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It was meant to be a day of celebration for Cameron van der Burgh. But by lunch time on Friday, the Commonwealth and World Champion swimmer's 24th birthday had turned into a nightmare. In a home burglary half of his trophy and medal collection was stolen.
The swimmer's parents' home in Pretoria was broken into and ransacked on Friday. His mother discovered the crime when she returned from a shopping trip.
"I had left for swim practice and my mum had gone out to the shops to grab a few things for my birthday party, so nobody was at home," Van der Burgh told the Saturday Star on Friday night.
"When my mum got home she could not believe her eyes. Almost everything had been taken. They broke through all our security bars and robbed us in broad daylight. I cannot believe this."
He was distraught to find his most prized possessions gone.
"Around half of my medals and trophies were stolen, I am heartbroken. I know that insurance will definitely pay out, but that's not the issue. There is no way to replace the medals and trophies that I won. It's not like I can go and buy myself new ones," said Van der Burgh, who will represent SA at the London Olympics.
"I'm really glad that nobody got hurt though, because that is the most important thing."
He plans to contact the international swimming body to see if it is possible to replace the stolen medals. "It's going to be very difficult to replace them as each medal and trophy that I won was made in a different country, and to replace them would be near impossible."
Van der Burgh said he was also unhappy with the way the police had dealt with the case.
"When I got home from practice I called the police immediately, but they came half an hour later. On top of that none of the police officers even checked for any fingerprints…"
He is leaving for a training camp in Europe on Tuesday prior to the London Games, but said he feared that that the burglary had caused him to lose focus on the Olympics.
"Before the incident I was 100 percent focused on the upcoming games, now I have lost some of that focus."
They planned to go ahead with his party last night, despite the break-in. "At the end of the day nobody was hurt and we should be thankful, so my mum and I thought, why not go ahead with the party and have a good time, and put the incident behind us."
Should he win a medal at the London Olympics, Van der Burgh said he planned to lock it up somewhere safe. "I have definitely learnt my lesson. I use to display all my medals in my room, but from now on I will give them to the bank for safekeeping," he said.
Van der Burgh represented SA at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won numerous world championship medals.
He is the current world record holder in both the 25m and 50m short course events as well as the 50m long course.
He was also named Swimming World magazine's African Swimmer of the Year from 2009 to 2011 and was Fina World Cup Overall Male Winner in 2008 and 2009.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT has announced the addition of men's and women's lacrosse to its webcasting schedule. Each team is tentatively scheduled to broadcast two games during the 2010 season.
The cost to view individual events is $7. Click here or on the graphic "Click Here for Live Coverage" on the right side of www.mitathletics.com to access MIT's broadcast schedule on B2 Networks.
Please note that the schedule is subject to change.
April 21 vs. Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 7:00 p.m.
April 28 vs. Norwich University, 4:00 p.m.
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April 6 vs. Emerson College, 4:30 p.m.
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Huskers Unveil TECHFIT Uniforms
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adidas and the University of Nebraska today unveiled new TECHFIT football uniforms the Cornhuskers will wear on September 29, 2012 when they host the University of Wisconsin Badgers at Memorial Stadium. This marquee contest is adidas' first Unrivaled Game, an annual matchup of top adidas programs. This year's Unrivaled Game featuring the Cornhuskers and Badgers is themed "The Quick and the Red."
The Cornhuskers' new adidas TECHFIT football uniform celebrates the school's rich football heritage with a modern update and highlights the history of the Nebraska "N." The uniform is head-to-toe red and showcases a bold black "N" on the chest, player numbers above the heart and black stripes on the jersey shoulders and side of pants. The team's black adidas TECHFIT compression base layer features a tonal letter "N" on the sleeves to complete the look.
Nebraska's black helmet honors the program's Blackshirts legacy and features a red stripe and block "N." The Cornhuskers' adizero Smoke gloves feature the "N" logo and the team's reflective black adizero cleats combined with the red -plated bottom will bring a bright and exciting look to Nebraska's footwear during their Homecoming night game.
The Cornhuskers' adidas TECHFIT jersey is a complete reconstruction of the standard football jersey with multiple innovations to reduce the weight of the jersey by 30 percent. These technologies include a streamlined fit, new fabric, reduced seams and an ultra lightweight name and numbering system. In addition, the adidas TECHFIT jersey keeps players cool with integrated ventilation zones and moisture management fabric. Reduced seams and a restriction-free, high-stretch collar design increases range of motion to support player agility and speed.
Nebraska fans can visit www.Facebook.com/adidasFootballUS for more information, photos and videos of the Cornhuskers' new uniforms and follow the conversation on Twitter at @adidasUS, #Unrivaled and #techfit.
Next week, Wisconsin will unveil their new adidas TECHFIT football uniforms that they'll wear for the Unrivaled Game versus Nebraska on September 29.


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The last time I was at Mom's for breakfast I'm sure my father paid. So, it's been a really long time. I remember coming here when I would go with him to work on the weekend when his Oldsmobile dealership was just down the street on Military Road.
I ordered the #7 which includes coffee or tea (I love the little coffee carafe set on my table), 2 eggs (I get mine over easy so I can dip my Italian toast into the yoke), ham, bacon or sausage and home fries.
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We spend time with teams including creative tech folk from Psyop and R/GA at the 3D printer maker's first competitive event in New York.
3D printers have gotten to the point that they can print just about anything you can imagine (yes, even food). But while we've been focusing on better machines and more insane prints, you may have forgotten about the most important step that magically turns a digital file into a physical object--the software.
Last weekend, I got the chance to spend some time with software developers at MakerBot's first ever hackathon. MakerBot, in partnership with Thingiverse, invited programmers from all over New York to its scenic World Headquarters at One MetroTech Center to develop new 3D-printing apps using the Thingiverse API. It was an enlightening experience that demonstrated how much easier it has become to create a 3D-printable file, and let me get a glimpse of a coming 3D printing apps revolution.
Years ago, creating a CAD file for use with 3D printing was something only savvy users of AutoCAD could do. Eventually, in 2006, Google heard the cries for a simplified – and less expensive – 3D rendering tool, and released a free version of SketchUp.
The software, which is now owned by Trimble, makes modeling as simple as drawing lines in Microsoft Paint. Last January, Thingiverse worked to make 3D printing even easier by developing the Customizer app to allow you to modify 3D objects without having to draw anything at all.
Tony Buser, MakerBot's senior Web editor, told me how the Customizer app lets anyone create a 3D-printable model file without any previous design experience. The goal of this event was to open up the same API that powers Customizer and allow programmers to develop other apps that work with Thingverse.
To someone like me who doesn't know that much about programming or design, taking a digital file and turning it into a physical thing seems like magic. And Tony explained that making the transition from your screen to the real world is not so simple. He gave me an example of how an object rendered on your screen might look fine, but the actual printed object might be thinner than it needs to be. In other words, you have to account for the physical limitations of both the material and the printed object itself.
"[W]hat we're trying to do with this hackathon is to make the programming side easier for average users," Tony told me. "So they won't have to know all about these limitations or specialized skills to create printable objects. The programming we're doing is to make that as simple as possible."
At the same time, the increasing popularity of 3D printing means more demand for new 3D printing apps. This MakerBot hackathon might just be the next wave of new uses for 3D printing.
"[T]he hardware has become inexpensive enough so that it's getting into average people's homes," said Tony. "Hackers now have easy access to this, so there's been an explosion of software to support that."
Before the coding contest began, I got the chance to speak with the developers about some of the wildest 3D printing program ideas they had.
Search applications were on the minds of many of the developers on hand. Nemil Dalal, a programmer for the start-up Dreamforge, wanted to create a search engine that lets you draw a shape and search by it. For example, draw a triangle, and a program would look up models with triangle-shaped elements. Meanwhile, another programmer, Allister Mckenzie, suggested a Pandora-like algorithm that looks at your printing history to predict what kind of shapes you like to print.
Some other programmers wanted to make 3D printing a mobile-only affair. Alex Tanchoco, an IT guy for a hospital by day, imagines a mobile app that directly interacts with Thingiverse and can command the MakerBot Replicator 2 to print objects remotely, sort of like how Apple's AirPrint technology works.
Perhaps one of the most ambitious concepts I came across was from Brian Kehrer, a creative technologist from Pysop and former co-founder of Muse Games. As one of the most experienced programmers I met at the event, Brian was already hard at work when I sat down to talk to him. His idea was to bring the Thingiverse API into the Unity game engine and bring 3D modeling to games.
"Basically, what I want to do is pull assets from Unity directly to STL format [the stereolithography file type used by 3D printers] and upload it to Thingiverse," Brian explained. If it works out, Brian says he could use the same programming wrapper he put around the Thingiverse API to pull basically anything he wants from any Unity application, which could include characters models or any art asset from inside a Unity game.
"The best use of 3D printing in gaming I have seen is Dungeons and Dragons [figurines], because you can just craft you own characters," Brian continued. "So you're not just limited to goblins and dwarfs, or whatever comes in a box."
MakerBot's programmers also had their own ideas in mind. While I was talking to Tony, he showed me how he was planning to use the Leap Motion controller to design objects by tracing them in midair. In the next seat over, another MakerBot programmer was working on a mind-blowing project to use the Oculus Rift as a 3D display that allows you to design your creations in a virtual-reality environment.
Clearly there was no shortage of imaginative ideas, but enough with the pipe dreams. Let's talk about the actual projects I saw.
One team consisting of three R/GA employees (Robert Carlsen, Sune Kaae, and Laird Popkin) created a Nike+ activity visualizer (above). At the moment, the application can access your weekly exercise data and print that activity as a physical bar graph.
The most interesting thing about it, though, is that you can actually see a physical representation of activity set across time. When you look at it in person, you can see the parts of the days when you're most active, while the extreme drop offs correlate with your time spent sleeping. Best of all, viewing it from the side will actually make it match up almost perfectly with the activity log on the Nike+ app.
"The most amazing thing about this is it's a personal print that represents me," R/GA's Robert Carlsen told me. The other team members I spoke to said that this sort of printed visualization could be expanded to show other data sets.
The Lithogram team consisting of Nemil Dalal, Arian Croft, Evan Farrar, and Paul Kaplan decided to one up digital image post-processing (think Instagram) with 3D fabrication. The team managed to get a smartphone to turn an image into a 3D-printable file (above). You can further tweak the file with texture filters like stained glass or gaussian blur – basically, your typical Photoshop texture filters.
In other words, the program basically lets you turn a flat digital image into a textured template that you can use as a stencil to create an impression on paper. It might be a really roundabout way to making custom lithographic art, but if you have kids, it could make for a really fun art project.
When asked how he would improve the program in the future, Paul said the prints are too thin to hold up to wear and tear, and that they need to be thicker to really achieve enough detail for any real photographs – as was the case for the nose-less print of Grumpy Cat (above).
Meanwhile, Brian managed to pull off some technical wizardry by taking objects from inside a Unity engine and exporting them as a STL file that a 3D printer can turn into a physical object. In addition to this feat, Brian created a mobile modeling app that allowed him to manipulate the object on an iPad. In his demo, Brian took a simple cylinder object and turned it into an elaborate wine glass-shaped vase by poking around the edges to thin out sections while blowing out others. From there he could upload it directly to Thingiverse.
But Brian says this sort of cross-communication could go both ways. This way, you could make pull shapes from Unity, customize them on the app, and send them back to the game world. Brian also spoke of another future use where you could turn screenshots into 3D-printed dioramas of a moment from your favorite game.
Drumroll, please...
And the winner was Brian Kehrer, who got to take home a 3D printer. Brian said he will take the 3D printer back to the Psyop office where his coworkers are literally lining up replicate objects.


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This well equipped establishment is too much for just one person to manage, so a few animals handle different departments...
Belle, a superbly coiffed dog runs the hotel facilities and reception...
While Shrek, the ogre sized grey tabby on the left, handles the grooming business and laundry. His expertise is "hot towel" inspection.
Fiona obviously runs the clothing department, but also helps in grooming. Here she is modelling a beautiful dress that matches her eyes!
To see the other pets working at Ponga's Pet Palace, check out their website. Erin, who named her business after her beloved dog "Ponga", was kind enough to give me a tour of the palace.
In addition to a pet boutique, and spa there is a pet hotel and daycare! Here is one of the dog rooms, equipped with a real bed and television.
And these are the cozy cat rooms furnished with kitty condo's.
All the walls are hand painted with pretty murals. The cat section has birds and koi....
..and the dog kennels have cheerful roofs and hydrants.
Despite having high fashion, Ponga's Pet Palace has excellent prices and accomodating staff. Erin helped me try on all my clothes, and laughed off my Diva-esque hissing and yowling fit.
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My "I Love Mommy" tank by casual canine is a perfect fit in a size small and only $11.99.
I loved the fit of the casual canine brand so much I got a few more tanks, all size small.
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We learn letter writing right from our school days. Some basic letters like application letters, request letters, etc. are taught in school. This is because these are the most commonly used letters. Each one of us has to write some kind of letter, at some point in our life.
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As mentioned above, written communication is very important. Every time it is not possible to talk to someone in person, or call him over the phone to communicate or discuss something. The professional approach of communicating with someone is thus, letter writing. The letter helps you communicate your point to the reader, and open up the scope for further communication.
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One of the first military history books I read, as a young lad, was Arnhem by Martin Middlebrook. For no other reason than that it was the biggest book about Arnhem in the library, and it simply screamed 'Arnhem' from ten paces away. If only one day I could write a book like that. Years later, it is still a staple on my bookshelf, and I've reccomended it to most of my family (my late grandfather being an Arnhem veteran).
Years later, I've got a book of my own on the shelf at the same library, not very far from where Middlebrook's Arnhem sat (and still does). Now that I'm researching the First World War I've gone to Middlebrook's first book – the First Day on the Somme. For those of you who aren't aware, Martin Middlebrook was an established poultry farmer when he went to the Somme battlefields in the late 1960's. Motivated by what he saw, he resolved to write a book about 1 July 1916, the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army. Remember, he was a poultry farmer with no literary background.
After writing ten chapters, he sent it to his prospective publisher. The publisher in turn sent it to an un-named military historian for feedback. They received back 13 pages of critique, some of which I quote below:
'mugged-up knowledge by an outsider'
'familiar and elementary stuff'
'all the old bromides'
'his account of the army's organisation and the trench system… rather like a child's guide'
'flat and wooden in the narrative'
Over 40 years later, Martin Middlebrook has written almost twenty books on military history, many of them bestsellers, about Arnhem, the RAF in the Second World War, and the Falklands. Isn't is a good job that he and his publisher didn't listen to the advice of a so-called military history expert?
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- Thinking about writing about Arnhem (dalyhistory.wordpress.com)


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Mar 28, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – The independent committee reviewing the World Health Organization's (WHO's) performance during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic today at a meeting in Geneva received feedback from countries and organizations on its preliminary report, which was released Mar 10 and generally defended the WHO's actions. The feed back mostly consisted of questions and clarifications.
Today was the pandemic review committee's fourth and final public session. The group, which first convened in April 2010, will meet in closed-door sessions over the next 2 days to discuss today's comments, along with other verbal and written comments that it has received since it released the findings.
Dr Harvey Fineberg, the committee chairman, said at a press conference today that the panel will consider the feedback while preparing the final version, due in May in time for the World Health Assembly. The preview document included three principal conclusions and 15 recommendations on how the WHO can improve its future pandemic response. The reviewers' other task was to assess how the International Health Regulations (IHRs) functioned during their first use in an international health emergency.
Overall, the preview report defended the WHO against criticism that it overstated the pandemic threat, and it rejected critics' claims that the agency rushed to declare a pandemic in order to benefit vaccine manufacturers. But the panel also made several suggestions, such as improving methods for appointing the emergency committee and defining terms to describe pandemic severity.
Fineberg told reporters that the review committee heard between 12 and 20 presentations today at the plenary session. "A number of observers commented in support of some or all of the recommendations," he said, adding that the group welcomed those comments, but is focusing now on the criticisms and questions as it crafts the final report.
For example, presenters had questions about balancing vaccine distribution with virus sharing, pharmaceutical company liability in settings where countries received donated vaccine, and how prepositioned lines of credit for emergencies will be handled.
Another topic that came up in the comments was the panel's recommendation that member states consider wider use of seasonal flu vaccination as a tool to build capacity for pandemic vaccine production, Fineberg said. He said a commenter raised a concern that relying too heavily on the pandemic vaccine capacity rationale might weaken confidence in the benefits of seasonal flu vaccination and emphasized that seasonal flu vaccination should stand on its own merits.
One reporter asked Fineberg why the group advised that the WHO strengthen its conflict-of-interest notification procedures, even though it found no evidence of malfeasance.
"We recommended that more in the spirit of good practice and prevention than as a remedy for an error in the past," Fineberg said.
The review committee will also take into account WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan's comments to the group today, especially her view of obstacles to getting donated vaccine to developing countries, he said. "Everyone recognized that it remains a very serious impediment to the world's ability to deal with a future pandemic."
Chan said the WHO welcomed the preview document and has prepared a written response for the committee to consider. However, she added that some of the recommendations will be far easier to implement than others. "More difficult to address are weaknesses in the pandemic response that lie outside the direct authority and beyond the direct influence of WHO," she told the group. The text of Chan's comments was posted on the WHO's Web site.
For example, she said the preview report cites difficulties in supplying donated vaccines to developing countries in a timely manner. Chan, who said she was directly involved in efforts to get vaccine to developing countries, acknowledged that it didn't happen fast enough, but vigorously defended the WHO's actions.
"In all sincerity, WHO could not have tried harder, devoted more energy and staff to this task, or acted with a greater sense of urgency," she said, adding that hurdles included a lack of harmonization for registering medications and vaccine, vaccine company liability, sovereign rights to approve medical products, and availability of cold-chain capacity.
Chan said the group's finding that the world is unprepared to respond to a severe pandemic or other major public health emergency takes on added meeting given Japan's earthquake and nuclear disasters, as well as political upheaval in the Middle East and the Ivory Coast.
"In such a context, recommendations to improve the capacity of WHO and the international community to respond to public health emergencies take on added urgency," she said.
See also:
Mar 28 WHO audio file of Fineberg press conference
Mar 28 WHO text of Margaret Chan speech
Mar 10 CIDRAP News story "Pandemic review committee defends WHO response"


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Below is the response to Flood by Pakistan National Committee (PNC) of IUCN Members
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Shirkat Gah (SG) Women's Resource Centre, Pakistan, is actively engaged in providing relief to those affected by the recent floods in Pakistan, particularly focusing on women's special needs wherever possible. Responding to the urgent/SOS calls of its long time partners in the field-Community Based Organizations (CBOs), SG has mobilized and raised funds to conduct flood related relief work in all 4 provinces of Pakistan. All three (3) offices of SG i.e. Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar are involved.
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Through colleagues international partner organizations, national partner organizations, individuals etc. SG has raised about Rs. 25363402/- or USD 298392.96/- in the last one months.
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Sector: Rural Livelihoods and Community Infrastructure:
AKRSP is actively engaged with government officials in GBC, and is coordinating with other partners including RSPN, PPAF, UNOCHA, and WFP. A series of proposals for UNOCHA, AKF, UNICEF and RSPN have been prepared to support early recovery planning and to prevent further deterioration of the situation.
In the Baltistan region, rapid needs assessments have been conducted and shared with government and other stakeholders and where possible, emergency restoration of drinking water supply has been carried out in Talis and Qomra worst affected villages. Local Support Organisations (LSO) in several regions has been working to repair water channels and mobilize donations for affected families.
Besides, 6000 ft (1 to 2 inch) pipe drinking water at Shutt Qumra 500 ft (4 inch) pipe for irrigation at Aliabad Qumra through cash for work activities. Four teams of Engineers are surveying the damage irrigation channels (two teams are in Ghanche and two are in Skardu). 30,000 ft (different dia) and were purchased and is being transported to the affected area. AKRSP Baltistan office facilitated WFP in receiving 16 metrics ton of relief items to Baltistan and stored at Skardu. This will be distributed through LSOs with support from AKRSP.
In Chitral, needs assessments have also been conducted to inform relief and recovery operations and several proposals are under preparation on water and sanitation, food security etc. Two compressor machines were provided to government/local administration to clear the emergency road between Garmchashma area and Chitral unblocking roads and the restoration of irrigation channels.
Besides, upon request of district government, communities were mobilized to support district government in opening of Chitral-Garamchashma road. The community of Karamabad and Garamchashma are still providing free labor for opening of road. AKRSP provided PKR 800,000/- support to 12 small projects (6 irrigation channels, 4 bridges and 2 roads) mainly in Shogor, Garamchashma and Charun UCs for emergency restoration of these lifeline projects. Dialogues with CESSD finalized at Islamabad. Under the agreement CESSD will provide relief goods while AKRSP will facilitate the distribution through linking them with LSOs. Participation in district level coordination meetings continues. Provided damage data, received from LSOs, to district government for development of consolidated damage assessment report.
In Gilgit, an emergency support field office has been opened in Gulmit to support 25,000 of the affected population upstream of Attabad Lake. Needs assessments have been conducted and logistical support has been provided to FOCUS to facilitate relief operations. AKRSP and LSO have been active in organizing relief distribution and camp management where necessary and are planning cash-for-work programmes in several areas from August 24th. Efforts will focus on unblocking roads and the restoration of irrigation channels.
Besides, AKRSP Gilgit organized five team (3 to 4 professional in each team) to conduct detail survey of 30 most effected villages in four districts of Gilgit Region. Community dialogues were conducted in seven most effected villages of the four districts and cash grants were disbursed ranging between Rs. 25000 -50,000) in each village to start repair and rebuild community infrastructures mainly irrigation channels through cash4work activities. Early assessment reports related to damages to community infrastructure were shared with the District government in Ghizer in coordination meeting.
Flood Relief Update Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) SINDH -31st August 2010
Karachi Region
- Provided assistance to more than 1000 people in evacuation to safer places.
- From 15th up to 25th August provided purified drinking water facility to four camps of Tehsil Thatta of 600 liters daily to about 3000 people.
- Distributed food items among 100 families
- Also providing drinking water through water tankers to four camps at Makli, Thatta-Also continue
- Also distributed 100 jerry cans among 100 families
- Also distributed biscuits and milk among 200 families particularly for children.
- Camp cleaning initiative has been taken, also hygiene kit is provided to 100 families
- Information cell is established and operational for 24 hours round the clock.
Hyderabad Region
- Provided assistance to more than 1000 people in evacuation to safer locations.
- Currently managing 15 camps having population of approximately 8250 souls. (2 Sukkur, 7 Ghotki, 01 Shikarpur, 03 Matiari, 02 Hyderabad)
- Provided 100 tents to about 800 people at Matiari through DG.
- 1000 ration cards are prepared and subsequent to survey conducted
- Through ration cards food package (rice, sugar, oil etc) provided to 800 IDPs, which is duly assisted by HANDS, District Government Matiari.
- About 100 Hygiene kits are provided through British Petroleum.
- Information cell established at Bhit Shah for IDPs to provide them uninterrupted assistance.
- About 1000 IDPs provided logistics who have returned back to their homes.
- Clothes were distributed amount 2050 individuals at different camps.
- In collaboration with PPHI full time medical camp is established for IDPs.
- With the assistance of UN non food items are being distributed among 200 families.
Following organizations provided monetary assistance in relief activities
- Banh Beli
- Sindh Education Foundation
- Pak Social Welfare Organization (SPO Partner Organization)
- Jameat Ulema Islam (JUI)- (Member of political parties steering committee Hyd)
- KTN News
- Hamdam Social Welfare Organization (SPO Partner Organization)
- Indus Rural Development Organization-IRDO (SPO Partner)
- Jamali Welfare Association (SPO Partner)
- Sindh Joshua Organization (SPO Partner)
- SPO Vendors
- Mutehida Qoumi Movement
Taraqee Foundation
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The results were really striking. Let's start with the side view. First, the model: Danny Dreyer, from Chi Running:
Not obviously this is slightly artificial since the foot alignment changes during the stride, so the frame was chosen carefully. But in general you can see the body is aligned, as though standing, but tilted forward from the foot.
Now look at my position, taken at a somewhat arbitrary position in my stride. I captured the frame myself with Gimp, then did the annotation there (don't blame Dr. Jess for this):
I'm bent forward at the hip. Sure, a different frame might show a different angle, but it's clear this degree of bend isn't an artifact of phase. I'm taking my cycling position to running. Not good.
Here's a view of a real runner, with a random frame not chosen to promote a particular running style:
Even here, the runner looks aligned: no indication of a bend at the waist.
But it gets even worse. Look at my front view:
Ouch! That hurts just looking at it. Can you say "maximal torque?" The left knee is too far out, and the foot crosses the center-line. When my right foot is on the ground it's a bit better, not crossing the center line but still not aligned. Here's how that real runner looks:
Look at that: knee further in, tibia vertical.
I posted before on my running form. Here's an image from the Quimby Low-Key Hillclimb in 2008.
I'm on the right. Trail running legend Gary Gellin is on the left. At the time I was interested in foot strike (the green circles), but there's that knee problem staring me in the face. Look at that bend in my left knee! I don't know how I managed to run through February 2009 before suffering any issues that winter. Finally, at the Woodside Half, I began getting pain.
Anyway, it's clear what I need to do to improve my form. And it's easy enough to get photoed from the front and side to see if I've succeeded.


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From Proteopedia
Crystallographic and kinetic studies of human mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase (T2): the importance of potassium and chloride for its structure and function
Structural highlights
[THIL_HUMAN] Defects in ACAT1 are a cause of 3-ketothiolase deficiency (3KTD) [MIM:203750]; also known as alpha-methylacetoaceticaciduria. 3KTD is an inborn error of isoleucine catabolism characterized by intermittent ketoacidotic attacks associated with unconsciousness. Some patients die during an attack or are mentally retarded. Urinary excretion of 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyric acid, 2-methylacetoacetic acid, triglylglycine, butanone is increased. It seems likely that the severity of this disease correlates better with the environmental or acquired factors than with the ACAT1 genotype.[1] [2] [3] [4]
[THIL_HUMAN] Plays a major role in ketone body metabolism.
Evolutionary Conservation
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Thiolases are CoA-dependent enzymes which catalyze the formation of a carbon-carbon bond in a Claisen condensation step and its reverse reaction via a thiolytic degradation mechanism. Mitochondrial acetoacetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) thiolase (T2) is important in the pathways for the synthesis and degradation of ketone bodies as well as for the degradation of 2-methylacetoacetyl-CoA. Human T2 deficiency has been identified in more than 60 patients. A unique property of T2 is its activation by potassium ions. High-resolution human T2 crystal structures are reported for the apo form and the CoA complex, with and without a bound potassium ion. The potassium ion is bound near the CoA binding site and the catalytic site. Binding of the potassium ion at this low-affinity binding site causes the rigidification of a CoA binding loop and an active site loop. Unexpectedly, a high-affinity binding site for a chloride ion has also been identified. The chloride ion is copurified, and its binding site is at the dimer interface, near two catalytic loops. A unique property of T2 is its ability to use 2-methyl-branched acetoacetyl-CoA as a substrate, whereas the other structurally characterized thiolases cannot utilize the 2-methylated compounds. The kinetic measurements show that T2 can degrade acetoacetyl-CoA and 2-methylacetoacetyl-CoA with similar catalytic efficiencies. For both substrates, the turnover numbers increase approximately 3-fold when the potassium ion concentration is increased from 0 to 40 mM KCl. The structural analysis of the active site of T2 indicates that the Phe325-Pro326 dipeptide near the catalytic cavity is responsible for the exclusive 2-methyl-branched substrate specificity.
Crystallographic and kinetic studies of human mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase: the importance of potassium and chloride ions for its structure and function.,Haapalainen AM, Merilainen G, Pirila PL, Kondo N, Fukao T, Wierenga RK Biochemistry. 2007 Apr 10;46(14):4305-21. Epub 2007 Mar 20. PMID:17371050[5]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Where is the summer going? I think a lot of us are extra busy this year and its time we take a little break to enjoy what short summer we have. The garden seems to be in a hurry this year to bloom. The fall bloomers are just about ready. Checking years past they start to bloom at the end of August. So let's take some relaxation time and perhaps serve it up with something sweet.
Who's in the mood for pears, I am? It's one of my favorite fruits. Don't let the heat of the summer keep you out of the kitchen. This recipe is rather quick to make and with a short time in the oven you will have a delicious dessert to enjoy outdoors.
Almond Pear Tart Recipe
3 ripe D'anjou pears
Pâte Sucrée
1/3 cup apricot jam
1/3 cup sliced almonds, toasted
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Pâte Sucrée
2 cups all-purpose flour
6 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1 large egg
¼ teaspoon sea salt
1. Process butter and confectioner's sugar together until fluffy, 2 minutes.
2. Add egg and sea salt and process for another minute or so.
3. Add flour and pulse just until combined, approximately 5 seconds.
4. Dump bowl onto a work surface and knead just to form a ball.
5. Roll out between two sheets of wax paper to an eighth of an inch.
Chill at least 2 hours.
6. Peel off one side of the parchment and invert over 6-4 1/2 inch tart rings.
7. Press down on the dough so the tart pans cut the dough to size.
8. Press dough into the sides of the pans and then the bottoms.
-If there are any tears in the dough just push to seal.
-If it is very warm in the kitchen, you can roll out individual tart shells; just divide dough into six even pieces.
Frangipane Recipe:
¾ cup granular sugar
¾ cup almond meal
6 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 Tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 Tablespoon almond extract
1 large egg
Preparing the frangipane:
1. Combine the butter and sugar together until smooth.
2. Add remaining ingredients and whisk until smooth.
3. Fill a piping bag with a ½ inch round tip with frangipane.
Baking the tarts:
1. Remove prepared tart shells from refrigerator and pipe a ¼ inch layer of frangipane into the bottom.
-Alternate: Divide frangipane evenly between tarts and spread out using the back of a spoon.
2. Peel, halve and core pears, placing one half in the center of each tart.
3. Bake for 35-40 minutes until frangipane has risen and edges are golden in color.
4. Cool for 15 minutes before removing tarts from their pans.
Finishing the tarts:
1. Heat apricot jam in a small saucepan and strain through a fine mess sieve.
2. Brush jam over tart tops and sprinkle toasted almonds around the edges.


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GREELEY, Colo.—A company whose oil well sprayed out 84,000 gallons of hydraulic fracturing flowback water in February has agreed to pay $35,000.
The Greeley Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/16cq6lc) the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission could have fined PDC Energy around $9,000, but company officials said it was the "appropriate thing to do" to go beyond that.
In entering into an administrative order by consent, PDC Energy also agreed to arrange for classes in Weld County on how emergency workers can respond to oil and gas well situations.
Commission director Matt Lepore said at a commission meeting Monday that the company's response is exemplary.
A mechanical failure led to the fluid spraying from one of PDC's well sites north of Windsor in February. Soil and groundwater testing indicated little to no contamination.
Information from: Greeley Daily Tribune, http://greeleytribune.com


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The term "dogma" and its significance - Metropolitan John Zizioulas
The term is derived from the (Greek) verb "dokein" (= seeming, believing) and originally, its literal meaning was "that which seems good or proper to someone"; it also pertains to belief, ideology, principle, opinion, faith, and other related meanings. (Plato's Soph.256C: «by making use of the many dogmas and words...»).
From its original meaning of a personal opinion, the term was transposed to the field of philosophical positions; in other words, it became a knowledge belonging to a (philosophical) School. (e.g. Plutarch, Ethica 14B: "the dogmas pertaining to souls" or the Stoic philosophers' dogmas, etc.) The transposing over to this meaning is justified, by the fact that ancient thought demanded eclecticism in philosophy.
Later on, this term was transposed to public life (the state) and it signified decisions or decrees bearing state authority (Plato's Laws, 644D: "the city dogma", also in Luke, 2:1: "a decree (dogma, in the Greek text) was issued by Caesar Augustus to conduct a census of the population". Thus, the term took on the meaning of something compulsory, something characterized by authority and prestige.
It afterwards took on a religious meaning, through the Old Testament and Judaism, with a legal-compulsory character. This is why it had a rather negative inference in Apostle Paul (Colossians, 2:14), where Christ is said to have "erased the manuscript of dogmas that were against you" and in (Ephesians, 2:15), where Christ abolished the enmity in His Body, by "abolishing the dogma of the Law of the Commandments").
In Luke, however, they specifically adopted the initial, affirmative meaning that was to prevail from then onwards in Christian usage. Acts, 16:4: "......as they passed through the cities, they delivered unto them the decrees ('dogmas' in Greek text) that were validated by the apostles and the elders...". We thus arrive at the dogmas of the Church, as being the authentic decisions pertaining to faith, that are delivered for compulsory acceptance, and are linked to the presence and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
A classical example is in Acts, 15:28: "...it seemed proper (refer above, to the origin of the word 'dogma') to the Holy Spirit and to us (=us the Apostles)"
The usage of the term with its contemporary, technical meaning is rare, in the Fathers of the Church. Whenever it appears, it has the following characteristics:
A) For the original, Apostolic Fathers, the term is most likely linked to practice rather than theory (ref. Ignatius, Megnesians 13:1, Barnabas, etc.)
B) It is equally used in instances pertaining to the Church and heretics (Vasilios the Great, To Esychasts: "...possible to destroy the heterodox dogmas..." ; also, in John The Chrysostom: the devil "has sown these deceitful dogmas of irreverence; in the Menaion of January "as for the dogmas of the infidel, they are justly drowned..."
C) Very important: the dogma is linked to worship, contradistinguishing it to kerygma (teaching, sermon). This is expressed in a monumental proposal by Vasilios the Great, in his work on the Holy Spirit: ".....for, dogmas are hushed, whereas sermons are publicized...". This passage gave rise to younger patrologists to interpret Vasilios' hushing as pertaining to the divinity of the Holy Spirit. But for our present topic of discussion, this phrase of Vasilios has the following significance: Dogmas are those things that the Church (as a worshipping community) confesses, and not those things that it promulgates to others, who are outside the Church. The deeper meaning of this viewpoint will preoccupy us again later on, but for the time being, we can just make a note that according to Vasilios the Great, the meaning of 'dogma' has the community of the Church as a prerequisite, along with a participation in its worship, otherwise it bears no authority.
This basic position of the Fathers - which we often forget - is also expressed by Gregory the Theologian, in the familiar phrase of his Address to Eunomians: "let us philosophize, within our own boundaries". As testified by these words, the meaning inferred is: "within the holy territory" (and not in Egypt and Assyria), in other words, within the Church.
From this, we surmise that the authority of a dogma does not belong to the sphere of logic, nor to a blind obedience to -and resignation from- logic, but to a new logic, which is generated from the relations between the people of the ecclesiastic community. But we shall talk more about this later on.
Summary: 'Dogma' is that which an ecclesiastic community embraces as an (existentially) salvatory truth that applies to every man, and requires its members to accept it (through personal experience) as authoritative, because of the specialized relations that it ordains between members, as well as towards the world and God. The kerygma (sermon) on the other hand is whatever is addressed to all persons, publicly, in order that they may become members of the Church, and only then (as members of the Church) confess it as a dogma, having experienced it personally.
The truth does not become a dogma, unless it has been experienced and certified from within the Church. From this, it is obvious that the dogmas of the Church are not limited in number; new dogmas can be formulated in every era, because the Church is a living organism and the Holy Spirit is not associated to certain isolated periods of history. But, for a truth to become a dogma of the Church (and not a personal opinion), it must necessarily go through the community of the Church in its totality, and not only through a few people - be they theologians in the current (academic) sense, or saints. This point needs clarifications, because two important issues are posed:
1st: How the dogma is linked to the Holy Bible
2nd: The authority of a dogma in general and in respect to Dogmatics itself.


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Tycoon's Club necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 10 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
Tycoon's Club - http://www.tycoonsclub.se
The club was founded in Malmö, Sweden, by two former colleagues from one of the world´s most renowned consultancy firms. The idea was to create a forum for like-minded where ideas, thoughts and connections would lead to mutual prosperity for all club members.
Tycoon´s Club is a society for career-minded entrepreneurs and academics with clear ambitions. Not everybody are welcome to join the club. But for those whose ambitions and thoughts correspond with the consensus of Tycoon´s Club the doors are wide opened. The recruiting process is based on recommendation by existing members, and then a final approval from the board.
The two founders have Master´s Degree in Economics & Business Administration from two of Scandinavia´s most prestigious universities; Lund University and Copenhagen Business School. Selected fields of working experience is management consulting within business development, process optimization, M&A and financial reporting. The current member´s educational background covers areas such as finance, M&A, economics, marketing, corporate strategy, accounting, law, IT and engineering
Today the club have members living in Malmö, Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and London.
This is a logo for a professional Danish and Swedish network. The members are very conservative and would like an old school logo (see attached files).
Please see the attached files and follow the requirements below. IMG_2125.JPG
-The crown should be like the crown on the Luxembourg coat of arms. (gold) but with a red stone on the top instead of the blue. Be creative, please.
-The Lions should be like the lions on the Luxembourg coat of arms. (gold) and red tongues.
-The lions should hold a flag as on the picture (Sweden=left lion) and (Denmark=right lion).
-On the left lions foot there should be written "CH" with small letters (almost invisible).
-On the right lions foot there should be written "MCMLXXXI" with small letters (almost invisible).
-It should be in four parts as the pictures show.
UPPERLEFT: TC - it should be blue background and the type of the text should be old school and the color should be white but old school.
UPPERRIGHT: It should be red background with the Danish coat of arms in it (see attached file).
LOWERLEFT: It should be red background with a lily (fleur de lis) in gold/yellow.
LOWERRIGHT: It should be blue background with the Swedish three crowns (see attached file).
This should be light brown, beige or gold with black text. It should also look old school and the shadows should be the same red as the background on the shield.
This should be an old school coat of arms and it should look like my drawings - but hopefully a little bit nicer! ;-) Google "coat of arms".
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In the early 19th century and before, tea rooms were masculine spaces rarely proper for female company. But they were reinvented in the years after the Civil War to be fitting meeting places for respectable women. Often, they were woman-owned and operated. This tea room was in a house along Deerfield, Massachusetts' main street. Its image as an 18th century space was carefully constructed by the owner, Mrs. S. Wells. Ironically the house it was in was relatively very new, built in 1893, a year after the previous home, built around 1726, had burned. The tea room is furnished in a way that is supposed to evoke Colonial times (as is its name). The tea room lasted only one year, 1910-1911.
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Resources from the Sterling Morton Library
The Sterling Morton Library provides a large circulating collection to all Morton Arboretum visitors on botany and plant sciences, as well as a substantial collection of rare books on the subject. Click here to see some of our circulating titles! The larger Morton Arboretum also offers tree and plant advice and many resource pages where you can learn about common plant diseases and pests, plant identification, and more!
Tree and plant advice from the Morton Arboretum - From this advice page, the Morton Arboretum provides profiles on many common plant diseases and pests along with photos and information for identification and research. Also find the Plant Health Care Report to find out more about the plants around the Arboretum itself.
Web resources
Botanical Society of America - This Illinois resource page provides a links to web resources on botany in Illinois. Navigate through the Botanical Society of America page to find other state and national resources.
USDA Plants Database - Providing current plant news and plenty of links to further botanical learning and plant lists for the United States.
AGRICOLA/NAL Catalog - United States Deaprtment of Agriculture (USDA) Database of plant information and literature. Provides searchable and browsable citations.
Virtual Library of Botany and Plant Biology - Provides links to further resources on botany and plant biology as well as botanical organizations, gardens, arboreta, universities, and other agricultural resources.
Agricultural Research - Published by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) freely online 10 times per year.
American Journal of Plant Physiology - A peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2006 and featuring articles on plant biochemistry, physiology, biology, and genetics.
American Journal of Plant Sciences - Open access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in plant science since 2010.
Applications in Plant Sciences - An open access journal published by the Botanical Society of America beginning in 2013.
Arnoldia - The quarterly magazine of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University featuring articles about plant science, conservation, parks and open spaces, and landscape design and history. First published in 1911 as the Bulletin of Popular Information of the Arnold Arboretum.
e-journals.org - The Botany section of e-journals.org provides an index and links to hundreds of e-journals published electronically on botany, plant sciences, and plant biology. The journals often provide an index of their publications and article abstracts, thought free full-text is not always available. Full text of certain issues or certain articles may be available for free to non-subscribers.
International Journal of Plant Biology - Peer-reviewed open access electronic journal that publishes papers in all areas of plant biology since 2010.
The Michigan Botanist - Quarterly journal of the Michigan Botanical Club established in 1962 dedicated to the conservation of native plants and education of the public. Freely available online up to January 2012.
Phytologia - An open access journal on plant systematics, phytogeography, and ecology. Current and backissues freely available. Published 1933-present.
No seeds, no fruits, no flowers: no problem - "Adventures in Fern Biology." Author: Emily, Assistant Professor of Plant Systematics in the Department of Biology at the University of Florida.
A Wandering Botanist - "Tales of a lover of plants, history, and travel." Author: Kathleen Keeler
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LOT: 3 Jim Ringo 1957-61 Packers Game Worn Dureen, Rare Midnight Green, Stylematched, Team RepairsHere's the 1958 card to which they've style-matched this jersey:
Jim Ringo was a professional American football player, a Hall of Fame center and coach. He was a ten time Pro Bowler during his career. When coach Vince Lombardi took over the Packers in 1959, Jim was the only already-established All Pro on the roster. Lombardi built his offense around Ringo. The Packers drafted him in the seventh round of the 1953 NFL Draft out of Syracuse University. Ringo was considered vastly undersized at 211 pounds. He was not, however, unfit for the role, using his outstanding quickness and excellent technique to build a 15-year NFL career, including 11 seasons with the Packers, as one of the game's best centers. Ringo was a member of the Packers' NFL Championship teams of 1961 and 1962, but was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1964. He is best known as a coach for creating the dominant Bills offensive line of the early-mid '70s, called the Electric Company, in support of running back O.J. Simpson. He returned to Buffalo as the Bills offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 1985. He held the positions until his retirement after the 1988 season. He was a 10 time Pro Bowler from 1957-1965 and in 1967. Ringo was named to the NFL 1960's All Decade Team. He was also a 6 time 1st Team All Pro and a 3 time 2nd Team All Pro. Ringo was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1981. Ringo is considered one of the best to play the game at the Center position.
Offered here is a VERY RARE long sleeve blue-green style Packers jersey of HOFer Jim Ringo. There are only 3 known Packers blue-green durene style jerseys known, let alone from a HOFer. Sewn on the left front tail is the "Sand Knit Athletic Knitwear" tag with a size "46" flag tag and the "DENIS SPORT SHOP" local distributor tag. Sewn on the front, back and both sleeves is the player number #51 done in gold tackle twill. The long sleeves contain the Packers traditional gold sleeve stripes. The durene jersey is hammered with use. It contains 12+ team repairs. This IS THE ONLY RINGO of this style. It was obtained directly through the Ringo family. The jersey has been style matched to his 1958 Topps football card (#103).
With the exception of puttering about on their message boards, I'm not very familiar with Game Used Universe. I presume that they have some documentation from the Ringo family.
I really like the design. It's simple and clean, with a distinctive color palette. The Northwestern stripes, named for the university which invented the thin/thick/thin stripe design in 1928, give it a dash of style. The "TV numbers" on the upper sleeves were a relatively recent uniform innovation, having been first adopted by the Packers in 1956, the year before this design made its debut.
And just look at these repairs:
"Hammered with use" is an apt description - this jersey is stitched together like Frankenstein's Monster.
It also gives us a good look at the Sand-Knit tagging. Denis Sport Shop is still in business in Ashwaubenon, not two miles south of Lambeau Field.
Unfortunately, we cannot infer much about the jersey's color from these pictures. That's a shame, because the distinctive blue-green color of the Lisle Blackbourn era is much-discussed but infrequently seen. Most of the photos from this period are either black and white or hand-tinted and not much help for our purposes.
Perhaps the eventual winner will be able to help us out with better photos.
I do have to take issue with one element of the item description - I'm not sure why the auction house has designated this "1957-61". This jersey couldn't have been worn any later than 1958, as the following season would be the first for both new coach Vince Lombardi and his signature uniform design. Still, it's a beautiful exemplar of an unusual style, and if the provenance is as good as we are led to believe it should fetch a significant price.


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DenSch necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 369 diseños de 73 diseñadores freelance.
FinanzABC is a financial community in Germany.
FinanzABC provides tools and guidance for personal financial management.
FinanzABC is targeted at young professionals to inform, educate, learn and share knowledge about matters of personal finance
FinanzABC connects people in similar situations to provide real-life experience and practical know-how to make the topic "finance" more tangible
FinanzABC is targeted at young professionals and students from 20 - 35 years old.
FinanzABC followers are online-savvy and familiar with social media.
The logo should include a unique identifier that can be used by itself (we thought of something that combines community and finances)
Colors we had in mind include fresh blue, green and orange but designers are welcome to do their magic
The style should be fresh, dynamic, modern, engaging and crisp reflecting on our key message
FinanzABC is the place you can trust.
FinanzABC helps you manage your finance.
The letters ABC should be capital letters.
The logo will be used from business cards to a website to marketing material and other documents.
Please include the following files in the final deliverables:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please also provide other high definition file formats for print and web design use
As we are no design experts, please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.
We are excited to see your drafts.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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MySQL supports stored routines (procedures and functions). A stored routine is a set of SQL statements that can be stored in the server. Once this has been done, clients don't need to keep reissuing the individual statements but can refer to the stored routine instead.
Stored routines can be particularly useful in certain situations:
When multiple client applications are written in different languages or work on different platforms, but need to perform the same database operations.
When security is paramount. Banks, for example, use stored procedures and functions for all common operations. This provides a consistent and secure environment, and routines can ensure that each operation is properly logged. In such a setup, applications and users would have no access to the database tables directly, but can only execute specific stored routines.
Stored routines can provide improved performance because less information needs to be sent between the server and the client. The tradeoff is that this does increase the load on the database server because more of the work is done on the server side and less is done on the client (application) side. Consider this if many client machines (such as Web servers) are serviced by only one or a few database servers.
Stored routines also enable you to have libraries of functions in the database server. This is a feature shared by modern application languages that enable such design internally (for example, by using classes). Using these client application language features is beneficial for the programmer even outside the scope of database use.
MySQL follows the SQL:2003 syntax for stored routines, which is also used by IBM's DB2. All syntax described here is supported and any limitations and extensions are documented where appropriate.
Additional Resources
You may find the Stored Procedures User Forum of use when working with stored procedures and functions.
For answers to some commonly asked questions regarding stored routines in MySQL, see Section A.4, "MySQL 8.0 FAQ: Stored Procedures and Functions".
There are some restrictions on the use of stored routines. See Section C.1, "Restrictions on Stored Programs".
Binary logging for stored routines takes place as described in Section 24.7, "Stored Program Binary Logging".
1. You can include simple SELECT, so if you run the SQL file from command line in verbose mode, you will see it:
# my-function.sql file with function definition
SELECT 'started a big job', NOW();
#your function contents goes here
> mysql -uroot -v database < my-function.sql
2. Another way to go is to use a separate table to collect logs (the one that we use it for http://zillion.com.ua/ ) is to use a special debug stored procedure.
To simplify it, you can use a function like that:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS Debug; //
CREATE PROCEDURE Debug(Message TEXT)
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS _debug (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`msg` TEXT DEFAULT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
INSERT INTO _debug(`msg`) VALUES(Message);
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS ClearDebugMessages; //
CREATE PROCEDURE ClearDebugMessages()
TRUNCATE TABLE _debug;
Use this to log a message: CALL Debug('My message');
And this to clear all messages logged: CALL ClearDebugMessages;
All your messages are going to be in `_debug` table with timestamp of message automatically set.


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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed more than 100 habeas corpus lawsuits filed by former Guantanamo captives, ruling that because the Bush and Obama administrations had transferred them elsewhere, the courts need not decide whether the Pentagon imprisoned them illegally.
The ruling dismayed attorneys for some of the detainees who'd hoped any favorable U.S. court findings would help clear their clients of the stigma, travel restrictions and, in some instances, perhaps more jail time that resulted from their stay at Guantanamo.
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan wrote that he was "not unsympathetic" to the former detainees' plight. "Detention for any length of time can be injurious. And certainly associations with Guantanamo tend to be negative," he wrote.
But the detainees' transfer from Guantanamo made their cases moot. "The court finds that petitioners no longer present a live case or controversy since a federal court cannot remedy the alleged collateral consequences of their prior detention at Guantanamo," he wrote.
Hogan's ruling, issued last Thursday, but not widely publicized, closed the files on 105 habeas corpus petitions, many of which had been pending for years as the Bush administration resisted the right of civilian judges to intervene in military detentions. The U.S. Supreme Court resolved that issue in 2008, ruling in Boumediene v. Bush that the detainees could challenge their captivity in civilian court. Since then, judges have ordered the release of 34 detainees while upholding the detention of 12.
Attorneys for the ex-detainees were deciding Monday whether to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, said Shayana Kadidal, an attorney at New York's Center for Constitutional Rights, which has taken the lead in championing Guantanamo habeas petitions.
The former prisoners who'd filed the dismissed suits ranged from "people who disappeared in Libyan prison to people who are home living with their family and can't get a job," Kadidal said.
The "vast, vast majority" of former Guantanamo prisoners are under some form of travel restriction, he said, as a result of either transfer agreements between the United States and where they now live or the stigma of having spent time in U.S. military custody.
"If you want to do haj at some point in your life," he said, referring to a Muslim's duty to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, a freed detainee would need to get those restrictions lifted.
Moreover, he added, CCR affiliated attorneys have tracked former captives to prison at Pol-i-charki, Afghanistan, that was once run by the U.S. military. He said "the U.S. may be pulling the puppet strings" of their continued captivity.
In the case of two men sent home to Sudan, according to an affidavit filed by an investigator with the Oregon Federal Public Defender's office, which is representing them, the United States required as a condition for their release that Sudan seize their travel documents and prevent them from leaving the country.
Hogan said the attorneys for the former detainees hadn't offered enough proof that other countries were operating essentially as U.S. proxies. "Petitioners are short on examples, except for the fact that former Guantanamo detainees from Afghanistan transferred back to Afghanistan have been detained at a detention facility built by the United States," he wrote.
Of the 183 men currently held at Guantanamo, 22 have had their habeas cases resolved — 10 who were ordered released but are still being held and the 12 whose detentions were upheld.
It was unclear, however, how many of the other 161 might have cases pending. Some detainees have refused American lawyers' offers to sue on their behalf, apparently rejecting the authority of any U.S. court to sit in judgment on them. An Obama administration panel has determined that about 50 of those should be held indefinitely without charges.
(Rosenberg reports for The Miami Herald.)
Commentary: Courts, not military tribunals for war detainees
Supreme Court dismisses case of Uighurs held at Guantanamo
Guantanamo panel: 50 detainees should be held indefinitely
Follow Guantanamo developments at the Guantanamo section of MiamiHerald.com.


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text: This amazing Baobab tree is one of two mature trees growing in Barbados. With a girth of nearly 45 feet, it is thought to be about 250 years old. I confess that I spent over an hour Photoshopping all of the graffiti that had been carved into the bark over the years. This tree is magnificent and should be treated with more respect. I know that the carvings are permanent but I thought to do my part making sure they not get any more exposure to the public. The recently constructed office building seen here was aptly named "Baobab Tower". This tree is growing in the Warrens area but the other one located in Queens Park (Bridgetown) is even larger and may well be over a thousand years old!


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TimC1988 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are a nice company located in Swiss.
People 14-25
First, we are looking for a designer who would be interested to work in our company for long time (at least 1 year). So if you're interested this could be your chance. Just create this page as reference and let us know that you are interested.
Please only create a design here when you have at least 1 year time for us.
In the notes is a picture (wait-page.jpg) It shows the structure that we want for this job.
I'll explain it a little now;
First the page should be optimized to 1024 screens.
The page begins with the navigation and header and ends with the footer navigation. this should look 100% like in the picture.
In the content area appears at the top a bar which provides our first payment way, in this bar we need just a text area, one textbox and 3 buttons to purchase.
After this bar the content area get split into 2parts, the left part should be a chart structure which shows the price of our Account plans and the payment methods
The right part should show the features of the Premium Account. In front of every feature should be an icon which also should fit with the feature.
After this there should be a second bar like the first bar, but now we need 5 text areas 4 textfield 1 dropdown button and 3 purchase button's
Structure of that should be like this: Name [textfield] Surname [textfield] Credit card number [textfield] Expire date [dropdown] ccv [textfield] [button 1] [button 2] [button 3]
Ok, now comes the last part;
On the left side we want to sell our VIP Plan and on the right side we want to place a banner (a placeholder should be enough). So the height of the vip container and the banner area should be something around 300px
In the center of this 2 container we want to display the VIP Features, a Facebook "I like"-box and 2 Buttons.
If you get any questions, feel free to ask.
To get an idea of our style you can look around on duckload.com


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Greg Switzer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Pinnacle West Orthopaedics, Inc
We are an independent medical device selling organization. We are a technologically sophisticated, fast moving organization in a high growth industry. We work with surgeons and hospitals and our products improve patients' mobility and lives.
Internal use and for those companies we represent.
Major focus is a triangle with a diferrentiated color for the top of the triangle signifying the "Pinnacle". Black, red, and white are the colors. The whole name should be in the logo, and the words "A Selling Organization" should show up discreetly along the bottom somehow.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Waiting to Die on the Government's WatchBy Ilana Mercer
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Why would a talented, dedicated cardiologist choose to be coffined in a medical gulag, weighed down by incompetents, his wages capped; his rewards incommensurate with his drive and dedication? He wouldn't. Surprising as this seems to some, the best and brightest do not work for the state. Increasingly, government workers are carefully selected forthe color of their complexion, for their sex and sexual or political orientation, not for their competence.
In a policy statement, the VA commissioner for Connecticut, a woman of course, crowed that applicants to her department are screened to ascertain "minimum qualifications." "Maximum qualifications" are not required in this killer of a system. "Applicants who meet the essential level of preparation," writes the woman, "are not excluded. The Human Resources Administrator must work to bring as many protected members into the system." Her words. Once recruited, the needs of these precious, "protected-group members" are jealously guarded.
If "diversity" trumps talent in government hiring; so too is job security a legislated article of faith. In order to set in motion a termination or two—pursuant to public outrage over the scandal in the Phoenix Veterans Affairs facility, where as many as 40 gravely ill veterans died while waiting to be treated—Congress has had to convene to pass "The VA Accountability Bill." In the unlikely event of a layoff, seniority is given priority over the quality of the worker. A good healthcare provider will be terminated before a tenured provider.
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Close the VA!
Send the patients to for-profit facilities.
Bring the girls and boys home.
And start to downsize the Gooferment!
On Memorial Day, it's a national disgrace.
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Sparrow, the email client for iPhone that was recently acquired by Google, surprisingly received an update that includes support for the iPhone 5's larger display and the ability to open Passbook attachments. The is surprising because with the acquisition, the developers said that there was no plan to release new features to the Sparrow apps.
Now, iPhone 5 and Passbook support aren't exactly huge new features, but still more than I was expecting. However, there are many reports of this new version causing the app to crash and be unusable, so if you use Sparrow as your primary mail client on your iPhone, you may want to stay clear of the update for now.
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