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Marching to a Different Beat: No Pulse, No Problem
Image from University Health Care System
By Amy McKean
We have seen it in countless movies and tv shows. The protagonist walks in and sees someone they care about lying down and unresponsive. This hero immediately rushes over to see if they are alive by checking for a pulse, but that may not be enough information anymore. Research into left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have shown that we do not need a pulse to live.
Most of us have heard of pace makers, devices that can be used to aid or replace the electrical system in the heart. The electrical signal is responsible for causing muscle contractions that lead to the heart beating and the movement of blood throughout the arteries and veins of the circulatory system. Pace makers can be used when the only problem is with the electrical signal. With Heart Failure, the muscle of the heart is weak or damaged and therefore unable to sufficiently pump blood throughout the body. In this case, the problem requires more than an electrician; we need a plumber to work on the blood flow.
Many cases of Heart Failure do not require the replacement of an entire heart, but rather, the heart just needs some help. LVADs have been providing this assistance for a few decades now. They provide an alternative path for blood to travel and be pumped throughout the body. Initially these devices attempted to mimic the pumping action of the heart by using positive displacement pumps. This style of pump has a chamber that fills with liquid and is forced out by the chamber reducing in size. While these pumps worked to an extent, there were still problems such as size and reliability. A better pump required marching to a different beat.
Centrifugal and axial flow pumps are different than positive displacement pumps and work by the rotation of an impeller blade. The blood flowing through such a device will move continuously and not have the natural beat pattern observed in our heart. The full effects of removing an individuals pulse are still under investigation, but what is known is that these devices can be used to help prolong an individual's lives successfully. If you come across someone alive, but without a pulse, they are probably not a zombie. They likely are closer to a cyborg, with a mechanical device operating in place of their heart.

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The Lake of Shades: A Fantasy, Part Five
Chris has written more than 300 flash fiction/short stories. Working Vacation was 21st out of 6,700 in the 2016 Writer's Digest competition.
"We must move swiftly." Brin perched in the only window of Rothfort's cottage overlooking a small table. "The mouths of men know nothing about secrecy. Soon the queen will get word that revolution is in the air. Buragon and Rothfort sat beside the table on chairs which Rothfort found uncomfortable. He had built them years before for a much smaller man. Buragon now looked up at him when they stood.
"How many fighting men do we have." Buragon lit his pipe and Brin flapped a wing at the smoke in his face. "Sorry, my friend," said the wizard.
"So far, we have barely covered Tillerton, but this is the largest of the three towns. We have one thousand men who are willing to join with us." Rothfort looked carefully at the markings on his slate and made notes with the piece of chalk mined from the downs. Tomorrow, twenty men will travel to Southmark and on to Ebbs Flats the following day. After that, the same men will go to the thirteen villages."
"What about the time those men are to work in the queen's fields?" said Brin.
"Other men will take their places. The queen's overseers know not one peasant from another. We are like cattle to them." Rothfort continued marking on his slate.
"We could easily have three thousand by the end of the week."Buragon tapped his pipe on the window sill at Brin's feet.
"Four thousand with the spirits of the royal guard." Brin swept the pipe ashes off the sill with a taloned foot.
"We would outnumber the queen's men," said Buragon. "Tell me, Rothfort, will our men have the opportunity to practice with their weapons? Most have no experience in war."
"Every man who volunteers will practice daily," said Rothfort. "Those from Tillerton will practice in the cavern to avoid being heard or seen by the sheriff."
Buragon looked up at Brin. The two tilted their heads toward one another in affirmation.
"Might I say," said the Magus, "though I know you are uncomfortable in the position which you now hold, you are behaving very kingly."
Suddenly, Eadric was standing in their midst in his spirit body. "My Lord, King." He bowed to Rothfort. "Possibly it was the centuries of confinement in stone or the excitement for being delivered from such, but my memory has fully returned. I have some interesting and useful news for His Majesty."
Eadric's news was enough to change Rothfort's strategy completely. One hundred generations before, the Dark Council had overthrown King Eadric without a single battle. By the use of dark magic, they had created a tunnel beneath the castle. The soldiers, the queen, and her entourage had walked in and taken control of the kingdom. The royal family and the royal guard filled the dungeon to overflowing. Those not imprisoned due to lack of space were the first to go to the Lake of Shades and drowned.
The day after Eadric's revelation, Rothfort led the way to the city with Buragon and the spirit-king, now in his human form. Brin kept watch from above.
The spirit-king strode forward with confidence. His memory was clear, and the cause of his people, both living and dead, was his sole concern. The three men crossed the green open space in front of the walled city where children played, beggars begged, merchants sold and peasants spent the few coins they could afford on bread and cheese made from the milk of goats. The royal palace loomed behind and above the city, a sprawling white building five stories high with towers on each corner where mercenary soldiers ensured the safety of the members of the Dark Council.
"We must make our way to the rear of the palace where a ravine dips low, exposing the underground floor and a single door. I swear on the graves of my ancestors that this entrance did not exist the day before the queen and the Dark Council invaded the palace.
The spirit-king stopped at the front of the magnificent structure. It gleamed in the morning sunlight. "Come to me now," he said.
Rothfort and Buragon stood next to Eadric and sensed the power of the magus-king. Eadric spread his arms wide and embraced the two men.
Rothfort felt the power burning inside his chest. He did not doubt that if he chose at this moment to do so, he could join Brin in the skies above. But the spirit-king led them forward, walking as if nothing had changed.
"Eadric, if we attempt to walk beside the walls to the rear of the city and palace, the guards will surely shoot us with arrows or at the very least, dispatch guards to apprehend us." Rothfort tried to stop, but Eadric pulled him forward.
"Fear not, my King. When the guards look down, they will see only the green grass."
So Rothfort and Buragon entrusted their lives to the spirit-king and soon arrived at the rear of the white palace.
The towers loomed above. Dozens of arched windows stared out upon the palace gardens like black, unblinking eyes. The men scanned the foundation of the grand building from the far left to right until the ground fell away and a stairway dropped down to a single, black door.
"The entrance, at least, remains," said Eadric. He led Rothfort and Buragon down the ancient steps until they stood before the door that had been the downfall of King Eadric's reign. Then the spirit-king did what was beyond the imagination of either of his companions.
The door offered no resistance, not because it was unlocked, but because Rothfort and Buragon, with Eadric's arms around them, passed through the closed door. Inside, there were no torches or lanterns, but there was light. They proceeded along a single corridor until they were beneath what Rothfort believed to be the center of the palace.
He turned to face Eadric and Buragon. A subtle glow settled on their faces.
"From where does the light shine? Have we been found out?" He spun around to see darkness except in a small circle around him. HIs companions smiled.
"Dear Rothfort," said Buragon. "The light emanates from you, or rather, from your royal diadem."
Rothfort lifted the crown from his head and held it out before his face which had developed sharper features to compliment his height and breadth. But the change was not in physique only. The demeanor, the thoughtfulness, the intelligence of Rothfort were those of a king. "We will cease raising an army," he said. "We have enough."
"But…" Buragon drew up to challenge the King.
"Buragon, Eadric. Listen to my plan." In a quiet place of his mind, Rothfort heard the familiar and beloved voice of Brin. "I see it already, and I comply."


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Beyond the Beach & Bay: Fun Things to Do in San Diego
Sunny San Diego is known for its miles of coastline, beautiful bays, and stunning beaches. But beyond the waterfront paradise lies a spectacular array of attractions, dining, and entertainment waiting to be explored. We've put together a list of things to check out beyond the beaches and bays of San Diego to prove that the fun doesn't have to end once the water is out of sight.
Liberty Station
Located less than two miles from the hotel, Liberty Station's urban village is filled with unique restaurants, community spaces, artisan goods, local breweries, and more. Discover local events such as art gallery showings, movie nights on the lawn, and live music performances. From coffee shops to general stores, you're sure to always find something new to discover at Liberty Station.
Location: 1.5 miles from the hotel
Balboa Park
Step into the USA's largest urban cultural park, Balboa Park, spanning over 1,200 acres of beautiful land in San Diego. Discover fine-dining options, interesting museum exhibits, performing arts events, and picturesque natural gardens throughout the park.
Location: 3.8 miles from the hotel
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Venture further from the beaches and bays to see wild animals in their natural habitats. The San Diego Zoo Safari Park's 1,800-acre wildlife sanctuary is located in the scenic San Pasqual Valley of San Diego and is home to over 3,000 animals, who are able to roam free through the field habitats of the park. Go on a safari through the different habitats and learn about the amazing creatures who call the San Diego Zoo Safari Park home.
Location: 34 miles from the hotel
Potato Chip Rock
Feeling adventurous? Take a hike to Mt. Woodson summit and snap a photo at the famous Potato Chip Rock. Making for some eye-catching photos, Potato Chip Rock is a slab of stone that appears to hang right off of the side of the mountain. The 7.6-mile Poway hike offers lake and mountain views and takes a few hours to complete. Alternatively, there's also a 4-mile paved and pet-friendly route that's a bit easier for people looking for a moderate option.
Location: 34 miles from the hotel


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Consumerist: Wishing All A Blessed New Year 2013!
Once again, I think there is far too much politics in our daily life and for once, on the eve I will personally refrain in addressing such issues!
Instead I wish that 2013 will be a far better year than 2012 and that there will be a returning to sanity, good governance, accountability, zero tolerance for corruption and abuse and most importantly, that mutual respect, dignity and decorum will be the order of all parties and groups in Malaysia!
I wish all a BLESSED NEW YEAR 2013!


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America's libraries continue to transform themselves, keeping pace with the changing economic, social, and technological aspects of American society. Libraries' deepening engagement with their communities takes many forms, from technology to education to social services, and serves many segments of the population.
In Public Libraries and Resilient Cities (ALA Editions, 2013), Michael Dudley has assembled examples of public libraries engaging in innovative services geared toward addressing current social, economic, and environmental issues, often through partnerships with governments and other organizations. Public libraries are responding to a wide range of ongoing and emerging needs, Dudley says, not just as providers of information but as providers of experiences as well, hosting programming and events (often with community partners) and facilitating content creation through the provision of high-tech "maker spaces." "Public libraries are an essential partner for individuals, groups, businesses and governments"—indeed, for society itself.
"Public libraries have always contributed to local economic development through traditional services, such as providing access to educational and training opportunities, patent searches, résumé-writing workshops, and job hunting on public computers," Dudley says. "However, with a renewed emphasis on partnerships and experiences come opportunities for expanding services aimed at economic development. A cutting-edge example is the Eureka Loft in the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Civic Center Library, spearheaded by Arizona State University as a part of their Alexandria Network. The Eureka Loft is a small-business incubator service, a collaborative workspace which offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to connect with mentors and attend workshops provided by professional and volunteer trainers."
Public libraries also help communities cope with the unexpected. The rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has many public libraries struggling to keep up with the demand for public computer terminals and with requests for help in using the act's website. Libraries also play a key role in the wake of natural disasters; after Hurricane Sandy, for example, people left homeless by the storm were filling libraries in New York and New Jersey, using library computers to complete federal forms and communicating with loved ones using the library's internet connections.
And through it all, libraries continue to deal with societal issues and sometimes with problems— such as homelessness—that seem intractable.
The American Library Association's Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC) is a groundbreaking libraries-as-change-agents initiative.
Through LTC, ALA will help the public library profession become more focused on and skilled at convening aspirational community conversations and more innovative in transforming internal practice to support fulfillment of community aspirations, and ALA will mirror that change internally, in its own processes. This work will help librarians become more reflective of and connected to their communities. It will help libraries to build stronger relationships with local civic agencies, nonprofits, funders, and corporations. It will yield greater community investment in civility, collaboration, education, health, and well-being.
ALA is working with the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation to develop and provide training opportunities and learning resources to support community engagement and innovation. The Harwood Institute has a vision of "turning outward" that emphasizes shifting the institutional and professional orientation of libraries and librarians from internal to external.
Libraries Transforming Communities is made possible through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In Boston, a transformation takes hold, outside and in
The oldest public urban library in the country (1848) is transforming itself into a bustling community center.
The Boston Public Library is in the midst of a major renovation, "breaking out of its granite shell to show an airier, more welcoming side to the passing multitudes," Katharine Q. Seelye writes in the New York Times. But what's happening inside is every bit as important as what's happening outside: "Interior plans include new retail space, a souped-up section for teenagers, and a high-stool bar where patrons can bring their laptops and look out over Boylston Street," a main drag in downtown Boston.
Libraries have been transforming themselves nationwide, which Seelye correctly asserts is "a necessity for staying relevant as municipal budgets are slashed and ebooks are on the rise."
At Boston Public, a new section called Teen Central is to become "homago" space, where teenagers can "Hang Out, Mess Around, and Geek Out." It will include lounges, restaurant booths, game rooms and digital labs, plus software and equipment to record music and create comic books. The vibe will be that of an industrial loft, with exposed pipes and polished concrete floors, what Amy Ryan, president of the library, calls "eco-urban chic."
The library's reimagined lobby will have an open lounge area that will feature new books, casual seating, and retail space, which could be anything, Ryan said, "from a coffee shop to a high-tech experimental outlet to an exercise space with stationary bikes."
What does the public think of all this? Apparently, they like it: "At Boston's central library alone, the number of physical visits jumped to 1.72 million in 2013, up by almost half a million from 2012."
"The sand is shifting under our business," Ryan said.
In Chattanooga, "a public laboratory and educational facility"
In Chattanooga, Tennessee, the future has already arrived. It is called the Chattanooga Public Library.
The downtown branch of the library cleared out its entire fourth floor—14,000 square feet of former storage space—in 2013 to make way for a community collaboration space. The result, by the library's own description, is "a public laboratory and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology, and the applied arts." National Journal writer Brian Resnick calls it "part public workshop, part technology petting zoo. But members of the community can also use the space to work on projects or try to launch a business.
"The library as a warehouse of information is an outdated concept," Brian Resnick writes in the National Journal. "The library of the 21st century is a community workshop, a hub filled with the tools of the knowledge economy." It still has books, "but it also has 3D printers, laser cutters, sewing machines, and spaces for conducting business meetings. It offers computer coding classes. It has advanced video- and audio-production software"—all things that an individual might find too expensive.
System Director Corinne Hill made some changes in the library's $5.7 million budget in order to be able to buy new equipment. She bought makerbots (the 3D printers), a laser cutter, and a vinyl cutter for $3,000; and she began stocking the shelves with more popular titles. The library has rebranded itself as a coffee shop alternative/technology salon for the upwardly mobile," Resnick says. "It even brews its own roast coffee, aptly named 'shush.'"
Meg Backus, who runs the library's fourth floor, says "libraries should find instruction in the evolution of the internet—which started as a place to post static pages and now is a thoroughly collaborative environment."
"There needs to be production capabilities for true access to happen," she says. "That means the ability to create a video, the ability to learn how to make a website, to have access to the software that can create these 3D files."
Engage 3D, a local not-for-profit that promotes education in computer technologies with the hope of attracting more tech jobs to the area, often collaborates with the library. In summer 2013, it helped host a computer coding camp for teens. "It was really kind of sweet to watch [the library] come back and recreate itself," says Bill Brock, the managing director of Engage 3D. He delights in seeing people congregate there and share ideas. "Whether or not they're [3D] printing the next widgets to change the world or not—it doesn't matter—the knowledge transfer is happening around it," he says.
And Tiffany Robinson, a library board member, works with an "angel fund" intended to get more female entrepreneurs set up in Chattanooga. She imagines the library as a "place where female business starters can come and work, while keeping their kids" entertained. "The change in the library is almost like a resurgence in the community," she says. "It's like this thing that's been dead for so long."
"We've been in the information business for 3,000 years," Hill says, waxing philosophical on the role of the librarian in society. "If there's anything we do well, it's deliver information, and information is knowledge. I think if anybody is positioned to help build workers for this new information age, it is the library."
Some libraries target readers . . . before they are readers
In Chattanooga, it's the fourth floor, but hundreds of public libraries are working with a national organization to get in on the ground floor: early childhood education.
That organization, Family Place Libraries, promotes a model for transforming U.S. public libraries into "welcoming, developmentally appropriate early learning environments for very young children, their parents and caregivers." A Family Place Library supports the essential role of parents as first teachers and addresses the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive aspects of child development "to help build a foundation for learning during the critical first years of life." The program positions libraries as early childhood and family support organizations in a local community; its goal is "to ensure that all children enter school ready and able to learn."
The core components of a Family Place Library include:
- A specially designed welcoming space for families with very young children to relax, play, and share books together.
- A five-week parent-child program series for toddlers, parents, and caregivers that provides toys, books, art activities, and an opportunity for families to spend time together, make friends, and talk one-on-one with early childhood and family support specialists.
- Services developed in partnership with community organizations including outreach to new and/or underserved audiences such as new mothers and low-income families.
- Librarians specially trained in child development and family support.
Family Place is designed so that librarians collaborate with local service providers and early childhood educators to enhance the community environment for families with very young children and to reach new and/or underserved audiences. Thus, aside from the obvious beneficiaries of the program—children, parents, and other adults caring for very young children—Family Place organizers say that community agencies, educators, and family services providers benefit from having a strong community partner able to reinforce or enhance their missions, share resources, and develop cooperative services.
Candidate libraries attend a three-day Family Place Training Institute and complete seven hours of pre-training online sessions. After the program is implemented, national Family Place staff conduct an onsite visit; libraries must also complete an annual online survey to remain part of the network, and they receive various technical support services from the national network team. Libraries pay a one-time fee and must provide funding for implementation including the creation of a Family Place space on the public floor, materials for the parent-child workshop, and travel costs to attend the training institute.
Begun in 1996 at the Middle Country Public Library in Centereach, New York, the program now includes some 435 libraries in 25 states.
Libraries redefine themselves to address a wide range of issues
The list of ways in which public libraries engage with their communities is long, and the problems they address are often daunting.
San Francisco Public Library's pioneering outreach program to homeless users, for example, is staffed by a full-time psychiatric social worker and includes the services of five peer counselors, all of whom were once homeless themselves, Michael Dudley reports. "Since its launch four years ago, it has become a model for other public libraries across the country, including Sacramento's, which in 2011 contracted with the non-profit organization Downtown Sacramento Partnership to provide a homeless outreach worker—called a 'Navigator'—to assist patrons in need."
New York Public Library is reaching out to another at-risk group. BridgeUp, an educational and antipoverty program, provides academic and social support to at-risk New York City youth in an effort to prepare them for success. Supported by $15 million from the Helen Gurley Brown Trust, the five-year program offers services to more than 250 New York City 8th–12th graders each year at NYPL branches in underserved neighborhoods.
And the New York Times's Seelye cites several examples of libraries that stretch the traditional definition of "library":
- The Chicago Public Library, which offers a free Maker Lab, with access to 3D printers, laser cutters, and milling machines.
- The Lopez Island (Wash.) Library, which offers musical instruments for checkout.
- The Library Farm, an organic community garden on one-half acre of land owned by the Northern Onondaga Public Library in Cicero, New York. The Library Farm lends out plots of land on which patrons can learn organic growing practices. "Anyone can 'check out' a plot!" says the library's website, which adds: "The purpose of the Library Farm is to provide a place for the community to grow, share and learn about food literacy, and organic, sustainable gardening."
In short, the library community has come far in terms of engaging with its communities—farther than anyone might have imagined a few short years ago. Nevertheless, more work awaits: A report issued in December 2013 by the Pew Internet and American Life Project echoed the findings of a 2012 Pew survey: 20% of respondents in 2013 said they don't know very much about what is offered at their local public library, and 10% said they know "nothing at all."


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Async Hell: Gevent & Requests
Gevent and Requests are both absolutely fantastic libraries, for different reasons: gevent is technically brilliant, and requests is brilliant from a design perspective. Despite this, the combination of the two sent me all the way down the rabbit hole and into my own little hell. Before I go on, let me distill the lesson of this episode in a convenient little quip:
If you are profiling something, start by profiling it.
For about 3 of the past 4 weeks, I've been working on a pretty major project to replace a large Twisted application we have with a small gevent application, and it's been a huge success. The resultant code is fully usable in synchronous contexts (like a REPL or most unit testing frameworks), was way faster in testing, and since it was able to leverage more libraries for its work, about 1/5th the size.
It's been a huge success, that is, until Thursday, when I went to put it into production.
This application handles ~250 jobs per second across a number of different machines. Each Twisted-based worker process seems to have a capacity for around 30 jobs per second, and operates at a load of ~20 at around 60% CPU utilization. The new gevent-based workers could only handle about 5-10 per second each, and pegged the CPU at full tilt boogie.
The logging I had enabled showed that we were resource starved; the new app was unable to pull jobs in off of the queue at a fast enough rate. This sent me on a long chase, separating out the job fetch portion to its own network daemon, before finally finding the root of that issue (using
channel.get, which did 4000 gets per 100 messages received, rather than
channel.consume, which used pre-fetching and made this almost instant) and pulling it back in process.
With the resource starvation problem nicked, I prepared to run my triumphant production test. 5-10 jobs/sec.
I added more logging, this time around every
requests.get and around all potentially time intensive input processing (json via ujson, xml via lxml), and noticed that the worker stopped during the non-cooperative CPU bound steps. This was, of course, entirely expected; but the duration of these stops were 100x more than I'd experienced outside of this context.
Now convinced now that gevent had a major fault with running c-calling code, I attempted to produce a synthetic example that would confirm my findings in a way I could easily share and debug. I wrote a little program which read 50 xml feeds and ran speedparser on all of them; first, serially in a normal loop, and then "asynchronously" via a gevent pool. I ran my test, expecting this gevent bug to show itself, but the timings were nearly identical. "Maybe", I thought, "this only happens with network traffic."
So I wrote a gevent-based wsgi application which served these feeds from memory, loaded the feeds off of that, and they still ended up being more nearly identical. Exasperated, and with nowhere else to turn, I decided to write a cProfile mode for my app and see what kinds of functions we were calling.
The first thing I noticed was that, somewhere down the line, I had been using
response.text.encode("utf-8"), and
text in turn was using
chardet to detect the character encoding. I recalled from my many hours of performance testing writing speedparser that
chardet can be an absolute dog, so excitedly assuming I'd had the problem nicked again, I replaced that with un-encoded
response.content and gave it a run. 2-3 jobs/sec.
Deflated, embarrassed, and depressed, I went back to my profiler. json and xml were still taking far too long... In my encoding speed tests, ujson was decoding over 100MB/sec, but my printed timing information showed it taking sometimes up to a second for even small (50 kB) requests. Furthermore, the separation between the log timestamps showed that nothing else was done during this time.
When I went back into the
pstats output, I noticed that cProfile disagreed; very little time was spent in ujson. Since ujson is a bit of a black box to the profiler, I turned my attention to speedparser, which uses considerably more python code, and while examining the callees noticed something very peculiar indeed:
Function called...
ncalls tottime cumtime
.../feed.py:48(_parse) -> 14 0.001 0.323 .../feedlib.py:55(speedparse_safe)
14 0.005 0.024 .../feedlib.py:98(postprocess)
14 0.000 11.976 .../requests/models.py:759(content)
Why was my completely non-cooperative CPU-bound feed parser (which itself processes ~60MB/sec) spending 12 seconds in the requests library over 14 calls? Digging deeper, I discovered that
content is actually a property which returns a lazily-loaded iterator, which itself reads chunk-wise from the raw socket. In 1-byte chunks. Since saving memory is not a requirement for me, I wrote my own Response which just reads the whole thing in at once, and once again went to the server to test it out. 65-70 jobs/sec.
Note: Since the publication of this blog entry, requests has changed the generator to load requests in 10k chunks. This was still a performance problem for me, and I wrote a small wrapper to load it in 500k chunks instead.
What I suspect was happening, but cannot confirm, is that the generator returned by
response.content made it into a GIL-holding section of one of these C libraries, which then yielded (via the generator's use of
read) back to gevent's hub, which then went loco for a bit until it chanced upon the right greenthread, read more, and repeated, til the content was totally loaded. This kept any code from executing during these CPU-bound critical sections, but had the undesired side effect of adding potentially thousands of random delays. This kept the log clean of any other goingson during that interval, which led me to mistakenly believe that this code was running unnaturally slowly. The profiler was right; that code actually spent very little time running; it spent most of its time waiting on read calls.
So now that this is all in the past, what could I have done to discover this in less than 50 hours of debugging and hair pulling? Despite it seeming like the proverbial howitzer when a simple pistol would do, I really should reach for the profiler earlier in the future. The profiling code and subsequent pstats exploration actually only took about 2 hours; and indeed, my only other major breakthrough (the amqp bug) was discovered using a python-based gevent profiler which was sadly slowed down my app a bit too much to be practical.
In addition, it's made me appreciate optimization and how it can really bite you unknowingly. The lazy chunked-read behavior of
response.content is superior to reading the whole response all the time, provided the resource you're concerned about is memory. Laziness is generally considered a virtue (certainly, by perl and haskell hackers), as it enables you to occasionally skip work altogether. Ironically, it was the combination of request's vanity and gevent's cleverness that led to this incredible performance nightmare.


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For more than 25 years MeKo has produced components with narrow tolerances and perfect surface quality as a contract manufacturer for all well-known medical companies.
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The Red Ring Of Death: How To Fix An Xbox
The Xbox 360 has always been one of the most popular video game systems. Just as with any other video game system it can glitch and have errors. T...
The Xbox 360 has always been one of the most popular video game systems. Just as with any other video game system it can glitch and have errors. The Xbox 360 video game system is one of the most popular out there today, but at some point you are probably going to need to learn how to fix an Xbox so you can do it yourself. You can learn to fix an Xbox in no time at all and save yourself money.
When it comes to fixing an Xbox, of course the first step is to figure out what is actually wrong with it. One of the most common issues that gamers have with their Xbox 360 system is what is known as the red ring of death. If you see the red ring your first instinct may be to get it fixed by a professional but then you have to pay a couple hundred dollars and wait for over a month to get it back and play your games again so why not do it on your own? If the problem is that there is a red ring which is one of the most dreaded Xbox 360 problems, the fastest fix is to check and see if you are still under warranty because if you are you can send your system away and get it fixed for free.
Of course if you just bought the game recently it will be under warranty and you can get it fixed for free, otherwise get yourself a fine tip screwdriver and disassemble your Xbox. Be extremely careful with the motherboard as you are taking it out because this is basically the brain of your system. You drop the motherboard and break anything and you are going to see a lot more than just a red ring when you turn it back on. Snoop the X-clamp then unscrew the heat sink so you have access to the CPU and GPU.
Take your time and make sure that you do not bend or break anything. Now you are going to need to clean the GPU and CPU. The last thing you want is to miss spots, end up putting the system all back together only to find that you have to go back in and clean the pieces better. Then you use some Arctic Silver thermal compound over top of the GPU, ensuring that it does not drip anywhere else on the motherboard.
You can find Arctic Silver thermal compound at any basic computer hardware shop. Once the thermal compound has set you place two nylon washers on each screw. Add two more nylon washers and then you can piece the system back together. As soon as you turn the system back on and go to play next time, the red ring should be gone.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Goalie Jonathan Quick has agreed to a 10-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Kings.
The Kings announced the agreement on Thursday for their Conn Smythe Trophy-winning goalie, who led Los Angeles to its first Stanley Cup championship earlier this month.
Quick can't sign the deal until Sunday, but he will be under contract through the 2022-23 season.
Quick just finished a career-making year. He was among the NHL leaders in many goaltending categories and made his first All-Star team while setting the franchise's single-season records for shutouts, save percentage and goals-against average. He was a finalist for the Vezina Trophy.
Quick was even better in the post-season, winning 16 of the Kings' 20 games with a 1.41 goals-against average and a .946 save percentage and three shutouts.


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The app "Ladenburg inside" offers a short digital tour through the Roman town. This app, with more than 15 audio points, further detailed descriptions of the many points of interest, lots of photos and bonus information will take you on a suspenseful trip through time through 2000 years of Ladenburg's history. Some of what's included:
The app is available in German, English and French. The language used on your smart phone will determine the guide language. English is the default language for phones using a different standard language.
This is the way to download the app easily on your smart phone. The links can be downloaded from the following app stores: AppStore von Apple or Google Play Store. Alternatively, you can find the iOS or Android app in the App Store under the key word "Ladenburg inside".


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Classic CSA
The classic CSA share is the same popular CSA we've offered since 2011.
Members sign up in the spring, supporting the farm with early season expenses and the surety of committed customers. In exchange, members receive a weekly bag selected by the farmers of fresh, seasonal produce from July to October.
Members love unpacking their weekly shares, some saying that "every week is like Christmas." Each bag is full of bright colors and fresh smells, and the CSA takes the work out of shopping and meal planning. We include mostly familiar items like carrots and salad greens, but also give you the fun of trying new vegetables. We help you use everything in the bag and keep you up to date on farm happenings with weekly share notes and recipes. (Check them out here)
Pick up in Tillamook, Lincoln City, or Neskowin, or sign up for convenient home delivery.
- 18 weeks, July to October
- Try new foods and eat more veggies
- Get weekly recipes and updates on the farm
- Enjoy an increased connection with where and how your food is grown
- Low income options: Half priced shares available, pay with SNAP benefits
- Add on weekly flower bouquet share
- Pay in 1 or 3 installments
Full Shares
8-12 Items
Feeds 2-5 people
$35 per week
Half Shares
6-10 Items
Feeds 1-4 people
$24 per week
How it works: click on headings to expand
CSA Basics
What is a CSA?
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Members sign up at the beginning of the season to receive a bag of produce once a week. Eaters enjoy the convenience of having vegetables selected and packed for them, the fun of trying new healthy foods, and the satisfaction of connecting with where the food comes from. The farmer gets help with up front expenses and a committed group of customers to support the farm all season long.
What's in a share?
Each share contains a variety of seasonal vegetables and herbs. Spring shares are much lighter, and variety and quantity increase as the summer goes on, with the heaviest shares in the fall.
We specialize in cool season vegetables including leafy greens, roots, and brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, etc). We also have several greenhouses and grow a range of warm season crops like tomatoes and cucumbers. Check out our weekly share notes for an idea of what goes into each share.
Our cool coastal climate limits what we are able to grow, and you will not receive corn or melons. Warm season crops like peppers and winter squash are a challenge for us, so you will see less of these crops in your CSA. Farms are subject to variations in weather, and it is impossible to predict when a crop might fail. No crop is promised: share the bounty, share the risk!
How does it work?
The CSA runs 18 weeks, from July to October. Each week you come to your chosen pickup site and get your share. Your share comes in a reusable grocery bag that is the property of the farm. The following week you bring back your empty bag and trade it for a fresh share! If you choose to share the CSA with another family, you are responsible for splitting it up and coordinating with your partner to return the bag promptly.
Shared Risk
One of the benefits of a CSA is the increased connection you get with how and where your food is grown. The abundance of the farm varies from year to year, as changes in the weather and natural cycles affect the crops. Your CSA share will reflect that, with some unexpected bounty and probably a few failures. As a CSA member, your share will be fuller and heavier when the farm is doing well and in full production, and it will be lighter when the season is working against us.
We make every possible effort to make the CSA a rewarding experience for all of us, but there are always a few mistakes and disappointments (as well as nice surprises!). So far we have had an overwhelmingly positive response from our members, and we do our best to keep it that way. By signing up for a CSA, you are demonstrating a deep commitment to local sustainable agriculture and fresh healthy food.
About our farming practices
The farm has a priority of preserving and protecting the health of the land, with respect for the stream, forest, and animals that share its space. We never use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. We carefully consider all decisions regarding soil and water conservation, our effect on wildlife and the land, and pest and disease management. Responsible seed sourcing helps to maximize the sustainability and biodiversity of the farm. We are not certified organic because of our small size, but we are committed to following ecological and organic practices.
Joining the CSA
Who should join a CSA?
If you eat lots of vegetables, cook regularly, and enjoy trying new foods, our CSA might be for you. In our classic CSA, share contents are selected by the farmers: you don't get a choice about what you get. Members love unpacking their weekly shares, some saying that "every week is like Christmas." Each bag is full of bright colors and fresh smells, and the CSA takes the work out of shopping and meal planning.
What members like about the CSA:
- Trying new foods
- Eating a healthier, more varied diet
- Unpacking the bag and seeing what's for dinner
- Convenient pick up: just grab your bag and go
- Access to the freshest produce available
- Connecting to the farm and supporting local agriculture
- Recipes and share notes give new ideas and help them use up the share
You may not like the CSA if:
- You travel frequently
- You cook irregularly
- You have moderate to strong preferences about vegetables
- You don't eat a lot of vegetables
- You would have trouble remembering the weekly pickup
You may be happier shopping at our farm stand or farmers market booths, or opting for one of our flexible CSA options. Flex shares can be full time or part time and allows you to choose what you get and when. Market Choice vouchers get you a discount to produce throughout the season.
Should I get a full or a half share?
A full share contains enough for a family of 4 or 5 moderate vegetable eaters, 2 adult vegetarians, or 1 vegetable eating machine. The half share is enough for 1 vegetarian or 2 or 3 moderate vegetable eaters.
The full share is our best value and gives you the most variety, but it can be a lot of food! If you are unsure or new to the CSA, you might want to try a half share. You can always buy extra produce when you pick up your share. If you have a big family or you really love vegetables, I'd recommend the full share.
We offer suggestions for preserving items from the share throughout the summer, so with careful planning the CSA could last you well beyond the end of the season. You can also split a share with a friend, preferably someone with different likes and dislikes.
Where do I get my share?
Select a pick up option when you sign up. You can almost always change later, just let us know. Your options are (exact times subject to change):
- Tuesdays at Corvus Landing Farm (8605 Slab Creek Road, Neskowin)
- Thursdays at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital farm stand, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
- FoodRoots storefront, Main St Tillamook
- Home delivery
Home Delivery
If you're busy and finding yourself in a million places every week, maybe you'd rather have your CSA share delivered to your house or work.
For just $5 per week, we offer home delivery of CSA shares in Neskowin, Pacific City, and Lincoln City (some addresses may be ineligible). If you forget to pick up just 2 or 3 shares during the season, this will pay for itself! We will deliver multiple shares to the same address for the price of one, so get together with your neighbors and save.
I would like to join the CSA but it would stretch my budget. Do you offer options for low income folks?
Yes! We accept SNAP benefits and also offer up to 10% of our shares for half price. For SNAP customers, we change the payment schedule so that you make monthly payments starting in July when the shares begin.
Our half priced shares are funded through donations from members and a match from the farm. If you would have difficulty affording the full price but would still like to receive the CSA, these are for you! We don't have specific income requirements, but if you receive SNAP or any other public assistance, are a senior on a fixed income, or are finding yourself in a tough spot with work, health, or family issues, please ask for the half price option on your registration.
Click here to learn more.
Flower Bouquet CSA
Bring joy into your home (or someone else's) with a weekly flower CSA! Members receive a large weekly bouquet of fresh, seasonal flowers. Our flowers are a range of types and colors, showcasing the variety of blooms and greenery that we are able to grow here at the coast. Flowers will be harvested fresh for you and most blooms will last a week in the vase (not provided). We offer a weekly bouquet share that runs 10 weeks from July to September. We also offer a 5 bouquet punch card, usable any time at our market stand. Flower subscriptions make a great gift!
Click here to learn more.
Member FAQs
What if I forget to pick up my share?
You MUST pick up your share during the designated pickup time. Shares not picked up on time will be donated and no replacement will be made. If you know you will be unable to pick up your share, contact us ahead of time. We can usually switch you to a different pickup day or site for a given week, or we can arrange a replacement at the market.
What if I go on vacation?
If you can't or don't want to get your share on a given week, you can ask for a vacation credit. You must tell us by Sunday of the week you intend to miss to get credit for your share: no credit will be issued for shares that have already been harvested. Vacation credits can be redeemed at the farmers market, farm stand, or toward bulk purchases when available (basil, potatoes, etc) any time before the end of the year. Credits are $30 full or $20 half.
Late Fees
We give a one week grace period on all payments. After one week, a $5 per week charge will be added to all late payments, added at the beginning of the week. So if your payment is due Monday, August 1, you will owe $5 extra on Monday August 8, $10 extra on Monday August 15, $15 extra on Monday August 22, and so on.
If money is really tight in a given month, just talk to us. We will almost always waive these fees given proper communication and are happy to work with you to make the CSA fit in your budget.
What if I need to quit partway through the season?
The CSA is a commitment, and members are strongly discouraged from canceling partway through the season. But life happens. Before dropping out, please talk to us. We may be able to change your drop spot or share type or size to make pickup easier.
If you are moving or really unable to continue your share, the best case scenario is if you can find a friend who wants to take over your share. Please let us know if you want to do this and we can help you calculate a pro-rated cost.
Failing that, we will offer pro-rated refunds on the following schedule:
- Before June 30: Full refund less $15 cancellation fee
- July 1 to July 31: Full refund less $30 per share received ($20 half shares) and $15 cancellation fee
- August 1 to September 30: Full refund minus $35 per share received ($25 half shares) and $15 cancellation fee
- After September 30: No refunds available
- Home delivery charges will be refunded in full less $6 per week delivered


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Like Politics? You'll Like These Books
Yesterday I shared my first set of political news links. Today, I'm also recommending a few books about politics, legislation, and government. All of these authors have well-established reputations for being astute observers of the political process. If you want to go beyond the short-term focus of the news cycle and look at broader political themes, these look like four of the best recently-released (and in one case, soon-to-be-released) books you can buy.
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court (by Jeffrey Toobin)
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (by Michael Grunwald)
The Price of Politics (by Bob Woodward)
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don't (by Nate Silver)


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The Niagara County Legislature on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of a resolution that will authorize a state lawsuit challenging the the Driver's License Access and Privacy Act, also known as the "Green Light" law.
The "Green Light" law, among other things, allows undocumented immigrants access to a state driver's license. The legislature's GOP members said the law also forbids cooperation with federal authorities, which the legislators and County Clerk Joseph Jastrzemski said will require DMV officials to violate federal law.
Republican members of the Niagara County Legislature held a press conference before the legislative meeting to announce that the county will engage counsel and commence litigation challenging the state's "Green Light" law.
Niagara County Legislator Rebecca Wydysh, who is the resolution's lead sponsor, expounded on her rationale for the lawsuit.
"This decision is to preserve the sanctity of our election process and ultimately our democracy," she said. "I believe that Gov. Cuomo and his supporters have gone far beyond their rights as state representatives, by failing to properly assess the dangerous impact the 'Green Light' law will have," she said.
Legislature Chairman Keith McNall raised concerns about what he called a strong likelihood for voter fraud.
"It would be a tragic result to have voter participation diluted by votes cast by non-citizens, and it is for this reason that I am directing Niagara County Attorney Claude Joerg to begin litigation to have the 'Green Light' law declared unconstitutional."


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In CORE, the PTO balances are not linked to the PTO account; they are linked to the specific Vacation, Sick, and Holiday activity items as set in Global Settings > Master Information > Time Off.
If you want to combine your vacation and sick time into a single personal time off (PTO) item, it can be done this way:
- In CORE, under Global Settings > Custom Labels > Company, change the label for both Vacation and Sick to PTO.
- From the main menu > Lists > Activity Items, create an activity item called PTO and set it as non-billable.
- Associate this new PTO activity item with both Sick Time and Vacation Time in Global Settings > Master Information > Time Off.
- If you have existing time logged against Vacation and Sick activities, then merge the two activity items into a single PTO item (created above).
- You should use this PTO activity item while logging your personal time off from now on as well as while setting up benefits (CORE HR) for the employees.
Note: When you combine the two activities under the same label, it will display as two separate 'PTO' items rather than a single item on reports, widgets, etc. In some cases, it can also double the value of PTO because CORE fetches the activity items from Global Settings to determine the sick and vacation time. This might cause confusion.
Alternatively, you can have different codes set for each PTO type in Global Settings. However, to use only one item for your PTO (vacation and sick), you can set one of the items, say Sick, as the default GEN:SICK and then make this activity item inactive so that no one uses it in your company. All employees can record the PTO hours under the vacation activity item only (say GEN:VAC).


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The Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands (FFSL) has direct management jurisdiction over lands below the Great Salt Lake meander line and all of Fremont Island. However, FFSL recognizes the importance of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, including resource values and uses outside of the meander line that affects or are affected by actions on sovereign lands. Accordingly, FFSL considers it imperative that the management of Great Salt Lake include coordination in planning and actions by other agencies with jurisdictional responsibility for these resources.
Great Salt Lake is a unique and complex ecosystem of regional and hemispherical importance. Sustainable use of Great Salt Lake's natural resources will ensure that the ecological health (e.g., water quality, shoreline condition, salinity, aquatic organisms, wildlife, wetlands), scenic attributes, extractive industries (e.g., minerals, brine shrimp, microorganisms), and recreation opportunities (e.g., bird watching, hunting, sailing) will be maintained into the future. FFSL coordinates with other states, federal and local entities to ensure that the management of these resources will provide lasting benefit to the Public Trust. Great Salt Lake is managed by FFSL under the Great Salt Lake Comprehensive Management and Mineral Leasing Plans.
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In response to the decrease in Great Salt Lake levels, the Utah Legislature passed "Concurrent Resolution to Address Declining Water Level of Great Salt Lake" (HCR-10) in 2019. The resolution recognizes "the critical importance of ensuring adequate water flows to Great Salt Lake and its wetlands to maintain a healthy and sustainable ecosystem." To avoid adverse impacts to Utah's economy, environment, and the public health of its citizens, long-term watershed planning is required. HCR-10 recommended that a diverse group of stakeholders convene to make recommendations on how to ensure adequate water flows to Great Salt Lake. Their report was completed in December 2020.


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Users have spotted a hilarious reference to Half Life 3 in Image & Form's SteamWorld Dig, and honestly, it's quite funny. The world has ended in-game and you'll come across a GameGo retail store which advertises Half Life 3.
This is complete with a crow-bar, the familiar lambda symbol, an older looking Gordon Freeman and a word on the banner says "Soon…" You can also spot several fans, who have obviously been waiting in front of the store and apparently died in the process.
Some guy was so happy with the revelation that he actually dressed up in Freeman's suit. And now he's dead.
It's been reported that this particular reference appears in the PC version only, which will be releasing tomorrow (SteamWorld Dig is currently available for the 3DS). Hilarious reference overall or just plain mockery of those who still have hope? Let us know what you think in the comments below.


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This game is perfect for all you fairytale lovers out there. It's an awesome way to find out how it is to care for the most adorable baby-fairy.
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All you need to do in order to have fun pampering the little girl is follow the arrows pointing to the custom elements, that you need to use in order to perform all the caring activities. Enter this new fantasy game, press play and start having a blast, babysitting the sweetest fairy-girl. You can start by splashing some fun with a colorful bubble bath, using all the special baby products, and then, you can dry her up and change her diaper, to make sure she's squeaky clean.
Don't forget the most awesome part: the dress up session. This cutie has lots of beautiful dresses and accessories that you can combine in the most adorable outfits!


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Episode 2 of the podcast is all about Woollinn, Dublin's first Festival of Yarn! Lisa Sisk of This is Knit joins me on the podcast to chat about all things Woollinn related so if you are wondering about visiting, vending, teaching or how to get there and how to nab your tickets, then this episode is for you.
Today's episode is sponsored by the wonderful Ellie and Ada yarns and you can find those delicious skeins over here.
You can also find the podcast on iTunes, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Player FM. While you're having a listen, why not leave a review and let me know what you think!
Woollinn is taking place in Dublin on May 25th – May 27th, 2018 in the Alsaa centre near Dublin airport. It may seem like an interesting choice and Lisa explains why this was the perfect choice along with where the name Woollinn came from. During the podcast, you get a glimpse of the behind the scenes of Woollinn and how the idea of a small Dublin yarn festival has grown into something much larger with workshops and events surrounding the main marketplace.
Nancy Marchant is just one of the amazing tutors holding workshops at Woollinn next May.
One of the exciting things happening at Woollinnn are the amazing workshops taking place during the festival and the Woollinn team are announcing more teachers soon. So far the workshops that have been announced are with Nancy Merchant, Louisa Harding, Karie Westermann, Carol Feller, Woolly Wormhead and Justyna Lorkowska! Don't forget to keep an eye on the Woollinn social media (links at the bottom of page) to stay up to date with all the latest releases.
During the podcast, we get to chat about the gorgeous Woollinn website and for those who are looking for the link to the wonderful Rose Anne you can find her on Sewn Up Sites here.
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I just started getting into tea after having an amazing pot of jasmine tea with my Chinese food a few months ago in china town. After trying a few different jasmine teas I saw this tin at a local market and I loved it. Definitely the best tasting jasmine tea I've had.


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The Trail RCMP are looking for tips to identify an armed robber – reported to be a woman – who held up a local pharmacy on Sunday.
The lone female suspect is reported to have approached the pharmacy counter at the East Trail Safeway just before 11:15 a.m. on March 8, and produced a note wherein she demanded methadone.
She was also reported to have been seen in possession of a black handgun, which was concealed in a re-useable shopping bag, stated Cpl. Jesse O'Donaghey, spokesperson for the RCMP Southeast District.
"It is very fortunate that no one was injured as a result of this brazen daytime crime," O'Donaghey said.
The woman managed to flee with an undisclosed amount of methadone.
The suspect has been described to police as a Caucasian woman, approximately 5 foot 4 inches to 5 foot 6 inches tall.
She was seen wearing a large dark green and yellow winter coat with the hood up, a pair of dark baggy pants, a pair of dark shoes, a black brimmed baseball cap with white lettering, and a pair of sunglasses.
The bag she was carrying is described as a black re-usable grocery bag with the phrase "Just COZY," written on it.
Anyone who can identify the suspect, or has any information that may assist police, is asked to contact the Trail and Greater District RCMP detachment at 250-364-2566.
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By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org
Laura Harris is not happy with how the Florida Bar handled her claim against a disbarred lawyer.
She, her five siblings and their mother scraped together $38,000 to hire a Tallahassee lawyer and help their brother and son, Charles E. Bell, who is serving a life sentence in a Florida prison.
It turned out the lawyer, Bernard Daley, made a career of ripping off people like Bell's relatives by overselling his ability to win appeals or clemency, or to get a prison transfer. After dozens of clients filed Bar complaints against him, Daley surrendered his law license in 2015, when he was 67.
Now Daley is disbarred, Bell, 45, is filing appeals from his cell, and his family has recouped just $2,500, or about 6.5 percent, of the $38,000 they wasted on a thieving lawyer. They received that sum from the Florida Bar Clients' Security Fund.
"It was very, very disappointing. It was horrible," said Harris, a customer service manager for Walmart in Dothan, AL. "With all the hassle and everything, all the money he beat us out of, $2,500 is pretty much like a slap in the face."
The fund pays everyone whose claim is approved in a given year at about the same time. Harris received her check in January.
The Florida Bar started the Clients' Security Fund in 1967 to reimburse victims of lawyers who get caught stealing their money. The clients can retrieve up to $250,000 for embezzled cash and $5,000 for fees. Using Florida Bar dues, the leadership has spent more than $36.8 million on this public service over a half-century.
An inherent flaw
The machine is well-oiled and generally chugs along, but it has an inherent flaw. Conniving lawyers who get away with doing the bare minimum can hurt clients twice–when they lose cases and when the clients look to the fund for repayment. Even when regulators catch up with serial scammers like Daley, that doesn't necessarily help their prey get all their money back.
The claim that Harris filed against her brother's flim-flam lawyer illustrates this flaw.
Harris said her brother badly injured a bystander and left four others wounded in a 1997 Tallahassee club shooting. She said he was using gunfire as cover to carry his beaten friend out of the club after a racially motivated fight that some white club patrons started. Bell, who is African-American, was convicted of five counts of attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Daley was the second lawyer the family turned to after another lawyer failed to win a new trial or resentencing. Like any good scam artist, Daley made outrageous promises he never tried to keep.
"He guaranteed we would be OK because nobody died," Harris recalled. "He just made you feel like you're on cloud nine, that we got that, that we're bringing him home."
Over a period of years, the working-class family pooled their limited resources to keep the case going. At tax time they would send Daley their refunds.
"We let a lot of our own bills go, or be pushed to the side, to pay this man," Harris said. Finally, she took steps to find out about filing a claim with the Florida Bar.
Lori Holcomb, who oversees the Clients' Security Fund, responded to Harris's reproach by saying, "It's unfortunate, but there are rules and regulations that we follow. That's how this was analyzed, the same way they would be applied to any other matter."
Lots of victims
Many of Daley's victims filed claims. They received a total of $271,662.37, according to fund manager P.J. Osborne.
An internal review of Harris's claim found that Daley charged $2,500 to seek clemency for Bell. The rest of Daley's fees covered post-conviction efforts, the first moves toward an appeal, though he never actually filed an appeal.
While Daley did nothing about clemency, he filed two post-conviction motions on Bell's behalf. The motions went nowhere and there was no follow-up, but the Bar's claim process doesn't factor in adequacy because malpractice can be in the eye of the beholder.
"What you consider good work and what I consider good work may be two different things," Holcomb explained.
So the $2,500 repayment was for the clemency fraud. Harris was entitled to none of the remaining $35,500 because Daley did something–a very little something–to earn his fee.
Kathy Morgan is president of the National Client Protection Organization, a nonprofit that serves as an educational resource for client fund administrators around the country. The group doesn't rank or critique funds or engage in "micro-managing" specific claims; she would not comment on Harris's situation.
But Morgan, who runs the Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Security, did say that at workshops where fund managers share ideas and problems, "consistently, these claims have always been discussed as being the toughest, where some work has been done."
The consensus is that they should be resolved "based on the specific facts of the case," Morgan said. "You can't just have a bright-line rule."
In other words, flexibility beats one-size-fits-all–Florida's approach–when it comes to determining payments. Laura Harris would certainly agree.


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Renovated in 1999, Perkins Chapel has served the SMU campus and community for 48 years. The Chapel is a brick and stone version of a type of church built in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries and the ideal location for private devotions, weddings, holy day celebrations, and recitals in Dallas.
Perkins Chapel hosts around 200 weddings each year. While approximately one-third of those who marry in the chapel are SMU students or alumni, the remainder are members of the larger Dallas community. Couples of all faiths have been married in the chapel since it opened in 1951, and some families have celebrated marriages through multiple generations. Perkins Chapel's central aisle, as well as its proximity to many reception sites, makes it particularly suitable for weddings.
Reservations for weddings at Perkins Chapel may be made in person or by telephone at 214.768.3035. The reservations office, located at 101-B Kirby Hall, is open 10:00 am–noon and 2:00–4:00 pm Mondays and Wednesdays.
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I just opened my email account for this blog, and have found numerous entries for Illness Army! Thank you for sending them in, and I apologise for my absence and delay in reposting them. I have been incredibly busy, and distracted.
If you would like me to share a post that details your Chronic Illness, or highlights a memory along your journey, or maybe you would just like to share hope for other sufferers – please check out our Submissions Guidelines Page!
Here is a post from my good blogging friend, Matt.
A short excerpt from the author: "Anxiety and Depression can make us all feel so incredibly alone, when in fact we're not. Millions of people all around the world suffer from the same debilitating illnesses, but we can't always see that. On my blog I try to address that, I try to be constructive, to make a positive difference in both my life and in yours".
You can find Matt at insilencewesuffer.wordpress.com
For as long as I can remember I have had a fear of failure. I think it must have been ingrained me as a child whilst I was growing up. I hold it accountable for a lot of my mental health problems that I've since developed, namely my struggles with stress and anxiety which can often lead to bouts of depression.
To tell the truth, my relationship with failure is more than a little awkward, I guess some would describe it as –love hate: failure loves me, but I hate him. Or at least that's the way I used to feel about him. I'd try to avoid him, but he'd always be one step ahead of me, just waiting to jump out at me and take me by surprise.
I used to be petrified of making a mistake (I say used to, I still am, generally speaking, but I'm trying to be a little more forgiving of myself these days). At primary school I learnt a lot. I learnt to read and write, my numeracy was pretty good too – I was a weird child, one of those kids who absolutely loves their times tables! This carried on to my secondary school. I did really well, on the whole, passing my GCSE exams with flying colours, but then disaster struck. I had my first real taste of failure the following year, and I didn't know how to respond. It's only now I realise that in spite of learning about trigonometry and iambic pentameter, photosynthesis and latin, I had not learnt about failure.
My secondary school had this technique, where instead of teaching us that failing was not a big deal, that it really was ok, as long as we then took on board the lessons learned, they taught me to fear it. Failure was something to be avoided, at all costs. I think being at such an elitist school meant that with every exam paper I sat there was a real danger to my status. Exams weren't just a threat to my marks, they were a threat to my ego too; my reputation as a clever student was on the line with come exam day. When the inevitable fall came, I didn't know how to react. The way my school had taught me to look at failure made me feel incompetent and inept.
I've since learned, primarily through the trial and error of everyday life, that mistakes are an inevitable part of our everyday interaction with a complex world. This is precisely why learning from them is so essential.
I came across the following quote recently, and I thought I'd share it with you all, as it has an interesting outlook on our relationship with failure. It teaches us to embrace failure, to study all possible outcomes and to accept that every now and again we can be wrong. "The desire for perfection rests upon two fallacies. The first resides in the miscalculation that you can create the optimal solution sitting in a bedroom or ivory tower and thinking things through rather than getting out into the real world and testing assumptions, thus finding their flaws … The second fallacy is the fear of failure… You spend so much time designing and strategizing that you don't get a chance to fail at all, at least until it is too late … You are so worried about messing up that you never even get on the field of play." (Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking)
Failure continues to haunt me. Along with my struggles with anxiety, it has limited my risk taking, and consequently my expectations from life. I hope that these words can help anyone that reads them, even if it is only the knowledge that they aren't alone in their fear of failure. Whilst I don't mean to blow my own trumpet (I can't play the trumpet – music isn't one of my fortes come to think of it!) often it is those of us who are the most successful who are also the most vulnerable. We have received so much praise for our seemingly flawless performances that we haven't learned to deal with the setbacks that confront us all at some point in our lives. We should regard failures as an inevitable consequence of the mismatch between the complexity of life and our capacity to understand it. It's only with a more accepting attitude towards failure that we will learn its lessons. Don't take it to heart.


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The line up for ITV's Sugar Free Farm has been announced.
The second series of the show will see TOWIE's Gemma Collins, This Morning presenter Alison Hammond, Doctor Who Peter Davison, former Strictly favourite Ann Widdecombe, I'm A Celeb's Joe Pasquale and Britain's Got Talent father-son duo Stavros Flatley take on the challenge of dropping sugar from their diets and overhauling their lifestyles for the better.
In addition to cutting out all sugars, the celebs will also ditch refined carbohydrates, bad cuts of meat, bad fats and processed foods - and they'll have to stick with the changes for a total of 15 consecutive days.
Both Alison and Gemma have been vocal about their struggles with their weight in the past. In June of this year, Alison admitted that her weight had crept up to over 20 stone, adding that 'my poor body might not be able to cope for much longer'.
'When you get really big like me, you don't see any light at the end of the tunnel,' she said during an interview with Bella magazine.
'I need to do it in small stages. If I just try and live healthily and drink lots of water, the weight loss will come. If I lose one or two stone it's not going to be obvious to anybody but I'll feel better in myself.'
Gemma, meanwhile, has fluctuated between dress sizes over the years, and has tried everything from juice cleanses to hypnotherapy to achieve her 'ideal' of a size 14.
The first series of Sugar Free Farm, which aired in 2015, caused several of the participants to dramatically alter their outlook, with Jennifer Ellison crediting the programme for helping her ditch her Coca Cola habit and shed two stone.
'I really neglected myself and took no time for myself at all, and I didn't look after my fitness or my health,' she explained at the time.
'It's not just changed me but it's educated me for bringing up my children. It's educated me about making the right choices as a wife and a mum. I've learnt more about cooking and looking after myself.'
Singer and former Loose Women panellist Jane McDonald, who also took part in the first series, dropped four stone in total, and agreed that the experience totally changed her life.
'We had to cut out alcohol, cakes, biscuits, convenience food - everything!' she said.
'The hardest thing for me was missing red wine. Oh, I love my wine! But now I've completely cut down on it, and only have a glass once a week. That's a huge deal for me!'