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BOSTON — Hardly a soul gave the 2006 Edmonton Oilers a shot at accomplishing anything in the Stanley Cup playoffs, let alone reach Game 7 of the Cup final.
But the Oilers made a miracle run to within one game of hockey's ultimate prize, and speedy winger Sergei Samsonov — a former Boston Bruins first-round draft pick and Calder Trophy winner — was right in the thick of it with 4-11-15 totals in Edmonton's 24 postseason games. Now a member of the Carolina Hurricanes, who trail the Bruins 1-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinal series that continues with Game 2 tonight, the diminutive winger thinks his current squad can take somewhat of a cue from that '06 team (that actually lost to Carolina).
"I think being an underdog helped a lot. You're not expected to win a series, you're more relaxed and you maybe don't feel that much pressure," Samsonov said today after his team's morning skate at TD Banknorth Garden. "I think we had a great team in Edmonton, obviously. We made it to Game 7 of the finals. I think every series never really gave us a chance. We flew under the radar a little bit and once we got to the second and third rounds, we realized we had a really good team. I think that team was basically put together in the last month of the season and no one really knew. So it worked out well for us."
"We can definitely say, looking at this series, that we're underdogs," he continued. "But I think we've been playing well throughout mid-February and March, toward the end of the season, so we feel pretty good about ourselves."
After skating for playoff teams five straight seasons, Samsonov missed the postseason last year and the year before. Now 30, he's savoring the playoff moments more than when he was a bright-eyed up-and-comer with the Bruins earlier this decade.
"I think when you're young, you just don't know," he said. "You hear older guys saying, this could be your only chance. You listen to it, but until you experience it I guess it's not the same. I do appreciate it a lot more now — being in the playoffs and having a chance to win."
The Hurricanes' chance of winning and making this run in the playoffs last probably won't improve unless Samsonov gets his offensive game in gear. So far, he's registered just one point in seven games. He was held off the score sheet in Game 1 vs. Boston. In an effort to get out of his funk, he's trying his best not to press.
"Getting on the board, obviously, it's something we have a few guys on the team that it needs to be done. But once you start thinking about it, you're going to sacrifice something in your game," said Samsonov, obviously grouping himself with Rod Brind'Amour and Erik Cole among the slumping Carolina scorers. "I think being responsible defensive first, it matters more than getting on the score sheet right now. In the back of your mind, you always want to be contributing offensively, but again, if you're going to become just one-dimensional, you're going to hurt your team eventually."
Hurricanes head coach Paul Maurice said he has been pleased with what Samsonov has brought his team this season, and he knows what the veteran has to do to get back on track.
"There's a group of players that given more ice time, given more power-play time, they feel they can get to the numbers that make them feel good," Maurice said. "The problem is other parts of their game sometimes keep them from those minutes. And Sammy's been a real good player for us. I feel that when he's moving his feet, his hands are there, they're good. When he tries to do things standing still, his hands seem to suffer from that like most players."
If Samsonov can move his feet and turn those actions into points, the Hurricanes might be able to make an '06 Oilers-like run.


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Kinship with Pope elates LatinosBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 17. 2013 1:00AM
Salvadoran native Guadalupe Rivera's dark eyes brighten as she describes the kinship she feels with the first Latin American Pope and her hope that his commitment to the poor and faith without fanfare will rekindle Catholic fervor across the globe.
"I want to shout out to the Lord about how happy I am!" Rivera, 37, said in Spanish through an interpreter the day after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became the first non-European in modern times to lead the world's estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
"I feel much more committed to the church of the Lord because the Pope is Latin American," added Rivera, who has lived in Manchester for nine years. She attends St. Anne-St. Augustin Parish and works as a restaurant cook.
"There is going to be a big impulse toward the evangelization, not only of Latin America, but of the world," said Rivera, referring to the Catholic church's mission to spread the gospel message and inspire Catholics to return to the fold.
Latinos exulted in the choice of the new Pope, their shared linguistic, cultural and religious traditions, and the spotlight they hope he will train on the Western Hemisphere.
"He will be a moral support for us Latinos - that a Latino can come to... have a position like that ... (means) we can become important people in the world," said native Mexican Antonio Galvan, 39, who has lived in Manchester 10 years and works as a construction crew foreman.
"This is the beginning of a new era in the church," added Juana Leon, 34, another native Mexican and St. Anne-St. Augustin parishioner. "I'm so happy about it. Maybe it is going to be like more people are going to love him and he will attract more Latinos back to the church."
Latin America and the Caribbean already are home to more than 425 million Catholics, who represent nearly 40 percent of the church's worldwide membership, according to 2010 data compiled by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Argentina alone boasts the eleventh largest Roman Catholic population in the world with an estimated 31 million followers, the Pew Research Center reported.
Hispanics also are an increasingly important component of the Catholic church in the United States. The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world with Hispanics comprising 32 percent of its estimated 75 million members, the Pew Research Center reports. Among younger Catholics, Hispanics represent 47 percent of those under 40.
While Cardinal Bergoglio's election was based on his characteristics as a clergyman, the fact he is the first Pope from the Western Hemisphere sends a "hugely symbolic" message, said Christine A. Gustafson, St. Anselm College associate professor of politics who specializes in Latin America.
"It is a recognition of the importance of these Catholics. It is not that they have been ignored, but they certainly have never been put in this kind of leadership position before," she added.
Latin Americans are "delighted" with the new Pope and eager to identify with him, added Gustafson, who also is associate dean.
"Everybody is talking about him," the Rev. Marcos Gonzalez-Torres agreed.
"He is just a new hope," said Gonzalez-Torres, who is pastor of St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Parish in Nashua which, like St. Anne-St. Augustin, serves one of the state's largest Spanish-speaking Catholic populations.
"What is really exciting is that we can see he knows the reality of all Latin Americans and what unites us," he said.
Such excitement likely will benefit the church's evangelization efforts in Latin America where it faces increasing competition from evangelical Protestant denominations and rising secularism among youth, St. Anselm's Gustafson said.
"It could re-energize the evangelization effort. The church has identified that as one of its challenges in trying to call people back to the Catholic Church, especially young people," Gustafson added.
"They could be so excited by this sort of one of their own becoming Pope that this might renew their interest in the church," she said.
Jose L. Avila, 43, and his wife, Lorena, 40, never thought they would see the day when a Latin American would be Pope.
"I'm very happy that God chose this man at this moment. I'm very happy that he speaks our language," said Jose Avila of Manchester, who is a truck driver for Coca-Cola Co.
The Rev. Joseph Gurdak, a Capuchin Franciscan who is pastor of St. Anne-St. Augustin Parish, said the Argentinian cardinal's election to Pope "honors all Latin Americans."
"Finally, the New World is being recognized," said Gurdak, who speaks fluent Spanish.
The Pope brings a "simplicity, a humanness, a closeness to people and, of course, the evangelization of Spanish-speaking people. The Pope can talk directly to them and it's a wonderful thing," Gurdak added.
The Pope decision to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi also is meaningful to Latin Americans who hold the saint in high regard, Gurdak said. The Franciscan religious order introduced Catholicsm to much of Latin America and its seal is often displayed on chapel and church doors, he added.

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Your Self Employed Hidden Paycheck – Little Things Add Up (Part 2)
In Your Self Employed Hidden Paycheck – How to Pay Yourself More with Less (Part 1), I showed that my 2008 hidden paycheck from being self employed was $23,606. Here is how the numbers add up. We're talking about items my family gets direct benefit from, but can be attributed to the business and are taken as small business tax deductions. If you are self employed your family also gets paid in "stuff" that employees normally buy after they get their paycheck, but you can buy before you take your paycheck. The business purchase of this stuff, instead of you personally constitutes a hidden paycheck.
Most articles found on the web and elsewhere focus on self employed taxes and the tax savings aspect. Like the $6,610 savings I made last year in self employed taxes. But this article focuses on the hidden paycheck produced by legitimately buying goods and services used for you business that also has personal benefits.
Make sure you check with your CPA before you take any of these deductions since your situation is most certainly different.
My Self Employed Hidden Paycheck items for 2008:
Self employed health insurance – First, the big one. As an employee, it's not deductible even if you pay the whole thing. Being self employed, it's entirely deductible. I spent $5,068 last year.
Cell phone – I have five lines for my family. These cost $179 a month after subtracting the kid's lines, although all are necessary to my business and my sanity.
Home/business phone – Working from home allows me to write off my phone ($45/mo) and my long distance VOIP line with BroadVoice ($35/mo).
Internet – My Internet at home costs $50/mo. Who could run a business without that?
Lunches/dinners out – Meeting with clients and prospects over lunch or dinner is a relaxing way to build business. Even after the 50% deduction, I spent $129/mo.
Party leftovers – My client party at my house had 146 clients and prospects last year. In Berks County, it's a mortal sin to run out of food, so I ended up with a steak, shrimp, appetizers and alcohol left to freeze. Although extremely hard to estimate, I would say safely about $500 total was the value of what we ate later in the year with family and friends.
Travel – I have a lot of clients near San Jose, California where I used to live, many began as close friends. Traveling there three times last year to see them and the clients they refer is like a vacation for me. Since I stay with my mother-in-law (who I just love), I only spent $2,772 on three trips last year.
Vacation – When many people go on vacation, they work part of the time and deduct part of the cost. I didn't last year, so my business deductible vacation was $0. This can be a significant amount as we will see in a future article.
Home office deduction – Working from home allowed me to take $3,484 last year off my taxable income. Think of it as the business paying part of the electric, mortgage, pool maintenance, and everything that goes into maintaining a house divided by the square footage used for your business.
Per diem meals – I found this little known tax deduction works for me because I stay at my mother-in-law's house when I visit my clients in CA. Per diem meals is a daily rate based on where you travel allowed for deduction where you don't need a receipt. California is $59/day and I spent 47 days there last year. So I get to take $2,802 as business expenses.
Office supplies – With two teenagers in school and various Boy Scout projects, we use extra office supplies such as paper, toner, and notebooks. Maybe it's not worth mentioning at only about $200 a year, but it illustrates that there are probably things you haven't thought of yet.
Auto mileage – If you routinely stop at the grocery store, department store, or friend's house on your way home from a client or meeting, you have saved yourself a trip and pocketed the mileage. Make it a habit and it is money your household is getting without spending. With .55 cents a mile, that was around $1,294 last year.
Computer equipment – Who could run a business without a computer? It also serves as my personal entertainment, shopping aid, and correspondence tool. We tend to buy a laptop about every year for either my husband or me and give the older one to our kids or assistants. Patrick's MacBook and all its software, cases and parts was $2,052. Yes, we bought other computer stuff, but I'm only counting here what we would have had to buy for the family (and unable to deduct) if we weren't self employed.
Telephone equipment – Between dropping my Ipaq and being a woman with the 'no pockets' problem, I need to upgrade my cell phone nearly each year. Without extending my contract, it cost $299. At home we have a TalkSwitch PBX which died after 5 years and we replaced it for $826.
NOW, a big disclaimer, I do not do taxes! I work with an excellent CPA who specializes in self employed taxes. She is a tremendous help to me. I then pass onto my self employed clients whatever they are missing. So if you have any questions regarding whether something is business deductible in your situation, ask your CPA. I am only helping to stimulate your brain and get this stuff recorded in the first place. You can't count it if you don't track it.
How do you figure your hidden paycheck? Comment now.
Now stop reading about your hidden paycheck and start doing! Let's create your personal profit strategies for growing profit. Call small business profitability coach Merra Lee Moffitt, CFP®. She can be reached at, 888-920-2030 or by email at email@example.com.
Your Self Employed Hidden Paycheck – How to Pay Yourself More with Less (Part 1)
As self employed, we're pulled in two directions. We want better income from being self employed, yet we want our self employed taxes to be as low as practical. We want our family to benefit from having a better income and all the luxuries it can buy: travel, TVs, cell phones, dining out, and more. But the more dollars in your paycheck, the more self employed taxes you pay.
Fortunately there are common, regular and necessary expenses in your business that have direct benefit to your family. The average employee must pay for all these items AFTER he gets his paycheck. Being self employed, you can count these items against your business and pay for them BEFORE you take your paycheck. Your self employed income will seem lower but your family gets "paid" in the stuff the business pays for. This, in turn, builds your hidden paycheck.
This hidden paycheck is part of what makes being self employed worth the effort. Many items in our daily lives are also used for business. For the purposes of tax reporting, we get to take those expenses against the business because they are necessary for running the business. Depending on your business, this adds up to a hidden paycheck of $15,000 to $25,000 a year.
Your CPA can help you figure out exactly which costs fall into the various buckets and where to report them on your tax forms. Let's go over some examples. Better income from your hidden paycheck comes from:
I'll go into detail in part 2, here are just some totals. Last year, my hidden paycheck amounted to $23,606. I'll show you how I got there in Your Self Employed Hidden Paycheck – Little Things Add Up (Part 2)
Here are the categories I used:
Self employed health insurance
Cell phone
Home/business phone
Lunches/dinners out
Party leftovers
Home office deduction
Per diem meals
Office supplies
Auto mileage
Computer Equipment
Telephone equipment
What's in your self employed hidden paycheck? Comment now.
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The U.S. Senate passed a $955 billion rewrite of agriculture law by an even larger margin than last year, sending it to the House of Representatives, where disagreements over food stamps and farm subsidies may complicate passage.
Monday's vote was 66-27, compared with last year's 64-35 vote on similar legislation in the Senate. Increased support came from Republicans who successfully pushed for more subsidies for rice and peanuts -- crops grown in southern states.
The most expensive non-appropriations legislation to pass the Senate this year would end a program that makes direct payments to farmers regardless of crop prices while expanding an insurance-based safety net.
The measure would reduce government spending by about $2.4 billion annually, though its $4 billion in cuts to food stamps over a decade are only about one-fifth as deep as proposed in the House version, which would cost $939 billion over 10 years.
Senators said members of the Republican-led House, which didn't consider the five-year measure last year, now have to show they're serious about reforming U.S. agriculture subsidies.
"If they don't do a bill, direct payments continue," North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, a Republican, told reporters as the votes were tallied.
Companies Benefiting
Subsidies benefiting buyers such as Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and food stamps subsidizing purchases at Supervalu Inc. are targets for lawmakers seeking deficit cuts, while humanitarian groups oppose cuts in programs that serve the poor. Crop insurers including Wells Fargo & Co., Ace Ltd and Deere & Co. will benefit from the legislation's boost to insurance programs, Mark McMinimy, an analyst with Guggenheim Washington Research Group in Washington, said in a note to investors yesterday.
While Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, and the panel's top Republican, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, have said they would resist further cuts to food stamps, House Republicans are saying spending may need to be lower.
"Unless there are some significant changes and some significant effort, I don't think this'll get across the floor," Representative Tim Huelskamp, a Kansas Republican, said in an interview.
"People in Kansas get it -- just because it's the farm bill doesn't mean you have to vote for it," said Huelskamp, whose district was the second-biggest recipient of agricultural subsidies last year, according to data compiled by conservation advocate Environmental Working Group.
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Climb up here beside me on the bed. Aren't you in a good mood tonight! Well, baby, so am I. I like it when you are happy and cheerful. I love rewarding you for being so sweet to me. I want to make you feel good. I like holding you close to me. Letting my breast touch you. You can feel my breath against your neck has I pull you in tight to me. I love you. I love being here with you. I love being the one to take such good care of you. I love how I get to train you to be a good lover. I will teach you to eat my pussy and to suck on my breast to give me pleasure. I know you want to please me. I am in control. I do not need to be a domme to control you. I know you want to surrender to me. You want so bad to have me take charge of you. I will take charge of you. I will lead you will follow. You will be excited to have me taking you. I will take you, with my mouth, with my strap-on, with my lovers. I will have all of you. You will be dependent on me
for everything. I will bring lovers home and you will watch me with them. You will be there to clean me up, to honor and worship me. I will allow you to submit to my pussy, to clean it, to suck all of the cream out of it. I will allow you to worship that cock too. You will be allow to wear my panties and blossom into the gentle sissy you were born to be. I know you. I will groom you to become the perfect mate. You will have the reward of a strap-on or the punishment of a paddle. It will be your choice, you actions will decide if you deserve a treat or discipline.
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Lincoln Center has several special events and promotions planned for the holiday season:
Lincoln Center has several special events and promotions planned for the holiday season:
� Gift cards: Shoppers can enter to win a $100 Lincoln Center gift card, just by spending $25 or more at participating stores through Dec. 19. Winners are chosen daily. There is no limit to how many times one can enter.
� Food, clothing drives: The center will spread some holiday cheer to the community with its "Cuddle Up Coat Drive" and "Fill the Truck Food Drives." Shoppers can donate new or gently used coats at 11 locations around Lincoln Center through Dec. 19. Coats will be donated to the Women's Center Youth and Family Services and the Salvation Army. The food drives, benefiting the Stockton Emergency Food Bank, take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 8 and 15 at Trader Joe's and Podesto's.
� Snow time: A new feature this year is "The Snow Village from Benjamin Holt" on display in the old Campbell's in the Village location. Traditionally set up in the garage of a home on Benjamin Holt Drive, the snow village will be on-site for the public to enjoy through Jan. 6. The village is a display of hundreds of Department 56 Christmas houses and d�cor, and was constructed by Jill Wick of Muddy Paw in memory of her mother, Lyall Luke. The exhibit is lit daily from 5 to 10 p.m.
� Santa and shopping: Retail shops will be open until 8 p.m. every Friday in December for "Holidays Come Alive" with Santa Claus and live music. Santa will stop at Lincoln Center every weekend through Christmas starting Friday: 5 to 8 p.m. on Fridays, noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Extended holiday hours start Dec. 7. Retail shops will be open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
Information: (209) 477-4868 or LincolnCenterShops.com.


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Fuel-saving measures hamper Border Patrol efforts, agents say
McALLEN, Texas – Budget cuts have hampered the U.S. Border Patrol's work in its busiest sector on the Southwest border, agents said Friday, with the agency introducing fuel conservation measures in the Rio Grande Valley that have agents patrolling on foot and doubling up in vehicles.
The Border Patrol instituted the changes after the across-the-board government spending cuts known as sequestration. The constraints come as Congress moves deeper into the debate over comprehensive immigration reform and Republican legislators push for stronger border security components as a precursor to any path to citizenship for immigrants who have entered the country illegally.
The Rio Grande Valley sector — a stretch of border from Brownsville to Laredo on the southernmost tip of Texas — has become the agency's hottest area along the border. The Border Patrol's arrests of people trying to cross the border illegally jumped 65 percent in that area last year. At the end of May, sector Chief Patrol Agent Rosendo Hinojosa said agents had already made more than 90,000 apprehensions in the first eight months of the fiscal year, a 50 percent increase over the same period last year.
In a prepared statement Friday, the Border Patrol said, "Sequestration continues to have serious impacts on (Customs and Border Protection's) operations including nearly $600 million in cuts." A spokesman declined to address the fuel restraints specifically.
But a February letter from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the union representing Border Patrol agents outlined cost-cutting measures the agency expected to implement. Among them were stopping Border Patrol supervisors from taking their vehicles home and assigning two agents to every vehicle instead of one. "CBP will also make reductions in fleet fuel and maintenance costs, as well as longer life-cycles for vehicles," the letter said.
An undated internal memo published Thursday by KRGV-TV in Weslaco indicates some of those steps and more have been taken. The Border Patrol would not comment on the authenticity of the memo, but agents in the sector confirmed Friday that the agency had cracked down significantly in the past month on fuel use.
Some agents are being shuttled into the field and then patrol on foot, while others are paired up in vehicles, an official with the agents' union, the National Border Patrol Council, said.
"If you're putting the same amount of people out there in the field but in less vehicles you're creating a smaller footprint, therefore leaving areas open," said Christopher Cabrera, vice president of the local National Border Patrol Council.
Officer safety becomes an issue because agents on foot can't respond in the same way as those in vehicles and backup can take longer to arrive, he said.
The impact is felt not only in the Border Patrol's own operations, but also in the border communities.
"Some of these communities out there, sometimes we're the only law enforcement presence they have out there and for us not to be there hurts," said Cabrera, an agent stationed in McAllen.
"Local police departments who do great job of helping us out, now they're going to be taxed even further because they're having to take up for our slack," he said. "More pursuits are coming through the area because these vehicles that are loading up with people and narcotics are moving forward from the river area because we don't have the presence down there and they're taking up the slack."
Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has said the department has taken notice of the spike in apprehensions along the border in the Rio Grande Valley and is making sure additional resources are available to Border Patrol agents in the area.
"We know the traffic is higher now. Actions are being taken to turn that traffic back," Napolitano told a Senate panel in April.
More than 2,500 Border Patrol agents are in the sector and the agency has said it's sending most of its new academy graduates to the Rio Grande Valley.


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Former Dover official gets jail for real estate fraud schemeBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
July 04. 2013 8:14PM
DOVER — After pleading guilty to defrauding a dozen friends and neighbors, a former school official will serve at least 18 months in prison and must pay about $278,000 in restitution.
While the case is tied to other victims, Nickolas Skaltsis, 62, of 6 Erik Drive, waived the indictment process and pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by deception and one count of theft by misappropriation of property.
Dover resident Gary Green, who was taken in by Skaltsis, said the thefts were committed by a man who built up trust within the community.
"Your days of influence in Dover or anywhere else has ended," Green said.
Dover resident Phyllis Woods, who previously served in the state House, said Skaltsis hurt the people who trusted him.
"You took more than money — you took our piece of mind," Woods said, adding Skaltsis proved to be an incredible disappointment.
After hearing statements from several victims Wednesday morning, Superior Court Judge Tina Nadeau accepted a plea bargain which sentenced Skaltsis to 1½ to 5 years in state prison on top of three suspended sentences of 3½ to 7 years, which can be brought forward in the next 10 years.
"The arrogance and audacity of your conduct is stunning to me," Nadeau said.
As part of his sentences, Skaltsis is prohibited from soliciting investors in any state and cannot engage in real estate. He must pay $277,743 in restitution plus a 17 percent administrative fee, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General James Boffetti.
Skaltsis' attorney, Carl Swenson of the state Public Defender's Office, said his client is taking responsibility for his actions and plans to pay the restitution "in good faith" as there are other pending civil cases against him.
Skaltsis was originally charged with 15 counts of theft by deception and four counts of theft by misappropriation of property for falsely accepting about $327,500 in loans from 13 area residents to rehabilitate distressed real estate properties for resale.
Despite the promises he made, Skaltsis never used the funds to purchase, renovate or sell any properties, according to Assistant Attorney General Robert Adams.
"He immediately converted those funds to his benefit," Adams said.
Skaltsis, who was arrested in January, was sent to the psychiatric unit of the state hospital after he allegedly attempted suicide in Wells, Maine, on Oct. 12, 2012. Police found him inside his vehicle with a generator running.
Skaltsis, who served as Dover's school board chairman in 2002, allegedly used the money to pay interest from previous investors, commingled investor funds in a personal account, deposited cash in other funds and used some for personal use, according to Adams.
Swenson asked the court if Skaltsis could remain in Strafford County Jail to allow his mother to visit him this weekend before being transported to state prison.Strafford County Sheriff David Dubois said he would consider the request if it arrives.


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Patrick Doyle Discusses Help From Potter Stars During Battle Against Leukemia
Oct 23, 2007
There is a new article online where composer Patrick Doyle discusses at length his battle against Leukemia, and the help and encouragement he received from some of the stars of the Harry Potter films. In a very moving piece, Mr. Doyle (who composed the score to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) describes how he at one point sobbed with frustration on the shoulders of actor Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) during the treatments for the acute myeloid leukaemia , an aggressive form of the disease . Mr. Doyle, who is in recovery, says "I rang Ken (Branagh). He came to visit twice a week while I was ill. He would help the hospital staff make tea, and bring in tapes and books for me."
The composer goes on to tell of fighting depression and the side effects of the treatments, noting that actor Timothy Spall shared with him his own struggle against the illness, saying the Peter Pettigrew actor "had not long recovered from AML himself, having been diagnosed a year or two before, and he helped me lots with advice and encouragement. He'd say: "How's the diarrhoea? I know, I know. And he did, because he'd been through it."
During the third round of chemotherapy, Mr. Doyle was struggling badly, and got much welcomed help especially from Alan Rickman (Severus Snape) and Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) who showed up at the hospital, full of mischief and fun to cheer the ailing musician.
Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman came in wearing ginger wigs, speaking with Scottish accents. The ward didn't know what had hit it."
"From the U.S., Emma sent me a package with a cheap black nylon wig for when my hair fell out, hair restoring cream, a tiny skeleton and a still from a film her husband Greg Wise had just done, showing a mortuary slab.
"She'd written a speech bubble with the words: 'Oh my God, it's Patrick!' The nurses were horrified but I thought it was hilarious.
Emma arrived as I'd just been given a drug which made me feel drunk and over-emotional. I kept telling her how much I loved her. She cried with emotion.
Patrick Doyle, who is in recovery from Leukemia, is getting some additional help from the stars of the Harry Potter films. As we told you previously, the composer is holding a charity fundraising concert this weekend that will be hosted by Kenneth Branagh, with Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton (Umbridge) Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) due to attend. The event will also feature Mr. Doyle's music, including his score to "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." For more on this event due to be held this Sunday, October 28 at Royal Albert Hall in London, England, click here.


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Why Your Home Need To Equip A Smoke Detector
By Morton Silas Franks on July 28, 2010
Wireless smoke sensors may be easily installed all over the home without having the support of an electrician. No rewiring is required to set up these interconnected smoke cigarettes sensors during the home.
Linking them together offers additional protection for detecting smoke and fires, since when a single alarm system is activated from the region in which smoke is detected, all of the other alarms through the house are activated simultaneously. This allows everybody within the home to escape the possible dangers of a fire regardless of in which they are inside the residence. Placed within the proper places strategically all through the property, you might have the extra protection of the comprehensive fire detection technique.
An extra element of utilizing interconnected wireless smoke detectors is they can also be linked to remote locations like detached garages, sheds and workshops that aren't attached directly towards home structure. Even should you place in additions like sun rooms or further bedrooms it is quick to increase the coverage by adding further units. This way you cover all rooms and expand the method of fire security through the property.
If you have an existing property that does not possess a fire safeguard system, making use of interconnected mobile smoke cigarettes detectors is definitely an inexpensive method to get that additional safeguard. They're battery pack operated can ensure safeguard even within the absence of electrical strength.
The average life expectancy of the battery is one particular calendar year. Even though the battery pack may well last longer, it's recommended to alter your AA batteries once or twice a 12 months. Another consideration if your home is wired would be to install an AC energy battery pack backup program. It is possible to also integrate your cellular smoke cigarettes detector technique with a hardwired program to produce the ultimate fire defense technique. This really is specially helpful in the event you have mechanical workshops or other energy usage hobby spaces.
Brief term electrical power outages may be supplemented with 9-volt battery pack emergency safety techniques. Just ask your nearby hardware or home enhancement department about how to set up these choices.
Most mobile smoke detectors release a standard 85 decibel burglar alarm, which effortlessly wakes sleeping adults when placed outside bedroom doors.
Listed under are some details you must know:
- Most smoke sensors have a "smart touch button". This really is beneficial for testing the operation of an interconnected cellular burglar alarm method and temporarily stopping a chirping alarm which can be brought on by lower battery energy, or silencing a nuisance alarm system.
- When the burglar alarm beeps you may notice a "Red LED" flashing. This can be a visual signal that a single from the alarms about the method have been activated. It could also signal a process malfunction or reduced battery power on a person in the interconnected alarms.
- A "Green LED" generally signifies which burglar alarm was activated initial or other complications within the program that you need to check out instantly.
- Mobile smoke detectors have roughly a ten yr existence and you will see an indicator that warns you that unit requirements changing.
- When batteries need replacing, if not replaced on scheduled basis, you will experience nuisance chirps and flashing LEDs.
- A distinctive identifier is common to every unit. This prevents nearby sensors from activating your security alarm. That is helpful should you have adjoining walls with other units, specially apartments.
- You can find normally constructed in tamper detection schemes to prevent theft with the battery power or the unit. That is an critical characteristic for businesses along with other public locations
- Battery replacement is straight-forward. Most models employ a twist off mounting, regardless of whether you set up the models around the wall, ceiling or any place that's perfect for sensing smoke cigarettes or fire.
The benefits of employing cellular smoke cigarettes detectors means you possibly can install them with out the price of rewiring your house. Minutes are the time frame you may perhaps have to escape a fire. With interconnected sensors it does not matter where you are or in which the fire starts, you'll obtain the precious time required to acquire out safely.
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Pierre Soulages was born 24 december 1919 in Rodez, Aveyron in the South of France in 1919. At the age of 18 Soulages travelled to Paris, where he visited museums and was fascinated by the artists Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne. In 1941 he was drafted into the army; his regiment was located in Montpellier, where he attended the École des Beaux-Arts. There he also became acquainted with the abstract artist Sonia Delaunay. As of 1946 he maintained a studio in Courbevoie near Paris and established contact with artists such as Domela, Picabia, Hartung and Léger. In the following year his pictures were exhibited publicly for the first time in the Salon des Surindépendants and thus made accessible to a wider public. Already living in Paris he designed several stage sets between 1949 and 1952. Along with trips to Mexico and the USA, his visit to Japan in 1958 took on special significance. Early impressions of his country's austere Romanesque architecture and Celtic monuments as well as the later influence of East Asian calligraphy dominated his gestural, yet compositional well-balanced paintings with their black and brown beam fonts on light coloured bases. In his later works Soulages use ...(PLease Login to see the complete biography.)
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Verstappen will race alongside Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso next year and, at 17-years-old, will be the youngest driver ever to take part in a Formula One race. It will represent a massive step up from Formula 3 where he is currently racing, but he believes he has the skills to be among the very best in the sport, and not like his father Jos.
"I think I have a different style to my dad! I think it's more like Alonso," Verstappen said. "When he needs to be smooth he is smooth. If he needs to save the tyres he saves the tyres. When he needs to be aggressive he is aggressive. But it is all under control. That's what I like and that's what I have proven in F3 over the last few weekends, so I think I am more like him."
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Situated on the popular south side of Lancaster this three bedroom, semi detached bungalow is in need of full modernisation so it would be perfect for those looking for a property to put their own stamp on. Ideally located for easy access to the universities, hospitals, schools, grammar schools, Lancaster city centre and the M6 Motorway Junction 33, the property benefits from UPVC double glazing, gas central heating and has a driveway, garage and gardens. The ground floor accommodation briefly comprises: porch, entrance hallway, lounge, conservatory, dining kitchen, two bedrooms and a shower room and to the first floor there is a further double bedroom. Externally there is an easy care garden to the front with a side driveway leading to the rear garden. For a viewing call us on 01524 68811.
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Secretary Rokita Elected Treasurer of National Association
Contact: AJ Freeney-Ruiz
Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita was this weekend elected to serve as treasurer of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) at their summer meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following the tradition of the organization to maintain continuity of leadership, the position puts him in line to be president of the association for the 2007-2008 term. The Association's presidency traditionally alternates between Republicans and Democrats.
Rokita previously served NASS as chairman of the Voter Participation Committee, vice-chairman of the Securities Committee, and as a member of several committees including the Elections Committee. Rokita also served as one of the five members of the Standing Corporate Affiliate Advisory Committee whose duty it is to consider corporate sponsors of the organization and chaired a NASS national youth summit on voting.
Rokita's duties as treasurer of NASS will include handling the organization's finances and serving as a member of the Executive Board; he will join the other Board members in the general management and control of the business and direction of the association.
"I am humbled and honored my peers have elected me to this post and will strive to meet their expectations of me," said Rokita. "I will work to meet the other Secretaries' trust in my leadership in what will be a critical stretch of time for our nation and our election officers."
NASS is the nation's oldest professional, non-partisan organization of public officials and represents members from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the territories. Secretary Rokita attended the NASS Summer Conference over the weekend and presented Indiana's provisional voting plan, which is regarded as a national model.
Secretary Rokita was also elected in February to serve on the national nine-member Executive Board of the Federal Election Assistance Commission Standards Board which is charged with assisting the Election Assistance Commission in reviewing voting system guidelines and best practices recommendations for facilitating military and overseas voting.


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The death of a Kake teen is considered a homicide
The body of 13 year old Mackenzie H. Howard was discovered late Tuesday evening, Feb. 5 in the entrance of the Memorial Presbyterian Church by community members.
"We are investigating this as a homicide," Alaska Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer Megan Peters said. "There are a lot of rumors and speculation going around and we have to weed through all of them to get to the truth."
Howard's body was sent to Anchorage for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.
"The autopsy was completed Friday and we have received preliminary results," Peters said. "But we are unable to release any further information to the public because this is an ongoing investigation."
Alaska State Troopers are still in Kake following leads along with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and a team from the State Crime Detection Laboratory.
The small village of Kake had seen a large number of people arrive for the funeral of Clarence Jackson.
"Many people have left since this has happened," Peters said. "We are trying to get in touch with many of those now."
Family members identified the body of young Howard Thursday.
"This crime has affected, not only the local communities, but the entire state," Peters said. "Something like this causes a lot of ripples and we are investigating this thoroughly."
According to Peters, no arrests have been made at this time but they are working hard to bring this case to a close.
People across the state gathered in candlelight vigils to honor Howard Friday evening and Petersburg would not be left out of this event.
"This tragedy has affected people far beyond Southeast Alaska," Petersburg's Salvation Army Lt. Caleb Fankhauser said. "This very evening there are other groups just like this meeting. As we light candles here tonight, there are candles being lit around the world."
Mackenzie was the daughter of Marla and Kip Howard and had three brothers and five sisters and according to Howard's father she wanted to be a basketball player for Baylor University.
The Howard family is very well known in the village of 600 residents about 40 miles northwest of Petersburg and 95 miles southwest of Juneau.
Kip Howard is the fire chief for Kake and captains the City's Search and Rescue Boat.
Mr. Howard says that Kake is a very close community and the whole community is a family to him and his family.
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The Veterans Services Center at Hodges University will hold its second annual Veterans Fair on June 29, at its Naples campus, 2655 Northbrooke Drive, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The event is open to all active duty military personnel, guards & reservists, as well as post 9/11 veterans and their family members. There is no charge to attend.
Hodges is currently reaching out to the local corporate community for help in providing information, services, and career opportunities to the veterans in our community. "We are looking for all types of vendors: from employers wanting to hire veterans, to those that service veterans and those companies that give discounts to have a table to promote to the veterans," said Lee Smith, Director of Veterans Services at Hodges. Several local businesses have already signed up to participate, including 7-11 stores, Arthrex, Cintas, Dignity Memorial, Florida Works, Northwestern Mutual and others.
Currently, over 300 Hodges University students are veteran heroes who placed their lives on hold to protect our freedom while serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world. The event is geared towards recently discharged veterans who are interested in the many services available to them in gratitude for their service to our country.
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DEAR JOAN: I haven't seen my goldfinches at my birdbath for weeks and my friend hasn't seen his at his sock feeder in Mountain View. I miss them.
DEAR SANDY: I checked with area birders and experts, and the overall good news is that there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the goldfinch population. Other people are reporting finches at their feeders, and nothing seems amiss.
There are a few reasons why you may not be seeing them in your yard. Birds tend to go where there is a supply of the things they require — food, water, nesting spots and a little romance. When food is ample in the wild, birds tend to slight the feeders. Nuts, berries and seeds in open spaces offer more variety than most of our backyard feeders; or they may be feasting on insects. Even in years when food is scarce, most birds use feeders only to supplement their diet. So it may be that the goldfinches in your area are so well fed (and watered) they don't need to visit your yard.
Goldfinches also are late-season breeders. With all the pairing up and such, larger flocks may have broken up into smaller ones and settled in other areas.
If you and your friend want to attract goldfinches to your yard, try cleaning your feeders, putting out new ones, or changing the food to see if they might prefer a different kind of thistle or something more exciting. Above all, be patient. They will come.
Dealing with 'it'
In a recent column a writer asked how to tactfully confront people who don't clean up after their dogs. I admit that I was a bit flummoxed and was reticent to recommend challenging the offender for fear of a bad reaction. But I heard from several readers who have a civilized solution that they've tested out.
When you're out walking your dog, carry some extra poop bags. If you see someone walking away without cleaning up after the dog, politely call to them and offer them a bag.
As several readers pointed out, the dog walker may have simply forgotten to bring a bag and will be grateful for one.
Those who wrote to suggest this route said they have never had a negative experience doing this. Either the person is glad to have the bag or they are too embarrassed to object.
Some people also include a friendly lecture on the law requiring owners to clean up after their animals.
Will they scoop every time from now on? Maybe, maybe not. But at least you took care of one mess.
Let's talk
I received quite a bit of feedback on last week's column about Abby, the Yorkie killed by a neighbor's dog. Many people asked what they should do if they find themselves in a similar situation. To help answer those questions we have scheduled an online chat with one of the nation's leading dog trainers and behaviorists, Judie Howard, of Moraga. Join us at 1 p.m. Oct. 11 at www.mercurynews.com/pets-animals to join in the conversation.
Animal blessing
To celebrate the Feast of St. Francis several area churches have conducted blessing of the animals services. Although most were done this past weekend, Saint Giles' Episcopal Church in Moraga has scheduled its blessing for 11 a.m. Oct. 14 in the Chapel Plaza, 1928 St. Marys Road.
Halloween fun
For those of us who can't resist dressing up our pets, Halloween gives us a perfect excuse to indulge. Snap a picture of your pet in costume and send it to me. I'll be putting together a slideshow and featuring them on Pinterest.
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Overstrand Municipality, 'Home of the Cape Whale Coast Hope Spot' won the Greenest Municipality Award for BIODIVERSITY AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT tonight at the award ceremony in Somerset West. How proud we are to live in one of the most beautiful coastal Municipality's in our country and to have the support of our Municipality and members of our community with the conservation of our marine and coastal environment. A big thank you to the members of our Hope Spot Committee for keeping the dream alive!


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HDC Galaxy Note 2 GT H7100: 5.4-inch dual core qHD Android 4.1 JellyBean, priced at only $155
Just another HDC Galaxy Note 2 variant here, but then again it got a seemingly better specs as this one runs on Android 4.1 JellyBean out of the box. To top that off, this HDC Galaxy Note 2 GT H7100 is just priced at $155.
Might be a better shot than the previous clones right? Price just says it is, but let's dwell on the specifics on why it had a marked down price.
Overall, I just can say that its the same HDC Galaxy Note 2 that we have been seeing. Those knock-offs that were introduced earlier has a price tag of $200 in minimum. But this one, its at sub $160.
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- 5.4 inches qHD, 5-point touch capacitive screen, 960 x 540 pixels
- Android 4.1.1 JellyBean
- 8-megapixels main camera with flash
- Dual SIM, with 3G/WCDMA
- 3100mAh battery
For a complete list of the specs and features of this HDC Galaxy Note 2 GT H7100, just click on the link at the end of this article. It will redirect you to the listing page of this product, and from there you can have the chance to ask queries about this product straight from the seller. You can also see more photos, benchmark screenshots, and specs proof on that page.
As you might notice, the one thing that nerfed here is the internal memory. From the usual 4GB of ROM on configuration with these phones, this one only have 512MB of internal storage space you can use.
However, I guess that isnt much of a problem. Since from ICS, the Android system prioritize the usage of SD card so unless you have a card with big capacity, you wont have any storage space outage problems.
The battery rating capacity is a plus factor as well. Expect more than the usual app time and phone usage with that 3100mAh, which is nearly close to what the real Note 2 offers.
Here's a video of the HDC Galaxy Note 2 GT H7100 if you might want to watch:
HDC Galaxy Note 2 GT H7100 Hands-on Video
If you want that bigger screen then the this Note 2 knock-off is never a bad choice. Ever since HDC outed a note 2 clone, I cant help but recommend this one as the qHD level of screen resolution is pretty nice to go with the 5.4 inches screen. For a really cheaper price tag, this is a steal already if you are really on tight budget.
You get a package of really nice specs; such as good performer cpu and gpu, nice screen, good camera, and everything else. Always a good deal, buy this.


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"Wa Eebots Peas!"
I finally got around to bundling up the last few months worth of work on
, checking it in and calling it a release. There are a bunch of new features, but the most important is that if you're running under .NET robots are run in a sandbox - they are no longer given complete control over your system. This means that it's actually reasonable to download a robot written by someone you don't know or trust, and attempt to shoot the crap out of it - as long as you don't pass the "-insecure" option on the command line.
Another significant improvement in 0.20 is that it now ships with a sample robot written in Java. This isn't actually an improvement in NRobot at all, but an improvement in IKVM. As of IKVM 0.14 it is now possible to apply custom attributes to Java code, which was the only remaining feature required for use in NRobot. So at last I'm posting something on my blog that's actually vaguely on topic for Planet Classpath ;) All you Java programmers, go download it and start writing robots ;)
Unfortunately there are a couple of catches.
Currently Mono's security support is not complete enough for me to confidently guarantee your safety if you are running untrusted robot code in it. Work is ongoing on adding this support and I'm confident that it will eventually be safe, but if you're running NRobot under Mono today, I recommend using a user account with restricted permissions.
The other big catch is that IKVM can't currently generate code that will run inside a sandbox. Jeroen has done some work proving that this isn't impossible in theory, but will require very careful auditing of IKVM code to be certain that no security holes have been introduced. So for now, you must pass the -insecure option in order to run robots written in Java - in which case you again ought to run NRobot under a user account with restricted permissions.
Oh, the other big improvement in 0.20 is a feature that was actually requested - the ability to fine-tune the strengths and weaknesses of your robot. You can adjust 8 different properties (roughly categorized into 4 offensive and 4 defensive) to be either "better", "worse" or "neutral", but you must be sure that your choices balance out. That is to say, for every property you make better, you must make another one worse.
my own robot DLL
. Unzip it into the Bots/Win or Bots/Mono directory (as appropriate) of your NRobot installation. Naturally, unless you trust me implicitly, you shouldn't do this if you're running under Mono or with the -insecure flag unless you've taken other precautions to safeguard your system.
So what the heck does "Wa Eebots Peas!" mean? Well, Alexa loves watching games of NRobot play themselves. If she sees me working on my laptop, she'll come over, stare at the screen, and say her best impression of "Want Robots Please!".
Performance Victory
I can confidently declare victory in the battle with the performance of cmScribe's permissions code. A page hit that was taking "about a minute" every time (the logging that enabled me to determine exactly how long things are taking wasn't added until later) is now taking 14 seconds on the first hit and is no different than other pages within the site on subsequent hits.
While working on this I re-learnt another obvious lesson about coding for performance, which can be summed up as: DON'T trust your instincts, MEASURE. This doesn't necessarily require complicated profiling tools (although I'm sure if you know how to use them they can be very useful). All I did was add code to log every permission lookup and every database hit to a file. But running a few "grep | wc" operations across the resulting log files gave me exceptionally useful information about which tables were being accessed excessively, and proved my gut instincts to be sorely lacking.
My initial feeling was that my best bet would be to try to avoid excessive hits to two tables, which we'll call TC and V. I spent a while working on TC and was disappointed to find that I'd only improved from 43 to 42 seconds. That was when I fired up grep and produced a little shell script which ran over my initial log giving output like this:
Turned out I was right about V being critical, entirely wrong that TC mattered at all (I'd reduced it to 234, which naturally made very little difference), and horrifyingly wrong to have entirely ignored P which was the worst offender by an order of magnitude.
The really scary thing about these numbers is that V contains 33 records and never changes at all (except with new builds of the software) while P contains about 250 and changes rarely (only on certain administrative actions).
Armed with this knowledge it was an absolute no-brainer to bring the entire contents of V and P into memory once and leave them there thereafter (with some code to re-fetch the contents of P when those administrative actions happen).
Performance improved by a factor of four, DB hits reduced by a factor of more than ten (from nearly 20,000 to under 1,700), and all without any need to fundamentally change the architecture of the system.
But I never would have got there if I'd only gone with my instincts about what could be improved. It was only by producing directly measurable information about what was really going on that I was able to spot the evil 9,000 hit table :)
Programming and Performance
The approach I take to performance issues while coding is that performance issues should be in the back of your mind at all times. Not to ignore them, but also to resist the temptation to focus on performance too much during the design and initial implementation of a feature, and planning to revisit the issue if performance problems become apparent later.
This philosophy has both strengths and weaknesses and recent events have showcased both of these.
cmScribe uses a complex and flexible fine-grained permissioning mechanism where permissions can be granted to all kinds of actions on all kinds of objects. Having certain permissions can cause others to be granted implicitly, and the rules for this kind of implication can be any arbitrary C# code. Since the permissions are so fine-grained, any given page hit can require a large number of permissions to be evaluated. Furthermore, the implication rules mean that evaluating one permission may require a number of others to be evaluated as well.
The system is so complex, in fact, that I struggled quite a lot during the initial design process to come up with a way of meeting all the requirements at all. (Is it over-engineered? I don't know. I do know that after using it for a year there's only one feature I'd have cut, and that's never been used and doesn't add any complexity) The first and biggest advantage of keeping performance issues on the backburner is that if I'd had to juggle performance along with all the other constraints I was trying to meet, I don't know whether I'd have been able to produce a working system in the first place. In this case, deferring performance for later may have made the difference between impossible and possible.
Since then I've had to revisit this code for performance reasons on two or three separate occasions. You could look at this as a disadvantage of the approach I took: surely if performance had been designed in from the very beginning then I wouldn't have had to repeatedly fix performance problems later. But you can also look at it as a strength: the code worked adequately to start with without spending the time on performance. Later, as more demanding scenarios came up, it was possible to fix it without too much trouble to again perform adequately, by a combination of caching frequently-used information in memory, tweaking the order of operations to make the common cases use less steps, and micro-optimizing the individual steps to eliminate avoidable database hits and other expensive operations. I'm in the middle of an iteration of that process right now, and I'm entirely confident that I can have it performing adequately again shortly.
The weakness of the approach, however, is that an architecture designed without considering performance (since I was struggling so much with all the other issues, performance was probably further back in my mind even than usual) has turned out to have some performance bottlenecks that simply can't be removed without changing the architecture itself. There are situations where it's possible to know based on fixed information that there's no way a user could possibly have a particular permission, but that fixed information isn't available within the architecture, so the code will still chase down a number of dead ends before it arrives at the answer. And there's no way to make that information available with little caching tweaks and micro-optimizations. It needs a whole new structure.
For now, I can continue to tweak the heck out of the existing architecture and I'm confident it will perform adequately for quite some time. Which leads to the final advantage - even when you do reach the point where there's nothing to be done but throw out the whole thing and start over with performance at the very front of your mind, the experience gained from the first attempt will be invaluable in designing the system the right way. Every tweak I make to the existing code will be designed into the next version from day one.
Sounds a lot better than being stuck a year ago unable to write the thing at all because I couldn't get my head around how to make it fast, doesn't it? :)
Cancer Update
The pathology results finally arrived on Thursday just in time for my appointment. Apparently I was a complicated case and they had a lot of difficulty getting the results, because I didn't have just one kind of tumor but a "mixed tumor" with several different kinds of cancer cells. This is apparently not uncommon and doesn't affect my chances of recovery, but it does change the next step.
Instead of radiation, they slice me open again - much more invasively, this time - and take out my lymph nodes.
Apparently based on my CAT and blood test results there's a 70% chance that they won't find anything, in which case that's all that needs to be done. The next most likely scenario is that they find a few nodes with cancer, but not many, in which case they still don't have to do anything else.
If they find a
of cancer, though, then I probably need chemo.
I'm trying to see this as a good thing. Instead of
having radiation, and
having to cope with feeling like crap for a couple of months and still having to function normally, this way I get to recover from the surgery for a couple of weeks without any other demands on me, and then hopefully everything's over and done with.
The only cloud in this happy picture is the possibility that they'll find a lot of cancer and it won't be over and done with at all.
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Teegul teegul eeya ka:
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Ever feel like the world's bookshelf has been hijacked by "Harry Potter," "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games"? If so, you might want to visit Springfield this Sunday night when"The Simpsons" delivers one of its most ambitious episodes — an elaborate heist spoof that finds Homer, Bart and guest star Neil Gaiman trying to steal the thunder of today's mega-successful publishing series.
The episode, titled "The Book Job," is a parody of Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven" (and, yes, that is Andy Garcia playing the wealthy, cold-blooded heavy) but it saves its most savage parody for today's novels of the fantastic which target young-skewing audiences. And, according to Matt Selman, an executive producer and longtime "Simpsons" writer, the episode has stirred excitement for the show's creative team.
"The show is all about the world of young-adult fantasy novels, as Homer assembles a team of Springfielders to write one and make big money but the set-up and feel is a real creative departure for us," Selman said. "It's sort of a heist movie where the heist is writing a book but when that kicks in, there's a giant stylistic leap. It's also a little sillier, a little more stylistic than most episodes. We're coming up on 500 episodes, but really, this is the kind of episode a show would only do if hadn't already had a couple hundred episodes."
Gaiman plays himself and he's part of the heist team although, with Homer calling the shots, the bestselling author of "The Graveyard Book" and "Coraline" is put in charge of chores like getting pizza. The story (as with so many great "Simpsons" episodes) is keyed by a moment of disillusionment for Lisa and a spasm of greed for Homer, but the concept for the episode began in a magazine article.
"I read an article in The New Yorker about a company called Alloy Entertainment that publishes a lot of teen books like 'Gossip Girl' and 'Vampire Diaries,' and the article was all about how these executives take market research and come up with the ideas for these books and farms them out and slaps the name of fake writers on them and fabricates backgrounds for these authors who don't exist. We took that trend and kind of blew it up and shoved it in the face of Lisa Simpson, who in this episode gets disillusioned when she finds out that the author of her favorite book, 'Angelica Button,' isn't actually a J.K. Rowling-type at all and is instead a fake name and the book is one of these committee-executed, cynical corporate things. "
A key contributor to the episode was freelance writer Dan Vebber ("Futurama"), who did a lot of the heavy lifting as far as story. "I have to say I'm pretty passionate about this one," Selman said. "It's weird and wonderful."
Selman and the rest of "The Simpsons" team are probably thrilled to talk about something involving only on-screen subplots. This is the 23rd season of "The Simpsons," the longest-running comedy in television history, and so far it 's been most memorable for a brief but tense showdown over cast salary and the surge in online essays suggesting that it might be time to pull the plug, considering the show's current costs and ratings versus the payday potential of a new syndication deal.
Selman said that, just below the surface, the episode is also a valentine to the collaborative approach that has sustained Springfield for all these years; in the episode, young Lisa decides to write a novel on her own in the classic "pure" approach to telling a story, while Homer and his calculated crew are closer to the "Simpsons" model that has a squad of writers sculpt scripts between spitballs.
"It's about writing as a team," Selman said, "and the question in there is, 'Is writing something in a group just as valuable as writing something by yourself?' I've been with 'The Simpsons' for 15 years and everyday it's been pretty much writing as a team. We're proud of what we've done even if it's not the traditional idea of one writer sitting down with a passion and a vision. In a strange way this episode ends up as a defense of writing in a group and celebrating the way it makes you feel connected to the work and to the people in that group in ways you didn't expect. It's all about a writers room … and you know, in the story, Homer's cynical heist team does end up being incredibly productive."
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