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About Your Recovery
Once your surgery is over, there's only one thing you need to do: start getting back to your life. Here's what you might expect as you recover, from the first day through the first few weeks.
When You Wake Up
When you wake up after surgery you may still have the IV in your arm to give you fluids and pain medication. You may have small bandages over your incisions. As you become more awake, you'll be given something to drink and eat (don't get excited – it's not a meal), and the staff will get you up to walk around a little.
When You Can Go Home
In addition to eating, drinking and being steady on your feet, you'll have to be able to urinate before you can go home. And you'll only be released if you have a responsible adult to drive you. You may also need to have someone staying with you for the first night. It's a good idea to have someone stay with you for the first several days if possible, so you can ease back into activity.
Before You Leave
Before you leave, someone will go over your discharge instructions with you. These include what to expect over the first few days, how to care for your incision(s), a list of symptoms or warning signs, and a number to call if you notice any of them or have questions. You'll be pretty groggy from the anesthesia, so give this packet of information to the person taking you home or staying with you. Decide before surgery where you'll put it so you can find it if you need it.
Pain Medication
If you're given a prescription for pain medication prior to the day of surgery, fill it, even if you don't think you'll need it. If you're given a prescription the day of surgery, have someone fill it for you. Some people find an over-the-counter pain reliever is all they need, but make sure to ask your doctor which medications are OK to use after surgery, as some can increase the chances of bleeding.
At Home
Plan to rest for the first few days after surgery. You probably won't need much encouragement; you'll be pretty tired. Have a pillow handy to put over your abdomen for support in case you cough, sneeze, or vomit (which can be a side effect of anesthesia). Your incision(s) may be sore for two or three days and may be swollen, bruised, tender, or numb. It's all normal and should go away within a few weeks. But if you have any concerns or questions, call the number you got from the hospital or your doctor. There are no stupid questions.
Feeling Tired
You can expect to tire more easily during the first week or two, but you'll notice improvement pretty quickly. Pay attention to how you feel, and ease back into your normal routine. If you need to work a shorter day, do it. You won't be productive at work if you're over-tired anyway. Depending on your occupation, full recovery may take anywhere from one to six weeks.
First Weeks Dos and Don'ts
There's a general principle behind what you can and can't do as you recover:
You want to prevent infection, enhance healing, and avoid brisk coughing and weight gain.
Now the specifics will make sense:
- Showering: Depending upon the type of repair you had, you may be able to shower in a day or two. Make sure to ask your doctor whether you need to keep your incision(s) dry and for how long.
- Walking: Do it. It increases circulation, which speeds healing, but doesn't strain the abdomen.
- Eating: A diet high in fiber, fresh fruits and vegetables, along with drinking lots of fluids, will help avoid constipation (which can be caused by pain medication and inactivity) and the strain that goes with it. Ask your doctor about using a stool softener or laxative if you need it.
- Driving: The effects of anesthesia can stay with you for up to one week, impairing your ability to drive safely. Make sure you talk to your doctor about when it's safe for you to drive after the type of anesthesia you've had. You should never drive while taking prescription pain medication. Depending on your repair, driving may strain the incision, so check with your doctor.
- Lifting: Avoid it for at least the first few days. Then lift only very light objects that are easy to manage. As you slowly begin to lift more, use your knees and your back, not your abdominal muscles.
- Working: Some people return to work within a week. It will depend on the type of surgery you had and the type of work you do. But remember that you'll tire more easily at first. Consider working a partial day. If your work involves a lot of physical activity, you may not be ready to go back for a few weeks. Talk with your doctor about how and when to resume working.
- Sports: You will not be able to play sports or engage in strenuous exercise for a few weeks. It will depend largely on the type of surgery you had – and the type of activity. Make sure to ask your doctor about resuming exercise routines or playing sports.
- Sex: Ask your doctor when it's appropriate for you to resume sexual activity. Your physical comfort will provide a good guide.
Warning Signs After Surgery
If you notice any of the following, call the number the hospital gave you:
- Fever
- Excessive sweating
- Difficulty urinating
- Redness
- Bleeding
- Worsening pain


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Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment in the Older Population: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study
Version of Record online: 24 JUN 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03491.x
© 2011, Copyright the Authors. Journal compilation © 2011, The American Geriatrics Society
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Volume 59, Issue 8, pages 1477–1483, August 2011
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Fox, C., Richardson, K., Maidment, I. D., Savva, G. M., Matthews, F. E., Smithard, D., Coulton, S., Katona, C., Boustani, M. A. and Brayne, C. (2011), Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment in the Older Population: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 59: 1477–1483. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03491.x
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- Issue online: 16 AUG 2011
- Version of Record online: 24 JUN 2011
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- anticholinergic activity;
- cognitive impairment;
- elderly
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the use of medications with possible and definite anticholinergic activity increases the risk of cognitive impairment and mortality in older people and whether risk is cumulative.
DESIGN: A 2-year longitudinal study of participants enrolled in the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study between 1991 and 1993.
SETTING: Community-dwelling and institutionalized participants.
PARTICIPANTS: Thirteen thousand four participants aged 65 and older.
MEASUREMENTS: Baseline use of possible or definite anticholinergics determined according to the Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden Scale and cognition determined using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). The main outcome measure was decline in the MMSE score at 2 years.
RESULTS: At baseline, 47% of the population used a medication with possible anticholinergic properties, and 4% used a drug with definite anticholinergic properties. After adjusting for age, sex, educational level, social class, number of nonanticholinergic medications, number of comorbid health conditions, and cognitive performance at baseline, use of medication with definite anticholinergic effects was associated with a 0.33-point greater decline in MMSE score (95% confidence interval (CI)=0.03–0.64, P=.03) than not taking anticholinergics, whereas the use of possible anticholinergics at baseline was not associated with further decline (0.02, 95% CI=−0.14–0.11, P=.79). Two-year mortality was greater for those taking definite (OR=1.68; 95% CI=1.30–2.16; P<.001) and possible (OR=1.56; 95% CI=1.36–1.79; P<.001) anticholinergics.
CONCLUSION: The use of medications with anticholinergic activity increases the cumulative risk of cognitive impairment and mortality.


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Smoking Heart of the Mountain
This trinket looks like a great dk leveling trinket, here are the mats:
Requires Essence of Fire (3), Small Brilliant Shard (3)
Guess what mats I suggest to stock up on?
So why has this trinket's stats been adjusted? Many lower level crafted items such as trinkets, armor, enchants, and weapons are having their stats adjusted to make them more valuable to a leveling character in patch 3.1. Obviously any items that share positions with account bound purchases will not sell as well as the other slots, but you should take a look through your profession tabs to see if any items have become best in slot for twinks or just useful for leveling in general.
UPDATE: Check here for more info on your particular profession and mat changes.
Here's an item I think will be very popular with twinks:
Spidersilk Drape
Smoking Heart of the Mountain
14 comments: on "Changes in Patch 3.1 - Smoking Heart of the Mountain"
Stabs said... April 13, 2009 at 8:51 AM
I don't agree
The trinket is BOP. Very few DKs will level up enchanting early. Most DKs who want to be Enchanters will hit 80 first then power-level it.
Markco said... April 13, 2009 at 9:02 AM
I guess I'm unique in leveling my dk's professions as soon as he turned 58 :( ? Either way, if you get anything from this post it's that many items are having their stats readjusted to make them appealing to leveling characters.
I agree with Markco.
Leveling professions while leveling is a good idea - esp when you can make money doing it. By waiting to level Enchanting you miss out on tons of enchanting mats from all the quest rewards.
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Kring said... April 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Stabs comment was not, that it is not smart. Stabs comment was, that most people don't do it.
We can't sell what's good for them, we can only sell what they buy.
It would actually be a great trinket for other melees, too.
Are you trying to farm and sell the schematic?
Archangel said... April 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM
I think you also need to see the big picture with "changes in patch 3.1": the changes to the reagents needed to craft useful leveling items like Smoking Heart. Blizzard is removing a plethora of reagents from old world items/enchants, reagents that are currently, for some players, a decent amount of income : Greater Eternal Essence, Elemental Water, Hearth of Fire, Heavy Leather, Rugged Leather, Guardian Stone, strange items like Wicked Claw, Ironfeathers and the list may continue. Second, they are reducing the mats needed for many old items/enchants: mageweave and runecloth bolts require 4 cloth instead of 5, thorium ore, dust essences, everything is less.
So while Blizzard is aiming to help all the (leveling) players, not to waste time chasing these elusive or long time to get materials, I'm sure they will hit a good number of niche markets too.
Wiggin said... April 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Hey Archangel, you wouldn't by chance have a list/link to some of the items that will be getting their mats changed would you? I'm not sure if such a list/link exists but if it does, that would be a huge help.
I've been working in the Strange/Soul Dust markets recently, as on Mon-Thurs I can usually pick up stacks at 50% of their value or less, and then resell most of the stock on Fri-Sun. But if there is strong chance lower items will have their mats reduced, I would likely want to get out of this market.
Thanks for the heads up.
The Grinch said... April 13, 2009 at 12:26 PM
MMOChampion has a full list of all the changes being applied to the professions, mat wise, in one convenient spot.
Markco said... April 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Added a link, thanks Grinch
Andrew said... April 13, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Twinking will become no more in 3.1 So if your thinking, this will be a great item for twinks etc.. think again. Twinking finally got killed.
Anonymous said... April 13, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Hey Marco, I hate to nitpick but this recipe also requires a Blood of the Mountain (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=11382).
I recently made one for my pally, it's a nice little trinket but also a reward as it's a bit of a saga to make. (It can only be forged in the Dark Iron forge in Blackrock).
And I bought all of the mats and the enchanting recipe for it as soon as I found out it existed, it took me about a week of watching the Ah before the recipe appeared.
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Anonymous said... April 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM
My apologies Marco, I did not read the link in your post before commenting :p.
Well, I guess I am happy that this trinket will be getting better, but I'm also a little disppointed that it is now going to be so easy to produce. I think that the fact you had to go into BRD to forge this made it fell a bit more special then what it stats give to it.
Anonymous said... April 14, 2009 at 4:38 AM
Andrew! are you talking about enchanting lvl requirements? or xp in BGs which is still not going to be out for ages
Andrew said... April 14, 2009 at 9:04 AM
I was refering to the change in enchanting lvl requirments.
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Use this guide to farm thorium ore without having to run around mindlessly searching for respawns. Look for half an hour in these three locations and find atleast 8-12 nodes. Eventhough this is a level 60 item, death knights and other characters leveling blacksmithing, jewelcrafting, and/or engineering would prefer to buy this item rather than farm it.
Mid level profession items, the ones that get you levels 220-300 in any profession are often very hard to come by. Thorium, for instance, is one of the worst profession material sinks in the game because of how many are required for jewelcrafting, blacksmithing, and engineering. A blacksmith will go through 500+ of these easily on his way to skill level 300 and that's a market you don't want to pass up.
Here's my guide for farming Thorium ore:
Step 1: Park a miner in Everlook, Winterspring.
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Step 3: Profit.
Park a miner (level 69+) in Everlook, Winterspring.
- Make Everlook your home.
- Head east to the Yeti cave; there are a handful of nodes that spawn there.
- After the cave is cleared, head south to the Owl Wing Thicket and look for nodes in the owl caves (you don't have to go inside any caves for the nodes to be visible on the map).
Head south to Darkwhisper Gorge.
- As you enter the Gorge you will pass two demons and there will be a little hill on your right (west). Go up the hill and enter the cave to purchase Gromsblood for super cheap off the demon there. He sells some rare cloth as well but it doesn't sell anywhere near as well as the Gromsblood.
- Go through each cave in Darkwhisper Gorge and into the clearings to search for thorium nodes. You will find no more then two nodes in any one clearing, and in some of the smaller ones never more then one at a time.
- Log off your alt. Every 30+ minutes come back onto your alt and check all the clearings for nodes again.
- When your bags are full hearth to Everlook where you will have access to a bank, guild bank, and mail box which will make transporting/storing the ore much easier.
Thorium bars go for as much as 65 gold a stack and usually the ore form is more expensive because jewelcrafting needs thorium ore in stacks of 5 for prospecting. Also, any other profession can buy ore to be smelted into bars. Even though this is usually true you should still check for deals by bidding or buying out ore then smelting it into bars to be resold. The bar to ore ratio is 1:1. You should also pick up quite a few gems while farming the thorium, which will sell for over 10 gold each depending on your AH.
The beauty of this strategy is that you don't have to farm for hours on end, but rather, you can farm once or twice a day and continue playing your other characters as usual. Have a raid and need to kill twenty minutes? Just log onto your mining alt and farm this location while you wait.


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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - While current Patriot League student-athletes enjoy their summer vacations, a handful of alumni are showing that playing in the League can lead to success at the highest levels of their sports.
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NBA: Three former Patriot Leaguers played in the recently concluded NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. 2013 graduates C.J. McCollum (Lehigh/Portland Trail Blazers) and Mike Muscala (Bucknell/Atlanta Hawks) were joined by 2014 Patriot League Player of the Year Cameron Ayers (Bucknell/New Orleans Pelicans), and all played well in their short stints. McCollum was fourth in the Las Vegas Summer League in scoring at 20.2 points per game, while Muscala was second on his team with 13.8 points per game and led the Hawks with 7.8 rebounds per contest. Ayers averaged 5.3 points in four games with New Orleans. McCollum and Muscala each debuted as rookies in the NBA last season, with the former putting up 5.3 points per contest in 38 games with Portland and the latter averaging 3.8 points in 20 games with Atlanta. Both players went on to appear in the NBA playoffs for their teams.
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Major League Lacrosse: The Patriot League has a strong presence in the MLL with 14 active players, including four recent graduates of Loyola University Maryland. Joe Fletcher (New York Lizards), Justin Ward (Charlotte Hounds), Pat Laconi (Charlotte Hounds) and Jack Runkel (Chesapeake Bayhawks) are all in the MLL after playing for the 2014 Greyhound team which spent the majority of the season at No. 1 in the nation. Peter Baum (Colgate/Ohio Machine) leads the MLL with 29 goals and is seventh with 37 points, while Ward stands in the top 20 with 26 points and top 10 with 14 assists. Chris Eck (Colgate/Boston Cannons) leads the MLL with 78 ground balls and is tied for first with 154 face-off wins. Eck and Garrett Thul (Army/Florida Launch) played on the United States team which took silver at the 2014 FIL World Championships completed last week.
Major League Baseball: Matt Daley, a 2004 Bucknell graduate, has been up and down as a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees this season. He was recently sent down to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre, but has made 13 appearances with the Yankees this season with a 0-0 record and 4.85 ERA in 12 innings. Daley's claim to fame was relieving Mariano Rivera's final MLB appearance on Sept. 26 last season. Daley has appeared for the Yankees the past two years after spending parts of three seasons with the Colorado Rockies from 2009-11. In his MLB career Daley has pitched 99.1 innings with a 2-2 record, 4.44 ERA and 97 strikeouts. A handful of former Patriot Leaguers are also competing in the minor leagues, with designated hitter Matt McBride (Lehigh) at Triple-A Colorado Springs.


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It's no doubt No Duh was chosen to perform on season three of "The World's Greatest Tribute Bands" which aired Monday, Feb 10 on AXS.TV live from the Whisky a Go-Go. Show host and producer, Katie Daryl, had her eye on this group since season one but through a variety of circumstances couldn't get them on until now. When she personally called the band's bassist EJ Curse she was greeted with a less than enthusiastic reaction. Katie explains, "The opposite reaction I usually get from bands. It's as if he stayed in rock star character and just knew his band was worthy of the honor. And they certainly were". She continues, "I always knew they were going to over deliver and be fantastic . . . "
As a tribute to Ska-popsters No Doubt, No Duh proves there's more to this tribute band thing than meets the eye. In 2004, for their very first gig, No Duh played Gwen Stefani's solo CD release party in Hollywood and on their third gig, No Doubt surprised them by showing up and sitting in with the band. Not too shabby. In 2009, they toured Kuwait and Iraq for our troops and have been featured on Good Morning America and CNN Headline News. Since then they've played over 500 shows and counting.
Just like the real No Doubt, No Duh band members are based out of Orange County, CA. Bony Yanow (aka EJ Curse) is a veteran bass player currently performing with Gilby Clarke (Guns 'n Roses). He also writes and records music for major record labels and movie/television soundtracks. Aintso Young (aka Rodney Pino) doesn't seem to mind wearing a pink tutu while he does his thing on the drums. Mr. Pino owns his own recording and rehearsal studio in the South Bay. Having played guitar with John Tesh, Tom Doomee (aka Randy Simer) contributes his guitar-pertise to the band. And last, but certainly not least, that bundle of energy herself, Spen Gjormani [pronounced: spend-yur-money] (aka Heather E. Lounsbury/Curse). Besides playing the role of Gwen Stefani, Ms. Loundsbury has sung with Barry Manilow, Tower of Power, and does other sound/look-alikes as Debbie Harry, Cindy Lauper, Lady Gaga and Madonna, plus she's a songwriter, artist and voiceover actress. That's a lot in one package.
Performing for a packed house, No Duh came out guns 'a blazing with "Sunday Morning". A dead ringer for Gwen Stefani, Spen displayed her mannerisms and unmistakable vocal style down to a tee and from start to finish there was no question that you were actually watching Gwen herself. Her stage presence and connection with the audience, even with jib cameras flying overhead, were seamless. The show was filled with fun and surprises like the song "Turning Japanese" tossed in for laughs, but perhaps the most thrilling part of the show was during "Sweet Escape" when cheerleaders with pom-poms filled the stage and performed a choreographed dance number while bubbles filled the air. The crowd, hands pumping, were singing along and loving every minute of it.
Sunday Morning
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Sweet Escape
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Underneath In All
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You can catch a live show every Monday on AXS.TV "The World's Greatest Tribute Bands." The broadcast airs at 8PM (PT) and repeats at 11PM (PT). You can also bring yourself down to the Whisky a Go-Go and see the show in person. Just make sure to grab your tickets at Eventbrite and get to the theater early. See you there.


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What is the difference between a Future and a promise? (In Akka and Gpars.)
They look the same to me as both block and return the value of the future when get is called and a promise is to get the result of a future.
I'll talk about Akka/Scala, because I'm not familiar with Gpars nor with Akka/Java.
In Scala 2.10, which includes the relevant part of Akka in the standard distribution, a
According to wikipedia, they are the same concept:
Some libraries may choose to call them one way, some may choose to call them another. And each time, they may be implemented in different flavors. Some libraries may choose to use these synonyms to distinguish different flavors. While I would argue that this is a bad choice (because evidently it confuses people), this link suggests that in Scala this common practice.
As @Ptharien's Flame suggested, in Scala a
I'll add a bit here because I have been working with a plethora of Futures in Java as of late but have a background in Scala/Akka development as well. This answer will mostly duplicate what has been said but will point out the plethora of implementations in popular use today on the JVM.
First, original poster mentions using get and blocking - please never ever do this outside of tests.
When I teach FP and Concurrency concepts in my current role, I first tell the student that semantically promises and futures are synonyms because as a consumer of a promise or a future api, the developer does not need to understand that there are or IF there are semantic differences - only the mechanics for handling them without blocking IO.
To say that a future can't be completed and that a promise can (eg as per scala/akka/play apis for example) is too simplistic:
Some Futures can be completed Java8 now introduces a CompletableFuture into the standard library.
Some Promises can't be completed Similarly, in the Play promise API a Promise can't be fulfilled but a RedeemablePromise can so play introduces a different semantic - even while being under the Typesafe umbrella. Further, Play promise API can convert with scala futures in both directions - (F.Promise.wrap(future) or promise.wrapped()).
Working with Typesafe technology on Java8 you will often go back and forth between futures/promises simply because one API is preferable (Play Promise API seems better with Java8 lambdas). On Akka+Play+Java8 you will be taking futures from Actors and wrapping them into promises, composing callbacks, and returning that from the controller.
So, as I tell people when I teach, Promises and Futures are more or less synonyms.
As far as I can tell, both promises and futures are the same in theory. In terms of the mentioned libraries, the above also seems to apply.
In general these terms are synonyms, but there are many, many libraries in many languages that implement these terms. You will need to read the documentation and/or source for the specific classes in question to understand the difference. But whatever differences you find should not be taken to apply to other Promise or Future libraries - those implementors could flip the design decisions and be just as correct.
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The report notes on page 21 that "The main factor underlying these [digital] divides is differences in wealth, between countries and between individuals." When one thinks of countries such as North Korea, Burma (Myanmar), and Somalia might there be additional factors barring access to information technologies, especially access to information from outside these countries?
The report, in Box 2.2 (page 31), describes the remarkable achievement of 100 percent penetration of mobile communication technology in Jamaica. Could the activities used to achieve this in Jamaica be applied to any Pacific Island nations? Which ones come to mind? Note that Digicel is already licensed in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands.
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Getting Ready to Get Away
In this heavy vacation month, the hardest thing for many jugglers is often getting ready to get away. I'm preparing for vacation as I write this, and my 10-item to-do list from yesterday has grown to 13 items today. Go figure.
Beyond tying up loose ends, dropping off the dog at the kennel, stopping the mail and getting your kids packed, many employees in the summer have to put in extra-long hours to finish not only their own work, but work they are handling for other vacationing colleagues. I, like many people, also make the mistake of trying to get ahead before I leave on vacation, finishing stories early so I'll be on top of my game when I return. But after hurtling along on overdrive for a week before I depart, I often need an extra day of sleep just to recover.
How to avoid the crush? Some time-management experts suggest that you start each workday as if you won't be there tomorrow. This requires you to stay on top of projects, keep your co-workers informed and avoid backlogs. Just as many people strive to "live each day as if it were your last," perhaps working each day as if it were our last might lend fresh perspective and discipline to work. (Financial-services company Motley Fool even requires its employees to be ready to take a two-week vacation at a few days' notice.)
A recent Working Mother piece suggests advance planning with your boss and co-workers to cover for you when you're away. Then, offer to return the favor. Before you leave, figure out the first steps you should take when you return to work. This will free your mind during your vacation from thinking about tasks left undone. And finally, tidy up your desk. This simple step will reduce your stress when you return to work.
Readers, what steps do you take before leaving on vacation? Have you found any tricks for smoothing the leave-taking process?


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Brasserie Jo See why Boston Magazine voted Brasserie Jo "Boston's Best After-Theatre Dining." Have dinner before or after the show! Present your ticket stub, and enjoy a free dessert with every entree. Brasserie Jo at The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 617 425 3240. brasseriejoboston.com
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"Supernatural" is currently taking a few weeks off for the Olympics, but you don't have to wait that long for new spoilers, as on Thursday, Feb. 6, the CW released an episode description for episode 914, "Captives."
Right now on "Supernatural," things are tense between Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), but as the promo the CW has already released shows, they're going to have a lot to deal with after the Olympics. This includes the bunker possibly being haunted, Crowley (Mark Sheppard) not doing so well – Is his campaign for hell not going as well as he expected? Is he not having luck finding the blade to kill his competition? – Castiel (Misha Collins) dealing with some trouble of his own, and Snooki as a demon. With everything that happens on the show, that last thing has to be the biggest head scratcher.
"Captives" will be dealing with the haunted bunker, which will lead them to a prized possession. What will that item be? What other areas of the bunker will we see? Plus, we'll get to see more from the angels with Bartholomew (Adam Harrington) returning and Castiel (Misha Collins) getting into trouble.
Here's the official description of "Supernatural" season 9 episode 14, "Captives," written by Robert Berens and directed by Jerry Wanek airing Feb. 25:
"Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are stunned to discover the Men of Letters' bunker is haunted. Their investigation leads them to a storage facility where the demons have been keeping a prize possession. Meanwhile, Castiel (Misha Collins) is captured by Bartholomew (guest star Adam Harrington)."
"Supernatural" season 9 airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on the CW. What are you hoping to see in episode 14 "Captives"?
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CDs, video games, DVDs, computer software… undoubtedly, we have all types of discs that are either damaged or seldom used around our homes, so why not upcycle them into something more useful?
With some primer, fabric, and felt, Amanda from Crafts by Amanda turned her old discs into a cute set of coasters! With the holidays around the corner, this is a great idea to tuck away for gifts.
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Mercator, father of the atlas, turns 500
Cartographer, philosopher and mathematician Gerhard Mercator, who lived and died in the German city of Duisburg, was born 500 years ago.
It was a time of optimism, of departure. Seafarers discovered new continents, Copernicus discovered that the planets circled around the sun, and a renegade monk by the name of Martin Luther rebelled openly against the Roman Catholic Church.
Born in Flanders on 5 March, 1512, Gheert Kramer could not anticipate that he would one day become a world-renowned cartographer. But a rich uncle who wanted him to pursue a religious career paid for his latin lessons. Hence, Gheert studied Latin, and in line with the fashion of the times, took on a different name. "Kramer" – or "merchant" in English – became "mercator" in Latin.
Gerhard Mercator turned out to be a young man eager to learn. He pursued an ambitious goal: to capture the new world that was emerging with exact measurements, and to illustrate these new parts of the world graphically.
Scholar and 'heretic'
In the university city of Leuven, Mercator met people who promoted his interests: mathematicians, cartographers and copper-plate engravers. They taught him the basics of his later, scientific work. Then, in the city of Antwerp, Mercator set up his own shop. He drew maps, built globes and collected directions left by seafarers.
Business went exceedingly well – until Mercator was thrown into jail, charged with "Lutheran behaviour" for his critical thinking about the bible and questioning whether God could have created the Earth from nothing.
Maps and atlases
Enlarge image (© picture-alliance / akg-images) Spending seven months in jail proved traumatic for Mercator, and seven years after this experience, like many other intellectuals, he left the Netherlands for Germany.
In the city of Duisburg, a university was being built and Mercator was offered a professorship. But the university's opening was delayed and Mercator ended up teaching at a local school instead. Cartography remained his main profession and for over 40 years he drew maps based on the latest scientific insights, engraving them onto copper plates. It was the most fruitful period of his life, in which he completed his renowned 18-panel map of Europe.
But Mercator was aiming for something even more ambitious. He had a plan to describe Heaven and Earth in a way that included theology and history. He called the project "atlas", named after a Mauretanian astrononomer. Mercator wanted to explain the entire cosmos with this work, which was supposed to contain texts about the creation of the world as well as comments on states and their histories. Mercator worked on the project until his death, but in the end it was the maps which turned the "atlas" into a bestseller. To this day, the word "atlas" means a book in which maps are collected.


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Tenkara Diaries: Canyoneering, tenkara and onsen
I decided to let the images speak for themselves in this video of an epic adventure this week. I think there are few places in the world that you can combine epic "shower climbing" as they call it here (or sawanobori) and fishing. Luckily Japan has an abundance of it. And, even more luckily Japan also has an abundance of onsen, or hot-springs, which can come in very handy when you've been swimming in 40 degree water all day.
P.S. I'm contemplating hosting a small group trip to Japan in 2014. This would be an opportunity to learn from some of my teachers as well as do a combo "shower climbing/tenkara" adventure trip. Let me know if that could be of interest. I'm still very much on the fence about doing it, as I'm used to traveling by myself, but this is something I'd love to share with those truly interested.
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UMass Women's Basketball Releases June Team Newsletter
June 12, 2014
Women's Basketball Team Newsletter (June 2014)
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts women's basketball program added a June edition to its team newsletter volume on Thursday. The latest issue highlights the progress of the UMass Basketball Champions Center alongside a look at rising-junior guard Jasmine Harris.
The team newsletter also hosts a "catching up" feature on program alumna Pam Rosanio on her favorite memories from her time studying and competing with the Minutewomen and what she is currently up to. Head coach Sharon Dawley provides a message updating fans and alumni on the current team activities while the "Meet The Newest Minutewomen" section provides MinuteFans with a look at recent signee Leah McDerment.
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Ontario is between Manitoba and Quebec. Above Ontario is the Hudson Bay and at the bottom are the Great Lakes. Also touching the Great Lakes are four U.S. states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio.
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The capital city of Ontario is Toronto. Ottawa, the capital of Canada is also found in Ontario.
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Ontario's flower is the White Trillium. This beautiful white flower blooms in the forests in most of Ontario in late April and May. This flower was also used for food and medicine by Native people.
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The ultra modern design values of the European styled kitchen prove the quality of this kitchen is in the pudding. With a selection of black granite work surfaces, dark wooden units and colourful paintings on the walls, the area is perfectly colour coordinated. The choice of modern appliances include an centrally located extractor fan, coffee and tea making facilities, refrigerator, freezer, stovetops, oven, microwave, toaster and washing machine.
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The dining area is unique in every sense of the word. Positioned directly outside the lounge on the spacious outdoor terrace, the dining room is the ideal al fresco platform. The majestic 12-seat dining table is ideally located to enjoy the sights and sounds of nature. Overlooking the garden, swimming pool and surrounding jungle terrain in its full glory, the outdoor dining room is one of the best and most scenic parts of the house. Within footsteps of the dining table, there is also an outdoor lounging space with an L-shape wicker lounging settee and comfortable seating.
Sunstone Villa is fundamentally a six bedroom abode, although in special cases, the maid's room can be used as an extra bedroom. Without bring the maid's room into the debate, the house comfortably sleeps 12 persons. All the bedrooms benefit from ensuite bathrooms, air-conditioning and ceiling fans. The master bedroom sports a beautiful king-size four-post bed, walk-in wardrobes and an ensuite bathroom with not only a shower, but also a large oval bathtub. The master is also home to a large balcony that highlights the amazing beauty of the surrounding vegetation. Three of the remaining bedrooms also benefit from king-size beds, with last two bedrooms owning twins and bunk beds.
1-3 bedroom villa = 156 USD (5,000 THB)
4-5 bedroom villa = 312 USD (10,00 THB)
6 and more bedroom villa = 468 USD (15,000 THB)
The deposit is payable in cash.
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I was with my 4 friends there.
The villa is great and in a good condition .
The service was outstanding .
This I can only recommend and happy I'll be back
It's a great house, with lots of space and great Laage, less than 5 minutes to the famous' "Walking Street" The staff was very nice and everything went tip top.
Es ist ein super Haus, mit viel platz und toller laage, keine 5 minuten zur berümten "WalkingStreet" Das Personal war sehr nett und alles ist Tip Top gelaufen.
Nice, modern apartment. Nearby construction site blocks a bit the view but not too noisy.
Can recommend it 100%. We liked it very well and there is nothing to complain about.
Kann man zu 100% weiterempfehlen. Es hat uns sehr gut gefallen und es gibt nichts zu beanstanden.
I do not usually comment on my stays in hotels but in this case I feel compelled to react to a comment
Regarding our stay at Villa Namtok, we were very kindly welcomed upon arrival. the rooms was very comfortable, clean and friendly. The equipment of the room and the bathroom was very correct.Le Service was very good.
In conclusion, this is a villa recommended.
Je n'ai pas l'habitude de commenter mes sejours dans les hôtels mais, dans ce cas-ci, je me sens obligé de réagir par rapport à un commentaire
En ce qui concerne notre séjour à la Villa Namtok, nous avons été très bien acceuilli dès notre arrivée. les chambres était très confortable, propre et conviviale. L'équipement de la chambre et de la salle de bain était très correct.Le service était également très convenable.
En guise de conclusion, il s'agit d'une villa à recommander.
Très bon accueil,
super service client,
villa en superbe état,
hôte français et très sympathique.
Tout étais super
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I'm interested in the possibilities of master/slave replication for Derby in client/server mode (if at all possible). However, I'm unable to find any material that either explains it in a decent fashion or is able to convince me that master/slave replication doesn't exist for Derby.
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Scrabble word: SPROUT
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Definitions of SPROUT in dictionaries:
- noun - any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
- noun - a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- verb - produce buds, branches, or germinate
- verb - put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.
- To cause to come forth and grow.
- Young plant growth, such as a bud or shoot.
- Something resembling or suggestive of a sprout, as in rapid growth: "a tall blond sprout of a boy" (Anne Tyler).
- verb - to begin to grow
There are 6 letters in SPROUT: O P R S T U
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Men's Hoops Falls to Texas, 62-44
February 18, 1999
By JIM VERTUNO
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Chris Mihm had 20 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks to lead Texas past Texas Tech 62-44 Wednesday night, giving the Longhorns a one-game lead over Oklahoma in the Big 12 Conference.
Gabe Muoneke added 15 points for Texas (16-10, 11-2 Big 12) which struggled offensively the entire game but held Texas Tech (12-14, 4-9) to its lowest offensive output of the season four days after the Red Raiders scored 90 points in a victory over Kansas.
Texas shot just 36 percent from the field for the game but scored 20 points off 19 Tech turnovers while committing just seven of its own. The Longhorns also held Tech to 30.9 percent shooting as a team.
The Longhorns' defensive tandem of Ivan Wagner and Chico Vazquez held Red Raiders guard Rayford Young to 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting. Young had a career-high 41 points in the win over Kansas.
Andy Ellis led Tech with 12 points Wednesday.
Despite the good defense, Texas trailed 19-23 with 5:47 left in the first half after a 3-pointer by Tech's Stan Bonewitz.
A Kris Clack 3-pointer sparked an 11-2 run that gave the Longhorns a 30-25 halftime lead.
Texas built its lead to 45-33 on a Muoneke dunk with 11:10 left to play. A 6-0 run pulled Tech back to within 45-39 before Texas closed the game with a 15-5 run.
It was the 101st meeting between the schools. Texas leads the all-time series 51-50.
Texas has three games left on its Big 12 schedule against Texas A&M, Baylor and Missouri. Of those three, only Missouri, who come to Austin Feb.27 in the last game of the regular season, had a winning record going into Wednesday's games.


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http://www.examiner.com/article/oklahoma-city-mayoral-race-2014-voter-pr... Dr. Ed Shadid shared a number of simple, fact based instructions about making certain voters are accurately and currently registered to vote in Oklahoma in order to participate in the OKC Mayoral Race 2014. Core information about registering to vote in OKLAHOMA is in the above link
In addition to Dr. Shadid's suggestions there are a couple of things that make sense to increase community awareness.
Much of Oklahoma City adult population has a limited if any relationship to the Internet and hard core electronic social media use. So here are some face to face contact methods that may solve some of the hit and miss of canvassing electronic messages.
1.) One is something Dr. Shadid suggested at his Candidacy celebration event on Friday, January 31, 2014... Which is that all of OKC make contact with the persons in their telephones, and invite peers, friends, colleagues and family to confirm registrations and vote.
The Flower Garden Park District has enlisted that strategy, adding also to connect with email contacts.
2.) Separate from that, to engender a resource from the Central Oklahoma Neighborhood Alliance ( that is used for networking safety and communications in neighborhoods) is this card.
This card can be printed and shared with neighbors, so readers can update their interpersonal contacts, and help one another work on getting that crucial discussion going about the election pending.
The suggested pattern for passing this card to the three houses before the residence of the reader, two beside the residence and three behind the reader residence. This technique, "9 is Fine" helps increase communications, awareness and connections.
A reader confirming their own voting registration has value, but also asking neighbors in the patterns above, or in a broader reach helps people be mindful to check their voter registration for current use and accuracy. Providing that same inquiry within a social circle or community merely expands the effective reach.
3.) Some people need a ride to the polls on election day and are reluctant to ask. If readers who can accomodate, please extend invitations like this early, so that voters of all kinds will make it to the polls.
Oklahoma City had about 30,000 people vote in the last Mayoral Election, and there are about http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/40/4055000.html 600,000 people who are residents of OKC. The projected number of registered voters in Oklahoma City is 68%, with a sharp drop off from there as to who actually makes it to the polls for any given voting.
4.) A final tool can be used by anyone, anywhere in the United States and makes a decent conversation starter for those who may have experienced a dip in curiosity http://www.vote411.org/.
And ROCK the VOTE is a mostly youth related campaign that has similar national value. http://www.rockthevote.org/


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The 2011--2012 Syrian uprising is an ongoing internal conflict in Syria, a part of the wider Arab Spring. Public demonstrations first took place on 26 January 2011, but were only a sporadic occurrence until mass protests erupted in Daraa on 15 March.[53] The situation quickly developed into a full-scale nationwide uprising, with protesters demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad and the overthrow of the government. The situation in Syria is part of the Arab Spring, a wave of social upheaval throughout the Arab World demanding greater political freedom and an end to autocracy. Inspired by the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian protesters have employed the use of tactics such as marches, hunger strikes, rioting, and vandalism, in a sustained campaign of civil resistance aimed at ending nearly five decades of Ba'athist rule. The uprising was described as "unprecedented" by several political commentators.[54][55]
As protests continued, the Syrian government began deploying tanks and snipers as a means to quell the uprising. Water and electricity have been shut off in particularly restive areas, and security forces have resorted to confiscating flour and food.[56][57] The Syrian Army has besieged the cities of Daraa, Douma, Baniyas, Hama, Homs, Aleppo, Talkalakh, Idlib, Rastan, Jisr ash-Shughur, Deir ez-Zor, Zabadani and Latakia, among other towns.[58][59][60][61][62] According to witness accounts, soldiers who have refused to open fire against civilians were summarily executed by the Syrian Army.[63][64][65] The Syrian government denied the reports of defections and blamed "armed gangs" for causing trouble.[66]
Since summer 2011, mutineers and army defectors formed fighting units, which began an insurgency campaign against the Syrian regular army. As a result violent clashes began across the country, increasing by the end of the year and the insurgents unified under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, showing increasingly organized fighting patterns. According to the UN and other sources, since the beginning of the uprising, up to 7,000 people, including 1,800--2,800 armed combatants, have been killed in total,[41][42][44] many more injured, and tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned. Over 400 children have been killed by security forces as well.[67][68] Another 400 children have been reportedly arrested and tortured in Syrian prisons.[69] Additionally, over 600 detainees and political prisoners have died under torture.[70]
Since the beginning of the uprising, the Syrian government has given several concessions. On 21 April, emergency law in Syria was lifted after forty-eight years of enactment, which had granted the government sweeping authority to suspend constitutional rights. Furthermore, on 24 July, a draft law was introduced in parliament to allow for the creation of more political parties under the conditions that they were not based on religious, tribal or ethnic beliefs and did not discriminate against gender or race. However, these concessions were widely considered trivial by protesters demanding more meaningful reform.[71]
The Arab League,[72] the European Union,[73] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,[74] the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation,[75] the Gulf Cooperation Council,[76] Saudi Arabia,[77] Turkey[78] and the United States[79] have condemned the use of violence against the protesters, among others. The government of Iran, Assad's primary regional and political ally, initially suggested the demonstrations were a foreign plot,[80] but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has since called for reforms and for both sides to reach an understanding, and stated that neither side has the right to kill others.[81][82] However, military intervention has been generally ruled out by foreign powers.[83][84] The Arab League suspended Syria's membership over the government's response to the crisis,[72] but sent an observing mission as part of its proposal for peaceful resolution for the Syrian crisis.
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Rolling stone and the comercialisation of rock... you guys should watch "Almost Famous"!!!!
I know that all people have a fondness for the music of "their era" (usually when they were about 16-21 i guess), and there is a tendancy to look back with rose tinted spectacles... (im sure there was a lot of disposable rubbish when Zep were around too...)
But it does seem that the music industry, by targeting mainly the kids market in singles, has become a lot more disposable. Bands now have an insanely short shelf life, almost none lasting more than about 2 years (as their fans grow up and their taste changes) and with bands that are huge one year being dropped after one poor selling album.
Most of the "classic" bands that are remembered for 30 years are remembered because they were around for a long time (or died, but that is different). Can anyone see the beatles or led zep being given a chance to make as many albums without being dropped under the current system, or the freedom to experiment?
In the UK the singles chart has become meaningless, almost no sales, all hype and preprogramming of kids through cross media promotion. You are sick of songs way before they are even released. There is a fair bit of good stuff around in the album charts, but it is almost impossible to hear about it.
You even hear covers of songs from a year or two before these days, and people don't rememebr the original. It does make me laugh to see all these slipknot hoody wearing kids also wearing Nirvana hoodies... i bet 90% of them wouldn't know who Nirvana or RATM even were...
I hear that legally downloaded songs have now overtaken singles sales in the US, and singles are to be phased out in a year or two. I actually think that things like itunes may turn out to be the saviour of the music industry as it will allow radically new ways of finding and trying new types of music (other peoples recomendations, playlists, software that learns your tastes) and for smaller labels to get their bands out there. Here's hoping.
The cd-wow debacle in the UK last week dosen't give me any faith that the record industry is learning though.
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Texas Tech redshirt sophomore right-hander Miles Morgan, the ace of the pitching staff coming into this season, will miss the remainder of the baseball season after an MRI performed Friday revealed a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
Morgan, the 2006 Big 12 Conference Freshman Pitcher of the Year, was 6-7 last year with a 3.63 ERA and a team-high 103 strikeouts.
Also, due to cold weather, Texas Tech's game against Northwestern scheduled for Saturday afternoon has been postponed.
Tech and Northwestern will play at 11 a.m. today in the Red Raider Classic. Tech (1-3) also will take on Western Illinois at 2 p.m. Tech concludes the Classic at 2 p.m. Monday against Western Illinois.
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College of Business receives prestigious AACSB re-accreditation
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business announced that San Francisco State University's College of Business has earned full re-accreditation.
SF State ranked as one of 50 best U.S. colleges for aspiring entrepreneurs
"The College of Business at SFSU offers a B.S. in Business Administration, and students can opt to concentrate in Entrepreneurial/Small Business Management. Their College of Business Enterprises serves to keep the school connected to the Bay Area business community through a number of initiatives, projects, and lecture series. With a dean who describes herself as a "start-up junkie," the culture at SFSU is hospitable to innovators."—source: CollegeChoice.net


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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird has undergone surgery to repair the labrum in her right hip.
The surgery took place on Tuesday morning at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo. Dr. Marc J. Philippon performed the surgery and said Bird should be able to return to playing by mid- to-late December.
Bird will remain at the clinic through the weekend and start rehab immediately.
Bird said last week after the Storm lost to the Phoenix Mercury in the first round of the WNBA playoffs that the hip had been bothering her during the season.
Bird finished the season with a team-high 14.7 points and 4.9 assists per game.