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Gladys Threlkeld waits patiently in her arm chair, a sweet smile on her face. Her daughter-in-law runs a comb through her soft white curls.
"She's having a good day today," said Ree Thelkeld, helping Gladys carefully rise from the chair.
Some days she is able to nimbly move around with the aid of a walker.
Others, she is barely mobile until late in the afternoon.
The 94-year-old was diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's several years ago and now lives in the Garden Place, a secure unit at Carillon Assisted Living on Charles Road.
Ree said knowing her mother-in-law is safe and well cared for has brought her peace of mind.
That peace of mind was recently shattered, however, when funding cuts threatened that quality of care.
Funding cut
Federal funding for personal care services, which covers assistance for bathing, dressing, eating, mobility and toileting, was drastically reduced by the state.
It's just the latest issue for the state's Medicaid program, which has been marred by $1.4 billion in overspending in the past three years. State representatives continued to debate this week whether the state should adopt a 100-percent federally funded Medicaid program.
Keith Ensey, Carillon Assisted Living's regional director of operations, said that beginning Jan. 1, hours for those personal care services were cut from a maximum of 161 to 80 per month.
That 161 hours equals an additional $2,082 per month the facility receives to care for patients in the secure unit, said Rebecca Johnson, adult services lead social worker at Cleveland County Department of Social Services.
"Most of these families cannot pay an additional $1,000 per month for their loved ones to remain in their current placement," she said.
She said 61 percent of Medicaid residents in the county have been impacted by the changes, some with hours cut and others denied personal care services altogether.
'No matter which way you go, it's not good'
Shortly before Christmas, Ree said she was stunned to receive a letter informing her that a nurse completed an assessment on Gladys, a Medicaid recipient, and determined that she could perform daily living tasks independently.
Some patients, such as Gladys, were deemed capable of independently performing daily tasks and her family was told that care would no longer be funded.
"We had two weeks," Ree said. "I was very confused. I didn't understand what process they used or what assessment tools they used."
After receiving the letter, Ree said she called Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence, the independent assessment entity the state contracts with to perform the assessments, and spoke with a nurse.
"She encouraged me to go through the appeals process," Ree said.
She filled out an appeal form and faxed it to two different offices, as instructed.
Remediation was the next step.
A teleconference was scheduled with a CCME nurse representing the assessment team and Ree said she was able to give her argument, point by point, on why her mother-in-law needed more hours of personal care services.
By the end of the phone call, Ree said she was offered 68 hours of PCS care out of the maximum of 80.
But with her mother-in-law's health in decline, she said Gladys will only require more care as time goes by.
"No matter which way you go, it's not good," Ree said.
'It's a terrible feeling'
Although there are days when Gladys can feed and dress herself, Ree said she needs constant supervision and prompting to complete those daily living tasks.
When she refused the 68 hours, Ree said she got a certified letter in January letting her know a court hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday.
"There will be a judge, a nurse representative and anyone who wants to be involved on this end," she said.
It, too, will be conducted via teleconference.
"Everybody's at their mercy right now," Ree said. "It's a terrible feeling."
Ree said she is a retired nurse but, even with a medical background, she would not be able to safely care for Gladys.
"We will never move her," Ree said. "The care here is so good."
'We're confident the state will come through'
While families are in the process of appealing the results of the assessments, emergency funds are in place to continue to provide care for patients at the same level prior to the changes. Those funds are slated to run out in June.
"Right now, we're confident the state will come through," Ensey said. "We're following along closely with the appeals process and making sure the General Assembly fixes this issue. I think everyone wants to help."
Ensey said there is an effort, by families and health care providers, to make sure the N.C. General Assembly is focused on the issue.
He said 6,000 letters were sent to federal, state and local officials asking them to focus on the problem.
"I think the key is to generate the focus on that and let them know how important this is to the public," Ensey said. "I don't know what could be more pressing than the care of our seniors."
Currently, Ensey said, the reimbursement for the care of Alzheimer's and dementia patients is lower than what is spent to care for them.
While Ree waits for the court hearing to be held, she has written a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory explaining her plight and how the cuts have impacted her family.
She said the only response she received was from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services explaining how to appeal the decision.
'We are working very hard with the General Assembly'
In the interim, before any final decisions have been made, Ree said her mother-in-law's care is still being funded at 161 hours.
Johnson said the Department of Social Services wasn't aware of the changes until recently.
Johnson said some facilities are billing the families for the additional amount of money that is no longer funded.
In the worst-case scenario, Johnson said, the facilities' options include billing the family, discharging the resident into the community or sending them to a nursing home, which will cost the state more than double what current assisted living facilities charge.
She said if a mediation is lost, such as in the Threlkelds' case, DSS has to certify that there are no other housing options in the community. If no housing is found, the facility can bill the state for transition funds until June 30.
Ensey said Carillon Assisted Living has 36 Medicaid residents in the secured unit.
"Funding runs out at the end of June," Ensey said. "We are working very hard with the General Assembly."
If the denials are upheld following the appeals process, that funding could be lost as early as this month.
"We just don't see how the General Assembly can not act with the impending loss," Ensey said.
Attempts to contact N.C. Rep. Tim Moore, R-District 111, and N.C. Rep. Kelly Hastings, R-District 110, for comment were unsuccessful.
Carol Whisnant, executive director of Carillon Assisted Living, said she hopes the Wednesday court hearing will result in another assessment being performed on Gladys.
Whisnant said Gladys was never assessed as an Alzheimer's resident but simply as an assisted living resident while she was still in a Gaston County facility.
If the judge decides to award the family the previously determined 68 hours, Whisnant said the family will have to come up with the remaining funds for Gladys' care from out of pocket.
"I don't know if there are any other options," she said. "We're hoping another assessment will be completed based on the fact she's an Alzheimer's resident."
Reach Rebecca Clark at 704-669-3344 or email@example.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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ondemandit needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 104 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
We are setting up a new dynamic online IT services company and are looking for a fresh, modern logo and branding.
Once this competition is complete we will be running a new competition for brochure layout and website design. The winner of this entry will have a very good chance of winning these additional competitions.
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We are setting up a new dynamic online IT services company and are looking for a fresh, modern logo and branding.
The company will be delivering online hosted IT services, using technologies from Citrix and Microsoft.
Our target market is small businesses wanting a premium managed IT service.
We are flexible with image or text incorporate in the logo design
- our corporate colours: blue and black
- we want to use the logo on company stationery, business cards, website, signage so it needs to be scalable
- ideally the logo needs to be easily readable in greyscale for invoices etc
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Eagle Palms
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After becoming an Eagle Scout, you may earn Palms by completing the following requirements:
- 1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after the award of your last Palm.
- 2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- 3. Make a satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.
- 4. Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or last Palm.*
- 5. Take Part in a Scoutmaster conference.
- 6. Complete your board of review.
You may wear only the proper combination of Palms for the number of merit badges you earned beyond the rank of Eagle. The Bronze Palm represents 5 merit badges, the Gold Palm 10, and the Silver Palm 15.
- Merit Badges earned any time since becoming a Boy Scout may be used to meet this requirement.


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Keith Urban's New Single 'Little Bit of Everything' Inspired by Madonna
Keith Urban has revealed a surprising source of influence and inspiration for his upbeat new single 'Little Bit of Everything,' which will appear on his new album 'Fuse,' due out Sept. 10. The country superstar revealed that he borrowed a little from a 2001 Madonna track.
Yes, Madonna! Her song 'Don't Tell Me' had a wee bit of a country influence, and in turn, influenced a country artist over a decade later. How's that for cyclical?
"She had a staccato acoustic guitar part in there that I thought was very cool," Urban said about the song, which was penned by Kevin Rudolf, who is largely known as a pop artist, and Nashville songwriters Brad and Brett Warren.
While the Material Girl isn't a name that pops up in country conversations on a daily basis, it's refreshing to see how Urban and his team were able to get creative with one of her songs and to cull inspiration from it.
Urban, who as of now remains the only judge left on the Season 12 'American Idol' judging panel, will get back to his other job –touring- on June 18. His Light the Fuse Tour will launch in Cincinnati later this month.


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James Morrison was one of the big movers early on the second day of the Africa Open, but the Englishman still trailed joint overnight leader Trevor Fisher Junior by three strokes in East London.
Fisher, one of five players to share top spot after an opening round of seven under par 66, took the outright lead at 14 under thanks to a flying start to his day with an eagle and birdie on his first two holes.
The 30 year old from Johannesburg then picked up five further shots along with a bogey on the par four ninth to move to seven under for his round with six holes to play.
Morrison, who began the co-sanctioned European and Sunshine Tour event with a five under 68, was in second place on 11 under after moving to six under par for his round thanks to a bogey free first 15 holes.
Two other men were on the same score - South African Thomas Aiken and another of the co-overnight leaders Patrik Sjoland after 11 and 12 holes respectively - while Charl Schwartzel, the highest ranked player in the field at 66, also kept the pressure up a further stoke back on four under for the day with six to play.
Five players were on eight under par, including Britons Justin Walters and Sion Bebb as well as Dane Mark Haastrup - another one of the five players that ended the opening day in pole position.
Of the other overnight leaders, Titch Moore found it difficult to pick up shots at the East London Golf Club and remained on seven under, level par through 12, while Richard Sterne has an afternoon tee-off.
Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke, a runner-up in the competition last year, was four under after the first round and moved to three under after 13 holes today - a tournament total of seven under.


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The Best India Travel Itineraries & Car / Coach Rental Services
If you wish to travel to India by car, then Japji Travels can assist you. They offer economy and luxury vehicles to explore various destinations of the country. It is one of the best car rentals companies Delhi that also offers rental coaches in Delhi at competitive rates.


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No wonder travelers to Vietnam fall in love with Hoi An. It is close to beaches, a gazillion times less chaotic than Saigon and Hanoi, and home to amazing, amazing food. In a previous post, I professed my love to banh mi op la, the best breakfast in Southeast Asia. Here, I'll elaborate on some noodles whose photos I still drool over.
While riding a motorbike to the beach, we stopped at a roadside noodle stand for lunch. I was so famished and ready to pounce at a table that my left leg brushed against the muffler of the motorbike. The iron-hot muffler. The scorching pain was momentary, but my leg now had a burn mark the size of a big toe. The restaurant ower sat me down, then zoomed away and back, super hero-style, with a tube of ointment. At least, I thought it was ointment. The next minute, my leg was tingling and covered with what really was minty toothpaste. In the middle of nowhere, any moisturizing gel or was better than no ointment at all.
Instead of riding off to the nearest hospital or pharmacy, I did what I normally do after minor traumas: eat. We ordered pho and mi quang, (above, pronounced in Hoi An like "mee wang"), a dish of toothsome yellow noodles and a thick soy and pork bone sauce. Supposedly, the noodles get their color from turmeric, and are central Vietnam specialties. I love everything about the dish, from the quail eggs and fresh herbs, to the way the colors just pop out of the bowl. I loved it so much I devoured a second bowl. And momentarily forgot about my singed leg. (I later got proper burn cream and bandages.)
Having a second-degree burn and huge patch on my leg didn't prevent me from swimming at the beach. Nor did it prevent me from continuing to seek out great food all over town.
Robyn from Eating Asia is always spot-on with food picks, so when she said that I must must MUST find her favorite cao lau lady in Hoi An, I had to oblige. Cao lau is a central Vietnamese dish of thick wheat noodles, supposedly made with local well water. With a porky broth, slices of stewed fatty pork, and crispies fried in lard, this dish is not for the kosher-minded. Add lime, fresh chili sauce, and pickled pearl onions and you have a dish worth trekking back for. Which I did. Three times.
On to Hanoi. As far as foodies destinations go, Hanoi comes out near the bottom of my list. The vast majority of Vietnamese food we eat in the US is southern Vietnamese, so I became accustomed to a light cuisine with distinct flavors and tons of vegetables and herbs. Hanoi, for whatever reason, had some of the most bland, and the most over-seasoned, food I had ever tasted. Pho dishes had almost no vegetables and enough MSG to give me a headache (which is saying a lot, considering I lived in China for two years.) Banh mi baguettes were large and tasteless, and few vendors added things like vegetables or a sauce more complicated than chili from a bottle. A trusted source commented that northerners not only has a shorter growing season but also, unlike in Saigon, resisted any Chinese influence on their food, leading to an overall blander cuisine. No amount of MSG can fix stubbornness.
So it was no wonder that the best meal I had in Hanoi was a southern noodle dish transplated to the north. Thanks to Sticky Rice, I learned about a vendor near Dong Xuan Market that sold pho tiu. The dish looks simple enough: rice noodles, pork slices, herbs, crispy shallots, and crushed peanuts. But what you don't see is the fish sauce, vinegar, and light pork broth that has already been soaked up by the noodles. While the noodles look dry, every bite had a welcomed salty-tangy flavor explosion.
Over a month later, I'm still hungering for these noodles. At least I still have a scar to remember them by.
More travel (or armchair travel) posts:
A Globetrotter's Guide to Unusual Chinese Restaurants


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British Cycling is delighted to confirm that the Tour of Britain will sit alongside some of professional cycling's most famous events after being upgraded to 2.HC status by the UCI for 2014 and beyond.
The eight-day stage race, which takes place this year from the 7th to the 14th September, has been awarded 2.HC status by the UCI, the world governing body, meaning it is now on a par with major events such as the Tour of California, the Tour of Turkey and the Criterium International.
Reacting to the announcement, Cycle Sport and Membership director Jonny Clay said:
"We're delighted that the Tour of Britain has attained a place alongside some of the most historic races on the global cycling calendar.
"This is a well-deserved recognition of the status of the sport in Britain and of the work that British Cycling has done to put Great Britain amongst the top cycling nations in the world.
"Credit must be given to SweetSpot for their stewardship of the race to date and we look forward to working with them over the next five years to continue the growth of the event as both a monument of the sport and as a British sporting success.";
The reputation of The Tour of Britain has been growing in recent years with larger crowds watching increasingly high-profile fields. Last year's event was won by Sir Bradley Wiggins, as he overcame a field that also included Tour de France stage winners such as Mark Cavendish, Nairo Quintana and Dan Martin.
Achieving HC status was one of the key targets of the new agreement with organisers SweetSpot, when the latest five-year agreement was announced last July.
SweetSpot race director, Mick Bennett, said:
"We are delighted by today's announcement, which comes as a culmination of ten year's hard work by the SweetSpot team.
"The award of 2.HC status is another step forward for the Tour of Britain, and we look forward to this September's edition of the race being the best yet.
"The upgrade is also a reward for the many hundreds of thousands of spectators who have lined the route and cheered on the race over the past decade."
Further details for this year's route are due to be announced in the spring, with full details appearing on the British Cycling website.


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Modern operating systems take a different view of the resources on the system. Regardless of the form factor, it is important for the OS to more effectively manage resource utilization than in the past. Currently, it is far too easy for a single process to consume available resources (memory, CPU, disk I/O) even when this does not improve the overall performance for end-users. The very role of an OS is to balance resources and make sure you can complete all the things that you want to do on your PC. Much of the manual control present in most OS implementations is designed to work around errant software—software that gets in a state where resource consumption is unbounded. Even if the software is not malicious, which is often the case, the ability to build well-behaved software was limited by the complexity of resource allocation APIs. The modern API set in WinRT is designed for programmers to more easily build software that gets the work done while not "taking over" your PC. This is something that makes all PC form factors and all software better.
In this post, group program manager Bill Karagounis on our Fundamentals team details the behind-the-scenes efforts to reclaim memory even when apps are suspended, and how this all happens without developers needing to worry.
Previous blog posts have discussed the Metro style application model using Windows Runtime. An important attribute of this app model is that apps are suspended when they are no longer visible to the user. Suspending Metro style apps in the background is a good thing, as it conserves CPU for other apps and ensures that background apps don't cause activity that can consume resources, thereby improving the battery life and increasing responsiveness. This is outlined in detail in Sharif Farag and Ben Srour's blog post, Improving power efficiency for applications.
But what about the memory these apps are taking up when suspended? We pointed out earlier that, as a practical matter, the OS will handle this and that your other processes will not feel memory pressure because there are suspended processes. This was an important design consideration. But we know that some of you are still curious how this will all work.
Starting with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, whenever Windows detects memory pressure on the system, it will repurpose nearly all the memory that suspended Metro style apps would otherwise hold onto. Windows 8 can reclaim this memory without having to terminate an app.
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Memory, responsiveness, and Metro style apps
For any type of app (Metro style or desktop), Windows tries to regulate physical memory allocations on behalf of that app, regardless of the memory requests it has made. Windows has always behaved this way to keep memory available in anticipation of future app memory needs. Windows is careful to only allocate physical memory to an app when the app tries to touch it, even if the app had "allocated" it earlier. Windows will also page out or repurpose parts of memory from an app if the pages of memory haven't been touched in a long time.
It is important to understand the goal is not to deny memory to a requesting process, but to delay allocating physical memory as long as possible (until the user actually touches the app) because as with many resources, there is a tendency for software to over-budget. The OS is the place where all these requests come together and it has the information to see that meeting all the fully budgeted requests would ultimately starve every process. Not only would work not complete, but the system will essentially lock up. This happens even if the memory is virtual—instead of running out of RAM, your PC would simply swap pages in and out of disk.
The physical memory given to a process at any point in time is referred to as the "working set" of the process. A private working set represents physical memory that is unique to a process. Processes also touch other pages of physical memory that are "shared," which several processes can reference. When you look at the Processes view in Task Manager, the memory for a specific process is actually its current private working set. NOTE: For simplicity, when I refer to "working set" in this blog, I mean "private working set."
When the system starts to run low on available memory, the OS will look in all processes for pages of physical memory that it can repurpose to satisfy other needs in the system, even by paging out memory when necessary. For desktop apps, Windows will try to keep the most important (frequently accessed) pages of memory in the app's working set; this is because desktop apps expect to be able to run code at any time, even when they're in the background. It's a fine balance though: if too many pages of memory were to be removed from a desktop app, it could affect the app's responsiveness due to additional disk I/O (as the app tries to touch memory that has been paged to disk under the covers).
For a deep dive on Windows memory management, see Mark Russinovich's "Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed" talks: part 1 & part 2.
Metro style apps, however, are different from desktop apps, in that they are usually suspended whenever they are no longer in the foreground. When they're suspended, they aren't touching ANY of their memory.
To illustrate, I've highlighted a few suspended Metro style apps with memory held in their working sets in the screenshot below.
Suspended apps holding on to memory
NOTE: In the Consumer Preview build, the Suspended status does not show
in the Processes view of Task Manager by default; you have to choose to show it
via an option on the View menu.
If there isn't memory pressure in a system, it's actually a good thing (most efficient) to just leave memory in the suspended apps' working sets. But if there is some memory pressure, the fact that these Metro style apps are suspended presents an opportunity to get almost all the memory in these working sets back for other apps, without terminating them.
Reclaiming memory from suspended Metro style apps
In Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we can efficiently write the whole (private) working set of a suspended Metro style app to disk, in order to gain additional memory when the system detects pressure.
This process is analogous to hibernating a specific app, and then resuming it when the user switches back to the app. We're taking advantage of the suspend/resume mechanism of Metro style apps to empty or re-populate an app's working set.
The sequence of events is described below:
- The Process Lifetime Manager (PLM) detects memory pressure in the system and asks the Memory Manager (MM) to empty the working set of a specific process that houses a suspended Metro style app.
- MM moves the pages of memory from the working set of the app to the operating system's modified page list (which is a list of memory whose contents are to be written out to disk before being reused).
- The working set pages on the modified page list are written out asynchronously, as dictated by the usual MM policies (written out opportunistically in the background, writes triggered when under memory pressure).
- Even after the suspended apps working set is written to disk, the memory pages removed from a process are left intact on the operating system's standby list. This is a cache of useful pages of memory that can be repurposed for other apps, if necessary. If these pages are immediately needed again by their original process, they are quickly moved back.
If a user switches back to the app while its working set pages are still in physical memory (on the modified page list or the standby list), it's straightforward: the pages will be added back into the app's process immediately. If they are no longer available, Windows will read in the app's working set from disk in an optimized manner.
"Reclaiming memory" in action
To get a feel for how this works, let's walk through an example with real running code.
The initial state is represented by the screenshot above. I had several Metro style apps running on a PC with 2GB of RAM. The Metro style apps were in the background, and therefore Windows suspended them. I then started opening more apps to drive up memory use on the system and trigger the new functionality.
In the next screenshot, below, you'll notice that I opened some apps in order to introduce additional memory pressure and induce the behavior described above. As you can see, Windows emptied the working sets of the suspended Metro style apps (highlighted).
Working sets of Metro style apps emptied
Let's compare the "before" and "after" working sets of the original Metro style apps (some of the "after" stats cannot be seen because Task Manager ran out of room to show all 27 launched apps):
Metro style app
Working set before (MB)
Working set after (MB)
Remote Desktop
Windows Reader
So in this example, we liberated over 250 MB of physical RAM for other apps to use without shutting down the suspended apps.
Responsiveness when reading the working set back in
A test for this new facility is how responsive a suspended app is after its working set contents are emptied and you decide to switch back to the app.
While I was running this test, I used the "Lyrics" app as my indicator of responsiveness. The Lyrics app can display the lyrics of a song as well as play back a music video. When the Lyrics app goes to the background, it gets suspended, which stops the playback.
After driving memory use to the point where working sets were emptied, I opened additional apps and used the system for a while to ensure that a swap back to the app was going to read the working set from disk. I then triggered the switch back to the Lyrics app (below).
Lyrics app's working set is repopulated
The key indicator I was looking for was how long it would take from the time I triggered the switch back to the app to the point where I could hear sound again. On a low-end machine, with a high memory load, it's hard to perceive a difference in responsiveness when switching back to the app whose working set was being read from disk compared to when its working set was still in memory. Your mileage will vary though: the larger the working set, the longer it will take to read-in from disk. We're also continuing to reduce the amount we have to write to disk for Metro style apps and further optimizing this feature.
This functionality is something that everyone with the Consumer Preview release can try for themselves. Just open up a number of Metro style apps and desktop apps to generate some memory pressure, and then switch back to a suspended Metro style app that has had its working set emptied.
NOTE: Windows will still close Metro style apps if memory gets into the critical range. However, this feature will enable a system to run more applications before getting to that point.
Reading in a working set optimally
To have a responsive experience when you switch back to a suspended app whose working set is on disk, we've optimized how we write the working set in the first place, so that reading it in is as efficient as possible.
When we write out the working set of a suspended Metro style app, the working set pages are being written out to disk sequentially. This allows us to read the data back into a process using a small number of large sequential disk reads. The screenshot below is from our Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) tool that comes as part of the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK), showing a visual representation of disk reads during this process. I've highlighted the working set "read-in" I/O. You can clearly see the sequential stream as we repopulate an app's working set.
Sequential read I/Os to repopulate an app's working set (WPA Tool)
Reading back sequential data from almost any storage device is really fast. Most rotational disks can achieve between 50-100MB per second. If a storage device is flash-based (like an SSD), you can get upwards of 200MB per second for these reads.
We expect that many apps will take less than a second of I/O to get the working set of a suspended app back into memory.
By definition, all PCs of all form factors have limited physical memory. The challenges of managing memory do not change when you add more physical memory, so long as you are actually running more programs that request more memory.
Several classes of modern software will continue to evolve to use more and more memory – photo editing of giant RAW images, in-memory databases, very large spreadsheets, and so on. Whether these have WinRT-based implementations or desktop implementations, the OS needs to evolve to manage these ever-increasing memory requests. WinRT is an opportunity for programmers to use an API that allows access to all the memory they need while putting the user first in terms of responsiveness and getting work done. I hope you'll try this out this feature in Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
-- Bill Karagounis


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Ocean Breeze 4 , Acrylic on paper 29x41 cm (2017)
Acrylic painting by Frederic Belaubre
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- Subject: People and portraits
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It's not often that I have a wedding date marked off on my calendar six months before the bride does. But Marcus and Kathy's story is not your average wedding.
Marcus and Kathy are from Germany, and Marcus is a fan of my work, so he said "Hey, you know what would be fun? Let's go to New York City! And while we're there, Ryan can take some portraits of us." Kathy loved New York and was working on improving her English, so it sounded good to her.
But Marcus had much deeper plans. He wanted to propose. So we planned together where the perfect spot would be, somewhere beautiful and as secluded as you can get in Manhattan. I would lead them in, taking portraits along the way and getting them comfortable. And then, when I said "Oh, look at this, this is the perfect spot!" Marcus would pretend to tie his shoe, kneel down to tie it, and pull out the ring.
Everything was working great. It was a beautiful day, as perfect as you could want. The park was green and lush, but not packed with people. I took them on a meandering path as we took photos, and came to a beautiful, secluded glade.
"Wow," I said. "This is the perfect spot."
"Yeah, it's great!"
I waited. Nothing. "Ok, let's take some photos here, and then I know an even better spot down the path a bit!"
"Well, look at this, what a spot! This spot is just perfect!"
Now I was getting a little nervous. Was the plan worked out well enough? I know that even the most enthusiastic proposal is such a huge leap, there's always a moment like before you're going to jump into cold water on a hot day. There's nothing you want more, but you pause. I know this, so we continue walking. Last year I'd taught a workshop in this area, and some of the students said they found an amazing glen with a waterfall, stonework, all sorts of things you don't expect to find in Manhattan. But I was busy and never saw it.
We kept walking, and there it was. The perfect spot. I set them up and said "Ok, guys, I want to to give a big hug." And they did, and it was beautiful because they're so in love. But really I wanted them to hug so Kathy couldn't see me as I wandered behind. I signaled Marcus wordlessly.
Here, right?
Yeah, I got this.
He got down to his knees and said … well, it was all German, but it sounded very romantic. Tears, instantly. Joy, laughter, disbelief. Even bigger hugs. I absolutely love photographing surprise engagements just to be a part of this crucial moment.
But Marcus's plan went deeper. He gave it a while, let the whole "I'm marrying this guy!" thing set in, and then he asked the real question: "Will you marry me … Wednesday? Here? In New York?"
She considered it, "Marcus, I'd love to, but I can't get married without my parents here, they're so important to me. And your brother, he's traveling in Spain, it would kill him to miss it."
He smiled. "Yes, we should ask my parents. We're in luck! They're here. And my brother? He's not in Spain. He's here."
Woah.Marcus had planned it all out. He'd actually hired me six months earlier not just for the portraits, not just to capture the proposal, but for the wedding as well. It was all set … it just needed a bride.
She agreed. And that set about a whirlwind of emotion and shoes and dresses and more emotion, going through the entire process a bride usually goes through in six to 12 months in just a few days. So when we met on another glorious Central Park day, all of it was raw and powerful and beautiful.


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Former Ravens running back Matt Lawrence has joined the legion of former NFL players suing the league in a concussion-related lawsuit.
Lawrence alleges fraud, conspiracy and negligence on the part of the NFL for concealing the risks of long-term damage from head injuries..
The Ravens declined to comment on the litigation.
A former undrafted free agent from the University of Massachusetts, Lawrence, 27, spent the past two seasons on injured reserve with knee problems.
Lawrence rushed for zero yards on four carries during the 2009 season when he played in eight games, catching one career pass for four yards.
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KAUFMAN, Texas – An assistant district attorney was shot and killed Thursday morning near the North Texas county courthouse where he worked, and authorities said they were searching for two suspects.
Mark Hasse, 57, had exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex and was walking toward the building when he was shot multiple times just before 9 a.m., said Kaufman County spokeswoman Pat Laney. Hasse was taken away in an ambulance, but Laney did not know if he died at the hospital or en route.
Investigators were searching for two suspects believed to have fled in an older model Ford Taurus either brown or silver in color. Officials didn't immediately indicate any motive for the shooting in Kaufman, located about 33 miles southeast of Dallas.
Kaufman Independent School District Superintendent Todd Williams said all schools in the district were placed on lockdown as authorities searched for the suspects, and officials eventually decided to close the buildings for the day.
Local law enforcement officials decried the shooting as an attack on the criminal justice system.
"We understand that we may come into contact with violent people but this is the next level," Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said Thursday at a news conference.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh said the shooting would have a major impact on the town and the county.
"Any loss of life, especially someone out there protecting the community, would have that effect," he said.
Calls to the district attorney's office Thursday were not immediately returned.
Investigators gathered in a parking lot adjacent to the annex where the prosecutor was shot. Yellow tape and law enforcement vehicles blocked the area from spectators. Laney said a $10,000 reward was being offered.
"It's going to take a long time to get over this," said Wayne Gent, an attorney whose law office is on the courthouse square. "And the thing is, everybody's vulnerable."
Gent, who previously served as Kaufman County judge, said when he was in that role he had a security system installed at the courthouse to prevent an armed person from bursting in. But no system could prevent a shooting that occurs outside, adding another level of fear, he said.
"How do you protect against that?" he asked.
Carolyn Mikeal, who works at an insurance agency on the square, said the shooting is a stunning development for the usually quiet community.
"It's just a shock," she said. "A small county like this, it's the last thing you expect to happen."


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TPA group celebrates annual meeting
Post V members of the Travelers Protective Association recently attended their annual meeting and dinner.
Attendees brought in supplies for Mary�s Kitchen, raised $282 for the Scholarship for the Hearing Impaired and collected tabs for the Ronald McDonald House as their community service projects.
Maidred Stroud, Post V secretary/treasurer and state TPA president, delivered 32,000 tabs totaling 20 pounds to Kim Kazda, development director of the Ronald McDonald House in Greenville.
New officers also were installed at the meeting. Stroud is secretary/treasurer, the Rev. Hank Harman is president, and Lina Gibbs is vice-president.
Bridge club names winners
The Fairfield Duplicate Bridge Club played a regular game March 19.
The winners were: Nancy Barwick and Edith Cahn, first place; Roz Ahrens and Jack Weeden, second; Eva Balknight and Jenny Holt; third; and Pearl Schechter and Joe Goldwasser, fourth.
A Sectional Tournament at Clubs game will be played at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday at Fairfield Center. The club welcomes and encourages all bridge players.
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Corn hole and golf tournaments are two parts of a big celebration planned for Pink Hill in mid-April.
A double-elimination doubles-only corn hole tournament will begin at 1 p.m. April 13, the day of the Rose Festival, with a practice time at noon. The gym will provide several sets of boards, and players are allowed to use their own bags. Rules and brackets will be provided at the tournament. The team fee is $50 and can be paid the day of the tournament.
A three-man golf tournament will be played at 8:30 a.m. April 10 at the Key Vista golf course. The first prize for the corn hole tournament is $250 and the first prize for the golf tournament is $100 per player. Contact Thomas Whitfield at 252-560-1725 about these tournaments.
The festival also will have an antique tractor and car show, live music, a Rose Festival Prince and Princesses contest and a dance exhibition. Participants also are needed for coed softball teams, as vendors, chili cook-off cooks and festival sponsors.
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Ford Unveils the 2015 F-150 in LAPosted in News on January 14, 2014
While some of our colleagues were out in Detroit for the big reveal of Ford's latest offering of the F-150, a few of us were invited to our own unique unveiling held in Studio City right on the bank of the LA river. Here we got a first look at all the new features and got a chance to take the world's first photos of the 2015 Ford out in the wild.
The hot topic, of course, is the all-aluminum alloy body (well, 97% anyway) that is said to be more dent resistant than steel, and reduces the 5,000-pound truck by as much as much as 700 pounds, which ought to do wonders for fuel economy, although Ford has yet to release those numbers. The other big news is the all new high strength steel frame, and four engine choices including this new 2.7L Ecoboost, not to mention eleven other class-exclusive features, most of which are pretty apparent when you take a look at the detail photos.
The F-150's unveiling also brought some much needed attention to the efforts being taken here in LA to restore some natural habitat to the LA River. Volunteers pitched in to help clean up and beautify part of the Los Angeles River, planting trees and collecting debris, and giving a chance for Ford to drive home it's "Built Ford Tough" slogan. Ford's $50,000 donation to the L.A. River Revitalization Corp didn't hurt a bit, either.
L.A. River Revitalization project is working to create a continuous 51-mile greenway corridor that will run along a restored LA River. Like a linear Central Park, the public space will redefine how we move through Los Angeles, restore natural habitat in some of the most park-poor communities in the country, and leave an open space legacy for generations to come. Their goal is to create a quality of life in a city hungry for green space and strengthen communities by restoring the LA River to a vibrant green corridor that people from throughout the country will want to visit and enjoy.
We're glad we got to see the new F-150 in its natural environment, rather than spinning on a turntable somewhere. Check out the photos below and stay tuned right here for the horsepower and mileage numbers as soon as Ford makes them available. ford.com/2015f150, larivercorp.com


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Cable TV cooking personalities Jon Mayer and Jim Stump, also known as "The Feasty Boys," touted the advantages of RV tailgating in a live "FOX & Friends" report arranged by the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) to kick off Super Bowl weekend on Feb. 3.
Described as "the ultimate tailgating RV," a Voltage fifth-wheel provided by Dutchmen Manufacturing Inc. was showcased in a series of teases and a two-minute tailgate cooking demonstration by the Feasty Boys.
"If you want to tailgate this is the way to go," they said. "You got your food, your beer, your bathroom…You don't even need to go in the stadium."
Admiring the unit's island kitchen, party deck, exterior big-screen TV and other amenities, FOX anchor Gretchen Carlson said, "I'm really envious." The Feasty Boys thanked GoRVing.com for setting them up with the "awesome rig," adding, "We're traveling around having fun."


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Canada imposes further sanctions against Ukraine
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Canada will impose economic sanctions and a travel ban on 14 more members of pro-Russian separatist groups in Ukraine.
The additions include Valery Vladimirovich Kaurov, the self-described president of the Republic of Novorossiya, who has called on Putin to deploy troops to Ukraine. Novorossiya translates to New Russia and is a pro-Russian term for a region in southeast Ukraine.
Baird is urging Russia to stop sending arms and militants into Ukraine. He said Friday that Moscow should abandon what he calls its inflammatory propaganda campaign against Ukraine.
Baird also asked Russia to draw down its troops deployed close to Ukraine's borders.
Canada has imposed travel bans and economic sanctions against dozens of Russian and Ukrainian people and entities.
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$x_1^2+x_2^2= (x_1+x_2)^2 - 2x_1x_2$
I simply don't understand this. Can you please explain this to me.
The whole math problem is: You have this equation
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Football Parents House Their Son and Take In the Team's Punter Too
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The hand-drawn, rainbow-colored sign on the bedroom door reads "Alana." Inside, paintings of pink flowers dot the cream walls. A pair of blue angel wings, covered in glitter, hangs over the twin bed.
This used to be Alana Pantale's room, but she's at college now. So her family is loaning the space to New York Jets punter Ryan Quigley.
Quigley is friends with Chris Pantale, Alana's older brother and the Jets' fourth-string tight end. The 23-year-olds were roommates at Boston College. When the pair made the team this year, Pantale moved home with his parents and invited Quigley to crash, rent-free, in his sister's quarters.
"I couldn't have asked for a better situation," said Quigley, sitting atop his bed's moon-and-stars-patterned comforter.
For every multimillionaire, mansion-dwelling NFL star like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, dozens like Quigley and Pantale struggle to make a team's 53-man roster. The league's minimum salary is $405,000, and the average career of an NFL athlete is only 3.2 years, according to the players' union.
Quigley knows one twisted knee or bad game could be it. Yet the appeal of the Pantale family's offer isn't just financial. Besides saving on rent, Quigley gets the benefits of home-cooked meals, a furnished place and the company of a loyal buddy and his kin.
The drawback: Both eligible bachelors must abide by Mrs. Pantale's rules. "Chicks?" Patricia Pantale said. "Not in here."
Patricia and her husband, Bill, don't ask for rent, but Quigley tries to repay them in other ways. He bought their 8-foot Christmas tree, gets the check at restaurants and occasionally picks up their other daughter, 16-year-old Olivia, from volleyball practice.
His offer to do household chores was politely declined. "I try to help with the dishes and put them in the dishwasher, but Mr. Pantale says I do it wrong," Quigley said.
Quigley and Chris Pantale joined Boston College's football team in 2008, bonded over table tennis in the freshmen dorms and lived together the next three years. The punter left BC after the 2011 season, a year before Pantale.
The undrafted Quigley signed with the Chicago Bears, who cut him after one game. The South Carolina native spent the rest of the year in Charlotte, N.C., where he trained, worked as a substitute teacher and waited for a job offer from another team that never came. He watched NFL punters on TV. "You sit there thinking, 'Is that ever going to be me?'" he said.
He got another chance this spring. The Jets signed him—and the undrafted Pantale too. The two talked about sharing an apartment, but the team cut Quigley in August. Pantale made the practice squad and moved back to his childhood home in suburban Wayne, N.J., a 25-minute drive from the Jets' practice facility in Florham Park, N.J. After the season's second game, the Jets called the unemployed Quigley. Their punter was struggling and they wanted Quigley to replace him. With no time to find an apartment, he took the Pantales' offer.
Quigley could afford his own place. Should he remain on the team for the rest of the season, he will make about $357,000—the league's minimum salary prorated for 15 of 17 weeks.
But living on his own just wouldn't be the same. On a recent Thursday, Quigley rolled out of bed at 6:30 a.m., brushed his teeth in the bathroom he shares with Pantale and Pantale's sister and hopped into his tan Toyota RAV4 to head to the practice facility. Pantale had left an hour earlier for weightlifting—which meant they couldn't carpool. "It would obviously be nice," Quigley said. "You'd save gas money."
At work, Quigley lifted weights, attended meetings and focused on his secondary job of holding placekicks. When he got home, he and Pantale watched TV and played table tennis.
Pantale's mother, who works as a secretary, had taken her daughter to volleyball practice. So Bill Pantale, a high-school guidance counselor, prepared dinner, serving penne a la vodka with chicken.
At the table, Quigley broke the silence first. "It's going to snow this weekend," he said.
"Is it going to be windy?" Bill Pantale asked.
"I'll take snow over wind," Quigley said.
After eating two servings and clearing the table, Quigley said he needed to complete his homework assignment: Picking up Christmas decorations for the locker room as part of a Jets special-teams tradition. Quigley and Chris Pantale hopped into the tight end's Nissan Altima and headed to Home Depot.
None of the other Home Depot customers appeared to recognize the 6-foot-3, 188-pound Quigley or the 6-foot-5, 254-pound Pantale as they studied their options.
"Big Bird would be funny," Quigley said. But Pantale said Big Bird wouldn't work unless Quigley also bought the Cookie Monster. "He would look lonely by himself."
Quigley settled on an inflatable Santa Claus, prizing its 11-and-a-half-foot height. "I mean, you walk in (to the locker room) and you're going to be like, 'Damn!' " he said.
The night's second task was a little more complicated. They had to pick up Pantale's sister and three other girls from volleyball practice.
After heading back home to switch to Patricia Pantale's roomier SUV, the two players drove to the three-court gym, where the girls were still playing. "What time does this end?" Pantale asked one of his sister's teammates as she ran by.
"Nine," she said.
"Nine?" Pantale said.
"We thought it was eight," Quigley said.
The two Jets had an hour to kill. Pantale glanced at Quigley. "You want to hit the ball back and forth, you and me?" the tight end asked.
"I guess," Quigley said.
The two hit and kicked volleyballs to each other, while retrieving errant spikes from Olivia's practice. Pantale then rounded up his sister, two of his cousins and one of his sister's teammates to give them rides home. Two of the girls clambered over the vehicle's second row of seats to get into the third row. "Please don't get hurt," Quigley said.
Pantale drove to the first destination, where Olivia's teammate Erin lived. After she said her goodbyes and got out of the car, Pantale started driving away.
"Back up! Back up!" Quigley said, craning his neck to make sure Erin had entered the house.
Pantale, both hands on the wheel, sighed. "Should we make sure she's comfortable?" he said.
Next stop was Pantale's cousins' house. Quigley quizzed the remaining three girls about why teenagers take so many self-portraits on camera phones. "Y'all take selfies?" he asked, in his slight Carolina drawl.
When Quigley finally got home at 9:30 p.m., a half-hour before bedtime, he plopped onto his bed and pulled out his laptop to log onto Netflix, using a college classmate's password. A subscription to the online-video service costs $8 a month.
"This guy is just skating through life," Pantale said.
Quigley glared at Pantale. "You're right," the punter said. "I can probably afford a Netflix account."
Around him, Alana's photos and art projects adorned the walls. He hasn't considered redecorating. "I'm just temporarily in this room," said Quigley.
Quigley plans to find his own place with Pantale if the two are still on the Jets next year. Quigley ranks 13th in the league in average punt yards this season. Pantale, who was promoted to the main roster last month, has yet to appear in an NFL game.
The Pantale household got a little more crowded when Alana, a senior at the University of Delaware, returned for Thanksgiving. She had to crash on the living-room sofa because of the professional punter in her room.
Alana didn't mind. "He's cute," she said. But, alas, she said, "Chris won't let me talk to any of his friends."
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Late budget pushes back Harriman project
Work on $40 million food laboratory will now begin in spring, at the earliest
ALBANY -- The late state budget has delayed the construction of a $40 million food laboratory at the Harriman State Office Campus.
State officials announced the project last year, saying the 70,000-square-foot building would house 50 workers from the Department of Agriculture. They also said construction would begin this summer.
But so far -- nothing.
"The late state budget slowed down a lot of things and this is one of the casualties of that," said Heather Groll, spokeswoman for the Office of General Services, which oversees the state's real estate holdings. "Everything got pushed back."
Groll said OGS next month will issue a request for bids on the construction of the building. That likely means that construction won't start until the spring, at the earliest.
The lab is planned for a site that is now a parking lot at the campus' northeast corner. Funding for the building was appropriated before the state budget crisis.
The three-story laboratory will be located about 100 yards from the existing laboratory. State officials believe the lab will enhance the state's food testing and safety programs and allow for better responses to food-related emergencies.
A rendering of the structure shows a sleek glass-and-steel structure, designed in a modern architectural style similar to what's found elsewhere on the Harriman campus.
A plan adopted by the state in 2002 called for moving state workers from Harriman and turning it over to private development, especially high-technology workers.
But the food lab is evidence of the state's change of plans -- and its intention to keep the 330-acre campus as a state-employment hub.
A $100 million data center for the state Department of Technology may also be built at Harriman.
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WASHINGTON—A high-ranking American diplomat delivered an emotional reconstruction Wednesday of the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, providing the first detailed public account from an American official who was on the ground in Libya.
The testimony from Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. official in Libya at the time, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee also drew new attention to key questions about the attacks, and how the administration handled the aftermath.
The diplomat said he believes the U.S. military could have done more to assist U.S. personnel on the ground. He also said top officials in Washington overlooked information in their early conclusion, since abandoned, that the attack began as a protest.
The riveting narrative from Mr. Hicks, a career diplomat, could revive an issue that had begun to fade after the re-election of President Barack Obama and the confirmation this year of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State John Kerry.
Mark Thompson, the deputy coordinator for operations at the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism in Washington, and Eric Nordstrom, who was in charge of U.S. security in Libya until shortly before the attacks, also testified.
Mr. Hicks recounted his last conversation with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, his own desperate appeals for help, and the moment he received "the saddest phone call I've ever had in my life." Mr. Stevens and three other Americans died in the attacks.
Republicans charge the Obama administration hasn't told all it knows about the periods before, during and after the assault. The administration and Democrats say that dozens of hours of public testimony and thousands of pages of documents, along with an exhaustive independent investigation, have settled the outstanding questions.
Pentagon officials rebutted Mr. Hicks' testimony Wednesday, saying the military wasn't in position to mount a rescue that night, and on that critical matter, the hearing didn't shed new light. The administration's allies have called the Republican-led House investigations, under way in five different committees, politically motivated, aimed at discrediting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a leading candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
Mr. Hicks alleged he was demoted for challenging the official line, specifically the picture painted during TV interviews by United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, who said the rampage grew out of a protest over a U.S.-made, anti-Islamic video that sparked anti-American demonstrations across the Mideast and Europe.
"I was stunned, my jaw dropped and I was embarrassed," Mr. Hicks said of his reaction to Ms. Rice's statements.
During a return to Washington to attend a funeral for one of the men killed, Mr. Hicks said he was summoned to the office of an undersecretary "and she delivered a blistering critique of my management style." Based in part on the criticism, Mr. Hicks said he agreed to curtail his employment in Libya. Mr. Hicks said he wound up as a foreign affairs officer.
"I've been effectively demoted from deputy chief of mission to desk officer," Mr. Hicks said.
The State Department didn't respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Hicks also criticized Mrs. Clinton for minimizing debate about when the administration realized the attacks were terrorism. In January, questioned by lawmakers, she threw up her arms and, noting there were four dead Americans, asked, "What difference at this point does it make?"
Mr. Hicks said Libya's new leader, Mohamed Magariaf, who was trying to establish credibility after the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi, had already declared that the attack resulted from terrorism. Mrs. Clinton's statement, Mr. Hicks said, was an affront to the Libyan leader.
"His credibility was reduced," Mr. Hicks said. "And I definitely believe that it negatively affected our ability to get the FBI team quickly to Benghazi" to investigate the attacks.
Mr. Hicks, by turns calm and emotional, told lawmakers his story of the night of last Sept. 11. He said he was at home in Tripoli watching television when a foreign-service officer ran in at 9:45 p.m. local time, yelling, "Greg, Greg, the consulate's under attack."
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Checking his cellphone, Mr. Hicks said he saw two missed phone calls, one from Mr. Stevens and one from a phone number he didn't recognize.
Mr. Hicks said he called the number he didn't recognize and Mr. Stevens answered. "Greg, we're under attack," Mr. Stevens said before the call cut off. It was the first stage in a frightening and chaotic episode for State Department staffers in Libya.
Just before 11 p.m., Mr. Hicks said he asked the embassy's defense attaché, who was in contact with the Pentagon's Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, whether any military aircraft were on the way.
"Is anything coming? Will they be sending us any help? Is there something out there?" Mr. Hicks said he asked.
The defense attaché told him that the nearest fighter jets were based in Italy, and it would take two to three hours for them to "get on-site"—but there were no air-refueling aircraft available so they could make the trip.
"I said, 'Thank you very much.' And we went on with our work," Mr. Hicks testified.
At about 12:30 a.m. local time, diplomats in Tripoli learned of a new threat by Islamists—to attack the embassy complex in the Libyan capital city. The 55 diplomatic personnel in two facilities began to prepare to evacuate.
Through the night, Mr. Hicks and his team frantically decided they needed to send a second team from Tripoli to Benghazi to secure the airport for the withdrawal of personnel. They decided that a team of special-operations forces should go. But the team was told to stand down, a call Mr. Hicks said he believed came from the military.
Here is a timeline of the U.S. military's response to the Benghazi attacks, as compiled by the Defense Department (all times local)
- 9:42 p.m.: U.S. consulate in Benghazi is attacked.
- 11:30 p.m.: Consulate personnel who survived the attack leave consulate for the nearby annex.
- 12:30 a.m. (approximately): A six-man security team — four are part of a quick-reaction force and two are special-operations force members — leave Tripoli on a Learjet to Benghazi.
- 12:30 a.m. (approximately): In a different part of Tripoli, four of the Army's Green Berets, who are in Libya on a training mission, are asked to awaken U.S. personnel and help with a preventive evacuation in Tripoli.
- Full timeline
Mr. Hicks quoted a lieutenant colonel as telling him: "This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than somebody in the military."
At 2 a.m., Mrs. Clinton and her top advisers called Mr. Hicks for an update. "She asked me what was going on and I briefed her on developments," Mr. Hicks said, adding that most of the call was about the search for Mr. Stevens.
Mr. Hicks said that he didn't discuss whether the attack was terrorist-related with Mrs. Clinton, because he had already reported that assertion.
Mr. Hicks said during the night, the embassy received several calls from Mr. Stevens's phone in which a caller said: "We know where the ambassador is. Please, you can come get him."
Mr. Hicks said the Americans feared the calls were a hoax, designed to lure the Americans into "a trap."
Then, around 3 a.m., Mr. Hicks received a call from the prime minister of Libya, informing him that Mr. Stevens was dead. "I think it was the saddest phone call I've ever had in my life," Mr. Hicks said, choking up. He said he immediately called the State Department to inform them.
Mr. Thompson, the deputy coordinator for operations, testified that he thought the U.S. needed to activate an interagency advisory group called the Foreign Emergency Support Team, but was told that top State Department officials had already determined that sending the team wasn't "in the menu of options."
The State Department has said that the team, based in the U.S., wouldn't have arrived in Libya in time to make any difference. Daniel Benjamin, the head of counterterrorism at the time of the September attacks and Mr. Thompson's former boss, has said that the question of whether to deploy the team was posed early, and the State Department made the correct decision against sending it.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nordstrom, the security chief, testified that the Benghazi compound failed to meet security standards, even though it faced some of the gravest security threats. He also questioned why an independent Accountability Review Board that investigated the attacks didn't expand its probe to cover decisions made higher up the chain of command.
The three witnesses also testified they asked for more security before the attacks, but were rebuffed. Mr. Hicks said that at one point, he felt so vulnerable he asked diplomatic security officers if they would train diplomats how to handle guns.
Mr. Nordstrom said he told officials in February 2012 he wouldn't support occupying the diplomatic compound in Benghazi until security upgrades had been completed. A government official waived requirements that the Benghazi compound meet security standards, Mr. Nordstrom said.
Mr. Nordstrom said the Accountability Review Board didn't properly delve into the matter because it didn't talk to the right people. "They stopped short of interviewing people who I personally know were involved in key decisions," he testified.
State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell, saying Wednesday he wouldn't respond specifically to testimony, criticized days worth of congressional leaks leading up to Wednesday's hearing. "We're willing to work with Congress, but that cooperation has to go both ways," he said.
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A technical problem led to a halt of all Nasdaq trading shortly after midday. Shares of Nasdaq OMX were sharply lower following the halt.
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Click leads to a sight that proclaims the US government has held the secret cure for cancer for 70 years. I went no further.
Seems very wrong for us on so many levels.
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Please remove this ad. Even though quack cures kill many every year, even they should not be attributed to Hitlers horrendous wartime "research" on human subjects.
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Click leads to a sight that proclaims the US government has held the secret cure for cancer for 70 years. I went not further.
Seems very wrong for us on so many levels.
I was patient enough to figure out what they were talking about. It's the Warburg effect, that is a true effect, but knowing about it does not cure cancer. The Warburg effect is about aerobic glycolysis. Warburg noticed that normal cells use oxidative phosphorylation for energy production (in the form of ATP), but cancer cells use glycolysis even in the presence of oxygen. Based on Warburg effect some false treatments were suggested like using a diet with low carbohydrate intake (ketogenic diet). However, cancer can thrive with low carbs too, it can use protein and fats. So, the so called "cure" is useless.
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As any of you who remember back to when high-school biology covered osmosis, the balance of salts inside of cells can make the difference between life and death: too much, and the cell will explode; too little, and it will dry out and shrivel up. To keep everything under control, cells use what are called "ion channels" to regulate how the charged atoms of salts get into and out of cells. Ion channels can consist of one or more proteins that create a pore through the cell membrane, and their regulated activity is essential for not only cell health but for the control of the electrical charges that regulate muscle and nerve firing.
So, when researchers found a subunit of an ion channel (termed βm) that was expressed broadly in some animals, but only in the muscle cells of placental mammals, they probably thought they might be on to an interesting adaption, presumably involving the regulation of muscle activity. The were right that they were on to something interesting, but their recent publication suggests that any simple inference about how this protein regulates muscle activity is nowhere close to right.
One hint that something funny was going on came when the looked for where the protein is in the cell. Instead of being at the cell surface, βm appeared to never make it far from the area where it is first made, in the vicinity of the nucleus. Try as they might, the authors were also unable to detect the protein acting as part of a functional ion channel, either.
At a loss for what βm might be doing, they did a standard test to look for proteins that interacted with it. I can only imagine their surprise (and skepticism) when they pulled out SKIP, which is part of a complex of proteins that regulates gene expression in the nucleus. But, when tested with genes known to be regulated by SKIP, βm was found to be able to alter gene expression. So, its role in regulating muscle activity comes at the level of controlling which genes get expressed.
The authors suggest that somewhere along the lineage that lead to placental mammals, the βm gene stopped working as part of an ion channel, something made possible by the fact that there are four others like it in the genome to cover for it. Over time, it appears to have picked up additional mutations; the mammalian version has a string of charged amino acids at one end of the protein that may help it interact with other proteins and/or target it to the nucleus. It's not clear when this happened on the way to placental mammals. I took a quick look at a marsupial version of the gene, but it's only a partial sequence—there's no way to tell if the charged stretch is present.
The data are a great reminder that evolution really doesn't seem to involve much in the way of grand leaps or sudden changes. Rather, this sort of low-level genetic theft and tweaking seems to go on all the time; evolution appears to work more by tinkering with what exists than producing the entirely new.


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Dynamite Entertainment is proud to announce the upcoming LORDS OF MARS #1 debut in August 2013, a crossover that sees Tarzan and Jane Porter of their LORD OF THE JUNGLE series team with John Carter and Dejah Thoris of the WARLORD OF MARS franchise. The six-issue series will be written by Arvid Nelson and illustrated by Roberto Castro, with the first issue available in multiple cover editions featuring art by Alex Ross, Francesco Francavilla, Dan Panosian, and Ardian Syaf.
In LORDS OF MARS #1, the legendary Tarzan has claimed his title as Lord of Greystoke, but his very life is threatened when a hunting excursion with his fellow "gentlemen" goes disastrously wrong. Meanwhile, on Mars, John Carter is forced to respond to a veiled threat from his defeated enemies. Mars and Earth might be separated by millions of miles, but a sinister force is at work on both planets, setting the two iconic adventurers on a deadly collision course.
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John Carter and Tarzan are the archetypal science fiction and jungle heroes, respectively, whose literary history stretches back over a century. "Carter is more comfortable around human beings than Tarzan. He's more of a leader, but he's most in his element in times of conflict, as opposed to the backstabbing and intrigue of 'peacetime.' Tarzan is more a force of nature. In terms of raw strength and agility no one can match him, but he's not fully in control of himself." Joining these pulp heroes in LORDS OF MARS are their love interests, Jane Porter and Dejah Thoris, who play pivotal roles in the story.
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Parties to the Convention have agreed to submit to the Conference of the Parties (COP) national reports on implementation of the Convention to inform on the implementation of activities relating to mitigation. The required contents and level of details of national reports and/or the timetable for their submission are different for developed and developing country Parties. This is in accordance with the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" enshrined in the Convention.
The Cancun Agreements enhanced existing provisions for reporting by requiring Parties to submit their national communications every four years. Additionally, developed countries should submit biennial reports and developing countries biennial update reports. Least developed countries and small island developing states will have flexibility to submit this information. Parties have also agreed to conduct "international assessment and review" (IAR) applicable to information submitted by developed country Parties; and international consultation and analysis (ICA) for information submitted by developing country Parties.
Developed countries are required to submit information on their national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories annually. They also submit national communications periodically, according to dates set by the COP. The sixth national communications from these countries is due by 1 January 2014. From then onwards, they will be required to submit their national communications every four year. Developed countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol must include supplementary information in their national communications and annual national GHG inventories to demonstrate compliance with their commitments under the Protocol. Similarly, developed country Parties shall submit their first biennial reports by 1 January 2014 and their second and subsequent biennial reports two years thereafter.
Developing country Parties are also required to submit national communications which include a national GHG inventory. Until COP 16, there were no fixed dates for the submission of national communications from these countries, although these reports were to be submitted within four years of the initial disbursement of financial resources to assist them in preparing their national communications. At COP16, it was decided that developing countries would submit their national communications every four years. It was also decided that developing countries, consistent with their capabilities and the level of support provided for reporting, should submit biennial update reports containing updates of national greenhouse gas inventories, including a national inventory report and information on mitigation actions, needs and support received. At COP17, it was decided that developing countries should submit their first biennial update reports by December 2014 and the subsequent ones every two thereafter. The least developed country Parties and small island developing States may submit biennial update reports at their discretion.
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