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Newark has become a destination for Conservative campaigners demoralised by the local & European results. Around this Nottinghamshire market town there are whispers of victory in the by-election on Thursday. If Robert Jenrick wins big, then the momentum created by that, and the effect upon Conservative volunteers will be great. Defeat or narrow victory here could cause some to doubt their faith.
The operation for the Conservative party, led by George Hollingbery, has been impressive. Evidence of how seriously the party takes Newark is in front of any volunteer: the wall to the right of the entrance is one long roll of honour, the signatures and dates of MPs who have campaigned. It's like the Top Gear test track board. A show of solidarity by the parliamentary party, it creates a sense of fun: the feeling you get from knowing that you might be part of the winning team.
The roll of honour (Photo: Rupert Myers)
As a foot soldier for the day, I was in and back out again with my instructions in minutes. The campaign office is geared to handle large numbers and they have to be. Thursday's visit by the PM brought a surge of volunteers and members of the press. Keeping the show on the road on days like that is currently one of the bigger challenges for the campaign team. Hundreds of activists are expected to turn up for Thursday's Get Out The Vote operation, crucial because much of the Conservative support is scattered in smaller outlying villages. If on Thursday they lack enough volunteers to 'knock up' voters, then this entire effort may have been wasted.
If Newark shows Ukip support settling back down, it will help to make the argument that voters hold those we send to the Commons to a higher standard. Send the clowns to Brussels by all means, but we're more discerning when it comes to Westminster. This weekend saw the arrival of the Road Trip 2015 campaigners, hundreds of students bussed up for a weekend of campaigning, curry, and a fair bit to drink. Many of the rising stars involved in this team frequent outfits like the Young Briton's Foundation, a group straddling the libertarian overlap between the Conservatives and Ukip. We know that young talent is jumping ship from Ukip. Every sip taken from their young activist base leaves the glass a little emptier, and what remains becomes mostly backwash.
I'm not sure how much the people of Newark can take of this. Several residents handed back the literature as they had received enough already. At one doorstep I was queuing behind a local Labour canvasser, who took my leaflet from me and posted it through the door. He thought that Labour would drop a place and come third. Despite much talk of Ukip I saw only one lawn sign, and one fifty-something man driving down the high street on a cream-coloured touring motorbike with purple flags fluttering from it. The biker vote in Newark does not seem sizeable. If it had been a four-wheel drive or a flash caravan, I'd have been more concerned.
If the Conservatives were to lose Newark then the game would be up. If Jenrick wins by only a narrow majority then many volunteers will despair. This by-election has support that less winnable seats will never see next year. Children walked past me in the high street carrying Conservative helium-filled balloons. Unlike Wythenshawe or Eastleigh, there is the sense that this is going well, and that volunteers are enjoying themselves.
Newark is a chance for volunteers to press the reset button after the local elections, to show voters that they can win in the fight that counts. For the people of Newark this is a chance to react to the European election results: is that one cheeky pint of Ukip support almost finished? If volunteers are persuaded to make the pilgrimage to Newark on Thursday one final time to find those voters down long country tracks, it will be a huge boost for the grass roots, 335 days out from the general election.


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At last, a semblance of what it takes to play test cricket.
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Meanwhile a determined South African pair is keeping Australia at bay with an eighty one run partnership from sixty-three overs.
Meanwhile 2...on a specially ordered dust-bowl of a pitch, Pietersen plays the best innings ever by an English batsman in Asia, (supported by a fine knock by his Captain).
What was I saying about "rather lose without him, than win with him"?
Hopefully all concerned can reproduce this form come next March.
It must be a featherbed for Pietersen to excel. I liken him to Hick - a flat track bully who usually fails when the going is tough.
Adolf, did you spend any time at the Adelaide Oval over the last days?
No, it was a sell out.
Not sure how the new ground will pan out. The old one was superb.
What a memorable century from Du Plessis! Now THAT is test match batting at its best.
Adolf, have you finally overcome your shock at being so absolutely wrong in your US election predictions to start blogging again? I can understand how it would take so long, you seemed so convinced that all the polls were biased (well, except for Rasmussen)
The poor old girl is so humiliated he doesn't like being reminded of it Mighty Kites. It's our duty therefore to point it out as often as possible.
He couldn't even face a bog standard far-right post blaming the media, voter fraud and racism for Obama's landslide re-election. Sort of sad in a way, but not really.
Martin Crowe - now *there* was a New Zealand batsman who knew how to stick around at the crease and not give his wicket away.
His innings of 299 will live long in the memory. If anyone deserved a triple-ton, it was him, but it wasn't to be.
If only we had five or six Martin Crowes in the Black Caps, rather than the rabble of impatient, inept sloggers that we now have.

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Hello, my program was to allow the user to enter a value as a C string in the form: xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx.xx, where x can be any digit. Well, so far here is my attempt. I think the question is, would I have to implement a switch statement for the digits, the comma, and the decimal, so that when a user inputs, let say 52,000.00 the switch statements would read the 1st digit, checks for decimals/commas and if not, proceed to read 2nd digit, and repeat?
A bit overwhelmed with this work, but i'll still rework my coding, just looking for any advice/tips really.
Code:#include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { using namespace std; char buffer[256]; char tempBuff[256] = {'\n'}; double result; int count = 0; cout << "Testing " << endl; cout << "Enter Any integers: "; cin.getline(buffer,256); for(int i = 0; i < strlen(buffer); i++) { if(isdigit(buffer[i])) { tempBuff[count] = buffer[i]; count++; } } if (atof(tempBuff) > 0) { result = atof(tempBuff) / 2; } cout << endl << "The integer you put was: " << tempBuff << " And dividing the integers "<< result << endl; cin.ignore(); return 0; }


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One thing often touted as a missing feature in Ruby is the lack of a constructor form that initializes fields. A few other languages have this feature, including for example Groovy, another JVM dynamic language. The general idea is that if you want to construct an object and initialize a number of fields, you often want to do it in one shot. Rather than modify the class to have additional initializers for all the fields you want to set, there's another option.
Because Ruby is so cool, you can add this feature yourself to all classes at the same time.
class Class
def new!(*args, &block)
# make sure we have arguments
if args && args.size > 0
# if it's not a Hash, perform a normal "new"
return new(*args, &block) unless Hash === args[-1]
# grab the last arg in the list
last_arg = args.pop
# make sure all fields actually exist
last_arg.each_key {|key|
unless public_instance_methods.include?("#{key}=") do
raise ArgumentError.new(
"No attr setter for name: #{key}")
# create the object and set its fields
new_obj = new(*args, &block)
last_arg.each {|key, value|
new_obj.send "#{key}=", value
# no args, just do a normal "new" with any block passed
new_obj = new(&block)
So with such a simple piece of code, we now have a new! method on all classes that accepts a final parameter--a hash of field names and values--that can be given using Ruby's named-parameter-like syntax. Given a simple class, like the following:
class MyObject
attr_accessor :foo
attr_accessor :bar
def initialize(msg)
puts msg
No additional work is needed to use our new! method:
x = MyObject.new!("yippee",
:foo => "hello", :bar => "goodbye")
=> "yippee"
p [x.foo, x.bar]
=> ["hello", "goodbye"]
y = MyObject.new!("blah", :yuck => "baz")
=> error: "No attr setter for name: yuck"
The reason this works is that all classes are instances of the Class class. So the MyObject class definition above is roughly equivalent to saying:
MyObject = Class.new {
# class def logic here
This means that instances of Class, like MyObject, inherit methods defined on Class, like new!. Since all classes in the system are Class objects, all classes instantly gain a new! method.
This is a perfect example of why Ruby is such a powerful language, and why it's so easy in Ruby to use the coolest metaprogramming tricks. And it's a primary reason why frameworks like Rails have been able to do such amazing things. With a language that's this powerful and this easy, you can imagine what else is possible.
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Of late i've watched gakuen heaven (a little yaoi, but hilarious!), R.O.D. (read or die), and ghost in the shell SAC 1 & 2. I just ordered ghost in the shell the original movie, cause i've never seen it (can u believe it?).
I have recently started watching Kuragehime Its so cute *o*
^ Rozen Maiden is epic!I've just recently been watching an enabridged Helsing series that's just full of win; it makes the unabridged Yu-Gi-Oh! series look like crap.


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WASHINGTON – NASA will try again this summer to launch an Earth observation satellite that will use a novel fluorescence sensor to help measure atmospheric CO2 and ultimately map carbon sources and carbon sinks on Earth.
A previous launch failure provided several unexpected bonuses in the run up to the scheduled July 1 launch of the $467.5 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2. The first attempt to launch the carbon-detecting sensor in 2009 did not reach orbit when a payload fairing, the clamshell-shaped cover protecting the satellite, failed to separate.
That failure was "heartbreaking," Ralph Basilio, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's program manager for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, said in an interview. "I'm an engineer. I was trained to solve problems, and we walked away with nothing to solve."
NASA quickly decided to fund a second satellite, OCO-2 (a "carbon copy" of the first, Basilio joked), which is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on July 1 into a near-polar orbit. The JPL team working on the first satellite also remained in place to tweak the design for OCO-2.
The intervening five years gave Basilio's team the gift of time to mitigate technical risks, including switching to a different booster, the Delta II, and upgrading the payload's reaction wheels, mechanical steering devices used to control a satellite's attitude in space. (Last year's failure of reaction wheels on the Kepler Space Telescope prevented mission planners from pointing the planet-hunting satellite.)
The launch failure also gave OCO scientists a chance to work with managers of the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) launched in 2009. GOSAT measures atmospheric CO2 and methane. As NASA mission managers readied the new payload, JPL research scientist Christian Frankenberg spotted something hidden in the Japanese data: solar-induced fluorescence, or glow, from chlorophyll in plants. Measuring fluorescence in the lab is relatively straightforward. Space-based observations were only possible over the ocean.
The glow is a signature of photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy. As vegetation absorbs sunlight, some of the light is dissipated as heat while some radiation is re-emitted at longer wavelengths as fluorescence.
The rub has always been that the brightness of our sun makes it impossible to observe this glow over land. On a hunch, Frankenberg applied a technique called Fraunhofer lines, the black lines of the electromagnetic spectrum where there is no light. The German optician Joseph Fraunhofer applied this insight to develop the diffraction grating used in most spectrometers.
The Japanese satellite uses a Fourier transform spectrometer. Frankenberg figured out a way to leverage Fraunhofer lines to design a grating spectrometer for OCO-2 that will allow the satellite for the first time to measure solar-induced fluorescence over land.
"Fluorescence data, when combined with the observatory's atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements, will increase the value of the OCO-2 mission," Basilio noted. The hoped-for result will be a treasure trove regional data on carbon sources and sinks collected along the approximately 10-kilometer swaths of the Earth covered by the NASA carbon observatory.
One reason is that simply measuring atmospheric CO2 doesn't directly reflect what's going in the ground. Hence, the mission's new spectrometers will provide climate scientists with what Basilio called a "geophysical record" of what's happening in the Earth's carbon cycle.


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Police: Infant suffocates after toddler brother climbs into crib to 'cuddle'
In what police are calling a tragic accident, a 6-month-old baby died from apparent asphyxiation in his crib while his brother slept next to him.
According to the Houston Police Department, the mother had put her 2-year-old son to sleep in a separate bed in the room the boys shared in their home at the Jadestone Apartments along Cook Road in Alief.
But when checking on the babies about a half-hour later, the mother saw that the 2-year-old had climbed into the infant's crib to lie next to him, said HPD spokesman John Cannon.
Police told Fox 26 it is believed the sibling climbed into the crib to "cuddle" with the infant.
The 6-month-old was not breathing.
A 911 call went out about 7:20 p.m., and when police arrived the infant could not be revived, Cannon said. He was taken to the West Houston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The baby's cause of death has yet to be officially determined, but police said that by all accounts it appears to be an accidental smothering.


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For what service during the American Revolution was James Lafayette awarded his freedom?
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Slave Belonging to William Armistead who entered the service of the Marquis de Lafayette asks to be Granted his Freedom, Legislative Petitions, New Kent County, 30 November 1786, Box 179, Folder 10, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. (Transcription | High Res)
Standards Of Learning
Historical Information:
James, the slave of William Armistead, served in 1781 at Yorktown by spying on Lord Cornwallis for the Marquis de Lafayette. James carried vital information across enemy lines, even pretending to act as a double agent, providing the British with just enough information to gain their confidence so he could learn more to ensure an American victory.
At the beginning of the American Revolution, Lord Dunmore, the last colonial governor of Virginia, offered enslaved Virginians their freedom, provided they would come and fight for the British. While the Continental army did not offer such an incentive, slaves still joined to fight for the American cause. One such man was James, the slave of William Armistead, a Virginia government official. In October 1781, James acting for the Marquis de Lafayette, spied on Lord Cornwallis behind British lines at Yorktown. James carried vital information across enemy lines, even pretending to act as a double agent, providing the British with just enough information to gain their confidence so he could learn more to ensure an American victory. After putting his life on the line fighting for freedom, James found himself returning to slavery as the war came to a close. An unsuccessful 1784 petition for James's freedom seemed to guarantee his slave status, but that same year James received a note from Lafayette commemorating his service, giving James a supporting document from an influential source. In 1786, another petition was sent to the Virginia General Assembly on behalf of James, asking for his freedom, and this time he won. The petition asked that his former master be compensated for the loss of his labor, and, in 1787, William Armistead was awarded $250 dollars as payment for James. James started the year 1787 as a free man, and he took the last name Lafayette. The historical record tells us that as a free man James Lafayette owned lands, held slaves, received a Revolutionary War pension starting in 1819, met Lafayette again during the Marquis's 1824 tour of the United States, and died at age 82 in the year 1830.
Vocabulary Words:
• Petition—a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit.
• Fidelity—strict observance of promises, duties, etc.
• Commemorate—to serve as a memorial or reminder of.
Lesson Activities
• PRE-LESSON ACTIVITY: Have students read the petition and identify James Lafayette's role in the Revolutionary War.
• TIMELINE: Have students create a timeline of important dates/events in James Lafayette's life.
• ORAL EXPRESSION: Before telling the class that James Lafayette won his freedom with the second petition, ask students what action would they take if they were the General Assembly. Have students debate by presenting evidence in favor of James Lafayette's winning his freedom and evidence against it. After the presentations, have a class vote.
• CREATIVE EXPRESSION: Today we can send letters to our representatives asking them to support legislation. Have students write a letter to a member of the General Assembly in 1786 telling the members why they should grant James Lafayette his freedom.
Research and Discussion Questions:
• Have students discuss the risks James Lafayette took and the possible motivations for his actions.
Suggested Materials
Salmon, John. "A Mission of the Most Secret and Important Kind: James Lafayette and American Espionage." Virginia Cavalcade 31, no. 2 (1981): 78–85.
Related Links
James Armistead Lafayette - African American Trailblazers Video
Video: Billy and James: Choices Facing African Americans during the Revolutionary War
Shaping the Constitution: James's Petition to the General Assembly, November 30, 1786


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Juergen Josef Goetzmann-Xifix2base Rocking-Chair-One Rocking Chair
At Design Interviews
Interview with Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : My idea for this rocking chair was to create a small and cosy island. The look should be soft, pleasant and inviting. The item shouldn't have any corners only curves - harmonious curves. He is intended for relaxing areas like living rooms, lounges and private zones. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : I wanted to develop a slim rack without ornamentations and additional constructions. The minimized one pipe construction should be immediately visible and the materials should be classic and lasting - metal and leather. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To find a company which will produce and distribute my chair. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : It took 3 month to complete this design concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : My challenge was to develop a whole collection of chairs and armchairs based on my own rack system, according to classic metal pipe chairs. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : I plan to sell or lease my product. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Ambition and the memory of the rocking chair of my father. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Everybody who likes to swing in a cosy rocking chair. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : It is a compact chair with a smart design, reduced to a minimum of construction. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The name - xifix - is my pseudonym - Juergen Goetzmann - alias xifix - the one man group. xifix2base - is my second rack-system. rocking-chair-one - is my first rocking chair. These working titles are a system to catalogue my designs. Later in production and sale I would like to call this chair bugsy. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : Wire and plasticine. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The most unique aspect is the endless pipe construction. So I created a loop form, which achieves the stability of the rack. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To reduce the technology to a minimum. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : The ergonomics of the chair was adapted to the physiognomy of an average person. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : To form the one-pipe-rack with a loop that matches the ergonomics of man - under consideration of the esthetics and the feasibility. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : I want to find a company which will manufacture and sell my designs. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : I still have a lot of fun designing one-pipe-chair-racks. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Juergen Josef Goetzmann : No - but I like to use this possibility to express thanks for the professional tendering and support of this competition. .
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Software as a service (SaaS) can be a great cost saver for companies willing to abandon their own hardware and software, but what happens if productivity leaves the building too?
Giving control of your business applications to someone else can also mean losing control of performance.
When staff complain to the help desk that pages in a browser-based CRM application are taking 10 seconds each to load, and they have customers on the phone, who do you call? More to the point, how do you stop the problem arising in the first place?
Application performance management systems that use locally installed software agents to check on things like server and network load are useful when you are running systems on your own premises, but how do you monitor performance when all of the equipment is running on someone else's turf?
On your marks
"There are application monitoring solutions available today that allow the end-to-end response time of a transaction to be measured," says Tony Lock, programme director at Freeform Dynamics.
"This gives the organisation a means to calibrate the service quality of application performance without having to use any data supplied by the SaaS vendor."
Some systems approach this customer experience management problem by monitoring performance from a specific URL.
TechOut offers a monitoring solution for web applications that is operated on a SaaS basis. It uses servers in different regions to perform various tests on a destination site, such as GETS and POSTS with variable parameters, and provides a report on all objects and frames in the page.
CA's APM Cloud Monitor enables companies to monitor the state of SaaS applications and reports back on performance.
It copes with the peculiarities of modern web applications, such as the rich internet applications that make extensive use of JavaScript and XML, to deliver user interactions that depart from traditional click-and-wait HTML-only web apps.
Blame the internet
It is difficult, however, for customer experience monitoring solutions to distinguish between the SaaS provider's servers and the network. It would be easy for an unresponsive cloud-based application hosting service to simply shrug and point to the internet.
Networks can indeed be a bottleneck, warns Steve Marsh, EMEA product manager at cloud migration firm Metalogix. Such bottlenecks may be particularly noticeable when uploading or downloading large data objects, such as in a Sharepoint SaaS implementation.
"The main thing they are going to notice is uploading and downloading files from Sharepoint," Marsh says.
"That's something we need to play with. That would be the first measure. Do we have acceptable upload and download times for our files?"
The issue lies not just with the provider's external network connection, but with the customer's own WAN and LAN setup. Get it wrong and you could see a considerable slowdown.
"That's when users turn around and say that the new online service is slower," Marsh warns.
No entry
A handy Ping or Traceroute command could soon put disputes about network problems on the customer's side to rest. But how can you measure performance inside the SaaS provider's infrastructure?
"With difficulty," says Clive Longbottom, service director at analyst Quocirca. "You need an agentless probe that can get past their firewalls and not be seen as an intruder."
Ideally, says Tal Mikaelovich, technical director at application performance management firm Precise, users would have more control over their third-party cloud environments.
"Cloud companies would like to bring more business but they know that they need to give some access to the servers, otherwise it's not going to work," he says.
Maybe. While you may be able to install software of your choosing in some platform-as-a-service scenarios, most SaaS providers are unlikely to let customers anywhere near their servers with third-party software.
Some providers are building performance reporting into their own system and service offering so they can challenge claims that they are underperforming, says Longbottom.
It is important to note the level of reporting here. Rather than send a report to customers only when services are entirely down, a reporting structure should indicate when response times dip below a certain threshold.
Examine the contract carefully for weasel clauses
That raises the question, what do you put in a contract? Service level agreements (SLAs) for SaaS implementations should offer more than just guaranteed uptime. Response times should figure in the equation.
"As in any contract, it is essential that customers specify upfront their service quality requirements, in whatever terms and metrics they need," says Lock.
"Get agreement on how these will be monitored, measured and reported, as well as identifying SLA remediation and modification, potentially over long timeframes."
Longbottom advises customers to examine the contract carefully for "weasel clauses" that allow the provider to shirk responsibility by simply pointing to a part of the infrastructure outside its control.
"Also, use the provider to advise on performance trending," he says. "It's no use having an SLA and then just waiting for it to be breached."
Customers must be able to work with the provider to prevent breaches from happening in the first place by analysing workloads against a baseline.
Separate paths
There are other ways to improve the performance of a SaaS solution, says Marsh. In storage-heavy SaaS deployments, such as SharePoint, it is possible in some hosted configurations to separate the storage from the application logic.
"We are looking at vendors now that have chargeback models based on how much is in Sharepoint," he says. "You can remove up to 95 per cent of your content from SQL, including binary large objects, and put that into alternative storage tiers."
These tiers could be tailored for high performance. "It could be that they are offering their fastest storage, versus cheaper storage," Marsh says.
For such actions to be effective, you need to understand your future capacity and latency requirements.
This leads us to provisioning. A responsible customer will work with the SaaS provider to plan for future growth. In an on-premise scenario supporting Sharepoint users, you need to build a server farm large enough to support the number of users and the amount of content that you plan to use.
"Balance that against how you might scale out in the cloud. It's a question of provisioning new sites and new quotas online," Marsh says.
"What is adoption going to be like? What is the online storage going to look like, and what will your agreement with the vendor look like over time compared with an internal solution?"
Just because your service provider is up there in the cloud doesn't mean you should treat it as an inexhaustible resource with no planning.
The needs of users must also be taken into account when deciding what aspects of your SaaS applications' performance to monitor. Response times for synchronous application sessions are one way to measure performance, but they are by no means the only one.
In some SaaS scenarios, file backup and restore might be an important performance indicator. If a user deletes a file by accident and asks for it to be restored, and the service provider says it will take three days to restore it, would that be acceptable?
Understanding what parameters of application performance you are trying to monitor is crucial.
Standard agreement
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In the Spirit of the Fast, with it being Fast and Testimony day, I thought I would do the same online with regards to my latest manifestation.
Here are two quotes with relation to family history work. Particularly, after you have done your homework and gone to the limit of your capacity, the door will be opened and a little more revealed. Sometimes, the floods even fall into your lap.
"It is your duty now to rise up, all of you, and trace your genealogies, and begin to exercise the powers which belong to saviors of men, and when you do this in earnest, you will begin to comprehend how widespread, how numerous your ancestors are for whom Temple work has to be performed, in order that they may be brought into the fold; and when you get stopped, the Lord will reveal further information to you;" (George Q Cannon, JD 22:130)
"That same God who has ordained baptism for the dead, and who has commanded the believers in this generation to be baptized for them, will in due time, when we have done all we can in searching out our genealogies, reveal to us the chain so that we shall find our fathers, no matter how many generations…(Orson Pratt, JD 16:300)
While in Virginia, I spent a considerable amount of time in the Family History Library. I taught my classes there, helped people do research, and spent many, many days pouring through books for familiar names and information. Often I would borrow a book from the library for the week and through the week go through the entire book pulling out information on possible relatives. In doing so, I really opened up a number of families for which I found nothing on the internet or anywhere else.
However, in doing so, I ended up with a whole host of what I call floaters. Those individuals who I was pretty sure linked into the families I already had in the file, but I had no real information to tie them in. For example, going through a marriage registry book gives only the names of the couple, and typically the father of the bride who gave bond. I had a whole host of couple's floating. In about a dozen couples, the bride's father's name was Joseph Martin. I had more than 30 Joseph Martin's in my file and to try and link them to one was nearly impossible without more help.
Since I knew my time was limited in Virginia and the resources of the library, I would often take any individual with a relative's name. For example, every Graham, Martin, Meredith, and other families I ran across their information went into my file. While this was highly successful with the Meredith line in tying the families together, it was much less so with the Martin's due to their sheer number. Martinsville, Virginia, obviously founded by Martin's has at least 3 major Martin families who in all branch throughout Virginia and North Carolina.
Just this past month I was wondering how in the world I was going to connect these floaters in my file. It just happened to be that I received a couple of e-mails that led to my receiving a packet in the mail. The history report for an 8th grader on Revolutionary Soldier and founder of Martinsville, Joseph Martin. Who would have ever known an 8th grader would write such a concise and researched document. I tied my 30+ Joseph Martin's together in such a way that I am down to 10! All of those floaters whose father's name was Joseph Martin are gone. In my mind, it is a miracle.
The mere fact that information which so perfectly fit my scenario is in my hands is the work of the Lord. As I connected link after link, that is what was running through my mind. "This is the hand of the Lord which has brought this to pass."
Surely, the hand of the Lord is over this work. This I surely know, and only witnessed to again through this manifestation. There are an endless host of such experiences. If it were not for the Spirit witnessing this fact to me, just the mere coincidence of so many genealogical research puzzle pieces coming together in my life is near impossible.
I know the work is alive and vibrant. It all depends on how much we wish to be engaged in it. The more engaged, the greater the blessings for us and those who we also serve. It is an endless circle.


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Also adds a new translation (Portuguese Standard), a lot of fixes in compatibility list.
You don't see it but I'm currently working on a new management system to help me handle the updates because they currently takes too much time to be prepared.
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You will have to re-download LiLi if you want to make Fedora 16 Live USB. As a side note, I think I will stop using the auto-update feature of LiLi in next major version since most updates also need a code update (= new binaries).
For Notebook users : please note that I fixed the bug of unusable keyboard arrows to move the interface.
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Have fun,
PS : I tried Windows 8 "To go" (kind of a live USB), and let me tell you ... it currently does not compete with any Linux Live in any way.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Team Ortho Lucky 7 Half Marathon
I may be healed but I am not trained.
Before I made the decision to have a hysterectomy I had planned on completing the UMTR Ultra Gnarly Bandit Series. 4 - 100 mile ultra marathons in the Midwest. Well, once the hysterectomy became a reality I realized I +may+ not be ready for Zumbro 100 in April (you think?).
I came up with another plan. The Team Ortho Monster Series. A 10K, Half Marathon, Marathon, Duathalon and another Half Marathon. I ran the 10K Polar Dash in January the second race was yesterday. Participants could either run a 7K or 21K (Half Marathon). I opted for the Lucky Half Marathon. I had a quick thought of pinning a tag to my back stating that I was only 7 weeks post op as a reason for my suckage.
My surgeon gave me his blessing to resume running two weeks ago. With 6 weeks off and a major surgery I knew running might be difficult..but I thought my body would catch on quickly. My running has been on a hiking trail under a few feet of snow. Lots of hills, lots of slow running. Well, not lots..nothing over 10 miles. I ran 10 miles last week. This run was partly on the trail with Topaz and it was so cold and slippery and tough on the trail that I ran the remaining miles on my treadmill. With an hour of driving and changing (rest) inbetween. This does not a half marathon make, I know realize..as if I didn't before.
As I have mentioned before, I really like the Team Ortho races. Except that I had to make a 4 hour round trip to packet pickup on Friday. That was the pits-rush hour and all.
Saturday morning it was 21F, a big moon hovering in the sky as I drove toward Minneapolis. As I neared Minneapolis the sky became cloudy and it was snowing. I was so glad I decided to wear long pants, gloves, ear band, light jacket and long sleeved thin top. I haven't run in shorts yet this year. It was windy too.
Race organization was excellent. Free parking at the Ford Plant. As I neared the plant volunteers were flagging cars in, directing up to parking slots. Awesome. I headed out a few minutes before race time and bumped into Monica. I first met Monica while working for Berkley, and later, at FANS 24 Hour Run. Now I see Monica regularly at races. Cool.
We chit chatted and waited for the GO. My plan was to go SLOW, a full two minutes per mile slower than usual, including 1 minute walk after each mile. I stayed true to this plan the whole race and then even added a few minutes. Egads.
I was cautious and maybe a little nervous at the beginning, wondering if I really was healed. I really didn't worry about the training. It didn't occur to me that surgery and 6 weeks off would really make that much of a difference.
I just trotted along the course, listening to conversation around me, noticing that I was running with a group of people that I haven't been running with lately. It reminded me of when I first began to run races. Many near me were running their first halfs, it was cool to listen to their excitement and future racing plans.
At 5 miles I saw the front leaders coming back, man, they were hauling ass and were running uphill. The course was hilly, mostly downhill on the way out with the wind in our face and mostly uphill on the way back with the wind at our backs. I ate a gel here, a few glasses of power ade and trudged along, making sure to walk a full minute after each mile. I was running 10 minute miles and was OK with that, although I was a bit miffed that a 10 minute mile wasn't feeling all that easy.
At 8 miles I began to get dizzy. It kind of freaked me out. I was running up a hill, stitches on both sides, and became dizzy. I slowed to a walk and heard this gasping. Is that me? I turned down my music and sure enough, I was gasping and wheezing. I was quite perturbed at myself. Why do I have side stitches, why am I dizzy and why am I gasping for air. Hello I'm running an 11 minute mile at this point. Hello you just had surgery and haven't run for 6 weeks. Bla bla bla. On and on I went. At the top of the hill I sat on a curb. Really! I've never sat down during a race on the curb. What the hell. There was an aid table near so I got up and grabbed a gel and some drink, feeling a bit better.
I began to run again, slowly, like real slow. 11 minute miles now. Up hill I ran, falling in back of the 2 hour pace team. I kept having contradictory thoughts. Oh my god, catch them, you have not had to train for a half marathon in 10 years..oh, no, wait, this isn't about catching anyone, it's about getting the distance in. How can this be so hard? It's a freaking half marathon...
I couldn't believe the difficulty I was having. I was really struggling. Its not like speed comes naturally to me anyhow. Normally I am running 60-80 miles per week and work hard for every bit of speed I can muster. My fast twitch muscles like to rest and I coerce them out of their rest weekly. Not now. They are in hibernation mode.
Finally I came up on mile 12, knowing that the end was near and just so thankful that I could at least run a half marathon at 7 weeks post op. It was difficult, I was fed up with myself for struggling so, but in the end I did reach the goal I had set upon myself. I ran the distance.. in 2:17 .. I have a starting point .. even if I feel as though I am starting over..
I tried not to think about Chippewa 50K next month, Ice Age 50 Mile in May and Bighorn 100 in June. I wasn't thinking positively enough to be thinking about future races.
After the race I was handed a bag of food and received so much schwagg for this race, it's kind of over the top.
I do love that I don't have to stand in a mob of people for my shirt, medal, food. ALL of the food is in a paper bag, handed to you. Very nifty.
Today Topaz and I headed off to the trail for a run. There is still 14" of snow and ice on the trail. Yes, I stuck a ruler into the snow and measured. I am hoping that there is at least a few inches less when I measure tomorrow! I ran 8 miles and felt tightness but no pain. If this snow doesn't melt soon I'll have to leave Topaz at home and get some road miles in. He'll be devastated but I'll be devastated if I can't finish Chippewa 50K! I'll need to run 20 next weekend and 25 before my Zumbro 100 shift. We'll see.
So the good news is that I am healed. I may not be well trained but I am well healed. The training will come.
And dear blogger, where is the spell check?
Labels: Chippewa 50K, Hysterectomy, Team Ortho, Zumbro
5 comments:
- SteveQ said...
I was out there, but I didn't think to look for you, being so soon after surgery. Good to know you're starting up again!
- Robin said...
I think you did amazing!
- Olga said...
It's all about the first step!!!
- SepticTank.co.uk said...
- Julie B said...
I would have looked for you too, Steve, had I known you were out there. There weren't too many spectators.
Robin, thanks. I appreciate that.
Hey Olga, I'm taking those first steps all over again and that is OK, isn't it. At least I'm taking them!
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Two families, with a total of 10 children, were forced out of their bedrooms and into a hotel after a duplex fire late Monday night.
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I too hide my facebook from family members. Though facebook has been pretty amusing since Tuesday. Lots of we're doomed because of X reason(s) posts, lots of I'm going to Canada posts, lots of whining. The Canada posts always amuse me since Canadians don't seem to like their politicians either so that's not going to do them any good.


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Is it possible to crop a single layer, I can almost get the desired outcome using the eraser on a layer but surely it can be done with cropping?
Use a layer mask. Tutorials galore exist on the topic already, eg: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/masking-layers.html
Straight from Adobe:
You can add a mask to a layer and use the mask to hide portions of the layer and reveal the layers below. Masking layers is a valuable compositing technique for combining multiple photos into a single image or for making local color and tonal corrections.
You can also select the area you want to crop to with the rectangular marquee tool, invert your selection, then delete the now selected outside area. This is different from the layer mask in that it completely deletes the surrounding area, whereas the mask makes the surrounding area invisible.
No, you can't crop a single layer.
The closest thing would be to copy the layer to a new image, crop that image, and copy the layer back to the original image.
It's easier just to erase or mask the part of the layer that you don't want.
You'd most likely want to use one of the marquee tools. This will select an area in a crop like fashion and you can then delete the inside or the outside by right clicking and selecting 'select inverse'.
and that is how i crop inside one layer :)
Just resize the layer using the transform tool. If you make the layer a smart object first, then you'll have the option to revert back to the original image size should you wish, without data loss.
I can't believe no one suggested this yet:
Just use the rectangular marquee to select what you want to crop down to, and COPY it to your clipboard. Then delete the entire layer and PASTE what you copied to a new layer.
This is especially useful if the layer you're cropping is larger than the canvas, in which case the select-inverse technique is messy.
A very easy trick: just crop it in another tab and move it back (screenshot here).


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In response to an inquiry by a commentator, I decided to put on my thinking cap and see if there were any present trends that might give us a glimpse into the future. The commentator was pretty specific and requested the following:
Sub-topics might be: (1) the demographics of the genealogy constituency, (2) the projected changes in genealogy clubs and societies; (3) the future of live and online lectures and such; (4) the potential shift in the kinds of source data used. And more.The primary demographics of those who read this blog are pretty well defined. They are predominantly female, over 50, either single or with no children at home and have at least a college degree and usually an advanced degree. Absent some major development in genealogy, the constituency is unlikely to change significantly in the short time of five or even ten years. OK, now all of you who are reading this and do not fit the demographic, don't stop reading just because you don't fit in. Actually, I don't even fit my own demographic.
In order to understand the future, you need to know quite a bit about the past and have a pretty firm grip on the present. One of the elements that cannot be predicted is the effect of technology. The ability to interact with an audience at a distance is one factor that will have a huge effect on the way genealogical social organizations function in the future. RootsTech 2014 by expanding the reach of a local conference to include separate locations and conferences around the world, marks a significant turning point in the way individual genealogists will interact with others in the community. One thing that this will change is perspective of the local organizations about the quality of the presentations they have had in the past. This type of exposure will create a higher level of expectation of professionalism among the presenters as well as the audiences to which they present. As a result there will be an increased awareness that genealogy has a national and international component about which the local genealogists have previously only been vaguely aware. I can remember the first time I went to a computer conference. I attended a large conference in Chicago, Illinois in the early 1980s. I the short time I was at that conference, I went from viewing computers as a local, rather limited phenomena, to viewing them as a major revolutionary force that would change everyone's lives.
I don't think that those attending a national conference may have that same type of experience, but by making the RootsTech 2014 Conference available to a worldwide audience, potentially of tens of thousands of people, this one event moves genealogy to a new and different level.
Many years ago when video recording was first introduced, the movie industry saw video recording as a threat to the traditional movie theater. They tried to stop the whole idea of making a recording of a movie that could be viewed in the home. However, that "threat" really turned out to be the salvation of the entire industry. Although having one conference in Utah is not going to be viewed as a "threat" to the entire genealogical community, I do think that the the concept of a local conference will change.
Will the expansion of communications media affect the demographics? As I indicated above, the makeup of the genealogy community is unlikely to change significantly absent some factors that are presently unknown. This does not mean that more younger people might become involved, it just means that the social and economic realities of the overall society are unlikely to change. Of course, there will undoubtedly be increased participation in related activities such as Indexing and the preservation of heritage items such as photographs, stories and documents, but unless there is a major effort made to incorporate more serious researchers into the community, there is no way that the overall composition of the genealogy community can change dramatically. If such a movement were started now to really emphasize basic research techniques, source citations and such, then we might see some improvement in five to ten years.
One aspect of genealogy that will continue to change rapidly and dramatically will be the availability of more and more source records online. The main players in the commercial world of genealogy may change by merger and reorganization, but the idea that information should be freely available online will begin to make serious inroads into the huge number of records now locked up in local repositories.
What do I really see happening in ten years, assuming I am still around to see it happen? The biggest changes will be in the structure and presentation of conferences, seminars and classes. There will be a huge increase in the number of online records. There may be some additional interest in genealogy, as such, in the general community, but all in all the work of the average genealogist will not change all that much.


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Uriah Heep – Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble (1970/2003 deluxe edition) – $10
Uriah Heep – Salisbury (1971/2003 deluxe edition) – $11
Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are (1973/2000 reissue) – $12
Michael Schenker Group – MSG (1981/2009 deluxe edition) – $14.50
Michael Schenker Group – Assault Attack (1982/2009 deluxe edition) – $12.50
Michael Schenker Group – Built To Destroy (1983/2009 deluxe edition) – $8
Halford – Live In London (2012) – $8
Warrior – Ancient Future (1998) – $18
Warrior – The Code Of Life (2001) – $11.50
KK Wilde – Rock 'n' Roll (1991) – $11.50
Tim 'Ripper' Owens – Play My Game (2009) – $9
I split this set of purchases up because I didn't leave the house to go to the record store, I bought from Amazon and Ebay only. My birthday is in August and I'm a lot older now so presents aren't important…..OK, yes they are! I can always count on my mom to drop my a card with $100 in it even at my ripe old age of 41 so I always thankfully take that $100 to the record store. This time around it was Amazon so I could get some albums that I would NEVER find in the record store. I bought a lot of deluxe editions of albums I needed to complete my collections. I bought the three MSG CDs to complete my deluxe series, the Deep Purple deluxe edition to keep that series going and I splurged on the first two Uriah Heep albums in deluxe form as well. The UFO box set is a 5 CD/1 DVD set of live recordings that I really wanted and refused to pay the $40 record store price and the Halford live album was a "thrown in" to keep the Halford collection growing, clear an item off my Amazon wish list and make it an even $100.
The second set of purchases were Ebay wins. I've been trying to complete my Warrior collection after reading an old Metal magazine I found in a box and it had an ad for Ancient Future inside. I did some research and it seems like that album and The Code Of Life are now hard to find in their original pressings from 1998 and 2001 respectively. I had been watching auctions for both original pressings float above $35 on Ebay so I decided to get into a bidding war on both when I saw a couple copies at low starting prices. I won both albums for a total of $32 (includes shipping) but it was a fight! I also scored an original pressing of the rare KK Wilde album Rock 'n' Roll for only $11.50. This album has gone down in price over the years, I've seen it go over $100 since I joined Ebay in 1999, so waiting years for a cheaper copy was well worth it. My last purchase was a new sealed copy of Tim 'Ripper' Owens solo album that I already own but as a promo copy from the record label with no booklet and artwork, just a CD. I wanted an official copy and I found it for $9 total (includes shipping).
Total = $152.50
Total (year) = $1781.50
Average Price (per item) = $10.93
Total CDs (year) = 145
Total DVDs & BluRays (year) = 4
Total LPs (year) = 6
Total Box Sets (year) =8


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David and Gwenlliam Williams are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Mary Elizabeth to William Scott Donaldson, son of Joseph and Sarah Donaldson. They were married in her parent's home in Slaterville, Utah on 2 Oct 1890.
William is currently employed with Union Pacific Railroad as a conductor in Ogden.
The couple will make their home in Ogden.
The farther you get back on some of these family lines, the less we know about the individuals and their lives. This really is unfortunate. If they had kept journals, or recorded some of their thoughts and at least given us some history, how much the richer we would be. Look at how much a few sentences written on the back of this old photograph tell us that we would not otherwise know!
The back of this photograph has the following written on it. "[illegible] master (??) held this photo for about 46 or 48 years then gave it back to me for a keep sake. when she left for California to make her home. she was 70. taken in 1891 we lived in Evanston Wyo. Donaldson was Union Pacific Conductor. Mary Elizabeth Williams Donaldson. Born apr 7th 1869 on Wall ave. between 24th and 25th street. Just South of the Brigham Hotel in the old home. Daddy sold the old home to Barnard White. William Scott Donaldson Born June 18 1865 Cape Vincent Jefferson county New York."
I assume the writing is by Mary herself since there is a reference of the photo being given back (William died in 1913). But then why would she refer to her husband as "Donaldson" in reference to his work? The details given of the birth and its location with the references of "Daddy" selling the home makes me think it is safe to assume this is written by Mary herself and the language is probably a norm of the time.
The reference to the Brigham Hotel (called the New Brigham Hotel on the National Registry) is interesting because that building is still there at 2402-2410 Wall Ave. No homes still exist in that block. We knew she was born in Ogden, but from that little note, we now know which block of Ogden. I have written about her parents at this link: Williams-Jordan Wedding.
The writer on the photograph indicates that the Donaldson family lived in Evanston, Wyoming in 1891. William George was born 23 Aug 1891 and David Delos 26 Mar 1894, both in Evanston. (Read more about David's family at this link: David Donaldson Family) Mary may very well have been pregnant in the photo. The photo was taken in Ogden or Park City as the bottom of the photo tells us that is where Adams Bros (and ride an elevator!) was located. The family then moved to Park City, Utah where Joseph Ellis was born 28 Aug 1896 and Irvine Todd on 11 Jun 1898.
On 11 Jun 1900, the family lived at 2270 Moffatt's Lane in Ogden. Moffatt's Lane is no longer the name of the street, it was renamed between 1910 and 1920 as Ogden Avenue. William is still a conductor for the railroad. On 20 Apr 1910, the family lives at the same address and William indicates to the census taker he is now a plumber and owns a shop. William and David are both listed as apprentices, and I assume both are for their father. Somewhere in all this, he also had a confectionery store, of which we have one picture but no other information.
William Scott died 12 Sep 1913 of bladder cancer at Dee Hospital and was buried in the Ogden City Cemetery on the 14th. He was barely over 48 years old. The death certificate indicates William was the owner of a plumbing business.
William Scott was born 18 Jun 1865 in Joyceville, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. His mother was born in Cape Vincent, Jefferson, New York. You can read more of his parents and siblings at this link: Donaldson-Todd Wedding. As far as we can tell, all the children were born in Joyceville. He did mention on both the 1900 and 1910 Censuses though that he was born in New York. Maybe this was to claim his privileges as an a U.S. citizen. Who knows. He is not found on the 1880 Census presumably because he is in Canada. Several of his siblings also finally show on the 1900 Census in New York and Ohio, but his father and mother lived their entire lives near Joyceville or Pittsburgh, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. His venture west most likely came with his employment by the railroads. He did not join the LDS church until 1911. His son John Edmund joined in 1910, Joseph Ellis the same day as his father, and William George and Samuel Alvin within the next 4 years. The others did not join (although David Delos obituary says he did).
Mary probably grew up near where she said she was born. She was the oldest child (that lived) of 10 children. The census taker in 1880 described the home as on the railroad grounds in Ogden. The block where she said she was born is very near the Union Station and may have qualified as the railroad grounds. The original station which was built in 1869. No street or anything else, just on the railroad grounds. The 1870 census does not give any indication where the family lived other than in Ogden. The last two children were born in Slaterville (1881 and 1885). The marriage record indicates in 1890 that Mary was a resident of "Slateville". The 1900 census records do not tell us where in Slaterville. Mary's mother, Gwenlliam Jordan Williams died there in 1900. When David died in 1911, he was back in Ogden living at 3256 Wall Ave (this home is gone).
Mary remarried 11 Jul 1918 to Anthon Edward Peterson. The family still lived at 2270 Ogden Ave in the 1920 census. The four youngest still living at home. By the time the 1930 census arrived, Anthon and Mary were living at 541 Washington Ave, which house I believe is still standing. Anthon and Mary would remain together until he passed away in 1942.
All accounts of Mary is that she was stern and cold. Her grandson, David William Donaldson (Dave), indicated that she was snooty, high-minded, and a brat. Apparently she was very condescending and negative in every interaction. After Anthon Peterson passed away, she sought to move in with her son, David Delos Donaldson and family. The offer was apparently there to take her in for whatever years she had remaining. However, Dave was not having any of that and indicated that if she moved in, he moved out. This was between 1945 and 1948. She ended up not moving in because of Dave.
Mary remarried 20 Nov 1945 to Thomas William Stoker (a cousin of mine on a different line). They remained together until she passed away of old age 29 Mar 1951 in Ogden, just shy of 82. At the time, Thomas and her were living in Huntsville.


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MINNEAPOLIS - Older people with Alzheimer's disease are less likely to also have cancer, and older people with cancer are less likely to also have Alzheimer's disease, according to the largest study to date on the topic, which appears in the July 10, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"Since the number of cases of both Alzheimer's disease and cancer increase exponentially as people age, understanding the mechanisms behind this relationship may help us better develop new treatments for both diseases," said study author Massimo Musicco, MD, of the National Research Council of Italy in Milan.
The study involved 204,468 people age 60 and older in northern Italy during a six-year period. During that time, 21,451 people developed cancer and 2,832 people developed Alzheimer's disease.
A total of 161 people had both cancer and Alzheimer's disease, whereas that number would have been expected to be 281 for cancer and 246 for Alzheimer's disease when considering how often the diseases occur in the general population. Therefore the risk of cancer was cut in half for people with Alzheimer's disease, and the risk of Alzheimer's disease was reduced by 35 percent for people with cancer.
"While other studies have noted this relationship before, this is the largest study to date and it has several strengths over previous studies, such as looking for the presence of the second disease both before and after the first disease was diagnosed," Musicco said. "This controls for the possibility that the presence of one disease might obscure the diagnosis of other diseases because any new symptoms might be interpreted as a consequence of the already-diagnosed disease, or in the case of cancer, people might assume that memory problems were a side effect of chemotherapy."
The researchers found the same result in people who died during the course of the study as well as those still living, controlling for the possibility that the reduced life expectancy for the first disease would also reduce the likelihood of living to develop the second disease.
The study was supported by the National Research Council of Italy and the Foundation IRCCS "Santa Lucia" in Rome.
To learn more about Alzheimer's disease, please visit http://www.
The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 26,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to promoting the highest quality patient-centered neurologic care. A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, migraine, multiple sclerosis, brain injury, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.
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Update: Bieber's birthday bombs, club responds
It started out so sweet.
Justin Bieber seemed to have it all when he tweeted thanks to his fans for their birthday wishes on Friday. "Gonna be fun tonight," he wrote from London on Twitter. "Thanks to everyone for all the birthday wishes. 19!"
He even followed it up with another short tease: "Big night ahead."
But it looks like his party bombed. According to E! News, Bieber held a circus-themed birthday bash at London's Cirque du Soir with guests including his rumored new girlfriend, British singer Ella-Paige Roberts Clarke (sorry, Selena).
But the festivities didn't last long. According to Us Weekly, after a confrontation between Bieber's entourage and club security, Bieber's entire party left his own bash. The magazine cites the cause of the problem to be 14-year-old guest Jaden Smith, who was too young for club entry. But Gossip Cop has another explanation: Aggressive paparazzi got in his way.
"This is unbelievable," tweeted the star's pal Ryan Butler. "Can't even have fun on his birthday. Paparazzi are absolute (expletive) here."
Whatever happened, the pop star went straight back to his hotel.
And it seems to seriously have bummed out the Biebs. "Worst birthday," he lamented on Twitter.
UPDATE: The club in question has responded: "We, like all clubs in London, operate a strict age policy," a spokesman told E! News. "As a few of the members of the party were under the suitable age of 18, the security team at Cirque Du Soir, London, clearly explained this rule and refused entry to the club for anyone who could not provide us with adequate proof of age."
The spokesman confirmed Bieber, a club regular, had a private area reserved for his party (complete with servers wearing "Happy Birthday Justin" T-shirts). And it seems the club has gotten wind it was his "worst birthday."
"We are very sorry, and understand it's his birthday, but our hands are tied with local authorities and rules we need to follow as club to keep our license," the spokesman told E! News. "We clearly didn't want to give him the 'worst birthday.' He is a friend and previously was always welcomed with open arms."


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Beach Teams Open Play at World Cup Final
| Casey Patterson hits against South Africa at the World Cup Final in Campinas, Brazil.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 29, 2013) – Both the U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson and women's team of April Ross and Jennifer Kessy went undefeated during the first round of play at the World Cup Final in Campinas, Brazil on Wednesday.
On the women's side, Olympic silver medalists Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), seeded No. 2 in Brazil, opened play with two wins. Ross and Kessy topped Argentina's No. 10 Ana Gallay and Maria Virginia Zonta (21-17, 21-16 in 37 minutes), and later defeated Australia's No. 7 Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy (21-16, 21-19 in 36 minutes).
While the first two matches of the tournament may have appeared to be easy, Ross is recognizes and embraces the strength of the competition in Brazil.
"The teams who played the 2012 London Olympics are back to play in the World Cup Final," Ross said in an FIVB press release. "We have four teams in our group who are all very strong. The best of the beach volleyball world is here."
For the men, top-seeded Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.) swept South Africa's No. 10 Leo Williams and Jerome Fredericks in two sets (21-12, 21-18 in 31 minutes) on Wednesday afternoon.
Patterson also appreciates the competition and beach volleyball development that the World Cup Final offers.
"The Continental Cup is something really good for beach volleyball," Patterson said in an FIVB press release. "It's good for all the teams to have a chance to play a big tournament, and it's good for the federations and the players who have the opportunity to play at a higher level. It's a great chance to face the best teams in the lot."
Both teams will be back in action on Thursday. Ross and Kessy's match up against Russia's No. 6 seeded Evgenia Ukolova and Ekaterina Khomyakova while Gibb and Patterson will face play Canada's No. 7 seeded Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk.
The FIVB World Cup Final is a double gender event that started in 2010 as part of the Olympic Beach Volleyball qualification system. Now, the $300,000 event will determine the champion country from the Continental Cup, including winners of the respective Continental Cup finals and top-ranked teams from the 2012 Olympic Games.
Prize money of $150,000 per gender will be divided among the winners of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Cup Final. The gold medal teams in each gender will each split $50,000, silver medallists will each receive $35,000 and the bronze medallists in each gender will split $22,500 in prize money. The event represents 16 different countries and is organized by the Brazilian Volleyball Federation.
To view the men's schedule and results, click here.
To view the women's schedule and results, click here.