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Moonfest returns to Clematis Street in West Palm Beach on Saturday with its food trucks and drink stands and lasers and zombies and three stages of music led by Rev. Horton Heat, his twangy soul brother Gold Dust Lounge, Spred the Dub, the People Upstairs, Beat Thief Inc. (with Morgan Jay), Afrobeta and a dozen other acts. All good. Very good.
But as invigorating as it is, 20,000 people is 20,000 people (even if they're all 21 and older). And zombies smell funny. So we are considering the VIP (or the RIP, as it is known). Here's the math: Moonfest tickets are $7 advance, $10 at the gate; VIP is $50/$70. For $50 you get an open premium bar from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., which pretty much breaks you even if you have just one drink an hour for those five hours (not a lot for some people, and you know who you are). There's also the premium buffet (8-midnight), the separate entrance, the proximity to the main stage and the lack of zombie sweat …
Speaking for the organizers, Lauren Fifarek says there will be a different vibe in the VIP.
"There will be seats and tables set up. It'll be a nice place to relax," Fifarek says. The buffet will have food from Longboard's, Hullaballoo and more, she says. The bars (two) will have Tito's tequila, which goes down pretty good. "It's definitely worth it, especially in advance, for $50," Fifarek says.
More info: Moonfest.org.
As if it were necessary, the Miami Heat will get fans psyched up for the new season's three-peat chase (which begins Tuesday against the Chicago Bulls) with a free outdoor premiere screening of "Together We Rise" on Saturday night at New World Symphony's Soundscape Park at New World Center on Miami Beach. The HEATV original documentary of the team's 25th season, from the preseason visits to Beijing and Shanghai to the NBA Finals win over San Antonio, will be shown at 8 p.m. as a Wallcast on the 7,000-square-foot projection space at SoundScape Park (500 17th St.). Fans are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and snacks, and the Heat Dancers and Burnie will be on hand. Info: NBA.com/Heat.
The Bus Loop is now selling early-bird tickets for two new events in November: You'll pay $20 (that's $15 off the day-of rate) on or before Nov. 15 for the inaugural Dog Rescue Bus Loop to nightspots in Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach on Nov. 22. The night benefits The 100+ Abandoned Dogs of the Everglades. The same rate applies when buying a ticket on or before Nov. 20 for the inaugural Fort Lauderdale Turkey Bus Loop on Nov. 27. Proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Jessica June Children's Cancer Foundation, Jack & Jill Center, Covenant House Florida, Riverwalk Trust and the Broward County Gator Club Scholarship Fund. Get advance tickets and information at BusLoop.org.
We have mixed feelings about pumpkin beer. Wait, no, not mixed feelings. It's not our thing. But, maybe yours. On Tuesday at 7 p.m. a sharp crowd will gather at the Riverside Market (608 SW 12th Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-358-8333) for a special edition of Pumpkin Beer Bingo to support the community education efforts of the nonprofit Broward Public Library Foundation. For the $10 cover you get a bingo card, $3 pumpkin craft beer, a raffle ticket and access to the pumpkin-carving contest — and what's more fun than wielding a sharp knife after a few beers? Info: Facebook.com/BPLFoundation.
With $25,000 in cash and prizes on the table, you may wonder what it takes to win the annual Scary Rock Star Costume Contest, which returns to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at 9 on Friday night. As a judge last year (alas, otherwise engaged this year), I can say that the people you are trying to impress have discerning taste (even with the steady supply of drinks). Sexy doesn't hurt, but smart and a flair for the in-character dramatic gets you the extra points. WSVN's Shireen Sandoval, Ninalicia from Y100 and (my replacement) SouthFlorida.com's Micaela Hood are a sharp audience — so your striped Robin Thicke-Beetlejuice get-up with the blow-up doll glued to your groin may get a laugh, but won't put you over the top. To register for the contest, go to SeminoleParadise.com/ScaryRockStars or call 954-327-7625.
Speaking of zombies, we hear that Trent Reznor is closing the recent Nine Inch Nails concerts with "Hurt," but is that now a Johnny Cash song? Tickets remain (including floor) for the NIN show at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the BB&T Center in Sunrise. Tickets: $35.50-$ US $95.25 via Ticketmaster. Info: 954-835-7000, TheBBTCenter.com.
The lineups are final for the inaugural Lauderdale Live concerts Dec. 7-8 along the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale, with a few new names added to the bill this week, including pop troubadour Mat Kearney, American Idol winner Lee Dewize and Americana quintet Sons of Bill. Dec. 7 performances will be by Huey Lewis & the News, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Mat Kearney, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, Lee DeWyze, Sons of Bill, Jillette Johnson and Andrew Ripp. On Dec. 8, it's Lyle Lovett, the Indigo Girls, Shovels & Rope, Jason Isbell, the Wild Feathers and Holly Williams. Single-day tickets, weekend passes and VIP passes are on sale now, ranging from $79 to $379, at LauderdaleLiveMusic.com.
No matter how cool you are, it's always good to have a reminder that you are a work in progress. If you are looking for a role model, consider Pauly Cohen. He played trumpet behind Sinatra and Basie, had drinks with Billie Holiday, and he continues to do what he loves, leading a band at the age of 91. Cohen will bring his jazz ensemble to the Sunrise Civic Center Theater on Saturday at 4 p.m., where they will perform a short set before a Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival screening of the documentary "Taking Charge: The Pauly Cohen Story." We should all be so cool so long. Tickets: $10, $8 students/seniors. Info: 954-525-3456, FLIFF.com.
With $20,000 on the table you need to make your vote count in the Knight Arts Challenge People's Choice Award balloting that runs through Nov. 15. And not to be too parochial, but it's hard to imagine a more deserving group than Jim Hammond's Broward-based Puppet Network, which puts on the annual Day of the Dead parade, a community-celebrating processional that returns to downtown Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. The Puppet Network proposal, which is competing with four Miami-based arts groups, would use the $20,000 grant to "engage more South Floridians in its Mexican Day of the Dead celebration, which includes a giant puppet parade, mask workshops and family-designed altars to loved ones."
The Knight Foundation will be collecting votes via text message through Nov. 15 (to vote for the Puppet Network, text ARTS4 to 22333). The winner will be announced at a Dec. 2 gala at Miami's Arsht Center. The other finalists, all well deserving, are: Indie Film Club Miami (text ARTS1); the nonprofit Mapou Cultural Center in Little Haiti (text ARTS2); The Motivational Edge, an arts, education and life-skills program (text ARTS3); and writer-actor-director Teo Castellanos D-Projects (text ARTS5).
Remember, last year, the Arts Garage in Delray Beach beat out four Miami-based organizations for the People's Choice Award. More info: KnightFoundation.org.
Some weekend mood music comes via Hollywood indie-rockers Beach Day, whose cover of the 1960s spooky-twangy classic "Dracula's Daughter" (originally by Screaming Lord Sutch) got some attention this week from Rolling Stone, which offered it as a free download. As Kimmy Drake told the magazine, "I wanted to record a Halloween song but didn't want to do something too obvious. Our drummer [Skyler Black] is mildly obsessed with horror garage music icon Screaming Lord Sutch, and when I found footage of Joe Meek and Sutch actually recording 'Dracula's Daughter,' we both became enthralled with the idea of covering the song." Get the free download at Facebook.com/BeachDayBand.
Several thousand discounted early-bird tickets for the 2014 return of the Tortuga Music Festival went on sale last Friday (starting at $145) and by Monday they were gone. That's an impressive referendum on something because event organizers have still not named a single act on the bill that will play Fort Lauderdale beach April 12-13. Last year's lineup was led by Kenny Chesney, Eric Church and the Avett Brothers. Festival producer A.J. Niland of HUKA Entertainment promises another round of discount tickets: "We want to reward fans who buy early." The first wave of performers will be named "as soon as we can … very likely before the end of the year." Info: TortugaMusicFestival.com.
Get daily updates on South Florida entertainment and things to do at SouthFlorida.com, on Twitter at @BenCrandell and Instagram /BenCrandell.


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Pocket-lint: Samsung Galaxy S III Flip Cover – Olympic edition pictures and hands-on
Samsung is taking full advantage of being an Olympic sponsor with the launch of a limited edition Samsung Galaxy S III Flip Cover to celebrate the London 2012 Games.
The white flip case replaces your Samsung Galaxy S 3 back cover adding a front protective flap for the screen. That's identical to what is currently available previously, however where this one differs is the images on the back.
The case celebrates more London than the Olympic games, including line art drawings of a top hat and umbrella (yes we know it should be a bowler hat), a telephone box, a red post box, the crown, orb, and sceptre, a London bus, an underground tube train, street signs for Baker Street, Brick Lane, and Oxford Street, the London skyline including the eye, the Gerkin, St Paul's and Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, as well as some Household guard soldiers.
It's only the Olympic athletic stadium and the Olypic rings that keeps it all together tying it into the Games that happen to be going on in East London.
Still if you want to show your support for the Games and have a Samsung Galaxy S III that needs protecting with a Flip Cover this is a slightly more cute way of covering your phone than the Team GB Lion or the Union Jack.
From: http://www.pocket-lint.com
Tags: Flip Cover, Galaxy S III, hands on, Olympic edition, pictures, Samsung

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Great call Andy!!Looks like some great improvements to shorten the course a bit Jack. Now I won't dread going to Blue Valley anymore, afraid of my arm falling off mid-round, and not being able to defend myself against the creepers hanging around the parking area staring at me.Excellent map skills too!!
I played again yesterday out there, got it done in under 90 minutes again, the new greenery is wonderful, the new rocks and greenery on "origial #14" look awesome as well.I am not sure what heck CLank's comment is about in here......so no response from me on that one.Fred's finger was badd ass!
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Rangers hit five homers, claim ninth straight road win
CHICAGO -- Five Rangers home runs more than erased a rough second inning for left-hander Martin Perez on Friday night, as Texas continued its August run with an 11-5 win over the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
Jeff Baker, Adam Rosales, Adrian Beltre and Mitch Moreland each homered, and Ian Kinsler added a controversial inside-the-park home run, as the Rangers won their fourth straight and pushed their road winning streak to a franchise-record-tying nine games (July 22-Aug. 2, 1977).View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- Five Rangers home runs more than erased a rough second inning for left-hander Martin Perez on Friday night, as Texas continued its August run with an 11-5 win over the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
Jeff Baker, Adam Rosales, Adrian Beltre and Mitch Moreland each homered, and Ian Kinsler added a controversial inside-the-park home run, as the Rangers won their fourth straight and pushed their road winning streak to a franchise-record-tying nine games (July 22-Aug. 2, 1977).View Full Game Coverage
The win, coupled with Oakland's loss, extended the Rangers' American League West lead to 3 1/2 games over the A's.
"We're playing really good baseball, we're having a lot of fun and we're going to try to continue this as long as we can," Kinsler said.
Texas certainly extended its winning ways Friday, as the Rangers won for the 19th time in their last 23 games by pounding White Sox All-Star Chris Sale to the tune of eight runs in seven innings.
The four-homer yard sale by the White Sox lefty was a career high, while the eight runs matched the most Sale has ever allowed (April 13 against Cleveland).
"I really have no excuses in my corner," Sale said. "My arm felt good, my body felt good, my mind was right. I felt like my stuff was good. Sometimes you just get beat."
While former White Sox A.J. Pierzynski (1-for-4) and Alex Rios (2-for-5) received much of the pregame attention from media and fans -- with Pierzynski getting loud cheers, a standing ovation and a first-inning video tribute -- it was another former Chicago player who began the home run derby in the second.
Baker, a former Cub, launched a two-run homer in the second inning, and Rosales -- making his first start as a Ranger after being pin-balled between Texas and Oakland -- followed suit two batters later with a two-run shot.
Rangers manager Ron Washington started Rosales because of his career numbers against Sale -- now 5-for-10 with two homers -- while both of Baker's hits against Sale have left the yard.
Kinsler's controversial inside-the-park homer came the next inning when his soft liner down the left-field line got wedged under the padding along the wall. White Sox left fielder Dayan Viciedo couldn't find it and put his hands up while crouching next to the wall, but Kinsler continued to motor around the bases and scored easily.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura argued the call and was ejected.
"[Third-base umpire Greg Gibson] just said he saw it," Ventura said. "I figured [Viciedo] got on his hands and knees to go get it, you'd think it would be lodged under there pretty good and they'd rule a double. But they didn't."
Kinsler said he just kept running, while Washington said he thought the correct call was made.
"The ground rules say if the ball is trapped and visible you've got to go get it. It was visible," Washington said.
Beltre's 27th blast came in the fifth, while Moreland added a pinch-hit, two-run shot in the eighth off Dylan Axelrod. It was the first pinch-hit homer by the Rangers this season, and the first time in franchise history the Rangers hit a pinch-hit home run and inside-the-park home run in the same game.
Those homers made up for an excruciating second inning.
Perez followed Sale's struggles in the top half of the inning by allowing the first three batters in the bottom of the frame to reach, the last of which was a two-run single by Viciedo, who later scored.
Perez needed 31 pitches to get through the second, which proved to be an aberration. The lefty allowed one run on two hits the rest of the way while retiring the last nine batters he faced.
"In the second inning, I was thinking too much. My mind was going a little bit too fast," Perez said. "It's not just about your body. You have to be relaxed in your mind, too."
It wasn't all power for the Rangers on offense, though. Rangers center fielder Leonys Martin stole second in the seventh inning, marking the eighth straight game the Rangers have stolen a base -- one game shy of the franchise record set in 1977.
The Rangers have relied more on speed this season than in the past, ranking second in the AL in stolen bases. But that doesn't mean they've lost their pop, as they still sit sixth in the league in homers.
Now, Washington said, they're simply more well-rounded.
"We've got guys who can hit the ball out of the ballpark. We just haven't been hitting it out of the ballpark," Washington said. "So all that tells me is that people can win baseball games many, many ways -- not just with the long ball. I know that's been something that's been real prevalent in Texas, but Texas is complete now. We can play baseball anyway we have to play it."
And right now, whichever way the Rangers choose usually ends with a win.
Cash Kruth is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @cashkruth.


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The Pain of a Missing WHERE Clause Predicate
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Hello Steven,ReplyDelete
I think you meant the Nov/Dec quiz to have its
closing date extended, and not the Sep/Oct quiz,
which does not appear on the list of quizzes to be taken.
Yes, the bright side of the things is that ALL of us, without exception, are learning from our mistakes, and the ones we maybe don't do while coding our work projects, we unfortunately do while playing the PL/SQL Challenge ...
I just had a few "great" occasions during the month of November to experience that very same feeling of humility ... otherwise I cannot explain so many stupid mistakes made on topics that are mastered so very well and used so successfully in the daily life !!
Your feeling of having seen that DELETE statement without a WHERE clause is probably similar to the feeling of "total-loss" that a player feels when he realizes he has done a mistake the very moment after pressing [Submit]...
But our Oracle God is there and wants us to keep learning and keep this so beautiful challenge going :) :)
We all learn from your so vast experience
and hearing you saying that you also learn from ours really gives us a high sense of a so nice collaboration.
Learning is part of our lives, and maybe the most beautiful and valuable one, so, my own personal motto is:
"Have you made a mistake ?
Don't let it break you down,
correct it, try to not repeat it and
Thanks a lot for sharing these feelings with us
and best regards,
Iudith Mentzel
Thanks, Iudith! I have fixed the Sept/Oct quiz so that is should now be visible.ReplyDelete
DELETE/UPDATE without WHERE should be forbidden.ReplyDelete
When i wrote DELETE FROM T_TABLE WHERE 1=1; COMMIT; And i do not want it - i m "stupid" and responsible for it. If i wrote DELETE FROM T_TABLE - it could be very probably ""just"" forgot mistake, much more dif when I m forced to write WHERE with 1=1..


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Hector, our frequent commenter, has an extraordinary blog post up in which he reflects on the death a year ago from a drug overdose of his friend "Dave," and what he saw when he traveled to Nebraska to visit with Dave's messy working-class family. Excerpt:
One of the really interesting thing I remember from that funeral weekend is that it reminded me that what we hear from the conservative writers like Charles Murray, is in large part true. Family dynamics in America are rapidly changing, and today they're changing rapidly in the working-class, particularly in Red states (i.e. the South and the Great Plains states like Nebraska). You wouldn't have seen this kind of 'blended' family in the past. But what we often don't think about is this: that while family instability and breakdown are often undesirable things that make people's lives a lot harder, they also provide people with the opportunity to be, in a small way, heroic, and to freely undertake choices, out of love, that are more difficult and more demanding than most people make who have never faced equivalent challenges. As with other challenges and sources of adversity in life, a great many people in working-class America have responded by making extraordinary sacrifices out of love. Dave's mother's second husband chose to do so, when he adopted Dave and gave him his name. Dave's mother also chose to do so, when she effectively adopted "Lena" and rescued her from a neglectful mother. One of the young women I met at the funeral had two young children, whom she was raising alone (their father had long since split): she'd been living in St. Louis, but had moved back to care for her dying father, who lived out in a small Great Plains town, which was rapidly losing people and hollowing out. She had become part of a small number of people, like Rod Dreher, bucking the tide and moving back to her small town roots, at substantial personal sacrifice, because of people she cared about.
We all know the overall shape of the trends, the economic abyss and the decline of farming and factory jobs, coupled with the fraying of social bonds and the weakening of the family, that are making the lives of working class people in the developed world harder and harder. Particularly here. But among those trends, it's easy to lose track of the fact that the overall scope of history is made up of the free choices, for good and evil, of many millions of people. And each of those stories is, very often, a fascinating drama in and of itself, with episodes of tragedy as well as heroism and exceptional virtue.
What a great perspective: seeing adversity and brokenness as a call to, and an opportunity for, moral greatness. Failure is not the end of a story; it can be just the beginning. Hector's post made me think of my sister Ruthie's story, which is not the same thing as Dave's, obviously, but related. Dying from cancer meant the end of her life, but it is not the end of her story, and I think (I hope!) that the way she, and those who loved her, responded to her great adversity, and the chance I had to write about what these people said and did, will result in many, many people that Ruthie never had the chance to know making decisions that will change their own lives for the better.


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bettina needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 47 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
KROKIFANT will be an online-market where parents can sell and buy used childrens cloothes or other things. Parents who want to sell or buy will have to register and login.
The portal doesn't already exist. But there is already a logo (see attached file).
The portal should make it easier for parents to sell or buy (brand) clothes of their children.
Children can often wear cloothes only some months. Clothes then are often like new and can be weared again by other children.
Parents of children (age 0 - 12 years), familiar with internet. Like to shop online. Like fashion, but don't like to pay a lot of money for new clothes.
Parents sell their childrens cloothes today often in forums. This is not very user-friendly. Krokifant wants to give an alternative.
The shop should be easy to use and bring a big portion of humour and fun. It should get a modern face, clear, friendly and colorful (see colors of logo).
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- for user (if he is logged-in, where he can edit his data, upload new clothes, see his cart etc.)
- about us (information about the portal, contact and so on)
- for later (tabs etc.) some article groups (on launch there will only be "clothes" but later there can something be added, eg. baby accessories), this must be mandatory for the layout (must look nice with and without)
Login should be possible on each page (user / password form on each page).
On homepage there should be a searchform (only searchtext), category list and some offers (articles from the catalog per random).
nice-to-have: if the Krokifant (see logo) could be used as mascot, or Krokifant or flower will repeat somewhere in layout
Please use "Der Flohmarkt-Shop für Eltern" under Logo - see image under http://www.krokifant.de
Please design homepage. It should have a content area, so the design can be used with other content for other pages of the portal.
Please let your fantasy flow on designing the homepage (fill it with content).
ain't there
http://www.booklooker.de - navigation is good, layout could be more modern
http://www.mailchimp.com - nice (see subpages): same header on each page, clear design, modern (3d, shadows), not so good: homepage should be similar to subpages
http://www.tripit.com - most important things in navigation in page footer, very clear design (but a little more playful is allowed :))
http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome - I like the prominent demonstration of the logo and the images which appear like hand-drawn


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Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch (1884-1976, Princeton class of 1906) was a successful businessman and friend to the Princeton University Library. In particular, Kienbusch donated an extensive collection of books, manuscripts, and other works relating to angling. In among the reels and tied flies are some amazing paintings and drawings, including Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait's American Speckled Brook Trout, seen above.
When Tait immigrated to America in 1850, he was already a practicing lithographer and illustrator. His was also an enthusiastic amateur naturalist. In his spare time, Tait hiked the Adirondack Mountains; camping, hunting, and painting in a summer studio he built.
Tait produced thousands of paintings, most often romantic depictions of sportsmen and outdoor life. It was his still life of a brook trout that first caught the attention of Currier & Ives, who commissioned the elaborate "American Speckled Brook Trout" for a commercial print. Tait became one of their favorite free-lance artists, producing over forty-two designs for print reproduction. These prints sold for anywhere from 5 cents to $3.00, depending on the size and coloring. Tait wisely sold only the rights to the design and kept the oil paintings for himself, to be sold separately.
Around the same time as this painting, Tait designed the frontispiece for Charles Whitehead's "Wild Sports in the South," which was engraved on wood by N. Orr & Company.


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There is not one tiny piece of candy left, not even a candy wrapper, after literally hundreds of trick-or-treaters cleaned out my sweet stash on Wednesday night. The little ghosts and goblins wandered down to my street directly from the ever-popular Montrose "Spooktacular" event.
Whew! That is over with. We are now racing pell-mell to Thanksgiving and Christmas with scarcely a breath in between. Before I get catapulted into holiday reporting there are a couple of events to catch up with that happened here in town.
The Flintridge Guild of Children's Hospital held a roof-raising fundraising evening called "Moonlight and Moonshine."
Nearly 100 guests, dressed in their best cowboy and cowgirl duds, sashayed over to the Thursday Club for the festivities expertly cochaired by Charlotte Saydah and Debbie Enterente Zielinski.
There was a silent auction table with many tempting items to bid on. Two of the most highly contested items were weeklong stays at a ranch house in Montana and a beachfront condo in San Clemente. There were also fancy baskets filled with goodies created by guild members.
Everyone had a fun time trying out the new line dances — it just couldn't be helped when one half of the line went in one direction while the other half danced in the opposite. Anyway, it provided a lot of laughs.
The barbecue supper at the hitching post was mighty fine and prepared by the Newport Rib Company.
All of the proceeds from the evening were earmarked for the imaging research department of Children's Hospital, Los Angeles.
Just some of the folks having fun at the party were Marsha and Roger Baumgarten, Bill and Robin Burk, Sherri and Charlie Christensen, Peggy and John Cresto, Bertie and David Cullen, Juliet and Frank Cullen, Chris and Rich Goetz, Melanie and Jim Liu, Yvonne and Ted Slaught, Suzanne and Ru Jensen, Nancy Wyman, Ella Selders, Mary and John Mazur, Pati and Derek Patao, Mary Ann and Joe De Briyn, Deanne and Mike Durfee, and Hilary and Lee Gregg.
Now on to another party that was well attended: The whims of Lady Luck were tested at the recent La Cañada Thursday Club's Casino Night. Members and guests were encouraged to wear Halloween costumes. From absurd to beautiful, and everything between, everyone seemed to have a blast dressing up. Winners of the "best" costume awards went to Gracella Gibbs, Mary Hennessy and Patricia Harris. Gracella was a high-fashion spider lady and Patricia looked like she just stepped out of the movie "My Fair Lady" in her lovely 1800s-style gown.
The game tables saw brisk action all night and it didn't even matter if you didn't know how to play the craps table, blackjack or roulette because the gaming staff helped everyone get up to winning speed on the different games.
Later on in the evening a autumn-inspired catered dinner of a hearty stew with mashed potatoes and veggies was served.
Everyone was having so much fun at the gaming tables that they didn't want to go home. Yes indeed, a good time was had by all.
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Late last Friday night, around 11:00 pm, someone came into a convenience store on North Cliff Avenue and helped herself to a money jar on the counter.
The jar at Cubby's Gas Stop was for people to donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Dakota, an organization that grants wishes to seriously ill children. That's the same organization that benefits from Hot Harley Nights, the event that brought hundreds of motorcyclists to Sioux Falls.
And this woman thought she needed the money more than sick kids.
I don't think anyone will care about what her motivation might have been. She was wrong, no two ways about it.
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For me, there is nothing nicer on a sunny, crisp January day than to put on my cross-country skis and head out on our trails. Each time I am grateful once again for these 20 acres of woods and field that we call home. On Saturday, the temperature hovered near the teens and the snow sparkled beneath my skis. The snow is not deep, but just enough to create this canvas of white that accentuates and delineates the trees and prairie grasses. In the warmer months of the year, there is such an abundance of greenery that it is difficult to really see the actual composition of our forest. Winter is also a time of year when we go into the woods and prairie without fear of ticks. This is a sad and frightening development of recent years that really has curtailed our time in and enjoyment of the property. In the winter, the ticks are, thankfully, sealed beneath the snow.
Now that retirement has given Mike more time to tackle long awaited tasks, he has been spending days in the woods, cutting and clearing all the deadfall that has accumulated in the past 27 years, especially the dead and dying jack pines that were toppled during the ice storm of 1991. In truth, he could spend the rest of his life trying to thin and clean up the damage and not finish, but it gives him great pleasure to do what he can now, and as long as there is snow on the ground he has been able to burn the piles of slash. Nothing feels better than a big bonfire on a winter's day.
As I ski through the woods I notice that various species of trees grow in clusters in different parts of the property. This is due to "microclimates" — areas where the slope or topography of the land allows for more moisture, sunshine or shade. The trees that proliferate on our property are jack pine, red pine, white pine, red and burr oak, white birch, balsam fir and a few red maple and white spruce.
There is one cluster of big tooth aspen and quaking aspen in an area where a previous owner took a bulldozer and just pushed the existing trees into windrows — a practice I will never understand. This allowed the aspen to move in quickly, which is what they do in disturbed landscapes. We are especially thrilled by the number of healthy birch trees and the abundance of young white pines. The latter has been notoriously difficult to start from seedlings and it was once the most common pine in our state, but after the logging boom of the 1880s the big whites became rare.
We are fortunate to have three or four towering above all the other trees. Scattered throughout our forest, they are probably close to 100 years of age and are the source of the new generations. The new ones got a start before the insatiable white tail deer became residents on our land (after our last dog died). Most white pine saplings have to be "bud capped" in order to prevent the herbivores from eating them top down. There is a large stand of red pines right behind the house that are stately elders and they too have been responsible for reseeding the woods.
I expect this forest will look quite different in another 50 years, because the warming climate will push the coniferous trees further north and this part of the state will have more hardwoods. I am glad I am here now to enjoy it as it is.
There is equal fascination for us in the fields. Directly in front of the house is a tall grass prairie — made up of big bluestem. We did not plant this prairie. It existed in the soil for generations and just needed the right conditions to regenerate. The same is true of the field just to the west. If ever there was a spot that looked fallow and filled with weeds (spotted knapweed in particular) it was this one. For nearly 20 years our horses grazed in this sandy field, and from what we know of previous owners they had horses that did the same. This is nothing like pastureland. The nearly pure sand cannot put out good grass, but it sheltered the seeds of switchgrass, little bluestem and Indian grass, both mid-grass species of prairieland.
It is only in the last two years that we have seen these "new" plants emerge and spread. For a couple of naturalists to witness an example of natural regeneration and return to original condition without any effort (or expense) on our part is a gift. We have burned and mowed the big bluestem over the years trying to replicate the natural conditions of pre-human settlement and we will probably do the same in the other field on occasion, but mostly we will just enjoy the sight of native prairie returning.
We are surrounded by a land that is anything but frozen, although for a few months each year it appears that way. Nature is dynamic and constantly inspiring, and all we need are the eyes to see it.


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The banking industry's longstanding effort to deter or prevent credit unions from using the words "bank" and "banking" in advertising was advanced to a new plateau last week with a proposed cease and desist order placed by the state's top regulator on the $600 million Vermont State Employees Credit Union.
With the help of CUNA and the Association of Vermont Credit Unions, the Montpelier credit union was fighting back in both the public and private arena to reverse an intent order prior to a hearing in late August scheduled by Steve Kimbell, the Vermont commissioner and head of the Department of Financial Regulation that supervises, credit unions, banks and insurance firms.
- UPDATE, Oct. 8, 2012, Vermont Credit Union, Regulator Settle 'B' Word Dispute
Supported by the industry in Vermont and nationwide, Steven Post, president/CEO of Vermont State Employees called bankers' latest foray into clamping down on the bank language "ludicrous and amazing." He vowed to turn back any cease and desist order if the state follows through next month.
For his part, Kimbell, a Montpelier attorney and former lobbyist, maintained the Vermont State Employees and other credit unions have a legitimate defense in continuing the common practice of mentioning bank and banking in their TV ads, online and in general marketing materials.
"Credit unions have some very persuasive arguments on their side as to constitutional free speech," said Kimbell as he outlined legal underpinnings for his June 18 cease and desist notice.
Kimbell, who has won active support of the Vermont Bankers Association, told Credit Union Times he chose an administrative procedure based on a strict interpretation of Vermont's 1969 law dealing with use of bank language by financial institutions other than banks in advertising.
Kimbell, who acknowledged he has quickly become the target of harsh rhetoric from angry Vermont credit union leaders over the proposed order, said constitutional free speech is very much in play.
Still, Kimbell said he has undertaken "a procedural action" against the state's second largest credit union based on concerns and complaints regarding Vermont State Employees advertising, which most recently was highlighted by a "redefining banking" marketing campaign.
"It is not my job to make the law. That is a job for the legislature," stressed Kimbell, arguing his proposed cease and desist order may include what he called some "tortured reasoning."
The leadership of the Vermont Bankers Association, meanwhile, has maintained that that while many Vermont credit unions use bank and banking plus other bank-related terms in ads, "VSECU is the most flagrant and abuses the practice," said a spokeswoman.
It remained uncertain how far the state, the Vermont Bankers Association or CUNA might pursue the order's legality in court, but Eric Richard, general counsel of CUNA, said in a statement that the trade group fully supports VSECU. "The state regulator is taking an extraordinarily narrow view in its interpretation of state law on this matter, and its conclusion is impractical, illogical and detrimental," he said. "We believe the credit union's appeal for further review should be granted. A reassessment is clearly in order."
Speaking last week during a Burlington TV newscast that also featured Chris D'Elia, the CEO of the Vermont Bankers Association, Post said again the use of the word bank "is common language, commonly understood and everybody knows what it means."
But D'Elia complained that credit unions, based on Vermont law, "are not allowed to use banking terminology and shouldn't be using it. It's plain and simple."
Post argued that the term banking is so common "that if you were to go up to the average member and ask, what type of services do you receive here? They would answer banking."
In explaining the VSECU position on its website, Post has pointed to federal law, which does not bar federally chartered credit unions from using bank in ads and cited several that have current campaigns with bank in them.
"Federal credit unions in the state are not subject to any Vermont ruling that comes from this enforcement action and therefore can continue using the words banks and banking without penalty," the credit union said.
If a cease and desist order is slapped on VSECU, Post said he would consider the option of switching to a federal charter.


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trying to troubleshoot a program for my python class, and can't figure out how to get the output to display on one line, without the spaces. i've tried a few different ways, string.join() and string.joinfields(), but none of them have worked so far. please help!
text = raw_input("what phrase would you like to input")
import string
splitString = string.split(phrase)
x = len(splitString)
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newText = splitString[i][0]
letters = string.upper(newText)
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here it is
is that the ocean, woops?
hope all dissensians in scotland and ireland will be safe from ophelia!
maybe i just haven't been paying attention but since when do you guys get hurricanes??
1961, 1839. Occasionally get hit by major storms after Atlantic hurricanes.
As the Atlantic warms the areas warm enough to support hurricane formation expands. Ophelia is going to be a fucking disaster here and is also currently fanning massive wildfires through Portugal and Spain, both of which are running a 6-9 degrees hotter than usual October with 60% lower than usual humidity. Climate change increases the likelihood of hurricanes in Western Europe and this will become the new normal.
"Our model simulations suggest that tropical hurricanes might become a serious threat for western Europe in the future. Hence, we anticipate an increase in severe storms of predominantly tropical origin reaching western Europe as part of 21st global warming."
Europe's future. Scorched by wildfires and heatwaves, chilled by sudden freezes and swamped by deluges on the continent, ravaged by hurricanes at the coasts.
Better get used to it folks.
3 dead. 330,000 without power. Serious damage in the south and south east.
We were very lucky.
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text: Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed. $apt-cache search foo | grep bar everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being a bit backward. On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:19 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote: > > > >> You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble: > >> > >> $ apt-cache search jove > >> jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor > >> > >> Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) > > > > Hey, it's ok. I'm actually trisystemal. FC 6 on top (soon to jump to > > 8, but in no hurry), VMware, then debian and XP Pro VM. And yes, > > it was > > a good thing debian already had jove as I still don't really know > > how to > > build debian packages, > > If you want a good introduction to debian packages and how they work, > then I recommend Martin Krafft's book "The Debian System". I've been > a Debian Developer for ten years, and that book still teaches me > useful stuff about Debian on a regular basis. > > The chapter on packaging is superb; it teaches you how to make > packages from the ground up, so you really understand how they work, > starting with the basic fact that fundamentally a debian binary > package is an ar archive which contains two tarballs. One, > data.tar.gz contains the files belonging to the package. The other, > control.tar.gz, contains the scripts and information about the > package used by the packaging tools, and at a minimum this contains > two files: DEBIAN/control, which contains the information about the > package (description, dependencies and whatnot) and DEBIAN/md5sums > which is, as you'd expect, a list of md5sums of all the plain files > in the package. > > Once he's shown you how to build a Debian package manually like that, > he then shows you how to do it the more normal way using the various > wrapper scripts that Debian provides for the purpose to make life a > bit easier (and to help enforce the Debian policy on packages) > > Debian doesn't really have a source package idea like Red Hat - > instead, when you use "apt-get source" to download the source for a > package you get three files; the upstream tarball, which is > completely unmodified from upstream. You also get a gzipped patch, > and a description file containing md5sums for the patch and the > tarball, amongst other things. Typically, the patch creates a debian > directory within the upstream source directory, and inside that > debian directory is a file called "rules". This is just a normal > makefile, containing all the instructions for configuring, compiling > and packaging the software on a Debian system. Once you have one of > these things, building the .debs is just a matter of typing: > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > or something similar. There are still fancier things available for > doing this by keeping the sources and debian/* files in a CVS, > subversion or other revision control repository. I use these in my > own package management activities to be able to go back and build > previous releases when users report bugs against them. > > > and manage to get myself confused by apt tools > > I can sympathise. I've only started using aptitude since etch came > out, and it's taken me some time to get used to, but now that I am, I > quite like it, for the most part. Especially the etch version, the > version of it in sarge had some really annoying behaviour under > certain circumstances. > > > (I'm too used to yum). But there is no doubt: > > > > a) Debian is a perfectly useful, fully functional variety of linux, > > and I have been painfully taught to bow down before its selection of > > available packages, which is for all practical purposes inexhaustible. > > In fact, you need a search engine with powerful features even to go > > shopping amongst them. > > ... which fortunately it provides for you. It's called apt-cache. > > Regards, > > Tim > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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Fight For Them
Nehemiah 4:14 "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses".
God is sovereign, but man is responsible. As far as I know, no one ever accidentally ends up in heaven. There is a fight that must be fought. There was a fight that was fought to make it possible.
The people of Jerusalem had grown accustomed to the walls being torn down and lying in rubble. Decades had passed, and they had done nothing to remedy the situation. They lived in distress and reproach, but that was the new normal for them. Shame, embarrassment, stress and danger was what they settled for. They were a disheartened people.
God gave Nehemiah a burden for the people, and for the glory of the City where God dwelt. He labored in prayer, and then he labored with his hands. He inspired the people to live the way that God wanted for them. He moved them to change. They had a newfound "mind to work".
The enemies of God and His people were quick to attack verbally, with threats and mocking. Nehemiah countered with prayer and exhortation to the people. He told them to fight and build. They wore swords as they worked. They were inspired to do something that they had neglected for decades. They were discovering who they were in God.
Dear Christian: Is there anybody you are willing to fight for? Will you fight for them in prayer and fasting? Will you deny yourself pleasure and entertainment and even rest in order to bring the truth, hope, and love of God to them? Will you visit them, wait for them, pay for them, drive them, help them, listen to them, serve them, again and again?
Will you fight for children that are going in the wrong direction? Will you fight for your marriage, and for your spouse Will you fight for your neighbors, your community, your city, your extended family?
Will you fight for people with addictions? Will you fight for those who are self destructive? Will you spend and be spent for others? (2 Corinthians 12:15)
Does the sphere of your existence start and stop at your front door, or do you have eyes and a heart beyond your own personal world? Do you simultaneously enjoy the blessings of life, but always carry a holy burden for people, or do you avoid any "heaviness" of life, and leave people to fight for themselves?
If you know Jesus today, there was probably someone that fought for you, prayed for you when you didn't care, thought of you when you were confused and lost, and yearned for you when you were selfish and lived only for yourself. Someone prayed you into God's kingdom, longed for you, spoke to you, waited for you. Someone gave of themselves so that you would have ears to hear the invitation of Jesus.
Dear Christian: Be a Nehemiah. Fight for the souls and well being of others, and then inspire others to fight as well.
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Today on Good Morning America we learned that some people don't like Keira Knightley's anti-domestic violence ad because it was too ugly and violent - not unlike domestic abuse!
Though anchor Chris Cuomo points out that the leading cause of injury for women is domestic violence, advertising executive Jerry Della Femina doesn't think we should actually have to watch a man kicking Knightley in the PSA. "Couldn't they just show his face as he's kicking? No you had to see it," said Femina. He goes on to suggest that the people who made the ad just wanted to win an award, adding, "I don't think it's going to help anybody." Clip at left.


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I did nada today. Worked on house reno things.
I did get my written MRI results back. I have mild tendinosis in a couple spots, which is consistent with tennis elbow. But the real problem, and likely what has been causing my pain, is completely different. I have avulsion tears in two places: the lateral collateral ligament is partially torn from the humerus and there is avulsion (separation from the bone) of the common extensor tendon. Avulsion tears are really the opposite of tennis elbow -- your tendons are so strong that they break off the bone.
Jim sent me the snippet below on avulsion tears. I'm going to assume optimistically that mine are not large enough to be surgical. I have a consulting appt tomorrow with my PRP doc. I'm not even sure if this type of problem is treatable with PRP; I hope so. (I'm also not sure whether my nitro patches have done anything ... And this certainly explains why acupuncture was an epic fail.)
So it's very clear that (1) tennis elbow may be the least of my problem and only partially indicated; (2) good thing I didn't just go in for expensive PRP without an MRI -- it might not have helped and now I know the exact places and types of injury; (3) good thing I got an MRI -- I did not have garden variety tennis elbow as Jim thought. So far, my doctoring beats Jim's. MRI completely vindicated.
How the hell long does this take to heal?! I waited 8 months after the initial problem and promptly exacerbated it when I returned to lifting. Moral of the story: be very very careful increasing weight when deadlifting.
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It is still controversial whether fresh avulsion fractures of the medial or lateral epicondyle of the humerus in adults should be treated conservatively or surgically. We monitored 12 patients to consider treatment selection. The patients were examined for site and size of bone fragment, degree of displacement, dislocation of the elbow joint, method of treatment, and bone union and elbow stability. The treatment results were scored according to the Elbow Assessment Score System, and the scores ranged from 86 to 100 points. The scores did not differ significantly among any of the patients, whether treated conservatively or surgically. Although surgery produces good results, conservative treatment can be selected for patients in whom the maximum diameter of bone fragment is 13 mm or less or the displacement of the bone fragment is 9 mm or less. (J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2000;9:59-64.)


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It snowed last night. Wet. 25F this morning, rising to 30 when I went skiing.
Packy snow that made clumping sounds as I skied.
The old Blizzard Chemical's rocked really nicely. (Hairies.) For waxing the old Swix red-Violet (soft purple) worked pretty good.
But icing was a bit of a problem after a few km even on hairies w fresh silicone spray.
Anyone know of a spray that endures better? Is there something a lot better than silicone?
I'm guessing that Helx might be the stuff -- is there a cheaper option that's still pretty good?
I don't know if the spray wore off or what was happening. It really only iced up on unskied snow that might have had wet places under it. I could scrape off the ice if I stopped a sec. One ski kept on re-icing here and there on it.
Can you use the same spray to prevent kickwax from icing? To some extent?
Anti-icing spray that lasts longer?
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Linux Top 3: Arch, ARM and LibreOffice
This past week, Linux 3.6 was released, but perhaps the bigger news is what is coming in Linux 3.7 as the continuous evolution of Linux pushes development forward.
1) Linux 3.7 on ARM
ARM has long been a thorn in the side of Linux creator, Linus Torvalds. Unlike x86 which is a relatively unified architecture, ARM is fragmented which has posed some non-trivial challenges for Linux. That's all about to change with the Linux 3.7 kernel.
Torvalds merged code in last week that will fundamentally change the way ARM is handled in Linux.
"This is a pretty significant branch," the code commitstates. " It's the introduction of the first multiplatform support on ARM, and with this (and the later branch) merged, it is now possible to build one kernel that contains support for highbank, vexpress, mvebu, socfpga, and picoxcell."
So instead of having multiple ARM branches, which has led to additional complexity and Linux development challenges, there will now be one.
The move towards ARM is an important one for both mobile devices that build on ARM as well as new scale-out architectures for server deployments as well. Ubuntu, Red Hat and SUSE all now have active ARM efforts as server vendors including HP take aim at building the nascent ARM server market.
2) Arch 2012.10.06
Arch is a rolling release based distribution and as such each milestone release isn't the big deal that say a new Ubuntu or Fedora release typically is. That said, there are still plenty of new builds and new users that start with Arch in any given month and for them, new milestones are important as they update the baseline install for Arch.
"The October release of the Arch Linux install medium is available for Download and can be used for new installs or as a rescue system," Arch developer Pierre Schmitz wrote in his release announcement.
As usual, the updated installation media includes a pile of updated packages. At least one of them though will make a significant difference for new users. As of the 2012.10.06 update, systemd is used to boot up the live system. Schmitz also noted that, "initscripts are no longer available on the live system but are still installed by default on the target system. This is likely to change in the near future."
On a somewhat related note, a Cinnamon desktop based derivative of Arch debuted this week with its Cinnarch 2012.10.01 update. Cinnarch now also used the same systemD as the mainline update for Arch. Cinnarch differs in that it includes Cinnamon 1.6.1 by default for desktop users, as an alternative to GNOME Shell.
3) LibreOffice 3.6.2
Also on the subject of incremental updates last week is the LibreOffice 3.6.2 update. This is the third release from the 3.6 branch of LibreOffice and is primarily a stability and bug fix update.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.


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Jona Prieb
Jona Prieb, 91, of Hillsboro died Nov. 24 at Salem Home in Hillsboro. He was born April 12, 1922, to William J. and Sara (Block) Prieb in Marion County.
He is survived by three sons, Richard of Hesston, Steve of McPherson, and Keith of Derby; a daughter, Joyce Ashley of Goessel; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Esther Prieb, in 2012.
A celebration of life service was Nov. 27 at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. The family received guests Nov. 26 at Jost Funeral Home.
A memorial fund has been established with Kids with Dreams.


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WHITING, Ind.—High winds and waves have delayed a search along Lake Michigan for crude oil possibly submerged offshore following an oil spill at BP's northwestern Indiana refinery.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday's poor weather made it too dangerous for a Coast Guard, BP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assessment team to launch boats to retrieve samples along the path of the Whiting refinery's oil spill. That work is expected to resume Sunday.
Crews were scheduled to remove oil-covered pebbles Saturday along the lake some 20 miles southeast of downtown Chicago where a refinery malfunction discharged oil earlier this week.
BP said Thursday a preliminary estimate shows between 15 and 39 barrels of oil were discharged into the lake by its Whiting refinery. That's between 630 and 1,638 gallons.


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HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — From the department of "Can we please start the season?" we bring you "Thoughts better left unspoken, but spoken anyway" presented by Dwight Howard and Nick Young.
Howard, the happy-to-be-here Houston Rockets center, opted to voice his dismay at how his old Orlando club just handed over his old No. 12 to an unproven (now promising) youngster named Tobias Harris without, apparently, a moment's reservation.
Harris wore No. 15 with Milwaukee, but the one-five was occupied by forgotten Magic man Hedo Turkoglu. Luckily for Harris, No. 12, his number as a one-and-done freshman at Tennessee, had popped free a few months earlier.
Though Howard thinks the No. 12 he made famous (post-Chris Whitney) should hang in Orlando's rafters when all is said and done.
"Despite how things ended, we had eight or seven great years. We went to The Finals," Howard explained to Orlando Sentinel beat writer Josh Robbins last week. "A lot of those banners that are in the arena happened when I was there. I was a major part of that. A lot of the records that are there, I put them there."
Sure, but It's not like Orlando rushed to hang No. 32 in the Amway Center. Just don't tell Dwight that it took a dozen years before Jeremy Richardson dared to don a No. 32 Magic jersey once Shaquille O'Neal headed west.
Now, Nick Young is an L.A. guy. He was born there in June 1985, the same month the Lakers celebrated title No. 9 of 16 while the Clippers had just wrapped up a 31-51 inaugural season in L.A. playing at the Memorial Sports Arena. Young was a hot shot at Cleveland High in Reseda and then at USC. He loved the Lakers.
He dreamed of wearing the majestic purple-and-gold. And now he does. Yet as luck would have it, the Clippers — the Clippers! — are the talk of the town. So when new Clips coach Doc Rivers decided to rid Staples Center, the shared home of both L.A. teams, of every spec of purple and gold when his team is playing, well, Young took exception.
At Friday's preseason game, Clippers fans found Doc's answer to sanitizing Staples on Clips game nights: giant-sized posters of their red-white-and-blue heroes completely boxing out the Lakers' golden wall of fame: 16 championship banners, nine retired jersey numbers and the banner honoring late, great announcer Chick Hearn.
"He can do that?" said first-year Laker gunslinger, talking to reporters after the team's practice on Sunday. "For real? That's disrespectful. We got to talk to Doc. He can't have that. We got to do something about that.
"That's a lot of pull y'all are giving Doc," Young went on. "I think he shouldn't come in and have so much pull like that. He's got to earn his keep."
Love the charisma, Nick, but let's not go there.
Doc's move was wily (and frankly overdue by the Clips organization) and worthy of a back pat. Who needs Lakers glory constantly mocking his club's empty trophy case (a 2012-13 Pacific Division championship — won under former coach Vinny Del Negro — is the best it gets) just as the franchise is rising from its doormat past?
"Listen, I think this is our arena when we play," Rivers told reporters. "So I just thought it would be good that we show our guys. No disrespect to them [the Lakers]. But when we play, it's the Clippers' arena as far as I know."
Quick reminder, too, the Lakers haven't beaten the Clippers since April 4, 2012, and that skid doesn't stand much of a chance of ending when the likely Kobe Bryant-less Lakers take on a ridiculously deep Clips team led by Chris Paul and Blake Griffin in the season opener a week from Tuesday. Even though all all that shiny purple-and-gold hanging on the wall will be in full regalia because it is a Lakers home game.
The old veteran Steve Nash offered a more sensible voice to Doc's coverup: "I guess if you were in the Clippers' organization you'd probably want to do that, too. It's their arena on their night, so I would try to make it feel like home."
Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni, who knows what it feels like to be an outsider inside his home building, said about the same.
So good job Doc, you did the right thing. As for Nick, if you don't want those giant-sized Clippers towering over you, you'll have two chances (Jan. 10 and April 6) to shoot 'em down, and earn your keep.


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Caconde is a city in São Paulo state, Brazil.
Located in the hillside west of the mountain range of the mantiqueira, Caconde has a relief characterized by many valleys and mountains. With a wonderful environment and healthy climate, Caconde offers plenty of alternatives for radical sports and country leisure.
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Rafting and night time rafting is done in the only waterfall-like segment of high Pardo River, in a 7 km distance alternating backwaters and rapids. These are level II and III rapids, but there is one level V rapid on the way named Polish Corridor. The downsail time is about 2.5 hours. Rafting here is very safe because the access road runs alongside the river and the water level is constant all year long.
Cross Buoy is an original Brazilian activity, which consists in going down the river in individual mini-inflatable boats. Since it is done in the same waterfall-like segment of the river, it requires considerable physical effort.
Fuga Trekking is on the dry stream bead of Pardo River over rocks, always in contact with water and the woods. Among the most interesting lakes on the way is the Areião, which is a great opportunity for refreshment. Over the lake near the Old Waterworks the "Tirolesa" takes place. It consists of an approximately 60-meter-long air cable with pulleys stretched 8 meters over the river and riding it is a great adventure.
Mountain trekking done on the Pontal Mount in the Guerrinha. It's one of the highest points of the city at 1277 meters. It offers a magnificent view to the Rio Pardo Valley. On the top of the mountain there is a small church originally built in the 17. century by slaves. Rappel is an optional activity, done on a ca. 20 meter high rock on the original track.
Cascading is rappel over only one waterfall. This activity takes place over the "Cubatão" Waterfall, 26 km from town and is a whole-day activity. In the morning, a sort of training is carried on over the Bela Vista Rock at a 12 meter height. The group then goes to the Cubatão Waterfall and glides down as often as possible.
Canyoning is rappeling over a sequence of waterfalls. This activity takes place on the Fortaleza Mountain in a very beautiful forest area (the primary Atlantic Forest), over 4 waterfalls between 15 and 70 meters high.
Horse Riding takes place at the Macuco Ranch and is an excellent activity for those looking for a relaxing moment sightseeing, riding through the woods, and enjoying the interaction with the horse.
Canadian Canoeing and Banana Boat - It consists of the exploration of the main lake of the town dam, rowing on fiber canoes similar to those commonly used in North-American rivers. The activity starts at the PRAINHA Park, going through the Eucaliptus woods, Barragem, Yacht Club Captain Cristhovan and back to Prainha passing through a 4 km course, from which the beautiful water mirror can be observed It is one of Caconde's sightseeing highlights.
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"Mental" Issue Threatens Medical Care
June 2, 2000
A note from TheBody.com: The field of medicine is constantly evolving. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!
[Note: Reporter Bruce Mirken investigated an attempt by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, against strong medical advice, to close a locked psychiatric ward for financial reasons. He found that the local problem was caused in part by irrational Federal, state, and private-insurance policies that determine healthcare decisions throughout the U.S., based on medieval philosophical ideas about a split between mind and body. Although this problem affects relatively few AIDS patients, we think it should be more widely understood, to help empower efforts to reform this country's dysfunctional healthcare reimbursement system.
[Readers should note that the central issue here is NOT the story which is often in the news, of refusal to reimburse treatment of mental illness on a par with physical illness. Instead, this problem concerns patients who do have a recognized physical brain disease -- whose treatment might be reimbursed routinely in other parts of the hospital, such as a neurology or general medical ward. But if they are treated in a psychiatric ward (which often has the facilities to deal appropriately with the behavioral problems resulting from their illness, when other hospital beds do not), then Federal coverage will only reimburse for certain psychiatric diagnoses, which not all these patients have -- and private insurers often follow the Federal lead. The result is serious pressure to close psychiatric hospital beds because they are used appropriately to deliver quality care. --JSJ]
This situation came to light as a result of an ongoing health department budget crisis in San Francisco. In order to balance his department's budget, health director Dr. Mitch Katz recently proposed closing 21 inpatient psychiatric beds at San Francisco General Hospital. He argued that the fact that Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, had "decertified" (i.e., declared that it wouldn't pay for) many of the patients treated in the unit meant that they did not truly need inpatient care. A compromise has since been worked out to spare the beds (although other budget issues remain), but the problem of reimbursement for dementia patients continues.
San Francisco General Hospital's inpatient psychiatric unit has several special-focus units designed to provide culturally competent care for people from various ethnic or cultural backgrounds, using specially trained staff. One of these units focuses on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive patients and commonly treats patients with ADC or PML.
Dr. Mark Leary, assistant chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General, explains that the reimbursement issue occurs in cases of "what we call organic brain disease, which is some major medical process affecting the patient's brain" and which, "along with their medical effects also have behavioral effects." Behavior can be affected severely enough for the patient to "be gravely disabled or a danger to themselves or a danger to other people," necessitating inpatient psychiatric care. San Francisco General's 87-bed psychiatric unit typically cares for from two to five such individuals at any given moment.
These patients are often too erratic and dangerous to be treated in a general medicine ward. In addition to medical treatment, Leary says, they need care from staff trained and experienced in dealing with their behavioral issues. "If they were in a regular medical unit they would be in restraints most of the time."
But, he explains, "Medi-Cal and Medicare will pay for their hospitalization if they have certain psychiatric symptoms like delusions or hallucinations and certain kinds of depression. But if they don't have those particular symptoms but a more general kind of behavioral problem . . . Medi-Cal and Medicare won't pay for their psychiatric hospitalization, [even though] their behavioral disturbance requires them to be treated on a psychiatric unit."
At fault is what Leary calls "dichotomous, black-and-white thinking" that makes "the artificial distinction between 'psychiatric' illness like schizophrenia or manic depression and 'organic brain disease.'" Even if a patient suffers from both schizophrenia and ADC, "if Medi-Cal determines that their primary problem requiring hospitalization is the dementia, they won't pay." Although very few San Francisco General patients have private insurance, private insurers frequently follow the lead of government programs in such decisions.
After a week of inquiries, Medi-Cal informed us that it would take several weeks of research before they could answer our questions regarding their reimbursement policies. But Lourdes Maloney, acting associate regional administrator at the federal Health Care Financing Administration, confirmed that for Medicare to pay for psychiatric hospitalization the patient must have "a psychiatric principal diagnosis" listed in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in the Mental Disorders chapter of the International Classification of Diseases. Even with such a diagnosis Medicare limits inpatient psychiatric care to 190 days, while no such time limit applies to medical hospitalization.
Dr. Marshall Forstein, chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's committee on AIDS and associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, agrees with Leary. The problem, he says, "speaks to the unfortunate and arbitrary distinction we make between disorders of the brain and disorders of the body." Forstein calls such distinctions between mental and physical illness "totally arbitrary. They're holdovers from an old view of the mind/body split. But we have studies now showing that in certain psychotic episodes, the brain reacts differently. How is that different than dementia?"
But these arbitrary distinctions, he adds, often "create a battlefield over who's going to pay for what." Because Medicaid is run by the states, the result is a patchwork of different rules. "State by state, Medicaid programs have taken different positions," Forstein says. "Sometimes the department of public health wants the department of mental health to pay for it, and vice versa. . . . Especially when it involves long-term care, everyone runs away."
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