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It was the autumn of 1984 when Elizabeth Murray first saw the rambling roses, the dahlias and asters, and the clear water of painter Claude Monet's Giverny gardens in France. Some people fall in love in spring. For Murray, this was a place for all seasons.
"I was so touched by the beauty and abundance of the flower compositions, I almost cried," Murray wrote in her book "Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration & Insights from the Painter's Gardens."
"I immediately wanted to know the garden intimately," she wrote, "to know all the flowers in each season, to be there from spring through autumn, digging, pruning, planting, feeding, rejoicing."
A quarter-century later, Murray still makes annual pilgrimages to Giverny. And, in a story she'll no doubt tell when she gives a lecture at the Palo Alto Art Center on March 30, she has had remarkable access over the years.
After her first Giverny visit, Murray went to the Paris office of the garden's curator to offer her services as a gardener -- gratis. It was a wild dream, certainly, but Murray had experience and skills in her favor; she was a head gardener in Carmel with nine employees. The conservator took her up on her offer, and granted her a food allowance and the use of an apartment at Giverny.
In turn, Murray left her Carmel job and home, and enrolled in an intensive French-language program in Paris. Before long, she was back in Giverny, living and working at the garden for nine months.
"To give up that, what we called security, to live a dream ... was actually kind of a big thing," Murray said in a phone interview. "Some people thought it was a little crazy."
But the decision proved to be life-changing. During her first stint at Giverny, Murray gardened from 8 to 5 five days a week, endeavored to prove herself to the French gardeners, made friends in the village, and honed her photography skills.
While Murray had loved painting and photography ever since she was a child, she was by no means a professional when she began taking photos of Giverny. She calls her early shots "just show and tell."
But the work granted her remarkable access. Murray could glimpse the garden in the evening or early in the morning, when the light was inspirational. She found herself growing as a photographer even as the trees and blossoms of Giverny grew around her.
After the nine months were over, Murray returned to California and pursued other projects. But Giverny kept calling her back every year, and she still got her apartment and key to the garden. Before long, she turned her photos and writings into a book, with colorful calendars, postcards and notecards with the same theme.
Giving presentations and lectures on Giverny, gardening and creativity has also become a major part of Murray's life. While speaking at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, she caught the attention of a book publisher, who got "Monet's Passion" into print.
Murray has authored other books, including "Creating Sacred Space: Gardening for the Soul." Along with her annual visits to Giverny, she also gives consultations for gardens, teaches classes, and provides art and creative coaching. In 2009, she was profiled on National Public Radio.
"It's a kind of a gypsy lifestyle, but it's wonderful," she said.
Home base is Monterey, where Murray rents two cottages with an acre-sized garden, and catches rainwater for irrigation. She has 27 varieties of trees, including a beloved old chestnut with a swing.
Last year, Murray published the 20th-anniversary edition of "Monet's Passion." The new edition still has three sections: the history of the garden, the garden today, and Giverny-inspired ideas for readers' own gardens. But it's much longer, with new photos and the added wisdom of many more visits to Giverny. Murray also added her own drawings and paintings.
In the third section, "Bringing Giverny Home," Murray offers advice for making many spaces verdant, Monet-style, from vast expanses to potted plants on a balcony. The book's pages are bright with photos and paintings of umbrella roses, apple trees, herbs and vegetables, irises, azaleas, poppies and many others.
Throughout the book, Murray finds parallels between creativity and gardening, as Monet did.
"A successful garden is the highest form of art, requiring one to utilize all the senses while orchestrating plants in various color combinations, shapes, heights, and textures to convey a mood or feeling. ... The garden canvas is never static but constantly evolving," she wrote.
She added, "For Monet, the gardens were an alternative world, a place of beauty and restoration from which his visionary paintings came, a vessel to hold different qualities of light and color."
On March 30, the Palo Alto Art Center and Gamble Garden are bringing Murray to town for a lecture that benefits both Palo Alto nonprofits. Shirley Finfrock, special events chair at Gamble Garden, said she hopes the event will appeal to artists, gardeners and travelers.
In a way, the event itself is symbolic of blending art and gardening. The 180-seat auditorium at the art center provides the space for the lecture that Gamble Garden doesn't have. In turn, when the art center closes in April for renovations, Gamble Garden will host some of its art classes.
For her part, Murray said she's looking forward to coming back to Palo Alto and visiting Gamble Garden again, which she praises for its classical design.
"I understand their cherry allee may be in bloom," she said, adding, "I'm planning on bringing my good camera and my tripod."
What: Elizabeth Murray speaks about Monet, his gardens and her book "Monet's Passion."
Where: The Palo Alto Art Center auditorium, 1313 Newell Road
When: Wednesday, March 30, with a reception at 7:30 p.m. and lecture at 8 p.m., with a book signing afterward
Cost: Tickets are $40 general and $30 for Gamble Garden or Palo Alto Art Center members.
Info: Go to gamblegarden.org or elizabethmurray.com.


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
The Types Of Projects Referred To Are: January 1922-August 1933, Federal-Aid Projects; September-December 1933, Average Of Federal Aid And Public Works Projects; January 1934-December 1935, Public Works Projects; Jnuary-December 1936, Average Of Federal-Aid Works Program And Public Works Projects; January-December 1937, Average Of Federal-Aid And Works Program; 1938-1944, Federal-Aid Projects. Source: 1922-1937 Data Was Furnished By Survey Of Current Business; 1938-1944 Data Are From Survey Of Current Business, 1942 Supplement And Following Monthly Issues.
This NBER data series m08062 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.
NBER Indicator: m08062
National Bureau of Economic Research, Average Hourly Wages, Common Labor on Federal-Aid Road Building Projects for United States [M08062USM265NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M08062USM265NNBR, April 22, 2019.

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Last weekend, Shelley Segal was in town for a Humanists of Florida Association conference. She performed a few songs during the conference, but the really awesome part was when she performed after the conference. During this impromptu show, she performed my new favorite song: The Salamander Song. The sad thing is, though, that she hasn't recorded it yet. However, Mark Palmer (HFA executive director and a friend of mine) was able to convince Shelley to perform the song for his podcast. So, here it is! The song starts at about 14:30 (but the explanation of the song starts a few minutes before that, at about 11:00). The audio quality is not the best, but the song is still very funny and totally awesome.
Also, if you haven't bought her album, "An Atheist Album," you can find it on iTunes and Amazon. *cough*gobuyit*cough*


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Saving Grace
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (Reagan Arthur Books; 288 pages; $24.99).
The sea can be unforgiving, mysterious, dangerous, and even brutal. The ocean can cool and renew us, yet it also has the power to kill. The water may look inviting, but that same liquid can be deceiving. Curiously, the sea can be a metaphor for life. Sometimes it's sink or swim. Sometimes we must dogpaddle to stay afloat. Sometimes we are in danger of going under.
Sometimes we must make horrible choices in order to survive. Such is the case in Charlotte Rogan's gripping debut The Lifeboat. The phrase "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" never rang truer. Rogan's main character, Grace Winter, despite her faults, is one of the strongest female characters I have encountered in a long time.
Grace manages to live through an excruciating ordeal, one in which many die. The Lifeboat is chilling as Grace and others must struggle and sacrifice in order to survive.
When Rogan introduces us to Grace, she is widow on trial, along with two other women, for murder. Her lawyers urge Grace to write an account of what occurred. She reluctantly agrees and begins a diary. Her narrative is the basis for Rogan's story.
While crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1914, there is an explosion on board the Empress Alexandra. People shove others out of the way to get on lifeboats. Grace's new husband, Henry, forces her onto Lifeboat 14, but he does not follow. Rogan draws eerily similar comparisons to Titanic, yet this is no love story. Far from it.
Grace recalls, "There were bodies floating in the water, too, and living people clung to the wreckage…." A toddler reaches out to her, but neither Grace nor any of the others save the child. This is the first instance where the reader notices how cold and calculating Grace really is. There is a detachment to her. Perhaps it is her lack of emotion that helps her survive.
Many people are alive in the water. Three swimmers approach the boat. On the orders of an officer from the ship, Mr. Hardie, the oarsmen beat the men to death with the oars. It is truly every man for himself. The simple, hard fact is that "we could not save everybody and save ourselves."
Mr. Hardie emerges as leader. This makes sense given he knows the water. Grace has confidence in his abilities. In her eyes, Mr. Hardie "knew about this world of water" and "spoke its language." The less she understands his "rough seaman's voice," "the greater the possibility" that the sea understands him. Out of necessity, Mr. Hardie makes some tough decisions. Grace, though, perseveres in her support for him, or at least at first.
Because the boat is taking on water, it, in all likelihood, will sink. The lifeboat supposedly has a capacity of 39 people and holds 38. In actuality, the lifeboat is capable of holding much less than 39 people.
The lifeboat is overcrowded, a fact that is obvious to everyone. Mr. Hardie asks for volunteers. Several men and women jump out and into the sea to their deaths. Soon, Mr. Hardie's actions are questioned, especially by two women, Mrs. Grant and Hannah. Mrs. Grant is appalled when Mr. Hardie does not turn back for the child. She calls him a brute. Just like that, Grace explains, "Mrs. Grant was branded a humanitarian and Hardie a fiend."
A power struggle unfolds as food and water, necessities for survival, are hard to come by. Grace's allegiance to Mr. Hardie teeters. It becomes obvious that she will support whoever suits her needs best. She will cheer whoever has the advantage. Clearly, Grace is interested only in saving herself.
The situation on the lifeboat grows bleaker. At one point, a flock of birds falls dead into the lifeboat. Both men and women eat the birds and gnaw the bones until they are bare of meat. Blood runs down their chins. Such a thing is implausible to me. I wonder if this might be a veiled reference to cannibalism. Perhaps the reality of the situation is such that Grace is unwilling and unable to call it what it truly is.
You just cannot trust Grace; she is definitely an unreliable narrator. She often tells half-truths and even lies. "It's my experience that we can come up with five reasons why something happened, and the truth will always be the sixth," she confides. If this is part of her nature or if it is a result of the tragedy, Rogan chooses not to reveal. It is through the eyes of the other survivors that Grace comes across as callous and manipulative. Her cold and calculating nature is nothing new, however, as Rogan reveals. Grace used these same tactics to lure her husband from another woman. If you guess he came from money, you are correct.
Rogan plays with Grace's memory and history in this novel. When the others discount a memory on the stand, she emphatically denies what they say. Grace's memory and history are at odds. Grace also retreats into herself on the lifeboat. She withdraws into her own mind to what she calls the "Winter Palace." Her retreat may partly explain why she has no recollection of certain events. Then again, maybe it is her plan all along. One thing is certain, though: over time, the situation on the lifeboat grows more tenuous and more perilous.
The power struggle between Mr. Hardie and Mrs. Grant and Hannah comes to a head. Grace plays a major role in this battle, which is the reason she is on trial. Rogan writes this with suspense.
It is interesting that three women are on trial. If circumstances had been different, I do not feel Mr. Hardie would be accused of murder. It is as if, in 1914 at least, a woman's place was to create, sustain, and nurture life. Not take it. People expect a man to fight, even defend himself if the scenario demands. Why shouldn't the same be true for a woman?
A lifeboat takes on ironic meanings in Rogan's novel. Lifeboats are lifesaving vessels. They are places of refuge and salvation. In this book, though, the lifeboat takes on a whole different sense. It becomes a deathtrap.
I recommend The Lifeboat to anyone who is fascinated with Titanic. I also would suggest the novel for those who enjoy Yann Martel's Life of Pi. I do want to warn you that there is no romance, no magic here. The Lifeboat is sometimes bloody, sometimes chilling, and always shocking. It will literally give you goosebumps.
More than anything, Grace Winter is a survivor, and you must respect her for having the will to save herself. Grace never gives up. Whether you are at sea or navigating the shark-infested waters of life, Grace can teach us all something. Sometimes we all have to struggle in order to get through this life.


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Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax
Everyone's up in arms to embrace distributed version control as the new must-have tool for the developer in the know. Though many people have not yet migrated from Subversion, those that have almost invariably extoll the virtues of their particular choice. But though all of the major DVCS's have features that set them above the previous generation of centralized systems, none stands head-and-shoulders above the others as Subversion does among the last generation: each of them was designed for a specific purpose, and each of them will serve those with different habits, workflows and development styles differently. Having used both git and Mercurial for the better part of a year, I've had the opportunity to compare the two. It saddened me to see a Twitter-based debate flamewar erupt over which is better, so I thought I'd do my best to try and ease the tension – with analogies!
Git is MacGyver
Git's design philosophy is unmistakably that of Unix: unlike Subversion, CVS, or Mercurial, git is not one monolithic binary but a multitude of individual tools, ranging from high-level "porcelain" commands such as
git-merge, and
git-checkout to low-level "plumbing" commands such as
git-hash-object and
git-merge-file. So, like MacGyver, you can do just about anything you need with Git – this includes totally awesome Wiki engines, issue trackers, filesystems, sysadmin tools – everything short of fuse repair:
As such, git is not so much a version control system as it is a tool for building your own version-controlled workflow. For example, when faced with the fact that no
git tool performs the equivalent of
hg addremove – a useful Mercurial command that adds all untracked files and removes all missing files – I found one line to a script originally written by James Robey:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# git-addremove
git add .
git ls-files -deleted | xargs git rm
Git's branching, tagging, merging, and rebasing are near flawless: git's merging algorithm is close to omniscient, having once merged 12 Linux kernel patches simultaneously. Additionally, git provides you with tools to go back in time and edit your commit history – useful for those of us who have left certain critical elements out of a commit and had to quickly recommit with a helpful message such as "oops". (And when I say "those of us", I mean "every developer, ever".) Personally, I elect to only use this feature to edit my last commit (using
git commit --amend); I have never needed or wanted to meddle further with the past. git is also extremely fast thanks to its C codebase.
There is no better emblem of git's flexibility than GitHub. GitHub's rise to success has been positively meteoric, and with good reason. It's a brilliantly-designed site that serves as more than a pretty, browsable frontend to my source tree in that it brings a social aspect to programming – using Git, I can fork anyone's project, make my changes, petition for them to be included in the main repository, and pull other people's changes to mine. Though it took a while for me to adjust to the anarchic notion of every user having their own equally-valid fork of a project – shouldn't there be one definitive version of a project? – I realized its potential when working with other contributors to Nu. Add the fact that GitHub is one of the most solid and reliable services I've ever used, and you've got what very well might be the deal-breaker in the fight for DVCS dominance.
On the other hand, migrating from Subversion/CVS to git requires a lot of work. Linus has made it clear that he disagrees with the fundamental ideas behind Subversion/CVS, referring to SVN as "the most pointless project ever started". As such, the git project has consciously made no effort to make the migration to git easy: the
revert command in Subversion resets your current working copy to the last commit, but in git undoes a supplied patch and commits the changes needed to remove that patch. (The equivalent command for
svn revert in git is
git reset --hard HEAD^.) Whining about this on the git mailing list is a little like this:
Get it? No? Too bad.
Apparently the choices that Linus et. al made when designing git are sensible – if, of course, you understand the internal structure of git and how it stores your data. I'm afraid I'm only halfway through PeepCode's great Git Internals, so I can't comment on whether that statement is true. But I have to admit that if I had to read a $9, 100-page PDF to learn every new tool I downloaded, I would have no time and no money.
This brings us to another of git's faults: its documentation is terrible. Man pages are no longer a sufficient replacement for a good, well-updated wiki or reference work; git's wiki still has a long, long way to go. Add in the fact that since, like many OS X users, I installed git through MacPorts, only the main
git tool comes with a man page, leaving me to consult the Web to find out exactly how to format revision specifiers. I've observed that developers that were able to learn git from colleagues already familiar with git and its internals tend to have a higher opinion of it, in contrast to people such as myself that had to waste a lot of time digging around through Google and the man pages.
However, considering the fact that git is supposed to be a platform, one would suppose that it would have clear, bridgable functions to reuse in your own C projects and bridge to other languages. One would be completely wrong – libgit.a is a joke, and the Ruby git gem (and my own vastly-inferior Nu/Git bindings) depend on running shell commands and parsing the output, which really gets quite tiresome after a while. The fact that console output may differ from platform to platform and any new feature may change the format of console output makes me very reluctant to commit to maintaining my Nu/Git bridge. (I swear, that's the reason. It's not because I'm lazy.)
In conclusion, Git is perfect for command-line wizards, people with large teams and complicated projects, and those who need their DVCS to be endlessly configurable. Certain developers have a workflow which, when interrupted, causes much grief and lamentation – if that description fits you, then git is almost certainly what you want, because it can be molded to fit the most esoteric workflow. Solo developers and those accustomed to working with centralized VCS's may find git to be hostile, unfriendly and needlessly complex. When I work on a large project with many committers, I prefer git and GitHub.
Mercurial is James Bond
mercurial |mərˌkyoŏrēəl|
1) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind: his mercurial temperament.
Though there have been many unfortunate open-source project names, Mercurial (also referred to by its command-line-tool name,
hg) is both apt and unfortunate: though it is definitely speedy, both in terms of learning curve and execution speed, it is also at times inconsistent, maddening, and unpredictable. Mercurial is like James Bond: though they are not suited for each and every job, put them in a situation for which they are prepared and you will get things done. (If your programming job is as exciting as a Bond movie, please get in touch with me right away when one of your programmers is killed in action.)
In contrast to git's philosophy of providing a flexible platform built out of individual components, Mercurial is monolithic and (relatively) inflexible. Developers who like to keep their system clean will probably appreciate the fact that hg installs one binary in contrast to the 144 that make up git, and developers who think that git's ability to edit your previous commits is moronic, unnecessary, and dangerous will appreciate the simplicity hg provides by omitting that particular feature.
Compared to git, hg's branching, merging and tagging systems are equally powerful and only slightly slower. The only current flaw in Mercurial's branching system – and sweet crouching Jesus, is it ever a huge flaw – is that deleting named branches is unbelievably difficult: as far as I can tell, the only way to do so is to learn and enable the patch-queuing system (about which I have heard raves, but have not had the time yet to sit down and grok) and use the
hg strip command, or install the local-branches extension. Selenium currently recommend you use tags instead of branches, which practically redefines the concept of a half-assed solution.
Despite that glaring flaw, the rest of hg is excellent. It functions almost identically to Subversion in the commands that it shares, and the new concepts – branching, merging, etc. – are easily learned and intuitive. Whereas I'm still learning how to do relatively basic things in git, I learned pretty much all of hg's functionality in about a day. If you're familiar with Subversion, transitioning to Mercurial should be a piece of cake – the functions you're familiar with will be there, and the new functions are easy-to-learn and well-documented.
Though I've never tried to integrate Mercurial's functionality into my own projects, I hear that since it's written in Python it's very easy just to import its classes and call them programatically rather than parse the output of shell scripts. I wanted to write a Mercurial frontend for OS X (I was planning to call it 'hermetic' – get the elaborate literary pun?), but the viral nature of the GPL discouraged me – since no company has granted me stock options for my code, I'm a little reluctant to just give away the fruits of my labors. Mercurial's answer to GitHub is BitBucket, which I have not tried yet. If I do, I will update this entry posthaste.
In conclusion, Mercurial is the yin to git's yang: those such as myself who are constantly experimenting with new ways to work and write code will object less to the restrictions that hg imposes on workflows. After switching to Mercurial for a small two-person project last year, my collaborator observed that Mercurial feels a lot more Mac-like – usability and smoothness of operation trump Unix philosophy when necessary. If I don't have to share my code with anyone, I tend to use Mercurial in order to get things done faster.
So, What's My Point?
To paraphrase Colin Wheeler, it's OK to proselytize to those who have not switched to a distrubuted VCS yet, but trying to convert a git user to Mercurial (or vice-versa) is a waste of everyone's time and energy. If you want to switch to a DVCS, then here are five easy steps:
- Evaluate your workflow and decide which tool suits you best.
- Learn how to use your chosen tool as well as you possibly can.
- Help newbies to make the transition.
- Shut up about the tools you use and write some code.


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I do all agrain now and have had pretty good results so far. I can only boil 3.75 gal, so when I figure a recipe I use the calculator to figure gravities before I brew and top off with the needed water in the fermenter, till now these numbers have been real close. I attemped to make my first lager, a pilsner,the calculator said I should have a 1.064 preboil and I had 1.062. The calculator also said I should have a 1.45 OG....I ended up with a 1.032+. I haven't the foggyest idea what the hell happened. My normal efficiency is 70%, this batch was 65%+ and probably due to using all base malt, and using bottled water due to mine being exceptionaly hard. If my preboil numbers were pretty much on, why then is the OG in the fermentor so far off. After putting wort in fermentor ( a tad over 3 gal) I topped to 5 gal with water and shook the hell outta it, then added yeast and checked OG. Any ideas???
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double check everything
you got 3gals @ 1062. I f you then water this down to 5 gals you get 62x3=186, 186/5=1037. Some loss of extract can be explained by hop retention, careful hop sparging can overcome this or modify your recipe to allow for a certain amount of loss, say 10% or, get yourself a bigger boil capacity and compensate by not having to dilute so much, if you want 5 gals you would be better off boiling 6 gals down. Have you also considered wort temp and subsequent hydrometer reading? Maybe boil over was to blame? Are you using flowers or pellets? flowers retain an awful lot of wort, I normally get a 90% extraction, if i dont rinse my hops i can expect this to drop to approx 80%. You have my heartfelt sympathy, i find loss of extraction extremely irritating.
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Upcoming Workshop
Identifying Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences: A WorkshopBoard on Earth Sciences and Resources
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
100 Academy Way Irvine CA 92612
Many of the central challenges of the 21st century are tied to place-based changes as populations move, natural resources are depleted, and climate shifts. Research in the geographical sciences is essential to monitoring, analyzing, and preparing for these changes. This public workshop will examine transformative research and other changes within the geographical sciences. For example, the development of GIS was transformative, altering everything from how we travel to what we can measure and visualize. Workshop participants will consider whether there are early markers of transformative research and how it can be nurtured and brought to fruition. This workshop will inform an expert study from the National Research Council, to be released in 2015.
Participate in a questionnaire on this topic which will also inform the committee's 2015 report.
The workshop will feature presentations by:
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Clark University
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University of California Los Angeles
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This is a large field with several large trees and a hill.
Please be careful with the newly planted trees.
Glider North East and Glider South West have been split into two fields. Coaches need to work together.
Glider North East fields (#1 and #4) are off of Glider Drive. There is a large indentation in the middle of the field that helps divide the practice areas. Glider South West fields (#2 and #3) are off of Cozy Drive.
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"I see chemistry everywhere" essay contest for high school students in southern Alberta Ying Zheng | added on Jul 25, 2011 | Canada Grades 10 to 12 students in southern Alberta will be encouraged to write a short essay about what they see as chemistry in action in their daily life. This essay contest will be organized by the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at the University of Lethbridge.
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"Community Policing"
India is "our Country" and it is our moral and first responsibility to ensure we get good name for our Country and make our country proud.
* As you all know IR is top 2nd in Banned user list which includes various counts like Cheating / hacking and others.
Details >> viewtopic.php?f=8&t=420
Inorder, to ensure that we become the best Country Room we need all your support in reducing the count of people getting banned for CHEATING/ABUSING and indulging into stalking / trolling.
To establish the same, i propose :"Community Policing" in Indian Room where each one of us can make India Proud of being the best Room in Chesscube.
Chesscube Community policing or neighborhood policing is a policing strategy and philosophy based on the notion that community interaction and support can help control CHEATERS/TROLLS/ABUSERS/STALKERS and reduce fear, with community members helping to identify Trolls / abusers / stalkers, and help to support them become aware of CC's policies & be a GOOD Cuber.
How Can You Participate?.
1 > If You see an user ABUSING/TROLLING & if he is new in CC,he may not be aware of the policies here.Try to add him as Friend & advice him.If he repeats then take a screenshot of that paste it in ''Paint'',save as Jpeg file & mail me @ [email protected] .
How to take a screenshot?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... int-screen
2 > If you see a SANDBAGGER/CHEATER, mail his ID to me @ [email protected].
NOTE :- Remember ALWAYS to make use of "Report Abuse" please.
To support this cause, we hereby announce rewards for Cubers' supporting Community Policing:
Ø If ABUSER identified in absence of moderators – 250 cubits to that individual.
Ø If SANDBAGGER/CHEATER identified then – 500 Cubits to that individual.
"Let's Walk Hand in Hand and Make IR Experience Best"


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Anti-Cancer Agents: A. Kaposi's Sarcoma -- Past and Future
August/September 2008
One of the hallmarks of AIDS, particularly in the early years of the pandemic, was the appearance of skin tumours called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). During the 1980s, KS was very common in people with AIDS. Indeed, in those years, sometimes the only initial signal of immune dysfunction was KS.
Nearly three decades later, KS is now relatively uncommon in high-income countries. Yet reports have recently emerged of KS outbreaks in these countries in both HIV positive and HIV negative men who have sex with men (MSM).
To gain some insight into the possible future of KS, it may be useful to take a closer look at KS in the time before AIDS.
Last Century
During most of the 20th century, in the time before AIDS, KS was a relatively uncommon skin tumour in the high-income regions of North America, Western Europe and Australia.
When Everything Changed
In the late 1970s, medical records suggested that a small but growing outbreak of immune deficiency-related diseases had occurred almost simultaneously in North America, Haiti, Western Europe and Central and East Africa. The people who developed these problems were previously healthy and relatively young adults who were not taking drugs to suppress their immune systems. Further research suggested that some factors that these people acquired (rather than a factor with which they were born or inherited) -- such as an infection with a novel germ -- made them susceptible to immune deficiency.
The KS that occurred in these and in future cases of acquired immune deficiency was not restricted to the feet or legs but could strike anywhere on the body. Moreover, in some cases, KS tumours would grow inside people, in lymph nodes or near vital organs/systems such as the lungs, heart and intestine. In such situations, KS lesions would block blood or lymph vessels, causing fluid to build up and degrading affected organs and eventually the whole person. In this period of time, treatments for this aggressive form of KS were generally not effective.
Affected people also had to contend with life-threatening infections. By the early 1980s, these cases of immune deficiency-related diseases were called AIDS. In 1983, French scientists were able to isolate the cause of AIDS, a virus we now call HIV.
In the United States and Western Europe, new cases of KS began to decline in the mid-to-late 1980s, and now KS is not as common as it once was. (Indeed, there was a time when half of all AIDS cases in the US had KS.) The reasons for this change are not clear. Some researchers speculate that perhaps a reduction in unsafe sexual behaviour was responsible, yet this does not seem to be the case.
Another feature of KS that remains unexplained is the odd geographic distribution of KS cases. For instance, KS was and still is more likely to be found in the coastal cities of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco than in cities far away from the coast. And even within coastal cities, there were differences in the distribution of KS (Nathaniel Pier MD, personal communication).
In Canada, in the urban centres that were the original focus of the AIDS epidemic (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver), the proportion of men with AIDS-related KS was greater than in other parts of Canada.
The Cause(s) of KS
Researchers studying KS lesions have been able to isolate viruses from the herpes family, so they suspected that one of these viruses could be the cause of KS. In the mid-1990s, one team zeroed in on a virus called HHV-8 (human herpes virus-8), or KSHV (Kaposi's sarcoma herpes virus), and suggested that it was the cause of KS tumours.
But more recent research suggests that while HHV-8 may be necessary for the formation of KS, there are likely other co-factors that may play a role in triggering the development of KS lesions. These co-factors could include the following:
HAART and KS
The introduction of HAART made many previously stubborn cases of KS regress, usually after at least one year of therapy. Some researchers suspect that HAART has made KS even less common today. They speculate that a revitalized immune system is able to keep HHV-8 replication under control. In turn, this could explain why KS lesions are less common. Still, in cases where HAART has failed or been interrupted, KS can reappear.
Is This the Future?
Doctors in San Francisco have reported a cluster of KS cases in HIV positive men. The men were all taking HAART and their CD4+ counts were above the 300-cell mark. This level of cells should protect them from many AIDS-related complications. Moreover, their viral loads were less than 300 copies -- suggesting a relatively low level of HIV production. Some of the men had been taking HAART for as many as seven consecutive years.
Yet KS lesions still appeared on their skin. The doctors were unable to explain why this occurred. Also, doctors in London, UK, reported KS lesions in their patients whose viral loads were below the 50-copy mark and who had similar levels of CD4+ cells. They also could not explain why these cases had occurred. Perhaps clues as to why these men developed KS appear in our next story.
This article was provided by Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange. It is a part of the publication TreatmentUpdate. Visit CATIE's Web site to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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For whatever reason, our little guy wanted out 6 weeks earlier than expected. Jack Murphy Cederholm was born Sunday afternoon at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He's a tiny and beautiful 4lbs 8oz. Both Kerry and baby are doing great. The unexpected surprise means spending a few weeks in the hospital before we can go home. But it also means we need to quickly buy Jack a Christmas gift (not to mention all the other last minute preparations we'd planned for after the holidays).
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Carter: Snowden's leaks 'good for Americans to know'
The 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, sat down with Susan Page to discuss former NSA employee Edward Snowden's leaks, his new book titled "A Call To Action" and the legacy he wants to leave.
NEW YORK -- Former president Jimmy Carter defended the disclosures by fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden on Monday, saying revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies were collecting meta-data of Americans' phone calls and e-mails have been "probably constructive in the long run."
Carter, 89, was interviewed on USA TODAY's Capital Download about his new book, A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, being published Tuesday. He discussed the need to change the way the U.S. military handles sexual abuse cases, his correspondence with Pope Francis, his grandson's campaign for governor of Georgia -- his former job -- and whether Hillary Clinton would make a good president.
And he described how concern that his own e-mails are being monitored by intelligence agencies prompted him to type or write letters when he has a personal message for a foreign leader, then to mail them. Even then, he suspects the letters might be scrutinized when they pass through U.S. embassies.
"I think it's wrong," he said of the NSA program. "I think it's an intrusion on one of the basic human rights of Americans, is to have some degree of privacy if we don't want other people to read what we communicate."
Does he view Snowden, now granted asylum in Russia, as a hero or a traitor?
"There's no doubt that he broke the law and that he would be susceptible, in my opinion, to prosecution if he came back here under the law," he said. "But I think it's good for Americans to know the kinds of things that have been revealed by him and others -- and that is that since 9/11 we've gone too far in intrusion on the privacy that Americans ought to enjoy as a right of citizenship."
Carter cautioned that he didn't have information about whether some of the disclosures "may have hurt our security or individuals that work in security," adding, "If I knew that, then I may feel differently." And he said Snowden shouldn't be immune from prosecution for his actions.
"I think it's inevitable that he should be prosecuted and I think he would be prosecuted" if he returned to the United States, the former president said. "But I don't think he ought to be executed as a traitor or any kind of extreme punishment like that."
In his new book, published by Simon & Schuster,Carter details human rights abuses against women and girls around the world, often justified in the name of the Bible, the Koran and other religious texts. He called the issue "the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge," in the developing world and the United States.
He expressed fears that the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the end of this year would reverse many of the gains made there in the treatment of women and girls.
"I am concerned," he said. "I think the long occupation of the United States in Afghanistan and the evolution of the right of some girls to go to school has maybe decreased the adverse consequences of Taliban domination. I don't think it will come back as bad as it was in the past, but I think it still exists."
Carter, who endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, spoke highly of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the candidate he didn't endorse then. "I think Hillary has done a good job, obviously, as secretary of State and I think she obviously knows politics as well as anybody in America -- she and her husband together -- and I think she would make a good president."
As his 90th birthday approaches this year, he offered some thoughts on his legacy.
"One is peace," he said. "I kept peace when I was president and I try to promote peace between other people and us, and between countries that were potentially at war, between Isreal and Egypt for instance. And human rights. . . . I think human rights and peace are the two things I'd like to be remembered for -- as well as being a good grandfather." And he laughed.


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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The way Missouri calculates the minimum wage for public works projects needs to change — but that's where the agreement ends for critics and supporters of Republican proposals aimed at reworking the calculating process.
Lawmakers were considering two proposals Tuesday that would change the state's "prevailing wage," which is the pay rate that cities, counties and other governmental entities must pay for construction projects. The rate is usually higher than the state minimum wage, though it varies by occupation and location.
Currently, the pay rate is calculated by the state's labor department using voluntary wage surveys sent in by labor unions and private contractors. But Republican senators from rural parts of Missouri said that results in a wage far higher than typical wages in their areas, which means projects can be too expensive for municipalities and school districts — and needs go unmet.
"If (local governments) could get things done cheaper, they would do them," Sen. Jay Wasson, R-Nixa, said during a packed Senate committee hearing on the proposals.
For example, the prevailing wage for a pipefitter — $34.25 an hour — is the same in suburban St. Louis County as in rural Dunklin County in southeast Missouri. There was consensus that part of the problem may be because wage reporting is voluntary, so the wage could be calculated using incomplete data.
One Republican proposal would address that problem. Sen. Mike Parson, of Bolivar, outlined legislation that would base the prevailing wage in 89 rural Missouri counties on labor calculations from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, instead of relying on voluntary state reporting. The other GOP plan, sponsored by Sen. Dan Brown, of Rolla, would eliminate the prevailing wage altogether.
But Emily Martin, president of St. Louis-based Aschinger Electric, is opposed to both proposals.
She said Parson's plan is the wrong approach. She said wage reporting for private jobs in a county already exists, and that additional reporting by contractors could make the wage calculations more accurate. Other opponents said the federal statistics could include non-construction trade wages, throwing off the calculation.
And she said Brown's plan just sidesteps the issue by not addressing problems with the system, saying: "It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
Last year, Republicans tried to push through legislation that would waive the prevailing wage for disaster areas in response to rebuilding efforts after the deadly 2011 tornado in Joplin. The measure stalled as Senate Democrats filibustered over concerns the bill would lower wages.
This year's proposals were debated in the Senate Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee. No vote was taken Tuesday, though Senate Majority Leader Ron Richard said Monday that the Senate would spend time this year debating prevailing wage legislation


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Praising National League West lineups is a bit of a left-handed compliment. Gone are the days of Barry Bonds, Luis Gonzalez and Shawn Green terrorizing pitchers. Still, it's hard to imagine the Rockies' bullpen functioning at full capacity without a capable left-handed reliever to gobble important late-inning outs next season.
At the general managers' meetings earlier this month, Dan O'Dowd talked of wanting such a guy. The Rockies are playing their pursuit close to the vest. They liked Jeremy Affeldt, but were never in the mix to sign him before he landed with the Giants.
Will Ohman would make sense. But his agent Page Odle clarified the team's interest today. While he would be interested in hearing from the Rockies, he hasn't yet. Odle misspoke about the team calling. Nearly a dozen teams have, including the Cardinals and Braves, but the Rockies haven't yet.
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Reversing the Alarming HIV Increase Among Black Gay Men, Part 2
September 27, 2011
The second of a two-part series examining the high rates of new HIV infection among Black gay and bisexual men. Part 1 described the new data detailing the dramatic increases in new infections, examined some of the reasons driving the numbers and described the CDC's new social-marketing initiative, designed to encourage testing among Black MSM.
In light of the persistent increase in new infections among MSM (men who have sex with men) -- and despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new testing initiative -- a consensus has emerged among prominent Black gay men who have leadership positions in HIV/AIDS policy, prevention and public health: A larger investment is needed from public and private sources, as well as a more "holistic" approach to Black gay men's sexual health.
"It's a question of dollars," says A. Cornelius Baker, senior policy adviser of the Washington, D.C.-based National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition (NBGMAC), which delivered a forceful set of recommendations in response to the CDC's incidence report. Across the federal bureaucracy, "there is not a sufficient investment in line with the scope of the epidemic in Black and Latino gay populations," he says.
Among NBGMAC's additional recommendations: increased funding, capacity building in Black gay organizations, continuing HIV education for medical professionals, high-level consultations with Black gay men and research on how to lower the viral load in MSM communities of color.
Extending Advantages, Reducing Stigma
Other prominent MSM agree with NBGMAC's call for a more comprehensive approach to the multiple health, economic and social disparities that Black MSM experience, particularly those in the under-30 demographic, which is experiencing the greatest increase in new infections.
"I'm 25 years old and part of that 13-to-29 demographic, but many of my contemporaries [do not] have some of my advantages," says Daniel Driffin, a prevention specialist at the Atlanta-based National AIDS & Education Services for Minorities. "I have full-time employment, a college degree and health insurance. Many younger brothas are jobless, homeless, uninsured or have low literacy rates. Some of them [engage in] 'survival sex' to provide for some basic needs. If we begin to tackle those issues, we can influence health-disparity rates."
Kali Lindsey, senior director of federal policy at Harlem United, believes that the outreach to Black MSM should address "not only sexual health but physical and emotional decisions as well that drive our sexual behavior."
He continues: "We also have to stop letting our community off the hook. More than half of our gay men do not disclose same-sex behavior to their primary care physicians. That means that we are missing many opportunities to have key conversations about sexual health. We can't accept that anymore."
"We have to get comfortable discussing sexuality," says Venton Jones, senior program associate for communications for NBGMAC, "in our Facebook discussions, faith settings, with medical providers and in our communities. That is critical for the Black community."
NBGMAC's statement of recommendations also called attention to a study by the National Medical Association that found many of its members -- almost exclusively Black doctors -- were "not willing to recommend HIV testing because of social stigmas."
"That's shameful," says Baker. "Whatever the discomfort some Black doctors may have in talking about sex, they have to get over it. Our people have been through a helluva lot, from slavery to segregation. And they're uncomfortable talking about sex?"
Baker offers an anecdote from his experience with a pediatrician when he was a teenager. "He said, 'I get the sense that you might like boys; is that okay for me to say?' Then we had a conversation, and he took care of my sexual health. The conversation was loving and respectful. He took his responsibility as an adult and a caretaker [seriously], and guided me on a path to being 50 years old and still alive. Our institutions have to do the same thing. We haven't shown youth that there's a better way to live."
Rod McCullom has written and produced for ABC News and NBC, and his reporting and analysis have appeared in Ebony, The Advocate, ColorLines and other media.
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The uterus is located in the abdomen and is the site of fetal development during pregnancy. The body (fundus) of the uterus narrows and forms the cervix. The cervix opens to the vagina.
D and C, or dilatation and curettage (uterine scraping), is a procedure to scrape and collect the tissue (endometrium) from inside the uterus. It can be used to collect tissue samples (biopsies), treat irregular bleeding, or remove fetal or placenta tissue.
D and C is a fairly minor surgical procedure. The procedure may be performed in the hospital or a clinic using general or local anesthesia. The doctor will hold the vaginal canal open with a speculum and may apply anesthesia to the opening of the uterus (cervix). A metal rod is used to widen the cervical canal. A curette (a metal loop on the end of a long thin handle) is then passed through the canal into the uterine cavity. The doctor will scrape away the inner layer of the uterus (endometrium) and collect tissue for examination.
Uterine scraping has relatively few risks and can relieve bleeding and diagnose problems, including infection, cancer, infertility, and other disease.
The patient can resume normal activities as soon as she feels well, even the same day. There may be vaginal bleeding, as well as pelvic cramps and back pain for a few days after the procedure. Medications can manage pain. Tampon use is not recommended for a few weeks, and sexual intercourse is not recommended for a few days to a week.
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While the San Francisco 49ers will go into this offseason with a flood of what-ifs, the New England Patriots -- Sunday's other loser -- can look at their AFC Championship Game defeat through different eyes.
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They were physically manhandled by the Denver Broncos in a game that felt over long before the final whistle.
While Peyton Manning looked laser sharp from the first series on, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spent the first half throwing too many off-target passes, including a pair of costly third-down incompletions to little-used Austin Collie and Matthew Slater.
"We didn't do much of anything early in the game," Brady told reporters after the 26-16 tumble. "It was hard because we didn't complete the third downs. So then, it's hard to get into the run game. Two three-and-outs to start the game."
Said Brady: "When you play good teams, I think the margin of error is slim all day. We dug ourselves a pretty good hole there."
The Patriots' run game that rocked the Indianapolis Colts a week ago with 234 yards off 46 attempts managed just 16 yards in the entire first half against Denver's increasingly stingy run defense. Forced to go to the air, Brady arguably cost New England 10 first-half points with overthrown, wandering deep shots to Collie and Julian Edelman.
Not a huge surprise. This season, Brady had a 21.4 completion percentage on throws of 25-plus yards, ranking him 31st in the league in that category, per ESPN. Against the Broncos, Brady was forced to do things he no longer does well.
Across the way, Manning dismantled the Patriots with 400 yards passing off 32 completions split between eight different targets, leaving Brady only to say: "They played great. ... They got a very good offense -- probably the best offense in NFL history."
Not probably. Definitely.
The "Around The League Podcast" recapped all the Conference Championship week action.


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A growing number of people mainly use a bike to get to work in Massachusetts – one key measure of the growth of cycling as a form of regular transportation. But by most accounts, this is only a fraction of all people who ride in the Bay State – some as activists, others just for short trips around town or leisurely rides, and still more as part of organized cycling clubs that ride for longer distances and at higher speeds.
Pedaling from his Newton Highlands home to his Boston office most weekdays, Jeff Linder starts his mornings zipping down a long hill into Brookline and watching the sun rise over Jamaica Pond as he crosses the city line.
"It's just a great way to start your day," he said recently, as he biked his usual route.
Linder, a doctor, has been cycling to his job at Brigham and Women's Hospital since he moved to Brookline in 2000 and has continued from Newton since 2002. He's one of a small, but growing number of people who mainly use a bike to get to work in Massachusetts – one key measure of the growth of cycling as a form of regular transportation.
By most accounts, this is only a fraction of all people who ride in the Bay State – some as activists, others just for short trips around town or leisurely rides, and still more as part of organized cycling clubs that ride for longer distances and at higher speeds.
Whatever their reasons for biking, many cyclists describe basic pleasures in traveling this way.
"I love the riding, just the dynamics of motion and the air – seeing and smelling," said Peter Brooks, a longtime Watertown cyclist and member of the board of directors for the Charles River Wheelmen, a regional club with about 1,200 members. "That's why bikers like it. It connects you to the environment intimately."
Linder said riding is great exercise and keeps him fit, as well as a great alternative to traffic on his way into the city. Mostly, he said, it's fun.
"A bike ride never seems like a waste of time to me," he said.
Census data offers a few details about who bike commuters are. They represented only 0.7 percent of all Bay State commuters as of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey, but that's up from 0.4 percent as of the 2000 Census.
This seems to mirror a national trend – in the U.S., the number of bike commuters rose nearly 40 percent from 2005 to 2010, according to the League of American Bicyclists.
The Bay State ranked 15th highest in the country for commuting by bike in the 2012 Bicycling and Walking in the United States report, by the Alliance for Biking and Walking. The study placed Massachusetts behind states such as Oregon, Washington and California.
Most bike commuters are men – about 72 percent, according to the Bicycling and Walking report. This reflects a national gender disparity that some bike advocates have sought to address, highlighted by a national Women's Cycling Forum in Washington, D.C., last March.
Many bike commuters are relatively young. Roughly half the estimated 50,600 people who use any means other than driving, public transit or walking to get to their jobs in Massachusetts – that includes cycling, but also cabs and other less common ways of traveling to work – are between the ages of 25 and 44, Census figures show.
However, people in the 45-to-54 bracket outnumbered those between 20 and 24, and adults of all ages were represented in the figures.
About three-quarters of this population is white, about 14 percent Hispanic or Latino, 7 percent African-American and 6 percent Asian, the Census figures showed.
Brooks said he commuted to and from work for about 45 years. "I could have the stress of working and ride home and by the time I got home, I left it all behind," he said.
Others view cycling as a means of addressing public health, social justice or other issues that concern them.
Neil Leifer of Newton left a job as an environmental attorney to focus on working with children in low-income Boston neighborhoods to get involved in cycling and learn how to repair and maintain bikes. He volunteers with Boston nonprofit Bikes Not Bombs and said his career shift came as he tried to figure out how best to fight childhood obesity.
"Instead of suing Coke and Pepsi, I decided I would use my knowledge of exercise to see if I could contribute to that aspect of the problem," he said. "It's not more complicated than that."
Charlotte Burger, a cyclist who commutes from Boston to Cambridge, said she views biking as a "tonic" for many of her concerns – economic, environmental, feminist and community-related.
"Some people say it's little, and it is little," she said of cycling. "But there are all sorts of things that are little, and when they add up, it can lead to big changes."
The growth of cycling means the public's image of who a typical bicyclist is – such as a fast-moving, "antisocial" bike messenger – is changing, said Steve Miller, executive director of the New England Healthy Weight Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health and a board member at the Livable Streets Alliance, where he writes a transit blog, "The Public Way."
"Very few people think of that as true anymore," he said. "We now understand that bicycles are us. We are all, or almost all, potential bicyclists."
(David Riley can be reached at 508-626-4424 or email@example.com.)


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The broker implements a comprehensive set of Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBeans that represent the broker's manageable resources. Using the JMX API, you can access these MBeans to perform broker configuration and monitoring operations programmatically from within a Java application.
In this way, the MBeans provide a Java application access to data values representing static or dynamic properties of a broker, connection, destination, or other resource. The application can also receive notifications of state changes or other significant events affecting the resource.
JMX-based administration provides dynamic, fine grained, programmatic access to the broker. You can use this kind of administration in a number of ways.
You can include JMX code in your JMS client application to monitor application performance and, based on the results, to reconfigure the Message Queue resources you use to improve performance.
You can write JMX client applications that monitor the broker to identify use patterns and performance problems, and you can use the JMX API to reconfigure the broker to optimize performance.
You can write a JMX client application to automate regular maintenance tasks.
You can write a JMX client application that constitutes your own version of the Command utility (imqcmd), and you can use it instead of imqcmd.
You can use the standard Java Monitoring and Management Console (jconsole) that can provide access to the broker's MBeans.
For information on JMX infrastructure and configuring the broker's JMX support, see Appendix D, JMX Support. To manage a Message Queue broker using the JMX architecture, see Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Developer's Guide for JMX Clients.


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It is a late Tuesday morning, and Tom Waddle, wearing jeans and a sweatshirt, is getting ready to start his work day — a live remote at a liquor store.
"Not bad, right?" Waddle said. "A couple of times my dad said, 'Hey, how is that Boston College finance degree working out for you?' I always say, 'It's working out just fine, Dad."
It is hard to argue with the results of Waddle's post-football career. The gritty former receiver, who played with the Bears from 1989-1994, now is in his third decade in broadcasting.
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Stan Laurel is a marionette. His head, hands and feet are all hand carved from wood. The suit was purchased and was intended for a new born child. I had to cut and re-sew everything so it would fit comfortably. Stan Laurel has controlled eyebrows, mouth, and hat. They are all controlled with springs, strings, and dowels. Rope holds the head, hands, and feet together. The marionette string is a multi-stranded bracelet string.
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The Fountain Valley Community Foundation is hosting the annual Anytime Fitness 5K Fun Run on Feb. 9.
Funds from the run benefit nonprofit groups around Fountain Valley.
The event will include a new optional 1 mile run. Participants who register online before noon on Monday will pay $20 and be guaranteed a T-shirt. After that, registration will be $30. Participants can choose which of the 30 nonprofit they'd like their money to be donated to once they register. The groups will receive 100% of the registration fee.
Walk-in registration is also available at the Fountain Valley Recreation Center, 16400 Brookhurst St.
Bib pickup will be held at Sports Authority in Fountain Valley from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb. 8. The store is at 9065 Warner Ave.
On-site registration and a fitness expo will be held 7 a.m. Feb. 9. The 5K run/walk will start at 8 a.m. and the 1-mile course will start at 8:45 a.m.
For more information, call (714) 839-8611 or visit http://www.fvcommunityfoundation.org.
— Alicia Lopez


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In the wikipedia article about descriptive set theory I read that $\mathbb{R}$ (with its usual topology) is a Polish space, and that every Polish space
1) can be obtained as a continuous image of the Baire space $\mathcal{N}$
2) can be obtained as the image of a continuous bijection defined on a closed subset of the Baire space.
Then I learn from the wikipedia article on Baire space that it is actually homeomorphic to the irrational numbers with their usual subspace topology iherited from the real line.
So my questions:
Can we describe explicitely a surjective continuous map from the irrationals to $\mathbb{R}$?
Same for a continuous bijection from a closed subset of the irrationals to $\mathbb{R}$.


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Syringe Prescription Study Unexpected Bonus: Helping Long-Time Users Quit Drugs
May 11, 2001
A pilot study in Rhode Island, allowing physicians to prescribe syringes in order to reduce that state's exceptionally high rate of HIV infection among injection drug users, not only reduced needle sharing as hoped, but also helped some patients get into drug treatment programs and quit their drug abuse entirely. These people had been injecting drugs for a median of 10 years. A description of the project appeared in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health1.
On May 4 we spoke to principal investigator Josiah D. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., an infectious-disease specialist. He explained that until recently Rhode Island had one of the harshest syringe laws in the nation. Possession of each syringe was a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, and the average sentence for possession of syringes alone was 11 months. As a result drug users often did not carry syringes but
A coalition of medical organizations and others worked to change the law, and they won a partial victory in 1998; possession of syringes was reduced to a misdemeanor, but they remained illegal (until 2000) and drug users had difficulty getting sterile syringes. Lobbyists said it would take at least two years to change the law again. Evaluation of the law revealed that doctors could prescribe syringes if approved by the state Department of Health; a drug user could have a prescription and buy and possess syringes legally, like a diabetic. So a study, the Rhode Island Blood Borne Pathogen Harm Reduction Program, was designed to see if prescribing syringes would help to reduce sharing and HIV transmission.
The program began when the director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, with the support of many medical organizations, wrote to all licensed physicians in the state, inviting them to join the program under certain conditions. At this time the program employs four physicians at two locations in Providence, Rhode Island and has enrolled 350 drug users and prescribed 50,000 syringes. The published report is preliminary, as data are still coming in, but it appears that needle re-use has dropped dramatically and that the syringes are being disposed of properly.
The surprise for researchers was the great interest among these
"What is most remarkable is that these long-time users were very interested in drug treatment -- half said they did want treatment to help them stop using drugs. We do not ask immediately. We take a medical history, do a physical, and discuss the findings. We tell them that their behavior is very dangerous because of the risk of infectious diseases, overdose, and other lifestyle problems. I recommend, as their doctor, that we work together to try to get them to stop.
"But if they are not able or willing to stop at this time, I teach them the sterile technique that doctors use for injection -- including the use of a sterile syringe.
"They come to us to ask for syringes. So they have to admit that they inject drugs, and here there are no negative consequences to admitting that they are injecting drugs. Who else can have this discussion with them? Usually the people they talk to about their drug use -- their dealer, pimp, or peers -- have a vested interest in them continuing to use drugs.
"This program has a unique window into peoples' lives. We can ask them, if you decide to stop, what would you do? Would you go to detox? What was your experience in detox last time? What if there are no beds now -- would you just give up?
"It is most rewarding when patients come in and say they do not need syringes -- that they have looked at their lives and stopped their drug use because they are tired of what it is doing to them. We see that as doctors, we can really help these people."
This is the first time that a physician syringe prescription program has ever been tried (although a few physicians have prescribed syringes to individual patients). The May 2001 article1 includes recommendations for those who want to try such a program elsewhere -- starting with knowing the local legal situation2.
From the article1:
"Because of the illicit nature of drug use, a tremendous amount of mistrust and fear often leads to poor interaction with the medical establishment. Prescription of syringes by a physician can serve as a tool for reaching out to a high-risk and often out-of-treatment population of drug users. It is a way for the health care community to tap into drug-using networks and bring those populations into a medical care system . . .
"That the physician-patient interaction is based on the acknowledgement of injecting behaviors engenders trust and seems to open the door for discussion of a whole host of injecting-related activities, including commercial sex, participation in the underground economy, violence, and abuse. The participants seem to be open and honest about their drug use.
"They understand that physicians are trying to help them in a non-judgmental way and are quite appreciative of the efforts. Participants are extremely willing to participate in health care including hepatitis B vaccination; testing for hepatitis, HIV, and other sexually transmitted diseases; and follow up."
This study was funded in part by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Copyright 2001 by John S. James. Permission granted for noncommercial reproduction, provided that our address and phone number are included if more than short quotations are used.
Copyright 2001 by John S. James. Permission granted for noncommercial reproduction, provided that our address and phone number are included if more than short quotations are used.
This article was provided by AIDS Treatment News. It is a part of the publication AIDS Treatment News.


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A few extra words of advice will never hurt, especially when they're coming from the reigning world champion.Manning with Receivers
Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning attended Tuesday afternoon's throwing session, offering pointers to starting quarterback John David Booty and tossing balls to members of the USC receiving corps.
Heritage Hall was abuzz as Tuesday wore on to the late afternoon. Players had conditioning at 6:45 a.m., but they were buoyed by the rapidly spreading news of the special guest who would be attending the routine throwing session at 4:30 p.m.
"It's tight," wide receiver Patrick Turner said Tuesday morning, animated by noticeable excitement. "Let's go!"
Manning said he loved the experience.
"You like being around these guys, they like to work hard," Manning said of the Trojans.
A nine-year pro and two-time NFL MVP, Manning was in Los Angeles to film a commercial at the Coliseum. He called former Trojan Reggie Bush (the two know each other from a commercial shoot) on Tuesday morning to inquire about the Trojans' workouts. A phone call to Coach Pete Carroll and a day's worth of commercial filming later, Manning was at Cromwell Field on the USC campus throwing with six wide receivers and tight ends.Manning with Receivers
Manning peppered precise passes all over the field, highlighted by a 50-yard bomb down the right sideline to Turner. Between throws, he offered suggestions to Booty and gave the receivers route-running pointers with a calming Southern twang.
After one throw to wide receiver David Ausberry that was snagged beautifully along the sideline, Manning yelled out to Ausberry, "We've been throwing together for 10 years it seems."
"There's kind of an obligation to teach and help kids who want to get better if they're willing to ask and learn," Manning said. "You try to help them and give them any kinds of tips you can give them."
Ausberry said he was very thankful of the opportunity to throw with the Super Bowl champion, and other receivers were glowing when asked to describe the experience.
"That was crazy," Turner said. "He was on the money."
Booty was especially appreciative of the opportunity to throw with Manning, who has led NFL in passer rating for three consecutive seasons. "
I could sit there and talk to him all day like I've known him forever," said Booty, who grew up in Louisiana, like Manning. "It was really special for me." Manning with Receivers
About two dozen players and a handful of spectators gathered to watch the throwing session. Among the onlookers was USC basketball coach Tim Floyd, who was a ball boy for the New Orleans Saints during the 1971 rookie season for Archie Manning, Peyton's father. Floyd has remained close friends with Archie ever since.
Though several Trojans were in awe of Manning, they also took the chance to learn from him.
"He came out there, he wanted to help, he opened up to me asking questions," Booty said. "You don't find many guys in his position who would do that, especially with guys they haven't met before."
USC head strength and conditioning coach Chris Carlisle was a strength coach at Tennessee when Manning was training for the NFL Draft in 1998. He said Manning's preparation and work ethic is an excellent example for the Trojans to follow.
"His physical and mental preparation for the game of football is good if not better than anyone else in football," Carlisle said. "He's been the top quarterback in the NFL for however many years, and you look at why he's there, and it's all because of his mental preparation." Manning did have one light-hearted qualm with the workout.
"These guys are calling me 'Mr. Manning' and saying 'Yes sir,'" the 31-year-old Manning said with a smile. "That makes me feel a little bit old."Manning with Receivers
After the hour-long throwing session, Booty asked Manning questions as the two walked to Howard Jones Practice Field, where Manning then did a short running workout. When Booty and Manning were parting ways as the afternoon passed into evening, Manning told the USC quarterback to call him anytime.
"I'll definitely shoot him a text sometime during the season," Booty said.
Peyton Manning works out with Trojans
Ben Malcolmson
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