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ATLANTA, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Children with severe therapy-resistant asthma may have worse symptoms due to lower levels of vitamin D in their blood, researchers in London say.
Dr. Atul Gupta, a researcher at Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College and King's College London, said lower levels of vitamin D may cause structural changes in the airway muscles of children with severe asthma.
While most children with asthma can be successfully treated with low doses of corticosteroids, about 5 percent to 10 percent do not respond to standard treatment, Gupta said.
Those with severe therapy-resistant asthma, experience more asthma episodes and asthma-related illnesses, and require more healthcare services, than their treatment-receptive peers, Gupta said.
"This study clearly demonstrates that low levels of vitamin D are associated with poorer lung function, increased use of medication, worse symptoms and an increase in the mass of airway smooth muscle in children with severe therapy-resistant asthma," Gupta said in a statement.
"It is therefore plausible that the link between airway smooth muscle mass and lung function in severe asthma may be partly explained by low levels of vitamin D."
The findings are published in the Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.


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If you've never heard of baking your hard boiled eggs, boy are you in for a treat! While it's not necessarily a faster method, it is far less hands on, allowing you to complete other tasks instead of watching for your pot of water to boil.
What's more, cooking hard boiled eggs in the oven allows me to make bigger batches at one time, and my eggs turn out perfectly cooked every time!
Have you ever tried this method? If not, try it and let me know what you think!

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Emerging Energies of Wisconsin (EEW) recently became the first wind developer in Wisconsin to receive a permit since the state enacted strict siting standards in 2009.
On Oct. 25, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) granted EEW a certificate of public convenience and necessity to allow the construction of the 102.5 MW Highland Wind Farm. The $250 million project will consist of 41 turbines located on 26,550 acres in St. Croix County.
Bill Rakocy, co-founder of Madison, Wisc.-based EEW, notes that details relating to wind farm construction are currently being finalized to ensure the project qualifies for the production tax credit.
Although EEW's Highland Wind Farm may be in the advanced stages of development, the Wisconsin market, overall, has slowed to a standstill. Many blame the paucity of development on Wisconsin Act 40, a controversial state law passed in 2009 that established a uniform set of permitting standards for wind projects. Among the more burdensome requirements, the law increased wind turbine setback distances from residences to 1,250 feet (from 1,000 feet).
The requirements forced many developers planning projects in densely populated areas to cancel them, explains Rakocy.
The act also required potential wind projects to adhere to stringent noise standards. In fact, the PSC originally denied EEW's Highland project in February because of noise concerns. Although the developer believed its project would operate within the range of acceptable sound levels, it needed to prove it clearly, notes Rakocy.
Armed with testimony from acoustical experts and geographic information system maps, the developer was able to provide a better understanding of the project's full impact to the three-member PSC, which agreed to approve the wind project.
'The fact that EEW persevered in spite of a hostile wind climate is significant,' explains Michael Vickerman, program and policy director at ReNew Wisconsin, a state advocacy group.
To get permitted in Wisconsin, Vickerman explains, a wind developer basically has two choices. Either build a large wind farm and go through the PSC for approval, or find a town that is amenable to hosting the project. But finding a city or town in Wisconsin that would agree to do so is easier said than done. Difficult, he says, but not impossible.
'The developer would have to be willing to spread the wealth,' explains Vickerman, adding that extending land-lease payments to non-participating residents would almost certainly have to be part of the equation.
The larger issue
Anti-wind sentiment is not the only hurdle in Wisconsin; current market conditions are also making it difficult for EEW to find an off-taker.
'It's not a very promising market for an independent power producer,' explains Vickerman, adding that Wisconsin utilities are at or near compliance with the state's 10% by 2015 renewable portfolio standard. Further complicating matters is the fact that electricity rates have not increased to the point where utilities are considering wind energy.
For his part, Rakocy is hopeful that the company can secure a power purchase agreement.
'We hear of states with lower energy costs than [Wisconsin] because of their having been more aggressive with wind power, and would hope to see that benefit for ourselves and our fellow ratepayers,' he says.
Given the lower costs of natural gas, Rakocy can see how utilities can be enticed by the resource. However, he says, many entities are not yet factoring in carbon and environmental concerns, which could result in higher prices in the future.
'Wind is the most practical choice we can build in Wisconsin today,' Rakocy explains, noting wind energy's carbon offset, branding and cost-hedging benefits.


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CARACAS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Venezuela's capital on Tuesday after troops arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on charges of fomenting unrest against the government and violence that has killed at least four people.
White-clad demonstrators blocked traffic in the streets of Caracas as a security vehicle holding the 42-year-old Harvard-educated economist crawled at a snail's pace after he surrendered to security forces during an opposition rally.
Lopez's arrest could galvanize the opposition and spur more street demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro, though there is no immediate sign the protests will topple the socialist leader.
"I have nothing to hide," Lopez told supporters before his arrest, standing next to a statue above the crowd.
Minutes later, he surrendered to army officers, pumping his fist and then stepping into the military vehicle with a Venezuelan flag in one hand and a white flower in the other.
"I present myself to an unjust judiciary ... May my jailing serve to wake up a people," he added in the speech.
Lopez, wanted on charges including murder and 'terrorism', says he is being made a scapegoat by a dictatorial government.
From inside the military vehicle, he called on demonstrators to clear the way so authorities could take him into detention. As protesters chanted "Leopoldo, the people are with you," he was transferred to a black van and driven away.
His supporters followed for several kilometers (miles) until he was taken into a military base, with police shutting off access to numerous avenues on the way to control the crowd.
Demonstrators remained congregated on the outskirts of the La Carlota air base in eastern Caracas, and elsewhere.
Information Minister Delcy Rodriguez said via Twitter that a Caracas textile worker was shot dead on Tuesday by "violent groups" seeking to carry out a coup planned by the United States. Authorities did not respond to requests for additional information.
In the coastal town of Carupano in eastern Venezuela, residents said a 17-year-old student died after being struck by a car during a demonstration against the socialist government.
That added to three fatal shootings in Caracas last Wednesday.
Student-led protests have multiplied this month across the nation of 29 million people in the biggest challenge to Maduro since his election last year following socialist leader Hugo Chavez's death.
The demonstrators are demanding Maduro's resignation and expressing a litany of complaints from inflation and violent crime to corruption and product shortages.
"The country's in an unsustainable state," said filmmaker Jose Sahagun, 47, wearing white like many among the thousands of demonstrators with Lopez in east Caracas.
"The government's mask has fallen off. This man (Maduro) has held power for 10 months and the deterioration has been fast."
Protest numbers had been relatively small but that changed on Tuesday with Lopez supporters swarming into the streets.
There has been no evidence that Venezuela's military might turn against Maduro, the 51-year-old successor to Chavez.
Thousands of oil workers and Maduro supporters, clad in the red of the ruling Socialist Party, held their own demonstration in Caracas on Tuesday, music blaring in a party atmosphere.
"Comrade President Nicolas Maduro can count on the working class," said oil union leader Wills Rangel.
In a nation split largely down the middle on political lines, 'Chavistas' have stayed loyal to Maduro despite unflattering comparisons with his famously charismatic predecessor. Many Venezuelans fear the loss of popular, oil-funded welfare programs should the socialist lose power.
"Chavez lives, the fight goes on!" Maduro backers chanted.
An opposition legislator and anti-government activists alleged that a government supporter had hit the dead student in Carupano, Jose Ernesto Mendez, but there was no independent confirmation or response from authorities to the allegation.
Residents said three other demonstrators were injured in the melee in Carupano, in Sucre state. One was gravely hurt.
A government statement said a man had been arrested for running over a 17-year-old and injuring three others.
Earlier in Caracas, security forces in anti-riot gear patrolled with water cannons as police kept opposition supporters from leaving the city's affluent eastern district.
Many residents stayed home, fearing fresh trouble after the daily clashes that have erupted since last Wednesday's fatalities in the capital. Schools were mostly closed.
Maduro's government accuses opponents backed by Washington of seeking to promote a coup against him, similar to a botched attempt against Chavez in 2002 when he was ousted for 36 hours.
The burly former bus driver and union activist this week expelled three U.S. diplomats accused of recruiting students for the protests. Washington said that was "baseless and false."
Prices of Venezuela's highly traded global bonds , which fluctuate sharply on political tension, are near 18-month lows.
Complaints about acts of violence by both sides have piled up over six consecutive days of confrontations between police and demonstrators. Only 13 students were reported still being held after nearly 100 arrests in the past week.
Opposition activists say some of those detained have been tortured, but Maduro says police have been restrained in the face of provocation and attacks.
He has, however, publicly criticized the Sebin national intelligence service for having agents in the street and replaced its head on Tuesday. (Additional reporting by Andrew Cawthorne, Jaczo Gomez, Deisy Buitrago, Carlos Rawlins and Daniel Wallis in Caracas; and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne and Brian Ellsworth; Editing by Kieran Murray and James Dalgleish)


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Friday, 22 October 2010
A dark affair: chocolate, stout, and raisin cake
I have always loved chocolate cakes - more so even than chocolate itself, or at least until recent years, in which time I've had the pleasure of discovering real chocolate. (The sickly stuff of my childhood never did it for me. And yes, I probably was a strange kid.)
But you'll never, ever wean me off chocolate cakes, and for that reason, I hereby confess to spending a shocking proportion of my time seeking out the best chocolate cake recipes.
For the most part, I'm a purist. I don't my my chocolate and/or cocoa messed around with too much. But when I spied a Dan Lepard recipe for a chocolate cake which also incorporates stout and raisins, I couldn't help but be tempted. It was the stout that got me, doctor.
Purist, be damned.
And so, I baked. It's an incredibly easy recipe, and pretty foolproof, so long as you don't heat the chocolate over a fierce flame. Chocolate is a fickle mistress, and likes to be treated gently. Overdo things, come on too strong, and - like most affairs of the heart - it'll all go horribly wrong.
Regard patience as a virtue, and you'll soon enough end up with a generous slab (the recipe doesn't say as much, but you'll need an 8" square tin) of a moist and seductively dark cake, with just a hint of bitterness to offset the richness.
I used London Porter instead of Guinness, but I think - to give Dan his due - Guinness would indeed be better. If you're wary of stouts, or think you don't like them, there's no need to be afraid of the bitter tones in this cake, because (a) they are gentle, and (b) there is, in any case, plenty of sweet chocolate frosting to counter them.
In fact, I thought the recipe made rather too much frosting - I left about a quarter in the bowl. And even doing that, there was plenty on the cake. Mr Lepard clearly has a sweet tooth.
Overall verdict? A real heart stealer, and one that you can enjoy on the side without anyone else knowing... Oh, and it goes well with cream and/or crème fraîche, too, just in case you feel like upping the pleasure levels. Just saying.
27 comments:
- things we make said...
That looks like a serious bit of chocolatage. Worth trying out sometime soon, I think. Mr Tweet doesn't really like chocolate cake *the horror* so perhaps one with Guinness in may sway him.
- 22 October 2010 at 11:31
- Kavey said...
Want! :)
- 22 October 2010 at 11:42
- bellini valli said...
I have a soft spot for chocolate cake. This one sounds like somethinbg I would love to try.
- 22 October 2010 at 11:43
- Choclette said...
I made this one a few months ago and it's a real winner. Yours looks great with all the fudgy icing. I went for something less sweet, but might have to try it this way.
- 22 October 2010 at 22:49
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Claire - this cake should win Mr T over. It's not overtly chocolatey. Stout is definitely the moderating influence (hah!).
Kavey - :)
Val - you should!
Choclette - I'd say give the icing a go. I do like it, but certainly wouldn't use the entire recipe quantity!
- 23 October 2010 at 09:15
- Margaret said...
This is an unusual recipe and one that can be made by all skill levels. I too think he went OTT with the icing quantities.
The cake looks delicious and one I must try.
- 23 October 2010 at 10:24
- Cakelaw said...
What a fab looking cake! That piece at the bottom of the post is earmarked for me, surely? I enjoy reading Dan's recipes, and I have bookmarked many of them, though have yet to get around to making them.
- 23 October 2010 at 10:43
- LimeCake said...
that cake has a wonderful crumb texture! looks delicious!
- 23 October 2010 at 23:51
- Gin and Crumpets said...
I have a suspicion that the recipe doesn't make too much frosting. It makes enough to cover the cake and leave you with a bowlful to sit and eat afterwards as a reward for making such a superb cake. That's how I design all my recipes, anyway ;-)
It looks completely gorgeous. I started chewing the inside of my cheek just looking at it – mouthwatering.
- 24 October 2010 at 11:37
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Margaret - yes, indeed you must!
Cakelaw - same here, so I thought I'd better get started. This is a nice easy one to start you off
LimeCake - it is! Or it was... ;)
G&C - make the cake now! Don't shred your cheek. You need it for eating cake with.
- 24 October 2010 at 12:06
- Johanna GGG said...
oh how I understand your love of chocolate cake - I feel like I could just keep trying different chocolate cake recipes - this is definitely one that I want to try - sounds excellent
- 25 October 2010 at 10:40
- LexEat! said...
My never fail chocolate cake recipe has become Nigella's guinness chocolate cake - so easy, and, as you say, you can't really taste the guinness. Such a moist lovely cake. Her's has a cream cheese icing - which is yum and apparently is meant to look like the froth on top of a pint of Guinness.
Yours looks delicious, so will definitely give it a go next time I need a reliable cake!
- 25 October 2010 at 22:29
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Johanna - glad I'm not the only one ;)
Lex - yes, I've seen lots of comments about Nigella's cake. Never made it, and don't have any of her books. Guess I should try it one day! But this will do fine in the meantime... ;)
- 26 October 2010 at 10:34
- Cook in a Curry said...
Blimey! Huge craving for this right now. Would go done really well with a cup of tea. I love choco cake more than chocolate too. The photos look fab. Bet the cake was moist, sweet and just perfect with that thick layer of icing.
- 26 October 2010 at 10:57
- catty said...
That looks seriously moist and scrumptious! Purist or not, if you love chocolate cake, you should love it in ALL its forms... unconditional right??
- 27 October 2010 at 10:57
- George@CulinaryTravels said...
I *need* to make this soon.
- 28 October 2010 at 11:21
- Jamie said...
This cake looks absolutely fabulous! I have always been intrigued by chocolate and guinness together in a cake but boy have you ever convinced me! Beautiful! And I know what you mean about a fab chocolate cake over a chocolate bar. Love them both but...give me cake.
- 28 October 2010 at 15:00
- Nicisme said...
I shouldn't be looking at this when it's almost lunchtime, but I have a craving for cake now!
- 31 October 2010 at 12:10
- Sarah, Maison Cupcake said...
This looks fantastic, I think I will have to make some for my husband.
- 31 October 2010 at 16:33
- Deeba PAB said...
Nom Nom Nom... I like Dan Lepards bread recipes, and now the chocolate cake is calling my name. Does look indulgent indeed!
- 2 November 2010 at 10:06
- Kath said...
Blimey it looks good, I have seen Nigella do a guinness and chocolate cake and always fancied making it. I too am always in search of the perfect chocolate cake and to be honest I don't mind if it takes me a long while to find, the fun is in the hunt.
- 8 November 2010 at 14:25
- Jacqueline said...
Oh wow! I nearly cried when I saw that last photo :)
- 11 November 2010 at 19:16
- Signe said...
You can never have too much chocolate cake. Lovely photos and recipe there A Forkful, shall have to try this myself! x
- 18 November 2010 at 21:38
- Chef Basket said...
This cake looks wonderful. Thanks for the post and the pictures.
- 22 November 2010 at 18:51
- Robo Stir said...
What a gorgeous cake. The pictures alone are mouth-watering!
- 7 January 2011 at 15:36
- Dylan Solesbee said...
Oh, that is so delicious! Just looking at the picture makes my mouth drool and crave for it! Haha! The way you designed it is so cute. All cheers to chocolate lovers! :)
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It would be churlish to dismiss The Condemned as violent crap. It is, in fact, badly made violent crap.
Launched from one potentially interesting idea -- what happens when the Survivor reality TV craze is taken to an extreme -- The Condemned is the story of 10 people who must fight to the death on a deserted island.
The fighters are all hardened criminals, and all are taken from grotty prisons (and death row) in various dubious countries. They are then dropped by helicopter on to the island.
"What's going on here?" you probably won't be asking yourself. But you get an answer anyway: "This is not war -- this is television. Much more complicated," says a cocky young producer. Indeed, this battle to the death is all his mad scheme, and the island is covered with cameras to capture the carnage. And the world can watch! For a fee. The fighting will be streamed over the web, viewers will pay to see this new snuff form and the clever producers will be very, very rich. Now you have it.
What's left are 100 minutes of unspectacular killing scenes, bad dialogue and some grunting. Each of the combatants (a few of whom are women, by the way) wears an ankle bracelet filled with plastic explosives, so one can always blow up an opponent in a pinch. And just in case the fighters decide not to fight, the explosives will be triggered. One way or another, nine out of 10 people will blow up real good. Last one standing gets to live.
While the criminals fight, the TV folks sit up high in a broadcast tower on the island and take note of how many million viewers get on board after each killing. Ka-ching!
But wait! In there among the politically correct mix of ethnically varied murderers is one muscle-bound contestant who doesn't seem to fit. Why, it's Jack Conrad (pro wrestler Steve Austin)! What's he doing there, fighting for his life?
A quick check with the Pentagon reveals that he works on black ops for the government. They couldn't get Conrad out of that prison in Central America, but never mind -- he's going to fight his way off the island. Soon, folks in his home town are cheering him on as they watch the island bloodletting on a big screen in their local bar!
Why would we make that up?
Unlike the other killlers, Conrad is a good killer. You know, an American government killer. And unlike the other killers, he's smart. Bet he could find his way across the island to that control tower ...
The Condemned is technically inept at times and often boring, despite the subject matter. There is not one shred of character development, so who dies and how is not very interesting. The film has gross scenes of rape and torture and killing. It also has a stern lecture on the violence peddled by those who create entertainment (seriously), so you won't know whether to laugh or cry. So just don't go.
SUN RATING: ONE OUT OF FIVE STARS(This film is rated 14-A)


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Sunday, November 6, 2005
Mod Squad Saga
At Stitches East eons ago, I bought a Charlotte's Web kit. I cast on, worked through the first color change, then stalled out. Time passed; the UFO remained. In an attempt to get un-stalled, I joined the Charlotte's Web KAL. Other starters became happy finishers in due time; not I. UFO gloom descended.
Then came a fortunate synchronicity. Bob saw me bicycling roundabout Exit 151 and noted that he had nice ragg mittens whilst I (a known knitter) was sporting fleece gloves. Gah. While still smarting from that remark, I saw a singleton Fanning the Flame mitten at Elegant Ewe, which had just had a class on modular knitting. Smitten by the mitten, I called in the mod squad for the most drastic of mods.
First, Charlotte came off the needle...
and went to the frog pond.
Here's the new pattern and the old yarn. After some experimentation, I've discovered that my ball winder works better without the swift, or at least it produces the nice, soft, compressible yarn cakes I prefer by winding directly from the hank or even from spaghetti.
The mitten is constructed from fan modules worked top down, which cleverly form an organic curve at the top of the mitten and wrap around the hand. One gets a lot of practice slipping sts and picking up sts with this pattern! (The excellent coil-less safety pin st markers/holders are from my excellent SP6 pal.) I decided to use the apricot multi for the mitten and save the blue multi for something else.
Following the suggestion of Elegant Ewe staff, I'm using different Koigu colorways for the center modules and the side modules. It's hard to tell from the photo, but one yarn (#314) is apricot and olive and the other (#319) is olive and apricot.
I'm amazed and delighted at the way the fans show off the variegated yarns. Something about the curves tames unseemly pooling and flashing. Could this be one of the great secrets of the knitting universe? It's hip to be square – not!
4 comments:
- Ginger said...
oh, my! What an amazing pattern, I can't wait to see them finished. They look so cool now, I can only imagine what they will look like when finished.
- Mon Nov 07, 07:32:00 PM EST
- Julie said...
I saw that same mitten on the Wool Arts Tour at one of the stops where Elegant Ewe had a booth. She was out of the pattern so I had to order from some unknown online vendor only to see it appear in the Patternworks catalog last week. I'm so glad you mentioned using two colorways because she didn't tell me that when we chatted. The picture on the pattern cover is rather unexciting but the glove in person- stunning! The directions were a little confusing but I'm hoping when I have needles and yarn in my hands they'll make more sense. Also hoping that having knit the market squares bag will help me figure these out. Gorgeous start, I love the colors you chose!
- Tue Nov 08, 06:10:00 AM EST
- Rob said...
Gorgeous mitten! And sympathy/empathy -- I will probably have to frog a a Koigu mitered square vest.
- Tue Nov 08, 08:12:00 PM EST
- Maureen said...
I have admired that pattern for quite awhile. I love the start of your mitten. Can't wait to see it as it progresses.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – For the second straight game, the Sacred Heart University men's lacrosse team held a one-goal lead over a Northeast Conference opponent at the half. And for the second straight game, the Pioneers went scoreless in the third quarter, this time spelling a 9-7 loss to Bryant University in the rain on Campus Field, Saturday evening. The loss dropped SHU to 4-7 overall and 1-2 in the NEC, while the Bulldogs improved to 7-6 and 2-1.
The Pioneers notched the first score of the game when senior midfielder Billy Skelos (Lynbrook, N.Y.) quickly cleared the ball up the field and found freshman long-stick mid Tim Caton (East Rochester, N.Y.) for the opening score, less than three minutes into the game. With 3:51 to play in the first stanza, Bryant tied it at one on an unassisted score by freshman Kevin Sherrill. Sacred Heart regained the lead when sophomore attack Bryan Badolato (West Islip, N.Y.) found the back of the net just over a minute later. Badolato went sky high for a pass from freshman attack Mike Mawdsley (Innisfil, Ont.) and brought it down right in front of the goal and immediately fired it in.
In the second quarter, the Bulldogs took the lead on back-to-back goals by senior midfielder Evan Roberts and junior attack Travis Harrington. Near the midway point of the frame, the Pioneers would take back the lead on back-to-back goals of their own. First, Mawdsley scopped up a groundball and delivered it to Badolato for their second hook-up of the game, followed by a snipe from 15 yards out by sophomore attack Trevor Dauses (Glen Arm, Md.) to give SHU a 4-3 lead at the break.
The third quarter was déjà vu for the Pioneers, who were outscored 6-0 in the third of last week's 11-7 home defeat to Mount St. Mary's. This time Sacred Heart only gave up five goals, while being blanked for the period. Senior midfielder Gary Crowley scored the first two for the Bulldogs and sophomore attack Peter McMahon added two more, while Roberts chipped in with his second of the night. McMahon's second goal came on a man-up opportunity with 4:18 to play in the quarter and held up for the game-winning score.
Junior midfielder Aaron Lupo (Schenectady, N.Y.) got the Pioneers back on track with his seventh goal of the season coming in the first two minutes of the fourth. Bryant would suppress any SHU momentum with another man-up score, this time by freshman attack Dan Sipperly, at the 9:47 mark. Halfway through the frame, Mawdsley netted his team-leading 22nd goal of the year, assisted by Badolto, to cut the lead to 9-6. Sacred Heart wouldn't get any closer until there was 2:17 left and Dauses tallied his second of the night to trim the lead to 9-7, but that was the last rush the Pioneer attacks could put together.
Junior netminder Jameson Love needed only six saves to earn the win for the Bulldogs, who outshot the Pioneers 43-23 for the game. Senior goalie Zach Frank (Islip Terrace, N.Y.) stopped 12 shots for SHU.
The Pioneers return to action with an NEC contest at Quinnipiac next Saturday, April 23 at 1:00 pm.


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Put on your trusty old egg shell and roll out in pursuit of your feathers!
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"I had no idea until somebody told me," Hodzic said. "It's pretty cool. Not a lot of players achieve that. I'm excited, but I'm not about that. I'm a team player."
Hodzic scored 18 points Saturday afternoon in the Lipscomb Bisons 80-52 loss at No. 25-ranked Cincinnati. He will be counted on heavily to add to that career points total Monday night when the Bisons, 4-6, visit Arizona, 4-5, for an 8 p.m. game at the McKale Center in Tucson.
Hodzic is averaging a team-leading 21.4 points per game. He also leads the Bisons in rebounds with 7.3 per game.
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Hodzic loves the game of basketball and loves to work on his game. He can often be found in Allen Arena shooting on his own.
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Hodzic is the 40th player in the history of the Bisons' basketball program to reach the 1,000-point level. He is the fourth player to break 1,000 points since the Bisons moved to NCAA Division I.
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Third Single-Shell Tank Emptied at Hanford's C Farm This Year
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has advised the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that they have completed retrieval of radioactive and chemical waste from the third single-shell tank (SST) this year. WRPS is the tank operations contractor for the DOE Office of River Protection (ORP).
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Last week, C-109 underwent a series of water rinses to further reduce the amount of residual waste in the tank.
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WRPS is the DOE ORP prime contractor responsible for managing the risk to the environment posed by Hanford's 56 million gallons of high-level radioactive and chemical waste stored in 177 underground tanks. ORP is responsible for safely retrieving and treating Hanford's tank waste, resulting from defense nuclear material production, and closing the tank farms to protect the Columbia River. WRPS is owned by URS Corporation and Energy Solutions, with AREVA as its primary subcontractor.Tags: C-109, DOE, Hanford, nuclear decommissioning, single-shell tank, Tank Farms Project, Tom Fletcher, Washington River Protection Solutions, WRPS


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It was just a police brief, a few paragraphs on an inside page about a deputy's traffic accident.
But the timing seemed so ironic.
That Manatee County deputy's crash happened a few days ago, in the same week the governor announced his plans to sign a bill that makes texting-while-driving unlawful.
The bill is based on persuasive evidence that distracted driving is every bit as as dangerous as DUI.
Well, Deputy April Dugan was not texting, but was doing much the same thing. She reported she was using her in-car computer, getting information about a call for police service, while driving.
With her eyes and attention distracted, she did not see that the cars in front of her stopped for a traffic light. When she did notice, she hit the brakes but still smashed into one car hard enough to knock it into the next car.
A couple in their 70s and two other people were treated at hospitals, but Manatee County Sheriff's spokesman Dave Bristow says all the injuries were apparently minor.
The deputy also said her brakes failed, by the way. And so, a brake inspection will be part of the crash review process.
Readers may understandably assume my mention of this is all about rubbing a cop's nose in it. But actually, I feel bad for her. It was an accident. Cops are human. And busy, too. And just as prone as the rest of us to look for excuses when they so unexpectedly screw up.
Deputies are usually good and well-trained drivers, but they also drive a lot, and are often the most distracted people on the road. In addition to listening to and talking on radios, they are often checking car tags and looking out for certain vehicles and suspects, and so on.
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"That's exactly what they are supposed to do," Kenyan told me.
He said he knows nothing about Dugan's crash and cannot comment on that, but said training stresses the importance of always stopping before using the patrol car's computer.
"It reduces traffic crashes dramatically," Kenyan said.
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He confessed that he was once similarly engaged while stopped at an intersection -- and that is usually not a problem -- when he wrongly thought the light had changed because cars in the next lane started to go.
His light had not changed, and he started to move before he looked up and so bumped into the car in front of him.
Embarrassing, but a relatively tame way to learn the lesson.
Cops doing the same while driving may use the excuse that they are learning something important, maybe even something urgent, and they usually are. But that is not a valid justification for routinely driving with eyes off the road as if that were part of the job.
Most years, more cops die from traffic crashes than from violent assaults.
With practice, a cop can do some things and drive well at the same time, but using a computer and reading the screen while driving is not one of them. It only seems to be until the moment it goes wrong.
"It's no different than a civilian texting and driving," Kenyan said.
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The recent kerfuffle over LIBOR (or perhaps, Lie-bor) has led many, including those living in developing countries but reliant on the global interest rate benchmark, wondering how the apparently flawed system was allowed to become such an major global institution. Blame for the entire fiasco has, predictably, come from the usual suspects on the usual suspects: apportioned equally to bankers' moral shortcomings and/or regulator complicity. These strike one as lacking imagination: after all, people (bankers and regulators inclusive) respond to incentives, and it is the institutional setting that governs the types of incentives individuals embedded in the system face. Presumably, if the existing framework for obtaining reported LIBOR rates did not involve substantial submitter discretion,[*] then both traders and regulators would react very differently to potential exploits of the system. After all, both groups would see little benefit from attempting to game the system if it offered little chance of success.
Through all the spilled ink (or pixels)---especially with regard to the now-conventional proposal to simply base LIBOR on actual transactions data, rather than self-reported numbers---little has been said about whether moving to such a system would yield actual efficiency improvements. In thinking about such issues, it is useful to keep two aspects of economic theory in mind.
First, in a standard double-auction setting such as LIBOR, theory and experiment suggest that efficient price discovery can occur with a remarkably small number of participants; with markets fiding equilibrium with as few as 6 to 8 agents (JSTOR subscription required). The argument that LIBOR is inherently inefficient just because it has only a small number of participating banks is therefore a weak one, in light of this fact. By the same token, however, the ease of attaining efficient outcomes with a small number of agents means that a setting where only actual transactions data are used to establish LIBOR need not be threatened by the fear of potentially thin markets.
Indeed, the natural advantage that using actual transaction data offers is the possibility that rates adapt to changing market conditions. In calm times when markets are thick, large institutions with superior economies of scale will tend to possess a funding cost advantage. Consequently, the transacted market LIBOR rate will be lower, reflecting the overall positive spillovers that result from having larger players engaged in the wholesale funding market. In turbulent times, however, the size and relative opacity of large bank balance sheets may lead to rational concerns by market participants over counterparty risk. In such circumstances, smaller banks with balance sheets less exposed to market volatility could find themselves being able to secure funds at a lower cost than the larger banks can. These smaller banks will then be the ones setting LIBOR at the margin. Again, the transacted rates will ultimately reflect the best available rates, even in such thin markets.
Second, even if we want to move away from a straightforward market mechanism based on realized transactions, we are aware of mechanisms that elicit truthful, incentive-compatible bids from market participants in alternative auction settings. Although such mechanisms alone cannot, alas, guarantee the absence of collusion (the problem with LIBOR), we also know that collusion becomes harder to sustain with a large number of players and free entry. So a system that combines both of these elements---preference revealing bids and ease of entry---could be the basis for an alternative market structure for generating LIBOR. Note that even in this setup, it would still be the case that LIBOR should be set on the basis of actual transactions, rather than imagined ones.
The bottom line is that there are good reasons to rely on actual transacted data to establish LIBOR, subject to some potential tweaking of the mechanism. LIBOR is widely considered one of the world's most important benchmark rates, and the erosion of trust in the system due to recent events suggests that it is high time to move away from the traditional, "gentleman's agreement" approach to LIBOR rate-setting. This would yield clear benefits not just for the millions of people around the world who implicitly rely on LIBOR in their financial contracts, but also for rebuilding trust in the international financial system, more generally.
*. Submitters repond to the question: "At what rate could you borrow funds, were you to do so by asking for and then accepting inter-bank offers in a reasonable market size just prior to 11 am?" Even setting aside deliberate manipulation, the scope of the question offers significant flexibility to the submitter, both morally and legally: the language includes terms such as could and reasonable, which leave substantial scope for individual judgement and discretion. To the extent that this was by design---maybe the BBA fears thin markets rendering LIBOR too volatile on a day-to-day basis---it is now clear that such a degree of flexibility is, on net, a negative for the system as a whole.


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(CNN) -- Jose Mourinho was precisely as we had remembered him.
Provocative, outspoken, manipulative, supremely confident, and utterly compelling.
The only thing lacking in the Portuguese's first campaign back in charge at Chelsea was the usual glut of trophies.
But if you listened to the former Real Madrid and Inter coach opine on the English Premier League title race last season, his side was never in the running.
Despite managing a club owned by Roman Abramovich, who is worth a reputed $10 billion, Mourinho decried his team as the "little horse" in the scurry for the finish line.
This season, ominously, his tone is different.
The acquisition of two big names from Spain -- Cesc Fabregas of Barcelona and Diego Coasta from La Liga champion Atletico Madrid -- has taken his squad onto a different plane, while the return of stalwart Didier Drogba adds an unashamedly sentimental sheen.
"We have the squad that we want to have," Mourinho told reporters on the eve of the new season. "It is a squad for tomorrow, for next season and also a squad with big possibilities for the next five or 10 years with so many young people."
Chelsea may have finished third last season, but Mourinho's tactical prowess was still in evidence.
Not only did he propel the Londoners to home and away wins over eventual champion Manchester City, he did the same to Liverpool -- a morale-crushing 2-0 victory at Anfield in late April was the beginning of the end for the Reds' title aspirations.
It was against the lesser lights Chelsea faltered, but with his squad now bolstered by yet more quality, Mourinho's charges won't be as generous this time around.
Verdict: Surely, a third Premier League title under Mourinho awaits.
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Champion twice in the past three seasons, City might have to play second fiddle to Mourinho and Chelsea in 2014-15.
Last season's triumph was a mass of contradictions -- for large parts of the campaign big-spending City was considered favorite but became ultimately reliant on Liverpool's last-gasp stumble to claim top honors.
Manuel Pellegrini's charges spent just 15 days at the top over the whole campaign; the irony of this season may well see it spend more time at the summit without finishing as top dog.
The club's Chilean coach is a year older and wiser as to the travails of English football however, and it has lavished more cash on fleshing out a squad that already has more depth than an Olympic swimming pool.
City has raided Portugal to prise Fernando and Eliaquim Mangala from Porto, while goalkeeper Willy Caballero and Bruno Zuculini have arrived from Spain.
That quartet's lack of English experience has been offset to a degree by the arrival of two seasoned Premier League campaigners plucked from City's rivals.
Frank Lampard, a three-time title winner, has joined on loan from City's subsidiary club New York City FC after being released by Chelsea, while France defender Bacary Sagna has signed from Arsenal.
As ever, City's success will hinge on its twin titans: midfielder Yaya Toure, who has resolved to stay at the club despite threatening to leave after he received a modest birthday present; and prolific Argentina striker Sergio Aguero, who has signed a new five-year contract.
Verdict: Close but no cigar as City settles for second best.
Read: Mangala signs for Man City
This is where the waters become muddied.
Can Louis van Gaal transform Manchester United into a serious title contender by sheer force of personality alone?
The great Alex Ferguson was able to, propelling his team to title success in his final season despite notable deficiencies in his squad.
But those holes remain -- not filled by David Moyes in his disastrous sole season in charge -- even if June's purchase of Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao in Spain will add some much-needed creativity in the middle of the park.
Promising English left-back Luke Shaw has also been added for what many believe to be a vastly inflated sum, but the 19-year-old will miss the opening month through injury.
For all its limitations, this is still a team that boasts a strike force as lethal as they come.
Wayne Rooney, newly installed as Van Gaal's captain, needs 15 goals to move third on the Premier League's all-time scorers list.
And Robin van Persie's four goals at the World Cup were crucial as Van Gaal led Netherlands to third place in Brazil.
There are no European Champions League distractions for United after last season's malaise, finishing a lowly seventh, so the squad should stay fresh and hungry.
Whatever happens, it won't be dull with Van Gaal around.
Verdict: An up-and-down season to end in third place.
Read: Can Van Gaal cut it at Man Utd?
The Gunners have become masters of deception in recent years.
Promising Premier League campaigns have frittered away and shots at silverware squandered.
That is precisely what happened in the top flight last season. Arsenal spent 128 days atop the division in 2013-14 but suffered maulings at the hands of Chelsea and Liverpool as a familiar post-Christmas slump took hold.
A spike as spring emerged helped usher in Champions League qualification for the 17th straight year but then came a watershed moment in May -- an FA Cup triumph.
Victory over Hull City in England's premier knockout competition slaked a nine-year thirst for a trophy and eased the pressure on Arsene Wenger that had been steadily mounting throughout that time.
A change of direction that began with the marquee signing of Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid this time last year has continued, with £66 million ($110m) spent ahead of the new campaign.
The purchase of Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona after his fine World Cup with Chile has convinced many fans the Gunners can stay in title contention as 2014-15 reaches its business end.
In taking right-back Mathieu Debuchy from Newcastle United, Wenger has replaced departing Frenchman Bacary Sagna with an equally competent compatriot.
Colombia World Cup star David Ospina represents competition for Wojciech Szczesny in the race for the goalkeeper's jersey and teenage defender Calum Chambers -- who cost a reported $25 million from Southampton -- indulges Wenger's "one for the future" passion.
Another couple of signings before the window shuts on September 1 could catapult the London side into the title reckoning, but a top-four finish should still be comfortable even without.
Verdict: A fast start before a predictable fade to fourth place for the third successive season.
How do you replace Luis Suarez? The simple answer is you can't.
The Uruguayan's move to Barcelona may have engendered an $128.5 million windfall, but he takes with him wistful memories of a luxuriant season that reaped 31 goals and 12 assists.
Manager Brendan Rodgers has chosen to disseminate that cash liberally, rather than try to plug the gap with one marquee signing.
That has one obvious advantage and one undeniable negative.
Eight new arrivals means Liverpool's options are now rich and plentiful but, as Tottenham found out so painfully when trying to replace Gareth Bale last season, it is rare they all hit the ground running.
Add to that a phalanx of extra games now that the Reds are in the European Champions League after an absence of four seasons, and repeating last year's push for the title seems unrealistic.
The likes of Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren, both plucked from Southampton, have Premier League and World Cup experience while the likes of midfielder Emre Can and striker Divock Origi have huge potential -- though the latter, who scored Belgium's winner against Algeria at Brazil 2014, has been loaned back to French club Lille.
Rodgers' renowned man-management skills will be tested as he and aging captain Steven Gerrard attempt to bed the new arrivals into the Liverpool way.
Unless assimilation takes less time than expected, this season is destined to become one of transition for the Reds.
Verdict: A fifth-place finish after a long winter of adjustment..
Which team do you think will win the title? Have your say in the comments box below or continue the conversation with CNN FC on Twitter or on Facebook.


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To satisfy my curiosity I would love to see some UW test footage of the Z100
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Posted 17 September 2013 - 10:21 AM
To satisfy my curiosity I would love to see some UW test footage of the Z100
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Posted 23 September 2013 - 04:32 AM
Alister Chapman of the Genus Hurricane 3D rig fame. Oh he shoots weather especially bad weather.
3D whatsit?
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Posted 23 September 2013 - 12:15 PM
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Posted 23 September 2013 - 05:35 PM
Ooops indeed. Worked out what you are saying but too late to stop. Parallel universe !
Sony is really trying hard to get the eco-system going with 4K system. Now you can chop up 4 x HD and have a ridiculously wide aspect multi-screen.
My take on this is that the market may very well be driven by gaming and the mobile phone 4K. Consumer driven.
For UW 4K if a handycam could do what a Z1 could do for HD and at a good price point then it could be a winner.
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Posted 31 October 2013 - 04:08 AM
Some footage and reviews of the AX1 has started to surface and as predicted it doesn't perform well in low light!
Posted 19 November 2013 - 07:59 PM
So Gates have announced a housing for this camera.
Interesting times indeed.
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Posted 20 November 2013 - 12:23 PM
Will be very interesting to see how it goes underwater,
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Posted 28 May 2014 - 07:10 PM
Hi All,
For those of you wanting to see some test footage, here you go...
I had 5 dives with the Z100 in Gates in various California sites (in some pretty poor vis) and was super impressed with the rig. Having happily used the Gates HVX200 exclusively for the past 8 years, the upgrade was a pleasure. So far I am not seeing any of the noise I struggled with in the HVX. We had crap vis everywhere we dived, but the autofocus and one-touch white balance were both incredible compared to the HVX. Even at 20m under kelp and soup the camera did a great job of finding the right subject to focus on. I was using Gates early prototype LEDs that throw a boatload of even light, and everything moves slowly and fairly predictably in the kelp and the camera was incredible in these conditions. I have found the autofocus will hunt when the fish and waters are fast moving as we often encounter in tropical reefs and coastlines, but it will find the focus quickly and the switch to manual lock is very easy to reach and toggle on the housing.
The Gates housing is a dream to trim and balance with the bouyant collar around the Fathoms SPW44C along with the trim wieght options. I have used two different light configurations and a tripod, and a GoPro mounted and was able to achieve perfect trim with each variation.
I have done a couple of dives since coming home to amazing vis in the river and will post some of that blue water, white sand footage when I can.
Posted 28 May 2014 - 09:31 PM
Good job Josh, especially with a new rig. Looks very clear and sharp here at 1080p, including the corners.
p.s. Poor seal at 1:35
Posted 29 May 2014 - 11:24 AM
Thanks Nick. I haven't seen how it looks in a tiled pool yet, but in-the-wild footage looks sharp to the edges.
Yep, I've decided I need to share the horrors of what we see with the good stuff.
Posted 29 May 2014 - 03:45 PM
Josh, nice looking HD even on Youtube. The 4k downres looks a little Sony typical hypersharpened around the edges. Do you mind sharing the custom settings and post steps?
Looks like the Z100 4k AVCS files are great for generating great 1080p resolution and turning it into 422 color space too, when lit. Did you have any shots of high contrast like sunballs in the kelp forests that pushes dynamic range? How did the Z100 fare then? Any banding with the 8bit 4k in open water?
I look forward to your unlit tests in cleaner, bluish water for MWB to see if the dreaded Sony issue is pervasive throughout the range or just limited to certain cameras.
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Posted 29 May 2014 - 07:24 PM
Thanks Drew,
Nothing much to share. I have mostly stuck with the default settings so far for Gamma, Knee etc. I am still testing but have seen no need to change anything yet beyond adding ND filters (which is clunky on land but smooth underwater), and flicking between Auto and Manual focus. I am really spending most of my time trying to check focus above all else, and the auto iris and shutter are doing really well without me.
As for dynamic range, the opening shot is straight at the sun through the kelp but deep enough to not blow out without any ND. I'm not one for testing specs too exhaustively but I'm pretty sure I'm getting significantly more range than I had with the HVX. I shot the early morning sun from 5m in pretty good vis and it looks great - no banding at all but I still haven't tried a high sun in clear shallow water.


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"This is a full stop to my career. I can feel it. It's over!"
"Relax! You can't be sure about it. Let's wait for the phone call, I'm positive you'll get the job. I really am."
But Mark wasn't listening to his wife anymore. He walked back and forth in their empty living room thinking of career alternatives and secure future plans. Random series of impulses hit his brain disabling him to think logically. He had dreamt about filling up the empty spaces of their home with cosy furniture and lavish interiors one day. That would make Riana happy, yes. He felt desperate.
"We're going to make it through all this mess. You'll receive the call anytime now and get that job. Calm down."
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What had happened to their life? The cheer from the office days didn't last long. They were now only hopeful of a better future. They'd met 2 years ago via mutual colleagues at workplace and were hitched within eight months. It was perfect back then. Ria was a receptionist at their company and Mark, a business analyst. He was sacked six months ago and struggled to survive in this unruly economy. After pulling some strings, he was now hopeful of getting his old position back at the same company. They optimistically discussed their future every night. They realized that they could face any hurdle as long as they had each other. All the cliched movies and music had started to make sense these days.
The phone rang. Mark anxiously turned towards the table.
After three minutes of "yeses", "okays" and "nos", he placed the phone down in disbelief. He'd got the job! He bent down and hugged Ria so hard that her rib cage almost cracked. His tears wet her dress. She curled her arms around him and they stayed still for some time. Everything was going to be alright now. They were going to have a beautiful home and a beautiful life. The boss had offered an increase in salary too. In his mind, Mark started to make special plans for the night to celebrate their new beginning when Ria's phone beeped.
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tifosi77 wrote:And don't use any serif fonts (like Times New Roman) on resumes submitted electronically because they can sometimes get screwy when converting to a PDF. They're fine for printed docs, but if you're emailing a document go with a no-serif font.
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Letang Is The Truth wrote:so sans serif is just rounded?
Shyster wrote:I'm not a hiring person, but I would immediately throw out any résumé that's written entirely in a san-serif typeface. San-serif fonts are acceptable in limited roles like contrasting headings, but I would never set my entire résumé in one.
Tomas wrote:OK, if Helvetica is boring, Times Roman lazy - what is THE elegant typeface to use for the resume?
tifosi77 wrote:Another tip from the book "Positioning": never include your middle name or initial in your CV. It implies that you are so underwhelmed by your own background that there's no possible way you could distinguish yourself from all the other people with your name without including that middle initial. Not sure how valid that one is, but there you go.
tifosi77 wrote:Tomas wrote:OK, if Helvetica is boring, Times Roman lazy - what is THE elegant typeface to use for the resume?
Century Gothic is a good one, but it's kind of a 'big' font.
Shyster wrote:Note that none of these typefaces are free or included as default typefaces in Microsoft or Apple's software.
tifosi77 wrote:Of course, all of this can be avoided simply by sending a pdf. But for some reason, employers still insist on getting editable documents. Is this to ensure better keyword searchability?
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I think it's worth mentioning that the MDM Workbench blog is just one of the resources available, and it's been great to see discussions in the MDM Workbench forum continue to thrive. Another place worth visiting is the new workbench FAQ, which already has answers to a range of questions that have come up on the forum.
A good place to find these and many other resources is the MDM Developers group.
So, back to the blog. What have you found interesting or useful? Are there any particular workbench topics you would like to read about? Do you have any preference for the type of post, e.g. quick tips, news, short articles, etc. If you know an area of the workbench well, would you be interested in being a guest author?
To get you thinking, here are some example posts which seem to have been popular so far:
- Iain's guide to testing generated web services using JUnit
- A tip for adding related elements to UML diagrams
- Jay's news of workbench sessions at IOD
- Matt's short article on securing generated user interface applications
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