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By Casey Seidenberg
I have a 2-year-old who spends most Saturdays, and I don't mean just an hour here or an hour there, at her older brothers' sporting events. Such is the life of a third child, especially one who joined the family almost a decade later than her siblings. Instead of fighting the fact that she eats countless meals on a blanket and not at a table, I am embracing it by compiling a roster of healthful foods that she can eat on the sidelines.
For a food to make my roster, it must meet a few criteria. It must not be messy, as I don't want to wash her picnic blanket every Saturday. It must be transportable, tasty at room temperature and, of course, healthful. Anyone with a toddler knows how much they insist on doing things on their own, so my daughter must be able to eat these foods without needing to master the art of the fork. And if she is happily feeding herself, I can have one eye on the field, which means I can tell my boys that, in fact, I did see that fabulous play they made.
Brown rice balls match all of these criteria. The brown rice offers iron, B vitamins, fiber and minerals such as manganese, selenium and magnesium.
The sesame seeds are tiny in size, but they aren't small on nutrition. They provide nutrients that our bodies need for proper functioning, especially calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorous, zinc, Vitamin B1 and fiber. The fibers in sesame seeds have been shown to lower cholesterol levels and prevent high blood pressure.
If made with mashed black beans, they tender a nice dose of protein, too.
So pack these for your next sporting event or road trip, or in your child's lunchbox. I made these for my daughter's preschool class and went home with an empty plate.
3/4 cup brown rice 1/4 cup sweet brown rice or sushi rice (see headnote) 1 to 1 1/4 teaspoons fine sea salt, plus more for the cooking water 1 cup toasted sesame seeds Directions:
Cook the brown rice and sweet brown rice or sushi rice (separately) according to the package directions; if salt is not called for, add 1/4 teaspoon to each pot. Let cool to room temperature; blend the two kinds of rice together in a bowl.
Combine the toasted sesame seeds and the 1 to 1 1/4 teaspoons salt in a mini food processor; pulse until finely ground. (Alternatively, grind them using a mortar and pestle.) Spread about half the mixture a plate; reserve the rest for another use.
Moisten your hands with water, then divide the rice into 14 or 15 balls of equal size. Roll each ball in the sesame seed-salt mixture, until evenly coated.
Serve right away, or cover and refrigerate for up to 5 days.
To make life simpler, use the condiment Gomasio (http://www.edenfoods.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=26_48&products_id=104260&eID=j1fegakgkam7arj1e0ba0e7m05) instead of the sesame salt topping. The seaweed version adds a little extra flavor and nutrition. Or for added protein, combine a handful of mashed black beans with the rice before shaping.
Make Ahead:
The rice balls can be refrigerated in a container for up to 3 days. You'll have leftover sesame coating. which can be used to flavor popcorn or tossed into a pot of lentils or quinoa. It can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Makes 14 to 15 balls
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30 April 2013
HALO fly-over: At 22 metres high, HALO flies over the experiment. In the smoke, the two wake vortices are visible.
These powerful vortices can disrupt sensitive equipment close to the aircraft's path along a runway and also damage buildings. Smaller aircraft are especially sensitive to the wake vortices created by larger 'jumbo' jets, so they must maintain a greater safety separation.
Secondary vortices form on the approximately four-metre-long plates, which causes the primary wake turbulence to dissipate significantly faster.
Wake turbulence simulation for an Airbus A340 on final approach, just before touchdown. Below the aircraft, a 'Plate Line' can be seen. DLR has developed a globally unique method to simulate the flow around the aircraft with the creation of vortices, their further development and eventual dissipation. Here, the vortices are shown during their formation – prior to decay.
Currently, safety considerations related to wake vortices force pilots of small and medium-sized aircraft to maintain a separation of about 10 kilometres from heavier planes flying ahead of them. Soon, up to twice as many commercial aircraft could land on runways in good weather without endangering one another. For the first time, on 29 and 30 April, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) tested - under real flight conditions - a process that can break down potentially dangerous wake vortices over a runway significantly faster. To do this, they used a patented configuration of parallel ground plates as well as a laser-based wake vortex measurement system.
"The construction of new runways at existing airports is intrinsically linked with immense effort, even in the planning and decision-making phases. Space is often scarce, and residential areas are affected by such an expansion," says Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the DLR Executive Board. "If it becomes possible to land aircraft with reduced separation between them while maintaining current levels of safety - thereby avoiding construction of additional runways through making more effective use of the existing facilities - then it is an advantage for both airports and the nearby communities. Research flights recently performed by DLR are an important step in this direction."
Wing-tip vortices
Wake vortices are long-lasting turbulence generated behind an aircraft; they develop at the wing tips, where the higher-pressure air on the underside of the wing moves to the lower pressure region on the wing's upper surface. These powerful vortices can disrupt sensitive equipment close to the aircraft's path along a runway and also damage buildings. Smaller aircraft are especially sensitive to the wake vortices created by larger 'jumbo' jets, so they must maintain a greater safety separation.
A trick with plates
While vortices that are formed in higher air layers usually sink, drift away and then dissipate, they occasionally persist for some time in front of the runway threshold, just above the ground - exactly where following aircraft are preparing to land. Project manager Frank Holzäpfel from the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics explains the advantage of the new technique: "To dissipate vortices in front of the runway more quickly, we have developed 'Plate Line', a system of parallel plates arranged one after another. Secondary vortices form on the approximately four-metre-long plates, which causes the primary wake turbulence to dissipate significantly faster."
The DLR HALO research aircraft, a modified Gulfstream G550, flew just 22 metres above the row of plates during the measurement campaign. Using smoke, the researchers could demonstrate how the otherwise invisible wake vortices weakened faster over the plates in the test area. They recorded the behaviour of the wake vortices with laser instruments (lidar) for subsequent analyses. "The patented procedure already performed excellently in the laboratory and in numerical simulations," says Holzäpfel, now pleased with the successful demonstration.
Wake vortex warning system
Heavy winds, convection or stable temperature stratification can cause ascending wake vortices to occur along the final approach path to an airport. "In order to counter this additional danger for closely-spaced approaches, we have developed a wake vortex prediction and observation system that has already been tested at Munich and Frankfurt/Main airports," adds Holzäpfel. The Plate Line and the warning system complement each other as parts of a comprehensive approach to increasing wake vortex safety.
After this first demonstration, the Plate Line will be tested at a commercial airport. The size of the plates must then be adjusted to cope with the stronger wake vortices of heavier commercial aircraft. The goal is to develop a system approved by the aviation authorities, which can then be gradually installed at airports.
About HALO
The HALO research aircraft is a joint initiative involving German environmental and climate research institutions. HALO is supported by grants from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the German Science Foundation (DFG), the Helmholtz Association (HGF), the Max Planck Society (MPG), the Leibniz Association, the Free State of Bavaria, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (GFZ), the Jülich Research Centre and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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HOUSTON - Brooks County is a less than five-hour drive from Houston, but the rural community of just over 7,200 people is facing an overwhelming amount of crime. High-speed chases, smugglers and a rising body count has become a fact of life in a county made up largely of ranchers and farmers.
"We have a lot to contend with," said Brooks County Chief Deputy Urbino Martinez. "It takes a toll."
Houston's connection to this rise in crime can be clearly seen in the 250 cars kept in the sheriff's office's impound lot.
"There's criminal acts involving every vehicle that's here," said Martinez.
Martinez said 95 percent of the cars the county has seized this year as part of human, drug and weapons smuggling were originally stolen out of the Houston area.
"The connection between us and Houston, it's almost like you would have to say 'neighboring,'" said Martinez.
In addition to Martinez and Sheriff Rey Rodriguez, Brooks County has only four full-time patrol deputies and one investigator to cover 944 square miles of highway, back roads and ranch land. Martinez said deputies have to work 12-hour shifts to keep up with all the crime running through the county.
"Whether it's human smuggling, drug smuggling, or both at the same time, it's phenomenal," said sheriff's investigator Daniel Davila. "They are coming in droves."
Brooks County averages two high-speed chases every day involving either drugs or human smuggling. This year, the county is also contending with 60 missing person cases and 116 bodies of illegal immigrants found murdered or dead from exposure. Sheriff's office records show the number of bodies found in Brooks County in 2012 has more than doubled from 2011.
"The waste of human life, it makes no sense how people are dying out here," said Davila. "I can only imagine the bodies that are out there that we have yet to discover."
In addition to tying up scant law enforcement resources, the rising number of bodies found in the county is also a financial burden to taxpayers. Sheriff's officials said it costs the county between $1,200 and $1,500 per body. Sheriff's officials said that cost includes investigation, sending each body to another county for autopsy and, in some cases, burying the individuals in the county's cemetery.
"We got maybe 40 unnamed graves out there," said Martinez.
Davila showed Local 2 the piles of debris littering many of the county's ranches. These spots have become outposts for smugglers and illegal immigrants who hide and wait for transport farther north.
Brooks County is about 75 miles north of the border, but crime is funneling into the area because of geography. Davila explained many smugglers make it across the border with people or drugs and then fan out into dense ranch lands to avoid border patrol checkpoints along the highway.
The Sheriff's office contends with so much crime on a daily basis it has had to supplement its annual budget with money from seized assets. Records show the sheriff's office's actual budget for 2011-2012 was $620,186.90. Records also show the office had to spend an additional $387,834 from asset seizure funds just to maintain daily operational costs.
"We're not going to stop just because we don't have the resources," said Davila. "The pay is lousy, and it may sound corny, but this is my home. This is where I like to be, this is where I want to be, this is where I want to try to make things a little bit better."
While it still receives some federal funding through partnerships with surrounding counties, the Brooks County Sheriff's Office recently lost its state Border Star funding for the quarter. Martinez explained that with only a staff of three administrators, who also handle calls for help and take missing persons reports, the office couldn't keep up with all the paperwork required to secure the grant.
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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I was just starting my second company and raising angel money (primarily from people who had invested in the first one), when I got an intro to Josh Kopelman. I arranged a call to get to know him, not to pitch him on the business. We spoke for 30 minutes, spent some time on what I was working on and he said they wanted in to the round. He outlined the due dilligence steps... Amazingly, from there things went very smoothly, we closed the seed round oversubscribed, and they have been a wonderful partner in working with us on a business that is notably more complicated than most of the other deals out there. If you're starting a company, I wouldn't hesitate to encourage you to get an intro to one of the guys at First Round Capital.PRIVATE: Members Only (469 Characters)


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Some Afterthoughts on Open Network Environment, SDN and Overlay Networks
After our Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE) announcement at Cisco live!, where we unveiled our strategy for network programmability, Jim Duffy at NetworkWorld had a very interesting article that asks a key question, "What are the killer apps for software defined networks?" While SDN technology is very exciting and holds a great deal of promise, the answer to that question will ultimately determine how quickly it is adopted and by who. The consensus is that network virtualization or virtual network overlays are one of the early killer apps that software defined networks can certainly enable (when coupled with other technologies), which is exactly why Cisco made virtual overlays one of the three solution pillars of its ONE announcement. As I mentioned in my TechwiseTV video on virtual overlays, the primary use case for SDN/OpenFlow research in universities is also campus network slicing or creating virtual network partitions for test and production environments, e.g., to share a physical network. As noted in Duffy's article, virtual overlays can be done with or without OpenFlow.
In the aftermath of a major launch, after reading the press and analyst coverage of the news, I always ask what we could have made clearer, what could have been highlighted better, or how could we have made the complexity of some of the details easier to understand. One such point that probably could have been clarified is just how "open" the Open Network Environment (what's in a name anyway?). Specifically, regarding our Nexus 1000V virtual overlay framework, there were some comments and questions about how open and interoperable this overlay framework was, especially compared to other vendors touting programmable overlays. One financial analyst firm even stated that our overlay networks had some great advantages, but only worked with Cisco switches.
To correct that misperception, it's important to note that virtual network overlays are designed to be independent of the underlying physical infrastructure, i.e. open and vendor agnostic. And the Nexus 1000V virtual infrastructure is no exception. The Nexus 1000V is a virtual switch that runs on any virtual server (with the right hypervisor), and runs transparent to the underlying physical network, whether there are any physical Cisco switches or not. Again, this is the same as other virtual infrastructure vendors with their own virtual switch, virtual service or virtual tunnel technology. Cisco's virtual overlays based on the Nexus 1000V are completely agnostic to the physical infrastructure. For example, we co-developed and are actively promoting the multi-vendor VXLAN tunneling technology.
The other point that I think was frequently overlooked in all the hoopla was the importance of Layer 4-7 virtual services to the virtual overlay story, and specifically the role of vPath. vPath is a component of the Nexus 1000V virtual switch that enables the integration of virtual service nodes into virtual overlays. vPath is critical to inserting services such as security, WAN optimization or load balancing into the data paths of our virtual networks. These virtual services are again agnostic of the underlying physical infrastructure, so we don't have to rely on partitioning firewall or application delivery controller contexts in physical appliances and stitching them into our networks with VLANs.
These virtual network services run as virtual machines on any virtual server, or the Cisco Nexus 1010 virtual services appliance, a dedicated platform that offloads application servers and gives the network team more control over network policies. VLAN stitching is no longer required to insert services into data center networks. And, in fact, vPath works seamlessly with new VXLAN tunnels to insert services into the newer, much more scalable L2/L3 overlay partitioning technology.
vPath was recently enhanced to support "service chaining", i.e., to create custom paths through multiple services, like a firewall then an application controller, particular to the needs of each virtual application. vPath is so critical to the delivery of complete, open/interoperable virtual overlays with full L4-7 capability that one of the attendees at a panel I hosted at Cisco live asked if Cisco would eventually license its vPath technology outside the Nexus 1000V.
While on the subject of how "open" ONE is, in the interest of full disclosure, I will point out that the onePK component, consisting of API's to Cisco network devices, really is designed only for Cisco platforms, in order to extract value from Cisco-specific capabilities. Meanwhile, ONE supports the OpenFlow standard, OpenStack API's, and will track and include other important SDN multi-vendor technologies going forward. We understand the need of programmers to write applications that will run across many platforms without (much) modification.
In future posts, I hope to touch on other "killer app" use cases for network programmability and Cisco ONE besides virtual overlays in order to illustrate the power of this important new technology and why there's so much enthusiasm about it so far. Drop a note in the comments section as to what you think the early SDN/network programmability killer apps are.
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Tim Rider
So the killer app of SDN is "virtual network overlays"? Sorry Gary, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A Network Overlay in and of itself is just another form of networking. Sure, it can enable more flexibility, extend the diameter of VM mobility. But it's not an application itself.
Also, VNO and SDN don't really have anything to do with one another. We have been doing network overlays (for instance, IPSec/GRE VPNs for VPLS tunnels) long before people started talking about SDN. You don't need SDN to do Virt Network Overlays, and you certainly don't need VNO to SDN-enable the network.
When you are talking about that Cisco OnePK components are really only designed to Cisco platform, does it mean that we won't provide OnePK components to 3rd party's application ?


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Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth Split, Officially End Engagement
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have called it quits on their relationship after almost four years together, her rep confirms to JustJared.com.
The news comes just days after the 20-year-old "Wrecking Ball" singer unfollowed Liam, 23, on Twitter. It also follows months of speculation that the couple were on the rocks.
Miley and Liam were last spotted out together at the premiere of his movie Paranoia last month, a couple weeks before her controversial performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, an awards show which he was noticeably absent from.
In case you missed it, check out Miley on the cover of Harper's Bazaar's latest issue, in which she talks about acting like a kid even though she's an adult.
The news was first reported by People.
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Makes 1 (8 -1/2 by 4-1/2 inch) loaf.
Active time: 25 minutes. Start to finish: 3-1/2 hours. (including cooling)
(I bet this would go well with the above chocolate sauce, if you simply can't go one dessert with out chocolate.)
2-1/4 sticks unsalted butter
2 cups sifted cake flour (not self-rising; sift before measuring-if using all-purpose flour instead, for every cup of cake flour, sub in one cake of all-purpose flour minus 2 Tbsp.)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325ºF with rack in middle. Butter and lightly flour an 8 -1/2 by 4-1/2 inch loaf pan.
Heat butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over medium heat until milk solids on bottom are dark chocolate brown. (It should smell nutty.)
Transfer to a shallow bowl and chill in freezer until just congealed, about 15 minutes.
Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat together brown butter and sugars with an electric mixer until fluffy, about two minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. At low speed, mix in flour mixture until just incorporated.
Transfer batter to pan, smoothing top, then rap pan on counter to settle batter. Bake until golden brown and a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 to 1-1/4 hours. Cool in pan 30 minutes, then invert cake onto a rack and cool completely, right side up, 1 hour.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
David Greene is a hero in a sense. He is one of the reasons J.S. Jenks Elementary School has an art program this year. Because of budget cuts, Jenks no longer has an art teacher on staff, but thanks to volunteers like Greene, a retired Philadelphia school district art teacher, the art program at Jenks continues to flourish.
Greene, who taught for almost 39 years, teaches six classes a day – more than he would teach in a regular school day as a paid teacher. He arrives every Monday and Wednesday around 8 a.m. and leaves around 4 p.m.
"The schedule allows me an opportunity to see everybody K through eighth grade," said Greene, whose son attends Jenks.
He said he believed that everyone should have "an art experience." He added that art is something that comes from the heart and that everyone can draw – people just have different abilities.
"When I retired, the principal said I gave too many A's during my career," Greene said. "I believe if a child does their best and works from their heart, then they deserve a good grade. You don't want a child to feel bad because that's the best they can do."
He recalled a timid little girl who came into his class earlier this year and announced that she couldn't draw, but by the end of the semester she gained confidence in herself and her work.
"When parents come to me on back-to-school night and say, 'Oh, my son or daughter loves your class,' that's the greatest reward," Greene said. "It's the greatest feeling when a child leaves my class with a smile on his or her face,"
He believes a teacher's job is to encourage a child.
Greene, who has dyslexia, said he struggled through high school until his art teacher took him under her wing.
"She saw the potential in me not only as an artist but as a person," Greene said. "To this day, I always say I went to college for what I majored in and I have enjoyed every minute of it."
Thanks to the Friends of Jenks, the school has money for art supplies. Greene said his students are learning one-point perspective, painting and design work. The eighth-grade class currently is designing a musical CD cover.
He is hoping his former college roommate at the University of California, Johnny Lee, who used to work for Motown Records, comes back East to talk to the kids.
"Most of these kids know about doing drawings or paintings – but they don't realize that there are many careers in art where you can make a good living, such as graphic arts, advertising, web design and many others," Greene said.
Besides teaching art, he tries to teach kids critical thinking skills.
"Unfortunately, a lot of Philadelphia school kids have trouble with critical thinking," Greene said. "Many teachers teach them for the test. I ask them riddles to make them think."
He gave examples:
Question – "You're in a marathon race. It's hot and you're tired. You pass the person who is in second place. What place are you in? Answer – Second."
"Sometimes, the riddles don't make sense," Greene said.
Question – "If there is an airplane crash between Canada and the United States, where do you bury the 10 survivors? Answer – You don't bury survivors."
Greene said it is a joy to be part of such a caring staff. He said the teachers and staff at Jenks are dedicated.
"Jenks is an excellent school, but unfortunately it doesn't have all the material things that private schools have because of budget cuts, but the teachers and the students make Jenks a great school," he said.
Greene added that it was a joy to teach his son Daniel.
"I want to make an imprint on my son so he will know who I am," Greene said.
Who is Greene? Students and Teachers at Jenks might say he is the man with art in his heart – a man who willingly volunteers his time and knowledge to make a difference in a child's life … and a man any child would be proud of.


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The name of the driver, a 22-year-old from Jacksonville, had not been released as of Saturday.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver was heading north on I-95 around 1:30 a.m. Saturday when he or she lost control while driving onto the exit ramp at International Golf Parkway.
The car went onto the right shoulder of the ramp and struck a tree, light pole and a speed limit sign and continued north on the shoulder before hitting a second tree.
The force of the impact ejected the car's engine more than 30 feet.
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Elmore County is blessed with a number of health services throughout the area.
Elmore Community Hospital was incorporated in 1959 and has gone through several additions and reorganizations before reaching its current structure and service delivery system. They are located at 500 Hospital Drive, (334) 567-4311.In 1993, the County Commission Districts were expanded to five, and the existing hospital board down-sized to consist of seven members, a structure which it continues to maintain. The hospital has gone through three name changes over its history. At its opening in 1959, it was known as Elmore County Hospital and in January 1990 it was renamed Central Alabama Medical Center and in 1992 the name was changed to and still remains Elmore Community Hospital. A new parking lot was constructed in front of the hospital. It was hoped that the additional space provided by the lot would encourage visitors to utilize the front entrance to the building and thus clear the rear entrance for emergency patients only. In 1993 the hospital expanded its emergency department and added a 1079 square foot waiting room and admissions area, which is used for outpatient surgery and emergency services registration. Elmore Community Hospital serves as the county's medical control hospital with 24-hour emergency room service. In 1993 also the hospital started a Home Health Agency which offered citizens skilled nursing services in the patient's home. This Agency now serves not only Elmore County but six additional surrounding counties-- Autauga, Montgomery, Chilton, Macon, Coosa and Tallapoosa.
As with many county hospital facilities, in recent years, Elmore Community Hospital has lost some of its business revenue to the more sophisticated service provision of the metropolitan complexes in Birmingham and Montgomery. Auxiliary kinds of service provision were added through the next several years in an effort to help make the local facility financially viable and expand its service base. In October 1994 the hospital expanded its Radiology Department and added a Computerized Tomography (CT) unit room. Also in 1994 the addition of the Dialysis Center was completed. This service was contracted out to Community Dialysis and is operated today by Physician's Choice Dialysis. Elmore Community Rural Health Clinic was opened in 1994 under the name of Wetumpka Pediatrics and in January 2001 the clinic's name was changed to Elmore Community Rural Health Clinic and is now providing healthcare for both adults and children.In 1996 the hospital built a helipad on its grounds to provide air transportation in transferring critical patients to larger Birmingham hospitals. The Elmore County Health Care Authority Board entered into a management agreement with Jackson Hospital in Montgomery from 1996 to 2000 and in July of 2000 leased the facility to Ivy Creek of Elmore, LLC. Since July of 2000 the hospital has added new equipment such as the Beckman Coulter Chemistry Analyzer for the Laboratory Department, a Picker IQ scanner CT unit and a State of the Art Performa mammography system and portable c-arm for the Radiology Department. A parking area for the elderly and disabled has also been added. In March 2004, an MRI unit was added, providing state of the art scanning. Ms. Cindy Futral currently serves as CEO. The hospital consists of a Medical Staff of 12 Active physicians, 51 Courtesy physicians, and 6 Consulting physicians. Thus, the facility continues to meet the challenges of healthcare provision to the people of Elmore County. Today the Elmore Community Hospital is a sixty-nine bed acute care facility. The Hospital is located in Wetumpka at 500 Hospital Drive and provides quality medical care to the people of this area. The hospital combines modern medical technology with personal attention to make each patient's visit as beneficial as possible.Hospital Services:
Emergency Department: A full service 24 hour a day, staffed with physicians around the clock. The hospital is also an affiliate hospital in the state-wide emergency medical system. This means we provide re-hospital medical control to the paramedics and rescue squads in the County.
Radiology Services: Includes standard radiographies, fluoroscopy, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, and computerized tomography (CT). The hospital provides Board Certified Radiologists to interpret studies performed at the hospital. Services are offered 24 hours a day.
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Hospice: As the only hospice located in Wetumpka, Ivy Creek Hospice is dedicated to serving residents of Wetumpka and surrounding areas! Ivy Creek Hospice's commitment to excellence is evident in its patient satisfaction scores, quality measures, as well as in the hearts and actions of its team members.
In-home hospice care is vital to the well being and quality of those we serve. Hospice assists with caring for a loved one with a life limiting illness through a team approach that addresses the entire being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This care is delivered by our team of competent professionals – registered nurses, medical social worker, chaplain, hospice physician, volunteers and certified nursing assistants. Medical supplies, medical equipment, and medications are all part of the plan and are covered 100% by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurances. Due to its commitment to care and quality, Ivy Creek Hospice accepts patients regardless of ability to pay.
Additional benefits include Inpatient hospice and respite care. Inpatient hospice is provided when your loved one has symptoms that cannot be adequately managed in the home setting. Respite care is a service that provides caregivers with a "break" from caregiver fatigue. Bereavement services are offered and coordinated by long-term Wetumpka resident, Inez Cooper, and volunteer services are also a vital part of the care we provide our patients and their families.
Ivy Creek Hospice is a Medicare-certified, licensed in-home hospice provider serving patients in Elmore, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Clay, Lee and Macon Counties. Ivy Creek Hospice has been your hometown hospice since 2004. Our team members are local which means response times are even faster to the needs of patients and their families. Medical Director, Dr. Melissa Thompson, is also a long-time resident of Wetumpka, and is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Ivy Creek Hospice is "Overflowing with Love and Compassion" and is only a phone call away. Contact us at 334.514.0682. Our office is located at 500 Hospital Drive, Wetumpka, AL in Elmore Community Hospital. Ivy Creek Hospice can also be found on Facebook "Ivy Creek Hospice – Wetumpka, Al" and at www.ivycreekhealth.com.
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Ground was broken January 22, 1973 on U. S. Highway 231, (334) 567-1172, in Wetumpka for the new Elmore County Health Center, which housed the county health department as well as a clinic.
The center has provided numerous health services throughout the years in family planning, maternity services with a contract doctor, WIC (Women, Infants, Children supplemental feeding), childhood immunizations, child health-EPSDT/well-baby clinic and STD testing.By early 1998, the services and the number of people seeking service in the county had outstripped the capacity of the existing building. The Elmore County Commission reached an agreement with the local health facility to provide enough additional county property on which could be renovated/constructed a new 11,000 square foot facility with approximately 50 client parking spaces. The new Elmore County Health Department was completed in February 1999 through the leadership of long time administrator Bobby Bryan. Under the cooperative agreement, title to the land remains in possession of the County, which provides maintenance and insurance for the location. But the designated county health funds actually constructed the building.Since 1997, a significant Vital Statistics operation is provided in cooperation with the State of Alabama Bureau of Vital Statistics. One can go to our local health department or that of any county in the state and secure a certified copy of any birth, death, marriage, or divorce. Physical Express Walk- In Clinic
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The Life Tech Center, at 8476 US Highway 231, (334) 514-5100, is a residential facility which houses 200-225 female parolees and probationers. Its work is comprised of several agencies striving together to rehabilitate and habilitate offenders who are in the criminal justice system. The center's focus is three-fold: educational, mental health counseling, and substance abuse treatment. The mental health needs of the community are served by the Montgomery Area Mental Health Authority's Hillside Center located at 8721 US Highway 231, (334) 567-8408. It offers outpatient counseling for adults and children, day treatment for adults, and therapy for families and couples, as well as a 10-bed group home, which helps people transition from institutional life. Service fees are income based. Located at 100 Rumbling Waters Drive, (334) 514-4488, Rehab Associates of Elmore County provides a complete clinical line of diagnostic and rehabilitative services. Treatments for all types of injury and medical conditions ranging from athletic injury, strokes, cervical/lumbar or spinal injury are provided. Wound care, work hardening and reconditioning, general muscle re-education, gait training, and general orthopedic problems are among their many services.The Association for Retarded Citizens of Eastern Elmore County (ARC) is located at 230 Sugarberry Road, (334) 514-0708. The facility provides a sheltered workshop which contracts with local businesses. A staff of thirty are involved in day services for forty-seven clients. A group home for nine children is maintained. Progressive Healthcare Providers (PHP of Alabama), headquartered at 62 Red Eagle Drive, (334) 567-3729, engage in the work of group home and apartment settings to serve adults with mental disabilities. Their client load is currently forty-one. There are two Medicaid certified nursing homes. Wetumpka Health and Rehabilitation, 1825 Holtville Road, (334) 567-5131, offers long-term custodial care, skilled and sub-acute care. The facility offers a variety of activities promoting both physical and emotional well-being. Located at 280 Mt. Hebron Road, Elmore, (334) 567-8484, Merrywood Healthcare and Rehabilitation, is also a Medicare certified nursing home offering long-term custodial care, skilled and sub-acute care. Both facilities offer comfortable quarters and various programs designed to enhance the life of their residents. These locations have a combined total of 234 skilled nursing home beds.
Gardens of Wetumpka Assisted Living on 209 Country Club Drive, (334) 514-4839, is the newest facility dedicated to serving the communities' needs for assisted living. They offer 24-hour supervision in medication administration and provide stimulating activities. Thirty-two units are available to accept residents.
W. Guinn Paulk and the Wetumpka Optical Shoppe (10200 US Highway 231, (334) 567-772), Owens Optical of Wetumpka (6255 US Highway 231, (334) 567-2282), and Institute for Total Eye Care (8007 US Highway 231, (334) 567-9111) in Wetumpka along with at least three others in the county all offer a variety of diagnostic and prescriptive services for the treatment of problems of the eye and provision of lenses. At least thirteen, if not more, dental offices are located in the county. Stephen P. McCulloch, DMD located at 101 Commerce Street, (334) 567-7232; Harrison Long, DMD at (334) 567-2828; Wetumpka Family Dentistry at 4045 US Highway 231, (334) 567-4334, and Brian Barrett, DMD 3080 US Highway 231, (334) 512-0940 are in Wetumpka. In Wetumpka alone, there are 14 active physicians, 51 courtesy physicians, and 6 consulting physicians licensed to treat patients in all areas of health care. There are additional active physicians practicing in the Tallassee Community Hospital.
Prescription drugs are dispensed from numerous local family-owned pharmacies as well as pharmacies located in large department stores, super markets, and multi service drug store chains.
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The North Carolina law banning registered sex offenders from commercial social networking sites like Facebook that children can use is unconstitutional because it's vague and violates free speech, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
A three-judge panel ruled unanimously in vacating the additional felony conviction of a registered offender in Durham County for accessing a site after authorities say he had created a profile page on Facebook. His attorney argued the 2008 law wasn't narrowly written to serve a legitimate government interest and could prohibit routine Internet activity, such as a performing a Google search.
"When the General Assembly passed the law, it was entirely feel-good and designed to make people feel secure,' said Glenn Gerding, a Chapel Hill lawyer representing Lester Gerard Packingham in court. But legislators, Gerding added, "didn't even consider how this might be implemented."
The "Protect Children From Sexual Predators Act" made it unlawful among other things for a registered sex offender to access a website where the person knows minors are permitted to become members or have personal Web pages. The measure is part of a host of restrictions to protect minors from sexual predators, but the judges say this one is too broad.
"It arbitrarily burdens all registered sex offenders by preventing a wide range of communication and expressive activity unrelated to achieving its purported goal," Court of Appeals Judge Rick Elmore wrote in the opinion. The law "violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, and it is unconstitutional on its face and as applied."
The Court of Appeals is the state's intermediate appeals venue. Attorney General Roy Cooper, whose office represented the state in the case, said lawyers will ask the state Supreme Court to hear the case. Since it was a unanimous ruling, justices aren't obligated to take up the appeal.
"The law is broad because technology moves fast and we don't want predators and child pornographers to use legal loopholes," Cooper said in an interview. He helped lobby for the 2008 law at a time when attorneys general nationwide pressured Facebook and MySpace to protect users from sexual predators found to be using their networks.
Elmore wrote state attorneys had failed to make a convincing argument about the law's vagueness. The law defines "commercial social networking website" as one that derives revenue from membership fees or advertising, facilitates social introductions and allows users to create pages to post information.
The law sets exceptions for sites that provide one narrow service like email and whose primary service is commercial transactions. But the law could apply to accessing Google, Amazon or even a cooking TV channel web site because they contain secondary social networking pages, Elmore said.
"It is fundamentally impossible to expect an offender, or any other person, to 'know' whether he is banned from a particular website prior to 'accessing' it,' Elmore wrote. Judges Martha Geer and Chris Dillon joined him in the opinion.
The case was the first before the appeals court to challenge the law's constitutionality, Elmore wrote. He arrived at his decision in part by reviewing federal cases in which somewhat similar laws in Nebraska and Indiana. But Cooper said "the constitutional journey of these types of laws is early yet."
Tuesday's challenge was brought by Packingham, who was convicted in 2002 of taking indecent liberties with a child, so he became a registered sex offender. Durham police began investigating MySpace and Facebook profiles to enforce the law in 2010. That's where officers say they found a picture of Packingham at Facebook and determined he created the profile page, the opinion said.
Packingham was indicted. A trial judge denied a motion seeking to have the law ruled unconstitutional, and a jury convicted him May 2012. He received a suspended sentence and probation.
Elmore wrote the state had passed laws designed to protect children from predators without abridging the freedom of speech, including one requiring registered offenders to disclose to authorities their online user names.
Gerding said Tuesday's ruling shows "the First Amendment protects people who have been convicted of crimes � even those that have been convicted of sex offenses."
People convicted of sexually violent offenses or certain crimes against children since 1996 must register with the sheriff in the county they'll reside. Most must stay on the list at least 30 years, although they can seek a lesser period after 10 years. Such offenders are barred from living close to a school or daycare, working with minors or visiting certain locations where children are likely to be. Citizens can search an online database to see where registered sex offenders live.


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The San Francisco 49ers acquired cornerback Eric Wright in a trade with Tampa Bay that sends a conditional selection in the 2014 draft to the Buccaneers.
The teams announced the deal Friday, one week after Wright was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of an unspecified misdemeanor offense. He was released after posting bond.
Last season, Wright was suspended for four games by the NFL for violating the performance-enhancing drug policy in his first — and only — season with the Buccaneers. He signed a five-year, $35.3-million contract with Tampa Bay after a strong season in Detroit, and in 10 games last year, Wright finished with 37 tackles and one interception.
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The New England Patriots released wide receiver Donald Jones and signed rookie receivers Perez Ashford and Quentin Sims. . . . The Cleveland Browns signed rookie cornerback Leon McFadden and troubled defensive lineman Armonty Bryant to four-year contracts. . . .The Green Bay Packers signed safety Morgan Burnett to a contract extension.
Six tied in PGA Tour event
Six players were tied atop a crowded leaderboard midway through the second round of the Sanderson Farms Championship in Madison, Miss. Vaughn Taylor, Fabian Gomez, Paul Stankowski, Troy Matteson and Kyle Reifers were tied at 10 under in the clubhouse. First-round leader Daniel Summerhays also was at 10 under but completed only eight holes in the round Friday.
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Former winner Paula Creamer shared the lead and top-ranked Inbee Park was lurking nearby after two rounds of the Marathon Classic at Sylvania, Ohio. Creamer, who five years ago won what was then referred to as the Jamie Farr LPGA stop, shot a three-under 68 to pull even with Beatriz Recari and Alison Walshe at eight-under 134. Park was two shots off the lead.
Bynum signs contract
Former Lakers center Andrew Bynum officially signed a two-year, $24-million contract with Cleveland, and promptly proclaimed the Cavaliers to be a playoff team. "Getting my career on track is my only goal for the season," Bynum, whose career has been set back by knee problems, said at his introductory press conference.
Two charged with threatening Tygart
Two men have been charged in Denver with directing threats toward U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart in the aftermath of USADA's decision to strip cyclist Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles. Two indictments allege that Gerrit Keats of Clearwater, Fla., and Robert Hutchins of Sandy, Utah, threatened Tygart via interstate communication in October.
Class-action status sought in suit against NCAA
Attorneys suing the NCAA over its handling of head injuries asked a federal judge in Chicago to let them expand the lawsuit nationwide to include thousands of plaintiffs in a case they contend could change college sports forever. The motion seeks class-action status.
Justin Gatlin of the United States positioned himself as potentially the toughest rival for Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt at next month's world championships by running 9.94 seconds to win the 100 meters at the Herculis meeting in Monaco. Countryman Dentarius Locke was second, 0.02 of a second back. . . .
Manchester United agreed to a six-year contract with David Moyes to succeed Alex Ferguson as coach. . . .
Tito Vilanova is stepping down as FC Barcelona's coach after a recurrence of throat cancer. . . .
Tickets for next year's World Cup in Brazil will range from $990 to as little as $15 for some Brazilians eligible for discount rates, according to prices announced by FIFA, soccer's world governing body.
NASCAR suspended the use of aerial camera systems, nearly two months after a Fox Sports cable snapped during the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, N.C., resulting in injuries to 10 fans and damage to several cars at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Top-seeded Roger Federer beat Florian Mayer, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-5, to reach the semifinals of the German tennis championships in Hamburg. Second-seeded Tommy Haas lost to Fabio Fognini, 6-2, 6-4. . . .
Serena Williams easily won her Swedish Open quarterfinal, beating Lourdes Dominguez Lino, 6-1, 6-1, at Bastad. Williams will meet third-seeded Klara Zakopalova in the semifinals.


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This morning I was looking through some photos on the site and came into a section of photos taken in England of planes that had been damaged on missions, but still returned to base.
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I did a little research and found a Missing Air Crew Report for this plane (one member of the crew was killed) and then found Footnote Pages, created from the Social Security Death Index, for the pilot, Lawrence DeLancey and the navigator, Ray Ledoux. I added a few web links and some stories about this amazing event to their pages.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — LifeMed Alaska is among an elite group of emergency medical transport services to receive accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services (CAMTS). As of October 19, 2013, there were only 165 accredited programs in the world. LifeMed Alaska is the only Alaska-owned program with rotor wing, fixed wing and ground operations to achieve such accreditation. The company operates bases in Anchorage, Bethel, Fairbanks, Palmer and Soldotna.
"I could not be more proud of our dedicated team," said LifeMed Alaska CEO, Scott Kirby. "This accreditation is a validation of the high quality patient care and aviation safety we practice each and every day as we serve the communities of Alaska."
As part of the accreditation process, LifeMed Alaska's team (which included aircraft vendors Air Methods, Aero Air and Grant Aviation) voluntarily undertook the inspection and accreditation process at each of its five bases. The process included on-site surveys and a comprehensive review of the company's operations. The company was evaluated on patient care, safety standards, quality improvement activities, education, equipment, staffing, communications, maintenance and administration.
"This accreditation underscores the commitment to excellence that our crews embrace when providing medical services to our patients and the agencies that refer them to us," Kirby added.
CAMTS is a non-profit peer review organization dedicated to improving the quality of patient care and safety of the transport environment for services providing rotor wing, fixed wing and ground transport services. To receive accreditation, a medical transport service must be in substantial compliance with the CAMTS accreditation standards and demonstrate a high level of overall quality in service. For more details on the CAMTS accreditation process, visit http://www.camts.org/.
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After the horrendous news pummeled Newtown, Connecticut, then the world, that gray December morning, it took only a couple hours for Walnut Hill Community Church to get to work.
With a mission to "ignite a passion for Jesus in New England," the nondenominational church of 3,500 deployed pastors to the families, some of whom are members, then set up a prayer service and filled its chapel with area counselors. Some 900 residents descended on the church the week before Christmas to remember slain 6-year-old Dylan Hockley as a pipe band played "Amazing Grace" from the parking lot. Then it set up a fund to provide long-term care to the community of 28,000 reeling from the murders of 20 children and 6 staff members.
From far beyond Connecticut's borders, chaplains arrived to support first responders, the families of victims, and residents. While some Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) leaders were wringing their hands after a Newtown pastor took part in an interfaith vigil, the denomination sent comfort dogs as a ministry of presence. "Just heard about the goldens you sent to Connecticut," wrote one Newtowner on a Lutheran website. "I'm an agnostic, but reading about [work] like this makes me doubt my own beliefs, or lack thereof." (LCMS president Matthew C. Harrison later apologized for the debacle, honoring the Newtown pastor as "a source of constant affirmation that God is indeed here in Newtown.")
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From its inception in 2006 through the end of September, Twitter completed several rounds of equity financing as a private company by issuing convertible preferred stock that raised $759 million.
Such early-stage fund raising rounds once were typically reserved for venture capitalists and private equity firms but in recent years have been opened to mutual funds. Their seed investments have led to success stories like the gains reaped by Fidelity Investments on Facebook shares acquired before the social network's went public last year.
At the end of June, T. Rowe's $14.3 billion New Horizons Fund reported holding 4.6 million Twitter shares that cost $2.66 apiece. Those shares could be worth $115 million or more when the dust settles on Twitter's stock market debut on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.
Twitter is likely to price its IPO above the $25 top end of the range announced on Monday, according to sources familiar with the process.
T. Rowe, which was not available for comment, has been the biggest pre-IPO investor in Twitter among mutual funds, according to Morningstar data. T. Rowe stockpickers who favor investing early in some startups include Ken Allen, manager of its Science & Technology Fund, who bought Facebook and Groupon Inc shares before they went public.
One of Allen's goals is to track potential investments across many technology sectors. "The more ground you cover, the more likely you are to find the best opportunities," he said in a 2011 interview.
The Morgan Stanley Institutional Small Company Growth Fund also looks like a potential winner from Twitter's IPO. The fund is sitting on a potential nine-fold gain, after buying $6 million worth of preferred stock from the microblogging site in 2009.
For the Morgan Stanley fund, its pre-IPO Twitter stake accounts for 2.2 percent of net assets, Morningstar Inc data shows.
The fund paid $6 million, or $2.67 each, for 2.26 million Series E preferred shares that convert into Twitter common stock, U.S. regulatory filings show. That stock would be worth $56.5 million at the top end of Twitter's current expected IPO range of $23 to $25 per share.
Morgan Stanley declined to comment.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc is leading Twitter's IPO, alongside Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Chris Bartel, chief of global equity research for Fidelity Investments, the No. 2 U.S. mutual fund company, said investing in companies before they go public allows for better understanding of their strategy, executive talent and potential for innovation.
"For every one that we invest in, we look at many, many that we pass on, including some that have gone public that we have passed on," Bartel said.
Boston-based Fidelity did not invest in Twitter during the company's early years.
But mutual fund companies that did – such as T. Rowe – are looking good as Twitter's IPO is oversubscribed.
Twitter is likely to price the hotly anticipated IPO later on Wednesday above an already bumped-up target range of $23 to $25, according to sources familiar with the process.
While pre-IPO fund-raising can allow a broader audience of investors to reap outsize gains once reserved for venture capital and private equity, shares in a company typically can be spread across dozens of funds within one mutual fund family. That tends to dilute the impact of an IPO's upside and downside on any particular fund, according to analysts.-Reuters


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HACKERS - Devel::PPPort internals for hackers
So you probably want to hack
Well, here's some information to get you started with what's lying around in this distribution.
How to build 366 versions of Perl
Devel::PPPort supports Perl versions between 5.003 and bleadperl. To guarantee this support, I need some of these versions on my machine. I currently have 366 different Perl version/configuration combinations installed on my laptop.
As many of the old Perl distributions need patching to compile cleanly on newer systems (and because building 366 Perls by hand just isn't fun), I wrote a tool to build all the different versions and configurations. You can find it in devel/buildperl.pl. It can currently build the following Perl releases:
5.004 - 5.004_05
5.005 - 5.005_04
Fully automatic API checks
Knowing which parts of the API are not backwards compatible and probably need
Devel::PPPort support is another problem that's not easy to deal with manually. If you run
perl Makefile.PL --with-apicheck
a C file is generated by parts/apicheck.pl that is compiled and linked with
Devel::PPPort. This C file has the purpose of using each of the public API functions/macros once.
The required information is derived from parts/embed.fnc (just a copy of bleadperl's embed.fnc), parts/apidoc.fnc (which is generated by devel/mkapidoc.sh and simply collects the rest of the apidoc entries spread over the Perl source code) and parts/ppport.fnc (which lists all API provided purely by Devel::PPPort). The generated C file apicheck.c is currently about 500k in size and takes quite a while to compile.
Usually, apicheck.c won't compile with older perls. And even if it compiles, there's still a good chance of the dynamic linker failing at
make test time. But that's on purpose!
We can use these failures to find changes in the API automatically. The two Perl scripts devel/mktodo and devel/mktodo.pl repeatedly run
Devel::PPPort with the apicheck code through all different versions of perl. Scanning the output of the compiler and the dynamic linker for errors, the files in parts/todo/ are generated. These files list all parts of the public API that don't work with less than a certain version of Perl.
This information is in turn used by parts/apicheck.pl to mask API calls in the generated C file for these versions, so the process can be stopped by the time apicheck.c compiles cleanly and the dynamic linker is happy. (Actually, this process may generate false positives, so by default each API call is checked once more afterwards.)
Running devel/mktodo takes about an hour, depending of course on the machine you're running it on. If you run it with the
--nocheck option, it won't recheck the API calls that failed in the compilation stage and it'll take significantly less time. Running with
--nocheck should usually be safe.
When running devel/mktodo with the
--base option, it will generate the baseline todo files by disabling all functionality provided by
Devel::PPPort. These are required for implementing the
--compat-version option of the ppport.h script. The baseline todo files hold the information about which version of Perl lacks a certain part of the API.
However, only the documented public API can be checked this way. And since
Devel::PPPort provides more macros, these would not be affected by
--compat-version. It's the job of devel/scanprov to figure out the baseline information for all remaining provided macros by scanning the include files in the CORE directory of various Perl versions.
The whole process isn't platform independent. It has currently been tested only under Linux, and it definitely requires at least
gcc and the
nm utility.
It's not very often that one has to regenerate the baseline and todo files. If you have to, you can either run devel/regenerate or just execute the following steps by hand:
You need a whole bunch of different Perls. The more, the better. You can use devel/buildperl.pl to build them. I keep my perls in /tmp/perl, so most of the tools take this as a default.
You also need a freshly built bleadperl that is in the path under exactly this name. (The name of the executable is currently hardcoded in devel/mktodo and devel/scanprov.)
Remove all existing todo files in the parts/base and parts/todo directories.
Update the API information. Copy the latest embed.fnc file from bleadperl to the parts directory and run devel/mkapidoc.sh to collect the remaining information in parts/apidoc.fnc.
Build the new baseline by running
perl devel/mktodo --base
in the root directory of the distribution. When it's finished, move all files from the parts/todo directory to parts/base.
Build the new todo files by running
perl devel/mktodo
in the root directory of the distribution.
Finally, add the remaining baseline information by running
perl Makefile.PL && make perl devel/scanprov --mode=write
Residing in parts/inc/ is the "heart" of
Devel::PPPort. Each of the files implements a part of the supported API, along with hints, dependency information, XS code and tests. The files are in a POD-like format that is parsed using the functions in parts/ppptools.pl.
The scripts PPPort_pm.PL, PPPort_xs.PL and mktests.PL all use the information in parts/inc/ to generate the main module PPPort.pm, the XS code in RealPPPort.xs and various test files in t/.
All of these files could be generated on the fly while building
Devel::PPPort, but not having the tests in t/ will confuse TEST/harness in the core. Not having PPPort.pm will be bad for viewing the docs on
search.cpan.org. So unfortunately, it's unavoidable to put some redundancy into the package.
Adding stuff to Devel::PPPort
First, check if the code you plan to add fits into one of the existing files in parts/inc/. If not, just start a new one and remember to include it from within PPPort_pm.PL.
Each file holds all relevant data for implementing a certain part of the API:
A list of the provided API in the
The implementation to add to ppport.h in the
The code required to add to PPPort.xs for testing the implementation. This code goes into the
=xsubssection. Have a look at the template at the bottom of PPPort_xs.PL to see where the code ends up.
The tests in the
=testssection. Remember not to use any fancy modules or syntax elements, as the test code should be able to run with Perl 5.003, which, for example, doesn't support
for my $x (1, 2, 3) { } # won't work with 5.003
You can use
ok()to report success or failure:
ok($got == 42); ok($got, $expected);
Regular expressions are not supported as the second argument to
ok, because older perls do not support the
It's usually the best approach to just copy an existing file and use it as a template.
Implementation Hints
In the
=implementation section, you can use
__UNDEFINED__ macro some definition
instead of
#ifndef macro
# define macro some definition
The macro can have optional arguments and the definition can even span multiple lines, like in
__UNDEFINED__ SvMAGIC_set(sv, val) \
STMT_START { assert(SvTYPE(sv) >= SVt_PVMG); \
(((XPVMG*) SvANY(sv))->xmg_magic = (val)); } STMT_END
This usually makes the code more compact and readable. And you only have to add the line
__UNDEFINED__ to the
=provides section to get all macros implemented this way to be imported into this section, so they all get documented as being provided.
Version checking can be tricky if you want to do it correct. You can use
#if { VERSION < 5.9.3 }
instead of
#if ((PERL_VERSION < 9) || (PERL_VERSION == 9 && PERL_SUBVERSION < 3))
The version number can be either of the new form
5.x.x or of the older form
5.00x_yy. Both are translated into the correct preprocessor statements. It is also possible to combine this with other statements:
#if { VERSION >= 5.004 } && !defined(sv_vcatpvf)
/* a */
#elif { VERSION < 5.004_63 } && { VERSION != 5.004_05 }
/* b */
This not only works in the
=implementation section, but also in the
=xshead and
=xsboot sections.
To automatically test
Devel::PPPort with lots of different Perl versions, you can use the soak script. Just pass it a list of all Perl binaries you want to test.
Special Makefile targets
You can use
make regen
to regenerate all of the autogenerated files. To get rid of all generated files (except for parts/todo/* and parts/base/*), use
make purge_all
That's it.
Submitting Patches
If you've added some functionality to
Devel::PPPort, please consider submitting a patch with your work to P5P by sending a mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
When submitting patches, please only add the relevant changes and don't include the differences of the generated files. You can use the
purge_all target to delete all autogenerated files.
Integrating into the Perl core
When integrating this module into the Perl core, be sure to remove the following files from the distribution. They are either not needed or generated on the fly when building this module in the core:
Version 3.x, Copyright (C) 2004-2013, Marcus Holland-Moritz.
Version 2.x, Copyright (C) 2001, Paul Marquess.
Version 1.x, Copyright (C) 1999, Kenneth Albanowski.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See ppport.h and devel/regenerate.