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(IMF) Machinery Industry Stock Outlook – May 2013 – Zacks Analyst Interviews
Recovery — or the extent of recovery — from the lows experienced since the 2008 global crisis is on everyone's mind today. Achievement on this front, as witnessed from the equity market improvements, has been quite remarkable. But can we say the global economy has rebounded completely to its pre-crisis level?
Well, the pursuit is still on. The path to recovery has not been an easy one with ever-present headwinds hindering growth, the most disconcerting of which was the Eurozone debt crisis that significantly slowed down the overall growth pace in 2011 and 2012.
According to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook published in Apr 2013, promising signs to growth are expected from the world's emerging and developing nations, while advanced economies are expected to exhibit slow but appreciable growth.
Projections by the IMF suggest that the world economy will likely grow by 3.3% in 2013 and 4.0% in 2014. Growth in advanced economies and emerging and developing countries are projected at 1.2% and 5.3% in 2013 while the same for 2014 are estimated at 2.2% and 5.7%, respectively.
No doubt obstacles still persist in the form of an unstable European economy and slowly reviving advanced countries; nevertheless, the overall growth picture may not materially deteriorate from the IMF's Apr 2013 forecast.
Regarding the Machinery industry, increasing economic activities spur demand for industrial products, which in turn also boosts the need for new/advanced machinery. Based on this direct correlation, anticipation of improvement in global economic growth is a positive sign for the future prospects of the machinery industry.
The major end-markets for the machinery industry include agriculture, construction, mining and energy industries, among others. A brief discussion providing a glimpse of the future prospects of the machinery industry in different nations is provided below.
Machinery Industry Prospects in the U.S.
The IMF expects the United States to grow 1.9% in 2013 as against 2.1% predicted earlier and roughly 3.0% expected in 2014. High unemployment still seems to be a disturbing factor, though there is a glimmer of hope emanating from evidence of strengthening demands in the housing as well as durable goods markets. Conditions in the credit markets are also improving slowly.
The Machinery industry is one of the most attractive industries in the country. Growth prospects for this industry can be deduced from the indicators to the performances in the recent past. In the first quarter of 2013 (Jan-Mar), industrial production in the United States rose by an annual rate of 5.0%, while the same in the month of April rose by 1.9% as compared with the year-ago period. Manufacturing output grew 5.3% in the quarter.
According to the US Census Bureau report published in May 2013, machinery shipments in the first quarter 2013 increased 6.0% year over year while new machinery orders grew 3.6%. However, machinery order backlog at the end of the quarter was down 12.5%. Shipments for construction and industrial machinery rose by 40.0% and 18.2%, respectively, while that for mining equipment and farm machinery dipped 3.7% and 8.0%, respectively.
Export demand has been considered crucial for the future growth prospects of the U.S. machinery industry. According to a report published by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) in Feb 2013, the United States' construction equipment exports rose 13% in year 2012, while agricultural equipment exports registered a 16% increase.
For the years to come, international demand for technologically advanced construction and agriculture equipment are expected to improve for the United States. In this respect, it is worth mentioning that the US-Russia trade bill will boost U.S. exports of construction equipment to Russia, the 11th-largest export market for U.S. construction equipment.
Japanese Markets
According to the latest report published by Japan's Cabinet Office, on a monthly basis, core machinery orders in March 2013 grew a whopping 14.2%. Recovery in capital spending and higher orders from the shipping and electric power companies were the main drivers of the growth. Also, overseas demand for machinery grew 27.5% in March, indicating prospects of a solid demand growth in the months ahead.
According to the IMF, the Japanese economy is projected to grow 1.6% in 2013 and 1.4% in 2014.
Emerging Nations
China and India, the two major emerging/developing nations, are expected to show signs of tangible growth in the years ahead. According to the IMF, the Chinese economy is projected to grow 8.0% in 2013 and 8.2% in 2014.
Looser fiscal and monetary measures by Chinese authorities — their efforts in increasing fixed asset investments along the lines of interest rate cut by the Chinese central bank — are expected to boost growth. Domestic demand is strong as both consumption and investments have increased while exports are also on the rising trend.
Industrial production in India seems to have revived in the month of March 2013, registering an increase of 2.5% over the same month a year-ago. This also represents an increase from 0.5% growth registered in the month of February 2013.
According to the IMF, the country is projected to grow 5.7% in 2013 and 6.2% in 2014 fueled largely by rise in domestic and external demand, expectation of policy improvements and less severe weather conditions.
Korea's industrial production recorded a 0.3% decline in the month of March 2013 over the same month a year ago, according to the latest data released by Statistics Korea. Despite the decline, the country seems to be recovering slowly from the impacts of weak exports due to global uncertainties, especially the Eurozone crisis.
Thailand seems to be recovering fast from the ravages of its floods; reconstruction activities are perceptible in the region to spur demand in the machinery industry. According to the data released by the Office of Industrial Economics of Thailand, industrial production in March 2013 spurred 0.5% year over year. This upsurge, despite weak economic conditions around the globe, especially of the Eurozone, is likely to impact the overall growth in the country.
Other Major Players
Talking of other important players worldwide, upcoming sporting events to be held in Brazil — which call for rising government spending to improve the country's infrastructure, growing trade relations with other economies, as well as huge foreign direct investments — all bode well for the economy. According to the IMF, the country is expected to grow 3.0% in 2013 and 4.0% in 2014.
South Africa is also making progress and is expected to grow 2.8% in 2013 and 3.3% in 2014, as projected by the IMF. The government is focused on improving its mining, manufacturing and agricultural sectors. Moreover, huge public investments in the infrastructure development programs remain in the forefront.
Eurozone – A Hurdle
The Eurozone debt crisis has slowed down the overall growth pace in the region as well as of the global economy. According to a report published by Eurostat in May 2013, industrial production (excluding construction), on a monthly basis, in the Eurozone grew by 1.0% in March 2013.
On a year-over-year basis, industrial production in March dropped 1.7%, including a 6.9% in Luxembourg, 5.2% fall in Italy and 4.1% in Ireland.
Construction output, on a monthly basis, fell 1.7% in Mar 2013. On an annual basis, production dropped 7.9% in Mar, including a 31.8% decline in Slovenia, 16.7% in Portugal and 16.9% in Poland.
According to the VDMA Machine Makers' Association, German machine tool orders in March 2013 plummeted 4.0% year over year, with domestic orders down by 15% and international orders slightly increasing by 1.0%.
Important Players of the Machinery Industry
Deere & Company's (DE) fiscal second quarter 2013 (ended Apr 2013) results were impressive. For the quarter, equipment sales rose roughly 9%, with price realization contributing 3%. The agricultural and forestry equipment provider is expanding globally to leverage benefits from the growing global farm industry. For fiscal year 2013, equipment sales are expected to grow 5% year over year and for the third quarter by 3%. Net earnings for 2013 are projected to be approximately $3.3 billion.
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) posted an 18% decline in Machinery and Power Systems sales in the first quarter of 2013. For the year 2013, the company expects revenue to range within the $57-$61 billion range as against $60-$68 billion expected earlier due primarily to the expectation of weak demand for mining equipment.
Italy-based CNH Global NV (CNH) posted a year-over-year increase of 1% or 3% on a constant currency basis in its equipment sales (agricultural and construction) in the first quarter 2013.
Other top players in the agricultural, construction and mining industry includes: AGCO Corporation (AGCO), Toro Co. (TTC), Terex Corp. (TEX) and Kubota Corporation (KUB), among others.
Prime companies operating in machinery industries other than agricultural, construction and mining, are Rockwell Automation Inc. (ROK), Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (ITW), Manitowoc Company, Inc. (MTW), among others.
Fiscal government expenditures play a counter-cyclical role curbing the ill effects of slower economic developments and a tight credit market. China's structural stimulus package, government spending on social welfare, construction of low-cost housing, completion of infrastructure projects on agriculture, forestry and water resources received special attention.
Also, the U.S. Congress had a stimulus package designed in 2009 that had money flowing into infrastructure spending. Also, The American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7) will boost spending in the infrastructure projects. Approximately $260 billion will be allocated to fund roads, bridges and highway projects over five years.
Russia, which became a World Trade Organization (WTO) member in 2012, will open the gates for companies worldwide to benefit from the growing needs for modernizing the agricultural, transport and infrastructure sectors of the economy.
We remain wary of the rising raw material costs of some of the major players of the machinery industry. Steel prices along with energy, especially coal and fuel prices, remain the prime causes of concern.
Research and development costs are on the rise for machine makers in their pursuit of manufacturing more sophisticated and technologically advanced machinery. Availability of funds remains a stumbling block as some major nations are still struggling to bring stability to their own economies.
Favorable commodity prices are a boon, although government policies affecting prices along with export and import policies and trade relations with other countries impact the machinery industry.
Conclusion: Prospects Bright
Despite the prevailing global uncertainties, rising needs of better infrastructure, modernized methods of agriculture and growing complexity of mining/manufacturing methods will boost demand for technologically advanced equipment in these industries. Moreover, looking ahead, the growth path widens for the emerging and developing nations, which will inevitably be attractive destinations for machine makers worldwide.
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Bill Van Auken of wsws writes:
The escalating war in Africa is neither about terror nor Al Qaeda. Time magazine succinctly outlined the real motives in Mali: "The dangers expand elsewhere, with huge oil reserves attracting Western companies to set up production across the vast Sahel. South of Algeria and Mali sits Niger, a dirt-poor desert country with the world's fourth largest output of uranium, which supplies France's crucial network of nuclear-power stations. East of Algeria is Libya, where a number of Western companies exploit some of Africa's biggest oil reserves."
This from Seamus Milne:
You'd think the war on terror had been a huge success, the way the western powers keep at it, Groundhog Day-style. In reality, it has been a disastrous failure, even in its own terms – which is why the Obama administration felt it had to change its name to "overseas contingency operations", until US defence secretary Leon Panetta revived the old title this week.
Instead of fighting terror, it has fuelled it everywhere it's been unleashed: from Afghanistan to Pakistan, from Iraq to Yemen, spreading it from Osama bin Laden's Afghan lairs eastwards to central Asia and westwards to North Africa – as US, British and other western forces have invaded, bombed, tortured and kidnapped their way across the Arab and Muslim world for over a decade.
So a violent jihadist movement that grew out of western intervention, occupation and support for dictatorship was countered with more of the same. And the law of unintended consequences has meanwhile been played out in spectacular fashion: from the original incubation of al-Qaida in the mujahideen war against the Soviet Union, to the spread of terror from western-occupied Afghanistan to Pakistan, to the strategic boost to Iran delivered by the US-British invasion of Iraq.
Once again there will be thousands and thousands of innocent human beings killed or their lives permanently shattered by the ruthless U.S. and its craven fellow bullying country cronies diabolically using the "War on Terror" as the "fig leaf" excuse to ramp up further violent corporate-driven profiteering imperialist invasions. Thousands and thousands of people in other countries will die along with our own betrayed troops being used as cannon fodder for corporate profits.
Life sure is cheap for our evil and vile matrix, the political military industrial medical security media complex.
Game continued on. The game of killing and robbing and regime changing for profit.
The lying "War on Terror"-exploiting/justifying countries, obscenely amoral, pretend humanitarian concern to protect foreign peoples from terrorists when, like in Syria, the United States is actually covertly enabling Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists to help with their regime-changing with no concern for massive civilian casualties. The reality of the levels of such inhumanity on the part of the US, NATO and other predatory countries is STAGGERING.
More US/NATO country violence to maintain order in Africa? Bullshit. Destabilization is the best friend of the US and NATO countries. Continuing on with the bogeyman AQ chase is just so convenient a cover for colonization, exploitation and political oppression of others.
Anyone with any working brain cells left from long-time exposure to the imperialists' ethical freakshows should know covert CIA efforts have since forever and continuing on promote civil strife to weaken regimes inconvenient and potentially profitable for the big US-NATO countries readying themselves for the ultimate big kill on their "country kill list." Look back at the string of country victims already that struggle with the horrors of our and NATO's intervening "help". As the ultimate take-over kills happen, the engineers and/or political puppets of such bloodbaths declare bullshit "humanitarian" motives and our compliant craven corporate media echoes the mendacity. As an unbelievable number of bobble-headed Americans invest blind trust in an administration pimped out to oligarchs expanding the carnage. Citizens so naive who believe the madness (MLK's word) is about our best interests and national security.
Colossal bullshit.
These colonizing war crime bloodbaths actually are jeopardizing our national security with the immediate and potential blowbacks. The costs of the war crimes are devastating our domestic economic welfare. The war crimes are also destroying the physical and psychological welfare of our troops.
How can we abide it?
These violent war crimes are explained by our mendacious leaders and the stenographic corporate craven media as necessary for "our" interests. Our interests? They say "our" interests but it is really the 1%'s interests. The financial/political criminal elite that is working with some of the most oppressive regimes of the world, like Saudi Arabia, to supposedly "protect democratic rights" of citizens and to faux-encourage the ripples of the Arab Spring when in reality they are joined in an effort not only to profiteer financially from struggling countries but to politically stomp out any possible civil energy inspired from the Arab Spring.
50 cents out of every American dollar it has been reported goes to support a military vilely out of control and the out-of-controllness exponentially expanding with every tragic, planet-razing, human-lives-destroying year.
Bloodbaths 'R Us! We are the MONSTROUS AND MONSTROUSLY ARMED PROACTIVE TERRORISTS willfully and seemingly insanely inspiring mass numbers of smaller-fry reactionary terrorists allying against the imperialist nations (some who even were our operatives that we trained and armed before we betrayed them, along with more and more fresh ones whom we may temporarily recruit again -- the enemy of our enemy is our temporary friend until we demonize them once again) in the Middle East and now Africa.
Plunder and kill. Civilian casualties no biggie.
So, the NewsHour guests are talking about how the US and France are helping Mali tonight.
NewsHour guests are also talking about how women are being welcomed into combat equal to men. Jobs, jobs, jobs -- girls. Maybe death. Probably rape, from your fellow troops.
Your deranged, incompetently and amorally governed, anti-humanitarian country calls. If you don't take the bait, well, our government/military leaders, the REAL terrorists, still have their drones!
[cross-posted on open salon]
responsibility = "ability to respond"!!!
would that the Obama administration had a molecule of it.
best, libby
If Teh Evil Imperialists were after Niger's uranium (Which they already own: it is being mined by foreign, largely Frenchcorporations), why would they invade some neighbouring country instead of going for Niger? I don't approve of Westen policy towards Africa, but cut us some slack: the French (US is playing a minor role in this) are really there to fight the islamist rebels. There's a reason the Malians are glad the intervention happened.Project Honeypot indicates it came from a suspicious IP address.

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Major League Baseball held its annual Rule 5 draft on Thursday, where players with at least 3 or 4 years of professional service (depending on how old they were when drafted) who are not on 40-man rosters can be selected by another team for $50,000 in the major league portion. They would need to remain on the drafting team's 25-man major league roster for the whole season, or be offered back to the original tam team for $50,000. So not all of these players will stick with the teams that draft them. Some will likely be returned.
There is also a Triple-A phase and a Double-A phase.
Here are some who were drafted:
–Darren O'Day, RHP. Unbelievable for the Quakes in the first half of 2007 (4-0, 0.75 ERA, 11 saves), and made it to the big leagues last year with the Angels, going 0-1 with a 4.57 ERA in 30 appearances. He was drafted in major league phase by the Mets.
–Robert Mosebach, RHP Went 1-1 with a 6.35 ERA at the end of '06 and 11-7, 4.28 in '07 for the Quakes, he hasn't been above Double-A, where he went 9-12 with a 4.62 ERA last year at Arkansas. He was drafted in the major league phase by the Phillies.
–Miguel Gonzalez, RHP. Made 16 relief appearances for the Quakes in 2005-06, going a combined 1-0 with a 1.45 ERA. He hasn't been above Double-A and missed all of 2008 with a knee injury. Apparently pitching well in the Mexican Winter League, Gonzalez was taken in the major league phase by the Red Sox.
–Francisco Lizarraga, INF. Batted .158 ion 13 games with the 66ers in 2008, and was drafted by the Reds in the Triple-A phase.
–Drew Locke, INF/OF Playing in his third year at High-A and second with the Sixers, Locke excelled in 2008, batting .311 with 11 home runs and 85 RBI after battting .280 with seven home runs and 30 RBI in 2007. He was taken by the Astros in the Triple-A phase.
–Shane Justis, INF A favorite of Sixers manager Dave Collins in 2007, Justis played all over the field that year and batted .297 with six home runs, 45 RBI and 12 stolen bases in 95 games. He batted .266 at Double-A Jacksonville. He was taken by the Brewers in the Triple-A phase.


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DeLAND, Fla. (April 16, 2010) - For the second straight year the No. 70 ETSU women's tennis team will head to Championship Saturday after the Lady Bucs opened their 2010 Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament with a 4-0 semifinal win over fourth-seeded Campbell late Friday night at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center at Stetson University.
ETSU (16-4) breezed through the doubles portion of the match after two Lady Bucs teams rolled to relatively easy victories. At No. 1 doubles senior Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) and junior Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa) quickly defeated CU's Lisa Sutton and Borislava Nikolova 8-1, while at the No. 3 slot junior Tara Sheets (Gate City, Va.) and freshman Diana Navrostska (Kviv, Ukraine) closed out the point with an 8-3 victory over Blanca Saenz and Anais Gomar.
After the Lady Bucs took the 1-0 lead Stupak wasted no time taking the ETSU advantage to two love with a 6-1, 6-0 straight set win over Sutton in the top singles position. In fact it was the second time this spring that the unanimous ETSU All-Conference selection defeated the Fighting Camel junior. Also with her victory Friday the Kyiv, Ukraine native now has 108 career wins which validates her as ETSU's all-time wins leader moving her past former teammate and great Tara Byrne.
With the Lady Bucs lead at 2-0 junior Andra Voniea (Brasov, Romania) then extended the score with a victory over Anais Gomar at No. 6. After taking the first set 6-2 the Second-Team A-Sun All-Conference member rolled in the second frame 6-3.
Needing only one more win to clinch its bid into the finals Navrostska - who is playing in her first career postseason tournament - closed out Ana Surviladze in the No. 5 singles postion. The ETSU newcomer rolled in straight sets 6-2, 6-2.
With Friday's win ETSU will face second-seeded North Florida in a rematch of the A-Sun Regular Season Championship Saturday at 2 p.m. Two weeks ago the Lady Bucs finished their unbeaten conference season with a 5-2 victory over the Lady Ospreys in Johnson City.
Attached above are post-match quotes from head coach Steve Brooks, and Yevgeniya Stupak, in addition to the conference photo gallery that feature's action shots from tonight's contest.
Stupak/Holtzhausen (ETSU) def. Sutton/Nikolova (CU) 8-1
Jaime/Kedzo (ETSU) def. Garcia/Surviladze (CU) 8-5
Navrosksta/Sheets (ETSU) def. Saenz/Gomar (CU) 8-3
Stupak (ETSU) def. Sutton (CU) 6-1, 6-2
Holtzhausen (ETSU) def. Garcia (CU) 7-5, 3-0
Jaime (ETSU) def. Saenz (CU) 6-3, 2-1
Kedzo (ETSU) def. Nikolova (CU) 6-3, 4-3
Navrosksta (ETSU) def. Surviladze (CU) def. 6-2, 6-1
Voinea (ETSU) def. Gomar (CU) 6-2, 6-2
For more information on the ETSU women's tennis team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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More than a decade ago South Africa became the first African country to legalise same-sex marriages. But the bulk of these weddings take place between people of only one language group, according to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia's Afrikaans version.
Wikipedia|Afrikaans tweeted: "About 80% of same-sex marriages in SA are by Afrikaans speakers."
One of our readers asked us to look into this claim, saying it's a "goodie".
'Only refers to one church community'
The claim is contained in a photo caption on a page about same-sex marriage in South Africa. Its writer, Sören Pfauder, is based in the Netherlands.
Pfauder told us he did not write the caption, but said he determined that the person who inserted it drew the information from a 2010 New York Times article. "However, it only refers to one church community in Cape Town," Pfauder said.
The story featured a Cape Town reverend, Daniel Brits, who had officiated at more than 500 same-sex weddings within a four year period.
The article states: "Mr Brits, for one, said it was striking that 80% of the South Africans he has married have been Afrikaners, who come from a community that has long condemned homosexuality."
Civil Union Act not only for same-sex couples
South Africa's Civil Union Act was signed into law a year after the common-law definition of marriage was declared inconsistent with the country's constitution in 2005.
But the Civil Union Act is not for the exclusive use of same-sex couples. It "provides for both same-sex and opposite-sex unions," Ramadimetja Matji, director of health and vital statistics at Statistics South Africa, told Africa Check. "Spouses are identifiable as spouse 1 and spouse 2 only."
Under the act, civil unions enjoy the same legal recognition that is afforded to civil as well as customary marriages.
1,185 civil unions in 2015
Stats SA reports on civil unions as part of its annual Marriages and Divorces Report. The latest one is for 2015 and contains data collected from the department of home affairs' registration system.
The number of civil unions increased slightly between 2014 and 2015, from 1,144 to 1,185. Gauteng and the Western Cape had the highest number of civil unions registered with 443 and 346 respectively.
As the sex of the spouses involved is not captured, the figures are based on all unions, whether of the same or opposite sex, Matji said. The ethnicity or home language of civil partners are also not collected, the department of home affairs' Ashwin Ramsunder told Africa Check.
It's therefore impossible to verify the claim that 80% of same-sex couples who got married were Afrikaans-speaking, Ramsunder, from the department's directorate for marriages, concluded.
Manager of research, advocacy and policy at human rights organisation Triangle, Matthew Clayton, told Africa Check that he has "not seen any breakdown of people who enter into same-sex marriages".
"I know there has been some [research conducted into same-sex marriages in South Africa], but most of what I can recall is about the legal change allowing it to happen and regarding its implementation," Clayton said.
Conclusion: Claim based on an anecdote
A recent tweet by the Afrikaans Wikipedia page claimed that roughly 80% of same-sex marriages in South Africa are entered into by Afrikaans speakers.
A closer look at the source of the claim revealed that the statement was an anecdote of one religious leader's experience, seven years ago.
Neither Statistics SA nor the department of home affairs keeps record of the race or home languages of couples entering into civil unions in South Africa. Therefore there is no way to verify this claim, the department said.
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Maple Leafs close in on big decisions, including determination on coach Randy Carlyle's future
Changes, apparently, are on the way for the Maple Leafs.
Tim Leiweke, the president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, said during the Tim and Sid show on Sportsnet 590 The Fan on Wednesday afternoon that Leafs president Brendan Shanahan is close to finishing his appraisal of the hockey team.
And Leiweke was not willing to say that coach Randy Carlyle will return in 2014-15.
"Well, that's Shanny's decision," Leiweke said. "And that's (general manager) Dave Nonis' decision and the two of them are spending a lot of time together."
Leiweke mentioned a couple of times that decisions will be made, and presumably announced, soon.
"They are going to involve every aspect of the organization," Leiweke said.
Leiweke was asked if any Leaf was untradeable.
"My opinion does not matter, but I will give you my opinion," Leiweke said. "No one is untradeable. Now, that does not mean a damn thing. What I know is this. Brendan is meeting with each guy one on one. Brendan and Dave are spending a long time talking about how do we get better.
"There are decisions coming soon. I know where these guys are at on their decision-making, we're not there yet, but they are getting there. We will not lack in our ability to make tough decisions around here. I promise you."
That doesn't sound good for Carlyle or, perhaps, members of the front office. To change a coach is the easiest move, considering there's a large amount of money tied up in the Leafs' core of vital players in a salary-cap world that doesn't necessarily allow for quick fixes via trade.
The Leafs got back to the playoffs last spring after nothing since 2004, and six weeks ago appeared headed for a return date with the National Hockey League's post-season.
But an eight-game losing streak, with every loss coming in regulation, killed the chances of that happening. The downfall from the upper echelon of the Eastern Conference to a final finish of 12th with a 38-36-8 record was swift, and led to immediate speculation that Carlyle would be let go.
Yet 16 days after the news conference to introduce Shanahan, there has been relative quiet around the hockey team.
"I'm very comfortable we are heading in a direction where we are never going to have to go through this sort of thing again because I won't let it happen," Leiweke said.
"It's just unacceptable. Shanny not only feels the same way I do, but I see the way he is going about this and it gives me a lot of comfort we're about to make the right decisions in a lot of different areas soon. You will see decisions on our part in the near future based on the work he has done, the intelligence and the information he is now digesting. I love the fact he is very analytical on how he is approaching this and what he thinks is wrong and how we fix it."
If it's decided a new voice is needed behind the bench, there are plenty of potential candidates, including Barry Trotz, Peter Laviolette and Kevin Dineen, among others.


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DETROIT (AP) — Over a prosecutor's objection, a judge declined Friday to order tougher sentences for two men already sent to jail for participating in a mob attack on a Detroit-area motorist.
Wayne County Judge James Callahan said he was influenced by age and other factors in sticking to six months in jail for Latrez Cummings, 19, and a year in jail for James Davis, 24. They were also placed on probation.
Cummings and Davis are among five people who pleaded guilty to assault in the severe beating of Steve Utash, who was attacked in April after accidentally striking a 10-year-old boy with his pickup truck in Detroit.
The boy's injuries were not serious, but Utash, 54, was in a coma for days and still is recovering at his Macomb County home.
Assistant prosecutor Lisa Lindsay disagreed with how Callahan scored the sentencing guidelines when he chose a punishment.
Davis told police that he kicked Utash "two or three times," Lindsay said. "One kick is sufficient to do great bodily harm. The two additional kicks ... amount to excessive brutality."
The judge said Davis is a young adult who is a good candidate for rehabilitation. Davis already gets to leave jail during the day to work at a recycling center.
"I don't want to see you back in here. You can change your life," Callahan told him Friday.
The prosecutor's office is considering whether to appeal Davis and Cummings' sentences to a higher court.
"The low sentences do not reflect the seriousness of the crime," spokeswoman Maria Miller said.
Davis initially was sentenced on July 10. Cummings was in court a week later. At that time, the judge said Cummings needed a father in his life when he was younger, "someone to beat the hell out of you when you made a mistake."
The longest sentence among the five defendants was nearly 6 1/2 years in prison for a man whose punishment was enhanced because of his criminal record.


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Food is more than a means of sustaining life. It is the focus of social entertainment, special celebrations and family traditions.
It also is the common thread of 16 short stories in The Last Generation of Women Who Cook, written by Kathy Johncox, a marketing communications specialist at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
"To me, food means many things," she says. "Cooking or preparing it for people you care about is a way of nurturing and showing love and support. This may be passed down from our mothers, perhaps the last generation of women who cook."
Her book isn't a cookbook. Instead, this collection of short fiction involves food, relationships and emotion: a young man attempting to rekindle love through buying apple pies, but is foiled by a beignet, and other stories that equate pasta with anger, rice with doubt and soup with revenge.
"The settings vary, the characters differ, but the stories all entice," Johncox says.
The stories were written over a 10-year period, as weekly writing exercises with a friend. "We'd pick a topic and my topic always ended up using food as a metaphor or theme," she says. "Soon I had a number of stories and that started me thinking I could expand them in ways that would resonate with readers."
Johncox has been enjoying visiting bookstores to sign her book and says it's been getting good reviews.
"I didn't set out to write short stories at all," she says. "Novels have so much more cachet. One short story just led to another, and pretty soon I was seeing food and stories as linked in some magical way. And I enjoyed that connection."
Her book was self-published and is available on Amazon.com in print and for the Kindle, and is available at Shop One² at Global Village.


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Multiobjective optimization of a solar energy system through the combined use of Optimus & Scilab
Silvia Poles, NOESIS Solutions
Optimus is a Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) platform that allows to integrate and combine any scientific or engineering software tool into a single simulation workflow. Once a workflow is defined, Optimus orchestrates the simulation process to automatically explore the design space and identify the optimized solution.
We present how Optimus can easily integrate Scilab with all its capabilities as a computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
The easiest way to integrate Scilab is by means of what is called a "User Customizable Action" (UCA). A UCA can be used for any software simulation tool that can be run in batch mode. The UCA is easily configured with XML-files, respecting a very simple syntax. Fig.1 depicts an Optimus workflow that runs the Scilab script in batch mode with its own UCA. The workflow is changing each time the values of a vector and it is finding the best configuration that minimizes the difference between the resulting curve and a target curve.
Figure 1: Example of a workflow: Optimus identifies the optimal parameters to match a target performance.
The integration of Scilab can be even extended by means of what is called a "User Customizable Interface (UCI)". Thanks to a wrapping layer, based on a similar XML technique, it is possible to directly access all Scilab parameters and results. The data exchange between Optimus and Scilab is then more direct and the user does not need to read and write external ASCII files.
With these UCA and UCI capabilities, Optimus provides an easy-to-use graphical drag and drop interface to quickly create a multidisciplinary workflow that contains Scilab scripts.
To demonstrate the benefit of having an independent platform integrating different software combined with Scilab, we present an example that optimizes the performance and costs of a solar energy system.
In this example, the Scilab script is computing the efficiency of the solar energy system [1] while an Excel spreadsheet is calculating the total cost of the system according to the selected components. This represents a multiobjective and multidisciplinary problem in which - by changing parameters such as the collecting areas of panels, type of supports... - Optimus automatically identifies all Pareto-optimal solutions.
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Suicide is the act of killing oneself and a form of murder; it is a sin throughout all of Judaism and Christianity, and a mortal sin in Roman Catholic tradition; it is not a sin in the Islam culture if one engages in a homicide attack. Christians should remember that they are given life to love and to serve the Lord, and during times of desperation to remember the words of Psalm 46:10: "Be still, and know that I am God."
United States
In the United States suicide was – technically – a crime in a few states until the early 2000s; however assisted suicide is considered a crime in most states (often akin to homicide). Oregon,[1] Washington,[2] and Montana[3] are the only states in the United States which currently allow assisted suicide. The states enforce strict mandates on the availability and administration of the procedure.
Many advocates for assisted suicide claim that this is one of the few situations where the act itself is legal, and yet the assistance of the act is a crime.[4]
Scope of the Problem
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the world, claiming over one million lives globally in 1999. The suicide rate in the United States in 1999 was 10.7 per 100,000; the homicide rate that same year was only 6.2 per 100,000. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in youth 15–24 years old. White males over 85 have the highest rate of suicide, about 65 per 100,000. Suicide rates are also elevated in some ethnic groups. For example, suicide is about 1.5 times more prevalent than average among native Americans. While whites continue to have higher suicide rates than blacks, the gap seems to be narrowing in young males. Suicides in males outnumber those in females in almost all nations, including the United States. While males are more likely to complete suicide, females are more likely to attempt suicide.
Suicide in the Military
The United States Army, which has about one million soldiers, reported 99 suicides in 2006, which is less than 0.01%. About half were soldiers/officers under 25. According to Colonel Elspeth Ritchie, psychiatry consultant to Army Surgeon General Major General Gale Pollock, the primary motivation for these suicides had nothing to do with military service, and instead were due to "failed intimate relationships, failed marriages."[5]
Suicide and Liberalism
Liberal teachings, such as accepting homosexuality and downplaying the sanctity of life and are undeniably one of the major causes of suicide. Countries such as France, Denmark, and Canada all have much more liberal tendencies than the US as well as higher suicide rates.[6]
- ↑ http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/pas/
- ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/11/05/washington-passes-initiative-1000-legalizing-physician-assisted-suicide/
- ↑ http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0102/Montana-becomes-third-state-to-legalize-physician-assisted-suicide
- ↑ http://www.apa.org/pi/eol/arguments.html#1
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081600266.html?sub=AR
- ↑ http://fathersforlife.org/health/who_suicide_rates.htm
See also
Forms of suicide
- Altruistic suicide
- Anomic suicide
- Assisted suicide
- Homosexual suicide
- Kamikaze
- Suicide bomber
- Suicide bombing
Related topics
- Euthanasia
- Abortion and suicide
- Atheism and suicide
- Atheism and European suicide in the 17th century
- Atheism, gender and suicide
- Atheism, marriage and suicide
- Ex-Christians, self-esteem and suicide
Further reading
- Demme, Greg, Suicide: What's the problem? 2 April 2008 (Creation Ministries International)
- What is the Christian view of suicide? What does the Bible say about suicide?, at GotQuestions
- Why should I not commit suicide?, at GotQuestions


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Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine, a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. She is the Program Director for the Stanford University Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and commentaries, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Addiction. Dr. Lembke sees patients, teaches, and does research. She is the author of a book on the prescription drug epidemic: "Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2016).
Dr. Anna Lembke's key areas of interest include treating patients who have become addicted to prescription drugs. She takes a holistic, harm-reduction approach to each patient, and encourages spiritual and alternative therapies in the process of healing.
Clinical Focus
- Co-occurring addiction
- Addiction Medicine
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Professional Education
Internship:Alameda County Medical Center UCSF East Bay Surgical Residency (1998) CA
Residency:Stanford University School of Medicine Registrar (2001) CA
Residency:Stanford University School of Medicine Registrar (1997) CA
Board Certification: Addiction Medicine, American Board of Addiction Medicine (2012)
Medical Education:Stanford University School of Medicine (1995) CA
Board Certification: Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2003)


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Hip-hop's resident wiseguys, Heems (Himanshu Suri) and Kool A.D. (Victor Vazquez), have delighted connoisseurs of off-kilter humor and surreal wordplay with a stream of free tracks and mixtapes the last couple of years.
Now comes Das Racist's official debut, "Relax" (Greedhead), in which the duo sharpens its critique of hip-hop without coming off as finger-wagging scolds. "It's a brand new dance," they rap-sing with stoned languidness, "give us all your money." As a send-up of the tired subject matter that pervades so many mainstream releases, "Relax" succeeds because it doesn't take itself too seriously either. One minute Heems and Kool A.D. are dropping 10-dollar words like "sophistry" or referencing Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum, the next they're fantasizing about "Booty in the Air" like a couple of nerds who'd never make it past the bouncer at a strip club.
They are abetted by production that isn't about banging beats so much as convention-shattering textures, whether it's the steel-drum, Caribbean flavor of "Girl," produced by Blood Diamonds; the madly cartoonish, skittering keyboards of Chairlift's Patrick Wimberley on "Michael Jackson"; or the grid of computerized blips from Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij on "The Trick."
The opening title song dissolves into what sounds like electronically damaged laughter, a demented cartoon soundtrack. "Celebration" brings the album to a close with a duet between two overserved MC's who don't seem to realize the party has long since ended. Heems and Kool A.D. affirm that they're not typical MC's bragging about their prodigious mike skills and libidos. Instead, they're deceptively laid-back satirists who deliver their smackdowns amid da-da streams of consciousness, sometimes with such subtlety that by the time the joke finally registers they're off on a fresh, equally strange and frequently hilarious tangent.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For two years, the Columbia County Jail north of Portland restricted inmates' personal mail to the sending and receiving of postcards.
The practice went on until U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon issued an injunction that stopped it in May 2012.
Now, in a ruling made public Thursday that raises questions about the approach used around the country, Simon said the practice by the St. Helens jail is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment rights of inmates, the people who write to them, and the plaintiff, a monthly national law journal published by the Vermont-based Human Rights Defense Center.
The practice is in use from Florida to the Arizona desert, where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio implemented it in 2007. The primary reasons cited for the postcard-only mail policy are that it prevents contraband from entering the jail and it saves time for increasingly cash-strapped sheriff's offices.
In Arizona, officials said the policy was rooted in the number of drugs applied to stamps or laced into other products flowing through the jail's mail system.
"We went to postcards on incoming mail (only), and it's cut down on contraband dramatically," said Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Brandon Jones. Inmates in Maricopa County can still send regular mail.
But Simon said Oregon's Columbia County Jail had no such reasoning. The prohibited mail included legal documents sent by family members, children's report cards and bills that needed to be paid.
Columbia County Sheriff Jeff Dickerson "agreed that the postcard-only policy was not adopted in response to a known contraband problem," Simon wrote.
Simon's finding of fact in the trial — damages will be assessed either in a settlement or by a jury — applies exclusively to Columbia County.
But Alex Friedmann of the Human Rights Defense Center said challenges to the policy in other districts that long languished from the lack of available case law can point to the Portland decision as a victory.
"This is the first time to our knowledge, and we're pretty much the go-to people on this, that this policy has gone to trial on the merits and the court has struck it down," said Friedmann, whose group is the parent company of the plaintiff, Prison Legal News.
In court documents, Columbia County said it was acting in concert with other Oregon counties, including the larger Washington County. Washington County officials said in presentations to other sheriff's offices that the issue had been tested in courts and found to be constitutional.
"Like anything else, when you're going forward with something new, and Oregon certainly was in 2010, you go on what the court decisions are thus far," Dickerson said. The sheriff said Thursday he was unsure whether the county would appeal.
But Friedmann said the only failed attempts to challenge the policy in other states have been from inmates representing themselves.
Friedmann said that in 2010, 13 of 36 Oregon counties had the policy in place. By 2012, a survey found most counties in the state had a postcard-only policy, Yamhill County Sheriff's Office Capt. Ron Huber said.
That ended, Huber said, with Simon's injunction.
"A majority of counties were doing the postcard-only (mail), and as soon as Yamhill County got word that there were issues, it kind of just spread," said Huber, who also is the Oregon State Sheriff's Association's chairman on jail issues. "It ended pretty quick."
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Best Worst Movie (US - DVD R1)
Gabe finally catches up with this delightful and endearing documentary...
John Carl Buechler's Troll was my first horror film (fun fact: The main character is named Harry Potter Jr.), but until last minute preparation for this review I'd never seen Claudio Fragasso's (one of Italy's worst genre filmmakers, by the way) Troll II. I feel like a failure since bad Italian movies are a bit of my speciality. Anyway, I'm now educated in the ways of Troll II, and I feel ready to tackle this critically acclaimed documentary – Best Worst Movie. Troll II is a pretty entertainingly inept little film, from its dime store make-up to its dime store acting. Fragasso actually offers a hint of style, and most importantly, the thing moves quicker than most terrible Italian cash-in horror movies (like most of Fragasso's movies). My personal enjoyment may have more to do with how explicitly Italian the film feels, but I'm not sure I'm ready to call it the Best Worst Movie just yet. Why, there's Jess Franco's Bloody Moon, Antonio Margheriti's Cannibal Apocalypse, Bruno Mattei's Rats: Night of Terror (written by Fragasso), Norman J. Warren's Inseminoid, Juan Piquer Simón's Pieces, and Luigi Cozzi's Star Crash to consider. There's also the fact that some scenes are clearly played for campy laughs, which kind of pushes Best Worst Movie out of competition. Clearly I couldn't have made Best Worst Movie just due to indecision, but director Michael Paul Stephenson has the balls to make his choice.
The documentary covers the lives of a few of the actors, most of whom are embarrassed as all hell about the experience, though lead George Hardy grows interested when he realizes he's a cult figure, and director Michael Stephenson is the child lead. Hardy then takes part the film's unexpectedly fruitful re-release tour, which leads to some sweet scenes of audiences cheering for super stars that had no idea they were known outside their homes. Some of the fan service stuff is cringe inducing. My favourite section is the one where Stephenson journeys to Italy to talk to Fraggasso, screenwriter Rossella Drudi, and editor Vanio Amici. The tone switches from laughing with the interviewees to trying not to laugh at them. Like most filmmakers Fraggasso thinks the critics missed the boat, and his film is great. There's a terrifyingly awkward scene where the director comes to America for a showing. His expression drops from gleaming with pride, to wanting to crawl into himself as the laughs pour out of the audience. He seems to embrace the culture quickly enough though, and there are cute little re-enactments of certain scenes where he plays director.
But Best Worst Movie has more in common with American Movie and Double Dare than Not Quite Hollywood, and has some really low moments, like when Hardy and Stephenson track down actress Margo Prey, who has fallen into some pretty heartbreaking disarray (she may be schizophrenic), or a few depressing con appearances. It's no Crumb, but there are some primal cry for help, suicidal inducing sad moments. The schmaltz pours out a bit thick at times as well, which slows everything down, which is my only real complaint. Sometimes the mix of music and image veers towards inspirational Christian videos for children. It's all worth it for Fraggasso shaking down the big cast reunion panel for saying negative things about the shoot. I want him to tour with Jess Franco to talk about Euro Trash, and how worthless all the actors are.
Whew, not a lot to say here. Best Worst Movie is shot quickly and without any added frills. We're talking handheld, grab what you need stuff. There's digital artefacts all over the place, including edge halos, jaggies, and low level noise. Colours are dingy thanks to the regular use of natural lighting, and details follow suit. It's all acceptable, and goes well with the film (I'm not sure if there is an HD version out there), so I don't think anyone is going to be too upset. No signs of interlacing though.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack isn't much more exciting, but the film is almost all dialogue based anyway, so who cares about the intricacies of the surround sound work. The music and scenes from the film itself have a decent stereo performance, with a bit of bass boost, but overall the single microphone camera interviews are low-key.
Extras start with a big old pile of deleted scenes (almost an hour's worth), mostly focusing on the side characters which may not have had their fair share of on screen craziness. The best parts include Fraggasso discussing some of his other films, nerdy extras waxing philosophical on their experience, the cast making fun of the horror con crowd, footage from the stuff the cast has been working on since. There's a pretty funny 'no texting' public service announcement (1:00), a homemade music video (Kingdom of the Goblins, 4:00), a really odd and shoestring shot short film ( Meat Noam Telnoboy 2, 6:00), a long and painful interview with the 'Goblin Queen', Debrah Reed (13:00), 'George Hardy Doesn't Know My Name' music video from a web show called 'Reel Good Show', along with another music video (Monstrous, 4:00), the original trailer, and an audio only podcast with Creative Screenwriting (82:00). Also included are the Filmmaker's Bio, and other Docurama trailers.
Best Worst Movie didn't quite live up to my painfully high expectations, but it's still a delightful retrospective, and genuinely touching movie. Director Claudio Fragasso's reactions to the film's reception are among the most elegant jewels in the film. Video and audio quality is limited by the film's style, but the extras are good fun. Preferably the film and extras would've been made available with the recent Troll II Blu-ray release, but alas, you're gonna have to buy both.
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Nice review. This was a great documentary for a "classic" film.
Thanks for the review, Gabe. I loved this little documentary and its always nice to read another person's thoughts on it. I agree 1000 times about some of the fan scenes being cringe-inducing. And the stuff with Margo Prey started off kind of funny, then gradually became awfully saddening. I had the pleasure of seeing this with the cast and crew in attendance for a Q&A afterward, and some idiot in the audience had the gall to ask if Margo was "as bat-s**t crazy as she looked". To which he received uproarious booing and a "that's not nice" from George Hardy. I hope he hates himself now.
Anecdotes aside, I was glad the documentary took the premise to the point where they realized Troll 2 has a niche audience, and isn't something just anybody (especially simple Alabama town folks) would have any appreciation for. It balanced out the sickening tools worshiping it in the earlier scenes. I also loved hearing the writers reasoning behind the plot, with her friends all becoming vegetarians and pissing her off.
Anecdotes aside, I was glad the documentary took the premise to the point where they realized Troll 2 has a niche audience, and isn't something just anybody (especially simple Alabama town folks) would have any appreciation for. It balanced out the sickening tools worshiping it in the earlier scenes. I also loved hearing the writers reasoning behind the plot, with her friends all becoming vegetarians and pissing her off.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 16th November 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Surround 2.0 English
Subtitles: English SDH
Extras: Deleted Scenes, Public Service Announcement, Cast Interviews, Music Videos, Short Films, Podcast, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Michael Stephenson
Cast: George Hardy, Michael Stephenson, Darren Ewing
Genre: Documentary
Length: 93 minutes
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Country-Inspired Wisconsin Home
Seasonal changes are easily surveyed from this new Wisconsin home
Guests can survey seasonal changes from the porch of Andre Walker and David Simmons' newly constructed—but meant to look old—home on a Wisconsin acreage. Country structures from the Midwest and South influenced the design of the house. The star on the side of the house is from an antiques shop.
Architect: Peter Hawrylewicz, Hawrylewicz and Robertson PA, now Peter Hawrylewicz Design, 220 Zoe Way, Miami Beach, FL 33141; 305/868-1546, phdesignstudio.com. Interior designer: Andre Walker and David Simmons, Walker Simmons Design: 312/664-4646, walkersimmons.com. E-mail, email@example.com. Landscape designer: Northwind Perennial Farm, P.O. Box 95, Springfield, WI 53176; 262/248-8229.
Photography: Bruce Buck
Produced by Hilary Rose
Upholstered in soft chocolate brown mohair, the chair in the den was bought at auction. "The longer you have mohair, the softer it gets," David says.
Wallpaper (discontinued); drapery (Colefax & Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com, trade only. Rug; red chair; brown chair and fabric ; floor lamp ; nesting tables ; tray table: owner's collection. Red-chair fabric: Clarence House Ltd., 800/803-2850, clarencehouse.com, trade only. Tray table: painted by Patrick Roullier, 773/549-7858.
Animal-themed art and a sofa in wool plaid make the den feel like a hunt club.
Sofa: owner's collection. Sofa fabric (Colefax & Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, trade only. Sofa trim: Smith & Brighty, smithandbrighty.com. Pillows: Marita Designs, 703/354-6610. Side table: Pavilion Antiques, 773/645-0924.
The dining room's tall windows, dressed in simple drapery panels, offer drama as well as a view of the countryside. The roman shades are usually lowered during the work week to block the sun's rays.
Wallpaper (discontinued); drapery, chair fabric, tableskirt (Colefax & Fowler); roman shades fabric (Jane Churchill): Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, trade only. Ceiling paint: Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667. Dining chairs : Gore Dean, 202/625-9199, goredean.com. Demilune ; chandelier; mirror: owner's collection.
Plump dressings on the canopied bed and skirted seating envelop the master bedroom in softness. Shirley, a fox terrier, is a portrait of ease on the settee.
Wallpaper, drapery and bed fabric (discontinued); love-seat and tableskirt fabric (Colefax & Fowler); headboard fabric (by Jane Churchill): Cowtan & Tout, 212/ 647-6900, trade only. Roman shades: Coraggio Textiles, 800/624-2402, coraggio.com, trade only. Chest: ABC Carpet & Home, 212/473-3000. Swing- arm lamps: Hinson & Co., 212/ 688-5538, trade only. Rug ; chair; table lamps; love seat : owner's collection. Chair fabric: John Rosselli International, 212/772-2137, trade only. Shades on table lamps: Vaughan Designs, 212/319-7070, trade only. Shades on swing-arm lamps: Pierre Deux, 888/743-7732. Bedding: Frette, 212/ 988-5221, frette.com. White side table: Susanin's Auctions, 312/832-9800. Arched mirrors: Walker Simmons Design, 312/664-4646.
Shirley, the homeowners' pet (see previous slide), inspired this collection of fox terriers.
Andre, who loves to cook, designed the kitchen for convenience—and the open shelves and ready wares invite curious visiting cooks to help with meals . The pears are from trees he and David planted on the property. The star-shaped mirror was once a hat rack.
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On May 23, 2012, Adam Thompson, 16, leapt out of bed much earlier than usual, excited for his first day of driver's education – a milestone in his book. It meant that his sweet sixteen party and his driver's license would happen soon.
The world was waiting for him and he was ready.
His mom, Ann, dropped him off at school that morning. She wished him good luck and told him she'd see him when she got home from work.
As the day progressed, though, Ann couldn't help but think of her son's excitement and decided she wanted to surprise him instead.
"The plan was for him to walk home and just call me when he got there," says Ann. "But I decided I didn't have any meetings or anything going on that day, and it'd be nice to pick him up after his first day."
So that's exactly what she did. After she picked him up, Adam filled her in on his first day of driver's ed while the two ran errands and picked up dinner. His day was great, as expected, and he was most excited to find that driver's ed was a group class and that he wouldn't be driving alone.
"He liked being with people," says Ann. "Adam was a very fun kid. He was all about fun and he liked to laugh."
As the two pulled in the driveway around 5:30 p.m., Adam's demeanor changed. He was suddenly quiet and said to his mom, "My heart's going really fast. I think I'm kind of short of breath, too."
Ann looked at him and thought he looked fine.
"There wasn't anything alarming about it," says Ann.
So Adam grabbed his driver's ed book and headed into the house while Ann unloaded the car. She came into the house to hear Adam telling his dad, Troy, about his day with the same excitement he had shared with her moments before.
But then, he said, "I'm kind of tired. I'm going to go take a nap."
Adam went to lie down and minutes later Ann and Troy heard a loud bang.
"We went into the bedroom and he was lying on the floor in between the bed and the wall," says Ann. "At first, we thought he was joking around. But he wasn't moving. So we started shaking him and we saw that he was blue in the face."
Adam's nine-year-old little sister, Abby, grabbed the phone and dialed 911. The ambulance arrived shortly after and paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene, no more than 38 minutes after Ann and Adam walked into the house.
"It happened so fast. And we had no idea why," says Ann.
The next morning, they received a phone call from a detective who said Kenneth Snell, MD, a pathologist at Sanford Health, had completed the autopsy. The detective told Ann she needed to grab a pen and write down what he was about to tell her.
"He had me write down hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He said Adam's heart was four times the thickness of a normal heart," says Ann.
Never having heard of this disease, Ann and Troy first turned to the Internet and later called Dr. Snell. They learned that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy happens when the heart muscle grows too thick, so the heart gets bigger and its chambers get smaller. There's no cure for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, although there are treatments available, However, because there are few if any symptoms of this disease, many people – like Adam – don't know they have it. It's also genetic. In fact, it's the most common genetic heart disease, affecting about 1 in 500 adults.
"The biggest message was that Abby could have it. So, we went into action," says Ann.
The family made an appointment with William Waltz, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Sanford Health, along with a genetic counselor.
Abby underwent testing and a special screening at Sanford that was developed for young people age 12-24. It's called Heart of a Champion, and it's the only youth screen of its kind in the region to be examined by board-certified pediatric cardiologists. Once the screen has been read, the results are shared with the family's regular doctor.
Much to the family's relief, Abby's heart is normal. During the testing, however, Ann learned for the first time that Sanford Health routinely offers these screens to patients. She was surprised.
"I hadn't heard of heart screens before Adam died. I was beside myself," says Ann. "This $50 echocardiogram could have saved my son's life."
Because of this experience, the Thompsons are now actively involved in the community, bringing awareness to this disease and demonstrating the importance of heart screening."As a parent, we obviously don't want anyone else to go through this, and so the awareness and the prevention part is very important to us."
The world was waiting for Adam. He had his whole life in front of him. Ann and Troy Thompson want to make sure that other children can live a full life, even though their own son could not.
"Get a heart screening. For you, for your children," says Ann. "Thinking what happened to us will never happen to you isn't how you need to think when it comes to your kids."
For more information about Heart of a Champion and other preventive health screens call Sanford Center for Health and Well-being at (605) 312-2150.


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It is lizard season here and the little guys are sunning themselves all over. I love the blue bellies. Our cat Nacho came walking in from the garage carrying a lizard by it's front leg. The detachable tail thing must not have worked, but luckily I was there to rescue the lil' fella. He had a small flesh wound and lost his tail, but when I put him down in the backyard he took off.
I remembered a trick my dad taught me a long time ago- you can use fishing line and tie a slip knot onto the end of a fishing pole and catch lizards with it. I tried it out the other day. It's pretty much just like a little noose, and it's very easy to get it around their necks. They must think the fishing rod is a tree branch or something because you can touch them with it and they don't even move. When they're caught, they wiggle alot, kinda like a real fish. You have to be quick to loosen up the noose around their neck, and be careful you don't grab them by the tail (they will detach it if scared). They're really beautiful when seen up close. I took a few pictures and showed Shannon and let them go back to their lizard homes. Nature is awesome.
Messed with the macro function on my camera. Kinda fun...
I grew up near Disneyland but we didn't get to go that often. I think that made it pretty magical to the Soto boys, and we loved it and dreamed about going. After I worked as a cook at an amusement park (and saw behind the scenes), some of the magic had worn off, the place wasn't as fun. But it's pretty neat seeing it again through my daughter's eyes. She thinks things are real which is awesome. I asked her what Ariel told her because they were talking for a while, and Shannon told me, "I don't know".
Giant pizza is always good. Thanks Ribaudo's!
That talk at my old community college was cool. I told them everyone should try graffiti at least once in their life. This is the RCC Art Club...
I'm in a group show called The Sublime Landscape at Project4 Gallery in Washington D.C. Some great artists, including some of my favorites- Gregory Euclide and Randall Sellers. Here's some new work I sent.
And last, Skullphone is coming to Riverside.... more pictures soon...
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Let us start with a simple question:
What is the goal of software development, be it database or .Net (or any other language)?
The first answer would be: Customer satisfaction!
And you'd be right. However there's more to customer satisfaction then the immediate product delivery effect. We have to think about future change requests, maintenance periods, etc...
Almost every business application out there consists of 2 basic parts: database back end and some kind of front end that consumes the data. In our case the front end is anything with access to the database.
In regard to future code changes and addition of new features what is the best way to construct this code? I would say the best way is using modular or black box design which states that solutions to big problems are built from solutions to smaller problems. This means that we have small independent modules that are black boxes to the outside world and they perform some operation based on input parameters and optionally provide output for other modules to consume. So how does this apply to our back and front end systems?
Dependency injection (a form of Inversion of Control) is the leading principle that enables our goal of keeping code in modules that have no outer dependencies. The input (constructor) arguments are usually interfaces that provide knowledge about the other modules that our module (class) uses. With this setup we can easily test each module by itself using automated unit tests. Also changing a module does not break other modules unless we change it's interface. And this is what we want.
This also enables us to keep our code separated and non repeatable. The worst thing we can do is have code that does the same thing in more than once place. Think maintenance nightmare!
A new feature request came in? No problem! Build it, test it, use interfaces of existing modules to access their functionality if needed. Change of an existing feature? Again, no problem. Change the module holding the feature and write new tests to validate its working correctly. And we're done.
A module in object oriented code is a class that exposes its functionality through an interface.
A simple example just to demonstrate the Dependency injection (DI) using Star Trek theme for all the geeks out there :)
Move method implementations:
public void Move(Speed speed) public void Move(Speed speed)
{ {
if (speed == Speed.Impulse) if (speed == Speed.Impulse)
_IImpulseEngine.GoSlow(); _IImpulseEngine.GoSlow();
else if (speed == Speed.Warp) else if (speed == Speed.Warp)
_IWarpEngine.GoFast(); _IWarpEngine.GoFast();
else else
throw new Exception("Can't go faster than warp!"); _ITransWarpEngine.GoReallyFast();
} }
Method implementations are irrelevant, since the point here is that our ships are built from modules. They know only about the modules interface and that's why the module itself can be changed with no problem. We could completely change the internals of ImpulseEngine without having to change a single thing in our ship as long as the drives interface stayed the same. And yes, we could refactor this simple example further on.
If you ask me Dependency Injection is every developers dream. Unfortunately that dream usually comes to a screeching halt when we start dealing with databases.
The concept of DI is meant for object oriented logic which is excellent for code but totally fails when dealing with databases. A module in code is a class that implements an interface which exposes it's functionality. There is no such concept in databases.
So what is a module in a database? Table, row, stored procedure? Wrong.
A module in the database is DATA.
Remember: Data is the core of the business application. Bad data, lousy business. Doesn't matter if you have the most amazing application known to mankind.
This is a classic example of a denormalized schema. The problem lies in the ShippingAddress column. Since it is in the Orders table it could contain duplicates if we're shipping different orders to the same address. Because of this we can and always will get data inconsistency. And that is bad for a number of reasons.
CREATE TABLE [Order]
Id INT,
OrderName VARCHAR(100),
ShippingAddress VARCHAR(100)
This below result set is the common problem with denormalized design. If we edit and save the address for order 4, we can change it independently of order 1 despite both orders having the same address. Now we have duplicated data and we don't know which one is correct. In a normalized design this isn't possible.
This is the upper table normalized into 2 tables: Order and Address. This way our data is only in one place and thus it can't get corrupted by bad input. Note that AddressValue column should be split further, but for shortness sake lets make it simple.
CREATE TABLE [Order]
Id INT,
OrderName VARCHAR(100),
AddressId INT
CREATE TABLE [Address]
Id INT,
AddressValue VARCHAR(100)
Data normalization is not just a whim of every developers arch nemesis - the DBA ;). It's a simple concept that is used to guarantee data consistency and validity. So when the time comes to change or extend our schema we don't have to change it in different places in our database. Just like Dependency Injection enables simple and testable change in code by modularizing objects so does Database Normalization by applying the same goal for data.
So don't fear normalization. Embrace it and make your life easier in the long run.
The most heard and quite valid argument is that fully normalized database schema is slow. This is true since querying 4 normalized joined tables is slower than querying 1 denormalized table.
However this argument is usually used in the wrong context. People tend to just leave their data denormalized.
Always first normalize data and then denormalize it if the need arises.
With SQL Server this problem can easily be solved with indexed views. With them we can query the denormalized data but update the normalized data. And thus we can achieve the performance we need without having duplicated data.
Dependency Injection and Database Normalization are two entirely different concepts that strive to achieve the same thing. Ability to make quick and stable changes.
Keeping the area of change small enough helps us make any kind of change fast be it small or large. In the long run this is what we want. Let's face it, how many times did an important business application that supports some business process have a lifetime of six months or less without the slightest change? Almost never. And because of that it pays to design our business software properly. It really isn't that hard.
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I wonder if the Padres had had the #11 pick in 2009 (rather than the #3 pick) if they might have taken Mike Trout (rather than Donovan Tate) ... just wondering ... dreaming :-)ReplyDelete
Howard: Interesting scenario. I see your point. At No. 11, Tate's probably not there and SDP aren't likely to pay anyone $6.25 million. Would they have taken Trout? Pretty doubtful. Look at the AZ connection. Dbacks had two picks in the teens and used neither on Trout. Their GM was Byrnes, their scouting director was Allison. Generally speaking, they preferred college players in the first round. Byrnes' sponsors in AZ were Moorad/Garfinkel, who were part of the AZ scene until spring of 2009 and may have had some review input on the draft, at least in terms of budget, but Moorad had recused himself by January because he was negotiating to buy the Padres. As for San Diego's brainstrust, Fuson, the draft overseer, generally preferred college players for the first round. Towers had presided over several HS picks in the first round, including top-10 duds Phillips and Davis. I suppose Trout could've been at No. 11, but I've never heard the SDP had any great insight into his potential. AZ actually had good reports on him from the area scout, I'm told.ReplyDelete
The SI cover story on Trout a couple of weeks ago went pretty in-depth on this ... very fun article ... and it's what prompted my dreaming ... though it also indicates (by omission) that the Padres were not "on" Trout at all. I was just dreaming that if they were OK with Tate @ 3, then they might have been in the mood for Trout @ 11 :-)ReplyDelete
Also, sometimes I get bum'd that the team's good play in Aug & Sep is costing us position in the draft ... but there are plenty of studs that fall to #11 and beyond, Trout just being one fantastic example.
Sure. Probably the best pitcher the SDP have drafted in the last 15 years was Peavy, and he was a late-rounder. Headley, their best player, was taken after the 30th pick. Look at Matt Kemp.ReplyDelete
How much hope is there still for Tate?ReplyDelete
Not much, I'd say, to be a super-star ... but to have a couple of years of being an above-average MLB player? Still seems possible ... just unlikely ...
Haven't asked about him in recent months. Entering the season, heard nothing that indicated he's ready to make a big jump.ReplyDelete


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DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Add the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and its host community to those upset at Rolling Stone magazine's cover story on the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Staff and students are upset at the magazine's portrayal of the university as a "middling school" with "an utter lack of character."
Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) was a student at UMass-Dartmouth.
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