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My view is the economy is not currently in a recession, and that economic growth will pickup in 2013, although there are downside risks from Europe and the potential for a policy mistake in the US (no agreement on the fiscal bluff). As I've noted before, I see two key reason for a pickup in the US: 1) I expect residential investment to increase next year (the key leading indicator for the economy), 2) I think the drag from state and local governments will subside.
This is really it.
In the past we spotlighted two main reasons to think the economy would be more robust next year.
One was the improvement in the household sector. The other was that public-sector employment growth was on the verge of going positive.
And then there is the headwind, a possible fiscal mistake.
There's this other meme going around that whereas before, the US was the "cleanest dirty shirt" in the global economy, now it's the country that's farthest behind policy-wise. China is stimulating. Europe has the ECB bond buying program, and the US, well... everyone's just waiting for it to get its act together again.


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Amon Ra recovery tool
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This tutorial has been successfully tested for the HTC Magic from Rogers (Canada).
1 - First you need to download Android SDK here. Also make sure you have fastboot installed on your computer, you can get it here. it is actually better to move the fastbook app under /tools in the SDK directory.
2 - extract the SDK .zip file in any directory you want on your computer.
3 - Enable USB debugging on the android device in settings->applications->development->"USB Debugging"
4 - Connect the USB cable that comes with the device to your computer (and device of course) and mount your connection ( There is a notification on the HTC )
5 - On your computer, go to the tools directory of the SDK and start a adb daemon by typing :
sudo ./adb
6 - Make sure your device is detected by typing in the tools directory :
./adb devices
7 - Download the Amon RA recovery image here (if your Magic is HTC branded (PVT 32A board)) or here (if your Magic is Google branded (PVT 32B board)).
8 - copy the file you just downloaded in the tools directory of the SDK.
9 - Boot your device in fastboot mode :
- Turn the device off
- Keep pressing the 'go back' key while turning it on (start pressing before turning it on)
At that point you should have a while screen on your devices with stuff written on it.
10 - boot the recovery image from your computer, that is type in the tools directory (make sure that fastboot is there) :
$ ./fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img OR $ ./fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1G.img
Your device should get busy and you ll get the same kind of screen as in here
11 - Wait a minute or 2, then do on your computer in the tools directory :
$ ./adb shell mount -a
Ignore the failed mounts...there should be about 2 error messages
12 - run the following commands (still in the tools directory) :
$ ./adb push recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img /system/recovery.img $ ./adb push recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img $ ./adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img
13 - Reboot
Now, if you boot your device while holding the HOME key (and not the 'back' key... I did the mistake). It should lead you to the green screen again (system recovery utility).
If the flashing doesn't work you might need to flash your SPL.
WARNING: The SPL is the Secondary Program Launcher which is the core of the device. If you screw that up, your device is boned. The following is NOT SAFE.
- 32A board : apply this update from your sd-card after fast booting with this recovery.
- 32B board : apply this update from your sd-card after fast booting with this recovery.
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Military program managers frustrated by having to wait six months to get a server provisioned might want to take a look at the Defense Information Systems Agency's new cloud-computing offering. The agency is boasting that can provide a NIPRnet-connected, production-ready virtual server within 72 hours.
DISA announced today that it has expanded the scope of its Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) to incorporate production-ready services.
DISA launched RACE a year ago as a self-service environment for defense developers to provision virtual servers and test new applications in a safe environment. Now the agency has expanded the offering as a production platform.
"It's not just a test-and-development environment anymore," said Henry Sienkiewicz, technical program director of DISA's computing services. "It's also a production environment."
All branches of the military services can provision servers through RACE for their production-ready applications. The applications that are best served by that environment are lighter ones that could run easily in a standard Microsoft Windows or Linux environment. Convoy control systems, satellite controls or even smaller command-and-control systems would work well. "It would almost be the same sort of applications that you would [deploy] within a commercial hosting company," Sienkiewicz said.
One advantage that DISA offers over commercial hosting companies is its familiarity with meeting defense security standards. In the new environment, accreditation for production systems takes only about 40 days, or about half the time it normally takes to get a new system audited and accredited for military use, Sienkiewicz said.
The agency has assembled a package for users called Pathway to Production, which includes integration with the Defense Department's Vulnerability Management System, the Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) and associated documentation. DISA has also prepared the virtual environment to conform as closely as possible to the DOD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process and the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides.
DISA officials hope to cut more time from the accreditation process by further integrating RACE with eMASS and other accreditation processes. Users can also save time by developing applications right in the RACE testing environment.
"Applications developed in the RACE testing environment inherit all the information assurance controls in the production environment, and that streamlines a great deal of human intervention," which shortens accreditation time, Sienkiewicz said.
The service offers Windows Server and standard Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP stacks. The basic service runs $1,200 per month per server. Users can provision up to 1T of storage. The provisioned servers will be accessible via the Unclassified but Sensitive IP Router Network and, beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2010, the Secret IP Router Network.
Although DISA is using virtualization to maximize server use, end users do not need expertise in virtualization management. To them, the service appears as "a preloaded, preconfigured server," Sienkiewicz said.
Once commissioned, virtual servers can be operational within 72 hours, and agency officials hope to shorten that time to less than 24 hours. The agency has maintained an uptime of 99.999 percent with its hosted offerings and plans to offer that level of service to RACE users, Sienkiewicz said.
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Great idea but the cost of $1200 a month per server makes it unusable by our small M&S group which is always under budget restrictions. With a price like that, it appears they are targeting the larger programs with lots of money. In the end, those programs will probably still establish their own servers regardless of the delays. It's unfortunate because the smaller funded groups/projects could really benefit from it.
Not sure why DISA is charging for their cloud computing resources/services. If they develop this environment for the DOD and it agency, they should have received funding from the Government. The security and certification fee should be a one time fee, and it should be the application owner responsibility to complete the certification. Okay, maybe helpdesk support and maintain fee is require, and storage upgrade or tech refresh is a requirement, but that should not by so high. it should be comparable with the commercial sector. The infrastructure is already built, why are DISA charging , its tax payer funding they are getting.
Notwithstanding the previously listed comments, $1200 a month may be in the 'wheelhouse' considering time and dollars expended to get a similar system through the Certification and Accreditation process...all the while the intended user still has no usable asset. Basically, alleviating the customer from the C&A process realizes a substantial savings over the course of the year. Not only costs for C&A, but manpower/labor charges, IAVM, Addition of Firewalls and other security related peripherals, and maintenance including system upgrades. I submit to any organization that considers using the "DISA Cloud" perform a Cost-Benefit Analysis in order to consider multiple alternatives.
$1,200 per month per server is out of line. Even assuming 8 cores/server and 5 Virtual computers/core (a most generous estimate), this would still be $360/virtual computer/year. Looks like DISA prices are a large multiple greater than comparable commercial prices which include profit and taxes.At 5 VMs per core, we can run 2,560 VMs on this, or $156/VM capital expenses, or $50/year on three year depreiation.Can you forward this to Sienkiewitz and to Alfred Rivera?Thanks, Paulprofessor, George Mason Universityformer Director of Defense Information, OSD
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Barry Patel, PharmD, is on a mission to improve the delivery of health care, one physician at a time. His company, Total Therapeutic Management, hires physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and nurse practitioners to meet other clinicians, one on one, to discuss best practices identified in the medical literature.
The company has been conducting this type of work since 1995 and is now working under a $12 million contract with the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to disseminate the results of comparative effectiveness research (CER) to primary care physicians nationwide, says Patel, TTM's president and cofounder.
Discussing all therapeutic options for treatment goes a long way with doctors, says Barry Patel, PharmD, of Total Therapeutic Management.
For the Department of Health and Human Services, CER is designed to identify the best practices from the medical literature and from other sources and to spread the word to clinicians. TTM is on the cutting edge of a movement to help eliminate variation in how care is delivered and to get physicians, regardless of training or where they practice, to understand and use the best methods of treating patients with specified conditions.
By now, everyone in health care must know that researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project have documented wide variation in how medical care is delivered in the United States. Using Medicare data, the researchers have analyzed how hospitals and physicians deliver care in national, regional, and local markets.
A report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice on recent trends in the effectiveness of care coordination for Medicare patients discharged from hospitals shows wide variations in care. Published on the institute's Web site, it says that as scorekeeping begins for new Medicare penalties for hospitals with excessive numbers of patients returning shortly after they are discharged, there has been little progress over a five-year period in reducing these readmissions and improving care coordination for Medicare patients.
"On the contrary, readmission rates for some conditions have increased nationally and for many regions and at hospitals, including some of America's most elite academic medical centers," the institute said. Roughly one sixth of hospitalized Medicare patients are readmitted within a month of discharge. Examining records of 10.7 million hospital discharges of Medicare patients, researchers found striking variation in 30-day readmission rates across regions and academic medical centers. Researchers also found that more than half of Medicare patients discharged to home do not see a primary care clinician within two weeks of leaving the hospital.
One key point about the institute's study is that Medicare has begun to keep score and hospitals will suffer financial penalties for having high readmission rates. Clearly, HHS aims to improve how care is delivered nationwide, and health plans are taking note. Medical directors at managed care plans know that when Medicare begins an effort to improve care, it's best for them to follow suit. Now that Medicare is focusing on improving clinical outcomes, so too are health plans, says John Doyle, DrPH, MPH, vice president and practice leader of Quintiles Consulting.
Biopharm companies need managed care claims data as well as clinical trial data, says John Doyle, DrPH, MPH, of Quintiles Consulting.
"Among health plans right now it is less about basic utilization and volume-oriented deals with physicians and is more about improving clinical outcomes," he says. Health plans have long used CER to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of various medications, and in recent years plans have been making formulary decisions based on clinical outcomes.
Take WellPoint, with 34 million members nationwide.
"WellPoint is a trendsetter when it comes to health economics and outcomes research," Doyle explains. "For that reason I expect their idea about using outcomes-based formulary decisions to diffuse through the U.S. managed markets segment over the next couple of years. You can see it in some of the pay-for-outcomes deals, and there are not many of them that are publicly reported. But the ones that are reported publicly seem to point in that direction."
For more on this topic, see "Payers Step in With 'Real-World' Comparative Effectiveness Research," in the June 2011 issue of Managed Care.
While health plans are focusing more closely on clinical outcomes, both managed care medical directors and pharmaceutical executives could do a better job of recognizing that both sides need more data on clinical outcomes. "When we surveyed managed care executives, we found they believe they had adequate data to measure outcomes most of the time," says Doyle. "And when we asked biopharm executives if they have real-world outcomes data to demonstrate value back to payers, less than 50 percent think that they do. That opens up an opportunity for both sides because biopharmaceutical companies need to demonstrate value, especially when health plans are seeking real world data and CER."
Of course, pharmaceutical companies have been claiming for many years that their products have value in terms of keeping patients out of the hospital and reducing length of stay when patients are hospitalized. Now, the time has come for managed care plans to demand that all vendors and all providers collect and report data that demonstrate their value, he adds.
"Yes, biopharm companies have been talking about the value of pharmaceuticals for many years, but they are saying in the survey responses that they don't have the adequate evidence based on real world data to make those claims," Doyle says. "We're finding that the focus on CER and pay for outcomes is forcing biopharmaceutical companies to follow up and validate the clinical trial data they have with real world research based on the membership population of health plans."
In June, for example, Sanofi, a biopharmaceutical company, and Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefit manager, said they would conduct real-world evidence assessments of Sanofi products before and after FDA approval. Under this agreement, the companies will seek to identify patient populations in which drugs are most effective, generate real-world comparative effectiveness data on the value of Sanofi products for health plans, and improve patient outcomes.
Doyle thinks other biopharmaceutical companies and PBMs will make similar announcements. "This development bears watching."
Besides focusing on the clinical outcomes of medications, managed care plans are interested in CER as a way to eliminate variation in how care is delivered, Doyle says. The AHRQ asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to develop a list of the top 100 priorities for CER, which Doyle believes is aimed at eliminating variation. "You can surely compare drug to drug to find out which is most effective or cost-effective, but you need to identify the root cause of inefficiencies in your system," he says. "You have to start with the way providers interact with the system and with the way providers interact with each other and try to minimize variation across the different settings.
"If you can do that, the analysis of drug-to-drug comparisons follows after you establish best practices," Doyle adds. "It's more of an orientation around treatment guidelines and patient pathways and ensuring that you have good homogeneity across your system. And then you can incorporate the right product into that pathway or guideline."
While Doyle believes that AHRQ recognizes the value of using CER to minimize wide variations in how care is delivered, Jean Slutsky, director of AHRQ's Center for Outcomes and Evidence, said eliminating variation is not a primary goal of CER. "That's a very big goal because variation in care is caused by a lot of different things, and lack of evidence is just one," she says.
"I encourage medical directors to be active participants in the CER process and to avail themselves of the opportunities not only to comment on what should be funded but also to use the materials once they're available," says the AHRQ's Jean Slutsky.
"Variation can be good and bad. We want to make sure that the best quality care is provided to patients. In some instances when there's a lot of variation and it results in poor health outcomes, that's not good.
"We've tried to work in ways that make this worth their while and that offer added value," says Slutsky. "We have a program that allows physicians to get continuing medical education credit by viewing these modules for free. We have faculty slide decks that many organizations use for conferences or grand rounds and CME. All of this is available on our Web site."
Health plans also may find that the agency's CER is useful. "These studies are done very rigorously, often perhaps even more rigorously than a plan could do itself because of the resources we have," says Slutsky.
One of the companies AHRQ has under contract to disseminate its CER data is Patel's company, TTM, one that in 15 years has done academic detailing with 30,0000 physicians. Clinicians working for TTM will meet with 9,000 physicians over the next two years.
"We talk with the physicians one on one about research that has been synthesized and analyzed through AHRQ's Effective Health Care program, " Patel says. "They use the research to create comparative effectiveness reviews and clinician and patient guides. The key to these programs is ensuring that the clinicians know where the content and evidence is coming from, and it's important that the physicians understand that our work is not biased.
"This information is needed because as reimbursement models evolve to be based on outcomes or quality, managed care organizations, accountable care organizations, and other models of care delivery will need a way to educate their clinicians on what the evidence states," Patel concludes. "That will ensure that their clinicians hit the outcomes targets and the quality measures."
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My daughter is having a couple of her best gal pals over to play today since there is no school. Both of our guests are super sweet little girls. However- one of them is feeling a little feisty today. She walked in here and said first thing, "My house is a whole lot bigger than this house. I have a lot more room to run around and play than you do." I just kind of looked at her and grinned. Sadie had no idea we were even being insulted. Then Sadie wanted to take her friends down to our basement to play school. Our basement in not finished but our kids usually have a great time playing down there. Our darling little guest took one look down the basement stairs and exclaimed, "Oh! It looks really dirty down there. I better put my shoes on before going down there." Grrr. Again, we let it slide. But the next time something ugly came out of our guest's mouth, Sadie didn't let it go. The conversation went a little something like this:
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The first-ever meeting of the Species Survival Commission Specialist Group Chairs held in United Arab Emirate on 13 February 2008
Northern Bald Ibis (NBI) Geronticus eremita is listed in the IUCN Red List 2006 as a "Critically Endangered" species on a global scale. Unexpectedly, a relict wild colony of 7 individuals was discovered in the Syrian Palmyra desert in 2002. An Ibis Protected Area (IPA) was established there in 2004, therefore, IUCN West Asia/Middle East Regional Office has decided to work within the framework of establishing new standards and practices for protected areas design and management in Syria, where activities will be undertaken for the conservation of the Northern Bald Ibis. IUCN will build on the knowledge and scientific expertise of BirdLife International and The Royal Sociey the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
"SSC represents a global community of practice and a scientific authority on species and plants and IUCN is keen to harness this knowledge to serve the human wellbeing and nature. Our region is in need to contribute and play a key role in this Commission.IUCN work on Bald Ibis represents a key contribution to the IUCN Species Survival Commission work." said Dr Odeh Al Jayyousi, Regional Director for IUCN WAME Regional Office during the Species Survival Commission's Specialist Group Chairs meeting taking place in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates during 11 – 14 February 2008. The regional director added that IUCN WAME is interested in developing a shared strategy with SSC specialist groups by engaging with SSC on key issues like Red Listing.
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A memorandum of understanding between IUCN WAME and Birdlife is currently under process, where IUCN will co-manage the field research operations on the Northern Bald Ibis in cooperation with Birdlife Middle East. This partnership will enrich and add value to the conservation efforts in the region.
This SSC meeting is the first-ever meeting of its kind in the Commission's almost-60-year history. During this meeting, Chairs of SSC Specialist Groups were given the chance to share their challenges, triumphs and wisdom. IUCN has decided to hold this meeting to honour those who have given so much of their personal, voluntary time and energy to the IUCN and SSC over the years.
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We are the only Fisherman's Wharf hotel that serves a complimentary, hot breakfast to our guests. For relaxation or if you need a little help, visit our sister hotel and use the pool and concierge services. We have everything you need for a dynamic stay in downtown San Francisco. We are the smart choice. Book with us today and experience efficiency at its best!
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Guardiola hails Kompany's impact
Pep Guardiola says Man City should savour their victory over Crystal Palace but remain focused on the ultimate target: Champions League football.
The Blues cruised to a 5-0 triumph over the Eagles, whilst their nearest challengers in the Premier League – Liverpool and Man United – dropped points.
City's superb win ended a run of disappointing results and the manager has urged his side to build on the performance as the season draws to a close.
"It is in our hands for a place in the Champions League," Guardiola stated.
"In England, there are six teams full of quality and history, fighting for these places.
"This is unlike anywhere else in Europe. We have two more games at home – one more than Liverpool.
"We can enjoy ourselves a little bit [following the win over Palace] and then prepare for Leicester next week."
While Guardiola admitted that a lack of clinical finishing has cost his side this season, the Catalan hailed his side's defensive qualities.
The recent return of captain Vincent Kompany has provided a timely boost. The Belgian was on the scoresheet for the second time in four league games with a stunning strike against Palace, which delighted his manager.
"Every player has his quality," Guardiola continued. "Nicolas Otamendi and Vincent Kompany are strong in the air and win duels but we don't have enough guys to score goals.
"[Five games played in a row for Vincent] is a huge step. I spoke to him at the beginning of the season, saying we need to make small steps.
"Manuel Pellegrini missed him a lot last season and you can see that. He wins so many duels.
"[Against Palace], we discovered that maybe he can play as a striker!
"Hopefully he can last longer next season. We need to have back-up though in case this (his injury) happens again."


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Houston Rockets Owner Buys Penthouse for $42 Million
Leslie Alexander, owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets, has paid $42 million for a penthouse in New York's Gramercy Park. Alyssa Abkowitz joins the News Hub with a look at this week's Private Properties. Photo: Evan Sklar for The Wall Street Journal.
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By Janis Jibrin, M.S., R.D., and Tracy Gensler, M.S., R.D.
Step Five: Balance your daily fat intake ("polys," "monos" & "Sats")
Step Six: Go with lean protein.
Step Seven: Take in at least two dairy servings daily
Step Eight: Set a daily "treat" calorie limit.
If you think heart-healthy eating means "boring," then you didn't catch Part 1: Steps One to Four, of our eight-step plan. Research has come a long way from the depriving low-fat diets of the past—in fact, eating heart healthier can be delicious.
Need a nudge to change your diet for the better? By some estimates, 74 percent of heart disease cases may be caused by poor diet and lack of exercise 1. That's just one of the reasons why we've compiled this eight-step plan that will help you lose weight if you need it, and will support healthy cholesterol levels by helping to lower LDL ("bad" cholesterol). People with active heart disease should seek recommendations from their medical professionals. Don't forget that in addition to eating right, exercise is an important component of a healthy lifestyle. For more tips and information about exercise visit http://smartbalance.com/articles/heart-health-tips/fitness/.
If you're overweight, reducing down to "normal" weight may seem nearly impossible, especially if you've been on the diet rollercoaster a few times. But keep in mind, you don't have to fit into your prom dress (or tux) to make a difference to your heart. Losing just five percent of your body weight may be enough to help reduce your risk for heart disease, and losing 15 percent may help dramatically reduce risk— up to 45 percent 2.
For those of you who didn't catch Part One of the plan, we suggest you go back and start there. These are the Part One goals:
- Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables
- Eat mostly whole grains instead of refined flour
- Eat an ounce of nuts daily
- Reduce sodium to 2,300 mg daily
If you've been following the plan and need a few more weeks to make these habits truly your own, take your time. But if you are ready for "Part Two," read on!
Step Five: Balance your daily fat intake ("polys," "monos" & "sats")
|Why: It used to be that if you had high LDL, your doctor prescribed a low-fat diet. But now the research suggests that it's not the just total fat but the typeof fat that may make a difference.
|Fat 101: High-fat foods, such as vegetable oil, butter, nuts and avocados contain a combination of three types of fat: monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fat. Some foods also contain trans fat. Usually a food is particularly high in one type; for instance, olive oil is about 75 percent monounsaturated, but just 11 percent polyunsaturated and 14 percent saturated. "And these different types of fat have varying effects on your heart, so it's important to know which oils and other foods contain more of the beneficial fats," advises Janet M. de Jesus, M.S., R.D., a nutritionist with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Rockville, MD.
|Below is a quick introduction to various types of fats. More important, we've translated all this science into what really matters to you: what to put on your plate.
|Total Fat: Based on research by Brandeis University 3, the Smart Balance Food Plan provides about 30 percent of total calories from fat. The total amount of fat is balanced between monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fats to optimize your HDL ('good) to LDL ('bad') cholesterol ratio.
|Monounsaturated fat: Monounsaturated fat helps support healthy triglyceride levels (a fat in the blood that research shows may have an impact on heart disease risk). Research shows that monounsaturated fats may also raise levels of HDL, the "good" cholesterol that sends cholesterol out of the body, without raising levels of artery-clogging LDL 4. The Smart Balance Food Plan includes 10 percent of your total daily calories as monounsaturated fats.
|Polyunsaturated fat: In general, polyunsaturated fats have a positive effect on blood cholesterol, decreasing LDL levels. Because polys can also lower HDL levels, the Smart Balance Food Plan balances polyunsaturated fat intake and limits total calories from polyunsaturated fat to 10 percent. Here are some additional poly specifics:
|Saturated fat: Saturated fats play a part in an overall healthy diet. They are needed to help balance monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids in the diet and to maintain a healthy ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol, although excess amounts can raise LDL levels 2.The Smart Balance Food Plan limits the amount of saturated fat in your diet to 10 percent of total calories.
|There are nuances, for instance, stearic acid, the main type of saturated fat in cocoa, does not raise LDL 7. And while the research is still sorting out the pros and cons of a type of saturated fat called "medium chain"—the main type in coconut oil—it appears that in moderation it may not raise LDL 8. In addition, medium chain saturated fat is much more likely to be burned by the body rather than stored as fat 8. Until the science is clearer, it's safest to limit your intake of all saturated fat.
|Trans fat: Trans fat is the most risky type of fat. Studies have shown that trans fat may raise LDL, lower HDL, and contribute to inflammation and possibly deposits of visceral, or deep belly fat, which have been linked to heart disease and other health risks 2,9. You should avoid trans fat in your diet.
|Cholesterol: Technically cholesterol is not a fat, but it's worth mentioning because, in excess, it can raise LDL 2. The American Heart Association recommends limiting cholesterol to no more than 300 mg daily. Cholesterol is found only in foods of animal origin; so, for example, olive oil and peanut butter do not contain it, but meat, seafood and dairy do.
How: Avoid foods made with partially hydrogenated oil. This oil is the main source of unhealthy trans fat.. And just because the nutrition label lists "0 g trans" doesn't mean you're in the clear. A legal loophole allows companies to make that claim even if there's 0.49 g of trans fat per serving. Just four times this amount—2 g of trans fat daily—has been shown to adversely impact blood cholesterol levels. Fortunately, companies have been removing partially hydrogenated fat from food, but you'll still find it in some margarines, piecrusts, cookies, cakes, candy, fried food and frozen food. By the way, "hydrogenated oil" does not contain trans fat, but can be high in saturated fat.
Step Six: Go with lean protein.
|Why: Barbecuing, broiling, grilling, frying or other high temperature cooking of meats—fatty or lean—may create cancer-causing chemicals 10.
|Because fatty cuts of red meat are major sources of saturated fat, you should try to limit red meat and processed meats. A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study, which followed half a million Americans for 10 years, found that men and women who ate five ounces of red meat per day were about 30 percent more likely to die (mostly from heart disease or cancer) than those who consumed just one serving or less per week 10. Processed meat, like hotdogs and salami proved to be equally risky as red meat in this study. This study shed no light on the question of whether lean red meat is less harmful than fatty cuts because they lumped all cuts of beef and pork under "red meat." Some studies indicate lean red meat may be less risky 11, but the research hasn't yet tested this out.
|On the other hand, fish eaters 5,6 and vegetarians 12 may have a lower risk of dying from heart disease 2.
How: Eat more fish and vegetarian sources of protein and less red meat (beef, pork and lamb). When eating red meat, choose lean cuts and limit portion sizes. Avoid or limit processed meats such as bacon, bologna, hot dogs, pepperoni, salami and sausage.
Step Seven: Take in at least two dairy servings daily
|Why: Dairy products are an excellent source of protein and important vitamins and minerals such as calcium and Vitamin D. Including dairy in your diet can help to promote bone health.
|New and emerging research examining links between food and heart disease find that people who consume the most dairy foods may have a 13 percent lower risk of dying, period, from any disease, and a seven percent lower risk of dying from heart disease and 11 percent lower risk of stroke compared to those eating the least 16. And the dairy in these studies is both full-fat (like whole milk and regular cheese) and low-fat or non-fat.
|One reason for the possible protection: Dairy products may help lower blood pressure. Low-fat options may have an edge, according to Harvard University's Nurse's Health Study, which tracked nearly 29,000 middle-aged women for 10 years 17. Those taking in about 3 1/2 low-fat dairy servings daily had an 11 percent lower risk of developing high blood pressure than those taking in just half a serving daily. (High-fat dairy conferred only a 3 percent risk reduction.) Dairy products—and in some research, calcium from supplements—may help regulate weight, another plus for your heart 18.
How: Have two dairy servings daily (two or three if you're taking in 2,000 calories or more). If you don't like—or can't tolerate—dairy foods, substitute soy milk containing at least 25 percent of the daily value for calcium and for vitamin D. While almond milk is also OK, note that it doesn't have nearly the protein in milk or soy milk, so be sure to have another source of protein at that meal.
A serving is 86–100 calories, and includes:
- 1 cup nonfat or 1% milk
- 1 cup calcium- and vitamin D-enriched soymilk
- 3/4 cup nonfat or low-fat plain yogurt
Although a skim or 1% latte is a great way to score a dairy serving; don't fool yourself into thinking that sugary coffee drinks with through-the-roof calories count! Even vanilla yogurt, or fruit yogurts are more of a dessert than a dairy serving because of all the sugar. However, plain yogurt with fresh fruit, nuts and a little honey makes a very nutritious breakfast, and that's a great way to spend your dairy servings.
Although cheddar, Swiss and other cheeses are great sources of calcium, they are also high in saturated fat. If eating cheese, choose reduced-fat versions. Because these can still be high in saturated fat, eat limited amounts of these cheeses.
Step Eight: Set a daily "treat" calorie limit.
|Why: It's no news to you that sweets and salty snacks can pack on the pounds—a recent Harvard University study found that most potato chips and sodas were particularly fattening. 19 But it's not just an expanding waistline that makes many of these foods bad for the heart. Sugar-sweetened beverages, like soda, sugary iced teas and punch have received the most intense research scrutiny and the findings aren't good. Preliminary, but not conclusive, research has shown that these drinks may be linked to high blood pressure, high triglycerides, inflammation and heart disease 20. The Nurse's Health Study found that compared to women who drank less than one sugary drink monthly, drinking two or more daily was associated with a 35 percent increase in heart disease 21. Some studies indicate that even diet drinks may contribute to metabolic syndrome (a cluster of symptoms including high triglycerides and excess visceral fat) and diabetes—two conditions that greatly raise the likelihood of developing heart disease 22.
How: Set a daily treat limit. We recommend the following:
Daily calories
Daily treat calories
|1,500 to 1,600
|Above 1,600 to 1,800
|Above 1,800 to 2,000
|Above 2,000 to 2,500
A treat doesn't have to be nutritious, but to spare your arteries, avoid those made with partially hydrogenated oil. Our suggestions: flavored yogurt; hot cocoa; dark chocolate; light ice cream; a glass of red wine (unless you have a condition that precludes alcohol consumption); or a fruit and yogurt smoothie.
And while a soda (or just part of a soda) is fair game, given its checkered health history, we recommend limiting it to just a few times a week or cutting it out altogether. Same for diet soda; don't drink it unless it's necessary to help wean you off regular soda. And, after you've quit regular soda, try and ease off diet.
Meanwhile, set up your environment for success.
- Get rid of all the temptations in your home, office and car.
- Make a plan. Because sugary and salty snacks are everywhere, if you're susceptible to these foods, you must arm yourself with a strategy to avoid and resist. Decide in advance what type of treat you're going to have that day. Writing out your plan, keeping it with you, and referring to it when you're tempted to stray can be very helpful.
- Break habits such as a 3:00 p.m. trip to the vending machine or a morning coffee and muffin—this will help tamp down cravings.
- When cravings hit, distract yourself by taking a short walk—just around the block can do it, calling a friend, sending an email, browsing the web, picking up a book or magazine, listening to music, or something else that's completely unrelated to food.
Changing the way you eat may be one of your biggest challenges, especially if you started out with an unhealthy diet and/or weight to lose. But we hope that breaking it up into eight smaller chunks has made the challenge a little easier and that some of the habits are sticking.
See also: Eight Steps to a Heart-Healthier Diet (Part 1: Steps One to Four)
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2. Kones, R. Primary prevention of coronary heart disease: integration of new data, evolving views, revised goals, and role of rosuvastatin in management. A comprehensive survey. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2011; 5: 325–380.
3. BRANDEIS'S MALAYSIAN SOLDIER CLINICAL RESEARCH 1995. Sundram K, Hayes KC, Siru OH. Both dietary 18:2 and 16:0 may be required to improve the serum LDL/HDL cholesterol ratio in normocholesterolemic men. JNutr Biochem. 1995; 6:179–187.
4. Appel, L. et al. Effects of Protein, Monounsaturated Fat, and Carbohydrate Intake on Blood Pressure and Serum Lipids Results of the Omni Heart Randomized Trial. AMA, November16, 2005—Vol294, No.19, 2455-2464.
5. Simopoulos, A. Importance of the Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio in Cardiovascular Disease and other Chronic diseases. 2008, 233:674-688.Experimental Biology and Medicine
6. Mozaffarian D, Wu JH. Omega-3 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease: effects on risk factors, molecular pathways, and clinical events. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Nov 8;58(20):2047-67.
7. The role of reducing intakes of saturated fat in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: where does the evidence stand in 2010?
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11. Hodgson, JM, et al. Increased Lean Red Meat Intake Does Not Elevate Markers of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Humans. J. Nutr. 137:363-367, February 2007.
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13. Norat, T, et al. Meat, fish, and colorectal cancer risk: the European Prospective Investigation into cancer and nutrition. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005 June; 97(12): 906–916.
14. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter/HealthyDietGoals/Healthy-Diet-Goals_UCM_310436_SubHomePage.jsp
15. World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research. Continuous Update Project: Colorectal Cancer Report. Washington DC: AICR, 2011.
16. Elwood, P. et al. The Consumption of Milk and Dairy Foods and the Incidence of Vascular Disease and Diabetes: An Overview of the Evidence. Lipids (2010) 45:925-939.
17. Wang, L. et al. Dietary Intake of Dairy Products, Calcium, and Vitamin D and the Risk of Hypertension in Middle-Aged and Older Women. Hypertension. 2008;51:1073-1079.
18. Van Loan, M. The Role of Dairy Foods and Dietary Calcium in Weight Management. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 28, No. 1, 120S–129S (2009).
19. Mozaffarian, D. et al. Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain inWomen and Men. N Engl J Med. 2011 June 23; 364(25): 2392–2404.
20. Hu, FB. Sugar-sweetened beverages and risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes: epidemiologic evidence. Physiol Behav. 2010 Apr 26;100(1):47-54.
21. Fung, TT et al. Sweetened beverage consumption and risk of coronary heart disease in women. Am J Clin Nutr 2009;89:1037–42.
22. Nettleton, J.A. Diet Soda Intake and Risk of Incident Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Diabetes Care. 2009 April; 32(4): 688–694.
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to your knowledge, a Video4Linux2 driver for the CSI Camera Board is available here:
http://www.linux-projects.org/modules/n ... toryid=150
On the web site it says"NOTE: The Raspicam module has NOT be funded by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in any way." So I guess he has done this off his own initiative.alexeames wrote:Is this the "official" driver that the Raspberry Pi Foundation have funded? Or have you done this off your own initiative?
I am not sure what you mean by that question, but UV4L consists of a group of Video4Linux2-compliant user space drivers ported to Raspbian. One of those drivers is for the Rpi CSI Camera Board.is that just V4L in general, or this Raspbian userspace code in particular?
If you read the examples given in the instructions (from a link in the announcement), you will notice that the applications really "just work" transparently, accessing a device node, as if there was an underlying kernel driver, in other words:DESCRIPTION
UV4L is a simple framework aiming to provide User
space Video4Linux2-compliant drivers for real or virtual video
input devices. The 'uv4l' core daemon loads a given driver module
passed as argument via command line and creates one device node
file under /dev for the applications to access the device. From
the application's perspective, there is no real difference from
when a kernel driver is being used to control the device. You can
run uv4l as many times as the number of the devices you want to
handle (one process per device).
Thank you for your quick response. I meant, who is the author of this particular V4L2 driver specifically for the RPi camera? Luca Risolia is shown as "Maintained by:" but I don't know if he is just maintaining the V4L2 system as a whole, and/or he is also the author of this particular driver. Is the source code available?RpiName wrote:I am not sure what you mean by that question, but UV4L consists of a group of Video4Linux2-compliant user space drivers ported to Raspbian. One of those drivers is for the Rpi CSI Camera Board.
Yes, userspace code isolates you from kernel development. So far, the RPI camera ABI has not changed (but some meanings have; reversed the default horizontal flip, for example). We are hoping that some additional capabilities may eventually be added, for example the latest fix gave us Gain/ISO control, and we are hoping at some point for full manual exposure control (ability to manually set both Gain/ISO and shutter speed). If that does happen, I assume that would require an ABI change or addition, as the raspistill/raspivid programs do not currently have an option to set shutter speed.RpiName wrote:as long as the mmal ABI is stable (isn't it?), unlike a real kernel driver, that driver does not have to be rebuilt each time the kernel or the firmware internals change
Try to load the driver with the --extension-presence=1 option (man uv4l for more informations why it is necessary in some cases), and run motion as follows:Anyone got it to work with motion? Getting error unable to open video device. Also getting error /dev/video0 does not support streaming i/o.
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[email protected] ~ $ uv4l --driver raspicam --auto-video_nr --extension-presence=1
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[email protected] ~ $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/uv4l/uv4lext/armv6l/libuv4lext.so motion
To enable the streaming I/O, set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable as in the following example:If anyone has some information on how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.
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$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/uv4l/uv4lext/armv6l/libuv4lext.so python ./pyprog.py
If you need to take a snapshot for some reasons, consider using the "dd" system command.SystemError: ioctl(VIDIOC_S_FMT) failure: no supported formats
Have you had a look at fswebcam? http://www.firestorm.cx/fswebcam/I'm trying to get a video feed in, then put graphic overlays on top of the video stream.
What output modes does the RPi V4L2 driver support? is it JPEG only? The RPi camera video output (from raspivid) is .h264 format, at up to 30 fps. But I suppose few if any programs taking webcam input, can deal with that format (?) Then there is raspiYUV but I think that is only for low frame rate stills.RpiName wrote:To enable the streaming I/O, set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable as in the following example:The "pygame.camera" python module does not seem to support the JPEG format from the camera
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$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/uv4l/uv4lext/armv6l/libuv4lext.so python ./pyprog.py
For now, yes.What output modes does the RPi V4L2 driver support? is it JPEG only?
Upgrade UV4L to the latest version eventually. If you still have problems, post your code.nickneubrand wrote:I tried to get it to work by using this driver in addition to SimpleCV and OpenCV, both seem to work as far as communicating with the camera, because the camera light does turn on. But every time my program loads it freezes my pi. Does anyone have any solutions I might be able to try?
There is a basic guide on the website to use the driver with Motion:ekoome wrote:Anyone got it to work with motion? Getting error unable to open video device. Also getting error /dev/video0 does not support streaming i/o.


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'deed. Absolutely ridiculous tbh, but hilarious all the same.
'deed. Absolutely ridiculous tbh, but hilarious all the same.
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Thats a bit tough on that poor girl who was dumped, bit of a joke.
Ah China - dumping a 10 year old girl and then admitting in public that they did it because she was uglier than the alternative. Morons.
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I reckon the closing ceremony was great, the opening choreography with the circles and drums was brilliant. The poms ruined it though, genuine WTF moment. Only good thing about it was Page but then they put him together with some crappy reality tv show winner and David Beckham?? Horrible.
What was Beckham doing at the closing ceremony? Or was it part of the 2012 handover, if so it makes sense I guess as he is like the ambassador for those Olympics, or something
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Yeah was part of the handover.
The English part was so pathetic. Out of some ridiculous transforming bus was... Leona Lewis, who proceeded to butcher 'Whole Lotta Love' with Page. Then out of nowhere comes Beckham, who kicks a ball into the crowd.
Down on the ground there's "multicultural" dancers (meaning there was 3 black guys) with umbrellas.
Was Page sweating enough? Good lord.
Enjoyed the closing ceremony overall though, but expected a slightly better flame-extinguishing bit.
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Freshman Vaggo (left) and Moore represent the Harvard men's
and women's fencing teams, which will host the 2012 Beanpot
tournament on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m.
The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams will host Boston College, Brandeis, and MIT for the Beanpot tournament held at the Malkin Athletic Center on Tuesday afternoon. The event will begin at 6 p.m.
The Particulars
The Crimson host the Beanpot fencing tournament on Tuesday, at 6 p.m. Teams in attendance will be Brandeis, Boston College, and MIT.
Last Time Out
Harvard last competed in the Ivy League tournament held in New Haven, Conn. The Crimson men took second place, going 4-1, defeating all teams except for Princeton, falling to the Tigers 14-13. The women's team took third place in meet going 4-2 falling to Princeton 18-9 and Princeton 14-13.
Seniors Valentine Staller and James Hawrot, along with freshman Brian Kaneshige earned first team all-Ivy League honors in the saber, epee, and foil, respectively. Staller went 12-3 over the two-day span, missing out on sharing the individual title by a one win. Hawrot finished third in the epee field with a 10-5 mark and Kaneshige went 11-4 to finish tied for second. Lucas Lin landed on the Ivy League's second team in the foil. Lin went 9-6 in the field placing sixth.
Sophomore Alexandra Kiefer and junior Kathy Chou were named First Team All-Ivy selections for their efforts during the two-day tournament. Kiefer and Chou finished the weekend with 13-5 marks tying them for third best mark in the foil division. Senior Caroline Vloka and Felicia Sun along with freshman Emma Vaggo earned Second-Team All-Ivy selection. Vloka went 14-4 in the saber field, while Sun and Vaggo both went 13-5 in the epee division. Scouting Brandeis
Harvard is captained by sophomores Noam Mills and Caroline Vloka. Mills, hailing from Kfar Saba, Israel, placed second at the 2009 NCAA Championships, finished seventh at the 2009 European Championships and competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Team Israel. Vloka, who calls Upper Saddle River, N.J. home, also placed second at last year's NCAA Championships.
Scouting Boston College
The Boston College women's team enters the tournament with the best record of the two squads with a 10-6 mark, while the men have gone 7-7 this year. The last time out the men went an impressive 4-1 at the Eric Sollee Invitational while the women went 3-2. Neither Harvard squad has lost to the Eagles before, as the men hold a 12-0 series advantage, while the women have gone 13-0 against its cross-town foe.
Scouting Brandeis
The Brandeis men enter the Beanpot 13-13, most recently going 2-3 at the Duke Invitational on Feb. 11. The women's team currently sits at 10-18, with one of those wins coming against Air Force 18-9 their last time out. That one win would be their only however, going 1-4 at the Duke Invite. The Harvard men hold a 44-11 series lead against the Judges having won the last nine, while the Crimson women are 27-6 against Brandeis and are a on a seven-match winning streak.
Scouting MIT
The women's team has had the better year for the Engineers so far posting a record of 12-10 in 2012. The men, who struggled at the Eric Sollee Invite on Feb. 4 (1-4), enter the tournament with a mark of 8-11. Harvard has seen success against MIT for both team's as the men hold a 91-18-1 advantage over the Engineers while the women have gone 25-12 against MIT in the program's history.


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Sharks have looked more or less the same for hundreds of millions of years. But a newly discovered fossil suggests that under the hood, a modern shark is very different from its ancient ancestors.
The finding, published in the journal Nature, strongly implies that sharks are not the "living fossils" many paleontologists once thought they were. "They have evolved through time to improve upon the basic model," says John Maisey, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History who helped identify the fossil.
This newly discovered creature dates back 325 million years. It's no megalodon. It was probably just 2 or 3 feet long and its teeth were tiny, "although there are rows of teeth in the mouth, so it would certainly give you a painful nip," Maisey says.
The fossil of this beastie is equally modest: It looks like an ordinary brown rock. But in recent years, paleontologists have begun using tools like CT scanners to look inside fossils. When Maisey scanned the fossilized head of the new shark, he got a shock. Inside, "it's not like the anatomy of a modern shark at all," he says.
The skeleton supporting this ancient shark's gills is completely different from a modern shark's. In fact, the gill skeleton looks much more like that of an average modern-day fish.
The finding turns old ideas about sharks on their head, says Michael Coates, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. Previously, many scientists had believed that shark gills were an ancient system that predated modern fish. But this new work suggests that modern-day fish may actually be the ones with the ancient gill structures. Shark gills are the gills that evolved.
"That bucks a trend that's been in the literature for years and years that sharks are somehow primitive living fossils," Coates says.
Why did sharks change the structure of their gills? Maisey suggests it might be to help them sprint after prey. Or to open their jaws more widely, so they could snap up bigger things, like swimmers.
Whatever the reason, sharks have been changing. Per Ahlberg at Uppsala University in Sweden says the new work is an important reminder that so-called living fossils like sharks and crocodiles aren't fossils at all. They are constantly adapting to the world around them. "We have to be very, very careful with the idea of living fossils," Ahlberg says.
This ancient little shark shows that evolution is always at work.
Long before there were humans, there were sharks. Shark fossils go back hundreds of millions of years. Researchers had thought that sharks hadn't evolved much since then. But a newly discovered fossil described today in the journal Nature suggests otherwise.
NPR's Geoff Brumfiel has the story of a little fish with big implications.
GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: Three-hundred-twenty-five million years ago, the world was very different. A lot of the action was still in the oceans. And if people had been around back then, many of the fish wouldn't be familiar. But there is one you could recognize: the shark.
John Maisey is a paleontologist with the American Museum of Natural History.
JOHN MAISEY: If you were back then fishing and you fished out a shark, you'd recognize it as pretty much as what it was.
BRUMFIEL: Sharks appeared to be pretty much the same as they are today, or so Maisey thought until he began studying a fossil of a newly discovered ancient shark. Now, this wasn't some huge dino-shark. It was probably just two or three feet long, not much of a threat.
MAISEY: This thing would nibble your toes, really tiny little teeth. Although there were rows of teeth in the mouth so, you know, it would certainly give you a painful nip.
BRUMFIEL: On the face of it, the fossil looked like an ordinary brown rock.
MAISEY: If I had one in my hand and held it up and showed you, I'd say, well, here's the head and here's the eye and here's the jaws and this is where the gills are, and you'd look at me as if I was nuts.
BRUMFIEL: But in recent years, paleontologists have begun using tools like CT scanners to look inside fossils. When Maisey scanned the fossilized head of the new shark, he got a shark shock. Because inside...
MAISEY: In fact, it's not like the anatomy of a modern shark at all.
BRUMFIEL: The bones supporting this ancient shark's gills are completely different from a modern shark. So that means the gills of modern sharks aren't ancient. They must have evolved over time, maybe to help the shark sprint after prey. Or to open its jaws more widely so it could snap up bigger things, like swimmers.
BRUMFIEL: Whatever the reason this shows sharks have been changing.
MAISEY: They have evolved through time to sort of improve upon the basic model, as it were.
BRUMFIEL: Sounds like the difference between a Model T and a Formula 1 car or something...
MAISEY: It really is. You know, a Model T has a steering wheel and four wheels and that's about it. But under the hood, yeah, it's all different.
BRUMFIEL: Per Ahlberg, at the Uppsala University in Sweden, says this new work upends old ideas about sharks.
PER AHLBERG: There's been this very, very deeply established idea of sharks as being primitive, as being unchanging.
BRUMFIEL: It's an important reminder that animals we think of as living fossils, like sharks, have evolved.
AHLBERG: We have to be very, very careful with the idea of living fossils. And it's something that researchers in this field have more and more moved away from.
BRUMFIEL: This ancient little shark shows that evolution is always at work.
Geoff Brumfiel, NPR News.
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I have heard Magico's in the past and I will admit that they are some marvellous sounding speakers, and thats putting it mildly, but 25 Grand for a pair of two-way monitors??
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Ion propulsion system to the rescue
There is hope for ESA's telecommunications satellite Artemis, thanks to the revolutionary electrical ion propulsion systems on board which now look set to play a crucial role in helping it reach the correct orbit and carrying out a useful mission.
Due to a malfunction in the upper stage of the Ariane 5 launcher, ESA's newest satellite was put into a degraded orbit that for conventional telecommunication spacecraft would be considered a graveyard orbit as they are unable to reach geostationary orbit in case of such launch failure. Not so for Artemis, which not only had its tanks topped up with chemical propellants, but also has on board two ion propulsion systems that may prove crucial in providing the final boost that Artemis needs to raise to nominal orbit.
Originally designed to 'station-keep' once the satellite is in the correct orbit, the two systems have turned out to be vital in a series of recovery manoeuvres intended to propel Artemis into geostationary orbit some 36,000 km above the Earth.
Ground Control in Fucino, Italy - the operations team and system engineers of the Altel (Alenia Spazio-Telespazio) consortium, supported by ESA specialists- have been working round the clock to implement a recovery strategy aimed at putting the spacecraft back on the right course and still get several years of useful payload operations.
"The launch malfunction left Artemis in a degraded orbit. With the amount of chemical propellant loaded as the only source of thrust available, the satellite would never make it to geostationary orbit," said Artemis Project Manager, Mr. Gotthard Oppenhauser.
"Hopefully the ion propulsion systems onboard will save the day. Combined with operation of the chemical-based thrusters, Ground Control in Fucino, Italy, found a way that should get Artemis on the required orbital location while retaining an acceptable amount of chemical propellant necessary to support an acceptable lifetime of the mission," he added.
New control modes are being developed for Artemis that need additional commissioning and testing while the spacecraft is kept safely in a temporary 'parking' orbit at 31,000 km. These tests will determine whether these new modes will enable the ion propulsion thrusters to 'spiral' Artemis into its geostationary orbit.
These new modes are required because the ion propulsion systems will be used differently to their original purpose, which is to maximise the lifetime of Artemis. To prepare for a start after the next eclipse season, Astrium are busy preparing new algorithms that will be subjected to development tests on engineering models and dynamic simulations of software control systems at Munich, Germany. Alenia Spazio in close cooperation with Telespazio will then define the new flight procedures that, following simulation, are to be executed by Ground Control in Fucino, Italy.
Ion propulsion is a new technology and uses electrical power and xenon - a gas that occurs naturally. The basic process involves separating the electrons in the xenon atoms to create positively charged ions, which are discharged from the thruster at a speed of 40km/s.
This outlet speed is more than 10 times higher than that of chemical thrusters with a resulting propellant usage 10 times more economical in relation to the achieved power. Artemis is the first European satellite to fly with electric propulsion technology operationally and, if successful, the mission will become the longest ever to sustain itself on ion propulsion.
"America has used ion propulsion technology with some success in recent years and although Russia has used ion propulsion in various forms for the last 20 years, it has only been on much shorter missions," said Mr. Gotthard Oppenhauser.
Two different 'gridded' systems are being used aboard Artemis: an Electron bombardment Ion Thruster Assembly (EITA) developed by Astrium (UK) and a Radiofrequency Ion Thruster Assembly (RITA) developed by Astrium (Germany). Employing the same basic technologies but designed to operate in different ways, the two thrusters function in unison with each other.
RITA produces radio waves that are generated electrically and excite the electrons in the xenon atoms so that they oscillate and leave the atoms. The resulting positively charged ions are then accelerated through a gridded system and neutralised before leaving the engine as heavy molecules at high speed. The EITA system works in the same way, but with ionisation of the xenon atoms effected by thermal discharge as opposed to the radio waves used in the RITA system. "The idea is to test the technology and to see which design performs the best," explained Mr Oppenhauser.
Ion propulsion uses electrical power generated from the satellite's solar arrays. As a means of maintaining orbital position, it has many advantages over conventional systems. First, Xenon is a noble gas that is less 'aggressive' than chemical propellants. Consequently, when firing this gas, no by-products are expelled that could affect sensitive equipment aboard the satellite.
The economical advantages are of primary importance. Despite the fact that the components currently developed for ion propulsion systems are much heavier than conventional systems, there is still an overall gain in efficiency since the actual power produced per kilogramme of propellant is much greater. The degree of efficiency of ion thrusters is 70 percent compared for example with a car petrol engine, which manages just 30 percent efficiency.
"Even in these early stages of development, these gas powered systems are some five times more efficient than conventional systems. As with all new technologies there is always room for more development and undoubtedly second or third generation systems will see lighter more compact engines, which will bring even greater economical benefits.
In view of the circumstances with Artemis, ion propulsion is a technology that has now been given the perfect opportunity to prove itself. If successful it will be the first time that it has been employed operationally on a European satellite. We are hoping that despite the obvious fuel limitations, ion propulsion will be able to keep Artemis 'alive' for as near to its originally planned lifetime as possible," added Mr. Oppenhauser.


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(Press Release) - Mar 23, 2012 - Who is Jane Doe? That's the question everybody wants an answer to, including herself. Jane Doe, played by Veronika London (Body Language, HBO series "Lingerie") is a young prostitute and heroin addict found by paramedics laying on the street in a pool of blood. She is the victim of a violent altercation which leaves her with a severe head injury. Stricken by amnesia and struggling with her heroin addiction, she is on a quest to discover her identity but most importantly who did this to her and why. She is taken in by a nurse played by Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill, Independence Day) who is a motherly figure to her. Along her quest she comes along several characters from her past and the clues to the answers she seeks slowly come to light, revealing many horrible truths. With this information, feelings of curiosity quickly turn to a thirst for retribution.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Paul Conway's eventful career in China included advising companies on stock offerings and overseeing a messy business restructuring — the latter stint forcing him to hire a bodyguard to fend off harassment from local thugs.
Now the 43-year-old former banker is raising around $60 million for a hedge fund that will invest in U.S.-listed, Chinese companies, another assignment that many would consider not for the faint-hearted after a series of accounting scandals that have battered sentiment towards the sector since 2010.
"I have seen everything: the good, bad and ugly of China," Conway said in one of several interviews with Reuters. "And I am still extremely encouraged."
Short-sellers such as Muddy Waters, the firm run by Carson Block, have made a fortune betting against Chinese firms listed in North America such as Sino Forest Corp. and Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd., which gained notoriety for fraudulent reporting and asset stripping.
Between 2010 and 2012, 70 Chinese companies trading on U.S. markets were targeted by class-action lawsuits. Altogether they lost $26.5 billion in market capitalization, according to statistics compiled by Cornerstone Research.
But Conway reckons that the culling of Chinese companies listed abroad is largely over, with the worst already exposed by Block and others. What's left, he says, are nearly 150 companies that run good businesses and are undervalued.
The launch of the fund comes amid signs of a renewal of interest in Chinese firms raising money on U.S. markets after U.S. and Chinese regulators settled a dispute on information sharing.
U.S. regulators said on May 25 that they had reached a deal allowing access to Chinese companies' audit documents. The deal, only a partial victory for the United States, was meant to open the way to probes of bungled audits that failed to detect fraud.
"A lot of companies went public that shouldn't have," Conway said. He said the quality of overseas-listed Chinese companies has improved since the scandals, while valuations remain low.
Going long on Chinese shares has not worked well in the last three years, snagging such star investors as hedge fund titan John Paulson and fund manager Anthony Bolton of Fidelity.
But Conway and his team are willing to bet on the sector despite some of the lingering tarnish.
"He has a chance if he chooses the right company," said Andrew Left, one of the most vocal short-sellers of Chinese stocks who runs Citron Research. "You just have to avoid the landmines."
Conway, who doesn't speak Mandarin, is partnering with Chien Lee, 52, a mainland China native and co-founder of Chinese budget hotel chain 7 Days Group Holdings Ltd to launch what will be called the China Revaluation U.S. Fund.
The fund will pick 15 to 20 stocks, with capital locked in for two years.
He has also pulled in Paul Keung, former managing director of Oppenheimer Investments Asia and Eddie Woo, executive director of Mascotte Holdings Ltd as a member of his advisory board to help him screen the companies.
The fund will focus on the consumer, hotels, travel and leisure, media and education sectors, and be managed by Paul Jackson, a former portfolio manager at Fidelity and Wellington.
Conway was a banker at Oppenheimer & Co, part of Oppenheimer Holdings, for 12 years and was among the wave of bankers that took part in the 2006-era of China privatizations.
He then became the CEO of SearchMedia Holdings, now renamed as Tiger Media Inc. According to the press release that announced his CEO role, Conway completed more than 60 transactions worth $12 billion during his time in China.
Conway said that in the past Chinese firms went public often at a 100 percent premium to their Western peers, but that pattern has since reversed.
Picking the hotel sector as an example, he said that chains such as Marriott International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide were getting most of their growth from China, but their shares are trading at a large premium to Chinese rivals.
Changyou.com and Home Inns & Hotels Management, one of the most widely covered China stocks by U.S. analysts with buy recommendations, are trading 66 percent and 94 percent below all-time high forward 12-month earnings respectively, data from Thomson Reuters StarMine shows.
One of the Chinese transactions Conway engineered was in 2009, when Phillip Frost, chairman of the world's biggest maker of generic medicines Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and one of his clients, took control of SearchMedia Holdings.
A year later, Conway was sent as chief executive to restructure the company, which restated its financials, fired half the board members and got rid of its management team.
"That is an incredibly courageous thing to do for an American who doesn't speak the language and where every employee is Chinese," said Steve Bernstein, a former colleague of Conway who now runs SinoPac Solutions and Services Ltd in Hong Kong.
In the process, Conway also shut down a subsidiary which fought back to claim that SearchMedia owed it money. Hired hands chased him for the payment for nearly four months, harassing him constantly to the point where he finally hired what he calls "some additional, personal security".
"For someone who thought I really knew China," he said, "this was kind of a crazy experience."
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farm exports are key to economy
by J.W. MADILL/General Manager Alberta Wheat Pool
As Canada's grain industry enters
its fourth quarter century of i operation, it has three primary objectives:
• To increase its total grain exports to 30 million metric tons annually by 1985.
• To ensure its position in the world grain marketplace by selling only a quality product.
• To balance the use of grain so that its domestic users flourish at the same time as its all-essential export market is being supplied.
Such objectives probably would be viewed as being impossibly ambi-
tious by any of the other major grain producing nations, which include the U.S.S.R., China, and India, as well as the U.S. But for Canada, grain is basic; Canada is more dependent on the export of grain than is any other nation-it's the fifth largest grain pro-ducer, but the second largest exporter. Gaining a firmer hold on its export position, behind that of the U.S., is seen by Canada not only as possible but also essential to its eco-nomic well being-especially in the west and in Ontario, where the nation's grain production is centered.
The economic activity generated