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The Risks Of Being On
Bed Rest
Why is bed rest prescribed?
Dr. Jessica Shepherd, OB-GYN at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and owner of Her Viewpoint says, "Bed rest has been used for some time by doctors for women who may have complications during their pregnancies." She says that these complications can range from
- Vaginal bleeding or problems with the placenta
- An incompetent cervix — a condition in which the cervix is likely to open (dilate) prematurely
- Contractions and other advanced signs or symptoms of preterm labor
- A twin or multiple pregnancy
- Signs, symptoms or test results indicating fetal growth problems
However, she says that bed rest is now not as often prescribed as it can pose risks to the pregnancy such as blood clots. She says, "If the woman stays stationary and does not move at all it will increase the risk of blood clots much more than when a woman is not pregnant."
Defining bed rest
Naturally, we have to wonder why doctors would still prescribe bed rest for pregnant women if it could be potentially dangerous. However, Dr. Shepherd explains, "Some doctors still prescribe bed rest — however bed rest does not always mean that the woman should be confined to the bed for the remainder of the pregnancy. Bed rest can simply mean decreasing your activity level for a period of time. Most times when obstetricians recommend bed rest they still allow the women to move about the house and even return to work depending on the type of work as long as they avoid lifting children and doing heavy housework."
Stay healthy to avoid bed rest
To prevent being prescribed bed rest or decreased activity, Dr. Shepherd suggests that pregnant women stay healthy within the pregnancy by "eating healthy, exercising as prescribed by their doctors and also taking any prescribed medications during the pregnancy for conditions that can put the mom and baby at risk such as high blood pressure and diabetes."
If your doctor recommends bed rest, Dr. Shepherd says women can avoid the risks by making sure "they do some level of activity — even walking to the bathroom or around the house can be safe. Also sitting in a chair every few hours can help the circulation of blood in the body and keep it from staying still which allows it to form clots within the veins."
She continues, "Staying hydrated is also important and eating foods that are healthy to prevent high blood pressure with salty foods and possible diabetes with foods that are high in sugar content. When in bed, the best position is on your side, with the left side being preferred and the right side as an alternative when the left gets sore. It helps to rest with your knees or hips bent. The use of pillows between the knees also helps to relieve stress on the back."
Dr. Shepherd adds that mild exercises can help while in bed, and also keep the blood flowing. She suggests exercises including
- Squeezing stress balls
- Pressing your hands and feet against the bed
- Turning your arms and feet in circles·
- Tensing or tightening your arm and leg muscles
Emotional effects of bed rest
In addition to the physical effects of being on bed rest, Dr. Shepherd notes bed rest can have an emotional impact. "Women should pay attention to how it makes them feel emotionally, as the confinement and isolation can cause mood changes. These can range from guilt, anxiety and depression. Therefore it is important to discuss these feelings with your provider."
In addition to how bed rest makes you feel emotionally, Dr. Fran Walfish, child and family psychotherapist and author of The Self-Aware Parent, says a woman being put on bed rest can impact her whole family, particularly her other children. "I have treated many 2- and 3-year-olds who have suffered the prolonged loss and abandonment of their mothers who while on bed rest cannot lift their toddlers or function in the regular normal way the child is used to. That toddler not only must move over and share Mommy with the new baby (metaphorically lose Mommy), but in reality that older toddler really does lose Mommy for an extended period of time. The result can be devastating on the entire family," Dr. Walfish adds.
More on pregnancy
The secret to natural childbirth
5 Tips for choosing a pregnancy health care provider
I actually hate being pregnant


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Enterprise Social Technologies
Future Point of view is a Technology consulting firm based out of Oklahoma. We are thought leaders in our trade and work with clients such at Cisco, Bright Star, Sterling Commerce, the IRS, ebay and Great Clips. We look forward to being the first to produce a fully crowdsourced book.
This book is being produced for anyone and everyone. Our market consists of organizations of all sizes, local and international.
We are looking for designers to be innovative and creative, to produce and eye catching book cover that will help us attract people to the book visually! We pride ourselves on being leaders in Social Technology and strive to produce visuals like no one else! Please feel free to be as creative as you wish, show us things that are unlike anything else.
The working title for the book is: "Enterprise Social Technology"
The sub-title is: "Helping Organizations Harness the Power of "
"Social Media"
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"Social Relevancy"
Author: Scott Klososky
Cover is a paperback with trim of 5 1/2 X 8 1/2
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Mayor's Office
The Mayor's Award of Excellence for November was presented today to Deborah Baines, an office specialist in Aging Partners. The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at today's City Council meeting.
Baines has worked for the City since 1995. The Aging Partners management team nominated her in the categories of customer relations, loss prevention and productivity for her leadership in Aging's recent office consolidation.
To save money without cutting services, Aging Partners decreased its square footage by 20 percent, saving more than $12,000 a month. The management team said Baines continually monitored progress and adjusted the schedule as needed. The agency did not need to hire movers because Baines recruited and supervised volunteers and a team from County Corrections. Just four days after the lease expired, all 100-plus staff members had work stations, computers, phones and equipment along with the files and equipment they needed to do their jobs. Services were provided almost seamlessly throughout the summer with only minimal disruptions.
The nominators wrote that Baines is a wonderful example of the power of a positive attitude and what can be accomplished when an individual employee takes pride in her work.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are safety and valor. Consideration also may be given to nominations that demonstrate self-initiated accomplishments or those completed outside of the nominee's job description. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected and appointed officials. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available on the City Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: personnel) or from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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As a social experiment - some political party must conduct survey on how many people supported the bill after reading through all its sections, analysing pros/cons and debating it with friends. Survey questions should include "why did you support the bill" and have a basic quiz on the bill. This will give upcomng politicians ideas on short-cuts to part the fool and money.
Peer Pressure' and wanting to fit in with the cool crowd has much more power than I estimated.


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While he cautions that it's still preliminary information, USDA's chief veterinary officer Dr. Ron DeHaven says his department's primary line of inquiry leads back to Canada.
"We are working to verify that information. Officials on both sides of the border are seeking only one thing, and that is the truth. We want to know exactly where this animal came from and, whether that turns out to be U.S. origin or Canadian origin, we'll let the chips fall where they may and call them as they are," DeHaven said at a Dec. 28 technical briefing on the subject.
According to DeHaven, USDA is continuing to work with Canadian officials to verify the trace back including DNA testing, and a continued search of all records related to the cow in question. USDA's is also tracing the other 73 head of cattle that came into the United States or appear to have come into the United States with the indexed or positive cow. In addition, two cattle facilities in the state of Washington have also been quarantined to stop movement of animals on and off the premise to expedite and prevent complications of USDA's investigation.
"The purpose of that quarantine or hold order is not to stop the spread of the disease. It's important to realize that BSE is not a contagious disease. It's not spread by contact, direct contact, animal to animal. Rather, it's a disease with the primary means of transmission of consumption of affected proteins or proteins from an infected animal," DeHaven says.
According to Dr. Ken Petersen with USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, the beef products related to the Dec. 23 BSE-related recall did not contain those tissues known to contain the BSE agent, including the brains, spinal cord and distal ileum.
"The recalled beef represents an essentially zero risk to consumers," Petersen says. "The eight-state recall was initiated out of an abundance of caution following the report of one cow testing presumptive positive for BSE. Even though we remain confident in the safety of these beef products we are and we will continue to verify distribution and control of all products related to the recall.
"The risk related to consumption of the recalled muscle meat is virtually zero," he notes. "And that's because of the cautions that were put in place revolving around the extent of this particular recall. So the meat per se, because it did not contain any spinal cord-related material, we think is a very, very low risk to consumers."
Adds Dehaven: "There is in fact a large body of scientific evidence to suggest that meat from cattle is not a tissue at risk as it relates specifically to BSE. The Organization of International Epizootics, recognized by the World Trade Organization as the animal health International standard-setting body, acknowledges that countries can safely import meat products from countries that are affected by BSE even from countries that have a moderate to high risk of having BSE."
Dr. Stephen Sundlof with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the Canadian government has implemented restrictions similar to those in the United States to prevent the spread of mad cow disease. It's also important for consumers to understand, he says, that cattle are very, very much more susceptible to this disease than humans.
Since 1989, the USDA has banned the importation of live ruminant animals and products from ruminant animals from the United Kingdom, and any other country where BSE had been diagnosed. In 1997, USDA prohibited the importation of live ruminants and products from live ruminants from all of Europe primarily due to the trading practices between member states of the European Union.
In fact, he says, both the United States and Canada have had a ban in place since 1997 that prohibits the feeding of ruminant protein to ruminants, such as cattle, knowing that that is the primary if not only mechanism for spreading the disease from one animal to another.
With the recent finding of a BSE positive cow in the United States, DeHaven says USDA is looking at any and all appropriate changes that could be made to the country's BSE-related regulations.
More specifically, USDA is considering any changes that could be made in partnership with the industry, such as increased testing, or changes to the feed ban. At the point, DeHaven says, the changes are likely to include "all of the above."
"There have been many comparisons made between our situation in North America and the situation in Europe as it relates to BSE. Even though we are very early in this investigation there is no indication that we have anywhere near the magnitude of the problem that Europe has experienced over the past years," he says. "Indeed, we have reason to be confident that our preventive measures have afforded us a high level of protection. Some of those measures would include the surveillance program that we've had in place for over 10 years now, targeting that high-risk population; the fact that we've had a feed ban in place to prevent animal-to-animal transmission – and that's been in place since August of 1997; and that we stopped the importation of animals from the European Union in 1989, again which is the most likely source of any infection that we would have in North America."
Those aren't the only changes being considered.
A proposed rule published in November would again allow some "minimal risk" Canadian cattle products be imported into the United States, including live cattle under 30 months of age.
However, DeHaven says, "Clearly we will have to take into account this new situation, the findings of our investigation relative to this new situation as we review those comments, and consider whether or not to publish a final rule."
The BSE incident is also likely to affect beef exports to Japan, which quickly closed its doors to American beef products at the news.
That's unfortunate, according to Dehaven. "We feel very strongly in the United States that international trade and any trade restrictions should be well founded in the science," he says. "Unfortunately with this situation what we've seen internationally is, again, an over-reaction, trade restrictions imposed more out of public perception than based on the science that we know about this particular disease. We think that the restrictions that are being imposed should be lifted."
The United States, he says, has a "very good" program in place to prevent BSE in this country, and any trade restrictions being imposed are "not well-founded in science."


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Mayor Promotes Gay Marriage In Ad Campaign
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The mayor of Minneapolis is hitting the road to promote the state's new gay marriage law.
Mayor R.T. Rybak is hoping to generate tourism revenue by inviting same-sex couples from other states to wed in Minneapolis. Rybak travels to Chicago this week to launch an ad campaign. He also plans visits to Madison and Milwaukee, Wis., and Denver, Colo.
The mayor says he hopes people in Illinois will get the same rights gay couples do in Minnesota, but until then, Rybak says Minneapolis is more than happy to have their business. Illinois lawmakers are expected to consider a same-sex marriage law this fall.
The Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association is co-sponsor of Rybak's "Marry in Minneapolis" campaign. It's offering free wedding planning services.


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Morris Named OVC and TSWA Pitcher of the Week
Nashville, Tenn. - Shea Morris was named Ohio Valley Conference Co-Pitcher of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Monday. Morris picked up all three wins for the Tigers on the week and helped the Tennessee State get back into the OVC playoff race.
This is the second time this season, and the third time in her career, that she has earned the award. Amanda Vaught, in 2007, is the only other Tiger pitcher to be named OVC Pitcher of the Week two times in one year. In the same season, Candace Hildebrand was honored.
Morris shared the award with SIU-Edwardsville's Haley Chambers who finished the week 2-1, highlighted by a five-inning perfect game.
The Tenneessee Sports Writers Association award was announced on Tuesday afternoon. This marks the first time Morris has been honored by the TWSA and the third Tiger this season. Audrey Sensing and Kiarra Freeman were named Players of the Week on March 5 and March 12, respectively.
Morris just missed her first career no-hitter by two outs in the opener with Austin Peay. She did not surrender a walk while striking out 11 in game one. Morris returned to the circle in game two to record her second consecutive shutout victory helping TSU secure their second series sweep in school history, the first since 2007 which resulted in Hildebrand earning her Pitcher of the Week honor.
Morris fanned seven batters in the nightcap as she threw 218 pitches over the two games on Sunday, 161 for strikes (74%). The sophomore hurler struck out nine batters in a 5-3 win at Murray State tossing 85 strikes in 118 pitches (72%). Morris held opponents to a .176 batting average on the week and now has 178 strikeouts on the season.
The Lawrenceburg, Tenn., product has four shutouts on the season and six in her career. Both totals are tied for third in the TSU record books for season and career, respectively.
TSU continues their pursuit of a spot in the OVC tournament as they host Tennessee Tech in a three-game series April 27-28.


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Those recommended in the protocol include magnesium, choline citrate, glutamine, flavonoids (especially quercetin dihydrate), minerals and essential fatty acids. Many fibromyalgia sufferers are deficient in most, if not all, of these nutrients.
In addition, those who have poor digestion are treated with probiotics, while those with a yeast infection need to take ascorbate, magnesium and choline citrate.
Patients taking either Arnica, Bryonia or Rhus Tox for three months improved significantly (Br Homoeopath J, 1986; 73: 142-7).
In a study of 29 patients, all reported reduced pain and tender spots with acupuncture (Rheumatol Int, 1998; 18: 35-6). In an electroacupuncture study with 70 sufferers, all significantly improved compared with a sham procedure (BMJ, 1992; 305: 1249-52).
Massage therapy
Patients noted a reduction in pain according to the number of massages they had. There was also a decline in blood myoglobin levels, which some believe is a major cause of the muscle pain in fibromyalgia (Scand J Rheumatol, 1986; 15: 174-8).


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Frictional's Next Title Is Officially Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
Frictional has officially unveiled their new game, and it's a sequel to their surprise hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Subtitled A Machine For Pigs, the announcement was made during an interview with Joystiq.
It should arrive on PC during 2012, and the game will be developed by thechineseroom. "It's not a direct sequel, in terms of it doesn't follow on from the story of Amnesia," says writer Dan Pinchbeck. The new game will be set in 1899, and follows an industrialist that returns from an ill-fated expedition to Mexico.
If you played Frictional Games' surprise hit Amnesia: The Dark Descent, we hope you've emerged from that fetal position by now. If you have, you'll be pleased (or terrified) to learn that the developers apparently have something else up their sleeves.
A new teaser site (found at nextfrictionalgame.com) doesn't say much, but the Amnesia mention makes us wonder if it's a full-on sequel. Interestingly, if you click on the image, it takes you to this Google map of China. No hints regarding what that's about, but we're curious to see what the studio has in store next.


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If you have existing tables, and applications that use them, that you want to convert to
for better reliability and scalability, use the following guidelines and tips. This section assumes most such
tables were originally
MyISAM, which was formerly the default.
MyISAM, Increase
Memory Usage for
As you transition away from
MyISAM tables, lower the value of the
key_buffer_size configuration option to free memory no longer needed for caching
results. Increase the value of the
innodb_buffer_pool_size configuration option, which performs a similar role
of allocating cache memory for
InnoDB tables. The
InnoDB buffer
pool caches both table data and index data, so it does double duty in speeding up lookups for queries
and keeping query results in memory for reuse.
Allocate as much memory to this option as you can afford, often up to 80% of physical memory on the server.
If the operating system runs short of memory for other processes and begins to
swap, reduce the
innodb_buffer_pool_size value. Swapping is such an expensive
operation that it drastically reduces the benefit of the cache memory.
If the
innodb_buffer_pool_size value is several gigabytes or higher, consider
increasing the values of
innodb_buffer_pool_instances. Doing so helps on busy servers where
many connections are reading data into the cache at the same time.
On a busy server, run benchmarks with the Query Cache turned off. The
InnoDB buffer pool provides similar benefits, so the Query Cache might be
tying up memory unnecessarily.
MyISAM tables do not support transactions, you
might not have paid much attention to the
autocommit configuration option and the
COMMIT and
ROLLBACK statements. These keywords are important to allow multiple sessions
to read and write
InnoDB tables concurrently, providing substantial scalability
benefits in write-heavy workloads.
While a transaction is open, the system keeps a snapshot of the data as seen at the beginning of the transaction, which can cause substantial overhead if the system inserts, updates, and deletes millions of rows while a stray transaction keeps running. Thus, take care to avoid transactions that run for too long:
If you are using a mysql session for interactive experiments, always
COMMIT (to finalize the changes) or
ROLLBACK (to undo the changes) when finished. Close down interactive
sessions rather than leaving them open for long periods, to avoid keeping transactions open for long
periods by accident.
Make sure that any error handlers in your application also
ROLLBACK incomplete changes or
COMMIT completed changes.
ROLLBACK is a relatively expensive operation, because
UPDATE, and
DELETE operations are written to
tables prior to the
COMMIT, with the expectation that most changes will be committed
successfully and rollbacks will be rare. When experimenting with large volumes of data, avoid making
changes to large numbers of rows and then rolling back those changes.
When loading large volumes of data with a sequence of
INSERT statements, periodically
COMMIT the results to avoid having transactions that last for hours. In
typical load operations for data warehousing, if something goes wrong, you
TRUNCATE TABLE and start over from the beginning rather than doing a
The preceding tips save memory and disk space that can be wasted during too-long transactions. When transactions
are shorter than they should be, the problem is excessive I/O. With each
COMMIT, MySQL makes sure each change is safely recorded to disk, which
involves some I/O.
For most operations on
InnoDB tables, you should use
the setting
From an efficiency perspective, this avoids unnecessary I/O when you issue large numbers of consecutive
statements. From a safety perspective, this allows you to issue a
ROLLBACK statement to recover lost or garbled data if you make a
mistake on the mysql command line, or in an exception handler in
your application.
The time when
autocommit=1 is suitable for
InnoDB tables
is when running a sequence of queries for generating reports or analyzing statistics. In this situation,
there is no I/O penalty related to
COMMIT or
ROLLBACK, and
InnoDB can automatically
optimize the read-only workload.
If you make a series of related changes, finalize all those changes at once with a
COMMIT at the end. For example, if you insert related pieces of
information into several tables, do a single
COMMIT after making all the changes. Or if you run many consecutive
INSERT statements, do a single
COMMIT after all the data is loaded; if you are doing millions of
statements, perhaps split up the huge transaction by issuing a
COMMIT every ten thousand or hundred thousand records, so the
transaction does not grow too large.
Remember that even a
SELECT statement opens a transaction, so after running some report or
debugging queries in an interactive mysql session, either issue a
COMMIT or close the mysql session.
You might see warning messages referring to "deadlocks" in
the MySQL error log, or the output of
INNODB STATUS. Despite the scary-sounding name, a deadlock is not a
serious issue for
InnoDB tables, and often does not require any corrective action.
When two transactions start modifying multiple tables, accessing the tables in a different order, they can reach
a state where each transaction is waiting for the other and neither can proceed. MySQL immediately detects this
condition and cancels (rolls back) the
"smaller" transaction, allowing the other to proceed.
Your applications do need error-handling logic to restart a transaction that is forcibly cancelled like this. When you re-issue the same SQL statements as before, the original timing issue no longer applies: either the other transaction has already finished and yours can proceed, or the other transaction is still in progress and your transaction waits until it finishes.
If deadlock warnings occur constantly, you might review the application code to reorder the SQL operations in a
consistent way, or to shorten the transactions. You can test with the
innodb_print_all_deadlocks option enabled to see all deadlock warnings in the
MySQL error log, rather than only the last warning in the
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS output.
To get the best performance from
InnoDB tables, you can adjust a number of
parameters related to storage layout.
When you convert
MyISAM tables that are large, frequently accessed, and hold vital
data, investigate and consider the
innodb_file_format, and
innodb_page_size configuration options, and the
ROW_FORMAT and
KEY_BLOCK_SIZE clauses of the
CREATE TABLE statement.
During your initial experiments, the most important setting is
innodb_file_per_table. Enabling this option before creating new
InnoDB tables ensures that the
InnoDB system
tablespace files do not allocate disk space permanently for all the
data. With
DROP TABLE and
TRUNCATE TABLE free disk space as you would expect.
To convert a non-
InnoDB table to use
InnoDB use
table_name ENGINE=InnoDB;
Do not convert MySQL system tables in the
mysql database (such as
user or
host) to the
InnoDB type. This is an unsupported operation. The system tables must always
be of the
MyISAM type.
You might make an InnoDB table that is a clone of a MyISAM table, rather than doing the
ALTER TABLE conversion, to test the old and new table side-by-side before
Create an empty
InnoDB table with identical column and index definitions. Use
show create table to see the
CREATE TABLE statement to use. Change the
clause to
To transfer a large volume of data into an empty
InnoDB table created as shown in
the previous section, insert the rows with
myisam_table ORDER BY
You can also create the indexes for the
InnoDB table after inserting the data.
Historically, creating new secondary indexes was a slow operation for InnoDB, but now you can create the indexes
after the data is loaded with relatively little overhead from the index creation step.
If you have
UNIQUE constraints on secondary keys, you can speed up a table import
by turning off the uniqueness checks temporarily during the import operation:
SET unique_checks=0;
... import operation ...SET unique_checks=1;
For big tables, this saves disk I/O because
InnoDB can use its insert
buffer to write secondary index records as a batch. Be certain that the data contains no duplicate keys.
unique_checks permits but does not require storage engines to ignore duplicate
To get better control over the insertion process, you might insert big tables in pieces:
INSERT INTO newtable SELECT * FROM oldtable WHERE yourkey >
somethingAND yourkey <=
After all records have been inserted, you can rename the tables.
During the conversion of big tables, increase the size of the
InnoDB buffer pool to
reduce disk I/O, to a maximum of 80% of physical memory. You can also increase the sizes of the
InnoDB log files.
By this point, as already mentioned, you should already have the
innodb_file_per_table option enabled, so that if you temporarily make several
copies of your data in
InnoDB tables, you can recover all that disk space by
dropping unneeded tables afterward.
Whether you convert the
MyISAM table directly or create a cloned
InnoDB table, make sure that you have sufficient disk space to hold both the old and
new tables during the process.
InnoDB tables require more disk space than
MyISAM tables. If an
TABLE operation runs out of space, it starts a rollback, and that can take hours if it is
disk-bound. For inserts,
InnoDB uses the insert buffer to merge secondary index
records to indexes in batches. That saves a lot of disk I/O. For rollback, no such mechanism is used, and the
rollback can take 30 times longer than the insertion.
In the case of a runaway rollback, if you do not have valuable data in your database, it may be advisable to
kill the database process rather than wait for millions of disk I/O operations to complete. For the complete
procedure, see Section 188.8.131.52, "Starting
InnoDB on a Corrupted Database".
PRIMARY KEY for Each
PRIMARY KEY clause is a critical factor affecting the performance of MySQL
queries and the space usage for tables and indexes. Perhaps you have phoned a financial institution where you
are asked for an account number. If you do not have the number, you are asked for a dozen different pieces of
information to "uniquely identify" yourself. The primary
key is like that unique account number that lets you get straight down to business when querying or modifying
the information in a table. Every row in the table must have a primary key value, and no two rows can have the
same primary key value.
Here are some guidelines for the primary key, followed by more detailed explanations.
Declare a
PRIMARY KEY for each table. Typically, it is
the most important column that you refer to in
WHERE clauses when looking
up a single row.
Declare the
PRIMARY KEY clause in the original
CREATE TABLE statement, rather than adding it later through an
ALTER TABLE statement.
Choose the column and its data type carefully. Prefer numeric columns over character or string ones.
Consider using an auto-increment column if there is not another stable, unique, non-null, numeric column to use.
An auto-increment column is also a good choice if there is any doubt whether the value of the primary key column could ever change. Changing the value of a primary key column is an expensive operation, possibly involving rearranging data within the table and within each secondary index.
Consider adding a primary key to any table that does not already have one. Use the smallest practical numeric type based on the maximum projected size of the table. This can make each row slightly more compact, which can yield substantial space savings for large tables. The space savings are multiplied if the table has any secondary indexes, because the primary key value is repeated in each secondary index entry. In addition to reducing data size on disk, a small primary key also lets more data fit into the buffer pool, speeding up all kinds of operations and improving concurrency.
If the table already has a primary key on some longer column, such as a
consider adding a new unsigned
AUTO_INCREMENT column and switching the primary key
to that, even if that column is not referenced in queries. This design change can produce substantial space
savings in the secondary indexes. You can designate the former primary key columns as
NOT NULL to enforce the same constraints as the
PRIMARY KEY clause, that
is, to prevent duplicate or null values across all those columns.
If you spread related information across multiple tables, typically each table uses the same column for its primary key. For example, a personnel database might have several tables, each with a primary key of employee number. A sales database might have some tables with a primary key of customer number, and other tables with a primary key of order number. Because lookups using the primary key are very fast, you can construct efficient join queries for such tables.
If you leave the
PRIMARY KEY clause out entirely, MySQL creates an invisible one
for you. It is a 6-byte value that might be longer than you need, thus wasting space. Because it is hidden, you
cannot refer to it in queries.
The extra reliability and scalability features of
InnoDB do require more disk
storage than equivalent
MyISAM tables. You might change the column and index
definitions slightly, for better space utilization, reduced I/O and memory consumption when processing result
sets, and better query optimization plans making efficient use of index lookups.
If you do set up a numeric ID column for the primary key, use that value to cross-reference with related values
in any other tables, particularly for join
queries. For example, rather than accepting a country name as input and doing queries searching for the same
name, do one lookup to determine the country ID, then do other queries (or a single join query) to look up
relevant information across several tables. Rather than storing a customer or catalog item number as a string of
digits, potentially using up several bytes, convert it to a numeric ID for storing and querying. A 4-byte
INT column can index over 4 billion items (with the US meaning of billion:
1000 million). For the ranges of the different integer types, see Section
11.2.1, "Integer Types (Exact Value) -
InnoDB Tables
InnoDB files require more care and planning than
files do:
You must not delete the ibdata files that represent the
InnoDB system tablespace.
Copying InnoDB tables from one server to another requires issuing the
FLUSH TABLES ... FOR EXPORT statement first, and copying the
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Wrigley Field will be 100 years old in 2014. "On the 100th anniversary, let's have the ballpark ready for another 100 years," team president Crane Kenney said Saturday during a business management seminar at the Cubs Convention. Kenney said they are looking at plans for the so-called Triangle building, proposed for the land west of Wrigley along Clark Street. It would house offices, restaurants, parking, possibly a Hall of Fame, and provide space for some of the player facilities. Kenney said fans can expect to see more construction at Wrigley over the next few years.
Other highlights from the session:
* There has been no talk about selling the naming rights. "I can't imagine the day the ballpark is not called 'Wrigley Field,'" Kenney said.
* There are no plans to do personal seat licenses (PSL) at Wrigley.
* There are no plans for Friday or Saturday night games. Those aren't neighborhood friendly. The Cubs currently are allowed 30 night games at home. There are only 27 on the schedule to give national television a chance to pick a game for a night broadcast.
* The Cubs make twice as much broadcasting games on cable compared to games on WGN. There are talks about the team having its own network, but that's a few years away.
* Kenney said they'll leave the fireworks and the mascots to the team on the South Side. "We always come down on the side of tradition," Kenney said. A show of hands showed fans favored installing a Jumbotron, but the Cubs are still discussing that.
* What about Wrigley hosting the 2014 All-Star Game? The Cubs have talked to MLB commissioner Bud Selig and Kenney said they are "hopeful." However, MLB is alternating American League cities and National League cities, and an AL city would be up in 2014.
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What is your recommendation for a large backpack for traveling?
Currently I have the Medium Tenba rolling backpack: http://www.tenba.com/Products/Shooto...ium-Black.aspx
The problem is that it is not comfortable to have it on your back. It is more a rolling back. I would have something which I can carry on my back for an hour without killing me. I shoot a lot of destination weddings and the way I carry my gear is very important.
I want a backpack, which is:
- large
- fits into most airplanes bag compartment
- waterproof, and
- durable.
It doesn't have to have wheels.
Can you recommend me anything?


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The complete sell-out of early stock of Apple's new iPhone 5 suggests that almost all present day consumers are fully captivated with the launch of the latest iPhone edition. But, the bitter truth is that not every early consumer who has acquired the latest iPhone 5 gadget is satisfied, as some consumers recently reported various problems related to the Wi-Fi connections of the new device.
Consumers have even reported issues related to scratches and scuffing in the gadget's new aluminum covering. Most of the early buyers are largely discontented with the new revamped Maps app of the new iPhone 5. The latest Siri app incorporated in the device easily gets puzzled when questioned regarding the present weather conditions in many prominent United States cities.
And the iPhone manufacturer is also discontinuing the service of the free storage space of around 20-GB that was extended to earlier MobileMe users, which would definitely make it extremely tough for some consumers to support their latest iPhone 5 device to iCloud. As per the recent updates, many consumers in the company's support forums are registering issues related to WPA2 sheltered Wi-Fi networks.
The most frequently reported issue is an apparently slow internet connection, which doesn't look to influence the previous iOS gadgets that are present in the same network. Even though that problem could be easily alleviated by just switching off LTE option in "settings" as suggested by some consumers, the problem appears extremely annoying, especially to novices.
One consumer in the company's forum asserted that AppleCar is actually well aware of the problem, and is presently attempting to fix the issue, which has resulted mainly due to a software issue. Individual hardware related problems, or even inability to properly attune with some Wi-Fi base stations could be other major reasons for the issue, since not all users of the latest device are confronting problems.
The latest anodized aluminum covering provided with the new Apple device is quite opposing to normal scratching; however, the chamfered border present around the display could wear down, disclosing the glossy bare aluminum below. As recently reported by AllThingsD, there have been general claims among the consumers regarding nicks, scratches, and other marks on the device's anodized surface. AllThingsD has also mentioned that the aluminum casing of new iPhone5 gadget fails to provide the same superior scratch-resistant ability as that of the stainless steel casing that was used in both iPhone 4 and 4S devices.


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Think "Las Vegas culture" is an oxymoron? Sin City's monthly First Friday festivals will suggest otherwise. Visitors seeking proof need look no farther than downtown's burgeoning Arts District and its growing number of galleries.
The next one is--surprise!--Friday and begins at 5 p.m. and lasts about five hours. It takes over several square blocks around Charleston Boulevard and Main Street, just a few blocks northwest of the Stratosphere.
The monthly festival, now in its 11th year, features the works of more than 75 artists and 15 live bands, plus DJs providing additional music from four stages.
The January event will include KidZone, an area in which families can get art lessons from some of the cartoon animators at the Chuck Jones Experience, an attraction at Circus Circus. Stephen Fishwick, an artist with Disney Fine Art, will be creating a large-scale painting as budding artists observe.


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Posted Oct. 11, 2008 – Two years ago the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the word "planet" in a way that gave Pluto the boot. It was quick and seemingly final. NASA's illustrated card containing all the planets, published for educators, was immediately reissued with Pluto airbrushed out, as if in an old Stalinist photo.
The demotion of Pluto to a "dwarf planet," as if to join all the other Disney dwarfs, sparked considerable public controversy. Most folks even now lament Pluto's disappearance; many astronomers have protested the IAU's decision, as well. But many other planetary astronomers continue to support it.
I'm in the latter group. When we learned in 1978 just how tiny Pluto really is – only a bit more than half the diameter of our moon – and recall that its orbit has a wildly different appearance from all the other planets, we wondered if it truly belonged with the rest. But we stayed silent. Why disturb the long-established order? What was the harm?
But then new bodies started to be found beyond Pluto. Some virtually matched Pluto's size, and finally astronomers found an even larger one. Suddenly we had Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, and now Makemake, and there was no end in sight. Now we had a problem. If Pluto remained a planet, and these others match or exceed Pluto's size, and are just as round, they would have to be planets too. We'd have 13 planets, then soon 40, and eventually hundreds. Kids would no longer be able to memorize them.
It made far more sense to create new, separate categories. There'd be eight big planets, all orbiting within 7 ½ degrees of the Earth-Sun plane, with orbits that are more circular than oval. Then we'd have a separate "dwarf" class for much smaller bodies with very elliptical orbits. There'd be a third category for objects with too little weight to even be round in size, like the asteroids or the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO's) that probably number in the hundreds or even thousands, beyond Pluto.
Works for me. But some folks won't give up. That's why, in recognition of the need for further scientific debate on planet definition, more than 100 scientists and educators representing a wide range of viewpoints converged for three days at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University for "The Great Planet Debate: Science as Process" conference, sponsored by NASA, the Planetary Science Institute, The Planetary Society, and other heavy hitters.
Steve Maran, the official spokesperson, whom I know personally, wrote that "different positions were advocated, ranging from reworking the IAU definition (but yielding the same outcome of eight planets), replacing it with a geophysical-based definition (that would increase the number of planets well beyond eight), and rescinding the definition for planet altogether and focusing on defining subcategories for serving different purposes."
It was almost a food fight. Neil Tyson of New York's Natural History museum thought that the very word "planet" has outlived its usefulness and should be discarded, and replaced with a new term.
Renu Malhotra, a University of Arizona astronomer said, "I think the IAU made a mistake getting into the business of defining a widely used word, 'planet,' and sowing confusion thereby. Scientifically, the useful discussion would be about categories of planets (e.g., gaseous planets, rocky planets, dwarf planets, icy planets. . .and an individual celestial body may fall into more than one category). This approach would address the main practical problem of nomenclature without confusing the public about 'planet' itself."
Still others thought the present situation is the best compromise.
The windup? The conference ended and no consensus was reached. Nothing will change. Too bad Mickey Mouse wasn't around to sum it all up: Goodbye Pluto.


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Once too bashful to share her work with the Acadiana art community, artist Gwen Voorhies' exploration in brighter colors reflects deep thought and humble confidence.
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Multiple ABI Support
Support for multiple ABIs has been partially integrated into Portage and the Gentoo gcc wrapper (part of sys-devel/gcc-config) and has been enabled in some system profiles. Extended Multiple ABI is available as part of multilib.eclass. This page documents this functionality so it can be more easily understood, used and improved.
Core ABI Support
Portage and some system profiles currently contain a very small set of changes so that multiple ABIs can be targeted by Portage. In addition, Gentoo's gcc "wrapper" (part of sys-devel/gcc-config) has a key feature in it to enable this multiple ABI support -- this functionality is detailed later in this section. This implements the core minimal multiple ABI functionality.
In practice, this capability, combined with the gcc-wrapper's ABI support, can come in handy for directing Portage to build libraries for the non-default ABI, using the appropriate directories so that the resultant .tbz2 file can be manually installed on your system without overwriting the libraries for the default ABI. An example of this approach is documented later in this section. This support is also useful when it is necessary for the ebuild to direct the system to create 32-bit versions of some applications that may not be compatible with 64-bit multilib systems, and supports the ability for the ebuild to reliably compile both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of certain applications when necessary.
Core ABI: econf()
Portage's econf() function has support for automatically specifying the proper --libdir= setting to configure based on settings that are found in the system profile. The intended purpose of automatically setting --libdir= is designed so that 64-bit libraries will be installed into /usr/lib64 on multilib systems, and 32-bit libraries will be installed into /usr/lib32 on multilib systems, rather than simply installing these libraries into /usr/lib.
While this functionality has questionable value for most normal ebuilds (since a library installed into /usr/lib will work just as well as one installed into /usr/lib64 on an amd64 multilib system,) this functionality likely comes in handy when building the app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* binary library bundles to support 32-bit applications, as it allows the ABI to be set in the environment, and in combination with the gcc wrapper will cause 32-bit libraries to be built and installed to /usr/lib32.
Core ABI: Gcc Wrapper
It is important to note that Gentoo Linux uses a gcc wrapper as a front-end for all calls to gcc, and this wrapper is part of the sys-devel/gcc-config ebuild. One of the features of the wrapper is that it determines whether the ABI variable has been defined in the environment, and if it has, the wrapper will automatically ensure that the CFLAGS variable that the compiler sees is actually the CFLAGS_$ABI variable, which originates from the system profile. On amd64 multilib systems, this means that a call to ABI="x86" gcc will result in an extra -m32 option being passed to gcc to force it to produce 32-bit code. The -m32 option will generally not appear in the build log, which may cause some confusion for developers. This is a critical component of the multiple ABI support in Gentoo and Funtoo Linux.
Core ABI: Working Together
The algorithm used by econf() works as follows: A system profile (or the user, via the environment) sets the ABI variable to a value like amd64 or x86. A corresponding ABI-specific variable named LIBDIR_$ABI (e.g. LIBDIR_x86) will be used from the system profile, and will be set to either lib32, lib64 or lib. This will be used to define the target --libdir setting used by econf(). This will allow the system profile to control exactly where libraries are installed when building them for a particular ABI, as long as the ebuild author uses econf() (part of core Portage) or get_libdir() (part of multilib.eclass.)
In addition, the ABI variable set in the environment will cause the gcc-wrapper to adjust the CFLAGS variable, by using the CFLAGS_$ABI variable to tell the multilib-aware gcc to target the alternate ABI. With ABI="x86" on amd64 multilib systems, this will cause -m32 to be appended to the CFLAGS variable, which will instruct gcc to produce 32-bit code.
Core ABI: Demonstration
To test the multiple ABI functionality on an amd64 multilib system, you can execute the following command:
# ABI="x86" emerge --buildpkgonly sys-libs/zlib
If you compare the libz shared library in the resultant .tbz2 package ot the one installed in /lib64, you'll note that the one in the .tbz2 is 32-bit while the one in /lib64 is 64-bit:
ninja1 lib32 # file libz.so.1.2.5 libz.so.1.2.5: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped ninja1 lib32 # file /lib/libz.so.1.2.5 /lib/libz.so.1.2.5: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
It is important to note that Gentoo's gcc wrapper (part of sys-devel/gcc-config) instructs gcc to produce 32-bit code by silently passing (not visible in the build output, due to the wrapper design)a -m32 option to all compiler calls.
Note that you should not install the 32-bit zlib .tbz2 package on a 64-bit multilib system, as it will replace the critical 64-bit zlib binaries on your system. Portage's /var/db/pkg database does not allow side-by-side installations of packages that were built against different ABIs. However, this Portage functionality can be used to build 32-bit libraries when needed, which can be installed via manual extraction of the resultant .tbz2 file to the root filesystem.
Extended ABI Support
Beyond the core functionality, the multilib.eclass (which is inherited as part of the ubiquitous eutils.eclass) contains a more significant set of code to support multiple ABIs, which appears to be designed to be eventually merged into the Portage core. This means that latent multiple ABI support is available in Portage and can be used without inheriting multilib.eclass for "regular" ebuilds, but ebuilds that need more control over the ABI configuration can inherit multilib.eclass for access to a significant number of helper functions. If you want to use multilib.eclass, first familiarize yourself with the changes in Portage that exist that support multilib.eclass functionality, which are documented in this section. Then you will have a much easier time understanding multilib.eclass.
ABI Profile Variables
The following variables are supported on a limited number of architectures - namely, those that have different ABIs available. These include Sparc, PowerPC and PC-compatible x86/amd64 architectures.
- Defines the name of the current ABI for which packages should be built. This variable is recognized by the gcc wrapper - see "Core gcc wrapper ABI support", below.
- Defines the name of the default ABI for which packages should be built.
- This consists of a space-separated string of one or more ABIs that are supported on the current system. Amd64 multilib systems will have this set to amd64 x86
ABI-Specific Profile Variables
These variables have a suffix (represented below by *) that is set based on the ABI that the particular setting is for. For example, LIBDIR_amd64 would set the library directory name for the amd64 ABI. The rationale for this naming convention is that it allows settings for multiple architectures to be defined together in a single file, and multiple ABI settings to exist on a system that may support multiple ABIs.
- Note: this variable is used by the gcc wrapper when ABI is defined in the environment.
Note that a number of these functions can probably be replaced with enhanced profile settings, as all they do is spit out canned values based on the setting of one variable or another. They are also prime candidates for inclusion into the Portage core, possibly with some reworking or deprecation so that as many of these as possible are replaced with "dead" variables rather than "live" code.
- has_multilib_profile()
- This is a boolean function that returns 0 (true) if multiple ABIs are defined in the MULTILIB_ABIS variable; otherwise 1 (false).
- get_libdir()
- Returns the "lib" directory name to use, based on the current setting of ABI. For example, on amd64 multilib systems, this will typically return lib64, and is typically used in src_configure() like this: ./configure --libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir).
- get_modname()
- Used by some ebuilds that generate dynamically-loadable modules, called "bundles" on MacOS X. ELF (used by Linux) makes no differentiation between the handling of shared libraries and loadable modules (or their file extension, which is ".so",) but Mach (MacOS X) does. MacOS X bundles cannot be linked against, but can be dynamically loaded using the dyld API. Apple also recommends that they have an extension of ".bundle" rather than ".so". This function will return ".bundle" for Darwin (Mach) systems, and ".so" for everything else. For more information, see MacOS X Guide For Unix Geeks.
- get_libname()
- Used by a handful of ebuilds to determine the proper suffix for shared libraries on the current system. This function has various hard-coded values depending on the value of CHOST. For example, Darwin systems will get an echoed value of ".dylib" while Linux systems will get a value of ".so". Accepts an optional version argument that will be properly appended to the output.
- multilib_env()
- Used by toolchain.eclass, gnatbuild.eclass and the glibc ebuild - sets up environment variables for using a cross-compiler. Accepts a single argument - the target architecture in GNU format.
- multilib_toolchain_setup()
- In practice, this function is used exclusively to target a non-default x86 ABI on amd64 multilib systems. It accepts one argument, the name of an ABI, or default as a shorthand for the default system ABI. It will configure environment variables so the x86 (or other) compiler is targeted, and also backs up all modified variables so they can be restored later. It is typically used to allow non-64-bit-compatible code to still be installed on amd64 multilib systems, by adding the following to the top of src_configure():
src_configure() { use amd64 && multilib_toolchain_setup x86 # we're now building a 32-bit app on a 64-bit system, whee! econf }
ABI Support Limitations
Only a handful of applications leverage the more sophisticated functionality available in multilib.eclass, and Gentoo Linux currently uses binary bundles of 32-bit libraries to provide support for 32-bit applications on 64-bit multilib systems, rather than using Portage functionality to build these components from source. One possible explanation for this approach is that Portage currently does not allow applications to be slotted on ABI -- that is, a 32-bit and 64-bit version of sys-libs/zlib cannot co-exist in the Portage /var/db/pkg database, even if they do not overwrite one another on the filesystem when installed. There may be other possible reasons why building 32-bit packages from source remains unfeasible in Gentoo Linux, and will be documented here as they are discovered.


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The Viper goes about its business a bit differently. It is more brute force than sophistication. No fancy dual clutch gearbox, no high revving V8, instead a big 8.4 liter V10 with 640 horsepower mated to a classic manual gearbox. The interior lacks the sophistication of the SLS AMG but it also lacks the sticker shock of the SLS Black Series undercutting it by almost $200k. You could have two Vipers and quite a bit of spare change for the price of the SLS AMG Black Series.
That said, these are performance cars so what are the numbers? Acceleration figures are in the favor of the SLS AMG Black Series. The Viper manages 0-60 in 3.5 seconds and the 1/4 mile in email@example.com. It's fast. The SLS AMG is faster with 0-60 in 3.2 seconds and the 1/4 mile coming in email@example.com. Impressive, unless one is about $ per performance which in which case these are two cars they are not cross shopping.
MotorTrend gets the weight wrong it's basically a wash. They quote the SLS Black Series at 37XX whereas Mercedes-Benz lists it at 3417. A mistake, but one MotorTrend should not be making.
What about around the track? The Viper's Laguna Seca laptime is a very nice 1:36.42. It is said to not be as planted as the SLS AMG which manages a 1:35.03. That's a pretty large difference and the Black Series better be quicker around the track for what Mercedes-Benz is charging. It's a phenomenal car. Both of these cars are.


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toddschechter needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Kalicon Pictures: pre-branded website KaliconPictures.com
I am a 28 year old Male NYC native who has worked in film , broadcast & online video since '02. I founded & run a non-profit & am currently earning a Masters in Management & Administration.
I see a market opportunity to leverage my unique mix of media, management, communications and strategy skills to help people achieve their goals. Through Kalicon Pictures I plan to help people find media tools they can use to enhance their businesses.
If you think you can design a brand an brand collateral that evokes dedicated professionalism, strategic genius, attention to detail, & a creative, fun loving team environment focused on results read on.
I have come to 99designs because I need your help to make this vision a reality. How we extend this brand is critically important. It will inform our coming web design, future motion graphics and the future production of any business related materials. Our brand will play an integral role in our growth efforts and have a lasting impact on this company.
I know what I want the brand to evoke. I have ideas on how to get there. But, I am totally open to others. I seen designers create something I would have never thought of that I love more than once so feel free to get creative.
I offer every entrant a guarantee to promptly answer any questions you might have, to give your entries full, detailed feedback, & to do whatever else I can to help you make your entries the best they can be.
Thank you
video can help people improve sales, presentations, trainings, events, websites, fundraising & almost always the bottom line
Our tag line: harness the power of video
we aim to be the go-to video partner repeat clients can trust. to build towards that we will serve many clients with "one-time" projects well enough to bring them back for more.
We serve:
B2B, Retail, Service Businesses and Consultants...
who want to comm. better with prospective clients, customers, partners, staff, investors +more
who want to comm. Better with prospective donors, volunteers, foundations, staff members, board members +more
Government sector clients...
who want to comm. Better with prospective voters, supporters, campaign workers, the public +more
We are targeting:
1) Direct clients - Small/Medium sized business, organizations and independent consultants who have either never hired a production company before or might have but do not have a go-to partner
2) Intermediaries - Website Development, Marketing and Brand Consulting Companies will help us reach new clients. In return they will be able to offer their clients a discount and their relationship with us as added value
We offer: sales testimonials, event trigger films, training videos, web videos, video interviews, fundraising videos, group travel promotion videos & video brand strategy consultations and more.
I aim to leave this contest with a clear direction for our bran, with business cards I can bring to the printer and other brand collateral off of which to work.
Final entries should consider brand application on all of the following:
>business cards - messaging & design are equally important. include logo, name, position, email/website, ph. & fx. Best entries will also include info. on how video can help them & why they should hire us (ex: testimonial or positioning statement)**. Rarely, designers find aesthetic ways to include faces on cards(examples included in resources - see below). This is good for maximizing yield after conferences & networking events but only try it only if it fits with the rest of the brand somehow^
>stationary - include logo, tag, contact info., & some info. on what we offer and/or space for a testimonial
>forms & docs - incl. invoice forms & proposal docs^
>DVD & media storage cases/labels (need a case/sleeve style choice that fits the brand AND media storage labels^
>PPT/Keynote branded template
>a Branded Flip [a new client giveaway]^
if you feel ambitious I would also love to see how the brand extends to:
>other brand related client gifts^
>sales brochures or 1pager
>or website homepage
^files that will be helpful to you are available for download at http://www.kaliconpictures.com/resources.html the files include our logo, font files, images, copy & examples. While there check out our site to learn more about us.
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SAN JOSE — The owners of a San Jose pet store are pleading with residents to help them find a guinea pig that was taken from their store.
Employees at Andy's Pet Shop have taken to social media to ask for help finding "Jenny," a 5-year-old black and white Abyssinian breed guinea pig who went missing Wednesday. Jenny has a white streak down the front of her face and orange markings around her head, according to the pet shop.
Jenny was rescued from a Bay Area shelter and has been put up for adoption with another guinea pig, named "Rose." The pet shop said the guinea pigs are bonded companions, meaning they rely on one another for stability and happiness.
The pet shop added that they are afraid whoever took Jenny will use her for breeding, despite the fact that at her age, she can no longer safely deliver babies and would likely not survive labor.
Anyone who knows where Jenny may be can contact Andy's Pet Shop at 408-297-0840 or North Star Rescue at email@example.com.
Jenny can be returned to Andy's Pet Shop, located at 51 Notre Dame Avenue in San Jose.
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- Words by Mr Colin McDowell
Mr Bunny Roger was a man of contradictions. He had all the grandeur of the scion of a long line of aristocratic privilege yet his father Sir Alexander Roger's working-class childhood was so poor that he frequently went barefoot. But Sir Alexander did not remain poor for long. A gifted entrepreneur and businessman, he became very rich and was knighted in 1917 for his contribution to the war effort. He fathered three sons, Alan, Neil and Alexander, none of whom had any interest in following in their father's footsteps. The least likely to do so was Neil, always known as Bunny, a nickname that was bestowed when he was a child because his nanny used to call him her little bunny, and which was with him until death.
A vividly unique man even in a family as unusual as his, Mr Roger showed an interest in personal display and glamour very early in life and was fully encouraged by his family, including his rather stern and down-to-earth father and his starchy, snobby mother. It might have been imagined that their son's rather feminine interests as a child would be anathema to them, but far from it. For a reward for making the school team, his parents bought him a doll's house, which joined the fairy costume that he had received for his sixth birthday with a promise of a fairy wand to follow.
Mr Roger in a Hardy Amies studio portrait, 1953. Courtesy Hardy Amies Archive
Mr Roger went to Oxford, but with no thought of serious study. Affected and effeminate, he was celebrated as a "beauty" at a time when class, style and even intellectual probity were frequently linked with outrageously homosexual posings, of which Mr Roger must have been quite advanced even in a climate described by Mr Evelyn Waugh as dominated by "lesbian tarts and joyboys". Almost inevitably, with hindsight, Mr Roger was sent down from Balliol accused of usual practices, but he left with no sense of shame and continued to follow his own inclinations. The family was so phenomenally wealthy and the parents remarkably indifferent to the behaviour of their sons that such a check in his education and future job prospects - if, as seems unlikely, he had ever given them a thought - meant that leaving Oxford under a cloud had no effect at all on Mr Roger's lifestyle. There was no problem with money, no cutting off without a penny for bringing shame on the Roger name. His hedonistic lifestyle worried neither his brothers nor his parents, who travelled constantly, renting grand houses for their stays in the United Kingdom, and taking a totally laissez-faire attitude to their sons. It would be true to say that Mr Roger and his siblings lived their lives doing whatsoever they wished, untrammelled by any lack of funds. As a family friend once said, "Everything was charged to Fortnums".
In 1937 Mr Rogers opened a dress establishment with the encouragement of his friend Sir Hardy Amies and a cheque from his father for a thousand pounds. In no time, he had a very "Bunny" clientele from the upper classes and the theatre world, including Ms Vivien Leigh and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. Unfortunately, it closed at the beginning of WWII when Mr Roger went off to war - perhaps the most unlikely episode in a life already entirely unlikely. Mr Roger proved a great success in the army (after, one imagines, the initial shock had calmed down) and became famed for his bravery in action, not least, perhaps, in his claim to go into battle heavily rouged, with a mauve chiffon scarf wrapped seductively around his helmet and brandishing a copy of the latest Vogue. But it is not surprising. Under the exterior calm, Mr Roger had the two things the army needs in a soldier under fire - confidence and guts. Describing Anzio, he said, "There were pieces of people flying past my nose and I thought, 'this is perfectly awful but not as bad as being at school'."
He claimed to go into battle heavily rouged, with a mauve chiffon scarf wrapped seductively around his helmet, brandishing a copy of the latest Vogue
After the war, Mr Roger returned to London and worked with Sir Hardy in an ad hoc role involving an almost ceaseless social round, for which he was always immaculately dressed in clothes of such sartorial perfection that they were the epitome of Savile Row tailoring. Virtually everything was made for him by the firm Watson, Fagerstrom & Hughes, which apparently didn't turn a hair at his colourful choice of suitings, such as apple green checks, mustard velvet, rose green jersey and deep purple wool alongside the Highland dress which he wore with immaculate attention to every detail. He actually owned five kilts at the time of his death in 1997, all in the correct tartans, but he looked even more amazing at his birthday parties in the slinky evening dresses he designed for himself in homage to Ms Marlene Dietrich. He worshipped her ambiguous androgyny and matched her waist size right up to the day he died. In the 1960s it was 29", and 20 years later it had gone up by only two inches.
A man of contradictions, indeed, but truly a man for all seasons who would have been at home in virtually any period and society from the 15th century to today, Mr Roger lived his life courageously and consistently. There is a story that, although probably apocryphal, sums up his sang-froid. As Mr Roger got out of a taxi one day and powdered his nose, his driver said, "Watch out, you've dropped your diamond necklace." Mr Roger replied haughtily, "Diamonds? With tweeds? Never." Despite all, he had a larger influence on how men dressed than might have been imagined. He was one of the leading lights of the neo-Edwardian movement in the 1950s, an attempt to bring back into fashion the precise tailoring of the turn of the century. It largely failed, but it gave rise to a pastiche version on the backs of the teddy boys, and their influence on how men viewed clothes had a huge impact. Mr Roger, although a terrible snob, would have liked that. He never forgot the life his father suffered when young. When Sir Cecil Beaton was photographing him in the West End once, he asked him to step off the pavement into the gutter. Quick as a flash, Mr Roger retorted, "Not on your life! We've spent two generations getting out of the gutter!" That was so Bunny Roger, a man who knew who, what and why he was - and who lived up to all three queries throughout his vividly original life.


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Bible-believing Israelis were outraged this week when local media reported that a prankster had opened a new Facebook profile for God.
The profile was created in Hebrew under the name "Yahweh", the four-letter Hebrew name of God, also known in English as the tetragrammaton.
Posing as the Almighty, the page's creator regularly posts remarks poking fun at Judaism and its adherents.
"Will now try to break personal-best set 5,772 years ago and create the world in only five days," read one of the page's status updates. In response to angry comments, the author questioned, "How can you be so sure I'm not 'Yahweh,' the one true God? You don't doubt page after page of fairy tales written in the Torah. Is an online page by God that unbelievable? Explanation, anyone?"
Without divulging his real name, the author of the page spoke to Israel's Ynet news portal, revealing that he also runs another Facebook fan page under the title "Atheists, how do you do."
The man admitted to formerly being religious himself, but said he now believes "that the world would be a better place without religion."
"I'm fighting religion with its own tools," he said. "I don't know of any other way in which you can deal with religious claims, which I find to be irrational."
He then turned around and said he didn't understand why people were so upset by his mockery, and claimed to have received numerous death threats.
So far, 5,000 of Israel's more secular citizens have "Liked" the page, though its author said he has no doubt Facebook will eventually take the side of those opposing his prank and shut down the "Yahweh" profile.
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Nice Neocon glurge, there.I should also point out that the US is the only country that has definitively proven itself untrustworthy in the realm of nuclear weapons -- it's the only country that's yet been wicked enough to use them offensively, and against civilians, no less.
I hope and believe that we still have the determination to use our entire Nuclear Arsenal in the same manner, though with a wider scope than we did in WWII...and without hesitation.
If Iran used nuclear weapons, and we used nuclear weapons against them for it, would Russia be justified in using nuclear weapons against us for using them against Iran? Nuclear weapons are so devastating, and so indiscriminate, that I argue that there is no use of them that can be justified. (The same goes, I might add, for many conventional weapons and wartime tactics. The firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden were crimes equal to, if not greater than, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
As a major nuclear power Russia could retaliate against the United States and bring about Armageddon if she really thinks that Iran is worth getting herself destroyed, because we would, without a doubt, retaliate if Russia decided to launch nuclear weapons our way...and they know that as well as we do.
But if they're not willing to fight by those traditional rules of war our hands cannot be tied by them either and we must understand that there are no Civilians in modern war. Every citizen of the enemy's country is either a potential/current soldier/guerilla or an enemy logistics unit that is helping supply the army or maintain the national economy...it's all too integrated to make the division between civilian and military...factories and farms are just as much military targets as military bases and airfields.
The question is not whether Russia would actually bomb us, but whether she would be justified in doing so, on the same grounds that you argue we would be justified in bombing Iran.
Congratulations. You have adequately summed up all that is evil about modern warfare.It is better to be right, than to be victorious.
it's how things are, neither inherently right nor wrong.
So there are to be no standards of morality in war?
Welp, I'm done here. Have fun killing civilians.
Yeah it is terrifying. This coming from someone studying at Holy Cross, too. I wonder if the walls are padded there.ÂÂ
This coming from someone studying at Holy Cross, too. I wonder if the walls are padded there.
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Yeah it is terrifying. This coming from someone studying at Holy Cross, too. I wonder if the walls are padded there.
The Holy Cross seminarians might be interested to know that forum member Serge (young fogey) is suggesting various things about them on a third party site he runs: http://sergesblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/neocon-glurge-from-niall-ferguson.htmlJust thought it was fair to point that out in case any of those commented on wish to respond there.Anastasios
Point taken and blog entry modified accordingly for fairness' sake. Peace.
Even if one disagrees with the use of nuclear weapons against cities on account of collateral damage; what rational reason is there to oppose their use against a military base or against an army in the field which are surely legitimate targets in time of war.
1) The extremely long half life of radioactive contamination makes nuclear weapons lethal not only in the present, but for future generations who have nothing to do with the war- unlike conventional weapons other than landmines and unexploded shells.2) Land becomes unusable with nuclear weapons, unlike conventional weapons other than landmines and unexploded shells.
3) No nuclear weapon can be deployed to affect only an area as small as an army base, or an army in the field, unlike conventional weapons, therefore "colateral damage" is unavoidable with nuclear weapons.
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Snapshot 29 April–5 May 2015
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Snapshot 9–14 April 2015
Afghanistan: Security incidents have spiked in early April, after the announcement that more NATO troops would remain in the country than originally scheduled. NATO convoys were targeted in Nangarhar and Kabul on 10 April. On the same day, five NGO staff were found dead, having been abducted in Uruzgan province in early March.
Snapshot 18-24 March 2015
Syria: The Government carried out over 10,000 airstrikes between October and March, dropping more than 5,300 barrel bombs and killing almost 2,200 civilians. A chlorine attack on 16 March in Idleb killed six people.
Snapshot 11–17 March 2015
Vanuatu: 24 people are confirmed dead so far after Tropical Cyclone Pam hit on 13 March. Shefa, Tafea, Malampa, and Penama are among the worst affected provinces. Access challenges are significant.
Cameroon: The number of people internally displaced in the north has almost doubled since 10 February, to 117,000. This brings the number of displaced in Cameroon to an estimated 412,700, including 66,000 fleeing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria and the rest from the Central African Republic.
Iraq: 26,000 people have fled fighting between Islamic State and Iraqi security forces in Tikrit for Samarra. Food, shelter, health and WASH needs are priorities. More than 100 families have arrived in Al Dour, located between Tikrit and Samarra, and thousands have fled to central and southern governorates.
South Sudan: Heavy fighting between government and opposition was reported in Upper Nile state, and government troops took control of Wadakona town. Many civilians are reported trapped. Peace talks have collapsed.
Afghanistan: Heavy snowfall has caused avalanches in northern, central and eastern Afghanistan; 280 people have died. Panshir province is most affected. Communication lines have been disrupted in places, power supplies to Kabul have been cut. Priority needs are for NFIs and emergency shelter; access to isolated areas is difficult.
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Snapshot 11–17 February 2015
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DRC: 30,000 refugees have fled CAR for Equateur province since December. In North Kivu, 18,000 new IDPs need humanitarian assistance; another 21,000 are in need in South Kivu. Nationwide, food security is worsening: over one-third of territories are in Crisis or Emergency phases.
Snapshot 21-27 January
Nigeria: Boko Haram attacks continue, with Borno state capital Maiduguri and nearby military bases targeted on 25 January. Security forces pushed BH back from Maiduguri, but further attacks are expected. BH also raided villages in Michika local government area, Adamawa state. There are reports that BH has forbidden the use of vehicles in areas under its control.
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