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Cervical Cancer
Most deaths from cancer of the cervix (the lower part of the uterus, or womb) could be avoided if women had regular checkups with Pap tests and/or HPV DNA tests.
Nearly all cervical cancers are caused by human papilloma virus (HPV), but not all HPV strains cause cervical cancer. About a dozen HPV strains, such as HPV 16, 18, 33, 35, and 39, are considered "high risk" because persistent infections — those that do not resolve without treatment — are linked to an increased risk for cervical and vaginal cancer. Two HPV types, 16 and 18, cause 70% of all cervical cancers.
Cervical cancer can take several years to develop and most often is seen in women 40 years of age or older. Getting routinely screened can help identify cervical cancer in its early stages, when it is highly curable. Screening even finds precancerous lesions so they can be removed before cancer ever starts.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and the American Cancer Society (ACS) currently recommend that women aged 30 to 65 should have both a Pap test and an HPV DNA test every 5 years (preferable); a Pap test alone every 3 years is also acceptable.
Women who haven't been screened for cervical cancer in several years or who have never been tested are especially urged to get tested.
Significant changes to these recommendations may be on the horizon, however. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an HPV DNA test as a primary screening tool for cervical cancer, meaning it may be used without a Pap test. Individual health organizations have yet to update their screening recommendations, but an expert panel issued interim (temporary) guidelines in 2015. These guidelines say that:
- The HPV test may be offered to women aged 25 and older without a Pap test.
- If initial results are negative, women should be screened again no sooner than 3 years.
Women interested in this new option should talk to their healthcare provider. The interim guidelines acknowledge that more studies are needed to further evaluate the HPV test and its role in cancer screening. For example, there are still questions about whether age 25 is the best age to start offering it as a primary screening option and how often women should be screened.
Risk Factors
How often you should be tested depends on your risk factors. Risk factors include high-risk HPV infection, exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) in utero, previous diagnosis of cervical cancer, HIV infection, or a compromised immune system. (See the section on Risk Factors in the Cervical Cancer article.) If you have any of these risk factors, you may be tested more frequently. Ask your healthcare provider for a recommendation on frequency. If you have had a hysterectomy, discuss whether continued screening is of value. In some cases, it is.
Even if you do not need a Pap test each year, for most women an annual well-woman exam is still recommended, reminds ACOG.
National Cancer Institute: What You Need To Know About Cervical Cancer
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(Reviewed 2014 March 17). Cervical Cancer Prevention and Early Detection. American Cancer Society. Available online at http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003167-pdf.pdf. Accessed 6/16/15.
(Reviewed 2014 September 9). Pap and HPV Testing. National Cancer Institute. Available online at http://www.cancer.gov/types/cervical/pap-hpv-testing-fact-sheet. Accessed 6/16/15.
Saslow, D. et al. (2012 March 14). American Cancer Society, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and American Society for Clinical Pathology screening guidelines for the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer. Available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21139/full. Accessed 6/16/15.
Barclay, L. (2015 January 9). New Guidance Recommends HPV DNA Test for Primary Screening. Medscape Medical News. Available online at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/837832. Accessed 6/16/15.


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Addressing the media, senior party leaders Revula Chandrasekhar Reddy and Kottakota Dayakar Reddy said Bhima, Nettampadu, Koilsagar and Kalwakurti projects were initiated during the previous TDP government. Now the Telangana government was trying to create an impression that these projects were launched and executed by the TRS government, they said.
They also deplored that the TRS government was misusing public funds by inaugurating the same projects which were earlier inaugurated during the previous Chandrababu Naidu government. They also demanded that the TRS government furnish details of money spent by it for the projects during the last two years.
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Ellwood, Robert S., 1933-
Politics of myth.
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999
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4 Joseph Campbell and the New Quest for the Holy Grail 127 --
5 Conclusion: The Myth of Myth 171.
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"The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell. All three had intellectual roots in the anti-modern pessimism and romanticism that also helped give rise to European fascism, and all three have been accused of fascist and anti-Semitic sentiments. At the same time, they themselves tended toward individualistic views of the power of myth, believing that the world of ancient myth contained resources that could be of immense help to people baffled by the ambiguities and superficiality of modern life." "Robert Ellwood details the life and thought of each mythologist and the intellectual and spiritual worlds within which they worked. He reviews the damaging charges that have been made about their politics, taking them seriously while endeavoring to put them in the context of the individual's entire career and lifetime contribution. Above all, he seeks to extract from their published work the view of the political world that seems most congruent with it."--Jacket.
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Weekend To-Do List: Purdue
Sep 6, 2012, 5:46 PM EST
It's Thursday afternoon before the first home football game of the season, and campus is abuzz, as we're less than 48 hours from kickoff in Notre Dame Stadium.
As always, there's a lot going on over the next couple of days – too much, in fact for you to take in during one trip to South Bend. If it's your first Notre Dame football weekend, here are my thoughts on what you should make it a point to attend:
7:00 pm, Coach Kelly Radio Show – The first live Coach Kelly Radio Show of the year will be held tonight at Legends of Notre Dame. You can also watch it live on UND.com or tune in locally to WSBT 960 AM.
10:00 am, ND Stadium Tunnel Tour – The same tunnel that Holtz, Parseghian, Ismail, Montana and the countless other Irish greats walked down. It's open until 5:00 pm, except during Purdue's walkthrough, so be sure to check it out. As awesome as it is to see the stadium full of 80,795 fans, it's equally special to see the calm serenity of the House That Rockne Built – the calm before Saturday's storm.
1:00 pm, Campus Tour – The Eck Vistors Center has an organized campus tour, but if you've got some time, it's also fun to just explore Notre Dame's 1,250 acres for yourself.
4:00 pm, Trumpets Under The Dome – Finish your tour at the Grotto, and head over to the Main Building for the awe-inspiring trumpet performance.
6:00 pm, Pep Rally – The first pep rally of the season will be held in a unique location this year – outside of the Rockne Memorial Building on South Quad. There will be appearances from the leprechaun, Band of the Fighting Irish and cheerleading squad, and Coach Kelly and the team will also stop by. Who knows, there might also be a special guest or two.
7:30 pm, Men's Soccer vs. Oregon State – Head coach Bobby Clark's squad is off to a 3-0-0 start, and is hosting the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament this weekend. Alumni Stadium should be electric.
12:00 am, Midnight Drummer's Circle – Better get there early for this one. Some fans start gathering outside the Main Building more than an hour before the drumline arrives. It's well worth it, and perhaps no pre-game event will get you more ready for Saturday.
10:00 am, LaBar Practice Field Open House – Take a look at the practice complex where the Irish put in their work throughout the season. Stop by any time before 2:00 pm.
10:00 am, The Notre Dame Experience presented by Ford – New for the 2012 season, the Joyce Center Fieldhouse hosts this fanfest event, which will be open until approximately 30 minutes before kickoff.
11:30 am, Bagpipe Band Concert – One of the unique aspects of a Notre Dame game day, stop by outside the Main Building. On your way, grab a burger or brat from one of the many concession stands supporting Notre Dame's residence halls and student groups, or grab a legendary steak sandwich outside the Knights of Columbus building on South Quad.
1:00 pm, Glee Club Pre-Game Concert – Outside the Hesburgh Library Reflecting Pool, the sweet tunes of Notre Dame's gentlemen.
1:30 pm, Player Walk – After their final team meeting, the Irish will walk as a team from the Guglielmino Athletics Complex, down Library Quad and into Notre Dame Stadium through the Knute Rockne Gate. Thousands will line the quad, and this one should not be missed.
2:00 pm, Marching Band Concert – The Notre Dame Marching Band performs on the steps of Bond Hall, before breaking up into instrument sections and preparing for the march to the stadium.
2:30 pm, Irish Guard Inspection – Before they clear the path for the band's march to the stadium, members of the Irish Guard are inspected for duty. Standing roughly seven feet tall in full uniform, the guardsmen must remain stoic and silent throughout the inspection.
3:30 pm, Kickoff – If you missed Trumpets Under The Dome on Friday, check it out at 2:30 pm in the Main Building, but otherwise, I'd suggest heading to the stadium and getting ready for sixty minutes of Notre Dame football.
30 minutes after the game – The Basilica will fill up quickly, so go to one of the many residence hall Masses – Alumni, Dillon, Keough, Morrissey, Ryan, Siegfried and Sorin – for the prayerful experience of Sunday night for Notre Dame students.
Following Mass – Both North and South Dining Hall host Candlelight Dinners after home games. They pull out all the stops. It's delicious.
2:15 pm, Men's Soccer vs. Akron – The Irish wrap-up the weekend in the conclusion of the Berticelli Tournament. If you missed Friday's game and are still on campus, check out Coach Clark's team in action at Alumni Stadium.
As you can tell, there's a lot going on, and this doesn't even touch on the fun you can have outside the officially scheduled events (ex. tailgating). For more information, check out the Gameday website and pick up one of the Notre Dame Alumni Association's Gridiron Guides, which will be available all over campus.
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My Only road Bike is a Singlespeed :( Will i be ok in Dallas?
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Moving from Flat Houston to Irving in a few months , My question is will i be ok with my ss road bike (48X18) and my ss 29er mtb (32x17) i have grown to like ss best for a great spin , will i be ok with all the hills on the road? and is ss mtb popular in Dallas area?
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I've commuted through south Irving quite a few times on my 48x16 SS with no problems. North Irving has a few hills, but nothing too bad.
SS MTB isn't uncommon here. Check out River Legacy Park in Arlington.
you'll be fine... it's not _that_ hilly around here.
lots of ss mtb'ers. check out dorba.org
There are plenty of places to ride here that are relatively flat. There are also some darned steep hills if you know where to look for them, but nothing really long like climbing in Colorado.
What you can do with 48x18 also depends on your fitness level. For many years I rode with 42 and 53 chainrings and a 13-19 straight block in the back. I did almost all of the big hills with that combination. These days I'm much older and don't ride as much so I need 13-21 or even 13-24, although on my normal routes I don't go above 42x19.
We have a good number of big bike shops in the metroplex that have regularly scheduled group rides of different speeds and distances. I find plenty of riding around Irving mostly by myself and I have routes up to about 40 miles staying in the city, and much longer if you break out of the city into the rural areas. 99% of the time I ride from my front door, I don't go somewhere in my car and then ride. (I live a few miles west of where that football stadium was blown up.)
I think you'll just have to ride around and see. There certainly are plenty of single-speed/fixed gear riders in the area. I actually rode a single-speed bike a couple of years, but it was geared lower than a typical single-speed road bike, so there's not a useful comparison to be made.
Dallas/Ft.Worth and the surrounding areas are all pretty flat. You won't have any issues with a single speed bike. There are a lot of single speed/fixie riders in the area. Welcome to the area!
You'll be just fine in DFW. 48x18 will work just about anywhere. Check out the trails around Joe Pool Lake.
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It would help if you put up your routine
Thank you for the help. Here is my current routine.
Bench Press - 3 or 4 sets of 4 reps
Incline Bench Press - 3 sets of 4 reps
Military Press - 3 sets of 4 reps
Standing Dumbell Side Raises - 2 sets of 10 reps
Squats - 3 or 4 sets of 4 reps
Lying Leg Curls - 3 sets of 8 to 10 reps
Standing One Leg Calf Raises - 2 sets of 12 reps
Deadlifts - 3 sets of 4 reps
Bent Over Barbell Rows - 3 sets of 6 to 7 reps
Lat Bar Pulldowns - 3 sets of 6 to 8 reps
Barbell Curls - 3 sets of 6 reps
Dumbell Curls - 1 set of 6 reps
are you cranky all the time and have you stopped progressing?
that's usually how i get if i overtrain :)
Well hopefully someone else will chime in, since I'm not the best at giving out advice.
What are your training goals?
Are you going for size? strengh? or just overall fitness?
I would like both. Lately with the low reps I've been training more for strength I guess. I want to see what my current max lifts are so I can then check again after a few months and see if I've made any progress.
I'm not sure if this goes for all muscles, but for biceps, if they bruise easily, that is a sign that you overdid it. And, if you are sore after every workout, it's probably a good indication.
The only time I have soreness is with my lower back after doing the deadlifts. I was doing squats and deadlifts in the same session but just moved the deadlifts from my leg day to the day when I do my back and biceps.
After my last set of deadlifts I have to bend down and pull the plates off the bar and my lower back is so warn out it's painful and just taking the plates off the bar feels like a set in of itself. I could use some sort of block or something to prop one side of the barbell up at a time so I could then just slide the plates off rather than them dragging on the floor as I yank them off. I wonder if they make that sort of thing. Then after the deadlifts I have to bend down to put the plates on the leg machine for the lying leg curls and my back is still so warn out that that's painful also. No other lifts give me any problems or any soreness. Just the deadlifts.
I was doing three sets of 315lbs. for 4 reps and knew I could do more so then I went up to 3 sets of 325lbs. for 4 reps. I know I can do more so next week I'll try 335lbs. for 3 sets of 4 reps. In a few weeks I'll go for a one rep max.
on your last rep...when you're all the way up...is there something you can get the bar on? so the weights are much higher...thus no bending over.
^^Yeah, I put mine down on the squat rack (it has a rack at about mid-thigh height). Makes stripping the weights easy too. Is there anything like that?
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The story of Natalie Morton is a very modern tragedy. On Monday she died suddenly after being vaccinated against cervical cancer. Public conclusion: the life-saving jab was a killer. On Tuesday, a preliminary postmortem revealed that she had suffered from a "serious underlying medical condition". Public conclusion: confusion. Yesterday, the coroner disclosed that Natalie had a malignant tumour which "could have killed her at any time". Public conclusion: relief and the belief that the injection is probably safe.
Versions of this news curve happened throughout the first burst of the swine flu epidemic. The death of an apparently healthy person would lead to panic that the population was about to be wiped out. Then the invocation of that viral phrase of 2009 – "serious underlying medical condition" – would lead to relaxation, although not entirely because in most of these cases, unlike Natalie's, the nature of the other affliction was rarely reported.
In part, this is a story of the rush to judgment created by the immediacy of modern media. But it also touches on concerns – of doctors' confidentiality and the language of medical disclosure – which have also been raised by the row over whether internet tittle-tattle over Gordon Brown's health should have been raised by Andrew Marr on television, and coincide with this month's publication of a document from the General Medical Council confirming guidelines on protection of records.
I was awed, at my Roman Catholic primary school, by the stories of the sanctity of the seal of the confessional: the priests who had died rather than reveal what a penitent had told them. Many works of fiction have turned on this creed of priestly secrecy. And yet, without being hymned in the same way, doctors are bound by conditions almost as severe. For instance, a GP with a sexually infectious patient who insists on having unprotected intercourse is not permitted to pass on this information to partners and can only press the infected party to fess up.
The latest GMC advice gives doctors more leeway than priests. Patient confidentiality can be breached if there is a clear public interest. But the governing assumption remains a right to medical privacy in almost all cases, a position also followed in media codes of practice.
However, in the swine flu and cancer vaccine cases, the difficulty is that medicine moves more slowly and ethically than journalism. On the basis of having seen a few episodes of Casualty, we're happy to give an immediate diagnosis of fatality caused by a vaccine or a flu virus from Mexico, while those who actually qualified as doctors take notice of autopsies, tests and the feelings of relatives.
The matter of an allegedly sick or pill-dependent politician (charges both absolutely denied by Gordon Brown) is more problematic. Many leaders have taken advantage of patient confidentiality: François Mitterrand's prostate cancer and Harold Wilson's cardiac spasms were not reported until long after their electoral chances could be affected. But it was easier then to prevent or deflect speculation. Blogging has moved rumour from the back roads to a freeway, so allegations ignored by the mainstream media may be widely known.
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The British Medical Association's ethics expert tells me that, if a doctor sincerely believed a politician had become a risk to the country, their duty would be to persuade the leader that his body was telling him or her to go.
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Eric Hanson, Graphics Initiative manager at Intel, wound up his year as chairman of the Folsom Chamber of Commerce board of directors and welcomed the 2012-13 leader, Robert Flautt, president of Folsom Lake Bank, at the chamber luncheon March 29 at Lake Natoma Inn.
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bytemesis (1117) Sunnyvale, California | October 31, 2012
Pretty good selection, with a decent potion of the store devoted to beer. First place on this road trip i found drei fonteinen. A ton of Wisconsin beers, including a deep selection of New Glarus. Definitely worthy of an A list rating.
BeerandBlues2 (1056) Escondido, California | June 24, 2017
This store is part kitchen supply house, part bottle shop and now part brewery, though the latter was closed during our visit. A nice selection of local beers to include a few growlers/crowlers. Reasonable prices.
Sammy (729) Toronto, Ontario | August 4, 2015| Updated August 9, 2015
A little inconspicuous place to find. Some decent bottle selection though superseded in wine bottles. Carry your own to find someone to take your cash. Still not bad for the middle of almost nowhere.
JK (420) St. Louis Park, Minnesota | April 24, 2005
This store is all about gourment products, and it seems a bit out of place in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Lots of beer I can't find in MN. Prices are on the high side, and some things that need to be refrigerated were left on the shelf. Food is available, as well as wine, cheese, and liquor; which is often left exposed to light rather than stored in a tube or box. Good humidor. Service was friendly, but their primary concern is making coffee and sandwiches. It seems you are on your own through the rest of the store. If you are from MN and passing along the nearby 94, be sure to stop here.
esjaygee (262) Oak Creek, Wisconsin | October 9, 2011
Ah, the smell of fresh coffee. It's my favorite aisle in the supermarket and it's a lovely smell when beer shopping. Quite an array of stuff in bottles, all broken down by regions and most everything available as a single. I was on a Wisconsin beer treasure hunt and did find two beers I had not had before though not the sand creek in-house stout. Service was great!
ryanfolty (244) Bourbon County, Minnesota | November 24, 2012
Decided to make a quick stop while driving back from the GI black friday event. This was quite the nice surprise. Great atmosphere that is more than just craft beer. The selection was very good and had a huge singles section, one of the best I have seen. Prices were a tad high, but I am willing to spend more per bottle when I can buy one versus a 4 or 6 pack. Service was good, but they do give priority to locals, which I get so won't hold it against them. I wish there was a place like this much closer to me.
CheersMate (189) Portland (Sellhood), Oregon | March 11, 2013
Stopped by coffee grounds, while seeing my the future wife's Alma mater. The store had me worried, for a moment. I saw a lot of non-beer-related items, mostly gourmet foods, and other shit, but then I turned a corner and saw a nice set of shelves that had plenty of good beer to burn a hole in the wallet. Since I only am able to get out to Wisconsin twice a year, I had to get me fill on New Glarus stuff - Serendipity, Enigma, Apple Ale, Raspberry Tart, etc. I noticed that they had a lot of other Wisconsin breweries represented. The prices, as I have no basis of comparison, really, were fine; however, I have seen Raspberry Tart for less than what they were selling it. I also got a coffee, which wasn't great, but it woke me up, on the car ride to grandma's cabin. Other notes: didn't receive much beer service, but I didn't need it; the food selection looked fine, I don't remember anything mind-blowing.
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CaptainCougar (142) Columbia, Maryland | January 12, 2004
A nice little wine, coffee, beer, and homebrewing supply store. Good selection of Viking and New Glarus beers along with some harder to find imports and midwest micros. Probably one of the best beer stores in Northern Wisconsin.
emerge077 (131) RIP Johnnies, Chicago, Illinois | September 13, 2013
Stopped in while passing through town, Coffee Grounds was our destination. Toppling Goliath PseudoSue on tap. Need I say more? This is the top destination in Eau Claire to buy beer. Nearly everything they have is available in singles, and organized by style. Only a place dedicated to beer will do that, and you'd be surprised how few stores have that level of organization and dedication. Lazy Monk growlers (at least 6), a dozen lambics, at least 50-60 varieties of each style (when available). Berliner Weisse, Gratzer, Gruit, Unblended Lambic, plenty of odd/obscure beers that you can't find anywhere else in town. High-end imports like Carnegie Porter, Italian saisons, Handbryggeriet, De Dolle, as well as limited seasonals like Founders IS and CW BB Barleywine. They even have an exclusive coffee stout brewed with their house coffee! The staff at the counter were very helpful, even though they weren't beer experts. The beer guy here is a BA, which is a huge plus. They also checked the stockroom for more Tilquin 750s, but I guess we lucked out and got the last one. (Edit: Had a pricing issue on a single that was resolved later by their beer guy, Kyle. Exceptional customer service!) They gave a short briefing on growler care and it's lifespan, which is more than I can say for most stores. (Edit: The PseudoSue growler I bought was faded. Boo. Make sure you sample the tap beer first! Not sure if due to low turnover or not running the line before a fill.) They also have a coffee lounge that is a great place for a pit stop on a long roadtrip (clean restrooms too). Not much food, but a small cafe menu and a wide assortment of cheese, charcuterie, and chocolate. Recommended for a detour off the highway.


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PBS is making some big changes to its powerhouse "NewsHour" program. Starting December 7, the show will no longer be "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", but "PBS NewsHour", though longtime host Jim Lehrer will stay on with the show as an executive producer.
But the title of the show and the reduction of the role of its main anchor are not the the only differences for the program: "NewsHour" will also be teaming up with digital news site GlobalPost to supplement its international coverage. With GlobalPost's host of correspondents from around the world, Linda Winslow, executive producer of "NewsHour", said the year-old current events site has much to offer the PBS program. "The NewsHour is committed to in-depth coverage of international news, yet we cannot to do it all ourselves," she said in an announcement about the partnership.
The truth is, publicly funded news can only pay so much for original reporting, and striking a deal with a young digital company to provide content may be the most pragmatic way to stretch the network's budget. Meanwhile Lehrer is realistic about stepping aside for a rotating cast of new hosts on the show, as he told Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, "I still have the hunger…I didn't have the hunger to do it all by myself. But I really have the hunger for it to be done, and done well."
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ARLINGTON, VA — November 30, 2009 — As part of its efforts to lead the way in the presentation of thoughtful and in-depth international journalism, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (soon to become the PBS NewsHour on December 7) announced a news gathering partnership with Boston-based GlobalPost that will begin immediately.
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Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson announced that $1 million in grant funding is being made available to livestock producers in the state for on-farm improvements.
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AndyC, I am not savvy in Windows internals, in how it caches and manages file O/I. I came across this old article mentioning an anecdotal evidence of how people were able to significantly increase their Photoshop productivity with ramdisk http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/73385/boost_performance_win_xp_pro_ramdisk/
Can you please elaborate on your point why "it won't ever be faster"? Please explain how is HDD I/O not holding up applications under no circumstances in WinXP for instance? I understand there is RAM caching of all file I/O in any modern OS, but is there no such use case when ramdisk really helps? I'm just confused by categorical "it won't ever be faster" and the article I referred to above.
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Three weeks ago my wife and I went to Nashville for a Shaklee convention.
Three weeks ago my wife and I went to Nashville for a Shaklee convention.
Now this was my second time there, but the first doesn't count, because I was so nervous about my one song performance before a crowd of 8,000 at the CMA arena that I barely noticed anything else. The experience was a dream come true, but I did not really get to know the city at all on that trip.
This time I made sure I got around to breathe it all in, do it justice.
Suffice it to say that if you are a musician or a music lover, you have got to get there sometime.
The highlight of my trip was touring RCA's recording Studio B. That's where 45,000 songs were recorded, 1,000 of which became top chart hits by many of the greats…Elvis, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton, to name just a few. I sat at the same Steinway used by Elvis and all them to record their hits. If the walls of that room could talk…
About the Muse
My column's title this week speaks to the difficulty one sometimes has in getting to a piece of writing or a poem. It has taken me many tries and restarts and incubation time to come up with this week's column and poem. Sometimes the creative process comes easily…sometimes (like the song says) it just ain't easy. My advice is to be patient and persistent. Muses can be finicky.
Ode to Music City
If music be the food of love, play on!
- Shakespeare
Like a giant taser
the two spires
atop the AT&T building
tower over this city.
The air is electrified
with music
that weaves through the town
like threads in a tapestry.
Nashville's Broadway bars
throb with belting beats
and hopeful buskers serenade
new songs on every corner.
The street screams a cacophony
of country, folk, bluegrass,
Bible belting gospel,
blues and rockabilly silly.
Each saloon is buffered
by a interspersed store
for cowboy hats or records
or boots or barbeque.
Tourists thick as herds of cattle
spill in and out of honky-tonks
ever ready to stampede
a new change of keg or band.
Legends loom in minds
and photos on smoky walls.
An ever growing list
of some I'm sure to miss.
Earl, Merle, Loretta, Dolly
Conway, Buck and Hank
Chet, Johnny, Vince, Reba
Faith, Tim and Tex
Patsy, Emmylou, Wynona,
Gene, Roy and Dale
Wayland, Willie, Kenny
Garth, Tammy, Taylor
and the king himself, Elvis
Musicians dream in riffs
of fretted strings
on Gibsons, Guilds, Martins,
Fenders and Les Pauls
Buckskin fringed ghosts
of tabernacle Ryman
and Grand Ol Opry
paddle the Cumberland,
banjo duel
and echo yodels
throughout this Appalachian
music mecca.
About the poem
This is a free verse list poem with similes and metaphors, alliteration and a little rhyme sprinkled in. And of course, rhythm…all poems have to have that!
I struggled with it but persevered because I wanted a record of the trip.
You might try your hand at a list poem of your summer vacation place. Ink it for posterity. To get going, just grab a piece of paper and start listing anything connected that comes to mind. What is most memorable? What is its essence? What is most unusual? Then sit on the list and come back to it a day or so later. With luck, it will tell you where it wants to go…what it wants to be.
About the author
Bill Alberti is available for private tutoring in structured or creative writing, or to lead writing workshops, give readings, or facilitate school lessons or residencies. He is a member of the Tidepool Poets. Bill has a chapbook of poetry available for purchase. For further information or to book a reading or workshop, contact Bill at email@example.com.


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Broward Judge Martin Bidwill sentenced Vernon Howard to life in prison Wednesday after accepting his second-degree murder plea in the July 2007 strangling death of his girlfriend, Linda Renee Innocent. The judge explained the reasons for his sentence in court.
Published at 4:29 PM EST on Jun 12, 2013 | Updated at 5:05 PM EST on Jun 12, 2013


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Looking Back in Hancock
(Taken from the Thursday, July 29, 1999 issue of the Hancock Record.)
A fire at Our Redeemer's Church parsonage last Wednesday caused extensive smoke and water damage throughout the home. The fire is believed to have been set and the Hancock Police Department has two suspects they are questioning. The fire was thought to have started in the basement and was confined to that area. However, there was heavy smoke and water damage through each of the other two floors. The church is currently without a pastor so the home was unoccupied at the time.
The weekly construction meetings have come to an end as the city sewer and water main replacement project also nears completion. At the end of this week tarring crews will be putting down bituminous on 4th Street, 6th Street, Belle Avenue, 7th Street and the remainder of Atlantic Avenue.
(Taken from the Thursday, August 4, 1994 issue of the Hancock Record.)
Effective August 12, the Hancock Liquor Store will no longer be owned by the city. The Hancock City council voted at a special meeting on July 27 to accepted the bid from Rob Jepma to purchase the business.
Bremer Financial Corporation, a St. Paul based bank holding company, announced today the signing of a preliminary agreement to purchase Morris State Bancorporation, Inc., of Morris.
(Taken from the Thursday, July 31, 1969 issue of the Hancock Record.)
The hum of the tractor can be heard from morning to night (depending on the weather) as swathing of oats and barley is now underway in the community. No estimates have been given as to quality and yield. Combining is expected to begin on a wholesale basis by the end of the week, although Emil Schaefer combined some barley last Friday and was at work on the same field again Monday.
Concrete tile has been moving out of the Hancock Concrete Product plant at a rapid pace the past week as road construction in the state, which had been delayed because of wet conditions, is now in full operation. The rush to complete contracts has resulted in the Hancock firm leasing a number of trucks to supplement their own fleet. The huge tile were being trucked to points at Grand Forks, Lac qui Parle near Dawson and Grand Marais on the North Shore.
(Taken from the Friday, August 3, 1934 issue of the Hancock Record.)
The single men of the village defeated the double men, we mean the married men, of the village in a kittenball game at the local diamond Monday evening by a score of some 23 to 16. The scorekeeper does not guarantee the correctness of figures because of the fact he ran out of paper and the further fact that some of the players continued to umpire their own base running and kept on running after the scorer had marked them out.
Three men were taken to the hospital at Morris early Sunday morning as the result of an auto accident between two and three o'clock Sunday morning when the bread truck driven by Pete Nelson of Benson crashed into the ditch at the railroad crossing west of Hancock and he together with Red Regan and Dick Fennel, both of Clontarf, were thrown out unconscious on the road side.
(Taken from the Friday, July 30, 1909 issue of the Hancock Record.)
Eli Brown reports that one head of oats in his field measured seventeen inches long and any number of heads will go from twelve to fifteen inches in length. The whole field promises a bumper yield, and if no bad luck jumps in at the last minute he wants to engage some fourteen extra teams to haul grain when he threshes. We earnestly hope that nothing will happen to the crops, not only on his place but all over this neck of the woods, as certainly it has been a year or two since we have had such prospects for a big crop as we have at present.


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a) the study of how people choose to use thier limited resources to produce goods and services
b) the study of money
c) a course I'm forced to take
d) the study of how people grow vegetables
What are goods?
a) products that people use
b) things that people get for free
c) something someone does for someone else
d) something that is good
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b) products that people buy
c) places people go to shop
d) a way to make money
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a) When people want more than they can have
b) goods and services that are available
c) having more than you need
d) buying the newest item
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The Quiet Success Of Regulatory Reform
One of the quieter success stories in New York state government over the past decadehas beenwhat's commonlycalled "regulatory reform."
I was first elected to the state Legislature in 1978, a year that happened to coincide with the creation of a state Office of Business Permits. This new office was the first in a long line of so-called regulatory reform efforts over the next two decades. As our state struggled economically throughout the 1980s and into the '90s, many of us repeatedly pitched the same message: New York's a tough place to do business because of high taxes and excessive regulation. And while the bureaucracy paid lip service to regulatory reform with the Office of Business Permits and other efforts, lip service was about all it amounted to -- until 1995.
In 1995 newly elected Governor George Pataki issued Executive Order No. 20. This order created a new Office of Regulatory Reform which, in turn, sparked what's become an aggressive, comprehensive and effective focus on meaningful reform. For the first time one central agency undertook the challenge. It's been the independence and oversight of this office -- which, by the way, operates on an extraordinarily small budget and staffing levels by the standards of the state bureaucracy -- that's made the difference.
Since 1995, the growth of new state rules and regulations has been reduced by two-thirds. Thousands of regulations have been streamlined or eliminated. It's estimated that the Office of Regulatory Reform has saved businesses and taxpayers more than $3 billion in unnecessary costs.
What kinds of costs? Consider the following:
-- At one time the state's cider distributors were required to file a monthly sales tax report with the state, even though cider sales are largely seasonal in nature and, for many distributors, generate minimal revenue. A monthly filing was a burdensome, time-consuming and unnecessary requirement. So the rule was changed. Cider distributors now file an annual sales tax report, thereby saving distributors approximately $140 a year in paperwork costs; or how about this one,
-- New York was providing a state sales tax exemption for farmers buying materials to erect or improve silos. But at one time state regulations specified that materials used in the silo's foundation were not exempt from sales tax. In other words, farmers could get a sales tax exemption for putting up the sides of their silos, but not the foundation. A common sense change was clearly in order to exempt all of the materials utilized in silo construction. A further change instituted a sales tax exemption for farm-related personal protective equipment. The changes can save farmers statewide $300,000 a year in taxes.
Small-scale regulatory reforms like these, occurring throughout a vast bureaucracy affecting the lives of New Yorkers in countless ways, ultimately become meaningful.
The impact of meaningful regulatory reform should never be underestimated. Changes will come and go in state government, but in my opinion we can never afford to backtrack on a commitment to limiting the state bureaucracy's ability to issue out-of-touch, unreasonable and sometimes downright ridiculous regulations that stifle economic growth and individual initiative.
This year I sponsored legislation, recently signed into law, that creates a permanent process to review state rules and regulations to make sure that they're not detrimental to our agricultural industry. This new law permanently ensures that New York's regulatory bureaucracy will forever assess its impact on farming. That's a great victory for agriculture in New York State. Supporters of the new law, including the New York Farm Bureau, believe it will help ensure that the positive work many communities have done to strengthen agriculture is not inadvertently undermined by uninformed state rules. Agriculture is the backbone of our rural economies, and we can't risk having a state bureaucracy that unfairly and unreasonably hinders the industry's growth.
So we've ensured an ongoing regulatory review for agriculture, but we should be looking to set in stonesimilar effortsthroughout state government.


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The writer Amy Tan (Joy Luck Club) traveled the world promoting her books, going to writer's retreats, visiting friends--but was vexed in 1999 by sudden exhaustion. She returned from a trip halfway around the world and slept around the clock.
Stress, jet lag--she concluded. There followed insomnia, a bad back, frozen shoulder.
Her feet grew tingly, she seemed to vibrate inside. Her heart often raced. She could not work.
She saw psychiatrists.
And she had test after test--all they showed was her blood sugar was low. She was only 49--a tiny tumor on her adrenal gland was found in all the testing and removed. Symptoms continued. Even worsened.
She had hallucinations. Saw people who weren't there.
She stopped driving--she would stop on green.
She had had a rash on her leg--but no "target" ring like a tick bite.
One doctor ordered an ELISA test--she looked it up--Lyme Disease. But it was not an accurate test, she learned from message boards. Those sufferers knew doctors who knew Lyme.
She went to one--and sure enough, she had it. She got the Western Blot test--which can also miss cases. Positive!
The spirochetes had entered her brain--accounting for her blank staring. She went on seizure meds.
She took antibiotics for seven years, easing onto a Chinese antimicrobial known as Lingzhi.
She can write again, but is not the same.
The CDC says maybe a million people a year are felled by this stupid tick. If you get bitten or get a mysterious rash, go to a doctor.
Don't give up.
Check out: https://www.amytan.net/lyme-disease.html
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Amy Tan's grueling battle with Lyme Disease
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Lloyds's Marginal Gains
Results Had Something for Everyone, but Investors Should Be Wary of Celebrating the Unexpected Jump in Profitability
What a coup. Lloyds Banking Group's first-half results seemed to have something for everyone.
For shareholders, there was the promise that Lloyds will sound out its regulator about paying a dividend. For U.K. Chancellor George Osborne, there was the prospect of selling the U.K. government's 39% stake at a profit. Lloyds shares leapt 8.1% to 74...


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Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics 2013
Workshop dates: June 10-14, 2013
Workshop details: Home Agenda Instructors Evaluations
This workshop was presented by members of the BTRC Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems from the University of Pittsburgh and the members of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (www.ks.uiuc.edu) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It covered a wide range of physical models and computational approaches for the simulation of biological systems including ProDy, NAMD and VMD.
The course was based on case studies including the properties of membranes and membrane proteins, mechanisms of molecular motors, trafficking in the living cell through water and ion channels, signaling pathways and druggability simulations. Relevant physical concepts, mathematical techniques, and computational methods were introduced, including force fields and algorithms used in molecular modeling, molecular dynamics simulations on parallel computers, elastic network models, and steered molecular dynamics simulations.
The workshop was designed for students and researchers in computational and/or biophysical fields who seek to extend their research skills to include computational and theoretical expertise, as well as other researchers interested in theoretical and computational biophysics. Theory sessions in the morning were followed by hands-on computer labs in the afternoon in which students were able to set up and run simulations. Participants were encouraged to bring their own laptop (laptop requirements) for use in workshop tutorial sessions but computer workstations were also available.
Workshop Instructors:
Klaus Schulten (UIUC)
Emad Tajkhorshid (UIUC)
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Registration fee for accepted participants*: $100 fee for students; $200 non-student academics; $300 all others. The fee is non-refundable. Housing in double rooms* at the University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Residence Hall and all course materials will be provided. The workshop can neither fund nor arrange participant travel.
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Kate Middleton Shops High Street
Kate Middleton's Vacation-Ready Purchases
Kate Middleton caused major excitement yesterday when she hit High Street stores — clad in a black Issa dress and tan kitten heels — to pick up summery pieces worthy of, ahem, a vacation or perhaps a honeymoon, if one were just married. Regardless of why Kate was in the market for Summer clothes, on the eve of her royal wedding, it's nice to see her out shopping like a normal person. At Warehouse, she picked dresses with tropical prints, and according to the Daily Mail, at Peter Jones she chose a pair of Marc Jacobs sunglasses, and blue and white trousers and a yellow top from Whistles. She even hit up a London outpost of Banana Republic, although the retailer refuses to divulge any details. What are your honeymoon essentials?


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Resurfacing work in Oxford Road, which features more than 50 potholes in the half a mile stretch around Aylesbury College has been delayed, Bucks County Council announced this morning (Tuesday).
The work will now begin on Monday August 18, three days later than originally planned.
Oxford Road will be closed between 7pm and 6am for the work, which will last for six nights.
The county council said the delay is 'due to changes in the programme effected by other work.'
No work will take place at the weekend.
The council also said a full signed diversion route will be in operation during the works.
Some of the potholes on the stretch from the Gatehouse Road roundabout to the junction with Churchill Avenue are so wide that they stretch over the entire carriageway.
The holes, which have been deteriorating for several months, have been described as 'dangerous' and 'not roadworthy' by motorists, whose attempts to avoid one hole often result in them bumping down into another.


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How can anyone be so stupid?
Oh wait, it's an American site.
Paris, even she wouldn't be so stupid, thus proving that blond bimbo's are smarter than your average politico.
Scammers pumping out emails that try to trick recipients into parting with large sums of cash are getting a helping hand from the Democratic National Committee. According to a researcher with anti-spam company Cloudmark, 419 fraudsters have been relaying a "significant" amount of messages through the democrats.org domain name …
Oh wait, it's an American site.
Paris, even she wouldn't be so stupid, thus proving that blond bimbo's are smarter than your average politico.
The Dems have been held to such a low level of accountability for so long it was bound to happen. "Hand grenade" because everything blows up sooner or later. Besides, as an EVIL corporation, its your ISP's fault for not working harder to protect you from these things.
What do you expect? Politicians don't have any brains, and political parties don't have any thoughts.
I don't often comment, however this article got to me. Was it the subject matter? Was it the journalist's understanding that no email should ever be sent through another email system, even if a CAPTCHA (that is completely breakable) is used without some form of safeguard? No, it was neither of these things, it was the blatant attack on PHP that I found offensive.
How did the journalist come to the conclusion that the form in question causing the problem was PHP and this required talking about? Was it an assumption because much of the site was written in PHP? Would the article have struggled to hit the wordcount if it wasn't PHP?
From my cursory glance at the website this seems to be a badly put together front end* where every link that points to a definite PHP element refers to it with the extension .php. As the form doesn't reference a script with this attribute then we can't assume that the script in question is PHP, it may have been something the site designer inherited in a different language, does this make it excusable? No.
If the site designer chose to add this 'feature' to the site then please with all journalistic endeavour illustrate this as the issue, don't blame the language that the developer used for this site embellishment as the issue.
There is the possibility that the form used on the website is referencing something in the backend written in C, Perl or even ASP, no matter how unlikely, and ultimately that the fault lies not with the programming language but with the BAD THOUGHT PROCESS BEHIND THE FORM. No matter what language, or the addition of a CAPTCHA , are going to stop miscreants from misusing such a system, to think so is naïve! Quite frankly, this sort of form is a bad idea, it should not be allowed on a public site.
To compound my point, HTML is inherently accessible, most user-agents can understand the DTD and alongside the educated use of elements and attributes that the W3C and WCAG have created guidelines for, that they should be almost automatic for most developers. In the case of this site, the accessibility levels fail quite dramatically, yet you wouldn't catch me writing an article saying that a site, written in HTML has caused a failure in accessibility, no its a problem with the developer writing the site NOT the choice of language.
I'm definitely not excusing the lacklustre creation of the website, the skipping of basic security methodology and especially not the front end coding which is, quite frankly, dreadful, however I do take offence when a journalist takes a thinly veiled swipe at a programming/scripting language because someone has done something stupid, just to fuel their own personal dislike or to start a flame war.
Got to love how spammers are able to spell Somalian name!
U in English normally essential after a q. It was added to the name of Nunavut's capital, changing it from Iqaluit to Iqualuit, in a press release by Prime Minister's staff.
As any Canadian would know by now that name of Nunavut's capital, Iqaluit, means many fish in Inuktitut. However, when that extra u is tacked on after the q, the meaning suddenly changes to "people with unwiped bums,". Just google "unwiped" in the news section!
I suggest that Canadian politicians hire these spammers, and so they wouldn't have worry about offending our northern brothers, and with a single stroke they can solve the world leading spam crisis.
For what it's worth, my observation of my friends and acquaintances[*] leads me to believe that Democrats don't put much emphasis on either security or preventing crime in general, nor on punishing criminals afterwards (the modern American "catch-and-release" revolving-door judicial system). One could speculate for years on exactly why that's the case, but I won't do that here :)
I read something the other day (can't remember where it was), where some British person had got the two main American political parties mixed up - he said:
"Tell me again, which party is the evil one, and which party is the stupid one?"
That seems to sum it up pretty good ;)
(For those who don't know, it's the Republicans that are evil ;) and the Democrats that are stupid ;) )
All of 'em can be extremely annoying and hard to reason with, at times.
* The aforementioned friends and acquaintances consist of a fairly even mix of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, etc.
Yeah, its PHP and the folders are browsable too.
hang on, I may have to buy some stilts your damn horse is so high, I dont think you can here me,
Shave your beard, step away from the kool-aid, mamas basement is not the only home you'll ever have
A typical response. Maybe they should have written a law forbidding it, and then not enforce it at all. That is the typical way it is done.
...we've got the anti-American zealots, the language zealots, the anti-government zealots, and the anti-democrat zealots. Any chance we can get a mac vs. pc angle on this, and make it a full set?
Not many could be fooled by these scams. There aren't perhaps but 4 people, rational ones anyway, who would actually open any message from or routed through the domain of any political party. If I could be on a "do not call" list that included political parties, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Come election season, the political pushers become bigger pests than cockroaches in Miami, pity you can't treat them the same way.
The only appropriate icon for the two party political cartel. "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."
Collecting email addresses with which to market the Dem's political agenda. The 419ers are simply saving the Dem's from having to buy email lists.
I was rather impressed with this post. I must admit that I thought the article was about bad design, not a criticism of PHP but clearly given the length of g's post I must have been wrong.
Can we have a bucket of water icon to douse the flames? The only alternative seems to be a waste of good beer.
Sent myself a quick test mail from the page in question. From the headers:
Received: from web1.dnc.org (web1.dnc.org [192.168.10.71]) by mailservices.democrats.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EAB912E47B for <me>; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:17:11 -0400 (EDT)
Received: by web1.dnc.org (Postfix, from userid 30) id 4F7C1482BD; Mon, 31 Aug
Received: from phpmailer ([192.168.10.24]) by www.democrats.org with HTTP
(PHPMailer); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:17:11 -0400
Sorry, but it does indeed look like the venerable and frewuently-exploited PHPMailer is at work here. I know that the exploitable nature of the page itself isn't helping, but few (if any) security problems have been improved by the addition of PHP.
that the Republican and Democrat network admins are both equally incompetent. Says a lot about the state of politics over here. Fighting Bush fires and Obamarama since 1984.
They've added a CAPTCHA displaying a true ignorance of the problem at hand, FFS


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The milestone passed almost unnoticed last Sunday. Even Morris Peterson had to be told he had just played his 500th game as a Raptor against the Dallas Mavericks.
"I had no idea," he said. "Wow. That's something."
Yes, it is something. On a team that has had a revolving door policy for much of its 11-plus years, Peterson has been a constant for the last seven. He has played more games than any other Raptor (Alvin Williams is second at 417) and if he left tomorrow, Chris Bosh, who has played 254 games, would need more than three seasons of perfect attendance to pass Peterson.
The veteran has become something of a forgotten man this year. He began the season as the NBA's active ironman but that streak ended at 371 games when he suffered an elbow injury that kept him on the sidelines for eight games. Before that, he had lost his spot in the starting lineup only seven games into the season. Yet even though his minutes have been reduced from 38 last season when he averaged 17 points a game, to 24 this year as the eighth or ninth man in the rotation, Peterson remains a very useful and important asset.
If anyone needed to be reminded of that, Peterson gave everyone a nudge in his 502nd game by pouring in 22 points in 30 minutes off the bench on a night when the Raps had trouble finding the range against Sacramento. After limited minutes in his past four games, Peterson came in with the Raps trailing by two to start the second quarter and torched the Kings for 11 points in the first eight minutes. He added eight points in the third quarter and three more in the fourth when the Raptors took complete control of the game.
"Tonight I wanted to be extra aggressive because the last game here against Dallas, I felt like I let the team down and didn't do what I was supposed to do," Peterson said. "My next opportunity, I wanted to be ready."
Peterson was referring to Sunday's game when the Mavericks scored with a second left to win on a play in which Peterson left his man, Josh Howard, unguarded to go help Chris Bosh with Dirk Nowitzki.
"I wanted to come in and provide some leadership for the team," said Peterson, forever the optimist. "Coming off the bench allows me to watch the game, the flow of the game and understand what it is I need to bring to the table. Tonight, it seemed to start on the defensive end where we got some stops and then I was able to get it going offensively."
Peterson is passionate about the way this team is coming together and it's clear he wants to be a part of the renaissance of the Raptors and basketball in this city. Whether he gets that chance will be up to the kind of trade offers Colangelo gets in the next few weeks leading up to the trade deadline on Feb. 22.
With all the trade rumours that have swirled about the longest-serving Raptor and all-round good citizen, it's quite conceivable that he'll be gone sometime before the deadline.
He's in the last year of his contract, earning $4 million US. That expiring contract, combined with his experience and skill as a catalyst off the bench, could be a valuable asset to a contender.
On the other hand, he could also be an important ingredient for the Raptors as they try to get back to the playoffs for the first time in five years.
"Coach and I talk a lot and Bryan and I have talked some," he said. "Coach just keeps telling me to stay with it and keep fighting. I have a good relationship with (Mitchell). We felt like we let the Dallas game get away and we didn't want that to happen again. Tonight I think we took a big step up. I thought we did a lot of growing up."
It's evident that Peterson would like to keep his long service record intact here and be a part of the rebirth of the only NBA team he's known. More performances like this one might just allow him to do it.