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Çay TV, March 11th, 2009
Adnan Oktar: As a nation, every patient is under our responsibility. Being sick is not a crime. It is an honor, and his responsibility is upon us. When you are sick, that brother, he comes under our guaranty. He comes under our guaranty as a nation. We will take care of him, we are responsible for his food, comfort, joy, happiness, treatment and everything. MONEY IS NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM A SICK PERSON. He will go to the most quality, the best hospital. A CANCER PATIENT WILL GO TO A FIRST CLASS HOSPITAL; HE WILL BE TREATED THERE IN THE BEST WAY, HE WILL BE RESPECTED, LOVED AND SIT IN ITS WIDE, BEAUTIFUL ROOMS. There, he will participate in religious converses, speak and enjoy high morale because in such serious diseases you know the spirit is very important. You make that person release his house and car, take all his money, become indebted, and then you treat him? Whether he is treated or not, that is another issue; by doing that it turns out that you shot him twice; both by not showing any love and compassion and by ruining him in economic terms. A SICK PERSON IS NEVER ASKED TO PAY; WE WILL DO THIS AS A REQUIREMENT OF NATIONAL DECENCY. This is not something that can ever be accepted.
Hilal TV, December 27th, 2008
Adnan Oktar: I recommend the following; FIRST OF ALL FREE HOSPITALS MUST BE ESTABLISHED. HIGH QUALITY AND BEAUTIFUL HOSPITALS MUST BE ESTABLISHED.
Star Gazete, October 6th, 2012
Prime Minister Erdoğan said that people can have their treatment in any hospital they want and no hospital can turn any patient away.
Sabah, October 6th, 2012
Prime Minister Erdoğan stated that they attach much importance to the quality of the social state and a compassionate state and added, "A state that fails to provide the highest quality education and health services to its citizens is a state that can not fulfill its duties." Erdogan said all hospitals are open to citizens and added, "Whether it be private or a state hospital, it is unlikely for one of my citizens to go to a hospital, and he is turned away from the door."


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A man has been charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of aggravated indecent assault for allegedly abusing a girl in his care, police say.
After receiving a tip-off, police arrested the 65-year-old man at his home about 1.30pm on Thursday.
"The tip-off came from a member of the public whose daughter had told her a school friend was being abused at home," police said.
Police allege the girl was "sexually assaulted on a number of occasions by her primary carer".
The man was refused bail and will appear in Newcastle Local Court on Friday.
Child abuse squad acting commander Superintendent Anthony Holton urges anyone with information about child abuse to report it immediately to police.
"It's the whole community's responsibility to ensure the safety of our children," he said,
"If you see something, hear something, or even just suspect a child is being abused, then you need to report it."
People with information on child abuse can call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or the Child Protection Helpline on 132 111.

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This article was published 22/8/2012 (1826 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
INJURED Winnipeg Blue Bombers receiver Chris Matthews and cornerback Jovon Johnson -- who were hurt in practice on Tuesday when they got tangled up on a passing play -- should be back in the lineup Friday when the Bombers host the B.C. Lions at Canad Inns Stadium.
Matthews and Johnson both left practice early on Tuesday and did not participate again on Wednesday as the team went through its final full practice in preparation for the league-leading Lions.
But head coach Paul LaPolice didn't sound concerned when he was asked after practice Wednesday afternoon for an update on the "conditions" of the two players.
"Their conditions are they're fine young gentlemen," LaPolice joked. "They'll be fine tomorrow. They just got banged up yesterday. We held them out."
Johnson also downplayed the injuries. "We both jumped for the ball and came down (awkwardly). So we took the day off."
Matthews and Johnson are among the team's leaders on offence and defence respectively and Winnipeg will need all the support they can get when they take on the Lions, who have not surrendered a touchdown in their last three games and just 22 points combined.
"It's very remarkable," LaPolice said of the stingy Lions. "Their are some veteran quarterbacks in that crew that they faced... They've done a heck of a job."
The Lions held Darian Durant and the Saskatchewan Roughriders to just five points last week, Ricky Ray and the Toronto Argos to just nine points the game before that and the Calgary Stampeders and Kevin Glenn to just eight points to start the string.
"They're not afraid to come out of their coverages to make a big play -- and that's what veterans do," Elliott said Wednesday of the Lions, who lead the league in takeaways-giveaways at plus-eight. "So you have to worry about that from a quarterback standpoint. But at the same time, you just have to relax and go play and take your completions when you can."
Elliott said he's been given the green-light to improvise Friday night when the situation is right. "They trust in me to stay within myself and if I see something, to go with it."
THE FALCON AND THE BOMBER FAN: Photos have been circulating on Twitter of a falcon that swooped into Canad Inns Stadium last Thursday evening during the Bombers game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The falcon took in part of the game while sitting propped on a rail and photos show that at one point the bird even sat on a fan's hand.
TACKLE HUNGER: The Tackle Hunger national food drive hits Winnipeg Friday. Fans attending the game are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to Winnipeg Harvest. Since 2003, fans have donated over 225,000 pounds of food to the drive, including 55,000 pounds last year alone.


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Lt Bernie Peters, Pilot, 310th BG, 379th BS, B-25 MTO
1944-45 — Italy
Lt Bernard T Peters flew 49 Combat Missions as a Pilot in the B-25 Mitchell Medium Bomber in the Mediterranean Theatre during WWII, with the 310th Bomb Group, the 379th Bomb Squadron out of Corsica and Italy, 1945. Lt Peters flew a B-25 home to the ZI, arriving safely at Savannah, GA via the A.T.C. Southern Route.
39564666 Born in Oregon in 1923, Bernard T Peters was living in Los Angeles County, CA. and enlisted on 9 March, 1943. Bernie had completed one year of college and was still single at enlistment.
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Lions Down Tampa; Await Word on Regional Seeding
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's tennis team (15-10) wrapped up the Sunshine State Conference Tournament with an impressive 5-0 shutout of rival the University of Tampa (5-15), Saturday afternoon from Sanlando Park.
Box Score
In the seventh-place consolation match, the Lions made quick work of the Spartans in doubles before earning victories at No.1 and No.4 singles to clinch the match.
Again, it was the No.3 doubles pair ofJeanette McDonald and Adrianna Daszkiewicz giving Saint Leo the early lead as they blanked the duo of Briana Ryan and Kathleen Beckham, 8-0.
Bethania Laan and Laura Kemkesfollowed with an impressive 8-2 defeat of Leslie Raymond and Lauren Hewitt whileSelma Hidass and Caroline Ebner edged Megan Mancini and Nikol Williams, 9-7, in a thrilling back-and-forth struggle.
Possessing a 3-0 lead out of doubles, the Lions left no doubt in the victor as Laan wrapped-up a straight set 6-0, 6-2 win over Raymond.
At the No.4 slot, Hidass managed to put the finishing touches on the sweep as her 6-3, 6-0 win clinched the match.
The Lions will now await word from the NCAA in regards to their postseason hopes. Heading into the tournament, the Lions were ninth in the south region.


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Patricia — By Diane M. Byrne
— September 2002
Seeing Is Believing
|Benetti's aptly named Vision line shows owners it knows what they want in a semicustom yacht.
Giving a product line a bold, imaginative name is nothing new. For years marketing executives have sat around long conference tables conjuring up snappy monikers for everything from vacuum cleaners to cereal. Take Eureka's "cyclonic" cleaning system, for example--it leaves little to consumers' imagination, so they're apt to believe in its cleaning power even before plugging it in. And how many of us have enjoyed (or perhaps still enjoy) a hearty bowl of Rice Krispies--with milk, of course, for the ultimate "snap, crackle, and pop" effect? In each case, the product name conveys more than an image, it conveys a promise.
Whether or not Benetti president Paolo Vitelli and his creative team sat around a long conference table when they came up with the name Vision for the yard's newest line of semicustom fiberglass yachts, the name is fitting. Not only does it aptly describe the beauty of Patricia, the first of the line, but also it reveals how well Benetti has tapped into the psyche of semicustom yacht buyers.
While this Italian yard had long focused on building aluminum and steel yachts from 50 to 70 meters (about 164 to 230 feet LOA), in the mid-1990's it recognized an increasing demand among buyers for lower-maintenance and lower-priced yachts. Thus was born the Benetti Classic line of 35-meter (about 115-foot) fiberglass yachts. The yard built these in series to have more control over design and construction costs, yet offered owners a choice of three interior layouts for some customization. The line was a success: The yard has delivered more than a dozen Classics and expects to deliver about seven more between now and the end of next year.
Benetti soon realized that it needed a way to keep its Classic owners in the family and simultaneously saw an opportunity to reach new buyers. After all, megayacht owners, like other boat buyers, often step up to larger and more technically advanced craft after a few years, and the yard knew some owners wanted a larger semicustom yacht than the Classic line offered. And that's where the Vision line comes in: providing the benefits of the technology and lifestyle offered by bigger steel-and-aluminum megayachts yet still in a lower-maintenance package.
Since yacht owners are traveling farther afield these days, Patricia, the first yacht in the Vision line, has transatlantic range. With her twin Caterpillar 3508s, she reportedly enjoys a range of 4,000 NM at 12 knots (top speed is said to be 15 knots). Koopnautic stabilizers should ensure comfort while underway at any speed, as should extended bilge keels to either side of a nearly full-length central keel.
Thanks to the exterior styling of Stefano Righini, who has designed nearly every Benetti regardless of size or material, Patricia embodies a profile marked by an expanse of windows on both the main deck and upper deck, making the Vision appellation fitting. A fixed hardtop on the sundeck lends sporty appeal. As for internal architecture, realizing that potential owners might put their yachts into charter, Benetti and Righini planned the Vision line to comply with the MCA Code governing the safety of large yachts. To that end, Patricia features items such as automatically deploying fire doors throughout, particularly in the central stairwell, which wraps around an elevator connecting her three decks.
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This article originally appeared in the December 2002 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Bangalore, Sep 6 (IANS) Convicted serial rapist and killer Jaishankar was arrested Friday from the outskirts of the Karnataka capital six days after he escaped from the central jail in a southern suburb, a top police official said.
"The prisoner (Jaishankar) was found at Kudlugate in Bommanhalli, about 25 km south of the city, by our patrolling party after a tip-off, and has been arrested," Bangalore Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar told reporters here.
The 36-year-old prisoner will be brought to the commissioner's office by evening for interrogation and further investigation.
"We will question him on how he escaped from the high-walled prison and find out if he had any accomplices who helped him in securing a duplicate key and police uniform in which he scaled two inner walls and jumped from the outer wall," Auradkar said.
An embarrassed Karnataka government had Monday announced a Rs.5-lakh reward for information that would help trace the runaway convict.


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Paris - France manager Philippe Saint-Andre trimmed his preliminary Six Nations squad from 33 down to 24 on Monday, dispensing as expected with a host of uncapped and fringe players for the opener against Italy on Sunday.
With fullback Brice Dulin out of action for several weeks because of a hamstring injury, Yoann Huget or Benjamin Fall could be handed the number 15 shirt.
Lock Romain Taofifenua, who won his first cap against Argentina last year, retained his place in the squad.
Forwards: Vincent Debaty, Yannick Forestier, Benjamin Kayser, Dimitri Szarzewski, Luc Ducalcon, Nicolas Mas, Yoann Maestri, Pascal Pape (captain), Romain Taofifenua, Damien Chouly, Thierry Dusautoir, Yannick Nyanga, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Louis Picamoles
Backs: Maxime Machenaud, Morgan Parra, Frederic Michalak, Francois Trinh-Duc, Mathieu Bastareaud, Benjamin Fall, Wesley Fofana, Florian Fritz, Yoann Huget, Maxime Mermoz. - Reuters


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NORTH WILTS Ladies B side are through to the third round of the Over 60s women's double rinks competition.
They had to come from behind before booking their place in the next round of the Mason Trophy with a narrow two shot victory as they eventually overcame Purnell (Paulton) 46-44.
North Wilts held a comfortably 14-6 lead across the board at five ends but at 10 had been pegged back and were 19-20 down.
They edged ahead again to lead 32-28 at 15 ends but at 18 were 36-39 down before a late surge saw them snatch victory on the last end as the home rink scored a six and the away rink a two.
At Purnell, Jean Collier was 5-3 up at five ends but 6-11 adrift at ten but got back to 15-15 at 17. However her rink then dropped a six and a single to trail 15-22 but did manage to pull back four shots including a vital two on the last end.
Fizz Mace was ahead for practically the whole of her match at home and led 13-3 at seven ends and 19-10 at 13.
However, her rink's lead was cut to 19-18 at 17 and she went 21-22 down on the 20th end but her troops rallied with a glorious count of six on the last to grab a 27-22 and help to ensure a North Wilts overall victory.
North Wilts B will face Thornbury B, who beat Clevedon 58-23, in the next round tomorrow (Friday) at 10am.
There is just one change to the team that beat Purnell with Isabel Dawson replacing Norma Rowden in the away rink.
Home - Rink 2: Ann Roberts-Phare, Shirley Palfrey, Kath Lloyd & Fizz Mace beat Joan Walmsley 27-22. Away - Rink 2: Norma Rowden, Val Lucas, Irene Button & Jean Collier lost to Ann Chivers 19-22.
Score: North Wilts beat Purnell 46-44.
WILTSHIRE Ladies beat Dorset 119-95 in a county friendly played at North Wilts last Sunday afternoon.
They took the honours on three of the rinks and drew on another with Wendy Anderson's four recording the biggest winning margin of 19 shots with a 25-6 success.
Rink 1: Barbara Shepheard lost to A White 17-23. Rink 2: Brenda Bowen beat M Musgrove 24-9. Rink 3: Janet Hardie beat V Ferguson 29-16. Rink 4: Joan Coleman lost to S Smith 7-24. Rink 5: Wendy Anderson beat L Johnson 25-6. Rink 6: Evelyn Tape drew with I Addison 17-17.
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New York Giants tight end Martellus Bennett has been reluctant to divulge the full extent of his knee injury, which was suffered in week five against the Cleveland Browns. Over the last several weeks, he's merely described the pain as if a Panda were sitting on his thigh and chewing on his knee. He's also referred to it as "messed up shit." But on Monday, he finally spilled the beans, revealing that he had suffered a "torn knee capsule" as well as bruises to both his ACL and PCL.
For all of us non-doctors, a knee capsule, or Articular capsule of the knee joint, is " an envelope surrounding a synovial joint" which includes the patella, ligaments, menisci, and bursae. It can often be torn during awkward bending and twisting of the knee, which occurred during Bennett's hyperextension.
Needless to say, coupled with a bruised ACL and PCL, it sounds like an incredibly painful injury … especially if it's a complete tear and bone is now rubbing on bone.
Although Bennett has managed to play through the pain, his production has suffered. He hasn't looked 100% since week 5 (for what are now obvious reasons), and it's something that will linger for the rest of the season. However, a bye week certainly couldn't hurt.
And the Dallas Cowboys and their fans said this guy wasn't a hard-working team player…
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Today's Real Wedding features the wedding of Chanel and Kris, which took place at Our Lady of Mercy in Aurora, Illinois, followed by a reception at the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare in Rosemont. You might remember the couple from their engagement shoot seen on our blog a few months ago, and now we're excited to share some details from their big day! The wedding was not only a celebration of two families coming together but also two cultures coming together. The couple paid tribute to both of their cultures by having traditional Polish and Filipino dances performed during the reception dinner. The florist used the wedding invitation (our Vivid Blooms design) as inspiration for Chanel's bouquet. Here are a few photos courtesy of Brian Barnhart Jr.
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MacOS X Leopard on 15″ PowerBook G4 by falko7 04 2008
I just installed MacOS X 10.5 Leopard on an 15″ Powerbook G4 to test the overall performance.
The installation itself went on without problems. Only the time settings where not done automatically so the date and time was set to sometime back in octobre 2007. This prevented some programs from functioning normally. For instance Adobe AIR was not able to install applications due to network errors. And Google BrowserSync for Firefox was also not able to initialize due to network erros. After setting date and time correct everything went well.
After some evening of testing I have to admin that my 12″ Powerbook G4 feels faster then this 15″ Powerbook. Although the little one has only 1.25 GB RAM instead of 2 GB in the 15″ model.
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To celebrate National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day on April 20th, we whipped up this classic dessert using natural ingredients!
To celebrate National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day on April 20th, we whipped up this classic dessert using natural ingredients!
Growing up, seeing a pan of pineapple-upside down cake for dessert after Sunday lunch made me long for a box of cookies. I didn't like the mushy texture on top created by the fruit. Plus, there was no frosting.
Now that I'm older and wiser, I know you don't need frosting because the sweet sogginess on top (or is it the bottom?) of the cake is the best part. And, now I love to see my grandmother place one on the table on Sunday afternoons.
Since my family has recently embarked on a journey of eating more whole foods, less refined carbs and the like, baking an old-fashioned pineapple upside down cake seemed out of the question. My grandmother's recipe includes a box cake mix, corn syrup and white and brown sugar. A quick perusal through my cookbooks and online recipes shows the same thing.
So with National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day on April 20 (Isn't it fun that there are entire days solely dedicated to the celebration of specific desserts?), I knew it was the perfect opportunity to try and recreate the recipe to include more natural ingredients and less sugar, but still result in the moist, sweet cake I so enjoy.
I first mixed up a yellow cake from scratch using whole wheat flour, honey and coconut oil. Then, I made substitutions to my grandmother's recipe for the syrupy, pineapple topping, which means honey instead of white sugar and cutting the brown sugar amount in half.
- For Cake:
- 2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup (or 8 tablespoon) coconut oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- For Topping:
- 1/2 cup honey
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- pineapple slices (I needed seven.)
- Maraschino cherries
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray.
Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
Cream honey and coconut oil in a mixer until smooth.
Add eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined.
Add in flour mixture and milk alternately to the mixing bowl, ending with the flour. Mix until just blended.
In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter with honey and brown sugar, stirring occasionally until the mixture bubbles up. Pour into prepared cake pan.
Place pineapple slices on top of sauce. Put one cherry inside each pineapple slice.
Pour cake batter over sauce and pineapple.
Bake 40-45 minutes or until edges are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let cool about 5 minutes in the pan before turning the cake out onto a serving platter.
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This Sunday Oakland Zoo's youngest zebra celebrated her 17th birthday! Mokey was born on August 18, 1996, the daughter of mother Bingo and sister of Domino who are both currently housed with her at the zoo. Zebras typically live to be about 25 years of age but in captivity they have been known to live as long as 40 years.
I am lucky enough to be the primary trainer for Mokey during our collective training sessions and of course I felt we had to celebrate our girl in style! Lead keeper Leslie Storer suggested making popsicles with different layers of goodies in them for each zebra. The result was a double decker popsicle with a layer of carrots on the bottom and cookie crumbs on top.
The day turned out to be quite warm and muggy and I thought for sure we had one grand slam of a birthday hit. The initial reaction was a little wary on all sides and only Domino and Mokey actually ventured close enough to the pops to touch them. Their reactions were underwhelming to say the least. In all fairness to the species they tend to eat in what might be described as a nibbling action with the front teeth and then move to grind with the molars.
Surely, I thought, once these bad boys begin to melt they'll be nibbling away at these carrot shards! Well, no dice. By the end of the day the popsicles were completely melted and all that was left were several empty chains and a pile of unappetizing sludge. Stormy eventually moved in to pick up some of the leftovers.
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PHILADELPHIA - Freshman Alek Torgersen led a furious comeback and threw two late fourth-quarter touchdowns for the University of Pennsylvania football team on Saturday. For his efforts, Torgersen was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week by the league office on Monday.
In Penn's season finale, Torgersen came into the game with Penn trailing by 21 points and a little more than eight minutes remaining. The true freshman appeared to lead the Quakers all the way back, but the potential game-tying extra point was blocked and the Red and Blue fell to Cornell, 42-41.
Torgersen threw for 109 yards in that short span on 6-of-10 passing, including his first two career touchdowns. The Huntington Beach, Calif., native also ran for seven yards to combine for 116 yards of offense in about a half quarter of play. With the Quakers down three touchdowns, he led Penn 57 yards in just three plays to start the late comeback. The drive was capped by a 45-yard touchdown pass to sophomore Cameron Countryman - the first collegiate score for both players. On Penn's next possession, Torgersen took the team 75 yards, accounting for all 75 yards (68 passing, 7 rushing), in just 1:56 to get the Quakers within seven.
This is the first career Ivy honor for Torgersen and the fourth this year for the Quakers. Senior Evan Jackson was the Defensive Player of the week after Penn's victory at Columbia on Oct. 19. Freshman Donald Panciello was the Rookie of the Week for his punting efforts at William & Mary on Oct. 12, and senior David Park was the Defensive Player of the Week following his dramatic role in Penn's four-overtime win in the Ivy opener against Dartmouth on Oct. 5.


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So I was hoping to find a pre-built function out there preferably PHP/HTML/JS to recursively display a table in html, but I haven't thus far. I want a really dynamic way of displaying a table from Mongo DB, which as you may know can contain multidimensional data. Java script would come in to collapse / expand any data that is an array.
Anyone know of anything such as this pre-built?
how would the data be coming in to the file? I'm not familiar with Mongo's connectors and return structure...
It returns an object, which can be converted to a multidimensional array. If you are unfamiliar with how "records" or documents are stored, here might be a good example:
_id: "disudfh93h394530dj", // uncreative recreation of a unique id created by mongo
f_name: "kyle",
l_name: "wolfe",
forums_liked: ["PHP", "Databases & MySQL", "General Web Development & Application Design Issues"]
Essentially the "column" forums_liked is an array. Ideally on the fly a script would show each row in a normal table format, but then would allow for arrays to be expanded and viewed. There can be many arrays inside of other arrays, which makes Mongo great IMO. I'm currently looking at using it for a business wide error reporting service. A simple API can be written to require just a few mandatory fields, and then allow a "dump" of an array that each developer would deem necessary info to the error.
So it comes in as a JSON which can be flipped into a regular array with json_decode, and then parsed as any normal array would?
JSON is the format of the db, but not the PHP return. It returns an object, which can be converted to a normal array.
Can you provide a var_dump() of that object once PHP has it?
Given the example above, and after conversion to an array, it'll look as such:
$result = array(
"result" => array(
"_id" => "disudfh93h394530dj",
"f_name" => "kyle",
"l_name" => "wolfe",
"forums_liked" => array(
"Databases & MySQL",
"General Web Development & Application Design Issues"
I know what's involved in writing a recursive function to handle things such as this, but I was hoping that someone already had a solution for this.
So... do a normal recursive Array walk on the array?
function tableize($in) {
echo "
";
foreach($in AS $key => $value) {
if(is_array($value)) {
echo "
$key:".tableize($value)."
";
} else {
echo "
$key: $value
";
echo "
";
In my opinion writing your own recursive function to handle the task is nothing complicated and I think it would take you less time than trying to find a ready-made solution and potentially having to adapt it to your needs. This would be using foreach on the array and if there's a another array in the array then you echo a new table and run the same function feeding it the array (that is - considering you want to nest tables inside tables). Then spicing it up with some javascript to toggle display:none on and off on the nested tables shouldn't be complicated either.
The recursion its self isn't that hard. However displaying it in a friendly manner will take some time, for me at least. This seems like a generic task that someone would have come across and might have put out a public solution.
Hm, in this case it seems this is more a css/javascript problem than php. It is similar to displaying muli-level menus except this involves tables. I think first you would need to decide how you want this to look and work for the end user (if you haven't done so yet) and then try to find a solution. However, I've never come across anything like this ready-made.
Being a good programmer you already know how to walk the object, but using something like @StarLion ; 's code
And then creating and linking a CSS style sheet like
table {
width: 80%;
padding: 0;
margin: 10px;
font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* remove this to stop the centering of the table */
margin: 5px auto 30px auto;
/* ensure that the backround of the table is white */
background-color: #fff;
/* the shadow wrapping around the table. Remove all lines
below if you don't like this effect */
-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
th {
border: 1px solid #525C67;
background-color: #7B92AD;
color: #fff;
padding: 5px;
/* the rounded corners wrapping around each cell. Remove next
three lines to have angled corners */
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
/* the shadow wrapping around each cell. Remove all lines
below if you don't like this effect */
-moz-box-shadow: inset -3px -3px 3px #888;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset -3px -3px 3px #888;
box-shadow: inset -3px -3px 3px #888;
td {
border: 1px solid #525C67;
color: #274E7D;
padding: 5px;
/* the rounded corners wrapping around each cell. Remove next
three lines to have angled corners */
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
/* the shadow wrapping around each cell. Remove all lines
below if you don't like this effect */
-moz-box-shadow: inset -3px -3px 3px #888;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset -3px -3px 3px #888;
box-shadow: inset -3px -3px 3px #888;
And here is a test table so you can decide if you like it:
This is the first
This is the second
This is the thrird
The color scheme is this: http://colorschemedesigner.com/#3C51Tw0w0w0w0
You can play around with different schemes although blue is generally the most respected for business crowd.
I don't know if this helps but it was worth a try
I wonder if the OP is looking for something like table_class, its 10 year old code now, but I remember contacting the author and rewriting it for (early) PHP5 and using it on some dashboards.
For anyone stumbling across this thread in the future, I'm going to be implementing this: http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html#


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MSI X79A-GD45 Plus Review: Building Upby Ian Cutress on 2/14/2014 10:00 AM EST
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hulu - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkIn Board Features > Memory Slots, says "Up to Dual Channel". Shouldn't it be quad channel? Reply
dgingeri - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkWell, it could be useful for a high level home server with that many slots. Put a low end video card in the top, raid controller in the second, quad port 1Gb NICs in the 4th and 5th, and have the last slot available for a 10Gb card if needed. Wouldn't even need a switch to go with it. All in one, storage, network, routing, high end network. It has possibilities. Reply
Rick83 - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkBut most of that you can do with 1155, and for that price you can get a board with ECC support to boot, won't need any GPU at all (unless you get a Xeon that has the GPU disabled), and still have plenty room to grow. 1155 has plenty of PCIe bandwidth, as long as most of your load is from two expansion slots. Hooking up RAID and networking directly to the CPU means that you will have two or three expansion cards that may eventually be bandwidth restrained, but even then opting for a board with a PCIe MUX would be in the same league, price-wise as this, and have plenty of bandwidth for up to four cards - and most non-GPU cards aren't really PCIe restricted. Quad GbE is one lane PCIe3, 10GbE is 2-4 lanes, 8x 6Gb SAS with software RAID over SSDs is going to need 8x PCIeV3, but realistically 4x is going to be enough, if you use hardware RAID or spinning platters.
No, the only reason for this board, is if you want a cheap rendering machine. 6-8 cores and 64GB of RAM on a 250 dollar board is pretty nice. If you want gaming, you'll probably be looking at boards higher up the foodchain, as the GPUs alone will come in at around 2-3k dollars, and another 100 on the board won't really matter, if you get better sound and other nifty features.
GPU computer might be another use case, but then that's even rarer than rendering boxes, from what I've seen so far. Might be a nice little GPU compute dev workstation. Reply
Flunk - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkThere really isn't any need for this as a home server. It's total overkill. Even a Core 2 Quad can transcode multiple 1080p streams while serving files, routing and doing all the other common home server tasks. Home servers don't really need much power, most homes don't have more than 4-6 users. Reply
dgingeri - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkFor total I/O and a poor man's 10Gbe switch, socket 2011 or 1366 can't be beat. That's what I mostly use my home servers for. Socket 775, 1155, or 1150 systems simply can't provide the I/O to run a software switch that includes 10Gbe.
Yeah, sure, 10Gbe is hardly worth the expense in a home server. However, with a raid controller and quad drive set capable of pushing 400MB/s, it can be useful for video editing over a network drive, or a few other things.
I do it as an experiment on future uses and self training. Right now, I have three servers interconnected with 10Gb over such a poor man's 10Gbe switch running a total of 14 VMs over 3 domains with 6 domain controllers, 3 WDS servers, and some 'workstations', just to prove I could do it before I propose doing the same thing with the DNS servers in my lab. (We currently have 4 domains across 17 departments, with 3 of those 4 running Linux DNS servers that don't talk to each other. It's really annoying working on machines that cross those domains. So, I had to come up with a plan to fix it with Windows DNS and AD, and eventually migrate down to one domain. In addition, I was to come up with a way to manage user accounts through Windows AD for a single centralized vCenter server to manage our test VM hosts. I wasn't sure I could do it until I spent a weekend building all these VMs.) All of those VMs are running on iSCSI storage over 10Gbe from the storage server. I did all this with two Dell T110 II servers, one for storage and one for routing/switch, and a piecemeal FX-6100 VM host and 4 Intel CX4 10Gbe NICs.
In essence, I was just dreaming about a more capable central server for my experiments when I posted that previous comment. I could switch the storage and switch duties to a system with this board and use the Dells as further VM hosts. Maybe I'm just spoiled with all this hardware at work. Reply
Ian Cutress - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkCopy/Paste error from my spec tables which I hand code to make it easier :) Should be fixed.
Ian Reply
Bal - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkOk I am not one to criticize articles, but this reads REALLY poorly. I mean I am the guy who misspells every other word and uses slang, misses apostrophes etc. So I forgive everything as long as its readable. But I could not get past the first page of this review.
The writer misuses "are" and "is" so often I have to reread every other sentence. He completely misses using the word "the" and it also makes you reread each sentence. Read the first two paragraphs and someone tell me I am wrong? Am I just grumpy, hungover or what? Reply
The PC Apologist - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkHahaha, you must be new to Ian. He's rather infamous for his "style."
It would seem that eloquence is not as valued as passion when it comes to the tech journalism industry, even for Anandtech. Refer to the 14 AIO coolers article and its comments section to see an excellent example of what I mean. There I had a little exchange with the author and boy, it's not pretty.
Although one could say that one doesn't read a motherboard review, or any other tech article, to brush up on one's English grammar or writing skills, but rather just to look at some pretty pictures, learn the price/specs, and read the conclusion, it's somewhat of a weak cop-out as one would also expect AnandTech to strive for higher standards. Reading is reading and a poorly written article is a poorly written article, regardless of topic. Other sites aren't much better though. And to their defense, there are some decent writers, in terms of pure writing, here at AnandTech, not least of which is Anand himself. And who knows? I might even answer AnandTech's Call for Writers one of these days. So fret not, all hope is not lost.
- The PC Apologist Reply
thesavvymage - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - linkI would absolutely loathe you writing for this site. I'm sure the other writers would hate you writing with them as well, pretty much every time I see you in the comments it is because you are complaining of the competence of the english and grammar of the article. Reply
BlakKW - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - link+1 Reply
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The PC Apologist - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - link1) How many times have you seen me in the comments?
2) Is complaining about poor English or bad grammar inherently bad?
3) Are my complaints illegitimate/inappropriate (calling good grammar bad)?
4) Do you come to this site expecting a pep talk or a well-written article?
5) Does you loathing me count towards the calculus of anything?
Thank you. Reply
Ian Cutress - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkCommonly people like to point out that I refer to companies using plural terms, as is the standard in the UK and persistent throughout my UK upbringing. No matter how hard I try and convert into singular style common in the US, it requires a complete reworking of my brain which I cannot do on the fly. So any attempt to try and patch the difference ends up half-baked, as it were.
If you have specific suggestions, feel free to email by clicking on my name at the top of the article.
Ian Reply
The PC Apologist - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkNo worries Ian.
I appreciate the candor and sincerity. It's nice to know that you're open enough for constructive criticism and room for improvement, which can't be said for everybody. But as far as writing goes, I suspect that the problem lies beyond just the confusion of singular vs. plural. Such can just be attributed to carelessness and be called honest mistakes. Rather, sometimes, there seems to be a lack of deeper substance and coherent flow. Other times, the language is simply not "beautiful," but rather mundane and unenthused.
But like I said, for the time being, no worries. What's important is that you're open to suggestion and change. Writing is, among other things, an art, and it's rather difficult to codify the formula for success. But with the correct attitude, one will eventually evolve and improve with practice, lots of reading (of good writers), and rigorous analytical thinking.
- The PC Apologist Reply
Nfarce - Sunday, February 16, 2014 - linkPCA - just go start your own blog and STFU. We don't need your distractions, pompous jerkwad. Reply
khanov - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkI think you are used to reading 'Americanese'. There is nothing wrong with Ian's English. Reply
The PC Apologist - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkI think you are used to being "nice." There is nothing wrong with being honest from time to time. Reply
DMCalloway - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkUnfortunately, the i7 2600k wasn't included in the benchmarks. This would have given the reader a clear overview of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation i7 performance for comparison. Reply
Ian Cutress - Friday, February 14, 2014 - linkMost of the results from other processors were derived from the retest required for the 2014 benchmark suite, initiated by the AMD Kaveri review. In time I will be going back and testing older CPUs when the backlog of review hardware falls to a reasonable level. Reply
The_Assimilator - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - linkCan you guys please start deducting points for motherboards that still include COM headers? Reply
flemeister - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - linkWhy? It still gets used occasionally, and it hardly takes up any room on the motherboard, unlike the old floppy and IDE headers. Reply
SirKnobsworth - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - linkWould I be correct in saying that only 3 of the secondary (2.0) PCIe lanes are being used? The PCH provides 8, but I only see one x1 slot, one NIC, and one USB 3 controller. At the very least they could have swapped the x1 slot for an x4 slot, allowing a high performance SSD to be installed. Reply
0xc000005 - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - linkThis is a great board, bought one at work and it is excellent. The only letdown is that there are no drivers for windows server operating systems. Reply
Gigaplex - Sunday, February 16, 2014 - linkConsidering it's using off the shelf chips that don't require special drivers, there should be no problem getting Windows Server working on it. Just don't expect them from MSIs website. Reply
Achaios - Sunday, February 16, 2014 - linkThis "military class" thing is annoying.
I wonder how well would this mobo fare under 5g stress, or say, after 5 days of a typical anti-guerilla mission mounted on an armoured vehicle moving through mountainous terrain/and/or cross country.
Or for instance, how well would it fare mounted on a PC onboard a Naval vessel after said vessel put its engines on "crash full astern" after making 30-35 knots on full ahead. Would this motherboard be able to withstand the excessive vibration produced by the engines of the said Naval Vessel? If not, what is the point of calling it "military class"? Reply
AndrewJacksonZA - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkMarketing. :-) Reply
AndrewJacksonZA - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkI haven't played with Xeons for a while so I don't recall if Intel locks the Xeons in the factory, but assuming that this board can take it, what do you think the overclocking potential is for one of the oh-so-expensively-priced E5-2697 v2s are? Reply
mapesdhs - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - linkXEONs are indeed locked, so the only oc'ing possible is via straps
and the limited potential of a base clock increase. In this respect,
it's easier to mess about with X58 XEONs (still locked, but oc'ing
was mostly via bclk anyway).
Ian. Reply
mapesdhs - Monday, February 17, 2014 - link
Ian, re the SATA3 ports that are part of Intel's X79 chipset, do you know if
Intel makes a SATA3 RAID or JBOD card which uses the same circuitry
which drives their X79 SATA3 ports? Or does any other company make such
a thing based on Intel's SATA3 technology? On X79 boards which only have
a Marvell chip (terrible controller) for additional SATA3, it would be great to
be able to add a PCIe card that provided the same functionality as a full set
of proper Intel SATA3 ports. I have an ASUS P9X79 WS, specced up the wazoo:
but the only thing which really lets it down is the limited number of Intel SATA3
ports (ie. 2).
Ian. Reply
Morcrist - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - linkIs it just me, or does the author completely miss the fact that this board supports 128 GB of ram?
I mean, it kinda' threw me off at first when on the first page he alternately refers to the board as a GD45 and a GD65. I thought maybe the 'GD65' only supported the 64 GB.
But no, every image in the article has GD45 on it so...
WTF? Reply
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sharkyboy - Saturday, January 03, 2015 - linkactual supported RAM is 128GB check the vendor site
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X79A-GD45-Plus.html#... Reply
sharkyboy - Saturday, January 03, 2015 - linkdoes the motherboard support VT/HT for virtualization?
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Trained as a string musician, Alexander Chen uses HTML5 and Flash to build interactive virtual string instruments from source material as diverse as a Gibson Les Paul, the New York subway system and, most recently, a classical cello. Baroque.me visualizes the notes of the first Prelude from Bach's Cello Suites as continuously shifting strings, and is the first part in a planned series of graphical representations of baroque music. By utilizing the mathematics behind string length and pitch, Alexander spotlights the underlying structure and subtle shifts in the musical piece. While at Eyebeam, he's part of a collaboration with New Visions to develop strategies for maximizing digital learning as a member of Digital Teacher Corps. After noodling with the Les Paul Google doodle, Eyebeam intern Katherine DiPierro spent some time with Alexander to talk about interactive musical design.
Katherine DiPierro: MTA.me, which interprets Massimo Vignelli's subway map as a living string instrument, interprets train routes in a way that can only be described as transfixing. How is baroque.me similar or dissimilar to MTA.me?
Alexander Chen: I just launched baroque.me as the first project in my Eyebeam residency. It visualizes the Prelude from the first Bach Cello Suite. I started thinking about this idea after the launch of MTA.me, which generated a melody from the New York subway map. That project generated music from a visual source. The Bach project was the reverse of that, generating visuals from a musical source. The MTA.me project was also designed to seem creator-less, as if the subway was authoring its own melody. Here, I wanted to explore the beautifully, intricately structure that Bach authored.
The piece came from the simple, mathematical relationship between string length and pitch. It simply asks, "What if all the notes were generated as lengths of string?" I used a group of 8 strings, following the musical phrasing. So at any given time, you are seeing a visual snapshot of a musical phrase. I set out to create a new way of visualizing the notes in the piece. But in the end, I was surprised at how the end piece, with its shifting strings, felt more like watching a performer.
KD: A portion of your projects seem to feature ways of rethinking the way information's displayed - using the sound of plucked strings to represent objects or composing soundtracks to represent people. Would it be fair to describe a site like MTA.me (or even your current work at Eyebeam) as an infographic?
AC: Sure. I like infographics. Although I think infographics' success should be measured by their clarity to communicate information. But on projects like MTA.me, I've sacrificed clarity for playfulness and aesthetic value. Instead of communicating accurate data, I'm trying to communicate more emotional qualities. With MTA.me, it's reframing chaotic, mundane data as something emotional.
The Bach project was kind of the reverse. Everyone hears that piece as very emotional, but I wanted to approach it from a completely non-emotional way, working only with the note data.
KD: From Crayong to the Les Paul Google Doodle, the bulk of the projects you've worked on feature virtual string instruments. How do you produce a virtual string instrument?
AC: I started coding a simple prototype for making virtual strings instruments with Crayong, in 2010. I approached it more like making a toy, not from a more scientific string modeling approach. I've been playing classical viola since the 4th grade, and I really just wrote a little interaction model that felt the way I feel when I pluck a string on the viola. I have a bit of science'ish aspects built in, with longer oscillating more slowly than higher strings. I also give the longer ones a bit more slack. But in the end, I think of my creations more as toys. I wrote the prototype in Flash, then later ported it into HTML5 Canvas for MTA.ME and the Les Paul Doodle. I also brought it into Processing for the collaborative project Stringer on Music Hackday.
KD: In addition to translating string instruments to the web, how do you negotiate being both a musician/composer and an interactive design engineer?
AC: I've always enjoyed jumped around a lot, from doing commercial design work at places like Google, to being a musician and recording albums (under the names Boy in Static and The Consulate General). I do feel different parts of my brain working when I'm wearing various hats. Sometimes it's been hard to juggle. But I think recent projects like Baroque.me and MTA.ME come from an area of intersection. Both instincts as a musician and as a commercial designer feed into these kinds of projects.
Thanks so much for the interview, Alexander! For the latest on Alexander Chen's current and future projects, be sure to visit his Eyebeam profile, personal site, and musical sites (as Boy in Static and The Consulate General).
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It's tried. It's true. Nothing says holidays like The Nutcracker. And nothing goes better with nut, than cheese and wine. After the show, stop at a wine bar for a nightcap!
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Find a local rink and lace up those skates. Enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and take a spin on the ice. Whether it's your first time on blades or you are a budding Olympian, this is a fun way to let your hair down. And if you happen to fall, isn't a nice to have someone to lend you a hand to get back up.
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Check out an exhibit or two at your local museum. There's something romantic and cozy about being in a museum after dark. Most museums have cafes or one nearby. Afterwards, have a cup of coffee and engage in a bit of conversation.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) announced today the five recipients of the 2011 ASID Awards. The awards honor the achievements of individuals and companies in the field of interior design. This year's winners come from a variety of backgrounds and represent the eclectic nature of the interior design industry. They are:
ASID Designer of Distinction Award: Mariette Himes Gomez, ASID
The highest honor that ASID bestows on one of its members, Himes Gomez is being recognized for her outstanding design work over a 30-year career and her contributions to the field of residential and commercial design. Himes Gomez manages to combine both high-style glamour and refined simplicity. In 1975 she opened her own Manhattan firm, Gomez Associates, which is known for very livable rooms with clean lines and clear architectural definition. She is widely published and the bestselling author of APARTMENTS and Rooms and Houses, and her line of furniture, the Mariette Himes Gomez Collection for the Hickory Chair Company, is available in stores throughout the country and in her own store, The Shop, in New York City. Vist her website here.
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AARP Recession Remodel Room Makeover Contest. Completed in 2010, the AARP Recession Remodel Makeover Contest is a project that incorporated universal design and focused on two homes that were no longer accessible to their aging residents. AARP brought in two ASID designers to create universally designed spaces that maintained the resident's individual style, successfully bringing light to the importance and accessibility of universal design. Videos and photos are available on the AARP website.
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ARZU Studio Hope. ARZU is a manufacturer that helps Afghan women and their families break the cycle of poverty by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave. ARZU provides a steady income and access to education and healthcare for impoverished women and their families while representing a trendsetting business model in the interior design industry. ARZU produces products that interior designers can use while improving the value of life for these women. Visit the ARZU Studio Hope website here.
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ALPINE, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) wildlife biologists recently recorded a considerable drop in the pronghorn antelope population in portions of Jeff Davis and Presidio Counties, although they said overall pronghorn populations in the Trans-Pecos remain only slightly below the 30-year average.
Department biologists annually conduct aerial surveys in June and July throughout West Texas to count pronghorn herds. The resulting data is used to monitor populations and generate harvest quotas for hunting permits issued to private landowners. While conducting surveys this year, biologists noticed significantly fewer animals in certain areas than in previous years.
Subsequent ground-based efforts, including rancher interviews, indicated that there had been a fairly extensive loss of adult pronghorn in the affected counties. Though it is difficult to determine exactly how many individuals might have perished, mortality estimates approach 50 percent of adult pronghorn in the two counties, or in excess of 1,000 animals from more than 500,000 acres of desert grassland habitat.
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Schumann, G.L. 2000. Ergot. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: 10.1094/PHI-I-2000-1016-01Updated 2005.
DISEASE: Ergot of rye
PATHOGEN: Claviceps purpurea
HOSTS: Rye (principal economic host), barley, oats, triticale, wheat, and numerous species of cultivated and wild grasses
AuthorsGail L. SchumannUniversity of Massachusetts
Although ergot of rye causes yield reductions, the significance of the disease is primarily related to the various toxic alkaloids present in the ergots (sclerotia). The alkaloids can cause severe health problems in both humans and animals. Before this disease was understood, the ergots were ground up along with rye grains and ingested when the flour was used for baking. In the Middle Ages, this led to a frightening disease of humans known as "holy fire" or "St. Anthony's fire." Today, ergot poisoning is mostly a concern in animals that may be given contaminated feed or graze where wild grasses are heavily infected with ergot.
Although ergot of rye causes yield reductions, the significance of the disease is primarily related to the various toxic alkaloids present in the ergots (sclerotia). The alkaloids can cause severe health problems in both humans and animals. Before this disease was understood, the ergots were ground up along with rye grains and ingested when the flour was used for baking. In the Middle Ages, this led to a frightening disease of humans known as "holy fire" or "St. Anthony's fire." Today, ergot poisoning is mostly a concern in animals that may be given contaminated feed or graze where wild grasses are heavily infected with ergot.
(Left) Ergot on rye. Courtesy R.A. Kilpatrick. (Right) St. Anthony. From a woodcut made in Germany about 1215 A.D. Courtesy Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany. Redrawn from the original.
Claviceps purpurea infects only the ovary of cereal and grass plants; no other part of the plant is infected. In the early stages of disease development, a sticky exudate (honeydew) consisting of host sap and conidia often appears (Figure 2). The infected ovary is replaced by a purplish-black sclerotium, commonly referred to as an ergot (Figure 3). "Ergot" is the French word for "spur." Long ago, people in France noted some resemblance between the sclerotia and the spurs on rooster legs. Size of the sclerotium is host plant dependent. They are generally 1 to 5 times larger than the host seed. Thus, the largest ergots (1-5 cm, 0.5-2 in) are found in large seeded plants such as cereal rye. The host range for C. purpurea is largely confined to members of the grass subfamily Pooideae, the cool-season grasses such as bentgrass, bluegrass, fescue, and ryegrass.
Sclerotia, or ergots, are the overwintering, or survival, stage of the fungus Claviceps purpurea (Figure 1). After exposure to cold temperatures, moisture stimulates the formation of one or more tiny, stalked stromata (Figure 4). Sexual mating, which involves karyogamy to form diploid nuclei and meiosis to return to the haploid state, stimulates the production of the sexual fruiting bodies, the perithecia, and the sexual spores, the ascospores. In the spherical head of each stroma, numerous perithecia form (Figure 5). These flask-shaped fruiting bodies are filled with asci, each of which contains 8 filiform (long and thin) ascospores. Ascospores are usually forcibly discharged into the air.
As the mycelium colonizes the infected ovary of the host plant flower, conidiophores and conidia are produced on the surface of the ovary. Conidia (asexual spores), which are haploid, one-celled, and elliptical (Figure 6), are exuded in droplets of honeydew (Figure 7). Splashing raindrops and insects aid in the dispersal of the conidia.
Sclerotia (ergots) may be left on the soil at the end of the season or sown with the seed when cereal or grass crops are planted. The sclerotium (or ergot) is the survival or overwintering structure of C. purpurea. A period of 4 to 8 weeks of near freezing weather is required for germination of the sclerotium. Sclerotia germinate in the spring, just prior to flowering in the cereals and grasses. Ascospores are ejected into the air and are disseminated by air currents. Only those ascopores that land on a host stigma or ovary can cause infection.
The stigma of a grass flower is large and featherlike; this feature helps trap windborne pollen. This same feature traps the airborne ascospores. Ascospores, which are the primary (initial) inoculum, germinate and infect the ovary within 24 hr.
Within five days, conidia form on the surface of the infected ovary. They are exuded in a clear-to-tan , sticky, sugary honeydew (Figure 7). Conidia are the secondary inoculum and are dispersed to other flowers by physical contact, splashing rain, and insects. The honeydew attracts insects to the wind-pollinated flowers. Insects contaminated with conidia may visit healthy flowers where new infections are initiated. Conidia from ergot-infected wild grasses, particularly in fence rows, can be the primary inoculum in cereal and grass seed production fields.
Over time, the infected ovary develops into a hard, dark colored sclerotium (or ergot) (Figures 1,3).
Claviceps purpurea is common in temperate climates in which the cold period required for sclerotial germination is met. In warmer climates, such as the southeastern U.S., sclerotia are colonized by other fungi and do not survive well.
Rainfall or high soil moisture is required for stroma formation and ascospore production. In the cereal grains and many of the grasses, resistance to infection develops after fertilization. Thus, conditions that delay or interfere with pollination, such as cool, wet weather, can increase the period of susceptibility.
Conidia are an important means of secondary spread. Any transfer of honeydew from infected to healthy flowers can lead to infection. Secondary spread can occur through any means that moves conidia to healthy flowers, including rainsplash, insects, head to head contact, and moving equipment.
Because ergots (sclerotia) do not usually survive for more than one year, rotation with a non-susceptible host plant is a viable management tactic for annual crops. Deep plowing buries sclerotia, so ascospores from stromata cannot be discharged into the air. Although deep plowing buries the ergots, many cereal crops are now grown with "no-till" practices in which new crops are seeded directly into the stubble from the previous crop to reduce soil erosion. Crop rotation is even more important when deep-plowing is no longer an option.
Ergot is one of the most important diseases in grass seed production. Because many of the grass species are perennial, tillage and crop rotation are not management options. Post-harvest field burning has been practiced in the northwestern U.S. to manage ergot and other diseases and pests since the 1940s, but environmental concerns have resulted in legislative restrictions to burning.
Only ergot-free seed should be planted. If seed containing ergot is planted, it should be planted at least 5 cm (2 in) deep to prevent emergence of the stromata. Wild grasses along fence rows should be eradicated or mown or grazed to prevent flowering (Figure 8).
Chemicals have been applied to seed or soil to inhibit production of ascospsores from sclerotia, but are not economical. Recently, sterol-inhibiting fungicides have been applied to flowers to prevent infection in grass seed production, but such treatments are not usually economical in cereal production.
Interest in genetic resistance to ergot has increased since the 1970s with the creation of male-sterile lines of wheat and barley for hybrid seed production. Wheat and barley are self-pollinated plants, unlike rye which is cross-pollinated. Effective male-sterility systems provide the opportunity for hybrid seed production, however, male-sterile plants flower longer and remain susceptible until they are fertilized. Fungicides may be necessary to protect them from infection.
Although ergot causes yield reductions, concern about the disease is primarily related to the various toxic alkaloids present in the ergots. The alkaloids can cause severe health problems in both humans and animals. In the Middle Ages, a frightening disease of humans known as "holy fire" or "St. Anthony's fire" was common but unpredictable. Its history is unclear because diagnostics were primitive and symptoms could be attributed to a number of diseases. Symptoms also varied depending on which toxins, called alkaloids, were present in the ingested ergots and at what concentration. Common symptoms included strange mental aberrations, hallucinations, a feeling of burning skin or insects crawling under the skin. Women frequently miscarried, and fertility was generally reduced during outbreaks. Some victims developed gangrene due to constriction of blood vessels in the extremities; many victims lost hands and feet. (Figure 9). Patients with ergotism were cared for in hospitals dedicated to St. Anthony until their painful and prolonged sufferings ceased (Figure 10).
People under the influence of ergot alkaloids may have convulsions, become manic, appear dazed, be unable to speak or have other forms of paralysis or tremors, and suffer from hallucinations and other distorted perceptions. These strange behaviors have been linked to ergotism during the French Revolution and witchcraft in Europe and the U.S. (Salem, MA, in particular). Peter the Great was stopped at the mouth of the Volga River in 1722 in his quest for a warm-water port at Constantinople (Istanbul) by an ergot outbreak that poisoned both his soldiers and their horses.
Ergots are so commonly associated with rye that they were included in early botanical drawings of the plant species (Figure 11). This may be one reason that it took a long time for people to make the association between St. Anthony's fire and ingestion of the ergots. The discovery of the cause of ergotism in 1670 is attributed to a French physician, Dr. Thuillier. Ergotism could then be reduced by separating the ergots from the healthy grains before milling.
Thousands of people have died of ergotism, and mortality rates averaged 40% in some documented epidemics in the 1800s. Even after the cause of ergotism was known, many poor people did not have alternative food sources in years when ergot was severe. Many lives have probably been saved by the adoption of the potato, which originated in South America. As the potato became a peasant staple, production of rye and its accompanying ergot disease declined in many areas.
Fascination with C. purpurea has resulted in its appearance in various fictional works. Robin Cook based his 1994 novel, Acceptable Risk, on an ergot-like fungus isolated in Salem, Massachusetts. A character in an episode of the television series, X-Files, develops strange behaviors after receiving a tattoo colored with a rye extract.
Ergot reduces yield because seeds or kernels are replaced by sclerotia. The disease is of greater significance because of the toxic alkaloids produced by the fungus. Modern cleaning methods remove ergots from grain before it is milled or used for animal feed, but the process is costly and may leave toxic residues. The legal limit of ergot is 0.3 per cent by weight for rye or wheat and 0.1 per cent for barley, oats, or triticale. Grain is classified as "ergoty" if it exceeds this level and is of lower value. Ergot toxins are not destroyed by baking.
Modern management practices reduce ergot infections in most cereal crops. Occasionally, animals released into fields for grazing are poisoned by ergot in wild grasses, particularly following prolonged cool, wet weather in the spring. Ergot can also be a problem where cattle producers rely on grass hay for feed during the winter. When fed to cattle, levels of ergot greater than 0.3 per cent by weight can cause them to lose ear tips and other extremities during very cold weather. Ergot remains a significant problem in grass seed production by reducing yields, creating harvesting problems because of honeydew residues, and causing restrictions on shipment of contaminated seed to other countries.
Midwives and doctors have used extracts from ergots to hasten childbirth or to induce abortions for centuries. Ergot is now deliberately cultivated in the field and laboratory for medicinal purposes. Chemists have intensively studied the more than 40 alkaloids produced by the fungus, including the infamous lysergic acid diethylamide (the hallucinogen, LSD) which was synthesized in 1938. Various compounds have been isolated and modified for medicinal uses, such as treatment of migraine headaches, post-partum bleeding, and various psychological disorders.
Sorghum ergot. Several Claviceps species cause ergot disease in sorghum (Figure 12). In 1995, Claviceps africana was discovered in Brazil, the first report outside Africa and Asia. It rapidly spread worldwide in most sorghum growing areas including the U.S. It has been found in the Texas high plains where 90% of the U.S. and 35% of the world sorghum hybrid seed is produced. The life cycle is similar to that of C. purpurea with the addition of a second, airborne conidial stage on the surface of the honeydew droplet, in addition to the sticky conidia, which contributes to its rapid spread. The toxicity to animals appeared minimal in previous feeding studies, but the sudden threat of the disease worldwide has led to new studies to determine if the fungus is a health threat to animals in the new areas of disease occurrence. (See additional information in the APSnet Feature Article http://admin.apsnet.org/publications/apsnetfeatures/Pages/Ergot.aspx.)
Endophytes in grasses. Pasture grasses with superior drought and insect tolerance and competitivenss have made grazing animals sick. Investigation revealed the presence of fungal symbionts, that were named endophytes (Figure 13). These were fungi from the same family as the ergot fungus (Clavicipitaceae).
The endophytic fungi produce alkaloids similar to those produced by the ergot fungus, resulting in animal diseases such as "fescue toxicosis" and "ryegrass staggers." Symptoms are similar to those of ergotism. Because the fungi are usually transmitted only by seed, care must be taken that endophytes are not present in seed used for forage plantings. On the other hand, endophytes are beneficial in some turfgrass species because they confer disease and drought tolerance and are used as a biological control for leaf-feeding insect pests (Figure 14).
One species of grass endophyte, Epichloë typhina, sometimes produces an external sexual stage that halts the development of grass seed, causing a disease called "choke" (Figure 15). "Choke" disease sometimes limits the production of endophyte-enhanced grass seed.
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio doesn't need to choose between a developing shale energy industry and a clean environment, Gov. John Kasich told state lawmakers in his State of the State address Tuesday at a top-performing school.
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His comments on the developing shale industry were jeered by some members of the balcony audience who were escorted out. "Hey, Steubenville, let 'em know what you think of disruptions," Kasich said.
The governor said he was committed to environmentally safe oil and natural gas development and said he was confident in the responsible outlook of major drillers.
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The governor called on lawmakers to help make sure colleges and universities are preparing the skilled workers that the shale industry needs.