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Wednesday, June 06, 2012
colic, ahead of schedule
But maybe let me back up for a moment first.
I was overnight call last night. At our hospital, because we don't have OB or a significant trauma population, we take home call, meaning once the scheduled cases and add-ons are done for the night we can leave the hospital and come back in if there's an emergency requiring anesthesia. I left the building around midnight and got in my car.
On my drive home (I only live about 10-12 minutes from the hospital, so we're not talking a real long drive here) I started to get some epigastric pain. Up high, under the xyphoid, but intermittent, diffuse and colicky. It did not feel like Braxton Hicks contractions, that much I could ascertain by just poking at my stomach with a finger--one of the many benefits of having had two other kids is that I know what uterine contractions feel like, which is where the consistency of your uterus as palpated from the outside basically goes from feeeling like a Nerf soccerball to a regulation bowling ball. This was not that. It also felt different from the reflux that I've been having on and off for the past few weeks. I wouldn't even really classify the reflux I've been experiencing as pain, more of an annoyance--kind of a fullness and urpiness with some occasional ascending pressure--but I had a bottle of antacids in my work bag and when I stopped at a red light I went ahead and took two of those. Before I got in my house I went ahead and took two more, because the first two didn't seem to have helped at all. The second two didn't either.
Everyone in the house was sleeping when I got in, so I tried to hobble upstairs quietly to get changed. The pain was much worse. Epigastric, diffuse, severe, worse with movement. So I thought maybe I should just like down on the carpet until it got better. It didn't get better. Somehow I wormed out of my work clothes (I was still lying down, so "worming" is actually a very accurate description of my efforts), put on a tank top and a pair of boxers, and kind of shambled into bed, thinking that the soft surface would help, and hell, this had to let up soon, right? I'd had nothing special for dinner (you know, a sandwich, some iced tea, a handful of chips--eaten hastily between cases but not much more so than usual) and possibly one of those things were disagreeing with me. I particularly cast a jaundiced eye on the sandwich, which, while it was freshly prepared that morning in front of me in the supermarket and had been in the fridge the whole time until I ate it, I suspected was the most likely culprit. I know everyone tells The Pregnants to stay away from cold cuts because of the risk of listeriosis, but I've never really listened to that--how can you work in a hospital and not eat sandwiches? I mean, I won't eat cold cuts that have been sitting our for hours or anything, but otherwise, late nights, I would have nothing. Anyway, I don't get listeriosis under normal conditions, right? Whatever. The damn sandwich, am I right folks?
The pain was beginning to get much, much worse. I couldn't lie still, for one--each wave of pain had me writhing around, and there was no comfortable position to be had. I could still feel Thing 3 squirming around inside, which was reassuring, but also excruciating, because every well-aimed jab at the fundus or foot to the ribs made the pain, like, ten times worse, as was any effort for me to engage my abdominal muscles at all to sit up or move. I've had two kids and this pain was far worse than anything that I experienced during either of my two labors (and granted, I had epidurals for both, but it's not like they popped them into my back the second I walked in the door--I know what unmedicated active labor feels like, even augmented on Pitocin.) The closest thing, honestly, that this felt like was when I went to the ER with a raging peritonitis when I had that perforated appendix in med school. And that was pretty bad, not to mention dangerous.
So I started considering my options. Like most medical people I tend to minimize when it comes to triaging my own ailments (part of it is that we see so much worse stuff in our patients day-to-day that it seems indulgent to catastrophize your own--the other part of it is that we know being a patient in the hospital is THE WORST) but when I was thinking through the differential and the worst case scenario for waiting versus heading into the ER, it did seem like there might be a time-sensitive element to going in sooner rather than later. Basically my two main concerns were pre-ecclampsia/HELLP syndrome or some grade of placental abruption. Would I feel worse going into the hospital for a false alarm or worse waiting at home for it to blow over and having something potentially catastrophic happen with the baby? It was a no-brainer. I knew I had to go in.
(It also should be said that anytime you get a pregnant patient on the Anesthesia oral board exam something terrible happens to them and everyone dies, so yeah, maybe I was thinking about that a little bit too.)
I crawled over to Joe in MEGABED (I couldn't really stand up that well anymore) and woke him up. "I think I should go into the hospital," I said, and explained what was going on. I really didn't want to wake the kids up (it was past 1:00am at this point) but I didn't think I could drive myself in anymore and short of calling a cab, I wasn't really sure what else to do. Joe immediately jumped into action--getting things ready, getting the kids dressed, gathering the appropriate materials. I, meanwhile, crawled over to the bathroom on all fours and started making friends with the toilet. I wasn't throwing up or anything, but I felt kind of sicky and remember, the retrospectively ill-advised white berber carpeting.
By the time the kids were dressed Joe was looking very concerned. "Do you want me to call an ambulance?"
"Nah," I gritted out, "It won't...be any...faster...let's just...drive in." And then I writhed around some more on the floor and tried to breathe a little bit between the painful gut twisting.
Joe called the ambulance.
We explained to the 911 operator that we really didn't think it was premature labor (see: uterine contractions, lack thereof) but anytime you are 34+ weeks pregnant with excruciating abdominal pain, obviously that's what people are going to think. Joe helped me down the stairs (I really couldn't walk at all by this point), the ambulance pulled up, and after a very quick history, we scooped and ran. We tried to shoo the kids away back into the bedroom so they wouldn't be traumatized, and I kept reassuring them that MOM'S FINE, JUST A LITTLE SICK, EVERYTHING'S GOOD (giving them increasingly manic smile rictuses/thumbs ups) but they seemed more fascinated than anything else, especially when the ambulance and the fire truck pulled up. (I guess they always call the fire truck in tandem, even without overt fire. Not really sure why.)
The pain started getting better once we got to the hospital, and after some monitoring and labs, I felt almost normal again. (Joe confirmed also that I was looking 100% less like death.) My OB wanted to get an abdominal ultrasound to rule out gallbladder pathology (with pre-ecclampsia and abruption mostly off the table I think that's an abundantly reasonable diagnosis) but that failed to qualify as an emergency scan so I stuck around L&D urgent care for another couple of hours until the ultrasound techs clocked in at 8:00am.
The long and the short of is was...nothing. They didn't find anything. Labs were normal. Urine was normal. BP was high in the ambulance (though not too surprising, see: pain, ambulance, very bumpy hospital transfer) but came back down to almost normal over the next few hours. Abdominal ultrasound of kidney, pancreas, liver and biliary system was unremarkable--if pushed, the tech thought maybe the gallbladder looked a little contracted, maybe, but that seemed more to me like a desire to give us some explanatory finding rather than anything definitive or concrete. No visible stones or signs of inflammation. Best guess--maybe I had a small stone that passed, causing pain and explaining the ultimate resolution. Possibly. But who can say, really?
They made me eat some breakfast to make sure that wasn't going to set me off again, and after recording one more strip of Thing 3 (reactive, perky, hates being monitored and kept swimming away from the doppler) they removed my IV and sent me on my way. Luckily, though I was actually on call last night, I didn't get called back in. Also luckily, because I was on call last night, I'm post-call off today and so I didn't have to miss any work. And I know 75% of you right now are groaning, like, who cares if you missed work, you were in the ER, but many of you who work in medicine or other similar jobs understand--you don't like to call in sick, ever, even if, you know, you kind of are. I'm feeling pretty much normal now, so if everything stays cool, I'm all set to get back to the hospital tomorrow. My own hospital, I mean, as a doctor. Where I can put the IVs wherever I want. (What is it with the Emergency Department and anticubital IVs? Seriously guys, save that one for the Hail Mary--if there are other choices on non-bendy parts of the arm, those are far more functional. That said...a billion thank yous for taking such good care of me--I don't really care, stick me wherever you want, I love you.)
In the end, it's sort of an ultimately unsatisfying patient encounter I guess, because there was no answer to what caused the pain, which I maintain was among the worst episodes of pain I've ever felt in my life. But we turned over most of the big, potentially disastrous stones and found nothing--I'm fine with not ever knowing honestly, so long as it's not dangerous and (fingers crossed), doesn't happen again. Anyway, at least the kids got a free adventure out of it--they'll be talking about it for days. Cal was so excited that he grabbed his journal before Joe stuffed him into the car and had this whole entry written by the time he got in to memorialize the happy incident. (The "salty" smell he's talking about is the ubiquitous odor of the hospital antiseptic. I mean, I hope that's what he's talking about. Otherwise, I don't want to know. Also, ew.)
So, what, like four, five more weeks of being a ticking time bomb?
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What a ride. Hopefully labor is nothing like that! And can I asy that Cal's journal is precious? I especially like the appropriate use of ALL CAPS. When is he going to start blogging?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:06 PM
The reason they send the fire truck: That little ambulance can't carry anything. All the emergency equipment is in the panels in the fire truck.ReplyDelete
In my first pregnancy I was in the hospital with stabbing chest pain. (It was at Emory where they have no L&D and the Doctors were FREAKED OUT because they never see pregnant women.) Was there for hours and hours and tests and tests and finally they said, "Um, we THINK you have pericarditis maybe?" They wouldn't even give me a prescription for an NSAID, so terrified were they of my pregnant belly. Had to see my OB the next day. Was super lame. I feel you. Yuck.ReplyDelete
Holy guacamole. I am so glad you're okay. And Cal's handwriting is even more impressive than his journal entry!ReplyDelete
so, cal's like, what, 17 years old now?ReplyDelete
so relieved it passed. my 1st thought when reading your description was gall stone...happened to me during my 2nd pregnancy and was WAY worse than my 1st, non-medicated birth. i wasn't sure what it was (not being a doctor type), but was fairly sure it wasn't a heart attack. lasted for a few hours -- ending right as we got to the hospital. then no more attacks till 9 years later when i really REALLY got sick and ended up in the hospital when it turned gangrenous. good times.
hope the next month passes with 100% health and vitality! ♥
I'm glad you are feeling better and are okay!ReplyDelete
Cal's journal entry was great! It was very entertaining.
Cal is more literate than a lot of high school grads I know. What 6 (7?) year old has handwriting that good? *I* don't even have handwriting that good! (Future surgeon perhaps?)ReplyDelete
I am so glad everything's ok with you and Thing 3! I went through something similar at 30 weeks (bad epigastric pain that didn't get better quickly -- I also thought I must have had food poisoning), turned out to be crazy-ass serious looking 2 minute spaced contractions. Resolved with fluids. But soooooo didn't feel like what labor ended up feeling like.
Hey, just make sure you keep getting your BP checked occasionally at work. Really don't want to miss a HELLP situation - although I know your LFTs were okay this time around. But I agree, most likely a terrible gallstone that passed on.ReplyDelete
Oh btw, Cal totally needs to jump a couple of grades. Heck why not just enroll him in college already? Smart kid!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:39 PM
Scary stuff. Glad yo are OK and feeling better.ReplyDelete
Do you like conjecture from a non-medical person? That kind of pain sounds like a kidney stone.
My mom (who did not have a c-section when she had almost 6 and almost 7 pound twins with 1 breach) had a kidney stone and said it worse pain than giving birth. I've also known a couple of pregnant women that have had them.
Definitely a scary experience! I agree with the prior comment re: checking your BP (and, uh, maybe even doing a 24 hr urine collection. Okay, maybe I'm just an overcautious OB resident!). It definitely sounds like something transient, but the worst cases of HELLP (and, uh, eventual eclampsia) I have seen presented with acute-onset excruciating upper abdominal/epigastric pain. Be careful, Michelle!ReplyDelete
- medrecgal7:06 PM
Wow...glad to know everything turned out OK. I'm sure it scared a few people half to death in the process, however. Hoping for smooth sailing from here on in until Thing 3 arrives safe and sound at term! I thought gallstone, too, from the description. Apparently gallbladder issues are not uncommon in pregnancy. Whatever it was, here's to no repeats!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:52 PM
this sounds just like my ovarian torsion. way worse pain the either of my labors. are torsions possible while pregnant?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:19 PM
KWeaver - actually the ambulance does carry all their own emergency equipment (what if the fire engine couldn't come with them because they were at an acutal fire?). A lot of ambulances are pretty big, and they are really good at utilizing their space. The real reason the engine comes is two-fold - one is that they provide more manpower in case Michelle HADN'T been able to get herself down the stairs, and the other is that if they came from separate locations (e.g. the engine was at the firehouse but the ambulance came from the hospital) the firefighters could start providing care - they have at least minimal first aid training and may even be certified as EMTs or Paramedics.ReplyDelete
Glad everything worked out OK. Hope the rest of your gestation is uneventful!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! I'm glad you're OK, but PLEASE take it easy, woman! I empathize with the med. school provider not wanting to call out sick bit, but listen to other people that are telling you to rest. I always feel like I need permission from someone else...like, when I am CLEARLY febrile, delirious, and coughing up sputum, I STILL go to clinic, because having the attending send me home is somehow less worse than just saying I can't come in to begin with. Don't be me! You are growing a human right now!ReplyDelete
- Jen9:59 PM
I would like to read the rest of Cal's journal. Looks like the previous page has something about "VECTOR TRICKS". Seriously, if that's referring to his graphing calculator, call that kid Doogie and send him to high school already!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:09 PM
Cal has the (literally) neatest handwriting! Also enjoyed his narrative :).ReplyDelete
" and after recording one more strip of Thing 3 (reactive, perky, hates being monitored and kept swimming away from the doppler)" This? Made me gigglefit into my tea!ReplyDelete
Seriously, though, so glad you're ok! You take care of you.
And wowsers, I know you've been telling us Cal is smart, but that handwriting and grammar is beyond awesome.
- Annapolitan11:04 PM
Ach, you poor thing. Glad to hear you're okay. I'm sending good thoughts that you sail to delivery with no further problems.ReplyDelete
(And yeah, Cal has neater handwriting than most adults I know, me included.)
Last night was apparently the night for preggos to have epigastric pain! I'm now 28 weeks and had THE WORST heartburn/indigestion EVER last night. I've had gallbladder attacks in the past and this was close. I wonder if Venus in transit was messing with us??? :)ReplyDelete
Best of luck for the rest of our pregnancies!
- Anonymous1:33 AM
You gotta be careful with your titles! The neonatologist in me was so worried THE BABY came "ahead of schedule." I'm glad you're both doing well, although I totally empathize with the dissatisfaction of not knowing a good explanation of what exactly happened.ReplyDelete
How has everyone else glossed over "Also, Mom is never in a push-up position..."? Hilarious! Kids really do say the darndest things.
Maybe you were constipated? When was your last bowel movement? I hope the baby doesn't come too early, but at least you are in the third trimester and past 32 wks. When I was pregnant with my second, I was literally counting the days and weeks before I could breathe a sigh or relief!ReplyDelete
Woah. I ended up in the ER on Memorial Day s/p a liver biopsy because I had pretty much the EXACT same symptoms you had and was worried about everything from internal bleeding to a MI. They ran blood on me and a CT scan, but also turned up nothing. But that pain was so excrutiating I really thought I was dying for a while. Hopefully you weren't treated like just another crazy lady like I was.ReplyDelete
- Ann9:32 AM
Michelle!! I'm sooo glad to hear you are now ok...With your post title and the picture of the IV on the top, I too thought you had the baby a month early.ReplyDelete
I have to reiterate Cal's impressive handwriting, grammar, and storytelling!! I couldn't believe he is only 6. He's going to be quite a person when he grows up.
I so want Cal's handwritting! Hope the next 4 weeks are uneventful and you have an easy labor! Can't wait to see that little girl. Glad to hear you're OK.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:29 PM
Anesthesiology resident here...can totally relate to the antecubital IVs from the ER, at least it was an 18 gauge!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:16 PM
Michelle, I was so scared for you and the baby reading this. I'm very happy that all seems much better now. By the time I got to Cal's journal entry you had already told us that you were better and back home which allowed me to double over in laughter at his words. He is soooo smart and obviously he has inherited your sense of humor.ReplyDelete
Glad you are better! As a teacher, I'm highly highly impressed with Cal's handwriting.ReplyDelete
Hi,Dr. Michelle. You really have a gift of writing. I've read some of your blogs. I really like how you tell the story. It seems like I'm also part of it. hehe! Oh, good news! You are okay. Keep safe always. :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:12 AM
It's not the ER's fault with the AC IVs...we get yelled at by everyone else (radiology, the floors, the OR RNs, the list goes on and on) if we pop an IV anywhere BUT the AC. But I agree with you that there are perfectly appropriate places elsewhere!ReplyDelete
Anonymous- no floor nurse likes an AC IV. It beeps. Non-stop. AC IVs are the devil. And they just have to be replaced anyway.ReplyDelete
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On the January 16 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto asked if The New York Times is "in mourning again" as a result of the recent hanging deaths of Saddam Hussein's half brother and another Saddam deputy, or as Cavuto put it, "because murderers in Iraq face justice." As Media Matters for America noted, Your World guest host Stuart Varney had suggested on December 29 that The New York Times mourned the death of Saddam Hussein. The conduct of the hangings has met with widespread criticism, including President Bush's statement in a January 16 interview that the Iraqi government had "fumbled" the executions.
To begin the segment, Cavuto introduced Greg Gutfeld "of the dailygut.com" and Brigitte Gabriel, president and founder of the American Congress for Truth, claiming that they "want to know why The New York Times is such a big advocate for convicted mass murderers in Iraq." Gutfeld said that he does not know why the Times "keep[s] calling it a botched execution," adding: "It's not a botched execution if somebody dies." When Cavuto noted that Saddam's half brother's "head came off," Gutfeld added: "But it's not like he's going to need it."
Gutfeld later claimed "that The New York Times is worried about a dwindling readership" because "[f]rankly, almost all people on death row are liberals, so every time somebody is executed, they lose a reader." After Gutfeld asserted that "I don't think it's all right to judge on how they execute their criminals," Cavuto claimed that the executions were a result of "a sovereign government doing its own thing." Yet moments later, Gabriel contradicted their assessments without challenge, saying that "if this was a truly Iraqi execution without the influence of the civilized United States, these guys would be hanged in town square with people throwing their shoes at them."
Gabriel also claimed that "[t]he rest of the Arabic world is not really bothered by" the executions and that it doesn't "give a darn" about them. She claimed to have "looked at all the Arabic media," saying that it is "a nonstory." However, one day later, on January 17, the Times reported that "according to experts across the region":
The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein and two lieutenants in Iraq by its Shiite-led government has helped to accelerate Sunni-Shiite sectarianism across an already fragile Middle East.
Media Matters has also noted that Cavuto falsely claimed that the Times has provided "[l]ots of coverage of his death. No coverage of the deaths that led to it."
From the January 16 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: Is The New York Times in mourning again because murderers in Iraq face justice? Now, you remember the daily headlines that were whining about Saddam's hanging. It didn't end there, apparently. Now I read today's New York Times, it says that the hanging of two others, including Saddam's half brother, went awry because that half brother, well, he was decapitated in the hanging, which is generally not good for the person who is hanged.
My next two guests want to know why The New York Times is such a big advocate for convicted mass murderers in Iraq anyway. With us now is Greg Gutfeld. Greg is of the dailygut.com, and Brigitte Gabriel, the author of the best-seller Because They Hate [St. Martin's Press, September 2006]. By the way, we did call The New York Times again and again on this issue. They declined an invitation to appear. Greg what do you think of this?
GUTFELD: Well, I don't know why they keep calling it a botched execution. It's not a botched execution if somebody dies. And it wasn't very slow. It was fast. You know, there was a glitch. I'll admit there was a glitch. But, all in all, it was what you'd expect in an execution.
CAVUTO: The glitch where the half brother's head came off. Which generally doesn't happen.
GUTFELD: Yeah, exactly. But it's not like he's going to need it.
CAVUTO: Brigitte, what do you think?
GABRIEL: He made a great comment. And you know, Neil, it seems like this story is a bigger story in the Western media than it is in the Arabic media. The rest of the Arabic world is not really bothered. It seems like The New York Times and the Western press, who just is shocked at this, is making a bigger story of it.
The guy is dead, he is gone, he was a murderer. They just miscalculated the length of the rope and his weight. Mistakes like this happen. He is not the first person to be hung for his head to be severed. Many instances like this happened before. This is usual in the Arabic world, and it's not that big of a deal.
CAVUTO: But I think the paper's point was -- and, Greg, help me with this -- is how it looks in the Arab world. And that it can't look good when these executions seem so disorderly. What do you make of that?
GUTFELD: Yeah. And the thing is, I'm not an expert on executions, so I don't think it's all right to judge on how they execute their criminals. That's, you know, cultural --
CAVUTO: They're doing it. In other words, a sovereign government doing its own thing.
GUTFELD: Yeah, we have no right to judge that. I just think The New York Times has become an apologist for America. They have to apologize on behalf of everything they perceive that America does is bad, and it's just kind of ridiculous.
CAVUTO: Brigitte, is there this feeling of anger that's building in the Arab world that the Times states?
GABRIEL: Neil, there is anger in the Arabic world no matter what. And it's actually the Arabic world when you look at --
CAVUTO: In other words, they hated us before this, they hate us after this?
GABRIEL: They hated us before this, they hate us after. This is not going to change anything. And actually this was very organized considering other executions in the Arabic world. If this was a truly Iraqi execution without the influence of the civilized United States, these guys would be hanged in town square with people throwing their shoes at them.
CAVUTO: Maybe that should have been done. And I think --
GABRIEL: Exactly.
CAVUTO: I'm wondering, Gary, in retrospect whether this should have been handled like a Mussolini kind of situation. And the fact that it wasn't is what has made this bad
GUTFELD: I don't know. I just think that The New York Times is worried about a dwindling readership. Frankly, almost all people on death row are liberals, so every time somebody is executed they lose a reader.
CAVUTO: OK. Brigitte, now, The New York Times, I sometimes think, just likes to mess with folks, because they can't seriously think that killing some bad people is going to be globally disruptive, unless they want to mess with guys like you.
GABRIEL: They're not going to be globally disruptive; nobody gives a darn in the Arabic world. I looked at all the Arabic media today, it's almost a nonstory. They expect this. Actually, the executioners of Saddam Hussein begged the American government for 48 hours, these attorneys, begged America not to turn them over to the Iraqis because they knew, they knew what the Arabs are going to do to the other Arabs. So The New York Times needs to get off the story.
CAVUTO: All right, and Greg you're canceling your subscription?
GUTFELD: Absolutely. I've stopped reading it.
CAVUTO: All right. Greg, while we're on the subject, Brigitte, thank you very much. And the folks at The New York Times, you're always welcome on this show. So Gray Lady, come on Your World.
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Student Resources
Senior Independent Study Tools
Java Development Tools
Tools Recommended by the Department
- BlueJ is a simple tool used for our early programming courses. While at a glance it appears to have limited capabilities, it is actually quite robust, and is an easy place to start learning Java.
- Eclipse is a full featured IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for any platform.
- Java Development Kit (JDK) is mandatory for all Java programming. It must be installed to run any applications listed on this page.
Other Tools
Many Java development tools can be found free on the web. Below is a list of software downloads that may be useful to a Java programming student.
- The JDK Bundled with Netbeans is a good choice for the impatient. While the versatility of the Eclipse environment makes it superior to Netbeans, the convenience of this one-click installation package will have you writing and compiling Java programs in minutes.
- Borland Builder is a very popular tool in the market. There is a free version available, Turbo JBuilder. It is a fairly standard Java IDE.
Java Documentation and Reference Websites
C++ Development Tools
C++ is used primarily in the CS152 course. It is an older language that remains popular due to its versatility and widespread use.
Tools Recommended by the Department
The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software we use:
Mac OS X's Xcode which comes with the OS X operating system or can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Connection.
The Eclipse download section includes mingw, which is a port of gcc for Windows. Note that it is not exactly gcc, as it is not published under the Gnu General Public License. If you install it, however, you won't be able to tell the difference, and you won't have to bother with Cygwin to run a gcc compiler.
You may also be interested in the gcc project - a command line tool that might be the best available compiler for C++ (and it's free!).
C++ Documentation and Reference Websites
- Xcode OpenGL C and C++ Project Creation (.pdf)
- Visual Studio 2008 OpenGL C & C++ Project Creation (.pdf)
- Command Line OpenGL C & C++ Project Creastion (.pdf)
- Gcc tutorial (.pdf)
- Makefile tutorial (.pdf)
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- LAM-MPI Tutorial/How to (.pdf)
Documentation and References
- Communications of the ACM: If you read no other journal, and use no other articles in your research, you should go here. This service is provided by the College through their affiliation with OhioLink.
- Safari Books Online: This online library contains a majority of the O'Reilly collection and some other useful technology references as well. A must-see library provided free from the College.
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- Linux: A good starting place
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A retired judge from Howard County heard arguments in a lawsuit over back pay filed by Morgan County Treasurer Louella Pryor against fellow elected officials on the county government's salary commission.
A retired judge from Howard County heard arguments in a lawsuit over back pay filed by Morgan County Treasurer Louella Pryor against fellow elected officials on the county government's salary commission. Both parties sought summary judgement in their favor from Judge Ralph Jaynes in Morgan County Circuit Court Aug. 20.
After hearing arguments and rebuttals from attorneys representing both parties, Judge Jaynes determined to take all filings under advisement and said he would further review the case before making a decision.
He indicated he would be in contact with both attorneys with preliminary findings on the case in the week or two following Labor Day. Each side would then have the opportunity to consider the court's leanings for a possible resolution between parties before a judgement is entered.
Jaynes was appointed to hear the case after Circuit Court judges Ken Hayden and Stan Moore recused themselves.
Pryor is suing the county for $93,600 for back pay she says she is owed after receiving 74 percent of her position's state-mandated salary while other officials received 100 percent.
Pryor is now receiving 100 percent of the salary for her position — $45,000 — but is seeking lost earnings from when she was receiving $33,300 between 2003 and 2011.
Most of the main facts of the case were not in dispute. It was rather the interpretation of statutes and he constitutionality of a mid-term salary adjustment that were argued.
In 1997, the Morgan County salary commission set salaries for all elected officials at 100 percent. It met again in 2001 and took no action to change anything. In August 2002, new legislation went into effect setting a maximum of $45,000 but still allowing less as set by a county salary commission.
Pryor originally took office in Jan. 2003 and received a salary of $33,300 instead of $45,000.
The state legislature later mandated 100 percent of the maximum for county elected officials. To avoid singling out any one official, the only way to reduce a salary — setting it at less than 100 percent -—is by reducing all officials' salaries.
In Nov. 2005, the Morgan County salary commission again set the treasurer's salary at $33,300. All other county elected officials received 100 percent of their state-mandated salary.
While Pryor is the plaintiff, she is also listed as a defendant as she herself is on the salary commission which sets the percentage of pay for county elected officials. And Pryor voted for the salary schedule in Nov. 2005.
While she did not speak in court, Pryor has said in past statements that she questioned the salary but was talked out of her belief that $33,300 was not the right amount. She has questioned the legality of the salary ever since.
On the defendants' side, it was argued that the state mandated that a minimum of $45,000 in Aug. 2007 in the middle of Pryor's term second term. The salary remained the same because mid-term adjustments are not allowed under the Missouri Constitution. Any increase or decrease in amount must wait for the term to end before becoming effective.
Attorneys on each side cited different cases on the issue of mid term adjustments.
In 2011, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the Phelps County prosecuting attorney could receive a mid-term raise.
The defense downplayed the significance of the case and cited a 1999 case in Laclede County in which mid-term raises were ruled illegal. While the raise did not occur until mid-term in the Phelps case, it was expected at the beginning of the term as the prosecuting attorney there receives a raise when county judges do, and they had just received a raise.
According to the plaintiff's attorney, however, other Phelps County officials had received mid-term salary increases at least twice before.
The defense also argued that even if the adjustment should have been, the statute of limitations has run out from the plaintiff said the adjustment should have occurred. The statute of limitations on this type of case is five years. The plaintiff, however, claimed that the last event in the stream of wrongs occurred Dec. 31, 2010.
Pryor began receiving a $45,000 salary in 2011 on the beginning of her third term in office.
Pryor filed the lawsuit in 2012 after attempting to negotiate a partial settlement on her own failed. She offered to accept four years back pay — $46,800 — without interest, but the county commission refused to give her any back pay.
Pryor raised the issue after hearing an attorney speak at an October 2011 Missouri Association of Counties meeting on elected officials' salaries and becoming convinced that she had been right all along.
The county treasurer is an elected official responsible for receiving, disbursing and investing all funds for the county and ensuring that monies are correctly segregated into separate funds as required by law. Pryor currently serves as first vice president of the Missouri County Treasurer's Association.


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Roy Hodgson was canned today, after a mere, if bleak, six months as Liverpool manager. An "unprecedented" wave of ire from the bleachers forced Hodgson out.
Fans weren't the only ones who thought Hodgson should go. Scott Murray at The Guardian weighs in with one of those gently damning critiques that tend to cling to a man like a class D felony:
Here's a thing about Roy Hodgson. An intelligent man, one of the few football types who knows which way up to hold a book, Hodgson's favourite novelist is JP Donleavy. A grand choice, is that; the Irish-American is one of the 20th century's greatest writers. But Roy's pick from the Donleavy canon – defined by the bona fide 1955 classic The Ginger Man – is a throwaway 1979 effort called Schultz, a novel the author himself would struggle to recall. This is like saying your favourite Shakespeare play is Timon of Athens, or that your favourite Beatles song is PS I Love You. Or that the most dependable left-back in the world is Paul Konchesky. It's not a particularly relevant point, granted. But it is an instructive one. The man's judgment is shot to bits.
And my fellow traveler from World Cup South Africa, a diehard Liverpool supporter known to this site as The Fenian Mob, offered only this about Hodgson: "He was another Fergie lickspittle....He had to go."
"Kenny Dalglish isn't the long-term solution. But he understands Liverpool." [The Guardian]


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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's unprecedented bond buying pushed the Fed's balance sheet to a record $3 trillion as he shows no sign of softening his effort to bring down 7.8 percent unemployment.
The Fed is purchasing $85 billion of securities every month, using the full force of its balance sheet to stoke the economic recovery. The central bank began $40 billion in monthly purchases of mortgage-backed securities in September and added $45 billion in Treasury securities to that pace this month.
"We're in uncharted territory," said Julia Coronado, chief economist for North America at BNP Paribas SA in New York, and a former Fed economist. Even as "the easy money will flow through financial markets and into the real economy at some point and lift us to a better growth trajectory," the U.S. faces "a lot of risks," she said.
The Fed's total assets climbed by $48 billion in the past week to $3.01 trillion as of Jan. 23, according to a release from the central bank yesterday in Washington. The announcement came as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index closed at the highest level since December 2007.
Fed policy makers have voiced increasing concern that record-low interest rates are overheating markets for assets from farmland to junk bonds, which could heighten risks when they reverse their unprecedented bond purchases.
Yet with unemployment still high almost three-and-a-half years since the economy began its recovery, Fed officials are expected to affirm their accommodation when they meet in Washington to discuss policy on Jan. 29-30.
'Hard Pressed'
"You're hard pressed to find another example in history where the Fed pulled out all the stops to help a recovery along," said Michael Hanson, senior U.S. economist at Bank of America Corp. in New York, and a former Fed economist. "It's at least as revolutionary as Paul Volcker coming in and saying we're going to hike rates until inflation" declines.
The Fed has a dual mandate from Congress to achieve stable prices and maximum employment. Volcker, Fed chairman from 1979 to 1987, pushed interest rates to as high as 22 percent to rein in annual price acceleration approaching 15 percent. Now Bernanke is focusing Fed policy on the other mandate, aiming to reduce the ranks of the nation's 12.2 million unemployed workers.
Fed officials have said their $85 billion pace of purchases will continue until the labor market improves "substantially." Still, they disagree on how long they should press on with the buying.
'Evenly Divided'
The minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's Dec. 11-12 meeting show participants were "approximately evenly divided" between those who said it would be appropriate to end the purchases around mid-2013 and those who said they should continue beyond that date. A number of policy makers are concerned the size of the Fed's holdings "could complicate the Committee's efforts to eventually withdraw monetary policy accommodation," according to the minutes.
The central bank's balance sheet has provided record windfalls to the U.S. Treasury. The Fed uses interest income from its bond holdings to cover its own expenses and sends the rest to the Treasury. In 2012, that dividend to taxpayers was $88.9 billion.
One risk from a large balance sheet is the possibility that the Fed's interest income could evaporate in coming years as interest rates rise, according to a paper written by Fed researchers and released last week.
Rising Rates
The five economists and assistants in the central bank's monetary affairs division describe in their paper the impact of rising interest rates on the Fed's portfolio. After reviewing various scenarios they conclude that the Fed's payments to Treasury "will likely decline for a time, and in some cases fall to zero."
If interest rates rise more quickly than expected, the central bank may go years without remitting money to Treasury, according to the researchers.
The S&P 500, the benchmark for U.S. equities, climbed for the eighth day in a row, giving the index its longest winning streak since 2004. The S&P 500 added 0.3 percent to 1,498.80 at 11:12 a.m. in New York.
"We're going to boldly go where no central bank has gone before," said Brian Jacobsen, who helps oversee $210 billion as chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Advantage Funds in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. "So it's full speed ahead."
The central bank's balance sheet is now more than triple its size before the financial crisis. Fed assets stood at $924 billion on Sept. 10, 2008, the week before the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. helped spark a global financial crisis.
The Fed responded to the financial crisis first with emergency credit programs, and then with bond purchases known as QE or quantitative easing. In the first round of purchases, the Fed bought $1.7 trillion of securities. In a second round of QE, begun in November 2010, the central bank added an additional $600 billion of Treasuries to its holdings.


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McObject has released eXtremeDB 4.1, an upgrade to its real-time embedded database system.
"Version 4.1 focuses on improvements in core things that eXtremeDB does: managing data with breakthrough efficiency, adding safety and durability, and streamlining software development and maintenance," says said Steve Graves, McObject Co-founder and CEO.
eXtremeDB 4.1 enhancements include:
- Support for custom collations. eXtremeDB 4.1 adds "hooks" that enable developers to provide a desired character sorting sequence (collation) for data stored as text, including collation that supports a particular language or combination of languages. Developers creating products with search and other text-processing functions for a global marketplace have already taken advantage of this feature, which moves eXtremeDB well beyond the default, single-fixed-collation capability of most embedded databases.
- Binary schema evolution. This enables eXtremeDB to save a database as a binary image and then restore it with a changed schema, or layout of tables, fields, indexes and other elements. For example, a financial trading application could be more easily enhanced to accommodate a new type of futures contract or other investment; an older portable media player (PMP) design that does not display "album art" could be updated with firmware that supports that capability. With this new feature, database design changes are accomplished more quickly, using less memory and storage, than with the previous (and still available) eXtremeDB approach to schema evolution using XML import/export.
- Faster on-disk storage and retrieval. Version 4.1 improves the Disk Manager process that manages interaction with persistent media (hard disk, flash, etc.) in eXtremeDB Fusion, McObject's hybrid in-memory/on-disk embedded database. Improvements include enhanced "locality of reference" (related objects are stored closer to one another); improved ability to keep entire objects on the same page; reduced file fragmentation; and better statistical information, which is important for SQL optimization.
- CRC and RC4 encryption. These new options detect tampering and secure the database from intruders, respectively. Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on the database page level detects whether unauthorized modification to stored data has occurred, while RC4 encryption employs a user-provided cipher to prevent access or tampering. These new features have already generated interest from defense/aerospace companies seeking additional safety in equipment that stores sensitive information such as battle plans. Page-level CRC can also be used in devices such as portable audio players to ensure digital rights management code has not been circumvented.
- CRC-checking on backup. Starting in version 4.1, Cyclic Redundancy Check is also employed to add reliability in the backup/restore feature of eXtremeDB in-memory databases. CRC executes automatically when a file is loaded to ensure the databases has not been corrupted, and when it is saved, to verify that the file has been written in its entirety.
Graves explains that "the updated Disk Manager's benefits span the software development markets served by eXtremeDB. For applications that use persistent storage, performance is improved transparently, without code changes or explicit developer action, with further improvement possible through minor application code changes. Examples range from flash-based embedded multimedia devices that must respond to the user's command by instantly finding and loading content, to large-scale analytics applications that must sift through millions of objects kept in RAID storage."
Using eXtremeDB, claims McObject, organizations eliminate the need to create custom data management code, or to shoehorn a DBMS designed for slower business applications into a real-time system, hopefully resulting in reduced development and support costs, and faster applications.


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Wyoming Blvd. Collision Sends Casper Cyclist to Hospital [PHOTOS]
An accident between a motorist and a cyclist just north of the intersection between Wyoming Blvd. and Second Street on Casper's east side has sent one person to the hospital.
An eyewitness tells K2 Radio the cyclist involved in the accident was transported to a hospital in an ambulance after the collision.
Police say the victim sustained neck and back injuries but survived the accident.
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We initially passed on the TMZ report of Keyshawn Johnson confronting pop star Justin Bieber under the well-worn principle of "What happens in the gated communities of Calabasas stays in the gated communities of Calabasas."
After all, Bieber is kind of the worst, and given what we know about him, it's hardly surprising he uses his expensive sports cars to terrorize otherwise tranquil upper-class neighborhoods.
But now that NFL Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson has entered the picture, it's time to address.
I live in Calabasas too and @justinbieber needs to slow his ass down.- Eric Dickerson (@EricDickerson) May 28, 2013
According to TMZ, Johnson had just left a party Sunday night when Bieber "zoomed by in his Ferrari at breakneck speeds." Johnson -- driving a Prius -- dropped off his child at home and went to confront Bieber. Johnson is said to have called police as well.
Bieber reportedly hid from Johnson when the former NFL wide receiver came to the front door. He might want to do the same thing if he sees Dickerson. Justin Bieber is the worst.
UPDATE: Hours later, Dickerson wasn't done telling Bieber to slow down.
Hey @justinbieber I use to have a white Ferrari too, but I knew the speed limit in neighborhoods where kids played. twitter.com/EricDickerson/â¦â Eric Dickerson (@EricDickerson) May 28, 2013
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A call is being issued for nominations for the 2015-16 Penn State Laureate, an opportunity for a full-time faculty member who will be assigned half-time to serve as the University Laureate for one academic year. The laureate can be a poet laureate, humanities laureate or fine arts laureate. The individual selected to be the laureate will be available to appear regularly at University events at University Park, on the Commonwealth Campuses, and at community and state-wide events.
The deadline for nominations is Monday, Jan. 26.
The laureate will be a highly visible representative of the University and will bring an enhanced level of social, cultural, artistic, and human perspective and awareness to a broad array of audiences. The position provides an opportunity to bring greater visibility to his or her own work, to bring great credit to Penn State and to add a more human dimension to the conduct of the usual affairs and business of the commonwealth, the University and communities.
Nominations are being solicited from throughout the University community and self-nominations are acceptable. A nomination packet should include a one-page letter of nomination addressed to Blannie E. Bowen, vice provost for Academic Affairs, and curriculum vitae of no more than 20 pages. The letter should detail how the nominee will bring an enhanced level of social, cultural, artistic, and human perspective and awareness to a broad array of audiences. Nominations may be forwarded as a Word or PDF document to Alicia Cornali at firstname.lastname@example.com or delivered to 201 Old Main.
Additional information on the Penn State Laureate is available at http://www.psu.edu/vpaa/laureate.htm.


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As his portfolio of properties grows, so do the responsibilities of Thomas Masaschi, one of the Rochester area's burgeoning developers.
Masaschi co-owns the Patriot Cos. with Jeffrey Reddish, his roommate as a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. That firm, with its headquarters on Park Avenue, this month closed on a 225,000-square-foot apartment and retail structure anchored by East Avenue Commons.
The Patriot Cos. also owns Jeremiah's Tavern, with locations in Rochester and Gates.
Masaschi is managing partner of Rochester-based DHD Ventures LLC. DHD and the Patriot Cos. are preparing to transform 90,000 square feet in three downtown buildings into a Hilton Garden Inn next year.
He individually holds several properties under Residential Management Co.
Masaschi, 43, oversees more than 1 million square feet of space in properties from New England as far west as Michigan and as far south as Georgia. His companies employ some 150 full- and part-time workers, including restaurant personnel.
"He's not a glory kind of person," says Paul Adams, founder and president of Monroe Capital Inc., who has done business with Masaschi since his first purchase.
"He's doing this because this is what he likes. Money in real estate is a tool for him. At one point, when he started out, he had 300 properties in the inner city. He had to manage a lot of difficult properties, and he acquired those in a short period of time."
Masaschi credits Adams and Monroe Capital for helping to build his business.
"Without him, I would not have had the opportunities and success," Masaschi says.
Much of the Patriot Cos. holdings in the local market have come within the last seven years. Two historic buildings on East Avenue at Alexander Street were acquired in 2007. The Rochester Club building at 120 East Ave. was purchased in 2006.
"He's a very passionate investor, and he's very mindful of what it's going to take in each property, and that's not always the case," says Heidi Zimmer-Meyer, president of Rochester Downtown Development Corp.
"We've seen a handful of developers over the years buy a property and have no intention of restoring or putting any kind of value in it. Tom is not like that."
The combined price for the East Avenue properties surpasses $10 million.
"There are pros and cons," Masaschi says of the growth. "There's a lot of stress. You have good days and bad days. I've learned to recognize the mistakes and keep moving."
Those mistakes are few, Adams says.
"He knows how to buy," he says. "The kinds of mistakes he's made are minimal. The only mistakes he's had are when you get involved with doing something for emotional reasons, helping somebody out. … He's not making mistakes on value."
Masaschi went into business for himself some 10 years ago, after four years with the Pyramid Cos. in Syracuse. A key, he says, is maintaining the proper perspective on his assets.
"There are a few more zeroes," he says. "You can't let it get to your head, because it can. It can keep you up at night. You just have to realize that it's another zero, with more responsibility.
"The hardest part is being responsible for the people who work for you. When you're working for yourself, you don't have many people working for you. Now you have a lot of people depending on your success. That's where you feel pressure, not on the economics of it."
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Masaschi grew up on Buzzard's Bay, on the western tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. He is the youngest of five children. His father was a general contractor and his mother a teacher.
"It was a very active household with that many kids," he says. "It was a special upbringing, being able to just go out on the ocean. It was incredibly unique. I was very lucky."
Masaschi was an active skier, on the water and in the snow. He played baseball in his younger years and football, hockey and lacrosse at Tabor Academy prep school. He was named to the U.S. Lacrosse All-America team in 1988.
"Lacrosse was probably one of my best sports," Masaschi says, "but it wasn't my favorite. I loved it, but it wasn't my passion. Hockey was my passion."
He had scholarship opportunities at NCAA Division I lacrosse programs, but he wanted to play hockey, too. RIT, a Division III non-scholarship athletic program at the time, became the solution.
"I was very limited as to where I could play both sports at a high level, but RIT allowed me the opportunity," he says. "They found me for both sports. I didn't know much about them, but it worked out to my benefit. It's a great school."
Masaschi became a three-time Division III All-American as a lacrosse midfielder, making the second team as a sophomore and junior and third team as a senior. He was RIT's team captain for two years.
He set a school record in 1991 by scooping up 168 ground balls to gain or retain possession for his team. He is fourth all-time at RIT with 386 grounders. He scored 80 goals and had 43 assists, leading the Tigers to the Division III national tournament in 1990.
Masaschi had 48 goals and 84 assists in 116 hockey games, serving as an assistant captain as a junior and captain as a senior. He helped RIT win the East Coast Athletic Conference title and advance to the NCAA Division III championship in 1989, where the Tigers lost to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Masaschi was named to the All-ECAC hockey second team as a senior. He was inducted into the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008.
Career path
Masaschi's ambitions coming out of high school were much clearer athletically than academically.
"I didn't know what I wanted to do," he says. "When you go to college, you never know what you're going to be or do at that age.
"My dad was a contractor, so I was always around building and construction sites. That's something that's always been in me. That led me in the direction I ended up going."
Masaschi gets his work ethic from his parents, he says.
He started a window-cleaning business while in college. That became his first full-time job after graduating in 1992 with a bachelor of arts degree in marketing, and he also was an assistant hockey coach at RIT for two years.
He sold the business in the mid-1990s and returned to Massachusetts to join his brother in the restaurant business for 12 months.
"I worked in that for a little bit and then realized that it wasn't what I wanted to do," Masaschi says.
He joined the Pyramid Cos. in 1997.
"I saw an opportunity there, and I worked there for three or four years, for Bob Congel," Masaschi says. "It was an incredible experience. It's given me a lot of the tools I have today for real estate development."
Founded in 1970, Pyramid is among the largest private developers of shopping centers in the Northeast. It owns Destiny USA in Syracuse. It has signed a contract to redevelop the Irondequoit Mall, but work there has yet to begin.
"I can't say enough about the experience and the opportunity they provide for anybody who works for them," Masaschi says.
"It was very open, no secrets, very tough as far working a lot. You work six days a week, 5 a.m. until whenever you get home. It's very intense. At a young age, it's great. But it's not for everybody. He tells you that."
Masaschi was based in Syracuse for most of his four years at Pyramid but spent much of his time in New York City, working on a mall project.
After leaving Pyramid, he moved back to Rochester.
"I just started buying foreclosed properties, repairing and fixing them myself," Masaschi says.
His first acquisition was a two-story house on Woodlawn Street, in which he used to live and which he still owns.
"I started buying city properties, one- and two-family," he says. "I spent the next three or four years doing that, moving into some commercial and mobile home parks, and now into large commercial."
Masaschi's first purchase beyond multifamily homes was a mobile home park in Syracuse.
In the local market, his tastes evolved to include 50-unit apartment complexes, after which he set his sights on East Avenue and the formation of DHD Ventures with former Pyramid colleague Jason Teller.
"He moved to Charlotte (N.C.) and started his own partnership down there," Masaschi says. "We stayed friends, and that's how we started DHD."
A DHD partnership in Austin, Texas, is no longer active, he says.
The expansion of his business has come steadily.
"There was never really a milestone moment," Masaschi says. "It was just a progression of growing and moving to the next level. As the management team grows, the systems grow with it.
"The East End buildings transformed us into a different level that we offer because of the space, the volume and scale. Now you have to have on-site property managers. There's no more running around and looking at problems."
For that, he credits his management partners and employees.
"One thing we do have is a good team, which is a big part of our success," Masaschi says. "We don't have a lot of people in the main office. It's a select few that make a lot of the decisions.
"I love what I do. That's the most important thing."
He gets much of his acumen from reading about other businesspeople.
"I love to read autobiographies," he says. "When you're self-employed, you really don't have much to go by. You make a decision, regardless if you're right or wrong. I just try to read as many autobiographies as I can, learn from other people's mistakes and experiences.
"Sometimes I need to read it just to say, 'You know what, you didn't make the right call there.' It's OK to not know the right call. There are times in life, especially when you're running a business, when you don't know whether it's the right decision. It's just learning by what other successful people have done, and learning from their mistakes."
Masaschi's most recent high-profile buy came after he twice decided not to pursue it. The Patriot Cos. bought the foreclosed property at 101-129 East Ave. for $4.46 million after not placing a bid at two previous auctions.
"(Masaschi), more than many, is willing to take on a little harder task and a little more vision, as opposed to wanting something all set up and priced out to be done in a certain number of months," Adams says.
The mixed-use parcel includes a former hotel that is now the East Avenue Commons student apartment complex at 111 East Ave.
"Tom is a quiet investor, and we wake up one morning and find that he has become a significant property owner in the downtown area," Zimmer-Meyer says.
"He's taking on some really tough projects, like 111 East Avenue, which is a beautiful building but needs an infusion of capital and a tender redevelopment hand. I strongly believe that these guys are going to pull that off."
Masaschi plans to spend millions of dollars to upgrade the structure.
"It's tough to be patient when you want something, but it paid off for us," Masaschi says. "We're very excited about it. It's a great project for our portfolio, and it's great for the community."
Further excitement is being generated by a $15 million redevelopment that will turn three vacant properties on the south side of East Main Street into a 107-room upscale, midprice hotel next to the Hyatt Regency Rochester.
Final permits for the Main Street hotel are expected to be approved this month.
"We've had a couple of bank term sheets come in in the last couple of weeks, which is something to celebrate a little bit," Masaschi says. "Now we're just coordinating and awarding some of the building contracts.
"I think it will be fantastic for downtown Rochester. It's going to be a lot like a big-city hotel, with a lobby that's not downtown right now. I'm very excited about that. Architects are working on designs, and we're putting together contractors and bidding out the work."
That project "is a critical building block to what has to happen to recast the fortunes of that whole section, the core, of downtown," Zimmer-Meyer says.
Off the job
Masaschi limits his own construction work to home projects.
"Only when I'm building a rink in my yard," he says, when asked if he is ever tempted to pick up a hammer.
"I really work hard to be home with my boys," Masaschi says. They are Luke, 11, and Will, 7. "I coach their youth hockey teams, which is a reason travel has to be limited."
"I built a rink for my boys in the front yard," Masaschi says. "It's very famous in the neighborhood. Everybody asks when it's going up. My sons love it. It's a short period of time in their life where they're going to be able to do something like that."
The 40-foot by 80-foot rink also boasts a lighted scoreboard.
The family home straddles the Brighton-Pittsford town line. His wife, Kara, is a curator at the Seneca Park Zoo. She is a native of Auburn, Cayuga County, and they met at RIT.
They also spend much time at their cottage on Canandaigua Lake, "going skiing as much as we can," Masaschi says.
"I golf a little bit, but it's very sporadic," he adds.
Returning to the topic of his properties, Masaschi says the most challenging part of his job is talking publicly about himself and his businesses.
"I'm not very comfortable with it," he says, smiling. "I'm very private. … There's nothing wrong with it. I just don't like doing it.
"I like what I do. I'm starting to realize that it's important to talk about some of our successes, not just for me but for my company and the people that work for me. They've worked hard in getting it to where it is."
Thomas Masaschi
Title: Co-owner, the Patriot Cos.; managing partner, DHD Ventures LLC.
Age: 43
Home: Brighton
Education: B.A. in marketing, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992
Family: Wife Kara; sons Luke, 11, and Will, 7
Hobbies: Reading autobiographies, hockey, water skiing, golf
Quote: "It's funny. You look back to when you were casing a project and you didn't get it, and you're upset about it, and then two years later you look back and realize that some of the best deals you ever did are the ones you didn't."
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Dr. Timothy I Akomolede of the Olabisi Onabanjo University in Nigeria highlights a number of legal and socio-economic problems that have been engendered by the emergence of electronic commerce, especially in developing countries such as Nigeria.
Professor Jan Bekker, Honorary Professor of theUniversity of Pretoria studies the criteria and procedures for the statutory creation of kingdoms in accordance with the principles of customary law in South Africa.
Professor Mahulena Hofmann and Mr Martin Faix of the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, Germany present an analysis of the influence that international law exerts in the recently rejuvinated constitutional systems of various Central and Eastern European states and they show that the acceptance of international law in the law and jurisprudence of those countries is remarkably high.
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