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National Birth Defects Prevention Month Brings Attention to Congenital Heart Defects
Approximately 500 cases of congenital heart defects occur annually in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, AR (Jan. 3, 2012) - January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and this year the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are actively focusing on helping healthcare professionals and the general public take positive steps to reduce the risk of congenital heart defects. Nearly 40,000 cases of congenital heart defects (approximately 1 in 110 live births) are reported annually in the U.S. with around 500 cases occurring in Arkansas.
The Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, a section within the UAMS Department of Pediatrics, and ACHRI are joining the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) to increase awareness on birth defects, the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States.
"About 50 percent of all pregnancies in the United States are not planned and many birth defects and fetal health problems occur in the first few weeks after conception - before a woman even knows she's pregnant," said Charlotte Hobbs, MD, PhD, section chief of birth defects research and professor of pediatrics at UAMS. "Because congenital heart defects are one of the most common types of birth defects and because the heart forms in the early weeks of pregnancy, it is our goal to educate women that this type of defect, as well as others, may be preventable through healthy lifestyle choices, good nutrition and proper intake of vitamins with folic acid."
Congenital heart defects include abnormalities of the heart that are present at birth. Some have only a minor and brief effect on a baby's health while some have very serious and life-long effects. Public awareness, accurate diagnosis and expert medical care are all essential for adequate prevention and management of these all too common and deadly conditions.
Studies have demonstrated several important steps women can take to help prevent congenital heart defects in newborns. Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant are advised to:
"One easy way women can increase their health preconception is by increasing their folic acid intake," explains Dr. Hobbs. "Folic acid, taken daily, can help prevent some major birth defects and it is important that a woman start taking folic acid at least one month beforeshe becomes pregnant and continue taking it while she is pregnant."
Folic acid is a "B" vitamin that a woman's body needs to reduce heart disease, colon cancer and the risk of a stroke. It is recommended that women begin taking folic acid as early as 13 years old (always consult your family physician before adding a vitamin to your child's daily regimen).
"Small steps like visiting a healthcare provider before pregnancy and taking a multivitamin every day can go a long way," says Dr. Hobbs. The NBDPN is working with healthcare professionals and public health agencies around the country to encourage prevention and awareness of congenital heart defects among the over 60 million women of childbearing age in the United States. "We are excited to be part of this national campaign and we want the women of central Arkansas to be informed. Through our efforts across the country we plan to reach millions of women and their families with vital prevention information."
For more information about congenital heart defects, folic acid and good nutrition before and during pregnancy, contact the Section of Birth Defects Research at 1-877-662-4567 or visit the following websites: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/heartdefects/, http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/folicacid/index.html, and http://www.marchofdimes.com/pregnancy/folicacid.html.
UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute, the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Translational Research Institute. Named best Little Rock metropolitan area hospital by U.S. News & World Report, it is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has more than 2,800 students and 775 medical residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including about 1,000 physicians and other professionals who provide care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS' Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 29 city blocks and houses 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. ACH recently ranked No. 75 on FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit www.archildrens.org.
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Published: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 12:30 a.m.
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Jason Edsel Everhart, 77 , of Kirkwood Street, died Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, at Lexington Health Care of Lexington.
His funeral will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Second United Church of Christ by the Rev. Dr. William B. Shrout Sr.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Piedmont Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park.
Mr. Everhart was born Dec. 13, 1934, in Davidson County to Jason Harper Everhart and Mary Merle Miller Everhart. He was preceded in death by his parents; and sons Teddy Everhart and Toby Everhart. He had served in the U.S. Army and was a member of Second United Church of Christ. Also he was a construction welder and former Scout Master of Troop 203.
Surviving are his wife, Alice (Polly) Swing Everhart; son Tim Everhart and wife Michelle of Lexington; six grandchildren, Misty, T. J., Randall, Angela, Chelae, Anthony; and eight great-grandchildren.
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Five out of the six podium spots at Thursday night's World Cup moguls competition at Deer Valley went to skiers from our neighbors to the north.
But, amid all the maple leaf symbols and 'O Canada' singers, American Hannah Kearney managed to make her way to the top of the women's podium, the lone U.S. representative at the awards ceremony.
Making her 100th career World Cup start, Kearney earned her 57th podium finish and 38th gold medal.
After a second-place finish in Calgary last week, Kearney said she came into Thursday night's competition with a more aggressive mindset.
"It feels really good to be rewarded by the judges for pushing myself," she said. "I felt a little bit out of control, but they didn't punish me too much and that's a nice thing."
With a scoring system that factors in how skiers handle the mogul turns, how fast they complete the course and how stylish and clean their two jumps are, Kearney finished with a score of 24.83. Canadian Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finished second with a score of 23.45 and her sister, Justine Dufour-Lapointe, took third place with a score of 23.33.
By winning the gold medal, Kearney now leads the World Cup moguls standings all by herself. Entering Thursday night, she was tied with Justine Dufour-Lapointe with 180 points apiece.
After her performance in Calgary, Kearney said it's good to be back on top.
"A lot of people asked, 'Oh, are you holding back?'" she said. "And I was like, 'Well, no, I didn't mean to be holding back.' But maybe I was.
Kearney's teammate, Heather McPhie, who lives and trains in Park City, finished just off the podium in fourth place. Her final score of 23.30 was just .03 points away from Chloe Dufour-Lapointe.
"It's my best result of the season," McPhie said. "I'm right on track with what I'm working on. I just have to keep believing. It's going to happen, I just have to get a little faster.
But, on her home course, McPhie is confident that Saturday's mogul competition could be the turning point that leads her to an Olympic spot.
"I'm so psyched to get to compete here twice," she said. "I absolutely love this course."
Kearney agreed that the Deer Valley course is one of the best stops on the World Cup tour.
"I love it," she said. "Once you've figured out this course, it makes the second competition less stressful. You sort of feel more confident already."
For the 2010 Olympic gold medalist, building confidence leading up to the 2014 Sochi Games will only make her more difficult to beat.
"I just started getting Olympic fever," she said. "It's catching on now. Now I can start thinking about it and preparing."
On the men's side, neither American that qualified for the finals made it through their last run unscathed. While Troy Murphy managed to finish his run, both he and Patrick Deneen struggled, finishing fifth and sixth overall.
That left the door open for three Canadians to cruise to podium spots. Mikael Kingsbury, the top mogulist in the world this year, took first place with a score of 26.39. Alex Bilodeau finished second with a score of 25.29 and Marc-Antoine Gagnon turned in a score of 24.85 to take bronze.


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Lyme disease (LD) is a multi-stage, multi-system bacterial infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral shaped bacterium that is most commonly transmitted by a tick bite. The disease takes its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where the illness was first identified in the United States in 1975.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lyme disease continues to be a rapidly emerging infectious disease, and is the leading cause of all insect-borne illness in the US. The number of annually reported cases has increased 25-fold since national surveillance began in 1982. About 20,000 people are infected each year in the US. The majority (95 percent) of cases are reported in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin.
Depending on the location, anywhere from less than 1 percent to more than 50 percent of the ticks are infected with spirochetes (bacteria that are usually carried by the tick).
Lyme disease is a year-round problem, although April through October is considered tick season. Cases of LD have been reported in 49 states in this country, with most cases occurring in:
Many cases have also been identified in large areas of Asia and Europe.
The list of possible symptoms for Lyme disease is non-specific, and symptoms can affect every part of the body. Symptoms usually appear within three to 30 days. The following are the most common symptoms of LD. However, each child may experience symptoms differently.
One of the primary symptoms is often a rash that can be pink in the center and a deeper red on the surrounding skin, but can vary in appearance. The rash:
Several days or weeks after a bite from an infected tick, flu-like symptoms can appear, including the following:
After several months, painful and swollen joints may occur.
Other possible symptoms may include the following:
Symptoms of LD may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's physician for a diagnosis.
LD may be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms may resemble other conditions. The primary symptom is a rash, but it may not be present in up to 20 percent of cases. Diagnosis is usually based on symptoms and a history of a tick bite.
Diagnosis of Lyme disease must be made by an experienced physician. Blood and laboratory tests may be performed to rule out other conditions.
Research is underway to develop and improve methods for diagnosing LD.
Your child's physician will determine the best treatment plan based on your child's individual situation. Lyme disease is usually treated with antibiotics.
Treatment will be considered based on these and other factors:
Humans do not develop immunity to LD and reinfection is possible. In 1998, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved a new vaccine against Lyme disease called LYMErix. The vaccine was not 100 percent effective, however, and the FDA still recommended using other preventive measures. In 2002, the manufacturer of LYMErix announced that the vaccine would no longer be available commercially.
Some general guidelines for preventing LD include the following:
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Monday, December 19, 2011
A Quick and Easy Cassoulet Recipe – Pork & Beans with Benefits
16 comments:
- Unknown said...
Is there a kosher version? Usually I'm good at adapting recipes but this one seems focused on the bacon. Sounds like you have a cold Chef John, feel better!!
- December 20, 2011 at 1:43 AM
Yum! Reminds me of a meat lover's pizza! This looks awesome for a hearty winter meal.
- December 20, 2011 at 8:06 AM
I've made one attempt at cassoulet last year. I don't think my beans made it to the texture I wanted, but my girlfriend proclaimed the best thing she's eaten. I know I can do better :-) I went back and watched your full version, and now I am cassoulet bound. Between that, meat pies, and more bread pudding, this should be a tasty holiday!
Now if only I could get the time to put together my homemade immersion circulator... I could confit anything I wanted! I was thinking chicken thighs in truffle butter... maybe I'll find time with some of these days off to play.
Also, BTW, for no-knead bread. I boosted the amount of flour to 17 ounces and am using 12 oz of liquid. This allows me to use a full Sierra Nevada Hefewiezen for one batch. That turns into some darn tasty bread!
- December 20, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- Chris K. said...
How many bong hits did you do before shooting this video? You sound like B-Real. Must be all that travel.
I want to develop an easy casserole recipe based on cassoulet but I don't what to call it. Any ideas?
- December 20, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Rachael Ray has her own version called "Spicy Sausage, Chicken & Bean Pot" that I have been making for a couple of years now. It's very good. Her's is a little different & has grated carrot which really adds to it.
- December 20, 2011 at 10:27 PM
- mcmatt11 said...
"cook the sausage in the bacon fat" - best phrase ever
- December 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Chef John said...
I should be so lucky! ;) No, it was the classic flying twice in the month of December head cold. Happens literally every time.
- December 21, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Does "regular" cassoulet use wine? Because I can totally picture a cup or two being poured in to deglaze after the onions cook
- December 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- S/V Blondie-Dog said...
Uh oh... I won't be including this dish among my favorites.
It occurs to me that I would have enjoyed it more had I left out the cheese and bread crumbs and simply served it over some rice. But then it wouldn't have been a French dish.
Oh well. :)
- December 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM
- 1Bigg_ER said...
I tried this last night!!! Didn't even have to wash the dishes, everybody almost licked their plates clean!!
- January 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- 1Bigg_ER said...
Let me let you in on a secret. Cook this a day in advance!! The fantasticality is on some out of this world level!!!!
- February 25, 2012 at 8:59 PM
Hi John,
Can I substitute the bacon fat for the butter in the crumb topping?
Looking forward to making this.
- March 16, 2012 at 9:38 AM
- Chef John said...
- March 16, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- Doug DeFrees said...
Chef John ... thank you for the excellent, quick cassoulet recipe! I've posted my experiences with it to my blog: http://sundaydinnerfortwo.blogspot.com/2012/03/cassoulet.html
And has someone has already mentioned, it gets better as it gets older, the leftovers are great.
- March 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM
- Thomas E Mayer Jr said...
I made this last year for Christmas dinner with salad and Chef John's beer bread. What a meal! I think I will repeat this yearly as my new holiday meal tradition. This year I will make for New Year's Day 2013. I love casseroles so this one hit the spot big time!
- December 23, 2012 at 12:08 AM
- aijiko said...
Finally made this. Despite having to use chicken breast instead of tastier thigh meat and then scorching part of the crumb topping, which I had to scrape off, it was really yummy and my whole family loved it. The fresh herbs really put it over the top. I'm so glad I'm growing them now so they're always handy. Thanks!
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Preview of 2011's Parade of Homes
Utah Parade of Homes It might seem like a little early in the year, but from Washington to Utah County, Parade of Homes is gearing up for 2011's run of this annual event. Already on our radar for February is the St. George Parade of Homes. While this short list is by no means complete, it's worth getting ready for. Clear your calendars and keep a close eye on utahparade.com for upcoming parade locations and dates. Read More


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The players were standing at the top step of their respective dugouts. Introductions had just ended and Tom Seaver was about to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The 67-year-old Seaver teased his catcher, legendary Cubs second baseman and Lehigh Valley manager Ryne Sandberg by pretending to go all the way back to the rubber. After two or three shuffles and smiles, Seaver finally put both feet on the grass and tossed a strike.
The sellout crowd clapped, probably a little out of relief that the bit didn't go on longer. Both teams readied to take the field and the Bisons' staff prepared to exhale from a week described by PR good guy Brad Bisbing as "like planning four weddings in seven days." Up on the video board – ahem, the $2.5 million HD video board – was a well-put-together highlight video of all the Triple-A All-Stars. The players' hits, diving catches and strikeouts were pasted onto the different buildings surrounding the park. It was pretty cool.
Looking around, though, not a person in the park could actually see any of those buildings from their seat. The way the park is positioned, only a handful sitting in the "Bully Hill" area in right field get the skyline. Most are staring toward the outfield, only seeing concrete and 18-wheelers beyond the ballpark. There are a lucky few could catch the First Niagara Center's giant marshmallow roof and the American flag on the top of another building piercing the white of it.
Scanning the view during the national anthem, two tiny figures caught my eye. One green blob, one white. They were on the top of a parking garage right above the green awning covering Bully Hill.
The game started. A couple runs scored. But the two bodies on top of the garage were increasingly distracting. Trying to focus on the action on the precisely cured field was like trying to look past a mole on a beautiful girl – once you see it, it's tough to stop staring.
Turns out Chris Mayo and Dave Elpren didn't know each other before Wednesday's Triple-A All-Star Game.
Mayo, who is somewhere in his late 40s, had thought he had tickets, but there was some sort of mix up and, well, it so happened that he didn't have tickets. But he'd already paid $12 for parking, so he was going to experience this game one way or another. The Amherst man backed up his 2001 Dodge pick-up truck up to the eight-foot wall and set up a lawn chair still left in the back from watching Independence Day fireworks.
At the same time Mayo was coming to the realization he didn't have tickets, Elpren was thinking he wouldn't need them. He took the bus downtown from Niagara Falls where he works as a custodian with no inkling the All-Star game would pack 18,025 into Coca Cola Field. "I'll just grab a ticket for five bucks," he thought.
About 20 minutes before the game, Mayo saw Elpren taking photos from the top of the garage with a small digital camera. Naturally, he invited the other man over.
"That's just Buffalo hospitality," Mayo said with a big smile and laugh. "That's what we do here."
Elpren wasn't irritated at being without a ticket – in fact, he had watched the home run derby from a hill near Oak Street.
"This is actually better," he said in a raspy voice. "I get more of a panoramic view from here."
It is a hell of a view. The type that every minor league city in the country would die for. You can see all the buildings that were featured in the highlight video and a church that peeks its steeple up over the edge of the ballpark. Other buildings stand guard like the field Is Buckingham Palace.
And, oddly enough, the view is only obstructed in right field by the Bully Hill awning.
"You can even see the balls and strikes," Elpren said. "Although you can't really see the score, there's no side scoreboard like in the big leagues, but we're pretty sure it's 2-0."
Elpren said it reminds him of sitting in the upper deck at Yankee Stadium. He's right, you know. Especially with the ballpark packed to the brim. Though instead of hearing Bleacher Creatures yelling in the background, the sound of the crowd is just like having on an old radio on in the background. You can almost hear Vin Scully's voice echoing over it.
Neither of them is a big baseball fan, actually. Mayo says his 21-year-old daughter knows more about all the teams than he does. He isn't married; neither is Elpren.
"Two guys who don't know each other sitting in a truck on a roof watching a ballgame," Elpren said laughing. "Uh, no, we're not married."
Elpren wouldn't say much about why he wasn't hitched, but Mayo, a short, round man, cites his past career working in hazardous waste removal. Traveling from location to location – covering nearly every state – made life more interesting, but it was hell on relationships. And it wasn't always easy to deal with. Mayo worked cleanup after both the Oklahoma City bombing and Sept. 11th. Oklahoma City was tougher, he said.
Now he's a chef.
"My dad told me that I had to know how to cook and sew to get along by myself," he said. "I really like to cook and yes, I can sew."
Elpren prefers to talk politics and sports rather than about himself. He stares out toward the city, talking about how things have changed. Baseball hasn't much in Buffalo, though, except maybe the music and games in between innings. "Still, it isn't as corporate as the other sports," he says.
Down on the field, somebody hits a line drive into the right field corner. Though they can't see the ball, Elpren, watching the runner, announces that it will be a double. He likes to talk about the game; Mayo just likes being outdoors in the sun, he says.
"I think people around here don't get as upset about baseball because it's the minors," Elpren said, finishing Mayo's sentence like they'd been friends 20 years now. "So like he said, you can just come here and enjoy the ballpark."
The Niagara Falls man has a point.
Coca Cola Field is a wonderful place to catch a game. Maybe you can't appreciate its beauty until you've seen it like Mayo and Elpren: with the city at its back. It's the type of place that should have a slogan reading something like, "a place that brings people together." And, it does bring people together. But it's in a distant third place behind the city's angrier sports. The attendance isn't great unless it's a Friday night in July or there's a special event like the All-Star Game or Star Wars Night. That's why they say nobody cares. Sure, it won't ever be the topic of sports radio callers screaming for the coach to be fired, Elpren suggests, but baseball in Buffalo isn't about that. It's about a chance for the city's sports fans to come up for air from the fall months of frustration over football and winter months of living and dying with each Sabres win or loss.
Nothing could have shown better than the Triple-A All-Star Game that baseball in Buffalo is about hospitality, being outside and getting the most out of summer.
Basically, It's about two guys who have never met before enjoying a ballgame together on the top of a parking garage.
Who knows if Mayo and Elpren will stay friends forever or never see each other again. Mayo is looking forward to his daughter's wedding, Elpren will probably travel and take lots of pictures wherever he goes. Hopefully they'll get together again for baseball in Buffalo. Maybe even inside the park, next time.


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Men's Basketball Bounces Back With 62-50 Win at Kent State
Princeton led wire to wire in the win, jumping out to a 16-2 lead and never letting Kent State within six points from then on.
The victory improves Princeton to 3-4 on the season, letting the Tigers bounce back from one that got away Wednesday night at Wagner. Princeton will have its first week without a midweek game this season before hosting Drexel at Jadwin Gym next Saturday at 2 p.m.
The loss snaps Kent State's three-game win streak and drops the Golden Flashes to 5-3 on the season.
T.J. Bray led Princeton with 15 points as one of three Tigers in double figures, along with Brendan Connolly's 11 points and Denton Koon's 10. Kent State's Chris Evans, the Flashes' leading scorer on the season, had his average with 18 points.
Princeton won by holding the Flashes to 34 percent shooting, helping to make up for Kent State taking 13 more shots than Princeton. Also helping to make that up was a 33-27 rebounding edge for the Tigers and nine 3-pointers to three for the home team.
Postgame notes
• Princeton has won four in a row against MAC schools, including the 2009-10 season opener at Central Michigan, a home-and-home series with Buffalo over the last two seasons, and now this Kent State win. The current Tiger seniors will have a chance to go to 5-0 against the MAC on Dec. 30 at Akron.
• Denton Koon was a perfect 5 for 5 from the field on the way to a season-high 10 points in 18 minutes.
• It was the first time this season that Ian Hummer did not score in double digits, finishing with five points. Princeton has won its last 10 games in which Hummer did not score double digits, which includes all such games from the 2010-11 season forward (Princeton is also 48-24 during Hummer's career when he does score in double digits).
• Brendan Connolly scored 11 points for the second time in four games (Syracuse), matching his season high.
• T.J. Bray reached double digits for the second time this season, all in the last three games after his career-high 17 points at Lafayette last Saturday.
• It was the second time in three games Princeton shot better than 50 percent from the field, after doing so last Saturday at Lafayette (.580).
• The nine 3-pointers for Princeton were a season high and the team's most since canning 10 in the season finale last spring at Pittsburgh.
• Kent State's .340 shooting clip was a season low for a Princeton opponent.
• Princeton has had a better shooting percentage than its opponents from 3-point range in each of the last four games.


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On Monday, "The Nutcracker" enters its final week of shows at the Capitol Theater. Multiple showings remain and ticket prices vary.
At EnergySolutions Arena on Wednesday, Christmas music blasters, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra continues its winter tour. Two shows, including a kid-friendly 3 p.m. performance are planned. Tickets are still available. Also Wednesday, '80s soft-rockers Air Supply will play a fund-raiser for the Park City Museum. The gig is at the Silver Queen Ball at the Montage Deer Valley. Tickets start at $200 (!) and are tax-deductible.
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ZF-2908: ZF 1.5 no longer auto detecting browser language
In ZF 1.0.4 I have the following code, it successfully detects browser language setting and applies the translation and will downgrade through the list of languages the browser sends. Since upgrading to ZF 1.5 this no longer works and always returns the last language loaded (in my case Spanish!) even though the browser is set to en.
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$translate->addTranslation("languages" . DS . $lang . DS . "lang." . $lang, $lang);
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$locale = substr($browserLocale->__toString(), 0, 2);
} else {
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$locale = substr($translate->getLocale(), 0, 2);
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Zend_Registry::set('locale', $locale);
With your code you set all languages manually. This is the reason why it does not work for you. The settings of your browser are ignored.
You have eighter to use "browser" or "auto" as locale to use the browser settings.
Also instead of adding each languages manually it is better to have this done automatically.
- locale "browser" for detecting browser locale
- use directory or file search to get rid of the multiple adding a single file and setting always a new language within there
- or use setLocale to set the wished locale
all mentioned points are stated in the manual, just take a look
I have made the suggested changes to my code. I know have:
public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
$locale = new Zend_Locale();
$translate = new Zend_Translate('csv', 'languages', 'browser', array('scan'=>Zend_Translate::LOCALE_DIRECTORY));
Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Translate', $translate);
If I don't use $translate->setLocale('browser'); it seems to display the values of the last language file loaded.
A couple of things to note:
1) My language files are stored like so:
2) If I set my browser to e.g. Cambodian(km) I will only see messageIds in my view. How do I get this to default or downgrade to English. In 1.0.4 using the addTranslation it use to downgrade through the available languages sent by the browser i.e. if I had km -> es -> en in my list it would display English.
Also, Zend_Translate is not available Zend_View_Helper_MyHelper via $this->translate, I get an undefined method. The docs seem to say that you can use $this->translate in helpers as long as you store $translate in the registry key Zend_Translate which I have done. $this->translate is available in script views i.e. index.phtml.
Sorry to be a pain!
Zend_Locale recognises the locale "browser"...
Zend_Translate does only recognise the "auto" locale which includes the "browser" locale. If you use "auto" then you do not need to set the locale afterwards... "auto" is also described in the manual for Zend_Translate.
As you can see by your structure you could also use search by filename as you have the locale present in it.
Related to "km"... of course... actually Zend_Translate is not able to do rerouting. There is a own issue for this improvement and this is no bug but an improvement. Actually you can do this manually by existing methods. See getList()... it returns all languages... you could then do an array_key_exists BUT you can not do this per message. And also your code is wrong in this case. When you have "fr" for example but only half of all strings translated also your code would not work !!! This is where the other issue comes in.
Related to Zend_View_Helper_MyHelper... this is not a failure from Zend_Translate... you should ask in the mailinglist as this is not an issue but a question of proper handling. And no you can not use it in "helpers" but in the view... you can use view helper in the view and not view helpers in other view helpers. Please ask in the mailinglist for the exact handling.
Many thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it. Off to the mailing lists I go :-)
All the best!
I'm assuming this fix is merged to the 1.5 release branch for release with 1.5.1. Please update JIRA if this is not the case.


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In summary though. He's decent defensively, but horrific offensively.
This is because he thinks he jacks up a lot of shots while he shoots a very low percentage. Guy has a low IQ Think Larry Hughes when he was on the Cavs. I doubt he's gonna get much play if he throws up dumb shot after dumb shot.
That said, there is a reason the Knicks are open to the idea of dealing Brewer — a former No. 7 overall pick who averaged 13 points per game last season — again before the trade deadline. Although the Knicks need to shore up their defense, but a single effort defender on the perimeter isn't going to solve many problems. Playing Brewer regularly certainly won't hurt New York on defense, but he has a very limited defensive impact and shouldn't be expected to do more than stay in front of his man and grab a few steals. He is far from the Bruce Bowen defensive-stopper ideal; New York may not have a more consistently successful perimeter defender on staff, but there's one glaring concern: Brewer's competent defense comes with a significant offensive trade-off.
Brewer may have played regular minutes for Minnesota, but he's still a very poor offensive player who cannot be relegated to the corner because of his lack of 3-point range. That's damaging enough on its own, but considering how important the corner 3 is to the Knicks' offense, Brewer seems to be a particularly poor fit for New York's rotation. Take a look at how Brewer's shooting percentages stack up with the rest of the candidates for wing minutes, as well as the league average among all players:
*Note: Azubuike's shooting numbers are from last season, when he was a member of the Golden State Warriors. All other players' stats are based on their performance thus far this season.
From this comparison, we can see that not only is Brewer shooting below average from every single zone on the floor, but he is notably less accurate than New York's alternatives.
It gets worse: Brewer is a slashing wing with delusions of jump-shooting grandeur. In general, he has no business taking any shots outside the paint, yet that has never stopped Brewer from firing away before, and there's reason to suspect that the freedom of the Knicks' offense would only make matters worse. Take a look at Brewer's shot distribution this season; despite shooting exceptionally poor percentages from greater distances, Brewer has nevertheless attempted almost half of his shots outside of 16 feet:
Stats courtesy of Hoopdata.com.
Azubuike, Walker and Williams gravitate toward the zones in which they're most efficient, but Brewer has no effective range to anchor his offensive performance. He still gets to the rim a fair amount, but poor shooting percentages from every other area on the floor (especially from 3-point range) completely negate the impact of those attempts.
"Three and D" specialists in the Bowen mold are useful in part because they don't step outside themselves on offense. They spot up in the corner or run the baseline, but only impact the game offensively when gifted the opportunity. Passes out of double-teams, drive-and-kick feeds – these are the mechanisms that allow perimeter defensive specialists to score. Otherwise, such players are nonfactors on offense.
That's not the case with Brewer, who has posted a significantly higher usage rate than Shane Battier, James Jones, or many of his other perimeter defending contemporaries. Brewer fancies himself a more active participant in the offense, and unfortunately for the Wolves and now the Knicks, that mindset results in a lot of errant jumpers. He doesn't break even; Brewer is using too many possessions on low-percentage shots, and not making the kind of widespread defensive impact that could balance out his offensive deficit.
Whether Azubuike, Walker or Williams is the best choice for more minutes is still uncertain, and could change on a game-to-game basis depending on specific matchups. Regardless, Brewer is most valuable to the Knicks as trade bait. He played regular minutes for the Timberwolves out of necessity, but the Knicks have better options, even if their rotation seems thin.


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Who knows? But the bar, that has served as a venue for everything from spoken word to break dancing to country bands is definitely closing according to its owners. In a message I received, they're taking the "essence" of AKA Lounge over to their new venture 57 West on the other side of Pine Street (AKA is located on East Pine Street). A final party will take place on Nov. 30. I'm waiting to hear back on more information, but I will be sad to see the bar close, simply for how beautiful the space is. I really hope someone nabs it fast, it would be a shame if that were to leave our nightlife landscape.


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The 6-1 running back rambled for 107 yards on 18 carries (5.9 yards/attempt) to eclipse the 100-yard mark for the first time in his collegiate career. He also scored two touchdowns (one yard, 12 yards) -- both in the second quarter.
After three games this season, Carter ranks third on the team with 146 rushing yards on 39 attempts. He is averaging 3.7 yards/carry and is tied for the team lead with two rushing touchdowns.
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Swimming & Diving Shows Team Speed At Northwestern Relays
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Evanston, Ill.- The climb to the top of the Horizon League continued on Sunday for the University of Illinois at Chicago swimming and diving team, as the Flames took on some of the toughest relay squads in the Midwest at the Northwestern Relays in Evanston.
UIC's men's relay teams received six second-place finishes, beating Horizon League rivals UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay each time, to finish only behind the host Wildcats.
The Flames women's relays turned in six third-place finishes.
In team scoring, the men took second with 179 points, while the women took fourth with 171.
For the men, it was a balanced attack for the UIC "A" relay teams en route to second-place rankings in the 300 backstroke, 800 freestyle, 400 medley, 200 freestyle, 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays.
It was a big change from last season, where the men's relays finished no higher than third.
The women also showed some nice improvement from last year's NU Relay performance, cutting seven seconds off their 300 breaststroke relay time, five seconds off their 800 free relay mark, and five ticks off their 400 free relay showing at last year's Northwestern Relays.
UIC gets back to dual meet action with a road trip to Dayton, Ohio, to take on defending league champions Wright State next Saturday.


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With a nickname like Art City, Springville, Utah, is a force to be reckoned with in the art scene.
The Springville Museum of Art has been a strong advocate for the arts for the past 100 years. The museum houses more than 3,000 works of art, many of which are made locally. And that Utah legacy of beauty and excellence will be documented in the new book, Springville Museum of Art: History and Collection.
This historical book is a collaboration by four authors: Vern G. Swanson, Jessica R. Weiss, Ashlee Whitaker and Nicole C. Romney. They outline the history of the internationally-renowned museum and tell its story through the artwork it houses. The 424-page book follows the various themes and exhibits that have been prominent throughout the museum's history. Complete with images of hundreds of pieces, this book gives readers a look at the museum's progress throughout the years.
Even in the early stages of what is now called "The Springville Art Movement," there were artists and patrons clamoring for a chance to experience deep emotions through art.
Cyrus E. Dallin (1860-1944) was one of Utah's first renowned artists and a Springville native. After studying art in Boston and Paris, he returned home to forward the movement happening in his hometown.
Dallin's statue, "Spirit of Life," is the centerpiece and crowning jewel of the museum's Stewart Sculpture Garden. Dallin sculpted the bronze statue in 1928, and the piece has been a tribute to the cycle and beauty of life ever since.
You can learn more about Dallin's powerful influence in the book.
One of the authors,Vern Swanson, has been the director of the Springville Museum of Art for the past 30 years. With multiple degrees in art history, he is an expert in many types of art, but he specializes in Soviet realism. The museum held an exhibit of this particular art style to honor those who use their artistic talents for social change.
Springville Museum of Art: History and Collection gives an overview of past exhibits and other monumental moments in art history in which the Springville Museum of Art participated.
The book will be released this summer.
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"Come live with me and be my love." That's what my husband said when he proposed. What he didn't say was: "Come leave your home of 17 years and move to more than a dozen places before we celebrate our 20th anniversary."
I admit I love to travel. I also love coming home. My spouse believes in not just visiting, but immersing oneself in diverse locales to keep brain connections clicking: learn the land, the lore, the language. Stay vibrant. In our early years as a couple, my children from my first marriage were in school in Southern California, so we remained there. But when my younger daughter left for college on the East Coast, the odyssey began. At first I looked forward to moving from Santa Monica. It had exploded from the lazy beach town I knew in 1970 into, for me, a too-trendy mini-metropolis. I'm an avid skier, so I was eager to move to Park City, Utah. But not long after, circumstances took us to Florida—where I've never had an un-bad hair day—and then we moved again…and again…and again.
I balked at each upheaval. Our jobs permitted us to work from home (wherever that was) but did we have to keep changing our address just because we could? I grew tired of telling friends and family I was okay with yet another adventure, and that my spouse and I had neither joined the military nor were in the Witness Protection Program. I wearied of my husband saying, "Think how young this is keeping us! We're like 20-year-olds, moving all the time!" (This is not necessarily a bad thing, since I'm almost nine years older than he. At 62, I want him to think of me as frisky and open to new experiences; I just don't want it to kill me in the process.)
At one point, we bought a log cabin on 11 acres, an hour south of the Canadian border. To say the house was unfinished is like saying the Titanic had a leak. Designed on what appeared to be blueprints for a Spanish galleon, this marvel had only sub-flooring, no bannisters, and permanently bolted French doors on the second floor, a consequence of the deck-that-never-was. For all it lacked, it offered something unique: a bat colony.
Last week we moved to Portugal. As I write this, I sit in a stone cottage on a farm north of Oporto, grateful for a working Internet. The owners, our landlords, are of Portuguese nobility. They are warm and gracious, and endeavor to make us feel at home. I've found out where to buy organic groceries, where to get the laundry done, and discovered a hair salon where someone miraculously changes the color gray into chestnut. In other words, I'm beginning to feel settled. Each morning as my husband and I sip coffee on the patio, a goat herd files into the pasture we overlook. They trot, leap, and butt each other in caprine exuberance. In the evening we enjoy softened ripe cheeses, and taste Herdade dos Muachos, an inexpensive but mellow vinho tinto from the region of Alentejo.
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In the highly dynamic, competitive and complex market environments (such as telecom, insurance, leasing, health, etc) the consumer's choice essentially depends on a number of individual characteristics, inherent dynamics of the consumer, network of contacts and interactions, and external influences that may be best captured within the Agent Based modeling paradigm. The Agent Based modeling is especially advantageous in the consumer market domain as it allows to leverage the full amount of individual-centric data from the CRM (Customer Relationships Management) systems highly available these days. Although there are no universal straightforward instructions for building Agent Based models, there are certain common steps and patterns. The goal of this paper is to introduce the patterns in consumer market modeling most frequently met in our consulting practice. The modeling language of AnyLogic is used throughout the paper» Mehr lesen
A hybrid simulation optimization approach for supply chains Christian Almeder, Margaretha Preusser. EUROSIM 2007, September 9-13, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The main idea of our approach is to combine discrete-event simulation and exact optimization for supply chain network models. Simulation models are constructed in order to mimic a real system including all necessary stochastic and nonlinear elements. Such simulation models are used as proving grounds for analyzing and improving a real situation on a trial-and-error basis. A traditional optimization method on top of a simulation model has major disadvantages: The optimization method uses the simulation model as a black-box. Information about the structure of the problem is not available and cannot be used for an intelligent optimization strategy» Mehr lesen
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Heterogeneity and network structure in the dynamics of diffusion Hazhir Rahmandad , John Sterman. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Vol. 5. No. 5. May 2008
When is it better to use agent-based (AB) models, and when should differential equation (DE) models be used? Whereas DE models assume homogeneity and perfect mixing within compartments, AB models can capture heterogeneity across individuals and in the network of interactions among them. AB models relax aggregation assumptions, but entail computational and cognitive costs that may limit sensitivity analysis and model scope. Because resources are limited, the costs and benefits of such disaggregation should guide the choice of models for policy analysis. Using contagious disease as an example, we contrast the dynamics of a stochastic AB model with those of the analogous deterministic compartment DE model. We examine the impact of individual heterogeneity and different network topologies, including fully connected, random, Watts-Strogatz small world, scale-free, and lattice networks. Obviously, deterministic models yield a single trajectory for each parameter set, while stochastic models yield a distribution of outcomes.» Mehr lesen
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Understanding retail productivity by simulating management practices Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chris W. Clegg. EUROSIM 2007, September 9-13, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The retail sector has been identified as one of the biggest contributors to the productivity gap that persists between the UK, Europe and the USA. It is well documented that measures of UK retail productivity rank lower than those of countries with comparably developed economies. Intuitively, it seems likely that management practices are linked to a company's productivity and performance. Significant research has been done to investigate the productivity gap and identify problems involved in estimating the size of the gap; for example the comparability of productivity indices, historical influences, general measurement issues, and varying sectoral contributions. Best practice guidelines have been developed and published, but there remains considerable inconsistency and uncertainty regarding how these are implemented and manifested at the level of the work place. Indeed, a recent report on UK productivity asserted that, "... the key to productivity remains what happens inside the firm and this is something of a 'black box'". Siebers and colleagues conducted a comprehensive literature review of this research area to assess linkages between management practices and firm level productivity. The authors concluded that management practices are multidimensional constructs that generally do not demonstrate a straightforward relationship with productivity variables. Empirical evidence affirms that management practices must be context specific to be effective, and in turn productivity indices must also reflect a particular organization's activities on a local level to be a valid indicator of performance» Mehr lesen


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