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- The Children s Oncology Group has established a research network, the Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN), to collect information about children with cancer and other conditions that are benign but involve abnormal cell growth in order to help doctors and scientists better understand childhood cancer. The CCRN's goal is to collect clinical information about every child diagnosed with cancer and similar conditions in the United States and Canada, to allow researchers to study patterns, characteristics, and causes of childhood cancer. The information can also help researchers study the causes of childhood cancer. To expand the CCRN, parents of children who have been diagnosed with cancer will be asked to provide information about themselves and their child for research purposes.
- To obtain informed consent from parents (and the child, when appropriate) of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults newly diagnosed with cancer to enter their names and certain information concerning their child into the Childhood Cancer Research Network.
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|Pediatric Cancer Leukemia Sarcoma Brain Tumors
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Protocol for the Enrollment on the Official COG Registry, The Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN) Children s Oncology Group
- To collect information on children with cancer [ Time Frame: After initial diagnosis ]
- To obtain consent to contact in the future for participation in future clinical trials [ Time Frame: At enrollment and at age of majority ]
|Study Start Date:
|April 30, 2010
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|August 9, 2017
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Pre-CCRN Entry
All new patients seen in COG member institutions with any of the following diagnoses are eligible:
- All cancer cases with an ICD-O histologic behavior code of two 2 (carcinoma in situ)or three 3 (malignant).
- All lesions of the central nervous system regardless of behavior, i.e., benign, borderline or malignant.
- The benign/borderline conditions which will be reportable by agreement shall include: Mesoblastic nephroma, all teratomas, regardless of locations, Theca cell
- granulosa cell tumor, lymphoproliferative disease, ganglioneuroma,
myeloproliferative disease, Langerhan s Cell histiocytosis
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01117168
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|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
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|May 4, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 12, 2017
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Cancer Institute (NCI) ):
Children's Oncology Group
Pediatric Oncology
Pediatric Cancer
Brain Tumor
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brain Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Nervous System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Addition Math Fact Dash {printable board game}
It's no secret. I hate flash cards. They're so ... not fun. To give my 1st grade son a little practice with simple addition and turn repetition into memorization (hopefully), I made a simple board game.
What You Need
Free two-page download of game board and spinner (download here)
Two pieces heavyweight cardstock
Printer & ink
Brad (to make the spinner spin)
Small game pieces (different for each player)
How to Play
Game pieces are placed on the start square. The youngest player spins first. He/she solves the addition problem and moves their game piece to the nearest square with the answer. Turns alternate between players until a player gets the math problem where the answer is 5, the final square on the board.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Number Grid Puzzles (free printable)
Our youngest son had a "fill in the missing numbers in the number grid" math assignment. I thought it would be a snap for him, but as he sometimes transposes numbers, it became a source of major frustration. Oy!
To familiarize him a little more with number grids and some of the quick addition and subtraction you can do with them, I made a few activities. These were inspired by Playdough to Plato's peek-a-boo chart and Mrs. T's First Grade Class number puzzles.
You can download this 100 number grid activity for free from Google Drive here. It's a 3-page PDF.
NOTE: If you are a teacher, use your personal gmail account if it requires you to request permission. Most school districts restrict emails from outside their domain, and therefore I can't grant access and let you know it's available.
Activity #1: 10 more, 10 less, 1 more, 1 less
I printed the number grid on white card stock. I printed page two of the free printable PDF on colored card stock. I cut the center plus-sign out. Then I added white gift wrap tissue squares to the plus signs "arms" making those squares translucent (vellum would work well too), and left the center empty. For the sake of durability, I ran this sheet through my laminator.
With the 10 more, 10 less, 1 more, 1 less page laminated, I wrote some simple math problems on it in the blank area (e.g. 13+10= , 47-10=, 91+1=, 74+1=) with a dry-erase marker. My son placed the laminated page over the number grid so the first number in the equation was in the center. Then he could easily see in the translucent squares which was his answer (i.e. 10 less was directly above, 10 more directly below, 1 more to the right, and 1 less to the left). This made solving the math problems easy!
Activity #2: Number Grid Puzzles
Now I printed the number grid on colored card stock and printed an empty grid on white card stock. I cut the colored grid apart into a variety of puzzles that were about 10-11 squares each.
Once done, I cut the number squares apart and handed him a few piles of puzzles. He arranged them wherever on the blank grid, remembering 10 less is above, 10 more is below, 1 more is on the right, 1 less is on the left. When he completed this puzzle, he moved on to the next. You can make approximately 7-8 puzzles per grid.
Friday, October 21, 2016
Telling Time by the Hour (Simple Printable Game)
One of the most important aspects of telling time is understanding which hand tells you the hour, and which tells you the minutes. To help my son practice telling time by the hour, and beginning to memorize which hand does just that, I made him this fun and simple game.
What You Need
My 2-page PDF (download it for free from Google Drive here)
Heavyweight card stock
Unconventional hole punch (optional)
12 game pieces for each player (we used the flattened glass marbles)
Print one handless clock game board for each player. Print the clock spinner on heavyweight card stock. Fold over the paper at the bottom to double the thickness of the spinner. Glue the folded paper down and cut the spinner and clock out.
Either poke a hole with a nail through the center of the clock and spinner (or use an unconventional hole punch). Thread the brad through the hour hand and clock, separating the prongs at the back of the clock.
The youngest player starts first and flicks the hour hand on the spinner. Wherever it lands, they must read the clock and tell the time. Then they will take one of their game pieces and put it over that number on their clock game board (e.g. if a player flicks the hour hand and it points to seven, they say "It's seven o'clock" and put the game piece over the seven on their game board clock).
The next player does the same. If you already have a number covered that you spin, your turn is over. The next player uses the spinner.
The first player to get all the numbers (aka o'clocks) covered on their game board is the winner.
We read three books with this activity.
Friday, September 23, 2016
Skip Counting Connect-the-Dots Letter Puzzles
My 1st grader came home from school the first week and was distraught that he'd had trouble skip counting by 2s. "Can we practice, Mom?" Um ... yeah!
Since his teacher is also sending home short lists of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) spelling words, I thought I'd combine the two skills.
I made connect-the-dot pages that when finished form the letters of the alphabet (capital letters only at this point).
Download the 13-page PDF for free from Google Drive here.
I grabbed the spelling list and printed the pages with the letters I needed, cut them apart, labeled them 1-3 so he'd know the order of the letters, snipped the corner of each page (so he wouldn't know which letter he was working on), and told him to start with the star and count by 2s.
He was amused and truly enjoyed the discovery aspect of this activity. First, it was fun to see what letter he made. Then it was fun to see what word the three letters formed (e.g. web, hen, pet, pen, etc.).
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Change Exchange (free printable money game)
When big brother took his piggy bank coins in to the bank this summer, little brother was mighty jealous. Since he's only had his bank since Christmas, there was only $7.58 in it (which paled in comparison to the $56.36 our oldest had).
He was confused about which coins added to a dollar. To reinforce coin equivalents (e.g. two dimes and a nickel equal the same as a quarter), I made a fun little board game.
I was surprised to see how much my 7-year old enjoyed it. He and I were having so much fun that our 11-year old asked to play next time!
What You Need
PDF of the game board, equivalent cards, and $1 fake money (download it free from Google Drive here)
Heavy weight card stock (white)
Green paper
Scissors or paper cutting tool
Dry-erase markers
Small objects to use as game pieces (a different one for each player)
Paper towel to erase the marker
Print the game board on white card stock.Trim the white border off the one edge on each page so the spaces meet up perfectly. Tape together.
Print the $1 page on green paper. Plan for $3 per player. You may need to print extra copies of this page depending on how many individuals are playing.
Print the equivalent cards on paper (office or card stock) and laminate. You'll want 2-3 for each player.
Cut all the money and equivalent cards apart.
Each player puts their game piece on the word START. They roll the die and move their game piece the number of spaces rolled. Whatever coin they land on, they will cross off with the dry-erase marker on one of their equivalent cards.
When a player has crossed through all five pennies on that equivalent card, they can erase the marks with a paper towel and cross through one of the nickels on either the two nickels = a dime equivalent card or two dimes and a nickel = a quarter card.
Players continually cross through coins until the cards are filled and then they're erased and a coin of the equivalent value is marked through.
If they roll and land on a dime, but their dimes have already been crossed through on the two dimes and a nickel equivalent card, they can start a second two dimes and a nickel card.
When players have four quarters all crossed through, they are given a $1.
Each player collects a quarter when they roll a number and pass the last space on the board.
The object is not to be the first to finish, but to finish with the most money.
Count the dollars and coins at the end of the game to determine the winner!
I earned $2.56 and my son won with $2.94.
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Hello Kyle M,
I also happen to me sometimes, the symptoms are exactly the same than for LoquitoPollo.
It seems to happen randomly, only for LV steps and in several sequences files.
I started to have the problem just after I updated my teststand version.
TestStand Engine version: 2010 SP1(18.104.22.168)
Sequence Editor version: 18.104.22.168
LabVIEW 2011 (11.0.1, 32-bit)
Windows 7 Professional
We recently discovered a bug related to multiple dimension array parameters to LabVIEW VIs.
Is it possible that the problem you observed occurs when you have multiple dimension array parameters that are expanded in the parameters control?
Hi Kyle,
Yes, this only happens with LabVIEW step types. I haven't seen the problem recently, but I will keep my eyes open.
04-17-2012 07:27 AM - edited 04-17-2012 07:35 AM
I'm getting it too. Occurs within an hour or so of working. Only on LabVIEW step types (from what I can tell). Only thing I can add is that when it occurs on a step with a breakpoint (i.e., Sequence Editor [Pause]), if I select the step then in the Step Settings window for that step flip between the Properties and Module tabs, the message comes up every time I go to the Module tab and the bottom half of the Module tab isn't drawn (still shows the Property tab, instead of the variables for the connection to the module).
LabVIEW 2011 (11.0, 32-bit) PDS
TestStand 2010 SP1 (22.214.171.124) Development System
Windows 7 64-bit
Error occurred while trying to refresh edit panel "SeqEdit.ba"
Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
We need your assistance in reproducing this problem so that we can fix it. If anyone could post some simple sequences and VIs that can be used to reproduce this problem, that could be very helpful.
Hello Erik,
Thanks for trying to fix the problem.
I don't have muliple dimension arrays in this case.I generally use only local and global variables.
Attached is the picture of a new occurence of the error :you can see the message the message attached.
It first happened when trying to open the step settings panel for a LabVIEW code module, as already described. The VI instruction is here really simple and direct : it is just a VISA instruction related to an instrument (here the Agilent E3634A Power Supply) to close the communication. Once the error rises up, it becomes impossible to open another VI : the error is repeated again and again each we click on a LV module.
It's only happening during development time, never when the sequence's running.
I hope this will help.
Thanks for the information. We can now eliminate the multiple dimension array scenario.
My theory on this bug is that it has something to do with the expansion state of the parameters panel before you select the step that causes the error. I know it is asking a lot, but I think that any information about the state of the module panel immediately prior to you selecting the step that causes the error would be valuable.
For instance, you saw the error when you selected the step "Close Power Supply AIN3" and none of the parameters are expanded. Do you recall what was selected before you selected that step? Do you recall whether you had parameters expanded (e.g. the LabVIEWIOControl parameter)?
Thanks again for your assistance and I apologize again for the inconvenience.
Hello Erik,
I don't remember what was expanded or not before I selected this step : it happens some days ago. I'll pay attention next time, but it is effectively possible that the Labview IO control was expanded, because I need it to know the name of the instruments I use.
So I'll tell you as soon as it happens again.
Hi B.log,
Can you send the sequence file that you are using in the screenshot you attached? I would like to try to reproduce this behavior.
To anyone else who is experiencing this, please send the sequence file you were using when encountering the error.


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The Struggle of Letting Go ~ A Story by Suvimalee Karunaratna (Bodhi Leaves No: 147)
Kapuri, the she-elephant, noticed that a new dog, or rather, a new dam, had come into the temple premises. There were, of course, two canines residing there already, Kalu and Sudu. When the new dam walked in, somewhat timidly at first, Kapuri noticed that Sudu became greatly agitated. She growled and snarled and barked no end at the newcomer, despite the latter's gentle demeanour, and even tried to attack her. The newcomer, whose name was Sukhi, settled herself down with great composure and decorum under the Bo tree.
"Please go away," she told Sudu when Sudu came up to her, barking all the while. "I have only come here to meditate."
"So they all say at the start," Sudu said, snarling. "I know all those tricks and tactics. But once they have a toehold here, they begin to behave as if they own the place. Be off with you! There's no room for the likes of you here."
"Who says so?" Kalu asked, coming up to them.
"Who says there's no room?"
Sudu became livid with rage.
"You keep out of this. The conversation here is entirely between me and that creature over there. What have you got to do with it?"
Kalu shrugged, "I'm just a peacemaker, that's all."
"This is not a home for wretched destitutes who bring in all manner of mangy diseases," Sudu continued. "And don't you be filling the whole place with pups."
Sukhi ignored her and Sudu finally left her in peace, though thereafter she always remained on a war-footing with Sukhi, taking umbrage at all kinds of imagined transgressions. She even laid down rules for Sukhi to observe. Sukhi was to keep a wide berth from the monks' residential quarters and the kitchen and confine herself to the tree area and the meditation hall only, which Sukhi would have done in any case. However, the temple stewards and the meditators were very kind and always gave Sukhi leftovers from their food so she didn't starve.
In due course, it was not Sukhi but Sudu who gave birth to a litter of pups. She delivered four pups, and a few days after the event Sukhi decided to visit them. She approached them warily, uncertain of Sudu's reaction to her.
"How are you?" Sukhi asked from afar, "and the new arrivals?"
"Alright," came the cool reply. "Don't come closer, you might frighten them."
"Don't worry, I won't," Sukhi said, a trifle hurt. "I'll keep my distance."
For a minute or two Sukhi watched them wistfully. She adored pups and longed to lick and cuddle them.
When Sukhi returned to the Bo tree courtyard, she sat and wondered why Sudu resented her presence with such intensity. How was she getting in Sudu's way? Sukhi had had her fair share of troubles in life and now all she wanted was a little place where she could sit and meditate in peace.
"Don't worry about Sudu," said Kapuri kindly to Sukhi over the parapet wall that surrounded the Bo tree area.
"How did you know I was thinking of her?"
"I have eyes and ears and I wasn't born yesterday."
"It is difficult to ignore rudeness," Sukhi said.
"Don't waste your valuable time, my dear," Kapuri advised. "Sudu is a victim of excessive papa~nca."
"What's that?"
Kapuri looked at the tortoise who was close by near the edge of the Bo tree. "You tell her," she said.
"Well, you see, we are all subject to papa~nca," the tortoise explained, "but some of us are victims of it more than others. To put it in a nut shell, papa~nca is the wrong way of looking at things."
"But why are we all victims of it?"
"Because we see things subjectively, through ego-tinted glasses, from the point of view of `I' and `me' and `mine.' Our view is blurred by all kinds of prejudices, complexes, fears, false premises, and conjectures which all stem from the notion of an ego."
"So, how can we see things in the correct way?"
"The purpose of mental culture is to purify our minds of defilements so we can clean our lenses, so to speak, and see things clearly rather than through ego-tinted glasses."
"But I don't do any wrong here. At least I'm not aware that I do any wrong. Why should my presence cause Sudu to resent me?"
"Maybe she sees your tendency to cling. You see, we all have clinging, there is no denying that. So, maybe she thinks you may cling to the objects of her clinging, over which she wants exclusive rights. Therefore you pose a threat to her."
"If that's the way she thinks, perhaps I should leave this place. Then she can have exclusive rights to this place and to everything here."
"Running away from unpleasant situations is not a solution. Wherever you go, there will be people you don't like or people who don't like you or situations you don't like. It is better to train your mind in such a way that you do not have excessive yearning for people or things you like or excessive aversion to people or things you dislike. You must train your mind to be unperturbed at all times."
"Now try to discipline your thoughts and cultivate mettaa (lovingkindness) so that you won't react to Sudu's acts of aggression and aversion to you."
"It sounds difficult but I'll try."
"Very good. That method is really better than going away from this place. Think what an excellent opportunity you have here to train your mind in acquiring equanimity."
"I know."
"I have seen so many who run away from unpleasant situations created by those like Sudu," Kapuri observed, "and I have also seen the victims ultimately ending up worse than the victimizers. They revile the victimizers so much that they make just as much unwholesome karma for themselves from their aversion as the victimizers do from theirs."
"I must confess I do have a tendency to run away from unpleasant situations," Sukhi admitted, "but I don't make a habit of reviling others."
"Good, but this time try not to run away, discipline your mind to be equanimous. Cultivating mettaa helps a lot."
"But sometimes, if the conditions are really uncongenial, isn't it more advisable to leave? Even the Buddha left when the conditions were really uncongenial."
"What you say is true. One has to judge and see if a place is conducive to one's own well-being and the well-being of others. If one is really earnest about cultivating mindfulness and concentration and working out one's deliverance from sa.msaara, then a place of solitude is better than uncongenial surroundings loaded with tensions. That is why a householder's spiritual progress is considered gradual whereas a hermit, if earnest, can advance more quickly. Of course, it goes without saying, there have been householders who have attained the path and hermits who have not."
"I shall have to think this out carefully," Sukhi said, knitting her brows. "This is such an ideal place in which to meditate .. and yet, it is just my luck that even here there has to be a fly in the ointment." Kapuri smiled. "It is always like that, my dear. That is dukkha; separation from the pleasant, association with the unpleasant, and having unfulfilled yearnings."
When the pups grew up, try as she might, Sudu couldn't keep them all to herself. They would stray away, giving full vent to their curiosity about their surroundings. They would sometimes come bounding to where Sukhi was seated under the Bo tree to observe her with great interest. One particular saucy pup, who had a black patch over one eye, came right up to her.
"What are you doing there?" he asked, sitting on his haunches and resting one side of his milk-filled belly on the ground.
"I'm meditating."
"What's that?"
"I'm watching my breath as it hits my upper lip."
"Can I try it, too?"
"Yes, if you like."
He flopped by her side and imitated her posture. No sooner he sat by her than Sudu's barking was heard in the distance.
"I think your mother is calling you. Do go," Sukhi said, but the pup was trying hard to watch his breath and trying to feel it on his upper lip. All the while, Sudu's barking became louder and closer. Finally, she came up to the Bo tree and surveyed them, her whole body trembling with rage.
"Didn't you hear me calling? Come here at once!" she scolded the pup. As he got up and trotted towards her, she glared at Sukhi before stomping away.
After some time, though the pups had been doing well, they suddenly succumbed to a terrible purging illness. They became dehydrated and very ill. Sukhi couldn't bear to see them ill and shrivelling up. She went quietly up to Sudu.
"You must eat those herbs that grow near the jak tree by the hedge," she advised, "then, when they drink your milk, they will get cured."
"Thank you," Sudu said coldly, "but the monks are treating them. In any case, I'm the mother and I should know better than anyone else what to give my children and when to give it to them. Besides, it is very important that my children understand who is the authority around here."
"Of course," said Sukhi flushing. "Isn't there anything I can do? Shall I make a vow and pray for them?"
"Don't worry, every minute of the day I am praying for my children. What is more effective than a mother's prayers?"
"Yes, we don't like others coming and interfering and undermining our authority," Kalu, who had arrived there, remarked. "Remember, we're in control here."
Sukhi retired to the Bo tree and sat down dejectedly.
"Why are you running to see those pups all the time?" Kapuri asked her over the crennelated wall. "Didn't we advice you to leave Sudu alone and get on with your practice?"
"But should we not help others when they are in trouble?"
"Only if they want our help."
"But why do they dislike my wanting to help? What on earth do I do or say to give them the impression I am trying to undermine their authority? All they think of is who is in control here�hierarchy."
"No matter what you say or do, whatever your motives are, they will interpret your words and actions to suit their own mental constructs, so leave them alone and get on with your practice."
What hurt Sukhi was how Kalu also had changed towards her. In the past he used to exchange a few cordial greetings with her now and again, but not any more. Now, as he passed her by under the Bo tree, he would scowl and glare at her. There seemed to be a simmering anger inside him and Sukhi was at a loss to understand why. His aggressiveness increased when other male and female dogs came to talk on the Dhamma with Sukhi. Once when Sukhi went towards the back courtyard of the temple, she overheard Sudu bending Kalu's ears with an unabashed tirade.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Do you call yourself a dog or a mouse? Why don't you assert yourself and drive away all those riffraff who come in here?"
"Why should I?"
"Can't you see that they are bringing in all kinds of diseases? No wonder the pups are falling ill all the time. All because of that creature sitting under that Bo tree pretending to be a great saint!"
After that, Kalu became more aggressive towards Sukhi's circle of Dhamma friends. He barked unceasingly at newcomers and even got into scuffles with them. Once he had a right royal fight with a well-built dog and they would have fought unto death if the monks and stewards had not come running out and doused the two dogs with buckets of water. Kalu had his ears torn and several injuries. Sukhi was very frightened but Sudu was proud of Kalu.
"Now her faithful listeners will think twice about coming in here," Sudu told Kalu, licking his wounds and nuzzling him. "I am so proud of you. Even the pups are beside themselves with admiration for you."
Sukhi was very downcast, more so because during the dog fight she overheard one steward putting the blame on her.
"She's the cause of all this! We should not have let her stay here. A female dog means trouble and more pups. Shall we drive her away?"
Fortunately for her, the chief monk did not let them drive her away:
"True, a female dog means pups, but we must not be unkind and add to her misfortune of being a female. Let her be. Kalu will see that no stray dogs come in. Besides, she is very docile and well behaved. We should not harm a harmless animal."
"Let us hope she will be born a male dog in her next birth," the steward said. Sukhi's ears burned when she heard these words but Kapuri only chuckled. "These men!" she whispered to Sukhi. "They think no end of themselves, don't they? They think they are the cat's whiskers, but see how Sudu manipulates Kalu!"
"Still it is a man's world, isn't that so?" Sukhi replied.
"It is neither a man's nor a woman's world. What matters is how we live according to the Dhamma. That is the Buddha's teaching."
"But I have suffered much as a result of a being a female," Sukhi reflected.
"Have you?" Kapuri turned a sympathetic ear toward her.
"To begin with, I was a very sickly pup. Apparently, I had a diarrhea which would not stop. My mother thought I was destined to die and so discarded me."
"But she would have done that even if you were a male," Kapuri pointed out.
"Well, anyway, a kind woman saw me in a ditch, still alive, and took me into her house and nursed me with loving care till I became strong again. But then her husband drove me away. He drove me away because I was a female."
"Oh dear! What we women have to go through, eh? So, then what happened?"
"I had to eke out a miserable existence on the road. The kind woman used to come and give me a little food but I was lucky if I could eat it by myself. You know what it is like to live among stray dogs on the streets. I got used to leading a very marginalized life, slinking into temples quietly and, when driven out, going to another."
"So that's how you took to meditating and leading a religious life?" the tortoise asked. He had sidled up to them while they were talking and was quietly listening to their conversation.
"And you never had pups?"
"Yes, I did. My husband was the leader of a pack and he was very kind to me, but one day he was picked up by the municipal van and taken to the dog pound with some others. We all bolted when we saw the van driving up and the municipal labourers jumping out to catch us. We ran for dear life, but my husband was nearest the van and they caught him, my pups, and some other dogs. When I think of my loss there is a great pain in my chest."
"And so you finally came here?"
"Yes, some one told me of this quiet, out of the way temple. It is really a haven for the likes of me."
"My dear, this temple and our religious path is for everyone, not only for the likes of you. Our path brings peace and tranquillity to everyone."
"Well then, especially for those like myself who have had to lead such miserable unfortunate lives. You see, though I have lived on the streets all my life, I am a very sensitive creature."
"I am not impressed by sensitive creatures," Kapuri said, wrinkling her trunk, "unless they are sensitive to the feelings and sufferings of others too. Very often, being sensitive means nothing more than having a heightened notion of an ego."
"It is very difficult to get rid of the sense of ego," Sukhi murmured. "How can one do it?"
The tortoise came closer to Sukhi in order to advise her:
"Go on purifying your mind�go on observing and monitering your thoughts, analysing your motives. Watch yourself when you are hurt. Self-knowledge and understanding oneself helps. We must always remember that there is nothing permanent within us. We are a mere process, a flow of passing physical and mental phenomena, emotions, concepts, ideas, memories .. we must not try to attach an `I' or an agent to all that. Sometimes, the mind reacts with craving and excessive attachment to people and things. Sometimes it flits from one kind of sense pleasure to another in a whirl, bent only on gratifying the senses, and when not gratified flitting somewhere else. These are the forces and tendencies which keep us in sa.msaara, clinging to sense desires and the ego-notion. Each time you experience the emotion of hurt, become aware of the ego-notion receiving a shock, as it were. Focus your mind on that sensation. Ask yourself why you are reacting in that way.
"Self-examination is like a drop of water on a rock doing its work of eroding it little by little. That is why awareness and mindfulness are emphasized so much on the path to liberation from the `self'�this dukkha-fraught, dukkha-causing selfhood. You see, when you suspect that you are being short-changed or bypassed, or when someone makes a derogatory remark about you, the reaction is predictable. You react with anger. Some people are very sensitive to such assaults on the ego, but there is nothing very great about being hyper-sensitive."
"But surely one must have some self-respect."
"Of course, but the best kind of self-respect comes from an awareness that one is practising the Dhamma, not practising one-upmanship. Practising the Dhamma gives one a considerable amount of poise and stability. But, of course, I don't mean a feeling of self-righteousness. You must realize that you are never perfect till the end of the path is reached. If you go about always ready to react every time someone makes a hurtful remark and you flare up in anger, it is like physically running a hundred miles away. Then if from your stand a hundred miles away again something is said or done or not said or done, to which you take umbrage, it is like running another hundred miles. Or you may re-trace your previous mileage through motives of attachment and clinging. Are you not then ridiculous, flying back and forth, with aversion one moment and attachment the next?"
"So, how can one stop this flying back and forth?"
"By the practice of mindfulness and concentration. It steadies the mind and enables one to think calmly and clearly. Have you not heard the following stanza?
He whose mind does not flutter
By contact with worldly contingencies,
Sorrowless, stainless, and secure:
This is the highest blessing.
"But why does one get hurt in the first place?"
"I see you have not understood. Let me put it this way: we grasp these changing physical and mental phenomena we call `I' so firmly that we make ourselves believe we are a permanent entity. If someone exposes some fault in us, our first reaction is to deny it or to defend ourselves�all because of this attachment to the mental construct we have of ourselves. If we do not cling so much and maintain our objectivity, we can face changes very much more calmly and rationally. It is the same with the views and beliefs we hold. We must not have a passionate hold on anything. That is, if you are really bent on renunciation."
"What about the view that we are a mere process? Are we not holding on to that belief?"
"Don't hold on to it. Experience the truth of it by observing the nature of this changing phenomena we call an `I' and a `me.' That awareness will loosen the grasping of the aggregates, the notion of an abiding ego-entity."
Sukhi practised purifying her mind very diligently according to the way Kapuri and the tortoise had instructed her. Soon it became apparent to all that Sukhi was making good progress. Her progress in meditation and her kindness to others drew many to her. Since the canine species were vehemently denied access to the temple premises by Kalu, other species like birds and squirrels began to come to Sukhi for meditation guidance and solace. But unfortunately as time went on she became so engrossed in focusing attention on the problems of others and their defilements, that she neglected to continue the practice of monitoring and purifying her own thoughts. Gradually there began a slow change in her personality.
Sudu was the first to notice this change in Sukhi and would openly comment on Sukhi's increasing smugness bordering on arrogance. Sudu's blatant derision influenced Kalu to snarl and growl at Sukhi even more than usual whenever he happened to pass her by. Once Kalu came deliberately up to her, snarled in a most insinuating manner, and snatched away a bone that was near her paw. Sukhi did not remonstrate but turned and looked up at Kapuri, who was standing near the crennelated wall that surrounded the Bo tree, munching on some branches at her feet.
"Did you see what he did?" she inquired of Kapuri.
"Yes, I did."
"Why are people so envious and jealous of me?"
"Are they?" Kapuri smiled.
"Didn't you see what Kalu did?"
"Yes, but was he motivated by envy and jealousy?"
"My dear, you know the Dhamma as well as I do. Are you still observing your own motives and thoughts with the same intensity as you used to?"
"Why do you ask that?"
"Well, we all have varying degrees of defilements�don't we?�all stemming from asmi-maana, pride of the self. Am I not right?"
"Yes, but what are you driving at?"
"We must constantly keep ourselves under observation�not only others. In fact, let others be our mirror wherein we may discover our own defilements."
Sukhi bent her head and began to quietly bite through the short fur on her paws with the rapid short clipping motion of a barber's razor. There were no ticks on her body but she felt ashamed and wanted to hide her face. Kapuri turned away with great delicacy of feeling.
Some days later, Sukhi heard that the pup with the black patch over one eye had fallen ill again. Kapuri told her that the chief monk had instructed a steward to take the pup to a veterinarian in town. Later, he was brought back after the necessary injections and drips had been given him. Sukhi lost no time in paying a visit to Sudu and her pups.
"I was very sad to hear about your pup. How is he?" she asked.
"Better," was the cold rejoinder.
"He used to come and meditate at the Bo tree with me," Sukhi said.
Sudu stiffened. "He doesn't like you," she snapped. "He likes Kapuri. He adores her."
Sukhi couldn't believe her ears. Sudu's rudeness cut through her like a knife. For a moment she puzzled over what Sudu had said and then quietly got up. "Well," she said, "I shall get along now. I hope the pup will be better soon."
When she went to her usual place under the Bo tree, she found Kapuri by the wall.
"Sudu says the pup loves you very much," Sukhi said, the tears welling in her eyes. "I'll never forget how he used to dart away from the others and come prancing out here to exchange a few words with me."
"You still haven't learnt to let go, have you?" Kapuri mumbled, shaking her head dolefully. Sukhi looked up startled.
"It is `I' and `me' and `mine' all over again, isn't it? How much the little fellow likes you or how much he likes someone else more or how much you feel his absence..."
Sukhi broke down. "Do tell me how I can get rid of this attachment to myself?" she said, weeping. "It makes me suffer so."
"Examine yourself with self-searching honesty, constantly. Meditation will help. Then only can you let go of the entire grasping of these five aggregates called a `being'!"
"I couldn't bear to see the pup so ill. He was such a lively bundle of fur, prancing and tumbling about with the others. They are all such a joy to see."
"You are letting your notion of an ego come into your concern for the pups, aren't you?"
"Notion of an ego? Aren't you being unfair?"
"The ego-notion is a dangerous thing," Kapuri continued in a tone of mild reproof. "It works in a very subtle way, infiltrating all our thoughts and actions. Sometimes, almost unknown to oneself, tentacles are put out for the purpose of clinging to living beings or things�clinging to `I' and `me' and `mine.' Try to intercept that clinging."
"By being conscientiously and consistently mindful, by examining your thoughts and actions with ruthless honesty."
Sukhi sat down and a mood of deep shame overcame her. Presently, she emerged from her mood of shame and self-censure and became absorbed in the intense peace and cleanliness of the precincts. There were some avocado trees and other fruit trees and flowering trees in the well-swept premises of the temple. They surrounded the Bo tree like disciples round a teacher. The Bo tree was decorated with multi-coloured flags. The disciple trees seemed to be posturing in various statuesque attitudes, holding up their luxuriant crowns, some decked with fruit. They were silent but still expressive of peace and fulfilment and reverence. The cooing of doves and pigeons and the chirping of birds and crickets, not to mention the raucous cawing of crows, caught Sukhi's ears from varying distances. Hearing the sounds of the birds and smelling the scents of the temple flowers, she began to delve deeper and deeper, seeking the peace that comes when the mind turns within, the wisdom that arises through realizing the egoless nature of all things.


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ANAHEIM -- The Angels recalled left-hander Michael Roth from Double-A Arkansas on Saturday to add length and depth to the bullpen.
Roth, on his third stint with the club this season, had an 11-7 record and 2.62 ERA in 22 starts for Arkansas. In two Major League games this year, Roth has given up four runs in 6 2/3 innings.
The Angels optioned first baseman/outfielder Efren Navarro to Triple-A Salt Lake to make room for Roth.
"Just to get through today and tomorrow, we're going to need a little bit of length and Michael can provide it whenever it's needed," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Right now, Efren's a guy who was one of the very few moves we could make to get Michael up here. We need to keep the pitching depth for today. We'll reevaluate things after the day."
Roth threw seven shutout innings on Monday in Arkansas, meaning Saturday was his normal day in the rotation. He was the only left-hander in the Angels' bullpen on Saturday and could flip the platoon advantage against a lefty-heavy A's lineup.
Salt Lake's final game of the season is Monday, meaning Navarro could rejoin the Angels as soon as that day, when the Major League rosters expand for September.
Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @MDeFranks. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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An edition of Telltale Texas Hold'em featuring Bone, CSI, Dank, Sam & Max, and whichever franchise characters Telltale secretly has the rights to would be awesome (Grim Fandango? Maniac Mansion? Monkey Island? Sigh, I have high hopes).I like the idea of various Telltale characters showing up in a casual game, kind of like how Sierra's old poker games worked, with characters from the different quest games in them.


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Well, next week I'm getting the test to see if I can have radioembolization. It's called a shunt study. That's hurdle 1. Hurdle 2 is if insurance will approve radioembolization. But don't even get me started on that rant. I have to admit I'm really nervous about having the embo procedure. All systems are functioning really well and I hope that doesn't change. They do say there could be some pain, and also all the risks associated with having radioactive beads put in your body. Hopefully, if insurance approves the procedure, it will make a big difference. Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me!


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A CALL has been made to use a special government grant to tackle all the potholes on Swindon's roads.
Coun Julian Price (Lab, Covingham and Dorcan) wants £2m of the New Homes Bonus to be used to fix the problem, which he says is causing misery and costing money for the town's drivers.
The council was given just over £5m by the government for building new homes and, while some of the money is being used, £3m of it has yet to be assigned.
However, the call for most of the remainder to be used on potholes has been dismissed as political posturing which will not solve the problem in the long term.
An amendment of the budget is due to be moved by the Labour Group at tonight's council meeting to use most of the money for potholes.
Coun Price said: "Increasing numbers of potholes and roads in disrepair have come at a huge cost to Swindon Council and to motorists in Swindon, who have to deal with damage to their vehicles. "This is the number one issue that my constituents raise with me and with the recent bad weather the roads have only got worse.
"I want Swindon Council to be on the side of motorists and commit to investing millions of pounds extra into repairing the town's roads. We believe this additional road resurfacing investment will save the council money in the future through fewer potholes on the roads.
"The New Homes Bonus is presently just sitting in the council coffers, arguably waiting to be spent by the Conservative administration on their next vanity project – like Wi-fi – and my proposal is a wholly more practical use for the money."
The cabinet member for transport Coun Keith Williams, (Con, Shaw) believes £2m is too much to spend on something which would leave the council facing the same problems at a later date. He added that the council is already looking at ways of permanently dealing with any potholes.
Coun Williams said: "We have a thorough programme of regular road inspections to look for potholes. Simply throwing money at filling in the holes is only a short term solution as they soon re-appear. We are looking to implement a programme within six months which will see the surface properly fixed and solve the problem for good."


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A Senator may designate employees in his office to assist him in connection with his membership on committees of the Senate. An employee may be designated with respect to only one committee.
(2) Certification; professional staff privileges
An employee designated by a Senator under this section shall be certified by him to the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee with respect to which such designation is made. Such employee shall be accorded all privileges of a professional staff member (whether permanent or investigatory) of such committee including access to all committee sessions and files, except that any such committee may restrict access to its sessions to one staff member per Senator at a time and require, if classified material is being handled or discussed, that any staff member possess the appropriate security clearance before being allowed access to such material or to discussion of it. Nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit a committee from adopting policies and practices with respect to the application of this section which are similar to the policies and practices adopted with respect to the application of section 705(c)(1) [1] of Senate Resolution 4, 95th Congress, and section 72a–1d (c)(1) [1] of this title.
(3) Termination
A Senator shall notify the chairman and ranking minority member of a committee whenever a designation of an employee under this section with respect to such committee is terminated.
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Source(Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 111(c),Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 662.)
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Section 705(c)(1) of Senate Resolution 4, 95th Congress, referred to in par. (2), which was not classified to the Code, was repealed by Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 111(e)(2),Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 663.
Section 72a–1d (c)(1) of this title, referred to in par. (2), was repealed by Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 111(e)(1),Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 663.
Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act, 1978, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1978.
Effective Date
Pub. L. 95–94, title I, § 111(f),Aug. 5, 1977, 91 Stat. 663, provided that: "This section, and the amendments made by subsection (d) and the repeals made by subsection (e) [enacting this section, amending section 61–1 of this title, enacting notes set out under section 61–1 of this title, and repealing notes set out under section 72a–1d of this title], shall take effect on October 1, 1977."
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MILWAUKEE -- Ryan Vogelsong walked into the dugout, fired his helmet down and turned his famous glare up a notch. Every one of the 33,394 people at Miller Park knew Vogelsong had made a huge mistake by not running hard on a grounder to short, and it was eating at him.
But Vogelsong regrouped, worked through countless jams and managed to give up just one run in six innings. The lineup rewarded him, and the Giants won 7-4 over the Milwaukee Brewers, giving Vogelsong a win on a night that started with an embarrassing moment.
The Giants had taken a 3-0 lead in the first on RBI singles by Pablo Sandoval and Michael Morse. Vogelsong came up with two outs and the bases loaded and hit a spinning grounder to shortstop Jean Segura, who tried to go the short way and tag second. Brandon Crawford beat Segura to the bag, but Vogelsong had stopped running to first, thinking Segura would easily end the inning. The mistake gave Segura enough time to regroup after losing the race with Crawford, and he threw Vogelsong out at first. That cost the Giants a run and kept Hunter Pence from batting with the bases loaded.
"It was a stupid mistake on my part," Vogelsong said. "The thing that stung the most was that I cost Hunter a chance to hit with the bases loaded and keep the inning going."
As Vogelsong slowly approached the dugout, manager Bruce Bochy gave him a quick pep talk.
"Boch said, 'Let it go. You've got a game to pitch,' " Vogelsong said. "That probably helped me more than anything. I'm sure he was upset with me, but to hear that reminded me that I've got to get my head in the right place."
That didn't happen quickly. Vogelsong grooved a fastball to Brewers leadoff hitter Carlos Gomez. After the long homer to right-center, a game that looked like a potential blowout was all of a sudden a two-run contest.
"I think he did (take the mistake out to the mound), to be honest," Bochy said. "He was really upset with himself about what happened. We've all been in a situation where we embarrass ourselves a little. I give him credit. He regrouped and pitched well."
Vogelsong stranded two in the second, two more in the third, one in the fourth and two in the sixth. He gave up seven hits and walked one but allowed just the Gomez homer.
"There was a game to pitch," he said. "You've got to have a short memory and do what you're supposed to do."
Sometimes a player needs a mental break to remember what exactly that is. Bochy gave Morse two full days off before this game and reminded the left fielder that he was a big part of the club's early success. Morse has struggled to hit for power in recent weeks, but he showed a good approach Wednesday, hitting an RBI single up the middle and another to right. Morse at his best uses an all-fields approach, and that tends to unlock the pop in his bat.
The Giants had 14 hits, but in the late innings it looked like they might still pay for the first-inning gaffe. A Brewers rally in the seventh cut the lead to one, but Joe Panik's third hit of the night drove in a run in the eighth. Sandoval followed with a blast to right, his 14th of the season. Sandoval had 12 homers in 2012 and 14 a year ago. The latest one scored Panik, who has eight hits and two runs in the past three games. Entering the night, Giants second basemen had combined for a .181 average, but Panik is at .261 after his second three-hit game of the trip.
"It's hard to put it into words, but the more time you have up here, the more time with teammates, the more at-bats, it all makes things easier," he said. "You understand the game better."
Panik's contributions helped Vogelsong get a second win on this trip. The first start was a gem, his first career complete game. This one was a battle on the mound and, as it turned out, on the bases. But Vogelsong held it together.
"That's a good one," Bochy said. "If we would have lost this one, I think we all would have been sick about it."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.
Giants (Jake Peavy 1-11) at Milwaukee (Wily Peralta 13-6), 11:10 a.m. CSNBA


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LAS VEGAS—The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 is scheduled for April 13 at Texas Motor Speedway.
If one U.S. senator has his way, it won't be called the NRA 500.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., whose constituents continue to grieve from the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that killed 20 children and six educators, has asked NASCAR to nix the deal.
Murphy wrote a letter to NASCAR chairman Brian France asking him not to allow the NRA to sponsor the race at Texas.
The NRA is opposed to proposed gun control legislation crafted in response to the Newtown shooting.
Pockrass: NASCAR right to allow NRA sponsorship
"By giving the NRA sponsorship of a major NASCAR race, NASCAR has crossed a line—you have decided to put yourself in the middle of a political debate, and you have taken a side that stands in opposition to the wishes of so many Newtown families who support common sense gun reform," Murphy wrote.
"Whether or not this was your intention, your fans will infer from this sponsorship that NASCAR and the NRA are allies in the current legislative debate over gun violence."
NASCAR officials have said that while the sanctioning body has the authority to reject sponsorship agreements made by the tracks, the NRA sponsorship "falls within the guidelines for approval for that event."
Murphy questioned why NASCAR and France, who played integral roles in having Michael Waltrip drive a car in the Daytona 500 that encouraged fans to donate to the Sandy Hook School Support fund, would align themselves with the NRA. France himself gave $50,000 to the support fund, matching a donation of the NASCAR Foundation.
"By announcing this new partnership at the very height of Congress's deliberations over gun reform, NASCAR has inserted itself into a political debate that has nothing to do with the business of NASCAR," Murphy wrote. "To me, this seems an unwise break with precedent."
NEWS: NRA 500 at Texas in April
Murphy also was critical of the NRA in his letter, saying it increasingly relies on funding from the firearms industry and has not played a constructive role in gun control debate and instead "pushes an extreme agenda in state capitols across our nation."
"NASCAR has historically been careful not to insert itself, and its hard-earned good reputation, into political and legislative fights," Murphy writes in closing. "Why then, start now? Why take sides against the families of Newtown, Connecticut, by teaming up with the NRA in the middle of an intense legislative fight over gun laws?"


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The northbound carriageway will shut between the A33 (Kings Worthy) and the A303 (Bullington Cross) overnight between 10pm and 6am as bridge joint replacement work continues on the Bowden Hill bridge.
The Highways Agency said the closure will allow the Bowden Hill bridge to be raised onto temporary supports.
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Hi there, I was wondering how to go about creating Wireframes & Mock ups before you have any content to work with. By that I mean, if you submit a Wireframe or a Mock up to a Client & they like a particular Wireframe or Mock up, what say when you gather the content it doesn't fit into their desired Wireframe or Mock up - b/c of the way the content is logically grouped?
Thanks for any replies.
Short answer - don't. That's just my opinion, of course, for the very reasons you've already mentioned.
I get a rough idea of the kind of layouts/sites the client likes, any particular colour scheme they might have in mind, etc., then draft the layout after I have the content. It works well for me, dealing mainly with very small businesses, but may not work for everyone.
Yeah. I wouldn't either (unfortunately, in my current project, I had to b/c I didn't have any content :/ ).
You can get a rough idea of where things will be like if you have articles, certain navigation, etc.
Thank you for the advice TechnoBear, it's much appreciated.
Thanks TehYoyo, I'm gonna do it the way you guys have advised.
Sure! Always happy to help
Just a note, but for thirty minutes after every post, you have the option to edit the post. The edit button appears right next to the reply button. Use that in the future instead of posting twice.
Good luck!~TehYoyo
Note: Props for correctly capitalizing both our names I always appreciate that.
Don't create mockup based on content. You'll never get it on time, and if you do, there are sure to be changes. create a mockup base on structure. Allow some wiggle room.
The word "content" is too broad to rely on. For example.. don't ask for content for the shopping cart. ask for a list of info types that need to be included ( and preferably their higherarchy or importance )
so you can have a info block:<item:><name><image><price><description><rating><availability></item>
You can always arrange the other / and remove items logically from there. Hope that helps.
What type of site are you building? If your building any type of dynamic site all you really need to know before having "content" is the type of data that is to be displayed. Once you know that you can just create placeholder (fake) data to get general feel for arrangement of the components on the page.
Hi oddz, I'm going to build a simple 4 page Static site for a Small Business. I was concerned in case I make a Wireframe & then afterwards can't fit the Copy (or Content) (which I am going to Gather myself after making the Wireframe) into that Wireframe structure. I just a newbie so it's probably a stupid question - but I've been wondering this for a while.
Hi dresden_phoenix, I will be the person creating the Copy (or "Content") for the project that I'm about to start, so at least I have some control over that. Thanks for the reply.
In that case you can design a wrapper which contains all the components which persist to every page and allocate an area for the individual pages content. A good place to start is the home page. Than mark-up the wrapper and add the pages content.
Thank you for that advice oddz. I'm gonna go w/ that. Cheers


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An unknown number of businesses around the Bay Area lost all Internet access Wednesday afternoon for about five hours after a piece of switching equipment in the region malfunctioned, according to service provider TW Telecom.
Bob Meldrum, a spokesman for Littleton, Colo.-based TW, said engineers repaired or replaced a switch router that had failed, and affected businesses went back online between 6 and 6:30 p.m.
Meldrum said it was not immediately known why the equipment failed, and that the company is conducting a "root-cause analysis" that should provide specific results within two days.
TW serves 28,000 businesses nationwide, but Meldrum said the outage was limited to the Bay Area. He did not have a number of affected businesses Wednesday evening.
He called the outage "very rare" and said the network is "pretty foolproof."
"We have backup protection, but in this instance that failed," he said.
TW provides service to an undisclosed number of businesses around the region, from San Francisco to San Jose and the East Bay, as well as Sacramento. It also provides phone services, but only Internet access was lost on Wednesday, Meldrum said.
Among those affected was the Bay Area News Group, which publishes this newspaper. But Meldrum said all Bay Area customers were not affected.
He described the outage as "intermittent," and "kind of crazy. You can have one business impacted and another one two blocks away not affected. It's difficult to pinpoint the reason."
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- Date: June 18, 2013 PIO Number: 13-6-14
A unique program was introduced this week by Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue designed to educate firefighters on staying safe and healthy.
Many people are aware of the physical demands of firefighting. Few, however, may be aware of the effect on a first responder's mental well-being from the stress of responding to life-and-death emergencies - like anxiety, burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder. Behavioral Health Peer Training was developed by Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue's newly –created Division of Health, Wellness and Safety, in partnership with the Broward Sheriff's Office Human Resources Bureau and doctoral students from the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Center for Psychological Studies. "Behavioral health is not only the focus of this week's international health and safety week, it is an emerging health issue for the fire service," Fire Chief Tony Stravino said. "Our partnership with NSU is meant to provide co-workers with the information and tools necessary to identify and access resources for behavioral health, before a crisis occurs. In short, we want to assure our firefighters are equipped to maintain good health to better serve our community." The entire 700-person department will complete the first phase of the program by the end of June.
Nationally, the American fire service has made inroads reducing line-of-duty deaths through proactive initiatives and health and safety measures. Safety and wellness is critical to assuring firefighters are prepared for the rigorous conditions the job demands.
Other areas being addressed through BSFR's Health, Wellness and Safety program include focusing on workplace safety, improving health and fitness aimed at reducing cardiovascular risks, which remain the leading cause of firefighter line-of-duty deaths in our nation, and providing training aimed at enhancing awareness in preventing and limiting cancer risks to firefighters.
International Fire/EMS Safety & Health Week has evolved since its inception in 2005 as a one-day Safety Stand Down to raise awareness and reduce the number of line-of-duty deaths. Sponsored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs and National Volunteer Fire Council, the week-long initiative has focused on a variety of health issues facing firefighters, like heart disease, diabetes and cancer risks.
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Just thought I should tell you every time I pass Brooke in your sig I stop and stare for a second... LOL
Hey I'm sending this message out to everyone who I gave promo assignments to, as it came to my attention that some the PMs might not have gotten to people. Not sure if it is because of the change in the server, or what, but I'm just double checking you got the promo assignment that is due for Wed. Please let me know either way
Hey are you in the middle of posting something in the VIP pass? I don't want to mess with your posts but I have something to post.
Hey can u send me Rosita's bio tonight? With some moves and such? the whole schpeel
Hey man it's cool either way lol hope u do but np
Depends on what it is dude.
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Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. --Shelby Steele
Over the last six trading days, the S&P 500 has managed to gain 0.26%, which isn't bad but is much slower than the pace of January's gains. We've seen very choppy, alternating days of strength and weakness, but there's still a positive bias to the action. While the bears continue to mumble about the negatives piling up, the market holds up well and threatens to squeeze those who doubt it.
The primary question I've been pondering is whether this slower, choppier action is the start of a topping process or just healthy consolidation that will set up further upside. There are some negative aspects to the trading, such as the lack of good leadership and weak closes, but overall there has been good underlying support, and stocks have generally held up well. There is no rush for the exits and, most importantly, we have not seen any major technical breakdowns.
What I've been struggling with lately is that I'm trying hard to maintain a bullish bias, but I'm finding it harder to put money to work. In fact, I keep reducing my exposure as stops are hit or profits taken, but I don't find many places to put money to work aggressively. There are stocks that are acting well, but they tend to be secondary names that require shorter time frames. You can make money trading them, but the supply of new ideas is thin and that makes it easy to force trades that aren't optimal.
One thing I've learned over the years is that my ability to find good setups determines my market bias. Even if the indices look great and there are other bullish factors in place, it doesn't matter if I'm not finding stocks to buy. One of my pet peeves is when people say that the market is great but they aren't buying anything. In my mind, a great market means there are plenty of buying opportunities. If you can't put more money to work, that is a negative, not a positive.
In a market like this, I consciously have to fight my inclination to root for weakness to provide more setups. The way for traders to outperform is to have sizable ups and downs, and we aren't seeing that. It has been choppier, but the downside remains very contained and the bears are not making money.
The market continues to act fine and we need to respect that above all else. Negatives are brewing, but they haven't made a difference so far. We just have to stay with this market and watch carefully for an indication that the character of the action is changing. It is very easy to be prematurely bearish and we need to be very aware of a bias in that direction.
We have a very quiet start this morning and not much news. That has generally been good for the bulls, but the bears have been pushing harder intraday and we'll need to watch if they manage lower lows.


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Wire to the Ear takes you to Jomox. from wiretotheear on Vimeo.
Last week I decided to buy a Jomox Mbase 01. It's a 100% analog kick drum module. It gives you kicks that range from a small click to complete bass insanity. It can convincing do any 909 or 808 kick drums plus many more variations. Honestly it's the best kick drum I ever heard. I will be doing another post with samples and a full review. Take it from someone who performs live every weekend: having a killer perfect kick drum is vital!
My first go to place for all things analog boutique is Schnieder's Buero and since I already have a Vermona DRM1 MKIII on order with them I thought I would just add the Mbase onto the order. Unfortunately they said they were out of MBase's and didn't know when new ones were coming in. Next I walked over to Sound & Drumland and they told me it would be about a month. A month? Come on man! I have money there must be a way right?
So I did what any American born capitalist would do and emailed the manufacturer direct. Just a few minutes later Jürgen Michaelis the owner and producer of all the Jomox products emailed me back saying he had one left and I could pick it up from him. I knew if I was going to Jomox I had to bring my camera.
I got on my bicycle (it's the best way to get around Berlin) and made my way to Neukolin to Jomox headquarters. What I did not expect was Jürgen being so open and friendly. He could see I was seriously interested in what was going on and he put aside a good hour of his day to show me his workshop and toys. I'm very pleased to be able to show you the video above.
Do you see that Mbase 01 he signed? That one is mine!
Here are a few bullet points I picked up from my conversation with Jurgen Michaelis:
- He once worked at Sound & Drumland.
- He repaired Roland TR-909s at a place called Xtended which still exists.
- Because he did repairs for the Roland drum machine he had access to the papers and could design his own machines (the Xbase line) when Roland decided not to compete in the Analog space.
- Roland has never shown any ill will to the Jomox line.
- He personally took a trip to Taiwan to find a manufacturing plant for Jomox products.
- He hand tests every Jomox product still.
- The metal work comes from within Germany.
- He doesn't listen to much electronic music (I did give him my album though!).
- He is thinking about moving to America someday.
- He did tell me what he is working on next but I can't tell you (sorry!).
Besides the video I took a few still photos. Check them out: click here


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Hi allI have a mysql database that I want to automatically backup. I was told by my hosts that I can use a program called mysqldump but it doesn't seem to be able to update another database on another server. How can I do this? thanks!
what does "doesn't seem to be able to update another database on another server" mean?
what are you trying to do?
i use mysqldump to take backups of my live database on my web host, and then create and populate an identical database on my desktop computer
needless to say it's not a huuuuuge database if it'll fit on my desktop
but the process works just fine
I just want to have a copy of my database automatically stored on another server I have not on my desk top.
so did you test it?
Hi RudyYou mean test if I can use mysqldump to automatically update another database on another server at a specific time? Well I haven't yet unfortunately as I just want to see if it is worth even going down that route if it doesn't do what I want. Like the ad for the roast chicken machine says I just want to "set it and forget it". So sorry to labour the point but will mysqldump do what I want? Cheers!
yes it will
mysqldump doesn't have any built-in scheduling, you'll have to use cron or some other scheduler to fire off mysqldump at the desired time. Then just have mysqldump save it's output as a temporary file then use the mysql program on the target server to load the dump file to the desired database on the backup server.
You can do the dump and reload in one step by piping the dump output if you wish.
But why do you want to have the backup actually reloaded in another mysql anyway? If you need some kind of real-time access to the backup data maybe you want to use replication instead (I've never used mysql replication but it's available. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html)
If you want, you can create a php file on the source machine that runs mysqldump and outputs the result:
echo `mysqldump blah parameters blah blah`;
Notice I'm using back ticks. That's how you run a shell command from php.
You can then use wget, curl, or whatever from the destination server ... run via cron to take that data and update the database with that info.
Example from PHP
$dbCreateCode = `wget http://www.yoursite.com/dbbackup.php`;
// code to set up db connection
That's a VERY basic example. Sorry for my lack of detail. I'm bored out, and I'm on a tablet. I actually have the working code at home for something similar.
Thanks for the replies, I just want a back up in case my host loses everything, or they go down for a while, it is just information that I have now moved from excel to mysql so I don't have any copies of it.
I'm trying to set up a 'dump and download' procedure as discussed above.
I've not used 'mysqldump' before, and I'm having trouble working out which options I need. At present I've got something along these lines:
for ( $i=0; $i<count($tb_names); $i++ ) {
$do = $dump_path . "mysqldump -h" . $host . " -u" . $user . " -p" . $pass . " --opt " . $tb_names[$i] . " > " . $save_path . "/" . $tb_names[$i] . ".sql";
echo '
Do = ' . $do;
echo '
' . $result;
echo '
';
which I've copied from another thread in Sitepoint Forums (and added the 'echo' statements). There's other code before that which sets up the variables, gets the table names from the DB, etc. That part seems to work OK, so I've not quoted it here.If I've accessed the database earlier in the script, do I need to do so again here with all the -h, -u, -p stuff ?
The code as shown is creating the table files in the target folder, but they're all empty. The echo for the first iteration is:
Do = c:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.5/bin/mysqldump -hlocalhost -uroot -ppassword --opt avail_2012 > d:/websites/mullbed2/backup/avail_2012.sql1
'avail_2012' is the DB table name (one of several tables)I hope that as $result is '1' that indicates a successful run of 'mysqldump', but if so why are the files empty ?
If I run:
$do = $dump_path . "mysqldump --add-drop-database " . $data_loc . "bb_guests > " . $save_path . "/" . $today . "/dump.sql";
echo '
Do = ' . $do;
echo '
' . $result;
echo '
';
I duly get the 'dump.sql' file (which should contain all the tables) but it's still empty. The echo is:
Do = c:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.5/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-database d:/SERVER/MySQL/data/bb_guests > d:/websites/mullbed2/backup/2012-07-12/dump.sql1
I suspect the fact that all files are empty (no matter which version I run) indicates that neither form of $do is accessing the database properly. However it IS being accessed properly earlier in the script.I've been reading the MySQL Manual (5.5), but I'm still confused about which parameters I need.
Can anyone help to set me straight, please ?
Following my last posting, I've now got this, which works to the point of creating the dump in a file accessible to the server:-
$dbuser = "myusername";
$dbpass = "mypassword";
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbname = "mydatabase";
$backupfile = 'd:/websites/mullbed2/backup/' . $dbname . date("Y-m-d") . '.sql';
system("mysqldump -h $dbhost -u $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname --single-transaction > $backupfile");
Having something simple that works makes it much easier to learn more and experiment with the syntax !
yes,you can take backup automatically on anther server by using the simple code.<?php$user = "username";$pswd = "password";$backupfile = '//websites/mullbed2/backup/' . $dbname . date("Y-m-d") . '.sql';system("mysqldump -h $dbhost -u $user -p$pswd $dbname --single-transaction > $backupfile");
Hi I have this script that works to make a backup of the db on the same server as my files. No I want to save the db copy on another. Where do I change the code to add the other server? Thank you
/* backup the db OR just a table */function backup_tables($host,$user,$pass,$name,$tables = '*'){
$link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass); mysql_select_db($name,$link);
//get all of the tables if($tables == '*') { $tables = array(); $result = mysql_query('SHOW TABLES'); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $tables[] = $row[0]; } } else { $tables = is_array($tables) ? $tables : explode(',',$tables); }
//cycle through foreach($tables as $table) { $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM '.$table); $num_fields = mysql_num_fields($result);
$return.= 'DROP TABLE '.$table.';';
$row2 = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query('SHOW CREATE TABLE '.$table));
$return.= "\
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_fields; $i++)
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
$return.= 'INSERT INTO '.$table.' VALUES(';
for($j=0; $j<$num_fields; $j++)
$row[$j] = addslashes($row[$j]);
$row[$j] = ereg_replace("\
","\\",$row[$j]); if (isset($row[$j])) { $return.= '"'.$row[$j].'"' ; } else { $return.= '""'; } if ($j<($num_fields-1)) { $return.= ','; } } $return.= ");\"; } } $return.="\\\"; }
//save file $handle = fopen('db-backup-'.time().'-'.(md5(implode(',',$tables))).'.sql','w+'); fwrite($handle,$return); fclose($handle);}?>