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June 4, 2007
Chlamydia is a curable sexually transmitted infection (STI). You can get chlamydial infection during vaginal, oral, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner. It can cause serious problems in men and women, such as penile discharge and infertility respectively, as well as infections in newborn babies of infected mothers.
Chlamydia is one of the most widespread bacterial STIs in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 2.8 million people are infected each year.
Chlamydia is caused by bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis.
You can get chlamydia during oral, vaginal, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner.
Chlamydia bacteria live in vaginal fluid and in semen. About 70 percent of chlamydial infections have no symptoms, thereby naming it the "silent" disease. Symptoms usually appear within 1 to 3 weeks after you are infected. Those who do have symptoms may have an abnormal discharge (mucus or pus) from the vagina or penis or experience pain while urinating. These early symptoms may be very mild.
The bacterial infection may move inside your body if it is not treated.
PID and epididymitis are both very serious illnesses.
C. trachomatis also can cause inflammation of your rectum and lining of your eye (conjunctivitis or "pink eye"). The bacteria also can infect your throat if you have oral sexual contact with an infected partner.
Chlamydia is easily confused with gonorrhea because the symptoms of both diseases are similar and the diseases can occur at the same time.
The most reliable ways to find out whether the infection is chlamydia are through laboratory tests.
If you are infected with C. trachomatis, your health care provider will probably give you a prescription for an antibiotic such as azithromycin (taken for one day) or doxycycline (taken for 7 days). Or, you might get a prescription for another antibiotic such as erythromycin or ofloxacin.
Health care providers may treat pregnant women with azithromycin, erythromycin, or sometimes with amoxicillin. Penicillin, which health care providers often use to treat some other STIs, won't cure chlamydia.
If you have chlamydia, you should
These steps will help you avoid being reinfected with the bacteria. Repeated infections may increase the risks for reproductive complications.
For updated information on treatment for chlamydia, read the CDC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines.
The surest way to avoid transmission of STIs is to abstain from sexual contact or be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and is not infected.
By using latex condoms correctly and consistently during vaginal or rectal sexual activity, you can reduce your risk of getting chlamydia and developing complications.
Health care experts recommend all sexually active women 25 years of age and younger get chlamydia screening tests annually. They recommend an annual screening test for older women with risk factors for chlamydia (a new sex partner or many sex partners). In addition, all pregnant women should have a screening test for chlamydia.
If you have genital symptoms like burning while urinating or have a discharge, you should stop having sexual intercourse and see your health care provider immediately.
Each year up to 1 million women in the United States develop PID, a serious infection of the reproductive organs. Twenty to forty percent of women with chlamydial infections that are not adequately treated may develop PID.
PID can cause scarring of the fallopian tubes, which can block the tubes and prevent fertilization from taking place. Researchers estimate that 100,000 women each year become infertile because of PID.
In other cases, scarring may interfere with the passage of the fertilized egg to the uterus during pregnancy. When this happens, the egg may attach itself to the fallopian tube. This is called ectopic or tubal pregnancy. This very serious condition can result in miscarriage and can cause death of the mother.
In men, untreated chlamydia may lead to pain or swelling in the scrotal area. This is a sign of inflammation of the epididymis. Though complications in men are rare, infection could cause pain, fever, and sterility.
Complications in Newborns
A baby who is exposed to C. trachomatis in the birth canal during delivery may develop an eye infection or pneumonia. Symptoms of an eye infection, called conjunctivitisor "pink eye," include discharge in the eye and swollen eyelids and usually develop within the first 10 days of life.
Symptoms of pneumonia, including a cough that gets steadily worse and congestion, most often develop within 3 to 6 weeks of birth. Health care providers can treat both conditions successfully with antibiotics.
Because of these risks to the newborn, many providers recommend that all pregnant women get tested for chlamydia as part of their prenatal care.
Scientists are looking for better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent chlamydia. Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently determined the complete genome (genetic blueprint) for C. trachomatis. The genome represents an encyclopedia of information about the bacteria. This accomplishment will give scientists important information as they try to develop a safe and effective vaccine.
Researchers also are focusing on developing topical microbicides (preparations that can be inserted into the vagina to prevent infection) that are effective and easy for women to use.
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George and Janice Farrow of Long View Dr., Warwick, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary June 30 in North Providence. The couple was married on June 14, 1953 in Sts. Peter & Paul Church, Cranston, and have five children, Holly, George, Barry, Richard and David; seven grandchildren, Victoria, Kaitlyn, Michael, James, Michael David, Braden and Zachery; and a great-granddaughter, Emma.
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Updated: Congrats to Arkane and BGS for winning Best Action/Adventure Game and Best DLC, respectively, tonight at the VGAs!
Starting… right now, the 10th Annual VGA Awards are live on SPIKE — with both Dishonored and Dawnguard up for nominations. Best of luck to the developers at Arkane and Bethesda Game Studios.
Elsewhere, voting and nominee announcements for other year-end awards are beginning to surface on numerous gaming sites. They include:
- G4TV – The end of year Videogame Deathmatch continues with Dishonored matched up against Guild Wars 2 in the semi-finals. Vote for your favorite.
- Game Informer – Readers' Choice Voting includes the option to vote for Dishonored
- Gamespot – Vote for Dishonored for this year's People's Choice Award
- IGN – Dishonored is nominated for multiple awards, including Game of the Year and Xbox 360 Game of the Year. Elsewhere on the site, Dishonored is named as one of the the best new game properties.


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Are you ready skeedaddy???!!! It's time for the Lightning Round. Cramer makes the call on viewer favorites.
Transocean (RIG): I like the complex, said Cramer, but I prefer Ensco.
Leucadia National (LUK): It's a pastiche of companies, said Cramer. I look at it as a mini-Berkshire Hathaway. I like it long-term.


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Indiana Mumps Update
Indiana Epidemiology Newsletter
June 2006
Wayne Staggs, MS
Vaccine Preventable Epidemiologist
As of June 16, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) is reporting seven cases of mumps for 2006. Two of the cases are classified as confirmed, and five are classified as probable cases*. Both confirmed cases had parotid gland swelling onset in April.
|*A confirmed case is 1) laboratory confirmed; or 2) meets the clinical case definition and is epidemiologically linked to a confirmed or probable case. A probable case meets the clinical case definition, has no laboratory confirmation, and is not epidemiologically linked to a confirmed or probable case. The clinical case definition for mumps is an illness with acute onset of unilateral or bilateral tender, self-limiting swelling of the parotid or other salivary gland lasting >2 days and without other apparent cause. For additional information on the typical physical findings and complications of mumps, visit the CDC Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/mumps/about/index.html.
Numerous reports of suspected cases of mumps have been investigated by the ISDH Immunization staff this year. Since April 24, oral fluid and/or urine specimens have been collected and submitted for mumps analysis on 85 persons living in Indiana. Two (2%) of those 85 persons were confirmed as having mumps by RT-PCR analysis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The remaining 83 persons had negative PCR results. No outbreaks or clustering of confirmed, probable, or suspected cases have been identified in Indiana. In addition, none of the cases investigated by ISDH staff has a known direct link to a case from the multi-state outbreak, which began in Iowa and was recently featured in an MMWR Dispatch on May 18, 2006. The Dispatch can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm55d518a1.htm.
Based on the small number of laboratory-confirmed cases and lack of epidemiologically linked cases, it is felt that Indiana is not experiencing widespread mumps virus circulation or an outbreak environment.
Please note that serologic testing is not being used as laboratory evidence to confirm or rule out mumps cases in Indiana. For laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis of mumps, the ISDH recommends health care providers collect buccal swabs and/or urine specimens for viral culture and PCR testing. For additional information on laboratory collection of specimens for mumps analysis, please visit the ISDH Web site at http://www.IN.gov/isdh/ or call the ISDH Laboratory at 317.233.8000.
Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee (ACIP) for the Control and Elimination of Mumps
In a special meeting held May 17, 2006, the ACIP updated criteria for mumps immunity and recommendations for mumps vaccination. You may review the updated recommendations in the Notice to Readers published by the MMWR on June 1, 2006, at:
To avoid outbreaks such as the one which has occurred in Iowa, the ISDH will be incorporating these changes into immunization program policy in the next few months. In the meantime, all immunization providers, schools (K-12), post-high school education institutions, and health care facilities are strongly encouraged to implement these recommendations immediately. Although these recommendations will not become school or college entry requirements for the 2006-2007 year, the ISDH is requesting that schools and colleges identify students with only one dose of mumps vaccine, contact them or their parents, and encourage a second dose of mumps vaccine. We have provided a summary of the ACIP changes in the box below
Acceptable Presumptive Evidence of Immunity
Routine Vaccination for Health Care Workers
For Outbreak Settings
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Mildred Kissai
Mildred Kissai, originally from Tanzania, was attending high school in Qatar when she learned about Bard. She's a Citizen Science Fellow and also works with Bard's Center for Civic Engagement. Mildred plans to joint major in biology and chemistry.
When I first arrived at Bard, I was torn between political studies and something in the sciences. This is largely because I'm involved in HIV/AIDS work, which really combines both. Ultimately, I was drawn to biology and chemistry because Bard has an awesome science program. There are opportunities here that you wouldn't get at a big school; there's a lot more hands-on research experience. I'm trying to blend together research and advocacy. Eventually I want to work in the public health sector, and hopefully do something patient oriented regarding HIV. I'm interested in translational research, a field where you translate discoveries in basic science research into useful remedies to battle human diseases; this may involve taking part in clinical trials.
There's science to HIV, but there are also the societal effects of the disease. I saw the effects of the epidemic in Tanzania when I was growing up. Anyone you talk to knows someone who's living with it or has died from it. It's everywhere. Last summer I went back home to Tanzania to intern at a small nongovernmental organization. The NGO trains volunteers to be peer advocates in order to help out intravenous drug addicts. The peer advocates talk to them, listen to them, and provide resources to help them quit and get health care. I spent the summer doing that. It was really eye opening.
With my interest in health and medicine, I naturally felt drawn to join Bard's Emergency Medical Services (EMS). At EMS, we work with Bard Security to provide emergency medical care on campus. I can directly give back to the community. EMS not only gives me the opportunity to help the people around me but it also allows me to build up my patient–healthcare provider rapport, and skills that will be useful in my career.


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Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. Most people are exposed to it through smoking, which is very damaging to the body.
Smoking has many bad health effects for everyone. For people with diabetes, who already have a host of health concerns, smoking intensifies the health risks they face, especially when it comes to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Smoking raises blood pressure levels, whether you're diabetic or not.
With 70% of diabetics already diagnosed with high blood pressure, smoking only makes it harder to control your diabetes. Smoking also constricts blood vessels. This can cause circulation problems in your feet and can contribute to a heart attack or stroke. If that wasn't enough, nicotine also raises blood sugar levels. It is not yet known whether nicotine addiction causes diabetes, but research on this is currently underway.
Not smoking is the key to this standard.
Stop Smoking! There's no way around it. Make a plan to quit – start by setting a quit date. Ask your family, friends and co-workers for support. There are medications out there that can help you, so get help from your doctor if you feel you want it. Keep trying even if you're not successful the first time. Don't give up – your health depends on it!
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Nothing is harder for cops than the death of one of their own from another cop's bullet. So you have to feel for the BART police, the family of slain Officer Tom Smith Jr. and for the man who shot him.
What we know so far — and it is precious little — is that a single gunshot passed through a gap in Smith's bulletproof vest and struck him fatally in the chest, an extraordinarily uncommon outcome.
I don't pretend to know all the answers about the tragedy inside a Dublin apartment last Tuesday. But as we think about avoiding such accidents in the future, here are some of the questions:
A) Just how did the shooter hold his gun? Police typically are trained to point their weapons down, with their fingers outside the trigger guard. Once they perceive a threat, they raise the gun. In this case, investigators say they entered with guns drawn.
We don't know where they were pointing their pistols. But in this case, was it possible that the cop's finger was on the trigger?
B) Did the issue of "trigger pull" enter into this case? In the old days, when police used revolvers, it could take 10 pounds of pressure or more to pull the trigger. But with modern semiautomatics like the Glock or Sig Sauer pistols that BART police use, it can take only 4 or 5 pounds. Experts say it's extraordinarily unlikely that the gun would accidentally discharge. But in the adrenaline of the moment, could the shooter have misjudged how little pressure was needed to fire a pistol?
C) Could the shooter have mistaken Smith for an intruder? This is always possible. But we simply don't know enough to conclude that. Ordinarily, when cops enter a residence, they are taught to "peel off" toward the sides, minimizing the chance that they will shoot one another.
The key questions here are the trajectory of the fatal bullet, and where Smith was standing when he was hit. Investigators have released nothing yet on those issues.
D) Should the BART police be doing this kind of operation in the first place? This question goes directly to the training that BART cops receive. It's not just a matter of police academy lessons. The truth is that BART cops don't get as much chance to do home searches as regular city cops. That increases the possibility that something can go wrong.
In the Oscar Grant case five years ago, the lack of training given to BART cop Johannes Mehserle was painfully evident. He said he mistook his gun for his Taser.
BART announced with great fanfare that it had made reforms after the Grant shooting — and Tommy Smith was one of the officers responsible. But those reforms were focused on how the force dealt with the public on transit property. They did not really prepare the cops for a home search that could go haywire.
In the end, making a case against a burglary suspect isn't worth the loss of an officer's life. If searches like the one in Dublin have to continue, it argues for a more elite team, perhaps in concert with other agencies. Interestingly enough, an Alameda County sheriff's deputy accompanied BART cops in Dublin.
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36 Hours of Glaciers and Steam in Iceland
I just visited Iceland for the first time! But, due to airport chaos, I was only there for exactly 36 hours. Here's what I learned from my short trip, camping out on ice and dunking myself in the country's steaming hot springs.


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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) In the buildup to the World Cup, the Brazilian football catchphrase of ''Jogo Bonito'' - The Beautiful Game - was drowned out by the bangs of frantic construction work and the shouts of angry protesters. Not now.
The football - it's been open, attacking and packed full of goals and great moments - is doing all the talking.
Neymar kicked Brazil into gear, Robin van Persie soared and scored with one of the most spectacular headers you'll see, and Argentina wizard Lionel Messi conjured up a little left-footed magic at the Maracana. On Monday, it kept coming: Thomas Mueller scored a hat-trick for Germany in a shock 4-0 rout of Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal and Clint Dempsey hit the net just half a minute into the United States' World Cup in an end-to-end 2-1 win over Ghana. The first round of group games isn't even done yet.
It's not just the big-name teams either. There was Costa Rica's pulsating comeback to sweep past a highly-rated Uruguay and Switzerland's last-gasp winner over Ecuador.
''All the games we're watching, there's a lot of open play, there's a lot of beautiful goals. It's just wonderful to be here, isn't it?'' Netherlands fan Paul Rolleman said as he walked - with a party-inspired hangover, he confessed - under perfect blue skies along Rio's famed Copacabana beach.
Half-expecting patched up stadiums and large street demonstrations, many worried that the return of the World Cup to the spiritual home of football after 64 years could be the most troubled in recent memory. But with a bunch of goals - 44 in 14 games so far - and no major backlash from protesters, it could turn out to be the best in over half a century.
''High-scoring games, this is what fans are waiting for,'' U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. ''They want to see goals.''
And they have. From Sao Paulo to Salvador, from Cuiaba in the vast Brazilian interior to the golden sands of Rio de Janeiro, the goals have flown in. The World Cup is averaging over three a game. At that rate, it will be the highest-scoring since Brazil began its great love affair with the tournament and - with a 17-year-old Pele up front - won the first of its record five titles in Sweden in 1958.
There has been just one draw in those 14 games. Nigeria's scoreless meeting with Iran drew boos from fans spoiled by the World Cup goal glut. Jogo Bonito, first made famous by Pele, is rubbing off on everyone, it seems. No one is ''parking the bus,'' as the Europeans say, or playing defensively here.
''There's none of that. No game has been boring,'' German fan Andre Lien said, adding with a sulk that he had to head back home for work on Tuesday.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, previously defensive in his approach to howls of disappointment from home fans, is playing with three strikers at the World Cup. The Netherlands made a mockery of pre-tournament criticism of their formation switch with blisteringly fast, attacking play to blow away defending champion Spain 5-1. Even Bosnia, the World Cup debutant, aggressively took the fight to Messi and Argentina - as coach Safet Susic promised they would.
''This is how we play football,'' he said. ''We don't know any other way. And I don't want my players to play any other way.''
The fans have reacted by filling stadiums or fan fests and embracing the carefree culture: A group of middle-aged German men in super-tight swimming costumes and with bellies bulging played football on Copacabana Monday morning before heading for the big screen TV.
Of course, it's still early days. Organizers can't let down their guard. There was a moment at Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo last week when Brazil's opening night seemed to hang by a thread - or an electrical wire. One section of the floodlights flickered off, then on, then off again. Disaster loomed. The lights came back on, stayed on, and Neymar rescued Brazil with a double as the home favorite came back from 1-0 down to beat Croatia 3-1.
There have been sporadic protests - police clashed with protesters not far from Rio's Maracana stadium on Sunday night while Messi scored and Argentina beat Bosnia - and in the northeastern city of Natal, torrential rain and flooding is threatening the World Cup experience.
But on the field, at least, the tournament has met the early challenge and more. Brazil's only worry there is if the goal-happy World Cup can keep up this breathtaking pace for a month.
''It's a big party,'' Netherlands supporter Rolleman said on Copacabana. ''But I do need to get some sleep now.''
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"Are you finding that being a dad nowadays is pretty rough? Are you working extra hours to pay for your children's future college expenses and then fretting that you're not spending enough time with those kids you care so much about? ...
"As far as I'm concerned, it's a tough time to be a father: High housing costs. Low-paying jobs. Too much time on the freeway commuting. Way too much stress. The list goes on toward infinite."
I wrote the words above 10 years ago when I began this blog. (Note: I would have posted this on the anniversary of April 16th, but Typepad was knocked offline for a week by a Denial of Service attack.) During the interim years, I started thinking, "Ah, things are getting better for parents."
Then the Great Recession, followed by years of unemployment and the dismantlement of the middle class, happened. And we can't forget the increasing threats of global warming, out-of-control college costs and nonstop cuts to public education.
In some ways, the world IS a better place. Say what you will, but Obamacare has increased overall health care coverage, gays have more rights than before and we have better tech toys than ever. It's those other issues that just keep getting worse. Examples:
- The rich in this country have been continually disenfranchising the middle and lower classes.
- Public school funding continues to be cut while Common Core or any sort of true reform is continually under attack rather than constructive support.
- Our politics are ruled by hate, not positive leadership.
- Food costs keep rising.
- Food companies keep finding new ways to lessen the quality of that more expensive food.
- Fracking will continue to contaminate fresh water supplies.
- Global warming poses an actual threat to our children or grandchildren.
- Freedom of press continues to be eroded on numerous fronts, such as the destruction of newspaper companies and legal restrictions on the First Amendment.
- College costs continue to skyrocket.
Perhaps the most telling evidence comes directly from my children, who blurt clues out when I'm driving them to and from various activities. "Dad, why are other kids so mean?" "Dad, why is fracking allowed?" "Dad, what are chemical weapons?" "Dad, why are rich people so mean to everyone else?"
Those are the kind of questions that leave this dad speechless. Should I say, "We need to be careful to not become like that?" Or maybe, "Yeah, you're right?" Or how about, "Those are just the extremes?" Are they the extremes?
What do I say? To be honest, I do not know.


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We were recently introduced to Los Angeles based Beautiful Fül, through their Spring '12 lookbook, and one thing is for sure now… we can't wait for spring!
Beautiful Fül's designer, Alejandro Rodriquez has garnered respect and acclaim from both national and international retailers and industry insiders in recent years with his emphasis on clean modern lines and attention to detail. This collection shows a much lighter side than Rodriquez's previous collections, although definitely maintains his west coast aesthetic. What do you think of the collection?
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Chaka Khan, Esperanza Spalding, Gilles Peterson and Ray Parker Jr and a host of award winning jazz and R&B legends are set to descend on Singapore for nights of hot jazz under the stars. From March 31 to April 2nd, Jetsetters from the region will join Singapore locals and expats in the fourth annual Singapore International Jazz Festival.
Aaron James Lee, who has established a glowing reputation drumming with The Steve McQueens, and his trio will kick-off Friday's festivities (31 March), to be followed by pioneering UK-based jazz DJ Gilles Peterson with the Zara McFarlane Band featuring Nubya Garcia and MC Earl Zinger. Multiple Grammy Award winner Corinne Bailey Rae rounds off the evening's musical fiesta under the stars on the stunning outdoor Main Stage at the Event Plaza at Marina Bay Sands.
The action then switches to SING JAZZ'S new indoor VIP party venue, the perfect setting for its 'Late Show', combining scintillating live performances played out in an intimate club atmosphere. Ernesto Enriquez and his jazz-infused Afro-Cuban sounds get the party going, ahead of Al McKay's iconic Earth, Wind & Fire Experience, followed by an all-star jam session led by Incognito's Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick and Citrus Sun. Another UK favourite, electronic duo Basement Jaxx, will complete a whole 12 hours of amazing music.
Saturday opens with Raw Earth presenting a tribute to blues icon BB King, setting the stage for R&B legend Ray Parker Jr. ahead of fellow new addition, virtuoso singer-songwriter and bassist Esperanza Spalding, making a welcome return to Singapore following previous sold-out concerts here. This four-time Grammy Awardwinner, who famously eclipsed Justin Bieber in the "Best New Artist" category in 2011, brings her reinvented, fusion-influenced hybrid of rock, funk and jazz to the SING JAZZ stage.
World music icon Youssou N'dour will round off Saturday's Main Stage programme, before another segue into The Late Show, featuring for the first time in Singapore multiple platinum and chart-topping Brit Award winners Rudimental ("Feel the Love" and "Waiting all Night") with their dazzling DJ set. Setting the party vibe are SING JAZZ favourites Incognito, who will also head up another jam session of Festival artists and instrumentalists in one-off impromptu collaborations that are sure to live long in the memory.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Sing Jazz Website.
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Steven Choy lists in this new blog posting some of the more popular PHP offerings for creating and managing FAQ systems.
The following are three PHP scripts for creating and maintaining web-based Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) systems. They are all free of charge and can use MySQL as database in the backend. I also try to google them to see if there are any example websites that make a good use of them.
The three he mentions are:
He briefly describes each, noting a few of the sites that use each under them. He doesn't really recommend one over the other, however - again a "right tool for the right job" situation. Each has its own strengths that can play well with what your needs might be.


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The theme was familiar at a panel discussion of teachers, legislators and school administrators Monday — so much is happening in education so quickly that many are worried some important issues might be left in the dust.
The theme was familiar at a panel discussion of teachers, legislators and school administrators Monday — so much is happening in education so quickly that many are worried some important issues might be left in the dust.
About 50 people attended the discussion at the Terrebonne Parish public library in Gray. It was sponsored by Louisiana Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about important state policies, The Courier and the Daily Comet, HTV and the Louisiana Association of Educators, a teacher union that has opposed most of the changes pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Most of the speakers said the scope of the changes — including new teacher-evaluation systems, a new statewide curriculum and expansions of voucher and charter schools — has caused confusion among some teachers and parents.
"One of the biggest challenges we've been facing is educating or communicating to our teachers everything that's going on," said Carol Davis, assistant superintendent of Terrebonne schools. "We've been doing more training over the past two months than we've done in years."
Many of the panelists said they wished Jindal's administration and the Louisiana Department of Education had implemented the changes more slowly.
"We just haven't had enough information to feel very comfortable with it," said Angelique Naquin, a 10th-grade teacher at Terrebonne High. "It seems like this big vague thing we might get more comfortable with as we get used to. But it's all happening so fast that a lot of us are worried."
Others had harsher criticism.
"I feel like under the new model I'm just a facilitator; I'm not a teacher," said Cammie Songe, a teacher at Thibodaux High. "It feels to me like when teachers complain or say something isn't right, we're demonized."
Much of the discussion focused around the Legislature, Jindal and the politics that lead to the changes. State Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, and Dee Richard, a Thibodaux independent, both said they were unhappy with the way the bills passed.
"We were given a 48-page bill that was brought to us the night before," Richard said. "That's not the way it's supposed to work. But when the governor says something's going to happen, it's going to happen."
Harrison, who lost his seat on the influential House Appropriations Committee after criticizing Jindal's push to privatize some insurance contracts, had similar complaints.
"Other states have worked on implementing systems like this for two or three years," said Harrison, who unsuccessfully pushed his own alternative to the governor's education reforms during the past session. "We're trying to do it all at once. That's just not right."
Richard said anyone who's upset about the changes should make them an issue during the next governor's race.
"If this is something you care about, you need to go and make this an issue before whoever is running for governor," Richard said. "That's how change is going to get done."


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I had my sutures removed a couple days ago and my black eyes are fading rapidly.
I had my sutures removed a couple days ago and my black eyes are fading rapidly. The swelling is almost totally gone, and I'm happy to report I have regained most of my former "prettiness." (Dearly Beloved has not been quite so kind in her assessment of my looks, but that's a whole 'nother, story as they say.)
The good folks at Suncoast Dermatology and Skin Surgery Center in TimberRidge and at their Mohs Surgery Center in Lecanto do a great job. We're lucky to have them in the community.
BOOK LOVERS: Don't forget the Book Lovers Ball at the Marion Oaks Community Center today. It's from 1 to 4 p.m. at 294 Marion Oaks Lane. If you go, tell 'em Emory sent you.
FOUND IT!: Dayton, Ohio's Eva Ream wrote: "We have returned from eating at the Tailwinds Caf�. It is an awesome little place with memorabilia all over. Your column was hanging on the refrigerator. I had the cheeseburger with onion rings, and Roy Jones had the cheeseburger with french fries. The burgers were large and good. The place was full, so we had to sit at the counter. I didn't get the server's name, but she was very nice and glad that we finally found the caf�. By the way, the caf� is INSIDE the Landmark Aviation Building at the airport. Who would have thought? I suppose most people, like me, would be looking for a separate building."
Eva, congratulations on finding the place. One of these days I'm going to have to go over there. I've heard good reports about their hamburgers.
SEAFOOD LOVER: On Top of the World's Janice Williams wrote: "I know you are not a seafood lover, but I am. Can your readers point a newcomer to where to buy the freshest seafood and where the best seafood restaurants are in the area? I'm getting desperate."
I sent Janice a reply telling her about Charley's Seafood Restaurant and Market in Crystal River, about Cedar Key, the Bonefish Grill and St. John's Seafood. Readers, are there any other places you'd like to add to the list to help Janice out?
LATIN AMERICAN CAFE: Ocala's Bob Graham (not the former governor and U.S. Senator, I'm pretty sure) wrote: "After telling my wife many times we should try out the Latin American Cafe on Northeast 25 Avenue just north of 14th Street, I finally stopped in by myself. What a surprise to see an old friend who is a regular customer there. This place is a must-do for someone looking for a great meal. Perhaps you and DB could check it out. Small place with real food. Another locally owned place that I will be stopping at again."
Bob, do they serve spaghetti and meatballs there?
ITALIAN STYLE: Ocala's Clara Monti wrote: "I always read in your column how you can't pass up a great plate of spaghetti. You'll have to try Mike's Italian, located in the Cedar Shores/Winn Dixie Plaza at Maricamp and 36th Avenue. You won't be disappointed — just the way 'mama' used to make it. I enjoy your column; great work."
Clara, our good friend Irene Turner took DB and me over to Mike's one evening when we planned to eat out. It was perhaps a year or so ago. We were disappointed to see the place was closed. So, I take it that it's open again now? We seldom get over to the Shores, but I'll keep Mike's in mind.
CARDS FOR A CAUSE: Beautiful Marion County's Georgeanne Stancil Schore wrote: "I appreciate your putting me in touch with Jeanne Dembenski, the lady who wrote to you who was collecting used Christmas cards for St. Jude's Children's hospital. I sent an email to Ms. Dembenski, and she came to where I work and picked up one shopping bag full of Christmas cards. And after Christmas I collected more cards from our church members. I recently met her at the Cracker Barrel at I-75 and the Belleview exit, where I gave her two more large shopping bags of cards. It's wonderful to know these used-but-beautiful cards will be used by the children at St. Jude's hospital. I will continue to collect the cards and will be getting in touch with her again next year. Always look forward to reading your columns; you always have such useful information!"
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By Dr. Mike Walden
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
A COLA war is going on. It hit the headlines a couple of months ago, has now subsided but is threatening to come back. It's a war that not only can affect those who enjoy liquid refreshments but potentially everyone!
So is this a war between the big-name soda manufacturers? Actually, it's not. I'm not talking about the best-tasting or most thirst-quenching carbonated beverage. Instead, I'm referring to the best "cost-of-living adjuster"!
Now, before you tune out, let me remind you, this version of the COLA war has the potential to affect everyone. This is because the front where the war will be waged is Social Security, and 90 percent of us are in the Social Security system. So using a popular current phrase, virtually all of us have some skin in this fight.
But just what is this COLA war? It's a discussion (war is really too harsh a term) about the best index to use to adjust future Social Security payments received by retirees.
When Social Security was introduced in the 1930s, payments to retirees were not periodically changed to keep up with the cost of living. This didn't begin until the 1970s, when price inflation started to be a big problem. Now, each year retirees receiving Social Security receive an increase in the amount they receive based on how some broad increase in average prices has changed.
This annual adjustment in Social Security payments is a big help to retirees. Even though the annual change can be small, over time it can accumulate to an impressive gain. For example, if a 3 percent increase is received each year for 10 years, then after a decade, the Social Security recipient's checks will be more than one-third (with compounding) higher.
However, the big question is, What method should be used to make the annual adjustments to Social Security payments? Currently, the government uses its main inflation gauge — the Consumer Price Index, or CPI — to make these adjustments.
The CPI tracks prices in a "market basket" of products and services typically bought by households. The prices are weighted by their relative importance to households' overall spending — meaning, for example, gasoline gets a larger weight than a can of peas — and then the weighted prices are averaged and converted to an index for ease of comparison. So, for example, a CPI of 200 compared to a CPI of 100 indicates weighted average prices have doubled. CPI values can be found at www.bls.gov.
So the CPI sounds reasonable, right? Not everyone agrees. One criticism has been that changes in the CPI won't reflect how prices change for every household, because people differ in what they buy in their market basket.
Of course, this is correct, but we shouldn't expect the government to have a customized CPI for every household. However, while conceding this point, retired households have long complained that their spending patterns do markedly differ due to the larger proportion spent on medical care. This has led to calls for a special "senior citizen CPI" to adjust Social Security pensions.
But the new COLA conflict is over a different issue. It has to do with how frequently the market basket is updated. The current CPI assumes that what we buy changes infrequently, approximately every two years.
Of course, this is unrealistic. Therefore, a revised CPI — the "chained CPI" — has been developed. It is designed to reflect changes in household buying over time due to two factors: as new products are introduced or buying preferences change and as we shift out of products and services where prices have risen to products and services where prices have fallen or remained stable.
It's the last factor that has created the controversy. Say the price of gasoline jumps. The traditional CPI would assume we would continue buying the same gallons of gasoline, so the full impact of the gas price increase would be reflected in the CPI.
Yet under the new chained CPI, there would be an assumption we would purchase slightly fewer gallons, so the "weight" in the gasoline component of the CPI wouldn't be as large as with the traditional method.
This means inflation with the chained CPI will be more modest, and programs like Social Security will save money because pensions to retirees will rise at a slower pace. Indeed, calculations suggest Social Security could save more than $100 billion over the next decade if the chained CPI is used to adjust future payments.
This has led some to claim that using the chained CPI for the Social Security COLA would mean a cut in payments for retirees. Other say, no, it's merely a more realistic COLA that will extend the life of Social Security.
Since I'm now eligible to receive Social Security, I'll be watching this COLA war if it is renewed. So, what's the right COLA for you? You decide!
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Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Professor and North Carolina Cooperative Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of N.C. State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches and writes on personal finance, economic outlook and public policy. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences communications unit provides his You Decide column every two weeks. Previous columns are available at http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/tag/you-decide
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Featured as one of the best baby apps by the Chicago Tribune and many parenting blogs, this app allows users to turn their device into a digital impression of the popular Fisher-Price and Baby Einstein crib soother products sold in stores. With adorable illustrations and effects, the animated scenes are designed to pacify babies with mesmerizing motions, music, and sounds.
Discovery News' mobile apps are a complement to DiscoveryNews.com, the leading online source of in-depth coverage and analysis of developments in technology, space and earth sciences. The on-the-go apps deliver news articles and analysis, videos, easy search functionality, fun facts from the Discovernator and more.
The Petfinder app allows users to custom search hundreds of thousands of pets from nearly 14,000 shelters and rescues across North America. The mobile companion to Petfinder.com, which has facilitated more than 20 million adoptions since 1996, the app offers detailed information about each pet, contact information, Happy Tail updates, comprehensive dog and cat breed guides, video resources, share functionality, and more.
Between 6 and 8 million pets enter animal shelters each year in the US. This app by HomeAgain, leader in pet microchipping and recovery services, allows people to keep a lookout for lost pets by GPS. It is rich in content and features, including lost pet alerts via push notifications, extensive mapping functionality, and even a PetRescuer quiz and "Find Fido" game.
From the popular TV series, How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) brings the wisdom of The Bro Code to iOS, with this interactive app full of content, including the Bro Code articles, audio advice from Barney, Bro-Mail - a MadLibs feature, playlists, and more.
The Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with Public Library of Science, worked with our team to create this app for PLoS Medicine, the open-access journal. The app was primarily designed to bring the PLoS content into a mobile friendly reading format with enhanced features, such as favoring, sharing, and accessing archives.
The Telguard Interactive app, in conjunction with Telguard's TG-1 Express cellular alarm communicator which is compatible with virtually all alarm panels, allows users to remotely arm or disarm their home alarm system. With a complex backend and web service, this app also allows users to view arming and alerting history and receive notifications of any alarm status change.
Mega Crosswords To Go contains unique and challenging crossword puzzles for solvers of every level and interest. Purchase additional packs of puzzles in mega quantities from within the app, selecting based on theme or difficulty level. Browse puzzle packs by degree of difficulty or level of completion, purchase Mega packs of 300 mixed-level puzzles, or 50 packs divided by level (Easy, Medium, Hard) or themes such as Entertainment, Sports, and Quips & Quotes, play with the "Pick One For Me" option, solve puzzles in "pen" or "pencil" mode, check or reveal a letter, a word, or the entire grid.
Featured by Apple as one of the top "Apps for Kids" and a "Staff Favorite", IntuApps brings to the life the classic story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears . Includes reading modes, story narration, highlighted and interactive words, as well as a "Look & Find Teddy" game where the teddy has squeaked over a million times!
As part of the "Silly Bandz" craze, Simon & Schuster released The Band App , a super fun app that lets users create their own band shapes with a band "blender." The app also lets users play a time based, interactive game guessing which two bands morphed together in the blender.
Your Complete Food Counter is the go-to app for choosing healthy foods when shopping, eating out, or grabbing a snack on the go. Written by trained health professionals with advanced degrees in science and nutrition, this easy-to-use app lets users create a personal profile to customize info that users want to track. The app provides calorie and nutrition values for over 21,000 foods, includes low fat, low carb, ethnic, organic, and vegetarian foods, includes branded, generic, and take-out foods, plus restaurant chains. In addition to helping people determine and track "How much do I need?" for every tracked nutrient, the app contains a comprehensive nutrition dictionary for quick reference. This data-rich app is derived from the book, The Most Complete Food Counter , 2nd Ed.
To complement the popular Encyclopedia of Healing Foods , this app is an engaging reference guide and source of inspiration for people interested in developing eating habits that lead to better health. The app offers much more than nutritional information by sharing cutting-edge research and clinical discoveries about what and how foods stimulate the body to rejuvenate and heal. Among other features, users can search the comprehensive app by food type/product as well as disease/condition.
Hitting the number 1 spot in the App Store, this app generated its first million downloads in no time! The app complements the book, The Man's Book: The Essential Guide for the Modern Man. With fun design and sound effects, the app tests how well users pick the "right" urinal in an interactive quiz game.
The Wealth Watchers app is a simple journal for expenses that follows the principles of the Wealth Watchers program by Alice Wood. Calculate DDI (Daily Disposable Income), track expenses on the go by category and payment method, and generate reports about your financial health.
This is the official app for Lloyd Boston, the "Style Guy" for Jones New York and author of the books Before You Put That On and The Style Checklist. The app delivers daily style tips from Lloyd on what to wear - and what not to wear - and leverages the camera functionality, allowing users to keep a log of their favorite outfits/combinations, great looks on the street, or pieces to look out for. The app is rich in content, all displayed in a friendly and interactive interface.
To complement the print book, this app brings Mike Dooley's Notes From the Universe to people on the go. It is designed to inspire one's inner path. The many features include accessing the Notes from a cloud or list view, audio narration, favoring functionality, and more.
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Greetings Hulu Summer Film School students! One of the most powerful tools in a filmmaker's arsenal is their lighting kit. Through light and color, a cinematographer is able to enhance the mood of a scene and draw the viewer into the world of the character. Even the subtlest changes in light or color can give the most ordinary of objects an entirely new meaning. Explore the role of light and color through the following visual masterpieces.
Required Viewing:
1) The Red Balloon
Cinematographer: Edmond Séchan
Winning both an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) and the Palm d'Or for short films in 1956, writer-director Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon is among the most endearing children's films ever made. Its elegant and nearly wordless story tells the tale of a young boy named Pascal and his wayward balloon as they navigate the streets of Paris. From early on, it becomes apparent to Pascal (and the audience) that the balloon has a mind of its own — one that is mischievous and surprisingly headstrong – as the pair's adventure through the city draws bemused looks from adults and the envious gaze of local neighborhood bullies.
Rather than photographing Paris in its traditional beauty, Lamorisse and his cinematographer Edmond Séchan focus on the city's drabness, highlighting the contrast of dank buildings and alleyways against the vibrancy of the balloon's deep red color. Lamorisse composes the action in such a way that the balloon is always at the viewer's center of attention, bobbing and weaving past glorious backdrops as it hovers above Pascal. In one memorable and charming scene, Pascal and his red balloon pass by a little girl with her own balloon, a blue one. As Pascal keeps walking, the red balloon floats towards the little girl and begins to "flirt" with her blue balloon before Pascal ultimately manages to wrangle it back.
The film takes a darker turn when the neighborhood bullies catch up to Pascal and ensnare his red balloon, subjecting it to abuse at the end of a slingshot. But that tonal shift is essential, as it sets up a magical finale that won't be spoiled here. The Red Balloon achieves rarified air, capturing the essence of childhood innocence, heartbreak, and joy in such little screen time.
-Naveen Singh
2) Eraserhead
Cinematographers: Herbert Cardwell and Frederick Elmes
David Lynch's first feature film is a surreal meditation on the anxieties of becoming a father, of living in an alienating and dehumanizing world, and of feeling trapped in a life that is fundamentally fated to tragedy. The stark black and white photography and low-key, high-contrast lighting create a world that is apart from reality. Eraserhead might draw formal comparisons to other works and may have influences that inform its technical execution, but the film is timeless in its depiction of Henry (Jack Nance) and Mary (Charlotte Stewart) as they give birth to a child that seems completely alien.
Eraserhead's cinematography and lighting help create one of the most self-assured, visually-compelling, and visceral portraits of an abstraction ever put on celluloid, and for that alone, it has a place in cinematic history.
-Christopher Rowe
3) Electrick Children
Cinematographer: Mattias Troelstrup
A critical darling at the 2012 SXSW Festival, Electrick Children tells the story of a young fundamentalist Mormon who believes she has been impregnated by a rock song and ventures off to Vegas to find the singer on the tape, whom she believes is her baby's father. While the plot may seem outlandish to most, the innocent idealism of our main character coupled with the film's symbolic use of color and light make the whole "pregnant-by-cassette-tape" deal a bit more plausible than it initially comes across.
Throughout the film, a sharp contrast is drawn between the landscape of Rachel's countryside compound and the urban sprawl of Las Vegas. Cinematographer Mattias Troelstrup capitalizes on the countryside's natural light, giving each frame a subtle desaturation to reflect a sense of comfort yet also boredom towards the surroundings. The softened grading provides the perfect contrast to Rachel's subsequent experience in Vegas, a world of bright lights and big personalities. There's nothing conventionally glamorous about the slacker musicians and the "bummin' it" lifestyle that Rachel encounters in her Vegas adventure, but through her unexposed eyes, and the subsequent cinematic interpretation from Troelstrup, everything is bathed in a technicolor glow to reflect the child-like wonder that Rachel feels towards this brave new world.
-Kelly Lin
4) Persona
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
"Lighting Persona by Michael Koresky
Supplemental Viewing:
5) Take this Waltz
Cinematographer: Luc Montpellier
6) Red Desert
Cinematographer: Carlo Di Palma
7) Wild Strawberries
Cinematographer: Gunnar Fischer
Extracurricular Resources:
1) No Film School – A must-read blog for any aspiring cinematographer, No Film School has tons of great tutorials on how you can achieve the perfect lighting set-up for your own film. Check out these recent articles on how to create a three-point light set up with flashlights and magnifying glasses and the tools professional cinematographers use to light their scenes,
2) If it's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling – Besides having the best title in book history, this book has some valuable insights on how color is used to evoke emotion.
3) Sparkles and Wine Teaser – This music video is a testament to just how much lighting and color can affect tone, mood, focus, and perception.


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Paul Mirengoff wrote about Michelle Obama's description of her financial travails in "Michelle Obama sucks it up." On the basis of Ms. Obama's performance before a group of six women around a table in the basement playroom of the Zanesville Day Nursery, Paul adjudged Ms. Obama to be "a depressing speciman of a post-modern class of victim — demanding, whining, self-absorbed, self-pitying, and infantile."
Ms. Obama's grievance tour continued yesterday in North Carolina, where she discussed the hardships of paying for educations at Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard Law School:
Obama told the crowd that when she and her husband left law school, the monthly payments on their school loan debt was more than their monthly mortgage payment. She said they only got out of that debt when Barack Obama wrote his two books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father."
And that's not all:
Michelle Obama said each time her husband exceeds expectations in the presidential race, the standard changes.
"They tell you to raise money, you raise money," she said. "They tell you to build an organization, and you build an organization.
"And you work hard and you reach that bar. Sometimes you surpass the bar and you look around and all of a sudden the bar has moved. The bar has changed on you and you wonder what happened."
No doubt Reverend Wright can explain it to her.
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The teachers� union signed two contracts at Tuesday�s School Committee meeting, after working without a contract since June 30, 2011. One was for the 2011-2012 school year, the other a three-year contract through the end of the 2014-2015 school year.
The one-year contract has no step movements or base wage increase.
The three-year contract calls for three wage increases: a base wage increase of a half a percent, retroactive to the first pay of the current school year for the first year; and a 1.25 percent increase for all �steps and lanes� for the next two years. The 2014-2015 school year includes a 1.25 percent increase to coaches� and advisers� stipends and a new salary scale for all new hires effective at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.
As part of the three-year contract, a district web coordinator annual stipend will be $6,500 and the web assistant would be $1,500. The web coordinator would be appointed by the superintendent from among teachers� union applicants; if no qualified member of the teachers� union applies, the School Committee can advertise to the general public, according to the contract.
�I appreciate the time and effort you gave,� School Committee Chairman Robert Ebstein told the members of the union Tuesday night. �We can�t agree on everything, but we were able to come to an agreement.�
Also at Tuesday�s meeting, the union contract representing secretaries and other support staff was signed.


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Graeme Swann has backed the "polarising" figure of Kevin Pietersen to have a major role in what he believes can be a successful England Test side in India.
Star batsman Pietersen is set to make his return to the Test arena in Ahmedabad on Thursday after missing the climax of England's home series against his native South Africa having been dropped for sending "provocative texts" to Proteas players.
But with then England captain Andrew Strauss having since retired, Pietersen has been welcomed back into a top-order that would otherwise be short on experience not to mention talent.
Pietersen, in an England team now captained by Alastair Cook, showed his class with a typically aggressive 110 against Haryana in the tourists' final warm-up match.
And Swann said there was no reason why the team, who lost their world number one ranking to South Africa in England earlier this year, would struggle to be united on the field as they go in search of a first Test series win in India since 1984/85.
"Of course we can be a unit again," Swann told online magazine Wisden EXTRA.
"You don't have to like everyone you play with for the team to do well. But once you turn up, you have to pull together and be professional about things.
Swann says Pietersen can star in India
Graeme Swann has backed the "polarising" figure of Kevin Pietersen to have a major role in what he believes can be a successful England Test side in India.
"I don't think I've played in many teams in which everyone gets on with everybody else.
"That is just the way of the world. It is like in business: you don't always choose who you work with, you just get along. The bottom line is that the dressing-room is fine."
Swann added: "Pietersen is always going to be a fairly polarising character because of the way he is. But there is no reason why he cannot be part of a very successful England team, and be a very successful part of that team."
Meanwhile, with Indian pitches known for being spin-friendly surfaces, Swann is set to play a key role with the ball having recently returned to India after a brief break from the tour in order to spend time with his family after his daughter, who is only a few weeks old, was taken ill.
And the Nottinghamshire bowler, on the brink of becoming England's most successful Test off-spinner, is relishing his chance to shine.
"My motivation has never changed," said the 33-year-old, a veteran of 46 Tests. "I love playing Test cricket. I love being involved in this team, being the guy that can influence a win.
"My motivation is to be winning games for England. I want to be man-of-the-match, the centre of attention. That's what keeps driving me on.
"If I didn't think we could win in India, I wouldn't be going. The moment I considered that we couldn't win somewhere would be the day I retired."
Since making a stunning Test debut in Chennai in 2008, when he took the wickets of Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid in his first over, Swann has collected 192 Test wickets, leaving him one shy of equalling the record by an England off-spinner set by Jim Laker in the 1950s.
"Yes, when you get near a milestone or someone else's personal record, comparisons are flattering," Swann said. "But our records are only comparable on a piece of paper, because we played in different eras, and it would be arrogant to claim that you were as good as or better than those who went before you."


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DailyDirt: Don't Drink The Water
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Water is abundant in most places, and it's generally free -- except for folks who only drink bottled water. So people tend to take water for granted, but there are plenty of reasons to conserve water. Here are just a few reminders.
- About 60% of people (surveyed by the WateReuse Research Foundation) don't want to drink water that has ever had direct contact with sewage. The other 40% are wastewater engineers. [url]
- Manufacturing plants are apparently releasing lots of pharmaceuticals into wastewater streams. And wastewater processing facilities aren't catching the drugs before releasing them into rivers... [url]
- Oklahoma is responding to its ongoing drought after seeing more than its fair share of triple digit temperatures. Unfortunately, some predictions say this "exceptional drought" could last a bit longer, maybe until autumn. [url]
- To discover more related links on stuff we eat or drink, check out what's brewing on StumbleUpon. [url]


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Second milestone reached! Honeybrid has now all its functionalities working and it's time for testing. In order to check that everything works efficiently, I deployed a Windows honeypot to receive traffic from five /24 unused subnets during half an hour. Here are the details of this experiment.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Jun 2006 21:33 UTC
The popularity of Apple Computer's iPod digital music players is helping it sell more Macs, but so far it hasn't been enough to spark a rise in the company's share of the personal computer market. According to research firm Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 57 million units in the first quarter of 2006, representing a 13.1 percent increase over the same period last year. But in that time, Apple's share of the worldwide market slipped from 2.2 percent to a mere 2.0 percent.


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Reiulf Ramstad is the founder and principal owner in Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS (RRA), which was established as a firm in 1995.
Between 1991 and 1995 he worked as assistant professor, lecturer, and thesis advisor at the faculty of Architecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where he held basic and advance courses for "Complex buildings" and "Project Management" for beginners, advanced, and Thesis levels.
Ramstad was awarded professor competence from the Oslo School of Architecture - and Design(AHO) in 2004. He is appointed as a regular thesis juror at AHO from 2008 to 2011.
Apart from his academic work at NTNU, he was also engaged in his own architectural practice as a partner in "Steen Ramstad Bryn Arkitekter AS" between 1993 and 1995.
Ramstad has received numerous awards for his architecture and design practice. In addition to a number of prizes in architectural competitions, some other prizes included are: "1. Premio Gino Valle" in Venice," Foundation Norsk Forms prize in Field of Design and Architecture", and "The Norwegian Award for Design Excellence". University College Østfold was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - "The Mies van der Rohe Award" in 2007 and The Trollstigen National Tourist Route Project is nominated for the 2011 "Mies Award". His furniture design and many of RRA's projects have been exhibited in Norway and abroad.
He initiated and developed the concept for the first Architectural Triennale in Oslo in 2000. He also represented Norway at the Nordic pavilion at the Architectural Biennale in Venice in 2001.
Ramstad was acclaimed professionally as board member of NAL, the National Association of Norwegian Architects, in the period between 1997 and 2000. In 2000-2002 he was appointed vice president. He serves as a jury member for many architectural competitions both domestically and internationally.


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Matheny, 41, will be entering his first season as a manager/coach at the professional level. He recently served as a Special Assistant in Player Development for the Cardinals.
Matheny, at age 41, becomes the youngest active manager in the majors and the youngest Cardinals manager since Jack Krol, who was also 41 years of age when he managed the team in 1978. Matheny joins notables such as Red Schoendienst, Joe Torre, Ken Boyer, Frank Frisch and Rogers Hornsby amongst Cardinals players who later served as the team's manager.
Matheny inherits a Cardinals team that captured the 11th World Championship title in franchise history in 2011. In 1965, Schoendienst also took over a Cardinals defending World Championship team in his first season as Cardinals manager.
A veteran of 13 seasons in the majors, Matheny was drafted out of the University of Michigan by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 8th round of the 1991 draft. Matheny made his Major League debut with the Brewers in 1994 and spent five seasons (1994-98) with Milwaukee before signing a free-agent contract with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1999. Following his release by the Blue Jays, Matheny signed a free-agent contract with the Cardinals on December 16, 1999 and he went on to spend five seasons with the Cardinals from 2000-04, earning trips to the postseason in four of those five seasons, including a National League Championship in 2004. As a Cardinal, Matheny appeared in 611 games at catcher, logging 4,938.1 innings while commiting just 14 errors.
The four-time (2000, 2003-05) Rawlings Gold Glove recipient holds the Major League catching record for consecutive errorless games (252) and for consecutive errorless chances (1,565). He posted a lifetime batting mark of .239 with 67 home runs and 443 RBI in 1,305 games played in a career that was cut short due to complications from repeated concussion.
Matheny signed with San Francisco as a free-agent prior to the 2005 season and he spent two seasons with the Giants before playing his final game on May 31, 2006. In his first season with the Giants, Matheny set the team record for fielding pct. (.9988) by a catcher, came within two of the team mark (36) for doubles by a catcher and was voted by his teammates as the recipient of the "Willie Mac Award" for being the most inspirational player on the team.
In 2002, Matheny served as an inspirational leader for the Cardinals, helping the team to cope with the shocking death of pitcher Darryl Kile while still reaching the National League Championship Series. Matheny was voted by his teammates as the first recipient of the "Darryl Kile Award" in 2003 - an award that goes annually to the Cardinals player who best demonstrates the qualities that Darryl brought to the clubhouse every day; those of a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man.
Matheny has been a tireless worker in the community, organizing and creating the "Catch-22" charity that donated tickets to Cardinals fans from 2002-04. In 2005, his group saw the opening of the "Catch 22 Miracle Field" at Chesterfield Valley Athletic Complex. The $650,000 project was designed and constructed to allow children of all abilities to experience the thrill of playing baseball, and is specially designed to accomodate athletes with physical and mental disabilities. The field incorporates a firm, rubber playing surface that is more forgiving and friendly for wheelchairs, walkers and children who may use braces, while dugouts provide room for wheelchairs to maneuver and wide concrete patios and ramps allow families to easily access both field and viewing areas. Funding for the field project was provided by "Catch 22 Foundation", which Mike created.
Matheny, born on September 22, 1970 in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, graduated from Reynoldsburg High School in 1988, where he was a team captain for both the baseball and football teams. He was a member of the Connie Mack National Championship team in 1989 and attended the University of Michigan, where he was co-captain of the Wolverines' baseball team. Mike's wife, Kristin, was also a varsity athlete at Michigan, playing field hockey. The couple resides in St. Louis county with their five children, daughter Katie (17) and four sons, Tate (18), Luke (15), Jacob (14) and Blaise (11).
Matheny (pronounced muh-THEE-nee) signed a two-year contract for 2012-13 with a club option for 2014. He joins Robin Ventura of the White Sox as first-year managers debuting in the majors this season. Dale Sveum of the Cubs is entering his first season as a full-time manager, however he served as interim manager for Milwaukee late in the 2008 season.2006 Catcher and team leader saw season end in late May, when he first received concussion incurred by series of foul tips...left May 31 game at Florida in 3rd inning, and was placed on Disabled List next day...symptoms never fully dissipated, and he missed remainder of season with post-concussion syndrome...was examined multiple times by Dr. Michael Collins, head trauma specialist based out of Pittsburgh, PA...prior to injury, started 44 of SF's 1st 53 games, while appearing in 47 contests overall...caught 391.1 of Giants' initial 469.1ip (83.4%), while guiding staff to 4.23 ERA (184er)...endured poor offensive April in which he hit just .171 (12-for-70) with 3 RBI, but had season numbers up to .231 with 18 driven in at time of injury...hit .278 (25-for- 90) with 2 HRs and 15 RBI in 25 games during May, hitting safely in 19 contests...compiled season-best 9-game hitting streak May 6-16, going 15-for-35 (.429) with 4 2Bs and 10 RBI...batted .364 (16-for-44) off left-handed pitching. 2005 Was simply tremendous during 1st season in Giants uniform, both behind plate and with bat...also had tremendous impact in clubhouse, being voted by teammates as "Willie Mac Award" winner for most inspirational player on club...posted highest single-season fielding pct. for catcher in SF history, logging .999 mark (1 error, 862 total chances)...lone error also matched lowest total by SF backstop, while his 1,122.0 innings caught were 4th most in club's West Coast annals...led all NL catchers by throwing out 30 attempted base stealers, while ranking 3rd by nailing 32.3% of would-be base thieves (93 attempted)...offensively, his 34 2Bs led all big league catchers and tied Harry Danning's 1940 output with New York club for 2nd-highest total by backstop in franchise history...only Giants receiver with more two-baggers in single season was Dick Dietz (36 in 1970)...also tied for 2nd among NL backstops with career-high 59 RBI (1 behind CHI's Michael Barrett), while his career-best 13 HRs were 4th most in senior circuit...proved to be adept clutch hitter, ranking 4th on club by batting .311 (33-for-106) with RISP...raised game another notch with RISP and 2 outs, going 15-for-44 (.341) in those situations...slugged his 3rd career grand slam May 2 at Arizona, 3rd inning shot off Russ Ortiz...marked 1 of 2 occasions that he matched career high in RBI, also drivinig in 4 July 7 vs. Cincinnati. 2004 Earned Gold Glove award as NL's top defensive catcher for 2nd straight year and 3rd time in career, leading all big league catchers with .999 fielding pct. (1 error in 801 total chances)...was charged with just 2 passed balls in 122 games behind plate...threw out 28.3% of attempted base stealers (15-of-53) to finish 4th in NL...enjoyed solid offensive campaign, establishing career high with 50 RBI for NL champion St. Louis...also hit at .247 clip, 8 points higher than lifetime avg., while matching career standard with 22 2Bs...committed throwing error on 8th-inning steal attempt Aug. 4 vs. Montreal, 1st defensive miscue since Aug. 1, 2002 at Florida...snapped ML-record streak of 252-consecutive errorless games caught and 1,565-straight chances without error...Cardinals pitchers logged 3.88 ERA (422er, 977.2ip) with him behind plate...was on Disabled List June 3-18 with strained right oblique muscle...matched career high with 4 RBI June 27 at Kansas City, finishing contest 2-for-5...tied for club lead with 5 RBI in 4-game NLDS victory over LA, going 4-for-14 (.286) with HR...collected 4 RBI in St. Louis' 8-4, Game 2 victory...saw action in each of Cardinals' 15 playoff games overall, and drove in club's 1st World Series run with sacrifice fly during Game 1 at Boston. 2003 Earned 2nd career Gold Glove award...became just 3rd backstop in ML history to catch at least 100 games in single season without committing error, handling 823 chances flawlessly...caught 138 games (121 starts), while logging 1096.2 innings behind plate...established career highs in games (141), hits (11) and HRs (8), while his .252 avg. trailed only his .261 mark in 2000. 2002 Committed just 4 errors in 106 games behind plate (830.1 innings), while nailing 34.8% of attempted base stealers (22-of-65)...finished with .244 batting avg., 26-point increase of 2001 production...however, was .282 hitter (42-for-149) in 52 games after July 16...led Cardinals with 14 sacrifices, including 6 sacrifice flies...hit at .295 clip (18-for-61) in Sept. as Redbirds captured NL Central crown...started behind plate and hit safely in all 8 of St. Louis' post season contests, hitting .357 (10-for-28) with HR and 3 RBI...went 4-for-9 (.444) in 3-game NLDS sweep of Arizona, including 2-for-3 effort off Randy Johnson in Game 1...batted .316 (6-for-19) in NLCS vs. San Francisco...belted solo clout off Giants' Russ Ortiz in 4th inning of Game 3 at SBC Park, Cards' lone victory in series. 2001 Ranked 2nd in NL by throwing out 45.5% of would-be base thieves (25-of-55)...was charged with just 4 errors in 121 games behind dish (1002 innings)...picked 5 runners off base, including 4 straying off 2nd base...made post season debut, appearing in 4 games (3 starts) of Cardinals NLDS loss vs. Arizona. 2000 Established career highs in nearly every offensive category while earning 1st Gold Glove award as NL's top defensive catcher...joined Tom Pagnozzi as only Cardinals catchers to have won award...season came to an abrupt and shocking end Sept. 29 when he severed 2 flexor tendons and nerve in his right ring finger while accidentally cutting himself on hunting knife which he received as birthday gift...underwent surgery, performed by hand specialist Dr. Richard Gelberman, and was forced to miss entire post season...established career bests with .261 avg. and 22 2Bs, while collecting 6 HRs and 47 RBI...led majors by throwing out remarkable 51.1% of attempted base stealers (46-of-90)...started 117 games behind plate, catching 1032.2 innings...had career high 12-game hitting steak Aug. 22-Sept. 4. 1999 Appeared in 57 games, including 50 starts at catcher, during lone season in Toronto...guided Blue Jays hurlers to 4.33 ERA, which was 59 points lower than club's 4.92 overall mark. 1998 Logged final campaign with Milwaukee, batting .238 with 6 HRs and 27 RBI in 108 games...required stitches on inside of left cheek after being hit in face by Rich Loiselle pitch May 26 vs. Pittsburgh, but was in starting lineup next day...was on Disabld List June 16-July 12 with strained left external oblique...set career high with 4 hits July 18 at Atlanta, while tying club record with 3 2Bs. 1997 Enjoyed 1st full season in majors, batting .244 with 4 HRs and 32 RBI in 123 games with Brewers...ranked 5th among AL catchers with .993 fielding pct. (5 errors in 760 total chances) and 5th by throwing out 33% of attempted base stealers (34-of-103)...earned 2nd consecutive Opening Day start at catcher...belted 2nd career grand slam (off TEX's Ken Hill) in Brewers' home opener April 7. 1996 Milwaukee's Opening Day backstop hit career-high 8 HRs in 313 at-bats...ranked 4th in AL by nailing 26.8% of would-be base thieves (19-of-71)...set career high with 4 RBI Aug. 5 at Oakland, all coming courtesy of 1st career grand slam (off Athletics' Willie Adams)...was optioned to triple-A New Orleans Aug. 11...was recalled Sept. 3, hammering pair of clouts down stretch. 1995 Opened season in Milwaukee and was with big league club for entire campaign save 10-day stretch in New Orleans May 15-25...started 47 games behind plate for Brew Crew...in fact, with Joe Oliver on DL, batted .275 (22-for-80) as club's starting catcher July 14-Aug. 15...played winter ball with Arecibo in Puerto Rico. 1994 Was on Brewers' Opening Day roster and made ML debut as pinch-hitter April 7 vs. Oakland...collected 1st big league hit April 17, singling off SEA's Dave Fleming...was optioned to New Orleans May 23 and was recalled July 7...belted 1st ML clout July 21 at County Stadium, solo clout off MIN's Jim Deshaies...played winter ball with Licey in Dominican Republic. 1993 Was promoted to double-A El Paso, where he hit .254 with 21 2Bs, 2 HRs and 28 RBI. 1992 Batted .219 with 6 HRs and 46 RBI for single-A Stockton...nailed 47.9% of would be base thieves (68-of-142) for California League champs. 1991 Made professional debut with Helena in Pioneer Rookie League, hitting .285 in 64 games.


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i won't wish this on some of even the worst i've seen over the years..OK maybe one or two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6A9K0jhZ5M
"when in doubt...jump it out" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qEZHhJubY
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It is what it is unless I say differently !!!!
The investigation that would launch around here would be massive. Start with drug test and then hepatitis screenings. Then suspensions, firings, OSHA fines. I miss the day when it was just a helluva good laugh.
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'Boston Strong'
John Habib's City Sports: Matt Gatsas' horse wins name gameBy JOHN HABIB
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 16. 2013 11:14PM
It was last April, a week before the Boston Marathon, when Matt Gatsas, president of Sovereign Stable in Manchester, purchased a 2-year-old colt in Kentucky at an auction.
"After buying the colt I had to board a plane the next morning for a flight to the Bahamas," said Gatsas. "Normally I would have named the horse after buying it, but I had no time until I came back from my vacation."
A week later, while Gatsas was still vacationing, chaos reigned on April 15 when two pressure cooker bombs exploded seconds and yards apart, killing three and injuring more than 260 people near the finish line at the Boston Marathon.
"My phone is ringing like crazy and I'm calling back home asking what's going on," said Gatsas. "I graduated (in 1999) from Babson College (in Wellesley, Mass.) and I must have walked in that area (on Boylston Street) a couple of thousand times. I mean I know that area real well and even stood in the area where the bombs actually went off. My buddies and I would go to the marathon every year I was in college to watch the runners near the finish line."
Gatsas said he returned home to Manchester the day after the bombings and still hadn't officially given a name to his newly-purchased colt. But all that changed when he turned the TV on to watch the Red Sox.
"That was the first time I heard about 'Boston Strong' and I started thinking how great it would be to name my colt just that," said Gatsas. "I mean, the slogan itself was popular and it had a meaningful and powerful message behind it following the bombings."
Sure enough Gatsas quickly checked with the Jockey Club to see if the name was taken.
"It wasn't and I quickly said I wanted it," said Gatsas, who paid a hundred bucks to secure it and name his colt.
"I'll never know for sure, but I'll bet my house hundreds of people in the (horse) business applied for the naming rights to 'Boston Strong' right after I purchased it. I'm willing to bet it."
Before anyone suggests Gatsas was capitalizing on a popular slogan at the expense of the marathon victims, think again.
"I've already made a $1,000 donation to the One Fund (assisting victims and families of the Boston Marathon bombings) and I have pledged to donate 5 percent to the One Fund from all the track earnings Boston Strong makes," said Gatsas. "Just like anyone else who cares, I want to reach out and help the victims of the bombings."
Gatsas, who said he purchased Boston Strong for $145,000, said the colt had a setback this month.
"Boston Strong was set to run at Saratoga this month, but the horse got a fever and we had to scratch the plan," he said. "We're targeting Belmont or Aqueduct in early to late fall."
There's a funny side story to all of this. Gatsas said the colt was born on Feb. 28, 2011, in New York.
"I know, I know," said Gatsas, anticipating the next question. "I know it's strange to name a New York-bred horse Boston Strong. But it really lives up to the name. The colt is a good-looking horse that comes from a strong family. Believe me, this horse has the potential of winning races."
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At last check, there is no local or Internet radio coverage of the 14-year-old Babe Ruth World Series from Moses Lake, Wash. There is good news for supporters of the Manchester Mickey Hanagan All-Star team because the 14-year-old Babe Ruth national website does offer a live pitch-by-pitch log of every game.
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Ted Menswar Jr. has announced that the family of Mike Flanagan has established a baseball scholarship in his name. The scholarship will be annually awarded to a candidate from the Manchester Memorial varsity baseball team who best exemplifies the work ethic demonstrated by Flanagan. The winner will be named at the school's Class Day ceremony each spring before graduation.
Recently the Manchester Board of Mayor and Alderman approved naming the Memorial High baseball field after Flanagan. Menswar said plans are in the works to erect a "Mike Flanagan Field" sign adjacent to the main entrance to the field.
Menswar also said Flanagan's Baltimore Orioles jersey will be hung on the wall across from the school's gymnasium next to the Hall of Fame Red Division for athletes and coaches.
Donations are needed to fund the scholarship and checks should be mailed to: The Michael K. Flanagan Baseball Scholarship, c/o Ed Flanagan, account administrator, St. Mary's Bank, 234 Elm Street, Manchester N.H., 03101.
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Memo to the Manchester Board of Mayor and Alderman and School District: There's at least three former great coaches to consider for naming rights in the city.
Let's start with Joe O'Neil of Manchester Central, who led the outdoor, indoor and cross-country teams to a combined 33 NHIAA state titles during his tenure. Name the Derryfield 3.1-mile course after him.Jim Schubert of Manchester Central, who coached the Little Green to six Division I state football titles. If the city can name a field after Bob Chabot for leading Memorial to six state titles, they can certainly name the football field at Gill Stadium after Schubert.
Lastly, Jack Amero, the girls' soccer coach who led Manchester West to 15 Class L titles and 415 wins, including 62 straight from 1989 to 1993, which was the longest streak in the nation at the time. It's time to honor these great coaches.
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Memo to the organizers of the Aug. 30 Bo Dickson Queen City Football Jamboree: Memorial and West should be playing under the lights at Gill Stadium, not at 5:30 p.m. when parents are just getting out of work. It's the Queen City jamboree. The local kids should get the last game, not Pinkerton of Derry or Timberlane of Plaistow.
"City Sports" appears Saturdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader. Email staff reporter John Habib at email@example.com.


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LIVERMORE — Police reminded residents to lock their vehicles after the arrest of three boys on suspicion of petty theft Sunday morning.
Residents flooded police with calls at 6 a.m., saying that a boy was knocking on doors, trying to open car doors and acting strangely near El Caminito, Livermore police Sgt. John Hurd said.
Officers in the area spotted a 16-year-old boy in the 100 block of El Caminito and arrested him after he tried to run from officers, Hurd said. The boy had property from the vehicles when he was caught, Hurd said. He may have been involved in the thefts with two other boys, who were later determined by police to have been involved in stealing items from unlocked cars.
The ages of the other two boys were not immediately available. All three were released to their parents/guardians.
Rick Hurd covers crime. Contact him at 925-945-4780 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.


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An Albanian Air Force member walks near an old non-function Airplane (Antonov An-2) in Kucova Air Base in Kucova, Albania on October 3, 2018. Albania retired its 224 Soviet- and Chinese-made MiGs in 2005, and since 2009 NATO neighbors Italy and Greece monitor its airspace. That led to economic decline in and around Kucova, which was called "Stalin City" during the era of Communist rule.
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A scenario that seems to be repeating more often these days is that Microsoft isn't providing backward compatibility as a function in some of its new products. Case in point: Windows Vista isn't compatible with Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) as well as some other Microsoft applications. MSDE incompatibility will certainly be a problem for customers, but evidently Microsoft didn't consider it a big enough problem to assign resources to work on fixing the incompatibility. From a Microsoft-centric viewpoint, this incompatibility problem might even be a win-win situation. By cutting functionality from a product's design, Microsoft can get that product out the door more quickly and "encourage" customers to upgrade all at the same time.
I think customers will take offense to this tactic because at the very least, it amounts to misrepresentation. Microsoft never fails to say that it has the tightest integration with its own products, and the company supposedly is interested in listening to its customers and its community. Clearly, this incompatibility strategy isn't in the customer's best interest because it really forces customers to upgrade to newer releases. Don't get me wrong--I'm not a big fan of MSDE, and I would always recommend using SQL Server 2005 Express rather than MSDE for any situation. ISV's will probably be affected by this the most because many third-party applications use MSDE and will need to be changed before Vista is released. However they're probably aware of the situation. The really unfortunate thing is the number of customers who aren't aware that MSDE won't run under Vista and will be caught by surprise when they upgrade to Vista.
MSDE isn't the only loser in the move to Vista. Microsoft's flagship development product, Visual Studio 2005, won't be fully compatible with Vista until after the release of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), which is still in beta. Visual Studio 2005 runs under Vista, but you'll discover a few problems with Vista's User Account Control (UAC). Earlier Visual Studio versions, such as Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio.NET, won't be supported by Vista at all. Although developers tend to move forward faster than most users, there are still a significant number of organizations that currently use Visual Studio 6, let alone Visual Studio 2003. Upgrading from these products is a bit tougher than the MSDE upgrade. Upgrading from MSDE to SQL Server 2005 Express will require time and effort, but at least this upgrade won't require additional expense because you can download both products from the Microsoft Web site for free. Not so with Visual Studio 2005. Upgrading from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005 Professional will set you back $549. And that's per seat. (Although you can get lower prices from online retailers. For example, Amazon.com sells Visual Studio 2005 for $488.61.)
Even SQL Server 2005 Express, as new as it is, won't be immune to Vista update problems. Before you attempt a Vista upgrade on any system running SQL Server 2005 Express, you'll need to upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Express SP2 (which isn't available yet).
Backward compatibility--at least with previous versions of Microsoft's products--isn't a nicety but a necessity. Omitting this type of compatibility is essentially a failure both in engineering and customer relations. If you're considering the upgrade to Vista do your homework and make sure that the applications you're using are going to work with Vista. In other words, look before you leap.


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Thursday slammed Syria and Iran for seeking seats on the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, saying their own rights violations are under U.N. investigation.
Iran said later Thursday it had dropped out of the race after contemplating a campaign earlier this year.
Syria remains a candidate to join the 47-nation council, along with other often-criticized nations such as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Vietnam and Russia.
Syria is embroiled in a brutal civil war, with human rights groups blaming both President Basher Assad's government and rebels for abuses. Iran, a key Syrian ally, is criticized for jailing political prisoners and executing drug offenders.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Rosemary DiCarlo told reporters that "attempts by either country to join the Human Rights Council are highly inappropriate given existing Human Rights Council mandates to investigate human rights violations in these countries, their egregious records on human rights and their ongoing collaboration to suppress the democratic aspirations of the Syrian people."
A spokesman for Iran's U.N. Mission, Alireza Miryousefi, confirmed late Thursday that Iran had withdrawn its candidacy back in February.
The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will vote in November to elect 14 nations to three-year terms on the council.
Regional groups within the General Assembly hold caucuses to select their preferred candidates.


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Here are my picks for the best happenings at theme parks and attractions for 2012.
•Best new costumes: Storybook Circus, Magic Kingdom. Step right up and see the red, ringmaster-inspired costumes — complete with tails — that fit the color scheme and theme of the New Fantasyland subsection.
•Best (and biggest) costume change: Diana Ross, Mardi Gras concert, Universal Studios. The legendary singer found ways to keep warm last winter, including a gown that made a grand entrance for her finale. That dress may — or may not — have had its own airplane seat, rumor has it.
•Best rehabs: Test Track at Epcot and the Amazing...