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First, I had problems building out perfctr which can be read about here: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/vi ... 99&start=0
Now I have step-by-step set of instructions that will build a perfctr enabled kernel. The most up-to-date version is here: http://backedbyapenguin.wordpress.com/2 ... -and-papi/
So today I tried building out PAPI. I tried to build out 3.7.2 as that is what the programmers have used before, but I couldn't get the spec file to compile under CentOS so I decided to just go with the latest. I downloaded the 4.0.0 tar ball and applied the first patch; that went well. So then I tried compiling with a ./configure and I ended up with:
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configure: error: No performance monitoring interface available
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Linux CentTest 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus.perfctr #1 SMP Sat Mar 6 01:20:12 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
But that is the right kernel! I spent about an hour reading through items I found on Google, but none of them led me anywhere useful. The only thing that looks remotely useful is the perfex which I can't get to compile nor can I seem to find a binary.
I then discovered that patch 2 was out so I tried that.
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wget the diff file
patch -p1 < papi400patch2.diff
No errors there but I get the same error when I compile.
I am really not sure what is going on. I compiled the kernel with perfctr and that is indeed the kernel I am running. I installed the kernel-headers /and/ the kernel-debug files. I am using the latest CentOS plus kernel, using the latest perfctr, and using the latest PAPI. What gives? Where have I gone wrong?


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Last weekend, while driving home from a family wedding in New York's Hudson Valley, we decided to take a short detour to Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture. It was a bit of a struggle to get there, battling heavy rains and low visibility on the Taconic State Parkway, but as we pulled up to the farm, the rain magically stopped and we even saw a hint of blue skies.
Stone Barns is a non-profit farm, an education center, and home to Blue Hill Restaurant and Cafe (the farm's biggest customer). Through public programs, the education center seeks to increase awareness of sustainable agriculture and to teach us where our food actually comes from.
We arrived in time to sign up for a livestock tour ($10 per adult), an hour-long walking tour through the pastures and barns, allowing you to get up close with the farm's animals. As we were waiting for our tour to begin, we watched the young participants from the morning's egg gathering program skip happily on by, their guide holding an enormous basket of freshly collected brown eggs.
Our livestock tour began with a visit to the laying hens. Did you know that you can tell what color their eggs will be from looking at their earlobes? This breed of chicken lays brown eggs:
A group of naughty hens had escaped the fenced-in area (now that's what you call 'free range') and uncharacteristically followed us for part of our tour:
A flock of teenage Bourbon Red turkeys (known for their juicy rich-tasting meat and their fondness for roosting in trees):
A proud Broad-Breasted White turkey:
A 600 lb Berkshire pig rooting around in the woods:
Grazing lambs:
We also saw geese, rams, wild turkeys, and some beehives.
According to Stone Barn's philosophy, their animals live humane lives on the farm. And though I'm not an expert in animal psychology, all the animals we met that day seemed genuinely happy, healthy, and good-natured.
From the egg mobiles to the oxygenated compost pile (which didn't smell bad at all), Stone Barns was everything I'd imagined after reading about the symbiosis of pasture-based farming in The Omnivore's Dilemma (specifically the chapters on Polyface Farm). It was pretty amazing, actually.
After our tour we stopped at the farmer's market at the Dooryard Garden:
And checked out the 2 old silos:
Cleverly converted on the inside to a lounge and coat room:
We also snuck upstairs to for a peak at the Hayloft (an old haybarn converted to a gorgeous catering hall).
And as we were walking through the silo lobby, we unexpectedly ran into Chef Dan Barber (turning me into a stuttering starstruck fool, of course). Unphased by my ridiculous behavior, Chef Barber graciously invited us into the kitchen to take a photo with him:
As this was an impromptu visit, we tried not to lament too much about the fact that we were dressed far too casually in our t-shirts and shorts to dine in the main restaurant (never mind that we didn't have a reservation either), and instead enjoyed a light lunch at the Blue Hill Cafe:
Vegetarian quiche:
A sampling of salads (heirloom tomato, green bean, and couscous):
Open-faced tomato and goat cheese sandwich:
The food was simply prepared but delicious, featuring quality ingredients from the farm. We especially loved the different varieties of sweet heirloom tomatoes.
After lunch, we walked through their impressive half-acre greenhouse:
The hi-tech roof automatically opens to cool the greenhouse when it reaches a certain temperature:
We plan on taking the greenhouse tour on our next visit, especially after spotting several seedlings we'd never heard of before:
All in all, a fabulous afternoon at Stone Barns. We're already planning a trip back to dine in the main restaurant (and next time, we'll be dressed to the nines). Highly recommended for foodies, families, and anyone interested in learning more about sustainable agriculture.
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
630 Bedford Road
Pocantico Hills, NY 10591
(914) 366-6200
Blue Hill at Stone Barns
630 Bedford Road
Pocantico Hills, NY 10591
(914) 366-9600

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Barracuda Networks in May acquired SignNow, a developer of e-signature technology it expects to help foster growth in its fledgling storage business.
Campbell, Calif.-based Barracuda said SignNow targets businesses with its cloud-based digital-signature service, giving customers a way to sign, back up and store electronic documents and comply with data retention and audit policies.
Barracuda said SignNow already has more than 1 million users, including 100,000 small businesses.
Barracuda did not disclose terms of the acquisition.


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Doris Charlene Bickerstaff, 86, of Amarillo died Friday, March 23, 2012.
No services will be scheduled. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Mrs. Bickerstaff was born March 30, 1925, in Spearman to Mack and Minnie Martin. She was a homemaker and loved to paint and garden.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee Bickerstaff.
Survivors include a daughter, Debbie Oliver and husband David of Amarillo; a son, David Bickerstaff and wife Donna of Mabank; two brothers, Vernon Martin of Amarillo and Edwin Martin of Las Animas, Colo.; two sisters, Maxine Rook of Borger and Pauline Saud of Fort Worth; six grandchildren, Johnny Dellis of Mesquite, DeAnn Bickerstaff and Derek Bickerstaff, both of Dallas, and Jamie Romero, Jordan Oliver and Jared Oliver, all of Amarillo; and nine great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial be to The Arbors Activity Department, in memory of Doris Bickerstaff, 1910 Medi Park Drive, Amarillo, TX 79106.
Sign the online guestbook at www.boxwellbrothers.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, March 25, 2012


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Marie Laveau's zombie army has trapped our heroines—and Madame M. Delphine LaLaurie—in Witchwarts at the beginning of "Burn, Witch, Burn!" Chapter 5 of "American Horror Story: Coven."
Spoilers! Stop reading if you haven't seen it! (If you can't see the video above, watch on YouTube.)
But first, we flash back to All Hallow's Eve 1833 and Delphine's warped Chamber of Horrors, where she tests a potential suitor for her daughter by having him guess what's in the serving pots. Eyeballs and intestines!
"You're not man enough for my Borquita," she says as he runs off.
When Borquita and her sisters whisper about offing their mom, she locks them up in the chamber where she tortures and kills her slaves.
Flash forward to the present, and Delphine is a guilty ol' bitty whose facing down the zombie versions of all her daughters. And they aren't happy!
Zombie army and Spalding's doll tea parties aside, this episode's emotional focus was on mother-daughter relationships—as shitty as they are. Delphine and her daughters got nothing on Fiona and Delia, who got a face-full of sulphuric acid last week and now is carrying war wounds brought on by her mama.
Fiona takes Delia to what must be the worst hospital ever. Or maybe it just seems that way because Fiona raided the drug closet and popped a bunch of pills.
Anyway, the hospital feels an awful lot like that damn asylum from last season, with bad lighting and freaky inmates, er, patients, shuffling around the halls unsupervised.
"You didn't throw that acid, but you might as well have," one freak tells Fiona, which sends her into a tailspin of regret for being a crappy mother.
She stumbles into the room of a woman who has just lost her baby during birth. And no one has cleaned her up. And there's the baby. Again, where the hell are the nurses and doctors in this joint?!
Fiona makes the woman hold her blue baby and berates her into saying she'll love the baby girl until the day she dies--um, she's already is dead, Fiona! Or maybe not. Fiona brings the bundle back to life. No more blue baby!
So if she can bring people back to life, why can't she reverse the affects of the acid on Delia's face? Is she or is she not the Supreme?
After Fiona compares dick sizes with Delia's hubby, who we'll continue to call Jean Jacket, she takes off and we discover Delia's blindness has brought her a new witchy power. When she touches someone she can see what people have done in the past.
Bad news for that lying, cheating, serial killing hubby of hers! That's going to come up in future episodes, I'm sure. But for now, back to Witchwarts.
Marie's zombies are scaring the holy hell out of everyone in the school, but not hottie neighbor Luke or the trick-or-treating doofuses who happen on to the zombies.
Before you can say "Evil Dead," they rip apart the humans. Those guys were too old to be trick-or-treating anyway.
Cute Nan attempts to save her boy toy, who miraculously hasn't been torn apart. Sadly, the zombies haven't even torn off his shirt. (Save his chest, Nan!) The zombies trap them in a car; that mind-reading trick really isn't helping out Nan at the moment.
Back in the house, Queenie is stabbing herself and cutting her own throat trying to stop zombie Borquita from making lunch of her, Spalding and Delphine. That's not working either. Leave it to bad mama Delphine to kill off her daughter, this time for real. Like Fiona, she regrets being a total bitch when her daughters were living.
Too late.
Back outside, Nan and Luke are looking like zombie food when Zoe finally snaps out of her boring, sulky teen thing and takes action—with a buzz saw!
That's right, witch raids the gardening shed, grabs a chain saw and goes all Ash on the army of darkness. (Nice homage, writers!) She slices and dices and cut one clean in half from top to bottom.
Campy, yes, but I love it so. One question, though: are the neighbors deaf? And what about Luke's holy roller mama? She at church? This is a lot of commotion to go unnoticed.
Speaking of, Zoe's saw dies before she can stop the last one. Just as she's about to be eaten, Zoe taps into some hidden hocus pocus power that zaps the zombies and knocks Marie Laveau right outta her levitating naptime.
"I don't know what that was, but they got some real power in that witch house now," Marie says.
Looks like we found the new Supreme, people! And she can do more than kill with her vagina.
I know, I know, the episode isn't called "Slice, Witch, Slice." It's called "Burn, Witch, Burn!" I'm getting to it!
First, Fiona and the girls burn all the zombie parts, which apparently stinks as badly as a dead witch being locked in a cedar chest, Spalding! When Delphine tries to bond over their twisted ideas on motherhood, Fiona shuts her down. "I doubt it," she says. "You are, after all, the maid."
Anyway, back to witch burning...
You remember Myrtle Snow and the Witch Council came callin' last week. They suspect Fiona took out Madison because Fiona thought she was the next Supreme. Oops, she wasn't. And now she's just a tea party doll for Spalding. (Tip, don't pull so hard on her arm next time.)
Not even Marie's zombie attack can slow down ol' Myrtle's plot to depose Fiona. It just ain't going to happen. Fiona enlists Queenie to help frame Myrtle for the attack on Delia and convinces the other members of the Council that Myrtle may have killed Madison. She was in New Orleans, staying in a hotel under the alias Jennifer Wooley. (Leave it to the gay warlock to figure out the name is that of the Veronica Lake character in the film "I Married a Witch.")
All that's left to do is burn the witch, as they say. And Fiona's ready, willing and able.
"You don't mess with a Supreme," Queenie says as the black-clad procession marches to a stake to torch Myrtle. After deed's done, Queenie has second thoughts but Fiona sets her straight, suggesting she could be the new Supreme.
Gullible girl.
Still Myrtle's down but not out. You know how things are when you have a Stevie Nicks-loving necromancer prancing around New Orleans. No one's dead forever ... unless you're a zombie.
"Coven" taught a lot of lessons this week:
- Be a good mom, or else.
- If you're married to a witch, best not cheat on her.
- Don't float in the air without a mattress beneath you.
- Never mark up photos of the person you want to get rid of and then leave them hanging on your wall. That's evidence!
- Make sure you have enough wood or other flammable objects under the burning stake so there's no chance the witch can be revived.
- When zombies invade, a chain saw could be your best defense.
FX on Wednesday announced that it has renewed "American Horror Story" for a fourth season in 2014. What did you think of the "Burn, Witch, Burn!"?
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We have a simple and clear templet "nanpa X" to explain all math by tp. It may cover any need in mathematics among tp-community.To me the main question about math is whether we need to mark the words for mathematical use.
For example:
-- nanpa ko -- a mass (a weight), because a full weight is contained of all minimanl portions ("ko").
-- nanpa kule -- a temperature, because there is a direct relation between temperature and color
-- nanpa walo -- a purity of material, and so on
I am sure, we should fill the templet "nanpa X" (a set of 120 meanings), and we will have an answer on the main question about math...


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Naomi Grace Edmonds
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Brian and Joya Edmonds, of Kansas City, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Naomi Grace Edmonds. Naomi was born on Oct. 10, 2008 at the North Kansas City Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds and 8 ounces.
Paternal grandparents are Bill and Marilyn Edmonds, of Nevada, and Larry and Teresa Brotherton, of Kansas City, Mo.
Maternal grandparents are Phil and Carol Schaffer, of Liberty, Mo.


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Lake Tawakoni State Park to Celebrate 10 years
Family Activities, Exhibitors, Re-enactors and Movie Night Scheduled for Park Event
WILLS POINT, TX—To celebrate 10 years of providing camping, hiking, fishing and outdoor recreation as the only state park facility on the east side of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Lake Tawakoni State Park is set to host a wide variety of family-oriented events on Saturday, Feb. 18.
The day's activities will range from a kid's Fun Fish for rainbow trout, which begins at 9 a.m. (advance registration required to reserve a spot), Dutch oven cooking demonstrations and blacksmithing, to a Pioneer Festival with doll making, an Old West gunfight re-enactment and live music.
There will also be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. to open the park's new outdoor amphitheater, which will also host a Family Movie Night that evening, where visitors are encouraged to bring a blanket, and can purchase popcorn and drinks from the State Park General Store.
"It's kind of hard to believe this park has already been here 10 years," said Superintendent Donna Garde. "Just in that time, it has become a tradition for lots of folks to come out here regularly to fish, hike or just relax. And for the folks who haven't experienced Lake Tawakoni State Park yet, maybe our anniversary event will be a good time for them to come out and visit and see what all we have to offer."
The 376-acre state park facility boasts more than 75 developed campsites and is popular for access among boaters and anglers to the large, 36,000-acre reservoir of the same name that spans 200 miles of shoreline in Hunt, Rains and Van Zandt counties. But the park is perhaps best known for a unique, spontaneous giant labyrinth of spider webs that occurred in 2007, and was even filmed by National Geographic's TV Show, Wild Case Files.
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Today Rob Phillips (http://www.rpgroup.caltech.edu/) gave a talk titled, "DNA in a tight squeeze: the other life of a macromolecular assembly."
Phillips et al. study the atomic-level physics of DNA. Their recent work focuses on DNA loops which are formed when transcription factors bind to regulatory sites. Specifically, they modified the lac operon such that they can insert sequences of arbitrary length and content between the Oid and O1 sites. A surprising result is that DNA is happiest to make loops of 75.5 base pair lengths, whereas the persistence length for DNA is 115 base pairs. I think this result has ramifications for our understanding of the fitness of regulatory regions. I would like to see an experiment which explores evolutionary fitness with regard to loop length between cis-regulatory sites.
Phillips also showed results from his study correlating the osmotic pressure inside a viral capsid to the speed of genetic ejection. His results show that viruses eject genetic material (into their host cell) very quickly at first. However, as the inter-viral osmotic pressure declines, the rate of ejection also drops. Eventually, the pressure reaches a point where no genetic material is ejected at all. I have several questions about the content of the genetic material which may or may not be ejected. Does it transcribe into a functional protein? Or, does this "tail" material contain garbage which can safely be left inside the virus?
I find this research exciting because it intersects physics, chemistry, biology, statistics, and computer science.
(Finally: check-out the VIPER project for atomic-level exploration of viral structures)


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Law & Order: SVU Scoop: Dave Navarro to Make Trouble for the Squad
Jan 28, 2013 8:44 PM EST
Dave Navarro is going to make beautiful music on Law & Order: SVU, but as a sound engineer instead of a musician. The Jane's Addiction rocker is set to guest-star on an upcoming episode of the NBC procedural, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Navarro, 4… Read more


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Wild Films ~ The Last Lions
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From the lush wetlands of Botswana's Okavango Delta comes the suspense-filled tale of a determined lioness ready to try anything—and willing to risk everything—to keep her family alive.
WINNER! Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design and Best Editing at the 2013 International Wildlife Film Festival!
About the film
Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert follow the epic journey of a lioness named Ma di Tau ("Mother of Lions") as she battles to protect her cubs against a daunting onslaught of enemies in order to ensure their survival.
Fleeing a raging fire and a rival pride headed by the dangerous cub-killing lioness Silver Eye, Ma di Tau and her fragile cubs must make their perilous escape by swimming a crocodile-infested river. Remote Duba Island is both a refuge and a strange new world for Ma di Tau and her cubs to conquer. On Duba, Ma di Tau must face off with the island's herd of fierce buffalo whose huge, slashing horns are among the most dangerous weapons in Africa. Although the buffalo are one of her biggest threats, they are also one of her best hopes for survival if she can prevail over them. Yet, even as Ma di Tau faces devastating loss and escalating perils, she becomes part of a stunning turning point in the power dynamics on Duba Island, bringing together a competitive rival pride in a titanic primal bid to preserve the thing that matters most: the future of their bloodlines.
The gripping real-life saga of Ma di Tau, her cubs, the buffalo, and the rival pride unfolds inside a stark reality: Lions are vanishing from the wild. In the last 50 years, lion populations have plummeted from 450,000 to as few as 20,000. Dereck and Beverly Joubert weave their dramatic storytelling and breathtaking, up-close footage around a resonating question: Are Ma di Tau and her young to be among the last lions? Or will we as humans, having seen how tough, courageous and poignant their lives in the wild are, be moved to make a difference?
Run time: 88 min.
WILD FILMS AT THE LIBRARY is a free series of award-winning international wildlife films selected from the International Wildlife Film Festival. The International Wildlife Film Festival was established in 1977 in Missoula, Montana with a mission to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of wildlife, habitat, people and nature through excellence in film, television and other media.


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One year after the New England Compounding Center shut down when it was linked to a meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people and sickened hundreds more, charges have yet to be filed against the company's owners. As prosecutors continue to investigate the case, survivors are speaking out about what they experienced after they were injected with tainted steroids. Here are some of their stories.
Charges in NECC-linked meningitis outbreak expected in 2014
Credit: CBS News
Abingdon, Md.
I received the tainted steroid injection from NECC on August 31, 2012 for severe sciatica. Since then, my life has dramatically changed. I suffered a stroke, severe fungal meningitis, an aneurysm, a fungal abscess and ultimately arachnoiditis. I was hospitalized for over two months and was out of work for six months. I had to take toxic antifungal medications for nine months, which caused a 25-pound weight loss and hair loss so bad I bought a wig. I can no longer sit or stand for too long without an increase in nerve pain and muscle cramping.
I no longer can enjoy running, jogging, dancing, traveling, festivals, yoga, teaching or intimacy. I do not know that I ever will enjoy those things again. Simple tasks have become difficult. I struggle making sense of this life-changing event and my hope is that one day I can look back with relief that it is over.
Credit: Angela Farthing
Evansville, Ind.
I decided to have steroid injections in my back to relieve chronic back pain due to three bulging disks, as surgery would require a neurosurgeon.
My symptoms started about three weeks after my first injection with lower body temperature, sweats, chills, headache and excruciating pain in my lower back and hip. I went to the emergency room and had a lumbar puncture that showed negative. One week later, I went back to the emergency room with same symptoms. About five days later, the lumbar puncture showed positive for meningitis and was started on anti-fungal treatment. I was in the hospital for 28 days and went home the day before Thanksgiving of 2012. I have had seizures and a mini-stroke. The doctors treating me have not really given me a prognosis, as I am still in treatment. The pain is very debilitating and I use a cane, walker or wheelchair. This has brought my life to an abrupt halt.
Credit: Danie Lindenberg
Elkhart, Ind.
I was treated for lower back pain and received four tainted injections. I had surgery for a fungal para-spinal abscess resulting from tainted injections to scrape out the infection. Post-surgery, I developed excruciating pain in my entire back, as well as neck pain. At times, I cried out and begged for God to help me or take me.
I now exist with chronic back and neck pain, sweats, tremors, limb numbness and tingling, stomach pain and bowel problems, headaches, joint pain, blurred vision, depression, memory problems, confusion, explosion sounds in ears, burning, stiffness in neck, painful feet when I walk, balance issues and the list goes on.
I have little quality of life, no social life, unable to travel for pleasure, much less work. I no longer look forward to the next day. I have had to use my savings to help pay for medical care, and I'm dependent on others. Pain and uncertainty have become my future.
Credit: Dawn Elliot
Ocala, Fla.
I initially became ill with severe nausea, dizziness, mental confusion, fever, severe head and neck pain 19 days after my second injection. I was in and out of the ER in October 2012 and hospitalized for a week in November 2012 for the same issues. To date, I still experience severe spells of the same symptoms.
I have not been able to be the same wife, mother and employee that I was before the injections. I have had a real hard time continuing to work but don't have much choice, as I have bills to pay. The scariest part is that I have no idea what my future holds, as the medical community doesn't seem to know how long this can fester in the body of someone with a healthy immune system. It is very frustrating, since nobody (not even the doctors) really understands.
Credit: Deena Cawley-Hoyt
Ann Arbor, Mich.
This year has been the biggest challenge of my life. My husband passed away several years ago, and my children live 6,000 miles away, so basically I had to deal with all of this by myself. The IV drugs caused frightening hallucinations. I developed atrial fibrillation and was moved to the cardiac ward and placed on appropriate medication.
Side effects from the Voroconazole were horrendous: loss of appetite, loss of hair, splitting nails, very poor balance, frequent falling, continued pain, extreme fatigue, loss of concentration, depression and difficulty sleeping. I have been off the drugs for about four months now, but some of the side effects remain.
My life has been changed. I can't do many of things I used to love doing. And there is a constant concern that the fungus infection lying dormant in my body will return. Some people have had relapses and say they are worse than the original illness, and that is always on my mind.
Credit: Doris Viola
Minneapolis, Minn.
I am part of a large group of people who were injected with the contaminated steroid last year. I was lucky enough to not have meningitis, but the effects were immense and caused me a great deal of pain and mental stress.
I had my injection at a local pain clinic where I had several injections for pain in my back. The last injection was given three-and-a-half weeks prior to a night of horror, when my husband had to take me to a local hospital, where I stayed for over a week. Later, it was discovered I had a small brain stem stroke. I had many other symptoms, including slurred speech, confusion, memory problems, painful muscles, joint problems, vomiting and difficulty in word searching.
Many problems linger. I am still unable to enjoy the life I had prior to all this. It is still hard to find a clinic that understands fully what has happened.
Credit: Kaye Hlusak
A year ago was a terrifying and painful ordeal that none of
us victims should have had to face and endure.
Many loved ones have been lost and continue to battle the "Fungal
Meningitis Nightmare" all because of greed and negligence by several parties
The shock of having your body thrown into emergency surgery
and having to take some of the worst drugs to try and treat the fungal meningitis
was so hard to endure. I think it made it even worse to know that no one knew
how to treat the condition.
So many complications happened, it was terrible. I was in
the hospital for three months but am now trying to get back to a normal. It
will never be the same. I thank God every day for carrying me through this
ordeal. My prayers go out to everyone. Keep fighting.
Credit: Roseann J. Fusco
Brooklyn Park, Minn.
(Account written by mother, Cathy Maccoux)
As Traci's mother I had a front-row seat to her nightmare. She had six tainted injections in July and August of 2012. Then came horrible headaches and nausea. Many ER visits later, she heard from the Minnesota Department of Health that she had received tainted injections. She then was admitted to the hospital.
In the hospital, the hallucinations began from Voriconazole. She had to have spine surgery to remove a spacer she had because of the fungus. She was forced to drop out of college, could not drive for a year, spent 40 days in the hospital and nine months on Voriconazole. She was in constant pain, had vision issues, broke her ankle, underwent 10 MRIs, could not work and has medical bills almost up to a $500,000.
This is no way for a 23 year old woman to have to live. We have also suffered greatly as a family. We do our best to support her in every way. We now deal with the future.
Credit: Traci Maccoux


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You could just go the khaki route once again, and no one would bat an eye. Beige. Nude. Neutral. Cream. Ecru. They're all solid, all bona fide classics. But it is summer, and it feels nice to stand out a bit, right?
Loden Dager, a New York-based menswear brand designed by Paul Marlow, has us seeing green in these otherwise standard-cut, 100-percent cotton chinos, which are a bit lighter and a bit more formal than a typical khaki. (While we're psyched on the enzyme-washed, almost teal version, they're also available in enough other colors to pick your personal winner.) Marlow has said he found inspiration from visual images of the student and the worker. Translation? The pieces are contemporary but not too trendy, crisp but not stuffy. Combined with smart tailoring, clean lines, and practical wear, this comfy pair of solid standbys is just as appropriate for the office as it is for a party, or a stroll on the boardwalk. Toss them on with a white button-down for work, or, for a casual scene, match them up with a plain Hanes T-shirt and a pair of understated loafers – it's the very essence of summer freedom. [$160, shop.lodendager.com]


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In computer circles a well known statement when it comes to hard drives is that it's not a matter of "if" a hard drive dies but "when". Well, unfortunately for my brother-in-law that time came a couple of weeks ago for his external hard drive. He had stored all of his music and all of the photos that his family has taken of their two year old son on an external Maxtor. One day he turned it on, heard some musical tones and then a whirring sound, a clicking sound, and that was it. It wouldn't show up on his computer and was presumed dead. Being the geek in the family, he asked if he could send it my way.
The first thing I did was plug it into power to hear the noises for myself. Sure enough, I heard the music tones and then the whirring and clicking. Some Google searches turned up pretty much nothing about the sounds, but having had an external drive before, I knew what the sounds meant: dead drive.
The next thing I did was hook it up to my PC. It actually started to get recognized but then wouldn't show up in My Computer. I then plugged it into another computer, just to be sure, and found that it was recognized but again, not showing up in My Computer. Then I went into Device Manager and saw it there … but I still couldn't access it. Thinking there might still be hope, I contacted Seagate/Maxtor tech support. Unfortunately, it was now too late to call so I sent them an e-mail describing the problem instead.
The next day I had yet to receive a reply, so I dialed them up. I spoke with a tech (who still couldn't tell me what the musical tones meant), and then after seeing that I couldn't browse to the drive he declared it dead. Since it was out of warranty he basically said that I was out of luck. Strangely enough, after I got off that call I received a response to my e-mail where the tech suggested I download Seagate's SeaTools and test the drive. I did as instructed and he drive failed every test and in some cases wouldn't even run the test.
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The next day I received an e-mail letting me know that the drive had been received and that the recovery process had begun.
Here's a detailed account of the recovery techniques DriveSavers used to try to bring back the dead drive:
DriveSavers initiated the recovery process by taking my external drive to their Certified Class 100 cleanroom (think ER for hard drives). Here, the engineers wearing specialized, certified cleanroom garments (see pictures below) carefully perform surgery on dead drives.
My drive in particular suffered electro-mechanical failure resulting in severe media damage to the platter surface and logical corruption to the file system. In other words, the drive failed in about every way you can imagine. Using an extensive supply of hard drive components, the cleanroom engineers utilized proprietary techniques to create a bit-for-bit image of the drive and placed the image onto a clean target drive.
"We did a combination of things to get the image," said Michael Hall, Director of PC Engineering. "We had to replace the actuator assembly and components on the printed circuit board. By performing these actions, we were able to image about 25 percent of the drive."
Unfortunately, the data I needed back was not on the image that they first acquired. At this point, they performed a full platter swap and were able to image all readable sectors that did not have physical media damage.
Next, the drive went to their Windows software engineering team to manually extract the critical files requested.
According to Michael Hall, "Although there was severe media corruption on this drive, DriveSavers engineers were able to successfully recover the majority of the critical data by utilizing our proprietary software and methodology."
Again, my drive failed in about every way you can imagine. It had electro-mechanical failure resulting in severe media damage. Seagate considered it dead, but I didn't give up. It's actually pretty amazing that they were able to recover nearly all of the data. Of course, they had to do some rebuilding, but that's what you expect when you send it to the ER for hard drive recovery.
So, how much did it end up costing? Pricing is determined by the drive capacity, complexity and completeness of the data recovery. The cost for recovering data from a drive with severe media damage, like mine, is about $1900. An average single drive data recovery costs about $1500.
In my case they restored approximately 80 percent of the drive and put it on a new external hard drive. Depending on the size of the data, it either goes to an external (you can supply one if you want) or DVDs. In addition to hard drives they can restore removable media, digital cameras, tape, and even iPods and MP3 players.
Not everyone can afford to spend that amount on recovering data but it's all about what the data means to you. In the case of this drive, it holds memories that would have been gone forever. So, it was a small price to pay.
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Walter L. Lukken, who was the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's acting chairman from June 2007 to January 2009, resigned from CFTC on June 16.
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WASHINGTON, DC, June 16 -- Walter L. Lukken, who was the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's acting chairman from June 2007 to January 2009, resigned from CFTC on June 16.
Lukken, whose resignation will be effective on July 10, drew heavy fire from congressional critics for not moving more aggressively to close the so-called "Enron loophole," a provision in the 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act which created commodity classes that were excluded or exempt from regulation.
US Sens. Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND), Maria Cantwell E. Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Thomas R. Harkin (D-Iowa), and Reps. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and John B. Larson (D-Conn.) all said the provision created opportunities for speculators to manipulate commodity prices, leading to last year's crude oil price spike, by taking bigger positions on unregulated overseas exchanges than would have been allowed on domestic trading platforms.
Lukken convened a conference on rising crude oil prices and commodities' possible role in October 2007 and began to investigate ways in which CFTC could examine the allegations more closely. Existing law kept the commission from issuing subpoenas in several key instances, and CFTC had to ask traders to provide information voluntarily.
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Dr. Burnett received his undergraduate degree in biology from Princeton University and his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in surgery, and subsequently residency and fellowship in urology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Upon completion of his urology residency, he received an American Foundation of Urologic Disease New Investigator Award to continue research work into the regulatory mechanisms of penile erection. He has maintained an active laboratory in neurourology since that time.
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Dr. Burnett has written more than 150 original peer-reviewed articles, along with numerous additional articles, editorials, and book chapters, relating to his biomedical research and clinical activities. His work has appeared in many prominent journals such as Science, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Urology, Urology, and Journal of Andrology. He has sat on various advisory committees including the Urology Study Section, National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review and FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs.
- Director, Basic Science Laboratory in Neuro-Urology
- Patrick C. Walsh Professor of Urology
- Director, Sexual Medicine Fellowship Program
- Professor of Urology
- Professor of Oncology
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- Brady Urological Institute
- Genital and Pelvic Reconstruction
- The Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer
- Transgender Health, Center for
- MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1988)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Urology (1993)
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- Maryland State License
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Research Summary
Dr. Burnett has led the basic science laboratory in neurourology for the last 10 years. Principal research studies have focused on the neurophysiology of the pelvis along with molecular mechanisms largely specific to nerve regulation of erectile and voiding functions.
Original discoveries in the laboratory include the description of nitric oxide as the principal neurotransmitter regulating penile erection. This discovery contributed to an understanding of the science of penile erection in the early 1990s from which drugs such as Viagra, Levita and Cialis were developed. The laboratory has continued major studies in the areas of nitric oxide biology in the pelvis as they relate to other erection disorders such as priapism, a condition of prolonged penile erection.
In the past several years, the laboratory has focused on improving outcomes with radical prostatectomy, particularly as these relate to the recovery of urinary and erectile functions. Primary efforts have gone toward the investigation and development of chemical compounds for application in men undergoing radical prostatectomy in hopes that erectile function will be better preserved. Collaboration with neuroscientists at this institution have established a role for neuroimmunophilins, special proteins localized to nerves which appear to be the receptor molecules for specialized drugs that can be taken to thereby protect the nerves from significant damage. Experimental models in rats with nerve injury leading to erectile dysfunction similar to that occurring in men after radical prostatectomy have been used demonstrating the major potential for drugs based on this pathway to be developed and used in the near future.
Ongoing projects involve the study of additional drugs that may serve the purpose of recovering penile nerve function in men undergoing radical prostatectomy.
The basic science laboratory in neurourology, headed by Arthur L. Burnett, M.D., is one of the independent research laboratories within the Brady Urological Institute.
The laboratory focuses on biological mechanisms of the pelvis as these relate to erectile and voiding dysfunctions primarily. The direction of research aims to understand the neurophysiology as well as vascular physiology of the lower genitourinary tract, with an emphasis on the translational aspect of basic science discoveries relevant to the human condition. Overall, the laboratory is geared toward improving and preserving erectile and voiding dysfunctions that occur as a result of pelvic disorders and consequences from treatment of these disorders.
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Clinical Trial KeywordsErectile Dysfunction
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Erythropoietin to Enhance Erection Recovery in Men Following Radical Prostatectomy (EPO)
Health Interventions in Men Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy (HIM-UP)
Viberect Penile Vibratory Stimulation to Enhance Recovery of Erectile Function and Urinary Continence Post-Prostatectomy
Assessment of Penile Vibratory Stimulation Using the Viberect in Men With Mild-Moderate and No Erectile Dysfunction
Androgen Regulation of Priapism in Sickle Cell Disease
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Miner M, Nehra A, Jackson G, Bhasin S, Billups K, Burnett AL, Buvat J, Carson C, Cunningham G, Ganz P, Goldstein I, Guay A, Hackett G, Kloner RA, Kostis JB, Laflamme KE, Montorsi P, Ramsey M, Rosen R, Sadovsky R, Seftel A, Shabsigh R, Vlachopoulos C, Wu F. "All Men with Vasculogenic Erectile Dysfunction Require a Cardiovascular Workup." Am J Med. 2013 Nov 1. pii: S0002-9343(13)00927-3. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.10.013.
Rowland DL, Adamski BA, Neal CJ, Myers AL, Burnett AL. "Self-Efficacy as a Relevant Construct in Understanding Sexual Response and Dysfunction." J Sex Marital Ther. 2013 Oct 28.
Chaux A, Munari E, Cubilla AL, Hicks J, Lecksell K, Burnett AL, Netto GJ. "Immunohistochemical Expression of the Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Pathway in Penile Squamous Cell Carcinomas: A Tissue Microarray Study of 112 Cases." Histopathology. 2013 Nov 27. doi: 10.1111/his.12338.
Burnett AL. "Erection Rehabilitation after Radical Prostatectomy: Definite Purpose, Indefinite Strategy." Eur Urol. 2013 Oct 28. pii: S0302-2838(13)01091-9. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2013.10.018.
Musicki B, Bivalacqua TJ, Champion HC, Burnett AL. "Sildenafil promotes eNOS activation and inhibits NADPH oxidase in the transgenic sickle cell mouse penis." J Sex Med. 2014 Feb;11(2):424-30. doi: 10.1111/jsm.12391.
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Methods and devices are taught for regulating penile erection and urethral function. Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase and precursors of nitric oxide are applied to relax or contract the muscles of the corpus cavernosum and the urethra.
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Methods for treating nerve injury caused as a consequence of surgery, and specifically as a consequence of prostate surgery, or for methods of neuroprotection of penile innervation, by administering a neurotrophic compound to a patient in need thereof
Prevention and Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
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Activities & Honors
- Distinguished Mentor Award, Urology Care Foundation, American Urological Association
- Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service, Johns Hopkins University
- Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Urology, 2010
- Edward J. Stegman CPA Memorial Award (4.0 GPA), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, 2009
- Alumni Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2009
- Certificate of Appreciation, American Society of Andrology, 2008
- First Place Award for Excellence, 27th Annual Jackson Hole Urology Conference, 2007
- Zorgniotti-Newman Prize, for Best Paper on Clinical Research in Sexual Medicine, 12th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, 2006
- Jean Francois Ginesti; Prize, for Best Paper on Basic Science on Sexual Medicine (co-author), 11th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research, 2004
- Emil Tanagho Prize, for Best Innovative Research (co-author), 10th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research, 2002
- Yamanouchi Best Abstract Prize in Impotence, American Urological Association, 2001
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1999
- Pfizer Scholar in Urology Award, Pfizer, Inc., 1999
- Yamanouchi Best Abstract Prize in Impotence, American Urological Association, 1998
- Merck Clinician Scientist Award, Merck & Co., 1996
- First Place, Lapides Annual Essay Contest on Urodynamic and Neurourology Research, American Urological Association, 1996
- Searle New Investigator Research Award, American Foundation for Urologic Disease, Inc., 1994
- Male Reproduction/Urology Prize Paper, American Fertility Society, 1993
- Second Place, Lapides Annual Essay Contest on Urodynamic and Neurourology Research, American Urological Association, 1993
- First Place, Laboratory Research, Annual Resident Prize Essay Contest, American Urological Association, 1993
- First Place, Basic Science, Resident Essay Competition, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association, 1992
- Student Merit Award, American Society of Andrology, 1992
- Young Investigator Award for Post-Doctoral Investigation, Clinical Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1992
- Summer Research Fellowship Program, Clinical Neurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, 1985
- Charles M. Cannon Memorial Prize, Biology Department Thesis Symposium, Princeton University, 1984
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- American Medical Association, 1988
- American Society for Peripheral Nerve, 2003
- American Society of Andrology, 1994
- American Urogynecologic Society, 1998
- American Urological Association, 1990
- International Society for Impotence Research, 1996
- International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health, 2000
- Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1985
- Monumental City Medical Society, 1994
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1984
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- Society of Government Service Urologists, 1991
- Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgeons, 2006
- The American College of Surgeons, 1999
- The Society of Black Academic Surgeons, 1997
- The Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons, 1998
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- Urodynamics Society, 1997
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- Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology
Professional Activities
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- Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, FDA, 2003
- Board of Directors, Sexual Medicine Society of North America, 2005
- Board of Directors, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association, 2004
- Comprehensive Diabetes Center's Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins, 1997
- Comprehensive Women's Health Center Oversight Committee, Johns Hopkins, 1997
- Examination Committee, American Board of Urology, 2001
- Executive Council, American Society of Andrology, 2004
- External Examiner, Jamaican Board of Urology Examination Committee (West Indies University), 2006
- Medical Advisory Board, National Kidney Foundation of Maryland, 1997
- Men's Health Advisory Board, Johns Hopkins, 1998
- Postgraduate Course Chairman, American Society of Andrology, 2003
- Prostate Cancer Guideline Update Panel, American Urological Association, 2006
- Prostate Cancer Outcomes Working Group, American Urological Association, 2004
- Research Council Strategic Workgroup, AUA, 2007
- Urology Study Section, NIH Center for Scientific Review, 2001
- Website Committee, Society for the Study of Impotence, 2000
- Workshop on Advancing Urologic Science and Career Development, NIDDK, 2007
- Male Circumcision Task Force, American Urological Association, 2008
- Chairman, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association, 2001
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons
- Membership Committee, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association, 2007
- Nominating Committee, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association, Inc., 1999
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Payment of time- barred debt is:
(a) Valid
(b) Void
(c) Illegal
(d) Voidable
Consideration is defined in the Indian Contract Act,1872 in: (a) Section 2(f) (b) Section 2(e) (c) Section 2(g) (d) Section 2(d)
Which of the following is not an exception to the rule, "No consideration, No contract": (a) Natural love and affection (b) Compensation for involuntary services (c) Completed gift (d) Agency
Consideration must move at the desire of: (a) The promisor (b) The promisee (c) The promisor or any other party (d) Both the promisor and the promisee
An offer which is open for acceptance over a period of time is: (a) Cross Offer (b) Counter Offer (c) Standing Offer (d) Implied Offer
Specific offer can be communicated to__________ (a) All the parties of contract (b) General public in universe (c) Specific person (d) None of the above
_________ amounts to rejection of the original offer. (a) Cross offer (b) Special offer (c) Standing offer (d) Counter offer
A advertises to sell his old car by advertising in a newspaper. This offer is caleed: (a) General Offer (b) Special Offer (c) Continuing Offer (d) None of the above
In case a counter offer is made, the original offer stands: (a) Rejected (b) Accepted automatically (c) Accepted subject to certain modifications and variations (d) None of the above
In case of unenforceable contract having some technical defect, parties (a) Can sue upon it (b) Cannot sue upon it (c) Should consider it to be illegal (d) None of the above
If entire specified goods is perished before entering into contract of sale, the contract is (a) Valid (b) Void (c) Voidable (d) Cancelled
______________ contracts are also caled contracts with executed consideration. (a) Unilateral (b) Completed (c) Bilateral (d) Executory
A offers B to supply books @ Rs 100 each but B accepts the same with condition of 10% discount. This is a case of (a) Counter Offer (b) Cross Offer (c) Specific Offer (d) General Offer
_____________ is a game of chance. (a) Conditional Contract (b) Contingent Contract (c) Wagering Contract (d) Quasi Contract
There is no binding contract in case of _______ as one's offer cannot be constructed as acceptance (a) Cross Offer (b) Standing Offer (c) Counter Offer (d) Special Offer
An offer is made with an intention to have negotiation from other party. This type of offer is: (a) Invitation to offer (b) Valid offer (c) Voidable (d) None of the above
When an offer is made to the world at large, it is ____________ offer. (a) Counter (b) Special (c) General (d) None of the above
Implied contract even if not in writing or express words is perfectly _______________ if all the conditions are satisfied:- (a) Void (b) Voidable (c) Valid (d) Illegal
A specific offer can be accepted by ___________. (a) Any person (b) Any friend to offeror (c) The person to whom it is made (d) Any friend of offeree
An agreement toput a fire on a person's car is a ______: (a) Legal (b) Voidable (c) Valid (d) Illegal


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The merger of country and punk has a long, irascible history, a plainspoken chronicle of everyday outsiders from the Knitters to Hank Williams III trying to find their place in a world that doesn't deal well with surly bad girls (or boys) who speak their minds. Lydia Loveless, a 21-year-old Ohio singer-songwriter, joins that rowdy tradition on her second album and first for Chicago-based Bloodshot Records, "Indestructible Machine" (Bloodshot). She conveys toughness, tenderness and humor with off-handed conviction.
The signs all point in the right direction from the get-go, with a six-piece band falling into "Bad Way to Go," sounding a bit disjointed at first, then cohering into a gallop. Loveless' voice storms in without fussiness; she's one of the band, not a diva making her grand entrance. She has a story to tell and there's no need to over-sing. Instead she projects a no-nonsense command very much in line with someone who's heard a few albums by Loretta Lynn or X's Excene Cervenka.
Whether she's being stalked by a local wanna-be ("Steve Earle") or musing on the Son of God's empathy for the common man ("Jesus was a Wino"), Loveless finds a way to put a wicked spin on her Midwestern tales. She doesn't have all the answers; on the contrary, her narrators are sometimes just muddling through ("I grew up on whiskey and God so I'm a little bit confused"). But they have a fierce sense of just how far they'll be pushed, and neither the music nor the singer backs off. As fiddle and banjo tangle with guitars that slam and twang over raucous drumming, Loveless digs her boots into the dirt on rabble-rousers such as "Can't Change Me" and "More Like Them." But what makes this album such a startlingly mature-beyond-its-years triumph is her openness. The vulnerability in "Crazy," the heartache underlying the exasperation in "How Many Women" – these are songs that signal a major new voice blowing into the country-punk dives and honky-tonks.


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This is a fun time to be a wine drinker in France. For that matter, if you're a wine lover who doesn't take yourself too seriously, then it's a fun time to be a wine drinker here, too.
The third Thursday of November is the release day for Beaujolais Nouveau. Everywhere from the bistros of Paris to brasseries of Lyon, bursts with joyous celebration of the first wine of the year. Waiters can be seen wearing bright t-shirts with the phrase, "Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!" while Francophones crowd the bars and cafes to gulp down this simple, fruity wine.
And it's not just Francophones getting in on the act. A quick Google search will show weekend-long parties across the globe.
From tasting seminars in Vancouver wine stores, to special Nouveau menus in Halifax bistros, everyone's getting in the spirit. In Ontario, the LCBO will carry on its tradition of rolling out nouveau wines on the big day. This year, nine new products will hit store shelves on the 17th, including Nouveau darlings Duboeuf Gamay Nouveau and Mommessin Beaujolais Nouveau. Priced under $15 and only stocked in limited quantities, Nouveau lovers usually snap them up within a month.
Despite the international fanfare, nay-sayers will be quick to point out these Beauj celebrations are a bit passé, and that Nouveau isn't really anything to get that excited about. And they have a point: Beaujolais Nouveau is made with Gamay grapes that come from the lesser vineyards of the Beaujolais appellation in the south of Burgundy. (The top 10 vineyards are reserved for the more sophisticated Beaujolais Cru that's released later).
The quick release date also means the wine doesn't age long enough to develop any real nuance: only about seven to nine weeks from vineyard to bottle -- hence the "nouveau" part.
To get the wine ready that fast, winemakers use a process called carbonic maceration, whereby the weight of whole clusters of grapes begins fermentation instead of crushing individual grapes.
The end result is a bright red wine with virtually no tannins, that's gulpable, grapey, and tastes somewhat like Swedish Berry gummies.
But complex and refined was never Nouveau's lot in life. A century ago, Parisians needed a little something for their autumn celebrations. In response, Beaujolais winemakers sent barrels of their simple, just-ready wines to urbanites to quaff while waiting for the "real" wines to be ready.
But by the '80s crowds were fêting the release of the first wines in swanky celebrations around France. It was such a party, that about 25 years ago the French government officially decreed third Thursday in November as Beaujolais Nouveau's official release date. Today, about a third of all wine production in Beaujolais is Nouveau.
Beaujolais Nouveau will never be a serious contender like Bordeaux -- or even its more distinguished cousin, Beaujolais Cru. It is like the wine equivalent of running through a sprinkler on a warm summer day -- innocent joy and good for a giggle. And in a month where grey days give way to darkness by 5 p.m., maybe the French were on to something all along.


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Once you've become a member the adventure begins. From the very first day that you register you'll begin writing your own legend in the history books of the Gaisicoch. Your actions, victories, and achievements will speak for you and you'll begin climbing the Gaiscioch Family Tree.
The first thing one must do after registering is link their characters to their personal profile to allow us to know what characters you play. This allows for automated promotions without having to keep thousands of characters and members memorized. Once your characters have been claimed, the system will automatically sync your out of game rank with your in game rank every 7 days.
To begin advancing through the first stages you will need to begin claiming participation in family events. As you begin to earn Fellowship points your rank will start to increase.
At the time that you become eligible for the rank of "Lorgaire" you will receive your first credo. Until you read and accept this credo you will be unable to advance to the next rank. You can view your credos at any time by viewing the my credos page.
Upon being promoted to Lorgaire you can start leading activities through the Adventure System and Leadership Console. Use the Adventure System for any instanced encounters to help learn the battles and the abilities of each boss. Use the Leadership console for any open world unscripted activities. By leading events you will begin to build your warlord rank. Leading is completely optional and is not required to advance in our family. We merely like to highlight those who do lead so those that enjoy participating know who to get in touch with to join in the fun.
Learn more by browsing this section. Be sure to check back often as we will be adding and updating pages quite frequently to assist our members with getting the most out of the Gaiscioch Family. If you have any questions feel free to contact any of our elders or ask in guild chat. Most of us can assist with almost any questions.
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The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) is used for the error screen displayed by Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system. Linux / UNIX like operating system may get a kernel panic. It is just like BSoD. The BSoD and a kernel panic generated using a Machine Check Exception (MCE). MCE is nothing but feature of AMD / Intel 64 bit systems which is used to detect an unrecoverable hardware problem.
Program such mcelog decodes machine check events (hardware errors) on x86-64 machines running a 64-bit Linux kernel. It should be run regularly as a cron job on any x86-64 Linux system. This is useful for predicting server hardware failure before actual server crash.


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What derailed the Transport Department
In awarding a contract to run a public service, such as a railway, there is a balance to be struck between making the contract long enough to encourage serious investment and not so long that the forecasts built into bids for the contract become highly speculative.
What the Department for Transport appears to have got chronically wrong in the case of the West Coast Main Line franchise is its assessment of the risk that attaches to projections by bidders of revenues in the latter years of the 15-year franchise.
To put it in terms that we can all understand, if I expect to earn a pound from my work tomorrow, that pound is much more likely to materialise than a pound that I might expect to earn in 2025 (if anyone will still employ me then).
By extension, when First Group and Virgin made their bids to run the line that connects London with Manchester and Glasgow, it would have been reasonable to expect the Department for Transport to put a much greater weight on revenues the companies expect to generate in the first five to ten years than in the latter five years.
However the Department seems to have understated the long-term risks when awarding the contract to First Group.
Or to put it another way, the Department made unrealistic assumptions about the growth of passenger numbers and inflation towards the back end of the franchise period - which had the effect of making First Group's bid seem significantly more attractive, because First Group was massively more optimistic about how passengers and revenues could grow after 2021 than was Virgin.
This error seems to have occurred both when Virgin was eliminated from the bidding contest, and when First Group's bid was reassessed against the Department's own forecasting model for future revenues.
The basic point is that although there are powerful arguments for awarding longer term contracts, so that the successful bidder has an incentive to spend serious money on the best kit, a healthy scepticism needs to be attached to forecasts of the health of the economy and of the relevant public service over a time period as long as three parliaments.
Without such healthy scepticism, the government would tend to demand too little in the way of guaranteed money for taxpayers from bidders who are particularly optimistic about long-term prospects.
Rarely if ever in the history of private provision of public services has there been such a bungle by Whitehall in the awarding of a highly valuable and important contract.
There appear to have been two giant errors by the Department for Transport in the way it adjudicated on who should receive the 15 year contract to run the West Coast Main Line.
First it unfairly discriminated against the incumbent, Virgin, by attaching far too great a probability to the projections by the rival bidder First Group that its revenues in the later years of the contract would be much bigger than Virgin's.
This mistake was compounded in the department's own internal forecasting model, which also attached too little risk to the possibility that passenger numbers and inflation would be significantly different from what First Group was projecting after 2021.
As a result, the government demanded too little guaranteed money for taxpayers from First Group.
But perhaps all this can be forgiven as an unfortunate technical error. What is perhaps more shocking is that Virgin has been complaining about the flaws in the bidding process for months, and yet the government pressed on with awarding the contract to First Group.
It was only after Virgin demanded a judicial review - after it sued - that the department was forced to acknowledge that it had made an egregious error.
Junior heads may now roll - in that three department officials have been suspended. But some would say that it is incumbent on the permanent secretary, Philip Rutnam, and the previous transport secretary, Justine Greening - reshuffled out only last month - to explain how they came so close to awarding a contract worth around £5bn on such a flawed basis.


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Yogi Berra Steiner Authenticated Autographed 8x10 Photo-Yankee Great Yogi Berra has personally hand-signed this 8x10 Photo. Regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra played 18 seasons for the New York Yankees. Throughout his illustrious playing career Berra helped the Yankees win 10 World Series Titles and was voted 18 All-Star Games. The 3-time American League MVP has his number 8 retired by the New York Yankees and was inducted to Baseballs Hall of Fame in 1972. This Yogi Berra Autograph is Guaranteed Authentic and includes a Steiner Sports Certificate of Authenticity and accompanying tamper-evident Steiner Hologram. The Steiner Seal Means Its Real. Steiner Sports is the Official Memorabilia Provider of Yogi Berra and the New York Yankees.


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Timing of our RACE: Are We So Different? exhibit could not have worked out better as it opens tomorrow at Discovery Place in Charlotte. Simultaneous to the exhibit's opening weekend, the American Renaissance's conference was scheduled to take place at a local hotel. Due to the nature of this white nationalist conference, hosted by the New Century Foundation, the hotel cancelled the conference contract citing concern for guest safety. Local groups, such as the Southern Anti-Racism Network, were planning protests against the conference.
As you may imagine, the organization is quite upset with the lack of support and has turned to the city's mayor pro tem, an African-American, for support. The mayor has also cited concern for public safety as reason to not pressure its businesses to host the conference. The Foundation's leader, Jared Taylor, sought a new meeting location but also a public apology from the City of Charlotte for its violation of the organization's First Amendment rights to free speech. Taylor received neither and the conference has been cancelled.
Mary Curtis of Politics Daily, an AOL original news source, writes:
Probably not on the agenda of Taylor, who said he believes the races have evolved independently, is the newest exhibit set to open this weekend at Charlotte's hands-on science museum, Discovery Place. In an accident of timing that could not be more perfect, "Race: Are We So Different?" promises visitors will discover that human beings are more alike than any other living species and no one gene or set of genes can support the idea of race.
"We all can see that people look different, but modern science and anthropology may alter how we understand and experience race," said John Mackay, president and CEO of Discovery Place. "Science has demonstrated that humans cannot be divided into 'races' based on physical attributes or genes. It's about the effects of geography and where people live, not categories."
We hope that the American Renaissance conference attendees and Taylor drop in on the RACE: Are We So Different? exhibit at Discovery Place while they are in Charlotte. Perhaps they might learn a thing or two about the science of race.


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As former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay received troubling legal news today in Texas where he's been indicted on several charges related to money-laundering campaign contributions for Republican candidates, Fox "News" did their best to buck up the spirits of "The Hammer".
The judge in the case rejected DeLay's motion to drop all charges, though he did toss out one charge for "conspiracy" which hadn't yet been against the law in Texas at the time DeLay allegedly conspired. The decision now paves the way for the criminal trial to begin and for DeLay to be permanently replaced in his House leadership position.
But we hope you "Fair and Balanced" zombies out there will note how it was reported via several different Email Alerts today:
From Yahoo Email Alert...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A Texas judge has refused to dismiss money laundering charges against Rep. Tom DeLay but threw out conspiracy charges.
From CNN Email Alert...
-- Judge tosses conspiracy charges against ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, but allows money-laundering charges, according to AP.
And finally, from "We Report, You Decide" Fox "News" Email Alert...
Meanwhile, on the tube version of the above Alert, John Gibson's plans to mislead are quashed by Judge Andrew Nepalitano who manages to sneak a bit of truth past the Fox police:
-- Fox News Video in Windows Media format...
And yet, despite FNC's failure to inform Americans about what's really going on in their Government (or perhaps more accurately, their demonstrated attempt to misinform them), it seems the message is getting out anyway. More bad news tonight for Tom DeLay, this time from his own home district in Houston, courtesy of Jesse at Stakeholder who also has additional info there on the battle brewing to replace DeLay permanently in the House Leadership...
QUESTION: If Tom DeLay runs for re-election in 2006, in general, are you more likely to vote for the Republican candidate Tom DeLay or for the Democratic Party's candidate for Congress?
Democrat 49%
Tom DeLay 36%
Opinion of Tom DeLay
Favorable 37%
Unfavorable 52%
Unfamiliar 11%
Charges Against DeLay Are...
Definitely true 15%
Probably true 40%
Probably false 26%
Definitely false 8%
(A well overdue hat-tip to BRAD BLOG's not-so-secret weapon David Edwards for his "News Alert" info!)


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News tagged with acupuncture
Acupuncture is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine filiform needles into specific points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes. The word acupuncture comes from the Latin acus, "needle", and pungere, "to prick". In Standard Mandarin, 針砭 (zhēn biān) (a related word, 針灸 (zhēn jiǔ), refers to acupuncture together with moxibustion).
According to traditional Chinese medical theory, acupuncture points are situated on meridians along which qi, the vital energy, flows. There is no known anatomical or histological basis for the existence of acupuncture points or meridians. Modern acupuncture texts present them as ideas that are useful in clinical practice. According to the NIH consensus statement on acupuncture, these traditional Chinese medical concepts "are difficult to reconcile with contemporary biomedical information but continue to play an important role in the evaluation of patients and the formulation of treatment in acupuncture."
The earliest written record that is available about acupuncture is Huangdi Neijing (黃帝內經 or Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon), which suggests acupuncture originated in China and would explain why it is most commonly associated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Different types of acupuncture (Classical Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, Vietnamese and Korean acupuncture) are practiced and taught throughout the world.
Acupuncture has been the subject of active scientific research since the late 20th century but it remains controversial among Western medical researchers and clinicians. Due to the invasive nature of acupuncture treatments, it is difficult to create studies that use proper scientific controls.:126 Some scholarly reviews have concluded that the effectiveness of acupuncture as a treatment can be explained primarily through the placebo effect, while other studies have suggested some efficacy in the treatment of specific conditions. The World Health Organization published a review of controlled trials using acupuncture and concluded it was effective for the treatment of 28 conditions and there was evidence to suggest it may be effective for several dozen more. Additionally, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Medical Association (AMA) and various government reports have studied and commented on the efficacy (or lack thereof) of acupuncture. There is general agreement that acupuncture is safe when administered by well-trained practitioners using sterile needles, and that further research is appropriate.
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For Worldwide Release: August 2012
Release Number: M12PR6
The Cat® Three60 Precision Control is an integrated propulsion and maneuvering system developed for the yachting market. The Cat Three60 Precision Control combines yacht propulsion and control components into single or multiple joystick stations.
Integrating and optimizing the propulsion and control system through Cat Three60 revolutionizes slow speed control of conventional shaft and propeller driven yachts. The performance of Cat Three60 rivals best in class for any maneuvering products offered. "The ease of maneuvering, immediate response time, silky smooth operation, and other inherent features of the Cat Three60 take Caterpillar Marine and our customers to a new level" said David Shannon, Caterpillar's Global Pleasure Craft Manager.
The unique value of Cat Three60 is simultaneously actuating engine controls, transmissions, thrusters, and propellers with simple fingertip movements of the joystick controller. The Cat Three60 provides fully proportional power in any direction with propeller control down to 50 shaft rpm. The system requires the use of Twin Disc QuickShift® transmissions which provide the fastest response and vessel control using QuickShift® technology. The best in class QuickShift® transmissions smoothly transmit multi-directional torque in an amazing 50 milliseconds.
The Cat Three60 Precision Control system includes throttle control, electrical harnesses, sensors, bow thruster, stern thruster (application dependent) and hydraulic system components that are all supported with our global warranty and the Global Caterpillar Authorized Dealer Network.
Additional enhancements to the Cat Three60 Precision Control product such as a GPS based location maintaining feature will be available in the first quarter 2013 for new yachts and retrofittable in existing Cat Three60 Precision Control installed yachts.
For additional information on Cat Three60 Precision Control, please contact your local Cat Dealer or visit marine.cat.com.
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It's all his sister's fault.
When Sean Fields was about 5 years old, his sister recommended the gift of a magic kit, so that he would be easier to babysit. That started a love for magic that has stayed with the 31-year-old Canadian.
Fields is the creator of Sick, which was made available today at Ellusionist. He talked with us about a number of things, including the genre of shock magic, what a performer must absolutely do before taking up the genre, why you probably shouldn't perform Sick at a restaurant and why Fields won't be releasing any effects involving vomit.
This is a must-listen podcast for anyone remotely interested in shock, geek or bizarre magic. Enjoy.


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