With the introduction of the 'Roam Like At Home' (RLAH) rules in 2017, retail roaming prices were abolished across the EEA but at the wholesale level the existing system of pricing continued, albeit at lower rates. This paper argues that wholesale prices are unrelated to costs because of a structural problem in the way traffic is traded - in particular the custom of bartering traffic or 'balancing' has a major role in distorting this market. Recent evidence from the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications and the European Commission on RLAH suggests that the strains caused by high wholesale pricing is leaking through to the retail level and consumers are not getting what was promised. The Commission's data clearly shows that certain operators are greatly disadvantaged in the wholesale roaming markets and that demand suppression practices such as the avoidance of 4G agreements are not currently tracked. The implications for the development of 5G are both obvious and not good. This article argues that the establishment of a wireless trading platform which only permitted one-way bids (and thereby eliminated traffic balancing) as well as anonymising participation, being transparent of pricing and volumes (in line with exchange rules under MiFID II) would enable prices to move towards marginal cost. Such a pricing scheme would enable RLAH to be sustainable for all operators even where data volumes are very high, such as in a 5G environment.
Tony Shortall is Director of economic advisory firm Telage. He is also a Director of the Cicada Exchange which seeks to enable trading of wireless capacity between firms. For correspondence: <mailto:tony.shortall@telage.net>.


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Q: How to select from a range of partitions in MySQL I hope you can help me!
I have a number of partitions in my database for the last few years. Their naming convention is pYYYYMM. For example p202206 would be for June 2022.
How would I go about saying: SELECT * FROM TABLE where partitions are within last 6 months?
The below works - does this seem more efficient than having date ranges in the where statement as you are explictly specifying the partitions to search?
    WITH t1 as (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(PARTITION_NAME) FROM information_schema.PARTITIONS
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'ran' AND TABLE_NAME = 'order_data' and PARTITION_DESCRIPTION > 2016)
SELECT * INTO @items FROM t1;
WITH t2 as (select concat('select * from order_data PARTITION(',@items,')'))
SELECT * INTO @query FROM t2;
PREPARE stmt FROM @query;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;

Thanks very much in advance!

A: I would just use the date range in the WHERE clause.
You can confirm it will do partition pruning with EXPLAIN PARTITIONS (I think recent versions of MySQL include the partition info by default in EXPLAIN output).
If partition pruning works, it is practically the same in performance as specifying the partitions.
You should only specify partitions if your query conditions don't allow partition pruning to work automatically.

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The national nonprofit organization, Homes For Our Troops (HFOT) donated a specially adapted custom home to Army Specialist Jarrod Addison on Saturday, July 11, 2020. SPC Addison was severely injured while serving in Afghanistan.
On May 9, 2011, SPC Addison was on his first deployment with the 615th Military Police Company in Zormat, Afghanistan, when he sustained a gunshot wound to his foot, resulting in severe damage to his left ankle. In the future, Jarrod may decide to have his foot amputated to relieve him from daily pain and discomfort.
SPC Addison's new home features more than 40 major special adaptations such as widened doorways for wheelchair access, a roll-in shower, and kitchen amenities that include pull-down shelving and lowered countertops. The home will also alleviate the mobility and safety issues associated with a traditional home, including navigating a wheelchair through narrow hallways or over thresholds, riding on carpets, or reaching for cabinets that are too high. HFOT donated the home to SPC Addison, thanks to contributions from donors, supporters, and corporate partners.
"Homes For Our Troops is doing noble work, making a different not just for Veterans, but their families as well," says Jarrod.
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Mars sample return: NASA's Perseverance rover to return Martian meteorites to Mars
By Robert Z. Pearlman published 28 July 20
A Martian meteorite (inset) is part of the calibration target for the SHERLOC science instrument that is mounted to the front of NASA's Perseverance rover. The mission will search for evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/collectSPACE.com)
NASA is poised to launch its first Mars sample return mission, though not in the traditional sense of the term.
The U.S. space agency is preparing to send its next rover to the Red Planet with the tools needed to collect and cache samples for their later return to Earth by a future spacecraft. The samples may help answer if ancient life existed on Mars.
NASA describes the Perseverance rover as "the first leg of a round trip to Mars," but the six-wheeled vehicle is already equipped with everything it needs to carry out the first "Mars sample return," even before reaching Mars.
In photos: NASA's Mars Perseverance rover mission to the Red Planet
Perseverance is carrying pieces of Mars that were delivered naturally to Earth. Two small slices of Martian meteorites are on board.
"We figured this was a nice way of doing the sample return," said Luther Beegle, the principal investigator for the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) science instrument on the rover.
Perseverance is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, and land in Jezero Crater on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.
Self calibrating
Perseverance's Martian meteorites are more than just hitchhikers that have found a ride home. They will play a role in fine tuning the rover's search for life.
Mounted at the end of the rover's robotic arm, SHERLOC uses a combination of a laser, a camera (called WATSON, or Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) and spectrometers to identify organics and minerals that have been altered by water, pointing to possible evidence for past Martian microbial organisms.
To ensure that the measurements that SHERLOC takes are accurate, its precision instruments need to be periodically calibrated, especially given where the readings are being taken.
A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. A similar slice is being returned to Mars on NASA's Perseverance rover as part of the SHERLOC calibration target. (Image credit: NASA/JPL)
"This is a very inhospitable environment. It has temperature swings. It has dust. It has UV [ultraviolet] radiation on the surface," Beegle told collectSPACE.com in an interview. "So what you have to do — and you have to do this in a laboratory [on Earth], too — is you have to calibrate your instrument so that what you determine you're looking at is really what you're looking at."
As such, Perseverance also carries a SHERLOC calibration target, a device about the size of a large smartphone that has 10 different material samples. The team operating SHERLOC will point the instruments at the "cal target" once every three to five months to check that the wavelengths and spatial scales they measure on Mars match the known properties of the Earth-sourced examples.
"We listed the things we had to measure and then we figured out how to measure them. That's where the calibration target came from," said Beegle.
One of the SHERLOC targets is the Martian meteorite slice, which will be used to determine how well the mapping spectrometer's scanning mirror is working.
An engineering model of SHERLOC, one the instruments onboard NASA's Perseverance rover. Located on the end of the rover's robotic arm, SHERLOC will help determine which samples to take so that they can be sealed in tubes and left on the Martian surface for future return to Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL)
"We decided to put a natural sample [on the target] and then somebody came up with a great idea, 'Hey, let's make it a Martian meteorite, right?'" Beegle recalled. "We can return a sample back to Mars because Perseverance is the first stage of sample return."
"Perseverance will be collecting samples that are 5 centimeters by 1 centimeter [2 by 0.4 inches], putting them in tubes, sealing them and then a future rover is going to come pick them up and bring them back to Earth," he said.
Another of Perseverance's instruments, its mast-mounted SuperCam, also has a Martian meteorite on its calibration device as a practice target and as an "inverse sample return."
Long-term loan
Technically, Perseverance is the second Mars mission to bring a Martian meteorite back to the planet. NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which operated from 1997 to 2007, still carries an Earth-sourced piece of Mars — but as an orbiter, circles high above the surface.
Perseverance's meteorites will be the first to complete the full round trip.
"A lot of why we came up with what we did was because one of our co-investigators was a gentleman named Mark Fries. He worked at Johnson Space Center," said Beegle, who works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Artist's concept of the SHERLOC instrument (circled) located on the end of the robotic arm of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Fries works in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science division at Johnson, the Houston office that is responsible for curating NASA's collection of extraterrestrial materials, including Apollo-recovered moon rocks, interplanetary dust samples and meteorites.
"So we went in to try to find a piece of Mars that we could use and we ended up contacting the Natural History Museum in London, which had an extra sample of material that they loaned us," Beegle told collectSPACE.
The museum provided a sample known as Sayh al Uhamiyr 008 (SaU 008), which was found in Oman in 1999 and has been in its care since 2000.
"The piece that we are sending was specifically chosen because it is the right material in terms of chemistry, but also it is a very tough rock," Caroline Smith, principal curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, said in a statement. "Some of the Martian meteorites we have are very fragile. This meteorite is as tough as old boots."
"In addition, studying this sample over the course of the mission will help us to understand the chemical interactions between the Martian surface and its atmosphere," she said.
The sample originally left Mars between 600 and 700 thousand years ago, making its journey aboard Perseverance a very long-awaited homecoming. It will also be a unique occurrence for the museum, said Smith.
"Every year, we provide hundreds of meteorite specimens to scientists all over the world to study," said Smith. "But this is a first for us: sending one of our samples approximately 100 million kilometers [62 million miles] away back home, to further our knowledge of Mars."
And though it is technically a loan, Beegle does not think the museum is expecting to get the meteorite back.
"If they want it back, we'll see what we can do," he said, laughing. "But I would not be holding my breath."
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Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of "Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space" published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.


The Alpine A110 was a rally hero, but can it triumph against its rear-engined rival on the road, the mighty Porsche 911?
It's a crisp autumn day in Bedfordshire and a quiet calm has returned to a scene that moments before was frantic with the squeal of tyres and the howl of flat-six battling highly strung 'four'.
The leaves barely have time to settle before the silence is once again shattered by a sublime 1965 Porsche 911, swinging into frame behind it the squat streak of French Racing Blue worn by its great period rally foe, the Alpine-Renault A110.
Astounding motorsport history is justification enough to pit these rear-engined masterpieces against one another, but theirs is a rivalry that began long before the World Rally Championship, stretching back to the aftermath of the Second World War as two brilliant engineers simultaneously set about the same task: to create the world's greatest sports car.
For Prof Dr Ing Ferry Porsche, ambition was born of necessity as he took charge of the family business while his father, Ferdinand, languished in a French prison accused of war crimes.
The war had been kind to the firm thanks to its involvement with Volkswagen, and the engineer – who had a hand in designing the People's Car – set about creating the company's first production sports car.
Porsche undoubtedly had a head start thanks to three Type 64 Reutter-bodied racers built before the war, which served as inspiration for the coupé that followed.
Temporarily decamped to an old sawmill in Gmünd, Austria, the first production Porsches – lightweight, aluminium-bodied 356s that helped the firm foster a reputation in competition – began to roll out of the workshop in 1948; the first race in which the 356 was entered, in Innsbruck, it won.
While a young Ferry Porsche was heading for Gmünd to start work on the 356, over in France Jean Rédélé had become Renault's youngest-ever concessionaire at the tender age of 25.
Based in Dieppe, he scratched together a living selling off war surplus while struggling to shift leftover stock of aged Juvaquatres, before the arrival of the 4CV in 1947.
Rédélé, who had a passion for motorsport, immediately began modifying the diminutive rear-engined saloon, endowing his Type 1063 with a host of in-house upgrades including a five-speed gearbox to which he owned the manufacturing rights.
The gifted driver's faith in the 4CV was rewarded early on, as Rédélé and co-driver Louis Pons steered the car to a fourth-place finish on the 1951 Rallye Monte-Carlo, claiming a class win on the gruelling Mille Miglia the following year.
Though competitive, the 4CV was a far cry from Rédélé's idea of the perfect sports car.
Following his success, the racer began to drum up interest in a new type of machine, based on Renault mechanicals but lighter, lower and more focused.
His enthusiasm fell on deaf ears at Billancourt, so he took matters into his own hands and commissioned Giovanni Michelotti to pen a body to be built in Italy by Allemano.
Incredibly, the 1063-engined, aluminium-alloy Rédélé Special won on its first outing, the 1953 Rallye de Dieppe.
By 1954, a steel body had been built, which was used as a buck for three polyester-bodied versions that took a bow in Paris as the A106 the following year.
The biggest change to the line-up came in 1957, when Rédélé took the first steps towards doing away with the ageing 4CV platform on which all his previous efforts had been based, trialling an in-house steel-tube chassis that made its debut in the A108 Cabriolet and became a key component of the A108 Berlinette Tour de France and all future Alpines.
That car served as the basis for the firm's most successful model and the machine that would take the fight to Porsche on the special stages of Europe and Africa – the A110.
Rédélé's recipe was finally perfected in 1962, when the beautiful glassfibre A108 body was mated to a single-tube backbone chassis and the advanced running gear of the brand-new R8, which brought four-wheel disc brakes, a sealed cooling system, and a reliable five-bearing engine bursting with potential.
While Rédélé was taking his early creations rallying, Porsche had returned to Germany and taken up residence in Stuttgart, where Karosserie Reutter began producing steel-bodied 356s.
Unlike the French outfit, Porsche had the backing of a major manufacturer from the off, with Volkswagen agreeing to sell and service the new sports car.
Very soon, Porsche components started to replace those from Wolfsburg, beginning with the firm's synchromesh system that edged out the VW crash gearbox in 1952; by the end of the decade, very little of the model's Volkswagen ancestry remained.
Development of the 356 continued, peaking with the four-cam Carrera powered by an all-new competition engine designed by Dr Ernst Fuhrmann and available in 1500, 1600 and 2-litre guises until 1963.
Despite this, the 356 was outpaced and outdated, opening the door for a replacement with more room, a longer wheelbase and greater stability.
Styling projects headed by Ferry's son 'Butzi' eventually led to the Type 7, from which the 901 (as it was known before Peugeot's objections) materialised, emerging to critical acclaim at Frankfurt in '63.
Both Alpine A110 and Porsche 911 were the product of careful evolution, but it was the German coupé that took the furthest step from its predecessor.
Still rear-engined and air-cooled, early 911s were fitted with a 2-litre, six-cylinder unit producing 130bhp at 6100rpm and fed by three single-choke 40PI Solex carbs per bank, while MacPherson strut front suspension allowed for a decent-sized forward luggage compartment.
A semi-trailing-link configuration was used at the rear, doing away with the swing-axles of the 356, with each wheel hub carried by a suspension arm that pivots on a bracket just behind the rear crossmember. As well as being cheap to produce, the compact set-up allowed for two small back seats.
Almost as important as the mechanical improvements were styling changes, and though the family resemblance is still clear to see, the shapely silhouette of the 911 seems light-years ahead of the upturned bathtub 356.
More pronounced front wings and an acute bonnet line brought the 911 bang up to date, as did the sharper tail and well-integrated rear lamps – though the iconic Fuchs wheels were still a few years off.
The slab sides and narrow track somehow bring to mind a smart tailored suit, particularly when viewed alongside the more intricate Alpine, an impression that's reinforced by the stunning condition of 'our' early short-wheelbase, which is finished in Signal Red and is not long out of restoration by Dennis Nachtigal in Germany.
Open the long, vault-like doors and the interior more than lives up to expectations, the modern plastics of the new generation softened by wood accents that match the striking tan leatherette and Pepita seats – prim and proper rather than sporty in factory trim.
Something of the 356's character does remain, however, in the large-diameter steering wheel, behind which you sit upright with a clear view of the low, swooping bonnet.
The promise of 0-60mph in just 8.3 secs and a top speed of 131mph makes you keen to fire up the Porsche's famed flat-six – a process that requires plenty of throttle and a bit of patience.
When it does catch, the silence is broken by a wonderfully throaty bark that's instantly familiar, a deep and guttural sound that over-promises in the best way.
Underlining the 911's sporting pretensions is a five-speed dogleg 'box, which slots into first with ease, and you pull away with a hefty prod of the floor-mounted accelerator and a clatter of air-cooled engine noise.
It picks up quickly, with a precise gearchange that belies its remote operation – performance is instantly accessible and encourages you to push on, the low-down lumpiness disappearing with speed.
The 'six' really comes alive as you wind up the revs, on a wave of top-end power.
Early cars were dogged by unpredictable handling, partly due to extra engine weight that its designers hadn't anticipated, but also variations in production that threw out carefully planned suspension geometry.
The car quickly gained a reputation for a lively rear end when driven hard; but as good-natured as a pitbull may be, you wouldn't poke one in the eye, and as long as you're not silly the 911 handles beautifully, erring on the side of understeer.
In its purest form, the Porsche is a joy.
If the 911 is straight from Savile Row, the A110 is decidedly smart-casual.
Unlike the immaculate Porsche, the Alpine wears its scars with pride, its low nose pockmarked with stone-chips and touch-ups from a lifetime of being driven as its designer intended.If anything, it looks better for it.
The Alpine's design is unlike anything else, both beautiful and purposeful, muscular and delicate, and is undeniably the more striking of the two.
Perfect proportions make its size difficult to judge in isolation, but parked next to the 911 – itself a small machine – the jewel-like Alpine seems even more of a toy.
My 5ft 11in frame is enough to give owner Geoff Simpson cause for concern, and there's talk of getting the spanners out to adjust the bucket seat.
But with a bit of snake-hippery it's possible to slip behind the wheel, albeit backside-first, and once there the tiny cabin is remarkably comfortable.
Ahead of the steering wheel, an enormous speedometer and tachometer fill the binnacle, while to the right a host of gauges, switches and a rally timer are later additions.
The driving position is comfortable where it has no right to be, with both wheel and pedals offset, the latter shunted towards the centre of the car to make room for the wheelarch.
Alpines were built under licence all over the world, with Dinalpins produced in Mexico, Bulgaralpines in Eastern Europe and FASA putting cars together in Spain.
This example is one of the latter, and left the factory with a standard 76bhp 1300 engine, but, as with most A110s, has since been modified.
The most notable – and most exciting – change is the engine, which has been replaced by a 1397cc crossflow unit built by renowned fettler Salv Sacco.
Fed by twin 40DCOE Webers, it promises over 100bhp at the screaming end of the rev range, along with a more aggressive throttle response.
With the master switch on, the little Alpine starts readily, filling the glassfibre shell with a busy engine note before settling to a remarkably relaxed idle – but the hair-trigger accelerator is too tempting not to blip like a teenager waiting at the lights.
Pull away and its slight 695kg weight is immediately apparent, with blistering acceleration that straight away puts it in a class above the torquey but 385kg heavier 911.
Throttle response is instant and the four-speed 'box slick, but no real match for the hot engine that just wants to keep going and going – Simpson's next modification is a five-speeder that's currently winging its way from Scotland, and should transform the car.
Even at the same speed the Alpine feels the quicker of the two, partly due to its size and low ride height, but also the theatre that accompanies each blast up the rev range.
It's an addictive experience only enhanced by the A110's roadholding, which is nothing short of remarkable for a car with a comparatively archaic swing-axle arrangement at the rear.
It, too, carries its timber over the back wheels, but the lower centre of gravity and wide track help tame the tail, which offers bags of confidence-inspiring feedback.
Feeding the tiny sports car along the country lanes of Newport Pagnell, it's easy to see how Alpine toppled the mighty 911 from its rallying perch, becoming the go-to loose-surface and Tarmac weapon before the arrival of the all-conquering Lancia Stratos.
Jean Rédélé and Ferry Porsche each took the thick end of 20 years to achieve their goals, with the final outcome similar in some respects and very different in others – like twins with wildly differing personalities.
Which is the evil one depends very much on your idea of the perfect sports car, whether that is the effortless chic and engineering prowess of the Porsche 911, or the Alpine's quest for total performance from the most humble of beginnings.
Both triumphed for a time on the world's rally stages, but only the Porsche became a commercial success.
Crucially, this allowed it to develop as a road car and, where the A110 remained true to Rédélé's vision, the pure '901' quickly gave way to bigger engines, swollen arches and supercar performance.
By the time the detuned, last-of-the-line Alpine A110 1600 SX left the factory in 1977, the 911 had grown into a whale-tailed, turbocharged 3.3-litre road-burner putting out more than 300bhp.
It might have been fleeting, but there was a time when Alpine was king.


Everybody wants to be a hero. Joseph Campbell's seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces concluded many if not most cultures' traditional stories, fairytales, and myths embody an element of "hero." Campbell found these stories often follow a similar plot—the hero's journey—where the hero arises from his or her mundane surroundings to experience something extraordinary before returning to their initial surroundings transformed in some way.
Outside the realm of story and fairytale, it is interesting to observe that people typically consider themselves the "hero" of the story they tell. This is what makes Hollywood so effective—everyone identifies with the hero. (As proof, ask yourself when the last time was you watched a movie and identified with the villain?) This desire to be the hero is expressed every day, and is easy to notice even in cell phone conversations at the market or mall. People complain about all the wrong another has done them, and elaborate on their many attempts to persevere. In short, they see themselves as the hero, challenged and tested by some villain.
The framework of the hero's story, and our general desire to be the hero, is readily applicable to mediations of nearly any kind. Let us take a garden-variety family law issue—divorce—as an example. The basic story in many divorces is that the other side has done something wrong or failed to do something right, which has caused the relationship to fail. The mediator should expect that each side will attribute fault to the other and consider themselves the hero. Notably, this phenomenon that we tend to attribute our successes to our own hard work and our failures to some outside source is recognized in Psychology and known as "fundamental attribution error." Quite simply, both sides believe they are right and the other is wrong.
Now, imagine these two individuals across from each other at a conference table. This, to me, conjures the tensest scene from any myth or fairytale where, at the pinnacle of the story, the hero meets the ultimate challenge—to overcome the dark side. At this point, the hero has only one choice—to prevail or to be prevailed upon. What is the likelihood the villain and hero are going to brew coffee and try to talk through their differences to reach a sensible written agreement in this context?
Why is this? Why doesn't the villain just give up? I mean, after all, he should recognize it is he the villain that is to be prevailed upon! Unlike plays and fairytales, in real life there are two hero stories: one for each side. This creates an absolute conflict; neither party is going to simply cede and let the other be the hero because to do so would ruin their hero story and their perception of themselves.
This is where mediation provides the key to resolution—it permits each side's hero story to play out as the party wishes, or at least within bounds that are acceptable. By separating the parties, the mediator allows each individual the opportunity to tell their particular "hero story." Without the presence of the other party, the mediator is free to acknowledge without appearing partial all the first party has done, the strife they have overcome, and how the other side has done nothing but try to foil those efforts. The mediator can allow this party to explain his or her heroic acts and acknowledge them as the hero they present themselves to be.
Not surprisingly, when the mediator goes into the other caucus room, he or she can expect to again be bombarded with a story of heroism. Just as in the first room, the mediator can acknowledge this party, who was the villain in the first story, to be the hero in the second version of the story. There is little need to contradict, or to present the details of the first party's story. Contradicting either party, or challenging either's hero story, is likely to cause the challenged party to try harder to convince the mediator. Being stuck on the "who did what to whom" part of the parties' stories, and allowing them to bicker over who is the hero, detracts from pursuing resolution.
Thus, one of the great powers of mediation is that the mediator has the luxury of being able to accept all versions of the story as true and acknowledge each side's heroic efforts. By accepting, instead of contradicting, each side's hero story, the mediator enables a transition to meaningful discussions of how to return each hero to their mundane worlds, transformed by their hero's journey.


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Thousands rally for gun rights at the state Capitol
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Tens of thousands of citizens, mostly gun-rights supporters, filled Capitol Square in Richmond Monday morning for a rally against gun-control measures sponsored by the Democratic majority in both chambers of the General Assembly.
Gov. Ralph S. Northam declared a state of emergency days before the event and ordered a ban of any weapons on the Capitol grounds during the rally.
Chesterfield resident Eric Chandler provided The Progress-Index with these photos of the hours leading up to and after the rally. Use the arrows above to scroll through the photos.


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Patients With Diabetes Find Success in Baptist's Diabetic Management Program
Mar 22 • 2021
Diabetes Education Program Helps Patients Thrive With a Challenging Disease
Unlike some chronic diseases, managing diabetes is complex. People with diabetes must take medication, learn to monitor their glucose level, understand their physical symptoms and adapt to new habits, such as healthy eating and daily exercise.
To help Mid-South patients with diabetes make lifestyle adjustments, Baptist Medical Group primary care physicians and the Diabetes Education Center developed a leading-edge program, called the Diabetes Care Coordination Implementation Team. The program regularly follows more than 5,200 patients and combines affordable diabetic education classes with phone calls to offer proactive treatment for patients with diabetes.
Diabetes Self-Management Classes Make an Impact
A diabetes diagnosis came as a surprise for Jennifer Coburn-Washington, a Memphis resident and customer service employee for Baptist Medical Group.
"I started feeling bad and couldn't figure out what was going on with me," said Coburn-Washington. "My doctor ran some tests and told me I was pre-diabetic. Of course, I thought, 'No, not me. Other people have diabetes, but not me.'"
Coburn-Washington's doctor prescribed medication and recommended diabetes education classes.
"I started classes at the Diabetes Education Center at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis," said Coburn-Washington. "I didn't have an open mind when I arrived. I was probably the worst student in the program when it came to eating habits."
According to Dr. Gregory Jenkins, general internal medicine specialist with Baptist Medical Group-Internal Medicine, the Diabetes Care Coordination Implementation Team was designed with patients like Coburn-Washington in mind.
"We developed the program to ensure patients with uncontrolled diabetes see their diabetic care provider every 90 days," said Jenkins. "We also want patients to go to a diabetic self-management education class at least every two years. Our third objective is to make sure patients can access their medications and that they understand how to take them."
Coburn-Washington experienced a learning curve, but with her doctor's help, she learned to test her blood sugar level.
"I struggled at first because I faint when I see needles or blood," said Coburn-Washington. "My doctor taught me how to measure my blood sugar level without being queasy. He did it for me a couple of times — and I quickly realized that it's not painful. That helped me overcome my fear."
Measuring her blood sugar level was simple compared to changing her diet. At 48 years old, Coburn-Washington believed it was too late to make significant changes. However, she learned to incorporate new foods into her diet by attending diabetes education classes.
"Ms. Jennifer Reed teaches the classes," said Coburn-Washington. "She's a certified diabetes educator and registered dietitian. Her classes helped me learn how to eat and what to eat. She gave me recipes and a diagram of my plate to show food groups and portion sizes. I keep the diagram in my purse as a constant reminder to eat from each food group."
A Team Approach Achieves Promising Results
According to Jenkins and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a team approach to diabetes management can effectively help patients cope with diabetes complications and lower their risk for kidney disease, heart disease and stroke.
"A team of seven trained, certified medical assistants reach out to patients by phone on a regular basis," said Jenkins. "This is the real beauty of the program. They ask patients how they're doing with their diabetes. They remind patients to attend diabetes education classes and see their doctor every 90 days. They also answer questions and help them get medications."
Data show the team approach has been successful in helping patients manage their diabetes. To gauge improvement, Baptist Medical Group physicians measure patients' A1C, a blood test that shows average blood glucose level over the past two to three months.
"We compared their A1C when they entered the program with their most recent one," said Jenkins. "About 2,300 patients gained control of their diabetes over the course of the program. We're outpacing the national benchmark for telephone diabetic outreach in terms of A1C drop rates."
Additionally, patients who completed all 10 hours of diabetes education classes reduced their A1C by 1.9 points, which is more than patients can achieve with any single medication.
"I'm not tired anymore," said Coburn-Washington. "I have extra energy, and I'm eating a lot of great vegetables, fish and other foods I never would have tried before. It's an informative program. It helped open my eyes."
Patients who are cared for by a Baptist Medical Group primary care physician are automatically eligible for the program. Patients who are not cared for by a Baptist Medical Group primary care physician can access the program through the Baptist Outpatient Care Center, which is located at 2100 Exeter Road, Germantown, TN, 38138 or by calling (901) 701-5538.
Visit our website to learn more about Baptist Diabetes Education Center. Find a doctor by visiting our Find a Doctor page.


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Q: mousewheel event listener above iframe Is it even possible to know when a mousewheel is triggered when mouse is above an iframe on non webkit browsers such as firefox, oprera, ie and so on?
I am using the jquery mousewheel plugin. Everything works fine in chrome and safari, even if my mouse is hovering above an iframe, for example facebook comments or the facebook like box, which uses iframes. But on FF and IE and Opera the mousewheel event doesnt fire when mouse is hovering above an iframe. Very frustrating.
Here is an example of what i am trying to achieve:
http://9gag.com/fast#1217289
As you can see, no matter what browser you are using, you can still scroll when above the facebook comments.
(or maybe they are actually doing a negative margin to hide the original scrollbar? :p)
Regards,
Alexander

A: Does the event ever fire? FF uses a different way of doing the mouse wheel
    function wheel(e) {

            e.preventDefault();
            Zoom(!(e.wheelDelta != 'undefined' && e.wheelDelta <= 0) || (e.detail != 'undefined' && e.detail > 0));
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Detail is for FF and IE and wheelDelta is for Chrome


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April 19, 2010 January 17, 2021 | Posted in History
The launch of new restaurants and markets is always exciting news on PFM, a lot of time is spent staying on top of the Comings, and sometimes the Goings, but rarely on the Still Here's. So I thought it would be worth taking a moment to take notice of the other end of the spectrum—those in business for more than 20 years.
Here's what I have so far. Please email me at anestes@portlandfoodmap.com with additions and corrections.
Note: There have been a lot of additions (and some subtractions) since this page first went live. I'll be keeping this page up to date as I learn more. (3/19/2011)
1768 – Portland Farmers Market has a very long heritage that predates the founding of the United States and the establishment of Maine as a state.
1866 – Schlotterbeck-Foss is a "purveyors of specialty foods and fine flavors" that's headquartered in a John Calvin Stevens building on Preble Street in Bayside. The company was founded in Portland by Augustus G. Schlotterbeck and Charles S. Foss.
1867– the Burnham & Morrill Company, maker of B&M Baked Beans was founded in Portland by George Burnham and Charles S. Morrill. The firm has canned numerous different products including corn, lobster and clams over the 140+ year history. It wasn't until 1927 that they started producing their iconic Baked Beans—a product line that continues to this day at the B&M factory in Portland. Since 1965 the B&M brand has been owned by one company or another; they're currently a subsidiary of B&G.
1883 – Hannaford Bros. was established by Arthur Hannaford, who was later joined in the business by his brothers Howard and Edward. They started by selling produce from their family farm in Cape Elizabeth.
1902 – Amato's was founded by Giovanni Amato who sold "fresh baked rolls filled with meat, cheese and fresh vegetables to his fellow countrymen working the docks. "
1915 – Haven's Candies was founded by Herbert Haven. Haven's was originally located at 500 Forest Ave just down the road from their current location.
1921 –Oakhurst Dairy was founded by Stanley T. Bennett at 332 Woodford Street on December 21, 1921. The dairy later moved to their present location on Forest Ave.
1934 – the Eastland Park Hotel opened during prohibition on June 15, 1927. At that time the top floor was known as the Sun Parlor. After prohibition was repealed in 1933 it was turned into the Top of the East cocktail lounge.
1935 – Harry Nanos ran a confectionery shop at 469 Stevens Ave from 1926 until he sold the business to Samuel Brown in 1935. Brown renamed it Janette Quality Shop and 2 years later the name was shortened to simply Quality Shop. It wasn't until 1970 that the business moved to its current location at 473 Stevens Ave.
1936 – Forest Gardens opened at 371 Forest Ave.
1939 – John Smaha bought the Columbia Market in South Portland from his brother Herb and renamed it Smaha's Legion Square Market. Tom Smaha bought took over the business from his father in 1967.
1945 – Joe's Smoke Shop was founded by Joseph L. Discatio.
1946 – PJ Merrill Seafood was established by Paul J. Merrill after he completed his service in the Navy during WW II. It's now run by the 2nd generation: John, Tim and Jim Merrill.
1947 – Both Eddie's Variety and Vaughan Street Variety were started in 1947. Pizza by Angelone was Maine's first pizza shop. It was started by John V. "Jack" Angelone and his wife Carol on Veranda Street. Jack taught a man named C.D. Farnsworth how to make pizza and CD "Pat" Farnsworth founded the chain of Pat's Pizza. Kristie Green, the founder of Maple's Organics is the granddaughter of Jack Angelone. She credits him as the source for the entrepreneurial spirit that prompted her to start her own business.
1949 – Micucci's Grocery was started by Leo and Iris Micucci. The store's current location at 45 India Street didn't open until 1965. The Miss Portland Diner originally opened in February 1949 at 175 Forest Ave, and in 1964 moved to Marginal Way near the intersection with Hanover Street. After closing up the business in 2004, then owner Randy Chasse donated the lunch car to the City of Portland. The city sold the diner to Portland native Tom Manning who situated the diner at its present location on Marginal Way and reopened it October 31, 2008. The diner car was built by the Worcester Lunch Car Company, and is No. 818. Joseph Botto opened Botto's Bakery on Washington Ave. Botto sold the business to Everett Mathews in 1982 whose family continues to run the bakery.
1951 – there have been grocery stores operating at 484 Stevens Ave–where Pat's Meat Market is located–since the early part of the 20th Century, and over the years it's been bought and sold numerous times. Pat's Meat Market was started by Pat Vacchiano. He and his family have operated meat markets in Portland since 1917 when Pat's father opened the Sanitary Meat Market on the corner of Middle and India Streets.
1952 – Red's Dairy Freeze in South Portland was opened by Leonard "Red" Bolling who operated it as a Tastee Freeze franchise until 1965 when Bolling went independent. Vivian's Drive-In was established by Vivian L. Vintinner who sold it to Joyce Perry in 1964 who then sold it to the current owner Donna Morgan in 1995.
1955 – Barber Foods was founded by Augustus Barber who passed away in 2008. The business was originally called Barber Beef.
1956 – Moran's Market was founded by Bernard Larsen and his brother-in-law Thomas Moran. Moran died a few years later. Larsen and his wife Dorothy ran the store for many years and it's now managed by their children.
1959 – DiPietro's Market.
1960 – Anthony and Madeline Napolitano established Maria's Ristorante and their sons Anthony and Gregory now run the restaurant.
1963 – Anania's was founded by Ed Anania Sr. Ed Anania Jr. and his wife Barbara now run the business.
1965 –Tony's Donut Shop was started by Antonio Fournier. The shop was originally located across the street in the present day location of Anania's. Fournier had run a wholesale bakery in Westbrook from 1950 until moving to Portland and opening the donut shop. Pizza Villa was started by Mike Regios, an immigrant from Greece. Sons Tony and Phil now co-own the pizzeria. Their dad opened the shop as a way to augment his income as a tailor.
1966 – Sangillo's was started by Adam Sangillo Sr. The bar is now run by his granddaughter.
1969 – Harbor Fish Market was established by Ben Alfiero Sr. and he passed the business own to his three sons Nick, Ben and Mike. The Lobster Shack was founded by Ruth and Jim Leadbetter and it's now run by their grandson and his wife. Lib's Dairy Treats served its first ice cream cone in 1969.
1972 – Amigo's
1973 – Old Port Tavern
1975 – Bubba's Sulky Lounge was started in 1960 by Robert "Bubba" Larkin as Bubba's Cafe. In 1975 the Sulky Lounge opened at that location and in 1979 the building was replaced after a fire. Forest Gardens and Paul's Food Center were also both started in 1975. Paul's was founded by Paul Trusiani.
1976 – Pizza Joint and Espo's both started in 1976. At some point in its life Espo's changed its name from Esposito's Restaurant to Espo's Trattoria.
1977 – Mister Bagel was opened by Eric J. Hartglass on June 2nd. J's Oyster Bar was founded by Janice "J" Noyes who had a "fascination" with raw bars and decided to start her own.
1978 –Tortilla Flat
1979 – The Great Lost Bear was founded by Dave & Weslie Evans and Chip MacConnell. The bar was originally known as The Grizzly Bear but changed their name in 1981 after a legal challenge from an existing West coast operation called Grizzly Bear Pizza.
1980 – Dock Fore was founded by sisters Susan and Nancy Hezlep in the space that had long been the home of Zeitman's Grocery Store. In 1980 Three Dollar Deweys opened at the intersection of Union and Fore before moving around the corner in 1995 to their location on Commercial Street.
1981 –Wok Inn was started by Ricky Yue, Edward Whitney and John Mui, and Bruno's opened at its original location at 43 India Street, and City Deli opened.
1982 – DiMillo's Floating Restaurant was started by Tony DiMillo. He had run a series of restaurants in Portland dating back to 1954 when he started Anthony's on Fore Street. The restaurant is now run by Tony's sons Steven and Johnny and his grandson Steven Jr. Ruski's opened for business in 1982 and in 1985 R. Steven Harris bought the bar. He and his wife Rose (the namesake of Rosie's) operated the restaurant until 2005 when it was sold to Josh Whaley, a longtime customer.
1983 – Geno's Rock Club was founded by Geno D'Alessandro. The club was originally located on Brown Street. According to The Bollard, D'Alessandro had also "owned the bar formerly known as The Brass Rail, on Forest Avenue, and had owned and operated various other eating and drinking establishments in New England." Geary Brewing Company was incorporated becoming the first craft brewery in New England. The Dry Dock was founded, and back in 1983 Mark Gatti thought he'd run Mark's Hot Dogs for "just a couple years". Decades later he's a fixture on the corner of Exchange and Middle Streets, rain or shine. Must See TV: watch this excellent documentary on Mark's.
1984 – Dyer's Variety.
1985 – Portland's first sushi restaurant, Sapporo, was founded by Yoshi Hayashi. It opened for business on Apil 13, 1985 at its original location 24 Free Street. Hayashi's cousin Takahiro Sato was the founder of Yosaku. 1985 also marked the opening of the Madd Apple Cafe that later turned into BiBo's Madd Apple Cafe. It's also the year that Ricky's Tavern, aka Rockin' Ricky's Tavern, opened.
1986 – David and Karen Geary established Portland's and New England's first microbrewery, DL Geary Brewing Co. The first run of beer went on sale December 10, 1986. The Wharf Street Cafe and Wine Bar opened in 1986, several years later it moved across the street and was renamed The Wine Bar. The Old Port Tavern Billiards and the Portland Fish Exchange also opened in 1986, as did The Good Table in Cape Elizabeth.
1987 –Rosie's was started by Steve Harris and his wife Rose for whom the restaurant is named. Also in 1987, Blackstones opened their doors, and Full Belly Deli was started by David Rosen "with the help and Guidance of the late George Bress" (see below for more on George's Delicatessen).
1988 – Steve Quatrucci founded The Back Bay Grill and 2 years later he sold it to Joel Freund. Then in 2002 Freund sold it to Larry Matthews who had been the Executive Chef since 1997. Cakes Extraordinaire first opened their doors in 1988. Gritty McDuff's,Portland's "first brewpub since prohibition ended", was co-founded by Richard Pfeffer, Ed Stebbins, William Stebbins, and Jon Soule. Silly's was established by Deidre and Stephanie Nice. It was originally located at 147 Cumberland Ave and moved to its current location in 1997. Silly's was purchased by current owner Colleen Kelley in 2002. Portland House of Pizza was founded on August 25, 1988 by Mike Orr; it was originally located two doors down from its present location on Washington Ave.
1989 – 1989 was a banner year for restaurants that have stood the test of time: Ken Ng opened Panda Garden, Dana Street opened Street & Co., Susan Eklund opened Susan's Fish & Chips, Eddie Fitzpatrick and Mary Ledue Paine opened Pepperclub, Jiraporn Koonyosyint opened Sala Thai, and Hi Bombay!, Brea Lu Cafe, Jan Mee, Marcy's the Armory Lounge, Vespucci's, and Parker's all opened their doors for the first time. ISF Trading, a export wholesaler of sea urchins to Japan, was also founded in 1989.
1990 – fish wholesaler Nova Seafood.
1991 – Becky's Diner opened on March 13, 1991. Daniel Way Peters and Gretchen Bates opened Katahdin; the restaurant moved from it's original location on High Street in 2010. Rod Browne Mitchell founded Browne Trading Company in 1991.
1993 – Saeng Thai House and Brian Boru were founded.
And here are few spots from Portland's past that had especially long runs or are otherwise notable:
Boone's Restaurant (1898 – 200?) you can still see the sign on Commercial Street near Ri Ra.
The Empire Restaurant (1916 – 1953) a popular Chinese restaurant that had been at the present day location of Empire Dine and Dance on the corner of Congress Street and Forest Ave. According to an article in the Press Herald was, Empire Restaurant was "one of the swankiest places in Portland to have dinner" when it first opened. Portland's very first Chinese restaurant was opened 36 years earlier by Ar Tee Lam in 1880 on Custom House Wharf.
Zeitman's Grocery Store (1918 – 1980) was started as a variety store by Bessie Zeitman at 443 Fore Street. In 1922 she moved the business to it's long time location at 336 Fore Street. Mrs. Zeitman ran a variety store, lunch counter, lodging house, and cigar shop before opening a grocery store in 1953.
Roma Cafe (1924 – 2009) was opened by Dominic Marino at its original location, 489 Congress Street. In 1935 it moved to 769 Congress in the West End. The restaurant remained in the Marino family until 1985 when it was bought by Peter Landrigan, a former Hannaford Brothers VP.
Amergian Bros. (1928 – 200?) was a neighborhood market located at the corner of Chestnut and Oxford Streets. It was one of the last vestiges of Portland's once visible and vibrant Armenian community in Bayside. The sign for the store can still be see when you drive up Chestnut towards Cumberland Ave.
Valle's (1933 – 2000) was founded by Donald Valle in 1933. It started as a bar called Valle's Cafe in Woodfords Corner and eventually evolved into a steak house restaurant chain that stretched from Maine to Florida. The Valle's on Brighton Ave opened in 1960 and closed unexpectedly in 2000.
George's Delicatessen (1934 – 1976) was run for 42 years by George Bress.
The Village Cafe (1936 – 2007) the family Italian restaurant was started by Vincenzo Reali, his son Amedeo Reali and grandson John operated the restaurant until it closed in December 2007.
Espans Quick Lunch (1948 – 2007)
Terroni's Market (1949 – 2011) was opened by Florence Terroni. The business changed hands in 2004 and the new owner closed the market in 2011. Sheila Cunningham worked at the market since she was 15 and had booked 44 years there by the time it had closed.
The Sportman's Grill (1952-1999) was run by Jim, Tony and John "Sonny" Severino and John's son Paul.
The Gaslight (196? – 19??) was run by Richard and Elizabeth DeFranco.
The Hollow Reed (1974 – 1981) was opened by Victoria Jahn, Bobbi Goodman and Frank LaTorre on February 7, 1974. It was Portland's first vegetarian restaurant.
F. Parker Reidy's (1976 – 2001) was located on Exchange Street adjacent to Post Office Park. It was a longtime fixture in the city dating back to the early days of the Old Port as a retail and dining destination.
Carbur's (1977 – 1997) was founded by Richard McNeill. The sandwich shop was part of the rebirth of the Old Port and for 20 years was a mainstay eatery in the area.
Napoli (1919 – ????) Portland's first Italian restaurant was opened by Giovanni Polito at 102 Middle Street.
Victory Deli and Bakeshop (1985 – 2000) was founded by Joe Tacka and Mark Heath (both former F. Parker Reidy's employees) in 1985 at 18 Monument Square. The Victory Deli moved to 1 Monument Way in 1989. Tacka and Heath also operated two other cafes at One Portland Square and Victory Cafe at One Portland Square and on Forest Ave. Mark Heath launched Victory D Caterers in 2008 which is still in business.
Do you have some additional details about Portland's food history to share, or corrections to some of the details posted above? Drop me a line at anestes@portlandfoodmap.com with your additions and corrections and I'll update the time line.
The information in this timeline comes from many many sources. Records at the Maine Historical Society and the old newspaper microfilms in the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library has been especially useful as have their very knowledgeable staff. The information on Chinese restaurants comes from Garry Libby's 2006 article in Chinese America: History and Perspectives. Individual restaurant owners have provided details about their own establishments. The Bollard has been a very good source of information on bars and pubs.
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15 comments on "Portland's Living Food History"
Great Lost Bear says:
Great list, the Great Lost Bear opened as The Grizzly Bear in 1979 but was forced to change the name due to a copyright on the name owned by Grizzly Bear Pizza on the West Coast. The name was changed in 1981. The original owners, Dave & Weslie Evans and Chip MacConnell are still in the house!
This is fantastic! What a great local history lesson.
james T says:
Wow, well done well done
Johnnyd says:
Wonderful list and great idea. It clearly took some hard work too. Bravo! I'd imagine Portland's Oldest Pub on Free Street factors in here somewhere, no?
Impressive, Anestes. I love stuff like this.
Sangillo's is run by Adam Sr. grand daughter now. Adam Jr. passed away last year from accidental drowning in OOB.
PFM says:
Thanks for all the feedback. I've updated the entries for Sangillo's and for The Great Lost Bear. Keep it coming.
uke mochi says:
Great little history lesson, A… 🙂
I love reading things like this. Being a Bangor native I realize now I know very little about food history in Portland which is absolutely fascinating. Thanks for putting this together.
I've added an entry for Schlotterbeck-Foss, started in 1866.
fatdeko says:
Vaughn's on Ocean St in S. Portland has recently become The Ocean House. Great little shop run by Dan Leveque in league with the fellas from Free Range Fish.
B&M and Mister Bagel added to the timeline. George's Delicatessen and Zeitman's Grocery added to the RIP section. Details added to the section on Bubba's, Dock Fore and Roma Cafe.
Eatdessertfirst says:
Hubby & I are racking our aged brains to remember the name of this tiny Italian restaurant, we think on Middle Street – maybe the corner of Silver Street? They were one of the first to have homemade pasta offerings and it's where we fell in love with gnocchi. At the time (late 70's – very early 80's) it was kind of 'pricey' so we only went there on special occasions. Does anyone else remember this place?
That predates my time here in Portland so I've checked in with a few sources. Chef Cheryl Lewis who ran Cafe Always around that time period remembers the restaurant you're referring to. It was called Cafe Doro and was near the intersection with India Street located in the space that Ribollita now occupies.
Love this list… but I think Valle's Steak House deserves a mention in the RIP section. Also, is it possible to find out what actually happened with Boone's and the Roma? Both of them were longtime institutions that vanished with far less notice than they deserved.
Anania's (the Libbytown original) is another place that has made it well past the 20-year mark. Tony's was in half the building before they moved; the now-closed door on the western (left) half of the storefront was theirs, and the existing door led to Anania's.
If you're looking for perhaps shorter-lived but notable restaurants from Portland's past, I'd mention 3: Brattle Street, Alberta's (which had a couple of incarnations), and Carbur's. The first two were some of the earliest "foodie" restaurants in town, and Carbur's was well known for its tremendous sandwiches and simple fare in the earliest days of the Old Port.
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Nintendo has only sold 3.61 million Wii U systems since launch
by Shawn Farner 7 years ago 2 min read
When Nintendo's 3DS portable launched, calling its reception lukewarm would have been kind. After a price drop, though, the system really took off. If Nintendo wants to sell the 9 million Wii U consoles it hoped to by March 2014, maybe it should try a similar strategy. Since the system's launch late last year, it's only sold 3.61 million units worldwide.
Perhaps Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto tried to help the Wii U's sales numbers by purchasing two systems.
For comparison's sake, lets look at my Ouya article from the other day — particularly the stats about sales numbers for systems that did poorly. At 3.61 million, the Wii U is slightly above Nokia N-Gage numbers and has reached about a third of the Dreamcast's final tally. That's after about 8 months on sale. If Nintendo continues on that pace, it would sell about 5.42 million systems by the one year mark.
Over a six or seven year span — the typical life of a console, these days — that pace would take Nintendo to about 37.94 million systems sold. The original Wii did 99.84 million at last count and is still going strong.
But estimating using those numbers isn't a good idea, because along with its earnings reports and total sales figures, Nintendo also provided quarterly sales numbers for the Wii U, and they are dismal — 160,000 consoles sold in the last quarter. Between January and March 2013, Nintendo sold over twice as many Wii U consoles, and it's kind of shocking to see such a huge drop from one quarter to the next.
Blame the next-generation Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles, blame the lack of titles available for the Wii U or blame all of the above — the fact is, the Wii U is selling very poorly and something should be done about it.
Will we see a price drop? Nintendo insists that we won't. And, despite the poor Wii U sales numbers, the company still managed to make a profit this quarter, so it's not like the company is bleeding money and everyone's panicking. But looking at how well the 3DS started selling after the price came down — and, more importantly, it started to get a bunch of good titles — the idea of doing the same for the Wii U has to be tempting to the team at Nintendo.
(h/t Engadget)
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Shawn Farner is a Harrisburg-based tech blogger who has been involved in online media for over eight years. He covers consumer electronics, web companies, and gaming.
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So, list of servers where everyone is likely to play?
/Don't know yet, typical game.net shutting down just as I was getting my site running.
Just change it from game.net to freddyshouse.com.
I'm sure we will get the BF1943 section sorted soon, I have an idea now all im waiting for is a reply from Ted.
I wont go down alone.
I'll tell him about your fantasys.
hehe it was always fun watching you and Adams trying to crash into each other.
What you mean it was accidental?
I do remember one night when it was just adams and me on the BW server playing Kharkov, we ended up spending a lot of time trying to drive to the top of the hill.
aye that was fun, once up there didn't we drive off the edge as fast as we could trying to make it to the other side if the river?


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Millions of people living in Nigeria are cut off from the mainstream of economic and social development due to heavy burden of diseases. Among these diseases is glaucoma which is the result of too much pressure in the eye. It is usually believed to begin after the age of 40 (forty) years and is a common cause of blindness (Mohammed,2001).
Responsibility for health care in Nigeria is shared among the constitutional tiers of government: federal, state and local. The local governments are supposed to take care of the primary level (emphasizing preventive Medicare), while state governments are responsible for the secondary level (emphasizing curative Medicare), and the federal government is in charge of the tertiary level of care (emphasizing referral Medicare) to which teaching and specialist hospitals belong. This implies that there are basically three health care levels in Nigeria: primary, secondary and tertiary health care levels. (Anyanwu, Oyefusi, Oaikhegn, & Dimowo 1997:608).
In Nigeria, glaucoma constitutes a medical, public health and socio- economic problem. This is because Nigeria is found to be one of the most endemic countries in the world, accounting for a sizeable proportion of the global cases, with about 6.7 million patients with glaucoma worldwide (WHO, 1992). The damaging and insidious nature of glaucoma make it spread gradually without being noticed but causes seriousharm.
The Basic Health Service (BHS) scheme formed an important health programme of the Third Development Plan (1975-1980) and Fourth Development Plan (1981-1985) of the Federal Government. Under the BHS the government intended to significantly improve the modern health care system of the country within the framework of a three-tier national comprehensive health care delivery system mentioned earlier. Record achievement from the implementation of the BHS shows increases in personnel and institutions. For example, the number of registered medical practitioners in Nigeria rose from 10,399 in 1981 to 16,145 in 1987 (Mbanefo, Soyibo & Anyanwu)1996.
However, the unsuccessful implementation of the BHS programme made the federal government to embark on a new direction health care delivery whichmakesPrimaryHealthCare(PHC)thefocus.Therewasneedfor
close involvement of the local governments, local communities, and individuals in the implementation of the PHC in collaboration with the other two tiers of government. Activities that formed part of the PHC include: National Programme on Immunization (NPI), Campaign against River blindness, Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), among others (FMH, 1988).
The incidence of glaucoma among adult patients refers to the rate of occurrence of this disease. In epidemiology the interest is in the number of new cases arising in a given period of time in a specified group of people.
The American Academy of ophthalmology (1983) notes that an estimated
2 million people have been identified as having glaucoma. Of these 889,000 are visually impaired, 67,150 are legally blind and each year an additional 5,500 people become blind from glaucoma. Equally, in 1997 glaucoma caused 36,000 hospital admission in America, 25 million office visits and more than $440 million spent on direct health cost on glaucoma.
It is from the implication of the data as given above and the fact that glaucoma is one of the avoidable causes of blindness that the need to maintain adequate and effective health care delivery system becomes imperative. Therefore this study examines the factors responsible for the occurrence of glaucoma among adult patients in Anambra state (2002- 2006).
For Nigeria to achieve the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of the population there is need to create awareness and stimulate actions from the community to achieve health. This can be accomplished through an effective health education which according to Onukwubiri (1994), bridges the gap between health information and health practices. It is any combination of methods designed to facilitate voluntary change of behaviours of individuals or groups to promote health.
In Anambra state there seems to be no relationship between health practices and the information available on people's health. The researcher observed during her clinical posting to Eye clinic at the General Hospital Enugwu-ukwu that most adult glaucoma patients reported to the clinic
when their eye conditions had deteriorated. Furthermore, the adults suffering from the disease are not aware of the disease occurrence.
The central focus of this study therefore borders on identifying the factors responsible for the spread of glaucoma in Anambra State. In other words what are those constraints to effective primary health care delivery and health education in the state. This is done by studying the records of adult patients in the three General Hospitals in Anambra State with functional eye clinics for the period between 2002 –2006.
The broad purpose of the study is to examine the factors influencing the incidence of glaucoma among adult patients (in general hospitals) in Anambra state (2002 – 2006) and to highlight the problems resulting from lack of information on factors influencing the incidence of glaucoma.
The specific objectives of the study include:
1. To determine the incidence of glaucoma among adult patients in Anambra state between 2002 –2006.
2. To verify the incidence of glaucoma in relation to family history in Anambra state between 2002 –2006.
3. To identify the incidence of glaucoma in relation to gender in Anambra state between 2002 to2006.
4. To identify other factors influencing the incidence of glaucoma in adult patients in Anambra state from 2002 –2006.
5. To ascertain the number of people affected by glaucoma in relation to age from 2002 –2006.
6. To determine the relation between health information and incidence of glaucoma in Anambra State, and
7. To examine the level of awareness of the glaucoma in Anambra state.
The result of the study will be of immense benefit to health institutions, community members, researchers and government. The study on the factors influencing the incidence of glaucoma will give a preview of the level of incidence for intervention strategic planning.
Furthermore, this research will help to create awareness of the disease to the community members, as well as serve as related literature to other researchers by providing a fore-knowledge of what is obtainable and available on the ground as it concerns the area ofstudy.
Scope of Study
The study is a determination of the factors influencing the incidence of glaucoma in adult patients in Anambra state between 2002 and 2006. This means that only available data on adult patients who visited the General Hospital in Awka, Enugwu-ukwu and Onitsha are used for the study. Another delimitation is that adults between the ages of 40 years and above and studied as our interest is mostly on open angleglaucoma.
1. What is the incidence of glaucoma among adult patients in Anambra state between 2002 and2006?
2. What is the incidence of glaucoma in relation to family history in Anambra state from 2002 –2006?
3. What is the incidence of glaucoma in relation to gender in Anambra state from 2002 –2006?
4. What other factors influence the incidence of glaucoma in adult patients in Anambra state from 2002 –2006?
5. What is the number of people affected by glaucoma in relation to age from 2002 –2006?
6. How does health information effect the incidence of glaucoma in Anambra state?
7. What is the level of awareness of glaucoma in Anambra state?
Hypotheses of the Study
Ho1: There is no significant relationship between the incidence of glaucoma disease among different age groups of the study from 2002 –2006.
Ho2: There is no significant difference in the incidence of glaucoma between males and females of the study group from 2002 –2006.
Ho3: There is no significant difference in the incidence of glaucoma and hereditary among the study group from 2002 –2006.
Ho4: There is no significant relationship between health information and the incidence of glaucoma in Anambra state.
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Tobi Lark, aka Tobi Legend, once sang, 'Time is gonna pass you by, so quickly and it waits for no man'.
Not a theme exclusive to the songwriter, John Rhys, of course and, tangentially, it was serendipitous to learn Rhys was born in the sleepy Suffolk town of Saxmundham, a place a Sunday afternoon drive from my own adopted home, particularly given the sophistication and significance of the song. Rhys moved Stateside as a youngster and would become a distinguished music producer in Detroit and Los Angeles I discovered. Perhaps the influence of Michigan's blue-collar 'Motor-town', historic home of the Ford motor company and Motown Records of course, as opposed to the coastal market town of his birth, explains the soul and beat in the tune and is why it resonated so deeply with a generation of British youngsters.
The thumping cocktail of melancholy and triumph in the Northern Soul anthem embedded Rhys and Legend's sentiment deep into the psyche of a receptive audience in the 1970s. Tracks like 'Time is Gonna Pass You By' entranced a communion of working class kids; coal miners, steel workers, bakers and candlestick makers, longing to escape Lowry skylines, and the drudgery of daily life to converge, via all-night pilgrimages, to clubs and dance halls across the North of England.
The heavyweight picture has always been more of a long running melodrama than a feature film, a truth we sometimes ignore but a truth nevertheless. Great actors have graced the stage and there have been plotlines, rivalries and performances to enrapture us. A few of us remain loyal through the leaner periods when the script dries up and the leading men exit stage left.
It is said that time feels increasingly fleeting with the passing of every year. A lament often aired during the Christmas frivolities, as the day itself 'cannonballs' in whilst our minds are still fresh from collecting spent rockets and eating the last of the Halloween Haribo. Certainly for those of us wrestling with middle life, the sticky toffee that holds the melange of children, grandparents and other assorted acquaintances together, the reflection brought on by year end arrives all too quickly.
Add in an interest in the world of boxing, a niche within the Venn diagram of human existence once obscure and peripheral but now experiencing a population boom, and the pace is quickened still further. No weekend in the boxing fan's diary is ever clear, perhaps save the one forthcoming, and the platforms and mediums for indulging their passion grows by the day. There is barely time to pause for breathe between a Spring time heavyweight showdown in a football stadium and a Featherweight dust up on the brink of New Year.
But, just as the charity pleas that interrupt our Christmas viewing and draw us back from the excess of our indulgence and before we dare to complain, gratitude should be our only sentiment.
So I'm gonna see how good you are when I count to five.
I don't ride on roller coasters. Never have. As a kid they terrified me, as most things of the unknown, the uncontrollable usually did. Now decades later, and as fully formed as I'm likely to become, crown exposed and eyes narrowing, the echo of that timid narrator remains as does the preference for control and for certainty. The actions of others, whether my daughter prowling the football fields of Suffolk or unwitting fighters from Feather to Heavyweight, afford me opportunity to marvel at those with the qualities I craved and in this vicarious voyeurism, experience the gnaw of uncertainty and danger without the risk.
A boxing ring, the old truthsayer, humbles Fury on his return.
I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Such is Tyson Fury's unique predisposition for the sublime and the absurd, frequently embracing both within the same interview and occasionally a single sentence, we the onlookers, with our garlands of good will and 'fag-packet psychology, shouldn't be surprised that even in the confines of the pre-ordained he continued to defy convention.
Where speed was expected, sluggishness was found, where elusiveness was predicted, vulnerability was evident and where power was anticipated, delivery was flawed.
In preview, I'd mooted a scenario in which Tyson Fury could find simply climbing from the well of despair in to which he'd fallen, following his seminal victory over Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015, back to ground zero, back to a debut, essentially, against an overmatched Cruiserweight – which is where it all began a decade ago – could prove sufficient triumph. There was evidence enough in his return bout to suggest, however unlikely, that the possibility remains.
Elephant in the room. Tyson Fury returns.
Throughout Anthony Joshua emergence over the past three years; in every pre-fight press conference, in every post fight interview, the chill of Tyson Fury's often ethereal presence has persisted. Unspoken, particularly in the period in which the Mancunian candidate seemed emotionally furthest from a return, the legend of the enigmatic Gypsy King has grown exponentially and offered silent sentry to the conflicting rhythms of hoopla and humility being sold in his absence.
Like Joshua, I spent Saturday playing a role distinct from my usual casting; Joshua won largely favourable reviews for his portrayal of a cautious, pedestrian boxer loathed to engage whilst I stood against a post in the pub, nursing an almost empty pint glass, nervous at the prospect of committing to the queue between rounds. Neither of us, I suspect, gleaned the same satisfaction or contentment we would have from playing to type. He as the emotional, knockout artist and me as the thoughtful wannabe.
Though both proved prudent, these temporary alter-egos, it will be a temporary diversion for me at least, though the experience did provide several valuable and salutary lessons. I learnt much about Joshua and the perspective of those who do not need to contemplate the impact of sharing their opinions too. Certainly not in the way I do when committing them to the world beyond the pub door, however small the readership.
Joshua undoubtedly learned much from his 21st professional success too; notably the power of patience, discipline and employing a degree of pragmatism. Coincidently, a stark juxtaposition of my experience with the impatience, ill-discipline and blood lust of an evening as a 'casual'.
Those who followed boxing in its formative, freewheeling and unregulated years were afforded the collective sobriquet 'The Fancy', a title bestowed by Pierce Egan in his seminal studies of the noble art; Boxiana, published in the early part of the 19th century. Despite its evolution over the ensuing century or two, boxing remains more closely preserved to its original form than modern reportage would encourage you to believe. A sprawling metropolis of hope and deceit, today as ever it was then, the sport still attracts interest across the social spectrum irrespective of demographics or political persuasion.
The new 'Fancy' enjoy the reverie as much as their forebears and for those who attempted to secure a taxi following Anthony Joshua's last bout in Cardiff there will be a kinship for the travails of earlier followers who traipsed across ploughed fields to find secretive venues in the morning mist.
Unification? What? Simplification? Please. Joshua v Parker is a good fight.
A good fight is a good fight. Nobody cared for what prize Ward and Gatti battled nor did they fuss that Benn and Eubank contested lightly regarded belts or that they were technically inferior to contemporaries James Toney, Roy Jones Jnr. and Michael Nunn. The equality of fighters make fights great, fighters make belts important. Belts do not a great fighter or fight make. To laud a unification is also to contradict our greater aspiration for a single champion in each of the 17 weight classes.
But, we don't live in that unreachable nirvana. Nobody appears to have visited the mythical Republic of Boxing Utopia where such clarity is natural and if they have, they've not sent so much as a postcard, although Marcus Maidana's Instagram account suggests he may be living nearby, and we must, therefore, respond to the boxing landscape as we find it. When the World Boxing Organisation's champion, Joseph Parker, strides across the ring to tackle Anthony Joshua, recognised by the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association as their champion, it will be important.
Greatness is a product of many things, without a degree of innate talent the journey to such status is hard to even begin. It is a status that requires resistance, friction. Without a compilation of experiences that burnish and test the qualities of those who chase it, the talent beneath remains undiscovered or unresolved; an intangible or immeasurable ore.
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Only the most faithful narcissist could conjure reasons why the current buoyancy of the sport, particularly in Europe, is not unprecedented and, seemingly, irresistible. These mole-eyed killjoys are often compelled to remind the frothy new members of the 'Fancy' that stadium fights are not a 21st century invention. Further, they point to different periods of the 18th and 19th century when champions of the prize ring were feted and known around the globe long before their image and actions could be bounced from a satellite or appear in miniature and unfathomable immediacy in your hand.
Can Wilder really beat Joshua?
2017 already feels like a watershed year in the world of boxing, and with discussions underway to conjure further big fights in the New Year, 2018 may yet surpass even the high points of the past twelve months. The best are beginning to realise the commercial benefit of fighting each other; from flyweight to the new generation of giants contesting belts in boxing's blue riband weight class, the heavyweights.


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Finch West LRT – Frequently Asked Questions
If you have questions about what's going on in your neighbourhood, please don't hesitate to contact us. Here's how to get in touch with the Finch West LRT team:
By email: finchwest@metrolinx.com
Project Basics
Will the Finch West LRT run underground or on the surface?
The Finch West LRT will run primarily at street level in dedicated lanes down the centre of Finch Avenue West. LRVs will enter and exit the two underground stations on either end of the line (Humber College Station and Finch West Station) through portals, long ramps that create a shallow grade allowing vehicles to safely transfer between the stations and the surface.
What vehicles will be used on the Finch West LRT?
The Finch West LRT's rolling stock will consist of 18 Alstom Citadis Spirit light rail vehicles (LRVs). These LRVs are low-floor, 48 metres long, and can carry up to 336 passengers.
Will the Finch West LRT connect with other transit services?
The Finch West LRT will sport connection to Line 1, TTC Buses, GO, Miway, Viva, and Zum transit services.
How much will the Finch West LRT cost to build?
The Finch West LRT will cost $2.5 billion, which includes both construction and a 30-year maintenance contract for the LRT and the vehicles.
Will there be bike lanes on Finch?
Yes, the project includes the construction of elevated bike lanes along the entirety of the LRT's length, with the exception of Finch Avenue West and Highway 400, where a bi-directional multi-use tunnel will be constructed along the south side of Finch Avenue West under the Highway 400 southbound on-ramp.
When did construction begin, and when will the line be complete?
Major construction on the Finch West LRT began in 2019, with the first active work sites at the Maintenance and Storage Facility site and at Finch and Highway 400. Construction is expected to conclude in 2023.
What will Finch Avenue West look like when the project is complete?
When the project is complete, Finch Avenue West will be restored to at least two lanes of traffic in either direction, along with a dedicated median for bi-directional LRV traffic. In addition, the roadway will be repaved and sidewalks will be restored, along with lanscaping along the corridor's boulevards.
Where is the Maintenance and Storage Facility located?
The MSF is located at 50 York Gate Boulevard, just west of Jane & Finch on the north side of Finch Avenue West.
Who is building the Finch West LRT?
Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario are the project owners of the Finch West LRT. Together, they have contracted a private sector partner, Mosaic Transit Group, to lead construction and maintenance on the line. [Click here to learn more about Mosaic Transit Group]
How many people will be working to build the LRT project?
At the peak of construction, Mosaic Transit Group estimates that approximately 1000 tradespersons, professional, adminsitrative, and technical workers will be working on the Finch West LRT. Approximately 85 per cent of the labour will come form the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
Using the Finch West LRT
Who will operate the Finch West LRT?
The Finch West LRT will be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
How often will light rail vehicles arrive?
Light rail vehicles will arrive every 5-7 minutes during peak hours, and every 7-10 minutes during off-peak hours.
How fast will trains on the Finch West LRT travel?
Light rail vehicles on the Finch West LRT will take approximately 33-34 minutes to travel from end to end, for an average speed of 20-21 km/h (including stops). LRVs will reach a top speed of 60 km/h.
Will the Finch West LRT be accessible?
Yes, the Finch West LRT will have fully accessible light rail vehicles, stops, and stations for wheelchairs and strollers.
Will the Finch West LRT be separated from traffic?
The Finch West LRT will run in dedicated lanes that are only accessible by light rail vehicles. It will interact with traffic only when crossing intersections.
Will the LRT have Wi-Fi?
The LRT will have Wi-Fi at Humber College Station and Finch West Station. In the central surface section, riders will have access to cellular service and data.
How much will it cost to ride the Finch West LRT?
The Finch West LRT will be operated by the TTC. Riders will pay the TTC fare to ride the line, just as with any other TTC bus or subway line.
There's always more to learn about the Finch West LRT. For a more detailed look at all the key fact about the project, [click here].
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Sometimes when you are a person who has been lucky enough to be well-traveled -- an added joy hitches a ride on your dream vacation is just the travel itself. That was certainly true in exploring in the "cradle of the Renaissance" aka Florence, Italy. We were traveling with an entourage that included the fresh eyes of a ten-year-old and her twenty-five year old aunt - who had previously only traveled in her nearby other native Asian destinations, as she is from Hong Kong, China.
Now, both the ten-year-old and her auntie were already well-traveled in their own rights. The younger, had already ticked off Spain, Hawaii, and many other places on her newly formed "must see places" list. And while her aunt had seen many Asian dream travel destinations - including Thailand, Macau, Lantau, mainland China, and Vietnam - this was her first experience in a non-Asian setting.
So it could be said they both understood at some level how travel changes your perspectives. Travel teaches you many life skills. This trip was no exception to that rule. Both gleeful travelers learned a valuable skill -- "adaptability." They had to adapt to first hearing a language that was not familiar to them. This was especially hard for the aunt who was plumb wore out from constantly translating from her native Cantonese to English - that she normally did not have to speak daily, even though she is tri-lingual. Adding the Italian language was even more confusing and stressing.
Further adaptation was needed at meal times. Certain favorite comfort foods of both, simply didn't exist in this environment. No fish ball soup? No preferred brand of soda? No ice? Gas in your water? Whaaaat? Clearly, bubbling carbonated water was not the "taste of Italy" either of expected.
Other skills were also honed and tested --as they also had to adapt to new communication skills and time management.
Adapting was certainly the very first lesson as upon our arrival as it was discovered the hotel we had booked had us arriving the following week so no rooms! Lots of confusion there. and The travel snafu blame game swirled in the air with a family of seven total in tow all pointing the finger of shame.
Communication skills were in full tilt teaching mode, as both girls are intrepid gleeful shoppers. They had to figure out prices of purchases and make their needs known while shopping till they dropped reigned supreme. The time spent doing so and making selections did give daddy and grandpa lots of nap time on nearby benches.
Time management was introduced into the final Italian travel lesson plan in this great city. We scurried to make the train, almost missing it - in our day trip from Florence, to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
In Florence, we saw it all. The Florence Duomo seen from Michelangelo Hill at night was spectacular. San Lorenzo's Medici Chapel's art was magnificent.
The bridge Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) was a major shoppers delight and entertainment source of fun. Standing on it with the River Arno was the perfect photo op.
As one author, Jennifer Coburn once said, "Visiting Florence was like attending a surprise party every day." We certainly found that to be true -- but would add that seeing Florence through the fresh eyes of the young and the young at heart -- gave us all extra special insights into why travel is vital to the soul while teaching us life skills that only travel knows how to teach best.
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