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LAKE PLACID - A home building TV show has plans to start filming in the Adirondacks and they are looking for local participants.
George Verschoor, an executive producer of "Building Wild", a show on National Geographic that premiered Jan. 14, said they want to film around the Lake Placid or Saranac Lake area.
It's known as the most rugged home building show on TV and the Adirondack Park offers the kind of outdoor views and spirit the show's producer is looking for.
"I think it is a mecca for outdoor lovers," he said. "The Adirondacks really offer great terrains and variety."
They're looking to turn up to six scenic properties of Adirondack land into a dream cabin retreat. Whether it is a skier's paradise, a writer's getaway, or any other fantasy cabin - they plan to built it.
Verschoor, who is currently in California, was recently with his production team in New York researching the area.
"We drove around for quite a bit around the park," he said. "We went to Keene Valley and near Long Lake and Tupper Lake."
The show stars Paul DiMeo, a designer and home builder who is best known for his time on the show "Extreme Makeover" and Pat "Tuffy" Bakaitis.
In the premiere episode, the crew, who own a cabin building business called Cabin Kings, built a hunting cabin for a farmer and his friends in Jackson, New York. Mike Carney had a 100-year-old barn that the home builders redesigned for him on his 300-acre property.
"This is their specialty," he said. "They really love building in different conditions in wild terrains."
He said the Cabin Kings like to get creative with different types of designs for each building.
"They build these cabins with a twist. Whether it's a spinning cabin or turning a school bus into a cabin."
"Building Wild" is produced by 90 Miles in association with Hoosick Falls productions and Shake Media.
Seeking participants
"We're looking for people who want to have a big adventure," Verschoor said. "It's a thrill; everyone who has done it says it is the craziest, most enjoyable time of their life."
To keep the costs of the show down he said people who are interested will have to provide some materials and bring a workforce of family and friends to help pitch in. The cabin would need to be built over a weeklong fiming period.
A $10,000 investment is the lowest amount for consideration by the show.
They plan to begin filming for the next season sometime in September or October. All that's needed to get the show rolling is willing participants.
"We're really hoping people will contact the website," Verschoor said. "The more, the merrier, and the sooner, the better."
How to apply
Anyone interested in participating on the show is asked to apply online at www.cabin-kings.com.


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(MCT) CHICAGO — Jerry Trestman never finished that basement inside the suburban Minneapolis home he once shared with his wife and two children.
His son, Marc, was a multisport athlete primarily involved in football, baseball and basketball. Yet often, the younger Trestman invited a couple of friends over and transformed the basement into a full-fledged puck battle.
"There were too many holes in the walls from all the hockey games," Jerry Trestman said.
"I also had a table tennis thing down in that basement. We used to play that, too. But Marc, he's not little at all. His reach was too big."
Marc Trestman never stopped reaching. Now he's at the pinnacle of his profession.
The 14th head coach in Bears history didn't climb to the summit overnight. He put forth the time. He made the sacrifices.
Trestman eagerly volunteered to coach at the University of Miami 32 years ago while attending law school there and now has fulfilled a dream that he shares with his wife and two daughters.
"I thought Marc should have been an NFL head coach years ago," Jerry Trestman said. "That's where he wanted to be ... eventually."
Marc credited his parents for instilling in him the values of hard work and dedication. Jerry Trestman, a musician who never played sports or attended college, owned and operated a musical instrument store for 45 years. He had other side businesses that were "nothing illegal" he joked, including a restaurant where Marc once worked.
"I used to leave at 8 in the morning and never got home until about 2 the next morning," Jerry Trestman said. "My daughter, Cari, she's 13 months younger than Marc, and I think she knows him better than me because she spent more time with him. My wife (Sharon), she's the one who went to every game. She was the one who drove him all over."
But Marc Trestman was the one who was driven.
"He left the house when he was 17. All the decisions between now and then have been his," Jerry Trestman said. "Like with law school, that was his decision. I tried not to influence him, although I'm a great admirer of education.
"I recall him making the decision that maybe he didn't have the physical ability to keep playing quarterback. As you know, it's a sport that very much involves the quarterback being hit. And Marc had some back problems. But still, I was not involved in any of his decisions."
Jerry Trestman couldn't remember all the details of his son's athletic career save for his stint at the University of Minnesota as a backup quarterback to Tony Dungy, and his son's cameos as a defensive back at Vikings training camp.
Marc Trestman was a three-sport start at St. Louis Park (Minn.) High School who played three years with his hometown Gophers. Then he transferred to Minnesota State-Moorhead, where he replaced current MSNBC talk-show host Ed Schultz as the starting quarterback.
Jerry Trestman, however, vividly remembers his son's rooting interest. Fran Tarkenton was an idol.
"He always was a Vikings fan," the father said. "Yes, we were all Vikings fans.
"But not anymore."

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Talk:Girlfriends in GTA IV
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Preferred Vehicles
I suggest that they take the 'suggestions' for vehicles to take on dates with Kiki. e.g 'Marbelle, Washington and Vigero', as these are only 3 cars, and ALOT of cars get Kiki 'in the mood' (The PMP 600 for example, which i always drive when dating her). I just think the suggestions are out of place. Ess-Tee 05:20, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- The reason is that Kiki likes Mid to expensive cars. as you know there are many such cars. It would be a hassle to test and write them all so just naming a few helps. --Chimpso 10:38, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Or they could name none of them. It's either a complete detailed list or none? Perhaps you should just edit the part about 'Mid to Expensive' cars into it, rather than having a half effort small listing of vehicles there? Ess-Tee 07:37, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Im not really catching your point here. Your saying that it is better to NOT give an example then to GIVE an example!?! If you really wanna test EVERY car in GTA IV and see wqhich ones Kiki likes then im sure everyone would be delighted. --Chimpso 07:42, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
- Haha you're a smart one man :P Perhaps i'll edit the article in a way that we both see fit, i'll give it a try now. Ess-Tee 07:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Well thats what i do. I always win every argument! Ill check out you edit to see if i see it fit.
Damageproofing Vehicles
Is the damageproof property infinite or does it only last until you take the girlfriend home? Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 01:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I think it only lasts until you destroy or abandon you're vehicle. Once you finish you're date you can drive around until it gets destroyed. Hope this helps.GSF4L 01:24, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Girlfriends textures?
I've looked around for the textures of Niko's girlfriends (not Kate and Michelle), but I can't find them. In what file are they and what's their name? NAMETYR 02:25, May 29, 2010 (UTC)NAMETYR
Once a girl likes you enough but you are broken up, will their ability still be usable?
Girlfriends Stalking
Is it possible to encounter one girlfriend while going out with another (like in GTA SA)? Kanzler31 01:46, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Water conservation - way of the future in Sonoma County
Somehow the Cilantro I planted a few weeks back and as of 2 weeks ago had sprouted, has disappeared. But the spring lettuces, mint, parsley, and oregano are in full force and some early tomato starts that I put in seem to be taking. The fruit trees are budding, I'm sure in May I will have to come back and thin the fruit. This year I'm going to try to grow some "pears in a bottle" to then fill with brandy. Yum.
Our property has a lot of landscaping, fruit, roses, and the veggies I am growing. It also has some big redwood trees that perhaps aren't so appropriate for the valley location we are in. Translation - a lot of water needed for plants, in addition to the water needed for people. This is a problem because Sonoma County, like the rest of Northern California, is in a bit of a drought.
For us, it's a real big issue because we are on a well. We don't get any benefit from storage at Lake Sonoma, or detriment from the lake being empty. We have to manage our own water supply. When we use too much, the well can empty and the pump shuts down. Generally speaking, the less we use, the better.
This weekend we took a first step for some innovative water conservation. We installed a hot water recirculating pump using the fine folks at Bragg Plumbing
It was pretty easy to sell my wife on the concept of spending the money on the system because it has the nice side effect that when you turn on the shower - bang - you get hot water right away. And I'm sure our customers will like that as well.
It works like this. Hot water runs from your hot water heater tank to the various outlets in your house, and comes out the spigots. When you turn the hot water off, the water currently in the hot water lines then starts to cool down since it is no longer in the tank. So when you come back much later to take a shower - brrr... the water is too cold. So you wait - in our case probably about 5 minutes during which 20 or so gallons of precious water goes down the drain.
The recirculation pump connects the cold water line to the hot water line via a t-valve at the furthest point in the house from the tank. Every 15 minutes or so, the pump kicks on and pushes new hot water into the lines. Since the spigot is not on, the t-valve opens and the hot water now goes into the cold water lines. Where does this water go? Back into the hot water tank, basically, because since the pump is pulling water from the tank, the tank now pulls more water in, coming from the same place the cold water comes from in the first place. Basically.
For water challenged Sonoma County this is a huge win, saving lots of water. In our case it's a bit of a bummer, because our water is coming from the water table itself - so there is no way we can keep the water we save from being pumped up by the grape growers down the street. But it still provides a buffer right now for the water in the well. Longer term should we put in a water tank, we'll be saving water that we've pulled from the well ahead of time. We also get an immediate benefit now in that we are on a septic system in addition to having a well. Less water down the drain means less water into our septic.
Water is pretty much our biggest concern right now so this is a big benefit, but there are costs in addition to money. The pump draws electricity of course.More importantly, we are now putting cold water back into the pump which will use more propane than if we weren't running water. This is mitigated a bit in that the pump has a timer and an on/off switch. When we are out of town we turn it off. When it's on, the timer allows us to not run the pump in the middle of the night for example.
Users of city water would benefit in ways that are far more measureable in the event that Sonoma County puts people on water restrictions.
Monday we are meeting with people from Bragg to discuss ways to further mitigate the tradeoffs that the pump brings, and use our water more efficiently. We are considering a solar hot water system that will mitigate the propane problem by using solar energy to heat the hot water. Our biggest propane usage right now is by far our hot water heater, and propane is expensive - it's more expensive than Natural Gas to start with and we have to pay for delivery (if any potential renters were wondering if our house was "away from it all" - it's far enough away from the city slickers that there is no city water, sewer, or natural gas. We do have electricity and the internet however - maybe that's not a good thing!). Anyway, if we can cut the propane usage with Solar Hot Water the system could pay for itself very quickly and insulate us from future issues with propane.
Additionally, we are looking at a gray water system where the shower and sink water form the bathroom will be drawn into a cistern and can be used for underground irrigation. This would allow us to keep those redwood trees without a lot of guilt. It will be a lot of backbreaking work for me to dig the irrigation lines, but hey - I'm not made of sugar you know.
3 comments:
- BeWaterWise Rep said...
Water shortage is a growing problem in California. Therefore, we all should make a conscious effort to save water. Here are some tips on water conservation which might help: http://www.bewaterwise.com/tips01.html
Since you mentioned landscaping, try planting California friendly plants (native plants). These plants can easily thrive on less water!
- April 12, 2009 at 10:49 PM
- Frank Irwin said...
It seems like the best way to wire this recirculation pump would be to stick a switch near the shower that, when pressed, turns the pump on for 30-60 seconds (or however long it takes to get the hot water to the shower), then shuts off. That way, it's only running (and your only injecting cold water into the water heater) when needed.
- April 14, 2009 at 8:48 PM
- Tankstar Rainwater Storage Solutions said...
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- October 1, 2012 at 4:05 AM


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Following the arrival on the B.C. coast last year of almost 500 Sri Lankan asylum seekers aboard the MV Sun Sea cargo ship, the RCMP ratcheted up its human-smuggling prevention efforts, including deploying a team to Southeast Asia, amid internal concerns about the program's costs.
Records obtained through access to information show that in the fall of 2010, senior staff within the RCMP's federal and international operations directorate exchanged a series of emails questioning how they were going to pay for the program and noting that other units were already starved for funds.
But in interviews and statements, top officials this week defended the roughly $11.4 million they say was spent during the last fiscal year to respond to the Sun Sea's arrival and prevent future smuggling events.
"Our mandate established in the RCMP Act is to prevent crime and to catch crooks," newly appointed Commissioner Bob Paulson told Postmedia News. "If you want to see value for money, our increased presence in Southeast Asia and other places has saved a lot of money in terms of preventing crime that would've come here and would've burned us in the longer term.
"I think it's exactly where we've got to go. We've sort of got to get ahead of the curve, we've got to do that and invest in prevention."
Following the arrival of the Sun Sea in the summer of 2010, the government initiated what it called a "whole of government" response to combat human smuggling that included the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency, Foreign Affairs and National Defence. The government also appointed a veteran public servant, Ward Elcock, to the position of special adviser on human smuggling and illegal migration.
Though the RCMP won't provide exact numbers citing "operational reasons," part of the response included an expanded presence in Southeast Asia of investigative and intelligence officers.
Internally, however, questions were being raised about how this expanded presence would be paid for.
"This email is to confirm that there is no pot of money — for these types of expenditures," Jay Bradley, then the acting director of resource and management services for federal and international operations, wrote in late September 2010. "As it stands now, all resources being redeployed to this important initiative will need to be covered from within."
In another email, Bradley wrote that he realized "CI" — criminal intelligence — was "hurting for funding."
Another staffer suggested that even if federal and international operations were able to absorb the costs, the force was still "hurting financially" and maybe the RCMP should seek additional funds from the Treasury Board to cover costs from a "force wide perspective."
That prompted a response from Assistant Commissioner Mike Cabana, who said he wasn't comfortable asking for additional funds to tackle human smuggling "if our intention is in fact to redirect the funding to other pressures. We cannot play a shell game as our credibility will (suffer)."
The discussions continued into November. Chief Supt. Joe Oliver wrote that he suspected there would be "significant internal pressure" to support "this GoC (Government of Canada) priority in a tight fiscal environment."
In reply, Cabana wrote that he was "not sure to what extent we can absorb the shortfall" and that he was concerned "with the message we keep sending every time we agree to absorb."
A report from the auditor general of Canada earlier this year noted that the budget of the RCMP's federal and international operations directorate — which is responsible for organized crime investigations, border integrity, drug enforcement and money laundering — had been reduced by $47.7 million — or 8.4 per cent — during the 2010-11 fiscal year to cover gaps in other areas of the force.
The RCMP said Thursday that the federal government did kick in a bit of money during the last fiscal year — $2.2 million for the interception of the Sun Sea and another $3 million for the human smuggling prevention efforts.
Much of the costs related to the anti-smuggling program though had to be absorbed from within, meaning the force had to shift resources — money and bodies — away from other areas, including criminal intelligence.
But Cabana said in an interview this week the force had to react to "emerging trends." He denied that the force felt pressure from the government to act.
The RCMP also said in a statement that the force's long-standing relationship with law enforcement agencies in the southeast Asian region allowed it to "secure the necessary co-operation and international police action to impact criminal networks orchestrating human smuggling operations destined for Canada."
In August, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told reporters from Thailand that the overseas task force had succeeded in disrupting three or four smuggling operations "at various stages of planning and execution."
The RCMP, whose presence in Southeast Asia is still in place, added Thursday that the investigation of migrant vessels continues to be a priority as "the threat of future Canadian-bound migrant vessels remains."


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Princess 61, Year 2003, 2 MAN Engines with (800 Hp each.)
3 Suites Version + complete Skipper Cabin. Some Equipment: Radar, GPS/Plotter with Depht image, Raymarine Auto Pilot, VHF with DSC, Generator (ONAN 11 KWAs), Bow and Stern Thruster, Cond. Air in all the boat (including Skipper Cabin. Water Maker 60L/H, TV Satellite (4 TVs, being one folding in the salon with DVD, 3 Play stations, Dishwasher, Washing Machine, Microwaves and oven, Freezer, 1 Great Refrigerator in the kitchen, 2 Refrigerators being 1 in Fly and another in the Salon, Ceramic Hobs. Electric Light Hand Searching with command in fly and inside in the command. Other equipment: Electric Toilets with vacuum system. Black water tank, Gray water Tank, Grill in flying bridge Theca in the causeway of the deck, Electric Power winch for anchors with reel to moor, Electric Reels in the Stem to moor, Hydraulic Passarelle, Bimini in the Fly, Solarium to the Bow, Solarium in fly, Theca in the bath platform Dingy AVON (+-3,40 Mts) with Jet motor Yamaha.
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Following my previous article titled "Creating a Threaded Discussion Forum," we are going to create the administration side of things. Why do we need a administrator? Well, somebody has to manage the forum, and I guess the administrator drew the short straw. On the plus side the administrator can, among other things, ban a user from the forum, delete user entries and even censor the forum to some extend. We are going to implement the following functions:
- Remove/add certain (bad) words.
- Retrieve all topics.
- Delete all topics.
- Start a new topic.
To follow along with this part of the article you will need access to a MySQL database (created in the previous article) and any version of PHP above version 4.
How the administration area works
Basically, everything is going to be done on one page, which is the "siadmin.php" page. The navigation bar will be on the left with all its links and the main area will be where the outcome of a function will be displayed. The links will all send an action variable, which will be processed by the "switch" function. The action variable will be in a format like this:
<a href="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>?
action=deleteall">Delete ALL Topics
The "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" is part of a global array of variables that is available to every PHP script. The PHP_SELF refers to the page on which the code is written. This ensures that the action variable is sent to the siadmin.php page.
The value of the action variable will be handled by the switch statement. The switch statement has the following syntax:
Case "condition1"
Because it can handle a lot of different conditions in a clear and precise way, it is ideally suited to process the five links that we have in our navigation section. I use only one page for the administration because otherwise I would have had to create a page for each function. That would have required far more coding and waste valuable processing power on the server.
{mospagebreak title=Code}
Fig. 1 The administration page.
If you look to the navigation bar on the left, you will see that there are six options available, of which we will only implement five. The User Data option involves a tracking system that we will not discuss in this article, so I have decided to leave it out for now. I've left the top bar where it says "Administrator:" empty in case you want to implement a login system that will enable you to show an admin name there. The text that you see in the main area comes from the default section of the switch statement. This section is executed if the variable that is being checked does not have any value in it or when the value does not match any of the conditions that have been set.
The remaining links will be implemented by the following functions:
- function delall() – Deletes all the topics in the database.
- function getall() – Retrieves all the main topics in the database.
- function deltopic($uid) – Deletes a specific topic.
- function showform() – Show a form to take words that you want banned.
- function writeword() – Processes the above form.
- function getword() -Displays the banned words.
Let's talk about each of the functions in detail.
Fig. 2 The listing of the topics.
function getall(){
forumdb();//gets the database connection settings
echo '
';
echo "

 Subject
Record number
	";
echo '
';
echo '
';
// If current page number, use it
// if not, set one!
$page = 1;
} else {
$page = $_GET['page'];
// Define the number of results per page
$max_results = 10;
// Figure out the limit for the query based
// on the current page number.
$from = (($page * $max_results) – $max_results);
// Perform MySQL query on only the current page number's results
$sql = mysql_query("Select * from test where parent = 0 LIMIT
$from, $max_results");
//$query="Select ip,page FROM tracker order by date";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
// Build your formatted results here.
$Recid= $row['uid'];
echo '
';
echo '

' .$title. '
'.$Recid.' Delete
	';
echo '
';
echo '
';
// Figure out the total number of results in DB:
$total_results = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) as Num
FROM test"),0);
// Figure out the total number of pages. Always round up using
$total_pages = ceil($total_results / $max_results);
// Build Page Number Hyperlinks
echo "Select a Page
";
// Build Previous Link
if($page > 1){
$prev = ($page – 1);
echo '<<Previous ';
for($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++){
if(($page) == $i){
echo "$i ";
} else {
echo ''.$i.' ';
// Build Next Link
if($page < $total_pages){
$next = ($page + 1);
echo 'Next>>';
echo "";
The point of this function is to retrieve ALL the records in the database. Naturally you would want to display only a few records at a time. To this end, the function also includes pagination code. Also, the function presents two columns to you; one contains the title of the record and the other contains an option to delete the record. Once you click on delete, the record is removed and the list is updated and displayed.
{mospagebreak title=The delall() and deltopic($uid) functions}
The delall() function is pretty straightforward. It deletes all the records in the table.
function delall(){
$query="Delete * from test";
echo 'Could not delete records because ' .mysql_error() . ";
echo 'All records have been delete';
The deltopic($uid) function takes the uid of the record and uses that ID to delete it.
function deltopic($uid){
$dbh=mysql_connect($host) or die ('I cannot connect to the
database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($dbname) or die('I cannot select the database
because: ' . mysql_error());
$query="Delete from test where uid=$uid Limit 1″;
echo "Record number $uid deleted";
echo "Could not delete record number $uid because
" .mysql_error() . "";
In this function I've played it save and added the "Limit 1" statement to the delete query. This ensures that only one record is deleted and not all of them.
{mospagebreak title=Database connection, bad words}
The function below sets the database connection details:
function forumdb(){
$dbh=mysql_connect($host) or die ('I cannot connect to the
database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ($dbname) or die('I cannot select the database
because: ' . mysql_error());
Remember to add your connection details to the this function.
This function shows a form that will enable you to enter a word that you want banned from the forum.
function showfrm(){
echo ' <form name="form1″ method="post" action="' .$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?action=writewords"> ';
echo 'Enter word to ban:

<input type="text" name="word">

<input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"
class="altButtonFormat"> ';
echo '</form>';
echo 'Banned words will be replace
with XXXX.';
Here's what the form looks like:
Fig. 3 The form is presented when you want a new word to be added to the banned word list.
The "getword()" function retrieves all the banned words:
function getword(){
echo "
Banned Words
";
echo "———————";
for($i=0; $i < count($words); $i++){
echo "$words[$i]
";
The function interacts with a text file on the disk and uses PHP's very handy file handling functions to retrieve a list of banned words. Here's a screen shot of the above function result:
Fig. 4 A list of banned words.
The writeword() function writes all the words to a file called "badwords.txt."
function writeword(){
if($fp=fopen('badwords.txt', 'a+')){
fwrite($fp, "$wordrn");
echo "The word $word has now been
echo "could not open file";
As I mentioned before we will use a $action variable to receive the value passed from the link that has been clicked, and then use the switch command to handle the value accordingly. Here's a snippet of the switch command:
Case "gettopics";
Case "deleteall";
As the code above shows, once the user clicks on the "get all main topics" link the "getall();" function is called. The same thing happens when the user clicks on the "Delete all topics" link; the "delall()" function is called.
That's it for the admin section of the forum. Here are a few suggestions to improve its performance: create a table to store the "bad words." This will enable you to add/remove words more easily than you would with a file-based system. Try to set up a login script to control access to the admin area, as I'm sure you would not want just anyone to have access to the functions on that page!


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Most of the rerporters who packed the elegant living room of the Parkman House Tuesday afternoon were not all that interested in the city's announcement that Converse is moving its world headquarters to a dilapidated building on Lovejoy Wharf next to TD Garden.
They were there instead for a glimpse of the king.
In the latest step of his rehabilitation tour, Mayor Thomas M.Menino stood for eight minutes, sat for roughly 10 minutes, and then stood again as he took questions on a variety of subjects. He was by turns witty, reflective, enthusiastic, and plainly winded. He offered no serious thoughts about his future.
Menino said he was ahead of schedule on his physical therapy, which he undergoes once or twice a day at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. He said he adds to his exercise program by walking the lengthy corridors of the Parkman House. He had no visible bumps or bruises and stood without assistance.
That said, he continued to deflect questions about whether he is planning to run for a sixth term this year. "I have no time frame," he said of making a decision. "I want to get through one thing at a time."
In response to questions, Menino called for a fix for the financial woes of the MBTA and said he wants to rein in aggressive panhandling. He said he isn't thinking about who should be named interim US senator if John Kerry is confirmed as secretary of state; saying that the special election is what really matters. When I asked how long he would be staying at the Parkman House, he asked if I wanted to move in. In other words, he sounded like himself.
He is clearly chafing at living at the Parkman House, the opulent Beacon Hill mansion that has served as a hideaway/meeting place for mayors for decades. Clearly it is more convenient for him than convalescing at home. For one thing, his staff is a few blocks away, as opposed to making daily treks to faraway Readville. But, as he added: "This is a house, not a home. My whole house could fit in this room, but this isn't home."
He said he hopes to move home in 10 days, but the emphasis seemed to be on hope. There was a striking lack of conviction.
Clearly, these are odd times, for the mayor, his staff, and for Boston. At 70, Menino is in a position that may be without precedent. Generally, politicians think about their future when their popularity is sagging. Failing that, the issue may be raised by the specter of a potent opponent on the rise. Or simply by boredom.
Menino's situation doesn't fit any of those categories. Clearly, he remains popular enough to win reelection. Without a doubt, no one is in any hurry to run against him. Certainly, he still loves the job. Yet the question, the one that may not have an answer for months, is whether he can recover to the point of serving four more years.
His strategy, in the meantime, is simply to continue doing what he does, as publicly as possible. Thus, the announcement that Converse will move into the city two years from now. The clear message was: the business of the city continues. That's nice — it should — but it is unlikely to put the questions about Menino's future to rest.
Right now, his biggest lingering health issue probably isn't his bad back or feet, but his recent diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes. He has adjusted his diet and begun taking insulin. But addressing this illness isn't as simple as taking a pill or a shot. Speaking from personal experience, adjusting to life as insulin-dependent diabetic is a project that takes a lot longer than a month or two.
Menino's staff has scheduled the annual State of the City Speech for Jan. 29, another attempt to preserve a veneer of normality. But for the first time in nearly two decades, Menino's future seems at least mildly unpredictable. That uncertainty reverberates across his city.Adrian Walker's column will now appear Monday and Wednesday; Kevin Cullen's column will appear Tuesday and Friday. Walker can be reached at walker@
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POTPOURRI ~ for O, A, & B !
Hi Heidi, I love your column, read it every day. Thanks for the great info. My question is regarding the liver... I've been on the O diet for 3 months and now take Deflect and Polyflora. I've had great results but I believe that my liver is still having problems. I constantly have a yellow colour to my skin which fluctuates from dark to lighter, many times after eating I feel tired, and when I eat butter, nuts/seeds or oils I get pimples on my face. I've had blood tests to check my liver and they came back okay. I'm considering doing a liver/gallbladder flush with olive oil but have heard of people having gallstones get stuck and require surgery. I'm wondering what you think of the liver flush or if you have other suggestions. Thanks so much. Amber
Hello, Amber ~ glad you like the column! I had great results from the gallbladder flushes I did, as did several of my friends. Most people I've heard from who have performed several flushes over a period of weeks had no difficulty of any kind and were very satisfied with the results. From the public reports on various health forums, message boards, etc., the only common problem I've seen is that individuals who approached the flush with trepidationa and anxiety seem to have a little more trouble getting the oil & juice down, keeping it down, and going to sleep afterwards.
I am not an expert on gallbladder flushes ~ Julia Chang is. Read her wonderful Conquering Chronic Health Problems Without Drugs or Surgery site thoroughly -- repeatedly, if necessary -- until you feel confident enough to proceed. For anyone who wishes to break up the stones before the flush, she offers Gold Coin Grass which works exactly as advertised. Enjoy your reading, and let me know your experiences if you decide to do it!
groupA: you recommend to eat snails,but in France,we prepare them with butter.but butter for me is forbiden.does the lectine from snails neutralize from the butter? i am on the diet bood group.I have to go live in the west indies definitively.But the local products are not tested in your book.So it will be difficult for me to follow this blood group over there. Some friends of mine in guadeloupe know your books very well;and would like to follow this way of life (some of them begun already). life is very expensive in guadeloupe,and it will be a big advantage to be able to eat local food.what can you do to help us? . there are a lot of products in the west indies which are also eaten in africa and asia. If we were able to test them it will be useful for a large part of the population. merci marika
Hi, Marika ~~ If you miss your butter, use ghee (clarified butter) instead. All the taste of butter, but none of the "avoid" part ~ great for all types. Peter's BUTYRATE AND GHEE column gives basic instructions on its preparation, and some insight into its health benefits. I like snails with a little garlic-scented olive oil and salt!
Testing new foods requires significant money and professional effort ~ We hope to have more foods tested as time goes on, but I doubt we'll ever get to all of them worldwide. Just use common sense and try to find similar foods to the ones on your Beneficial and Neutral lists ~ but the most important thing is to just do your best, be content with that, and focus on the rest of your life. Hey! Have a beautiful time in Guadeloupe!!
Hi Heidi, I would like to be able to supplement my B-type diet with some of the B-specific products that you offer. However, looking at the catalogue I find all the products very desirable and interesting but it would cost me a fortune if I tried them all! What would you suggest as a basic starter kit? I am a young, 56 year old female who does a lot of heavy gardening with the resultant aches and pains. I am in very good health, but with chronic insomnia (for which I have taken a sleep therapy workshop) and I am trying to lose about 15 lbs. I would also like to get a basic starter kit for my O-type husband who is also in very good health and is 56 years old and an avid soccer player. He suffers from mild sleep-apnea and snoring! Thanks for any help you can offer. Laurie
Greetings, Laurie! Here's what I suggest for you:
Phytocal-B (if desired)
Methyl12 Plus (first thing in the morning, then go out & get some sun in your eyes!)
Cortiguard with your evening meal.
For your husband, eliminating wheat and dairy should keep the snoring at bay.
PolyVite-O (if desired).
The basic starter kit for both of you, really, is the PolyFlora. I suggest the Methyl12 Plus and the Cortiguard for your sleeping difficulties ~ but you might designe some visualization exercises to be done just before bedtime for now, since type Bs frequently benefit so much from this kind of practice. See what you think, and keep me posted!
My blood type is A. I just started the diet a few weeks ago. This week I introduced Spelt Bread. I loved it. Although, I am afraid that there is a problem with it. I have felt extremely tired this week, it almost feels like a cold. I have been blowing my nose also. Does this sound like the same symptoms that whole wheat gives due to its mucas forming properties? I have had it every day this week. I have tried the Ezekiel bread before and that gave me terrible heartburn. What bread is the most friendly in the A body that rarely has side effects? Thank you, Robin
Probably 100% sourdough rye, although what you're going through sounds as if it might be a Candida problem rather than a digestive reaction to specific grains. This question is difficult to answer without a 7-day diet sheet and a few tests, but a safe do-it-yourself way to determine what's going on is to eliminate grain and sugar for a week, and see if you feel better or worse. (Fill up on vegetables, both the leafy and the starchy varieties, and take a tablespoon of flax oil each day. And remember that warm lemon-water in the morning!) If you're feeling better at the end of the week, then add one kind of grain, one serving, and monitor your reactions. Take a couple days' break and try another grain, and so on.
If you're tired, cranky and craving sweets after being off them for a week, use the anti-Candida protocol for As in the BTD Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia. Please let me know how this works for you!
I am a Type B. I am peri-menopausal and therefore was trying to increase my consumption of Soy products: specifically, soy milk. However I see that I am supposed to avoid soy milk on the BTD diet. Do you have any suggestions for a reasonable substitute to help with the peri-menopausal symptoms, or may I continue to consume the soy milk in reduced quantities? Angie
I would suggest instead of soy: flax oil, and maca root, both daily. Put them both in a smoothie with fruit and/or yogurt or other cultured dairy product of your choice ~ Twice daily, if you like. Try this for a week or two, and drop me a note on your progress!
Dear Heidi, I'm following the blood type diet (O+, I don't know about secretor/non-secretor) I hade some big improvement about digestive troubles, but my doctor says it's my impression and that my problems could be psychological! It's curious ten years ago any doctor would have laugh at you if said this! Now, when they don't know what to say, they say it's all just into your head! It's not easy to find wheat-free food, especially if you work allday and come back home just for dinner. I sometimes indulge in common bread or pizza, because I like them and it's fast to buy them just outside the office. I noticed that when I do so, I have a pain/burn in my low abdomen, very similar to the pain I had one year ago with recurrent cystitis (Escherichia Coli, treated with massive antibiotics) and my mind got a little bit confused! Going back to work it's harder... Recently I had some itching and irritation in the anus zone. Which is the relationship, if existent, between Cystitis (especially after intercourses), Leaky Gut Syndrome and Periodontal Dermatitis? I've tried some Lactobacillus Acidophilus, but I'm not sure it's good for me. I used to be vegetarian and to have Seitan (wheat gluten) for protein, which I stopped. I'm only 30 and I want to behave properly concerning my health! Helly
You're right, Helly ~ it is not in your head! It is in your "other brain," or gut brain (ganglia) where the bread and pizza are setting off your body's signals to stop eating them ~ that's the confusion and dizziness. Get in touch with Stacktheme (email email@example.com) and get hold of the Encyclopedia and some PolyFlora-O (probiotic) and ARA6. Especially after the big dose of antibiotics (your intestinal creatures have never had a chance to recover) you need the probiotics and ARA6, and a strictly O diet. Use the weekends to prepare food you can eat during the week, and start with a wheat-free diet on Friday night so you'll have a couple of days to adjust. I know how hard it is to do this as an office-worker!! All I can say is, it will only get harder and illness will ensue unless you take control of your health now. You CAN do this, and all the other symptoms you've described will improve as you go along. Take care, dear, and keep in touch!!!
My Husband and I have only been on the diet 3 days however we are both so tired !!! I have A and my hubby has AB. We feel fine except for the tiredness. Thanks, Georgie
Hello, Georgie ~ Stick with it for two weeks, and you'll be through the transition. Because your foods have changed, your intestinal flora and fauna are readjusting, and this can cause grogginess. Drink plenty of water between meals, get a little extra sleep, and hang in there! You're doing fine!! :-)
thank you for blessing me with your hopes and your trust, everyone ~ have a beautiful day!


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Research at Mass General
Friday, May 27, 2011
YOUNG SCIENTISTS AT WORK: Student Lanaisa Henderson, left, looks into a microscope while Brian Szekely, lab manager for the Scadden Lab, center, and Norford, right, look on.
At every moment, millions of cells in the human body die and are replaced. A certain type of cell, a stem cell, replenishes all of the different types of blood cells. Learning these facts and many more, approximately 20 tenth-grade students in the MGH Center for Community Health Improvement's (CCHI) Youth Programs participated in an April 27 afternoon workshop hosted by the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM).
"It's hard to find a career that's more exciting than making discoveries to improve human health," says David Scadden, MD, CRM director. "When students visit, staff love showing them that, and I think the students tune in to their enthusiasm. We all hope one of them will come back and be the next discoverer."
After Scadden welcomed the students and introduced the topic of stem cell research, Jorg Dietrich, MD, PhD, a CRM researcher, gave a detailed presentation, sharing information about brain stem cells and stem cell research techniques. The students then divided into groups to take a firsthand look at the research conducted at the center.
"My favorite part of the visit was when we stepped into one of the labs and looked through the microscopes," says student Kamal Norford.
The workshop with the CRM was organized by Dave Machon, administrative director of the center, along with CCHI staff. For more information about Youth Programs opportunities, contact Joan McCarthy, Youth Programs administrator, at 617-724-3210 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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LEMONT – The Lemont girls soccer team passed one test last weekend in the Quad Cities.
This weekend, the Indians face an even greater challenge.
For the 10th consecutive year, the squad is hosting the Lemont Invitational, which features the likes of Waubonsie Valley, Sandburg and Andrew.
"Waubonsie Valley is the best team in the tournament right now," said Lemont coach Rick Prangen. "They've won it every year they have been in it. They are a perennial powerhouse. We are the smallest school in it and that is by design."
The Indians will open the event on Friday against Lincoln-Way East.
"They've always been a big rival of ours for a very long time," the coach said. "When we were coming up as a program, they were a litmus test for where we were at. Now things have evened up a bit.
"They will work hard, and it will be a physical game. It will be a real soccer game."
With the postseason right around the corner, Prangen will get a clearer picture of just where his team stands.
"I'll know more after this weekend," he said. "I'm hoping we get something out of it. All the teams (in the tournament), you have to play well to win. That's what I want right now. I'll be happy to get three good games this weekend."
On Tuesday, Lemont defeated Richards 7-0 behind three goals from Kim Jerantowski. Kelly Fritz recorded her eighth shutout in goal.
A day earlier, the Indians beat Reavis 3-1 with Jerantowski, Reilly Sullivan and Lauren Lumsden each scoring.
The team was coming off a 2-1 mark at the Moline Invite, picking up a 2-1 victory over Pleasant Valley (Iowa) behind goals from Lumsden and Nicole McKevitt and a win in penalty kicks over the host team before falling 1-0 in the final to Highland Park.
Against Moline, Savannah Brija scored in regulation and also added the winning penalty kick after Fritz made a pair of saves.
Lemont played without leading scorer Alek Mihailovic, who was injured in the April 23 match with TF North.
"We had a good tournament," Prangen said. "We competed, and we played hard."


text: dunno if it's because of the cold that i have but my eyes keep on fucking watering up to the point where they're irritating the hell out of me. must be my sinuses. it feels like i'm about to start crying any damn minute. it's annoying. my eyes feel cold like some air is blowing into it. wtf?


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In response to a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued Safety Advisory 2013–04. Its purpose is to reemphasize the importance of clear and precise railroad procedures to ensure the safety of the traveling public and railroad employees when highway-rail grade crossing warning systems and wayside signal systems are temporarily removed from service for purposes of testing, inspection, maintenance, or repair. The FRA previously made related recommendations to railroads regarding the importance of clear safety procedures to ensure the safety of highway-rail grade crossing warning systems and wayside signal systems in Safety Advisory 2002–01.
Over the past year, two serious incidents have resulted from the failure of railroad personnel to follow appropriate safety procedures when removing grade crossing warning devices and wayside signal systems from service for repair. A brief review of these incidents may help illustrate the critical importance of railroads having clear and precise safety procedures in place when testing, inspecting, maintaining, or repairing highway-rail grade crossing warning systems and wayside signal systems. It is our responsibility as Signalmen to ensure these procedures are followed.
One incident involved a fatal collision between a southbound passenger train and an automobile that was eastbound at a highway-rail grade crossing. The warning system had been removed from service and did not activate as the train approached the crossing. The train was equipped with a forward-facing video camera that recorded (1) that the gate arms were in the upright position, and (2) that the grade crossing warning lights were deactivated as the train traveled through the highway-rail grade crossing and struck the automobile. The automobile driver was fatally injured as a result of the collision.
The second incident involved the derailment of a passenger train that had entered a yard track from the main track. Locomotive video- and event recorder data show that the passenger train was proceeding on a clear signal through a power-operated switch that had been aligned in the reverse position toward the yard. After traveling at a speed of 61 mph through a turnout that was limited to 15 mph for movement onto a 5 mph yard track, the passenger train derailed about 254 feet beyond the power-operated switch. Four cars and two locomotives derailed upright and emergency responders reported that 14 persons were injured, 8 of whom were transported to area hospitals.
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For a while there, it seemed the Dolphins didn't want to pick in the second round.
They traded not once but twice, picking up an extra fourth and extra fifth round pick in trading with San Francisco and San Diego.
And when it came to the No. 63 overall selection, the Dolphins selected Louisiana State's Jarvis Landry. The wide receiver had 77 catches for 1,193 and 10 TDs last season.
He's not the biggest at 5-11 and 205 pounds. He's not the fastest, running a 4.77 in the 40-yard dash at the Indianaplis Combine. He improved that to 4.61 at his Pro Day. He is known for using his body and route-running for getting open.
He makes plays and he is going to make it very difficult for Rishard Matthews to keep his spot on the Dolphins game-day roster in 2014.
In the third round, the Dolphins realized the Oakland Raiders was the only California team they had not traded with so they did exactly that, moving up 14 spots in the third round to No. 67 overall.
And with No. 67 overall the Dolphins picked offensive lineman Billy Turner.


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Java Development on Eclipse, Part 2
Pages: 1, 2
Some Essential Skills
There are some additional skills that are good to know about. For example, if you highlight an item in the JDT editor, right-click it, and select Open Declaration, the declaration of that item will open. This is great for tracking down where and how methods and fields were created. Several of those are detailed in this section and all are worth adding to your Eclipse toolbox.
Viewing Type Hierarchies
Another menu item in the JDT editor's context menu is the Open Type Hierarchy; when you select an item in the editor and select this menu item, that item's type hierarchy appears in the Java perspective's hierarchy view, as you see at left in Figure 2-24.
Figure 2-24. The hierarchy view
This view acts like an object browser. It lets you explore a type's Java complete
hierarchy, and double-clicking an item in this view opens its definition in
the editor. That's useful if, for example, you want to see all the members of
System.out class—just highlight
System.out in your code and open its hierarchy. You can also open this view by selecting
an item in the editor and selecting the Navigate→ Open Type Hierarchy item.
The hierarchy view is not dissimilar from the outline view, which you see at right in Figure 2-24. However, the outline view is designed to show an automatic hierarchy of your code rather than the hierarchy of items you specifically select. As you work in the JDT editor, the outline view is updated automatically to show the hierarchy of the current type you're working with.
Browsing Java Code
There's even another entire perspective dedicated to letting you browse through projects in a Java-oriented way: the Java Browsing perspective. To open this perspective, select Window→ Open Perspective→ Java Browsing; you can see the results in Figure 2-25.
Figure 2-25. The Java browsing perspective
This perspective presents the information you see in the standard Java perspective in a new way, and it breaks type and member information into two new views (the Members view here is much like the Outline view in the standard Java perspective). As you'd expect, the views in this perspective are all coordinated—selecting an element in the Projects views makes its packages appear in the Packages view, for example. And selecting an item in the Members view makes that item appear in the editor, and so on.
Searching Code
Eclipse also has great facilities for searching through code in the Search menu. In fact, the main menu items in the Search menu, Search→ Search, Search→ File, Search→ Help, and Search→ Java, all open the Search dialog, although each item corresponds to a different tab in that dialog. Searching is particularly powerful in Eclipse—for example, not only can you search across multiple files, you can also search using wildcards.
The File Search tab in the Search dialog lets you search across multiple files.
For example, in Figure 2-26, we're searching for the word
main through all .java files in the workspace. The scope of the search is
set with the radio buttons in the Scope box, and the default is to search all
matching files throughout the workspace (that is, all your projects that appear
in the Package Explorer). You can also restrict the search to a working set
(covered in a few pages) of projects. If you want to search only the current
project or just a restricted number of projects, you can select that project
or those projects in the Package Explorer, then open the Search dialog and select
the Selected Resources radio button in the Scope box.
Figure 2-26. Performing a file search
Clicking Search makes Eclipse search for matches to the text you've entered, and you can see the results in the Search Results view, which appears at the bottom in Figure 2-27. Double-clicking a match in the Search Results view opens the match in the JDT editor, as you can see in the figure, and both underlines the match and points to it with an arrow.
Figure 2-27. Viewing search results
You can also perform Java searches with the Java tab in the Search dialog. This lets you search for Java elements by kind—types, methods, packages, constructors, and fields—as you can see in Figure 2-28. You can also limit the search so that it only matches declarations or references.
Figure 2-28. Performing a Java search
Being able to search across files and classes is one of the big advantages
of using an IDE—if you've been doing Java development using a text editor
javac, you'll find there's no comparison when you start using
the project management capabilities like these in Eclipse.
Customizing the Development Environment
Our last topic in this chapter is all about customizing your development environment. Eclipse is easy to customize, starting from the most basic—you can move any view, editor, or toolbar around simply by dragging it.
TIP: If you don't like to work in an environment where things can move around with mouse movements by mistake, you can lock the toolbars with the Window→ Lock the Toolbars menu item. And if a perspective gets all scrambled by inadvertent mouse movements, use Window→ Reset Perspective to restore things.
You can also customize how Eclipse will generate code for you. For example, the default code generation style doesn't place opening curly braces on their own lines:
public void printer( ) {
System.out.println("No worries.");
However, your programming style might be more like this, where each curly brace does get its own line:
public void printer( )
System.out.println("No worries.");
You can customize this with the Windows→ Preferences item, opening the Preferences dialog you see in Figure 2-29. Select the Java→ Code Formatter item, which lets you specify options for code generation. Here, select the "Insert a new line before an opening brace" item, as you see in the figure; the sample code below will change to match.
Figure 2-29. Customizing code generation
Here's another way you can customize how Eclipse generates code. When you create a new file, this kind of comment is inserted automatically:
* Created on Oct 17, 2003
* To change the template for this generated file go to
* Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments
As this text says, you can change this with the Window→ Preferences item,
followed by the Java→ Code Generation→ Code and Comments item (the
> you see in the code is the HTML escaped version of
which is used so the resulting Javadoc can be opened in a browser; the comment
actually reads, "To change the template for this generated file go to Window → Preferences → Java → Code Generation → Code and Comments").
When you open the Preferences dialog and select the Java→ Code Generation→ Code and Comments→ Code→ New Java files item, as you see in Figure
2-30, you can edit the template Eclipse uses to generate this comment.
Figure 2-30. Configuring comment templates
You can even create new code assist items in Eclipse. For example, say you
want to create a shortcut for the code needed to print out the current date.
To do that, select Window→ Preferences, followed by the Java→ Editor→ Templates item. We'll create a new shortcut named
ptd to print the date, as you see in the name box in Figure 2-31. In this case, the template
System.out.println("$2004-06-16"); will be replaced by the code to
print out the date. Besides
$2004-06-16, you can use other values,
such as
${cursor}, to indicate where to place the cursor after
the insertion has been performed (when you type
${, code assist
will display all the possible values you can use in code assist expressions).
Figure 2-31. Creating a code assist shortcut
Now when you type
ptd in code, followed by Ctrl+Space, code assist
will enter the code needed to print out the current date, as you see in Figure
2-32. In fact, if you type
p, followed by Ctrl+Space, code assist
will list all its options that begin with the letter "p"—including
Figure 2-32. Customizing code assist
Another way of customizing your development environment is to create working
sets. Working sets let you limit what appears in the Package Explorer.
For example, to create a working set consisting only of the projects
Ch02_01 and
Ch02_02, click the Package Explorer's pull-down menu (that's
the inverted black triangle at the top of this view) and select the Select Working
Set item, opening the Select Working Set dialog. To create a new working set,
click the New button and select the Java item in the Working Set Type box in
the New Working Set dialog. Then click the Next button. Now you can select the
projects for this working set, as you see in Figure 2-33. In this case, we'll
create a working set named
1And2Only and select only the
Ch02_01 and
Ch02_02 projects for this working set.
Figure 2-33. Creating a working set
Clicking Finish creates the new working set and opens the Select Working Set
dialog. Select the
1And2Only working set and click OK. When you
do, only the
Ch02_01 and
Ch02_02 projects appear in
the Package Explorer, as you see in Figure 2-34.
Figure 2-34. Using a working set
To restore all projects to the Package Explorer, select the Deselect Working Set item from the Package Explorer's pull-down menu.
In fact, you can customize entire perspectives as well. To do that, select the Window→ Customize menu item, opening the Customize Perspective dialog, as you see in Figure 2-35. You can use this dialog to customize menu items available for the current perspective; for example, you can specify what views the user can switch to with the Window→ Show View menu item, as you see in the figure.
Figure 2-35. Customizing a perspective
TIP: After you're done setting Eclipse preferences, you can export those preferences so others can use them as well. To do that, use the Import and Export buttons in the Window→ Preferences dialog.
And that completes our look at some of the extraordinary power that Eclipse places at your fingertips for Java development. In the next chapter, we're going to discuss testing and debugging your Java code.
Steve Holzner is the author of O'Reilly's upcoming Eclipse: A Java Developer's Guide.
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Obviously 640k was "Good Enough"
Seriously though he makes a good point. If you have so much information that it isn't stored consistently, with varying standards, or is an open field to be populated by an individuals perceptions. The example of all of the different colors of green (Green, emerald, asparagus, chartreuse, olive, pear, shamrock) is a great example of how one piece of information can be expressed in multiple ways. While you can define the color by using the hex code for it that isn't exactly an elegant or user friendly method of input or output.
He talks about various ways to handle these types of information from limiting input options to finding patterns and using those to "correct" the data.
It's not that there is too much data. That's not a problem at all. From my own experience (I work as a senior analyst for a multinational retailer employing around 200,000 people) it is rather that there isn't a single plan to utilize all the data we have available. Every time we introduce a new system or change the way we do something, the project inevitably drops a new table into our data warehouse. Now, this may seem like an acceptable way to do things, but after this has happened twenty times, it is nigh impossible to run a query that will return data from all these tables in any sort of reasonable time.
Would it cost more time, effort and money to properly introduce the new data to proper fact tables each time? Of course. However, the benefits would be that we could stop pretending that "we have too much data these days..." - because we don't. We just have too much mess with our data and it becomes unusable.
In the example above (different descriptions for green) the base system may need these particular terms, but if the data needs to be aggregated or used in another system, then the jobs that pass this to your data repository need to make those changes to adapt the data to work with the rest of your data warehouse. Having said that, if the new system is being developed inhouse, then during development the question should be asked "Can we store the color information in RGB right off the bat and adapt our own system to mask these values behind pretty descriptions?" rather than having to later do it via an ETL.
It's not that there is too much data. That's not a problem at all.
Often, (more often then not, I contend), there is indeed just too much data.
Because we have all these marvelous computerized data capture system doesn't mean the data is necessary, useful, or worth keeping. However, someone always comes along in the project design stage and insists the millisecond by millisecond weight of a bag of popcorn weighed in real time as it is being filled is going to provide a wealth of data for the design of future bagging systems and materials handling in general.
The scale was only there to assure that 10 pounds were in the sack and to shut the hopper. Then some fool found out it measured ever few milliseconds and recorded the data.
So the project manager gets brow beaten into recording this trash which invariably never gets used for anyone for any purpose at any time, as those who lobbied for it wander off to sabotage other projects and never revisit the cesspool they created.
This happens way way more than you might imagine in the real world these days.
It used to be projects had to fight for every byte of data collected, there were useful sinks identified for every field. But with falling storage costs the tendency is to simply keep shoveling it in because its easier than dealing with the demands by those "researchers" looking for another horse to ride.
I think there's a Monty Python episode like that, called "Fade to Black". Data ought to have a half-life. Otherwise, it will conquer the world. No one throws stuff out. I wonder how many SAN "accidents" are just frustrated DBAs.
"---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War."
Nice sig. Now the Republicans who spent too much are trying to blame it on Obama.
Peace is easy as long as everyone lives under my rules.
Both major parties are complicit in the spending and war disasters. Obama may not have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he's certainly done little to end them. He has added his own excursion in Libya with vague threats to Syria and others, so who knows.
isn't a single plan to utilize all the data we have available.
Fluffeh, if you haven't done so already, I think you would enjoy taking John Zachman's course in Enterprise Architecture. If one were building an addition on one's house, would one just start hammering things in place or would one look at the existing plans first? Too many IT projects just look at their own plans and don't look at the larger plans they should fit into. And in most IT shops those larger plans don't exist anyway. So we just hammer things into place and wonder why the data doesn't work out.
With good design or dumping all your data daily to a platform designed for such data analysis your problems would be solved (of course, given enough money, time and brain resources).
The problem imho is that we collect too much cruft and we're simply unsure what to do with it. The systems for good data queries have been designed be they SQL, NoSQL or some specific BI solution. The problem is that most DBA's don't know how to use the collection of them correctly, there are in many cases no "data architects" o
It's not a new idea, it's been explored before and it only works in certain cases. Take a look at Ontologies are overrated [shirky.com]. From the section called "Mind Reading":
You can't do it. You can't collapse these categorizations without some signal loss. The problem is, because the cataloguers assume their classification should have force on the world, they underestimate the difficulty of understanding what users are thinking, and they overestimate the amount to which users will agree, either with one another or wi
Can you recommend other articles that have a better take on it? I'm fascinated by this stuff, but I find it difficult to explain to people why this is useful, and why it's a growing field.
This is one from O'Reilly [oreilly.com] that is decent.
Can you recommend other articles that have a better take on it?
Or, for the darker side, grep
I think the important insight is that Parkinson's Law applies not just to the quantity of data, but also to the varieties of data.
NoSQL systems are emerging because the world of data is changing. The size and heterogeneity of data means that the old guarantees simply cannot be met. Fortunately, we are learning how to meet the needs of business in ways outside of the old and classic database.
Which was apparent to everyone, and missed the real point: We have lots of data, and we're too impatient to wait for it to be aggregated, synchronized and processed. There goes 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Here's a hint: People working on the solutions to this problem work in the financial sector and in quantum physics.
Here's a hint: People working on the solutions to this problem work in the financial sector and in quantum physics.
Or journalists [wikipedia.org]. Or intelligence agencies [wikipedia.org]. Or any business that's large enough to have information silos [wikipedia.org]. Or transportation departments [dot.gov]. Or internet startups [nytimes.com].
Which was apparent to everyone, and missed the real point: We have lots of data, and we're too impatient to wait for it to be aggregated, synchronized and processed.
And that the management don't do their jobs, the business process engineering consultant is too expensive, the company is no longer a monolithic, singular entity with a clear hierarchical organization and the number of collaborations between small organizations and organizational units in a merged company increases as the most efficient way of performing a task is sought after. The article tries to push a problem of human organization to the fields of technology.
The researcher is just throwing together a bunch of problems that have existed, in some fashion, for a very long time, and concludes with open questions rather than even vague proposals for solutions. So I would say this article is both too detailed, and not detailed enough.
As a transaction geek, I've spent decades working on systems that provide a guaranteed form of consistency.
Uh...so you spent decades working on systems which are not needed for many problems (many problems don't need transactions, especially mostly read web publishing problems, which is a strength of no-sql), and now you are upset that people are not using your systems?
You are talking about removing the C of ACID. Remove any one of those 4 and you get speed. The guys who came up with ACID knew it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID [wikipedia.org]
However some problems lend themselves to not having ACID involved. Such things include Data Warehousing, and web views of transient data.
Other problems you *want* it to work perfect and every time. Such as when you are a business and printing out bills. Some of the data missing not so good...
Now in say a discussion forum. You say you want th
The article makes an assumption that all data in the world consists of marketing surveys and transcripts of phone wiretaps.
This article is confusing because most of the verbiage is made up by the author (such as "inside" or "locked" data). It is also misleading because it seems to indicate that structured and unstructured data usage is the same. Well it's not - a very large proportion of unstructured data is blog posts and emails but the amount of search and aggregation that is performed on this type of information outside of a few major companies (such as Google) is very low, which makes this usage a niche and not a trend maker.
The reality is that there are three categories of data that are relevant for databases: numbers, text and spatial. Everything else, which falls under the umbrella of "binary", is very unlikely to benefit from a database engine; only the metada can be manipulated and this metadata falls under one of the other categories and is a very good target for ETL. And so far nobody came up with a reliable way to search binary, such as video or audio, without relying on heavy indexing, metadata or any kind of transformation that takes binary and make it text data.
If a piece of data cannot be searched or aggregated, it does not belong in a database, it belongs on a filesystem. Anything can be done with blob columns but performance is usually not very good because the database engine cache is not designed for large objects. NoSql or not.
Also there is so much happening with storage infrastructure, such as sub-volume tiering or block-level replication, any analysis of data that does not take a look at storage is flawed.
The reality is that there are three categories of data that are relevant for databases: numbers, text and spatial. Everything else, which falls under the umbrella of "binary", is very unlikely to benefit from a database engine; only the metada can be manipulated
Ya know, my email client, via its ~/.mailcap assignments, manages to handle blobs fairly well. What's wrong with your tech?
Never blame the technology. Blame the bum who's misusing it. Not saying that's you. But if mutt can do it, why can't La
You can search inside video files and pictures with your email client? Where do I sign up?
You can search inside video files and pictures with your email client?
You've video and picture files your db can't open up correctly? Why?
The reality is that there are three categories of data that are relevant for databases: numbers, text and spatial. Everything else, which falls under the umbrella of "binary", is very unlikely to benefit from a database engine; only the metada can be manipulated and this metadata falls under one of the other categories and is a very good target for ETL.
Actually, it depends on whether you can define relations over the data. The set of relevant relations will vary with the data type. For example, I can imagine it being possible to do searches over images, sounds or movies; there is fundamental structure there, relations are definable. That's not to say it is easy, or that we know the right set of relations, or that implementations are good yet, but to dismiss it as impossible? You jump too far.
> For example, I can imagine it being possible to do searches over images, sounds or movies; there is fundamental structure there, relations are definable.
What you talk about is metadata. Defining an index of sorts to store patterns and checksum does allow one to establish relations between images - but the search is then performed on the said metadata, not on the binaries. A rule of thumb: if you must index data before you can search it, then you cannot search the data, you can only search the metadata
We don't read articles, just skim the headline, maybe the submittal, and then a few top ranked posts.
That's Good Enough! (tm)
So-called scientists saying it's OK to just take a guess only shows what scientists have become in this modern world. Once you get to that point, you may as well throw out the data and base your guess on whatever floats your boat. It wouldn't be any less valid - and
It's the problem of Significant Figures for verbal data sets.
Last I recalled, you can only keep he number of significant figures equal to the fuzziest of the inputs. So you have 45.236 + 12.877 + "one million"
So for these non-verbal data sets, you get too many data fields, and misc people forget to put the stuff in ref1, someone puts a date instead of an invoice number in ref2, the vendor code is wrong in ID1, some
Using impure data to make real world decisions is just plain wrong.
To call someone an idiot because you're too blinkered to comprehend that the importance of accuracy can vary depending on the decision you appear like an ignorant idiot yourself.
There is nothing wrong with a search engine making an educated guess about the colour of shoes based on an expert system or similar methodology. It might be annoying when it gets it wrong, but most users would prefer to have the option than not. His point, and it w
If the people that write these stories would familiarize themselves with Information Theory (Claude Shannon, in the 1940's) then they'd understand that you still can't make silk purses from sow's ears.
Yes, it's a lot of records. Yes, the data entry people made mistakes. All this really means is that there's more noise in the data. As the signal to noise ratio declines, the value of the results also declines. Making decisions based on noisy data isn't science, it's only guesswork. That's fine for weather forecasting (a similar problem) but expecting the results from the described data to be more accurate than weather forecasts is foolish. Remember: garbage in, garbage out.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission


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Bulldog Career: Career Statistics.
2010 Season (Redshirt Freshman): Match-By-Match Statistics.
2009 Season (Freshman): Redshirted.
High School: A four-year starter at Clarkston (Mich.) High . . . Coached by Sarah Wasilk . . . Posted two assists in four matches as a junior in the 2008 campaign before suffering a season-ending injury . . . Registered 11 points on four goals with five assists as a sophomore in 2007 season while helping Wolves advance to the district finals . . . Selected as 2006 team's Most Improved Player after accumulating eight points by tallying two goals and four helpers as CHS generated a 6-9-3 overall record . . . Honored as school's athlete of the week during her sophomore year.
Personal: Born 12/31/90 in Royal Oak, Mich. . . . Daughter of Pat and Joni Meharg . . . Has both an older and younger sister . . . Her cousin (Joshua Ruffles) was the men's soccer team captain and a three-time all-conference performer at Siena Heights . . . Hobbies include snowboarding and traveling, especially to New York City . . . Nickname is "Court" . . . Has served as a captain all four years for Vardar North Club Soccer Team and netted the game-winning goal in the 2007 district semifinals . . . Six of her Vardar Club squad teammates are playing collegiate women's soccer . . . Competed two seasons apiece for both the Michigan Metro Stars and Michigan Gators . . . Biology/pre-physical therapy major.


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Forty years ago, on 21 July 1969 at 03:56:20 (Central European Time), Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon. All (six to date) Moon landings took place between 1969 and 1972 and a total of 12 people, all of them American astronauts, have walked on the Moon's surface. They brought rock samples from the Moon back to Earth with them. The analysis of this rock was supposed to resolve the question of how the Earth's relatively large Moon was formed.
In fact, the rock analyses revealed weaknesses in the three competing theories existing at the time with regard to how the Moon was formed. The 'sibling' theory postulated that the Moon and the Earth were created at almost the same time and in proximity to each other. According to the 'capture' theory, the Moon was formed far from Earth and, while passing by, was bound to the Earth due to its gravity. The 'fission; theory assumed that there was a hot, viscous and rapidly rotating primordial Earth, from which a giant 'drop' broke off and which was later to become the Moon.
The Moon – a "heap of rubble"
The current preferred hypothesis regarding the Moon's formation is the 'collision' theory. It is, so far, the best at explaining how compositions of rock from the Earth and rock from the Moon differ. According to the collision theory, at the dawn of the Solar System a heavenly body the size of Mars hit the young Earth. As a result, material from the rocky mantle of the heavenly body and of the Earth was hurled into space. This collected in the shape of a ring on a path closely orbiting the Earth where it then gradually 'clumped together' to form the Moon.


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The Lakes Conference hardwood openers for both the Lady E-Hawks and E-Hawks of Emmetsburg were rough outings on Tuesday night. The Lady E-Hawks fell to Estherville Lincoln Central by a 55-23 score and the E-Hawks were edged in a 46-42 final tally at Estherville on Tuesday night.
In the girls contest, Emmetsburg fell behind to the defending state champion Midgets early and could never recover, as they trailed 22-3 at the end of the first quarter. The lady E-Hawks fought back in the second quarter and stayed with Estherville Lincoln Central to trail 34-14 at the intermission. Estherville Lincoln Central would take a 48-23 lead at the end of the third quarter, and in the final quarter, Emmetsburg was held scoreless as the Midgets went on to take the 55-23 victory.
For Emmetsburg, Ashton Connelly returned to the lineup after an injury to score 14 points. Whitney Kibbie added four points, while Michaela Rehm and Hadley Egland both added two points and Alexa Naig added a free throw for one point.
The boys game didn't fare any better for the E-Hawks. After a narrow win in their season opener a week earlier, the E-Hawks found their offense almost non-existant in the first quarter as they trailed 17-6 at the end of the quarter, but found their offense to close the margin to a 10 point deficit, 27-17, at the intermission.
The E-Hawks managed to score 10 points in the third quarter as Estherville Lincoln Central added a dozen points to their total for 39-27 lead to start the final quarter.
In the final quarter, Emmetsburg fought back and chipped away at the Midgets' lead, cutting the deficit down to four points at 44-40 with 1:00 to play.
But a pair of costly turnovers in the final minute would deny the E-Hawks as they fell by the 46-42 tally.
Austin Krause led the E-Hawks with 12 points, while Mike Myers had 11. Jake Jackson and Erik Drost both added six points while Michael Pugh had five points and Brandon Elbert tallied two points.


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St Helens recorded a close victory over arch rivals Wigan Warriors to keep up their hopes of staying in the top eight to reach the play-offs.
It was always going to be tough game for the Wigan players, with regular starters Sam Tomkins, Harrison Hansen and captain Sean O'Loughlin being rested to try and save them for the Challenge Cup semi-final against the London Broncos on Saturday.
Saints started off as the stronger of the two sides with two early tries from 20-year-old winger Adam Swift, who was starting his first game. Both were converted by Gareth O'Brien.
Wigan then started to fight back with half-backs Blake Green and Matty Smith trying everything and anything to get a score for their side, and they ended up succeeding with Green and Liam Farrell combining to send Pat Richards over in the corner. Josh Charnley then capitalised on a dropped catch from Swift from a high kick to score Wigan's second of the night.
With Richards missing both the conversion's from out wide Wigan were trailing 12-8 at halftime. However, early in the second half the Warriors took the lead, with young Ryan Hampshire - the understudy to Sam Tomkins - producing a wonderful back hand pass to give Charnely the room to score his second of the night and to take his Wigan tally to 98 tires in 90 games. This all came after Hampshire dislodged the ball from Greenwood's grasp as he was diving for the line.
Richards added the extra's to give Wigan a lead of 14-12, but Saints drew level on 54 minutes due to a penalty being conceded by Scott Taylor - who was also put on report for a late tackle on O'Brien. Wigan then regained the lead with a spectacular 50-meter drop goal from Richards. As Wigan began losing their discipline, Tom Makinson had two chances from penalties to put Saints ahead but missed them both.
Due to these two misses Jordan Turner took over the kicking duties and took advantage of his first kick when Green was sin binned in the 67th minute, giving the Saints a slender lead 16-15. With just six minutes left, up stepped Smith to add a drop goal to level the scores. Wigan then began to make there way up the field and kicked the ball into the corner to try and gain some ground, however Makinson ran back Smith's deep kick from his own 20 meter area and found space to set up the position for Greenwood to score the match winning try which was converted by Jordan Turner.
This result meant that Huddersfield stayed top and Wigan remained in second, whilst the win also helped Saints keep up their hopes of a play-off place.
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- Europa League
Coloccini unsure of long-term Newcastle future
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Newcastle captain Fabricio Coloccini has insisted he is fully committed to his task in the North East of England, despite making concerted efforts to leave the St James' Park club during last month's transfer window.
Coloccini made no secret of his desire to return to his Argentine homeland just a few weeks ago, but he has moved to re-assure Newcastle supporters that his devotion to their cause will not waver so long as he is wearing the black and white shirt.
"When the situation was finished in January, I said to the club that we can turn the page and we can move on," he is quoted in the Daily Mirror ahead of Newcastle's Europa League tie against Metalist Kharkiv on Thursday.
"I'm only focusing on the club now. Next season, I don't know. I just want to be focused on the Premier League and the Europa League this season.
"There are many tests ahead but I think we have got a squad which is strong enough to cope with what is in front of us, one that can go on to better things. Of course, all of us would love to go to the Europa League final and win it, but we can only afford to take things step by step for now.
"I know it's a long time, too long a time, since this club won anything. Newcastle have won nothing for so many years and that is wrong. We want to put that right and get our names in the history books, but we are too far away to talk of that now."
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew made the five-hour trip to Ukraine for the re-match with Metalist still seething from the decisions that forced his team to settle for a 0-0 draw in the first left at St James' Park last Thursday.
TV replays confirmed that Newcastle had two goals disallowed for incorrect offside decisions, with Pardew convinced his players will be motivated by that injustice as they look to seal a place in the last 16 of the Europa League.
"I was incensed by what happened in the first game against Metalist because the idea in the modern game is to give the benefit of the doubt to attacking players when it comes to offside," stated Pardew. "Well, this linesman managed to give two offside decisions that were wrong and it was hard to take. One maybe, but two in the same game?
"What we take into this game is our fine performance against Metalist last week and the knowledge that a scoring draw will get us through to the next round. Hopefully the players are driven by what happened last week because we have the quality in our squad to make progress in this competition now."
Metalist player to watch: Metalist are highly likely to be more attack-minded on home soil and Jonathan Cristaldo could show why he is so highly rated. He showed glimpses of quality on Tyneside but is likely to be far more potent at home.
Newcastle player to watch: Moussa Sissoko has made a positive impression since joining the club in January and his dynamic play from midfield will drive the Magpies forward
Betting: Metalist have an impressive record at home in Europe, having lost only once in their last 11 matches in Kharkiv, and they can be backed at 10/11 to emerge victorious - while 15/8 is available for them to be winning at half-time and full-time.
Prediction: 3-0


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Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap has the daunting position of being the "Preacher to the Papal Household."
Gotta be a tough audience!
Here's an excerpt from the papal preacher's commentary on this Sunday's gospel for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, from the news service Zenit.
There is a practice in today's culture and society that can help us toward understanding this Sunday's Gospel: opinion polls.
These are conducted everywhere, especially in the political and commercial spheres. One day Jesus also wanted to do an opinion poll, but, as we shall see, for a different purpose. He did it not for political reasons, but for educational ones.
Having arrived in Caesarea Philippi, that is, in the northernmost region of Israel, and taking a little rest alone with the apostles, Jesus asks them, point blank, "Who do people say that the son of man is?"
It seems that the apostles were not expecting to be asked more than to report what people were saying of him. They answered: "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
But Jesus was not interested in measuring his popularity or in looking for an index of how well he was regarded by the people. His purpose was entirely different. So he immediately followed his first question with a second: "Who do you say that I am?"
This second, unexpected question catches them completely off guard. There is silence and they stand looking at each other. In the Greek it makes it clear that all of the apostles together responded to the first question and that only one person, namely, Simon Peter, responded to the second question: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!"
Between the two responses there is a leap over an abyss, a "conversion." To answer the first question it was only necessary to look around, to have listened to people's opinions. But to answer the second question, it was necessary to look inside, to listen to a completely different voice, a voice that was not of flesh and blood but of the Father in heaven. Peter was enlightened from on high.
(For the complete commentary, go to Zenit.)


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Check out Alicia Keys' new fragrance ad for Givenchy!
Alicia Keys it the new face of Givenchy's latest fragrance!
The Grammy Award-winning singer looks gorgeous in a strapless gold gown, and sleek hair. Alicia is the face of Givenchy's Dahlia Divin, which will hit shelves in September
"This scent is grounded, but still has a femininity that is very earthy, and I love that," Keys told WWD.
And while this marks Keys' first-ever beauty contract, the 33-year-old has some pretty awesome ideas on the future of the beauty industry — namely when it comes to diversity.
"It seems that only one type of beauty is seen as beautiful. I think it's very important that we stretch that concept and the way that it's viewed. The biggest mistake is to think that beauty is physical. Beauty is so internal, and it's about who you are and what you believe in, what you stand for. That's what makes you beautiful," Keys told WWD. "I think that's really important to infuse into the conversation in the beauty world. I would like to see different representations of what beauty is. I'd like to see women with a little more voluptuousness. There's no way in the world that we're all a size 2, and people beat themselves up if they're not small enough or light enough or dark enough or skinny enough."
Can't wait to smell it!


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We all know a lot about each others cats and other pets.
But I am a little curious now about everybody's kids!
Do you have several? are they still small, or already married??
I will start with my own family.
We have 2 adopted kids. Jo (from South Korea) is now 29 and he has a fantastic girlfriend called Tiffany. They will go and live together at the end of this year.
Our daugther Indra (from India) is 25 and is living together with her boyfriend Adriaan.
these pictures were taken on fathersday last week.