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Tuesday was a very rainy day. I decided to take the shuttle bus to the Moscone and was therefore a little late for the first session. The sessions I visited this day were:
Dan Morgan - What's New in Eleven ... Dot Two (that Oracle won't be talking about)
In every release there are like two types of features. On the one side there are features that are picked up by marketing and which are given catchy names. On the other side are the features that are not picked up by marketing. Dan talked about those. Some I recognized because they are mentioned in the New Features Guide, but he also mentioned a few others. Dan is involved in the beta program, so he has already worked with 11g Release 2 for a year now.
Richard Foote - Oracle Indexes: Q & A Discussion
Richard had only two slides which he showed in the first minutes, and then it was time to throw questions at him. About indexes of course, and David Bowie. Jonathan Lewis was also in the room, so they kind of answered the questions together. One of the things that was nice to hear, is that neither Richard nor Jonathan had seen a useful use for the skip scan. Which was something I already suspected.
Steven Feuerstein - Coding Therapy for Software Developers
Another great presentation by Steven. His presentation skills are simply awesome. The subject of the presentation helps of course. However, there were a few statements here that I strongly disagree with. Statements like "SQL statements with 3 table joins, or 7; that's crazy!" or "It doesn't make sense for developers to have to learn the ins and outs of tuning SQL!". Then who is going to write that transactional API or that PL/SQL interface or batch program? I suspect that Steven had some other context in mind when making those statements.
Raj Mattamal - Giving Your Oracle Application Express a Web 2.0 Face-Lift
Raj talked about how to make your APEX application cooler for the end user. With so much jquery code out there, it's easy to do more than just the standard APEX stuff. It makes a big difference in how you interact with the application. Raj did a live demonstration, which I always like. And, man, does Raj talk fast!
Andrew Holdsworth - Current Trends in Real-World Database Performance
This seems to be an annual session, but it was the first one I attended. It's nice to hear from the people who do performance stuff only, what they encounter most. It seems bad SQL is still number one.
Blogger Meetup
Alex Gorbachev organized the annual bloggers meeting this year. And he made it a special one with t-shirts saying "I met more bloggers than you", where everybody was writing their names on the t-shirts. The wearer of the shirt with the most names won a HP Netbook. This is a great event for meeting the people behind the blogs you read (or don't read yet).
Wednesday I really tried to get some more sleep. Again I was awake at 4 AM, about the same time as every morning here in San Francisco. But unfortunately just staying in bed until late in the morning did not help. The sessions I followed were:
Arup Nanda - Upgrade Case Study: Database Replay, Snapshot Standby, and Plan Baselines
This session mainly outlined the use of new technologies you can use for upgrading your database to 11g. Unfortunately for me, the technologies themselves were not explained here; it was about when to apply which technology.
Rory McLean - Using Row-Level Security with Oracle Application Express
Last year I swore not to enter sessions anymore when I don't know the speaker, but this session was only 30 minutes and there wasn't anything more interesting to choose from at that time, so I decided to give this one a shot. And I wasn't disappointed. Rory McLean gave a nice and well-prepared presentation, including a demonstration of VPD within APEX. I didn't learn much new though, but that's because I'm already familiar with the subject.
S. Gopalakrishnan - Keynote: Seven Game Changing Trends: How Prepared Are You?
I realized too late that, to have a good press/analysts/blogger seat for Larry's keynnote, you'd have to be in the room before this one started. When Andrew Clarke and I arrived at Moscone North's hall D, the room was already full, except for some seats at the side. So we ended up behind a giant pillar just watching the big screens. This first keynote was aimed at managers to give some high-level overview about the strategic challenges they are awaiting. Nothing much of interest to me.
Larry Ellison and others - Keynote
Larry's keynote did not have a big new introduction, as expected. He first mentioned the success of Oracle Enterprise Linux. Then he went on to talk about Exadata V2 for OLTP databases. Some impressive numbers were there. I think my current client should definitely check this one out. After they have migrated to 11g Release 2 of course ... And he repeated the $10M challenge and the attack on IBM, which he also did at the Sunday keynote. The third part was about introducing pro-active Oracle support. If you give Oracle all the data about your configuration, then Oracle will inform you about which patches you should run to avoid running into the same problems as other customers did. The fourth part was about the new Fusion Applications. This software is still not ready to ship, but it looked they are well on their way. Fusion Applications will be the successor of E-Business Suite, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards and the like. Oracle will support those applications for a long long time, but they just offer an alternative based on modern technologies like SOA.
The highlight of the keynote was of course the appearance of the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. He did a very funny talk about the importance of technology. How it had helped him in his career and how important it is to reduce global warming.
The keynote was a long show that should have ended at 16:30, but ended at 17:20. I therefore missed "SQL gone wild: Taming Bad SQL the Easy Way (or the Hard Way)" by Benoit Dageville about tuning SQL with some automated tools.
Appreciation Event
Andrew invited me to join him and Marco Gralike, Jacco Landlust, Anjo Kolk, Tim Hall and Doug Burns to the Appreciation Event on Treasure Island. An evening with music performances by Aerosmith, Roger Daltrey and the Wailers and two other bands I did not see. Normally I don't fancy Aerosmith's music that much (with the exception of "Dream On"), but I thought they gave a great show. Roger Daltrey played a couple of songs I did not recognize, but when he played some of The Who classics, the enthusiasm of the crowd -and mine- was greatly increased. After losing everyone of the original group and having a peek at the Wailers, I called it a day.
I was back at the hotel at 1AM. And again awake at 4AM. My own Unconference session started at 10AM (more about that in a separate post). After my session I returned my laptop to my hotel and went back to see "Real-World Database Performance Roundtable" by five people, among whom Greg Rahn, Graham Wood and Andrew Holdsworth. It was a really nice Q&A session with some interesting questions from the audience. But I was so tired that when I closed my eyes for a moment, I actually started sleeping. Some internal mechanism woke me up instantly and I decided I had to leave before I started disrupting the session with some loud snoring ... I grabbed a lunch, had a quick talk with H.Tonguç Yılmaz and Husnu Sensoy (DBA of the year!), and took some photographs to include in a presentation about Oracle OpenWorld for my department. I went back to my hotel and slept from 2PM to 7PM. Finally ...
Friday, October 16, 2009
Oracle OpenWorld 2009, the last three days
Tuesday was a very rainy day. I decided to take the shuttle bus to the Moscone and was therefore a little late for the first session. The sessions I visited this day were:
Posted by Rob van Wijk at 6:04 PM
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Thanks for your kind comments, Rob. You also wrote:ReplyDelete
"However, there were a few statements here that I strongly disagree with. Statements like 'SQL statements with 3 table joins, or 7; that's crazy!' or 'It doesn't make sense for developers to have to learn the ins and outs of tuning SQL!'"
You know, those sound objectionable to me, too, so I will clarify.
It's not that three way joins are "crazy"; what's crazy is that we will write such complex statements over and over again, rather than "hide" them inside a function that returns the result set as a cursor variable or collection. What's crazy is repetition of SQL statements in our applications. That's makes the application pretty much impossible to maintain and optimize effectively.
As for learning the "ins and outs of tuning SQL," that does sound a bit extreme. Sure, Oracle developers need to be conversant with SQL and all it can do - but does it really make sense to train all your developers to be outstanding tuners of SQL, when that process can be and has been largely automated by Oracle Corporation, Quest Software and others? So perhaps the clarification should be this: from a company's perspective, it should make more sense to purchase an automated tuning tool and have perhaps a handful of highly experienced SQL tuners/developers/DBAs. For the rest of the team, it makes much more sense to have them focus on (and learn the techniques needed to) implementing business requirements in a reusable, maintainable fashion.
From the perspective of an individual developer, though, I could see why you would not want to be dependent on a tool to do tuning. Unless you became an expert at using those tools, and then offered added value to your employer that way!
I hope that clarifies things a bit.
Regards, SF
Hi Steven,ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by and clarifying the statements.
Of course I agree that repetition of SQL statements is one of the things that makes an application hard to maintain. I'm experiencing this one first hand at my current client. So three way joins or even seven way joins are perfectly acceptable in PL/SQL, provided they are only implemented in the bottom layer, e.g. a table API or (in my case) a transactional API.
As for the tuning, I think that tuning SQL should be part of any senior developer's job description. Being able to read execution plans, knowing what the optimizer does for you and what it does not, is very valuable for effectively implementing that bottom layer. You cannot just write some SQL statement and expect the DBA to make that statement perform. But you are right that it shouldn't be the first priority for a developer; learning PL/SQL and learning how to write maintainable code are more important in the first years of your career. So maybe the statement should be refined a little to "From a company's viewpoint, it doesn't make sense to have ALL your developers learn the ins and outs of tuning SQL."?
PS: I'm looking forward to the PL/SQL Challenges!


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The Foundation for The Gator Nation An Equal Opportunity Institution Samuel Proctor Oral History Program College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Director : Dr. Paul Ortiz 241 Pugh Hall Technology Coordinator : Deborah Hendrix PO Box 115215 Gainesville, FL 32611 352 392 7168 352 846 1983 Fax The Samuel Proctor O ral History Program (SPOHP) was founded by Dr. Samuel Proctor at the University of Florida in 1967. Its original projects were collections centered around Florida history with the purpose of preserving eyewitness accounts of economic, social, political, re ligious and intellectual life in Florida and the South. In the 45 years since its inception, SPOHP has collected over 5,000 interviews in its archives. Transcribed interviews are available through SPOHP for use by research scholars, students, journalists and other interested groups. Material is frequently used for theses, dissertations, articles, books, documentaries, museum displays, and a variety of other public uses. As standard oral history practice dictates, SPOHP recommends that researchers refer t o both the transcript and audio of an interview when conducting their work. A selection of interviews are available online here through the UF Digital Collections and the UF Smathers Library system. Oral history interview t ranscripts available on the UF D igital Collections may be in draft or final format. SPOHP transcribers create interview transcripts by listen ing to the ori ginal oral history interview recording and typing a verbatim d ocument of it. The transcript is written with careful attention to refl ect original grammar and word choice of each interviewee; s ubjective or editorial changes are not made to their speech. The draft trans cript can also later undergo a later final edit to ensure accuracy in spelling and format I nterviewees can also provide their own spelli ng corrections SPOHP transcribers refer to the Merriam program specific transcribing style guide, accessible For more information about SPOHP, visit http://oral.histor y.ufl.edu or call the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program office at 352 392 7168. October 2013
MFP 021 Interviewee: Liz Fusco Aaronsohn Interviewer: Dr. Paul Ortiz Date: August 6, 2004 A: I' m Liz Aaronsohn. I was Liz Fusc o in 1964 and that's how people down here know me. O: Can you spell Fusco? A: F U S C O, it's an Italian name. What I was just talking about is this demonstration that we just saw. The kid from the community was shot by the police and was hurt they said paralyzed, and that's what's happening to our kids t hat's one thing that's happening to our kids. Emmett Till was fourteen. A nd when I wa s staying in Sidon, Mississippi, in 1965, there was a fourteen year old kid, Fr e ddy Lee Thomas. T hey mobbed him up on the highway, killed him, no one ever charged for it. They just did it because they could. A nd then in Carthage, a fourteen year old boy how ol d was the young man who was shot ? U: Oh, they didn't shoot him, they broke h is neck. A: In Hartford a fourteen year old boy was shot in the back by a cop and we tried to get the cop fired for y ears. They wouldn't even indict the cop. U: We want to know how long we have to go about doing what's right. A: Wow. Well I think that' s what the whole meeting insid e really needs to talk about, here it is right now, right? You're doing what's right. That's probably what should happen the organizers are in there, Charles M cLa uri n and Hollis Watkins and some other SNCC workers are right in there, and so you might ask for their
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 2 " advice about what they suggest that you might do because that's another outrage. U: So it's time for them to go. A: Time for them to go. Ask for Charles M cLa uri n and Hollis Watkins, they're SNCC workers from the [19] 60 s and they've been working steady ever since. Ask them what they s uggest that you might do and t here they are, that's it. U: He said Mac just left. A: McLauri n just left? Is Hollis still in there, Hollis Watkins? O: Or Lawrence? A: Or G u yo t is in there, Lawrence Guyo t? Any of them were SNCC workers and they're experienced with this stuff, they'll know exactly what to suggest to you. You've got more space no w tha n we had in the [19] 60 s to move on the C ity H all, to go down with your signs, and to move on C ity H all and make these demands. U: They have nothing that they could do to us. A: Not by law, no ma'am. As long as you're nonviolent. Sounds like you did the right thing, that you're doing the right thing this is what needs to happen t o make that demand and just say there's no way this can happen. It's happening all over the country, it happened in Cincinnati, happened in Florida, happens all the time in L A I was just telling this gentleman it happened in Hartford, Connecticut, cops shot a fourteen year old black boy in the back, a white cop. We tried to get him fired, it took us two years and we couldn't get him fired. We picketed the
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 3 " police station and we raised our voices .We weren't successful in ge tting h im fir ed, but he now has a desk job. That's a desk job and a traffic job, so we kept him out of the community at least by steady protesting. O: You all can definitely demand investigation. And people are giving testimony about what happened? And go door to door, make sure the whole neighborhood is safe. U: They told us get a paper, sign a petition, everyone put they name on it. O: The biggest danger is t hat people sometimes get burned out. A march is easy to do, it's spectacular, and then what do y ou do the next day? You just have to keep people A: Energized. Make phone calls at night because the FBI is from here. So the FBI agents are all local Mississippians and the state troopers are all local. O: That's exactly how you talk about connecting the past, present, an d future. I will hear people saying all the time, you know when I go to events like this or political organizing that I work with, people say they don't have the same passion . but it's not true. A: So I want to say something abo ut Bill Cosby, and I was going to say something in my speech but I wanted to give Hollis much more time. I didn't hear Bill Cosby talk and I didn't see his whole speech written out but I know the drill, I know what he's talking about, he is blaming the pa rents and the children in the inner city. He is blaming them for the situation that they're stuck in. Talk about a colonized
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 4 " mind Bill Cosby. When's the last time he lived in the inner city, does he forget his roots? He forgets that most of the people in t he inner city are being raised by single parents who have to work two or three jobs, and they're not home, and they have to work all those jobs because there are not the jobs there used to be for people. The drugs that are in the city . people are deal ing because there are no jobs. They've got to be able to pay the rent and put food on the table, they're doing that to help out their mamas. It is not because they cho o se it, and the mamas for the most part are not anymore crack heads than the wealthy white people in the suburbs who are into cocaine and are doing whatever they're doing. It's not disproportionately a thing of black families, and it isn't that the black families don't cherish their children. They love their children, but I will say to you that most of the young people that I work with who are going to be teachers in a few semesters are convinced that black parents don't care about their kids, poor parents don't care about their kids; if they did, they would come to conferences. And my graduate students all say this, well they didn't come for a conference, I had only three parents show up because black parents, poor parents don't care. I said come on, what are you talking about? And I try to have them understand, be in the position, of a person who has to work two or three jobs. I finally say to them look, parent involvement, what do you mean by parent involvement? Well, like my mother did. Well your mother was able to stay home because your father worked a job that provided for everybody in t he family -one person could provide for everybody. Your mother was able to be a real mother. But not everybody is able to do that, and so that shouldn't be the model. I said is
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 5 " it parent involvement that that child gets to school every day? And they had to admit yeah, it's clear that no matter what if that child gets to school every day that parent cares about that child's education, and that's all the involvement you need; anything on top of that is extra. It means teachers have to take the initiativ e to show parents that we care about their children. We have to assume parents care about their children, but Cosby has done a terrible disservice I think by himself putting down the black family in the inner city. And not only does he talk about that they don't watch their children, they don't care about their children, he's talking about their language. That's Ebonics. That's the language that slaves developed out o f African gram mars with English, the master's vocabulary on top of it. It's an incredibly creative language that was developed that is now spoken across this country. It is not slang, it has a very predictable grammar and syntax and style. It is its own la nguage, and for Cosby not to recognize that he has b ought into all the white middle class myths. It's tragic to hear him talking about this stuff. The be st antidote to it, I think, is [The] B oondocks ." O: Right, Aaron McG ruder. A: I'm so glad that Aaron McG ruder has taken on Cosby because that's what he's talking about. White folks love hearing this because they love to bash the black family. O: The irony about what Cosby says t here's so many ironies b ut one of them is that the behavior that he's atta cking is one of the things that's been commodified and is primari ly consumed in the white middle class community. The talk, the
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 6 " lingo, the hip hop, the pants. I see with my white university students who do everything they can to try to, as they think, act black. A: Yeah, because it's cool. O: Because it's cool, and it's been commodified with MTV. So I think it 's ironic that Cosby, who's like the consummate entrepreneur, either doesn't understand this A: Or has bee n paid not to understand this. B ut I think he's just been gone so long, and I think that's why it's so interesting: that those of us who are here, who are still working which is most peop le who were really part of the M ovement know that's not true. But Cos by never was, he grew up middle class He's got his doctorate from the same place I've got my doctorate from, and so I challenge my colleague, Bill Cosby. Having a doctorate doesn't make you smart. Being president doesn't mean you're smart. Miss Hamer was smarter than any of them, she had an eighth grade education, she spoke Ebonics. These people in here speak Ebonics. They're not ignorant, they're not lazy, they're not refusing to work hard, they're not rejecting America. You listen to Ray Charles sing America the Beautiful ; that's not rejecting America, but he's speaking Ebonics. Right? O: He sang it in his own way, exactly. Liz I wonder if we could talk about the experience that you h ad in the Civil Rights M ovement and if you could ta lk about what l ed you into the M ovement. Childhood experiences, your younger life growing up?
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 7 " A: I've written about that, there's a book ca lled Owning and Disowning White e dited by Jim O'Donnell at the University of Arizona The whole idea of whiteness and how white peo ple came about, their commitment and all that stuff is really a topic of conversation. We've talked about it at National Association of Multicultural Educators for the past several years, and several books are out like ours. Basically I will say this to y ou: my father was a r abbi and he taught me justice, justice shalt thou do, and I took him seriously. Period. That's it. O: What was the star t of your involvement with the M ovement? A: Well let's see, you're talking about SNCC and CORE and Mississippi, o r are you talking about Civil Rights in general? O: Civil Rights in general. A: Well I can go back. I suppose when I was in Seattle, Washington, I had planned to go to the Peace Corps but I was selected out because I was asking too many question s about Vietnam and about class structure in the United States. They said you'll have servants in Ethiopia as teachers, teachers have servants. I said huh uh I'm not going to have any servants. I don't believe in having servants. My mother grew up in an o rphanage and she was a servant and I won't have servants. I was arrogant, twenty three, twenty four year old, and so they selected me out. They said maybe it's the way you wear your hair. I had big hair and I played guitar and I walked around barefoot, it was 1962. So I started to question America at that time. I was living in Seattle so I joined Seattle CORE and we were doing sit ins and demonstrations just like this for the same reasons, so I
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 8 " was active in Seattle. Then I read in a paper called the Natio nal Guardian n o longer exists a bout a call for white volunteers N orthern volunteers to come down. I was wanting to leave a bad marriage and so I said okay, and I got so hooked in Oxford, Ohio, and being here in Ruleville and I just stayed. Stayed for t wo years. And I left at the end of two years because I really wanted to be teaching and mostly by the end I was going out canvassing, encouraging people to register to vote one on one. I missed the clas sroom because I had been a teacher before. I was older than most of the young people who came down, I was twenty eight when I came down. I was already teaching three or four years. So the white power structure would not let me teach there weren't any integrated schools and they wouldn't let me teach in eithe r of the black or the white schools, so I left. That's when I went up to New Y ork City and got involved with Teachers Against R acism. I think everything in my life led me to that or got in the way of that, one or the other. O: Today in the panel discussio n you were talking about the importance of the Freedom S chools. This is something that historians and everyone else is fi nally realizing is part of the M ovement, because for many years when you hear about the M ovement even now when you hear about the Civi l Rights M ovement the Freedom S chools are always the last thing that's brought in. A: Yeah I t's, o h by the way, there were also F reedom S chools. But as Hollis was saying today and I strongly feel and as D r Vincent Harding talks about in here it's the liberation of people's minds from a slave mentality and a mentality of inferiority. Who was he quoting where he said if you convince people they're
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 9 " inferior, you don't have to do any more work; they've already enslaved themselves. So bringing black hist ory to people, bringing their voices back to them, we had a newspaper called The Student Voice and the whole idea of voice was really important. I think what most of us discovered even though there were separate projec ts voter registration community centers, and freedom school w e realized before the end of the summer that it was really one project, that you couldn't have voter registration without F reedom S chool and you couldn't have a place for all of this without a community c enter and who you were teaching. I f we're going to put that in quo tations, who you were teaching they're not just teenagers that you thought you were going to be teaching lessons to, i t's everybody, it's elderly people who want to learn. It's Pau lo Freire's idea, but we didn't know about Pa u lo Freire at that time although he was operating in Brazil at the same time as we were operating in Mississippi, but we didn't know about that then. Only later did we find that out. O: In your talk today you talked about the emphasis being on Freedom S chool not school freedom Can you talk about the interactions between the teachers and the students inside the F reedom S chool? What made it different than a conventional education? A: Because as Freire talks about, it was a dialog ue It was n ot in any way traditional lecturer discussion, but it was us learning at its best. It was us learning from the students, students learning from teacher, and teacher learning from students. The content was definitely about rights and about history and about cla iming Michelle Cliff calls it claiming an identity they taught me to despise. It's claiming
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 10 " your own identity in very powerful ways, and that's freedom. It's the liberation of the mind. What I talked about in some of the poetry I wrote was scratching the scales off your eyes and being able to see clearly. Sometimes it was one on one and sometimes it was having kids talk to each other and sometimes it was whatever came up. The structure was not what most teachers who came down from the N orth expected th e structure to be, and some probably myself at first there was an uncertaint y, as there always is in teaching, but there was a special uncertainty here because we thought we knew what school was and what teaching was and we thought we k new what learning was. I had a M aster's degree, high powered education, Smith and Yale. No wonder I was so arrogant. Came down and I started listening to local people and it took me two years to learn what I needed to learn. The F reedom S chools, as we conducted them were d ifferent depending o n the constituency, depending on who showed up, depending on who was there, in every place across the whole state. There was a Freedom S chool convention I recall in [19]64 and probably another one in [19] 65, but I'm not so sure about the history of all of that. I do know that when I became coordinator of the F reedom S chools, when Staughton Lynd went back to Yale, he asked Ralph Featherstone and me to be coordinators. My job was just to go around the state and provide materials for people. What did I know, right? I was just driving around the state giving support. O: A very striking thing that you were saying is that when you came here you h ad a M aster's degree you had all the credentials that would qualify you to be at the head of the classroom but that when you came here you started learning from
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 11 " your students. Now that's something that's almost an alien idea in an American educational syst em. Could you talk about that process of being a person who felt very much like you knew what the students needed? What allowed you to begin to learn from them, and then what did you learn from them? A: Well as I say, it took me two years. It took me the whole two years and I know I stepped on a lot of toes in that time, especially at the beginning. It wa sn't just my project directors and project members though I know I did that too but it was probably local people and I probably caused some pain. I can' t pinp oint what allowed me to do that. I guess as I reflected, which is why now as I teach teachers I work so hard on having them reflect on their experiences. Dewey says that education comes from experience but not just the experience itself, it's the re flection upon experience. It was being able to reflect and write about it that allowed me to just step back and not have to be in charge. That was the whole idea, it was Charlie Cobb's idea from the beginning with the F reedom S chools, but all of us white t eachers and maybe some of the black teachers from the N orth too, we had one model in our minds of what teaching is. I think we had to, those of us who stayed long enough those who got frustrated with it left an d those of us who said wait a second, there' s something here I can learn because we began to respect the people we were working with so deeply. We were so dependent on them for our safety, for our lives, for our food, for the reason for our existence. I think there was also a spiritual content to t hat, the mass meetings and the church services, all of us who were white and had not been raised in the black Baptist church. There's a depth of knowledge here that we
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 12 " don't know anything about, we've never been taught anything about. Also, we begin to lea rn along with our students. I remember even in Rule ville and certainly in Indianola and Sidon the book that I was using mostly was Pictorial History of the Negro in America Milton Meltzer and I think Langston Hughes was a part of that before he died. I can't remember, it was published in [19]60 something I don't know why I think Langston Hughes had anything to do with that. But anyway, Pictorial History of the Negro in Amer ica We started to learn a content that had never been part of our schooling, and so we began to question our own schooling about content as well as about process as well as about purpose. All of that stuff, and I think once I questioned my upper class education I was not upper class myself, I was a quota student being a Jew at Smith. T here was a ceiling and my father, having been blinded in World War I we lived on a government pension so we didn't have money but I got in on scholarship there. So I always knew I was marginalized for that reason, I think that's what helped me too, to side with those who are on the margins rather than to see from the center. O: Right, because you had experienced it. A: In many ways, as a Jew, as a person of very li ttle money, yeah I could see that. I think that helped me be pre disposed to standing at the margins of society and looking at society, not from the inside, not from where [James] Eastland sits the critic
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 13 " O: Is there anything else that you want to add that we haven't talked ab out in terms of what you think a nd also, if I could interject w hat is the experience been like coming back here after forty years ? A: Well it started in January when Stacy called me. I got a call at school and she said Liz Aaron sohn, were you Liz Fusco in Indianola? My heart stopped because no one knew me in my new life in that way, but it was such a pivotal experience for me. Ever since that moment of talking to Stacy on the phone I was very excited to come back. Then I start ed thinking about all the toes that I had stepped on and I called Stacy and I said you know what Stacy? I'm reluctant to come because if a couple of people are coming whom I really know I gave pain to I don't want them to have to suffer my presence. S he said to me something that I knew in my head from Nelson Mandela but I hadn't put to gether in terms of me, she said, you've been carrying that burden for forty years, we're a forgiving people. If those people are here, they will forgive you, and you come on down. So I just felt so welcomed, but it's been a pilgrimage to tell you the truth and it was especially a pilgrimage I felt I had to take a side pilgrimage to the town of Sidon, which is ten miles south of Greenwood where I stayed from [19]65 to [19 ] 66. I was the only outside agitator there and I felt like I had to make that pilgrimage and go there and just visit and be there and see whoever A nd to see the place unchanged since I left it took me back and also has made me reflect in lots of ways, wh ich is why I mentioned it. To know that Nole is dead now because of what happened in Vietnam? He joined the army because there wasn't any jobs, and he went to Vietnam and he came back, but he was not a whole
MFP 021; Fusco Aaronsohn ; Page 14 " person. I saw his mam a, I went and visited her in Rising S un. I called her and asked could I visit. She looked the same ; grey but just the same after forty years She told me when he came back from Vietnam he was never right, and he lasted twenty years. He was a beautiful, str apping young man; eighteen years old, joined the army because what else can one do? Which is the same reason people deal drugs. What are you going to do? You got to live. There aren't any options, and I think the system sets it up that way. This has reene rgized me to talk to my students more, help them understand how the system works to keep black people down, keep structures the way they are, the systems of advantage for c ertain people. I'd been getting kind of tired at my age of teaching full time, twelv e credits each semester and saying to myself maybe someone else can carry it on, but this has given me a few more years at least to keep going because I know it needs to happen. [End of i nterview] Final edit: Diana Dombrowski, July 17, 2013

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Every year a big budget movie takes a sh-t at the box office. The other day I predicted that Will Smith's After Earth would hold that title in 2013. Sarah from Cinesnark didn't disagree, but after the trailer for R.I.P.D. was released last week, she thinks it might be R.I.P.D., if only because Will Smith is still a draw and some people love sci-fi sh-t.
Everyone is comparing R.I.P.D. to Smith's Men In Black with Jeff Bridges in place of grumpy Tommy Lee Jones and dead people instead of aliens. True. And, like the Green Lantern, R.I.P.D. is also a 3D conversion which... didn't work out for him last time. R.I.P.D. is due out on June 28, right around the same weekend as Green Lantern two years ago. For Reynolds's sake, hopefully the similarities end there.
Here he is Berlin on Saturday where he's working on a new film called The Voices with Gemma Arterton. Deadline reported last year that Reynolds will play "Jerry Hickfang, a lovable but strange bathtub factory worker who yearns for the attention of a woman in accounting. When their relationship takes a sudden murderous turn, Jerry's evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog lead him down a fantastical path that ultimately brings him to salvation."
The Voices script was on the Black List, and it's not a loud blockbustery effort, Reynolds's second in a row, after working on Atom Egoyan's Queen Of The Night earlier this year. That's probably a smart move. Reynolds may need to let go of the Movie Star ambition for a while and focus on being an "actor".
It's interesting how it could have played out differently. Let's Hollywood Sliding Doors this situation. Reynolds was confirmed as Green Lantern in 2009. In 2010, they were still looking for Captain America. John Krasinski auditioned. Garrett Hedlund was in there. Even Dane Cook (?!). As you know, Chris Evans was eventually cast, but if he'd been available, Reynolds could very easily have been part of that group. And may have been a very good Captain America with his very own Marvel family membership card by now.


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I don't think she is getting any worse so haven't asked for more doxy but I read that it is helpful for cancer so wasn't sure if I should give it or not.
Right now I am giving the following:
IP6 500mg twice daily
Curcumin/bromelain 300mg/150mg twice daily
Lactoferrin 250mg daily
2 Tbsp flax oil mixed with cottage cheese (Budwig diet) daily
Purica Immune 7 (mushroom with reservatrol and green tea extract) 325mg/100mg twice daily
CoQ10 50mg daily
MSM/boswellian 500mg/150 daily
Because I am not sure about everything else I kind of alternate so depending on what foods I am giving (which are usually cooked meats, steamed veggies) if I feed a lot of fish or liver which may have more selenium for example than I don't give selenium but I do add the following maybe every other day:
Wild salmon oil 1000mg
Vit E succinate 400IU
Vit C 1000mg
Alpha lipoic acid 200mg
NAC 500mg
L-glutamine 500mg
L-Arginine 500mg
I also picked up some nutritional yeast, blackstrap molasses, wheat grass powder which I throw in from time to time.
I have echinaceae and astragalus as well but thought I would try that when I finished the mushroom complex.[/QUOTE]
I would watch carefully for signs that you need more doxy. I know that it was not long after I stopped the doxy that Max's hemangio spread just about everywhere. I can't say for sure that it was helping keep it in check to some degree, but that is my belief.
I really like all the things that you are giving right now, they are all known to be powerful cancer fighters.
Everything else on the list are noted as cancer fighters too, but I think you have already included some of the most powerful ones.
If you look at Ogilvie's (sp?) cancer research (vet who used to have a lot of info on the web), he was a big believer in the fish oil and also the arginine. In fact, I think that's the big thing with Hill's Science Diet cancer food, it has high amounts of both of those. If you add the fish oil, the vitamin E is necessary too. My dog's never did well on fish oil, so I couldn't use it when they got sick. You can also consider DHA (algae based) if fish is an issue.
The L-Arginine, I have often been confused about. Here is some info, though I know that you've read a ton already: [url]http://www.lef.org/protocols/cancer/cancer_adjuvant_therapy_01.htm#arginine[/url] It will dilate blood vessels, and if there is systemic infection, it may make it difficult to circulate blood throughout the system. (This is what happened with my GSD Max, so I had to take out all the vasodilators that increased nitric oxide.)
In general, for a non-cancer dog, I tend to have them on E, C, and often alpha lipoic acid and l-glutamine, so hard for me to say how strong of a cancer fighter they are. The ALA however is important in helping the side effects of cancer therapy (chemo and radiation),
I think the NAC made my heart race and made me feel like I was having really bad anxiety attacks, if I am remembering correctly.
Any forms of greens, as long as there is not an allergy, is good. Max loved the barley grass green drinks (I think they taste kinda icky myself!), but current dog is allergic to the barley grass that is in them. I have a little Ninja blender and each night I mince some greens (mostly spring mix, spinach, etc.).
I don't know much about the nutritional yeast and molasses. I know that my old girl did really well when she had things that had the nutritional yeast in it, max did not, so you may have to see how that goes. I don't know much about the molasses: [url]http://www.homeopathy-blackheath.com/BlackstrapMolasses.pdf[/url]
I do not think that echinacea is nearly as powerful as most mushroom complexes. I would be very hesitant to make that exchange. I do know that astragalus can be very powerful, but I don't know it's actions as compared to a mushroom product.
The one thing I haven't seen mentioned, is melatonin, taken before bedtime. I think it's a good adjunct therapy.
Thanks so much for your input MaxaLisa,
I will check out those links. I actually just picked up some algal DHA. I read that DHA was more important than EFA. She doesn't seem to have any problem with fish oil but it seems that the DHA is low in the wild salmon oil I have.
I don't have Dressler's book but have seen some things on the web. I think I came across a Q&A blog of his. Also have seen some mention of Ogilvie. The book I have from our library is Dr. Shawn Messonier - preventing and treating cancer in dogs. I like it because it has a lot of dosage information which made me feel more comfortable trying to treat her myself.
I have heard of the melatonin as well but haven't tried that yet. Sometimes I feel like I'm giving too much and then other times I feel it's not enough but glad to have your input. Makes me feel like I'm at least on the right path.
Thanks again and hope your work situation settles down a bit.
Thanks, there are just certain times of year where I am swamped, and this time it's a bit extra. In about a week and a half, life will be good again :)
Well, if beating cancer were a matter of just adding two or three supplements, then I think we would have already found a cure. So, without really knowing, the dogs that I've known that have done well, really were given quite a few things that some might have considered excessive. Of course, then we are afraid to take anything out once we find something that works! But I do understand the concern about so much "stuff"!
My girl Indy had brain lesions before she died. She did do better when I was giving her the algae DHA. I took her off because they were causing her lipomas to increase (fish oil did the same thing). I had no idea it was actually helping her, it was one of those hindsight things. I would have gladly taken the lipomas in exchange :(
I have that book by Messonier! I thought it was a very good book. I think he references a similar book by Blaylock, for humans, which I also made sure that I have in my library. I have something that I can send you if you want to pm me your email? it's a pdf book about cancer which you might be interested in.
Thanks MaxaLisa,
Good to know that about the lipomas. Timber has a especially large one on her rib and a few other smaller ones. At this point they don't seem to be changing.I think I remember something on Messonier's website about treating them with Thuja. Haven't tried that though since it's not a top priority but was thinking that better fats like omega 3's might help to shrink her lipomas. Not sure why I thought that though.
When you have the time, I'd like to read the info you have. I will pm you with my email.
Panting in the evening
The other thing I keep wanting to mention about Timber is her panting. This isn't really anything new but I now wonder if it has something to do with the nasal tumor. She pants a lot starting in the evening. I always thought she was just warm, being a husky because she doesn't seem to pant if she goes outside where it is cooler. She basically has bouts of panting throughout the evening and into the night sometimes. I wonder if her tumor prevents her from breathing properly through her nose and so when she is trying to rest she suddenly sits up and pants for awhile to get extra air through her mouth :shrug:
I don't know, but it worries me. I don't want her to be in pain and not recognize that happening. It seems to help if I make it cooler in the house in the evening and the rest of us just bundle up in extra clothes and blankets. But some nights it can be worse than others so wonder if it really has anything to do with temperature.
Would your vet be willing to prescribe you a small amount of tramadol? It's non-NSAID so doesn't promote bleeding. See if the tramadol stops the panting. If it does, it may be that she is panting due to discomfort (in which case, see if your vet will keep her on the tramadol). If it doesn't stop the panting, then either she's just getting hot or the tumor is interfering with the air flow. Our Priscilla panted more at the end, more from an air flow problem than from pain.
I was never successful at dealing with my girl's lipomas. I now think that they have something to do with stagnation, and curcumin comes to mind, but I don't know.....
The panting, that's so hard, there can be so many different reasons. In most dogs, it's probably nothing incredibly serious, though with a nasal tumor, that might be a very likely reason?
My GSD Max had a lot of panting problems. Some I think were from a hormonal reason (when he was really sick, all his values were out of wack, thyroid, cortisone, parathyroid probably too since calcium was off). Another reason can be if it the blood vessels are dilated from systemic infection, say tick disease, pathogenic e.coli, etc. It's a bit like sepsis, and they can't pump blood to where they need it, according to the internal med vet.
I wonder, when she is panting, can you hear something that sounds like a stuffy nose, which would point to the nasal issue?
Afterthought, if she is in a very acidic state, it can cause an increase in panting. Doxycycline will cause this, but I think other things can too. I had great results with baking soda therapy in this instance, it was dramatic.
Thanks again hazelrunpack and MaxaLIsa,
I will look into your suggestions. I just picked up some doxy again because she sounded more stuffy and was having trouble sleeping the last two nights. She was waking up panting but again, if she sits outside the panting subsides so I wonder if it is the tumor, pain, temp, food or supplements I am giving. I am going to keep a diary to see if I can pinpoint anything that might be causing it.
I read something about baking soda and wondered about it. I always want to give my dogs a good portion of meat but I know that it is acidic. I am adding more green veggies like broccoli, brussell sprouts etc. But maybe a little baking soda would help. I have been giving vit C (ascorbic acid) but maybe ester C or sodium ascorbate might be better. I decided against ester C because I read something that said to stay away from the calcium based C for nasal cancer but for the life of me, I can't remember where I saw that now or the reason for it. Too much information in my head!
Thanks again for your help and recommendations. :highfive:
Heh, heh, I reset my cookies and couldn't find my pasword for awhile!
I hope she I doing well on the doxy again. It was always a life saver for Max. It's anti-inflammatory action might be just a important as the abx action.
It can create an acidic environment, some folks always give pepcid with it. I found that giving some baking soda, mixed with water via a big syringe (orally) anbout 30 minute after eating basically stopped his panting cold, it was huge for him. I gues it depends on why the panting is there.
I sure hope she is doing okay, I know how hard this is!
Thanks for checking up on us Maxalisa,
She is doing very well I think. Her breathing improved again after being on the doxy. I think we have 4 or 5 days left- trying 14 days on then a break again. I still need to read the information you gave me and now that the holiday crazies are over, will sit down and figure out if there is anything else I can add to help her.
Panting hasn't been too bad lately and haven't tried the baking soda but will keep that in mind. Do you give a certain amount based on weight. I can also look that up but read something about it being toxic - maybe that is in excessive amounts.
I just hope that something I'm doing will help or I'll see some kind of improvement. Considering our vet said she had as little as 5 months, I am not seeing any indication that she is getting worse so that is good but I still worry a lot about it since I can't actually see what is going on and I know how quickly things can change but trying to be positive despite the prognosis.
Glad to hear the positive report!
I think it's really tough, since you can't really see what's going on in the inside, and that will drive you a little crazy. Nasal stuff is scary and often quick, so just slowing it down will be a win. Sounds like even just the doxy is doing that.
Are you giving anything that has anti-fungal properties, or contains something like Pau D'Arco? Just a thought that with the antibiotics, something to consider. But if you're giving probiotics, that should help. You can keep an eye on the color of the skin of the tummy and watch for dark spots. Hopefully in a husky they aren't as prone to it as Max (GSD) was.
I just made up the baking soda stuff on my own. I gave it twice a day, about 30 minutes after meals, mixed with water in a small feeding syringe. I'm not sure it really goes by weight. Max averaged abot 84 pounds. I started using about 1/8 of a teaspoon of the baking soda twice a day, and I think in the end, was using a slightly overful 1/4 teaspoon. It was very dramatic for him. Someone else used it with success on the tick list too. The doxy does create an acidic state in the body, and on a high protein diet, they are already tending toward the acidic side.
Hi lisa,
I don't know what Pau D'Arco is. I'll have to look that up. For antifungal I use probiotics and I think lactoferrin has anti-fungal properties and I'm not sure but maybe the mushroom extract? What are the dark spots on the tummy to watch for - would that be signs of a yeast infection?
Thanks for the baking soda advice.
have you ever used artemisinin? This is something that doesn't seem to be common in Canada. I can find wormwood but artemisinin is sweet wormwood which is apparently a different species. Also wonder about Essiac tea but have heard negative as well as positive things.
Yes, the dark spots on the skin are typically fungal, if they've been on antibiotics for a long time. I recently found out here that Oil of Oregano seemed to work for my girl here. I used Pau D'Arco for Max, which is a strong anti-fungal, but there are other products out there, so if you start seeing that, we can brainstorm then.
have you ever used artemisinin? This is something that doesn't seem to be common in Canada. I can find wormwood but artemisinin is sweet wormwood which is apparently a different species. Also wonder about Essiac tea but have heard negative as well as positive things.[/QUOTE]
I used Arteminsinin for Max, it is also an herb used for Babesia. This is the one that I used: [url]http://www.vitacost.com/nutricology-artemisinin/[/url] I just gave him one per day, I don't know if it helped or not.
I hope that things are going well there, thinking of you guys!
Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, we are doing well. No worse at least. It is cold here but that is what Timber likes (although nobody likes the -40 wind chill). When the wind dies down I can't get her inside. She finds a sunny spot and lies down with eyes closed in a snow pile. So glad one of us enjoys the weather. I feel bad for her in the summer and think that it will be harder on her breathing once it gets hot and humid.
I haven't changed much in my regime. I still don't feel comfortable giving everything at once so try different supplements on and off. Finish a bottle of this, start something else. I don't know if that is the way to do it but I'm not sure if I feel right giving all the immune boosters all at once (mushroom complex, astragalus, echinacea, etc). The things I do give every day are curcumin, IP6 and flax/cottage cheese mixture. I kinda make the rest up as each day comes :shrug:
I'm glad to see she's still hanging in there :lovestruck:
I didn't read through each post, so I don't know if this was mentioned, but Thorin had a lot of night pain. Starting later in the evening, and then throughout the night, he would really pant, and often pace (and several times, towards the end, he would lick the carpet obsessively). Our cancer vet explained that it was most likely due to "cancer pain". She said it typically flares up at night and bothers them the worst. She put Thorin on Tramadol, as Hazel mentioned, and also a drug that isn't a new drug, but new in terms of treating cancer pain. It's called Gabapentin. It's an antiseizure drug, but research over the last few yrs have shown it's very effective for treating nerve pain due to certain types of cancer. It really helped Thorin. He stopped panting/pacing and was able to sleep through the night. Might be worth talking to your vet about. :grouphug:
Thanks Rgeurts,
Timber does pant in the evening. It seems like she has been doing it ever since she was sick with the tick disease. Is she hot, in pain, just having trouble breathing? I am not sure. It has actually subsided a little but still seems to come and go. I am also keeping a food diary to see if that could be the trigger. It seems to me she pants more after eating chicken but not absolutely sure if this is the only reason :shrug:
But yes, I hope it is not pain. I will certainly look into the two drugs you mentioned and ask our vet about them if the panting gets worse. She doesn't pace at all. Overall she sleeps very well and is waking up less than she did when first diagnosed :thumbs up
I hope your Nanook is doing well :lovestruck:
I'm glad that things are going well - and not getting worse is well in my book! I understand about rotating through things, and I'm big on being true to "instinct" and that inner voice.
Max panted a lot. The internist thought that it was the infection that had dilated his blood vessels, making it harder to pump his blood. Many months after he told me that, I read something about some breeds that heat up, pant because the blood vessels get dilated from the heat. With Timber, hard to say maybe, with a nasal tumor, history of tick disease, and a dog that loves the cool, could be a number of reasons!
Max was very intolerant to the heat. He died last Februrary, which maybe was the kindest for him, because I did not think that he could make it through the summer, when we get very very hot temperatures. I so understand your worries about that!
But I am very happy to hear that Timber is maintaining :)
Just thought of something when I was reading your post in another thread.
Don't know if quercetin has been mentioned yet? It is as effective as an anti-histamine for allergies, and has some very good anti-cancer activities. Just something to keep in mind, particularly if the clear fluid discharge needs to be addressed.
SW, how are things going?
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Shows the energy level is usually
Stable or increasing weight.
Nursing Intervention:
1.) Determine the patient's diet and eating patterns and compared with food that can be spent by the patient.
Rationale: Identify deficiencies and deviations from the therapeutic needs.
2.) Weigh weight per day or as indicated.
Rational: Assessing an adequate food intake (including absorption and utilization).
3.) Identification of preferred food / desired include the needs of ethnic / cultural.
Rational: If the patient's food preferences can be included in meal planning, this cooperation can be pursued after discharge.
4.) Involve patients in planning the family meal as indicated.
Rationale: Increase the sense of involvement; provide information on the family to understand the patient's nutrition.
5.) Give regular insulin treatment as indicated.
Rational: regular insulin has a rapid onset and quickly and therefore can help move glucose into cells.
c. Nursing Diagnosis : Risk for Infection related to hyperglikemia.
Identify interventions to prevent / reduce the risk of infection.
Demonstrate techniques, lifestyle changes to prevent infection.
Nursing Intervention:
1). Observed signs of infection and inflammation.
Rationale: Patients may be entered with an infection that usually has sparked a state of ketoacidosis or may have nosocomial infections.
2). Improve efforts to prevention by good hand washing for all people in contact with patients including the patients themselves.
Rationale: Prevents cross infection.
3). Maintain aseptic technique in invasive procedures.
Rational: high glucose levels in blood would be the best medium for the growth of germs.
4). Give your skin with regular care and earnest.
Rational: the peripheral circulation may be disturbed that puts patients at increased risk of damage to the skin / skin irritation and infection.
5). Make changes to the position, effective coughing and encourage deep breathing.
Rational: memventilasi Assist in all areas and mobilize pulmonary secretions.
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TENNIS.com, the site of TENNIS Magazine, show-pieced a feature article written by Donal Lynch on the ins and outs of tennis partner (read: 'dating') web sites.
While at first glance we scoffed at the article, Lynch's sarcasm and humor comes out well in his writing, and it's a funny tale of trying to both date and find quality hitting partners through a variety of sites. At the end of the article, Lynch gives his rating of each of the site's services – from Craigslist to Tennisopolis.com.
We wonder if that's how Ana Ivanovic and Fernando Verdasco started dating in the first place, anyway? "Sexy, male in search of hitting partner who wears as little clothing as he does." Too bad it didn't last.
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The claiming rule team (CRT) bikes are both figuratively and literally under the spotlight at Qatar this race weekend, with their production-based motors and prototype frames shaking up the norm of pure prototype racing. Both an effort to take power away from MotoGP's MSMA, which is comprised of Ducati, Honda, & Yamaha, and as an effort to lower the cost of racing in MotoGP for its participating teams, the CRT experiment is getting its first real test this weekend.
Swelling MotoGP's grid with an additional nine-racer entries, the CRTs have certainly helped fill MotoGP's ranks, though mostly with riders we are not familiar with. Leading the CRT charge is American Colin Edwards, and he is joined by Randy de Puniet, who didn't wish to be on a CRT for the 2012, but has still found himself at the top of the heap. These two veteran MotoGP riders have been accompanied by seven riders that hail from a range of world and national championships that span everything from Spanish Superbike (CEV) to British Superbike to the Moto2 Championship.
Since on Sunday morning, MotoGP fans are going to have learn the names of these new riders and the bikes they ride, we have put together a primer on the CRT entries for the 2012 MotoGP Championship. Bios, specs, and notes on all nine MotoGP CRT entries are after the jump.


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Norman 9/16" Single Cell Collection is a Room Darkening fabric with energy efficiency. Cellular shade in a spunlace soft fabric. Works well with standard cord and top down bottom up. These shades have a wide variety of colors available to match any decor. The blinds are noted for their thermal protection in both summer and winter seasons. The cellular shade bonding material is warranted for as long as you own the blind. New cordless and cord loop options are available on larger blinds. NOW CORDLESS IS FREE! Norman as of 1-1-16 is now charging freight on all their orders..
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Use a steel measuring tape
Round down to the nearest 1/8" for width
Round up to the nearest 1/8" for height
See Product Specifications for more specific product info.
Sizes should always be provided in this format: Width x Height
On any measurement given, the factory does have a +/- 1/8 of an inch variance allowance.
Measure For Cellular Blinds
Inside Mount Width
Measure the exact width (left to right) of the inside edge of the window frame in three places (top, middle and bottom).
Take the smallest of the three measurements to the nearest 1/8 of an inch.
The factory will take an approximate 3/8 of an inch deduction from the total width (headrail and fabric) to allow for correct installation.
Inside Mount Height
Measure the exact height (top to bottom) from the top inside edge down to the window sill in three spots across window.
Take the largest of the three measurements.
Outside Mount Width
Measure the exact width (left to right) of the wooden or metal window frame (outer edge) OR how wide you want the product to be.
Be sure to measure wide enough as to cover the entire window plus offer enough coverage to avoid light or privacy gap. This is especially important if you have no trim and are installing to sheet rock or dry wall surface. 1-2 inches past the opening on EACH side is suggested if you do not have molding/trim.
French doors-you should have a minimum of 1 inch past the glass on each side added to the glass measurement for coverage.
Outside Mount Height
Measure the top and bottom edge of window frame/trim. If no trim, be sure you provide the height you want the shade to be from top of the headrail to bottom of the bottom rail.
Be sure to allot for coverage for light control and mounting hardware if mounting above window opening to wall surface. You will need 2 inches of surface area to mount above opening. Call us for further instruction if needed.
French doors-Be sure to add 2 inches for mounting above glass on surface of door for installation brackets and 2 inches below for hold down bracket install.-Call us for more information on this type of install.
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From: Glen Barry, Ecologist
Ultimately, all humanity and all life have is the biosphere, the thin layer of life just above and below Earth's surface, composed of ancient, miraculously evolved natural ecosystems. The natural Earth is a marvel – a complex coupling of species within ecosystems, whereby life begets life.Ecology is far more than the study of life and its environment. The word is used here as a synonym for ecosystems – the vibrant connections that emerge between species across scales, which cumulatively make life on Earth possible.
Nature is far, far more than pretty plants and animals. Ecosystems make Earth habitable, providing water, food, air, shelter, and more – everything that we need and desire to live well. In naturally evolved ecosystems, from genes to individual organisms and species, to ecosystems and everything else in between, each living being present fulfills a niche, which sustains itself, its neighbors, and the whole.
All species uniquely express evolutionary brilliance and have a purpose, a reason for being, a right to exist, and are necessary to maintain life's full potential. From the lowly worm to soaring eagles, to the human race – all naturally evolved life has value and relies upon all the rest. Even seemingly noxious disease organisms and man-eating predators have a role to play in maintaining ecological balance.
The Earth as a whole is a living organism, similar biologically to a cell, plant, animal, or ecosystem. Without large intact ecosystems, Earth becomes uninhabitable. Yet sadly, she is being murdered by industrial human growth at the expense of ecosystems. Past certain planetary boundary conditions, like any life, Earth can die.
The vibrant mélange of life found in natural ecosystems is godlike in its all-embracing nurturing. Ecology is the meaning of life.
Ecosystem Collapse
Humankind's demand for resources and growth overwhelms nature, our steady diminishment of ecosystems abruptly changes climate, and this is collapsing the biosphere. Global ecosystems – water, air, food, forests, oceans, wetlands, and more – are collapsing and dying under the burden of human industrial and population growth.
Human destruction of natural ecosystems and disintegrating climatic integrity are already past critical thresholds. Humanity (meaning each of us) can't dump filth into air, defecate into water, kill and diminish natural vegetation, plunder oceans, and expect a habitable Earth and decent lives. Read more at ENN affiliate, Ecologist. – ENN
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From: Glen Barry, Ecologist


text: William S. Conway, age 91, passed away peacefully on September 8, 2011, raised in Mount Airy and a longtime resident of Chestnut Hill. Devoted husband of the late Mary T. (nee Connolly) Conway and the late Kathryn O'Rourke Conway, father of Mimi Kennedy (Ed), Will Conway (Ginger), Cecy Stack (the late Michael), Christine Anderson (Cliff), stepfather of Bonnie O'Rourke, Mollie Menapace, Tim and Peter O'Rourke, brother of Joe Conway and the late Jerry and Lawrence (Mike) Conway, loving Pop-Pop to 21 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday, September 13, at Our Mother of Consolation Church. Interment private.


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The microtiter plate provided in this kit has been pre-coated with an antibody specific to the index. Standards or samples are then added to the appropriate microtiter plate wells with a biotin-conjugated antibody preparation specific to the index. Next, Avidin conjugated to Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP) is added to each microplate well and incubated. After TMB substrate solution is added, only those wells that contain the index, biotin-conjugated antibody and enzyme-conjugated Avidin will exhibit a change in color. The enzyme-substrate reaction is terminated by the addition of sulphuric acid solution and the color change is measured spectrophotometrically at a wavelength of 450nm ± 10nm. The concentration of the index in the samples is then determined by comparing the O.D. of the samples to the standard curve.


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Florida for Families
Florida's northeast coast has plenty to thrill kids, but you don't have to be a youngster (or sip from the Fountain of Youth) to have a blast.
"Let's find treasure," says my 3-year-old son, William. Holding a map of Amelia Island's Fort Clinch State Park, he leads me up winding staircases, past rows of cannons, and into the dark barracks of the park's Civil War-era structure. As far as I know, Fort Clinch was never a hiding place for anyone's gold, but we're having too much fun to worry about historical accuracy. "I think I see a pirate ship!" I say, picking Will up so that he can peer at Cumberland Sound through an opening in the brick walls.
When traveling with kids, it's often wise to follow their leads--even if that means rarely sitting still. Keeping an eye open for moments to relax is also smart. While Will and I are at the fort, my wife, Jessica, and Owen, our 1-year-old, take a late-morning nap in our room at Amelia Hotel At The Beach. Soon enough, I get a break, too. Will and I sit under a canopy of trees at a playground across from the fort and share a banana and some Oreos.
Following the treasure hunt at Fort Clinch, the four of us regroup atBarbara Jean's, a regional mini chain that has a reputation for outstanding Southern food. The location--in a shiny new development--doesn't seem at all down-home. But the porch is pleasant, and lunch is delicious: pot roast, meat loaf, green beans, squash casserole, three types of homemade bread. Naturally, we also order Chocolate Stuff, a bowl of half-cooked brownie mix covered in whipped cream.
Dinner doesn't go as smoothly. At a Mexican place in downtown Fernandina Beach calledPablo's, Owen grows fascinated with a blond baby girl across the courtyard. He proceeds to fling rice and beans while trying to escape the high chair. Jessica and I each gulp down two of the strong margaritas as we attempt to get everyone fed without too much disturbance.
Fernandina Beach, the lone town on Amelia Island, is a charming old port. Victorian homes, brick buildings, and palm trees drape Centre Street. It feels genuinely Southern, more akin to Charleston than to Miami.
As the sun fades, the four of us splash in the hotel pool before turning in for the night. We're all asleep by 8:30 p.m.
- Amelia Hotel At The Beach 1997 S. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, 877/263-5428, ameliahotelandsuites.com, from $119
- Barbara Jean's960030 Gateway Blvd., Amelia Island, 904/277-3700, barbarajeans.com, pot roast $10
- Pablo's12 N. 2nd St., Fernandina Beach, 904/261-0049, fajitas $8
- Fort Clinch2601 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, 904/277-7274, floridastateparks.org/fortclinch, $5, $2 extra for fort
Our first destination is theFountain of Youth, in St. Augustine. It bills itself as a "national archaeological park"--a tourist trap too irresistible to pass up. (An earlier Google search revealed that there's no proof Ponce de León ever set foot on the grounds. It also yielded a link to a plastic surgery clinic in Tampa.) There's a diorama of Spanish soldiers and a frilly, blue, rolling mechanism meant to resemble ocean waves. In the center of the room is a brown stone well. The guide hands out cups of the famed water, which smells and tastes of sulfur. If you have to drink a lot of this stuff to live forever, forget it.
Further proof of Florida's eccentricity is in Vilano Beach, where there's a medieval-style castle built as a really big work of art. The castle is the turnoff point forCap's on the Water, a wonderful seafood restaurant where we have an early lunch under some old oak trees that overlook marshland and the Tolomato River.
We then head over to theSt. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, where we find parking alongside three school buses. "This place is a zoo," I say, before realizing the pun. Will and Owen don't mind the crowds or the broiling heat. They watch in awe as a staffer entices Maximo, a 15-foot-long crocodile, to leap out of the pool and munch on some rodents.
TheSt. George Innis at the north end of St. Augustine's historic district. Rooms are divided among four adorable buildings. Ours has a view of the city gates and theCastillo de San Marcos National Monument, a 17th-century fort that protected Spanish, British, and American soldiers--in that order. As Owen naps, Will and I search for irates and then play hide-and-seek at Project SWING Park, a world-class playground. The slides, bridges, and stairs are so intricate that I worry about not being able to find him.
In the early evening, we all walk along St. George Street, lined by 18th-century buildings now home to bars, ice-cream parlors, restaurants, and souvenir shops. There are scores of T-shirts using the wordbootyin creative ways. Jessica and I consciously avoid pointing out the creepy figure staring out from the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse, a small museum that, thankfully, is closed.
- St. George Inn4 St. George St., St. Augustine, 888/827-5740, stgeorge-inn.com, from $109
- Cap's on the Water4325 Myrtle St., Vilano Beach, 904/824-8794, capsonthewater.com, fish sandwich $9
- Fountain of Youth 11 Magnolia Ave., St. Augustine, 800/356-8222, fountainofyouthflorida.com, $7, $4 kids
- St. Augustine Alligator Farm999 Anastasia Blvd., 904/824-3337, alligatorfarm.com, $20, $11 kids
- Castillo de San MarcosSt. Augustine, 904/829-6506, nps.gov/casa, $6, kids free
"Have you seen any ghosts yet?" a man sweeping across from our hotel asks Will. Jessica quickly says that the man is just being silly. "Oh, no," responds the man, who clearly either doesn't have kids or is a total sadist. "They're out there. You just have to keep your eyes open."
I jerk Will's hand and we continue on down St. George Street to eat breakfast at theBunnery Bakery & Café, which we'd passed--or, to be honest, drooled in front of--the day before. After eggs, pancakes, and French toast, I order a cinnamon roll to go, which comes with its own little container of icing.
Even though our children aren't old enough to take part in most of the interactive programs atMarineland, the park is worth a visit. At the dolphin preserve, we watch as grammar-school-age kids hold canvases over the pool and tell the trainers which color they'd like next. The dolphins, with brushes in their mouths, spin and nod to produce artwork that the kids can keep as a memento.
We drive through pouring rain alongside the seemingly never-ending stretch of grandstands of the Daytona International Speedway before pulling up to theDaytona 500 Experience, an exhibit dedicated to auto racing. Will's shouts of "Wow!" and "Lookit!" draw stares from a family reverently viewing a Daytona 500 highlight reel. Our admission includes a 3-D IMAX movie, and it's a great--if rather loud--spectacle. Will, in goofy 3-D glasses, gropes the air in a fruitless attempt to touch the driver hovering in front of him. I come away with a deep respect for pit crews.
After a few nights of the whole family's sharing a room, Jessica and I are ready for our two-bedroom condo atAtlantic Plazain New Smyrna Beach, a low-key town south of Daytona. We head directly to the beach. The waves are nice and small, and the water remains shallow hundreds of feet from the shoreline.
- Atlantic Plaza425 S. Atlantic Ave., New Smyrna Beach, 386/427-4636, atlanticplaza.net, from $100
- Bunnery Bakery121 St. George St., St. Augustine, 904/829-6166
- Marineland9600 Ocean Shore Blvd., St. Augustine, 904/471-1111, marineland.net, $5, programs from $65
- Daytona 500 Experience386/947-6800, daytonausa.com, $24, kids $19
As we drive down Route 1, lovebugs--so called because they fly in pairs--fill the sky, sounding like hail as they splatter on the windshield. Every car atJohn F. Kennedy Space Centerhas a five o'clock shadow of lovebug guts on its grille.
I figured that since the Center charges for kids 3 and up, there'll be stuff for Will to do. But we make it through only 10 minutes of an IMAX movie, and checking out the shuttleExplorerdoesn't take long. No way can we deal with a two-hour bus tour.
The new Shuttle Launch Experience is off-limits to kids under four feet tall, but it's included in my admission, so I decide to give it a go. After a former astronaut on a video screen preps riders with astro-jargon, the ride turns us on our backs and I feel a pressure on my cheeks reminiscent of being on a roller coaster. The launch ends with a peaceful view of the earth.
Will, Owen, and I pose for a photo with our heads poking through a cutout that makes us look like astronauts, and then we walk toward the Rocket Garden, where real rockets are standing upright. Will has been completely jazzed about the rockets from the moment he spied them. But first, we make an important detour: There's a fantastic playground on the way.
- Kennedy Space Center321/449-4444, kennedyspacecenter.com


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In offices designed by employees for employees, SAP Services, SAP Ariba, and Concur are creating the future together under the vision of "One SAP".
The Metronom office in Prague is home to SAP Services, Concur and SAP Ariba, the cloud-based business commerce network – providing HR, finance, administration, and marketing services to SAP branch offices around the world. By providing them with excellent support, we contribute to the overall success of SAP worldwide. Our diverse team of colleagues from all over the word learn and grow together not only by using SAP software, but also by working together in a thriving and dynamic international environment. Since 2016 all subsidiary focus on delivering more complex customer services under one roof – The Metronom.
Employees across the business units were involved in designing and equipping the new Metronom spaces to truly reflect their preferences. As an ultra-modern and agile work environment the Metronom features themed relaxation rooms, a gym and outdoor fitness stations, billiard tables & table football, a sky bar, terraces with small gardens that can be used for shared urban gardening, phone booths and privacy pods, a kids' room, and more.
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Northwich Guardian: Schools sought for enterprising 'tenner' challenge
"Tenner helps students learn crucial employability skills while having fun."
A CONTEST that challenges youngsters to develop as much monthly profit as possible from £10 is asking for more north west entrants.
Young Enterprise wants more schools in the region to sign up to the Tenner competition, which runs throughout March.
Young Enterprise, the UK's largest enterprise education charity, said 15,676 pupils from 342 schools took part in last year's contest, turning an average profit of £102, with the top 50 teams making a profit of £16,260.
Charity CEO, Michael Mercieca, said: "Tenner is a huge hit for three reasons. It's free – because Young Enterprise provides them with the Tenner, it is easy because teachers get great support through our website, and research shows that young people learn new skills they couldn't get from academic lessons."
"Tenner works because, in an education system that concentrates too much on teaching and testing, it helps students learn crucial employability skills while having fun."
Registration is via the Tenner website www.Tenner.org.uk. Entries close on Friday, February 28.