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In UPGRADE.txt, the explanation of the minor version updates process says that an update sometimes includes changes to settings.php. As far as I know, Drupal does not include settings.php (only default.settings.php), and will not update this file, because it has been created by the user, not the Drupal installation.
The attached patch removes this explanation.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Comment #2jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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Good point, but this is not the right patch.
It should say that a minor version update might include changes to default.settings.php, and you should replace your settings.php with the new default.settings.php and copy in the changes.
Comment #4jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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That looks good to me! Thanks!
Comment #5webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
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If that's the case, replace your old
+ settings.php with the new default one, and copy the site-specific entries
+ (especially the lines giving the database name, user, and password) from the
+ old settings.php to the new settings.php created from default.settings.php."
I got a bit turned around in this sentence. :) Is there a way to word this in a less confusing way? For example, giving people specific steps to follow in this instance?
Comment #6jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
How about something like this:
If that's the case, follow these steps:
1) Make a backup copy of your settings.php file, with a different file name.
2) Make a copy of the new default.settings.php file, and name the copy settings.php (overwriting your previous settings.php file).
3) Copy the custom and site-specific entries from the backup you made into the new settings.php file. You will definitely need the lines giving the database information, and you will also want to copy in any other customizations you have added.
(This should be formatted appropriately for the rest of the file -- probably 1. rather than 1), or maybe bullet points with - ?)
Comment #9jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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Works for me, thanks!
Comment #10Dries CreditAttribution: Dries commented
Can't we:
1. Always recommend people to make a backup of their settings file?
2. Recommend people to read the release announcement as it might have special instructions?
Comment #11jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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RE #10 - I'm maybe not sure what you're asking.
- Drupal downloads do not overwrite the settings.php file
- I think we already recommend that people make a backup of their db and files in general before they start
- I think we need these specific instructions on how to merge in a new default.settings.php - and the previous instructions were confusing.
So what I think I'm getting from #10 is that we should somewhere recommend that people always check the release announcement to see if there are any special instructions for upgrading to this version. And I think maybe we should clarify when we say that what the "release announcement" is and where to find it (i.e. if you are on the Drupal project page the link is I think "Notes").
Comment #13jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
see #11 then. I didn't quite get #10 either. :)
Comment #16jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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Since the link on the project page is called "Notes", maybe we should refer to it as "the release notes" rather than "the release announcement"? If we call it "announcement", it could be confused with a d.o front page post announcing the release, which is not as important for them to read I think, and is not the node we are pointing out the link to.
Suggestion for the first added paragraph:
Each new release of Drupal has release notes, which explain the changes made since the previous version and any special instructions needed to update or upgrade to the new version. You can find a link to the release notes in the Downloads section of the Drupal project page (http://drupal.org/project/drupal), in the Links column for the version you are upgrading or updating to.
Then down below I would refer to this as release notes as well.
Comment #18jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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This looks good to me.
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Comment #21jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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Needs to go to d8 and then d7
Comment #23webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
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Hm. I'm actually hesitant to put quite that much detail in how to get to the release notes. It's fully possible we want to revamp that UI at some point down the road, and we're almost certain to forget to change it here. Is it possible to vague that up a little bit?
Comment #28jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
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The patches in #24 look good to me. Good idea webchick to make the instructions a bit less specific.
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Tagging issues not yet using summary template.
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Comment #32jhodgdon CreditAttribution: jhodgdon commented
This has been sitting around for a while, so re-testing.
Comment #33catch CreditAttribution: catch commented
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The less specific text looks good to me too. Committed to 8.x, back to 7.x for webchick to consider.
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Looks good. Sorry, no idea how that fell off my radar for so long!
Committed and pushed to 7.x. Thanks!


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The voting for the Watford Observer Player of the Season was closely run between the two leading contenders for a long period but a small shift in voting in the final week proved decisive and the 42nd recipient of the prestigious trophy will be revealed this weekend.
Hornets fans will get to see the trophy presented shortly before the kick-off of Watford's final home game of the season at home to Huddersfield Town tomorrow before it is re-presented at the club's annual awards dinner the following day.
The closeness of the voting was reflected among the three groups – the players, the away supporters and those who had their say online – but all were agreed over who should succeed Almen Abdi and join some of the most famous names in the club's history in winning the award.
There was no such unanimity in the polling for the Goal of the Season. This was one of the closest battles for the best goal of the campaign for a number of years as the winner received only 130 more points than the runner-up.
Player of the Season (Watford Observer Trophy)
1. 2,155 voting points
2. 1,760
3. 601
4. 519
5. 395
6. Daniel Tozser – 190
7. Cristian Battocchio – 151
8. Lloyd Doyley – 142
9. Marco Cassetti
10. Sean Murray.
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3. 667
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5. 541
6. Lewis McGugan at home to Derby County – 420
7. Cristian Battocchio at home to Barnsley – 397
8. Cristian Battocchio at home to Bournemouth (Capital One Cup) – 390
9. Cristian Battocchio at home to Blackburn Rovers – 389
10. Troy Deeney's second at home to Bournemouth – 385.


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This will be the first post in a series of monthly update posts on the status of app updates, bug fixes an added features.
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When applying for a home mortgage loan, your lender will perform a front-end ratio calculation to determine the percentage of your gross monthly income that is dedicated toward your housing expenses. Mortgage lenders perform this measurement to ensure that borrowers obtain affordable home loans.
A mortgage underwriter uses an applicant's gross monthly income in calculating a front-end ratio. You gross monthly income equals your annual earnings divided by 12.
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The calculation for a front-end ratio takes into account items that are solely related to your housing expenses, such as your principal and interest payment, property taxes, homeowners insurance, as well as other housing-related costs, such as private mortgage insurance and homeowner association fees.
A mortgage underwriter will perform a front-end calculation to determine if you qualify for the loan you have requested. He will divide your housing expenses into your gross monthly income to find your front-end ratio. For example, if your total housing expenses equal $1,000 per month and your income equals $4,000 per month, your front-end ratio will amount to 25 percent.
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Service record of Heinrich Himmler
The service record of Heinrich Himmler was a collection of official SS documents maintained at the SS Personalhauptamt in Berlin from 1934 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. Prior to 1934, Himmler's SS records were maintained at the Brown House, the Nazi Party headquarters in Munich.
Today, Himmler's original paper service record is maintained at the German Federal Archives. A microfilm copy of the record is also available at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland.
Summary of SS service[edit]
- SS number: 168
- Nazi Party number: 14303
- Primary position: Reichsführer-SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei
- Previous SS positions: SS-Leader (1925), SS-District Leader (1926), Deputy-Reichsführer (1927)
- Waffen-SS service: Supreme Commander by default as Reichsführer-SS. Exercised little operational authority.
- Political positions: Reichsleiter der NSDAP
Dates of rank[edit]
Himmler joined the SS in the summer of 1925, during the group's earliest stage of existence. SS ranks at this point were very simple. Himmler was appointed as an "SS-Leader" and assigned to work in the Nazi headquarters in Munich. A year later, he was appointed as the "SS-District Leader" for Bavaria and, a year after that, appointed as a Deputy to the National Leader of the SS, Erhard Heiden.
Between 1925 and 1927, Himmler wore a variety of Nazi paramilitary uniforms. His first recognizable SS uniform may be seen in photographs from 1928, when Himmler wears the double oak leaf insignia of an SS-Oberführer. In 1929, Himmler was appointed to succeed Heiden and after this point referred to himself solely by his title of "Reichsführer" (this was not an actual rank until 1934). In a Nazi rally photograph from 1930, Himmler can be seen wearing an SS uniform with a striped swastika armband, with three stripes denoting his position as Reichsführer-SS. The armband stripe system was in fact utilised before the introduction of collar patches and it is uncertain why Himmler would have reverted to this insignia for one particular rally.
Between 1929 and 1933, Himmler wore insignia for the SS ranks of Oberführer, Gruppenführer, and in 1933 was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer (the highest SS rank at the time). In June 1934, Himmler's position of Reichsführer-SS became an actual rank and Himmler began wearing the wreathed three leaf insignia which he would display for the rest of his career in the SS.
Himmler's official SS record does not list his promotions prior to that of Reichsführer-SS, instead simply backdating to Himmler's original appointment date in January 1929.[1] Alternate and photographic evidence, however, offer the following dates of rank.
|Himmler's SS-ranks
|February 1925
|September 1926
|March 1927
|6 January 1929
|1 January 1933
|1 July 1934
Nazi awards and decorations[edit]
As head of the SS, Himmler was in the unique position of having the ability to award himself many Nazi military, civil, and political decorations. However, Himmler's official awards and decorations qualified him for mainly service decorations and qualification badges, this being apparently by design.[2] Himmler was never awarded the Knight's Cross, German Cross, Iron Cross or the War Merit Cross, the last of which his duties as Chief of the SS and Police would have qualified.[3]
Himmler's authorized decorations were as follows:[4]
- Nazi political awards
- Blood Order
- Golden Nazi Party Badge
- Golden Hitler Youth Badge
- Nazi Party General Gau Badge
- Nuremberg Party Day Badge
- Nazi Party Long Service Award (10 and 15 years service)
- Honour Chevron for the Old Guard
- SS and police awards
- SS Long Service Award (12 years service)
- SS Honor Ring
- SS Honor Sword
- SS Zivilabzeichen (#2)
- SS Julleuchter
- German civil decorations
- Olympic Games Decoration (First Class)
- Social Welfare Decoration
- Military badges
- Combined Pilots-Observation Badge (in gold with diamonds)
- Military service awards
- Anschluss Medal (Commemorative Medal of 13 March 1938)
- Sudetenland Medal (w/Prague Castle Bar) (Commemorative Medal of 1 October 1938)
- Memel Medal (Commemorative Medal for the Return of the Memel Region)
- West Wall Medal (1944)
- Sports badges
- German Sports Badge (in silver)
- SA Sports Badge (in bronze)
Himmler was granted foreign awards from Germany's allies, Romania, Italy and Croatia[5] which bestowed Himmler with high ranking orders. Himmler held claim to several German state decorations, most significantly from Bavaria, where he had previously served as Police President. Himmler rarely wore these additional medals, except at the most formal of state functions, when a full dress uniform was required.
Other offices[edit]
- Officer Cadet (11th Bavarian Infantry Regiment): 1918
- Chief, SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt: June 1942 to January 1943
- Reich Minister of the Interior: 1943
- Chief of the Home Army: 1944
- Commander, Army Group Upper Rhein and Vistula: 1944
See also[edit]
- ^ SS Master Personnel Card of Heinrich Himmler, SS records cabinet, U.S. National Archives, College Park, Maryland
- ^ SS service record of Heinrich Himmler; United States National Archives, College Park, Maryland
- ^ Månsson 2001.
- ^ Ailsby 1997, p. 73.
- ^ Popović 1986, p. 95.
- Ailsby, Christopher (1997). SS: Roll of Infamy. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International. ISBN 978-0-7603-0409-9.
- Månsson, Martin (2001). Heinrich Himmler: A Photographic Chronicle of Hitler's Reichsfuhrer-SS. Atglen, PA: Schiffer. ISBN 978-0-7643-1202-1.
- Popović, Jovo (1986). Suđenje Andriji Artukoviću i što nije rečeno (in Serbian). Stvarnost. ISBN 978-86-7075-066-1.


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The buildingcommunityWORKSHOP is a Dallas based nonprofit community design center seeking to improve the livability and viability of communities through the practice of thoughtful design and making. We enrich the lives of citizens by bringing design thinking to areas of our city where resources are most scarce. To do so, the bcWORKSHOP recognizes that it must first understand the social, economic, and environmental issues facing a community before beginning work.


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Rick Ross Addresses Chrisette Michele Diss — Say What!
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Wyclef Jean recently gave us a lesson on politics, and compared himself to Bob Marley. "When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything. The person whose opinion affected me was Sean Penn. I had a great conversation with Sean Penn last week and I look forward to going to Haiti and hopefully I can meet up with him," 'Clef explained, before revealing that some of his friends on Twitter think he's kind of a big deal. "I wouldn't call myself that…but fans on Twitter call me the modern-day Fela or Marley or Dylan, you know…" Wow. Yeah, totally man. [Guardian]


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2 bedroom detached bungalow for sale11 Orchid Close, Balderton NG24 3ET
Sold STC £127,000
Property Description
Key features
Full description
A superbly presented 2 bedroom detached bungalow situated on a corner plot within a quiet residential cul-de-sac on the popular Balderton Lakeside development. The property is double glazed and gas centrally heated and provides spacious and beautifully presented accommodation. Early viewing is very strongly recommended.
Balderton is located approximately three miles to the south of the market town of Newark on Trent. Local amenities include a post office, pharmacy, supermarkets, leisure centre, a new purpose built Health Centre, well respected primary and secondary schools and regular bus services to Newark town centre.
Newark has excellent shopping facilities including major retail chains and supermarkets including Waitrose. Newark has two railway stations, one providing a commuter service to Nottingham and Lincoln, the other providing a direct service to London Kings Cross which takes from around 80 minutes. The A1 trunk road runs south of Balderton and provides excellent road communications to the north and south of the country.
On entering the front door this leads into:
Entrance Hallway
The entrance hallway has a door leading to the lounge and a further door to the cloakroom. The hallway is enhanced with wood laminate flooring and also encompasses a large and most useful storage space.
Downstairs Cloakroom
The cloakroom has an opaque leaded window to the front elevation and is fitted with a WC and wash hand basin.
Lounge - 19' 10'' x 10' 4'' (6.05m x 3.15m)
This excellent sized and well proportioned reception room has a bow shaped window to the front elevation, doors off to the kitchen and inner hallway and a further door leading through to the conservatory. The lounge is enhanced with wood laminate flooring, cornice to the ceiling and two ceiling lights.
Kitchen - 9' 9'' x 7' 10'' (2.97m x 2.39m)
The kitchen has a window to the side elevation and a stable door leading out to the side of the property. The kitchen is fitted with a range of contemporary base and wall units with roll top work surfaces and tiled splashbacks. There is a circular stainless steel sink, integrated oven and electric hob with extractor hood above. There is space and plumbing for both a washing machine and dishwasher and the kitchen is enhanced with ceramic tiled flooring. The central heating boiler is also located within the kitchen.
Inner Hallway
The inner hallway provides access to both bedrooms and the bathroom. There is a large and most useful storage cupboard and access to the roof space is obtained from here. The inner hallway is enhanced with wood laminate flooring that flows through from the lounge and into both bedrooms.
Bedroom 1 - 11' 3'' x 8' 10'' (3.43m x 2.69m)
A nice sized double bedroom with a leaded double glazed window overlooking the rear garden. This bedroom is enhanced with wood laminate flooring, cornice to the ceiling and a central ceiling light.
Bedroom 2 - 9' 4'' x 8' 10'' (2.84m x 2.69m)
A further double bedroom with a leaded double glazed window overlooking the rear garden. This bedroom is currently utilised as a home office/further sitting room. The room is enhanced with wood laminate flooring, cornice to the ceiling and a central ceiling light.
The bathroom has an opaque window to the side elevation and is fitted with a white suite comprising a bath with shower mixer tap attachment, WC and vanity unit with wash hand basin and storage beneath. There is a shaver socket installed and the airing cupboard is also located in the bathroom. The room is enhanced with ceramic tiled flooring and walls.
Lean-to Conservatory - 12' 11'' x 7' 9'' (3.94m x 2.36m) At its widest points
The lean-to conservatory is of timber construction, is centrally heated and has a ceramic tiled floor. The conservatory would benefit from refurbishment or replacement.
The property stands on a corner plot and has gardens to the front and rear. The front garden is laid to lawn with a footpath leading up to the front door. Adjacent to the property is a long driveway providing off-road parking for several vehicles. The driveway in turn leads to the single garage.
Single Garage
The garage has an up and over door and is equipped with power and lighting.
There is gated access at the side of the property and a footpath leading around to the rear garden. The rear garden is fully enclosed and laid principally to lawn. There is a small patio area adjacent to the doors from the lean-to conservatory and the garden enjoys a high degree of privacy.
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The property is in Band B for Council Tax purposes.
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A TALENTED ballerina who was told her dream of being a professional dancer would be over unless she underwent risky surgery has made a suprising recovery without going uner the knife.
Kerry Rhodes, 20, of Chelmsford Road, Woodford Green was diagnosed with Scoliosis, or curvature of the spine when she was 15 but continued to dance without problems.
But she broke down at a traning session earlier this year, suffering sudden, extreme back pain.
Her doctor told her the condition had worsened and she would need surgery to correct the problem, which would leave her dance career hanging in the balance.
Miss Rhodes said: "The pain I experienced was horrendous, I had never felt anything like it.
"It got so bad that I had to stop and lie down. Finding out that you may have to give up a massive part of your life is devastating.
"It's why you see so many sports people trying to make comebacks from career threatening injuries, because the idea of stopping doing what you love is horrible, and that is exactly what I was faced with.
"My future was most definitely hanging in the balance. Ballet was my dream career but there was a strong possibility that due to my condition it was never going to materialise."
However, Miss Rhodes was adamant she did not want surgery due to the risks and began to look for alternative methods of treatment.
And she discovered the Scoliosis SOS clinic, which offers to treat the condition using specialised exercise and physiotherapy, and now says she has made progress against the odds.
Miss Rhodes, who attends a dance academy in Greenwich, added: "I could not believe that in four weeks I had come so far.
"To be told that the only way to deal with a spinal condition is surgery, yet in London there is a clinic that can provide these results, it is just bizarre.
"My life now is excellent, I can continue to dance, I am no longer worried about my condition progressing and having to undertake surgery.
"I can now live the life of a normal young woman, I could not of wished for a better outcome."
Miss Rhodes hopes one day to turn professional now she no longer has to worry about her Scoliosis.
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The hallmark of a downtrend is a failed bounce, and we definitely saw one the last couple of days. Rather than pull off another of those V-shaped moves that confound so many market players, we had a good old-fashioned reversal. In retrospect, the move yesterday was a routine oversold bounce, which was an opportunity for bulls to exit and bears to press. They did that aggressively today.
The big issue now is whether this is just a little correction that has run its course, like the perma-bulls on CNBC assure us, or the start of a downtrend that could persist. As a trend-follower, my view is that this market has rolled over and we have little choice but to give the bears some room. That means don't rush to buy and look for selling of strength rather than buying of weakness....1243 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Washington, December 20 (ANI): A woman's relationship satisfaction changes as she nears ovulation, but whether or not she's more or less happy with her guy depends on his sex appeal, researchers say.
In a new study, heterosexual women who rated their guys as highly sexually desirable felt closer to their partners and more satisfied with their relationships just before ovulation, as compared to their less-fertile days.
The opposite was true for women who said their partners were less sexy; they felt less close to their male partners and were more critical of their mate's faults as they approached ovulation.
Previous research has shown that the type of man a woman prefers tends to change across her ovulatory cycle, as she becomes more attracted to masculine faces and bodies, and bilateral symmetry, when she's fertile.
Another recent study showed that heterosexual women actually look and sound more attractive to guys on the women's fertile compared with non-fertile days.
"This is the first research to show that these changes have implications for relationship functioning," Fox News quoted study researcher Christina Larson from the University of California, Los Angeles, as saying.
Hormones likely influence these fluctuating preferences and evaluations. However, the researchers didn't directly measure hormones.
"So we can't say exactly which hormones were responsible or how exactly they change women's behaviours," Larson said.
Estrogen, which peaks at ovulation, is a strong candidate, she said.
The study involved 108 heterosexual women who had not used birth control in the past three months and who were not pregnant or breast-feeding.
The women, who had been in committed relationships for an average of two years, answered the same questions during two sessions, one during their high-fertility phase and one during their low-fertility phase.
The subjects self-reported where they were in their cycles, and the researchers confirmed the high-fertility session with an ovulation test.
The questionnaires included prompts like "How desirable do you think women find your partner as a short-term mate or casual sex partner, compared to most men?" and, "How sexy would women say your partner is, compared to most men?" The women also answered questions about their closeness to their partners, their partners' faults and virtues, and the women's commitment to and satisfaction with their relationships.
The good news for men is that although a woman's time of the month seemed to influence her feelings about her partner and relationship satisfaction, her commitment to the relationship stayed constant throughout the cycle.
The study has been published online in the journal Hormones and Behaviour. (ANI)


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Michael S. Campos, Andrea E. Davidson and Carmen R. Lansdowne, doctoral students at Graduate Theological Union, have been selected to receive a 2010 Fund for Theological Education (FTE) Fellowship, a competitive national award. Both Campos and Lansdowne were recognized as 2010 North American Doctoral Fellows while Davidson received recognition as a 2010 Doctoral Fellow.
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Out in Left Field proudly presents the second in a series of letters by an aspiring math teacher formerly known as "John Dewey."
After my last missive, some readers were downright angry so I'll just say that with respect to the professor who bore a resemblance to Meg Ryan, I got a lot out of her class, and have nothing against someone lying on a bed of nails while someone smashes a rock on her stomach with a sledge hammer on back to school night or any other night. It's a lot better than most of the back to school nights I've attended. My daughter's 7th grade speech/drama teacher's greeting was that she just got back from Bahrain and would rather still be living there than teaching here. I don't know what was more remarkable: the fact that she said that, or the fact that the parents in the audience nodded their heads in appreciation.
I have chosen the name Huck Finn since it seemed to fit better than John Dewey for someone drifting along the pedagogical, political and cultural river that crosses the battles over how best to teach math. The battles over math teaching remind me of something that happened years ago. I am a creature of habit, and throughout high school I walked to school every day, which meant walking eastward every morning. When I started at college, I consequently assumed without thinking about it that my walk to my first class was eastward. I was surprised therefore one day to see the sun rising in the south. For a moment I considered what could have caused this, before I realized that I was walking northward. My experiences in education are similar. I meet people who see a sun rising in the south, are able to explain it, and will not entertain any suggestion of where true north is.
I will reveal that I live in California, but had completed my ed school course work at a school back east that allowed me to do my student teaching in California. My effort was coordinated with a local university here who said they would place me in a school to do my student teaching. By mid-August, I still hadn't heard about where my placement as a student teacher would be. I told them that the school back east requires me to put in 15 weeks of student teaching and the schools where they wanted to place me would start next week. There was a flurry of activity suddenly—I was told to write a bio which they would circulate. I wrote a bio in which I mentioned that I had majored in math and had been in the Michigan Marching Band—not that these two things are related but I wanted to show that I was a team player.
The next week, I was told to report for an interview at a junior high school about an hour's drive from my house. The school's website listed the textbooks they used. I was disconcerted to see that for algebra, they were using College Preparatory Math (CPM): Algebra Connections. It is a discovery-based program and one that caused a significant uproar when it was used in Palo Alto in the early 90's.
I met with Tina who would be my supervising teacher and had taught for 10 years. She mentioned she had a son in high school who was in the marching band and she herself played in the band at the community college. I thought perhaps my mention of the Michigan Marching Band had caused her to select me. "I guess you know from my bio that I was in the Michigan Marching Band," I said.
"What bio?" she asked. The world of education is seldom as organized as one might believe.
In the course of our conversation she revealed that she liked the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM and was also happy that California had just adopted the Common Core standards for math. "Do you know those?" she asked. My feeling about Common Core is very similar to that of NCTM's but I left it at: "I am familiar with both."
"So they placed you in a middle school," my teacher said as if confirming that I had a disease that had no cure and was both fatal and painful. "Are you OK with that?"
"Actually, I requested middle school," I said.
"I'm out of my mind," I replied. She thought this was pretty funny and I was tempted to leave things at that, but I added that middle school was often the last chance students had to get proficient with fractions, decimals, percents and other concepts that they may be weak on before the onslaught of algebra.
"Exactly!" Tina said. "I taught high school for a year and was so heartbroken when I saw seniors who were still taking algebra 1 and not passing because they didn't know their basic math. I decided that middle school was where I should be."
This was beginning to show some promise. She said I would eventually be teaching three periods. Two periods were pre-algebra which used a standard, traditional-style textbook. The other period was algebra which used the text known as College Preparatory Math (CPM): Algebra Connections. "It's discovery-based," she said with some excitement and perhaps an expectation that I would rejoice in this. I looked around the room at the desks pushed together in groups of four, and tried to believe that somehow we would all know and agree where true north is, and that the sun rises in the east.


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US test pilots flying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have complained officially that the plane could be shot down because they can't see what's behind them. The "blind" spot can't be fixed because it is an integral part of the plane's "stealthy" shape, to make it harder to detect.
This mightn't matter if stealth technology, and the F-35's own sensors, work as intended. But new ways of detecting planes are eroding stealth's effectiveness and the Pentagon has weakened the F-35's defences in order to control costs.
Like other planes, the F-35's sensors are susceptible to jamming. Stealth is the more disturbing problem. In a widely quoted 2012 paper, chief of US naval operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert said, "The rapid expansion of computing power ushers in new sensors and methods that will make stealth and its advantages increasingly difficult to maintain . . . It is time to consider shifting our focus from platforms that rely solely on stealth."
Canada's conservative Prime Minister,
Harper recently established a panel of experts to help re-evaluate all available planes, after a KPMG audit put the realistic life cycle cost of 65 F-35s at more than $42 billion, rather than the government's initial estimate of $8.5 billion.
Commentators who want Australia to buy 100 F-35s, supposedly for $16 billion, assume the plane will still meet its original performance and cost targets, despite the Pentagon no longer pretending it will.
During a visit to Washington in February, the Coalition's defence spokesman, Senator
But a US Government Accountability Office report to Congress earlier this month said, "To date, slightly more than 11 per cent of development contract performance specifications have been verified as met . . . The bulk of development testing and evaluation is planned to continue into 2016, and is expected to identify additional deficiencies impacting aircraft design and performance." This is the plane former Coalition prime minister
A recently leaked report by the Pentagon's director of operational tests and evaluation described the restricted visibility from the F-35's cockpit as adversely affecting "safety and survivability".
One test pilot said it is "nearly impossible" to check behind. Another said, "Aft visibility will get the pilot gunned every time [from behind]."
The F-35's supporters say it doesn't matter that it lacks the all-round visibility of fighter planes with "bubble" canopies, as its pilot will rely on sensor data relayed to a helmet display. But this complex display is still not working properly.
Even if it's fixed, data processing remains a critical problem. The on-board computers in fully developed F-35s will reportedly utilise 8.6 million lines of software code, compared with 2.2 million for the high-performance F-22. Yet the report from the director of testing says the F-35 program has "made virtually no progress in the development, integration and laboratory testing" of the software.
According to Flight magazine, fighter pilots say the decision to reduce the turn, acceleration and performance specifications for the F-35 will leave it less agile than 1960s fighters and the reduced performance will affect survivability against advanced surface-to-air missiles.
The F-35's performance downgrade increases stealth's importance. Stealth makes a plane harder to detect with commonly used radar. It also tries to block, at least partly, hostile sensors from detecting its heat and electronic emissions such as its own radar signals. Yet the Serbs still shot down a F-117 stealth fighter in Kosovo in 1999.
Since then, the threat to stealth planes has risen. Unlike traditional radar, passive new detection systems don't emit signals revealing their location to attacking planes. They rely on advanced data processing to monitor distortions that planes make to signals from other emitters, such as telecommunications dishes.
Radars using longer wavelengths than the standard X-band can also detect stealth planes.
In an influential paper for the US Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, senior fellow Barry Watts said, "There will come a time in the not too distant future when surface-to-air missiles will almost always win against air-breathing penetrating platforms [aircraft]."
Stealth is irrelevant against surface targets that aren't heavily defended. Australia's air power mix should include armed drones that can attack lightly defended targets far more cheaply, and over much longer ranges, than F-35s or the new Super Hornet. The latter costs half the F-35 cost.
Labor and the Coalition should follow Canada and re-evaluate their preference for the F-35, particularly as Howard picked the embryonic F-35 while in Washington in 2002 without waiting for Defence to complete its detailed study (called Air 6000).
Fairfax Media reported on March 13 that newly released documents show Howard rejected departmental advice not to lock Australia in so early because, "An accurate assessment of the F-35's abilities, and thus the cost-effectiveness of the aircraft in meeting Air 6000 requirements, cannot be determined from the limited information provided by the US."
Action to correct Howard's blunder is overdue.
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According to the rules, any in-county constitutional office can become a partisan race if a primary election is called for by either of the two major political parties local executive committees. Now if the race is a multi-jurisdictional one, such as district attorney, certain judges or public defenders, that has to be called for by the state executive committee of either party.
The deadline to submit the paperwork to the local county election administrator is Nov. 22, 2013, and the primary election would be held on May 6, 2014, with the qualifying deadline being Feb. 20 at noon.
OK, I was surprised, but not really shocked, until I learned the next possible scenario.
If neither party calls for a primary election, there could still be a partisan primary election if either party calls for a caucus or convention to nominate candidates, and the deadline for that to happen is April 3 only 33 days before the primary.
But thats not all of it. If only one party calls for, or nominates candidates, and meets all the deadlines, and the other party doesnt, then only those candidates whose party did so will have their partys designation (an R or D) behind their names. Everyone else will have an (I) for Independent.
I fully understand the reasoning behind that, because its only fair that the party that jumps through all of the hoops gets to identify their candidates party affiliation.
But what I dont understand is why make any local race partisan, period.
Daily, we hear via national news outlets how according to the latest polls, people are sick of the partisan bickering and fighting in our nations capitol. It doesnt seem to matter if they are Republicans or Democrats. The majority of people are tired of the stalemate and finger pointing. They want to see work being done instead.
I totally agree. I want to see work done, not party bickering, by all of my elected officials and making local races partisan would hinder that effort.
I dont care if its the Red to the Roots campaign currently being pushed by the Tennessee Republican Party, or if state Democrats decided to start a Blue to the Bottom campaign, local elected positions should remain non-partisan.
Our county is divided enough as it is. Wilson County remains, despite valiant efforts by multiple parties, a county divided by a highway, which Ive never really understood. After all, arent we are all residents of the same county? Yet, jealousies and power struggles over which side of Highway 109 has the majority continue on the county commission and board of education.
(By the way, does anyone think the proposal to increase the number of school board members is nothing more than an attempt to try and shift the power back toward the center of the county, away from the east side? But thats a column for another day.)
Given our own internal divisions, do we really need to throw party politics into the mix? Heck, the Republican Party within the county is already split between the official Wilson County Republican Party and Sen. Mae Beavers group, Wilson County Conservative Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats still seem to be licking their wounds and sulking after becoming the minority party four years ago both locally and statewide.
While I may have learned something new, I have to admit it was information I found troubling. Local political offices need to remain non-partisan. I just pray Wilson County doesnt become the 53rd county to do otherwise.
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At the request of the Greek Deputy Prime Minister, Stylianos Pattakos a meeting was held here between Pattakos and the president and vice-president of the Central Council of Greek-Jewish Communities. The Jewish leaders described recent anti-Semitic manifestations in the country, culminating in the smearing of swastikas on the walls of the Central Synagogue in Athens. Following the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister issued the following communique which was published in all Greek newspapers:
"The government of Greece most categorically condemns all manifestations by word or deed directed against the Jews of Greece, who have always been considered and have continued to be considered citizens of equal status to their Christian brothers. Furthermore, in the national government's view, all the children of mother Greece are inseparably united as equal members of the national body, irrespective of their religious beliefs."


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Barminco chief
The names of the 11 people, which include former Barminco directors including Robert Colville, Robin Anderson and Robert Crew, were revealed in Federal Court filings for the first time.
They have taken action to stop the Tax Office using information obtained by the Project Wickenby task force in its investigation of the $4 million worth of gifts.
The group's legal representative, Ian Cochrane of Clifford Chance, said Wickenby investigators had misused their powers by "interrogating" gift recipients when their powers were limited to investigating offshore tax evasion. "The use of the powers in these circumstances was, in my view, draconian," Mr Cochrane said.
He said the Tax Office had ample powers to pursue domestic tax claims. At least some of the gift recipients and Mr Bartlett, who did not receive a tax deduction for making the gifts, were compelled to answer questions by Wickenby investigators in the past couple of years. The gifts relate to payments made after Mr Bartlett – who is worth $369 million according to BRW – sold 70 per cent of Barminco to Gresham Private Equity in mid-2007 in a deal thought to be worth more than $300 million.
Mr Bartlett took action in the Federal Court more than a year ago to stop Wickenby investigators sharing information with the Tax Office. The court heard that the Australian Crime Commission had recordings of phone calls between Mr Bartlett and former Barminco chairman Jonathan Young, who is also one of the gift recipients.
The recipients told the Tax Office that they received the tax-free payments because they were friends of Mr Bartlett and that the money had nothing to do with services rendered, a source said. The Tax Office, which does not comment on individuals' tax affairs, believes that the gifts were akin to a bonus, with several of the recipients holding directorships at the time of the Barminco sale.
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Tue 6 Jan 2009
The Spread-able System
Posted by Steve Knight under article, programming
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Spreadsheets are everywhere. They are simple to create and are an immensely powerful tool. Unsurprisingly then this means that a lot of areas of business rely on spreadsheets to function correctly. But spreadsheets are dangerous too. They suffer from, well-known, fundamental flaws.
The problem is that spreadsheets are a special type of code, and I'm not talking about the Excel 'macros' I'm talking about the formulas. As such they probably need to be treated the same way as other types of code, but their very nature makes this difficult. But I'm getting ahead of myself, let's first look at some of what is good and bad about spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets are remarkable for their:
- Utility – we can bend them into almost any shape we want because they give one way to represent almost any business process;
- Portability – we can pick up our little gobbets of data and logic and relocate them to almost anywhere inside or outside the company, in file-systems, mail servers and web-sites;
- Simplicity – you don't have to explain a spreadsheet to anyone. They might have to be a proto-genius to figure out how it works but the working knowledge they would need to get started is pre-loaded in their heads and ready-to-run.
So they sound pretty useful, and I like to think that I'm a pragmatic guy, so why do I hate them so much? Many have noted about the shortcomings of spreadsheets. The page on spreadsheets at Wikipedia spells it out clearly enough so I'll paraphrase:
- Productivity – Working with spreadsheets requires a lot of "sheet-shuffling" to reach the required goal. The bigger the sheet, the more time is spent copying, cutting and pasting cells around.
- Reliability – Although what consitutes an error in a spreadsheet is subjective, the paper A Critical Review of the Literature on Spreadsheet Errors" (pdf) reveals a series of studies (some more recent than others) that have shown that approximately 5% of cells contain errors.
- Collaboration – Sharing a spreadsheet is difficult. Having two independent people working on the same sheet and merging their results is as far as I know impossible.
The first two items don't bother me overly. Yes, it's a problem but then the alternatives aren't that great either. Consider what you would do if you didn't have a spreadsheet to fulfill the task. You'd either do it with a bit of paper and a calculator (i.e. simulate a spreadsheet) or get a programmer to do the task for you. Either way the amount of productivity loss/gain and the amount of errors aren't going to be that significantly different from using a spreadsheet. Don't get me wrong, I love my fellow programmer, but we make a LOT of mistakes too. The difference perhaps is that bespoke systems usually end up getting audited (and hence fixed) and spreadsheets often don't. Although this point is probably moot.
Good + Bad = Too Bad
My real beef is with what happens when you have the 'pro' of high portability with the 'con' of low collaborative power. You have no way of knowing which version of the spreadsheet you have is the "true" one, and which version is duff. Every copy, whether it be inadvertently through forwarding a sheet by email to someone else or explicitly by taking a 'backup' is a 12 foot tall baby-eating, business-crushing monster waiting to rip you and everyone you love apart.
Hug the Monster, Then Run
The thing is we kind of have to embrace the baby-business-beating monster because it's about all we've got. There are some tasks, as a programmer, that I'm really happy that you as the non-programmer don't bother me with and solve yourself in sheets. Want to set-up an intra-company phone-book as a spreadsheet so you don't have to bother will all that "Access" voodoo? Be my guest, but I'm watching you. Want to set-up a spreadsheet to run your fantasy football so you don't have to add two numbers together? Go right ahead, I'll even drive you to the game so you don't miss the turn. Want to set up a spreadsheet to calculate payments and and do a mail-merge with the results … STOP. RIGHT. NOW.
The truth is though that you might not know that you're creating the mother-of-all spreadsheets when you start. I might not know it either but there will probably come a time when a line is crossed and then I will want to know what you've been doing and who you've been doing it with. I'm just like that.
Unless you are small company (and hence don't have a lot of choice) you have to be very afraid of trusting anything that might lose you money to a spreadsheet. You need to be very aware of the risks and the potential-costs you are letting yourself in for. Here in Europe there is even a special interest group dedicated to highlighting the risks of spreadsheets. Those guys must throw wild parties …
The Missing Links
In my opinion there is something missing, something that can fill the gap between spreadsheet and system.
I think we need something that can:
- Track spreadsheet changes – Not knowing which spreadsheet is "true" and which lies (by being able to identify revisions of the sheet that have happened after yours was 'branched'), and not being able to merge sheets is a problem. Perhaps someone solved it already, if they had that would be great.
- Track spreadsheets themselves – Having some more information about what sort of corporate-data was being accessed, who was using it and how frequently they ran it might alert us to potential spreadsheet monsters being born.
- Narrow the gap – Making spreadsheets more like traditional software systems, without significantly castrating the usefulness of the spreadsheet, would be great too. This is a little like asking for the moon on a stick though.
Perhaps I'll make something like this one day. I have to admit it's not a terribly exciting project but it has some potential I think. Perhaps I could spice it up by throwing a party and invite the guys from the "European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group". Now we're talking. How will I budget for the 7-up, party hats and streamers? In a spreadsheet of course.
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Hi there.
All valid points and well made. FYI I come at this from a user's point of view rather than a developer's.
Out of the pro's that you mention regarding spreadsheets, the utility one is by far the dominant feature. A piece of paper is also simple and portable (and has utility too, I guess). In particular, in the business environments which I have experienced, the ability to quickly knock something together to solve a problem is essential. In developer terms, I guess you would call this rapid prototyping. Consider a business where, for each ten client requests, only one gets executed. Then to value those requests, you are not going to build every single one into a system. You will do a quick and dirty on a spreadsheet; if the request is executed then only then will you consider putting it into a fully-fledged system.
Re. the cons, I also agree that by far the biggest (and probably only important) one is the inability to track changes. This explicity means that there is no audit trail and so any concept of process control disappears.
But I would add another con too – that of lack of scaleability (sp?). We have a simple problem, so we build a simple spreadsheet. Then we add a few tweaks, expand a few tables, add a few scenarios, and before long we have a monster. Spreadsheets are NOT scaleable. They are good for simple problems, but beyond a certain size thet become impractical and unsupportable.
So I think we need two things. The first, and hardest, is a spreadsheet version of SourceSafe or Subversion. This would allow changes to be tracked, an audit trail to be built, etc. I assume this is nigh-on impossible as no-one has done it so far – I leave that to the more technically minded to decide on. But I would have thought any product like this would have sold like hot cakes.
The second is the ability to take a spreadsheet and use that to develop a system. Some businesses let users develop their systems on spreadsheets, and then take them and use the spreadsheets as the requirements specification. There is a package out there (I can't remember the name but will try and dig it out) which turns spreadsheets into C++ modules. Hence, after a spreadsheet reaches a certain size, it can be turned into a "real" system (whatever that means).
Re. your comment on narrowing the gap. Has anyone looked at a finance system called Front Arena from Sungard? It is basically set up to work similarly to a spreadsheet. But it proves quite hard to sell. Client: "Tell me, what can your system do?" Sungard: "Anything you want it to." And then the client buys it and it doesn't do anything until the client has spent ages telling it what to do… it's very flexibility is its Achilles heel.
[Aside: a good interview question for salespeople is "tell me what a spreadsheet can do."]
I wonder if putting the sheet online would solve many of the problems? Replace Excel with Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/) or Zoho Sheet (http://sheet.zoho.com/).
Google Docs has a revision history, real-time collaboration on a document (and chat whilst you edit), e-mail notifications, and of course no versioning / distribution problem.
There's no VBA, but there are Gadgets, written in Javascript.
And of course there's a real API with libraries in all major languages, so we're free of the Microsoft silo.
*Now* we're talking.


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THE "hostile environment" that exists at Swindon Town is not at boardroom level but in other areas of the club, according to manager Paolo Di Canio.
In his post-match interview after the 2-0 victory at Oldham on Saturday, Di Canio launched into a thinly-veiled attack on the mentality of the youth system at the County Ground and seemed to take a swipe at under 18 manager Paul Bodin.
The Italian said he could end up staying in Swindon for "many years" and if he did there would be others who would have to leave as he changed the set-up of the Robins from top to bottom as he sees fit.
However, he stressed that the "hostile environment" he referred to during an interview last week was not a description of the atmosphere between himself and the Town board.
"I'm not talking about the board. I'm talking about some other areas, that there is a very unprofessional area.
"I'm sorry that the people are sad," he said.
"When I talk about bringing Barcelona it's not because I want to play like Barcelona because otherwise I would contradict myself.
"Not in the way we play – the mentality.
"Dedication is not wearing a Swindon tracksuit and a cup of tea and working in the County Ground corridor.
"It's working 24 hours, even when you are at home, and dedicating yourself for the cause.
"My mission is this one.
"If someone is not capable already, one day he will have to go.
"This is my mission if in the future I still have the chance to stay in here.
"Now I have 18 months to go but everything can happen in life.
"My future can be many years in here if I have this chance.
"Now the priority is the first team but I will change because if someone claims this club has to bring up to the first team youth players every year – maybe pick two players – Paolo Di Canio will have to decide.
"I have nothing against any one of the young players but if they are not ready, because sometimes there is not enough quality we have to be honest, we don't have to go angry.
"Maybe they can start thinking about school more and the parents have to help them think about school.
"Someone is a good prospect but probably he wasn't taught well.
"When you see players at Crewe at 18 they are ready as a footballer.
"If I make someone go angry it's not my problem.
"I work for the best of the cause because I don't have any other interests than to make this club bigger than when I came in here.
"Already I brought this club to be bigger than before.
"I am in favour of this club, not against it.
"Paolo Di Canio one day, for sure, will leave but I want to leave good memories.
"I want to win. I want to put my name in a frame.
"I don't have to stay 20 years with a Swindon tracksuit and be a simple employee, with all respect.
"I don't wear a Swindon tracksuit with a cup of tea, I wear casual and I stay 24 hours working my brain to think how to do the best job for this club."


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MISAKI, Kanagawa Pref. — Sailing legend Minoru Saito cruised into the record books Monday evening when his aging, battered sloop Shuten-dohji II crossed a line off the port of Misaki, ending a 7 1/2-month, nonstop unassisted solo circumnavigation and making him at 71 the oldest person ever to perform the feat.
The line was where Saito, then 70, hoisted sail Oct. 16 to embark on his adversity-fraught odyssey Challenge 7 aboard the 15-year-old, 15-meter sloop, which has taken him over those years more than the distance to the moon.
His arrival Monday marks his seventh solo circumnavigation. This time around, famed sailor Kenichi Horie and Saito shadowed each other, but they denied it was a "race." Horie departed Oct. 1 from Osaka aboard his sleek, new Suntory Ltd.-sponsored sloop Mermaid. He is expected to arrive back there Tuesday.
"I'm tired. Two hundred and thirty-four days was a long time," said an unshaven Saito after a doctor gave him a quick checkup.
"Anyway, my heart is fine and I feel good," he said. "I've had some cold beer, so I feel better."
The sparsely funded Saito, who, as always, entered the equation with a long-running heart ailment, survived damaging knockdowns near Cape Horn, frostbite among icebergs in the Southern Ocean ultimately cured with Tiger Baum, a nagging toothache only anodyne could alleviate, bowel trouble in both extremes, a never-healed broken finger that only worsened, food that turned bad and water that spoiled.
The woes suffered by his aging Shuten-dohji II (Drunkard's Child) ran the gamut from an engine that quit early on, disabling his refrigeration, to auto-helm and steering vane breakdowns, mainsail and storm sail damage, radio and satellite phone disruptions, and "gremlins" who silenced his critical weather fax system — problems that each would have sent a less intrepid sailor scurrying back to port.
The stores he embarked with included tanks of drinking water and diesel fuel, hundreds of bottles of water, propane canisters, cans of beer, bottles of wine, whiskey, rum, "shochu" spirits, some 200 potatoes, 200 onions and Japanese squash (which "with beer is not so bad.") He also had prepared rice and instant noodles, canned foods and thawing meat he had to quickly consume.
In mid-April he reported still having lots of green tea, but couldn't find his teapot in the chaos below deck.
Short of fresh food toward spring and as he started climbing his way back north to Japan, he started growing "kaiware" daikon sprouts, broccoli and mustard greens below deck to augment the processed and canned foods with a little salad.
"My vegetables did very well," Saito said, adding, however, that his alcohol supply was running "very, very low" near the end.
Notable log entries include Dec. 6, after constant storms and little sleep: "I'm in a pod where low pressures are rambling, feeling there's no sane Earth I'm staying on." Or his first knockdown on Dec. 29 while running with "bare poles" for days on end, when the wind was too fierce for any sail and the waves topped 10 meters.
"My worst day was the knockdown before Cape Horn. After that, winds and waves were terrible and I had to stay at the helm," Saito said as his friends and media toasted him with more beer.
January saw frostbite. In February came the toothache, an iceberg "with a sharp tip like Mount Everest," and "a fish 18 cm long waiting for me on deck, and I'm going to cook it." Later his boat sprung a "syringelike leak that kept going 'shooo.' "
April 24 was notable as a squall afforded him his first bath in five months, and he even slapped on some hair tonic. He washed his hair in the rain again a week later.
On May 11, he almost fell overboard — some lifelines were missing. The next day the toothache returned and some birds came calling.
Saito did his best to keep in touch with his support group during the 234-day saga, battling frequent repairs and sail-changes, storms and calms, difficult-to-see islands and chronic lack of sleep. And he always kept his spirits up, even when they were running low.
Almost home on May 20, he counted four cans of beer, one bottle of whiskey and a jug of shochu left. Things were getting desperate. He dreamt of cold beer and sashimi.
All of that awaits him now that he has set foot on land, as well as a congratulatory call from an old friend — Britain's Sir Robin Knox Johnston, who in 1968 was the first to complete a nonstop circumnavigation — but at a much younger age.
The next question for Saito, whose feat awaits recognition by the International Sailing Federation as well as the Guinness Book of Records, will be when he and the Shuten-dohji II are ready again to put to sea.
But for now, Saito will settle for a hot bath and a few nights' sleep on a firm futon in Misaki.


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New FireChat App Could Stop Feds from Controlling the Web
Joshua Cook
June 6, 2014
With the use of mesh networks, Internet users could create their own networks, bypassing government-controlled or government-spied on ones.
A startup called Open Garden is looking to use people's own cellular phones.
According to Forbes, over the last two years, five million people have downloaded the company's free Android app Open Garden to create wireless hotspots, and its FireChat app for iPhones and Droids to chat anonymously with other users "off the grid."
The FireChat app isn't perfect, but what's tantalizing about both services is that they need no WiFi connection or carrier plan to get connected. Just another person with the app, within a 70-meter radius, reported Forbes.
A "mesh network" refers to the creation of a peer-to-peer "mesh" of smartphones that form their own separate network. If at least one smartphone is online, the rest of the network can not only talk to one another, but connect to the web too.
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A lack of evidence that the main drug used to treat death cap mushroom poisoning is effective has highlighted the dangers of eating wild mushrooms found in and around the national capital.
Two people died and another became critically ill after eating the deadly fungi at a New Year's Eve dinner in 2011.
The case triggered a review of 12 cases of suspected death cap poisoning reported in the ACT and NSW between 1999 and 2012.
Eight of the 12 patients sustained serious liver damage and four died, according to the study published in The Medical Journal of Australia.
Study co-author and Canberra Hospital emergency medicine director Michael Hall said supplies of a possible antidote, Silibinin, were kept in the ACT, NSW and South Australia.
But it was unclear how effective Silibinin actually was.
"It's essentially illegal in Australia - you have to use the special import scheme to import it, and as our paper shows, there's not good evidence it works anyway,'' he said.
During one cluster of cases, hospitals had to scramble to source sufficient supplies of Silibinin, which is derived from the milk thistle, Silybum Marianum, and used in European hospitals.
The rarity of death cap poisoning made it difficult for large-scale scientific studies to be conducted on the efficacy of Silibinin.
"There's very much a lack of evidence on how to best treat them. You can't realistically expect people to run large controlled trials for something that's relatively rare,'' Dr Hall said.
People who consume death cap mushrooms can initially suffer from gastroenteritis-type symptoms and eventually kidney injury, liver failure and multi-organ failure.
Eight of the patients studied were not long-term residents of the ACT and six were immigrants from Asia.
"Eating wild mushrooms is a dangerous thing in Canberra and the fact is when you read through these cases the majority of Canberra people are probably aware of that,'' Dr Hall said.
"We teach junior doctors in Canberra that if you see a patient with an unexplained gastro-type illness, you have to ask about wild mushrooms. Now, you wouldn't teach that in any other city in Australia.''
Death cap mushrooms often grow near established oak trees and are found when there is warm, wet weather. In Canberra this usually occurs in late summer or early autumn. The poisonings that occurred at the end of 2011 were after unseasonal summer rains.
Harmonie club chef Liu Jun and kitchen hand Tsou Hsian died after eating wild mushrooms Mr Liu had cooked in a stir-fry.
A third man became critically ill while a fourth had only minor symptoms.
In response to the two deaths, a public education campaign was developed that targeted people from non-English-speaking backgrounds and visitors to the ACT.
A Health Directorate spokeswoman said a campaign would run at the start of this year's mushroom season.
The small button death cap, or white cap, mushroom can be very difficult to distinguish from an edible mushroom.
In Australia, death cap mushrooms are most commonly found in the ACT. But they are also seen in other parts of the south-east and some poisonings have been reported in Victoria.


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Mama's Smoked Salmon Pasta Salad
Recipe by Um Safia
We make pasta salad quite a bit in our house & this is definitely one of our very favourites. The kids wolf this down! It is great as a light lunch, a side dish, on a picnic etc. You can add ingredients or change them round to suit your tastes or what you have on hand.
Top Review by magpie diner
Thanks this was a really nice salad. I wasn't sure how much pasta I would need to provide 6 cups, so I just used a whole box of fusili, which is 375 grams - seems like the right amount. I wish I had my camera to take a photo because it's a very pretty looking salad. I used whole wheat pasta and threw together a quick garlic mayo using about 12 tbsp of mayo, juice of one lemon, some parsley and three cloves of garlic. I'll make this for the next bbq or potluck we go to. Swapping dill for the italian seasonings would be nice too. Thx again!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 6 cups cooked pasta (we like penne or the med. shells for this)
- 120 g smoked salmon, finely sliced
- 3⁄4 cup garlic mayonnaise
- 1 cup lettuce, shredded
- 3⁄4 cup cucumber, peeled & finely sliced (we use English cukes)
- 1⁄4 cup sweetcorn
- 1 carrot, grated
- 1 red bell pepper, finely diced
- 1⁄4 teaspoon paprika
- 1⁄2 teaspoon mixed Italian herbs
- salt and black pepper
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 eggs, hardboiled & chopped
- 2 small pickled cucumbers, finely sliced
Directions See How It's Made
- in a large bowl or pot, mix the mayo with the salmon & seasonings.
- Add the rest of the ingredients & mix well.
- You can add more mayo or a simple vinigrette if you want a creamier salad.
- Serve or store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 48 hours.


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STAGE TUBE: JERSEY BOYS Pay Tribute to George Strait
Cast members of JERSEY BOYS paid tribute to the king of country music, GEORGE STRAIT, in the best way they knew how: by covering two of Strait's best-known hits. Check below for the video!
On Friday afternoon at Billy Bob's Texas, five cast members and a musician from the national Broadway tour of JERSEY BOYS, currently running at Bass Hall, recorded a mash-up of two Strait classics, "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" and "All My Ex's Live in Texas," then posted a video of the recording to YouTube.
Strait's final concert is today at AT&T Stadium.
"He is a true legend - with over 60 No. 1 hits. A remarkable singer, a fantastic performer, the whole package," says the group that collectively play the Four Seasons in JERSEY BOYS, Nicolas Dromard, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Quinn Van Antwerp and Adam Zelasko. "We wanted to pay tribute to someone whose work has made such a huge impact on us. In country music, it just doesn't get much better than George Strait."
Performing in the video are Dromard, Van Antwerp and Zelasko, three of the Four Seasons, along with Shaun Taylor-Corbett, who portrays Frankie Valli during some of the weekend performances; orchestra member Ty Simmons on guitar; and cast member John Rochette, tapping on a newspaper.
Presented by Performing Arts Fort Worth, JERSEY BOYS runs through June 15 at Bass Performance Hall. For more information, visit www.basshall.com.
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Chen Ying, an anchorwoman at a television station in the earthquake zone in Ya'an, was getting married when the earthquake hit her city. Local media said she rushed back to her job to report on the earthquake in her wedding gown. (Source)
"I KNOW WHO IT IS. It's the reporter!" wrote one commenter on the affiliate's website.
Of course, there's nothing to suggest that Hellgren was involved in the crime. In fact, authorities arrested 30-year-old Michael Henshaw several days later and charged him with second degree assault, reckless endangerment, and robbery in connection with the incident. (Source)


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Is there a more frenzied family time than Sunday mornings? Breakfast to serve, Bibles to grab, belts and shoes to find. The ensuing bedlam can cause heated exchanges and sibling conflict, squelching a calm start to a morning of worship.To simplify our prechurch routine, I parked a large, sturdy basket in the corner of our living room, instructing my kids to place Sunday items in it when returning home from church. In went Bibles (which could be easily retrieved and returned during the week), dress shoes, belts and other "Sunday best" accessories.The basket successfully simplified our prechurch routine — and with a pretty blanket folded on top, no one else knew!
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Charitable giving rises across country, Allegheny County
Charitable giving rose 3.5 percent to $316.2 billion last year, mirroring the modest improvement in the economy, according to the 2013 Giving USA Report on Philanthropy.
Giving increased nearly $10.7 billion from the nearly $305.5 billion raised in 2011. The report was compiled by the Giving USA Foundation and its research partner, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
The Pittsburgh Foundation surpassed the national average by raising $65 million in 2012, an increase of 8 percent over the previous year and its third consecutive fundraising record. Foundation officials attributed it to strengthened partnerships with the region's professional advisers, estate trust attorneys and accountants.
The United Way of Allegheny County also collected a record $33.2 million in 2012 — a 2.7 percent increase over the previous year's $32.3 million. The total has increased the past three years, the agency said.
The national report found that charitable giving by individuals rose by 3.9 percent to $228.9 billion; corporations gave 12.2 percent more, nearly $18.2 billion; and foundations gave 4.4 percent more, $45.7 billion.
Analysts noted that income, wealth and a sense of financial security drive individual giving. The $223 million given for Hurricane Sandy relief helped fuel contributions to human services.
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PARIS – As the European Union prepares to enter the new year, it faces an almost perfect storm of political challenges. The strategy it has used in the past – barely muddling through a series of calamities – may no longer be enough.
Of course, the EU is no stranger to crisis management. The euro crisis, for example, was widely expected to destroy it; but, after a couple of years of tough summits, the issue was more or less handled. Greece remains in poor shape, but it has retained its EU and eurozone membership. And the EU now has stronger mechanisms for economic-policy coordination.
But the situation today is far more demanding than anything the EU has seen so far – not least because of the sheer number of serious challenges that Europe faces. Far from the "ring of friends" that EU leaders once envisioned, the European neighborhood has turned into a "ring of fire," fueled largely by the combination of Islamist terrorism and Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. The idea that the EU, with its open societies and firm rule of law, would inspire those values in surrounding countries has been turned on its head, with the disorder of Europe's near abroad projecting tensions and instability into the Union.
One of those challenges is the surging refugee crisis, fueled by conflict in the Middle East, especially Syria. To be sure, only a tiny fraction of those who have been displaced are currently seeking to enter the EU, and the million refugees expected to arrive this year represent only about 0.2% of the EU's population. But when so many arrive in so short a time in just a few countries, the EU's capacity to manage the influx has been overwhelmed, and controls at some borders within the Schengen Area have been restored.


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Weren´t the Portraits of the Unidentified Ravenclaw lady, the Unidentified Hufflepuff lady and the Unidentified Slytherin knight hung here? If this is the case, is it possible that they are the founders themselves, given the tower´s name?--Rodolphus 13:15, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
Bumping--Rodolphus 14:20, May 3, 2010 (UTC)
It wouldn't make sense to have 3 Unidentified portraits of the the founders because they have Chocolate Frog Cards. The point of them being incorrectly identified would still have the portraits incorrectly identified. They could be descendents of the founders though.
Weasel666 05:25, June 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Also, the portraits aren't hung in the tower, they are hung on a corridor off the entrance to the tower. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 20:40, July 13, 2010 (UTC)
Which floor?
Does anyone know at which floor is this tower? Andre G. Dias (talk) 11:18, February 12, 2014 (Brazil)