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Methamphetamine use disorder: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, and diagnosis
- Author
- Martin Paulus, MD
Martin Paulus, MD
- Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
- University of California San Diego
- Section Editor
- Andrew J Saxon, MD
Andrew J Saxon, MD
- Section Editor — Substance Use Disorders
- Professor and Director, Addiction Psychiatry Residency Program, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
- University of Washington
- Deputy Editor
- Richard Hermann, MD
Richard Hermann, MD
- Deputy Editor — Psychiatry
- Associate Professor
- Tufts University School of Medicine
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant that causes the release and blocks the reuptake of monoamine neurotransmitters, including dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Methamphetamine is most often smoked or snorted and is less commonly injected or ingested orally.
Clinical manifestations of methamphetamine use include increased energy and alertness, euphoria, sympathetic nervous system activation, decreased need for sleep, weight loss, dry mouth leading to tooth decay, and chronic adverse mood and cognitive changes, including irritability, anxiety, aggression, panic, suspiciousness, and/or paranoia, hallucinations, executive dysfunction, and memory impairment. Methamphetamine can also exacerbate existing psychiatric symptoms [1].
The psychiatric diagnoses, methamphetamine abuse and methamphetamine dependence, in DSM-IV-TR were replaced by one diagnosis, amphetamine-type substance use disorder, in DSM-5 listed under the broader category of stimulant use disorders [2]. Although the crosswalk between DSM-IV and DSM-5 disorders is imprecise, methamphetamine dependence is approximately comparable to amphetamine-type substance use disorder, moderate to severe subtype, while methamphetamine abuse is similar to the mild subtype.
This topic describes the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, and diagnosis of methamphetamine use disorder. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of other stimulant use disorders are discussed separately. (See "Cocaine use disorder in adults: Epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical manifestations, medical consequences, and diagnosis".)
Methamphetamine use varies geographically, but overall, amphetamine-type stimulants, which include methamphetamine, are the fastest rising drug of abuse worldwide [3,4]. Amphetamine-type stimulants have become the second most widely used class of illicit drugs worldwide, with use increasing in Asia and Oceania [5].To continue reading this article, you must log in with your personal, hospital, or group practice subscription. For more information on subscription options, click below on the option that best describes you:
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Senator Golden Urges U.s. Department of Security to Allocate Funds to Expand Lower Manhattan Security Initiative to Times Square
Brooklyn - State Senator Martin J. Golden (R-C-I, Brooklyn), a former New York City Police Officer, today has sent a letter to Rand Beers, Undersecretary for National Proection & Program with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, urging the federal government to allocate funding to New York City to expand the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative to include Times Square.
Senator Marty Golden is a member of the New York State Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Military and Veteran Affairs.
A copy of the letter is below.
May 6, 2010
Mr. Rand Beers
Undersecretary for National Protection & Program
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528
Dear Mr. Beers,
As we continue to learn more about the failed bomb attempt in New York City's Times Square, we are reminded that New York City remains the Nation's number one terrorist target. As such, as a member of the New York State Senate Committee on Homeland Security, Military and Veteran Affairs, I am compelled to write you and urge the federal governments financial support for plans developed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Police Department designed to assist in efforts to fight terrorism.
We are fortunate that New Yorkers were vigilant and it is only because they saw something, and said something, a major tragedy was narrowly averted in Times Square. We must also compliment and applaud the outstanding work of the New York City Police Department, who within seconds, responded and took control of Times Square, ensuring the safety of all those there that evening.
I urge the Obama Administration to allocate funding for the purpose of expanding the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI) to Times Square, as well as all high visibility areas within New York City. We all agree that downtown is a safer place because of the funding that has enhanced our security through the installation of cameras and other surveillance monitoring equipment and technology. Let's provide all New Yorkers with the same level of protection.
Unfortunately, the federal government has and is considering further reductions in homeland security funding for New York City. At the same time, New York's efforts to expand the Initiative to midtown, have received little support on the federal level. I would urge you to allocate the $92 million necessary to get the program in place, and additional funding thereafter to maintain it, so that we can cloak 34th Street to 59th Street, from river to river in Manhattan, with 3,000 surveillance cameras, so to monitor this area 24/7.
The attempted bombing in Times Square this week may have been averted, but the dangers for tomorrow are increasing. New Yorkers, and tourists from around the world, need to know that everything is being done to protect them. With your support, a funding partnership can be created between the federal, state and city, which will be necessary in order to have the Times Square area home to state of the art surveillance.
Additionally, I oppose the Obama Administration's plan to eliminate a $40 million program known as "Securing Our Cities" that would create a ring of radiation detectors around the City to monitor for nuclear and dirty bombs. Funds to support efforts to combat terrorism in New York City should not be part of budget cuts, yet at the same time, such funds should be considered for an increase.
There are other programs which Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly are considering for New York City so to keep us safe and I would urge the Obama Administration to support these initiatives as well.
Thank you for your attention and I do look forward hearing from you.
Martin J. Golden
State Senator
Cc: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly

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Renting is smart if you value flexibility. It provides the opportunity to grow your savings and aggressively pay off debts. It's also a smart move if you live in an expensive city like Vancouver or Toronto. If you're a renter saving up for a home purchase, or just looking to free up some money to put toward other goals, consider the options below to maximize your position as a renter.
Negotiate with your landlord
Arming yourself with prices in the neighbourhood, from sites like Craigslist or RentCanada, will help you determine whether or not lower rent is realistic and how low is reasonable. Your landlord will be more likely to negotiate if you're willing to lock into another lease agreement, if you're month to month, or update your agreement to add additional months to your lease. If you don't ask, you don't receive, and getting a discount of even $50 is an annual $600 a year of savings.
Rent out your space
Do you have a parking spot or storage space that you don't really use? Consider renting it out. My girlfriend in Vancouver has street parking in front of her condo, so she rents out her underground parking spot for $50 a month and parks on the street. The extra $600 a year is worth outdoor parking. For more on listing your parking space, check out ParkAtMyHouse, or ParkingSpots. For storage spaces, the best chance you have of making money is to look at what professional storage spaces cost and charge slightly less. You can advertise by listing on Craigslist or any of the social media channels you use. If you travel a lot, consider a temporary lodger to help with rent. There are several ways to find a someone, such as Room For Travellers, a site for homeowners and renters looking to earn extra cash renting space to tourists and visitors looking for alternatives to expensive hotels.
Make a move
Consider all costs before considering a move. Price of rent isn't everything. If you find a space $300 cheaper, but it means you'll be farther away from work and play, and it doesn't include a gym so you'll need a membership, is it worth the move? Meeting with a realtor will help you weigh your options and see what's available. In most cases, the landlord pays the realtor for bringing in a new and qualified renter. Ask family or friends for a referral. Many realtors will be happy to help you if you have a relationship with their clients.
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Read the fine print
If you're considering renting a room, a parking or storage space, or having visitors stay occasionally, read the fine print of your lease agreement. If you think you'll rent out your space, talk to your landlord before signing anything so he can put the right provisions in place. Read the fine print before exiting your space as well and make sure you've complied with measures to get your deposit back. Tenants can be dinged and lose some of their deposit for small damages, including uncleaned blinds and small nicks or holes in the wall. Weigh the costs of DIY touch-ups before the final inspection.
Where you live affects what's left at the end of the month. Under the right circumstances and with smart strategies for the savings you gain from renting versus buying, and for the use of your space, you can create significant financial gains in a short time as a renter.
Angela Self is one of the founders of the Smart Cookies money group.


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Effigy of Medicine Man, North West Coast America, 1867-1900
The Haida people of North West Coast America believe shamen can cure disease, control animals and communicate with the spirit world. This wooden effigy is of a shaman or 'medicine man' (a Sah-gah). It was created by the Haida. He holds a small head in his right hand and its nose is pierced with animal bone. The Shaman is decorated with an animal crest. This is common in Haida artwork. It reflects the community the artwork is affiliated with. Many cultures use effigies of shamen or medicine men to invoke their power for protection or healing.
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General Information
This beautiful property is more than an acre and a half in size. It is mostly grassland with a few trees. There are paved roads and power lines on two sides of the property. This area has a mild climate and plenty of outdoor activities available. There are several recreational lakes in the area, including the Don Pedro Reservoir, which is very close to this land.
- Property Number 9004
- Size 1.54 Acres
- Dimensions 230' x 292.05'
- County Tuolumne
- State California
- Home Owners Association Lake Don Pedro
- HOA Dues $100.00
- HOA Information The Lake Don Pedro Property Owners' Association covers over 12,000 acres of land located in two counties. Members have access to 19 separate park areas, including the Hacienda Complex. Low annual dues also cover road maintenance and the upkeep of common areas.
Suggested Property Use
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HistorySimply - pretty route with great history. First time conquered by German alpinists: Simon Häberlein and his partners - Katherine and Maximilian Bröske in 1905. S.Häberlein was a true revelation. In a few days which he spend in Tatra Mountains, he did:
-first ascent of Ostry Stit south face
-first conquest of Zabi Kon
-first ascent of Zabia Turnia Mieguszowiecka
-first conquest of Chlopek
So… his route on Ostry Sit south face by a many years was considered for the hardest in Tatras. On this route died a few polish alpinists - in 1928 Jadwiga Honowska and Zofia Krókowska and in 1930 famous Kazimierz Kupczyk. Remember about it, when you will do this route.
OverviewHowever, today it's an easy (IV) and quite popular climbing route on Ostry Stit, with lot of variants. This is a good lesson of protection and thinking in mountains. A bit exposed, give a nice impressions from trad climbing. Good choice on interesting day in a little "Eldorado" of trad climbing.
Route DescriptionApproach - it can be one day trip, even if you start from Smokovec. 45min asphalt route to the Hrebieniok (1285m). Now 2h by trial in Velka Studena Valley to the Zbojnicka Chata(1960m) (hut). Next via trial on Czerwona Lawka (pass), and when trial turn on Czerwna Lawka direction, we go out from it, turning to the Strzeleckie Pola(2200), under Ostry Szczyt south face. 1h
The route starts in shallow gully among white rocks (look photo). Few meters up by gully, and next via easy steps, right on a little pass. From here, or up (Haberlain variant, IV), or to the right by exposed wall (old piton, IV). Now via easier steps to the "Lower lawns". Next by grass and rocks to start of famous 50m Haberlain's Crack. 30m by the crack, and to when the Crack overhanging. Then avoid overhang, easy but exposed rocks to the "Higher lawns". After it, left by grass to gully and on the pass in summit ridge. To the left, 25m by comfortable ridge to the summit. 2h30min
Essential GearThere are some old pitons in route, but surely they aren't trustworthy too much.
-rope (50m enough)
-protection (rappel) device
-nuts set
-pitons and hammer
-12 quickdraws
-Witold Herman Paryski's "Tatry Wysokie" guidebook
-"Najpiekniejsze szczyty Tatr" ("The most beautiful summits of Tatras") - Janusz Kurczab


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Just unwrapped and cleaned up a Jason 454 60/910 optical tube. This one is a Circle Z ,and the finder is quite different ,although still the reflex type,than my Circle T complete Jason 454.With this Z an image is still seen in the main eyepiece even when the finder is in use.After removing interior cobwebs and lens dirt it looks pretty sharp.No objective lens flaws seen.Will have to superglue a small nut over the drawtube hole for a new drawtube holding screw as there is nothing present.Focuser smooth but right side knob missing.Dew cap dented on rim. But for $14.25 I have rescued a hopefully good performing scope tube from the landfill or worse fate!Tonight we shall see if the Z is as good optically as the T.
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Over the long New Year's holiday weekend, Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse (right) had an article in the Wall Street Journal suggesting that publishers should keep shelling out millions of dollars on books that might never make back their advances—in fact, Elberse argued, "the blockbuster strategy remains the most sensible approach to lasting success" in the book publishing world. Her logic? "When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition," she writes, "it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success." (Elberse's enthusiasm for big hits is nothing new; last summer, she attacked the "Long Tail" theory in a much-discussed Harvard Business Review article.)
Elberse might be right, but we're not convinced it's the reasons she lays out to WSJ readers make her case for her. She proposes that any publisher who tried to escape the "blockbuster trap" by refusing to spend the kind of money it takes to land a celebrity like Tina Fey, or even a much ballyhooed novelist like Andrew Davidson (The Gargoyle, remember?), would be setting themselves up for ruin. "Agents would stop sending such a publisher their most promising book proposals," she claims. Let's consider that for a moment. We'll concede that it's entirely possible that agents such as Richard Abate and Eric Simonoff (Fey and Davidson's agents, respectively) might, if they became aware that a publishing house was no longer in the market for books that came with a particular price tag, stop sending proposals for such books to editors at that house. We will even stipulate that other agents, believing themselves to represent books with similar potential, might behave similarly if they became aware of such a situation.
But—and this is a big but—there are a lot of agents out there, and they don't act in anything remotely resembling unison. There are plenty of agents who, upon learning that editors at a certain publishing house had some time on their hands because Richard Abate wasn't bothering to pitch them anymore, would be on the phone scheduling an appointment for the very next morning. (Nothing personal, Mr. Abate; we're just using you as an example here because Elberse invoked Fey.) But it might not ever get to that, because even if Abate knew he wasn't going to be able to sell an editor the next Tina Fey, he doesn't deal exclusively in Tina Feys—and he knows, just as every other smart agent knows, that editors don't always stay in one place. So he would, in fact, maintain his relationships with the editors at that publishing company, continuing to send them appropriate proposals, and should those editors wind up moving to a different publisher, one where they could buy the next Tina Fey, he'd be ready to make the necessary calls.
(There's also a distinction to be made between spending millions of dollars to acquire a book by Tina Fey believing she might sell lots of books because she's famous, and spending millions of dollars to acquire a book by, say, Tom Wolfe or Donna Tartt because you know they've sold lots of books in the past and you're pretty sure you can sell more; a publisher who chose to stop doing the former might well choose to continue doing the latter; there are, after all, levels of risk in book publishing.)
(Which is certainly not to imply that we know anything about what Little, Brown might or might not do in 2009; again, we're just running with the examples handed to us by the existing literature.)
Anyway, that's the first major objection we had to Elberse's article. What do you think she got wrong? Or do you agree with her? Either way, here's a chance to make your best case…


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Degree:Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Phone:(902) 867-3009
Building:Nicholson Tower
Global History Since 1300
The United States before 1865
The United States after 1865
American Social Movements,1945-Present
The Place of Race in United States
Research Interests:
Race, immigration, ethnicity, labor, radicalism, social movements, urban history.
Publications & Conferences
America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People. New York: Continuum, 2011.
Articles/Book Chapters
"'They Roamed All Over Fixing Things': The Migratory Tinkers of Slovakia," The Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 35 No. 2 (Fall 2015): 38-70.
"'We Dare Entertain Thoughts not to the Liking of Present-Day Bigots': Radical Slavs, Race, Civil Rights and Anti-Communism in Red-Scare America," The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Vol. 25, No.2 (2015): 117-158.
[Forthcoming] 2016, " 'Our Workers' Holiday is not a Day or Rest and Play': Class-Conscious Fun with Radical Immigrants, 1920-1955," paper to be presented to Popular Culture Association Conference, Seattle, March 22-26.
2014, "'A Mandolin Orchestra Could Attract a Lot of Attention': Interracial Fun with Radical Immigrants, 1930-1954," paper presented to American Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, November 6-9.
2013, "Radical Slavs, Race and Anti-Communism, 1930-1954," paper presented to Whiteness: Exploring Critical Issues Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, July 22-24.


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Boston Archdiocese removed the Rev. Bernard J. Lane Thirteen years before the Boston Archdiocese removed the Rev. Bernard J. Lane from his parish in 1993 for alleged sexual abuse that dated to the 1970s, a senior pastor alerted Auxiliary Bishop Thomas V. Daily, the archdiocese's vicar general, to "disturbing stories" about Lane's 1978 removal as director of Alpha Omega, a house in Littleton for troubled boys, according to a letter sent to Daily in April 1980.
There is no evidence in Lane's records that Daily, who is now the bishop of the Brooklyn, N.Y. Diocese, took any action after the letter from the Rev. Thomas C. Hudgins, who was Lane's superior.
Hudgins's letter, with its clear hint of sexual misconduct, expressed concern that if Lane were again granted permission to work with youngsters "and something should happen, God forbid, his Eminence will be subjected to criticism and embarrassment."
The letter came two years after Lane had been removed from the facility in 1978 because of allegations he had sexually molested a boy there.
Even in 1993, another diocesan official, the Rev. John B. McCormack, now bishop of the Manchester, N.H., Diocese, expressed skepticism about the 1978 allegation. Months later, Lane was forced out as a pastor in Chelsea when other alleged victims came forward.
According to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court, Lane allegedly molested Michael T. Aceto, a boy he met while performing weekend Masses at Alpha Omega – after the 1980 warning to Daily. Before Lane's 1978 dismissal from Alpha Omega, he also molested two others at the home, Patrick McKeever of Uxbridge and another man identified only as "John Doe," according to the suit. John Doe's mother also sued.
Besides Lane, the suit also names as defendants Cardinal Bernard F. Law; Daily, who heads the country's fifth largest diocese; and McCormack.
A spokeswoman for the cardinal, Donna M. Morrissey, said Law, who did not arrive in Boston until 1984, would not comment on ongoing legal action. Calls to the offices of Daily and McCormack were not returned. Lane was unavailable for comment.
Lane has now been sued by or settled cases with at least 17 men
Lane has now been sued by or settled cases with at least 17 men who accused him of sexually abusing them as young teens. Besides the suit in Middlesex, he faces suits by eight men in Suffolk County and has settled six other cases. According to lawyer Roderick MacLeish Jr., who filed yesterday's suit, the abuse allegedly occurred between 1969 and 1982.
Lane, a cofounder of Alpha Omega, resigned his position as director in November 1978 after the state Department of Youth Services received allegations he had abused a boy at Lane's cottage in New Hampshire. No criminal charges were filed against Lane, although there was an investigation by the district attorney.
The Globe reported in March that the state had a chance to intervene earlier. A state DYS team had visited the home in 1976 or 1977 for an inspection, but had been turned away at Lane. A state DYS supervisor refused to intercede and no inspection was done until 1978.
After his dismissal, Lane was assigned by the archdiocese to parishes in Lowell and Methuen, where he ran programs for teenagers. In 1980, Hudgins wrote to Daily, the highest ranking aide to Cardinal Humberto Medeiros:
"I have heard from Protestants as well as Catholics some very disturbing stories concerning the reasons for [Lane's] removal. … If he is allowed to continue with this project and something should happen, God forbid, his Eminence will be subjected to criticism and embarrassment."
The letter was contained in material the archdiocese turned over to MacLeish's office in June. The "project" is an apparent reference to his youth program. Hudgins died in 1989.
Despite Lane's dismissal and the subsequent letter to Daily, Lane continued to say Mass, counsel boys, and run outings at Alpha Omega, according to the suit. In 1982, Aceto was placed at Alpha Omega by DYS. Late one night, the suit says, he was awakened by Lane molesting him. He talked to an Alpha Omega staffer, who discouraged him from reporting it.
In February 1992, an unidentified church official, in a memo to Bishop Alfred C. Hughes, who is now archbishop of New Orleans, wrote that Lane admitted asking a young resident at Alpha Omega to disrobe in his room in 1978. "BL claims there was no homosexual activity, just touching."
Despite that memo, when the 1978 allegation against Lane surfaced again, he was defended by McCormack. In a 1993 memo to Hughes, McCormack wrote, "It seems that the boy made these charges in a vindictive way. There is no substantiation for holding them to be credible."
And in May of that year, McCormack again vouched for Lane: "In light of the fact that we can uncover no evidence … that points to sexual misconduct, I recommend the matter not be pursued."
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Skip The Splenda: Artificial Sweeteners Found To Cause Blood Sugar & Insulin Spikes
My, oh my: A new study from the Washington University School of Medicine found it's possible for popular artificial sweetener sucralose–brand name Splenda–to change the way the body reacts to insulin. This could go a long way to explaining why drinking diet sodas and other artificially sweetened beverages has been somewhat confusingly linked to weight gain.
Despite it's no-calorie status, sucralose and Splenda are "more than just something sweet that you put into your mouth with no other consequences," lead researcher M. Yanina Pepino said.
Artificial sweeteners can affect metabolism, even at very low doses, her team concluded.
The study was small: Participants included 17 "severely obese" but non-diabetic individuals who rarely consumed artificial sweeteners prior to the study. Each was given either water or a sucralose sweetened drink, followed by a dose of glucose (regular sugar).
The researchers hoped to determine how the combination of these ("real" and artificial sweeteners) affected people's insulin and blood sugar levels.
"When study participants drank sucralose, their blood sugar peaked at a higher level than when they drank only water before consuming glucose," explained Pepino. "Insulin levels also rose about 20 percent higher. So the artificial sweetener was related to an enhanced blood insulin and glucose response."
In the long-term, elevated insulin response can lead to type-2 diabetes.
So remember: There is no such thing as a consequence-free sweetener, kids. The 20th century was all about trying to trick our bodies with low- and no-calorie diet foods and beverages, and that clearly hasn't gone so well.
Fake foods were meant to thwart the body's natural mechanisms, but the body's natural mechanisms are smarter than Pepsi Co. and Kraft (go figure). Diets don't work, diet foods don't work—looks like in the 21st century, we're just going to have to try eating real food again! It might just be crazy enough to work …


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Lame title jokes aside, a metacharacter is a character that describes other characters. Put together, they form Regular Expressions. Regular expressions are used for string matching, which is a less threatening way of saying parsing. Basically, with regular expressions, we can slice-and-dice strings into any which way we want.
I've covered Regular Expressions (shortened to RegEx or even RE) before. However, after talking to a coworker, I realized that those posts assumed a basic knowledge or RegEx and built on it. Here, we'll start with the basics. First, let's lay down some underlying rules.
1. Anything that isn't specifically defined to be a metacharacter matches itself. 'a' is not a metacharacter (yet), so it matches the letter 'a'.
2. As far as PowerShell goes, RegExes match as often as they can in the string. This means that the letter 'a' will match three times in aardvark.
3. You can do RegEx with Unicode, but it's best avoided.
4. Because MS-DOS already absconded with the '\' as the path delimiter, in certain contexts, the '`' (backtick) character will serve as the escape character (the 'magical' character that says, "metacharacter starting here," or "not a metacharacter starting here".
5. This article is about .NET RegEx. Classic RE (i.e. sed(1m) on Unix) and Perl RE have vastly different rules and features.
6. PowerShell RegExes are case-insensitive unless you specify –cmatch or –creplace.
Where are they used? Primarily two places in a script:
- $string –replace $RegEx
- $string –match $RegEx
They're also used as the argument value to any cmdlet's –Pattern parameter, but how many of us use that parameter?
Now, let's meet the metacharacters:
'.' – The lowly period matches any character. Note that whitespace counts as characters: space, tabs, newlines, and carriage returns all count.
'\s' – Whitespace.
'\S' – Not whitespace. (Yes, metacharacters are case sensitive.)
'\d' – Digit. [0-9]
'\D' – You guessed it, not digit.
'\w' - 'Word' character. [A-Z], [a-z], [0-9]
'\W' – Not a word character. Whitespace, punctuation, etc.
'\n' – Newline. "This `n is `n a `n multiline `n string" in PowerShell, so we'll need some way of matching those newlines.
'\t' – Tab character.
'^' – Start of line.
'$' – End of line. Note that this cannot be confused for a variable – it is always followed by a single or double-quote..
There are many more, but those cover 80% of my use cases.
Keep in mind, the individual metacharacters themselves, while useful, are the whole story. Here are the modifiers.
Iteration modifiers:
'*' – Zero or more of the previous (meta)character. These 'this many or that many' modifiers apply to both normal characters and metacharacters. For example: 'a*' is aRegEx for "zero or more 'a' characters". ".*' is a RegEx for "everything". Yes, it's "zero or more of any character", which is effectively "everything."
'+' – One or more of the previous (meta)character.
'?' – Zero or one of the previous (meta)character.
'{5}' – Five of the previous (meta)character. I'm sure you can extrapolate how to specify "three of the previous (meta)character, etc.
'{3,5}' – Between three and five of the previous (meta)character, inclusive.
Set modifiers:
'[abc]' – The letter 'a', OR the letter 'b', OR the letter 'c'. This matches a single character.
'[a-y]' – The letters between 'a' and 'y', inclusive. Or, any letter in the alphabet other than the letter 'z'.
'[a-c, e-g]' – The letters between 'a' and 'g' excluding 'd'.
'[^z]' – Any character that is not the letter 'z'. This isn't the same as the above '[a-y]': this one matches numbers, for example.
This brings up one of the common gotchas in RegEx: it's easy to think you've exhaustively considered every possibility, only to find out you missed something. In general, it's better to specify what you allow than to specify "everything expect these characters."
Also, note that the above set modifiers only match a single character each. If you do this:
'abc' –replace'[abc']
You will match only on the 'a', and be left with the string 'bc'.
Grouping modifiers:
'(a+b+c+)' – A string that consists of one or more 'a', followed by one or more 'b', followed by one or more 'c'.
'(a+b+c+){2}' – The same thing as '(a+b+c+a+b+c+)'. Like in Algebra, we can multiple a section enclosed in parentheses and it's applied to the term inside the parentheses.
'((a+b+c+)(d*))' – One or more 'a', followed by one or more 'b', followed by one or more 'c', followed by zero or more 'd'.
Wait a minute. Except for the 'multiply the parenthetical term' example two lines above, we could do this without the parentheses. Why are we putting them in?
Parentheses in RegEx are also ways to refer to the matched term(s). If we're looking at the typical "surname, firstname" field, we could convert that back to the human friendlier "firstname, surname" by doing something like this:
PSH> 'dunn, tim' -replace '([^,]+),\s*([\S]+)', "`$2 `$1"
tim dunn
Note that the $1 and $2 need to be string literals. They are not variables.
Parentheses are even more powerful when used with –match:
PSH> 'dunn, tim' -match '([^,]+),\s*([\S]+)' True PSH> $matches Name Value ---- ----- 2 tim 1 dunn 0 dunn, tim
Note that we now have elements in the $matches array that correspond to each parenthetical subgroup, in addition to $matches[0], which always refers to the portion of the string matched.
However, that's still not as clear as I'd like. (Actually, it is, but I'm trying to show something here.)
PSH> 'dunn, tim' -match '(?[^,]+),\s*(?[\S]+)' True PSH> $matches Name Value ---- ----- LastName dunn FirstName tim 0 dunn, tim
As I said, named matches aren't necessarily clearer, but they're a neat trick.
There. That concludes what I think will suffice for 80+% of your RegEx uses. There's the whole [RegEx] class that we're skipping, but you'll have to know if you want your RegExes to only apply themselves once, and other options.
There are many other fine RegEx tutorials on the web. I'm posting this to my blog so I can point people at an article I know well, rather than hope they find a good RegEx tutorial off their search engine of choice.


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The results are in.
Much more than the score, Friday's 23-22 loss by the Edmonton Eskimos at the hands of the Saskatchewan Roughriders provided both clubs with some valuable game footage to measure players heading into the final week of training camp.
While the Eskimos coaching staff spent the majority of Saturday breaking down film from the road game, head coach Kavis Reed said he was pleased with his first impressions.
"We had the opportunity to play in adverse situations and the kicking game is going to be most affected by it," said Reed, who watched incumbent kicker Derek Schiavone miss two of three field-goal attempts, including a 55-yarder that decided the game on the final play.
Of course, the 80 kmh wind, joined by sheets of rain in the fourth quarter had a lot to do with it.
"We made some good plays, we didn't do some things well but, overall, those guys I thought did a good job handling the situation on the special-teams side of the ball," said Reed.
Punt coverage broke down early on, allowing Hugh Charles to run a 35-yard punt by Damon Duval back 70 yards for a touchdown in the opening quarter. But things were sewn up from then on.
Kerry Joseph got the start for the Eskimos with a tough into-the-wind quarter that saw him complete just three of nine pass attempts. He did, however, end off by moving the offence 57 yards on eight plays for Edmonton's first score of the game — a six-yard touchdown run by Calvin McCarty.
"His leadership out there when he was not in the game came to the forefront," Reed said of Joseph.
Matt Nichols came up with an eight-play drive of his own, which covered 75 yards and ended on a six-yard touchdown pass to rookie Youssy Pierre.
He completed six of 10 for 53 yards and the Eskimos' lone touchdown pass of the game.
Newcomer Eric Ward covered the most ground, completing six of eight attempts for 77 yards.
"It was exciting. I didn't really know what to expect in my first game. You've definitely got to adapt fast," said Ward, who got in for the final two series. "I had an opportunity to score on that first drive. I missed one of my guys who was wide open on that pass on second down, I wish I could have that one back.
"It's just something to learn from. We'll watch the film and I'll just continue to get better."
Defensively, the Eskimos allowed 79 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries by six different Roughriders, along with 196 yards and a TD through the air.
"We made some plays, we made some stops there, but we've got to improve some things," said Reed. "We definitely have to improve our run defence, we have to understand situations a little bit better, but overall, I thought the guys flew around, they made some plays and they gave us the ball back for an opportunity to win the game."


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State Prosecution Reveals Contradictions in Hirchson's Testimonies to Court, Police
Former finance minister Abraham Hirchson's initial statement to the police directly contradicts what he said in court during two and a half days of testimony, the prosecution revealed at yesterday's session of Hirchson's ongoing embezzlement trial.
Hirchson had told the Tel Aviv District Court that the monthly cash payments of NIS 25,000 he received as chairman of the National Workers Organization were in lieu of contributions to his severance fund, under an arrangement made with the organization's chief financial officer, Gideon Ben-Tzur. But in his statement to the police, which the prosecutor read out in court yesterday, he said: "I never had any compensation arrangement with Gideon. The only compensation arrangement I had is what I received when I decided to quit my job at the organization. I never received cash, not under this or any other arrangement, and I don't know where the CEO got these things."
The CEO, Yitzhak Russo, had told the police that the cash payments were part of a severance deal.
Hirchson later changed his story and admitted to receiving the money, but said it was in lieu of severance pay. He said he received NIS 600,000, but was actually owed much more.
He also said that he, Ben-Tzur and Ovadia Cohen, head of the organization's financial division, agreed on cash payments because he feared people would erroneously think he was receiving a salary rather than severance pay. Knesset members are forbidden to hold paying jobs in addition to their parliamentary work.
However, Cohen denies this story, and Ben-Tzur died before the indictment was filed.
"You have no problem lying, Mr. Hirchson," the prosecutor charged. "You've smeared everyone in order to save your own skin."
Hirchson responded that he initially lied because he was so afraid during the police interrogation.
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Breakfast with Mr. Chips and Trudyn, with a cupcake adventure
Double Chili Cheeseburger
2011/01/20 16:39:16
I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Chips and Trudyn at Glo's Coffee Shop in Seattle during the holiday. They were kind enough to drive several hours from Portland for a get together. Glo's is a tiny 12 table restaurant in the diverse area of Capitol Hill. After a short wait we were seating in the middle of the very busy and noisy dining area. It was wonderful meeting both Jim and Trudy. Mr. Chips is as enthusiastic about roadfood in person as he is on the forums. And Trudy has a terrific wry sense of humor. If someone will tell me (again!) how to post photos, I will post the pictures of our breakfast.
Trudy and Jim started off with a piece of Glo's sour cream coffee cake. We were talking so much, I totally forgot to ask them how it was.
Mr. Chips, how was the coffee cake? Trudy and Jim shared an order of Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs, which the delightful server had the kitchen split on two plates. The portion sizes at Glo's are very generous and we first thought that each plate was a full order. I ordered Eggs Benedict with avocado and grilled tomatoes. It was excellent. I'm not the biggest hollandaise fan, but Glo's rendition was silky, lemony and not too buttery. Glo's hash browns are the shredded variety and were crisp and nicely potatoey. Jim and Trudy seemed to enjoy their smoked salmon eggs. Honestly, we were talking so much I never even snagged a taste! I liked Glo's very much and would recommend it. Glo's is located at 1621 Olive Way, Seattle.
For dessert, we headed to University Village for a Trophy Cupcake. Trudy is familiar with the area, so knew right where to go. One thing we didn't think about was after Christmas Shoppers. It was a very crowded shopping center, very upscale with shops like Tiffany's. After driving around trying to find Trophy, Jim called them to see where in the mall they were located. It didn't matter when we located it, there was nowhere to park at all. After another phone call, we learned we were just a few minutes away from another Trophy location and off we went. Trudy was unflappable in the bumper to bumper traffic and transported us to the next location seamlessly. Trophy's Wallingford shop is located in a rehabbed old brick school building housing lots of little shops and kiosks. We purchased 2 different flavors, a lemon cupcake for Trudy and Bourbon Eggnog for Jim and myself. Trudy like her lemon cupcake, and I enjoyed the bourbon eggnog cupcake. It did indeed taste like bourbon and certainly had an unmistakable egg nog flavored frosting. I was glad we ended up at the second location. It was quiet and serene after the shopping center experience.
It was nice to meet more Roadfood people. It was probably close to a 6 hour round trip for Trudy and Jim to drive up from Portland and I so appreciate that they took the time for the trip. Hopefully, I will get to Portland in the near future and have another get together in their area.
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Re:Breakfast with Mr. Chips and Trudyn, with a cupcake adventure
2011/01/20 22:48:05
cool! I've had the pleasure of numerous meals with the chips clan.
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2011/01/20 22:53:34
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Re:Breakfast with Mr. Chips and Trudyn, with a cupcake adventure
2011/01/21 22:24:46
That sounds like a delightful meet and greet, and I love it when the chatter starts to overtake the food (I know, blasphemy). There is something about a benedict with avocado in it--I will have to remember Glo's when I go back.
Re:Breakfast with Mr. Chips and Trudyn, with a cupcake adventure
2011/01/21 22:42:40
there is ample fodder for chatter when Roadfooders meet.
mr chips
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Re:Breakfast with Mr. Chips and Trudyn, with a cupcake adventure
2011/01/26 00:58:30
We had a wonderful meeting with Zataar(Karen). The smoked salmon was wonderful and I confess I was so busy talking that i forgot to offer Karen a taste. trudy will be glad to offer that this is not an infrequent occurence. Our adventure in trying to find trophy cupcakes is as Karen describes and we were lucky to find another location nearby. It was a real pleasure to meet Karen and it gave my roadfood year of 2010 a very happening. Someday in Kansas City.
Double Chili Cheeseburger
Re:Breakfast with Mr. Chips and Trudyn, with a cupcake adventure
2011/01/26 18:02:39
Jim, It was so fun! When you do make it to KC, the cupcakes will be on me!
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Jessie Mueller and the Broadway-Bound Cast of the Carole King Musical Beautiful Meet the Press in San Francisco
Hayley Levitt • New York City, San Francisco • Aug 23, 2013
Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and the cast members of Beautiful, a new musical charting the life and career of the Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Carole King, have arrived in San Francisco for the show's run at the Curran Theatre. The show will move to Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre in November.
Set to run at the Curran from September 24-October 20, Beautiful features a book by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Douglas McGrath (Bullets Over Broadway), direction by Marc Bruni (The Explorers Club), and songs written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, as well as numbers by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
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Held in Washington, D.C. from May 20-21, EE Global 2013 was a huge success! Over 550 industry leaders from all over the world came together at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for two days of thought-provoking dialogue and high-level networking. In keeping with the tradition of elite speakers, two U.S. secretaries offered keynote remarks. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz stopped by EE Global and delivered his first official remarks in office, mere hours after being sworn in. Secretary Moniz told the crowd that "efficiency is going to be a big focus as we go forward," a promise that lent an excited energy to the rest of the conference. Secretary Moniz was joined by Secretary of the U.S. Navy Ray Mabus and over 100 energy efficiency experts who served as thought leaders during the conference on the Executive Dialogue agenda.
Highlights from 2013 included the Opening Plenary Session which discussed how energy efficiency is the clear solution to increasing economic output, lowering overall energy costs, strengthening energy security, and creating jobs framed around the Alliance Commission on National Energy Efficiency Policy's initiative, Energy 2030. The Morning Plenary Session welcomed leading figures from businesses, governments, and NGOs who discussed how they are utilizing energy efficiency in their efforts to address a changing climate, declining energy access, and unpredictable energy security. Finally, the Plenary Awards Luncheon celebrated and showcased the "best of the best" in energy efficiency by honoring the 2013 EE Visionary award winners as selected by the EE Global International Steering Committee.


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New Study Says Fortified Formulas Make Smart Babies
Formula advocates have new evidence to support their beliefs. A new study in the journal of Child Development finds that infants receiving formula fortified with DHA have higher IQs and vocabulary development later in childhood than those who don't. DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid that appears naturally in breast milk, is thought to speed the brain's processing abilities.
The researchers behind the study took more than 200 9-month-old babies who had all been on formula for various amounts of time through a number of exercises involving blankets and rattles. The wee ones who received formula fortified with DHA scored significantly higher than those drinking unfortified versions of the formula. According to the study, those who received the DHA-enhanced formula from birth scored better than those that were weaned off of breast milk at 6-weeks-old.
Doctors and breastfeeding advocates fear that the new study does not address the additional benefits of breast milk and may sway new mamas to forgo nursing in favor of these fortified formulas. Do you believe this latest study and the hype behind it?


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JOHN Higgins would like to see Ronnie O'Sullivan return to snooker in time for the World Championship this year as he carries with him the sort of box-office appeal which attracts so many supporters to the baize.
The world champion is on sabbatical so as to spend more time with his family, his absence starting once he lifted last year's title at the Crucible.
His presence at the event this year would generate huge interest were he to return, and Barry Hearn, the chairman of World Snooker, was last month reported to have opened talks with O'Sullivan over the prospect of him taking part.
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The Englishman would find support from Higgins were he to pick up his cue again, although the Scot's immediate concern comes in the form of this week's Betfair.com Masters, which began yesterday at London's Alexandra Palace. The Scot will play his first match of the tournament today when he takes on Ali Carter, and he would welcome the chance to face O'Sullivan at future events.
"I want Ronnie at the Crucible, to play in the World Championships because he brings a lot of people into the sport," said Higgins. "Some may have switched off from the game altogether if he was their favourite player – and for many he is their favourite player.
"It would be great [if he returned] but you have to respect his decision either way. Coming so soon after Stephen Hendry retired, it has been a big loss to snooker.
"But if he doesn't come back and play at the World Cham-pionship this year, with the chance he has, why would he come back in future years? That would be my thinking on it. If he leaves he also has that memory last May of having won the world title.
"On the other hand, someone as good as Ronnie, could think 'why don't I try and get to five or six world titles?' – that's what's driving me, but everyone is different."
Higgins will this week aim to win his first Masters title in seven years. He will not be preoccupied with the void left by O'Sullivan in London but feels his absence would be felt more acutely in Sheffield.
"If he doesn't want to put himself through it, it's his call but not having the world champion there is a loss," he said. "It has not diminished titles won this season, though. There are far too many good players to say that.
"When I won in Shanghai this season after a great final against Judd Trump I couldn't have cared less whether or not Ronnie was in the draw but the world championship is the big one and we have won that title four times each now."
In yesterday's Masters action, defending champion Neil Robertson came from behind to keep his title defence on track with a 6-5 victory over Ding Junhui. The Australian trailed 5-3 but recovered to win the last three frames and book a place in the quarter finals.
Ding impressed with breaks of 103, 53, 127, 42 and 54, but Robertson dug deep to triumph with match runs of 76, 46, 100, 62 and 90. "At 5-3 it wasn't looking good, but I potted some great balls to force a decider," said Robertson, who punched the air in delight at his win.
"I'm over the moon to get through. My long potting was fantastic, the signs are looking very good."


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Agilent Technologies Inc has reported a smaller-than-expected loss in the company's fiscal third quarter, but it also announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs, or 9% of its workforce, to restore profitability "as soon as possible"
"This is by far the worst industry downturn I've seen in my 34 years with the company," said Ned Barnholt, president and CEO of Agilent. "Extraordinary business conditions, unfortunately, require unusual actions."
Agilent said it expects a slight increase in total orders during the current fiscal quarter, but another drop in revenues--to the $1.3-to-$1.5bn range--will lead to an expected loss of $0.50-to-$0.70 per share, excluding restructuring charges.
The Palo Alto-based supplier of test systems, semiconductors, and instruments reported a 33% sequential drop in total revenues to $1.8bn in the fiscal third quarter, ended July 31, compared to $2.7bn in the prior quarter. Compared to a year ago, Agilent's revenues were 25% lower than $2.4bn in fiscal Q3 of 2000. In the just-ended fiscal quarter, Agilent's orders for semiconductors and chip testing systems were down sharply from a year ago.
Agilent said it beat Wall Street's consensus for earnings before goodwill. It reported a loss of $0.24 per share before goodwill vs. what the company said was a consensus for a loss of $0.35 per share. (Estimates from First Call/Thomson Financial showed the consensus for a loss at $0.34 per share.) This loss excludes a one-time $74m charge for information systems investments and a $39m net (non-cash) investment gain.
Including one-time items, the company's net loss reached $219m, or $0.48 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $155m, or $0.34 per diluted share, last year.
"Based on our outlook earlier in the year, we implemented a variety of aggressive cost-control measures -- including a temporary 10% pay cut -- to try to avoid layoffs," Barnholt said. "The measures to date have had a positive impact, but the business environment in our key industries continued to deteriorate this quarter. And the outlook going forward is for a slow and gradual recovery.
"We are now taking additional actions to bring the size of our workforce more in line with anticipated business levels," the CEO added.
The layoffs will result in a $200m restructuring charge to cover severance packages and related costs, according to Agilent. The company said it is expecting about $500m in annualised savings as a result of the workforce reduction.
Agilent, a spinoff from Hewlett-Packard Co, said its semiconductor product revenue fell 4% sequentially in the just-ended quarter to $425m, but those sales were 28% lower than $591m in the period last year. Lower revenues caused Agilent's chip business to suffer a pro forma loss of $71m from continuing operations, compared to earnings of $164m.
Orders for the company's semiconductor products totaled $277m in the fiscal third quarter, a decline of 62% from $730m in the period last year but up 39% from the prior three-month period.
Agilent said revenues for semiconductor test systems dropped 55% to $108m in the fiscal third quarter compared to a year ago but sales were up 10% sequentially. Orders for chip test systems were 74% below a year ago at $81m in the just-ended quarter, which was 10% higher than the prior quarter, Agilent said.


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Los Angeles based trumpeter Jeff Kaye's debut CD Just Like Me will take jazz fans back to the days of classic 1960's Blue Note. Recorded in 2004, Just Like Me features some fantastic straight-ahead playing from everyone involved including George Harper on tenor and the wonderful Paul Kreibich, both Ray Charles alumni like Kaye. Jeff Kaye joined the Ray Charles Orchestra in 1984 and continued to work with the group on and off up until 2003. Jeff can be heard on the soundtrack to the movie Ray.
Just Like Me is Jeff's first album and is a really good way to start his solo career. The album is said to be a reflection of Jeff's life and after listening to the album I like where he has been. Jeff's tone is warm and embracing and from his melodies I can tell he is steeped in the jazz, especial hard bop, traditions. The group comes out swinging hard with the soul of Ray Charles right from the first number "Harvey Haedbanger," a tune written by Rick Hills for Brother Ray's big band. Jeff contributes two nice compositions for the album. "Sozinho" has a sweet Brazilian flavor and a nice flugelhorn solo by Jeff. "Other Steps," a new melody over "Giant Steps," has a great Trane influenced solo by tenor man Harper. There are also fine contributions by bassist Isla Eckinger in "Two Deaf Lice" and "Jay." Drummer Paul Kreibich shines in "Partido In Mar Vista" and saxophonist George Harper in "Shalabunga." With an album packed with such great compositions, as well as fine performances, it is hard not to like every track. I really enjoyed how well everyone on the album is featured throughout. I get the impression this group would be fantastic to see live. After such a brilliant debut CD as this, it can only leave the listen anxious for more. I have a feeling Jeff is anxious to give us more. Just Like Me would a great addition to the jazz lovers CD collection just as Jeff Kaye's music is a great additions to jazz.


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Once a week, the Shukairy family huddles around an iPhone, iPad or iPod to talk to their family members in Syria. At first, they would dialogue in code, worried that the government was listening to their conversations.
"My son went off to a wedding tonight," an aunt would say. "Can you hear the fireworks in the background?"
The translation: her son had participated in a protest that night and the loud cracks they heard were gunshots.
"After a while they stopped caring and asked us 'Can you hear the hits? Can you hear the missiles?' You can hear them over the phone, it's right above their heads," said Tessniem Shukairy, a 19-year-old Syrian-American born in America who attends California State University in Long Beach. "When my aunt cries too much or is scared too much, she would lose her voice. She wouldn't sleep at night just listening. You can't sleep."
The Syrian uprising has been a long ordeal for many Syrian-American families including the Shukairys.
"There's been two and a half years of revolution, but it's not a civil war," Tessniem said. "It's the government killing their own people. 100,000, at least, innocent civilians have died and every day that number goes up."
The sisters also have a cousin in the Syrian army because by law, 18-year-old males are required to serve in compulsory military service. But once his time ended, he was kept in the army camps and not allowed to return to his family because the revolution began, the family said.
"One of these days, it's just going to be too much and when you hear him — and he's the sweetest guy in the world — you wonder 'Why is he being put through this?' It just breaks your heart," Bushra said.
President Barack Obama will address the nation today regarding U.S. military involvement in Syria. Over the last several days, groups across the country have protested U.S. involvement in Syria. The Shukairy sisters, however, both said they hoped the U.S. will act to end the violence in Syria.
"Anything is better than the situation in Syria right now," Tessniem said.
Many protesters argue that US involvement would mean a repeat of the war in Iraq with devastating consequences.
"The reason why I want Obama to do something is that we've been struggling for two and a half years now by ourselves," Bushra said. "People have this image of Iraq in their head and they're afraid of that again, but it's completely different from Iraq. In Iraq it was an invasion and the U.S. wanted to go there. We should do it from afar, click some buttons and take Bashar (Assad) out. Once you do that and stop the killing, then America should leave them alone and let Syria figure itself out."
The Shukairy family has done little else but raise awareness of the Syrian revolution, from being on the Syrian-American council, to attending and organizing protests, to creating fundraisers for refugee camps and orphanages.
"It's hard to escape from it," Tessniem said. "Our lives just kind of revolve around it. I mean, even when we go on vacation and stuff, conversations always comes back to it. It's always in the backs of our heads."


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Judge: Refuse to use tainted lab evidence
The Nassau County district attorney's office ought to stop prosecuting cases that rest significantly on evidence vetted through the county's discredited crime lab.
State Supreme Court Justice George Peck, in tossing out a drunken-driving conviction and ordering a new trial for Erin Marino of Hicksville, said as much in his decision Monday.
Peck noted that District Attorney Kathleen Rice ". . . certainly can refuse to initiate and continue prosecution based upon tainted evidence."
He's right about that. In one example cited in his decision, Peck leaves no ambiguity about the necessity of re-testing potentially tainted evidence from the lab. "The blood analyst on this case," he said, "mislabeled nine alcohol test results, the effect of which ascribed incorrect results to nine defendants."
In other words, the analyst who tested Marino's blood turns out -- months later, after the lab's problems came to light -- to be the same analyst responsible for attaching nine other alcohol test results to the wrong case files.
No wonder the judge ordered a new trial. And, in so doing, he likely opened the floodgates for other defense attorneys to challenge crime lab findings introduced as evidence in thousands of past and current court cases.
Rice, uncharacteristically, had no comment on Peck's decision Monday. In court, an assistant district attorney said the office would appeal.
That's the DA's choice; but it's the wrong one. As it is, Rice's office, recognizing problems at the lab, now gives defense lawyers, as part of the discovery process, copies of a report issued by the evaluation company that put the lab on probation.
That's not enough, Peck said in his ruling, pointing out the DA's office can't say it has no confidence in the lab and then go into court and stand by the lab's work.
The job of prosecuting using evidence from the lab got tougher in Marino's case because week after week, as the hearing continued, there were more and more revelations about serious issues -- from inaccurate lab testing to indications that supervisors knew but said little about problems at the facility.
Peck, a prosecutor under the late District Attorney Denis Dillon, praised Rice and County Executive Edward Mangano for their "prompt and responsible actions" in closing the lab.
But the damage is done. As it is, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has asked an inspector general to investigate what went wrong. That can't be enough.
Tuesday and Wednesday, defendants will go into Nassau criminal courts, where they are presumed innocent. It is up to prosecutors to prove otherwise, beyond a reasonable a doubt.
But the lab's woes are casting shadows of doubt, as Assistant District Attorney Robert Schwartz acknowledged during a hearing on Rice's unsuccessful attempt to push for the appointment of the special prosecutor she wanted. "Many of the cases that this office is currently prosecuting have been put at risk," Schwartz said then. "Many of the cases that this office has prosecuted in the past are also at risk . . ."
So why the appeal of Peck's decision? Why the delay when what's needed is so clear and so necessary?
The acting lab director early on in his investigation found problems while reviewing paperwork. It's time to go even further. Retest lab results for current cases; and Rice should announce she's stopping prosecutions that rely significantly on lab results until new testing can be done.


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Although consumers said they intended to spend less on dining out during September, actual restaurant spending increased for the month. While highly correlated over the past few years, the recent disconnect between intended and actual spending suggests "the new normal" for consumer purchasing patterns has not yet emerged.
"Consumers are still sorting out their post-recession priorities," said Todd Hooper, Kurt Salmon partner and retail expert. "Spending patterns – for eating out, buying another handbag and many other discretionary purchases – are still in a state of flux."
Still, consumer sentiment regarding eating out stayed the same from September to October, suggesting consumers will maintain their current restaurant spending during the holiday months.
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MONTREAL – The Montreal Impact got the start they wanted for their CONCACAF Champions League campaign.
The 2014 Canadian Champions won the first game of Group 3 in the CCL, beating El Salvador's FAS by a score of 1-0 on Tuesday night at Stade Saputo. Montreal now have as many wins (three) in five cup games this year as they do in 21 league games in MLS this season.
Marco Di Vaio got the winner for the Impact in the 21st minute. Midfielder Felipe picked up a short pass back from right winger Justin Mapp outside the box and was immediately pressured by two opponents. Felipe quickly floated a cross toward Di Vaio, who timed his run impeccably to nod the ball in at the far post past Luis Contreras.
But the FAS goalkeeper – their only option in front of the net due to visa issues – had been the star of the first 20 minutes. Contreras first frustrated Di Vaio in the 13th minute when a Mapp pass intended for Dilly Duka reached the unmarked Italian forward, but Contreras challenged him well, stopping the ball with his face. Six minutes later, Contreras made two straight stops on Andres Romero, who'd dribbled past Xavi Garcia down the left.
A half-hearted spat between Di Vaio and three-quarters of the FAS players aside, the rest of the first half remained largely uneventful. Neither team created much for most of the second half either, but business picked up late on.
Montreal finished the game with 10 men after Hassoun Camara was sent off in the 72nd minute. As Raul Renderos slid to recover the ball in midfield, Camara slid in harder, his cleats striking Renderos' leg. Montreal head coach Frank Klopas was expelled as well in the 82nd after his complaint over a foul whistled on Karl W. Ouimette wasn't well received by referee Hugo Cruz.
With Felipe withdrawn for center back Wandrille Lefèvre, and assistant coach Mauro Biello taking charge, Montreal held on. They will see FAS again in El Salvador on Wednesday, August 20, in the next Group 3 game. In the meantime, they will be back in MLS action this Saturday, Aug. 11, when they play at Philadelphia Union.
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A new shopping complex in the heart of Bali's capital of Denpasar is under fire from the municipality's administrators for unpaid taxes and violations of local building codes. The Denpasar Junction Mall (DJM) is a large, modern shopping facility constructed by PT Eka Jaya Agung on Jalan Teuku Umar on a 900 square meter parcel of land leased from the Indonesian postal service.An outstanding tax bill of more than Rp. 200 million (US$20,000) has caused local tax authorities to post a signboard at the Mall's entrance to publicly remind H. Ekco Sukadi, the operator of the Mall, to meet his tax obligations.In a separate case, Denpasar zoning and building authorities claim the DJM was built not in accordance with its approved site plans and, as a result, now exceeds the maximum building height limit of 15 meters. And, despite repeated promises by the developer to reduce the building's height, the structure continues to be in violation of the rules.The General Manage of DJM, Yoze Eman, has told the press that the zoning regulations and parking sace shortfalls will be remedied within the 2 week time limit given by municipal authorities.


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Show your respect to New York City skate history and the legacy of Harold Hunter by supporting this year's "Legends Never Die" run.
The 7th annual NYC Bridge Runners Legends Never Die run takes place this Sunday, July 9th in The Big Apple's Lower East Side. The event pays homage to the late Harold Hunter, one of the city's most beloved and admired skateboarders/actors/cultural pioneers.
From his breakout fictional role in Larry Clark's Kids (1995) to his actual role as one of the primary ambassadors of the original Zoo York skate team, Harold's was a New York City essence that was respected for its spontaneity, loyalty and dedication to the home teams, no matter what platform it was on–local and worldwide!
This year's run will honor the fallen legend and feature a limited edition cotton/polyester wick tech tees designed by renowned creative/illustrator Kevin Lyons . The one-of-a-kind running shirts are currently on sale for $30 with all procedes going towards the Harold Hunter Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to uplifting urban youth via skateboarding. Supporters unable to join the event can still add their contribution and obtain their own tees via www.retailmafiosos.com.
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Nutter Butter Icebox Cake
My husband's favorite dessert is icebox cake.
If you are unfamiliar, it's basically a chocolate pudding and graham cracker lasagna.
I, however, am not a fan.
Not sure why…maybe the soggy-ish graham crackers, maybe it's because I hate making pudding…ALL THE STIRRING! Seriously it takes milk 14 hours to start boiling.
Maybe it's because his mother makes it.
I'm kidding, geez.
Ok, back to icebox cake.
Again, not sure why it's not my thing…but I will tell you that the mystery has plagued me for 14 years…that's when I met the husband and he introduced the soggy graham cracker dessert into my life.
So, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
Make an icebox cake I can get behind.
I will say that there is no boiling milk, which is awesome, but there is stirring involved. I couldn't figure out a way around that.
Annnd it's chocolate and peanut butter.
Really…using Nutter Butters instead of graham crackers is like the best idea I've had all day. All week even!
And the pudding is less pudding-like and more mousse-like.
So it doesn't seem as soggy-ish.
Ok, short story long.
Nutter Butter Icebox Cake.
Chop up some peanut butter cookies…
Making the "pudding"…mix sweetened condensed milk, water and instant chocolate pudding together for like 5 minutes.
This is the exercise portion of the recipe…
Plop your whipped cream into the thickened mixture…
Then gently fold in your whipped cream until the colors aren't swirly…
Then layer your pudding and cookies, starting with pudding…
Start and end with pudding…
That's it!
Let the whole concoction set up in the fridge at least 4 hours…you could easily make it the night before.
Then dig in!
Nutter Butter Icebox Cake
serves 8
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup ice-cold water
- 1 pkg (3.4 oz) instant chocolate pudding
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 3 cups coarsely chopped Peanut Butter sandwich cookies (such as Nutter Butter)
- extra cookies and whipped cream for garnish
- Whip your heavy cream on medium high until soft peaks form, about 1 1/2 minutes. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl whisk together sweetened condensed milk and water until combined. Add in chocolate pudding and whisk vigorously for 5-6 minutes until mixture becomes thick.
- Fold in your whipped cream into the pudding mixture and stir until completely incorporated.
- In a 2.8 qt casserole dish spread 1/3 of the pudding mixture on the bottom. Top with 1 1/2 cups chopped cookies. Repeat this process again and finish with pudding mixture.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Garnish with whipped cream and more cookies.
store in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
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54 Comments on "Nutter Butter Icebox Cake"
I LOVE Nutter Butters!! and I've had icebox cakes but never one like this! Wow, now THIS is party food. I think I need to throw one just to make this 🙂
I am definitely an ice box cake girl, and the addition of PB is perfect!
I can get on board with anything that has Nutter Butters!
Anything that has Nutter Butters? Instant favorite.
just made my first icebox cake recently and am obsessed. this looks like heaven!
I love icebox cakes! So easy and everyone loves 'em. Never thought to make one with nutter butters though! Awesome. 🙂
Omg! I totally had this dessert in my head! Sounds soooooo good.
I've never really understood what icebox cake IS until I read this! And I'd prefer your nutter butter version also. Actually I'd just prefer to eat peanut butter and chocolate at every meal. And this will help.
Looks delicious! I LOVE nutter butters. Can't wait to try this.
My question is how did your version of ice box go over with your hubby…looks yummy. I love, love, love your blog…You are my favorite of all the bloggers I try to follow.
I haven't had Nutter Butters in a long time. I think I need to change that with this dessert!
Nutter butters are one of my favorites!
I haven`t had an icebox cake before! But I do love [email protected]@ so i might just try these! 😀 plus, seems simple!
I have never had an icebox cake before…it sounds bizarre!
Nut butters are my favorites 🙂 I would love so much to try out your version of ice box cakes, they look delicious.
I've actually never made an icebox cake but this one might be calling my name!
I can TOTALLY get behind this icebox cake. YUM!!!!
So fun! Love this idea!
You, my dear, are a true genius. I hate soggy anything and while I love Oreos, I feel like they are kind of glory hogs in the make it with a cookie dessert recipe category. A moment of silence in support of giving the Nutter BUtter all the glory it deserves.
Wait. Do you say amen after a moment of silence?
Amen sister
My hubby LOVES icebox cake, too. AND he loves anything with peanut butter. This is going on our summer try list! 🙂 Thanks!
Looks soooo delightful! Can't wait to try it!
Why does milk take 14 hours to boil? Hate making any sauces b/c of that reason alone! So this recipe is a winner in my books.
I love how you made the pudding with sweetened condensed milk! And the addition of Nutter Butters. . .YUM!
Nutter Butters are my favorite!! I will have to try this…
Truth be told: I'm a fan of the soggy graham crackers 🙂 But I think I'd probably like soggy nutter butters even better, so good call there!
This is way better than any icebox cake I have ever seen. The mousse instead of pudding is a great idea!
Pure genius once again! My grandma used to make icebox cake for us with sprinkles in it and I loved it! This version looks delicious!
I'm not a big fan of soggy graham crackers either. This version–however–sounds WONDERFUL!
Simply decadent!
Ahhh nutter butters! I was completely obsessed as a child, this looks like my ideal dessert!
I think I could get behind this one too… nutter butters. Um yes!
For some reason I've never made an Ice Box cake. But now I'm going to make this recipe asap!
I too can not abide soggy graham crackers..on the other hand, I'll take Nutter Butters any way I can get them! 🙂
Oh my goodness! You're evil! This looks amazing!
ok I have heard of ice box cake but never knew what that was, and it sort of sounds gross. The one you made sounds good though, so at least I can try that:)
i'll take a bowl of that tonight, please.
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Oh my goodness, Shelly, you've done it again!
This looks positively amazing! I can't wait to make it!
This is totally an icebox cake I can get behind. Nutter Butters > soggy graham crackers. Woo!
Wow I never knew what icebox cake was until I read this! Thanks for solving the mystery… I read this post with my 5-year old, who is currently obsessed with mint oreos. He wants me to make him a chocolate mint version. Mind if I post on my blog about it? I will link to you! I love your blog. And kristan's too, and the one you share with kristan…
Thanks Shelly. My Moms group at church is making this with Peanut Butter Oreos. Those dang Nutter Butters were $5. I figure it is a combo of your two icebox cakes. And NO OVEN!!! And as you know that is crucial in Texas!
This is SO GOOD, I've made it several times and it's one of the few things I secretly hope there are leftovers… but there never is! I blogged my love: http://hungryredhead.com/2013/07/15/nutter-butter-icebox-cake/ Thanks for sharing! I'm glad you're an icebox cake convert.
Can you use cool whip instead of the heavy cream? I don't do so well with the heavy cream. Probably because I have no metal bowl. 🙁
I find it interesting that this is ice box cake…. for me (and perhaps it's a canadian thing?!) the Ice Box cake I make includes whipping cream/cool whip and thing chocolate wafers, alternating layers, usually in the shape of a log…. seriously delish!