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As you may have realised from much of my blogging over the past year or so I'm an advocate of using SSDT database projects for building database solutions on SQL Server. I have been using SSDT database projects a lot in that time and have come up with a checklist of things to consider when starting a new SSDT database project and I'll be detailing that checklist below. I strongly advise you to consider making decisions about these items before you even write a scrap of code as invariably it will be more difficult to change later, especially if you have already deployed your database.
In no particular order here is my checklist:
By default SSDT will not provide a folder structure for new projects in which to store all your script files so you might want to consider setting one up yourself. I recommend not trying to create a large hierarchy of folders to start with as this will evolve as you go about building your database. Here's a simple starter for ten:
If you don't understand the importance of filegroups then read Thomas Larock's recent blog post DATABASE FILEGROUPS: JUST LIKE SEATBELTS BUT WITH LESS CHAFING. Quite often your organisation will stipulate policies for what filegroups you should be using and I highly recommend that you set up filegroups in your database projects to match those policies sooner rather than later. If your organisation does not have any such policies then perhaps think about defining them yourself, Thomas lists a few considerations that may influence your decisions:
If you follow my suggested folder structure above then put your filegroups into the "Storage" folder:
Above all, specify your default filegroup especially as many DBAs won't be happy about you putting objects into the PRIMARY filegroup (which is the default). This is done by right-clicking on the project and selecting "Properties.." When there hit "Database Settings…" and set your default filegroup on the "Operational" tab:
If you intend to use the filestream feature of SQL Server then you can set the default filestream filegroup here too.
If you take only one piece of advice from this blog post make it this: set your collation before you write a single line of code (just trust me on this, OK). You'll find this in Project Properties->Project Settings->Database Settings->Common
Again, find out if your organisation has any guidance on database collation.
SSDT allows you to deploy a project to SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012 or Azure so it stands to reason that you should specify which you are intending to deploy to. You'll find this in Project Properties->Project Settings:
If you follow the premise that "anything that SQL Server picks as the default is probably wrong" then you should probably think about changing the default schema which, by default, will be [dbo]. SSDT will create all new objects in the default schema (unless otherwise specified).
Generally I'm of the opinion that not accepting SQL Server's defaults is a good idea if only because it forces you to think about these things and be aware of them; in the case of schemas it forces you to think about security and who should have GRANT or DENY permissions and on what.
Specify the default schema in Project properties->Project Settings:
I've mentioned the most important database settings that you should look to change however you should also glance over the rest of the defaults that SSDT chooses for you to verify that they are valid for your project. Again, these are in Project Properties->Project Settings->Database Settings. a few I'd call out as being especially worthy of your attention are:
SSDT always checks the syntax of your database code, that's one of the main justifications for using SSDT database projects. However what it does not do (not by default anyway) is check whether the code you write might be considered good code. That's what Code Analysis is for, your code gets checked to see if it adheres to well-understood good practices for SQL Server database development. For example, Code Analysis will check for use of "SELECT*" which is generally regarded as a bad thing.
Code analysis is turned off by default. I recommend that you head into Project Properties->Code Analysis and turn it on. Moreover I recommend that you check all the boxes under "Treat Warning as Error" – this forces developers to address issues that get raised by Code Analysis.
Add a banner to your Pre-Deployment script as I describe in Big label generator. This may seem rather unnecessary but it takes about 30 seconds and believe me, at some point you'll be glad you did!
The demo project that I took some of the above screenshots from is downloadable from http://sdrv.ms/ZW0gNt and might provide a useful template for your own SSDT database projects.
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Great starting point - i preferred the folder structure used in the previous version - not sure why they did away with this,- creating a separate script folder definately makes life easier
Have you had to deal much with linked servers? - I have had issues where we had existing databases with linked servers to DB2 or Oracle that would not build because of this.
I haven't had to deal with Linked Servers at all I'm afraid (lucky me). However, I do know that SSDT supports Linked Servers via the provision of 4-part names - I suggest you check out Database References at this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gertd/archive/2007/07/26/database-references.aspx which does talk about Linked Servers.
I suggest adding "Page verify" to the list of options to double check -- NONE is a really, really bad default option!
Do you have any recommendations on how to manage users and logins such that (a) they use SqlCmd variables and (b) the scripts are part of the build process so validation occurs?
I'd like to create a "PortalAccount.sql" file with the below contents but it doesn't work. My workaround is a post-deployment script that creates all security objects (server logins, db users, roles, role memberships, and permissions). What I have works but I would love if these files were part of the build process.
CREATE USER [$(PortalAccount)] FOR LOGIN [$(PortalAccount)] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[dbo]
Hi Keith,
Thanks for the comment.
I did blog about similar issues before at:
A strategy for managing security for different environments using the Database Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010
which may be of some use. Take a read and feel free to post comments up there if you have any questions or points to make.
Hi Jamie,
Can you point me in the right direction in order to make this a custom template?
Hi Wes,
I'm afraid I don't know how to do that, now if its even possible.
I found a one liner!
You simple do that and it works! err No it doesn't!
Hold the phone!
It works -- Add New Item NOT Add New SSIS Package
Thanks for the article!
Just a side comment: sometimes you give a pretty controversial recommendations justifying.
Hi Alexander. What have i said that you consider controversial?
Sorry, I'm confused. This blog post is regarding SSDT but the article you link to there concerns SSIS package templates. That's something else entirely.
Let me say at first, thank you for the many great tips over the years.
I used to use SSMS and DBGhost for database development and agree with the notions of disconnected database development, especially for developement teams. I have over the last few years continued to try and adopt SSDT if for no other reasons than the schema compare, refactoring and easy (compared to SSMS) integration with source control. But I keep hitting the wall when it comes to issues like filegroups, permissions and anything else that is different across environments. In my development sandbox, I may place all my objects in PRIMARY; who cares, its development. SSDT seems to care though.
The following article summarizes exactly my pain with SSDT. Perhaps you could review it and share some of your thoughts on dealing with such frustrations.
I would appreciate your feedback.
I responded to your article here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/2015/02/20/response-to-ssdt-limitations.aspx
"In my development sandbox, I may place all my objects in PRIMARY; who cares, its development. SSDT seems to care though."
Of course it does. If you don't want to put them in the PRIMARY filegroup in production, don't do the same on development. This seems logical to me. Don't understand why this is a problem.


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By: Douglas H. Chadwick
On a midsummer tundra day in Alaska, I hiked to a hillside overlooking a cascade. The waters thrummed and thundered, somersaulted and sprayed rainbow mist. Throngs of arm-length salmon leaped the opposite direction, fighting to reach spawning grounds closer to the mountains. Amid that tumult, nearly sixty grizzly bears muscled along parting the currents like boulders, plunged open-mouthed into eddies, swiped at flying fish, mock-wrestled in the shallows, and napped on the shores next to watchful bald eagles and gulls. The place was as alive as it is possible to be, and it made me feel the same way.
I dropped down to the base of a rock ledge for a fresh view. Shortly after noon, a bear suddenly appeared around the corner. It was coming my direction fast – too fast for me to do anything but press back against the stone and keep still. Closer, closer. I stopped breathing. I felt the fur of the grizzly's shoulder brush my chest, and …
The animal hurried by, looking the other way. Its sole interest lay in steering clear of a huge male that had arrived at the river's edge. Though left gasping, I wasn't completely surprised to have been ignored. Here in wild sushi heaven, the bears routinely tolerated humans at close range. Sometimes, they fished side by side with wolves, their arch-enemies under different conditions.
Later that day, one mother grizzly laid down ten feet from me to nurse two little cubs. I know of salmon streams where females with young not only act comfortable around people but even make a point of staying near them. This is likely because they're aware that grown males, which can be dangerous to cubs, tend to keep away from the humans. Before going fishing among other adults, females have been known to drop off their cubs by viewing stations, turning the bear observers into bear babysitters.
Nineteenth century taxonomists labeled North America's grizzly/brown bears Ursus arctos horribilis. Today, Canada and the United States hold roughly 50,000 of those and 350 million Homo sapiens. During an average year, the bears kill two, while smoking-related illnesses claim the lives of 400,000 annually in the U.S. alone, suicide takes 49,000-plus, auto collisions with deer 130, fatal maulings by dogs 32, and being crushed by a crowd 22. By comparison, demise-by-slavering-bruin is not a public safety issue. It is a psychological problem.
We can't seem to help monsterizing grizz in tales told around campfires, in sporting magazines, and on TV and movie screens. Yet these bears also happen to be among the most playful, inquisitive, and keenly intelligent life forms keeping us company on the planet. Built to learn, they keep learning over a lifespan of 30 years or more. Dr. Charles Robbins, who studies bear physiology and behavior at Washington State University, considers grizzlies smarter than dogs and perhaps as bright as young children.
This isn't to say being clever makes grizzlies less formidable. Still, between our mental abilities and those of the bears, we ought to be able to figure out ways to co-exist better than we have in the past. We've been trying for several decades now with a promising degree of success. And that, I think, is the most sensational grizzly story of all. (continued below image)
By 1975, when grizzlies were listed as a threatened species south of Canada, they had lost 98 percent of their range and numbers there. Barely a thousand remained. The decline continued into the mid-1980's. Across the roughly 20 million-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) with 2.2 million-acre Yellowstone National Park at the core, the population shrank to perhaps 150 or fewer. Its all-important count of females with cubs fell below 20.
Grizzlies survived in four other Lower 48 ecosystems: Montana's Northern Continental Divide, anchored by Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex; westernmost Montana's Cabinet-Yaak area; northern Idaho's Selkirk Mountains; and Washington's North Cascades. Each enclave was struggling, but the collapse in the GYE received the most attention. After all, this was America's best-known big bruin country. Its grizzlies, now the southernmost left on the continent, were entirely cut off from other populations and fading fast.
The GYE sprawls across 21 different mountain ranges in parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Two national parks – Yellowstone and Grand Teton – six federal forests, and various state forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management properties, and other publicly owned lands make up two thirds of the area. Traditionally, each agency focused solely on the natural resources within its particular borders. Restoring mega-bruins whose individual home ranges sprawl across hundreds of square miles called for a whole new era of cooperation.
Scientists and managers teamed up to do a better job of defining critical bear habitat and limiting development within it. Where many a bear had been terminated for causing problems with livestock pastured on public lands, the grazing leases were relocated. Officials worked harder to control other attractants as well, fencing off garbage dumps in rural communities, replacing standard trash bins with bear-proof versions, and installing hanging poles to keep supplies up out of paw's reach at backcountry campsites.
Carnivores by anatomy, grizzlies are highly adaptable omnivores in practice. They sniff opportunity in anything from the celery sticks in a tourist's cooler to the flavored lip balm in a hiker's pack; and from the freshly skinned elk a hunter holds overnight in the woods to the fruit trees, horse pellets, dog chow, or seeds in a birdfeeder at a country home.
Where rewarded with food, the bears make a habit of returning. They quickly grasp the connection. The problem, as every bear manager knows, is that too many people don't. They keep leaving out open invitations to big, hairy company. Somebody could end up killed; 99.9 percent of the time, it's the grizzly. Progress in driving home the message that "a fed bear is a dead bear" was slow. Nevertheless, as the agencies and non-profit conservation groups expanded public bear awareness programs, that effort, too, began to make a difference.
The current count of grizzlies in the GYE is at least 500, possibly 600. It has been rising 4 to 7 percent annually, and the number of females with cubs has held above 50 for the past six years. As for the total population south of Canada, experts say it has reached 1,500 or more.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees imperiled species, chose to define the grizzlies of the five Lower 48 ecosystems as distinct population segments and deal with each separately. In 2007, the agency declared the GYE segment recovered. No sooner was it removed from the Endangered Species List than environmental groups sued, calling the de-listing premature. A federal court agreed and in 2009 reinstated the bears' threatened status. But the wildlife service challenged the court's decision, leaving that population in a sort of legal limbo.
Although some of the threats GYE grizzlies face have been reduced, none has gone away; not proposals to develop the backcountry; not livestock conflicts; not sportsmen shooting a grizzly in self-defense or because they thought it was a legally huntable black bear; not poaching out of sheer malice; not increasing off-road vehicle use; not expanding subdivision of open lands for new homes; and not unsecured food and garbage luring bears into trouble.
One special concern remains the GYE bears' genetic diversity – the lowest among Lower 48 grizzlies. For an isolated population, the effects of inbreeding can become more problematic with every generation. A second major worry is that GYE grizzlies depend more heavily on whitebark pine seeds (raided from squirrel caches during autumn) for nourishment than any other group. Suffused with fats and oils, the seeds provide as much as half the protein in Yellowstone area grizzlies' diet.
Heavier-than-usual whitebark seed production is reflected in bigger grizzly litter sizes, increased survival of young, and shorter times between pregnancies. And since this pine favors high altitudes, which are typically remote settings, bears feeding there seldom come into contact with people. Poor crops are linked to the opposite results – lower reproduction and a greater potential for conflict as the bears roam lower elevations with more human activity. At the moment, 95 percent of Yellowstone's once-abundant whitebark stands are under assault from a European fungus and native mountain pine beetles.
Warmer average winter temperatures have allowed the beetles to multiply at an abnormally fast pace and overwinter farther upslope. Not only did the federal court cite the impact of global warming as a substantial threat to Yellowstone's grizzlies, whitebark pine has itself become a candidate for listing as an imperiled species. (continued below image)
Organizations such as the Greater Yellowstone Coalition , a leading force for conservation in the region, refer to the grizzly as an indicator species. It means that where a landscape is big and bountiful enough to harbor great bears, the full array of other creatures belonging to that part of the world is likely to be present and in good condition. A prime example can be found on the Absaroka-Beartooth Front, a mix of snowy crags, forested slopes, and sagebrush foothills that sweeps down from the high eastern boundary of Yellowstone Park toward the Great Plains. The best bear habitat in the GYE lies mostly outside the national parks, and the Front hosts some of the highest grizzly densities of all amid tremendous elk herds, mule deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, wolverines, black bears, bobcats, moose, mountain lions, mountain goats, wolves, nesting golden eagles, and prairie falcons outracing the wind.
Because they play an oversized role in shaping the ecosystems they inhabit, grizzlies are also referred to as a keystone species. They affect prey populations directly through hunting, scavenge large carcasses in between, and redistribute tons of nutrients. Gobbling tens of thousands of berries daily in late summer and fall, they disperse the seeds from valley bottoms to subalpine slopes. They are also the chief earthmovers in many habitats, putting those long claws to work tilling the soil in search of roots and bulbs, renewing plant communities in the process.
A third term often applied to grizzlies is umbrella species, since guarding their critical habitat adds a layer of security for all their wild neighbors. Backpackers, mountaineers, fishermen, naturalists, tourists – all the people drawn to truly untamed settings and rich wild communities – find their values defended as well.
At the same time, there's no shortage of political and economic pressures to de-list grizzlies so restrictions on industrial activities can be lifted or at least eased. The Shoshone National Forest, which oversees much of the Front, has been fielding proposals to open pristine public lands to mineral development for years. Recently, a push to extract oil and gas has been gaining momentum.
Is it possible to somehow produce more fossil fuel and more grizzlies at the same time? Maybe in a more perfect world. You won't find win-win models father north along the Rocky Mountain Front in Alberta, where an invasion of new roads, drill rigs, pumps, and pipelines has cost wildlife dearly. Not long ago, the grizzlies of that vast province numbered in the many thousands. Today, fewer are found there than in the GYE. So much for importing grizzlies from Canada if we lose those in the contiguous states.
I've met folks in the Rockies who feel it's high time we did lose some grizzlies. In years without any serious bear problems, news outlets don't run stories on the order of "Hundreds of Thousands Stroll through Wild Grizzly Bear Households Unscratched!" I wish they would, because sooner or later there comes an interval with tragic conflicts and all kinds of media coverage. Lethal attacks on a hiker and, separately, a camper in GYE national forests took place during the summer of 2010. Summer of 2011 brought two cases of a hiker in Yellowstone Park killed by grizz. That fall, a hunter near the Idaho/Montana border shot a grizzly he thought was a black bear, and when the wounded animal attacked, the man's hunting partner fatally shot him while aiming for the bear.
Several mauling injuries involving elk hunters, hikers, and campers also occurred in the GYE and Montana over the same period. People interpreting all this as the start of a deadly trend began lobbying to end grizzly protection, warning that recovery efforts have gone too far. A number of guides, outfitters and sportsmen eager for trophy grizzly hunting to get underway again have been making the same argument.
How many grizzly bears are enough? If they keep expanding their range and numbers, society will have to weigh that question carefully. At the moment, however, all 1,500 to 1,600 in the lower 48 states could be lined up in a Wal-Mart parking lot with plenty of room left over. The 500 to 600 from the GYE would fit inside the store; not peacefully, mind you, but I'm trying to make the point that grizzlies are not exactly overrunning the mountain West. Three of the five grizzly bear ecosystems south of Canada contain fewer than 40 animals each.
If you wish to live a long, safe life here, these are my recommendations: Exercise more, cut down on fatty foods, and lobby for stricter drunk driving laws. I don't want to make light of anyone's fears, only to stay realistic about the levels of harm we face.
As for practical advice to prevent an actual mauling, first, don't feed these animals – ever, not on purpose or by inadvertently leaving out attractants. Second, carry bear spray on outings; none of the victims I mentioned did. Contrary to what a lot of tough-guy outdoorsmen believe, those little cannisters of red pepper-infused oil are far more effective than guns in deterring aggression. Studies have shown the spray's success rate to be nearly 100 percent. Give yourself a snootful, as I once did by mistake, and you'll understand why. (continued below image)
Bears force us to think hard about what we really mean when we say we want to preserve nature. A sample here and there? Multitudes of certain majestic creatures but only token numbers of others – just enough to let us say we didn't drive them completely extinct? The decision to try to include healthy populations of North America's largest, most powerful land-based predator in our future signaled an historical turnaround in attitude for most of society. What will it take to see this remarkable effort through?
Re-connecting Yellowstone's bears to the other four Lower 48 grizzly bear ecosystems via bridges, or corridors, of wildlands would boost the chances of survival for all those groups over the long run. They need the freedom to roam – to migrate, disperse, probe new landscapes, and meet up with others of their kind – on a regional scale. Without it, maintaining healthy gene pools, adjusting to a changing climate, and coping with periodic stresses such as drought, wildfires, disease epidemics, infestations, and invasions by non-native species through the centuries is all but impossible. As ever, the umbrella species concept comes into play, for modern conservation biology tells us that the best hope of sustaining other creatures in the same ecosystems involves both taking care of the strongholds and linking them together into a vibrant network.
Grizzlies energize some of the grandest landscapes in North America. And all the while, these bears expand our awareness of nature, redefine our relationship with it, encourage us to tie together fragmented ecosystems, and thereby restore wholeness to the living world. How much of this is enough? I don't know, but "Less" doesn't sound like the right answer.
A wildlife biologist who studied mountain goats and grizzlies in the Rockies, elephants in Africa and whales in the world's oceans, Doug Chadwick began writing about natural history and conservation for national magazines. On assignments from Siberia to the Congo River's headwaters, he has produced several hundred popular articles and eleven books. He is also the vice chair of the board of Vital Ground, a nonprofit land trust that has helped safeguard more than 600,000 acres of wildlife habitat in Alaska, Canada, and the western US. He lives with his wife Karen Reeves in Whitefish, Montana.
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) was founded in 1983 on a simple premise: An ecosystem will remain healthy and wild only if it is kept whole. Since that time, they have emerged as a nationally known advocate for the idea that ecosystem level sustainability and science should guide the management of the region's public and private lands.
GYC been a pioneer in defining and promoting the concept of ecosystem management for more than 28 years. Their offices, strategically placed in Bozeman, Mont.; Jackson and Cody, Wyo.; and Idaho Falls, Idaho, allow them to engage in a wide variety of efforts locally, regionally, and nationally to ensure the area's forests, streams, wildlife and other features are protected for generations to come. Find out what they are doing today to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and how you can help play a part in maintaining its future.
The Absaroka Front Tripods in the Mud (TIM)
iLCP Associate Fellow, Dave Showalter has been working with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition to inspire public support for preserving the Absarako-Beartooth (A-B) Front in Wyoming as an intact ecosystem as the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service each revise their twenty-year master plans with regards to mineral leasing in the A-B Front.

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The inspiration for her art is local landscape, and the technique reflects a post-impressionistic taste drawing on Japanese prints. The colors come from our community along the Gulf Coast.
The art also served as a reason for Allison Wickey to relocate her gallery to the Village of South Walton in Seacrest Beach from its Rosemary Beach location in May.
�I needed a larger studio space,� Wickey said.
�I felt like I was ready to expand, and the universe made it happen,� she also said.
The new location gives her more room to work and to showcase works by 16 other local artists. It also allows her to give visitors a look behind the scenes at how art is created while offering the large gallery experience.
At the same time, Wickey operates a kiosk in the nearby Peddlers Pavilion along Highway 30A, with the feel of the larger gallery continued on a smaller scale. Handcrafted jewelry, accessories and clothing can be found in the kiosk, offering a reflection of the best that can be found locally.
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Believing in what you do makes a difference in your entire outlook, and it takes only a half minute to see that Donna Pace believes in this little shop.
She opened Sassy Lady Apparel in March with very little retail experience and upon a suggestion from her husband.
�When we were brainstorming for the name of the store, that was the hardest thing,� said Pace, whose background had been in advertising before moving to the area two years ago.
She considered the name Keeping It Real because she knew that many women seek trendy but affordable clothing. Instead, she opted for the sass that comes through in her personality.
�Customers have said that �wow, you have something for everyone in here,�� Pace also said, noting that she offers all sizes from extra small up to 3X, with price points that fit every budget.
The clothing leans toward casual, with dresses, capri sets, shorts, T-shirts and accessories such as purses, jewelry and flip-flops.
The best is that she�s having fun.
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"The American flag is a global symbol of white racial terrorism and anyone who openly flies it should be considered a racial terrorist and supporter of the Western regime's global racial terror agenda." Dr. Louis Sidney Jacobs.
Should American Homes With US Flags In Front Yards Be Burned Down & Owners Imprisoned & Executed?
New Glax Haas Poll Reveals Most Believe Homes With US Flags In Front Yards Should Be Burned To The Ground, Home Owners Should Be Imprisoned & Executed: "It Is Open Declaration For Support Of White Racial & Economic Terror," Blacks Against White America (BAWA) (Source)


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A brief history of space
After the launch of a new US spaceplane and plans for a mission to Mars within the next few decades, we take a look at outer space.
A brief history of space
As late as the 17th century it was assumed that space could not be empty, and René Descarte argued that the entire universe must be filled. This was gradually shown to be wrong through work on air pressure by Blaise Pascal, Florin Périer and finally Otto von Guericke, who demonstrated that the density of the Earth's atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, and concluded that there must be a vacuum between the Earth and the Moon.
Astronomers began to get an idea of the scale of our galaxy in 1838 when Friedrich Bessel made the first successful measurement of the distance to another star, working out that 61 Cygni is more than 10 light years away. What we now know to be other galaxies were thought to be contained within our own galaxy until 1923 when Edwin Hubble measured the distance to the Andromeda galaxy.
Getting to space
The boundary of where space begins is not well defined. A common working definition is the Kármán Line at a height of 62 miles. This is where an aircraft would have to travel at a speed greater than orbital velocity to get enough lift from its wings to stay in the air.
The US defines an astronaut as someone who has flown above 50 miles, while NASA use 76 miles as their re-entry altitude, the point at which atmospheric drag is noticeable and the space shuttle can switch from steering with thrusters to maneuvering like a conventional aircraft.
In 1903, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky became the first person to realise that getting to space using chemical fuel would require a rocket made up of multiple stages. The idea was developed further by Herman Oberth 20 years later in his thesis By Rocket Into Planetary Space.
To achieve orbit, the horizontal velocity is as important as the altitude. To stay in orbit at the Kármán line requires a speed of around 18 000 miles per hour. It takes 20 times more energy to gain enough speed for a low-earth orbit than to simply climb to that altitude. A German V2 rocket was the first to cross the Kármán line during a 1944 test flight, and in 1957 the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 became the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. This was followed in 1961 by Vostok 1, in which Yuri Gagarin made the first human spaceflight.
Space travel in the near future
Until recently, only governments had the necessary resources to reach space. The first privately funded human spaceflight took place in 2004, when SpaceShipOne, developed by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, reached more than 62 miles twice in two weeks to win the $10m Ansari X Prize. The technology was then licensed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, which plans to build a fleet of five spacecraft twice as large as the original, offering commercial trips into space for an initial price of $200 000 each.
Meanwhile, the US Air Force launched its X-37B test vehicle on April 22 as part of a programme aimed at developing a reusable space vehicle to succeed the space shuttle, and President Obama has predicted that astronauts will reach Mars by the middle of the 2030s.


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Sorry again for redirecting you to the IMVU "forums" for news... but the IMVU staff made changes to Peer Review they didn't see fit to inform us about, and now some products have been stuck in Peer Review for days.
Peer Review Changes in multiple boards by Jeff
Where are the "Automated" Tiers? in Content Creator General Discussion by LestatDeLioncourtilyx wrote:When contacting the support today.
Check out an important part of the conversation:
Mark Anthony (09/05/2017): there is a recent change to the peer review
Mark Anthony (09/05/2017): if your definition of normal is how the peer review works before, then yes, it is not normal anymore since we changed something
Me (09/05/2017): Any prediction to fix your algorithm?
Mark Anthony (09/05/2017): fixing is only required for issue and errors, this is not applicable to the peer review
Mark Anthony (09/05/2017): since this change is intended and not accidental
- This makes it clear that there was a schedule for what was done, but they did not deem it important to warn us about.


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- People who can't figure out that "rouge" and "rogue" are entirely different things - This error runs rampant all over message boards that I browse and peoples' blogs I read. I've seen it corrected over and over again on message boards and people still do it quite often. This isn't a rare monster or anything. It isn't like "duergar" and "deurgar." The rogue has been a core class for a loooong time. This should be basic vocabulary to us by now.
- That guy at the FLGS who walked up to me as I was skimming through Open Grave and told me not to buy anything from 4th Edition because it is crap - Seriously?! If folks want to have editions wars, let the battlefields be on their websites or in discussions with their friends. If I don't know you, don't bother me with that crap. Post it on your blog or on a message board somewhere so I can choose not to read it. And even more important than that, don't make it harder for your FLGS to make a sale!
- People who claim to have done everything you've done, but just a little better - This little habit is one that is all too common everywhere, not just in RPG circles. "Oh, you took on a juvenile white dragon at 4th level and won? Well, we took one on at level two, my character only took three points of damage, and I rolled two critical hits back to back!" Sometimes the stories are true, but once I've noticed that someone has the one upmanship storytelling habit, I tend to develop a little habit of my own: avoiding conversations. Am I the only one who keeps stories to myself from time to time just to avoid being so irritating?
- People who won't (or can't) have a conversation about non-gaming subjects - Gaming takes up a lot of my time, too, but my hobby is only a part of my life. I don't care how great your awesome new Magic deck is. Actually, I might... but do not interrupt my conversation about ACC basketball to tell me about it.
- People who let the competitive aspect of the game turn them into bad sports - I am extremely competitive, especially in Magic: The Gathering tournaments, and I beat myself up (mentally) over careless errors and poor plays. Unfortunately, I've played against some real jerks in my time who I would never want to play against again... and I've also played against some otherwise decent folks who just have bad tempers and curse excessively when they make mistakes. Both examples are annoying to encounter.
- Older (or just more experienced) players who think it is okay to take advantage of those who don't know the rules well - At the Mirrodin prerelease, I sat beside a grown man who played a Reiver Demon against a young kid and didn't destroy any of his own (nonblack) creatures. When I pointed out the error, he acted like I was somehow cheating him by interfering. I absolutely despise that mindset.
What about you, my dear readers? Any gamer behaviors that get on your nerves?


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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E17122-05
|View PDF
The ALLOCATE command calculates lower-level data from upper-level data by allocating variable data down a hierarchical dimension. Frequently you allocate data for budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analysis.
ALLOCATE source [SOURCE conjoint] [BASIS basisname [ACROSS dimname]] - [TARGET targetname [TARGETLOG targetlogname]] - [USING aggmap] [ERRORLOG errorlogfileunit]
A variable or formula that provides the values to allocate. When the source object is a formula, you must also specify a variable with the TARGET keyword. When you specify a variable as source and you do not specify a target variable or a basisname variable, then ALLOCATE uses source as the basis and the target.
Specifies a conjoint dimension that contains a list of cells the user has changed. The ALLOCATE command uses this list to produce the smallest target status needed to allocate all of the changed source cells.
Specifies a variable, relation, or formula that provides the data on which the allocation is based. That data determines which cells of the target receive allocated values and, in an even or proportional operation, the amount of the source allocated to a target cell.
When the OPERATOR specified by a RELATION (for allocation) statement in aggmap is a COPY operator (COPY, MIN, MAX, FIRST, LAST), the basis tells the ALLOCATE command which target cells to update. When the OPERATOR specified is EVEN, then ALLOCATE derives the counts that it uses for allocation from the basis. When the OPERATOR specified is the PROPORTIONAL, then ALLOCATE uses the basis data to determine the amount to allocate to each target cell. When the OPERATOR is HCOPY, HFIRST, HLAST, or HEVEN, then ALLOCATE does not use a BASIS object. Instead, it allocates the source data to all of the target cells in the dimension hierarchy that is specified by the relation named in the RELATION statement.
When you specify the same variable as both the basis and the target, the current values of the target cells determine the allocation. When you do not specify a basis, then the ALLOCATE command uses the source as the basis.
Specifies a dimension, which can be a named composite, that the ALLOCATE command loops over to discover the cells in a basis. Because a basis can be a formula, you can realize a significant performance advantage by supplying a looping dimension that eliminates the sparsity from the basis loop.
Specifies a variable to hold the allocated values. When the source object is a formula, then you must specify a target. When the source object is a variable and you do not specify a target, then ALLOCATE uses the source variable as the target.
Specifies a variable (identically dimensioned to the targetname variable), or a relation that specifies such a variable, to which ALLOCATE assigns a copy of the allocation. For instance, when ALLOCATE assigns the value of
100 to the cell of the
costs variable that is specified by the
time and
product dimension values
Jan01 and
TV, and the
targetlog relation specifies the cell of the
costacct variable that is specified by the same dimension values, then ALLOCATE assigns the value of
100 to the specified
costacct cell, also.
Specifies the name of a previously-defined aggmap to use for the allocation. When you do not include this phrase, the command uses the default allocation specification for the variable as previously specified using the $ALLOCMAP property.
Specifies a file unit that ALLOCATE uses for logging allocation deadlocks, errors, or other information. When the allocation does not generate any deadlocks or errors, ALLOCATE sets errorlogname to
NA. When the allocation produces one or more deadlocks or errors, the events are sent to the specified file. ALLOCATE writes one line in the file for each allocation source that remains unallocated.
When you do not specify a file unit with ERRORLOG, ALLOCATE sends the information to the standard output device.
Usage Notes
Preserving Original Basis Values
Often the source, basis, and target objects are the same variable and therefore the original values in the cells of the target variable determine the proportions of the allocation. The allocation overwrites those original values in the target cells with the allocated values. To preserve original values in a variable, specify the original variable as the basis object and save the allocated values to a new variable as the target object. Using different basis and target objects makes it possible for you to preview the allocated data. When you then want to store the allocated values in the same variable as the basis, you can perform the allocation again with the same object as the basis and the target. Another example of using different basis and target objects is using an
actuals variable as the basis of the allocation and a budget variable as the target.
Using a Formula as a Source or Basis
Source and basis objects can be formulas, which makes it possible for you to make complex computations and have the results be the source or basis object. For example, when you want to see the sales of individual products that would be necessary to produce a thirty percent increase in sales for the next year, you could express the increase in the following formula.
DEFINE actualsWanted DECIMAL FORMULA <time, product> EQ LAG(actuals, 1, time) * 1.3
You would then use ACTUALSWANTED as the source object with the ALLOCATE command. In this example, you would use the ACTUALS variable as the basis.
Tracking Multiple Allocations
When you specify a variable with the TARGETLOG argument, you can store an allocated value in that variable and in the
target variable. This double entry allocation makes it possible for you to track multiple allocations to the same target cell. For example, when you allocate a series of different costs to the same costs centers, then each allocation increases the values in the target cells. You can keep track of the individual allocations by specifying a different targetlogname variable for each allocation.
Logging Allocation Errors
When you specify a file with the ERRORLOG argument, you can record errors that result from locks and
NA basis values. The log can provide feedback to an application about which source values remain unallocated. You can use the information to modify the allocation, for example by using a hierarchical operator such as HEVEN in a RELATION statement in the aggmap. You can use the ALLOCERRLOGHEADER and ALLOCERRLOGFORMAT options to format the error log. Within an allocation specification, you can specify other aspects of the error log using the ERRORLOG and ERRORMASK statements.
Logging the Progress of an Allocation
When you specify a file with the POUTFILEUNIT option, then you can record and monitor the progress of an allocation. You can use the file to get feedback during a lengthy allocation and to gain information that might be useful for optimizing the allocation in the future.
Example 9-34 Direct Even Allocation
This example allocates a value specified at one level of the
time dimension hierarchy directly to the variable target cells that are specified by lower level values in the hierarchy without allocating values to an intermediate level. The
timemonthyear relation specifies the hierarchical relationship of the
time values. The source, basis, and target of the allocation are all the same variable, PROJBUDGET, which is dimensioned by
time, and
line. The
time dimension is a nonunique concat dimension that has as its base dimensions
quarter, and
month. The
time dimension is limited to
<year: Yr02>,
<quarter: Q1.02>,
<quarter: q1.02>, and
<month: Jan02> to
<month: Jun02>. The following statements define the
projbudget variable, set the value of a cell in to
6000 and then report the variable.
DEFINE projbudget VARIABLE DECIMAL <division time line> projbudget(division 'CAMPING' time '<YEAR: YR02>' line 'MARKETING') = 6000 REPORT projbudget
The preceding statement produces the following results.
LINE: MARKETING -PROJBUDGET-- --DIVISION--- TIME CAMPING ---------------- ------------- <year: Yr02> 6,000.00 <quarter: Q1.02> NA <quarter: Q2.02> NA <month: Jan02> NA <month: Feb02> NA <month: Mar02> NA <month: Apr02> NA <month: May02> NA <month: Jun02> NA
The following statements define a self-relation on the
time dimension, relate the
month values directly to the
year values, and report the values of the relation.
DEFINE timemonthyear RELATION time <time> LIMIT month TO 'JAN02' TO 'JUN02' timemonthyear(time month) = '<YEAR: YR02>' REPORT timemonthyear
The preceding statement produces the following results.
TIME TIMEMONTHYEAR ---------------- ------------- <year: Yr02> NA <quarter: Q1.02> NA <quarter: Q2.02> NA <month: Jan02> <year: Yr02> <month: Feb02> <year: Yr02> <month: Mar02> <year: Yr02> <month: Apr02> <year: Yr02> <month: May02> <year: Yr02> <month: Jun02> <year: Yr02>
The following statements define an aggmap and enter statements into the allocation specification. They allocate the value that is specified by
<year: Yr02> from
projbudget to the cells of the same variable that are specified by the
month dimension values, and then report
projbudget. The target cells of the variable have
NA values so the RELATION statement in the allocation specification specifies the HEVEN operator. The ALLOCATE command specifies only one variable,
projbudget, so that variable is the source and target of the allocation. No basis object is required because the allocation is an HEVEN operation. The allocation is directly from the
year source value to the
month target values because that is the hierarchy specified by the relation in the allocation specification.
DEFINE projbudgmap AGGMAP ALLOCMAP RELATION timemonthyear OPERATOR HEVEN END ALLOCATE projbudget USING projbudgmap REPORT projbudget
The preceding statement produces the following results.
Example 9-35 Recursive Even Allocation with a Lock
This example allocates a value specified at one level of the
time dimension hierarchy first to the target cells at an intermediate level in a variable and then to the cells that are specified by the lowest level values in the hierarchy. The
timeparent relation specifies the hierarchical relationship of the
time values. The source, basis, and target of the allocation are
projbudget. The status of the
time, and
line dimensions are the same as the direct allocation example. At the beginning of this example, the
projbudget variable again has just the single value,
6000, in the cell specified by
<year: Yr02>.
DEFINE timeparent RELATION time <time> LIMIT quarter TO 'Q1.02' 'Q2.02' timeparent(time quarter) = '<YEAR: YR02>' LIMIT month TO 'JAN02' TO 'MAR02' timeparent(time month) = '<QUARTER: Q1.02>' LIMIT month TO 'APR02' TO 'JUN02' timeparent(time month) = '<QUARTER: Q1.02>' REPORT timeparent
The preceding statement produces the following results.
TIME TIMEPARENT ---------------- ------------- <year: Yr02> NA <quarter: Q1.02> <year: Yr02> <quarter: Q2.02> <year: Yr02> <month: Jan02> <quarter: Q1.02> <month: Feb02> <quarter: Q1.02> <month: Mar02> <quarter: Q1.02> <month: Apr02> <quarter: Q2.02> <month: May02> <quarter: Q2.02> <month: Jun02> <quarter: Q2.02>
This example demonstrates locking a cell so that it does not participate in the allocation. Locking a cell requires a valueset, so the following statements define one, limit the
time dimension to the desired value, assign a value to the valueset, and then reset the status of the
time dimension.
DEFINE timeval TO '<QUARTER: Q2.02>' LIMIT time TO '<Year: YR02>' '<Quarter: Q1.02>' '<Quarter: Q2.02>' - '<month: Jan02>' '<month: Feb02>' '<month: Mar02>' - '<month: Apr02>' '<month: May02>' '<month: Jun02>
The following statements revise the specification of the aggmap named
projbudgmap. This time the RELATION statement in the allocation specification specifies the
timeparent relation, the HEVEN operator, and the PROTECT argument. The READWRITE keyword specifies that the children of the locked cell also do not participate in the allocation. The NONORMALIZE keyword specifies that the value of the locked cell is not subtracted from the source value before it is allocated to the target cells. The statements then allocate the source value and report the results.
CONSIDER projbudgmap ALLOCMAP RELATION timeparent OPERATOR HEVEN ARGS PROTECT NONORMALIZE READWRITE timeval END ALLOCATE projbudget USING projbudgmap REPORT projbudget
The preceding statement produces the following results.
LINE: MARKETING -PROJBUDGET-- --DIVISION--- TIME CAMPING ---------------- ------------- <year: Yr02> 6,000.00 <quarter: Q1.02> 6,000.00 <quarter: Q2.02> NA <month: Jan02> 2,000.00 <month: Feb02> 2,000.00 <month: Mar02> 2,000.00 <month: Apr02> NA <month: May02> NA <month: Jun02> NA
Example 9-36 Recursive Proportional Allocation
This example uses the same relation as the recursive even allocation but it uses the PROPORTIONAL operator and it does not lock any cells. Because a proportional allocation uses the values of the basis object to calculate the values to assign to the target cells, the
projbudget variable has values assigned to each of its cells. The value of the
<year: Yr02> cell is
6000., which was assigned to that cell. It is not the value an aggregation of the lower levels. A report of
projbudget before the allocation produces the following results.
LINE: MARKETING -PROJBUDGET-- --DIVISION--- TIME CAMPING ---------------- ------------- <year: Yr02> 6,000.00 <quarter: Q1.02> 1,000.00 <quarter: Q2.02> 2,000.00 <month: Jan02> 300.00 <month: Feb02> 100.00 <month: Mar02> 600.00 <month: Apr02> 400.00 <month: May02> 800.00 <month: Jun02> 800.00
The following statements replace the previous specification of the aggmap with the new RELATION statement, which specifies the PROPORTIONAL operator. The allocation specification includes a
ZERO statement, which specifies that the source value is replace with a zero value after the allocation (see the SOURCEVAL statement of the ALLOCMAP command for more information). The statements then allocate the source value and report the result.
CONSIDER projbudgmap ALLOCMAP JOINLINES('RELATION timeparent OPERATOR PROPORTIONAL timeval' - 'SOURCEVAL ZERO' - 'END') ALLOCATE projbudget USING projbudgmap REPORT projbudget
The preceding statement produces the following results.
TIME TIMEPARENT LINE: MARKETING -PROJBUDGET-- --DIVISION--- TIME CAMPING ---------------- ------------- <year: Yr02> 0 <quarter: Q1.02> 2,000.00 <quarter: Q2.02> 4,000.00 <month: Jan02> 600.00 <month: Feb02> 200.00 <month: Mar02> 1,200.00 <month: Apr02> 800.00 <month: May02> 1,600.00 <month: Jun02> 1,600.00


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Skin, the largest organ in our body
February 10, 2015
Hosted by Drs. Jim and Janine Fox, D.C.
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In this episode we are going to delve into our shin, and how to take care of it. It is the largest organ in our body and does require proper care. We will be talking about what all the skin does for us, and how, as well as the many nutrients that it requires for proper function.
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Our show will provide you with science backed information on alternative and natural approaches to health. No fads here! We will also provide our experiences with these tried and true methods in what we call evidence based nutrition via "clinical pearls" as real life stories about real patients (no names used obviously) and situations that present to us in our business. We believe that people should take control of their own health care, and we provide the knowledge and information needed to do that. Teaching is the true meaning of a physician. We will accept calls from anyone wanting more information and knowledge about any medical condition and how to apply natural alternatives.
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After many years of conventional practice, we realized that the third party pay (insurance model) system that is the norm in America is not working to provide optimal health. With this realization, and an unwavering passion for natural healing methods, we sold our conventional practice and opened Doctor's Nutrition in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1997.
The concept of Doctor's Nutrition is one where a patient can have access to a doctor without an appointment, or cost for the consultation. We provide a method with which the patient can have access to lab work at a reasonable cost as well, and without expensive office visits. The patient is provided a copy of the results of the lab work as well as a consultation to explain the findings and possible corrective measures.
Doctors Jim and Janine have a combined practice experience of over 50 years. These years of experience using an intimate knowledge of natural and alternative treatment methods make for a truly unique health experience.


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If you dream big, dream REALLY big. Dream spacecraft big. Build The Enterprise is a website devoted to laying out, in detail, how a primitive version of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek could be built in 20 years.
There's a petition up on the White House's website to assign NASA the task of a feasibility study. Only 20,000 more signatures to go! Interestingly, they decided to go with a promotional graphic that is eerily similar to that scene from Independence Day when a spacecraft blew up the white house.


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with Hildegard and Bas van OstadenThe Leyerth Breweries (Urthel) July 1, 2008 - Julie Johnson
How did you start your brewery? Hildegard: I was working for the technical University in Ghent as an industrial engineer. I also did projects for breweries, and one of those was Konigshoven, the only Trappist brewery in Holland. I went to Konigshoven for half a year to work, and Bas was doing some marketing there.... View Article


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Need a Series Win
Rubber game of series tonight against the Marlins. Hard to believe we've won only one series at home this year: Washington, April 27-28-29, 2 out of 3.
Last night's game was a strange one. An error helped us score 3 in the first. An error helped Florida score 3 in the ninth to make it tight.
Joe was dominating. Good to see the rotation starting to round into form. Next week, J. C. Romero returns to the bullpen which will really give us a strong, deep pen.
Keeping your sanity. That's baseball. Shane was hot, got cold and now he's hot again. Jayson was hot, now he's cold. Chase has had his ups and downs. Jimmy was down, now he's turning it around.
Raol doesn't let up. Sixth in NL All-Star outfield voting? Let's go!
Big Four
Postponed Mets game from May 3 will be made up 19 Sundays later, September 13, to be specific. A big, crucial three-game series with the Mets just became a four-some. It is the final meeting between the two clubs this season.
Hard to Believe, Harry
We're 0-14 when scoring 3 or fewer runs. The American League Champion Tampa Bay Rays are in the same pew, 0-17. Explain that one.
When Pedro gets multiple hits, we're 38-4.
Chase broke an 0-for-19 at Citizens Bank Park last night.
Players of The Week
Awards in the Phillies minor league last week go to RHP Rodrigo Lopez (Lehigh Valley) and 2B Brad Harman (Reading).
Dog Numbers
Monday's Dollar Dog Night: 66,242 bit the dust. Worse, our Dollar Dog Night Record fell to 2-1, as a reader noted. Doggone it.
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Hi! I just noticed that the originally scheduled 9/21 Monday game in Miami against the Marlins was rescheduled to All-Star week on 7/16, cutting the break a day short for the 2 teams. Any idea why this happened? You may have mentioned it and maybe I missed it so I thought I'd ask. It's sad that they cut down the break for these guys :O(


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Anorexia Nervosa
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What is anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa (or simply anorexia) is an eating disorder in which people intentionally starve themselves. It causes extreme weight loss, which the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), defines as at least 15 percent below the individual's normal body weight.
Food and weight become obsessions. Compulsiveness may cause strange eating rituals or the refusal to eat in front of others. It is not uncommon for people with anorexia to collect recipes and prepare gourmet feasts for family and friends, but not partake in the meals themselves. They may also adhere to strict exercise routines to keep off weight.
What causes anorexia nervosa?
The cause of anorexia nervosa is not known. Anorexia usually begins as innocent dieting behavior, but gradually progresses to extreme and unhealthy weight loss. Social attitudes toward body appearance, family influences, genetics, and neurochemical and developmental factors are considered possible contributors to the cause of anorexia. Persons who develop anorexia are more likely to come from families with a history of weight problems, physical illness, and other mental health problems, such as depression or substance abuse. Further, often persons with the disorder come from families that are challenged by appropriate problem solving, being too rigid, overly-critical, intrusive, and overprotective. Persons with anorexia may also be dependent, immature in their emotional development, and are likely to isolate themselves from others. Other mental health problems such as anxiety disorders or affective disorders are commonly found in persons with anorexia.
Who is affected by anorexia nervosa?
The occurrence of anorexia nervosa has increased over the past 20 years. It is estimated to occur in one out of every 100 females between the ages of 16 and 18 years old. Five to 10 percent of teens diagnosed with anorexia are males. Initially found mostly in upper- and middle-class families, anorexia is now found in all socioeconomic groups and a variety of ethnic and racial groups.
What are some common characteristics of persons with anorexia nervosa?
Most people with eating disorders share certain personality traits and use abnormal eating rituals as a means of handling stress and anxiety. These personality traits often include, but are not limited to, the following:
- low self-esteem
- feelings of helplessness
- fear of becoming fat
Persons with anorexia nervosa:
- rarely break rules or disobey.
- often keep their feelings to themselves.
- tend to be perfectionists, good students, and excellent athletes.
People with anorexia usually follow the wishes of others, and have not learned how to cope with the problems typical of adolescence, growing up, and becoming independent. It is believed that they restrict food - particularly carbohydrates - to gain a sense of control in some/one area of their lives. Controlling their weight appears to offer two advantages:
- taking control of their bodies
- gaining approval from others
What are the different types of anorexia?
There are two subgroups of anorexic behavior aimed at reducing caloric intake, including the following:
- restrictor type - severely limits the intake of food, especially carbohydrates and fat containing foods.
- bulimia (also called binge-eating/purging type) - eats in binges and then induces vomiting and/or takes large amounts of laxatives or other cathartics (medications, through their chemical effects, that serve to increase the clearing of intestinal contents).
What are the symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
The following are the most common symptoms of anorexia. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- low body weight (less than 85 percent of normal weight for height and age)
- intense fear of becoming obese , even as individual is losing weight
- distorted view of one's body weight, size, or shape; sees self as too fat, even when very underweight; expresses feeling fat, even when very thin
- refuses to maintain minimum normal body weight
- in females, absence of three menstrual cycles without another cause
- excessive physical activity
- denies feelings of hunger
- preoccupation with food preparation
- bizarre eating behaviors
The following are the most common physical symptoms associated with anorexia - often that result from starvation and malnourishment. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- dry skin that when pinched and released, stays pinched
- dehydration
- abdominal pain
- constipation
- lethargy
- fatigue
- intolerance to cold temperatures
- emaciation
- development of lanugo (fine, downy body hair)
- yellowing of the skin
Persons with anorexia may also be socially withdrawn, irritable, moody, and/or depressed. The symptoms of anorexia nervosa may resemble other medical problems or psychiatric conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
How is anorexia nervosa diagnosed?
Parents, family members, spouses, teachers, coaches, and instructors may be able to identify an individual with anorexia, although many persons with the disorder initially keep their illness very private and hidden. A detailed history of the individual's behavior from family, parents, and teachers, clinical observations of the person's behavior, and, sometimes, psychological testing contribute to the diagnosis. Family members who note symptoms of anorexia in a loved one can help by seeking an evaluation and treatment early. Early treatment can often prevent future problems.
Anorexia, and the malnutrition that results, can adversely affect nearly every organ system in the body, increasing the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. Anorexia can be fatal. Consult your physician for more information.
Treatment for anorexia nervosa:
Specific treatment for anorexia nervosa will be determined by your physician based on:
- your age, overall health, and medical history
- extent of the symptoms
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the condition
- your opinion or preference
Anorexia is usually treated with a combination of individual therapy, family therapy, behavior modification, and nutritional rehabilitation. Treatment should always be based on a comprehensive evaluation of the individual and family. Individual therapy usually includes both cognitive and behavioral techniques. Medication (usually antidepressants) may be helpful if the person with anorexia is also depressed. The frequent occurrence of medical complications and the possibility of death during the course of acute and rehabilitative treatment requires both your physician and a nutritionist to be active members of the management team. Families play a vital supportive role in any treatment process.
Possible complications of anorexia nervosa:
Medical complications that may result from anorexia include, but are not limited to, the following:
- cardiovascular (heart)
While it is difficult to predict which anorexic patients might have life-threatening cardiac consequences that result from their illness, up to 95 percent of hospitalized anorexic patients have been found to have low heart rates. Myocardial (heart muscle) damage that can occur as a result of changes in the heartbeat, or repeated vomiting, may be life threatening. Common cardiac complications that may occur include the following:
- arrhythmias (a fast, slow, or irregular heartbeat)
- bradycardia (slow heartbeat)
- hypotension (low blood pressure)
- hematological (blood)
An estimated one-third of anorexic patients have mild anemia (low red blood cell count). Leukopenia (low white blood cell count) occurs in up to 50 percent of anorexic patients.
- gastrointestinal (stomach and intestines)
Normal movement in intestinal tract often slows down with very restricted eating and severe weight loss. Gaining weight and some medications help to restore normal intestinal motility.
- renal (kidney)
Dehydration often associated with anorexia results in highly concentrated urine. Polyuria (increased production of urine) may also develop in anorexic patients when the kidneys ability to concentrate urine decreases. Renal changes usually return to normal with the restoration of normal weight.
- endocrine (hormones)
Amenorrhea (cessation of the menstrual cycle) is one of the hallmark symptoms of anorexia, when a menstrual period is missed for three or more months without any other underlying cause. Amenorrhea often precedes severe weight loss and continues after normal weight is restored. Reduced levels of growth hormones are sometimes found on anorexic patients and may explain growth retardation sometimes seen in anorexic patients. Normal nutrition usually restores normal growth.
- skeletal (bones)
Persons with anorexia are at an increased risk for skeletal fractures (broken bones). When the onset of anorexic symptoms occurs before peak bone formation has been attained (usually mid to late teens), a greater risk of osteopenia (decreased bone tissue) or osteoporosis (bone loss) exists. Bone density is often found to be low in females with anorexia, and low calcium intake and absorption is common.
Biochemistry and eating disorders:
To understand eating disorders, researchers have studied the neuroendocrine system, which is made up of a combination of the central nervous and hormonal systems.
The neuroendocrine system regulates multiple functions of the mind and body. It has been found that many of the following regulatory mechanisms may be, to some degree, disturbed in persons with eating disorders:
- sexual function
- physical growth and development
- appetite and digestion
- sleep
- heart function
- kidney function
- emotions
- thinking
- memory
Eating disorders and depression:
Many people with eating disorders also appear to suffer from depression, and is believed that there may be a link between these two disorders. For example:
- In the central nervous system, chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters control hormone production. The neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine, which function abnormally in people who have depression, have been discovered to also have decreased levels in both acutely-ill anorexia and bulimia patients, and long-term recovered anorexia patients.
- Research has shown that some patients with anorexia may respond well to antidepressant medication that affects serotonin function in the body.
- People with anorexia, or certain forms of depression, seem to have higher than normal levels of cortisol, a brain hormone released in response to stress. It has been shown that the excess levels of cortisol in both persons with anorexia and in persons with depression are caused by a problem that occurs in, or near, the hypothalamus of the brain.
- Biochemical similarities have been discovered between people with eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and patients with OCD frequently have abnormal eating behaviors.
- The hormone vasopressin is another brain chemical found to be abnormal in people with eating disorders and OCD. Levels of this hormone are elevated in patients with OCD, anorexia, and bulimia.
Genetic/environmental factors related to eating disorders:
Because eating disorders tend to run in families, and female relatives are the most often affected, genetic factors are believed to play a role in the disorders.
But, other influences, both behavioral and environmental, may also play a role. Consider these facts from the National Institute of Mental Health:
- According to one recent study, mothers who are overly concerned about their daughters' weight and physical attractiveness may put their daughters at increased risk of developing an eating disorder. In addition, girls with eating disorders often have a father and/or brother(s) who are overly critical of their weight.
- Although most victims of anorexia and bulimia are adolescent and young adult women, these illnesses can also strike men and older women.
- Anorexia and bulimia are found most often in Caucasians, but these illnesses also affect African Americans and other races.
- People pursuing professions or activities that emphasize thinness - such as modeling, dancing, gymnastics, wrestling, and long-distance running - are more susceptible to these disorders.
- In contrast to other eating disorders, one-third to one-fourth of all patients with binge eating disorder are men. Preliminary studies also show that the condition occurs equally among African Americans and Caucasians.
Prevention of anorexia nervosa:
Preventive measures to reduce the incidence of anorexia are not known at this time. However, early detection and intervention can reduce the severity of symptoms, enhance the individual's normal growth and development, and improve the quality of life experienced by persons with anorexia nervosa. Encouraging healthy eating habits and realistic attitudes toward weight and diet may also be helpful.


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Commentary: Bad facts swing pendulum to rare Federal Circuit affirmance
When the Court granted review in Global Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A., the case had all the classic features of recent cases from the Federal Circuit: the Federal Circuit adopts a broad pro-patentee rule that imposes large risks on businesses. The Supreme Court, giving no credence to the Federal Circuit"™s institutional expertise in patent law, grants review in the absence of a circuit conflict. Academics and businesses weigh in, predominantly on the side of the alleged infringer. The Supreme Court predictably reverses. But something funny happened on the way to the United States Reports, as the Court ultimately issued an opinion affirming the judgment of the Federal Circuit. Moreover, that opinion is likely to have broad implications not only for patent law, but also for scienter requirements in criminal cases.
The question presented by this case was the state of mind necessary for imposing liability under Section 271(b) of the Patent Act, which concisely provides that "[w]hoever actively induces infringement of a patent shall be liable as an infringer." The plaintiff SEB (the respondent in this case) holds a patent on a design for a deep-fat fryer; the defendant Global Tech (here, the petitioner) reverse-engineered SEB"™s fryer and marketed a competing fryer. The central question on which the parties joined issue was whether induced infringement can be "active" for purposes of Section 271(b) if the defendant does not know of the particular patent. Global Tech"™s principal argument was that it could not have "actively" induced infringement because it obtained a legal opinion that its product did not infringe and because it was not aware of SEB"™s patent. SEB countered the evidence of Global Tech"™s conscious efforts to reverse-engineer the fryer was enough to affirm the Federal Circuit"™s decision, which had upheld the jury verdict in favor of SEB.
Although the Court rejected the Federal Circuit"™s analysis, it nonetheless upheld its decision at the same time. First, the Court unanimously concluded that Section 271(b) requires actual knowledge of the patent. Thus, the Court rejected the Federal Circuit"™s holding that deliberate indifference to the risk of infringement is enough. Although debatable, that part of the opinion was not surprising. The statute was plainly ambiguous and it made some sense for the Court to rely on the parallel analysis of Section 271(c) in the Court"™s 1964 decision in Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co.
But the remainder of the opinion is quite interesting. Adopting a suggestion from the oral argument, the Court (with only Justice Kennedy dissenting) held that the judgment of the Federal Circuit nevertheless could be affirmed on the basis of Global Tech"™s willful blindness. Echoing Justice Alito"™s sentiments at oral argument, the Court voices its dissatisfaction with Global Tech"™s strategy of seeking a patent opinion from a lawyer without identifying the company whose appliance Global Tech copied: "[W]e cannot fathom what motive [Global Tech"™s representative] could have had for withholding this information other than to manufacture a claim of plausible deniability in the event that his company was later accused of patent infringement." (Of course, whether the Justices are well-placed to understand the norms of customary behavior for manufacturers is debatable).
The decision is likely cast a long shadow over strategic IP planning in the years to come, in no small part because of the steps that the Court took in its analysis to reach its result. First, the Court has to construe the knowledge requirement that it has just discovered in Section 271(b) to be satisfied by willful blindness (doctrinally, a step harder to prove than the deliberate indifference standard accepted by the Federal Circuit). What is novel about this (and what will make this one of the most commonly cited decisions of the Term) is the Court"™s explanation for the first time that criminal statutes which require proof of knowing or willful conduct are satisfied by proof of willful blindness. Although most of the courts of appeals had reached that conclusion in criminal cases, the Court resolved this substantial question of criminal law here for the first time in a civil patent case without receiving briefs or argument on the question. [This is the point at which Justice Kennedy parted ways from the majority.]
Second, the Court had to conclude that the facts in this case satisfied the willful blindness standard. In the Court"™s words (now establishing the standard for all federal criminal law), willful blindness requires proof that the defendant subjectively believes that there is a high probability that a fact exists. But there was little in the record to justify a "high probability" that SEB had patented the fryer in question. The record did establish that Global Tech copied SEB"™s fryer, and that SEB"™s fryer had been commercially successful, but that is a long way from establishing a "high probability" that the aspects of the fryer copied by Global Tech were protected by valid patents. Among other things, it would have been reasonable for Global Tech to think that SEB might not have patented the particular features that Global Tech copied. Surely most features of technology on sale in American markets are not protected by current patents, and the record includes no evidence about the patenting proclivities of French companies in the kitchen appliance sector. The Federal Circuit and the trial courts it supervises will surely struggle to apply this opinion in areas (like software) in which patterns of patent protection are reliably irregular.
Third, the Court upheld the judgment of the court of appeals even though the trial court understandably instructed the jury under a considerably more lenient standard than the standard articulated by the Court; the Court"™s brief answer is that Global Tech failed to raise that objection to the instruction in the courts below. But that is a weak answer indeed in a case in which the Court affirms a jury verdict on the theory that the evidence satisfies a legal standard not presented by the patentee at any stage of the litigation. Surely it would have been more customary to remand the case to the Federal Circuit with instructions to consider the case under the new standard.
They say that hard cases make bad law, but perhaps this is an example of a case in which a case seemed so easy that the Court"™s drive to justify affirmance made bad law.
Recommended Citation: Ronald Mann, Commentary: Bad facts swing pendulum to rare Federal Circuit affirmance, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 1, 2011, 5:28 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/06/commentary-bad-facts-swing-pendulum-to-rare-federal-circuit-affirmance/


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In a setting far different from her usual surroundings, Colvin used her remarks to do what she did best, describing the conditions that real people face in war-torn locations:
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.She also shared this personal recollection that feels so chilling in retrospect. The "embed" she refers to is when journalists are "embedded" with an armed forces unit to cover the war:
Just last week, I had a coffee in Afghanistan with a photographer friend, Joao Silva. We talked about the terror one feels and must contain when patrolling on an embed with the armed forces through fields and villages in Afghanistan...putting one foot in front of the other, steeling yourself each step for the blast. The expectation of that blast is the stuff of nightmares. Two days after our meeting Joao stepped on a mine and lost both legs at the knee.Such a blast killed Colvin in February, and in her obituaries, the photos were primarily of her speaking at this event. What can you learn from this famous speech?
- Describe horror simply: Horrific circumstances don't need over-the-top adjectives to be powerful. Instead, stick to concrete nouns and verbs to convey what's happening. Let the horror stand on its own without too much embellishment.
- Know your history: In this speech, Colvin harkens back to the first British war correspondent and quickly sketches his circumstances, then describes those she faced in the modern day...but noting the long-standing similarities. The quick history lesson makes clear that the fallen journalists being honored are part of a long tradition.
- Explain what normal means: Describing a war zone is not unlike describing the surface of another planet--it's foreign to most of your listeners. Sharing simple, everyday descriptions will help your audience relate to and feel a connection with the strange landscape you're describing.
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What should the postal vehicle of the future look like? The U.S. Postal Service recently put that question to its carriers and vehicle maintenance personnel and is currently reviewing the feedback. It's an important question because the delivery fleet is aging and the Postal Service needs to quickly replace it. In fact, our recent audit on the topic found the current fleet can only meet delivery needs through fiscal year 2017 – and that assumes no unexpected decrease in vehicle inventory or increase in the number of motorized routes.


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One of the things I hear regularly repeated as though it were an established and accepted truth is that Microsoft is a legacy company that [take your pick] doesn't understand the Web, doesn't understand consumers, doesn't understand developers. In all scenarios, Microsoft is just a few years away from its inevitable and deserved collapse.
Every one of us has read these contentions: and likely intoned them once or twice ourselves. A new rash of these assertions will surely appear shortly if the recent news that the Redmond giant will let the Zune product line die out is true.
What is fascinating about this point of view is that it is so obviously incorrect. Before the accusations of Microsoft fanboy-ism start up, I should remind you that I was the editor of UNIX Review for years and watched Redmond gobble up that industry. I was not a fan of the then-unstable operating system and I wrote passionately about the feckless response of UNIX vendors in the face of a very dangerous foe. Since then, I wrote a column that analyzed the programming industry — all areas except Microsoft (which was the dedicated jurisdiction of Larry O'Brien, the former editor in chief of Computer Language and of Software Development — both ancestors of today's Dr. Dobb's). Moreover, while I've been to TechEd (and will be there this year), I have never been to the Microsoft campus, nor have I ever been invited. So, I have no special relationship or debt to the Redmond giant, and for many years was a fairly vocal skeptic of their technologies.
This, you'd think, would make me favor the statements I'm about to take to task. But the impassive persistence of reality makes this option impossible. Let's take the consumer space, since this appears to be where Microsoft might be most vulnerable. The Zune will surely be touted a perfect example of Microsoft's ineptness. Agreed. But I should point out that no one in that segment has successfully competed with Apple, so Microsoft is no worse than any other vendor. How about other consumer segments, such as games? Microsoft's XBox 360 is a smash hit. And the Kinect is undeniably one of the most innovative products in several years. I think the company understands gamers.
Outside of gaming, consumers adopted Windows 7 in record numbers. It was the best-selling operating system release in Amazon's history. And it has driven Microsoft revenue to all-time highs, which you'll admit is not among the usual symptoms of a company that's on the verge of obsolescence. A counterpoint to Windows 7's success might be the earlier Vista. But if you've actually used Vista, you know that much of Windows 7 is Vista repackaged.
Moving to MS Office, which is the big ball of mud that everyone loves to hate. But 20 years on, where are the better alternatives? StarOffice was funded by Sun for years and came out with acceptable but certainly not better tools. Likewise all the other OSS and commercial competitors. Writing a really good word processor is astoundingly difficult work, even when you have Word to use as a model. (I work on an open source typesetting project, so I have some sense of the scope of the problem).
Let's get to our favorite part, however: developer tools. I don't like how much Microsoft charges for its tools and how heavy the environment is. But the innovation is definitely there. C# is without question a well-managed language. The addition of intelligent, useful features marks its path. As to other languages, no other major vendor has had the daring to ship and support a functional language in years. But Microsoft did that with F#. How about MSDN? Probably the best run developer program ever.
Finally, let's look at the enterprise. Windows shares the throne with Linux for operating system supremacy. Microsoft has the #3 DBMS. In the cloud, Microsoft Azure is undeniably a player. And according to recent polls cited on our website, the fastest cloud out there.
No other company — not Apple, Adobe, HP, IBM, or Oracle — offers such a wide range of products from the consumer level to the enterprise. In many ways, this exposes Microsoft to criticism from which other companies are immune. For example, no one takes Apple to task for its failed (and now withdrawn) server. Yet it was clearly technology that significantly misjudged its audience. The execrable Objective C language barely raises a grumble. And so on.
The purpose of my comments is not to pen a paean to the Redmond monolith — it no more needs me to do that than you do. In fact, I couldn't, as there are lots of things Microsoft does that truly annoy me. Its deep embrace of proprietary technologies, the enormous delay in putting together an excellent desktop operating system (Windows 7 finally got us there), its odd browser, and so forth. But to avoid reflexive agreement with the widespread bias, I do think we can retire the canard that the company does not innovate or understand its customers.
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Entries for the Iroquois County Fair Talent Contest are now being accepted. This year marks the 42nd year of the perennial fair favorite!
Contestants must be residents of Iroquois County or regularly enrolled in a school located in Iroquois County. All entries that are 14 years of age and under as of July 19, 2013, will be entered in the Junior Division. All entries that are 15 years to 21 years of age as of July 19, 2013, will be entered in the Senior Division. Judging of the performance will be based on a total of one hundred (100) points: Costume 10; Audience appeal 10; Stage presence 30; Ability 50.
The Iroquois County Fair Talent Contest will be held on Friday, July 19, 2013. The Junior Division will begin at 6:30 P.M. in the 4-H Center. The Senior Division will begin at approximately 8:00 P.M. Ribbons and prize money will once again be provided by the fair board. In addition, the fair board will furnish an expense stipend for participation in the Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs State Talent Contest in January, 2014, at Springfield.
All entries MUST be mailed and registered by June 15, 2013 to Iroquois County Agricultural & 4-H Club Fair; P.O. Box 301; Crescent City, IL 60928. Late entries will not be accepted. Each participant is responsible for making his/her own entry. Auditions will be held on Monday, June 24th, at the Crescent City Community Center from 3:00-6:30 P.M. All entries must participate in the auditions to qualify for the fair contest. An electric full keyboard will be available to contestants at the audition and at the fair contest.
Accompaniment CDs are acceptable; however, cassette tapes are not acceptable at the request of the contracted professional sound company employed by the Iroquois County Fair Association during fair week. Participants will receive further audition details upon receipt of the registration form.
For further information or registration materials, please contact Jody Munsterman, Chairperson at 683-2628; or committee members, Janice Anderson, 486-7003; Pam Hibbert, 694-2965. NEW THIS YEAR: Information and entry forms are also available for downloading from the Iroquois County Fair website at: www.iroquoiscofair.com


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MWC 15 Special
Sony Mobile today announced a new affordable addition to its Xperia smartphone range, the Xperia E. The Xperia E is a compact and competitively priced smartphone that is engineered for simplicity. Available in black, white and pink, the Xperia E boasts outstanding HD Voice quality that makes phone calls clearer than ever before. It also features noise cancellation that filters out background noise so consumers can hold crystal clear conversations in any environment. The Xperia E has also been designed to let consumers stay on top of cost and power consumption. The data usage application monitors how much is being spent and the extended standby mode increases the standby time up to 4 times.
When the screen has been in sleep mode for a few minutes, WiFi and data traffic will be disabled and most applications will be inactive to save battery life. However, calling and messaging will continue to work as normal. Once you touch the screen to wake the device up from standby, all functions are back to normal.
It will also be available in a dual SIM version - Xperia Edual - so that consumers can easily switch between tariffs with just one touch to stay on the most cost effective plan.
The Xperia E comes equipped with superior sound quality with the in-built "WALKMAN" application that includes xLOUD audio technology, 3D surround sound and a manual equalizer. With access to millions of music tracks from the cloud based streaming service, Music Unlimited from Sony Entertainment Networ2, consumers can also easily view and share their content on TV, tablet and PC with DLNA wireless connectivity.
The Xperia E will launch on Android 4.1/Jelly Bean and is said to be available in both single and dual SIM versions from Q1 2013. According to Sony Germany, the E will retail for 159 Euro while the Edual will retail for 169 Euro only.
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Critics says that Apple's new ads featuring a youthful Apple Genius helping out clueless users, seems to be mocking its customers.
The new ads are "cheesy" and "borderline smarmy," according to Ars Technica. CNET reported that Apple is showing its customers as "nincompoops." And Digital Trends calls them too dumb to be able to fathom iMovie or iPhoto -- and takes a few shots at the 20-something "Boy Genius."
The ads, which debuted at the start of the Olympics and are now in heavy rotation, do feature clueless male Mac customers (who are also callous to their significant others) -- so just who is Apple's audience? Dumb guys? Maybe. The commercials aren't aimed at the Apple fanboys who hang onto every detail of the devices because they will already buy anything Apple. Instead, Apple wants the mainstream person who just wants an easy-to-use computer that won't tax his brain.
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Still, you have to know that PC users are totally making fun of all you Mac guys.