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This morning in the paper, it was mentioned how the OEMs used to consume the oil from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have lowered oxygen levels by approximately 30%. I recently completed AP Biology where we thoroughly discussed the properties of bacteria and the ability to transfer plasmids to other bacteria without a particular trait (the standard fluorescence gene for the lab we did).
When my mom mentioned this, AP Biology oddly came back to my brain. I wondered if it was possible or practical to target the sequence that codes for oil-eating behavior and match it with an anaerobic bacteria where the plasmid could be introduced into its DNA. This way, the oxygen levels wouldn't be affected as much!
I honestly have no idea if this is possible, but would love some feedback!
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In theory its possible and they allready use (not there) bacteria to "eat" away "dirt" (oil etc..) ; but this is a very slow proces.
The huge amounts of oil cant be "eaten" away that fast.
The huge amounts of oil cant be "eaten" away that fast.
If you don't know it, then ask it! Better to ask and look foolish to some than not ask and stay stupid.


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Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, left, speaks at a news conference with Dr. Rick Sponaugle, in Middleburg Heights on Thursday.
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Bernie Kosar, idolized by countless fans from his days as a Browns quarterback, is being treated by a brain specialist for head trauma he has lived with for more than 25 years.
Dr. Rick Sponaugle, headquartered in Palm Harbor, Fla., joined Kosar Thursday in a Berea hotel for a news conference lasting two hours. Kosar looked like a man who finally found an oasis after wandering in the desert for a decade. His eyes were sharp, he was slimmer than he has been in years and his speech was clearer than it has been in years.
"I had so many concussions when I played," Kosar said. "I really didn't understand what was going on. For 10 to 12 years I've had the ringing, buzzing, constant headaches, 24/7, 365. You mask it. You try to pretend it's not there. As football players, you don't want complain.
"It was somewhat scary to read the article on Junior Seau (the former linebacker committed suicide last year. Tests released Thursday showed he was suffering from degenerative brain disease resulting from repeated concussions when he killed himself). … To feel like this and not have the headaches and to be able to sleep through the night, I really thought it was a gift from God."
Sponaugle treats Alzheimer patients, soldiers suffering from brain trauma and patients suffering from multiple sclerosis as well as athletes. He said his method reverses brain damage and gets the brain back to where it can grow new cells through what he said is "a biochemical makeover."
Sponaugle explained in clinical terms how blows to Kosar's head over a career spanning four years in high school, three in college and 11 in the NFL are the root cause of the insomnia, slurred speech and other symptoms that have gradually gotten more pronounced since Kosar retired as an NFL player in 1996. He played for the Browns from 1985 to midway through 1993.
Sponaugle has been addressing a biochemical deficiency with oral and intravenous nutrients to increase blood flow to Kosar's brain since around Thanksgiving. Kosar has received about 15 treatments in all. Kosar found Sponaugle while surfing the Internet last year.
"With enough G-force the brain slams up against the skull," Sponaugle said. "The arteries that deliver blood flow and the brain chemicals that turn on the (brain's) electricity, those vessels will scar down after seven to eight weeks, whether it's a really bad game or a car accident.
"The difference is the car accident is a one-time deal when the head goes through the windshield. Bernie had his head put through the windshield every Sunday."
The slurred speech symptom accounts for the times Kosar would sound drunk during radio interviews, Sponaugle said. He said he conducted a Positive Electron Tomography test before Kosar sounded weepy and drunk during an interview on 92.3 last month. The test measures the sugar burn in the brain, which relates to blood flow, Sponaugle said. Knowing the results of Kosar's PET scan, he said he was not surprised when he heard a copy of Kosar's radio interview.
"If the electrical current is shut down, you're going to burn less glucose because there's nothing going on," Sponaugle said. "It measures the activity of the brain as direct as you can get.
"A traumatized brain becomes an inflamed brain. You lose the blood flow first. When you have less blood flow, you have less electricity that turns on the lights. Decreased blood flow is a disaster. That's why if you exercise five days a week for half an hour you have 50 percent less chance (of Alzheimer's).
Kosar has no ax to grind. He is not part of a class-action lawsuit involving 4,000 players suing the NFL for allegedly hiding information on head trauma.
Kosar said he suffered 12 documented concussions. There were other blows to the head that were not designated concussions. First comes the blow to the front of the head when a quarterback is hit, then to the back of the head when he hits the turf. Kosar said being tackled in Riverfront Stadium, Three Rivers Stadium or the Houston Astrodome was like being tackled on concrete. Rules have since changed to protect quarterbacks.
"I don't want any sympathy," Kosar said. "Don't feel sorry for me. Once you get (head trauma), it doesn't get better. It gets worse, worse and worse. I needed to get to (Sponaugle) when I got to him."
Kosar said he carried smelling salts in a little pocket on his uniform. If he got whacked in the head he would take a whiff of the smelling salts and hand off on the next play so his head had time to clear.
Sponaugle is "a pioneer," Kosar said. Kosar is trying to hook him up with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
"It's difficult to believe you can do what hasn't been done," Sponaugle said of skeptics. "Why wouldn't people be interested in fixing their brain vs. winning the lottery? That's the way I look at it. Americans, sometimes, would rather be sick and win the lottery."
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Another furry corner was helpfully right in front of the stands – good views! The 'off road entertainment' I saw was the first race out on Sunday morning from the Suzuki Production Racing – and it was damp.
In the photo, the rescue truck with its lights on is facing the right direction. The little Suzuki (William Bamber was driving – Earl's wee brother) got caught on the edge of the track and spun, sliding parallel to the gravel pit (you see it as the grey area directly above the fence of ads). The gravel is quite deep, catching the wheels which stopped the car sliding. But the momentum of the car encouraged the body of it to keep going and so it rolled, quite sedately I thought.
William was fine – although if I was his mum I'm not sure I could watch. My fingernails would definately be bitten to the quick.
What these gravel pits are called?
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PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Jahii Carson didn't let his so-so first half bother him Thursday night.
Carson scored 21 of his 25 points in the second half, and led Arizona State to its third straight victory, 63-59 over Washington State.
Carson and Carrick Felix carried the load in the second half for the Sun Devils (17-4, 6-2 Pac-12), scoring all but five of Arizona State's points after the break, when the Cougars led 28-24.
With the score tied at 58, Carson made a layup and was fouled by Brock Motum. Carson made the free throw to give the Sun Devils a 61-58 lead. And the freshman's basket with 16 seconds to play accounted for the final margin. He made six of his last seven shots and finished 10 of 19 for the night.
"He is impressive, for a freshman to have that kind of composure down the stretch after struggling in the first half is something," Sun Devils coach Herb Sendek said.
Carson made just 2 of 8 shots in the first half for four points.
"I just got used to their (Washington State) defense, I got used to the court and I just kept trying to shoot with confidence. I started to be more focused in the second half and attack the paint," Carson said.
The Cougars had a nine-point lead in the first half, the biggest for either team in a game that featured 10 lead changes.
"He (Carson) hurt us in many ways in the second half, driving the ball and shooting, and he started to free up his team for multiple shots," Washington State head coach Ken Bone said.
Before the late heroics, Washington State had scored seven straight points to make it 58-all. Royce Woolridge, who led the Cougars (11-10, 2-6) with 16 points, had five in that 7-0 run. Woolridge scored 15 of his points in the second half.
Evan Gordon had 13 points and Felix had 11 points — all in the second half — and 11 rebounds for the Sun Devils, who overcame a 4-for-11 performance from the free-throw line.
The Sun Devils are 6-2 in the conference for the first time since 1994, and are off to their best start since 1981, when ASU began the season 19-2 behind eventual NBA players Byron Scott, Fat Lever and Alton Lister.
Mike Ladd had 14 points, and Motum matched Felix's numbers with 11 points and 11 boards for theCougars. The point total for Motum was his lowest of the season.
Dexter Kernich-Drew scored 10 points for Washington State, which has lost six times this season by seven or fewer points. The Cougars' next game is at home Saturday against No. 8 Arizona while the Sun Devils go across the state to face Washington, also on Saturday.
The Sun Devils committed only four turnovers in the game — none by guards Carson, Felix and Gordon. Washington State was 7 of 14 from 3-point range in the first half, tying their best long-range field-goal performance of the season, but went just 2 of 9 the rest of the way.
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The Greater Taichung government yesterday fined the construction contractor for the Greater Taichung MRT's Green Line NT$960,000 for the inappropriate removal and trimming of nearby trees.
Earlier last week, local residents and the members of a tree-protection association noticed the MRT's construction workers trimming the trees on the street near Nanyuan Park (南苑公園) and Shuian Temple (水安宮). Workers were cutting too much off the tree tops and roots, and residents reported it to the government.
The city government yesterday said that after an inspection by Deputy Mayor Huang Guo-rong (黃國榮) and Greater Taichung Construction Bureau Director-General Mu Kuei-hsin (沐桂新) on Wednesday, it asked the MRT office to remedy the situation, but the same actions were reported again on Sunday.
Mu said the local government fined the contractor NT$6,000 for each of the 32 trees that were over-trimmed, and also required the contractor to pay NT$774,000 compensation for eight trees that were removed in contravention of regulations governing Greater Taichung's parks, green lands, park ways and roadside trees.
In addition, the government has also withdrawn its permission for the contractor to remove trees from the Greater Taichung MRT's Green Line, so any further tree removals would elicit heavy fines, starting yesterday.
Greater Taichung Department of Transportation Deputy Director Wen Tai-hsin (溫代欣) said the contractor said it had removed the trees to get its work done faster, and that the department's MRT office would conduct an internal review to reflect on its shortcomings in monitoring the construction.


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Rob Lloyd, Cisco's hard-charging global sales chief, says that the message to Cisco's sales force and its channel base is that after a year of seismic change at Cisco, it's time to double down on the areas where it has momentum and be even more aggressive as a competitor to the likes of HP, Microsoft and Huawei while continuing to simplify how it does business with partners.
Lloyd, Cisco's executive vice president, worldwide operations, and Cisco's top sales leaders recently addressed more than 20,000 Cisco employees as part of GSX, a virtual sales conference through which Cisco attempts to set strategy for its legions of salespeople at the start of the new fiscal year.
This year's installment included breakouts for Cisco's three geographies -- Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific Japan and China (APJC) -- keynotes from Cisco CEO John Chambers and Lloyd, and a number of technology-specific sessions focused on both enterprise and service provider priorities, as well as other executive presentations that included people like Bruce Klein, Cisco's new senior vice president, Worldwide Partner Organization.
[Related: Cisco's Lloyd: VMware's Nicira Deal A Competitive Threat To Cisco]
"The feedback was very good," Lloyd said of the GSX presentations in an exclusive interview with CRN. "This last year has seen a lot of progress, and [Cisco] is coming back to the top of its game."
Last year, Cisco kicked off a painful corporate restructuring process that's seen it part ways with more than 15,000 employees thanks to early retirement packages, layoffs and asset sales. At the same time, Lloyd's sales apparatus was rearranged from nine theaters into three geographies, and in the ensuing months, a number of well-known Cisco executives departed or were reassigned.
One was Klein, who succeeded Keith Goodwin in August as Cisco's global channel chief. Another was Jim Sherriff, the former Americas sales channel chief who now reports directly to Lloyd in a newly created role running the sales aspect of the Accelerated Cisco Transformation (ACT) project, a companywide Cisco effort to prepare the company's operations, sales strategy and product portfolio for the coming years.
That was all part of the early phase of a simplification effort that's going to take several years, Lloyd said. Part of that will be a process Lloyd likened to "cleaning out the Cisco closet."
In the next year, Cisco will work ensure that its processes and procedures are as streamlined as possible, its messaging and value proposition are as clearly stated in as many areas as possible and its various resources -- everything from company white papers to its galaxy of incentive programs -- are simplified so they can be executed a lot more rapidly.
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Jose Fonte believes there is a "very good thing" happening at Southampton right now and is determined to help them into the record books.
This has been a fine second season back in the Barclays Premier League for Saints, whose possession football and focus on homegrown talent has brought points as well as admirers.
Saturday's deserved 2-0 defeat of top-four hopefuls Everton saw Mauricio Pochettino's side strengthen their place in eighth and equal the club's record Premier League points tally of 52.
There are suggestions that the Southampton set-up could be broken up this summer but Fonte - a key member of the squad since the League One days - is only focused on ending the season on a high.
"We always want to be the best and now we equalled the record and now we will try to beat that," the Portuguese centre-back said.
"I am pleased because it was a tough game. They are a very, very good team. They are fighting for the Champions League so we knew it would be hard but I think it was our day.
"We completely dominated the game, were better than them and showed that we have a very good thing going on here, a very strong team.
"It is pleasing to get the three points again because we knew if we won we would equal the record of points.
"Always to win at home in front of your supporters is pleasing, but most of all for ourselves because I think we deserved the win the way we have performed this year."
In truth, the 2-0 scoreline flattered under-performing Everton at St Mary's, where the match was settled by own goals from Antolin Alcaraz and Seamus Coleman.
That does, though, mean no Saints player has scored in their last three matches - a run that coincides with the anterior cruciate ligament injury to top scorer Jay Rodriguez.
"I think obviously we miss Jay Rodriguez a little bit," Fonte said. "He is our cutting edge.
"We miss Gaston Ramirez a bit as well with his final passes, he is very good on that.
"Because of that Rickie Lambert was playing as a number 10, not as a number nine so it is a little bit difficult.
"It was a little bit difficult to get shots on target but we had crosses and if you put the ball in the box then there can always be mistakes or a goal."
Those mistakes from Alcaraz and Coleman have left Everton's hopes of a top-four finish looking remote.
Arsenal now have the opportunity to move four points clear with victory over Newcastle, although manager Roberto Martinez believes the Toffees still have a chance of sneaking into the Champions League.
Everton end the season with a home clash with Manchester City and a trip to Hull - matches they are hoping left-back Leighton Baines will be available for.
Martinez is already without eight players through injury and saw the England international forced off towards the end of the defeat at St Mary's.
"We will assess Leighton Baines and see if it's a serious injury or not," the Spaniard said.
"He was feeling his knee and his calf a little bit, we will assess him but it shouldn't be too bad."
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OMG, those water things where you pushed the button! I'd forgotten we used to have one!
I'm desperately racking my brains now trying to remember over 20 years back what ours looked like.
I think it had coloured hoops and you had to get them in either a box or around a pole.
It's crazy how things can go absent from your memory for decades until something reminds you of them.
I had one of these when I was young
Wow, retro.
Some good stuff there, though...
I thought you hated hipsters?
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I must be getting old - I don't recall any of those sorts of things during my childhood. Where are the Lego's and Tonka Toys?
I think they were called "Wonderful Waterfuls"? My brother and I had a few of them. The ringtoss and basketball free-throws.
Oh no, why did I have to look at this?
Is there a U.S.A. Version of that Site?
I got a really strange but really nice compliment from somebody recently. "Lex is what all hipsters are aspiring to be like. Except everything hipsters like ironically, Lex actually likes."


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I hope you're well into a fun filled day of celebration, sweetheart, chowing down on some yummy peanut butter, climbing curtains, ambushing your human...being devious!:p:D You are one adorable rattie boy Scamper, and your person so very lucky to have two such sweet and cuddly, fun loving best furkids in you and Skipper! Oh, did I tell you how heart melting your photos are??? Thud!:love::love::love:
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Awesome Gem won the one-mile allowance contest by a half-length over 2011 California Derby champ Positive Response. The race, a prep for the $150,000 San Francisco Mile on April 28, was originally scheduled to be run on the turf but was moved to Golden Gate Fields' synthetic Tapeta racing surface due to the recent rains.
Awesome Gem is trained by Craig Dollase and owned by West Point Thoroughbreds. The old warrior earned $23,100, a payday that boosted his career earnings to $2,761,370.
Awesome Gem leads all active American thoroughbred racehorses in money won.
The San Francisco Mile is Northern California's top turf race and Dollase said before Thursday's race that Santa Anita-based Awesome Gem would return to Golden Gate Fields to contest the Grade 3 stakes.
Gryder Wins Four Races -- Jockey Aaron Gryder rode four winners Thursday. The crafty veteran won the first race with Rachel Raccoon ($6.00), the fourth with Royal Import ($5.20), the sixth with Cazadero ($3.80), and the seventh with Red Dwarf ($5.00).


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any chance of free food is a ftw to me.
any chance of free food is a ftw to me.
Pro civil union + codified rights.
Against labelling it 'marriage'.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
Agree with benchy.
'Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'farewell! Every happiness and prosperity! If, in the progress of revolving years, I could persuade myself that my blighted destiny had been a warning to you, I should feel that I had not occupied another man's place in existence altogether in vain.
- Wilkins Micawber
If a black man married and white woman and was only allowed to call it a "civil union" there'd (rightly) be an outcry.
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The irony is that the same passage in Leviticus also specifically outlaws several other things which people do everyday, such as shaving and wearing clothes made from more than one material.
I'm not against it. Live and let live.
Yeah, couldn't care less tbh, let people do what they want.
Let them get on with it, these couples are obviously in love so why not let them 'marry' in the same way as a man and woman.
As a side note i should actually vote for the bottom option (no pun there) as i have spent more time at a sporting venue with Gay in it than any other. The much missed Gay Meadow in Shrewsbury.
If it's the same, why give it a different name?
Obviously I'd take civil unions over nothing, which is what exists in many cases in the US, but it's not marriage and the push shouldn't be over unless it's called marriage. As BoyBrumby alluded, if an interracial couple had the same rights, but were labeled something different, there'd be an outcry. And people forget: they used to quote bible passages for their opposition to interracial marriage too. Then it became terribly not-PC to be against that, and it kind of went away.
Hopefully the same thing happens with gay marriage eventually. Obviously civil unions would be a nice start, if they existed in all the states in the US - it's great that other countries already have them.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
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Warrior Taft can go home again
By Geoff Lepper, STAFF WRITER
Jeff O'Brien, the athletic director at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, expects 75 newcomers to apply this month when tryouts begin for the Clippers' freshman boys basketball team.
Regardless of background or size, they share one common item, according to O'Brien: "They all want to be Chris Taft."
Right now, so would plenty of other NBA rookies.
With starting center Adonal Foyle nursing a painful left knee and highly touted backup Andris Biedrins sidelined by a sprained ankle, there are minutes in the middle to be had with the Warriors right now. And Taft, Xaverian Class of 2003, is gobbling them up.
The second-round pick is making it clear that his selection wasn't some payback on the part of Warriors executive Chris Mullin, himself a 1981 grad of Xaverian. In 31 high-energy minutes over the team's first two games, the 6-foot-10, 261-pound Taft has grabbed eight rebounds, scored six points and endeared himself to the Arena faithful, who gave him a loud cheer upon his entry Friday night.
"We've been trying to encourage him and bring him out," Foyle said. "He has such an amazing body for such a young player. We now know we can go to him and get some production, and that's great. ... I think that's going to be good for us."
The Warriors' first road trip of the season, which opens this afternoon in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks, should be good for Taft. After all, this is a guy who said before the season opener that he was "more excited about going home."
In fact, Taft's return has threatened to overshadow Xaverian's actual homecoming. The Clippers football team will kick off against Fordham Prep at 1:30 this afternoon, a half-hour after the Warriors are slated to tip off against the Knicks.
"There's a bunch of kids going over. We're really excited for him," said O'Brien, and that enthusiasm is not limited to the student body. "I don't want to sound dopey, but Chris was one of the nicest kids here. If you saw Chris in the halls, he always went out of his way to say hello."
Taft, whose freshman physical education teacher was Terence Mullin, younger brother of Chris, is trying to cobble together 80 tickets on behalf of his personal cheering section, which will be led by his aunt, Sakina Simpson.
It will undoubtedly be a happier moment than draft day was. Having left the University of Pittsburgh after two seasons as the school's sixth-leading shot blocker and an All-Big East honorable mention player, Taft could only watch as the first round came and went without his name being called.
Finally the Warriors, who had brought Taft in for a pre-draft workout, picked him at No. 42 overall.
"When we saw he was there, we were really happy," Chris Mullin said.
Taft admitted he wasn't quite so pleased with being someone's diamond in the rough, even if it was on behalf of the Warriors, who were one of three teams he wanted most to play for (the others being his hometown Knicks and the Suns) because of the presence of superlative point guard Baron Davis.
"I was upset, but it's all in the past," Taft said. "It doesn't matter where you were picked. It's how you perform."
So far, so good. Taft has given the Warriors a solid body inside (his three blocks rank third on the team, behind Foyle and Jason Richardson) when they've badly needed it.
"The preseason's over. There's no room for mistakes no more," Taft said. "We've got so many guys that can score that if I come in, I've got to be that guy who defends and rebounds."
As coach Mike Montgomery put it: "Going up and getting a block, getting a rebound, being a physical presence, he just seemed to energize us."
If he keeps it up, this time next year there might be some kids in the Bay Area who want to be Chris Taft.
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If you've ever gotten lost trying to find a friend's new house or a well-reviewed new restaurant you'll undoubtedly have wished for an onboard navigation system. Portable "navis," in fact, have become one of the hottest perennial holiday gifts.
Yet despite frequent surveys showing that a majority of motorists would like to get a car equipped with a built-in system, the technology is still only ordered on about one in ten new cars. Why the big gap? Cost, industry analysts agree. Though the price of portable navigation systems have plunged in recent years, built-in systems remain one of the most expensive options you can add to a new vehicle.
But that is starting to change, and makers like Chevrolet, which is slashing the price of navi on its 2012 Cruze, "will win" lots of new buyers "with a low-cost solution," predicts George Peterson, head of the consulting firm AutoPacific, Inc.
"Manufacturers have their heads in the sand trying to protect the revenue model they've developed over the last decade," said Peterson. But high costs don't really generate big profits, he contends, because it results in much lower sales volumes for onboard navi technology.


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There are.
I prefer 'There is a diversity of factors' as diversity is a singular word.
There IS a diversity of factors.
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SYRACUSE For many struggling to find their way out of an abusive situation, the most uncertain time can be after the matter is taken to court.
Now, in order to help address that uncertainty, the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies statewide are taking part in a pilot program that will allow those who have been granted orders of protection by their local family court to register to receive alerts when those orders are served.
New law meant to protect victims of violence
New York state lawmakers agreed on a new bill shortly before the end of this year's legislative session that would have a major impact on domestic violence survivors and perpetrators in the state. The agreement, announced June 11, was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week. The provisions include:
The creation of new felony and misdemeanor crimes and enhancement of penalties for repeat offenders, to take effect 60 to 90 days after the bill becomes law
A requirement for judges to consider certain risk factors when determining recognizance or bail for a defendant who is charged with an offense against a family or household member, including prior violations of orders of protection and access to firearms, to take effect 60 days after the bill becomes law
The establishment of a Fatality Review team to find new ways to reduce intimate partner homicides, to be established 180 days after the bill becomes law
An assurance that domestic violence offenders cannot control the disposition of a victim's remains, to take effect 30 days after the bill becomes law
Improved safeguards to protect the location of victims, including the use of a substitute mailing address maintained by the Department of State, to take effect immediately
A provision allowing survivors seeking medical and mental health services to have their insurance claims, forms or billing information sent to a confidential addresses rather than the one shared with their abuser, to take effect Jan. 1, 2013
Access to web-based training for law enforcement in topics in domestic violence response, including investigating current and past incidents, collecting evidence, conducting interviews, applying the state's mandatory arrest and primary physical aggressor provisions, and identifying possible criminal charges
"By strengthening the domestic violence laws, New York is leading the way in protecting victims and prosecuting offenders while demonstrating to the nation that we will not tolerate violence against our families," Cuomo said.
The law also had the endorsement of Vera House Executive Director Randi Bregman.
"The provisions in this law have been in discussion in one form or another for years," Bregman said. "We appreciate the legislature and the government's commitment to trying to create a safer state for victims."
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As a chowder judge it's best to coat the stomach early in the morning with a basic, old-world foundation such as oatmeal with a bit of honey and milk that might have come from a cow in the backyard. Then it's wise to fast until the tasting begins at the annual East Hampton Town Trustees Largest Clam contest and chowder competition.
Chowder has deep roots in the Northeast, especially here on Long Island. It should be taken seriously. Not only has the flesh of quahogs been a bountiful and ready source of food for hundreds of years, but, as though in homage to their innate value, beads made from the lustrous, white and purple lining of their shells were turned into wampum, coin of the Native American and early settlers' realm.
For centuries, clams have been raked from the bottom of bays and harbors in early fall, plump from a summer of filtering only the finest phytoplankton from our fresh tides. They have been steamed open, their meats chopped into pieces of a size to fit a chowder maker's design. Clam liquor, the liquid essence of the quahog, is collected and put aside. (More about this fundamental ingredient to come.) And, from the garden or the I.G.A, fresh vegetables are picked, diced, and added. In this neck of the woods chowder is not chowder without a hunk or two of salt pork. Herbs and spices are sown into the soup according to the chowder maker's palette.
In New England white chowders rule. In New York and elsewhere, red, tomato-based, Manhattan chowders define the dish. East End chowder makers, as though caught between the two traditions, serve up a clear concoction, not white, not red, more of a thin chowder or fat soup stripped of tomatoey bells and milky whistles — a pure, tart, celebration of the quahog.
Fred Overton's house chowder, served by the vat each year at the Largest Clam contest, is such a creation. His is a Bonac chowder based on a tried and true, handed down recipe that can be found on the Food page of today's Star.
It is against this backdrop and Mr. Overton's extremely high standard that the chowder tasting began during Sunday's competition on Bluff Road in Amagansett.
Although fewer in number, this season's chowder submissions were by and large bolder. There were five reds and four whites judged in five reds and four whites judged in separate categories by this reporter, his wife, Kyle Paseka, and East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc. A fourth judge, Julie Stone, had to be brought in to break a tie in the red chowder taste-off.
There are various schools of thought when it comes to deciding a good chowder. A common mistake is to over-stuff chowder, especially a red chowder, to fill it with a veritable garden of vegetables until it resembles a "Bloody Mary without the vodka," as Mr. Van Scoyoc put it. Speaking of which — and this comes to the point — Peter Beard of Montauk favors Bloody Marys using only vodka and Clamato juice. Clam juice is the magic ingredient, and it's one that, alas, some chowder makers submerge in vegetation. In many a New England chowder, the salty, tart essence of our embayments is buried in butter. For shame.
In this judge's opinion, two of the chowders entered in Sunday's competition, one red, one white, committed the clam juice sacrilege. Most were very good, but in the end, Jim Sullivan's two entries — one of them a juicy, slightly piquant, and not-overly-vegetated red, the other a classic and clammy New England — took top honors in each category.
As usual, trustees provided bushels of neck-size quahogs that were opened and served to the hundred or so who attended the event and washed the clams down with bowl upon bowl of Mr. Overton's chowder. The town shellfish hatchery provided an educational exhibit on seed clams, and the Cornell Cooperative Extension had a setup demonstrating the importance of eelgrass to the area's bivalves, while the biggest bivalves themselves waited patiently beside the scales and calipers to be judged.
As usual, Napeague Harbor seemed to produce the biggest clams. Linda Calder was the overall winner with a monster two-pound-nine-ounce chowder clam dug from Napeague Harbor. In the adult competition, Henry Flohr scratched around Accabonac Harbor before coming up with the 1.15-pound winner.
The first place Lake Montauk clam was a hefty 2.8-pounder dug by Nancy Peppard. Clifton Keyes won for Three Mile Harbor with a 1.1-pound clam.
In the junior competition, Avery Charron found a 1.7-pound clam in Accabonac Harbor. Edward Hoff III dug a very large 2.54-pounder from Napeague to be that harbor's top junior digger and the top overall junior clammer, and Joe Hawkins's 1.67-pounder took top honors from Three Mile Harbor.


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CENTRAL POINT — The wait on a complete section of the Bear Creek Greenway is almost over.
During paving work on the trail's final portion, nearby Peninger Road will be closed between the Jackson County Expo's No. 5 gate and Upton Road today through Friday, Nov. 22, the Jackson County Roads & Parks Department reported.
The nearby Jackson County Expo and Family Fun Center will remain open during the closure. Motorists will be able to access both from Peninger Road if they turn onto it from East Pine Street. Drivers who use the road's closed portion are advised to seek alternate routes to their destination.
Work on the 1.4-mile portion of the Greenway, which will link East Pine Street to Upton Road, started Monday, Nov. 4. Salem-based Oregon Mainline Paving LLC will close to road to build retaining walls along the edge of the Expo's north ponds.
The closed section is anticipated to reopen Saturday, Nov. 23, as a one-lane road, with traffic controlled by a temporary signal. Construction on the retaining walls and reconstruction of the road is estimated to continue through Monday, Dec. 23.
Delays of five minutes or less are anticipated for motorists in the area during this time, and alternate routes should still be considered.
Upon completion of the Greenway section between Upton Road to East Pine Street, there will be close to 20 miles of continuous Greenway in the Rogue Valley.
"It's fantastic. To make the connection to the Expo Fairgrounds is a big deal," said Jenna Stanke, bicycle pedestrian manager for Jackson County Parks. "Allowing people to access the Fairgrounds by foot or by bike will be a big improvement."
The $1.7 million bicycle, walking and running path will stretch from a site just off Oak Street in Ashland through Talent, Phoenix, Medford and Central Point to the north Central Point exit off Interstate 5. Construction has been ongoing since the 1970s. Jackson County first secured federal funds — which pay for a majority of the project — to fund it in 2010, along with an additional $190,000 in matching local funds from the Bear Creek Greenway Foundation.
The full path is expected to be complete and open to the general public by June 30, 2014. While that 20-mile strip will be complete, construction will continue. Stanke said the ultimate goal is to connect with the Rogue River Greenway out at Rock Point Bridge while stretching the other direction to Emigrant Lake. Project officials said they hope to have a 50-mile path by project's end.
It see it all as one big effort," Stanke said.
Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at 541-776-4468 or by email at email@example.com.
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CENTRAL POINT — The wait on a complete section of the Bear Creek Greenway is almost over.


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AOL to sell 800 patents to Microsoft
Published 2:45 pm, Monday, April 9, 2012
NEW YORK - Faltering Internet icon AOL was able to squeeze out more than $1 billion from Microsoft for a trove of some 800 patents in an auction, the latest sign of just how valuable such portfolios can be for the world's biggest technology companies.
"There is a fight for market share occurring on multiple fronts - technology, patents, advertising," said Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Financial who covers Microsoft. "Microsoft, more so than others out there, has been (using) its patent portfolio as a way to generate license fees. This should strengthen that."
Microsoft refused to say what the patents cover. Benchmark analyst Clayton Moran said they revolve around Internet technology, including advertising, search and mapping. This would help Microsoft go up against Google, a big rival that is ahead of it in all three areas.
Patents have become a hot commodity in the high-tech industry in recent years. They're useful both for attack - for suing competitors - and for defense - for warding off lawsuits with threats of countersuits.
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Rising star Facebook, for instance, recently purchased 750 patents from IBM Corp., a move that likely helped the company defend itself after Yahoo Inc. accused it of violating 10 Yahoo patents. Facebook shot back with its own lawsuit, claiming Yahoo is violating 10 Facebook patents.
Software patents can have broad applications, and thousands of patents can apply to a complicated product like a cellphone. Google is buying phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion, in large part, to get hold of its patents.
AOL's shares surged to their highest level in more than a year following the announcement. The company agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft for about $1.06 billion in cash. The New York-based Web site developer and Internet access company said it plans to return some of the sale proceeds to its shareholders. After the sale, AOL said it should have about $15 per share of cash on hand.
Its stock rose $7.83, or 43 percent, to $26.25 in midday trading, adding more than $750 million to its market capitalization. Microsoft shares slipped 20 cents, to $31.32 amid a broader market decline.
AOL's move signals that it's listening to stockholders who are asking for more return on their investment. In February, one of AOL's largest shareholders, an investment firm, said it will nominate candidates for the company's board because it wasn't doing enough to make money from its patents. AOL said at the time that it had already begun to look at ways to unlock patent value.
After the sale, AOL said it will still hold more than 300 patents and applications covering a variety of technologies, including advertising, search, content generation, social networking, mapping, multimedia, and security among others.
As part of the deal, AOL also received a license to use the patents it sold to Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp.
"The combined sale and licensing arrangement unlocks current dollar value for our shareholders and enables AOL to continue to aggressively execute on our strategy to create long-term shareholder value," AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong said in a statement.
AOL said it will determine the best way to distribute a "significant portion" of the sale proceeds to shareholders before the sale closes, which is expected to happen by the end of this year.
AOL owns news sites like Huffington Post, Engadget and Techcrunch, but still makes much of its money by providing dial-up Internet access.


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Springfield, FL----Several area high school basketball teams continue to work this week, work towards the start of the state playoffs. Some 13 qualifying for the state playoffs as district champs or runners up.
Except those in the 1A class, that means first round playoff games this week, Thursday night to be specific.
The Rutherford Rams among the area teams claiming a district title Saturday night.
They beat Bay to win the 5A-1 crown. That has coach Ross and company hosting Suwannee come Thursday in their region quarterfinal.
"We played them last year so we know a lot about them." says coach Ross. "We were fortunate to get some film on them. They got two division one players, they got a 6-9 sophomore, and a 6-3 senior guard, so, and they shoot a lot of threes, so we're gonna have our hands full."
The Rams making their 7th state playoff appearance in the last 8 years, their best run in that span coming in 2010 when they made it to the state semifinals. That game Thursday against Suwannee set for 7.


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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. — Gov. Dannel Malloy is telling the state's municipal leaders that middle-class tax relief is a priority with his administration, a statement said.
The governor has written a letter to local officials about his spending plan to eliminate the local property taxes on vehicles valued at less than $28,500 and reinstate the sales tax exemption on clothing costing less than $50, the statement said.
Cities would have the option of implementing the car tax exemption in 2013, before it goes into effect statewide in 2014, the statement said. While residents would see savings, municipalities would because they wouldn't need to spend money collecting the taxes, the statement said.
The tax exemption on clothing would start in July 2014 on items costing less than $25, and rise to $50 items in July 2015, the statement said.
Cities and towns would receive the same amount of funding from the state, and possibly more, without raising taxes because of $1.8 billion in savings at the state level, the statement said.
"This is a tough budget, built for tough times. Connecticut is making hard decisions and setting priorities in order to live within its means," Malloy said in the letter. "We're all public servants, but we're also citizens and taxpayers; we can hopefully agree that all levels of government must change with the times, find savings and operate efficiently."
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3-V Biosciences Presents Positive Preclinical Data on HCV Product Candidates Targeting FASN at the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease Annual Meeting 2012
Small Molecule FASN Inhibitors Demonstrate Antiviral Activity
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Nov. 10, 2012 09:01 AM
MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 3-V Biosciences, Inc., announced today that preclinical data for its novel fatty acid synthase (FASN) inhibitors for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection will be presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (The Liver Meeting®) being held November 9-13 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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"New, potent therapeutics that combine with and improve on the evolving standard of care for the treatment of hepatitis C infection are needed to ensure that we can reach the broadest population of patients with appropriate, curative regimens," said George Kemble, Chief Scientific Officer of 3-V Biosciences. "3-V's FASN inhibitors represent an entirely new class of therapy. With a novel mechanism of action, and broad-spectrum, potent antiviral activity demonstrated across multiple preclinical studies, we believe that our FASN inhibitors will bring substantial benefits to patients as a key component in emerging multi-drug treatment regimens. We look forward to initiating clinical studies early next year."
Novel FASN Inhibitors
3-V's FASN inhibitors are a chemically diverse set of potent, specific, reversible molecules with an excellent range of pharmaceutical properties. The company has filed multiple worldwide patent applications covering these inhibitors. 3-V's HCV program is on track for an IND in the first quarter of 2013 and the company anticipates clinical proof-of-concept data by year-end 2013.
Data describing 3-V's FASN inhibitor preclinical activity will be presented by Dr. Kemble during Sunday's HCV Therapy: Preclinical and Early Clinical Development parallel session at 5:30 pm in a talk titled: "Potent Hepatitis C Antiviral Activity By Inhibiting Fatty Acid Synthase" (Abstract #88). A poster, "TVB-2640, a Novel Anti-HCV Agent, Safely Causes Sustained Host-Target Inhibition in Vivo" (Abstract #1876), describing mechanism and activity for one of 3-V's compounds will be presented on Tuesday, November 13 during the HCV Therapy: Preclinical and Early Clinical Development poster session from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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During its 'Summer Days' pre-E3 event, CD Projekt has finally confirmed that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will arrive on the Xbox 360.
The developer promises that the console version will not "compromise" quality in its conversion. The Xbox port is expected to launch by the end of 2011.
The news of a console version comes to no surprise as the developer had previously stated the team "always wanted and still plans to develop The Witcher 2 on consoles."
CD Projekt also took a moment to reveal a new patch (v1.2) will arrive tomorrow. The patch balances the game's prologue, adds the ability to map keys, tweaks "Target locking", TW1 save file import fixes, and more. The patch also adds new DLC allowing players to change Geralt's hairstyle.
All released updates on the PC will be added to the Xbox 360 version, the developer confirmed.
According to CD Projekt, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has sold 400,000 units since launching two weeks ago.
Described as a game that "outdoes everything in its class" in the Shacknews review, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was developed by CD Projekt RED and released on May 17 for the PC.


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The Shelbyville Retired AT&T Pioneers will have a luncheon meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 11:30 a.m. at New Century Chinese Buffet, 510 Madison Street, Shelbyville.
All telephone company retirees (AT&T BellSouth, etc.) who live in the areas of Fayetteville, Lewisburg, Manchester, Shelbyville, Tullahoma and Winchester are invited.
The community project for November is monetary donations that will be used for the purchase of turkeys needed for the City Outreach Ministries annual community Thanksgiving lunch on Nov. 17.


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TRENTON — Sparks flew, tempers flared and the police were summoned as a city leader went into hiding during Tuesday's "Ask the Mayor" session at City Hall.
Mayor Tony Mack attempted to address concerns of residents who turned violent when his last-minute decision to convert a weekly round table meeting into a private one-on-one conversation, excluding members of the press, infuriated those who were in attendance. Outraged civic leaders and city residents attempted to storm into Mack's office, pushing his aide, Anthony Roberts, who tried to shut the door to the office while Mack looked on through the crack between his office door and the wall.
"He did not (previously) express that this is a one-on-one meeting," said Police Director Ralph Rivera Jr, who joined his first responders to the Mayor's office for assistance with the unruly resident. "This is why he wants to bring in people one at a time."
Rivera agreed that community members had a reason to be upset at the last-minute plan to limit access to troubled city leader, who was indicted on federal corruption charges late last week. However, Rivera and Sgt. John Breese, who spoke to the mayor and his staff behind closed doors, told those present that the mayor would not come back into the conference room.
The sparring event between Mack and his constituents is the latest blemish on his administration. Self-appointed mayoral aid and press contact Paul Harris tried to subdue the unruly and angry residents who were confused as to what happened and why the mayor was in hiding.
"He is meeting with everyone one-on-one, so who would like to meet with him in his office?" asked Harris. But the option to meet behind closed doors was not sufficient for some city residents.
"Public means that the public is involved and everyone hears what everybody says, you are not saying something in isolation," said one outraged citizen. "When you say something in isolation, it means it is secret, and that is something we have too much here in Trenton and in government," he continued.
One resident, who did take the opportunity to meet with Mack behind closed doors, offered a gentler view of the mayor. "I asked him about the letter he sent to Obama and the statue," said the resident. "He said the statue was paid for by donations and that he will reveal a new police safety plan on Friday." The young man said the mayor did not seem to be flustered by the events and gave him five minutes of undivided attention.
David Panton, an East Ward resident, had secured a seat close to where the mayor was anticipated to be seated, at the conference table. Panton was furious that the criteria for the meeting had changed to a private individual conversation with his honor versus an open forum. "I came here to ask the Mayor to resign," said Panton. "He needs to get out of office, I've been asking for him to get out of office since 2010."
Panton asked Paul Harris to share his message with Mack before the outraged resident stormed out of the conference room.
As tempers rose and police worked to keep citizens calm, there was one attack that left a physical scar on one of the mayor's administrators, Robert Mendez. During the confusion to keep residents out of the Mayor's office, Mendez received a scratch that drew blood on his right hand. "When they were coming in it just happened," said Mendez as he showed off the gash on the back of his right hand. "I don't know (who did this), there were just so many of them."
When asked if the semi-violent attack could have been avoided if the mayor had attended the open forum meeting, as originally planned, Harris said, "That's not the point, the point is this is the mayor's office and regardless how you feel about the mayor … would this type of behavior be accepted at the statehouse? Would residents try to bum rush Governor Christie's office or President Obama's office?"
Harris' frustrations were revealed when he appealed to the press asking if the attack was necessary. "People refused to let the mayor close his own door. I wanted to point this out to you. All we ask is respect to be given and it will give back to you."


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Welcome to the Pokémon Fan Club! Discuss news, strategies, and anything else Pokémon related with other pokémon trainers!
Have you ever caught all the Pokemon in a Pokemon game? If so, what game was it?
I remember having a 100% completed Pokedex in Silver. It took me a while but I finished it with the help of friends and family members.
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nope. and never will, i just need 6 good ones, and im set (though i usually end up with many more than that lol)
That's a great question. Sadly, I have never caught them all. I never wanted to when I was younger and now there are so many to catch!
I caught'em all in Blue.
I'm impressed. Did you ever try to catch'em all in Gold and Silver?
No, I don't even remember how close I was.
I wish I tried to catch'em all back in the day, but now I really don't want to take the time to catch over 600 pokemon!
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I wish I tried to catch'em all back in the day, but now I really don't want to take the time to catch over 600 pokemon!
Yeah, having to catch over 600 Pokemon is a bit overwhelming. I know for a fact I will never try to catch them all again.
I guess that's why they stopped using the slogan "gotta catch'em all"
I never noticed that until now. Man, I'm slow.
Like a Slowpoke.
I caught every Pokemon in my Pokemon Diamon game.
I tried, but I never could get Darkrai or Arceus.
I so wanted to start a thread like this. Thanks for doing it darkbatghost88. In Soul Sliver I have about 40 less than the total Pokemon for that game (493). I'm still working on it but I wouldn't ever be able to get Arceus (stupid event Pokemon). But I did get it on White so I'm going to count it if I ever get the rest.
So I have caught them all for the first two games and I'm like 15 away from having all of the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Pokemon.


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Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein is holding firm in his hope to be an NFL quarterback and will not do any drills as a tight end at the NFL Scouting Combine this weekend.
NFL.com's Gil Brandt previously reported Klein would be asked to work out with the tight ends Saturday, but Klein's agent, Peter Schaffer, said his client wants to focus on a being a signal-caller.
"Collin is excited to work out at the combine as a quarterback to demonstrate to the powers that be he is an NFL quarterback," Schaffer told the The Denver Post on Friday.
Earlier in the day, Klein said he was focused on running quarterback drills at the combine.
"I want to pursue every door that I possibly can to play quarterback, and until everyone one of those is closed, I'm not really considering anything else," he said.
Some NFL scouts have knocked the 6-foot-5 Klein's delivery and accuracy, saying the Heisman Trophy finalist might be better suited playing tight end or fullback at the NFL level.
Minnesota quarterback MarQueis Gray, who played wide receiver for the Gophers, also will be asked to work out with the tight ends, according to Brandt. In all, 19 players will be asked to try multiple positions at the combine.


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Yes, it's been very hot here too. Luckily we're now having cooler weather again.:)
Eddie, you're a very smart cat. Some of my cats will also sit in the tub or the sink. They also love to sit on my glass dining room table which has a ceiling fan above it. Blaze & Sky prefer to sit on top of the refrigerator though. I don't have any A/C so my cats only have fans to help them stay cool. So how does your sister Edwina stay cool?


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It's armchair quarterback time. Target has hired a new CIO to replace Beth Jacob, who resigned in March following a massive security breach at the big-box retailer. Since everyone was second guessing Jacob during her final days, it's fitting that the mob has its say now.
But let me be blunt and serious: I found the whole vilification of Jacob to be the worst kind of techno-blamestorming -- by business and technology leaders, journalists, and other pundits. There's a big difference between mistakes and negligence. Though Jacob and her team clearly made missteps, enterprise infosec is an excruciatingly difficult game to play. I know; I've been there.
Infosec is a team sport that requires everyone, not just the IT organization, to participate. Businesses demand agility/flexibility and complain about too many false positives. Employees dismiss infosec as "an IT thing" and proceed to type their passwords into every one out of 100 simple phishing attacks that make it past email security, even though the security training they ignored while playing Bejeweled Blitz on their smartphones clearly spelled out what to do in these types of situations.
Even key players in finance and in risk management aren't always on board, chastising IT and infosec leaders for their paranoia or for playing "gotcha games" via their legitimate drills. Anybody who hasn't been in the CIO's worry seat can't possibly imagine how much of a no-win scenario this can be. As Craig Carpenter, AccessData's chief cyber-security strategist, put it, the bad guys need to be right only once, but the good guys have to be right all the time. Yes, the scope of the Target breach was staggering, resulting in the theft of 40 million credit and debit card numbers. But as an incumbent CIO who understands that not all the details of internal stories make it to the light of day, I'm wondering how much of that breach can be traced back to a lack of infosec buy-in and support from Jacob's peers and Target's employees.
That's why Target has made a great choice in picking a retired CIO to reboot its IT. Bob DeRodes, the former CIO of Home Depot, has stared down the retail infosec demon before. My bet is that this is a temp job for him -- he'll do what's necessary without worrying about hurting anyone's feelings, and then he'll move on. For that reason, Target made the right move. It needs someone who can focus on the post-breach IT cleanup, someone without career or money worries. (DeRodes earned a total compensation package of almost $5 million for his final year at Home Depot).
So here's my armchair quarterback five-step plan for DeRodes. In this case, I'll skip the usual Step 6, which would have been "Prepare Your Parachute." Most new CIOs must prepare for the possibility of discovering that executive management says it has learned its lessons about resourcing and prioritizing security but still isn't prepared to follow through.
Step 1: Get clear on what the CEO wants. Gregg Steinhafel, Target's chairman and CEO, has publicly declared what he wants from DeRodes: "Establishing a clear path forward for Target following the data breach has been my top priority... Bob's history of leading transformational change positions him well to lead our continued breach responses and guide our long-term digital strategy." Translation: Change our IT so that an embarrassing security breach doesn't happen again, while creating technology excellence throughout Target. As always, the "how" is the hard part.
My prediction is that DeRodes, very early on -- he probably started while negotiating for the job -- will be having deep conversations with Steinhafel to establish what the CEO wants and to set realistic expectations about what can be accomplished in 30 days, 90 days, and the coming year. This is also the opportunity for DeRodes to sniff out how much Steinhafel buys into the notion of creating a culture of information security and IT excellence, and how much he's willing to pay for it.
Step 2: Visibly deliver on what the CEO and shareholders want. Target already has ambitious plans for shoring up security, including a very public-facing deployment of chip-and-PIN security payment terminals in all its stores by September. Job No. 1: Don't screw that up. And when you make progress, tell everyone about it.
When Target appointed DeRodes, it also outlined other security measures being implemented, including enhancements to monitoring and logging, new "whitelist" firewall rules, enhanced network segmentation, a firewall governance process, reviews and limitations on vendor access, a decommissioning of FTP and telnet, a coordinated reset of 445,000 Target employee and contractor passwords, and a broadening of two-factor authentication. Whew. Some of those things should have been done already, of course. Telnet and FTP? Really? But some of it, notably network segmentation, isn't yet widely implemented across industries. Most IT organizations still believe in perimeter security. That's really been dead for some time, but that's another story.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/05/kodak_easyshare_range/
Kodak intros waterproof camera
And something rather small
Posted in Personal Tech, 5th January 2011 12:17 GMT
Three Kodak cameras made their debut at CES, and they include the company's first waterproof model and something rather small.
They all include the company's exclusive 'share button'. This which makes it easier for users to post pics to Facecrack, FlickR, Youtube and a bunch of other social network sites. Twitter, Yandex and Kaixin001 are the new additions for 2011.
The Kodak Easyshare Sport is the company's first waterproof digital camera and can handle depths of up to 10 feet. It also withstands dirt, dust and sand. With a 12MP camera and 2.4in LCD, the Kodak Easyshare Sport is available this spring in white, grey, red, yellow and blue. Splash out on it for $80 (£51).
The Kodak Easyshare Touch is a 14Mp camera with a 3in high-res LCD display and captures 720p video that can be edited and shared on the go. It has a 5x wide-angle zoom and also includes an HDMI port. Available in silver, black, red-orange, purple and red, the Easyshare Touch will retail this spring for $150 (£96).
The Kodak Easyshare Mini is Kodak's smallest camera to date - it's the size of a credit card. The 10MP lens has a 3x zoom and the camera has a little mirror on front for those self-snappy moments. With its 2.5in LCD display, the Kodak Easyshare Mini is available this spring in white, purple, red and black for $100 (£64). ®


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Patients with diabetes now have a variety of methods from which to choose in order to deliver the insulin they need to manage their disease.
Without the right amount of insulin at the right time, patients can suffer a variety of serious problems and complications associated with their disease.
The conventional approach to delivering insulin is an injection using a syringe, which must be filled from a vial. But many patients are not thrilled with the method, often because they don't like needles or because it is hard to stay on a schedule of giving themselves frequent injections.
"It can be inconvenient," says Dr. Howard Wolpert, senior physician and director of the Insulin Pump Program at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, clinical partner of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
All patients with type 1 diabetes need insulin, as do many patients with type 2 diabetes who cannot control their blood sugar levels with medications. Some patients in this latter group are reluctant to begin injection therapy because of the psychological barriers.
Now, there are a growing number of alternatives to syringe/vial injections.
One popular alternative is the pen, which uses an insulin cartridge rather than a vial, as well as disposable needles. This method is much more popular in other parts of the world than in the U.S.
"It is much more convenient," says Dr. Wolpert. "It is still injected but the person doesn't draw from a vial."
However, the pen does have its drawbacks, according to Dr. Wolpert. These include higher cost and the fact that in cases where patients need mixed insulin they may need two injections.
Another alternative for many patients is the continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion pump, which is battery powered and delivers a continuous flow of insulin into a catheter. The pump is worn at all times but the catheter must be changed every few days.
When such pumps were first introduced, they were conspicuous because of their size, but are now much smaller. Plus, with so many people carrying cell phones on their belts, it is much less obvious when the device is a pump, since the pumps are about the size of a cell phone, he notes.
"The pump gives a more predictable dose from one meal to another," Dr. Wolpert says.
Pumps can be expensive but insurance usually covers them, especially for patients with type 1 diabetes.
So deciding between a pump and one of the injection methods is usually "a matter of personal preference," he says.
Other options include the injection port, which is similar to a pump but infuses the insulin through a port rather than a catheter. It requires fewer skin punctures than the traditional or pen method.
"There have been a lot of improvements over the past few years," he says. "But they have been mainly incremental improvements. I think pumps are the best way to go for people with type 1 diabetes. They can achieve tighter control with less risk of hypoglycemia. The pumps are much more accurate and precise."
About 35 percent of type 1 diabetes patients at Joslin use pumps, he noted.
Other ideas that have been tried or are being tried include inhalable insulin devices and trans-dermal patches, but neither has proven ready for prime time so far, he says.
One inhalable device was on the market but was withdrawn due to problems with lung toxicity, he says.
"They are still trying to develop it," Dr. Wolpert says.
Skin patches are also still under development.
"There have been several improvements in recent years and there are others in the works that should make it easier for patients to take insulin and improve insulin absorption," he says.
Above content provided by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and clinical partner Joslin Diabetes Center. For advice about your medical care, consult your doctor.
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It is clear from a single listen that Rubblebucket is not your ordinary indie band. Their unbridled sound is a collage of jazzy horns, rich drums, funky electric and rock elements all combined to form their own genre-bending style. As front woman and vocalist Kalmia Traver describes it "We're like indie/rock/dance with horns and the funk element, and then this slight sort of afro-punk, art-pop edge." With eight members in the band, Rubblebucket takes full advantage of a big, bold sound that engages their listeners. "The kind of music we play involves a lot of interlocking parts where everybody's part of a bigger whole," says bandleader Alex Toth. The band uses a multitude of instruments to create their unique sound including a trumpet, trombone, saxophone, keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and additional percussive instruments. The most dynamic instrument in the group may be the voice of front woman Traver, whose vibrant vocals showcase an impressive range and stylistic ability. While based out of Brooklyn today, Rubblebucket evolved at the University of Vermont by Alex Toth and Kalmia Traver, who were both enrolled as music majors. The two of them played in a reggae band until they met percussionist Craig Myers at an art gallery opening in 2007. Their musical chemistry lead to the beginnings of Rubblebucket, and by 2008, the band released their first album, Rose's Dream. 2012 was a banner year for Rubblebucket. They graced the stage of the popular music festival Bonnaroo, made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and received numerous positive reviews from Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Paste and the Wall Street Journal. Their set at Norfolk's Infinity Hall features ten song selections from their three albums, as well a couple of as-yet-unreleased tracks. Rubblebucket takes the stage with a presence that enthralls the crowd, keeping them dancing on their feet throughout the entire show. The show builds to a thrilling crescendo with the performance of "Came Out of a Lady" when the audience unfurls and waves a colorful silk parachute across the width of the room.
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From Gerris
Events are used to control any action which needs to be performed at a given time during a simulation. This includes one-off actions as well as periodically repeated actions.
The syntax in parameter files is:
GfsEvent *NAME { start = 0.1 istart = 10 ( step = 1.2 | istep = 10 ) end = 0.4 iend = 123 }
- The (optional) name of the event. The name of the event has to be preceded by the * symbol.
- start
- Physical starting time (default is zero). The "end" keyword can be used to indicate the end of the simulation.
- istart
- Time step starting time (default is zero).
- step
- Repeat every step physical time units (default is infinity).
- istep
- Repeat every istep time steps (default is infinity).
- end
- Stop at or before this physical time (default is infinity).
- iend
- Stop at or before this number of time steps (default is infinity).
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The EMMA Concert Association and Flagler College present a performance by the Merling Trio at 8 p.m. Nov. 24 in Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College, 14 Granada St., in downtown St. Augustine.
The Merling Trio consists of Susan Wiersma Uchimura, piano; Bruce Uchimura, cello; and Renata Artman Knific, violin.
The trio made its Carnegie Hall debut in 1993 and has been bringing a balance of abandon and control to the music it plays from that time forward. Recent performances include venues such as Concert Sierra, Nevada City; the Deep Valley Chamber Music Series, Ukiah, Calif.; the Aria Academy in Massachusetts; the Orfeo Festival in Italy; and the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition in Morelia, Mexico.
Whether playing classical works by Hayden, Mozart and Liszt, or contemporary compositions by composers such as American C. Curtis-Smith, the Merling Trio produces music of magnificent precision which communicates the essence of each piece to the audience.
The trio has planned a particularly interesting program for the EMMA audience. It will begin with Mozart's Trio in C major, K548.
Mozart composed this piece in the summer of 1788, not long before the completion of his Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter"). The first movement of the trio includes flamboyant runs by both piano and violin, but the introduction of minor keys darkens the piano's attempts at more cheerful flamboyant arpeggios. The second movement is notably slower with similar dark hints. The third movement has an innocent charm and the emphatic conclusion makes it clear that any dark elements have been vanquished.
For its second piece, the Trio will play Ástor Piazzolla's Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas. Piazzolla was born in Argentina but immigrated with his family to Greenwich Village 1925 where he became a virtuoso on the bandoneòn, a concertina-like instrument popular in Argentina. Piazzolla returned to Argentina in 1938 and in 1941, at the urging of Arthur Rubinstein, took music lessons with the eminent Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera.
The final piece of the evening will be the Trio in c minor by Mendelssohn. Schumann described Mendelssohn as "the Mozart of the nineteenth century," and the Trio in c minor is a superb example of what brought Schumann to this conclusion. It is crafted by the composer and presented by the performers with charm and polish including a masterful control of texture and form achieving superb clarity and balance.
Tickets are $25 ($5 for students with a student I.D.). Reserved seats may be purchased in advance at www.emmaconcerts.com or by phone at 904-797-2800. Tickets also will be available at the door.


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Obesity can present as much danger to an unborn child as smoking during pregnancy, according to the author of new research into Australia's battle with the bulge.
The review of 6000 pregnancies in rural Victoria over six years has found that, compared to women of a healthy weigh, overweight and obese mothers experienced birth complications or their newborns were more likely to have been delivered with health problems.
One of the review's authors, associate professor Glyn Teale, said mothers who are overweight are as much of a danger to their unborn child as those who smoke tobacco.
"That's a challenge because if you begin a pregnancy with a weight above a healthy range, unlike smoking you can't give people advice just to stop it," he said.
"But the facts are from a risk point of view your pregnancy is presented with considerably more risks as the result of an unhealthy weight."
Of the women studied in north-west Victoria, 65 per cent were overweight or obese. In some capital cities, the rate is as low as 18 per cent.
The impact of the obesity epidemic on childbirth is compounded by a lack of skills or facilities in many country towns to handle life-threatening complications.
"A lot of rural (maternity) units will be run by GP obstetricians and don't have a specialist on site," associate professor Teale said.
"So you may have places in northern Victoria for instance where the nearest specialist may be 150 to 200 kilometres away."
Associate professor Teale said the research, published today in the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia, served as a warning to prospective mums.
Overweight women should delay getting pregnant until their weight is under control, he said.
"The advice is to sensibly get your weight down to a healthy range, not crash dieting, not taking on a fad diet … but to gradually over time target a healthy weight and that will dramatically reduce the risks for you in your pregnancy," he said.
The study found a high body mass index (BMI) was related to increased rates of induced labour, gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension, operative vaginal deliveries and caesarean sections. Increased BMI was also linked to increased gestational age at delivery and increased birth weight. Obesity can also be a factor in stillbirth deaths.
Regional health providers should also use the research to help plan future needs, associate professor Teale suggested.