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Smokeout Tips for Cold Turkey Quitters
The Annual Great American Smokeout is again upon us and quitting product advertisements abound. Those marketing an ocean of quick-fix magic quit smoking cures know that almost all successful long-term quitters quit smoking cold turkey. If they want to gain market share they must convince quitters to ignore their natural instincts.
According to the American Cancer Society, 91% of America's 46 million ex-smokers quit entirely on their own. More than 41 million strong, the below cold turkey quit smoking tips reflect lessons taught by successful cold turkey quitters to counselors, health educators and researchers.
1. Law of Addiction - The law of addiction states, "administration of a drug to an addict will cause re-establishment of chemical dependence upon the addictive substance at the old level of use or greater." Yes, just one powerful puff and you'll be faced with again enduring up to 72 hours of nicotine detox. We're not that strong. Adherence to a simple four word restatement of the law of addiction guarantees success to all. No nicotine just one day at a time ..."Never Take Another Puff."
2. Be Honest With Yourself - Nicotine dependency is every bit as real and permanent as alcoholism. Don't play games with yourself. Treating a true addiction as though it were some nasty little habit is a recipe for relapse. There is no such thing as just one puff. It truly is an all or nothing proposition.
3. Enhancing Motivation - Are you having trouble getting started? Is your motivation in need of a boost? Visit WhyQuit.com and meet Bryan, Noni, Brandon, Kim or Sean, or watch one of eighteen short determination fueling movie clips. If you don't have Internet access visit your local library.
4. Education is Power - While at WhyQuit (the source of these tips) read Joel's Library one time from cover to cover. It's a free collection of roughly 100 short quitting articles. It is also available for download in PDF format and makes a wonderful and loving gift.
5. Measuring Victory - Forget about quitting "forever." Like attempting the seemingly impossible task of eating an entire elephant, it's the biggest psychological bite imaginable. Instead, work hard at adopting a more manageable "one day at a time" quitting philosophy for measuring victory. If you insist on seeing success only in terms of quitting forever then on which day will you celebrate?
6. Recovery Phases - When quitting, the amount of nicotine remaining in your bloodstream will be cut by half every two hours. Within 72 hours all nicotine and 90% of the chemicals it breaks down into will have passed from your body. Physical withdrawal peaks by day three and is substantially complete within 10 days to two weeks. Subconscious trigger reconditioning normally peaks during the first week and all but your remote, infrequent or seasonal triggers should be reconditioned within a month. Conscious thoughts of wanting will gradually grow fewer, shorter in duration and generally less intense. Within a few months they'll become the exception not the rule, as you'll gradually start to develop an expectation of going your entire day without wanting to smoke nicotine.
7. Withdrawal Symptoms - Within reason it's fairly safe to blame most of what you'll feel during the first three days on quitting. But after that you need to listen to your body and if concerned give your doctor a call. Don't blame your symptoms on where you're going but on where you've been. See each symptom as a true sign of healing it reflects.
8. Possible Hidden Conditions - Each puff of smoke contained more than 500 different gases and 3,500 different particles. One or more of these 4,000 chemicals may have been masking an underlying hidden health problem such as a thyroid condition (iodine), breathing problems including asthma (bronchiodilators), or even chronic organic depression (nicotine). Your cigarette's chemicals may also have been interacting with medications you were taking and an adjustment may be necessary. Stay alert and if at all concerned immediately contact your physician or pharmacist.
9. Emotional Phases - Chemical dependency upon smoking nicotine is one of the most intense, repetitive and dependable relationships you've likely ever known. It has infected almost every aspect of your life. Be prepared to experience a normal sense of emotional loss when quitting. Expect to travel through and experience six different emotional phases: (1) denial, (2) anger, (3) bargaining, (4) depression, (5) acceptance, and (6) complacency.
10. Quitting Cold Turkey - Did you know that each year more smokers stop smoking cold turkey than by all other methods combined, including e-cigs? Not only is it by far the most productive quitting method, as shown by the above data from a recent study (click image to learn more), it's also the most effective.
11. Zyban - Talk to your doctor about Zyban (bupropion) should you feel the need to slightly diminish early anxieties or have depression concerns. Although its use comes with some risks, including a one in a thousand risk of seizure, they pale in comparison to smoking's risks.
12. NRT - The pharmaceutical industry has been less than honest with smokers regarding their odds of success while using nicotine replacement products (NRT) such as the patch, gum and lozenge. This page shares studies strongly suggesting that toying with pharmaceutical grade nicotine undercuts quitting and is costing lives.
13. Chantix or Champix - As suggested by the above data from the 2018 Weaver study, Pfizer is vastly overstating the real-world worth of its rather expensive pill, which comes with a frightening and long list of potential side-effects. 13. Hypnosis and Acupuncture - A 1998 Cochrane Review of nine different hypnosis quit smoking studies concluded that "we have not shown that hypnotherapy has a greater effect on six month quit rates than other interventions or no treatment." A 2002 Cochrane Review of 22 different acupuncture studies concluded that, "there is no clear evidence that acupuncture, acupressure, laser therapy or electro-stimulation are effective for smoking cessation."
15. Don't Get Intimidated - Don't let the above quitting method study findings intimidate you. Instead use them to gauge just how serious the challenge before you actually is. Quitting is entirely do-able, as evidenced by the fact that here in the U.S. we have more ex-smokers than current smokers. Although quitting isn't easy it is simple, and considering that you have never taken a puff that didn't destroy more of your body's ability to receive and transport life-giving oxygen, and add more cancer causing chemicals to your body, it is worth the effort. There is just one rule: no nicotine today, Never Take Another Puff!
16. Record Your Motivations - Once in the heat of battle, it is normal for your mind to quickly forget many of the reasons that motivated you to quit smoking. Write yourself a loving reminder letter, carry it with you, and read it often. Make it your first line of defense - a motivational tool that you can pull out during moments of challenge. As with achievement in almost all human endeavors, the wind beneath your recovery wings will not be strength or willpower but robust dreams and desires. Keep your dreams vibrant and on center-stage and no circumstance will deprive you of glory.
17. Do Not Skip Meals - Each puff of nicotine was our spoon, releasing stored fats into our bloodstream. It allowed us to skip meals without experiencing wild blood-sugar swing symptoms such as an inability to concentrate or hunger related anxieties. Learn to again properly fuel your body by spreading out your normal daily calorie intake more evenly. It is important not to skip meals during early recovery.
18. Three Days of Natural Juices - Drink plenty of acidic fruit juice the first three days. Cranberry is excellent and a bottle will cost you about the same as a pack of cigarettes. The acidic juices will not only aid in more quickly removing the alkaloid nicotine but will help stabilize blood sugars. Take care beyond three days as juices can be rather fattening.
19. Weight Gain - You'd need to gain at least 75 extra pounds in order to equal the health risks associated with smoking one pack-a-day. Eat vegetables and fruits instead of candies, chips and pastries to help avoid weight gain. Engage in some form of moderate daily exercise if at all concerned about weight gain. Keep in mind that you can expect a substantial increase in overall lung function of up to 30% within just 90 days of quitting. Then, it will aid you in engaging in extended periods of physical activity, in shedding any extra pounds, and in building cardiovascular endurance.
20. Anger/Stress Related Anxieties - Recognize that contrary to popular thinking, smoking nicotine did not relieve stress but only its own absence. Nicotine is an alkaloid. Stress is an acid-producing event capable of quickly neutralizing the body's nicotine reserves. As smokers, we added early withdrawal to every stressful event. You will soon discover an amazing sense of calm during crisis. In handling stress during this temporary period of readjustment called "quitting," practice slow deep breathing while focusing your mind on your favorite object, place or person to the exclusion of other thoughts.
21. Quitting for Others - You cannot quit for others. It must be your gift to you. Quitting for a child, spouse, parent or friend creates a natural sense of deprivation that will ultimately result in relapse. If quitting for another, how will an addict's junkie-mind respond the first time they disappoint us?
22. Attitude - A positive can-do attitude is important. We are what we think. Take pride in each hour of healing and freedom and in each challenge overcome. Celebrate the full and complete victory each reflects. The next few minutes are all that matter and each is entirely do-able. Yes you can!
23. Patience - Years of smoking nicotine conditioned us to be extremely impatient, at least when it comes to our addiction. A deprived nicotine addict could inhale a puff of nicotine and have it arrive and release dopamine in their brain within just 8 seconds. Realize the importance of patience to successful recovery. Baby steps, just one hour, challenge and day at a time and then celebrate the new found patience you just demonstrated.
24. Keeping Cigarettes - Get rid of all cigarettes. Keeping a stash of cigarettes makes as much sense as someone on suicide watch keeping a loaded gun handy just to prove they can. Toying with a 50% chance of depriving yourself of 5,000 sunrises isn't a game. Fully commit to going the distance and seeing what it's like to awaken to new expectations of a nicotine free life.
25. Caffeine/Nicotine Interaction - Amazingly, nicotine somehow doubles the rate by which the body depletes caffeine. Studies have found that your blood-caffeine level will rise to 203% of your normal baseline if no intake reduction is made when quitting. Although not a problem for most light to moderate caffeine users, consider a caffeine intake reduction if troubled by anxieties or if experiencing difficulty relaxing or sleeping (also see Sleep Adjustments).
26. Subconscious Smoking Triggers - You have conditioned your subconscious mind to expect nicotine when encountering certain locations, times, events, people or emotions. Be prepared for each to trigger a brief crave episode. Encountering a trigger cannot trigger relapse unless you take a puff. Take heart, most triggers are reconditioned and extinguished by a single encounter during which the subconscious mind fails to receive the expected result - nicotine.
27. Crave Episodes Less than Three Minutes - In contrast to conscious thought fixation (the "nice juicy steak" type thinking that can last as long as you have the ability to maintain your focus), no subconsciously triggered crave episode will last longer than three minutes.
28. Time Distortion Symptom - A recent study found that nicotine cessation causes serious time distortion. Although no crave episode will last longer than three minutes, to a quitter the minutes can feel like hours. Keep a clock handy to maintain honest perspective.
29. Crave Episode Frequency - The "average" number of crave episodes (each less than three minutes) experienced by the "average" quitter on their most challenging day of recovery is six episodes on day three. That's a total of 18 minutes of challenge on your most challenging day. But what if you're not average? What if you established and must encounter twice as many nicotine-feeding cues as the average quitter? That's 36 minutes of significant challenge. Can you handle 36 minutes of serious anxiety in order to reclaim your mind, health and as much life expectancy as possible? Absolutely! We all can. Be prepared for a small spike in crave episodes on day seven as you celebrate your first full week of freedom from nicotine. Yes, for most of us smoking was part of every celebration. Also stay alert for subtle differences between crave triggers. For example, the Sunday newspaper is much thicker and may have required three cigarettes to read instead of just one.
30. Understanding the Big Crave - The average quitter will be experiencing just 1.4 crave episodes per day by day ten. After that you'll soon begin to experience entire days without encountering a single un-reconditioned subconscious crave trigger. If a later crave episode ever feels far more intense it's likely that it has been some time since your last significant challenge and you've dropped your guard and defenses a bit. It can feel as though you've been sucker punched. If one does occur, see the distance between challenges as the wonderful sign of healing the incident reflects.
31. Crave Coping Techniques - One coping method is to practice slow deep breathing when experiencing a crave episode. Try briefly clearing your mind of all needless chatter by focusing on your favorite person, place or thing. Another popular three minute crave coping exercise is to say your ABCs while associating each letter with your favorite food, person or place. For example, the letter "A" is for grandma's hot apple pie. "B" is for warm buttered biscuits. I think you'll find that you'll never make it to the challenging letter Q.
32. Embracing A Crave - Another coping technique is to mentally reach out and embrace your crave. A crave cannot cut you, burn you, kill you, or make you bleed. Try being brave just once. In your mind, wrap your arms around the crave's anxiety energy and then sense as it slowly fizzles and dies while in your embrace. Yes, another trigger bites the dust and victory is once again yours!
33. Confront Your Crave Triggers - Recognize the fact that everything you did as a smoker you will learn to again comfortably do as an ex-smoker. Meet, greet and defeat your triggers. Don't hide from them. You need not give up anything when quitting except nicotine and everything you did while under the influence of nicotine you'll soon learn to do as well or better as an ex-smoker.
34. Alcohol Use - Be extremely careful with early alcohol use during the first couple of weeks. Using an inhibition diminishing substance and then intentionally surrounding yourself with smokers while still engaged in early withdrawal is a recipe for relapse. Get your quitting feet under you first. If you do use alcohol, once ready to challenge your drinking triggers consider breaking the challenge down into manageable trigger segments. Try drinking at home first without smokers around, go out with smokers but refrain from drinking, or consider spacing your drinks further apart, or drinking water or juice between drinks. Have an escape plan and a backup, and be fully prepared to use them both. Study evidence recommends that if you are chemically dependent upon alcohol that your greatest odds of success will be in breaking free from both smoking and alcohol at the same time.
35. Support - Ongoing motivational support will significantly enhance your recovery outlook but don't expect family or friends who have never been chemically dependent themselves to have any appreciation of your challenges or the time required to achieve substantial comfort. It simply isn't fair to them or you. Find an ex-smoker and ask them if they'd mind being your mentor for the next 90 days or go online and Google "Quit Smoking Support Groups".
36. No Legitimate Excuse for Relapse - Recognize that smoking nicotine cannot solve any crisis. Fully accept the fact that there is absolutely no legitimate excuse for relapse, including an auto accident, financial crisis, the end of a relationship, job loss, a terrorist attack, a hurricane, the birth of a baby, or the eventual inevitable death of those we love most. Picture yourself not smoking through each and every step needed to overcome the most difficult challenge your mind can possibly imagine.
37. Conscious Thought Fixation - Unlike a less than three-minute subconscious crave episode, we can consciously fixate on any thought of wanting to smoke for as long as we're able to maintain our concentration. Don't try to run or hide from thoughts of wanting but instead place the thought under honest light. Flavor? Are there any taste buds inside your lungs? Just one puff? For us nicotine addicts, one is too many and a thousand never enough. Treat nicotine dependency recovery as if it were no different than alcoholism. Don't debate with yourself about wanting "a" cigarette. Instead, ask yourself how you'd feel about going back to your old level of consumption or greater.
38. Reward Yourself - Consider putting aside the money that you would have spent buying cigarettes and treat yourself to something you really want after a week or a month. Save for a year and go on a vacation. Even if unable to save, reward yourself by quickly climbing from that deep smoker's rut and spending time in places where you couldn't smoke, such as movies, libraries and no smoking sections of restaurants, by engaging in activities lasting longer than an hour, and by ever so slightly pushing your normal limits of physical endurance in order to sample the amazing healing within.
39. Fully Commit To Going the Distance - Don't be afraid to tell people around you that you have quit smoking. Fully commit to your recovery while taking pride in each and every hour and day of healing and freedom from nicotine, and each challenge overcome. Shed your fears of success.
40. Avoid All Crutches - A crutch is any form of quitting reliance that you lean upon so heavily in supporting your quit (yes, a noun) that if quickly removed would likely result in relapse. Do not lean heavily upon a quitting buddy who quits at the same time as you, as their odds of successfully quitting for one year are relatively small. Instead ask an ex-smoker or never-smoker for support, or visit a free online support forum such as WhyQuit.com's Freedom from Tobacco.
41. The Smoking Dream - Be prepared for an extremely vivid smoking dream as tobacco odors released by horizontal healing lungs are swept up bronchial tubes by rapidly healing cilia and come in contact with a vastly enhanced sense of smell. See it as the wonderful sign of healing it reflects and nothing more. It has no profound meaning beyond healing.
42. See Marketing as Bait - Your quitting means thousands of dollars in lost profits to the tobacco industry. They do not want to lose you. See store tobacco advertising and the hundreds of neatly aligned packs and cartons for what they truly reflect - bait. Behind the pretty colored boxes and among more than 600 flavor additives is hidden what many dependency experts now consider earth's most captivating chemical.
43. It's Never Too Late - Regardless of how long you've smoked, how old you are, or how badly you've damaged your body, it's never too late to arrest your dependency, become its master, and commence the most intense period of healing that your mind and body have likely ever known.
44. Study Smokers Closely - They are not smoking nicotine to tease you. They do so because they must, in order to replenish a constantly falling blood-serum nicotine level that declines by one-half every two hours . Most nicotine is smoked while on autopilot. What cue triggered the public feeding you're now witnessing? Watch acid-producing events such as stress or alcohol quickly neutralize their body's nicotine reserves. Witness their endless mandatory cycle of replenishment.
45. Thinking vs. Wanting - There is a major distinction between thinking about smoking and wanting to smoke. Don't confuse the two. After years of smoking you should expect to notice (especially in movies) and smell smokers but it doesn't necessarily mean that you want to smoke. As for thoughts of wanting, with each passing day they'll gradually grow shorter in duration, generally less intense and a bit further apart. Eventually they'll grow so infrequent that when one arrives it will bring a smile to your face as it will be your only remaining reminder of the amazing journey you once made.
46. Non-Smoker or Ex-Smoker - What should you call yourself? Although it's normal to want to be a non-smoker there is a major distinction between a never-smoker and an ex-smoker. Only the ex-smoker can grow complacent, use nicotine and relapse.
47. Complacency - Don't allow complacency to destroy your healing and glory. The ingredients for relapse are a failing memory of why we quit and of the early challenges, rewriting the law of addiction to exempt or exclude ourselves, and an excuse such as stress, celebration, illness, finances, war, death, or even a cigar at the birth of a baby.
48. Relapse Prevention - Remember that there are only two good reasons to take a puff once you quit. You decide you want to go back to your old level of consumption until smoking cripples and then kills you, or, you decide you really enjoy withdrawal and you want to make it last forever. As long as neither of these options appeals to you - no nicotine just one day at a time ... Never Take Another Puff!
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CTG announces special Henry Award categories for 2011
The Colorado Theatre Guild has announced the categories for this year's "special" Henry Awards: Outstanding children's production (by youth performers), special achievement in fight direction and outstanding regional theater.
These are self-nominated awards. Meaning you gotta be in it to win it. In other words: Don't be shy.
Here is the nomination procedure, as provided by CTG president T David Rutherford:
In the form of a short essay (300 words max) describe the nominee and project and describe your own qualifications in this area of expertise.
The nominated project or person must have affected a show or shows that are eligible for 2011 Henry Awards. In other words, that they are associated with organizational members of the guild in good standing.
Email your application to firstname.lastname@example.com no later than Friday, June, 17.
A CTG representative may contact you for more information.
The Colorado Theatre Guild Board of Directors will determine winners in each category by vote.
Judging Criteria:
Outstanding performance of a children's production: This year's award will go to the outstanding performance of a children's production by a company featuring youth/student actors performing. This category needs to have a letter not only from the producer, but also a letter from someone else involved in the production, such as a parent, actor or other participant.
Special achievement in fight direction: This category for a live theater production is rarely recognized. We are looking for nominations of an individual who directed the most outstanding display of staged violence during the past year.
Regional theater: This award represents all of the outstanding work being done in Colorado outside of the seven SCFD counties. Nominators should describe the company's history, this year's achievements and plans for the near future.
If you have questions (like I do, such as, "Can a regional theater that's already won the award win it again?"), email them to email@example.com
CTG member organizations:
The CTG web site has a list of current member organizations, but I'm just guessing it's not complete, so if you have questions about, say, who is eligible for "outstanding regional theater company," email firstname.lastname@example.com and ask.
The Henry Awards will be presented July 18 at the Stage Theatre (the big one) at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Happy nominating!

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Chinese Official Questioned About Al Jazeera Reporter's Expulsion — Al Jazeera English announced Tuesday that its Beijing correspondent Melissa Chan did not have her visa renewed. That is in effect, an expulsion from China. The following is a transcript of some of the questions and answers …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk: Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Is this a definition of inscrutability?
Isaac Stone Fish / FP Passport: Why China expelled Al Jazeera
Didi Kirsten Tatlow / IHT Rendezvous: Amid the Media Crush, China Crushes Back
Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog: China Expels a Correspondent


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This time we said that we would talk about extracting the parameters from the query string and rendering the table. The string (srfi-13) and character set (srfi-14) SRFIs make it very easy to parse the query string.
(string-tokenize *query-string* (char-set-complement (char-set #\= #\&)))
We are not quite ready to talk about passing data from one page to another so we won't discuss this any further until next time. How about rendering the table? Concatenating strings is messy and error-prone. We need some helper functions. e.g. let's say there was a function tag that took a tag name, some attributes and content and formatted it into HTML. How would we want that to look? Maybe something like this?
(tag 'br) -->
 (tag 'a '(href "www.google.com") "google") --> google (tag 'tr '() (tag 'td '() "hello")) --> "
hello
"
First of all, we need something to convert attributes into a string. Perhaps we might want multiple attributes or an attribute may want to concatenate a number of elements together:
(list 'href "data=" data "&xyz=" xyz)
(define (attributes->string attributes) (if (pair? attributes) (let ((h (car attributes)) (t (cdr attributes))) (if (pair? h) (string-join (map attributes->string attributes) " ") (string-append (symbol->string h) "=" (qstr (string-concatenate t))))) ""))
A little helper function prefixes the attributes with a space if they result in a non-empty string.
(define (prefix-space s) (if (and (string? s) (> (string-length s) 0)) (string-append " " s) ""))
We may not want to pass all of the parameters in so only the tag name is compulsory. Everything else is passed into args as a list. We then extract the appropriate variables parameters if there are any.
(define (tag name . args) (let* ((s-name (symbol->string name)) (args-len (length args)) (s-attributes (if (>= args-len 1) (attributes->string (first args)) "")) (s-content (if (>= args-len 2) (string-concatenate (cdr args)) "")) (content-length (string-length s-content))) (string-append "<" s-name (prefix-space s-attributes) (if (> content-length 0) (string-append ">" s-content "</" s-name ">") "/>"))))
srfi-13 provides some convenience functions for concatenating lists of strings and joining strings together.
I briefly thought about providing a nicer interface with two functions providing a tag interface without attributes and with attributes respectively and delegating to a similar function to the one above.
(define (tag name . args) ...) (define (tag-attribs name . args) ...)
Alternatively the keyword library can be used to make a nicer interface:
(require (lib "kw.ss")) (define/kw (tag/kw tag-name #:key attributes (content "")) (tag tag-name attributes content))
This would then be called like this:
(print-ln (tag/kw 'x #:attributes '(a "b"))) (print-ln (tag/kw 'td #:content "hi"))
Now that we have a tag function, we can use it to render a table. A basic table is straight-forward enough. We map a render row function across each table row, joining the result with string-join. The render row maps a function that surrounds each element with  … 	 string-concatenates that, and surrounds that with
 …
. We want to alternate different classes to each row and closures are great for this. We provide a function that returns a closure that returns a different id each call.
(define (id-generator ids) (let ((i -1) (ids (list->vector ids)) (len (length ids))) (lambda () (set! i (+ i 1)) (vector-ref ids (remainder i len)))))
We can the use this generator to pass a different id to the row renderer for each row in the table.
(define (render-table-row row . tr-class) (let ((tr-attribs (if (null? tr-class) '() (list 'class (car tr-class))))) (tag 'tr tr-attribs (string-concatenate (map (lambda (e) (tag 'td '() e)) row))))) (define (render-table table . ids) (let ((columns (table-columns table)) (data (table-data table)) (f-row (if (null? ids) render-table-row (let ((f (id-generator (map symbol->string (car ids))))) (lambda (e) (render-table-row e (f))))))) (tag 'table '() (string-join (map f-row data) "\n"))))
And here is a little test function:
(print-ln (render-table (make-table '("a" "b" "c") '(("1" "2" "3") ("4" "5" "6") ("7" "8" "9"))) '(id0 id1)))
I'm not really happy with the interface yet so maybe I'll look at fixing that next time along with passing data from one page to the next and sorting based on the columns.
Postscript: Danny Yoo mentioned an xml library I need to look into to see if it will replace (tag …) and related functions. The uri-codec library replaces a lot of the code from the earlier article.
(define *encodings-list* '((%20 " ") (+a "&") (+e "=") (+p "+") (+q "\"") (+r "\r\n"))) (define *hash* (make-hash-table 'equal)) (for-each (lambda (e) (let ((k (symbol->string (car e))) (v (second e))) (hash-table-put! *hash* k v) (hash-table-put! *hash* v k))) *encodings-list*) (define (encode-chars regex s) (pregexp-replace* regex s (lambda (k) (hash-table-get *hash* k))))
The data-encode and data-decode functions also become simpler as they now use the uri-encode and uri-decode functions.
(define (data-encode data) (let ((i (open-input-string data)) (o (open-output-bytes))) (deflate i o) (let ((r (base64-encode (get-output-bytes o)))) (uri-encode (bytes->string/utf-8 (subbytes r 0 (- (bytes-length r) 2))))))) (define (data-decode data) (let ((i (open-input-bytes (base64-decode (string->bytes/utf-8 (uri-decode data))))) (o (open-output-string))) (inflate i o) (get-output-string o)))


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It is Easter, and I have been reading Matthew's Gospel.
My eye was particularly drawn to chapter 24, verse 28: "Wherever there is a dead body, the eagles will gather" (Good News Bible, adapted*) or, in the resounding words of the excellent King James "Authorised" version, "Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together".
* I was forced to adapt the Good News version because, for some unaccountable reason, the translators have chosen to render hoi aetoi as "vultures". But the vulture has its own Greek name: gups. The aetos was most definitely the eagle. Perhaps the Good News folk thought that only vultures would gather, particularly where a carcass was to be found. So are they right? Did the Gospel writer get it wrong?
It might be more interesting to ask: what is this gathering of eagles, and what is the carcass? As a Roman emperor, I immediately thought of imperial legions and their eagles (aquilae). Did Matthew (writing towards the end of the first century AD) think the same? And is the corpse then the destruction which habitually followed them? In short, is Matthew describing the apocalyptic last battle of Rome?
I think that's more likely than a bunch of vultures picking at a carcass.


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The modern commercial mower is an awesome beast. The things it can do, the power it has, the technology that goes into it are truly remarkable. You probably own several of them. As you know, this much mowing "firepower" doesn't come cheap. That's why it's important to manage these costly assets just as carefully as you manage every other aspect of your business, from labor to overhead.
Think of yourself as an admiral. A good one knows how many ships he has and what they're equipped to do. A great one uses the right vessel in the right way, to maximize its potential. You should manage your fleet of mowers the same way.
Size matters
Bigger isn't always better. It might seem logical to send a big mower to every job. After all, the bigger the cutting deck, the faster things go, right? That's not always true. You have to look at what you're doing and where. Let's tweak an old saying, and vow not to send a man to do a boy's job. Don't send a 72-inch mower to do a task a 36-inch could accomplish just as well, if not faster.
Let's consider how they do it at ISS Grounds Control, the landscape division of The ISS Group, an international company. "If we're bidding on a commercial property, there are different mowing rates, depending on how many square feet need to be mowed," said Gene Petrini, director of operations for the Phoenix, Arizona branch. "It all goes into my computer. That determines whether we're going to be using a 21-inch push mower, or a 72-inch rider. If the turf is wide open and it's like an acre or so, obviously we're going to want to put a 60- or 72-inch mower on that. We want to get as much production as we can in as short a time as possible."
Obstacles are another factor. "If you have a turf area with trees you have to go around, that's going to negate your using a bigger mower. You'll have to use something a bit smaller for agility, especially if there is a density of trees in a specific area. If you have things sticking out that are going to clip the trees as you go by them, we'll use a 21-inch. It's much easier to use around a tree than a rider."
Slopes are another place where you can't use just any size mower. "You have to be careful what kind of mowers you use on slopes, especially if there's water at the bottom of them," continued Petrini. ISS doesn't allow any of their workers to use riding mowers on slopes, due to safety concerns. "We've heard of incidents in the past—not with us, but at other companies—where mowers have tipped or rolled over on people while they're trying to mow slopes near lakes, streams, or retention ponds. The sides of the embankments can be slick. We have all our guys use 21-inch push mowers in those circumstances."
Before you take on a new client, you or a trusted supervisor should carefully inspect the jobsite. Assess what size mower will do the job in the fastest and most efficient way. No sense dispatching a crew to a job with a machine that won't even fit through the gate.
A large-decked mower is designed to cut large, open, grassy areas, not typical residential yards. Save that big mower for those jobs. It will do them faster and more efficiently.
If your business is mostly residential, then you probably don't need one of those massive mowers. The time wasted in maneuvering that behemoth around tight spaces, curbs, flower beds and so forth, even if it's a zero-turn mower, will override any time saved by cutting wider swaths.
Don't swat a fly with a steamroller. It just doesn't make common sense.
Take care of them
We all know that our cars, and marriages, last longer if we take care of them. The same is true of our power equipment. A little TLC goes a long way. A good commercial mower should give you years of solid service, but you can shorten that time considerably by not changing the oil or air filters regularly or putting off other manufacturer-recommended maintenance. Don't neglect this important area. Cutting corners will only come back to bite you later.
Keep mower blades sharp and clean. Dull blades and decks gummed up with thatch decrease productivity, too.
Walking, standing, or sitting?
Whether you purchase walk-behind, stand-on or riding mowers will depend on a number of factors. If you're mowing mainly large commercial sites with multiple acres, you should take the fatigue factor into account. Someone cutting big areas of grass all day standing or walking is going to be very tired by day's end. He's going to slow down, and that'll affect how many jobs he can finish.
Many contractors like to keep all their power equipment in the same brand family, mowers included. This makes things simpler in a number of ways. Attachments can be moved from one machine to another. Maintenance is simpler. Parts may be interchangeable and can often be cannibalized. Cultivating a relationship with a brand dealer can lead to substantial discounts and prompt service, putting your company at the head of the line when there's a problem.
One feature you might want to consider is an independent suspension. On a mower with a fixed frame, the operator has to slow down for dips and bumps in the terrain. Not having to do this obviously makes things go faster. That could translate to more jobs getting completed per day and per week, well offsetting the added expense.
Don't forget about maintenance. Are mission-critical areas easy to get to? How easy is it to change the belts, oil, air filters, blades? Will the blades be easy to sharpen? If your operation is big enough to have a maintenance supervisor, bring him along when you're checking out new models. Keep in mind that the easier maintenance is to do, the more often it'll get done. That's just human nature.
Another thing to consider is which attachments are available. There's an attachment for virtually every job a landscape maintenance contractor does. There are dethatchers, catchers, brooms, leaf blowers, sulkies, vacuum collection systems and more. Some are made by the mower manufacturers for their specific models, and some are aftermarket attachments made by other companies.
However, like options on a new car, you have to decide what you need and don't need. This may affect which mower you choose. Say, for instance, one mower you're considering has an optional snow blower attachment. Great, but you're in Florida. Perhaps another make or brand would work better for you at a lower price point. Conversely, if you're in Wisconsin, that snow blower will have that mower making money for you year 'round.
And then there's the fuel issue. The bigger the engine, the more gas it gulps. In many parts of the country, the higher cost of fuel has outstripped labor as the biggest expense for landscape maintenance companies. Ask what kind of mileage per gallon you can expect. You might want to go with a diesel- or propane-powered model, depending on your local situation.
Some parts of the country restrict the use of gas-powered landscape equipment to certain hours or days of the week. In that case, having some mowers that run on propane might be a good idea.
Lastly, don't buy too inexpensive a mower. Stick with the major commercial brands and buy quality. A flimsier mower won't be able to stand up to the hours you'll be running it. And "cheaping out" will cost you far more in repairs and downtime than you ever saved on the purchase price. Your livelihood depends on this tool. Don't you want the best?
The next thing to keep in mind is scheduling. There's an art to this. You want to cut down on the number of crosstown trips a crew has to make in a single day. Remember, you're paying for that travel time and gas. Schedule jobs on the same side of town for the same day. Look at a map and plot the most efficient route. Don't be afraid to change routing schedules to accommodate new clients. Remember, there is plenty of software to help you in your scheduling. Most people don't care what day their lawn gets mowed as long as it gets mowed regularly.
A good admiral knows his men, too. Without them, the most expensive mower in the world is worthless. Watch your crews at work and learn what they're capable of. This will help you know whom to deploy where and with what tools. It will also help you know how big a crew to send to each job, so you don't send too many people or too few.
Knowing which mower to use where isn't rocket science. However, the attention you pay to this area could rocket your maintenance business to either the top or the bottom of the heap. Which way would you rather go?


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24 Jul 2017
Next week (Monday 31 July – Friday 4 August) is Education Week, a statewide annual event to celebrate public education in NSW.
The week highlights the achievements of public education and local schools, putting the spotlight on our students, our educators and the communities that support them.
This year's theme is I Learn, We Learn. It is a celebration of the commitment of the NSW Department of Education to ensuring that our students are at the heart of learning and that all our schools improve every year.
Education Week is also a time for parents, carers, grandparents and community members to connect with their children's school communities and join in celebrating their achievements. Many schools host special events during Education Week.
Education Week will be launched on Monday 31 July at Glenmore Park High School and Tamworth High School from 10am – 11am. You can be part of the launch by watching the livestream via YouTube.


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Regents give unanimous support to FHSU's revised Master Plan
09/20/13 ks local
The Kansas Board of Regents gave unanimous approval during its monthly two-day meeting this week to a new Master Plan submitted by Fort Hays State University.
The plan will help FHSU accommodate its continuing growth in enrollment and includes new space for faculty offices and student housing while retaining the distinct appearance of the campus.
"A lot of hard work took place on campus last year to develop this revised plan," said Dr. Edward H. Hammond, FHSU president. "Faculty, staff and students provided input."
The previous Master Plan was created more than 20 years ago, and it included a designated space for just one more building.
"It was gratifying to see the regents embrace a product that resulted from so much effort, and to see them approve it enthusiastically and unanimously," the president said. "The new Master Plan positions Fort Hays State for another successful 25 years."
FHSU plans to build and improve upon one of its primary assets: a quintessential college campus of historic limestone buildings set within a tree-covered landscape unique to the central plains setting. The architectural firm of Gould Evans began work on the update in June 2012 and made numerous trips to Hays to gather information.
The revised Master Plan considers five distinct areas of the FHSU campus: the Quad, the South Academic Precinct, the West Academic Precinct, the West Campus and the South Residential Precinct. Each has unique qualities to feature and a role to play in the unification of the overall campus.
Highlights include:
On the Quad, Davis Hall is out of place with its low-slung, mid-century elementary school appearance and is recommended for replacement with a new academic building and future expansion of the Memorial Union. Rarick Hall is in need of interior renovations. The Old Power Plant is recommended for renovation and use as an academic building or art gallery.
Over the years the academic center of campus has expanded southward across South Campus Drive to include the South Academic Precinct. To improve pedestrian safety and to better connect the academic buildings in the South Precinct to the Quad, South Campus Drive between College and Lyman Drive is recommended for closure and replacement with a pedestrian-only mall. Construction of the new Center for Networked Learning will allow removal of the Center for Media Studies, which was the old Heather Hall.
The facilities services complex and the President's Residence are located west of the Quad in the West Academic Precinct. Both may eventually be relocated to allow a better use of this centrally located area of campus. Removal of the facilities complex would allow for expansion of the parking areas west of the Memorial Union.
The West Campus, with a main entrance onto Gustad Drive from the Highway 183 Bypass, includes Gross Coliseum, Cunningham Hall and the more recently constructed Robbins Center. The 60 acres north of Gustad Drive have been identified as the site for new student housing. It will also accommodate future housing beyond the initial 400-bed community. Other recommended improvements include an addition to Cunningham Hall and a site for a new childcare facility, relocating the Tiger Tots facility from Rarick Hall.
The South Residential Precinct is already well established as a residential precinct, with Custer Hall, McMindes Hall, Stadium Place, Wooster Place, the new Agnew Hall and the new Heather HallallHall. A future residence hall is recommended on the current Wiest site to take advantage of the dining capacity available in the McMindes dining facility.
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Amethyst Inn
Victoria, BC, Canada
Breakfast at The Amethyst Inn
What's cooking at Amethyst Inn Victoria B&B?
Start your day with a steaming cup of freshly grounded coffee or choose from our wide selection of herbals teas in the parlour.
Then, proceed into the dinning room to enjoy a three course continental hotel breakfast enhanced by fine china and silver. Be part of the conversation or sit privately at one of the many tables.
All our dishes are prepared by our award winning hostess, using organic, farm fresh, and seasonal produce when available. It is served in our elegant dinning room, and tables are set with linen, fine china and crystal.
In short, breakfast at the Amethyst Inn is an experience in itself!
Victoria hotel breakfast Menus
Coffee or Herbal Tea
Orange Juice, Cranberry Juice, Apple Cider, Milk
An assortment of freshly cut fruit, topped with yogurt and cereal
Homemade Blueberry Muffins
Homemade Cheese of Raisin Scones
Blueberry or Raspberry Danishes
Corn Pancakes served with smoked salmon,
sour cream and onions
Creamy scrambled eggs with a choice of
back bacon or sausages and pan seared potatoes
Eggs Benedict on English muffin and back bacon with
hollandaise sauce and pan seared potatoes
Create your own omelet! Choose from an assortment of freshly cut peppers,
mushrooms, and ham, served with a side of sausages or back bacon
* Dietary Needs: Please let us know if you have any dietary needs (vegetarian breakfast, lactose intolerant) and we will accommodate your special needs.


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 19
This article appeared on WorldNetDaily.com on Thursday, April 11, 2002.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson sought to reassure a nervous public that he had quality people working in his White House, he turned to the agency that had established the gold standard in personnel screening. He asked J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, to send FBI special agents over to help screen White House employees.
In 1964, Johnson's chief of staff, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a public men's bathroom while engaged in a sexual liaison with a total stranger. It was not his first arrest. President Johnson demanded to know if there were others working in his White House who might embarrass the administration by infamous or outrageous conduct.
Jenkins was no spy. His conduct, while troublesome and shameful, was not devastating to national security, but it could have been if hostile agents of a foreign government learned of his weakness for seeking sex with other men in public bathrooms. Such odd sexual behavior will always serve as a tool to blackmail a high-level White House official who would, understandably, want to keep such grotesque activities secret.
The nation's mind was set at ease after the FBI's system of personnel screening was adopted, and for 30 years, until the arrival of Bill Clinton, the security system at the White House fulfilled its mission.
Unknown to the White House, or apparently any oversight committee tasked with watching agencies like the FBI, a steady erosion of the FBI's own personnel screening and security system was well underway. Evidently, nobody was watching the "watchers."
In 1993, when FBI street agents like me tried to get the attention of FBI managers about the breakdown of security procedures at the Clinton White House, we were soundly rebuffed. I was puzzled as to why FBI managers at the field office level and at FBI Headquarters were not more concerned. After all, the FBI has a responsibility to protect national security it's one of its primary missions.
In addition, as the lead agency in the screening of all the president's high-level cabinet appointees, federal judges, including Supreme Court Justices and members of boards assembled to investigate and access the nation's most important work requiring high-level security clearances the FBI was a full partner, not just a concerned bystander, in the process of screening White House employees.
But the FBI was never an enthusiastic partner with the Secret Service and the White House Counsel's office in this very important work. People in the FBI made no effort to conceal their hatred and disgust for screening positions. Now, because of the Webster Report just released, we know that FBI management had little interest in finding and removing troubled employees from its own ranks.
I was well aware of the poor attitudes expressed by the average FBI manager relative to the "dreaded" applicant work. Agents who were sent to applicant assignments were considered victims of a cruel fate or lesser agents, or were suspected of poor performance in other FBI assignments. Ironically, thoughtless or clueless top-level FBI managers would often use applicant squads as "dumping grounds" for misbehaving agents. It was well-known that personnel security received no respect.
Of course, those who took personnel screening seriously strongly objected. But upper management ignored our concerns. If we persisted, complaining that we didn't want the offices' "problem agents" dumped on us, we would be punished for rocking the boat.
This remarkable attitude, so terribly destructive to the quality of the FBI's own working force, was a direct result of high-level FBI management attitudes. Once, attending a reception at FBI Headquarters for a manager who had finally "escaped" the applicant units for more "worthwhile" work, the FBI assistant director turned to me and said, "Aldrich, when are you going to get wise and get out of this applicant business? Only somebody remarkably stupid would try to stay in this miserable line of work."
But FBI agents like me who chose to take these assignments saw benefits others could not see. For example, I would no longer be forced to deal with lousy and dishonest defense attorneys, arrogant federal judges and endless waves of criminals and their victims. I'd had a 20-year career of that, and although I was good at it, I was tired of it.
I also joined those who had an understanding of the importance of screening presidential appointments. Working at the White House was an assignment that offered a chance to finish my career around semi-normal people! I mean, how normal are politicians? At least they were more normal than the folks I previously associated with!
That is, until Bill Clinton and his gang came to town.
Nevertheless, FBI agents like me were greeted with suspicion by agents who believed kicking in doors and arresting felons was the only worthwhile work of an FBI agent.
My partner at the White House was an accomplished FBI agent in his own right and a Vietnam veteran. It was his lifelong dream to catch a real spy, and that is why he wanted to work at the White House. He wanted to be the first FBI agent to catch a spy working for a president. Apparently, I was one of a few at the FBI who thought that was a great idea.
How sad that my partner's dream was not appreciated by FBI managers. They could have used a dozen like him over at FBI Headquarters. Maybe he, who also was made to suffer for taking his job so seriously, would have caught Richard Hanssen.
The FBI can follow all the Webster Commission recommendations, establish new rules, pass new laws and warn agents daily, but until FBI management is forced to change their awful attitude about "applicant" work, they won't prevent another Richard Hanssen.


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Since fall of 2007, a total of more than 1,500 Yellowstone National Park bison have been killed while emigrating near or beyond park boundaries-almost all of them over a period of only eight weeks. These animals are the most recent victims of a controversial management plan implemented in 2000 that has since caused the deaths of over 3,500 bison. Officials claim the bison must be killed to prevent the transmission of the disease brucellosis to cattle, even though there has never been a confirmed case of transmission from bison to cattle under natural conditions.
The majority of bison killed this winter were captured by the National Park Service (NPS) inside the park's northern boundary, in an effort to prevent them from accessing lands owned by the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT). CUT received $13 million in tax dollars in 1999 as part of a land deal to remove cattle, while providing park wildlife, including bison, increased access to its lands. However, cattle still graze on church lands and bison continue to be killed. Now, under a new controversial deal, CUT may be given additional millions of dollars to remove cattle and allow a small number of bison to traverse its land in fenced corridors to access public lands while in the crosshairs of hunters.
Meanwhile, population numbers are plummeting. This year's cull has already removed more than a third of Yellowstone's bison. Hoping for immediate action, AWI has joined with several animal protection, conservation and tribal organizations to demand that the NPS and the state of Montana stop the killing-and instead permanently protect enough bison to ensure the genetic health of their populations in the park. On April 10, we submitted an emergency rulemaking petition to the Department of the Interior asking that federal officials halt the slaughter of the migrating bison. In a separate action, Buffalo Field Campaign and other groups asked Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and state and federal agency officials to discontinue bison captures on Horse Butte, an area west of the park.
In early April, the Government Accountability Office issued a report strongly criticizing the current bison management plan. Though the plan was enacted eight years ago with the intent of increasing tolerance for bison outside the park, it is currently stalled. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) have criticized the bison plan as "plagued by deficiencies" and "severely limited" in its ability to protect these animals.
You can make a difference:
Please write or call the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park to encourage the responsible, humane management of bison. Tell her that the NPS has a mandate to protect bison, and that it must withdraw from the current bison management plan and work with other agencies to provide bison access to protected habitat outside of Yellowstone.
Ms. Suzanne Lewis, Superintendent
Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 167, Mammoth, WY 82190
Telephone: (307) 344-2002;
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Taiwan will launch oil exploration efforts in waters off Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) next year, in a move that is likely to raise tensions with other claimants to a series of islets in the South China Sea.
During a meeting at the legislature in Taipei yesterday, Bureau of Energy officials confirmed that the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Bureau of Mines, in cooperation with CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油), would send ships to waters near Itu Aba to conduct exploration for potential oil resources next year.
Bureau of Energy Director-General Jerry Ou (歐嘉瑞) told the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee that a monthly budget of NT$17 million (US$583,670) would be allocated to fund the efforts.
Ou said that as Taiwan is almost entirely dependent on imports for its oil supply, it was imperative for the nation to diversify its energy sources.
Though unproven, the South China Sea is believed to contain important oil and gas resources. Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei all lay claim to parts of the area.
Administered by Taiwan, Itu Aba is the largest islet in the disputed Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島). It lies about 1,400km from Greater Kaohsiung.
In 2008, Taiwan finished constrcution of a 1,150m airstrip on the island. Earlier this year, the Coast Guard Administration — which is mandated with defending sovereignty over the island — augmented its equipment on Itu Aba with a supply of T63 120mm mortar systems and L/60 40mm anti-aircraft guns, sparking protests among other claimants, including Vietnam and the Philippines.
Asking for a progress report, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lin Yu-fang (林郁方), a strong supporter of Taiwan playing a more muscular role in the area, was assured that the plan had advanced past the "paperwork phase" and would be initiated as early as next month.
It has yet to be confirmed whether the exploration boats will be accompanied by coast guard vessels.
KMT Legislator Chen Cheng-hsiang (陳鎮湘) said the government should actively mine the waters near the Spratlys and the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島) and establish a forward base in the area to oversee energy, fishing and environmental protection.
He also said a multilateral center should be established to lower the risks of sovereignty disputes with other countries.
On March 22, two coast guard speedboats were dispatched to intercept a pair of Vietnamese patrol vessels that had entered waters near Taiping, prompting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to file a protest with Hanoi.
Two other ships entered waters near the island on March 26. The coast guard subsequently denied reports that shots had been fired during the incident.


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LOS ANGELES — UCLA Anderson School of Management has received an endowment of $1 million from UCLA alumnus John E. Parker, a longtime friend of the school and a founder of Entrepreneur's Hall. The purpose of his gift is two-fold; one half will be used to support the ongoing efforts of UCLA Anderson's John E. Parker Career Management Center. The remainder will be used to support the school's Board of Visitors Discretionary Fund, which is directed by the dean of UCLA Anderson.
Parker's gift will provide the dean of UCLA Anderson and the director of the Parker Career Management Center with funds to help them fulfill certain goals in the areas of career initiatives, student fellowships, outreach activities, and faculty development among other things.
"We're delighted that John continues to demonstrate his generosity to UCLA Anderson," said Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. senior associate dean. "John Parker has developed a lifelong relationship with UCLA and Anderson. His further contributions will enable us to strengthen key programs and provide important support to our career management initiatives."
Parker is no stranger to UCLA Anderson having, in 1993, initially funded the school's Parker Career Management Center, which is named for him. He is also a great friend to UCLA, from which he received his bachelor's degree in marketing in 1950.
"The Parker Career Management Center is near and dear to my heart and I'm delighted to continue to support its vital mission in helping shape the careers of UCLA Anderson graduates and alumni," said Parker. "I made the gift at this time because it's important to keep UCLA Anderson and the university going strong in a time of budget cuts.
"I am a loyal Bruin and it's up to me and my fellow Bruins to support UCLA in a time of need," added Parker.
In addition to his generous financial contributions to UCLA Anderson and the university, Parker is also philanthropic with his time, commitment and concern. He serves on UCLA Anderson's Board of Visitors, which is the school's primary advisory body, and on the UCLA Foundation's Board of Councillors, which provides opportunities for the university's most dedicated supporters to maintain close engagement and communication with UCLA.
An eminent entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parker has made remarkable contributions to the business world, his alma mater and his community. He has served as president of Parker Industries Inc. since 1971, managing real estate and investments. His most successful entrepreneurial ventures include numerous real estate holdings in southern California, ownership of Parker Broadcasting (KYXY Radio, San Diego), United Television Broadcasting (Los Angeles), Torrance Nissan, Classic Imports (Modesto) and Parker Advertising.
In addition to his generosity to the UCLA community, Parker, a San Diego area resident, is a dedicated supporter of local charities, including the Humane Society of San Diego, Scripps Clinic and San Diego Historical Society.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that the 10th International Cloud Expo and the 1st Big Data Expo will take place June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
As at every Cloud Expo, we are offering in New York a vast selection of technical and strategic breakout sessions, General Sessions, Industry Keynotes, our signature discussion "Power Panels" and a bustling Expo floor complete with two busy Demo Theaters so that as a delegate you can kick the tires of solutions and offerings, and discuss one-on-one with all the leading Cloud and Big Data players what they are offering and how to make use of it in your particular situation.
Just as Cloud and Big Data solutions will be side by side on the Expo floor, so they are in the conference program. We're including below a tiny sampler of the breakouts you can look forward to...and if you look at the welter of company logos at the very bottom you'll get a foretaste of the hundreds of companies in attendance on the Expo floor.
The surest way to get yourself and your company fully "Cloud-ready" and to understand why Big Data is going mainstream is by attending Cloud Expo 2012 New York.
The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors over 8,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2012 New York, June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, June 11-14, 2012, and in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!
Cloud Expo New York will attract more than 8,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!
All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 10th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term 'cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with 'computing' and 'software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship and Exhibit opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, by phone 201 802 3021.
SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held each year in California, New York and Prague is the leading event covering the fast-emerging Cloud Computing market for Enterprise IT professionals. Co-located with the International Virtualization Conference & Expo, the combined event delivers the #1 i-technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for those seeking to establish a market lead anywhere in the multiple layers of the Cloud Computing ecosystem.
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Variables help us identify the parameters that determine model behavior. While it is easy to introduce variables into a model, it can be tedious to keep track of them. Variables with similar names are often defined in the MATLAB® base workspace, the model workspace, and the mask workspace of a subsystem and used in multiple places in a model. This makes it difficult to track usage of the variable and avoid redundancies.
Simulink.findVars command makes it easy to find out whether a variable is being used in a given model, and where. With
Simulink.findVars you can:
- Search a model for all places where a particular variable is used
- Identify unused variables in a workspace
- Avoid redundant usage by comparing workspaces of different models to find common and exclusive variables
Where Is the Variable Defined?
Suppose that changes made to a variable
vehicledata in the base workspace do not change the simulation results of your model. To find out why, you need to know whether the model is using the variable
vehicledata and where it is defined (Figure 1). Using
Simulink.findVars, simply input the name of the model and the variable that you're looking for. This generates the following output:
find_vehicledata = Simulink.findVars ('sf_car','Name','vehicledata') find_vehicledata = Simulink.WorkspaceVar handle Package: Simulink Properties: Name: 'vehicledata' Workspace: 'sf_car' WorkspaceType: 'model' UsedByBlocks: {'sf_car/Vehicle'}
The Properties section of this output shows that
vehicledata is indeed used by the model, more precisely by
sf_car/Vehicle, and that the variable in use is in the model workspace (see the
WorkspaceType property). The return object,
find_vehicledata, is of type
Simulink.WorkspaceVar and contains all the variables satisfying the arguments of the
Simulink.findVars command. You can also find groups of variables in a model using properties like
WorkSpaceType and
Which Variables Do I Need?
Say you have many variables in your MATLAB base workspace and you want to know which ones are required for simulating a model and which you can clear. You do this by using methods like
intersect and
setdiff on
Simulink.WorkspaceVar objects returned by
First, get a
Simulink.WorkspaceVar object for variables used by the model and defined in the base workspace.
f14_base_vars = Simulink.findVars('f14', ... 'WorkspaceType','base');
Next, get a similar object for all the variables defined in the base workspace. Because no model is involved in this step, you cannot use
Simulink.findVars. Instead, you use the
Simulink.WorkspaceVar command:
all_base_vars = Simulink.WorkspaceVar(who, ... 'base workspace')
Now the base variables not used by
f14 are those in the
all_base_vars set but not in the
f14_base_vars set. To get this subset of base variables, you use
setdiff as
unused_base_vars = setdiff(all_base_vars,f14_base_vars);
To delete this subset of unused base variables, you can use the
Similarly, you can use the
intersect method to find common variables in two
Simulink.WorkspaceVar objects.
Simulink.findVars lets you efficiently find and update variables used by your model and remove unnecessary data from your workspaces.
Tracking Variables via the Model Explorer Interface
The Model Explorer interface provides another way to search for variables used by the model. You select the search option "for Variable Usage" and specify workspace and other properties to find where in the model the variables are used (Figure 2). The contents pane lists all blocks that use the variable. You can use a wildcard (*) in the variable name field to search for the usage of a group of variables.
Diagram Update or Cached Results
Whether you are working at the command line or in Model Explorer, you have the option of using results cached by a previous compilation instead of updating the model diagram every time you search for variables. This option is especially useful if you have a large model and you know that its variable usage has not changed.
You specify this option when using
Simulink.findVars as follows:
find_vehicledata = Simulink.findVars ... ('sf_car','Name','vehicledata','SearchMethod','cached');
To use cached results when searching for variables in Model Explorer, you set the Update diagram option to NO.


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In many biological processes the regulation of gene expression involves epigenetic mechanisms. In this new edition of Epigenetics, 36 chapters written by experts in the field introduce and explain epigenetic effects from many perspectives. These include the varied molecular mechanisms underpinning epigenetic regulation, discussion of cellular processes that rely on this kind of regulation, and surveys of model organisms in which epigenetic effects have been most studied.
The original chapters have all been rewritten and brand new chapters cover topics such as the structure, function, and dynamics of histone-modifying enzymes and histone-interacting proteins. Other chapters address chromatin remodeling, DNA methylation, siRNAs, and gene silencing; X-chromosome inactivation, dosage compensation, and imprinting; and epigenetics in microbes, plants, insects, and mammals.
How epigenetic mechanisms act in cell division and cell type specification, and how errors in these pathways contribute to cancer and other human diseases are also considered, along with the importance of epigenetics for induced pluripotency and reprogramming. In addition, new chapters describe the involvement of epigenetic processes in epigenetic inheritance, neuronal development, metabolism and signaling, responses to the environment, and long-range chromatin interactions. A series of short essays highlight important recent discoveries.
All the chapters provide conceptual illustrations that help readers understand epigenetic control. The book is thus a benchmark text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on gene regulation, as well as an essential resource for scientists interested in this rapidly moving field.
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Could the presidential election be decided by a crooning contest? Probably not, but that hasn't stopped President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney from showing off their pipes at campaign events recently.
The president sang a few bars of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" at an Apollo Theater fundraiser last month, and Romney shared several verses of "America the Beautiful" at a recent campaign event.
Late night comics have gotten plenty of mileage out of the musical numbers — among them Jon Stewart on Tuesday night.
And First Lady Michelle Obama turned up on "The Tonight Show" Tuesday to discuss her husband's and his rival's habits of breaking into song.
"That was completely spontaneous," she said of Obama's Apollo Theater performance.
"I didn't even hear about it until it got on YouTube. But he does have a beautiful voice, and he sings to me all the time," she said. "He doesn't hesitate to show off his lungs to his wife. He's good."
Among the other singers Obama croons around the White House: Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder — "the classics," said Michelle.
The First Lady had kind words for Romney's rendition of the patriotic song, too — certainly kinder words than Jon Stewart had.
"Beautiful," Michelle Obama said.
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A massive burst of solar wind made contact with Earth's magnetic field Monday evening, giving rise to some uncharacteristically bright northern lights that were visible even at some of Earth's not-so-northern latitudes.
Take the view of the aurorae up top, for example, captured by storm chaser Brian Emfinger from a field in Ozark, Arkansas.
Emfinger says that Monday evening was only the second time in ten years that he's seen the aurora borealis as far south as Arkansas, and that they were the most impressive he's ever witnessed:
"[The view was] extremely vivid, the most vivid I have ever seen. There was just 15 to 20 minutes where it really went crazy."
Check the timelapse video on the left, also composed by Emfinger, to get a feel for what he's talking about.
You can check out more mind-blowing images of Monday's spectacular geomagnetic storm at spacewather.com and Universe Today.
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Cano: Switching agents was 'family decision'
Second baseman focusing on playing baseball, says move isn't a distraction
NEW YORK -- Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano took a guarded stance on Wednesday as he discussed his decision to partner with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports and Creative Artists Agency, dismissing agent Scott Boras from his baseball representation.
"That was a family decision. I don't want to go into details, but I feel happy with the company," Cano said. "Right now, all I want to do is just focus on baseball, and that's what I do best."
Cano, 30, said that he has not spoken with Boras, who was reportedly caught off guard by the switch, and declined to say if he would.
Cano said that he has known Jay-Z, whose given name is Shawn Carter, since his rookie season with the Yankees and that their new alliance was decided upon over this past weekend.
"I don't think it's going to be a distraction, because this is the last time that I want to talk about this," Cano said. "I want to focus on playing baseball."
Under the agreement, Jay-Z will represent Cano in various off-field entertainment ventures, while veteran CAA agent Brodie Van Wagenen will handle Cano's on-field endeavors.
Asked what he liked about linking with a star like Jay-Z, Cano replied, "Everything."
Cano is set to earn $15 million this season, his final year under contract with the Yankees, and it has been speculated that he could seek a mega-deal like those signed by the Reds' Joey Votto (10 years, $225 million) and the Angels' Albert Pujols (10 years, $240 million).
"I'll let my agent decide that and talk to the Yankees and see what happens," Cano said. "I just want to play through the season and we can talk at the end of the season."
Cano received what general manager Brian Cashman called a "significant offer" to extend his Yankees contract this spring, which was rejected by Boras on Cano's behalf. Cano seemed to suggest that he was not interested in discussing a new contract during the season.
"Right now, my focus is on playing baseball," Cano said. "There's no contract or anything in my mind right now. The season already started and I don't want to be a distraction for my teammates. All I want to do is just focus on playing right now."
Teammate Mark Teixeira said that he did not know if Cano's decision suggests that the four-time All-Star is leaning toward staying in New York.
"I don't want to speculate," Teixeira said. "I know as a teammate, I want him here in New York. I have no idea what it means. The only thing I can say is, I want Robbie around."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi seems to be optimistic that Cano will remain in New York after this season.
"I don't know what would make Robbie necessarily want to leave," Girardi said. "He's had a lot of success here; he's loved here. That's something that you worry way down the road. We've got 161 games before we have to worry about that."
Girardi joked that changing agents to Jay-Z should not alter Cano's approach on the field, "unless he's got some recording issues that he has to deal with."
"I haven't heard that he's putting out an album yet," Girardi said. "If he did, I won't be the first one to buy it, I can guarantee that."
Cano is the third big-name Yankees player to part ways with Boras' agency in recent years, joining Alex Rodriguez and Teixeira. Cano said that A-Rod, who has a relationship with Jay-Z, was not involved in any discussions about the new partnership.
Teixeira dismissed Boras in February 2011, the same month Cano left long-time agent Bobby Barad for Boras, and said that he felt Boras' approach may not necessarily work for a player who wants to have a more active role in his endeavors on and off the field.
"I think it doesn't necessarily benefit every player," Teixeira said. "Some guys need that, some guys want that. The guys that want to take control of their own lives and make their own decisions, it's not ideal for."


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