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This is an old revision of IanHayhurst made by IanHayhurst on 2005-12-16 15:58:03.
Ian Hayhurst
A little more about me..
Photography Some of my stuff on Photo.net
contact info :[http://www.ianhayhurst.co.uk/]
I am an 'Informatics IT specialist' er that's a UNIX sysadmin for a large Agrochemical company, in the Research and Development IS department (as opposed to the IS department that services the business) We support the company scientific research community. More specifically, in my case Chemistry Informatics systems.
My Interest in Wikka
I have an internal (intranet) install of Wikka Wiki. This is quite suprising / unusual / subversive in an organisation that is unfortunatle strongly orientated towards applications that have a particular vendor bias (I'll leave that to your imagination.... you don't have to think too hard to guess which it might be)
The use of Wikka is an experiment In our organisation (and seemingly very succesful so far) that sprang from a meeting following a periodic re-organisation of the department that left us very much spread over UK, mainland Europe and the U.S. but with the requirement to work in a much more co-ordinated way. Intranets were used (in my opinion) in a awkward or unimaginative manner and percieved as a mechanism for location of information stored largely wordprocessor / spreadsheet documents. This was something along the lines of a slightly more colourful file share and quite static. Access to this required considerable inertia as the prefered method was via frontpage. Islands of information become stale and if you found what you were looking for it was rarely current.
What I'm trying to acomplish (With this page)
A sort of blog of the journey along the lines of:-
How the interest grew, Reactions, what worked, what didn't, features that help, ideas for what is required...
how to explain categories to people (harder than you think)
Upgrade Migration experiences (started with 18.104.22.168 now on 126.96.36.199 with lots of cutomisations
Started off withrunning our installation on an HP / Compaq Alpha
DS10 with Gentoo Linux, Gigabit ethernet...
(Nothing wrong with Tru64 infact it's a fine OS more later...)
I converted the box to Gentoo linux as an experiment to run some alternative architectures for
a server farm (we do a fair ammount with server farms for compute intensive chemo/bioinformatics)
actually so far I'm very happy with my little Gentoo/GNU Linux on Alpha... for a bigger system I miss the flexability that the Tru64 ADVFS filesystem brings
UPDATE August 2005 now running on a HP DL360 Dual p4 2.4Ghz, and 4 x 36 GB scsi RAID 0+1 with Gentoo linux, mmm nice
The second Wiki (development) is on an HP DL360 Dual p4 2.4Ghz, and 4 x 36 GB scsi RAID 0+1 running SLES8
16 December 2005
After a year of wikka wiki at work and it's been a raging sucess (and should continue to be) I think I'll try and use it to run my personal website which is designed to be a sort of note pad for me Wikka should be ideal for this, as a note pad should just be there when you need it Editing html can be tedious at the moment it means starting vi or textpad depending on the system I'm using getting a current version of the page via scp ofr ftp then editing, preview then upload, check... hardly spontaneous or handy. I'm not looking for a date driven blog more a non-linear set of thoughts. I'l probably do the conversion over christmas
- Mess with style sheet. Personal requirements and corporate ones are vastly different Luckily the TestSkin page here gives a valuable way to test this, I now have one I'm happy with IanHayhurst.css
- Thinking of using something along the lines of InvisibleWiki but with modifacations to header as well
- Create a 'sticker' to proudly display the wikkawiki engine having gone to all the trouble to supress the wiki look my attempt lives WikkaSticker
- Add redirects from various static pages to the wikka versions
- Setup a subdomain so it appears in the root something like wikka.ianhayhurst.co.uk/PageName rather than www.ianhayhurst.co.uk/Wikka/PageName oh and turn on the mod rewrite rule in the config
- 2 Dec 2005 Oooh goodie looks like some work has been done on this NewRSSAction with a patch for proxy
15 minutes later It works !! (had to apply the patch lines manualy as Magpierss download was 0.72 and the proxy patch is against 0.71
13 October 2005
- Added ChristianBarthelemy ActiveDirectory to my development copy, It works a treat just try and log out... once your machine name is in, you're logged on permenantly, and that is the problem if anyone else uses my machine then they are me, even when logged onto AD with their own profile. Just got the Vintela SSO module into apache which works with firefox but seems to have a problem with IE (negotiated Kerberos token is too big for the defaukt 8K header bufer !, odd since I expect that it's the same token firefox sends) recompiling apache with bigger recivve limits (an upgrade fron 2.0.25 to 2.0.54 required) just segfaults the httpd daemon when IE sends a token might try an open source SSO module, when it works with both browsers we'll have a go an altering the action to record the REMOTE_USER in the extra field in the wikka_users table... probably need some thought of fall through as I dont want to lock non-kerberos (or AD authenticated linux users out (namely me!)
17 September 2005
- People raving about 'wiki technology' every where (a good thing) a bug in glibc with linux threads on Alpha is leaving defunct processes all over the place, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100259 recompiling with NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) and 2.4 upgrade to 2.6 Kernel leaves me with a zombie free system but mysql daemon crashes and restarts everytime the wiki is accessed (the users see this as opposed to the zombies that they didn't) .... quickly build gentoo on a HP DL360 Dual p4 2.4Ghz, 2GB ram and 4 x 36 GB scsi RAID 0+1.. mmm nice ! and use the oportunity to compile in php against the oracle instant client.. gentoo emerge doesnt seem to want me to do this so by hand
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/lib/php --with-mysql=/usr \ --enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-cgi --with-zlib --with-gettext --with-oci8-instant-client=/lib/instantclient_10_2 \ --mandir=/usr/share/man --bindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php/bin\ --disable-debug --enable-inline-optimization --enable-magic-quotes --enable-sigchild --with-config-file-path=/etc/php/cli-php4 --disable-memory-limit
-- August 205
- It became apparent on an intranet that users would login but not bother to create a namespace (everyone knows who I am and what I do so why should I ?). We noticed that other wiki implementations create it by default. An alteration to wikka.php was made that created it for the user at registration and cloned a template page to that namespace, additions to wikka.config.php were made to enable / disable the action and define the template page to use. The code is very small but as I didn't write it I will seek permision to post it, (if there's any interest)
19 Apr 2005
- Uptake is Sporadic, new groups discovering our wiki all the time, internal publicity would help but I'd rather get interested groups using it regularly rather than 'advertise' get 100 new users in one day that never come back, softly, softly catchee wiki users
- Small bugette, It's popular for users pages to put up a left or right float box, with an image in it and alongside (in the float still) put bullett pointed notes. The Wakka wiki CSS however renders the points inside / over the image, so rather than messing with the CSS and introducing a difficult migration path for upgrades I'm inlining a bit of HTML to fix it
#renders bullett points over the image << {{image class="left" url="http://ssbob.rt.intra/uploads/KilburnHighRd/kilburn.gif"}} ===Area of Expertise=== - Oracle DBA & Systems Administration - Physical & Logical Database Design, - Technical Architecture, - Training <<
Here's the alternative with some inlined HTML
<< ""<img src="http://ssbob.rt.intra/uploads/KilburnHighRd/kilburn.gif" alt="mugshot" style="float: left; margin: 5px; padding: 10px;">"" ===Area of Expertise=== - Oracle DBA & Systems Administration - Physical & Logical Database Design, - Technical Architecture, - Training <<
15 Mar 2005
- Lots of php to pull stuff from oracle (mostly a bug track system) but the guys bring back the data and then use some nasty VB script to hide or show rows based on dropdown selects, shame as it only works in IE, The development has gone a little cold whilst others argue over the most appropriate place to put this stuff.
- RSS: the onyx-rss doesnt cope with proxies so I can pull in intranet feeds but nothing externaly, I did find a sockets based patch to fix this I think somewhere..but lost it again. I thought it was the proxy env var at first but it's probably the onyx-plugin.
RSS: This never worked on my Gentoo linux box..
reporting the error
error on line 130 of /var/www/localhost/htdocs/Wikka/3rdparty/plugins/onyx-rss/onyx-rss.php: The specified file could not be opened.
but was fine on A SLES9 box, with a clone of the the wikka site...
The problem obviously futhur afield than the Wikka install....I'm embarased to say how long that took to track down but finally it came down to the php.ini file the line that says
allow_url_fopen = On # this was set to Off in Gentoo linux install! so no working onyx-rss parser
Still having trouble.. probably a firewall thing
RSS is alive and well here though I guess I'll keep working on it
We have a second wiki now (also Wikka)... to avoid having to share out the webroot to windows via samba to allow my old group (Bioinformatics) to maintain their website now their number is reduced and I'm supporting Chemoinformatics I have set them up a wiki, Oohh goodie we can use interwiki links internally now ! The intention was to provide
an 'easy to edit' website but the users are interested in adding stufff so it should get interesting. Firstly they missed the share price applet. a preoccupation of folks in large corporate entities composed of other historical (and smaller entities) seems to be watching the stock of the previous parent companies of which their nest egg consists
Ok so php looks sufficiently like perl that I feel I can have a go....
Looks like I need to create an action to display the applet as quoted html wasn't enough
hint from the freemind.php which seems to do this
Obviously this shareprice.php is only useful to someone with the applet...
but now I can wrap applets up as pseudo actions to insert them in the wiki, easier method anyone?
$output = "<applet code=\"Basic_Colour_XML_Table.class\" codebase=\"http://chemistry.rt.intra/shareprice/\" h
eight=110 width=450 archive=\"xerces.jar,XMLParser.jar\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfont\" value=\"Verdana\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfontstyle\" value=\"PLAIN\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfontsize\" value=\"12\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletbgcolour\" value=\"eeeeee\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfgcolour\" value=\"000000\">\n".
"<param name=\"filename\" value=\"price.xml\">\n".
"<param name=\"shareList\" value=\"XYZ.L PQR.D\">\n".
"<param name=\"updatetime\" value=\"10\">\n".
" Sorry, your browser just won't let you see the current price - it doesn't run Java.\n".
print ($output);
$output = "<applet code=\"Basic_Colour_XML_Table.class\" codebase=\"http://chemistry.rt.intra/shareprice/\" h
eight=110 width=450 archive=\"xerces.jar,XMLParser.jar\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfont\" value=\"Verdana\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfontstyle\" value=\"PLAIN\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfontsize\" value=\"12\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletbgcolour\" value=\"eeeeee\">\n".
"<param name=\"appletfgcolour\" value=\"000000\">\n".
"<param name=\"filename\" value=\"price.xml\">\n".
"<param name=\"shareList\" value=\"XYZ.L PQR.D\">\n".
"<param name=\"updatetime\" value=\"10\">\n".
" Sorry, your browser just won't let you see the current price - it doesn't run Java.\n".
print ($output);
23 Feb 2005
- Developers trying to link in documents on file shares, (rather than read the reams I wrote about uploading them) so a bunch of links appearing that only work in IE in the form \\servername\folder\file.bla firefox doesn't understand them so leaves wikka.php to parse the link resulting in a request to create a page of with a heavily backslached gibberish name.
- Big interest in actions that pull from Oracle, (and lots of pressure) so I've recompiled my php against the Oracle instant client (10g) and had some sucess in getting usefull stuff back ...now that spells a move off the Alpha Linux box as I don't believe Oracle have a client for Alpha linux that I can compile php --with-oci8 against... and Darn it all Some Major project is using the wiki for awareness updates... (actually it's nice to get the exposure, but very hard to move machines now). At least I have a service alias in the DNS so I can move box, then where alias points and they'll never know (but the Intel box has 2 cpu's with 4 x the clockspeed halving the page creation time.... not an issue yet !)
18 Feb 2005
Noticed ChristianBarthelemy has posted something about AD Activedirectory intergration, ActiveDirectory
I'm looking forward to this as getting intranet users to sign on to yet another system is a bar to entry

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Here's fresh evidence that builders and buyers are staying in the housing market even in the face of higher mortgage interest rates: home-construction spending recently hit the fastest pace since 2008.
Private spending on residential construction reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $346 billion in November, the fastest pace since June 2008, and up 17% from a year earlier, according to U.S. Commerce Department data released Thursday.
"Fears that the rise in mortgage rates could dampen the housing recovery have been put aside," Anika Khan, senior economist with Wells Fargo Securities, wrote in a research note.
Despite increasing since May 2013, economists say mortgage rates are low enough, and affordability high enough, that more home buyers will emerge if jobs growth continues. And recent data signal that both businesses and workers feel that they may be better off in 2014.
Indeed, Thursday's data showed that construction spending on private nonresidential projects rose in November, with large annual gains for offices and commercial spaces.
"That would not be happening unless employment was expanding and consumption was accelerating," said Neil Dutta, head of U.S. economics at Renaissance Macro Research.
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Take the Lamborghini Aventador, remove the roof, add some hexagonal vents and windows, and you've got the 700-hp Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Roadster. If the Ferrari California is a "Shitbox soft top for softcocks" the new Aventador is precisely the opposite.
As with past Lamborghini roadsters, there's so little roof surface area compared to the massive plane of engine cover behind the cockpit they've substituted a removable carbon fiber two-piece roof instead of the de rigueur folding hard-top.
While attractive, the new Aventador is surprisingly refined for a Lamborghini product. In this sense, the Roadster distinguishes itself with more aggressive details. The cockpit features glass black paint, giving the vehicle a new two-tone aesthetic.
The louvered rear window vents have been replaced with two spines of hexagonal windows. Beneath, the 700-hp V12 is exhibited like a precious artifact in darkly-tinted glass.
All of this style does come at a price. We're told the Aventador now hits 62 mph in a tedious 3.0 seconds, compared to 2.9 seconds for the coupe. Oh the agony! The Long Island divorce attorney types who buy this will definitely be able to notice the tenth of a second on the way to the 217 MPH top speed.
Oh, and then there's the actual price: 300,000 Euros. That's about $381,000, but we often benefit from no VAT and end up with a price lower. Here's hoping you can score one with an MSRP closer to $350,000 you then option out and pay $400,000 for.


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The clock continues to wind down on the last day of open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act, so before we sign off, let's look at a few of the highlights from Monday.
Health and Human Services Department officials said that, as of 2 p.m. Eastern time, the main HealthCare.gov website had more than 1.6 million visits, and by 4 p.m. there were more than 840,000 calls to the center fielding questions and helping with applications. The call-center number beats the previous record of 646,000 from the last day of enrollment in Medicare Part D on May 15, 2006, HHS officials said.
The sheer number of visitors on Monday seems to indicate that HHS has a good shot at surpassing the 7 million mark when all the applications are processed, which could take several weeks. President Barack Obama, however, predicted Monday afternoon that the 7 million mark in fully enrolled consumers on public exchanges could be reached when the signup period formally closes at midnight.
That may be a tall order, considering the trouble that visitors to HealthCare.gov experienced throughout Monday. First, the site was shut down for six hours overnight in order to fix a software bug, and then the site got so clogged with traffic that visitors couldn't even go through the initial step of creating an account — necessary if consumers wanted to be counted among the insured.
The same problem persisted throughout the afternoon, however, forcing officials to say those who tried but couldn't get through would be able to sign an attestation and enlist later. The site allowed visitors to languish online if they wanted and then offered them the opportunity to create the account, if not to fully enroll.
As the final day of enrollment dawned, a report from the Los Angeles Times said that about 9.5 million previously uninsured people were able to get coverage since Obamacare enrollment began Oct. 1. About half of those were those now eligible for Medicaid, while the other half consisted of those signing up through public exchanges.
The Times cited information from Rand Corp. economist Katherine Carman, who says the research group had conducted surveys of people in September 2013 — before the ACA enrollment started — and earlier this month, interviewing the same 2,600 people nationwide both times.
Carman says that of those between the ages of 18 and 64 (those eligible for Obamacare), 20.8% of them were uninsured in September and 16.6% were uninsured in March. The 9.5 million is an extrapolation made by the Times, Carman says, but she adds that is probably close to the true number.
She says the survey had a larger number of respondents that were likely to enroll either in Obamacare or be eligible for Medicaid, so the results were weighted to reflect that.
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Feeling chipper about the economy? Think the future looks so bright, you gotta wear shades? Chances are, you're either stuck in a 1980s time warp or … you live in Washington, DC. Gallup published its polling on economic confidence by state, and the only "state" to have a positive rating is the one where all the cash is going. Instapundit refers to this as a "Hunger Games update," and it's difficult to dispute that characterization:
Although scores on Gallup's Economic Confidence Index improved in most U.S. states in 2013, the index remained negative in all 50. Only the District of Columbia had a positive index. Indexes were least negative in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and California. They were most negative in West Virginia, followed by Alaska. …
Most of the top 10 states in economic confidence in 2013 were the same as in 2012, but the rankings changed. Massachusetts (index score of -1) climbed five spots to top the list in 2013. California, Connecticut, Nebraska, and Wisconsin were new to the top 10, replacing Hawaii, South Dakota, and Virginia (because of ties, there were 12 states on the list in 2013, vs. 11 in 2012). Hawaii (-12 index score) and South Dakota (-21) were among the few states to experience decreases in their index scores last year. Hawaii's index, though still above the national average of -16, dropped three points and South Dakota's index dropped 10 points.
The District of Columbia (+19) is the clear outlier in economic confidence, having the only positive reading for 2013 and well above the readings for even the most optimistic states. Its confidence has taken a hit, however, since 2012, when its index was +29. Likely factors in the 10-point drop include October's federal government shutdown as well as the sequestration spending cuts that occurred earlier in the year.
Other states with indexes significantly above the national average were Minnesota (-2), California (-5), and Texas (-8), as well as Nebraska, Maryland, and Iowa (all at -9). Connecticut, North Dakota, Washington, and Wisconsin, at -10, also made the top 10.
Even that wan level of confidence appears misplaced, according to the Associated Press. After two bad jobs reports in a row and nearly five years of stagnation as recovery, Josh Boak wonders if this is as good as it gets:
In the 4½ years since the Great Recession ended, millions of Americans who have gone without jobs or raises have found themselves wondering something about the economic recovery:
Is this as good as it gets?
It increasingly looks that way.
Two straight weak job reports have raised doubts about economists' predictions of breakout growth in 2014. The global economy is showing signs of slowing — again. Manufacturing has slumped. Fewer people are signing contracts to buy homes. Global stock markets have sunk as anxiety has gripped developing nations.
Some long-term trends are equally dispiriting.
Boak notes that last week's CBO report predicts growth remaining in the 2% range over the next ten years, declining from the current annual level of 2.7% to 2.4% in 2024. That might have some relation to the production disincentives of ObamaCare, which the White House and its allies continue to spin as positive news about the elimination of "job lock." Its actual impact will be a trillion dollars less in the economy over that same period, as Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee declared:
As the chart shows, the lost compensation increases every year from an estimated $108 billion in 2017 to an estimated $147 billion 2024. The analysis is based on numbers provided in a recent Congressional Budget Office report on Obamacare.
"The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that Obamacare will "cause a reduction of roughly 1 percent in aggregate labor compensation [wages, salaries, and fringe benefits] over the 2017-2024 period, compared with what would have been otherwise" (see page 117 of appendix C of CBO's February 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook). CBO also suggests that the largest effect will occur among lower-wage workers who were the target of the law's subsidized coverage expansion," says a statement from the Republican-side of the Senate Budget Committee, explaining their methodology.
"CBO's February 2014 baseline contains projections for total worker compensation under current law; i.e., with the President's health law in place. Senate Budget Committee Republican staff took these nominal dollar estimates and adjusted them to account for the 1 percent reduction that CBO attributes to the health care law, in order to determine what total compensation would have been if the law had not been enacted. The difference between the status quo and the status quo ante amounts to $1.016 trillion in reduced compensation over the 2017–2024 period."
As long as we keep passing policies that disincentivize work and investment, this will be as good as it gets — and it might not even be that good, as Steve Eggleston argued at DaTechGuy:
The news is worse on the actual number of people employed. That only increased by an unseasoned 3,090,000 between January 2009 and January 2014, and is over 1 million below what it was in January 2008. As a percentage of population, the unseasoned employment-population ratio dropped from 59.8% in January 2009 to 58.1% in January 2014. That is, other than the other 4 Januarys of the Obama Presidency, the worst January since 1984 (57.7%). On a sesonally-adjusted basis, the 58.8% employment-population ratio in January 2014 is worse than every month between January 1984 (58.8%) and September 2009 (58.7%).
Of course, you and your party see that as a good thing considering your response to the Congressional Budget Office report finding that over 2 million full-time equivalent positions won't exist in 2024 because of PlaceboCare.
The younger generations took the past 5 years directly in the shorts. The number of employed among the "prime workforce", those between the ages of 25 and 54, decreased by 1,409,000 on an unseasoned basis over those 5 years to 94,512,000. That is, other than the prior four Januarys, the lowest January employment number since 1998 (94,196,000). As a percentage of the population, the 75.94% employment-population ratio among 25-54 year olds is a drop of 0.51 percentage points from January 2009′s 76.45%, and is, other than the 4 Januarys in between, the lowest January since 1985 (75.7%). On a seasonally-adjusted basis, the 76.5% employment-population ratio among 25-54 year olds is the lowest between June 1985 (76.4%) and March 2009 (76.2%).
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The sleepy town of Foxton was once home to a thriving flax-milling industry. Native flax was a vital source of durable fibre for Māori, who made it into baskets, fishing nets and clothing. An export trade began from the 1820s, and a major industry developed, with large mills around Foxton.
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Flax and flax working
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Trouble Concentrating & Studying After Cancer
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I just started my freshman year in college. I was treated for leukemia 2 years ago. I am having trouble studying and concentrating. I wonder if this is because of all my treatments. Do you have any suggestions of how I could find out more about this and get help?
Rodney N. Warner, JD, Staff Attorney at The Legal Clinic for the Disabled, responds:
Talk to your doctor. You may undergo neuro-psych exam to see what deficits, if any, you have. If so, this should be documented. I assume your college has at least one person whose job it is to help disabled students with their classes and studies. That person may be a good place to start.
Rebecca Nellis, Director of Programs at Cancer and Careers, responds:
This could definitely still be related, there are some statistics about the long term effects of treatment on concentration and memory but I don't know them offhand, what I can say is we hear about that issue all the time for people post-treatment in the work world. It isn't exactly the same with school but for a place to start, we have an article on chemo brain, and also there is this book.
Christine Hill-Kayser, MD, Radiation Oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Trouble thinking and concentrating after cancer treatment is unfortunately very common, and can be due to many factors. Many survivors report "chemobrain" during and after chemotherapy. This generally refers to a feeling of mental fogginess that may or may not get better. Many survivors report that using tools to stay organized, such as planners, calendars, alarm reminders, and to do lists may relieve stress and allow focus on academic and other activities. Some patients requiring treatment for leukemia may require radiation to the brain. Brain, or cranial, radiation has been demonstrated to cause short-term memory problems for some patients. This may get better with time. Again, tools such as lists and remnders may be of assistance.
Finally, consideration of depression, fatigue, and anxiety are very important when thinking about trouble concentrating after treatment. Fatigue from cancer treatment may persist for 12-18 months after completion of treatment. Although it generally improves with time, this process can be very slow. If you feel excessively fatigued, you may want to discuss this with your physician - another cause for your fatigue may be identified, and need to be treated. Even if no other explanation is identified, effective medications exist for fatigue. Excessive fatigue can greatly impact your concentration. Anxiety and depression may also be important contributors - anxiety and/or depression may be manifested as difficulty concentrating, and can be treated with medications and/or therapy. Even if you do not feel sad or anxious, seeing a mental health professional may help you understand your difficulties concentrating and thinking.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series, Issues Facing Young Adults After Cancer. View the entire transcript.
Some other helpful articles from OncoLink:
Living with Chemo-Brain
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Sept. 17, 2009
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's football team will play on the road for the first time this season when they visit Fitchburg State in a New England Football Conference crossover game Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m. at the Falcons' Elliot Field.
The teams have a single victory between them, with the Corsairs at 0-2 and coming off a 42-6 loss to Bridgewater State last Saturday, FSC is 1-1 and defeated Anna Maria last weekend, 48-12 after dropping their opener to Springfield by a 55-7 score.
"Fitchburg opened against Springfield, which is arguably the best Division III team in New England, and then came back against Anna Maria, which was playing their second game ever," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Mark Robichaud. "Like us, they are strong offensively and young defensively, but they are very aggressive and very well-coached on both sides of the ball."
The Corsairs were 3-2 away from home last season, and Robichaud is hoping his team can replicate the success they had on the road last year. "Our first experience here at home wasn't good, and with a lot of young players, it's important that we get some wins," said Robichaud. "Maybe a change of scenery and a change of routine will be good for us."
UMD hopes to get off to a good start. "We need to get the ball in the hands of our best players, and we're working on things with that in mind," said Robichaud. "We have played better in the second half than we've played in the first half in each of our games. We've gotten ourselves into a deep hole the first two weeks, and it's hard to climb out with a young team."
The Falcons have some weapons on offense. "Steve Austin is a good, hard runner and a tough kid," said Robichaud. "He did a nice job against Anna Maria. Their quarterback, Jordan Cannava, has a very good arm, and seems to make excellent decisions, and their offensive line is very good. They are capable of scoring a lot of points."
The Corsairs hope to limit their mistakes. "We need to avoid turnovers and big plays, and take advantage of the opportunities that they give us," said Robichaud. "In two games, we've scored one touchdown and kicked two field goals, and we need to get more production out of our offense. Our offensive coordinator, Tim McCarthy, is working hard on finishing drives, and we need better production in the red zone this week."
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'Dino-Light' brings creatures to life at Playhouse
For a group of dancers, the story of "Dino-Light" came into being with every new character they created.
"We built the dinosaur first," said Eleanor Carney, who along with her husband, Ian, and fellow dancers Corbin Popp and his wife, Whitney, founded CORBiAN Visual Arts and Dance.
Such was the birth of Darwin, which was quickly followed by Professor Henslow and about eight other creatures that make up the characters in the show "Dino-Light."
The medium was electroluminescent wire, or EL wire, which could be bent into any shape, provide an unbroken line of light (in multiple colors) and be powered by battery.
"The next step was what do these creatures have to say," Eleanor Carney said. "Most of our stories are driven by the characters we create."
The show, which also is produced by the Carneys' Lightwire Theater, arrives in Westport on Sunday, Jan. 19, for two performances at the Westport Country Playhouse.
The story centers on Professor Henslow, a magic scientist, who succeeds in creating Darwin, and gives him an important element -- a heart. As Darwin explores the world, he meets fish, birds and other creatures who help him on his journey. Not every creature is considerate, however, and he finds himself having to deal with an ill-tempered Tyrannosaurus.
The show also is about encountering new places and experiences and dealing with change, Carneysaid. Ultimately, though, it is about the meaning of love and the sacrifices one makes to experience it.
The show is told through puppetry, technology, music and dance. Amid a darkened stage, these creatures of light tell their story propelled by the dancers who inhabit them. There is very little narration, with the music and motion doing most of the work to move the story along. As such, the audience is encouraged to make their own interpretation of the story's message, meaning it is a production that can work for multiple ages.
"It really boils down to the essence of your movement," Carney said of the dancers who perform.
Such technique is not unlike classic ballet, she said, but it is a far more physical experience, since the dancers don custom-built costumes that feature plates, coiled wire, energy packs and pads.
In 2012, a national and international television audience had a chance to see what the theater company was capable of when it competed on NBC's "America's Got Talent." It made it to the final eight, but was eliminated before the finals.
"Those moments on national television were priceless," Carney said.
Until then, local audiences can look forward to seeing the adventures of a curious dinosaur and an industrious scientist. And don't worry if you think you may be a bit too old for the show.
"There is something for everyone," Carney said.
More Information'Dino-Light'
Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport. Sunday, Jan. 19, 1, 4 p.m. $20. Pre-show activities begin one hour before each performance. 203-227-4177, 888-927-7529, www.westportplayhouse.org.


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Europe's biggest indoor gold market finally open to visitors.
Last Sunday 22 March was celebrated the inauguration of a truly one-of-a-kind building in the Bazaar Beverwijk, The Netherlands. The building in question is a gold market designed by the firm of Liong Lie Architects collaborating with Leaders against routine, a Gold souk.
Europe finally has a big indoor gold market, equaling other continent's gold markets such as the well-known souk of Dubai, the City of Gold. In this new building there is place for 29 jewelry shops for gold dealers and goldsmiths.
But, what is so special about this building? With 1430 m² and 35 meter long facade this cave-like building has a gold bar shape. The exterior has golden triangular patterns that shines day and night, and leaves no doubt on what the visitor can find in the inside. In contrast to the shiny facade, the interior is simple with black floors, ceiling and walls, and a well thought lighting that draws the attention of the visitors to the displayed golden masterpieces.
The building is already crowded with visitors and curious, as well as gold buyers from all Europe. In summary, it is an innovative and refined building from the standpoints of both design and gold market. Obviously, it has also been designed bearing in mind its safety and protection, in case any burglar fan of this precious metal chooses to give a big blow.
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Chewy Pretzel Bites
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Source: Mel's Kitchen
Categories: Bread
- Dough:
- 2 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 cup (8 ounces) very warm water
- Topping:
- 1/2 cup (4 ounces) warm water
- 2 tablespoons baking soda
- Coarse salt (optional)
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
In a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer, place the flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Mix to just combine. Add the water and mix well, adding more flour, as needed, a bit at a time to form a soft, smooth dough that clears the sides and bottom of the bowl. Knead the dough, by hand or machine, for about 5 minutes, until it is soft, smooth and quite slack. The goal is to get a really soft dough that isn't overly sticky. Lightly flour the dough and place it in a plastic bag; close the bag, leaving room for the dough to expand, and let it rest for 30 minutes or up to 60 minutes.
Preheat your oven to 500°F. Don't be afraid of the high heat! This is what will help those pretzels to brown up perfectly and stay soft on the inside. Prepare two baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper or lightly greasing them.
Transfer the dough to a lightly greased work surface, and divide it into about four strips of equal length. Allow the pieces to rest, uncovered, for 5 minutes. While the dough is resting, combine the 1/2 cup warm water and the baking soda in a liquid measuring cup (deep enough to dip the pretzel bites into). Make sure the baking soda is thoroughly dissolved. Sometimes I have a hard time getting the baking soda completely dissolved, so I just lightly stir up the mixture right before adding each pretzel.
Cut each strip of dough into about 6-8 pieces, about 1 to 1 ½ inches in width. You don't have to be completely exact, just eyeball it. Dip each pretzel bite in the baking soda solution (this will give the pretzels a nice, golden-brown color), and place them on the baking sheets. Sprinkle them lightly with coarse, kosher, or pretzel salt. Allow them to rest, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
Bake the pretzels for 7-8 minutes or until they're golden brown. Bake one sheet at a time – it won't hurt the other pretzels to chill out for a little longer.
Remove the pretzels from the oven, and brush them thoroughly with the melted butter. Keep brushing the butter on until you've used it all up; it may seem like a lot, but that's what gives these pretzels their ethereal taste. Eat the pretzels warm, or reheat them in an oven or microwave on low heat.


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One night my firefox just started showing "Server not found" for all websites (i.e. "Firefox can't find the server at www.mozilla.com."). I noticed that it can find websites if make an entry in the /etc/hosts-file.
I have already started firefox in safe mode, the problem persisted.
I removed my ~/.mozilla folder entirely, didn't help either.
At this point I noticed that thunderbird was having the same problem and assumed it must be a shared library. I'm running gentoo linux, where the packages are distributes as source code, if available, so I started rebuilding each and every package on my system ("emerge -av --emptytree world"), still the same error.
I then tried installing the source-package of firefox (I was using the binary package "firefox-bin"), but that still didn't help.
Does anyone have an idea what I might do next?
EDIT (Thx, Gilles)
Installed Konqueror and verified that it doesn't have this issue (running fluxbox.)
I have manually set the proxy settings of firefox to "No Proxy", no change.
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A Week of Field Trips
[Guest Blog Post by Intern Sanitra Lawrence]
On Sunday, June 1, I had the opportunity to canoe down the Cahaba River with friends from Birmingham Botanical Gardens to the largest population of the Cahaba lily (Hymenocallis coronaria) on earth. The Cahaba lily is an aquatic, white flowering perennial found growing nestled in between shoals in the Cahaba River. The Cahaba lilies are very specialized in their habitat and the type of rock they grow in, which makes them so rare. The rocks are pliable enough to allow the roots to penetrate through them for easy establishment. Dr. Randy Haddock, field director of the Cahaba River Society, demonstrated how to extract nectar from the Cahaba lily using a small, plastic capillary tube. He instructed us to place the tube deep into the corolla of the flower. Once the tube was inserted, we gently placed the bloom upside down and pressed the nectar into capillary tube. The nectar was somewhat sweet, followed by a strange aftertaste. Everyone except me seemed to enjoy the taste because I expected a honeysuckle-like taste. Randy also showed us different organisms found in the river, such as crayfish and common aquatic insect larvae. This was my first canoe trip; traveling downstream was a lot easier than traveling upstream, but I will look forward to experiencing canoeing again.
The following Monday, June 2, Mitchell Vaughan, Alex Dumont and I were given a great tour of The Archives and Rare Book Room at The Library at The Gardens by Archivist Jason Kirby and Director of Library Services Hope Long. It was interesting to see actual historical and botanical documentation dating back to the sixteenth century. Included in the collection were also rare maps, gardens plans and antique seed catalogs. Jason and Hope were very knowledgeable of the library and offered help if we needed guidance on future projects.
On Tuesday, June 3, I went to visit Southern Organics in Columbiana, Alabama, which company specializes in aquaponics, the process of recycling fish waste for fertilizing vegetables. It was great to witness them experimenting with aquaponics in the early stages of their business. The warehouse consisted of tanks where they produced tilapia. The staff explained how they converted fish waste into useful sources of nitrogen for the plants. Next to the tanks were experimental stations, where different vegetables were tested before being grown in the production greenhouse. Above the stations were artificial light sources for the plants to use in photosynthesis. The plants were transplanted into Styrofoam blocks, where the roots grew though holes into a liquid base medium. For biological control of insect pests, beneficial ladybugs were used. Southern Organics not only produces fish, but also vegetables. Their plan is to expand in supplying organic vegetables to stores.
Our last field trip for the week consisted of going to Hale County, Alabama on June 4 where we traveled through the woods to view a rare fern population. Kaul Wildflower Garden Curator John Manion returned a fern back to its habitat where he had been growing it on a petri dish in the micro-propagation lab at The Gardens. It was also the first time that he brought a rare fern back to its native habitat in hopes of increasing the population. Preserving the ferns and their habitat is vital to their survival.
On Thursday, June 5, I enjoyed working with Amanda Clark in the vegetable garden. I never had much hands-on experience with vegetable gardening at Mississippi State, but Amanda is very knowledgeable about cultural practices. She showed me how to prune, sucker and train tomato plants on a trellis system properly. In addition, she explained the importance of composting and how one should turn the pile every other day in order to speed up the process of decomposition.
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An all-too familiar defensive letdown led to an all-too familiar end of the season, as the Columbus Crew fell 1-0 at Colorado in a wild card knockout match in Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Thursday night.
The Crew have not advanced past the first round in the playoffs since winning the MLS Cup in 2008.
"Nobody wants to lose, but we have to go forward and learn from this for next year," said midfielder Tony Tchani, who made his Crew debut after missing three-and-a-half months because of a knee injury and surgery on Aug. 26.
"We had control of the game, we had the ball, we had the chances and we came close to scoring," forward Andrés Mendoza said through a translator. "The other team only took advantage of one mistake and scored. We were superior. They came out just to run, and we came out to play soccer.
"They were dangerous and they have fast players, but that's all they have."
Tchani started for Emmanuel Ekpo, who received a red card in the regular season finale last week at Chicago, and head coach Robert Warzycha made another gamble when Danny O'Rourke – who also has battled through left knee problems and missed the Fire match – was scheduled to replace Kevin Burns in the first XI.
However, O'Rourke pulled himself out of the lineup just prior to the game and rookie Rich Balchan made the start.
"[O'Rourke] tried to go, but obviously after warmups he decided that it's better that he didn't play," Warzycha said. "We had to make adjustments and Rich Balchan had to step in and he did a very good job."
Also, midfielder Robbie Rogers got the nod over forward Emilio Rentería as the Crew went to a more conservative 4-5-1.
"We pressed for the goal, but to be honest, we didn't create a lot of chances," Warzycha said. "Colorado is a good team and they barely give you anything."
The Crew managed only three shots, but one nearly countered the Rapids' 45th-minute goal from Omar Cummings when Mendoza smacked the crossbar from 25 yards.
"It was unfortunate that we hit the crossbar with Mendoza's shot," Warzycha said. "You look at the game we played against them two months ago [a 2-0 loss], Brian Mullan takes the shot from the same spot and scores. That's the game."
The Crew were blanked for the eighth time on the road this year as an increasingly younger team had good stretches – they led the Eastern Conference for two months beginning in late July – but will be haunted by a dismal finish that cost them a chance at a bye into the Eastern Conference semifinals.
"It's always better to play at home, there's no question about it," Warzycha said. "[The Rapids] didn't have to travel. They stayed at home and it's always tough to play here in Colorado, especially with the altitude. We knew that at the end of the game, we would have some tired legs, but I don't think that happened."
The Crew won only two of their final 10 matches, and the winning goal was a typical late-season breakdown that allowed the Rapids easy access into the final third.
From there, Mullan led Kosuke Kimura, who then spotted an unmarked Cummings for the winner just before halftime.
"It was one mistake again," defender Julius James said. "It was very unfortunate. It was a really bad time to give up a goal. That's not acceptable. We tried really hard, but it wasn't enough."


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Here's some test footage from 1922 of Kodak's full-color Kodachrome film featuring actresses doing their thing. It's mesmerizing, and the music isn't helping to not lull everyone into a trance.
Joan Neuberger at Salon writes that, "[t]heir open expressions of feeling and the particular way they move their hands and tilt their heads, even more than the fashions of their clothes and makeup, immediately mark them as women of the interwar period."
Interesting, I thought it was just bad acting. Or, more correctly, the acute self-awareness that's caused by a camera, particularly when you're not used to it. However, for me, their clothes and makeup are what really places them. Also, their bodies — in particular, their smaller chests — are something you don't see often on many actresses today.
Either way, it's fantastic stuff. Let's all buy cloche hats and a fuckton of rouge.


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Environmental Tobacco Smoke (IV-C)
The Pro-Children Act of 2001 prohibits smoking in buildings used to provide children under 18 with regular or routine health care, day care, education, or library services. This requirement protects the health of children from the potentially deadly effects of breathing tobacco smoke. Each year, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer and up to 300,000 children suffer from respiratory tract infections because of exposure to second-hand smoke. Evidence also indicates that exposure to second-hand smoke causes heart disease.
The prohibition also ensures that children will not witness adult role models such as teachers and caregivers smoking. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 400,000 deaths each year in the United States or one in every five deaths. If current patterns of smoking persist, more than five million people currently younger
How It Works
This provision generally covers children's services that are funded directly or through the U.S. Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Agriculture Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. It applies to states, counties, school districts, state and local agencies, schools, and any individual, corporation, or partnership that owns, operates, controls, or provides children's services. It does not apply to private homes or parts of buildings used to provide inpatient treatment for drug and alcohol addiction.
Administrative compliance orders and civil penalties, not to exceed $1,000 per violation, may be imposed by HHS for a violation, with each day of non-compliance considered a separate violation.
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States and their subdivisions (including districts and schools) must prohibit smoking in buildings that provide children's services.


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The Oakland Raiders are ready to ship Terrelle Pryor out of town.
According to ProFootballTalk, Oakland is hoping to trade the fourth-year quarterback before the start of the offseason program, which kicks off next Tuesday.
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Translation: He'll be released if -- and when -- a trade partner can't be found.
General manager Reggie McKenzie told reporters last month at the NFL Annual Meeting that Pryor asked to be let go after the Raiders traded for Matt Schaub. "Terrelle wants to start so bad," McKenzie said in March. "I'll visit with him. We'll talk to him."
Pryor isn't even seen as Schaub's backup. The Raiders are content to roll with Matt McGloin in the No. 2 spot, and don't be surprised to see Oakland grab a quarterback of the future in May's draft.
As for Pryor, he'll find a new home. His starting days might be over, but he's an athletically gifted player who looms as an asset for a creative play-caller in the right subpackage.
The latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast" covers the Aldon Smith arrest and analyzes the offseason movers and shakers in the NFC East and NFC South.


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· lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
Synonym(s): plain
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· having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"
Synonym(s): homelike, homey, homy
3. homely - adjective
· plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare"
4. homely - adjective
· without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners"
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Once upon a time, I explained the various phases of wanker discourse thusly:
- Unreasoning and uncompromising embrace of utterly nonsensical and indefensible position.
- Subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) redefinition of basic terms to suit the argument.
- Unexpected change of subject or moving of goalposts to desperately avoid impending defeat.
- Sudden admission of error, accompanied by insistence that it's no big deal, why are you taking it all so seriously, like, chill out, man.
- Reappearance one week later, starting all over from step one as if none of the above had ever happened.
I wonder what the lovable gun-totin' urchins at "The Torch" and their World of Warcraft peeps are up to this minute. Oh, look:
On detainees...yet again...all the time
My god, we've spent a lot of time and energy on this.
That would be one Damian Brooks who, having (I'm assuming) watched his favourite political party go full-metal fascist and dictatorial on everyone else's ass for weeks now, is clearly just plain pissed about how much effort has been simply wasted on this.
Here, Damian, let me tighten that up for you:
"Hey, it's no big deal, why are you taking it all so seriously, like, chill out, man."
And just so you know, yes, it is a burden for me being absolutely right about absolutely everything absolutely all of the time. But it's a burden I'm willing to bear. Because I love you all. *Sniff*.


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Taylor Swift to Paint Times Square 'Red' on New Year's Eve
This year, country music lover who spend New Year's Eve watching the ball drop in Times Square are in for a big treat. Taylor Swift will help her millions of fans greet 2013 with a live performance in New York City shortly before the stroke of midnight.
But it will be an especially emotional year for the Big Apple's standard New Year's Eve bash. After the passing of longtime host and entertainer Dick Clark, the ball drop torch will be handed to 'American Idol' host Ryan Seacrest for the first time.
Fortunately, the 'Idol' host won't have to face the sea of viewers and NYE attendees alone. Swift to the rescue! According to the San Francisco Gate, the 'Red' hitmaker isn't technically confirmed for the gig yet, but Seacrest dropped some serious hints about her Dec. 31 performance when he appeared on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' last week.
"We haven't announced it yet, but wouldn't it be great if we could get, there's a female artist out there that's setting records in terms of what she's selling, recently," he hinted. "She loves the color red. And if you're with her, you may never, ever, ever, be back together with her. And she loves a good break-up anthem."
Hmmm. Who could that be?
Swift will join a number of performers who previously performed on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve Special, including LMFAO, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj and more.


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Post by Stefan of Tokyo Whisky Hub.
A few days before Christmas, we spent a bit of quality time with Nikka master blender Hidetoshi Yamashita, learning about wood management at Nikka – we'll share some of these insights in a forthcoming post – as well as finally getting round to tasting two single casks that we signaled the release of a few months ago: a 1994 Yoichi and a 2002 Miyagikyo.
Both were drawn from refill butts. Let's pause here for a few seconds. To most people "butt" equals "ex-sherry", but Nikka's "refill butts" have nothing to do with sherry whatsoever. There's been a great deal of confusion about this – most recently, when SMWS releases 124.3 and 116.18 were mislabeled as being drawn from "ex-sherry butts". To be clear, a "refill butt" (and they're used quite extensively at Nikka's two distilleries) is a butt that has been filled for the 2nd time, i.e. a virgin oak butt that has been filled with whisky once, then emptied and subsequently refilled.
Moving on to the liquid at hand: the 1994 Yoichi (a lightly-peated one, bottled at 62% abv) packs a massive punch on the nose – mainly wood and milk chocolate notes buried underneath the alcohol – but meets the palate very tenderly (papayas, crème brûlée, …) without any alcohol burn whatsoever. It has an incredibly creamy mouthfeel. That being said, it really does benefit from a splash of water. On the nose, you get milky, Yakult-like notes, then a bit of furniture polish, cut flower stems, and after a while a soft vanilla note (as in good-quality vanilla ice cream) and an equally soft, fragrant smoky note (wood smoke, incense) that grows stronger with time in the glass. The palate now offers a mild citrus note - orange peel, bergamot and iced yuzu tea – accompanied by lush notes of rose water, Turkish delights, chai and liquorice allsorts. The finish is long and intense, on candied ginger and mild spices (cloves, nutmeg, …)
Hi-Chew, on a bed of young woody notes. The finish is medium-short, very light and elegant.
I was asked which one I liked better. Well… when the whiskies are at this level, it's a bit like being asked – and being asked mid-winter! – which is more to your liking: early-morning spring in an orchard, or late-night summer in a mountain forest (which, if one had to reduce the two whiskies discussed here (the Miyagikyo and Yoichi, resp.) to a single image – and I rarely go there –, wouldn't betray their multiplicities too much). You get the point. Anyway, the good news is you don't have to choose and they're both still available but only in Japan, and only through Asahi's online shop.


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Questions from Twitter is intended to be a regular Monday Update. If you'd like a question answered post it @weryl on Twitter!
You (probably don't) remember our first installment of Questions from Twitter. That's likely because 3 people read it. This time, we're shootin' for four!
Back then, @veneretio asked:
"What are the hit and expertise caps for an Arms Warrior?"
My discussion on hit is way back down the page, so let's follow through on that promise and talk about expertise. Expertise works a lot like hit rating, except it reduces the chance to be dodged or parried, rather than the chance to miss.
Expertise's Effect at 80
One point of expertise decreases the chance that melee attacks made by the player will be dodged or parried by 0.25%. At level 80, a player requires 8.2 expertise rating to achieve one point of expertise. 8.2 = .25%, therefore 32.8 expertise rating = 1% less chance to be dodged or parried.
Boss' Chance to Dodge or Parry
Rule #1 of Melee DPS: Don't pull Aggro.
Rule #2 of Melee DPS: Don't stand in front of the boss.
A Mob (and Bosses) have 0% chance to Parry an attack from behind or to their direct flank. They have a 12-15% chance to parry an attack in front. Don't stand in front. The math is easier, you won't get cleaved or AoEd and your dps is better. Zero expertise required if you stand behind the mob. How easy is that?
Bosses have a 6.5% chance to Dodge an attack from behind or to their direct flank. (Players have zero from behind. So unfair.)
Expertise Cap from Behind a Boss
Using our earlier math, 32.8 x 6.5 = 213.2 expertise rating required to reduce the boss' chance of dodging you from behind. The expertise cap to reduce it from in front of the boss is so astronomically high that my calculator wept. True story.
Other Sources of Expertise
Racial Traits – If you're an Orc, Human, or Dwarf, you probably already know that your racial talents give you expertise with certain weapon types. Orcs get 5 with axes, humans 3 with swords and maces, and dwarves get 5 with maces. That's 3 or 5 Expertise, not Exp. rating. If you're using that weapon type, subtract your racial bonus from 6.5, then multiply the result by 32.8 to work out the expertise rating required now. (Hint: it's a LOT less.)
- Arms Warriors should grab Strength of Arms, which gives you 4 Expertise. You now need only 5.5% reduction or 180.4 exp. rating (assuming you're using an Axe and aren't an Orc.)
- Fury Warriors should take Weapon Mastery, which drops your chance to be dodged by 2%. Take the 4.5% left, subtract any racial talents and work to that number.
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Jeremy London is in the clear after authorities dismissed domestic violence charges stemming from the actor's alleged bust-up with his estranged wife last year.
The former "Party Of Five" star was charged with domestic violence and disturbing the peace last month relating to an incident with Melissa Cunningham at her Palm Springs, Calif., home in November.
However, the 40-year-old agreed a deal with prosecutors to have the charges dropped if he completed 20 anger management classes.
London's attorney provided proof of completion this week, and the charges were dismissed, according to TMZ.com.
The news comes just days after London's actor brother Jason was arrested in Arizona on Sunday for allegedly becoming embroiled in a bar fight.


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Rev. Sharpton Calls for FCC Hearings On Talk Radio
Kurt Nimmo
December 21, 2010
Democrat talk radio host and Baptist minister Al Sharpton called for Rush Limbaugh and other radio talk show hosts to be dragged before the FCC to answer questions. Sharpton told the Ed Show last Thursday he supports McCarthy-like hearings. He wants the agency to squelch the First Amendment of political opponents:
Sharpton said he wants station owners and personalities — Limbaugh in particular — "to come in front of the FCC and answer direct questions on direct statements and how they may be offensive based on gender and race so that the FCC can then shape policy based on the results of those public hearings."
"I wanted them to make an affirmative stand," Sharpton said, "but if we've got to go into the public hearings to see if they can do that, I think that that would be a very, very good thing for the American public to see these people have to do this."
Sharpton is part of an orchestrated government campaign to state manage all media, especially renegade media on the internet.
"The FCC also controls content on the radio and can yank the broadcast licenses of any radio stations that refuse to comply with its content censorship. This is why operators of 'pirate radio stations' are dealt with so harshly: For the government to allow any radio station to operate outside its censorship and control is to invite dissent," writes Mike Adams.
On Monday, Barry Obama's man at the FCC, Julius Genachowski, cinched enough support to begin the process of imposing FCC control over the internet under the guise of "net neutrality."


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Movie News: Buy the Original 'Jurassic Park' Velociraptor Cage; New 'King Arthur' Franchise Eyes Guy Ritchie; 'Zero Theorem' Trailer
Jurassic Park: Get out your credit card(s). A large prop from Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park is up for auction -- and the bidding is already up to $99,990. The prop is the velociraptor cage that figured so prominently in the violent opening scene of the movie; a full-sized velociraptor prop (not used in the movie) is included. If you win the auction, only local pickup in the Los Angeles area is offered; it weighs upward of 700 to 1,000 pounds. The next film in the dinosaur series, Jurassic World, is heading to theaters on June 12, 2015. [eBay via The Guardian]
King Arthur: Warner Bros. wants to transform the King Arthur legend into a film franchise spanning six films, and it wants director Guy Ritchie to get things started. It's the latest King Arthur project to be considered by Warner Bros.; its previous effort got bogged down over budget issues. Ritchie had his own King Arthur film in development, which was in competition with the Warner Bros. project at the time, so at least we know he's interested in telling the story again. [Deadline]
Movie Trailers: The National Associaton of Theaters Owners wants movie trailers to be shorter -- no more than two minutes, rather than the now-standard two-and-a-half minutes -- and also wants the trailers to be shown no more than five months ahead of release. The guidelines are voluntary and two annual exceptions per distributor are allowed. Theater owners are often paid to play trailers, and many already play seven or eight before the movie starts, so there's concern that shorter trailers will just lead to more of them being shown. [The Hollywood Reporter]
The Zero Theorem Trailer: The first official trailer for Terry Gilliam's wild fantasy Zero Theorem has arrived. Christoph Waltz plays a computer programmer "befuddled by the world around him." Melanie Thierry and David Thewlis also star. The visually dazzling movie will open in the U.K. on March 14, though we're still waiting to hear when we'll get to see it in the U.S. [Empire]
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European Commission proposals to ease cross-border trade advance as EU countries agree on Consumer Rights Directive
The European Commission's proposal to give consumers more confidence when they shop online advanced today when EU Member States formally adopted the Consumer Rights Directive. The agreement follows a discussion at the Competitiveness Council on 10 December during which EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said the ministers' balanced approach will strengthen both the Single Market's functioning and consumer rights (MEMO/10/671). The proposed Consumer Rights Directive is the main current legislative initiative in consumer policy. It was adopted by the European Commission in October 2008 (see IP/08/1474). Harmonising consumers' rights in distance sales and off-premises sales will make it easier for consumers to shop cross-border, in particular on the Internet. It will also make it less costly for traders to offer their products to consumers in other countries. Today's breakthrough also means that businesses will benefit from lower costs, a level playing field and more legal certainty. Before taking effect, the legislation must be approved by the European Parliament. The Parliament's legal affairs committee (JURI) approved amendments to the legislation last week and the consumer protection committee (IMCO) will vote in February. A vote in plenary may be held in March 2011.
"Strong consumer protection will help give legal certainty to businesses and will encourage e-commerce," said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "Today's vote shows that consumer protection rules are gaining momentum. I look forward to working with the European Parliament and the Council to reach a final agreement in the next few months."
The Council's agreement makes a number of improvements for consumers compared to the current EU laws:
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The current rules on EU consumer protection in the area of distance (such as shopping online) and off-premises contracts (buying products away from a retail store) result from the EU Directives on Distance (Directive 97/7/EC) and Doorstep Selling (Directive 85/577/EEC). These Directives contain certain information requirements and some rules on the consumer's right of withdrawal. However, they are not coherent, in particular with regard to the information obligations, the lengths of the cooling off periods (when consumers can think things over and cancel a contract with no penalty) or the obligations of traders and consumers when the right of withdrawal is exercised. The result is legal uncertainty for business and consumers which hampers cross-border (online) commerce.
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The general approach in Council is targeted to business-to-consumer distance and off-premises contracts (such as purchases made over the internet, via a telephone call, by regular mail or on the doorstep).
For these types of contracts, the provisions on information requirements and the right of withdrawal will be fully harmonised.
Protection is also strengthened in many areas, including:
In three areas, Member States have agreed on opening clauses that give them the possibility to:
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The Parliament intends to vote in its internal market and consumer protection committee in February 2011 and a vote in plenary may be held in March 2011.
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Workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing
Jack Wilde's Persuasive Unit
Each spring, Jack Wilde spends four to five weeks teaching his fifth-grade students to write their first persuasive essays. The pieces the students write concern things they would like to change at their school. Not only does the topic put them on familiar ground, the audience is always the school principal, someone whom they can readily analyze. In this way, Jack limits the students' concerns about content so they can concentrate on what is new to them: developing and organizing an effective persuasive piece.
When the students complete their pieces, the entire class decides which essays are the most persuasive. These pieces are submitted to the principal, who visits the classroom to talk with the students about implementing their suggestions. Often, an idea that originated with a student becomes a reality at the school, underscoring for the children their ability to implement change through their writing.
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to my current understanding Universal Hashing is a method whereby the hash function is chosen randomly at runtime in order to guarantee reasonable performance for any kind of input.
I understand we may do this e.g. in order to prevent manipulation by somebody choosing malicious input deliberately (a possibility of a deterministic hash function is know).
My Question is the following: Is it not true, that we still need to guarantee that a key will be mapped to the same address every time we hash it ? For instance if we want to retrieve information, but the hash function is chosen at random, how do we guarantee we can get back at our data ?


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Case Studies in Abnormal Behavior
Allyn and Bacon, 1982 - Psychology - 292 pages
This rich collection of case studies, including real contemporary and classic cases, illustrates a wide range of clinical and legal issues related to abnormal psychology. Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology brings the field of abnormal psychology to life for readers with its rare combination of readability, humor, and strong scholarship. Readers gain a greater sense of what the person experiences and how he or she reacts to the diverse factors studied in psychopathology as they apply principles of abnormal psychology to these cases. To more fully understand the nature of the disorder, each case in this book contains the full background material relevant to etiological, diagnostic, and therapeutic considerations. Also, significant family and social history data are presented to give a clear picture of how specific behavior patterns were generated and maintained. For anyone interested in clinical and legal issues in psychology.
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