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A ridiculous story appeared in the UK's Grazia about Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. Something about him wanting to be "more than friends". Jesus. Actually, I could totally picture him saying that to a girl. "Do you want to be more than friends?" Gross.
Anyway, Cam and Tom have known each other a while and they're both in London filming (separately). Apparently, according to Grazia, "Tom's felt so low since his divorce and Cameron's company has really cheered him up."
Unfortunately for him, Cam only "sees him as a brother figure".
Yes. She's also mostly just attracted to douchebags. Tom Cruise is weird, sure, and crazy too, but he's not a douchebag in the way that turns Cam on. See ARod and Diddy who treat their women like sh-t and she keeps running after them...
Ultimately it's about power and control. Maybe she gets off on the control, that super-ego chauvinist control, and in that sense, I mean, Xenu's Head Boy kind of fits the description, non?
PS. Tom's rep has already denied the he and Cam are dealing with each other.

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By now we all know that distracted driving can kill you. But a new study suggests that distracted walking can be pretty deadly, too.
The study, published online by the journal Injury Prevention, is from researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine who looked at pedestrian accident data from a variety of sources between 2004 and 2011. They found 116 cases of death or injury in the U.S. that linked pedestrian-vehicle crashes with the pedestrian in question wearing headphones or earbuds.
The majority of those cases occurred between 2008 and 2001, which researchers said could reflect an increased awareness of the trend by the media (among the sources used was the Google News database). But it could also could reflect an actual increase in accidents, because "the ownership of electronic devices using headphones has increased in recent years."
One thing that was clear from the data is that the majority of pedestrians struck are male (68 percent) and under age 30 (67 percent). More than half the accidents involved a train, and in nearly a third (29 percent), a horn or other warning was sounded before the crash occurred.
The researchers say there are two problems that can cause people wearing headphones to be, well, oblivious to potential danger around them.
One is a phenomenon called inattentional blindness. The brain is too busy operating or listening to an iPod or MP3 player to pay attention to the potential danger caused by oncoming traffic.
The other is called environmental isolation. The sounds coming through the headphones simply overpower those coming from the street.
"You're literally plugging out the warnings that can save your life," said lead author Richard Lichenstein, a pediatric emergency room doctor at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children.
The study is not the last word on the subject, the researchers concede. Because the data are drawn from media reports, they cannot say conclusively whether accident victims might have also had mental problems or drivers might have been at fault, for example.
"While it might not be the best science in the world," Lichenstein says, "it's a great way to start the dialogue" about how potentially dangerous it is for people, particularly young people, to walk around in traffic wearing headphones.
Parents know about the need to make sure their children wear bicycle helmets or seat belts, Lichenstein says, "but we don't think of the ramifications when you give them their first MP3 player or iPod."
He said he hopes there will be further studies to better pin down not only the actual rate of pedestrian injuries associated with headphone use, but also the near-miss factor.
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The trees have shed their leaves and a thick carpet in hues of burgundy red, rust orange and apple-yellows lie under my feet. They crinkle beneath my battered running shoes as I run along the gravel path towards the stream, shimmering in the early morning sun rays. Taking a seat on the park bench, the air tingles crisply on my cheeks and I can smell the snow in the far distance. Not long now and the landscape will change colors again.
Before I moved to Germany I always dreaded the colder months of the year. For a girl who grew up on beaches and in the sun, the idea of anything below 20 degrees C was terrifying. But things changed over the years.
Frosty mornings and hot chocolate evenings, evoke contrasting emotions. As summer waves good-bye, part of me finds it hard to let go of the warm summer nights and the endless bright days. The other part of me looks forward to the turning of the leaves in breathtaking hues coloring even the dullest of grey skies.
While I do dread the icy coldness of winter, it is the possibility of pure white snow and the sureness of the holidays that make the change of the seasons all the more enthralling. Festive seasons, with the decadence of the Thanksgiving table and the splendor of Christmas are just around the corner waiting for us to embrace it with a warming glow.
Even the pile of fluttering brown leaves waiting to be herded up and taken away have a certain eloquent beauty. In front of the doorstep a basketful of the sweetest red apples take my thoughts away to spices like cardamom, cinnamon and caramelized fruit.
It's Thanksgiving after all and at the table, a rustic dessert cannot be missed. Apples and pumpkins roasting in the oven, oozing in their caramelized sugars, sprinkled with a hint of cardamom and cinnamon and making the kitchen smell so divine you can literally taste the flavors through the air. A crumble it shall be – topped with pecans and a crumbly sugary streusel.
Come on over, sit down and dig in – there's plenty to go around. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Printable version of recipe here
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 1 hour
For the fruit
- 500g butternut squash and apples, cut into 2-3 cm chunks
- 100g muscovado Sugar
- ½ teaspoon cardamom, ground
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ground
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 100g flour
- 75g butter
- 75g muscovado sugar
- 50g pecan, chopped
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- Place the pumpkin and apple chunks in an ovenproof form. Sprinkle with sugar and spices and toss well to coat. Dot with butter and place in the oven to roast for about 10-15 minutes. The pumpkin and apple chunks need to just gently caramelize in the sugar but not become tender.
- In the meantime, make the crumble topping by placing the flour in a large mixing bowl. Add the butter and rub it into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Stir in the sugar and pecans and mix well until evenly distributed.
- Transfer the pumpkin and apple with their juices into 4 small ramekin forms or in one ovenproof dish. Sprinkle the crumble mixture evenly over the top. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Serve hot with ice cream, custard or some whipped cream.
This crumble is just one of those desserts that make a meal satisfyingly complete. One can poach the fruit but something about roasting them in spices and sugars that allows the aromas to unfold wonderfully.
Plan for an easy Thanksgiving meal with my Thanksgiving Menu Planer including recipes for Roasted Thyme Jerusalem Artichoke, Kohlrabi and Butternut Squash and Turkey Roulade with Cranberry Mushroom Stuffing. You'll find more divine recipe ideas from sides, entrées to desserts and soups under my Thanksgiving/Christmas Recipes or my Friends and Feasts labels. Happy planning!
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Is a School Official Trying to Ruin the Education Career of the Valedictorian Whose Mic Was Cut During His Speech?
June 13, 2013
"It was intimidating having my high school principal threaten my future because I wanted to stand up for the Constitution and acknowledge my faith and not simply read a government approved message."
When a Texas high school valedictorian's microphone was shut off in the middle of his graduation speech last week, that may have only been the beginning of his problems with school officials.
Now Remington Reimer, a recent graduate of Joshua (Tex.) High School, has retained Liberty Institute to clear his name after his former principal allegedly indicated he would write a letter to the school where he's headed this fall -- the Naval Academy -- to inform officials there of Reimer's actions during his speech.
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According to Liberty Institute, the principal threatened to send a letter to the U.S. Naval Academy to "ruin Mr. Reimer's reputation in retaliation for delivering a speech of his own choosing, which included references to faith and liberty."
Liberty Institute added a statement from Reimer: "It was intimidating having my high school principal threaten my future because I wanted to stand up for the Constitution and acknowledge my faith and not simply read a government approved message."
TheBlaze ran a story noting that Reimer's speech was likely cut off because he veered from his prepared remarks to discuss losing his freedom of speech, not because he mentioned God or his faith.
Liberty Institute alleges that after the ceremony, Principal Mick Cochran met with Reimer's father and informed him "that he intended to punish Remington for his perceived misdeed" by sending a letter to the Naval Academy saying Remington "has poor character or words to that effect." But after consulting with a district attorney, Liberty Institute says Cochran "temporarily retracted the threat."
As it turns out, Reimer's father, Todd Reimer, is a doctorate-level physics and math teacher at Joshua High School. Also an adjunct professor in the English department at Dallas Baptist University, according to his profile page on the JHS site, the elder Reimer has not yet responded to TheBlaze's request for an interview.
Principal Cochran offered a two-word response to TheBlaze's request for comment on the allegations: "Not true." He later added, "The young man and I spoke the following day, we shook hands and moved on. The facts are being blown out of proportion. The incident is over." Cochran has not returned phone calls asking for an interview.
On the day of graduation, a local news outlet posted a short profile on Reimer, and you'd never know by reading it that there were any issues:
"During Remington's freshman year, we needed to find a sport for him to participate in and we sort of randomly chose JROTC, thinking that he would just try it for a while and see how he liked it," said Reimer's father Todd Reimer, who also teaches physics at JHS. "But, as it turned out, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. He loves it. And now he's going to the Naval Academy." [...]Cochran said that he has no doubt that Reimer, who plans to major in physics, will be an outstanding addition to the naval academy.
"He has a great inner drive," Cochran said. "You could put Remington in the middle of a desert all by himself and he would still find a way to be successful. I fully expect him to be a general someday. For that young man, the sky is the limit."
Today Liberty Institute sent an official notice letter to the superintendent and board of the Joshua Independent School District. According to the letter, school officials broke Texas state law in two ways:
- by not distancing themselves from the content of the valedictorian's speech;
- by not printing a disclaimer in the graduation program that should state "the content of each student speaker's message is the private expression of the individual student and does not reflect the endorsement, sponsorship, position or expression of the District."
While the superintendent, Fran Marek, hasn't responded to TheBlaze's requests for comment, we found this statement from Marek on the district's Web site:
The District has reviewed the rules and policy regarding graduation speech, and it has been determined that policy was followed at the Joshua High School 2013 Graduation Ceremony. The valedictorian, salutatorian, and class historian speeches were reviewed in advance by the campus staff, prior to the graduation ceremony. Student speakers were told that if their speeches deviated from the prior-reviewed material, the microphone would be turned off, regardless of content. When one student's speech deviated from the prior-reviewed speech, the microphone was turned off, pursuant to District policy and procedure.
Fran Marek
Joshua ISD Superintendent
"These school officials broke the rules and violated state and federal law and their own board policy," said Hiram Sasser, Liberty Institute Director of Litigation, in a prepared statement. "They should be ashamed of themselves for violating school board policy and causing this needless embarrassment for Joshua ISD and the Joshua community. Remington followed the rules, why can't they? We expect the good folks on the school board to take appropriate action to ensure their policies are followed next time."
In the letter to the board and superintendent, Liberty Institute wants a public statement from the Joshua Independent School District exonerating Reimer of any wrongdoing and an indication that they won't interfere with speech's like Reimer's again.
According to the Dallas Observer, the Burleson Star newspaper ran with this text of Reimer's speech, portions of which were apparently cut off during the graduation ceremony:
We are all fortunate to live in a country where we can express our beliefs, where our mics won't be turned off, as I have been threatened to be if I veer away from the school-censored speech I have just finished. Just as Jesus spoke out against the authority of the Pharisees and Sadducees, who tried to silence him, I will not have my freedom of speech taken away from me. And I urge you all to do the same. Do not let anyone take away your religious or Constitutional rights from you.
Here's a video snippet of Reimer getting cut off mid-speech:
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NBA Draft Lottery Mania! Be sure to check out my Lottery live-blog on Deadspin last night. And what a night it was, full of more than a little surprise. A roundup:
Winners (in order):
1. Sonics: Why
(Will it help the Sonics with the team's bid to stay in
2. Blazers: That said, the Blazers choose between the franchise center that will all-but-ensure multiple titles 5-10 years from now and the franchise swingman, which is actually their biggest need, and will probably ensure multiple titles 5-10 years from now.
I don't think Oden as the top pick is a done-deal at all. The Blazers actually NEED a player at Durant's position, let alone a mega-watt star of Durant's potential. And while Oden is no Sam Bowie, can the Blazers really afford to miss out – again! -- on the potential next Michael Jordan?
(Although don't be fooled: The real comparison for
My preposterously premature take? Durant is both a "sexier" pick (stop) and fills a bigger need for the team, but Oden is the rarer commodity. Presuming that the Blazers are still a few years away from competing (for a division title, let alone a West title, let alone an NBA title), they'll have plenty of draft picks, free-agency options and trade moves to find a perfectly good swingman. Not as good as Durant, mind you, but they simply won't be able to find a post player even remotely as dominant as Oden. Put more succinctly: Durant's VORP isn't as high as Oden's VORP. The Blazers should draft Oden. The Sonics would take Durant, move to Oklahoma City (familiar Big 12 country) and start their "new" franchise with an appropriately "franchise" talent.
Losers (in order):
1. (tie): Celtics, Grizzlies, Bucks. Each one (let alone ALL) had to really piss off the NBA karma police to drop out of the Top 3. (a) The Schedenfreude Meter on the Celtics was off the charts. (b) The Grizzlies will get a serviceable big man that might allow them to trade Pau Gasol for multiple players and picks. (c) The Bucks won the Lottery two years ago, and thus don't get much sympathy from anyone.
Snitching Tanking."
Special Category of Purgatory:
1. Hawks: Only the Hawks could make it into the Top 3, avoiding the fate of giving their pick to the Suns, only to end up in the third slot in a two-star draft. It's not like the player they'll draft at No. 3 won't help, but you just know
(As a corollary, by NOT getting the Hawks' pick at No. 4-7, the Suns lose out on a windfall this year. Maybe they can trade Shawn Marion to jump into the Top 10, but without that existing Top 4-7 pick, it's less enticing.)
As for the rest? They basically slotted into form. It'll be interesting to see if the Hawks package the 3 and 11 picks to either move up (or move out). It'll be interesting to see if the Celtics trade the 5 pick for a player who can help them now. It'll be interesting to see how the various talented big men in the draft disperse through this Top 14.
Other must-read Lottery live-blogs:
Free Darko (by the FD team)
NBA FanHouse (by Ziller)
And CNBC's Darren Rovell does the math on what the No. 1 pick is worth.
On to the day's other big storylines:
Spurs thump Jazz for 2-0 series lead: With the Lottery results known, way more people are looking ahead to next year than giving a rat's ass about this year's remainder of the playoffs.
Giambi failed greenies test last year: Which was something he sorta failed to mention while he was doing his self-indulgent mea culpas to the media last week about steroids. Seriously, what a douchebag.
MLB Stud: Tim Lincecum, the Giants stud rookie SP who beat the Astros, allowing 5 hits and 2 runs in 8 IP for his second W of the season.
MLB Dud: Roy Oswalt, the Astros stud vet SP who lost to the Giants, which included protesting his manager's decision to IBB Barry Bonds. After the second time, he got drilled by Giants batters. Hmm: Coincidence?
Is Roy Hibbert pulling out of the NBA Draft and going back to
The Commish rips Coach Janky Spanky: Clinton Portis deserved criticism for supporting Mike Vick's alleged dog-fighting habit, but he DID quickly apologize. Roger Goodell coming out against Portis now extends the Commish's "Get Tough" policy beyond condemning actions. Now he's condemning words. (Of course, will he condemn email? The Steelers are going to let Coach Email Porn go with a slap on the wrist. I'd like to see Goodell take a slightly less sympathetic stance.)
Unrelated: To Goodell's credit, he supports a new policy to allow anonymous whistle-blowers to expose when teams are pressuring players to play after concussions. That's totally worth tracking...
Did Nick Saban violate NCAA recruiting rules last week? Admittedly, the allegation comes from a message board for The U., but still: It looks like he might have committed a minor infraction. Bring on the NCAA! (Unless the NCAA thinks it has a vested interest in having Saban wildly succeed at a prestigious program like Bama's.)
Trent Green really wants out of KC and into
Super Bowl in 2011 will go to...
Soccer: Milan-Liverpool in Champions League final today. Who ya got?
Frivolous: The Cubs are going to have a statue of "Mr. Cub," Ernie Banks, in front of Wrigley Field. That made me wonder how many teams -- across any sport -- have a single player who defines the franchise's history? Off the top of my head, it seems like most do.
Idol finale: Haven't really said ANYTHING about Idol this season, even though I do watch. (You do, too. Admit it.) Blake was totally screwed during last night's finale. That mandated "I'm Such a Star!" anthem simply isn't something he does well, and I'll bet producers wouldn't let him re-mix it with an up-tempo beat and beat-box opportunities. Meanwhile, it was perfect for Jordin. So I presume Jordin will win -- and it's sort of a win for sports fans, given her father, Philippi Sparks, was an NFL cornerback for a longer career than his daughter will have.


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It's hard out there for a college grad.
The AP analyzed government data and came up with this stunning figure: "Half of young college graduates [are] either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge."
The whole story is worth a read, so we encourage you to click over, but here is the meat of the AP's analysis:
"About 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bachelor's degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years. In 2000, the share was at a low of 41 percent, before the dot-com bust erased job gains for college graduates in the telecommunications and IT fields.
"Out of the 1.5 million who languished in the job market, about half were underemployed, an increase from the previous year. Broken down by occupation, young college graduates were heavily represented in jobs that require a high school diploma or less.
"In the last year, they were more likely to be employed as waiters, waitresses, bartenders and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians combined (100,000 versus 90,000). There were more working in office-related jobs such as receptionist or payroll clerk than in all computer professional jobs (163,000 versus 100,000). More also were employed as cashiers, retail clerks and customer representatives than engineers (125,000 versus 80,000)."
Other studies have found similar things. Back in December our friends at State Impact Ohio reported that a Rutgers University study found that "half the college graduates from 2010 were still job searching a year later."
Also, last June, our friends at Planet Money used two graphs to explain that while college is not a "golden ticket to a good job," it does make a "huge difference" in income and the unemployment rate in the long run.
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CHARRED REMAINS–In this aerial photo, law enforcement authorities investigate the charred remains of a cabin Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, where quadruple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner is believed to have died after barricading himself inside during a Tuesday stand-off with police in the Angeles Oaks area of Big Bear, Calif. (AP Photo/The Sun, John Valenzuela)
by Greg Risling
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — He styled himself as a Rambo-like guerrilla, someone trained to outwit and outshoot the police at every turn, and while Christopher Dorner left no doubt he could be unforgivingly violent, when it came to keeping ahead of the law during his deadly rampage, he made one mistake after another.
The last one — letting one of two people he tied up get to her cellphone and call police as he made off in their purple car — tipped authorities he was coming.
The angry ex-cop, who authorities say boasted that police agencies had no chance of capturing him except on his terms, appears to have been killed Tuesday in a fierce gun battle after he wrecked two getaway cars and had to make a last stand in a mountain cabin 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
The cabin went up in flames after authorities launched pyrotechnic tear gas canisters into it, and authorities were all but certain the charred body found inside afterward was Dorner's. They are waiting for forensic tests to confirm that, but in the meantime San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday that authorities consider the hunt over.
Personal effects, including Dorner's driver's license, were found with the body, an official briefed on the search told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
Sheriff's deputies were not trying to burn down the cabin with Dorner inside but simply flush him out, McMahon said.
"It was not on purpose," he told reporters Wednesday. "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out."
Karen and Jim Reynolds said they came face to face with Dorner around noon on the day of his downfall. The couple said that they found him in their cabin-style condominium just a stone's throw from the sheriff's command post, and believe he had been there since Friday.
The couple said Dorner bound them, put pillow cases over their heads and fled in their purple Nissan. When he did, Karen Reynolds managed to get to her cellphone and call 911. The Reynolds told their story at a news conference Wednesday night, they said, to clear up recent reports that it was two female housekeepers who had found Dorner and been tied up.
Their account could not immediately be confirmed by law enforcement officials, but it matched earlier reports saying it was a married couple, and property records showed them as the owners.
The manhunt, one of the largest in recent memory, began last week after Dorner was linked to the killings of a former Los Angeles police captain's daughter and her fiance.
Soon after the couple was found shot death near their Orange County condo, authorities linked their killings to a long, rambling rant they say Dorner posted on Facebook vowing to get revenge on the Los Angeles police and their families for ruining his reputation by firing him.
Dorner was dismissed for filing a false report wrongly accusing his training officer of kicking a mentally disabled man.
"I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," Dorner had boasted. "You will now live the life of the prey."
As it turned out, none of Dorner's four victims were Los Angeles police officers. The other two were a Riverside officer he ambushed at a traffic light and a San Bernardino sheriff's deputy killed in Tuesday's firefight.
"If you're really trying to kill all those people, if that's really your plan, and you're a great tactician, then you don't tell people," said Jim Clemente, a retired behavioral analyst for the FBI. "You don't tell LAPD in advance so they can put a bunch of bodyguards on people. He went and killed soft targets, innocent citizens who had nothing to do with him at all. He used those to scare people, and he used those sadistically to harm the LAPD officer he wanted to get at."
After the first two killings, Dorner tried to steal a boat in San Diego and flee to Mexico, but the former Navy veteran tangled a rope in the outboard motor and couldn't start it, authorities said. Then he fled to the Big Bear Lake resort area, where his truck axle broke, stranding him on Feb. 7, just ahead of a heavy snowstorm.
He may have caught a break when he found refuge in a vacant vacation cabin just across the street from a command post established for the hundreds of officers frantically searching for him.
Despite a search that involved helicopters and bloodhounds and officers going door-to-door checking hundreds of cabins, Dorner remained out of sight until he was discovered Tuesday at the cabin near the command post.
San Bernardino County Deputy Chief Steve Kovensky said searchers had not seen any forced entry when they checked it, but he could not provide details about exactly when that check was made.
Authorities, for the most part, looked at cabins boarded up for the winter, said Dan Sforza, assistant chief of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and often didn't enter occupied homes where nothing appeared amiss.
As he fled in the Nissan, Dorner managed to elude authorities for a time by pulling behind two school buses and making a quick turn onto a mountain road. But he crashed the car there and had to steal another.
That's when he confronted Rick Heltebrake, a ranger who takes care of a Boy Scout camp nearby, and took his pickup. Heltebrake was checking the perimeter of the camp for anything out of the ordinary when he saw Dorner emerge from behind some trees. He was dressed in military fatigues and holding a semi-automatic-style rifle.
"I don't want to hurt you. Start walking and take your dog," Heltebrake recalled Dorner saying as he pointed the gun at him. He fled with his 3-year-old Dalmatian, Suni, and immediately called police, who quickly found the suspect again.
This time he opened fire as he drove past a car carrying game wardens looking for him. One of them got out of his own vehicle and returned fire from his high-powered, semi-automatic rifle but apparently missed.
Out of options after crashing the pickup, the driver made a break for a cabin and barricaded himself inside, where he made his last stand.
Dorner's mother released a family statement to the FOX affiliate in Los Angeles disavowing her son's actions in his final weeks.
"It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we express our deepest sympathies and condolences to anyone that suffered losses or injuries resulting from Christopher's actions. We do not condone Christopher's actions," said the statement Nancy Dorner gave to KTTV-TV. "The family has no further
comments and ask that our privacy be respected during this difficult time."
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay was killed during that final gunfight and another deputy was wounded.
MacKay, a detective who had been with the department 15 years, had a wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son, sheriff's officials said. He had spoken to AP just last weekend, saying he hoped Dorner could be taken into custody without any more violence.
"You just never know if the guy's going to pop out or where he's going to pop out," MacKay told an AP reporter. "We're hoping this comes to a close without any more casualties."
If Dorner's body is identified, he'll be the final casualty.
Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in San Bernardino and John Rogers in Los Angeles contributed to this story.


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All this week, we've been examining the world's last remaining pockets of polio, a disease for which there is no cure. India marked a milestone when the World Health Organization struck it from the list of polio-endemic countries in February after no new cases were reported for more than a year. From Delhi, NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on how, despite poverty and poor sanitation, the world's second-most populous country is eradicating the disease.
The humanity of India washes up at its train stations. Passengers sprawling among vagrants wait for trains, while sweepers halfheartedly shuffle brooms in the heat.
It's Sunday, Day 1 of Immunization Week. During national campaigns, which occur twice a year, 2 million volunteers fan out to India's train stations, bus depots, temples, churches and mosques, armed with vials of polio vaccine.
Checking progress at a city slum, Delhi's Polio Eradication Program chief, Dr. C.M. Khanijo, says the vaccine must be kept at around 35 degrees Fahrenheit — even when the temperature outside is 109 degrees.
"The quality of the vaccine remains better if it is maintained in the cold chain," he says. "And the cold chain is maintained by keeping ice or ice packs."
Khanijo says that in just 30 minutes, enough vials to cover a large area of Delhi's old, walled city are distributed and in place. By 9 a.m., an army of vaccinators is dropping medicine into little mouths.
Families bring their squirming children to the booths, where they are given oral polio drops, containing a weakened form of the wild polio virus, which only humans carry.
A Massive Challenge
India has 175 million children aged 5 and younger, and all of them are tiny targets in this massive national immunization project that, since January 2011, has made India free of a disease that has afflicted it for millennia.
It must remain polio-free for three years before the WHO will certify that India has eradicated polio.
"This is kind of a mission. But ultimately the purpose is that we need to reach each and every child," says Dr. Ajay Khera, the deputy commissioner of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, who directs the country's polio eradication program.
"In 1995, when we started the program, we used to get roughly around 50,000 polio cases every year. And every village, everywhere, people used to find a polio child," Khera says. "So people ... imagine kind of a disabled child, and nobody wants that disabled child to be there in the community."
Trucks blast messages encouraging families to vaccinate their children, part of India's mass public-awareness campaign. The nation's polio chief says the aim is to vaccinate as many children as possible on Sunday, the first day of the campaign, and then have vaccinators go house to house for the next five days.
Dr. Kiran Kathuria oversees 127 teams that go house to house in central Delhi during National Immunization Week and during supplementary or "Sub-National" weeks. The poorer, less developed north of India, which includes Delhi, is more prone to polio than the richer south, and so vaccination weeks are more frequent there.
Kathuria recalls working as a young doctor in the country's disease-afflicted slums. The suffering she saw made eradicating polio her passion.
"Every second house had a ... polio-affected child. They were roaming around on the road, limping legs — I have seen lots of deaths due to polio," says Kathuria, who has been working against the disease since 1986.
Back then she mapped the slums for the vaccinators, noting down any "landmark" she could find — from temples to pigsties.
"I had put in my map that from [this] pigsty to this mosque, the team will travel and cover 300 houses in two days. That's how I made my maps. That was the beginning," she says with a laugh.
Fear That Polio Will Jump The Border
Today, Kathuria calls herself a "general" in a war on polio. One of the biggest worries health officials have is that the virus will jump across the border from Pakistan, where the disease is endemic. Extending her war analogy, Kathuria compares India's polio campaign to the 1999 fighting between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
"That time we did not allow [the] Pakistani army [into India]. This time we will not allow [a] Pakistan virus to come to India. In fact, I call all my team members, I call them soldiers," she says.
Her troops — mainly women — cover a middle-class district where families have just one or two children, and she closely monitors their work. Santosh Sharma, a stout 52 year old, has gone door to door in Delhi since the program began in the 1990s.
"That time we did not allow the Pakistani army [into India]. This time we will not allow a Pakistan virus to come to India."
At this door she's told that the mother of the house is bathing. Santosh says she'll be back and moves to the next apartment. This immunization in September was the sixth this year for Delhi, and like most of the ones preceding it, Santosh finds 4-year-old Jasmit Singh at home with his mother, Rupinder.
When Rupinder says her child was not vaccinated Sunday, the veteran volunteer reaches for the vaccine. Santosh has administered many of the polio drops young Jasmit has had, which amount to dozens over the years.
Kathuria translates for Rupinder, saying the mother is proud that India is now gaining a good name in the world because it is polio-free.
Kathuria translates for Rupinder, saying the mother is proud that India is now gaining a good name in the world because it is polio-free. Santosh, a foot soldier in that effort, interjects: "A dangerous disease is being thrown out of the country. A dangerous disease attacking our children is being eradicated."
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has advised India's polio program, providing money and expertise. (The foundation also supports NPR.) Bill Gates notes that with India's success, the world has never been closer to eradicating polio, and he says that the remaining hot spots should draw on India's experience.
"India's success is really phenomenal," Gates says. "You probably would've guessed they would be the toughest country because of size, the number of kids who move around, the sanitation challenges up in the north, migratory populations. And so absolutely, the lessons from India can now be applied in the two toughest countries that remain — Pakistan in Asia and Nigeria in Africa."
Pakistanis Take Notes On India's Success
When a Pakistani delegation traveled to India this summer to see how its archrival had defeated polio, it saw a level of detail and logistics it had not seen before.
The presence of Pakistanis in India usually sparks a media buzz, and this was no exception. When a zealous minder steps in to end an impromptu news conference, the Pakistani delegation leader, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, gently brushes him aside.
"We appreciate what you are doing," Shahnaz Wazir Ali tells him before turning back to the reporters. "We have also greatly appreciated the monitoring system that [the Indians] have. Monitoring and monitoring of monitors. And the surveillance system."
It is polio as diplomacy: two foes that have fought three wars finding new common ground.
Michael Galway, Gates Foundation senior program officer, says bridging India and Pakistan over polio knits together not just program strategies but the chance to seize a historic moment for global health.
"Polio eradication is not going ... to keep coming back as many different opportunities. This is our time. The world has only ever really gotten rid of one disease that affects human beings, and that's smallpox," he says.
Back in her clinic, Dr. Kathuria expresses the belief that India's success will spur Pakistan.
"I'm sure Pakistan will have the courage that they can eradicate polio, after seeing us," she says. "'If India can do it, why can't we?' I'm sure they will have that feeling."
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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The portobello mushrooms in creamy curry have been on my mind ever since I had them at Vij's restaurant a couple of months ago. I am not as familiar with Indian spices and blends and much to my dismay I was never able to decide what was used in the dish. My recent trip to Italy and the amazing mushrooms pastas that I enjoyed while there inspired me to take a new approach to the dish and go with some flavours that I was a little more comfortable with. I kept things nice and simple and flavoured the creamy porcini sauce with shallots, garlic, thyme and a healthy helping of parmigiano reggiano that was melted into the sauce. One thing that I like about using the dried porcini mushrooms is that they pack a ton of mushroomy flavour and it is really easy to capture it all by using the water that the mushrooms were soaked in in the dish. If you can still get outside and use the grill it will add a touch of smokiness to the portabella mushrooms that goes really well with the creamy sauce. If not, an indoor grill will work just fine. This version of the dish ended up being fantastic and I enjoyed it so much that I have already made it twice! The first time I served it as an appetizer with some crusty bread to soak up all of the extra creamy mushroom sauce and the second time I served it over a bed of spinach as the main dish in a lighter meal.
Grilled Portobello Mushroom in a Porcini Cream Sauce
- 1 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 shallot (finely diced)
- 1 clove garlic (chopped)
- 1/2 teaspoon thyme (chopped)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup cream
- 1/3 cup parmigiano reggiano (grated)
- 2 portobello mushrooms (stems removed)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- Soak the dried porcini mushrooms in the hot water for 20 minutes.
- Drain the mushrooms and chop them reserving the water.
- Melt the butter in a pan at medium.
- Add the porcini mushrooms, shallots, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper and saute for 2 minutes.
- Add the reserved water and simmer at medium-high until reduced by half, about 10 minutes.
- Add the cream and parmigiano reggiano and simmer until it thickens, about 2-4 minutes.
- Brush the portobello mushrooms with the oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Grill until cooked, about 3-5 minutes on the first side followed by 3 minuted on the other side.


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This page is a landing page dedicated to Infrastructure related topics for the EclipseLink project.
Build Infrastructure
Build Machines
All downloadable builds of EclipseLink are generated on the Eclipse Foundations build machine. Even classes which cannot be compiled at Eclipse are assembled into thier 'built' packaging with each build using this hardware.
An example of this process is the Oracle extension; which has build dependencies on jars that cannot be stored on the Foundation's hardware due to licencing restrictions. In this case, the extension is built on Oracle hardware from EclipseLink's SVN repository against the required dependancy libraries. The generated classes are then contributed by Oracle into the EclipseLink repository; in the form of source and bundle jars. The nighlty and continuous build processes then take these jars and generate appropriately packaged bundles for each build.
Automated Build Process
All published EclipseLink builds are all produced on the Eclipse Foundation build machine using a cron initiated process which kicks off a shell script that sets-up the environment, cleans the test database, and invokes the automated ant build.
The Automated Ant Build is setup in three layers:
bootstrap.xml: This ant script, as its name implies, establishes the ant environment necessary for builds on the Eclipse build machine. Its content remains fairly constant, and is shared by all active development branches.
autobuild.xml: The next level of the build is branch specific, and regulates the automated processes (nightly and continuous builds), it also includes targets for milestone promotion, and the high level target for the oracle extension). This script determines if a build is necessary (has the code changed?), and then root build script to do the work.
build.xml: This is the root build script for a development branch. In addition to general use by those wanting to build EclipseLink. It is used by the automated process to generate all deliverables.
Process Flow
Continuous Build
The purpose of the continuous build process is to insure that the codebase remains as 'clean' as possible by alerting committers as soon as possible to regressions. This is done by having cron kick-off a build of type "continuous", the autobuild checks to see if a transaction has been committed, and if so updates the local code 'view', initiates a build (test and product jars only), then runs the "SRG" (Short ReGression) Testsuite. Any test or build failures are reported to the EclipseLink dev mailing list.
Due to resource limitations, and to make room for expansion of verification processes, Continuous Builds are now hosted on a local Oracle machine. 'CB' status messages are emailed currently, but work is underway to transfer status reporting to RSS.
The architecture of the Automated Build system allows every branch to be capable of running continuous builds. However, historically it was only possible to allow the required window of time (approximately 15-20 minutes) to three branches for continuous builds. Therefore only the three most active branches usually have crontab entries to kick-off every 20 minutes starting at the top of, 20 past, and 40 past the hour between 6am-8pm EDT daily. Thereby evening out the CPU load for build/testing. Since trunk is always the most active it holds the top of the hour spot.
Since the hosting for CBs has shifted to a dedicated machine, and each branch has its own DB login, it is easily possible for several branches to overlap their CBs or run simultaniously however.
Nightly Build
Nightly builds occur so that integration of all a days transactions can be validated, and any resulting regressions can be found and resolved easily. Active branches routinely build nightly. However, since the build generally takes 90-100 minutes to compete (5 to build and 85-95 for testing) and we only build one branch at a time (to better balance resource sharing), only three builds are scheduled nightly. The first begins at 12:05am. If more than three branches are active alternating nights are used.
As previously mentioned, Nightly builds are also initiated by cron and, like the cb, verify that new transactions are present before continuing; where the local codebase is updated and all downloadable artifacts are generated. Unlike the CB, the nightly builds have been split into separate 'build/test' and publishing process threads. Build processing is better facilitated by a genereic build user, but Foundation security requires only commiter access to upload artifacts to the download site. Therefore the build has been split to allow the use of the generic "build user" for build and test processes, which each handoff to a commiter specific process for uploading of the generated artifacts.
While full 'installer' (jars, scripts, javadoc, contol files, etc), javadoc and source archives are made available for general download, only the product jars and bundles are made available in our Maven repository (no features), and only the OSGi bundles and features pushed to the nightly P2 repository (no Pojo jars). Any Build or Test failures result in a report to the EclipseLink dev mailing list and the archival of the build log. All downloadable nightly build artfacts are unsigned.
Nightly builds routinely have issues, however, in most cases these are minor because the continuous build process regularly builds and tests the codebase as transactions are merged. Thus most major regressions are fixed within hours of the cause. Issues do slip through the cracks though (because only limited testing can be done within the 20 minute window available), regressions caught by the more extensive nightly build process are usually fixed by the next nightly build. Because of this, milestone and even release builds are directly promoted from nightly builds which pass various levels of additional testing.
Build Promotion
At regular intervals, nightly builds are promoted as "milestones". These milestone builds generally represent a fairly stable "snapshot" of the progress on a branch, rather than completion of specific development goals.
A milestone promotion always comes from the most current stable nightly build available at the time. The process doesn't perform any compilation or testing tasks, rather it reassembles deliverables (install zips) as appropriate to use signed versions of the nightly build then uploads them to the "Milestone Download Site", pushes them to Maven, and generates the milestone P2 site.
Since it is Eclipse Policy not to sign nightly builds, only certain committers are allowed signer access and milestone builds are promoted from the nightly build pool, the bundles needing signing are archived and stored with each nightly build, but are only signed during the promotion process. This means that while Milestone bundles start out from the same source and generated class files as the corresponding nightly build, they will have different CRCs, and timestamps.
A "release" milestone (a final release or patchset build) is simply a special type of milestone that generates to the "release" instead of the regular "milestone" sites.
Like the nightly download page the milesotone download webpage is generated by the automated process.
Issues and Limitations
- At times the Eclipse Build machine can reach maximum load (especially towards June and the end of the Simultanious release cycle), at which time builds have been known to take as long as nine (9) hours to complete. Since the continuous builds begin 6 hours after the first nightly is kicked off, the test database has been reinitialized thus invalidating the test results.
- For this reason, and for increased flexibility to allocate further testing efforts as needed, We have moved the continuous build process off the Foundation build machine to an Oracle hosted linux server. This free's up foundation resources, and keeps the cb from interfering with the nightly build process.
- Also as a result of the resource drain we've been seeing test failures that are the result of timing or resource issues. We are investigating possible solutions. This may no longer be an issue with Indigo since the launch of the new Foundation build machine (if anything we have been seeing test issues resulting from faster test execution), however, May and June will be the test of the new build infrastructure.
- Since most testing is done before a milestone is promoted it is possible that the signed jar may exibit behavior different than that of the tested unsigned jar. Testing is performed on the downloaded milestone bundles and no unexpected issues have been found to date however.
- Since a promoted release is generated from the nightly build as well as the milestone build, there may be timestamp differences between a milestone and a release even if they are generated from the same build. We are investigating mirroring and linking as possible solutions.
Download Infrastructure
Builds are made available for download by the EclipseLink Project in several forms. Since it has become obvious that further discussion of the formatting of each is warranted, they will be discussed in detail below.
Downloadable Content
The format of downloadable content first made available by EclipseLink was Archive Zips of an "Install image", and zip of the source used to generate the build. We then added a Maven 2 repository for the EclipseLink jar, and as we moved toward OSGi specific content we also added a Zip archive of the OSGi specific bundles as well as including them in Maven. When we joined the yearly simultanious release we added P2 update sites. Each format is available for 'release', milestone, and nightly builds. The links and a discussion of each type of content is below.
The download webpages
The latest release available for download can be found on the main download page. Since the zip format is easily usable on supported platforms and jars are cross-platform by nature, EclipseLink does not differentiate between Windows, Linux, and other platform downloads. All archives, where necessary, contain scripts for each platform. Also since archives store directory information, it makes little sense to discuss directory hierarchies in detail; Rather they will simply be mentioned where applicable. The actual content of the archives will be related below.
Installer Zip
Bundle Zip
eclipselink-jpa-modelgen_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar javax.activation_1.1.0.v200906290531.jar javax.jms_1.1.0.jar javax.mail_1.4.0.v200804091730.jar javax.persistence_1.0.0.v200905011740.jar javax.resource_1.5.0.jar javax.servlet_2.4.0.v200806031604.jar javax.transaction_1.1.0.v201002051055.jar javax.xml.bind.source_2.1.12.v200912160909.jar javax.xml.bind_2.1.12.v200912160909.jar javax.xml.soap_1.3.0.jar javax.xml.stream_1.0.1.v201001131653.jar javax.xml.ws_2.0.0.v200902170419.jar org.eclipse.persistence.antlr.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.antlr_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.asm.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.asm_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.core.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.core_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.dbws.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.dbws_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox.weaving.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox.weaving_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.modelgen.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.modelgen_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.jpa_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.moxy_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.oracle.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.oracle_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.sdo.source_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar org.eclipse.persistence.sdo_2.1.0.v20100220-r6632.jar about.html license.html readme.html javax.persistence.source_2.0.0.v201002051058.jar javax.persistence_2.0.0.v201002051058.jar commonj.sdo_2.1.1.v200905221342.jar
Source Zip
Maven Repository
Sonatype OSS/ Maven Central
As part of our 2.5.0 release, EclipseLink has established Maven publication through the Sonatype OSS Nexus instance to Maven Central. New releases (post 2.5.0) will no longer be promoted through the old Maven 2 repository. Instead RCs and releases can be found on Maven Central, and development SNAPSHOTs, Milestones, and the mirrored releases are available at Sonatype OSS at: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public under the groupId: org.eclipse.persistence
SNAPSHOTS are purged upon 'Release', and development milestone (-M#) builds will be staged separately from milestones intended to be promoted to Central.
Legacy Maven 2 Repository
Since our old Maven 2 repository contains artifacts that do not meet Maven Central's requirements, old releases will not be re-published through Sonatype, and won't be available at Maven Central, however, there are currently no plans to decommission the old site. While not http accessible, the Maven 2 repository is made available at: http://download.eclipse.org/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo
EclipseLink maintains a maven repository for nightly, milestone and release builds. Nightly builds are kept to the latest ten builds per release version. There is a bug being looked into to separate the Nightly from the Milestone/Release repo. There is also work to determine if recent p2 support for Maven 3 could be utilized to replace the creation of additional Maven repositories.
P2 Update Sites
EclipseLink organizes its update sites into three different sites; signed "release builds", signed "milestone builds", and unsigned "nightly builds". Where "released builds" consist of product releases and thier associated bugfix maintenance patches, "milestone builds" are tested stable builds released regularly during development, and "nightly builds" are the latest and (hopefully) greatest build of the development codebase.
EclipseLink utilizes "compound" repositories to make all builds available in a single site for each build type, rather than separate sites for each build.
The Release Update Site webpage is simply a placeholder link for the URL meant to be used within the Eclipse IDE to access all p2 compatible Release builds of EclipseLink.
Similarly, the Milestone Update URL can be used from the IDE to access Milestone builds. However, it should be noted that due to space restrictions only milestones for versions under development are retained, and due to limitations with P2 the milestone a build belongs to can take some research. It is usually best to simply update to the latest if you choose to use milestone builds.
The Nightly Update URL, can be used to access EclipseLink Nightly builds from within Eclipse. Nightly builds, being much more frequent, have stricter restrictions. Each is only retained for about a week. The builds are unsigned, and may not even be stable. It is best not to use them unless you are trying to get past a specific issue you know is resolved with a particular nightly build.
It should be noted that we have opted to use composite repositories in spite of a major drawback: a user can simply select the category checkbox, and inadvertently select *all* available builds. Thus cluttering , and causing a maintenance head-ache on thier own system. No solution to this issue is currently available, however, not using a composite repository for incremental builds also has issues led to issues that effected all users, all the time.
P2 organization
The Project update site is now centered around a single catagorized feature. The SDK. In the past we made available several features, and corresponding "source" features. Those features are still avalailable, but to select them you will need to unselect "show categorozed items". Currently, only the SDK feature is categorized under "EclipseLink". All past release repositories have been regenerated to use the SDK (binary bundles have not been modified).
The EclipseLink SDK is currently made up of the other six (6) features. They are:
- EclipseLink JPA (org.eclipse.persistence.jpa)
- EclipseLink MOXy (org.eclipse.persistence.moxy)
- EclipseLink SDO (org.eclipse.persistence.sdo)
- EclipseLink JPA Source (org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.source)
- EclipseLink MOXy Source (org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source)
- EclipseLink SDO Source (org.eclipse.persistence.sdo.source)
Though the jar name of the feature is similar to an EclipseLink bundle of the same name, the two do not conflict because the feature
(or in p2 parlance: the Installable Unit) is stored separately from the bundles it installs/includes.
Feature content
With the exception of the SDK (which includes all the other features), EclipseLink features are not 'nested', but rather are designed as completely autonomous units specific to the utilization of specific EclipseLink functionality. So though every 'feature' depends upon the EclipseLink core, there is no "Core feature". Instead "EclipseLink JPA" groups together all libraries (both project and external) that are distributable and are needed for developing and running an EclipseLink JPA application. The same is true of the MOXy and SDO features. This decision was originally made because it was felt to be more 'developer-centric', more easily understood and resulted in a less cluttered 'update' display.
Now all the features are made available in a single SDK, and nesting may make more conceptual sense, but for backward compatability the original structure has been maintained. In addition there is no real need to change it since, becasue of the nature of OSGi, a specific bundle will only be installed once, no matter how many other bundles (or features) may depend upon it.
It has been requested that a breakdown be made available of the bundles included in each feature outside of the xml projects used to create them (thus sparing the reader from having to understand the "feature.xml" layout). Given the changing nature of these dependencies I will outline the dependencies for the latest release currently under development (2.1.0), with the caveat that the ultimate autority is the feature.xml stored in the "features" subproject of EclipseLink's SVN repository.
EclipseLink SDK (org.eclipse.persistence.sdk):
"includes" the other six features directly.
EclipseLink JPA (org.eclipse.persistence.jpa):
javax.activation_1.1.0.v200906290531.jar javax.mail_1.4.0.v200804091730.jar javax.persistence_2.0.0.v201002051058.jar javax.xml.stream_1.0.1.v201001131653.jar org.eclipse.persistence.antlr_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.asm_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.core_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.jpa_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox.weaving_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.oracle_2.1.0
EclipseLink MOXy (org.eclipse.persistence.moxy):
javax.activation_1.1.0.v200906290531.jar javax.mail_1.4.0.v200804091730.jar javax.persistence_2.0.0.v201002051058.jar javax.xml.bind_2.1.12.v200912160909 javax.xml.stream_1.0.1.v201001131653 org.eclipse.persistence.asm_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.core_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.moxy_2.1.0
EclipseLink SDO (org.eclipse.persistence.sdo):
commonj.sdo_2.1.1.v200905221342 javax.activation_1.1.0.v200906290531.jar javax.mail_1.4.0.v200804091730.jar javax.persistence_2.0.0.v201002051058.jar javax.xml.bind_2.1.12.v200912160909 javax.xml.stream_1.0.1.v201001131653 org.eclipse.persistence.asm_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.core_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.moxy_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.sdo_2.1.0
EclipseLink JPA Source (org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.source):
org.eclipse.persistence.antlr.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.asm.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.core.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.equinox.weaving.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.oracle.source_2.1.0
EclipseLink MOXy Source (org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source):
org.eclipse.persistence.asm.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.core.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source_2.1.0
EclipseLink SDO Source (org.eclipse.persistence.sdo.source):
org.eclipse.persistence.asm.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.core.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source_2.1.0 org.eclipse.persistence.sdo.source_2.1.0


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Contact Info
- Matthew E. Jurek
- Loyola Marymount University
- 1 LMU Drive MS B-5344
- Los Angeles, CA 90045
- Biology Major
- Class of 2013
- Upper Division Courses:
- Biology: Plant Physiology, Molecular Biology, Biology of Mammals, Island Biology, Issues in Biotechnology, General Microbiology, General Microbiology Lab, Field Methods Lab, Endocrinology, Biomathematical Modeling
- Chemistry: Biochemistry
- Math: None
- Computer Science: None
- Courses Offered at LMU: LMU Bulletin
Career Goals
- Medical School
- Clinical Research
- Eventually supplement knowledge of science with study of business and work in the ever-expanding field of biotechnology
Interests in Biology
- My favorite aspect of biology is the never-ending opportunity for discovery. I've always been interested in how things work. One of my largest "how things work" questions has to relate to myself. As in, how do humans work? Obviously biology is not the only means for studying this question, but I would argue it provides the largest channel for answering such question. I also like change as I am easily bored. The study of biology never ceases to amaze me as no two days are the same.
Interests in Mathematics
- Math also helps to answer how things work. My favorite aspect of math is problem-solving. Working through problems develops problem-solving skills which can then be applied to many other areas of study. Problem solving is a large part of chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry for example. Math also appears in labs via microbiology techniques. Learning how to problem solve is crucial to all the sciences and life in general.
Concerns and Additional Information
- At this point, my concern lies with the math side of the course. I've taken biology courses every semester, but this is not true for math. I think it may take some time for all the calculus skills to come back to me.
- As far as further information for the instructors, I took an art course last semester in which we used wiki. However, that class utilized basic applications so I'm excited to dive deeper into wikispaces and the construction of a site like this.
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I was craving some good home style comfort food and one of the top recipes in my bookmarks was this one for chicken giouvetsi from Kalofagas . Giouvetsi is a one pot Greek dish where the meat is baked along with the pasta. The recipe for giouvetsi is quite simple and I realized immediately that the
secret was that while the meat is cooking its juices drip right into the pasta where its flavours are absorbed. I really like one pot meals like this because they generally required very little preparation and then you can relax while the whole meal cooks all at once. For the pasta I used some whole wheat orzo to make it a touch healthier. The chicken giouvetsi was pretty easy to make and the hardest part was quartering the whole chicken though you could easily just use chicken legs and or breasts to save some time. The simple sounding recipe really belies the amazing flavour of this dish! While baking, all of the flavours have plenty of time to mingle and become good friends and every bite right down to the last piece of orzo on the plate was tasty and full of flavour. For even more flavour feel free to garnish the meal with some grated kefalotyri or pecorino romano cheese.
Chicken Giouvetsi
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 large onion (chopped)
- 1 cubanelle pepper (chopped) (or banana pepper or green bell pepper)
- 1 1/2 cups orzo (I used whole wheat) (gluten free for gluten free)
- 6 cups chicken stock
- 1 cup tomato puree
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 whole chicken (separated into pieces)
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the onion and pepper and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the orzo and toast for a few minutes.
- Add the stock and tomato puree and season with salt and pepper.
- Bring to a boil and transfer to a baking dish along with the chicken.
- Bake in a preheated 375F/190C oven until the liquid has been absorbed and the top is golden brown, about 45 minutes.


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Bowel Resection for Colorectal Cancer
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Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection for colorectal cancer, also called partial colectomy, removes the tumor. To make sure that only healthy tissue is left, the doctor removes a small amount of colon or rectum tissue on both sides of the tumor.
The goal of bowel resection is to take out the part of the colon or rectum where the cancer is. Nearby lymph nodes are taken out and tested for cancer. Then healthy parts of the colon or rectum are sewn back together. Bowel resection is done either by opening the abdomen (open resection) or by laparoscopy.
What To Expect
Bowel resection requires general anesthesia. You may stay in the hospital for 4 to 7 days or as long as 2 weeks after surgery.
Sometimes the two parts of the colon or rectum cannot be reattached, so the surgeon performs a colostomy. This creates an opening, called a stoma, on the outside of the body for the stool, or feces, to pass through into a colostomy bag. Usually the colostomy is temporary, until the colon or rectum heals. If the lower part of the rectum has been removed, the colostomy is permanent. Most people who have colon cancer don't need a colostomy.
Treatment after bowel resection may include radiation therapy and chemotherapy, in case there are any cancer cells remaining. Radiation therapy uses X-rays to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy uses drugs—given either as pills or through a needle—to kill them.
Follow-up care is important because colorectal cancer can come back after surgery, especially if it was not discovered when it was in an early stage.
Why It Is Done
In early-stage cancer, surgery is done to remove as much cancer as possible to give the greatest chance of a cure.
In cases of advanced colorectal cancer that has spread (metastasized) to other parts of the body, bowel resection is often done to remove tumors that are blocking the intestine or causing bleeding.
Possible complications after a bowel resection include infection, bleeding, or scar tissue formation (adhesions).
What To Think About
This operation does not usually cause problems, even in older people. Age should not be a reason to avoid having a bowel resection.
In some cases, bowel resection can be done with a laparoscopy. Laparoscopy for bowel resection usually involves 3 to 6 very small incisions instead of one large one. Recovery time is faster.
You and your doctor will think about several things in deciding whether you should have open resection or a laparoscopy. These include:
- The location and extent of the cancer.
- Your general health.
- Whether you have scar tissue in the area from previous surgery.
- Your doctor's expertise and experience.
Sometimes a laparoscopic surgery has to be changed to an open resection during the surgery.
Current as of: December 19, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Kenneth Bark, MD – General Surgery, Colon and Rectal Surgery
Current as of: December 19, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Kenneth Bark, MD – General Surgery, Colon and Rectal Surgery
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Anyways, you know me. I love presents. I love clothes. I love my wife. The other night when I had a sleepover with Stephanie's sister, Steph gave me some stuff Belle gave her to give me when they met up in New York. It feels like Christmas! I don't exactly know what Christmas feels like since I'm Jewish, but everyone says it's supposed to be real fun and you get presents, so I guess this works. Plus Belle is somewhat similar to this fat old man with a beard everyone talks about so....gosh, where are all these insults towards Belle coming from? I've been IM-ing with Ben wayyyy too much. Ben, you are a bad influence. And you stole Hot Lookbook Guy.Ignore my slightly black eye in the above picture, you'll see what that's about later (no injuries, I promise!) You're supposed to be reading my beautiful sign anyways. Unless you are an OUTCAST. In which case, I SHUN YOU.
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