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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Lee County officials will not file charges in the case of a stillborn fetus with traces of cocaine in its system that was found in a freezer in January.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (http://bit.ly/VXJr2T ) reports that the state attorney's office said Thursday it's unclear who put the fetus in the freezer and no charges can be filed against an expectant mother for passing cocaine to an unborn child.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Smallwood was taken to the hospital, where she initially denied delivering a child. A search warrant led to the discovery of a third-trimester female fetus packed inside a garbage bag in a freezer in the home's garage.
The death was originally investigated as a homicide. But the medical examiner says the death was a natural stillbirth.
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Beautiful Lasers is my favorite song because I'm going through struggles right now I can relate to the song alot and everytime I hear the song I always remember, LOVE ALWAYS SHINES EVERYTIME REMEMBER 2 SMILE. Not only does that song get me through my struggles, but Lupe Fiasco does as well thats why he's my favorite rapper..
"Little Weapon" Because it teaches the ignorant people out there that there are horrible things happening in our world and inspire them to speak up and stop it. My favorite The cool is the best :)
"Words I Never Said" Because It Sends A Message To Everyone About Whats Going On In Our Government & Other Parts Of The World Including The War & We Should Know About These Things & Pushes People To Help Stop It If They Can I Really Like It, Its Very Good.
Hi-Definition is definitely a favorite of mine. The Cool album is great but that song is at the top. From Lasers I'm liking All Black Everything!
It's impossible to pick just one favorite Lupe song. In terms of Lasers, "Beautiful Lasers" has been most inspiring. The song has helped me get through a rough time and I have been workin on an illustrated version of the lyrics as a mini-book. Lupe is the realest.
Hard, but I'm gonna have to go with Fighters. Why? I feel like Lupe is tryna inspire us to do what we want. To do what we're capable of. We just need to stop limiting ourselves. And he shows that he empathizes. But Lupe did it. So we can too. Not only this, he's telling the other people in the game that it's more than the stereotypical topics that rappers choose to rap about. Do I rap? No, haha. But I can (and do) listen to this everyday feeling inspired. But I gotta say Miarichelleg, I feel the same way when I listen to Paris, Tokyo!!
"The Show Goes On" Because this song, hands down is the best song i have ever heard and tells you basically you can preserve through anything if you put your heart into to it.
"Dumb it Down" is unreal. Only Lupe would be able to pull this off. Don't dumb it down Lupe come hard and smart for Food and Liquor 2. There is no one in the rap game like you and no one is even close to your intelligence. Can't wait for it F&L2.
and he gets the girl- my favorite song for many years. it speaks to me like no other song ever had, and i almost exactly relate to it. it gave me hope as the weird black nerd i used to be, to be the cool black nerd that i am today =) FnF up
I want soooo bad! Lupe Fiaso is up there with my people who inspire me. My favorite song is Words I Never Said because it's raw and real. Lupe is the best rapper I have heard in my entire life. This song has a great beat and an amazing meaning in the lyrics. I showed this song to my family and they loved it! Wow, if I could get an autographed picture of Lupe that would probably make my life. :O
"The Show Goes On" - definately not my only favorite, but as a teacher on the westside of Chicago... I wish more people believed in these kids! ***Five in the air for the teachers not scared To tell those kids that's livin' in the ghetto That the niggas holdin' back that the world is theirs
ALL BLACK EVERYTHING. I love this song because everytime I listen to it, I close my eyes and I imagine the utopian society that Lupe was talking about in his fantasy. A very beautiful song. Can't wait till Food and Liquor 2. I'm A Laser, not a Loser
"The Cool" off of F&L. It embodies Lu's creativity and ingenuity. No other rapper is that damn creative. Where do you come up with something like that? And then you make a WHOLE ALBUM based on that ONE song?! DOPE. #Lasers for life.
Gotta love the musical setup to Letting Go [Ft. Sarah Green]. The verses show that Lupe is a master at flow and content, the varying synthetic tones satisfy several music cravings that many of us have had for a long time, and the chorus is amazingly chilling, if not spiritual. Tie it all together with the soulful crooning of a longtime FNF member and you got yourself a masterpiece full of WIN.
I love all of your songs, but since I gotta choose just one I choose Beautiful Lasers. I chose it because it's honest, heartfelt and powerful. And I can really relate to it, lately. LASERS! F&F UP! LUPEND!
Seriously. There are too many Lupe songs for anyone to just choose one. But in my opinion my favorite Lupe track would have to be Paris, Tokyo. Thatd be because one: I know all of the lyrics. And two: because when I listen to the song and to the lyrics, as lame as it may be, I feel as if Lupe's talking to me. As if Lupe's telling me that I'm his girl and that although we are apart everything will be okay and he's awaiting his homecoming to see me
Tough to say, but I'd pick "Daydreamin" off F&L. The instrumental is absolutely beautiful with the violins, chimes and symbols crashing. Jill Scott & company's vocals on the chorus take me to another level. Carrera Lu's lyrics paint an beautifully eerie portrait of "all the world's ills." The combination of such a gorgeous sound with the story telling make me want to hate everything Lu refers to and love it all at the same time. He very accurately makes me recognize the struggle people go through in choosing between "food" and "liquor" in the day-to-day. Funny thing is... this track feels equally appropriate on any of his three albums; it's got the darkness and imagery of The Cool and the thought-provoking punch of LASERS which just goes to show that it's a classic among classics.
1. His metaphors actually come true 2. Chilly Chill isn't in jail, he is actually trapped behind the bars Lupe spits 3. Before he records a song he turns on his Go Go Gadget Flow 4. He lives in Paris, Tokyo 5. The delay for Lasers wasn't over his beef with Atlantic, the executives were still figuring out The Cool 6. Kick, Push was played during the birth of someone's child. The delivery took 4 minutes. Flat. 7. Since The Show Goes On first played....it hasn't stopped. 8. We still hear the words he never said 9. He knows the answer to where forth has my glory gone? 10. He gets paid for his freestyles 11. All his albums have parental warnings, but they all simply say Super Lupe Lyrical 12. Lupe failed English in high school. This is known as the funniest joke known to man. 13. None of his puns are intended. He is just that awesome 14. Don't bother playing hide and seek with him because love always shines. That's how he'll find you. 15. Lupe can make orange and purple rhyme....together 16. Dylan says the best rapper ever is Lupe 17. Lupe could even do punk rock songs...oh wait that one's actually true
I just flew from Oregon to New Orleans to see your show at Jazz Fest ~ Loved the show and the short political speech ~ Favorite song would be State Run Radio simply because it is true ~ Hopefully people will start to wake up.
Now lupe why you gonna ask a question like that? Its such a difficult question; "Sunshine", "Kick Push", "Hello/Goodbye", "Fighters" they are all so good. However I do believe the song that has had the most influence to the world and the song that will hopefully change peoples views on things going on, the song I respect you most for, is "Words I Never Said" because you said things that no one has had the nerve. To step up and say. Mad respect for you creating that song.
"Coming From Where I'm From" from the first Fahrenheit 1/15 mixtape is one of my favorite songs of all-time. The third verse explains it all: "But its beautiful here It's nothing like the feeling when you do it from here You aint have to move a pack, you aint have to shoot a gat And you still took your momma and you moved her from here You aint dropped out and you figure the world out Can survive bout' anywhere learned how to do it in here " I don't think you have to be from the hood to know the feeling of pride and success that Lupe's talking about in this verse. Now that I'm in college these words remind me of why I'm working hard everyday. I'm trying to make life better for my family and I'm trying to do it the honest way.
Kick Push 1 and 2. Its like listening to a poet tell a story, i can see everything that is happening. I can vibe out to those two all day everyday.
One in the air for the people ain't here, Two in the air for the father that's there, Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto, Four for the kids that don't wanna be there, None for the niggas tryna hold them back, Five in the air for the teachers not scared to tell those kids that's livin' in the ghetto that the niggas holdin' back that the world is theirs
Today it's 'Coming Up' because it so empowering, especially to young girls the lyric 'not trying to make you hard to respect but really really hard to impress!' is what resonated with me. A young girls first hero should be her father and he should set the standard as to what a man is. These days any male seems to be able to put a 'bug' in a young girls head because they've never been validated by the right source
Daydreamin'... after seeing Lupe live for the first time at Webster Hall... this song was easily the craziest one out of the set. Maybe its the lights, maybe its the energy during this particular song, but the shit was crazy


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Sylvester 'Bump' Holt, 70, of Moore Drive, died Friday, June 14, 2013, at Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center.
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text: Well it's that time of year again ! I want to extend an invitation to all of you to attend the Knucklehead Reunion VIII at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee on July 10th. Knucklehead Comapny LTD is going all out to bring the chapter and verse of the Knuckleword to the universe ! We will be helping the Museum to observe their 2nd anniversary. This year the Boozefighters M/C will kickoff the weekend with a first hand account of the events at Hollister California on the July 4th weekend in 1947. Find out from the horses mouth what ACTUALLY happened at the famous AMA Gypsy Tour event. Not to be out done, Knucklehaed Company has arranged for Pete Hill to appear with his Worlds Fastest Knucklehead drag bike. Who knows, there might just be Nitro Thunder ? Our bike show featured close to 40 Knuckleheads last year. With your help we can boost the funding for Make-A-Wish with another maximum effort by antique bikers. We will have classes for American Antique bikes built before 1986 ( Iron Head Sportsters and earlier Ironcylindered bikes ) Make plans to attend.


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Before the world fell apart, I went to college, acquired good jobs and produced meaningful work. A lush life actually. Naturally, I didn't recognize this. But there were clues: I got up early to go to work, threw on my shoes, and jumped into my research. That was me in the Hanes commercial fixing my tights while men twisted their heads to look at me. Or, rather, that was a dream I had about my life. When I worked full-time.
A year ago, I didn't wonder who I was. I was a policy analyst imagining how incarcerated teenagers could get out of jail and stay out of trouble. I felt…what? Confident and periodically useful.
My life included friends who confided in me over chardonnay in my dining room; my son loved me despite his teenage angst; and my husband brought home flowers with some regularity. My house—ramshackle as it was, was filled with chairs that enveloped people. No matter that the sofas were worn and stitched in another color of thread. This was a house with room for mistakes. When my son (Max) was eight, his best friend Rasul broke my favorite ceramic bowl. "Don't worry," Max told him, " it's only a thing, not a person."
My dining room caressed good friends full of opinions and wisdoms, advice, and laughter. When bad things happened, we talked our way out of them. When things got complicated, I knew exactly what to do. I relied on foul language I borrowed from my mother.
"Fuck them," my mother would yell until the Puglia family closed their windows. I'm not my mother but sometimes I wish I could wear her rhinestone dresses and sing alto with a good Tom Collins nearby. I want her ferocity lately, and the bravura to survive when it matters.
Nowadays, I'm a woman who lusts after those shredded chairs. And broken zippers sewn tight up the side of my couch.
But that was yesterday and now I'm somebody I never met. I'm one of the millions of people in the world who are unemployed..
Two glasses of pinot noir later, my friend Val asks, "If I'm not a mother, and I don't work, who am I?" I have no bromide; Val is lovely, smart, kind, etc. but I am not sure any of these qualities matter any more. Indeed, who are we without work, without cash, without a place for our children?
It gets harder to decipher who I used to be and it's premature to imagine who I will become. I was what? A good mother? A decent wife? Hopefully. A colleague surely. Always a worker. Clean sheets, hard work and smooth floors. Incessant notes competed with each other on the front of the refrigerator. Monday this, Thursday that way too much too fast to accomplish. Except I did. Picked up my son on time. Grabbed food for supper, talked at conferences, wrestles with late night edits. And I enjoyed this.
That was me the day before I joined the 12.0% unemployed Californians who are jobless…or…underemployed and became one of the 5 million Americans who have been looking for work for six months or more.
The First Interview
My first interview was too important. It required a new look, a deliberate confidence, a Michael Kors dress (marked down three times.) I wore a jacket that resembled bat wings. So far, so good. My lips were enchanting in a soft pink. I listened carefully, had questions informed by my research. I shook hands firmly and sat up straight…except when I leaned forward to answer questions.
There was just one problem: I was a mess and quite nauseous. What is the correct protocol for nausea in a job interview? Tell them? Leave fast. Run out?
When the committee asked me if I had any questions, I emphatically said 'No.' I saw their weird looks as I left the room.
There was no follow-up correspondence. I was understandably embarrassed by who I had become, but in retrospect, it seemed normal after 6 months no offers I grew ashamed. Six months later, I was hopeless, but I know that I am not alone in my despair.
The long-term effects of unemployment have a power that few people grasp until it's them. The New York Times recently reported that long-term unemployment affects the lifelong health and well-beingof the jobless. Kate Strully, a professor at SUNY,found that people who lose their jobs are 83 % more likely to develop stress-induced conditions, such as diabetes, arthritis and depression. Till von Wachter, an economist at Columbia University, has even more ominous facts.Von Wachter looked at mortality rates and income records and concluded that death rates increased astronomically for the unemployed in the year they lost their jobs.
Don Peck, the feature editor for the Atlantic haswritten a book entitled Pinched. Peck describes the aftermath of being out of work for more than seven months. This is what he found: More than half of the respondents were withdrawing from their friends; marriages had become quite stressful, and 15% of the unemployed had acquired a substance abuse habit. "Being unemployed is about the worst think that can happen to you. Psychologically it's equivalent to the death of a spouse and is a kind of bereavement in its own right."
My Second Debacle
My second interview—via Skype—was terse. Can you write research they asked me? How well do you write? Describe your educational history. Upload samples of your work, as well as a vita and a cover letter affirming your interest in the firm. My cover letter was understandably short because the firm never told me what they did. In my second Skype interview, they explained the job.
The firm's goal was to write papers for college students who didn't want to. I was tempted because I like to write and pursue answers. Unfortunately, I was also disgusted. However, this was never mentioned. I was growing up; I was cynical by now. I was improving. They hired me. My gratitude had no bounds until the next day when I quit. Apparently, I still had some ethical remants.
Third Time Around
My best friend gave me a job writing grant proposals so I could launch my own firm. One of the grants I wrote resulted in $858,752 dollars. The second grant was short-listed. This should be the paragraph where I grab the moon and sail into some sunset with a job. And then, my realization: I'm an introvert who can be socially capable. But never a diehard extrovert who schmoozes, who remembers to carry a business card when get apples. I'm from Boston inside, and therefore mildly repressed.
After the Facts
Everything is too important to me now: the length of my black dress, the right shoes if I get an interview. In retrospect, I wonder was my bat-like sweater too avant-garde? What day of the week was I being interviewed?
So, what's a woman to do? Resort to social media, industry leads, join LinkedIn, swap phone numbers with everyone in the grocery store? Rent a seat at the Unemployment Bureau? Answer: All of the above.
The Job That Got Away
Good interview. Got the job: Exactly two states away from anyone I knew. And of course, what would I do with my husband? What to do with this beautiful warped luck? My prospective boss saw my value. Her kindness was palpable. I could restart a new life or rupture my marriage. I chose home.
And Now?
Fears erupt in the morning when whole days sit in front of me. Hard work feels so enviable.But really, I am just an ordinary worker dethroned from safety. Pushed down an economic notch; lost in America's broken promises. At least Paul Krugman understands. He doesn't "have the impression that Americans are spoiled; despair seems more like it."
At first, my best friends assured me that every skill set I owned would rise up and save me. After 100+ resumes and six months, I knew they were lying. This is what I did with their enthusiasm: stopped listening. Hummed like a child, my hands over my ears, rejecting whatever anyone said--as though their lies were the reasons why I had no work. Or rather, fragments of work.
Labor statistics confirm my pessimism. More than 14 million Americans are currently unemployed. In California, 12% are now unemployed. Nowadays, the Bureau's statisticians wonder how long will people keep looking for work. Ironically, the likelihood of becoming employed decreases the longer one is unemployed.
These facts assure me that I am not alone.
Aside from the brazen men and women on Wall Street, I don't think anyone meant to deliberately harm me. But, none of us could imagine what we never saw before: A moment as depressing and as ominous as the Great Depression.
Perhaps I followed America's script too scrupulously: Get an education. Buy a house. Invest in the market. Swap up for bigger, better, larger, huge. I bought a mortgage that smelled like secrecy. It was too good to be true for three years. And then I bought a car that worked. Yes, that was me in my air conditioned car beside you, feeling beneficent. Handing money to tired men who wanted to wash my windows. Unaware, I'd lose my job. I'm not in shock now, but I'm also not any safer.
This woman I thought I knew lies dormant, still hoping things will change. My mother-in-law Cynthia [who lived through the first Great Depression] comforts me this way, "We had nothing, and we knew it. But we had so little, we never lost so much. Whatever you do, don't internalize any of it."
I have one more story to share. When Max was four years old, we went to an amusement park with a fountain that spit water at us unexpectedly. We loved these surprises because we never knew when the fountain would catch us off-guard. Over time we ran toward the water to master what might happen next. But we never really knew really when the water would find us.


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As part of Beijing Design Week the "Hutopolis: city visions" is an exhibition that collects one year of research, experiments and events organized in Asia and Europe by the Hutopolis research program with the goal of creating feasible solutions for urban planning in China.
Soft and physical strategies, visions and ideas have been developed taking Beijing as case study Conceived as a collaborative network featuring a series of proposals from different backgrounds, the exhibition showcases strategies based on four sites in both historical and modern areas of the city.
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Now, doctors say he won't survive without a bone marrow transplant.
So, when we were asked to post this info to help find a donor, we jumped on it. Here's the important info we got from the release we were sent:
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition surprised the Jonah's family at their home in South Jordan yesterday with a complete home makeover—it will be big enough for all three family members with space for Jonah to practice soccer indoors when they weather's too extreme for him outside.
Team leader Ty Pennington and designers Xzibit, Paige Hemmis and Michael Moloney are in Daybreak working on it right now. Meanwhile, the Gomez family is enjoying a Disneyland vacation.
As for the bone marrow transplant, seven donor drives are being held on Saturday at Major League Soccer games across the country to find a match, including Real Salt Lake's game with Toronto FC.
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ZF-3022: Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector goto() PHP5.3 unexpected T_GOTO
I know PHP5.3 hasn't even entered RC stage, but I wanted to start using late static binding.
Certain keywords have been added to PHP5.3, for example goto.
Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector uses goto as a method name and so causes a parse error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_GOTO, expecting T_STRING"
I've attached a proposed patch to fix the problem.
It would still support backwards compatibility by using __call to catch any calls to the goto method, and then calls the new method gotoAction.
Please evaluate and categorize/assign as necessary.
Scheduling for next mini-release and assigning to Ralph.
Fixed in trunk in r 9838; merge commited to 1.5 release branch in 9839.
Updating for the 1.6.0 release.


text: Craig Werner discussed the story of music and the Vietnam experience. His talk drew from his current project, a book entitled We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music, Memory and the Vietnam War, co-authored with Doug Bradley. The book tells the story of music and the Vietnam experience through the music-based memories of scores of veterans. Werner is a Professor of English and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches literature, music and cultural history. He is the author of many books, including Higher Ground: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield and the Rise and Fall of American Soul; A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. He has written liner notes for re-releases of classic soul albums and contributed to numerous radio and television documentaries on topics ranging from the Harlem Renaissance to Motown. This talk was made possible by Case Western Reserve University.


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Chicken over Curly Noodles RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 3 packages (3 ounces each) chicken ramen noodles
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (5 ounces each)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 can (14 ounces) bean sprouts, drained
- In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, peanut butter, soy sauce and garlic; set aside. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine bread crumbs and contents of two noodle seasoning packets (discard the remaining packet or save for another use). Add chicken, one piece at a time, and shake to coat.
- In a large skillet, cook chicken in oil over medium heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 170°. Meanwhile, cook noodles according to package directions.
- Remove chicken and keep warm. Add peanut butter mixture to skillet; cook and stir until heated through. Drain noodles. Add noodles and bean sprouts to skillet; toss to coat. Serve with chicken. Yield: 4 servings.
Medium-Bodied White Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a medium-bodied white wine such as Riesling or Gewürtztraminer
Reviews for Chicken over Curly Noodles
"I love Thai sauces so this hit the spot. I did make chicken strips to coat the chicken better. Did use bean sprouts, but did add broccoli because family requested. They want me to add mushrooms next time. I did have to double the sauce as family likes saucy and not dry foods. To cut down on some of the sodium, I use low sodium soy sauce."
"I have made this recipe several times. excellent. I only use at most half of 1 ramen seasoning packet and omit the bean sprouts. Also I cube the chicken before I coat and cook it, then add to the noodles after there coated in the sauce so that it's all mixed together."
"ALSO, used sesame oil instead of olive, tossed in sesame seeds with noodles and did not use bean sprouts."
"To tone down the saltiness I anticipated from the soy sauce and seasoning, I added 1/4 cup half and half to the sauce and it turned out delicious! I also used fresh bread crumbs instead of dry...they seemed to absorb the ramen seasoning better and gave a beautiful, textured crust to the chicken. I also dipped the chicken in butter before tossing it in the bread crumbs. I added scallions to the noodles for a tangy bite and color. My husband and I both really liked this dish...a great way to use up chicken and ramen noodles!"
"I agree that the peanut butter was too much for the sauce. I didn't bread the chicken ... just S&P and sauteed it. My noodle sauce turned out too dry, so I would have added some chicken broth or water to it."


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ZF-8671: Signature is invalid for all requests that have space in any of the signed query parameters
Using Amazon_Ec2 Query API requests will fail with the follwing exception:
exception 'Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Exception' with message 'The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your AWS Secret Access Key and signing method. Consult the service documentation for details.'
If any of the signed parameters has space it in. This is due to usage of urlencode() instead of rawurlencode() when generating the string-to-sign, despite Amazon's explicit demand that spaces will be encoded as %20 (=rawurlencode()) and not as '+' (=urlencode()).
Patch against SVN rev. 19975 is attached.
Strange enough I ran into this problem myself a few days ago and fixed it but I havn't had time to post file a bug and submit the patch. This was done with r19977 (trunk) and r19978 (release branch)


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The Martian year that marked the initial dates for the Year of the Solar System is over, but the celebration will continue to offer ways for you to get involved with NASA's ground-breaking science discoveries through a transition to New Worlds, New Discoveries! New Worlds, New Discoveries provides an integrated picture of our new understanding of the solar system, combining the amazing discoveries of past NASA planetary missions with the most recent findings of ongoing missions, and connecting them to the related planetary science topics! Find topics, activities, and resources at http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/yss.
A quarterly newsletter, for educators and for the Planetary education community, is available at http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/yss/downloads.cfm. It includes updates about the Year of the Solar System's new phase, New Worlds, New Discoveries, as well as mission news, upcoming events, ways to get involved, and more!


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Drummer Thomas Delmar "Artimus" Pyle, who joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
Ronnie Van Zant, vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Ed King, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Steve Gaines, who replaced him in 1976, are born on the same day.
Gary Rossington, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Leon Wilkeson, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Newport, Rhode Island.
Billy Powell, pianist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Guitarist Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd is born in Jacksonville Florida.
Lynyrd Skynyrd records a full album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. It will remain unreleased until 1978, when it is issued (with some overdubbing) as Skynyrd's First and...Last.
Lynyrd Skynyrd records the classic "Free Bird" at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia, during sessions for its debut album, "pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd."
Lynyrd Skynyrd releases "pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd." It joins the Allman Brothers Bands' Brothers and Sisters, released the same month, in igniting the Southern-rock craze.
Lynyrd Skynyrd opens for the Who at San Francisco's Cow Palace. It is the first date on the Who's Quadrophenia tour, for which they're the opening act.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Second Helping is released.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's first Top Forty single, "Sweet Home Alabama," enters the charts, where it will peak at #8.
Drummer Artimus Pyle (who replaces Bob Burns) debuts with Lynyrd Skynyrd at a in Jacksonville, Florida.
"Free Bird," originally released on Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 debut album, makes its belated appearance in the Top Forty, where it will peak at #20.
Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Nuthin' Fancy, their third album - and the last one produced by Al Kooper, who'd discovered and signed them.
After a show in Pittsburgh, guitarist Ed King leaves Lynyrd Skynyrd in the middle of a raucous live outing dubbed the "Torture Tour." They finish the tour as a six-piece and replace King with Steve Gaines in 1976.
Lynyrd Skynyrd performs a three-night stand at Atlanta, Georgia's Fox Theatre. Highlights are culled for One More from the Road, a live double album released in September.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's fifth studio album, Street Survivors, is released. The cover shows the group engulfed in flames, and "That Smell" contains the line "The smell of death surrounds you."
Lynyrd Skynyrd's tour plane, Free Bird, crashes in a field near Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing group members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, as well as their road manager and two pilots. Twenty other passengers are taken to the hospital with various injuries.
"What's Your Name," by Lynyrd Skynyrd, enters the Top Forty three months after the plane crash that killed three group members. It will peak at #13.
Surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite for a one-off performance at Charlie Daniels' fifth annual Volunteer Jam.
The surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd - joined by guitarist Randall Hall and the late Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother Johnny - begin a tribute tour on the tenth anniversary of the plane crash that claimed three band members' lives.
Southern by the Grace of God, a double live album recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd on the previous year's tribute tour, is released.
Allen Collins, guitarist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 37 of pneumonia. He'd been confined to a wheelchair since an automobile accident in 1986.
Lynyrd Skynyrd kicks off a world tour on the heels of the reconstituted band's first studio album (Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991) in fourteen years. The first date is in Baton Rouge, where they were slated to play when their plane crashed in1977, thus completing a bit of unfinished business.
The plainly titled three-disc box set Lynyrd Skynyrd is released. It mixes hit songs and popular album tracks with rarities, live versions and demos.
Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Twenty on the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed three band members. The album inaugurates a long-term relationship with C&C International and its parent company, Sanctuary Records.
Leon Wilkeson, bass player and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies of natural causes at home in Jacksonville, Florida.
Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Vicious Cycle, their first studio album in five years, which comes forty years after their first album.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 21st annual induction dinner. Kid Rock is their presenter.


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Rx abuse
ELKHART — Indiana is putting an emphasis on prescription drug abuse with the recent launch of a new website (www.in.gov/bitter pill), but should people in Elkhart County be paying attention? Local experts — including health care providers and law enforcement officers — said recently that Elkhart County residents are struggling with prescription drug abuse.
A tremendous amount of death
John White, Elkhart County coroner, said Monday, Aug. 19, that he's seen a "tremendous amount" of deaths from prescription drug overdose in the past few years. He said the usual culprit in his death investigations is methadone, a synthetic opiate meant to treat long-term pain. He started noticing people dying from methadone abuse in 2008 and he said it's been a significant issue since then.
"From 2008, when we first starting noticing it, to 2012, we've had 36 deaths (due to methadone overdose)," White said.
Methadone is usually prescribed for chronic pain, said White, but "most of the people who we've found with this drug at a toxic level in their system did not have a prescription for it."
White thinks methadone is being abused over other prescription drugs because it is less expensive than another commonly abused painkiller, Vicodin.
He said a surviving family member in a local methadone death case said the person who overdosed thought they were taking methamphetamine. He believes that others might be getting methadone confused with methamphetamine, which is a stimulant.
"If people think they are taking a stimulant and they think it's not doing anything for them, they will take more," White said. This is a problem, he added, because methadone stays in the body for about 24 hours.
Drug-seeking behavior
Dr. P. Poovendran, medical director of IU Health Goshen hospital's pain clinic, said Tuesday, Aug. 20, that prescription drug abuse is "not an uncommon problem" in Elkhart County.
"We do have a significant population that have what we call drug-seeking behavior," Poovendran said.
All of the patients at the pain center are complaining of some type of pain, Poovendran explained. The problem is that it can be difficult for health care providers to distinguish between patients who are legitimately in pain and patients who are using medication for another reason.
"There is nothing to measure pain," Poovendran explained. "It's very difficult to prove (the patient) does not have pain."
Poovendran said that the pain clinic will rarely turn patients away who are asking for medicine to treat pain. Patients do agree to a contract saying they won't get the same medication from other health care providers or give the medication to somebody else. The pain clinic also does a urine test to ensure that patients are actually taking their medicine and to ensure they aren't taking other drugs.
Poovendran said that methadone may be more common in prescription drug overdose deaths because it is cheaper and more available than other drugs. But he added that while methadone may cause more deaths, "addicts who are living and walking" are more likely to be addicted to Vicodin.
Vicodin, he said, could be prescribed after an injury and it's used for short-term relief of pain.
People taking painkillers who aren't really in pain may experience a feeling of elation similar to the effect of alcohol, Poovendran said.
He said that the pain clinic works to refer prescription drug addicts to treatment centers in the area.
Impossible to say no
Dr. David Taylor, a psychiatrist at Elkhart General Hospital, said he's seen "quite a bit" of prescription drug abuse among his patients.
"Particularly, the abuse of prescription opiates (such as Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin) is going up," Taylor said Wednesday, Aug. 21. "That's risen at the same time that there's been a rise in the use of heroin. We are seeing more people abusing heroin and prescription narcotic abuse in the past five years."
Taylor said that heroin addicts may be using prescription drugs when they run out of heroin, or to deal with withdrawal symptoms.
"A lot of the people we see (abusing prescription drugs) are younger — late teens and college age," Taylor said. "This is a group where we probably weren't seeing much of (this problem) 10 years ago."
So why is prescription drug abuse becoming more common?
Taylor believes it's because doctors are handing out more prescriptions.
"There are more prescription drugs out there (now)," Taylor said. "They are more available."
Taylor said there are probably some genetic predispositions that make a person more likely to become dependent on a certain drug.
"If (the person) goes through their whole life and they are never exposed to these medicines, they may never have a problem with it," Taylor said. "But if you're 18 and you break your leg, and someone gives you a prescription ... it may make you feel better than you ever have before."
At that point, Taylor said, "It's very hard to say, 'I don't want any more of that.'"
Some people may not have a problem when they stop taking the drug," said Taylor. Others "may find it impossible to say no," he added.
A culture of pills
John Horsley is the director of addiction services at Oaklawn Psychiatric Center. He said Wednesday that he's seen more people die from prescription drug overdose in the last two years of his career than in the previous 16 years.
"Part of the problem is that there is so much medication out there and people leave it laying around," Horsley said. "We see a high number of people with prescription drug issues. It's a huge problem in Elkhart County."
He continued, "We see a lot of younger people (addicted to prescription drugs). It's something we are paying a lot of attention to at this point because of the prevalence of it."
Horsley said that he believes young people between the ages of 18 and 25 are abusing prescription drugs because they have been programmed to think they need medication.
"I think we've become a culture of pills," Horsley said. "Pharmaceutical companies are on TV all the time for this pill or that pill. I think this generation has been programmed to think, 'What pill can I take to solve this problem?' And that's a big issue."
At Oaklawn, Horsley said that addicts may go through treatment involving intensive therapy that can teach them what their "triggers" are and how to deal with them.
"Recovery is complex for people who do have pain, because they have to find another way to treat their pain," Horsley said. "The issue becomes, nothing is going to be as immediate as the drug. You're not going to just take a pill and get instant relief."
For people who don't have pain, the recovery process is similar to the recovery process for people addicted to illegal drugs, Horsley said.
Horsley also mentioned that it can be diffiicult for people abusing prescription drugs to admit that they have a problem. Since the pills came from a doctor, addicts may not see the harm in taking more and more of the medicine — even when they don't need it anymore, said Horsley.
"Sometimes (people) will come in and say, well, my doctor is prescribing this (medication)," Horsley said. "Then you look, and find out that five doctors are prescribing it."
He added that while Oaklawn does get walk-in patients, many are referred to treatment by a doctor, a judge or a family member.
Pharm parties
Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers said that his officers have seen "pharm parties" happening in Elkhart County.
A pharm party, according to Rogers, involves young people gathering an assortment of prescription drugs and taking them randomly to see what happens.
"This is usually used in conjunction with consuming alcohol and other drugs," Rogers said. "Many younger people also take prescriptions from their parents and grandparents, unknown to them because they only take one or two."
Pain pills such as OxyContin, said Rogers, have also been the target of store robbery or home invasion cases locally.
"Typically, cancer patients and those in serious pain have prescription drugs that seem to appeal to those that wish to abuse," Rogers said.
He added that the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department works with the Elkhart County Drug-Free partnership to give people a safe place to dispose of their prescription drugs when they are no longer needed. There is a drug return box located in the jail lobby. More drop box locations can be found at www.elkhartdrugfree.org.
How to get help
If you think you may be addicted to prescription drugs, here are a some local organizations where you can get help.
Addiction Recovery Center, 204 S. Main St., Elkhart: The Addiction Recovery Center offers individual and group therapy. Options range from a one-day education class to a 24-week intensive addiction program. There is no physician on staff, so treatment does not include medication or medical supervision. Fees can range from $20 to $50 per week. Addiction Recovery Center does not currently accept insurance. Call the center at 574-293-1086.
Center for Problem Resolution, 211 S. Fifth St., Elkhart: The Center for Problem Resolution offers outpatient services. Individuals seeking treatment will first complete an assessment to determine what kind of help is needed. There is an assessment fee of $40, then sessions of group therapy are $30 each. Sessions last for about two hours. There are two financial assistance programs available: Access to Recovery, which can pay up to half of treatment costs, and an Elkhart County Drug-Free grant. The grant is income-based and it can cover up to $900 of treatment. Call the Center for Problem Resolution at 574-294-7447.
YWCA: The YWCA offers inpatient and outpatient services for chemical dependency for women. Women are allowed to bring their children and child care is available. To qualify for services at YWCA, the person seeking help must complete an assessment over the phone with a case manager. Then qualified individuals are placed on waiting list. Women can join support groups and take life skills and empowerment classes. There are no fees except to pay for meals offered. YWCA also has a dual program that treats domestic violence and chemical dependency at the same time. Help for chemical dependency is only offered at the St. Joseph County location at 1102 S. Fellows Street, South Bend. Call the YWCA at 574-233-9491.
Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, 2600 Oakland Ave, Elkhart: Oaklawn offers outpatient treatment, including medication management services and family and individual counseling. Session length and intensity varies depending on the individual's needs. Before treatment starts, the person seeking help will be asked questions about their personal history, substance abuse, medical issues and personal goals. Oaklawn does accept insurance but will work with people without insurance coverage. Sliding fee scales and discounts based on income are available. Call Oaklawn at 574-533-1234.
Editor's note: Recovery Journey is a local organization that was not included in this list in an earlier version of this story due to reporter error.
Recovery Journey, 3110 Windsor Court, Elkhart: Recovery Journey offers two types of treatment for people struggling with substance abuse. Modified outpatient treatment takes place twice a week for eight weeks, with continued care. Intensive outpatient treatment takes place three times a week for eight weeks, also including continued care. Both treatment programs consist of group therapy.
Recovery Journey also offers education classes, relapse prevention groups, family programs, and individual counseling. A counselor on staff will assess a new patient to determine what type of treatment might be best for them.
The assessment fee is $35. Modified outpatient therapy is $40 per week and intensive outpatient therapy is $50 per week, including continued care. Recovery Journey does not work directly with insurance companies. However, the patient is provided with a statement and may chose to seek reimbursement from their insurance provider. Call the Recovery Journey at 574-264-5840.
To find more help with prescription drug abuse, including signs that you may be addicted, visit www.in.gov/bitterpill.


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Publishing/embeding a VyewBook to a blog/website
How to publish/embed VyewBooks for presentation outside of Vyew
There are two styles of embedding:
- Publishing a read-only version of your VyewBook
- Publishing a fully editable version of your VyewBook
Publishing a read-only version of your VyewBook
Some users choose to present their VyewBooks using their own website. By publishing a VyewBook, a read-only copy is made which can be viewed by anyone or embedded into a website.
- Open a VyewBook
- Select the Book drop-down menu. Then select the publish button.
- Adjust the height and width settings to your satisfaction. Then select Publish.
- You will now be presented with a new link to the VyewBook, and a snippet of HTML code which you can paste into your website, blog, myspace or facebook.
- Go back to the My Home tab. You will see your book has been _Published below the Vyew Book itself, in case you want to edit or delete it.
- When you select this link, Published Book Options will open up, the code provided can be used in any webpage to embed your Vyew book inside your pages.
Vyew Books can be unpublished by:
- Simply selecting the published book you wish to delete (see above), and hitting the Delete button.
Publishing a fully editable version of your VyewBook
You can also publish the fully editable version of your VyewBook into a website or blog.
- Find the full MeetingID of the VyewBook you wish to embed – Go into the VyewBook and you will see the meetingID at the end the title bar of your browser. It will look like this: (XXXX_XXXXXX), where X is a number.
- Paste this code into your website or blog:
<iframe src="http://vyew.com/latest/content/vyewmain.php?mid=XXXXX_XXXXXX" style="width:WIDTH_HERE; height:HEIGHT_HERE;"></iframe>
Replace the XXXX_XXXX with your MeetingID, and replace the WIDTH_HERE and HEIGHT_HERE with a pixel value or percentage value, such as:
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Cindy Clough, Just for Kix Executive Director & Brainerd (MN) High School Dance Coach, helped choreograph the halftime show at the 2011 Super Bowl! Clough has also directed and choreographed half-time performances at the Freedom Bowl, Hall of Fame Bowl, Orange Bowl, Citrus Bowl and Outback Bowl!
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Those two +1 calls were ****ed up...
Those two +1 calls were ****ed up...
Damn that was classic STAT
Pierce poked Melo in the eye.........no call............Boston refs smh
Nice pass Baron !!! Baron can go a bit wild sometime !!
Sometimes...I prefer our 2nd unit with Chandler....
I take back every bad thing I ever said about Girafferies. He is a GREAT TEAM PLAYER.
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To be fair, I am not the huge fan I once was, and I haven't watched many games, but I have lightly followed the team. I have a sense of what's going on, and I do still care to a point - they're still my favorite team...
And this weekend, Richard (the writer you see posting here often) and I got invited to come out and socialize with other web sites. I didn't partake of all activities that were going on due to some other activities I had personally, but I tried to get in on some things. And I wanted to share with fellow Dolphins fans a few hilights.
- Joe Philben gave a brief talk and answered some questions. I like his approach, and I can see why players respond to him. But as a fan, I wasn't too impressed. He didn't wow me, and didn't "command the room" the way other coaches have. He did make a comment about the team being disciplined and playing well - except for a 5 minute stretch in Houston. Well, that, and the entire game today.
- We had a chance to preview the 1972 video that is now available. Its pretty good, and I enjoyed it.
- Jeff Ireland made fun of himself. He talked about all the negative stuff that has gone on around him and how he *was* the most maligned man and today people like him. For now.
- Mike Dee expressed the Dolphins desire to improve the fan experience, and to make the team more accessible and interesting. (there's still a little matter of just who might pay for stadium improvements, but I'll leave that alone)
- I had a chance to catch up with some of the other Dolphins site owners. These guys are great, and kind of like an extended family. And it occurred to us that there are three of us who have been to all 9 web weekends (hard to believe its 9!). Me, Igor (Dolfans NYC), and Dave (The Dolphins Make Me Cry) are the stalwarts. Its kind of like the reporters who have made it to every superbowl. :)
- The game SUCKED. The Dolphins were terrible. But, I can tell you that they are at least making an effort to make the fan experience more compelling. The sideline club is cool. Some of the fan things they do are interesting, and make for what appears to be a better experience - at least the Dolphins are trying!
- I had a chance to talk with a ticketing guy. We exchanged a few thoughts about why ticket sales are down - certainly mediocrity over the last decade (except for one year there they made the playoffs), the tight-lipped nature of the team for the last little while, the unfortunate scheduling of not-quite-marquee opponents, and the overall cost are factors. My thought was that the relative cost of taking a family to a game is several hundred dollars, and in a down economy people don't want to spend that - and when the team is playing poorly that's an even tougher sell.
So it was a nice time. And my thanks to the Fins for getting us involved. You may see some additional posts about it, or some ways to get other fans engaged and involved. So stay tuned.


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DELAND, Fla. (April 1, 2007) - Fans can listen to all the action of ETSU's two critical conference softball games Sunday afternoon, courtesy of Stetson University, by visiting www.gohatters.com. First pitch of the doubleheader is slated for 12 p.m.
ETSU (16-18, 3-1) has won three of its first four conference games, and holds a one-game lead over Stetson for second-place in the Atlantic Sun standings. Sophomore Mary Catherine Vercoe (Signal Mountain, Tenn.) is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA (3 ER/14.0 IP) in her two starts against conference foes, while freshman slugger Katie Jett (Talbot, Tenn.) is hitting .500 (13-26) with four doubles, three home runs and 10 RBI in her last eight games.
Please click on the link above to purchase live audio of ETSU versus Stetson, or go to www.gohatters.com.


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She plays an interfering mom in Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (December 7): "I relate to how frazzled she is, but I don't try to be as instrumental in my own two daughters' fates."
She starts in a third season of Downton Abbey (January 6): "My character, Lady Cora Crawley, works the system very subtly. What I like about her is that she represents an old-fashioned feminine ideal."
Digging in: "Once I set my mind to something, there's no taking no for an answer. I've always been steely about my work and fought hard for my roles. I knew I wanted to be part of Downton Abbey before I even read the script. I had seen films that [series creator] Julian Fellowes had worked on, and I knew he was a talent to be reckoned with."
Downton developments: "This season Shirley MacLaine plays my mother, and she is so engaging and fun that everyone was truly thrilled to have her there. Acting with Shirley helped me see what a long way my character had come in terms of indoctrinating herself into the aristocratic way, because Cora clearly does not come from that world herself. Shirley is only in the first two episodes, but when I think of working with her, I break into a smile. We all loved her so much."
Second skin: "Seven years ago, I started a band that I named Sadie and the Hotheads, and we're really getting good now. I sing and play the guitar and write the songs. I named myself Sadie because I wanted to create an alter ego totally different from myself. Sadie has a lot of confidence, grabbing a microphone, jumping onstage and just singing. That's not me. But it's fun being her."
Life abroad: "I'm American, but my husband [British producer-director Simon Curtis] had a job with the BBC when I got pregnant with our first child, and it seemed pragmatic to live in England. I knew that I'd have some rainy, gray London days to deal with, but what I longed for most was a good cup of coffee. Someone heard my prayers, because now there must be three Starbucks on every block!"
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The central panel measures 1" in diameter.
The smaller panels measure 3/4" in diameter.
The bracelet measures approximately 7" from end to end, and it weighs 40 grams.
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The Park City Police Department last week handled numerous cases involving drunkenness, partying or crowds, apparently the result of St. Patrick's Day falling on what was anticipated to be a busy ski weekend as well.
Police officers handled calls along Main Street and elsewhere in Park City. Some of them were reported as intoxication while others were classified as disorderly conduct.
Some of the cases reported last week included:
The Police Department, meanwhile, indicated it intervened in cases when nightclubs were playing music that could be heard outside. On Saturday, March 16 at 11:18 p.m., an officer warned a nightclub on the 400 block of Main Street to turn off the outside music. The day before, on Friday, March 15, the sound from an outdoor speaker on the 300 block of Main Street, was too loud, the police said. The sound was turned down and the establishment was informed of City Hall rules regulating outdoor speakers. The case was logged at 11:34 p.m.


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In the spirit of open-source, we would like to share how we handled the talk selection process for PGConf US 2015. This post will discuss the entire process of how a talk ends up in one of our United States PostgreSQL Association conferences; our goal is to help you understand what our conference is looking for in talk proposals and help you decide what you submit for PGConf US 2016!
In the past conferences we organized in New York, we had to do a lot of direct outreach in order to attract speakers, to the point where we would have just enough talks to put on a program. This changed this year; while we did do some direct outreach, we were able to rely more on prior attendee / speaker experience, referrals from the PostgreSQL community, and our marketing efforts, which lead to 107 talk submissions!
At first, we were planning to do 3 conference tracks across 2 days, for a total of 32 speaking slots. After Jim & myself did a first pass on the talks, we decided that the overall quality of the submissions warranted us adding either another day to the speaking sessions, or another track. Because of our contract with the hotel and the fact that we know people already booked their travel, we opted to add a 4th track, and expand to 44 speaking slots.
We assembled a committee with the understanding that it works similar to an operating committee of a business: committee members were given the option to say "Yes" or "No" to talks and provide feedback as to their reasoning. However, Jim & I ultimately make the final decision on all of the talks. Overall, most of the talk selections were in-line with the committee consensus, but there were some exceptions which I will discuss later.
We chose the committee members based on their history with the PostgreSQL, experience in technology, and industry they are representing.
For our part, Jim comes from the enterprise consulting world and has seen PostgreSQL deployed in many different configurations. I consider myself on the app development / startup side of the equation, thus I try to consider talks from that perspective.
Two quick interjections:
When it came to reviewing the talks, we gave the committee very general guidelines, and this was on purpose: We wanted everyone to bring their unique perspectives and analysis to the reviews. However, there were some central preferences that came out of the review process, which were:
There were some cases where Jim & myself reached out to talk submitters to clarify points in the proposals, request changes, or make suggestions. We were pleasantly surprised and glad that everyone we reached out to got back to us almost immediately!
After the group reviews process, there were about 63 talks that met with favorable opinion, and about 55 that were universally favored. This of course makes ita challenge when you only have 44 slots to select, thus we had to make some tough decisions. When it came to make the final cutdown, we considered a few things:
Even with this criteria, on the day we notified speakers, we were still left with 12 talks for 4 slots to fill. In a perfect world, we would have chosen all 12 of those talks, and we had to make some tough choices. There were some talks that the entire group universally voted "Yes" on that we ended up turning down, usually for one of these reasons:
Looking towards PGConf US 2016, we are planning on adding a 3rd day of talks, which will mean we will have anywhere from 48 to 68 slots available based on the number of talk submissions and/or the number of concurrent tracks we want to run. We may consider adding a "PostgreSQL Hackers" track to have some more abstract, forward-looking concepts, though the criteria of having a real-world application will still apply to those talks.
If you have any questions, comments, thoughts, or whatever, you can reach out to us at email@example.com
President Obama recently signed Executive Order: #13685 [1] , in short this Order states:
(a) The following are prohibited:
(i) new investment in the Crimea region of Ukraine by a United States person, wherever located;
(ii) the importation into the United States, directly or indirectly, of any goods, services, or technology from the Crimea region of Ukraine;
(iii) the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, services, or technology to the Crimea region of Ukraine;
(iv) any approval, financing, facilitation, or guarantee by a United States person, wherever located, of a transaction by a foreign person where the transaction by that foreign person would be prohibited by this section if performed by a United States person or within the United States.
I spoke with an attorney about this because it directly affects my other interests. The attorney was apprised of the following:
* PGDG (PostgreSQL Global Development Group) is not a corporate or legal entity
* There are tangibly connected non-profits (SPI, postgresql.us, postgresql.eu etc…)
* That we are an Open Source community
* A detailed description of how Open Source and specifically the PostgreSQL community operates
There were multiple scenarios presented (the non-profits under their current methods of doing business are fine) but there "could" be a problem in the following scenario:
I brought the specific example to the attorney because it is the most likely and even though there are other anomalies, this order currently has:
* No guidance from OFAC [2]
* The liability would fall personally on the committer
United States PostgreSQL is not offering legal advice but we are suggesting that if you are a United States based committer, you might want to consult your attorney about the implications of this Order.
It is "my" opinion that it is not likely that the justice department will be knocking on your door for committing a patch for a Crimean contributor, but I am not an attorney and stranger things have happened.
1. http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/ukr...
2. http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offices/Pages/Off...
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A couple of weeks ago I spoke at Bellingham Linux User Group with a talk entitled: An Evening with PostgreSQL. It was an enlightening talk for me because it was the first time, in a long time, that I have spoke to a non-postgresql community. Most of the people in attendance were Linux Users of course but also a few Mongo as well as MySQL users. I was asked questions such as, "Why would I use PostgreSQL over MySQL?". To be honest, I didn't even realize that was still a question but it opens up a huge advocacy opportunity.
PostgreSQL as a community is growing so fast that it seems we forget that there is a whole legacy community out there that is perfectly happy with inferior product. That community is probably our most significant pool of growth available. It is all about the education! I did receive good remarks on the talk and I hope to speak there again. I encourage the rest of our community to start reaching out to communities that we may be neglecting.
The other opportunity that was presented while at BLUG was LinuxFest Northwest. Apparently, BLUG and LFNW are operated by the same community and non-profit. I attended the organizational meeting for LFNW the next week and PgUS has secured a full PostgreSQL track at LFNW. This will be at least one full day (possibly two) PostgreSQL talks held in April after PgConf.US. It is the perfect time for those to get in one last conference before the summer hits and we are all too busy hitting the mountains or "insert recreational activity here". Lastly, the PgUS board has decided to Gold Sponsor this event. It is a reasonably large event (1500 people) and should provide some great exposure for our community.
Lastly, PgUS has also voted to submit a request for designs from 99designs.com. This is in an effort to get a modern website design in place to help further our cause!
The slides can be found here:
Seriously, you should. You should submit a talk proposal to PGConf US 2015 – the worst thing that will happen is the talk committee will say "no" and offer a bunch of reasons to help you get your talk approved next year! Believe it or not, speaking at a PostgreSQL conference is a great way to help the community at large, and I hope this personal story I am going to share will shed some light as to why.
[Note: I like to keep things concise, but I wanted to share as much of the story as possible, so if you have a short attention span you may not read the full post, but you will miss out.]
I never took a database class in high school or college (though I took plenty of computer science and math), yet I always loved using databases for my miscellaneous web and research projects, particularly PostgreSQL. I knew it was an open source project, I knew there was a community that supported it, but being young(er) and naïve, I did not know the extent I could participate in such a community.
Once upon a time, I helped manage content at a calculator enthusiast website (did I just tip my hand at how nerdy I am?) called "ticalc.org," which was founded and run by an even bigger nerd than me, Magnus Hagander. Magnus, now on the core PostgreSQL team, was quickly inundated with questions about my web development projects and guided me towards using PostgreSQL.
Fast-forward to where I am about a year out of college and using PostgreSQL professionally (or at least claiming it was professional) in all my projects. Magnus, along with others from the PostgreSQL.EU community, were running a PostgreSQL conference in Paris, and for reasons that I'm still unsure of, Magnus encouraged me to submit a talk. I had been using ORMs to interact with my PostgreSQL databases and thought "why not talk about my experience?" The talk, to my surprise, was accepted.
I arrived, very excitedly, in Paris to speak at my first professional conference, but still felt unsure of why I was there. At the outset, the only person I know is Magnus, but quickly I start to meet a lot of longtime PostgreSQL supporters. Through my first day of conversations, I realized a few of things:
My talk was far from perfect (e.g. I mispronounced "PostgreSQL"), but it went well enough. I received a lot of constructive feedback on my thoughts and ideas, learned a lot more about PostgreSQL, and, much to my surprise, people there wanted to listen to me to help improve my PostgreSQL experience!
And the warmth, support, and desire to get better as a community was not a one-experience. At the next EU conference in Stuttgart, I remember being asked by Dave Page, one of the organizers and a PostgreSQL core member and someone who I hardly knew at time, for feedback on the keynote and conference overall. I thought to myself "Wow, they really do care!" I gave a talk on the new PostgreSQL 9.0 release and only received one question from the end: it was from Heikki Linnakangas, who worked on some of the key components for streaming replication, who asked (slightly paraphrased) "You're using streaming replication in production? Cool! How is it working? Is it having any issues? Anything I can help with?"
Could I have made these realizations and connections in the PostgreSQL community without speaking at a conference? Sure, but speaking allowed a few things that may not have happened otherwise:
I know public speaking is tough for people, but like any skill, it becomes easier with more experience. I still make lots of mistakes in my talks, both technical and with delivery, but I learn from them, and the PostgreSQL community is very supportive of doing so. And quite frankly, we will be with you too.
At PGConf US 2015, you have the opportunity to join the PostgreSQL community at one of, if not the, largest PostgreSQL events in the world – your own 50-minute forum to present an idea, teach us how you do something, inspire the community to approach a problem in a different way.
We succeed as a community if we can share our knowledge and grow, and to do that, we need new people to share new ideas.
All that remains to be said is: where is your talk submission?
In an effort to utilize infrastructure that is far more capable than what we can as volunteers provide, PgUS has moved to Google Apps. As a 501c3 we are offered a host of benefits that will help us grow the organization as well as increase collaboration and communication among the board and corporation members. We expect to be performing technical and advocacy hangouts often, as well as configuring a PgUS YouTube channel to put forth video resources for those wanting to know and learn more about PostgreSQL.
Look for more news in the future. It is exciting times!
As United States PostgreSQL continues its support for PostgreSQL User Groups it is my pleasure to announce that the Dallas/Forth Worth PostgreSQL User Group has decided to become part of the PgUS family. The resolution passed with 100% consent and it is great to see them on board. You may visit the resolution here:
It is exciting times, currently the first (NYC) and third (Philly) largest user groups are also affiliated with PgUS. Let's see if Dallas/Forth Worth can take them on! Watch in the near future for other great news from PgUS. We have a lot going on and are excited to share!
It has been a little quiet on the U.S. front of late. Alas, summer of 2014 has come and gone and it is time to strap on the gators and get a little muddy. Although we have been relatively quiet we have been doing some work. In 2013 the board appointed two new board members, Jonathan S. Katz and Jim Mlodgeski. We also affiliated with multiple PostgreSQL User Groups:
Through the affiliation the PUG receives non-profit status, their own bank account and the ability to accept non-profit donations specifically for their PUG. In 2014, NYCPUG did just that to become the largest donation source for United States PostgreSQL by holding PostgreSQL NYCConf, which is the largest PostgreSQL Conference in the United States. PDXPUG also had a PgDay this past month.
We have held elections for the board through the term of 2015 - 2017. Those seats take effect in March of 2015, the winners of those seats are:
The staggered terms are to insure that at no point are we replacing the entire board. As a part of the election and slight reorganizing to insure proper alignment with our By-Laws, Greg Sabino Mullane and Bruce Momjian have stepped down. We wish them all the best in their future community efforts and thank them for all their years of service.
The board is currently discussing several goals to meet by the end of the year, look for more announcements here!
When the New York City PostgreSQL User Group (NYCPUG) launched the campaign to create PGDay NYC (now PGConf NYC) back in 2012, our goal was to create a multi-day community PostgreSQL conference in New York City. However, we knew that we had to start small with a one-day two track conference, and even with that, we had many obstacles to overcome: timing, logistics, and of course, securing funding to pay for the event. We were very fortunate that we had fantastic sponsors for our inaugural event, but we faced a simple yet daunting problem: where would we actually collect the money for the conference?
Because NYCPUG was not an official nonprofit organization in 2012, we were unable to open a bank account to collect funds for PGDay NYC 2012. We relied on the money collection in two ways: informing our sponsors to send checks directly to the venue, or collect the money through one of our organizations and have it count against our corporate and personal taxes.
Neither of these methods were ideal. Though paying the venue directly might work in ideal circumstances, we ended up in a prolonged billing dispute with the venue after the event where they owed us more money than they claimed. Additionally, to lower the tax liabilities on our end, we tried to spend all of the money that was raised, which did not allow us to save any money for PGDay NYC 2013.
However, we received a major lifeline in 2013. The United Statues PostgreSQL Association (PG.US) approached us with a unique solution: we could register NYCPUG as a subsidiary of PG.US, which would give NYCPUG nonprofit 501(c)(3) status and its own bank account.
This immediately provided a lot of benefits for organizing PGDay NYC 2013. First and foremost, we saved money from the venue expenses because we did not have to pay tax due to nonprofit status – this meant we had capital that could be invested in enhancing the experience of the conference. The savings enabled us to have the conference at a better, more professional venue, which for PGDay NYC 2013 was in Liberty Hall the ACE Hotel in New York. We could also consolidate the funds for PGDay NYC 2013 in one place – this made it much easier to pay bills and handle the accounting on our end, which in turn made it easier for sponsors and vendors to work with us.
Perhaps most importantly, we were able to carry over our proceeds from PGDay NYC 2013 to use for the 2014 conference. This allowed us to expand our conference from 1 to 2 days (hence we became "PGConf NYC") and to accommodate more speakers and attendees in a larger venue, which for PGConf NYC 2014 is the New York Marriott Downtown.
Without the administrative support of PG.US, we may not have been able to create this amazing event in NYC on the same level and scale. While not all PostgreSQL community events will be the same size as PGConf NYC, I hope that by sharing our learning experiences that the rest of the advocacy community can utilize our model and help to effectively teach good PostgreSQL practices.
Can PG.US help your local user group? Reach out to PG.US or send me an email at email@example.com and let us know how we can help!
When we restarted the New York City PostgreSQL User Group (NYCPUG) in April 2010, about 15 of us gathered in a conference room that we had rented near Penn Station and talked about what we wanted to get out of the user group. At the time, we had about 40 people on the mailing list and absolutely no momentum behind our user group.
Fast-forward to January 2014, NYCPUG is now the largest PostgreSQL User Group in the United States with almost 850 people (and growing) on the mailing list and a monthly attendance that averages around 50.
There are many factors that made this growth possible, including the rising popularity of PostgreSQL usage and being in a metropolitan area with over 23 million people; this does provide us with a large addressable audience. However, because we compete for the peoples' attention with in a city littered with large tech meetup groups, we sometimes need to provide some incentives to make sure we have both attendees and speakers present.
Because our monthly meetups usually start at 6:30pm, we try to offer food (pizza) and beverages (soda, beer) so our attendees do not worry about being hungry. Sometimes, our meetup hosts have graciously provide food, and other times where we, as the organizers, pick up the tab.
By partnering with the United States PostgreSQL Association (PG.US), NYCPUG was able to easily acquire nonprofit (501(c)(3)) status and also have some money allocated in the overall PG.US budget towards our monthly expenses. Additionally, PG.US can help us sponsor speakers to fly to New York to present at one of our meetups!
With PG.US as a launching pad, we have been able to successfully raise money for NYCPUG during the year through the annual PGConf NYC user-focused PostgreSQL conference. Even if we did not have the conference, we have enough active members who would be willing to provide a tax-deductible donation to NYCPUG to ensure we could offer the high-level of educational programming (and I don't mean code!) that has come to be expected of NYCPUG.
Does your local PostgreSQL User Group (PUG) need a funding boost? Would you like to enjoy similar benefits to NYCPUG? Reach out to PG.US or send me an email at email@example.com so we can help your PUG get the resources it needs to grow and thrive!
Michael Brewer wrote:
Greetings, all! Several things to report to the community:
- I am pleased to announce that Mark Wong was appointed to the board earlier this summer and has accepted the role of Treasurer of the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS). Congratulations, Mark!
- PgUS has increased its focus in providing more support for local user groups and conferences; just in the past few months, we have provided financial support to BarcampCHS in Charleston, SC and co-sponsored PG Day 2011 in Denver, CO. This is an exciting way for us to help the Postgres community at the local level; please contact the PgUS board if you have an event for which you could use our assistance.
- To assist this focus (and to make membership more like SPI), PgUS has changed its membership policies to make them simpler and more community orientated. We have reduced the membership fees to $25 per year (professional) or $10 per year (student), and these fees may be waived by application to the PgUS membership committee by showing PostgreSQL community participation (coding, user groups, doc review, moderation, staffing booths, etc.).


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March 12, 2013
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Finalists named in student safety video contest
Top videos posted on YouTube
(Salem) – Safety is brought to life through song, humor, and creative storytelling (and close calls on the job) in the Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition (O[yes]) video contest. The top eight finalist videos are now posted on YouTube for viewing (click on 2013 video submissions):
The finalists are:
"Be Alert on the Job" – Hermiston High School
The top three entries will take home cash prizes ranging from $300 to $500 and will earn a matching amount for their school. O[yes] hosts this annual contest, which is sponsored by Oregon OSHA, SAIF Corporation, local Oregon chapters of the American Society of Safety Engineers, the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET), the SHARP Alliance, Liberty Northwest, the Central Oregon Safety and Health Association, the Greater Portland Construction Partnership, Oregon Health Authority, and Hoffman Construction.
The contest, open to all high school students in Oregon, is designed to increase awareness about safety on the job for young people with the theme of "Speak Up. Work Safe." Students were advised to create a 90-second video based on the concept of speaking up about potential workplace hazards. The videos were judged on creativity, originality, youth appeal, production quality, and message.
Contest winners will be unveiled at a Saturday, April 27, 2013, screening event at Northern Lights Theatre in Salem starting at 1:30 p.m.
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Want to get ahead in the corporate world? Leave the stand-up routine at home.
So says one recent U.K. study that finds jokes and witty banter made by men in the boardroom were nearly always met with laughs, but for women, a little humor (usually the self-deprecating kind) was met with silence 80 percent of the time, undermining performance, London's Guardian reports. Ouch.
"My research has shown that male managers use humor to demonstrate and display their leadership of a team," Dr. Judith Baxter, researcher and linguistics pro, tells the newspaper. "Their male subordinates will also use 'display' humor to impress a male boss, because it shows they are on the same wavelength . . . When women managers use humor, it can misfire. This is partly because it is less culturally acceptable for women to use humor and partly because women haven't traditionally been part of the leadership tribe. It is not that women are less funny: They tend to use humor differently."
Baxter tells the Guardian women are more comfortable using humor at work with a pal rather than as a management tool.
"What should senior women do about it?" she tells the newspaper. "They should learn to develop the running gag or light, teasing banter with male and female colleagues at appropriate moments, such as the beginning and ends of meetings, passing in the corridor or while making a cup of tea."
And watching some Kristen Wiig YouTube videos couldn't hurt, either.
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If you follow the Ritter Sport page on Facebook, every month or so they hold a contest for a giveaway. I was lucky enough to win one a bit ago, and I was sent this adorable little goodie bag in the mail. How nice! It came wit ha tote bag, a lanyard, and Ritter Sport chocolate bars. It was a lot nicer than I expected, and I now have a great new bag for my work lunches and sweet for my coffee in the morning. I had reviewed all the flavors that came in this gift set, except Ritter Sport Almond, so I'll take the opportunity to do that now.
The almond bar comes in a beautiful hunter green package. Some almonds tumble down on the package front, with the description of "with almonds frown in the California sunshine". Almonds are California's largest export, you know! The bar smells sweet and nutty. I get notes of cream and caramel with a hint of amaretto.
The squares break off nicely despite the large pieces of almonds in here. The chocolate is creamy and smooth and the almonds are fresh and crunchy. A really nice combination. The milk chocolate is sweet with nice notes of cream, caramel and cocoa. But don't' let the chocolate kid you, as the almonds are the real star here. They're fresh and crunchy wit ha wonderful nutty flavor. It's delicious in its simplicity.
So whether you win free chocolate from Ritter (follow them on Facebook if you want to try for that opportunity) or if you buy it in stores, you really can't go wrong. I'm continually impressed with their chocolate and the flavors are always tasty. I highly recommend ll their chocolate bars, and am super excited for the new flavors I hear will be released later this year.
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The president of Japan's Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) visited UH Mānoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), or more specifically the school's International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) from April 16-18. Dr. Asahiko Taira's visit coincided with SOEST's 25th anniversary celebrations.
JAMSTEC has funded IPRC for the last 17 years for a total of more than $40 million, and has just signed another multi-year cooperative agreement that extends through at least March 2017. This new agreement will continue JAMSTEC funding of collaborative research with IPRC. Our deepest gratitude to Dr. Taira and JAMSTEC for their continued interest in IPRC and SOEST.


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ZF-4139: Zend_Loader::autoload() generates warnings instead of returning false without any output.
The following code
require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Produces output:
{panel} Warning: Zend_Loader::include_once(Zend/FooBar/Magic/Abstract.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framework/branches/release-1.6/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 83
Warning: Zend_Loader::include_once(): Failed opening 'Zend/FooBar/Magic/Abstract.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framework/branches/release-1.6/library/:/home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framework/branches/release-1.6/incubator/library/:/home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framework/branches/release-1.6/tests/:/home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framework/branches/release-1.6/incubator/tests/:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framework/branches/release-1.6/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 83 {panel}
It's not actualy Zend_Loader problem, but some another which was masked by [ZF-4002].
Once [ZF-4002] was resolved it problem appears.
It also produces the following output: {panel} Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Zend_Service_Technorati_Author::__construct() must be an instance of DOMElement, string given in /home/cawa/ZendFramework/svn/framewo rk/branches/release-1.6/library/Zend/Service/Technorati/Author.php on line 95 {panel}
And breaks Unit tests execution
The problem is actualy caused by PHPUnit patch applied earlie.
Patch affected set_error_handler() behavior for PHPUnit system. Sebastian Bergmann had a comment, that PHPUnit code was actually correct, but PHP had a documentation bug in a set_error_handler() description.
That's really so. The problem we had at that time was actually caused by [ZF-4002] issue. Patched PHPUnit produced output and behaviour mentionet above when [ZF-4002] was fixed.
Unit tests had passed correctly just after PHPUnit environment fix.
Nevertheless, several places, which need set_error_handler() processing improvement, were found while researching this issue. So it's still opened.
Updating for the 1.6.0 release.


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TEMPE, Ariz. -
Make your plans to be a part of the 26th annual Arizona State Baseball Banquet. Fill out the above PDF form to secure your reservations for the June 1 event at the Fiesta Inn Resort in Tempe.
The program gets underway at 6:30 pm with an autograph session with the 2010 Sun Devils and a silent auction.