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Jeffrey Dudgeon gave a dinner last Wednesday to celebrate collecting his MBE. Jeffrey who? Struggles produce heroes whose names fade after their cause prevails, but Mr Dudgeon's should never be forgotten: the Belfast shipping clerk who — because homosexuality remained a criminal offence in Northern Ireland — took the UK Government to the European Court of Human Rights (boo!) and won (hooray!). Westminster changed the law two decades ago and in the last New Year's Honours Mr Dudgeon was appointed MBE.
Speaking at his celebration dinner he described being presented to Princess Anne at the investiture at Buckingham Palace. The question from the Princess Royal assumed a deeper meaning than she knew: "Have you come a long way?"
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Nothing embodies the failures of the Italian state more neatly than the highway from Salerno to Reggio Calabria.
But getting off Italian beachheads at Salerno and Anzio had proven nightmarish.
Salerno, joined by former Salinger flame Jean Miller and others, discussed the film in a post-screening Q&A.
Attilio Iorio, the investigating judge in Salerno, Italy, which has jurisdiction over Potenza, would like to do the same.
An oral biography of the same name, by Salerno and David Shields, is currently available at a bookstore near you.
Finally, the Syndic of Salerno was asked if he had seen anything of the Garibaldian expeditions by sea?
As early as the ninth century Salerno was famous for its great physicians.
There are many other names of women professors at the University of Salerno in this department.
Wealthy patients were coming from all over the world to be treated at Salerno.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) Tunisian authorities struggled to restore order Sunday, arresting the top presidential security chief and trying to stop gunfights that erupted across the capital. One clash broke out around the deposed president's palace on the Mediterranean shore, another near the headquarters of the main opposition party.
Observers worldwide were looking to see which way the North African nation would turn as its new leadership sought to tamp down the looting, arson and random violence that has taken place since autocratic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday. The nation was in the midst of an unprecedented power shift for the Arab world.
Tensions appeared to be mounting between Tunisians buoyant over Ben Ali's departure and loyalists in danger of losing major perks. Tunisian police made dozens of arrests, some for drive-by shootings on buildings and people in the capital, Tunis.
DIPLOMACY: Clinton urges Tunisian reforms
EARLIER: Tunisian prime minister takes over
The security chief Ali Seriati and his deputy were charged with a plot against state security, aggressive acts and for "provoking disorder, murder and pillaging," the TAP state news agency reported.
To cheers and smiles, some residents of Tunis tore down massive portraits of Ben Ali that were omnipresent during his reign, hanging on lampposts and billboards, gazing down over shops and hotels. Some stretched several stories high.
A gunbattle broke out around the presidential palace, two residents said. Presidential guards loyal to deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali were involved in the shootout in Carthage on the Mediterranean shore, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of the capital, Tunis. The residents spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fears for their security.
Carthage residents have barricaded themselves inside their homes amid the shooting.
Other gunfights broke out near the PDP opposition party headquarters and near the dreaded Interior Ministry.
It was the second change of power in this North African nation in less than 24 hours.
Amid the political instability, looters emptied shops and torched the main train station in Tunis, soldiers traded fire with assailants in front of the Interior Ministry, and thousands of European tourists sought a plane flight home.
The death toll mounted. At least 42 people were killed Saturday in a prison fire in one resort town and the director of another prison in another tourist haven let 1,000 inmates flee after soldiers shot five dead amid a rebellion. Those deaths came on top of scores of others after a month of protests in which police often fired upon demonstrators.
After Ben Ali fled the country Friday for Saudi Arabia following years of protests over corruption, a lack of jobs and clampdowns on civil liberties, leadership changes came at a dizzying speed.
Ben Ali's longtime ally, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, stepped in briefly with a vague assumption of power that left open the possibility that Ben Ali could return. But on Saturday, the head of the Constitutional Council declared the president's departure permanent and gave Fouad Mebazaa, leader of the lower house of parliament, 60 days to organize new elections.
Hours later, Mebazaa was sworn in.
In his first televised address, the interim president asked the premier to form a "national unity government in the country's best interests" in which all political parties will be consulted "without exception nor exclusion."
The move was one of reconciliation, but it was not clear how far the 77-year-old Mebazaa, who has been part of Tunisia's ruling class for decades, would truly go to work with the opposition. It was also unclear who would emerge as the country's top political leaders, since Ben Ali utterly dominated politics, placing allies in power and sending opponents into jail or exile.
On the streets, the unrest was frightening.
A fire Saturday at a prison in the Mediterranean coastal resort of Monastir killed 42 people, coroner Tarek Mghirbi told The Associated Press. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
In Mahdia, further down the coast, inmates set fire to their mattresses in protest. Soldiers opened fire, killing five inmates, top local official said. The director of the prison then let about 1,000 other inmates flee the prison to avoid further bloodshed, the official said, asking not to be identified because of security concerns.
In front of the Interior Ministry in Tunis, the capital, security forces and unidentified assailants had a shootout Saturday that left two bodies on the ground.
Sporadic gunfire echoed around the capital and looters were out in force. Black smoke billowed over a giant supermarket in Ariana, north of the capital, as it was torched and emptied. Soldiers fired warning shots in vain to try to stop the looters, and shops near the main bazaar were also attacked.
Some rioters appeared to be targeting businesses owned by members of Ben Ali's family, which had financial interests in a wide range of sectors, from banking to car dealerships. In Tunis, a branch of the Zeitouna bank founded by Ben Ali's son-in-law was torched, as were vehicles made by Kia, Fiat and Porsche— carmakers distributed in Tunisia by members of the ruling family.
Public television station TV7 broadcast phone calls from residents on the capital's outskirts, describing attacks by knife-wielding assailants.
Residents of some Tunis neighborhoods set up barricades and organized overnight patrols to deter rioters. In the tony El Menzah neighborhood, dozens of men and boys armed with baseball bats and clubs were taking turns on patrol — just as a broadcast on Tunisian television had urged citizens to do.
"This isn't good at all. I'm very afraid for the kids and myself," said Lilia Ben Romdhan, a mother of three in outer Tunis. "If (Ben Ali) had stayed in the country it would be better."
Kamel Fdela, selling oranges and bananas in the same neighborhood, said he wanted democracy but was not sure that would happen. He also feared food shortages, with so many stores closed and others looted.
"God willing, a real man will take over," he said.
Tunisian airspace reopened Saturday, but some flights were canceled and others left with delays. Thousands of tourists were still being evacuated from the Mediterranean nation known for its sandy beaches, desert landscapes and ancient ruins.
"It was quite scary but I was never in fear for my life," said Mary Grist, a retiree who arrived Saturday at Britain's Manchester Airport from Tunisia. "What we have seen is the aftermath, burned-out petrol stations and the army lining the streets with their guns."
A Paris-based photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega of the EPA photo agency, was in critical condition Saturday after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister.
Tunisians abroad celebrated Ben Ali's ouster.
Thousands of messages congratulating the Tunisian people flooded the Internet on Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Hundreds demonstrated Saturday afternoon in Brussels, demanding that Ben Ali be brought to justice. One banner read "Ben Ali has to pay for his crimes."
Another 8,000 people marched in Paris to express support for Tunisia's people, waving Tunisian flags and carrying cardboard coffins to honor those killed. They hailed the "Jasmine Revolution," referring to the scented flower that is omnipresent in Tunisia.
"I went to the march to celebrate but also to express my solidarity with the Tunisian people, who have suffered so much," said Paris marcher Ghazi Zouari, a 42-year-old Tunisian who has lived in France for decades. "It was a celebration, but tinged with fear, because the situation on the ground is so unstable."
Saudi King Abdullah's palace confirmed that the ousted president and some family members had landed in Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom welcomed him with a wish for "peace and security to return to the people of Tunisia."
A source inside the kingdom who spoke on condition of anonymity said Ben Ali was in the small city of Abha, about 310 miles south of Jeddah.
The French government, meanwhile, said other members of Ben Ali's family were "not welcome" in the former colonial ruler and were planning to leave.
Ben Ali's downfall sent a warning to other autocratic leaders across the Arab world, especially because he did not seem especially vulnerable until the very end and managed his country of 10 million better than many other Middle Eastern nations.
He turned Tunisia into a beach haven for European tourists, an area of stability in volatile North Africa. Residents had a lack of civil rights and little freedom of speech, but a better quality of life than in neighboring Algeria or Libya.
Ben Ali presided over reforms to make the economy more competitive and growth last year was 3.1%. Unemployment, however, was officially 14% but believed to be far higher among the young.
The riots started after an educated but jobless 26-year-old committed suicide in mid-December when police confiscated the fruits and vegetables he was selling without a permit. His desperate act hit a nerve, sparked copycat suicides and focused anger against the regime into a widespread revolt.
In Egypt, human rights activist Hossam Bahgat said he was glued to the news watching the fall of the Tunisian government and hoped that his countrymen could do the same someday.
"I feel like we are a giant step closer to our own liberation," he told the AP. "What's significant about Tunisia is that literally days ago the regime seemed unshakable, and then eventually democracy prevailed without a single Western state lifting a finger."
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CIDA was here
They came. They participated.
From June 16 to June 20, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), with the collaboration of Mosaic.net International, offered a group of participants a workshop on Participatory Development in the Wakefield area.
During this three-day workshop, which was spent in residence at the Auberge Sentiers Carman/Carman Trails Hostel, in Wakefield, with host Ken Bouchard and his team, the participants learned participatory development tools and how to apply them in their work environment.
One of the highlights of the workshop was the actual application of the tools with members of the Wakefield community. All of the participants were able to practice with several residents of Wakefield.
The overall thrust of the course was to involve communities in the design of any program that would have a direct impact on the community. This is a technique that is used more and more in all areas, from health to environment to crime prevention.
Several of the techniques for working with communities to identify their concerns and jointly arrive at solutions can be applied to ensure a democratic process that respects the interests of those most affected by the outcome.
In order to get a hands-on experience in using some of these techniques, the course participants were sent out in the community of Wakefield.
Within a six-hour span, they swarmed the village to interact with as many residents and learn as much as possible about the community.
According to Joanne Mantha, senior training officer for CIDA, it was obvious that the community is very proud of its history and that people live here because they choose to, that many community members work hard to improve the economic prospects while retaining the environmental beauty of the surroundings.
Mantha said that while the course participants benefited greatly from the learning experience, they want to let the residents of Wakefield know that they gained much more than knowledge and an opportunity to practice some new techniques. They left with a sense of having made new friends and a much deeper understanding and appreciation of the village than the typical visitor can hope to have.


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Justin Bieber tweets then deletes cozy Selena Gomez photo
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(Yahoo!) - That Justin Bieber sure is a tease!
On the heels of his reunion with Selena Gomez in Norway, the "Boyfriend" singer dropped a major hint about their relationship status by posting a snuggly photo of them to Instagram on Saturday night. But he seems to have commitment issues - at least when it comes to sharing that particular pic publicly - because he deleted it shortly after.
In the snapshot, the 19-year-old has his hat backward and is giving a dreamy-eyed look to the camera. The "Spring Breakers" star, 20, is leaning in close to the Canadian crooner -- almost as if she's about to kiss him - while she plays with her hair.
While Bieber seems uncertain about what he wants to share when it comes to his relationship with Gomez, he remains fully committed to … showing off his tattoos to the world. During the European leg of his Believe tour, he has continuously added to his vast ink collection. The latest? A design of a koi fish on his left forearm. It is a symbol for good luck.
Judging from this photo, it's already working.
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The White House may be signaling to gun-rights advocates that it will offer funding for police in schools, and more teachers may be signing up for gun training, but this could not be what anyone had in mind, could it? The school board in charge of a large K-12 school in northwestern Ohio has voted unanimously to allow its four custodians to carry firearms. As Montpelier superintendent Jamie Grime told The Toledo Blade, the board sees the move as a way to prevent incidents like the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut: "Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn't happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures," Grimes said. "Having guns in the hands of the right people are not a hindrance. They are a means to protect."
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Awww, it's impossible to be scared of this adorable stuffed dragon. And made from organic cotton and stuffed with pure wool, he's pretty earth-friendly too.
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When the Girl Guides gave 260 mastectomy "care bags" to the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse cancer centre in Sydney in April, one of their leaders, Belinda Allen, said the movement understood the severity of breast cancer. But the Guides who made the bags, and hundreds of other donors, may not have realised that Lifehouse isn't a regular hospital: it is a private medical facility that is part of the growing trend to outsource complex medical treatment in Australia.
Now, six months after it was opened by Prime Minister
"We are all envious of the fact that they received $170 million of federal government funding that has not been made available to the rest of us cancer specialists and researchers," says Professor
"The thing that is concerning many of us is they are attracting a disproportionate amount of the public donation money through a well-run marketing campaign. This could be spent on cancer research in many other centres."
More Australians die from cancer than any other disease, according to the World Health Organisation. That's made treating and researching cancer one of the most lucrative corners of medicine.
The growing role of the private sector in cancer and other diseases is forcing hospitals to become more sophisticated at marketing and lobbying. There is also a push for fewer, larger hospitals and research institutes, a trend likely to concentrate funding and one that could force smaller centres to close or amalgamate.
Even though it isn't fully operative, Lifehouse is already shaping up as one of the most adroit fund-raisers of any private hospital in Australia. "We don't in any way resile from that – it's a competitive market," says chairman
Lifehouse's slick website features "inspiring stories" from volunteers and employees. Organisations are encouraged to hold their own fund-raising events for Lifehouse, including morning teas, dinners, fun runs and bike rides. Corporate sponsors include Bain & Co, Sky News, the ANZ Bank, Cabcharge, Ashurst law firm and Deloitte.
Donations from those not treated there
Even cancer sufferers treated with compassion at other hospitals are wowed. When television presenter
A spokesman for Greenwich hospital,
Located in Camperdown in the city's inner-west, Lifehouse's sleek $260 million building was built by Brookfield Multiplex. A large atrium bathes the middle of building in natural sunlight. Patients check in at a desk that looks like a hotel reception. Touchscreen televisions provide floor plans. While they wait on leather couches for treatment, patients can get massages, acupuncture, counselling, yoga, meditation, art therapy or play computer games. There is free Wi-Fi.
Lifehouse began treating outpatients in November. Inpatients – those who stay overnight – won't be admitted until February, when computing and other equipment is due to be fully installed.
Lifehouse was established indirectly through money initially raised by
The board, which was partly assembled by Sartor's successor,
They include
Lifehouse was named after
His death in 2009 of brain cancer helped generate momentum for the creation of a Sydney Cancer Centre based around the existing cancer operations of Royal Prince Alfred. Before he was elected prime minister in 2007,
Under Rudd, whose mother died of lung cancer, the federal government agreed to give the project $161 million. The Department of Health said it would be "an Australian centre of excellence as an integrated cancer treatment and research facility". Last June, after Rudd returned to the Labor leadership, he pledged another $19.5 million.
"We believe in being part of the solution," Rudd said on a visit to the site last year. "That's what a compassionate Australia is about – turning it into bricks and mortar and things that make a different to people."
A very large grant
By Australian standards, the grant was large. The Australian Cancer Research Foundation, which was established in 1984, has spent about $130 million on cancer research over its entire history.
Still, the foundation's chief executive,
"Through a historic agreement, private and public cancer patients will have access to a range of high-quality cancer services and treatments at Lifehouse," he said in a statement provided through a government spokesman.
Lifehouse was formally opened on November 30. It is paid by the NSW government to treat cancer patients who would have previously gone to Royal Prince Alfred, which is a few hundred metres away. The services currently provided include: radiation oncology, haematology, pathology collection and clinics for people who have had breast surgery.
Lifehouse won't reveal its ratio of public to private patients. Even though it is a non-profit hospital, the cancer specialists who work there are paid substantially more than doctors in the government system, sources said. The senior doctor is Professor
The hospital's slogan is "Building a future without cancer". Doctors from other hospitals say it hasn't added to the amount of cancer research being undertaken in Australia.
Mr Snedden, the chairman, says Lifehouse's aim is to attract leading doctors and researchers. This will in turn leChris Pearcead to research grants, he said.
"The presence of a facility that's going to be the largest and most world-class in Australia will attract a lot of research dollars," he said.
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text: By Marcus Hayes Marcus Hayes The Dallas Morning News Philadelphia Daily News (MCT) Published: 03 December 2012 08:46 PM ARLINGTON, Texas -- After weeks of searching, the Eagles finally found an opponent that cared as little about a football game as them. The host Cowboys, in the thick of a pathetic NFC playoff race, did not allow the import of the night's contest to influence their generally listless effort. They won, 38-33; but, really, there were few reasons to be impressed. The crime in all of this is that the Cowboys have more than a legitimate shot at winning the NFC East. The Giants stood only two games ahead of them, and the Redskins were tied with them for second place. The Cowboys had a chance to save their coach Jason Garrett's job. A chance to make themselves relevant. A chance to make something good of a decent season from Romo, their embattled quarterback. Then again, maybe the Cowboys were aware of all of those incentives. The Eagles entered with every excuse for playing like zombies. Read the rest: http://www.**************/sports/da...cowboys-have-shot-at-winning-the-division.ece


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The future has turned out to be a bust. No flying cars, no time travel and worst of all, no hoverboards.
At least until now. Sort of.
Onewheel is a new, hoverboard-like skateboard that rides on, you guessed it, one wheel. It's motorized, so it drives itself, and moves forward or backward depending on how you lean. So, it kind of sounds like a Segway for non-dorks.
The board is the brainchild of Future Motion, a Palo Alto company who, like all of us, saw Back to the Future II and thought "I want that." The idea is that the electric motor and the single wheel create a sense of floating over the ground. The company claims that even people who don't skateboard can learn to ride a Onewheel in just a few minutes.


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Stressor-Response from the Field
We would like determine whether water quality variables in Long Creek, Maine (U.S. EPA 2007) are associated with three observed changes in the aquatic invertebrate community relative to the reference stream: a decrease in Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera (EPT) richness; an increase in percent non-insect taxa; and a shift towards increased pollution tolerance, estimated using Hilsenhoff's Biotic Index (HBI) (Hilsenhoff 1987, 1988).
In this example, we present analyses relevant to two candidate causes, ionic strength (measured using specific conductivity), and zinc. If specific conductivity (or zinc) is not associated with the biological responses in the expected direction, this evidence would weaken the argument for ionic strength (or zinc) being a cause of the observed biological changes. Conversely, if specific conductivity (or zinc) is associated with the biological responses in the expected direction, this evidence would somewhat support the argument that ionic strength (or zinc) is the cause of the observed changes. These associations can provide only weak support for a causal argument because other stressors may be correlated with increased conductivity (or zinc), and are not controlled for in this analysis. For this reason, it is important to conduct this analysis for as many of the candidate causes as possible.
Biological and water chemistry data from 8 sites along Long Creek and a similar but unimpaired reference stream, are used in this example.
Biological metrics were calculated from macroinvertebrate rockbag samples deployed throughout the study area beginning August 5-6, 1999, for a period of 32 days, following standard Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MEDEP) protocol (Davies and Tsomides 2002).
Water chemistry measurements of conductivity and zinc were made from baseflow water samples collected by MEDEP on three days in August 2000. Methods and analyses are described in MEDEP (2002). Here, the analysts assume that the differences in the collection dates for biological samples (1999) and for water chemistry samples (2000) did not affect observed relationships. Ideally, additional data would be collected as a follow-up to validate this assumption (see the discussion under Getting Started: Matching Data).
Analysis and results
The data were analyzed using scatter plots (Figure 1). The project team interpreted the scatter plots by looking for linear and curvilinear trends in the data. Because only one data point from each site was available, the plots were not used to make judgments about individual sites or stream reaches. Instead, the plots were used to characterize trends across the two watersheds.
The visual interpretation of the scatterplots was supplemented with correlation coefficients (Table 1). Correlation coefficients were not evaluated for significance because of the small sample size and pseudo-replication of sites. Rather, consistent correlations of relatively large magnitude for all three biological responses were considered by the analysts to provide some support for ionic strength as a candidate cause. When evaluating this evidence, it is worth noting again that both analyses hinge on the assumption that samples of water chemistry taken in August 2000 are similar to exposures experienced by organisms in August 1999.
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Tools for generating both scatter plots and correlation coefficients are available in CADStat.
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Associations between specific conductivity and all three biological responses were apparent and in the expected direction. We would score this evidence as + for each of the biological responses.
There were no clear associations between zinc and any of the three biological responses. We would score this evidence as - for each of the biological responses.


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There's a reason why newspapers and magazines still find a place at our breakfast tables, even as innovations like wireless radio sets, colour television and Lady Gaga's Twitter feed invade our mind space. It's something to do with big headlines and bigger photos, flicking lazily through the boring stuff and feeling in control instead of being shouted at.
And it's something that Flipboard understands perfectly.
Flipboard turns digital information into a virtual magazine. It takes your Facebook and Twitter feeds, news from dozens of big name outlets, photos, gossip and more and lays them out automatically to look like a sixth-form website project, except with a nice page-flipping animation.
Just like a newspaper, you'll get the first couple of paragraphs from a story, an interesting image or perhaps just a headline, which you can then click on to pull up more - and then click again to link through to the original website.
The lack of a human editor can be jarring – war declared might get a smaller headline than your mate's cute piglet video – but you soon get used to the flow.
Flipboard isn't the most efficient way to browse your digital life, especially the endless churn of Twitter, but it is one of the most civilised. Also worth checking out are Taptu (free), which is better at saving articles to read later, and Pulse (free), although this doesn't do as good a job with social networks.


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Soundstage, the PBS series that put viewers in the front row of concerts by artists ranging from Bob Dylan to the Temptations, is back on television after being muscled out 18 years ago by the music video.Those behind the series hope its raw approach — no glitz, just music — appeals to those put off by the record industry's focus on glamour.
The hourlong shows are taped in front of a live audience at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. The Public Broadcasting Service affiliate, which also produced the original series, keeps editing to a minimum. Performers are encouraged to talk with the audience, and if artists make mistakes, the cameras capture it all.
With the first season in the can, WTTW and partner HD Ready, a suburban video company, are planning for a second. Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will be taping next week, Thomas said. Randy King, WTTW executive television producer, said the station is working to schedule groups such as Coldplay, A Tribe Called Quest and Radiohead. [from canoe, thanks Sanjay]


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Exercise your face? Well think about it, your face is comprised of 20 muscles. Ask yourself, what's the difference between working out the muscles in your legs, chest, or abs and your face? Facial muscles are the same as any other muscle in your body, and require the same type of stimulation to stay strong and of normal size. If they are not used they will become weak and unable to support the skin and adipose tissue that lies above them, promoting sagging and wrinkles.
Intent.com suggests the following to keep your face looking young:
∗ Raise your eyebrows as high as you can and hold them for five seconds.
∗ Open your mouth as wide as possible and stick your tongue out as far as you can and hold for a few seconds.
∗ Using your three center fingers, press down on your cheeks and smile as hard as you can to raise your cheek muscles against your fingers.
∗ Move your nose as much as you can from side to side.
∗ Lift your eyebrows as high as you can, open your eyes as wide as possible and frown at the same time.
∗ Pucker your lips out as far as possible into the shape of an "O." Then change your expression into a wide smile. Repeat several times.
∗ Sit in a comfortable chair and look up at the ceiling. Pucker your lips and stick your tongue out as far as possible to exercise your neck muscles.


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Leonard A. Strong, 89, formerly of St. Augustine, Fla., died Dec. 23, 2012, at Pine Valley Care Center in Richfield.
Born Jan. 15, 1923, in Ontario, Canada, to Helen (nee Muir) and James Leonard Strong, he is survived by his son, Roger of Florida, and sister, Valerie Strong of Hudson.
Mr. Strong served in the Royal Canadian Air Force before moving to the U.S. He worked as an operations engineer working with large cranes. Ultimately he obtained his teaching certificate and taught industrial arts in Florida. He enjoyed sailing and working on his boat.
A memorial service will be held later in St. Augustine, Fla.
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I'm not very good at rating places. I think I'll probably just end up giving them all the same rating, because I'll be afraid Five Stars is "Too Perfect", but that the place is still pretty awesome, and deserves a four at least. Edit: Bumped up to five after my second visit.
I went to Murchie's today, and then made my way here—a little nervously, I might add. But I stepped inside and within no time was greeted by an impossibly friendly older woman who gave me a tour of the whole place (and poured me a sample black tea, which was quite nice). She wasn't intimidating (surprisingly!), and left me alone to browse—she returned once to give her opinion on some teas, and showed me how to open sample tins to take a sniff.
The retail area is fairly small, but I have a thing for wandering in tight circles for hours on end when browsing (I'm very indecisive). Off to one side they have a setup where a tea representative reviews and answers questions about tea (apparently I'd missed him/her, because there was no one there). I ended up ordering Place Saint Marc to go, which was pleasant. I didn't end up buying anything else (Jillian was right, stuff's EXPENSIVE)—I think I'll have to try a few teas and pick a favourite before I commit to a thirty dollar tin.
I actually came home and resteeped the teabag of Place Saint Marc. Mm.
Edit: I wish you could write more than one review, like with teas. Gah. Anyways, made my way here after hitting up Value Vintage and Chapters. I got Madame to go, a delicious smoky berry tea, and bonded with the employee who did the transaction, because he is apparently a fan of smoky teas as well. Awesome.
His shift finished soon after that, so I hung around the place, browsed, and spoke to the other employees. I was also the only direct witness when a scruffy man came in and very obviously shoplifted a fancy lighter. And then I did something stupid!
I confronted him and politely asked him to put the lighter back. He waved me off, so I asked him again, "what lighter?" "the blue one you took from that shelf". It didn't really work out very well, and I couldn't understand what he was saying, really—he pulled out a different lighter at one point, silver, and said something like "my lighter is right here". Waved it at me, but by now the employees were looking. He rushed out of the store after that, and I didn't stop him. He was scruffy and thin, but still bigger than me (which isn't hard, I am a small man). All I've got going for me is a sharp left hook, not a strong one.
The employees came over after that and I explained what had happened. The lady made a few calls, but we concluded there wasn't much that could be done.
In retrospect, it was kind of a stupid split-second decision, especially since I think it was a combination lighter and wickcutter. And after I bought tea and left, I was fairly on-edge and paranoid until I got home.
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Tetramer Technologies, a company that makes materials and researches new materials, will expand its plant in the AndersonCounty town of Pendleton. An additional 25 new jobs are planned over the next five years. The company previously occupied 50% of the incubator space in the GriffithBuilding at 657 S. Mechanic Street, but has since expanded into all available space in the incubator. So far, Tetramer has been able to hire an additional eight full-time and 10 part-time workers.


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Re: st: Non-linear panel model estimation in Stata
Francesca Colantuoni <email@example.com>
Re: st: Non-linear panel model estimation in Stata
Sat, 4 May 2013 14:29:54 -0400
Hi Yuliya,
I have also been studying and I just finished programming a nonlinear
least square function with panel data. The nl procedure accounts for
the panel structure automatically, as long as you declare it with
tsset in your do file.
I may advise you to split your function in at least two parts, like:
gen double `num'=( `a0' + `a1'*`X1') + `a2'*`X2'+ `a3'*`X3' )
gen double `den'=( `b0' + `b1'*`X4') + `Eta_i' + `Theta_t' + `Eps'
replace `Y'=`num'/`den'
I found this example very helpful:
And then you can also look at this conversation:
Good luck!
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Yuliya Romanenko
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> Dear Stata users,
> I am looking for a way in Stata to estimate a nonlinear panel model of
> the following form (dependent variable is modeled as a ratio of two
> linear functions):
> Y[it] = ( a0 + a1*X1[it) + a2*X2[i] + a3*X3[it] ) / ( b0 + b1*X4[it]
> ) + Eta_i + Theta_t + Eps[it].
> Here Y is a dependent (non normal) variable; Eta_i, Theta_t are
> individual and time effects respectively; X1, ..., X4 are independent
> variables, some of which are time invariant, some are 0/1 dummies. Is
> there any standard way to estimate this in Stata? Can I use -nl- to
> account for panel structure?
> I would very much appreciate any help.
> Regards,
> Yuliya Romanenko
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Every year in July, VAYLA hosts a 3-day Sports Tournament & Entertainment Showcase in New Orleans, LA for young people all across the Gulf Coast under the age of 35. This year, it will be hosted at Joe W. Brown Memorial Park in New Orleans East on Friday, July 18 to Sunday, July 20, 2014. This event is welcome to all ethnicities. For VAYLA SOCIAL IX to happen, our volunteers are definetely the heart of the team. Volunteers are able to support all 3-days of the event and can earn up to 23 service hours.
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A floor finish that comes in a powder used on prefinished flooring. It is a safer alternative to aluminum oxide finishes. Titanium Oxide is also used in cosmetics to sunscreens. The powder on its own is only a skin irritant at worst.
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A tool used usually to apply plaster. It is commonly known as a drywall trowel. In the wood flooring business, a 12 inch drywall trowel is used to apply your first coat of oil-modified polyurethane. In order to prevent trowel marks, use 3 to 5% of odorless mineral spirits to thin out your finish.
A tongue and groove panel is a floorboard with the typical thickness of 1/2" to 3/4". This type of flooring is similar to your standard plywood but with a it is cut so that it has a tongue and groove.
It should not be used as a floor finish. Pure tung has a limited ability to cure or oxidize into a film that will protect the wood. Even though it is absorbed into the wood, it is not protecting it. When water spills, it will go right through tung oil.
Its official name is actually oil modified polyurethane, or OMP or OMU. (The "U" in OMU stands for urethane). It is mainly made up of oil (safflower or soy oil), some metallic dryers (cobalt and manganese) and lastly some polyurethane resin to give it hardness once it dries. In the trade, it is also referred to as Varathane. It dries very quickly. It is a clear finish for wood floors. It is a hardwood floor sealant. Out of all the finishes, urethane achieves the highest gloss. It also comes in satin finish. Oil-modified poly is very durable and resistant to water and various chemicals. The downside is that it requires 3 coats and the application takes the course of 3-5 days. Scuffing is necessary between coats. Any touchups are tricky.
Also known as a sand-on-site floor. This is the traditional style of wood floor that everybody used to have 100 years ago. Today there are all kinds of wood flooring options available. Unfinished floors require quite a bit of work. If you want to have a beautifully finished wood floor so that it has a smooth texture and a radiant glow, it will require great skill to sand it and even more skill for the staining process. Some flooring professionals are incapable of making a sand-on-site floor look good. This is not a job you want to do over again. Each sanding removes decades of life from the thickness of the floor. Also, it can become quite a headache (if you are repairing your floor contractor's mistakes). You also want to be exposed to the staining and finishing products as little as possible. See (Sand-On-Site Floor) in the Glossary for more information.
The edge or corners of the wood are shaved slightly. When two floorboards are put together, the wear surface where they meet looks like a V. The deeper the V grooves, the more it will feel like tiles. The more shallow V grooves will look like a solid sand-on-site floor. The downside to shallow V grooves is that you have a greater chance of having edges chip away or socks get caught. All prefinished floors have either V grooves or beveled edges. Prefinished floors are generally not sanded down so they take into account that subfloors are generally not perfectly flat.
Varnish is made from various oils. It is its ability to harden into a film that makes it water resistant.
The very top layer of laminated or engineered floor. It is the picture of wood incased in vinyl.
An acidic wood floor cleaner. It is a good rinsing agent but it doesn't clean effectively. Vinegar will not clean dirt or grease. If you are using bleach on your wood floors, vinegar is recommended to neutralize it.
Organic chemical compounds that have very high vapor pressures under normal environmental conditions, so much so that they vaporize and enter the atmosphere. In other words, they release gases into the atmosphere. A wide range of carbon-based molecules such as aldehydes, ketones, and other light hydrocarbons are VOCs. VOCs are supposed to be regulated and a matter of law. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has laws and regulations regarding VOCs. Because there are many definitions for VOCs, they can often be contradictory. Often, manufacturers get away with using VOCs. Companies can always learn the loopholes and work around them. It is important to look at the products you are choosing for your wood floors and make sure that they have low amount of or no VOCs at all.


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We were sold on this quaint and cozy coffee shop the second that designer-turned-barista Pat Flanagan opened the doors of his freshly remodeled spot last spring. The warm interior and interesting artwork begs you to take a few minutes out of your day to stay and enjoy a cup of freshly brewed coffee (beans courtesy of Lux). But Carmel's isn't just a coffee house — it serves a full menu of delicious breakfast and lunch treats. Fresh-baked quiches, scones, and muffins, flaky croissant sandwiches, and even crepes are available. When the weather permits, Carmel's has plenty of patio space to savor your coffee while watching traffic go by on Camelback.
All of the sudden, there's a lot of coffee competition on Roosevelt Row. But for us, there's no contest. Fresh house-roasted beans, an in-house bakery, an omelet bar, and a beautiful selection of rotating artwork are just a few reasons why Lola is our go-to downtown coffee shop. Artisan coffee roaster and latte art fanatic Daniel Wayne has created a laid-back atmosphere with a welcoming demeanor — and some of the best whipped cream in town. The espresso-infused whip gives Lola's coffee drinks a sweet and creamy kick. Try the dark chocolate and orange Café Borgia or the coffee shop's almost famous Matador.
Crepes and coffee go together like peanut butter and jelly, David Lee Roth and Van Halen, or vodka and Red Bull. Without one, the other is lonely and incomplete. Thankfully, Cupz N' Crepes is keeping the coffee-and-crepe team together at its Paris-inspired shop in Ahwatukee. Dig into a delicate crepe packed full of sweet Nutella and ripe bananas or the savory Veggie Delight, filled with spinach, tomatoes, and goat cheese. The coffee is always fresh and the bold espresso drinks are expertly crafted. A can't-miss breakfast or lunch stop on the south side of town.


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TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--Kopin(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer and military electronics, today announced a major breakthrough in active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) technology for military and industrial applications. Kopin's newest displays are specifically designed to operate at temperatures as low as -40 degrees C with nearly "Instant-On" capability, an unprecedented achievement for LCDs. This performance is achieved without the need for an external heater, significantly reducing display system power consumption.
The new displays combine two of Kopin's patent-pending inventions. Kopin's low-voltage (LV) architecture reduces AMLCD video levels by 50%, substantially reducing power consumption of the display system. Kopin's latest "Vcom Thin Film" technology incorporates integrated thin-film structures nested in the backplane, which serve as an active matrix element while simultaneously operating as an integral heating element. This "dual purpose" mode of operation is available on demand and allows the display to provide full-video-rate performance at temperatures down to -40 degrees C without the need for an external heater. Intimate contact of the thin film with the liquid crystal material results in the ultra-high heating efficiency and cold-start operation within seconds.
"These latest inventions expand the position of Kopin's technology as the microdisplay of choice for the U.S. military," said President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. John C. C. Fan. "Our design team was inspired by a challenge from one of our major Department of Defense (DOD) equipment suppliers to develop a display system capable of operating at extremely low temperatures with unsurpassed power efficiency. Our innovative display solution not only meets the needs of their product, but will likely be adopted across a broad range of DOD applications."
Initially Kopin's new technology will be available in monochrome and full-color VGA (640 x 480 resolution) displays. Performance characterization of VGA prototypes is now underway, with product qualification scheduled for later this year. Kopin anticipates making the technology available in its full line of military displays by the middle of 2007. Target product applications include thermal weapon sights and hand-held thermal imagers for military and law enforcement personnel.
"We expect Kopin's latest AMLCDs to raise the bar significantly in terms of battery life and operational readiness for ultra-portable military systems," stated Michael Presz, the Company's Vice President of Government Programs. "Our new displays will dramatically reduce the power requirements because of reduced video levels and ultra-efficient integral heating elements. The net effect will be lighter weight systems and extended battery life. In addition, cold-start performance can be achieved within 10 seconds at a fraction of the power used in currently deployed systems."


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Halloween's ghouls and goblins make for a spooky night in our cities and towns. But nothing fills me with more fright than missing the opportunity to build dense, attractive transit villages around our rail stations, thereby reducing sprawl and lowering our collective carbon footprint.
I've seen the upside opportunity in London, New York City, Chicago and elsewhere–housing, offices, shopping and leisure destinations all within a short walk of transit stations. The overriding equation is density, a notion that is frightening to many.
A number of leading urban experts, demographers and think-tanks are forecasting that more cities will develop like this in the future. The Urban Land Institute's recent "The City in 2050″ is loaded with visions of high-tech, denser cities with improved transit systems and a reduced carbon footprint. Coupled with these visions are studies by the likes of the demographer Arthur C. Nelson, who predicts that demand for large-lot single-family housing will be negligible in the next 20 years, whereas the future of housing development lies in attached housing.
The stars seem to be aligning. Or are they? The popular strategy for accommodating the future vision of smarter, denser cities, coupled with meeting forecast housing demand, is transit villages like those found in our older and popular cities. The idea is that these transit villages will have areas next to urban rail stations that accommodate intense development, thereby reducing the population's carbon footprint and making cities more efficient.
A number of very attractive and popular transit villages have emerged in the past decade in cities like Dallas, Denver and Portland. Well-known places like Mockingbird Station, Englewood, and Orenco Station are favorites among planners, developers and transit village advocates. I've seen these and other newer transit villages, and they are not ghost-towns–far from it. They are popular for good reason, as they provide very attractive, walkable places with a mix of uses and access to the regional transit system.
However, I've noticed in many cases that these newer transit villages lack the density achieved in older, established cities. Perhaps these newer transit villages are just testing the waters, a primer for cities and developers to ramp up density in the future. But I wonder if we are selling ourselves short.
Are we greening our cities, or are we just dressing up auto-dependent sprawl in a transit village costume? Do we really have the proper regulatory tools, and more importantly, the public and political will, to achieve the density required for truly greener, more efficient cities?
True, most new rail lines in the United States connect to major employment centers, stadiums, university campuses, airports, and other major destinations. All that boosts ridership–as it should. Too frequently, though, plans for residential development within a half-mile of rail stations call for too few housing units to make a dent in cities' growth projections.
For example, the two new light rail lines planned in the Twin Cities will add 30 new stations to the metro area. Current station area plans call for approximately 30,000 new housing units in the next 20 years. That seems like a lot, but it is just 10 percent of the 300,000 new households forecast for the Twin Cities in that time period. We need to ask: shouldn't these station areas handle more of the total, like one-quarter or one-third? Increased intensity around each station will accommodate more of the metro area demand for housing and increase transit usage, reducing strain on roads and lowering vehicle miles traveled (VMT). Multiply this by upping the density around new train stations around the country and you start to curb the effects of sprawl.
Furthermore, increased density and a more robust mix of uses within transit villages makes them more active and increases trips on foot, even for people not using the transit system. A common standard for the number of housing units required to support a small, full-service grocery store, for example, is 10,000. Building a small fraction of that total in a transit village won't support a grocer.
Arlington, Virginia, is appropriately cited as a top example of recent policy to create appropriate intensity around transit stations. There, a "bulls-eye" policy–to locate an intense mix of housing and other uses close to the five train stations along the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor–has resulted in the appropriate density to boost demand for retail and other services within each transit village. The corridor also boasts very high ridership and modal splits. Arlington County's success in getting a disproportionate amount of its real estate taxes from the intense uses along the corridor is a positive outcome of good land use policy. What is so spooky about that?
The ideal vision of the city in the future is more density built around transit villages. Demographic and housing demand forecasts support this vision. One cannot wave a magic wand and reverse sprawl, however. Lurking in the shadows are the NIMBYs, who will affect the political will to intensify uses at station areas, and increase the specter of sprawl-as-usual. But let's not run in fear from the creation of attractive dense transit villages. Why? Business-as-usual is our scariest option, indeed!
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.1222 Wednesday, 2 December 1998.
Date: Tuesday, 1 Dec 1998 14:29:38 -0600
Subject: Rhetoric
Dec. 1, 1998
I am wondering how fellow list members feel about the role of rhetoric
in training actors. Are there actor training programs that discuss the
rules of rhetoric? Are there any directors, who feel it has any value
in rehearsal? Is an understanding of rhetoric to much of an
"intellectual" exercise? As for myself, I know very little about
rhetoric, but the subject has come up recently in a directing class and
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Semantics, experience and time
Document Type:Article
Article Type:Theoretical
Keywords:Semantics, time, conscious perception, experience, qualia, Turing Test, invariance, Bergson, Gibson, computation, holography
Deposited by:Dr Stephen E Robbins
Date of Issue:2002
Journal/Publication Title:Cognitive Systems Research
Issue Number:3
Page Range:301-337
Alternative URL:http://www.stephenerobbins.com/Articles/Cogsys81.pdf
Abstract:The computational hypothesis, with its inherent representationalism, and the dynamical hypothesis, with its apparent absence of representations and its commitment to continuous time, stand at an impasse. It is unclear how the dynamical stance can handle representational thought, or how computationalism can deal effectively with a tightly coupled, reciprocally causative agent-environment system in continuous transformation. Underlying this dilemma is the complex relation of mind to time, a relation encoded in the word experience. We must ask if any hypothesis describes a 'device' capable of experience? Yet what is an intelligence and its thought without experience? Is a computational device, whether supporting a symbolic processor or connectionist net, intrinsically condemned to a zero degree of experience? What is required of a dynamical device? It is argued here that "semantic†intelligence and thought rests upon experience, fundamentally upon the invariance laws defined over time within conscious perception. The structure of experience is intrinsically unavailable to the computational device, limiting it to a "syntactic†intelligence. An alternative conception of a device is offered, based on Bergson conjoined with Gibson, which supports the qualitative and structural aspects of experience and the semantic. It frames a dynamical model of perception and memory in which invariance laws are intrinsic, creates a deeper notion of situatedness, and supports a concept of semantically based, representative thought founded upon perception.


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Angelica Walter, a first-year MBA student in health care management at Quinnipiac University, has been awarded the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) of Greater Hartford's top scholarship of $5,000.
"I am humbled and extremely thankful," said Walter, who earned a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Quinnipiac in Spring 2013. "I could not say thank you enough to the NBMBAA for such an honor. I work really hard to pay for school, so I couldn't have gotten more of a blessing."
It marks the second consecutive year that a Quinnipiac student has received the scholarship.
Walter was one of 40 applicants. Candidates were required to have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in an MBA program in Connecticut or the greater Springfield, Mass. area, respond to an essay questions and be a minority student.
"The selection process was challenging due to the high quality of our applicants. Unfortunately we could only select four applicants," said Melissa Griffiths, vice president of operations for the greater Hartford chapter.
The chapter also awarded $2,500, $2,000 and $1,000 scholarships to students from the University of Connecticut and Yale University.
The 2013 scholarships were awarded during the chapter's annual reception at the Marriott in Windsor on Dec. 6.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The federal budget deficit hit a new record in the just-completed 2008 budget year under the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
The record $438 billion shortfall for the budget year that ended last week is up from $162 billion posted last year. The previous record of $413 billion was posted in 2004.
CBO said Tuesday that with the economy in a slump, revenues dropped by almost 2%. Corporate income receipts dropped by $65 billion, or nearly 18%. At the same time, individual income tax revenues declined by 1.6%.
The deficit is virtually certain to balloon even higher next year as the government sorts out the financial crisis and taps a $700 billion Treasury fund to buy toxic mortgage-related securities.
The next president is likely to have to scale back campaign pledges as he inherits a likely deficit for 2009 exceeding $500 billion. But neither GOP standard-bearer John McCain nor Democratic nominee Barack has given much detail regarding what promises they won't be able to keep.
The latest figures for 2008 are somewhat of a surprise, registering more than $30 billion more than CBO's update issued just last month and almost $50 billion higher than what the White House predicted in July.
The numbers also amplify President Bush's poor record on the deficit. Virtually every administration promise on the deficit has failed to come to pass.
Bush inherited a budget seen as producing endless huge surpluses after four straight years in positive territory. That stretch of surpluses represented a period when the country's finances had been bolstered by a 10-year period of uninterrupted economic growth, the longest expansion in U.S. history.
Those predictions were based on faulty models. Also, a recession in March 2001 and government spending to fight the war on terrorism helped push the deficit to its previous record in 2004.
Major rounds of tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 have also contributed to the deficit and renewing them — and their $200 billion-plus annual cost — when they expire at the end of 2010 would make it extremely difficult to balance the budget anytime soon.
A later promise to cut the deficit in half by the time Bush leaves office is in tatters, and virtually no one takes seriously his proposed path to a balanced budget by 2012.
The deficit numbers for 2008 represent about 3% of the size of the economy, which is the measure economists consider the most relevant. By that measure, the deficit is smaller than the deficits of the 1980s and early 1990s that led Congress and earlier administrations to cobble together politically painful deficit-reduction packages.
"Our children and grandchildren will be paying the price for years to come as they shoulder this growing burden of debt," said House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt Jr., D-S.C.
The Treasury Department is expected to release the official deficit tally by midmonth.
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Saturday, September 09, 2006
The House Were Rolfe Lived
Last week on a rain-speckled, windy and warm Saturday I joined about 20 other people for a walk around places of Corvine significance in London. A lovely eclectic group from the young woman with a passion for Beardsley in her Brighton-lanes attire, to the city gent with his cravat and walking stick.
Between 1899 and 1904 Frederick Rolfe, aka Baron Corvo, was a lodger at 69 Broadhurst Gardens in London. Broadhurst Gardens in West Hampstead is a long, long road of mainly Victorian red-brick houses, two or three storeys tall, and you only have to squint your eyes slightly to get the 'gaslight and carriages' feel of the place. Of course, as luck would have it, the Victorian ambience breaks between no.s 59 and 97 where a WW2 bomb was dropped and a hideous post-war bungalow development stands in it's place. My guess is though that No. 59 is close enough to imagine the steps Rolfe walked up on his way home each night to his tempestuous landlady.
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The 'Katie' host is confirmed to have been engaged over the Labor Day weekend after saying yes to John Molner's proposal.
Katie Couric, 56, is set to walk down the aisle for a second time. The former "Today" show host is officially engaged to her 50-year-old boyfriend, New York City banker John Molner, her representative confirms to the media.
The couple has been together for nearly two years. Molner reportedly popped the question to the "Katie" host with a spectacular diamond ring at sunset on the beach in East Hampton, N.Y. over the Labor Day weekend.
"Yes it's true! So touched by all the kind Tweets & warm wishes-thank you! A great end to the summer & looking fwd to seeing you all Monday!!" the TV personality gushed on Twitter later.
Couric has two daughters, Ellie, 21, and Carrie, 17, from her marriage to Jay Monahan, who died of colon cancer in 1998. After the loss of her husband, she did hope to find love again but dating was not easy for her.
"I always wanted a father figure for my daughters, but it hasn't worked out that way. I've had long-term relationships, but they haven't turned into life-long partners," she once said. "Also, when you get to my age, everyone is a bit wounded."
"So I think it's important to handle people with care--not to think, 'Oh, what a terrible date,' but just, 'This person isn't for me,' " she added. "Everyone has a lot of baggage. It's just can you fit it into the overhead bin?"
Couric and Molner first went public with their romance in April 2012. Before seeing him, the TV host was once linked to TV producer Tom Werner and financier Brooks Perlin.


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We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat.
I got there first: in a white dress: I remember
Wondering if you'd come. Then you shot over the bank,
A Virgilian Nigger Jim, and poled us off
To a little sea-food barker's cave you knew.
What'll you have? you said. Eels hung down,
Bamboozled claws hung up from the crackling weeds.
The light was all behind us. To one side
In a dish of ice was a shell shaped like a sand-dollar
But worked with Byzantine blue and gold. What's that?
Well, I've never seen it before, you said,
And I don't know how it tastes.
Oh well, said I, if it's bad,
I'm not too hungry, are you? We'd have the shell...
I know just how you feel, you said.
And asked for it; we held out our hands.
Six Dollars! barked the barker, For This Beauty!
We fell down laughing in your flat-bottomed boat, .
And then I woke up: in a white dress:
Dry as a bone on dry land, Jim,
Bone dry, old, in a dry land, Jim, my Jim. .
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Simon Cowell Behind New Betty Boop Movie [PHOTO]
Betty Boop is set to star on the big screen for the first time in 75 years, thanks to 'X Factor' producer Simon Cowell.
According to Variety, the film division of the media mogul's Syco Entertainment is partnering up with Animal Logic Entertainment, the masterminds behind the animation for 'The Lego Movie,' to create the first feature-length movie for the famous cartoon character. Fleischer Studios, owner of the Betty Boop franchise, is on board to create what Variety called a "music-driven hybrid animation comedy."
Betty Boop's last movie was in 1939, though she's made several onscreen cameos since then, with her last in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' in 1988.
"Betty is an icon, and one of the biggest stars in the world — I'm thrilled to be working with her," Cowell said of his new project.
He also turned to Twitter to drop the "d" word, which the curly-haired cartoon character didn't seem to be too happy about!
I've worked with some serious divas but I think Betty could be the biggest of them all! @bettyboopnews pic.twitter.com/ZHRvT5ChYz
— Simon Cowell (@SimonCowell) August 14, 2014
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I found a bug in my website where the user's most recent login was not being recorded. I discovered this by seeing more recent dates in the searches table compared to what I'm seeing in the users table. The problem I ran into is that the date column in the searches table uses the date and time. The date column in the users table is setup to only show the date. So in the query below I formatted the date in the search column to look like the date column in the users table. Unfortunately, the database still sees the dates in the search column to be greater, simply because there is also a time as part of the date. Can someone help me tweak my query so I can really find the users that have a more recent date in the searches table compared to the users table?
-- Accounts where the date in search table is more recent than the users table.
u.last as lastLogin,
date_format(s.date, '%Y-%m-%d') as searchDate
FROM users u
JOIN searches s
ON u.uID = s.author
s.date > u.last
ORDER BY u.last
limit 100;
remove the GROUP BY clause
Thanks Rudy, I took out that line and the query runs fine. But I'm still stumped on how to resolve the fact that the searches table is using full dates, including the time, and the users table is just storing dates as 2011-05-12. Because of this difference, the query is showing a lot of rows where it thinks the date in the searches table is more recent, I'm guessing because the time is included. Should I do an update on the users table and convert all of the last login dates to use the kind of date with time? Or is there a better way to get around this?
Once I can get this worked out, then I plan on using the following query to fix this mess. Does this look good to you?
UPDATE users u, searches s
SET u.last = s.date
WHERE s.date=(select date from searches where author =u.uID order by date desc limit 1) AND
s.date > u.last AND
u.uID = s.author
i don't think you've explained the problem adequately enough for me to offer an opinion
for starters, why are there two date/datetime columns?
One date column is used in the users table. This records the last login date. The other datetime column is in the searches table. It records when a search was conducted by the website user.
okay, those are good reasons for separate columns
and you're saying that they're out of sync?
have you fixed the source of the problem yet?
Yes, they are out of sync. I found a bug in my website code where the last login date was not being updated in the users table. No telling how long that bug has been there. I have since fixed in and now it updates when people login. So the goal is to find their most recent visit date based on the searches they have conducted. Then copy the date of the search over into the users table.
okay, i'll walk you through it, we're going to do this in two steps
the first step is to write a query which gets the most recent search date for each user
Ok, here is the one I've been working on today that will do that very thing:
-- Accounts where the date in search table is more recent than the users table.
u.date as registerDate,
u.last as usersVisit,
date_format(s.date, '%Y-%m-%d') as searchesVisit
FROM users u
JOIN searches s
ON u.uID = s.author
s.date=(select date from searches where author =u.uID order by date desc limit 1) AND
s.date > u.last
ORDER BY u.uID
limit 100;
no, that's not what i was after, i wanted just the most recent search date for each userid, it's just a simple one-table query using the searches table
combining it with the users table was step 2
Ok, here you go:
select author, date from searches group by author order by author;
that's almost right, but you're missing the MAX function (and ORDER BY doesn't matter here)
SELECT author
, MAX(date) AS latest
FROM searches
BY author
the next step is to join this subquery to the users table
ever done that? join a subquery to a table?
Here is what I came up with. Remember, however, that s.date is a datetime and u.last is just a date. So I'm wondering how we will proceed next to accurately campare the two. Also, why is MAX used in this case when grouping it by author should only return one row per user.
SELECT s.author , u.firstname , u.last , MAX(s.date) AS searchDate FROM users uINNER JOINsearches son u.uID = s.authorGROUP BY author;
MAX is used because you want the latest value of the datetime, i.e. the largest value
if you do this --
SELECT author, date FROM searches GROUP BY author
then the value of the date column that is returned for each author is indeterminate -- it could be any of the values for each author
since you want the latest one, you must do this --
SELECT author, MAX(date) FROM searches GROUP BY author
see the difference?
as for step 2, i don't think you understood what i was saying about joining to the subquery...
FROM users u
JOIN ( SELECT author
, MAX(date) AS latest
FROM searches
BY author ) AS s
ON s.author = u.uID
see how the subquery is used, in the FROM clause a subquery is called a derived table
play with that for a minute, and convince yourself it's working correctly, then we'll proceed to the update
Rudy, how come when I run the following query I get an error that says, "Unknown column s.date in field list"? I wanted to not only show the date of their last login (u.last) but also the date of the most recent search (s.date)
SELECT u.uID , u.last , s.dateFROM users uINNERJOIN (SELECT author, MAX(date) AS latest FROM searches GROUP BY author ) AS s ON s.author = u.uID;
in this query, the table alias "s" refers to the subquery, not to the searches table
the subquery has only two columns, author and latest
that's why you got the error message
Ok, I got the query fixed by changing latest to date.
SELECT u.uID , u.last , s.dateFROM users uINNERJOIN (SELECT author, MAX(date) AS date FROM searches GROUP BY author ) AS s ON s.author = u.uIDWHEREs.date > u.last;
I also added a check in the WHERE clause. The problem is that the s.date is a datetime and u.last is just a date. So the query is returning incorrect results thinking that dates are greater when they really aren't. As you can see from the top of this thread, I tried to convert the datetime to just a date using "date_format(s.date, '%Y-%m-%d') as searchDate" but that didn't work.
Before we can move on to the update, I gotta figure out what I'm doing wrong with the date compare.
you shoulda changed it the other way around -- it's still the same query, but the intent of what you're doing is clearer
SELECT u.uID
, u.last
, s.latest
FROM users u
JOIN ( SELECT author
, MAX(date) AS latest
FROM searches
BY author ) AS s
ON s.author = u.uID
WHERE s.latest > u.last
that's not a problem, and you don't need to do any conversion
please show a few rows of results which you think are wrong
The first row:
uID = 121last = 2011-03-10latest = 2011-03-10 06:56:26
So the query thinks that somehow 2011-03-10 06:56:26 is greater than just 2011-03-10. Make sense?
of course it does
2011-03-10 is the same as 2011-03-10 00:00:00 (midnight on the morning of the day)
and 2011-03-10 06:56:26 ~is~ greater than 2011-03-10 00:00:00 (almost 7 hours past midnight)