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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Pink (or not)
However, I'm reserving judgement on whether my new acquisition in tools is pink or purple.
In the centre, said new acquisition - KnitPro interchangeable set with acrylic tips. They might be pink, they might be purple - even the manufacturer doesn't seem to be able to decide.... On the top, my smaller DPNs and some other thingummies, in a box which is described as purple on the sticker on the base. On the bottom, the fixed circs in a Happy Bag which is definitely purple in regal fashion. I wish I could link to this manufacturer - I've never managed to find them, or reference to them, online; this was a gift from a friend in Texas several years ago and while similar things exist online, the combined strength and practicality of this one is unbeatable; very heavy-duty nylon, big enough pockets for several needles the same size, really nice tabs for size info....
I should explain about this particular splurge - it's one of my annual treats when I renew my season ticket. This year, because of the terrible weather, I had a number of compensation vouchers for delays, which I cashed in when I bought the annual ticket - and the main ticket price is a loan from my employer, which I pay off monthly. Last year I bought gardening tools. This year I replaced my food processor and bought these needles and a remote shutter-activator-thingy for my camera; I really like the idea of buying something intensely useful with the money saved by the vouchers, which would reflect hours of enforced uselessness (if, of course, I hadn't had my knitting with me). And the weekend before last, I had the additional joy of going to Ely Wool Shop and picking up a set... I'm used to the glory which is I Knit but the idea of being able to take a trip up the road on a Saturday morning and pick up something like this locally, on a whim, used to be a distant dream....
Sunday, March 21, 2010
2010 books, #16-20
OK; the first sentence of the blurb on the back sort of summarises this: This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student and Henry, a librarian*, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.
[*I shall assume that Henry being a librarian is enough to guarantee his own beauty].
This was March's Kniterati book. I'd previously borrowed it from my boss but hadn't finished it by the time she went on her maternity leave; and at the time I wasn't convinced I would finish it. But, book club and all that. I went for the audiobook version which was a very good choice; you can tell instantly who's speaking and you can't get too hung up on the timescale. Helped by finding out that one of the Incredibly Significant dates in Henry and Clare's lives is also one in yours and for the same reason, but that gives a good grip.
As someone who is in general a bit of a snob about not reading books which have been massively popular or won big awards, I'm really glad the Kniterati chose this one because it's one which will really stick in my mind, and the discussion was very interesting. I loved this book in the main; but there were bits of it I also hated.
(Skip to the next review if you'd like to avoid spoilers).
The title tells you a lot about Clare's life; she's always going to be waiting for Henry, in the way that the wives of fishermen are always in limbo on the shore. It's incredibly poignant, and very manipulative, at the same time. It plays very nicely with the sort of human issues with time travel which are touched on in Doctor Who - the impermanence of relationships and the unfairness to the time-bound partner; the uncertainty of where you're going to end up next and who you'll be when you arrive there - but explores them in one particular relationship with serious consequences. It's pretty light on the science and the conventions of "what happens if you meet yourself while travelling", but that's not really what the book's about (and to my mind, it's not all about Clare, far from it). Definitely recommended; and if you're in my local library area and have a cassette player, 17hrs and 51mins of book for £2.20...
Tokyo year zero, by David Peace. London: Faber, 2007.
It took a long time for me to convince myself to continue reading this book (and Ros, I carried on with it!). Peace wrote the books which turned into The Red Riding Trilogy and The Damned United. His trademark repetitive style of hallucinatory despair prevails here too, but it's almost too much - this is Tokyo in 1946 where no-one has enough to eat, seemingly everyone has lice and the bodies of young women are appearing all over the city. This is an entirely visceral book; you're ingested out of a horrified fascination and then spewed out at the other end no wiser than you started, possibly less so. I think it'll leave an impact on me in terms of the sheer horror of scratching out a living in the defeated, Army-of-Occupation-ridden husk of Tokyo of that period; like The Killing Fields or Empire of the Sun, it's a book you feel you ought to read, even if it's a disgusting and occasionally degrading experience. I'm not sure I have the stomach for the second part of what is due to become another trilogy, though.
Killer tune, by Dreda Say Mitchell [audiobook]. Read by Ben Onwukwe. Rearsby, Leics.: WF Howes, 2010.
I would normally steer clear of books whose blurb says A fifteen-year-old boy firebombs a building as he listens to Vivaldi's Winter Concerto splicing behind a red hot R 'n' B track and a veteran is found dead in an alley. Rap sensation Lord Tribulation discovers his new found stardom threatened when he finds himself in the middle of both incidents... But it was an audiobook returned to the village library last time I was working there by someone whose judgment I respect, so I borrowed it. (Weirdly, after I'd got through 4 disks and was really enjoying it, Dreda Say Mitchell was an impressive and entertaining guest on Saturday Live talking about community involvement and educational projects... Strange coincidences)
I have a bit of a prejudice against thrillers written about music and musicians; somehow it never feels quite right even when the writer is good; and I have a bit of a prejudice against people who change their names to silly things when they become musicians; and this has all of that. Lord Tribulation, or LT, the son of King Stir-it-up; it ought to have been an instant fail. But this works; because the plot is compelling; because it's talking about history I know (1970s to the present); because you genuinely like LT from quite early on...
And also because the reader is wonderful. He can hold a conversation between four people with different accents and ethnic origins; he can do a voice which says "this is the character you heard just now but now he's trying to be down wid da kidz"; and the main narrative voice is wonderfully easty to listen to.
Liars all, by Jo Bannister. London: Allison and Busby, 2009.
A Brodie Farrell/Daniel Hood/Jack Deacon story, set in the seaside town of Dimmock, somewhere in East Sussex. This is a series which needs reading from the beginning, but the latest instalment is, as ever, utterly unputdownable. I read it all in a day, and as with a very good meal eaten too fast, am regretting this because it'll be another year or so before another comes long. The characters are compelling (although the relationships are slightly strange and twisted, and I find myself understanding Brodie less and less); the plot rattles along well enough but is frankly secondary; and you're left wondering what's next...
Fatal last words, by Quintin Jardine. London: Headline, 2009.
Another Bob Skinner mystery, and the best one for a while. Combines recent history, Scottish politics, police politics and the deaths of two thriller writers at literary festivals. Skinner comes over more sympathetically than he has in the past few books, when frankly he's been a bit of a hard old bastard.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
While I'd love to scan the whole article in - some of the other projects were stunning - I think the good people at The Knitter wouldn't be very happy if I did. If you're in a local knitting group and they approach you, or you feel like approaching them, they're really good to work with; there's a lot of communication, they seem to have styled all of our projects quite nicely and they were returned promptly (in my case, before a workshop I was teaching on a similar theme). They don't offer payment but you do get a copy of the magazine at the same time as subscribers receive it...
The reason I haven't posted for so long is that work stuff is moving at supersonic speed; we're about to move the thesauri I manage into another software package (one which was actually designed for the purpose) and so I've been frantically making changes before we have to send the import version over to the suppliers; because after that I'll be maintaining the same vocabularies in two separate and parallel packages for up to 18 months... there's been a bit of extra hours and a lot of brain-being-elsewhere.
However, it turns out the work I did on software testing and so on at the end of last year was enough to earn me a bonus; and if I didn't spend it, I'd just blow it on a frippery like the gas bill... so one of these will be on its way to me as soon as ParcelFarce gets its act together... I have a lot of fleece in this house. I believe there are 6, including the one in the shed; and carding is my least favourite activity in the whole spinning process (I tend to spike myself. A lot.) so I'm hoping to play with the machine next weekend and hope it motivates me to wash a lot of the raw stuff lurking in bags around the house.
I also like the style of a shop-owner who signs off as Your dealer in addictive substances - I like the way she thinks.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
A tale of two appliances...
Nearly a year went by, during which the broken food-processor sulked in its cupboard and its Owner vacillated over ordering a new bowl versus replacing it, and fretted occasionally on the lack of coleslaw. Eventually she decided on the replacement option, and proudly brought home her new food processor. "Oh, dear", the Owner said. "Now I have TWO sets of useless plastic thingies for juicing lemons, beating egg-whites and all sorts of things which I'd much rather do with low-tech tools. I will sort out the drawer of plastic appliance thingies forthwith". So she did, and threw away many peculiarly-shaped items for which she had no use.
Two and a half weeks later, the Owner decided to use her new (Christmas gift) ice-cream maker for only the second time, the weather not having been conducive to the consumption of ice-cream. She made the mixture; she got the bowl out of the freezer; she found the motor. She looked for the paddle. She looked, and looked and looked; and then located the manual and stared in horror at the drawing of the item she was looking for. It was a peculiarly shaped white plastic item; one she distinctly remembered throwing away...
I'm sure you were way ahead of me on that last bit. It does turn out that a) the refrigerated bowl will freeze lemon and passion-fruit sorbet successfully even without the paddle, if you stir the mix every few minutes for an hour or so; b) the machine is on sale again and was not a hugely expensive purchase to start with; c) having two bowls would work better for my somewhat erratic ice-cream-making pattern anyway. So I'll be on the lookout for another. I'm still kicking myself regularly in the meantime though! The ONE TIME I decide that hoarding just-in-case is unnecessary!
And I know of at least two readers of this blog who also know my aunt (who does not have a computer, and who gave me said machine for Christmas). Do not, I beg you, tell her, or I'll never hear the last of it...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
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Wibbo said
I rather enjoy entertainingly bad as read by Jeff Harding ;o)
Honestly, I rather enjoy anything as read by Jeff Harding...
Lixie said (and you need to follow this link to her blog - the woman has just learned to make her own leopard-patterned knickers...)
Have you tried the jill paton walsh/sayers collaborations? 'Thrones, dominations' isn't too bad - and ian carmichael reads it in the download from audible.co.uk. The second one, set during WW2, isn't as true to the original sayers feel but it's still worth a look. Can't rmeember the title right now though.
I couldn't remember the name of the thing, either; but I've just gone upstairs and found it's called A Presumption of Death. I think they're both very well done, and as well done as they possibly could be (and I love JPW's other detective novels with Imogen Quy, and she lives in the next village and all that); and I have both in hardback. But they can't ever quite be right just because it's not entirely Sayers....
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I fail to believe that you have to wait 'til half way through to discover that The Lost Throne is about a Lost Throne.
I gather it's been a bit of a best-seller. It had its own stand in the Trafalgar Square branch of aa Certain Bookshop Chain just after Christmas, anyway, which was why I looked for it on audiobook in the first place...
A couple of people wrote about Michael Wood. Agreed. Weirdly, I know Michael Wood's sister-in-law, and meet her regularly at Textiles in Focus; she's really nice. (And I sort of hope she doesn't read this.)
Thanks also (while I'm on) about the comments on the Ravelympics FOs, and also "well dones" on weight loss. I have been entirely crap about the latter over the last year but did very well to begin with; and am determined to have another boost on it before Knit Camp this year - there will be knitting-themed T-shirts on offer...
Monday, March 01, 2010
2010 books, #11-15
Busman's honeymoon, by Dorothy L. Sayers [audiobook]. Read by Ian Carmichael. Bath: Chivers Audio/BBC Audiobooks, [n.d.]
I love this book, and either read it, or get the audiobooks out of the library, every couple of years. The final of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane books, and probably my favourite even above Gaudy Night. Sayers described it as 'a love story with detective interludes', and the central mystery isn't particularly convincing; but the characterisation is such that I never really care... Additional poignancy was lent to this one by the death of Ian Carmichael last weekend; I heard the news just a couple of minutes after reaching the mid-point of the book... I preferred the gravitas Edward Petherbridge brought to Peter Wimsey in the TV adaptations, but Carmichael will always be the voice I associate with the books...
The stone monkey, by Jeffery Deaver [audiobook]. Read by Adam Sims. Rearsby, Leics.: W.F.Howes, 2003.
Another re-read; part of my readthrough of the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs series. Even knowing the twists and turns in the plot, this is gripping stuff - Deaver is brilliant at pulling the rug out from under you, repeatedly, without making you feel as if you're being played... Adam Sims is a very good reader, and I'll be looking to see what else he's narrated.
Over the edge, by Jonathan Kellerman. London: Headline, 2008 [originally published 1987].
An Alex Delaware book - and one I didn't really warm up to. The plot was somewhat one-track; none of the characters (including Delaware himself) were really all that sympathetic; and the dénouement is predictable a little too early for comfort. I've given Delaware four chances to impress me (and the only reason I've done that is because Wibbo prefers them to Faye Kellerman's Peter Dekker/Rina Lazarus books and we're usually in synch with likes and dislikes...); I suspect that might be it for a bit...
The lost throne, by Chris Kuzneski [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Bath: Chivers Audio/BBC Audiobooks, [n.d.]
Gosh, this was eye-bogglingly, astonishingly bad. Entertainingly bad, in fact, because Jeff Harding was reading it with the same sort of edge he gives to Dan Brown books, as if he's trying to convince himself, as well as you, that this is not a total waste of our mutual time ... But, as I've said before, Mr Harding could read the Yellow Pages to me and I'd listen, which is why 13 hours and 30 minutes of knitting/cleaning/tidying/ironing/etc. time has been spent listening to this tosh...
You do know what you're in for with a book when the first sentence of Chapter 1 reads "The monk felt the wind on his face as he plummeted to his death, a journey which started with a scream and ended with a thud." Yes folks, it's the whole creepy religious/conspiracy theory/bad writing trifecta. And of course there are experts in a particular field, supposedly talking to equally learned colleagues, who feel the need to say "As you probably know...." and then bang on at great length without the aforementioned colleague either interrupting, or hitting them over the head with something heavy...
I think the thing I particularly loved about it was that you get to the halfway point in a book called The lost throne to discover that A) it's all about... a lost thing; and B) the lost thing is.... wait for it..... a throne. Now, who'd 'a thunk it... Or OMGWTFBBQ, as the kids would have it.
In my defence, another reason I kept listening was that it has more than a tangential connection with Heinrich Schliemann and Troy, which always conjures up memories of Michael Wood's not-unattractive rear view wandering up hills in 1984 or so, which was the thing which reminded me that in my primary school days I'd got interested in Roman archaeology (due to a mad, inspirational teacher called Pat Cassidy who spent the school's entire excursions budget on taking us off to various sites on Hadrian's Wall, making us write songs about the latrines at Housesteads, the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh and so on, to the tune of The Blaydon Races) and made me sign up for a Gallo-Roman archaelogical dig in my gap year; which in turn made me realise I was good at classifying things and taxonomy; which eventually got me the job I have now. So thankyou, Mr Wood, for your fascinating facts and your nicely-fitting jeans.
I shan't, however, be going back to Chris Kuzneski's works again, unless Jeff Harding continues to do the audiobooks and I'm doing another major decorating job over a holiday weekend!
Moonshine, monster catfish and other Southern comforts : travels in the American South, by Burkhard Bilger. London: Arrow, 2002.
It would have been so easy to make this some sort of comic "let's-make-fun-of-the-rednecks" book. There are chapters on advanced marble-throwing, cockfighting, frog-rearing, coonhunting, catfish-noodling, moonshining, the eating of squirrel brains and other more haute cuisine offal...
But Bilger is genuinely interested in the people involved in the activities and their passions; he brings the same degree of friendly curiosity to his subjects as Stuart Maconie does to his investigations of Middle England (although without quite as much of Maconie's humour); he isn't intending to denigrate or belittle, even when the activity seems pretty appalling to an outsider. These are great documentary essays written with a journalistic flair - you can hear the people speaking.


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The two grand armies of the Dragon and the Tyger returned to the field Thursday for the Bridge battle. This year, the battle included three fights over five bridges, with each fight worth one War Point.
The Midrealm deployed its forces on the east side of the field. Æthelmearc, the Tuchux, South Oaken, and Constellation were sent to the left flanks; the Huskarls, Midlands, and Petamere went to the center; Ealdormere, the Great Dark Horde, Calontir ,and Outlands were sent to the right; while North Oaken and the western allies were held in reserve.
The East deployed from the west side of the field, sending the Southern army, Atlantia, and Black Talon to the right; Duchy von Drachenklaue and the Northern Army went to the center; and the Ulsterblichen and Northfield were sent to the north.
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The biggest push from the East came on the south bridge, as Black Talon and House Serpentius slowly ground down the Æthelmearc forces. When the cannon sounded after 30 minutes, the East's forces held the southern bridges, but the Midrealm held the other four bridges despite being pushed. The Dragon claimed the first fight.
Things in fights two and three were much more dynamic. The East switched Atlantia to the southern bridge, and the result was a breakout both times.
In fight two, Atlantia held its forces back for about 15 minutes before beginning a huge push against the Æthelmearcians. Bodies on the southern bridge were piled three- and four-deep when the holds were called. When the action resumed, HRM Sinclair of Atlantia led his forces through a breach and up the field. As soon as the breach took place, Eastern forces pushed on every bridge, sweeping the Dragon before them. In the end, House Darkmoon was the last Midrealm force left standing on the center bridge before getting squeezed from both sides.
Fight three included combat archery and siege weapons, which the Atlantians took full advantage of. The battle on the south bridge was an archer's delight as many gentles fell to well-placed shots.
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And now, my lords and ladies, it's time for the main event. There will be five battles this year, with standard last-man-standing rules for fights one, two, four and five. Combat archery and siege weapon are allowed in the last two fights. Fight three, meanwhile, will be a "regicide": affair: the side which is able to kill the king of the East or Midrealm will win.
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The highest recorded temperature in Tripoli is 119.0°F (48.3°C), which was recorded in August. The lowest recorded temperature in Tripoli is 32.0°F (0°C), which was recorded in January.
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The Dreamweaver CS3 Site Reporting feature enables you to find — and fix — site problems before you go live with your Web site. You can create a variety of reports and even customize them to identify problems with external links, redundant and empty tags, untitled documents, and missing Alt text. You can easily miss things — especially when you work on a tight deadline — and what you miss can cause real problems for your viewers.
Before Dreamweaver added this great new feature, finding these kinds of mistakes was a tedious and time-consuming task. Now you can run a report that identifies these errors for you and use Dreamweaver to correct mistakes across your entire site automatically.
Follow these steps to produce a Site Report of your entire Web site:
1. In the drop-down list at the top of the Files panel, select the site name. In the list that appears, select the site you want to work on.
2. Make sure all your open documents are saved by choosing File –> Save All.
3. Choose Site –> Reports.
The Reports dialog box appears.
4. In the Report On drop-down list, choose Entire Current Local Site.
You can also choose to check only a single page by opening the page in Dreamweaver and then choosing Current Document in the Report On drop-down list.
5. In the Select Reports section, select the reports you want.
The different types of reports and the information they give you are outlined in the list that follows these steps. You can select as many reports as you want.
The Workflow options in the Select Reports section are available only if you already enabled Check In/Out in the Remote Info section of the Site Definition dialog box and selected Maintain Design Notes in the Design Notes section of the Site Definition dialog box's Advanced tab.
6. Click the Run button to create the report(s).
If you haven't already done so, you may be prompted to save your file, define your site, or select a folder.
The Results panel displays a list of problems found on the site. You can sort the list by different categories (filename, line number, or description) by clicking the corresponding column headings.
7. Double-click any item in the Results panel to open the corresponding file in the Document window.
You can also right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac) any line of the report and choose More Info to find additional details about the specific error or condition.
8. Use the Property inspector or another Dreamweaver feature to correct the identified problem and then save the file.
Dreamweaver can create all sorts of reports. In the Select Reports section (see Step 5), you can choose any or all of the following reports:
- Checked Out By lists files checked out of the site and identifies the person who checked them out.
- Design Notes lists Design Notes used in the site.
- Recently Modified lists files that have been edited within a specified time period. You can set the time period for the report by selecting the Recently Modified check box and then clicking the Report Settings button at the bottom of the dialog box.
- Combinable Nested Font Tags lists all instances where you can combine nested tags.
- Accessibility lists possible accessibility issues in a wide variety of categories. To specify what this report checks, select the Accessibility check box and then click the Report Settings button at the bottom of the dialog box.
- Missing Alt Text lists all the image tags that do not include Alt text. Alt text is important to anyone who uses a special browser that reads Web pages.
- Redundant Nested Tags lists all places where you have redundant nested tags.
- Removable Empty Tags lists the empty tags on your site. Empty tags can occur when you delete an image, text section, or other element without deleting all the tags applied to the element.
- Untitled Documents lists filenames that don't have a title. The title tag, which specifies the text that appears at the very top of the browser window, is easy to forget because it doesn't appear in the body of the page.


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UNC-led program helps doctors, health-care centers adopt electronic health records
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Membrane molecule keeps nerve impulses hopping
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Health E NC projects to improve cancer prevention, outcomes
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Biomarker test shows promise for melanoma diagnosis
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UNC YOUR HEALTH radio program launches new show on 'Health and Healing'
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Roundworm unlocks pancreatic cancer pathway
Wed, Jan 19, 2011 — In a study published today in the Cell Press journal Developmental Cell, a team of researchers led by Channing Der, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill, took a step back to a simpler organism – a common roundworm – and made a discovery about how the Ras oncogene chooses a signaling pathway and how the consequences of that choice play out in cellular development – a key issue in cancer, which is characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.
Creating an 'Alzheimer's-friendly' home for your loved one
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Molecular battle in cancer cells offers clues for treatment
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New molecule could save brain cells from neurodegeneration, stroke
Tue, Jan 18, 2011 — This molecule, a tiny strand of nucleotides called microRNA-29 or miR-29, has already been shown to be in short supply in certain neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease. Thus, the discovery could herald a new treatment to prompt brain cells to survive in the wake of neurodegeneration or acute injury like stroke.
UNC surgeons pioneer new approach to aneurysms: Go through the nose
Thu, Jan 13, 2011 — Dr. Anand V. Germanwala and Dr. Adam M. Zanation have published a paper describing a surgery they performed that is believed to be the first reported clipping of a ruptured brain aneurysm through a patient's nose.
Sullivan among six faculty elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Wed, Jan 12, 2011 — Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, Ray M. Hayworth and Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and professor of genetics in the UNC School of Medicine, is among six UNC faculty members who have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
UNC researchers investigate estrogen replacement therapy to prevent depression and cardiovascular disease
Wed, Jan 12, 2011 — The study, which began in August 2010 and will be conducted entirely at UNC, seeks to enroll a total of 320 women ages 45 to 55 who are in the menopause transition. All will be randomized to receive treatment with estradiol (estrogen replacement) skin patches or placebo.
UNC researchers inch closer to unlocking potential of synthetic blood
Mon, Jan 10, 2011 — A team of scientists has created particles that closely mirror some of the key properties of red blood cells, potentially helping pave the way for the development of synthetic blood.
UNC study provides further insight into racial disparities in breast cancer
Mon, Jan 10, 2011 — The results show that basal-like breast cancer is equally aggressive in African American and white women, and that African American women had worse outcomes no matter what kind of breast cancer they developed.
Rifaximin provides significant relief of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms
Wed, Jan 5, 2011 — Two studies, conducted in part at the UNC School of Medicine, found that the benefits of treatment with rifaximin persisted for 10 weeks after patients stopped taking the broad-spectrum antibiotic.


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Error handling is an essential procedure in Visual Basic programming because it can help make the program error-free. An error-free program can run smoothly and efficiently, and the user does not have to face all sorts of problems such as program crash or system hang.
Errors often occur due to incorrect input from the user. For example, the user might make the mistake of attempting to ask the computer to divide a number by zero which will definitely cause system error. Another example is the user might enter a text (string) to a box that is designed to handle only numeric values such as the weight of a person, the computer will not be able to perform arithmetic calculation for text therefore will create an error. These errors are known as synchronous errors.
Therefore a good programmer should be more alert to the parts of program that could trigger errors and should write errors handling code to help the user in managing the errors. Writing errors handling code should be considered a good practice for Visual Basic programmers, so do try to finish a program fast by omitting the errors handling code. However, there should not be too many errors handling code in the program as it create problems for the programmer to maintain and troubleshoot the program later.
Writing the Errors Handling Code :
We shall now learn how to write errors handling code in Visual Basic. The syntax for errors handling is
On Error GoTo program_label
where program_label is the section of code that is designed by the programmer to handle the error committed by the user. Once an error is detected, the program will jump to the program_label section for error handling. It acts like a bookmark in VB
Intro : This code shows how to handle error 'Division By Zero'.
Private Sub CmdCalculate_Click() Dim firstNum, secondNum As Double firstNum = Txt_FirstNumber.Text secondNum = Txt_SecondNumber.Text On Error GoTo error_handler Lbl_Answer.Caption = firstNum / secondNum Exit Sub 'To prevent error handling even the inputs are valid error_handler: Lbl_Answer.Caption = "Error" Lbl_ErrorMsg.Visible = True Lbl_ErrorMsg.Caption = " You attempt to divide a number by zero!Try again!" End Sub
Explanation :
The line 'On Error GoTo error_handler' gets executed when there occurs an error in DIVISION.
When we input secondnum=0 then the line returns an error. then the 'error_handler' section of code is executed, simple.
NOTE : IT may be noticed that if there is no error , the error handling part of code is NOT executed due to use of EXIT SUB.
Was'nt that easy, handling errors?


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==Advanced Usage==
==Advanced Usage==
# See [http://intranet.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/c/c6/Excel_getting_file_count_from_ContentDM.docx Excel_getting_file_count_from_ContentDM.docx] on how to get a file count from a ContentDM export.
# See [http://intranet.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/c/c6/Excel_getting_file_count_from_ContentDM.docx Excel_getting_file_count_from_ContentDM.docx] on how to get a file count from a ContentDM export.
As of 2010, this is somewhat irrelevant given our shift to [http://acumen.lib.ua.edu Acumen], still this tutorial has some techniques that can be applied to other situations.
As of 2010, this is somewhat irrelevant given our shift to [http://acumen.lib.ua.edu Acumen], still this tutorial has some techniques that can be applied to other situations.
Revision as of 09:05, 12 March 2013
- 1 If You've Never Used Excel
- 2 Basic Tasks
- 3 Helpful Hints For When You're Working On Metadata
- 4 Advanced Usage
- 5 Other Notes
If You've Never Used Excel
Even if you've never used Excel, you'll find that it's pretty easy to figure out on your own, especially if you're already used to using Word. Don't be afraid to use trial-and-error. If you accidentally make a change you don't want, immediately hit the 'undo' button (the arrow just to the right of the floppy disk-looking 'save' button, up in the top left corner of the screen), and everything will revert you back to where it was before.
If you can't figure something out that way, Excel Help is your friend. Access it by clicking the little circle with the question mark up in the top right corner or the screen. Either put in search terms or simply browse the menus and sub-menus until you find the topic you want.
Google can also be your friend. Sometimes it's just as fast, if not faster, to do a Google search for how to do something.
Basic Tasks
- To see how to insert cells, rows, or columns: go to Excel Help and follow this path: Worksheet and Excel table basics: entering or editing data: insert or delete cells, rows, or columns.
- To see how to delete rows or columns: go to Excel Help and follow this path: Worksheet and Excel table basics: entering or editing data: insert or delete cells, rows, or columns.
- To delete cells: DON'T. Deleting cells will mean other cells have to shift into their place, and that can get tricky. Clear cell contents instead.
- To clear cell contents: highlight cells you want emptied (by the cell or in blocks of cells or in whole columns/rows by clicking on the column letter or row number at the edges of the sheet), right click, and choose 'clear contents.'
- To see how to format cells: go to Excel Help and follow this path: Worksheet and Excel table basics: formatting data. Click on applicable topics. Note: it's especially helpful to know the 'number' tab. Occasionally, inputting a number in a cell will result in Excel trying to process it as a date. (example: if you input 2-4, Excel will convert that to 4-Feb.) If this becomes a problem, change the formatting for that cell to the 'text' category. The corner of the cell will show a green triangle, but that's perfectly fine.
- To change column width: Make sure that column is selected, then hover the mouse near the edge of the column up in the column header (A, B, C, etc.) until it turns into a symbol that looks like a vertical line with arrows pointing out of each side, click and drag to resize.
- To do word wrap in a cell (so that the cell shows its entire contents): Make sure the cell or cells are selected, find the box in the top menu marked 'Alignment,' and select the last icon in the top row. (You can also do this through the 'format cells' menu, under the 'Alignment' tab.)
- To freeze the header row (so that it stays at the top even as you scroll down): If it's the first row (which it should be), you don't have to highlight it; just click on the 'view' tab at the top of the screen, select the 'freeze panes' dropdown menu, and select 'freeze top row.' If it's not the first row, highlight the row(s) you want to freeze, click on the 'view' tab at the top of the screen, select the 'freeze panes' dropdown menu, and select 'freeze panes'
Helpful Hints For When You're Working On Metadata
When importing tab delimited or other .txt files
- Open Excel first, then open the file. Do not open by right-clicking on the file itself.
- The Text Import Wizard is your friend. It has three screens:
- Step 1 of 3: You shouldn't need to to anything here. It defaults to 'Delimited.'
- Step 2 of 3: This allows you to set what the delimiter is. It defaults to 'Tab,' so if you have a space-delimited file (such as a script might spit out), you need to select 'Space.' The preview at the bottom of the screen shows you what the results will look like.
- Step 3 of 3: This lets you set the format for each column. Normally, you don't need to mess with this. Two times you might:
- You want to skip some columns. If so, select the column in the preview screen and then change the Column Data Format to 'Do not import column (skip)'.
- You want to change or set the format for a particular column. If so, select it in the preview screen and make the necessary changes in the Column Data Format.
- How do I keep my import from interpreting certain numbers as times?
- This is usually a problem with the Format column in the metadata.
- Example: 3 p. becomes 3:00 PM
- It's really only fixable during import, not afterward.
- During import, at step 3, select that column and choose 'Text' in the Column Data Format panel.
- This is usually a problem with the Format column in the metadata.
Dealing with repetitive words/phrases
When working on a collection, you might find certain words or phrases pop up a lot. Excel is sometimes smart enough to take care of that problem for you by filling in the rest of the cell if the first letters/words are similar to what it's seen before. (Watch that: sometimes it fills in things in a way you don't want it to!)
There are several ways of dealing with repetitive data so you don't have to type it over and over again.
- Copy the contents of a whole cell to another by copy/paste: copy that cell by clicking on 'copy' in the 'Clipboard' menu or using control + C, then paste that info into another cell by clicking 'paste' in the 'Clipboard' menu or using control + V; repeat as needed.
- Copy the contents of a whole cell to another by cell border dragging: when the cell to be copied is selected, click on the little black box on the bottom right corner of the border and drag that border until it encompasses the nearby cells you want it to (typically, down a column). Important note: For text, this will copy the cell contents as is. For numbers, it will increase them by increments. This change by increments is good if you're inputting consecutive numbers like filenames. But if you want the numbers to repeat as is, you need to have at least two consecutive cells with the same number, then highlight both of them before your drag the border.
- Invent your own system of placeholders: Proceed carefully!
- When typing a long phrase over and over, it's sometimes helpful to invent an abbreviation for it (typically an acronym; example: 'Woodward Iron Company' becomes 'WIC' or 'wic') which you will later change back into the long phrase with the find/replace tool. Make sure such an acronym is not already a word, so that you won't be replacing all those instances of that word with your phrase. One way to take care of that is to use all caps, then check the box for 'match case' when you get into the find/replace menu.
- Procedure for find/replace:
- From the 'Home' tab, look at the 'Find & Select' menu and click 'replace.'
- Input your abbreviation in 'Find what' and your longer phrase in 'Replace with.'
- Select the 'Find All' button and review the results to make sure you're find/replacing what you actually want to.
- Select the 'Replace All' button.
- Close the 'Find and Replace' screen.
- Note: You can also do this sort of find/replacing of placeholders visually. If, for instance, several cells in a column will be the same (example: a repeated measurement), you can fill them in with some placeholder word so that you could go back and find those cells later and use copy/paste and/or dragging the border to fill them with the correct data. This obviously only works on whole cells. I often use the word 'same,' to remind myself that the data should be the same as the previous cell.
Highlighting cells by formatting cell/text color
Sometimes, you'll find it helpful to highlight a cell, by changing either the text or background color so that it will stand out. You shouldn't leave cells like this in the longterm, unless you really need to draw attention to an error; but as you're working, highlighting cells can help you keep your place or remind you of something you need to go back and do. Just don't forget to reformat the cell to normal before you finish for the day. Start by highlighting the cell(s) you want to format, then do one of the following:
- While on the 'Home' tab, look at the 'styles' menu (or select its dropdown) and select one of Excel's preset cell formatting options (for example, the pink 'Bad' or the orange 'Input'). When you want to change it back, follow the same procedure, only select 'Normal.'
- While on the 'Home' tab, look at the 'font' menu. Click on the symbol with the paint can to change the fill color of the cell; change back by selecting 'No Fill.' Click on the symbol with the big A to change the font color; change back by selecting 'Automatic.'
- Right click selected cells and the 'font' menu will pop up. Follow procedures from # 2.
Adding a comment to a cell
Sometimes, it's helpful to add a comment to a cell in order to explain its contents, why it is the way it is or what needs to be done with it. Try to use these sparingly on the finished spreadsheet, and only of great necessity. Comments are better used as you're working, as a reminder to yourself about something. Just make sure you delete comments when you're done working if they're just reminders to yourself and not more formal notes to other students working on the collection, or for those who might be finalizing the spreadsheet.
You can add a comment to a cell by right-clicking it and selecting 'add comment.' It will pop up a box that you can type in and format as you would any other text (bold, underline, etc.). Click anywhere outside of the text box to save and add it to the cell. If you want to edit or delete the comment, right click the cell and select those commands from the menu.
Advanced Usage
Sharing a Spreadsheet
- Make sure you are the only one who has the spreadsheet open
- Go to the Review tab and choose Share Workbook
- Select the checkbox for 'Allow changes by more than one user at the same time'
- While still in that popup menu, check the Advanced tab to make sure Update Changes is set to 'When file is saved' and 'Save my changes and see others' changes'; and that Conflicting changes between users is set to 'Ask me'
Unsharing happens in the same manner, except you deselect the checkbox
Other Notes
- See Excel_getting_file_count_from_ContentDM.docx on how to get a file count from a ContentDM export.
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The behavior of hundreds of police officers in New York City demonstrates more powerfully than anything else the fact that law enforcement personnel — with some exceptions, I'm sure — really do believe that they should be above the law rather than subject to it. Try not to be appalled while you read this NYT article:
A three-year investigation into the police's habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution.
As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting "Down with the D.A." and "Ray Kelly, hypocrite."
As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed a cordon in the hallway and clapped as they picked their way to the elevators. Members of the news media were prevented by court officers from walking down the hallway where more than 100 off-duty police officers had gathered outside the courtroom.
The assembled police officers blocked cameras from filming their colleagues, in one instance grabbing lenses and shoving television camera operators backward.
The unsealed indictments contained more than 1,600 criminal counts, the bulk of them misdemeanors having to do with making tickets disappear as favors for friends, relatives and others with clout. But they also outlined more serious crimes, related both to ticket-fixing and drugs, grand larceny and unrelated corruption. Four of the officers were charged with helping a man get away with assault.
Jose R. Ramos, an officer in the 40th Precinct whose suspicious behavior spawned the protracted investigation, was accused of two dozen crimes, including attempted robbery, attempted grand larceny, transporting what he thought was heroin for drug dealers and revealing the identity of a confidential informant.
The case, troubling to many New Yorkers because of its implication that the police officers believed they deserved special treatment, is expected to have long tentacles. Scores of other officers accused of fixing tickets could face departmental charges. Some officers have already retired. Moreover, the indictments may jeopardize thousands of cases in which implicated officers are important witnesses and may be seen as untrustworthy by Bronx juries.
The outpouring of angry officers at the courthouse had faint echoes of a 1992 march on City Hall by off-duty officers to protest Mayor David N. Dinkins's call for more independent review of the police. And it raises unsettling questions about the current mind-set of the police force.
"It is hard to see an upside in the way the anger was expressed, especially in Bronx County, where you already have a hard row to hoe in terms of building rapport with the community," said Eugene J. O'Donnell, a professor of police studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "The Police Department is a very angry work force, and that is something that should concern people, because it translates into hostile interactions with people."
The behavior could be construed as violating department rules. Even when officers are off duty, the police patrol guide states, "Conduct which brings discredit to the department or conduct in violation of law is unacceptable and will result in appropriate disciplinary measures."
Who cares about bring discredit to the department. This is about justice and the rule of law, something those officers clearly do not understand. None of them should be police officers.
This case also shows how difficult political alliances can be. It is generally the left that cares about police misconduct while the right doesn't much care. But the police unions are a huge part of the problem here:
Prosecutors said the bulk of the vanished tickets were arranged by officials of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union. All the officers charged with fixing tickets are either current or past union delegates or trustees.
As the investigation unfurled, the union played down its significance and consistently referred to ticket-fixing as "professional courtesy" inscribed in the police culture.
Patrick J. Lynch, the union president, said in a news conference that the officers had been arrested on something "accepted at all ranks for decades."
And it's generally the right that hates public employees unions and the left that defends them. Yet here the union takes the conservative position rather than the liberal one. And they actually claim that corruption is okay because the police have always been corrupt.


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Sedges have edges and rushes are round;
Grasses are hollow straight up from the ground.
— botanical memory device
This curious little couplet speaks to the differences found among three similar plant groups: the sedges, the rushes, and the grasses. Their members can easily be confused, unless closely examined. This week's Mystery plant is a sedge.
Sedges are grass-like plants, belonging to the family called Cyperaceae. Their stems tend to be triangular in cross-section, although there are plenty of exceptional cases, in which the stems may be round. "Rushes" are members of the genus Juncus, whose stems are indeed round in cross-section, and usually solid. Grasses, of course, belong to the enormous family Poaceae, and their stems are indeed hollow, usually, except at the nodes. Back to the sedges, though.
Sedges, as a group, are made up of about 75 different genera, and there are probably between 4000 and 5000 different species. They are found nearly worldwide, in a variety of ecosystems. Economically important sedges include the Papyrus plant from which Egyptians made paper, and delicious water-chestnuts, which are the underground parts of an Asian species. There are also some pretty ones that are grown for ornament. Although the sedge family is a large and very diverse one, it is relatively unimportant in terms of modern human economy. On the other hand, there are plenty of sedges that behave as serious weeds, and so have developed a kind of negative importance. ("Nut-grass" is one of these.) In addition to having more-or-less triangular stems, all sedges are characterized by sheathing leaves whose bases completely wrap around the stem, and by tiny flowers, almost always separated into male and female blossoms, and in different places on the same plant. Sedge's fruits are hard, little achenes, each one containing a single seed.
Our Mystery sedge is a member of surely the largest genus in the family, with easily 2000 different species. (I'll go ahead and tell you that this genus is Carex.) Now, members of the genus Carex are characterized by having their female flowers wrapped up in a little green, bulging bag. The little bag is called a "perigynium," and this is a feature found in no other sedges. You can easily recognize the female, or pistillate spikes. They are the ones that look sort of spiky and bristly, and there are several of them on a single stem. The male, or staminate flowers, in this case, form a single, slender spike, which is found at the top of the flowering stem. This species of Carex forms dense clumps. It's a handsome species, occurring most often in damp, somewhat shady woods, and it is commonly found all over the eastern USA.
Botanists generally consider the genus Carex to be one of the toughest to deal with, in that there are so many species, distinguished by very "minor" details. For this reason, the various species, which to the casual observer all look practically the same, don't have a lot of special common names applied to them. Who would like to come up with one for our Mystery Plant?
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Clinton's book tour: What we learned
From endless coverage of "dead broke" to flagging sales of her new book, Hillary Clinton has had a rough couple of weeks.
But Clinton has nevertheless accomplished much of what she set out to do with the rollout of "Hard Choices," her memoir of her time as secretary of state. She flogged the book to big crowds, though her publisher still needs to sell several hundred thousand more copies to cover her multimillion-dollar advance. She showed she could endure the media meat grinder. She demonstrated that her record as secretary of state can withstand tough scrutiny.
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And Clinton put to rest any lingering doubts about her stamina, sitting through what her aides tallied at more than 25 hours of interviews and running nonstop for weeks — a gantlet that no other potential 2016 candidate can claim to have withstood.
At the same time, the book tour has highlighted both strengths and weaknesses for Clinton ahead of a potential 2016 campaign.
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton starts her book tour)
Here are POLITICO's takeaways from the first three weeks of the "Hard Choices" tour.
Coming back to earth is hard
There's been a conflation of different issues involving Clinton — her wealth, and the rarefied world she inhabits. They aren't the same thing. Plenty of rich people manage to relate to working-class voters. But the fact that Clinton's lifestyle has been hermetically sealed since she went to the State Department is something she'll have to contend with.
She spent four years flying on a government plane, traveling constantly. Since she left Foggy Bottom, her life has largely been a whirlwind of speeches that have included travel on private jets and the attendance of large security details.
The book tour has put her in front of thousands of people but can't be mistaken for a listening tour: Signings have not been forums for active, engaged dialogue with voters.
How Clinton explains her family's immense wealth (and it is immense) and how she takes to engaging with everyday people remain to be seen.
'Radical candor' versus the canned variety
When CNN hosted a town hall with Clinton last month, interviewer Christiane Amanpour asked her about marijuana. Clinton said she was "committing radical candor" in her answer, a reference to the newfound freedom she said she was enjoying. (Clinton said it should be available medicinally for people with "extreme conditions" and that she wants to "wait and see" the evidence in states legalizing it for recreational use before taking a position.)
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton's 50 influentials)
It's true that Clinton has been blunt on some topics. She acknowledged she has "evolved" on gay marriage, and stated in her book that she got it "wrong" in her vote on the Iraq War, a vote that helped cost her the 2008 presidential nomination.
But that declaration about "evolving" came only after a contentious interview with NPR host Terry Gross, whose program is a favorite of liberal voters who have genuine questions about how she arrived at her new position. And she has said relatively little about why she wouldn't say she was "wrong" in 2008 about Iraq. She wrote in the book that sometimes it's seen as a sign of weakness to admit a mistake in politics. But in Aspen, Colorado, this week, she described herself as reluctant to call it a "mistake" while there were still U.S. troops fighting in Iraq.
Both cases show Clinton is willing to pull back the curtain only so far. That guardedness can be tricky at a time when authenticity matters more than ever for politicians and faux authenticity isn't enough. The interviews gave her a chance to test her comfort zone, but she'll get pushed harder in the future.
Clinton has a very thin infrastructure …
For all the talk about how 2016 will have to be different from 2008 in terms of staffing and advisers, Clinton is still subsisting on a tiny infrastructure. The press team is small, and she has few paid advisers. She outsourced the work of managing surrogates during the book tour to longtime allies. But she has no polling operation to test what she's saying and no raft of campaign advisers instructing her answers.
Clinton is trying to delay being treated like a candidate as long as possible, and hiring people would only trigger new scrutiny. And the book tour was a large undertaking to go through with a relatively small team. That can only last for so long.
… but it's clear that Abedin is in charge
One recurring question reporters and donors have had is whether Huma Abedin, Clinton's longtime aide, has resumed her central spot in Clinton's orbit after the messiness surrounding her husband, Anthony Weiner, during the 2013 mayoral race.
( POLITICO Magazine PHOTOS: Joe & Hill)
The book tour provided a very clear answer: yes. Abedin is, unequivocally, running the vast majority of the Clinton operation that involves her personal staff.
She was in charge at every book signing event, keeping things moving at a Costco in Pentagon City, directing staffers at a signing in Clinton's hometown of Chappaqua, New York. Other Clinton aides on hand were deeply deferential to her. And she's coordinating Clinton's upcoming political appearances for Democrats in the midterms.
The 1990s live on …
Some of the younger voters who Clinton will need to appeal to weren't born when her husband was first elected president. They have no context for or memory of the searing battles of the 1990s Clinton White House.
But Hillary Clinton remembers very clearly, and she is still raw over the partisan wars that hindered her husband's legacy and left the couple with millions of dollars in legal debt.
Her comment about being "dead broke" came from a place of frustration over the legal bills and their cause. So does a lot of her lingering distaste for a national press corps, which savaged her husband during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Her anger in both cases, her allies argue, is justified. But voters who didn't live through that decade have no context with which to understand it. In the 1990s, it was breathtaking for Democrats that a sitting president had to establish a legal defense fund for himself, and there was instant sympathy evoked whenever the Clintons talked about being persecuted by political rivals. Both Clintons remain angry that their friends and donors ended up spending gobs of money, and Hillary Clinton hated the notion that they had millions of dollars' worth of debt.
The problem for Clinton is that, 20 years later, that prism may still exist strongly for her, but for the public it has faded from view.


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Reports Rapper Lil Wayne Near Death Spark Twitter Frenzy
(NEW YORK) -- Conflicting reports that rapper "Lil Wayne" was near death whipped the twittersphere into a frenzy Friday evening, and a tweet from the rapper's official account saying he was alive and well was retweeted 100,000 times in less than 45 minutes.
"I'm good everybody. Thx for the prayers and love," read the tweet from the rapper's official Twitter account.
Celebrity website TMZ had reported earlier in the evening that the rapper was on life support after being hospitalized following a series of seizures, and that doctors had pumped his stomach three times in an attempt to flush substances from his system.
"Wayne is doing well," Vickie Charles, senior publicity director for Wayne's record label, Cash Money Records, told ABC News Radio.
Friends of Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., also took to social media to counter reports the Grammy-winning rapper was at death's door.
Cash Money president Mack Maine tweeted, "Wayne is alive and well!"
A spokesperson for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center told ABC News that because of privacy laws the hospital could not confirm or deny that Carter was being treated there.
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Every legendary movement begins with one daring act of civil disobedience. As close as I can tell, the Fire Millen phenomenon began one crisp December day in 2005, when a fan was manhandled by stadium security for brandishing a "Fire Millen" sign during a home game with Minnesota. Had Lions officials not overreacted that day, the most dramatic grassroots effort to get a person fired in the history of the NFL may never have been born. But it did happen, and the beatdown of the "Fire Millen" guy served as the movement's Boston Massacre. It didn't take long for idea to gain traction, and before long "Fire Millen" was, seemingly, the official slogan of the state of Michigan. It turned up on banners, on Tee-shirts, and appeared at Pistons games and on college campuses. On Dec. 11, 2005, the crowd chanted "Fire Millen!" at a Lakers-Pistons game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A "Fire Millen" sign was shown in the background of a February 3, 2007 broadcast of ESPN College Gameday at the University of Kansas. A web site sprang up. There were marches and other organized protests. "Fire Millen" became the new millennium's "John 3:16." Millen, so successful as a player (four Super Bowl rings with three teams), wasn't much as a general manager. Just look at the draft picks. Mike Williams. Charles Rodgers. Kevin Jones. Boss Bailey. The entire 2003 class. But somehow, he kept his job, seemingly holding no less a spell over Lions management than Rasputin held over the Romanovs. I must admit that I feel a tinge of pride that my 49ers delivered the final, devastating blow: a 31-13 trouncing of the Lions at Candlestick Point. The fact that it was San Francisco offensive coordinator Mike Martz and quarterback J.T. O'Sullivan who administered the beating — the same two men whom the Lions had given up on the year before — was too much for even Clay Ford Sr. to bear, it appears. Lions fans stormed the Bastille, and Ford had not the energy to resist. He closed his eyes and waved his hand, and Millen was finally gone. Wow. Who would have thought that Lane Kiffin would have outlasted Matt Millen? Ironically, word out of Detroit as late as Tuesday had Millen's job totally secure. But a vote of no-confidence by Clay Ford Jr. seems to have been the deciding blow. But the questions is, now what? Details of the firing are yet to be forthcoming. Will Millen's replacement begin the team back on the path to greatness, or are the Lions doomed to wander 40 years in the wilderness? Lions fans have expended so much energy trying to rid themselves of Matt Millen, they may not have enough left to embrace what comes next. Ford Sr. Turns Deaf Era To Dissent Opinions, Even His Son's [Detroit Free Press]
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The agent for punter Danny Baugher told the National Football Post his client was joining the practice squad of the Raiders.
Baugher led the UFL with a 44.6 yards per punt average and a 36.7 net for the two-time league champion Las Vegas Locomotives. Las Vegas is coached by Jim Fassel, the father of Raiders special teams coordinator John Fassel.
Baugher has been in the camps of the Bengals, Patriots, Falcons and Broncos.
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Oakland Mall's security manager was arraigned Wednesday on charges of breaking-and-entering and larceny at his own workplace.
Jeffrey Douglas Maul, 36, of Troy, was charged with breaking and entering a building, a 10-year felony, in connection with a break-in at Bosco's Barber Shop. He was also charged with four counts of larceny in a building, all four-year felonies, in connection with thefts at four different stores in the mall.
Clement Waldmann, 52-4 District Court magistrate, set Maul's bond at $15,000.
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A mall security officer recognized the suspect as the mall's security manager, police said.
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Accretion discs show their true colours
Artist's impression showing the principle followed by the team to uncover the true colour of the quasars' disc. The red star-like object in the upper left panel is one of the quasars observed. The light is thought to originate from an accretion disc around a black hole with a strong contamination from messy dust clouds, as shown by the drawing on the upper-right panel. When the astronomers put a polarising filter in, these clouds are suppressed from view, giving us the true colour of the accretion disc, as shown in the two lower panels. Some of the quasars have a very small amount of scattered light coming from the vicinity of the black hole itself, rather than the clouds of gas and dust around it. This light has become polarised after hitting matter within the disc. By using a filter that only allows this polarised light to come through and blocks out the unpolarised light from the gas clouds, they were able to visually eliminate them and reveal the disc. Figure by M. Kishimoto, with cloud image by M. Schartmann.Credit:
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