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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Jan. 27, 2012) – In need of a momentum-changing victory, the ETSU men's basketball team will hit the road to take on Atlantic Sun Conference foe USC Upstate Friday evening inside the Hodge Center.
The game, which will air on regional cable television courtesy of CSS, will tip at 7 p.m.
The Bucs (10-9 overall, 5-4 A-Sun) are currently tied for fourth place in the league standings and two games back of front runners Mercer and Belmont. Meanwhile, USC Upstate has been the most improved team in the conference so far this season, with a record of 12-9, 6-3.
For more on Friday night's game, click on the game notebook link to the right or read the game notes below. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2011-12 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY (Jan. 23, 2012) – The ETSU men's basketball team scored an impressive 58 points in the second half of its game with the Belmont Bruins Monday night inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... The problem for the Buccaneers was they scored just 12 in the first half. ... Falling behind 27-12 by halftime, the Bucs were unable to mount a serious comeback threat and dropped a critical 82-70 contest to their preeminent Atlantic Sun Conference rivals. With the loss, ETSU (10-9 overall, 5-4 A-Sun) falls two games back of both Belmont and Mercer for first place in the league. The Bruins improved to 14-7, 7-2. ... The first half was an offensive nightmare for the Bucs, who shot a paltry 16 percent from the field and just 1-of-6 from 3-point range. It was so bad that even though Belmont – a perennially strong 3-point shooting team – had only one made 3-pointer in the first half, the Bruins were still able to build a 15-point lead by the intermission at 27-12. ... In fact, both teams struggled so much offensively that the Bruins led just 13-9 with eight minutes left in the first half. However, they went on to outscore the Bucs 14-3 the rest of the half to build a substantial lead. ... After the break, the Bruins pounded the ball inside and ultimately outscored the Bucs 48-16 in the paint in hopes of icing the game away. However, the Bucs battled throughout the final 20 minutes, scoring 58 points themselves and pulling to within nine points at 79-70 with 35 seconds left in the contest. ... For the game, ETSU shot just 37 percent from the floor while the Bruins connected on 53 percent of its attempts. The Bucs did hold the Bruins to just 26 percent from 3-point range, while ETSU was a solid 40 percent (8-of-20) from outside the arc. ... The Bucs did force 19 turnovers on 14 steals, but the poor shooting in the first half was too much to overcome. ... ETSU guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) each scored a game-high 18 points, while senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) pitched in 16. For Belmont, five players reached double figures led by senior forward Mick Hedgepeth with 17 points.
The series versus USC Upstate
ETSU holds an 8-1 all-time record against the Spartans ... The Bucs did lose its first of two games against Upstate last season, but ETSU avenged that defeat with a 67-52 win back on Jan. 23, 2011. ... Earlier this year, ETSU dropped Upstate Jan. 4, 2012.
Last time out against USC Upstate
JOHNSON CITY (Jan. 4, 2012) – The ETSU men's basketball team found the perfect way to ease the mourning heart of its head coach Murry Bartow. ... Give him a win over USC Upstate. ... Bartow, whose legendary coaching father Gene Bartow passed away on Tuesday evening after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, looked on as his Buccaneers raced out to an 18-point halftime lead and then finished off an 88-73 victory over the Spartans in Atlantic Sun Conference action Wednesday evening inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... The Bucs certainly did respond to the circumstances, shooting 56 percent from the floor and 50 percent from 3-point range, while forcing Upstate into 24 turnovers off of 12 steals. ETSU also placed six players in double figures, with junior guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) leading the way with a season high 20 points and senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) netting 18 points and dishing out four assists. ... ETSU also got a career high 14 points to go with six rebounds from junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.), while junior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) added 11 points, and senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) and junior guard Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) both scored 10. ... In the first half, the Bucs relied on their aggressive, trapping full-court defense to force 16 turnovers by the Spartans and race out to a 29-11 lead over the first 12 minutes of action, ultimately leading 39-21 at the break. The Bucs shot a strong 50 percent from the field and 3-point line, while holding Upstate to 35 percent from the field and 20 percent from long range. ... Cooley led the way for the Bucs in the first half, netting a team-high 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting. ETSU also picked up eight steals and dominated the glass 18-13. ... In the second half, both teams turned on the offensive firepower and netted a combined 101 points (52-49 in favor of Upstate). However, the Spartans could get no closer than 13 points. Upstate got a game-high 29 points from forward Torrey Craig to lead their attack. ... However, for the game the Spartans shot 42 percent from the floor and just 35 percent from 3-point range. The Bucs held a 44-26 advantage on points in the paint.
Bucs, Cooley among nation's best in steals
Key to the Bucs' wins this year has been the ability to swipe the ball from opponents ... Through games of Jan. 22, ETSU ranked fifth in the country in steals per game, averaging 9.9 steals a contest ... Meanwhile, junior Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) has been on a torrid pace this season and a big reason for the Bucs' success in the steals category, averaging a conference best 2.3 steals per game ... Through games as of Jan. 22, he ranked 32nd nationally in steals per game. ... The Bucs have three players ranked in the Top 10 among A-Sun Conference players in steals: Cooley (1st, 2.3), Tommy Hubbard (3rd, 1.9), Adam Sollazzo (7th, 1.6).
Sollazzo stepping up his offensive game
Senior point guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) has found a strong offensive rhythm in recent games ... In his last 15 games, Sollazzo has scored in double figures 13 times, eclipsing 20 points in five of those games ... Over that time frame, he has averaged 17.5 points, 4.7 assists, and 5.3 rebounds, and is shooting 46 percent from the floor. ... Sollazzo currently ranks first on the team in points (15.7 ppg) and assists (4.9 apg), and third in rebounds. (5.5 rpg).
Getting to the free throw line a key for the Bucs
In recent years, the Bucs have focused on playing stingy defense, but also driving to the basket on offense and trying to get "tough" points thanks to fouls ... One way for the ETSU coaching staff to determine how successful the Bucs have been is charting free throw attempts and makes ... Well if this statistic is a true indicator, then the Bucs did just as the coaches would like ... Last season, ETSU set a school record for free throw attempts, putting up a total of 856 free tosses ... The Bucs also made their share of those attempts, ranking second on the all-time list with 580 makes ... The 2010-11 edition of the Bucs came up just nine makes short of the all-time record, held by the 1991-92 Bucs at 589. ... This season, after starting out the year shooting poorly from the foul line, the Bucs are have improved those numbers and are now shooting 64 percent for the year.
Poderis reaches career mark for rebounds
In recent weeks, junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) has become a truly valuable part of the Buccaneers attack ... In the win over Mercer, Poderis picked up a career high 10 rebounds, and that effort came two days after he matched his career high for points with 14 against USC Upstate ... In the win over Kennesaw State in the Bucs' last game, he posted another nine-rebound effort ... For the year, Poderis is averaging 4.8 points and 4.9 rebounds in 20.1 minutes per game.
Block party for Brown
With a block in last season's finale against Iona, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new school record for blocks in a single season, swatting away a total of 71 shots on the year ... For his career, he now stands third on the all-time list at 169, but is just 13 blocks behind the program's all-time leader Zakee Wadood ... In addition to those marks, Brown's six-block performance against Belmont last year also matched the program's single-game record ... At the time, Brown joined six other ETSU players who have had six-block games, including former standouts Brad Nuckles, Eryk Thomas, Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood, Greg Dennis and Greg Hamlin.
Bucs showing "flex"-ability with offense
In ETSU's game against Appalachian State back on Dec. 10, the Bucs debuted a new offensive wrinkle, utilizing one of basketball's most traditional offenses ... The "flex" is an offense that utilizes multiple screens and a great deal of slashing throughout the paint ... The results were good for the Bucs, who enjoyed several layups and dunks against the Mountaineers, as they won 65-48 to snap a four-game losing streak.
On their way to 1,000 points
As they begin their seniors seasons, ETSU's trio of Isiah Brown, Adam Sollazzo and Tommy Hubbard are all eying the 1,000 point mark for their careers. After the Bucs' last game, here is where each stands:
Isiah Brown........................................................................ 997 points
Tommy Hubbard ........................................................... 779 points
Adam Sollazzo ................................................................ 867 points
To reach 1,000, the three would have to average for the season:
Isiah Brown..................................................... 7.0 points per game
Tommy Hubbard....................................... 14.7 points per game
Adam Sollazzo............................................ 14.8 points per game
Bucs add to postseason resume
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
Florida connection proving valuable to Bucs
For much of the past 10 seasons, the Buccaneers have enjoyed a pipeline of quality players coming from the "Sunshine" state ... A glance at this year's current roster shows that trend continuing ... Entering Friday's game, these have been the contributions of ETSU's current Floridians:
Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) 15.7 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.9 assists
Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) 9.5 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists
Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) 10.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists
Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) 4.8 points, 4.9 rebounds, 0.5 assists
In all, ETSU's Florida players are averaging a combined 40.5 points,
19.5 rebounds, 8.4 assists and 5.8 steals per game so far this season.
ETSU picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Buccaneers -- who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT and one CIT berth, 14 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85 -- ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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Hello again. I'm still sorting out various mounting issues with my FreeBSD 8.2 setup. My latest issue with with /dev/fuse.
I have three non-BSD partitions within my computer, all of them are NTFS (Windows XP). I can mount them using Dolphin. After they are mounted, they appear like this in df:
/dev/fuse0 54420152 37130452 17289700 68% /media/WinXP /dev/fuse1 76895088 22842292 54052796 30% /media/filz /dev/fuse2 76895088 22842292 54052796 30% /media/filz-1 /dev/fuse3 78146708 40807612 37339096 52% /media/vee
Anyway, those partitions also have labels in /dev, with names like ad0s1. I attempted to mount the WinXP partition by mounting /dev/ad0s1 to a prepared mount point, but it failed. In fact, the only place I can mount these partitions is in the /media directory, according to the whim of fuse.
Simply put, I would rather mount these partitions the old-fashioned way, with either a mount command or the fstab. I do not want to be restricted to fuse. Furthermore, fuse only appears to work in conjunction with Dolphin, and I generally prefer to use a lighter-weight file cruncher like xfe or Midnight Commander. Dolphin is effective and nice looking, but personally I prefer a simpler display.
Can anyone give me any pointers on how to, essentially, bypass or override fuse?
As I've said elsewhere, and if it matters, my computer is running PC-BSD 8.2, which is essentially FreeBSD 8.2 with some added bells and whistles. And I'm beginning to find some of those bells and whistles annoying...
Thanks in advance,
This should work: # ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /mnt
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I just installed virtualbox-4.0.6-amd64.pbi and I'm now running Vista, Windows-7 (32) and (64). Is your mounting method about doing the same thing but in a more manual way?
Nothing is perfect, but PcBSD is darn close compared to the rest. I don't like Explorer (KDE). I simply PBI a GNOME install and PcBSD do the rest. No tutor tells you about the 5000 GNOME dependency and to install xWINDOWS anymore. It makes me feel it's All-In-One until I get stuipt enough to try again behind those words .. And I did twice back when it was really hard
It would be nice to find information on how to turn something off, but not many are saying or even know. Anyway, I think these are the best place to start ... From another BSD install, I did it so I can log-in as root to get some things dones in PcBSD. Go to around line (200).
ee /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
... than work with the boot loader.conf I guest. KDE is pretty but real men use GNONE!
To Nilsgecko and Sharris:
PC-BSD is far from perfect, but my collective experience with it has been good. When I first installed it, my experience with BSD was minimal, but PC-BSD allowed me to get a BSD system up and running quickly, and it took most of the guesswork out of instillation. With a system that has a lot of mixed components (like mine), that can be a very big deal. Once the system was running, I was then able to examine the FreeBSD system at my own pace, and customize it as I choose. One of FreeBSD's biggest selling points is the ability to extensively customize it. In PC-BSD, you can still do that, but I suspect it takes a little longer because you have to bypass the added value stuff before you can access the guts of the system. But once you're there, FreeBSD's array of options are easily available. Furthermore, should you ever need to use some of the fancy-schmancy tools that come with PC-BSD, like the PBI framework, they are still available when you need them. It's a real win/win.
My own system started out as a shake-the-box PC-BSD 8.2 system, complete with KDE 4.2.1. (Yuch!) Now, it's running all kinds of software from the ports tree, and I generally use one of the "classic" x-window managers, Window Maker. This fuse business is just the latest alteration I've attempted. If someone from the PC-BSD team were to look at my system, they may not recognize it as running their product.
If the aim of PC-BSD is to get more people to try and use FreeBSD, then I think it's working. It worked on me.
I like my little red daemon.
ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /mnt fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory
I'm going to go looking for documentation on how to disable fuse, but in the mean time, I'm open to more suggestions.
Further information:
It occurred to me that I may be using the ntfs-3g command the wrong way. Should I be using it as part of a script? If it's designed to be a script command, well, that would explain a lot of things.
Please understand that I'm learning FreeBSD as I go; if my questions seem boneheaded, it's due to lack of experience. I'm trying. Honest.
I'm thinking of trying this rc script:
#!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: mountall . /etc/rc.subr name="mountall" rcvar=`set_rcvar` start_cmd="mountall_start" stop_cmd=":" load_rc_config $name mountall_start() { if checkyesno ${rcvar}; then ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /usr/home/rjp/xwp ntfs-3g /dev/ad3s1 /usr/home/rjp/filz ntfs-3g /dev/ad3s2 /usr/home/rjp/vee fi } run_rc_command "$1"
One thing I have done is enable fusefs in rc.conf. I saw a notice of this in the startup scroll, but I still can't mount the internal partitions. Still, I like to think I'm a step closer. I suspect that since fusefs wasn't enabled in rc.conf, it was somehow tied to the Dolphin file manager. If that's the case, then I'll have to make sure that fuse is running separately from Dolphin at all times. Does Dolphin have configuration scripts of it's own? If so, then I'll be paying them a visit. Baby steps...
Thanks in advance,
(recovering newbie)
% grep fuse /etc/rc.conf fusefs_enable=YES
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Here's the output, from not 45 seconds ago:
[rjp@saturn3] ~> grep fuse /etc/rc.conf # Enable fuse fusefs_enable="YES" [rjp@saturn3] ~> ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /usr/home/rjp/wxp mount_fusefs: /dev/fuse0 on /usr/home/rjp/wxp: Operation not permitted fuse: failed to mount file system: No such file or directory [rjp@saturn3] ~>
Just upgraded to 9.0 RC2 and get the same error!
I was on 8.2 and not a current set of ports, where it worked fine.
sshfs also worked fine before, now the same error.
The plain read-only ntfs works, but sucks at setting proper file permissions.
To use the ntfs-3g command, you need to make sure that the fuse kernel module is loading.
Try the command kldstat, you should get an output similar to this:
# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 24 0xc0400000 754a80 kernel 2 1 0xc0b5c000 ad95b8 nvidia.ko 3 1 0xc1636000 33c1c vboxdrv.ko 4 1 0xc6d10000 8000 linprocfs.ko 5 1 0xc6d19000 28000 linux.ko 6 1 0xcdc85000 e000 fuse.ko
kldload fuse
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RJPugh, have you set sysctl vfs.usermount=1?
Yes, I have fuse.ko loaded, just unloaded and restarted fusefs.
The message I get is slightly different:
And I do have /dev/fuse0
I have no /dev/fuse devices and ntfs-3g works fine for me.
Have you tried
ntfs-3g /dev/da0 /mnt/hd
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No, it gives 'NTFS signature is missing.'
Removed /dev/fuse0, but then it complains: can't open fuse device.
Oddly, restarting fusefs doesn't bring back the device!
Just noticed your using PC-BSD, although "essentially" it is FreeBSD, I believe they do modify somethings. I'm not sure where you got the /dev/fuse devices as I have not seen these and being that it worked in one directory and not another leads me to believe it to be something modified by PC-BSD.
But, I have none of that and I'm using just freebsd and fuse for some years now and it works fine.
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LONDON (Reuters) - England's King Richard III, whose body was discovered under a municipal car park, will be reburied near to where he was slain in battle 500 years ago, a court ruled on Friday, dashing the hopes of his distant descendants who had wanted his remains to be taken back to his northern stronghold.
The unearthing two years ago of the remains of the last English king to die in battle was one of the most important archaeological finds of recent years.
Richard was slain at Bosworth Field near Leicester, central England, in 1485, bringing to an end the rule of the Plantagenet dynasty after 300 years.
His death was the culmination of the Wars of the Roses, a bloody 30-year power struggle between Richard's House of York and the rival House of Lancaster.
The whereabouts of his grave had been a mystery until a skeleton with curved spine and head wounds was found by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, with DNA tests confirming it was indeed the king.
The university was given permission by Britain's Ministry of Justice to re-bury the king at Leicester cathedral.
But the Plantagenet Alliance, a group which included some of Richard's distant descendants, asked London's High Court to block the burial plans, arguing the decision on the final resting place should have been a matter of public consultation.
They wanted their ancestor to be reinterred in the northern city of York, his power base during his 26-month reign.
However, their case was thrown out by three of the country's most senior judges on Friday.
"Since Richard III's exhumation of Sept. 5, 2012, passions have been roused and much ink has been spilt," their ruling said. "We agree that is it is time for Richard III to be given a dignified reburial and finally laid to rest."
A tough soldier and popular in the north, Richard remains a hugely divisive figure in English history, seen by some as a monster who murdered two princes - his own nephews - in the Tower of London to take the throne, and by others as an enlightened ruler unfairly maligned by his enemies.
He was cast by Shakespeare as a power-crazed hunchback, who famously went down fighting to keep his crown from the invading forces of Henry Tudor crying out "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!".
After the battle, the victor, the future King Henry VII, had Richard's naked body exposed to the people of Leicester to show the battle was won before he was buried in a monastery which was later destroyed.
In their ruling, the three judges said Queen Elizabeth was content for the dead king to be buried in Leicester, and did not express a wish for a royal funeral or for a re-interment at London's Westminster Abbey where many medieval monarchs were laid to rest.
The judges also said the Plantagenet Alliance, set up by Stephen Nicolay, the 16th-great-nephew of Richard, represented only a fraction of the number of his descendants.
The alliance said in a statement after the ruling: "We believe that the proposed location of Leicester is wholly inappropriate for the burial of King Richard III, who had no connections with the town beyond his horrific death, bodily despoliation and appalling burial in a foreshortened grave.
"It is fitting and respectful and in keeping with all of our national customs regarding treatment of the dead, to bury this king in a place 'appropriate to him' – that place is York."
The University of Leicester will now go-ahead with plans for the reburial, likely to be early next year, while the city council has unveiled plans for a 4 million pound ($6.6 million) visitor centre around the find, hoping that fascination with the monarch will prove to be a hit with tourists.
"This will be a momentous event for the city and county, and an opportunity to show the rest of the world that Leicester is the rightful resting place for the last Plantagenet King of England," said Leicester Mayor Peter Soulsby.
Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist on the dig which found the remains, said it was right they stayed in the city.
"Ultimately a King of England by right of conquest - Henry VII - decided in August 1485 to hand over the vanquished King Richard's remains to the Franciscan Friars in Leicester for burial," he said.
"There they have lain for over half a millennium and have become part of Leicester's history."
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(Reuters) - The Dominican Republic overcame an early four-run deficit to beat Italy 5-4 on Tuesday to open the double-elimination second round of the World Baseball Classic in Miami.
Nelson Cruz's two-out, broken-bat single in the seventh inning scored Robinson Cano for the go-ahead run after a shallow sacrifice fly by Hanley Ramirez tied the game.
Italy had built a 4-0 lead in the first inning, helped by the early wildness of Dominican starter Edinson Volquez who walked the first three batters he faced and gave up just one hit in the first - a three-run homer by Chris Colabello.
Italy's starting pitcher, Tiago Da Silva, mostly silenced the hard-hitting Dominicans but yielded solo home runs to Cano and Jose Reyes to close their lead to 4-2.
In the seventh, Reyes started the rally with a one-out single off Pat Venditte and Erick Aybar followed with another base hit. Cano was credited with a single on a fly ball to short left field that glanced off the glove of shortstop Anthony Granato to load the bases.
Reliever Luca Panerati walked Edwin Encarnacion on four pitches, forcing in a run. In came Brian Sweeney, Italy's third pitcher of the inning, who yielded the game-tying sacrifice fly to Ramirez and opposite-field single by Cruz that prompted the Dominicans to leave the bench to celebrate at Marlins Park.
Five Dominican relievers combined to throw four and two-thirds scoreless innings, with Pedro Strop taking the win and Fernando Rodney the save.
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Most people with diabetes will tell you this: Everything about having it is a hassle, an annoyance and sometimes utterly overwhelming. Endless worrying over meal plans, carbohydrate counting, finger-stick checks, pills, injections, lab tests, prescriptions, supplies and doctors' appointments are nobody's idea of fun.
But of course, we must soldier on. And we can take some comfort in knowing that if we do all these things, we can avoid the devastating effects of this particular disease.
So we're lucky, right?
Considering that we don't usually feel very lucky to have diabetes, it seems high time that someone documents some of the universal complaints of patients with diabetes and offers a little advice on what you can do to alleviate them, too.
We queried a number of experts on the psychological side of diabetes to learn what patients across the country grumble about most.
GRIPE #1: People Giving You Unsolicited or Wrong Advice
"In our experience, the number 1 complaint among people with diabetes is the exasperating stuff other people say," says William Polonsky, MD, author of "Diabetes Burnout" and a clinical professor of psychiatry who runs dozens of sessions with frustrated patients at his San Diego-based Behavioral Diabetes Institute (www.behavioraldiabetes.org). "People say things like, 'Your blood sugar is low—you need some insulin,' or 'My grandmother lost both legs and went blind—she had diabetes too!' That's just not helpful. You don't need to hear that," Polonsky says. "What we really need is wallet-sized diabetes etiquette cards to hand out to people," he adds with a chuckle.
What You Can Do
Polonsky notes that simply asking people to stop making comments doesn't help. What does work is to find a relaxed moment and say, "I know you're trying to be helpful, but you're not. Here are some things you can do to help me: Don't ask if I can eat that piece of candy or drink that glass of Coke. But do make sure there's always some diet soda in the fridge. Don't tell the waiter not to bring me some food or other. But do help me by doing X,Y or Z—and let them know exactly what they can do to be of help." Make sure that whatever you're asking for is reasonable. On the one hand, you may want people to treat you as if you're "normal," as if you didn't have diabetes. On the other hand, you need them to recognize all the work and difficulties involved with managing this disease. So what should friends and family say and do to be supportive? Think about the things people have done that were actually helpful, and keep those in mind to suggest at an appropriate moment.
GRIPE #2: Feeling Lost and Alone
Isolation is a major grievance of people with diabetes. Most lack a confidante who really understands what it means to live with this disease. And many even have trouble finding a medical professional who can help them. "Our medical system seems to abandon many people with diabetes," Polonsky says. "Most people complain about struggling with it alone—feeling completely on their own. In America, we've always had an 'every man for himself' mentality, so that seems normal to us."
There's no underestimating the value of community support for everyone from the newly diagnosed to the long-term patient who might be feeling burned out by diabetes.
What You Can Do
First, it's worth taking the time to find the right doctor and other medical providers, says Matthew Riddle, MD, a specialist in endocrinology, diabetes and clinical nutrition at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. "Ask your friends. Ask the local ADA chapter. Each community has people who know more about diabetes and want to help. Find them. When you go to see them, tell them that you appreciate their efforts. Stick with them. Keep your appointments."
Finding local support groups, classes and seminars is usually as simple as doing a quick online search or calling your local hospital. Most of these programs are free or low cost, and they offer a great way to meet and mingle with other people with diabetes and learn some ways to improve your diabetes care at the same time. Many clinics and medical groups across the country now offer top-notch personalized programs as well, which allow you to talk over your biggest challenges with an educator or nutritionist.
Finally, online message boards, forums and Web logs allow you to connect with other people who are in the same boat without leaving the comfort of your own home. You might be surprised to find someone on the other side of the country or even overseas who is struggling with the same diabetes-related frustrations. Being able to toss out questions, share ideas and gain support and empathy is key. You don't have to be a Web expert; you can easily find these resources with any Internet search engine by typing in the term "diabetes support" or something related.
GRIPE #3: Feeling Frustrated With Your Doctors
Many people with diabetes feel shunned by their own doctors. "The biggest gripes new patients seem to have when they come to me are things like, 'I couldn't reach the doctor when I needed him,' 'He or she never called me back with my test results' or even 'The doctor didn't remember who I was,'" says Anne Peters, MD, director of clinical diabetes programs at the University of Southern California (USC) and author of the new book "Conquering Diabetes."
When these patients visit the doctor, they will leave feeling deflated. "Doctors' recommendations sound fine in the office, but when you walk out of the clinic and back into your real life, they may seem impossibly difficult," Peters says. "The doctor needs to understand the person's own unique learning style in order to help them succeed."
What You Can Do
See the hints above about finding the right doctor. All the experts agree that it's worth shopping around until you find a provider you're comfortable with.
And remember that simply believing "it's all the doctor's fault" is unproductive. This distracts you from what you need to do yourself. Quite a lot depends on how you approach your appointments. Keep in mind that you are the leader of your diabetes care team. Everyone else is there to support you. You'll get more out of your visits if you go prepared with specific questions and action items.
"Passive dependency is bad news. When things don't go well, patients get really upset, and they don't know what to do. It's never a good choice to think, 'I'll just have to wait three weeks to see my doctor,' " says Larry Fisher, MD, a clinical psychologist at UCSF who treats numerous patients with diabetes.
It's important to be sure that you leave the doctor's office with goals that are behavioral, Fisher advises. "Not a number, but something you can do physically. For example, to lose 10 lbs in the next three months is not an attainable goal, because you cannot control your weight. But you can control your eating. You can say, 'I'll stick to a 1,500-calorie diet,' for example. Have your doctor help you pick one action-oriented goal at each appointment."
"Folks who are proactive and take an active role in their management are going to do better than those who are passive and follow the party line. You're making many more decisions on a daily basis than your doctor," Fisher concludes.
GRIPE #4: Hassling With Diabetes Supplies and Devices
This is a two-part gripe: first, the hassle of filling and refilling numerous prescriptions, and the never-ending hassle of carrying and using them.
"A lot of people are frustrated about getting their meds and dealing with the insurance, and they wonder, why does my pharmacy make me tell them that I have diabetes every month?" Polonsky says.
And as if blood glucose checks four or more times a day weren't inconvenient enough, your routine may be bothersome to others. "I have a patient who works at a loading dock, and his boss told him, 'You can't test your blood here, right out in front of everyone.' But the bathroom is far away and totally inconvenient. That's just not right," Polonsky says.
What You Can Do
When it comes to prescriptions, it helps to get organized. If you're picking up your supplies at a local pharmacy, ask your doctor to help you synchronize the prescriptions so you have to do only one pickup per month. Also, review your supplies carefully each month so you don't run out too early, or, you may need to ask your doctor to increase the quantities.
Find out if your health plan covers a mail-order service for prescriptions. These generally offer three months' worth of supplies delivered to your doorstep, usually with a cheaper co-pay. And the convenience of phone or online ordering is life-altering for anyone dependent on multiple prescriptions.
When it comes to other peoples' reactions to your self-care, you might want to brief people in advance. Explain to your boss or coworkers what it is that you'll be doing with your meter, pump or injection pen. Assure them that while this is essential to your health, it's no big deal for them. It's just a tiny drop of blood you're drawing, and there's nothing remotely dangerous or contagious about it.
GRIPE #5: Diabetes Burnout— Never Getting a Break
Pending a cure, diabetes is forever, and it requires constant attention. The 24/7 demands can really grate on you. Wouldn't it be sweet just once to be able to go for a long bike ride without worrying about carbohydrate calculations and glucose monitoring, or to eat an ice cream cone on a hot summer day?
"If you ask people nationally, in a large-scale survey, about their everyday frustrations with diabetes, they tend to say it's the enormity of the thing: How do I stay on this blasted diet? How do I keep physical activity up? Do I really have to do all this sticking and testing? Don't I ever get a break?" Fisher says.
What You Can Do
There are a couple of ways to ease up the pressure and give yourself a little "diabetes vacation" now and then. "The dirty little secret is that everybody takes vacations; no one can do it perfectly all the time," Polonsky says. "You've just got to individually find a way to take a safe vacation from your diabetes."
"Unsafe" means ignoring your diabetes for months or years. "Safe" means planning ahead. It's OK to take a day off, to eat a few "taboo" foods or check your glucose less often one day—as long as you're prepared for the consequences. You will need to recover from that day. And this needs to be a one-time, conscious break; you don't want to create an "on" or "off diet" mentality.
It helps to stay focused on your specific goals for the week or month. Are you trying to maintain an A1C level x of 7, or reduce from 10 to a 7? Are you trying to decrease your food intake, or start an exercise program? If you can break down your diabetes care into smaller, do-able increments, you won't feel so overwhelmed by trying to be the "perfect diabetic" on every front at all times.
It all boils down to rejecting discouragement and embracing hope, Polonsky says. "To keep yourself going, you have to have hope that it's possible to live a long and healthy life with diabetes. With all the research, we know it's true, but you have to believe that."
AND ANOTHER THING . . . (Gripes #6-#10)
Many people who take insulin throughout the day, and others who are intensely tuned in to their own daily diabetes care, have an additional set of frustrations. These include:
I have too much stuff I have to carry around with me.
New "combo devices" on the horizon will integrate the glucose monitor with an insulin pump, for example, and a variety of improved bags and carrying cases are available now to consolidate your supplies.
I have to check my BGs over and over again.
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is on the way. This next generation of glucose sensors will provide "real time" readings and warning alarms for dangerously high or low blood glucose levels. Medtronic's Guardian RT is the first CGM approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
I hate logging my diabetes numbers.
Ask your meter manufacturer about software downloads and the newest tracking programs. Ask your CDE for suggestions on what and when data logging is most important—it may be necessary for only a few days before your appointment.
New diabetes technologies take too long to get to us.
The FDA is currently evaluating dozens of new diabetes care products. There's never been a time when so many new treatments were so close to approval. See www.fda.gov/diabetes/ for details.
I wish my doctor knew as much about diabetes as I do!
Try contacting a university-based diabetes center in your area, where you'll find cutting-edge care and research.


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One other note about dictionaries before we move on. Although we can assign to a new key to expand a dictionary, fetching a nonexistent key is still a mistake:
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}
>>> D['e'] = 99 # Assigning new keys grows dictionaries
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2,
'e': 99}
>>> D['f'] # Referencing one is an error
…error text omitted…
KeyError: 'f'
This is what we want—it's usually a programming error to fetch something that isn't really there. But, in some generic programs, we can't always know what keys will be present when we write our code. How do we handle such cases and avoid the errors? One trick here is to test ahead of time. The dictionary has_key method allows us to query the existence of a key and branch on the result with a Python if statement:
>>> D.has_key('f')
>>> if not D.has_key('f'):
print 'missing'
I'll have much more to say about the if statement and statement syntax in general later in this book, but the form we're using here is straightforward: it consists of the word if, followed by an expression that is interpreted as a true or false result, followed by a block of code to run if the test is true. In its full form, the if statement can also have an else clause for a default case, and one or more elif (else if) clauses for other tests. It's the main selection tool in Python, and it's the way we code logic in our scripts.
There are other ways to create dictionaries and avoid accessing a nonexistent dictionary key (including the get method; the in membership expression; and the try statement, a tool we'll first meet in Chapter 10 that catches and recovers from exceptions altogether), but we'll save the details on those until a later chapter. Now, let's move on to tuples.
{mospagebreak title=Tuples}
The tuple object (pronounced "toople" or "tuhple," depending on who you ask) is roughly like a list that cannot be changed—tuples are sequences, like lists, but they are immutable, like strings. Syntactically, they are coded in parentheses instead of square brackets, and they support arbitrary types, nesting, and the usual sequence operations:
>>> T = (1, 2, 3, 4) # A 4-item tuple
>>> len(T) # Length
>> T + (5, 6) # Concatenation
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
>>> T[0] # Indexing, slicing, and more
The only real distinction for tuples is that they cannot be changed once created. That is, they are immutable sequences:
>>> T[0] = 2 # Tuples are immutable
…error text omitted…
TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
Why Tuples?
So, why have a type that is like a list, but supports fewer operations? Frankly, tuples are not generally used as often as lists in practice, but their immutability is the whole point. If you pass a collection of objects around your program as a list, it can be changed anywhere; if you use a tuple, it cannot. That is, tuples provide a sort of integrity constraint that is convenient in programs larger than those we can write here. We'll talk more about tuples later in the book. For now, though, let's jump ahead to our last major core type, the file.
File objects are Python code's main interface to external files on your computer. They are a core type, but they're something of an oddball—there is no specific literal syntax for creating them. Rather, to create a file object, you call the built-in open function, passing in an external filename as a string, and a processing mode string. For example, to create an output file, you would pass in its name and the 'w' processing mode string to write data:
>>> f = open('data.txt',
'w') # Make a new file in output mode
>>> f.write('Hellon') # Write strings of bytes to it
>>> f.write('worldn')
>>> f.close() # Close to flush output buffers to disk
This creates a file in the current directory, and writes text to it (the filename can be a full directory path if you need to access a file elsewhere on your computer). To read back what you just wrote, reopen the file in 'r' processing mode, for reading input (this is the default if you omit the mode in the call). Then read the file's content into a string of bytes, and display it. A file's contents are always a string of bytes to your script, regardless of the type of data the file contains:
>>> f = open('data.txt') # 'r' is the default processing mode
>>> bytes = f.read() # Read entire file into a string
>>> bytes
>>> print bytes # Print interprets control character s
Hell o
>>> bytes.split() # File content is always a strin g
['Hello', 'world' ]
Other file object methods support additional features we don't have time to cover here. For instance, file objects provide more ways of reading and writing ( read accepts an optional byte size, readline reads one line at a time, and so on), as well as other tools ( seek moves to a new file position). We'll meet the full set of file meth ods later in this book, but if you want a quick preview now, run a dir call on the word file (the name of the file data type), and a help on any of the names that come back:
>>> dir(file)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__enter__', '__exit__',
'__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__new__',
'__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__',
'close', 'closed', 'encoding', 'fileno', 'flush', 'isatty', 'mode',
'name', 'newlines', 'next', 'read', 'readinto', 'readline', 'readlines',
'seek', 'softspace', 'tell', 'truncate', 'write', 'writelines', 'xreadlines']
>>> help(file.seek)
…try it and see…
Other File-Like Tools
The open function is the workhorse for most file processing you will do in Python. For more advanced tasks, though, Python comes with additional file-like tools: pipes, fifos, sockets, keyed-access files, object persistence, descriptor-based files, relational and object-oriented database interfaces, and more. Descriptor files, for instance, support file locking and other low-level tools, and sockets provide an interface for networking and interprocess communication. We won't cover many of these topics in this book, but you'll find them useful once you start programming Python in earnest.
{mospagebreak title=Other Core Types}
Beyond the core types we've seen so far, there are others that may or may not qualify for membership, depending on how broad the category is defined to be. Sets, for example, are a recent addition to the language. Sets are containers of other objects created by calling the built-in set function, and they support the usual mathematical set operations:
>>> X = set('spam')
>>> Y = set(['h',
'a', 'm']) # Make 2 sets out of sequences
(set(['a', 'p', 's', 'm']), set(['a', 'h', 'm']))
>>> X & Y # Intersection
set(['a', 'm'])
>>> X | Y # Union
set(['a', 'p', 's', 'h', 'm'])
>>> X – Y # Difference
set(['p', 's'])
In addition, Python recently added decimal numbers (fixed-precision floating-point numbers) and Booleans (with predefined True and False objects that are essentially just the integers 1 and 0 with custom display logic), and it has long supported a spe cial placeholder object called None :
>>> import decimal # Decimals
>>> d =
>>> d + 1
>>> 1 > 2, 1 < 2 # Boolean s
(False, True )
>>> bool('spam')
>>> X = None # None placeholder
>>> print X
>>> L = [None] * 100 # Initialize a list of 100 Nones
[None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None,
…a list of 100 Nones…]
>>> type(L) # Type s
<type 'list' >
>>> type(type(L)) # Even types are object s
<type 'type' >
{mospagebreak title=How to Break Your Code's Flexibility}
I'll have more to say about all these types later in the book, but the last merits a few more words here. The type object allows code to check the types of the objects it uses. In fact, there are at least three ways to do so in a Python script:
>>> if type(L) ==
type([]): # Type testing, if you must…
print 'yes'
>>> if type(L) ==
list: # Using the type name
print 'yes'
>>> if isinstance(L, list): # Object-oriented tests
print 'yes'
Now that I've shown you all these ways to do type testing, however, I must mention that, as you'll see later in the book, doing so is almost always the wrong thing to do in a Python program (and often a sign of an ex-C programmer first starting to use Python). By checking for specific types in your code, you effectively break its flexibility—you limit it to working on just one type. Without such tests, your code may be able to work on a whole range of types.
This is related to the idea of polymorphism mentioned earlier, and it stems from Python's lack of type declarations. As you'll learn, in Python, we code to object interfaces (operations supported), not to types. Not caring about specific types means that code is automatically applicable to many of them—any object with a compatible interface will work, regardless of its specific type. Although type checking is supported—and even required, in some rare cases—you'll see that it's not usually the "Pythonic" way of thinking. In fact, you'll find that polymorphism is probably the key idea behind using Python well.
User-Defined Classes
We'll study object-oriented programming in Python—an optional but powerful feature of the language that cuts development time by supporting programming by customization—in depth later in this book. In abstract terms, though, classes define new types of objects that extend the core set, so they merit a passing glance here. Say, for example, that you wish to have a type of object that models employees. Although there is no such specific core type in Python, the following user-defined class might fit the bill:
>>> class Worker:
def __init__(self,
name, pay): # Initialize when created
self.name = name # Self is the new object
self.pay = pay
def lastName(self):
self.name.split()[-1] # Split string on blanks
giveRaise(self, percent):
self.pay *= (1.0 + percent) # Update pay in-place
This class defines a new kind of object that will have name and pay attributes (sometimes called state information), as well as two bits of behavior coded as functions (normally called methods). Calling the class like a function generates instances of our new type, and the class' methods automatically receive the instance being processed by a given method call (in the self argument):
>>> bob =
Worker('Bob Smith', 50000) # Make two instances
>>> sue =
Worker('Sue Jones', 60000) # Each has name and pay
>>> bob.lastName() # Call method: bob is self
'Smith '
>>> sue.lastName() # Sue is the self subjec t
'Jones '
>>> sue.giveRaise(.10) # Updates sue's pa y
>>> sue.pay
The implied "self" object is why we call this an object-oriented model: there is always an implied subject in functions within a class. In a sense, though, the class-based type simply builds on and uses core types—a user-defined Worker object here, for example, is just a collection of a string and number ( name and pay , respectively), plus functions for processing those two built-in objects.
The larger story of classes is that their inheritance mechanism supports software hier archies that lend themselves to customization by extension. We extend software by writing new classes, not by changing what already works. You should also know that classes are an optional feature of Python, and simpler built-in types such as lists and dictionaries are often better tools than user-coded classes. This is all well beyond the bounds of our introductory object-type tutorial, though, so for that tale, you'll have to read on to a later chapter.
{mospagebreak title=And Everything Else}
As mentioned earlier, everything you can process in a Python script is a type of object, so our object type tour is necessarily incomplete. However, even though everything in Python is an "object," only those types of objects we've met so far are considered part of Python's core type set. Other object types in Python are usually implemented by module functions, not language syntax. They also tend to have application-specific roles—text patterns, database interfaces, network connections, and so on.
Moreover, keep in mind that the objects we've met here are objects, but not necessarily object-oriented—a concept that usually requires inheritance and the Python class statement, which we'll meet again later in this book. Still, Python's core objects are the workhorses of almost every Python script you're likely to meet, and they usually are the basis of larger noncore types.
Chapter Summary
And that's a wrap for our concise data type tour. This chapter has offered a brief introduction to Python's core object types, and the sorts of operations we can apply to them. We've studied generic operations that work on many object types (sequence operations such as indexing and slicing, for example), as well as type-specific operations available as method calls (for instance, string splits and list appends). We've also defined some key terms along the way, such as immutability, sequences, and polymorphism.
Along the way, we've seen that Python's core object types are more flexible and powerful than what is available in lower-level languages such as C. For instance, lists and dictionaries obviate most of the work you do to support collections and searching in lower-level languages. Lists are ordered collections of other objects, and dictionaries are collections of other objects that are indexed by key instead of by position. Both dictionaries and lists may be nested, can grow and shrink on demand, and may contain objects of any type. Moreover, their space is automatically cleaned up as you go.
I've skipped most of the details here in order to provide a quick tour, so you shouldn't expect all of this chapter to have made sense yet. In the next few chapters, we'll start to dig deeper, filling in details of Python's core object types that were omitted here so you can gain a more complete understanding. We'll start off in the next chapter with an in-depth look at Python numbers. First, though, another quiz to review.
Chapter Quiz
We'll explore the concepts introduced in this chapter in more detail in upcoming chapters, so we'll just cover the big ideas here:
- Name four of Python's core data types.
- Why are they called "core" data types?
- What does "immutable" mean, and which three of Python's core types are considered immutable?
- What does "sequence" mean, and which three types fall into that category?
- What does "mapping" mean, and which core type is a mapping?
- What is "polymorphism," and why should you care?
Quiz Answers
Numbers, strings, lists, dictionaries, tuples, and files are generally considered to be the core object (data) types. Sets, types, None, and Booleans are sometimes classified this way as well. There are multiple number types (integer, long, floating point, and decimal) and two string types (normal and Unicode).
They are known as "core" types because they are part of the Python language itself, and are always available; to create other objects, you generally must call functions in imported modules. Most of the core types have specific syntax for generating the objects: 'spam, ' for example, is an expression that makes a string and determines the set of operations that can be applied to it. Because of this, core types are hardwired into Python's syntax. In contrast, you must call the built-in open function to create a file object.
- An "immutable" object is an object that cannot be changed after it is created. Numbers, strings, and tuples in Python fall into this category. While you cannot change an immutable object in-place, you can always make a new one by running an expression.
- A "sequence" is a positionally ordered collection of objects. Strings, lists, and tuples are all sequences in Python. They share common sequence operations, such as indexing, concatenation, and slicing, but also have type-specific method calls.
- The term "mapping" denotes an object that maps keys to associated values. Python's dictionary is the only mapping type in the core type set. Mappings do not maintain any left-to-right positional ordering; they support access to data stored by key, plus type-specific method calls.
- "Polymorphism" means that the meaning of an operation (like a + ) depends on the objects being operated on. This turns out to be a key idea (perhaps the key idea) behind using Python well—not constraining code to specific types makes that code automatically applicable to many types.
* In this book, the term literal simply means an expression whose syntax generates an object—sometimes also called a constant. Note that the term "constant" does not imply objects or variables that can never be changed (i.e., this term is unrelated to C++'s const or Python's "immutable"—a topic explored later in this chapter).
* This matrix structure works for small-scale tasks, but for more serious number crunching, you will probably want to use one of the numeric extensions to Python, such as the open source NumPy system. Such tools
can store and process large matrixes much more efficiently than our nested list structure. NumPy has been said to turn Python into the equivalent of a free and more powerful version of the MatLab system, and organizations such as NASA, Los Alamos, and JPMorgan Chase use this tool for scientific and financial tasks. Search the Web for more details.
* One footnote here: keep in mind that the rec record we just created really could be a database record, when we employ Python's object persistence system—an easy way to store native Python objects in files or accessby-key databases. We won't go into more details here; see Python's pickle and shelve modules for more details.


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By Shawn Langlois
Good morning.
A Shanghai surprise is spooking markets from New York to Milan this morning, though it probably shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody who's kept tabs on China's freaky ghost cities in recent years.
Those eerie landscapes straight out of some apocalyptic zombie flick aren't exactly new, but an update from "60 Minutes" in tandem with government curbs to cool down the real-estate sector are freshening fears of a bubble.
Fears? Bubble? Been there, done that. Markets sell off for less. Add to those buzz words the fact that rising gas prices and higher taxes could keep consumers clutching their pocketbook, and we could be in store for a rough start to the week.
Key market gauges: The Shanghai Composite /quotes/zigman/1859015 CN:000001 posted its worst percentage drop since August 2011. The Shanghai Property Index lost almost 10%. But The Fly isn't panicking. "We're buyers of stocks in March. I don't see the global push for higher stock prices ending because the librarians from '60 minutes' said so," he wrote on the iBankCoin blog, calling the show a "hit piece". While the rest of the region — and really, just about everywhere else — was covered in red ink, the Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735 JP:100000018 managed to notch gains.
Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150 XX:SXXP isn't being spared this morning, with Italy's FTSE MIB /quotes/zigman/1482176 XX:FTSEMIB pacing broad declines. Read: Europe stocks key off Asia losses.
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Hello everyone!
I am currently first yer graduate student doing my first rotation. I wanted to get opinion of some more experienced people about the PI of the lab I am rotating in so that I know roughly what to think about it and where I stand.
I will try to describe the situation without my subjective view of it so that I do not color the story.
To describe my experience - I ended up in a lab which seems to be doing amazing science.
The PI is relatively young so there is not much publication record but from what I have seen the people from the lab are going to submit publications to some "high impact factor" journals sometime soon.
The lab environment is okay - the lab is relatively small and, as I've talked with the PI, it will most likely stay this way.
The lab has joint meeting with another group which members are sometimes really mean. These lab meetings seem to bring a lot of stress and anxiety in the people from the group. There is a lot of harsh criticism - mostly of the science not personal but it sometimes feels like a personal "attack".
The money seems to be completely not a problem - from what I've heard they have a lot of grants and the PI is on track to get tenure.
The PI is always available (I feel that might change once they publish all the papers that they have in the pipeline).
The PI gets really excited about thousands of ideas a minute. Even though I am just a rotation student, I quite often have little idea of what I am doing as, even though we meet every week, there is no concrete plan - rather, big ideas and huge excitement about everything.
An finally, two very advanced graduate students - the first PhD students of this PI, left the lab after couple of year. They were close to graduating but both of them left. Which has not happened in the history of the program (that such advanced PhD left the lab). After talking to both the PI and one of the students about it, I am still unsure what happened. Both sides have different stories - the PI says it was misalignment of expectations (the students were considering doing "alternative careers") and some other issues; the student mentions the other lab (the one from joint lab meetings), friendship with the mentor which turned out to not work in the face of criticism and the power dynamic, and some other unresolved/unclear issues. The student was very critical and told me explicitly to not do it (very clearly) because it will be ugly. I have also heard from people around that I should think twice - generally people do not want to talk badly about others but I can sense what is opinion of a lot of people.
I know I won't find a perfect graduate advisor. But I was wondering what do other people think about this. The science is great and I have somewhat limited choices - is it worth to compromise, is it worth to take the risk? What to think about it?
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KINGSVILLE, Ontario When frigid conditions hit during late January, some Ontario greenhouse operators got service interruption notices from their natural gas suppliers for the first time in more than a decade.
In most cases the notice simply meant the greenhouses had to switch to an alternate energy source to keep their freshly planted tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers warm enough.
For some, the only alternative was heating oil, which is two to three times as expensive as natural gas, said Carl Mastronardi, owner and president of Del Fresco Produce.
"It just says until 'further notice,"" said Mastronardi, referring to the gas company notice. "They"ve got to make sure the homes and schools and hospitals have enough."
Mastronardi is one of the greenhouse operators who have more than one option in such a situation. He can use heating oil if he has to, but he can also burn biomass materials such as wood chips.
Greenhouse operations owned by Erie James Ltd., Leamington, and Mucci Farms and Mastronardi Produce Ltd. also have biomass burners, as do numerous other growers.
Alternative energy sources are becoming more noticeable in the area along the north shore of Lake Erie, which has the largest concentration of greenhouses in North America.
One reason so many growers are located near here and Leamington is because the region gets more hours of sun annually than any other place in Canada.
That abundance of sunshine soon will help greenhouses such as those operated at Mor Gro Farms, keep costs down while reducing the company"s carbon footprint.
Mor Gro Farms owns just less than 50 acres of greenhouses and primarily grows tomatoes. The company is in the process of installing a solar panel system.
"There were a lot of government regulations and limited space on the grid," said Tom Trojniak, marketing manager at Mor Gro, which markets its produce under the Smarty Brand label.
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Candy Can Be a Gas!
by Anne Renaud
Lollipops and most other forms of hard candy are made from one basic recipe: sugar, corn syrup, and flavoring. The ingredients are heated at high temperatures to obtain a pure sugar syrup, which turns into hard candy when left to cool. No wonder they taste so sweet!
However, by adding one extra ingredient, you can really shake things up and make hard candy do some pretty neat things—like explode!
If you've ever popped Pop Rocks, you've felt the familiar fizzle, snap, crackle, and pop of candy granules erupting on your tongue. So what makes the candy take on a life of its own when you put it in your mouth?
The secret ingredient—which isn't really secret, since it's written right there on the package—is carbon dioxide gas. According to Marta Mas, marketing director of Pop Rocks, Inc., this is how it works.
The hard candy recipe ingredients are heated until all the sugar has melted. The liquid is then boiled until it reaches 300 degrees F (149 degrees C). When the pure sugar syrup is gasified with carbon dioxide at the super-atmospheric pressure of about 600 psi (pounds per square inch), tiny gas bubbles form inside it. This mixture is then left to cool and solidify while it is maintained under pressure. Once the mixture has solidified, the exterior pressure is released. The result is that the pressure inside the candy is greater than outside, which causes the interior pressure to fracture the sugary mass into granules. That's why Pop Rocks are in fragmented form.
If you take a look under a microscope, you'll see that the granules are still filled with high-pressure bubbles. When you pop the rocks into your mouth, the bubbles are released, making popping sounds as the candy melts. Tasty pressure!
- atmospheric pressure:
- Pressure caused by the weight of the atmosphere. At sea level it has a mean value of one atmosphere but reduces with increasing altitude.
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- A small, hard grain, as of sand, salt, or ice.
- mixture:
- Matter made up of two or more substances or materials that are physically combined.
- What physical change releases carbon dioxide gas from Pop Rocks?
- Why is carbon dioxide gas used in making Pop Rocks?
- Think of another food product that contains carbon dioxide gas. Why is carbon dioxide gas used in this food product? What happens to the carbon dioxide gas as the product is consumed? Write a sentence or two describing the food product and the role of carbon dioxide gas in it.


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Show of hands please...how many of you were clamoring for a Men In Black sequel? I mean, it's been ten years since we last saw Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) together at the cinema, so somebody had to be begging for this latest installment of thesci-fi franchise.
Was it you? Yeah YOU. No...I'm not talking to that dude behind you...I'm talking to YOU.
Well, I hope you're pleased with what you got for all your trouble, because MiB3 is a real mixed bag of good ideas and poor execution.
I mean, yeah Josh Brolin as a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones is truly remarkable. When Agent J (Smith) goes back in time to meet "Young Agent K" (Brolin) in 1969 because one of his enemies has gone back in time to mess with history, the potential comedic and narrative possibilites are endless. But once you get past Brolin's imitation and Will Smith learning what people think about black men in nice suits back in the sixties, well...sigh. So many possibilities go unexplored.
You also have Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) as Boris the Animal, the extra-terrestrial baddie of the film; and while he gets one scene to show off his comedic chops, the rest of the time he's just playing a dim-witting muscle head who really shouldn't be so hard to take down.
I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up when Nicole Scherzinger first appeared as Boris' too-hot-to-handle girlfriend. Her appearance at the beginning of the film felt like a tease of the funky-romp MiB fans were expecting, but her character's sudden exit just served as a harbinger of promise unfulfilled.
Now, I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer for all of you who were waiting patiently for another MiB adventure. The film has its high points, like the aforementioned performance by Brolin and a number of guffaw inducing cameos by some well-known comedic actors. The appearances of Bill Hader and Will Arnett had me thinking of how they could successfully cast future features without the two primaries. And considering how long in the tooth Jones is getting, they need to start thinking about that if they want the franchise to continue.
Unfortunately, the script has some glaring plot holes that are inexcusable since it had a decade to come together.
Mild spoiler ahead:
Can someone explain to me how Agent J ever became a member of the MiB if there never was an Agent K to recruit him?
And if the MiB have rocket packs...uh...why did they need a rocket ship at the climax of the film?
That left me scratching my head.
Oh well, as the old saying goes, be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.
MiB 3 has a Geek Factor Rating of 2 out of 4 Neuralizer Bursts.
Directed by:Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by:Etan Cohen
Based on the Malibu Comic by:Lowell Cunningham
Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg and Emma Thompson
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Just in time for William Shakespeare's 450th birthday comes word of what could be an extremely important Shakespearean find. Two rare-book dealers have in their possession a copy of a sixteenth-century quadrilingual dictionary (bought on eBay!) that they claim belonged to Shakespeare himself. The dictionary is already known to be a favorite reference of the Bard, and the owners of this copy think the annotations are in Shakespeare's hand. But there are already many doubters. Read about it in the Guardian here.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company's publicists did their best to spin the new settings as enhancing privacy, while in fact profile details about users become far more widely available to strangers.
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Nearly six of 10 previously uninsured Californians gained medical coverage through the nation's health care law during its first open-enrollment period, according to the most detailed study to date on how the new system is playing out for the state's uninsured.
The percentage — cited by the Menlo Park-based Kaiser Family Foundation survey — is much larger than most health care experts had expected.
"If the numbers are accurate and borne out by larger studies, I think it is an indication that the law is working even better than many of us anticipated," said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which helped create the official enrollment projections for Covered California, the state's insurance exchange.
All told, 58 percent of the nearly 6 million — or 3.4 million — adult Californians who didn't have health insurance before sign-ups began last fall are now covered, the survey said. That's 22 percentage points higher than Kominski's group had estimated.
The largest share of the previously uninsured — 25 percent — enrolled through the state's Medi-Cal program, which has long covered poor families but was expanded this year under the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) to include adults without children. Nine percent purchased private plans through the insurance marketplace, which opened in October, and 12 percent became insured through their jobs, the researchers found.
Even though the state exceeded its own expectations for coverage, 42 percent of those previously uninsured still don't have health insurance, according to the survey.
Many said they didn't enroll because of the cost, while some feared that signing up would bring attention to their family's immigration status. Those who are in the United States illegally are not eligible for coverage.
The researchers surveyed 2,001 uninsured Californians last summer, then conducted a second round of interviews with many of the same people in the spring. The overall margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Sara Rosenbaum, a health law professor at George Washington University, called the study "extremely important."
"Panels where you have the same people that you can go back to over time is absolutely the gold standard in survey research," she said, noting that the state's efforts to reduce the state's uninsured population has national importance.
UCLA's Kominski, however, was troubled by one aspect of the study — its exclusion of those adults who previously had insurance but lost it for some reason since last summer.
"By not accounting for that, this survey overstates the positive effects of the ACA by as much as 10 percent," he said.
Still, Kominski noted, it's important to "not lose sight of the big picture, which is that even if it's 50 percent, the ACA has had tremendous success in year one in California."
A Commonwealth Fund survey released last month showed that the number of Californians without health insurance has been halved as a result of the Affordable Care Act — from 22 percent to 11 percent.
The Kaiser survey also revealed that despite an early lag in Latino enrollment, more than half of uninsured Latinos ultimately got coverage. And most newly insured Latinos said shopping for a plan was easy.
Moreover, 58 percent of previously uninsured adults ages 19 to 34 — the so-called Young Invincibles — reported getting insurance since last summer, which health care experts see as a good omen for the law.
Before the nation's health law took effect, California had the highest number of uninsured in the nation, coming from highly diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultures. But the state embraced Obamacare before most others and was the first to create a state-run insurance exchange.
The technical problems in California's enrollment process were fewer and less severe than those in the federal exchange and other states. In addition, the hospitals, community clinics and social services offices were aggressive in enrolling those eligible for Medi-Cal, known as Medicaid in other states.
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According to the survey, most of the previously uninsured said their plan is "a good value." But nearly half of people who got plans other than Medi-Cal said that it has been difficult to afford the coverage.
Among the newly insured is Maria Garcia, of East Palo Alto, who sought help from a counselor at the Ravenswood Family Health Center near her home.
She said she didn't feel comfortable navigating Covered California's site and wanted someone to help her. Within hours, the counselor helped her settle on a Kaiser Permanente plan costing just $36 a month thanks to a federal subsidy.
Leslie Ziegler, 31, said signing up for insurance through the Covered California website only took about an hour. Before Obamacare, Ziegler, a San Francisco high-tech entrepreneur, had been turned down by several insurance companies because she had ulcerative colitis, a chronic disease that requires costly medication and treatment.
Companies can no longer deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Ziegler is thankful, saying access to insurance and health care whenever she needs it is "a wonderful thing."
Kaiser Health News writers Sarah Varney, Daniela Hernandez and Heidi de Marco contributed to this report. KHN is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.