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A-VIX gauges 30-day market sentiment and volatility.
By Marcus Christoe, ASX
We often hear people talk about what the market thinks or what the market is saying. But we all know that the market is not any one individual; it is the place where buyers and sellers meet, each with their own view on particular companies and on the direction of the sharemarket as a whole.
There is a range of measures on "market sentiment" that can tell us what the sharemarket has done in the past, the most obvious being a share price chart for a particular company or an index chart for the whole market or a market sector. Sometimes we look at that chart and say the trend is up or the trend is down. But the 64-dollar question is will the trend continue?
One way of looking into the crystal ball of market sentiment is to measure volatility. The dictionary definition of volatility refers to lively or changeable. A volatile market is one that is prone to change.
Volatility is a critical component of the pricing of options. Everyone knows what the price of a share or the level of the underlying index is, expectations of dividends are pretty similar, interest rates are known, as is how much the share price has bounced around in the past - its historical volatility.
But people can have very different views on what will happen in the future. So the critical element is how confident people are in their assessment of the likely trend. If people are confident of future direction they will regard their transaction as low risk and will factor in less of a risk premium. When they are really uncertain they regard any trades based on future prices are risky, so a risk premium will be factored in. This risk can be to the downside - the stock or market may fall quite a lot. As for the upside risk, they might go up a lot.
By looking at the price of an option and feeding in all the known variables, the mystery variable is volatility. By using pricing software you can deduce the "implied volatility". If the price of the option is X, that says the overall view of investors in those options is saying that the future volatility of the underlying security is Y. As option prices vary, so too does implied volatility.
By doing these calculations, we can then say that the market, as shown by options market prices, is less confident about future direction (high implied volatility), or is quite confident the price of the underlying security won't change much - lower implied volatility.
Introducing the A-VIX
The S&P/ASX 200 VIX (A-VIX) index gauges market sentiment and expected levels of market volatility as shown by prices in the S&P/ASX 200 index options market. ASX recently enhanced the A-VIX index, to provide real-time prices rather than only end-of-day prices.
Do not be put off by technicalities about volatility and options. The A-VIX is a single number that shows if market volatility is expected to be high or low over the next 30 days. The index was 15.07 on September 30, 2013, after being as high as 21.67 and as low as 10.54 during the previous 52 weeks.
So a high A-VIX reading indicates an expected period of high sharemarket volatility - that is, a large change in the S&P/ASX 200 index over 30 days - and vice versa. Put another way, the high reading implies investors are less confident and a low reading implies greater confidence in where the market is headed.
The A-VIX's US equivalent, The Chicago Board of Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), is among the most widely used and reported pieces of financial information in global financial markets. The US VIX is often described in the media as "the fear index", because it shows expectations of market sentiment and volatility. But this is a misnomer. For example, the market may have been in a bear phase for some time and everyone expects that to continue. This would be shown by low implied volatility in options prices.
But suppose views start to change and people are less certain. Some think the bear market will continue, perhaps get worse, and others think a recovery is imminent. This uncertainty would be reflected in higher volatility in options prices but not necessarily because of bearish sentiment - perhaps because bearish sentiment is now clashing with a return of bullish sentiment.
The A-VIX gives retail investors the same type of information that professional investors have used for years. Its Australian focus is especially important. There may be times when the US VIX rises and the A-VIX falls, because of country-specific factors affecting sharemarkets.
In the next issue, we will look at interpreting the A-VIX.
A-VIX data is available on ASX.com.au and reported each day in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Australian Financial Review, and in the Weekend AFR.
Future developments
Investment products based on the A-VIX are expected to be launched this year and next, as the real-time index becomes more established and widely followed. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX Futures contract is being launched on October 21, and ASX expects other market participants to launch structured products, such as warrants or exchange-traded products, over the A-VIX in coming years.
In addition to using A-VIX information, investors will be able to trade their view on expected market sentiment and volatility, and over time hedge (or insure) their portfolio against anticipated higher volatility and low share prices, thus protecting their portfolio's current value.
From ASX
Read more about the S&P/ASX 200 A-VIX with this fact sheet.
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MCG Councilor R S Rathi said "I can say nothing on this. MCG has not yet taken over Raahgiri. It is just organising it till the time the organisers get all the documents. It is because of the jealousy that MCG is being blamed. Raahgiri also causes inconvenience to the people as it blocks service roads and there is no way through. Can say nothing about Raahgiri's future."
Raahgiri, a first of its kind in India which began on March 9, has seen much success, but now it is expected to lose all its riches to the tussle between MCG and the organizers. The reason is still not known and it is blurry as some say that the MCG has taken over Raahgiri, whereas the others say that it is not possible for the MCG to take such significant step instantly.
Raahgiri, which promotes active commuting and an eco-friendly mode of transport, came under the scanner of the administration after the MCG sent notices to the organizers, seeking copies of the approved permissions and account details. The organizers, for the time being, have decided to skip the event until all necessary permissions required for hosting it are procured, as was mentioned in Raahgiri website.
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When Voldemort cast the killing curse on Harry Potter: Age 1, it caused Harry to become Mentally Handicapped. Now, 8 years later, after four years of searching, Lupin and Snape have finally tracked down the boy and his muggle aunt and cousin to a country they've never been to before. What will they find there. Will Harry ever be able to come to Hogwarts, and even more importantly, fulfill that Prophecy made so many years ago?
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Hello Ms. Wills,
I am contacting you on behalf on CMSS Architects, P.C. I am located in Virginia Beach but we do have a Richmond office and are investigating the history behind Rocketts Landing, a development site of ours. I am researching the local history pertaining to African-Americans and Native Americans. I would like to obtain information encompassing the scope of the nature and effect that blacks and indians had on downtown Richmond, more specifically the riparian areas of Rocketts Landing, Manchester Slave Docks, Lumpkins Jail, Belle Island, Brown's Island, etc.
I was given a copy of your article "Free Persons of Color:Rocketts Landing, Virginia" and wanted to know more information about your ancestor, Charles Lewis; how you are related to him and how did he become such an astute businessman and be successful in landowning during those times.
Also, you made mention of the exhibit that had been on display at the Patrick Henry Building in the Capital Rotunda. I doubt that it is still up, but do you or Melba Myers, the curator, have any documents or items or historical timelines or tidbits left over from this exhibit still? Do you know how I would be able to get in touch with her?
I appreciate any and all assistance in this matter. If you need any further clarification or information from me, then please let me know.
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There is a fear that I need to acknowledge. It is that as a decidedly single woman, I house within me the fear that I will always be single. There will be no witness to my life. There will be no audience to my triumphs nor safety in my trials. My oneness though elective it may have once been will become a choice I didn't choose. Yet cannot undo.
After a while you can't help but wonder, "is it me?" And after a while longer you have all but convinced yourself that it must be. There is no other reasonably logical explanation. I ask myself, "where is my lesson in this?" I dug for lessons for six months in silence while holding pieces of a broken heart in my other hand. I could just…I could breath through this hurt God if you just show me where's the purpose in my pain? Give me a hint.
I would sit still and listen for my gut. Nothing. And another night I would fall asleep and wake up confused in my bed but somehow smelling him. Back there. And I would cry. I cried so much in that loneliness, that quiet, that yearning for the lesson that I cried myself numb. Scabbed over and thickened it took that much more effort to feel anything.
I just want to feel wanted. I remember thinking. Desirable. Dancing around the one word I was afraid to crave: loved. Love-ing had gotten me nowhere. Trusting in love had gotten my heart broken. And here we were the day before Valentine's Day and me in red, out of breath in a shopping mall because he robbed me yet again. And again. And again.
Leaving, I told myself, was the best idea for both of you. Only on every lonely night I have to wonder if it's true. Was there one, a someone I overlooked? Did I miss them? Did I miss love? Can I call it back? I need someone to care how my day went. I need someone to rub my back when I feel like crying. I need someone to turn off the lights with at night. I need someone who's laugh is the third to my fifth. I need to be held. To be cherished. To be listened to. To be made love to. Don't I deserve that?
Silence always makes me question it. What I deserve. Because when someone doesn't even care enough to say goodbye or fuck off or anything? You feel insignificant. Maybe silence always hurt but it certainly does now, after. His silence was deafening and in it I filled the space with every negative thought one could think. I became the woman who could be walked away from. I lived up to unworthy.
So the silence from today triggered me. Caused me to have to acknowledge my fear. My fear that even though on most days I don't believe it, that somewhere inside me lives the belief that I will never feel…
I can't even write the words. Through my own tears. I know that happiness is my own work, I know. But I can't love in a vacuum right? Will friendship be enough? Will my work? I need something that loves me back.
It is at precisely this point that I find myself dangerously close to negotiating. Deciding the things I wanted and needed in a partner were ready for mediation with the universe. Only that's not right either. But how long? How long does one sustain and persist through the lonely before you set up permanent residence in solitude?
I don't want to hear about timing. Or trusting. Or plans and purpose. I would just really like to feel loved again.


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First at all, hold tight. To play this game you are needing a 2.3 Android or better, $6 and a little bit of patience. Firstmost, because the 14Mb apk becomes a gruesome and gargantuesque 1.70Gb. If you haven't ever tried to download such a pain onto your beloved Android SD card, be warned, because this will be the first of many feats it will need to fulfill. Oh, and if you wanna brag of your Tegra device, double that weight for a total 3.5Gb. This game will milk your Android till you think you are playing on a PSP.
In the likely case you haven't ever played the original 1985 game, don't worry: it's included in the pack, but don't blame anyone for getting a sudden blast on how games were then. In addition, it seems that Bard's Tale II and III will be also downloadable for free in next updates, so have care and don't get more hooked on them instead of the current, new one. Anyway, even when there's a burning -and burnt- debate about which was the RPG that consolidated the genre, keep in mind that Bard's Tale is nearly unanimously considered one of the best RPG's ever for a reason.
Then, straight to the point: The Bard's tale is an adventure game, more than a bird's eye shot dungeon crawler. However, don't expect to get lost in a maze, game's quite straightforward which doesn't mean it's easy. In your way you will meet a bunch of non player characters with very long dialogues and cutscenes, and here's the best part of it: game is beyond hilariousness, as if the spirit of Monkey Island (or the original Bard's Tale, of course) had taken possession of inXile's staff. It's incredible to lean back on wherever you are sat and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy the dialogues, music and songs. Yes, songs. It's a tale about a bard, isn't it?
Between scene and scene you have to fight more than fifty different monsters, avoid traps, chop different bosses' heads, save damsels and flirt with them and, well, save the world, though this last isn't strictly necessary. Controls may feel quite clumsy at the beginning, and indeed they are, but you will have to overcome it. Graphics are awesome and surprisingly smooth, no surprises here, and you can change perspective sliding on the screen.
Along controls, the worst part are in-app purchases. They are only to put you green in envy for seeing what you can get later in the game, because there isn't any need to purchase anything in the shop: all items can be obtained through hours of gaming. Online leaderboards may also be an unneeded addition to the game, but it doesn't matter either. What it's deeply appreciated are the save checkpoints, especially when we are talking about a game with nearly 30 hours of gameplay.
Battle's quite thrilling and intense. The hack and slash routines are complemented by management of allies, so you won't get bored. Main character's voice is acted by Cary Elwes aka Westley "as you wish", which takes me to wonder that if someone ever dares to make a game about "Princess Bride", he should play Bard's Tale first. Twice.
Therefore, perhaps the best Android game so far. There's humor, and cleavage, and dances, and fire breathing giant rats, and a dog, and metanarrative jokes, and all stuff we're sure you'll love.
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So here we are at our second installment of Red Molly's Pictures of New York. Unlike the first installment, where the pictures were taken over the course of a month or so, these were all taken on the same day, when we went for a walk on the Greenway.
That marina is one of the things that has made Inwood fashionable in a way it never was before. Until recently, it was just an extension of Washington Heights. Before that, it was a working-class Irish and Jewish neighborhood. Now, all the young up-and-coming people are moving in here, diners are turning into upscale restaurant/nightclubs, and improvements are being made that probably never would have been if this neighborhood was still poor.
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Ravens-Titans Brings Back Memories of What Used to Be in the AFC CentralSeptember 18, 2011
It's almost hard to believe it has been 10 years since realignment in the NFL shipped the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars from the AFC Central to the AFC South.
The move had lasting effects on the Titans and the Jaguars, who by all accounts were the most dominant teams in the AFC at that time.
Although Baltimore wound up winning the Super Bowl in 2000, it was the Titans who won the division in 1999 and 2000, going 13-3 both seasons.
The Titans had essentially become the bullies of the North, and became one of the Ravens' toughest opponents.
Baltimore-Tennessee games were, and still have been, equal to that of any Ravens-Steelers match-up. The games were fierce, and there was no shortage of bad blood between the two teams.
Ravens' players and fans loathed the play by Eddie George, Steve McNair and Kevin Dyson of the Titans just as they despised Ben Roethlisberger, Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Both teams hold an 8-8 record against each other entering Sunday, according to pro-football-reference.com, and even though Baltimore has won eight of the last 12, there's been no shortage of great moments between Baltimore and Tennessee.
Whether it was Baltimore's goal line stand on MNF to end the game as time expired in '01 at Adelphia Coliseum, in which Ravens defensive tackle Tony Siragusa rightfully said, "By far it's the craziest game I've ever been a part of." Or even the bitter home defeat in the 2004 AFC Wildcard game on a 46-yard game-winning field goal from then 44-year-old Titans' place kicker Gary Anderson.
Their most recent clash came in January of 2009, when the Ravens and Titans found themselves playing in an AFC Divisional Playoff game in Nashville once again. Baltimore avoided another close call and came away victorious, 13-10, over the Titans, just months after suffering a controversial 13-10 loss in Baltimore.
The game lived up to the 2000 AFC Divisional Playoff game, in which Baltimore won 21-10 en route to a win in Super Bowl XXXV over the New York Giants.
Perhaps it is natural grass that has bred a unique and almost friendly rivalry. Match-ups between Baltimore and Tennessee will go down as some of the greatest in Ravens history.
Baltimore cannot afford to go into Nashville with the belief that they will win, because they appear to be the better team on paper. If history has taught us anything, the Titans will bring their best.
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A name map is a nice icebreaker for the first week of school and a great way to get to know your new students.
Do a personal one of yourself, so that you have a sample to show your
students to explain what you want them to do, as well as a means for
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I've included an explanatory note home to families.
The completed activity makes a wonderful back to school bulletin board.
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Denise Van Outen has hit out at claims that her marriage to West End actor Lee Mead is in trouble.
Denise - who is mum to one-year-old Betsy - said the rumours were rubbish.
The couple - who married two years ago - were said to be 'on the rocks', something Denise, 37, hotly denies, saying:
"We bicker quite a lot but it doesn't mean we are separating. My parents have bickered for 40 years and are still happily married."
The couple got together when Denise was judging the BBC1 show Any Dream Will Do in 2007. They tied the knot in the Seychelles in April 2009, and their little girl was born in May, 2010.
Denise was embroiled in a row last year with former EastEnders actress Natalie Cassidy over her decision to return to work after Betsy's birth.
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Online Gambling: A Short History
In a college history course, Black Friday would be classified as one of those watershed moments that radically alter the course of events. The indictments that came down on April 15, 2011 shut down the US-facing online poker business and would eventually cost players and operators billions of dollars.
Two years after the fact we're still seeing a steady stream of fines and prison sentences for the cast of characters who mucked up the system for everyone else. Black Friday is the story that just won't end.
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About 100 people came together in Georgetown Sunday night and formed a circle to celebrate the diversity and unity in their community.
The gathering was called Song and Light for Humanity and was coordinated fairly recently. Nick Ramos and Mark Skrabacz both live in Georgetown and wanted to start 2017 the right way.
"It's a tight community here," Skrabacz said. "People know one another and they care about each other."
Sunday's event consisted of the group making a large circle and singing five songs together. Everyone who attended was asked to bring a light of some sort as well. The group also was encouraged to meet others around them, getting to know their neighbors.
"We're all sisters and brothers here," Skrabacz said. "It's important we know the people in our community and find common ground between each other."
Clifford Brown is an Air Force retiree and is not only new to Texas but to America as well.
"We moved here from Britain in 2008," Brown said. "Texas is a very interesting place."
Brown picked Georgetown to be near his niece, who lives in Round Rock. He said he quickly discovered he was living in a community he really enjoyed.
"You run into people here who are really nice," Brown said. "They're really genuine, and I like it."
Ramos said during a time when it's easy to go without direct connections and conversations because of the way social media has shaped parts of our society, having purposeful gatherings like Sunday's is more important than people might think.
"Take the time to know your neighbor," Ramos said. "Take the time to understand a different opinion."
Skrabacz and Ramos also said they felt the need to coordinate this "Song and Light for Humanity" to combat some of the worry spreading across our country.
"There's a lot of anxiety going on, and when you're in an anxious system, it takes a group of people to be a less anxious presence," Skrabacz said.
"Hug someone," Ramos said. "Love someone. Smile to someone. That would be a pretty good start to the year."
Sunday was a day that was particularly special for Brown as well.
"It's my birthday today and I love it today," Brown said. "It's been a gorgeous day and Happy New Year, America."
The gathering only lasted about 45 minutes, but by the end, most of those in attendance ended up sticking around and talking to others who were there as well.


text: On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, James A.Treacy wrote: > > What do we want this field for ? Do we want programs to be able to > > read and use it ? If so, which programs ? Do we want the user to be > > able to see it ? If so, users who install the package, users who > > browse the package listing, or users who install the source ? > > > > When we have answered these questions we will know whether to have > > this field and where to put it. > > > One reason to standardize the location and format of this information > is so users can access this information without downloading the entire > package. Not everything in the world should go into the Packages files > as they are getting quite large. The contents file was one location > suggested. > > If this information was available in an easy to parse form it could be > included in our Packages pages on the web, for example. > > > I'm not resistant to the idea of having a field for this. I think > > it's a reasonably good idea, unlike the proposed upstream author field > > (which would just annoy upstream authors, if we gave their address at > > least). > > > Agreed about upstream author field. The package maintainer should filter > bug reports before sending them upstream. Note, that the intention of the `Upstream-Author' field was to give credit to the right person. Some newbies might think that the `Maintainers:' are those who wrote the program... > > Perhaps this discussion should be on debian-policy ? > > > Hopefully Christian Schwarz will comment. There has already been > discussion on this but there is a holdup on implementation (whichever > solution was decided on) due to the relevant developer(s) being busy. Here I am! The whole discussion has been postponed some time ago because Klee told me, he's working on a new "dpkg source format" and we should wait with the new control fields until he presents a first draft. However, this is so long ago and I haven't heard from him since, so I propose to raise the control field discussion again, now. (Of course, we can move the discussion to debian-policy, if you all agree. Doesn't matter to me since I'm subscribed to both lists ;-) One more thing: Brian White sent me an `official' request for a "Keywords:" control field a few days ago. This field should contain some `classification' of packages (orthogonal to the "Section:") which will be used by deity. (I think the user will be able to select different Keywords: he's intrested in.) Other keywords that have been suggested before: Author: name and email of main upstream author (copyright holder) -- see above License: keyword describing license type -- personally, I don't think this field would be a good idea. Licenses are very complicated and we should not try to `categorize' them with a single keyword. If at all, this field should probably only by "DFSG: yes" or "DFSG: no" :-) Mailing-Lists: upstream mailing lists -- actually, I think the /usr/doc/<pkg>/README file would be the correct place for this info--but someone suggested it URL: (see above) Someone also suggested that we include most of the LSM-entries in the control field. However, I don't really think we should pack that much information into the control fields. The control fields are for dpkg and should not be used as `Debian Software Map' :-) After all, all control fields are also included in the Packages, available, and status files. Note, that these files are already very large! However, I do think that having more information about the packages would be nice. Perhaps each package should install a file /usr/doc/<pkg>/info (or something like that) which uses the control-file syntax and contains info about the upstream author, URL, mailing lists, etc. Then, all programs which need to collect this data from the packages could easily extract that file from the .debs. (We could also have dinstall on master collect the info files out of the .debs and put them together in a large Packages-info.gz file. The web scripts and deity could then use this file if the info data is needed.) Comments are welcome! Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ email@example.com, email@example.com, ! ___; email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com \ / \\\______/ ! PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,----.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to firstname.lastname@example.com . Trouble? e-mail to email@example.com .


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Development of a User-Space Application for an HID Device, Using libhid
The Matrix is a USB bill validator, sometimes known as a note reader or bill acceptor, made by Validation Technologies International. The bundled software was developed for Microsoft Windows, but fortunately the device comes with low-level technical documentation that defines device-specific aspects, such as flow control, status bytes and local status LEDs.
The device is a Human Interface Device (HID), as identified by an enumeration process upon connection. The Windows device manager reports the device as such, as does usbfs on Linux. This article is specific to this particular HID device, so including all of its code probably is unnecessary, but it should provide help for developing for other HID-class devices.
After some initial research, I decided to develop user-space code using an in-development library called libhid, which provides a cross-platform way to access and interact with USB HID devices. libhid is implemented on top of libusb, so it does not depend directly on the kernel's USB support.
Another option for driving the Matrix is to use libusb directly, but doing so would be re-inventing the libhid wheel. A third option is to implement the Matrix as a kernel module, but it would incur the large overhead of learning kernel particulars. This option also would render the code platform-specific.
USB devices are categorized into device classes. A modem is in the communications class, and a speaker falls into the audio class. The HID class mainly consists of devices that people use to control computers. Examples of HID devices are mice, joysticks and force-feedback game controllers. Also included in the HID class are devices that may not require human interaction but do provide data in a similar format to HID-class devices, such as bar-code readers and, in my case, the Matrix note reader.
Information about a USB device is stored in segments of its ROM called descriptors. A diagram of the descriptor structure is provided in Figure 1, where an overall view of the hierarchy can be seen. When a USB device is attached to a USB bus, an enumeration process takes place that equates to the descriptors on the device being read into memory. Information about an HID-class device is contained in its HID report descriptors.
I plugged the device in to the Linux box in order to read the descriptors and monitor the device, the machine and the communications. I did this to try to get as much information as possible so I could have a better understanding of how to write code for the device.
A key component of these report descriptors is the usage information, which is defined in the USB HID Usage Tables (see the on-line Resources). Usage values describe three basic types of information about the device:
Controls—information about the state of the device such as on/off or enable/disable.
Data—all other information that passes between the device and the host.
Collections—groups of related controls and data.
Taken together, the usage page and usage number define a unique constant that describes a particular type of device or part of that device. For example, on the Generic Desktop usage page (page number 0x01), usage number 0x05 is a game pad, and usage number 0x39 is a hat switch.
Because my device is unique—it isn't a mouse, joystick or something commonly found in the examples of HID-class devices—the usage page is set to 65,440, which is a vendor-defined value. In comparing outputs of lsusb for other HID-class devices, they all had a defined usage page, such as Generic Desktop Controls or Game Controls. Because libhid still is in development, few previous examples of code are available to browse for reference. My work was much like an exploratory investigation.
On Linux, with a standard Debian 2.6.9 kernel and usbutils, I was able to see that Linux recognises the device as a USB HID device, bInterfaceClass = HID, and loads the hiddev kernel module. This module, or piece of kernel code, is a generic driver for HID devices. It is not specific to our needs—it mainly is used for mice, joysticks and the like—so it needs to be detached from the device or disabled (see the Communicating with the Device section).
The device, like all USB devices, is enumerated upon connection to the USB bus. So looking at the output of lsusb -vvv, run as root, for more information is helpful in determining what the device capabilities are. lsusb parses the usbfs filesystem into a more readable format:
[sample lsusb -vvv] Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ce5:0003 Device Descriptor: ... idVendor 0x0ce5 idProduct 0x0003 ... Configuration Descriptor: ... Interface Descriptor: ... bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices bInterfaceSubClass 0 No Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 0 None ... HID Device Descriptor: ... Report Descriptor: (length is 32) Item(Global):Usage Page,data=[0xa0 0xff]65440 (null) Item(Local ):Usage, data= [ 0x01 ] 1 (null) Item(Main ):Collection, data= [ 0x01 ] 1 Application Item(Local ):Usage, data= [ 0x03 ] 3 (null) Item(Global):Logical Minimum,data=[ 0x00 ] 0 Item(Global):Logical Maximum,data=[ 0xff ]255 Item(Global): Report Size, data= [ 0x08 ] 8 Item(Global): Report Count, data= [ 0x05 ] 5 Item(Main ): Input, data= [ 0x02 ] 2 Data Variable Absolute No_Wrap Linear Preferred_State No_Null_Position Non_Volatile Bitfield Item(Local ): Usage, data= [ 0x05 ] 5 (null) Item(Global):Logical Minimum,data=[ 0x00 ]0 Item(Global):Logical Maximum,data=[ 0xff ]255 Item(Global): Report Size, data= [ 0x08 ] 8 Item(Global): Report Count, data= [ 0x05 ] 5 Item(Main ): Output, data= [ 0x02 ] 2 Data Variable Absolute No_Wrap Linear Preferred_State No_Null_Position Non_Volatile Bitfield Item(Main ): End Collection, data=none
The above output—some of the information has been omitted—follows the hierarchy depicted in Figure 1. Some values of note are:
idVendor and idProduct—unique identifiers for all USB devices, used for identifying and accessing the device in code.
bNumEndpoints—lists the number of endpoints available in a device. This value actually means the number of endpoints in addition to the default endpoint, endpoint 0, available in every USB device.
bInterfaceClass—the value that determines that a device is an HID-class device.
bInterfaceSubClass—the subclass of a device, in this case, HID. For example, the boot interface subclass of the device must be bootable or available to the BIOS, such as a mouse or keyboard.
bInterfaceProtocol—the protocol used. Possible values are 0 for none, 1 for keyboard or 2 for mouse; additional information is available in the HID spec.
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By Mildred Henry
I read the headlines in total disbelief!
A professed leader in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement reportedly said, "I ain't voting until Black Lives Matter". I cannot believe that any informed, self-respecting African American will openly proclaim that he or she will not vote! This is a gross indignity because of the sacrifices and lives lost by our predecessors in order to gain the right to vote. This misguided individual tramples on the graves of Sojourner Truth; Fannie Lou Hamer; the Mississippi Freedom Riders; Barbara Jordan, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the sacred graveyard list goes on and on.
Supporters of the "I ain't voting" cognitive dissonance trample on the grave of my mother who was told she would lose her teaching job if she joined the NAACP and conducted a voter registration drive. She joined, became a lifetime NAACP member, and the family survived.
We survived in spite of the racists who burned our family cotton gin (3 times) and general store to the ground. Our family provided merchandise, and rides for neighbors to go to town, to register, to vote, to shop, and to conduct business. Comradery existed whereby you picked up and provided a ride to someone walking by the side of the road.
We survived in spite of the fact that schools for Black children were closed 3 and 4 months of the school year to work in the cotton fields. We survived in spite of having to walk 10 miles to school while school buses for white children threw dust up in our faces. We survived many adversities in order to be where we are today. I WILL vote.
Black people were castigated, tortured, lynched and suffered terrible deaths for just expressing the desire to vote. It was through the power of the vote that we defeated segregationists George Wallace of Alabama, and Governors Lester Maddox and Orville Faubus of Arkansas. If one of the reported leaders of the BLM is an attorney, as reported, he should be well aware of the court battles of Attorney and Chief Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. As an Arkansan, I watched Attorney Thurgood Marshall and local attorneys like Attorney George Howard, engage in battle on behalf of the Little Rock Nine students' effort to get an education at Central High School. Mrs. Daisy Bates and the State Press Newspaper (distributed by my mother) espoused the power of the vote to change the segregationist structure in Arkansas. These students (and many others) endured insults, life threats, personal danger, and loss of life to get a competitive education and learn that using the word "Ain't" was not acceptable in the competitive corporate world. We fought for a competitive education and the right to vote in order to right the wrongs. I WILL vote!
Rhetoric is cheap. BLM threatens to give the presidency to Donald Trump. Why? I am amazed at how gullible some people are to the unfounded promises uttered by this individual. He promises jobs but he makes products abroad and sells them to consumers in America. How will providing jobs abroad "make America great"? He can begin by bringing those jobs to America, and assure that "Made in America" is on all of his products. As a businessman, carefully scrutinize his business record and his tax return (which he refuses to release).
He speaks of diversity but uses the terminology "my African-American" which to me equates to the slogan, "My Nigger," so frequently used in my youth.
Donald Trump uses negative slogans, personal insults, and exhibits totally unprofessional, crass behavior, unrepresentative of the values taught us as children. How could any self-respecting African-American, knowledgeable of our ancestral history, threaten to vote for a self-aggrandizement individual who exhibits such unethical behavior? We should not jump from the frying pan into the fire. This is not a game of marbles between children. This is a serious world event which will impact the future of every human being on this earth, especially those of minority ethnic background.
I ask those who thought the Democratic inclusion of mothers of slain Black men was just "political theater", what did the Republicans do to indicate the importance of this issue? How did they show the seriousness of the Black Lives Matter movement? News reports indicate "BLM Threatens to Hand Trump the Presidency". Why? What has he done to earn it? This is not a TV show. This is survival. I sincerely hope that self-grandiose individuals will not be successful in spewing their venom and preying on the sensibilities of the uninformed.
I WILL vote, and I urge every eligible voter to become adequately informed, VOTE, and Don't Forget The Bridges That Brought Us Over!


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There is a compelling case for letting BBC3 and BBC4 continue unscathed, which loyal viewers, currently turned lobbyists and petitioners, are failing to deploy in the current debate about which digital channel should bear the brunt of the corporation's Delivering Quality First cuts.
Instead of focusing on the supply of intelligent programmes on BBC4 or cut through comedy and youth skewing current affairs on BBC3, the correct question is this: why on earth does anyone wants to force the BBC into a divorce from a highly successful digital channels strategy?
What's more, it is a strategy now deployed with demonstrable effectiveness across all the public service broadcasters, giving them a spring in their step, a renewed sense of purpose, as digital switchover accelerates to completion next year.
Look at the overall performance of the four terrestrial public service broadcasters, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. They have achieved, in the past year or so, a remarkable but little trumpeted act of consolidation, stabilising their total share of viewing, instead of constantly ceding ground to multichannel broadcasters.
Ofcom's annual UK Communications Market report, published in August, noted for the first time since the survey began in 2003, the overall audience share of the heritage broadcasters held steady at 71%.
This was achieved by adding the growing 17% of viewing taken by their digital channels – including BBC3, BBC4, ITV2, E4 and 5USA – to the 54% share of the five main terrestrial networks.
It has taken more than a decade for the PSBs to work out successful strategies to counter audience fragmentation, but they have arrived, though admittedly at vastly different speeds and routes.
So now they all have targeted demographic or passion-focused digital channels, offering another chance to view favourites such as soaps and dramas, spin-offs, acquisitions, plus a sprinkling of a few choice, expertly targeted commissions (The Inbetweeners, The Only Way is Essex).
So – and I hope BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten has been well briefed on this point — it would be a folly for the trust to insist on the closure or dilution of either BBC3 or BBC4's output if he cares about the overall continued impact of BBC programming.
I'd go further. In a sensible climate, BBC3 and BBC4 ought to be expanded, enriched, and most certainly enjoy a start time of, say, midday, much earlier than 7pm.
This may not seem realistic in a period of impending 20% budget cuts as part of DQF, when they share channel airtime with CBeebies and CBBC. If this is impractical, then perhaps BBC4 programming could be switched to BBC2 during daytime.
The reality is that all four of these successful BBC digital channels are unfavourably corseted by time constraints, as broadcasting logic suggests their resources should be marginally increased, and savings found somewhere else.


text: Creating and sustaining a clinical environment of nursing excellenceRoberts-Turner, Renee DHA, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CPHQ; Coleman, Lael BA; Guanci, Gen MEd, RN-BC, CCRN; Humbel, Tina Kunze MSN/MHA, RN-BC, CCRN, CPN; Walczak, Dory MA, MSHI, RN, CCRN, NE-BC, CPHQNursing Management: July 2014 - Volume 45 - Issue 7 - p 48–52 doi: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000451036.92210.51 Feature: Specialty Focus: Magnet® Excellence In Brief Author Information Article Outline Using a triadic approach to leadership may help improve certain nursing-sensitive indicators. At Children's National Health Systems in Washington, D.C., Renee Roberts-Turner is the interim director of Nursing Professional Practice and the Magnet Program director; Lael Coleman is the data coordinator for the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; Tina Kunze Humbel is the interim Performance Improvement coordinator for the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes; and Dory Walczak is the interim manager, Nursing Quality, for the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes. Gen Guanci is a consultant for Creative Health Care Management in Minneapolis, Minn. The authors have disclosed that they have no financial relationships related to this article. Strengthening the quality structure Refining the quality process Sustaining the outcomes Patient satisfaction CAUTI rates Pressure ulcer rates Excellence in our grasp REFERENCES Figure Nurse involvement in quality improvement (QI) includes establishing processes for data collection, analysis, display, and dissemination. Importantly, nurses must examine QI data on a regular and close to real-time basis for improvements to be maintained and sustained. At Children's National Health System (Children's National), a 303-bed, pediatric, freestanding, Magnet® hospital in Washington, D.C., the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes in the Division of Nursing used Culture of Nursing Excellence (CONE) teams as a triadic approach to improve clinical outcomes. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1 Here we describe how the triadic approach (nurse leader, nurse educator, and clinical nurse) was designed and implemented to address unit-specific care improvements in three nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs): patient satisfaction, RN satisfaction, and clinical outcomes. Back to Top | Article Outline Strengthening the quality structure The concept of the CONE team was introduced to nursing at Children's National as a collaborative and shared structural adjunct between the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes and the clinical areas to analyze opportunities for care improvements. Structure—defined as material resources, human resources, and organizational structure—is an important attribute in the quest for quality outcomes.1 When determining who should comprise the CONE teams, we urged each team to include required and optional participants. The required participants included the nurse leader (nurse manager or director), nurse educator (clinical educator, clinical instructor, or professional practice specialist), and the clinical nurse chairperson or designee of each Shared Nursing Leadership Council. These teams became the drivers of QI for their unit. Optional participants included the unit-specific Magnet champion, members of a unit-level Shared Nursing Leadership Council, and interprofessional team members. We also considered how adding the CONE teams would change our current nursing quality structure. (See Figure 2.) The Nursing Quality Committee (NQC) is a subcommittee of the system-level Shared Nursing Leadership Council's Clinical Improvement and Nursing Research Council and was established to ensure active engagement and information sharing among all levels of clinical nurses and nursing leaders. All of the CONE team members were also members of the NQC. This integration of the NQC and CONE teams is a mechanism to ensure ongoing collaboration through shared problem solving and supports a team effort to enhance quality outcomes for our patients. Figure 2 During the monthly NQC meetings, three CONE teams present their reports using Children's National's approach to QI: the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle methodology, which addresses patient satisfaction, RN satisfaction, and clinical outcomes. This meeting provides an opportunity for the CONE teams to highlight their successes and dialog with other members about their challenges and barriers. Moreover, the CONE team reporting provides a share-all and teach-all atmosphere. The CONE teams also work in collaboration with the Pathways to Nursing Care Excellence Fellowship Program, which was created to deliver a targeted curriculum to support nurses' efforts to improve clinical practice and deliver higher quality and safe care. Cohorts have included 8 to 10 nurses as fellows, who select a NSI specific to their clinical area. Not every clinical area has fellows, but the CONE teams that do have a fellow in the program partner with the fellow to make improvements to the selected NSI. The CONE teams report their monthly data analysis and action plans to their respective clinical area-based Care Delivery Forums—a team comprised of the medical unit director, nursing unit director, unit-based pharmacist, social worker, nutritionist, case manager, and clinical staff. Achieving and sustaining quality outcomes can't be done without an interdisciplinary team that supports its respective CONE team. Back to Top | Article Outline Refining the quality process Process can be defined as the steps in which healthcare is delivered.1 As it relates to the CONE teams, process involved the teams examining ways to stay well informed about quality indicator data, being able to explain data trends, identifying possible causes and barriers hindering the success of the process, and developing clinical area-specific action plans based on the data. When we established the CONE teams, we invited each team to a workshop to learn details about the background of the quality indicators, how indicators relate to Magnet, and the achievements needed for Magnet redesignation. The teams were required to complete a preworkshop assignment, which included analyzing their monthly graphs related to the three categories of NSIs. This analysis by each CONE team was critical to the team's identity and became the basis of the action plans for each clinical area. Each inpatient CONE team completed a thorough analysis of each unit-specific NSI, including patient satisfaction, RN satisfaction, peripherally inserted I.V. catheter infiltrate, ventilator-associated pneumonia, pressure ulcers, restraint use, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Many of the outpatient clinical areas had the option of choosing an area-specific clinical indicator to focus on because a majority of the inpatient clinical indicators didn't apply to their practice. This analysis required each clinical area to investigate what data were being collected, study trends and patterns monitored in the Magnet reporting periods, and analyze results from the graphs released on a monthly basis. The CONE teams then identified the NSIs that required an intervention and created an action plan to target those indicator(s) and improve their outcomes. All CONE teams met as a large group about once every quarter for a 3-hour session to share and collaborate across clinical areas. Because nursing provides an essential contribution to patient, organizational, and stakeholder outcomes, the purpose of the quarterly meeting was to facilitate and foster a shared mental model to achieve stronger teams, promoting and maintaining positive outcomes for all indicators. The first quarterly CONE Team Forum successfully commenced in August 2012, with approximately 50 nurses in attendance, representing 20 clinical areas. The metrics theme was CONE "Sharing Moments," where each clinical area was tasked with sharing successes and challenges in improving their NSIs. This forum was also designed to be a safe environment for both nursing leadership and clinical nurses to discuss and solve any barriers related to improving their outcomes. All CONE teams left this meeting with commitments to make further improvements in their quality indicators. Specifically, each CONE team was responsible for: creating and sending a monthly report of their NSI data that the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes analyzed and used to create graphs on a monthly basis using the PDCA cycle for all indicators monitoring improvements in indicators for sustainability over subsequent months conducting immediate corrective action when there was no improvement in the results and describing these actions in their monthly reports. The Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes then spent the next 3 months meeting with each CONE team individually to discuss challenges and successes, as well as offer support and resources for improvements being developed by each team. Early in this process, we noted that only the nurse leaders of the CONE teams were in attendance. We learned from the leaders that they thought it might be a meeting to chastise rather than collaborate. We immediately clarified the purpose of these individual team meetings and the remaining hour-long meetings were spent with multiple team members examining their data, discussing potential causes or contributory factors of decline in performance, and sharing resources needed to support change or care approaches. During these meetings, we discovered that we needed to add a new component to the template of the monthly CONE reports: Managers and directors were making leadership-level changes that positively affected clinical nurses and care outcomes but weren't being credited for their efforts. (See supplemental content on the Nursing Management app.) The Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes decided to add an administrative section to the CONE report form to highlight the leadership actions. For example, in an effort to improve RN satisfaction in one clinical area, the clinical nurses provided feedback and data to their manager/director that the busiest times in the clinical area were in the late afternoon. They recognized that their present staffing pattern didn't accommodate the increased volume, which affected patient satisfaction and workflow. The manager/director analyzed the data and was able to stagger shift start times to accommodate the busy time of the day. The theme of the next quarterly CONE Team Forum was "Strengthening the Connection" and focused on staff engagement. This meeting commenced in January 2013, with approximately 40 to 50 nurses, representing 18 clinical areas, openly discussing how to better collaborate on the internal and external connections in their clinical area. An icebreaker activity at the beginning of the program helped nurses from different areas get to know each other on a personal level and contribute to a camaraderie to potentially nurture partnerships between clinical areas. One of the major takeaways from this forum was how to expand the focus from treatment to prevention. The Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes again conducted follow-up meetings with the CONE teams to provide assistance and support in their quest to achieve high-quality outcomes. In addition, the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes also provided consultative services to any of the CONE teams when needed. These informal meetings strengthened the relationship between the unit CONE teams and the Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes and fostered a collegial relationship to improve quality outcomes. We also established processes to keep the CONE teams engaged and help them stay focused on the work needed to improve quality outcomes. CONE teams in each clinical area met monthly to examine their data and develop action plans. Depending on the size of the clinical area, the CONE team worked as a collective group or in smaller teams. For example, a 15-bed unit had one large CONE team that was responsible for examining and creating interventions for all NSIs. A 40+-bed unit had subteams within the CONE team, which would take responsibility for one or two indicators and report their findings at the unit's monthly CONE meeting during which the larger team analyzed their data and developed an action plan for a particular indicator. Back to Top | Article Outline Sustaining the outcomes Outcomes are the results of structures and processes.1 The positive quality indicators and team outcomes we observed secondary to strengthening our structures through the establishment of the CONE teams and the redefining of processes to address NSI data continue 2 years later. Back to Top | Article Outline Patient satisfaction One of our small inpatient clinical areas identified that its patient satisfaction scores were below the national benchmark for four specific questions. The CONE team established a rounding process specific to their clinical area and patient population. They also created a simulation experience that mimics the unit's activities to provide an opportunity for staff to practice patient and family interventions with peer feedback. This clinical area was able to improve its patient satisfaction scores for all four questions, and for three consecutive quarters has been above the national benchmark. Back to Top | Article Outline CAUTI rates A larger ICU CONE team identified that their CAUTI rates were consistently worse than the national benchmark. The CONE team surveyed their nurses and found that there were inconsistencies in the maintenance of urinary catheters. The CONE team then created an evidence-based bundle to standardize the practice. This unit made a 54% improvement in its CAUTI rates in 15 months. Back to Top | Article Outline Pressure ulcer rates Each inpatient and specialty clinical area, including the ED and Perioperative Department, has nurses who are part of our pressure ulcer program, which includes two full prevalence studies per quarter, along with an educational offering for approximately 35-unit-based clinical nurses who are clinical resources in pressure ulcer prevention and management and also members of their clinical area CONE teams. The combined effort of the unit CONE team members and the unit-based pressure ulcer resource team members focuses on the data for trends. The pressure ulcer experts bring knowledge specific to the patient population for pressure ulcer prevention and have created significant improvements in our pressure ulcer prevalence data at the aggregate level. Through prevalence studies, 13 inpatient units tracked and trended hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs); 90% of the 10 inpatient units achieved rates better than national benchmarks during the last 2 calendar years (2012–2013). The pressure ulcer team members, in conjunction with their respective CONE teams, have significantly reduced the number of Stage 3 and above HAPUs. Throughout the conception and operationalization of the CONE teams, close attention was paid to identifying structures and processes that could be sustained into the future. Sustainability is a concept that's often an afterthought in change projects. Many projects fail due to poor planning and, more specifically, poor incorporation of structures and processes that can be easily supported over time. The ability to obtain target outcomes initially is a great success, but what's of even greater value is the ability to sustain these successes. To date, all clinical areas have active CONE teams that we consistently engage and mentor to ensure sustainability of this structure and its processes. Back to Top | Article Outline Excellence in our grasp The successful work of the CONE teams has been recognized at the unit level and in the Division of Nursing. Additionally, the hospital quality program has specifically requested assistance from the CONE teams for hospital-level quality initiatives. The integration of the CONE teams into hospital-level QI efforts demonstrates an important administrative contribution of the CONE team structure. As the current healthcare environment continues to change and strives to become more efficient and cost effective, it becomes increasingly evident that it's essential for RNs to be intimately involved in making changes to care practices. Current research speaks to this important fact; we must create a care environment that fundamentally provides better care.2,3 The CONE team is a triadic approach used by Children's National to improve clinical outcomes. This approach can be easily adopted by another care setting or an entire healthcare organization as a means of monitoring QI indicators and identifying interventions for improvement to ultimately improve the care environment.Back to Top | Article Outline REFERENCES1. Pelletier LR, Beaudin CL. Q Solutions Essential Resources for Healthcare Quality Professional. 2nd ed. Glenview, IL: National Association for HealthCare Quality; 2008. Cited Here... 2. Djukic M, Kovner CT, Brewer CS, Fatehi FK, Seltzer JR. A multi-state assessment of employer-sponsored quality improvement education for early-career registered nurses. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2013;44(1):12–19. Cited Here... 3. Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 20th Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001. Cited Here... © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All world rights reserved.


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Events to watch for; details in future editions of Weekend.
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Timespublished August 22, 2002
Pioneer Days Festival (Aug. 31-Sept. 2) 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Pioneer Florida Museum and Village, off Highway 301, 1 mile north of Dade City. (352) 567-0262. $6 adults, $2 children.
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure (Sept. 21) 7:30 a.m., Straub Park, downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. To register, check www.komentampabay.com. $15 registration fee.
Taste of Clearwater (Sept. 24) 5-8 p.m. Harborview Center. $18 advance, $24 door (includes food). (727) 461-0011.
Disney on Ice: The Jungle Book, Tarzan and the Lion King (Sept. 28) 3:30 p.m. Times Arena at Bayfront Center.
Zoo Boo (Sept. 28-Nov. 2) annual Halloween event Lowry Park Zoo. $6.50-$8.50, ages 2 and under free.
American Heart Walk Tampa Bay (Oct. 12) 8 a.m., Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg. To register, call (727) 570-8610 or www.americanheart.org.
American Heart Walk Pasco/Hernando (Oct. 19) 8 a.m., Heritage Pines Golf & Country Club, 11524 Scenic Hills Blvd., Hudson. To register, call toll-free 1-800-275-1702.
Guavaween (Oct. 26) Day-into-night street festival, Ybor City. Family Funfest, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $2. Night of Costumed Revelry, beginning at 4 p.m., $10. Ticketmaster (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100 or www.cc-events.org.
Paula Deen teams with Novo Nordisk on diabetes
'Artist,' 'Tinker Tailor' up for UK film awards
Lohan returns to court for latest probation update
Soundtrack to be released for MTV's 'Teen Mom'
Swift teases songs about heartbreak on next album
Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public
Indian fest hopes Rushdie attends, despite protest
Bavaria questions Mein Kampf publication plans
Poland slaps fine on singer for bashing Bible


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All the outdoor fun of camping with Ffth Avenue a cab ride away. See the latest travel trend here - urban glamping.
Urban Glamping in NYC
Resorts have been luring travellers into the wilderness for years with the promise of high-thread-count sheets and degustation feasts. But in New York? The ultimate urban playground? AKA kicked things off at its Central Park property by offering an outdoor bed on the terrace of its 17th-floor penthouse.
The package costs approx. $1900/night and includes Champagne, gourmet snacks, a telescope and an e-reader, of all things (not now darling, I'm reading).
Inevitably, others have followed. The Hyatt 48 Lex Hotel in Midtown pitched in with an outdoor package for its six terrace suites (approx. $500/night) and two penthouses (approx. $1650/night).
Available during the US summer, it provides alfresco airbeds with sheets, pillows and sleeping bags plus a bottle of wine and a gourmet picnic from high-end grocer Dean & Deluca. From its position on 48th Street and Lexington Avenue you'll fall sound asleep under a glittering canopy of skyscrapers and be roused by a soundtrack of horns, sirens and whistles.
So, what's next? Four-poster beds in Central Park? Unlikely. But we'd be surprised if more hotels don't get in on the act. Manhattan is peppered with stunning rooftops that are just crying out to be glamped.


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Local student wins prestigious scholarship
AN app that will provide lifesaving support to healthcare workers in remote Africa has earned Siobhán O'Connor, a first year PhD student at UCC, a prestigious TEDMED Frontline Scholarship.
Siobhán, who hails from Kanturk, will now be able to attend the world-renowned TEDMED event in Washington DC this September.
A student at the department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at University College Cork, Siobhán will showcase a smartphone app called 'Supporting LIFE' that is being developed by a team of researchers at UCC and Imperial College London (ICL).
Supporting LIFE, led by UCC's Dr John O'Donoghue, is an android-based app designed to support community healthcare workers in remote and rural parts of Africa. The app equips users with a number of features, including a clinical decision support toolkit, a patient assessment and triaging application, and a training platform to educate and empower local healthcare workers in community case management.
"I think the novelty of the mobile app we're creating at UCC and ICL, the impact it will have on the ground in Malawi, and my multidisciplinary background in informatics and nursing is what interested the judging panel," said Siobhán, commenting on her award.
"It was always a dream of mine to attend TEDMED, I've been watching it online for years so to be there to experience it in person will be really exciting."
Last year Siobhan won both the Irish category for Nursing and the overall award for the category at the International Undergraduate Awards, winning the Bram Stoker Gold Medal on foot of research into wound care.
TEDMED, meanwhile, is a global community of researchers, academics, entrepreneurs, social thinkers and policy makers dedicated to unlocking imagination in service of health and medicine.
TEDMED holds its annual conference at the John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts in Washington DC where talks combine health, information and technology with compelling personal stories and innovations at the forefront of medicine and health.
TEDMED's Patron Fund provides scholarships to support exceptional individuals from all disciplines to attend its annual conference. For more information see www.tedmed.com.


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A TV sports presenter who has become the face of this year's Rugby World Cup has lent his support to encouraging Bourne and Market Deeping to visitors.
John Inverdale has gone in front of the cameras to help attract businesses to both towns as part of a new campaign by South Kesteven District Council.
A new series of films were recorded by Mr Inverdale on Tuesday and Wednesday, in-between hosting England's crucial matches against Wales and Australia at Twickenham.
Steve Ingram, the district council's strategic director for development and growth, said: "We are keen to give investors an updated picture on our towns' real plus points as part of our priority to help grow the economy.
"Bourne's connections with Formula One motor racing through Raymond Mays, British Racing Motors (BRM) and English Racing Automobiles, along with the Deepings' strong business base through Northfields Industrial Estate and the Eventus Business and Innovation Centre, will be focused on during the films.
"We have also highlighted both towns' quality of life and excellent travel links, independent businesses and national retailers, asking them why they have chosen to do business here."
The new films will replace ones from 2013 which were made as part of the district council's Destination SK (South Kesteven) campaign.
Mr Inverdale started his journalism career in Lincolnshire as a newspaper reporter in 1980, moving to regional radio two years later and television in 1990.
Speaking about his career in 2010, Mr Inverdale said: "You have to get names right, which often when covering international sporting events is no easy task. you have to get match timing right, you have to be accurate and you have to be quick - but it can be done."
The videos can now be seen on the South Kesteven District Council YouTube channel.
We are keen to give investors an updated picture on our towns' real plus points as part of our priority to help grow the economy.Steve Ingram, strategic director for development and growth, South Kesteven District Council


text: Claudia Mayer Autumn Extravaganza 11/05/13 Carla Northrop, and her co-chairs, Tina Broccolino, Mary Jayne Register, & Pauline Nemec invite you to join them this Friday, November 8th at "Beating the Odds: Autumn Extravaganza" benefitting The Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center at Howard County General Hospital. Join us for a fun-filled casino type games night at The Fretz Corporation Showroom to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of The Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center. Our event will have something for everyone - novices to experts- including silent and live auctions, raffle prizes, entertainment, signature designed jewelry sales, and much more. The evening will feature an assortment of culinary delights provided by Carrabba's Italian Grill, complimented with fine wines from Gus Kalaris of Axios Wines. Funds raised will support the mission of the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center. We look forward to rolling the dice with you! TICKETS: $75 per person. To purchase tickets online & learn more visit: www.hcgh.org/Fretz Posted in: Events, Northrop Team News, Uncategorized, Events


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Read the opposing arguments from Babe Ruthless and Bleacher Fan.
Major League Baseball's 81st All-Star game is nearly upon us. Can you believe it? I know, it seems like just yesterday that it was only the 56th. While the majority of the sports media concentrates very hard on dissecting the snubs from the All-Star rosters, The Sports Debates is doing something a bit different – and we hope, a bit interesting. Rather than churn out three more columns on guys that should have made the team but didn't, we're identifying the absolute best player from all of the All-Stars.
While I would have loved to take Joey Votto in this argument, he did not even make the team (yet). That snub, combined with zero pitchers from the MLB best San Diego Padres staff, was almost enough to derail today's topic. Fortunately, our commitment to being different stayed on track… just like nothing can derail Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer from getting his due as the best of the best for the 2010 mid-summer classic.
Some of you may recall the article I penned a few weeks ago arguing that if I were forced to start a MLB team from scratch I would start with Joe Mauer over Albert Pujols – and anyone else. I will not rehash that entire article here in this space. We all know at this point that Mauer is supremely talented on offense, defense, and as a strategic thinker behind the plate. We all further recognize that the demands of playing catcher in the major leagues is much more difficult compared to the other positions on the diamond… but so is the importance of the job and its influence on a team. Those realities alone cements Mauer as the best player at the toughest position in the game, and therefore the all-star among All-Stars.
But, there are some additional feats from Mauer already in 2010 that reinforce the notion that his star shines the brightest.
In what is traditionally a glorified popularity contest, Mauer still attracted the most votes from the millions of voters that decide the All-Star starting line ups. In fact, Mauer's 5,372,606 votes was the third highest vote total of all time. Amazingly, Mauer's homegrown Minnesota charm has reached well beyond the confines of the land of a thousand lakes. Traditional baseball fans find a player like Mauer very appealing and easy to root for because he always performs to expectations, and he "plays the game the right way." In other words, he would not do what Hanley Ramirez did yesterday and watch his dribbler hit in front of the plate without moving. Mauer would hustle out of the box, and right into the hearts of baseball fans across the country.
It is true that Joe Mauer is not putting up the type of stats that earned him an AL MVP last season. But, that would be extremely difficult to do, as he hit .365 with 28 home runs and 94 RBI. What makes Mauer special is that, at baseball's toughest position, he remains extremely good, and very consistent. He leads the AL with 24 doubles in 2010, he is still batting over .300, and he'll finish with great stats all around as the leader for one of the top teams in baseball. True to Mauer's persona, he does nothing terribly flashy. He just does his job extremely well. Here is a cool, but rather unsexy but telling Mauer stat – 16 percent of the guys on base when Mauer is at the plate score. Mauer is consistently reliable, whether he is at the plate or behind it.
Another fun and telling stat about Mauer's first half performance this season – his pitching staff has a combined ERA of 3.91 under his guidance. Perhaps it is altogether too idealistic of me, but I would like to think that fans all over the country grasp the depth and breadth of Mauer's talent, and are not distracted by the superficial home run and RBI stats. Those stats are, of course, important. But a game is won and lost often in the details that Mauer handles with such aplomb.
Mauer admits that he has played the majority of this season a bit banged up. He missed a week in May with a bruised heel that has painfully nagged him throughout the season. Yet he is still putting up solid numbers, and still playing the game the same way… never failing to handle the details.
Now, some may argue that Mauer is not the best of the best. Certainly Mauer does not measure up statistically with players like Pujols. But, between the level of responsibility he has on the field – and in the clubhouse – he performs like few others throughout the history of the game – and definitely out-performed anyone through the first half of this season.


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Thanks for the positive feedback about last Friday's webinar about retirement income planning. That headline captures the most poignant of many comments from attendees.
At the session, which is available for replay and continuing education credit, Manish Malhotra of Income Discovery, a sophisticated new retirement income modeling app, shows innovative and intricate ways to find optimal retirement income solutions. The session and CE credit are free to A4A members.
In an exit survey asking attendees to rate and review of the session (see all the comments below), an advisor said he got a call from a client earler in the day with a question that matched one of the case studies covered in the webinar. The client asked the exact question asnwered during the webinar! Now that's pretty cool because it tells me A4A is giving you real practical and timely ideas. While advisors tell me that all the time, it is nice to get such real-world evidence confirming it.
Being able to model different Social Security start-dates for two spouses, for example, is easy. Plus you can add bond ladders to portfolios and make what-ifs based with start dates for annuitizing an income stream in forecasts.
Look at the variation in comments from attendees and the valuable feedback. Manish received an overall rating of 4.2 out of five, and the following comments:


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SEATTLE — If you're part of the ever-growing group of football fans who think the Seattle Seahawks are one of the best teams in the NFL, then Sunday's 45-17 victory over Jacksonville did nothing to change your mind.
Yet if you're one of the Seahawks' doubters, their thrashing of the lowly Jaguars, at home no less, did nothing to change your mind either.
Basically, what the Seahawks did by dismantling what very much looks like the NFL's worst team was take care of business. The Seahawks should have won big on Sunday, and they did just that. Coming off of an emotional Sunday night win over their biggest rivals, there was a lot of talk about a Seahawks letdown this week, but head coach Pete Carroll and his players insisted over and over that they wouldn't let that happen.
And then they didn't.
The Seahawks did what a good team should do when it hosts a pretty bad one. They got ahead, dominated on both sides of the ball, and eventually emptied their bench on the way to a comfortable victory. Yet as much as this was the expected outcome, it shouldn't be taken for granted. Very few people thought the 49ers would lose at home to the Colts Sunday, or that the Packers and Falcons, two of the NFC's top teams a year ago, would both be 1-2.
Taking care of business against a lesser opponent isn't sexy. It doesn't get a prime-time slot on TV, or an equal amount of buzz in the stadium, but for a team with Super Bowl ambitions, it is just as important.
"That's very important," said cornerback Brandon Browner "Every W is crucial, critical in this league. Every team is good. You can lose to the best or worst team in this league."
The Seahawks spent all week talking about how every week is a championship week, how they prepare the same regardless of the opponent, and then they played like it Sunday. After an opening three-and-out, the offense, and the passing game in particular, took a step forward after a rough outing last week. Russell Wilson threw four touchdown passes despite leaving the game late in the third quarter, and engineered an impressive five-play, 79-yard touchdown drive at the end of the first half that took only 34 seconds.
"That was a fantastic drive," Carroll said. "That was Russell at his best right there. He did a great job.
Seattle also cut back on its penalties, committing just four after being flagged for 19 in the first two games. And the defense, which had been so good through the first two games, kept it up, holding the Jags to 52 yards and four first downs in the first half as Seattle built a 24-0 halftime lead.
"That's what we do," said receiver Doug Baldwin. "There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. We approach every week like it's a championship week. It doesn't matter who we're playing, we're competing against ourselves. Ultimately it doesn't matter who's on the other side of the field, as long as we execute our game plan, it doesn't matter."
It sounds cliche as hell, doesn't it? But its working for the Seahawks, who have won eight straight regular season games and 10 in a row at home. There have been surprisingly few highs and lows for the Seahawks going back to last season. And Sunday's win, even against a struggling opponent, was another positive sign, not because the Seahawks beat the Jaguars, but because they stayed sharp in a week that set itself up so perfectly for them to be at least a little off of their game.
"We wanted to execute our game plan like we were ready for the 49ers, not get caught up in the trap game, so to speak," Browner said.
If anything, despite the lopsided score, the Seahawks feel like they need to play better than they did Sunday. Sure Wilson threw for four touchdowns in limited duty, but there were still two turnovers by the offense. And yes the defense was dominant when it mattered, but the Jaguars did manage 213 yards and 17 points in the second half.
"I think we could have done a lot better than that," said safety Earl Thomas. "In my mind, I think we should hold teams under 115 passing yards, if they get that. So I was kind of upset about that. There's a lot of stuff we can work on to get better."
Nitpicking aside, Thomas and his teammates know it was another important win for the Seahawks. They didn't take their foot off the gas until the game was well out of reach. They didn't have the dreaded letdown, and on a day when the rest of their division took a step back, the Seahawks did what a team of their caliber should.
"If you come ready to play, let's play football," said receiver Golden Tate. "If you don't we'll blow you out. That's our approach. We play hard every game."
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