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By Ginny McNulty
Kids returning to school might find their lessons haven't changed all that much from last year. That includes their school-sponsored sex education classes. Even though last spring President Obama ended federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs -- many of which were proven ineffective in delaying sexual activity – not much has changed yet in Georgia.
During the last school year, I spoke at numerous presentations at my high school to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. I was repeatedly shocked at how little my fellow classmates knew about HIV/AIDS. I was asked on more than one occasion if HIV is transmitted by simple skin to skin contact. Before doing the presentations, I assumed that the students would know the majority of the information I was giving them. I was wrong.
Students repeatedly asked me about the effectiveness of condoms as protection against HIV infection. Unfortunately, I was unable to answer these curious students because school policy prohibited it. My school employed an abstinence-only policy, which extremely hindered me in giving potentially life-saving information to my classmates. On one occasion, one student confronted me during my presentation when I talked about abstinence and not about condoms. It was difficult for me to continue doing presentations after that incident because I whole heartedly agreed with him.
As a senior in high school I joined the Teen Action Group (TAG) -- Planned Parenthood's teen peer health educators -- because I wanted to empower myself and my fellow teens on matters of sexual health. Now, I see first-hand how responsive teens are to complete and accurate information. Young people are thirsty for knowledge and recognize how important this information is to their lives. I have seen how well teens respond to messages from other teens, often even better than they do with adult educators. For many of my peers who have only had ineffective programs in their schools, I am thankful that peer educators like me and the TAG group will continue to be sources of good information in our communities.
The goal of this program is to educate young people about delaying sexual activity, good decision making skill and contraception as a way of reducing the number of teen pregnancies in our state. Georgia has the 10th highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation and according to Advocates for Youth, the U.S. "continues to have the highest adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the industrialized world, although U.S. teens initiate sex at about the same time as their European counterparts." The teen pregnancy rate in Canada is half of that in the U.S. With many teen parents and their children facing significant challenges for the rest of their lives, something more has to be done.
So, I have a few messages from myself and my fellow peer educators. To our parents: we understand why you would prefer that we wait to become sexually active until we're ready to be safe. We understand that the decisions we make now can affect the rest of our lives. We want to know what your feelings are about sex and relationships and we know that sometimes, it can be uncomfortable to talk about it. To schools and policy makers: providing us with 'abstinence-only-until-marriage' programs limits our decision making abilities. Withholding information about safer sex and contraception could put our lives at risk.
President Obama's actions make it so now funds can only be used for scientifically based programs. This is great news for the next generation of young people. Georgia-schools now just need to implement changes to their programs.
Comprehensive sex education does not send a mixed message to us. We want to discuss the benefits of waiting to become sexually active as well as the ways we can be safe when we do become sexually active. Knowledge is power and by refusing us comprehensive sex education, you are depriving us of the power over our lives and our futures.
McNulty, age 19, is recent Atlanta-area high school grad and a peer health educator through Planned Parenthood's Teen Action Group program.
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Silverlight applications are something in between traditional Web applications and smart clients. A Silverlight application is more powerful than a Web application because of its support for managed code and its embedded .NET common language runtime. Compared to a smart client application, instead, a Silverlight-based solution is still a partial trust application with, among other things, limited access to URLs and the local filesystem.
Nearly all applications, on nearly any platforms, would greatly benefit from local data storage. Notice that I'm not talking about storing data to a DBMS on some server. With local storage, I mean the application's ability to save some data on the client machine. This has never been an issue for desktop applications which have full access to the local disk. For Web applications, instead, it has always been a mission-impossible task. For security reasons, any code hosted by Web pages typically, JavaScript code can't just access the filesystem of the local machine. For years, Web page developers resorted to cookies, or server-side storage, to save some user-specific information.
As far as local storage is concerned, Silverlight confirms to be a platform sitting in between the Web and desktop. A Silverlight application can't freely perform I/O operations on the user's hard disk because those are considered critical from a security perspective. However, a Silverlight application takes advantage of a special and constrained programming interface that permits disk access only under certain conditions. This .NET Framework API is known as "isolated storage" and Silverlight fully supports it.
Why Is Local Storage Important?
What kind of content should an application store in the user's local disk? While it mostly depends on the particular application, a couple of categories of data can be easily identified. First off, applications may need to save application settings and everything that can be filed under that tag. Application settings include user preferences, configuration, extra features installed, and also user-specific data that are helpful and useful to the application. For example, you could save in the local storage the draft of a form so that users could come back later and fill out the rest of the form without losing any information.
Second, applications may need to temporarily save any data that the user is still working on and that has not been committed yet. The user will eventually submit this work to the server, but until then data has to be maintained on the client and updated as needed.
These two broad categories of data going into the local storage of a Silverlight application have significant differences as far their size is concerned. Application settings are usually short pieces of data limited to just a few KBs. Working data, instead, is usually a much larger chunk of data, even in the order of MBs, that contain text or binary data representing a piece of work.
Nearly all types of application may benefit from persistent settings; mostly occasionally connected applications, though, may benefit of client-side persistence of working data.
However, for both types of applications Silverlight is a very good and promising presentation layer. That's why you find support for local storage in Silverlight 2.0.
Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2.0
In the .NET Framework, isolated storage is a storage mechanism that enables partially trusted applications to save data on the local machine without violating any security policies set on the computer. Isolated storage is around since the first version of the .NET Framework and is especially useful for downloaded, partially trusted components that are not usually given access to the standard I/O mechanisms. These same applications, though, are usually granted the right to use isolated storage. In this way, applications coming from potentially untrusted sources can still do some disk I/O, albeit in a controlled way.
Silverlight has its own implementation of the isolated storage feature and doesn't directly rely on the bits provided with the .NET Framework. This is not surprising as Silverlight is not a desktop platform and doesn't rely on a full edition of the .NET Framework installed on the client machine. A compatible subset of the .NET isolated storage subsystem is supported in Silverlight, but don't be too concerned reading, writing and deleting files and directories in a virtual and application specific filesystem are all supported features. Can you ask for more?
The entry point in the Silverlight isolated storage subsystem is the
IsolatedStorageFile class and in particular its static method
GetUserStoreForApplication. The method gets you a token that can be used to perform any supported operation on the virtual filesystem.
using (IsolatedStorageFile iso = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()) { : }
The token you get through the
GetUserStoreForApplication method is ultimately an aptly created instance of the
IsolatedStorageFile class properly initialized to track which part of the physical filesystem it has to work on.
The root of the isolated storage filesystem is located in a hidden folder within the subtree reserved to the current user. If you're using Windows Vista, the hidden isolated storage folder lives under the Users directory. If you're using Windows 2003 Server, it will then be located under the Documents and Settings folder for the current user. Each Silverlight application has its own virtual filesystem that is completely separated from the filesystem visible to other applications. A Silverlight application can't just navigate out of its personal filesystem. File names are always intended to be relative to the filesystem meaning that you can't use absolute paths that include drive information. At the same time, any relative path that includes ellipsis \..\..\ is not allowed.
When the
GetUserStoreForApplication method is invoked it first checks whether the proper subtree exists and, if not, it will create it. As an application developer, you only have to worry about your own files and directories. The system guarantees that the isolated storage infrastructure is always up and running for you.
Working with Files and Directories
IsolatedStorageFile class features a number of methods to perform CRUD and lookup operations on files and directories. Table 1 lists the most important methods.
Creates a file with the specified name.
Creates a directory with the specified name. To create subdirectories you specify a combined name that includes the parent directories.
Deletes the specified file. If the file doesnt exist you will receive an exception of type IsolatedStorageException.
Deletes the specified directory, provided that the directory exists and is empty. In any other case, you will receive an exception of type IsolatedStorageException.
Indicates whether a directory with the specified name exists.
Indicates whether a file with the specified name exists.
Enumerates all the directories in the current store that match the specified search criteria.
Enumerates all the files in the current store that match the specified search criteria.
Opens the specified file and returns a stream for it. If the file doesnt exist, you will receive an exception of type IsolatedStorageException.
Here's a quick example that shows how to create a new directory:
using (var iso = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()) { iso.CreateDirectory("MyStuff"); }
What if you need to create a child subdirectory? All that you have to do is getting hold of a directory name that includes both the parent directory and the new directory. If you can't provide the full name of the directory as a hard-coded string, you can use the Path class to build the name programmatically. Here's how to do it:
string subdir = Path.Combine("MyStuff", "Photos"); iso.CreateDirectory(subdir);
It is worth recalling that in Silverlight you can only use relative names to refer to files and directories as if they were scoped to the root of the filesystem. Well, this is exactly what happens here; except that we're talking about a virtual filesystem.
To enumerate the content of a directory, whether you want to list files or child directories, you use ad hoc methods such as
GetFileNames and
GetDirectoryNames. Both methods return an array of strings with all the names that match the specified search criteria.
string[] filelist = iso.GetFileNames("*.txt");
GetFileNames and
GetDirectoryNames have two overloads. If you use the parameterless overload, then the returned array includes all elements found. If you specify a search pattern, keep in mind that you can use both single character (?) and multiple character (*) wildcards.
In Silverlight, you can't make any use of the
DirectoryInfo and
FileInfo classes that in the full .NET Framework are so helpful when it comes to do any special work on files and directories. The following code, though, compiles successfully:
DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(@"c:\");
In other words, the
DirectoryInfo class, as well as the companion
FileInfo class, is an integral part of the .NET Framework that ships with Silverlight. The problem with the previous code is just security. No developer code can be executed in Silverlight that invokes a class method that is flagged with the SecurityCritical attribute. As you can see in Figure 1, all methods of the
DirectoryInfo class, including the constructors, fall in this category.
DirectoryInfo class is defined in the Silverlight base class library but it is not available to developer code. It can only be invoked from system code that is, in turn, decorated with the
SecuritySafeCritical attribute. No developer code can ever be decorated with the
SecuritySafeCritical attribute. Any programmatic access to
DirectoryInfo, or other classes or methods flagged with a security critical attribute, results in an exception of type

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I consider myself to be a very patient man. Though not by choice; I kind of have to be. Actually, I really have to be. Not being patient can cause all sorts of accidents. I remember when I was six, I was so excited to go and get an ice-cream by myself that I just ran out into the middle of the road. My dad reached me first and picked me up, taking me to the other side, and the woman in the car did stop to apologize and ask if I was okay.
What happened after that? Let's just say I couldn't get my own ice-creams for a while.
What's that got to do with patience, I hear you say. You've got to have patience if you have parents as over-protective as I do, other people have told me. But it's bigger than that, which sort of makes it worse for me than just being a six year old who couldn't get ice-cream because he didn't look where he was going when crossing the street.
Mostly because I couldn't see the street; not the road or the cars or even the ice-cream van I was running to.
I was three when I lost my sight. Yeah. But I won't get into that. So, patience is something I've had to learn and come to value from a young age. I had to learn because, being as young as I was, it wasn't easy waiting for people to do things for you or to have to listen to kids your age play carelessly and free in the park while you just sat there. I value it for two reasons; one, it allows me to appreciate everything people do for me, especially when it's six am, because that's not pretty; people say I'm evil. It's not true; I'm just not a morning person. And two; people can be a little overbearing, even if they think they're only trying to help. I understand when I remember being a child; kids need help when they're young anyway, I just needed a little extra. But I'm seventeen now, an adult legally; surely that counts for a little bit of trust in people. I can do some things myself.
Like make breakfast. After six years of sitting in the same place, eating the same food, I think I can remember where the toast is and where the bacon is. But still she does it. The 'she' in question is my best friend, Lucy Weasley. Well, she's one of my best friends. My other best friend is Jackson Ryder, or Jack. He's not here yet, he's... Somewhere else. He was on holiday; he was actually supposed to be back a couple of days ago, in time for school, but his parents told me he had a bit of an accident and I'll find out more today. Knowing Jack, 'a bit' is probably just putting it nicely.
Anyway, Jack is the one who helps me around school; you just can't trust a magical school, especially one with moving staircases, and he likes to make jokes. A lot of jokes. Like moving the breakfast dishes around or telling me it's somewhere else, so I end up putting my hand in the juice or missing it completely and hitting the table. Lucy got tired of it in fourth year and would move my hand to where the toast actually was. Which really got on Jack's nerves. That is the 'it' she's still doing. Lucy seems to have forgotten the fact that Jack is not here. I'm surprised by this; she would have commented on how quiet it was.
"Lucy, I'm fine," I say slowly and clearly. I hope I get my point across with my tone and the raised eye-brow. The raised eye-brow is key; my dad listens every time when Mum does it. At least, that's what she tells me.
I can't tell what her expression is, but it seems to have worked; she let's go of my hand. "Oh, sorry." A pause. She's thinking. This is not good. "Where's Jackson?"
I shrug, trying to imagine her face by her tone. She sounds a little confused, probably wondering why he isn't here causing trouble, but she's also hopeful because, like I said, it's quiet. "I don't know. He hurt himself on holiday. His parents said they'd let me know."
She replies with a little 'oh' sound and I bet she's just nodded her head. She does that all the time, Jack says. Now that gets on his nerves. Apparently, she should be more considerate of my inability to see. I don't care. I busy myself with eating my breakfast, Lucy does whatever it is she's doing, and neither of us speak until I hear the sounds of flapping wings and screeching. I have excellent hearing.
"Mail's here."
I ignore the birds and carry on with my breakfast, until a letter (I hope it's a letter) drops into my lap. I push my last bit of toast between my lips and pick it up. It feels like a letter. "You've got a letter," Lucy tells me.
Not only is my hearing more than adequate, but I have also mastered the infamous eye-roll. I make it look good. Seriously. I just hand it to her. If she expects a reason for it, I am not giving it to her.
She opens it; I pick up another piece of toast. She's quiet, reading it; I take a bite of said toast. "It's from Jackson's parents. He won't be in school for a while."
Good bye, toast. I cough it back up, ignore people's complaints. "What?"
"The idiot fell while rock-climbing; he's broke a few bones in his legs, yes, legs. He can't walk. He's in a Muggle hospital, and he'll be transferred to St Mungo's this afternoon."
I don't like Lucy's tone. She sounds like she's... Annoyed. What the hell has she got to be annoyed about? She doesn't apparently need help going up and down the death stairs! I ask her that very question. Almost. "Who's going to help me around school? He's the only one in all of my classes. He has to go to the library, too."
Okay, so it wasn't anything like the question. I'm not going to take my irrational anger for Jack out on Lucy. She's not afraid to hit me. I could do without her swift slaps to the back of the head while she tells me I'm being irrational... She says it enough already.
"I will," she answers. "I'll talk to Professor Digby and we'll arrange it so I can leave my classes a little early and meet you outside yours." Lucy squeezes my shoulder affectionately and I smile a little. "See? It'll be fine, Key. I promise."
I think she ignores my grimace. I don't like being called Key. In fact, I hate it. My name is Ciaran. With a C. I do not accept there being anything remotely like 'Key' in my name. And worst of all; she knows this. She only does it to annoy me. And it's working.
So, I do the same to her. "Come on, Luce." I say, tapping her on the shoulder. "I've got to get to class."
"B-but," she stutters. "Breakfast isn't over yet."
I try to hide my smirk. It's so funny how she complains that all her family seem to do is complain about food and how she's glad she's not like that. Then she complains about missing breakfast. Does anyone else hear the word 'hypocrite'?
I sigh instead. "But I have to leave early, remember?" I don't really. Jack just likes us to so we can escape the crowds. He didn't tell the Headmaster that when we talked about it in first year; now we get to leave classes early. It's only five extra minutes. That may not seem like a lot to you, but to anyone else who has to sit through Professor Binn's class, it's a miracle others wish they had. Ha.
She groans and I hear her get up. "Well, come on then." She grabs my plastic stick or cane or blind person's helpy thingy as Jack called it the day we met – today I call it a stick - and then holds out her hand to help me up. I thank her. Not so much for helping me up, I was fine with that myself, but for picking up my stick; last time I tried to reach it, I fell on my arse and hit my head. Everyone laughed. It was not cool. So, I'm grateful when others get it for me.
See? Value. Don't you just love it?
The walk from the Great Hall to Transfiguration is relatively quiet. I find I rather like the idea of the sound of my stick beating against the cold, hard floor and letting it fill my head until it drives me insane, because the thought of Jack not being around is more than a little terrifying. I know it sounds rather selfish, but he and my tutor are the only reasons my parents allow me to come to Hogwarts each year; I honestly don't know what I would do without Jack in my life. He's my best friend, more than that, really; he's the closest thing to a brother I have.
I mean, I love Lucy and all, but scepticism doesn't even begin to cover it when it comes her decision to help me. She can be the easiest person in the world to get along with, but she closes up completely when it comes to her studies. You really can't get a word out of her; she forgets everyone and everything when she's focused on something. I fear for my life just thinking about it. Okay, I fear I'll miss my classes because I don't get up in the morning. But it's basically the same thing.
"Are you okay, CJ?" I smile a little; CJ I like. It's a nickname I'll allow, the only one really. It's my initials; Ciaran James. Yeah, that's me. Nice to meet you.
Lucy nudges my arm. I assume she wants an answer. "I'm fine," I tell her quietly. She sighs, but I don't know what she's thinking. I don't know what her expression is. Hell, I don't know anything. A feeling of dread fills the pit of my stomach and I swear it's beginning to rise. It's like bile. I hate it. I begin to realise just how much I seem to depend on my best friend.
I don't want this; I don't want any of this. None of this would have happened if I could still see. It's not fair!
Lucy rubs my shoulder and we stop outside of my classroom. "Stop thinking like that. Don't think I don't know; I know you well enough to know that this frown and the little wobble of your bottom lip and your eyes closed over, like you look right now, is fear." I feel her hand on my cheek. "You are either thinking about how dependent or low you feel. Considering Jack isn't here -" She called him 'Jack'. It's rare. Shocking. Well, not really. But she only says it when she's being sympathetic. I don't like that; when Lucy feels sympathetic, I feel plain pathetic. "I'm guessing you're thinking the first one. Well, stop it."
Ouch. I sense a lecture.
"You say you can look after yourself, but then something like this happens and you don't know what to do. But these things are always going to happen." She takes my hand. "Next time, it might just be that Jack has other things he needs to do and he won't be there, so you have to realise you don't need Jack like you think you do, because we know you don't. You can do this, Ciaran. You can do anything. Accept it. Embrace it. Besides, you hate needing people. I see you grimace when you want to ask for help."
Oh, so she ignores my hate for the nickname 'Key', but that she sees. That's just evil.
"Okay, Ciaran?"
Like what she says is that simple. "Okay," I nod. What? My logic may be lost on everyone else, but I understand. That's what matters.
Lucy squeezes my hand. "Good. Now, I'm going to make a detour to Digby's office before Arithmancy; I agree the stairs are tricky." I scoff; she deserves it. "I'll see you later."
I watch my second best friend walk away. Scratch that, I listen to her walk away. My eyes are just in that general direction, which is obviously why I got confused… I hear a faint "Hello Lou," before I enter the classroom, make my way to my usual desk (the right chair on the end desk, closest to the door) and drop into my seat with a heavy sigh. I pull out my parchment and my enchanted quill, fold my arms over the wooden desk and rest my chin on top, just waiting for the lesson to start.
I take back my previous comments; I don't rely on Jack to help me around school. Without him, life is boring. Damn him. Of all the days to fall off a cliff.
When someone else enters the classroom, I'm hit with the oh-so-familiar fruity fragrant aftershave only one man in the entire school wears. I refuse to admit it smells good. He can't have been that far away when Lucy said hello to him. I briefly wonder what took him so long before I realise I don't care. What can I say? Not everyone thinks the world revolves around Louis Weasley. Not that I don't like him or anything; I just don't talk to him, or any of his family, except Lucy. I rarely ever saw Lucy's sister. I only ever spoke to Fred when Jack wanted something from the shop. I mentioned his love of making jokes.
The teacher begins the lesson and I know I'm in for a long, dull day. I focus my attention on the scratching of my quill. Yeah, my quill literally takes my notes for me. Awesome. And I'm the only one who is allowed to do this.
Be jealous.
I thank Lucy as she turns to leave and make my way into the library. Some people protest and moan when I hit them with my stick. Well, after six years, you'd think they would learn to move out of the way when they see me. It's not like I can see them or anything.
I hear my name and navigate my way to the sound. I know where I'm going; we've been sitting at the same table every day since we started Hogwarts. "Hey, Abby."
Abby is my tutor. She teaches kids with disabilities and she's been my teacher since I was five and started school. She takes my notes and turns it into braille and helps me with my wandwork so I can learn. That way I'm not left behind and struggling with my studies.
"Hey, Ciaran. Where's Jack today?"
Oh, yeah. She also teaches Jack. He's dyslexic, but he's gotten a lot better since Abby agreed to be his teacher in first year. She's the reason we both get to stay in school. I don't think we would have made it past those first exams if it weren't for her. Now, we're passing NEWTs. Well, sort of. Potions require exact measurements and other things I can't read.
"Jack won't be with us for a while; he's in St Mungo's after an accident. Teachers are sending him is homework." I hate the annoyed tone in my voice; I know Abby doesn't deserve it, but I've been asked the same question over and over. I sit down slowly and pull out my notes to hand to her.
"I'll go see him while you're in lessons and be back by four. We can't have him missing out, can we?" she laughs. "Does that sound fair, Ciaran?"
I nod. "I bet he can't wait to spend his time in a hospital bed, studying," I smirk. He deserves it.
"Is Lucy helping you instead?"
I pull a face. "Yeah."
"And how's that going?"
I'm still terrified she's going to forget and I'm going to die. Too dramatic? "I can't say; it's only been one day."
She laughs again. I don't think she's meant to laugh. She's meant to give me an alternate solution or at least offer her condolences. "Let's get started, shall we?"
And the real work begins. Can't I sleep instead?
A/N: For the I'm a Believer and What the Hell is a Hufflepuff challenges. Belief: I can do anything. I'm having so much fun writing this story and a first person OC centric novel, as well as writing about blindness, is a very new thing, so I hope it goes well. LOL.
Hope you enjoyed.
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India railways are divided into several zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions. It is very difficult to remember the station codes of North Western Railway. This section will help those who want to find station codes across divisions for all zones of India. In today's fast pace world, one needs railway station codes for making rail travel easier. www.railwaystationcodes.com provides with a tool called station codes finder that will give you the station codes of North Western Railway within few seconds. All you have to do is enter the name of zone, division and station name, and this station code finder will give you North Western Railway station code list and its divisions.
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Fetna Mikati nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award
Every year, the University Teaching Council recognizes Kent State's outstanding full-time, nontenure-track and part-time faculty by awarding three educators with the Outstanding Teaching Awards. This award is presented annually to faculty members who consistently showcase astounding skills in classroom teaching.
This year's nominees include Fetna Mikati, an Arabic instructor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Kent Campus
Fetna Mikati believes her proudest moments are her students' achievements. She is honored to have helped her students get into prestigious Arabic programs at other colleges, and to have inspired them to study abroad. Her proudest moments involve knowing she has made a difference and touched her students' lives. On the professional level, her most noteworthy accomplishment was her selection by the National Foreign Language Center as one of only 10 world language teachers to be featured in videos demonstrating best practices.
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Riesling Report: Bründlmayer Riesling 'Kamptaler Terrassen', 2009
July is riesling month! We're drinking it all month long...and maybe longer. Got a favorite riesling? Recommend it in the comments!
If you filled a tea bag with apricots and gravel and let it steep, you might end up with this wine, shot through with lime, pear-scented and filled with green herbs, hints of flat leaf parsley and tarragon, tomatillos, fragrant meyer lemon and orange zest, spicy mustard seed, but mostly minerals, layers and layers of mica. We tasted green tea and kaffir lime leaf. This is a rocking wine for mineral-lovers, a wine that's like licking an oyster shell, balanced with limey, gooseberry-like acids and a heady floral note—orchids.
Much of what I love about riesling is in this bottle: tons of minerality, incisive acid, delicate, fuzzy stone fruit. Pair with oysters, clams raw or steamed, slightly earthy cheese. Or heed this advice: drink this wine with a clam pizza. Motorino if you're in NY, Zuppardi's if you're in Connecticut.
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People often assert that scope-based reference counting such as shared_ptr in C++ collects garbage "promptly" and some people define this as "collects at the earliest possible point". For example, at the time of writing the Wikipedia page about garbage collection says:
"Compared to tracing garbage collection, reference counting guarantees that objects are destroyed as soon as they become unreachable…" – Wikipedia
Similar claims can even be seen in published research such as the paper "Down for the Count? Getting Reference Counting Back in the Ring":
"Of the two fundamental algorithms on which the garbage collection literature is built, reference counting has lived in the shadow of tracing. It has a niche among language developers for whom either performance or completeness is not essential, and is unused by mature high performance systems, despite a number of intrinsic advantages such as promptness of recovery and dependence on local rather than global state." – Blackburn et al.
On the other hand you can see statements by experts like Richard Jones, co-author of the excellent Garbage Collection Handbook, make statements like:
"More importantly, note also that even an immediate (i.e. non deferred) reference counter cannot reclaim objects as soon as they are no longer referenced as finalisation must be asynchronous (see Hans Boehm's POPL03 paper "Destructors, finalizers and synchronization")." – a post on the gc-list by Richard Jones.
Let's have a closer look at the thinking behind this belief and test it with a simple program. The mental model that underpins this belief is that any function's local variables are stored in separate slots in the function's stack frame for the entire duration of a function's body and, therefore, will be reachable from the point of view of the garbage collector for the duration of the call to the function. This mental model underpins exam and interview questions such as Is object eligible for garbage collection after "obj = null"? and When Is The Object Eligible For Garbage Collection?.
In reality, this mental model is simple, obvious and wrong. Why? Firstly, the garbage collector sees the run-time representation of a program after it has been subjected to transforms such as inlining, instruction reordering and code block reordering by the compiler that can mutilate the structure of a program beyond recognition and, consequently, concepts like scope that exist only in the source code and not in the compiled form are not visible to the garbage collector. Secondly, the register allocator does everything possible to keep references in registers and avoid spilling them to the stack and when they must be spilled it uses the results of liveness analysis to overwrite any dead references in the stack frame whenever possible. In fact, some compilers don't even use stack frames, such as our own x86 JIT in F# and the HLVM project, and other compilers like SML/NJ convert every call into continuation style and put stack frames on the heap, splitting every segment of code between a pair of function calls in the source into its own separate function in the compiled form.
Enough theory, let's take a look at some working code. Here is a simple example using tracing garbage collection in OCaml/F# where an argument tmp to a function dies in the middle of the function body and, in particular, before a recursive call:
let rec loop tmp i =
if i<=0 then tmp else
let tmp2 = loop (Array.copy tmp) (i-1)
tmp2.[0] <- tmp2.[0] + 1
When run using loop (Array.init m id) n, this code clearly uses less than mn space and keeps on running indefinitely. This can only be because the argument tmp is no longer reachable via the stack when the recursive call is made and, consequently, gets garbage collected.
Here is the equivalent using scope-based reference counting in C++:
shared_ptr<vector<double> > loop(shared_ptr<vector<double> > tmp, int i) {
if (i<=0) {
return tmp;
} else {
shared_ptr<vector<double> > tmp1(new vector<double>(*tmp));
shared_ptr<vector<double> > tmp2 = loop(tmp1, i-1);
return tmp2;
In contrast, this code clearly requires at least mn space when run, goes to swap and (on Windows) dies from out of memory. Unlike the OCaml/F# code, the scope-based reference counting using shared_ptr in C++ keeps the tmp array allocated for longer than necessary, right until the end of the function call.
This observation also destroys another popular memory management myth: that tracing garbage collection always requires more memory than reference counting.
If there is any advantage to the C++ then it is the presence of guarantees. The semantics of C++ guarantee that after the end of scope the object has been deleted. However, it is worth noting that this guarantee of determinism does not apply to objects shared between threads because in that situation the threads race to decrement the reference counter to zero and the winner of the race condition is burdened with executing the destructor.


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Saudi woman fleeing alleged abuse heads for asylum in Canada
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun is flying to Toronto via Seoul, officials said.
An 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she was abused by her family and feared for her life if deported back home has left Thailand for Canada, which has granted her asylum, officials said.
The fast-moving developments capped an eventful week for Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, who fled her family while visiting Kuwait and flew to Bangkok.
She barricaded herself in an airport hotel to avoid deportation and grabbed global attention by mounting a social media campaign for asylum.
Ms Alqunun is now flying to Toronto via Seoul, South Korea, according to Thai immigration Police Chief Surachate Hakparn.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau confirmed his country had granted her asylum.
"That is something that we are pleased to do because Canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights and to stand up for woman's rights around the world and I can confirm that we have accepted the UN's request," Mr Trudeau said.
Several other countries, including Australia, had been in talks with the UN's refugee agency to accept Ms Alqunun, Mr Surachate said earlier in the day.
"She chose Canada. It's her personal decision," he said.
Canada's ambassador had seen her off at the airport, Mr Surachate said, adding that she looked happy and healthy.
She thanked everyone for helping her, he said, and added that the first thing she would do upon arrival in Canada would be to start learning the language.
She already speaks more than passable English, in addition to Arabic.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees welcomed Canada's decision.
"The quick actions over the past week of the government of Thailand in providing temporary refuge and facilitating refugee status determination by UNHCR, and of the government of Canada in offering emergency resettlement to Ms Alqunun and arranging her travel were key to the successful resolution of this case," the agency said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear what prompted Ms Alqunon to choose Canada over Australia.
Australian media reported that UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) had withdrawn its referral for Ms Alqunon to be resettled in Australia because Canberra was taking too long to decide on her asylum.
UNHCR officials were not immediately available for comment.
Australia's education minister Dan Tehan said on Saturday that Australia had moved quickly to process her case but Canada decided to take her in.
He added that, ultimately, the outcome was a good one. "She's going to be safe," he said.
Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, cited Ms Alqunun's "courage and perseverance."
"This is so much a victory for everyone who cares about respecting and promoting women's rights, valuing the independence of youth to forge their own way, and demanding governments operate in the light and not darkness," he said in a statement.
Ms Alqunun was stopped on January 5 at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport by immigration police who denied her entry and seized her passport.
She barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and took her plight on to social media. It got enough public and diplomatic support that Thai officials admitted her temporarily under the protection of UN officials, who granted her refugee status Wednesday.
Ms Alqunun's father arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday, but his daughter refused to meet with him.
Mr Surachate said the father — whose name has not been released — denied physically abusing Ms Alqunun or trying to force her into an arranged marriage, which were among the reasons she gave for her flight.
He said Ms Alqunun's father wanted his daughter back but respected her decision.
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Australian cleared to compete at Beijing
BEIJING (AP) Australian modern pentathlete Angie Darby is on her way to Beijing after the Court of Arbitration for Sport threw out an appeal that questioned her Olympic eligibility.
Greece's pentathlon federation challenged Darby's qualification and wanted her replaced by Greek competitor Donna Vakalis.
The Greek federation claimed Darby was not eligible to compete because she failed to meet the full requirements of the five-event discipline when she qualified for Beijing by winning the Oceania championship in Tokyo last year.
The fourth of the five disciplines - show jumping - wasn't contested because of an outbreak of equine influenza.
The same argument was successfully used in July by the British federation to have Australia's Alex Parygin, the 1996 Olympic champion, replaced by Nick Woodbridge, who was next in the world rankings. The British lawyer who won that case represented the Greek federation.
Vakalis originally appealed to the pentathlon's world governing body, which allowed the Oceania contest to go ahead. It ruled the Greek athlete's claim was made too late.
The women's modern pentathlon event is scheduled for Aug. 22 at the Olympic Sports Center stadium in Beijing. The one-day event sees athletes accumulate points in pistol shooting, fencing, swimming, show jumping and a final 3,000-meter run.
The Australian Olympic Committee said Thursday that Darby will join the rest of the Australian team in the Olympic village and march in Friday's opening ceremonies.
Australian Olympic Committee director of sport Fiona de Jong had launched a personal crusade to keep Darby on the team, at one point telling British lawyers who instigated the challenge they "had picked a fight with the wrong chick."
"I am so pleased for Angie," De Jong said in a statement Thursday.
"It is a feeling of relief and joy that the saga is finally over and Angie can get on and compete. It was wrong for her to be excluded and the CAS agreed with that view."
AOC president John Coates also was pleased with the result.
"Every athlete and federation has the right to appeal the selection process and I am glad that it has been resolved," Coates said. "I'm advised that her training has been excellent throughout the latter stages of this process so hopefully her preparation has not been adversely affected."


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fadedpsychosis wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:I hate to mar the serenity of that last post but can we please lock this thread right here and witness "the perfect ending"? I will gladly delete this post if my wish is granted.
ah, if only I could do that in real life, freeze time before I stick my foot in my mouth... alas, for I was seemingly born with foot-in-mouth disease...
aaanyway, I'm not quite sure how my name got drug into this but ok, I'm game
for starters: funky, you're being a little too broad with the term 'ad hominem'.
from dictionary.com
1. appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument.
basically my problem with your usage is this: attacks on ones character are not ad hominem when they are not used in lieu of a proper response to an argument... it's just mudslinging at that point
again as to hypocracy: about half the times in this thread (rounding down because I'm attempting to be neutral) you accuse woodruff of ad hominem (not a few times incorrectly) you then deride his character instead of countering his claim: the very definition of ad hominem
lastlyFunkyterrance wrote:Woodruff wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:For the record, I've never heard Woodruff admit he was wrong. If cornered, he resorts to either redirecting the conversation or lashing out.
Eat it, bitch (this isn't even close to an exhaustive search):
Why woodruff, I should wash your filthy mouth out with soap!
To be accurate the links provided seem to be examples of you admitting to making mistakes, not being wrong. Being one who delights in arguing semantics you should be able to appreciate this distinction. Looks like its you who gets to "eat it" this time.
Show me some examples of you admitting that you were seeing an issue solely from your own side, talking out of your ass and were proven wrong, end of discussion. If you can do this,you may find me admitting to being wrong about you. Until then, I stand by my judgement.
this isn't semantics, it's sophistry... he specifically went out of his way to prove he was mistaken... I challenge you to do the same
I realize that attempting to use mainly logic in my discussions leaves me quite vulnerable. I consider my Ad Hominem attacks at woodruff to be of a milder nature, if Ad Hominem at all, in that I am simply trying to discredit his methods, not his person. If he would play but the "rules" I would have no reason to even enter that realm. I consider these retorts of mine more "asides" than actual parts of the argument but perhaps its not viewed this way by all involved?
As far as those who seem gleeful at the fact that it may have looked like I outright contradicted myself or was misusing a term well, there is a reason I don't take the time to respond to their posts as much as I do to ones such as this. They simply are not sporting enough. I delight in the fact that you, faded, have the ability to throw me a curve. There was a time where these forums had several people could have that affect but sadly they have moved on.
You must know that I will not resort to Ad hominem attacks if you don't go down that road first. And if I do, call me out on it and I'll apologize.
As far as Woodruff's idea of the meaning of the word "wrong" not being a question of semantics I am still baffled. I may have used sophistry to get to the bottom of things but only as a tool for redirection, nothing more. I wasn't about to go off on a tangent about it.


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|The top six drivers at the inaugural Whistler World Cup in 2009.
The same drivers finished top-six at the 2010 Olympic Winter
This coming weekend will mark not only the last bobsled and skeleton World Cup races of the season but the most closely-watched races this year, as they are the inaugural races on the new Olympic track in Sochi, Russia. It may seem like anti-climactic scheduling being held after World Championships, but this race is heavily loaded with predictive value.
Sure, worlds are supposed to be a big deal, but they happen every year and thus don't attract near the same interest or support of the Olympics. It would be like celebrating high school graduation every year, sending out announcements and expecting yet another scrapbook in honor of your achievement. This race, however, will not only be a preview of the long-awaited Olympic Games, but the first indicator of what the new track in town is all about.
Most bobsled tracks are built specifically for an Olympics, because why host a Games if you can't build yourself a competitive advantage from the ground up? On the World Cup circuit we get roughly 10 runs on each track. That's about 10 minutes total of training a year on each foreign track. On our home tracks, however, we will get as many as 100 or more runs a year, easily 10 times as much as elsewhere. It's no wonder you typically see Americans on the podium at American tracks, Germans on the German ones, etc.
|Apparently "Cool Runnings" has been on repeat on the big
screen at the track in Sochi.
But despite the home track advantage, in my opinion, you will not see Russia "Own the Podium" as Canada had hoped to do in 2010; the other nations are just too strong. Though Russia has some incredible athletes, they don't have the depth to block out the rest of the world. Not to mention this track was built in the wake of the tragedy marking the dangerous 2010 Whistler track. It is thus predictably low risk, allowing for a faster learning curve.
However, despite home-track efforts to keep the rest of the world on a slower learning curve, the show must go on and nothing will deter from the excitement this weekend. As an athlete that has dealt with the frustration of expectations good and bad due to a track's history, these races allow a blank slate. Each track has a distinct personality that throughout the years we come to expect certain drivers, pushers, or nations to do well on. But with Sochi we know nothing, there are no established tendencies and no clear equipment choices. The only expectations are on the Russians.
|View of the mountains through the track
Four years ago at this time we were in Whistler for the first time the track was open to all nations. It was my very first World Cup bobsled race and I shocked my coaches (and myself) with a sixth-place finish. If you look at the photo from that podium celebration, it was all the exact same drivers in the top-six at the Olympics. The finishes this weekend will fuel the fear and the fire for next year, and mark the first pages in the story of the Sochi bobsled track.
Tune in live this weekend here.
Friday, Feb. 15
3:30 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EST) - Men's skeleton heat #1
5 p.m. (8 a.m. EST) - Men's skeleton heat #2
8 p.m. (11 a.m. EST) -Women's bobsled heat #1
9:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. EST) - Women's bobsled heat #2
Saturday, Feb. 16
8 a.m. (11 p.m. Friday)-Women's skeleton heat #1
10 a.m. (1 a.m. EST) -Women's skeleton heat #2
1 p.m. (4 a.m. EST)- Men's two-man bobsled heat #1
2:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. EST)- Men's two-man bobsled heat #2
Sunday, Feb. 17
1:45 p.m. (4:45 a.m. EST)- Men's four-man bobsled heat #1
3:15 p.m. (6:15 a.m. EST)-Men's four-man bobsled race heat #2


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Acute nephritic syndromeGlomerulonephritis - acute- Acute glomerulonephritis- Nephritis syndrome - acute
Acute nephritic syndrome is a group of synptoms that occur with some disorders that cause glomerulonephritis, or swelling and inflammation of the glomeruli in the kidney.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Acute nephritic syndrome is often caused by an immune response triggered by an infection or other disease.
Common causes in children and adolescents include:
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
IgA nephropathy
Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
Common causes in adults include:
Abdominal abscesses
Goodpasture syndrome
Hepatitis B or C
Infective endocarditis
Membranoproliferative GN I
Membranoproliferative GN II
Rapidly progressive (crescentic) glomerulonephritis
SLE or lupus nephritis
Viral diseases such as mononucleosis, measles, mumps
The inflammation affects the function of the glomerulus -- the part of the kidney that filters blood to make urine and remove waste. As a result, blood and protein appear in the urine, and excess fluid builds up in the body.
Swelling of the body occurs when the blood loses a protein called albumin. (Albumin keeps fluid in the blood vessels. When it is lost, fluid collects in the body tissues). Blood loss from the damaged kidney structures leads to blood in the urine.
Acute nephritic syndrome may be related to:
Acute kidney failure
High blood pressure
Common symptoms of nephritic syndrome are:
Blood in the urine (urine appears dark, tea-colored, or cloudy)
Decreased urine output (little or no urine may be produced)
Swelling of the face, eye socket, legs, arms, hands, feet, abdomen, or other areas
Other symptoms that may occur include:
Blurred vision
Cough containing mucus or pink, frothy material
Decreased alertness, drowsiness, confusion
General aches and pains (joint pain, muscle aches)
General ill feeling (malaise)
Shortness of breath
Slow, sluggish, lethargic movement
Patients may develop symptoms of acute kidney failure or chronic kidney disease.
Signs and tests
During an examination, your health care provider may find the following signs:
Abnormal heart and lung sounds
Enlarged liver
Enlarged neck veins from increased pressure
General swelling
High blood pressure
Signs of acute kidney failure
Signs of fluid overload (in the abdomen)
Tests that may be done include:
Blood electrolytes
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN)
Creatinine - blood
Creatinine clearance
Potassium test
Protein in the urine
Urine appearance and color
A kidney biopsy will show inflammation of the glomeruli, which may indicate the cause of the condition.
Tests to find the cause of acute nephritic syndrome may include:
ANA titer (lupus)
Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody for vasculitis (ANCA)
Blood culture
Culture of the throat or skin
Serum complement (C3 and C4)
The goal of treatment is to reduce inflammation in the kidney and control high blood pressure. You may need to stay in a hospital to be diagnosed and treated. Treatment may include antibiotics or other medications or therapies.
Your doctor may recommend bedrest. You may need to limit salt, fluids, and potassium in your diet. Your health care provider may prescribe medications to control high blood pressure. Corticosteroids or other anti-inflammatory medications may be used to reduce inflammation.
You may also need other treatments for acute kidney failure.
Support Groups
For information and support, see kidney disease support groups.
Expectations (prognosis)
The outlook depends on the disease that is causing the nephritis. When the condition improves, symptoms of fluid retention (such as swelling and cough) and high blood pressure may go away in 1 or 2 weeks. However, urine tests may take months to return to normal.
Children tend to do better than adults and usually recover completely. Only rarely do they develop complications or progress to chronic glomerulonephritis and chronic kidney disease.
Adults do not recover as well or as quickly as children. Although it is unusual for the disease to return, at least one-third of adults whose disease does return will develop end-stage kidney disease and may need dialysis or a kidney transplant.
Chronic glomerulonephritis
Congestive heart failure
Nephrotic syndrome
Pulmonary edema
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of acute nephritic syndrome.
Many times the disorder cannot be prevented, although treatment of illness and infection may help to reduce the risk.


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Hamilton, Ontario
Phở Bến Thành, or more informally referred as B&T Restaurant, is one of the most popular Vietnamese restaurants in Hamilton. It is actually referred as a Viet-Thai restaurant, although the owners are Chinese and the waiters do not necessarily speak either Vietnamese or Thai. The owners also own The Jade Garden, a few blocks away.
It seems like B&T Restaurant has become a little chain with restaurants all over Southwestern Ontario. The Hamilton location is situated at the corner of Cannon Street, in the heart of Little Vietnam. Ok, I'm exaggerating. It's like maybe two blocks of Chinese and Vietnamese businesses. It is also next door to a Vietnamese grocery store, where I shop very often.
The B&T Restaurant is one of those restaurants with a VERY extensive menu (over 600 items, including the drinks, yikes!), including their specialty phở (Vietnamese beef soup), vermicelli and rice dishes. There are also a dozen of vegetarian items. Like many Vietnamese restaurants, they also have a great offering of Vietnamese shakes. You have to jot down the item number you want on a piece of paper. You can make special requests, like no peanuts, but the waiters are sometimes unresponsive. You might have to repeat a few times and send your dish back.
Since it is still cold here, I decided to go for a phở. I always order the same one: phở tái bò viên (lean beef and meatballs). I was meeting my friend D before he and his wife move back to Halifax and he also went for a phở, minus the bò viên (meatballs). I got a small bowl of #108 for $5.50 while D went for the large #102 for $6.50. I should have taken a pictures of both bowls for a comparison!
#108, phở tái bò viên (lean beef and meatballs), $5.50 for a small bowl.
There are many different ways to eat phở. Usually, you add the bean sprouts, Thai basil and some lime juice in. I always ask for extra lime juice and like my broth extra lime-y. My mom likes to get her bean sprouts blanched because she does not like them raw. I find they cook sufficiently once they are added to the broth. I like to have Hoisin sauce and Sriracha on the side, and dip my various meats in the mixture. Others like to add the sauces directly to the broth. It doesn't matter how you eat it!
The accompanying Thai basil, limes, bean sprouts and hoisin sauce.
I have to admit that I have no interest in learning how to make phở. I think it takes a lot of work and for just one person, it's not worth the effort. I can be satisfied with eating it at restaurants. Maybe one day I will want to learn. I do remember my mom making a ginormous pot on Saturdays and really enjoying it, with pieces of cooked daikon in it. There are no daikon pieces at restaurants!
All in all, B&T Restaurant offers affordable Vietnamese dishes. Other than the phở, I also really enjoy the different combinations of vermicelli bowls, such as #303 (grilled pork balls, BBQ pork and spring roll). I will have to write about it next time! I have seen the pad thai and it does not look appealing to me. I doubt their Thai food is authentic and would stay away from them. While the owners are Chinese, they actually grew up/lived in Vietnam and know their Vietnamese food pretty well.


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Green Peas is one of my favorite vegetable since childhood. During childhood days, when my mom used to split the covering and get legume out of it, I would always go to her and ask for a hand full of peas. Their sweet taste, crunchiness all was like a perfect candy stuff for me. Not just raw peas taste good, even after being cooked, peas taste awesome. They are a famous vegetable when it comes…Read More


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Hi, we are in process of buying a house in Old Church Warsop, on Barn Owl close. As part of the searches we have recieved a report on susceptibility to flooding there.
The report says that danger from flooding from the river is neglible, but risk is high from surface water and "ground" water, whatever that is!
Afew years ago there was general catastrophic flooding generaly, I particularly remember Renishaw by the golf course being under water.
does anyone, particularly on Barn Owl close, or immediate vicinity, have any information about whether any flooding has occured, and whether it affected proprty?
Ray Sandeson.


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NEW YORK -- The JCC Association, New York, has formed a partnership with Club One, San Francisco, in order to offer a holistic health and well-being program to JCC members.
The new program, called Discover @ the JCC, is the result of a task force formed by the JCC Association's board of directors, who wanted to move the focus of the organization's fitness facilities to a fuller view of health and wellness, says Miriam Rinn, the association's communications manager.
"Because JCCs are such multi-faceted institutions, they're in a particularly good position to address more than just fitness issues," Rinn says.
Club One professionals have trained JCC staff at six pilot sites across the country on how to implement the initiative, which includes both facility-based programs and online components. The JCC Association plans to survey participants before and after the piloting phase in order to refine and improve the program before rolling it out to all JCCs.
In a press statement, Tom Nelson, Club One vice president for community centers, said JCCs are uniquely positioned to deliver the company's programs because they serve the whole family. Discover @ the JCC offers a number of Club One's modules that have been adapted specifically for the JCC, including Feeding Your Kids, Losing Weight, and Stop Stressing.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - After a fifth-place finish in a World Cup super-G, her third race in three days, Lindsey Vonn used six simple words to sum up where things stand in her comeback from major knee surgery.
"I know," Vonn said, "I can win again."
She also had this to say after coming within a second of winner Lara Gut of Switzerland on Sunday: "I'm ready for Sochi."
The 2014 Winter Games are less than two full months away, and Vonn said she might only race one or two times before then.
"I know that I'm skiing well," said Vonn, the 2010 Olympic downhill gold medallist and a four-time overall World Cup champion. "So I know that I don't need to push myself and try to push the limits of my knee to race as many as races as I can."
Until this weekend, the 29-year-old American had not competed since a high-speed crash at the world championships last February ripped two ligaments in her right knee and broke a bone in that leg. Working her way back from that, Vonn had a setback less than three weeks ago, partially re-tearing her reconstructed right ACL.
"She had a trauma about a month ago, so it's very impressive that she's doing it," said U.S. teammate Leanne Smith, who was sixth Sunday. "Every one of her teammates are her biggest fans, I would say. We're happy to have her back."
Vonn's first race in 10 months was Friday's downhill, and she was — not surprisingly — rusty and a tad nervous, and wound up 40th, ending a seven-race winning streak at a resort in the Canadian Rockies nicknamed "Lake Lindsey."
In Saturday's downhill, Vonn was 11th.
The "very good progression," as U.S. Ski Team women's speed coach Chip White put it, continued Sunday with Vonn's best showing yet.
She declared herself pleased with her mental and physical improvement over these past few days.
"My run was pretty good. I was pushing the line really hard and I think I went a little bit too straight in some sections. But that's a good mistake to make — pushing the limits and trying to go straighter," Vonn said after finishing in 1 minute, 23.71 seconds. "That's far from where I was two days ago. So I think it was a huge step in the right direction. I think it was a perfect way to end the weekend."
Gut was timed in 1:22.86, edging Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein by three-hundredths of a second to reclaim the lead in the overall World Cup standings with her fourth victory of the young season. She's won half of the races so far.
Vonn, of course, knows how to ski rather well, to say the least. What she's needed to do of late is figure out how to do it properly with, as she joked Friday, "a little bit of ACL left."
Skiing with a brace on, Vonn felt her right knee was stable and came through what amounted to a 72-hour test in good shape.
Now she will huddle with her coaches and try to decide where and exactly how often to get in a starting hut ahead of the Olympics.
"I do need a couple more starts," Vonn said. "I want to make sure that I get on the podium at least once, if not win, before ... Sochi. For me, mentally, I really want to have that in my back pocket."
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In the Plague, Albert Camus tells the story of the Algerian city of Oran in the 1940s. Illnesses and deaths plagued the city. The book narrates how the Government of the day was completely in denial, slow to react and slow to take action. We too are facing a "Plague" in the form of global warming and climate change that …Read More »
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In the choice between crying and laughing at last night's election results, John Boehner has already picked the former, which he'll have the privilege to survive unscathed. Let's take a moment to do the latter and laugh — at him.
When it comes to the new Speaker of the House, the most obvious target is the contested pronunciation of his name and various penile functions. Or dysfunctions. Here's Slate's contribution to the canon:
But last night's tears watered the fertile ground of Boehner mockery, especially on Twitter.
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Back in 2006, Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson waxed rhapsodic about the Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, enjoying it so much he bought one himself.
Now a British agency is selling Clarkson's old 2007 Gallardo. For the bargain-basement price of $146,000, you too can share a seat with Jezza and practice your top-down O-face.
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Just curious to see whos still sound back from when I played.. which was from about March 2004 to Oct 31st 2009
surely some of the old school players from back there are still around. most people back then knew me as I was kinda hard to miss,.. lets just say I had quite the reputation lol.
Also incase anyone wondering no Im not planning on making a comeback anytime soon. Id have to much to do/catch up on if I did.. such as leveling all 12 of my 75 jobs to 99 and all 8 of my 50s to 99, then getting equipment for em and refully meritting them all.. that sounds like way too much work, though Ill admit I would lot to have at least ween how WoTG ended, last think I remember doing was WoTG fight against caith sith when Liseete helps you and caith sith can summon atomos.. think that was like mission 24
But yeah rather than play catch up Id rather just have a "fresh start" which Ill be doing with FFXIV ARR when it hits for PS3 next year, so if anyone planning on playing that (or already does), remembers me and wants to be "stuck with me" for another 4+ years (lol) let me know (though I plan on starting on a new server that allows newbies only so that everyone else will be starting out evenly and one the same foot as opposed to having pre existing high levels already around doing stuff and having an established community/economy.


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Butter by Nadia, Chan Luu, Christmas wishlist, Havaianas, House of Harlow 1960, iwhore tees, Polaroid film, The Impossible Project
Here are some items I'd love for Christmas *hinthint* 😉
#1: Polaroid film from The Impossible Project
I need stocking up on my polaroid film (mine is a Type 600 camera, which was a present)! These film are high in demand, and low in production at any one time (it was a dying industry before The Impossible Project revived one of the Polaroid factories).
#2: Least Weasel
Found out about these wild cuties from BBC's Frozen Planet documentary! Besides being cuties, they are a bunch of bad asses catching pesky rodents for you like so:
AHH SO CUTE RIGHT?! That rat is SO much bigger than the least weasel as well! Also, did you expect his body to be so long? I didn't! I love surprises.
So please surprise me with one! Yes…I know they're wild but…they're SO DARN CUTE!
#3 Watches
I used to wear watches when I was younger but they were always prone to falling apart so having a good sturdy one would be beneficial for me in the long run (instead of looking at the time on my phone). I just don't know what brands are good (AND affordable)!
Here are some of the colours I've fallen in love from Toy Watch:
I love it matte, classic and if it were glow-in-the-dark that'd be even more fab!
#4 Chan Luu Friendship Bracelets
These are ridiculously expensive but are SO gorgeous! Please get me one?
#5 House of Harlow 1960 cuffs
These textured and vintage cuffs from House of Harlow 1960 are a must-have! Both can be purchased here and here!
#6 Wrap Dress
A million dress in one, this is a style-saver! I am spoilt for choice by Butter By Nadia!
#7 Havaianas Slim Fitinhas
If you didn't already know, I am a major fan of Havaianas and one of my childhood dreams was to be the CEO of Havaianas. I guess that'll never happen… Anyway, 'fitinhas' in Portugese means 'ribbons', and these add a cute feature to the Havaianas! Please get me one? (Psst. I am a USA 4/5 and Europe 37/38) Hehe!
#8 iwhore t-shirts
T-shirt from iwhore tees, at £25! How badass is that?
"STOP STARING AT MY BOOBS, F*** You!"
Very strategically placed, eh? Found here at iwhore tees!
#9 Darth Vader LEGO Alarm Clock
The only sad thing is that the beeping alarm sound is NOT the Imperial March 😦 It just beeps. However, I'm pretty sure this huge LEGO Darth Vader would still make a good alarm clock!
#10 Pass the Bar
No explanations needed.
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I've just given the website a bit of an update with a tweak to the look, and also direct links to our Twitter and Facebook pages.
The other big addition is that we have recently created an e-mail discussion list, and idea that was suggested at the last conference. Attendees at that conference who left an e-mail address will have received an invitation, but anybody else can sign up using the link on the sidebar.
With regards to the last conference, our sincere apologies for the continuing lack of uploads of recordings of the two talks. Unfortunately we handed avodart online buy over responsibility for the recordings to the college, and I didn't have my own digital recorder for a backup, and as yet we have not been able to obtain copies of the recordings that were made from the sound system in the lecture theatre. We are aware that a number of people were unable to attend the conference and were hoping to be able to listen to the sessions online, we sincerely apologise for being unable to offer that.