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LOS ANGELES — Two Los Angeles police officers denied Wednesday that they beat a former bank executive with a baton during a bizarre encounter that ended with broken bones and a $20 million lawsuit.
Officers James Nichols and John Miller gave almost word-for-word identical accounts of the May 2012 confrontation, absolving themselves of any wrongdoing. They described the banker Brian Mulligan as acting strangely and at one point becoming so uncontrollable that they feared he would do damage to himself or others.
"This guy had gone crazy," Miller said. "He'd lost his marbles. I was a bit scared. I'd never seen anybody frothing at the mouth and growling as an adult human being."
They took the stand after Mulligan, whose excessive-force suit claims he suffered a broken nose and shoulder and other injuries along with mental torture from an unprovoked beating.
The one-time Deutsche Bank official said that he was driven to snort the drug mix known as "bath salts" to deal with sleeping problems and had used it at least 20 times – but not on the night of the encounter – and he denied being paranoid during the confrontation.
Nichols, however, said Mulligan told him he had taken a type of bath salts called "White Lightning" four days earlier and hadn't slept since. He painted a portrait of a delusional man who was spotted wandering the street with wads of crumpled $100 bills falling out of his pockets.
"He was covered in sweat. He was very jittery," Nichols said. "He said he was going through a divorce. He was very upset. His children didn't like him."
At Mulligan's demand, officers took him to a hotel, but he later caused a disturbance by claiming someone was hiding in his nightstand, Nichols said.
Nichols said police later confronted Mulligan again after he was seen apparently pulling on car handles and growled when ordered to get on the ground.
Harry Lincoln Smith, an expert in the biomechanics of accidents who analyzed evidence for Mulligan's attorney, testified that the facial injuries were caused by baton strikes.
The damage was so extreme that Mulligan's olfactory nerve was destroyed and he cannot smell, Smith said.
Smith also said he measured bruises on Mulligan's back and compared them to the tip of a police baton.
"It's a pretty good match," the witness said.
But Nichols told jurors that he had never used his baton in 13 years on the force.
Miller said he did use his baton to subdue Mulligan by slamming him on the back of his shoulder, but he said he never hit him in the face.
Both officers suggested Mulligan may have injured himself by banging his face on the ground.
Mulligan was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, but prosecutors declined to file charges.
A civilian oversight board found the officers' use of force to be appropriate, and a claim against the city over his lost bank job was dismissed.
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Twenty years after she says she was told to keep quiet about Bertrand Charest's alleged abuses to avoid losing sponsorships, Allison Forsyth is speaking out to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else.
From Nanaimo, Forsyth began racing World Cup events in 1997 and was an eight-time Canadian national champion for skiing. She had five World Cup podium finishes and placed seventh when she represented Canada at the Winter Olympics in Utah in 2002.
The former Olympian, who alleges she was sexually abused by Charest in 1997 and 1998, says she has struggled with guilt, shame and anxiety as a result.
"I went through years and years of whistleblower guilt, where I felt abandoned and alone and nobody cared that this had happened because everybody tried to cover it up," she told The Canadian Press in a phone interview Wednesday.
Forsyth, now 39, said she was one of the athletes who came forward in 1998, when Alpine Canada first became aware of Charest's sexual contact with several of his teenage students.
"I was told, 'Do not say anything, because we would lose our sponsors' and it would end my career," she said.
Charest was found guilty last June of 37 of the 57 sex-related charges he was facing, and was eventually given a 12-year prison term.
The convictions involved nine of the 12 women who'd accused him of crimes that occurred more than 20 years ago, when the victims and alleged victims were aged between 12 and 19.
Forsyth is one of eight victims and alleged victims who have chosen to identify themselves in recent days amid their calls for changes that would better protect athletes from abuse.
The native of Nanaimo, B.C., is struggling with having the word "alleged" attached to her description of events and her status as a victim.
That's because Charest was not convicted on the charges involving Forsyth due to jurisdictional issues, because the alleged incidents occurred outside of Canada.
"That in general has affected me greatly and has brought back a lot of feelings of shame or guilt, even in just the last 24 hours," she said.
But despite what she calls the intricacies of the law, she says one thing is clear: "All of the 12 of us, plus many more, were definitely victims of this horrible man."
Forsyth went on to have an illustrious skiing career, including five World Cup giant slalom medals and a bronze at the 2003 world alpine championships. She also represented Canada in the Olympics in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
But all that time, she was struggling with what had happened to her.
"I was not the same person after as I was before," she said. "I had a very tumultuous career after. I was very depressed, medicated for anxiety. I had anorexia issues."
Forsyth, now a mother of three, says she's willing to share her experiences because she believes there are lessons to be learned from what happened to her and the other women.
She says no system was put in place to support athletes when she was skiing and that none of them were given any lessons on what constituted appropriate behaviour from coaches.
Her suggestions, and that of the other women, include more education and training for coaches and athletes and a rule that would not allow coaches and athletes to be alone in a one-on-one situation.
Forsyth is also calling for an independent safety officer who can follow up on complaints and ensure that athletes and coaches are given the support they need.
She says it's "absolutely critical" to have someone who doesn't have a vested interest in either party to ensure allegations aren't swept under the rug as she believes was done in Charest's case.
She says Charest, for example, was allowed to resign rather than being fired from his position and that his coaching licence was never revoked.
The trial judge in Charest's case ripped into Alpine Canada in his ruling, saying the organization's leaders closed their eyes to Charest's actions and failed miserably in their duty to protect the young athletes.
The chair of the board of Alpine Canada has since acknowledged in a statement that "the organization could have offered more support to the victims in this difficult time."
The statement added that the organization welcomed any further suggestions on how to improve safety.
Forsyth says the changes she's calling for go beyond Alpine Canada or any one sport, noting similar abuses have occurred in hockey and gymnastics.
While she doesn't regret her years as a competitive athlete, she says that, for now, she wouldn't want her children following in her footsteps.
"I won't feel complete closure maybe ever, and I won't feel that we're there until we have changes in place that we're happy with," she said.
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What's the best way to find out what crows living in the South Pacific really do when people aren't watching? Equip them with mini-cameras and have them make their own home-, er, nest-movies, of course.
University of Oxford zoologists are hoping that this hands-off approach to studying New Caledonian crows—aka Corvus moneduloides—will lead to a wealth of information about these infamous aviators, known to be one of the few nonhuman species to use tools to accomplish daily tasks.
These birds are particularly difficult to observe in their natural habitat, because they are sensitive to human disturbance and live in forested, mountainous areas of New Caledonia—a Pacific island east of Australia, roughly the size of New Jersey—where visibility is limited. But researchers report in the online edition of Science that they captured on video the birds using sticks, grass and stems to forage for food.
"The use of tools is one of the defining criteria for humans," says Christian Rutz, a postdoc candidate at Oxford's Behavioral Ecology Research Group, who conducted the study. "When it was revealed that here was a bird species that does something that's supposedly exclusive to humans, and to some extent chimpanzees, that was pretty important."
Rutz and fellow Oxford researchers Lucas Bluff, Alex Weir and Alex Kacelnik taped tiny camera units (which included a 2.4-GHz video transmitter, voltage regulator, timer chip and VHF radio-tag, along with batteries) to the two inner tail feathers of 18 crows to learn more about how they use tools. Each unit weighed about 14 grams (0.5 ounce), which was key given that the crows themselves each weigh only about 320 grams (11 ounces). "It was low-tech, but we wanted to have a fairly weak attachment so the crows could remove the camera if they wanted to," Rutz says. The camera lens protruded through the feathers and shot images from between each crow's legs, a position that researchers say did not interfere with the birds' movements and allowed them to shed the equipment via the normal molting process.
Sure enough, the video cameras captured images of the crows using 10- to 15-centimeter (four- to six-inch) sticks to probe holes where they would find grubs. Rutz and his team used the footage to determine that the birds forage around eight small food items per hour. This indicates, Rutz says, that the birds may have begun using implements to overcome challenging foraging conditions. The researchers also discovered that the birds' tool-use and choice of tool materials—including sticks and dry grasslike stems—were more diverse than previously believed, and that birds will save, rather than discard, tools that they find particularly useful.
"One of our main goals with this was to observe natural, undisturbed behavior," Rutz says. "If you want to understand why these crows developed this unusual behavior, namely tool use, you have to understand what role these tools play in their daily lives."
Rutz and his team crafted the camera units themselves, because they could not find any technology that could be affixed to the birds without inhibiting their movement. "We pieced together the smallest equipment we could find," Rutz says. The VHF radio-tag let the researchers track the movement and behavior of individual crows, whereas the video footage was broadcast as a microwave signal.
The timer chip was crucial because it prevented the camera from switching on too soon and running out of battery power before capturing meaningful behavior. "When you first release a bird, the first thing it will do is sort out its feathers," Rutz says. "We didn't want to film this because we only had about 70 minutes worth of battery life." In fact, the average length of the footage recorded by each of the cameras was 38 minutes.
The researchers rounded up 18 crows in about a week using a baited five- by three-meter (roughly 16- by nine-foot) net placed on the ground. They ended up getting footage from 12 of those birds.
The researchers relied on the VHF radio-tags to find the cameras after the birds shed them but wound up recovering fewer than half because each tag's signal lasted only about three weeks. Rutz says he and his colleagues did not have to retrieve the cameras to recover their data (although each unit was worth several thousand dollars), because the video feeds were broadcast to a receiver that fed the footage into a camcorder.
The crows filmed themselves using tools to search for grubs in the rotted wood of fallen trees and to fish for ants in the ground. Researchers were surprised to discover that they used dry grass stems in addition to sticks and leaf stems. "We now know we were getting only a fraction of the whole picture," Rutz says. "This cautions us to broaden our view."
Rutz and his team are considering strapping cameras onto dozens of other crows in an effort to create a comprehensive video catalogue that will help them understand, among other things, whether females or males use tools more. "Does each crow have its own tool kit or are there crows that serve as tool specialists for the group?" Rutz asks. "These are important questions."
Rutz plans to rejoin colleague Lucas Bluff in New Caledonia within the next week to continue their studies. They have already begun to work on improving the camera units and are hoping that their "crowcam" technology can be used to study other types of birds and animals in the wild. "I'd like to see video tracking become routine for field ornithologists, or biologists in general," he says.


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1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 - Race Ready Once Again
This '67 Shelby GT 500 drag unit was almost lost to a salvage yard crusher
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Resurrecting an old muscle car out of a wrecking yard, especially in the 1980's, wasn't an uncommon occurrence. Retrieving said muscle car and discovering 10 years later that it is an extremely rare piece of Shelby and Mustang history is why enthusiasts continue the chase of finding those ultra-rare pieces of muscle car history.
Take the story of Joe Corvello. Back in 1972, at the age of 17, he began to search for a cool ride to roam the California highways. He initially was going to purchase a '69 Camaro Z/28, but his father thwarted that idea because it had a four-speed manual transmission. So instead Joe picked up a '70 Mustang Mach 1 with a 351 4V, air conditioning, and the father required automatic transmission.
There were some good times in the sleek SportsRoof that helped make Joe a Ford enthusiast for life. After going through a few more Mustangs and Torinos by the late 1970s Joe had a real performance Mustang, a '71 Boss 351. Well, what every performance-oriented Mustang fan eventually craves is a Shelby. So in 1980 Joe sold his Boss and was able to locate a one-owner Candyapple Red '70 Shelby GT 500. Now Joe was the king of cool.
A year later Joe came across another Shelby, a '67 GT 500, but this one needed some work. Actually, it needed a LOT of work since it was sitting in a wrecking yard. It had been partially parted out with no drivetrain but it still had its Shelby fiberglass panels. Joe was working on a '68 Mustang convertible and thought about putting the fiberglass body panels on it. The seller said it had been drag raced, which made sense with the notched shock towers, modified rear wheel lip openings and a huge hole in the transmission tunnel. Joe took it home and let it sit for years while work, marriage, buying a home and kids took center stage. Plus, he still had the '70 GT 500 when he got the urge to put the hammer down.
Now that Joe had two Shelbys in his stable he became a member of the Shelby American Automobile Club. Like most members of SAAC, Joe looked forward to receiving the Shelby American magazine in the mail. He would read it from cover to cover. One issue back in 1989, No. 56, really grabbed his attention. In it was an article about a '67 GT 500 that was a factory built drag car. Shelby chassis number 1947 came with a factory installed 427 FE big-block and host of other modifications to make it competitive in drag racing. The article listed the owner as unknown and Joe thought how neat it would be to find that car.
Further back in the pages of the Shelby American magazine was another article that for $2 the club would send you copies of the Shelby paperwork that they had on your car. Joe jotted down the VIN from his '67 shell, never even thinking of comparing it to the prior drag unit article, and mailed it off. Weeks later Joe received a letter and paperwork from SAAC national director Rick Kopec that his '67 Shelby was the specially built factory drag car. It was a dream come true.
The "Drag Unit, " as it was referred to on one of the work sheets, is one of just three '67 Shelbys that came from the factory with the 427 8V side oiler nestled in its engine bay. One of the others is the infamous Super Snake of course. This drag unit was built for a friend of Carroll Shelby by the name of Clint Luheman. Luheman was the President of United California Bank in San Francisco. He did a lot of business with Shelby and owned the first Paxton supercharged '66 GT 350. Now he told Shelby he wanted to go drag racing, so Shelby put the request into the system to build a '67 GT 500 to Luheman's specifications, except for one thing—the transmission. Luheman originally wanted a four-speed, but Shelby convinced him to go with the automatic for more consistent quarter mile ETs down the track.
Shelby's team went about installing a blueprinted 427 with a Holman and Moody dual-four intake and backing up the stout mill with the aforementioned C6 automatic transmission built by D&H Hydro with a 3,000-rpm stall converter. A Detroit Locker differential with 4.11 gears put the power to the pavement with the help of Traction Master traction bars and drag shocks; 50/50 in the rear and 90/10 in the front. To accommodate the massive rubber in the rear the Shelby American crew altered the rear wheel opening lip by raising it 1½ inches and spreading it 1⅛ inches. You have to have a very keen eye to notice this subtle alteration. The shock towers were cut and plated to make quick changes of the spark plugs a snap at the track. Other goodies like a heavy-duty radiator, custom headers, and an oil cooler assembly were also added to the package. In the end these modifications added another $1,824.76 to the price of the Wimbledon White Shelby. When it was finally invoiced to Mr. Luheman on June 29, 1967 the total price came to $6,110, an absolute bargain when one considers how much a Ford Racing Cobra Jet drag car costs today.
Once Joe received his documentation he began to plan for the restoration of the Shelby. He would spend hours just doing research on the car and locating the missing parts, in addition to the man hours he would spend restoring the historical Snake. Joe purchased the engine from an owner who did not finish his Cobra replica. Heads, intake, water pump and numerous other parts were obtained in a trade of a 1969 Boss 429 shell that Joe had acquired years ago. Joe did all the work, except for refinishing the car, which was done by Freeman's Auto Body in Merced, California. In all it took about 15 years to finish restoring the Shelby. "I'd work weekends and nights after work. Many times I got tired and the car sat for months," Joe recalls. "Getting the body panels to fit correctly was very time consuming. I lost track of how many hours, or days, I put into the hood, nose and trunk."
At SAAC 30, Joe met Charley Lillard, then the owner of the Super Snake. "I noticed him talking to a guy that seemed very knowledgeable about these cars," notes Joe. This gentleman was Shelby restorer and SAAC judge Bob Gaines. After convincing an initially skeptical Gaines that he did in fact own the drag unit, Bob offered to give Joe any advice that he needed in getting his Shelby completed to the highest standards possible. "I can't tell you how much help Bob has been in getting this car to the condition that it is in," says Joe. "And the work is not over." Not to be overlooked in getting his car completed he says is his wife Michele, who was always there for support and allowed him to consume all that time in the garage.
Since its completion in 2011, Joe has only shown it a few times. He received an award of merit at the 2011 Ironstone Concours d'Elegance in Murphys, California. At the 2011 Nor-Cal Mini Nats at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Joe won best overall. Most recently at SAAC-38 at the California Raceway in Fontana, Joe's Shelby took gold in the competition class. They say one man's trash is another man's treasure and that's definitely the case when Joe Corvello saved this piece of Shelby history from the crusher.
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A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," sold Tuesday for $2 million, which the auction house called a world record for a popular music manuscript.
A working draft of the finished song in Dylan's own hand went to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby's. The selling price, $2.045 million, included a buyer's premium.
The manuscript is "the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem," Sotheby's said.
The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles: a hat, a bird, an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Dylan was 24 when he recorded the song in 1965 about a debutante who becomes a loner when she's cast from upper-class social circles.
"How does it feel To be on your own" it says in his handwriting. "No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone."
Scrawls seem to reflect the artist's experimentation with rhymes.
The name "Al Capone" is scrawled in the margin, with a line leading to the lyrics "Like a complete unknown."
Another note says: "...dry vermouth, you'll tell the truth..."
Sotheby's described the seller as a longtime fan from California "who met his hero in a non-rock context and bought directly from Dylan." He was not identified.
The manuscript was offered as part of Sotheby's rock and pop music sale.
In 2010, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for "A Day in the Life," the final track on the Beatles' classic 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," sold for $1.2 million, the record for such a sale.


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Febraury 23rd 2012
Bobby Roode comes out and says Sting sent a Twitter message after he beat him down last week that said he is done, and Roode says he quit. He tells the fans they can all say their goodbyes when he gets there later, but he wants to talk about himself and all of his accomplishments. Roode says he became a world champion, but ending Sting's career is the greatest thing he ever did because he's the only one who can lay claim to that. Roode says he wants to be serious and put his bad feelings aside, and he wants Sting to leave and not let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.
We go to footage of Matt Morgan and Crimson from earlier today, and they are arguing over who lost their title match then Crimson says they need to move past that. Morgan says they are the two most dominant wrestlers in TNA, and they need to go out and get their titles back as a team.
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Matt Morgan & Crimson vs Samoa Joe & Magnus (c)
Crimson throws Magnus outside then Morgan drops Joe with a side slam, then Crimson tags in but Joe throws him in the corner and tags out to Magnus. Crimson makes a comeback with some clotheslines and a spinning backbreaker for a two count, but Crimson misses a spear when Joe pulls Magnus out of the way. They isolate Crimson during the break, but he takes out Joe with a spinebuster and tags Morgan, who slams the champions' heads together. He hits a double clothesline then Crimson gets involved and they all fight before Magnus gets thrown out of the ring. Crimson sets up for a clothesline, but Joe ducks and he hits Morgan instead, then Joe kicks Morgan in the head and Magnus hits an elbow drop to retain.
Winners – Samoa Joe & Magnus


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I try not to whore myself out too much, but I'm a sucker for a good Atlus game in general, and doubly so for Shin Megami Tensei games in particular. In lieu of my regularly-scheduled blog content, instead nibble on this preview for the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor coming to the Nintendo DS.
Although there's not a whole heck of a lot of specific information out on it at the moment, according to my mole planted deep within the Atlus data-entry cubicles, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor takes place in Tokyo after a surprise demon invasion. The government then quarantines the city and the player and his party members must harness the powers of the demons for survival before (allegedly) something even worse happens. I'm guessing that there's probably a really powerful super-demon as a final boss, but that's strictly conjecture on my part.
Among the game's features, it said that there are greater character customization options (a little curious, since the series has never been known for such a quality), a new combat system, and a brand-new Demon Auction system to help you catch 'em all.
All this stuff sounds great, but for me, the biggest draw is that it's Shin Megami Tensei in portable fashion… traditionally, the Shin Megami Tensei games can easily last for a hundred hours or more, so having that kind of depth and playability on the go is really appealing. I reviewed some of the earlier games—Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner—Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4—so if this type of quality carries over (and I've got no reason to believe that it won't) then DS owners are in for a real treat, indeed.
I'll post more tidbits on the game as they become available. In the meantime, check these new screens out, and go to the official Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor website for more info.
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Safari has been around forever, and you might not think there was much that Apple could do to improve it in Mountain Lion. But in fact the company has found some clever—and welcome—ways to update the app many of use more than any other.
One way Apple's done that is by taking some inspiration from other browsers. The obvious one is the new unified address and search bar. Like Google Chrome, Safari 6.0 has just one text box up top, instead of one box for Web addresses and another for searching. Type a URL in Safari's new universal address box, and the browser will go to that site. Type in something else, and Safari will perform a search for it.
More specifically, as you type, it'll show you a drop-down list of possible hits. First there's a section it calls Top Hits—the things it guesses you're looking for, based on your previous browsing patterns. After that are some possible search terms you might want to use on Google, the default search engine. (You can, of course, change that default in the app's preferences.) And below that are matching hits in your browsing history and bookmarks.
The other way Apple has updated Safari on the Mac is something it's done throughout Mountain Lion: tying the desktop OS and its apps more tightly than ever to iOS and iCloud.
So the new Safari has something called iCloud Tabs. Clicking the new iCloud Tabs button (the one with the cloud on it up in the toolbar) produces a live list of the browser tabs you have open on all of your other OS X and iOS machines linked to your Apple ID and iCloud account. What that potentially means is that you can start reading something on your iPhone, then switch to your Mac later and pick up where you left off. I say "potentially," because this feature won't really become fully functional until the release of iOS 6 this fall. For now, it works well syncing Safari tabs between Macs.
There's also a touch-friendly new tool called Tab View. If you have a touchpad, you can use Multi-Touch gestures to navigate between open tabs: You pinch in to reveal all of the tabs you have open, then you switch between them using two-finger swipe left or right. These new gestures feel familiar, because they mimic similar gestures in iOS. Visually, tabs mimic those in iOS: They stretch and shrink as necessary to fill the span of your browser window.
Passwords and privacy
The new Safari also has some new security tools. Most notable is its new system for tracking passwords. Safari 6.0 records passwords you've entered, so you don't have to enter them again. You can opt not to have Safari remember passwords for specific sites. It's easy to add or remove passwords from your chain; if you forgot a saved password, you can click the Show Password box to reveal it. When you do you'll be prompted for your system password—a nice secure touch that neither Firefox nor Chrome applies. It's not as secure a system as 1Password or some other password utilities, but it's better than what Safari 5.0 had.
Also notable is Safari's improved support for the emerging Do Not Track security protocol. In theory, if you switch that option on (in the Privacy pane of Safari's preferences), websites participating in the DNT program will refrain from putting any monitoring cookies or other tracking devices on your system. There are a couple of big "ifs" in that scenario, but it's nice that Apple is supporting Do Not Track. It did support DNT in previous versions, but you had to delve into the Develop menu to turn it on. Now it's much easier to find and implement.
Private Browsing is still available as well, so you can tell Safari to temporarily stop keeping your browsing history, your search history, or any AutoFill information. A Private tag appears in that unified address-search field, and it applies to all open tabs in your open Safari session.
Reading list
There are plenty of other nice little tweaks in this new Safari.
The offline reading list feature is particularly welcome, especially when paired with Safari on your mobile devices. To save a page to your reading list, go to Bookmarks -> Add to Reading List, or press Command-Shift-D. Safari then saves the page in your Reading List so you can catch up on your reading even when you don't have an Internet connection. If an article in your Reading List contains multiple pages, Safari fetches the pages and stores them, so you can read the entire article offline.
And, like so many other Mountain Lion apps, Safari now has a Share button. It makes it easy to send the URL for the website you're viewing to someone else via Mail, Messages, or Twitter; it's also how you save pages to your Reading List or bookmarks. And Safari also works with Mountain Lion's Notification Center: websites can ask for permission to show you alerts. You don't have to say yes.


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(via @amandacarpenter) Let us walk through a test case on the administration's claimed insurance support for small business owners.
- Zach owns a small business (24 employees, average salary $35K) and provides them with health care ($79.2K/year).
- He has already seen a 15% increase in health care costs this year, so he is quite keen to hear about insurance relief.
- The White House's PR flunkies were bragging about a program that gives 'broad eligibility' to companies with less than 25 employees and average salaries below $50K.
- Zach is covered both ways! Bring on that insurance relief!
- …Oh. If you have more than 10 employees and average salaries above $20K… well. The answer is, no, at Zach's level he's not getting insurance relief.
- And here's the important thing: he was actually told otherwise by the White House's PR flunkies, remember?
- We call that "a lie."
- And – possibly more importantly – "business as usual."
Let me expand on that last point a bit: the merit of providing insurance subsidies to small business owners is a legitimate point of contention for political debate. What is not a legitimate point of contention is whether the mealy-mouthed, deliberately misleading rhetoric on this issue coming from this administration is compatible with the idealistic-sounding rhetoric that came from the political campaign that became this administration. It's not compatible, and I'm under no obligation to pretend that the White House is not measuring up to its own freely-given promise to be something different.
And I'm sorry, but we cannot have a substantive policy debate in this country as long as the other side continues to insist that they are led by demigods, instead of men.
Moe Lane
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Welcome to Appery.io
The entire team is super excited to launch Appery.io.
First, some history. Appery.io has come a very long way since its roots as a prototype-building tool. Because of its heritage, the service is great at rapidly building mobile apps using a visual IDE. However, the product is now a complete cloud-based platform with integrated backend services and a rich catalog of plug-ins that make it easy to integrate with cloud services (including enterprise systems such as Salesforce.com). We are introducing a new brand to reflect the evolution of Appery.io as well as to support where our platform is headed.
A Complete Mobile Platform
An app is not just UI. An app is not just backend services. A true mobile app is UI, plus mobile backend services, and access to 3rd party APIs. Appery.io is unique because it is the only cloud-based platform with visual development tools and integrated backend services. The Appery.io platform has the following features:
- Visual, drag and drop UI builder (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, libraries such as jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, etc)
- 3rd party REST API services
- Out-of-the-box API Plug-ins to services such as Salesforce.com, Aetna CarePass, ESPN, AT&T and many more. You can always connect to any API of your choice
- Backend services
- Database
- Push Notifications
- User Management
- File storage
- HTML5 app hosting
- iOS and Android Binary build
As you can see, Appery.io is a complete mobile platform offering cloud-based visual development tools for UI, and cloud-based backend services and API tools.
We will continue to invest in Appery.io to make it even more powerful. As an example, the service already provides access to the source code via the new Source view. Soon, we'll allow you to edit the source to provide even more flexibility. You'll see many more new features in coming releases. We are working on a Server-side code feature where you will be able to write custom server code and invoke it in your app. We are also working on versioning and source control features. And of course adding even more API plug-ins.
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Osteoporosis and Pathologic Fractures
- Chronic bone pain
- Loss of height
- Skeletal deformity
- Long bone fractures
- Premature loss of ambulation
- New skeletal deformities or changes in positioning
- Painful bony areas, swelling, or bruising
- Behavior changes
- Sleep changes
Surveillance and Screening
Assess Risk Factors
- Low dietary intake or malabsorption of calories or micronutrients including calcium, vitamin D, and protein
- Underweight or overweight/abnormal body mass index
- Bone or back pain
- Level of physical activity and mobility
- Low sun exposure
- Fracture history in the patient and family members
- Expected course of the underlying medical conditions (anticipated recovery vs. chronic care)
- Medications used in treatment of the underlying medical condition (including short-term vs. long-term therapy duration)
"An initial laboratory screen includes a complete blood count, chemistry panel (including creatinine, BUN, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and alkaline phosphatase), serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentration, and celiac disease antibodies. Measurements of thyroid hormone, insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), and sex steroids may be warranted depending on clinical examination and history. Evaluation of muscle function may also be appropriate for those with immobilization disorders such as DMD." [Grover: 2017]
While a "hypomineralized" appearance on radiographs of low bone density may trigger consideration of osteopenia or osteoporosis, X-ray is not considered sensitive and is therefore not currently used in the diagnosis of either osteopenia or osteoporosis. However, spinal radiographs may help identify vertebral or long bone fractures, which may be used in diagnosing osteoporosis.
- Vertebral compression fracture not associated with high-impact trauma or local disease is diagnostic of osteoporosis, OR
- Clinically significant, recurrent long-bone fracture history, defined as 2 or more by age 10 -- or 3 or more at any age up to 19 years, AND
- Documented reduced bone mass (bone mineral content or bone mineral density) of at least 2 standard deviations below the norm. DXA scan results are considered the preferred method of obtaining this information in the pediatric population, although there is some use of peripheral quantitative CT. DXA scans in children can be difficult to interpret in light of the historical lack of adequate information about norms in healthy children and because children's bones are in a state of change throughout childhood as they put on more bone mass as part of normal growth.
Differential Diagnosis
Medical Conditions Associated with Osteoporosis
- Neuromuscular conditions including cerebral palsy, Rett syndrome, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, spina bifida, and others associated with limited mobility
- Genetic conditions including primary bone disorders (such as osteogenesis imperfecta) as well as Turner syndrome, Prader-Willi, XXY/Klinefelter syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, and Down syndrome
- Metabolic conditions including galactosemia, homocystinuria, and Fabry disease
- Endocrine conditions including hyper- or hypoparathyroidism, growth hormone deficiency, delayed puberty or hypogonadism, type 1 diabetes, and others
- Rheumatologic conditions, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus
- Renal disease
- Cholestatic liver disease
- Celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cystic fibrosis, and other conditions associated with malabsorption of nutrients
- Malignancy and patients who have undergone transplantation
- Conditions significantly affecting skin, such as dermatomyositis and epidermolysis bullosa
- Cyanotic congenital heart disease
- Thalassemia
- Prematurity
Medications Associated with Osteoporosis
- Classic antiepileptics (anticonvulsants), including phenobarbital, carbamazepine, phenytoin, benzodiazepines, and valproate. Since children who start on antiepileptic medications in childhood will be on those medications for many years, the fracture risk by adulthood is substantial. The impacts of newer antiepileptic drugs, such as levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine, topiramate, gabapentin, and vigabatrin, on bone health are unclear and controversial. [Fan: 2016] [Vierucci: 2017]
- Steroids including progesterone-only contraceptives such as medroxyprogesterone/Depo-Provera or Implanon (unclear data for Nexplanon) and glucocorticoids used for inflammatory conditions [Pongsatha: 2010]
- Methotrexate
- Cyclosporine
- Growth hormone agonists
- Heparin
- Valproic acid is thought to directly act on the bone, increasing activity of the osteoclasts (the cells responsible for bone breakdown in the dynamic process of remodeling). [Valsamis: 2006]
- CYP450 hepatic enzyme induction by certain anticonvulsant medications appears to contribute to increased metabolism of 25-hydroxyvitamin D to inactive metabolites, which results in metabolic bone disease. [Fan: 2016]
- Review the child's prevention program and ensure adequate nutrition, including calories, protein, vitamin D, and calcium intake.
- Reduce exposure to medications that increase the child's risk (e.g., change to a different anticonvulsant).
- Manage any additional factors that might be contributing (renal or liver conditions, celiac disease, or other conditions causing malabsorption of nutrients and hormone imbalances).
- Provide opportunities for regular exercise. (See Prevention, above).
The strongest evidence for improvements with bisphosphonate use is in children with osteogenesis imperfecta, glucocorticoid-related osteoporosis, and cerebral palsy. [Vierucci: 2017] Because of the complexity and lack of expert consensus on pediatric osteoporosis, therapeutic decisions regarding bisphosphonates are rarely made based exclusively upon the bone density scores but rather upon the clinical picture in terms of fracture history. Due to evolving information and guidelines, primary care clinicians should consult with a pediatric endocrinologist or other specialist trained in managing bone health in CYSHCN to determine if bisphosphonate therapy is appropriate and to create an individualized plan for the child (Pediatric Endocrinology (see UT providers [4])).
- Denosumab (monoclonal antibody which inhibits osteoclast formation)
- Antisclerostin antibody (to prevent decreases in bone formation)
- Odanacatib (to suppress bone resorption)
- Anti-TGF-beta (transforming growth factor) antibody (which may inhibit progression of certain forms of osteogenesis imperfecta)
- Pediatric Endocrinology (see UT providers [4])
- Nutrition Assessment Services (see UT providers [6])
- Physical Therapy (see UT providers [48])
- Pediatric Neurology (see UT providers [6])
- Pediatric Immunology (see UT providers [6])
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (see UT providers [2])
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (see UT providers [2])
- Bone Densitometry/DEXA (see UT providers [0])
- Pediatric Dentistry (see UT providers [50])
Practice Guidelines
Bianchi ML, Baim S, Bishop NJ, Gordon CM, Hans DB, Langman CB, Leonard MB, Kalkwarf HJ.
Official positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) on DXA evaluation in children and adolescents.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2010;25(1):37-47. PubMed abstract
Services for Patients & Families in Utah (UT)
|Service Categories
|# of providers* in:
|Other states (4) (show)
|Bone Densitometry/DEXA
|Nutrition Assessment Services
|Pediatric Dentistry
|Pediatric Endocrinology
|Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
|Pediatric Immunology
|Pediatric Neurology
|Physical Therapy
For services not listed above, browse our Services categories or search our database.
* number of provider listings may vary by how states categorize services, whether providers are listed by organization or individual, how services are organized in the state, and other factors; Nationwide (NW) providers are generally limited to web-based services, provider locator services, and organizations that serve children from across the nation.
Osteoporosis in Children (ClinicalTrials.gov)
Studies looking at better understanding, diagnosing, and treating this condition; from the National Library of Medicine.
Helpful Articles
Munns C.
Treatment of childhood osteoporosis – current and future perspectives.
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. 2015. PubMed abstract
Ward LM, Konji VN, Ma J.
The management of osteoporosis in children.
Osteoporos Int. 2016;27(7):2147-2179. PubMed abstract
Page Bibliography
Bianchi ML, Baim S, Bishop NJ, Gordon CM, Hans DB, Langman CB, Leonard MB, Kalkwarf HJ.
Official positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) on DXA evaluation in children and adolescents.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2010;25(1):37-47. PubMed abstract
Bishop N, Arundel P, Clark E, Dimitri P, Farr J, Jones G, Makitie O, Munns CF, Shaw N.
Fracture prediction and the definition of osteoporosis in children and adolescents: the ISCD 2013 Pediatric Official Positions.
J Clin Densitom. 2014;17(2):275-80. PubMed abstract
Fan HC, Lee HS, Chang KP, Lee YY, Lai HC, Hung PL, Lee HF, Chi CS.
The Impact of Anti-Epileptic Drugs on Growth and Bone Metabolism.
Int J Mol Sci. 2016;17(8). PubMed abstract / Full Text
Grover M, Bachrach LK.
Osteoporosis in Children with Chronic Illnesses: Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Treatment.
Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2017;15(4):271-282. PubMed abstract
Pongsatha S, Ekmahachai M, Suntornlimsiri N, Morakote N, Chaovisitsaree S.
Bone mineral density in women using the subdermal contraceptive implant Implanon for at least 2 years.
Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2010;109(3):223-5. PubMed abstract
Valsamis HA, Arora SK, Labban B, McFarlane SI.
Antiepileptic drugs and bone metabolism.
Nutr Metab (Lond). 2006;3:36. PubMed abstract / Full Text
Vierucci F, Saggese G, Cimaz R.
Osteoporosis in childhood.
Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2017;29(5):535-546. PubMed abstract
Ward LM, Konji VN, Ma J.
The management of osteoporosis in children.
Osteoporos Int. 2016;27(7):2147-2179. PubMed abstract
Wasserman H, O'Donnell JM, Gordon CM.
Use of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry in pediatric patients.
Bone. 2017;104:84-90. PubMed abstract


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Baldwin: Won't copy Jon Stewart
Just because he was on NBC's "30 Rock" doesn't mean Alec Baldwin's new show is going to make you laugh.
"I don't want it to be something like 'The Daily Show,'" Baldwin, whose MSNBC show "Up Late With Alec Baldwin" premieres Friday, told POLITICO in an interview. "We're never going to do that. … I don't think it'll ever be a show you'd see on Comedy Central. We're not going to go for those laughs. Other people are doing that, and they're cleaning up in the process. [Jon] Stewart. Bill Maher. [Stephen] Colbert. They dominate. They dominate that world, and I have no desire to compete with that at all."
In fact, Baldwin has plenty of ideas for what he doesn't want to see on his show. For example, Baldwin is anti-earpiece, a widespread — if not essential — TV host accessory.
( Also on POLITICO: Alec Baldwin lashes out at Joe Scarborough)
"Right away, we did away with the earpiece, because I found that very distracting. I found it so artificial, and I wouldn't be able to have a conversation with someone talking in my ear repeatedly during the course of a program."
Other TV tropes Baldwin is skipping include any set design that reminds him of "RoboCop."
"In a Paul Verhoeven movie, when you cut to the news in, like 'RoboCop,' you're in some futuristic world where all of the sudden we're going to show the news on TV, and the news is on some almost Vegas-like set, shiny, sparkly."
Instead, he'd love to have something akin to Charlie Rose's simple setup, but don't expect that either.
"I wanted to do that, and MSNBC is not going to do that," Baldwin said.
( Also on POLITICO: Alec Baldwin, MSNBC's anti-wonk)
Here's what Baldwin is aiming for: the interview he rarely gets himself. Baldwin was inspired in part by all the "very frustrating and unsatisfactory" one-on-ones he's endured.
"It was either just dull, or they ask me the same stuff or someone just clicked on the Internet and asked the Top Five things on Google. It was a very tedious format, and the entertainment press is just the worst of all. Ninety percent of them are just going through the motions. They don't really care. … I want to do a show that was more like how I would like to be treated if I were the guest on a show."
The idea for TV sprang from his WNYC podcast, "Here's the Thing," which Baldwin hoped essentially to replicate for network television. But when there were no slots available on NBC, MSNBC President Phil Griffin "jumped up and said he had a time slot" for Baldwin.
Compared to his podcast, Baldwin says he's been "astounded" by how much more difficult TV has been.
( Also on POLITICO: MSNBC teases Baldwin's new show)
"The podcast was like shooting baskets in the park compared to this."
"I wasn't that wild about that idea because MSNBC — which I'm a fan of — it had a certain stamp that I wasn't sure I wanted to wear. It is this harshly political thing and, regardless of my own politics, I wasn't sure I wanted to dine out on that," Baldwin said.
Griffin himself eventually sold Baldwin on the idea, but the speed at which the show has come together was "difficult" as well.
"The only drawback — the only legitimate drawback — is that we're putting it together very quickly," Baldwin said. "Once we cemented this deal, then we had a race to do all these things that are the particulars of TV: Build a set and get all of that up and going, which I must say was this really monumentally difficult task to get it ready by Oct. 11, which was their goal. … I was unprepared for how difficult that would be."
( Also on POLITICO: Alec Baldwin: Weiner should quit)
And then there's the fact that Baldwin, who has enjoyed decades of professional success in television, movies and theater, had to adjust to life in the land of cable news.
"I'm going from a world where it was — certainly never all about me, but it was more about me, and now I'm one of many in this factory."
So who does he want to book? He reels off a few names. Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. Sen. John McCain. Former President Bill Clinton. But also some people you might not be as familiar with; Baldwin says the show will try to avoid "people who have a microphone all the time."
"We're looking for someone who's more of a rare catch, people you maybe haven't heard from in a while."
( PHOTOS: Celebs react to NSA story)
Guests aside, Baldwin was focused on honing his skills on how to conduct an interview.
"It's been a tremendous learning curve for me because it really is very different," he said. "People who do that well, news people who do that well, I have a newly gained respect for them because for me to do this has been really tough."
But Baldwin's hand-wringing comes from his high hopes for the show and expectations for himself.
"Obviously, I'm whining because we want it to be good," he said. "I think that whatever we come up with in the first weeks and couple of months, it'll grow and be different again and again and again."
"I've given myself a very tall order and, whether I make it or not, who knows. … We'll see how it goes."


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Prison Rape: Still Not Funny
The U.S. Justice Department has issued a new set of guidelines designed to stem prison rape, which "may afflict one out of every 10 prisoners," according to the NYT. The guidelines are mostly basic standards of staffing, planning, and other common-sense measures. But I submit to you that the following bit of the overview is as bracing a section as you're likely to find in a government report:
For too long, incidents of sexual abuse against incarcerated persons have not been taken as seriously as sexual abuse outside prison walls. In popular culture, prison rape is often the subject of jokes; in public discourse, it has been at times dismissed by some as an inevitable—or even deserved—consequence of criminality.
But sexual abuse is never a laughing matter, nor is it punishment for a crime. Rather, it is a crime, and it is no more tolerable when its victims have committed crimes of their own. Prison rape can have severe consequences for victims, for the security of correctional facilities, and for the safety and well-being of the communities to which nearly all incarcerated persons will eventually return.
Zero tolerance policies + Mandatory minimums + Prison rape crisis + Rampant recidivism + Funding cutbacks + Public indifference = God Bless America. Better solve that prison rape crisis since we know that all of the prisoners will be coming back to these prisons again. (Prison is a prisoner's most promised community, in America.)
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BERLIN – The 40 honorees in the premiere Charitable Souls campaign, organized under The Dispatch Shore Stars initiative, were announced this week.
In a five-week period, more than 100 nominations were received and the Charitable Souls committee selected the honorees last weekend.
"These folks are each inspirational in different ways. Their stories of charitable giving and genuine volunteer spirit epitomize true generosity," said The Dispatch Publisher Steve Green. "We have merely scratched the surface here, as there are plenty of other people who give of themselves to make this community a better place to work and call home, but we are extremely proud to announce our first batch of worthy honorees."
This year's honorees are Dr. William Allen, Ed Battisfore, Bruce Bright, Stephanie Colletti, Bob Cook, Ed Dorang, Dale Dunning, Reba Felty, Todd Ferrante, Fred Fields, Anna Foultz, Roy Frick, Rosie Garlitz, Irene Hansen, Dawn Hodge, Phil Houck, Harry How, Madalaine How, Carolyn Jenkins, Joan Jenkins, Jacqueline Jennings, Nancy Jones, Ryan Kirby, Patricia Ilczuk-Lavanceau, Odette Lineweaver, Bonnie Luna, Elsie MacMullin, Ken MacMullin, John Maphis, Mitchel Marriner, Patti Miller, Ed Montgomery, Bill O'Donnell, Dan Peletier, Stacy Schaffer, Al Sgro, Michael Staicer, Jeff Thaler, Rina Thaler and Priscilla Zytkowicz.
The honorees include 20 men and 20 women, with 10 from the Salisbury area, one from Delaware, 10 from the Berlin-Ocean Pines area and 19 from Ocean City.
The honorees will be featured in a special magazine on Feb. 25 that will be inserted into The Dispatch and circulated at the awards celebration on March 2 at Fager's Island. The awards event will be an upscale cocktail party recognizing the honorees. Tickets are now available for the event and can be purchased at www.thedispatchshorestars.com or by calling 410-641-4561.
These individuals volunteer through a variety of nonprofit organizations including Diakonia, Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services, Junior Achievement, Atlantic General Hospital, Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Joseph House, Village of Hope, Community Foundation, United Way, Worcester GOLD, Red Cross, Coastal Hospice, Worcester County Habitat and others.
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The Dim Side of Dimensions (Bug Watch AutoCAD Tutorial)31 Jan, 2007 By: Steve Johnson
Find those bugs while they're young, and discover why editing objects can make your dimensions demented.
Bashing Bugs Before They Hatch
What's the best way to eradicate bugs? Squish 'em before they start running around and causing problems. For Autodesk products, the best way is to join the MyFeedback program, which gives you several ways to tell Autodesk about subjects you consider important. A particularly valuable way to become involved is the Beta Testing Program. If you join this program, you can try out the next release before it ships, and point out specific issues to Autodesk developers that are potentially going to cause you pain -- including bugs.
Here's an article by MyFeedback program manager Shaan Hurley that explains how you can sign up for AutoCAD Beta. There are beta programs for all Autodesk products, not just AutoCAD. Although I stick to plain AutoCAD in this column, many vertical variants of AutoCAD are in even more need of bug eradication. Don't be put off if you're a user of, say, Autodesk Civil 3D, because your help is very much needed.
The earlier in the software development cycle bugs are discovered, the cheaper they are to remove. This means you will have a much better chance of killing an AutoCAD bug by pointing it out in the Beta program than by any other method. Although the details must remain confidential, as a result of my involvement in the MyFeedback program there are specific things in AutoCAD that now work much better than they otherwise would. That's pretty rewarding.
The program also offers more tangible rewards. For example, Autodesk awards Autodesk University Scholarships to a few active MyFeedback participants every year. Last year, I was fortunate to be one of the scholarship winners. I spent a wonderful week in Las Vegas at Autodesk's expense and returned with a bulging bag of bling.
That doesn't mean Bug Watch is going to start going soft on Autodesk! Please keep sending me your bugs, because it's important that your fellow Cadalyst readers know about them, not just Autodesk.
Dimension Disorder (2002 to 2007 SP1)
Submitted by Ralph Grabowski
First, make sure you have object-associative dimensioning turned On. Set the DIMASSOC system variable to 2. Next, draw a rectangle and dimension all four sides. (Yes, I know it's bad practice, but that's not important right now.) You should see something like this:
A simple dimensioned rectangle.
Now set a fillet radius and fillet the rectangle using the Polyline option. What would you expect to see? Something like this, perhaps?
Expected result after Fillet command.
Instead, AutoCAD gives you something like this.
The actual result after the Fillet command.
You don't have to use the Fillet command's Polyline option for this to happen. The same sort of thing occurs when filleting the corners one at a time. The Chamfer command has similar issues.
What's going on here? It appears that the dimensions are associated with specific polyline vertices. The Fillet and Chamfer commands insert new vertices, and in turn push the existing vertices around. The Fillet and Chamfer commands simply aren't smart enough to handle a situation when there are dimensions associated with the polyline.
There are other commands that are similarly unintelligent. Use the Break command on that rectangle and you may see something like this.
Result after Break command.
That result is actually pretty good, compared with other cases you might come across. Put a break in the first segment of this polyline and see what happens.
Before Break command.
You might expect to see this.
Expected result after Break command.
Instead, you'll see this.
Actual result after Break command.
The Break command results in two polylines and the dimensions are all shifted onto the first polyline, creating an unholy mess.
Why is this a bug and not just a wishlist item? Because it doesn't have to be like this. Some AutoCAD commands are smart enough to deal with situations like this, others are not. If you have some convenient cutting edges, you can use the Trim command to punch exactly the same hole in the above polyline, with the result shown below.
Result after Trim command.
Similarly, the Pedit command interacts with the dimension objects intelligently enough to provide reasonable results if you use the Insert, Straighten or Break sub-options of the Edit vertex option.
Workaround. I'm not going to suggest you explode your dimensions, because I don't want Dialog Box filled with irate correspondence pointing out how irresponsible I am! I even feel nervous suggesting that depending on your circumstances, you may find it is preferable to use point-associative (DIMASSOC=1) dimensions instead of object-associative ones (DIMASSOC=2). I will just suggest that if your dimensions suffer a prolapse when you edit something, try alternative editing methods such as the Trim example above.
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My Little Peppermint Stick
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Are these from Hanna Andersson? I love those jammies. My little boy just finally got too big for the zip up ones a few months ago and I was so sad. P.S. both of my babies have been skinny but healthy!ReplyDelete
Love her serious face!ReplyDelete
She is A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas to your family.
Oh my word. That is one DARLING peppermint stick! Such cute pics of little Janey AND Patrick! They are adorable Sarah. Squeeze them tight this Christmas. :)ReplyDelete
She's so cute! She looks a lot like Patrick, but littler. She has the best expressions. Happy first Christmas sweet Janey.ReplyDelete
Janey is so adorable! My son is only 15 months old , yet when I see pictures of Janey I always get a little broody!ReplyDelete
Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.
That is one adorable outfit on your gorgeous baby :)ReplyDelete
My son has always been in the 97th percentile for height and 50th for weight. Nothing fits him! If its long enough its way to big everywhere else. Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the smile...she is adorable! Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
she is delicious!!!ReplyDelete
Okay...here's what my two were saying this morning seeing little Janey, (Jackson) "OOOHHHHH she is so cute mom. (he is the baby lover) Look at her...she is so cute! We need a baby like that Mom!" (Emma-Kate) "Yeah, Mom we do!"ReplyDelete
Someone told me just this week that my baby isn't a baby anymore...
I love those little pj's!! She does look like a little peppermint stick!
Cutest little thing!! My boys have always been very long and skinny so I understand the clothing issues ha! Oh and you have made me brave enough to try for more babies. We have 3 boys, but I had a horrible case of hypermesis with the last, and just decided that was enough. He is now Patrick's age and I still haven't gotten over wanting more babies. Thank you for sharing all you do. You have really helped me more than you know. Merry Christmas!!ReplyDelete
She is so beautiful and precious. Just got my princess those jammies, but the two piece version. Cannot beat Hanna for jammies.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas
She is a very beautiful baby. Many blessings to Janey, you and your family in the coming year!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Baby Girl!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Very very sweet!!ReplyDelete
You can come chat with me in a few years...we've got kids at the top of the chart in height and low for weight and it is a nightmare to find them jeans/pants! We've survived on Gap slims with the adjustable waists for years for all four kids. Unlike me; I was the opposite as a child. They take after their dad and it's annoying to watch them eat and eat and it never catches up! Have fun dressing her--dresses, jumpers and leggings are the way to go!
She is just so precious! That picture made me smile :)ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, she's so darling. I love her sweet little smile and her "serious" look. Couldn't think of a better gift for Christmas.ReplyDelete
Wish I lived closer...I would be a weird blogger person and just show up to hold that sweet-pea.ReplyDelete
cute as a button
I love her look. And those jammies.ReplyDelete
I have a 9-month-big ol' chubby girl! She's in 12-18 month clothes comfortably!
She is so cute. Love those photosReplyDelete
She looks perfectly chubbalicious to me! Those expressions, priceless!ReplyDelete
Cheers - Joolz
beautiful! my 8th baby is the same way- didn't do anything different but she seems "leaner" than my other babies...is it b/c we're older and our milk changes? (i'm 41.) they're healthy though and couldn't be cuter. enjoy!ReplyDelete


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Self promotion
Owen Wilson starred in a really bad movie that came out a few months ago. Most notable: he didn't go out to shill for it. No Colbert, no Daily Show, no Larry King.
Perhaps he's nursing a bad cold, but my guess is that he didn't want to extend his personal brand to promote a movie just because he was in it.
Here's an interesting dichotomy:
Watch this because I'm in it
I'm in it because you'll enjoy watching it.
I published a book so I need you to read it
There's something you need to read, so I wrote about it.
I'm fifty and I just made an album because it was time for me to make one.
These songs won't let go of me and I want to share them with you because they matter.
The first is me-centric and explains that we're promoting something that got made because we need to sell it. What we do is make stuff and sell it, and what you do is buy it or watch it. "I needed to make something to sell, here's the best I could do."
The second is you-centric. It starts with the needs and desires of the consumer and ignores the committees, the compromises and the economic realities. It says, "I found something for you, here it is."
Most of the time, most b2b and most consumer products are sold on the basis of: Yes, there are other choices, but this is the one we make. I'm not sure that's a good enough reason.
80% of the mail and promotion I get (and 98% of the ads) fall into this category. The enthusiasm of commerce, not of belief and pride.
[Apologies if I've given Owen motivations that weren't accurate. Readers have let me know about his recent troubles, and I certainly meant no disrespect.]


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|PostgreSQL 8.4.22 Documentation
|Fast Backward
|Chapter 41. PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
|Fast Forward
The PL/Python language module automatically imports a Python
module called plpy. The functions and
constants in this module are available to you in the Python code
as plpy.foo. At present plpy implements the functions plpy.debug(msg),
plpy.log(msg), plpy.info(msg),
plpy.notice(msg), plpy.warning(msg),
plpy.error(msg), and plpy.fatal(msg).
plpy.error and
plpy.fatal actually raise a Python
exception which, if uncaught, propagates out to the calling
query, causing the current transaction or subtransaction to be
aborted. raise plpy.ERROR(msg) and raise
plpy.FATAL(msg) are
equivalent to calling
plpy.fatal, respectively. The
other functions only generate messages of different priority
levels. Whether messages of a particular priority are reported to
the client, written to the server log, or both is controlled by
the log_min_messages
and client_min_messages
configuration variables. See Chapter 18 for more information.
Additionally, the plpy module
provides two functions called
execute and
prepare. Calling
plpy.execute with a query string and an
optional limit argument causes that query to be run and the
result to be returned in a result object. The result object
emulates a list or dictionary object. The result object can be
accessed by row number and column name. It has these additional
nrows which returns the
number of rows returned by the query, and
status which is the
SPI_execute() return value. The result object
can be modified.
For example:
rv = plpy.execute("SELECT * FROM my_table", 5)
returns up to 5 rows from my_table. If my_table has a column my_column, it would be accessed as:
foo = rv[i]["my_column"]
The second function,
plpy.prepare, prepares the
execution plan for a query. It is called with a query string and
a list of parameter types, if you have parameter references in
the query. For example:
plan = plpy.prepare("SELECT last_name FROM my_users WHERE first_name = $1", [ "text" ])
text is the type of the variable you
will be passing for $1. After preparing
a statement, you use the function
plpy.execute to run it:
rv = plpy.execute(plan, [ "name" ], 5)
The third argument is the limit and is optional.
When you prepare a plan using the PL/Python module it is automatically saved. Read the SPI documentation (Chapter 42) for a description of what this means. In order to make effective use of this across function calls one needs to use one of the persistent storage dictionaries SD or GD (see Section 41.1). For example:
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According to news on March 31, following the price adjustment of raw paper companies in January, a number of household paper companies have recently issued a wave of "price increase letters", planning to adjust their prices in April. Why does the price of paper "go up again and again"? Do you want to stock up toilet paper and pumping paper used at home? The reporter interviewed many companies and industry experts.
Sound up! Vinda, Qingfeng, and Jierou intend to increase their prices by more than 10%
Recently, the well-known domestic paper company "Zhongshun Jierou" issued a price adjustment notice to distributors and channel dealers, starting from April 1st to substantially adjust the prices of its household paper products.
Almost before and after, the tissue giants such as Vinda and Qingfeng have issued price adjustment letters, proposing to increase product prices from April. "We plan to increase the price by 10% to 20%." A head of a giant paper company told reporters.
Zhang Xiao, chief analyst of the light industry industry of Great Wall Securities, said: "The proposed price adjustments of several major household paper\'head brands\' are basically above 10%."
The main reason for the "rising" of tissue paper companies is that the prices of raw materials continue to rise, leading to a sharp rise in production costs.
A "Qingfeng" brand paper product price increase notice in early March wrote that the price of pulp has been rising recently, and now softwood pulp has reached 7,400 yuan/ton, and hardwood pulp has reached 6,400 yuan/ton, and futures prices are even higher. This year\'s pulp price is estimated to exceed 8,900 yuan/ton at the peak of 2017.
According to industry experts, the most important raw material for household paper is wood pulp, which accounts for about 60% of the total cost. Since the third quarter of 2020, wood pulp prices have continued to rise, nearly doubling.
Some large paper companies rely on their capital advantages to stock up more low-priced wood pulp in the early stage. However, as the stock of wood pulp is gradually consumed, large companies have also begun to increase prices.
Some paper companies stop production and reduce production, and small and medium-sized enterprises are facing a "double-sided attack"
As the prices of raw materials continue to rise, non-leading companies cannot bear the sharp increase in costs, and it is difficult for them to pass the price increase to the downstream. Many companies, especially small and medium-sized paper companies, simply choose to reduce or suspend production.
Can the supply of roll paper and pumping paper keep up? Is it necessary to stock up paper?
At present, many companies have cut and stopped production. Although the price of wood pulp began to adjust in mid-March, it is still running at a high level. Some consumers worry whether the supply of household paper is guaranteed? Is it necessary to stock up some rolls and tissues?
Zhao Wei said that in terms of total amount, there should be no problem with the supply of household paper, and there is little possibility of paper shortage. The unit price of household paper is not high, and there are still irregular promotional activities in the market. Sellers will use implicit price increases such as reducing discounts to make consumers feel inconspicuous.
"The price adjustment notice is sent by the manufacturer to the wholesaler. It takes a process to pass from the wholesaler to the terminal. In addition, the paper mills and distributors, supermarkets, and e-commerce have inventory. Therefore, the price of toilet paper on the market is still It is stable and can even support it for a period of time." Yin Ting said.
Zhou Qichao, deputy general manager of Zhongshun Jierou Paper Co., Ltd., also told reporters that although the price adjustment started on April 1, the price increase is not in place in one step, and it may take 2 to 3 months to execute.
Reporters have seen in supermarkets and large e-commerce platforms that most of the paper rolls and paper pumps are currently being discounted and promoted. Some consumers interviewed also said that they did not feel a significant price increase, and some people stocked more household paper during the "Double 11" last year.
"We often buy 180 grams of toilet paper per roll, 10 rolls, the price is about 20 yuan. Calculated by a 10% increase in price, a mention may cost about 2 yuan. If you want to save 10 yuan, you have to buy 5 mentions and go home. It takes up more space." A consumer said bluntly.
However, industry insiders also said that although a number of leading paper companies issued "price increase letters", retail prices may not really be raised according to their increase. The current market supply is still oversupply, and how much the consumer end will eventually rise depends on the price trend of wood pulp, the game between enterprises and e-commerce, distributors, and large supermarkets, and even more on the relationship between supply and demand.
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|Firebird Documentation Index → Firebird 2.0 Language Ref. Update → External functions (UDFs) → substrlen
Library: ib_udf
Added in: 1.0
Changed in: 1.5.2, 2.0
Better alternative: Internal function SUBSTRING()
Description: Returns the substring starting at
startpos and having
length characters (or less, if the end of the string is reached first). Positions are 1-based. If either
startpos or
length is smaller than 1, an empty string is returned. This function only works correctly with single-byte characters.
Result type: VARCHAR(
substrlen (
DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION substrlen CSTRING(255) NULL, SMALLINT, SMALLINT RETURNS CSTRING(255) FREE_IT ENTRY_POINT 'IB_UDF_substrlen' MODULE_NAME 'ib_udf'
The above declaration is from the file
ib_udf2.sql. The NULL after the argument is an optional addition that became available in Firebird 2. If the argument is declared with the NULL keyword, the engine will pass a
NULLargument value unchanged to the function. This leads to a
NULLresult, which is correct. Without the NULL keyword (your only option in pre-2.0 versions),
NULLis passed to the function as an empty string and the result is an empty string as well.
For more information about passing
NULLs to UDFs, see the note at the end of this book.
Depending on how you declare it (see CSTRING note), this function can accept and return strings of up to 32767 characters.
Before Firebird 2.0, the result type was CHAR(
In Firebird 1.5.1 and below, the default declaration used CSTRING(80) instead of CSTRING(255).
Firebird 1.0 has also implemented the internal SQL function SUBSTRING, effectively rendering
substrlen obsolete in the same version in which it was introduced. SUBSTRING also supports multi-byte character sets. In new code, use SUBSTRING.
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Oferta: Junior Accountant / Accountant with German
At METRO we say We make it count because our Accounting&Controlling is not just about numbers, we make it count for more. As the Global Solution Center in Szczecin, we already have more than 400 employees, we have been operating in Szczecin for 11 years, and in our internal engagement survey, almost 90% of our employees said that working at METRO is meaningful and allows them to grow. METRO is a leading international wholesaler operating in more than 30 countries worldwide with more than 93,000 employees. Join us, feel the We make it count spirit and create a METRO community for which Accounting always counts for something more.
What can you count on?
METRO Global Solution Center means development in many areas - we provide, among others, training in accounting, software, soft skills and language courses for free. With us you will gain experience in business, but also broaden cultural and language horizons in an international environment. Due to continuous development, we run many projects related to the optimization and standardization of accounting processes, which involves the possibility of traveling to clients from almost all of Europe and the use of additional languages besides English, if you know them. So if you are a great team player with allergy to boredom, you have analytical and Excel skills, apply to one of our departments!
General duties:
- responsibility for performing basic tasks within a selected area of accounting,
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FOERSTER Russland AO was founded in 2008 and is exclusive distributor of FOERSTER Holding GmbH in Russian Federation and CIS.
FOERSTER Russland AO distributes testing equipment for non-destructive materials testing by means of eddy current, magnetic flux leakage and ultrasonic technology. Also FOERSTER Russland AO distributes devises for measuring magnetic fields and detection of metals.
Another activity is the after-sales service for FOERSTER equipment.
Field of activities of FOERSTER Russland AO:
- Wholesale supplies of equipment for non-destructive testing and detection of metals;
- Wholesale supplies spare parts and accessories
- Instruments for the determination of electromagnetic material properties
- Metal detectors and magnetometers for landmine and ordnance (UXO) detection, geophysical and archaeological survey
- To rendering of services in translation of documentation and software into Russian, adjustment, commissioning, repair and verification of the delivered equipment.
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In 1993, Judge Levine was appointed to the Court of Appeals. See his full biography HERE.
Judge Howard A. Levine was born in Troy on March 4, 1932. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1956, the same year he was admitted to the New York State Bar. He was elected in 1970 to Schenectady County Family Court, a position he held until 1980. That year, he was elected a Supreme Court Justice for the Fourth Judicial District. Effective at the beginning of 1982, he was designated to the Appellate Division, Third Department. On August 13, 1993, Gov. Cuomo appointed him to the Court of Appeals. He became the 200th jurist to sit on the Court of Appeals since it was founded in 1846. He retired at the end of 2002 and joined an Albany law firm.


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Posting Colors Service Hour Project
Post date: May 15, 2015 4:21:19 PM
May 20 (Wed.) Posting Colors Service Hour Project
6:30 p.m. Bluff City Cemetery
We have adopted a section of the Cemetery and we're to place flags on the graves of the servicemen buried there. Takes about 1½ hours. Wear uniforms. Bring/wear mosquito repellent. Our section is number 18 and is bounded byCedar, Grove, Hill and Dell Aves. You enter the cemetery through the East entrance, drive past the building and turn left on Fairlawn, right on Linden, then left on Dell. We'll be parked on Cedar.
May 27 (Wed.) Retiring Colors
6:30 p.m. Bluff City Cemetery
We will collect the flags. Takes about ¼ hour.
This is a way of honoring our country and giving service – both are principles of Boy Scouting. Parents and brothers and sisters are encouraged to help.


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Unfortunately no white, snowy Christmas but at least we're having gingerbread and a tree. Happy new week! Photo: M Linnman
Monday, 23 December 2013
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Christmas inspiration
Christmas inspiration via Share Design.
1-2: Source: Swedish Elle Interiör. Photographer: Petra Bindel. Stylist: Emma Persson Lagerberg. 3: Source: Weekday Carnival. 4: Source: My Second Hand Life. 5: Photographer: An Magritt. 6-7: Source: Herriott Grace
Etiketter: Christmas
Monday, 16 December 2013
Paris snapshots
Going to Paris is always an inspiration. Of course I also had to picture the red Merci-car as everyone else. Happy new week! Photo: M Linnman
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Desktop details
I'm not that digital yet and love to write notes for everything, ideas, thoughts and things to remember. Photo: M Linnman.
Monday, 9 December 2013
For Christmas I just can't live without Hyacinths and their lovely scent. Also on the table wall knobs for kids room. Happy new week! Photo: M Linnman.
Sunday, 8 December 2013
My favourite place at home, in the sofa with a bunch of large books.
Ash trays, Stig Lindberg and candle holder by Folkform. Photo: M Linnman.
Friday, 6 December 2013
I can't resist beautifully packed hand creams (actually anything beautifully packed). This is one of my favourites. Happy friday! Photo. M Linnman
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Starting up December with a small christmas tree and hopefully we'll have some snow tomorrow.
Photo M. Linnman
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It Only Costs $500 to Ride a Manatee in Florida
A woman in St. Petersburg, Florida was arrested yesterday after the local sheriff's department published photos of her riding a manatee in nearby Tampa Bay. The woman, identified as Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, has been charged with violating the Florida Marine Sanctuary Act, which seeks to "protect and preserve living and other resources of the Florida Keys marine environment."
Deputies said that Ana admitted to "touching and riding a manatee at Fort Desoto Park" back in September, but "did not realize" it was against the law to do so at the time, having recently moved to the area. Earlier in October, the sheriff's department declined to arrest Ana after she submitted to questioning since she had not committed a crime in the presence of any deputies. Instead they forwarded her case along to the State Attorney's Office, which issued a warrant and arrested her yesterday.
The charge carries with it either a fine up to $500 or a maximum of 60 days in jail, which seems a small price to pay for a once-in-a-lifetime experience like riding a manatee. Anyone with a halfway decent breaststroke can swim with dolphins; dolphins have no discernible taste in swimming partners and will just as happily bound alongside a person as they will a dead jellyfish or photo-degraded plastic debris field.
A manatee, however - these gentle giants that can live to be 60 years old and drift sagely from drowned forest to swamp to open sea - that's something worth swimming with. If you can do one better and coax one of them into letting you ride on its back like Amphitrite herself, then that's worth whatever cost those land-dwelling lawmen try to exact from you.
Officials believe that the manatee has survived its encounter with Ana with all its facilities and faculties intact.


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I am selling at Artisans on Second, 175 S Second St, Hamilton, MT 59840 - 406.961.9600 Visit Facebook aMontanaView on Facebook Please leave comments! You can also email me at email@example.com. About me: I live south of Missoula, Montana on the west side of the Bitterroot valley. Many of my photos are taken here in western Montana, but also around the world. I love being outdoors. I hike, bike, fish, hunt, ski and ALWAYS take photos. I use a Canon 7D and 5D Mark III (with a few lenses and tripods) and shoot in RAW. I process my photos into JPG with Adobe Lightroom with as few adjustments as possible.
General photos of Hardtimes 2011
Third annual - the festival took place on the Heiland Ranch a few miles south of Hamilton, Montana USA. Visit the Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival website - bookmark it for next year's information. These photos were taken Saturday, July 23 in the afternoon and early evening. The festival goes for three days; Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Read More