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The news of the Connecticut shootings made me angry, then heartbroken. I cannot begin to imagine the pain the families of the victims are feeling, or the pain of the children that survived and have to deal with great loss so early in their lives.
I don't believe we should ever mention the criminals in these types of crimes. They should remain nameless – "Devil Walking" – that's how they should be referred to. Never should they be reported by name, never should they be remembered. Take away the fame and the pictures, the stories of their lives. They are a Devil Walking doing unspeakable harm, and that's all anyone needs to know.
If they are brave enough to live through their crime spree then they should forever be stripped of their identity, they should have their names taken away and be made to spend the rest of their lives sending financial support to the families of the victims. With a consequence like that they might think before committing such crimes. Where are their rights? They gave them up when they took the lives of others.
Yet, the mass shooting Devils perform the ultimate cowardly act of committing suicide and going down in history. Stop it! They don't need to be remembered. The innocent lives they took – THOSE people are worth remembering, they were stripped of their lives, their hopes, their dreams, all taken in an instant.
On the flip side of this I can only say that mental instability is a growing problem. The answer – don't just pray. Prayer is good, but prayer is NOT ENOUGH! Get involved, be aware of the people in your life. Take time to get to know them individually. Take time to find out what they are going through and if they need help, offer it if you can, or offer them a place to genuinely find help, above all – CARE.
There are at this very moment people all around each and every one of us that are hurting. The economy is bad, there are people going through job loss, financial worries, sickness and dealing with losing family members and friends. How many people do you ask how they are doing each day, and actually stay around to hear the answer? Do you just want to see them smile and say "fine" So you can go on your way? Would you like someone to ask you how you're doing and know that they care what you say next?
It's interesting how in an age when we are all so "connected" with social media sites and texting, we are disconnected for the actual events in each other's lives. Those people that share their problems in the social media world can be shoved to the hidden lists or skipped over if they complain too much, or if things never seem to get better for them, God forbid the issues last too long. It's easy to stop answering the texts or stop checking on someone if they are continuously having a hard time, don't move on, or things don't improve after a while. We are not a society that breeds patience.
Seeking help for working through problems, divorce, grief, job loss, abuse, health problems, from a therapist needs to stop being a stigma. If you need the help, get it. Stop worrying about what the masses think or say, it doesn't matter what the social world thinks, what matters is that you are healthy and living the best life possible.
What's that saying? It takes a village to raise a child? How about we rewrite that to read – it takes a community of caring individuals working together to create and maintain a healthy environment to live in. Let's start today, reach out to the people in your life and get to know them, you will be glad you did and so will they.
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I wrote recently on the bizarre spaghetti graph from Guliya – where three inconsistent versions have been used in 2006 articles. I think that I may have a good first step at decoding this mess, as illustrated in the comparison below of the PNAS 2006, Climatic Change 2004 and Yang 2002 versions (used again in Yang 2006).
Figure 1. Scaled Guliya dO18 values for versions from Thompson et al 2006 (PNAS), Thompson et al 2004 (Climatic Change) and Yang et al 2002 (GRL).
Squint first at the Clim Chg 2004 version and compare it to the 2nd panel – it looks to me like that dates of the core have been made younger in the 2nd panel – for example, the blue values in the 18th and 19th century in the top panel all seem to be in the 19th century in the PNAS version. It's a bit of a guess, but I think that the 1604 start date of the PNAS 2006 version corresponds to about 1400 in the Climatic Change version. On that basis, the Climatic Change version would not include any values from the MWP from 1000-1200.
The Yang version also looks to me like it's dated younger than the Climatic Change 2004 version. The downspike in about 1250 in the Climatic Change version looks like it occurs about 1450 in the Yang 2002 version. The 20th century values in the Yang version are at "anomalous" levels, but are not anomalous in the more recent PNAS version. What accounts for the difference?
And of course, Thompson won't show the sample data. Now Al Gore has used Thompson's hockey stick, so I doubt that there's anyway short of a court order under which Thompson will release the sample data to reconcile this mess.

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Summer Solstice. The longest day of the year, in terms of sunlight, and also the first day of summer. I've never celebrated it before, because, really, it's just never been important to me. But, I wake up Sunday morning and feel empty. It's one of the side effects of starting a new life and just getting going. It's an uphill battle to feel acclimated, and one I'm really not used to climbing.
I just need to do something for me.
For the past month, I have been overwhelmed. Filled with stress over acquiring my student visa for Spain, importing my cats from Thailand, feeling utterly lost and a myriad of other things. I've been hauled up in my flat, motionless as I try to sort out who I am, where I am and what the hell I am doing with my life.
But, on this morning, I try to take control back. I want to have that love which first encompassed me in Madrid five years ago. Now, when I walk through the streets, there is rarely any awe. It's like I am taking life in Europe for granted, and I feel like a giant ass for doing it. My goal? To see if the best sunset in Madrid is at Temple of Debod.
Tonight, I will celebrate the sun sinking at 9:45 p.m. I will explore my city. I will stop, sit on a terrace, have a glass of wine, and think.
I begin my journey to Temple of Debod heading up Calle Embajadores and onto the Royal Palace.
When the enormous palace comes into my vision, I close my eyes and recall when I was there five years ago. The excitement within me for being in Madrid, for being in Europe. I watch as people armed with selfie sticks pose in front of the lush gardens.
Then, I continue on, circling around the Palace and onto Temple of Debod. It isn't what I envisioned, but it is beautiful. But, I've got two hours until the sun is set to sink. So, I head to a cafe and grab a vino blanco and pause.
When I notice the colors turning from washed out to gold, I grab my la cuenta and head back down the street.
A few ruins from ancient Egypt were moved to Madrid in late 1960s and opened to the public in 1972. Dating back to 200 BC, today, this spot is the best spot to catch the sunset in Madrid. Seriously. Or, at least that's what every person here tells me.
Tonight, the crowd seems to agree. People are everywhere, splayed out on picnic blankets in the grass, sitting on a ledge of a fountain, dipping their feet into the pool.
There's a fence and then a drop to the parking lot, and that's where I head. From the fence, Madrid splays out in front of me. Pinks and yellows and churches and green and then, in the distance, the mountains.
With an hour left, I contemplate leaving but know if I do, I will be angry at myself for doing so. This is supposed to be a time to reflect on me, and leaving before the sun goes down is cheating.
So, I stand there, leaning against the fence. Watching couples make out, families with their children, joggers, friends lining up for photos.
As the sun begins to dip lower in the sky, people start to crowd the fence where I am, getting too close to me when I am trying to find my own space. I close my eyes and remember to breathe.
Then, the sun goes from an orb that burns my eyes to a ball of fiery orange and begins to move lower and lower in the horizon.
In a matter of minutes, it disappears behind the mountains which now glow purple.
Just like that, the sun has disappeared.
I stand there for a moment, grasping for some sense of peace I so desperately need.
Live in the moment. Let things go. Don't go through the motions of life. Live, like you always tell other people to do. Let this sunset take with you all of the things you've been holding inside and sink away into the distance.
And then, an applause comes from the crowd. Those people, they get it. They know the sun has set on another day, and there will never be this day again.
I walk slowly back to my flat, knowing once I am home, I will have the comfort of my cats, a roof over my head, and a life to live.
As for Temple of Debod being the best place to watch the sunset in Madrid? What do you think?


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The One Laptop Per Child Project would welcome Intel back if the chipmaker returned to the group, the head of OLPC said Tuesday.
The statement came just days after Intel quit the group's board of directors over what it said was OLPC's insistence that it abandon a rival low-cost laptop developed by Intel, the Classmate PC. OLPC has said it asked no such thing of Intel, and that it welcomes the Classmate PC because the more low-cost laptops there are available, the more likely they'll get into the hands of children in the developing world.
"It was very unfortunate what happened with Intel, and I hope there's a way of rebuilding it in the future because there's no interest in OLPC pushing Intel out. It just is not in our interest. Our goal is to get this to as many children as possible," said Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC, in an interview.
He called it unfortunate that Intel made statements that OLPC asked the chipmaker to stop working on the Classmate PC. "The picture that painted was one of OLPC being anti-competition, which is ridiculous. We'd like to see as many laptops out there as possible and kids have the widest choice possible," he said.
Intel would be willing to talk with OLPC, said Agnes Kwan, an Intel manager. But she added that the organizational break-up came about because of differences that the groups have been so far unable to resolve.
The OLPC Project started as an attempt to build a $100 laptop aimed at kids in poor nations, but the laptop from the group, the XO, will likely end up costing nearly double that amount, initially. The organizers of the effort, led by academics and researchers from MIT, hope heavy volume sales of the laptops will drive down costs.
The goal of OLPC is to make sure nobody misses out on the benefits of computing. The fear is that the price of a PC is keeping too many people in developing countries from learning how the software, Internet, and communications benefits of computing can improve their economies, job prospects, and lives, or that poor countries will fall further behind the modern world due to their inability to access computers, a conundrum commonly referred to as the "digital divide."


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When you combine a compound like water with intense heat, said water evaporates. No mystery there. But when you throw extreme pressure into the mix, something funny happens. The compound can actually achieve what is called a "supercritical" fluid state, taking on properties of liquid and gas alike.
Now, astronomers at MIT have revealed that exoplanet 55 Cancri e — once thought to be a dry, rocky world — may be literally oozing with supercritical fluids.
The discovery is a strange one, to be sure. Supercritical fluids, which are commonly described as "liquid-like gasses" are pretty wacky, and posses some totally bizarre properties (there is, for example, no surface tension in a supercritical fluid... yeah, wrap your head around that, why don't you). But this drastic revision in our understanding of the planet's surface characteristics also calls attention the incredibly mysterious nature of exoplanets in general.
55 Cancri e (an artist's rendition is pictured up top, situated beside Earth) is an old-school exoplanetary discovery; identified all the way back in 2004, 55 Cancri e belongs to the relatively small collection of extrasolar planets discovered prior to the planet-hunting days of NASA's highly productive Kepler telescope. That means we've had more time than usual to get familiar with it.
And we've learned quite a bit over the course of eight years. Since its initial discovery, several characteristics of the Neptune-Mass planet have come under revision. Its orbital period, for example (the time it takes to make one trip around its star) was changed from 2.8 days to less than 18 hours. Once thought to be the densest known planet in the galaxy, another team of astronomers soon showed that this was not the case.
Now, using data from NASA's Spitzer space telescope, atmospheric scientist Brice-Olivier Demory and his colleagues at MIT may have the proof they need (their findings are still in the peer-review stage) for one of the most mysterious revisions to date; "[The team's] observations," writes NASA's Tony Phillips, "suggest that 55 Cancri e may be wetter and weirder than anyone imagined." With newly identified exoplanets tallying up faster than ever before, there's no telling what strange, wonderful worlds await our discovery (and rediscovery) here in our galaxy.
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[Below is the full text of Solomon Schechter's address, "Higher Criticism—Higher Anti-Semitism", delivered at the Judaean Banquet, given in honor of Dr. Kaufman Kohler, March 26, 1903. The text is from Seminary Address and Other Papers (Cincinnati: Ark Publishing, 1915), 35-39.]
My acquaintance with Dr. Kohler dates from the year 1901, when he did me the honor of paying me a visit at Cambridge, England. There is no scarcity in that ancient seat of learning, "full of sages and scribes," of learned conversation. But the day with Dr. Kohler was one of the most delightful I have ever experienced in that place. The day was spent in roaming over the contents of the Genizah and in conversation. Our thoughts were turned to Judaism and the subjects which occupied our minds were all of a theological or historical nature. We probably differed in a good many points, and please God we shall differ in many more—but this did not prevent our short acquaintance from ripening at once into what might approach friendship. I felt that I was in the presence of a scholar and a seeker after truth. His is an intellect devoted entirely to what he considers the truth, and his is a heart deeply affected by every spiritual sensation which is in the air. He also delights to engage in what he considers the "Battles oo the Lord," and Judaism has need for men of valor.
To speak more clearly: Since the so-called emancipation, the Jews of the civilized world have been lulled into a fancied security which events have not justified. It is true that through the revelation in the Dreyfus case, anti-Semitism of the vulgar sort has become odious, and no lady or gentleman dares now to use the old weapons of the times of Drumont and Stoecker. But the arch-enemy has entered upon a new phase, which Boerne might have called "the philosophic 'Hep-Hep.' " And this is the more dangerous phase because it is of a spiritual kind, and thus means the "excision of the soul," leaving us no hope for immortality. I remember when I used to come home from the Cheder, bleeding and crying from the wounds inflicted upon me by the Christian boys, my father used to say, "My child, we are in Galuth (exile), and we must submit to God's will." And he made me understand that this is only a passing stage in history, as we Jews belong to eternity, when God will comfort His people. Thus the pain was only physical, but my real suffering began later in life, when I emigrated from Roumania to so-called civilized countries and found there what I might call the Higher anti-Semitism, which burns the soul though it leaves the body unhurt. The genesis of this Higher anti-Semitism is partly, though not entirely—for a man like Kuenen belongs to an entirely different class—contemporaneous with the genesis of the so-called Higher criticism of the Bible. Wellhausen's Prolegomena and History are teeming with aperçes full of venom against Judaism, and you cannot wonder that he was rewarded by one of the highest orders which the Prussian Government had to bestow. Afterwards Harnack entered the arena with his "Wesen des Christenthums," in which he showed not so much his hatred as his ignorance of Judaism. But this Higher anti-Semitism has now reached its climax when every discovery of recent years is called to bear witness against us and to accuse us of spiritual larceny.
Some time ago I saw in one of the numerous sheets of this country a reference to the Hammurabi Code, concluding with the words, "this means a blow to Orthodoxy." I hold no brief for Orthodoxy in this country or elsewhere. But, may I ask: Is there any wing in Judaism which is prepared to confirm the reproach of Carlyle, who, in one of his anti-Semitic fits, exclaimed, "The Jews are always dealing in old clothes; spiritual or material." We are here between ourselves, so we may frankly make the confession that we did not invent the art of printing; we did not discover America, in spite of Kayserling; we did not inaugurate the French Revolution, in spite of some one else; we were not the first to utilize the power of steam or electricity, in spite of any future Kayserling. Our great claim to the gratitude of mankind is that we gave to the world the word of God, the Bible. We have stormed heaven to snatch down this heavenly gift, as the Paitanic expression is; we threw ourselves into the breach and covered it with our bodies against every attack; we allowed ourselves to be slain by hundreds and thousands rather than become unfaithful to it; and we bore witness to its truth and watched over its purity in the face of a hostile world. The Bible is our sole raison d'être, and it is just this which the Higher anti-Semitism is seeking to destroy, denying all our claims for the past, and leaving us without hope for the future.
Can any section among us afford to concede to this professorial and imperial anti-Semitism and confess "for a truth we and our ancestors have sinned'" we have lived on false pretenses and were the worst shams in the world? Forget not that we live in an historical age in which everybody must show his credentials from the past. The Bible is our patent of nobility granted to us by the Almighty God, and if we disown the Bible, leaving it to the tender mercies of a Wellhausen, Stade and Duhm, and other beautiful souls working away at diminishing the "nimbus of the Chosen Peope," the world will disown us. There is no room in it for spiritual parvenus. But this intellectual persecution can only be fought by intellectual weapons and unless we make an effort to recover our Bible and to think out our theology for ourselves, we are irrevocably lost from both worlds. A mere protest in the pulpit or a vigorous editorial in a paper, or an amateur essay in a monthly, or even a special monograph will not help us. We have to create a really living, great literature, and do the same for the subjects of theology and the Bible that Europe has done for Jewish history and philology. It is in view of this fact that I hail Dr. Kohler's election to the Presidency of the Hebrew Union College as a happy event in the annals of American Jewry; for under his guidance I am sure Cincinnati will, in good time, contribute its share to this great "battle of duty." Some amiable persons predict jealousy and strife between the two colleges, and are already preparing to enjoy the fight as disinterested spectators. I am certain that they will prove false prophets, for the old dictum that the students of the Torah increase peace in the world, holds good also in our day. But let me say to you that this yearning after peace, on my part, is not to be taken as a sign of my entertaining any doubt as to the soundness of my theological position, or fear of a strenuous life. I am, as a rule, not given to mental squinting, nor have I ever shunned a fight. But I honor and admire Dr. Kohler too much to take up the position of an antagonist. Besides, you have probably heard the story of that Methodist parson who rebuked one of his parishioners who occasionally indulged in wife-beating, with the words: "How can you spend your time in fighting your wife, when you both should be fighting the devil?" In fact, I feel that we are standing now before a crisis which would stigmatize the indulgence in such a fight as treason to the cause of Judaism; we must gather our forces and fight the enemy; and Dr. Kohler, by his wide learning, contagious enthusiasm and noble character, is the right man in the right place to marshal a part of these forces, which may, by the blessing of God, help us to victory.
Schechter's "philosophic Hep-Hep" refers to the Hep-Hep Riots of 1819 beginning in Würzburg and spreading to other areas. It was the most widespread Western European pogrom in modern times until the Holocaust, and was instigated by those opposing emancipation (i.e., an equality of civil rights) for the Jews.


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Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
Considering how "casual" the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a mere glimpse into the turmoil and tragedies that overcame Naples. Yet, in some ways, this technique proves far more vibrant than the traditional presentations of historical events which most of us have experienced in the course of our schooling. Not to say Taylor hasn't studied his subject or done his extensive research.
- Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay
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Hats Off to the City of Naples: An Underestimated Work of Art
If you should choose to stroll about though the lanes and byways of this ancient city under the guidance of Benjamin Taylor, you'll find yourself literally sauntering through history. His pace is leisurely, yet it includes exposures to its many conquerors and evidence of conquests over the centuries. More: it gives us a keen sense of the particular ardors, the passions which occupied each period in its past. All this, as he uncovers a captivating picture of the achievements still on view in this city today!
Considering how "casual" the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a mere glimpse into the turmoil and tragedies that overcame Naples. Yet, in some ways, this technique proves far more vibrant than the traditional presentations of historical events which most of us have experienced in the course of our schooling. Not to say Taylor hasn't studied his subject or done his extensive research. He has spent some sixteen years and eleven visits to the Southern metropolis, as well as, in the many islands surrounding it, whose greater appeal has brought endless streams of visitors in its direction in the first place: Capri, Ischia, Sorrento, Positano.
He has wandered among these people, looking, admiring, sometimes gaping at what he saw, but persistently querying, asking his questions while befriending the Neapolitans. And this is not to mention the extensive research he has done on their history in their libraries.
The wonder of it is how little all this labor invades the tone and style of his book. He reminds us first off about how little this city has been regarded in Italy and in all of Europe. Certainly, it seldom is considered within the realm of such wonders as Venice or Florence or Rome! Mostly, it has been ignored by world travelers, in their whirlwind tours and when visited at all, even despised. Henry James, who saw it in 1907, reportedly spoke of it as city "at best wild and weird and sinister," though he added that Naples nonetheless continued "at her ease in her immense national dignity." But Taylor immediately qualifies his comment with:
What has escaped no traveler is that this oval bay, arms reaching out irregularly into the Tyrrhenian, islands beautifully situated to either side of the mouth of the harbor, makes the loveliest of geologic settings— not least because it is equipped with a reminder of how provisional all loveliness is. Vesuvius, this coast's incomparable emblem of uncertainty, in whose shadow a hundred fifty generations have lived: Vesuvius, which "again and again destroys itself," as Goethe says, "and declares war on any sense of beauty."
And then Taylor reveals for us a whole new world about this swarming metropolis. His opening anecdote alone, particularly struck me, given that I'd myself had a similar incident when there upon my own short visit years back, as well as the same extraordinary recovery he describes.
Like most of us, of course, he had heard endless warnings about the city's dirt, its dangers, its "gifted pickpockets," not only in Naples itself, but all over the Italian South. He determined to be super cautious. So, he put his passport in his sock before "wading into the teeming streets" to head immediately for the stately gem of the city, its Duomo. Alas, when he realizes, hours later, that the passport had "ridden up my sock and was now somewhere on the cathedral floor," he rushes desperately back, tracing his steps and finally arriving back at the Duomo. All the while, in a panic, finding his primitive Italian totally deserting him, and then worse, discovering that this was the afternoon of the week when it was closed to visitors, he despairs. His anguish builds in the intense heat of the day when an elderly man sitting in the shade before the central entry speaks up to him while holding and waving his lost passport! Concludes Taylor, "This miracle, this superb gentilezza, is for real!"
Thus do we embark. Beginning with debunking the many prejudices surrounding the City, he swings over to its admirers during the centuries with a review of the such greats in their experiences of Naples as Sir Philip Sidney, John Milton, Tobias Smollett, Lord Byron, James Boswell and more. And, given the ordeals of such travel in their times, such stays could last for months, even years. In fact, Taylor remarks, always such journeys "culminated at Naples, from which one began the journey home" and meant awaiting their ships.
The author designates himself "a traveling citizen," adapting Walter Benjamin's phrase, to distinguish himself from vast numbers of "tourists'' visible and scurrying all around him in Italy. Above all, he specifies that if there be one rule such a citizen comprehends, it is that "there are some things you will never understand no matter how you try." It strikes me as a fine way to start his peregrination with the reader.
And, this makes way for his next striking observation concerning the spirit of the city. Naples, he tells us, was long a Greek colony, a City of Pagan devotions. From as far back at 1800 B.C, when the Mycenean traders establish themselves at Vivara, an island located between Ischia and Procida, and well into the fourth century B.C. when the Roman dominated, it remained in their hands. Taylor shows us how this spirit pervades it still.
He observes that "…Naples was a civilization founded by Hellenes, and 'Greekness' has been, despite chances and changes, the living subterranean truth of the place." It was named by them Parthenope, for the Siren who flung herself into the gulf and washed ashore after Odysseus rejected her. And he reminds us that:
Greece gave the Romans their gods, their arts, their sciences, their fundamental sentiment of life: Roman culture is Greco-Roman. What was most essential to Roman poets and historians was their Greek patrimony: the vitalistic pessimism, in a word, the gift for facing without false hope the conditions of our humanity.
And, thus after 326 BC, when it was defeated by Rome militarily, Naples proceeded to conquer their arts! As Horace would later put it, "Conquered Greece conquered its barbaric conqueror." Taylor explains how Naples spread this Greek approach to life as "natural, canny, disabused" throughout the Roman Empire, and preserved that special spirit locally as well. With such Neapolitan notions as, "… on land, the Mother of God has her dominion: but Sirens rule the bay," he takes us back to that Greek goddess. He adds to this only the common saying in Napoli "that the land may be Christian but the water is pagan!"
So does he gallop through its history calling Naples "Europe's most extraordinary hybrid" and demonstrating for us many great periods of conquest after Rome, for example, the reign of Frederick the Second around the 13th Century, and then of Robert the Wise in the 14th, when that emperor brought such eminent artists to his court as Giotto and Boccacio. Later still there was that of the Bourbon Charles, who was to become the builder, among other wonders, of Naples' grand opera house, the Teatro San Carlo.
He brings forward yet other architectural marvels that are to seen there, and shows how Spanish Baroque predominates, but that many other styles are on display in all their splendor, among them Renaissance masterworks like Santa Anna dei Lombardi, only recently restored, or San Giovanni a Carbonara.
He moves through the centuries with ease, chatting about its distinguished visitors, a star-studded cast including Caesar Augustus, Pliny the Elder, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Petrarch, and later still such as Mozart, Goethe and Leopardi, on to Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia.
Better still, he relates all kinds of odd incident and anecdote about the Bay of Naples' attachments surrounding such historic figures. There is, for example, his tale, still often told among the foreign colony, about Caesar Augustus:
Octavius, not yet Caesar Augustus, first of many a sacred monster to attach himself to the island, in 29 B.C. traded Ischia, a possession nearly five times larger, for Capri. Upon his first arrival, Suetonius reports, a withered holm oak had miraculously put forth new growth, convincing the emperor that here was the great good place. He returned frequently throughout his reign. In the summer of 14, nearer to death than he knew, Augustus sought repose and amusement among the natives, ordering Greeks to wear the toga and seek Latin and Roman to put on the chiton and speak Greek.…
And then too, there are Taylor's own experiences while there in Naples, his many encounters with natives, those strangers who have approached, spotting him as an "Americano" and wondered, for instance, what he might be researching over months and months in their great libraries. His meeting with Gabriella, for instance, who is really eager to talk to him about her recent readings of William Faulkner and complain of his having presented her with impenetrable language and daunting constructions. Why, she demands, all this needless complication? And above all, he must give her an explanation of why Americans should regard him as a great writer? A challenging assignment at best, but Taylor is up to the job, and amuses us with his answer.
Or, he tells of a discussion with a young friend Paolo, a Northerner newly come to Naples as an intern at the hospital in one of the working class districts of the City, passionate about his doctoring and eager to serve the poor. When Taylor asks him what he calls a "touristic" question about the popular belief among Neapolitans in the malocchio, or evil eye, and whether jettatori, is the right word for those who practice it, the young man responds with some passion. As Taylor reports it:
"Jettatura is the practice of the malocchio, the gift for inflicting it. Jettatori are persons thus endowed." He looks away, and I can see that his jaw is working. "You find it colorful don't you?" he snaps. "Such atavistic garbage is what has held back the South." Croce said that the most fearsome thing about the malocchio is that it doesn't exist. He's a bourgeois thinker, Croce, but this is a brilliant remark, by which he meant that it frightened him to see people in the grip of such nonsense. It frightens me!
During the course of our stroll, we are also made privy to the private lives of many writers who had spent time as residents of the Island of Capri, such as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Norman Douglas, and others. This author's admiration for Douglas, a long-time Islander, and his free lifestyle, for example, is particularly strong. He alerts us to his belief that Norman Douglas had "fathered forth the sensibility of English travel writing" naming such figures as Robert Byron, Peter Fleming, Norman Lewis, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris, Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron and Pico Iyer as his progeny.
Bright-heartedness, fanatical curiosity, and flying wit are their shared talismans — along with willingness to be a "slave of (the) journey's emotions" as Robert Byron puts it. These powers they inherit from the author of Old Calabria, Siren Land, and Alone.
So goes wandering with Taylor into a very rich historical past in this miraculous atmosphere while the author never fails to keep us engaged with the riches of this City and the Southern Bay surrounding it.
Yet it is when he leads us through the ghastly history of Naples, during the Second World War, that this reader's response was at its strongest and most painful. The Neapolitans, we are reminded, were not only targeted for complete and brutal annihilation by Hitler and his generals, but were as well in the forefront of the American invasion of Europe as they invaded first at Anzio Beach and Salerno. A disaster for the natives of that city. Taylor shows us how 1943 and 1944 was the culmination of these horrors and humiliations:
In the final three weeks of German occupation of Naples, following Italian surrender, one spectacle of peculiar savagery seems to have galvanized active resistance. A thousand Neapolitans were herded at gunpoint into the stretch of the Rettifilo facing the university to witness the burning of the library, and were ordered to kneel and applaud the execution of an Italian sailor. That same day, another five hundred citizens were conducted to Teverola, in the Casertano, and forced to witness the execution of thirteen carabineri accused of resisting German orders….
And it went on and on. Ghastly times, resulting in the loss of many lives, but the city of Naples survived even these modern disasters. Taylor concludes with the view that in a city where so much has been felt and thought and made, so much contributed to the sum of glorious and curious human things, his Naples is "not so much a Christ as a Prometheus among cities." That, he concludes, is what Naples had declared to him.
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Female terrorists study contradicts stereotypes
Much like their male counterparts, female terrorists are likely to be educated, employed and native residents of the country where they commit a terrorist act, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Researchers at Lancaster University examined archival biographical data from multiple sources on 222 female and 269 male terrorists connected to one of 13 conflicts involving nationalist-separatists, social revolutionaries or religious fundamentalists, including al Qaeda, the Irish Republican Army and the Popular Liberation Army of Colombia.
The findings contradict stereotypes presented in previous studies that describe female terrorists as socially isolated and vulnerable to recruitment because they are uneducated, unemployed and from a foreign land, psychologists reported in a study published online in the APA journal Law and Human Behavior. These assumptions are not supported by evidence, according to the study authors.
"We discovered that some of the popular notions about female terrorists do not reflect what has occurred in the past," said the study's lead author, Dr Karen Jacques. "A more realistic description is helpful because it provides insights into the social dynamics that might promote an individual's involvement in terrorist activities."
Dr Jacques and her co-author, Dr Paul J. Taylor examined eight variables for each terrorist: age at first involvement, education, employment status, immigration status, marital status, religious conversion, criminal activity and activist connections.
The majority of both female and male terrorists were between 16 and 35 years old, native residents, employed, educated through secondary school, not converted from another religion and rarely involved in a previous crime, the study said. Compared to male terrorists, the researchers found, women had on average more education, with the majority continuing beyond secondary school, and were more likely to be divorced or widowed, less likely to be employed and less likely to be immigrants. Collectively, the findings for female terrorists indicated more of an emphasis on individual motivations, such as personal revenge for the death of a loved one, rather than collective engagement in terrorism, the authors said.
"A surprising finding was that, unlike for other criminals, there were very few instances of previous involvement in criminal activity among both females and males," said Dr Jacques.
"This could be because they were unwilling to confess to other crimes, because criminality could attract authorities' undue attention to potential terrorists, or the possibility that having a criminal career is not a significant precursor to terrorism."
About a third of both male and female terrorists had prior connections to terrorism activities via their families. However, more than 50 percent of those with family connections to terrorism indicated that family influence did not motivate them to carry out terrorist activities, the study said.
Article: "Myths and Realities of Female-Perpetrated Terrorism," Karen Jacques, PhD, and Paul J. Taylor, PhD, Law and Human Behavior, online, April 2012.


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There is no doubt that the White House has become more social than it ever has been since Barack Obama was elected president. His campaign team took to Twitter to discuss important topics during his campaign in 2008, and continues to do so in 2012, which is also an election year.
The work that his campaign has done in the last four years will have a lasting effect on the White House forever, though. On the 30th, Barack Obama will be answering questions live in a Google+ Hangout. Read that sentence again, crazy right?
Tonight's yearly State of the Union address is President Obama's most important speech this year, as it will serve as a report card for how he's done during his first term. Having said that, it will be the most interactive SOTU address the world has ever seen. Here are just a few ways that you can watch the speech live at 9pm ET and interact with the Presidential staff afterwards.
Watch live on YouTube
YouTube has become a huge part of the Obama administration. His weekly addresses have hundreds of thousands of views, and serve as the perfect archive of his progress to date.
The White House goes so far as to provide the schedule for the SOTU on its site along with a gigantic embed of the YouTube feed that will be switched on at 9pm ET. There is no mention of news channels or television on this page whatsoever, it's all about the web. The White House also promises a brand new experience with an "Enhanced Version" that will display supporting statistics, graphs, and other information on top of the broadcast.
Send tweets to the White House
During the SOTU, White House staff will be actively monitoring tweets using the hashtag #SOTU on Twitter. After the speech, the White House promises that that it will be answering questions and interacting with those who are using the hashtag. This type of interaction during such an important event is unheard of, and the democratic process has become more transparent than it's ever been. You can also drop questions onto the White House Facebook page, but it doesn't seem to be getting as much push as Twitter is.
It will be interesting to watch which questions get responded to on Twitter, because the White House is bound to get inundated with a lot of tweets quickly, and some of them might not be so nice. The Washington Post reports that tweet tracking site Topsy shows that the #SOTU hashtag has been used over 13,000 times as of 2pm today, and the speech hasn't even started.
Needless to say, these won't be the type of polished questions that the White House is used to fielding from a trained press corp.
Ask questions on Quora
While YouTube and Twitter seem like commonplace for the White House at this point, one interesting twist was its promise to answer questions on popular geeky Q&A site Quora.
According to AllThingsD, White House officials will answer the questions posed to them in the "coming days", as the site doesn't have quite the same real-time expectations that Twitter does. It's also likely that users on Quora will ask more in-depth questions, as they're not held to using 140 characters like you are on Twitter, either.
On a special SOTU page that Quora set up, you can ask your questions starting now, as well as watch the live stream of the speech.
Will you participate?
It seems like the White House has everyone covered with interactive technology when it comes to asking the questions that they want answered, but it will be interesting to watch the spikes in activity based on what the President is talking about. Those types of stats and graphs will probably be made available tomorrow by Twitter.
This will most certainly be the most interactive speech made by a United States President ever, and we'll all be watching to see how the White House staff handles the explosion of content that comes out of it.
Will you be watching the State of the Union Address tonight? If so, how? Tell us in the comments!
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Surprising Answers to Questions About Children's Colds
Surprising Answers to Questions About Children's Colds
Can large doses of Vitamin C prevent or cure the common cold?
Unfortunately, large doses of Vitamin C have not been proven to prevent or cure children's colds. In fact, large doses can even upset your child's stomach. But Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, does have many helpful functions in the body, including helping to heal wounds, enhancing iron absorption, and promoting resistance to infection. The bottom line? It can't hurt to give your child foods high in Vitamin C, such as citrus fruits and juices, strawberries, kiwis, and peas when they have a cold.
Can my child catch a cold from playing outside without a coat?
"Put on a coat or you'll catch a cold!" Sound familiar? Research shows that exposure to extreme cold can lead to pneumonia, but not to colds. So it's still important to put on those coats and make sure that your child is dressed warmly! Your mother was right about something else, too. Since people lose heat quickly through their heads, it's also a good idea to dry your child's hair before sending them out just to keep them warm. If your child is fighting off a cold or flu virus, he doesn't need to fight to keep warm, too.
Can chicken soup cure the common cold?
Believe it or not, the use of chicken soup as a treatment for the common cold is controversial. Some experts claim that it really does help fight colds by increasing the number of infection-fighting antibodies around the nose. Others insist that its only value comes from increased fluid intake and the soothing vapors of steam that rise up from it and clear blocked nasal passages. In either case, chicken soup is a good bet for children who like it.
Is it "starve a fever, feed a cold" or "feed a fever, starve a cold?"
Neither of these old adages is true. Fevers and colds both require good nutrition. Encourage frequent food and fluids, even if your sick child doesn't have an appetite for many foods. But don't force foods. Feed your children only as much as they want. When your child has a cold, encourage him to drink more than usual. Sneezing, coughing, and runny noses can even cause your child to lose a bit of extra fluid. Try weak tea with honey or hot cereal with warm milk. If a sore throat is making swallowing painful, try cold apple juice, flat ginger ale, popsicles, jello, yogurt and ice cream.
How much fluid is enough?
Even when she's not sick, your child should drink enough fluid. So what's "enough"? Basic daily fluid requirements for an 18 pound infant, for example, would be 27 ounces; for a 31 pound child it would be 39 ounces, and 58 ounces is enough for a 70 pound child. However, if your child is vomiting, or has diarrhea or a fever, you need to offer extra fluids to compensate for the fluids she's losing. Consult your doctor if you are concerned that your child may need more fluids or is in danger of becoming dehydrated.
Does my child need to stay home from school or day care when she has a cold?
You don't need to keep your child home from school or day care every time she sniffles. In fact, keeping your child home with a cold probably won't even decrease the spread of infection. Do keep your child home if she's not feeling well enough to participate in school or day care activities, if she has a fever or rash, is irritable or overly tired, is vomiting, or has diarrhea. Any time your child has these symptoms and is sick enough to stay home from school or day care, it's a good idea to check in with your doctor.
Why do children get more colds than adults?
There are more than 100 strains of the cold-causing rhinovirus (yes, "rhin" does mean nose), and each time children catch a cold, they develop an immunity to that strain. Children get an average of 8 to 10 colds in a year. By the time children reach kindergarten, they have built up their resistance, and the number of colds they suffer each year drops to 5 or 6.
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The camera features a twin lens unit with folded optics design, which allows users to record high resolution 3D photos and 3D HD video, all contained within a compact and slim body.
Two newly developed 25mm wide angle lenses with 4x optical zoom gives photographers a wide range of composition possibilities with 169% viewing space compared to standard 35mm camera.
Comprising of 11 elements in 10 groups with 5 aspherical lenses, the lens unit has been slimmed down with redesigned slim actuators for shutter and iris control and with a redesign of the optical image stabilisation system.
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The DMC-3D1 can record both 3D photo and 3D videos in high resolution, with 8 million pixels available for photos and full HD video recording for video. Users can also simultaneously shoot video and stills, switching between 3D and 2D shooting via the dedicated lens on the back.
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Listeria: Raw Fruits and Vegetables
Listeria bacteria can contaminate fresh produce, like cantaloupes, as well as some processed foods, like cheeses. Symptoms of infection include fever, muscle aches, upset stomach, or diarrhea -- occurring 2 days to 2 months after exposure.
Safety: Scrub raw produce and dry before cutting. Store in fridge below 40 F. Clean everything in contact with a whole melon.
Listeria: Unpasteurized Dairy
Dairy products made with raw milk, including yogurt and soft cheeses like Brie, feta, and Mexican queso, can harbor listeria. Because listeria can live at colder temperatures, simply refrigerating these foods won't kill the bacteria. people at highest risk of getting sick include the elderly, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems.
Safety: Check the label. Make sure it's clearly marked "pasteurized."
Listeria: Deli Meats and Hot Dogs
Sometimes listeria finds its way into a food processing factory, where it can live for years. Heat kills listeria, but contamination may happen after cooking, but before packaging -- for example, if a food is placed back on a counter that had raw meat on it.
Safety: Never keep pre-cooked or ready-to-eat foods past their use-by date. Heat hot dogs and lunch meats until steaming (165 F) before eating.
Salmonella: Poultry and Eggs
Salmonella bacteria can taint any food, although there's a greater risk from animal products because of contact with animal feces. In chickens, it can infect eggs before the shell forms, so even clean, fresh eggs may harbor salmonella. Symptoms include stomach cramps, fever, and diarrhea 12 to 72 hours after exposure. Illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days.
Safety: Never eat raw or lightly cooked eggs. Cook poultry to 165 F. Keep raw poultry separate from cooked poultry and other foods. Wash hands, cutting boards, utensils, and countertops after handling.
Salmonella: Fresh Produce
Fresh produce is catching up with poultry as a cause of salmonella infections. Outbreaks have been traced to tomatoes, hot peppers, salad greens, and papayas. Sprouts, too, may harbor salmonella because they're grown in warm, humid conditions – and are often eaten raw or lightly cooked. Infections can be severe or even fatal in people at higher risk, including babies and the frail elderly.
Safety: Thoroughly wash and dry produce, and store in the fridge at 40° F.
Salmonella: Processed Foods
Chips, crackers, soup, peanut butter, even frozen meals may pose a slight risk for salmonella infection. One salmonella outbreak was linked to peanut butter and packaged foods made with peanuts, including granola bars and cookies. In cases like these, salmonella bacteria at a processing plant can contaminate many products, which must then be recalled.
Safety: Never use a product that has been recalled -- immediately return it to the store or throw it away. Heating foods thoroughly to 165 F can kill salmonella bacteria.
Salmonella: Raw Meat
Raw meat, particularly ground meat, is at risk for salmonella contamination. Ground turkey has been linked with several salmonella outbreaks. You usually can't tell the food is contaminated because it looks and smells normal.
Safety: Cook beef, pork, and lamb to at least 145 F and poultry (including ground poultry) to at least 165 F. Ground beef, pork, and lamb should be heated to 160 F. Avoid cross-contamination by washing hands and all surfaces with warm soapy water after contact with raw meat.
E. coli: Ground Beef
E. coli lives in the intestines of cattle and can contaminate beef during the slaughtering process. Ground beef is especially risky, because the bacteria can spread when meat is ground up. Symptoms of E. coli infection include severe abdominal cramps, watery diarrhea, and vomiting. The illness typically develops several days after exposure and can be severe in vulnerable people. It lasts about a week.
Safety: Cook meat thoroughly (160 F, no pink in the center). Do not put a cooked burger back on a plate that held raw meat. Wash utensils, including the meat thermometer, with warm, soapy water.
E. coli: Raw Juice and Milk
Pasteurization uses heat to kill bacteria. Since most juices you'll find at the grocery store have been pasteurized, they pose no risk. However, unpasteurized juices and ciders sold at farms, stands, or in health food stores, can harbor E. coli. The bacteria can also get into raw milk as a result of unclean milking equipment, or manure-soiled or infected udders.
Safety: Buy only products that have been pasteurized. If you're not sure, boil before drinking.
E. coli: Fresh Produce
Fruits and vegetables can be tainted with E. coli if the fertilizer or water used to grow them carries the bacteria. Leafy greens are at highest risk. E. coli has been linked to fresh spinach. But produce growers have put safety measures into place to minimize the risk. Experts say the health benefits of eating fruits and veggies are far greater than the risk of food poisoning.
Safety: Separate and individually wash the leaves of leafy greens, and cook vegetables to kill bacteria.
Botulism: Canned Foods
Botulism is a rare, possibly fatal illness linked to improperly canned or preserved foods. Home-canned foods are especially at risk, as well as honey, cured meats, and fermented, smoked, or salted fish. Babies have the highest risk of getting sick. Symptoms include cramps, vomiting, breathing problems, difficulty swallowing, double vision, and weakness or paralysis. If you suspect botulism poisoning, call 911.
Safety: Never give honey to children under 12 months. Throw away bulging cans, leaking jars, or foul-smelling preserved foods -- or if liquid spurts out upon opening. Sterilize home-canned foods by cooking at 250 F for 30 minutes.
C. Perfringens: Meat, Stew, and Gravy
Clostridium perfringens is a type of bacteria that causes cramps and diarrhea lasting less than 24 hours. Stews, gravies, and other foods that are prepared in large quantities and kept warm for a long time before serving are a common source of C. perfringens infections.
Safety: Sauces, gravies, and stews should be cooked thoroughly and then kept at a temperature above 140 F or below 41 F. Serve food hot right after cooking. Promptly refrigerate leftovers.
Staph: Sandwiches, Salads, Pastries
Yes, you can get a staph infection from food -- when an infected person prepares it. Foods at highest risk include sandwiches, salads (including egg, tuna, chicken, potato, and macaroni), cream-filled pastries, and puddings. Symptoms come on quickly, in as little as 30 minutes, and include vomiting, cramps, and diarrhea. The illness usually runs its course in one to three days.
Safety: Wash hands thoroughly before handling food. Do not handle food if you are sick or have a nose or eye infection, an open wound, or infection on your hands or wrists.
Hepatitis A: Improper Food Handling
Hepatitis A is a virus that attacks the liver and can cause fever, fatigue, nausea, weight loss, and jaundice. Most infections are mild. It can spread when an infected person doesn't wash hands properly, then touches food or items that are put in the mouth. Recent outbreaks were traced back to workers in food processing plants or restaurants.
Safety: Get vaccinated against hepatitis A. Check restaurant health ratings. Always wash hands thoroughly before handling food.
Campylobacter: Undercooked Poultry
As little as one drop of raw chicken juice can cause campylobacter illness -- a little-known illness that is the second-leading cause of food poisoning in the U.S. Symptoms can include fever, cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting. Most people recover in less than a week, but it can lead to Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare, serious illness. Guillain-Barre develops a few weeks after diarrheal illness and can cause temporary paralysis.
Safety: Avoid cross-contamination by washing hands, cutting surfaces, utensils, and countertops in warm, soapy water after handling raw poultry. Cook poultry to at least 165 F.
Norwalk Virus: Improper Food Handling
Noroviruses are the most common culprits in what we think of as the "stomach flu." They cause vomiting and diarrhea, and usually last 24 to 48 hours. Norwalk viruses contaminate food when a food worker doesn't wash his or her hands after using the restroom. Foods like salad or raw shellfish pose a risk because they aren't cooked before eating.
Safety: Always wash hands with hot, soapy water for 30 seconds after using the toilet or changing diapers, and before handling food.
Vibrio Vulnificus: Raw Oysters
Vibrio vulnificus is a bacteria that lives in warm seawater and can contaminate shellfish, particularly oysters. V. vulnificus infection causes the same gastrointestinal symptoms as many other foodborne illnesses, but in people with weakened immune systems it can develop into a life-threatening blood infection.
Safety: Only eat thoroughly cooked shellfish. Frying, baking, boiling, and steaming reduces the risk of infection. Throw away any shellfish that doesn't open during cooking.
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
Paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) is produced by certain types of algae. When algae "blooms" -- called a red tide -- it produces high levels of toxin and shellfish can be contaminated. Symptoms of PSP include tingling lips and tongue, numbness, difficulty breathing, and eventual paralysis. Death from PSP can happen as soon as 30 minutes after extreme exposure. Luckily, PSP is extremely rare. Shellfish are regularly tested for toxins before being sold to the public.
Scombrotoxin: Fresh Tuna
Scombrotoxin poisoning is an allergy-like reaction to eating fish that has begun to spoil. Fish associated with scombrotoxin include tuna, mackerel, amberjack, and mahi-mahi. In the early stages of spoilage, bacteria produce histamines in the fish. This causes a burning sensation in the mouth, itchy rash, dizziness, headache, and diarrhea. Symptoms usually subside within four to six hours, and antihistamines can help.
Ciguatera Poisoning: Fish
This develops from eating reef fish like grouper or snapper that have consumed some types of sea algae. Symptoms develop within 6 hours of exposure and can include:
- Burning or painful tingling in arms or legs
- Headache
- Nausea, vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Hallucinations-
- Temperature reversal (cold objects feel hot, hot objects feel cold)
There is no cure for ciguatera poisoning, and although it usually goes away after days or weeks, neurological symptoms can sometimes last for years.
When to Call a Doctor
Most foodborne illnesses resolve on their own, but you should call the doctor if you have:
- A high fever
- Bloody stools
- Prolonged vomiting
- Diarrhea lasting more than 3 days
- Signs of dehydration (dry mouth, dizziness, reduced urination)
Tips for Safer Food Handling
- Thoroughly wash hands before handling food.
- Wash cutting surfaces, utensils, and countertops after contact with raw meat.
- Wash produce under running water and dry with paper towels.
- Discard outer leaves of lettuce or cabbage.
- Cook meat, poultry, and eggs to proper temperature.
- Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
Special Precautions
Certain groups are at increased risk of contracting a foodborne illness or getting very sick from it. Pregnant women, the elderly, young children, and people with compromised immune systems should avoid eating undercooked meats and eggs, unpasteurized dairy products, uncooked hot dogs and deli meats, and raw seafood.


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Simple SQL Output Parameterization
This procedure requires a JDBC data source type.
You can add dynamic interactivity to a published report such that when a user executes or views it, he can specify how to constrain certain parts of the query data. This is called parameterization. Follow the procedure below to parameterize a report by adding an SQL WHERE statement to your query.
You can only use this procedure to parameterize data returned by a query. You cannot use a WHERE statement to dynamically choose columns or change the structure of tabular data. If you need to go beyond the capabilities of the method explained in this section, see Advanced SQL Output Parameterization to create a custom formula instead.
- Open the report you want to parameterize.
- Click the Data tab in the upper right pane.
- Right-click the Parameters item in the Data pane, then select Add Parameter... from the context menu. The Add Parameter dialogue will appear.
- Select or change the options according to the definitions below:
Field Purpose Name The name of the parameter within Report Designer Label The label of the parameter that will be shown to report readers -- a "friendly name" Value Type The data type of the column you chose in the Value field above Data Format Determines how the data specified by Value Type is formatted. For instance, dates and times can be formatted in a variety of different ways Default Value The value from the Value column that you want to pre-populate the parameter object with. This is a text field, so you must know the values in advance Default Value Formula Allows the Default Value to change dynamically, based on the formula you specify Post-Processing Formula Allows you to update a selected value according to conditions you specify in your formula Mandatory A checkbox which determines whether this parameter is required in order to display any data in the report Hidden A checkbox which hides the parameter from appearing when the value is already passed in a session variable Display Type The method of selection for this parameter; determines how report readers choose different values Query A drop-down list of queries that you have already defined. If you need to define a new query, use the toolbar above the left pane Value The value that is substituted into the query Display Value Formula Forces the display value to change depending on the conditions specified in your formula
- Edit your target data source by double-clicking its entry in the Structure pane.
- Below your FROM statement, add a WHERE statement that specifies which column you would like to query the user about, assigned to a parameter that has a name descriptive enough for users to understand. This should be one of the columns you have a SELECT statement for in the same query.
- Click OK to save the query.
- Include the parameterized fields in your report by dragging them onto the canvas.
- Publish or preview your report.
When a user runs this report, he will be presented with an interactive field that specifies an adjustable constraint for the column you specified. For instance, in the example below, the constraint would be a specific product line from the PRODUCTLINE column of the PRODUCTS table.


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I don't know when the last time I ate Chinese food in a restaurant was. Actually I take that back. We ate at Lao Shanghai last night and it was good, very good. I had not had the same experience at Lao Beijing, where they served tortillas with the Beijing Duck. Tortillas! This was not supposed to be fusion food for Pete's sake. Lao means "old" in Chinese, "classic". We go out for Thai food and Vietnamese food a lot, but rarely do we go out for Chinese food. Laurent being from Taiwan and then living in LA and San Fran during his formative years is not so impressed with the Chinese food in Chicago. He complains that it is mostly old school Cantonese which tends to be heavy and goopy. My experience with Chinese food before I met Laurent was chop suey, egg foo young and bad fried rice at Golden Dragon. (Laurent deemed it inedible when I took him there.) He also informed me that Chop Suey means miscellaneous leftovers, or scraps! Not something you really want to order at a restaurant and it is prevalent on Chinese menus here in Chicago. He also said that he had no clue what egg foo young was!
With the slim pickings for good Chinese food in Chicago, we started creating our own. We modernized old school classics like Ma Po Tofu and Ants Climbing up a Tree, (which is much more appetizing than it sounds! It is so named as the ground pork on top of the cellophane noodles looks like ants climbing on tree branches.) by replacing ground pork with diced tofu and lightening up the sauce. Our version of congee, classically a peasant dish consisting of a tiny bit of rice and watered down pork stock, thousand year old eggs and scallions tastes nothing like the MSG laden versions in restaurants. It took me years before I would even taste it when Laurent made it. It is now my "go to" comfort food when I am sick. Made with a rich homemade chicken stock and lots of ginger, it is the perfect cold buster. Again, we skip the pork and double up on the ginger, although we do leave in the thousand year old eggs, as I have developed a taste for them. Don't ask; Google it. I am not even going to provide a link because you probably won't associate with me after you do read about them. They are not as gross as they sound. It's really more of a texture and visual thing to get used to. Now stinky tofu, that's another story. I spit that out and am traumatized forever from it. It may smell like a good stinky taleggio, but trust me; it does not taste like one, AT ALL! Shudder! Even Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain can't handle it. So there.
To figure out how to make these classic dishes, we have a collection of very simple cookbooks from the Wei-Chun Cooking School in Taiwan which are written in both Chinese and English The recipes are easy and clearly written, at least Laurent says the Chinese part are. In all fairness, the English translation is not that bad, I can figure out what "crash into powder and cut into slanting slices" means. The directions are concise and no nonsense, very Chinese.
While we may not ever attempt Intestine Rings on Green Onion Fingers or Orchid Ham, even though the picture is quite "beautiful", we have perfected and modernized Spicy Cold Chicken Noodles. It's the perfect dish to bring to a potluck in the summer, just ask our friends. They are probably sick of it by now.
You only need a few special ingredients for this dish and you could probably make it without them. It would definitely change the flavor, as the ingredients are very distinct tasting, but, you know what, "whatever". You will have created a new dish and not known what it should have tasted like, so it's all good! These "exotic" ingredients are sesame paste and Szechwan peppercorns. I love sesame; Sesame oil, sesame paste, sesame candy. (Damn I should have gotten some sesame candy when I was at the Asian grocery store. It's like peanut brittle, but better.) You may be saying "tahini is sesame paste, could I just use that?" Yes, you could. I prefer the Chinese sesame paste, though, as it is roasted. Because it is made from roasted sesame seeds, the flavor is deeper, richer and more intense, just like I like it. You know I am not much for subtle. The other ingredient that will give this dish a very distinct flavor is Szechwan peppercorns. I know no substitute for them, although I have used Grains of Paradise before, not that you can find that in the McCormick Spice Rack at The Jewel either! The recipe calls for Szechwan peppercorn powder which I could not find for the life of me in my pantry or at Asian market. I just ended up crushing the whole peppercorns with a knife steel. I prefer the powder, though, as it more evenly distributes the distinct flavor. We also use one other specialty ingredient, which is a roasted chili flake. The only English writing on it says Hot and Spicy Sauce; not so descriptive. It's sort of scary, as there are peanuts in it too, but they are not listed anywhere on the ingredient list. I do put out the warning when I use this condiment. The only way I find it every time in the store is by the weird black and white picture of the solemn Chinese woman on the front! I like it because it is pure roasted chili flavor. I don't like the vinegary tang of Sriracha or Tabasco in this application. You can use regular chili flakes or some sort of dried chili powder also.
So, finally, here is the recipe, after yet another tangent filled blog post.
The amounts on the veggies are guesstimates. Use as much or as little as you like. There is plenty of sauce. Feel free to sub veggies, use different noodles, sub tahini, use veg stock, however you feel like altering it. Make it yours; we made it ours.
Spicy Cold Chicken Noodles
(section 1)
3-4 oz soba noodles
2 chicken breasts
2 cups of mung bean sprouts
1 English cucumber, peeled
½ bunch of watercress leaves, picked from the main stems
2 carrots, peeled
Small red pepper
2 cups snow pea pods or green beans
(section 2)
3 Tbl minced green onion
2 Tbl minced ginger
1 Tbl minced garlic
2/3 cup cold chicken stock
5 Tbl soy sauce
3 Tbl and 2 tsp sesame paste
3 Tbl sesame oil
2 Tbl lime juice
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp chili paste (depending on what you are using, you may want to start lower and ramp up!)
1 tsp crushed Szechuan peppercorns (reduce to ¾ tsp if you find the powder)
1 ½ Tbl white vinegar
½ tsp salt
Boil the noodles until cooked, drain and rinse under cold water, drain and pat dry.
Coat with a little sesame oil, so they don't stick together.
Add chicken to boiling water and poach for about 10 minutes or until cooked through.
Let cool and shred.
Julienne the carrots and cucumber on a mandolin.
Thinly slice the red pepper and snow pea pods on the bias
Mix all the ingredients in section two together to make the sauce. Adjust taste as needed.
Toss together the noodles, veggies and chicken.
Toss with the sauce.
Garnish with sliced green onions or mint or cilantro.
Notes: The noodles tend to soak up the sauce, so I wouldn't toss it until you are almost ready to serve it. You may want to use thinly sliced grilled chicken or pulled roasted chicken. The poached chicken has a distinct texture that may take some getting used to.
Thanks for playing "Yen Can Cook" and have a nice day.


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LINDERHOLM v. STATE OF KANSAS(1935)
Mr. Justus B. Linderholm, pro se.
On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas.
See 84 Kan. 603, 892, 114 P. 857.
The motion for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis is denied for the reason that the Court upon examination of the papers herein submitted, finds no ground upon which writ of certiorari should be granted. The petition for writ of certiorari is therefore also denied.
* Rehearing denied 296 U.S. 662 , 56 S. Ct. 166.[ Linderholm v. State of Kansas 296 U.S. 572 (1935) ]


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Last night I heard a story on NPR about the Wall St. protest that is now spreading to other cities. The gist of the story was: "what are these protests really about? What do they want?"
I'm sorry, but that's just not a head scratcher. Do these news analysts think it's a coincidence that they're occupying Wall St. as opposed to Columbus Ave north of 79th?
As Andrew Sorkin put it today (after writing that the message was "at times…hard to discern"):
"…the demonstrators are seeking accountability for Wall Street and corporate America for the financial crisis and the growing economic inequality gap."
I'm not saying everyone down there is ready to give a clear exposition of the facts of the case, but commentators can stop scratching their heads now.
I've been writing about these problems for decades. Sometimes they've gotten a little better, but mostly they've gotten worse. Before the downturn, the share of income held by the top 1% was 23.5%, the highest since 1928 and more than twice the 10% level of the late 1970s.
These are growth shares, as in they have to sum to 100%–when one group's share goes up like that, everybody else's has to shrink.
That doesn't mean real income values can't rise for other groups, of course (though it does imply slower relative growth, compared to the high end). But in fact, the middle class and the poor haven't seen that either…the decade of the 2000s saw middle-incomes decline in real terms for working-age households. The recession just made those incomes fall faster.
Protest movements are often born of two interacting injustices: the lack of opportunity and the lack of accountability by the persons perceived to be blocking that opportunity.
Given the facts of the income distribution, the trends in real middle-class incomes and poverty, the failure of policy to do much to change these trends, the government bailouts of the only class that's benefitted from the recovery so far, the absence of clear punishment/accountability for the financial and political institutions that helped inflate the debt bubble that continues to squeeze economies across the globe, and the dysfunctionality of the current political system (they're arguing more about whether they can keep the lights on than whether they can help solve the economic problems), the more interesting question is what took so long for such protests to show up?
Update: a colleague sends me to this site which puts a face on much of the above (hat tip: HS).


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It's not easy to picture a heat wave. We all carry stock mental photos of more camera-ready extreme weather, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods. These natural disasters are so visually spectacular that they make the front page or the TV news even when they occur in remote places. Extreme heat, on the other hand, is invisible.
But heat waves kill more people in the United States than all of the other so-called natural disasters combined. More than 400 Americans die from heat-related illnesses in a typical year. Annual mortality from tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods together is under 200. Since heat waves inflict damage on the nation's major cities, well within the range of most media organizations, the lack of visibility or panic is all the more mysterious.
Heat-wave deaths aren't the worst natural disasters only in quantitative terms, but also in qualitative ones because they're slow and preventable. There's no telling when an earthquake will strike. But dangerous heat always comes announced, and it's fairly easy to prevent human damage. Victims of heat tend to wilt gradually, alone and at home, out of touch with family, friends, and social-service providers who could save their lives simply by treating them with water or bringing them to an air-conditioned place.
In the past three decades, New York City (1972, 1984), St. Louis (1980), Philadelphia (1993), Dallas (1998), and Milwaukee (1995) have experienced massively deadly heat waves. But in recent years, Chicago has become the national epicenter of heat mortality. This summer, Chicago had recorded 27 heat-related deaths by July 22. That's small by current standards. In one week of July 1995, 739 Chicago residents—the majority of them home alone—died in one of the greatest and least-known American disasters in modern history.
To place the 1995 heat wave in context, think of the great Chicago fire of 1871. It killed less than half as many people. Other recent catastrophes, such as the Northridge, Calif. earthquake of 1994 or Hurricane Andrew of 1992, killed one-tenth and one-twentieth the number of people, respectively. Yet several lists of the most fatal American weather events of the 1990s fail to include the heat wave. In the words of the New England Journal of Medicine, the Chicago disaster "was forgotten as soon as the temperatures fell."
That's generous. From the moment the local medical examiner began to report heat-related mortality figures, political leaders, journalists, and in turn the Chicago public have actively denied the disaster's significance and questioned whether the deaths were—to use the popular local phrase—"really real." Although so many city residents died that the coroner had to call in nine refrigerated trucks to store the bodies, skepticism about the trauma continues today. In Chicago, people still debate whether the medical examiner exaggerated the numbers and wonder if the crisis was a "media event" that the press had "propped up somehow." The American Journal of Public Health definitively established that the medical examiner's numbers actually undercounted the mortality by about 250 since hundreds of bodies were buried before they could be autopsied. But how many people read the American Journal of Public Health?For now, the heat wave stands as a nonevent—perhaps a footnote—in the grand narrative of affluence and revitalization that dominates accounts of urban life in the 1990s.
One reason so many people die in heat waves is that more Americans seem to be living and dying alone than ever before. In San Francisco, for example, officials report that they discovered almost as many cases of people who died alone, with no one to claim their bodies and estates, during the first six months of 2000 as they had in the previous decade. In Chicago, one month after the 1995 heat wave, county officials buried 68 people, most of them heat-wave victims, in a 160-foot-long trench.
Could it happen again? It already did. In 1999, over 110 Chicagoans perished in a late-July and early-August heat spell despite an exemplary response from city government that undoubtedly saved lives. Clearly, industrious local officials can only do so much.
There are a few simple and relatively inexpensive measures that could prevent future heat deaths. Cities can implement the heat-warning system designed by Laurence Kalkstein at the University of Delaware, a system that distinguishes dangerous air masses from ordinary summer heat. We can expand the supportive housing and social-service programs available to the people most likely to die in heat waves. And Congress can provide the poor with energy subsidies for summer cooling, just as it does for winter heat. (Rep. Danny Davis is now mobilizing support for such a bill.) Although it is cheap and effective, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program remains a favorite target of budget-cutters. In most cities LIHEAP funds run out long before the need ends. Just one week after the heat wave of 1995, with dozens of victims still unclaimed in Chicago, the House overwhelmingly approved a proposal to reduce LIHEAP funds. But compared to the cleanup costs and refunds the federal government routinely doles out to homeowners and corporations who suffer property damage in other disasters, the costs of preventing heat deaths are low. It's just a question of whether we value the lives of poor city dwellers as much as the property of wealthy coastal developers.


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Cost-effective entry-level machine
The TruPunch 1000 is the perfect entry to professional punching. The compact machine excels with its high level of processing flexibility: In addition to just punching, you can also use it to form threads, extrude, and bend flanges. You can process midsize sheets completely in one tool setup without repositioning. You can even produce smaller orders and lot sizes economically, quickly and with flexibility.
The TruPunch 1000 masters all of the relevant applications of a TRUMPF punching machine.
TRUMPF offers top quality punching tools such as the MultiTool or the MultiShear slitting tool.
The intuitive control enables the immediate production of simple and complex parts.
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Produce with flexibility using tools for every application, for example, flanges, cups, roller folding. For this component, the following tools were used: stepping tool, bracket tool, cup tool rectangular and round, offsetting roller tool, and pinching roller tool
With the largest tool range in the world, the machine offers the highest level of processing flexibility. For this workpiece, the following tools were used: beading roller tool, MultiCut tool, cup tool, and offsetting roller tool
TruPunch 1000 (S05) medium format
TruPunch 1000 (S05) small format
|6550 mm 1
|6000 mm 1
|7144 mm 1
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|Maximum stroke rate
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|600 1/min
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|2500 mm
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|1250 mm
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|Consumption values
|Average power input of active auto-shutdown
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The TruPunch 1000 guarantees you the best part quality with a high level of efficiency. Common cuts lower the amount of scrap and make optimum use of the material.
Brush tables are available for gentle material handling.
As a result of the On-Demand Drive, the punching head hydraulic system always works to the optimum level. This leads to reduced noise generation during non-productive times and reduces the hydraulic load of the entire system.
TRUMPF is the first manufacturer worldwide to offer punching machines with skeleton-free processing. This innovation saves material and increases process safety.
With the blank processing package, you can also process blanks simply and in a process-reliable way. This is made possible by a second index pin and additional clamp, amongst other things.
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The extensive range of TruTops software supports you throughout the entire production process. Control your operational workflow in a simple and targeted manner, from managing your customer orders and purchasing processes to delivery of the produced parts. Through the direct coupling with the machine control, you can keep a constant eye on the status of your orders.
You can boost the productivity of your punching machine with a tool adapter for up to ten inserts – in particular for small punching operations.
Use our patented cutting technology for outstanding edge quality without nibbling marks. A die with brush inserts also prevents scratches.
With a length of up to 4 inches, you can take advantage of new sheet metal design options. Processing in just one stroke ensures the highest quality.
TRUMPF offers the world's largest range of punching tools on the market. You will find the perfect solution for every punching and forming application.
This product range and information may vary depending on the country. Subject to changes to technology, equipment, price, and range of accessories. Please get in touch with your local contact person to find out whether the product is available in your country.Footnotes
The dimensions are approximate; the dimensions specified in the installation plan are valid.


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Kyodo News Japanese reports that the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts has started the survey off the coast of Fukushima to study the extent of radiation contamination in the marine environment. No information in the Kyodo article as to since when the MBL has been doing the survey.
The MBL is the oldest independent marine laboratory in the US, and one of the most prominent; to date, 54 MBL-affiliated scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize, among many other honors received by the laboratory's researchers, according to Wikipedia.
The MBL, according to Arnie Gundersen during the interview with Chris Martenson the other day, has said that "the ocean has ten times more radiation from Fukushima than the Black Sea did from Chernobyl."
True to form, the Japanese government didn't bother to announce (it still doesn't) that it has approved the request for the survey, because, according to Kyodo News, "It's done by a US institution not by a Japanese one."
From Kyodo News Japanese (6/11/2011):
福島第1原発事故を受け、米ウッズホール海洋学研究所の専門家 チームが、福島県などの沖合で海洋調査を始めたことが11日、分かった。海水や海洋生物を採取し、原発から放出された放射性物質が生態系に及ぼす影響を評 価する。日本政府は米国からの調査申請を許可したが、米国による調査であることを理由に事実を公表していない。
It was discovered on June 11 that a team of experts from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the US has started the survey off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. The team will collect sea water samples and marine lives, and evaluate the effect on the marine ecosystem from the radioactive materials released from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The Japanese government approved the request for the survey, but it continues to withhold the details because it is a survey by an American institution.
According to the surveys by the Ministry of Education and Science and other agencies and institutions, radioactive materials have been found in sea water and the ocean soil in wide areas. They've been found in fish and shellfish. However, the Japanese government hasn't started consolidating the survey data and evaluate the effect of radiation on the total marine ecosystem, letting the US lead the way.
Well, the Japanese government hasn't started it, because it doesn't want to. At least not right now. In fact, the government agency in charge of fisheries doesn't believe in "bioconcentration" or "bioaccumulation", and I don't expect them to do anything to disturb their belief system.
I hope the MBL will release the survey results for the benefit of the rest of us.


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Show off your style in the TARTHER™ OG heritage sportstyle shoe. A contemporary design inspired by popular running shoes of the 1980s, this ASICSTIGER™ shoe for men is sure to bring a new dimension to everyday looks.
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§ 416.1249. Exclusion of payments received as restitution for misuse of benefits by a representative payee.
In determining the resources of an individual (and spouse, if any), the unspent portion of any payment received by the individual as restitution for title II, title VIII or title XVI benefits misused by a representative payee under § 404.2041, § 408.641 or § 416.641, respectively, is excluded for 9 months following the month of receipt.
[70 FR 41139, July 18, 2005]