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Spine & Sports: Do you really need that X-ray?
Every day, patients with neck and back pain erroneously receive an S-ray as part of a routine examination. The doctor says, "Let's take a look," and people are comforted knowing that a high-tech machine is going to peer into their body and produce a picture showing the cause of their pain.
Understandably, people want to know what is causing their neck or back problem, but unless there is viable suspicion of a dislocation or broken bone, an S-ray serves no purpose in diagnosing neck or back pain.
X-ray is a very limited tool. It only shows the black and white of bones. It does not show muscles, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, nerves, joint cartilage, discs or connective tissues. It also doesn't always show fractures or other problems, so the "false negative" rate on an X-ray is a problem. In other words, an X-ray of the bone could look normal, but a CT (computed tomography) scan could show several fractures that the X-ray missed.
It was once deemed appropriate to X-ray the spine to look for arthritis or misalignment, since these findings were presumed to be the cause of the neck or back pain. But, research over the past 20 years has proven no correlation between altered spine alignment or degenerative arthritic changes and back pain.
Conversely, many people have terrible back pain and have completely normal X-rays. Unless there is fracture, dislocation, or a serious disease like cancer, X-rays cannot dictate how treatment should proceed. Also, since the X-ray is not very sensitive, bone changes from diseases like cancer can be easily missed. Therefore, for spine conditions, it is a mistake to hold up an X-ray and discuss treatment.
To this day, doctors inappropriately X-ray neck and back pain patients and go through an outdated protocol: "You have some arthritis, and you have a misalignment and an altered curve; I'll prescribe Drug-B; you need six weeks of therapy ... ," etc. In many cases the patient would be better off skipping the doctor's visit in favor of improving their diet and getting some exercise.
So here are the basic guidelines: It is inappropriate for doctors to X-ray a patient without clear evidence that the patient has a potentially serious or life-threatening disorder that an X-ray would show, e.g. you fell off your roof and need to know if you fractured your pelvis. It is inappropriate to use an X-ray primarily for determining the need for chiropractic or physical therapy, or for posture analysis or as a routine screening procedure or repeat procedure to measure progress. X-rays have adverse health risks, namely, exposure to ionizing radiation. Only when X-rays are used appropriately are the small adverse health risks significantly outweighed by the positive benefits. Otherwise, they are a waste of time and healthcare dollars.
We can discover a lot about a neck or back condition by taking a careful medical history and providing a thorough, hands-on physical examination. Only then should treatment or imaging (X-ray or MRI) be considered. For some joints, like hips and shoulders, X-rays may help guide treatment. Not so for the spine. A well-trained doctor of chiropractic or an astute medical PCP should know the guidelines on when to order an X-ray.
Scott Gillman is a doctor of chiropractic in Natick, Mass., in practice since 1991. He is also a chiropractic sports medicine specialist with a diplomate from the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians. He can be reached at 508-650-1091 or through www.drgillman.com.


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Below we excerpt, in time for Valentine's Day, a press release of an interesting new study linking red to sexual attraction.
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A study by two University of Rochester psychologists published in Oct. by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology adds color — literally and figuratively — to the age-old question of what attracts men to women.
Through five psychological experiments, Andrew Elliot, professor of psychology, and Daniela Niesta, post-doctoral researcher, demonstrate that the color red makes men feel more amorous toward women. And men are unaware of the role the color plays in their attraction.
"It's only recently that psychologists and researchers in other disciplines have been looking closely and systematically at the relationship between color and behavior. Much is known about color physics and color physiology, but very little about color psychology," said Elliot. "It's fascinating to find that something as ubiquitous as color can be having an effect on our behavior without our awareness."
Although this aphrodisiacal effect of red may be a product of societal conditioning alone, the authors argue that men's response to red more likely stems from deeper biological roots. Research has shown that nonhuman male primates are particularly attracted to females displaying red. Female baboons and chimpanzees, for example, redden conspicuously when nearing ovulation, sending a clear sexual signal designed to attract males.
"Our research demonstrates a parallel in the way that human and nonhuman male primates respond to red," concluded the authors. "In doing so, our findings confirm what many women have long suspected and claimed — that men act like animals in the sexual realm. As much as men might like to think that they respond to women in a thoughtful, sophisticated manner, it appears that at least to some degree, their preferences and predilections are, in a word, primitive."
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The red effect extends only to males and only to perceptions of attractiveness. Red did not increase attractiveness ratings for females rating other females and red did not change how men rated the women in the photographs in terms of likability, intelligence or kindness.
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For the rest of the press release, click here. For some related Situationist posts, see "Coloring Situation," "The Color of Sex Appeal," "The Situation of Hair Color," and "Shades of Fairness and the Marketing of Prejudice."


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Rinos have tough skin.
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Babies can see right through you.
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Listen, my name is Barry and I'm the Conductor on this train so if you need anything, you just ask me, okay?
The bathrooms are right over there and please, pick up after yourself on account of I clean the place, too.
And uh, seeing as you're not from around here I'll just tell you straight out - although every story you might hear on this train is true, some stories are "truer" than others, if you can read between the rails...
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and, y'all come back now, y'hear?
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Today in the news: Syria 'spiraling towards disaster,' peacekeepers detained
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"With a million people in flight, millions more displaced internally, and thousands of people continuing to cross the border every day, Syria is spiraling towards full-scale disaster." - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres. Syrian rebels detained 20 U.N. peacekeepers earlier today, demanding that President Bashar al-Assad wihtdraw troops al-Jamblah and that the U.N and America intervene if necessary, according to CNN. The rebels also claim the peacekeepers had entered an area where they were not supposed to be.
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Dream turns into a reality
It's been just over a week now since Eric Fisher's life changed when he was selected first overall by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2013 NFL Draft.
But for Cheboygan resident Tim Fisher, Eric's father who was with the talented offensive tackle from Central Michigan University on draft night, all the glamour hasn't fully sunk in yet about his son.
"It's starting to," said Tim, who, who was alongside Eric's mother, Heidi, brother, Brian, and sister, Lauren, and other family members on draft night, "I see a reference on TV, it comes up in the paper, and I'm thinking, 'Am I really reading what I should be reading? My son's the number one pick in the draft? I just keep pinching myself."
Though the draft is far and done with, Tim still recalls a bizarre moment just before his son was about to be selected by the Andy Reid-coached Chiefs.
In fact, the phone call of a lifetime even brought a scare to the 2012 Associated Press All-American lineman.
"Eric has his cell phone right in front of him, and I guess he was trying to take the call on the cell phone, so the phone went off, and Eric started to say, 'Yeah, hi, this is Eric,' and he started to smile, and then he lost him," recalls Tim of when the Chiefs called to inform him of their intentions. "He was talking to either (General manager) John Dorsey or Andy Reid, but the phone went off, and he panicked, because you only have so many minutes on your phone, and it was getting close to 8 p.m., and he looked back at his agent and said, 'My phone don't work,' but his agent said, 'Don't worry,' and his agent got on his phone to try to get a reconnect, he knew where the call was coming from."
Thankfully, Eric was able to get in touch with the Chiefs.
What happened next became very emotional for him and every family member around in the green room.
"I'm watching him, he starts to bawl, he starts to cry, and then I lost it. I look at him and started crying. We knew then he was the first pick," Tim said of Eric being drafted. "The emotion of my other son, Brian, was crying, his mother was bawling, the whole table was crying. All these cameras were on us. So he told Andy Reid, 'Yes, coach, I'm so happy. I just can't believe this. I'm really happy beyond belief, I'm so ready to come to Kansas City, and I want to play well for you guys.' When he got the call, he gave his mom a hug, then went around the table and gave everybody else a hug."
"It was just fantastic."
While draft night was certainly one to remember for Eric and his family, the next day might have been just as surreal.
Along with his mother and father, Eric made the plane trip to meet with his new team in Kansas City.
Arriving in the late morning of Friday, April 26, the group found themselves in a very unusual scene.
"We get off the plane, we're walking through the tunnel into the corridor where we have our baggage, we make a right hand turn, and there must have been 25 cameras, microphones, snapshots, bright lights," Tim recalled of the crazy scene. "They (reporters) just pinned Eric up against the wall and started asking him questions like, 'How do you like being a Chief? Do you like being the number one pick? How do you like playing in this part of the country?' The poor kid, he couldn't even catch his breath because they were asking him so many questions, and I'm sitting back and thinking to myself, 'Do you believe your son is a celebrity at this point?' So I was taking it all in. It was wonderful."
Afterward, Eric was able to make a 25-minute trip to his new work place—Arrowhead stadium.
Strangely enough, when he looked at the large stadium that holds about 80,000, he thought it resembled his old stomping grounds — at first.
"Eric looked at the stadium and said, 'Man, this looks cool. It's country looking, it's just what I want. This is the type of place to play. It kind've looks like Central Michigan's stadium,'" Tim recalled of what his son told him. "I said, 'Son, that's thing's nothing like Central Michigan's stadium."
Once Eric got inside the giant stadium, his mindset changed immediately.
"When we were in the center of the field in Arrowhead, he said, 'Dad, you're right. It's nothing like Central's stadium,' Tim added.
Fortunately, the stadium—and the area—seemed to fit Eric's personality.
"If you get him out of his uniform and just ask Eric what he wants to do, he'll head up north with a pickup truck and a chainsaw and a snow mobile and a fishing pole and a rifle to go hunting," Tim explained. "This is what he likes to do. I guess, playing in Kansas City—rather than Chicago or New York—that's Eric's cup of tea, that's his type of team."
As expected, Eric ended up meeting his new coach on the trip.
Andy Reid, who is in his first season as head coach of the Chiefs greeted his new 6-foot-7, 306-pound giant the only way how.
"Andy says, 'Hey, big guy, come here,' and he gave Eric a big bear hug," Tim recalled. "He gave him that hug and he says, 'How ya doing? You ready to get to work?' It was a really cool moment."
With Eric now in the NFL, Tim is hoping to attend some of his son's games, including the season opener in Jacksonville against the Jaguars, who took Texas A&M offensive tackle Luke Joeckel with the second pick in the draft.
When his father doesn't attend games, he'll be up north watching in Cheboygan along with his support system, which includes his wife and Eric's stepmother, Gail, as well as Eric's uncle and aunt, Robert and Jeri Reidt.
In the end, he can't wait to see his son finally get out on a professional gridiron.
"It'll be fun to watch Eric wherever I may watch," he said. "I think Eric's going to fit in there really good, and I hope he will end up having a great career with the Chiefs."


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10 Best Books of 2007
The Year's Top Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry
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Yes, this was the year of The Secret and The Manny in the U.S., and the year On Chesil Beach was longlisted for a Bad Sex in Fiction Award in Britain. So which books won't leave you feeling like a patient in a literary burn unit? Here are the 10 best books reviewed on One-Minute Book Reviews:
The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival (Putnam, $24.95), by Stanley Alpert. A former federal prosecutor who was kidnapped on a Manhattan street, then held at gunpoint for 25 hours, writes about his abduction in one of the best true crime books of the decade. us.penguingroup.com
*The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage, $13.95, paperback), by Joan Didion. One of the country's finest prose stylists recalls the sudden death of her husband and its aftermath in a memoir that won a National Book Award. www.randomhouse.com
*Every Eye (David R. Godine/Black Sparrow, $23, by Isobel English. The first American publication of a novel that is an elegant minor classic, which involves a piano teacher born with "lazy eye" that affects her view of the world long after surgery has corrected the problem. www.blacksparrowbooks.com
Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English and American Literature (Paul Dry Books, $18.95, paperback), selected and edited by Joseph Epstein. Wood engravings by Barry Moser. Scholars and critics of high distinction write about vanished titans in stylish literary essays. www.pauldrybooks.com
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Holt/Metropolitan, $24.95), by Atul Gawande. A surgeon and medical writer for The New Yorker reflects on his art in a book that has a particularly enlightening section on childbirth. www.gawande.com
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa (Little, Brown, $24.99), by Peter Godwin. A former correspondent for the BBC refracts the terrors of Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe through the prism of tragedies that struck his family and friends. www.hachettebookgroupusa.com
Baseball Haiku: American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball (Norton, $19.95), edited and with translations by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura. More than 200 poems that transcend baseball, many by some of the finest living haiku artists. www.wwnorton.com
Four Days to Glory Wrestling With the Soul of the American Heartland (HarperCollins, $24.95), by Mark Kreidler. Two high school wrestlers prepare to compete in the Iowa state championship in a book of masterly reporting that offers a fascinating portrait of a little-known social and athletic subculture. www.markkreidler.com and www.harpercollins.com
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories (Random House, $22.95), by Katha Pollitt. Personal essays by the poet and columnist for the Nation, who writes with bite, depth and often wit about topics that include her discovery that her former boyfriend had been cheating on her almost the whole time they lived together. www.kathapollitt.blogspot.com and www.randomhouse.com
*Living Things: Collected Poems (Steerforth/Zoland, $15, paperback), by Anne Porter. Foreword by David Shapiro. All of the poems from Porter's An Altogether Different Language, a National Book Award finalist, and 39 new ones, which together attest to what Shapiro calls "her Franciscan joy in created things." www.steerforth.com
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Marionettes from cardboard tubes? Of course!
Visit Red Ted Art's Blog to get the details on how
to make these adorable birds. Look closely and
you'll see that the wings and tails are made
from leaf rubbings and prints :)
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Amie Plumley: Sewing School: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make
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The Last Moonset
As soon as we landed on the Kahiltna Glacier we ran into a familiar face from home, in New Hampshire.Ben Gilmore greeted us, Come on up and hang out!...
As soon as we landed on the Kahiltna Glacier we ran into a familiar face from home, in New Hampshire.
Ben Gilmore greeted us, "Come on up and hang out! The girls just came off Hunter. It's cocktail hour."
We entered Sue Nott's giant dome tent, its edges sprinkled with piles of freeze-dried meals, ropes and duffels. Everyone was sitting comfortably on foam pads. Sue lounged in her pink jacket next to her friend Zoe Hart, sipping cherry Kool-Aid and vodka, recalling their attempt of Deprivation.
"Send it! Arrrghh!'" Zoe mock-screamed at her as she took a sip of the ratty cocktail. "Remember that?"
Sue laughed, then turned and asked if I'd ever hung out in Talkeetna, from which we had just departed. I hadn't.
"Just wait until you get back there and spend a day or two. The only thing more interesting than climbing in Alaska is meeting the locals! You're going to love it," she said. We sipped whiskey and listened to Ozzy tunes with Sue, John Varco, Ben and Zoe for hours. Sue told me about her near-death accident, during which a falling ice pillar, on one of Vail's mixed routes, impaled her abdomen. I didn't know Sue well; in fact, I had only met her twice. I was riveted by her stories. She was very energetic and unbelievably excited. Her partner, Karen McNeill, was due to arrive in a few days to join her on an attempt on the Infinite Spur, Mount Foraker.
Two weeks later my partner Eric and I returned from Denali's 14,000-foot camp after a failed attempt on Thunder Ridge. Sue and Karen had left the day before for their climb. We pulled our cache from Sue's tent and left her a thank-you note. Our plans to climb the Mini-Moonflower during our last day on the glacier were stymied by a flurry of seracs that persistently calved off Mount Hunter, pounding the valley below. One enormous slide had brushed Ben and his partner as they scouted Hunter's North Ridge. We settled for a short route on Mount Frances, on which we had our own heels dusted by an avalanche, and flew back to Talkeetna.
After the requisite shower and burger at the West Rib Bar, we headed to the town park on the shores of the Talkeetna River. It was 10 p.m. and the sky was as bright as day. Walking by a group huddled on a giant log beside a campfire, I heard a voice.
"Don't be shy," an old woman said to me from her perch on the log. She winked once and took a pull from a bottle of wine. "My name is Fern. Come on and join us." I walked over. Fern passed me her wine; I took a sip and gave it back.
"Nice here, isn't it?" Fern asked.
"Yes," I said, looking at the horizon. The sun cast orange light across the giant peaks on the skyline.
By midnight no one was sober. "One Tooth Guy" was quibbling with Shannon, a loud, ruthless musher who was calling him the "ugliest piece of shit I've ever seen." "Tauras the Guitarist," recognizable in similar forms across the country as that crazy guitar guy you see in parks, strumming away as he stands alone, was breaking strings left and right. I asked him to play some Ben Harper.
Tauras said loudly, "I don't have any of that, but how about some Byrds?" He leaned in and whispered, "I can't really play the guitar. I just strum and sing the lyrics, but no one notices."
"Meat," the co-owner of a Talkeetna motel, heaved a log the size of his F-250 into the fire, stood on the flaming log, held up his beer and screamed, "I'm one-quarter Athabascan!"
His girlfriend stood next to me wearing a tight camouflage T-shirt that read "Pornstar" in glitter paint across her chest.
After Meat's ancestral proclamation she punched my arm and yelled into my face, "He really is, you know. You better respect it."
"Respect what?" I asked.
Pornstar rolled her eyes. "Athabascan. You know, we're all descendants of Athabascan. Even Jesus was."
Fern, whom I hadn't seen since she invited us into the party, walked up with a plastic bag and pulled out a dead trout the length of my arm, saying, "Larry caught it for me."
"I'd love to catch one of those," I said.
"Larry!" she screamed. "Take this boy fishing!"
Larry was the son of a famous Alaskan bush pilot, but he turned out to be a bit more peculiar than his charismatic father, with a flat, medicated affect and an odd facial tick that rang of instability. Larry sped over from the other side of the fire on his ATV, clinching a basset-hound puppy by the neck as he rounded the giant log. He grabbed my arm, pulled me aboard and sped down the riverbank to his fishing hole. We didn't catch any fish, but his dog, Hershey Bar, fell in the icy river twice.
Around 3 a.m. the town's kindergarten teacher jumped on a log and yelled, "It's happening!" Everyone by the fire cheered and ran down by the river. We followed. The gang stopped in a clearing and stared into the southwestern sky. The moon was enormous, a rich amber hue, hung up in the trees south of town. Everyone stood in silence, even Meat, as the moon sunk below the horizon for the last time this spring. It wouldn't rise again until autumn.
We stayed by the river until sunrise. As the outline of the Alaska Range emerged on the horizon I stared at Mount Foraker. It was Sue and Karen's third day on the Infinite Spur. My eyes shifted to Denali. A lenticular cloud was building over its summit. In the days to come, a storm packed with hurricane-force winds would envelop both peaks.
A week later I was back at work.
My wife, Carolyn, called my cell phone.
"Brian, did you hear about Sue Nott and her partner? They're missing on a mountain in Alaska. Didn't you just see them up there?"
I scrambled to contact friends from Denali's National Park Service patrol, guides and local climbers, trying to find out what happened. I read about findings—boot tracks high on Foraker, the recovery of a pack from the base of the route—and the belief that the women surmounted the technical section of their route but were hit just below the summit by winds estimated to be in excess of 100 mph. (The loss of the pack and the women's disappearance appear to have occurred separately.) Over the next week I followed the ongoing search very closely. The more I dug for new information or promising findings, the more I realized that although there were theories, the incident may always remain a tragic mystery.
Sitting at my tiny desk, I drifted between idyllic memories of my expedition and images of Sue's pink jacket. Occasionally I'd stumble onto a website that had a photo of Sue, grinning widely, wearing it, or an aerial photo that showed the jacket atop an avalanche-debris pile at the base of the Infinite Spur. Every time I saw a photo of that jacket I felt a lump in my throat. I couldn't get it out of my mind.
I remember telling Sue, that night in her giant tent, that my wife would be jealous of her pink jacket.
I vividly recall the bounding metronome of my pulse in my temples as we plodded up the glacier. The sensation of swinging into Denali's cold, brittle ice. The deafening roar and bitter aerosolized snow-filled wind gusts of Hunter's avalanches that poured up and over Radio Control Tower. And the charm of Sue Nott's giggle over a Kool-Aid cocktail as she relaxed against a bright orange tent wall while the sun slipped behind the ridgeline and the coldness of the mountains rose from the valley.
Brian Irwin is a family physician from North Conway, New Hampshire. This was his first trip to Alaska.


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Pastors want to bring 'God' to Courthouse
The pastors of about 50 Anderson County churches want to put the words "In God We Trust" on the Anderson County Courthouse.
Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank will convey the ministers' wishes at the upcoming Anderson County Commission on Tuesday night.
There would be no cost to the county, Frank states in her report to Commission. The cost of placing the words on the Courthouse would be funded through contributions from churches, businesses and individuals.
Attached to the county mayor's report are several supporting documents — in the form of newspaper articles and resolutions approved by the U.S. Congress in 2011 — which indicate that placing the words on the Courthouse isn't a violation of church and state.
Lynn Byrge, owner of Atomic Electric in Oak Ridge, first brought the initiative to The Oak Ridger's attention. He said the words could be placed above the two front entrances of the doors of the Anderson County Courthouse, as well as below the roof line on the sides of the building.
Byrge also presented the list of churches that he had contacted in regards to supporting the action. The churches are from all areas of the county — including Oak Ridge.
The November 2011 resolutions approved by the U.S. House and Senate reaffirm "In God We Trust" as the official U.S. motto and state the legislators are "supporting and encouraging the public display of the national motto in all public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions."
The motto is now above all four main entrances to the Putnam County Courthouse in Cookeville, according to the Cookeville Herald-Citizen.
"I support it," Frank told The Oak Ridger on Thursday.
She explained that she'll introduce the issue to the County Commission and ask Tom Byrge, Clinton Baptist Association's director of missions, to speak on the issue and list the churches that are in support of the project.
Baptist churches make up the majority of the churches on the list, as they do within the county, but churches of other denominations have signed on as well.
Donna Smith can be contacted at (865) 220-5502.


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Hurricane Supplies
Here is some information on supplies you will need for hurricane season.
Here is some information on supplies you will need for hurricane season.
+ Drinking Water (at least 7 gallons per person)
+ Prescription Medicine (2-week supply)
+ Camera and Film
+ Books, Magazines, and Games
+ Ice Chest and Ice
+ Disposable Plates, Glasses, and Utensils
+ Manual Can Opener
+ Battery-operated TV/Radio and Clock
+ Spare Batteries
+ Flashlights/Lantern
+ Toilet Paper
+ Diapers and Wipes
+ Baby Food/Formula
+ First Aid Kit
+ Plastic Sheeting/Tarp
+ Duct or Masking Tape
+ Nails, Rope, Lumber, Tools
+ Plastic Garbage Bags
+ Insect Repellent, Sunscreen
+ Disinfectant
+ Soap and Detergent
+ Bleach for Sterilization (unscented with Hypochlorite, the only active ingredient), Tincture of Iodine, or Water Purification Tablets
+ Rain Gear
+ Fire Extinguisher
+ Fuel for Generators and Cars
+ Propane Gas (for grills)
+ Charcoal and Lighter Fluid
+ Waterproof Matches/Sterno
+ Cash (ATMs may not work after the storm)
+ Powdered Milk, Evaporated Milk
+ Canned Meats/Fish (tuna, ham, etc.)
+ Canned Fruit and Vegetables
+ Dried Foods (spaghetti, rice, etc.)
+ Canned Soups/Chili
+ Dried Fruit and Nuts
+ Cereal
+ Crackers and Cookies
+ Coffee and Tea
+ Peanut Butter and Jelly
+ Pudding
+ Pet Food and Medicine
To Sterilize water, do one of the following:
1. Boil water for 3-5 minutes at full boil
2. Add 12 drops of 2 percent tincture of iodine per gallon of water
3. Add 8 drops of household bleach per gallon of water
4. Use water purification tablets
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To report an outage: 1-800-4-OUTAGE
Restoring Power
Repair crews work to return power to the facilities that serve the largest number of affected customers first. Priorities are not established by location, your payment history, or how often you call.
Crews focus on facilities that provide essential services to your community such as hospitals, police, fire stations, and television or radio stations. Once major repairs have been made work begins to restore smaller groups and individual customers.


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John Avlon and COO of the Newseum Institute Gene Policinski discuss the dangers and risks of reporting the news.
Now more than ever, the press is a part of every story it covers. And CNN's "Reliable Sources" is one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover.
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Here's his biography. You can read his stories on this blog and at CNNMoney.com/Media/.
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Right before Pessach we did a two hour show featuring various wine experts and distributors, talking about kosher wines from around the world. It ended with a half hour conversation with Chef Jeff Nathan of Abigael's. You can listen to the archived show here.
This evening our internet radio guest will be Chef Sarah Lasry. Mrs. Lasry is Food Editor at Binah Magazine, author of The Dairy Gourmet and The At Home Gourmet. For eight years she owned and operated Tastebuds, a very successful dairy restaurant in the Howell/Lakewood area in New Jersey. You can hear our conversation, at 8:00pm (Eastern Time) on BlogTalk Radio. To talk to our guest, or to comment, you may call in at: 714.333.3357, we will be on from 8:00 – 8:30pm.
Looking through her latest of cookbook, The At Home Gourmet, I found it well organized and easy to follow. It's divided in seven sections (Amazing Appetizers, Simple Soups, Zestful Salads, Lazy Lunches, Delicious Dinners, Waist Watchers, Basic Desserts) )and has a well organized Index. Quite a few of its recipes are destined to become new favorites, among them some of the very decadent desserts.
While I'm a carnivore to the core, those who follow this blog also know that any recipe that calls for cheese is sure to get my attention. Therefore, out of the many mouthwatering recipes in this book, I thought the one below would be perfect…
So Cheesy Onion Potato Gratin
- 1 large onion sliced thin
- 2 tbsp.extra virgin oil
- 2 lbs. Yukon Gold potatoes, sliced into thin rounds
- 2 1/3 cups heavy cream
- 2 tsp. Kosher salt
- Fresh ground black pepper
- 1 cup grated Mozarella cheese
- 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 4 tbsp. melted butter
- Extra shredded Cheddar or Mozzarella for sprinklingPreheat oven to 350 degrees.In a skillet over med-high heat, saute the onions in olive oil until they have browned (about 4-5 minutes). In a sprayed 9 x 13 baking pan, layer the bottom with the fried onions. Then layer the potatoes over the onions, covering them completely and overlapping the potatoes one on top of the other.In a small mixing bowl, whisk the heavy cream, salt, black pepper and both cheeses together. Pour the heavy cream mixture over the potatoes. In a separate bowl, add the crumbs and melted margarine, mix well and then spread generously over the top layer of potatoes. Sprinkle with a little more cheese and bake the gratin until it becomes bubbly, the top is brown and the potatoes are completely soft, about 20-30 minutes. Let gratin rest for about 15 minutes before serving.
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy! As for me I plan on pairing it tonight with a well chilled Balma Venetia 2006 Muscat Beaumes de Venise… can't wait!


text: The Arduino is an open-source computer hardware/software platform for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control the physical world around them. In this class you will learn how the Arduino platform works in terms of the physical board and libraries and the IDE (integrated development environment). You will also learn about shields, which are smaller boards that plug into the main Arduino board to perform other functions such as sensing light, heat, GPS tracking, or providing a user interface display. The course will also cover programming the Arduino using C code and accessing the pins on the board via the software to control external devices. Please note that this course does not include discussion forums. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Outline the composition of the Arduino development board 2. Describe what it means to program the board's firmware 3. Read board schematics 4. Install Arduino IDE 5. Describe what "shields" are and how they are used 6. Specify the role of libraries in the use of shields 7. Compile and run a program 8. Name C Variables and Types 9. Name common C operators 10. Use conditionals and loops 11. Explain functions, their definition and invocation 12. Explain the implications of global variables 13. Undertake the Arduino build process 14. Describe the role of the tools behind the IDE 15. Describe how to invoke functions in classes 16. Explain the structure of an Arduino sketch 17. Access the pins of the Arduino 18. Differentiate between digital and analog pin 19. Debug embedded software 20. Explain the importance of controllability and observability in the debugging process 21. Describe common debugging architectures for embedded systems 22. Explain how the UART Serial communication protocol works 23. Describe how the Arduino Serial library performs serial communication


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Equity in Arizona
What does it mean for conditions to be equitable? Equity is about just and fair inclusion into a society in which all have a fair chance to participate, prosper, and reach their full potential (Policy Link). It means that people are not held back from reaching their potential because of social conditions, systems, and policies that make it difficult to live good lives. Racism, poverty, living in certain neighborhoods, gender, and stigma all can lead to poor well-being outcomes. Communities that are equitable strive to put into place the social conditions, systems, and policies that address these harms in order to allow everyone to contribute to their full potential and help the whole community to flourish.
How many years of potential life are lost in Arizona?
What this measures: Both the number of years of potential life lost before the age of 75 and differences in this based on demographic factors.
Why this matters: Deaths that occur before age 75 are often preventable. Places or groups where many people die early often face hardships that impact their well-being. Learning about differences in preventable death can help prioritize resources to help residents live longer.
What this relates to: life expectancy, equity, well-being, many leading indicators.
Data source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Global Health Data Exchange.
What is the high school graduation rate in Arizona?
What this measures: Both the percent of students who graduate high school within four years and differences in these rates between different groups or places.
Why this matters: Whether someone graduates from high school has lasting effects on their well-being. Students who graduate from high school have better health and life outcomes. They are less likely to have chronic diseases, to be imprisoned or unemployed later in life. They are likely to earn more and live several years longer. Improving high school graduation rates is essential to giving everyone a fair chance at life.
What this relates to: Median income, employment, juvenile incarceration.
Data source: Department of Education, National Center of Education Statistics.
How does the Gini Index vary in Arizona?
What this measures: The Gini Index of Income Inequality, also called the Gini Coefficient, presents income inequality as a scale from 0 (perfect equality) to 1 (the most extreme inequality). In a location with a Gini coefficient of 0, every household would have the exact same income. In a place with a coefficient of 1, a single household would own all of the wealth, and everyone else would have nothing.
Why this matters: Income inequality within US communities can have wide health effects. These effects include higher risk of death and poor health. Communities with higher income inequality can also experience a loss of connectedness from one another.
What this relates to: Community vitality, health outcomes.
Data source: American Community Survey, Table B19083.
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Other Interesting Measures
• Relative disparity in poverty rates: Index value 0-1, with 0 being perfect equality, includes white vs. Hispanic & black. Source: Census.
• Relative disparity in unemployment rates between total population and disabled population, higher values reflect more disparity. Source: Census.
• Relative disparity in population with Bachelor's Degree+, index ranges 0-1, with 1 being more disparity, includes white vs. Hispanic & black. Source: Census.
• Relative disparity in pollution exposure, index ranges 0-100, with 100 being more disparity, includes white vs. Hispanic, black & other. Source: EPA.


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Expect more humidity and temperatures near 90 today
Today will see an increase to heat and humidity with highs near 90. This pattern will continue for Tuesday.
Late Tuesday afternoon we should see a chance for thunderstorms return.
But more likely for Wednesday as temperatures cool a bit.
Highs near 80 should finish out the week ahead going into next weekend.


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MARVEL Contest of Champions Online Generator
Now that we're here, select one In game app purchase you wish to be transfered to your MARVEL Contest of Champions Account. You can do this by selecting the values from the drop down menus below and confirming your selection with a single press of the "Hack Now" button. Provide your username and choose the platform you're playing the game on but remember to keep your password and other sensitive info for yourself.
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You almost done generate MARVEL Contest of Champions resources. Due to the mass abuse, we have to add Human Verification form. Please do not abusing to keep this online hack tool alive.
* Select and complete one of the offers below - it takes only few minutes (just like creating a Google account)
* Please back to this page and check status. Done!


text: The analytical process does not end with models than can predict with accuracy or prescribe the best solution to business problems. Developing these models and gaining insights from data do not necessarily lead to successful implementations. This depends on the ability to communicate results to those who make decisions. Presenting findings to decision makers who are not familiar with the language of analytics presents a challenge. In this course you will learn how to communicate analytics results to stakeholders who do not understand the details of analytics but want evidence of analysis and data. You will be able to choose the right vehicles to present quantitative information, including those based on principles of data visualization. You will also learn how to develop and deliver data-analytics stories that provide context, insight, and interpretation.


text: Database Management Essentials provides the foundation you need for a career in database development, data warehousing, or business intelligence, as well as for the entire Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence specialization. In this course, you will create relational databases, write SQL statements to extract information to satisfy business reporting requests, create entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) to design databases, and analyze table designs for excessive redundancy. As you develop these skills, you will use either Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL to execute SQL statements and a database diagramming tool such as the ER Assistant or Visual Paradigm to create ERDs. We've designed this course to ensure a common foundation for specialization learners. Everyone taking the course can jump right in with writing SQL statements in Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.


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+ Discussion with Lutz Gross showed the tests to be dependent on the sort order, not escript itself. As a result I've backed out the addition of qsortG. Win32 will fail file comparison tests in run_generators.py (unless it uses its own generated versions). It will also fail ...onContactZero/One (8 of them) tests in run_utilOnFinley.py since the sort order change causes some of the normals to be defined the opposite way around to the reference test orientation since they are defined on the opposite face.
+ Added a qsort.c file which contains a drop in replacement for qsort (call it as qsortG). This one appears to be a stable implementation and the test .msh files on windows have been set up to be the same as unix again except for the exponent digits (3 instead of 2). With ALL the qsorts replaced with qsortG only two tests fail now on win32: test_normal_onFunctionOnContactOne test_normal_onFunctionOnContactZero Both give wrong result errors. I will check this same code on the altix (including the use of qsortG and see if Altix has the same problem.
+ re-enabled all the tests in run_generators.py + Fixed up some extra #includes left over from initial port + nelix_kb_options.py now has some additional optimisation flags for my notebooks pentium M processor
+ Fixed up some #else statements that were in the wrong order and prevented compilation on altix
+ Some additional files for the win32 port + The additional test meshes are because windows produces floating point numbers like this 12e+001 where are unix is 12e+01 + nelix_kb_options.py is my notebooks config file. I've included it as an example of win32 compilation options + system_dep.h is there for win32 shared library function export/import macros and also to use the intel mathimf.h library since the standard MS VC++ math.h doesn't have all the necessary functions. NOTE this file must be included before all other headers to prevent inclusion of math.h
+ Initial commit of win32 port using intel c++ compiler 9.1.x for Windows + This version is failing some file handling tests in python
modelframe test examples work now
In case of an error in paso a seg fault occured. this was caused by inproper deallocation of memory in this case. this problem is fixed now.
formatting errors in epydoc tags fixed
relative error tests have been introduced into a few more of the unit test.
tests pass now on gcc: some tests did not take round-off errors into consideration
"scons dodebug=no all_tests" runs now. Some of the tests could only pass under dodebug=yes as they checked for exceptions from asserts. The tests are switched off now if DOASSERT is not set.
fixes to get scons py_tests going: mainly fixes in the pathes
latex build documentation is working now
python tests compile and run but there is still a problem with dependencies'
python tests are allmost working
A few changes in the build mechanism and the file structure so scons can build release tar files: * paso/src/Solver has been moved to paso/src * all test_.py are now run_.py files and are assumed to be passing python tests. they can run by scons py_tests and are part of the release test set * escript/py_src/test_ are moved to escript/test/python and are installed in to the build directory (rather then the PYTHONPATH). * all py files in test/python which don't start with run_ or test_ are now 'local_py_tests'. they are installed i by not run automatically. * CppUnitTest is now treated as a escript module (against previous decisions). * scons realse builds nor tar/zip files with relvant source code (src and tests in seperate files) the python tests don't pass yet due to path problems.
now float**Data is running
test with tagged data pass now
bug with tagged data fixed
obsolet tests removed
DataVariable removed. it is not used.
+ Added basic_py_tests target which will run the basic set of python tests. The list of python tests was taken from autoscons
+ NEW BUILD SYSTEM This commit contains the new build system with cross-platform support. Most things work are before though you can have more control. ENVIRONMENT settings have changed: + You no longer require LD_LIBRARY_PATH or PYTHONPATH to point to the esysroot for building and testing performed via scons + ACcESS altix users: It is recommended you change your modules to load the latest intel compiler and other libraries required by boost to match the setup in svn (you can override). The correct modules are as follows module load intel_cc.9.0.026 export MODULEPATH=${MODULEPATH}:/data/raid2/toolspp4/modulefiles/gcc-3.3.6 module load boost/1.33.0/python-2.4.1 module load python/2.4.1 module load numarray/1.3.3
some typos fixed
More copyright info added.
more copyright statements added
Copyright information added.
bugs in test fixed
More copyright information.
Corrected spelling of 'license' in url so that the link actually points to the license.
More copyright information inserted.
strange problem with import numarray.linear_algebra fixed
Updated copyright and licence notices.
moved "import numarray.linear_algebra" to function that uses it, in case it is not installed
more work on pyvisi integration
some work on AdvectivePDE for the scalar case
test_utilOnFinley fixed (did run the tests that still fail)
print message removed
1D and 3D tests for eigenvalues_and_eigenvector added.
eigenvalues_and_eigenvector fucntion added. test for 2D problem is added and is passed.
problem with eigenvalue of zero matrix fixed (thanks Dr Hale)
eigenvalues: compiles and passes tests on altix now
_eigenvalues_and_eigenvector method added of data object. the algorithm has been tested on floats in python but not on data objects.
faster version of the local eigenvalue calculation
installation of new inc file
some steps towards eigenvalue and eigenvector calculation
some modifications on eigenvalues to make it a bit more robust.
modify whereZero etc methods to also accept a tolerance parameter
extend these tests to test DataTagged objecrs also
extend testing to include DataTagged objects with no tags, only default values
extend operator tests to include DataTagged and DataExpanded
further fix for DataTAgged::dp_algorithm, was not working for DataTagged objects with 0 tags
minor reformatting
reinstate testing of DataTagged object unary ops
reimplement dp_algorithm for DataTagged, existing implementation was complete rubbish (ich bin so beschämt!)
add test case for case where binaryOp combines a DataTagged and a scalar
reinstate testing using DataTagged objects
fixed binaryOp for combination of DataTagged and scalar values. calculation of default value where RHS was a scalar was not yet implemented
tests for tagged data fixed. test failing on maxval with segmenation fault (peinlich, peinlich)
more tests on slicing
extend testing of DataTagged setSlice to include case where source and target have mismatched tag sets
modify tests for binary operations and setSlice to ensure situations where two DataTaggeds with mismatched tag sets are tested correctly
solution and reduced solution can have reference numbers now!
reinstate testing of DataTagged objects
reinstate testing using DataTagged values
minor comment fixes
fix BinaryOp for DataTagged values - existing implementation was adding tags from RHS to LHS using RHS's default value - should have been using LHS's default value! fixed now
reinstate sliceSetting testing of DataTagged
ensure src and dest objects have matching tag sets in setSlice by adding tags present in src but not in dest to dest using dest's default value before doing actual slicing
reinstate sliceGetting testing for DataTagged objects
add a test case for tag() method
minor formatting changes
refine/extend tests for slicing, particularly those for DataTagged
symmetric and nonsymmetric part functions added
minor comment changes
finish testing of DataTagged::setSlice
testing setSlice with rank1 and rank 3 values and multiple tags
a new version of lumping implemented (does not need a stiffness matrix)
eigenvalues is working now
small bugs in eigenvalues function fixed. 3x3 on data still given wrong results
local eigenvalues added (not tested yet)
extend setSlice testing to include DataTagged with default values
rob's strange NoPDE class added
more testing of setSlice
fix comments for setSlice - were totally misleading!
add some basic testing for DataTagged::setSlice
tests for __getitem__ added
comprehensive testing of DataTagged::getSlice completed
split slicing testing into getSlice and setSlice tests add testing for DataTagged objects with one tagged value
add testing of slicing methods
comment and formatting changes
extend basic testing of Data objects containing DataTagged objects
add tests for getSampleData
minor comment changes
comprehensive testing of reshapeDataPoint method
minor comment changes
extend testing for binary and unary operations and add comprehensive testing for method getSampleDataByTag
initial testing of operations involving DataTagged objects
add test for copy constructors
add test for setTaggedValue
add extensive testing of addTaggedValue
fix a reference indicator
add comprehensive testing for DataTagged with (1) default value only, (2) one tag value and (3) three tag values
extend testing of default DataTagged object
minor fix to DataTagged::getTagNumber changes to comments and formatting inline two methods
transpose added (just for me)
transpose function added
add remainder of includes to SConscript includes install
add mechanism to install .h files to inc directories (still need to specify full lists of .h files to install)
rationalise #includes and forward declarations
rationalise #includes
rationalise #includes
restructure escript source tree move src/Data/* -> src remove inc modify #includes and cpppath settings accordingly
reorganised esysUtils to remove inc directory
traceback added
None options are excepted now. makes life a bit easier
fix installation to directories specified by pyinstall and libinstall
minor comment and formatting changes
failing rin is catched now.
remove old make based build system
L2 function added
kronecker (and relatives) take now a FunctionSpace as argument and return a Data object in tthis functionspace
and finally test for the divergence operator added. div() has been modified to take Symbol arguments
tests for normals at boundary and contact region added
tests for interpolation added
test for the grad fucntion added
comprehensive testing for integrate function added. tests for grad will be added in the next check in. GradTest is obsolete now.
bug fixed in integrate method. don;t use a[i,j]=.. to set a value in the numeric::array a but a[make_tuple(i,j)].
minor change
prints out the benchmark been started
new function inverse and tests added
new implementation of ILU0
ILU has been replicated is called RILU (recursive ILU) now. ILU will now be reimplemented.
new implementation and testing for trace function
The sparse solver can be called by paso now. the building has been change to reduce some code redundancy: now all scons SCscripts are importing scons/esys_options.py which imports platform specific settings.
bug in CPP substitute fixed.
inner returns right functionspace now
bug fixed
bug fixed
Some chnages required for oder numarray versions. mai problem is that operations on array objects with rank 0 sometimes return float rather than arrays. This problem seems to be fixed in newer releases.
typo fixed
tests for clip, maximum, minimum added
test is splitted to reduce memory demand during compilation
set number of threads works now
Utils added for compilation
intreface for setting the number of threads from python
os.loginname does not work under pbs. the exception is caught now
scale allows now to switch on and off certain problems
the number of problems to run is now the less or equal then len(scale) and less or equal number of problems. This allows easier control
filerrs added
a filetr added
clip added
removed redundant test
fix method names to match new scheme
fix names of log/ln functions to match new scheme
modified number of data points in mesh to allow testing with Bruce Function objects
a simple environment to run benchmarks (mainly for testing solvers)
removed unit-test runner scripts as unit-tests now run from scons
add target to run all unit tests, the build will fail for this target if any unit test fails
Updated link to epydoc generated documentation on the web site.
add explicit target for building of unit tests
bug fixed (thanks to Estelle)
turns out Install() targets should also be made Default() targets if you want them to actually reliably work!
time integration manger added
test for time integration manger added
bug fixed
advection diffusion class added
advection diffusion class added
minor formatting fix
some fixes to make the test to run for older numarray versions
pass in pyinstall value from top-level scons script and add correct suffix in module level scons scipr
fixing the problem that older versions of numarray don't have a sign method
start to remove slicing opertions
now determine hostname via socket.gethostname() as HOSTNAME environment variable is apparently not set on all platforms
add symlinks to include files - previously added by hand as cvs couldn't handle them
add modelframe.py to list of python modules to install
unit tests now run ok
temporary unit tests scripts
fix this test
change method calls to match new names for Data methods
rename method calls to match new Data boost interface names
and a bit more tests
reimplementation of maxval,minval and length. small bug in generalTensorProduct fixed
remove references to ln and length methods which have been removed from class Data
now load default options - by default!
changes in util.py worked in
complete test set for generalTensorProduct and friends added.
just my private test generator
some minor bugs in util.py fixed.
now automatically build unit tests as required based on dependencies between unit tests and libraries
more tests added
length method is removed as it is too slow. use length in util.py instead
length method is removed as it is too slow. use length in util.py instead
some stuff
Fixed XML duplication in output bug.
explicitly define dependencies between modules
Fixed typos and import problems
setup scons configuration to make and install python code
Added handling for NoneType
Minor bugfix - should now actually run simulations
runmodel added
small fix
pass in platform specific libraries via options files now
initial checkin
add top level scons config files to allow building of all unit tests for each module at once
allow compile options to be loaded from a config file specified on the command line to scons
fixed an accidental commit which broke this script
if usegcc=1 is set on command line, load compiler options fropm scons/gcc_options.py
read names of python and boost libraries from config file now
change scons config files for escript unit tests to read compiler options from option file now
implement switching of debug compiler options based on command line flag 'debug'
pass in cc/cxx settings from config file
import sys
first pass at importing compile options from an external file'
collect all information needed to determine build configuration (ie: debug/nodebug, host, platform etc)
first draft scons construct files for remaining escript unit tests
pass in top level install directory for finley/escript/bruce/paso libraries when building via top level scons script
push platform dependent compiler flags and include directories up to library level scons files - these will eventually be brought in from external config files
pass in value for esysroot and use this to determine include file locations
explicitly add -fpic option to all compiler options lists to ensure relocatable code is generated
Remove unnecessary unary +'s from the numarray.array's because this is broken in some versions of numarray.
first draft of config/construct scripts for escript library
fixed a broken constructor - simply didn't work
Added a more comprehensive data equivalence test based on X coordinates.
Added finley and bruce rectangle and brick Data archive tests.
initial checkin
move all directories from trunk/esys2 into trunk and remove esys2
Merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-11-07
Merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-10-25
DataConstantTestCase.cpp, DataExpandedTestCase.cpp: Replace DataExpanded testData1(FunctionSpace(),....) with FunctionSpace tmp_fns; DataExpanded testData1(tmp_fns,shape,data); for GCC's sake. Added some profiling to PoissonSolverTest.py.
Merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-09-22
Merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-09-15
Merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-09-01
Merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-08-23
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First merge of development branch dev-02 back to main trunk on 2005-07-29
moved these files to modellib directory
Merge of development branch back to main trunk on 2005-07-25
fixed to work with new python source/install directory structure
removed all references to modellib module
removing escript/lib/py_src/modellib
removed references to modellib
removed modellib code from escript source directory
Merge of development branch back to main trunk on 2005-07-22
added ln(data) style wrapper for data.ln() - also added corresponding implementation of Ln_Symbol class (not sure if this is right though)
Merge of development branch back to main trunk on 2005-07-08
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Stephen Baldwin Arrested on Tax Evasion Charges
Stephen Baldwin was arrested Thursday for allegedly failing to pay state income tax over the last three years, according to the New York Daily News.
Baldwin, brother of Alec, Billy and Daniel Baldwin, reportedly owes more than $350,000 in back taxes and could face up to four years in prison if convicted on the felony charge.
Stephen Baldwin arrested in New York City
"At a time when Rockland County and New York State face severe fiscal shortfalls, we cannot afford to allow wealthy residents to break the law by cheating on their taxes," said Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe. "The defendant's repetitive failure to file returns and pay taxes over a period of several years contributes to the sweeping cutbacks and closures in local government and in our schools."
The Usual Suspects star was arraigned and released on his own recognizance. He's due back in court on Feb. 5.
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November 30, 2011
(Back to the Previous Post in the Series)
Today marks the second anniversary of this blog. With just 372 articles posted in the last two years, the rate at which new articles are posted has decreased rather dramatically from the 1+ article per day average that was established shortly after the launch of the blog. To celebrate the second anniversary, I thought that I would post a couple of statistics and bits of information about this blog:
- On October 21, 2011 there were 1,020 views of the articles on this blog, the most in any one day. Yet on that day one of the most simple blog articles was posted.
- On a typical day search engines generate roughly half of the page views on this blog (this percentage increased in the last couple of months). I periodically wonder if those people searching for Charles Hooper (currently the most common search keyword) are in search of something else (that link is safe to view at work, although it does recall a certain article by Richard Foote that was posted March 31, 2008).
- No article on this blog has ever resulted in an unintentional distributed denial of service attack (I am not explicitly pointing the finger at this article: http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/oracle-core/ ). 😉
- The most viewed article since this blog went online (currently with roughly 7,530 views) was written roughly 23 months ago and describes a deadlock that can be triggered in Oracle Database 220.127.116.11 and greater, where the same sample code does not trigger a deadlock in Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 through 10.2.0.5 (earlier release versions not tested).
- The second most viewed article since this blog went online (at roughly 5,500 views) was written just 5.5 months ago and has more of a mathematics focus than an Oracle Database slant – more so than any other article on this blog.
- The third most viewed article since this blog went online (at roughly 4,200 views) describes a case where I made an error in testing Oracle Database 10.2.0.1 in 2006, and accidentally confused a partially related cause with an effect. In the article I then tried to determine the coincidental cause and effect. Interestingly, there is an odd association with the contents of that blog article with the false DMCA claim that was filed against one of my articles earlier this year.
- One Oracle Database book review article on this blog extended to roughly 18 typewritten (single spaced) pages in length, and I read that book twice from cover to cover.
- One Oracle Database book review article on this blog extended to roughly 24 typewritten (single spaced) pages in length, and that review covered ONLY the first 230 or so pages of the 1100+ page book plus a couple of other pages later in the book.
- One Oracle Database book review article on this blog extended to a record shattering 35.5 typewritten (single spaced) pages in length that excluded two of the book's chapters, and due to the length of the review had to be divided into two separate blog articles.
- The blog category name Quiz – Whose Answer is it Anyway? is derived from the name of the TV show "Whose Line is it Anyway?" – a TV show where the actors improvise the show content in reaction to the behavior of other actors. The articles in this category (58 articles by the latest count) demonstrate cases where unwitting actors (uh, authors) improvise their story of how Oracle Database works and how it does not work.
- Some of the blog articles have titles with double or triple meanings. I sometimes accidentally embed humor in some of the articles – sometimes I don't recognize the humor for days.
- It is occasionally difficult to develop unique blog article content that is not already better described in five blogs authored by other members of the Oracle community. I monitor a couple of different discussion forums (OTN, Usenet, Oracle-L, and a forum operated for commercial purposes) to find interesting problems that might appeal to a wider audience. I am still trying to determine if there is anything somewhat interesting about this article – how hard must the developer work to hide information from the query optimizer?
- Some of the articles are posted in an incomplete form, knowing that helpful readers will often fill in the missing details… or the missing link. If I could remember everything that I have forgotten about Oracle Database, I would have to forget something else – so thanks for the gentle reminders that I receive on occasion.
- I probably should have created a couple of more blog article categories: Documentation Errors; Test Cases; Ouch, that's Not Supposed to Happen; and Where Did You get that Idea?.
- I pay a yearly fee to WordPress that allows my articles to stretch across your widescreen monitor, rather than being confined to the narrow width of the title banner at the top of this page. I also pay a yearly fee to WordPress so that unwanted advertisements do not clutter the page for visitors not logged into a WordPress account.
Looking forward, I can only predict that there is a better than 50% chance that there will be a part three to this blog article series in 12 months. I managed to purchase four books from Apress during their cyber Monday sale (in between the distributed denial of service attacks) a couple of days ago, including a book that I recently received in paperback form from Amazon. I think that this might be a hint that there will be more Oracle Database book reviews posted to this blog in the future.


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Kymberly Wimberly, a 2011 graduate of McGehee Secondary School in Arkansas, is suing her school district and its officials, claiming they violated her constitutional right to equal treatment under the law.
According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit claims that a school counselor told Wimberly's mother in May that the girl had the school's highest grade point average in the graduating class, but later the mother, who works at the school, overheard a conversation in which staff said there would be a "big mess" if a black girl stood alone as valedictorian. A white female student was selected to serve as "co-valedictorian," and both gave speeches at their May 13 graduation.
(According to reports, the school, whose black population is about 46 percent, has had a black valedictorian before, but not since 1989.)
The district's superintendent, who is black, told an Arkansas television station that "the second girl took more classes and that a school rule prevents extra course work from penalizing students when calculating grade point averages." After they did the math, the superintendent said, the two students' GPAs were the same.
Sounds like fuzzy math to me, but now it's in the hands of the court.
This tale brings to mind the story of the late Fannetta Nelson Gordon, who in April of this year posthumously received the valedictory recognition she had been denied for 75 years.
Nelson Gordon, who happens to have been the aunt of my oldest friend, Rev. Melana Nelson-Amaker, attended Pittsburgh's Westinghouse High School and in 1936 would have been the school's second black valedictorian. Her sister, Sophia Phillips Nelson, now in her 90s, was the school's first black valedictorian in 1934. According to a story in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "the principal said the school would not have another black valedictorian. So, he pressured a music teacher to change her grades."
Both sisters were honored by the high school's alumni association this spring, and the story made national news. We all felt good that even though Nelson Gordon did not live to receive the recognition, an injustice had been righted.
But now we have the Wimberly case. ColorofChange.org is encouraging those who find this case troubling to write to school district officials. It's not just about Wimberly, they say:
"McGehee and other school districts around the country should be encouraging all prepared students to challenge themselves academically. Unfortunately, that's often not the case. Last year, Black students made up 15 percent of graduating seniors, but accounted for just 9 percent of students taking AP exams. Black students trail far behind White, Asian and Latino students in terms of participation in AP classes, and educators have a responsibility to provide equal access to and preparation for college-level coursework. Kymberly is the rare example of the student whose family believed she could excel in high-level classes, despite what some adults at school told her and students who look like her."
And however the lawsuit turns out, Wimberly has already won.
Not only did she take — and ace — Advanced Placement and honors courses, earning only one B in her entire high school career, according to reports, she had a baby during her junior year and still excelled. (Which, in addition to race, is likely the other elephant in McGehee's living room.)
"My teachers thought I'd fall flat on my face, but I kept trying to succeed," she said.
Congratulations, Kymberly, and as they say, "Keep gettin' up."