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You got Bear. Response to request for Judging Angels reviews touched heart of Bear. He will somehow manage to spend time with Woodland friends while writing 40,000 words in next eight weeks. That's (assembles acorns and seashells) um... only 666 words a day, appropriately enough.
So, rejoice and root for Bear to meet his deadline for Feast of Grass release (as some characters call it... any idea why?)
But please, if you've been putting off that review, help keep morale high at Bear Cave. He's rubbing his paws with evil glee with what he has in store for readers of the second book of the Rubricatae Chronicles. Won't you help us meet our goal of 25 reviews? (This is sounding like the Jerry Lewis Telethon.) Hey, at least it's free. Do it for the cubs.
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The marks of a good trial lawyer are knowing how to make an effective opening argument [sic], and closing argument, and direct examination. But, none of that matters if he can't make an effective cross examination. It is known as the most powerful engine for the discovery of truth ever invented. Its distinguishing feature is that the lawyer gets to ask "leading questions:" those whose answers he already knows, in order to tighten the noose of truth around a lying throat. (Lawyer tip: no one need fear cross examination if he is willing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.)
In the story of Susana, the young Daniel uses the modern techniques of Rule on Witnesses and cross examination to spare the life of a virtuous maiden.
There are two broad classes of witnesses, and if a lawyer confuses them, or uses the wrong technique, the jury will hate him. At best he'll be ineffective.
There are witnesses who are honestly mistaken in fact. It happens. Eye-witness testimony is not very good, for example, despite people thinking it is the gold standard. Memory is uncertain and attention not the good servant we imagine.
Watch this short video.
About half the people get it wrong.
Perhaps a little old lady testifies that she remembers seeing the defendant at the victim's house at 7 p.m. because Trailer Park Jeopardy was just beginning. The defense would kindly point out that the murder happened on Tuesday, and Trailer Park Jeopardy airs on Friday.
Perhaps she wears coke-bottle glasses, but you have a friend available to testify she had forgotten them at her house the night of the murder. You would commit her to her testimony about the glasses, then impeach her.
With these kinds of cases, the approach is sympathetic. The jury already identifies with witnesses, not the lawyer, and there is no need to antagonize anyone. We understand. It's easy to make a mistake like that.
Then there is the other class of witness, the dishonest kind. They need not be actually evil. But something makes them willing to swear to tell the truth but then instead offer testimony that is not truthful, but designed to secure a particular result.
Such a witness may be interested. Perhaps he is the detective, and is positive he solved the crime, but fears a sleazy defense lawyer might subvert justice with his silver tongue. You would be amazed at the lengths police will go to avoid answering a simple question. They always thought the Bear was playing some sort of ursine head game with them. But all the Bear had to do was ask simple questions requiring simple answers.
He supposes they did turn that into a head game, but only against themselves.
So many times investigators would self-destruct on the stand. The Bear once had an exasperated detective turn to the judge and say, "I don't know how to get around that question, your Honor." Those were his very words. The judge had some choice ones of his own for that witness.
A witness may be interested because he knew the murder victim, and is emotionally invested in a conviction. Or he might even be bribed. There are many ways a witness may have a personal interest in the outcome of a trial. That does not disqualify them. It must be taken into account by a lawyer, though.
The important difference is that a dishonest witness is cross examined more aggressively and the lawyer may communicate his disdain for the witness to the jury - as long as he can get the jury to see that the witness is not telling the truth. Indeed, while one may not treat a witness with outright disrespect in court, you don't have to treat him with kid gloves and smiles, either.
In fact, it is essential with the dishonest witness that the lawyer not communicate to the jury that he respects him. This is not a mistake on some particular. This is a whole witness who is bad. It is his very credibility that must be undermined. In this case, you must go after the witness himself, as a person.
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but to "provide cover" for others to run with novelties.
Bear gets his fur stuck to it and learns nothing.
However, what if the pope communicated all sorts of other errors. And, by errors, the Bear means clear conflicts with the previous settled teachings of the Church. Not just differences in emphasis. What if it began to look as though a pope did not respect the teachings of the Church very much and seemed to hold his own eccentric opinions in higher regard than Dogmas of the Church?
What if, furthermore, he was not content to merely announce errors, but did not let a day go by without taking to the airwaves and the internet and piling error upon error, constantly repeating a handful of novelties until true Christianity was distorted? What if the Church as she was known before him could scarce be recognized beneath his "new vision" for humanity?
What if, furthermore, this "new vision" happened to be easily identified with a particular theological fad, or political program. What if his view of Catholicism was really Communism, or Nazism, or New Ageism, or Peronism, or Feminism, or some other easily-identified "ism" dressed up in Catholic clothes and language?
And to add to the problem, what if he resorted to bullying, and behind-the-scenes plotting to rig debates, and was insulting to a large class of Catholics whom he believed did not share his vision for a new kind of Catholicism? What if, supposing he were respectfully asked to clarify apparently dubious teachings, he simply ignored the request?


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CNN BASHERS from cyber-gossip Matt Drudge to Fox News czar Roger Ailes were downright gleeful last week over CNN's short-lived promo for Paula Zahn's debut show that referred to her as "sexy" with an accompanying sound resembling a zipper coming undone. Was the ad a concoction of CNN execs Walter Isaacson and/or Jamie Kellner? CNN says no, the promo department didn't follow SOP and it's considering personnel action. Predictably, Ailes, who lost Zahn to CNN, had a different take. "This has got Kellner's fingerprints, palm prints and face prints on it," Ailes told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
The New FINE LIVING cable net, set for a spring launch, is cutting the fat for advertisers, says President Ken Solomon. Fine Living won't run credits at the end of shows, to give marketers a less cluttered environment for their pitches. No word if key grips have gripes.
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Dr Felix Christopher Mark, is ecophysiologist at Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar-und Meeresforschung and hehas a strong molecular and biochemical background and has worked in various ecophysiological projects with fish, crustaceans and molluscs investigating energy metabolism at systemic, cellular and molecular levels. He is a PI in several projects on the metabolic consequences of ocean acidification and warming for (polar) fish and invertebrates. He also investigates haemocyanin adaptation in polar and temperate cephalopods and is specifically interested in how molecular structural design relates to physiological function.


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This has been a busy summer for me so here's a collection of relevant links from the past week. Posting will be light for the next few weeks.
Wal-Mart extends financial services to low-income customers. The world's largest retailer will sell prepaid payment cards at over 3300 of its discount stores in the U.S.
Americans gave nearly $300 billion to charitable causes last year, setting a new record and besting the 2005 total that had been boosted by a surge in aid to victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and the Asian tsunami.
At an event in Google's New York offices on Tuesday, the company unveiled a new initiative to make its Google Earth geography software a more accessible tool for nonprofit organizations.
'Hey Project Red Stripe, why the silence?'…Why? Because we wanted to start a not-for-profit. Then, imagine if our pitch hadn't worked and we had to kill the site. It would have been embarassing for The Economist, we thought.


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Is Morality Relative? Dr. Michael Garnett & Prof. Hallvard Lillehammer
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CNN's Rick Sanchez reported on a church marquee that reads "America we have a Muslim president. This is a sin against the Lord." Mark Holick is pastor of The Spirit One Christian Center in Wichita, Kansas where the sign is being displayed.
Holick told KSNW, "The main point of the marquee is to cause the Christians to understand he is not a Christian, Again, they will call me and they will tell me that he's not a Muslim because he is a Christian. That's not the point. The point is he's not a Christian."
Sanchez talked to Wayne Slater who is the Sr. political write for the Dallas Morning News. "It's absolutely not true. He was born in the United States. Barack Obama. He is not a Muslim. Yet, there are people who hold on to this and part of this, i think, is an intent to believe what people want to believe about their environment because their environment is changing," said Slater.
This video is from CNN's Newsroom, broadcast Nov. 17, 2008.
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All the jewels here presented are handmade and the main material is always silver.
The Portuguese jewelry designer Joana Ribeiro was born in Matosinhos, on the 7th of August of the year 1987. Since ever, she felt the calling for arts and so she followed that calling all the way through University. In order to fulfill her skills and constant desire for craftsmanship, she completed her degree in Jewelry Designing at Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD). During her road on the way to become a designer, Joana used Erasmus as means to find new inspirations. The Hodgeschool of Antwerp was the Belgian teaching facility that she selected to perfect her techniques. In 2010, she also completed her MBA in Product Design as a way to fully realize the creative power that is needed inside the design industry. To test her ability, she took on an internship on a traditional Portuguese filigree company, combining classic thinking with her modern perspective on design. Never satisfied, Joana permanently tried to conquer recognition for her pieces. Her jewelry work consists on taking nature as a major guideline and inspiration. As Joana walks through gardens, she pays close attention to nature's design. This is the sketchbook to build her pieces. One of the main concerns of Joana's work is representing something beautiful and unique, but also wearable to a vast public. The number one material used is silver, but this is always combined with an array of other products like rough quartz, enamels, metallic inks, street stones...Written by André Seixas


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In the 15th video Brackeys said that the next tutorial he will do the slowing down of the enemies and damage over time for the laser beamer, but the next tutorial is labeled 17th. Did he accidentally make it unlisted?
In the tutorial 20, I was confused when the made the upgraded version of the laser beamer and changed its damage over time.


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(self-released 2015)
Chances are, the French band Killers have not popped up on your radar screen in sometime, if ever. That's a shame. Killers' history dates back all the way to 1982, and during the intervening years they have released no fewer than 14 unique studio albums, plus a couple of remakes/alternate versions and a fistful of live albums. The band are now (and always have been) led by guitarist / vocalist Bruno Dolheguy, but the other two core members (bassist Patrick Oliver and guitarist Thierry Andrieu) have been onboard since the late 1990s, so this is hardly a one-man show. Killers play a brand of speedy old-school traditional heavy metal with elements of thrash and gruff (but still semi-sung and definitely charismatic) French-language vocals. A rough analogy would be if Motorhead were Frenchmen who played fast all the time and had a flair for NWoBHM melodic sensibility. Killers have been going through a creative renaissance of late, as 'Le Baiser de la Mort' (which translates as 'The Kiss of Death') is their third studio album since 2012, with two live albums also coming out in the interim. So if you're unfamiliar with this institution of French metal excellence, there's no time like the present to make their acquaintance.
Upon receiving my copy of 'Le Baiser de la Mort,' I had two primary concerns. First, what's with there being only 7 songs? After all, Killers is (mostly) known for short, punchy, intense three-minute tunes, including most famously the 22 tracks that populated their classic neckbreaking 'A L'Ombre des Vautours' album from 2007. Second, would Killers' creative well have run dry with this being their third album since 2012? Both worries were laid to rest immediately. With respect to the former, 'Le Baiser de la Mort' is indeed a full-length release with a playing time of 44 minutes. It finds Killers experimenting with extended song lengths, including a massive 13-minute opus entitled "L'Autre Cote." With respect to the latter, Killers sound more creative and inspired than ever on 'Le Baiser de la Morte.' The lengthier songs give Dolheguy and Andrieu room for stellar guitar jams layering one terrific riff and melody atop another. The band playfully adapt Mozart (albeit at supercharged turbo speed) at the beginning of "Aimer." "Folie Defoule" has blastbeats. And Killers even pay homage to their Basque heritage (they hail from the town of Bardos, in the southwestern corner of France, which is Basque Country) with Basque lyrics in "Etorkizun Bidea," which starts as a ballad before the hammer comes down once again. Nosirree, 'Le Baiser de la Morte' is not the work of a band scraping the bottom of the barrel for interesting musical ideas. The coolest part is that Killers work these elements into their existing sonic framework in a seamless manner. There are plenty of Killers' trademark speedy, thrashy parts, and Dolheguy's characteristic voice is thankfully unchanged. If you're familiar with Killers, you'll recognize the band instantly on this album. The difference here is that the songs breathe a bit more, the guitar melodies are a bit more pronounced, and the instrumental passages are a bit more involved. It works splendidly.
Like many underground metal bands in the modern age, Killers are now label-less and conduct all band operations in-house. That can be a negative in certain respects. For example, the production on 'Le Baiser de la Mort' is a little muddier and sounds more processed than one might like. But this independence is also a positive. The band enjoy complete creative control, and they make their albums and merchandise available to their fans at prices that are extremely fair and reasonable. If you're at all interested in checking out Killers (and you should be if you're a self-respecting metalhead who doesn't mind foreign-language lyrics), look them up at http://killers.neuf.fr. Don't let the lengthy discography intimidate you, as the band have been remarkably consistent (some might say stubborn) over the years. 'Le Baiser de la Morte' is a suitable starting point for the uninitiated too. Happy hunting!
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Watch the full clip for Colbert's explanation of why his rather gross suggested alternate use for T-Mobile phones doesn't violate the T-Mobile sponsorship agreement, which specifies that Colbert won't "position the brand in a negative light."
Simon Dumenco is the "Media Guy" columnist for Advertising Age. You can follow him on Twitter @simondumenco.


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PANDAS syndrome is a rare condition that causes neuropsychiatric symptoms in children after they contract a strep infection, MedicineNet explains. The acronym "PANDAS" stands for "Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections." PANDAS develops from an autoimmune response to Streptococcal bacteria, which causes the immune system's antibodies to attack normal cells while trying to fight off the infection.
Streptococcal bacteria effectively hides in the host body by surrounding its cellular walls with molecules resembling those found on a child's essential organs, such as the heart, skin and brain, the National Institute of Mental Health states. When the bacteria is eventually detected, the immune system has difficulty distinguishing the host cells from the invasive bacteria. Doctors typically diagnose the condition when a child suddenly develops obsessive compulsive disorder or another tic disorder after a strep infection. Other common symptoms include motor or vocal tics, anxiety attacks and moodiness.
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Life backstage and behind the curtain is the focus of the 2014 Nutmeg Summer Series of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre in performances of three classic productions from June 5 through July 20 at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Storrs campus.
Nine-time Tony winner "A Chorus Line," composed by Marvin Hamlisch, opens the season on June 5 and continues through June 14. Tony nominee Jerry Adler of "The Sopranos" and "The Good Wife," and Richard Kline of "Three's Company," headline in the Neil Simon comedy "The Sunshine Boys," from June 19 to June 29. Tony-winner Leslie Uggams stars as Mama Rose in "Gypsy: A Musical Fable," from July 10 to July 20.
"A Chorus Line" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with its depiction of the backstage story of 17 aspiring dancers, while tracing the story of the unsung heroes of the Broadway musical – the dedicated, talented, and overworked chorus dancers. It remains one of the longest-running Broadway productions in history, revised most recently last year in the West End.
Adler, an adjunct professor of dramatic arts at UConn, returns to CRT with Kline, who is making his Storrs debut, for the tale of the once-in-a-lifetime reunion of vaudeville's undisputed Kings of Comedy. Adler was last seen on CRT's stage in the 2012 world premiere of "I'm Connecticut." Kline made his Broadway debut in "City of Angels," and was featured as The Wizard in the first national tour of "WICKED."
Uggams is a legendary actress and singer who began her career as a child on the 1950s television show "Beulah" before making her singing debut on the "Lawrence Welk Show," and then became a regular on "Sing Along with Mitch," led by record producer-conductor Mitch Miller. She broke new ground in 1969 when "The Leslie Uggams Show" became the first network television variety show hosted by a female African American. She received Emmy nominations for her roles in the television miniseries "Roots" and "Backstage at the White House." She won the Tony for Best Actress in a musical for "Hallelujah, Baby!" and earned a Tony nomination for her work in August Wilson's "King Hedley II."
Evening performances for the CRT Nutmeg Summer Series start at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Matinee performances start at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. In conjunction with the "STAGECRAFT: 50 Years of Design at Hartford Stage" exhibition at The William Benton Museum of Art, patrons can save $5 on a ticket for the Nutmeg Summer Series by using the offer code "BENTON" when ordering a regular price ticket. For more information, visit www.crt.uconn.edu .
CRT's Community Partners for the Nutmeg Summer Series include SI Financial Advisors, Hamilton Sundstrand, the Nathan Hale Inn, and the UConn Dairy Bar.


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The Northwestern Regional Library is giving back to its local communities this week, Nov. 13-18. Just in time for the holidays, bring in canned or non-perishable food items, or toiletries to a local NWRL branch and the donated items will go to a local charitable organization chosen by the local library to help those less fortunate. All donations are welcomed.
Also, patrons who have overdue fines or fees for any items belonging to the public libraries in Alleghany, Stokes, Surry or Yadkin counties may have all fees and fines forgiven on this one week by simply bringing in canned or non-perishable food items or toiletries to the library.
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Note: Please know that if you are traveling with AUXA, you will be sent an invoice for an additional travel fee that'll cover a rental vehicle and gas. This will be somewhere between $95 to $145, depending on the number of students coming with us.
We have an awesome team of seasoned campus ministers ready to pour into your life. SICM is intended to be life-transforming and faith-enriching week to help you fulfill your mission on the college campus and beyond. Topics will cover every component of ministry on campus—discipleship, mission, prayer, fellowship and worship. Training will be a combination of lecture and lab providing participants opportunities to practice what they're learning.
Students will also be inspired and experience the benefit of iron sharpening iron as they live and interact with other passionate students from other East Coast campuses. You'll stay in beautiful beach front cottages. Imagine having morning quiet times with Jesus amidst the sound of waves crashing and the frequent sight of dolphins swimming past.
When: AU Chi Alpha will be leaving early in the AM on May 14th from AU and will be arriving back in DC late on May 20th.
Note: We cannot (and do not) provide transitional housing for you (or your stuff) between the end of finals and the start of SICM. We wish we could but we have very limited housing as staff and even more limited office space. You'll need to plan for this on your own. But don't worry, it's been done before. You got this!
Where: It will be held in Nags Head, NC, a great beach on the Outer Banks. You will stay in beautiful beachfront houses, and the sessions will be held a short walk down the road, at a local conference center.
All this for how much? Register ASAP on acsicm.com and also plan on paying the AU-specific travel fee.
We have only a handful of spots available for students this year, so please fill out this interest form below. The earlier, the better! Once the spots close, we will not be able to make any more room. Jump on it! You aren't committing to go by filling this out, but it'll help us know how to fill the spots and get people "in line" when it gets closer to the event.


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easyFood! EasyJet founder launches MEGA discount foodstore selling EVERYTHING for 25p
BRITAIN's first easyFoodstore is offering customers the chance to buy all products at a cut price of just 25p each – for a month.
Everything is 25p in the new store
During February, bargain-hunting shoppers at the London store can stock up on everything from biscuits and crackers, to tinned goods and cakes at cut-prices.
The newly opened store in the Park Royal area of North West London also offers tea, coffee, cereal and drinks among its food products.
The store isn't currently offering any fresh food or meat.
easyFoodstore is the latest venture by EasyJet found Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who hopes the brand will cut into the rising popularity of discount shopping.
After the end of this month, the price promotion will finish, but prices are still expected to be below that of discount stores Aldi and Lidl.
The retailer's slogan is 'No expensive brands. Just food honestly priced.'
Easyfoodstore is the latest venture by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Here's easyFoodstore. Reportedly doing brisk trade pic.twitter.com/ViajcV1dvo— Bryan Roberts (@BryanRoberts72) February 1, 2016
When announcing the venture, Mr Haji-Ioannou said he had been inspired to launch the store after seeing the rising use of food banks.
The businessman has also previously run food charity initiatives in Greece and Cyprus.
He said: "This is another way the easy brand can serve the less well-off.
"Given my experience in distributing food for free in Greece and Cyprus, this is a more commercial attempt to sell basic food for 25p per item to those less well-off in the Park Royal area."
Mr Haji-Ioannou and his family still owns a large stake in budget carrier easyJet, and have sought to being the 'easy' brand to other markets, including cinemas, gyms, hotels and estate agents.


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Senior e-business manager Matt Rooke said a slight delay in finalising its long haul programmes was responsible. It will now launch its US dynamic packaging technology on January 9 with its Australia product going live a week later.
"We had wanted it to be operational for the start of the peak booking period but the product is still being set up and it hasn't given us time to test the technology," said Rooke. "The programmes will go on sale offline early next week and online within the first two weeks of January."
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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2008-06-25T14:29:43.000+0000 Last Updated: 2009-01-13T07:38:08.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.6.0 (02/Sep/08)
Reporter: Josh Schumacher (joshs633) Assignee: Alexander Veremyev (alexander) Tags: - Zend_Search_Lucene
Related issues: - ZF-5531
Possibly related to: http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2448
Occasionally (at seemingly random intervals), performing a query throws an exception such as, File '/search/lucene_index/_30_j.del' is not readable
If you look at the structure of /search/lucene_index/, there is a _30_k.del file but no _30_j.del file. It appears the delGen is being incremented incorrectly occasionally possibly.
The exception is raised from Zend_Search_Lucene_Index_SegmentInfo line 303. $delFile = $this->directory->getFileObject($this->_name . '' . base_convert($this->_delGen, 10, 36) . '.del');
For a temporary, quick fix, I have modified Zend_Search_Lucene_Index_SegmentInfo to touch the file before it attempts to getFileObject. 303 $delFile = $this->directory->touchFile($this->_name . '' . base_convert($this->delGen, 10, 36) . '.del'); 304 $delFile = $this->_directory->getFileObject($this->_name . '' . base_convert($this->_delGen, 10, 36) . '.del');
I have reproduced this bug in 1.5.1 and 1.5.2
Posted by Matthew Ratzloff (mratzloff) on 2008-07-08T16:36:15.000+0000
This is a really bizarre bug. Indexing fails in the same place every time, and it's not dependent on the particular item being indexed, it's dependent on when it is indexed (e.g., the 720th item (just an example) fails no matter what the 720th item actually is). This isn't a memory issue as far as I can tell.
Posted by Josh Schumacher (joshs633) on 2008-07-08T17:08:46.000+0000
It should be noted that I have also reproduced this bug with a checkout of trunk at revision 10001.
Posted by Jurrien Stutterheim (norm2782) on 2008-07-23T00:59:20.000+0000
Got the same bug here. It's weird... I have an app that's been live for over a year without problems. Only when I moved it to a new VPS this problem started to show. Would optimizing the index regularly prevent this bug from occurring?
Posted by Alexander Veremyev (alexander) on 2008-07-23T13:26:35.000+0000
Could you provide full stack trace for the exception? There are two different situations where the problem may occur (opening index and updating index just updated by another process).
Posted by Aaron Heimlich (aheimlich) on 2008-07-23T14:49:44.000+0000
I've encountered this issue before with our internal ZF app (also at seemingly random intervals). I can't seem to comment on the issue, though, so I'm posting a stack trace here (with some potentially sensitive info masked).
Hope it's useful.
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exception 'Zend_Search_Lucene_Exception' with message 'File '***/data/search/lucene/_5kf_54.del' is not readable.' in ***/library/Zend/Search/Lucene/Storage/File/Filesystem.php:59
Stack trace:
#0 ***/library/Insight/Search/Index/Adapter/Lucene/Storage/File/Filesystem.php(27): Zend_Search_Lucene_Storage_File_Filesystem->__construct('/***...', 'r+b')
#1 ***/library/Insight/Search/Index/Adapter/Lucene/Storage/Directory/Filesystem.php(100): Insight_Search_Index_Adapter_Lucene_Storage_File_Filesystem->__construct('/***...')
#2 ***/library/Zend/Search/Lucene/Index/SegmentInfo.php(303): Insight_Search_Index_Adapter_Lucene_Storage_Directory_Filesystem->getFileObject('_5kf_54.del')
#3 ***/library/Zend/Search/Lucene.php(380): Zend_Search_Lucene_Index_SegmentInfo->__const in ***/library/Zend/Search/Lucene/Storage/File/Filesystem.php on line 59
Posted by Josh Schumacher (joshs633) on 2008-07-23T14:57:06.000+0000
Thanks for the stacktrace Aaron, I don't have one sitting around anymore.
Alexander, if there are two possible situations, shouldn't we address both of the possibilities? Since the issue was appearing at seemingly random intervals for myself and others, we can't guarantee which one of the two conditions are occurring.
Posted by Alexander Veremyev (alexander) on 2008-07-24T01:54:58.000+0000
Aeron: Thanks!
Josh: There are two places where Zend_Search_Lucene_Index_SegmentInfo object is created using already existing index segment. I don't see what is the cause of the problem now, so stacktrace helps to define where the problem actualy appears.
Posted by Alexander Veremyev (alexander) on 2008-07-24T05:05:31.000+0000
I found where the problem was.
Segments updating (which may happen if some documents were deleted) and segments_xxx file updaing were performed separately. So there was a lack for index updating lock. It may cause the floowing actions sequence:
process1 performs segments updating and writes new del file 30_j.del -> process2 performs segments updating and writes new del file _30_k.del -> process2 performs segment updating and writes new segments_xxx (with the latest del file generation k for segment _30) -> process1 performs segment updating and writes new segments_xxx+1 (with the latest del file generation j for segment _30) -> process1 performs index directory cleanup and deletes all _30*.del file excepting the last -> latest segments_yyy refers del generation for segment _30 as _j, but index folder doesn't contain _30_j.del file => index is corrupted, exception is thrown.
Fixed for the trunk, release-1.5 and release-1.6 branches. Will be included into ZF 1.5.3 (should come within a week).
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2008-09-02T10:39:02.000+0000
Updating for the 1.6.0 release.
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General Assembly Journal - Part 4
January 22, 2003
Hearing on Sunset of the Board of Examiners for the Electrology and Social Workers
One of the roles my committee (Health and Government Operations Committee) plays is to decide whether or not to retain the professional oversight boards for a variety of health care occupations. Trust me, if you visit a health-related provider for some service, a state board exists to oversee that provider.
This hearing focused on two fields, those who use specific procedures to remove unwanted hair; and those often underpaid, but critically important, health care providers - social workers. I know, some you will read that last statement and think that I have a bias against the hair removal profession.
Not true! I'm sure that removing unwanted and unsightly hair is a very important service, especially to the very hairy.
Unfortunately, this gets into one of my pet peeves. This state board was commissioned because the workers in this field needed to be "policed", since public health concerns arise when we talk about needles, injections, and other related procedures. The board itself produced evidence that there were no (zero, nada, less than one) complaints registered against this profession in 2002. In fact, over the last four years, the board handled four complaints per year, none of which were health-related. Most of the complaints were related to advertising.
I can see it now: "Go from gorilla to hairless chihuahua in less than two visits!" It looks like the staff recommendation will be to consolidate the services of this vital board with other, lesser, oversight boards. The Social Worker Board, on the other hand, is vital in establishing standards and working with members across the state to maintain the professional standards and certifications of this critical field.
Friday January 24, 2003
Frederick County Delegation Meeting
We are meeting to review and discuss the legislative package submitted by the Board of County Commissioners, along with other requests. The commissioners' request has been very smooth, much smoother than in previous years. The dynamic has changed a bit, with Delegate (Galen) Clagett and I having had considerable experience as county commissioners. We understand the challenges faced by our local leaders, and feel strongly that they should be given the tools they need to govern.
Today's controversy was with the request by the county's Human Relations Commission for enforcement authority. As it currently exists, the HRC cannot compel the parties in a case to accept a remedy.
Senator (Alex) Mooney has serious concerns with how an expanded HRC enforcement authority might be used to seek remedies in cases involving sexual preference. He initially indicated his opposition, and voted against the requested expansion. The interesting twist came from an exchange with the Rev. Samie Conyers, an HRC member and former delegate candidate.
The Rev. Conyers offered that Senator Mooney might not want to send the wrong message to his constituents with a "no" vote, as it might be interpreted as being against the interests of minorities. I thought that logic, and implied threat, was probably not the best approach on behalf of the legislation.
In the end, Senator Mooney changed his vote to yes, and the bill was passed unanimously.
The other hang-up was the fault of yours truly. The Frederick Fair Board was seeking a bill to exempt the Great Frederick Fair from state and local noise ordinances. The Fair Board has proposed a statewide bill for the necessary exemptions. The logic was solid: these agricultural fairs are an important part of our history and critical to educating a growing suburban population to our heritage. Also, the events that occur at these fairs prop up our 4H and FFA programs aimed at training tomorrow's farmers. Unfortunately, a byproduct of these events is the nuisance generated by thousands of attendees like: dust, traffic, lights, and worst of all, noise.
An important component of these events are the grandstand events and shows. These events fall into two categories: concerts and track events. The track events include the harness races, the demolition derby, and the tractor pull. The concerts feature top-shelf Nashville performers in a more intimate outdoor setting than you can usually see these folks.
Last year, the City of Frederick decided that the fair should be subject to the city ordinance regarding noise pollution, requiring monitoring and mitigation. My colleagues understood that the fair board was seeking a blanket waiver through the bill. I was under the impression that the waiver being sought was for the actual fair conduct itself. I have some problems with a blanket waiver for any and all events that might occur on the grounds.
We discussed, debated, and argued our individual points of view, and in the end, the majority position to support the broader bill prevailed.
My obligation, as a member of the Frederick County Delegation, is to support the will of the majority. It would be easy (and politically cheap) to grandstand against my colleagues, but in the end, I have to accept the fact that my argument did not carry the day. This isn't the first time I've lost a vote, and won't be the last. Now, I'll advocate for the majority position as if it were my own, which is my responsibility. All bets are off, though, if I find the position of the majority to be against my fundamental principles.


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Yoenis CespedesCespedes is considered a five-tool center
fielder, which is a fantasy owners dream, but it is
hard to gauge exactly where he will land as a major
In the 2010-2011 season he batted .333 with 33 home
runs, 99 RBI's, 89 runs and 11 stolen bases in
90 games.
He has good power and good speed, but isn't a
pure hitter by any means. He is very susceptible to
chasing pitches out of the zone and will rack up many
K's, but his good bat speed turns some of those
bad pitches into hits.
Cespedes is a gamble at any point before the 9th round,
but he could have tremendous payoff if he plays to his
full potential.
In 2011, Perez batted .333 with 10 RBIs in 12 games
at Omaha following his promotion from Class AA Northwest
Arkansas. He batted .283 for the Naturals with nine
homers and 43 RBIs in 79 games.
The future is bright for Salvador Pérez, the
only question is how bright and how much in the future.
Either way he is worth a late pick in the 2014 fantasy
baseball draft.
After a stellar college career in Kentucky and Arizona
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Kipnis is a disciplined (0.63 BB/K) left-handed hitter
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His running speed is average but aggressive which leads
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While there are bigger names out there on the up and
coming fantasy second basemen list, like Dustin Ackley
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February 24, 2012 09:00 ET
Highlights of the New Suite Include PCI Level 1 Certification and Group Gifting on Facebook
Highlights of the New Suite Include PCI Level 1 Certification and Group Gifting on Facebook
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - Feb 24, 2012) - ShopIgniter, a provider of social commerce software, today is announcing the availability of its enterprise-scale commerce platform. The social commerce suite includes tools and back-end integration to effectively execute integrated commerce campaigns that address the needs of the social and always on customer.
The past year has seen a significant shift in the way consumers discover, buy and share products online. Research shows that today's customers are highly savvy when it comes to engaging with brands, particularly on Facebook. In a recent study published jointly by the CMO Council and Lithium, 67% of consumers "like" a brand on Facebook because they want rewards and deals, and 79% use social media to take advantage of special offers and discounts. Social customers expect products and promotions from the brands they engage with.
This creates a challenge for brands and retailers, who have been historically focused on conversation and content through social channels. Now, they are looking for more commerce-centric programs designed with products and promotion in mind. Brands must be able to create, manage and measure social commerce programs like VIP-only stores, product launches, curated product collections and storefronts in a repeatable, always-running environment.
What has been missing to date is a complete solution that serves these evolving needs. ShopIgniter's new social commerce platform is the first solution to deliver an integrated set of engaging commerce experiences, including Group Gifting and Facebook seamless purchase, wrapped in a technology infrastructure that offers full integration with existing retail software systems and the rigorous security requirements of businesses. Retailers including Levi's, Target, Nike Golf, Kaenon and others have sophisticated technology requirements for their commerce operations, particularly PCI Level 1 certification.
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PCI (Payment Card Industry) Level 1 certification is a key requirement for merchants who process high volumes of credit card transactions. With its recent Level 1 certification, ShopIgniter is one of the only social commerce platform providers authorized to meet the security needs of large retailers and brands.
According to findings from a January Harris Interactive survey of 2,000 Interactive users, security is still a concern for shoppers on social networks and retailers planning to do business via the social network must do more to tackle them. Over half (55%) the users surveyed said they were "not comfortable" sharing their credit card information via the likes of Facebook. Ensuring their social commerce vendor has PCI Level 1 certification helps businesses allay the concerns of customers with a verified secure platform.
"Customers expect, and brands demand, the same level of security and confidence when buying through social channels as they do on their eCommerce stores," says Matt Compton, CEO of ShopIgniter. "By adding PCI Level 1 certification to our Social Commerce Platform, we're proud to offer brands and retailers the most complete social commerce offering on the market, with peace of mind that their transactions and data are completely secure."
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One of the highlights of the new platform is its ability to create group-gifting experiences in Facebook. This is an easy way for several friends to chip-in on collective gifts -- such as a classroom "thank you" to a teacher or coach, or a birthday or shower gift from office colleagues. The system uses Facebook's built-in friend lists and messages to coordinate a unique, social purchasing flow -- and then processes multiple contributions for a single transaction.
This "Give with Friends" Facebook App shows a live group-gifting program powered by ShopIgniter. This is an exciting example because not only does it create an inherently social buying experience, but also the Group Gift Cards can drive foot traffic into their stores, or online shoppers to their existing eCommerce sites. Gift recipients benefit from their Friends' collective activity and the retailer benefits from additional visibility, redemption and ease of delivery.
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Dover Generosity Still Amazes.
As Coordinator of the Dover Community Workshop Inc. I am often amazed at the generosity of the people, organisations and businesses of Dover.
Today the 15th of December the Far South Community Association who run the on line centre, gifted the Old Fire Station to our organisation.
Nearly two years ago the offer was made and Huon Valley Council needed to adjust the lease agreement before the gift could be completed. With all the drama of council problems this situation was ultimately solved by the incoming Caretaker/ Manager Adrianna Taylor in her first week in office.
A subsequent lease has been signed and today the executive of the Far South Community Association Gail Chesham, President and David Hay, Secretary, finalised the gift of the building.
The building has always been privately owned, but sits on council land, hence the lease agreement with council.
Over the nearly six years we have been open, much has been donated to our organisation and as I am getting better at writing grant applications, we are progressing quite well.
Our organisation is a member of the Australian Men's Shed Association and the Tasmanian Men's Shed Association. We are modelled on a men's shed, however, as we have nearly twice as many ladies as men, so we changed our name early on in the piece to better reflect our membership.
In general we have separate days of activity, but every activity is open to all as long as the member is checked out on equipment, there is no restriction on gender.
Our new Hot Works Extension highlights the drabness of the original building. I am currently submitting a grant application to the AMSA round 14 for items internal such as cabinets, a TV and a hot water system as well as a restorative external clean and spray paint in Cottage Green as per the new extension.
Very often someone will clean out their shed and donate timber they have stored but no longer have a use for. We recycle much of what is donated and turn it into re-sellable items to help keep our creditors happy. Without the generosity of the Dover people and businesses, our organisation would not have progressed to its current level.
Proud to be a Doverite
Ron Wells


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so your kid ruined your table........
a lot of the furniture we have in our home is from a box. i am not that fancy and i have never asked for expensive furniture. we move a lot and most of it gets ruined. however, the last move we opted for a new dining room table (that came in a box). as it had been awhile since we had had a new one. i really do love it, however, one of our kids made the mistake of doing her nails on this new table. after spilling nail polish all over it, she tried to clean it up with remover! at this point, i considered it ruined. i could have someone come and buff it out and restain it, but the chances of me getting around to that are slim to none. so, i went to joann's and purchased a roll of burlap and about 3 rolls of wired ribbon that suited my taste. i lined it up with pins and sewed away. can i sew? yes. does it take mad skills to sew this bad boy? no way! this small, yet effective project will take you about 30 minutes if that. i love how it looks and more than anything, i am not constantly reminded of the stains from the finger nail polish remover underneath this runner!
52 reasons...........
the gift that keeps on giving
christmas is coming up, and even though i made this for peter a few valentine's days ago, it would still be perfect in a stocking for anyone of your loved ones. maybe you have already done this, but this is a gift that you could do evey year and it would never get old. it is very practical and economical. the directions on this are pretty clear but i can easily walk you through them. i bought any deck of cards and then i hole punched them so they lined up throughout the 52 plus the joker cards. i found a font i liked and created a template in microsoft word. i had written down the 52 reasons why i love you ahead of time and just typed them in to my template and printed them out. i used a stick of elmers glue to glue them on after cutting them out. give them plenty of time to dry so they don't stick to one another. i stuck a corresponding ribbon through the holes and tied them and viola, i was done! he loved it and i hope he keeps them in his office! i am thinking of doing one for the kids and their stockings this year.
diy project.........
this is such an easy project! i don't know about you, but i am always looking for easy yet effective projects. i bought the glass pieces at world market. always, my intention was to paint them, turn them upside down, add a bow and throw a candle on top for either purpose or simply decoration. i bought acrylic paint after i figured out my color scheme. mind you, i made these while i was still in my metallic phase of decorating, not metallica but metallic. i tend to go ALL IN with trends, ha! i also stencilled a pattern on two of them and left one blank with just color. the bow that i tied is wired ribbon and therefore pliable. you can change bows out with the season as well. i think you will love this easy project, especially heading into the hoidays and the winter.
sports terminology..........
the end-around is a play in american football in which an end or wide receiver crosses the backfield towards the opposite end of the line and receives a handoff directly from the quarterback.
thank you succlulents
i thank los angeles and the drought for my love of succulents. we have moved this awesome, yet extremely heavy birdbath about 10 different times around the country. we love it, but didn't love the nasty water that no birds drank from, and it only harvested mosquitos. so, it was filled with succulents and potting soil. now it is a lovely addition to our yard.
do you want those holes......
if you don't feel like totally exposing yourself while wearing jeans, or you don't want your parents asking how come you can't afford jeans without holes in them, or you just want to add a little fun or winter in coming and it's warmer, you can easily add some fun fabric to the back of those holes. i bought a bandana, which is very reasonable. i lined it up with the holes after i turned the jeans inside out and took to my sewing macine. i used the brown thread similar to what is used on jeans. if you don't have a sewing machine, i believe it is doable by hand, tedious, but doable. i also did a pair in camo.


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Kaplan Blade Angle Controllerby Judy Stromquist, US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, OR, USA,
Tom Thorsen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, OR, USA,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
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This paper describes a recently developed computerized Kaplan blade angle controller that is capable of improving turbine performance. Model Tests or Index Tests produce the Three-D-Cam curves that show the relationship between wicket gate position and blade angle over a range of head values and are used as a guide for efficient operation. The mechanical-electronic blade angle controller described can be used when blade position follows gate position through a cam and cam follower. The controller consists of a mechanical default, a linear actuator, transducers and the data acquisition/control unit. Primary control is through the mechanical default, but error in the blade position is minimized through the use of the linear actuator under program control.
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Project Wadi Attir involves an unusual initiative to develop, near the town of Hura, an ecological farm adapted to an arid zone, based on Bedouin experience and tradition and leveraged with advanced green technologies. The project is organized as an agricultural cooperative, the first of its kind in the Bedouin community. The idea is winning broad-based support and even palatable enthusiasm.
Only a day following the Bedouin demonstration in front of the Prime Minister Office to object to the Prower Plan, an impressive ceremony took place in the middle of the desert to inaugurate project Wadi Attir – "a model sustainable desert community." The ambitious plan, developed over the last four years with the collaboration of a diverse group of partners, calls for the development of a model ecological farm, based on Bedouin experience and tradition but leveraged with advanced green technologies and demonstrating the application of sustainability principles. The core of the project will comprise an organic farming enterprise involving a mixed flock of sheep and goats for the production of organic meat and dairy products, the cultivation of medicinal plants and the development of a related range of health and beauty products, and the reintroduction and cultivation of nutritious, desert-hardy, indigenous vegetables. Solar energy will be used for the production of electricity and for cooling, as part of an integrated technology infrastructure that will also include the production of bio-gas, the treatment of waste water and the production of compost from organic waste. The site will also house a visitors, research, training, and education center. The project will create many employment opportunities, including for women from local communities. The farm will be managed as an agricultural cooperative, the first of its kind in the Bedouin community.
You had to rub your eyes to believe, that inside the large plastic tent – quite un-Bedouin in style – that was erected near Hura, seated together were partners in this initiatives, many of whom were considered heretofore as adversaries to the Bedouin community, and all were applauding and praising the plan and promising to invest the best of their resources.
The Jewish National Fund announced a special funding drive for the project, the Israel Land Authority provided more than 100 acres for the farm, the Minister for development of the Negev and the Galilee approved an allocation of 10 million NIS, people from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Agriculture support the plan enthusiastically, researchers from the Ben-Gurion University and Sede Boqer will provide scientific support and, of course, leaders of Bedouin communities in the area all hope that what will emerge in Wadi Attir will be truly the harbinger of change.
Netafim, the drip irrigation company from Kibbutz Hatzerim, will develop the irrigation system, and the near by kibbutz Kramim will provide organic fodder for the animals, foundations and individual donors from abroad are doing their share, and the list goes on.
The initiator and driving spirit behind this enterprise is Dr. Michael Ben-Eli, founder and director of the Sustainability Laboratory inNew York. The Lab is involved in developing long term solution to problems that are affecting the whole world – the on going adverse impacts of human activities on the environment and their potentially destructive and irreversible consequences for the planet. Ben-Eli's philosophy attempts at achieving "a dynamic equilibrium in the interaction between population and the carrying capacity of the environment." He believes that in order to bring to an end the destruction of the environment, isolated local effort, worth while as they are will not be enough, rather, a fundamental change is required in thinking and in the underlying attitude of humans to one another and to the world. The small laboratory he founded is in his mind the answer to the large, advanced and well funded military laboratories that are devoted to the development of destructive weapons. His hope is to switch the use of the most advanced technologies to long term support and wellbeing of all humans and nature, instead. For example, he believes that traditional methods developed over generations in different ecological zones on the planet could be combined with intensive, appropriate use of the most advanced technology innovation, for the production of clean energy, recycling of water, enhancement of soils, and agricultural production.
In a parallel to project Wadi Attir that, according to Ben-Eli will act as a model for sustainable desert communities in other parts of the world, he is involved in developing an initiative in Costa Rica, a tropical region rich in rainforests and water resources, applying similar principles which will be relevant to other wet tropics ecologies. He dreams that in the future the Lab will see the development of a network of similar initiatives, in all parts of the world, linked by a system of sharing experience and knowledge, fostering change in an increasingly depleted planet and contributing to peace and prosperity for all.
Within this broader global vision, it must be seen as a significant achievement that so may diverse groups in Israel– government ministries and agencies, research institutions and kibbutzim, got inspired by this project and joined in an unusual effort to collaborate with the Bedouins of Hura. The town's Mayor, Dr. Mohammed Alnabari, who has been working shoulder to shoulder with Ben-Eli during the last few years, is optimistic, calling the project a "breakthrough initiative." Mariam Abu Rakayek, a member of the founding group of the cooperative says that this project opens opportunities to all – man and women, young and old – to learn from one another and to demonstrate how a collaborative effort can contribute to the betterment of the community.
If the good spirit which prevailed in the tent, during the ceremony will continue to dominate the project during its implementation, perhaps it will also bring hope for meaningful change in the difficult relationship between the state and the Bedouin population in the Negev.


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lens practice pearls
Staff Dispensing of GP Lenses
Contact lens dispensing is a task well-suited for your technicians. I find this most beneficial when a GP lens wearer loses or breaks a lens and needs a simple replacement. Here's how I instruct my staff to dispense GP lenses.
Understand the Goal
I begin by emphasizing that their role in dispensing a new lens is to ensure that the patient is seeing as expected with a comfortable lens that is positioning and moving well on the eye.
Prep Work
We verify all GP lenses for accuracy when they arrive from the lab. I emphasize measuring not only base curve, power and diameter, but also optic zone size and center thickness. These variables are frequently overlooked but can significantly affect on-eye lens performance.
Once the lenses are deemed acceptable, our technician cleans them and then stores them in the appropriate conditioning solution for at least four hours before dispensing. We take these steps to ensure a clean, smooth lens surface.
Figure 1. Poor surface wetting of a GP lens on the eye.
Dispensing Day
If the patient applies the lenses, our technician makes sure the patient washes his hands before handling the lenses. Aside from hygiene issues, lotions or skin oils can wreak havoc on a lens surface.
Note the time lenses are applied in the chart, then invite the patient to the reception area for the lenses to settle for at least 10 minutes. This time frame is important when dispensing special lens designs such as multifocals, as visual performance improves significantly after lenses have adequate time to stabilize on the eye.
Assessing Vision
After the patient returns to the examination room, the technician should begin by asking an open question regarding initial impressions of comfort and vision. This response can be a valuable guide if troubleshooting is necessary.
Before measuring visual acuity, I advise the technician to review the chart to determine expected acuity and familiarize herself with the lens design. Understanding expected acuity prevents being thrown by a patient who has amblyopia or is wearing monovision.
If dispensing a single-vision lens, measure monocular distance acuity in each eye. If dispensing a multifocal, increase room light to normalize pupil size, then measure binocular acuity at distance and binocular acuity at near. Use a text chart at near. These steps ensure a more accurate assessment of lens performance in a real world environment.
If visual acuity isn't as good as expected, the technician instills fluorescein and assesses surface wetting. Adhering to the prep work minimizes the need to manage a poorly wetting surface.
Assessing Lens Fit
The key fitting criteria for both soft and GP lenses are good lens centration and movement. GP lenses offer the added benefit of permitting instillation of fluorescein so we may assess how the curves of the central and peripheral portions of the lens relate to the corneal surface.
Fitting notes for GP lenses should describe lens centration and movement, base curve/cornea relationship and peripheral curve lift. The GP Lens Institute (www.gpli.org) offers resources to assist staff with fit assessment.
The Next Level
My technicians enjoy the challenges and the expertise they develop from dispensing contact lenses. Patients like it because we're more available to get their lenses to them at their convenience. Everyone is happy!
Dr. Quinn is in group practice in Athens, Ohio, is a diplomate of the Cornea and Contact Lens Section of the American Academy of Optometry and advisor to the GP Lens Institute.


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Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, public outreach events such as talks from top scientists using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres. Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities.
Recordings of events in these areas are all available and On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA). PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org.
Accessibly by anyone with internet, Perimeter aims to share the power and wonder of science with this free library.
Assuming exotic matter, several models representing static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions of Einstein's field equations have been considered in the literature. We examine the dynamical stability of such wormholes in one of the simplest model, in which the matter is described by a massless ghost scalar field, and prove that all solutions are unstable with respect to linear fluctuations and possess precisely one unstable, exponentially in time growing mode.
For nearly the past century, the nature of dark matter in the Universe has puzzled astronomers and physicists. During the next decade, experiments will determine if a substantial amount of the dark matter is in the form of non-baryonic, Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this talk I will discuss and interpret modern limits on WIMP dark matter from a variety of complementary methods. I will show that we are just now obtaining sensitivity to probe the parameter space of cosmologically-predicted WIMPs created during the earliest epoch in the Universe.
It is well known that the ground state energy of many-particle Hamiltonians involving only 2- body interactions can be obtained using constrained optimizations over density matrices which arise from reducing an N-particle state. While determining which 2-particle density matrices are 'N-representable' is a computationally hard problem, all known extreme N-representable 2-particle reduced density matrices arise from a unique N-particle pre-image, satisfying a conjecture established in 1972.
What lies beyond the Standard Model of particle physics? Are there very weakly interacting forms of matter and forces waiting to be discovered? In this talk I will describe some of the efforts underway to detect very weakly interacting particles, from dark matter to new forces. I will discuss recent observations and their theoretical significance as well as the connection to other experimental results. I will conclude with a short summary of the different frontiers and their interrelations.
Traditional condensed matter physics is based on two theories: symmetry breaking theory for phases and phase transitions, and Fermi liquid theory for metals. Mean-field theory is a powerful method to describe symmetry breaking phases and phase transitions by assuming the ground state wavefunctions for many-body systems can be approximately described by direct product states. The Fermi liquid theory is another powerful method to study electron systems by assuming that the ground state wavefunctions for the electrons can be approximately described by Slater determinants.


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After two disappointing seasons, filled with nearly as many broken phones as comically incompetent characters, Aaron Sorkin has finally admitted that The Newsroom isn't what he hoped it would be. Speaking at a Tribeca Film Festival event yesterday, Sorkin smugly apologized for his HBO series and hey, remember that time Maggie went to Africa and cut off her hair? The hell was that?
"I'm going to let you all stand in for everyone in the world, if you don't mind. I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with The Newsroom and I apologize and I'd like to start over," Sorkin told the audience after interviewer (and former President Obama speech writer) Jon Favreau asked about what he's learned about the media doing the series. "I think that there's been a terrible misunderstanding. I did not set the show in the recent past in order to show the pros how it should have been done. That was and remains the furthest thing from my mind. I set the show in the recent past because I didn't want to make up fake news. It was going to be weird if the world that these people were living in did not in any way resemble the world that you were living in… Also, I wanted the option of having a terrific dynamic that you can get when the audience knows more than the characters do… So, I wasn't trying to and I'm not capable of teaching a professional journalist a lesson. That wasn't my intent and it's never my intent to teach you a lesson or try to persuade you or anything." (Via)
It's not the Captain Hindsight framing that bothers me, or at least not the ONLY thing that bothers me. I'm much more offended by how utterly uninteresting the characters are. The Newsroom can chug along fine when it's a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to work at a 24-hour news channel, but when the pace slows down, and Sorkin returns to Will and MacKenzie's stuffy relationship, it becomes inept.
Plots like this don't help, either.
As the Tribeca event was happening on the same day as the 2014 Boston Marathon, Sorkin told the audience that an episode of The Newsroom was filming in California about the bombing at last year's marathon. The creator also said it was the first time he was ever not on the set of something he's written. "I haven't become an expert in anything. I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism. I'm not as smart as the characters are or, as you can see, as articulate," he said, stumbling over his words. "I want to make it clear: I don't know nothin'," he eventually added. (Via)
That folksy, aw shucks attitude is cute, until you remember The Newsroom is doing an episode on the marathon bombing. Hasn't Boston suffered enough?


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I know, I know… this photo looks just the same as the last one I took when I was washing the windows and curtains. But there is one difference – can you spot it?
Yes, the bookcase. There used to be a stack of large plastic storage boxes in this corner – holding clothes that are too big, too small, or too woolly. Now that these have been shifted under the bed, I moved the bookcase into the space. This poor bookcase has moved 4 times in the 5 years we have been in this house but I felt that it matched well with the new bed. Plus purchasing a new bookcase to put in the living room where this one came from will double our bookcase space – essential for keeping things out of reach of inquisitive toddlers. It also meant that we could set up our stereo in the bedroom again which is really nice on the few occassions that we are in there longer than 5 minutes before we fall alseep.
I'd really like to do something about the doonas on our bed. The ones you can see were actually David's and his brother's back when they were living in Bundaberg some 15-20 years ago. I have bought a king size doona and some material to make a cover but I've put it off because of other priorities and also because, actually, these two single doonas are so practical. I love being able to decide if I want the doona on or not and not having to wake up in the middle of the night because the other person has decided they are hot and thrown the covers off. We use them all year round in Brisbane, with an acrylic blanket in winter and with a cotton blanket in between seasons. Hmmm, maybe I should just make two single covers with the material. I'll think about that until I find time to actually do some sewing.