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ANAHEIM – There are many ways to celebrate a birthday, and the Ducks' Kyle Palmieri did so Friday night by receiving a couple of super-skilled linemates. One of those was Teemu Selanne, who was happy to deliver gifts.
Palmieri scored twice and Bobby Ryan added one, while Selanne set up all three goals in the Ducks' 3-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild before an announced crowd of 13,007 at Honda Center.
It was the second career two-goal game for Palmieri, who turned 22 and thrived on the left wing with Ryan as a center for the first time this season. Selanne has 1,414 career points, moving him into a tie for 17th place all time with Doug Gilmour.
"Hopefully my year as a 22-year-old will be a good one for me," Palmieri said.
Palmieri tied the game 1-1 after Selanne created a turnover in the neutral zone and Ryan gave him a nice pass on a rush. The winger got the deciding goal at 4:21 of the third when he cut to the front of the net and banged in a feed from Selanne.
The Ducks power play had been completely quiet since going 3 for 3 on opening night against Vancouver, but it awakened late as Ryan punched in another great pass from Selanne, who was content to be the playmaker.
"Me and Bobby both had basically tap-ins and they were all because of Teemu's passing," Palmieri said. "I think it gets a little overlooked because of how many goals he's scored. The crazy amount of ways he finds the back of the net.
"That vision definitely doesn't stop at goal scoring. It helps in finding other guys and the open guys on the team."
Viktor Fasth stopped 26 shots for his second victory in two starts as the Ducks improved to 4-1-1 entering tonight's home game against the defending Stanley Cup champion Kings.
Fasth allowed a first-period shot from Marco Scandella to slip between his pads, but he rebounded to make a nice stop on Zach Parise while the Ducks held a 2-1 lead.
"You've just got to focus on the next puck the whole time," Fasth said. "That's what it's all about."
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Side Note: All photos in this entry were taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ8.
It was one week ago that Allen had a brief visit to Kuala Lumpur, and I had a chance to meet him up for dinner. Since he was itching to play with his wireless flash system, I suggested the venue of KLCC, which he has not shot with his DSLR before. After a quick dinner at Subway, we headed out to the open and start clicking our shutters happily.
I brought along my tripod (obviously you need this for night time shooting) and my compact camera, the Lumix LZ8. I know I have tested the camera on night shooting before, and even some long shutter exposure stunts which turned out rather satisfactorily, but I have not shot the camera much using the built in flash. Hence, I was eager to try out the flash of the Lumix on night outdoor environment.
I did not have high hopes on the flash performance, and the results were nothing out of what you would expect from a compact camera. The flash exposure was very uneven, and harsh highlights can be seen everywhere, creating a very unreal looking photo. Skin tone comes out terrible, and the camera was struggling to keep the white balance between the ambient light and the light produced by the flash. The colour rendition has somewhat become very flat.
If you were thinking that I was comparing the compact camera with my current DSLR then you got your assumptions invalid. I have used three compact cameras before (Kodak CX7430 and C875, they all died due to my ungodly chronic usage) and I know well enough of what to expect when it comes to a compact. My previous cameras did not fare too well either when it comes to flash exposures, but they performed decently better than this current Lumix of mine. Not to mention the recycle charging time for the flash (pause between each shots fired with flash) for Lumix LZ8 is quite unbearable, averaging from 4-5 seconds.
Another issue I encountered with the flash of Lumix was the inability to "tone down" the firing intensity according to the focus range. For example, I was shooting in macro mode, capturing the cup of hot latte at probably 10 cm away from the camera, and as I released the flash the entire photo was blown out bright white. This problem was not encountered on any of my previous compact cameras before. Nevertheless, this can be easily remedied by applying a piece of white tissue paper directly onto the flash to diffuse and soften the flash intensity.
I could not find any white tissue papers around that night (all tissue papers were brownish) hence I decided to bump up the ISO to shoot in the low light situation without the aid of flash. At ISO400, I was shooting at shutter speed of 1/5s and I could get away with blur free shots. The noise issue has become apparent, and somehow this has gravely affected the overall colour production of the photo.
I am not asking the compact Lumix to perform miracles, but it was good to test and understand its capabilities and limitations. After all it is going to fill in and perform its jobs at places and times my bigger Ollie could not make it for whatever reasons.
That was my first visit to Dome in Malaysia, and having the Latte there reminded me of my old times in Perth. I know some of you will go "oh no, not again, all those nostalgic Perth moments". One of the things I do miss is the coffee culture. You just go to the coffee house and order a cup of anything hot, and sit down there, chat and practically cruise your time into the night with really cool bunch of friends. There is just something about coffee that makes the whole evening special, something not even beer can do.
Oi Chong, when are we going to do the PnS frenzy session?


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Europe's freshwaters are affected by a range of pressures, including water pollution, water scarcity, floods, and modifications to water bodies that affect morphology and water flow. Nutrient enrichment of freshwaters is widespread. The main sources of nitrogen and phosphorus include point source emissions from urban wastewater treatment plants and industry, and diffuse emissions from agricultural production.
Eutrophication, resulting from excessive inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus to water bodies, results in changes in species' abundance and diversity, as well as problematic algal blooms that result in lower oxygen levels and turbid waters. Excessive nutrient concentrations in rivers can also promote eutrophication in receiving coastal waters. These ecological changes can cause a loss of biodiversity and have negative impacts on the use of water for human consumption and other purposes. This has implications for the provision of ecosystem services such as drinking water, fisheries, and recreation opportunities, and can be costly to remediate.
The SOER 2015 briefing on freshwater quality provides an overview of the status, trends and prospects at a European level. This SOER 2015 cross-country comparison focuses on nutrients, specifically nitrates and orthophosphates in rivers.
About the indicator
The EEA indicator 'nutrients in freshwaters' provides information on annual average nutrient concentrations in groundwater, rivers and lakes. The data presented here are annual average nitrate (or total oxidised nitrogen) and orthophosphate (or total phosphorus) concentrations. Data are collected annually through the Water Information System for Europe — State of Environment (WISE-SoE) collection process, and are sub-samples of national data. More detailed and extensive national data sets are available but this dataset has been assembled for the purpose of providing comparable indicators on a Europe-wide scale.
The indicator only uses complete time series in the assessment. This ensures that the aggregated data series are consistent, i.e. they include the same stations throughout the time series. In this way, assessments are based on actual changes in concentrations and not changes in the number of stations.
The data sets include almost all EEA member and cooperating countries but the time coverage varies amongst countries. See [1] for full details on data handling, methodology, and quality assurance procedures. A 21-year time series (1992–2012) is presented for those countries for which it is available. A 13-year time series (2000–2012) is used for the assessment of change over time, as it is available for the largest number of countries. Finally, those countries with incomplete datasets are included in the figures, but not in any assessment of change over time, as a sufficient time series is needed to assess change due to the inter-annual variability in nutrient concentrations related to factors such as weather and river flow levels.
The main aim of European water policy is to ensure that a sufficient quantity of good quality water is available for people's needs and the environment. The quality of surface waters with respect to eutrophication and nutrient concentrations is an objective of a range of European policies, namely the Water Framework Directive, Nitrates Directive, Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive, and the Drinking Water Directive, as well as national policies.
There has been a significant reduction in the levels of nutrients in European freshwaters over the past two decades. This is predominantly due to improvements in wastewater treatment and to reduction in point discharges of nutrients and organic pollution to freshwater bodies resulting from implementation of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. The reduction in nutrient levels are also the result of progress in some regions in reducing nitrate pollution from agriculture under the Nitrates Directive.[1] However, diffuse pollution from agriculture remains a significant pressure in more than 40% of Europe's water bodies in rivers and coastal waters, and in one third of the water bodies in lakes and transitional waters.[2]
River-draining land subject to intense agricultural production and/or with high population densities (and hence significant input from wastewater treatment plants) tend to have the highest nitrate and phosphorus concentrations. Rivers in more sparsely populated countries of northern Europe and mountainous regions generally have significantly lower average river nitrate concentrations (Figure 1). Reductions in nitrate concentration in rivers are related to changes in how both agriculture and wastewater treatment are managed.
Note: Please see reference [3] for additional information
The average nitrate concentration in European rivers has reduced steadily over the period 1992 to 2012, a reduction of 0.5 mg NO3-N/l, or 0.03 mg NO3-N/l (0.8%) per year. Overall, there has been a decrease at 44% of stations and an increase at 13%. The countries with the highest proportion of stations with significant decreasing trends are Denmark and Germany. Denmark and Germany also had the largest annual decrease, along with Bulgaria and Latvia. The EEA also publishes interactive maps of the annual mean concentrations of nitrates.[4]
In 2012, the countries with the highest nitrate concentrations in rivers were Luxembourg, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Denmark (Figure 1). Downwards trends in nitrate concentrations in rivers have been recorded in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Denmark, with no significant trend recorded in Luxembourg. Belgium has reported improved compliance with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive during this period, as well as reductions in the application of both manure and mineral fertilisers in the Wallonia region.[5] In Denmark, the reduction in nitrate levels may be related to the effective implementation of the national action programme under the Nitrates Directive and high compliance levels.[5]
With regards to phosphate, average concentrations in European rivers have decreased markedly over the last two decades, falling by more than half, a rate of 2.1% per year. In 2012, the countries with the highest orthophosphate concentrations in rivers were Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, Poland and Belgium (Figure 2).
There has been a reduction in orthophosphate concentrations at 52% of river stations while there has been an increase at only 9%. The countries showing the strongest decreasing trends were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The reduction in phosphorus concentrations in rivers reflects both improvement in wastewater treatment and reductions in phosphorus in detergents.
Note: Please see reference [6] for additional information
Despite the progress outlined above, nutrient enrichment of Europe's freshwaters remains a concern. Reductions reflect improvements in wastewater treatment. However, diffuse pollution from agriculture in particular remains a major cause of poor water quality currently observed in parts of Europe.
European and national policies are in place to promote a continued reduction in nutrient emissions from both point and diffuse sources. There are now high levels of compliance with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in many countries, but further progress is needed in others. However, significant challenges remain in ensuring compliance with Nitrates Directive action programmes, with a particular focus on compliance with the limits on application rates for manures and fertilisers.[5] The rate of reduction in river nitrate concentrations reflects the continued significance of agricultural nitrogen emissions. Further reduction in nutrient levels will be required to meet the objectives of the Water Framework Directive of achieving good status for water bodies.
However, the integration of water policy objectives into other policy areas needs to be enhanced if the objective of ensuring a sufficient quantity of good quality water is available for people's needs and the environment is to be achieved. Of key importance is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the recent reforms for the period 2013 to 2020, which contain a number of elements that could greatly improve the interaction between agriculture and water policy. In particular, improved water management, including fertiliser management, is explicitly identified as a priority for rural development.
Diffuse pollution from agriculture is expected to remain an important contributor to river nutrient levels. Mineral fertilisers represent a significant cost for farmers, implying that techniques to reduce the nitrogen demand of crops and losses to the environment are important in reducing direct costs on farmers as well as in improving water quality.
Our industries, lifestyles and the personal needs of our growing populations are also nature's rivals for the use of clean water. Climate change adds an additional element of uncertainty to the availability of water resources. With prospects of changing precipitation patterns, some parts of Europe are expected to have more and others less freshwater available in the future. Faced with increasing demand and climate change, many users including nature will struggle to meet their water needs. In case of water scarcity, industry and households can develop ways of using less water, but our water-dependent ecosystems risk being irreversibly damaged. This would affect much more than life around a particular water body. It would affect us, too.
With the application of the right agricultural practices and supporting policy solutions, we can achieve significant water efficiency gains in agriculture, which would mean more water available for other uses, nature in particular.
One area where new practices and policies can make a significant difference in water efficiency gains is the irrigation of crops. In southern European countries such as Greece, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Spain and southern France, the arid or semi-arid conditions necessitate the use of irrigation. In these areas, nearly 80% of water used in agriculture currently goes to irrigation.
However, irrigation does not have to be so water intensive. Water efficiency gains are already being obtained across Europe through both conveyance efficiency (the proportion of abstracted water that is delivered to the field) and field application efficiency (the water actually used by a crop in relation to the total amount of water that was delivered to that crop). In Greece, for example, improved conveyance and distribution efficiency networks have led to an estimated 95% water efficiency gain compared to previously-used irrigation methods.
Policy plays a crucial role in inducing the agricultural sector to adopt more efficient irrigation practices. In the past, for example, water-pricing policies in some European countries did not necessarily require farmers to use water efficiently. Farmers rarely had to pay the true price of water reflecting the environmental and resource costs. In addition, agricultural subsidies obtained through the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other measures were indirectly encouraging farmers to produce water-intensive crops using inefficient techniques. In the province of Cordoba, for example, the efficiency of cotton irrigation increased by approximately 40% after subsidies were partially decoupled from cotton production in 2004. A water pricing structure favouring efficient users and the removal of adverse agricultural subsidies is likely to lead to significant reductions in the quantity of irrigated water used in agriculture.
In addition to modified irrigation techniques, gains in water and cost savings can also be obtained through training and knowledge-sharing programmes that educate farmers on more water efficient practices. In Crete, for example, water savings of 9-10% have been achieved through the use of an irrigation advisory service. The service informs farmers by phone of when and how to apply water to crops based on daily estimates of the conditions affecting the crops.
Changing agricultural practices can also improve the quality of the water available for other water users in a cost-effective way. Using inorganic and organic fertilisers and pesticides, for example, can address many of the water pollution problems from agriculture. In addition, there is significant potential to improve water quality throughout Europe with little or no impact on profitability or productivity by, for example, reducing pesticide use, modifying crop rotations and designing buffer strips along water courses.
Through the use of wastewater in agriculture, more fresh water resources can be made available for other needs, including for nature and households. If the quality of the reclaimed water is properly managed, treated wastewater can provide an effective alternative for meeting agriculture's demand for water.
The use of treated wastewater for agriculture is already providing significant water management benefits for some European countries. In Cyprus, for example, the recycled water targets for 2014 correspond to approximately 28% of the 2008 agricultural water demand. In Gran Canaria, 20% of water used across all sectors is supplied from treated wastewater, including the irrigation of 5,000 hectares of tomatoes and 2,500 hectares of banana plantations.
For a future where there is enough water available to meet the needs of our ecosystems with sufficient resources left for our consumption requirements, we need to provide the right policy packages to support efficiency measures. The EU's Water Framework Directive (WFD) has contributed to this achievement through an encouragement of changes to agricultural practices that can improve both water quantity and quality in Europe, but further development of the CAP and national water pricing structures are still needed to ensure they also support the WFD objectives. The Blueprint to safeguard Europe's water resources, to be published by the Commission by the end of this year, will focus on possibilities to increase water resource efficiency and on corresponding policy options. Water management in agriculture would certainly benefit from a stronger focus in the CAP on resource efficiency and ecosystem services.
A more efficient use of our water resources in agriculture is only one of the steps we need to take in order to reduce our impact on the environment. Without that step, we cannot achieve a resource-efficient economy or build a sustainable future.]]>


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- Developing and submitting patches
- Vetting tickets, and screening and committing patches
- Screening process description and figure
See here if you are looking for instructions on submitting a bug report or enhancement request. If you are a Clojure contributor having problems with Clojure changes, submitting patches, the status of a patch, or other questions related to changes to Clojure or the contrib libraries, please ask a question on the clojure-dev Google group.
Thanks for contributing to Clojure!
and thanks to: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/sending-patches
Approval status - the Approval field in a JIRA issue.
Clojure/core member - Contributor who has the approval to vet tickets in JIRA.
Contributor - Person who has signed the Clojure Contributor Agreement.
Defect - A bug in the code base.
Enhancement - A new feature in the code base.
Issue - A ticket in JIRA.
Screener - Contributor who is approved to screen tickets.
Task - Work that must be done outside the code base.
Developing and submitting patches to Clojure and Clojure Contrib
If you've got a bug fix or feature you'd like to submit to the Clojure, Clojure Contrib Libraries, ClojureScript or Clojure CLR projects, first - thanks! Before you get too deep into the code, please make sure you review the contributing guidelines -- it's important to submit a Contributor's agreement as detailed on that page. Once it's been received (your name will appear on the contributor's list on that page), you can join the clojure-dev Google group. Anyone with a CA can become a member of our Confluence and JIRA. Just sign up (please use a recognizable name), then ask on the clojure-dev group and I'll bump up your membership level to make edits.
So You Have an Idea...
In order to make sure you are not duplicating effort, fixing a feature, or planning an unwelcome change, please coordinate with the community, by first examining existing issues (clojure's, links to the various contrib libraries' JIRA projects can be found on the Where Did Clojure Contrib Go page), and discussing your patch plan on the clojure-dev Google group. If you are not a contributor, anyone may discuss ideas for changes on the Clojure Google group, to which most or all contributors also belong.
Track it in JIRA
If you've got the go-ahead and there isn't already a ticket for your issue/feature, please create one. Make sure the ticket includes a link to the discussion in the Google Group or IRC, so someone reviewing your ticket can quickly get up to speed. Assign yourself to the ticket so people know you are working on it. Please don't assign things to others without their consent.
Prioritization and Milestones (Committers)
Committers use the prioritization and milestone fields. If you are not the committer for a lib, please don't change the priority or the default milestone assignment.
Once you're ready to craft your code, the first thing you'll need is a clone of the Clojure or appropriate repository. The examples below are for the Clojure project -- for submissions to Clojure itself:
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$ git clone git://github.com/clojure/clojure.git
$ cd clojure
Next, create a new branch for yourself:
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$ git checkout -b fixbug42
Switched to a new branch "fixbug42"
Now you're ready to get hacking. Make sure relevant doc strings are up to date and that all existing regression tests still pass e.g. for clojure core run:
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$ ./antsetup.sh # Only needed once in a new Clojure tree, for ant to work
$ ant
As noted in readme.txt, you will need to run ./antsetup.sh as a one-time setup before running ant. If you want to add new tests, that would be great too. Once you've finished making your changes you need to commit them.
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$ git commit -a -m "fixed annoying bug, refs #42"
Created commit 8f7c712: fixed annoying bug, refs #42
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Now that you've made your changes it's time to get them into a patch. You need to update the repo and fix any conflicts you had.
|Code Block
$ git checkout master
Switched to branch "master"
$ git pull
$ git checkout fixbug42
Switched to branch "fixbug42"
$ git rebase master
Once you've fixed any conflicts, you're ready to create a patch:
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$ git format-patch master --stdout > your-patch-file.diff
Adding patches
Now you can attach that patch file to the JIRA ticket. In the More Actions menu near the top of the page, select Attach Files. Please read and follow the recommendations below when writing comments about your attached patch. Screeners have limited time available for screening. You are more likely to get your patch approved if you can be as clear as you can, and as efficient with their time as possible.
- Include the file name and date of the patch in any comments referring to it. It is possible to match up comments with patches based on the date and time, but it is tedious and error prone.
- To get email whenever the ticket is updated, click on the word "Watch" in the top right area of the page. This can help you know when someone else comments on your patch, or creates a new one, etc. Click "Watching" if you want to stop these update emails for that ticket.
- If you create a new patch that incorporates one or more earlier ones, please combine them all into one patch file, and indicate in your comments that you have done this (with file names and dates of the patches you are superseding).
- If one of your patches becomes superseded by a later one, consider removing your patch to avoid confusion. See the instructions under the heading "Removing Patches" below.
Mark the ticket as having a patch ready for screening by editing the Patch attribute. Click the Edit button near the top left of the page for the ticket. In the next page find the heading "Patch" with a popup menu next to it. Select "Code" or "Code and Test" from that menu, then click the Update button at the bottom of the page. If you do not see an Edit button on the page for the ticket, and you have signed a CA, ask on the developer's email list to be given permission to edit Jira tickets.
Removing patches
To remove a patch (e.g. because it is obsolete), go to the page for the ticket and look for the "Attachments" heading beneath the Description text. Far to the right is a plus sign and a triangle. Click on the triangle and select "Manage Attachments" from the menu. Think carefully on which one you want to delete, and click the trash can icon next to it. Note: Most (or all?) people have permission to remove their own attachments, but not those added by someone else.
Updating stale patches
A stale patch means one that used to apply cleanly to the latest Clojure master version, but due to commits made since the patch was created, it no longer does. In particular, the output of this command:
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% git am --keep-cr -s < patch_file
includes 'Patch failed' and 'To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort"'. You should do the "git am --abort" to get rid of state of the failed patch attempt left behind by the command above.
"git am" is very "fragile", meaning that if the patch_file was created with one version of the source code, all it takes for the command to fail is a change in any of the lines of context present in the patch file, even if it is not one of the lines being changed by the patch. This is especially common for files containing unit tests, because people usually add new tests at the end of such a file, and so the lines of context before the new test change if two different patches add a new test to the end of the same file.
To apply such a patch, the 'patch' program by Larry Wall is extremely useful. It comes preinstalled with Mac OS X and most Linux distributions. You can easily install it with Cygwin for Windows.
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% patch -p1 < patch_file
The output will give you some hints of whether each "hunk" of the patch file succeeded or failed. If they all succeed, then likely the only thing wrong with the patch file is that a few context lines were changed. If any hunks fail, patch creates files ending with ".rej" containing rejected hunks that it did not apply, and you can focus on those as places where the source code likely changed more significantly. A command like this will find them all:
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% find . -name '*.rej'
You will need to look at those rejected hunks, perhaps think about them for a bit to see if and how they still apply, and apply them by hand-editing the source code yourself.
When recreating a new git format patch with:
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% git format-patch master --stdout > patch_file
it puts your name and the current date near the top of the file. If the only changes that you have made are in the context lines, please keep the original author's credit intact by copying the name and date from the original patch that you started from, then upload that.
If you write unit tests where there were none in the original patch, but didn't otherwise modify the original patch, and you would like your name in the commit log for your work, create a separate patch of test additions with your name on it, leaving the original author's name on the updated patch.
Clojure is Stricter than Contrib
The expectation of stability and performance is much higher for Clojure than for Clojure Contrib. Rich personally reviews every change to Clojure. To save Rich's time, other committers may do the work in git. When this happens, you can see Rich's review process in JIRA, both in the comments and in tickets being moved from 'Screened' to 'Ok' by Rich.
Speculative Changes
If you want to share work-in-progress on some feature you are not yet ready to propose with a ticket, you can post a patch made as above, or a pointer to your repo, to the clojure-dev group.
Vetting tickets, and screening and comitting patches
Vetting Tickets (Clojure/core)
The core team vet tickets, getting them into a state where they can be tested, and screened. Steps are:
- Take ownership of a ticket that is status "New" and not currently owned by someone else.
- Verify that the issue is reproducible, adding a test case if necessary.
- Set the approval to "Vetted."
- If the ticket has (or you write) a patch that applies, test it. If it seems to work, set the status to "Test."
- If there isn't a unit test and you feel like writing one, please do so.
- Release ownership of the ticket.
Screening Tickets (Screeners)
Periodically, screeners will review tickets whose approval is marked 'Test'.
- Take ownership of the ticket so that others know you are working on it.
- Make sure to work on defects first. Enhancements are much lower priority, and should typically begin with a design conversation under design
To apply someone's changes you need to first create a branch:
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$ git checkout -b freds_fixbug42
$ git am --keep-cr -s < their-patch-file.diff
- make sure you have a clean local checkout
- no need to check on multiple OSes (unless the ticket is specific to this)
- Please note the -s above, it is important, as it indicates that you are the one accepting this patch.
- The --keep-cr helps when files being patched contain DOS CR/LF line endings. It seems to be harmless when it isn't needed, but leave it off or use --no-keep-cr if you suspect it is causing issues.
Once you have a working copy, you should take note of the following kinds of things:
- Review the code in a diff tool to make sure that nothing extraneous snuck in
- Make sure compile and tests pass
- Test the functionality from the REPL
- Does the patch accomplish the goals stated in the ticket (and any accompanying discuss in Confluence/email/IRC)
- If questions were raised in the discussion, are they answered in the ticket?
- Are you happy with the tests, can you follow what they're testing, is there anything missing?
- Are the tests excessive (introducing dependency on implementation detail)?
- Does the documentation still seem right to you?
- Is the implementation idiomatic (if not, explain why, link to examples...)
- Is the patch performance-sensitive? If so, is the approach appropriate?
After review, if you are happy, you should
- Set the approval of the ticket to screened
- If you own the lib in question, you can set approval to accepted, and deploy the change
If you are not happy
- Add a comment to the ticket, explaining what the issues are
- Set the approval of the ticket to 'Incomplete'
- Set the waiting-on of the ticket to the person who created the patch
If you aren't sure
- Get a second opinion, and note this in the comments
- Set the waiting-on to Rich or Stu, if appropriate
Committing Clojure Patches (Committers)
How a Ticket Becomes a Commit
This page describes the overall workflow for how tickets (bugs and enhancement requests) make their way through the JIRA ticketing system and ultimately become part of Clojure, ClojureScript, and ClojureCLR.
The overall process described here has several goals:
- Maintain Clojure quality
- Fix problems that are important to users
- Engage the community in working toward the best possible Clojure
There are several groups involved in this process with increasing levels of responsibility:
- Anyone - anyone can submit a bug or enhancement request to Clojure once you have created a Clojure JIRA account
- Contributors - anyone that has signed the contributor agreement can supply patches or work on improving tickets
- Screeners - a smaller group of trusted individuals have been granted the ability to move tickets through (some of) the stages of the process, in particular the Triage and Screening activities
- BDFL - Rich Hickey is the creator and Benevolent Dictator for Life of what goes into Clojure. Stuart Halloway also has a special level of access and typically commits patches to Clojure.
Ticket fields
There are several important fields on a ticket that jointly determine it's "state" in the workflow below. Some key fields to know about:
- JIRA status- these govern the default JIRA workflow and consist of Open, In progress, Reopened, Resolved, Closed
- The Clojure workflow does not really distinguish between these much other than general open/closed differentiation
- Approval- a custom field that is (mostly) how Screeners change the state of a ticket
- None - new ticket
- Triaged - screener has approved the ticket as worth working on
- Prescreened - screener has approved the ticket and screened the patch for review
- Vetted - screener and Rich have approved the ticket as worth working on
- Screened - screener has approved a ticket's patch for review by Rich
- Incomplete - screener has requested improvements to a ticket or patch
- Ok - Rich has approved the ticket for inclusion
- Patch- qualifies the kind of patch attached
- None - no patch
- Code - code only, no test
- Code and Test - code and test
- Fix version
- Release X.X - specific targeted release
- Backlog - will consider in future release
- Resolution- when a ticket is closed, it will have a resolution
- Declined - did not accept a ticket for work
- Duplicate
- Completed
- Unresolved
The diagram below documents the process used for how tickets make their way through the system. The rounded boxes represent states in the workflow. They have well defined criteria (which sometimes cover multiple fields) such that each of these states can have a report. In general, a single line state indicates the Approval state. If additional fields are in play, they are listed after the state.
The colored blocks represent activities performed by different groups - the colors correspond to the group (Orange = contributors, Blue = screeners, Green = BDFL). Diamonds represent decisions to be made during an activity. Activities are described in more detail below the diagram.
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- Who: Screeners
- Report: Open tickets
- Goal: decide whether the bug or enhancement described in the ticket is actually a real bug or enhancement.
- Process (see: Creating Tickets):
- Is the ticket about 1 thing? If not, then either split the ticket yourself or ask the submitter to do so.
- Does the ticket clearly state the problem? If not, then either update yourself or ask the submitter to do so.
- For larger enhancements / features, it is probably better to suggest the submitter post to clojure-dev and then create a page on the design wiki instead.
- For bugs, there should be some demonstration that the problem actually exists (output from a repl, test, etc). Verify the problem exists in the current release of Clojure.
- Does the ticket include a link to other relevant discussion (such as a clojure-dev thread, IRC conversation, etc)?
- At this stage, it is not necessary for there to be a patch or to validate it fixes the problem.
- Actions, pick one of:
- Comment on ticket to ask for more information, better description, better demonstration of problem, etc
- Close with Resolution=Decline, reasons:
- Not a bug: submitter misunderstood or misused a feature or ticket doesn't make sense
- Scope too big: feature may be better served by creating a page in the design wiki than in a ticket
- Enhancement not wanted: enhancement is not something we want to do
- Duplicate: of existing ticket
- Too many things: break this ticket apart into smaller pieces
- Set Approval=Triaged - problem is ok
- If needed, adjust ticket to standards in Creating Tickets
- Who: Screeners
- Report: Triaged tickets
- Goal: improve the ticket and screen the patch before Rich does vetting, allows faster path through the remainder of the process
- Actions:
- Set Approval=Prescreened - patch is ok
- Comment on ticket regarding issues with patch (leaves in Triaged)
- Who: Rich
- Report: Triaged and Prescreened tickets
- Goal: second check on whether the bug/enhancement is worth working on and decision of whether it's suitable for the next release.
- Actions:
- Close w Resolution=Declined - as above, ticket may not be something we want to address
- Set Approval=Vetted - problem is good
- Who: Rich
- Report: Vetted tickets
- Goal: determine whether a ticket is in scope for next release or should be in backlog
- Actions:
- Set Fix Version to "Backlog" - don't want to fix it in the next release
- Set Fix Version to current release
- If does not have patch, will show up in "Needs Patch" report
- If does have patch, will show up in "Screenable" report
- Who: contributors (anyone with signed CA)
- Report:
- "Needs Patch" - for tickets that need a patch
- "Incomplete" tickets - for tickets that have patches that need work
- Goal: create a high quality ticket and patch for consideration (see sections below)
- Actions:
- Edit ticket or update patch to address problems or gaps based on comments.
- Adding a new patch and changing "Patch" attribute to "Code" or "Code and Test" automatically causes a patch to move from the "Needs Patch" to the "Screenable" list of tickets. However, adding a patch to an incomplete ticket does not. Alex Miller periodically scans Incomplete tickets to see if they appear ready to go back to Screenable, and makes those state changes manually.
- Who: Screeners
- Reports:
- Screenable tickets (for new vetted tickets with patches)
- Incomplete tickets that have changed recently - need to re-review if submitter has updated ticket since marked Incomplete.
- Goal: verify that ticket and patch are ready for Rich to review. The quality bar is HIGH - the ticket and patch should be perfect.
- Checks (see Creating Tickets and Developing Patches):
- Is there a patch?
- Is there a test?
- Has author signed the CA?
- Can you apply the patch to current source tree?
- Do all tests pass?
- Is patch clean (no extraneous whitespace or changes outside the scope of the problem)?
- Are docstrings still accurate?
- Are there potential performance impacts? If so, what benchmarks have been performed?
- Does the solution follow code guidelines and look like the surrounding code in style?
- Does the solution imply possible similar changes elsewhere?
- Does the solution introduce new failure conditions that might need to be considered or documented?
- Does the solution change external or internal APIs that might affect users?
- Actions:
- Set Approval=Incomplete and add comment describing needed improvements
- Set Approval=Screened - ticket and patch are perfect and Rich should review
- Who: Rich
- Report: Screened tickets
- Goal: Rich blessing the change
- Actions:
- Set Approval=Incomplete - ticket or patch needs improvement
- Set Approval=OK - everything is good, ready to commit
- Who: Stu H (usually)
- Report: OK tickets
- Goal: Final review of change and commit to Clojure source
- Actions:
- Make sure you have the right patch
- Make sure the author has signed the CA
- Double-check that the patch applies cleanly and builds locally
- Commit and push the
- close the associated ticket(s), if any
- patch
- I find it safest to do committing from a separate local repository. I have a "clojure" git clone that does not have push permissions for dev and screening, and a separate "clojure-for-commit" checkout for committing. This reduces the chance that my muscle memory will produce a "git push" at the wrong time.
- I find it safest to do committing from a separate local repository. I have a "clojure" git clone that does not have push permissions for dev and screening, and a separate "clojure-for-commit" checkout for committing. This reduces the chance that my muscle memory will produce a "git push" at the wrong time.
Closing Tickets (Committers)
If you are a committer on a lib, you can screen tickets and close them all in one step. Alternately, you can review tickets screened by others, and then either close them or bounce them back (as in the Screening step above).
While you have the ability to just push your stuff into the repo, please use the tickets systems too. It makes a fine todo system, helps organize bigger milestones, lets others hop in and help or provide input, and provides a place to hang discussions about your changes.
Screening process and figure
Screening Process Described
An issue is created in JIRA that expresses some unit of work that is desired. This could be a defect, an enhancement or a task.
Clojure/core team vets the ticket, and changes the approval status to Vetted, indicating this is a problem that we want to solve.
Next a contributor writes a patch to address a defect or enhancement, and attaches the patch to the issue. The contributor should also indicate what kind of patch this is in the ticket. The approval status is then set to test, indicating it is dev complete.
A screener will review the issue and marks the approval status as Screened. This will set the issue to waiting on Rich.
Rich comes along and blesses the issue by setting it the approval status to OK, meaning the code is ready to build & push to git.
When the code has been pushed, the issue is marked as Resolved.
At any point along this path a Screener can mark the issue as Declined, meaning it is not something we are going to address.
Also, at any point a Clojure/core member can mark the approval status as Incomplete. This indicates more information is needed to continue work on the issue. There is also an optional Waiting On? field that should be set to indicate who is expected to provide the additional information
Some useful filters
Incomplete Issues: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10011
See Also http://clojure.org/patches
Figure of JIRA state changes
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- Set Approval=Accepted and close ticket
- Who: Rich (primarily)
- Report: Backlog tickets
- Goal: See if backlogged tickets should be pulled into next release
- Actions:
- Set Fix Version from Backlog to current release
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Meet Leah Culver and her circle of ex-boyfriends
Programming Django isn't quite the same as dropping Dorothy Parker quips at lushed-out parties, but Pownce cofounder Leah Culver's line last night warmed even my cynical heart. Scene: We were mobbed briefly around the photo booth at 330 Ritch, former gay bathhouse and setting for the public launch of Yahoo's location-based mobile social thing, Fire Eagle. "Melissa, I want you to meet Cal Henderson," she said, presenting Flickr's head of engineering. "He's a fan ..."And here Mr. Henderson shook my hand and didn't mind at all when I said it was really his longtime companion Tom Coates, part of the Fire Eagle team and old queer hand of the blogosphere, whom I came out to meet. "We're here in my circle of exes," Culver continued. "And I have one to toss back at you," I added. The rest of the evening is lost in a botched Flip video file sync — no footage for you — and a flurry of text messages wherein I tried to locate the guy getting a handjob in the men's room at the end of the night. No help from Fire Eagle there! Tip me if you know who the lucky jack was? (Photo by Andrew Mager)


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The humor was mostly clean with the "theme" of the comedy emphasizing the classic differences between men and women.
Silents Under the Stars" will be held 6 p.m. Saturday at Hart Hall at William S. Hart Park in Newhall.
The comedy event of the year in the Santa Clarita Valley will be held Tuesday at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center as Billy Gardell, star of the CBS sitcom "Mike and Molly," headlines the second annual "Comic for the Cause," an evening of comedy all stars to benefit the SCV Youth Project.
The third annual SCV Pool Party to benefit Single Mothers Outreach will be held 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center.
Soroptimist International of Greater San Clarita Valley recently installed Vanessa Wilk as the new president for 2013-2014.
Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley transitioned from the 2012-13 year to 2013-14 in its own unique fashion during the recent installation dinner.
The second annual Gentlemen for a Cause brought out nearly 100 attendees to bid on services and a few dates with 20 men to benefit Bridge to Home.
The 2012 Miss SCV Scholarship Pageant royalty will be hanging up their crowns Saturday evening at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center, after a new royal court is installed during the 34th annual Miss SCV Scholarship Pageant.
More than 30 chili chefs brought the sweet and spicy to the Embassy Suites in Valencia recently for the inaugural Santa Clarita Valley Real Estate Community Charity Chili Cook-Off.
A dramatic demonstration by exhibition shooter Tim Bradley captivated attendees of the fifth annual "How the West Was Won" trap shoot with Bradley's dead-eye shooting skill.
Dozens of students from the Newhall facility of the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley sat quietly on the floor of the game room as Tom Vice, president of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, spoke about the work done by the aerospace company.
The Xi Nu Zeta sorority celebrated Mother's Day with its annual "Mothers and Others" luncheon held the day before Mother's Day at Robinson Ranch Country Club.
The 25th annual Taste of the Town to benefit the Santa Clarita Child & Family Center grossed more than $220,000, said Lois Bauccio, president and executive director of the Child & Family Center Foundation.
More than 1,000 Santa Clarita Valley residents traveled to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 27, to celebrate SCV Dodger Day and watch the Los Angeles Dodgers lose, 6-4 to the Milwaukee Brewers.
Former Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Pulskamp seemed to enjoy his time in the roastee chair during the 15th annual Santa Clarita Elks Roast.
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DOWNERS GROVE, IL -- Sara Lee Corp. is selling its North American foodservice coffee and tea operations to J.M. Smucker Co. for $350 million in cash. The deal, which is expected to close in early 2012, nearly doubles the size of Smucker's foodservice business.
Sara Lee also said that it plans to discontinue its Senseo single-cup coffee business in North America, beginning March 31, with the exception of certain online channels.
The Smucker's acquisition includes Sara Lee's liquid coffee concentrate business sold and licensed under the Douwe Egberts brand, along with a variety of roast and ground coffee, cappuccino, tea and cocoa products sold through foodservice channels in North America.
Sara Lee, whose brands include Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean and Sara Lee, has been divesting its noncore businesses for the past decade to focus on its most profitable food and beverage brands. It is planning to split into two public companies in the first half of next year. The North American food business will include such brands as Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm. The international beverage business will include brands like Pickwick and Maison du Café.
"In recent years, our North American coffee business has been foodservice-based and largely unbranded, which is a challenge in a highly competitive marketplace," said Jan Bennink, executive chairman of the board of Sara Lee Corp., explaining the company's rationale for divesting the business to J.M. Smucker.
Meanwhile, J.M. Smucker, based in Orrville, OH, has been growing its coffee business. It owns the Folgers and Dunkin' Donuts brands and acquired Rowland Coffee Roasters' Hispanic coffee brands Café Bustelo and Café Pilon earlier this year.
"This transaction further strengthens our position as a leading North American coffee company," said J.M. Smucker chief executive Richard Smucker. "The addition of liquid coffee concentrate to the Smucker portfolio aligns with our desire to compete in all forms of coffee, adding to our roast and ground, single serve, instant and ready-to-drink platforms."
In addition to the sale, the two food-makers have entered into a long-term partnership to develop and improve liquid coffee technologies. As part of that deal, Sara Lee will receive $50 million over 10 years, plus growth-related royalties, which will help cover its research and development and other expenses.
The company said it plans to sell or close the remaining assets of its North American coffee business. Of the $530 million in sales generated by Sara Lee's foodservice beverage business, about $285 million is associated with assets sold to J.M. Smucker.
The companies anticipate that 450 of the 690 people currently employed at Sara Lee's North American foodservice beverage business will transfer to J.M. Smucker.
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Last Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting journalists, policy makers, and fellow edu-bloggers at the Education Writers' Association conference at the Carnegie Corporation in Midtown Manhattan. I do have to thank Linda Perlstein, lead editor for the EWA and the person who personally invited me, and the folks at Carnegie. I rarely miss opportunities to learn and discuss others' points of view, especially from those who shape current education policy and the people primarily in charge of disseminating this information to the nation. As someone who has a stake in both of those groups' functions, and someone who has his public voice in a few domains of his own, I thought this meeting would help all interested members do their part to move the message in a positive direction.
Much of the underlying drama prior to the meeting stemmed from the utter lack of teacher representation in the panels. As usual, whether it be Education Nation, Oprah, or another institution meaning to discuss education, we saw just another meeting where the teacher voice would get restricted to that of object and not subject. We would get to ask questions but not provide answers. Disheartening as that was, teacher bloggers found a way to ask just the right questions that might draw attention to the profession with a voice, not for the voiceless. Many of the people in the room who weren't teacher bloggers were under the assumption that a) the bloggers in the room weren't actual in-class teachers and b) teacher bloggers weren't well researched as they were.
What I found throughout the day was a way for teacher bloggers to demonstrate the power of their voices by speaking in terms that the journalists themselves could write about. It was less about the struggles in the classroom and more about the factors that lead to the difficulty we're facing with pinpointing the discussion around the classroom. We brought the discussions of race and class to the points made about recruiting and hiring teachers. We brought the idea of teacher leadership and teacherpreneurism to the fore of professionalizing and sustaining teacher quality. We even had a few opportunities to tell people whose only experience came from working with chancellors and district offices that we simply couldn't agree with them.
And that's fine. Because that's how it should be. Journalists should seek to get the most nuanced and multi-dimensional voice possible, because education isn't black and white (well … that's for another post). Sure, we can disagree on the effectiveness of unions, or whether teachers are overpaid or underpaid, but we can't disagree that the majority of the mainstream coverage on education today has a neoconservative / neoliberal bias. Meeting some of the journalists, I got inklings of information about them that, as a blogger, I couldn't understand.
So, here are some stories I'd like to hear more of:
3) Teachers do more than teach …
Question to ask: how do you find the time? Focus on: community activists, volunteers, policy advocates / makers.
2) The complexities of becoming a school principal …
Question to ask: why would anyone become a principal? Focus on: negotiating, how they became principals, teaching teachers.
1) When teachers are considered "bad" …
Question to ask: what makes them bad? Focus on: origins of the use of the term "bad," how school environment affects teaching.
I know I have my own answers, but I honestly would like to hear what others have to say about it. I just find that whenever people write articles about education, it becomes more like an op-ed piece instead of a piece with wide gradations, where all sides and all voices have a balanced part of the narrative the journalist is providing.
And if the journalist has any doubts, they can do what many of the writers did at the meeting I just attended: ask.
Jose, who has a ton of writing to do in his own right …
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The annual tournament spans more than 300 miles of the Arkansas River inside the state and is the result of a 14-year partnership between the AHA and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC).
Hourly weigh-ins start at 8 a.m. and end at 1 p.m.
During the noon Dardanelle pool weigh-in on Friday, Larry Gentry turned in a 6.05 pound bass.
There are still some really big fish still out there, Montine McNulty, AHA executive director, said.
"We've had rave reviews about how good the quality of fishing on the Arkansas River is," she said. "The turn out at Russellville was bigger this year than in the last two.
"Fishermen are proud to participate in this tournament. The park was in great shape and events were managed extremely well."
Game and Fish were there to provide bags of fingerling, McNulty said. The bags contained baby fish which fisherman could take back to their favorite fishing spot and release to restock the lake.
The tournament is off to a good start, according to Lake Dardanelle State Park superintendent Andy Thomas.
"Looks like we had a great turnout on opening day," he said. "We had good weather and it's going to get better. The weather is supposed to cool off Saturday and then the fish will really be biting."
The Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza tournament has always been a mainstay for events in the Arkansas River Valley, Thomas said.
"It's always exciting when people win a bunch of money," he said. "I really hope the top prize win is at our location this year.
"The fishing is spectacular, and it could come down to the last minute of the last weigh-in to determine a winner."
In 2012, while fishing in the Coal Pile area of the lower Arkansas River, David Shopher of McGehee caught a 6.27-pound largemouth bass to take the overall lead on the last day of the tournament and win the 2012 Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza.
AHA added one more way to win at the Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza, according to its website. Anglers who win hourly money during the three days will have their names added to a special drawing at the awards event. One lucky fisherman will win an Aqua-Vu Micro AV DVR, valued at $499.


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Group Members: Andi and David. We're only the cutest couple ever.
Location: Brisbane.
When did you start cosplaying together?: Debuted costumes this year (2011) but had started in 2010.
What are your favourite cosplays that you've done together?: At this stage, our Gakupo and Rin costumes are our favourites as it was a lot more creative than our Shiki and Rima costumes. However, we're looking forward to our future costumes together. At this stage we have Guilty Gear and Infinite Stratos costumes in progress.
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On Wednesday, the staff at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center got a brief look into the life of a schizophrenic and actually heard voices continually telling them "you're stupid," "don't answer the phone," "everyone is out to get you," "it's poison," and "don't take your medicine" during a 3D-virtual simulation.
MINDSTORM — A Virtual Hallucination, is a six-minute experience seen through lightweight polarized goggles that gives the viewer a genuine feeling of what it is like to suffer from schizophrenia. The portable device produces visual hallucinations and distortions, voices, wind effects and distorted smells.
The simulation was designed as an educational tool for medical professionals and law enforcement to gain an understanding into what schizophrenic patients experience.
The name Mindstorm was chosen because many patients have referred to the constant bombardment of voices in their heads as a "mind storm."
Tommy Eddy, the director for Turning Point Adult Behavioral Health at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, said after taking a turn with MINDSTORM, he now has a greater insight into what so many of his patients have described to him throughout his more than 20 years of working in the mental health field.
"This experience helped me understand how disturbing it would be to always wonder which voice to listen to and how difficult it would be if you didn't have a good support system in place," he said. "The olfactory sensations simulated in MINDSTORM were incredible. It really added a unique element to allow a person to experience schizophrenia on a full-scale level."
The olfactory sensations Eddy referred to are just one of the types of hallucinations a person with schizophrenia might have. Olfactory hallucinations involve the sense of smell, often an unpleasant smell. During the 3D simulation, the viewer not only felt how it was in a typical day in the life of a schizophrenic, there were also two distinct smells.
More than one participant made the comment that after the six-minute simulation, lunch no longer sounded appetizing.
The simulator encompassed many of the "positive symptoms" associated with schizophrenia. Positive symptoms, such as hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders and movement disorders, refer to the distortion of a person's normal thinking and functioning.
Negative symptoms refer to difficulty showing emotions or functioning normally which in many instances appears as depression.
Schizophrenics also suffer from what is termed cognitive symptoms, or symptoms that are not easy to see, such as problems using information immediately after learning it, that can make it difficult to maintain employment or care for themselves.
Teesha Warren, a licensed certified social worker at Turning Point, said the experience was one she wouldn't soon forget. She added the experience will aid her in the future when she speaks with patients and their families.
"I found the schizophrenia simulator experience to be quite thought-provoking," Warren said. "Imagine what individuals with this illness must face to get through even the most basic daily activities. It made me appreciate the strengths and resilience these individuals have who face these type of symptoms on a daily basis."
Eddy said any time a product can help educators and medical professional better understand what it is to suffer from a disease, treatment and care can improve.
"There is still a stigma associated with mental illnesses," Eddy said of those suffering from such illnesses. "Some of that it due in large part to the deinstitutionalization of the mental health system, which has essentially put many patients on the streets or they wind up incarcerated. Benefits for mental health, if the patient has any at all, are also usually at a reduced rate. A consequence to that is self medication, which leads to a vicious cycle."
Eddy said he recently screened an individual at the detention center in Ozark and learned from law enforcement that mental health issues are a chronic problem most law enforcement and communities have little resources for.
Eddy said he hoped the entire staff at the hospital was able to participate in one of the three MINDSTORM sessions so that all personnel at Saint Mary's would better understand what it truly feels like to suffer from mental illness on a daily basis.
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August 8, 2003 -- The Knicks announced their eight-game preseason schedule yesterday, with their opener at Washington's MCI Center Oct. 7. But it seems a longshot Antonio McDyess will suit up for any of them.
If his rehab goes according to last time, McDyess would be due his all-important CAT-scan on the six-month anniversary of his latest knee surgery. That would not be until Oct. 22.
The Knicks only let McDyess do light shooting before his April CAT-scan. If that CAT-scan had shown proper healing, McDyess was to be cleared - no-holds barred. But it showed the healing was not complete, which forced another surgery, his third in 18 months.
The new structure of training camp also will not benefit McDyess. In a change this year, players with less than three years experience must report Sept. 28 while veterans won't practice until Oct. 3. With the opener just four days after that, the Knicks decided against going to their Charleston training camp home this October but could return the following year, according to a team executive.
The extra short double- sessions of camp make it virtually impossible for McDyess to be in shape for the Oct. 7 opener even if somehow he is ready to practice in early October, which seems unlikely.
The Knicks have still not set a timetable for his return as he rehabs his left knee in Houston, but GM Scott Layden has guaranteed he will play this season. The Knicks will take every precaution since McDyess cracked his knee cap in the third preseason game last October - one year after his first surgery.
As already reported, the highlight of the exhibition season centers again on Latrell Sprewell. If he shows up healthy this year to training camp, he and his Wolves will take on the Knicks Oct. 11 in their third preseason game and first at the Garden.
Among their eight exhibitions, the Knicks will face the Spurs twice and make what is believed to be their first appearance in Boise, Idaho, to take on the Jazz on Oct. 14.
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Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn is expecting Nico Hulkenberg to score consistent results for her team this season.
Sauber had a competitive package last year but its performances fluctuated throughout the year nad Kaltenborn believes Hulkenberg can bring the consistency that the team lacked.
"We expect him to maintain his performance, especially after what we saw last year," she told the official Formula One website. "That impressed us a lot: how he got his chance and took the opportunity. This is something that we were lacking last year. Our efficiency in this respect was not very high.
"In him we see that strength - that he will make use of the potential that our car hopefully will have. Last year we heard from so many sides that we had huge potential - we just couldn't utilise that and translate it into points. We expect Nico to do that and, in a way, also give guidance to the engineers with his experience."
Kaltenborn is confident Sauber has a better starting point than it did in 2012 and she expecting the results to reflect that.
"I hope for a lot more than last year. The major reason for that is first and foremost the car: we have based it on the 2012 car and have focused a lot on eliminating any weaknesses we felt it had. Secondly, the team: we have stability and continuity in the team which is a huge asset. On top of this we have two drivers who we think can really utilize this potential. We are set up well."
And she is committed to developing the car throughout the 2013 campaign rather than trying to gain an advantage for 2014 by focusing on the new regulations for next season.
"A private team cannot afford that," she said. "The consequences of our future will depend on this year's result. There is no reason to believe we shouldn't be competitive. My guess is that the cars will become closer again due to the relatively stable rules. It is then that you have to have an edge over the others."


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EUC too important to let slip away
When the Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program expires on Jan. 3 next year, roughly 1,400 Vermonters will lose their benefits.
The Vermont Department of Labor, in a release on Monday, stated that it would have "no funding or authority to continue to pay EUC benefits for any weeks after the week of Dec. 29."
The EUC has been extended by Congress 10 times in the past four years, but there's no indication that, this time around, lawmakers intend to do so.
Can you say Fiscal Cliff?
And so, the Vermont Department of Labor has begun the process of notifying claimants through mail, online filing notifications and press releases that their benefits are soon to cease.
Which is pretty unfortunate when you think about it. The EUC program provides additional weeks of unemployment benefits to people still looking for jobs after their state benefits run out. Since 2008, more than $246 million in federally funded unemployment benefits was provided to nearly 30,000 Vermonters.
And before we start arguing about lazy people living off the government, consider this: As Chad Stone pointed out in a piece published by the Huffington Post last week, "EUC has a high 'bang-for-the-buck' impact as stimulus because jobless workers spend the money fast and its effects spread through the economy."
Stone cites a report from the Congressional Budget Office which estimates that another year of EUC would cost about $30 billion. However, that money "would boost gross domestic product by 0.1 percent to 0.5 percent next year and raise full-time-equivalent employment by 100,000 to 500,000 in the fourth quarter of 2013. It also would help millions of jobless workers and their families make ends meet."
At the peak of the economic downturn, Vermonters potentially qualified for up to 47 weeks of emergency unemployment compensation. That's after exhausting their regular 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. However, according to the Vermont Department of Labor, due to the states's improved unemployment numbers, the maximum EUC weeks dropped to 26 weeks in June, and then to 14 in September following Congressional action.
Meanwhile, we're still waiting for the economy to recover.
Should EUC continue forever? Of course not. And, as Stone points out, since EUC is a temporary program, it doesn't contribute to deficits over the long term.
According to October's jobs report, almost 41 percent of the 12.3 million unemployed have been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer. Much like Vermont, almost every other state in the country offers 26 weeks of unemployment or fewer. Only neighboring Massachusetts and Montana offer more.
In a follow-up post on Monday, Stone made a case for why a cut at this time, with still so many Americans unemployed, is unprecedented in our country's short history. We'll spare you the numbers, except to point out that, according to most studies, the national unemployment rate shows no signs of rapidly changing in the next 12 months.
When you consider how many people can be helped by this program, not to mention how many still need this program, along with the fact that, through it's very nature this assistance trickles through various other aspects of the economy, how could you not support its extension?
We urge lawmakers to continue funding the program while the country regains it's economic footing. To not do so is foolish and short-sighted.
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Defensive PG? Sounds like Casey.
Pound the rock, and you get Julyan Stone.
Can't wait for him to play SG in Casey's small ball lineups
Seven pages on this guy.....our off-season is pretty bad.
i'm reserving judgement on him because the closest to a nice thing i have to say about Stone right now is "WHO!?!?!?"
but i am now looking forward to summer league in a way i haven't since jeremy lin (pre-linsanity) was showing up John Wall all over the place
If Tony Allen can get a contract with awful offensive skills, I think Stone has a chance too. Plus if he forces a miss with his lockdown defense or a block you can say: "Player X just got Stoned"
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I'm going to predict Stone provides us with 5 highlights all season, 3 of which are of the towel-waving variety.
On another note, I see a lot of comments in this thread (and in others) about Calderon being a crappy shooter and eventually turning himself into a marksman, implying that it's an easy feat. This is a very rare occurrence, and should be considered a testament to Calderon's work ethic, and willingness to start from scratch. We shouldn't expect Stone (or any other crappy shooter....ahem....*DeRozan*) to have similar success. It's not easy to do, which is why it hardly ever happens.
this one's actually pretty good. He seems to have a wicked work ethic
On the second....I don't think I brought up anything like that, but regardless I'd like to comment. I don't think he has to become Jose good. He also has different physical tools all around than Jose. If he has a couple of post moves, because he certainly has the size to post up a lot of PGs, and can knock down some jumpers even to 15 ft, he can become pretty effective. Look at Andre Miller (hopefully Stone picked up a thing or two being on the same roster as him). And he can be better defensively than Miller for sure. The big "if" to me is can he run the team's offense? In both cases of Miller and Jose, despite their respective limitations, they're both good at running the offense. It's probably the biggest reason they've both prospered.
I'm all for giving the guy a chance (especially with those physical gifts), but if he is our only PG acquisition then the team isn't going to be very good. Doubly so when you consider the amount of games that Lowry will likely miss due to injury (small guy + attacking style = injuries).
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So Julyan Stone is signed as our primary back up at the one spot... sounds like we're tanking, no?
Soon he'll be our primary when Lowry gets traded
The positivity on this board is freaking me out.
Eh follow my TWITTER!
Nobody knows who the fuck this guy is and there's like 8 pages..
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The $2.9 billion SACU and local TV station KENS5 got together to recognize 19 San Antonio-area public school teachers in the 14thannual ExCEL Awards program.
"Winners selected by their districts represent the best teachers in our schools and, through this program, share their best practices with other educators," SACU said in its announcement.
SACU and KENS leaders hosted the winners, their principals and superintendents and their guests at an end-of-year banquet to celebrate the teachers' successes. Paul Garro, CEO of City Year San Antonio, was the keynote speaker.
Each teacher receives a trophy, featured air time on KENS5's 6 p.m. news and a $1,000 check. The ExCEL program has honored 266 teachers since the program began in 1999.
"SACU and KENS5 know that a great teacher can impact and inspire students to achieve much more than they dreamed possible," said Laura Johnston, SACU chief marketing officer. "We can't imagine a better way to impact education than to recognize great teachers and help them share the ways they are being highly effective in their classrooms."


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Simmons day to day with right ankle sprain
By Jordan Schelling / Special to MLB.com
While he protected his fingers, Simmons' awkward move resulted in a sprained right ankle. The injury kept Simmons out of the lineup against the Brewers on Wednesday, but the rookie shortstop said he felt well enough to go.
Paul Janish started in place of Simmons, who is not expected to miss more than a game or two.
"He came in today and it looks better than we suspected," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We're just going to call it day to day. Hopefully, with some treatment today and the off-day tomorrow, he can play Friday."
Though Simmons stayed in for the remainder of Tuesday's loss, the Braves were worried at one point it might have been more of a serious high ankle injury.
Brewers starter Marco Estrada tried to get Simmons on back-to-back pickoff attempts. It appeared on the first that Simmons nearly dove back before switching to a bit of an unusual feet-first move. He returned standing up on the second attempt.
Simmons said his foot got stuck in the dirt and jammed against the bag on the first slide. So, will he be going headfirst next time?
"Yeah, definitely. I'm not thinking; Whatever comes to my head first, I'm going," Simmons said. "I talked to the trainers. They said it's OK to go headfirst. I was just being cautious with everything."
Bourn trying to get back to first-half form
MILWAUKEE -- As leadoff hitter Michael Bourn goes, so go the Braves.
With that in mind, it should come as no surprise they managed just one run in the first two games of the series against the Brewers. After all, Bourn did go 0-for-8 with two strikeouts.
"That's part of how my role is," Bourn said. "I accept it. It's no problem with me. I like it."
So what can the club do to get Bourn swinging a hot bat again like he was early in the season? Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said the center fielder had been working with hitting coach Greg Walker on a few small changes.
Bourn would not share any specifics Wednesday afternoon, but did say he's been looking at some things with Walker.
"Walk told me just a little something here, and that he [doesn't] want me trying to change this and that too much," Bourn said. "'Just stay with what you've been doing, and things will happen.'"
After batting .311 going into the All-Star break, Bourn has hit at just a .228 clip in the second half. He has just 12 extra-base hits over that 57-game span, while striking out 64 times and picking up 29 walks.
Without his presence on base in front of the Braves' big bats, it makes creating runs more difficult.
"He causes problems on the basepaths when he's on. He creates runs with his legs," Gonzalez said. "We've got to get him going. And we will."
Chipper joins Ruth, Gehrig in elite club
With a little more than three weeks left in his storied career, Chipper Jones has joined an elite group that previously only included Hall of Famers Stan Musial, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig.
The walk Jones drew to begin the fourth inning of Wednesday night's game against the Brewers was the 1,500th of his career. This marked the last milestone that he had to hit to join these legends in this select group.
Musial, Ruth, Williams, Gehrig and Jones are the only players in Major League history to record at least 2,500 hits, 1,500 walks, 1,500 runs, 500 doubles, 450 home runs and 1,500 RBIs while hitting .300 with a .400 on-base percentage and .500 slugging percentage.
Jones' career statistics entering Wednesday included: 2,716 hits, 1,499 walks, 1,611 runs, 547 doubles, 468 home runs, 1,620 RBIs, .304 batting average, .401 on-base percentage and a .531 slugging percentage.
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Braves focused on Brewers, not Nationals
MILWAUKEE -- Standing in front of his locker in the Miller Park visitors' clubhouse on Wednesday afternoon, Braves center fielder Michael Bourn would not touch the question about this weekend.
"I'm not talking about the Nationals," he said. "We play the Brewers today. I'm not one of those players that likes to get ahead and talk about this game and who you're playing. ... We play the Brewers today.
"Find me after the game or find me Thursday or Friday, we can talk about it any time. But I want to win against the Brewers today."
If there was any question about whether the Braves were looking past this series to the weekend matchup with the National League East-leading Nationals, Bourn answered it.
Especially with the offense struggling Monday and Tuesday, the Braves were especially focused on Wednesday in finishing off the six-game road trip with a win.
"What about these guys right now?" Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said of the Brewers. "We came in here, and we knew that these guys were playing well.
"No, no, we weren't overlooking them at all. They've just pitched really well against us. And we haven't swung the bats."
With the way the Brewers have been playing lately, the Braves have added incentive to slow their momentum.
The hottest teams tend to be the most dangerous in the postseason, and with 17 wins in 22 games entering Wednesday, the Brewers fit that profile.
"We can't take them for granted. They've been playing well. They bring it every day just like we try to bring it," Bourn said. "They know that they're right there in the thick of things. They're only four games back. Other teams are losing, so, hey, they have a chance. But we're trying to stop that chance."
Jordan Schelling is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: The original Superman is way way over rated (he turns the planet around to stop time FFS) the 1st half of the movie is pretty good but then collaspes afterwards. Despite the Donner Superman II cut being a really good movie I really find some of the humor in 1 & 2 so out of place, forced and akward. Lex and his bumbling assistant are AWFUL enemies whom I can't take seriously. MoS has been atacked in some sections for being too serious but why the hell should Superman be this grinning idiot, the weight of the world is literally on his shoulders. I will take this more girtty version any day.


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Thailand closes dive sites to halt damage to reefs
Thailand is closing dozens of dive sites to tourists after unusually warm seas caused severe damage to coral reefs in the Andaman Sea, one of the world's top diving and beach resort regions, authorities said on Thursday.
More than half of southern Thailand's 15,000 hectares of coral reefs are suffering from bleaching, or the shedding of coral colors, a phenomenon caused largely by rising sea temperatures over an extended period, officials said.
"We will study the cause and effect and find a way to restore them," Sunan Arunnopparat, director of the Department of National Parks, told Reuters, adding that the reefs will be closed across seven national parks.
"This is part of an effort to restore the reefs."
He declined to say how many diving spots would be closed or how extensive the damage was to the reefs. He said diving sites where bleaching had spread to 80 percent of the reefs would be shut for an unspecified period.
The coral bleaching -- whitening due to heat driving out the algae living within the coral tissues -- was first reported in May after a surge in temperatures across the Andaman Sea from the northern tip of Sumatra island to Thailand and Myanmar.
Other parts of Southeast Asia have also suffered. An international team of scientists studying bleaching off Indonesia's Aceh province found that 80 percent of some species have died between May and August.
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Concordia University Portland has received a $600,000 four-year grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to establish the summer High School Institute for Social Impact and Leadership Development. The project will strive to integrate faith into every aspect of learning, service and life, preparing young leaders to transform society in Portland, Ore. and beyond.
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Concordia University Portland was awarded a $20,000 Heritage Commission Grant from Oregon Heritage, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department for the inaugural Vanport Mosaic Festival.
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December 16, 2013 - submitted by Harja, Netherlands
Q. Hi there! I am a Dutchie myself, and the Hypnofeed seems to love Dutch music a lot!? Tim Knol, Kensington etc.
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The reason that more Dutch music is featured is pure & simply because more is submitted from there. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I guess that around 80% of the Hypnofeed submissions are from Netherlands closely followed by Belgium.