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Mountain View, California (EastBayDaily) — Keeping students' brains sharp over the summer is no easy task, but Shmoop, a digital publishing company with over 10 million unique visitors a month, is ready for the challenge. With hundreds of thousands of pages of free learning resources, students can spend their summers soaking up more than just the sun.
And now, Shmoop has two new offerings to make summer engagement even easier.
For the bookworms of the bunch, Shmoop provides short courses on novels, including The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, Animal Farm, and over a dozen more. Students can take these Common Core-aligned courses on their own, using Shmoop's lessons to guide them through their summer reading; or they can take them with a tutor or teacher, who can track their progress and help keep them on task.
If students are less into reading for school and more into learning for fun (gasp!), Shmoop also offers fun courses that will keep students' critical thinking neurons firing: courses on Breaking Bad, Bruce Springsteen, How to Read Comics, Pop Culture Literacy, and the History of Technology will engage any student looking to expand their summer horizons.
For the mathletes of the crew, Shmoop offers Math Shack: free and infinite (literally infinite!) math drills with questions on Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry. Math Shack tracks students' progress, so they'll know which concepts they've mastered and which they need to brush up on before next school year begins; and since each drill is aligned to the Common Core, teachers can be 100% sure that students have covered every necessary Standard. Shmoop suggests that teachers even create contests with Shmoints (Shmoop's virtual currency) to make sure students have a reason to keep Shmooping over the summer. Talk about a win-win situation.
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Shmoop is a digital curriculum and test prep company that makes fun, rigorous learning and teaching resources. Shmoop content is written by experts and teachers, who collaborate to create high-quality and engaging materials for teachers and students. Shmoop Courses, Test Prep, Teaching Guides, and Learning Guides balance a teen-friendly, approachable style with academically rigorous concepts. Shmoop sees 10 million unique visitors a month on its site and offers more than 7,000 titles across the Web, iPhone, Android devices, iPad, Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader. The company has been honored twice by the Webby Awards, named "Best in Tech" twice by Scholastic Administrator, and awarded with two Annual Education Software Review Awards (EDDIES). Launched in 2008, Shmoop is headquartered in a labradoodle-patrolled office in Mountain View, California.
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News Release
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
LAPD Announce DUI Checkpoints Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk This Saint Patrick's DayWhat:
In an effort to keep the streets of Los Angeles safe during the Saint Patrick's Day celebrations, the LAPD will conduct the following sobriety checkpoints during the upcoming week:
When and Where:
- March 16, 2011 (Wednesday) – DUI Saturation Patrol in Central Area from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.;
- March 18, 2011 (Friday) – Sobriety Checkpoint in Central Area on Figueroa Street between 8th Street and 9th Street from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.;
- March 19, 2011 (Saturday) – Sobriety Checkpoint in Hollywood Area on Highland Avenue at Odin Street from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
- March 20, 2011 (Sunday) – DUI Saturation Patrol in Harbor Area from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
LAPD Police Officers
Saint Patrick's Day has become a popular occasion to celebrate with friends and family. Unfortunately, Saint Patrick's Day has become very dangerous due to the large number of drunk drivers. "If you plan on consuming alcohol, never drive while impaired and never let your friends drive if you think they are impaired. Buzz driving is drunk driving," said Lieutenant Ron Katona, Officer in Charge, Traffic Coordination Section, Emergency Operations Division.
To ensure a safe and joyous Saint Patrick's Day, LAPD recommends the following tips:
- Plan a safe way home before the festivities begin
- Designate a sober driver
- Leave your car keys at home
- Call a taxi, call a friend or family member, or use public transportation to ensure you get home safely
- Call 911 if you see a possible drunk driver on the road
- Take the car keys away from someone who is about to drive impaired and assist them in getting home safely
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inside out tennis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Inside Out Tennis (http://www.insideouttennis.com)
we are a tennis coaching group based in the UK, with a strong ethos on delivering quality service at a fair price to our players to get as many people playing as possible. we work with wheelchair tennis players (some of international standard), deaf players and players with learning difficulties as well as those without disabilities. we work with 1 large tennis club and a number of smaller village-style tennis clubs and we are coaches because tennis is our passion, not the profit!
up until now we've been very DIY in our approach to most things but with our group of clubs and coaches growing we want to present a more professional image to those who haven't dealt with us before. we are a friendly group of coaches (who still don't really want to grow up to be serious businessmen!) who have the best interests of our clubs and players at the core of our business model and we want to reflect that in our presentation.
we are happy to link to the winning designer's website if you desire for promo purposes, so long as your website's content is acceptable to children...
take a look at our website for ideas http://www.insideouttennis.com
what we like:
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what we don't like:
both parents (20-40y/o) and children (3-18y/o) who are looking for and active lifestyle and a fun activity to take part in.
serious tennis players who want to further their careers. essentially younger active people!
people who aren't looking for the 'traditional' tennis experience (we use lots of video technology etc in our lessons)
our previous colour scheme has been yellow and black, we are fans of contrast, light vs dark, and bright colours and are open to other bright colours being included in the design e.g. red, orange, bright greens (see the "what we like" for an idea of colours)
we are obviously looking for a tennis theme, either involving courts, rackets, balls etc but steering away from the traditional 'crossed rackets' or 'ball and racket' style logos that seem to appear on every tennis club website around the world! (see 'what we don't like')
we'd like to have text included (our company name, Inside Out Tennis), preferably not as a core part of the design but above/below/to the side, so that the logo works well as a standalone without text as well.
we're looking for energy and dynamism in our logo and are open to either a pure tennis logo or something that incorporates our business model (1 large club and a series of smaller ones, our current logo involves smaller tennis balls orbiting one larger one)
we'd like designs to be usable on banners, websites and stationary so with such variable uses we'd like to be able to resize with quality maintained, so vector graphics are a must really, we'd also be very grateful for png's (without background) for website etc but not a huge problem if you can't and it'll be used in printing of promotional material as well so CMYK is a must really
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I went to that presentation on Saturday. Its now Monday. Its taken me this long to calm down enough to write a post about what happened. Thankfully, blog-reader CJ was there to keep me from going postal... He also took all the pics.
CJ and I decided to meet up at the cafe in The Health Food Center (the store hosting the anti-vaxers) a few minutes before the presentation to compare notes. I got there before him, so I took the opportunity to wander around a bit. For a 'food store', there was relatively little 'food'. A wall for organic fruits and veggies, some freezer cases, but a majority of the area was devoted to potions, pills, vitamins, extracts, and books/CDs about potions, pills, vitamins, and extracts. Isle after isle of shit. Here is a pic from the 'Reference' section.
There were also areas devoted to 'reflexology' treatments, and 'foot detoxification.'
When CJ showed up, we decided to get lunch at the stores cafe. I just got coffee. It tasted like sludge water (Im sitting here drinking Folgers). CJ got a hamburger of some kind with carrot juice. It looked good, but he only choked down a few bites/sips before giving up. Little did we know that was the *least* nauseous we would be all afternoon.
We headed next door to the abandoned-store-turned-auditorium. Like Ive seen at every Creationist presentation, there were tables and tables of shit to sell.
There was also a table of chiropractic nurses. The significance of this wouldnt surface until later in the day.
I really loved this abandoned store/auditorium. There was no heat. And the bathrooms were disgusting (the toilet didnt flush in the womens room), but humorously, posted on the wall was a flyer declaring "IF YOU LIKE THE WAY THIS BATHROOM SMELLS, YOU CAN BUY ____ NEXT DOOR!!!" LOL Yeah, I want an 'unflushed toilet' scented candle. And there was shit growing in the ceiling.
I could really tell these people were concerned about their health.
Exactly 51 seconds into the introduction, 'autism' popped up (CJ was recording it, his timer said '51 seconds'). We were told that 1 in 67 children are autistic. They mentioned that their numbers didnt match the CDC, but that the CDC was hiding The Truth.
We were also told that 'you need a good doctor, you need a good nurse, but you need a good team of chiropractors!' It seems this presentation was co-sponsored by a local chiro shop. Chiros were plugged ad nauseum throughout the afternoon.
Jenny McCarthy was hailed as a savior.
As for April Renees presentation, I was shaking I was so angry. It was a hate speech against scientists that would make any Creationist proud. After ranting about how scientists and physicians get pleasure from killing children she said 'I dont mean to degrade any of the pediatricians in the audience, if there are any, lol.' Then she promptly returned to slandering scientists and physicians.
Literally, nothing she said was scientifically accurate, and she Gish-Galloped by the book. Slide after slide of quotes from pediatricians saying how they loved killing babies and Excel graphs (like this one) with zero references to her sources. Claims that would be clarified with an introductory course in immunology and virology, yet she knew her Audience would never catch her BS. Hails of 'YEAH! THATS RIGHT!' 'AWWWWWW!' 'PRAISE HIM!' came from the audience on her cues.
You know how I always make fun of Creationists for speaking in 'coagulated word salads'? Renee took this to the extreme. She declared something called 'stealth viruses' were contaminating all vaccines. The fellow who invented that phrase wrote the introduction to Horowitzs book.
'Severe monkey viruses' also contaminated all vaccines-- CMV, EBV, HPV, HSV-1, were all 'severe monkey viruses'. Renee insisted that she got herpes from vaccines. She insisted her daughter died from EBV in her vaccinations, and blamed the physician who vaccinated her for the toddlers death. She scared every woman in the audience by insisting that if THEY were vaccinated, they could transfer these 'severe monkey viruses' to their babies, who would also die.
Im sure youll be surprised to find out she firmly established that she is an HIV Denier/Conspiracy theorist like Horowitz. Contaminated vaccines-->HIV.
Im sure you will also be surprised to hear she plugged Mothering magazine.
Im sure you will also be surprised to hear that she insisted that chelation was a natural, non-invasive way to cure autism.
Im sure you will also be surprised to hear she is a Creationist (and managed to bring that up in her presentation).
What I did find odd was that every few seconds, Renee would reference God, angels, or Yeshua. Yes, Yeshua. CJ and I were baffled, and wondered if this indicated Renee was a Jehovah's Witness, who have their own issues with medicine. So while I wanted to call her a stupid bitch in the Q&A, I asked her in my adorable voice:
Me: Im sorry, this might be too personal...She wouldnt answer me.
Renee: No, go ahead!
Me: Well, I noticed that you kept mentioning your faith and God and... 'Yeshua'? I was just wondering what religion you were?
Renee: I dont like 'religion'. 'Religion' to me is man interfering with Gods word. But I believe in our Lord and Savior and blah blah blah blah Biblo-crap blah blah salvation blah blah.
Afterwards, I was drained. I was angry. Iron-willed ERV, who couldnt be shaken by Behes purple faced tantrums or Dembskis underwear staining flatulence, was literally shaking from this anti-vaxer. I couldnt stay for her boyfriends presentation (she kept calling him 'honey').
CJ dared me to get a pic with her. I thought I was hiding the fact I wanted to punch her really well. Photograph says otherwise (hey did I ever mention I was 7 feet tall?).
This pic sums up the afternoon perfectly.
But it was great having CJ there-- he gets the award for 'Best Comment EVAH!':
Renee: Grapefruit Seed Extract is so great blah blah blah you can buy it next door I never go anywhere without it blah blah blah. GSE is like Gods penicillin.hehehehehehehehe
CJ: *whisper* Um, I thought penicillin was Gods penicillin.


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Jack Diverse necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Brooks Street Bakery (R)
We are a large commercial bakery who make private label products for most of the grocery chains and "big box" club stores around the country. We are introducing a new line of fruit cobblers that have a delicous top layer crisp, and the filling is high quality fruit. Most of our products (Cinnamon Rolls, Cookies, etc.) are highly visual and sell themselves. The cobbler is NOT visually exciting. All of the beautiful fruit is hidden underneath the layer of crisp (which frankly, looks like a layer of oatmeal and crumbs). Therefore, the graphics are going to have to "sell" the product to the consumer.
We don't have a logo we want to use on the product so I will post a JPG of a text-based brand name we have used in the past - feel free to use another font arrangement if you like. We are in the process of developing a new logo.
I am running this as a blind project - because I want as much original idea as possible. In the past I have noticed a 'pile-on' effect that when I give feedback, everyone tends to use those design elements in their work.
Thank you in advance. I am amazed at the creativity you all have and we have made some wonderful, long lasting relationships with the artists we have met through 99 designs.
Jack - Project Manager
The graphics need to be "best in class" retail quality. Something that will get YOU to buy the product. Imagine yourself walking down the refrigerator case aisle of your favorite grocery or club store. This needs to jump out at you and say "buy me". Mom is usually making the buying decision and this needs to appeal to her.
Our image is crisp, classy and elegant. The customer has told us they want a more modern look rather than an "old-fashioned" style. They are very image conscious and want that "top shelf" look as if the best brand house in the world had come up with the packaging.
The package is an 8" x 8" square with a clear plastic lid. The graphic will be on a band that is 4" wide and runs vertically around the package (see photos). There will be nutrional info and heating instructions on the back but this is not your responsibility. Concentrate only on the top and sides. The primary graphics will be on the top, with any color and pattern wrapping around to the back. In other words, for a canvas size use 4" by 12" but limit any images and text to 4" Wide by 8" High area.
There are 2 graphics required. A Peach Cobbler and a Mixed Berry Cobbler. I will post an example of 2 demo bands the customer did NOT like. They said they looked too "old fashioned". I will also post copies of a "serving suggestion" photos with ice cream - but we are also open to using a stock type photo of just peaches and berries (the product is mostly blackberries). The samples bands have used color differentiation to separate the two flavors but this is not a requirement - just an idea.
I will also post pictures of other labels I have seen in bakery departments just as a point of reference. Please feel free to browse your own supermarket to see what the "big boys" are doing.
Our plan is to allow the customer to help judge the contest since they gave us so little creative input on what they want.
The winner will need to submit to us the work in Illustrator format with fonts.


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Todd Starnes
November 27, 2012
A painting that features President Obama posed as Jesus Christ crucified on is on display at a community college art gallery in Boston.
The painting by Michael D'Antuono is part of a larger exhibit called "Artists on the Stump – the Road to the White House 2012." It's on display at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery until Dec. 15th.
The painting is called "Truth" – and shows the president with his arms outstretched. A crown of thorns rests on his head.
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Diane married Jon,
Diane is John's sister,
Lorraine married John,
Diane and Jon had seven grandchildren,
Diane and Jon had three children.
Lorraine and John had two children,
Lorraine and John had seven grandchildren.
Ricardo, one of Diane and Jon's children, and a cousin to Lorna-jane and Frasier, did not marry or have any children.
Diane and Jon had two other children - Juan and Suzi.
Lorraine and John had 2 children - Lorna-jane and Frasier.
Lorna-Jane married Juan and had 4 children,
Frasier married Suzi and had 3 children.
Lorraine and John had twins.
Frasier and Juan were cousins.
Suzi and Lorna-Jane were cousins.
Ricardo had a sister,
Lorna-Jane had a brother,
Frazier had a sister, Suzi had 2 brothers.
For the above relationships to exist, How many were there, grandparents, parents, children, cousins and siblings in all?


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You Can Turn Off Comments, But You Can't Turn Off Discussions
I saw this on usv.com today:
Popular Science has decided to turn off comments. They aren't the first and they won't be the last.
As Adrian says in the usv comments:
Let's face it – dropping comments on PopSci isn't going to stifle societal debate. There are more than enough places online to debate the impacts of science.
There are so many places on the web to talk about stuff. There are the blog communities, like AVC and many others, and there are the link sharing communities like Reddit, Hacker News, and USV.com.
The web (and increasibly mobile) is a great place to talk about stuff that matters to you. It always has been and it always will be. Some publishers will foster those conversations on their own domains. Some will let the conversations happen elsewhere. I am not particularly concerned about who does what.
I am concerned that we keep talking and I am not the least bit worried that we will continue to do that.


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I need to do database sharding(horizontal) based on MySQL. My database schema is as following:
- I have tables A,B,C
- A,B is Global(which need not to be sharding)
- C have huge data so it need to be sharding to achieve write scalability.
- I will have several sharding,each contains one copy of A,B, and a subset of C.
My questions are:
- How could i keep A,B on all sharding consistent,i.e, replicate A,B on all sharding so that they should have exactly same data. Or just store the Global Tables on single DB and cache via memcached?
- How to do high availability for each sharding,i.e, if one sharding crashed due to unknown reasons how could i do fail over.Through MySQL backup or master-master AP mode replica?
- How to do load balance for Global tables A,B on the multiple shardings?
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Tegile uses FlashVols to balance endurance and performance, which continue to be challenges as NAND flash scales down.
NEWARK, Calif. — The higher costs of SSDs (relative to spinning disks) and their lifespan limitations generally keep enterprises from fully embracing them for storage. The ongoing challenge is how to optimize them to get the best bang for the buck, while also addressing the endurance problem.
Being selective of what data reside on flash through tiering is one avenue for using it strategically. Compression and deduplication techniques can be employed as well to minimize the number of writes to an SSD, thereby prolonging its life. Tiering does have drawbacks, however, said Rob Commins, Tegile Systems' VP of marketing, because it runs after the fact by sweeping an entire pool of storage to decide which data should be moved to the faster flash storage. This process creates delays. The company recently announced the addition of FlashVols to its Metadata Accelerated Storage System architecture to optimize SQL performance on its Zebi storage arrays. In this case, inline deduplication and compression are also used to reduce overhead for highly repetitive SQL Server workloads.
Zebi storage arrays are comprised of eMLC NAND flash and 7,200 RPM spinning disks. FlashVols are volumes that are pinned in SSD so that applications run at maximum performance, Commins explained. Rather than relying on tiering policies or caching algorithms, pinned volumes remain in DRAM or flash close to the SQL Server without any involvement from the database administrator. The data are already predetermined to be frequently accessed enough that they should benefit from flash-grade performance. "It puts a little English on the ball," said Commins.
Deduplication and compression technologies not only help improve performance, but also play a role in lengthening the lifespan of the SSD drive. Commins said each SSD drive in the system can withstand 3.5 petabytes of write data before the drive exhibits signs of write wear.
Jeff Janukowicz, IDC's research director for solid state storage and enabling technologies, said that while SSDs can help accelerate application workloads by providing low, consistent latency and high IOPs, their higher costs compared to spinning disks and their endurance are inherent challenges for enterprise storage adoption. "Compression and deduplication both improve data efficiency rates, and this helps mitigate some of these challenges," he said. Limiting writes to the drive also helps improve endurance.
More specifically, extending the life of the SSD is accomplished by minimizing the number of erasures in relation to the writes, said Gartner analyst Stanley Zaffos. "When you're doing a write, you are generally having two operations occurring. You have the erasure and you have the actual write," he said. "Reading is a more benign operation, because you're essentially measuring something as opposed to changing it."
All storage vendors are using techniques such as deduplication and compression to optimize SSDs for performance and endurance, said Zaffos. "The contention is who has done a better implementation from a data flow perspective, and from an algorithm selection process. Some vendors will do compression first, then deduplication. Some will do compression only." There are a number of permutations that can be translated into software and data flows, he said.
Reliability and endurance remains a challenge for NAND flash, and workarounds such as complex architectures and algorithms to address the inherent limitations of NAND flash are starting to hit their limits, particularly when scaling below 25nm, largely due to design constraints.
While flash adoption continues apace in enterprise storage, Commins said customers are generally looking for 3% to 10% of their data to behave in a flash-like manner for specific applications and use cases, such as online transaction processing and supporting virtual desktop infrastructures.
Wikibon predicts that hybrid storage will continue to disrupt traditional disk arrays. The research firm found that the hybrid approach is superior in high-performance environments, both in cost and performance, particularly when IO rates are greater than 700 IOs per terabyte.


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Let the kid study music, already
A weird thing about a lot of parents is that they beam and glow when their kids get solos in orchestra, band and choir in high school, but they freak out when the same talented kid says "I want to study music in college."
I don't get it. You raise a kid to have pluck and self-determination, and then when the kid says "I love playing my instrument more than anything, and I want to pursue my passion as a career," the parent flips out.
Right now is the time of year when parents call me in a frenzy of parental angst about their children's musical aspirations. They sound panicky on the phone. A child has decided that he or she loves music, and the parent is certain the love of music is going to send an accomplished, self-directed kid straight to Skid Row. They ask me, "Am I dooming my child to a life of poverty if I let him major in music?"
I am glad, when these parents reach out, to have my own story to share with them. Lookit, I say, I was a music major myself, way back when no Saturday night was complete without a midnight trip to whichever local theatre was showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I went to Manhattan School of Music to study vocal performance. Here I am, thirty years later, still singing and not starving. I sing. I write. I consult. I speak all over the world, and I tell skittish parents, "Let the kid study music, already."
What backwards thought process got us convinced that only 'safe' degrees in computer science and Accounting prepare a child for the real world? Here's what prepares a kid for real life: growing muscles. Musicians grow those muscles from an early age, because every kid in class can get an A in algebra, but not every kid can be first chair in concert band. There is competition in music. It goes with the territory. Here are other things that go with the musical territory:
– coming back from a disappointment (not getting the part, the solo or the chair you wanted), doing the gig or the show anyway and learning from and loving it.
– working on something hard, like an upcoming audition, for weeks while your friends are having fun without you.
– digging in to surmount an obstacle (a vocal wobble, e.g.) and getting past it.
– staying in yourself and in the music when a million distractions loom.
In high school, music kids get labelled nerds and wonks, but music kids are hardier than most. You only have to go to a few auditions in freezing churches at the crack of dawn, or be summoned to sing or play at rich person's house or a corporate event where you wait for your entrance in a filthy catering hallway, to grow a thicker skin and ability to roll with the punches that many kids never approach.
I tell job-seekers that the eight million auditions I went to as a young opera singer prepared me for job-hunting in the business world far better than any job-search training could have done. You go, you sing, and you leave. If the people making the casting decisions like you, great! If they don't, great! I wish every kid could cultivate that insouciance, and stop working so hard to please other people. Music kids get to be good at that, because they have no other choice.
Music kids are smart kids. They could major in anything. Do we seriously believe that a kid with a degree in musicology or piano won't make it in the real world, and will end up playing for spare change in the subway? That's ridiculous. Music kids outperform almost every other group of undergraduates when it comes to taking grad-school exams. They become entrepreneurs, leaders and creators, whether in the music business or somewhere else. It's easy to see why. They had a voice inside that said "Play your music, kid," and they listened to it. That's how muscles are grown.
Here in Colorado, we have an embarrassment of musical riches to inspire kids and keep their parents from fainting at the mental picture of a starving kid on the corner with a cello. We have terrific, top-ranking music programs at CU, CSU, UNC, DU and Metropolitan State, and I'm sure there are others I'm not aware of. We have world-class performers and teachers in each of these institutions, guiding the next generation of kids to grow their musical flames. Here are just a few of them:
Brad Goode is a trumpeter and faculty member at CU-Boulder's School of Music, when he isn't touring internationally or recording. Brad finds time to lead a weekly jazz jam at Laudisio's Restaurant in Boulder on Monday nights. Your kid could study trumpet with Brad and his colleagues without even leaving the state. Will your child's computer science or Accounting prof be someone who designed a computer, or one of the world's greatest accountants?
Guitarist and composer Michael DeLalla teaches at Front Range Community College when he isn't performing, recording or publishing music under his Falling Mountain label. Reviewer Matt Fink of All Music Guide calls Michael "One of the very best acoustic guitarists in the world…music of the most exquisite order." Thus a kid in his first-ever History of Jazz class might get to learn from a guy who's performing to packed houses when he isn't grading papers. Could a semester under a guru like Michael grow a kid's flame?
Back at CU-Boulder in the vocal performance department, Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson may be teaching a lesson right now. Jennifer is one of the country's top sopranos, a gorgeous performer with a gift for teaching, whose international career spans roles from Pamina in "The Magic Flute" to Blanche in the operatic version of "A Streetcar Named Desire." Jennifer has sung "Carmina Burana" at Lincoln Center and performed with symphony orchestras in Stuttgart and Luxembourg among many other cities. Can you imagine a better role model for a young singer?
Over at Metropolitan State University, Gene Roberts directs the opera theater program when he isn't performing and directing around the world. Gene is an acclaimed singer himself, playing the lead in the German production of "Beauty and the Beast" over 500 times and coaching singers from the operatic stage to the rock-and-roll world. In what other discipline do kids study under faculty members who are tops in their own fields, performing on the world stage, connected to the biggest names and projects in their industries, and fanatically passionate about their art?
Can we seriously say "I worry about my kid pursuing his love of music" when we see brilliant performers and coaches like these inspiring kids to reach their potential, every day? I hope not. We can teach our kids to be fearful and stick to 'safe' career paths (which are anything but safe, as it turns out) or we can teach them to spread their wings and soar.
What can we say about our years of careful parenting if the ultimate message to our children is "I know you love your music, sweetie, but you'd better not try to pursue it as a career – you might fail"?
Let the kid study music, already. The kid can't fail. The young musician will find his way, or hers, and get stronger and more resilient all the time. The kid will learn to listen to an inner voice that isn't yours, or mine, but the kid's own heart. Isn't that the channel we want our children tuned into, after all?


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I'm not a Colorado native (did you know that "I'm from Missouri" means "I'm skeptical of the matter and not easily convinced?") but I have lived here for most of my life and couldn't imagine leaving. After graduating from Colorado State University, I did what everyone wants to do; I moved to the mountains and skied, hiked, and hid from responsibility! Our listeners in the mountains may know me from my time in Steamboat Springs and Vail or as the voice of the Battle Mountain Huskies Hockey team in Vail.
I now call Denver home and I dig the easy access to the mountains as well as the live music, theater and pro & college hockey. When I am not enjoying any of the previous, I love to cook, work on improving my barbecue or constantly rediscover albums I forgot I had in an ever growing music collection.


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For people migrating from Windows to Linux, the Apache Web server is entirely different world from Microsoft Internet Information Server. Apache can be alienating to IIS / Windows administrators, because migrating to Apache is more than just copying files.
The IIS to Apache migration process needs to be handled with the same care and perspective as the process of migrating desktops and their attendant applications. In some cases, IIS to Apache may be even more difficult and may have a larger impact on users and administrators.
In this article, author talk about the process of migrating a site from IIS to Apache, with Red Hat Linux as the specific target.


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I turn around classic-castle.com since few weeks.
Very interesting by MOC pictures and CCC contest (maybe I'll try to submit something).
Sorry for my ugly english-speak (it's not my mother tongue).
Lego and specially castels (1988/1992) was my favorite game during a long time.
I'm going back to Lego with Lego Digital Designer, more parts, space less
Between I'm graphic designer and web-developer (hobby).
I've build some stuffs like :
a program to estimate invoice between LDD and the Pick-aBrick shop from Lego (25% cheaper than Design-By-Me boxes)
it's an alternative on the exchange between LDD-Manager and BrickLink...
or a graphic template to produce the background of vintage lego castle boxes (you can see a sample on my avatar)
I hope great exchanges in this community, and maybe meet some other frenchy frogs...


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Wikipedia: The badger game is an extortion scheme, often perpetrated on married men, in which the victim or "mark" is tricked into a compromising position to make him vulnerable to blackmail.
There are two competing explanations for the origin of the term badger game. One explanation is that the term originated in the practice of badger baiting. Another says that it derives its name from the state of Wisconsin (the Badger State), where the con allegedly either originated or was popularized.
This con has been around since at least the early 19th century. There are several variations of the con; in the most typical form an attractive woman approaches a man, preferably a lonely, married man of some financial means from out of town, and entices him to a private place with the intent of maneuvering him into a compromising position, usually involving some sort of sexual act. Afterward an accomplice presents the victim with photographs, video, or similar evidence, and threatens to expose him unless blackmail money is paid.
The woman may also claim that the sexual encounter was non-consensual and threaten the victim with a rape charge. It can also involve such things as the threat of a sexual harassment charge which may endanger the victim's career.
In the days before photography or video, the accomplice would usually burst into the room during the act, claiming to be the woman's husband, father, older brother, etc., and demand justice. The con was particularly effective in the 19th and earlier 20th century when the social repercussions of adultery were much greater. A famous person known to have been victimized by the scheme was Alexander Hamilton, whose adulterous affair with Maria Reynolds was used by her husband to extort money and information from him.
Variants of the con involve luring the mark with homosexual acts, underage girls, child pornography, bizarre sexual fetishes, or other activities deemed to have a particular social stigma.
Another form involves accusations of professional misconduct. In an example of this form of the con, a "sick" woman would visit a physician, describing symptoms that required her to disrobe for the examination, require the doctor to examine the genitals, or ensure similar scrutiny from the doctor. During the examination an "outraged husband" or "outraged father" would enter the room and accuse the doctor of deviant misconduct. The "sick" woman, who is of course part of the con, takes the side of her accomplice and threatens the doctor with criminal charges or a lawsuit. This form of the badger game was first widely publicized in an article in the August 25, 1930 edition of Time magazine.
Non-sexual versions of this con also exist, particularly among ethnic or religious groups with strong social taboos; for example coercing a Mormon to gamble or drink alcohol.
The badger game has been featured as a plot device in numerous books, movies and television shows.
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1673 – Mary Carleton (AKA Mary Moder, "The German Princess") – Germany & England
1885 – Name Unknown – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1878 – Sophie Lyons – Boston, Mass., USA
1878 – Sophie Lyons – Boston, Mass., USA
1886 – Ollie P. Ellis ("The California Dutchess," "Chicago Daisy") – USA
1891 – Annie Davis & Alice Oates – New York, New York, USA
1892 – Netta Heiland & Bridgett Reilly – New York, New York, USA
1892 – Lillie King – Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1896 – Fayne Moore – England, France, USA
1891 – Annie Davis & Alice Oates – New York, New York, USA
1892 – Netta Heiland & Bridgett Reilly – New York, New York, USA
1892 – Lillie King – Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1896 – Fayne Moore – England, France, USA
1901 – Rosalind Ella Hewett – Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1902 – Theresa Ray – Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1907 – May Churchill, "Chicago May" – USA, England, France
1910 – Florence Knott ("Flossie Bennett") – Washington, D. C., USA
1910 – Florence Knott ("Flossie Bennett") – Washington, D. C., USA
1910 – Florence Burns Wildrick – New York, New York, USA
1910s – Buda Godman – Chicago, Il. & New York, N. Y., USA
1911 – May Richards Barr – Seattle, Washington, USA
1914 – May Dugas – International
1914 – May Dugas – International
1916 – Helen Evers – Chicago, Illinois, USA
1918 – Margaret Hirsch – Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1919 – Betty Inch – New York, New York, USA
1924 – Trans-Atlantic Badger Game
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1935 – Broadway shakedown rackets – New York, New York, USA
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Boak named new Port captain
Travis Boak has been rewarded for his loyalty to Port Adelaide, the midfielder named the new captain of Port Adelaide, taking over from Domenic Cassisi.
Cassisi was told of the move on Monday night, and pledged his utmost support for Boak and Ebert. Cassisi will not remain as part of Port's leadership group, which has not been finalised.
The appointments were made by new coach Ken Hinkley in discussion with other key club figures. Hinkley and Boak both denied the captaincy was part of a bargain for the 24-year-old to resist offers from other AFL clubs and remain at Port. He is now believed to be the club's highest-paid player.
"It's great to be appointed captain of this great club," Boak said. "It is something that I will cherish forever."
Boak, who signed a new contract with Port Adelaide late last year, has played 108 games with Port Adelaide since 2007, averaging 21 disposals and four tackles per game. He was vice-captain last year and had been elected to the leadership group in 2011, when he was co-winner of the club's best and fairest award. The former No.5 draft pick excels at stoppages, where his vision, skill and courage are best put to use.
Fellow midfielder Ebert impressed last season in his first stint with the club, finishing runner-up in the best and fairest, after being recruited from West Coast, where he played 76 games in four season.
Tough and committed, he played every game and received nine Brownlow Medal votes in a team that won only five games.
Cassisi was Port Adelaide captain for 75 games from 2009-2012.
"It's a great honour to be captain of this great club and have the opportunity to play a role that so many outstanding players have filled in the past," Boak said.
"To take over from Dom who has done such a fantastic job for the club and our group of players is a real privilege for both Brad and me."
Coach Ken Hinkley said he had analysed the leadership abilities of his group since its pre-season trip to London three months ago.
"There's no doubt that we have got the right leaders in Travis and Brad. They are players of significance ready to play important roles on the field and off."
Hinkley says Cassisi's leadership will remain important to the club, and praised his attitude to the changeover, saying the 30-year-old may have been reappointed captain if the club failed to identify adequate new leaders.
"Dom and I have had a really mutual understanding and basically agreed that if we got to the end of pre-season and no-one was ready to take over, he could certainly be captain again," Hinkley said.
"He was comfortable with that from the very beginning and we have got to the point where we absolutely know we've got people ready to step up and create the next era of leadership for Port Adelaide.
"I think it's the perfect time for the club and the perfect opportunity," Cassisi said.
"I've done the role for four years and the club's going through some really important change. Boaky and Brad are ready for the challenge and the club couldn't be in better hands."
Boak will wear the captain's No.1 guernsey from 2013 with his No.10 held vacant for as long as he is leader.
Cassisi will revert to the No. 25 guernsey he wore during 128 games between 2002 and 2008.
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The achievement gap shows an 0.7-point decline in scores between black and hispanic students. Of the 682 students enrolled in 2018, 44.4 percent were black – or 302 students.
The achievement gap measures how one group of students academically outperforms another. The Illinois State Board of Education collects data on the persistent gap between groups by race and ethnicity, income level and gender.
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is administered to third- through eighth-graders in Illinois, testing them in reading and math based on Common Core standards. A composite score combines the results of the subject tests.
According to Farragut Elementary School composite scores for 2018, 4.3 percent of black students passed the tests. Meanwhile, 7.5 percent of hispanic students passed.
Students who passed either met or exceeded expectations are considered prepared for the next grade level, college or work. Students who failed either partially met, approached or did not meet expectations.
The achievement gap is smaller for English language arts scores and larger for math scores.
There is a 2.5-point gap between black and hispanic students' English language arts scores in 2018 – a 0.9 point improvement since 2017. In 2018, 6 percent of black students passed the reading subject test. Meanwhile, 8.5 percent of hispanic students passed.
There was a 3.9-point gap between black and hispanic students' math scores in 2018: 2.7 percent of black students passed while 6.6 percent of hispanic students passed.
Farragut Elementary School's black vs. hispanic achievement gap over 4 years
The achievement gap at Will County schools


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A movement is a motion, a change in position. Movement can also refer to:
In psychologyEdit
Locomotion may refer to specific types of motion:
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- Animal locomotion
- Defecation, sometimes called a bowel movement
- Eye movements
- Nastic movements, rapid, reversible responses to non-directional stimuli
- Terrestrial locomotion
- Art movement, a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal
- Cultural movement, change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work
- New religious movement, a religious, ethical, or spiritual grouping of fairly recent origin
- Social movement, a type of group action
In transportationEdit
- Locomotion, active movement or travel
- Transport, the movement of people, goods, signals and information
A motif can be developed by the smallest amount of movement.. you could use transport or locomotion.
In politicsEdit
- Political movement, a social movement working in the area of politics
- Wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon
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Agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) (also callosal agenesis) is a rare birth defect (congenital disorder) in which there is a complete or partial absence of the corpus callosum. It occurs when the corpus callosum, the band of white matter connecting the two hemispheres in the brain, fails to develop normally, typically during pregnancy. The development of the fibers that would otherwise form the corpus callosum become longitudinally oriented within each hemisphere and form structures called Probst bundles.
In addition to agenesis of the corpus callosum, other callosal disorders include hypogenesis (partial formation), dysgenesis (malformation) of the corpus callosum, and hypoplasia (underdevelopment) of the corpus callosum.[1]
Callosal disorders can be diagnosed only through a brain scan.[2] They may be diagnosed through an MRI, CT scan, prenatal ultrasound, or prenatal MRI.[1]
Agenesis of the corpus callosum is caused by disruption to development of the fetal brain between the 3rd and 12th weeks of pregnancy.[2] In most cases, it is not possible to know what caused an individual to have ACC or another callosal disorder. However, research suggests that some possible causes may include chromosome errors, inherited genetic factors, prenatal infections or injuries, prenatal toxic exposures, structural blockage by cysts or other brain abnormalities, and metabolic disorders.[1]
Relation to other rare disorders: genetic ciliopathyEdit
Until recently, the medical literature did not indicate a connection among many genetic disorders, both genetic syndromes and genetic diseases, that are now being found to be related. As a result of new genetic research, some of these are, in fact, highly related in their root cause despite the widely varying symptoms apparent on clinical examination. Agenesis of the corpus callosum is one such disease, part of an emerging class of diseases called ciliopathies. The underlying cause may be a dysfunctional molecular mechanism in the primary cilia structures of the cell organelles that are present in many cellular types throughout the human body. The cilia defects adversely affect "numerous critical developmental signaling pathways" essential to cellular development and thus offer a plausible hypothesis for the often multi-symptom nature of a large set of syndromes and diseases. Known ciliopathies include primary ciliary dyskinesia, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, polycystic kidney and liver disease, nephronophthisis, Alstrom syndrome, Meckel-Gruber syndrome, and some forms of retinal degeneration.[3]
Signs and symptomsEdit
Signs and symptoms of ACC and other callosal disorders vary greatly among individuals. However, some characteristics common in individuals with callosal disorders include vision impairments, low muscle tone (hypotonia), poor motor coordination, delays in motor milestones such as sitting and walking, low perception of pain, delayed toilet training, and chewing and swallowing difficulties. Laboratory research has demonstrated that individuals with ACC have difficulty transferring more complex information from one hemisphere to the other.[4] They also have been shown to have some cognitive disabilities (difficulty in complex problem solving) and social difficulties (missing subtle social cues), even when their intelligence quotient is normal.[4] Recent research suggests that specific social difficulties may be a result of impaired face processing.[5] The unusual social behavior in childhood is often mistaken for or misdiagnosed as Asperger syndrome or other autism spectrum disorders. Other characteristics sometimes associated with callosal disorders include seizures, spasticity, early feeding difficulties and/or gastric reflux, hearing impairments, abnormal head and facial features, and a mental handicap.[1]
Associated syndromes and conditionsEdit
Some syndromes that frequently include ACC are Aicardi syndrome, Andermann syndrome, Shapiro syndrome, acrocallosal syndrome, septo-optic dysplasia (optic nerve hypoplasia), Mowat-Wilson syndrome and Menkes syndrome. Some conditions that are sometimes associated with ACC include maternal nutritional deficiencies or infections, metabolic disorders, fetal alcohol syndrome, craniofacial abnormalities, and other oral and maxillofacial pathologies.[1]
There are currently no specific medical treatments for callosal disorders, but individuals with ACC and other callosal disorders may benefit from a range of developmental therapies, educational support, and services. It is important to consult with a variety of medical, health, educational, and social work professionals. Such professionals include neurologists, neuropsychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech and language pathologists, pediatricians, music therapists, geneticists, special educators, early childhood intervention specialists, and caregivers for adults.[1]
Prognosis varies depending on the type of callosal abnormality and associated conditions or syndromes. It is not possible for the corpus callosum to regenerate (i.e., the corpus callosum will not regrow).[2] Neuropsychological testing reveals subtle differences in higher cortical function compared to individuals of the same age and education without ACC, although some individuals with callosal disorders have average intelligence and lead normal lives.
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References Edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 ACC - What is agenesis of the corpus callosum?. University of Maine. URL accessed on April 11, 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Corpus callosum disorders. National Organization for Disorders of the Corpus Callosum. URL accessed on April 11, 2010.
- ↑ Badano JL, Mitsuma N, Beales PL, Katsanis N (2006). The Ciliopathies: An Emerging Class of Human Genetic Disorders. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 7: 125–148.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Travis Research Institute. URL accessed on April 11, 2010.
- ↑ Corpus Callosum Research Program. California Institute of Technology. URL accessed on April 11, 2010.
External linksEdit
Support organisations:
- Agenesis of corpus callosum - Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- The ACC Network International network to provide information and a communication link for individuals with brain anomalies involving the corpus callosum, their families and the professionals who work with them.
- National Organization of Disorders of the Corpus Callosum Non - profit US organisation offering information and support.
- Corpal UK charity offering support to families caring for children with ACC.
- Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Community A site with message boards for discussing ACC.
- ACC page from Contact a Family UK charity providing support and advice to parents with serious disabilities or rare conditions.
- Aicardi Syndrome Foundation Support and information for families caring for children with Aicardi Syndrome.
- ACC on Myspace A Myspace group created specifically for those with ACC. Members can share stories, network with other ACC sufferers, and chat.
- The ACC Network International network to provide information and a communication link for individuals with brain anomalies involving the corpus callosum, their families and the professionals who work with them.
- National Organization of Disorders of the Corpus Callosum Non - profit US organisation offering information and support.
- Professor Paul Pietsch's page on ACC Professor Emeritus Paul Pietsch of Indiana University in the US specialises in Neurosciences. His ACC pages contain research data and references.
- Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Research Program Headed by Dr. Lynn Paul and Dr. Ralph Adolphs in the Laboratory of Emotion and Social Cognition at Caltech, current research focuses on face processing and structural-functional models of connectivity in ACC brains.
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What was this curtain, and how is its tearing significant? The curtain was the barrier between the Holy of Holies representing where God dwelt and the rest of the Temple representing where man dwelt. When Jesus died on the Cross, the barrier between God and man was destroyed. The Holy of Holies was also the place of the major sacrifices of the year, mostly slaughtered animals. There would no longer be a reason for man to make burnt offerings. Jesus' sacrifice made these types of sacrifices absurd. In fact, there would no longer be a need for a Temple. For now, God's People, united to Christ, would be the Temple.
The Passion reading began with Jesus proclaiming a new covenant that was being made between God and man, a covenant of blood made by His sacrifice. It is easy to get caught up in the emotions of Passion Sunday and of Good Friday. We want to feel sorry for Jesus suffering as He did. But He does not want our sympathy. He wants our union with Him in a world transformed by His Love, sacrificial love. He wants our fidelity to the New Covenant.
So this week, Holy Week, we focus on our sharing in the Blood of the New Covenant, our sharing in the sacrifice that formed a new temple, our place in the People of God. Come and join us on Thursday evening as we celebrate the solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper at 8:00 pm. Join us in consuming and being consumed by the Eucharist. Good Friday is the most solemn day of the year, a day of fasting and abstinence, a day of prayer. Cancel any plans to treat this as a day off from work or school. Come and join us at 3:00 pm (Italian) and 5:00 pm (English) for the Liturgy of the Veneration of the Cross. Join us as we unite our pains, fears, and suffering to the cross, sacrificing all for the Kingdom of God. The Tree of the Cross is a Tree of Life, not a tree of death. For on Easter Sunday, the fruit of the cross is the Life of the Lord, given to the world in general and to each of us in particular at our baptism. Come and join us for the Solemn Easter Vigil and first Easter Mass at 8:00 pm next Saturday, or join us at one of the Masses on Easter Sunday morning as we celebrate the Life that makes all life worth living.
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A magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) is a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to provide pictures of blood vessels inside the body. In many cases MRA can provide information that can't be obtained from an X-ray , ultrasound , or computed tomography (CT) scan .
MRA can find problems with the blood vessels that may be causing reduced blood flow. With MRA, both the blood flow and the condition of the blood vessel walls can be seen. The test is often used to look at the blood vessels that go to the brain, kidneys, and legs. Information from an MRA can be saved and stored on a computer for further study. Photographs of selected views can also be made.
During MRA, the area of the body being studied is placed inside an MRI machine. Contrast material is often used during MRA to make blood vessels show up more clearly.
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A magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) is done to look for:
- A bulge ( aneurysm ), clot, or the buildup of fat and calcium deposits (stenosis caused by plaque) in the blood vessels leading to the brain.
- An aneurysm or tear ( dissection ) in the aorta , which carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
- Narrowing (stenosis) of the blood vessels leading to the heart, lungs, kidneys, or legs.
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Before a magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA), tell your doctor and the MRI technologist if you:
- Are allergic to any medicines. The contrast material used for MRA does not contain iodine. If you know that you are allergic to the contrast material used for MRA, tell your doctor before having another test.
- Are or might be pregnant.
- Have any metal implanted in your body. This information helps your doctor know if the test is safe for you. Tell your doctor if you have:
- Heart and blood vessel devices such as a coronary artery stent, pacemaker, ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator), or metal heart valve.
- Metal pins, clips, or metal parts in your body, including artificial limbs and dental work or braces.
- Any other implanted medical device, such as a medicine infusion pump.
- Cosmetic metal implants, such as in your ears.
- Have an intrauterine device (IUD) in place. An IUD may prevent you from having the MRA test done.
- Become very nervous in small spaces. You need to lie very still inside the MRI machine, so you may need to have the test done with open MRI equipment. It is not as confining as standard MRI machines. You may need medicine to help you relax. Some blood vessels may not be seen clearly with an open MRI scanner.
- Have any other health conditions, such as kidney problems or sickle cell anemia, that may prevent you from having an MRA using contrast material.
- Wear any medicine patches. The MRI may cause a burn at the patch site.
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If you are having blood flow studies, do not use tobacco products and do not eat or drink (including alcohol or caffeinated beverages) for 2 hours before the test. Do not take iron supplements on the day of the test.
You may be asked to sign a consent form that says you understand the risks of the test and agree to have it done.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?) .
How It Is Done
A magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) test is usually done by a magnetic resonance image (MRI) technologist. The test is done in an MRI machine . The resulting pictures are usually interpreted by a radiologist . But some other types of doctors can also interpret an MRA scan.
Before the test
- Remove all metal objects, such as hearing aids, dentures, jewelry, watches, hairpins, wigs, and eyeglasses, from your body because these objects may be attracted to the powerful magnet used for the test. If you have had a car crash or an accident while working with metal, it is possible that you have metal fragments in your head, eyes, skin, or spine. An X-ray may be taken before the MRA to see if you can have the test.
- Take off all or most of your clothes, depending on which area is examined. You may be allowed to keep on your underwear if it does not get in the way. You will be given a cloth or paper covering to use during the test.
- You may be given a sedative if you are nervous or you do not think you can lie still for the test.
During the test
- You will lie on your back on a table that is part of the MRI scanner.
- If you are cold or uncomfortable, you may want to ask for a pillow or blanket.
- Your head, chest, and arms may be held with straps to help you remain still.
- The table will slide into a space that contains the magnet. Depending on the part of your body to be examined, your head, limbs (such as your legs), or your entire body will be moved into the center of the magnet.
- Inside the scanner, you may hear a fan and feel air moving. You may also hear tapping or thumping noises as the MRA scans are taken. You may want to ask for ear plugs to reduce the noise.
- It is important to hold completely still while the scan is being done. Otherwise, repeat scans may be needed.
- You may be asked to hold your breath for short periods of time.
- You may be alone in the scanner room. But the technologist will watch you through an observation window, and you will be able to talk to him or her through an intercom.
If contrast material is needed, the technologist will put it in an IV in your arm. The material may be given over 1 to 2 minutes. Then more MRI scans are done.
An MRA test usually takes 30 to 90 minutes but can take as long as 2 hours.
How It Feels
You won't have pain from the magnetic field or radio waves used for the MRI test. The table you lie on may feel hard and the room may be cool. You may be tired or sore from lying in one position for a long time.
Some people feel discomfort or anxiety (claustrophobia) inside the MRI magnet. If this keeps you from lying still, you can be given a sedative to help you relax. Open MRI machines are less confining than standard MRI and may be helpful if you are claustrophobic.
If a contrast material is used, you may feel some coolness when it is put into your IV. In rare cases, you may feel:
- A tingling feeling in the mouth if you have metal dental fillings.
- Warmth in the area being examined. This is normal. Tell the technologist if you have nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, pain, burning, or breathing problems.
There is a slight risk of having an allergic reaction if contrast material is used during the MRA scan. Most reactions can be controlled using medicine.
An MRI can cause a burn with some medicine patches. Be sure to tell your doctor if you are wearing a patch.
If you have kidney disease, such as kidney failure, talk to your doctor before having an MRA scan with contrast material. The contrast material used for an MRA contains a chemical called gadolinium. If you have kidney disease, this chemical may cause a serious problem, called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
If you breastfeed and are concerned about whether the dye used in this test is safe, talk to your doctor. Most experts believe that very little dye passes into breast milk and even less is passed on to the baby. But if you prefer, you can store some of your breast milk ahead of time and use it for a day or two after the test.
A magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) is a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to provide pictures of blood vessels inside the body. The radiologist may talk to you about the results of your MRA right after the test. Complete results are usually available for your doctor in 1 to 2 days.
The blood vessels look normal and the blood flow through them is not reduced or stopped. No blood clots or large plaque buildup is seen.
Blood vessel walls are normal. No bleeding, abnormal collections of fluid, blockage in the flow of blood, or bulges in the blood vessels ( aneurysms ) are present.
Partial or complete blockage of a blood vessel may be seen. Blockage may be caused by a blood clot, the buildup of fat and calcium deposits (plaque), or narrowing (stenosis) of the blood vessel.
A bulge (aneurysm) in the blood vessel wall may be seen. Damage to the wall of a blood vessel may be seen.
Conventional angiogram or a CT angiogram (computed tomography angiogram) may be needed after MRA if a problem, such as an aneurysm, is found or if surgery may be needed.
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Pregnancy. Although the strong magnetic field used for an MRA does not appear to be harmful, MRA usually is not done when you are pregnant. If a view of your belly is needed and you are pregnant, an ultrasound test may be done instead.
- You are using a medical device that contains metal, such as an IUD, a pacemaker, some types of artificial limbs, or medicine infusion pumps. These devices can malfunction or cause problems during an MRA scan.
- Not being able to lie still during the test. The results of MRA may not be accurate if you can't remain still during the test.
- Being overweight and not fitting into the opening of some MRI scanners.
What To Think About
- While MRA is a safe and valuable test for looking at blood vessels inside the body, it is more expensive than other imaging techniques, and it may not be available in all medical centers.
- An advantage of MRA is that no radiation is involved.
- You may be able to have your MRA in an open MRI machine that doesn't enclose your entire body. But open MRI machines aren't available everywhere. The pictures from an open MRI may not be as good as those from a standard MRI machine . Also, these machines may not be able to do all the studies needed to check for problems.
- Open MRI is useful for people who are claustrophobic or obese.
- Conventional angiogram or a CT angiogram (computed tomography angiogram) may be done to double-check abnormal results from the MRA in some types of blood vessels such as the aorta. These tests might be an option especially if surgery is being considered to treat the problem.
- MRA results may show an aneurysm is present when it is not ( false-positive ). It also may show no aneurysm when one is present ( false-negative ). MRA is most accurate for larger blood vessels.
Other Places To Get Help
Related Information
Other Works Consulted
- Blankenstein R (2012). Introduction to noninvasive cardiac imaging. Circulation, 125(3): e267-e271.
- Bluemke, D, et al. (2008). Noninvasive coronary artery imaging: Magnetic resonance angiography and multidetector computed tomography angiography. A scientific statement From the American Heart Association Committee on Cardiovascular Imaging and Intervention of the Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease in the Young. Circulation, 118: 586-606.
- Fischbach F, Dunning MB III (2015). A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 9th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health.
- Hundley WG, et al. (2010). ACCF/ACR/AHA/NASCI/SCMR 2010 expert consensus document on cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Circulation, 121(22): 2462-2508.
- Levine GN, et al. (2007). Safety of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with cardiovascular devices: An American Heart Association scientific statement from the Committee on Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization, Council on Clinical Cardiology, and the Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention: Endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging, and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Circulation, 116(24): 2878-2891.
- Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2014). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby.
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2 stalks celery, diced
1 big carrot, diced
1 onion, diced
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8 oz (fresh) crimini mushrooms, diced
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1 cup pearl barley
1 teaspoon thyme
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
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My thoughts:Mushroom barley soup is a big favorite of ours. My husband, who grew up in NYC has fond memories of it served at restaurants like the 2nd Avenue Deli. Years ago (2006!!) I posted a recipe for the mushroom barley soup we'd made ourselves and I included a recipe for a slightly updated version in my second cookbook which came out last spring. So, I've made mushroom barley soup a few times. Last night when we were doing some late night grocery shopping after a dinner out with friends and after wandering around aimlessly forever trying to think of something easy to make for dinner, I spied a bag of barley and mentioned that I'd been sort of craving our old friend, mushroom barley soup. Matt leapt at the idea and said he'd always wanted to make a beef and mushroom barley soup. He'd had mushroom barley soup, he'd had beef and barley soup but never the two together in one "ultimate" barley soup. Well, I could easily remedy that!
We'd found the trick to really good mushroom barley soup is using a mixture of different types of fresh mushrooms and this is the key: at least one variety of dried mushrooms. The dried mushrooms really give it a woodsy depth of flavor that is wonderful in mushroom barley soup. The market had fresh oyster and shiitake mushrooms and we had fresh crimini and dried shiitake at home so we went with that. My previous versions of mushroom barley soup were made on the stove top, and this one could as well but it takes a couple of hours for it to cook on the stove and we were waiting for a delivery and didn't want to be distracted from the stove and end up with no dinner. So a slow cooker recipe it would be! Matt chopped up the vegetables the night before (at like 2 am, I was very tired browning that meat early in the morning) so they were ready to go. Browning the beef gives it a more appetizing color in the finished soup and I think a better flavor. Dumping the vegetables on top and cooking them a bit isn't quite as necessary but allows all of those mushrooms to release a bit of the water that otherwise would have diluted your soup. Anything for extra concentrated flavor in the ultimate soup!


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I have also been working on some quilt tops for some (graduating soon) girls from church. Here's the one I sewed (I cut some other ones out but they are being sewn by someone else.)
Congrats to Krista! I too am going to make a quilt for my naked bed -- not really naked, but with a semi-threadbare quilt that I did not make myself! I will be interested to see what you end up doing! Forge ahead!
loving your monkey quilt; it is just too cute. your king quilt sounds interesting; hope the fabric works out. can't wait to see what you come up with.
I just learned that there's a (free) Robert Kaufman app available for iPhones and Androids that is eight different quilting calculators in one. I've already downloaded it and can't wait to use it. It might help with your figuring. :) If not, it's sure handy anyway!
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I'm tweeting a lot about Palestine at the moment because it feels immoral to ignore it. Yesterday I shared this by Greg Shupack and it prompted a response by a Jewish friend (who wishes to remain anonymous because of all the vicious abuse he receives whenever he opens his mouth on the subject).
"Just don't agree with you that suggesting that there are two sides involved in this conflict is "victim-blaming" or an example of being enslaved to Western ideological assumptions. For example: that article you linked to. This paragraph:
"Both sides" rhetoric means accepting the timeline the aggressor puts forth so as to make its claim to be acting defensively seem plausible. In this view, the current killing supposedly started with the June 11 disappearance and killing of three Israeli settlers rather than the murder by the Israeli military of unarmed Palestinian teenagers Nadeem Nawara and Mohammad Salameh on May 15.
This article is attempting to deconstruct ideologies, as presented to us by the Western media, so that there is some kind of true objective balance rendered. If so, this is how that sentence should read:
The current killing supposedly started with the June 11 murder of three unarmed Israeli teenagers rather than the murder by the Israeli military of unarmed Palestinian teenagers on May 15.
It is totally correct to suggest a timeline which will not have started with the kidnapping and murder of the Israeli teenagers (and indeed goes back much further, as he points out). But then he fucks up any sense of objectivity. By calling the Israeli teenagers settlers, and by losing the description of them as teenagers, and by calling it "a disappearance and killing" rather than a murder, and by not calling them unarmed whereas making sure we know that about the Palestinians, he basically says "the Israelis deserved to die." They were kids, 16, 17 and 19. They didn't deserve to die, any more than the Palestinians.
No doubt the writer – a Jew, like many Jews, frantic with guilt about Israel – is making a point about the fact that Palestinian casualties are often not-named by reversing that expectation. But all that truly happens is a linguistic shift designed to render one act of violence OK, in order to justify another. Whereas both are fucking terrible."
I wish he didn't feel he had to speak about this anonymously (as I said in my reply to him, the tactic of conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is currently paying off in some terrible ways), because he makes an excellent point.
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(This was originally posted on my Posterous blog. Re-upping it for @gerstaunton and anyone else who might be interested.)
People often ask me for for writing advice and I usually respond by pointing them to my DVD commentary for IT Crowd Season 4, which is a complete guide to writing a sitcom from concept to screen. Everything I knew about sitcom writing to that point in time is on that DVD, so when people ask me for advice, that's literally the most helpful thing I can do for them. The fact that it also gives me an excuse to plug the DVD is completely beside the point, of course.
But there is one piece of advice on which I may not have placed enough emphasis, because it is almost impossible to place enough emphasis on it, and it is as follows: when someone reads your script and gives you notes, be grateful, and act on those notes.
Act on them, apply them. You are not a genius. You are just a schmuck. You need help, your script needs help. That opening you think is so hilarious? It's not. It's confusing. It doesn't work. Stop pretending it's the Odessa Steps. It's a fucking mess.
And you know what, the scene that follows it? The one that really IS great? The one that everyone loves? That's going to have to go too. Do you know why? Because as soon as you changed the scene-that's-not-the-Odessa-Steps, it made that other scene not work either.
Writing is rewriting.
Rewriting is not polishing.
Rewriting is heavy lifting.
Now, there is a flipside to this rule. Unless you are lucky enough to have a real-life, honest-to-goodness, says-it-on-his-business-card script editor who has been paid to give you a full set of notes, you may well run into people who have lots of opinions on what is wrong with your script, and not one of them makes a bit of sense; notes that might as well say "This script would be great, if everyone in it was taller."
What you do when you hear this kind of note is very simple. You nod, you say "That's interesting", you go home and you try to work out what the real problem is. Even the dumbest person in the room can help your script, because if that person felt the need to open his big dumb mouth, it's because your script didn't hold his attention enough to keep him quiet.
By now, you're probably wondering why I've adopted such an aggressive tone for this piece. It's because I'm sick of hearing from very clever friends of mine–script editors and producers who DO give great notes–that the writer they're currently working with refuses to change anything, or sulks and whines or worse yet, explains that "No, no, you see…HE'S saying it to HER. That's why it's FUNNY!" (If you have to explain ANYTHING, you've ALREADY LOST).
I heard of a writing partnership who handed in a first draft and said "We're not changing a word of that." If I had been in that room, and had been in a position to do so, I would have said "OK, you're fired" and then laughed like Doctor Doom for a week. You might as well say "We do not know how to write, and we refuse to learn."
So repeat after me, you fuckwits who refused to implement that very simple fix that your EXPERIENCED and CLEVER producer suggested:
He is not the problem.
I am the problem.
My script is the problem.
Writing is rewriting.
Writing is rewriting.
Writing is rewriting.
Did you see it? Yeesh. But worry not…
I call this picture 'James Delingpole pops out for a snack', even though I'm fairly sure that's not James Delingpole.
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Presidential motorcades are cool, right? But what are vice presidential motorcades?
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Someone might have honked at me on lower Massachusetts, so I did what I always do when someone honks at me, which is nothing.
I rode past a red SUV with the license plate FEAR ME. It's rare that bad drivers advertise, so thanks.
Engaging in wrong-way riding in a bike lane is a jerk thing to do. Especially when there's a bike lane on the street one block over that goes in the direction you're heading. Come on, man. I declined to make eye contact. I have beautiful eyes, so this is a terrible punishment (I'm joking. My eyes are only ok. But I still didn't acknowledge him. Cold shoulder and whatnot. He knew he was doing wrong.).
I need to figure out a better way to get from 11th to Pennsylvania. Any suggestions? I find myself in the right lane on 11th and can't merge into the left-er two turn lanes to get to Penn, so sometimes I cut across the crosswalk and other times I sort of make my way into the middle of Penn, let the left-turning cars go, and then cross when the light is red.
While there's always a little bit of tension between "racing" bike commuting, rarely have I ever seen a bike commuter display such anger and bile as what I encountered tonight. I was riding along on the right hand side of the Pennsylvania Avenue bike lane and the woman in front of me was riding slightly to the left of the center line or maybe right on the center line. In any case, we were both just bopping along, when from behind us, another woman, she of the green jacket, said in a tone I could best describe as needlessly mad, "Ride on the right so those of us going faster can pass on the left!" Angry. First of all, why be so angry? An "excuse me" would probably have worked. And secondly. why the verbose explanation? Yes, that's what it would say in a bicycling handbook, but you don't need a whole sentence to get the point across. So the woman in front of me moved over and then green jacket beat us both to the red light, where we stopped. In the mean time, I ran over something plastic and I worried that what I had run over fell out of my pocket, so at the light I asked yet another female cyclist (THERE IS NO WAY THAT FEMALE BICYCLE COMMUTERS IN WASHINGTON DC ARE A MINORITY, but I digress) what that might have been and she suggested a reflector and I checked my pockets and everything I thought were in there were still in there, so I didn't worry. In the mean time, the light turned green and the race was off again and it was intense and silly. By the Capitol, the passed-woman rode on the wrong-side of the parking lot before Grant Circle and I passed the green jacketed cyclist and declined to say anything (because really, why be petty) and then it was up the hill and down East Capitol and home. At Lincoln Park, I think green jacket was again behind me, but I didn't really look back. I'm just going to give everyone in this situation the benefit of the doubt (in case they're reading! [yeah right]), but it's just a reminder that no matter the mode of transportation, sometimes people get annoyed at other people and have expectations that those around them comport themselves in a particular way and aren't afraid of saying as much.


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For the second straight year, Graham Rahal has crashed in the beginning laps of the Indy 500, grinding the outside of his car hard into the outside wall while exiting turn four. Lucky for us he came to rest just in front of the press box. Pics below.
The accident occurred on lap 56 as Rahal got high on the track into the loose stuff and with the help of some dirty air from the car ahead of him. We're currently back to green after a full field pit under yellow, Ryan Briscoe lost all of his grip and will pit, as a result the field is mixing it up, Scott Dixon takes the lead followed by Franchitti, Kanaan, Matos and Patrick. Things are getting interesting.