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USN-1644-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
30 November 2012
linux vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Software Description
- linux - Linux kernel
Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. (CVE-2012-0957)
Dmitry Monakhov reported a race condition flaw the Linux ext4 filesystem that can expose stale data. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause an information leak. (CVE-2012-4508)
Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-4565)
Mathias Krause discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's XFRM netlink interface. A local user with the NET_ADMIN capability could exploit this flaw to leak the contents of kernel memory. (CVE-2012-6536)
Mathias Krause discovered several errors in the Linux kernel's xfrm_user implementation. A local attacker could exploit these flaws to examine parts of kernel memory. (CVE-2012-6537)
Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's xfrm_user copy_to_user_auth function. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine parts of kernel heap memory. (CVE-2012-6538)
Dave Jones discovered that the Linux kernel's socket subsystem does not correctly ensure the keepalive action is associated with a stream socket. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) by creating a raw socket. (CVE-2012-6657)
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernels handling of memory ranges with PROT_NONE when transparent hugepages are in use. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the system). (CVE-2013-0309)
Mathias Krause discovered a flaw in xfrm_user in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with NET_ADMIN capability could potentially exploit this flaw to escalate privileges. (CVE-2013-1826)
An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's /dev/dvb device. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from the kernel's stack memory. (CVE-2013-1928)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-generic - 3.2.0-34.53
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-generic-pae - 3.2.0-34.53
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-highbank - 3.2.0-34.53
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-omap - 3.2.0-34.53
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-powerpc-smp - 3.2.0-34.53
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-powerpc64-smp - 3.2.0-34.53
- linux-image-3.2.0-34-virtual - 3.2.0-34.53
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.


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Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, Chet Ramey about his experiences maintaining Bash, Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame, and Charles H. Moore about the design and development of Forth. We've also had a chat with the irreverent Don Woods about the development and uses of INTERCAL, as well as Stephen C. Johnson on YACC, Luca Cardelli on Modula-3, Walter Bright on D, Brendan Eich on JavaScript, Guido van Rossum about Python and most recently Prof. Roberto Ierusalimschy about the design and development of Lua.
In this in-depth interview, we chat with Simon Peyton-Jones about the development of Haskell. Peyton-Jones is particularly interested in the design, implementation, and application of lazy functional languages, and speaks in detail of his desire to 'do one thing well', as well as his current research projects being undertaken at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.
Please note that due to popular demand we are no longer following alphabetical order for this series. If you wish to submit any suggestions for programming languages or language authors you would like to see covered, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Was Haskell created simply as an open standard for purely functional programming languages?
Haskell isn't a standard in the ISO standard sense – it's not formally standardized at all. It started as a group of people each wanting to use a common language, rather than having their own languages that were different in minor ways. So if that's an open standard, then yes, that's what we were trying to do.
In the late 1980's, we formed a committee, and we invited all of the relevant researchers in the world, as at that stage the project was purely academic. There were no companies using lazy functional programming, or at least not many of them. We invited all of the researchers we knew who were working on basic functional programming to join in.
Most of the researchers we approached said yes; I think at that stage probably the only one who said no was David Turner, who had a language called Miranda, and Rinus Plasmeijer, who had a language called Clean. He was initially in the committee but he then dropped out. The committee was entirely by consensus – there wasn't a mechanism whereby any one person decided who should be in and who should be out. Anybody who wanted could join.
How did the name come about?
We sat in a room which had a big blackboard where we all wrote down what we thought could be possible candidates for names. We then all crossed out the names that we didn't like. By the time we were finished we didn't have many!
Do you remember any of the names that you threw up there?
I'm sure there was Fun and Curry. Curry was Haskell Curry's last name. He'd already given his name to a process called 'currying' and we ended up using Haskell instead of Curry, as we thought that there were too many jokes you could end up making about it!
So what made you settle on Haskell?
It was kind of a process of elimination really, and we liked that it was distinctively different. Paul Hudak went to see Curry's widow who kindly gave us permission to use his name. The only disadvantage is that people can think you mean 'Pascal' rather than 'Haskell'. It depends on the pronunciation – and it doesn't take long to de-confuse people.
Did you come across any big problems in the early stages of development?
The Haskell project was meant to gather together a consensus that we thought existed about lazy functional programming languages. There weren't any major issues about anything much, as we had previously agreed on the main issues and focus. There were also some things that we deliberately decided not to tackle: notably modules. Haskell has a basic module system but it's not a state of the art module system.
Why did you decide not to tackle this?
Because it's complicated and we wanted to solve one problem well, rather than three problems badly. We thought for the bits that weren't the main focus, we'd do something straightforward that was known to work, even if it wasn't as sophisticated as it could get. You only have so much brain capacity when you're designing a language, and you have to use it – you only have so much oxygen to get to the top of the mountain. If you spend it on too many things, you don't get to the top!


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Sat.8.MAY.2010 -- Problem with AudRecog
When we coded the 20apr10A.F version of MindForth, we encountered a problem when we added the word "WOMAN" to EnBoot but the AI kept trying to recognize "WOMAN" as the word "MAN". This glitch was a show-stopper bug, because we need to keep "MAN" and "WOMAN" apart if we are going to substitute "HE" or "SHE" as pronouns for a noun.
In the fp091212.html MFPJ entry, we recorded a problem where the AI was recognizing the unknown word "transparency" as the known Psi concept #3 word "ANY", as if the presence of the characters "A-N-Y" in "transparency" made it legitimate to recognize the word "ANY". That recognition problem has apparently emerged again when the most recent AI tried to recognize "WOMAN" as "MAN". What we did not bother to troubleshoot back then, we must now stop and troubleshoot before we can work properly with EnP ronoun.
Sat.8.MAY.2010 -- Troubleshooting AudRecog
We have a lingering suspicion that our deglobalizing of the variables associated with AudRecog in the fp090501.html work and beyond may have destabilized a previously sound AudRecog with the result that glitches began to occur. We have the opportunity of running a version of MindForth from before the deglobalizing, in order to see if "MAN" and "WOMAN" are properly recognized as separate words. When we run the 23apr09A.F MindForth, the AI assigns concept #76 to both "MAN" and "WOMAN". Likewise we load up "22jan08B.F" and we get the same problem. The "23dec07A.F" version also produces the problem. The "29mar07A.F" version has the problem. "2jun06C.F" also has it. "30apr05C.F" has it. Even "16aug02A.F" has the problem, way back in August of 2002, before AI4U was published at the end of 2002. We also check "11may02A.F" and that version has the problem.
To be thorough, we need to run the Ja vaScript AI and see if it also has the problem of recognizing "WOMAN" as "MAN". Even the "2apr10A.html" JSAI has the problem. We tell it "i know man" and "i know woman". Both "MAN" and "WOMAN" receive concept #96. "14aug08A.html" JSAI also has the problem. "2jan07A.html" has it. "2sep06B.html" has the problem.
Wed.12.MAY.2010 -- Solution and Bugfix of AudRecog
In the second coding session of 8may2010, we implemented the idea of using an audrun variable as a flag to permit the auditory recognition only of words whose initial character was found in the initial "audrun" of AudRecog. In that way, "MAN" would be disqualified as a recognition of the "WOMAN" pattern, and only words starting with the character "W" would be tested for recognition of "WOMAN".
It took three or four hours of coding to achieve success with the "audrun" idea. Our first impulse was to use "audrun" directly within the AudRecog module, but we had forgotten that AudRecog processes only one character at a time. Although we did use "audrun" as a flag within AudRecog, we had to let AudInput do the main settings of the "audrun" flag during external auditory input.
Eventually we achieved a situation in which the AI began to recognize "WOMAN" properly during external input, but not during the internal reentry of an immediate thought using the "WOMAN" concept. Obviously the problem was that external input and internal reentry are separate pathways. We had to put some "audrun" code into the SpeechAct module calling AudInput for reentry in order completely to achieve the AudRecog bugfix.
Then immediately we had to upload our albeit messy code to the Net, because suddenly MindForth had eliminated a major, showstopper bug that had always lain hidden and intractable within the AI Mind. We did not have time to record these details of the implementation of the "audrun" solution. Two days later we uploaded a massive clean-up of the messy code, after the 8may10A.F MindForth version had served for two days as an archival record of the major bugfix.
Just now we ran the 10may10A.F clean-up code and we determined that MindForth no longer mistakenly recognizes "transparency" as the word "ANY". Our bugfix has solved some old problems, and we must hope that it has not introduced new problems.


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Back in 2011, you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing one of several Bruno Mars' hits, but for the past few months, he's been locked inside a studio perfecting his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, he's kept a pretty low profile.
That's about to change.
Mars world premiered the lead single, "Locked Out Of Heaven," on Monday and this morning, he took out some time to chat with Carson Daly on AMP 97.1/Los Angeles.
"You know as far as the first album, it was a little rushed because of the success of 'Nothin' On You' and 'Billionaire,'" Mars said. "The label felt like we had to capitalize, which they're absolutely right. But this album I went into the studio and said, 'I'm going to do whatever I want.' And every day whatever I feel that morning is what we're going to try and capture. With this album, I felt…it's awesome, Carson!"
Bruno's used to producing and co-writing smash hits for other artists. He's had his hand in tracks for Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, and Flo Rida, but Unorthodox Jukebox is far from a solo affair. He's lined up a ton of big-name producers including Mark Ronson, Diplo, and The Smeezingtons.
"I've been fans of every producer that's on this album. These are the guys that I really, really wanted to work with. Even though I produce as well…I have my thing, you know what I mean? But then you bring in a different character in to change some elements and it brings this whole new sound. It might inspire you to like something else or try something else."
And even though the 26-year-old is experimenting with different sounds and lyrical content, Mars isn't straying from his signature sound.
"I love big pop songs, you know what I mean? I'm not trying to be too cool for school and make some self-indulgent record. I'm being me definitely on this record."
Well what yall think? is it jammin or is it jammin?
— Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) October 2, 2012
One of the songs on the album getting a lot of buzz is called "Gorilla" and according to Mars, it sounds like a hit.
"'Gorilla' was the first song we wrote for this album and it definitely sets a tone. It's my personal favorite and I think it's going to blow people's faces off!"
And if here weren't busy enough already, it was recently announced that Mars will be performing and guest hosting Saturday Night Live on October 20. Can the crooner add comedian to his long list of talents? He's noncommittal, teasingly saying, "We'll see! We'll see what happens."
Unorthodox Jukeboxgoes on sale December 11.
-Sarah Carroll, 97.1 AMP Radio/Los Angeles
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"Six! Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!" I pushed off the ground one final time, wiped the sweat off my brow, took a deep breath and sprinted across the field. After reaching my destination I picked up my weapon, focused on my target, let half a breath out and slowly squeezed the trigger. Thwack!
No, this isn't a story from bootcamp. Rather it's a self induced torture I like to put myself through to prepare myself for the moment when a Booner walks in front of me someday. As we all know, training as a bowhunter is not something that should start the weekend before hunting season. Rather , you'll find that the most successful bowhunters are the ones that train physically and practice with their archery equipment all year round. In an effort to become one of these "most successful bowhunters", I've tried a great number of different training and practice methods over the years. And now after lots of trial and error, I believe I have come upon the perfect training regimen for bowhunters, by combining archery practice and circuit training.
Circuit training is defined as a method of physical conditioning in which one moves from one exercise to another, usually in a series of different stations or pieces of equipment. The purpose of circuit training is to work different parts of the body, continuously keeping your heart rate high, while alternating between different types of workouts. This type of workout is perfect for training as a bowhunter, because it allows you to work out in ways that uniquely will help you become better prepared to release an arrow at a mature buck this fall and simultaneously practice under conditions that simulate that exact situation! So while this might be hard to imagine now, let me walk you through my circuit training regimen and explain how this might just be the perfect workout for a bowhunter.
My Bowhunter's Circuit Training Workout has three simple steps, and once you finish one, you immediately move on to the next. Continue this cycle for as many repetitions as you can handle. I would recommend running through this circuit for 30-60 minutes, depending on what kind of shape you are in. Remember, this shouldn't be easy. Push yourself and in the end, it will make you a better bowhunter and a stronger, healthier person to boot!
Bowhunter's Circuit Training Workout Steps
1. Upper Body: The first step in the Bowhunter's Circuit is an upper body exercise. I like to do push-ups for this, as it's easy to do outside and it really works a lot of your upper body muscles. I would recommend doing 10-20 push-ups each cycle. I know 10-20 push-ups may not seem like a lot to many of you, but after going through the circuit 15 times or more, it can become really tough. If you can't do 10-20, no problem. Do as many pushups as you can muster in about a minute's time and then move on. The upper body exercise is important because it strengthens the muscles that are used to draw back and hold your bow. Consistently working these muscles will inevitably improve your aim, stability and longevity at full draw. Additionally, by going though this step during the circuit, it will cause your arm some fatigue. This will help simulate one aspect of buck fever, when you get to shooting in Step Three! Immediately upon completion, move on to the next station.
2. Cardio: Step Two is the cardio workout and this is a key component to the circuit because it strengthens your heart and lungs, while also helping you simulate the high stress of buck fever when you get to the last step. As I go through my circuits, I like to rotate in several different cardio exercises to keep things interesting. I typically will either jump rope, do jumping jacks or run in place for 60 seconds. Push it hard for those 60 seconds to get the most out of this step. By getting in a good amount of cardio, you'll be building a stronger heart and lungs, which when it comes to hunting situations, you definitely want. Cardio will build your physical endurance and control. Whether it be hiking in to your stand a mile back in the swamp, or controlling your breathing before shooting, cardio will help you. Once you're done, run to your bow, nock an arrow and get ready for Step Three.
3. Shooting: Now comes the moment of truth. Step Three is the culmination of the circuit, when you need to calm down, control your breathing, focus and shoot. At this point you've worked your upper body, making it harder to draw back and hold your bow steady. Additionally you've jumped or ran around, so your heart is beating and you're sucking air. Does this sound like anything you've encountered before? You got it, buck fever. Which is exactly what we want. Step Three is all about practicing under buck fever like conditions, collecting yourself and making good shots. Get a handle on yourself, focus and send three arrows into the bullseye. You've now finished your first cycle. Now run down to the target, collect your arrows and go back to Step One.
Keep repeating this cycle for 30-60 minutes, switching up cardio or upper body exercises if you like. Remember, the key to circuit training is that you keep moving continuously. Don't give up. Each step will get harder the longer you continue, but without a doubt this will build your physical and mental strength. When you get to the 30 minute mark your arms will be shaking, your heart will be pounding and those shots will be much harder to nail. But it's these challenging conditions that will best prepare you for the moment of truth come this fall.
If you want a workout that makes you both a healthier person and a better bowhunter, give the Bowhunting Circuit Training Workout a try. If you can run through this circuit 2-3 times a week, you will be in great shape this fall and have a terrific chance at closing the deal on the buck of your dreams!
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I love these so much! Veggiegirl always has these cool lists on her blog. This is almost as much fun as getting mail used to be when I was a kid! Getting mail isn't so fun now, b/c it is usually just bills. I do look forward to getting my magazines and cards, but that is about it.
Anywho, onto the list! It is a Sweet 100 list!!
First, here are the rules:
1.) Copy this list into your site, including the instructions!
2.) Bold all of the sweets you've eaten–or make them a different type color.
3.) Cross out any of them that you'd never ever eat.
4.) Consider anything that is not bold or crossed out your "To Do" List.
5.) Optional: Post a comment here linking to your results–or just post a comment letting us know how many you've tried, or what you're going to try next!
And now, here is…
**Gluten-Free Is Life's Sweet 100 List**
1. Red Velvet Cake
2. Princess Torte
3. Whoopie Pie
4. Apple Pie either topped or baked with sharp cheddar
5. Beignet
6. Baklava
7. Black and white cookie
8. Seven Layer Bar
9. Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies) – I have eaten Hostess Fruit Pies and miss them dearly since having to go GF. I really need to create these soon.
10. Kringle ~ YUM!! Love the raspberry filled kind. Again, need to make a GF one.
11. Just-fried (still hot) doughnut ~can you say Krispy Kreme???
12. Scone with clotted cream
13. Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy
14. Halvah – also known as the "Turkish Delight."
15. Macaroons
16. Banana pudding with nilla wafers – YUM
17. Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls") ~ never heard of it
18. Dixie Cup –
19. Rice Krispie treats – Yes, yes, yes!
20. Alfajores –
21. Blondies –
22. Croquembouche
23. Girl Scout cookies – Love Thin Mints & Samoas.
24. Moon cake
25. Candy Apple –
26. Baked Alaska
27. Brooklyn Egg Cream
28. Nanaimo bar
29. Baba au rhum
30. King Cake –
31. Sachertorte –
32. Pavlova
33. Tres Leches Cake –
34. Trifle
35. Shoofly Pie
36. Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime) –
37. Panna Cotta
38. New York Cheesecake ~ my fav
39. Napoleon / mille-fueille –
40. Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake ~ I make these GF at Christmas time….I can't wait!
41. Anzac biscuits
42. Pizzelle –
43. Kolache – love them with apricot filling & blueberry filling
44. Buckeyes – Ummmm..I live in Columbus, Ohio, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes. I think I might get shot if I hadn't tried these! BTW, love them!
45. Malasadas
46. Moon Pie
47. Dutch baby –
48. Boston Cream Pie
49. Homemade chocolate chip cookies – Yes. I have my fav recipe here on my blog for them.
50. Pralines –
51. Gooey butter cake
52. Rusks
53. Daifuku
54. Green tea cake or cookies
55. Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
56. Crème brûlée ~ never tried until I was GF. Then I was in heaven since the ingredients are naturally GF.
57. Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake) – Hmmm…I can happily say "No".
58. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting ~
59. Jelly Roll ~ LOVE my Grandma's jelly roll!
60. Pop Tarts – Heck ya! I am going to make a GF version for Jon soon.
61. Charlotte Russe
62. An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside-down cake or Tarte Tatin) –
63. Hummingbird Cake
64. Jell-O from a mold – Yes. My Grandma (Dad's Mom) loved her Jell-O molds. 🙂
65. Black forest cake
66. Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
67. Kulfi
68. Linzer torte
69. Churro – In Spanish Class we made these!
70. Stollen
71. Angel Food Cake ~ excellent with fresh strawberries
72. Mincemeat pie
73. Concha
74. Opera Cake
75. Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
76. Pain au chocolat – in France.
77. A piece of Gingerbread House –
78. Cassata –
79. Cannoli – .
80. Rainbow cookies
81. Religieuse
82. Petits fours
83. Chocolate Souffle ~ This is on my to-do list to make
84. Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
85. Rugelach
86. Hamenstashen –
87. Homemade marshmallows
88. Rigo Janci
89. Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc) – Snicker's Pie
90. Divinity
91. Coke or Cola cake
92. Gateau Basque
93. S'mores
94. Figgy Pudding
95. Bananas foster or other flaming dessert –
96. Joe Froggers
97. Sables
98. Millionaire's Shortbread
99. Animal crackers – yes, and most recently, Envirokidz GF Animal Crackers!
100. Basbousa
Anyone notice that I didn't cross anything out?? Now, that could be b/c I don't know what some of these things are or b/c I really do have a sweet tooth and I haven't met many desserts that I don't like. 😉
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For the longest time I was scrooged at Christmas time. I just could not get into the spirit. Do not get me wrong, I loved the faces of my children opening gifts. The smell of the yummy baked goodies. Wonderful food at every house we visited. Gifts waiting for each of us. Celebrating the birth of sweet Baby J. The sights, sounds, smells and more importantly the reason were not lost on me.
I think the slow decent into Scroggery happened over the years. No one thing in particular. There was no straw that broke the reindeer's back. It just kind of... became. I will say that the commercial influence has contributed. Christmas crap in stores before Halloween is over. Music blaring before the turkey has been carved. These things have hurt Christmas for me.
This year money is tight, as is usually the case in my house. Single mom. Two kids. One paycheck family. And a fackin partridge in a burning bush. Or something like that. It just never seems to add up. Especially during the holidays. This year both of my children have three...count them, THREE gifts from me/Santa. I was a bit bummed. Then I checked my mail and my other mother (mother of The Surgeon) sent three boxes. Filled with gifts of varying sizes and shapes all neatly wrapped in their Christmas joy. Those three boxes meant the world. As they do every year. And every year I forget they are coming until they get here. This is a new thing. You see, The Surgeon is Lil'K's Godmother. 'Tse Nan as she has been affectionately coined in our world. Most of my family is Cajun. MahRah is Godmother in the cajun language. And she is small. So 'Tse is added to that. Most GM's in our family are Nan, NanNan, MahRah, Nanny or 'Tse Nan. She is a surgeon, hence the nickname, and at this point has no children. She was beyond delighted that she was titled with Lil'K's Godmother. In our family, your Nan is very important. There is always a bond there between them and the child. So a couple of years ago we started heading up to the Big D (Dallas for those of you NOT from the greatest state in the nation) and spending time during Christmas with my 'other' family. The last two years we have not been able to make it, and Mother of The Surgeon has sent packages. I cannot begin to tell you how appreciated it is. This year it made all the difference.
The fact that my children are only getting three things was really not what bummed me, as they have enough. And we are all well aware that there are millions out there with much less. It is just that I cannot give my children everything that I want to. That is what bums me out. But I am still happy with this year. I am OK. This year, the first time in many years, The Scrooge did not hit me. I was actually happy to see the holiday season slide in. So happy in fact, that my tree went up way before it usually does. I have friends whose tree goes up the day after Thanksgiving. Any given year we are lucky if ours goes up a week before Christmas. This year, I was all kinds of on top of the tree business. I did notice though, that this will probably be the last year for this particular tree. It is leaning. And in general just old. All of our ornaments are either handmade throughout the school years by the kids, or wooden ornaments that the three of us have painted. I love my little ghetto Charlie Brown tree. It is very fitting. Next year we will have to upgrade I fear.
I have made a decision this year, even with the un-Scrooged heart and Christmas present miracle. Next year I believe we are going on a trip. I have great memories of Christmas as a child. But the center of those memories would be the togetherness of my family. Not the presents, tree or even the food. It was that we were all together. I just feel that maybe next year a trip might would serve us better. We rarely get out of the house, nonetheless the state. I think it would be a great change of pace. All together. For the holidays.
This holiday season will find us at over half a dozen houses. Logging more than 300 miles on my car. And tons of hand stamped cards. But it will be enjoyable. And happy. Full of family and loved ones. Great food. Badly sung Christmas songs. And most importantly, the Joy of being together.
I do hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. No matter how you celebrate, who or what you believe in and where you will be.


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CSU men's hoops to play 15 nationally televised games
The Colorado State men's basketball team will play as many as 15 nationally televised games this season, according to the Mountain West schedule released Wednesday.
Three other CSU games are scheduled for live streaming by the Mountain West Network or ESPN3.
CSU's first televised game will be Nov. 11 at Gonzaga, a 7 p.m. tipoff MST on ESPNU.
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Why We Hate Mark Jackson
April 14, 2003 / SI:
The NBA's alltime assist leader [John Stockton] may be getting a push out the door by his new backup this season and the No. 2 man on the career assist list, 38-year-old Mark Jackson. Three members of the Jazz organization now understand why Jackson has been traded seven times in his 16-year career: They say that over a period of weeks, he succeeded in turning several teammates against Stockton by repeatedly remarking that those players would be better off if Jackson were the Jazz's floor leader. Other players rallied around Stockton, who, because of his quiet nature, was vulnerable to the locker room politicking. The rift on the Jazz was mended, though not before Stockton's pride had been wounded. "There was no question it hurt John, because you could see him withdraw," says a high-ranking team official. "But he'll never talk about it, just as he won't talk about injuries, because then he feels like he's making excuses for himself."
Sloan reached a breaking point in mid-January, when he lost his temper over the divisiveness on his team and stormed out of the gym during practice. He was threatening to retire then and there, only to be dissuaded at an emergency meeting called by team owner Larry Miller, president Dennis Haslam, general manager Kevin O'Connor and Sloan's wife, Bobbye. "That had the real potential of Jerry saying, 'To heck with it,' and walking away," says Miller, who believes that Sloan's seven-game suspension for shoving referee Courtney Kirkland on Jan. 28 was the result of his built-up frustrations.
Update, June 28, 2012: The day a story broke on Mark Jackass being the target of an extortion plot by a stripper with whom he cheated on his wife of 22 years. What was this stripper holding over his head? Nude pictures and pictures of his genitalia that he had sent her.
I actually don't like that the media is calling this an "extortion" case, as anyone subjected to viewing such pictures (which Jackass obviously and delusionally thought were attractive and sexy) deserves significant compensatory and punitive damages.
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Wow! Just wow…
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Just knew about this story now. Wow, John Stockton is a real class act for choosing "not to talk about" the issue.
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Hey new to your site…in fact 1st article i read was this one….Being a Mark Jackson/D.Fish Hater for life myself the title made me curious….The story I already knew but what i didn't know and learned today is that your one hilarious woman…Very witty!!! Think ill have to add your site to my favorites list from now on….Thanks for the great morning laugh…Awesome


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Southie Boy….
This new documentary directed by Padriac Farma looks good! I have been waiting for something like this to come along.
Here's a description from his website :
In September of 1974 the doors of South Boston High School opened to the roaring crowd of protestors and media coverage over Federal Judge Arthur Garrity's decision that Boston had "knowingly carried out a systematic program of segregation."
Images of Southie residents throwing rocks at school buses containing black students, and racially charged chants and protest signs gave the community a reputation as one of the most violent and racist neighborhoods in Boston. Reeling from the turmoil of Boston's Forced Busing Crisis, Southie became even more isolated, allowing for the surge of drugs and crime in the 1980's, teen suicides in the 1990's, and the start of the neighborhood's gentrification at the beginning of the 21st Century.
As Boston's Desegregation Era approaches its 40th anniversary, Padriac Farma, a lifelong South Boston resident, details the decline of the neighborhood through three generations of his family. By sharing their experiences of attending South Boston High School, political and religious abandonment, and receiving a bevy of negative media attention, Farma's family tells a story that is often overlooked, and rarely captured.
By highlighting the dichotomy of this community, Southie Boy takes a step back from the traditional narrative of Boston's Busing Era, and asks, "What happens when everything isn't black and white?"
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December 2, 2010
Chairman Carper, Ranking Member McCain, and Members of the Subcommittee.
I am pleased to be here today on behalf of Director John Berry of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to discuss "Finding Solutions to the Challenges Facing the U.S. Postal Service," and provide comments on S. 3831, the POST Act of 2010, as introduced by Chairman Carper. OPM commends the Subcommittee for its efforts to provide for the financial viability of the United States Postal Service, and we share the Subcommittee's commitment to help the Postal Service stay viable, while maintaining our fiduciary responsibility to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Trust Fund.
As you know, S. 3831 would readdress the issue of how responsibility for the retirement costs of pre-1971 Postal employment should be apportioned. In particular, the underlying question is whether the Treasury or the Postal Service should be responsible for the effects of Postal pay increases on the value of that service in computing annuities under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Given the extensive prior coverage of this issue, I will limit myself today to a brief outline of relevant history.
In 1973, the Congress enacted P.L. 93-349 which established the policy, then supported by the Postal Service, that it would accept responsibility for the effects of pay increases on annuities. No further consideration was given to the issue until 2003, when the Postal Service first suggested that OPM transfer responsibility for the effects of Postal pay increases to the Treasury. After careful consideration by OPM and its Board of Actuaries, OPM determined that the original apportionment method complied with the law. The issue was not raised again until January of this year when the Postal Inspector General issued a report raising the apportionment issue and asserting a $75 billion overpayment.
In June of this year, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) transmitted to OPM a Segal Company (Segal) study commissioned by the PRC on the apportionment methodology. The Segal report only addressed one aspect of the complicated funding arrangement and did not discuss the historical context of the issue. Segal acknowledges this by stating that its "recommendation is, in essence, a 2010 fresh look, and does not attempt to deal with the history accumulated over forty years since the PRA [Postal Reform Act] was enacted." The Segal proposed methodology was a slight variation on the Postal IG's proposal, and suggested a $50-55 billion overfunding.
At that time, the PRC also suggested that P.L. 109-435, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), gave OPM authority to reapportion responsibility for pre-1971 service as part of the redetermination process. Enacted in 2006, the primary purpose of the PAEA was for the Treasury to take responsibility for the cost of military service credit in the computation of Postal CSRS annuities, leading to a savings of $28 billion for the Postal Service. The law further provided for a review process, initiated at the request of the PRC, for OPM to reconsider "any determination or redetermination made by the Office of Personnel Management under this section." The PRC asserted that this reconsideration authority gave OPM authority to make the reallocation.
We believe the assertion that OPM has the discretion to make basic changes in the allocation method between the Postal Service and the Treasury goes beyond the intent of and the authority provided to OPM in PAEA. The reconsideration process provided for in section 802(c) of the PAEA allows for appeal and review of OPM's specific calculations of the annual supplemental liability determination, according to the established Fund allocation methodology. For example, section 802(c) allows for reconsideration of the population or accounting data underlying the annual liability determination, but not of the allocation methodology. Thus, we believe that the question of whether there should be a change in the apportionment responsibility is one that is appropriate for consideration by the Congress.
Our comments on S. 3831 are limited to section 2, which would transfer responsibility to the Treasury for the effects of Postal pay increases on the value of pre-1971 Postal employment in computing annuities under CSRS, a change estimated to be $50-55 billion. In addition, it would permit the resulting Postal CSRS surplus to be used at the discretion of the Postal Board of Governors to satisfy the $5.5 to 5.8 billion annual payments to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (PSRHBP) required under 5 U.S.C. 8909a(d)(3)(A) for fiscal years 2010-2016.
OPM's principal roles in this matter are those of a program administrator and trust fund fiduciary. As such, our principal concerns must be for the efficient operation and reliable funding of the retirement and insurance programs. As a trust fund fiduciary, our principal relevant concern is with the adequate funding of the program and not with the source of that funding. Since S. 3831 will not change funding levels for CSRS, but only the source of those funds, OPM takes no position at this time as to the substance of section 2.
However, we do have concerns regarding certain technical aspects of that section. The amendment to 5 U.S.C. 8348(h)(2)(B) would require that the annual computation of the Postal surplus or liability be completed by March 31 following the end of each fiscal year. Because not all necessary data is available by that date, we suggest that it be changed to June 30, which will still give the Postal Board of Governors three months for consideration prior to the funds transfer date. There are also internal inconsistencies between the dates specified for calculations and the dates for payments to the PSRHBP. Finally, there are technical problems with the wording of the new 5 U.S.C. 8348(h)(2)(C)(4) in that the required methodology is not supported by available data. We would be pleased to provide the Subcommittee with more detailed explanations and suggested technical revisions that would retain the substantive intent of these provisions.
I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today and I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have. We look forward to assisting the Subcommittee in its efforts to assist the Postal Service in continuing its third century of contributions to the nation.
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The government agency says the stores, both owned by Leon's Furniture Ltd., have tacked on big fees for customers using a deferred-payment option and "buried details of the additional up-front fees in fine print, which led to the final price of a product being higher than the advertised price for consumers who used a deferred payment option."


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The setup operation is a critical step in any cutting or forming operation. On one hand, the workpiece must be set up accurately to achieve the correct dimensions, but on the other hand, it needs to be efficient to maximize productivity. Setup errors are one of the main causes of producing out-of-tolerance parts. At the same time, the economic impact of the setup operation is significant because it involves both direct labor and machine time. This article describes a recently developed system that uses optical imaging and machine vision techniques to update the program data by locating known, visible features within captured images.
Setup Woes
There are three main methods of setting up the workpiece to account for the uncertainty in positioning with respect to the data used for the cutting or forming operation. Using feeler gages between the workpiece and cutting or forming tool to sense the gap is the most economical, and perhaps the most widely used, technique. Once the gap is measured, the CNC program can be adjusted to account for the positioning uncertainty of the workpiece. Obviously, this is a time-consuming and crude technique that is usually limited to correcting the offset in only one direction.
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The second most popular technique is to use fixtures to position the workpiece at a known and repeatable position. The main drawback of this method is the cost of designing and deploying special-purpose fixtures. For this reason, this method is usually limited to high-volume manufacturing.
A third method involves using mechanical touch probes to find the position of the workpiece. Conceptually, the use of mechanical probes sounds reasonable, but in practice, their use is limited for a variety of reasons. One is the absence of useable contact points or surfaces related to the section that needs to be cut. Another obstacle is having a machine that does not have the necessary hardware to interface with an off-the-shelf touch probe.
Machine Vision Techniques As A Setup Option
An alternative to the above-mentioned methods is to use machine vision techniques to optically image the workpiece. These techniques can also be employed to obtain the location of visible features such as holes, edges or corners to compute the exact location (and orientation) of the workpiece. In the past, using machine vision techniques to set up the workpiece was regarded as impractical. This was mainly because of the lack of suitable hardware and reliable, general-purpose pattern matching techniques to locate the features of interest. For example, up until a few years ago, solid-state cameras were either too expensive or too bulky to be packaged into a suitable scheme to deal with the harsh machining environment.
However, video cameras have shrunk in size as a result of advancements in digital imaging technology. A complete CCTV camera can now be fabricated using just one chip no larger than a fingernail. Computing power and computational techniques have advanced to such an extent that smart imaging sensors can be easily set up to perform complex detection, inspection or measurements.
The new system from OptoVue (Meridianville, Alabama) incorporates a CCD imager with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels to view an area of 6.4 mm by 4.8 mm, thus resulting in an imaging resolution of 10 microns. The illumination source and optical element are both custom-designed and intenerated into a package that fits into a standard toolholder. This means that the user can simply obtain a standard toolholder and fit the imaging head into the toolholder as if it were just a cutting or forming tool.
The signal from the imaging device can be sent to any video input device, such as a frame grabber, VCR or display monitor. The video signal is connected to a frame grabber that is interfaced with a standard personal computer to acquire, process and display the images. This allows users to simply mount the workpiece on the machine's table at any position and orientation. The imaging system can then be used to find the exact position of the workpiece to rapidly reconfigure the CNC program.
Testing The System's Effectiveness
Two different experiments were carried out to assess the effectiveness of the imaging system in a shopfloor environment. With the first experiment, the main objective was to find the type of problems that could be addressed by acquiring and displaying the image of the workpiece. Upon consultation with expert machinists, it was determined that if the system could grab an image of the workpiece and superimpose a crosshair at the location that corresponds to the center of the tool (spindle), then a large number of problems encountered on the shop floor on a day-to-day basis could be addressed.
A calibration procedure was devised to find the geometrical relationship between the center of the tool (spindle) with the optical axis of the imaging system. This involved fabricating a small hole (in this case, 1 mm in diameter) at a suitable location within the work envelope using a tool that had little or no wobble. The depth of the hole is not critical. Hence, the selected tool can be mounted in the toolholder so that the wobble is minimized or, ideally, completely eliminated.
Upon fabricating this hole, the toolholder was removed (without moving the spindle or the table) and the imaging system, which had already been mounted into another toolholder, was mounted on the spindle. The image of the fabricated hole was then taken by the imaging system, and the offset between the center of the hole and optical axis of the system was measured. A graphical marker, such as crosshair, was then superimposed at the same location as the center of the fabricated hole. In other words, the location of the crosshair indicated the exact location of the spindle.
With the imaging system calibrated, the machinists were asked to evaluate the usefulness of the system. They came up with a number of cases in which this concept could be beneficial. For example, one machinist used the system as an alignment tool for rapidly setting up the workpiece. Another used the system to turn his vertical milling machine into a simple coordinate measuring machine (CMM) by aligning known visible features with the crosshair and recording the table position (which is the same as the spindle position) to compute the required dimensions. Another machinist had to drill small holes at a certain angle with respect to another feature for fabricating an advanced rocket engine. This machinist used the imaging system to assist him with the cutting operation.
With the second experiment, the main objective was to study the requirements for achieving fully automatic setup of the machine irrespective of the workpiece position and orientation. Two key issues were investigated. The first was to identify what physical features are needed to perform automatic setup. The second was to decide if the CNC program should be reconfigured to account for the positioning uncertainty of the workpiece, or if the workpiece should be translated and rotated to align its axes with those of the machine.
The first issue was relatively easy to address. The exact position and orientation of the workpiece could be computed from the location of two (or more) known points, a point and a line, or two lines. The points can be corners, center of holes/arcs and so on. Similarly, the lines can be the edges of the workpiece. Once the amount of translation and rotation of the workpiece are known, a simple linear transformation can be applied to either correct the workpiece location or reconfigure the CNC program.
To address the second issue, a sample of typical CAD drawings was studied. The study concluded that the choice between correcting the part position and orientation versus reconfiguring the CNC program was either application-dependant, or it did not matter at all. The critical factor was whether the cutting or forming operations involved coordinated movements of several axes, such as following the contour of an arch. If they did, then there was no difference between translating/rotating the workpiece versus reconfiguring the CNC program through a linear transformation to follow a different path.
There was no significant advantage in either method when the operation involved moving to adjust a point and then cutting or forming, such as when drilling or boring holes. On the other hand, when coordinated movement was not required and the movement of the tool was in one direction only, moving the work had an advantage because one can rely on the mechanical rigidity and accuracy of the axis to guide the tool along a straight path as opposed to performing coordinated multi-axis moves to achieve a straight line path.
Other Benefits
In addition to the benefits resulting from the rapid setup of the workpiece, the optical imaging system can also improve productivity and quality by enhancing machine use. For shops that deploy a limited number of machines, there is usually little or no choice as to which machine is used for which job or part of a job. However, with larger organizations that have a diverse selection of machines, one can select a particular machine for a set of operations to achieve the optimum machine use.
For example, a complex job may require large but not accurate cuts as well as small and accurate ones. In this case, the operator can distribute the load across several machines so that the large cuts are performed by a heavy-duty machine that is fast, but not necessarily accurate, while using a lighter and more accurate machine for the more delicate and high-accuracy cuts.
Of course, this concept is not new, but its use has been limited because the setup process, a time-consuming operation, must be duplicated on every machine, and the buildup of tolerances from multiple setup operations may result in unacceptable overall quality. The concept has been used within the electronics industry for many years; each machine along the manufacturing line performs a section of the complete assembly operation. To achieve the same methodology in the machining industry, material registration by virtue of fiducials, which are commonly used in the electronics industry, needs to be carried over to the machining industry. In the electronics industry, a set of fiducials (at least two) is printed on each printed circuit board (PCB). At each machine along the manufacturing line, the locations of the fiducials are obtained through machine vision techniques, and the exact location of the PCB is computed.
A similar process can be applied to the machining industry. Distinct visual features, such as round shallow holes, are cut into the workpiece at the first station that performs the initial cutting or forming. Subsequent machines can then be equipped with the optical imaging system to find the location of the fiducials and compute the exact location of the workpiece. This information can then be used to either correct the position of the part or update the CNC program, whichever is applicable.
In addition to easy and efficient setup, the optical system can help achieve in-process quality or process control. The location of visible features can be obtained by moving the imaging head over the required location and capturing an image of the workpiece. The exact location of visible features can be computed from the camera location (in this case, the spindle or the table location) and the image location of the visible features. Because the images are taken at high magnification, the measurement resolution is significantly fine to facilitate accurate measurements.
Traditionally, there has been a resistance to using a cutting or forming machine as a CMM. Although off-line dimensional gaging will always have a place within the machining industry, this traditional resistance is gradually giving way to modern manufacturing practices. The availability of the optical imaging system described here, as well as advancements in machine vision software and computing technology, offer justifications for the machining industry to incorporate some form of optical in-process quality control to improve yield and productivity.


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The calls and questions have been coming at me since the news broke last night, so let me answer here: I don't know the personal particulars of why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have separated. And I don't particularly care to know the personal details. They are two very good people with a great family, and I hope they figure things out in a way that makes them as happy as they can be.
But since this is a blog about how California is governed, I can't quite get away with ignorning the subject entirely. It is political news, after all, that the two people most responsible for the political course of the state over the past seven years -- and for policymaking (at least policymaking not already determined by voters) -- have separated.
The Schwarzenegger-Shriver union is more than a marriage. It is also a political and professional partnership between two people who were deeply involved in communicating with the public about everything from how to manage an ailing, elderly parent (the subject of one of Shriver's many books) to the peril of California's unfunded pension obligations. In discussing all sorts of problems, Schwarzenegger and Shriver held up their own marriage as a public symbol of even the most difficult problems could be resolved with respect and negotiations.
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Season Finale is Highest Rated Episode of the Season; Out-Delivers All Broadcast Networks Among Men for Second Consecutive Week
The second hour of the two-part season finale of AMERICAN CHOPPER: SENIOR VS JUNIOR resulted in stellar ratings for Discovery Channel on Monday, June 6. The telecast, Cadillac Build-off , earned a 2.34 HH / 1.87 P25-54 AA%, delivering 3.43 million viewers P2+, making it the #3 primetime program in all of television (excluding sports) among Men 18-49 ratings and delivery. It was also the highest rated episode among Persons 2+ since the series returned for a new season on April 25, 2011.
The episode out-delivered all broadcast programs for Monday 6/6/11 among Men 25-54 and Men 18-49 prime including:
– ABC's The Bachelorette
– FOX's House
– FOX's Masterchef
– CBS's How I Met Your Mother
– CBS's Two and a Half Men
– CBS's Hawaii Five-0
– NBC's Minute To Win It
– NBC's Law & Order: LA
Additionally, the 10PM ET/PT special telecast of SWAMP BROTHERS, Three-legged Gator Race, earned a .96 HH/ .71 P25-54 AA%, delivering 1.31 million viewers P2+.
An all-new episode of SWAMP BROTHERS airs this Friday, June 10 at its regular 10PM ET/PT timeslot. For more information on either series please visit press.discovery.com.
Source: NHI. Live+SD AA(000).


text: Indiana dispatched Georgetown last night 82-72, but not without a bit of trouble. The Hoosiers were unable to put away the Hoyas in regulation, and needed the extra five minutes to keep their undefeated season going. Even in the best moments of Georgetown's night, though, it seems there was one fan who had some rage to unleash.


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I recently moved to my first home (with a modest yard). The previous owners left behind about 20 cinder blocks. I'd like to build something constructive with them in lieu of discarding them. Any suggestions?
I was thinking about a BBQ smoker. Is that possible with cinder blocks?
Any ideas or useful links will be much appreciated.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike will answer all your lawn and garden questions live and in person from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday Feb. 9, at the Community Home Show at the Universities at Shady Grove. Information and directions.
Mike McGrath, wtop.com
Men: Are you prepared to present proper posies? Yellow roses might make for a blue evening
Thursday is Valentine's Day. And if you didn't already know that, this is probably the most helpful garden tip you'll get from me this season.
Now, if you're thinking about a gift of roses, use caution in choosing the color. In the Victorian secret language known as the Floral Code — in which every flower has a special meaning — the deep red velvety roses so popular at this time of year actually mean "bashful shame" (which may well be true, but you probably don't want to advertise it).
Peach-colored roses may be even worse, they mean "sympathy". And yellow roses mean "let's just be friends." Yikes! Only a rose in a normal shade of red stands for the passionate love you — hopefully — want to convey.
Tulips are the more romantic choice
Valentine's Day is a holiday strongly linked with roses. But roses are not the flower that was most often used to convey love in Victorian Floral Code, where flowers speak louder than words.
Instead, tulips are a lover's true clandestine clue. Specifically, pink tulips are a straightforward declaration of love, yellow tulips signify that you are hopelessly in love and red tulips stand for perfect love.
And if you give potted tulips instead of cut flowers, you can replant the bulbs this fall for a chance at an eternal declaration of love.
The passionate orchid that's also easy care
When it comes to a gift of romantic flowers, I always felt that orchids had roses beat hands-down in the passion department. Some orchids are so over the top they should come with an R rating.
And not all orchids are finicky house plants. In fact, the Phalenopsis (or 'moth orchid') is very easy care. And the plants can stay in bloom for a ridiculously long time, at least three months, maybe longer, if you choose your specific specimen wisely.
Pick a plant with just a few open flowers and lots of unopened buds on the lower part of the stem, and new flowers should continue to open until mid-summer. On the other hand, take a pass on orchids that have few to no buds left on the stem, those posies are long past their prime.
Yo! What's more romantic than Philly in March?
Looking for something really "Brilliant" to give your sweetie for Valentine's Day? How about a trip to the famed Philadelphia International Flower Show, whose theme this year is "brilliant" — as in the exclamation used to describe a way-over-the- top style of British gardening.
The largest, grandest and longest-running in the world, the Philly Flower show runs March 2 to March 10 and offers 10 acres of major exhibits that redefine breathtaking, and it's an easy Amtrak ride from D.C. And if you join the presenting organization, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, you'll get tickets to the show at less than list price if you buy a three- or four person membership, plus use of the exclusive members lounge at the show (free coffee, tea and nice place to sit down for a bit) and discounts at selected vendors in the marketplace area.
For Show details, visit www.theflowershow.com. And here's a direct link to the membership page. Check out the 'household' memberships — the ones for three and four people are the really super deals.
Oh, and if you want to double up on your fun, I'll give my annual lecture at the show at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6. The lectures are free with Flower Show admission.
Turn cut roses into live landscape plants
Giving cut roses this Valentine's Day? Consider turning some of those expensive bouquet blooms into living shrubs in your landscape. Yes, you can. Roses are one of the easiest plants to propagate. Now to do this, you must remove the actual flowers promptly. But they'll still put on a show. Here's how:
- After you present the un-altered bouquet on Thursday, pull out a pair of pruners and quickly cut the flowers off, leaving a good couple inches of stem attached to each bloom.
- Immediately position these now-short stem specimens in a cut glass bowl filled with marbles and water.
- Take the de-flowered stems, cut 2 inches off the bottom of each one and remove all the leaves from the bottom half of each cane.
- Gently insert the stripped bottoms of the canes into a nice big pot with good drainage holes that you've filled with soil-free mix (available at any good garden center).
- Make sure one or two little 'buds' are below the soil line on each cane, and make sure that the soil mix is totally saturated with clean water.
- Drape a clear plastic bag over top and position the whole shebang where it gets bright, but indirect light.
- Lift the cover and mist the plants every morning. Keep the mix damp but not sopping wet.
- When new growth appears on the canes, remove the plastic, but keep misting daily.
- Plant each cane individually outside (in areas that get good morning sun and airflow) between April 15 and the end of June.
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I have read rather alarming comments from many of you lately. It seems from some of your reports that some neurologists are not offering patients platform drugs as an option if the MS has slipped into secondary-progressive. This may be time to have a serious heart-to-heart with the doc.
Let's back up just a tick, shall we.
It was in our lifetime that a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis was just that: MS. Now, via medical advances (like the MRI and others), the disease is more quantifiable. It is important to know that the reason we now have four distinct sub-sets of MS (Yes four; many are unaware of progressive-relapsing MS) are due to medical and clinical trials.
In order to see if drugs (and other therapies) work on patients, a more refined diagnosis than simply MS had to be established. Once the processes of defining the different experiences of MS patients were finished, the four "courses" of MS (relapsing-remitting, primary-progressive, and secondary-progressive & progressive-relapsing) were established.
I'm sure you all know that about 85 percent of people diagnosed with MS have a relapsing-remitting (RRMS) course.
Scientifically (and financially), it made the most sense at the time to focus on the disease the most people experience. When it came to drug trials the costs could easily reach eight figures, so naturally RRMS was the one to get the drug trials.
There is, however, very good evidence that all of the drugs have some efficacy at slowing the progression of MS. The thing is, the tens of millions of dollars it would cost to "prove" this are not worth the (relatively) few who would be prescribed the drug.
I mean, think of the following example. For simplicity sake, I'll use the hypothetical number of 400, 000 Americans who have MS. Using current statistics, 340,000 of them would have been diagnosed with RRMS while only 40,000 have PPMS. Divide that number by the number of drugs on the market today and about 8000 would be taking any one MS drug. Unfortunately, that is not very profitable for shareholders.
Again, this does not mean that the drugs do not work; it means that they have not been approved by the FDA for prescription use for progressive MS.
The big wrinkle in this whole thing is the insurance companies. Being as the drugs are so expensive, and the use of them would be "off-label" (meaning they may work, but have not been approved), they may choose not to pay for our treatment.
So please do have that conversation with your doctor. Understand why she/he may not want you to take a platform drug for your progressive MS. Also, if you are on a drug and find your disease slipping, is it really all that important to your insurance carrier to know that you may be progressive? Really now, do they "care" about you and your disease or just the cost of you and your MS?
One caveat I'd like to mention as to last week's program on progression. I quoted statistics from natural history studies that suggest 50 percent of all RRMS will become SPMS within 10 years of diagnosis and 85 percent will progress within 25 years. Remember, those natural history studies were conducted before MS disease modifying drugs were on the market. It will take several years to know if those rates hold true today.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.


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Each year, thousands of citizens report their bird sightings to the Christmas Bird Count, the longest-running citizen science project in the world. This year researchers are hoping that citizens will take this bird sighting zeal from land to sea.
The Christmas Bird Count at Sea aims to obtain information on pelagic birds, which spend their lives at sea. Because the birds are rarely researched, there is little way of telling how their habitats and lives are affected by natural disasters and environmental changes.
The Christmas Bird Count hopes that boaters in the Seven Seas Cruising Association, Ocean Cruising Club and Cruising Club of America will supply thousands of reports on the birds. The watch isn't limited to club members; all deep-water cruisers are welcome to report their sightings.
The first sea-sighting event is scheduled for December 2011.
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SALINE, Mich. (AP) — French auto parts maker Faurecia SA says it's acquiring an interior components plant in Michigan and creating a joint venture to make parts at a separate plant in Detroit.
Faurecia and Rush Group announced Thursday that they're creating Detroit Manufacturing Systems, a joint venture to build and automotive interior components in Detroit. The companies say the venture expects to employ about 500 people in Detroit within the next three years and will make parts at first for Ford Motor Co.
The Automotive Components Holdings LLC plant Faurecia is buying is in Saline. It's located 40 miles west of Detroit and makes parts for Ford vehicles.
Ford created ACH in 2005 when Ford took back 17 facilities from Visteon Corp. A tentative deal to sell the plant was announced in August.


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News Release 12-124
New Look and Feel for NSF.gov
NSF launches first phase in website redesign
July 9, 2012
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Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) rolled out a new design of its home page at NSF.gov that promises to be more attractive and engaging for visitors to the site.
"NSF's 'home page refresh' creates an Internet presence that is more streamlined and visually appealing while continuing to provide access to information about scientific research and education," said NSF Director Subra Suresh. "The 'refresh' should appeal to our science, engineering and education communities as well as the general public."
The updated home page features a number of changes that include new graphics, more "white space," fewer overall links and a larger area for highlighting stories important to the work NSF supports.
Sections labeled "Advancing the Sciences," "Funding & Supporting," and "Inspiring & Educating" provide new opportunities to show NSF's focus on science, showcase research and education activities, and encourage more exploration of the website. The "NSF Funding & Research Community" section of the home page consolidates information of particular interest to researchers and others who want to find out about potential funding. The home page also has more features that target key audiences, and more buttons that allow users to hide certain items--a particular benefit for frequent website visitors, who know what content they want to see most often.
The team that developed the refreshed page looked at trends in web design, evaluated sites used by peer organizations and used the current site to brainstorm approaches and ideas for updating the NSF home page. The group also considered input from NSF employees.
In addition, the developers emphasized presentation and messaging with an understanding that changes would lead to new content, features and organization in future iterations of the website.
While most of the initial round of changes focus on the home page, improvements to the primary navigation in the header and footer are carried over to all of the pages to give the entire site a uniform look. Future changes will follow a pattern of being small in scope, high in impact and resource-efficient.
Planning already is underway to make additional changes during the next the next 18-24 months.
NSF.gov receives nearly 1.2 million visitors each month.
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson1 comments Posted by HCPS at Friday, July 29, 2011
Braintree, July 29, 1791
Dear Sir,—
Yesterday, at Boston, I received your friendly letter of July 17th with great pleasure. I give full credit to your relation of the manner in which your note was written and prefixed to the Philadelphia edition of Mr. Paine's pamphlet on the Rights of Man; but the misconduct of the person who committed this breach of your confidence, by making it public, whatever were his intentions, has sown the seeds of more evils than he can ever atone for. The pamphlet, with your name to so striking a recommendation of it, was not only industriously propagated in New York and Boston, but, that the recommendation might be known to every one, was reprinted with great care in the newspapers, and was generally considered as a direct and open personal attack upon me, by countenancing the false interpretation of my writings, as favoring the introduction of hereditary monarchy and aristocracy into this country. The question everywhere was, what heresies are intended by the secretary of State? The answer in the newspapers was, "The Vice-President's notions of a limited monarchy, an hereditary government of King and Lords, with only elective Commons." Emboldened by these murmurs, soon after appeared the paragraphs of an unprincipled libeller in the New Haven Gazette, carefully reprinted in the papers of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, holding up the Vice-President to the ridicule of the world for his meanness, and to their detestation for wishing to subjugate the people to a few nobles. These were soon followed by a formal speech of the lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, very solemnly holding up the idea of hereditary powers, and cautioning the public against them, as if they were at that moment in the most imminent danger of them. These things were all accompanied with the most marked neglect, both of the governor and lieutenant-governor of this State, towards me; and all together served as a hue and cry to all my enemies and rivals, to the old constitutional faction of Pennsylvania, in concert with the late insurgents of Massachusetts, both of whom consider my writings as the cause of their overthrow, to hunt me down like a hare, if they could. For this state of things Publicola, who, I suppose, thought that Mr. Paine's pamphlet was made use of as an instrument to destroy a man for whom he had a regard, whom he thought innocent, and, in the present moment, of some importance to the public, came forward. You declare very explicitly that you never did, by yourself or by any other, have a sentence of yours inserted in a newspaper without your name to it. And I with equal frankness declare that I never did, either by myself or by any other, have a sentence of mine inserted in any newspaper since I left Philadelphia. I neither wrote nor corrected Publicola. The writer, in the composition of his pieces, followed his own judgment, information, and discretion, without any assistance from me.
You observe, "that you and I differ in our ideas of the best form of government, is well known to us both." But, my dear Sir, you will give me leave to say that I do not know this. I know not what your idea is of the best form of government. You and I have never had a serious conversation together, that I can recollect, concerning the nature of government. The very transient hints that have ever passed between us have been jocular and superficial, without ever coming to an explanation. If you suppose that I have, or ever had, a design or desire of attempting to introduce a government of King, Lords, and Commons, or in other words, an hereditary executive, or an hereditary senate, either into the government of the United States or that of any individual State, you are wholly mistaken. There is not such a thought expressed or intimated in any public writing or private letter, and I may safely challenge all mankind to produce such a passage, and quote the chapter and verse. If you have ever put such a construction on any thing of mine, I beg you would mention it to me, and I will undertake to convince you that it has no such meaning.
Upon this occasion I will venture to say, that my unpolished writings, although they have been read by a sufficient number of persons to have assisted in crushing the insurrection of the Massachusetts, in the formation of the new constitutions of Pennsylvania, Georgia, and South Carolina, and in procuring the assent of all the States to the new national constitution, yet have not been read by great numbers. Of the few who have taken the pains to read them, some have misunderstood them, and others have wilfully misrepresented them, and these misunderstandings and misrepresentations have been made the pretence for overwhelming me with floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous abuse, unexampled in the history of this country.
It is thought by some, that Mr. Hancock's friends are preparing the way, by my destruction, for his election to the place of Vice-President, and that of Mr. Samuel Adams to be Governor of this commonwealth; and then the Stone House faction will be sure of all the loaves and fishes, in the national government and the State government, as they hope. The opposers of the present constitution of Pennsylvania, the promoters of Shays's rebellion and county resolves, and many of the detesters of the present national government, will undoubtedly assist them. Many people think, too, that no small share of a foreign influence, in revenge for certain intractable conduct at the treaty of peace, is and will be intermingled. The janissaries of this goodly combination, among whom are three or four who hesitate at no falsehood, have written all the impudence and impertinence which have appeared in the Boston papers upon this memorable occasion. I must own to you, that the daring traits of ambition and intrigue, and those unbridled rivalries, which have already appeared, are the most melancholy and alarming symptoms that I have ever seen in this country; and if they are to be encouraged to proceed in their course, the sooner I am relieved from the competition, the happier I shall be.
I thank you, Sir, very sincerely for writing to me upon this occasion. It was high time that you and I should come to an explanation with each other. The friendship that has subsisted for fifteen years without the smallest interruption, and, until this occasion without the slightest suspicion, ever has been and still is very dear to my heart. There is no office which I would not resign, rather than give a just occasion to one friend to forsake me. Your motives for writing to me I have not a doubt were the most pure and the most friendly; and I have no suspicion that you will not receive this explanation from me in the same friendly light.
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams1 comments Posted by HCPS at Sunday, July 17, 2011
Philadelphia, July 17, 1791
Dear Sir,—
I have a dozen times taken up my pen to write to you, and as often laid it down again, suspended between opposing considerations. I determine, however, to write, from a conviction that truth between candid minds can never do harm. The first of Paine's pamphlets on the Rights of Man, which came to hand here, belonged to Mr. Beckley. He lent it to Mr. Madison, who lent it to me; and, while I was reading it, Mr. Beckley called on me for it, and as I had not finished it, he desired me, as soon as I should have done so, to send it to Mr. Jonathan B. Smith, whose brother meant to reprint it. I finished reading it, and, as I had no acquaintance with Mr. Jonathan B. Smith, propriety required that I should explain to him why I, a stranger to him, sent him the pamphlet. I accordingly wrote a note of compliment, informing him that I did it at the desire of Mr. Beckley, and, to take off a little of the dryness of the note, I added that I was glad it was to be reprinted here, and that something was to be publicly said against the political heresies which had sprung up among us, &c. I thought so little of this note, that I did not even keep a copy of it; nor ever heard a tittle more of it, till, the week following, I was thunderstruck with seeing it come out at the head of the pamphlet. I hoped, however, it would not attract notice; but I found, on my return from a journey of a month, that a writer came forward, under the signature of Publicola, attacking not only the author and principles of the pamphlet, but myself as its sponsor, by name. Soon after came hosts of other writers, defending the pamphlet, and attacking you by name, as the writer of Publicola. Thus were our names thrown on the public stage, as public antagonists. That you and I differ in our ideas of the best form of government, is well known to us both; but we have differed as friends should do, respecting the purity of each other's motives, and confining our difference of opinion to private conversation; and I can declare with truth, in the presence of the Almighty, that nothing was further from my intention or expectation than to have had either my own or your name brought before the public on this occasion. The friendship and confidence which has so long existed between us, required this explanation from me, and I know you too well to fear any misconstruction of the motives of it. Some people who would wish me to be, or to be thought, guilty of improprieties, have suggested that I was Agricola, that I was Brutus, &c., &c. I never did in my life, either by myself or by any other, have a sentence of mine inserted in a newspaper, without putting my name to it; and I believe I never shall.
While the Empress is refusing peace under a mediation, unless Oczakow and its territory be ceded to her, she is offering peace on the perfect statu quo to the Porte, if they will conclude it without a mediation. France has struck a severe blow at our navigation by a difference of duty on tobacco carried in our and their ships, and by taking from foreign built ships the capability of naturalization. She has placed our whale oil on rather a better footing than ever, by consolidating the duties into a single one of six livres. They amounted before to some sous over that sum. I am told (I know not how truly) that England has prohibited our spermaceti oil altogether, and will prohibit our wheat till the price there is 52s. the quarter, which it almost never is. We expect hourly to hear the true event of General Scott's expedition. Reports give favorable hopes of it. Be so good as to present my respectful compliments to Mrs. Adams, and to accept assurances of the sentiments of sincere esteem and respect, with which I am, dear Sir,
Your friend and servant,
Thomas Jefferson.
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