dreams would not be realized if not for the activist: one whose thoughts become action, who is flexible and accommodating, and who possess the drive to achieve and influence.
Edith Graham Mayo, Mayo's first nurse anesthetist, was both a visionary and an activist.
Edith has primarily been remembered as the wife of Dr. Charles Mayo, one of Mayo Clinic's founders. Historically, her professional life as an anesthetist has received little mention. Edith Graham was Saint Marys Hospital's first trained nurse, anesthetist and nurse educator. She was an integral part of the visionary team that founded what we know today as Mayo Clinic. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 1st, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Prenatal Education Class: A special relationship between 3 moms and daughters
In the Winter of 2011, my husband Cameron and I (Megan Rask) were expecting our first child. We were beyond thrilled! I had been doing my care with the midwives at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Of course, I wanted to sign my husband and I up for every baby class offered!
We soon began the six week prenatal education class, instructed by Christine Baker, R.N. Along with this class, I made sure to sign us up for the infant passenger safety class, and a tour of the labor and delivery floor in Eisenberg. We also took our newly purchased SUV to the local fire station to have our infant seat inspected by Todd Emanuel, R.N. As parents to be, this was high on our list of things to do: make sure our baby would be safe in our new family car!
In prenatal class, we met two other couples: Bethany Renstrom and her husband (expecting a baby girl) and Stephanie Fisk and her husband (also expecting a little girl). My husband and I were patiently waiting until the day of delivery to find out the sex of our baby. In class, Chris went over everything we needed to know to prepare for the birth of our baby: bathing a newborn, practicing breathing through contractions, and where to park and what doors to come in once we were in labor. She even showed us the gown and pads we'd wear in the hospital, and the Forceps they might use, in the event our baby was in a difficult situation. Seeing all these things in class made it easier for me to mentally prepare for labor. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 20th, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Career Influenced by The Mayo Clinic and an Alligator
My wife, Marion, and I are both third generation natives of Florida. And so, heading up to Minnesota in our old Volkswagen bug for my three year residency at Mayo Clinic seemed like an adventure to the north pole. We soon learned to love Rochester and the good people there, and we have always had fond memories of our time in Minnesota. The mother of one of my classmates lived on the coast of southern Georgia, and she wanted him to move there and practice at the local hospital. During his visit to see if this was a good place to begin his career, he came upon a large alligator near his mother's house. As he was from Minnesota, he returned to Rochester and declared that: "There is no way I am taking my children to live in a place with huge reptiles in the yard." As a Floridian, this didn't bother me in the least—I joined the hospital staff there and practiced in Georgia and Florida for the next thirty years. Since I have retired I have written a memoir, Good Times in the Hospital. Although this is mostly a collection of humorous anecdotes, it also reflects the importance of compassionate care that was impressed upon me during my years at The Mayo Clinic.
Written by J. G. McCully MD
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May 8th, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Just Keep Trying: Kids and Positive Airway Pressure Therapy
The Patient Education video titled Just Keep Trying: Kids and Positive Airway Pressure Therapy (PAP) helps kids understand how important it is to use PAP. Several kids share their experience about getting used to the therapy machine and that it helps them sleep better and gives them more energy. Parents also talk about diagnosis and testing, treatment results, what usually happens with the PAP, the child's responsibility and use while away from home.
Check out a clip from this award-winning educational video:
If you think this video may help your child, ask your Mayo Clinic health care provider for a copy. Patient education materials produced by Mayo Clinic are available without cost to Mayo Clinic patients.
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December 22nd, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Mayo Graduate Student – Trip to Ecuador
Amy Saleh, M.D. went to Ecuador as part of the Mayo International Heath Program within the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education. She recounts this surgical trip experience, where they focused on children with cleft lip and cleft palate.
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December 19th, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Mayo International Health Program Testimony – Experience in Kenya
Mira Keddis, M.D. was originally from Egypt, went to Texas for her medical school training, and came to Mayo Clinic for her residency training. Then, the Mayo International Health Program (MIHP) offered her the opportunity to travel abroad as part of her education. In the below video, she relays lessons learned from her trip to Kenya.
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Oklahoma State football: At least 19 walk-ons saw field against Savannah State
Oklahoma State had at least 95 players see the field Saturday night against Savannah State. It's believed that at least 19 of those were non-scholarship players.
Coach Mike Gundy said after the game that it was exciting to watch those players down the depth chart get a chance to play in front of their family and friends — perhaps for their first and only time as a Cowboy.
Gundy singled out defensive linemen Taylor May and Jarid King and wide receiver Christian Schroeder as players it was especially rewarding to watch because of their contributions in practice.
"When they get out there and get thrown around, it's just a lot of fun to watch them," Gundy said.
Several players made their OSU debut Saturday night, including nine true freshmen and highly touted junior college transfers Calvin Barnett and Blake Jackson.
Of those newcomers, Gundy came away most impressed with Barnett, wide receiver Austin Hays and running back/returner Caleb Muncrief.
"Barnett made some good plays," Gundy said. "I thought Austin Hays made some plays, Muncrief did a few things with the balk in his hands. We had a number of them, but those guys, just to point out a few."
Barnett started at defensive tackle and was consistently in the SSU backfield. Hays was the Cowboys' leading receiver, with eight catches for 77 yards and a touchdown. Muncrief tallied 96 all-purpose yards, including 74 on four punt returns and 22 on five carries.
In jumping out to a 35-0 first-quarter lead, OSU escaped an expected lopsided contest without any significant injuries, Gundy said.
One expected contributor in 2012 who did not play Saturday night was backup inside receiver/returner David Glidden, who's been bothered by an ankle injury since the end of spring football.
Gundy said Glidden, a redshirt freshman from Mustang, is "doing good" and is expected to practice this week.
When backup quarterback J.W. Walsh flipped a 6-yard pass to Josh Stewart early in the second quarter Saturday night, it revived an old high school connection.
Walsh and Stewart frequently hooked up at Denton Guyer, providing a familiar pitch-and-catch combination for a team that produced one of the top prep offenses in Texas. Saturday's pass play was their first as Cowboys.
"It felt good to be able to throw a pass to him and keep that connection going," Walsh said. "It was real special."
Sophomore defensive end Jimmy Bean and freshman fullback Dominic Ramacher are also from Guyer High. While neither played in the opener, they still shared in the experience.
"It's crazy," Walsh said, "not many people get to go to the next level with four people you hung out with from high school. And to have that, it's a special opportunity. And we're all thankful to have that."


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The Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research, Jillian Skinner, has awarded the state's highest cancer research accolade to Professor Phyllis Butow, an Australian pioneer in psycho-oncology.
The 2012 Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer
Researcher was awarded at the Cancer Institute NSW's annual
cancer awards night in Sydney to honour the work of the state's
most innovative and dynamic cancer researchers.
"The work of Professor Butow means that people with cancer in
NSW and around the world receive the information and support they
need at what can be an extremely distressing time," Mrs Skinner
"Professor Butow has led the worldwide movement to make
doctor-patient communication the highest possible standard for
people with cancer. She has produced some of the first evidence
that effective communication reduces anxiety and depression in
people with cancer. Her work has made, and will continue to make, a
significant difference to the lives of people with cancer and their
loved ones," she said.
Professor Butow joins a list of esteemed past recipients of the
award, including Professors Roger Reddel, Bruce Armstrong and Simon
The Premier's Award for Excellence in Translational Cancer
Research was awarded to the
Child Cancer Research Collaborative, a team of three eminent
Professors, Michelle Haber AM, Glenn Marshall and Murray Norris,
who have developed a groundbreaking test to predict which children
with leukaemia are at highest risk of relapse on standard
"This test means that children with leukaemia who are at the
highest risk of relapse can be identified; and individual
treatments can be introduced in newly diagnosed children to give
them every chance against the disease recurring," said Chief Cancer
Officer and CEO of the Cancer Institute NSW, Professor David
"The Child Cancer Research Collaborative is just one example of
how NSW is leading the way when it comes to cancer research that
makes a real difference to the lives of people with cancer today.
Across the state, the Cancer Institute NSW is fostering
collaboration through our translational cancer research
centres. These researchers are dedicated to putting an end to
cancers as we know them, by developing treatments and breakthroughs
that can be put into action throughout the health system," said
Professor Currow.
Dr Steven Kao from the University of Sydney and
Sydney Catalyst Translational Cancer Research Centre received the
Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Research Scholar for his
research concerning patient responses to mesothelioma
The Pfizer Studentship Award went to Emma
Ramsay from the University of NSW for her research into a
drug that inhibits the growth of tumours by inhibiting the cells
responsible for the delivery of nutrients to the tumour.
Professor Richard Scolyer from the Royal Prince
Alfred Hospital received the Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer
Research Fellow for his work to improve the management and
treatment of people with melanoma.
The Premier's Award for Innovation in Cancer Clinical Trials was
awarded to Dr Craig Underhill from the Border
Medical Oncology Research Unit for his work concerning clinical
trials in the Murrumbidgee region for a range of cancers including
prostate, colorectal, lung and melanoma.
The inaugural Wildfire Award went to the Pancreatic
Cancer Research Group from the
Garvan Institute for their research work to improve the current
management of patients with pancreatic cancer.
The inaugural Make a Difference Award went to Professor
Rob Sanson-Fisher from the University of Newcastle for his
recent cancer prevention work focussed on disadvantaged and
vulnerable populations, including reducing smoking among pregnant
Aboriginal women.
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I have a 10 month old HP laptop with Intel Centrino 740 , 1GB ram that has begun to overheat very quickly when occassionally playing games and doing simply things like web surfing. The laptop is used for all things other than playing games.
If I play a game for about 5 minutes or websurf rapidly the cooling fan will cut in and will not stop for about 10 minutes after i stop using the laptop.And in extreme moments when the laptop is very hot it will just shut down without any warning. Yesterday the laptop shut down on me 3 times when i played a game for about 5 minutes.Also, web surfing within Firefox's mutiple tabs can sometimes cause the fan to run non stop for many minutes.
I would be grateful if anyone has any advice/opinions/comments about this problem.
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Nice job, I really like the image. Crofty did and awesome job on her.
Agreed. I thought it wouldn't be good at first, but I'm amazed. I also stole your Ruka one ;3 Will credit (with a link) when I use it.
Are you working on any Lara models?
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Lenox Financial: Maybe not such a 'no-brainer' after all
The Arizona Attorney General's office announced a $95,000 settlement with Lenox Financial Mortgage over allegations the Atlanta-based company failed to include disclaimers in radio advertisements promoting the firm's no-closing cost mortgages. The complaint alleged Lenox Financial ran thousands of radio ads in Arizona and other states promising no-closing cost mortgages...Permalink | Comments(
Stock market: Reports on consumers, GDP await this week
With the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates last week, the stock market enjoyed its best week since March. Several reports in upcoming days also could sway stock prices, though probably not as intensely. They include a final revision of second-quarter gross domestic product numbers on Thursday, along with a couple employment measures that day. The University of Michigan releases its latest consumer-sentiment...Permalink | Comments(
As dust settles, stock funds on pace for superior year
The stock market sure has provided a wild ride so far in 2007. It seems like it's been a mostly unpleasant journey, but in fact things have worked out pretty well. With the year nearly three-quarters over, domestic-stock mutual funds are sitting on average gains of 8.7 percent through Sept. 20, reports researcher Lipper Inc. That's setting the stage for total returns for the year of 11 to 12...Permalink | Comments(
Will the peso beat up on the dollar?
It seems like everyone else's currency is piling up on the weak dollar. It now takes roughly 1.4 dollars to purchase a euro - and two dollars to buy a British pound. The once-mighty Greenback is more like a Leanback. Anyway, Mexico's peso might be next in line to score some blows. Researchers at the JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center at ASU think the peso will enjoy an edge ...Permalink | Comments(
Fed action: Recession stalled?
Today's Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts have lessened the risk of recession, some financial observers say. "Today we saw that the Fed is willing to do what it takes to keep a recession at bay," wrote Kyle Richardson, a regional vice president of the Householder Group in Mesa, in an e-mail. Brent McQuiston, a vice president at Wealth Trust Arizona in Scottsdale, called the move "the...Permalink | Comments(
336 points: Not bad for a day's work
Today's Federal Reserve-induced rally on Wall Street won't go down as one of the 10 biggest up days ever. But with the 336-point gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 13,739, coupled with recent advances, the market has nearly clawed its way back from last month's credit-crunch selloff. The Dow got as high as 14,121 in early August before the downdraft pulled it into the 12,000 range. It has...Permalink | Comments(
Fed cut: Thumbs up or thumbs down?
With the stock market up sharply, we can conclude the general reaction to the Federal Reserve's interest-rate cut today is one of optimism, if not giddiness. Still, there are some doubters. Among them is Chuck Butler, a market analyst at Everbank, who wishes the Fed would concern itself with fighting inflation "instead of appeasing the markets." Nor does he think a rate cut will help all...Permalink | Comments(
Fed tackles economic malaise; Wall Street happy
There really wasn't any doubt as to whether the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates today. The question was: How big will the reduction be? The answer came today, late morning Arizona time, with a cut of half a point in the target federal funds rate, reducing that measure on which various consumer loans are linked to 4.75 percent. The fund also cut its discount rate, a rate it charges banks to...Permalink | Comments(
Root canal or insurance agent? You choose
Americans seem to appreciate the need for life insurance but don't particularly like figuring out how much they need — or buying it. In a new survey by the nonprofit Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, 47 percent of respondents said they'd prefer to to go the motor vehicle office to renew a driver's license than investigate their life insurance needs. One...Permalink | Comments(
Economic news gets interesting this week
In reference to that old Chinese proverb warning against living in interesting times, the next few days offer much potential excitement. With the economy at a crossroads, reports on interest rates, inflation and housing promise some nail-biting tension. It starts with the Federal Reserve meeting Tuesday, with a short-term interest rate cut widely anticipated. But more than just the expected ...Permalink | Comments(


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Just over a week ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Hawaii for some rest and relaxation and spiritual renewal. My book with Deseret Book, "Extraordinary Courage: Women Empowered by the Gospel of Jesus Christ," has gone to press, and I was there to relax and contemplate future projects.
My daughter-in-law's parents are serving a mission at BYU-Hawaii and they graciously invited us to stay with them. Brother and Sister Bob and Mona Lee are in a home with a magnificent view from the patio of the ocean, the cove and mountains surrounding Laie Beach Park. On one corner of the patio there is a stack of buoys. Elder Lee explained to us that buoys occasionally float onto the shore. With stairs down to the ocean he's taken to going down and lugging them off the beach and stacking them on the porch.
Sitting there one day, observing that natural paradise, I started thinking about buoys and the function they serve. When a boat drops anchor in a harbor it more often than not floats a buoy above the anchor. This allows individuals on the boat to know the location of the anchor if the boat, though still anchored, drifts some distance away.
Buoys then are markers. They mark an anchor. We read in scripture of the imperative of having Christ as our anchor, of being anchored to Jesus Christ in an increasingly troubled world that can, at times, be dangerous and difficult to navigate. Paul teaches in Hebrews 6:19 that "hope (in Jesus Christ)" is "an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast."
The remarkable Book of Mormon prophet Ether "did cry from the morning, even until the going down of the sun, exhorting the people to believe in God lest they should be destroyed." Anchoring themselves to Christ would make place for them in "a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God (and) maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God." (Ether 12:2-4)
And we read in the winding-up scenes in the Book of Mormon of the great prophet and general Mormon who goes "forth among the Nephites" encouraging repentance but "was without hope, for I knew the judgments of the Lord should come upon them; for they repented not of their iniquities, but did struggle for their lives without calling upon that Being who created them." (Mormon 5:1-2)
Because of their refusal to anchor themselves and their testimonies in Jesus Christ, where they had once been "a delightsome people, and had Christ for their shepherd (where) they were led even by God the Father behold, now, they are led about by Satan, even as chaff is driven before the wind, or as a vessel is tossed about upon the waves, without sail or anchor, or without anything wherewith to steer her" (Mormon 5:16-18).
While many claim that Christ is the anchor to their souls, it is worth considering some of the buoys, or markers, that truly indicate — that can help us locate and identify — how closely bound we are to the Savior. And I would suggest this list of markers is familiar to members of the church as it includes practices and behaviors we are consistently counseled to engage in by church leaders.
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- Methodists postpone debate of gay issues that...
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- LDS leaders OK slacks for Mormon women... 18
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We've expressed some frustration that American Idol hasn't yet given us more to work with by way of controversies, but we're happy to say that today brings some solid progress in that department. For starters, we have official confirmation via AP report that dark horse contestant David Hernandez once made a living giving dark horsey rides:
first floated by VoteFortheWorst.com, it turns out Hernandez did indeed work at a Phoenix gentlemen-only pole-dancing venue called Dick's Cabaret, "appearing fully nude and performing lap dances for the club's 'mostly male' clientele." We hope, in its mature seventh season, that Idol can overlook such past transgressions, even if it requires sitting David Archuleta down for a delicate explanation of why Hernandez's middle-aged, moustachioed cheering section wave dollar bills in the air after his every Idol performance.
And because one controversy is hardly enough, we also offer the above MySpace video of contestant Danny Noriega's delivering some Christmastime good tidings. God bless us, every one!
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I'd like to get PyYAML's loader to load mappings (and ordered mappings) into the Python 2.7+ OrderedDict type, instead of the vanilla
dict and the list of pairs it currently uses.
What's the best way to do that?
I'd like to get PyYAML's loader to load mappings (and ordered mappings) into the Python 2.7+ OrderedDict type, instead of the vanilla
What's the best way to do that?
I like @James' solution for its simplicity. However, it changes the default global
Fortunately, the solution can be improved without much effort:
For serialization, I don't know an obvious generalization, but at least this shouldn't have any side effects:
The yaml module allow you to specify custom 'representers' to convert Python objects to text and 'constructors' to reverse the process.
I doubt very much that this is the best way to do it, but this is the way I came up with, and it does work. Also available as a gist.
On my For PyYaml installation for Python 2.7 I updated __init__.py, constructor.py, and loader.py. Now supports object_pairs_hook option for load commands. Diff of changes I made is below.
The specification says that the ordering is not guaranteed, but of course there is ordering in the YAML file and the appropriate parser can just hold on to that and transparently generate an object that keeps the ordering. You just need to choose the right parser, loader and dumper¹:
will give you:
data is of type CommentedMap which functions like a dict, but has extra information that is kept around until being dumped (including the preserved comment!)
¹ This was done using ruamel.yaml of which I am the author. It is a fork and superset of PyYAML.
There is a PyYAML ticket on the subject opened 5 years ago. It contains some relevant links, including the link to this very question :) I personally grabbed gist 317164 and modified it a little bit to use OrderedDict from Python 2.7, not the included implementation (just replaced the class with
I've just found a Python library (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yamlordereddictloader/0.1.1) which was created based on answers to this question and is quite simple to use:
here's a simple solution that also checks for duplicated top level keys in your map.


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Up and Down the Ladder.. The Latest Comings and Goings at Merck, Actavis and..
Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we'll share it with others. That's right. Send us your changes and we'll find a home for them. Don't be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the ongoing layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some the latest comings and goings. Recognize anyone?
And here is our regular feature in which we spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Actavis hired C. David Nicholson as senior vice president for global brands R&D. Currently, he is chief technology officer and executive vice president for R&D at Bayer Crop Sciences. Before that, he headed R&D at Organon before its acquisition by Schering-Plough, which was bought by Merck.
Merck named Michael Holston as general counsel after Bruce Kulhlik retires next year;
Noven Pharmaceuticals hired Krista Roberts as vice president of operations;
Eisai hired Barry Lederman as vice president and chief financial officer;
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings hired Sanjay Patel as chief financial officer;
Retrogenix named Matthew Britz as North American business development director;
Editas Medicine hired Katrine Bosley as chief executive;
Advanced Cell Technology hired Paul Wotton, who had run Antares Pharma, as chief executive;
Antares Pharma says Eamonn Hobbs was named chief executive and president;
Virobay hired James Welch as chief financial officer;
Tonix Pharmaceuticals hired Ronald Notvest as senior vice president, commercial planning and development.


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GREAT Scalable Toolkit (Multiple Languages)
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Flipbooks for Girls
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Two flipbooks in story format help very young adolescents learn about growing up GREAT, understanding body changes and seek advice on how boys and girls can live more equally.
About the toolkit's activity cards:
Three sets of activity cards: one set of cards for girls and boys 10 to 14 years of age, one set for young men and young women 15 to 19 years of age, and one set for newly married and parenting young people from 15 to 19 years of age. Each activity card is meant to be used on its own to stimulate a fun group activity that includes a discussion on equality, reproductive health and safety from violence. A set of fact cards are included for reference. A subset of these fact cards is intended for younger adolescents 10-14 years: the body maps and questions and answers.
About the radio discussion guide:
13 guides that groups can use to discuss specific topics and characters from the GREAT radio drama. The guides allow people to talk first about those stories and characters they most enjoy, and then focus the groups' attention on themes in the drama. Finally, the guides encourage groups to talk about how these same issues affect their own communities and how they could be addressed.
About the community game:
One life-sized canvas game board and four sets of game cards. There is one set of game cards for each type of group: 1) very young adolescents, 2) older adolescents, 3) newly married and parenting adolescents and 4) adults. Each game card set has four categories of questions which help people learn and discuss reproductive health, safety, equality and being GREAT!
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WORLD backstroke champion Gerhard Zandberg has had controversial sanctions lifted by Swimming South Africa, according to The Citizen.
"SSA will rather allocate the funds, which are needed to litigate further in this matter, towards its athletes and furthering the sport as a whole," SSA said in a statement. "Consequently and notwithstanding the actions by Mr Gerhard Zandberg, SSA has withdrawn its findings and sanctions against Mr Zandberg."
Last summer, SSA levied some heavy penalties against Zandberg for switching rooms to spend the night with his girlfriend allegedly without permission at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona.
Zandberg, however, has always claimed that the move was necessary as his roomate Cameron van der Burgh had a head cold that night and Zandberg was unable to sleep because of it. Zandberg has stood behind his version of the story saying that he asked his federation for permission to change rooms, but never heard back from them.
After a lengthy disciplinary meeting that took place between the heats and semifinals of the 50 back, the federation elected to fine Zandberg R50,000 and a complete a year of community service. SSA also initially planned on banning Zandberg from competition for two years before backing down off that sanction.
Zandberg's lawyers state that they have yet to accept SSA's ruling today.
"They have made an offer, which we received this morning," Zandberg's lawyer Karen Van Eck said. "But I have not had a chance to discuss it with my client, so I don't have instructions from him yet. It's very premature for them to be issuing a statement."


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Using Rails 3, is there a way to use link_to helper, or any helper for that matter, inside model?
There are some reasons that you may need link_to in a model. Yes, @andy, it's a violation of MVC, but that doesn't mean you should get points for not answering the question.
@schwabsauce, it's easier than that. The first line isn't even strictly necessary if you do it in an initializer or something. Same thing works for .sanitize and .raw and a whole load of other awesome functions.
If you want to use autopaths you may have to do this inside your link_to:
Be very careful following the advice outlined in Chuck's post if you're doing this in Rails 3.2.1 . It would seem as though that approach is not a safe way to go about including the link_to helper in non-view classes in Rails 3.2.1. There is a safer way (that works for us in any case) outlined below.
When we used the approach in Chuck's post in one of our classes, it ended up having very troubling and difficult to debug consequences. It ended up causing side effects / bugs that only turned up in very specific (and rare) circumstances.
The problem, as far as we can tell, is that this line:
Is telling
This leads to seemingly random and unexplained "undefined method 'url_for' for nil:NilClass" exceptions in views that attempt to call, directly or indirectly, the url_for method after
The solution that worked for us was instead of telling
Then when you need to use link_to and have access to the path you can simply do this (assuming login_path is valid for your app):
It took us a very long time and quite a lot of head scratching to track down the bugs caused by the double-include and I just wanted to warn others to be careful when tweaking the behavior of the Rails base classes.
I got this to work with the following inclusions:
Then in my controller I populated the attribute (creating a controller from scratch requires a significant amount of data in the arguments hash).
link_to helper, MVC violation
What Andy said,
if you're generating HTML in the model you probably need to take a big long look at what you're doing and why.
URL helpers
URLs on the other hand often come in handy outside of view-controller code, in all kinds of service/form/api/... classes for example, even in models if you have to.
Yes, Rails.application.routes.url_helpers is a module, but that doesn't mean you should just include it wherever or funny stuff will start happening as Gary put it:
What you can do is:
and then use, for example
Not without hackery.
If you think you need
A model should be a place for data and business logic, but generating links is almost certainly a job for the controller or view (or, Rails specifically, in a helper class).


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PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — Ever since the game was invented, before television or even radio existed, baseball counted on the eyes and ears of umpires on the field. Starting this season, many key decisions will be made in a studio far away.
Major League Baseball vaulted into the 21st century of technology on Thursday, approving a huge expansion of instant replay in hopes of eliminating blown calls that riled up players, managers and fans.
"I think it's great," San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "It's about getting it right."
Acknowledging the human element had been overtaken in an era when everyone except the umps could see several views over and over in slow-motion, owners and players and umpires OKed the new system.
Now each manager will be allowed to challenge at least one call per game. If he's right, he gets another challenge. After the seventh inning, a crew chief can request a review on his own if the manager has used his challenges.
"I tell you the fans will love it," baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said after owners met and voted their unanimous approval. "It's another in a long list of changes that will make this sport better than it already is."
Baseball was the last major pro sport in North America to institute replay when it began late in the 2008 season. Even then, it was only used for close calls on home runs.
The NFL, NBA, NHL, some NCAA sports and major tennis tournaments all use a form of replay, and even FIFA and the English Premier League have adopted goal-line technology for soccer.
Not that managers won't still occasionally bolt from the dugout, their veins bulging.
The so-called "neighborhood play" at second base on double plays cannot be challenged. Many had safety concerns for middle infielders being wiped out by hard-charging runners if the phantom force was subject to review.
Ball-and-strike calls can't be contested. Neither can check-swings and foul tips. Nor can obstruction and interference rulings — those are up to the umpires' judgment, like the one at third base in St. Louis that ended Boston's loss in Game 3 of the World Series last October.
All reviews will be done by current MLB umpires at a replay center in MLB.com's New York office. To create a large enough staff, MLB agreed to hire six new big league umpires and call up two minor league umps for the entire season. A seventh major league umpire will be added to replace the late Wally Bell.
In addition, managers and others in the dugout will be allowed to communicate by phone with someone in the clubhouse who can watch the videos and advise whether to challenge a call.
Joe Torre, MLB's executive vice president of baseball operations, said work continues on a proposed rule that would ban home-plate collisions between runners and the catcher. The rule has not been written and talks on its content are ongoing between MLB representatives and the players union, he said.
Even since William McLean became the first professional umpire when he worked a Boston-Philadelphia National League game on April 22, 1876, baseball has celebrated its old-fashioned traditions. Having umpires make the calls on the field was one of them.
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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-59f8a2ad-450c-4b6d-a1ff-25d9523d2af9 The Performance Perspectives Blog - Tags - cio_study A blog about business analytics, business intelligence and performance management using IBM Cognos and IBM SPSS software. 1 2013-08-01T13:16:03-04:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-46682afc-4394-4b7b-a732-f5aacfc258cb Spring IT reading with some philosophical detours into brain circuitry Delaney Turner firstname.lastname@example.com 270002T14M active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2010-04-01T13:01:50-04:00 2010-04-19T16:52:48-04:00  Some encouraging and surprising choices in CIO Insights list of recommended spring reading for IT pros.

Encouraging because like Leading Outside the Lines, by Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan or Young World Rising, by Rob Salkowitz or The Language of Trust, by Michael Maslansky, most titles dealt with business skills like negotiation, talent development and leadership - another sign - if we really needed one - of the increasingly business-oriented nature of the IT function and the CIO's increasing prominence within the C-suite.

Surprising...but not really

But surprising, too, because of the first book on the list - The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, by Nicholas Carr.

At first blush I thought it odd that the editors of CIO Insight would top their list with a book that, based on its title alone, sounds decidedly anti-tech. Carr, as you may know, introduced his latest hypothesis in his July 2008 Atlantic article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

If you're not familiar with it already, here's a sample passage:

 "Over the past few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going—so far as I can tell—but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."

From the book excerpt Carr has posted, it looks like he's taking these ideas further - lamenting the loss of intellectual depth at the expense of instant, oft-unthinking communications:

"The development of a well-rounded mind requires both an ability to find and quickly parse a wide range of information and a capacity for open-ended reflection. There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden. We need to work in Google's "world of numbers," but we also need to be able to retreat to Sleepy Hollow. The problem today is that we're losing our ability to strike a balance between those two very different states of mind. Mentally, we're in perpetual locomotion. . . ."

Carr's not alone. Today's infographic from Fast Company, titled "The Age of Crap" explores the user-driven proliferation of news "tidbits" at the expense of thorough journalism:

"More and more people are deciding they'd rather get tidbits of bunches of stories, as they develop, for free--and less and less want a tightly bound, carefully selected group of stories once a month, when the news has already been trampled on by hundreds of blogs. That's modern publishing in a nutshell."

 Even The Onion took a humorous look at the issue with its March 9 article, "Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text":

"Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text. Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words."

Same vein, more serious tone

In the same vein but in a more serious tone, this is precisely the dynamic that Carr explores - a cultural shift from contemplative, linear thought to instantaneous lateral connections and its repercussions on our intelligence.

This isn't a new phenomenon. Every new technology recasts information according to its own rules, whether it's clay tablets, Morse Code or movable type. And thanks to our remarkably adaptable brains, humans can adjust in turn to understand our new environment. Some, admittedly, make the transition more easily than others. But the pervasiveness of technology and blurring of of home and work, of consumer and corporate, mean this trend will no doubt continue.

CIOs must understand the new landscape

It's essential that a CIO understand how their constituents are responding to this new environment. Across their organizations are marketers, sales reps, procurement pros and supply chain managers - not to mention executives - all of whom need to synthesize increasing amounts of increasingly disparate and disconnected information. CIOs need to understand how their users approach this information - where they get it, what they expect from it and how they use it. A CIO's information strategy - an Information Agenda, if you will - must maximize the value of this information and the effectiveness of people's decisions in this strange new world.

Like The Numerati, this is a book I'd read even if it didn't have a business dimension. Sometimes I am inclined believe the worst predictions about the impact of IT on our intelligence. Typically this happens on my weaker days, when my password's been rejected for the umpteenth time or I'd rather bookmark an article than actually read it. But on my better days (of which there are more and more) I realize it's not a zero-sum game. The initiatives stemming from the IBM Smarter Planet vision are ample proof that great things can happen when some of the most thoughtful and innovative people in the world get ahold of its fastest and and most powerful technology and use it to solve major world problems.

It's not either/or...yet

Nor is it an "either/or" proposition: from my own experience I can recapture that linear, thoughtful approach - provided I'm physically nowhere near a computer, iPod or anything else electronic. But I realize it's a luxury other information workers may not enjoy. And - more importantly over the longer term - this alternate approach may not apply at all for those who in Don Tapscott's words have "grown up digital" and know no other way to think. These are the people CIOs will eventually recruit, using techniques outlined in the other books on that list.

The cold business reality

Philosophy aside, the cold truth of business is that daily decisions now demand instant information and IT has a role to play in enabling them. But it's incumbent on business users to explore ideas, trends and concepts at length and in depth. After all, it's thoughtful analysis and a sound strategy that drive long-term growth.

Ultimately, I agree with Carr's main point. The benefits of balance - whether in business, our personal lives, the arts or elsewhere - are too important to be lost in the twitterstream. Sometimes, we do need to unplug ourselves from the Web and take time to think. With The Shallows, Carr will tell us why balance matters and hopefully show us a way to recapture it.

Maybe that's why CIO Insight put it at the top of the list.

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To The Editor: I'm so glad to have been taught to love and forgive those who disagree with me, hate me and wrong me, no matter how hard it might be. If not, how else might I react to the hatred and rage from recent writers about our "putrid government" and references to our president as "Dear Leader."
So I ask these recent writers: Would you get rid of Medicare? Would you get rid of laws that protect the health of your children? Would you get rid of laws that protect people from unfair employment practices?
Would you get rid of laws that protect the safety of our roads, bridges, foods, drugs, and fraud? Would you, in rejecting "propagandized compulsory education," keep your children from learning the skills they need to survive in a modern electronic world?
Could you support laws that regulate the lobbies and those who nearly destroyed our economy in 2008? And why so much hate?
I have an offer for all of you. I will meet on any public stage with any of these writers who so "detest" my beliefs, preferences, and the president for whom I so proudly and gladly voted. My only requirement: no one gets shouted down. Is that possible?
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