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Spinal Injections
Getting to the Source of Your Pain
The discomfort of low back pain can cause you to stop participating in activities you like or need to do each day. Your doctor may prescribe exercises, physical therapy, and a short course of medication to help relieve the pain. In certain cases, the doctor chooses to include spinal injections as part of nonoperative treatment. Spinal injections enable the doctor to diagnose the source of your low back pain or to reduce the pain.
What are they?
Spinal injection procedures involve injecting medications through a needle placed into a structure or space in the spine. Typical medications used include local anesthetics and corticosteroids. Local anesthetics numb the nerves and temporarily prevent them from sending pain signals to your brain. Corticosteroids help reduce local inflammation that may be irritating nerve fibers, thereby preventing the pain signals from being generated.
Several structures in the spine receive a nerve supply. When the structures are damaged or are not functioning correctly, their nerves send pain signals to the brain. The most common pain-generating structures include intervertebral discs (shock absorbers between back bones), facet joints (joints uniting back bones), nerve roots and dorsal root ganglia (collections of nerve cells near a nerve root), sacroiliac joints (joints uniting the hip and tail bones), spinal ligaments (tissue connecting back bones), and muscles. The doctor injects local anesthetics through needles placed in or around the structure that he or she thinks is causing the pain. If that structure is responsible for your pain, then the medication should give pain relief. Unfortunately, local anesthetics work only temporarily because your body breaks down this medication after a few hours. Therefore, corticosteroids usually are injected along with the local anesthetics to give longer relief.
What types of procedures are available?
Typical spinal injection procedures for the lumbar spine (lower back) include epidural steroid injections, facet joint or nerve blocks, sacroiliac joint injections, sympathetic ganglion blocks, and discography (Figs. 1 and 2). The doctor often uses an injection of colorless, iodine-based contrast and a special type of x-ray to help him or her place the needle in the correct location.
Epidural injections involve placing medications in the fatty space that surrounds the spinal sac and its nerve roots in an attempt to relieve back and leg pain. These injections are usually given to people with an intervertebral disc herniation (bulging of disc material into the spinal canal, putting pressure on a nerve) or spinal stenosis (narrowing of the space in the spinal canal through which nerves pass) and associated leg pain.
Injections into the facet joints or sacroiliac joints are used when your doctor suspects that one of these areas is the source of your low back or associated buttock, hip, or leg pain. For diagnostic purposes, small amounts of local anesthetic also may be applied to the nerves supplying these joints.
Lumbar sympathetic ganglion blocks involve placing a needle along the front of the spine and injecting local anesthetics on a collection of nerve cells (ganglia) in an attempt to determine the origin of your limb pain. The doctor usually chooses to use this block if you have widespread limb pain, swelling, and skin that is hypersensitive to touch.
Discography involves placing needles into the center of a disc and injecting an iodine-based contrast. This test is only used for diagnosis, and it enables the doctor to see if the disc is responsible for your low back and leg pain. Imaging tests (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans) may show disc abnormalities, but they cannot tell the doctor if that disc is responsible for your pain; discography is the only way to determine this. The doctor also can use discography when he or she is considering treating your condition with spinal fusion (permanently joining two or more back bones).
When are spinal injections used?
One or more of these procedures usually is considered if you have low back and leg pain that does not get better with other nonoperative treatments, such as oral medications (e.g., ibuprofen, a brief course of narcotics), exercises, mobilization (e.g., osteopathic treatments), physical therapy modalities (e.g., heat, ice, ultrasound, electric stimulation), or bracing. Usually, these people have moderate to severe pain that interferes with several daily activities and that has lasted longer than a few months. Many times, these injections can help speed up the body's own recovery process, thereby shortening the painful episode.
Who cannot have them?
In general, you cannot have one of these procedures if
The number of injections you will have usually depends on the type of spinal injection and whether it relieves your pain. In general, diagnostic injections (except discography) are performed twice. Therapeutic injections can be repeated if they provide long-term relief (i.e., several months or more). In practice, only one or two injections are usually administered, and, typically, you will not have more than three to five injections each year. If you do not have long-term relief, you may need a more permanent intervention such as surgery.
Spinal injections can be a useful addition to the nonoperative treatment of your low back and leg pain. By getting to the source of your pain, the injections may relieve your pain for weeks, months, or years.
Douglas T. Cannon, M.D.
Columbus, Georgia


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We're barely a week into the season and big names like Ryan Braun, Bryce Harper and Mark Teixeira are spending more time in my column than on the field. Prospects like Jameson Taillon and young studs like Matt Moore have ended up here as well, proving once again that any young pitcher is risky.
But that's all we can do right now. We can list the injuries and discuss them. From out here, there's not much more that we can do besides manage risk and build depth. Teams, on the other hand, are left holding the wreckage of their seasons in some cases, burning more money on the DL.
For the Lords of the Realm that run baseball, you'd think a billion-dollar loss would jolt them to action. Instead, calls I made around baseball indicate that there are a couple of small-scale studies underway right now, perhaps a few on the order of the $50,000 studies that baseball has put together in the past.
There's no Manhattan Project to reduce injuries. There's no panicked response to a rash of Tommy John surgeries. There's not even really any spin, like the NFL tried when it faced an increased incidence of ACL injuries.
Instead, there's business as usual. MLB, and worse, the players, simply move along, either ignoring the problem or being defeatist. "Some pitchers break down," I hear, or "there's always been injuries." Sure, this is true, but reduction isn't defeatist and it's certainly not impossible. There are teams out there taking advantage of it to some extent.
If you think the investment the Milwaukee Brewers have made in biomechanics isn't paying off, I'd ask you to name the last player they had undergo Tommy John surgery. (Go ahead, first one to do it in comments gets my respect.) How about the Tampa Bay Rays?
There's answers and advantages out there. Then again, if baseball just likes reading my columns, I'm happy to oblige. My injury database isn't full, and the Urika isn't tired. Powered by the start of another epic Springsteen tour, on to the injuries.

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The last decade has not been so kind. Since the departure of Rick Majerus, Utah has been through one coach after another.
When Larry Krystkowiak was hired to coach the Utah men's basketball team last year, hopes weren't very high - and justimfiably so. Several players abruptly transferred (with good reason), a star player was injured, the Utes were transitioning from the Mountain West to the Pac-12, etc... All of these forces combined led to a dismal 6-25 record.
Most everyone likely assumed that first year would be bad. However, even when you expect a bad year there is typically a hope somewhere the team will surprise you. A record that bad always seems to sting more when it has been realized than when it was merely being contemplated, or even anticipated.
Fast forward... not very far. In Krystkowiak second year, the Utes so far are a 6-2 team. Granted, the competition hasn't been extraordinarily stellar, but Krystkowiak's boys did beat an impressive Boise State team.
And through eight games, the University of Utah men's basketball team has already equaled its win total for all of last year.
The competition will become more intense as the Utes enter into their second year of Pac-12 play. However, if Utah were to maintain it's current win percentage, they would comfortably finish the year with 20+ wins. And if the Pac-12 has an up year, that would almost certainly mean an invitation to participate in the madness of March.
To go from a six-win season to a 20+ win year that results in a NCAA tournament invitation would be remarkable.
However, it's important not to put the cart before the horse.
There is a lot of basketball yet to be played. But what Krystkowiak has done with this Utah basketball team is impressive and much more than I expected.
No disrespect to those coaches who attempted to fill the gap in the culture of winning left by the complex Rick Majerus. Each of them gave it their best shot, and for whatever reasons, fell short of what was expected and desired of them.
Perhaps Utah fans will look back on Krystkowiak as the coach who finally restored the university's culture of winning on the basketball court.


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Obama spokesman Jay Carney said Gen. David H. Petraeus, along with other members of the national security team, met with the president at the White House on Wednesday. Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has long been expected to give Obama multiple options for how to begin bringing U.S. forces home.


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Program Information
PCA Head Start has a long tradition of delivering comprehensive and high quality services designed to foster the healthy development of children. The program has twelve centers within DeKalb and
Central program administration is located in
There is administrative and secretarial support staff located at the Central Office and each center has an assigned Center Coordinator and at least one Family Advocate.
PCA Head Start provides children and families a multitude of opportunities to participate in a broad range of individualized services within the program. Child development, health services (medical, dental, mental health and nutrition) and family development are some of the many services offered. Additionally, program staff and administration ensure that the range of services is responsive and appropriate to each child and family's ethnic and cultural heritage.
PCA Head Start has 197 staff members. This does not include administrative staff. Forty Head Start staff are either current or former Head Start parents.
Of this number, 129 (65%) hold an Associate's, Baccalaureate's, advance degree or the National Child Development Associate Credential. The areas of discipline include the child development, business administration, health education, nutrition, psychology, human resources, family consumer sciences, and elementary education. Many other staff members are currently enrolled in academic coursework to complete AA and BA degrees in early childhood education.
Community Partnerships
PCA Head Start is committed to cultivating community partnerships. Networks are established with community agencies and organizations that provide child development, family support, education, and health services. PCA Head Start insures children and families receive a broad spectrum of individualized services and effectively utilize community resources.
Head Start parents are served within the context of their communities. Parent are provided with a variety of opportunities for continuing education, employment training and other services through formal and informal community networks. The rationale for developing Head Start/Community Partnerships is to improve the delivery of community services for children and families, avoid duplication of services and utilize available dollars to the greatest possible extent.
Child Development Services
The overall objective of child development services is to provide all children with a safe, nurturing, engaging, enjoyable, and secure learning environment. This ensures that they gain the awareness, skills, and confidence necessary to succeed in their present environment and in life.
PCA Head Start endorses the tenet that each child must be treated as an individual in an inclusive community that values, respects, and responds to diversity. The variety of experiences provided by the program support the continuum of children's growth and development; including physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. The program's approach to child development insures the developmental and linguistic appropriateness of children's activities. PCA Head Start recognizes that children have individual rates of development as well as individual interests, temperaments, languages, cultural backgrounds and learning styles. Because of this, the Creative Curriculum is used to support classroom teachers in providing the most conducive environment for learning.
A variety of screening procedures are conducted within 45 calendar days upon your child's entry into the program. All screenings are done in collaboration with the parents. The purpose of screening is to identify any parental or teacher concerns regarding a child's development, sensory (visual and auditory), behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills. Screening materials are linguistically and age appropriate – to the greatest extent possible we remain sensitive to the child's cultural background.
Head Start Program
PCA Head Start has been providing comprehensive child and family services for 40 years in metro
Because of these trends, PCA Head Start has expanded its enrollment since the earlier years and is funded to provide services to a minimum of 1163 infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and pregnant mothers. The program serves a diverse population in terms of culture, ethnicity, and language. Families must meet federal income guidelines and live within the program's service area in order for their children to participate in the program. PCA's Early Head Start program enrolls children from six weeks to age 3 and pregnant mothers. Children must be three or four years old by September 1 to enroll in the PCA Head Start program. At the time of application, parents must provide proof of the child's age, immunization record, and family income for the previous 12 months.
Child Health Services
PCA Head Start encompasses a comprehensive vision of health for children, families, and staff. This is accomplished through collaborative efforts among families, staff, and health professionals to insure all child health and development concerns are identified. Children and families are linked to ongoing sources of continuous accessible care that meet their basic health needs while in the program. Medical homes are established with the family to promote healthy development long after the family leaves Head Start.
Health services include physical examinations, vision screens/exams, hearing screens, and dental examinations. Follow-up treatment is provided for identified medical and/or dental problems.
Staff, community partners and parents play an increasingly important role in helping families advocate for health needs within a complex and changing health care system. Head Start helps promote families' advocacy skills by:
Identifying and documenting health concerns.
Networking with other families who may have similar needs.
Identifying available resources for information and services.
Effectively communicating with health professionals.
Disabilities Services
The PCA Head Start program has operated under a Congressional mandate since 1972 to make a minimum of 10% of its enrollment opportunities available to children with disabilities. The program serves children in integrated developmentally appropriate environments.
The Disabilities Service Plan and written Head Start/School District Memorandum of Agreement's describe a variety of strategies for meeting the special needs of children with disabilities.
Children meeting disabilities eligibility criteria and enrolled in PCA's Head Start, receive the full range of health, dental, nutritional, developmental, parent involvement, and social services. Head Start has a specific mandate to recruit and enroll income-eligible children and children with disabilities who are most in need of services. This includes children with severe disabilities. Head Start coordinates with the Local Education Agency's (LEA) and other groups to benefit children with disabilities and their families. Head Start is committed to providing financial support for children with disabilities in order to meet their special needs. Services will be provided in full, either directly or by a combination of Head Start funds and other resources.
Family Partnerships
PCA Head Start offers parents opportunities and support for growth. An integral component of this area is assisting families with goal setting through the family partnership agreement process.
There is a strong element of relationship building in this area. PCA Head Start, through the Family Advocates, serves as a bridge to link families and resources together. These resources can be in the areas of education, employment, opportunities or with emergency/crisis assistance (i.e., food, housing, clothing, transportation). PCA Head Start provides parents with information/resources relating to mental health or other issues that place families at risk (i.e., substance abuse, child abuse and neglect or domestic violence).
Program Governance
The overall requirement of program governance is to insure PCA Head Start has an established parent policy group and well-functioning governing body that shares responsibility for overseeing the delivery of high quality services to children and families in accordance with Federal Head Start legislation, regulations and policies.
The PCA Head Start Policy Council has a strong leadership role within the overall program and with Head Start administration to:
Serve as a direct link to their respective Parent Committees by reporting Council activities at the monthly centers' parent meetings.
Work with parents enrolled in the program to insure they understand their rights, responsibilities, and opportunities for participation in the program.
Work with parents committees in planning, coordinating, and organizing program activities for parents with staff assistance.
Insure the funds are set-aside from the program budget to support parent activities.
Assist in recruiting parent and community volunteer services to help meet identified needs.
Work to establish and maintain procedures to resolve community complaints about the Head Start program.
Nutrition Services
The quality of nutrition directly impacts the general well-being and health of each child. As part of the total health services delivery system, each child receives a thorough nutrition assessment. Health care plans are developed for children found to be at risk and a follow-up assessment is completed prior to children leaving the program.
Meal service is an integral part of the nutrition services program. The program has central kitchens located at six sites that provide daily breakfast and lunch as well as morning and afternoon snacks for children enrolled in the program. Food transporters use "hot" trucks to transport food to locations without central kitchens. Meals are prepared in accordance with Child and Adult Food Care Program (CACFP) requirements and provide at least 1/3 of children's daily nutritional requirements.
Meal times are considered part of the total learning environment and children assist in setting the table, cleaning-up, and oftentimes participating in nutritional activities in the classroom.
A variety of nutrition education and training opportunities are provided to staff and parents in order to familiarize them with the effects of nutrition on children's development, sound eating techniques, and available community resources.


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Super Monkey Ball 2 brings the party to a whole new level with six brand new party games, six revamped party games, a new Story mode, and 150 new main game stages. Casual gamers will love the easy pick-up-and-play gameplay while the more seasoned gamers will be put to the ultimate test in the later stages. In the new Story mode, you'll fight as AiAi to stop the evil plans of the deranged scientist, Dr. Bad-Boon and his mysterious sidekick, simply known as Dr. Bad-Boon's Assistant. But Story mode is just the beginning–you'll want to grab some friends and get groovin' with the 12 new party games. Take on totally revamped versions of your old favorites like Monkey Bowling and Monkey Target, or step up to the competition on any of the six brand new party games. With its new modes, awesome graphics, and exciting multiplayer features, Super Monkey Ball 2 is guaranteed to keep your party guests going bananas for hours
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Earnings can be complicated, but most are simply a variation on this model: Income minus expenses equals profit. Income and expenses are separated into different categories, and sometimes special items, called charges, that account for unique expenses, can throw a wrench into the works.
Index of leading economic indicators rises
NEW YORK - An indicator of future economic activity inched higher in October, a private research group said Monday, suggesting that recent weakness in the housing market hasn't been severe enough to offset lower gas prices and a rising stock market.
Hastings raises year-end outlook
Amarillo-based Hastings Entertainment reported a $2.2 million loss or 20 cents a share for the third quarter of fiscal year 2006, but company officials raised their fiscal 2006 earnings outlook and anticipate strong holiday sales.
Another debate: Would rematch be fair?
Michigan provided a new plot twist for the Bowl Championship Series - and another great debate for college football fans.
Missouri coach accepts apology for blown call
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel got a surprising apology Monday from Walt Anderson, the Big 12's head of referees.
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DEAR DR. GOTT: I have just returned from a visit out West to see my 4-year-old grandson, and I am heartbroken. This child is completely out of control. Without any discipline from his parents, he was allowed to hit and throw everything he could at me. The parents claim he is "only 4 and does not know any better." This does nothing to enhance any future visits. I am heartsick over this. My question is, where is this child headed and what do I say to make my feelings known?
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Dear Heloise: Here is another pantyhose idea. My mom cut the tops off (the elastic part) and used them as large rubber bands for boxes, etc. - A Port Huron, Mich., Reader
Gorillas halt drought
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Memphis 52, Springlake-Earth 13
Timmell McFalls rushed for three touchdowns and returned an interception 74 yards for another to lead Memphis past Springlake-Earth 52-13 in a Class 1A Division II bidistrict game Saturday night at Plainview.
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Vernon rush attack stuns Perryton
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Lefors gets historic win over McLean in six-man
In Groom, Lefors won its first playoff game since 1974 as it rallied to beat McLean 39-34 late Friday. This is the first time Lefors has made the playoffs in six-man competition and Friday was the Pirates' first playoff win in six-man.
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Quanah 28, Bovina 21
Matthew Hill carried 24 times for 253 yards and scored three touchdowns to lead Quanah past Bovina 28-21 in a Class 1A Division I bidistrict game Saturday at Panhandle.
Lady Sandies dominated Class 5A playoffs
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PD, Canyon highlight AISD girls' tourney
The Amarillo ISD's Girls Tip-Off Classic will bring together three of the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches' ranked teams starting today.
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Cornelius takes another job within CISD
Longtime Randall head football coach Alan Cornelius requested and received reassignment to a noncoaching position Monday, three days after he coached the Raiders in the Class 4A Division I bidistrict playoffs.
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HOMESTEAD, FLA. - Jimmie Johnson's California cool turned to euphoria when he won the Daytona 500.
Injury leads to hard times for family of four
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Falcon Club developer indicted
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Meat prices stay steady
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Woman, 82, hurt as purse grabbed
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Wastewater project put on hold
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The 'flower guy' delivers cheer, comfort and care
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A head-on accident on U.S. 90 in Baker County, Florida killed one driver and seriously injured another, according to an article on News4Jax.com. According to the article, Casey Prevatt's vehicle crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a pickup truck, killing Mr. Prevatt and seriously injuring the driver of the pickup truck.
Assuming the deceased driver caused the accident and the injuries to the pickup truck driver, one question that arises in personal injury cases is whether someone injured by a driver who dies in the crash can make a claim against that deceased driver. In other words, can the injured pickup truck driver sue the other driver who died in the crash? The answer is yes. The at-fault driver's insurance company is still liable to pay the damages caused by the negligence of the driver who died in the crash. If the case cannot be resolved through negotiations, the injured driver can sue the deceased driver's estate for his/her injuries to collect the available insurance money. Also, in any accident, if the owner of the vehicle that caused the crash is different from the driver of that vehicle, the injured party can make a claim against that owner's insurance company for his/her injuries. Florida has what is called the dangerous instrumentality rule which says that an owner of a vehicle (i.e. his/her insurance company) is generally liable for injuries caused by that vehicle even if someone else is driving.


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Along with
the Shirelles
the Ronettes
the Shangri-Las
were among the greatest girl groups; if judged solely on the basis of attitude, they were the greatest of them all. They combined an innocent adolescent charm with more than a hint of darkness, singing about dead bikers, teenage runaways, and doomed love affairs as well as ebullient high-school crushes. These could be delivered with either infectious, handclapping harmonies or melodramatic, almost operatic recitatives that were contrived but utterly effective. Tying it all together in the studio was
Shadow Morton
, a mad genius of a producer who may have been second in eccentric imagination only to
Phil Spector
in the mid-'60s.
the Shangri-Las
were comprised of two pairs of sisters from Queens, NY (identical twins
Mary Anne Ganser
and siblings
Betty Weiss
). They had already recorded a couple of obscure singles when they were hired by
George "Shadow" Morton
to demo a song he had recently written, "Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)." The haunting ballad, with its doomy "Moonlight Sonata"-like piano riffs, wailing lead vocal, and thunderous background harmonies, seguing into an a cappella chorus backed by nothing except handclaps and seagull cries, made the Top Five in late 1964. It also began their association with
Jerry Leiber
Mike Stoller
's Red Bird label, which would handle the group for the bulk of their career.
The quality of
's work with
the Shangri-Las
on Red Bird (with assistance from
Jeff Barry
Artie Butler
) was remarkable considering that he had virtually no prior experience in the music business. The group's material, so over-the-top emotionally that it sometimes bordered on camp, was lightened by the first-class production, which embroidered the tracks with punchy brass, weeping strings, and plenty of imaginative sound effects. Nowhere was this more apparent than on "Leader of the Pack," with its periodic motorcycle roars and crescendo of crashing glass. The death-rock classic became
the Shangri-Las
' signature tune, reaching number one.
Several smaller hits followed in 1965 and 1966, many of them excellent. "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" proved they could handle more conventionally, bubbly girl group fare well; "I Can Never Go Home Anymore," a runaway tale that took their patented pathos to the extreme, would be their third and final Top Ten hit. These all show up on oldies collections, but lots of listeners remain unaware of the other fine singles in their catalog, like the moody "Out in the Streets," the dense orchestral swamp of "He Cried" (which cuts
Jay & the Americans
' original, "She Cried," to pieces), and another teen death tale, "Give Us Your Blessings." Some of their best songs, in fact, were B-sides; "Dressed in Black," yet another teen death drama, had a marvelously hushed and damned atmosphere, and "Paradise" was co-written by a young
Harry Nilsson
. Their most unusual single of all was "Past, Present and Future," which didn't feature a single sung note, presenting a somber spoken monologue and occasional spoken background chants over a classical piano track reminiscent of "Remember (Walking in the Sand)." It was too unconventional to rise above the middle of the charts, especially given that the narrative could quite possibly be construed as the recollections of an assault/rape victim.
Unlike some girl groups,
the Shangri-Las
were dynamic on-stage performers, choreographing their dance steps to their lyrics and wearing skin-tight leather pants and boots that were quite daring for the time. Their real lives, however, were not without elements of drama themselves. Their constant personnel changes baffle historians; sometimes they are pictured as a trio, and sometimes one of the members in the photos is clearly not one of the Weiss
Ganser sisters. Worse, the Red Bird label ran into serious organizational difficulties in the mid-'60s, and wound down its operations in 1966. The group moved to Mercury for a couple of dispirited singles, but had split by the end of the 1960s.
Shadow Morton
went on to an interesting, erratic career that included involvement with
Janis Ian
the New York Dolls
, and
Mott the Hoople
Mary Anne Ganser
died in 1970; the cause has been a source of mystery but it was due to either encephalitis, complications from a barbiturate overdose, or as the result of a seizures. Her sister
died in 1996 of breast cancer.
Even today,
the Shangri-Las
' history remains somewhat murky and mysterious; the original members have rarely reunited for oldies shows or talked to the press. The situation was exacerbated by frustratingly substandard reissues of their Red Bird work, which made it impossible to collect all of their fine sides without buying numerous packages, many of which boasted shockingly shoddy sound quality. Happily, the situation was rectified in the mid-'90s with excellent, comprehensive compilations of the Red Bird material in both the U.K. and U.S.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Unless otherwise noted, the following incidents were reported to Huntsville police Monday and Tuesday. In items with incomplete addresses, police withheld the information:
North precinct
Colfax Road: A vehicle parked at a home in the 8000 block was broken into between 4:30 p.m. Monday and 2 a.m. Tuesday. Six bags of chips and an undisclosed amount of cash were stolen.
Delta Drive: A 20-year-old woman was raped at a home in the 3500 block about 8 a.m. Jan. 30. The rape was not reported to police until Monday.
Memorial Parkway: A 50-year-old woman reported the theft of her purse, wallet, debit card, two checkbooks and a Cato card from a fast food restaurant in the 3000 block between 5:45 and 6 p.m. Sunday.
Mount Vernon Road: A 24-inch bicycle was stolen from a home in the 2400 block between 1 and 3:35 p.m. Aug. 1. The report was not made public until Tuesday.
Oakmont Avenue: A home in the 3400 block was burglarized between 10 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. Monday. A DVD player, checkbook, an undisclosed amount of cash and miscellaneous jewelry were stolen.
Purdy Drive: $2,250 was stolen by moneygram in a swindle that targeted a 76-year-old man at a home in the 3500 block between July 27 and Aug. 1.
Stanwood Boulevard: $30,000 in scrap metal was stolen from a business between 3 p.m. July 1, 2011 and 3 p.m. Saturday.
University Drive: A 51-inch TV and a 42-inch TV were stolen by fraudulent leasing from a business between June 12 and 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Venona Avenue: An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen from a home between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Monday.
South precinct
Hunters Ridge Drive: A home in the 4000 block was burglarized between 5:50 and 8 a.m. Monday. A 36-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV, a computer desk, a desktop computer, flat-panel monitor, keyboard and components and miscellaneous baby clothes were stolen.
Hunters Ridge Drive: A 36-year-old woman reported the theft of $5,420 in a tax refund that happened between Jan. 30 and Feb. 28, 2011. The theft was not reported to police until Tuesday.
Locust Circle: A .22 caliber pistol was stolen from a home in the 1500 block between May 15 and June 15. Also stolen were seven credit cards. The theft was not reported to police until Monday.
Old Field Road: An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen from a home in the 8100 block between 6 p.m. Aug. 1 and 9 a.m. Monday.
Shiloh Street: A push lawn mower was stolen from a home in the 1000 block between 7 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday.
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Seventh Avenue: Three pictures were stolen from a business in the 3300 block between 12:08 a.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Monday.
Drake Avenue: A 25-year-old man reported the theft of his wallet, driver's license, Social Security card and miscellaneous cash from a service station in the 3100 block about 11:15 p.m. Monday.
Jordan Lane: A Fender guitar was stolen by deception from a business in the 300 block about 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Judith Lane: A 53-year-old woman reported her identity stolen on July 31. The theft was not discovered and reported to police until Tuesday.
Martin Road: A vehicle parked in a parking lot was broken into between 6 p.m. July 28 and 6 p.m. Friday. A 22-inch flat-screen TV was stolen. The theft was not reported to police until Tuesday.
Sparkman Drive: A vehicle parked in a parking lot in the 1500 block was broken into between 11 p.m. Monday and 5:20 a.m. Tuesday. $5 in cash was stolen.
Squaw Valley Drive: A home in the 3800 block was burglarized between 12:01 a.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Monday. Miscellaneous DVDs, a 27-inch flat-screen TV, a DVD player and a cable box were stolen.


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Legion Auxiliary seeks veterans
All Richland Parish veterans whose names have not been added to the Veteran Memorial on the Courthouse Square in downtown Rayville are invited to place their name this monument.
The American Legion Auxiliary of Tommie Cook Post # 122 will now handle this project. Applications will be accepted from those Richland Parish veterans that have not been placed on the existing monument.
This project was started by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Richland Parish. The Richland Parish American Legion Auxiliary will be the contact agency to continue this project of adding Richland Parish veterans to this memorial. Auxiliary committee members for this project is Kay Perritt, Bettye Sue Landrum, Becki Cassell, Jena Cordell and Melda Silk.
Applications may be picked up at Richland State Bank in Rayville and Mangham, Bancorp South Bank in Rayville, Guaranty Bank in Delhi, Rayville and Start, Commercial Capital Bank in Delhi and Regions Bank in Delhi.


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Growing up, I watched all the old classics. You know, the stuff with singing, dancing, and honey-sweet romance. Instead of tuning in to early morning children's programming, the little version of myself dolled up in every frilly dress and slip known to man (all worn at the same time... what can I say? Layering is practically an innate quality of mine), twirling and serenading any family member that would listen to the tunes of Harvey Girls and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
My favorite part of all those silver screen movies? The dresses, specifically the ones with poofy skirts and lacey slips. Oh, and let's not forget the shoes. I wish you could have a friendly ole' chat with my mom about the frenzy it created. She tells the story best. I would start jumping up and down in excitement every time a waltz broke out, which was obviously more often than not. The crazier and poofier the dress, the more enthralled I became and the higher my jumps reached. It even got to the point where I started drawing pictures of my favorite scenes. My piece de resistance is the drawing of this act when she tumbles over at the very end. I'm pretty sure it's tucked away in a keepsakes box somewhere. I should pull it out and scan it for my posterity to behold. And let's not forget the time I made my oldest brother Brett reenact this scene (the jumps in particular) with me. Ohhh, so many fond memories.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch White Christmas. Gotta brush up on my "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" moves ;)


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Republican House Speaker Kurt Zellers told MPR there wasn't a vote on the Vikings stadium bill Saturday because, "We're going to wait for the authors and the advocates to say 'we believe we have all of our votes now.' Until then it's too early."
The announcement came shortly after Gov. Mark Dayton and Democratic leadership held a news conference Saturday to push the House to hold a vote on the Vikings stadium proposal. Vikings fans, sporting purple and gold, also rallied at the State Capitol Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Senate Tax Committee approved the stadium bill by a single vote Friday night after more than five hours of debate.
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Before sending the proposal to the full Senate, the committee removed the racino provision from the measure. Senators could vote on the bill as soon as Sunday.
Saturday Rep. Zellers suggested he's willing to hold the session open longer than Monday's self-imposed deadline, "If we need to make a little extra time for some of the shenanigans that these folks are going to plan, we'll do that because it's more important to do the right thing for Minnesotans."


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TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie would be a strong contender in the 2016 general election for president but may have a hard time in the Republican primary, according to a new poll.
The survey by the Democratic North Carolina-based firm Public Policy Polling shows Christie would be the most "threatening" Republican opponent to Democrat Hillary Clinton, who leads the pack of prospective Democratic candidates. In a head-to-head matchup, Clinton gets 44 percent to Christie's 42 percent.
"As expected, Hillary Clinton would be the ideal Democratic presidential candidate in 2016," said Dean Debnam, president of the polling company. "But if Chris Christie could win the GOP nomination, he'd be a formidable general election candidate."
Prominent Republicans Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan all trail Clinton by double-digit margins.
But Rubio leads among potential GOP primary voters, with 21 percent support to Ryan's 16 percent and Mike Huckabee's 15 percent. Christie and Bush are tied at 14 percent each.
The poll of 1,100 voters was taken from Jan. 3 to Jan.6. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percent. For the 569 Republican primary voters it's plus or minus 4.1 percent.


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Over the past year, a number of the highest-yielding dividend stocks on the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) have taken massive hits to their share prices.
I'm referring specifically to real estate investment trusts such as CYS Investments (NYSE: CYS ) , ARMOUR Residential (NYSE: ARR ) , and American Capital Mortgage Investment (NASDAQ: MTGE ) .
Slaughter in the mortgage REIT market
Since last October, shares of CYS Investments are down by 36%, ARMOUR Residential by 38%, and American Capital Mortgage Investment by 18%.
That the inflection point occurred in May isn't a coincidence. The catalyst for the decline was a hint by the Federal Reserve after its May meeting that it could soon begin to reduce its support for the economy via its monthly purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds.
On the heels of that announcement, long-term interest rates skyrocketed. Among others, the rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage leapt by roughly 100 basis points. And because interest rates and the value of fixed-income securities are inversely correlated, this sent the latter plummeting.
You can see the impact of these trends on the book value per share at each of these companies. Since the end of last year, the metric has fallen by 24% at CYS Investments, 25% at ARMOUR Residential, and 12% at American Capital Mortgage Investment -- though the latter's figures are current through only June 30.
Does this present a buying opportunity?
The point is that the share-price decline has outpaced the drop in book value per share. Does this present a buying opportunity?
It's tempting at this point to say "yes." Because of the different rates of the decline in these two metrics, all three companies currently trade below book value. But here's the catch: The discount is in anticipation of further book value deterioration, which is bound to come as interest rates rise further.
For the investor, the issue is whether you believe the market has been overly pessimistic on its reading of interest rate trends. If it has, then these companies may very well be a good buy at today's price. If not, then rates could fall further and thus present a better buy at some future point.
Needless to say, trying to predict the future like this is a perilous and imprecise exercise at best. And it's for this reason that I encourage income-seeking investors to settle on dividend-paying companies that are surer bets -- that is, ones that aren't completely shackled to fluctuations in interest rates.
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Giving Makes You Happier Than Spending (Both Cost Money)
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An article in LifeScience says that the key to happiness is to spend your money on others. It could be charitable donations to a worthy cause of choice or it could be buying gifts for friends and family members, but the warm and fuzzies lasted much longer if you spent the money on others than if you spent it on yourself. "New research reveals that when individuals dole out money for gifts for friends or charitable donations, they get a boost in happiness while those who spend on themselves get no such cheery lift."
One of the teams involved in the experiments theorized why this was the case and had a few decent theories. One theory, one that I thought made the most sense, was that people spend a lot of money to make their lives seem more "meaningful, significant, and important," and that giving away money is a much more effective way of doing that. If you impact someone else's life in a positive way, that certainly gives you more meaning, significance, and importance than you did if you spent it on yourself.
What's funny is that I said something similar my wife while we were on our honeymoon. I mentioned that it's much easier for me to spend money on other people, such as gifts on her (which she smiled at and then hit me), than it is to spend on myself. If I want to buy a new bicycle, for example, I'll spend way too long researching different bicycles, comparison shopping, and price searching before I'll pull the trigger (I'm still "researching," it's been nearly a year).
Part of the reason is because I want a good deal but I also have to get over the fact that I'm buying something selfish that I could save for the future, either for my retirement, my future children, etc. However, last year we donated money to charity last year in relative blink of an eye (there was some research on Charity Navigator) and I attribute that to the lack of the "selfish" hurdle (the tax deduction helps too). Of course, the happiness (and heart-wrench, if that's a word) from receiving letters from organizations like Operation Smile (it's a charity my mom told me about and supports) and the kids that have benefited from its work do help as well.
As an extension of this, I bet that the same happiness effect would apply if you spent time volunteering rather than working on a particular day (or weekend). It's not as quick as spending money, but perhaps the happiness effect would be more pronounced. Either way, the lessons seems to be that if you want to make your life a little brighter for a little longer, do something philanthropic today. You can always get that bicycle tomorrow (or the next day, or the next day). 🙂{ 8 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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($83; a blend of aglianico and piedirosso) Bright ruby-red. Smoky, roasted nose features cherry pit, tobacco, iron, lead pencil, currant leaf, creosote, menthol and pine resin; smells a bit like Haut Brion. Then dense and powerful in the mouth, with pungent, oaky dark berry flavors complicated by tar, tobacco, resin and smoke. A superconcentrated, extremely wild wine with a rather claret-like texture, powerful soil character and strong, slightly bitter hints of oaky torrefaction. The huge, very long and thoroughly untamed finish features big, chewy tannins and notes of dark berries and dried herbs. I was somewhat put off by this wine's bitter oakiness and impression of strong extraction but was impressed by its vibrancy. (Winebow, Inc., Hohokus, NJ)
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MUCKRAKERS AT WORK: Journalist Ida Tarbell, a native of Amity Township in Erie County, published "The History of the Standard Oil Company." Originally serialized in McClure's Magazine, Tarbell's negative expos� on Standard Oil detailed the business practices of John D. Rockefeller's company and played an important role in the development of stricter antitrust laws in the U.S. Tarbell helped to develop new investigative journalism techniques -- she conducted numerous interviews and combed through public documents across the U.S. while writing her damning portrayal of a big business. Tarbell's father worked as an oil producer in Venango County; she later wrote that the unfair business tactics of Standard Oil helped to drive her father and similar small companies out of business.
ALSO IN 1904: Erie's Majestic Theater, on 10th Street between Peach and State streets, opened. According to John R. Claridge's "Lost Erie," the stately theater, modeled on a New York City theater of the same name, had a modern design. "No columns obstructed any view and its mezzanine balcony was among the first in the country." The theater was renamed the Perry in 1914 and later, Shea's. The city demolished the handsome building in the 1960s.


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I thought I voted for this already. Hmm…I like the black shirt with the white bats better, but that's just me…+1
Wow, Your flyging bats are very fantastic… I like more lead color.
+1 voted. Good luck.
i like the black! +1
Very cool!
Cool on white.
solid drawing!
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BenjaminPhantom said: I thought I voted for this already.
haha, yea. there were some errors in the first mockup, so I resubbed it.
+1 please look at mine
Really like this one too. I prefer the silver (?) with black bats better!
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thanks a lot everyone :)
I like it on the dark tee, it's scarier!
Wow these illustrated bats look great! +1
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really cool. i think id buy either. im surprised this hasnt gotten more votes.
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Submitted by Renee Buccafusco, Pleasant Plains
½ cup olive oil
½ onion, chopped
7 cloves garlic, halved
½ small zucchini, finely chopped
6 kalamata olives, pitted and chopped
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
½ cup Pecorino Romano grated cheese
½ cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
½ cup fresh basil, finely chopped
3 eggs
½ cup vegetable oil for frying
Add oil to a skillet over medium heat. Sauté onions, garlic and zucchini until soft. Transfer to a bowl. Add olives, bread crumbs, cheese, parsley and basil. Mix well.
In a separate bowl, whisk eggs, add to bread crumb mixture. Form into patties. Coat skillet with vegetable oil and fry patties. Makes 4 to 6 servings.
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The University has come a long way since its humble beginnings on Hartford's last remaining farm, evolving from a local school for commuters into a comprehensive university that attracts students from throughout the world. Yet it remains true to its original mission of serving as a valued resource for individuals, families, businesses, and communities throughout the Hartford region, offering hundreds of programs that serve the University and its neighbors every day. For over 45 years listener supported WWUH has served an important role in the University's community service mission.
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Mala is Associate Professor, and the Director of the Undergraduate Program, in Psychology. She is joined in the studio by Nikole Jewell, a Junior at the University of Hartford.
In this interview, Mala and Nikole talk with David about stereotypes of femininity and masculinity; patriarchy in our culture; the intersection of power, privilege, and gender; shame-spiraling; beauty, fashion, and make-up; Girlcott; Umbrellas for Peace/Take Back the Night; sexual violence; scale smashing; and about the organization they are very active in on campus: Women for Change.
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Portland State University is doing a great job at attracting students but not such a great job of graduating those same students.
And that fact will be a pressure point for PSU if the 2011 Legislature passes a mammoth, 400-page higher-ed reform bill that proposes to give Oregon's seven public universities far greater autonomy in exchange for a higher level of accountability.
The bill would mean PSU must become less of a warehouse and more of a finishing school, because the focus of future public university funding would shift from enrollment to outcomes.
"We'll set targets for graduation rates," says Senate Education Committee Chairman Mark Hass (D-Beaverton). "And funding will be set according to those goals."
Hass co-chaired a bipartisan panel that wrote the bill and introduced it to an interim committee last week. The measure enjoys strong bipartisan support, although a competing University of Oregon plan could muddy the waters.
Currently, the Legislature allocates money—$821 million in the 2009-11 biennium—to Oregon's seven public universities based on a formula that largely depends on enrollment. As part of an ambitious expansion in recent years, PSU has recruited foreign and out-of-state students and competed for those who might previously have headed to Eugene or Corvallis.
But even as PSU's enrollment of 28,522 soared above that of Oregon and Oregon State, the university's graduation rate remained low.
Federal stats show only 33 percent of those students who entered PSU in 2003 graduated within six years.
The national rate was 57 percent. At the University of Oregon, 70 percent graduated within six years, and at Oregon State the number was 60 percent. PSU's six-year graduation rate also places it well below the 41 percent average of the 14 urban universities it compares itself to (41 percent).
PSU professor Sukhwant Singh Jhaj, also a special assistant to the provost, is leading a project to identify reasons more students are not graduating.
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Still, Jhaj says, neither he nor his colleagues in the provost's office are defending the status quo.
"We know our graduation rate must improve," he says.
Jhaj's project has involved crunching data PSU had not previously analyzed to figure out who was falling through the cracks en route to graduation, and why.
Their findings are not terribly surprising but do suggest that if the Legislature approves the reform bill, PSU could look very different. Jhaj's analysis found three primary factors determine whether students succeed at PSU: academic preparedness, the level of "connectedness" they feel to the university, and their "financial and physical well-being."
Although PSU nominally requires entering students to have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher, Jhaj found nearly one-third of students enrolled in basic courses that most entering students take had not met that standard.
Second, students often skipped fundamental steps such as attending freshman orientation and displayed little awareness of counseling or other support services that could help when they encountered difficulties.
The new plan is to "front-load services," Jhaj says, so students know what resources are available when they are struggling to pay tuition or worried about other obstacles to graduation.
Hass, the Senate education committee chairman, applauds that approach. He says there's limited benefit to students or the state when both spend scarce dollars without having a diploma to show for the effort.
"At some point it's incumbent on these institutions to take some responsibility for helping these kids succeed," Hass says. "Setting some goals here should help change that."
Of the 14 urban universities PSU compares itself to, the best six-year graduation rate for the class entering in 2003 was at University of North Carolina-Charlotte (54 percent). The worst was at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock (14 percent).


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In computer science, a metaobject is an object that manipulates, creates, describes, or implements other objects (including itself). The object that the metaobject is about is called the base object. Some information that a metaobject might store is the base object's type, interface, class, methods, attributes, parse tree, etc. Metaobjects are examples of the computer science concept of reflection, where a system has access (usually at run time) to its internal structure. Reflection enables a system to essentially rewrite itself on the fly, to change the actual structure of the system as it executes.[1]
Metaobject protocol[edit]
A metaobject protocol (MOP) provides the vocabulary (protocol) to access and manipulate the structure and behavior of systems of objects. Typical functions of a metaobject protocol include:[2]
- Creating and deleting new classes
- Creating new methods and properties
- Changing the class structure so that classes inherit from different classes
- Generating or modifying the code that defines the methods for the class
Metaobject protocol is contrary to the "closed" aspect of Bertrand Meyer's open/closed principle, which holds that object-software systems should be open to extension but closed to modification. Metaobject protocol transparently exposes the internal structure of objects and the entire object system, opening the possibility for radical redesign. For this reason it is usually used sparingly and for special circumstances such as software that transforms other software, for example for reverse engineering.[3]
Runtime and compile time[edit]
When compilation is not available at run-time there are additional complications for the implementation of metaobject protocol. For example, it is possible to change the type hierarchy with such a protocol but doing so may cause problems for code compiled with an alternative class model definition. Some environments have found innovative solutions for this, e.g., by handling metaobject issues at compile time. A good example of this is OpenC++.[4]
It is noteworthy that the Semantic web object-oriented model is more dynamic than most standard object systems, and is consistent with runtime metaobject protocols. For example, in the Semantic web model classes are expected to change their relations to each other and there is a special inference engine known as a classifier that can validate and analyze evolving class models.[5]
The first metaobject protocol was in the Smalltalk object-oriented programming language developed at Xerox PARC. The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) came later and was influenced by the Smalltalk protocol. The CLOS model, unlike the Smalltalk model, allows a class to have more than one superclass. This raises additional complexity in issues such as resolving the lineage of the class hierarchy on some object instance, which is, unlike in Smalltalk, handled via generic functions rather than message passing.[6] The most influential book describing the semantics and implementation of the metaobject protocol in Common Lisp is The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales et al.[7]
Metaobject protocols are also extensively used in software engineering applications. In virtually all commercial CASE, re-engineering, and Integrated Development Environments there is some form of metaobject protocol to represent and manipulate the design artifacts.[8][9][10]
A metaobject protocol is one way to implement aspect-oriented programming. Many of the early founders of MOPs, including Gregor Kiczales, have since moved on to be the primary advocates for aspect-oriented programming. Kiczales et al. of PARC were hired to design AspectJ for Java, a language which does not possess a native metaobject protocol.
See also[edit]
- Kind (type theory)
- Metaclass
- Javassist
- Joose JavaScript meta object system
- Moose Perl meta object system
- OpenC++
- OpenJava
- Unified Modeling Language: UML
- Groovy
- ^ Smith, Brian C (1982-01-01). "PROCEDURAL REFLECTION IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES". MIT Technical Report (MIT-LCS-TR-272). Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ Foote, Brian; Ralph Johnson (1–6 October 1989). "Reflective Facilities in Smalltalk-80". OOPSLA '89. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ Favre, Lilliana; Liliana Martinez; Claudia Pereira (2009). MDA-Based Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-01861-9.
- ^ Chiba, Shigeru (1995). "A Metaobject Protocol for C++". OOPSLA '95. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Knublauch, Holger; Oberle, Daniel; Tetlow, Phil; Wallace, Evan (2006-03-09). "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers". W3C. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- ^ "Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming" (PDF). Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ^ Kiczales, Gregor; Jim des Rivieres; Daniel G. Bobrow (July 30, 1991). The Art of the Metaobject Protocol. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262610742.
- ^ Johnson, Lewis; David R. Harris; Kevin M. Benner; Martin S. Feather (October 1992). "Aries: The Requirements/Specification Facet for KBSA". Rome Laboratory Final Technical Report. RL-TR-92-248.
- ^ "The Origin of Refine" (PDF). www.metaware.fr. Metaware White Paper. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ^ "OMG's MetaObject Facility". omg.org. Object Management Group. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
External links[edit]
- The Guile MOP specification (GOOPS, based on Tiny CLOS)
- Metaobjects and the Metaobject Protocol
- The Common Lisp Object System MetaObject Protocol (contains two chapters from The Art of the Metaobject Protocol)
- Python 3 Metaprogramming


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|The Moon phases are produced by the alignment of the Moon and the Sun in the sky.
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What is the phase of the moon?
The changing shape of the bright part of the Moon that we see is called its phase.
What causes part of the Moon to be lit up?
The moon is illuminated because it reflects the light from the sun. The part of the moon facing the sun is lit up. The part facing away from the sun is in darkness.
What causes the different phases of the Moon?
The phases of the Moon depend on its position in relation to the Sun and Earth. As the Moon makes its way around the Earth, we see the bright parts of the Moon's surface at different angles. These are called "phases" of the Moon.
What are the different phases of the Moon called?
The phases of the moon work in a cycle starting with the new moon.
Did you know?
There are eight phases of the moon
The phases are named after how much of the moon we can see, and whether the amount visible is increasing, or decreasing each day.
It takes our Moon about 29.5 days to completely cycle through all eight phases. This is known as a Lunar month
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The Moon orbits near the equator of the Earth. In the northern hemisphere, we're standing on the opposite side of the globe from countries in the southern hemisphere i.e. we are "upside down" from each other! We therefore see the Moon from a completely different vantage point from each other. Read more here
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