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Avocado tree at our Bolivian home
The second year (1981) that we lived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, we rented an older stucco and adobe-brick house on a large lot. The house was built a long time before the gas boom brought a lot of new people and new construction to Santa Cruz. I suppose that area of town was the "historic district."
As is typical in Santa Cruz, the lot had a tall spiked fence along the front of it and tall masonry side walls that were topped with broken glass. The house sat at the back of the lot, and it was the fourth side of the long rectangle.
The space inside our walls was too nice to be called a yard. It was a tropical garden with fruit trees, grass, ground covers and many ornamental plants.
Enormous elephant ears (taller than my husband by a couple feet!) grew in a long strip between the driveway and one of the side walls. Various "houseplants" grew in beds along the sidewalks and patios, including a long hedge of "mother's-in-law tongue" in front of the house. "Wandering Jew" was one of the ground covers in the shade under the trees.
We had a pot-bellied toborochi tree and a mango tree and two banana trees and a funny little citrus tree that was neither lemon nor lime, but what I really want to tell about is the big avocado tree.
The avocado tree stood near the center of the garden, and during our year, it bore fruit. Its paltas (as avocados were called in Santa Cruz) were jumbo size -- as big as a large grapefruit, but pear shaped and heavy. They were bright green in color -- and there were a lot of them. I have read that some avocados (like oaks) bear heavily one year, then lighter the next year. Our tree must have had a heavy year.
We had all the avocados we could eat for weeks. We gave avocados to our friends and co-workers and to everyone who came to visit. Maria, the little Quechua woman who washed the clothes and swept the floor, and the man who cut the grass took avocados home with them every time they worked.
Dennis and I didn't fool around with making guacamole. We cut the avocados in half and ate the soft meat with a spoon right out of the skins. Sometimes we spread mashed avocado like butter on the fresh rolls that the bakery peddler sold out of the basket on the back of his bicycle.
We were rich with avocados in a way that we probably won't experience again.
I thought about our lovely Bolivian garden today when Dennis and I split a huge green avocado that I bought at the grocery store. I paid $2.56 for it, but it was worth it. Its meat was creamy, rich and very faintly sweet. It was delicious, just as I knew it would be when I saw it. We ate it out of the skin with our spoons.


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Heidi Montag and hubby of just a year, Spencer Pratt, have called it quits.
According to TMZ, Heidi has left her controlling husband. "Heidi is looking to move out due to all the fake bad press that Spencer controls," confirms a rep for Heidi, 23. "She's tired of it and is looking for a place and wants to focus on her acting career."
Another source close to the couple tells TMZ the tension in the relationship the Hills' stars has been building for a while now … "It wasn't just a sudden thing."
And as for the reason for the split? Well, sources tell TMZ it is because Heidi felt she was being held hostage after Spencer alienated her from all her friends and family. Apparently, the straw that broke the camel's back was when Spencer decided to call the cops on Heidi's mom just earlier this month, when she showed up to their house unannounced.
Now the question on my mind and I'm sure also on the minds of other readers is that is this real or is this just another one of their attention whoring publicity stunts? To put things into context, this is the same couple who called the cops on Heidi's mother just two weeks ago, and decided having 10 surgeries in one day was a good way to garner publicity.
Plus get this, Heidi has allegedly moved out of her house with Spencer, and is moving in with her friend Jennifer Bunney. The shocker is however that Heidi and Jennifer have already secured a deal for a reality show about their lives and friendship.
"Heidi and I are moving into a Malibu beach house this summer," said Jennifer to RadarOnline. "We're really excited to do girly things and show people who we really are and that we're really fun, sweet and loyal girls."
So there you have it folks, Heidi announces her split from Spencer and already has a reality show in the works that will chronicle her new life without Spencer. Something about this is starting to smell like another one of their publicity stunts, but let's all hope she has really left the douchebag known as Spencer Pratt.

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Annual syndicated research subscriptions are a common approach for enterprises and vendors when it comes to gaining access to published research and advisory. However, for all the value and convenience in this type of contract, there is a potential "gotcha" to watch for during the contract renewal – changes in the terms and conditions.
Often contract renewals follow a simple path of adjusting the number of seats and add-on services based on past year's usage, new requirements, and new offerings by the firm. Often the analyst firm sales representative will send along the new contract with a note that says "it is basically the same as last year, so please look at pages x and y to make sure we have captured the number of seats and services you need. Then sign on page z." If the client does not carefully go through the contract with a fine-tooth comb they might miss that the "basically the same" contract actually has some key changes to the terms and conditions that severely limit their use of the analyst services or gives the analyst firms the right to audit the client for contract compliance.
In some cases, the firm sales rep does not know that the changes are there, they are simply using the new standard contract. In other cases, the sales rep is aware of the changes but does not Continue reading
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Faced with the sluggish economy, a changing regulatory climate, shifting patient expectations and new forms of competition, today's optometrists are getting more creative in their approach to both clinical and business matters. Whether it's improving their diagnostic skills, implementing new technologies in the exam room or office, employing the latest management techniques or raising the level of patient care, forward-thinking ODs are pushing ahead with fresh ideas. They are the focus of our second annual Optometric Business Innovators report, a special collaborative project between Vision Monday and Review of Optometric Business. For the last six months, ROB has profiled honorees in various categories–business management, optical dispensing, digital media, marketing, the patient experience, influencers and contact lenses. This month: doctors recognized for achievement as "influencer" innovators.
Founder/CEO Shady Grove Eye and Vision Care www.youreyesite.com
Rockville, Maryland
"Our Ritz-Carlton level customer service, internet marketing, 'rock star' docs and top-tier staff passionate about our practice sets us apart from the competition."
Author, lecturer, inventor, businessman, and he still finds time to see patients. Alan Glazier, OD, has become something of a renaissance man for modern optometry. Founder/CEO of a large private optometric practice, Glazier authored Searchial Marketing: How Social Media Drives Search Optimization in Web 3.0 in 2011 and is a frequent lecturer on social and new media. He is the founder and moderator of the Social OD Network, which includes ODs on Facebook, an active social media discussion forum with over 2,000 industry professionals. As if that weren't enough, he holds four patents and nine pending patents in computer science and ophthalmology and is the founder/CEO of Vision Solutions Technologies, a medical device R&D company, which will bring a brand new intraocular lens, LiquiLens, to market.
But he isn't stopping there; he is currently in the process of expanding and modernizing his facilities. "In line with continuing to implement the medical model, we have been aggressively upgrading digital diagnostic technologies and adding new ones. We just became the third optometric practice in the world to get a LipiFlow Thermal Pulsation unit for treatment of evaporative dry eye," said Glazier. "There has been a tremendous upside in both revenue and our ability to provide top tier medical and refractive care as a result of our digital capabilities."
All this growth isn't without its challenges. "The single biggest challenge has been to stay ahead of growth while continuing to provide the high level of customer service that patients are accustomed to receiving," he concluded.
Founder & Owner
The Power Practice
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
"Working with our doctors isn't a job, it's a relationship. Making sure they power their personal and professional dreams isn't a task, it's our purpose."
Gary Gerber, OD, and his Power Practice consulting firm have been transforming optometric practices and the patient experience for the past 20 years. A champion of independent ODs, Gerber's firm has been a leader in practice management advising clients on everything from office efficiencies, customer service and staff motivation. After running his own successful practice in a highly competitive Northern N.J. area where he became a "student of business," Gerber decided "he could show other ODs how it's done. Our doctors have talent and passion. The Power Practice shows them how to direct their energy and skills into practice success and the achievement of their dreams."
Today, armed with a staff of 15 specializing in everything from billing and coding to social media and insurance, the consulting process consists of a dedicated team tasked with analyzing the practice, formulating a program and developing different strategies based on the unique needs of each practice. The final analysis is followed by implementation, training and ultimately coaching. "We try to offer ODs better management and control making sure they achieve their professional and personal dreams."
The firm identifies new opportunities to save money and generate additional revenue for practices. The approach is anything but cookie cutter and Gerber often looks to other industries and business sectors for inspiration and example. "One year we went up to Boston to meet with the head of housekeeping for the Ritz Carlton Hotel chain. We were able to get a whole new perspective on the strategy and technique of customer service."
Golden Optometric Group
West Covina, California
"We are extremely excited and optimistic for the future of optometry."
While David Golden, OD, runs a busy practice started in 1959 by his father, Sheldon Golden, OD, much of his influence in the optometric field is due to his co-founding Professional Eyecare Resource Co-Operative (PERC) three years ago with Howard Stein, OD. He started PERC with the goal of helping organize independent optometrists and ophthalmologists to work together in order to stay competitive in the changing eyecare market. The organization helps procure products and provides resources for the development and management of offices grossing over $1 million annually.
"Our mission is to educate and train the best managers in the eyecare world," Golden said. "Almost 80 percent of our resources go to creating development programs for managers to build a great team." PERC runs as a zero profit entity by returning all income that is earned by member purchases after administrative and educational expenses. PERC has built a Medical Eye Home Model that has delivered over 18,000 patients to its members and partner practices. Currently, PERC has 210 locations in 17 states.
Golden is also co-founder of the Aris Vision Institute, which operates 23 refractive surgery centers in the U.S., Mexico and Japan, and which is now part of Gimble Vision Canada.
His newest venture is EyeHome Network, a health care entity designed to improve Star Rating and HEDIS scores using the PERC network to coordinate eyecare for large health plans. EyeHome uses optometry to deliver cost-effective, primary and secondary eyecare to covered individuals. The program has already delivered over 20,000 patients in Arizona and California, and in 2013, New York, Virginia and potentially three other states will be added.
Golden still finds time to manage Golden Optometric Group, where he's been practicing for 25 years.
Vice President of Eye Care
LensCrafters, North America
Mission Viejo, California
"This profession is about people taking great care of people."
After 27 years with LensCrafters, Eliot Grossman, OD, has had the "opportunity to work with many optometrists and patients to understand issues and discover new, innovative ways to deliver a higher quality of care and a better eyecare experience," he said.
Grossman's history with LensCrafters began in 1985 when he started as an employee with a LensCrafters sublease doctor in Chicago. He was promoted to regional manager in 1989 when he became responsible for the 23 locations that LensCrafters then purchased from that doctor. He moved to California in 1997 to become executive director of Eye Exam of California. In 2008, he was promoted to VP, Eye Care, for LensCrafters, North America, responsible for both employed and sublease doctors throughout the U.S. and Canada.
His recent innovative and influential endeavors in the optical field include adding online appointment scheduling capabilities to the LensCrafters website as well as participating in the brand-wide launch of the Accufit system, which allows for five times more accurate fitting measurements and enables patients to choose between different frame styles while also better understanding the benefits of different lenses.
"This year, we implemented a new customer experience model," added Grossman. "The essence of it speaks to making an emotional connection with the patient and customer, exploring all of their needs and wants and exceeding the expectations that they have of what their experience will be like." LensCrafters trains its staff at all locations to more fully communicate during the exam experience what they are doing and why. "This was created out of the belief that patients want heightened communication and based on feedback from patients asking to understand what's being done to them."
Grossman also ensures that all LensCrafters associates are cross trained so they can take care of patients and customers throughout the entire experience.
Summit Eye Associates
Gastonia, North Carolina
"There are three types of people: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened."
Ann Hoscheit, OD, wears many hats and depending on when and where you see her, you might meet a clinician, business owner, educator or researcher. In January 2013, she'll record another milestone in her storied career as she celebrates the 10th anniversary of her second start-up practice, Summit Eye Associates, where her practice integrates personal service with the delivery of state-of-the art eyecare while offering several "centers of excellence."
Her most recent venture was completing a fellowship in Integrative Medicine and incorporating a Wellness Center into the practice. Hoscheit was the first optometrist in the country to receive formal training in functional medicine and is the first physician, from any background in Gaston County, to provide integrative medicine in their practice. "My patients call me the Dr. Oz of Gaston County. This training provided the background needed to incorporate evidence-based medicine into ocular disease prevention."
When asked what she was most proud of in her role as educator, Hoscheit pointed to her stint as one of four inaugural faculty members for The Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Institute. "The state-of-the-art setting not only taught students, residents and physicians the art of fitting specialty contact lenses but its primary focus was to teach clinicians to communicate."
President/CEO & Chief of Optometry
Schaeffer Eye Center
Birmingham, Alabama
"Wake up every morning and be prepared to face the facts. Then develop an action plan to accomplish your goals based on those facts."
Schaeffer Eye Center is one of Alabama's largest optometric practices with 15 locations, 17 doctors and more than 100 employees. With that many moving parts, consistency could present a challenge, especially during tough economic times, but Jack Schaeffer, OD, was able to ensure that his staff maintained the same business philosophy and marketing efforts during the downturn and recent recovery.
"It was important to pay a lot more attention to the details of business as there is very little room for mistakes and wasted efficiencies," said Schaeffer. "The upside to the economic changes is that it forces us to pay closer attention to all of the processes and more importantly to continue delivering quality eyecare to our patients. We have continued to invest in our practice on all levels despite knowing that we would not have the same return that we might have in the past."
Schaeffer is not only president and CEO of Schaeffer Eye Center but also founder and president of the Alabama Eye Network, founder of the Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Society and co-founder and past president of the Ocular Surface Society of Optometry. He is also a frequent lecturer on topics including anterior segment disease, ocular surface disease, contact lenses and practice management.
Despite all his accomplishments, Schaeffer isn't above accepting a little help now and then. "We have taken advantage of the many great programs offered by our vendors to educate our staff," he added.
Director of Business Strategy and Operations Support
Vision Essentials by Kaiser Permanente
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Pasadena, California
"Integrity: do what you say. Transparency: say what you do."
As director of strategy and operations support for Vision Essentials by Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, Susy Yu, OD, oversees a business unit that consists of 42 locations that generated annual revenue of approximately $160 million in 2011. Yu plays an integral role in helping to shape overall strategy, clinical workflows, purchasing, marketing, and manufacturing processes. "Vision Essentials is a small piece within a large organization," she noted. "We compete for staff, space and resources with many other departments. However, Kaiser Permanente is an HMO, so even though they emphasize efficiency and cutting costs, Vision Essentials gets to invest in order to grow it just like a private practice would. We have the luxury of being able to take a longer range view than an organization with a smaller cash flow could."
According to Yu, this has enabled Vision Essentials to increase its visibility through concerted marketing outreach to both internal and external audiences, demonstrating its importance to the larger organization. "In an era of tight budgets, we have been able to hire more ODs and staff, expand our manufacturing operations and open new locations," she said.
Yu also served on the California State Board of Optometry from 2003 to 2011. She helped to craft California's approach to glaucoma certification, deftly balancing efficiency and expanded scope with protection of the public interest. Yu is a current member of the board of directors of the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO).


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Callbacks are hooks into the lifecycle of an Active Record object that allows you to trigger logic before or after an alteration of the object state. This can be used to make sure that associated and dependent objects are deleted when destroy is called (by overwriting before_destroy) or to massage attributes before they're validated (by overwriting before_validation). As an example of the callbacks initiated, consider the Base#save call:
- (-) save
- (-) valid?
- (1) before_validation
- (2) before_validation_on_create
- (-) validate
- (-) validate_on_create
- (3) after_validation
- (4) after_validation_on_create
- (5) before_save
- (6) before_create
- (-) create
- (7) after_create
- (8) after_save
That's a total of eight callbacks, which gives you immense power to react and prepare for each state in the Active Record lifecycle.
class CreditCard < ActiveRecord::Base # Strip everything but digits, so the user can specify "555 234 34" or # "5552-3434" or both will mean "55523434" def before_validation_on_create self.number = number.gsub(/[^0-9]/, "") if attribute_present?("number") end end class Subscription < ActiveRecord::Base before_create :record_signup private def record_signup self.signed_up_on = Date.today end end class Firm < ActiveRecord::Base # Destroys the associated clients and people when the firm is destroyed before_destroy { |record| Person.destroy_all "firm_id = #{record.id}" } before_destroy { |record| Client.destroy_all "client_of = #{record.id}" } end
Inheritable callback queues
Besides the overwriteable callback methods, it's also possible to register callbacks through the use of the callback macros. Their main advantage is that the macros add behavior into a callback queue that is kept intact down through an inheritance hierarchy. Example:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base before_destroy :destroy_author end class Reply < Topic before_destroy :destroy_readers end
Now, when Topic#destroy is run only destroy_author is called. When Reply#destroy is run both destroy_author and destroy_readers is called. Contrast this to the situation where we've implemented the save behavior through overwriteable methods:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base def before_destroy() destroy_author end end class Reply < Topic def before_destroy() destroy_readers end end
In that case, Reply#destroy would only run destroy_readers and not destroy_author. So use the callback macros when you want to ensure that a certain callback is called for the entire hierarchy and the regular overwriteable methods when you want to leave it up to each descendent to decide whether they want to call super and trigger the inherited callbacks.
IMPORTANT: In order for inheritance to work for the callback queues, you must specify the callbacks before specifying the associations. Otherwise, you might trigger the loading of a child before the parent has registered the callbacks and they won't be inherited.
Types of callbacks
There are four types of callbacks accepted by the callback macros: Method references (symbol), callback objects, inline methods (using a proc), and inline eval methods (using a string). Method references and callback objects are the recommended approaches, inline methods using a proc are sometimes appropriate (such as for creating mix-ins), and inline eval methods are deprecated.
The method reference callbacks work by specifying a protected or private method available in the object, like this:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base before_destroy :delete_parents private def delete_parents self.class.delete_all "parent_id = #{id}" end end
The callback objects have methods named after the callback called with the record as the only parameter, such as:
class BankAccount < ActiveRecord::Base before_save EncryptionWrapper.new("credit_card_number") after_save EncryptionWrapper.new("credit_card_number") after_initialize EncryptionWrapper.new("credit_card_number") end class EncryptionWrapper def initialize(attribute) @attribute = attribute end def before_save(record) record.credit_card_number = encrypt(record.credit_card_number) end def after_save(record) record.credit_card_number = decrypt(record.credit_card_number) end alias_method :after_find, :after_save private def encrypt(value) # Secrecy is committed end def decrypt(value) # Secrecy is unveiled end end
So you specify the object you want messaged on a given callback. When that callback is triggered, the object has a method by the name of the callback messaged.
The callback macros usually accept a symbol for the method they're supposed to run, but you can also pass a "method string", which will then be evaluated within the binding of the callback. Example:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base before_destroy 'self.class.delete_all "parent_id = #{id}"' end
Notice that single plings (') are used so the #{id} part isn't evaluated until the callback is triggered. Also note that these inline callbacks can be stacked just like the regular ones:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base before_destroy 'self.class.delete_all "parent_id = #{id}"', 'puts "Evaluated after parents are destroyed"' end
The after_find and after_initialize exceptions
Because after_find and after_initialize are called for each object found and instantiated by a finder, such as Base.find(:all), we've had to implement a simple performance constraint (50% more speed on a simple test case). Unlike all the other callbacks, after_find and after_initialize will only be run if an explicit implementation is defined (def after_find). In that case, all of the callback types will be called.
Cancelling callbacks
If a before_* callback returns false, all the later callbacks and the associated action are cancelled. If an after_* callback returns false, all the later callbacks are cancelled. Callbacks are generally run in the order they are defined, with the exception of callbacks defined as methods on the model, which are called last.
- instantiate
- instantiate_with_callbacks
CALLBACKS = %w( after_find after_initialize before_save after_save before_create after_create before_update after_update before_validation after_validation before_validation_on_create after_validation_on_create before_validation_on_update after_validation_on_update before_destroy after_destroy )
module includes with callbacks
If you write a plugin or module that includes callbacks make sure to define the method and call super after you're done with your business.
module CoolStuff
def self.included(base) super base.extend(ClassMethods) # the next line seems to clobber. instead opt for defining an inheritable method # base.after_save :chill end module ClassMethods # cool class methods end def chill self.cool = true end def after_save self.chill super # if you don't call super, bloggy won't run end
end # yes I know this next line is a divisive issue but it's common enough ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, CoolStuff
class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base
after_save :bloggy def bloggy slugify_title end
How to test callback methods
When testing callback methods, try to test the callback chain separate from its implementation.
Say this is your model:
class Project belongs_to :owner has_many :milestones after_save :create_milestones after_save :notify_owner private def notify_owner owner.project_created! end def create_milestones milestones.create(:name => 'Milestone 1') end end
You should write your spec like this:
describe Project do describe 'create_milestones' do it 'should create an initial milestone' do project = Project.new project.milestones.should_receive(:create) project.send(:create_milestones) end end describe 'notify_owner' do it 'should notify its owner' do project = Project.new(:owner => mock_model(User)) project.owner.should_receive(:project_created!) project.send(:notify_owner) end end describe 'after_save' do it 'should run the proper callbacks' do project = Project.new project.should_receive(:create_milestones) project.should_receive(:notify_owner) project.run_callbacks(:after_save) end end end
Here is some more advice on how to test callback methods in Rails:
You can add if: :query_method and unless: :query_method
You can make the callback conditional:
before_save :before_method, if: :needs_before_method? private def needs_before_method? false end def before_method # .. end


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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli religious party says its powerful spiritual leader has been released from hospital after a minor stroke, easing concerns his health could affect the party's fortunes ahead of Jan. 22 elections.
Yakov Betzalel, who is spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 92, was at home with his family and would resume his daily routine later Sunday.
Yosef was taken to hospital on Saturday after collapsing during morning prayers.
The Baghdad-born religious scholar commands supreme influence in his party, which holds 10 of parliament's 120 seats and represents Jews of Middle Eastern descent.
Outside his party, the rabbi, with his trademark turban, gold-embroidered robes and dark glasses, has been a controversial figure, making incendiary comments on Palestinians, secular Jews, Holocaust survivors and gays.


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World's worst driver ends up dangling off the side of a building
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World's worst driver ends up dangling off the side of a building
When a driver in a Dallas area parking garage lost control of his car while parking on the ninth floor, his vehicle ended up dangling over the side of the building when it got caught on a wire. The driver was able to escape without injury, but he's probably not happy that the event was caught on camera.
Dozens of creepy 'Missing Person' signs were discovered by a hiker in the woods
Back in 2016, a man in the woods of Long Island stumbled upon what looked like a scene out of a horror film: Missing Person signs, cans of food, a dirty blanket, and a bizarre structure made of tree branches. "That's a cage of some kind," the hiker said to himself, before getting freaked out and fleeing.
Pervy Red Sox fan takes upskirt shots and runs
A man in Iowa took several upskirt shots of a woman while she shopped. The Cedar Falls Police Department and Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers is now looking for the suspect, who was seen wearing a Boston Red Sox hat and shirt.
Albino kids whose arms were brutally hacked off are getting prosthetic limbs
After being attacked for their body parts in Tanzania, four children with albinism have received new limbs at Shriner's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. This is the kids' second visit to the U.S., thanks to the New York-based Global Medical Relief Fund, whose motto is "One Child at a Time."
Prankster sets up conference call with two of the same stores and the results are hilarious
The new year so far has proven to be one of exciting and eventful things, and the classic prank call is naturally one of them. This prankster decided to conference in two Jimmy John's stores on the same phone call, unbeknownst to one another, and hilarity ensued.
Spending the night in Dracula's Castle will probably suck
A popular tourist attraction in Romania known as Dracula's Castle is offering the chance to spend the night there through a promotion with Airbnb. Any guests looking for vampiric activity will be gravely disappointed.
Grandmother shows off her insane bottle-flipping skills
A teen from Ireland uploaded a video showing off his bottle-flipping skills, but his grandmother ended up becoming the star of the show. It turns out that having cool-looking but ultimately useless skills runs in the family.
This jerk got caught faking a racist 'social experiment' on YouTube
Joey Salads is a YouTube star from Staten Island who is known for making "social experiment" videos, which show how real people react to real situations. Unfortunately, it turns out that these videos might not be real at all, based on this footage that was recently revealed.
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As a child I spent an inordinate amount of time playing with Lego (was
it just me or did anyone else invent names for the bricks? I had
Long-ers, Square-ers, Tippees, Flat Tippees, Very Flat Tippees, Tipping
Up Tippees...) The fact that a tubful of basic components could become
the most fabulous spaceship I was capable of imagining had a huge
influence on me and was probably a large factor in why I became a
I really think I'm onto something with cmeScribble but I've had a
hard time coming up with a way to explain exactly what I think I'm
onto. Part of that is because, obviously, I'm writing largely for an
audience that isn't familiar with cmScribe, the philosophy it tries to
embody, the strengths of its approach or the limitations we're starting
to hit. Perhaps I should let my ten-year-old self explain by analogy.
We needed a powerful layout system so we came up with Lego.
Then we needed flexible hierarchical navigation so we built in Duplo.
Then we needed some place to put the content so we made a Rubik's Magic.
We built an eCommerce system out of Meccano.
We built a document repository out of Rubik's Snakes (those were great, weren't they?)
We made a general-purpose form builder out of MegaBloks.
We made a permissions system out of whatever that cool thing was that
had all the translucent octagonal pieces with slots in the sides.
And every time we add a new feature we get a different type of construction toy to make it out of.
We've done a good job of making all these things work together. To
display products in the nav we built an adapter that allowed Meccano to
attach to Duplo. We built adapters so that octagons could be attached
to anything. We built adapters to connect Meccano to Rubik's Magic. We
built adapters and adapters and more adapters.
What we've ended up with is something that's extremely flexible and
powerful, but in doing so we've solved the same problem lots of times -
making one kind of toy talk to another, or making one toy appear as if
it's a different kind of toy, or solving a problem for one kind of toy
that was already solved for one of the others (notably, our
Rubiks-Magic search is entirely separate from our Meccano search).
The idea behind cmeScribble is "what would happen if we just did it all with Lego[1]?"
The Lego philosophy and the Unix philosophy have a lot in common. In
cmScribe we got the bit about "Do one thing and do it well" right,
whether the one thing is "match a regular expression" or "be two by
four, full height and red" or "display a product list". But just as
important, if less expressable in a pithy slogan, is that the reason
Lego and Unix work as well as they do is that every part has a common
interface. In Unix it's the plain text file with each line representing
some kind of value. In Lego it's the little round bump and the little
bump-sized hole. In both cases the power comes from the fact that any
piece's bumps can attach to any other piece's holes without having to
create a custom Long-er-To-Very-Flat-Tippee-Adapter.
In the next thrilling installment: What do I propose as cmeScribble's little-round-bump-equivalent?
[1] Lego is, after all, the One True Construction Toy and MegaBloks can bite my small cuboidal plastic butt ;)
Before I wrote a line of code for cmeScribble I decided that I'd code
it the right way. Retrofitting "right-way-ness" onto an existing
project is almost impossible, so I was determined not to miss the
chance to build it in from day one.
The particular "right way" I had in mind was using Test-Driven
Development, or TDD. For anyone unfamiliar with the TDD methodology,
the idea is that before you write any code or fix any bug you first
write a test or two to make sure the code works or the bug is fixed.
The test should fail when you first run it, because the code doesn't
work and the bug hasn't been fixed. Once you've written the test and
verified that it fails, then you write the code to make it pass.
The advantages of TDD are well-documented elsewhere, but in a nutshell:
writing the test forces you to know in advance exactly what you want
the code to do, and also as you develop more and more code you have a
library of tests to make sure you don't break anything.
I could easily see how to write tests for self-contained functions, but
I couldn't figure out how to write tests for user interfaces or
database-backed logic. Since cmeScribble is all about building user
interfaces from database data, this posed something of a challenge.
Maybe I can get away without testing the UI layer, but I can count
features that won't need database data in some way on the fingers of
Captain Hook's right hand. Okay, I thought, Google to the rescue... but
searching for databases and TDD provided lots of people with similar
issues and no straightforward answers.
A common suggestion was to use "mock objects". The idea is that you
create a "fake" version of your database layer which returns plausible
values without actually needing a database. This solves the problem but
the downside is that you have to actually write the mock version of
each database table, and since cmScribe has over a hundred tables at
last count[1] I didn't relish that thought much either.
Facing a potential deal-breaker for something you don't want to
compromise on tends to focus the mind, and eventually I hit on a
solution. A full SQL database is hideously complex, but cmeScribble
will be doing it's database access through nrdo (I'm biased, but I
honestly don't see how people can work any other way...) and for 99% of
uses, nrdo provides a fairly simple object model over the top of the
database. Simple enough that if you don't care about persistence (which
in a test situation is actually a bad thing) or performance, it's
possible to implement the vast majority of it very simply in memory, as
part of the nrdo runtime library and generated code, backed by simple
List<T>s. A couple of days of hacking later and that's exactly
what I've now checked into nrdo's CVS: If you use the C# 2.0 template
and set the configuration setting "NrdoMock" to "True", all your code
will run purely in memory, with a clean "database" for each run.
There are a few things missing - at a wild guess I'd say it covers 60% of
what you'd want to do right now, and I should be able to get that up
to about 90% without too much trouble by filling in things as I need
them (after writing tests!). Most of the rest can't be handled
automatically (because they'd require a full SQL engine in the mocking
layer) but can be done with a little manual intervention (by the
programmer providing a C# equivalent of the SQL clause in question; the
SQL clause itself doesn't get tested but all the logic around it does).
The most satisfying part of the whole thing was watching it pass the tests I'd prepared in advance :)
[1] cmeScribble will have a lot less because of the "enterprise"
features that aren't being included and also hopefully by unifying lots
of things that were separate tables in cmScribe, but still.
Last night I came up with the seed of a way to implement some things in
cmScribe (the CMS that I work on as a day job and happens to run
my website too) that I've wanted to do for ages but not known how - and
get a bunch more cool features that I never even thought of before for
free. That was the good news. The bad news was that the ideas are a
radical departure from the way cmScribe works now and would require an
almost complete rewrite - only a few pieces of code could be salvaged
anything like intact. It's taken us three years of team development to
get cmScribe to where it is now - which is, in my not-entirely-unbiased
opinion, a pretty good place in lots of ways - so the idea of throwing
all that away and starting over based on a mad programmer's wild and
unproven blue-sky ideas was probably not something I could sell to the
boss ;)
(Basically, the entire architecture of cmScribe today revolves around
building templates and pages out of building blocks that we call
panels. The idea I had leaves no concept of a panel left at all, and
templates and pages don't have any independent existence but just
become particular ways of combining lower-level ideas...)
But I think I found a way to turn the bad news to my - and NetReach's,
and maybe your - advantage. Because it does mean a complete rewrite,
there's no need to use any existing cmScribe code to implement it. So I
suggested to my boss that I'd be happy to work on this in my own time
as a hobby project / technology testbed, and wouldn't it be cool to do
it as an Open Source project? As a hobby project it wouldn't even
attempt to provide the "enterprise" features that cmScribe does, but if
it successfully proves the concept, it would also be possible to use it
to rebuild those enterprise features and get a next-generation cmScribe. My boss agreed.
So without further ado, I give you...
Well, actually, I don't, because all cmeScribble is right now is a
logo, a pronunciation (see-me-scribble!) and some partly-formed ideas.
There are parts of the design that are defined as being done "by
magic". And while some incredibly rich and powerful scenarios are
enabled by this architecture, I'm a little fuzzy on how to implement
obscure things like, say, pages.
When I have some code (I've started, but I don't want to release until
it can do something that at least gives a hint of the power to come)
I'll put it online for people to try out. In the meantime I'll blog a
bit about the process by which I arrived at the new design, where I
think I'm going with it, and why you should care. Or at least give you
enough information to decide that in fact you don't ;) As I write more
about the ideas I have I'll also be interested in feedback on whether
what I'm doing makes sense, whether there are important scenarios it
misses, and what I could do to make you interested in using it.
Ok, at this point I'm announcing vaporware. Sorry; I'm excited about
this and don't have the discipline to wait until it really works.
Besides, I've noticed that when I see an announcement of a new project,
if it's provided as a fait accompli with lots of code and
documentation, I'm not terribly likely to invest the time to delve
through all that to learn what it's all about. If someone on one of the
planets I'm subscribed to introduces their project over a series of
blog posts, though, I find myself learning quite a lot about the
project - and maybe wanting to use it - without feeling like I've
invested any time or effort at all (after all, reading blogs is what
you do to avoid putting effort into something else). If I cmeScribble
can benefit from that effect in others, everyone wins.
Oh, and I guess I have to say that it's very Web 2.0. I'm not sure
what that means except that all the cool kids are doing it these days.
As far as I can understand of what that particular meaningless buzzword
means, though, it does actually fit.


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Routt County commissioners hear complaint about transportation at airport
April 16, 2013
Steamboat Springs — The Routt County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday afternoon heard from Storm Mountain Express in what's been an ongoing conversation: the equity of transportation services at Yampa Valley Regional Airport.
Michael Van Vliet, a co-owner of Storm Mountain Express, spoke about his company being denied the ability to solicit walk-up or not previously registered passengers from the Hayden airport to Steamboat Springs.
In the airports three classes of transportations services, which were instituted in 2007, Storm Mountain Express is a Class 2 provider. It has a counter inside the airport for which it pays a rental fee and returns a portion of its revenue to the airport, but it can't solicit walk-up traffic.
Go Alpine is the lone Class 1 provider at the airport and can provide walk-up service. It also pays fees for a counter and returns a percentage of its revenue.
During the course of Tuesday's discussion, county and airport officials stated that the contract for a Class 1 provider requires the company to attest to its ability to legally provide walk-up service.
Charles Kimball, an attorney present on Storm Mountain Express' behalf, stated that it's his opinion that the federal authority granted to Storm Mountain Express allows for walk-up service.
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Go Alpine, which also operates a local taxi service, holds federal and state authorities, according to owner Lisa Adamo, who was present Tuesday.
Storm Mountain Express missed a deadline in the request for proposal process earlier this year and was not able to apply to be a Class 1 provider.
Of the more than 35 people at Tuesday's meeting, the majority were employed by Storm Mountain Express or there in support of its request. Adamo said she decided not to request supporters of Go Alpine to attend.
"All I'm asking is that my employees can have benefits and can live in Steamboat Springs," Van Vliet said about the his business's need for the revenue generated by walk-up traffic.
The commissioners expressed frustration with the system that allowed for only one Class 1 provider and said they'll take more time to consider the legal issues.
"I would ask that the public show a little bit of patience and understanding," Commissioner Tim Corrigan said.
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Mass. man injured after jumping inside CVS during police chaseBy JASON SCHREIBER
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July 23. 2013 1:22PM
PLAISTOW — A Massachusetts man who police say tried to evade them by running into a CVS pharmacy Monday ended up in a Boston hospital after police say he jumped from a mezzanine floor inside the store and injured his groin area when he landed on a railing 10 feet below.
Sharif Allende, 22, of 79 Haverhill St., No. 3, Lawrence, Mass., remained hospitalized Tuesday after he was injured. Police said he was attempting to flee with another man after an accident involving a stolen car.
Deputy Police Chief Kathleen Jones said police were notified Monday around 9 a.m. of a vehicle striking another vehicle from behind and then fleeing from the scene on Route 125 in the area of MB Tractor.
According to Jones, a driver who witnessed the accident followed the suspect vehicle — a beige 1996 Toyota Camry reportedly stolen from Methuen, Mass. — onto East Road in Atkinson. Jones said the vehicle, which sustained substantial front-end damage and was smoking as it sped off, stopped, and one suspect got out and took off on foot in the area of Lisheen Drive.
Jones said a second suspect, later identified as Allende, continued driving the car and fled the scene again heading southbound on Route 125.
Allende stopped in the parking lot of Auto Zone on Route 125 and then left the vehicle and ran into a CVS store, Jones said.
Plaistow police were at the scene and chased him into the store.
Jones said the suspect attempted to escape through the rear employee area of the store.
At one point he climbed up stairs leading to a mezzanine, but with police following close behind, Jones said Allende jumped and hit the railing.
He was then taken into custody and brought to the police station and was later treated at Exeter Hospital for his injury. He has since been sent to a Boston hospital for further treatment.
Police have not yet charged Allende.
"The priority is to make sure he gets the proper treatment," Jones said.
The second man who allegedly tried to flee was also arrested.
Shortly before 9:30 a.m., Atkinson police received a call that a man matching the description of the first suspect who fled on foot was walking in the area of Linebrook and East roads, Jones said. He was wearing tan shorts and no shirt.
Officers from Atkinson and Plaistow responded to the scene and arrested Irving F. Diaz, 22, of Lawrence, Mass. Police said he is homeless.
Diaz is charged with theft for allegedly receiving stolen property, conduct after an accident, speeding, following too closely and operating after suspension.
He was ordered held at the Rockingham County jail on $5,000 cash bail at his arraignment Tuesday morning in the 10th Circuit Court, Plaistow District Division. He is due back in court Aug. 5 for a probable cause hearing.
Jones said the driver of the vehicle that was hit during the accident was not seriously injured.
Jones commended the Plaistow and Atkinson officers for their help at the scene as well as the Essex County Sheriff's Department for helping identify the two men.
"They did a great job. They were right on it. The whole situation could have spun out of control quickly," she said.


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San Rafael, CA, Jan 29, 2013 (Washington Bangla Radio / PRWEB) Featured in New York, a hugely popular nightclub in San Francisco and on some of the largest stages in California, Dholrhythms Dance Company brings their overwhelmingly joyful dance and music to Marin.
Presented by The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts at the Osher Marin JCC, the troupe, led by Vicki Virk and Suman Raj, highlights ancestral and ethnic roots of the traditional Punjabi dance form while pushing boundaries with contemporary influences such as hip-hop and house. The result is a fresh and exciting experience that begs for participation. Part dance show, part instruction, part party; the evening begins with a beautiful and inspiring performance, followed by a short lesson, which evolves into dance party of audience and performers alike.
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Dholrhythms Dance Company has played at the Stern Grove Festival, Michael Franti's Power to the Peaceful Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Harmony Festival. To add to the event, Alka's Henna will be on-site offering henna painting at a nominal fee, San Rafael's own Lotus Cuisine will have Indian food on site for sale, and free bindis to all... as they last. Come get your bindis on Bollywood style!
All are invited. General Admission seating with some table seating available. No membership or Jewish affiliation required to attend ANY JCC events. All ages welcome
WHEN: Sat. March 2 @ 7:30 ~ Doors/food/No Host Cocktails @ 6:45
WHERE: The Osher Marin JCC, 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
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Dholrhythms is dedicated to promoting the artistic and cultural heritage of India through the beautiful Bhangra and Giddha folk dances of Punjab, India. Co-founders Vicki Virk and Suman Raj envisioned Dholrhythms as a way to share their love of community, culture, and dance. Dholrhythms hosts classes and workshops, and presents performances and events that celebrate this unique folk dance and Punjabi culture.
The Dholrhythms Dance Company is a staple at the successful monthly club night Non Stop Bhangra in San Francisco. Led by Vicki Virk and Suman Raj, the dance company highlights the ancestral and ethnic roots of the Punjabi dance form while pushing boundaries with contemporary influences. The result is a fresh and exciting dance full of fun, energy, and passion. Dholrhythms Dance Company have been featured on some of the largest stages in the West Coast including San Francisco's Stern Grove Festival, Michael Franti's Power to the Peaceful in Golden Gate Park, New Mexico's ¡Globalquerque!, Grand Performances in Los Angeles, Pasadena's Levitt Pavilion, and more.
Bhangra originated in the fertile land of Punjab, India. Punjab means land of five waters (rivers); it is a Northwest region of the Indian Subcontinent, currently spread amongst Indian states of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, and parts of Himachal, Hariyana and Pakistani Punjab.
Though Bhangra may have existed longer, its history can be traced as far back as 500 years. Bhangra was created among farmers while they worked in fields. The basic movements relate to farming activities like ploughing, sowing, and, harvesting. Traditionally performed to celebrate the harvest, Bhangra reflected the enthusiasm and appreciation shared among rural folk as they witnessed their hard labor bear fruit. The main instrument played during Bhangra is a barrel size drum called the dhol. Bhangra is truly one of the most joyous and celebratory forms of dancing typically performed at festive occasions and celebrations, especially weddings.
The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts is the Performing Arts Department within the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center in San Rafael, California. For over 20 years we have spread the power of music, voice, humor, taste, culture, movement and words throughout the community by presenting classical music, club style dancing events, comedy, musical concerts, theater and performance in the grand Hoytt Theater, lectures, chats and demonstrations in the Kurland lounge and great world music & dancing for all ages outdoors under summer skies on Swig Field. All are welcome; no membership is required to attend. The Center is a long-standing Marin non- profit, centrally located in Marin County and just 1/4 mile east off Hwy 101
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U.S. News & World Report's columnist, Paul Bedard, reports that Transportation secretary Ray LaHood told him that it's fun playing Santa Claus to states and cities around the nation.
Privatize the U.S. Postal Service
In August, President Barack Obama commented that "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. … It's the post office that's always having problems." We found out just how deep those problems were when Postmaster General John Potter announced that the U.S. Postal Service is facing $238 billion in losses over the next 10 years.
Federal Aid to States is Too Popular
The Economist's Free Exchange blog asks: "[W]hy isn't federal aid to states more popular, and popular enough to get through Congress, given that nearly every American lives in one?"
More Black Eyes for DHS
The Department of Homeland Security is in the news for a range of management problems. Bureaucratic bungling at DHS has been an agency hallmark since its creation in 2003. In 2008, the House Committee on Homeland Security counted $15 billion worth of failed DHS contracts for various projects since its inception.
EDA, NADO, & Appropriations Hearings
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Businesses Cite Government as the Problem
According to the latest Small Business Economic Trends survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, 31 percent of respondents said the single most important problem facing small businesses is "poor sales." "Taxes" and "Government Regulations and Red Tape" came in second and third place at 22 percent and 13 percent respectively. Combining the two, the biggest problem facing small businesses according to respondents is government.
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�The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure� G � At a regular showing of �The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure,� The Family Filmgoer noted at least one child of age 2 or 3 got up and danced when this film asked her to. That�s the demographic at which this aggressively cutesy, candy-colored film aims its garish charms.
It opened in theaters last weekend with such dismal box office totals they earned headlines, but creator and co-producer Kenn Viselman pronounced it good advance publicity for its video release, and sequels.
A magical tale in which live actors engage with huge puppets (perhaps operated by actors, too, inside all that colorful felt and padding � but hard to tell), the film feels endless at 88 minutes. It follows the adventures of Oogielove siblings Toofie (Malerie Grady), Zoozie (Stephanie Renz) and Goobie (Misty Miller), as they head out to retrieve the lost magic balloons for their friend Schluufy the Pillow�s (voice of Taras Los) birthday party.
The vacuum cleaner J. Edgar (Nick Drago) sends them off, with the help of Windy (Mia Elliott), a magical face in the window who helps locate where each of the balloons has gone.
The Oogieloves meet a bubble salesman, Bobby Wobbly (Cary Elwes); a polka-dot fanatic, Dotty Rounder (Cloris Leachman) and her granddaughter, Jubilee (Kylie O�Brien); a hip milkshake maven, Marvin Milkshake (Chazz Palminteri); and a vain singing star, Rosalie Rosebud (Toni Braxton), all of whom help retrieve the balloons.
At several junctures, kids in the audience are invited to stand up and dance to songs, then are told when it�s time to sit down. The film plays like a bad 1950s kids� show.
THE BOTTOM LINE: There is nothing offensive or scary in this odd confection.
�2016: Obama�s America� PG � This film by conservative thinker Dinesh D�Souza, based on his articles and his 2010 book �The Roots of Obama�s Rage,� has made it into the box office top 10 in the last couple of weeks. It offers a hard-right take on President Barack Obama, from his childhood forward.
For high-schoolers and college-age kids interested in the coming election, the film offers a partisan jumping-off point from which they could do their own reading and research, perhaps starting with the president�s 1995 autobiography, �Dreams From My Father,� from which D�Souza quotes and interprets in his own way.
He also interviews fellow conservative scholars, Kenyan relatives of Obama�s, Kenyan friends of the father Obama barely knew, and former friends of his late mother�s.
D�Souza and co-director John Sullivan also weave in re-enactments of scenes from Obama�s life. These are common in �nonfiction� films today, but are a dubious tool when not clearly labeled. Then he concludes that Obama�s background has turned him into an �anti-colonial,� anti-American zealot who aims to reduce the United States to a more socialist, empireless equal among nations, and no longer a beacon of freedom and prosperity to the world.
Despite D�Souza�s mild-mannered style, his film comes quite close to calling the president a traitor.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Some people are shown smoking.


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Is that the principle behing Ebay, or whatever it's called?
Is that the principle behing Ebay, or whatever it's called?Rob C
That's a good one Rob! I met a photographer the other day who says he spends a lot of time on e-Bay buying cameras, and his wife spends a lot of time on e-Bay selling them.Jim
But how much time is required to spend it, a lot, or will a quick call to the pizza shop clean them out?
Justin, I have re-read that several times, but I cannot work out what you are saying. Or am I just being thick? I have been working a lot of hours lately!Jim
I assume that he is buying, she is selling and there is some sort of margin, well that's how I read it anyway. Curiosity led me to wonder about the scale of said margin, a shopping trip to Dubai or a dial up pizza?
It is the principle behind phenomena like the late 1990's internet bubble in the stock market.
Effectively, they did find a greater fool, the U.S. taxpayers!


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Monday, August 8, 2016
The scorching summer heat and the discomfort that comes with it affects everyone, but for people with heart conditions, it could be a matter of life and death.
Experts urge people with cardiovascular disease to take extra precautions during the summer months to avoid major health problems.
It doesn't take a lot of exertion for those with heart conditions to become ill during hot weather spells. Strenuous activities in this weather can cause heat exhaustion or heat stroke in healthy individuals. Those who have heart problems have a two-fold chance of being affected by heat and can even die from extreme heat stress.
Our bodies typically maintain a temperature of about 98.6 degrees, and the body instantly tries to cool itself down by sweating and dilating blood vessels if its temperature even rises slightly.
The evaporating sweat cools the body, and as a result of the larger blood vessel size, the heart beats faster and blood pressure decreases.
Increased heart rate and lower blood pressure can cause problems for those with heart disease.
It can be very stressful on the cardiovascular system. People with weaker hearts may not be able to pump blood efficiently enough to keep the body cool and the blood pressure at a high enough level. As a result, body temperatures may rise to dangerous levels.
Some medications taken by heart patients could also cause problems in extreme heat.
Beta-blockers, which are commonly prescribed to people with heart conditions, can prevent the heart from beating as rapidly as it needs to during hot weather, thereby limiting the body's ability to cool down.
In order to stay healthy in hot weather, people with heart disease should:
It is a good idea to check on friends, coworkers and loved ones regularly if the heart condition is really serious.
Taking the proper precautions can significantly reduce chances of suffering from heat-related illness. It's important to know your risks and to pay attention to your body's warning signs while still enjoying your summer.
This article originally appeared in UC Health Line (7/24/08), a service of the NetWellness.org Academic Health Center Public Relations Department and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission, 2006.
Last Reviewed: Jul 28, 2008
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Mexico unveils details of new security strategy
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's new administration offered the first details on Tuesday of a long-touted shift in the country's war on drugs, saying the government will spend $9.2 billion this year on social programs meant to keep young people from joining criminal organizations in the 251 most violent towns and neighborhoods across the country.
The government will flood those areas with spending on programs ranging from road-building to increasing school hours, President Enrique Pena Nieto and Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong told an audience in the central state of Aguascalientes.
"It's clear that we must put special emphasis on prevention, because we can't only keep employing more sophisticated weapons, better equipment, more police, a higher presence of the armed forces in the country as the only form of combating organized crime," Pena Nieto said.
The rhetoric of the announcement was a forceful rejection of Pena Nieto's predecessor, Felipe Calderon, who deployed thousands of troops to battle cartel gunmen and frequently boasted of the number of drug-gang leaders arrested and killed on his watch. But the speeches by Pena Nieto and Osorio Chong contained few specifics more than two months into a presidency marred by continuing violence in many states and a headline-grabbing series of horrifying crimes, including the kidnapping and slaying of an entire 17-member band near the northern city of Monterrey and the gang rape of six Spanish tourists in the resort city of Acapulco.
Analysts said the strategy, to be carried out by nine federal departments coordinated by a new Interagency Commission for the Prevention of Violence and Criminality, marked an important change in tone but not necessarily in the day-to-day reality of Mexico's battle against drug cartels.
"They're going to throw a lot of money at a lot of programs. That is ground for skepticism," said Alejandro Hope, a security analyst and former high-ranking official in Mexico's national intelligence agency. "The level of specificity is not there yet. I find this disconcerting."
Officials released a partial list of the communities to be targeted by the program, which range from violent Acapulco to the relatively peaceful city of Oaxaca. It was unclear how much of the money was funding that had already been announced as part of other programs. Osorio Chong and Pena Nieto said the anti-crime program would overlap with a national anti-hunger initiative that was announced last month and is meant to aid more than 7 million hungry Mexicans in 400 of the country's poorest municipalities.
"The focus isn't new, but in Calderon's case it was much more of secondary importance, and at least the announcement today in Aguascalientes is about prioritizing the focus on prevention over punishment," said Erubiel Tirado, coordinator of the national security program at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City.
Osorio Chong said the anti-violence efforts would include better park grounds and lighting; improved health and social services; services to find jobs for single mothers; more arts and culture in schools; job creation through road improvement projects; a national campaign to promote a "culture of peace" by lowering school and domestic violence, and preventing and treating drug addiction. Pena Nieto emphasized previously announced government plans to increase from 6,000 to 40,000 the number of schools that have a full, eight-hour academic day instead of ending classes around midday.
"This is the first state policy that puts the citizen, and our youth, at the center of security," Osorio Chong said. "We're convinced that fighting and punishment don't solve the problem."
Some analysts and U.S. lawmakers have interpreted the Pena Nieto government's rhetoric about a strategic shift as a veiled offer to ease back on drug cartels that don't engage in violence, returning Mexico to the days of lower violence and a more laissez-faire attitude toward drug smuggling. The Mexican government has denied that it has any intention of relenting in the war on drugs, even as it changes the official tone and emphasis.
"Let's be clear," Osorio Chong said Tuesday. "The state reaffirms its responsibility to purse criminals and punish them in order to keep the peace."


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I am proceeding forward with plans to move to the mainland this summer. I think what many people don't realize is that moving on and off an island presents certain "challenges". You know, usually you either have couple of friends with trucks and then when it's over you give them beer and pizza. Or you have a couple of strangers with an even bigger truck and then when it's over you give them money. But either way you often have the ability to throw together bags of food, toiletries, clothes, or other last-minute miscellaneous small items and toss it into the back of your car and drive to your new home. Not an option here. Everything has to be boxed up, or in the case of furniture wrapped up, and then taken by truck to the barge. The barge charges by weight and transports it across the water (which takes a day or two) and then you have to pick it up on the other side, with - you guessed it - another truck. Why yes, as a matter of fact, it IS a big fat pain. Thank you for noticing.
With all that hassle, I'm doing my best to pare down my possessions as much as I can. It's not easy, I've been living here for almost 12 years and in the same apartment for 10 of those. I mean, seriously - I'm scared of my closets. There are things buried in there that haven't seen the light of day in a decade. But I'm working at it regularly and can honestly say that after many trips to the thrift shop, and many extra bags of trash hauled out, I'm making headway. I've got a ways to go still, but I know I'll get there!
I've also taken a hard look at my furniture and so much of it is secondhand (or third or fourth or....) and so beat up that it's just not worth keeping. I've only got a few pieces that will be making the trip back across the channel. That means I'll be a little light on furniture on the other side, probably for quite a while, but I don't mind.
So the few bits of furniture that are still in decent shape have found homes elsewhere. I offered a large teak table to a family member on the mainland, which meant wrapping it up for shipping:
(Cat included for scale.)
I donated several boxes of books to the library book sale:
Which is now taking up space in someone else's home.
As are these chairs:
Every time I drop off bags at the thrift shop, or see a piece of furniture go out the door, I feel just a little bit less stressed. When I start to feel overwhelmed - I grab a hefty bag and start throwing things away. Works every time.
As busy as I've been I don't watch very much television so it only made sense to save money by canceling my cable and (you see what's coming don't you?) sell the tv.
(Cat included for scale)
I was working steadily on all of this for a few weeks and then the folks at the Census came back around and offered me more work. Even though it doesn't last long, it's good money while it does so it made sense to dive in and let that take over my life. Things were going along quite well when I hit a little bump in the road:
Yeah, that. I'll spare you the photos of what was under the wrapping. Basically I just slipped on some sand or grit at the bottom of my stairs, fell down and went splat. I also discovered that a large plastic garbage can is not a bad landing place, much better than concrete. It's been a couple weeks and I'm getting around better but like so much else in my life, I've got a ways to go yet and I'm impatient to get there!


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The original license for the WebM project had a clause that if you brought patent action against Google, the patent license was terminated. This isn't unusual in open source licenses (the second Apache license and version 3 of the GPL have something similar), but the WebM license had an additional problem.
"The twist was that ours terminated 'any' rights and not just rights to the patents, which made our license GPLv3 and GPLv2 incompatible," explains Google's Chris DiBona, "Also, in doing this, we effectively created a potentially new open source copyright license, something we are loath to do."
They've resolved the issue by decoupling patents from copyright, meaning the copyright part is now a pure BSD license. They've used "patent language borrowed from both the Apache and GPLv3 patent clauses" for their own patent clause. They're no longer creating a new license, and the patent clause can stand on its own. Additionally, they have updated the patent grant language to make it clear that it includes the right to modify the code and give it away to others.
"Thanks for your patience as we worked through this, and we hope you like, enjoy (and most importantly) use WebM and join with us in creating more freedom online," DiBiona adds, "We had a lot of help on these changes, so thanks to our friends in open source and free software who traded many emails, often at odd hours, with us."
A good solution from Google.