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June 12, 2013 3:19 pm
This month two Carnegie Mellon professors are launching a platform for Moocs (massive open online courses) and a series of free financial literacy programmes, to help people better understand how investment works.
Developed following the financial crisis, the Academic Financial Trading Platform will showcase teaching about market strategy and economic theory from some of the world's top finance professors, from the Tepper school at CMU, Chicago Booth, the London School of Economics and the Rotman school at the University of Toronto.
Though initial courses have been designed to be accessible to those with little or no knowledge of finance, future higher level classes will be equivalent to those from top business schools. The first three courses to launch this month will cover macroeconomics, investment and analysis, and options, futures and other derivatives.
Expansion in the number of programmes will be rapid, says Anisha Ghosh, professor of business at the Tepper school, and one of the two developers of of the AFTP. "Over the next couple of years we intend to offer the full undergraduate and MBA curriculum."
Although the courses will be free to individual course participants, the AFTP developers are also in discussion with teaching institutions - the Indian Institutes of Technology, for example - for them to integrate the finance courses into their own programmes. Raj Chakrabarti, co-developer of AFTP and the technical brains behind the platform, says the founders are planning to explore relationships with US schools as well. Companies may also decide to use the programmes.
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Issue No.04 - July/August (1993 vol.13)
pp: 44-48
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/40.229714

Computer scientists in developing nations such as India and mainland China face daunting challenges in keeping pace with their colleagues in more advanced countries. India's faulty infrastructure, which hobbles collaboration among scientists there, is discussed. The problems surrounding China's outdated equipment, which sometimes forces its researchers to construct paper machines to study computing problems, are described. The prospects of the United Nation's International Institute for Software Technology (IIST), which opened in Macau in the Summer of 1992, are reviewed.

David K. Kahaner, "India and China Hurdle Computing Obstacles", IEEE Micro, vol.13, no. 4, pp. 44-48, July/August 1993, doi:10.1109/40.229714

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I just replaced the EGR valve in my 99 Suburban (K1500 - 5.7L)
again. I am wondering if there is something else that I should look
at. I would imagine that the new valve could fail as well (because
there may be some other problem)
I was getting a P0404 code about 6 months ago (I have a code reader).
The car had typical EGR issues (rough idle, surging ) I removed the
old factory original EGR valve and cleaned the mounting area up (it
was not particularly dirty) and replaced the EGR valve and gasket with
a unit from Pep Boys. The brand was BWD I believe. The truck
immediately ran fine and the check engine light stayed out for the
last six months. The 99 Suburban uses one of those linear/electronic
EGR valves, and they are expensive (~$120 or more depending on which
part you buy).
A few days ago the truck turns on the check engine light again. It's
that good old P0404 code (EGR Performance). Indeed the truck is again
exhibiting EGR like issues (surging, particularly at lower RPMs). The
idle was not rough, but the truck was surging just like when the other
valve was bad.
I bite the bullet and buy a new EGR valve (since it did seem like the
EGR was bad). I removed the 6 month old EGR valve and cleaned the
mounting area up (it was still clean) and replaced the EGR valve and
gasket with an identical unit from Pep Boys. The truck immediately
runs fine again. I don't know whether the check engine light will
stay out but the truck does run perfectly fine again.
I will search for my receipt for the old valve since I believe it is
still under warranty. However, I wonder if there could be something
else that could be causing the EGR valves to fail. Any thoughts,
cause this could be expensive if I have to put in a new EGR every 6


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I came across an interesting case recently where queries were failing in a high transaction SQL Server. We knew that queries were occasionally failing with error severity 20 because SQL Server Agent alerts were periodically firing. However, those built in alerts don't capture exactly what has failed– they just say "Something failed big. Good luck with that."
This particular SQL Server instance runs thousands of batch requests each second. The errors would occur every hour or so at the most. This made things a bit tricky. Popping open SQL Server Profiler would have been a hot mess for performance.
What to do to find the query in distress?
Extended Events
The instance in question was running SQL Server 2008R2. This meant that Extended Events were an option. I'm open to using Extended Events, but it's not generally my first choice. Sure, it's a cool feature, but it tends to be time consuming to design, script, and test Extended Event sessions and then query the results. Let's face it, Extended Events are a hornets nest full of angry XML.
In this case, however, Extended Events turned out to be pretty handy. The built-in System Health Extended Events trace already captures information for queries that fail with Severity 20 and higher– so the data was just waiting to be queried.
I Was Born to Write XQuery
That's a lie. I figured out pretty fast that the System Health trace held the answer I wanted, but my search-engine-fu didn't help me query exactly what I wanted. Getting the query just right was, in typical Extended Events style, a bit of a headache. I figured I'd share the information here, because you probably weren't born to write XQuery, either. (If you were, you are probably a demon robot.)
Severity 20 Errors and Higher: System Health
If you need to query high severity errors from System Health, this query is a good place to start. The gist of the query is that you're looking for rows in the System Health of the type error_reported. We shred out columns to display error severity, error number, error message, and (hopefully) the associated sql text, if it was captured.
Test this outside of production first. Monitor its runtime carefully: it can take a bit of time on a busy, large system. I use the temp table here for a reason– it helps SQL Server with estimates for the second query (row and cost estimates get pretty wacky in some cases if you use a CTE or a derived table).
SELECT CAST(target_data as xml) AS targetdata INTO #system_health_data FROM sys.dm_xe_session_targets xet JOIN sys.dm_xe_sessions xe ON xe.address = xet.event_session_address WHERE name = 'system_health' AND xet.target_name = 'ring_buffer'; SELECT DATEADD(mi, DATEDIFF(mi, GETUTCDATE(), CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), xevents.event_data.value('(@timestamp)[1]', 'datetime2')) AS [err timestamp], xevents.event_data.value('(data[@name="severity"]/value)[1]', 'bigint') AS [err severity], xevents.event_data.value('(data[@name="error_number"]/value)[1]', 'bigint') AS [err number], xevents.event_data.value('(data[@name="message"]/value)[1]', 'nvarchar(512)') AS [err message], xevents.event_data.value('(action[@name="sql_text"]/value)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS [query text], xevents.event_data.query('.') as [event details] FROM #system_health_data CROSS APPLY targetdata.nodes('//RingBufferTarget/event') AS xevents (event_data) WHERE xevents.event_data.value('(@name)[1]', 'nvarchar(256)')='error_reported'; DROP TABLE #system_health_data; GO
Catching Other High Severity Errors: Preparation
The query above is great, but not every error is Severity 20 or higher. What if a query is failing with Severity 16? While we're at it, it might be good to check for those, too.
Since we went ahead and did the hard work on writing the query to display things in a nice way, it's not a lot of extra work to adapt it. We do have to set up a custom Extended Events trace, though, because System Health filters for error severity 20 and higher.
Before you ever create a new Extended Events session, test it out on a non-production server first. No, really, just do it.
First, make sure to check out what Extended Events Sessions are running on your SQL Server:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_xe_sessions; GO
If more than the System Health and sp_server_diagnostics sessions are running, find out what the sessions are being used for and what's up. You don't want to trace yourself to death.
Set up the Extended Events Session
Here's our goals: We'd like to catch all errors higher than a severity of 10. We want to stream the errors to a file stored on our SQL Server asynchronously. We can do that with a script like this. The script defines the Extended Events session and then starts it.
You must change directories for where the files are stored
--Create an extended event session CREATE EVENT SESSION what_queries_are_failing ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlserver.error_reported ( ACTION (sqlserver.sql_text, sqlserver.tsql_stack, sqlserver.database_id, sqlserver.username) WHERE ([severity]> 10) ) ADD TARGET package0.asynchronous_file_target (set filename = 'S:\XEventSessions\what_queries_are_failing.xel' , metadatafile = 'S:\XEventSessions\what_queries_are_failing.xem', max_file_size = 5, max_rollover_files = 5) WITH (MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY = 5SECONDS) GO -- Start the session ALTER EVENT SESSION what_queries_are_failing ON SERVER STATE = START GO
If you're testing this outside of production like you're supposed to, you may want to generate some errors for testing purposes. You can do that with simple queries like this one. (Good news, if you don't have AdventureWorks2012, it'll still throw an error. Win/win?)
use AdventureWorks2012; GO select * from Person.Person where ModifiedDate='20aaa'; GO
This results in a level 16 error:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
To make sure your trace is working, you may query from the files that are collecting data. You can query this live, while the files are being written to. You can also copy the files off to another location and query them elsewhere.
You must change directories for where the files are stored
;with events_cte as( select DATEADD(mi, DATEDIFF(mi, GETUTCDATE(), CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), xevents.event_data.value('(event/@timestamp)[1]', 'datetime2')) AS [err_timestamp], xevents.event_data.value('(event/data[@name="severity"]/value)[1]', 'bigint') AS [err_severity], xevents.event_data.value('(event/data[@name="error_number"]/value)[1]', 'bigint') AS [err_number], xevents.event_data.value('(event/data[@name="message"]/value)[1]', 'nvarchar(512)') AS [err_message], xevents.event_data.value('(event/action[@name="sql_text"]/value)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS [sql_text], xevents.event_data from sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file ('S:\XEventSessions\what_queries_are_failing*.xel', 'S:\XEventSessions\what_queries_are_failing*.xem', null, null) cross apply (select CAST(event_data as XML) as event_data) as xevents ) SELECT * from events_cte order by err_timestamp;
Here's what a bit of the output looks like on my test VM, which is a hotbed of terrible errors:
Clean up Your Extended Events Trace
This isn't the heaviest of traces, but it's always important to clean up after yourself– only trace the minimum amount needed to solve a problem, and turn it off when you're not using it.
To stop and remove your trace, you'll need to run queries like this:
-- Stop your Extended Events session ALTER EVENT SESSION what_queries_are_failing ON SERVER STATE = STOP; GO -- Clean up your session from the server DROP EVENT SESSION what_queries_are_failing ON SERVER; GO
Does this Replace Application Logging?
Noooooooooo. Oh, no.
This is a good tool to use periodically to check and make sure logging in your application layer is working well. But the application really should be catching failures, retrying when appropriate, and logging in a way that lets staff know that something is going wrong.
This method doesn't catch everything you might think of as a "failing query", either. Application timeouts are a little different. In an execution timeout scenario, the application decides that it's tired of waiting. It sends a notification to the SQL Server that it's canceling its query and moving on. That doesn't get recorded as a failing query in this way.
I don't think that's a problem– because it makes a LOT more sense for the application to log errors and timeouts and decide what to do in each case.
Do You Always Need Extended Events?
Oh, heck no!
This can come in handy sometimes, so I'm sharing it. But Extended Events aren't always the fastest, simplest, or easiest way to solve a problem– particularly if you're not yet on SQL Server 2012.
If the queries in this post help you out– rock on! But don't dismiss simpler methods if they get you where you need to go, too. The fanciest way to do something isn't necessarily the best.


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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Suicide Wave at France Telecom
Since the beginning of 2008 the number of suicides at France Telecom have added to 22! Next to this 13 employees of France Telecom have attempted suicide in the same period. Last week an employee attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the gut with a knife after being demoted. The union suspects the high work pressure and constant restructuring is the reason, I bet the atmosphere at work wasn't too great either. Let's all celebrate capitalism...
Source: Babelfish this article. Thanks Harten 8.
Source: Babelfish this article. Thanks Harten 8.
Soulwax & Tracy Bonham - My Cruel Joke
Soulwax & Tracy Bonham - My Cruel Joke
added: if you don't know who Tracy Bonham is, check Mother, mother.
I used to think cupid was a real jerk
A child star, tormented
A faded star of yesterday
Now toothless and jaded
He shoots his arrows wildly with bottles
Scattered across the sky
He trips on clouds
With a face like Keith Richards
I am your voice what you propose
I am your choice your vow to be
Whatever you do I'll agree
Please forgive me my cruel joke
I'm everywhere, partial and entire
I'm on the inside of everything
And on the outside
I'm trembling like a man away from home
But I can't speak my heart
In case they hear me
Now, no one will listen to our song
I used to think cupid was an asshole
Thé loneliest soul in the universe
And as the wrinkled birdman approached me
I could smell his smouldering cigarette breath
And he looked at me out the corner of his head
And he spoke
So, you ask me why no one stays together anymore?
You're never around when I need you
You're never around when I need you
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How do we lead and what is our agenda?
mcneir | 12/14/2011, 7:30 a.m.
A Tea Party friend of mine said to me that like it or not, as a conservative Republican, he believes in conservative values and that his leadership reflects those values. He then asked me about my values? What follows is a result of our conversation. As a collective body of people we have to invest in our leadership, ourselves and our future. But how do we do that during a time when our dollar is declining, our military is spread thin, our economy is weak and our leadership is lethargic? First, we need to invest in our leadership. An investment requires research, action and monitoring. So, have we done our due diligence before we cast our ballots? Do we know the issues and what candidates stand for that are vying to represent our communities? What is their agenda is it their agenda or the peoples agenda? Even if we didnt do our research before, we can still act and hold the present leadership accountable. We do this by calling our community leaders and elected officials, going to their offices, or attending community or public meetings, all in good taste of course. We have to put the peoples agenda back on the forefront. They need to hear what it is we need and how we are ready to act. Do leaders have a genuine concern for the American people? They probably do but it is up to us to organize and mobilize, invest our votes wisely, stay active in the political process and monitor the progress being made on our behalf. Second, we invest in ourselves by becoming better informed about the issues in our families, neighborhoods and greater community. We should do our best to stay up on current events. We have to read, go on the internet and ask questions. We dont have the luxury to get caught up in catch phrases, sound bytes and emotionalism. The only way to be informed is to get the information. Finally, we invest in the collective well-being of our communities and our future by investing in our children. We need to make sure they get to school on time, we should join the PTA, monitor our childrens progress reports and ask them to show us their homework. Some of us havent been to school in awhile so we ourselves may need to meet with our childrens counselor, teacher or principal in order to determine better ways to support our children. At the end of the day, our children are a reflection of us and our society. The future, just like our children, is our responsibility. Look folks, we can only make the needed changes in our society if we work together in our families, in our neighborhoods and in our communities. We can do this! Listen to Henry Crespo on Todays Truth of the Matter on Sundays from 3 - 4 p.m. on 880 am the Biz. by Henry Crespo, Sr. firstname.lastname@example.com


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- U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday as comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled the Ukraine crisis won't immediately escalate.
- Putin ordered troops back to their bases, easing fears of a possible war in the region. The MSCI All-Country World Index increased 1.1 % and Russia's Micex Index climbed 5.3 % after $55 billion was erased from the value of the country's equities yesterday.
- Qualcomm raised its share repurchase authorization by $5 billion to $7.8 billion. The world's biggest cellphone chip maker also raised its cash dividend by 20 % to 42 cents per share. Current dividend yield is now at 1.7 %.
- Apple said CFO Peter Oppenheimer would retire at the end of September.
- Oppenheimer joined Apple in 1996 and has been CFO since 2004. Oppenheimer, who was named to the board of Goldman Sachs on Monday, said he would use some of his free time to complete his pilot's license. Apple had about $160 billion cash at the end of 2013.
- Dish reached a groundbreaking agreement to carry Walt Disney programming, gaining rights to offer Disney, ABC and ESPN shows over the Web in addition to its satellite pay-TV service. With the Disney agreement, Dish customers will have access to shows via televisions, smartphones, tablets, game consoles and other connected devices.
- P&G Studies 'Pee Points' to Maintain Edge in Diaper Wars.
- The research is designed to protect the Pampers brand, P&G's biggest, and maintain a technological edge over generic diaper makers and Kimberly-Clark's Huggies. P&G is constantly seeking new ways to extend a brand that generated more than $10 billion in sales last fiscal year, or about 12 % of revenue.
- U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rejects BP appeal over Gulf spill losses. The appeals court decision is a setback for BP's effort to limit payments. BP has so far provisioned $42.7 billion to pay for cleanup, compensation, legal and other costs related to the spill.
- Chevron won a U.S. judge's ruling that a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment issued in Ecuador was procured by fraud, making it less likely that plaintiffs will succeed in collecting the $9.5 billion award from the company. Chevron was ordered to pay $19 billion to a group of farmers and fishermen by the Ecuadorean court. The award was reduced to $9.5 billion on Nov. 12 by the Ecuadorean National Court of Justice, the nation's highest tribunal.
- U.S. factory activity rebounded last month from an eight-month low and consumer spending increased more than expected in January. Both ISM and PMI numbers showed yesterday that manufacturing activities were strong.
- The Labor Department will release its February jobs report this Friday. Economists estimate employers increased the pace of hiring to 150,000 workers after adding 113,000 in January, according to a Bloomberg survey.
- Los Angeles is poised to join New York and Chicago in banning the use of electronic cigarettes in workplaces, restaurants and many public areas, threatening the growth of an industry segment that reached $1.5 billion in sales last year. California has restricted conventional tobacco products since 1995. E-cigarettes are projected to represent about $1.8 billion of the $80 billion U.S. tobacco market this year, according to research by Bonnie Herzog.
- Automakers Cautiously Upbeat in Geneva as Europe Recovers:
- Deliveries in Europe last year totaled 12.3 million autos (or 1.2 %). The ACEA industry group is predicting European deliveries will rise 2 % in 2014.
- Toyota Motor expects to sell more than 865,000 vehicles in Europe this year, up from 847,530 in 2013. Toyota still targets sales in the region of 1 million by 2015.
- BMW is considering building a new factory to meet growing demand for its premium cars. BMW, the world's biggest maker of luxury autos, said today in Geneva it plans to sell more than 2 million cars and SUVs this year.
- Mercedes-Benz, the top-selling luxury-auto brand in the U.S. last year, extended its 2014 lead with record February sales on the strength of new models. The Daimler unit sold 22,609 vehicles last month, a gain of 2.6 % from a year earlier.
- BMW sold 22,017 vehicles in the US last month, while Toyota's Lexus sold 18,855 vehicles. GM's Cadillac reported 13,437 vehicle sales and Audi said it sold 10,881 vehicles.
- Japan's salaries increased for the first time in almost two years in January as companies boosted pay for part-timers. Base pay excluding bonuses and overtime rose 0.1 % from a year earlier.
TODAY in HISTORY
- The Constitution of the United States went into effect (1789)
- Vermont became the 14th state in the United States (1791)
- Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president (1861)
- Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor, became first woman to serve in the Cabinet (1933)
Sources: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Bloomberg, CNN Money.
This information has been prepared from sources believed to be reliable, but no representation is being made as to its accuracy or completeness. The information provided should be used only as general information and is not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. The economic forecasts set forth in the material may not develop as predicted. All indices, such as the S & P 500, are unmanaged and may not be invested into directly.


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I'm trying to split an ordered list in my post with a  tag. I've managed to build two separate ordered list and I'm using the "start=" tag in the second to continue the numbering sequence. However, they don't appear next to one another (you can tell they're separate lists) because the  tag automatically adds a paragraph

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Help please, I still can't figure out how to print. I am missing out on some very good recipes.
Help please, I still can't figure out how to print. I am missing out on some very good recipes.
Under "thread tools" click on "show printable version" and then highlight what you want to print with your mouse, and copy it to a word processing program, like Word, past it, and print from there. Or, you can print the whole thread by clicking on "show printable version," right-clicking will show "print" as an option. I don't see how else to print just one recipe or part of a thread -- very annoying!!!
Wow! They've made it WAY more complicated than it used to be!!!
I'm a WYSIWYG person -- no subterfuge here!
Thanks Kay, I have tried that. I am hoping there is an easier way if CL ever answers
I am going to assume that the hurricane is responsible for not getting any response from CL. And if I be a little more patient they will answer my question. Why can't we have the printing function back like it was?
Bumping this up for an answer. Surely there is an easier way to print a single recipe instead of a whole thread.
Thank you Tiekitty When I copy and paste, one side of the copy gets chopped off. I don't know if it is my printer or CL
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More Election-Polling Scorecards
I wrote the week before the election about the struggles of one pollster to reach the elusive demographic group of 18- to 24-year-olds and measure their collective opinion. Despite those challenges, TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy & Politics, the polling arm of the market-intelligence company TechnoMetrica, came very close to predicting president-elect Barack Obama's winning margin. In its final poll for Investor's Business Daily before Election Day, TIPP gave Obama a lead of 7.2 percentage points over Sen. John McCain. Obama is leading by 6.8 percentage points in the national popular vote, with nearly all votes counted.
"I did a pretty good job," Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica, told me. His method to allocate those voters who identified themselves as undecided to each candidate helped him get close to the final margin — Mayur assigned two-thirds of these voters to Obama, expanding his lead in the poll by 2.1 percentage points. Unlike other pollsters, who may split the undecideds evenly or based on the candidates' standing among decided voters, Mayur used a complex algorithm to assign each of these voters. The method uses 10 variables, such as the respondent's party, gender and 2004 vote, to predict the 2008 vote.
More than some other pollsters, when publishing his poll Mayur breaks down results by a wide range of demographic variables. Among some of these groups, he was right on target, at least compared to exit polls: Obama won by 13 percentage points among women, as Mayur predicted, and won the group of voters whose annual income ranged from $30,000 to $50,000 by 12 points, compared to the nine-point margin predicted by Mayur. Among other groups, Mayur's predictions weren't as strong. Obama did better among Catholics and young voters than predicted. Mayur said the occasional miss could be attributed to a small sample size among certain subgroups. "If you see the same pattern over three or four days, you can feel comfortable about the thing," he said.
He also predicted that candidates other than Obama and McCain would get 4.2% of the presidential vote; their actual vote share was 1.3%. Mayur explained that he names these candidates explicitly in the polls over the final days before the election, which may boost their share. He includes them "just because I want to be more careful," he said.
Like all pollsters, Mayur will face fresh challenges in 2012, including an expected increase in the proportion of households without a landline telephone. "It's a tougher economy, and people are looking at every expense," he said. Young people may also get harder to reach: "The age-group problem is nagging me all the time."
Because cellphone users can be averse to unexpected phone calls, particularly when they cost valuable minutes, Mayur said he would consider assembling an opt-in panel of cellphone-only users, and call on a portion of them in each poll. "The world is changing, and it's not anymore the days when you can rely on a random-digit sample," he said.
In other retrospectives on election polling:
• The polls in Alaska missed the mark badly on three major races, indicating a much-bigger Democratic vote share than materialized on Election Day. The Anchorage Daily News explored the polling failure. "I'm not happy how that came out," said one pollster who predicted a 22-point victory for the Democratic Senate candidate, who was declared winner only last week, and by just a percentage point. That aberrant survey didn't make it into the pollster's selected recap of his "most ACCURATE final national and state election polls."
• Nationally, as I wrote the week of the election, the pollsters did well. "While we worried about the many challenges, the telephone survey again defied the odds and delivered mostly accurate results," former pollster and Pollster.com blogger Mark Blumenthal wrote in the National Journal. He offers more context on his blog, and ends with a question about whether all post-election analysis should center on pollsters' final polls, when the vast majority of polls came earlier and helped shape coverage.


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SIKESTON -- On the outside, Jordan Crawford is just like any other 14-year-old girl.
She goes to school and church, hangs out with friends and plays volleyball and basketball.
On the inside, however, Crawford has a daily fight with diabetes, and now the freshman at Sikeston High School wants to help increase awareness in the Sikeston area by coordinating the Community Walk to Stop Diabetes.
Set for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 15 at the Sikeston First Assembly Park located on North Ingram Road, Crawford hopes that people in the area take notice of the disease that affects nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States.
"I want people to be more aware of those with diabetes and what it actually takes to be a diabetic and what they have to go through," Crawford said.
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Why did it take me so long to read this book? It was a perfect blend of history and magic, marvels and discoveries. Petra was an intriguing mix of innocence and determination and her friends and enemies were a fascinating collection of characters. The mix of adventure, history, and magic is excellent.
I've been looking for a book to start off the 5th/6th grade book club I'm planning for the fall and I think this will be it! I've already got ideas for making our own marvelous marbles, dyed cloth, and more!
ETA: Sadly, no one came to book club. Sniff. However, this book has checked out steadily, although it's not a hugely popular volume it's intriguing and there are plenty of kids who are attracted by the mix of steampunk, history, and magic not to mention the gorgeous cover!
Verdict: Highly recommended. May you have better luck with your book club than I did...
ISBN: 978-0374310264; Published August 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Borrowed from the library; Purchased for the library
Friday, June 26, 2009
Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski
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- Anamaria (bookstogether) said...
I adore this book and hold it singlehandedly responsible for my burning desire to go to Prague. Please keep me posted on your book club project ideas--they sound great!
- June 22, 2009 at 9:27 PM
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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau
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Americans should speak up like that.
Dream on!
the names and the faces change, otherwise nothing much change, same dictatorship/dear Leader, same Congress, same Elites. life goes on. screwing the poor and middle class continues. under the R or D label
To a dictator – "the people have spoken" does not compute
I guess a lot of us have now joined GT on vacay.
That's right, every country should have the right to the dictator of their choice…until we decide they want another.
"Too cowardice"? Did you fail to read your comment before posting or are you just not well versed in proper English? I believe you wanted to use an adjective in this sentence as opposed to a noun.
Yes we get to speak after the selections have been made for us by the Plutocrats. You don't think they would let us pick someone not on their side do you?
And I suppose what the Koch brothers, et. al., are doing is just for show?
Perhaps that new dictator is from the same ethnic group as the people, so that's why he get's a free pass.
Dude, 4 grammar mistake in a post 28 words long? If English really is your first language, and if you REALLY are an American, where did you go to school? The President, phony or not, is way better educated than you are.
Try "4 grammar mistakes."
I spot only two actual mistakes in that post, and yet the writer is getting a lot of flak. As a long-time editor and proofer, I'd say two is not too bad. It's devilishly difficult for even those of us who love grammar, spelling, and punctuation to get everything exactly right, especially on Web sites (yes, "Web sites" is correct!) that seem designed to make mistakes for you.
Just realized I wrote "long-time" instead of "longtime." Now THAT's a furreal mistake!
If you mean democracy, yes. Seems to work doesn't it? Any who don't can't affect the outcomes. So it is a win-win for them. Not us.
We don't need self styled grammarians who have no interest in the discourse here. Go teach a class and leave the rest of us alone.
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• 1 Fried Rice (plus, Stir-Fried Chicken)
Understanding how to make a quick pan of stir-fried rice with vegetables and egg (or even a bit of leftover bacon) can mean a satisfying dinner on even the busiest of weeknights.
• 2 Creamy Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese
This is such a good recipe to know off the top of your head. Comforting, delicious, pleases everyone.
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• 4 Great Pizza
Do you know how to put a pizza together? Do you know a good quick dough recipe by heart? This is such a staple for us.
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This is a real go-to meal for me personally. I can throw together a pan of chicken thighs, mixed up with garlic or any chili sauce in the fridge, and bake it off without even thinking twice.
• 6 Great Beef Stew
Making great beef stew is a slow, meditative process, building up the flavor layer by layer, and it shouldn't require looking at a recipe too often. This is one to know by heart.
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• 8 Oven-Baked Salmon Fillets
This recipe for salmon fillets baked with herbs is so foolproof and delicious — it's really worth knowing.
• 9 Great Granola
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2011 Audi Q7 TDI quattro
Body style: large, 7-passenger, all-wheel-drive SUV
Engine: 225-hp, Turbo Direct Injection, 3.0-liter V-6 with 406 foot-pounds of torque at 1,750 rpm
Transmission: 8-speed Tiptronic
0-60 mph: 8.5 secs.
Fuel economy: 17 mpg city, 25 hwy
Fuel tank: 26. 4 gallons
Tow rating: 5,500 lbs.
Length/wheelbase: 200.3/118.2 in.
Front head/leg/shoulder room: 40/41.2/58.7 in.
Curb weight: 5,567 lbs.
Cargo space: 10.9 cu. ft. (behind third row) to 42 cu. ft.
Turning circle: 39.4 ft.
Safety features include: 6 air bags, front and second row belt pretensioners and force limiters, Electronic stability program with ABS, brake-force distribution, and off-road mode.
Standard equipment includes: remote locking, leather-trimmed seats, leather-wrapped multi-function steering wheel, rear parking sensors, tilt-telescopic steering wheel, power liftgate, heated 12-way front seats, heated windshield washer nozzles, heated side view mirrors
Base price: $51,775, including $875 freight charge; price as tested $58,275
Where assembled: Bratislava, Slovakia
Warranty: 4-years/50,000-miles bumper to bumper with roadside assistance
The Audi Q7 TDI is a diesel man cave of heavy-equipment pull with a range-extending cruising radius of 700 miles on the highway.
Climb into the driver's seat and twist the key of clean diesel that speaks softly and plows blacktop with 406 foot-pounds of torque. That translates to 25-plus mpg on the highway – and that's with all-wheel drive and 5,567 pounds of Euro luxury.
The 2011 Audi Q7 quattro is sold in two, new supercharged V-6 gasoline models and TDI, with several trim levels. All models have Quattro all-wheel drive and an eight-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission.
The Q7 TDI has a starting price of $51,775 and the tester was $58,275 with the Premium Plus package, which added such useful extras as navigation, parking assist sensors and rearview camera, panorama sunroof, xenon headlights and LED running lights and turn signals.
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It took a few days to acclimate to the tip-in of the accelerator and the initial engagement of the brakes. But those are mighty brakes with six-piston front and 4-piston rear calipers and vented, 13.8 inch vented discs front and 13-inch rear (and the same for all models).
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By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: December 27, 2002
HYDERABAD, India— Soon after N. Chandrababu Naidu became chief minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh in August 1995, he ordered that a partly built and abandoned government building here on the edge of the city be finished and turned into a college for computer software engineers.
Today, the building houses one of 300 institutions of higher learning in a state that graduates 65,000 engineers a year, compared with 7,500 when Mr. Naidu took office. The institute is one example of how Mr. Naidu has moved decisively to transform Hyderabad from the quiet administrative center of an agricultural state into a computer programming and pharmaceuticals hub that is trying to rival Bangalore, nearly 300 miles to the south.
With a businesslike, long-term approach to public policy in a country long bedeviled by populists pursuing short-term fixes, Mr. Naidu, who is 52, has become the darling of Western governments and corporations.
He has emerged in their eyes as one of the most promising local leaders not just in India but in the developing world. Big international companies like Microsoft and Oracle have been setting up operations here in Hyderabad, even though Andhra Pradesh has long been one of the poorest states in India.
''It's only the last four or five years that this place is booming,'' said Maruvada V. Raman, the executive officer of the college, the International Institute of Information Technology. ''These things might not have happened if someone else were in his place.''
Mr. Naidu's successes have made him a hit for the last six years at World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland, and elsewhere, where he has moderated panels and been praised as an example for other leaders of poor regions. His agreeing to appear is a breakthrough of sorts for the chief minister of an Indian state. Other chief ministers -- whose responsibilities are similar to those of a governor of an American state -- have avoided the event for fear of hurting populist credentials by hobnobbing with corporate leaders.
''They are all thinking, 'We will get a negative image,' '' Mr. Naidu said. ''It is not true.''
Mr. Naidu added, ''If you do not meet business people and rich people, you will not get investment.''
He has watched the success of Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, and tried to turn Hyderabad into sort of a Route 128 high-technology region to match.
Andhra Pradesh has been developing so quickly that although rural areas in the state still have many problems, the departing Treasury secretary, Paul H. O'Neill, quipped in a visit here last month that the state no longer even seemed to need foreign aid. ''I don't think he needs any help at all,'' Mr. O'Neill said. ''I was really impressed with him and what he is doing.''
That was an exaggeration. Hyderabad, home to about 6.6 million people, has become a green, prosperous hub for computer programming, telephone call centers and drug manufacturing. But most of the state's 76 million people still live in rural villages where change has been slow, and where a two-year drought has brought considerable suffering.
Andhra Pradesh is nonetheless becoming an international model for certain public policies. Some involve little details, like using automation to cut the time needed to get a new driver's license to two hours from two days, or quintupling the number of trees in Hyderabad to make it one of India's greenest, most livable cities.
Mr. Naidu has also been one of the first Indian politicians to tackle a problem that has effectively bankrupted most of the country's state governments: electricity subsidies. State politicians across India have long won elections by promising cheap electricity, a middle-class subsidy in a country where the poor have no access to electricity at all.
Electricity has been kept so cheap in most of the country that it has been uneconomical to build new power plants or even maintain many power cables, resulting in frequent lengthy blackouts that force businesses to buy and run their own diesel generators. Murky laws have long discouraged private investment in power generation and distribution, although efforts are now under way in New Delhi to change this.
Despite sometimes-violent street protests in the late 1990's, Mr. Naidu has succeeded in raising electricity prices here by 70 percent. He has used the extra revenue not just to improve the electrical grid, so blackouts are now uncommon and brief, but also to improve many other public services and to come close to balancing the state budget.
Under Mr. Naidu, Andhra Pradesh has enacted a law requiring union leaders to be workers from the factory or office they represent. Outside political activists have sometimes used Indian labor unions in struggles between political parties instead of seeking better contracts for the workers. Andhra Pradesh has also relaxed some of the restrictions on laying off workers, removing a major obstacle that has discouraged many businesses in India from hiring additional employees.
To the anger of public-sector unions in a country famous for its slow-moving and often unresponsive bureaucracy, Mr. Naidu has begun measuring state employees against one another and preset targets, and he has instituted surprise inspections. He has fired 50 people just in the state's agriculture department and disciplined many more for nonperformance.


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WASHINGTON — Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to increase 9.9 percent in October as merchants wrap up the annual shipping cycle for holiday merchandise, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released Oct. 9 by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates.
"NRF's annual forecast says retailers should see solid growth during the holiday season this year and these cargo numbers back it up," NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said. "Increased imports show that retailers have gauged the market and expect increased sales."
U.S. ports followed by Global Port Tracker handled 1.42 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units in August, the latest month for which after-the-fact numbers are available. That was up 6.7 percent from July and 3.3 percent from August 2011. One TEU is one 20-foot cargo container or its equivalent.
September was estimated at 1.49 million TEU, up 8 percent from last year, and October is forecast at 1.45 million TEU, up 9.9 percent. August, September and October are the three busiest months of the year as retailers bring merchandise into the country for the holiday season, and volume for the three months combined is up 7 percent. While cargo volume doesn't correlate directly with sales, NRF forecast last week that holiday sales will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion this year.
With most holiday merchandise already at least in distribution centers by the end of October, monthly cargo volume will drop off for the remainder of the year but will remain above 2011 levels. November is forecast at 1.32 million TEU, up 2.4 percent from last year, and December is forecast at 1.28 million TEU, up 4.6 percent. After the holidays, January 2013 is forecast to stay at 1.28 million TEU, down one-half of 1 percent from January 2012, and February is forecast at 1.19 million TEU, up 9 percent from a year earlier.
The first half of 2012 totaled 7.7 million TEU, up 2.9 percent from the same period last year. For the full year, 2012 is expected to total 16 million TEU, up 4.1 percent from 2011.
Hackett Associates Founder Ben Hackett noted that some retailers brought cargo into the country early because of the threat of a strike when the labor contract covering East Coast and Gulf Coast longshoremen was set to expire Sept. 30. The strike was averted when labor and management agreed to continue talks through December 31.
"Inventories are up, which could be due to lack of demand but it could also be due to pre-stocking in anticipation of the dock strike that didn't come," Hackett said. "Either way, it is within a narrow range of movement and it does not suggest that we are sliding into another recession."
Global Port Tracker, which is produced for NRF by the consulting firm Hackett Associates, covers the U.S. ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma on the West Coast; New York/New Jersey, Hampton Roads, Charleston, Savannah, Port Everglades and Miami on the East Coast, and Houston on the Gulf Coast. The report is free to NRF retail members, and subscription information is available at www.nrf.com/PortTracker or by calling (202) 783-7971. Subscription information for non-members can be found at www.globalportracker.com.
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- Jan Van Helmont hypothesized that in order for a tree to grow and gain mass, it must find food somewhere else. He carefully weighed a tree and the soil that he wanted to plant the tree in. Time passed, and the tree grew. After five years, he reweighed the tree, which had grown quite large, and the soil. To his surprise, the soil weighed basically the same amount, suggesting to Jan that the plant couldn't be gaining mass from the soil. If you were Jan, what would you do next to try to figure out what the plant was consuming for food?
- Photosynthesis is often described in two steps: the light reactions and the dark reactions. Given what you have learned about photosynthesis and the ways that plants have adapted to optimize it, why is dividing photosynthesis into these categories misleading?
- Are plants more important to people, or are people more important to plants? Explain.
- Why can't we humans perform photosynthesis?
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- Why is the spatial separation of photosynthesis within the chloroplast important?
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- Answer: On Earth, the pigment in a plant's leaves reflects the light that isn't utilized by the plant. If this plant on another planet appears black, that must be because it is able to harness the entire spectrum of visible colors in light for energy.
- Answer: Jan suspected that the tree was gaining mass from the water he was adding. In order to confirm this hypothesis, he could use isotonically labeled water (or use any other molecule that you thought the plant was using). If the plant was incorporating any part of this chemical into its mass, you could then look for that isotopic label in the tissues of the plant.
- Answer: It is misleading because, although the activation of the photosystems is light-dependent, the Calvin cycle can run in the light; it is light-independent, meaning that it does not require light to occur.
- Answer: We could argue that plants are more important to people because we subsist on plants. That is, we consume them and are higher up in the food chain. However, many plants have been domesticated by people and require people to be able to actually disseminate their seeds; corn is one example. Therefore, in the case of domesticated plants, people are just as important to their survival as we are to theirs.
- Answer: Humans lack chloroplasts, which are the places where all the major proteins and pathways required for photosynthesis occur. Instead of being autotrophs ourselves, we eat the carbon of others and are therefore heterotrophs.
- Answer: C3, C4, and CAM plants all perform photosynthesis and generate their own carbohydrates from CO2. C3 plants do this through a 3-carbon intermediate (PGA, or phosphoglycerate) while C4 plants do this through a 4-carbon intermediate (malate). C3 plants have adapted to reduce the amount of photorespiration that occurs, which is basically RuBisCOs malfunction, by isolating RuBisCO from oxygen and shuttling CO2 to RuBisCO via the C4 intermediate. CAM plants have adapted to dry climates by only opening their stomata at night to minimize water loss, as well as storing their CO2 as malate, just like in C4 plants.
- Answer: Spatial separation of photosynthesis in the chloroplast allows for oxidative phosphorylation, or the generation of ATP through the proton gradient, to occur. Additionally, the light-independent reactions, which are oxygen sensitive, must be kept separate from the light-dependent reactions, which generate oxygen.


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Post subject: Nursery - advice/opinions please
Hi ladies
My lo who is 16 months has been going to nursery full-time since July. We have a few reservations about where she goes because she doesn't get a lot of sleep, the sink area where all the crockery is washed is in the baby room, so can be noisy, and most days she is on her own (altho they will take her in the older room).
So, we have found another nursery close to the school which she will eventually be going to. However, she is really attached to the two girls who look after her, she kisses & cuddles them, has one to one attention most of the time and seems happy enough. Will I be doing more harm than good moving her?!? She should be moving into the "big" room when she is 2, but I don't like one of the ladies who runs it, so she will definitely moving anyway. It's just a case of when should I do it?!?
Will it be better to mOve her now do that she mixes with other children?!? But then I'm worried she won't get the same attention?!! Arrrrghh why can it just be easy lol xx
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It hard knowing what to do for the best. If she is happy going there leave her for another while and stop worrying. If she is leaving anyway let her enjoy her one to one attention. I have been worrying about whether to move my lo to private nursery from the childminder now or when he is 3. I have decided to leave him until the summer. The weather will be nicer and hopefully he will be able to play out and have lots of room to wander and get used to a new environment.
My childminder is also used to his funny little ways and his tantrums. I am definitely going to move him so I can get his free 15 hours. I agree though it is so hard to know what to do for the best.
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Im the same as Shell, my dughter went to a childminder when I went back to work as I preferred the one to one environment, but I had intended to move her at around 2 so she could get used to being around other children, but didnt as she was settled.
I was offered afternoons at the school nursery by the childminder from January for her 15 free hours, but then my work moved, so it was impossible for me to take it up, so I looked into private nurseries. All the good ones were full, and I ended up going with one by my work even though I had reservations, but the only other one with spaces I didnt feel as happy about.
We have done a staggered start where she increased her days at the nursery so she wasnt thrown straight into full time, and although she tells me she doesnt like nursery, the staff said she has settled in well, and mixes with the other kids.
Could you do that? where she does a couple of days at one nursery and a couple at the other so she has the best of both?


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DULUTH, MN (Sept. 29, 2009) – A Gallup study of the Duluth-Superior area and 25 other U.S. communities has found that the worst economic crisis in decades is not a key factor in residents' passion and loyalty for their community.
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