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Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Facing an Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP) deadline
I've been thinking about significance of deadlines. This morning the BBC breakfast show featured a story about the approaching EHCP transfer deadline. This was set by Government for all local authorities to transfer an old document called a 'Statement of Special Educational Needs' to the new Education, Health and Care Plan - a document set out as part of the Children's Act 2014 to improve things for kids, like mine, who need additional support with their education.
The problem is that come 31st March, there are going to be several thousand children still waiting for their old education statement to be replaced with one of the new EHCP documents. As these are legal documents providing support for child with special educational needs, the worry is, what will happen when this is missed? What will happen to the education of one of my kids, awaiting this transfer and to those like him?
I have recently been indulging in one of the series on Netflix called Reign. It's a sort of Twilight styled dramatisation of Mary Queen of Scots and her time in France. Queen Mary and her French King rule France and many of the stories of the episodes are around some kind of deadline.
Some of those deadlines are really important for the people of France. For example if the Royals couldn't secure any grain, then people in France were going to die of starvation. Some of the deadlines have less serious consequences, like missing a feast, and others keep moving such as the point when Queen Mary should claim she wants the crown of England.
What will the deadline for the transfer of EHCP's mean to children across England today?
Well the truth is, that it may mean different things to different children. According to the BBC report this morning IPSEA have said that children with the old Statement of SEN will still find the document legal, even passed the deadline and right up until the EHCP transfer actually happens. But it seems like this may be a grey area - a grey area my son may be in.
However the approaching EHCP deadline may have had further repercussions.
In a rush to get grain for the starving people of France, Queen Mary nearly cost her husband the crown of France. She definitely upset several nobles and this had consequences in other areas of the French court.
In an effort to meet the Government deadline, there have been concerns amongst parents that the very complicated process of reassessing the needs of thousands of children and then transferring the needs of a child from one document to another, have unfortunately not been given the amount of time needed for such complicated paperwork. The rush has created a risk to thoroughness and quality.
According to reports, some parents have found parts of the support for the children missing or that the new document seems to have no resemblance to one they've had previously. Could the looming deadline have been responsible for these errors? Could the pushing of information and reports through fast to meet the deadline be what's happened?
The EHCP transfer is a 20 week process. This means that in order to meet 31st March deadline parents would've needed to have started this with their Local Authorities(LAs) at the beginning of November.
At the end of September, I had not received any notice of my son's transfer. Aware of the approaching deadlines and concerned that to meet deadlines, reports or processes may be rushed, I organised with our son's school to get the various professional reports and paperwork ready in advance. This meant that when finally a letter arrived at the end of November, much of the work had already been done by those involved with my son.
There were nearly 250,000 children with Statements of SEN to be moved. It's a lot, and every year more children need support and more parents are appealing for more support. Those who work in SEN are very busy people. I was concerned about the quality of reports informing our son's EHCP that may happen if the professionals were given too short a turn around time for them.
It is far more important to me that the right decision is made and the right provision is provided in a new EHCP and that details are transferred over correctly from our existing statement than it being completed by, was may seem to be, an arbitrary government deadline.
For other parents though the deadline is very important. For some parents with children now heading into adulthood, the new EHCP was to provide support for education up to the age of 25. These parents and children may be left in some kind of legal limbo?
Perhaps for some of us the deadline will simply move along. Waiting for the new document will be what needs to happen. I know I would rather wait and get things right for our son, than rush and get it wrong.
Sometimes we have no choices and can't control what goes on around us. But, unlike Mary Queen of Scots, I'd rather not lose my head over this. I'm hoping to work to get the legal document that will secure my son's right to an appropriate education right. I just hope that I and others are given this opportunity too.
I talk more about EHCP Transfers and special educational needs in general on this interview on Wandsworth Radio - please get in touch with me if you have any questions and I'll help where I can.
You can visit Special Needs Jungle for further information on the Freedom of Information request into EHCP Transfers featured on BBC Breakfast.
If you need support you can contact Independent Parental Special Education Advice (IPSEA) and book a call back on their on their Advice or Tribunal Helplines
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A Gluten-Free Holiday is off to a wonderful start! Ricki at Diet, Dessert and Dogs kicked us off with tips to stay healthy during the holidays and shared some delicious truffles. Then, Shirley at Gluten-Free Easily shared a no-fail pie crust recipe and we linked our Thanksgiving favorites. Last week Alta from Tasty Eats at Home got us thinking about Gifts of Good Taste. She shared her Macadamia Almond Brittle and Pistachio Coconut Macaroons. Hopefully by now you are aware that each week there are tons of great cookbooks given away. Check out below and see which really amazing cookbook authors want to give you their books. Next week visit Carrie at Ginger Lemon Girl for Holiday Breakfasts and Brunch.
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This week I'm honored to host your Favorite Christmas and Hanukkah Entrees and Side Dishes. Now I realize we just cleaned up from Thanksgiving, but Hanukkah has started and Christmas is only 23 days away. So now is the time to get planning and test cooking those dishes.
I've been playing with some new recipes that include favorites for Christmas from England. I'm so excited this year to be hosting a Boxing Day Celebration with some relatives from Lincolnshire. Tony has informed me that the best sausages come from Lincolnshire. Well since he can't bring them with him, and they're probably not gluten free, I'm working on my version of the favorite Chipolatas. I did find some resources for gluten free sausages in UK, The Black Farmer which sound great.
I also found a few blogs from the UK for gluten free living: UK Gluten Free, I'm Gluten Free Baby, Free From Gluten, Wheat Free Living, Nonni's Table or UK Coeliac, and the Coeliac UK site. You have already heard me talk about Straight to Bed Cake Free and Dried but check it out again.
But I digress, so back to the sausages!
This version can be made two ways. You can either start with my PancettaSage Sausage recipe or use the one I'm sharing here. Now most of the recipes I've seen for sausage in the UK uses rusk or what we call bread crumbs. Not something I'm that keen on using even if it's gluten free. So I don't add that ingredient.
While researching chipolatas I found that for the holidays there are two key things to be added, sage and bacon.
So here is my US/VA version of the UK Chipolatas.
1 pound fresh ground organic pork
1/2 tsp granulated onion
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp mace
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper
2-3 TBS rubbed sage
1/2 cup very cold water
Fresh Sage leaves for each sausage link
Slice of bacon for each sausage link
If you like to save money buy a Pork Butt and grind it yourself. If you don't have a meat grinder attachment no problem, you can get ground pork at the market. You can also get the pork butt at the grocery and ask them to rough grind it once for you. One more reason to get to know your butcher.
Mix the remaining ingredients on the list down to the water into the pork. To make sure everything is combined really well after the initial mix, I toss it all into the food processor. Don't over process it or you'll have pork soup. If you pulse just enough to work the seasonings into all of the pork.
Now if you happen to get some sausage casings and have that attachment to your mixer than start making your sausage. I don't have that attachement and prefer to roll my sausages by hand with no casings.
Because I do these by hand they will not look like the traditional long thin chipolatas but they taste great.
These are mild sausages so if you like to taste more of the seasonings double the amounts of seasonings called for in the recipe.
Now to cook these sausages for the holidays you'll want to add a couple more items. Take each sausage and place a fresh sage leaf on top and then wrap the whole thing with a slice of bacon. Lay them on the cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
Place into a 400 degree preheated oven and cook until the bacon is crisp which should be enough time for the sausages to cook too. This should take approximately 20 minutes. WARNING: Your house will smell amazing and will draw people from every room.
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New Horizons: January 2002
Also in this issue
by Geoffrey Thomas
by John MacArthur
What about Prophecy and Tongues Today?
by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.
The Westminster Confession of Faith begins:
Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation. Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing: which maketh the holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased [emphasis added].
With these words, we confess that the written revelation of God is at the heart of biblical religion. To support this paragraph, the Westminster divines cited the well-known texts 2 Timothy 3:15 and 2 Peter 1:19. In addition, they cited Luke 1:3-4.
In the prologue to his gospel, Luke places the written Word of God on center stage. He says that he wrote out his account for Theophilus so that he might grow in the certain and exact knowledge of the things that he had been taught concerning all that Jesus began to do and to teach (Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1). Here Luke tells us that the writing enterprise stands at the heart of biblical religion, that biblical religion actually moves toward the writing down of God's Word.
This was the consistent pattern throughout the history of God's dealings with his people. For Old Testament Israel, prophecy was primarily spoken, not written. We are familiar with men like Isaiah and Jeremiah, who wrote down their prophecies from God, often at his express command. But before them came prophets who did not write down their prophecies. Scripture calls Abraham a prophet, yet we have no writings produced by Abraham. Elijah and Elisha were also prophets, yet again we have no inspired writings from them. In the Old Testament revelation, there is a progression from the speaking prophets to the writing prophets. Throughout the history of divine revelation, the biblical religion moves toward the writing down of God's Word.
Writing down God's Word attaches permanence to it. Once the spoken word is uttered, it is gone. But when it is written down, it can be preserved permanently.
For that reason, many charge that writing it down makes it static and gets in the way of our own direct encounter with God. Not the Bible, they say, but direct experience brings vitality and spontaneity to our faith and life as Christians. And so liberalssuch as those in the so-called Jesus Projectcontend that the written Word is inferior to the oral tradition that came before it. And Roman Catholics contend that the written Word is inadequate apart from the authoritative tradition of the church. And charismatics contend that the written Word is lifeless apart from personal encounters with, and disclosures from, God.
But the recurring pattern of God's dealing with his people shows that in reality the very opposite is the case. The written Word is actually the superior mode of revelation. It replaces the spoken word because it is stamped with eternity, permanence, and heaven.
Luke's prologue demonstrates this in its movement from the oral accounts (to which he refers) to his written account. Luke specifically notes the transition from the former period, during which the New Testament church relied on the eyewitness-ministers' oral accounts of Jesus' acts and teachings, to the present period, in which the New Testament church relies on the written record of Jesus' acts and teachings. The oral period covered the gap between the time when Jesus' acts and teachings took place and the time when they were written down.
Verse 4 says that Luke wrote down his account so that "you [Theophilus] might know the exact truth about the things you have been taught." The verbal phrase "have been taught" is best understood as "have been orally instructed in." The relationship of those who were "eyewitnesses and servants [or, ministers] of the word" to those who were not (Luke 1:2) underscores this movement from the period of the spoken word to the period of the written Word. Note that Luke does not include himself among the eyewitnesses and ministers of the word. Rather, he presents himself as a second-generation Christian, as one who comes after the eyewitnesses of Jesus.
Now, the era that pertains to the "eyewitnesses and ministers" is known as the Apostolic Age. By Scripture's own definition, an apostle is one who was an "eyewitness and minister" during the time of Christ's earthly ministry (with the exception of the apostle Paul, to whom Christ made a special appearance). However, Luke and Theophilus belong to the postapostolic period. Luke matches the movement from the oral to the written Word with the movement from the apostolic to the postapostolic era. This transition to the postapostolic era stresses the permanent, eternal, and heavenly character of the written Word of God.
Several other passages in the New Testament also demonstrate this point, but due to space constraints, we will consider only 2 Peter 1:19. There is debate over the proper interpretation of this verse, but I am convinced that the King James Version got it right"We have also a more sure word of prophecy." In the context, the apostle Peter has been telling about his glorious experience of being on the Mount of Transfiguration (vss. 16-18; cf. Matt. 17:1-8). He relates that he actually heard a voice from heaven (vs. 18). But then he says that we, the church, have "a more sure word"the written Word (vs. 19).
The apostle Peter saw Jesus' glorious transfiguration. He heard the voice of God the Father from heaven. But, inspired by the Holy Spirit, he says that this personal experience and this spoken word from heaven are inferior to the "more sure word of prophecy"the written Word of God. John Murray observes:
The reading and preaching of the Word are the voice of God as truly as when the disciples heard the Father's witness to his own Son on the holy mount. The sense of high privilege accorded Peter, James, and John on that occasion is reflected in Peter's words: "And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount" (2 Pet. 1:18). But the astounding feature of the apostle's teaching in this instance is the assessment of Scripture: "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts" (2 Pet. 1:19). Scripture is continuously and abidingly the voice of God to us because, as "borne by the Holy Spirit, men spake from God" (vs. 21). (Collected Writings, vol. 1, pp. 239-40)
This absolute supremacy of God's written Word in its permanent, eternal, and heavenly charactereven over Peter's own experienceis all the more heightened by the particular timing of Peter's declaration. This apostle, an eyewitness-minister, is about to go away. He is about to leave this world (vs. 14) for the world above. So this is the apostle's last will and testament. It marks the close of the era of those who were eyewitnesses of Jesus' majesty. The apostolic era is ending and the postapostolic era is dawning. And, at this specific juncture, we have the apostle Peter's clear and definitive statement of the supremacy of the Spirit-inspired, written Word of God (vss. 20-21).
The apostle Peter, who belongs to the apostolic era, states that the written word of God is a more sure word of prophecy for us, the church, who belong to the postapostolic era, when there are no living apostles. In a representative way, the impending death of Peter anticipates the end of the apostolic era. And in this context Peter makes it plain to the church that the divinely inspired, written Word of God is supreme, as God's "more sure word"his last and final word to his church.
Think about it! If God's audible words and Peter's personal experience on the Mount of Transfiguration dwindle in comparison to God's written Word, then what should we think about modern claims of personal divine encounters, angelic visions, and the like? What should we think about claims to personal guidance apart from the Scriptures? God himself speaks "a more sure word of prophecy" in the written Word of God! It "is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword" (Heb. 4:12). We must never allow anything to displace the written Word of God as the final and sufficient source for Christian faith and life.
We live in the era in which there are no living apostlesno eyewitness-ministers of Jesus' acts and words. The written Word has come down to us from heaven above, from God himself. His final Word has come to us in these last days through his exalted Son (Heb. 1:2). It was the exalted Jesus' words and deeds that Spirit-inspired men wrote down for us (Acts 1:1-2).
In God's inspired, written Word, we hear God himself! In his inspired, written Word, we have fellowship with him together with his Son, Jesus Christthe Living Word. The Spirit of God preaches Christ to us in all the Scriptures, making our hearts burn within us (cf. Luke 24:32). May he enable us to keep clinging to our Savior by faith aloneto the end that our lives might more and more be conformed to our Savior's life, even as our lives are more and more conformed to his written Wordthat we might embrace the gospel with all certainty, that we may not fall, that we may remain steadfast in our Savior as members together of his glorious body, the church.
The author is the associate pastor at Grace OPC in Sewickley, Pa. Unless otherwise indicated, he quotes the NASB. Reprinted from New Horizons, January 2002.
New Horizons: January 2002
Also in this issue
by Geoffrey Thomas
by John MacArthur
What about Prophecy and Tongues Today?
by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.
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What's more, of the original 32, only 13 Pioneer ACOs saved enough to share savings with Medicare.\n\n\n\nLook beyond the headlines, though, and the concept of accountable care fared better. First, the Premier study estimates that there are as many as 500 ACOs in the United States. (An annoucement from the Centers from Medicare and Medicaid Services has since upped the number to more than 600.) In addition, seven of the nine Pioneer "dropouts" switched to the Medicare Shared Savings Program; though the MSSP carries less risk (and therefore less reward, it also emphasizes more coordinated care. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Health Affairs points out that it's more helpful, after but one year, to deem the Pioneer ACO Model a learning opportunity and not a flawed program.\n\nAnalytics May Help ACOs Succeed Where Capitation Failed\n\nJonathan Gluck, senior executive and corporate counsel with the Heritage Provider Network, says the ACO model, when you get down to it, is pretty simple. An organization has a pool of patients. Government benchmarks determine the amount of money the organization receives from public and private payers to care for those patients. Any money the organization saves gets shared among its members.\n\n\n"It's a much more effective model to provide higher quality care to more people for less money" than the incumbent fee-for-service model, Gluck says.\n\n\nBut it's hard to discuss the ACO model of today without bringing up the health maintenance organization (HMO) model of yesterday. The HMO relied on capitation, which sets a fixed amount of revenue for a healthcare provider. Success under capitation means managing risk and practicing preventive healthcare, as preventing illness costs less than treating it.\n\n\nCapitation took aim at the fee-for-service model of healthcare reimbursement that, in the mid-1990s, was only beginning to spiral out of control. It failed, though, in large part because physicians lacked the data to measure their own performance, IDC Health Insights wrote in last year's report, Business Strategy: Analytics Leads Accountable Care Investment Priority.\n\n\n"Not only was the available information limited to claims but it was retrospective," IDC wrote. "It was virtually impossible for physicians to understand their own practice patterns and determine how their performance needed to be modified. Most discussions between payers and providers resulted in arguments about the accuracy and timeliness of the data."\n\n\n[ Feature: Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT ]\n\n\n[ Also: Can Healthcare Big Data Reality Live Up to Its Promise? ]\n\n\nData \u2014 much more readily available than it was 20 years ago \u2014 will lead to a better fate for the ACO than the HMO, IDC said. Healthcare organizations are making needed investments in analytics and warehousing technology, not to mention staffing. They're also paying particular attention to population health management, especially for patients with chronic conditions or those participating in wellness programs to better manage their health.\n\n\nTo do this, the Premier Inc. survey found, hospitals partner with a bevy of entities, from local public health departments and nearby large employers to payers (public and private) and external providers.\n\nWith ACO Analytics, 'Getting Lost in the Weeds' All Too Easy\n\nPioneer, MSSP or otherwise, ACOs face a variety of technology challenges. These include electronic health record (EHR) adoption, clinical systems interoperability and patient engagement \u2014 but data analytics is the arguably the biggest obstacle of all.\n\n\nIt's great to marry payer and provider data to get longitudinal, real-time analysis on a patient, but it's "incredibly complex and complicated," and simply foisting that information on physicians is "adding to a day that has no time," says Michael Gleeson, senior vice president of product strategy for Arcadia Solutions. (Gleeson spoke at the recent Strata Rx conference.)\n\n\nProviders need to build trust in order to build improvement, Gleeson says. That means examining physician workflows \u2014 which admittedly involves "weird Big Brother stuff" \u2014 to see how high-performing doctors interact with clinical systems. Only then will an organization understand when it's best to put data in front of a physician.\n\n\nThen there's the matter of how you put data in front of a physician. EHR systems are complicated even without the inclusion of clinical decision support, HIE and ACO management modules. There's also the temptation of "getting lost in the weeds," Gluck says, of "letting perfect be the enemy of the good."\n\n\n[ Analysis: Why Healthcare Sees Big Data As More Than a Bandage ]\n\n\n[ Also: Meaningful Use, 3-D Imaging Drive Health Data Storage Demand ]\n\n\nTo combat that, Heritage Provider Network built its own Web-based ACO management system to tracks individual patient care plans and quality measurements and put them in the context of how treatment is progressing and how much it's costing. Echoing Gleeson, Gluck says a fancy complicated analytics program that tries to be "everything to everyone" isn't helpful for time-starved physicians who don't like complicated software platforms.\n\n\nFor Heritage Provider Network, ACO success is a matter of picking the proverbial low-hanging fruit (reducing hospital readmissions) or the healthcare services that aren't necessarily offered elsewhere (diabetes management) and using analytics to make the most of those initiatives.\n\nACOs Must Think Globally, Act Locally\n\nOf course, what works in California may not work elsewhere. Use cases for the ACO model can't be viewed as academic exercises in data, according to Kenneth Paulus, CEO at Allina Health, a health network providing care for roughly one-third of Minnesotans. (Paulus spoke on the ACO panel at the recent MIT Innovations in Healthcare Conference.) "It's messy, difficult and personal," he says. "A lot of times, it's not about data."\n\n\nNor will what worked for early adopters work on scale. ACOs must strike a balance between needing data to adjust services as they manage overall cost growth and, at the same time, continuing to adapt their practice to local cultures, says Dana Gelb Safran, senior vice president of performance measurement and improvement for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Crucially, data on patient experience lies at the heart of the matter.\n\n\nTo that end, Allina uses care guides, health coaches, triage nurses and other "creative positions" to ease the burden on physicians while improving patient engagement, Paulus says. Care guides, in particular, play an important role; working with three or four doctors, they serve as a go-between for patients with chronic conditions and their physicians. "They are the glue to the practice," he says.\n\n\nInvolving these various front-line caregivers is paramount to the success of the ACO's redesigned care delivery mode, says David Torchiana, chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. Hospital leadership can't just simply hand down a set of guidelines and expect caregivers to comply.\n\n\nMassachusetts admittedly has had a head start on other states, Torchiana admits. Pioneer ACO Partners HealthCare has been a de facto ACO since the early 1990s, while cost management and risk-based contracts have been on executive's minds since the state's landmark 2006 healthcare reform bill. If the Bay State is any indication, Torchiana says, "The signs are very encouraging."\n\nACO Success Hinges on 'Mindset Shift'\n\nDespite the hurdles, and despite the setbacks the Pioneer ACO Model endured in 2013, there are six reasons that the MIT speakers say the ACO will fare better than the HMO:\n\nData is more readily available, and providers are starting to figure out what to do with it.\nThe task at hand is more readily understood.\nToday's physicians leave medical school knowing more about team-based care than their predecessors.\nQuality reports are more transparent. \nAs healthcare providers merge and consolidate, they need to integrate clinical systems.\nIn an industry that still uses the fax machine, the bar has been set low.\n\n[ Analysis: Why Fixing Healthcare Requires Netflix-Like Disruption ]\n\n\n[ More: 6 Innovations That Will Change Healthcare ]\n\n\nIn particular, Safran says, the cognitive, motivational, practical and financial barriers to a patient's ability to take a physician's advice are falling. When physicians aren't rated, or compensated, based on outcomes, it's easy to adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" policy \u2014 payment reform, she says, tells physicians that they need to me "practicing at the top of your license."\n\n\nAbove all, though, the success of the ACO model rides on what Gluck calls a "mindset shift." When a worried mom calls a doctor's office at 4:30 p.m. on a Friday, a physician who bears no burden to save costs can tell the mother to take her child to the hospital to treat a fever. When there's a shared risk, though, the physician will make time to see the child \u2014 and, Gluck says, earn $12,000 or more in shared savings for the entire organization by eliminating a single hospital visit.\n\n\nBrian Eastwood is a senior editor for CIO.com. He primarily covers healthcare IT. You can reach him on Twitter @Brian_Eastwood or via email. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn.


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Of course we braai'd while we were away. Several times. This was a traditional chops and 'wors (boerewors) braai that we fancied up with some salad and corn. I think we were supposed to just eat meat really, possibly with some soft rolls for the boerewors, or some pap but the fridge was full of […]Read More..>>
A trip to the Waterfront and a Fish Braai
Our first braai of the holiday, this one to celebrate New Year's Day and made with fish that we picked up on the way back from a visit to the Waterfront. We'd actually already eaten two big plates of fish for lunch at Quay Four but there's something about the warm weather that makes fish […]Read More..>>
Barbecued Trout with Broad Beans, Peas and New Potatoes
We've been so busy lately that although we have been doing some cooking, we haven't found the time to blog about it. What we have been cooking has mostly been quick and easy and not all that interesting which makes things difficult to write about. I'd completely forgotten about this until I found the picture […]Read More..>>
Barbecued Steak Wraps
After not barbecuing very much so far this year, we seem to have gone a long way to rectifying things this weekend. The first weekend that arrives after a holiday is always a busy one and we didn't have much time to think about what we were going to eat, steak on the barbecue takes […]Read More..>>
World Cup Cuisine – The Highlights
So, apart from cheating today and buying beer and cheese to represent Holland, we did a pretty good job of exploring some new cuisnes and finding some new favourite dishes. We started with South Africa and cooked every Saffer's favourite, the milk tart. I ate a lot of this while I was there but have […]Read More..>>
Barbecued Sausages
We had lots of errands to run today and, when we were finally finished, we realised we hadn't thought much about dinner. We'd discussed going out to eat but when it came to it, we were too hot and tired so decided to head home and barbecue something instead. Earlier this morning, I popped into […]Read More..>>
Barbecued Rose Veal with Salmoriglio
We haven't done nearly enough barbecuing this year so, as we had a little more time than normal tonight, Stephen rolled out the Weber and got busy with some veal chops. While we were away our herbs flourished and we're now more than a little over-run with tasty, green stuff. This Valentine Warner recipe was […]Read More..>>
World Cup Cuisine – USA Burgers and Pecan Pie
So, onto the USA, which is of course well known for burgers, amongst other things. As it was such a lovely day, we continued the barbecue theme. My sister and her husband came round to visit and brought my little niece along, who ran around a lot and tired everyone out, but it was a […]Read More..>>
World Cup Cuisine – Brazilian "Churrasco" Barbecue
This is a traditional style of barbecue which originated from the gauchos (i.e. cowboys) in southern Brazil – meat on long skewers cooked over a barbecue pit and then sliced off with a knife. Not having a barbecue pit close at hand, we made do with a normal barbecue. Also not having a really long […]Read More..>>
World Cup Cuisine – Argentinian Steak with Chimichurri Sauce
When thinking of what to cook for Argentina, we automatically thought of this dish. Having cooked it before though, we felt that maybe we should be a little more creative and try something else, but we remembered it having been particularly tasty and were keen to eat it again. As it turned out, we were […]Read More..>>


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The query cache is deprecated as of MySQL 5.7.20, and is removed in MySQL 8.0.
To check whether the query cache is present in your MySQL server, use the following statement:
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'have_query_cache';
| Variable_name | Value |
| have_query_cache | YES |
You can defragment the query cache to better utilize its
memory with the
CACHE statement. The statement does not remove any
queries from the cache.
RESET QUERY CACHE statement removes all
query results from the query cache. The
FLUSH TABLES statement also
does this.
To monitor query cache performance, use
SHOW STATUS to view the cache
status variables:
mysql> SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Qcache%';
| Variable_name | Value |
| Qcache_free_blocks | 36 |
| Qcache_free_memory | 138488 |
| Qcache_hits | 79570 |
| Qcache_inserts | 27087 |
| Qcache_lowmem_prunes | 3114 |
| Qcache_not_cached | 22989 |
| Qcache_queries_in_cache | 415 |
| Qcache_total_blocks | 912 |
Descriptions of each of these variables are given in Section 5.1.9, "Server Status Variables". Some uses for them are described here.
The total number of
queries is given by this formula:
+ Qcache_hits
+ queries with errors found by parser
Com_select value is given by this
+ Qcache_not_cached
+ queries with errors found during the column-privileges check
The query cache uses variable-length blocks, so
Qcache_total_blocks and
Qcache_free_blocks may
indicate query cache memory fragmentation. After
FLUSH QUERY CACHE, only a
single free block remains.
Every cached query requires a minimum of two blocks (one for the query text and one or more for the query results). Also, every table that is used by a query requires one block. However, if two or more queries use the same table, only one table block needs to be allocated.
The information provided by the
Qcache_lowmem_prunes status
variable can help you tune the query cache size. It counts the
number of queries that have been removed from the cache to
free up memory for caching new queries. The query cache uses a
least recently used (LRU) strategy to decide which queries to
remove from the cache. Tuning information is given in
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You must create the force to defy the unseen enemy of gravity, along with deadly environments by guiding your crystal ball from nest to nest through a series of underground caves. Do your best to keep your ball intact. Tap like crazy to create the force, while watching your way as jagged surfaces and vicious enemies will destroy your precious crystal ball! Will you escape and become the Legend of Eena?
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F@#$%ng love it! Honestly... Feels like a classic!Juanra
The game is absolutely brilliant! I would recommend it to anyone who wants a challenge.Alex
Having a LOT of fun with the game. The stages have this great sense of playfulness that makes them fun to run through, even when that entails dying a dozen times in a row.John
Wow, that´s a very stylish looking game!Oktagon Games
Also, the spaceship shield? So. Awesome.John
A very promising project!Dexter
It definitely stands out from the crowd, both from a gamer's standpoint and from a design-oriented point of view.John
Game looks like a bastard -- but in a good way!Phil
It gave one grumpy old gamer a couple hours of honest entertainment, and that's an enormous accomplishment.John


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Aunt Johnny lies dead in a mortuary, Manson is buried under the snowstorm of the century and Jet is possessed by a 15-year-old boy from the 1600s. Rachel can save them all, if she can find the spell chest she buried 300 years ago. But first, she must learn the truth about her troubled past. This new volume collects issues #19-24 of Terry Moore's critically acclaimed series.


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When three generations of a dysfunctional family gather in Rhode Island to bury the family patriarch, members of the Collins clan are at each other's throats in no time. Son Daniel is a secret porn actor, and daughter Lucy is a lesbian. Lucy totes along her lover Judy to the outrage of Lucy's aggressively neurotic sister Alice, whose hysterical overreaction to the pair's marriage plans ought to tell everyone something. Rounding out the delightful crowd are dim brother Skip, whose unfailingly rude twin sons offer caustic commentary on their elders' infantile predilections; matriarchal widow Charlotte, who becomes so justifiably distraught at the insanity of her children she tries to commit suicide; and Kate, a confused but comely college freshman who juggles preparation of the eulogy with internal debate over what to do with her childhood friend-turned-suitor, Ryan.


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Note: This item is included with four others in the Menu Navigation Mega Pack II. Further information about each item can be found in the links listed on that page.
"Menu Navigation Pack X" is a collection of eight matching samples covering most basic menu interfaces interactions. This set of uses off-balance, clumsy digital tonal sounds.
Each sample manages to be both artificial and silly at the same time. They would be useful for projects working with science-fiction or technology themes that are looking for friendly, robot-like sounds to integrate with a user interface. Suggested assignments for each sample can be found in the track list below.
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It started with Air Miles reporting that people were going to lose their rewards points if they didn't spend them. Remember the frenzy!? So, we became the proud owners of Family Passes to Fallsviews Indoor Waterpark. Then, the kids read a book on "Wonders of The World" and wanted to see The Falls for themselves. And of course, no trip to the region is complete without experiencing their hospitality, wineries and watching a play at the well known Shaw Festival.
The Shaw Festival
The Shaw Festival is a major non profit Canadian theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the second largest repertory theatre company in North America. Founded in 1962, its original mandate was to stimulate interest in George Bernard Shaw and his period, and to advance the development of theatre arts in Canada. The company currently plays by or written during the lifetime of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
From June 24 to October 7, "Wilde Tales" is playing in the Court House Theatre. It's a compilation of plays by Oscar Wilde; The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Remarkable Rocket, and The Selfish Giant and sure to be a treat. In these tales, he conjures a fantastical world in which statues, birds and even fireworks have the power of eloquent speech. It brings about feelings of kindness, loss, love and speaks to the child in all of us.
A unique opportunity with this particular play is that they are offering a pre-show one-hour workshop for kids (ages 6-12) where, with the help of the actors, they get to create magic on stage for their family to see. The cost is $20 per child. Contact the Box Office at 1.800.511.7429 to order tickets.
There are tons of other plays scheduled for this year such as; Me and My Girl, Androcles and the Lion as well as activities like the Shaw Acting Camp. Get involved and find out more about their Events and Activities. And if you don't want to drive, four days a week, there is a shuttle service available from the Royal York Hotel in Toronto to the Shaw Festival.
Don't miss your chance! Contact the Box Office at 1.800.511.7429, order online today or enter to win below! We are offering a giveaway for a Family Pack (2 Adults, 2 Kids) as well as 2 Kid Workshop tickets for any Wilde Tales show from June 24 to October 7(*)!
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More info about the name "Evelina"
Evelina is a variant of Aveline. Aveline is a diminutive of Avila. Avila originates in Germanic languages and most likely means "longed for". It is the name of a Spanish city in the Castile and Leon province and is famous for being one of the cities with the most churches in the world. Avila functions as a surname as well, as a feminine given name it is rather rare in the United States.


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In my initial panic to not let Beat know how frightened I was, I stood up quickly and mumbled something about being fine. Surprisingly, I was actually able to put weight on my leg. I stood still for another minute or so, absorbing the pain, until Beat climbed back to check on me. "I fell on my knee," I admitted. "It really hurts. But I think I can use it."
Stumbling down the mountain, I was surprised I could bend it, but it was still sore. Then I fell again. Owwww! I cried, but it actually came out as more of a whimper. I was still so scared. There was no way of knowing what I had done. But with pain like that, it couldn't be good.
We dropped into another narrow canyon and found a cool, flowing creek at 2,500 feet elevation, next to a beautiful camp site overlooking the sea. My knee felt ... not just not bad, but almost great in comparison to how it had felt in recent weeks. I'd almost forgotten what it felt like to have strength in both knees. It was inexplicable, but Beat speculated that perhaps I had a bunch of scar tissue from the initial injury that finally broke apart in this second blow. Or maybe some band of tissue had been out of place, and then snapped back into place. Since I never knew exactly what was wrong, I have no sense of what might have fixed it. But I felt like the sitcom character who throws out her back, only to have some unknowing friend give her a big bear hug and snap it back into place. Like accidental Rolfing for the knee. A double negative somehow makes a positive.


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Having cost $200 million to make, not counting marketing costs, Green Lantern was seen as a disappointment at the worldwide box office, earning $117 million domestically and $103.3 million overseas for a worldwide total of $219.9 million. The Blu-ray and DVD hit stores on Friday, so we'll have to see how those perform, but DC's Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns is still hopeful for a sequel.
"There is the hope that we will eventually see one," he said at the New York Comic Con according to Heat Vision. "Obviously, you want it to be as big as Titanic. I hope that the character gets another film, and it will be live-action again – I guarantee."
He added that "there was a lot of really good stuff in the movie" and said that "with the new animated series, Green Lantern is only going to get bigger."
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Not to exaggerate, but Jills shop on etsy, Bellalulu, is crammed with vintage goodies calling my name (hey you, little elf, you're so sweet!). Actually, I find it hard to narrow down my choices on five this time but I trust you visit the shop for all the extras.
Concrete deer ($78)
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by Thomas
Kurtz, author of Stretching Scientifically and Secrets
of Stretching
This is the third installment of my column on training that appeared
in July 1999 issue of TaeKwonDo Times.
Read the previous installment
In the first article of this column (in TaeKwonDo Times
March 1999) you learned how to determine if you have the potential to
do a side split, even before you start your stretching program. In this
article you will learn if the joints and muscles of your thighs and hips
will permit you to do a front split.
Here is the front split test: Stand in a deep lunge. If your thighs are
nearly in one line, as they would be in a front split, it means that your
hip joints and their ligaments do not prevent you from doing the front
split. Only tightness of your hamstring and calf muscles, and in some
cases of the iliopsoas muscles, may keep you from sitting in a flat front
split with both legs straight. With the right stretching method you will
relax, or even elongate, these muscles and be able to do the front split
with no warm-up.
Deep lunge. The knee of the front leg is flexed
and the thighs are nearly in one line.
In both the front split test and side split test, relieving the tension
of the muscles around the joint increases the joint's range of motion,
proving that only muscular tension prevents you from doing splits. Muscular
tension has two components: the tension generated by the contractile elements
(muscle fibers) and the tension present even in an inactive, denervated
muscle, exerted by the connective tissues associated with the muscle.
Some authors (M. J. Alter, B. Anderson, H. A. deVries, S. A. Sölveborn)
claim the connective tissue tension to be the main factor restricting
flexibility. They advocate slow static stretching, even in a warm-up,
as if muscles were pieces of fabric to be elongated to a desired size.
Ramsey and Street (1940), however, prove and state clearly that if the
range of extension does not exceed 130% of resting length (30% more than
resting length), the resting tension in a noncontracting muscle is very
small. (The resting length of a muscle is the length of an uncontracted
and unstretched muscle in the body.)
Also, Shottelius and Senay (1956) show that, in a muscle stretched to
well over 100% of its resting length, the passive tension generated by
its connective tissue is a small fraction of the tension due to active
contraction. They show that eventually, at approximately 120% of a muscle's
resting length, the two components of muscle tension contribute equally
to total tension. At greater lengths, the passive tension increases while
the active tension, generated by contracting muscle fibers, decreases.
For practical purposes, as long as you feel your muscles contract in
response to a stretch, it means that relaxing them can improve your stretch
and that you should concern yourself more with nervous regulation of the
muscles' tension and less with the muscles' connective tissue. This concept
is most strikingly demonstrated in the side split test shown in the March
1999 issue of TaeKwonDo Times.
In the next column you will learn about kinds of flexibility and about
the role of splits in taekwondo, karate, and kickboxing. (If you think
splits are necessary for kicking high, you are wrong.)
Read the next installment of this column
Alter, M. J. 1988. Science of Stretching. Champaign,
IL: Human Kinetics
Anderson, B. 1980. Stretching. Bolinas, CA: Shelter
Publications, Inc.
deVries, H. A. 1980. Physiology of Exercise for Physical Education
and Athletics. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers
Ramsey, R. W., Street, S. F. 1940. Isometric length tension diagram
of isolated skeletal muscle fibers of the frog. Journal of
Cellular and Comparative Physiology 15:11
Schottelius, B. A., Senay, L. C. 1956. Effect of stimulation-length
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The old dread isn't coming back. You remember it, don't you? The shock of terror when you stumbled in on a zombie chomping on a corpse in the first Resident Evil. Or when the undead dogs jumped through the window? Those are signature moments—along with the compulsive hoarding of typewriter ribbon—that anyone who's played the classic survival horror game will remember.
The question Resident Evil 6 faces, then, is whether it can create new shivers or replace that terror with something else as memorable. Despite delivering a game with three campaigns and a load of online features, the answer is clear that this new Resident Evil lacks the wherewithal to either scare you or impress you.
My love for the old Resident Evil titles came from those games feeling like self-contained incidents of horror. Somewhere along the line, the series' custodians got more concerned with connecting the games' plots in a labyrinthine continuity than in growing new gameplay ideas.
Resident Evil 6 reverses that trend. This outing feels like it's trying to please several different sorts of gamer and draws from the series' own glory days and titles created in the West to do so.
WHY: The interesting changes in this Resident Evil can't save it from feeling bloated and boring.
Resident Evil 6
Developer: Capcom
Platforms: PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 (version played)/PC
Released: October 2nd
Type of game: Dramatic horror—that's what Capcom's calling it, anyway—third-person action game.
What I played: Finished three main campaigns and an unlockable one over the course of about 30 hours. Sampled the offline Mercenaries Mode, co-op campaign and Agent Hunt.
Two Things I Liked
- Resident Evil 6 sports clever enemy design that always forced me to switch up tactics.
- I wasn't scared very much, but I was grossed out a lot by the wretched looks and squelchy sounds of the rotten-flesh antagonists.
Two Things I Hated
- Checkpoints that don't save, throwing me back at least an hour. This happened to me twice.
- Doing the whole "kill the boss, he comes back… again and again" thing once is bad enough. Two times? Three times? Unacceptable.
Made-to-Order Back-of-Box Quotes
- "YOU ARE DEAD… to me, Resident Evil 6" -Evan Narcisse, Kotaku.com
- "Resident Evil 6: proof that a video game can be morbidly obese." -Evan Narcisse, Kotaku.com
The weight of the exertion put into Resident Evil 6 is palpable. It holds three storylines that each follow a pair of characters as a bioterrorism plague unleashes monstrosities of all sizes throughout the United States and China. (There's also an unlockable fourth campaign.) Each thread has crossover junctions where people can jump into other folks' games. RE6 also has the most robust multiplayer options in series history. The adventures of Chris Redfield and Piers Navins, Sherry Birkin and Jake Mueller or Leon Kennedy and Helena Harper all carry slightly different flavors, each one seemingly designed to speak to different tastes.
But that's where many of the problems lie. The all-out effort to throw as many new enemy types, plot twists and set-piece wow-moments into the game comes across as desperate and undisciplined. This installment of Resident Evil feels bloated and every interesting idea that pops up drowns in either its own repetition or in the metric ton of drudgery surrounding it.
When I first started encountering RE6's new tweaks , I thought they'd make the awkward tone-deafness of the plot and dialogue bearable. I liked the Combat Gauge, a stamina meter that depletes as you use hand-to-hand combat. Use it too much and you'll eventually be forced to draw your weapons to kill enemies. That balancing act throws players back into the resource management that is a hallmark of Resident Evil.
Quick Shot is another step forward that addresses complaints about the lugubrious nature of Resident Evil games' controls. It's a stronger, faster attack that spins you around to blast immediate threats, but it also drains a section off your Combat Gauge.
Some enemies will change shape depending on where you shoot them. Blast an arm on a J'avo soldier and it'll transmogrify into a swollen, whip-like bludgeon. Or maybe a shield. Weird human-animal hybrids—like man-spiders and upside-down moth-thugs—sprout from human skin after taking damage in RE6. Each type requires a change in strategy to best deal with them.
Playing as the sidekicks offers even more variation to the experience. Their attacks differ from the main heroes in complimentary ways. Jake's chaperone Sherry, for example, wields a stun baton that lets her smack up enemies with any drain on her combat gauge stamina. The electrified truncheon also kills off enemies without the need for an additional—and time-consuming—finishing stomp. Piers' sniper proficiency lets you handle ranged threats while Chris eliminates enemies up close.
The enemy design branches along several different trains of thought, too. Zombies in Leon's campaign are closest to traditional undead shamblers. Chris and Piers fight J'avo who are just as nimble and combat-skilled as they are. Jake and Sherry run through extended chase scenes with a Nemesis-like beast on their trail. Variations on just about every sort of enemy that's been in an RE game show up here.
You'll encounter zombies that run, throw projectiles or spit acid. They also shoot machine guns at you, dodge and pounce, too. Some mutate when wounded, others shamble towards you with explosives making it necessary to shoot them from afar. The C-Virus at the root of the game's bioterrorism spits out many mutations of enemy and part of the scant amount of fun in RE6 is in seeing what happens when you shoot a bad guy.
Resident Evil 6 comes across as a conscious effort to grow the palette—and hopefully, the appeal—of Capcom's long-running series. Different UI skins, different musical motifs, different weapons and different clichéd attitudes all show up in the game. RE6 isn't quite a set of triplets, though. It's more like one lifeform with three heads. And the problems some have had with RE over the last few games persist with this installment. The palette that the dev team is trying to expand feels stubbornly inbred and obsessive, filled with boilerplate conspiracies uncovered by characters who are walking clichés. So, no, this installment isn't a giant leap in storytelling acumen.
All the campaigns criss-cross over each other and it's neat getting three, sometimes four points-of-view of a critical moment in the game. Leon's campaign feels purposefully throwback; it's more moody horror-focused, at first. Chris's missions are more gung-ho action affairs—with vehicular combat—that feel like military squad-based brofests like Gears of War. Jake runs through one, long cat-&-mouse chase as he tries to escape a near unkillable enemy. His levels offer up some martial-arts hand-to-hand brawls amongst all the shooting action, too. The extra unlockable campaign goes the stealth route, in what's probably the biggest departure from the other story options.
The intersection gimmick is a great narrative trick wasted on a terrible story. The interwoven nature of the campaigns also serves to highlight how similar everything feels. In Leon's campaign, it feels at first that each body you stumble over is a corpse that could re-animate and attack you. Chris' angst over soldiers dying under his command and Jake's wise-cracking acrobatics start off feeling like they hold different possibilities but all of the campaigns devolve into a dull room-clearing, door-opening, boss-fighting cycle of boredom.
There is an unforgivable amount of quick-time events in Resident Evil 6. Those prompt-driven button presses and other context-sensitive actions make it hard to ever feel a sense of flow in the game. The constant pop-ups to press a button to open a door or vault up to a ledge broke any kind of immersion I might have felt while playing. Even worse, the cover system here is awful and made me resort to a run-and-gun style more than I would have liked.
Moment to moment, you can lose yourself in the mindlessness of Resident Evil 6. But you'll need to hurdle some poor feedback and dumb design decisions to do so. There's no denying that the party-crashing Agent Hunt is fun and that online co-op makes things a bit less bland when you're playing with a friend. But overall, it's bloated and a mish-mash of cribbed ideas. None of it musters any passion.
Mutation gets a bad rap. It's a necessary part of evolving into a newer, more capable lifeform. Without mutation , human beings wouldn't have opposable thumbs, for example. But mutation can also twist organisms into horribly gross or not terribly useful shapes. Unfortunately, It's clear that what's happened with the Resident Evil franchise. Every intriguing design possibility in the game—the way it shifts to stealth, hand-to-hand combat or environmental puzzles—is something cribbed off of a better implementation elsewhere. Resident Evil 6 feels like a ton of gene-splicing has been happening in Capcom's dev studios and the result isn't a miracle cure for what ails the franchise. Instead, it's a misshapen hunchback filled with bad DNA. You could try killing it with fire, but it will probably come back.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Violence, gore and gunplay were staples on prime-time television even in the most sensitive period directly following the Newtown school shooting.
A study of 392 prime-time scripted programmes on broadcast networks shown during the month following Vice-President Joe Biden's January meeting with entertainment industry executives on the topic revealed that 193 had some incident of violence, according to the Parents Television Council (PTC). Some are cartoonish - quite literally, with Homer strangling Bart for mouthing off on The Simpsons - but there is plenty of gunplay, stabbings and beat-downs.
Here's a sample of the incidents captured by the PTC between Jan 11 and Feb 11:
- A character on ABC's Body Of Proof says he dreams of ripping a woman's brain out while she's still alive, but he's shot as he's about to stick a hook up her nose. Then he's pushed off a balcony and killed.
- A woman on Fox's The Following jams an ice pick into her eye.
- A prison riot episode of CBS' Hawaii Five-O includes one man trying to kill someone in a laundry room press, a man snapping someone's neck with his legs and a man injected with something that causes a violent convulsion.
- A man threatens hospital workers on NBC's Chicago Fire with a gun before he's disabled with a Taser.
- A gun fight on ABC's Last Resort is ignited by one man stabbing another in the abdomen with a screwdriver.
- A man on CBS' Criminal Minds is shot dead by the FBI as he tries to cut the eyelids off a gallery owner's face.
- Two characters on Fox's Bones wake to find a corpse hanging from the canopy above their bed, dripping blood onto them.
- An already bloody man is dragged into a warehouse on CBS' The Mentalist, choked to death and thrown in a furnace - all witnessed by a little boy hiding in the building.
- A man writhes in pain on Fox's Fringe before a parasite violently bursts out of his body. He's surrounded by the bodies of others who had met the same fate.
- A scene in ABC's Grey's Anatomy features a woman's nightmare about sawing her leg, as blood spurts and she screams in pain.
- A gymnastics coach is stabbed several times in the groin on NBC's Law & Order: SVU.
- A man working on a coffee cart on The Following is doused with gasoline and burned alive.
- On CBS' Blue Bloods, a man aims a gun at a group of children in the park before he is shot dead.
- Even President Grant on ABC's Scandal gets into the act, removing an oxygen mask from a woman's face so she suffocates.
Real life has continued to intrude on television entertainment as the months go by. NBC pulled an episode of its serial killer drama Hannibal after the Boston Marathon bombing, as did ABC with a Castle episode where a character stepped on a pressure-sensitive bomb. Some Newtown parents objected to a recent Glee episode that depicted a school shooting.
"I think it is only going to get worse," said Dr Victor Strasburger, pediatrics professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, who has written frequently on the topic of violence in the media. He said media executives are "not willing to own up to their public health responsibilities".
TV executives are reluctant to talk about violent content, and when pressed question any link between what they air on television and aggressive behaviour in real life. Schedules get shifted around when tragic events are in the news, but there's no indication they have changed the types of programmes being made. Policy debates have largely overlooked the issue, focusing instead on background checks for gun owners or bans on assault weapons.
In the past, networks have disputed some of the PTC methodology. Some comedic moments are counted as violent episodes in PTC's study when they could be questioned, like a play swordfight on The Cleveland Show. The PTC doesn't detail the one violent incident it counted on Betty White's Off Their Rockers, but it's hard to imagine comparing it to the serial killer on The Following.
"I've had a hard time finding these studies to be very useful to parents or anyone who is looking at this objectively," said Mr Jim Dyke, executive director of TV Watch, a Washington-based lobbying group that opposes government involvement in television programming.
Still, it's a sobering body count.
The parents' group said it found not only an increase in gore from other studies it has conducted over 18 years but a greater specificity and darkness to the violence.
"There has been no accountability, in my opinion, in terms of the degree and amount of violence," said Mr Tim Winter, the parents' group president.
Broadcast networks find themselves squeezed by cable networks that are able to be more explicit in what they show; Mr Dyke, in fact, said it is unfair for a group like the PTC to study broadcast violence and not include what's on cable.
There's also a feeling that they're giving viewers what they want. The explosive popularity of AMC's The Walking Dead among young viewers has clearly made broadcasters take notice.
Talking about the gore involved in The Following shortly before it went on the air this winter, Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly said nightmarish scenarios are part of the entertainment menu that a broadcast network needs to provide to its viewers. When a network does this, it must be able to compete with smaller network on an intensity level, he said.
Parents also have the ability to block out programming that they do not want to keep it from their children, the networks' defenders said.
A CBS representative declined comment on the PTC study, while ABC, NBC and Fox did not respond to a request for comment.
"Networks are out to make money and will do whatever it takes to make money," Dr Strasburger said. "When the public health of children comes into conflict with big money, big money always wins."


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The complexity of companies' software solutions are increasing, with developers having less and less insight into all the corners of an application. Even simple applications these days utilize a raft of tools, open-source libraries and frameworks that aid in rapid building. The disadvantage of this high velocity development, though, is the loss of visibility into what is actually happening behind the scenes. How many times (assuming you're a developer) have you come across a problem that you do not believe to be directly within your code, but believe to be based in the code of one of the tools that you are using? How can you be sure? Learn how you can know, now.


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Teller Will Stay On at Republican Study Committee
Paul Teller, a key conservative House GOP aide, will stay on as executive director of the Republican Study Committee, a senior Republican has confirmed to Roll Call.
The decision by incoming RSC Chairman Steve Scalise, R-La., is a surprising coup for the resilient Teller, who will be working for his seventh RSC chairman in the group's top staff position.
Teller has his share of enemies among Republican aides and even members, many of whom want to take the party in a more moderate direction and some of whom complain about non-ideological issues relating to how the RSC is managed.
But he maintains a strong base of support in the larger conservative infrastructure off Capitol Hill. And while there was talk that the arrangement would be temporary, the senior Republican said Teller was confirmed to stay on for the next two years.
The decision is the first sign of how Scalise will run the conservative group and indicates the changes he plans are less significant than some conservatives had feared.
Scalise told Roll Call that, as a candidate for the chairman's slot, he planned to reposition the group to work more cooperatively with Republican leadership.
"The RSC needs to be the conservative conscience of the House Republicans. If you are effective, you are working with whoever is in leadership to pass a conservative agenda, to push the policy as far to the right as we can. Sometimes they will agree with us. Sometimes we will disagree with them," he said.
A group of the RSC's founders endorsed Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia for chairman, but Scalise overcame his opponent in the Nov. 15 election to lead the influential group.


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New York-based startup Hyperpublic has some big news today that should catch the eye of developers looking to do anything with local: they're opening access to a new Point of Interest (POI) database called Places+, and they're also giving developers a straightforward and easy way to start monetizing. All free of charge.
Founder Jordan Cooper, who is also a Venture Partner at Lerer Ventures, walked me through each of the releases. He says that Hyperpublic has offered some location APIs before, but that they were small potatoes compared to what they're bringing to the table now.
The Places+ product will be competing with the likes of Factual and Foursquare's location database (each database allows mobile apps to display which restaurants and other venues are near a given location). But Cooper says that Places+ contains a superset of its competitors' data — and he thinks that it has fresher data to boot.
So where does Hyperpublic get that data? Cooper says that the service has an approach that's similar to Google's: it's constantly monitoring a variety of publicly accessible data sources, both to establish where POIs are located and to see if they're fresh (for example, it might look at recent status updates to see if people have mentioned a given venue, which would obviously indicate that it's probably still around). At this point the service has a high density of information for over fifty major cities and counting. Obviously Cooper is making some pretty bold claims; time will tell if the Places+ is better in practice than the other POI databases available.
The next product is called Geo Deals & Events. This takes of advantage of the fact that there are a lot of local businesses running deals in your area at any given time, through myriad services like Groupon, LivingSocial, and others. Hyperpublic is aggregating all of these deals and making it easy for developers to display them from within their applications (so, for example, a restaurant review app could display a Groupon for a nearby steakhouse). Better yet, developers keep 100% of the affiliate fee associated with driving users to each deal — Hyperpublic isn't charging anything.
Finally, Hyperpublic is now allowing developers to request certain types of data. Say you were building an app and wished you could access a database of every nearby water fountain. If Hyperpublic wasn't already making that data accessible via an API, you could ask them to do so (provided they had the data). If the service doesn't already have the data, it will get in touch with other developers on the platform who might.
So how is Hyperpublic going to sustain itself, given that it isn't charging for anything? Cooper explains that in the longer term, the company will be launching an ambitious location-based search engine that goes well beyond the local search you see today — the idea is that you'll be able to search for specific objects, rather than just venues. But to get there the service needs a lot of data, so it's opening its doors to developers, who will both access and contribute to Hyperpublic's growing databases.
In addition to its APIs, Hyperpublic also builds products using its own data (in a sense, they're dogfooding their stuff). You can see some of these projects right here. The company raised $1.2 million earlier this year.


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Watch Lizzy Musi (who I'm not afraid to say I have a humongous crush on), the daughter of Pat Musi, veteran NHRA Pro Stock, IHRA Pro Mod, and street car championship racer, as she goes airborne and take out a camera in the process as she hits the wall.
It's the 21-year-old Musi's first year racing, and already she's off to a fairly impressive start for a n00b drag racer, dropping a 4.34-second 170 MPH 1/8 mile run Friday at Bristol Dragway.
Here's what happened in the third qualifying session of Summit Racing Top Sportsman at the 2012 ADRL Spring Drags III at Bristol Dragway, according to Kenny Hawkins over at TriCities:
During the third round of qualifying, the car started to get loose, turning sideways — with the front end of the car crashing into the left wall.
Then air got underneath the car and turned it around, causing it to topple over the left wall and into the grass at around the quarter-mile mark on the track.
Thankfully, for those of us who felt their hearts skip a beat at this crash (I mean, just look at her over yonder), Musi was able to get out of the car under her own power.
Thankfully, she suffered no serious injuries. (Hat tip to JRX!)


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Welcome to the Naval Postgraduate School's (NPS) Additive Manufacturing (AM) wiki.
News! NPS approved a new Center for Additive Manufacturing in June 2019. Stay tuned for further information and future website.
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing involves processes and technologies used to make three-dimensional (3D) objects. The AM wiki seeks to build a collaborative environment and community of interest for the advancement of additive manufacturing and 3D printing research at NPS. This website links Additive Manufacturing (AM) projects, assets and capabilities of interest to faculty and students across NPS. All interested NPS faculty, staff and students are welcome to contribute.
The Naval Postgraduate School's Additive Manufacturing Community of Interest:
We are now inviting participation: mailing list for NPS participants is email@example.com. Please contact Amela Sadagic and Don Brutzman if you are interested.
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A splash of bourbon whiskey makes food taste better. Kentucky cooks have known this for a long time, and with the increasing popularity of bourbon, a new generation of food lovers have discovered many uses for this versatile spirit in the kitchen. With this in mind, veteran food writer and cookbook author David Dominé has published a collection of original recipes that will help readers enjoy bourbon's distinctive flavors in dishes from crumpets and cakes, to dressings and dumplings, and pilafs and purées.
Not only does does Dominé entertain his readers with interesting tidbits about this distinctive American spirit, he discusses subtle differences in the bourbons used in this, the first-ever collection of recipes designed to showcase a wide variety of brands while promoting tourism at Kentucky's distilleries.
In addition to sights along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, this "coffee table" style cookbook features stunning color photographs of each of the 70 food dishes. The author also includes brief histories of distilleries, notes from the master distillers and explanations for such terms as single barrel, small batches and bottled-in-bond.
Shrimp and Corn Hushpuppies, Bourbon Butternut Squash Soup, Kentucky Derby Salad, and Trout Gratin are just a few of the recipes included. Dominé also prepares whiskey-laced originals such as Bourbon Battered Fish with Pumpkin Seeds and Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes. The decadent Bourbon Ball Torte, a four-layer, chocolate concoction filled with rich butter cream, whiskey and pecans and coated in smooth chocolate ganache, is topped with one of the Bluegrass State's most famous confections, the bourbon ball! Whether it is simmered in soups, drizzled in dressings or baked into breads, bourbon is sure to become a staple in your pantry after reading Splash of Bourbon, Kentucky's Spirit.
Dominé will be signing his new book in many Kentucky bookstores throughout April. Check with your local bookstore for more information.