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|Oracle® Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E18294-01
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This chapter introduces Large Objects (LOBs) and discusses how LOB data types are used in application development. This chapter contains these topics:
Large Objects (LOBs) are a set of data types that are designed to hold large amounts of data. A LOB can hold up to a maximum size ranging from 8 terabytes to 128 terabytes depending on how your database is configured. Storing data in LOBs enables you to access and manipulate the data efficiently in your application.
This section introduces different types of data that you encounter when developing applications and discusses which kinds of data are suitable for large objects.
In the world today, applications must deal with the following kinds of data:
Simple structured data.
This data can be organized into simple tables that are structured based on business rules.
Complex structured data
This kind of data is complex in nature and is suited for the object-relational features of the Oracle database such as collections, references, and user-defined types.
Semi-structured data
This kind of data has a logical structure that is not typically interpreted by the database. For example, an XML document that is processed by your application or an external service, can be thought of as semi-structured data. The database provides technologies such as Oracle XML DB, Advanced Queuing, and Messages to help your application work with semi-structured data.
Unstructured data
This kind of data is not broken down into smaller logical structures and is not typically interpreted by the database or your application. A photographic image stored as a binary file is an example of unstructured data.
Large objects are suitable for these last two kinds of data: semi-structured data and unstructured data. Large objects features allow you to store these kinds of data in the database and in operating system files that are accessed from the database.
With the growth of the internet and content-rich applications, it has become imperative that the database support a data type that:
Can store unstructured and semi-structured data in an efficient manner.
Is optimized for large amounts of data.
Provides a uniform way of accessing data stored within the database or outside the database.
Examples of semi-structured data include document files such as XML documents or word processor files. These kinds of documents contain data in a logical structure that is processed or interpreted by an application, and is not broken down into smaller logical units when stored in the database.
Applications involving semi-structured data typically use large amounts of character data. The Character Large Object (
CLOB) and National Character Large Object (
NCLOB) data types are ideal for storing and manipulating this kind of data.
Binary File objects (
BFILE data types) can also store character data. You can use
BFILEs to load read-only data from operating system files into
CLOB or
NCLOB instances that you then manipulate in your application.
Unstructured data cannot be decomposed into standard components. For example, data about an employee can be structured into a name, which is stored as a string; an identifier, such as an ID number, a salary and so on. A photograph, on the other hand, consists of a long stream of 1s and 0s. These bits are used to switch pixels on or off so that you can see the picture on a display, but are not broken down into any finer structure for database storage.
Also, unstructured data such as text, graphic images, still video clips, full motion video, and sound waveforms tends to be large in size. A typical employee record may be a few hundred bytes, while even small amounts of multimedia data can be thousands of times larger.
SQL data types that are ideal for large amounts of unstructured binary data include the
BLOB data type (Binary Large Object) and the
BFILE data type (Binary File object).
The database supports LONG and LOB data types. When possible, change your existing applications to use LOBs instead of LONGs because of the added benefits that LOBs provide. LONG-to-LOB migration enables you to easily migrate your existing applications that access LONG columns, to use LOB columns.
Applications developed for use with Oracle Database version 7 and earlier, used the LONG or LONG RAW data type to store large amounts of unstructured data.
With the Oracle8i and later versions of the database, using LOB data types is recommended for storing large amounts of structured and semi-structured data. LOB data types have several advantages over LONG and LONG RAW types including:
LOB Capacity: LOBs can store much larger amounts of data. LOBs can store 4GB of data or more depending on you system configuration. LONG and LONG RAW types are limited to 2GB of data.
Number of LOB columns in a table: A table can have multiple LOB columns. LOB columns in a table can be of any LOB type. In Oracle Database Release 7.3 and higher, tables are limited to a single LONG or LONG RAW column.
Random piece-wise access: LOBs support random access to data, but LONGs support only sequential access.
LOBs can also be object attributes.
Different kinds of LOBs can be stored in the database or in external files.
Note:LOBs in the database are sometimes also referred to as internal LOBs or internal persistent LOBs.
LOBs in the database are stored inside database tablespaces in a way that optimizes space and provides efficient access. The following SQL data types are supported for declaring internal LOBs:
CLOB, and
NCLOB. Details on these data types are given in "Large Object Data Types".
Persistent and Temporary LOBs
Internal LOBs (LOBs in the database) can be either persistent or temporary. A persistent LOB is a LOB instance that exists in a table row in the database. A temporary LOB instance is created when you instantiate a LOB only within the scope of your local application.
A temporary instance becomes a persistent instance when you insert the instance into a table row.
Persistent LOBs use copy semantics and participate in database transactions. You can recover persistent LOBs in the event of transaction or media failure, and any changes to a persistent LOB value can be committed or rolled back. In other words, all the Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability (ACID) properties that pertain to using database objects pertain to using persistent LOBs.
External LOBs are data objects stored in operating system files, outside the database tablespaces. The database accesses external LOBs using the SQL data type
BFILE. The
BFILE data type is the only external LOB data type.
BFILEs are read-only data types. The database allows read-only byte stream access to data stored in
BFILEs. You cannot write to a BFILE from within your application.
The database uses reference semantics with
BFILE columns. Data stored in a table column of type
BFILE, is physically located in an operating system file, not in the database tablespace.
You typically use
BFILEs to hold:
Binary data that does not change while your application is running, such as graphics.
Data that is loaded into other large object types, such as a
BLOB or
CLOB where the data can then be manipulated.
Data that is appropriate for byte-stream access, such as multimedia.
Read-only data that is relatively large in size, to avoid taking up large amounts database tablespace.
Any storage device accessed by your operating system can hold
BFILE data, including hard disk drives, CD-ROMs, PhotoCDs and DVDs. The database can access
BFILEs provided the operating system supports stream-mode access to the operating system files.
Note:External LOBs do not participate in transactions. Any support for integrity and durability must be provided by the underlying file system as governed by the operating system.
A LOB instance has a locator and a value. The LOB locator is a reference to where the LOB value is physically stored. The LOB value is the data stored in the LOB.
When you use a LOB in an operation such as passing a LOB as a parameter, you are actually passing a LOB locator. For the most part, you can work with a LOB instance in your application without being concerned with the semantics of LOB locators. There is no requirement to dereference LOB locators, as is required with pointers in some programming languages.
There are some issues regarding the semantics of LOB locators and how LOB values are stored that you should be aware of. These details are covered in the context of the discussion where they apply throughout this guide.
In all programmatic environments, database semantics differ between internal LOBs and external LOBs as follows:
Internal LOBs use copy semantics.
With copy semantics, both the LOB locator and LOB value are logically copied during insert, update, or assignment operations. This ensures that each table cell or each variable containing a LOB, holds a unique LOB instance.
External LOBs use reference semantics.
With reference semantics, only the LOB locator is copied during insert operations. (Note that update operations do not apply to external LOBs as external LOBs are read-only. This is explained in more detail later in this section.)
Table 1-1 describes each large object data type supported by the database and describes the kind of data each data type is typically used for. The names of data types given here are the SQL data types provided by the database. In general, the descriptions given for the data types in this table and the rest of this book also apply to the corresponding data types provided for other programmatic environments. Also, note that the term LOB generally refers to the set of all large object data types.
Table 1-1 Large Object Data Types
|SQL Data Type
Binary Large Object
Stores any kind of data in binary format. Typically used for multimedia data such as images, audio, and video.
Character Large Object
Stores string data in the database character set format. Used for large strings or documents that use the database character set exclusively. Characters in the database character set are in a fixed width format.
National Character Set Large Object
Stores string data in National Character Set format. Used for large strings or documents in the National Character Set. Supports characters of varying width format.
External Binary File
A binary file stored outside of the database in the host operating system file system, but accessible from database tables.
Any kind of data, that is, any operating system file, can be stored in a
You can declare LOB data types as fields, or members, of object data types. For example, you can have an attribute of type
CLOB on an object type. In general, there is no difference in the usage of a LOB instance in a LOB column and the usage of a LOB instance that is a member or of an object data type. Any difference in usage is called out when it applies. When used in this guide, the term LOB attribute refers to a LOB instance that is a member of an object data type. Unless otherwise specified, discussions that apply to LOB columns also apply to LOB attributes.
You can use LOBs to create other user-defined data types or store other data types as LOBs. This section discusses some of the data types provided with the database as examples of data types that are stored or created with LOB types.
An instance of type
VARRAY in the database is stored as an array of LOBs when you create a table in the following scenarios:
If the VARRAY storage clause—
VARRAY varray_item STORE AS —is not specified, and the declared size of varray data is more than 4000 bytes.
If the varray column properties are specified using the STORE AS LOB clause—
VARRAY varray_item STORE AS LOB ...
A good example of how LOB data types can be used to store other data types is the
XMLType data type. The
XMLType data type is sometimes stored as a
CLOB. Setting up your table or column to store
XMLType data types as
CLOBs enables you to store schema-less XML documents in the database.
See Also:
Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide for information on creating
XMLType tables and columns and how XML is stored in
Oracle XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide, for information about working with XML.
Oracle Multimedia uses LOB data types to create data types specialized for use in multimedia application such as Multimedia ORDAudio, ORDDoc, ORDImage, and ORDVideo. Oracle Multimedia uses the database infrastructure to define object types, methods, and LOBs necessary to represent these specialized types of data in the database.
See Also:
Oracle Multimedia User's Guide for more information on using Oracle Multimedia.
Oracle Multimedia Reference for more information on using Oracle Multimedia data types.


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|GM Alexander Onischuk
Alexander Onischuk called winning the 2006 U.S Championship the happiest day of his life. Not that he's unused to winning. Alex placed first in over twenty tournaments, from super strong Round Robins in exotic Beijing and chilly Siberia to the 2000 Ukrainian Championship. Alex became a GM in 1994 at the age of nineteen, but this hardly qualified among his happiest moments, because that was a matter of "when, not if."
Alex is known for his professional, solid style. His repertoire is very well analyzed, but it is also more predictable than most top U.S. players. Some of his lines as Black (particularly in Double King Pawn games) allow a weaker but well prepared opponent to force a draw. Such a strategy makes it hard to win clear first in a Swiss, which usually requires a huge plus score.
Alex ran into a typical roadblock at his first U.S. Championship, where he placed eighth. One opponent traded queens into a dead draw, following a previous game by Alex. The advantage of having a stable opening repertoire is that you're bound to know the strategies and details of your lines better than if you played four different openings.Alex thinks that what separates him from Grandmasters of a slightly lower stature is his superior understanding of the game, gained from working with elite players, including former World Champions Anatoly Karpov and Veselin Topalov (Read his uschess.org report from this match.) In addition to seconding Karpov in matches against Anand (1997) and training him for his victorious match against Kasparov (2002, Alex got the chance to play blitz with the Russian legend. "The first time we played" Alex said, "I won with black, and thought I'd do pretty well. Then I lost 25 games in a row. I was already a GM, and didn't think I could lose 25 games in a row to anyone!"
Alex arrived in Baltimore in 2001 on the wings of a diversity visa, which he won in the Diversity lottery program. The program, designed to offer visas to American hopefuls all over the world, may soon be discontinued pending a vote in the Senate. For five years he played for the championship college team, UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore Country), while studying linguistics at the university. He graduated in the spring of '06.
If he could play any champion from history, he would play Paul Morphy. "I'd play 1...e5, and he'd go for the King's Gambit. I'd probably lose.
Alex is a valuable American team player, and was crucial to America in two bronze Olympic medal finishes in a row, in Turin, Italy 2006 and Dresden, Germany 2008. The following win over his previous team, Ukraine, helped the U.S. score a 3.5-.5 rout and clinch bronze medals:
Alexander also picked up a gold medal for his board two performance at the 2010 World Team Championships in Turkey, where the United States earned silver medals.

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For experienced sound professionals, the beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro is an old friend used in countless studios throughout the world. To celebrate the company's 88th anniversary beyerdynamic, the audio specialist from Heilbronn in Germany launched a special edition of the DT 770 Pro with an impedance of 32 ohms for optimal use with smartphones, mobile players and notebooks. It soon sold out, but beyerdynamic is now meeting the enormous demand for this special model by starting series production of the DT 770 Pro with 32 ohms.
DT 770 Pro - the studio legend goes mobile
The roots of the legendary beyerdynamic DT 770/880/990 line go back to 1981. Their outstanding sound and durable design laid the foundation for these headphones' unprecedented studio and stage career. The 32-ohm version of the DT 770 Pro is the latest addition to the series and has been optimized for use with portable devices.
The new technologies of the mobile computing revolution - tablet computers, smartphones, etc. - enable creative professionals to turn their inspirations into results, anytime and anywhere, without having to get to the studio first.
The output of mobile devices is usually too weak to handle standard studio impedances of 80 to 250 ohms. The result is a strained sound that isn't loud enough because high impedances are too much for the mini-amplifiers. The new 32-ohm version of the DT 770 Pro is the solution for all artists who don't want to go without their favorite equipment for checking and mixing audio while on-the-go. This is because the new model offers exactly the same sound quality as its studio-optimized counterparts and maintains large volume reserves even when working with weaker output levels.
Combining a balanced sound with long-term wearing comfort, thanks to the smooth softskin ear cushions, the new DT 770 Pros now allow you to take your favorite studio sound with you, wherever you are in the world.
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Available from specialist retailers as of mid-May.
Touch it, Hear it, Love it - the DT 770 Pro with 32 ohms at Prolight + Sound
Prolight + Sound, held in Frankfurt from April 10-13, 2013, offers a great opportunity to discovery the qualities of the new DT 770 Pro with 32 ohms: beyerdynamic, Hall 8.0, Stand J21
An overview: features of the DT 770 Pro with 32 ohms
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Ever since the original Palm spun itself off into separate hardware (palmOne) and software (PalmSource) companies, the two entities previously known as Palm have maintained a cooperative coexistence. palmOne built hardware that ran the OS supplied by PalmSource. However, palmOne often dropped hints that it might ship products running something other than its old standby Palm OS. A couple of months after securing the exclusive rights to the Palm name, the company today showed off a new Treo smartphone running Windows Mobile.
Currently known as the "Treo for Windows," the new model looks very similar to its predecessor, the Treo 650. It runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and the Verizon model features the wireless company's EV-DO high-speed data network. Slated to ship in early 2006, the Treo for Windows will feature other smartphone niceties such as a camera, SD card slot, and push e-mail (one of the features that has made the BlackBerry so popular).
The Treo for Windows
Features new to the device include "photo-triggered speed dial" and, in a sign that feature creep has gone too far, the ability to playback messages using controls similar to those on a VCR. What it's missing is 802.11b/g connectivity, which Verizon is loathe to include in any of its EV-DO capable phones. If WiFi is a must-have for you, chances are you'll be able to grab an 802.11b/g SD card for the Treo.
Is this the death knell for the venerable Palm OS? Palm Source was acquired by Japanese software company Access earlier this month, which said it plans to continue development of Palm OS. The Treo's apparent migration from Palm OS to Windows Mobile aside, the OS still has some life left in it. Foremost is the fact that Palm is on the hook for US$150 million per year through 2009 as part of the agreement by which palmOne became just plain Palm again. Its new-found infatuation with Windows Mobile aside, Palm still has a lot riding on the success of products like the LifeDrive and its other "pure" PDAs.
Recent market share figures show that Palm OS devices are slipping in popularity as consumers increasingly turn to BlackBerrys and Windows Mobile PDAs. Previous incarnations of the Treo have proven popular and the combination of the Treo design and Windows Mobile may prove to be a winner for Palm. It looks pretty smooth to me. If I hadn't picked up an Audiovox XV6600 earlier this year, I'd have to look long and hard at the Treo for Windows.


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The Food Lover's Guide to Destination Markets
Milwaukie Kitchen & Wine
10610 SE Main St, Milwaukie
The jocular, apple-cheeked face is familiar, and so are the smells of beef stock. But everything else has changed for veteran chef Pascal Sauton, formerly of Carafe. Earlier this year, Portland's dean of French country cuisine reinvented himself amid 2,500 feet of gleaming deli cases and industrial shelves, with two cushy couches and one elegantly candled communal table in the foodie desert of Main Street Milwaukie. In this mix of Northwest and free-style, shoppers can snack on pleasures gleaned from the Milwaukie Farmers Market, riffle through small but choice European imports, land a bull's-eye French burgundy, or hone their own kitchen skills in a cooking class. Sauton even greets customers at the shelves in his white chef's jacket. That's customer service.
The Woodsman Market (Now Closed)
4529 SE Division St
On fast-growing SE Division Street, across from a tiny house hosting a food cart in the driveway, an ingeniously stocked micro-market epitomizes Portland's emerging food wave—a general store curated as art exhibit. Step inside to champagne crates, old-school coolers, and street-side windowsills framing a food world personally selected by owner Duane Sorenson, whose Stumptown Coffee Roasters empire was born next door in 1999. You'll find things you need, but more often, things you want: sensuous gin-grapefruit marmalade or bags of McClure's thick, wavy chips soaked in pickle juice. The freewheeling inventory embraces fine sausages and hams, well-chosen cheeses, hard-to-find nuts, a bounty from local purveyors, and artisan intrigues from the other Portlandia (Brooklyn, NY). Bottom line: If it's worthy of Sorenson's home kitchen or the Woodsman Tavern next door, it's here. That includes the Heinz 57 Beans.
2138–2140 E Burnside St
At Luce, ultra-locavore owner John Taboada brings small-town Italy to E Burnside Street. His retail shelves act as a pantry for the restaurant's rustic Italian menu, stocked with classic old-world wines, huge crystals of Sicilian sea salt, and tiny sacks of fennel pollen. Co-owner and boutique savant Giovanna Parolari brings an eye for extraordinary kitchenwares and comestibles, scavenging beautiful oak charcuterie boards, hand-tooled crumb sweepers, and buckwheat and goat's milk caramels from trips across Europe. Stock your kitchen to impress, or assemble your own delectable Little Italy picnic with a bottle of chinato (a sweetly bitter digestif) and a few boxes of pre-made antipasti, like broccoli with garlic and anchovy or farro and Parmesan pie, sold by the pound.
Multiple Locations
After almost 30 years of evolving and expanding within Portland's culinary community, the de Garmo family still holds top rank, running one of the greatest gourmet specialty stores in the city. The shelves at Pastaworks seesaw between items from Oregon's best local purveyors and hard-to-find European specialties, all with a Mediterranean flair. House-made sheets of pasta are sliced to order in four different widths, ravioli are stuffed with seasonal flavors like asparagus and porcini mushrooms, and sauces—from tangy romesco to hearty all'amatriciana (red sauce with pork cheek)—are made fresh every day. At the Hawthorne location, you'll often see Evoe chef Kevin Gibson running in from his tiny adjacent kitchen to nab some fresh persimmons or a fistful of morels from the hyper-local produce aisle before making a mad dash back for a little more gustatory alchemy.


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Bar Mingo
We might consider taking a cue from the Italians on the subject of celebrity chefdom. "Name one famous Italian chef," says Bar Mingo chef Jerry Huisinga. When I can't (Mario Batali doesn't count; he's from Seattle), Huisinga reminds me that great cuisine should reflect quality ingredients and classic techniques rather than the names and egos of the people who prepare it. This humble ethos drove Portland's legendary Italian eatery Genoa, where Huisinga ran the kitchen in relative anonymity for 22 years. In 2008 he took the reins as head chef of Caffe Mingo's annex, Bar Mingo, and he is shaping this casually modern eatery as he did Genoa—through the skillful mastery of simple food.
Most of Bar Mingo's menu is made up of affordable smaller plates that are perfect for sharing ($8 each, or 3 for $21), such as the brightly flavored mint- and pecorino-spiked lamb meatballs in a simple tomato sauce, or calamari sautéed (not fried) with green onion, garlic, and lemon. But there are formidable entrées as well, like the lasagna ($16), which alternates layers of beef and pork ragù with soft blankets of house-made pasta smothered in béchamel and nutty parmesan; and the "Straw and Hay" spinach and egg tagliatelle ($15), served in cream with house-cured ham, chanterelle mushrooms, and parmesan. Pair any selection with an offering from an Italian-heavy assortment of wines, and be grateful to the chef who concocted this flavorful cuisine. Whatever his name is.


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DiS label alumni Metric announce details of their fifth studio album...
We'll let Emily Haines answer any further queries you may have:
What is the new album called?
What is the release date?
June 12th in Canada and the US. It will vary by up to a few days in the rest of the world.
What does it sound like?
It sounds like the culmination of everything we have done. We've always had a sound in our heads that we hoped to realize and we finally heard it coming back out of the speakers this time.
Where was it recorded?
At our own studio, Giant, in Toronto. And at Electric Lady Studios in NYC. The album was produced by Jimmy Shaw and mixed by John O'Mahony. This is our favorite combination of spaces.
What is SYNTHETICA about?
FANTASIES was all about pushing ourselves out into the world, going to unknown places and shaking off everything familiar.
SYNTHETICA is about staying home and wanting to crawl out of your skin from the lack of external stimulation.
SYNTHETICA is about forcing yourself to confront what you see in the mirror when you finally stand still long enough to catch a reflection.
SYNTHETICA is about being able to identify the original in a long line of reproductions. It's about what is real vs what is artificial.
What else?
SYNTHETICA is about insomnia, fucking up, fashion, all the devices and gadgets attached to our brains, getting wasted, watching people die in other countries, watching people die in your own country, dancing your ass off, questioning the cops, poetic justice, standing up for yourself, sex, the apocalypse, doing some stupid shit and totally regretting it but then telling everyone it made you stronger, leaving town as a solution to unsolvable problems, owning your actions and owning your time.
That pretty much covers it.
Does this mean I don't have to do any interviews?
...possibly, although I'm sure there's still some kid who'd like to know how you all met and where you got your name from. Bands who've been going for a decade love answering those kindsa questions...
Hopefully some new European tour dates will be revealed before too long. For now and for more details about what the band have been up to since we last hear from them, there's a communiqué from Emily Haines now up at ilovemetric.com.


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Los Barbers
Barber shop in Azusa, California
Los Barbers is a friendly barbershop that offers quality haircuts, shaves, and barber services in an inviting and comfortable environment. Our experienced barbers offer contemporary, classic and modern haircuts, and utilize state-of-the-art barbering techniques. Customers can also get beard trimming and facial grooming services. Los Barbers is committed to providing exceptional customer service. We strive to create an unforgettable experience while keeping true to our traditional barbershop values. Every visit is a pleasant and relaxed experience.
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Azusa may refer to: == Relating to California == From a Native American language, likely Tongva Asuksagna: Azusa, California, a city in the United States Azusa Pacific University, a Christian-based institution in Azusa, California Azusa Street Revival, a Christian movement that began in Los Angeles == Other uses == Azusa (given name) Azusa (train), a limited express train service in Japan Azusa (band), a metal band Azusa, the Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa) Azusa Yumi, a bow made from the wood of the Japanese cherry birch AZUSA, a radar interferometer Azusa Nakano from the manga/anime K-On!
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June 1, 1986 - Saskatoon tornadoes
I found this vivid recollection of a largely forgotten Canadian tornado event (probably because there was no deaths or major injuries). I've posted it below for ease, but here's a link to the blog I found it at - it's called "Canadian Prairie Storms" with a particular focus on Saskatchewan: http://canadianprairiestorms.blogspo...es-strike.html
June 1st, 1986
Three Tornadoes Strike Saskatoon's North End
by Jared Mysko
Since I could not find anything on this event anywhere on the Internet, I decided to make a page totally dedicated to this major event. Just because no lives were lost does not mean that it was not significant. In fact, it shows that we have been very fortunate and that we live in a potentially dangerous area where tornadoes have struck and will strike again.
First I will tell my own personal story from this event.
June 1st 1986, a date that I will never forget. It was my sister's birthday and I remember it as being a very windy day. I would ride my bike everyday since we lived only a short distance from the river and all the great bike trails that the river parks offered. A windy day would only make the usual trek down to the river more difficult and so I grew to really hate the wind when I was young. I was always paying attention to the weather so that I would know what I was in for on my daily bike ride. After supper time, I remember going outside and noticing how the wind had suddenly vanished and I said to my mother that I was going for a bike ride since it was seemingly perfect conditions. My mother reminded me that there was a risk of a thunderstorm and I remember complaining about my ears popping. Thinking nothing of it, I got on my bike and rode about a block and a half before coming to a grinding stop in the middle of Redberry Road. The wind had suddenly picked up and I was so upset that I went straight back home. In the time that it took to get home the wind must have increased to 80 or 90 km/hr and my mother was already putting the lawn chairs inside and told me to close all the windows in the house because it was about to storm. The sky went from clear to very dark in a very short time and dust was getting in though the window screens. Having closed all but the kitchen windows with the help of my sister, my mother and father rushed in. Since the kitchen window was more difficult to reach since it was above the sink and I was not tall enough to reach it, my mother came over to help. As she neared the window, something hit the window breaking it. By then we could not see anything but dust and debris outside so it was clear to all of us to head to the basement. As we closed the basement door, I wasn't sure if we would have a house standing when it was over. We all sat and listened to the famous "train rumble" that tornadoes are famous for. It was incredibly loud considering that usually we can not hear anything from the outside when in the basement. We must have waited at least a half an hour in the basement until we were sure that it was safe to come out. My father and I decided to walk outside to see what happened. First thing we saw was the water had filled the street and was creeping up on our lawn. As the water receded, shingles, nails, and mud were everywhere. Looking at our house, we could not see any major damage since it was night time. Looking across the street however, our neighbor completely lost their top level of a split level house. We decided to try and find where the roof had landed, so we began to walk around the neighborhood. Many other people came outside and soon the streets were alive with shocked residents roaming around and chatting with each other. Amazingly, the clouds were beginning to pull away and we could see stars only about an hour after the storm. We found what we thought were the remains of our neighbors' roof on the opposite crescent (Dore Cres.) on top of a no longer recognizable car. My father said that we should head back home and we did. I don't think I slept very well that night. The next morning, my school (St. George) rallied all the grade 7 and 8's together to help clean up the neighborhood. For the next week or so, we watched as traffic filled our street with people wanting to see the devastation. We ended up having to replace pretty much all the siding, shingles, and couple of windows. Our big olive tree also was damaged and began to lose its strength over the next few years. Other than that we all consider ourselves lucky to have survived and we are thankful for the solid construction of our house.
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You may be wondering what I've been up to. Where have I been? Besides cursing my camera for starting off 2013 with a non-working auto-focus which forces me to use my iphone camera.
Well, I've been right here at home. Working on some no pressure sorts of things at an easy pace. The first of the year had me packing up Christmas
which led to organizing the basement…because I sort of messed it up digging out Christmas decorations and piled up empty boxes in a hurry to resume making the upstairs pretty for the holidays.
All of the decorations are in hiding and the basement clean up is nearly wrapped up. Our scary OLD OLD OLD part of the basement will never be pretty but I do love the additional storage space it provides. {never say never. I could win the lottery and then…possibilities!} Be warned. These pictures of a 90 year old basement are not for the faint of heart and do look as if they're still-shots from "Hoarders" {hence, no watermarking. lol!}…not something you're going to see in the next issue of House Beautiful:
Of course it was one of those "make a bigger mess" before it looks better types of projects".
- Dig EVERYTHING out.
- Unpack boxes and storage containers.
- Purge.
- Create a pile for donating.
- Fill 3 garbage bags.
- Have tissues on hand…dust can induce sneezing and a runny nose.
- Wash dirty hands every 30 minutes.
- Listen to happy upbeat music, sing, dance throughout the obstacle course you created.
- Separate and organize things in to related piles.
- Pack neatly and in an organized fashion.
- Label boxes and containers.
- Pile it all back up where it will fit.
This may take days. Family might send out a search party. You'll need a shower with lots of scrubbing. Oh, and lotion for those extra dry hands.
You may wonder why the heck you've been hoarding 584 empty boxes of various sizes.
I organized some decorative accents I like having on hand. It's like my own secret store for shopping from home.
Must have spray paint supply…
I even managed to create a work space using an old farmhouse table. It's not much of a "project" in the way of fun or pretty or a "oOoOohhh" reveal. But you know how much better it feels to get chaos under control, right?
And it feels sort of like nesting for adding a furbaby to our home in the near future. I want everything to be perfect…even the scary old spidery dusty basement that no one but me sees. Oh and well now, you've had a glimpse too. I know you're torn between feeling honored and horrified. Sorry about that.
And, all that lead to finding the chartreuse paint that I used on the apartment door…
because yes, the boxes of apartment renovation supplies have been sitting unpacked, haphazardly tossed in a corner from the car. For months. And cleaning/organizing the older part of the basement meant putting those things away too. Finally.
And where am I going with this? Organizing the basement, finding the left over paint? Well that lead to an unplanned mini-project upstairs which I'll share with you tomorrow.
What have you been up to? Don't forget to share your latest DIY at the party.


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R. Kelly -- 'The Notebook' Inspired Me ... to Divorce My Wife
R. Kelly 'The Notebook' Inspired Me ... to Divorce My Wife
11:43 PM PT -- Kellys' ex-wife Andrea tells TMZ ... she doesn't believe "The Notebook" truly caused their split ... telling TMZ, "[The movie] came out in 2004 and we saw it together. Our divorce wasn't finalized until 2009 so it's impossible that the movie could have been the reason for our relationship ending. "
She adds, "We had been separated for 6 years at that point! The movie definitely did not end our relationship!"
R. Kelly is blaming Ryan Gosling for ruining his marriage ... sorta ... and it's all because of R.G.'s performance in "The Notebook."
Kelly just revealed some incredibly personal secrets in his new memoir, "Soulacoaster" ... including an explanation about why he decided to divorce his former back up dancer Andrea Kelly back in 2009.
Long story short ... Kelly claims after watching the movie, he realized his own 12-year marriage couldn't stand up to the romance featured in the flick.
Here's the explanation in Kelly's own words:
"As the film credits started to roll, I couldn't move. I burst into tears. People walking past me patted me on the back, trying to console me. 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
But I was also crying because I remembered a Valentine's Day -- when a helicopter dropped a rainfall of roses -- that had come and gone ... My marriage had died. And there was nothing I could do to bring it back."
Damn you, Gosling.


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This Week in Weird, Sept. 25
Man takes hundreds of newspapers in effort to quiet news of criminal charges
TAUNTON, Mass. - Police shortly after 9 a.m. detained a van driven by Roland Hill, a Taunton man facing aggravated rape and child assault charges, parked on the side of the Taunton Daily Gazette's building. Inside the van were piles of Tuesday's edition — the front page of which featured an account of police having arrested Hill and his wife, Mary.
Four patrol cars were parked around Hill's van. A police officer told a Gazette employee that Hill, 46, was able to produce at least $21 worth of receipts for papers purchased. After a half-hour discussion, police allowed Hill to drive away.
That incident followed a call police received at 8:46 a.m. from a resident of Eldridge Street — the street on which the Hills reside — stating that a man in a tan van was stealing all the Taunton Daily Gazettes out of newspaper boxes on the street.
The caller also said she witnessed him filching papers from the nearby Reed & Barton complex.
And just after 9 a.m., the Gazette reported to police numerous complaints from various local businesses that someone had stolen all of their papers that morning — including bundles left outside of businesses that had not yet opened for the day.
The estimate of papers taken was between 300 and 400, police said.
The incident did not result in charges against Hill, police said Tuesday night.
Two men set fire to victim's door after he didn't share crack cocaine
CANTON, Ohio - Two Canton men told police they tried to set someone's door on fire after the person smoked crack with them then told them to leave and refused to give them "their share" of what was left of the drug.
Police arrested Robert G. Grier, 38, and Darren D. Adams, 45, about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the location of the fire, Stark County Jail records said.
Police recovered burned paper and saw ashes and burn marks on the victim's door, according to jail records.
Grier and Adams told police that they had become angry after the fire victim smoked crack with them, told them to leave and then refused to give them "their share of the remaining crack," jail records said.
Pennsylvania man convicted after trying to trick witness
HONESDALE, Pa. - A Lake Ariel man was convicted of several charges after he tried to trick a witness against into missing a hearing on other charges.
A Wayne County Jury convicted Scott Greenberg, 27, of one count of criminal attempt to commit obstruction of justice and one count of impersonating a public servant, both misdemeanors of the second degree. The jury deliberated about 25 minutes before reaching a verdict.
In January, Greenberg had telephoned a witness in a case pending against him scheduled for a hearing in Honesdale. Greenberg, while disguising his voice as a female, told the witness that she (he) was an employee of the Magistrate's Office and that the scheduled case had been continued and that the witness need not appear at the hearing scheduled.
First Assistant Patrick L. Robinson prosecuted the case. District Attorney Michael P. Lehutsky said, "Mr. Greenberg's attempt to manipulate the judicial system and prejudice an honest litigant's rights was as wrong as it was childish. The jury made it clear that this kind of ridiculous conduct will not be tolerated."
Stinky the cat has 8 lives left after rising from the dead
WINCHESTER, Mass. - Evander "Stinky" Rucki lives.
In a stunning reversal of last month's cat-astrophe, the beloved feline was found this week, alive and well, with warm food in his belly and eight lives in his pocket.
"We were shell-shocked last night," said Evander's owner, Sally Rucki, who thought she had buried her cat last month when a feline fitting Evander's description was found dead at a high school three weeks after Evander went missing.
" We got a call from a woman from Medford last night who said, 'I really think I have your cat.'
"She said she had just read the article online because she had been looking for the owner of the cat."
Rucki said she told the woman her cat had already been buried, but, as she originally did with Evander, she offered to take the cat in and care for it while trying to find its rightful owners.
"She said, 'In the meantime, let me e-mail the pictures.' … So the first picture came up, and I thought it was him, but I knew it had to be wishful thinking.
"Then the second picture came up, and I knew it was him. I started balling my eyes out, flew over there in the car, and it was him. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone."
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's plan to forge a long-term agreement with the Iraqi government that could commit the US military to defending Iraq's security would be the first time such a sweeping mutual defense compact has been enacted without congressional approval, according to legal specialists.
After World War II, for example - when the United States gave security commitments to Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and NATO members - Presidents Truman and Eisenhower designated the agreements as treaties requiring Senate ratification. In 1985, when President Ronald Reagan guaranteed that the US military would defend the Marshall Islands and Micronesia if they were attacked, the compacts were put to a vote by both chambers of Congress.
By contrast, Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki have already agreed that a coming compact will include the United States providing "security assurances and commitments" to Iraq to deter any foreign invasion or internal terrorism by "outlaw groups." But a top White House official has also said that Bush does not intend to submit the deal to Congress.
"We don't anticipate now that these negotiations will lead to the status of a formal treaty which would then bring us to formal negotiations or formal inputs from the Congress," General Douglas Lute, Bush's deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan, said in November when the White House announced the plan.
Lute's disclosure initially attracted little scrutiny. Most of the attention has instead focused on whether the pact could make it more difficult for the United States to withdraw from Iraq after Bush leaves office. Although the next president could scrap the agreement, reneging on the compact would create diplomatic problems by showing that the nation does not live up to its obligations, specialists say.
But there is now also growing alarm about the constitutional issues raised by Bush's plan. Legal specialists and lawmakers of both parties are raising questions about whether it would be unconstitutional for Bush to complete such a sweeping deal on behalf of the United States without the consent of the legislative branch.
"There is literally no question that this is unprecedented," said Oona Hathaway, a Yale Law School professor who has written a forthcoming law journal article about the proposed Iraq agreement. "The country has never entered into this kind of commitment without Congress being involved, period."
At a House hearing on the pact on Wednesday, Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California and a former Reagan administration official, accused the Bush administration of "arrogance" for not consulting with Congress about the pact. If it includes any guarantees to Iraq, he said, Congress must sign off.
"We are here to fulfill the constitutional role established by the founding fathers," Rohrabacher said, adding, "It is not all in the hands of the president and his appointees. We play a major role."
Bush and Maliki have said they intend to complete the agreement by July 31. The two countries need to reach some kind of an agreement this year in order to create a legal framework for the continued presence of US troops in Iraq after Dec. 31, when a United Nations Security Counsel mandate is due to expire.
But the "long-term relationship of cooperation and friendship" outlined in November goes far beyond an ordinary status-of-forces agreement. It would include promises of debt forgiveness, economic and technical aid, facilitating "especially American investments" in Iraq - and the security commitments, according to Bush and Maliki's joint declaration last November.
Facing mounting criticism over its assertion that Bush can reach such an agreement on his own, the administration has sent mixed signals about whether it intends to follow through on the plan. The
Officially, the administration has not changed the plans it announced in November. Asked to respond to the critics who say that such a pact must be approved by Congress, White House National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates each said that it was premature to talk about the pact because its final text has not yet been negotiated.
"I haven't been involved in any discussions of what kind of form the agreement would take or anything else," Gates said at press conference yesterday. "I do know there's a strong commitment inside the administration to consult very closely with the Congress on this."
But Represent Bill Delahunt, Democrat of Massachusetts, who chaired the hearing on Wednesday, asked four top administration officials - Lute, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, and the State Department's top legal and Iraq advisers, John Bellinger and David Satterfield - to appear and explain the administration's intentions. All four declined.
However, Lute may have offered a clue to the administration's legal arguments during the November press conference when he noted that "We have about a hundred agreements similar to the one envisioned for the US and Iraq already in place, and the vast majority of those are below the level of a treaty." Johndroe, the White House spokesman, also mentioned the existence of such agreements in a Globe interview this week.
Legal specialists, however, say that the numerous pacts that were completed without congressional consent are not similar to the agreement Bush and Maliki outlined in November.
Other such "status-of-forces agreements" are far more limited contracts with countries that host US military bases, covering comparatively minor issues such as leasing arrangements and which country will prosecute any US soldiers accused of committing a crime.
By contrast, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden told Bush in a letter released yesterday, "As a matter of constitutional law, and based on over 200 years of practice," Bush could not commit the US military to protecting Iraq's security without congressional consent.
"A commitment that the United States will act to assist Iraq, potentially through the use of our armed forces in the event of an attack on Iraq, could effectively commit the nation to engage in hostilities," Biden wrote. "Such a commitment cannot be made by the executive branch alone under our Constitution."
Biden said yesterday he had received no reply to the letter, which he sent late last month.
Adding to the pressure, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has also repeatedly raised the topic in recent days. The New York senator has filed legislation that would block the expenditure of funds to implement any agreement with Iraq that was not submitted to Congress for approval. Her rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, became a cosponsor to the bill on Tuesday.
"We've got to rein in President Bush," Clinton said Monday in a South Carolina debate. "We need legislation in a hurry."


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Reggie Shaw doesn't even remember what he texted to his girlfriend. But just seconds after he pressed the "send' button on his cell phone, the act of texting in the car cost the lives of two Cache County men and forever changed his own.
"I think back now and it made sense [that I was texting while driving],' Shaw said about the fatal accident Sept. 22, 2006, that killed James A. Furfaro, 38, and Keith P. O'Dell, 50. "I used my phone when I drove all the time. To me that was just driving.'
Nearly seven years later, the incident still haunts Shaw and the families of the victims. But he and Megan O'Dell, the daughter of Keith O'Dell, were able to retell the tragedy and its devastating impact in a new 30-minute documentary on YouTube directed by legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog ("Grizzly Man,' "Aguirre: The Wrath of God').
The video, "From One Second To The Next,' was commissioned by cell phone carrier AT&T and released Aug. 7. By Wednesday, it already had amassed more than 1.9 million views. The makers also are planning to provide the short to government agencies, safety organizations and schools.
The video profiles four families across the country who were affected by critical or fatal car accidents resulting from a texting driver. The film was commissioned for an anti-texting-and-driving campaign also backed by Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. (Learn more about the "It Can Wait' campaign at www.itcanwait.com.)
Herzog met with Shaw and Megan O'Dell last May to interview and film them about how the incident changed their lives and turned Shaw into an activist to help stop people from texting while driving.
"If we can reach that one person each time we talk about it, or if there's an article about it, then it's worth it,' O'Dell, 25, of Logan, said about making the film.
On that rainy morning in 2006, Shaw, then 19, was on Route 30 near Logan in his Chevy Tahoe when he was texting his girlfriend. At the same time, Furfaro and Keith O'Dell, both rocket scientists for Alliant Techsystems, were on their way to work.
A witness behind Shaw saw him weaving in and out of the lane three times. That's when Shaw crossed the center line, clipped the victims' car, causing it to strike a third vehicle. Furfaro and O'Dell were killed instantly.
Meanwhile, Megan O'Dell was in her apartment and had trouble sleeping because she sensed something was wrong.
"It was just this different sense that my gut was saying something was not right,' she remembered.
Later that morning, a neighbor of her mother's arrived at O'Dell's apartment and told her about her father's death. "I didn't believe it,' she said about the news. "I just didn't want to believe it.'
It wasn't until months later, after police subpoenaed Shaw's cell phone records, that Shaw realized his texting caused the accident. He pleaded guilty to two counts of negligent homicide and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 150 hours of community service. He also spoke to the Utah Legislature in 2009 when lawmakers passed a bill outlawing texting and driving.
More than 100,000 accidents involving texting while driving occur each year, according to the National Safety Council. Nearly half of commuters admit to texting while driving, according to a recent AT&T survey, yet 98 percent agree that sending a text or email while driving is not safe.
University of Utah psychology professor David Strayer, who has conducted nationally-recognized research on the effects of using cell phones while driving, said his studies show that texting while driving can result in an eight-times greater chance of getting in an accident. In contrast, driving while legally under the influence of alcohol — a blood-alcohol level of .08 — results in a four-times greater chance of an accident.
"They just drive differently,' Strayer said of those who drive while texting. "They swerve all over the place. At least 38 states have outlawed texting. The question is what's keeping the other 12 from doing it?'
It took years for O'Dell to overcome her hatred for Shaw and what he did to her father, she said.
"It was enough, that if I had the opportunity, I would have really contemplated killing him,' she said. "I hated him so much because he took my father away just before I was getting married, and my dad was my best friend.'
It wasn't until O'Dell and Shaw both were invited to appear on Oprah Winfrey's television show in 2010 to talk about the dangers of texting and driving that O'Dell began to see his remorse and willingness to tell people about the accident.
"This kid has courage to talk about something so huge,' she said. "To hear him and see how emotional he was talking about it, I said, 'I need to try and forgive this kid.' '
And she has, she said. The two have since become friends while campaigning against the dangers of texting and driving, and both appear in Herzog's film together.
"I love Megan, and I'm extremely grateful for that forgiveness,' Shaw said. "She helped me in ways that no one else can.'
In the meantime, Shaw said the experience of making the film has helped him as well, and he plans to continue talking to groups about the dangers of texting and driving.
"That was one of the most difficult things that I have done,' he said about being interviewed by Herzog for the film. "But I'm grateful for the experience. He [Herzog] challenged me and he questioned me in ways I've never been questioned. It opened my eyes to things and remotivated me to continue [to speak out]. It's something I'm very passionate about, and I don't want anybody to make that same mistake.'


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Young Engineers
There's no better way to get your kid started with electronics than the Adafruit Young Engineers category. These kits, packs, and toys all offer introductions into the world of electronics for aspiring engineers.
Check out our complete line of Circuit Playground Plushies based on our popular YouTube series that's designed to get your kid telling you what a capacitor does instead of asking. Or check out our line of GoldieBlox - one of the best ways to encourage girls to explore STEM fields.
A number of Adafruit's beginner kits are also perfect for engineers of all ages. We carry kits like the Drawdio - which turns your pencil into a theremin through conductive tape - and the ever-popular ARDx that, with your help, can get anyone programming Arduinos at a very young age. Whether you're young, or young at heart, the Adafruit Young Engineers category is perfect for your all your electronics needs!


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Daoud? Is this yours?
I met an Arab contractor from Hevron many years ago. We were considering having him build our home. He invited us to his home in Hevron but since it's illegal for me to go there, not to mention potentially dangerous, I never managed that visit.
We got in a discussion one time about cultures and soon realized we were speaking different languages. He was trying to explain about his family and why it was really so much better than my culture. You see, he has two wives. One is this beautiful young Russian woman who was in her very early 20s at the time. The second one was an Arab woman, "the pathetic one" he called her. She was 46 at the time (and so was I). She had borne him his children and was still his wife but he had taken another – the young one.
He had built them a beautiful home, he told me and kept them both there – the beautiful one and the pathetic one. And, to show you how amazing Islamic law was, he told me, he was very fair. Each night, in succession, he visited each woman. One night here, one night there. I was to commend him, you see because if he wasn't such an amazing person, he would likely have been unfair and spent more time with the beautiful one.
I didn't handle it very well. I wasn't duly impressed. I told him that if I were his wife, I would show him the door and tell him to get out. He thought that was ridiculous. He pointed to my husband and asked if I thought it was better that my husband would sneak off and find another woman instead of being honest and bringing her home as he had. My husband was a wise man. He sat there with a smile on his face, knowing I could and would have what to say.
I smiled back and turned to Daoud and said, if my husband wanted to go to a woman in Tel Aviv, he knows he can go…he just can't come back. Daoud didn't believe me – luckily and happily, my husband does.
In many ways, Daoud crosses cultural lines. He is completely fluent in Hebrew and knows many, many Israelis. He lives a good life, even a rich one. I don't know if this is his house, but I thought of him when someone posted this picture to Facebook. It is an Arab house in Hevron. Daoud told me he had experience building pools and that his house was very large – so that the young wife and the pathetic one had plenty of space.
And I remembered a discussion I once had with someone from the States. He accused us of persecuting the Palestinians, keeping them without electricity and indoor plumbing. He somehow believed that Arabs still ride camels and live in tents.
There are hundreds of homes like this one in Arab areas, perhaps even thousands. Some are in the Bedouin city of Rahat in the desert; others in Ramallah and even in Gaza. If this is how the poor Palestinians are living, I can only wish some day God grants me such poverty.


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Kyara Fortes hadn't been to a dentist for about a year. So, when the 3-year-old and her mother stopped in to the offices of Brockton Area Multi-Services Inc. recently, she visited a tiny back office just big enough for a desk, a filing cabinet, and a collapsible dental chair.
"Do all your teeth feel good? Can you eat all the foods that you like?" dental hygienist Carol Gilmore of Halifax asked, and the bright-eyed girl in pink nodded. "Go, 'Ahhhh.' "
Gilmore inspected Kyara's teeth with a small disposable mirror — "It tickles!," the girl said — before cleaning them and painting on a coat of fluoride, while Kyara clutched Flossy, the stuffed dinosaur with a set of plastic teeth that Gilmore uses to demonstrate good brushing.
Gilmore is a public health hygienist, one of the first licensed under a program created in 2010 to improve access to dental care among low-income children and adults by giving experienced hygienists more authority to deliver preventive care without direct supervision from a dentist.
The state Medicaid program covers dental care for children. Yet, each year, about 200,000 children enrolled in the program do not receive any care from a dentist, said Dr. Brent Martin, dental director for MassHealth.
Thirty-one hygienists have been licensed through the program and have begun working in schools, WIC offices, and other offices that provide social services to low-income children. "We're getting kids treated that otherwise wouldn't have prevention done," Martin said.
In the last state fiscal year, the hygienists served about 6,900 children. While that's a help, he said, there's plenty of room for the program to grow.
At the end of 2012, the US Health Resources and Services Administration estimated that 30.6 million people in the country were "unserved" by dental care, primarily because they live in an area with few providers or they have a low income. In Massachusetts, that figure is 348,040.
Increasingly, states have looked to hygienists as a lower-cost way to expand access and to connect more families to regular dental care, though the efforts have sometimes been met with opposition from dental associations concerned about transferring authority from dentists and adequate training among hygienists.
Including Massachusetts, 35 states have allowed hygienists to do more, according to the American Dental Hygienists' Association. That may include making decisions about patient needs without a dentist checking their work and sometimes operating independent of a dentist. In Colorado, hygienists can have their own practice.
"We support allowing dental teams to do more, because we see that more needs to be done," said Julie Stitzel, campaign manager for the PEW Children's Dental Campaign, which in a recent report highlighted Massachusetts's public health program as a success story.
The Massachusetts program allows hygienists to see MassHealth enrollees for dental screenings, cleanings, and application of sealants or fluoride, though they cannot fill cavities or perform other "restorative" procedures. To qualify, they must have at least three years of experience, train in a public health setting, and have a "collaborative agreement" with a dentist with whom they could consult on patient care. They can only bill MassHealth, not commercial insurers, for their work.
Many of the public health hygienists, like Gilmore, have built upon Massachusetts's tradition of portable dentistry, started by Dr. Mark Doherty, a fifth-generation dentist (his son is the sixth) who began a program in 1979 to deliver dental care to children living in state facilities.
Today, Doherty's Commonwealth Mobile Oral Health Service includes 10 dental teams — a dentist and an assistant — who regularly visit more than 200 sites in Massachusetts, including Head Start programs, preschools, elementary schools, and state-run facilities.
Doherty serves as a collaborating dentist for some public health hygienists, including Gilmore. The challenge in any portable dentistry program, and perhaps more so with the hygienist program, he said, is closing the loop — making sure that the children who have dental decay get the care they need.
The obstacles for low-income families are many. Parents may not be able to take time off work or have transportation (MassHealth may provide it for some), or they may be unfamiliar with dentists.
When a hygienist refers a patient to a dentist for treatment, that's just the first step, Doherty said. "Having the appointment happen and having the treatment happen is the other part." Without those elements, he said, "we're actually abandoning the patient."
Doherty's program includes caseworkers who follow up with families. Gilmore, who began in the public health program with a $10,000 grant from the University of Massachusetts Medical School to help her and a business partner purchase the portable equipment they needed, refers the children she sees who have signs of decay or other problems to a dentist. Later, she can look back at MassHealth records to see if they actually visited one and talk with families who return to her about any obstacles.
Several other portable dental programs have grown up in Massachusetts since Doherty began. The ForsythKids program, part of the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, began sending dentists and hygienists to schools in 2003. Hygienists and assistants affiliated with Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and its partners work at 240 schools and community sites.
Kathy Eklund, a hygienist and patient advocate for ForsythKids, said she expects that the growth of such programs and other changes — for example, physician assistants and other medical providers now can apply fluoride varnish — has improved dental care for Massachusetts children in recent years. Still, she said, "there is a lot of need."
One major obstacle is that only 3 or 4 out of every 10 dentists practicing in the state serve people on MassHealth. The number has grown considerably since 2007, from 797 to 2,295 last year. The Massachusetts Dental Society has been campaigning to get more dentists enrolled. And after consumer advocacy group Health Care for All and its partners sued the state 12 years ago over poor access to dental care for low-income children, MassHealth increased payments to dentists and allowed them to limit the number of Medicaid patients they serve in order to persuade them to accept any.
One area of need mostly unaddressed in the public health program is among low-income adults. MassHealth covers adult cleanings but very few of the procedures needed to treat dental disease. Governor Deval Patrick's proposed budget, released last week, would cover all dental needs for low-income adults, if approved.
Lawmakers in several nearby states could soon consider proposals to create a new licensed dental profession that advocates say would help provide more treatment. Sometimes called a "dental practitioner," it could be similar to a nurse practitioner, allowing hygienists with additional training to do more of the basic restorative work now performed by dentists.
In New Hampshire such a measure was defeated last year, opposed by the state dental society, but advocates are considering proposing it again. Similar efforts are underway in Vermont and Maine. There are no plans for such a change in Massachusetts. Martin said there may not be a need for it.
"The public health dental hygienist program is still a new program and represents a new type of dental health provider," he said. "We need to give it time to get established. I'm confident that we will see continued progress because of the work of these hygienists."
By the numbers
Licensed public health hygienists working in Massachusetts
Estimated number of children served by public health hygienists last fiscal year
Chelsea Conaboy can be reached at cconaboy@
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HOUSTON (AP) — Celebrity cook Paula Deen fought back tears as she was greeted by a supportive crowd during an appearance at a Houston cooking show.
Saturday's event was Deen's first public appearance since June when it was revealed that in an earlier legal deposition she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past. Within a few days the Food Network yanked her show off the air, Smithfield Foods dropped her as a celebrity endorser, and retailers such as Wal-Mart removed her products from shelves.
The Houston Chronicle reports about 1,500 people gave Deen a standing ovation Saturday when she appeared at the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show. She told them their hearts were "as big as your state."
Deen held two cooking demonstrations, including tips on how to make peanut butter pie.
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Tomatoes from the Garden
Tomato sorbet, tomato powder, pickled tomatoes
This is my take on one of those plates of food that should only be served as part of many courses in a well-heeled restaurant. But with kilos of tomatoes ripening at the end of summer last year and limited desire to turn them all into passata, there was an opportunity to try some new techniques and play around a bit. One of the most surprising things was just how well the elements work as preservers. A sorbet whose refreshing tanginess could be paired sweet or savoury; pickled tomatoes pack a punch to lift salads up a notch; a tomato powder that uses leftover skins and seeds to deliver an unami hit to anything it's sprinkled over.
The stars of the show are all out of season in Europe now but hopefully this will serve friends in warmer climes at this time of year. Besides, it's nice to bring some summer back now the weather has turned.
Two chefs inspired these. Firstly, Quique Dacosta's restaurant in Denia which I was fortunate enough to visit last summer. His playful and minimal approach to Mediterranean cuisine is a showcase of creativity and innovation, and one of the highlights for me was a plate that explored many interpretations of the Spanish staple: the tomato. Secondly, Thomas Keller's book 'The French Laundry' captures life inside and the inspiration behind an American institution. Although TFL is rumoured to be on the slide and its sister restaurant Per Se was ruthlessly taken down in the NYT this week, the book is one of the best kitchen companions for fine-tuning technique, inspiring pairings and impeccable presentation. His respect for ingredients and the importance of deriving pleasure from cooking clearly come through in every recipe and the refreshing first course tomato offerings are no exception.
The elements of the dish work well on their own in other dishes or together, so here's the recipe for the sorbet, powder, and my own for the pickled tomatoes. The basil oil and parmesan crisps can be found in TFL book or elsewhere online…
Tomato Sorbet (from The French Laundry)
1kg ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped into small pieces
1 tablespoon sunflower oil
50g yellow onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
pinch of chopped tarragon
pinch of cayenne
210ml simple syrup
1/2 orange zest, julienned and brought to a boil in cold water, strained three times
Simmer the tomatoes for 45 minutes on a medium heat, stirring frequently until reduced by half.
Meanwhile gently cook the onion in the oil for around 7-8 minutes until tender
Blend the onions and tomatoes until smooth and pass through a tamis or fine sieve. Return 240ml of mixture to the blender, add the remaining ingredients and blend again before straining in a chinois. Cool in the fridge before freezing 350ml in a prepared ice-cream machine.
Tomato Powder (from The French Laundry)
1/2 cup finely chopped tomato pulp (from a peeled and seeded tomato)
Squeeze the tomato pulp in a towel to extract the excess moisture. Line a microwave tray with parchment paper and spread the tomatoes on in a thin layer. Microwave on the lowest possible power for 30 minutes, or until the pulp is completely dried out (also possible to dry in a low oven). It should retain its vibrant colour. Let cool to room temperature.
Grind the dried pulp in a coffee or spice grinder until very fine. If the mix is too wet, return to the microwave for 1-2 minutes more. Sift through a sieve to separate any remaining unbroken bits and store in a plastic container.
Pickled Tomatoes
The tomatoes can be peeled for a quicker brine.
15-25 cherry tomatoes
250ml red wine vinegar
5 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons salt
2 garlic cloves, peeled
sprig of rosemary or thyme
Sterilise the jars the pickle will be in. Peel the tomatoes. Combine the vinegar, sugar and 250ml of water in a pan an simmer for 5 minutes.
Place peeled tomatoes in the sterilised jars, add the garlic, herbs and any other seasonings you'd like. Pour over the pickling solution to the top of the jar and seal. Peeled tomatoes should be eaten within a week or they'll go too soft.


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Business and markets are inherently related. However, strict focus on markets can prove misleading when trying to assess the realities of business. That contrast has been an important theme within the beef complex during the past 6-12 months; February was certainly no exception. The market surged in mid-February but margins remain tough all around.
Cattle feeders managed to hang tough and bump the fed market up to $129. That action was driven by renewed strength over on the wholesale side – the Choice cutout now encroaching $200. Higher prices always mean stronger profits – right? Nope. In fact, neither packers nor feeders are in desirable positions.
From strictly a market perspective, February's market surge shouldn't be interpreted as an "all-clear" signal. Much of it stemmed from slowing chain speed to create some room for margin; cattle feeders failed to exploit that strategy and gave all the benefit back to the packer. That just prolongs the string of bad weeks. It hasn't happened yet, but at some point the packer has to push back. It'll likely begin if or when downstream buyers abstain because of higher prices. That could prove very disruptive to the market.
Therein enters concerns about potential consumer warning signs within the economy. Most notably, when it comes to gas price volatility, John Eichberger, vice president of motor fuels for the National Association of Convenience Stores, explains that "…for the consumer it's emotional, not necessarily a logical purchase. They go to extraordinary measures [to avoid higher prices]." That becomes especially important in the spring as we emerge from winter hibernation – we're starting 2012 at already-high levels. So, rising gas prices may, or be perceived to, assert their bite on take-home income – and could potentially curb overall consumer spending.
That's especially important given the backdrop of new reports about the state of the consumer. Bankrate reports that 27% of Americans possess a lower level of financial security compared to a year ago (vs. only 24% reporting better security); meanwhile, 38% indicate they're less comfortable with their savings level vs. last year (only 14% reporting being more comfortable). That's the macro view; now, let's turn our attention to the internal drivers.
Higher prices don't equal better profits. That's true for the packer and also manifested in the feeding sector. The illustration below highlights steady erosion of margin at time of placement (not to be confused with closeouts). This results from excess feeding capacity chasing a diminishing supply of feeder cattle (the "feed truck premium") coupled with higher feed prices. Clearly, some of that lost margin is made up in other areas (i.e., grid marketing, hedging strategies, etc.), but the trend is important – enduring margin squeeze.
Margin compression is especially important from an investment standpoint. Consider that during the first 13 weeks of 2007, the crush margin averaged about $140/head; the most recent 13 weeks has that value around $80/head. Now, put that in perspective of capital-at-risk (initial feeder cost plus corn): $990/head in 2007 vs. current outlay of about $1,495/head. The risk-reward equation is upside down. Where does that leave us?
Margin pressure manifests itself in business execution and potentially impacts the market. The packer slows down throughput. The cattle feeder willingly obliges because of stabilizing feed prices and limited replacement supply on the other side of the sale. However, the market is subject to unraveling fairly quickly if: 1) The consumer begins to push back and/or, 2) front-end supply becomes sufficiently large to erode feedyard bargaining leverage. If those factors manifest themselves, the situation could be self-reinforcing.
Are spring highs potentially in place? That remains to be seen. Either way, the run of late is impressive. It's the result of many years of hard work. Who would have guessed in 2009 that fed cattle would be priced at $130, or Choice product at $200?
But it also means increased capital requirements to maintain business operations and tighter working margins all around; in other words, routine, daily business decisions are less forgiving. Return OF capital becomes the driver (vs. return ON capital). With that said, careful management of downside risk becomes ever more important. Remain objective, stay informed!
Managing Today's Downside Risk Is Critical
Business and markets are inherently related. However, strict focus on markets can prove misleading when trying to assess the realities of business. That contrast has been an important theme within the beef complex during the past 6-12 months; February was certainly no exception. The market surged in mid-February but margins remain tough all around.


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A Stone's throw away from luxury in Rhode Island
Seaside luxury, history and green technology intermingle comfortably in the new Stone House hotel and resort on Sakonnet Point.
The stone mansion built by entrepreneur and Civil War hero David Sisson in 1854 has been completely restored and updated under the direction of its new owners, Craig Pishotti and Zachary Miller.
In 2007 the business partners bought the historic stone mansion, which has been an inn since the 1950s, and began an extensive multi-million dollar overhaul. The property consists of a rustic tavern and 10 hotel rooms and suites in the stone mansion and an additional 3 luxury suites, an upscale restaurant and a holistic spa in the repurposed barn.
Hotel guests will also have access to two private beaches on Round Pond Road, which borders the property, and a captained 59-foot Hinckley yacht with restaurant service.
Set on a vista overlooking Round Pond and the ocean beyond it, the Stone House's renovation included restoration of the glass rooftop cupola and the wrap-around porches, which were destroyed in the Hurricane of 1938.
The rooms in the stone mansion have been painstakingly restored and reconfigured from the previous inn to create additional rooms and suites. Several rooms have access to their own private portions of the porch and the cupola was incorporated into the Lantern Room, which has a spiral staircase leading up to the Lucite floor in the cupola. "To me this would be the ultimate place for an engagement," Pishotti said.
"You could also have an in-room spa service here."
A formal living room with an Eastlake period fireplace is now the David Sisson suite and raised stars that were once on the ceiling of the ballroom now adorn the Star suite. The Barry suite offers one of the most panoramic views with access to three sides of the wrap-around porch. A soapstone fireplace and an egg-shaped Italian tub in the center of the huge bathroom add to the ambience in that suite. Every room and suite was designed uniquely with different décor, spa tubs and showers.
"I'm really proud of the restoration," Pishotti said. "It's a blend of the old and the new."
While they sought to maintain the serenity and tranquility of the area, they also didn't leave behind the modern conveniences. Every room is equipped with iPod docking stations, Bose surround sound, WiFi and iTouch to download movies.
The basement of the house, rumored to be a taproom during Prohibition, is the site of one of two restaurants on the property.
Named 1854 after the year the house was built, the tavern will serve reasonably priced, updated versions of classic comfort food. The classic New England tavern with an original stone fireplace and a basement view of the ocean, is expected to be completed in mid-July.
Pishotti said they hired nationally recognized chef Paul Wade as executive chef overseeing 1854 and the more upscale restaurant, Pietra, after holding "Top Chef"-style interviews with chefs from across the country. "His food is brilliant. It's authentic and genuine," said Pishotti.
Pietra, Italian for "stone," is a contemporary, chic restaurant with stunning views of the mansion's property and ocean from its stone patio and glass walls. Wade, a proponent of local, seasonal fare, has crafted an imaginative and inspiring menu based around local produce, seafood, meat, poultry and cheese.
The barn also houses three contemporary luxury suites: osprey, heron and plover, named for the seabirds that dot the nearby shore. Miller, an architect and Rhode Island School of Design graduate, called on fellow RISD graduate, Denise Schmidt to design quilts for the hotel rooms. The sleek, modern suites in the barn feature private balconies, spa soaking tubs and gas-fired fireplaces.
The quilts, along with work from local artists Tiffany Peay and Amy Lund, will be for sale in the resort's Goosewing Spa. Peay designed a gemstone ring that will be sold exclusively in the spa store.
Spa director Alfredo Madero, who most recently headed up the spa at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, said they called upon the beauty of Little Compton and the history of the Stone House in shaping the natural, holistic direction of the Goosewing Spa. Mornings begin with yoga sun salutations on the beach, lawn or outdoor yoga deck depending on the preference of the hotel guests. They'll also offer tai chi and pilates classes. Guided meditation will be offered in the afternoon and Madero said he's planning on bringing nationally recognized spiritual leaders to speak at the resort.
"We want to enhance the connection between mind, body and spirit," said Madero.
A winding uphill labyrinth of stone and sea glass leads guests from the stone mansion to the entrance to the spa. Madero said the purpose of the one-directional labyrinth is to start the process of centering spa guests. The four-stage spa ritual involves a foot soak and cleansing at the entrance to the spa, followed by an aromatherapy soak, massage and treatments to cleanse, detoxify and restore the body.
The high-tech spa tables are equipped with colored chakra lighting, which Madero says is used to restore the body's seven channels of energy. Four points of acoustics on the tables are also meant to enhance the restorative effect.
Madero selected two natural product lines, seasonal plant-based and locally produced Farmaesthetics and marine-based Osea for the spa.
"They're two of the most natural, sustainable products made in the United States," Madero said.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Properties, the renovations maintained the architectural integrity of the historic home's exterior while integrating green technology.
Reclaimed timber from the barn was used on the bars and tables; slate on the roof of the stone mansion was cataloged and reinstalled. The heating and cooling system relies on geothermal technology and 100 percent of the lighting comes from solar panels.
Miller and Pishotti met while in a bidding war for a Little Compton residence. Miller ended up with the property and Pishotti eventually bought the house next door. Pishotti, a graduate of Cornell University with extensive background in the hotel and resort industry, became friends and eventually business partners with Miller, forming the Goosewind Resort and Hotel Corporation. They worked on the restoration of the Weekapaug Inn in Westerly and this is their first ownership venture.
It's no mistake that the hotel garnered a highly sought mention in the June issue of Vogue magazine under the "People are Talking About" heading: The owners are marketing the upscale resort nationally as well as targeting an audience within a three-hour drive from areas such as New York, Boston and Connecticut's wealthy Fairfield County.
But Pishotti said they're hoping to appeal to a broad range of customers, particularly with the two restaurants. As a resident of the area, Pishotti said the restaurants are a needed addition in a town with too few places to eat.
"The prices at 1854 are reasonable enough for people to eat there a few times a week, and Pietra's a little more refined and upscale," Pishotti said.
The hotel and Pietra are scheduled to be open on July 1 and Pishotti said the tavern 1854 is slated to be completed in mid-July.
Reservations at Pietra are recommended. For more information, call 401-635-2222 or log on to www.stonehouse1854.com.
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