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Docter was recognized for her achievements on the court and in the classroom with a Capitol One Academic All-District Volleyball First Team nod.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior captain Taylor Docter has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District Volleyball First Team for District I, as voted on by the College of Sports Information Directors of America. This marks the fifth straight year a member of the Crimson has earned Academic All-District honors.
Docter has left her mark on the Crimson record books this season. The Los Altos, Calif., native recently moved into Harvard's all-time top-10 ledger for kills, and currently ranks eighth with 963 kills. She is fourth in attack attempts (3,370), sixth in aces (98) and eighth in kills per set (2.67).
Docter, a human developmental and regenerative biology concentrator, garnered Ivy League Player of the Week recognition on Oct. 16 after leading the Crimson to two-straight victories against Cornell and Columbia. She currently ranks third in the conference with 3.18 kps and 3.72 points per set.
In 2011, she was named to the All-Ivy League second team and Academic All-Ivy. Docter nabbed Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors her freshman year after recording 37 kills in her first three collegiate matches.
The senior will take the court with the Crimson for the final two matches of her Harvard career at Yale, Nov. 9 and Brown, Nov. 10.
The 2012 Capital One Academic All-District Team award honors the nation's top student-athletes for their combined academic and athletic accomplishments. The selection qualifies Docter to be a CoSIDA Academic All-American.


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I started to use Ubuntu 10.04 on a Laptop booting from an external USB HDD, it worked pretty well after some tweaking (Had to use a separate 1GB Boot partition etc).
After a while running mostly on my external HDD I decided to wipe the internal HDD (e.g get rid of the useless crippled and slow corporate WinXP installation) and migrate my Ubuntu installation from the external to the internal HDD. That went fine after some tweaks, I copied the entire disk using "cp -a" without any major problems.
After running for a while now in the internal HDD I need to temporarily move back my system to the external HDD since I am swapping Laptops. What I did initially was to simply transfer the internal HDD to the external using rsync on a running system, just to test. I will make the real transfer later on after booting from USB flash so both HDD's is not in use.
I tried to setup the external HDD for boot using grub-install after I chrooted to the external hdd but everytime I bootup the Laptop and select external HDD as boot device it always boots from the internal HDD. I know that I can probably copy external HDD back into the internal on the new Laptop and fix it later, but I really want to test booting from the External HDD before giving back my Laptop in exchange for a new one.
- Installing Ubuntu 10.04 on external HDD and boot, OK!
- Migrating Ubuntu 10.04 from external HDD to internal HDD and boot, OK!
- Trying to mirror the internal HDD to external HDD and boot from external HDD, Failed!
It seems that the Laptop boots on the internal HDD even though I chose External HDD in the Bios Boot menu, e.g the bios fails to find a bootable partition on the external HDD and falls back to the internal HDD.
I will dig into the mysteries of grub cli at the moment to investigate the status of the mounted partitions, I have (hd0) internal and (hd1) external visible in grub. Both has subpartitions 1, 5 and 6. (1 is /boot partition 1GB, 5 primary root / partition and 6 is swap).

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Sexual Dysfunction
What is SexualDysfunction?
The desire for sex is very often comparedor equaled to a desire for eating, in that both can be defined as a type of 'body appetite'. So just like we can talk about appetite loss, we can talk aboutlost desire for sex.
A low libido refers to a lack of sexual desire or interest in having sexual intercourse. While low libido can affect both sexes, it is more commonly observed in women than in men.
Sexual appetite varies from person to personand desire, in most cases, depends on a range of circumstances. At times a low libido is a result of underlying physical conditions, while at other times it may be associated with psychological issues or may be a combination of the two.
Low sexual desire can cause a range of relationship problems and may also affect self-esteem. For men, especially, this type of sexual dysfunction is often hard to handle and is a taboo subject.
Because males are usually conceived as highly sexual individuals,lack of libidomay bring about feelings of guilt, suppressed anger, depression, stress, shame and low self–confidence.
What CausesSexual Dysfunction?
Sexual dysfunction can be temporary or long-lasting.Low libido may stem from physical or psychological factors or a combination of the later in both men and women. Since male and female sexual desire is experienced differently we will look at a few of the possible underlying causes for low libido in each sex.
Other factors such as tiredness, sexual incompatibility, lack of time and privacy can also play part inlow male libido and low female libido.
Physical factors that may contribute to low male libido include :
• Prescription D r u g s
• Obesity
• Anemia
• Constipation
• Low Levels of Dopamine
• Fibromyalgia
• Lyme Disease
• Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Kidney Disease
• Hypothyroidism
• Alcoholism
• Obesity
• D r u g abuse
• Impotence
• Male Menopause
• Nutritional Deficiencies
• Premature Ejaculation
Psychological factors that may contribute to low male libido include :
• Depression
• Stress
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Sexual Abuse and Trauma
• Sexual Identity Crisis
• Relationship Issues with Partner
Physical causes of low libido in women include :
• Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
• Medications such as Antidepressants and Contraceptives
• Postpartum Depression
• Anemia
• Constipation
• Low Levels of Dopamine
• Fibromyalgia
• Lyme Disease
• Thrush
• Urinary Tract Infection
• Diabetes
• Heart and Vascular Disease
• Hypothyroidism
• Menopause
• Vaginismus
• Dyspareunia
• Alcoholism and D r u g Abuse
Psychological factors that may contribute to low female libido include :
• Depression
• Stress
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Poor Self Image
• Sexual Abuse and Trauma
• Sexual Identity Crisis
• Relationship Issues with Partner
Signs and Symptoms ofSexual Dysfunction
Most common signs and symptoms of this condition are:
• Premature or delayed ejaculation in men
• Erectile dysfunction (not being able to achieve or maintain an erection)
• Pain during sex
• Lack or loss of sexual desire
• Lower urinary tract symptoms
• Difficulty having an orgasm
• Vaginal dryness
Classical Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction
People affected withlow libidoshould research their options before agreeing to prescription d r u g s with their constant risk of side effects and potential for addiction. While medication may be appropriate when there are physical causes for male low libido, or female low libido, there are many safer and effective options which have been recommended by herbalists for thousands of years in traditional medicine.
Holistic Treatment ofSexual Dysfunction
Natural remediessuch as herbs have a long history of effectively increasing libido naturally along with sexual activity. Assortment of herbs can enhance sexual excitement without the negative side effects of prescription medication.
Some examples of natural aphrodisiacsthat increase libido include Smilax ornata (Sarsaparilla), Eleutherococcussenticosis (Siberian Ginseng) and Sabalserrulata. Herbal treatments for decreased sex drive not only help to boost libido, but also have the added benefit ofimproving overall health and body functioning without the side effects of prescription d r u g s.
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John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
There used to be a day when if you spotted a man staggering down the street covered in grease, you could safely assume he was just a harmless sybarite into some freaky stuff.
But times they are a'changing. Nowadays, if an oil-covered stranger slithers into your vicinity, you could be in the presence of a hardened criminal. That's thanks to the rocketing price of used cooking oil, and the underground thieving network it's inspired. (What, you thought that one Simpsons episode was fiction?)
The latest report of grease theft comes from Quincy, Massachusetts, just south of Boston. In a down and dirty story, WBZ News Radio reports that two men made a big score off of the stored grease behind Cathay Pacific Restaurant. (Google review: "i thought the food was excellent, and very reasonably priced for the quality and portion sizes.... and no, i didn't see any 'hookers or drug dealers' in the parking lot.") They loaded up nearly $500 in fetid lipids before pulling out; a baffled detective told the radio station that this was a "new type of crime to us. So I guess we'll be watching out for unmarked cube vans filled with Crisco."
Grease criminals have staged similar heists recently at a Don Pablo's restaurant in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, siphoning about $100 of the yellow gold from a storage drum, and at a diner in Norwalk, Connecticut, where a thief cut a lock to access a grease-holding area at 1:30 a.m. and made away with about 40 gallons. And these two guys allegedly ripped off an Orange County grocery store to the tune of 500 gallons of grease using a waste-removal truck.
This is how a grease job might go down, courtesy of CCTV footage from a northern California restaurant:
So where is all this illicit oil ending up? Biofuel companies, it seems, via the hands of criminals. Once processed, the stuff that fries your food becomes a substitute for diesel fuel. And with the price of gasoline going through the roof, used grease has become a hot commodity. The pricetag for a pound of it went from 8 cents before 2000 to 18 cents today, or as much as 45 cents after processing. One report has it that a gallon of grease goes for $4 "on the street."
The prevalence of grease rustling is so wide that the National Renderers Association estimates that North American businesses lose up to six million pounds of old oil each year. That equates to $1 million in losses for businesses. The people doing the stealing, meanwhile, are protecting their enterprise with specialized attorneys who know the ins and outs of grease law.
If you know where to score some primo grease, hit me up on Twitter.
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A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design.
Livability indexes can obscure the experiences of non-white people. CityLab analyzed the outcomes just for black women, for a different kind of ranking.
In an era of austere federal funding for urban public transportation, light rail seemed to make sense. Did the little trains of the 1980s pull their own weight?
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Dear MySQL users, MySQL Community Server 5.1.47, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. MySQL 5.1.47 is recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what's new in MySQL 5.1, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing MySQL 5.1.47 on new servers or upgrading to MySQL 5.1.47 from previous MySQL releases, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing.html MySQL Server is available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ Not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point in time, so if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site. We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, etc.: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing For information on open issues in MySQL 5.1, please see the errata list at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/open-bugs.html The following section lists the changes in the MySQL source code since the previous released version of MySQL 5.1. It may also be viewed online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-47.html Enjoy! C.1.1. Changes in MySQL 5.1.47 (06 May 2010) InnoDB Plugin Notes: * InnoDB Plugin has been upgraded to version 1.0.8. This version is considered of General Availability (GA) quality. InnoDB Plugin Change History (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes. html), may contain information in addition to those changes reported here. In this release, the InnoDB Plugin is included in source and binary distributions, except RHEL3, RHEL4, SuSE 9 (x86, x86_64, ia64), and generic Linux RPM packages. It also does not work for FreeBSD 6 and HP-UX or for Linux on generic ia64. Functionality added or changed: * InnoDB stores redo log records in a hash table during recovery. On 64-bit systems, this hash table was 1/8 of the buffer pool size. To reduce memory usage, the dimension of the hash table was reduced to 1/64 of the buffer pool size (or 1/128 on 32-bit systems). (Bug#53122: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53122) Bugs fixed: * Security Fix: The server failed to check the table name argument of a COM_FIELD_LIST command packet for validity and compliance to acceptable table name standards. This could be exploited to bypass almost all forms of checks for privileges and table-level grants by providing a specially crafted table name argument to COM_FIELD_LIST. In MySQL 5.0 and above, this allowed an authenticated user with SELECT privileges on one table to obtain the field definitions of any table in all other databases and potentially of other MySQL instances accessible from the server's file system. Additionally, for MySQL version 5.1 and above, an authenticated user with DELETE or SELECT privileges on one table could delete or read content from any other table in all databases on this server, and potentially of other MySQL instances accessible from the server's file system. (Bug#53371: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53371, CVE-2010-1848 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1848)) * Security Fix: The server was susceptible to a buffer-overflow attack due to a failure to perform bounds checking on the table name argument of a COM_FIELD_LIST command packet. By sending long data for the table name, a buffer is overflown, which could be exploited by an authenticated user to inject malicious code. (Bug#53237: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53237, CVE-2010-1850 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1850)) * Security Fix: The server could be tricked into reading packets indefinitely if it received a packet larger than the maximum size of one packet. (Bug#50974: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50974, CVE-2010-1849 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1849)) * Important Change: Replication: When invoked, CHANGE MASTER TO and SET GLOBAL sql_slave_skip_counter now cause information to be written to the error log about the slave's state prior to execution of the statement. For CHANGE MASTER TO, this information includes the previous values for MASTER_HOST, MASTER_PORT, MASTER_LOG_FILE, and MASTER_LOG_POS. For SET GLOBAL SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER, this information includes the previous values of sql_slave_skip_counter, the group relay log name, and the group relay log position. (Bug#43406: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=43406, Bug#43407: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=43407) * Replication: The failure of a REVOKE statement was logged with the wrong error code, causing replication slaves to stop even when the failure was expected on the master. (Bug#51987: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51987) * Certain path names passed to LOAD_FILE() could cause a server crash. (Bug#53417: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53417) * When reporting a foreign key constraint violation during INSERT, InnoDB could display uninitialized data for the DB_TRX_ID and DB_ROLL_PTR system columns. (Bug#53202: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=53202) * InnoDB page splitting could enter an infinite loop for compressed tables. (Bug#52964: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52964) * An overly strict assertion could fail during the purge of delete-marked records in DYNAMIC or COMPRESSED InnoDB tables that contain column prefix indexes. (Bug#52746: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52746) * InnoDB attempted to choose off-page storage without ensuring that there was an "off-page storage" flag in the record header. To correct this, in DYNAMIC and COMPRESSED formats, InnoDB stores locally any non-BLOB columns having a maximum length not exceeding 256 bytes. This is because there is no room for the "external storage" flag when the maximum length is 255 bytes or less. This restriction trivially holds in REDUNDANT and COMPACT formats, because there InnoDB always stores locally columns having a length up to local_len = 788 bytes. (Bug#52745: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52745) * Semi-consistent read was implemented for InnoDB to address Bug#3300: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3300. Semi-consistent reads do not block when a nonmatching record is already locked by some other transaction. If the record is not locked, a lock is acquired, but is released if the record does not match the WHERE condition. However, semi-consistent read was attempted even for UPDATE statements having a WHERE condition of the form pk_col1=constant1, ..., pk_colN=constantN. Some code that was designed with the assumption that semi-consistent read would be only attempted on table scans, failed. (Bug#52663: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52663) * Setting @@GLOBAL.debug to an empty string failed to clear the current debug settings. (Bug#52629: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52629) * A memory leak occurred due to missing deallocation of the comparators array (a member of the Arg_comparator class). (Bug#52124: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52124) * For debug builds, creating a view containing a subquery that might require collation adjustment caused an assertion to be raised. For example, this could occur if some items had different collations but the result collation could be adjusted to the one of them. (Bug#52120: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52120) * Connections waiting for an InnoDB row lock ignored KILL until the row lock wait ended. Now, KILL during lock wait results in "query interrupted" instead of "lock wait timeout exceeded". (Bug#51920: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51920) * Locking involving the LOCK_plugin, LOCK_global_system_variables, and LOCK_status mutexes could deadlock. (Bug#51591: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51591) * InnoDB fast index creation could incorrectly use a table copy in some cases. (Bug#50946: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50946) * A syntactically invalid trigger could cause the server to crash when trying to list triggers. (Bug#50755: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50755) * InnoDB Plugin checks to see whether a row could possibly exceed the maximum size if all columns are fully used. This produced Row size too large errors for some tables that could be created with the built-in InnoDB. Now the check is only done when innodb_strict_mode is enabled or if the table is dynamic or compressed. (Bug#50495: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=50495) * In MySQL 5.1, READ COMMITTED was changed to use less locking due to the availability of row based binary logging (see the Note under READ COMMITTED at Section 12.3.6, "SET TRANSACTION Syntax"). However, READ UNCOMMITTED did not have the same change, so it was using more locks than the higher isolation level, which is unexpected. This was changed so that READ UNCOMMITTED now also uses the lesser amount of locking and has the same restrictions for binary logging. (Bug#48607: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48607) * EXPLAIN could cause a server crash for some queries with subqueries. (Bug#48419: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48419) * On Windows, the server failed to find a description for Event ID 100. (Bug#48042: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48042) * For updates to InnoDB tables, TIMESTAMP columns could be updated even when no values actually changed. (Bug#47453: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=47453) * If the server is started with --skip-grant-tables, plugin loading and unloading should be disallowed, but the server failed to reject INSTALL PLUGIN and UNINSTALL PLUGIN statements. (Bug#46261: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=46261) * Storage engine plugins on Windows could've been built with a definition of time_t which was different from the server expectations. The difference could cause affected plugins to crash. In addition, the use of the time_t type in the storage engine API layer has been enforced. (Bug#39802: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=39802, Bug#40092: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=40092) * When using UNINSTALL PLUGIN to remove a loaded plugin, open tables and connections caused mysqld to hang until the open connections had been closed. (Bug#39053: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=39053) * 1) In rare cases, if a thread was interrupted during a FLUSH PRIVILEGES operation, a debug assertion occurred later due to improper diagnostic area setup. 2) A KILL operation could cause a console error message referring to a diagnostic area state without first ensuring that the state existed. (Bug#33982: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=33982) Thanks, MySQL RE Team Hery Ramilison, Karen Langford, MySQL Release Engineers Database Group, Oracle.
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Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. entered the plea Tuesday in Los Angeles and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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We know that many people want to work into older age – yet many do not. So what stops them? For some, caring for family or friends can make paid work near impossible.
For others, their own poor health can be a barrier. And for families on low incomes, it may be that work simply doesn't pay enough to warrant continuing. This can lead to trouble for families who don't have the savings they need to maintain decent living standards into retirement.
Universal Credit (UC) the government's flagship welfare reform, could address some of these barriers. For example, under UC low income households will receive an income boost designed to make work pay.
This system could be powerful in ensuring older people have the incentives they need to remain in work. Yet a new report from the Resolution Foundation shows that while UC offers some benefits to older workers, it also misses an opportunity to raise older people's incentives to stay in a job, or return to work. Without these incentives, low paid work simply does not add up.
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A known limitation of this release:
On Microsoft Windows, MySQL Installer does not upgrade MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) 3.8.1 to 3.8.2 (latest version). A workaround is to uninstall MEB 3.8.1 and then install MEB 3.8.2 (latest version) with MySQL Installer.
Previously, program options could be specified in full or as any unambiguous prefix. For example, the
--compressoption could be given to mysqldump as
--compr, but not as
--compbecause the latter is ambiguous. Option prefixes now are deprecated. They can cause problems when new options are implemented for programs. A prefix that is currently unambiguous might become ambiguous in the future. If an unambiguous prefix is given, a warning now occurs to provide feedback. For example:
Warning: Using unique option prefix compr instead of compress is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.
Option prefixes are no longer supported in MySQL 5.7; only full options are accepted. (Bug #16996656)
comp_err now checks to make sure that new errors are not being added to MySQL 5.1 or 5.5 because the set of errors for these series is frozen. (Bug #16807394)
Important Change; Performance; InnoDB:
InnoDBfailed to open a tablespace that has multiple data files. This removes the known limitation that was in MySQL Server 5.6.12. (Bug #17033706, Bug #69623)
Performance; InnoDB: When
innodb_thread_concurrencyis set to a nonzero value, there was a possibility that all
innodb_concurrency_ticketswould be released after each row was read, resulting in a concurrency check after each read. This could impact performance of all queries. One symptom could be higher system CPU usage. We strongly recommend that you upgrade to MySQL Server 5.6.13 if you use this setting. This could cause a performance drop between MySQL Server 5.5.x and 5.6.x. (Bug #68869, Bug #16622478)
InnoDB: When
CHECK TABLEfound a secondary index that contained the wrong number of entries, it would report an error but not mark the index as corrupt.
CHECK TABLEnow marks the index as corrupt when this error is encountered, but only the index is marked as corrupt, not the table. As a result, only the index becomes unusable until it is dropped and rebuilt. The table is unaffected. (Bug #16914007)
InnoDBwould attempt to gather statistics on partially created indexes. (Bug #16907783)
InnoDB: The two
INFORMATION_SCHEMAtables for the InnoDB buffer pool could show an invalid page type for read-fixed blocks. This fix will show the unknown page type for blocks that are I/O-fixed for reading. (Bug #16859867)
InnoDB: During an insert buffer merge, InnoDB would invoke
lock_rec_restore_from_page_infimum()on a potentially invalid record pointer. (Bug #16806366)
InnoDB: Valgrind testing returned memory leak errors which resulted from a regression introduced by the fix for Bug #11753153. The
dict_create_add_foreign_to_dictionaryfunction would call
pars_info_createbut failed to call
pars_info_free. (Bug #16754901)
InnoDB: The
page_zip_validate()consistency check failed after compressing a page, in
page_zip_compress(). This problem was caused by
page_zip_decompress(), which failed to set
heap_nocorrectly when a record contained no user data bytes. A record with no user data bytes occurs when, for example, a primary key is an empty string and all secondary index fields are NULL or an empty string. (Bug #16736929)
InnoDB: Some characters in the identifier for a foreign key constraint are modified during table exports. (Bug #16722314, Bug #69062)
InnoDB: During a transaction commit,
prepare_commit_mutexis acquired to preserve the commit order. If the commit operation failed, the transaction would be rolled back but the mutex would not be released. Subsequent insert operations would not be able to acquire the same mutex. This fix frees
innobase_rollback. (Bug #16513588)
InnoDB: When the InnoDB shutdown mode (
innodb_fast_shutdown) is set to 2 and the master thread enters the flush loop, the thread would not be able to exit under some circumstances. This could lead to a shutdown hang. (Bug #16411457)
InnoDB: After disabling foreign key checks with
foreign_key_checks=0and performing a
DROP INDEX, the table was no longer accessible after restarting the server. This fix allows the table with missing foreign key indexes to be accessed when
SET foreign_key_checks=0. When the table is accessible, the user must recreate the missing indexes to fulfill the foreign key constraints. (Bug #16208542, Bug #68148)
InnoDB: Successive deletes in descending key order would lead to under-filled
InnoDBindex pages. When an
InnoDBindex page is under-filled, it is merged with the left or right sibling node. The check performed to determine if a sibling node is available for merging was not functioning correctly. (Bug #68501, Bug #16417635)
InnoDB: Setting
foreign_key_checks=0and running
ALTER TABLEto change the character set of foreign key columns for a database with multiple tables with foreign key constraints would leave the database in an inconsistent state. Subsequent
ALTER TABLEoperations (using the
COPYalgorithm) with
foreign_key_checks=1would fail due to the detected inconsistency. Reversion of the partially executed
ALTER TABLEoperation would also fail, resulting in the loss of the table being altered. When running the same
ALTER TABLEoperation with a
RENAMEclause, the inconsistency would not be detected but if the
ALTER TABLEoperation failed for some other reason, reversion of the partially executed
ALTER TABLEfailed with the same result.
The bug fix temporarily disables
foreign_key_checkswhile the previous table definition is restored. (Bug #65701, Bug #14227431)
InnoDB: Creating a table with a comment or default textual value containing an apostrophe that is escaped with a backslash would sometimes cause the InnoDB storage engine to omit foreign key definitions. (Bug #61656, Bug #12762377)
InnoDB: The
commit_threads_m, which was initialized but never used, has been removed from the code base. (Bug #60225, Bug #11829813)
Partitioning: When upgrading to MySQL 5.5.31 or higher, a message is written into the output of mysql_upgrade when encountering a partitioned table for which the
ALGORITHMoption is required to maintain binary compatibility with the original; the message includes the
ALTER TABLEstatement required to make the change. For such a table having a sufficiently large number of partitions, the message was truncated with an error before the complete
ALTER TABLEstatement could be written. (Bug #16589511)
Partitioning: When a range was specified in the
WHEREcondition of a query against a table partitioned by range, and the specified range was entirely within one of the partitions, the next partition was also checked for rows although it should have been pruned away.
Suppose we have a range-partitioned table
tcreated using the following SQL statement:
CREATE TABLE t ( id INT AUTO_INCREMENT, dt DATETIME, PRIMARY KEY (dt,id), UNIQUE KEY (id,dt) ) PARTITION BY RANGE COLUMNS(dt) ( PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN ('2013-01-01'), PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN ('2013-01-15'), PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN ('2013-02-01'), PARTITION p3 VALUES LESS THAN ('2013-02-15'), PARTITION pmax VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE) );
An example of a query that exhibited this issue when run against
tis shown here:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t WHERE dt >= '2013-02-01' AND dt < '2013-02-15';
In this case, partition
pmaxwas checked, even though the range given in the
WHEREclause lay entirely within partition
p3. (Bug #16447483)
Partitioning: When dropping a partitioned table, the table's
.parfile was deleted first, before the table definition or data. This meant that, if the server failed during the drop operation, the table could be left in an inconsistent state in which it could neither be accessed nor dropped.
The fix for this problem makes the following changes:
Now, when dropping a partitioned table, the table's
.parfile is not removed until all table data has been deleted.
When executing
DROP TABLEof a partitioned table, in the event that its
.parfile is determined to be missing, the table's
.frmfile is now immediately deleted, in effect forcing the drop to complete.
(Bug #13548704, Bug #63884)
Replication: Some expressions employing variables were not handled correctly by
LOAD DATA. (Bug #16753869)
Replication: Linker errors occurred if the header file
log_event.hwas included in an application containing multiple source files, because the file
rpl_tblmap.ccwas included in
log_event.h. This fix moves the inclusion of
rpl_tblmap.ccinto the source files that use
log_event.h. (Bug #16607258)
Installation of Solaris PKG packages could fail to execute mysql_install_db because it was invoked with the
--random-passwordsoption (which does not exist until MySQL 5.6). (Bug #17160741)
Initialization of
keycache_*variables (see Multiple Key Caches) during server startup could write to incorrect memory. (Bug #16945503)
Removing a server RPM package did not shut down the existing server if it was running. (Bug #16798868)
The code base was modified to account for new warning checks introduced by gcc 4.8. (Bug #16729109)
Upgrading from community SLES RPM packages to commercial packages for the same MySQL version failed with conflict errors. (Bug #16545296)
A user variable referenced during execution of a prepared statement is set to memory that is freed at the end of execution. A second execution of the statement could result in Valgrind warnings when accessing this memory. (Bug #16119355)
Misoptimization of left expressions in prepared statements could cause a server exit. (Bug #16095534)
Out-of-bounds reads could occur within
filename_to_tablename(). (Bug #14834378)
When running a query on
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGEthat requested
index_namevalues, query results would include index pages without
index_namevalues. (Bug #14529666)
With the thread pool plugin in use, normal connection termination caused the
Aborted_clientsstatus variable to be incremented. (Bug #14081240)
MySQL Installer, if run in custom install or change mode, offered installation options that had no effect. (Bug #12928601)
Incorrect results could be returned from queries that used several
functions (where
is an aggregate function such as
COUNT()) when these referred to different columns of the same composite key. (Bug #12328597)
RPM source packages did not list
libaio-develas a dependency, causing builds to fail. (Bug #69158, Bug #16785036)
Comparison of a
DATETIMEvalue and a string did not work correctly for the
utf8_unicode_cicollation. (Bug #68795, Bug #16567381)
mysqldump assumed the existence of the
slow_logtables in the
mysqldatabase. It failed if invoked to dump tables from an older server where these tables do not exist. (Bug #65670, Bug #14236170)
Attempts to build from a source RPM package could fail because the build process attempted to refer to a
pb2userthat might not exist. (Bug #64641, Bug #13865797, Bug #69339, Bug #16874980)
A typo in
cmake/dtrace.cmakeprevented DTrace support from being enabled by
-DENABLE_DTRACE-on. (Bug #60743, Bug #12325449)
Assigning the result of a subquery to a user variable raised an assertion when the outer query included
GROUP BY. (Bug #57196, Bug #11764371)


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Thank you for the red ribbon. Very cute. Happy New Yr.
Thanks for the gift. :)
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Hi Mel! I look forward to connecting with you as well. :)
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Commuters hailing a cab or waiting for public transit in Washington D.C. this month are likely to get a glimpse of iconic Phoenix imagery before their trip commences.
Visit Phoenix (CVB) is blitzing the D.C. area with a transit-based advertising buy that includes mini-billboards atop taxis and digital posters in transit stations. The ads showcase Visit Phoenix's "This is Phoenix" ad campaign, which is built around dramatic photography of Greater Phoenix outdoor activity in the Sonoran Desert.
The ad blitz coincides with a sales mission this week in Washington D.C. by Visit Phoenix, the Phoenix Convention Center, and nine of the city's largest hotels and resorts. The convention sales mission delegation will meet with professional associations and national trade unions, hundreds of which are headquartered in and around the nation's capital.
Visit Phoenix staff just completed its fiscal year with a 30% increase in Phoenix Convention Center future year bookings and a strong rebound in resort/hotel leads and bookings. Continuing this momentum, the Phoenix convention sales delegation will meet this week with more than 250 DC convention planners and association executives through sales appointments, reception-trade shows, and a meeting planner forum during its three-day sales mission.
"Washington is a hotbed for meetings and conventions, and our sales team maintains a strategic presence there with in-market offices and annual events," said Melissa Gogel, vice president of marketing, communications and tourism for Visit Phoenix. "To support those sales efforts, we're placing our new 'This is Phoenix' ads in some high-traffic transit locations. The goal is to increase the exposure of the Visit Phoenix brand in one of our most important markets, and to do it at a time when our sales team is saturating the market with face-to-face calls."
The delegation of sales professionals from Phoenix will host four events this Tuesday through Thursday, with one event each in Washington, Alexandria, VA and Chevy Chase, MD.
Phoenix was ranked No. 10 in the list of the "Top 50 U.S. Cities for Conventions in 2013," according to Cvent, a technology company that connects event planners with more than 200,000 venues in destinations across the United States. Phoenix earned its top-10 destination based on its weather, its air-travel accessibility, its spectrum of meeting-friendly hotels and resorts, and its newly expanded convention center.
"The Phoenix Convention Center was expanded with big association groups in mind," Gogel said. "It has the space and sophistication to host the biggest of them, or to host smaller ones concurrently. Our focus is to keep the convention center, the hotels and resorts, and the destination as a whole at the top of mind for meeting planners in D.C. and beyond."


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There's talk of a new bike and pedestrian safety advocacy group in Kirksville. We'll post new information as we receive it.
Right now, everything for the group is in its infancy, but if you have any ideas/services/time/donations you could provide to the group, contact us and we'll put you in touch with them.


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TWA is pleased to bring you another 'Best of 2012' app list: 12 Best MATH Apps of 2012. We love these math apps for classroom use, but they're also great for home use or on the go. Please note, all the apps on this list are aligned with the Common Core Standards.
From the opening screen, kids will be entranced with Bugs and Numbers, the newest app from LittleBit Studio. The illustrations are just breathtaking and will capture a child's attention right from the beginning. Pick from eighteen different locations, such as the pizzeria, train station, garage or theatre, as well as, the option to have multiple users. Unlike other apps that may repeat the same thing over and over, this app is fresh and new. Whimsical music in each of the rooms adds to the fun. This game has a much bigger range in math skills than their previous apps. Try early math skills such as matching numbers and shapes, and move all the way through fractions. Even within each game, the levels progress and become harder and harder. Full review
Squeebles Maths Bingo, by Key Stage Fun - Math Monster is back and has once again stolen the ingredients. Meet new Squeebles with wacky personalities and try to make the best ice cream. Help Ruby earn ice cream cones by solving math problems that are either addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or mixed problems. Earn a customer by solving the problems quickly and accurately. Full review
This same developer scored again with Squeebles Fractions and has made learning easy with its wonderful quirky characters, but the mean Math Monster is once again stealing tokens. Earn tokens to help the Squeebles make special cakes. Try Tricky Pairs where a child has to determine equivalent fractions. Feed those hungry Squeebles with Piece of Cake. Super Sums requires adding fractions. Full review
We also highly recommend Squeebles Addition & Subtraction and Squeebles Times Tables 2
We've been using Math Drills, by Instant Interactive, with our students for several years. Now that we are teaching in a 1:1 iPad program, every student has an iPad. All of our students have used this app as it automatically records all data when on Test Mode. Math Drills is an app every child needs at some point in their schooling, to easily master basic math facts in the four operations. Math Drills allows students to practice and monitor their growth and continue to build a solid foundation. All that follows will depend upon the strength of that base. Full review
Operation Math Code Squad, by Spinlight Studio, is a brilliant multiplayer game for keeping kids current on all four math operations by jointly beating the clock. Code Squad is not for the faint of heart, and it does take teamwork and quick wit to reach all five levels of play. The premise behind Code Squad is to reach each level of difficulty through collaboration and cooperation. Our experience in the classroom proved this app to be a winner in getting kids engaged and working together. Having an app that allows for multiplayer is a beautiful thing for the classroom setting. The Code Squad app is a must have in any classroom, our kids are clamoring to play together and win together. Try it! Full review
MultiFlow: Times Tables Reimagined - Practice Multiplication, by Dactyl Applications, is a remarkable app that keeps kids engaged and striving to do better, over and over again. Best part, it can actually adjust the questions as you go, the ones you get wrong will be the ones you get again. MultiFlow scales the difficulty of the questions based on your ability to answer questions and it adapts and tracks progress. Let's face it, some skills just have to be learned, and multiplication is one of them. Some children struggle more than others so when you find something that really works, that the kids like, ask to play, and want to know how they can get on their devices at home, you have a winner! Sharing great finds is what we at TWA like to do, especially when growth is monitored and documented! Full review
Times Tables Pro by frogameleon Ltd - Practice and test multiplication tables in a sleek, but simple app form. Bot is a 21st century buddy, whom you will be competing against. What we liked from the get-go were all the options of multiplication tables kids could practice, learn, test, and review… all with a pace that suits the user! The menu gives so many choices – how many problems to work on, timed with three speeds or no timer, multiple choice or keyboard answers. Every aspect can be customized to the individual player's needs. One of the best features is the 'Review Bank'. Any gaps in specific knowledge of a problem can be easily brought to the forefront and be addressed. What really sets this app apart is the sophisticated, no-nonsense, mature approach. Even an adult would feel comfortable with the polished presentation. Full review
Long Multiplication by Esa Helttula & iDevBooks – This math app is just one of many invaluable teaching tools for teaching math in a concrete, demonstration format, where numbers move to their appropriate place. For students, this is a simple, yet exact, straightforward, visual lesson on how long multiplication is set up and solved in a step by step formula. This is not a new app, but it definitely deserves to be included in this list. The developer was included in Teachers With Apps' list of Top Ten Outstanding Developers of 2011. The students that we work with are always in awe as they watch the numbers glide to their positions and neatly set the problem up for them, guaranteeing that all of their columns will be where they need to be. Long Multiplication is not a groundbreaking game, but rather a best practice solution to a much needed basic concept that students need to master. They will be using this information all throughout their lives. This developer has an entire suite of mainly math apps; all excellent, concise, & easy for students to grasp the core concept. Full review
DragonBox Algebra 5+ by WeWantToKnow - As we are moving further into the 21st century, students are expecting that their learning include digital devices. In addition, it is becoming increasingly common that the content being taught is presented in a way that includes online gaming, simulations, and/or augmented reality. What better way to teach abstract content, such as algebra, than to teach it with games?!? Teaching with games motivates and engages students. On the contrary, the old approach might not really help kids understand the concept entirely and mastery can be an uphill battle. In addition, the equations and formulas being taught are abstract; they are not something concrete that the students can relate to. It is the teacher's job to teach the material in a way the students can relate to make it meaningful to them, Dragon Box does just that, for you! Full review
Math Evolve: A Fun Math Game, by InterAction Education and Zephyr Games, Second year in a row this app has made our Best of list! This app introduces a revolutionary "video-like" gaming app for practicing math facts. One of our students called it, "The Call of Duty," of math games. Adam Coccari, teacher and creator of Math Evolve, sums it up best when he says, "Achieving success in all levels of math starts with having a solid foundation in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division." Mastering these facts takes time and lots of practice, Math Evolve has taken care of all of that in an enormously engaging format. Full review
iTooch Middle School | Math and Language Arts worksheets for 6th, 7th and 8th grade, by eduPAD, is a terrific app that covers a lot of ground content-wise and we highly recommend this app and encourage you to check out their math sections. iTooch Junior High School has more than 10,000 exercises in ELA (reading, writing vocabulary, grammar) and Math (properties and operations, graphs, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability, and data analysis). The iTooch combines a no-frills approach to content while still providing the user with an exciting learning experience. One of the most impressive features in iTouch apps is the variety of questions and answers; you might encounter a true-false, open answer, type in a word or number, multiple choice or be given a calculator- you never know what to expect and it keeps kids on their toes and increases the learning opportunities. Questions contain text, images, sounds, hints, detailed answers, and settings for difficulty, allowed time, and points. The mascot is adorable and keeps kids on task with lots of encouragement and there is a lesson summary available when needed. Full review
Elevated Math – This wonderful math tool has been front and center for some time, we wanted to give credit where credit is due. Elevated Math was featured in a guest post by Jeff Harris. This app is an excellent teaching app that teaches basic math through Algebra 1. Utilizing cartoons and humor, and engages kids on various levels. This app breaks down Algebra into small, easy to understand parts. It pauses frequently to allow students to write notes and complete problems on a provided whiteboard feature. A favorite feature of the program is its ability to help teachers answer the age-old question, "When am I ever going to use this stuff?" Its "career video" section has interviews with professionals discussing how they use math in their everyday lives. A great way to show kids why they need to learn math! Read: Moving Young Minds with Middle School Math Apps.


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Nobody kills their house plants on purpose, but if you're likely to forget to water your ferns or herbs, this clever planter by designer Joey Roth could save you some grief. It's not fancy newfangled technology—just an ancient concept reimagined.
The planter is made from unglazed clay that's naturally porous. It consists of two sections: A center chamber that stores water, and a donut-shaped pot for the soil and plants. You just fill up the center chamber with water, and it'll slowly diffuse into the surrounding soil. As Roth points out, porous clay vessels have been used forever as a form of irrigation in climates that don't get a lot of rain. Ancient technique, meet your modern, domestic reincarnation. The planter is currently available for pre-order for $45. [Joey Roth via TreeHugger]


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My boss has tasked me with a re-write of our intranet website. The existing system is very old PHP that doesn't use a framework. My preference is strongly to do the rewrite in Python and Django but my boss does not like Python syntax (he is also a developer). I'm on the opposite end... I don't like developing in PHP and my PHP experience is extremely limited but I've done a lot of work in Python. My boss is aware of my experience but still wants me to sell him on Python.
Some of the things he mentioned he does not like about Python:
- indentation is the only marking for the begin/end of a code block (he loves his curly braces)
- documentation issues (I told him python documentation is great)
- IDE support is limited (mentioned PyCharm and Wing IDE, not sure which is better)
- he's had compatibility issues moving between older versions of python
He may be the only other pair of eyes on the new code. How can I convince him that Python is a better choice? Is Ruby a potential middle ground?


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We would like to buy some pigeons 50 are
More you can private message me
Dennis or contact Brad Knight
Sorry about the delay, Steve. I just noticed your message this afternoon.
Mike Pind just bought the last of my extras last week. I can get more, but need a bit of notice so my trappers can get to work. I get $3 each up to 20, $2.50 for 20-49, and $2.25 for 50 or more.
I'm right across the river in Anna, IL. I'm a member of the Trail of Tears group. I've seen you at meetings, but never officially introduced myself. Dave Smiley is a good friend. I believe he had you train a dog (Maggie) for him several years back.
Let me know if you need any in the furture.
How much do you want for them and where are you located....? How many do you want to get rid of...?
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We fully support transparency at ESPN, but this isn't what we meant. Heading into Wednesday night's ESPNNEWS Highlight Express, anchor Todd Grisham alerted the audience to his being in the midst of a certain painful medical condition. We'd wish him the best, but this is the same guy who thought a "Trail of Tears" reference was appropriate to describe the Oklahoma Sooners losing a football game. On the other hand, kidney stones really suck. Get well eventually, Todd Grisham.
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reneewood needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 4 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
I need someone to sketch a design for an ornament that will ultimately be sculpted into clay and then cast into pewter. (I'll take care of that part!) I have purchased a piece of clip art that is the exact type of design I am looking for. We just need to incorporate a rainbow into the design and add wording to make it unique. Our previous ornament designs have been created from a simple pencil sketch.
Desired Color Scheme:
black and white
Desired Style:
Just something that is soothing and comforting.
I am an online retailer of sympathy gifts and am in the middle of creating an entire line of memorial pewter ornaments.
For this years ornament, I would like the wording, "I thank my God everytime I remember you. Phil. 1:3".
I have found the exact design that I am looking for.I purchased this clip art, so this should give everyone a real clear picture of what I have in mind. It is a simple mountain landscape with trees and a church. We do need to add a rainbow as the top arch of the ornament design and the wording, "I thank my God every time I remember you. Phil 1:3". Here is the link to the clip art inspiration for this ornament:
This is royalty-free clip art. Can we use it and just add a rainbow arch over the design and the bible verse at the bottom? I'm not familiar with the terms of royalty-free clip art.
Here are the seven ornaments we currently manufacturer to give you some idea of what the finished products look like:
The finished ornaments range in size, but I would like this piece to be about 2 1/2" - 2 3/4" all around.
I would love to see some ideas for this very special project!


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I've always wanted to cook this dish ever since I saw this posted years ago by my good blogging friend Stel and Hawaiian food blogger Reid. So when I finally got hold of fresh kangkong in a local (well, not so local since it's about 20 miles away!) Chinese grocer I decided there and then to cook this. Kangkong is also called ung choi or tung choi or water spinach in other lands. Funny how vegetables so common back home that didn't merit so much as a second glance suddenly becomes like a goldmine find when you see it on a shop shelf.
How did the dish go? It should have been great but either the 1 tablespoon blachan is too much or the brand I bought is especially salty. It resulted in me and the husband fishing out the strands of kangkong from the salty sauce then smothering it with lots of steamed rice. And the whole house smelling like a shrimp stink bomb exploded. That's why in the recipe below I drastically reduced the blachan to just 1 teaspoon then I'll just go from there. But it's so nice to have a veg quite different from the usual ones especially when paired with hot grilled fish. Yum!
Kangkong Blachan
350 g kangkong (ung choi, tung choi)
1 tsp blachan (belachan, shrimp paste)
2 Tbsp hibe (dried shrimps)
2 red chillies - chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 Tbsp oil
1/2 cup water
- Cut the kangkong into 3-inch lengths. Rinse well in water then drain.
- Soak the hibe in hot water for 20 minutes. Drain.
- Grind or pound the blachan, hibe, red chillies, and garlic until fine.
- Heat oil in wok and stir fry the blachan mixture for about 3 minutes.
- Turn up heat and add in the kangkong. Stir fry for about 2 minutes.
- Add the water and cook for 1 more minute.
- Serve immediately.


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Papam Studios created a shiny new animated Image-Line logo for use in our videos and it needed audio so we started a competition. There were over 200 entries that we reduced to three winners. Download the winning FL Studio projects and any other of the 200+ entries by following the links at the bottom of our News Post.
The winning sound designs
Image-Line Logo by Papam Studios
Competition trailer video
music 'Vostok' made in FL Studio courtesy of nucleon (Electroconductor)
Entrants videos
We had over 200 entries. You can download all the projects entered and the winners from the original Contest Entry thread on our forums. We reduced this to 25 finalists you can see here.
Thanks to everyone who participated. Keep an eye on our news feed for future competitions.


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"It's the best summation of humanity's converging ecological problems and the best roadmap to sovling them, all in one compact package." —David Roberts, Grist on Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
EPI's Director of Research Janet Larsen was interviewed for NPR's blog The Salt on the world's first in vitro burger. Environmentalists are skeptical that in vitro beef will alleviate the strains on resources given that much of the growing demand for meat in developing countries is for pork. Larsen says that as for Americans, we are already learning that meat doesn't need to be on the table for breakfast, lunch and dinner: "It's far simpler to accelerate the reduction we're already seeing in meat consumption [than wait for lab-grown beef]."


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There are so many different ways in which multiple sclerosis pain manifests itself that I'm sometimes surprised that it took so long for MS doctors and researchers to recognize MS pain as a justified symptom.
MS pain can come in forms from expected and understandable (think pins and needles) to shocking and debilitating, as in trigeminal neuralgia (sometimes called MS face pain) and anywhere in between.
I've written a few blogs about MS pain, including one about the sizzling skin pain I sometimes endure after a particularly powerful sneeze. As always, this group was immensely helpful in talking the entire community through the issue.
As the symptom of pain has only now become wholly recognized as something with which we live, and understanding that some in our community still see doctors who deny the existence of MS pain, I thought I'd bring up the topic for further discussion.
The National MS Society sites a study in which 55 percent of people living with MS report "clinically significant pain" and 48 percent experience chronic pain from their multiple sclerosis. That's a far cry from just a decade or so back when many heard "MS does not cause pain"!
There are, of course, some medications that can help with pain, but other treatments also work to lessen MS pain:
Acupuncture or acupressure, massage, and yoga are often listed as non-prescription pain management options, but cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has also shown great promise for people living with MS.
MS can definitely be a pain! MS can also cause pain!
I'd like to open this week with a discussion of MS pain. Hopefully today is a day without pain for you. If not, I know our community will step up an offer some helpful advice.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.


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In Gin, What Happens When One Calls But the Opposing Player has A Lower Call Card?
Eg. The call card is 10, and I call placing everything but a 6. My opponent didn't call, but was able to place everything but a 4.
So, my opponent had a lesser amount of points she couldn't place than I, but I called.
What does one do regarding points when this happens? Does she get the difference, or does no-one get points? Or does she get points like she would if she had successfully gotten a Gin?


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|Bexley, Ohio
|High School:
Sophomore (2011):
Tabbed to All-Ivy League honorable mention ... Played in all 17 games ... Led Harvard in points (six) and assists (six) ... Was tied for fourth in the Ancient Eight in helpers ... Assisted on a score against Boston University (Sept. 28) ... Dished out an assist at Cornell (Oct. 8) ... Handed out two assists in 3-3 tie against Colgate (Nov. 1) ... Earned an assist off a corner kick at Columbia (Nov. 5) ... Assisted on a score against Penn (Nov. 12).
Freshman (2010):
Saw action in 14 games, starting four ... Had five shots on the season ... Scored the game-winning goal on a header at Massachusetts (Sept. 6).
Helped Columbus Crew Juniors win 2010 Super-20 Finals and was named to all-tournament team.
Before Harvard:
Four-year letterwinner in soccer … Captained team as a junior and senior … Mid State League Player of the Year as a senior … First team All-MSL as a junior … First team all-district as a senior, second team as a junior … First team all-state, NSCAA all-region as a senior … Recipient of Coaches Award as a senior … Team Most Valuable Player as a junior and senior … Member of the Crew Soccer Academy U-18 team that finished third at the Development Academy Finals … Columbus Dispatch Starting 12 … WTVN Player of the Week … Played for the Columbus Crew club team ... High school team made two state semifinal appearances … National Honor Society member … Cum Laude Society … Quill and Scroll National Journalism Society.
Enjoys reading … Uncle, Henry, attended Harvard Medical School.


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Joaquim Barbosa has been selected as Brazil's first black Supreme Court Justice President. A veteran on the bench, Barbosa is currently presiding over a high-profile corruption trial involving a congressional cash-for-votes scheme. He became a Justice of the Supreme Court in 2003.
Judge Barbosa was born in Paracatu in the state of Minas Gerais. He attended the Brazilian school system, then worked through law school as a typist and by cleaning one of the city courts. After working as a prosecutor, he moved forward to his goal of becoming a judge. He is fluent in three languages: French, English and German.
In his first appointment, Judge Barbosa became the only black Supreme Federal Tribunal Justice Minister in Brazil.
The judge has had his share of conflict on the bench. He has recently felt anger from several supporters of Brazil's legal system when he convicted senior members of the government. It was a case called "The Big Monthly Allowance" or "Mensalao." As a result, former chief of staff Jose Dirceu, the Workers' Party's former President, Jose Genoino, and Treasurer Delubio Soares were found guilty of corruption. The men were key aides to former President of the Supreme Court, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazil has the largest black population outside of Nigeria, though it is rare that blacks reach high offices.


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Colorectal Cancer: Frequently Asked Questions
Colorectal Cancer: Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about colorectal cancer:
What are the colon and the rectum?
The colon and the rectum are part of the digestive tract.
Together, they form a long tube called the large intestine. This is also called the large bowel. The colon is the first 5 feet or so of this tube. It absorbs water from digested food and stores waste until it passes out of the body. The rectum is a pouchlike structure that makes up the last six inches of the large bowel. It expands to hold waste matter before it passes out of the body through the anus as a bowel movement (stool).
Who gets colorectal cancer?
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women in the United States. Anyone can develop it, even younger people. There are, though, some people at higher risk. People with a family history of this cancer are at increased risk. So are people who have had it before. People with inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), type 2 diabetes, or with certain inherited conditions are also at increased risk. Older age is also a factor. About 90% of people with colorectal cancer are older than age 50. The risk is slightly higher in men than in women. African-Americans develop colorectal cancer at a higher rate than other ethnic groups. Jews of Eastern European descent may also be at higher risk. Other people at increased risk include smokers and people who are obese or physically inactive.
What causes colorectal cancer?
Scientists don't know the exact cause. Studies show, though, that genetics, environment, and lifestyle all play a role. For instance, a family history of this cancer increases a person's risk. Some studies show that a diet high in red or processed meat increases the risk. A diet high in fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, may reduce the risk.
Is colorectal cancer inherited?
Most cases of this cancer are "random." That means they are not inherited. But a person who has a parent, sibling, or child who has had this cancer is at higher risk. That risk is even higher if the cancer happened at a young age. Some conditions that can be passed on in families may also increase the risk. An example is inflammatory bowel disease.
Can colorectal cancer be prevented?
A key to prevention is to lower the risk. Diet is one way to do this. The diet should include lots of fruits and vegetables. Little or no exercise seems to increase the risk. Routine exercise may lower it. Being obese (very overweight) also increases risk, so staying at a healthy weight may help prevent it. Studies show that drinking more than moderate amounts of alcohol and smoking increase the risk for this cancer. So avoiding both can lower it. Another important way to lower the risk is to have regular screening tests starting at age 50 and having polyps removed from the intestine.
What is a polyp?
Polyps are benign (noncancerous) growths. They form on the inner wall of the colon or rectum. They are common in people older than age 50. Polyps can cause bleeding or mucus with bowel movements. Large ones can block bowel movements. Some polyps may become cancerous. Polyps are usually found during a screening test. They can be removed by colonoscopy.
Is there some way to find colorectal cancer early?
Screening tests help find the cancer early. It can then be treated before it spreads. These tests also help find polyps before they become cancer. One test is a fecal occult blood test (FOBT). This test checks for blood in the stool. For a sigmoidoscopy, the doctor inserts a lighted tube to see inside the rectum and the lower colon. For a colonoscopy, the doctor inserts a lighted tube inside the rectum and the entire colon. During either test, the doctor can remove polyps or other abnormal tissue or a biopsy. The doctor can then look at the tissue under a microscope for signs of cancer. Other tests that can be used for screening include double-contrast barium enema (an X-ray test), virtual colonoscopy (a type of CT scan), and a stool DNA test (which looks for gene changes seen in cancer cells).
What is a double-contrast barium enema?
This is a screening test that uses X-rays. First the doctor puts liquid that contains barium into the rectum. Barium is a silver-white compound. It coats the large intestine. That makes the colon and rectum easier to see on X-rays. Then air is pumped into the colon and rectum to expand it. Doctors can then see any growths or tumors. These will need to be removed with a colonoscopy.
What is virtual colonoscopy?
This test, also called CT colonography, is an imaging test used to screen for colorectal cancer. A special type of CT scan is done to create a three-dimensional view of the colon and rectum to allow the doctor to look for polyps. This test is not as invasive as sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, but if polyps are seen, a regular colonoscopy will need to be done to remove them.
What is a digital rectal exam?
This exam is also called a DRE. It helps find changes in the lowest four inches of the rectum. To do this test, a doctor or nurse practitioner inserts a lubricated gloved finger into the rectum. The doctor or nurse then feels for lumps. This is not an adequate test by itself to screen for colorectal cancer.
What are the symptoms of colorectal cancer?
Common signs of colorectal cancer include these things:
A change in bowel habits that lasts for more than a few days
Blood (either bright red or very dark) in the stool
Diarrhea, constipation, or a feeling that the bowel is still not empty
Gas pains, bloating, fullness, or cramps
Stool that is thinner than usual
Weakness and fatigue
Weight loss for no known reason
Should everyone get a second opinion for a diagnosis of colon cancer?
There are many reasons someone might want to ask for a second opinion. Here are some:
A person is not comfortable with the treatment decision.
The type of cancer is rare.
There is more than one way to treat the cancer.
A person is not able to see a cancer expert.
A person would like confirmation of the treatment decision.
How can someone get a second opinion?
Here are ways to find someone for a second opinion:
Ask a primary care doctor. He or she may be able to suggest a specialist. This may be a surgeon, medical oncologist, or radiation oncologist. Sometimes these doctors work together at cancer centers or hospitals. Never be afraid to ask for a second opinion.
Call the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service. The number is 800-4-CANCER (800-422-6237). They have information about treatment facilities. These include cancer centers and other programs supported by the National Cancer Institute.
Seek other options. Check with a local medical society, a nearby hospital or medical school, or a support group to get names of doctors who can give you a second opinion. Or ask other people who've had cancer for their recommendations.
How is colorectal cancer treated?
Treatment choices depend on several things, including:
The person's age and general health
The location of the cancer in the large bowel
Whether it has grown through the bowel wall
How far it has advanced
The results of lab tests on the cancer cells
Surgery is the most common treatment for early stage cancers. The goal is to remove the cancer. Even then, these other treatments may also be used to try to be sure all of the cancer has been treated:
Radiation therapy
More advanced cancers may be treated with:
Targeted therapy
Radiation therapy.
What is a colostomy?
A colostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an alternate outlet for stool to leave the body. For it, a surgeon connects a part of the intestine to an opening in the abdominal wall. This opening is called a stoma. This connection gives stool a new way to leave the body. Afterward, the person wears a special bag to collect stool. For most people, this is temporary. After they heal from surgery, the intestines are reconnected and they no longer need the bag. But for some, the stoma and bag are permanent. Most surgeons attempt to maintain a functioning anus whenever possible so that a permanent stoma is not needed.
Is a stoma painful or uncomfortable?
A well-cared-for stoma is painless. It should also not cause discomfort. A person who has one should be able to resume physical activity. A therapist called an enterostomal therapist (ET) can help a person learn how to take care of a stoma. He or she can also help a person adjust to life with a stoma.
Can the body function the way it is supposed to without a large part of the intestines?
Yes. People can live normally without a portion of the small intestine. They can also live normally without the entire large intestine.
What are the sexual side effects from colon or rectal cancer surgery?
Most people return to normal at the end of a recovery period. Sexual side effects are more likely after rectal surgery. For some men, nerves in the rectum may be damaged if the cancer is in the part of the large intestine that is low in the pelvis and near the anus. These nerves are involved with erection. For some women, the vagina may have to be reconstructed. In both cases, it is usually still possible to be intimate.
What are clinical trials?
These are trials to study new cancer treatments. Doctors run them to learn how well new treatments work. They also study the side effects. Treatments that have promise are compared to current treatment. Doctors look to see which works better and which has fewer side effects. People who take part in these studies may benefit. Taking part can give them access to new treatments before they are approved. It also helps future cancer patients by advancing our knowledge of cancer.
March 21, 2017
Reviewed By:
Alteri, Rick MD,MMI board-certified, academically affiliated clinician


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You can be the master of the rain with this lightweight Motocaddy stand bag, which boasts a range of features and colours that will leave your playing partners green with envy.
The AquaFLEX carry bag is 100% waterproof and constructed to be super-lightweight, making it easy to carry around the course. We also love its Smart Fit swivel buckle and quick release strap, which helps with ease-of-use and comfort throughout your round.
Key features include:
- 100% waterproof construction
- Smart Fit swivel buckle designed for flexibility
- 4-point fully adjustable carry strap for customisable comfort
- Five-full length dividers to keep your hardware organised
- Thermo sealed and heat-welded seams for additional security
- Super lightweight carry bag
If you are in the market for a carry bag, then the Motocaddy AquaFLEX has everything you could ever need. Come down to the shop to see it for yourself.


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I've been attending the amazing WFMU Record Fair for the past four years, ever since I joined the unique freeform New Jersey radio station, and the one thing that is a given at this popular annual event is that you will always spot a ton of Amoeba bags floating around the weekend long event. This should not be too surprising, considering that both the WFMU Record Fair and Amoeba Music attract the same sort of person -- one who is extremely passionate about his/her music, and music collecting. With hundreds of thousands of records and CDs (plus tons more stuff) being sold by over a hundred vendors at the expansive Metropolitan Pavilion venue in the Chelsea district of New York CIty, the three day WFMU Record Fair attracts people from all over the States and overseas who will travel to New York City just to attend this event. Many of these same folks will travel all the way to LA or the Bay to shop at Amoeba.
This time last year I reported here on the Amoeblog about the 2008 WFMU Record Fair, where Amoeba logo wearing music collecting fanatics included Nakajima, who had flown all the way to New York City from Japan specifically for the WFMU event. And at this year's event (Oct 23, 24, 25), which was "a success" according to WFMU Station Manager Ken Freedman, the instantly recognizable black record 100% cotton tote bags with the bright yellow & red Amoeba Music logos and store of origin's name were sighted all over the place.


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Study of PROVIGIL ® (Modafinil) Treatment in Children and Adolescents With Excessive Sleepiness Associated With Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00107809
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 11, 2005
Last Update Posted : May 9, 2014
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The primary objectives of the study are to determine the effectiveness of PROVIGIL treatment, compared to placebo treatment, in children and adolescents with excessive sleepiness (ES) associated with obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), as assessed by:
- mean sleep latency from the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) (average of 4 naps performed at 0900, 1100, 1300, and 1500) at the last post baseline observation (week 6 or early termination)
- the Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGI-C) ratings for ES, at the last post baseline observation (week 6 or early termination).
|Condition or disease
|Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
|Drug: Modafinil
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|140 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of PROVIGIL ® (Modafinil) Treatment (100, 200, and 400 mg/Day) in Children and Adolescents With Excessive Sleepiness Associated With Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome
|Study Start Date :
|October 2004
|Study Completion Date :
|September 2005
- Mean sleep latency from the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) (average of 4 naps performed at 0900, 1100, 1300, and 1500) at the last post baseline observation (week 6 or early termination)
- The Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGI-C) ratings for ES, at the last post baseline observation (week 6 or early termination)
- The Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGI-C) ratings for severity of ES
- The total score from the Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale (PDSS)
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Years to 16 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- A boy or girl aged 6 through 16 years, inclusive
Meet the minimal criteria established by the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD) manual of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) for OSAHS as assessed by all of the following: *clinical history;
*have a previous diagnosis of OSAHS on the basis of NPSG (nocturnal polysomnogram) and/or MSLT at any time before the screening visit. If the patient is a current user of CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) therapy and is appropriately titrated on CPAP, the AHI ≥5 inclusion criterion is not applicable; *NPSG (nocturnal polysomnogram) (as evaluated by the investigator) to rule out other sleep disorders (ie, narcolepsy and periodic limb movement with sleep [PLMs]).
- Have ES (CGI-S [Clinical Global Impression of Severity] ≥4) that is not a direct result of inadequate sleep hygiene or other medical disorder
- Are in good health as determined by a medical and psychiatric history, physical examination, ECG, and clinical laboratory tests
- For patients who are not current users of CPAP therapy or who are not appropriately titrated on CPAP: have an average of 5 or more apneic/hypopneic episodes per hour of nocturnal sleep, as assessed by the NPSG at the baseline visit (AHI [apnea/hypopnea index] ≥5)
- Are currently users of CPAP therapy or have tried and not tolerated the current standards of care for OSAHS and continue to have residual sleepiness (ie, patients who comply with CPAP use, patients who are unable to tolerate or comply with CPAP therapy, patients who have had surgical removal of tonsils and adenoids or for whom this surgery is not warranted, and patients who have attempted or are on an ongoing weight loss program)
- Have an O2 saturation of at least 85%, based on the investigator's assessment of the patient's health
- Have blood pressure values greater than those for the 5th percentile and less than the 95th percentile for age on the National High Blood Pressure Education Program guidelines for blood pressure levels for boys and girls ages 6 through 16 years
- Girls who are post menarche or sexually active must have a negative urine pregnancy test prior to the baseline visit, must be using a medically acceptable method of birth control, and must agree to continue use of this method for the duration of the study (and for 30 days after participation in the study). Acceptable methods of birth control include: barrier method with spermicide; steroidal contraceptive (eg, oral, transdermal, implanted, or injected) in conjunction with a barrier method; intrauterine device (IUD); or abstinence.
- Be able to swallow a placebo tablet the same size and shape as the study drug tablet
- Negative UDS (urine drug screen) for any illicit drug, alcohol (ethanol), stimulants, or modafinil at screening; if positive for stimulants or modafinil (prescribed for ES) at the screening visit, UDS to be repeated after washout period and before the baseline visit
- Have a parent or legal guardian who is willing to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have any other disorder(s) that could be considered the primary cause of ES (eg, self induced sleep deprivation)
- Have a past or present seizure disorder (except history of a single febrile seizure), a history of psychosis, or of clinically significant head trauma (eg, brain damage) or past neurosurgery
- Have periodic limb movement (PLM) arousal index greater than 5 (ie, >5 PLMs with arousals per hour of sleep)
- Have a history of suicide attempt, or are at suicidal risk
- A clinically significant drug sensitivity to stimulants such as amphetamine, dextroamphetamine, methylphenidate, or pemoline; and/or modafinil or any of its components
- Use of any prescription (eg, clonidine, guanfacine) or nonprescription (over the counter [OTC]) medications, including dietary supplements with psychoactive properties (eg, any OTC medications or supplements containing ephedrine [ie, ma huang or ephedra], pseudoephedrine, caffeine, or phenylpropanolamine) or sedating properties (ie, antihistamines or sedative hypnotics) within 1 week of the baseline visit
- Use of any MAO (monoamine oxidase) inhibitors or SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) within 2 weeks of the baseline visit
- Received any investigational drug (except modafinil) within 4 weeks of the baseline visit
- Any disorder that could interfere with drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion (including previous gastrointestinal surgery)
- Active, clinically significant gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, hematologic, neoplastic, endocrine, neurologic, immunodeficiency, pulmonary, or other major clinically significant disorder/disease
- Any clinically significant deviation from the normal range(s) in the physical examination or ECG findings, or clinical laboratory test results (ie, serum chemistry, hematology, and urinalysis) at the screening or baseline visit
- ANC (absolute neutrophil count) below the lower limit of normal at the screening visit (NOTE: If the ANC is below the lower limit of normal at the baseline visit, the medical monitor will be consulted for continued eligibility in the study.)
- Seated pulse outside the range of 60 through 115 bpm after resting for 5 minutes
- A history of alcohol, narcotic, or any other substance abuse or dependence as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, 4th Edition (DSM IV) criteria
- A total daily intake of more than 250 mg of caffeine per day (eg, approximately five 12 ounce caffeinated sodas, 2.5 cups of coffee or tea, or about 12.5 ounces of chocolate per day) within 1 week of the baseline visit
- Pregnant or lactating/nursing girl; any girl who becomes pregnant during the study will be withdrawn
- A clinically significant illness within 4 weeks of the baseline visit; or is symptomatic for any clinically significant illness at the screening or baseline visit.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00107809
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 11, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 9, 2014
|Last Verified:
|May 2014
Pediatric Obstructive sleep Apnea
Excessive sleepiness
Pediatric OSAHS
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
Signs and Symptoms
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Wakefulness-Promoting Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


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Amit Singh let us know that they've found a venue for this year's PHPCamp happening in Pune, India September 20th:
The elePHPant arrives at Persistent on 20th September - I wanted to announce that we have found the Venue for PHPCamp pune.
The event will be held at the offices of Persistent Systems:
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Plot No. 9A/12, CTS No. 12A/12,
Near Padale Palace (Opp Sharda Center),
Pune - 411 004
You can get more information about the conference from its official website.


text: Like all social interventions, Pay for Success takes a village. Collaboration between organizations is the key to successful solutions that can be tailored to each community's unique needs. As such, we have developed a directory of collaborators that include service providers, government officials, investors, and financial and evaluation experts. Do you feel that PFS might be a good fit for your organization? If so, we encourage you to become part of the support system by submitting your organization's profile.


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Who has the right to interpret the Bible for us?
I note what seems to be a contradiction in the description of Solomon's Temple. According to the book of Kings wooden doors separated the Holy of Holies from the main hall of the Temple (1 Kgs 6:31). On the other hand, Chronicles speaks of heavy curtain (2 Chr 3:14). Could this explain a seeming contradiction in the biblical record?
A short review of the standard Adventist approach to biblical interpretation.
Could you explain why the Bible sometimes refers to bones as "rejoicing"?
Should Adventists be involved in warfare? What is the church's position?
A shift away from biblically-based decisions by Presbyterians provides a warning for Adventists in dealing with issues such as homosexuality.
The book of Proverbs often mentions "the fool." Who is this person?
The church's relation to the issue of homosexuality, including biblical, ethical, biological, and practical aspects are described in light of recent and extensive research.
This article deals with various questions people may ask that require different approaches to answering. It deals especially with the issue of how to deal with questions that are not directly addressed in Scripture.
The "Methods of Bible Study" document voted by the 1986 Annual Council, which affirms Scripture's divine inspiration and authority, as well as how to study the Bible, is explained and contrasted with more recent critical approaches to biblical interpretation. The role of culture is also addressed.
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Two dead whales have washed up on the coast of East Yorkshire in a single day.
READ: Knaresborough to get 'London Eye of Yorkshire' ?
The minke whale, pictured, was found by a member of the public on Tuesday near Marrow Avenue car park in Hornsea.
A dead tope whale was also found on the same stretch of sand on the same day.
There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the whale's death, but it remains unclear when the animal's body will be removed.
As it is classed as a public health risk, the Council will have to dispose of the body.