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Data Entry
Data entry consists of populating a table with the necessary values it is supposed to hold. In the previous lessons, we saw that, to organize its data, a table is divided in sections called columns. The values common to an entry under each column constitute a row or record and a row is made of cells: as you may realize, everything we reviewed about the organization of a table, when studying data sets, is also valid here.
Data entry consists of filling the cells under the columns of a table.
INSERT Countries VALUES('Sweden',449964,8875053,'Stockholm','se') GO
The list of values doesn't have to be typed on the same line. You can use one for each value. Here is example:
In the same way, the parentheses can be written on their own lines:
Here is another example:
Instead of first creating a table and then performing data entry, you can create a table and add records at once as long as you separate the statements with GO. To proceed, in your code, you must first create the table, which would save it, use GO to end the statement that creates the table, start the statement or each statement used to add a record, and it or each with GO. Consider the following example:
-- ============================================= -- Database: VideoCollection -- Table: Videos -- ============================================= IF EXISTS(SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE name = N'Videos' AND type = 'U') DROP TABLE Videos GO USE VideoCollection GO CREATE TABLE Videos ( VideoTitle varchar(100), Director varchar(80), YearReleased int, VideoLength varchar(30), Rating varchar(20)) GO INSERT INTO Videos VALUES('A Few Good Men', 'Rob Reiner', 1992, '138 Minutes', 'R') GO INSERT INTO Videos(Director, VideoLength, VideoTitle, YearReleased) VALUES('Jonathan Dame', '118 Minutes', 'The Silence of the Lambs', 1991) GO INSERT INTO Videos(VideoLength, Rating, Director, VideoTitle) VALUES('112 Minutes', 'R', 'Jonathan Line', 'The Distinguished Gentleman') GO INSERT INTO Videos(Rating, VideoTitle, Director, VideoLength) VALUES('R', 'The Lady Killers', 'Joel Coen & Ethan Coen', '104 Minutes') GO INSERT INTO Videos VALUES('Ghosts of Mississipi', 'Rob Reiner', 1996, '130 Minutes', '') GO
To programmatically perform data entry using a SQL statement, create an INSERT statement exactly following the descriptions made for SQL Query Analyzer. Once the statement is ready, pass it as string to a SqlCommand object and execute it with a call to SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery().
Like databases, tables, and columns, records need maintenance too. Some of the operations you can perform include deleting a whole record, changing the value of a record under a particular column (which is equivalent to editing a record), etc. Just as done for a column, before changing anything on a record, you must locate it first. This operation is somehow different than the maintenance performed on databases, tables, and columns. The reason is that, although you always know the name of a database, the name of a table, or the name of a column, when it comes to records, you cannot know in advance the information it holds. For this reason, you must use additional operators to help you locate a record. Fortunately, as always, you have various options.
The SQL code that deletes all records from a table uses the following formula:
DELETE TableName
When you create this statement, provide the name of the table as TableName. When you execute this statement, all records of the table would be removed.
To remove one particular record from a table, use the following formula:
DELETE TableName WHERE CriteriaToFindTheRecord
The DELETE and the WHERE keywords are required. The TableName factor allows you to specify the name of the table that the record belongs to. In order to delete the record, you must provide a way to locate it. Consider the following table named Videos from a database named VideoCollection:
Imagine that you want to remove the record whose video title is "The Silence of the Lambs". In this case, the TableName is Videos. The criterion to find the correct record is that the VideoTitle value of that record = The Silence of the Lambs. To remove it, you would use code as follows:
USE VideoCollection GO /* Code used to remove the video titled The Silence of the Lambs */ DELETE Videos WHERE VideoTitle = 'The Silence of the Lambs' GO
If you use the DELETE formula to remove a record, notice that, as always in SQL Query Analyzer, you would not be warned.
To programmatically delete a record, create a DELETE statement using the same rules we reviewed for SQL Query Analyzer, pass it to a SqlCommand object, and execute the statement by calling the SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() method.
The SQL statement used to change the value of a record uses the following formula:
UPDATE TableName SET ColumnName = NewValue WHERE CriteriaToLocateRecord
The UPDATE keyword allows you to specify the name of the table whose record you want to change. The table is identified with the TableName factor of our formula.
The SET keyword allows you to identify the column under which exists the value you want to change. The column is identified as ColumnName in our formula. On the right side of the column name, type the assignment operator, followed by the value you want the cell to hold. If the update is successful, the value stored under that column would be replaced.
The WHERE clause allows you to specify the criterion used to locate the particular record that the existing value belongs to.
Consider you have the above table, imagine that, on the video titled "The Distinguished Gentleman", you want to change the name of the director from "Jonathan Line" to "Jonathan Lynn. The table name is Videos. The column that owns the value is named Director. The criterion to use is to identify the record whose VideoTitle is "The Distinguished Gentleman". The code to perform this update would be:
Once again, remember that when performing an operation in the SQL, you would not be warned.
To update a record in a Windows Forms Application, create an UPDATE statement using the same rules we reviewed for SQL Query Analyzer, pass it to a SqlCommand object before executing the statement with a call to the SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() method.
Microsoft SQL Server and the SQL provide various ways to assist you with data entry. For example, if you have a table in a Microsoft SQL Server database, a Microsoft Access database, or another system, such as a text file, you can import the values of that table. Another type of assistance you can get with data entry is to copy records from one table to another.
When performing data entry, the records under a certain column usually have the same value. For example, for a local database with a table that includes an address, most employees would live in the same state and the same country. When creating a column with a value that occurs regularly, you can specify that value as default.
To specify the default value in a SQL statement, when creating the column, before the semi-colon or the closing parenthesis of the last column, assign the desired value to the DEFAULT keyword. Here are examples:
CREATE TABLE StaffMembers ( FullName VARCHAR(50), Address VARCHAR(80), City VARCHAR(40), State VARCHAR(40) DEFAULT = 'NSW', PostalCode VARCHAR(4) DEFAULT = '2000', Country VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT = 'Australia') GO
After creating the table, the user doesn't have to provide a value for a column that has a default. If the user doesn't provide the value, the default would be used when the record is saved.
A constraint in a database is a rule used to apply restrictions on what is allowed and what is not allowed in the application. To assist you in creating an effective database, the SQL provides various types of constraints you can apply to your table(s).
When updating a record and changing a value, just like the user can make a mistake and change the wrong value, you too can. Consider the following table:
Imagine you ask the user to open this table and, for the video that is rated R, to change the name of the director to Jonathan Lynn. The user would be confused because there is more than one video that is rated R. This means that you should use the most restrictive criterion to locate the record. In future lessons, when we study data analysis, we will review other operators you can use, such as asking the user to locate the video whose title is "The Distinguished Gentleman" AND whose director is Jonathan Lynn.
To be able to uniquely identify each record, you can create a special column and make sure that each value under that column is unique. You have two main options. You can put the responsibility on the user to always provide a unique value. For example, if the table includes records of students of a school, since each student must have a student number and that number must be unique from one student to another, you can ask the user to make sure of this during data entry. What if the user forgets? What if the user cannot get that number at the time of data entry? What if that number can only be generated by the administration but only after the student has been registered? Based on this, an alternative is to ask the SQL interpreter to automatically generate a new and unique number for each record.
A column whose values are automatically generated by the database engine is referred to as an identity column. An identity column can have only a numeric-based data type: bigint, decimal, int, numeric, smallint, or tinyint.
To create an identity column, if you are working the SQL Server Enterprise Manager or the Server Explorer, in the Design Table window, in the top section of the table, create the column by specifying its name and data type as one of the above. Then, in the lower section, set the Identify field to Yes from its default No.
If you are working from a SQL statement, to create an identity column, when creating the table, after the name of the column and before the semi-colon or the closing parenthesis of the last column, enter IDENTITY().
After the starting value of the identity column has been set, you can specify how much value would be added to the values of the column with each new record. By default, each previous number would be incremented by 1. If you want a different value, you can change it from 1.
To specify the incrementing value of an identity column, if you are working with a SQL statement, to specify the incrementing value, enter it as the second argument of the IDENTITY keyword. Here is an example:
CREATE TABLE StaffMembers ( StaffNumber int IDENTITY(1,1), FullName VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, Address VARCHAR(80), City VARCHAR(40), State VARCHAR(40) NULL DEFAULT = 'NSW', PostalCode VARCHAR(4) DEFAULT = '2000', Country VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT = 'Australia') GO
We have seen that an identity column is used to make sure that a table has a certain column that holds a unique value for each record. In some cases, you can use more than one column to uniquely identify each record. For example, on a table that holds the list of employees of a company, you can use both the employee number and the social security number to uniquely identity each record.
In our description of the identity column, we saw that it applied only to one column; but we also mentioned that a more that one column could be used to uniquely identity each record. The column or the combination of columns used to uniquely identity each column is called a primary key.
When performing data entry, in some columns, even after indicating the types of values you expect the user to provide for a certain column, you may want to restrict a range of values that are allowed. This is done using the CHECK constraint.
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The lunch lady, the bus driver, the principal, even the students are all fair game for humorous fun in Hillsboro High School's spring play, "The High Schoolers Guide to the Galaxy" by Bryan Starchman.
"We wanted to try something different this year," said second-year director Bob Woelk. "We looked at dozens of options and ordered this one as a trial. The students liked it and really bought into it. It should be entertaining."
Similar to Saturday Night Live on television, the high school galaxy show is a compilation of several short monologues and skits.
"It doesn't really have a beginning, middle, and then a climax, but it all fits together for a nice show," said art teacher and play co-director Dustin Dalke. "It is really a series of small plots; each one featuring a different group of students."
Woelk said 16 students were covering up to 45 roles in the production, necessitating a lot of doubling and sometimes tripling of parts.
"Since we don't have a lot of set changes and elaborate costumes, it all works out," he said. "There are some specific looks we have to change for, but as it really is all about high school life, everyday clothing for the actors is OK."
Kateland Litchfield, who plays the lunch lady, said she had never had such a major role in a school production before, though the senior has participated in many school drama productions.
"It's just me up on the stage doing a monologue," she said. "I have a lot of lines to memorize."
Litchfield said she enjoyed the characterization of her part and as the lunch lady would be making fun of the cafeteria food suggestion box, commenting on the fact that she couldn't remember ever serving real meat, and wondering what the color of some foods was supposed to be.
"The whole thing is just really entertaining for anyone who has ever been in high school," Woelk said. "It's not children's theater, but it is very relatable play. As a teacher, there are lines that just really hit home."
General admission tickets will be available at the door for the production, with performances scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 15 and 16 at the Hillsboro High School auditorium.


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That's a sincere question. I'm wondering if any of us escape from our at least 10 years of schooling unscathed?
For this week's blog, we all agreed to read the book Wounded By School by Kirsten Olsen and write about it. The author says, in the introduction, "Because of school's long, powerful presence in our lives, and its central role in shaping what we can do with our lives, it has an inordinately powerful role in determining who we think we are." She also says the book is about "honoring and valuing the spiritual and emotional aspects of learning."
While I believe it is that, she also spends a ton of time describing the wounds she uncovered as she did her graduate school research. I spent much of the time reading this book with a lump in my throat as I read about the damage our culture of schools and teachers do to learners. Even as she decribes how people have healed themselves and the strategies we can use to do so, she reiterates the pain and suffering caused by "school's long, powerful presence in our lives." Kirsten Olsen defines school wounding as:
- "Everyday" losses of pleasure in learning
- Belief that we are not smart, not competent in learning
- Belief that our abilities are fixed, and cannot be improved with effort, coaching, intervention, or understanding
- Low appetite for risk taking intellectually: wanting to be right or "just get the assignment done"
- Over-attachment to "right" answers, correctness
(and 6 more in the general list, although she then breaks wounds down into more detail by category.)
I'm glad someone has finally written candidly about what school does to students–what we, as teachers, often do to students. My Superintendent, Pam Moran, has been guiding conversations in our county to discuss joy and passion in learning. In a recent Gifted Resource Teacher's meeting, she shared that she had 27 teachers—and can remember ONE who absolutely made a difference and inspired her to be a Lifelong Learner, who kept her passion alive, her love of learning burning and who is responsible for her being here today. That's 1/27 or approximately 4%.
In a recent blog, Becky Fisher, described her journey through school and said she had 4 out of 55 teachers who did that for her. That's about 7%. I could go through mine, but honestly, I don't want to take the time. . . I can just tell you the number is low.
But yesterday I got an email from a student that was pretty self-abasing, so I responded with an upbeat, complimentary one. She immediately came back with another one that recognized my efforts to help, but laid it all at my feet–and clearly said she didn't see what I was suggesting happening.
Here's the deal: all year in 5th grade we've been pre-assessing units and the kids who show they mostly know the upcoming unit come to me for extension and enrichment. I make up the tests, and have deliberately made them extremely hard to be able to provide services for those very different kinds of thinkers who need that different experience. ANY CHILD who wants to can take the pre-assessment, so we have been encouraging kids to look at what they know and try to opt out of the "traditional" math unit. This particular child, Calley, has never attempted a pre-assessment.
She is, however, a good buddy of several I do teach, and that sort of puts up flags for me as a gifted teacher. Gifted kids tend to hang out with smart kids, so one way I look for the talent in our school is to pay attention to the friends of identified students. The kid has had enough confidence to come ask to check out an iPod, and she is one of two I have put in charge of our daily TV picture shows, sharing candid shots taken around the school.
Now for the last nine weeks, we are splitting the group a bit differently. We have all-year-long-data on their successes on our assessments, so we are looking at that. We are splitting the group so that the classroom teachers can have smaller groups to make sure all kids know the fifth grade standards and my group this time will be large–the kids who basically have the skills and whom we know will do fine on "THE TEST."
We are looking at anyone who has above an 80% yearly overall pass rate as possibly coming into my room. That means I'll have some kids who I haven't taught this year. Calley is one of those kids. In the email I sent her, I mentioned she might be in my class and she wrote this back:
Thank you so much ms.white. I apreciate it and for the question well because another kid has said she doesn't think im smart enough, but maybe i am. but i have never actually tried the stuff youll do so i dont know why she says that but you never no!I
I sent her another email basically explaining WHY she might be in my room, sharing her data with her and describing what it meant. Here's part of what I wrote:
For me, it's about helping kids understand that learning can be fun—and it's NOT all about school learning, although it has to be about learning in school. That's why I take on things like the yearbook and the TV and help kids know how to do those things as well.
I taught a kid named Taylor at Murray in fourth grade and we made movies in class, much like we did in the fall here with 3rd and 4th graders. In fact, that particular class actually helped produce a PBS movie on copyright called "Copyright, Copywrong." That kid—who is no longer a kid—is in movie production as his job now. I think the experiences I provided had something to do with that.
I believe that many kids don't understand just how smart they are, and you are one of those kids. But you need to understand that in all the math tests you have taken this year, you have gotten 86 percent of the answers RIGHT. Do you realize what that means?
In a simplistic way to explain, it means that if we had 100 test questions on a fifth grade test, you know 86 of them. 86% means that you know A LOT—and the ones you don't know should be fairly easy to learn.
In education, we often talk about the top quarter or the bottom quarter. From 75-100 is the top quarter—and your scores are SOLIDLY in that. (88, by the way, is an advanced pass on the SOL test so you only have 2 more points to go to achieve that. It's all about effort—and what YOU put in to get there.)
Understanding 86 % of a grade level's work in a topic is GREAT… And shows you are indeed a smart kid. It also means you don't need a LOT of review for the SOL tests, so I have suggested you are in the classroom Mon/Tues and with me W/Th/F. We'll see what happens—the teachers will also have a say in the decision and they know you better in class than I do. 🙂
She then writes me back with this:
Wow ms.White that really makes me feel good and sums it up very well i didnt no i was that smart by the way.
"I didn't know I was that smart, by the way." How can a child get to fifth grade and not have a clue she's smart? What is it we're doing to sort and classify our kids to make them believe other kids are smart but they are not? How can we pre-assess and target instruction to that pre-assessment without sorting and classifying–or having the kids feel like if you go to Ms White's class, you're smart? (And also believe that only the smart kids go there. If you don't, you're not smart.) How can we get past those labels of giftedness, yet meet the needs of those very different thinkers as well?
This book is all about that–pointing out all the ways we do harm to students and wound them daily by our culture of schooling, which is WAY outdated! It also shares some specific strategies for changing schools. My favorite? "Schooling needs to be reorganized for participation rather than imposition." Roland Meighan in "An Education Fit For A Democracy" 2006. He also says that "in a democracy, learning by compulsion means indoctrination and that only learning by invitation and choice is education."
Olsen ends with a paragraph entitled "How Do I Stand Up?" "Seemingly insignificant, little change can lead to big transformations" she says–much as I did in my blog, Sparks of Learning. We HAVE to speak up as educators.
Will you?
Will you look for those students who are "wounded by school" and attempt to be an "emergency room" for them, helping them find their passion and voice and giving them some choice in their learning?
(And, by the way, I would recommend you read this book. As Aaron says, "it's a great book to really make you mad and fire off provocative comments.")
We simply cannot, in all good consciousness, continue to wound our students through following a culture of schooling that no longer is valid or valuable!


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To select, annotate, and present for publication, within the criteria and procedures established for selection, a biannual list of exemplary computer software and multi-platform media currently available. To define and develop guidelines and criteria for the evaluation of interactive software and electronic media.
Goals and Objectives for Committee 2008
1. Learn how to be proactive and contact vendors effectively for software submissions while maintaining an objective eye.
2. Learn different criteria for different types of software and how to evaluate them. Stimulate private sector to produce edutainment games, PC-CD Rom, Mac or console games.
3. Gain the initiative to research software or electronic media and press releases to nominate them for consideration.
4. Work as a team of regional liaisons with assignments of regions closest to the committee member's residence.
5. Learn the process of writing, annotating and submitting articles to children's magazines and publications at the end of the selection process to highlight the Notable Software list.
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Without citing any sources, in a May 1 WorldNetDaily "Exclusive Commentary," author Bob Kohn claimed that "evidence suggests" Senator John Kerry is having an affair with a New York Times reporter. Under the headline "Gray Lady goes to bed with Kerry," Kohn wrote, "Evidence suggests that a New York Times reporter covering the Kerry campaign may be sleeping with the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party." The "evidence" that Kohn presented is a laundry list of instances he insisted demonstrate bias on the part of The New York Times or instances from which he inferred that the reporter had special access to Senator Kerry. He all but named the reporter by citing specific passages from articles with her byline; then he cited serial fabricator Jayson Blair as a source for his charge that New York Times reporters trade "favorable" stories for sex. For example, Kohn wrote:
Leaving aside the interesting question of how this female Times reporter learned that Kerry "rarely finishes" watching the movies he started, you just have to wonder what is going on here...
In his book "Burning Down My Masters' House," Jayson Blair described how Times reporters, both male and female, are commonly offered theater tickets, free meals, drinks and sometimes even sex in exchange for favorable mentions in their stories. A large number of journalists at the Times, he says, "have a weak spot for sex."
Do the Democrats have another Bill Clinton running for president?
Bob Kohn is the author of Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted, which is published by the conservative WorldNetDaily press WND Books. Kohn is currently the vice chairman of the board of Borland Software Corp. and chairman of Laugh.com, a comedy record label.
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HANG TIME, Texas –– With the Thunder falling at Denver on Friday night, the Spurs got a little breathing room in the race for the top seed in the Western Conference.
But almost before they could exhale, it was time to gasp in anguish when Tony Parker had to be helped off the court with a sprained left ankle.
"It's a good one, he'll be out a while," said coach Gregg Popovich.
An MRI performed Saturday morning confirmed a Grade 2 sprain and the prognosis is for Parker to miss four weeks.
That timetable would put Parker back in the lineup with about two weeks left in the regular season, enough time it would seem to be at full strength for the start of the playoffs.
But the question is whether the All-Star point guard will return to a team that is still holding onto the top seed and home-court advantage all the way through the West bracket.
Over past three seasons, the Spurs are 7-7 without Parker, but eight of those games were also played without Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan. They are 3-5 while missing all of the Big Three.
In games without Parker, but with at least one of Ginobili and Duncan, Spurs are 4-2 over past three seasons.
According to our good buddy Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News, Duncan is promising that the Spurs will soldier on:
Parker's injury might not be a blow devastating to the Spurs' push to hold on to the top slot in the West against hard-charging Oklahoma City, two games behind in the loss column.
But it certainly doesn't help.
"He's been our leader all year long," said Tim Duncan, who a month earlier nearly to the day limped off the AT&T Center floor through the same tunnel with a sprained knee. "But we've played with all kinds of different people this year. We're going to rally."
But you have to remember that so much has changed over the past two seasons, as Parker has stepped up to be the main cog in the Spurs' scoring machine as well as the quarterback that runs the offense. He is their leading scorer and assist man and had run his string of double-digit point games to 50 before getting injured in the third quarter against the Kings on Friday night.
While so much well-deserved attention has gone to LeBron James, Chris Paul and Kevin Durant in the MVP race, Parker has put up numbers that should have him in consideration, yet somehow he gets overlooked. He has never been voted an All-Star starter and finished out of the running again for the game played on Feb. 17 in Houston.
Consider this quote from Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo that McDonald pulled out of his notebook from last month's Rodeo Trip, referring to Parker: "He's the one they can't afford to lose."
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MOBERLY — The Moberly City Council passed five ordinances Tuesday night in relation to the recent demolition of five vacant, unrepairable homes in the city.
The passing of the ordinances issued a special tax bill, which is already worked into the city budget to pay for the demolitions. Mayor Bob Riley said the city budgets around $100,000 for the demolitions each year.
Riley said this demolition process began about eight years ago when the city strengthened its housing codes. Since then, an average of 20 homes violate this code and are subject to demolition per year.
"A lot of the time, the city tears down the homes that can't be repaired and end up with the property sold back at an auction, or to the neighbors who like having more room," Riley said. "In many cases we wind up splitting the land in half and either selling it or giving it to each of the residents on each side so that the city doesn't have to take care of the mowing."
This way, Riley said it gets put back on the taxpayer roll which is better for the city.
Riley said he hopes the city will soon demolish fewer homes.
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RenegadeMonster wrote:Was on the set with control cab 1808 tonight. The one where I saw it was repeatedly scrolling "Now Arriving At Swapscott" this morning.
It was a Rockport Bond train, but tonight 1808 only displayed "Lowell". Not Rockport. Also, Car 815 was only displaying the "T" logo. I noticed there was a 200s, 600s and a 1600s between the 1808 and 815. I wonder if the 1600s was why the info wasn't being piped through. Though it appears this 1600s had its cab controls disabled. There were no horns on the roof.
BandA wrote:Is there a published specification for this "ASA computer" and the train signal cabling?
18.13.10. Terminals
A. Terminals and connections shall conform to the requirements of IEEE Std 16-2004
BandA wrote:How many pins on that standard copper cable that controls the doors, etc. I'm assuming the digital data is encoded in TCP/IP that is somehow superimposed on some of the older cabling, kinda like when they added ~800MHz internet signals onto cable TV ~400MHz coax.
Can't Google "ASA Computer" and get anything. There is a company with that name. This stuff is needed for ADA compliance everywhere, there should be a Railroad Presidential Conference standardizing it.
RenegadeMonster wrote:Are there any plans to add the electronic displays to the 900s cars before their midlife overhaul?
RenegadeMonster wrote: noticed something odd with ASA recently. Any train with a control cab that is a 1800s and has a 800s car where the Conducted likes to make manual announcements, the auto audio announcements will not fire if the conductor has his key in and the PA prepped and radio for him to talk. I'd imagine this would probably happen from the 1800s as well. The auto message still scrolls on the electronic display however.
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Displays in the 900's may be a secondary priority to getting the cab-active 1600's equipped with the ASA computer to complete the fleetwide installations. Having whole-train remainders without any working ASA is a bigger accessibility issue than having individual cars without the displays, since the audio pumps just fine through the old cars so long as there's an ASA cab car attached. ASA has appeared on a couple of the Old Colony-assigned 1500-series cabs, so that's definitely going to be in the cards for the rest of the cab flats. They did not install displays on those 1500's, but that's not needed for accessibility compliance if there are display-equipped bi-levels somewhere in the consist. So it's doubtful they'll bother installing displays in all the trailer flats.
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Those who set out on a discovery tour of Frankfurt can easily reach many of the sites on foot or by bus and train. Many attractions are not very far from one another in the city centre, as our virtual city tour shows. And with public transport, you can quickly reach further sights such as the Palm Garden and the Zoo. A city tour with the nostalgic tram, the 'Ebbelwei Express' is particularly popular. And culture lovers will find an impressive selection of renowned museums on both banks of the Main.
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Update: Chivas may have a three-week break from MLS play, but the Goats could end up playing twice in the annual Open Cup before resuming their league schedule. The winner of this fourth-round matchup will face the winner of the June 18 match between the Galaxy and Arizona United. That match would be played on June 24 or 25. … Chivas got a measure of satisfaction by tying the Galaxy, 1-1, last week. … Normally, MLS teams at this stage of the tournament opt to play mostly younger players, but the break enables Chivas to utilize its full roster. … Carolina, which advanced with a 2-0 win over the Charlotte Eagles, is an NASL team that defeated Chivas in overtime last year in the fifth round of the tournament.
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I mean, not really, but still! These wonderfully idiosyncratic illustrations, from 1989's Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko, render our robot future in a way that conveys big ideas to children and pure poetry to the rest of us.
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Are you planning on coming to the BP Big Screens this week? It's a perfect way to introduce friends and family to the Royal Opera House and to world-class opera and ballet. Come early to get a good spot and relax into the festival feel.
Preparation is the key; start planning your Big-Screen picnic today. The truly theatrical might even like to get dressed up. We'll have picnic spies in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday for Manon. They'll be out and about on the day taking photos to upload to our website, or you can tweet them to us. The best Big Screen picnic party will win a Royal Opera House goodie bag.
Here's some tips to get you started:
What's on the screen: Kenneth MacMillan's ballet to a score by Massenet, LIVE at 7.30pm on Wednesday 1 June
Picnic suggestions: Baguette and brie for first half (set in Paris), then Mississippi mud pie for the emotionally wrought third act, when Manon is transported to New Orleans. To drink: Bordeaux/Burgundy, absinthe, or just de l'eau.
What to wear: Ladies: anything French, coquettish/decadent and faintly doom-laden (top tip: wear a sparkly bracelet; there's a whole pas de deux centered on one and it's a symbol of Manon's frivolity). Men: romantic hero meets clerical look.
Optional extras: Packet of tissues (not a dry eye in the house).
Leave at home: Tots, this not a ballet for children and there are some surprisingly adult motifs.
Pocket synopsis: Young French coquette spurns her true love for a life of riches. She ends up shaven-headed and transported to America as a convict, dying in the fetid swamps of New Orleans. [More]
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What's on the screen: Puccini's Japanese opera, LIVE at 7.30pm on Monday 4 July
Picnic suggestions: Anything Oriental. Score extra points for Japanese foodstuffs (sushi, noodles or edamame beans). To drink: green tea, or sake.
What to wear: Ladies: Geisha look, plum blossom, colour-blocking in bright shades. Men: Mr Pinkerton - US 19th-century naval man or Bonze: Butterfly's uncle and a Buddhist monk.
Tissues? pack plenty, Butterfly's death is heart-rending
Hum along? Yes, be part of the biggest (and possibly only) opera hum-along the Royal Opera House has ever conducted. They'll be expert Royal Opera House humming coaches on hand.
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What's on the screen? Massenet's operatic version of the famous rags to riches tale, LIVE at 7.30pm on 13 July
Picnic suggestions: Anything dainty, sparkly or romantic. Cucumber sandwiches (without crusts), vol au vents, fairy cakes with fondant icing. To drink: champagne, a perfect fairytale brew.
What to wear: Ladies: soot-stained rags for first act, glass slippers and tiaras for second. Men: full prince-charming look (silk sash is a nice touch).
Suitable for a romantic night out? Yes, this is a romance with a happy ending.
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Spread the coconut evenly onto a baking sheet and toast until lightly golden brown, stirring once, 8 to 10 minutes. Turn off the oven and let the coconut sit in the oven until very dry and crunchy, about 15 minutes longer.
Bring water and sugar to a boil. Stir in the coconut, remove from the heat and let sit for at least 30 minutes and up to 4 hours. Strain the liquid into a clean saucepan, bring to a boil and let cook until the mixture is slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Let cool.
Combine the milks and vanilla bean and seeds in a medium nonreactive saucepan and bring to a simmer over low heat.
Whisk together the yolks, sugar and cornstarch in a large bowl. Slowly whisk the warm milk into the egg mixture then return the mixture to the pot over medium heat and bring to a boil, whisking constantly, until thickened. Scrape the mixture into a bowl and whisk in the rum and vanilla extract. Let cool to room temperature then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold, at least 2 hours.
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Well, it's been a while since I posted anything on the blog, much less kept up with my Resolution Updates.
But I've got good reasons, and they're not just because of laziness. In part, towards the end of the week before last, I got sick with a pretty nasty cold, which kept me off the bike and out of the pool. And then, when I was just starting to feel better, I took off for a brief trip to Costa Rica last Sunday, early in the morning. I didn't return home from Costa Rica until Wednesday, late afternoon, of last week. From then, it was just the business of getting back into the work groove, which always picks up around this time of year.
So, circumstances of illness, followed by overseas travel, coupled with an orientation towards a "break" from the normal routine (after all, last week was our Spring Break week at the university), meant that I fell way off the diet and exercise bandwagon.
I actually wasn't able to (or more exactly, didn't want to) get back into the diet and exercise regimen until yesterday. Needless to say, I was somewhat trepidatious of getting on the scale after more than a week of laxity.
But before I post the results of my latest weigh-in yesterday, I have to let everyone know that on the last day I exercised and weighed in, which was Wednesday, March 7, I weighed in at 170.6 lbs. I still don't consider that as having met my resolution goal for a couple of reasons. First, it still was greater than 170.0 lbs, and my goal is to get to 170.0 lbs. Second, it wasn't independently verified by a neutral party or observer. And third, it was right after a workout and I think the official tally needs to take place some hours after a workout and after a meal and rehydration re-calibrates my weight in a more accurate way.
Even still, I got very close to my goal. But then I got sick, travelled abroad, and just took a longer break than I expected.
Which leads me to yesterday...
After my workout of yesterday, I gingerly got on the scale, and my weight was back up to 176.8 lbs. I have to say that I was expecting worse, especially since the whole time in Costa Rica, I was really indulging in some rich, heavy meals, and wasn't exercising at all.
Which means to say that I've got some more work cut out for me still.
And I can't say that I'm not too unhappy about it, because one of my fears is that once I hit my goal in the proper way, and have it verified, the temptation will be to relax my vigilance on the healthier lifestyle I've been mostly living since January 1. So, the motivation is still present and I am now back on the wagon, so to speak.
I did take a picture yesterday, but I haven't yet uploaded it to my computer off my camera. When I do, I'll post it for some visual evidence of where I am.
So, there you have it.
Until the next update ... healthy eating and regular exercise!


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Up the "Creek" – S1e11, The Carnival Of Cool
Episode 11 (real title: "Double Date") opens with Dawson moping around his room whining to Joey about Jen. He's all confused because she hasn't tried to get together with him since they broke up, so I guess he's unclear on the concept of a breakup. Joey asks what he'll do if Jen asks him to be friends, and he says he's not sure he can be friends with someone he wants to be in a relationship with. Joey gives him exasperated eyes and says, "IT CAN BE DONE."


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Chris Brown Blasts Off Into Outer Space in 'Don't Judge Me' Video
Chris Brown goes into outer space in the special-effects driven video for 'Don't Judge Me,' his yearning ballad from his 'Fortune' album. The blond-haired singer plays an astronaut who's about to embark on a dangerous mission for the "sake of the country."
The clip starts off with Brown walking a lonely road to the launch site as he reflects on his tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend. The video also intercuts with scenes of the singer crooning his heartbreaking lyrics while his boo is being despondent on the couch.
When a reporter, who also happens to be his girlfriend, asks him why he would risk his life on a suicide mission, he responds, "I'm doing a service for my country and my planet. If that means saving the people I love and I care about, then that's what I'll do."
It's then we see Breezy walk into this futuristic spaceship as he prepares for liftoff with tears streaming down his face. Upon entering the galaxy we see Brown having flashbacks of his girlfriend before the spaceship collides with a meteorite.
Directed by Colin Tiley, 'Don't Judge Me' is an emotional ride with some impressive special effects. We think most of Brown's detractors would love to see the crooner in real life fly into orbit and crash into a meteorite. Well, for now, you have this moving video.


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By Sekou Smith, NBA.com
VIDEO: GameTime's crew breaks down what might be next in Lakerland
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Before anyone asks, Phil Jackson is already taken. He's got plenty of work to do in New York with the Knicks.
So the search for Mike D'Antoni's replacement as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers has to begin elsewhere. D'Antoni resigned tonight, ending his bumpy Hollywood ride 20 games below the .500 mark (67-87) and without fulfilling any of the ridiculous expectations that accompanied his arrival.
In fact, the Lakers have been reeling since they (well, Jim Buss) chose D'Antoni over Jackson when Mike Brown was fired five games into the 2012-13 season, a decision that was as curious then as it is now given the disastrous results. The Lakers were believed to be poised for a return to championship-level status when Dwight Howard and Steve Nash joined Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol to form the nucleus of the revamped Lakers two years ago.
It never happened. Injuries and inconsistent play derailed that train before it ever got on the tracks. They scrambled their way into the eighth and final playoff spot at the end of the 2012-13 season, but Bryant suffered a torn Achilles and was unavailable for the postseason (they were swept by the San Antonio Spurs) and Howard bolted for Houston in free agency in July.
Reports that D'Antoni wanted the Lakers to pick up the team option on the fourth year of his contract, after a dreadful 27-55 season no less, surfaced in recent days. The Lakers reportedly refused to pick up the second year of his contract last week, per ESPNLosAngeles.com.
D'Antoni felt he wouldn't have any chance at success without some job security, and you could argue he shouldn't when you consider that he actually survived this season. Sure, there were injuries galore and drama that was beyond D'Antoni's control. Bryant played just six games. Nash played 15. Gasol was in and out of the lineup and unable to find a rhythm or fill the leadership void.
But this Lakers' crew wasn't going far with Bryant and Nash healthy. They had absolutely no shot without those veteran stars leading the way. There was turmoil from the start and some of the most embarrassing moments in franchise history — that 48-point beating from the Los Angeles Clippers still stings — occurred under D'Antoni's watch. The Lakers had the second worst season (.329 winning percentage) in their history and their lowest win total since moving to Los Angeles from Minneapolis.
"Given the circumstances, I don't know that anybody could have done a better job than Mike did the past two seasons," Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said in a statement. "On behalf of the Lakers, we thank Mike for the work ethic, professionalism and positive attitude that he brought to the team every day. We wish him the best of luck."
Other more famous folks with deep Lakers' ties simply wished him good riddance …
Where the Lakers go from here is simple; back to school. College, specifically, to grab Duke legend Mike Krzyzewski. And before you go crazy, hear me out on this one.
With a top-10 Draft pick and plenty of salary cap space to work with this summer, the Lakers have everything working in their favor. And that's why they need to go bold with this next hire. They need a program builder. They need someone to repair the culture and start over with whatever new and improved cast they can put together around Bryant, Nash and whoever else they consider a part of the core.
They've pursued Coach K before, unsuccessfully, of course.
They need to get it right this time around.
We've seen the way Krzyzewski handles himself with NBA players. He's been masterful with USA basketball. The NBA's biggest stars — from Bryant and LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony all the way down the line — not only respect him, they go all-out for him in ways that many NBA types feared they would not when he joined Jerry Colangelo's program.
I'm not saying Krzyzewski is the only choice. No one could blame the Lakers if they go the traditional NBA route and tap a George Karl, Jeff or Stan Van Gundy or even someone with Lakers ties like Byron Scott.
They could even try to lure Kentucky's John Calipari, Michigan State's Tom Izzo or even Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, guys with great relationships with certain NBA players who could be key free agents in the coming seasons.
But the two best men for the job already have pretty good or great ones. The Zen Master is making a mint in New York to fix the Knicks and insists he's done coaching. He's off the list.
Krzyzewski could stay at Duke forever. And he might, if Bryant and the Lakers can't convince the universally respected coach of the U.S. Men's Senior National Team to finally take the leap and give the NBA a shot!


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text: On KCCHIEFS.com there is a section of the site where you can view a live webcam stream of Arrowhead stadium! It's been up on the site for a few years now but I finally deecided to share some photos I took with the cam (there is a "Take snapshot" button). First I'll post a snapshot I took just a few days before the first pre-season game last season when it was around 6am in KC! Feel free to post snapshots you've taken!


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harry Truman once said if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. George W. Bush had one, a Scottish terrier named Barney, and Bush announced on Friday that Barney had died.
"He never discussed politics and was always a faithful friend," Bush said in a statement issued from his home in Dallas.
The dog, more than 12 years old, had been suffering from lymphoma.
Barney was a frequent companion of the president and his wife, Laura, going on frequent walks at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, and was said to have been a "fierce armadillo hunter."
At the White House, he starred in "Barney Cam" videos done by the Bush White House to celebrate the holiday season. At the Camp David presidential retreat, he liked to chase golf balls on the chipping green, said the former president.
"Barney greeted queens, heads of state, and prime ministers. He was always polite and never jumped in their laps," Bush said.
Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Sandra Maler


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Firebug 1.11.3 beta 1Friday, April 12th, 2013
Firebug 1.11.3 beta 1 has been released (archive).
Firebug 1.11.3 beta 1 fixes 15 issues
Firebug 1.11.3 beta 1 is compatible with Firefox 17-22
All users subscribed to AMO beta channel will be automatically updated. See the Development Channel section at the bottom of the page.
One of the problems fixed in this version is related to the page context menu that has been reported broken with Firebug. If you faced the problem try this version and let us know whether it works for you.
Please post feedback in the newsgroup, thanks!
Jan 'Honza' Odvarko


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In the Eastern Hemisphere, the Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, is the most important holiday occasion on the annual calendar. In Orange County, the Lunar New Year celebration, which begins Feb. 10, is being observed throughout the region with considerable excitement and hope for a healthy and prosperous 2013. For those unaware, the holiday is an occasion when red envelopes signifying good luck are often filled with money and presented to loved ones and friends in a symbolic gesture of good faith. Lunar New Year has also become an important occasion for our retail friends in the community, inasmuch as gift-giving is a significant aspect of marking the occasion.
Luxury retailer Tiffany & Co. has long been in the forefront of celebrating the Lunar New Year. This season, two of Tiffany & Co.'s most esteemed designers are presenting unique merchandise for the occasion. Elsa Peretti introduces a brilliant snake necklace to commemorate the Year of the Snake. The necklace has been called "provocative, a natural form in the Peretti style that reflects her unique take on modern design." The snake necklace in 18-karat gold will be on display at Tiffany & Co. South Coast Plaza as the frontispiece for the Lunar New Year collection 2013. Tiffany & Co.'s Paloma Picasso will also unveil her exquisite Olive Leaf design collection in-store at South Coast Plaza for an exclusive showing Feb. 11 through 15 under the supervision of store director Michael Botsko. The spectacular new collection has been "inspired by the cherished symbol of peace and abundance," which, of course, is the olive branch. The public is invited to stop in and take a peek.
Last month, organizers behind the Ocean Institute's annual fundraiser invited VIPs to a menu tasting at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and Spa. The crowd was invited to sample delicacies at a culinary preview that began with passed canapés prepared by Chef Erasmo Rodriguez, representing the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa, along with fabulous hors d'oeuvres created by Chef Josef Lageder of the Balboa Bay Club & Resort. Dinner began with a cream of wild mushroom soup from Chef Frederic Castan of the St. Regis, followed by seared scallops prepared by Montage Laguna Beach Chef Rob Wilson and finally slow braised beef short ribs courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel and Chef Andres Jimenez.
The incredible dinner will be replicated Feb. 23 at the 2013 Ocean Institute Jazz Festival held at the group's headquarters in Dana Point. In addition, there will be two other nights of jazz on the 22nd and 24th, fronted once again by renowned trumpeter Rick Braun and a host of jazz talents, including saxophonist Richard Elliot and guitarist Peter White. Chairing the jazz event is Bob Beaulieu, representing Pacific Western Bank. Since it was launched in 2003, the jazz festival has raised more than $1 million in support of the Ocean Institute and all of its programs aimed at educating the public to become responsible stewards of our precious ocean environment. Ticket prices for the gala dinner begin at $500 per person and for the jazz evenings at $115 per person. To learn more and to make reservations, please go to http://www.oijazzfestival.com or call Eileen Hayden at (949) 496-2274, Ext. 337.
With awards season in full swing, the Newport Beach Public Library Foundation will present "A Night at the Oscars" with Robert Kline. The newly refurbished Port Theater in Corona del Mar will be the setting for the Feb. 20 event featuring the return of producer and director Kline speaking on the nominations for the 2013 Oscar categories. The evening will include a wine, champagne and hors d'oeuvres reception prior to Kline's program, which will be interspersed with film clips from all of the nominated Oscar contenders. Kline, a co-founder of Lifetime Television and former executive vice president at 20th Century Fox, is also credited as the producer of Oliver Stone's acclaimed film, "Heaven & Earth." Tickets to the event are priced at $75 for general admission and $60 for Library Foundation members. To make a reservation, go to http://www.nbplfoundation.org or call (949) 548-2411.
THE CROWD runs Fridays. B.W. Cook is editor of the Bay Window, the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.


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RIPA: Demanding passwords for encrypted data
RIPA has been complained about by many commentators (this site included), mainly because the powers under RIPA have been repeatedly misused.
But the compaints are not just the liberals and the bloggers. Conservatives have complained, former spooks have complained, and there was an announcement that RIPA powers were to be reviewed by the government.
While complaints about the idiots in councils have been going for years, other parts of RIPA, Section 49, have been enacted, deployed, and people arrested and convicted.
Section 49 of RIPA allows police/law enforcement agencies/security services/military to demand access to encrypted data. Section 53 allows people to be convicted if they fail to disclose this information.
Because of the far reaching powers the laws have been considered a threat to civil liberties. While this site normally rallies against such abuses, sadly in this case, the goverment may have a point.
Encryption is easy to do. The phenonmenal tool TrueCrypt provides amazing security, with many major firms using it. The security itself is effectively impenatrable (by currently acknolwedged computering capabilities) but this does not mean that the data cannot be accessed by other methods, e.g. guessing the password, obtaining the password, etc.
In fact this tool is so easy to use that if you can't use it you probably can't use a computer and so don't have anything on a computer to protect.
The security of tools like TrueCrypt, are not like the EFS, in Windows, which is easily defeated. If the password and keys for TrueCrypt are secure then the data is protected from all eyse, the police included. Hence the invention of Section 49.
If a suspected criminal has encrypted data, and does not provide the password, then what should the police do.
Does this secenario require RIPA? (Much of the information below is based on a real case).
Two men moved into an area, where police intelligence showed that they were linked to a peadophile network. They had previous convictions for sexual assualt, ABH, GBH, and arson. One of the men's fingerprints was found on a horrific child abuse video, recovered elsewhere. There was nothing to show he owned it and the defence was they he could have handled it but not known what it was, e.g. at a car boot sale, in passing, at another persons house, etc.
The men were very survelliance aware. Their windows were all covered up, with paper or curtains, and had good security systems installed. They changed their cars regulary, almost monthly. If anybody they did not know was seen in their street they would challenge them, and ask who they were. And they had toys. Lots of toys. Toys in the garden. Toys in the house. They had no children. They also met and associated with convicted peadophiles
These men are nasty people, there convictions alone show this. But they are not, technically, doing anything wrong at the moment.
Should they be put under survellience, to see what else goes on, if anything? Should the police be pro-active or wait until there is a claim of rape by a child? The former would seem the most prudent, and this is what RIPA is for.
What if the police receive more intelligence, prior to an actual assault, strong enough to allow a warrant on the house and the sieze a computer. While searching the computer they find the following:
- Fragments of data showing searches relating to child abuse images
- Use of data wiping tools
- Fragments file names that imply child abuse images
- A true crypt volume
- No actual images of child abuse
At this point the police have no evidence to convict, nothing that can be used. But, if they could access the Truecrypt volume, they may have so much more.
This case is relativel clear cut, but still has moral delimas for some. They have not done anything, so why should they have to hand over information. There is an ingrained right to slience. There is a right to not self convict. If they have to give up their rights to silence, we all have to.
The problem is that the police and councils, have individuals who chose to bend the laws, and push them to extremes, for their own agenda, and not what they were intended for.
The use of RIPA, and section 49, is not going to be wrong in all cases, but unfortunately too often it has been misused by too many people, that there is now a lack of faith in the law(s) and the government.


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Another week means another chapter of our series together with Seeds Model Management, Studio Cherie, Aylin Hadi and Damien Vignaux. We present the next part of our exclusive photo and video series for Highsnobiety, entitled 'In My Boyfriend's Clothes'. The latest faces of Seeds are presented in clothing from Berlin store SOTO. Today we continue the series with Caro. Caro is featured in the shoot wearing Nike, Adam Kimmel, Mismo and more.
Check out here above the photo shoot and here below the behind the scenes video.
Caroline (SeedsManagement) is wearing
Bag – Mismo
T-shirt – Coretex
Shorts – H&M
Shoes – Nike AirMax 1
Turban – Adam Kimmel Pullover
Shot at Studio Chérie (http://studiocherie.net)
Produced by Aylin Hadi and Damien Vignaux
Shot by Damien Vignaux and Nicolas André
Make-up by Aennikin.de
Music : DOP- Kisses (Courtesy of DOP)
Check out the Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 of the series as well.


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Connecticut sees worst West Nile season ever
With 18 human cases, Connecticut has had its worst season ever for West Nile virus. And though the mosquito season is ramping down, experts said it's not over.
Due to this summer's hot, mostly dry weather, it has been a hard year nationwide for West Nile, a mosquito-borne disease that can cause serious illness, and even death.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced there have been nearly 4,000 cases of the illness this year throughout the country, with roughly 1,400 of those occurring in Texas. There were at least 163 deaths nationwide, at least 54 in Texas.
Connecticut got off relatively easy, particularly since there have been no West Nile deaths here this year. But the state still broke its own record for human cases, said Dr. Theodore G. Andreadis, chief medical entomologist for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. The station traps and tests mosquitoes for West Nile virus throughout the season.
There were 17 human cases in both 2002 and 2003, though Andreadis said two of the 2003 cases were in people who acquired the illness out of state.
Stamford was hit hardest, with five West Nile cases occurring in town residents. Of those, only two or three were hospitalized at Stamford Hospital, said Dr. Michael Parry, director of infectious diseases and microbiology at Stamford Hospital. Though the cases were few, particularly in the grand scheme of the hospital's overall caseload, Parry said West Nile patients typically require a lot of resources.
"The impact on the whole hospital census is insignificant, but these patients tend to be quite sick (when they come in)," Parry said. On that level, "this is a bigger impact than we've seen in past years."
After Stamford, Greenwich was next hardest hit, with two human cases. All the other affected towns -- which included Bridgeport, Danbury, Ansonia, Norwalk and Trumbull -- had one case. Of the 18 patients, about 10 were hospitalized.
Dr. Zane Saul, chief of infectious diseases at Bridgeport Hospital, said that to his knowledge, no West Nile patients had been hospitalized there. But, he said, many patients had been tested for the illness and it's been a concern throughout the summer.
Given the high number of cases nationwide, he said, it's not surprising that Connecticut hit an all-time high this year, and theorized that there might have been more cases that went undiagnosed. "About 95 percent these cases go unrecognized," he said.
The good news is that the season seems to be drawing to a close. Andreadis said the number of mosquitoes the station is trapping per day has declined dramatically from the season's peak. Last Thursday, between 300 and 400 mosquitoes were trapped, compared with the several thousand the station was trapping each day earlier in the season.
Though the season won't be over until the first frost hits, Andreadis thinks the end is near. Temperatures are supposed to be cool throughout the weekend, with lows expected to dip into the 40s.
Still, Andreadis said it's not a bad idea to stay somewhat vigilant about mosquitoes for a little longer.
"The risk of contracting the virus now is very, very low -- but it's not zero," he said.
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|By: EVmaker - 09-02-12 11:05 AM
Hmm, I checked this over with gathering herbs and mining ore and I wasn't able to personally reproduce it, both would remount after gathering (don't currently have a skinner available to test that).
Useful Extras doesn't have to have any settings enabled (don't need to have automounting turned on if you don't want to use that), do you happen to have the mount after looting with modifier key down on, or just the mount after gathering?
Also if you happen to have lua errors enabled (and/or have an error mod like bugsack/bug grabber or swatter) does anything come up? Or does any message come up like 'interrupted'?
Creating this bug report here to keep this easier to track.
|By: EVmaker - 09-02-12 11:13 AM
|Also, it'll add a little extra spam while testing, but could you also do /looter debug and then gather, and tell me if it does say "Mountup Ran" after a gather?
|By: kittykatmax - 09-02-12 03:27 PM
I rest UE and Looter, made sure Looter was set to "Mount after Gathering". Made sure "Mount after looting with Modifier" was unchecked (it doesn't tell you what the modifier is or how/when to use the modifier to make it work, so I wouldn't have checked it off in the first place and don't know how to test if that would work.
All I do is mount a flying mount, fly to an herb, right click on the herb to gather (which dismounts me). I have autoloot on. The herb is looted, and my toon is left standing there. No bugs in my bugsack for your addon.
|By: kittykatmax - 09-02-12 03:27 PM
|*reset UE and Looter. lol
|By: EVmaker - 09-02-12 06:24 PM
Sorry that the modifier bit isn't more descriptive, basically if that is enabled then if your holding control/alt/shift when looting and the window is closed then it'll mount up after, if you didn't want to just always mount after.
As to the other bit, did anything happen to come up after gathering after typing /looter debug?
|By: EVmaker - 09-02-12 07:11 PM
Issue is tracked down, now just to figure out what to do with it:
There's two work arounds and a possible change for that.
Workaround #1 is if the blizzard autoloot is off, and Looter is set like above it'll function the same but mount after gather will work.
Workaround #2 is mount with modifier works regardless of blizzard autoloot setting, so if you hold control/alt/shift while gathering it'll mount afterwards.
Possible change is to take the blizzard autoloot check off the mount after gather part of the code. This part I'd personally prefer to keep the same, that way if blizzard autoloot is on then Looter is essentially off, but Looter can be set to autoloot all and thus also have mount gather ability; but on the same token it wouldn't add that much additional code running to just have the mount gather section still run if blizzard autoloot is on.
|By: EVmaker - 09-02-12 07:16 PM
Ok scratch the part about it wouldn't add that much, the part that determines if it's a thing being gathered, or a corpse being looted, is part of the main looting function, so in order to have mount after gather itself work would either mean to still be running that (still have most of looter code running on a gather even with blizzard autoloot on) or to design a different method of determining what's being looted to use if blizzard autoloot is on.
Will wait to see what kittykatmax thinks, but I would prefer not to make those changes if workaround #1 would be ok.
|By: kittykatmax - 09-04-12 07:30 AM
|Turning off autoloot didn't fix it, it just meant I had to manually loot everything AND manually mount after gathering. I deleted Looter and concede defeat. Thanks for trying!
|By: EVmaker - 09-04-12 12:17 PM
|Really sorry I couldn't get that working for you, for now I'll close this ticket but I can open it anytime later if needed.


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Niels Matthijs
Great article.
This is what I wrote some time ago in regard to social platforms and usability:
Usability for me is taking a certain task and making it as simple as humanly possible to perform, without losing any meaning in the process (= essential).
This is what many social platforms failed to see. They reduced interaction to single clicks and posting onliners and in the process they cut out actual communication (like replying with arguments that span more than one single sentence). So yeah, these networks are now very popular and extremely easy in use (you just click around and like everything you see), but they didn't quite become more meaningful in the process.
In that sense I definitely don't agree with Mark Brown, people do take it the wrong way and in the end it's the user that suffers the consequences.


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Missoula City Fireman Injured at Structure Fire Sunday Morning [AUDIO]
A structure fire at 2715 Schilling Sunday morning resulted in an injury to a Missoula city fireman.
Assistant fire chief Jeff Brandt says the fire was reported at about 10 a.m. at the corner of Schilling and Benton. Three city engines a ladder truck, a Battalion chief, and a Missoula Rural fire truck all responded to the blaze at a large automotive shop.
The fire was brought under control within minutes, however, one fireman was injured when he fell off a ladder 15 feet onto a pile of scrap metal. Brandt says the firefighter was knocked unconscious and transported to Missoula's St. Patrick Hospital where he was treated for a laceration and received a CAT-scan. The unnamed fireman is in stable condition, and will be kept overnight for observation.
Brandt says the cause of the fire is still under investigation. He said fire crews were on scene throughout the afternoon mopping up hot spots.
Assistant Missoula City Fire Chief Jeff Brandt