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I'm developing a custom database search (MySQL). The results come down to a group of several arrays (in this case sub-arrays of $freelistings, see below), and I need to find out what values are common to ALL of these arrays. I've got 'array_intersect' to do that, as shown below (though I'm not entirely sure whether it will take unlimited parameters):
$finalresult = array_intersect($freelistings['dbl'], $freelistings['twn'], $freelistings['sgl'], $freelistings['fam']);
It works a treat when all the sub-arrays are present. The final result is an array containing ONLY those values that are common to all the sub-arrays.My problem is that I can't be sure that all of these sub-arrays will actually exist, and I can't insert dummies as that would invalidate the results. I do know that at least one must exist, and it's quite easy to deal with that situation:
if (count($freelistings) == 1) {
$finalresult = $freelistings;
} else {
Do something else
The 'Do something else' would be to assemble the parameters for 'array_intersect' using only those sub-arrays that actually exist. So far I've not come up with a solution. I've tried assembling those sub-arrays that do exist into a string that could be used as the argument for 'array_intersect', but I get a (fatal) whitespace error on the third line of the snippet shown, presumably because PHP doesn't like a $ inside a quote.
$textlist = "";
if (isset($freelistings['dbl'])) {
$textlist .= "$freelistings['dbl'],";
if (isset($freelistings['twn'])) {
$textlist .= "$freelistings['twn'],";
if (isset($freelistings['sgl'])) {
$textlist .= "$freelistings['sgl'],";
if (isset($freelistings['fam'])) {
$textlist .= "$freelistings['fam'],";
$textlist = substr($textlist, 0, -1); // cuts off final comma
echo $textlist . '<br />';
$finalresult = array_intersect($textlist);
None of the sub-arrays are huge. In my tests they only have about four values each, but this could go up to around twenty or more in production. Of these values there may be several that are found in all sub-arrays. There may eventually be more than four possible sub-arrays, but it seems unlikely there would be more than four or five in any one instance.Can anyone help, please ?
So I'm guilty of not reading the whole thing, but I'm just curious why you are not handling this within the SQL statement rather than relying on PHP's array_intersect() to do the comparisons? 9/10 anything that can be accomplished within SQL should be done there for performance and ease of use.
Thank you for your reply. The best answer I can give to your question is that I've not worked out how to do that. I'm already making four searches of an accommodation database for (up to) four types of rooms. Now I'm trying to find out which destination is included in all four results. The complication arises because the (human) searcher may not always look for all type of room.
Well if you want, break down your tables, relationships and the different searches / results you want and we'll see where we can help.
If using mysql, use show create table your_tbl_name
Thank you. I can do that, but I think it merits a new thread on the MySQL forum or we'll have the Admins after us. It's late here, I'll try to have it ready for you by tomorrow morning (your time).
Nah, keep the thread, it'll be moved if need be. There's still plenty of PHP involved with this.
OK. Do you actually want to see 'Show create table' ? Essentially it's a calendar (columns are mostly days, rows are rooms). For development purposes I've actually only created January because any more slows down PHPMyAdmin too much.
Here's the 'Create Table' stuff. I've shortened it by removing most of the very similar lines creating the date columns. For simplicity, and to avoid slowing PHPMyAdmin too much, I've only created 'January', but it's enough to test out the Search system.
CREATE TABLE `avail_2013` ( `room_id` decimal(7,2) NOT NULL, `member_id` int(4) NOT NULL, `type` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, `2013-01-01` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', `2013-01-02` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free',...[many similar lines inserting dates 3-29 January]... `2013-01-30` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', `2013-01-31` varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', UNIQUE KEY `room_id` (`room_id`)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin
'type' (the third column) means type of room, and options are currently 'double', 'twin', 'single', 'family', abbreviated to 'dbl', 'twn', 'sgl', 'fam' respectively.
Every room has it's own record (row) on the database. It's status (shown in the appropriate date column) may be either 'free' or 'booked', a further condition of 'provisional' ('prov') will be introduced when I get further into this.
There's a form where the user selects the type and number of rooms required. On submission the information from this form is used to create four search queries, of which the following are typical examples:
Double rooms:
SELECT room_id, member_id FROM avail_2013 WHERE type = 'dbl' AND `2013-01-01` = 'free' AND `2013-01-02` = 'free'
After PHP processing, the result is an array showing (as keys) the ID of those properties that have rooms available for the given dates, and the number of rooms (as values)Result: Array ( [2043] => 3 [2008] => 1 [2066] => 2 )
Twin Rooms:
SELECT room_id, member_id FROM avail_2013 WHERE type = 'twn' AND `2013-01-01` = 'free' AND `2013-01-02` = 'free'
Result: Array ( [2043] => 2 [2008] => 1 [2066] => 3 )
Single Rooms:
SELECT room_id, member_id FROM avail_2013 WHERE type = 'sgl' AND `2013-01-01` = 'free' AND `2013-01-02` = 'free'
Result: Array ( [2043] => 1 [2066] => 1 )
Family Rooms:
SELECT room_id, member_id FROM avail_2013 WHERE type = 'fam' AND `2013-01-01` = 'free' AND `2013-01-02` = 'free'
Result: Array ( [2073] => 1 )
All the above arrays are stored as sub-arrays. $freelisting['dbl'], $freelisting['twn'], $freelisting['sgl'], $freelisting['faml']
If the user selects only (say) double and twin rooms, the Single and Family room queries won't run (or if they do, will give blank results). This leads to trouble later.
Now there's further PHP processing to compare the number(s) of rooms available to the numbers required, eliminating those properties that don't have sufficient rooms. All that works fine, though I'm sure there are other ways to do it.
Finally I want to know which properties have ALL the required rooms available which means finding out which IDs are included in ALL the arrays. This is where 'array_intersect' came in.
$finalresult = array_intersect($freelistings['dbl'], $freelistings['twn'],$freelistings['sgl'],$freelistings['fam']);
But it fails if any of the sub-arrays aren't present. I can't create dummy sub-arrays, because they wouldn't contain the right property IDs, so the search would fail (or be wrong). I need a way of searching those sub-arrays that are present, and finding those property IDs that are common to them all. Perhaps a 'foreach' loop, but I can see it getting complex.
Can you fix the top portion to use the basic code or mysql instead of php highlighting? its all squishied.
So I can tell right from the get go that you need a slight redesign to your tables. Not suprising, I don't know EXACTLY what your app is supposed to do from that table design. You never want to create a table with columns with things such as dates. From the very top view, what does this app / table / search's goal? Show free promos for rooms during a certain month?
From what I've seen so far you should have the following tables:
tbl_members, tbl_rooms, tbl_room_types, tbl_mystery_table (this will contain ROWS of your dates, once I find out what they are for)
Once we get this figured out we can talk about, most likely, an over complicated task turned EXTREMELY easy query with only a few lines of PHP
Well, it's not pretty, but here's the entire 'Create Table' bit, as text:
CREATE TABLE avail_2013 ( room_id decimal(7,2) NOT NULL, member_id int(4) NOT NULL, type varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, 2013-01-01 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-02 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-03 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-04 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-05 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-06 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-07 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-08 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-09 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-10 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-11 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-12 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-13 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-14 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-15 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-16 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-17 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-18 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-19 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-20 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-21 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-22 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-23 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-24 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-25 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-26 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-27 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-28 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-29 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-30 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', 2013-01-31 varchar(6) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT 'free', UNIQUE KEY room_id (room_id)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin
I've only created January for development purposes. It's a matrix of rooms and dates plus little bit of extra information about each room. It did seem awkward having dates in columns, but even worse having the rooms there.I did wonder about a design with more but simpler tables, but thought it would probably complicate things and perhaps be beyond my current skills (although I'm keen to learn).I'll make a further posting explaining the project from the beginning.
Now here's the detail on the project.
I'm web master for an accommodation listing site for the Isle of Mull. We list subscriber's ('members') properties, and the site visitors can view the listings and click through to members web sites. A typical listing page is at http://www.holidaymull.co.uk/accommodation/SelfCatering/Central. Few members have their own on-line booking systems, and there's no way for site visitors to make a global search for available accommodation - they just have to contact members individually and ask. ('Global' here means site-wide, not world-wide)
I'm looking at the feasibility of creating a global availability listing, leading on to a booking system. I'm aware that the biggest problem here will be keeping it up to date (when, say, a member takes a telephone booking outwith the system), but I've undertaken to see what can be done.
My objective is that the visitor will be able to make a search and get a listing (looking like the one linked above), showing only those properties offering the requested availability on the target dates.
In the listings database we have tables showing quite a lot of information about the properties, including the number of rooms (though not whether they are double, twin, single or family). We also know the location (both generally as NW, SE etc. and as lat & long in separate table), and quality grading of the properties. We'll need to be able to search on those criteria as well (probably on general location rather than lat & long).
The properties divide into two types: Serviced accommodation, like hotels and B&Bs, which offer 'rooms', and self-catering accommodation that offers 'units' (which might be an apartment, a cottage or even a large house, each sleeping x number of people). Most members have 1-5 rooms or units, a few have more. The largest hotel has 82 rooms (the next has only 26).
There are about 125 members (with potential to double that) and perhaps 500-600 rooms or units currently available (I will get a more accurate figure).
I think that summarises the position accurately without overmuch detail, but I can explain more as we progress. Essentially I need to be able to record the status of every room/unit on every day of the year. Another way to approach that might be to know how many rooms (of each type) a property has, and then how many of those are 'free', 'booked', or 'provisional' on each day.
Ok, perfect!
So, this is why I was a little skeptical, with your current set up, you'd have to create columns by hand as time progresses, and things have a very horizontal display, not very clean right?
So I've not looked for a good source on this before, perhaps someone else can chime in and throw a better one in, but have a look here for a bit on relationships: http://www.deeptraining.com/litwin/dbdesign/fundamentalsofrelationaldatabasedesign.aspx
So the design is going to completely depend on what you currently want to track, as well as what you hope to expand to later one. What's currently feasible for you to track and maintain?
About how it should currently look from what I've heard:
user_id auto increment
user_type (need this to determine if a user has access to edit / add property, or just rent rooms)
... all other user info, passwd, etc
property_id auto increment
user_id (owner of the prop)
Obviously you'll need more columns than this, but this is what you need to understand the relationships. 1 user has many properties, 1 property has many units. For the example of your hotel, if the user owns only that property, he would have 1 record in tbl_properties, prop type of hotel possibly? and 82 records on tbl_units, and unit_type could determine the size of the room. This setup might be a little much to start off with, but it allows separate types of units on the same property to be added.
Now from here we are obviously missing the booking data. Are we going to assume that all units are available to rent (assuming its not taken for the day) on any given day? Holidays? Either way we'd most likely add this in:
book_date (here's your date *columns*)
Now, its only a matter of using JOINS in SQL, because we created proper relationships in order to deliver great search results to the user. This is most likely not going to be your final path, but it should get you in the right mindset.
Hello Kyle,
Thanks for that.
Yes, horribly horizontal. I'd have to make a new table every year, and probably allow an overlap between tables to avoid problems running queries over the year-end.
I already have a table of 'members', and a separate one for 'passwords', which allows them to log in to edit their details, and we could extend that to include their own bookings. This would be your 'user' table, I assume.Visitors to the site (who may be making searches) won't be required to log in at that stage. Things might become different when they book. Even so there's no way they would be able to 'edit' entries. I might well need a 'guests' table for those who've booked.
There's already an extensive 'properties' table with the sort of data you indicate (it might need some new fields).
I'd need a new 'Units' table with room/unit information (not unlike my current 'avail_2013' table but without the date columns)And finally the 'Bookings' table which would tie a specific room/unit to a specific date or dates (am I right ?). This could become quite large, since we've got 500 rooms/units x 365 days. Most self-catering is booked by the week, and serviced accommodation (hotels, B&B) may be booked a few days at a time, reducing the rate at which the table would grow. Even so it could become 50,000 rows (if I've understood correctly).
So then there isn't a table that looks like a calendar at all ?
The large hotel is part of a Scottish chain, and it's probably NOT going to want to take part in this scheme, as it'll have it's own.
Now from here we are obviously missing the booking data. Are we going to assume that all units are available to rent (assuming its not taken for the day) on any given day? Holidays?
Yes, the starting position is that all rooms/units are available to rent on all days. It would be for member's to edit their own availability to reflect their holidays. The tourist season up here is mostly March-October, and some places do close during the winter.
I'll digest it some more and get back to you if necessary.
Correct, its not supposed to LOOK like a calendar, if you want to present a calendar to your user, you can do that, but this would be the correct way to house the data in the table.
50k records is NOT a big deal. Setting up indexes will insure that everything runs quickly. Composite primary keys should be used to prevent duplicate entries. If a record does not exist in tbl_bookings for a specific unit number on a specific date, then it is available.
Thank you, that's been a huge help. I'm sure there will be more queries as I take this forward.
For example I've never used 'Composite Primary keys'. I take it that means indexing on a combination of two or more columns ?
I'll convert my present method to your suggested one, and see how I go.
BTW: I did resolve the problem I started out with, it used 8 lines of code with two nested foreach loops. But I shouldn't need it now.
Correct, this literally combines the two columns before checking to make sure they are unique.
PRIMARY KEY (col1, col2)col1 col2
foo barfoo bar -- would not be insertedfoo doo --- would be inserted
So in the 'bookings' table I'd index on 'room_id' and 'book_date' so that any particular combination couldn't be repeated ? Excellent.
However, it occurs to me as I create and populate the tables (with dummy data) that this will only work if each night booked gets its own record. Using a start date and number of nights booked would not create an unique entry covering the second and subsequent nights.
I can find the booked rooms, but not the free ones. I've posted a thread on the Sitepoint MySQL forum.


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nothing different about it, it should burn whatever you use.
I use http://www.imgburn.com/ and have never had a problem
And the advice from the wiki is to burn slowly
I am not terribly new to linux, although i was away for a year. i miss it and want to get back with it.
I have the BT2final iso. Ifi mount the iso in a virtual drive on windows i get this:
well i cant post urls... so theres 2 folders /boot and /BT
so, it would seem that its ok
i burn with with the image burning wizard in alcohol 120%, but the disk is blank when done...
thats the method i have always used to burn my distros. Is there something different about backtrack, in the method of creating the disk?
nothing different about it, it should burn whatever you use.
I use http://www.imgburn.com/ and have never had a problem
And the advice from the wiki is to burn slowly
thanks for the reply, i will try using this program on a slow setting, and post the results.
Your welcome. it has never failed me.
It always helps if people do post the results of advice given here, but sadly rarely happens.
Good Luck
just to echo. I used image burn at 2x in windows. one thing is alot of people have had problems using a down load manager so check your md5
Good advice. I can't recall ever downloading a bad iso with wget. The same cannot be said for multi-threaded download managers.one thing is alot of people have had problems using a down load manager so check your md5
If your md5sum checks out and a slow burn doesn't solve your problem, get some better media. I've never had any problems with verbatim. Memorex, on the other hand....
Good Luck
I have tried several burners, the md5 is good, and when i load it in the cd emulator ( the digital image) and open it with isobuster, i can see the data and the boot catalog.
After i burn it, the disk shows itself as having 0 space, and 0 data... odd
i am lost here
I cannot see what you could be doing wrong here as if I mount the iso I get the two folders showing. If I put the burnt cd in the drive I can see the two folders the cd shows as 689MB 0 Free.
just a quick thought from what you said earlier your not mounting the iso using some kind of virtual drive and then doing a disk copy from there are you ?
If so don't, just burn the iso slowly using imgburn.
I moved the data image to a desktop PC, burned, rebooted... and went into Backtrack. /cheer!
I put that same disk into the laptop. (the original machine) And i get the same problem, its like the disk doesnt exist, however, on the same exact make and model, it does.
This seems to scream at me "your dvd drive is toast" >< but i have no problem with say, an audio cd. The error i seem to be getting is "device is not ready." this error is only occurring with the BT disk in.
someone please tell me i havent seen my dvdrom die.
The laptop is a toshiba satellite a105-s2101, default hardware.
Again thanks for all the replies.
It may be the worst but....
does the same thing happen on another cdr you have burned ?
try cleaning the laser with a cleaning disk, failing that a cotton bud very very carefully
make sure the mechanism is able to move freely, try giving it a gentle push half way or so along the track.
It is quite easy to replace if you are the least bit competent.
you may just decide to use a USB drive or enclosure for an ordinary 5 1/4" drive if you only want it just for a install.
Good luck and here's hoping it just needs a clean


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The Montana State University Model Arab League debate team scored multiple awards in its best showing ever at the group's annual national competition held April 11-14 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. MSU competed against teams from 23 universities, ranging from West Point to Northeastern and Northwestern universities.
Team captain and head delegate Shannon Collaer, a sophomore from Idaho Falls, Idaho, majoring in history and religious studies, was selected as chairperson for the Palestine Committee on the national Secretariat for 2014, a coveted position.
MSU won awards for competition in the areas of social affairs, economic affairs, defense, Palestinian affairs, as well as a team honorary mention, or runner-up for its overall representation of Palestine.
"I joined MAL with two goals in mind: to learn more about the Middle East and become better at public speaking," said Devon Norden, a senior from Havre majoring in political science and international relations. Norden, who also competed with the MSU MAL team last year, served as a justice for the Arab Court of Justice. "Now, I am leaving the program with an extensive knowledge of Middle Eastern politics along with the ability to effectively debate at a national level. These skills are ones that I will take with me for the rest of my life and, because of that, MAL is an experience I will never forget."
The Model Arab League is a diplomatic simulation based on the real-world, 22-member Arab League based in Cairo. Similar in many respects to Model United Nations competitions held throughout the U.S., MAL delegates intensively study all aspects of their respective countries, and are then divided into a variety of core delegations.
"You will learn more about the culture, mannerisms, language, politics, and regional breakdown of the Middle East in this program than any other three to four classes combined," said Rob Ricketts, a junior in political science major from Polson.
Nicholas Vergara, a freshman from Chile with dual interests in paleontology and economics who served on the economics committee, was declared the new Palestinian Prime Minister-designate when the real-life Palestinian prime minister resigned and was replaced by the chief economics expert in the real-life Palestine.
While in Washington, the MSU delegation visited the embassy of the Palestine Authority to interview the ambassador about nuances of policy, received a briefing from Sen. Jon Tester's staff and visited the office of new U.S. Rep. Steve Daines.
Elin Suleymanov, the ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan, hosted a reception for MSU at the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce townhouse in Georgetown.
The MSU team of 15 students ranged from freshmen to seniors drawn from a number of departments, with the majority associated with the Department of Political Science, where the class is based. The team is advised by Thomas Goltz, who has taken the MSU team to the national competition for three years in a row.
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Mario Cantone Dishes on Miss America, 'The View,' & Barilla Pasta [AUDIO]
Comedian Mario Cantone was in top form on "The Joan Hamburg Show" on Friday, talking about everything from the 2013 Miss America Pageant to working on "The View." No topic was off limits for Cantone who gave his take on the new Pope as well as recent comments from the Barilla pasta chairman, who said he would not use a gay family in the company's ads.
Cantone even used the WOR 710 airwaves to sing the Miss America song, something Cantone wasn't allowed to do during the TV broadcast of the pageant.
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Mean Betty on Naked Celebrities
Celebrities who bare it all to support their favorite causes. Mean Betty asks … when will the selflessness end?
-Mean Betty
Whilst idly surfing the Web last night, Mean Betty came across a fascinating slideshow on NYDailyNews.com entitled, grippingly, "Stars Who Strip for a Cause." Always eager to see proof of the inherent altruistic nature of our celebrities, Mean Betty clicked, thinking perhaps she would find evidence of some mass delegation to Darfur of celebrities carrying the very clothes off their microdermabrasioned backs to those in need.
Ah, not quite.
Rather, these are stars who have bravely permitted themselves to be photographed in the nude as a brilliant way to draw attention to various causes!
Really – the generosity, the dedication … the sheer guts. These giving souls could be out working in soup kitchens or delivering rations to starving children in the Sudan or rebuilding New Orleans with their bare hands … but instead of such menial tasks they choose instead to pose provocatively, with the best lighting and makeup and Photoshopping our modern civilization has to offer, in order to selflessly promote the causes nearest and dearest to their generous little hearts. Doesn't it bring a tear to your eye? Truly.
Take, for example, Third Watch actress Nia Long on her gutsy decision to join the PETA "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" campaign: "When I became a mother I started to really understand the importance of all living creatures in a way that I didn't ever think about before."
How lovely of her! Of course, Mean Betty is curious to know if she's concerned about the living creature she calls her son being embarrassed to death by seeing his naked mother straddling a subway pole on a giant billboard, but hey – we all have to make sacrifices!


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I had a conversation with someone recently which made me think. It was about why some shows won't have female fights on their card. This person commented that although he personally was in favour, there were people who were worried that it might damage the sport's acceptance with the public. With MMA just starting to be recognised, showing a women's fight might set that back.
This seems to me to be a dubious argument. Sport as a whole is moving in the direction of more equality. Having a thriving women's scene increases, rather than decreases, the legitimacy of what we do. What's more - excluding women undermines our arguments for the acceptance of MMA. Whenever people try to demonise MMA, we come up with lots of arguments why it's a good thing (or at the very least not a bad one). And every one of those arguments applies equally to female MMA. We claim it is safe, that it's not about mindless violence, that like any sport it's about technique, athleticism, conditioning, hard training and dedication, and that it has physical, mental and emotional benefits to those who take part. So - why not have the courage of our convictions? To claim these things, but shy away from following them through to their logical conclusion just gives fuel to those who would dismiss us all as a bunch of violent thugs.
I also think that in this country we're way ahead on this one. A couple of weeks ago i fought on cagewarriors, it was the first fight on the show and it was exactly the same rounds and rules as all the other title fights. It is to the credit of the show, not to mention the audience and the MMA scene as a whole, that this was (as far as i am aware) accepted as perfectly normal and healthy. In fact, it wasn't until several days later that i stopped to think about it and reflected on how far we've come in the last few years since i started competing.
What we need now is get more women involved and build up a wider base of home grown talent. In order to do that, we need the public to see that we're here. Fortunately there are shows like CW with the courage to make that happen.


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An innovative coach regarded as one of the nation's finest offensive minds, Tim Beck has played a key role in Nebraska's success over the past several season. Beck is beginning his seventh season at Nebraska and his fourth year as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Beck, a Broyles Award nominee as the nation's top assistant in both 2012 and 2013, spent his first three seasons on staff tutoring the running backs.
Beck owns more than 25 years of coaching experience, including 16 seasons as a collegiate assistant and nine years as a high school head coach. Beck has coached teams to eight bowl games, including each of the past three as Nebraska's offensive coordinator.
Nebraska has averaged more than 32 points per game in Beck's three seasons as offensive coordinator. In 2013, the Huskers averaged just under 30 points per game after dealing with multiple key injuries. NU started three different quarterbacks on the season in a year where it expected to rely on four-year starter Taylor Martinez. Martinez was the coaches' choice as the 2012 first-team All-Big Ten quarterback and NU's all-time career passing and total offense leader. Injuries limited Martinez to just four starts in 2013, while redshirt freshman Tommy Armstrong Jr. earned eighth starts and senior Ron Kellogg III started Nebraska's final regular-season game after Armstrong was sidelined by an injury.
The injuries were not limited to the backfield. NU has suffered injuries to five starters on the offensive line, including losing 2012 second-team All-American Spencer Long in the sixth game of the season. With the injuries, Nebraska was forced to use six different starting offensive lines in the final seven games of the regular season, a stretch that also saw NU utilize three starting quarterbacks.
Despite the injuries - which also affected a talented wide receiving corps - Nebraska joined Ohio State and Wisconsin as the only Big Ten teams to score at least 17 points in every game during the 2013 season.
Beck relied heavily on first-team All-Big Ten running back Ameer Abdullah, a semifinalist for the Doak Walker Award. Abdullah rushed for a Big Ten-best 1,690 yards in 2013, the highest total by a Husker since All-American Ahman Green ran for 1,877 yards in 1997. Behind Abdullah - one of two running backs nationally to lead his team in total offense - Nebraska ranked 19th nationally in rushing at 215.7 yards per game. The 2013 season marked the fourth consecutive year Nebraska ranked in the top 20 nationally in rushing offense.
In the passing game, three Huskers threw for more than 600 yards, a first in school history. Senior wide receiver Quincy Enunwa hauled in a school-record 12 touchdown passes, and broke the record in style with a school-record 99-yard TD reception in the Gator Bowl.
Joining Abdullah as All-Big Ten selections in 2013 were senior Cole Pensick as a second-team offensive lineman and wide receiver Kenny Bell and offensive tackles Andrew Rodriguez and Jeremiah Sirles as honorable-mention selections. Bell will enter his senior season in position to become Nebraska's all-time leader in receptions and receiving yardage.
When healthy, Beck has boasted productive offenses. NU has scored at least two touchdowns in 39 of Beck's 40 games as offensive coordinator.
In 2012, Beck's offense scored 57 offensive touchdowns, the program's most since 2008. The Huskers averaged 34.8 points per game in 2012, a total that ranked 28th nationally. Overall, NU produced 487 total points in 2012, the highest total since the 2000 Huskers scored 522 points.
In addition to the impressive scoring totals, Nebraska was eighth nationally in rushing in 2012 (253.4 yards per game) and 26th nationally in total offense (460.8 yards per game). NU led the Big Ten Conference in total offense and rushing offense, while ranking second in scoring. On the ground, the Huskers rushed for at least 200 yards 12 times last season, the program's highest total since also rushing for 200 yards times times in 1997.
Martinez flourished in his second season in Beck's offense. The coaches' selection as the first-team All-Big Ten quarterback, Martinez accounted for a school-record 3,890 yards of total offense in 2012. Martinez rushed for 1,019 yards in 2012 - the fourth-highest total by a quarterback in school history - and he threw for 2,871 yards, the highest total ever by a Husker junior and the third-highest mark overall in school history.
As a testament to Beck's versatility as a play caller, Martinez posted three 300-yard passing performances and five 100-yard rushing efforts. Martinez established a school record with a 91.9 percent completion percentage against Arkansas State and rushed for 205 yards against the nation's eighth-ranked rushing defense at Michigan State, the third-best rushing performance by a quarterback in Husker history. Martinez accounted for 32 total touchdowns in 2012 (10 rushing, 22 passing), tying the NU school record. In addition to the impressive season totals, Martinez also became Nebraska's career passing and total offense leader during the 2012 campaign.
Abdullah also excelled in Beck's offense as a sophomore in 2012. Abdullah rushed for 1,137 yards, the sixth-highest sophomore total in school history, an impressive performance after carrying the ball only 42 times and rushing for 150 yards as a true freshman in 2011 behind All-Big Ten back Rex Burkhead. Abdullah's performance earned him second-team all-conference accolades from the league's coaches.
Bell was another sophomore who flourished in Beck's offense in 2012. After becoming the second freshman in school history to lead Nebraska in receptions and receiving yards in 2011, Bell repeated the feat in 2012. Bell set NU sophomore records with 50 catches, 863 receiving yards and eight receiving touchdowns, leading the team in all three categories. Bell, who also set a Husker sophomore record with three 100-yard receiving games, ranked fourth overall on Nebraska's season receiving touchdowns chart, fourth in receiving yards, sixth in 100-yard receiving games, seventh in receptions and ninth in yards per reception (17.5). He was a second-team All-Big Ten selection.
In addition to the trio of skill players, other Huskers earned individual honors in 2012. Offensive guard Spencer Long, a former walk-on, earned second-team All-America honors from both the Associated Press and the Walter Camp Foundation, in addition to being a consensus first-team All-Big Ten selection. Offensive tackle Jeremiah Sirles also earned second-team all-conference honors, while tight ends Ben Cotton and Kyler Reed and center Justin Jackson were honorable-mention selections.Beck produced impressive results in his first year as an offensive coordinator. Nebraska averaged nearly 30 points per game, and the Huskers scored at least two touchdowns in every game in 2011, a feat NU has accomplished only twice in the past 10 seasons. Nebraska's rushing attack flourished under Beck's direction, averaging 217.2 yards per game to rank 15th nationally. Nebraska averaged 200 yards rushing for only the second time in the past eight seasons.
Individually, All-Big Ten back Rex Burkhead tied a school record by scoring a touchdown in 10 consecutive games to open the season. His 17 touchdowns were seventh in NU history and the most by a Husker since Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch scored 19 touchdowns in 2001. Burkhead finished 19th nationally in rushing (104.4 ypg), and his 1,357 rushing yards were the seventh-most in school history and the most by a Husker I-back since 1997. Taylor Martinez added 874 yards on the ground, the ninth-highest total by a quarterback in school history.
The Huskers also boasted an efficient passing attack under Beck. Martinez completed 56 percent of his passes and threw for 2,089 yards, the sixth-highest total in school history. Under Beck's game plan, Martinez threw only two interceptions in the season's final 30 quarters, a span that totaled 168 pass attempts. Martinez had one streak of 125 straight passes without an interception. Martinez also posted the top total offense season (2,963) by a Husker sophomore in 2011 and the third-best overall mark in school history.
As running backs coach in 2010, Beck helped the Huskers' rushing attack rank first in the Big 12 and ninth nationally in 2010 at 247.6 yards per game. Nebraska topped the 200-yard mark 10 times, rushed for 300 yards four times and 400 yards once. The Huskers ranked seventh nationally with an average of 5.47 yards per carry. Nebraska also posted its first 2,500-yard rushing season since 2003 and scored 30 rushing touchdowns for the first time since 2001.
NU posted back-to-back 300-yard rushing games against Idaho and Washington, a first for the program since 2002. The Huskers had three 100-yard rushers for only the fifth time in school history against the Huskies. Two weeks later at Kansas State, Nebraska ran for 451 yards, its highest total since 2001.
Two-time All-Big 12 selection Roy Helu Jr. ran for a career-high 1,245 yards - the second-highest total by a senior running back in NU history - before being selected in the fourth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Helu Jr. was the first Husker to post back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons since Calvin Jones in 1992 and 1993. Helu Jr. also set the Nebraska single-game rushing record with 307 yards against Missouri. Behind Helu Jr., Burkhead earned honorable-mention All-Big 12 accolades and rushed for 951 yards in 2010.
In 2009, Nebraska averaged 147.1 rushing yards per game, and outrushed 11 of 14 opponents. Helu Jr. rushed for 1,147 yards, and ranked fourth in the Big 12 in rushing to earn second-team All-Big 12 honors.
In Beck's first year, NU's running game improved throughout 2008. Nebraska had five games with more than 200 rushing yards in league play, including a season-high 355 yards against Kansas State. In Big 12 games, NU ranked third in the league in rushing (182.5 ypg).
Beck came to Nebraska after a three-year stint on the staff at Kansas. Beck was the Jayhawks' receivers coach each of his three seasons in Lawrence, and was promoted to pass game coordinator in February of 2007. Kansas finished with a 12-1 record and a No. 7 final national ranking in 2007. The Jayhawks capped their season with a 24-21 victory over Virginia Tech in the Fed Ex Orange Bowl. KU finished the year second nationally in scoring offense (42.8 ppg), eighth in total offense (479.8 ypg) and 17th in passing (291.0 ypg).
In 2006, five Jayhawk receivers caught at least 24 passes. In 2005, Beck's receivers helped Kansas to a 7-5 record and a victory in the Fort Worth Bowl.
Beck came to KU as one of the most respected high school coaches in the state of Texas, serving three seasons at Summit High in Mansfield. He was the 2003 District Coach of the Year, and a season later, Summit High advanced to the quarterfinals of the state playoffs with a 9-4 record.
Beck was head coach at R.L. Turner High in Carrollton, Texas, from 1999 to 2001, leading the school to back-to-back playoff appearances and consecutive winning seasons for the first time in 25 years. Beck was named the district coach of the year in 2000.
Prior to coaching in the Texas prep ranks, Beck worked at Missouri State for three seasons from 1996 to 1998, including one season as the offensive coordinator. In 1998, the MSU offense racked up 4,542 total yards - the fourth-best mark in school history.
The Beck File
Date of Birth: March 14, 1966
Family: Wife, Tamara; Son Jordan, Daughter, Haylie Marie
Education: Bachelor's, liberal studies, Central Florida, 1988
Playing Experience: 1984-85, Central Florida
Coaching Experience: 1988-89, Miramar High School, Miramar, Fla. (assistant coach); 1990, Illinois State (assistant coach/outside linebackers); 1991-92, Kansas State (graduate assistant coach); 1993-95, Saguaro High School, Scottsdale, Ariz. (head coach); 1996-98, Missouri State (assistant coach/offensive coordinator); 1999-2001, R.L. Turner High School, Carrollton, Texas (head coach); 2002-04, Mansfield Summitt High School, Mansfield, Texas (head coach); 2005-06, Kansas, (assistant coach/wide receivers); 2007, Kansas (assistant coach/wide receivers, pass game coordinator); 2008-10, Nebraska (assistant coach/running backs); 2011-present, Nebraska (assistant coach/offensive coordinator and quarterbacks).


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SHE Conference for High School Girls Set for May 1
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Some 175 girls from Crete, Hastings, Holdrege, Lincoln, Macy, Minden, Omaha, Papillion, and Walthill in Nebraska, and South Sioux City, Iowa are scheduled to participate in the conference, which will feature a college fair with displays from 16 Nebraska colleges and universities.
"This conference is open to all high school girls in grades 10-12, but its focus is on multicultural girls," said Shari Clarke, Associate to the President of the University of Nebraska. "In today's global society, we need an even stronger commitment to diversity. Our students must be prepared to live and work in a world filled with people of differing cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial heritage." To gain the full benefits of diversity, Clarke said, a rich variety of people needs to be welcomed and nurtured, both in the educational setting and in the work place.
Participants in this year's SHE conference will be involved in a series of workshops on such topics as "Supporting the Potential of Teenage Girls," "The Mirror Has Two Faces: Development of Body Image," "Unmasking Sexual Con Games," and "Who Do You Know? An Introduction to Networking."
Keynote speaker for the event is Laurie Houseman-Whitehawk, a Native-American artist who lives on the Yakima Reserve in Washington State. Born in Omaha, she grew up in Kansas City and studied art at Emporia State University, Kansas State University, the Institute of Arts in Santa Fe, the Kansas City Art Institute and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas. The University of Nebraska owns three of her works, which are on exhibit in the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies.
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Masterson named Indians' Opening Day starter
(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) - It seemed like the perfect day to name Justin Masterson the Cleveland Indians Opening Day starter.
Following his most dominant outing of spring camp in which the right-hander pitched four no-hit innings in a 7-1 Cactus League win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, manager Terry Francona announced that Masterson would start the season at the top of the Tribe's rotation.
The Indians open the season on March 31 in Oakland against the Athletics.
Francona's announcement really didn't come as a surprise, merely a formality.
"I think it's a big honor for him," Francona said. "I think it's an honor for us to tell him, and I think he's very deserving."
Thanks to three double-plays and a strikeout, Masterson carved up the Diamondbacks and continued his preparation for the 2014 season.
Francona had no problem bragging about Masterson's performance following yet another Cactus League exhibition victory.
"I thought our opening-day starter looked pretty good," Francona said. "He's ramping it up. He's getting his foundation. He's getting deeper and deeper and he'll continue to do so. He's got good movement on his two-seamer. He'll ramp up his fastball when he wants to and he's working on getting that breaking ball in season form. That's what a good pro does."
This will be Masterson's third-straight Opening Day start for the Indians.
Last season Masterson went 14-10 with an ERA of 3.45.
Following his outing on Tuesday Masterson met with the media during the sixth inning and mentioned how contract extension talks with the Indians were continuing. Two weeks ago Masterson made it clear that he was open to a shorter-term deal to stay in Cleveland for less years and less money. The Indians are now 10-2-1 this spring which is the best record in the Cactus League.
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"It is necessary to clarify that no formal accusations were made against Ronaldo. An advocate of social causes, Ronaldo has never used drugs and has always been admired by children in Brazil and around the world. There are indications of an extortion attempt in which the Milan striker is the only victim."
-- A statement on Ronaldo's Web site following in a run-in
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Thursday, June 18 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
$575G reprieve for 9/11 hospital
By Stephanie Gaskell
A New Jersey hospital that treats sick 9/11 first responders got a last-minute reprieve Tuesday when the feds vowed to send cash to keep it open through September.
The Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick had told its 1,800 patients it wasn't sure it could stay open past next month.
Federal funding had been held up over an accounting dispute, but late Tuesday the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said it was sending $575,000 to cover summer expenses.
John Feal, founder of the Fealgood Foundation, which pushes for health care for 9/11 workers, said the money isn't enough.
Feal said, "$575,000 is like putting a Band-Aid on a machine-gun wound.
"Funding for three months is a joke when 9/11 first responders will need treatment for the rest of their lives."
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Radiation enteritis
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Radiation enteritis is damage to the lining of the intestines (bowels) caused by radiation therapy, which is a type of cancer treatment.
Alternative Names
Radiation enteropathy; Radiation-induced small bowel injury; Post-radiation enteritis
Radiation therapy uses high-powered x-rays, particles, or radioactive seeds to kill cancer cells. The therapy may also damage healthy cells in the lining of the intestines.
People who have radiation therapy to the belly or pelvic area are at risk. These may include people with cervical, pancreatic, prostate, uterine, or colon and rectal cancer.
Symptoms may vary, depending on which part of the intestines received the radiation. Symptoms can also be different if you have chemotherapy at the same time as the radiation.
Symptoms may occur during or shortly after radiation treatment (called acute radiation enteritis), or long after the treatment.
Changes in bowel movements may include:
- Bleeding or mucus from the rectum
- Diarrhea or watery stools
- Feeling the need to have a bowel movement most or all of the time
- Pain in the rectal area, especially during bowel movements
Other symptoms can include:
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea and vomiting
Most of the time, these symptoms get better within 2 - 3 months after radiation treatment ends.
When symptoms become long-term (chronic), other problems may include:
- Abdominal pain
- Bloody diarrhea
- Greasy or fatty stools
- Weight loss
Exams and Tests
The health care provider will do a physical exam and ask questions about your medical history.
Tests may include:
- Barium x-ray examination
- Sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy
Starting a low-fiber diet on the first day of radiation treatment may help you avoid problems. The best choice of foods depends on your symptoms.
Some things can make symptoms worse, and should be avoided. These include:
- Alcohol and tobacco
- Almost all milk products
- Coffee, tea, chocolate, and sodas with caffeine
- Foods containing whole bran
- Fresh and dried fruits
- Fried, greasy, or fatty foods
- Nuts and seeds
- Popcorn, potato chips, and pretzels
- Raw vegetables
- Rich pastries and baked goods
- Some fruit juices
- Strong spices
Foods and drinks that are better choices include:
- Apple or grape juice
- Applesauce, peeled apples, and bananas
- Eggs, buttermilk, and yogurt
- Fish, poultry, and meat that has been broiled or roasted
- Mild, cooked vegetables, such as asparagus tips, green or black beans, carrots, spinach, and squash
- Potatoes that have been baked, boiled, or mashed
- Processed cheeses, such as American cheese
- Smooth peanut butter
- White bread, macaroni, or noodles
Your doctor may have you use certain medicines such as:
- Drugs that help decrease diarrhea, such as loperamide
- Pain medicines
- Steroid foam that coats the lining of the rectum
- Special enzymes to replace enzymes from the pancreas
Other things you can do include:
- Eating foods at room temperature
- Eating small meals more often
- Drink plenty of fluids (up to 12 8-ounce glasses) every day when you have diarrhea. Some people will need fluids given through a vein (intravenous fluids).
Your health care provider may choose to decrease your radiation for a short period of time.
There often are no good treatments for chronic radiation enteritis. However, medicines such as cholestyramine, diphenoxylate-atropine, loperamide, or sucralfate may help. You may need to consider surgery to either remove or go around (bypass) a section of damaged intestine.
Outlook (Prognosis)
When the abdomen receives radiation, there is always some nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. In most cases, the symptoms get better within 2 - 3 months after treatment ends.
However, when this condition develops, symptoms may last for a long period of time. Long-term (chronic) enteritis is rarely curable.
Possible Complications
- Bleeding and anemia
- Dehydration
- Iron deficiency
- Malabsorption
- Malnutrition
- Weight loss
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you are having radiation therapy or have had it in the past and are having a lot of diarrhea or stomach pain and cramping.
Czito BG, Willett CG. Radiation injury. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2010: chap 39.
National Cancer Institute. Gastrointestinal Complications PDQ. Updated July 18, 2012.
Prather C. Inflammatory and anatomic diseases of the intestine, peritoneum, mesentery, and omentum. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 144.


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We all love Nordstrom and Beauty.com for supplying our cosmetic and beauty needs. Now they're going a step further and giving shoppers the chance to get a ton of luxurious freebies and services! We can't think of many things better than that.
For starters, Nordstrom stores all over are offering customers their own personal Beauty Stylist. Like personal shoppers, these expert stylists know everything there is to know about a wide range of beauty brands. And along with great tips and advice they'll walk you through makeup, fragrance and skincare products until they find the right one for you! Also, instead of just sampling fragrances, Nordstrom gives buyers "Deluxe Sampling" of any products! That means even the covetous La Mer Moisturizing Cream ($265, nordstrom.com) is up for testing.
But wait, there are still more freebies! Follow Nordstrom on Facebook and Twitter to snag free stuff every Saturday. Every Friday they'll be posting sneak peeks of the week.
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Beauty.com is also getting in on the fun. Throughout the year they pair up with fashion brands like Peter Som, Lela Rose, and VPL to create gorgeous, one of a kind gift bags. The latest installment is an elegant satin Marchesa designed pouch filled with samples from Braza, NUXE and bareMinerals, just to name a few! Get it with purchases of $150 and over. Also, get a Nordstorm gift bag with cosmetic or fine fragrance purchases of $100 or more, stuffed with beauty samples from Laura Mercier, Clarins, and Bliss.
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If a computer is affected by a virus, and if this computer is connected to the world wide web, this means that all the other computers in the world can also become infected. Therefore, many companies have felt the need to design an "immune system" to protect their computer networks against viruses and have begun to carry out many studies in this field. One of the centers that carries out these studies is the virus isolation laboratory at IBM's Watson Research Center. This place is a high -security microbiology laboratory that works with lethal viruses. Additionally, the Watson Research Center also produces computer programs that can detect over 12.000 known computer viruses and that can also isolate and destroy these viruses.
IBM is one of the companies that are working to establish a worldwide immunity system to protect the current networks against viruses of the cyber world Steve White, one of the company officials, states that in order to come to a solution regarding this issue, an immune system much like that of the human body needs to be established in the following words:
The only reason that the human race can maintain its existence is the immune system it has. For the continuation of the cyber world, it is a must to have an immune system.
Researchers have begun to produce programs that protect computers just like our natural defense system, thanks to the similarities they've discovered between computer networks and living beings. According to them, what we've learned from epidemiology (the field of science which studies epidemics) and immunology (the field of science which studies the immune system), will be able to protect electronic organisms from new dangers, just like living organisms are protected.
Computer viruses are malicious programs designed to enter computers, reproduce by copying themselves and cause harm to the computer they enter. The symptoms of these viruses are sometimes a slow down in the computer system or sometimes mysterious errors in files, just like symptoms seen in various diseases.
Anti-virus programs, which protect your computer system against the virus threat, are basically detection programs that search every line of code in the computer's memory in order to find the signs of previously defined viruses by the computer. Computer viruses contain indicators that carry the encoder's signature and that allow them to be identified. When the virus detection program on the computer finds this signature, it gives a warning that the computer is infected.
Still, virus programs do not provide absolute protection for computers,. because some people can design new viruses and launch them into the world wide web within a couple of days. In this situation, anti-virus programs need to be constantly updated and be provided with new information to detect the footprints of new viruses. Therefore, systems must be continuously renewed and new anti-virus programs need to be added against these newly developed computer viruses.
In addition, with the rapid growth of Internet use throughout the world, these viruses have begun to spread with great speed and cause serious harm to computers. The researchers at IBM have found the solution in imitating the examples in nature. First of all, these viruses have an artificial life and just like biological viruses in nature, they use the systems they are inside of their host to increase their numbers. Based on this resemblance, researchers examined how the immune system protects the human body.
When the human body meets with a foreign organism, it begins to produce the antibodies to identify and make the invaders ineffective immediately. The immune system does not have to analyze the whole cell that can cause the disease. When the original infection is handled, the body keeps some of these antibodies on hand in order to be able to respond more quickly the next time. So thanks to these antibodies ready to go to work, there is no need to analyze the whole cell. Likewise, current anti-virus programs contain an antibody that identifies not the whole virus but the signature of the virus only.
As we have seen, the solutions to matters that leave human beings powerless can be found in nature. Our defense system, which has a flawless working structure, has been made ready with the mission to protect us even before we were born. Our Lord is All-Protecting and All-Seeing. It is revealed in one verse:
... My Lord is the Preserver of everything.' (Surah Hud, 57)


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By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — A young girl who set out to help rebuild her neighborhood park after an arson in May is almost done with her fundraiser.
With the help of family, friends and neighbors, Ashley Barquest, 11, raised roughly $2,900 with "Pennies for Garfield Park."
On May 19, an arsonist torched parts of the north Everett park, where Ashley, her sister and her cousins play almost every day on their way home from Garfield Elementary School. Police are still investigating.
After the fire, Ashley was heartbroken. She wanted to help.
Along with her grandmother, Karen Barquest, and her father, Shawn Barquest, she turned canning jars into fundraiser jars and placed them in classrooms and businesses around Everett. They handed out fliers. They talked to city officials.
A lot of businesses said no. Some jars got stolen. Ashley stayed enthusiastic.
"It makes me happy when people say they'll help," she said. "Running a fundraiser or a business isn't all that easy."
The park reopened June 26. The city went ahead and paid for the repairs, which cost about $55,000. City officials told Ashley that any money she raised would go toward additional improvements at the park.
City parks staff now will work with the family to see what those improvements might be, interim city spokeswoman Marla Carter said Tuesday. The family likely will be invited to speak to the City Council.
Ashley isn't sure what to think about that. She hasn't decided what she might suggest, she said.
"I'm a little nervous," she said.
About half of the money was raised by The Homeport Tavern along Everett Avenue.
The bar staff had been planning some kind of charity yard sale for a while when they saw the news reports about Ashley, tavern co-owner Gregory Smith said.
They were impressed that a fifth-grader was behind it all, he said. They also hosted a fundraiser jar and donated the bar's penny bucket.
"It just kind of struck home," he said. "The Homeport is in the Riverside neighborhood. I've lived in the Riverside neighborhood myself for 28 years. It just seemed like a neighborly thing to do."
The yard sale was held this past weekend. Ashley came by with her father to drop off some items, including paintball guns and a toaster, she said.
Smith thanked the family "for all the effort they put in for the neighborhood," he said.
At one point during the yard sale, an elderly woman came by and browsed for about a half-hour, Smith said. The woman didn't buy anything but donated $20 and said she used to play in Garfield Park when she was a kid.
The woman came back before the sale ended. She donated dozens of miniature figurines from a family collection, Smith said.
Other people also gave money without buying anything, he said. More still would buy a small item and refuse to take their change.
"It was just a really, really uplifting experience, that people really get behind their community, and it was great to see," Smith said.
The family still has a few more jars to collect and tally. The experience has helped Ashley and her younger sister Janelle grow and mature, Karen Barquest said.
She is helping Ashley make a scrapbook entry about the fundraiser. The family has been collecting mementos, and the sisters have been taking pictures of the park over the past few months.
The grandmother has enjoyed "just watching everything they do," she said. "They're good kids."
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NY to help fund bulletproof vests for police
With federal cutbacks, police around New York are now getting bulletproof vests from New York's Attorney General.
It's called "inVEST Partnership'' and will use up to $3.5 million forfeited in civil and criminal cases to enable New York police agencies to cover up to half the cost of equipping new officers or replacing expiring vests for others, according to AG Eric Schneiderman's office.
The matching funds are expected to help fund 6,000 to 10,000 vests.
Sgt. Thomas Kelly of the Schenectady Police Department, who survived a gunshot wound to the chest thanks to his bulletproof vest, spoke at a press conference announcing the program.
State authorities say grants from the 1998 federal Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act in New York peaked in 2010 and have decreased 81% or about $3.27 million.
In the past 30 years, they say 71 officers were fatally shot on duty statewide, while federal data suggest vests saved an estimated 3,000 officers nationally.
Colonie Police Chief Steven Heider, President of the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, said in a press release: "The New York State Association of Chiefs of Police strongly supports and appreciates the efforts of the Attorney General in assisting agencies with purchase of soft body armor. Soft body armor is a necessary piece of safety equipment that all officers in the state should access to."
Schenectady Police Chief Brian Kilcullen said: "Every single day police officers across the state risk their lives to keep New Yorkers safe. A lack of federal funds cannot act as a justification for ill-equipping our officers with the materials necessary for their own safety – we owe our law enforcement officers more than that. I'm grateful to Attorney General Schneiderman for taking this important step to ensure more officers will be saved in the line of duty."


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New Capabilities in SAP® Sybase® SQL Anywhere® 16 Suite Extend SAP HANA® Platform Data to and from Satellite Server and Mobile Environments
WALLDORF, Germany - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the availability of the SAP® Sybase® SQL Anywhere® 16 suite, the latest release of data management and synchronization technology. As a key element of and satellite server within the SAP® Real-Time Data Platform, the suite helps extend business transactions to remote office locations. It enables the rapid development and deployment of database-powered applications in embedded, software-as-a-service (SaaS), remote and mobile environments. Powerful, autonomic data management and data synchronization with enterprise-wide applications allows data collection and aggregation from the "Internet of Things " into the SAP Real-Time Data Platform.
"SAP continues to advance its real-time database capabilities by integrating key Sybase database technologies such as SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere into its comprehensive enterprise information platform," said Carl Olofson, research vice president for application development and deployment, IDC. "The new version of SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere includes key improvements such as expanded query optimization for faster response times, which makes access of enterprise data on a mobile platform more practical, and security enhancements for protection of critical business data, which helps put business managers at ease regarding the distribution of sensitive data to mobile devices. These technologies work in combination with solutions such as SAP HANA decreasing administrative complexity, allowing SAP to enable practical, easy to use enterprise data delivery to users anywhere, any time."
The SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere suite and data management solutions from SAP are built to make server, desktop, embedded and mobile applications as reliable, secure and available as the applications that run the data centers of traditional enterprises. The suite provides organizations with easily available remote access to data-driven applications at the edge of the enterprise and the ability to synchronize changes and updates to maintain consistency with enterprise data. SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere is widely used by solution providers and enterprises as a low-administration, highly reliable embedded database of choice for solutions running in embedded, mobile and satellite environments. Paired with the SAP HANA® platform, SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere now offers application flexibility to the point of communication and richer customer interactions whenever and wherever they need to occur.
CleanPoint has developed an elegant monitoring and control system that enables homeowners to manage their electricity and appliance usage in conjunction with new Smart grid systems. The CleanPoint solution is a user friendly application appliance powered by SQL Anywhere using data collected from the homeowner's own electricity usage.
"In building our solution, CleanPoint realized that that a big data high velocity solution is the only way to analyze and process the staggering amounts of data that the Smart grid produces with speed, security and integrity," said Bruce Johansson, joint managing director, CleanPoint "Our extensive evaluation showed that SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16 has an unmatched ability to integrate with what we assessed is the leading "Big Data solution for utilities, SAP HANA to deliver the results our clients require to monitor and adjust their electricity usage in real-time. SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16 and SAP HANA handle inevitable network failures with ease. The SAP systems reconnect and synchronize seamlessly, there is no loss of data, integrity is maintained without compromise, improving the efficiency of the power grid - delivering consumers a big win by improving the value of their power bill."
"SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16 provides the latest and very critical enterprise distributed database capabilities in delivering on our vision for a comprehensive real-time data platform," said Irfan Khan, chief technology officer and senior vice president, Database & Technology, SAP AG. "Through integration with SAP HANA, SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16 allows users and applications in distributed environments to have real-time interactions with virtually any source, and then further explore and analyze that data through SAP HANA. As a result of joint innovation and expertise across our worldwide engineering team, SAP HANA and SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere offer rich applications and consumer interactions from the data center to mobile and satellite server locations."
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SAN BERNARDINO - An 84- year-old woman remained hospitalized Monday at Loma Linda University Medical Center, and her 95-year-old husband had been treated and released for a broken finger and other injuries, after a home invasion robber beat them and fled with valuables from their 40th Street home on Saturday, relatives said.
Sheriff's officials said the wife was trying to call the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department when she was attacked.
"He struck her many times in the upper body, causing injuries to her face, her hands, her arms, and she had a fractured or broken arm," said sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman.
When her husband tried to intervene, the robber turned on him.
"He was also struck by the suspect and received some cuts," Bachman said.
Deputies received the call from the woman at 4:24 a.m. She told dispatchers that there was a man in her house in the 900 block of West 40th Street.
It is a small unincorporated pocket in north San Bernardino. The fortified home is surrounded by chain-link fences at least 7 feet tall that were pad locked Monday morning. Both cars parked in the driveway had handicapped license plates.
The robber was gone when deputies arrived.
It was an incident that upset relatives, primarily because of the victim's ages.
"They got beat up and this guy stole a bunch of things, including large amounts of money from my elderly father," said the couple's daughter, Sandy Gable, a Sonoma County resident.
The incident is also reminiscent of another violent home-invasion robbery that occurred in November, with tragic consequences.
In that case, 76-year-old Mary Beth Blaskey was found dead in her ransacked Fremontia Drive home. Her 2001 Lexus ES300 was missing, but police later found the vehicle abandoned on the northeast end of town.
It was one of three cases involving elderly victims that police have offered a $30,000 reward for information leading to arrests. But police say there is no evidence suggesting the same suspect committed each robbery and killing.
San Bernardino police Lt. Paul Williams said he suspects investigators will be talking to the Sheriff's Department to look at similarities in the cases.
"I'm sure that we will look into it," he said.
Bachman said she didn't know enough about the Blaskey case to say if there might be a connection.
"I can't say that there's any reason to believe that they might be related," she said.
Anyone with information on Saturday's incident may call the sheriff's Central Station, 909-884-0156.
Reach Melissa via email or call her at 909-386-3878.
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Shooting injures three in Waterfront Park
Saturday night, Portland Police were called to Southwest Naito Parkway and Salmon Street on the report of two people injured by gunfire.
Officers arrived and located a third victim suffering a gunshot wound and a large crowd of people, many of them gang affiliates in line to attend a private party on the Portland Spirit.
Three males have been transported from the scene to Portland hospitals. Two have traumatic but not believed to be life-threatening injuries and the third has a serious but not life-threatening injury.
Preliminary information indicates that three suspects ran from the scene westbound on Salmon Street into the Downtown core.
The suspects are described as African American males, late teens to early 20s, medium height, medium weight, wearing all white clothes.
The area of Salmon Springs to the Portland Spirit is closed as a crime scene.
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How I Wrote It: Karen Thompson Walker on "The Age of Miracles"
Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles was selected as our Best Books of the Month Spotlight for June. A few weeks ago, at the annual Book Expo America convention in New York, Amazon senior editor Mari Malcolm spoke with Thompson Walker about the origins of the book, which she wrote in the mornings before working as a book editor at Simon & Schuster. The Age of Miracles has been hailed as "a precocious debut ... one of this summer's hot literary reads" (The New York Times), "quietly explosive" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and "a coming-of-age tale that asks whether it's worth coming of age at all in a world that might end at any minute" (Amazon's Kevin Nguyen).
Karen Thompson Walker reads an excerpt from The Age of Miracles:


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Obama: I don't want the NSA holding phone data
(NEWSER) – President Obama today introduced a host of reforms to the NSA's surveillance programs, including ending the NSA's telephone metadata collection program "as it currently exists." In a speech today, Obama argued that the government shouldn't hold onto that phone data; he's asking Eric Holder, intelligence officials, and Congress to submit proposals on who should before the program comes up for review on March 28. In the meantime, he's issued an order requiring the NSA to get permission from the FISA court every time it wants to access its data, except in "a true emergency." Obama also called for other reforms including:
- Establishing a panel of advocates from outside the government to argue cases before the FISA court.
- Additional restrictions on the use of incidentally collected data on Americans.


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The Caribbean-blue shirt worn by Libby Brown reads, "Life is good." She should know. Libby and her husband, Stewart, own a piece of paradise 240 miles southeast of Miami. The Browns' tiny, idyllic island resort suffers only from a name visitors always have to spell for the uninitiated: Fowl Cay.
So called for the roaming chicken population that flourished here more than 100 years ago, 50-acre Fowl Cay sits in the central Exumas, a mostly uninhabited chain of 365 breathtaking Bahamas cays (pronounced "keys"). "I've traveled all over the world, and nowhere is as spectacular as this," says boater Michael Geiger, a dinner guest. Word of Fowl Cay's excellent cuisine and equally nourishing views has spread among yachters. Each evening, they gather at the resort's Hill House for happy hour and fresh local fare.
Before arriving, weeklong guests fax a contract and grocery list to reservations manager Ellie Caplice, the Browns' daughter. From Nassau or Fort Lauderdale, they hop a small charter flight to the Staniel Cay airstrip. There, one of the resort's nine employees awaits with a dinghy for the trip's last leg, 1½ miles over green and indigo water to the private island. The first greeters at the dock are a waddling blond couple: Zeke and Lulu, resident yellow labs. Their propensity for enjoying a cool drink and lounging in the shade or shallow water soon becomes contagious.
After settling in one of three houses (one-bedroom Lindon or three-bedroom Blue Moon and Sweetwater) and selecting snorkeling gear, visitors face an array of choices. The games, exercise room, swimming pool, and always-open bar at the Hill House vie for time with sea kayaks, sailboats, horseshoes, and umbrellas at South Beach. A walking trail winds from the golf-cart path near the tennis court to West Beach. But nothing can compete with that huge salty playground beckoning from every direction.
The first morning brings a boat orientation with Stew, the Browns' son and resort manager. A 17-foot skiff will be at the guests' disposal for the week. "Watch out for some of the darker spots―they might be rocks just under the surface," Stew explains over the humming outboard. "Stay in the green water, and you'll get a feel for how deep it is by how light the green is." He points out surefire bonefishing flats, his favorite snorkeling spots, and key landmarks. "And over there on that sandbar, you can always find sand dollars early in the morning," he says. Then guests take charge of the schedule.
"We try to give just the right amount of attention," says Libby. "I can't stand it when I'm in a hotel room and there's a knock on the door with a 'Housekeeping!' We don't want our guests disturbed or interrupted." That's why visitors are on their own for breakfast and lunch―as simple or elaborate as the mood strikes.
Boaters, even those well worth their salt, should spend the first day or two within a half mile of Fowl Cay, as the vast wet and rocky seascape at first all looks the same. (If they get lost, they simply radio the Fowl Cay office.) Within that radius, though, lie many of the sights and activities in the resort's 10-page "Fun Stuff to Do List."
One of the coolest is snorkeling into Thunderball Grotto. Named for the James Bond movie filmed here, this cave opens to a cathedral-like domed room, with jagged "windows" above and below water as well as a "skylight" sending sun rays down to countless striped and spotted tropical fish. Neon blue-green parrotfish open and close pink lips as they pass zebra-patterned sergeant majors and vibrant queen angelfish.
This is one of the few places on the list where swimmers might encounter anyone else. Guests can come in from a morning of fishing, grill a burger, take a nap, then boat off to a beach strip where theirs are the first and only footprints of the day. Or they might pack a picnic at daybreak and not come back until the 5 p.m. daily boat return. If they're pushing 5 while lingering over a Kalik (a Bahamian beer) at nearby Club Thunderball, they simply have to radio the office to say they're running late. In true local laid-back fashion, that's just fine.
"We want people to come for a whole week, so they can forget what day it is," says Stewart. As guests get familiar with the area, they'll head south to Iguana Cay to feed the namesakes, and venture north to Compass Cay, where they can swim with tame nurse sharks at the marina. Compass Cay's proprietor, Tucker Rolle, lets visitors toss hot dogs to the silent, swirling regular lunch crowd. He always offers this advice: "Don't tickle the sharks' bellies or pull their tails." No problem, mon.
Perhaps guests will skip the shark swim and hike in to Rachel's Bubble Bath. This shallow pond gets its name from its east end, where the icy cold Atlantic crashes over rocks and into the warm water. An hour or so sitting there―dissolving every ounce of tension with each foamy splash―and it's easy to forget what day it is.
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'Kennedy's goal was part of another red-hot start by the Sabres. Clarke MacArthur scored just 1:21 after the opening faceoff. The shots were 8-2 in the Sabres' favor when Kennedy scored, and the total ballooned to 14-5 late in the first period.'
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CAMDEN, NJ -- Campbell Soup Co. and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Waterbury, VT) are teaming up to develop and market Campbell's fresh-brewed soup in K-Cup packs. The new format is designed to offer consumers the flavor and experience of Campbell's soups with the convenience of push-button preparation in GMCR's Keurig brewers. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The companies point out that snacking behavior is on the increase in the United States, more than half of whom report snacking more than once a day. They add that consumers also are searching for snacks that can serve as mini-meals to satisfy hunger, as well as "ultra convenient"
"This innovative partnership is a win for consumers and for both companies," said Campbell Soup president and chief executive Denise Morrison.
"Campbell's is an iconic brand that shares our focus on harnessing innovation to delight consumers," added GMCR president and chief executive Brian P. Kelley. "The union of Campbell's Fresh-Brewed Soup uses proprietary Keurig manufacturing expertise to seal in the ingredients' peak flavor, and Keurig's single-serve knowledge to release an authentically delicious, perfectly portioned snack."
Kelly said that the idea to partner with Campbell Soup came after consumers told Green Mountain they were using their Keurig coffee machines to add hot water to dried soup mixes already. Kelley, a former Coca-Cola Co. executive who became chief executive in December, has pledged to expand beyond Green Mountain's core K-cup business.
The fresh-brewed K-Cup combines familiar properties of the Keurig pack and Campbell's savory recipes. It consists of a broth K-Cup pack and an included packet of dry pasta and vegetable blend garnish. Consumers simply brew a broth K-Cup pack over this garnish to create a satisfying snack in minutes.
The companies expect to launch three varieties of the new soup, including Homestyle Chicken Broth & Noodle, in 2014. They also expect that Campbell's fresh-brewed soups will be offered in the aisles and retail sections of stores where Keurig Brewed K-Cup pack varieties are sold.


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Just a Thought... Authors Who Died in 2011
Well, it's 2012, amazing as that may seem, and most people are looking ahead to the new year, making their resolutions…and resolving not to break them this time. But before we move forward, let's take a moment to look back over the last year and remember some of the great novelists and writers who passed away. Though they themselves are gone, here's to hoping their great works of fiction and nonfiction survive for many years to come!
Brian Jacques, 2/5/11
Diana Wynne Jones, 3/26/11
Joanna Russ, 4/29/11
William Sleator, 8/3/11
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, 8/26/11
Anne McCaffrey, 11/22/11
Christopher Hitchens, 12/16/11
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