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Is it Anxiety, Depression or POTS?
POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) is a collection of symptoms that may not be easily detected or diagnosed.
by Sue Ann Rybak
"John Point, of Chestnut Hill, was a typical kid who loved hanging out with his friends on the basketball court.
But in the Summer of 2009 he started to have flu-like symptoms: aches, fatigue, headaches.
"John was on the cusp of turning 13 and had really started to grow a bunch," Janet Point, his mother said.
At first his parents and the doctors thought he had mononucleosis. But after a battery of tests, including CAT scans, an electrocardiogram (EKG) and allergy tests, and a heavy dose of antibiotics, the doctors could find nothing wrong with him."
"Somewhere around the third or fourth test for mono, the doctor said, 'Well maybe he's just making this up,'" Janet said. "I thought, 'I don't think he has invented this.'"
"You just couldn't get John out of bed in the morning using proper or improper motivational techniques," said Steve Point, his father. "Yelling at him and dragging him out of bed didn't work. But, he didn't seem like he was so sick that he couldn't get out of bed."
Finally, desperate to find an answer, John's Dad sent out emails to members of the Chestnut Hill Sports Club.
"There is a giant email address list that goes around and there are a number of physicians on the list," Steve said. "So, I thought maybe someone can recommend a doctor at CHOP. (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), who specializes in weird diseases."
Steve said someone recommended Dr. Mark Magnusson at CHOP, and he performed a "tilt-table test," which is one of the techniques for detecting POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). During a tilt table test, a patient lies on a table that moves from a horizontal to a vertical position. Measurements of heart rate and blood pressure are taken while lying flat and then again at intervals while tilted upright. The optimal duration of tilt testing in patients suspected of having POTS is 40 minutes or until they faint, at which point the test is concluded.
It was February 2010 when Magnusson diagnosed John with POTS.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, POTS is a condition in which an excessively reduced volume of blood returns to the heart after an individual stands up from a lying down position. The primary symptom is lightheadedness or fainting accompanied by a rapid increase in heartbeat of more than 30 beats a minute, or a heart rate that exceeds 120 beats a minute, within 10 minutes of rising.
The lightheadedness or fainting of POTS are relieved by lying down again. Anyone at any age can develop POTS, but the majority of individuals affected (between 75 and 80 percent) are women between the ages of 15 to 50 years of age. Women are five times more likely to develop POTS than men. In 2007, a study by the Mayo Clinic found that one out of every hundred teenagers has POTS.
Dr. William Bonney, Points' cardiologist at CHOP. said POTS is a syndrome or a collection of symptoms.
"We can all remember a time when we were really sick and got up too quickly and got dizzy," Bonney
said. "People with POTS feel that way all the time."
He added that people with POTS can feel as if they're always running a marathon.
Bonney said POTS is a disorder in which the autonomic nervous system fails to compensate for upright body posture. The autonomic nervous is the nervous system that regulates the way the brain controls your heart rate and your blood pressure.
"When people think about the autonomic nervous system they think of 'fight or flight' mode, but people forget that the other side of that is 'rest and digest,'" Bonney said.
Bonney said there is no great diagnostic test for POTS.
"While some medical professionals use the the tilt-table test," Bonney said, "we have gotten away from that because it is only 50 percent sensitive and 50 percent specific, meaning that if you take 100 people with POTS, only half of them will pass out on the tilt-table test, and if you take 100 normal people, 50 percent of them will pass out on a table test. So, flipping a coin isn't really a test."
Instead, Bonney said he prefers to take an extensive patient history and perform a series of clinical tests.
"POTS. is what I call a diagnosis of exclusion," Bonney said. "It's a conclusion you reach after you rule out more serious problems.
Bonney said he doesn't want people to just start drinking more water and salt when there is a more serious problem such as cardiomyopathy, depression or Lyme disease.
Bonney advises patients to follow these recommendations that can help alleviate some of the symptoms of POTS: Drink lots of water and electrolytes, eat extra salt, exercise and reduce stress.
Bonney said when people stand up, two liters of blood flow to their legs. The human body gets that blood flowing back up to your head by contracting the blood vessels in your legs. When you move your legs, the body squeezes the blood out of your legs and sends it back to your head.
Bonney recommends that people with POTS do exercises that increase their cardiovascular endurance and increase muscle tone in the lower extremities. He added that the last recommendation is the most important and often the most difficult.
"As is true with any sort of chronic medical problem, stress is always a big part of it," Bonney said.
Bonney pointed out that most kids do well over the summer, but when school starts their symptoms often get worse.
"One of my goal is to get patients to learn how to do all the normal things that people have to do – despite the fact that they feel this way," Bonney said. "Just like people that have chronic arthritis in their knee have to adjust their activities while living with the pain."
Unfortunately, many patients with POTS are told it's all in their heads.
"You can have a very severe headache and not have anything wrong with your brain," Bonney said.
"Just because the pain is not coming from an injury or is not bleeding doesn't mean it doesn't hurt."
Most people report getting POTS after a pregnancy, major surgery, trauma or a viral illness. Point thinks he got POTS after having the swine flu.
John's life has changed dramatically because of POTS. He used to go to school at Our Mother of Consolation and play center on the basketball team. A typical day after school consisted of going to the library or Borders bookstore then shooting some hoops at J.S. Jenks Elementary School. His mother said he was always very athletic and vibrant, and when he just stopped being active she knew something was really wrong.
While John wishes he could return to those days, he realizes worrying about it or trying to make it happen won't be much help.
"I know I can't walk around the block to a friend's house because I would probably get exhausted on the way there," John said.
But having POTS hasn't made John bitter, angry or left feeling hopeless. In fact, he's a bit philosophical about living with POTS.
"POTS hasn't been completely bad for me," John said. "Over the last year, I have been on a diet, and I lost weight. POTS has taught me the importance of taking care of myself."
John needs to be active and exercise to build up his endurance as he manages his POTS symptoms.
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This year I finally got to meet Kubrick designer Michael Heilemann. Kubrick is the theme that became the default theme for WordPress forever to be known as Default. Dork that I am I got my picture taken with him. My first WordPress celebrity fanboy moment. I'm a theme designer, it happens.
While in San Francisco for An Event Apart I decided to get my picture taken with friend and colleague Matías Ventura. He and I designed the Duster theme that wound up becoming Twenty Eleven, the WordPress theme for 2011. This is us.
At that moment I realized I need to have my photo taken with all the WordPress default theme designers. Like a collection. I get to travel the world for work. I love WordPress. And themes. I'm a dork. It fits.
Time to make a list!
- Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder, founder of Automattic, where I work — this one shouldn't be too hard. 🙂 He did the "Default WordPress" that was "just a basic layout, with only the bare minimum defined" for WordPress 0.71.
- Dave Shea, designer of the Classic theme. This one will probably be the hardest. I don't know Dave at all. He will likely think I'm crazy if/when I ever approach him about this.
Michael Heilemann, designer of the Kubrick theme. Done.
- Me and Matt Thomas. Back in 2010 I got excited about the idea of a new default theme and came up with Kirby. Matt took it and made it look beautiful as Twenty Ten. This one should also be easy. I have the pleasure of working with him at Automattic. There's probably a picture somewhere of both of us in the frame but I want to get one with he and I posing.
Matías and I. Boom. Done.
- Drew Strojny, designer of Twenty Twelve. This one shouldn't be too hard either. I'm sure to run into Drew sooner or later at a WordCamp or event. The only hard part will be getting the two of us into a frame. He's super-tall.
And then next year, Twenty Thirteen. And so on for as long as I can keep it up. Should be fun. Dorky WordPress theme nerd fun. 🙂

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Brian was a geometry teacher through the Teach for America program and started the geometry program at his school
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A point of concurrency is where three or more lines intersect in one place. Incredibly, the three angle bisectors, medians, perpendicular bisectors, and altitudes are concurrent in every triangle. There are four types important to the study of triangles: for angle bisectors, the incenter; for perpendicular bisectors, the orthocenter; for the altitudes, the circumcenter; for medians, the centroid.
A point of concurrency is a place where three or more, but at least three lines, rays, segments or planes intersect in one spot. If they do, then those lines are considered concurrent, or the the rays are considered concurrent. So let's look at two examples here.
If I look at this example right here we have three lines and in this spot right here we have two lines intersecting, in this spot we have two lines intersecting and here we have two lines intersecting. So none of these lines are concurrent. There is no point of concurrency.
If we look at these three lines right here, it's pretty clear to see that they all intersect in one point. So that point right there where three lines intersect would be our point of concurrency.
But why does this matter? Well, it matters in triangles when we're talking about four types of points of concurrency. The first one is formed by the three angle bisectors.
So if you're thinking about a triangle, if you're to construct a three angle bisectors, you would be constructing a special point of concurrency known as the in center, and the in center is the center of a circle that when you draw that circle it will intersect the sides exactly one time.
If you were to construct the three perpendicular bisectors of each of the three sides, then you will be finding the point of concurrency called the "circumcentre." And a circumcentre is like the in centre except for the circumcentrer circle intersects the three vertices not the three sides.
The next type is the three altitudes. So if you took your triangle and constructed your three altitudes, you'd be constructing a point of concurrency known as the "orthocenter."
The last type is a median. So if you constructed this three medians of each side connecting the vertex to the midpoint, then you'd be constructing the centroid, which is also the center of gravity or the center of mass for a given triangle.
So the reason why points of concurrency is an important vocab word is because there are four major types of points of concurrency or talking about triangles.


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I Just Don't Understand...
by Sarah Phillips
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.
Proverbs 3:5-7
Proverbs 3: 5- 7 are often the first words that rise out of my memory bank in dark moments. The reason this scripture resonates so much with me has to do with these six words: lean not on your own understanding.
At Salem Web Network, managers give new employees a book called Strength Finder 2.0. The book is designed to help you identify and maximize your top 5 strengths in the workplace. I scored highest in something called "Intellection." A person who scores highly in this category loves to think – so much that he or she finds reasons to think just for the joy of thinking.
I chuckled at these results. Friends and family have described me as "cerebral" on more than one occasion. Thanks to this strength, I'm really good at thinking through complex issues. I get energy from analyzing many aspects of life. Others come to me when they want a thorough, thoughtful perspective.
Why am I so drawn to thinking? Ultimately, it's because I want to understand. I am like an adult version of my four-year-old nephew, always asking "why?" and "how?" -- especially on matters I feel have eternal significance.
Unfortunately, this drive to understand can easily morph from my greatest strength into my Achilles' heel. Why? Because there are some things in life that even the greatest minds cannot understand.
I was on a forum recently where, in response to recent headlines, someone asked, "How can a man kill his wife, kids, and then commit suicide?" People debated back and forth. But no answer seemed to satisfy.
I had a friend call me recently, devastated over his girlfriend's unexpected decision to break up with him. He wanted to know why. She never gave him an answer. And I couldn't either.
On some level, we all want to understand, don't we? Daily, I receive emails from hurting readers that go like this:
"I am so unhappy with my spouse. Help me understand her!"
"I don't understand why my child does these things. What have I done wrong?"
"I can't seem to get a job. I just don't understand God's will for my life."
When I encounter things that are really difficult to understand, my first instinct is to rev up my God-given gift for thinking to try to figure it out. This is when things start to go bad. I think if I can understand it, I will be okay. I ruminate on the issue, mentally chewing on it over and over again, losing sleep in an attempt to find peace through understanding.
But when the mental gymnastics don't produce results, my irrational emotions kick in. I melt into a puddle of tears (flowing from eyes with dark circles thanks to too many sleepless nights). It's a lovely sight, and one that may be familiar to you.
That's usually about the time my brain is empty enough to hear a still, small voice whisper:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
You see, contrary to popular belief, our peace doesn't really flow from our understanding, and in fact, God never promises we will always understand. Instead, our peace flows from a God whose thoughts are not our thoughts and whose ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55: 8).
Accepting that we won't always understand may feel frustrating at first, but ultimately, it offers you and me relief. We may not understand, but God does, and He will not abandon us. Look at the promise that accompanies this verse, should we surrender our lives fully to Him: and he will make your paths straight.
What a blessing. I don't have to have it all figured out. I don't have to obtain all the answers. I don't have to lie awake sorting out every last detail. I can trust God, my Heavenly Father, to take care of the stuff that doesn't make any sense to me.
This is the beauty of being Christian. We aren't the biggest, most intelligent beings out there. God, the original Genius, is.
At the end of time, we will understand – clearly – because God will show us. And there will, no doubt, be some surprises. Until that time, we have a God smart enough to handle the most confounding problem, loving enough to earn our heartfelt devotion, and trustworthy enough to offer us genuine hope for our futures.
So if there's something about your life right now that you just don't understand, that's causing you pain and fueling your fears, meditate on Proverbs 3: 5- 7. Turn it around in your mind. Memorize it. And sleep well tonight.
Further Reading:
Job 11:7-9
Finding Financial Peace in Times of Uncertainty
Guiding the Family in Times of Uncertainty
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|Guidelines for Children's Participation in HIV/AIDS Programs (The Children and AIDS International Non-Government Organization Network (CAINN)) (UNAIDS, 1999, 29 p.)
The Children and AIDS International Non-Government Organization Network (CAINN) wishes to thank UNAIDS for its generous support in funding these guidelines.
These guidelines were written by Jane Colling, with editing by Christine Hogg and Naomi Honigsbaum. Our sincere thanks go to the members of the CAINN steering group and other colleagues who commented on drafts and shared their experiences, and to Mildmay International who managed the project. Illustrations be David Wood.
For further copies of this booklet please contact:
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UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS was established in January 1996 as a co-sponsored programme that brings together the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank. As the main advocate for global action, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.


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Ashley Tisdale -- Fan Tweets Actress 18,000 Times ... Cops Investigating
Ashley Tisdale Fan Tweets Actress 18,000 Times Cops Investigating
Ashley Tisdale's legitimately freaked out ... after an obsessed fan sent more than 18,000 tweets to the actress and then showed up to her home, TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement tells us ... the LAPD has launched an investigation after a person in Ashley's camp reported that a super-fan had tweeted her 18,888 times, dating back to November, 2012.
The tweets are pretty creepy -- the person (believed to be a man) seems to be delusional, writing as if the two have some sort of ongoing relationship. For example:
"My body is yours & even as friends I f***in love how I make u feel like mom maybe we both got issues cuz nobody's perfect."
"I'll never lose u baby even in 20 years til infinity you'll always b my best friend."
"Let it all out on me u can have my heart put a lock on it throw away the key & my soul is yours to keep."
Even scarier ... we're told the suspected super tweeter recently showed up to Ashley's house ... but we don't know if he ever made contact.
We're told cops have identified a suspect -- and are looking to talk to the person to determine whether he poses a serious risk to Ashley.
Calls to Ashley's reps have not been returned.


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[ DiDòmhnaich, 01 dhen Ghiblean 2018 - DiLuain, 30 dhen Ghiblean 2018 ]
1 Isles To Tackle Empty Homes
Councillors on the Western Isles have backed in principal the introduction of a dedicated officer to help bring long-term, privately-owned empty homes back into use.
2 Comhairle Calls For Direct Action By Minister In Ferries Debacle
The Chairman of the Comhairle's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has today called for the intervention of the Minister for Transport and the Islands to address significant and growing concerns…
3 Scotland's Early Silver Comes to Museum nan Eilean
A new exhibition from National Museums Scotland supported by Glenmorangie shows how silver, not gold, became the most important precious metal in Scotland over the course of the first millennium AD.
4 Hebrides Take Control Tariff
Hebrides Energy, a not-for-profit community interest company led by key local agencies including Tighean Innse Gall, Hebridean Housing Partnership, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, The Stornoway Trust and Community…
5 Athlete Travel Award Scheme – 2018-19 Awards
Eight elite athletes from the Outer Hebrides are set to benefit from a scheme designed to support travel costs for island competitors.
6 Outer Hebrides Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance Study – Public Exhibitions
Island communities will have the opportunity to input into the Outer Hebrides Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG) study commissioned by Transport Scotland in late 2017.
7 Iolaire Group Thanks Cormorant Alpha Platform Charity Fund
Taqa Cormorant Alpha Platform Charity Fund today presented a cheque for £200 to the Iolaire Working Group which is working on a range of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Iolaire disaster.
8 Public Meetings For Stornoway Port Authority Plans
Public Meeting and Exhibitions will Help Shape Stornoway Port Authority Plans
The public will have a chance to help shape plans for major developments at Stornoway Harbour that will bring significant …
9 Comhairle Steps Up The Case For Fair Jobs Distribution
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar have called on the Scottish Government to work with the island area local authorities to ensure that jobs created for the islands are secured within the islands...
10 Abandon Ship! Surviving the Wartime Atlantic
Discover the dramatic accounts of the sinking of two merchant ships in a new temporary exhibition at Museum nan Eilean, Lews Castle.
11 Comhairle Welcomes Announcement on BiFab
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has welcomed the announcement that Canadian company JV Driver, through its subsidiary DF Barnes, has acquired BiFab.
Chairman of the Sustainable Development Committee, Cllr Donald…
12 Comhairle Youth Champions Support Loganair Year of Young People
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar's Youth Champions, Cllr Paul Steele and Cllr Norman MacDonald, have welcomed Loganair's support for the the Year of Young People 2018 (YOYP).


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Yoder Family Amish Restaurant
Sadie Zook is in an impossible situation. After a long search, she's finally found love. But the man she's fallen for also happens to work at the same Amish restaurant–a restaurant that has banned co-workers from dating. So Sadie and her boyfriend are forced to keep their love a secret. Can they keep from being found out, or will everything Sadie has worked so hard for be jeopardized?
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Repeat Births by Teen Girls Still Too High: CDC
20 percent are repeat births and these babies face health risks, agency says
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
In 2010, more than 365,000 teens aged 15 to 19 gave birth and about 67,000 (18.3 percent) of those were repeat births, according to the April Vital Signs report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Repeat births among teens decreased by more than 6 percent between 2007 and 2010, but the number of repeat births remains high, according to the study.
In 2010, repeat teen births were highest among American Indian/Alaska Natives (nearly 22 percent), Hispanics (21 percent) and blacks (about 20 percent). They were lowest among whites (just under 15 percent).
Repeat births ranged from a high of 22 percent in Texas to 10 percent in New Hampshire, according to the report.
Although 91 percent of teen mothers who were sexually active used some form of contraception, only 22 percent used contraceptives considered to be "most effective," meaning that, with those forms of birth control, the risk of pregnancy was less than one pregnancy per 100 users per year.
Teen pregnancies can change the lives and futures of the mother, child and family. Infants born as a result of repeat teen pregnancy are also more likely to be born too soon and too small, the report stated.
"Teen birth rates in the United States have declined to a record low, which is good news," CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in an agency news release. "But rates are still far too high. Repeat births can negatively impact the mother's education and job opportunities as well as the health of the next generation. Teens, parents, health-care providers and others need to do much more to reduce unintended pregnancies."
Parents, health-care providers and other adults need to talk to both male and female teens about avoiding pregnancy by not having sex. With sexually active teens, the discussion can focus on the most effective types of birth control, according to the report.
Dr. Jill Rabin is chief of ambulatory care, obstetrics and gynecology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, in New Hyde Park, N.Y. She said: "There are several excellent options available not only to continue to ensure that the current rate of teenage pregnancy continues to decline (as it has from 2007), but especially to prevent repeat pregnancies among adolescents.
"These include: linking pregnant and parenting teens to home-based and school-based programs, and support and funding for programs which offer a support net of services for these often socio-economically underserved teens, including clinical, nutritional and psychosocial support. This is truly a unique opportunity to open our national conversation about safer sexual health, birth spacing and birth control, especially the most effective method: long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). Long-acting reversible contraception includes a device inserted into the uterus, or an implant in the arm lasting 3 to 10 years and has been deemed clinically safe for teens. These initiatives, including LARC, are a golden opportunity to enhance the long-term health of our teenagers."
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|Lennart Kolmodin 2008
|Safe Haskell
This has code for checking for various problems in packages. There is one
set of checks that just looks at a
PackageDescription in isolation and
another set of checks that also looks at files in the package. Some of the
checks are basic sanity checks, others are portability standards that we'd
like to encourage. There is a
PackageCheck type that distinguishes the
different kinds of check so we can see which ones are appropriate to report
in different situations. This code gets uses when configuring a package when
we consider only basic problems. The higher standard is uses when when
preparing a source tarball and by Hackage when uploading new packages. The
reason for this is that we want to hold packages that are expected to be
distributed to a higher standard than packages that are only ever expected
to be used on the author's own environment.
- data PackageCheck
- = PackageBuildImpossible {
- | PackageBuildWarning {
- | PackageDistSuspicious {
- | PackageDistSuspiciousWarn {
- | PackageDistInexcusable {
- checkPackage :: GenericPackageDescription -> Maybe PackageDescription -> [PackageCheck]
- checkConfiguredPackage :: PackageDescription -> [PackageCheck]
- checkPackageFiles :: PackageDescription -> FilePath -> NoCallStackIO [PackageCheck]
- checkPackageContent :: Monad m => CheckPackageContentOps m -> PackageDescription -> m [PackageCheck]
- data CheckPackageContentOps m = CheckPackageContentOps {
- doesFileExist :: FilePath -> m Bool
- doesDirectoryExist :: FilePath -> m Bool
- getDirectoryContents :: FilePath -> m [FilePath]
- getFileContents :: FilePath -> m ByteString
- checkPackageFileNames :: [FilePath] -> [PackageCheck]
Package Checking
data PackageCheck Source #
Results of some kind of failed package check.
There are a range of severities, from merely dubious to totally insane. All of them come with a human readable explanation. In future we may augment them with more machine readable explanations, for example to help an IDE suggest automatic corrections.
This package description is no good. There's no way it's going to build sensibly. This should give an error at configure time.
A problem that is likely to affect building the package, or an issue that we'd like every package author to be aware of, even if the package is never distributed.
An issue that might not be a problem for the package author but might be annoying or detrimental when the package is distributed to users. We should encourage distributed packages to be free from these issues, but occasionally there are justifiable reasons so we cannot ban them entirely.
Like PackageDistSuspicious but will only display warnings rather than causing abnormal exit when you run 'cabal check'.
An issue that is OK in the author's environment but is almost certain to be a portability problem for other environments. We can quite legitimately refuse to publicly distribute packages with these problems.
|Eq PackageCheck #
Defined in Distribution.PackageDescription.Check
(==) :: PackageCheck -> PackageCheck -> Bool #
(/=) :: PackageCheck -> PackageCheck -> Bool #
|Show PackageCheck #
Defined in Distribution.PackageDescription.Check
checkPackage :: GenericPackageDescription -> Maybe PackageDescription -> [PackageCheck] Source #
Check for common mistakes and problems in package descriptions.
This is the standard collection of checks covering all aspects except
for checks that require looking at files within the package. For those
It requires the
GenericPackageDescription and optionally a particular
configuration of that package. If you pass
Nothing then we just check
a version of the generic description using
Checking package contents
checkPackageFiles :: PackageDescription -> FilePath -> NoCallStackIO [PackageCheck] Source #
Sanity check things that requires IO. It looks at the files in the package and expects to find the package unpacked in at the given file path.
checkPackageContent :: Monad m => CheckPackageContentOps m -> PackageDescription -> m [PackageCheck] Source #
Sanity check things that requires looking at files in the package.
This is a generalised version of
checkPackageFiles that can work in any
monad for which you can provide
CheckPackageContentOps operations.
The point of this extra generality is to allow doing checks in some virtual file system, for example a tarball in memory.
data CheckPackageContentOps m Source #
A record of operations needed to check the contents of packages.
Used by
checkPackageFileNames :: [FilePath] -> [PackageCheck] Source #
Check the names of all files in a package for portability problems. This should be done for example when creating or validating a package tarball.


text: Hi all When I send e-mails the "From" field contains the webid_name (ie. web1_admin) which is the default User Prefix "web[WEBID]_" in System Config -> Settings -> ISP Config but is unsuitable for the task. I would like to see "[email protected]"! How can I achieve this, I actuall require a suffux @FQSN!


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DALLAS — The baseball that broke the hearts of Boston Red Sox fans everywhere and turned Bill Buckner into one of the most famous goats in sports history is up for sale.
The ball that rolled through Buckner's legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between Boston and the New York Mets will part of an auction Friday in Dallas. Heritage Auctions said the ball is expected to bring in more than $100,000 as the centerpiece of an auction featuring the baseball memorabilia collection of Los Angeles songwriter Seth Swirsky.
"That one ball kind of encapsulates the highest and lowest you can feel in sports at any given moment," Swirsky said.
Buckner hit .289 with 2,715 hits in 22 years and had more than 100 RBIs in two of his three full seasons with the Red Sox. All of that was overshadowed by his error at Shea Stadium that night when Mookie Wilson's grounder rolled through Buckner's legs, allowing the Mets to cap a two-out rally with a victory in the 10th inning. The Mets went on to win the series and Boston's championship drought — dating to 1918 — continued until 2004.
"I think everybody remembers where they were, even if they were a sports fan or not. Everybody seems to remember that. It's not just a baseball moment. It's not just a piece of Mets history or Red Sox history but it seems like it was a cultural moment of the '80s," said Swirsky, who co-wrote the hit "Tell It To My Heart" by Taylor Dayne, and has multiple hits with Celine Dion, Olivia Newton-John and Al Green.
After the ball rolled through Buckner's legs, it was picked up by right field umpire Ed Montague, who put a tiny "x" near a seam to mark it. Montague then gave the ball to Mets executive Arthur Richman. Wilson signed it to Richman, writing: "To Arthur, the ball won it for us, Mookie Wilson, 10/25/86." As the ball made its way around the clubhouse, someone kissed it, leaving a tobacco stain.
Charlie Sheen bought the famous ball for more than $93,000 in 1992. Swirsky purchased it for nearly $64,000 in 2000.
Swirsky offered the ball up on eBay last October for $1 million but got no takers. He said though that the eBay offering — done on a whim after he realized he could close the bidding on Oct. 25, 2011, of the 25th anniversary of Buckner's famous error — made him realize he would be OK with selling his entire collection.
Other offerings from Swirsky in the auction include: Reggie Jackson's third home run ball from Game 6 of the 1977 World Series, which earned him the title "Mr. October," expected to sell for more than $20,000; Babe Ruth's 136th career home run baseball from 1921, estimated to sell for more than $50,000; and a 1923 letter signed by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis denying reinstatement of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, expected to garner more than $20,000.
Also on the block is the Texas Rangers cap Jose Canseco was wearing in 1993 when a ball hit by Cleveland Indian Carlos Martinez bounced off Canseco's head and then over the outfield wall for an assisted homer. That's expected to sell for more than $4,000.
Buckner was traded to the Red Sox by the Chicago Cubs in May 1984 and released in July 1987. He rejoined them in 1990 then retired after 22 games. Four years ago, Buckner returned to Fenway Park for the first time since 1997 when he was batting coach with the Chicago White Sox and was cheered for more than four minutes.
Swirsky, who while growing up on Long Island developed a love for the Mets and New York Yankees, said that he remembers watching the 1986 Game 6 with his father. Since buying the ball, he said, he has also made it his mission to stress that Buckner shouldn't just be remembered for the Game 6 error, reminding people that Buckner had almost as many hits as Lou Gehrig.
"Buckner was a fantastic player and I will only say good things about him," he said.
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A Catechism on the Principal Parables of the New Testament
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Página 18 - Another parable put He forth unto them, saying : — " The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Página 24 - There was a certain creditor which had two debtors : the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most ? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, thou hast rightly judged.
Página 28 - So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Página 67 - So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Página 40 - And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it : I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them : I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Página 67 - And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Página 70 - And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
Página 76 - They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their season.
Página 50 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely :* for the children of this world are in their generation wiser-^ than the children of light. "And I say unto you, Make" to yourselves friends of the *mammon of unrighteousness ; that, when ye fail,* they may receive you into
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Friday, 21 June 2013 08:05 AM EDT
Lockheed made about 17 percent of its $47 billion of revenue abroad in 2012, or $8 billion, and will "absolutely" exceed its current goal of 20 percent, Pat Dewar, senior vice president for corporate strategy and business development, told Reuters.
The maker of the F-35 fighter jet and Aegis missile systems still lags rivals Raytheon Co., with about 26 percent of sales from abroad, and Boeing Co.'s defense division, which says about 42 percent of its backlog is outside the United States. Both rivals are targeting 30 percent foreign revenue.
"We're moving much more aggressively in the international domain," Dewar said at the Paris Airshow, without giving a new target. "We're going global in a much bigger way."
Lockheed and other big U.S. arms manufacturers are looking to exports and foreign markets to provide continued growth as U.S. military spending slows amid mounting fiscal pressures, and the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lockheed is already working in 70 countries and has what it calls "home team capability" in Britain, Australia and Canada. Now it plans to pump up local operations in other areas such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Japan and India.
"We are going to move the corporation from being essentially overwhelmingly U.S. with international sales, to being a healthy local delivery system in those countries where the governmental relations are strong, and where industry relations are strong or can be strengthened," Dewar said.
Lockheed hopes focusing more on local operations, rather than merely selling products or bringing in experts from U.S. sites, will give it the edge over its competitors, Dewar said.
In February, Lockheed opened new headquarters in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, and signed an agreement with Saudi Arabian Airlines to pursue opportunities such as a new training organization for the aerospace sector.
Lockheed has already sold its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to the United Arab Emirates, where it has a stake in a large aircraft maintenance and overhaul business.
Saudi Arabia is looking closely at the THAAD system and has been briefed by the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, he said.
In India, the company has a joint venture with Tata Advanced Systems for manufacturing airframe components for the C-130J, a large transport plane that Lockheed is selling to India.
"We think that's a base of operations and a base to expand from," Dewar said.
Lockheed also has a large industrial partnership with Italy's Alenia, a unit of Finmeccanica, for final assembly of the F-35, and just signed a similar deal in Japan with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
In addition to weapons-related work, Lockheed sees growing opportunities for civilian projects and already runs the census or manages postal systems in Britain, Canada and Australia.
Dewar sees Lockheed's strength as being able to apply experience managing logistics for big weapons systems to government IT, as it has done in the U.S., where it has been the government's top information technology provider for 18 years.
Cyber security is drawing particular interest from other governments, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, Dewar said, although he declined to identify specific customers.
Lockheed is one of the big players in the U.S. cyber market, where it provides a range of services for the military and intelligence services. Escalating cyber attacks against global computer networks, including Saudi Arabia's national oil and gas company, are generating demand for similar services overseas.
"Cyber could essentially be the door opener in many of these cases," Dewar said.
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Rev. Martin Luther King said more than "I have a dream."
A lot more.
Although his writings span thousands of pages, his legacy has been reduced to stock phrases from the 1963 March on Washington speech.
In fact, King challenged the nation on everything from its treatment of African Americans – Negroes, then – to its stance in Vietnam. He repeatedly talked of "the Negro revolution," in explaining why Blacks folks were relentlessly pressing for equality. His speeches and writings emphasized "resistance" as much as they did "non-violence."
These excerpts from writings, interviews and books show the civil rights leader was concerned with more than dreams and content of character.
Much, much more.
1) King called for an end to America's involvement in Vietnam.
"I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men, and skills and money…So I was increasing compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such." Delivered at Harlem's Riverside Baptist Church on April 4, 1967, "A Time to End the Silence" was perhaps one of Kings' most controversial speeches. A year to the day before his assassination, King explained why he considered America's military policy a civil rights issue. He also called for Negroes to boycott the war and become conscientious objectors. He was reviled. The New York Times editorialized against the speech and the NAACP board unanimously opposed merging the civil rights and anti-war movements.
2) King called for $50 billion in federal aid to improve the lot of African Americans
In a January 1965 interview with Playboy, King stated "It is my belief that with the expenditure of this amount, a genuine and dramatic transformation could be achieved in the conditions of Negro life in America."
Later in the interview, he pointed out that $50 billion was less than a year's worth of defense spending at that time. He also maintained the country would recoup the amount through "a spectacular decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls, rioting and other social evils.
3) King credited emerging nations in Africa with inspiring the "Negro revolution" in America.
"The American Negro saw, in the land from which he had been snatched, a great pageantry of political progress…He knew that by 1963 more than thirty-four African nations had risen from colonial bondage. The Negro saw black statesmen voting on vital issues in the United Nations – and knew that in many cities of his own land he was not permitted to take that significant walk to the ballot box…Witnessing the drama of Negro progress elsewhere in the world…it was natural that by 1963 Negroes would rise and demand a share of governing power, and living conditions measured by American standards rather than by the standards of colonial impoverishment."- From Dr. King's powerful 1964 book Why We Can't Wait.
At the invitation of Kwame Nkrumah, King traveled Ghana to see the nation's independence celebrations in 1957. Afterwards, he began corresponding with other African leaders and working on anti-colonialism efforts, according to the book Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787.
4) King called for Negroes to exercise self-determination
In Stride Towards Freedom, Dr. King's 1958 account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he stated "If first-class citizenship is to become a reality for the Negro, he must assume the primary responsibility for making it so. …In this period of social change, the Negro must come to see that there is so much he himself can do about his plight…. The Negro can take direct action against injustice without waiting for the government to act, or a majority to agree with him…"
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."- From "Letter From a Birmingham Jail," 1963
5) King supported family planning and the use of birth control
Though conspiracy theorists have wrongly accused Planned Parenthood, its founder Margaret Sanger and current leadership of working to decrease the Black population , Dr. King not only accepted the organization's highest honor in 1966, but used his speech as an opportunity to encourage Blacks to use family planning methods in order to better their futures:
"For the Negro, therefore, intelligent guides of family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life. There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command."
Looking for more surprising MLK facts? Check out this list via the Washington Post.


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You have a Netflix queue, which you maintain, nurture, cull and arrange just so.
Therefore you curate movies.
You have iTunes playlists on your computer, each of which probably tells a kind of story. Therefore you curate music.
I don't have a cascading Tumblr page or playful Pinterest collage to gather images plucked from the Internet, arranging and juxtaposing them until I have a sort of online art show about, oh, climate change or twerking.
But if I did — if I was thoughtfully assembling, considering, driving home a point of view — I would be curating.
True? False? Doesn't pass the smell test?
Or is there room for argument?
This is a story about the slipperiness and relevance of a word: "Curate." What curating means now. Who does it. Why they do it. How curated materials become the events you attend. But mostly, it's about why curation — until recently, a job rarely claimed outside the marble halls of museums — has become a ubiquitous, quintessentially 21st century act.
One of the roles of the professional curator is the thoughtful sorting of a few pieces from myriad options? Anyone with a Spotify account and almost limitless access to the history of recorded music would understand.
One of the roles of the professional curator is the obsessive, rigorous arranging of materials to tell a story?
Some call that Facebook.
On one hand, there's the persistent, traditional art-world definition: "A curator provides context, connoisseurship. A curator chooses, but not only chooses," said John Corbett, co-curator of the Wicker Park gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey. Peter Taub, who curates performance art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, said: "Curating is more than a reflection of a person's interests. It is scholarship, framing ideas, telling stories — showing the edge that exists between the thing curated and the rest of us."
On the other hand, that title, "curator" — summoning images of gravitas, of somber, skilled art administrators and historians who have spent years with subjects, applying rigorous critiques, even nurturing artists' careers — has flown from its ivory tower and become democratized. Lately, it seems to connote: any thoughtful artisanal soul engaged in an activity that involves selecting, organizing and discernment.
Just like Kristin Cavallari!
At New York City's Fashion Week last month, the former reality TV star (and wife of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler) hosted a runway show of NFL-themed clothing from Junk Food Clothing, a vintage T-shirt designer. The title of the show was: "Junk Food Presents NFL/Elements Curated by Kristin Cavallari."
How fashionable.
Red Bull now "curates" events with street artists (and the Chicago rap blog Fake Shore Drive). Restaurant guide Zagat "curates" its listings. Actress Blake Lively announced she is starting a lifestyle company to help people "curate" their lives. Two years ago the fundraising website Kickstarter began offering special pages of projects "curated" by municipalities (including the City of Chicago). Etsy has "guest curators." The other day I ate at a restaurant with a "curated" cheese course. In fact, it's hard to find a farmer's market or craft fair now that's not curated these days.
And that doesn't even skim the surface: Jay Z, rapper, prolific curator, not only curated the past two editions of Philadelphia's massive Labor Day musical festival, this winter he is curating a designer holiday collection for Barneys New York. According to the Pitchfork music site, Wilco "curates" its annual Solid Sound Festival in Massachusetts. And, not to be outdone, Kanye West, who has never let a good trend pass quietly, once tweeted: "If I had to be defined at this point I'll take the title of an inventor or maybe a curator."
Depending on your dictionary, a curator can be "one who has the care of souls," a thoughtful preservationist, or simply that person who selects a few items out of many possibilities. And these days, that doesn't necessarily imply tangible objects: Sarah Best, a Chicago artist and occasional film curator, recently curated a dance-film series for the website Dances Made to Order. Then there's Heather Sperling, editor of online food publication Tasting Table and co-founder of Chicago's Dose and Fete artisanal food and design markets (as well as the upcoming Tasting Table market). She told me: "In a highly 'curated' market, curating means, to a certain extent, 'invitation only.' We only use those businesses we ask. I think of the word as close to 'editor.' It applies so well to what I do because it has connotations of quality, savvy, a critical hand. Curating suggests a trained professional is vouching for whatever it is that a curator is handling — though, maybe not always a trained professional."
If you have issues with any of this, understand: Some so-called curators do too.
Take Philip von Zweck. He curates a flag pole. Sort of.
In 2005, the artist, occasional curator and academic manager of the art and design department at Columbia College erected a 25-foot flagpole outside Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He decided that he would fly anything from it that anyone brought him. Since then he's flown customized American flags and Canadian flags, Jewel supermarket bags and underwear. "If curation is thoughtful selection, then this is not that," he said. "Yet it's amazing how many people call me as the 'curator' of that pole — I suppose I think of curation in a more conservative way than others do now."
Similarly, Mike Reed, the Chicago-based jazz musician, producer and programmer of the Pitchfork Music Festival (among many jobs), is often referred to as a music curator. Understandably so: The acts at his Constellation venue on Western Avenue are so idiosyncratic, it's easy to assume a discriminating eye is involved. But Reed himself protests the title: "I have never called myself a curator. In my context, what I do, (that word is) too precious. I book bands, I program and sometimes I promote. To use 'curate' would be so self-aggrandizing — everyone thinks now that having a knack for putting together things makes them special."
That said, don't think all the serious-minded curatorial types out there crinkle their noses at the democratization of the curator. I recently attended a class on curating at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The professor was Mary Jane Jacob, distinguished curator and executive director of the school's Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies program. Early in the class, she asked what everyone thought about the proliferation of people outside of the art world calling themselves curators. "Honestly, I'm fine with it," said graduate student Brett Swinney, explaining that there are those with professional curatorial training and those without, "and this broadening forces those with curatorial skill sets to differentiate themselves from the rest."
Nathan Boese, his classmate, nodded. "But I also think there is something to why people use it," he said. "Someone writing a poem or a play: They are selecting, organizing and sequencing, too. That might be a form of curating? I would call it that. A band that sequences the songs on a record, they bring a meaning to that order — maybe it's lower-case curating?"
To be honest, I tend to roll my eyes at careless, liberal interpretations of curating. The more the word has been thrown about, the more meaningless it seems. Erin McKean, the formerly Chicago-based founder of the popular website Wordnik, said: "It's a result of the linguistic inflation that goes on when people want to make what they are doing sound important." Shannon Stratton, founder of Chicago's threewalls gallery, said: "What I find bothersome is all the self-appointing." Or simply appropriating? When I spoke with architect Marshall Brown — who co-founded the New Projects gallery in Bronzeville with Smart Museum of Art curator Stephanie Smith — I asked what kind of architect he was. He chuckled: "Funny you ask. Though I'm not obsessed with disciplinary boundaries, there's a lot of mission creep going on these days."
And probably a healthy dose of branding, marketing: On The Daily Beast, former editor Tina Brown once wrote that the website was not another news aggregator; instead, she explained, "It sifts, sorts and curates."
Perhaps, though, in a world of too much of everything, it's natural to long for the tidy alchemy of curation.
"What I love about everyone using this word," Jacob said, "is that a decade ago I doubt many people even knew what curation was about. It was very abstract to people. So I don't think the aesthetic-minded should get their professional noses out of whack. At the very least, thoughtful assembling is a lesson in curation."
And a helpful — if self-flattering — approach to making sense of visual and informational cacophony.
"If you told people 15 years ago you were curating a cheese plate, you'd get laughed at," said Lane Relyea, chairman of the art theory and practice department at Northwestern University. "But 15 years ago, the supermarket cheese aisle had white cheese, yellow cheese and that's about it. It's not so passive being a consumer, or observer, of anything anymore. I don't know if it's a good thing, but this rise of the curator as an everyday figure — whereas once we all just nodded at things — it feels like a historical thing."
Depending who you ask, the roots of curation's ubiquity come out of different sources. Robert Storr, a famed critic and curator and current dean of the Yale University School of Art, said: "For a long time being a curator was not a big deal. It was a craft based in understanding. But in the 1990s the role of the curator changed. Curators wanted to acquire the mystique of artists. Which I've always taken to be a sign of weakness actually — why couldn't curators have enough self respect to feel they needed mystique?"
Nevertheless, the job — famously tweedy, scholarly and thick with anonymous, studious art historians — went global as the art market itself soared in the past decade. The Superstar Curator became an art world archetype — and at roughly the same time as the rise of the artisan food and craft movement, which was a response to the big-box-storing of American consumer culture. Not coincidentally, during this time university-based museum and curatorial studies took off. Sarah Higgins, the graduate program coordinator for curatorial studies at Bard College in New York, told me its programs "started very art-object driven, but as the range of curatorial practices have became more discursive, every class sees students who are interested in testing the parameters of what is curatorial."
Relyea thinks of curating's contemporary ubiquity as part of a broader cultural shift, existing alongside the mash-up, the DJ, the remix, electronic music, hacker culture and aggregation: "At some point in the '90s, there was a drift from live music and people started moving more and more into these programmed spaces, and yet, instead of young people feeling there was less authenticity in spaces like that, there was more authenticity. Back in the day, students argued about the authenticity of painters and bands, and nothing is dorkier to them now. Nobody starts bands. They organize, program stuff, share computer files of things. Which I think is the same impulse that leads someone who is merely sorting to claim they're curating. People see authorship in organizing information now. And can you say that selecting, arranging, structuring, paying attention to patterns and meanings in material — which is also what a DJ does — is not creating?"
Indeed, while I was working on this story, a Chicago artist who curates online casually told me the idea that one needs to create original work to be creating something "is a very 20th century way of seeing the world now."
In a different era, teenagers — and editors, to spur fresh ideas from their staff — would clip images from magazines, arranging the shards into elaborate pastiches, also known as mood boards. Today, a Tumblr or Pinterest account accomplishes something similar, asking users to draw from the vast imagery on the Internet and gather thoughtfully considered meaningfulness out of other people's work. Fittingly, Tumblr and Pinterest are awash in references to curation, curatorial tools, even jibes at the idea of digital curation — the "Curate Meme" Tumblr page is basically a series of pop images with curation jokes scrawled on inventively, from a "Watchmen" panel amended with "I curated it all 35 minutes ago" to a TV talking head who intones:
"I don't know, therefore cursation."
Perhaps it was telling then that, at the end of Mary Jane Jacob's SAIC class, when she asked where her students pictured themselves curating someday, the only ones who responded did not mention museums.
Not that professional curators — the old-school kind, in lofty institutional perches — are too concerned about their place, or the ubiquity of their job. If anything, they're bemused. "It's kind of cool, to be honest. It makes us seem a lot less 'ivory tower,'" said Michael Darling, the MCA's chief curator. "The separating factor will simply be the level of expertise between the serious and the lightweights." Even Everett Katigbak, brand manager for Pinterest and a former exhibitions designer for Los Angeles' Getty Museum, said "curating to me implies an audience, and online, on Pinterest, what is happening is still something of a personal experience."
Several weeks ago I visited Gloria Groom at the Art Institute of Chicago. Last summer, after four decades here, Groom, who handles the museum's collection of 19th century European paintings, was named its first senior curator. Elegant and serious — seated in her long, thin office lined with art catalogs — she cast the classic venerated image of a discerning, slightly stuffy curator. But when asked if she was offended by the broad adoption, the cultural leveling, of her title, by sports drink manufacturers and cheesemongers alike, her eyes lit up.
In a steady voice, feigning shock, she replied:
"It doesn't bother me. But if they are curators, what am I? It reminds me of when everyone at your local bank suddenly became a 'vice president.' Or that list of 'producers' in a movie's credits. If everyone claims to be a curator now, what is a curator these days? Maybe we need to get more specific now. 'Senior legit curator'?"
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Coding Cookbook/Validate Email Address
Regular Expressions?[edit | edit source]
There are many many proposed regular expression solutions to this problem, however the e-mail address format is so complicated that it is difficult to do with a regular expression alone. On the other hand, the vast majority of email addresses that people actually use fall into a small subset of the standard, and thus various usable regular expressions can be found of varying degrees accuracy scattered widely across the internet. If you want to look at a cool regular expression that performs a subset of the email validation process, stare at this for a while; there are also some quick not-quite-perfect solutions here.
Practical solution[edit | edit source]
Because parsing an email address is so difficult, it makes little sense to even attempt it; particularly as it would be trivial for someone to give you a correctly formatted email address that still didn't work. This means that the best way to detect whether an email address is valid is to simply send it an email. If you can verify that the email was received, then you know for certain that the email address is valid (though it doesn't guarantee this for any length of time, as many services exist giving out temporary email addresses).
The most common way of doing this is to send someone an email containing a link to an http service with a long random string attached to it, only the email and your server contain the random key, so someone would have to read the email to find the correct link.
The purpose of the random string is to reduce the possibility that someone can make the server believe that the email address exists, while in fact it does not. For example, suppose that the link sent in the email is of the form http://firstname.lastname@example.com. Someone could use an existing, valid email address to see the pattern, and subsequently call the server with any random email address, even without receiving the actual mail containing the link.
Some servers require authentication when opening the link. For example, the user claiming the email address must supply his user id and password when validating it. While this is useful for confidentiality of the data shown on the validation page (including the statement that the address has been validated as an existing address), it does not prevent registering non-existent addresses. Only a long random string used as described above can do that.
Note also that the string must be random only from the client perspective, not necessarily from the server perspective. For example, the server can digitally sign the url, and validate the signature. In this case, the server does not need to store the random key to be able to validate it.
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Between Lines Deck Chair Cushion 3.295 dkk
Designed by Stine Weigelt
Add an extra dimension of comfort to your Between Lines Deck Chair with this custom-made cushion that easily ties to the seat. The 17 folds in the design of the cushion are inspired by the construction of a wooden suspension bridge. Able to withstand wind and weather, the upholstery fabrics are Oeko-Tex certified and extremely colour and lightfast as well as water and dirt-repellent and even mildew-resistant. The cushion dries exceptionally quickly, even after a heavy downpour, as the foam has an open-cell structure that allows both water and air to pass through. The foam provides a firm and comfortable texture that remains the same year after year. The colourful stripes add a new expression to the classic design.
Please note different version for UK market.
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Proper usage and maintenance is vital for getting the most out of the valuable resources we have. Our designs are made to last for generations, but just like everything else, they need a little care to get there.
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Xanthorrhoea glauca
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Xanthorrhoea glauca D.J.Bedford
Xanthorrhoea glauca is a plant that has a special place in the heart of many Australians. This unusual and iconic plant has been a part of Aboriginal history, colonial artworks and a modern day inspiration to landscape architects.
The natural distribution of X. glauca encompasses a large portion of the South East coast extending inland. This species thrives in well drained, aerated soils that have a low nutrient content, making it an easy plant to include in any garden.
The family Xanthorrhoeaceae is found all around Australia, though primarily on the east and west coast, and all species have been given the common name of 'grass trees'. This is because these species are monocots that are able to form a trunk from old leaf bases and a naturally occurring resin. All Xanthorrhoea species have an amazing ability to survive a variety of different fire regimes as the living growth is buried within the old dead leaf bases.
The rich history of X. glauca and its unique form makes it a perfect garden specimen. The interest of gardeners has been hindered by the reluctance of the nursery industry and the law regarding these plants.
The nursery industry has been slow to embrace the cultivation potential of this plant due to its slow growth rate. In its natural environment X. glauca is expected to only grow one to two centimeters a year, though it has been suggested that growth rates are greatly increased when grown by seed. By growing from seed other issues involving the current restrictions on transplanting are avoided. Due to the iconic nature of this plant it has been actively removed from its natural habitat. This practice is not only illegal but also risky as all Xanthorrhoea species are infamous for having sensitive roots.
In order to reduce the chance of death many gardeners use some techniques when planting. A sunny position should be chosen and the soil should be well aerated for best results. When planting into a pot, sand or gravel should be added to improve drainage. When placing out into the garden best results are achieved by planting on top of a mound. All precautions should be taken to reduce the amount of disturbance to roots. Many horticulturalists recommend cutting and slowly pulling away the plastic pot and carefully placing into a pre dug hole that is double the width and depth of the pot. After planting it should be well watered with a Seasol mixture to encourage root growth.
The first few months after planting are a critical time and daily watering should maintained for the first month before being slowly reduced. It can take up to two years for a grass tree to die so any fungal infections should be treated, and any flower spikes should be removed to ensure resources are used to establish new roots.
Maintenance of X. glauca is minimal after establishment; this plant requires little water and is not susceptible to many insect infestations. The leaf bases can be trimmed to expose the trunk or even burnt away depending on the gardener. This is a stunning and hardy plant that has a place in any Australian garden, although the slow growth rate has hindered interest in the past this plant gives the gardener satisfaction for decades.
Text by Samantha Cullen (2010 Student Botanical Intern)
Name Meaning: Xanthorrhoea glauca
Xanthorrhoea – from the Greek xanthos, meaning yellow, and rheo, meaning to flow; referring to the resin
glauca – referring to the blue-green to grey, glaucous leaves
Borsboom, A.C. 2005. Xanthorrhoea: A review of current knowledge with a focus on X. johnsonii and X. latifolia, 2 Queensland protected plants-in-trade. Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland. Accessed February 2010 at http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/register/p01593aa.pdf
Harden, G.J. 1993. Flora of New South WalesVol. 4. New South Wales University Press, Australia.
Marges, D. 2010. ANBG Horticulturalist, pers. comm.
Spencer, R. 2003. Grassing on the trees. Australian Horticulture 101(12): 18
Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. 1989. Flora of South-eastern Queensland Vol. 3. Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane.
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. 2003. Australian Native Plant Cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation, 5 th edition. Reed New Holland Publishing


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OSN shares its expert analysis on the teams that will come away with victory in this weekend's NFL week four games:
49ers at Rams
OSN's Lock Of The Week: 49ers — The 49ers will rebound after a pair of tough losses in a 35-11 win over the Rams, leading San Francisco head coach Jim Harbaugh to only scream at his wife three times on the car ride home.
Ravens at Bills
OSN's Pick: Ravens — Quarterback Joe Flacco could look pretty good this week against a depleted Bills secondary relying on head athletic trainer Bill Carpenter at cornerback.
Bengals at Browns
OSN's Pick: Bengals — The Browns will have no answer for Cincinnati's elite long snapper Clark Harris.
Bears at Lions
OSN's Pick: Bears — Chicago will prove once and for all that this team has a very easy schedule.
Seahawks at Texans
OSN's Pick: Texans — Russell Wilson and the Seahawks face their greatest test yet against a hostile Texans crowd that don't take kindly to their type around here.
Colts at Jaguars
OSN's Pick: Colts — While we think they should win easily, Andrew Luck and the Colts offense will have a tough time adjusting to the deafening silence of EverBank Field.
Giants at Chiefs
OSN's Pick: Chiefs — Eli Manning will have another long day of trying to avoid being crushed by the Giants' toppling offensive line.
Steelers at Vikings
OSN's Pick: Steelers — If you have any interest in this game, you probably play for the Steelers or Vikings.
Cardinals at Buccaneers
OSN's Pick: Cardinals — The old witch said Arizona, and she hasn't been wrong yet.
Jets at Titans
OSN's Pick: Jets — With Geno Smith leading the way, the Jets will continue their improbable march toward third place in the AFC East.
Broncos at Eagles
OSN's Pick: Broncos — Chip Kelly's high-octane Eagles offense will score six touchdowns in this 50-point blowout loss against the Broncos.
Redskins at Raiders
OSN's Pick: Redskins — Raiders pick up where they left off last week as they start the game down 16 points.
Cowboys at Chargers
OSN's Pick: Cowboys — The Chargers have the odds stacked against them, as they have been very poor against NFL offenses this season.
Patriots At Falcons
OSN's Pick: Patriots — Only a few weeks into the season, we've already seen enough: Tom Brady is the real deal.
Dolphins At Saints
OSN's Pick: Saints — This prediction is actually a little hazy because the game is so far in the future.


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Thirteen students from the Great Neck area, a cluster of Long Island communities with top-ranked schools that send virtually all their graduates to college, were implicated in the latest round of charges, filed Tuesday. Seven others were arrested in September.
Prosecutors said 15 high school students hired five other people for anywhere from $500 to $3,600 each to take the SAT or ACT for them. The impostors - all of them college students who attended Great Neck-area public and private high schools - fooled test administrators by showing up for the exams with phony ID.
"Honest, hardworking students are taking a back seat to the cheaters," Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. "This is a system begging for security enhancements."
Prosecutors actually suspect 40 students were involved in the cheating, but the two-year statute of limitation had expired for the others, Rice said.
All the defendants but three, who were awaiting arraignment, pleaded not guilty.
The scandal prompted New York state lawmakers to convene a hearing on test security, and a firm run by former FBI Director Louis Freeh was retained by exam administrators to review procedures.
Prosecutors and others questioned the effectiveness of test security when it was revealed in September that a young man arrested in the scheme allegedly took the exam for a teenage girl.
The students who hired ringers registered to take the exam at different high schools from the ones they attended, so that their teachers would not realize what was going on.
Among the new defendants, those accused of taking the test for money were Joshua Chefec, 20; Adam Justin, 19; Michael Pomerantz, 18; and George Trane, 19. Justin attends Indiana University; Chefec goes to Tulane University; and Trane is at Stony Brook University. Prosecutors did not immediately know where Pomerantz is a student.
Chefec, Justin and Trane surrendered Tuesday and were charged with scheming to defraud, falsifying business records and criminal impersonation. They each face up to four years in prison if convicted. Pomerantz is expected to turn himself in next week.
The students accused of hiring others to take the exam are not being identified because they are being prosecuted as juveniles. They were charged with misdemeanors.
Prosecutors did not say where any of them may be attending college. And because of privacy reasons, they said they cannot even notify the colleges of the cheating allegations.
Brian Griffin, an attorney for two of the defendants, including Chefec, said that they are not guilty but that the allegations should be handled by the schools, not by the district attorney.
"You're talking about students cheating on tests," Griffin said. "You're not talking about violent crime. You're not talking about drugs. No one condones, but it does not belong in the criminal justice system."
The scheme began to unravel after Great Neck North High School faculty members looked into rumors that students had paid someone to take the SAT for them, Rice said. Administrators then identified six students who had big discrepancies between their academic records and their SAT scores.
The allegations did not surprise many of those shopping and running errands in Great Neck on Tuesday afternoon.
"I'm not surprised," said Robin Tobin-Hess. "I think there's too much emphasis by the colleges on the SATs. Kids are under a lot of pressure to do well and in affluent areas, they're going to do what they can to do it."
Shawn Eshaghian, a social worker, argued that cheating is not limited to Great Neck, but conceded it is probably easier to accomplish here.
"A lot of people that have money are in this community," he said, "and I'm sure the $2,500, as much as it was big money, especially for a kid, I'm sure their parents give them whatever they want anyway."
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Started listening to Bill Clark's amazing oldies show on WATD/95.9 on the way back from dinner this evening, and continued on the Web after getting back. Talk about deep cuts. Some of those songs I hadn't heard in 50 years, if ever. All good stuff, familiar or not.
One tune, the name of which I missed, reminded me of two contemporary songs by young artists with roots in bed-Rock. One is Dynamo, by Si Cranstoun, who is the living incarnation of Jackie Wilson, even though he's a young dude from the U.K. The other is North Side Gal, which you can download free at J.D. MacPherson's site. Here's J.D.'s backstory. And a review. He's a punk veteran and former art teacher from Broken Arrow, Nebraska. Not sure who he embodies, other than the whole of rock's deepest geology.
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In case you didn't know, Hyatt is owned by the Pritzker family. Heiress Penny Sue Pritzker chairs Obama's national campaign finance committee. She is also big player in Democratic Party politics as well as in the world of anti-union, corporate school reform and was recently appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a seat on the Chicago school board.
Pritzker's response to the Park Hyatt strikers was to turn on the hotel's powerful heating lamps to try and bake the workers into submission on this brutally hot day. But this seemingly inhuman and probably illegal response seemed to have had just the opposite effect. Picketers began chanting, "Hyatt can't take the heat, but we can!" The lamps were left on until word got out and media began to show up.
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First Leg of Long Trek Toward Mount Sharp
July 08, 2013
This view from the left Navigation Camera (Navcam) of NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity looks back at wheel tracks made during the first drive away from the last science target in the "Glenelg" area. The drive commenced a long trek toward the mission's long-term destination: Mount Sharp. Curiosity drove 59 feet (18 meters) on the 324th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars. It took this image that same sol, looking back toward the target sedimentary outcrop called "Shaler." Wheel tracks in the right foreground of the image were left by Curiosity's earlier passage through this area on its way toward Glenelg targets seven months earlier.
The trek to the entry point for lower layers of Mount Sharp, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) away, will take many months. While working at targets near Shaler in the "Glenelg" area during the first half of 2013, Curiosity found evidence of a past Martian environment with conditions favorable for microbial life. The mission's main destination remains the lower layers of Mount Sharp, where researchers anticipate finding evidence about how the ancient Martian environment changed and evolved.


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Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play yet cannot win? Welcome to gamespace. Gamespace is where and how we live today. It is everywhere and nowhere: the main chance, the best shot, the big leagues, the only game in town. In a world thus configured, McKenzie Wark contends, digital computer games are the emergent cultural form of the times. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark approaches them as a utopian version of the world in which we actually live. Playing against the machine on a game console, we enjoy the only truly level playing field—where we get ahead on our strengths or not at all.
Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society. The book depicts a world becoming an inescapable series of less and less perfect games. This world gives rise to a new persona. In place of the subject or citizen stands the gamer. As all previous such personae had their breviaries and manuals, Gamer Theory seeks to offer guidance for thinking within this new character. Neither a strategy guide nor a cheat sheet for improving one's score or skills, the book is instead a primer in thinking about a world made over as a gamespace, recast as an imperfect copy of the game.