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I can't remember the last time I finished something! Possibly it was the last baby blanket I made, or the one for my sister's birthday. Both of which were a loooooong time ago. I've moved house since then, heh.
So today I present to you … the (slightly) round cushion! ta-daaa!!!
I used Lucy @ Attic24's Flat Circle pattern but amended to 9 initial stitches rather than the suggested 11 because I couldn't get my tension right with it. It's ended up a bit nonagonal (is that a word? Like a hexagon but with nine sides?) rather than circular as a result of this but I don't really mind. It's a nice comfy cushion and it fits in well with my chair.
What I do mind is that when I joined it together last night, I had about ten spare stitches on one side and I've no idea why. I made both sides exactly the same, and so they should have an equal number of stitches, shouldn't they? I despair. I bodged it a bit and it's joined, although has a bit of an ugly bunched look about it in once place. I have no idea how to make it better so I'm just leaving it – it's a cushion, not the end of the world. These things happen. Doesn't mean I'm happy about it though ;-)
The yarn was Rowan Pure Wool dk, which is my absolute favourite thing to work with. Shame they've discontinued loads of it really.
Colours for this cushion were:
Kiss, Gilt, Pier, Marine, Dahlia, Tangerine (discontinued), Avocado, Lavender (discontinued), Ultra-marine, Cypress and Raspberry. I used Navy to join it up because I like the contrast of it against the Cypress.
I can't believe I've finished something. I hope to keep this up and work through some of my (sizeable/ridiculous) stash. It's beginning to get raised eyebrows from Andy. Whoops.


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How can a person live on just McDonald's? The pay for employees, that is, not the food itself. As it happens, neither possibility is very attractive.
In an effort to help its low-wage employees manage to stay afloat financially, the golden arches teamed up with Visa to produce an online brochure to guide workers through the process of paying their bills and even saving money while living on a cheap-food paycheck. It could be that the authors of the online site learned more about finances than the employees. They might have discovered that it's not really possible to live at all decently on that low a salary.
What does "living decently" mean? Working just one job, or working less than 60 hours a week, neither of which is included in the budget scenario laid out in the financial guide. Putting the heater on once in a while. (The sample budget zeroes out any expenditure for heating, as a posting by the Atlantic shows, which might work in Southern California if you huddle under a blanket during the coldest days.)
The website lays out some howlers of assumptions about how employees are supposed to maintain financial equilibrium: The monthly budget allows expenditures for car payments and insurance but not gas, maintenance, repair, registration or smog checks -- or, for that matter, food -- all of which would supposedly be covered by the $27 per day budgeted for daily expenses. But that's probably because the authors couldn't figure out a way to balance the books under a real-life minimum-wage scenario.
On the other hand, who needs heat? It sounds like the employees would be in the restaurant most of the time, freeloading off the warmth from the grill, to earn the money for their other expenses.
It's possible to take the mocking of this financial advice too far. Yes, the rent that it suggests is lower than the national average, as are the health expenses. In truth, flipping hamburgers was probably never intended to be the kind of job one could raise a family on. It's an OK occupation for a student or someone who lives with extended family and just needs to contribute a little to an overall household budget, rather than be responsible for that budget, or someone who shares a crowded, downscale place with buddies.
And for any employees who might have greater ambitions than that, the best advice they can get isn't included in the brochure: Go back to school. Get an education. Get out and go find a real job.

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Sturgis' Chance Stewart earns honor
Sturgis' Chance Stewart had a very good junior season on the hardwood.
That season was recognized as Stewart was selected to the Class B Associated Press' All-State team as an honorable mention.
"He's certainly deserving of such an honor and I think he's really established himself as one of the top players in the state," Sturgis coach Keith Kurowski said of Stewart. "The numbers he put up this season speak for themselves."
Stewart helped guide the Trojans to a record of 14-9 this past season, which included a third straight district championship. It might be coincidence, but in each of Stewart's three seasons the Trojans have reached the regionals.
And the Trojans nearly continued their season in the regionals this year, losing 37-36 to second-ranked Stevensville-Lakeshore at the time. Stewart had a monster game with 30 points and 20 rebounds in the losing effort.
"Chance has been the center of our opponents' defenses most of the year and he's faced much bigger guys," Kurowski said. "But he's been a dominating force for us, especially in the second half of the season."
On the season Stewart averaged better than 18.5 points per game to go along with his 14 boards and two blocks.
He also knocked down better than 53 percent of his shots for the entire season and was a 75 percent free-throw shooter.


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SOURCE: Aptalis Pharma
January 18, 2012 19:20 ET
BRIDGEWATER, NJ--(Marketwire - Jan 18, 2012) - Aptalis Pharma, a global specialty pharmaceutical company focused on gastrointestinal diseases and cystic fibrosis, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a New Drug Application (NDA) for Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) oral powder in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in pediatric patients ages 2-5. Co-developed by Aptalis and Gilead, the oral powder formulation of Viread® uses the Aptalis Microcaps® taste-masking technology. Gilead will be responsible for the product commercialization, while Aptalis will manufacture and supply the oral powder to Gilead.
John Fraher, President of Aptalis Pharma, stated, "We are delighted to have the opportunity to use our Microcaps® proprietary technology to co-develop the oral powder formulation of Viread® with Gilead, which was the result of an Aptalis program referred to as EUR-1030."
About Microcaps®
The Aptalis microencapsulation technology, known as Microcaps®, employs versatile and precise coating techniques to encapsulate individual drug particles using solvent- and aqueous-based coacervation. This includes taste and odor masking, customized release profiles, conversion of liquids to solids and the separation of incompatible materials. Microcaps® can also be combined with the Aptalis AdvaTab® technology to provide an orally disintegrating tablet with superior mouth-feel attributes.
About Aptalis
Aptalis Pharma Inc. is a privately held, leading specialty pharmaceutical company providing innovative, effective therapies for unmet medical needs including cystic fibrosis and gastrointestinal disorders. Aptalis, formed from the recent combination of Axcan Pharma and Eurand, has manufacturing and commercial operations in the United States, the European Union and Canada, and its products include ZENPEP®, CANASA®, CARAFATE®, PYLERA®, LACTEOL®, DELURSAN®, PANZYTRAT® and SALOFALK®. Aptalis also formulates and clinically develops enhanced pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products for itself and others using its proprietary technology platforms including bioavailability enhancement of poorly soluble drugs, custom release profiles, and taste-masking/orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) formulations. For more information, visit www.aptalispharma.com.
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"The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree" is a Sesame Street song sung by Ernie with his Rubber Duckie. As he sings, some Honkers (including Mr. Honker) and one of the Dingers dance around, making their respective sounds. The song takes place on a farm.
Episode 4028 focused on Ernie planning another Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree. In a Play with Me Sesame segment, Grover played along to a showing of the clip. In "Elmo's World: Bells", Ernie performs a rendition of the song in a video e-mail.
- Behind-the-scenes footage of the filming of this segment appears on disc 1 of the DVD set 40 Years of Sunny Days.
- The performers are Jim Henson as Ernie (assisted by Ed Christie), Martin P. Robinson as the Dinger, Kathryn Mullen as Green Honker, Cheryl Blaylock as Sky Blue Honker, and Brian Muehl as Purple Honker.
- Jon Stone directed this segment.
- This segment was shot on January 14, 1983.
- Audio
- The Gang's All Here! (1983)
- Put Down the Duckie! (1990)
- Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration (1991)
- Cheep Thrills (1994)
- Silly Songs (1996)
- Elmo's Rainbow and Other Springtime Stories exclusive bonus CD (2010)
- F is for Fun! (2018)
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- Sing Yourself Silly (1990, Beginning and ending are both cut)
- Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (1993) - clip only
- Let's Play Games (2008) - with Grover playing along
- 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)
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Tips on Dealing with Copy and Paste EMR Concerns
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
The following is a guest post by Deborah J. Robb, BSHA, CPC. You can read more of Deborah's work on her blog.
Deborah has served TrustHCS since 2007, where she developed the professional services department providing physician coder education related to CMS guidelines. She has also managed 34 coding staff that provide coding services to a variety of multiple specialty clinics nationwide. With over 35 years in the healthcare profession, she is a frequent speaker on Medical Coding, including appearances at State and National AHIMA conferences. Deborah is also a five time author for Direct Learning On-line courses in Medical Terminology and Medical Coding and has written numerous articles in national publications including, but limited to, For the Record, Physician Practice Magazine and Journal of AHIMA. Deborah is a graduation of Central Texas College and Columbia Southern University.
The OIG is concerned that inappropriate E/M service payments may be linked to cutting and pasting encounter notes within EMRs. As a result, their 2013 Work Plan includes the identification of redundant documentation and improper billing of multiple E/M services. Practices can mitigate their risk of OIG audits and fines by implementing the following five steps for proper E/M level documentation within an EMR.
Red Flag Redundant Documentation
Practices should conduct regular reviews of physician documentation to ensure duplication is kept to a minimum. Reviews should include a broad sample of E/M services and compare each provider's results. Findings and anomalies can be discussed as a team with results used as a learning tool to improve documentation, coding and billing practices.
Two particular areas for review include error rate for incident-to services performed by non-physicians and the E/M coding of "new" patient for patients seen prior. The "incident-to" designation pertains to services and supplies performed incident to the professionals services of a physician. When Medicare first took a look at these billings, they discovered half of the services delivered and billed were not performed by a physician. The OIG will review "incident-to" services to determine whether payment for such services carries a higher error rate than that for non-incident-to services; or if redundant documentation is to blame. They will also be assessing Medicare's ability to monitor such services.
Secondly, Medicare contractors have identified the use of a "new patient" E/M code for patients seen within three years by the same provider or within the same practice as an area of scrutiny. Internal audits and documentation reviews should include both of these OIG issues.
Evaluate Cut and Paste Policies
Practices should also assess organizational policies and procedures around cut and paste functionality. Initial EMR implementations promoted copy/paste with little foresight into the downstream documentation, coding and billing issues. Policies and procedures should state what is acceptable to be brought over from previous notes. Practices are encouraged to consult the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) Copy Functionality Toolkit. It includes valuable case scenarios, sample policies, checklists and audit guidelines.
Raise Awareness of Risk
The ability to copy and paste a patient note from a prior visit into a new encounter is so easy within most EMRs, that providers may unknowingly risk patient safety. The following risks are noted within the AHIMA toolkit and should be shared with all documenters.
- Copying information into the wrong patient chart
- Inaccurate or outdated information
- Inability to determine current information
- Inability to identify the author or intent of documentation
- Inability to identify when the documentation was first created
- Inability to accurately support or defend E/M codes for professional or technical billing notes
- Propagation of false information
- Internally inconsistent progress notes
- Unnecessarily lengthy progress notes
Implement Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)
Similar to hospital CDI initiatives, an effective CDI program for physician practices includes phases for assessment, education and monitoring. Findings from initial assessments and ongoing monitoring should serve to focus education and training efforts throughout.
Every Encounter on Its Own
Finally, every encounter's documentation must stand on its own. There must be valid documentation within each note to support the visit. Questions to ask of each note include:
- Does the documentation prove the visit was done?
- What has changed from the previous visit?
- Does the documentation demonstrate what was done?
Cut and paste saves time for clinicians, but may unintentionally skew E/M documentation, coding and billing. The review of this practice within the 2013 OIG work plan is a significant motivator for practices to tighten policies and mitigate risk.


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by Clara Parkes
Consider the sweater. Perched on our shoulders are tens of thousands, who are we kidding, millions of stitches in a garment that could, depending on the yarn, weigh upwards of a kilo. The fabric is expected to move and flex and breathe with us, withstand the slings and arrows of everyday wear, and, at the end of the day, still look as fresh and beautiful as the day it was born. Not every yarn can do this.
For this column, I decided to use Amy Herzog's Megunticook cardigan as our teaching tool. I've always been partial to trinity stitch. It formed the body of my favorite blankie when I was little, and it runs along the cuffs and trim of Herzog's sweater. The rest of the garment is smooth, simple stockinette.
This sweater needs a yarn that will display attractive fields of stockinette while also complementing the trinity stitch. Lest we forget, we also need this yarn to hold up well under regular wear and tear.
For the sample you see in this issue, Amy used Sundara Fingering Silky Merino. This classic three-ply construction blends 50/50 Merino and silk fibers. The mix is then hand-dyed in Sundara's trademark flickering semisolid style. It's an exquisite choice for a garment that will drape while still hugging, reflect color brilliantly, and feel exquisite against your bare skin.
But we aren't here to use the yarn specified in the pattern, are we? No. So I immediately set out to find a very different yarn. I found it in Rowan Fine Tweed, a delicate singles that comes in adorable 25-gram dumplings of just 98 yards each.
With just one strand of twisted fiber, this 100% wool yarn is faintly irregular in a way that gave an earthy wobble to my stockinette. Stitches were plump, the fabric pleasantly muted, with a slightly blurred surface and heathered coloring. My only real concern with this yarn choice would be durability, especially if you're the kind who wears through elbows quickly. One strand of twisted fiber may not be enough to hold together under duress.
With an eye toward wearability, I switched back over to a multiple-ply yarn. But this time, instead of Merino and silk, I picked a British gem of a yarn called Titus. It combines 50% Wensleydale wool, 20% Bluefaced Leicester wool, and 30% alpaca—with all the fibers sourced from the U.K.
Immediately, stitches took on the far smoother, more stable look of a plied yarn. The color—a solid, somewhat muted pale blue—kept quiet so that the eye could focus on a truly spectacular sheen. Most of the gloss came from the Wensleydale, but I suspect some also came from the BFL and even possibly from the alpaca, depending on which kind they used.
The yarn's glossy appearance gave the trinity stitch a much more textured, almost bouclé effect than did the Rowan.
For all its beauty, Titus did lack a little in terms of bounce. While the fibers have far more body than cotton or silk, they don't have quite as much as you'd get from higher-crimp wool. On the positive side, Titus is composed of strong, long-staple fibers that will resist abrasion beautifully. If you love the fundamental structure of Herzog's design and want well-wearing fabric to be the main focus, rather than brightness of color, Titus could be an excellent choice.
I sought a bouncier yarn for my final swatch. I bypassed a traditional plied construction for an S-on-S cable-spun creation from Spud & Chloë called, fittingly, "Fine." This construction creates an extremely round, springy yarn with excellent durability. A dusting of 20% silk gives the 80% superwash wool a welcome glow.
Such a well-rounded yarn tends to render stitchwork in high relief, and sure enough, it transformed the trinity stitch into truly three-dimensional, popcorn-like nubbins. My stockinette was smooth and even, with an upwards-tilting left stitch leg creating the telltale "corduroy" effect you always get with this type of yarn.
The only drawback: With so many plies upon plies all twisted together, this yarn occasionally wanted to snag when I was maneuvering the acrobatic P3togs and the knitting, purling, and knitting again into the same stitch. But I did love the clarity and definition of the results. Could I imagine a whole sweater of it? For the right occasion, yes.
All in all, it's nice to see a sweater design that allows freedom of texture, fiber, and coloring. Not all garments transfer from variegated to solid, but this one does.
Tell me. Which yarn would you use?
Clara Parkes is the brilliant mind behind knittersreview.com and the author of several fantastic fiber books.


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Gartner presented its list of 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 at its Gartner Symposium/ITxpo this week. The IT research firm defines a "strategic technology" as one likely to have a significant impact in the enterprise over the next three years, whether that impact be "a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt," Gartner officials said.
David Cearley, vice president and Gartner fellow, said that converging forces of social, mobile, cloud are disrupting old business models and creating the basis of the technology platform of the future. He advises that enterprises make "deliberate decisions" about how these technologies will fit with their expected needs.
The top 10 strategic technologies are:
1. Mobile device battles.2. Mobile applications and HTML 5.3. Personal cloud.4. Enterprise app stores.5. Internet of things.6. Hybrid IT and cloud computing.7. Strategic big data.8. Actionable analytics.9. In-memory computing.10. Integrated ecosystems.
For more details, check Gartner's announcement.
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The Magic Of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz
Every day all over the nation young people start working in new jobs. Each of them "wishes" that someday he could enjoy the success that goes with reaching the top. But the majority of these young people simply don't have the belief that it takes to reach the top rungs. And they don't reach the top. Believing it's impossible to climb high, they do not discover the steps that lead to great heights. Their behavior remains that of the "average" person.
But a small number of these young people really believe they will succeed. They approach their work with the 'Tm-going-to-the-top" attitude. And with substantial belief they reach the top. Believing they will succeed-and that it's not impossible-these folks study and observe the behavior of senior executives. They learn how successful people approach problems and make decisions. They observe the attitudes of successful people.
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A premature tuna tag recovery is a blessing in disguise
The great expense of the tag and time invested in getting the tag on the fish, plus the added expenses for the reward money, and the refurbishment of this tag made it all depressing.
But today, upon receiving the newly refurbished tag together with all the information it collected, and looking at the notes I got from the interview with the fisher who returned the tag, I realized some really positive aspects to this premature tag recovery.
For one, we have an idea of how intense tuna fishing is in the region. As I will discuss in the next blog entry, the amount of handline fishing of large tunas in the area, and for that matter, in the Philippines, is enormous beyond belief. That handline fishing is inherently sustainable is not entirely correct. I will explain this in my next blog entry too.
The news of the captured tuna with an attached tag caught fire. The news of a reward paid for the tag (equivalent to the value of the fish) spread like wildfire. It solved 2 of my main challenges for this study:
- formerly skeptic fishers will now probably sell their tunas for tagging in the future (these are fishers who believe that tunas released with a tag are hurt, and may alarm other tunas, causing them to migrate someplace else, never to return)
- buying tunas for my next expedition will probably be easier with no need for costly consultation meetings, since all boats in the area are now aware of my tagging activities.
Imagine that it is capable of recording data at 10 second interval for 6 months! It's amazing to think about how much storage space it contains, and what kind of power is used to support these technologies!
I even learned the tricks to ship the tags in order to avoid the customs duties and comply with the stiff security requirements. Yes, this tag is shaped like a micro-torpedo!
Because we were able to recover the tag, we obtained all the data in binary format stored in its memory: all 24,480 rows and 6 columns (think of an Excel sheet)! Contained in its memory are temperature and depth profiles, summarized in batches for every 30 seconds, and light intensity measurements for every 2 minutes.
Oftentimes, our knee-jerk reaction is one of despair when something fails, but we need to see that the other side of any setback is positive opportunities.
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A week after Christopher Dorner's revenge-killing spree came to a fiery end, Southern Californians are still puzzling through questions and insinuations about whether Dorner's dismissal by the LAPD was justified and his allegations of police misconduct were accurate. One reason the mystery lingers is that law-enforcement officers' disciplinary proceedings are not subject to public disclosure. That needs to change.
At least at the Los Angeles Police Department, cops' disciplinary hearings and records used to be open to the public and news media.
But then the California Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the San Diego County Civil Service Commission could shut the media out of a hearing about a sheriff's deputy's appeal of his firing, and law enforcement officers' unions beat back state legislation that would have canceled out the ruling.
By 2009, when Dorner was dismissed by the LAPD for making what an internal review board determined were false accusations of brutality by a fellow officer, such hearings were routinely closed to the press statewide.
What might be different today if Dorner's disciplinary record had been open to the public? That's a question with no clear answer.
It is overdramatic to say Dorner's own grievances might have been vented before they inspired his murderous rage. It is legitimate, though, to say L.A. residents might not be burdened with a new round of old questions about its police force's conduct, and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck might not see the need to reopen the investigation into Dorner's firing.
Something can be done about this, or at least attempted. In a column in The Orange County Register, former state Sen. Gloria Romero has called on the California Legislature to revive a bill she sponsored in 2007 that would have allowed police agencies to open officers' disciplinary hearings and records to the public.
We're with Romero. As the former lawmaker from the San Gabriel Valley writes, "When officers' alleged misconduct reaches the level that disciplinary action is taken, there is a public interest in having that information be public record. "
Romero's legislative solutions in the last decade had the backing of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and, at first, then-LAPD Chief Bill Bratton. Bratton's support cooled when the bill changed to target the LAPD instead of California police agencies generally.
Police officers' unions were opposed from the start, arguing that opening disciplinary hearings would threaten members' privacy and safety. Although these are appropriate concerns, they should not outweigh the public's right to know about the behavior of men and women who may hold citizens' freedom – even lives – in their hands.
The legislation died twice in Assembly committees. It was a one-two punch to the cause of transparency.
Now the Dorner case has revived the issue.
Thank goodness, Dorner's rampage is over; the murderer of four people between Feb. 3 and Feb. 12 was killed in the shootout and fire at a Big Bear-area cabin. He deserves no sympathy.
But that doesn't mean the public doesn't deserve answers to the lingering questions about his weeklong evasion of police, about the mistaken shootings by Torrance officers of civilians mistaken for the suspect – and about what happened before Dorner was fired by the LAPD in 2009.
The LAPD also deserves for skeptics in the public to understand why it dismissed the officer.
Getting those answers may depend on the press and the public finding out what happens in officers' disciplinary proceedings.
The state Legislature should act now to restore transparency and the public's right to know.


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2013 BMW X3: New Car Review
Pros: Refined and powerful engines, excellent eight-speed transmission, satisfying ride/handling balance, high-quality cabin, adult-sized back seat.
Cons: Desirable options like navigation quickly inflate the price.
What's New: The 2013 X3 xDrive28i gets a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine and standard 18-inch wheels, and all models receive standard auto start/stop, an "ECO PRO" drive mode that promotes better fuel economy, and a power tailgate. Minor packaging changes round out the updates.
If you're worried that tightening fuel-economy regulations may take the fun out of fine vehicles, the 2013 BMW X3 presents a more pleasant scenario. Yes, the X3 now starts with a more efficient four-cylinder engine, but this energetic turbo four is hardly a consolation prize. It's actually kind of fun.
Replacing the old six-cylinder base engine, the 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 puts out the same 240 horsepower as its predecessor, but we were thoroughly impressed by its get-up-and-go. German horses often seem to pull a little harder, and this herd is no exception, especially with the turbo motor's superior torque. Throw in the X3's already exceptional handling and supple ride, and you've got a recipe for a highly satisfying drive.
Of course, you can still opt for the absurdly fast six-cylinder xDrive35i with 300 horsepower if you like.
One of the X3's less desirable German traits is its appetite for expensive options that drive up the base price in a hurry. As such, we recommend exploring the custom-build option, if you don't mind waiting a little. You simply tell your local dealer the exact feature set you desire, and then BMW gives you a live feed from the Spartanburg, SC factory that lets you watch your X3 being built.
So watch those options, but otherwise, just sit back and enjoy one of the best all-around vehicles in this class. If the 2013 X3 is the future of the SUV, we're looking forward to it.
Comfort & Utility
The 2013 BMW X3 is available in two trim levels: naturally aspirated xDrive28i and turbocharged xDrive35i.
The xDrive28i comes standard with 18-inch alloy wheels, fog lights, keyless entry with push-button ignition, a power tailgate, auto start/stop, leatherette upholstery, 8-way power front seats with driver memory, a tilt/telescopic steering wheel, automatic climate control, iPod/USB and Bluetooth connectivity, a 12-speaker audio system, and the iDrive infotainment system with the basic small, square display.
The xDrive 35i adds a turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine, adaptive xenon headlamps, LED brake lights, wood interior trim, a panoramic sunroof, and a sportier steering wheel.
The most notable option, in our view, is the navigation system, which radically changes the iDrive system, replacing the standard screen with a beautiful 8.8-inch widescreen display—and adding hard-drive-based operation with digital music storage. There are many other options, of course, including sport seats, adaptive dampers, a power tailgate, 19-inch wheels (now available on both models via the M Sport package), and a 16-speaker, 600-watt audio system.
In our interior evaluation of the X3, we immediately noticed that BMW's got the commanding driving position nailed. The front seats are nice and tall, affording an expansive view over the hood—and since the X3's got plenty of glass all around, outward visibility is great no matter where you're looking. We'd consider springing for one of the packages that offer the sport seats, though, as the beefed-up side bolsters and manual thigh-support extenders are worth the stretch.
The X3's gauges will be comforting to BMW aficionados, employing the classic white-on-black numerals that change to orange-on-black at night. Interior materials are almost uniformly premium, and the attractively restrained dashboard design is another element that's straight out of the traditional BMW playbook.
The X3's rear seat is elevated like those in front, yet there's plenty of headroom, so even lanky passengers will have plenty of space. We actually prefer the X3 to the larger X5 in this regard. As for cargo space, there's a respectable 27.6 cubic feet of it behind the second row and 63.3 cubic feet with the rear seatbacks folded down.
The central tech topic for the X3 is its iDrive infotainment system, which comes in two forms. You'll want to pay close attention to this.
The standard system has a square display, lacks navigation, and doesn't offer digital music storage, either. It's nice that some form of iDrive comes standard, we suppose, but we're not enthused about the functionality of this version.
If you opt for the pricey navigation system, though, you get a crisp, colorful 8.8-inch widescreen that's hard-drive-based with plenty of space for your mp3s. In terms of controls, iDrive has improved dramatically from its controversial early years, now featuring a vastly better menu structure and numerous physical buttons next to the primary knob for direct access to common pathways. This goes for both versions, by the way, so at least the basic version is pretty user-friendly.
Performance & Fuel Economy
The X3 xDrive28i is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-4 rated at 240 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. The xDrive35i steps up to a turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 good for 300 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque. Every X3 has a very smooth and responsive eight-speed automatic.
Although not every turbo four is ready for prime time yet, the xDrive28's engine is a superstar. Acceleration is confident, and unlike most small turbocharged engines, this one doesn't fall on its face at high rpm - it keeps pulling all the way to redline. Aided by the astoundingly refined eight-speed transmission, fuel economy improves to a satisfying 21 mpg city/28 mpg highway; for reference, the old six-cylinder motor was rated at 19/25 mpg with its six-speed automatic.
Nonetheless, the xDrive35i's turbocharged inline-6 remains highly desirable, as it transforms the X3 into a genuinely fast vehicle. The transmission's gear ratios are perfectly matched to the inline-6's strengths, resulting in thrilling performance when you put your foot in it. A sedately driven xDrive35i will return 19/26 mpg, which isn't that far off the xDrive28i's pace.
Note that all X3s come standard with all-wheel drive, though the Dynamic Handling Package adds a rearward power bias for sharper handling.
The X3 comes with standard stability control, four-wheel antilock disc brakes, and six airbags (front, front-side, full-length side-curtain). The numerous available safety technologies include a new lane-departure warning system for 2013.
The government hasn't crash-tested the X3, but the independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the X3 its highest rating of "Good" in every category.
Driving Impressions
The X3 is a tall vehicle, no doubt about it, but it remains exceptionally composed in corners for a crossover SUV. That makes its smooth, quiet ride all the more remarkable—BMW really nailed the suspension tuning in this truck. Throw in a choice of two powerful and efficient turbocharged motors, and you've got the clear driver's choice among entry-level luxury crossovers.
Other Cars to Consider
Audi Q5: The Q5 feels nearly as athletic as the X3, and we prefer its styling. A must-drive with the optional supercharged V6.
Cadillac SRX: Aside from that edgy styling, the SRX's calling card is its recently introduced 3.6-liter V6, which pumps out a healthy 308 horsepower.
Volvo XC60: The XC60's available turbocharged inline-6 is a winner, and we like this crossover's sensible, well-rounded nature.
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Our pick last year was the xDrive35i, but now that the xDrive28i has that sweet new turbo four, we'd save the $5,000 or so and get the latter instead. It's a really great car.


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Superintendent Philip Martin will ask the School Board Tuesday to approve his plan to close four Terrebonne Parish public schools. Except for those with close ties to the schools involved, taxpayers have to be wondering: Why did you just ask us to pay hundreds of dollars extra in annual property taxes when you could be cutting expenses this way?
Superintendent Philip Martin will ask the School Board Tuesday to approve his plan to close four Terrebonne Parish public schools. Except for those with close ties to the schools involved, taxpayers have to be wondering: Why did you just ask us to pay hundreds of dollars extra in annual property taxes when you could be cutting expenses this way?
Martin makes the case that the budget cuts are necessary as the public school system faces an estimated $6 million shortfall for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The proposal would close Greenwood Middle and West Park, Dularge and Boudreaux Canal elementary schools and consolidate some others. Cost savings have yet to be determined, but it will likely be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The action comes less than three weeks after Terrebonne voters rejected a proposed 31-mill tax increase that would have raised about $25 million a year for buildings, pay raises and other items.
Weeks before the election, I questioned whether the board was substituting difficult choices for expedient ones. A case could be made that the board was asking for more money from taxpayers to avoid making even tougher decisions.
Specifically, several board members and Martin have repeatedly said they are not interested in shifting school attendance zone boundaries to address building needs. And they still manage to avoid that with the plan up for a vote Tuesday. All of the changes send students to schools they would have ended up at anyway. So regardless of how upset anyone might be, these are easy decisions compared to some of the alternatives.
As I suggested in March, it's hard for me to envision a plan that would make the most effective and efficient use of the system's current buildings, and the best decisions on where to construct new ones, without changing school attendance zones that have been in place for decades. I realize a lot of residents would resist such changes, but taxpayers have a right to demand it.
Now, the board has an opportunity to take a more comprehensive look at the current state of Terrebonne's public school system and its future needs and map out a strategy to address — and pay for — them. For instance, which communities are expected to grow over the next 10, 20 or 30 years, and which will shrink? Shouldn't that dictate where we build or renovate schools? Shouldn't that dictate which remain open and which get closed?
In 2009, the last time The Courier checked, enrollment numbers showed the overwhelming majority of Terrebonne's 36 regular-education schools had lost hundreds of students over the past 10 years, some as much as 30 to 50 percent of their 1999 numbers. In a system where the total number of students in kindergarten through 12th grade had fallen by nearly 2,000 over a decade, only about a quarter of Terrebonne schools, all in northern parts of the parish, had grown in enrollment. Without exception, schools in the flood-prone bayou communities of Chauvin, Dularge, Grand Caillou, Montegut and Pointe-aux-Chenes had shown downward student enrollment trends as families head for higher ground.
The board's tax plan looked backward instead of forward. It did more to address population shifts that have already happened than those that will occur down the road. And by building more classrooms to relieve overcrowding at Mulberry Elementary, for instance, it could avoid the tough decision of shifting that school's attendance zones to fill the empty desks at nearby Southdown Elementary.
After the tax's failure, Martin and the board have a chance to take the high ground and start making the tough decisions that will not only make the public school system more efficient but could benefit students from every Terrebonne neighborhood in the long run.
If residents don't want such a plan, they can decide whether to pay the extra cost of maintaining antiquated attendance zones that preserve neighborhood schools as they have existed for decades.
This kind of decision making is one of the things critics meant when they said plan first, tax second.
Courier and Daily Comet Executive Editor Keith Magill can be reached at 857-2201 or


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Here's all you need to know in order to make it in New Mexico: You have to love chile. New Mexicans are far, far too gracious to threaten to kick you out of the state, but they will stare at you as if you're insane when you ask for your breakfast burrito with no chile. They'll wonder if you're an alien in Albuquerque via Roswell when you respond to the state question, ("Red or green?") with: "What's the difference?" They might even get seriously peeved when you say you just don't understand what the big deal is. Here's the thing, if you've just moved here from Minneapolis, we'll understand if you don't know a green chile from a bell pepper and we'll only tease you mildly when you break out in an all-over body sweat and tears stream from your eyes. Just remember: You'll get used to it sooner or later.
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Eee, it's time for chiles, no?! Yes, it is that time of year when motorists cut across three lanes of oncoming traffic to pull to a screeching halt in front of some guy parked in a dirt lot with a truck and a roaster. Southern New Mexico's chile harvest usually begins around the end of July but according to Dr. Paul Bosland, a horticulture professor and director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, the middle of the season is the perfect time to buy chiles. Early season fruits tend to be thin-walled and less flavorful, he says. These immature chiles often have less flavor than the thicker, heavier pods of midseason fruit.
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Are fish able to feel the heat from chiles?
No, fish do not have the pain receptors (like birds), that mammals have allowing them to feel the heat. Many species of fish, like koi and other colorful fish, are feed food with chile in it to keep their colors bright.
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This is just a guide, not a set of hard and fast rules. Use your best judgment.
Ye Olde Sit-down Restaurants. The federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour—not much. Standard tip for seated fare is 15 to 20 percent of the total bill, but you should feel free to tip more if the service is exceptional. If you have a problem with the food or the service, don't wait until your meal is over to show your dissatisfaction by stiffing the waiter. Instead, ask to speak with a manager or owner and give the restaurant the opportunity to make you happy before you leave. If you feel your server is fully responsible for your unpleasant experience and you've spoken with the management, then your tip (or lack thereof) can reflect your displeasure.
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Whether you're more familiar with the French Riviera or the French Quarter, there are plenty of places in Albuquerque to get a taste of authentic French cuisine. Read Hosho McCreesh's review of Le Quiche Parisienne in this issue, and check out these other restaurants in the city that will cater to your wanderlust and make you feel, if only for the evening, that you're dining in the City of Lights. Bon appetit, mes amis.


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TAMPA, Fla. – In its annual trip to the University of Tampa, the MIT men's lacrosse team fell to the Spartans, 13-9, on Tuesday night. For the second game in a row, sophomore Chris Cook (Tully, N.Y.) recorded a team-high two goals and an assist for the Engineers (1-4).
Freshman Luke Verdi (Middletown, Md.) tallied two goals, three groundballs, and two caused turnovers as sophomore Bill Kelleher (Pittsburgh, Pa.) tacked on two goals and two groundballs for MIT. Freshman Jonah Hessels (Poolesville, Md.) also registered two goals while classmate Alex Seo (Westport, Conn.) earned two assists. Freshman Paul Orrson (Baltimore, Md.) rounded out the balanced attack with a goal and an assist as senior Christopher Rullan (Wexford, Pa.) compiled 18 saves, nine groundballs, and three caused turnovers. Junior Elliot Sykora (Wilmette, Ill.) notched four groundballs and three caused turnovers while sophomore John Kramer (Glastonbury, Conn.) contributed on two groundballs and two caused turnovers.
The first quarter was a defensive battle until Tampa broke through at the 5:20 mark but Cook buried the equalizer with 56 seconds to go. In the second stanza, the Spartans gradually pulled away as they tallied three unanswered goals; however, a solo effort by Hessels made the score, 4-2, heading into the intermission.
The third quarter was a flurry of activity as both squads generated five goals. Tampa increased its lead after 1:16 elapsed but Hessels and Verdi found the back of the net to bring MIT within one (5-4) with 11:11 on the clock. Following five minutes of scoreless play, the Spartans resumed the scoring spree to gain some breathing room. Kelleher responded with a solo effort but the hosts recorded two goals in a span of 29 seconds to increase their advantage to 8-5. The Engineers ended the frame with a 2-1 spurt as Cook connected on a feed from Orrson and Verdi redirected a pass from Seo to keep MIT within striking distance.
Tampa doubled its cushion within the first two minutes of the final frame to go up, 11-7. Despite the deficit, the Cardinal and Gray continued to attack as an unassisted blast by Kelleher came with 6:22 left to play The Spartans reestablished their four-goal margin almost three minutes later but Seo found Orrson for what proved to be the Engineers' final goal with 1:43 remaining. Tampa then provided the final marker with 10 ticks to go.
MIT concludes its spring training trip on Friday, March 29 when it travels to Florida Institute of Technology.


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has acquired the Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590), a rare and important masterpiece by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, on the occasion of the exhibition Arcimboldo, 1526 -1593: Nature and Fantasy, on view in the East Building, September 19, 2010 through January 9, 2011. The artist's delightfully bizarre heads have been frequently copied and imitated. The Four Seasons in One Head is one of fewer than 20 examples by the master in existence. The purchase, which was made possible by the Gallery's Paul Mellon Fund, makes this work the only undisputed painting by Arcimboldo in a public collection in the United States. The painting was presented publicly for the first time in the 2007-2008 Arcimboldo retrospective held at the Louvre, Paris, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
"No one who has ever seen one of Arcimboldo's amazing headsin a museum, a surrealist spoof, or a commercial advertisementis likely to forget it," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "The Four Seasons in One Head was clearly inspired by the work of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist's predecessor in Milan." (The Gallery's Ginevra de' Benci is the only painting by Leonardo in the Americas.)
The exceptional importance of the Four Seasons in One Head was established in the 20072008 exhibition, and its status as a late autograph masterwork by the artist was reconfirmed by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, who hailed it as "one of the most startling discoveries of works by Arcimboldo in recent years" in his monograph published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009.
Arcimboldo was famous for his composite heads in his own time as court painter to the Habsburg Emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II in Vienna and Prague. Later, after he was rediscovered in the 1930s, the heads inspired the surrealists. Painted singly or in series, they combine plants, animals, and other objects appropriate to the themes Arcimboldo treated, such as the Four Seasons and the Four Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water).
Arcimboldo made the Four Seasons in One Head for his friend, the writer Gregorio Comanini, who first describes it. The painting is practically alone among the composite heads in that it does not appear to be associated with the artist's Habsburg patrons and, accordingly, it was not in Prague when the city was sacked by Swedish troops in 1648. Instead, the painting is mentioned in the 1656 inventory of the famous Cortoni collection in Verona. After that, the painting disappeared until the 21st century when it resurfaced in an English private collection. The agent for sale of the painting is Pandora Old Masters, Inc.
The newly acquired panel is signed "ARCIMBOLDUS F," where the bark has peeled away on the branch at the right. Though consistent with Arcimboldo's other signatures, the "F" (stands for the Latin fecit, or made this) was previously mistaken for a "P" (pinxit or painted this).
The painting is also the subject of a lengthy description in a literary dialogue entitled Il Figino, written by Gregorio Comanini and published in 1591. The interlocutor of the Milanese artist Ambrogio Figino advises him to:
Have Comanini show you Arcimboldo's playful treatment of the Four Seasons; you will see a lovely work. A knotty tree trunk forms the chest and the head in which certain cavities serve as mouth and eyes and a protruding knob as the nose. Knots covered with moss form the beard, and some branches in front form the horns.This stump, stripped of its own leaves and fruit, represents Winter, which produces nothing but enjoys what is produced by other seasons. Some flowers placed on the breast and over the shoulder signify Spring. Summer is represented by bundles of wheat and a few attached twigs, a straw cloak that covers the shoulders, two cherries hanging from a branch that forms the ear, and two plums arranged behind the head. Autumn is represented by two bunches of grapes, one white and one red, hanging from a branch, and by some apples showing among green ivy branches that spring from the top of the head. One of the branches of the head has been peeled slightly from around the middle, and the little scraps of bark curl back from the white part which is inscribed ARCIMBOLDUS P. All in all the work will please you wonderfully when you see it.¹
The signature and the literary testimony from the artist's own time are of great value in assessing the Four Seasons in One Head. Equally significant, according to Brown, is the splendid execution of the picture. The flowers and fruit (apples, plums, grapes, and cherries) compare with the same or similar nature motifs in Arcimboldo's most famous work, the portrait of his patron Rudolf II as Vertumnus, the ancient god of vegetation, at Skokloster Castle, Sweden. Likewise, the gnarled and rather menacing tree trunk and branches find exact parallels in Arcimboldo's versions of Winter in the Louvre and in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
The Four Seasons in One Head has the additional interest of the more engaging three-quarter view, unlike the strict profile Arcimboldo adopted for the series of paintings he did of the Seasons and the Elements. The painting stands out in other respects as well. By contrast to the whimsical character of much of Arcimboldo's work, the mood of Four Seasons is darker and more somber. The Four Seasons in One Head is the most closely related of all of the composite heads to Leonardo's physiognomic studies. It appears to be like one of Leonardo's "old men, covered in bark," as described by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden in Arcimboldo, 1526-1593, published by Skira, Milan in 2007. Ferino-Pagden is curator of Italian Renaissance painting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and is also guest curator of the current exhibition of Arcimboldo's work at the National Gallery of Art, which travels to the Palazzo Reale, MilanArcimboldo's birthplacefrom February 27 through May 8, 2011.
Like the Vertumnus, the Four Seasons is a late work, painted around 1590 after Arcimboldo had returned to his native Milan. Comanini's contemporary description provides the title for the painting, but its exact meaning remains elusive. It might be a self-portrait of the artist, as the "facial features" are not dissimilar from those found in two drawings the artist made of himself, one preserved in Genoa and the other in Prague. If not a self-portrait of Arcimboldo in the "winter" of his life, the painting may depict the god Vertumnus, who in Ovid's Metamorphoses disguises himself as an old woman to approach the lovely young Pomona and, having won her trust, woos and seduces her. In either case, the painting marks the culmination of Arcimboldo's career.
¹ Comanini, Gregorio, The Figino, or On the purpose of Painting: Art Theory in the Late Renaissance. Trans. and ed. Ann Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001 (pp. 27-28).
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I think its time we discuss a topic that not many people associate with fitness. Stability.
I think its time we discuss a topic that not many people associate with fitness. Stability. This would be accomplished with such exercises as single-leg squats, single-leg dead lift, step-ups, and stability ball crunches. These are exercises designed to test your balance, a key aspect to work on as you get older. They are important exercises for fall prevention, which is good for anyone!
Let's take a look at some reasons why people fall. Environment has a large part to do with it. Uneven floors, unsecure rugs, and clutter are all big contributors to falling. Other risk factors include behavior, biological, and social/economic. Behavioral factors are risks such as physical inactivity, poor diet, and inappropriate footwear. Biological factors can be age-related physical, cognitive or visual decline. Social or economic factors would be; not having a social support system, or not being well informed of the dangers of falling and how to prevent them. In addition, certain medications can add to instability, as well as medical conditions such as stroke, vestibular (think inner ear) disorders, diabetes mellitus, joint replacements, or arthritis. Limited mobility of joints is a very large contributor also.
So now that we know what causes falling, how can we prevent it? To begin, de-clutter your house. Try to make sure your floors are as level as possible, and if they are uneven, at least know their layout and be prepared for it. If you have rugs, make sure they are properly secured. When walking, make sure your shoes fit properly. Make sure you are informed of how people fall and how to better prepare yourself if you do fall.
Let's take a look at some things you can do to help your body. Performing double leg exercises on one leg instead of two will help you to become better at balancing. I'm not saying you should just pick a leg up during your next squat or deadlift. Make sure you're around something that you can grab onto in case you get too wobbly. When starting, lift your foot off the ground just a little until you get used to the movement. Then work on taking it higher and higher. It would be best to not use weights when starting balance training. Work on getting stable, then add weight (little weight, then build up). Also, keep in mind that you have to keep your technique perfect throughout your exercises whether you use one foot or two. Keep your knees in line with your ankles, don't let them go over your toes. When doing a deadlift, keep your back tight, and shoulders squeezed together. If single leg exercises sound too hard, perhaps a BOSU is more your style. This is a dome shaped apparatus that sits on the floor and makes it hard to balance. You can start by using two feet and then step off and on side to side, front to back, or any way you please. You can also put a leg on it an perform squats or lunges. It tests your balance because its filled with air. Also on the market are stability discs. These are air filled and great for working on balance and stability. You can also use stability balls for core work. These are giant inflatable balls that you sit on and can do any number of exercises that really give you a great core workout.
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Minnesota hires Richard Pitino
Minneapolis, MN – The University of Minnesota has hired Richard Pitino as the school's next men's basketball coach.
Pitino, the son of Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, will replace Tubby Smith, who was fired on March 25 after six seasons.
The 30-year-old recently completed one season as the head coach at Florida International. He led the Panthers to an 18-14 record and an 11-9 mark in the Sun Belt Conference, which included an appearance in the tournament title game. It was FIU's first winning season in 13 years.
Prior to his stint with the Panthers, Pitino spent the 2011-12 season with his father at Louisville and was the team's associate head coach. He also served as an assistant coach for the Cardinals from 2007-09 before joining the staff at Florida as an assistant from 2009-11. His other coaching stints include working at Duquesne and Northeastern.
Former Golden Gophers coach Smith, who was hired to lead Texas Tech's men's basketball program on Monday, led Minnesota to a record of 21-13 this past season, which concluded in the third round of the NCAA Tournament with a 78-64 loss to Florida.
The Gophers were 124-81 and never had a losing season under Smith, who signed a contract extension through the 2016-17 season last July.
Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague has a history of success in hiring and working with young coaches -- including VCU's Shaka Smart and Alabama's Anthony Grant.


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"The Wire" certainly made Charm City look like it was going to the dogs. With good reason. Turns out the acclaimed HBO series had close ties to canine Baltimore.
I reported last week about "The Wire" crew's adventures with neighborhood pit bulls, and about how HBO cut checks to have the dogs taken away.
That news elicited an email from Susan Rome, a Baltimore actress who played an assistant state's attorney on the show.
"There is another 'Wire' shaggy dog story," she wrote. "I played ASA Ilene Nathan in seasons 1-4. The first time I was on-set, someone brought a sweet little yellow dog into the hair and makeup trailer. I asked whose puppy it was, and was told that it was a dog rescued from a crack-house/shooting gallery in West Baltimore that had been scouted as a possible location.
"She was tiny, having never had a reliable meal. She had been found in a pack of male pit-mixes. She looks to be a yellow-lab/corgi mix, and was mangy and pregnant before cinematographer Uta Briesewitz and script supervisor Chris took her to the vet. The dog, dubbed "Schatzie" by Uta, had been taken home and then rejected by a number of cast and crew members. She was just too neurotic and unsocialized.
"My husband and I had a border collie mix who was easily bored and needed a pal. We had a play date with Lila and Schatzie (whom we renamed Dobby, after the big-eyed/big-eared grateful house elf in the Harry Potter series). The little yellow dog had no idea how to play. We took her home and she has been a (still-neurotic) wonderful member of our family ever since!
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The current design of java.jdbc prevents its use as a participant in a distributed XA transaction, where transactional control is delegated to a TransactionManager. It only works with local transactions and absorbs all nested transactions into the outermost one. It'd be nice to have a clean way to override this default behavior.
I'll try to work up a straw-man solution and submit a pull-request.
Thanx Jim. I agree the current setup isn't ideal in that area. As for "pull-request", I assume you mean a patch attached to this JIRA ticket (since Clojure and contrib projects cannot accept pull requests). Please also make sure you get a Contributor's Agreement on file per http://clojure.org/contributing
Sure thing, Sean
Sean, here's a first whack introducing a new dynamic var for transaction strategy.
I know the desire is for a new API with explicit parameter passing, and when that vision congeals, I'm happy to help migrate, but I'd like to always have the option of the dynamic binding as well.
My thinking is that if a tx strategy function is passed as a parameter, it'll override whatever may be set in the dynamic var, but how it gets passed is still unclear to me. I considered adding an optional key to the db-spec, but wanted to run that by you first.
The Agreement is in the mail. I appreciate your feedback.
There have been a lot of code changes lately and this patch no longer applies cleanly. Can you submit a new patch against the latest master? Thanx!
Sean, I'm not sure I'm totally smitten with the new "transaction?" boolean parameter. At first glance, this seems an awkward way to define a transaction consisting of multiple statements. Can you provide an example usage with the new API of say, inserting, updating and deleting data within a single transaction? I'm hoping an example will clear up my confusion and I can propose a way of parameterizing a particular strategy for executing any transaction.
See "Using Transactions" here https://github.com/clojure/java.jdbc/blob/master/doc/clojure/java/jdbc/UsingSQL.md
Yes, I saw that, and it seemed to confirm that my original patch should work with minor tweaking. And then I was surprised to see the "transactional?" option in the source. I was curious how you expect it to be used.
Folks have asked for the ability to run various functions without an implicit transaction inside them - in fact for some DBs, certain commands cannot be run inside a transaction which was a problem with the old API where you couldn't turn that off. It allows users to have more explicit control over transactions and it's also a convenient "implementation artifact" for nesting calls.
So, bottom line: I expect very few users to actually use it explicitly, unless they specifically need to turn off the implicit transaction wrapping.
And for most of the API that users will interact with, they don't even need to worry about it.
Does that help?
Addressing your question about your patch: Clojure/core specifically wanted java.jdbc to move away from dynamically bound variables, which the new API / implementation achieves (given that all the old API that depends on dynamic-vars is deprecated now and will be completely removed before 1.0.0).
If all you need is the ability to specify how the transaction function does its job, via a HOF, then I'll have a look at what that would take in the context of the new 'world'...
Regarding dynamically bound variables, I think it's very common and accepted – even canonical? – to use them (or some ThreadLocal-like variant) to implement transactions. I would hate to make the api awkward just to avoid them.
But to answer the core question, yes, I think it's important to provide an alternative to the assumptions encoded into db-transaction*, e.g. "Any nested transactions are absorbed into the outermost transaction." I might prefer a strategy in which a nested transaction suspends the current one and creates another, assuming the driver supports it.
But my primary reason for this, as you know, is to somehow inject a "null strategy" to support distributed transactions, delegating the commit/rollback choice to an external "transaction manager".
One question: what do you mean by "implementation artifact" for nesting calls?
Sean, how do you feel about turning the :transactional? option to a function instead of a boolean? And that function represents the :tx-strategy used, which could assume the value of a dynamically bound value *tx-strategy* by default, and its value would be db-transaction* by default. And folks could set it to nil to turn off transactions, i.e. :tx-strategy nil or perhaps :tx-strategy :none would equate to :transactional? false. I think that may satisfy core's recommendation for dynamic variables not being the only way to alter behavior. Make sense at all?
I was looking at the code again last night and came to much the same conclusion! I'll take a run at that this weekend (but I'm not adding a dynamic variable - Clojure/core were very clear about their reasons for not wanting those in code except in extremely rare situations in code that is guaranteed to be single-threaded).
You're killing me!
Without the dynamic var, I can't see any way to transparently allow the db code to participate in a distributed transaction. Can we at least agree that transactional code is guaranteed to be effectively single-threaded? And by this I mean that a transaction must be associated with a single connection, so any thread using that connection must have exclusive access. Do you really want to force folks using distributed transactions to pass the tx strategy in with every call? I don't think adding the dynamic var and the option to override it violates the spirit of this guideline: "If you present an interface that implicitly passes a parameter via dynamic binding (e.g. db in sql), also provide an identical interface but with the parameter passed explicitly."
What was the specific feedback you received that contradicts that?
Sean, I came up with a different solution for using java.jdbc with an XA connection that obviates this issue. So even though I think it's useful to provide both a dynamic var and a function option as a means to override the logic of db-transaction*, I no longer have a need for it.
Keep up the good work on java.jdbc!
I like problems that go away of their own accord but I still like the idea of making the transaction strategy a function so I'll look at that anyway as a possible (breaking) change for alpha2.
Something else you might consider: define a protocol function that encapsulates your commit/rollback/setAutoCommit logic inside db-transaction* and extend it to java.sql.Connection. That way, folks could extend their more specific types, e.g. XAConnection, to your protocol (and avoid making those calls that aren't allowed by XA).
commentHaving spent some time looking at the transaction-as-function option, I don't think that's a great idea - partly because I'm not sure what alternative functions would look like. Jim's suggestion of a protocol for the internal transaction logic seems like a good one but at this point I'm not familiar enough with alternative strategies to know exactly how the protocol should look (and which parts of the internal db-transaction* logic should be implemented that way) so I'm going to punt on this for 0.3.0 but leave it open for the future.
Given that ~[jcrossley3] worked around this with a different XA approach that didn't require code changes, and we weren't able to come to a consensus on exactly what generic transaction strategy support would look like directly within clojure.java.jdbc, I'm going to resolve this declined.
If a concrete proposal comes along in the future, a new JIRA issue can be created.


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"Local Flavor"
Through Dec. 6. Lowcountry Gourmet Foods, 10 West Broughton St. Joanne Morton, artist/curator is pleased to host her first art show at Lowcountry Gourmet Foods in Savannah. Artists represented through Dragonfly Studio, Tybee Island make up the eight artists exhibited as part of the "Local Flavor" art show.
I Am the Beloved Community: Story Quilts of Our Savannah
Through Dec. 16. Jepson Center for the Arts. Organized by Loop It Up Savannah of the West Broad Street YMCA, this exhibition is a collection of neighborhood story quilts made by the children of the West Broad Street YMCA, Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Empire and the seniors of the City of Savannah Hudson Hill Golden Age Center and documented by international students from the Savannah College of Art and Design English as a Second Language Department.
Stuff a Bus Toy Drive
7 a.m.-9 p.m. Nov. 26-Nov. 30. Oglethorpe Mall. Y107.9 is hosting a round the clock toy drive campaign for the Marine Corps "Toys for Tots 2012" Kicking off Monday, Nov. 26 at 7 a.m. and running continuously until 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30 at Oglethorpe Mall. Y107.9 DJ Brad Wells will live inside an RV donated by Dick Gore's RV World in the Oglethorpe Mall parking lot in an attempt to fill the RV with new, unwrapped toys that will benefit Chatham, Effingham, Beaufort and Jasper county children in need. Donations will be accepted at any hour during the toy drive.
USO Operation Phone Home
Nov. 7-30. The Coastal Bank, a leading community bank serving coastal Georgia, has officially launched a its third annual community-wide initiative to raise money for the USO's Operation Phone Home, which provides pre-paid phone cards to deployed military personnel, enabling them to call loved ones while away from their families this holiday season. A $5 donation will provide a soldier with a phone card to call home.
Members of the public can purchase a phone card online at www.phonehomesav.com or visit any of following Coastal Bank locations to make a donation to the 2012 USO Operation Phone Home campaign: Johnson Square - 18 West Bryan Street; Stephenson Avenue - 412 Stephenson Avenue; Pooler - 501 West Highway 80; Godley Station - 140 Towne Center Boulevard; Rincon - 5799 Highway 21 South; Hinesville - 101 West Hendry Street.
The Color Vibe 5K
Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. Get ready Savannah for the most colorful fun-filled day of your life! You'll have more color on you than your happy levels can handle! So get your friends and family stretched out for this amazing color blast event where you'll get blasted with color while you run the Color Vibe 5K Dec. 8 in Savannah. To register, go to www.thecolorvibe.com/savannah.php#.
Pastoral Anniversary
7 p.m. Nov. 27, 28, 29, 30 and Dec. 2. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 5863 Ogeechee Road. The members of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church will celebrate the five year anniversary of Pastor Jerome William Baker and First lady Cleo Baker Nov.27-Dec. 2. Pastor Scotty Mitchell will be in charge of services at 7 p.m. Nov. 27 and 28. Pastor Marc Williams will lead services Nov. 29. Pastor Brian Butler will lead the service Nov. 30 and Rev. Dr. Lexcie Aiken and St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church will close the anniversary at 4 p.m. Dec. 2.
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Hartsville, S.C. – The Coker women's soccer team opened their 2009 season on a rough note Thursday night. The Lady Cobras (0-1) fell to Newberry College (1-0) 4-1, starting this season the same way they ended last season, giving the Coker women 12 straight losses dating back to Oct. 1 of last year.
Newberry put away all four of their goals in the first half, with Amberly Fowler (Taylors, S.C.) netting a pair of goals, while Laura Mottel (North Augusta, S.C.) and Amber Chase (Aiken, S.C.) scored the other two goals. Jesse Langdon (Raleigh, N.C.), Taryn (Bristol (Charlotte, N.C.), Ashley Reetz (Summerville, S.C.), Sara Geisman (Middleburg Heights, Ohio) and Lora Moore (Raleigh, N.C.) each tallied an assist in the match.
It was a much different second half for the Lady Cobras, Sarah Kinsey (WIndermere, Fla.) scored the lone goal with an assists from Ashley Meador (Union, S.C.). While the Coker defense held Newberry scoreless.
Despite allowing four goals, Coker goalkeeper Carrie Hudnell (Goose Creek, S.C.) made nine saves in her first collegiate start.
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HOW TO: Ombre Color Through Balayage
Artego's Chad Siggers has mastered the art of balayage and was sharing his wealth of knowledge at the Premiere Show in Orlando, Florida. Modern stopped by to ask for a quick demonstration.
"Balayage is the perfect way to get an ombre finish," says Siggers. "Using a thick, heavy bleach, like Artego, allows the colorist to place the color and control application. It stays exactly where I place it and does not bleed through."
Siggers holds the brush flat, takes large wide sections and paints just the surface. The ends are saturated with color, both on top and under, and then the remaining color is diffused toward the top. The rounded brush allows Siggers to control application, and keeps him from placing any obvious squared off line of color placement.
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Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe today entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that resolves the pending DUI charges against him.
Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe today entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that resolves the pending DUI charges against him, the State Attorney's Office announced.
As part of the agreement, the mayor will be able to participate in a DUI Intervention Program made available to first-time offenders who have no significant prior criminal or traffic history. He will be required to complete all requirements for those convicted of DUI and agree to be monitored for 18 months as well as give up his driver's license for 14 days, the State Attorney's Office reported.
Shortly after the State Attorney's Office announced the agreement, the mayor's campaign office issued a statement saying, in part:
"As I've previously stated, I accept full responsibility for my actions in driving after having consumed alcohol on March 21. I would like to repeat my apology to my supporters, friends, and the people of Gainesville for the harm that I have caused. No specific detail or details of Thursday's events excuses my poor judgment or changes the fact that I made a very bad decision.
"I also stated that I would accept the sanctions of the State Attorney's Office as part of taking responsibility for my actions. Today I formalized acceptance of those sanctions by entering into an 18-month deferred prosecution program. Among other things, this program includes 50 hours of community service and an alcohol evaluation program. I will follow all recommendations of that evaluation."
State Attorney Bill Cervone announced the agreement in a statement faxed just after 4 p.m. to The Sun.
"In reaching the decision to allow the Mayor to participate in the program, which is similar to others utilized in various location in Florida, the State Attorney's Office has considered the facts of the case and the Mayor's personal but not political background," Cervone said in the written statement. "The case involves a breath test result of .06, which is below the legal limit presuming impairment, and certain field tests suggesting but not conclusively proving impairment."
The agreement will require that Lowe:
* Refrain from violating any federal or state law or county or municipal ordinance.
* Donate $500 to CDC Family & Behavioral Health Services.
* Pay $100 as the cost of prosecution.
* Perform 50 hours of community service.
* Complete DUI school.
* Receive alcohol/substance abuse evaluation and comply with any treatment recommended.
* Enter a plea to reckless driving as a lesser included offense once he completes the terms of the agreement.
The deferred prosecution agreement came a little more than a week after Lowe's arrest in the early morning hours of March 21, when he crashed his 2005 Honda Civic in northeast Alachua County around 2:20 a.m., according to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest report.
His car had major damage to its front, and all four tires were deflated after the wreck.
Lowe performed poorly on field sobriety tests and registered a .069 and .061 on a blood-alcohol breath test administered at the jail about four hours after the crash, according to the FHP.
Two days before the crash, Lowe had advanced to an April 16 runoff for mayor against former two-term City Commissioner Ed Braddy. While serving on the City Commission in January 2006, Braddy also was arrested for DUI. He pleaded no contest to the charges.
The mayor said in the statement released by his campaign office that he now would focus on his job as mayor and winning re-election.
"Having accepted the sanctions of this program and full responsibility for my actions, I now turn my focus to my duties as mayor and as a candidate for re-election," Lowe said in the statement.
"While my actions have disappointed many, the issues facing our city are greater than me as one person or this particular incident. In order for our city to continue to progress, we must come together to secure our future."


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one of the top ten birding spots in this nation, the J. N. "Ding"
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the mainland to Sanibel Island in the Gulf of Mexico near Ft.
of the refuge began in the early 1940s, when "Ding"
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to sell 2,200 pristine acres of Sanibel's mangrove wetlands to
developers for fifty cents an acre. Quickly gathering his allies, Darling
arranged for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lease the
threatened land to form the Sanibel Island National Wildlife
Refuge. Taken just in the nick of time, this was the first step
in protecting forever this crucial wildlife habitat.
recognized the special qualities of this place where land met
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the J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge is
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"Ding" Darling died in 1962, his friends and
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"Ding" Darling Wildlife Society, a group of volunteers working in
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Apple Season Is Upon Us! 15 Sweet & Savory Apple Recipes
I look forward to this season all year. Not quite summer, not quite fall, but the warm, glowing month in between, when the days grow a little shorter, and the air crisper. It's apple season. This is the season when the ubiquitous, seemingly year-round fruit is actually at its peak — crisp and sweet. Here are some of my own favorite ways to get into the rhythm of apple season. From apple Gouda oatmeal cookies to apple toaster strudels, and apple kale soup to chickpea wraps with crunchy bites of fruit, here are 15 ways to use apples, in savory ways and in sweet.
• 1 Apple Yogurt Cake with a Cinnamon-Sugar Streak
• 2 Free-Form Apple Tart
• 3 Hearty & Healthy Apple Muffins
• 4 Baked Apple Dumplings
• 5 Apple Cinnamon Toaster Strudels
• 6 Sticky Spiked Double-Apple Cake with a Brown Sugar-Brandy Sauce
• 7 Weekend Apple Pancake
• 8 Brown Rice Salad with Apples, Walnuts, and Cherries
• 9 Braised Escarole with Apples and Bacon
• 10 Arugula, Apple & Chickpea Salad Wraps
• 11 Kale and Apple Soup
• 12 Roasted Apple and Winter Squash Soup
• 13 Apple and Cheese Stuffed Latkes
• 14 Crispy Turnovers with Apple, Bacon, and Caramelized Onions
• 15 Apple Gouda Oatmeal Cookies
Are you buying apples yet? I'm antsy for a trip out to the country and the U-pick orchards! Time for apples.
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