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Rangers trim Red Sox thanks to Andrus
Boston, MA – Elvis Andrus hit the tie-breaking two-run double in the seventh inning, and the Texas Rangers edged the Boston Red Sox, 3-2, at Fenway Park in a battle of division leaders.
Activated off the 15-day disabled list prior to the game, Alexi Ogando pitched 5 2/3 innings in the start for the Rangers. Ogando, who had been sidelined since May 16 with right biceps tendinitis, allowed three hits, a run, walked three and had six strikeouts.
Despite walking three batters, Neal Cotts (1-0) fanned Jarrod Saltalamacchia for the final out of the sixth inning to get the win and Joe Nathan retired the side in order on three ground balls in the ninth to get his 18th save.
John Lackey gave up five hits and fanned five over six frames for the Red Sox, who had their three-game winning streak broken. The AL East leaders scored 17 runs on 19 hits Tuesday, but a night later were limited to five hits.
"The fastball command was pretty good tonight," Lackey said. "It's been a lot of hard work and I've come a long way. I'll take giving up one run the rest of the way."
Dustin Pedroia homered off the light tower above the Green Monster with two outs in the sixth inning to end Ogando's night after 92 pitches.
In the seventh, Mitch Moreland doubled to right field off Craig Breslow (2-1), and following a one-out walk to pinch-hitter Craig Gentry, Koji Uehara entered from the bullpen. Andrus smacked the first pitch to center for a one-hop double and a 3-1 lead.
Moreland left the game for a pinch-runner due tightness in his right hamstring.
"It got a little tight on me running to second," Moreland said. "It got a little stiff, but that was a big run right there. We're just trying to be safe with it."
Robbie Ross retired pinch-hitter Jonny Gomes on a fly ball to center to leave two runners in scoring position in the bottom of the seventh.
Saltalamacchia doubled to right to drive home Mike Napoli in the eighth, but Stephen Drew grounded out to end the frame.
Drew was called out trying to stretch his third-inning single to left-center into an extra-base hit, although replays showed he got his hand on second before second baseman Jurickson Profar applied the tag.
Adrian Beltre homered to center in the fourth inning for the Rangers, and Napoli struck out to strand runners at second and third in the bottom half.
Game Notes
The Rangers snapped a four-game road skid ... Texas has won 10 of the last 13 meetings ... The rubber match of the series will pit a pair of lefties in Texas' Derek Holland and Boston's Jon Lester ... Cotts got his first win since July 1, 2006 when he pitched for the White Sox.


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"They stole my trailer. Inside was my push cart, my umbrella, my signage, my generator — even my ice scream scoops!"
In his thick Boston accent, the 34-year-old entrepreneur was telling me about his loss the night before as we sat in the Albertsons supermarket near Yorktown and Goldenwest. But when you get to know Mike Guidicianne, you also know that somehow, someway, he'll not just survive, but thrive.
I met him a few weeks ago when I was judging at the Taste of Huntington Beach, where he, one of the event's participants, was set up under the tent with the aforementioned cart, umbrella, signage, generator and ice cream scoops. As I wandered by, the salesman-at-heart motioned me over to sample his wares.
True, getting me to try Italian ice on a hot day (or pretty much any day for that matter) is no great challenge. Since watching men with pushcarts in New York's Little Italy spoon out fresh lemon ice on summer days when I was a kid, I have been addicted. And Guidicianne, who owns and operates Orange County Slush, must have seen me coming.
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In addition to his delicious product, Guidicianne's enthusiasm for his homegrown brand also hooked me, and so I thought I'd share his story here.
We met at a local Albertsons the other day to talk and I was met with the news of his loss. He'd parked his trailer full of supplies out back of the store earlier in the week only to have the entire thing stolen. Huntington Beach police are on it, but Guidicianne was not dwelling too much on the senseless crime. He's got other things to fret over, good things, like the fact that Albertsons is now going to be carrying freezers full of his ices in 80 of its Orange County stores.
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Straight out of high school, he went to work for Verizon in Everett, Mass., and while the pay was decent, Guidicianne had dreams beyond what he started to perceive as a lifetime of corporate ladder climbing. He was there for 11 years, mixing in a stint as a stand-up comedian. And still he was not satisfied.
During a visit to Orange County to visit his wife Sandy's family in Anaheim, he got bitten by the bug.
"It was Christmas day, like 75 degrees, and I got an idea," he laughs.
Thinking back to the favorite treat of his youth, Richie's Italian Ice, Guidicianne noticed the lack of ice carts in the OC. So the street-smart salesman (who would resell lollipops as an enterprising kid) worked a deal with Richie's that would allow him to create a subsidiary brand, which he did right here in Huntington Beach.
Guidicianne tested his idea by purchasing 82 1/2 gallons of ice, which sold out almost immediately, and he knew he was on to something. After a Chamber of Commerce event at the Albertsons at Beach and Adams, the store director tasted some of Guidicianne's product and flipped. That got him into his first eight stores, and soon it could be 240, from San Luis Obispo to Las Vegas to San Diego — depending on how the next rollout goes. But Guidicianne is confident as ever about the brand (whose logo, featuring his pooch Vegas, he designed himself).
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He wanted me to stress that all of his ices are fat-free, cholesterol-free, gluten-free, dairy/lactose-free and vegan — but I will stress that they taste as delicious as any Italian ices I've ever had.
Guidicianne's work ethic is a marvel to behold; he and his wife are doing this all on their own, and I think we are lucky to have them here in town. This summer, do yourself a favor and visit the freezer case in your local Albertsons for a pint or two of Orange County Slush.
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OK so, this will take some explaining.
As you may or may not know, in bgt, you can have arrays with up to 4 dimensions. That in itself is fine.
What I'm curious to know is if bgt alone is really terrible when resizing anything above two dimensions?
This is even more noticeable when using string based arrays.
Are other languages in general really bad at this or is bgt just really horrible with resizing arrays? In truth, I'm going to say it's probably bgt, but I don't have enough experience with anything other than bgt to say.
A bit of background. I am attempting to use arrays for a map system which includes full 3d support.
The most I have been able to successfully resize this array to was about 90 elements before RAM usage skyrocketed, or bgt produced an out of memory error, and usually both at the same time. If I did the maths, that's 90 per dimension, right?
So, 90 and 90 and 90, gives me 270 units to play with. That might seem like a lot, though in reality, it gives me 90 up, and 90 for playing with for the rest of the 2d navigation.
I know a lot of bgt devs are going to say, hey, use dictionaries! But in truth those are designed extremely poorly.
So much so that referencing them causes concern for the (very real) possibility of crashes.
And when a bgt game crashes, it often crashes spectacularly.
Can anyone else confirm if this is just an issue of bgt, and most other programming languages don't do this and it is time for me to move on for real this time?
Thanks for reading if you got this far.
#1 2017-03-06 08:42:33
OK so, this will take some explaining.
#2 2017-03-06 09:52:49 (edited by Hijacker 2017-03-07 15:09:17)
I've to tell you that this time it is absolutely you who causes this problem, at least your calculation is wrong.
If you have some array, the way of calculation for you isn't addition, but rather multiplication. If you have some 90 x 90 array, you will calculate the amount of actual entries by calculating 90 x 90, or 90^2. If you have three dimensions, you'll calculate 90 x 90 x 90, or 90^3, which results in 729000 entries in this array.
At least that's only the amount of entries in this array, meaning, you'll need the data type of this array to calculate the actual size of this array. Let's say you're using int[][][] some_array and default the size to 90 per dimension, you'll probably get the size of this array by using 90^3 x 32, since a normal int should be something around 32 bits long. This results in a total size of 23328000 bits for this array, calculating it through 8 and 1024 results in 2847 kilobytes in-memory for this array, which is something about 2 Megabytes.
The following code executes fine for me and shows a total of 4212 Kilobytes in-memory (taskmanager) after creating the whole array, which results out of the actual program which requires memory itself and produces some overhead.
void main(){
int[][][] test;
uint i,j,k;
alert("debug", "finished");
Increasing the array to a forth dimension would mean the basic size grows to 90^4 x 32 bits integer size divided by 8 and 1024 and, because the result is big anyway, divided by 1024 again, results in around 250 Megabytes, which then is quite large, which is why I would like to try and evade using such arrays, three dimensions should more or less be enough in most cases.
Best regards.
#3 2017-03-06 10:33:47
Oh man. I didn't realize my math was that far off.
That would explain this entire thing then.
So I'm curious to know if you can explain the instability of dictionaries in bgt? I've tried using them for this map system, it does work, though is not very stable and has tendencies to crash.
#4 2017-03-06 10:57:42
in this case you need to explain your actions further too us, since all things i'm doing with dictionaries do work just fine. Over all I think all errors BGT produces are quite logical and all crashes happen on purpose, just as expected, so it's almost always the user behind the code who is responsible for these crashes. So, if you don't mind explaining the actual steps you're taking to implement a map system using dictionaries, i'll be glad to assist you fixing those errors.
Best regards.
#5 2017-03-06 11:24:23
So, initially, I have player x, player y, and if I'm going full 3d, player z.
I have a dictionary map, who's keys are actually coordinates on the map.
These keys are set to different values which are surfaces "rock", "grass", "concrete", etc.
When I'm done setting up the map (usually by way of forloop), the main loop takes over.
When the player moves in any direction, I check with the dictionary to see what sound file I should play, in accordance to the surface they are standing on, based on the coordinates (key) I retrieve from the dictionary at the player's position.
I also check to see if they are about to run into a wall, to play echo steps at the wall's position.
Walls are, of course a surface as part of the map dictionary.
The game works and the map system works, as I stated though, using dictionaries it has tendencies to crash.
Hope this helps.
#6 2017-03-06 11:43:40
Well yeah, this sounds all fine, even if I wouldn't do it like this, an array should fit this situation better I think. Anyway, without the exact error message bgt throws when crashing there's no way to help you, since you didn't even mention any code here. The system you're describing is fine, though improvable, so it must be your code which is wrong.
Best regards.
#7 2017-03-06 12:25:20
It unfortunately just freezes with no error messages. The last sound(s) that were playing continue to play, although a very short chunk.
#8 2017-03-06 13:49:26
In your dictionary, you use strings like "rock". As far as I understand, using string in this particular situation is a bad idea. Firstly, each letter takes one byte. So a string like "hardwood" would take 8 bytes, while if you use a int8 or uint8 and assign a number (between 0 to 256 for uint8 and -128 to 127 for int8) for hardwood, it would only take 1 byte. Secondly, when you want to compare two tiles, the engine has to compare character by character and in a big game it will slow down the execution. Arrays of uint8 is the best in my humble opinion. that 90x90x90 array you wanted, if you make it as uint8 there won't be any problem, it'll only take 711 kb. I doubt you would have more than 256 tiles for your game, and if you have, use a uint16.
#9 2017-03-06 14:06:39
Yeah, I have been told to do that several times, use ints instead of strings. I'm glad you guys put this into perspective for me, I really did not know I was the one destroying blast bay game toolkit.
Thanks again guys!
#10 2017-03-06 15:10:21
Yep, that's actually one thing which can be improved here, and this isn't just related to BGT, but will be this way in any low-level programming language where you're able to handle data types yourself, such as BGT, C or C++ and those languages. Python e.g. doesn't need this level of abstraction, since most scripting languages will handle the different data types automatically for you, which therefore results in less performant, but much simpler code.
The freeze in your code might be related to some really hard mass-comparisons of strings inside your code, but honestly, those operations should just increase the load time drastically, but not make the program freeze completely. Anyway, try to avoid dictonaries for such simple things like maps and such stuff, since arrays are much more performant and simpler for those purposes.
Best Regards.
#11 2017-03-07 01:47:54
@8, each character on the string is 8 bytes.
#12 2017-03-07 03:44:04
I believe a character is 1 byte which is composed of 8 bits.
If you have a dictionary of 8100 strings, your programming shouldn't be freezing.
The reason your math was off: think of a multidimensional array as a list of lists. This is simplified out to a grid so you have the first element at (0, 0). Which is essentially saying the first element of the first list of the array.
The initialisation code above I think is wrong, it should be:
void main(){
int[][][] test;
//No need to declare the variables before the for loop, you can declare them on the same line.
for(uint i=0;i<test.length();i++)
test[i].resize(90); //The original code was just resizing the first dimension repeatedly instead of using the array at the index i.
for(uint j=0;j<test[i].length();j++)
for(uint k=0;k<test[i][j].length();k++)
alert("debug", "finished");
#13 2017-03-07 04:27:22
Use uint8 instead if you wish to preserve memory.
#14 2017-03-07 15:06:12
you're right, I missed the index there. Thanks for clarifying this, I'll update this bug above so people searching this forum for some response won't get bothered with wrong answers.
Yes, you can define variables inlined, but it's better to define the variables at function beginning, so other people don't have to mess around and search where variables get actually defined or declared. It's simply one part of writing good code. Not mentioning that someone has this way of coding in his blood if he actually migrated from the C world, where you have to define your variables before the actual function body starts.
Best regards.
#15 2017-03-07 19:11:23
@Hijacker, can you clarify your last statement about not being able to inline declare variables in C? I strictly recall this being possible. In Ada, it's like you said: you have to define (or, at least, predefine them and the types they hold) all of your variables before the function body starts. However, you certainly can do:
int x() {
int w=5, y=3, z=12;
return w;
The lack of using those three defined vars will raise a warning but is perfectly okay.
In C++, you can even do:
template <typename T> // Not possible in BGT. Sorry, BGT lovers!
T x (T y) {
T a, b, c, d, e, f, g;
// code...
Or, in D:
pure @nogc @safe abs (T) (T val) {
// Code...
I can go on, and on, and on... hell, in Go, you can return functions, and write functions as parameters, something you definitely can't do in BGT! Man, I could write a hole list of cons why BGT is a bad scripting language for anything serious, and the cons would outweigh the pros. I hope this doesn't start a debate, but why, exactly, is BGT so popular when there are programming languages out there that can do far more than BGT ever could do? It's not even being maintained, meaning that your not going to be using the latest programming technology, which, in turn, is going to isolate you from the rest of the programmer community, and you most certainly won't be able to integrate with one.
#16 2017-03-08 01:08:49 (edited by Omar Alvarado 2017-03-08 01:13:33)
Hi Ethin,
I myself use bgt because I don't quite have the knowledge or patience to, gather all the billions of dependencies it takes to create a decent audio system, not forgetting most people end up writing there own take on sound positioning of course, keyboard input, mouse if it's needed, speech, networking if needed which most do for update checking, file parcing if your game has save data, and file encryption/decryption so people don't mess with your save data.
And don't forget, you also get to have fun putting it all together for a test release build, or a final release so your users can play your game without requiring the language of choice, and therefore revealing your source.
I did try python and was actually liking it, really I was. But the frustrating compilation issues related to dependencies and the fact I learn slowly made me go back to the drawing board.
I applaud those who have the patience for this kind of thing, but I, am not one of them. I would have probably had it if I wouldn't have started out learning bgt several years ago.
I'm a slow learning man, and only recently have I begun playing with pure basic, you might find my topic on the forums about that recently.
Again, I applaud those of you who can actually program in mainstream languages like c#, c++, python etc. My respect and hat off goes to you.
#17 2017-03-08 02:28:40
In C89 you have to declare all variables at the start of the function. Also doing something like
for (int c=0;c < 5;c++) {}
will just not work. C99 and C++ changed this.
#18 2017-03-08 10:05:47 (edited by Hijacker 2017-03-08 10:08:41)
That's exactly it, thanks stewie. This works, though:
int foo() {
int a=1,b=2,c=3;
return a;
But declaring variables after executing some statement won't work, for example:
int foo() {
int a=1;
int b=3;
for(int c=0;c<bar();c++)
return c;
This would crash even two times, because b was defined after executing bar() and because c gets defined inline in the for loop head. That's the C89 standard, as stewie already said, and to maintain as much backwards compatibility it's recommended to do so in even later C standards. That's why it developed to be "good code" to declare variables at the beginning of the corresponding code, at least in team-environments, so people don't have to bother finding the actual variable, checking it's type and actually setting breakpoints to debug them correctly. and all that other stuff you can imagine to do with variables at all.
Best Regards.
#19 2017-03-10 00:13:04
re: 7, I don't know if dictionaries have anything to do with it, but it sounds like you're aving a similar problem to the one I keep running into. That is, at seemingly random moments, bgt will hang, looping the last second or so of sound. Weirdly, if I have background music playing, it is unaffected, and keeps playing normally. The program eventually triggers the Windows "This poogram is not responding" message. I seem to get this at least once a day, as of late. I think I've seen it more than once today. I can think of nothing in particular that these situations have in common, other than that I can't remember any in menus or scenes, only during gameplay. But I could be mistaken (the majority of the time will be in gameplay, after all.)
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#20 2017-03-10 05:31:17
I suspect also that the "get" method of the dictionary object can crash BGT. This seems to be related to the data type. If you try to use the "get" method with a string data and a double variable, BGT crashes. So you have to check always if the variable type is the same that the data. It's probably safer to use always strings in a dictionary and to use "string_to_number" function to convert into double.
#21 2017-03-10 17:51:18
yes, i agree with @20
#22 2017-03-16 00:44:43
Just my $0.02:
BGT is a bit of a love/hate thing for me.
BGT is fine with memory usage, but it's shortcomings really show when it comes to other resource usage. BGT is slow for a number of reasons:
First, There is clear evidence that BGT is processing window events from the operating system in the same thread as the virtual machine is running. As far as I'm concerned, communicating with the operating system should be done in the program's main thread, and the game engine should be running in a second thread. This adds a bit of code complexity when the game engine tries to update the window, since you can't modify a window from a thread other than the one that created it you have to queue events for the main thread to process.
This would result in a fair performance improvement as window events can be time consuming.
Secondly, since BGT hasn't been updated in some time it's built on quite a dated version of AngelScript. AngelScript is a really kool product, but it's major struggle over the years has been surrounding array access overhead. This has been improved in recent updates, but BGT can't take advantage of the improvements unless it's updated.
I've been slowly but surely working on what is essentially a BGT clone that will run much faster, run on more platforms than just windows, use the same script APIs as BGT so that porting games will be a walk in the park and offer a few more features which audio games really need. Unfortunately time constraints have kept things moving at a crawl, but I can already tell you that a lot of scripts run several times faster in my work in progress engine than they do in BGT. and since my engine will run on Linux I can use the wonderful Valgrind to detect a lot of stability problems before they are ever experienced by the public. (BGT used to hang and crash a lot, but to be fair I haven't seen it hard crash once in easily over a thousand combined hours of Manamon and Paladin playing).
Back to the topic at hand:
I'm sure your Z dimention doesn't need to be nearly as big as your X and Y dimentions. Even if you're portraying outdoor areas where there's virtually infinite space above the player's head, you shouldn't need to represent any more of the Z dimention than what the player can jump or climb to? This might be a great way to get memory consumption down.
You definitely want to use integer constants instead of strings to represent tile types. Doing this much string comparison is going to result in a huge performance issue as soon as there are more objects than just the player moving around.
and I would definitely stick to arrays when it comes to maps. Dictionaries are designed for fast lookups by name, but nothing can outperform true random access offered by a contiguous block of memory.
#23 2017-03-17 17:42:54
@Trajectory, will this engine be open-source? If so, I'd love to help!
#24 2017-03-20 07:16:23
@Ethin I'm not sure yet.
I want commercial BGT game developers to feel comfortable porting their games over, which means that the manner in which the engine encrypts compiled bytecode and other resources has to be as well-protected as possible.
I could probably get behind the idea of an open source version with a few sensitive features excluded, but if you wanted to use that to compile protected work you'd have to add most notably encryption back in yourself.
#25 2017-03-20 17:02:01
many encryption algorithms are open source. how do you expect they are so well-tested tried and true methods. just because something is open source does not mean the encryption on a game or project is cracked.as long as someone uses a key with enough bits of entropy. to calculate bits of entropy take log2(dictionarylength)*keylength. where your keylength is the number of digits in the key and dictionarylength is the number of items in the dictionary you pulled digits of the key from. i say digits, but we all know just a numeric, 0-9 key, wont have enough entropy. take for example a standard 10digit telephone number:
log2(10)*10 = 33.219280948873624 bits of entropy.
this isn't sufficient when we really need at least 128 bits of entropy or prefferably 256 bits. for a key with only numeric values we would need to get a key at least 78 digits long:
256/log2(10) = 77.06367888997919
for a key generated from a dictionary of 9 the 95 typable characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and 33 assorted other symbols, we would only need a key of 39 characters:
256/log2(95) = 38.965848758590305
this is all assuming you generated your key perfectly from a true source of chaos/entropy. any non-deterministic qualities of the key makes it exponentially easier to crack.
this long looping tangent to say it either should all be open source or not at all. just because you don't open source the encryption side of your language doesn't mean its more secure. if anything its less. there needs to be eyes on it. You should also never, ever, ever write your own crypto. its already been done. please don't reinvent the wheel.


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Italy's 3T have developed a new version of their carbon fibre Integra stem that's groundbreaking in that it features an integrated mount for a Garmin GPS computer. The Garmin-Barracuda team will debut the new stem in competition this week at the Giro d'Italia.
3T and Garmin have been collaborating on the stem's redesign since last autumn. Instead of the usual front-loading bar clamp, the Integra has a top-loading one that's covered by a shroud to maintain the stem's clean lines. A standard shroud is available, which simply hides the clamp, but there's also an optional second cover, and it's this that will be used in anger at the Tour of Italy.
The innovative design of the new shroud extends the stem forward to allow for an integrated Garmin mount. This offers a more secure fit than the standard rubber O-ring mount and also places the head unit much further forward, making it easier for the rider to see the screen.
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Team Garmin-Barracuda are expected to fit the new Integra to all of their Cervélo race bikes, bar the P4 and P5 time trial bikes. At time of writing, both Christian Vande Velde and Thomas Dekker were confirmed to be using it. The stem should be available shortly after the Giro, in 90, 100, 110 and 120mm lengths. The 110mm version weighs a svelte 135g. For more information on the new Integra, visit www.3tcycling.com.
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Mayor Kelly Boyd began chemotherapy treatment Wednesday, less than a week after doctors confirmed his cancer diagnosis and one day before his 69th birthday.
"It took 25 minutes, and it went well," Boyd said Thursday. "I am feeling fine."
Boyd publicly announced the diagnosis of Stage 2 Multiple Myeloma, commonly called cancer of the blood cells, at the beginning of the City Council meeting Tuesday. He had informed council members of the diagnosis at the closed session prior to the meeting.
He said he has no intension of resigning.
"The council has great things coming up this year — the skateboard park, the view ordinance — and I am going to be part of every one of those," Boyd said.
Boyd received a standing ovation after his announcement.
"The response was very gratifying," a touched Boyd said.
Boyd's wife, Michelle, and his daughter, Kirsten Rugg, were in the audience Tuesday. Boyd's son, Sean, has been commuting from his Northern California home to accompany his father on visits to the doctor.
Others in the audience included close friends who had been told of the diagnosis Sunday at a gathering at Boyd's home.
"No friggin' way am I quitting," Boyd told his guests. "I have too many things to accomplish and that includes organizing the ninth annual Spring Classic Golf Tournament that raises money for six local charities."
He is also looking forward to appearing in the 2014 "Lagunatics."
Michelle Boyd, human resources manager for the Laguna Beach County Water District, said cancer does not run in her husband's large family, but he is a veteran of the Vietnam conflict where Agent Orange was used.
In researching multiple myeloma, she learned that veterans who served in Vietnam do not have to prove a connection between their cancer and the herbicide to receive medical benefits.
"He amazes me with how positive and upbeat he is," Michelle Boyd said.
This is just one more hurdle for Boyd.
In July and October of last year, he underwent back surgery, during which his vocal cord was nicked. He was thin and his voice raspy during the period after surgery, but in recent months Boyd had regained some of the lost weight and his voice.
"Ironically, people have been telling me lately how much better I look and sound," Boyd said.
A nagging and escalating pain in his right shoulder sent Boyd back to the doctor in late December. He was urged to revisit his orthopedic surgeon after a vacation, from which he returned tanned and relaxed.
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His surgeon ordered tests, conducted Jan. 10. Results came back Jan. 29, and the cancer was confirmed Feb. 7.
Most of the guests at the Sunday gathering were unaware of Boyd's health problems until his announcement.
"He wanted to personally tell as many as possible," Michelle Boyd said.
Friends who were unable to attend the gathering were privately informed, including former Mayor Jane Egly, with whom Boyd had forged a close relationship during her two terms on the council.
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All were sworn to secrecy until he made his public announcement Tuesday.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Celebrating the End of Tomato Season with David Gentilcore's "Pomodoro!"
Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, we can't love them enough. And to celebrate the season, I was able to share some review copies of a great new tomato history book with some blogger buddies. Columbia University Press graciously offered me the opportunity to review Professor David Gentilcore's new book "Pomodoro! The History of the Tomato in Italy". Some of my blogger friends from around the world joined me in reviewing the book and cooking up some glorious tomatocentric recipes which I am summarizing below:
On the island of Crete, Maria of Organically Cooked relates how important the tomato is to Greek cuisine and to her household in particular. She shared a common incredulity with the other bloggers about how recently tomatoes were integrated into Mediterranean cooking and notes that the Cretan tomato growing season lasts six months. Lucky Maria! Tomatoes are the "background note" in many of her meals and she gives us a taste with her recipe for a rustic and garlicky grated tomato sauce for dipping bread slices into or topping on toast or rusks.
Veering north to Athens, where Jo of Foodjunkie, Not Junk Food lives, blogs and cooks, oven-roasted tomatoes were on the menu. Jo relished the book and decided to spend the time slow-roasting plum tomatoes with olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. She enjoys these tomato gems with bread and cheese and also uses them to liven up sauces for meats and pasta.
Off to Ontario, Canada for our next Pomodoro blog post... Natashya of Living in the Kitchen with Puppies enoyed the book's history lessons about the Great Depresssion, art, Fascism, colonialism, and other topics and decided to make some Stuffed Roma Tomatoes to wrap up her book review.
Over in England, Foodycat also enjoyed the way the author wove in various historical themes with the food history and recipes, and was inspired to make a whole range of delights using her garden tomatoes, including roasted cherry tomato and basil sauce, pomodorini pelati, and a sexy tomato and goats cheese tart.
The Pomodoro Party includes the classic tomato-basil-mozzarella combo of Caprese Salad which emanated from Kahakai Kitchen in Hawai'i. Deb really enjoyed the sprinkling of historical Italian tomato recipes and has bookmarked some to enjoy later.
To round things off here in upstate New York at The Crispy Cook, I thoroughly enjoyed my ride through tomato history with Pomodoro! and enjoyed doing a little side research on the commedia dell'arte and Neapolitan street foods. I tried out a new canning recipe for Tomato Barbecue Sauce to cap off my post.
One more blogger buddy, Simona of Briciole, will be posting a review about Pomodoro! in the near future, and it will be interesting to see what this Italian-born kitchen master will think of the book!
Thank you to Columbia University Press for sending us all copies of Pomodoro! to review and thank you to all my foodie buddies for sharing their thoughts and tomato recipes with us all!
6 comments:
- Mediterranean kiwi said...
we all seem to do the same things with tomatoes - where would we be without them?
thanks for the opportunity to learn so many surprising things about this humble plant
- Wednesday, 15 September, 2010
- Natashya KitchenPuppies said...
Lovely round-up! Hooray for the tomato!!
- Wednesday, 15 September, 2010
That sounds like a delicious book. Nothing I love more than history and food. Off to visit all the tributes to tomatoes. Our season in Ohio had some pretty spectacular tomatoes, too.
- Thursday, 16 September, 2010
- Debinhawaii said...
Wonderful round-up--it all looks delicious. Thanks for letting me join in! The book a was fun and educational read. ;-)
- Friday, 17 September, 2010
- Foodjunkie said...
Great roundup as always! I think the timing of the book was so perfect, just when tomatoes are plenty and flavoursome.
- Sunday, 19 September, 2010
- girlichef said...
Oh, everything looks so wonderful...I really wish I had been able to get my hands on a copy of this book, I couldn't find it anywhere around me! Lovely roundup =)
- Thursday, 23 September, 2010


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Richard E. Bell, Riceland Foods Inc. CEO and former undersecretary of agriculture, has urged Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman to make available to rice farmers as soon as possible the maximum initial payment of the 2003-crop counter-cyclical payment for rice.
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Bell said that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's supply/demand estimate for rice, released Sept. 11, projects the 2003-04 average price received by farmers to be in the range of $6.25 to $6.75 per hundredweight.
"Since the mid-point of the range is the same as the $6.50 per hundredweight loan rate for rice, a maximum 2003-crop counter-cyclical payment is anticipated, and a maximum initial partial payment is justified," Bell said.
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2013-14: Competed in nine races … sat in seat #7 seven times, beginning in the Championship 8 boat during the Head of the Charles (10/19-20) … sat in seat #7 of the Varsity 8 boat during the Princeton Chase (10/27) and in the spring against Bates College and Boston College (3/29), Alumni Cup (4/5), Donahue Cup (4/12), and Compton Cup (4/19) … finished the season in seat #3 in the varsity 8 boat against UMass/Delaware/URI (4/26) and EARC Sprints (5/18) … sat in seat #1 during the Foot of the Charles (11/23) in 2V4 boat.
2012-13: Rowed in every regatta as a junior, competing in the Varsity A boat each time … sat in the #1 seat at the Head of the Charles (10/21) and against Williams, WPI, Franklin & Marshall and Connecticut College (4/13) … sat in the #7 seat at the Princeton Chase (10/28), against Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Columbia (4/06), against Trinity, Colgate and the University of Rhode Island (4/29) and against Boston University and the University of Wisconsin (5/04) … competed in the IRA National Championships (6/02) as part of the Varsity 4 boat, sitting in the #3 seat.
2011-12: Competed in five races this season … rowed in the # 7 seat as a member of the MIT varsity team at Columbia (3/31); against Boston College, Trinity, and Bates (4/7); versus Harvard and Princeton (4/14); against UMass (4/21) and at the Eastern Sprints (5/13)… saw action in the #1 seat on the championship boat at the Head of the Charles (10/22).
Off The Water at MIT: Majoring in aerospace engineering … held internships at Jacobs Engineering and at the 129th Combat Search and Rescue Wing at the Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. … Air Force ROTC four-year scholarship … SAME Boston Post scholarship … 1st Infantry Division scholarship … varsity crew captain 2012-13 … Alpha Delta Phi.
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In the event application of student aid exceeds the remaining balance on a student account, the Business Office may issue a Campus Card credit for the University Bookstore. Amounts will be determined by available aid and projected cost of books and supplies. This will be charged to the student account and deducted from the refund check upon receipt. Students may request a refund for any unused funds over $25.00 at the Business Office. Balances $25.00 and under will not be refunded.
The Business Office may award short-term loans for those in a financial emergency. There are both short term (maximum value $200; 30-day term) and Ravetti loans (maximum value $1,000) available. Ravetti loans are given based on the student having enough pending financial aid available to cover the amount of the loan. See the Business Office for more information.
Lockers are available for all law students. A refundable $10 deposit is required and can be paid through the Business Office.
The SBA sponsors a community refrigerator on the first floor of Sullivan Hall. Access is restricted to law students, and a key can be obtained for a $10 deposit, payable through the Business Office. All questions regarding the refrigerator should be directed to the SBA.
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Sprint has flipped the switch on LTE service in 45 more markets today. That bring's the carrier's total LTE coverage to 230 markets. LTE coverage from Sprint is now available in Lexington, Kentucky, New Haven, Connecticut, and Spokane, Washington. Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, N.Y. now have LTE coverage as well. Sprint also says that their 3G service has been improved with better signal strength and call quality.
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|Tome I
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The modern development of electricity and magnetism
Galvani and Volta
|The full importance
of Young's studies of light might perhaps have gained earlier recognition
had it not chanced that, at the time when they were made, the attention
of the philosophic world was turned with the fixity and fascination of
a hypnotic stare upon another field, which for a time brooked no rival.
How could the old, familiar phenomenon, light, interest any one when the
new agent, galvanism, was in view? As well ask one to fix attention on
a star while a meteorite blazes across the sky.
Galvanism was so called precisely as the Roentgen ray was christened at a later day - as a safe means of begging the question as to the nature of the phenomena involved. The initial fact in galvanism was the discovery of Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), a physician of Bologna, in 1791, that by bringing metals in contact with the nerves of a frog's leg violent muscular contractions are produced. As this simple little experiment led eventually to the discovery of galvanic electricity and the invention of the galvanic battery, it may be regarded as the beginning of modern electricity.
The story is told that Galvani was led to his discovery while preparing frogs' legs to make a broth for his invalid wife. As the story runs, he had removed the skins from several frogs' legs, when, happening to touch the exposed muscles with a scalpel which had lain in close proximity to an electrical machine, violent muscular action was produced. Impressed with this phenomenon, he began a series of experiments which finally resulted in his great discovery. But be this story authentic or not, it is certain that Galvani experimented for several years upon frogs' legs suspended upon wires and hooks, until he finally constructed his arc of two different metals, which, when arranged so that one was placed in contact with a nerve and the other with a muscle, produced violent contractions.
These two pieces of metal form the basic principle of the modern galvanic battery, and led directly to Alessandro Volta's invention of his "voltaic pile," the immediate ancestor of the modern galvanic battery. Volta's experiments were carried on at the same time as those of Galvani, and his invention of his pile followed close upon Galvani's discovery of the new form of electricity. From these facts the new form of electricity was sometimes called "galvanic" and sometimes "voltaic" electricity, but in recent years the term "galvanism" and "galvanic current" have almost entirely supplanted the use of the term voltaic.
It was Volta who made the report of Galvani's
wonderful discovery to the Royal Society of London, read on January 31,
1793. In this letter he describes Galvani's experiments in detail and refers
to them in glowing terms of praise. He calls it one of the "most beautiful
and important discoveries," and regarded it as the germ or foundation upon
which other discoveries were to be made. The prediction proved entirely
correct, Volta himself being the chief discoverer.
This invention took the world by storm. Nothing like the enthusiasm it created in the philosophic world had been known since the invention of the Leyden jar, more than half a century before. Within a few weeks after Volta's announcement, batteries made according to his plan were being experimented with in every important laboratory in Europe.
As the century closed, half the philosophic world was speculating as to whether "galvanic influence" were a new imponderable, or only a form of electricity; and the other half was eagerly seeking to discover what new marvels the battery might reveal. The least imaginative man could see that here was an invention that would be epoch-making, but the most visionary dreamer could not even vaguely adumbrate the real measure of its importance.
It was evident at once that almost any form of galvanic battery, despite imperfections, was a more satisfactory instrument for generating electricity than the frictional machine hitherto in use, the advantage lying in the fact that the current from the galvanic battery could be controlled practically at will, and that the apparatus itself was inexpensive and required comparatively little attention. These advantages were soon made apparent by the practical application of the electric current in several fields.
It will be recalled that despite the energetic endeavors of such philosophers as Watson, Franklin, Galvani, and many others, the field of practical application of electricity was very limited at the close of the eighteenth century. The lightning-rod had come into general use, to be sure, and its value as an invention can hardly be overestimated. But while it was the result of extensive electrical discoveries, and is a most practical instrument, it can hardly be called one that puts electricity to practical use, but simply acts as a means of warding off the evil effects of a natural manifestation of electricity. The invention, however, had all the effects of a mechanism which turned electricity to practical account. But with the advent of the new kind of electricity the age of practical application began.


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CRWA needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 326 designs submitted by 71 freelance designers.
The Church at South Florida
We are a new church plant preparing to launch in Miami Florida this next year. We are a group of young 20-30 year old emerging leaders who are wanting a brand that reflects who we are and who we want to reach/attract.
These are the words that would best describe us..... passionate, compassionate, bold, trendy, loving, giving, gracious, focused, driven, fun, non-traditional, urban, ethnically diverse, caring.....
Our target audience is 18-35 year olds, college students, young professionals, young families, youth from various ethnic groups and backgrounds.
Please keep in mind we are starting our church in Miami Florida. Think about the culture, the types of people, its very hip, cutting edge, club scenes and ethnically diverse
We want a logo that is simple and we want you to be free to create knowing a little bit about us and who we are targeting.
Our church name is The Church at South Florida
Our purpose statement is Love God, Love People and Love our City
Please no religious symbols
Something that looks good both in color and black and white also can be resized to look great on a billboard and on letterhead.
This is going to be our brand........ be bold, be creative, be edgy, have fun creating what people we see and relate to us!!!!!!!
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RedGazelle Group needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
current website: http://www.bouwlogics.com working in the new one: http://new.bouwlogics.nl/
http://www.Portiva.nl is an IT company. We have developed a collaboration tool for the building & construction market. We are marktleader in the Netherlands.
Goverments, Big building companies use our tool to share all relevant documentation regarding large building projects (e.g. construction of large hostipals or big road infra projects).
The tool is SaaS based and is called "bouwlogics" (bouw=construction)
Current website is http://www.bouwlogics.nl
currently in development is: http://new.bouwlogics.nl/
Goverment, Architects, Big constructions and building companies.
We have a simple logo now for bouwlogics made ourselves. We need something that is still clean and simple but has a more professional look 'n feel.
We need the vector based files for them and psd files usable for different backgrounds (usable in a white background and blue is possible).
See the attached logo. The V5 addition can be skipped in the new design !
Looking foreward to your response!
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Geograph Knowledgebase / FAQ
- Why are you introducing Geographical Context?
- Geograph publishes photos that illustrate the geography of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
For the first six years and 2 million images, Geograph contributors have been required to choose a primary geographical category for each of their images. They could either select one from a list or create a new one if what they wanted didn't exist. Some contributors limited themselves to a small number of very general categories (moorland, lake, buildings...) while others preferred to create much more detailed, often unique, categories (church (Roman Catholic) (former), artificial fish farming pool, bat hibernaculum...). The list grew to an unwieldy 9,000 categories, mostly of detailed photograph subjects. The primary geographical categories which offered a broad-brush way of organising the archive had got lost.
The system showed its limitations as the archive grew. For example, in this subject-rich photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1579473 the short title and description and single category (Watercourse) mean that other features go unrecorded, so will not be picked up in a search. Similarly in http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/716196 the category selected was Lake. A search on Lake would return over 25,000 images not very useful. The interesting detail in the description would only be found by a very specific search. In a third example http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/514710 the category Artificial fish farming pool is unique, although the image would be found by a search for Fish farm. All these images would of course be seen in browsing their respective gridsquares. Photos with the minimum information will tend to be invisible to searches because searches are text-based. The solution is to enable contributors to choose multiple categories tags and one or more primary geographical categories geographical context - that describe the content of the photo.
Of course, submitter knows best. The new system asks submitters to choose at least one geographical context from a fixed list of 46 very general options. If several of them apply, all their boxes can be ticked. At the same time, detail is encouraged with free-form tags which would previously have cluttered up the category list, and which can now be put to good use in narrowing down searches. So, geographical context and tags together should do all that categories used to, but without their limitations. In the Askern example several context boxes could be ticked: Lake, Village, Open space, Leisure; possibly Mining. From these alone a picture forms in the mind. Tags would fill in details of the birds, the tree, and the vanished historical features. The more information that can be attached to a photo the greater its value to the archive.
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- How do I choose tags for my images?
- The idea is that you specify at least one 'top' (or 'geographical context') tag. These are about 40 broad classes describing the main aspect of the subject at the time the image was taken. You can add additional top tags if you like, depending on what surrounds your main subject. The top tags are in the tabs labelled 'topography' to 'communications' in the tagging box.
The short list of 'top' tags avoids the clutter of the old categories, but it doesn't give you the flexibility to highlight detail that you feel is important. For that purpose, free-form tags are also available as an option. You can pick the most salient words from your description (the system may even suggest some of them in the 'suggestions' tab), or any others that you would like your image to be found by if someone uses the word as a search term.
In addition you can use prefixed tags for collections of special interest: A railway enthusiast might create a prefix 'locomotive:' and use it to tag the different engines in their pictures. Or someone interested in churches could use a 'denomination:' tag to indicate which particular community uses the place of worship shown. You can also use existing prefixes, e.g. 'place:' or 'near:' to indicate which town someting is in or near to. Have a look at what prefixes and tags others have already created: http://www.geograph.org.uk/tags/ . However, there is no need to restrict yourself in any way to that list. Prefixes are best used wherever it is likely that there will be other examples of your subject (church, locomotive...) with a slightly different attribute (Methodist, Diesel...).
As far as tags are concerned, chaotic growth is encouraged - the top tags are meant to counterbalance that!
Finally, there's buckets (another of the tabs in the tagging box). This is a limited list of special tags that are meant to limit searches to pictures of certain types (rather than certain subjects). For example, the 'gone' bucket is meant for images of which you know for certain that the geographical subject is either no longer there or has changed beyond recognition. If it's just an old picture but the landscape or buildings are the same, then I'd not use the historic bucket. See if any of the other buckets apply to your picture. Examples for some bucket types are in this incomplete article: http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Image-Buckets .· More information on this topic... · contributed by Rudi Winter, Jun 2011 · Edit this answer (Open for editing by anyone) · Provide an alternative answer!
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) is one of nearly 200 herring species in the family Clupeidae. One of the most important and abundant fish in Gulf of Maine, the Atlantic herring has provided food and lobster bait for coastal communities and forms a critical link between plankton and the animals that prey on herring. Current research in the Gulf focuses on population dynamics.
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Sales tax hike in Park City won't impact holiday shoppers
November 16, 2012
People shopping in Park City during the holiday season will pay the same rate in sales taxes as they have before.
Park City voters on Election Day approved an increase in one part of the overall sales-tax rate. But it will not go into effect until the spring. The increase will be added to receipts starting on April 1, 2013, meaning that the extra money will not be collected during almost the entire ski season.
The voters agreed to increase what is known as resort communities sales and use tax. That portion of the sales tax is 1.1 percent. The ballot measure that was approved will increase the figure to 1.6 percent, an increase of .5 percentage points. Someone will pay another 50 cents in sales taxes on a $100 purchase, according to City Hall's calculations. The increase is permanent.
The ballot measure passed with 58.5 percent of the voters saying they were for the increase — a margin of 1,919 in favor and 1,364 against — the results released on Election Day showed. The Park City Council on Monday, convening as the Board of Canvassers, is scheduled to finalize the results.
The City Council on Nov. 29 is anticipated to adopt an ordinance with the new tax rate. The ordinance will then be sent to the Utah State Tax Commission for validation.
The overall base sales tax in Park City will climb from 7.45 percent to 7.95 percent. The sales tax charged in Park City varies depending on the sort of purchase someone makes.
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The margin of 16.9 percentage points between the 'For' voters and the 'Against' voters was perhaps slimmer than the supporters would have wanted. Although it passed easily, more than four out of every ten voters cast ballots against the measure. There was not organized opposition.
The resort communities sales and use tax is added to all purchases inside the Park City limits except purchases of unprepared foods, generally those sold in grocery stores. The tax is seen as something that impacts visitors more than people who live in the community on a full-time basis.
City Hall estimates it will collect $3.2 million between mid-2013 and mid-2014, the first municipal fiscal year it will be in place. Leaders plan to earmark the monies for a range of items, including improvements along Main Street and conservation purchases. The funds will also be used for upgrades to storm drains and street improvements in Old Town.
The work anticipated along Main Street was of note as Mayor Dana Williams and the Park City Council considered putting the measure on the ballot earlier in 2012. Main Street has been lobbying for improvements to the streetscape and the pedestrian experience, saying that work is needed to remain competitive with outlying shopping, dining and entertainment districts.
Main Street was the primary supporter of the ballot measure, drafting a statement in favor of the increase that was distributed to Parkites. Leaders on the street argued there would be wide-ranging benefits to the community. A Park Meadows man provided an opposition statement that was also distributed to people in Park City. He argued that the tax should not be increased in a difficult economy and sales taxes would be higher in Park City than in the Snyderville Basin, giving people a reason to shop outside the city limits.


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People Directory : Peter Tyack
Peter Tyack
Scientist Emeritus
Fax: +1 508 457 2041
WHOI Mailing Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
266 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1050
Other WHOI Addresses:
Lab: Marine Research Facility 232 (MS# 50)
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A.B. Harvard University, 1976, Biology
Ph.D. Rockefeller University, 1982,
Animal Behavior
Research Interests
Social behavior and acoustic communication in cetaceans; vocal learning and mimicry in the natural communication systems of cetaceans; individually distinctive signature signals, vocal learning, and mimicry in the bottlenose dolphin and the sperm whale; acoustic structure and social functions of the songs of baleen whales; responses of cetaceans to human noise; playback to cetaceans of their own and conspecific vocalizations; development of methods to identify which cetacean produces a sound within a social group of conspecifics.


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ANTIOCH — About 200 Deer Valley High School students will be tested for tuberculosis later this week after one of their classmates was diagnosed with the infection — the first case on a Contra Costa school campus in four years.
Contra Costa Health Services will be at the southeast Antioch school Thursday to test any student who shared a classroom or was in a club with the student with tuberculosis, Principal Kenneth Gardner wrote in a letter to parents last week.
The school is not recommending all students or staff get tested at this time, Gardner said. It is uncertain how many will be tested, but the parents of 209 students were sent consent forms, he said.
The Deer Valley student who contracted the disease is no longer infectious and was back in school Monday, county communicable disease Chief Erika Jenssen said.
The county found out on March 19 about the sick child, whose diagnosis was confirmed six days later, Jenssen said. After an investigation, it was determined on April 1 that parents should be alerted about the possible exposure. By then, however, Deer Valley was on spring break.
The student could have been infectious at school starting early January, according to county health officials. And, although the risk of progressing from TB infection to TB disease is only about 10 percent, it takes at least three months for that to happen, officials said, noting students will be offered tests again in May.
Tuberculosis is an airborne bacterial infection of the lungs spread through the air when a person with the illness coughs, sneezes, shouts or talks. Symptoms typically include a prolonged cough, unintentional weight loss of at least 10 pounds, fevers and night sweats.
The blood tests will be the first at a Contra Costa school campus since a student at Antioch High had tuberculosis in 2009, Jenssen said.
"It's not usual," she said.
The county also conducts tests at the workplaces and other environments where it is contracted, Jenssen said. "Every situation is somewhat different, but there is always an investigation," she said.
A recently released report found that there were 55 cases of tuberculosis in Contra Costa County last year, down dramatically from the 105 cases reported in 2001, but about the same as the past couple years.
Of those 55 cases, only three of those infected were between the ages of 15 and 24.
For more information about tuberculosis, go to http://cchealth.org or call 925-313-6740.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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Koubou Atara Wooden Block Toys
You might remember the wooden toy sculptures from the master craftsman at Koubou Atara (工房 Atara) that I posted a few months ago? Here is his latest line of figures from myth and religion. I really love the Jesus and the Iron maiden! There's also an Oden from norse mythology and a few figures that I imagine might be Krishna and Shiva.