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Water quality expert calling for shift in U.S. water body treatment strategies
Dr. Kenneth Hudnell is calling for a significant shift in government regulatory policy and remediation strategies of impaired freshwater bodies.
CHAPEL HILL, NC, March 1, 2013 -- Dr. Kenneth Hudnell, one of the foremost experts on harmful algal blooms, cyanobacteria, their toxins, and their effects on health and aquatic ecosystems is calling for a significant shift in government regulatory policy and remediation strategies being applied to impaired freshwater bodies. "Current remediation efforts focus almost entirely on the watershed and stopping pollutants from entering water bodies -- but ignore the impaired water bodies themselves. This approach can take 20-30 years to restore a water body's designated uses, if ever, and is far too expensive," states Hudnell, Vice President and Director of Science at Medora Corp and Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina. "We need a systems approach that combines the best of watershed management with appropriate waterbody management technologies to restore designated uses in the near term at a lower overall cost."
Dr. Hudnell has recently published an article entitled, "An Alternative Approach to Regaining Designated Uses of Clean Water Act Section 303 (D) Impaired Waters," in the February Florida Water Resources Journal that explores government policy and technologies for improving water body conditions using a balanced approach to freshwater management. "Waterbody management is the use of technologies within impaired waters to reduce the stress on impaired biochemical processes and enable recovery. Current technologies can circulate water to suppress cyanobacteria and enable nutrients to ascend the food web, creating outstanding fisheries, and deactivate pathogens through repeated exposure to ultraviolet sunlight. Other technologies can capture excessive nutrients for reuse, and degrade toxic substances through bacterial digestion."
The U.S. EPA estimates of eutrophic water bodies have grown from 10-20 percent of U.S. fresh water bodies in 1972 to about 50 percent today. "We need a policy in place that requires treating the impaired water body itself, not just trying to prevent pollutants from entering water bodies," continued Hudnell. "Present policies are tantamount to a doctor recommending healthy life style choices to an ill patient without directly treating the illness and symptoms of the disease."
Some of the measures and technologies Hudnell recommends include: 1) Satellite Imagery from Blue Water Satellite for monitoring conditions, locating problems, and managing progress 2) Long-Distance, Solar-Powered circulation units that continually circulate the waters 3) Floating mats that remove nitrogen and phosphorus from the water body and 4) Algae Wheels to remove nutrients by growing nontoxic algae that can be processed into biofuel, animal feedstock, or fertilizer.
The paper cites a case study in the Falls Lake Watershed of North Carolina where the projected cost of the watershed management strategy is about $2 billion. Implementation of waterbody management strategies to stop harmful algal blooms and remove nutrients would cost about $25 million. "If we use only the most effective and cost efficient watershed management tools in combination with appropriate waterbody management tools, we could restore Falls Lake's designated uses in months to years, not decades, at a much lower overall cost. This is a systems approach; it brings about the conditions desired by the users of the system in the most efficient manner," concludes Hudnell.


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Not one to sit back after just having released its report on the state of music in 2007, the IFPI announced today that the music industry organization conducted 335 raids on Internet cafes in Brazil, making good on its threat to step up its antipiracy efforts there. The raids were conducted the first two weeks of January but are only being announced now.
The action was centered in Sao Paolo and carried out in partnership with the Associacao Anti-pirateria de Cinema e Musica (APCM), Brazil's anti-piracy lobbyists dedicated to both the music and movie business. The APCM is a bit of an oddity: the group is the result of Voltron-like combinatory powers, having been formed from the merger of independent anti-piracy groups.
According to the IFPI, the raid was a success. Some 2,339 computers were seized, and more than one million "illegal" audio tracks were found. Despite this, only one (!) arrest was made.
The raid, which consumed intense human resources, sends a message to Internet café owners in Brazil and elsewhere: we can show up and take your stuff, so you should really police your own customers better. An impressive show of police power, more than 600 Special Ops police were involved.
The IFPI said that the raids were conducted in order to combat a major font of piracy in the country. Citing an independent study, the IFPI claims that 20 percent of Brazilians head to Internet cafés for the purposes of illegally downloading and sometimes burning movies and music to disc. Late last year, the IFPI said that Brazil was one of the largest black markets in the world for entertainment goods, estimating that nearly one in two CDs and DVDs sold are bootlegs.
We contacted the MPAA to ask them how Internet café owners can steer clear of troubles, but we did not hear back by press time. Some of you out there are Internet cafe operators, and the story we hear is a common one. Locking down machines can drive customers away, and regardless, turning off mass storage devices doesn't seem to be much of an option. There are plenty of legitimate uses for burners, and the café that turns them off will only lose business to those that don't.


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With just hours to go until the start of the season, the Football League have announced the attendance analysis for the 2014/15 season.
Brighton start their campaign this evening at home to Nottingham Forest, with the club expecting 25,000 fans at the AMEX. Crawley head to the Kassam Stadium to face Oxford United tomorrow.
The Championship has seen a 7% increase of fans attending games, with a whopping 9,860,782 fans coming throughout the season. There was a six percent rise in League Two with 2,601,227 people going to games. This was much better than League One, where they have seen a five percent decrease in attendance figures.
Brighton and Derby had the highest average attendances in the Championship. Portsmouth, Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle had the best attendances home and away in League Two.
Brighton were a part of the highest attendance of last season in the Football League. Their final day match against Middlesbrough up at the Riverside Stadium brought in 33,463. Portsmouth had all ten top League Two crowds last season, with Fratton Park being full most weeks.
The Red Devil's highest attendance of the season was 5,744 against Coventry on the final game of the season with Brighton reaching 28,890 against Norwich in April.
The Seagulls had an average attendance of 25,649 this was a five percent decrease on the season before but they ranked third in the report. Crawley had the lowest average attendance in League One, with just 3,117, a 11% drop from the previous year.
Both Brighton and Crawley had lower season ticket numbers from the campaign before. Crawley had a 39% decrease with just 1,165 fans renewing or purchasing season tickets. Brighton had 21,245, an eight percent drop.
On average, 1,041 Brighton fans travelled up and down the country while 140 Crawley fans made their way to games. On Average 464 visited the Checkatrade.com Stadium with 1491 visiting the AMEX.
Fulham's Craven Cottage was a popular ground for away fans to travel to last season, with an average of 2788 fans. For League Two, Crawley's opening opponents Oxford had an average of 948 fans travelling to the Kassam Stadium.
All together last season 589,937 fans watched Brighton and 71,700 for Crawley.
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When I'm finishing up a video for a client, one of the important steps in the process is to design the DVD menus. When the DVD is done, I still have to design and print the disc label and the "cover art" of the package insert. Like most videographers, I like to think of myself as the creative type and pretty savvy about the visual arts, and I've spent a lot of hours in Photoshop coming up with original artwork for these project elements.
It pains me to admit it, but there are many graphic designers who are better than I am. One of them is Lance Gray, who's been selling his designs to videographers for several years through the company he built with cohorts Brian Gunn and Russ Jolly, PixelPops Design. The latest offering from PixelPops is a product called PopDrops, and it's a great timesaver as well as an outstanding source of beautiful graphics for your DVD projects.
All in the Family PixelPops currently offers two volumes of PopDrops. Each volume consists of a DVD with more than 30 different designs. Each design actually is a family of project elements, so you can have a pre-made template for each project element, with each template having a unified "look."
Each design "family" has at least four DVD menus: a main menu and a chapter menu, each of which comes in a stills-only version and a version with insets for motion video. The volumes also include a DVD label and a case insert, provided in both 150dpi and 300dpi resolutions.
But there are a lot more than 30 "looks" possible. All these graphics are Photoshop PSD files with a consistent set of layers making up the image. You can change the overall color of the image with a single mouse-click, change the title font, turn off various elements of the background image, reposition or resize elements, or substitute your own graphic elements to create an entirely new design.
Besides the actual content, the PopDrops DVD contains detailed instructions on how to use the graphics, including instructions on how to substitute your own photos and video clips for the "placeholders" in the PopDrops graphics.
Encore Performance PopDrops DVD menus are designed to work best with Adobe Encore DVD because the layers in the PSD files follow Encore's naming conventions exactly. Using PopDrops with Encore unleashes the full power of these graphics; you don't have to go back and forth between Photoshop and your authoring program until the menu is just right. You can make all necessary changes without leaving Encore.
Thus, videographers need not even have Photoshop installed on their system if they're doing their DVD authoring in Encore, although it's certainly helpful. And if you're running Encore, there's a good chance you're using the full Adobe Video Collection anyway and doing your image work in Photoshop.
PopDrops also will work with other DVD authoring applications, but not nearly as seamlessly. (Lance Gray tells me that he plans to make other versions available soon that are specifically targeted to work with other popular authoring programs.) When using PopDrops with a different authoring program, you'll need to have Photoshop.
I used PopDrops to develop menus in four different authoring applications: Adobe Encore 1.5, Sony DVD Architect 3, Sonic DVDit Pro 6, and Sonic MyDVD. Encore by far proved the easiest program to use with PopDrops; you just open the menu and start editing. I didn't have the font used by the design I chose, so an error message popped up as soon as I opened the file. But this didn't pose a problem, because it's easy to substitute any font that you do have on your system. Also, all the fonts used in creating the PopDrops images are listed in the PopDrops information files, so you can install them from a font collection such as those that come with Photoshop, Encore, or CorelDraw.
PixelPops also notes on their Web site that PopDrops are Mac-compatible. I didn't do any testing with DVD Studio Pro, but presumably the same caveats apply as with the non-Adobe Windows authoring tools: you may have to tweak the PopDrops PSD files in Photoshop to make the templates work more effectively with DVD SP.
DVD Architect For DVD Architect—the DVD authoring adjunct to Sony's popular Vegas NLE—the first step was to open the PopDrops menus in Photoshop. The next step was to rename the layers to correspond to DVD Architect's naming conventions. I also had to merge the title layer and all the elements of the background, and delete the handy colorization layers; DVD Architect recognizes only background and button images in Photoshop layers.
There also was a problem in the way that DVD Architect treated the button highlights. Instead of remaining in their proper place in the image, DVD Architect insisted on centering the highlights in their buttons. This makes the PopDrops highlights, which are little "bullets" placed to the left or right of the button text, useless for authors working with DVD Architect. DVD Architect users should rely instead on the program's own highlighting features.
It's also worth noting that you'll need version 3 or later of DVD Architect to work effectively with PopDrops menus; earlier versions do not recognize Photoshop files. You can use programs that won't import PSD files, but you will have to save out each layer as a separate image, and import them as TGA files, or another flat bitmap format.
Sonic DVDit and MyDVD Sonic DVDit Pro 6 (see Jan Ozer's October review) will recognize Photoshop files, but it's severely limited in the number of layers it will allow—either two or three, depending on the intended use of the image, as a background, a button, or a frame. You can use PopDrops with DVDit, but you'll have to separate out the various layers and do a lot of flattening (combining layers). I found DVDit to be the least tolerant of the authoring apps; the images that didn't meet its expected standards wouldn't be accepted.
MyDVD is one of those "we'll do everything for you to make it easy" applications, so it has little flexibility when it comes to manipulating and customizing layered imagery. However, somewhat surprisingly, it did recognize PopDrops' PSD files. It's necessary to import the file twice; once for the backgrounds bin, and once for the buttons bin. The background elements should be merged, as with DVD Architect. Annoyingly, each layer appears as a separate graphic element in MyDVDs element bins, and none of them can be deleted without deleting the whole PSD file. Once imported, the various elements are easy to drag to MyDVD's compilation window to re-assemble the menu. As with DVD Architect, PopDrops' highlights are of no use here; but MyDVD automatically highlights the button text for you.
PopDrops' PSD files have been created for maximum design flexibility and are fully compatible with Adobe products like Encore. As we've seen, while non-Adobe authoring programs may be able to import the PSD files, they may not be able to read or handle PopDrops' PSD layers without some tweaking by the user. Nevertheless, the excellent graphics make the purchase of one or both volumes worthwhile. Each volume is priced at $250, or you can get both volumes in a bundle for $450. If you figure one hour of your time is worth $50, it won't take too long for PopDrops to pay for themselves.


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"You Can Major in That?" RPTA Discovery Showcase Set for Feb. 18
February 7, 2013
MACOMB, IL – Why not major in recreation? No really, the Western Illinois University Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Administration (RPTA) is hosting the "You Can Major in That?" RPTA Discovery Showcase from 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18 in the University Union Prairie Lounge. The event will provide students with information about career opportunities in the field and is open free to the public.
Current RPTA students will be on hand to answer questions about the major and field, and attendees will be able to gather information about career possibilities in such positions and jobs as resort activity director, cruise ship personnel, outdoor educational specialist, sports complex director, camp director, community center director and more. Each attendee is encouraged to bring a friend, and both names will be entered into a drawing for a free large pizza. Refreshments will also be provided.
For more information, contact the WIU Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Administration at (309) 298-1967. Learn more about RPTA at WIU at www.wiu.edu/rpta/.
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A dash of exhaustion. A smidgen of self-defeat. A pinch of anxiety. A spoonful of confusion. That was me approximately three weeks ago. Burnt out.
I have a higher tendency than the average person to experience burn-out mainly because I have a slew of health issues that tend to pop up from time to time. It's exhausting trying to deal with those issues while juggling a full workload. In this case, the particular health issue was asthma season. It happens roughly between March-May of every year, then September-October, coinciding with seasonal change. It was particularly bad this year for some reason; it was literally becoming almost impossible for me to breathe at many points in time. Sadly, in these cases, it's often my extra-curricular activities that have to get cut. In this case, it was dashtodine.
Anyways, I think the worst is over. Fondue, anyone?
Me and the foodie crew roll up in our car and begin to walk towards Capstone's, an allegedly excellent place to pig out on Cheese or Chocolate Fondue. Once we enter the place, we immediately notice the class and simple panache of the place. Mirrors line the walls of the place. Perfect for an exceedingly vain person to admire his or herself. I stroll over to the mirrors and admire the view. God I'm beautiful. Well, in my mind at least.
"I love how tea is often given weird exotic menu descriptions that make you believe that you're gaining some sort of unique super-power, depending upon which flavour you happen to choose."
We pick a table and our amicable waiter drops by and offers us suggestions as to what to get. Choosing between devouring a Chocolate waterfall and a Cheese waterfall is a tough call.
Chocolate it is.
Tea is also served before the Fondue makes its first appearance. I love how tea is often given weird exotic menu descriptions that make you believe that you're gaining some sort of unique super-power, depending upon which flavour you happen to choose. I choose my super-power. Green tea.
Maybe I'll turn into a Ninja Turtle. Or perhaps my skin will become exfoliated, and I'll have increased powers of concentration and have the first peaceful night's sleep I've had in years.
I'd still rather be a Ninja Turtle.
The Tea is served unsweetened, which brings out its natural and supposedly therapeutic properties. It's good for the first few sips but then becomes tiresome. It would be nice to have the option of sweetening it.
The condiments are brought out. Matcha Cookies (well that's what they look like), Banana Bread, Lemon Loaf, Apple Slices, Strawberries, Bananas, Pineapples and Grapes make their foray into our table. Chocolate swimming pools are then presented to us individually, each cupped in a delicate vase with a candle underneath to maintain the warmth. Elegant. Classy. This is definitely something I like.
Each condiment complements the Chocolate surprisingly well. The fruits are all Chocolate-compatible, the Cookies plain enough to still carry the Mocha overtones, and Pastries take on a new life of their own once dipped in the Cocoa ponds.
All in all, a great way to get back into the fray of Foodie adventures.


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Lacey Holsworth Tribute on MSU's Rock Painted Over
The Rock, a campus icon at Michigan State University, stood as a memorial to Lacey Holsworth for nearly two weeks.
But by early Monday morning, it had been repainted.
The Rock is known for its daily (and sometimes more than daily) paintings, often by different campus groups and organizations.
When Holsworth, the 8-year-old St. Johns girl who came to inspire MSU basketball and the country during her fight against cancer, died on April 8, MSU students painted the Rock to honor her.
And it stayed that way for 11 days, which must be a record for the monument's 141-year history.
The Rock's new message comes during the final week of classes for spring semester. Like the one that preceded it, the new message also is inspiring: "Congratulations graduates. Be a hero to someone."


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edt wrote:This one is believable but if you make stuff up one place why not make it up another? I actually dont believe a single thing in that article. There is probably some political point to be made by scaring people about how dangerous kiters are to themselves and others.Toby wrote:But good read with good advices!
Shame that one person hurt a little girl on the beach and ran away!
I know to be true the two kite related incidents, I even know the kook that hung it on the tour boat ( commercial vessel mentioned ).
I believe that all content mentioned was in good faith and true, minus possible honest mistakes in accuracy. The only agenda I know of is to promote safety, maintain access and prevent onerous regulations.


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News Bull Tattoo Design
The best for men are the bull tattoos. Since, the Bull represents a
Bull Tattoos With Image Bull Shoulder Tattoo 2
Bull tattoos are most commonly drawn with black or red ink.
This Pit Bull Tattoo is a portrait of her dog,done on her inner arm.
"Southside Johnny" from Inkster's Tattoo in Lakeside, CA. Semper Fi Bull
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Bull rider lost a fight with a bull. Tattoos camouflage scars from surgery.


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Explore the Tararuas
We are the western gateway to some of the most rugged and challenging tramping in New Zealand - the mighty Tararua Range.
We are the western gateway to some of the most rugged and challenging tramping in New Zealand - the mighty Tararua Range. You can also take a day trip into these ranges and explore the foothills. Whatever length of trip you are planning please be prepared - the weather can change in a flash, often leaving ill-prepared trampers stranded.
Accommodation is by way of a classic kiwi backcountry hut. Services are basic and trampers are expected to be fully self contained.
The Southern Crossing – 2-4 days (from Otaki Forks)
Day trip to Field Hut (from Otaki Forks)
The Northern Crossing – 2-5 days (from Levin)
Overnight trip to Waitewaiwai Hut (from Otaki Forks)
Overnight trip to Waiopehu Hut (Levin)
Be prepared.
Check the weather before you go.
• Tell someone where you are going and what time you expect to be back.
• For Field Hut, and the Southern Crossing, sign the visitor book at the Rangers office at Otaki Forks.
• Take map, raincoat, hat and gloves, compass, plenty of food, and your camera – the scenery is awesome.
All trampers must buy backcountry hut tickets which are available from i-SITES or DOC offices.
Contact our i-SITE Visitor Information Centres for more details including bus, train, and tide timetables; or the latest in other activities and events. They are located in Paraparaumu and Otaki.


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IUCN Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Mr. Narinder Kakar, presented a statement to the UN General Assembly on 13 February 2008 on the issue of climate change
The three-day debate was convened by the President of the Assembly in order to garner support from all parts of society to address climate change. The debate, originally intended to be held for two days, was extended by a full day to accommodate the 115 speakers, including 19 ministers and 7 vice-ministers representing 107 countries.
e dialogue focused on how to involve people from the private sector, business, academic and science in a sustained effort to address climate change. The Assembly debate attracted a significant number of high-profile personalities, including Sir Richard Branson, CEO and founder of the Virgin Group, the actor Daryl Hannah and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. While opening the debate, the General Assembly President Dr. Srgjan Kerim emphasized that climate change was not just an environmental issue; it was a sustainable development issue. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated that UN leaders would work diligently to map out an agreement by the end of 2009 to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to the impact of climate change and provide the money and technology to do so. Concluding the debate, Dr. Kerim announced that he would hold two additional meetings to consider the concerns of vulnerable countries and corporate responsibility and sustainability in more detail.
The statement of the IUCN Permanent Observer received considerable coverage in the press release issued by the United Nations at the conclusion of the meeting.


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Yoga is an exercise practice which involves a series of postures and stretches which build strength and flexibility. The word yoga translates as union, a reference to the connection between mind and body which come from a yoga class.
Many practice yoga to build their stamina and strength but also for the balance between mind and body it brings as well as the sense of relaxation and clarity. The most important element of yoga is breath, by becoming aware of the breath we can bring peace to out mind and in turn our bodies.
Each pose completed in a yoga class focuses on bringing strength and flexibility to a different part of the body. Poses can be completed quickly, to increase physical fitness or in a slower fashion to place emphasis on strength.
In recent years Bikram Yoga has increased in popularity. Bikram yoga takes place over a ninety minute class in which a series of twenty six postures are completed. What makes Bikram yoga unique is that the class is completed in a room which is heated to thirty eight degrees. The heat is thought to cleanse the body of toxins, increase circulation, avoid injury and allow maximum flexibility. Power Yoga too has become a favorite of many yoga devotees.
What Are The Benefits of Yoga?
After completing your first yoga class you can expect to feel full of energy. Many people do yoga to help reduce stress, in fact if you complete your yoga practice in the morning you will benefit from a sense of clarity and energy all day long.
Yoga classes will take place in gyms, studios and the outdoors. A class will usually last from between sixty and ninety minutes. Some places will supply a yoga mat to use but others will require you to bring your own, you may like to call ahead to find out.
Classes begin with a few warm up stretches. You will then move on to more difficult postures. A class may have a set series of postures to work through, or have a more casual feel where the instructor takes you through a series of exercises. Some exercises like sun salutations are aimed at increasing strength. Others like tree pose are aimed at increasing balance.
At the end of the class you will conclude with a short relaxation session which the instructor will lead.


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London Fashion Week Spring 2013 | Day 2 Pictures
Our London Fashion Week Diary: Day 2
Our London Fashion Week Diary: Day 2
Day two of London Fashion Week was just as fun as the first, with plenty of action to boot. At the Topshop venue we spotted some of our favorite fashion fixtures getting ready to take in the Unique show — Anna Dello Russo, Leigh Lezark, Susie Bubble, Garance Doré — and made it backstage after the show just in time to see Jourdan Dunn and Cara Delevingne running off to their next shows. We also chatted with Topshop creative director Kate Phelan, checked out the Spring 2013 beauty boards, and explored the piles of postshow makeup scattered everywhere.
Next it was off to the gorgeous Grand Connaught Rooms to catch the Temperley show, where we spied singer Delilah and one of our favorite Brit street-style stars, Laura Bailey, posing for a hoard of Fashion Week paparazzi. Click through to peek at all that — and more — here, in day two of our London Fashion Week photo diary.


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- Mots-clés > active pharmacovigilance surveillance
- Mots-clés > active surveillance system - antiretroviral program
- Mots-clés > adverse drug reactions (ADRs)
- Mots-clés > antiretroviral therapy (ART)
- Mots-clés > drug safety
- Mots-clés > medicine safety
- Mots-clés > medicine surveillance systems
- Mots-clés > pharmacovigilance
- Mots-clés > pregnancy registry
- Mots-clés > system of surveillance and control of medicines
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Nwokike J., A. Stergachis, and P. Gurumurthy. 2011. Development of Active Surveillance System for the Antiretroviral Program in Karnataka State — Protocol and Operation Plan. Submitted to the US Agency for International Development by the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems Program. Arlington, VA: Management Sciences for Health.
Antiretroviral medicines (ARV) at antiretroviral treatment (ART) sites in the State of Karnataka through active surveillance at sentinel sites. The goal of this activity is to develop, implement, and demonstrate the local feasibility of a practical and sustainable pharmacovigilance system that could later be scaled up to monitor the safety of ARV regimens throughout the State. The proposed system also has applicability for future active surveillance of other medicines, settings, and populations. The active surveillance activity, developed by the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program in consultation with the Karnataka State AIDS Control Society (KSAPS) and other stakeholders, proposes to systematically document and quantify the presence or absence of ARV-related adverse events, and to determine risk factors at sentinel sites. Systematically collecting information about medicines used in a defined population helps ensure that medicines have an acceptable safety profile and are used appropriately.
The active surveillance system will be a multi-center, prospective observational cohort activity designed to evaluate the incidence and identify risk factors for adverse drug events among HIV-infected patients newly placed on antiretroviral therapy. The proposed data collection strategy is based on data that the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) of the Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare currently requires ART Centres to collect. The system will be implemented with 10 ART sites. The initial emphasis will be to develop, implement, and operate active surveillance among adult HIV-infected patients receiving ARVs throughout the duration of their use of ARVs. Additionally, over the course of the activity period, active surveillance will also be developed and implemented with pediatric patients and with pregnant women who are receiving ARVs. Both groups are vulnerable and understudied. For patients included in this activity, all suspected adverse drug reactions will be documented and evaluated, including mild to moderate events, reactions that result in substitution, switching, and stopping of ARVs, occurrences of hospitalizations, and death. A data coordinating center will be established to provide data management and training support for the active surveillance sites. This activity will ultimately result in the development of a sustainable active surveillance system for longitudinally monitoring the safety of ARV medicines throughout the duration of the ART program.
There is a clear and growing need to better understand the benefits and risks of ARVs under conditions of actual use. Most questions of drug safety may only be answered by observing and analyzing the use and outcomes of therapy in large populations during the post-approval phase.1,2 The active surveillance system presented in this proposal will contribute to the knowledge-base, and help develop infrastructure for future active surveillance approaches. Results will also help inform future revisions to ART treatment guidelines and regulatory decisions. From the perspective of patient care, knowledge of factors that may affect the risk and management of adverse reactions, including other illnesses and conditions, the patient's other current medications, the availability of alternative regimens, and the patient's history of medication intolerance, may lead to improved outcomes.


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Miley Cyrus broke it down hip-hop style to explain why she deleted her Twitter account earlier this week.
In a new YouTube video, Miley – with four backing dancers — rapped, "The rumors are true, I deleted my Twitter."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: She's Just Bein' Miley!
And while fans, celebs and even her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, were calling for Miley's return to Twitter on Friday, she said she's done with the social networking Web site for her own privacy – and not because rumored boyfriend Liam Hemsworth told her to quit, which she Tweeted on Wednesday night.
"I had to say goodbye and this little rap is to tell my fans why," she rapped. "It wasn't because my friend told me to.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus Brings 'Hannah' To Access!
"Everything that I type and everything that I do, all the lame gossip sites take it and they make it news," she continued. "I want my private life private… I'm living for me."
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As of August 2014, the Texas Education Agency oversees 1,247 public school districts, open enrollment charter schools, juvenile justice districts, Texas School For the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Texas School For the Deaf. More than 5 million students are currently enrolled in Texas schools.
Use the links below to get detailed information about Texas schools and districts, including contact information, accountability data, financial data, demographic data, and employment information.
District Directory (AskTED)AskTED is an online directory of Texas schools, including charters. The directory primary is primarily used by people seeking contact information for schools, districts, and education service centers.
District Type Data SearchThe district type data set classifies Texas public school districts into the following nine categories: major urban, major suburban, other central city, other central city suburban, independent town, non-metropolitan: fast growing, non-metropolitan: stable, rural, and charter school districts.
PEIMS Standard ReportsThese school district reports include regional data, congressional data, student data, and staffing data.
District LocatorAn interactive tool for mapping districts and regional boundaries and locating schools and districts in the state. It also provides school district data, including accountability ratings, enrollment, and contact information.
Statewide Job SearchThis tool allows users to search for employment at any school district in the state. It features an interactive Google map and provides links to district websites and employment specific pages, where available.


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Malia Obama's "scandalous" appearance in a peace sign shirt in Italy has led way too many people to speculate about its potential political implications for nuclear disarmament rather than a decision about fashion by a kid. •
• For a segment on skin whitening, NPR interviews a professor from Indiana who says it "does not imply necessarily that they want to be white." A columnist from South Africa disagrees: "people want to be white, or light." • Teens at risk of becoming pregnant (one possible risk factor: having an older sister who gave birth as a teen) are being paid a dollar a day by a North Carolina program to not become preggo. Participating girls only receive the money if they successfully graduate from high school and enroll in college. • A recent report released by Amnesty International indicates that pregnant women in Peru are dying at "scandalous" rates. Most of the deaths are located in rural areas, and the report stated that poor, indigenous women are being denied the same health services available to other women in the country. • A study of Australian pregnant women found that older mothers (30s and 40s) are just as healthy as younger moms. However, the older mothers tended to worry about their children more, while the younger mothers reacted more positively to the changes in their bodies. • Golf mentor Pia Nilsson and her coaching partner, Lynn Marriott, are reportedly responsible for a number of strange ticks exhibited by women golfers on the LPGA tour. The team relies on a "holistic" approach, that takes into account the player's spiritual and emotional needs as well as their physical ones, to coach their clients to victory. • A group of high school girls, including one cheerleader, made the news on July 3rd when they stole $147 from a group of children, one of who was in a wheelchair. The three mean girls were arrested the next day. • A British school is having its students practice their reading skills on dogs to boost their self-confidence. • Some British advice columnist thinks men might experience pains worse than childbirth. If he's in a relationship with a woman, we're guessing he's about to find out. • An Indian astrologer has filed a petition objecting to the recent court ruling decriminalizing consensual homosexual intercourse. Maybe he's India's Larry Craig and prefers it illicit? • Taiwan is on the cusp of legalizing prostitution in Taipei and limiting it to a special district, as they do in Amsterdam. No one's yet sure where the district will be, so the sex workers are hoping they won't end up in the mountains. • Women prefer men who have some rhythm on the dance floor, possibly because too many of us have had one without any in bed. • One potential benefit of screwing around with a man-whore: lower sperm count. Apparently, their sperm also thinks it's not necessary to try hard in bed because they're so pretty. • Even after women leave abusive partners, custody arrangements often leave them open to continued abuse. • Two Houston firefighters have come forward about an ongoing campaign of racial and sexual harassment committed against them by their colleagues. The women are being forced by the department to use their vacation time while the department determines who threatened to kill them on the job. • The Senate Appropriations Committee today voted to codify the end of the Mexico City Policy (also known as the Global Gag Rule) into law to prevent the next Republican President from putting it back into effect. Republicans are threatening to hold up the legislation on the Senate floor.


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Based in Irvine, California, Project Tomorrow supports "the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities" so that "students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century."
Based in Irvine, California, Project Tomorrow supports "the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities" so that "students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century."
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This area of the Child Tech Wiki contains research addressing Children and Technology.
Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology
CARET provides research-based answers to critical questions regarding the use of education technology. The Center is a collaboration of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Education Support Systems (ESS), and the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE). Funding is provided by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Center for Children & Technology
The Center for Children & Technology is a nonprofit organization that researches how and to what extent technology influences young people. CCT performs research for schools, libraries, museums, corporations, and philanthropic groups and makes many of their reports and presentations available online. Established in 1980 and now part of the Education Development Center in New York, the CCT strives to "construct a more complete understanding of how to foster greater equity, student achievement, and teacher preparedness."
Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television & Children (CRITC)
Located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, CRITC pursues "empirical research on children's use of television, video and computer games, and other interactive media."
Digital Library Research
D-Lib Magazine is a "solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development" and is committed to providing "timely and efficient information exchange for the digital library community." New technologies, applications, and economic issues are likely topics for inclusion in "the articles and the shorter pieces solicited or selected from among unsolicited submissions." The magazine is published eleven times a year and released monthly. D- Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF.)
Girls Tech
A program of Douglass Collage, the undergraduate women's college of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Girls Tech – Girls, Science and Technology provides teachers, parents, and librarians with tools for evaluating websites geared to increase young girls' interests in science and technology. Research information and references to the research are provided. This research was made possible through a grant from Toyota U.S.A. Foundation and was conducted with collaboration from the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
"This site lets you explore the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland. Explore the world of technology design methods with and for kids."
Library Research Services - Library Technology
LRS is a part of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Department of Education which is in partnership with the University of Denver. The Library Technology Page on the LRS site has research information about the following subjects but not limited to: Computer Use Statistics, E-Rates, The Gates Foundation, Internet Statistics and archives of the Library Journal Marketplace. Most of this information would useful in knowing what populations are using technology, what type of technologies, how these technologies are being used, what skills and tools professionals might need to acquire to try to fulfill these needs. This page would be most helpful for library professionals trying to increase their technology budgets.
MacArthur Foundation Digital-Learning Portal
"Just as the printing press . . . changed how knowledge works, we have hypothesized that these new digital media will have the same effect," says Connie Yowell, director of education grantmaking for the MacArthur Foundation. "It's critical that we understand [digital media's] benefits and its unintended consequences." This portal has links to recent and current research on technology and children.
NAEYC Technology & Young Children Interest Forum
The National Association for the Education of Young Children maintains this website of links to three topics: Online Staff Development, Debate on Technology and Young Children, and Online Early Childhood Journals. Contributions come from the NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum, to fulfill their mission: "To lead discussions, share research and information and demonstrate best practices regarding technology so it can be used to benefit children aged 0-8 years."
NESTA Futurelab
Futurelab staff collaborate on projects with individuals and corporations in the United Kingdom. Their goal is to help support new approaches to learning and teaching with technology. One of their central aims is to better understand the role that emerging digital technologies might play in education. The Futurelab website offers online research publications, including Literature Reviews, Discussion Papers, Handbooks, and other reports.
Project Tomorrow
Based in Irvine, California, Project Tomorrow supports "the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities" so that "students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century."
Please Note: Neither the American Library Association (ALA) nor the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) necessarily endorses the views expressed or the facts presented on these sites; furthermore, ALA and ALSC do not endorse any commercial products that may be advertised or available on these sites. For a list of ALSC recommended websites for children, visit Great Website for Kids.
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Dining is a highlight of Casa Velas with a choice of Emiliano Restaurant, the private Ocean Club for enjoying the famous Mexican Pacific sunsets in all their glory, and the three specialty restaurants of the nearby Five Diamond-rated sister resort. After a delicious day, come home to a luxurious suite, some with plunge pools and all with goose down comforters, L'Occitane bath amenities, and original art. The shops, art galleries, cafes and nightlife of legendary Puerto Vallarta are a short ride away, along with signature golf courses designed by some of the biggest names in the game. All of this luxury is offered within one all-inclusive rate.


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A Recipe for World Peace
Call it fate. Kismet. Serendipity. Divine Intervention. The day I met Elaine, I had just about given up on making new friends in my new town, Westport, Connecticut.
My husband, three sons, and I had just moved here from New York City, drawn by the good schools, numerous amenities, and the reputation Westport had as a town with a strong arts community. My sons were certainly thrilled with their schools and the friends they had made. My husband Josh liked living in a house, where he could retreat to his home office for a few moments of sanity–impossible with apartment living.
I was the only stick in the mud. I was friendly, outgoing, interested in other people. But I was used to the casual interactions of the city, meeting other working Moms on the playground, grabbing a quick cup of coffee. Westport was different. Playdates were planned weeks in advance, and conversations revolved around the intense sports culture. I was out of the loop for the first time in my life.
All that changed one day on the playground of of our preschool, Learning Community. My son Mike was climbing up the slide, closely followed by a strong, athetic looking, light-haired girl. They were chatting away.
"Is that your son?" I heard a woman say. "My daughter loves him," she said. "I hate this whole planned playdate thing, but…"
To paraphrase a famous movie line, Elaine had me at "I hate playdates." We talked and talked that day, discovering that our 5th grade boys, Sam and Misha were also good friends. Soon, Josh and I had dinner with Elaine and her husband George. We were a United Nations of backgrounds and interests and religions. A melting pot of Italian Catholic, Russian Orthodox, and Judaism; between the four of us, we had every Eastern European country covered, along with Italy.
Our friendship was cemented by a calendar of holidays. We were introduced to their wonderful traditions:the midnight Easter mass of George's Russian Orthodox religion, the festivity of their Christmas, and the sheer pagan decadence of their New Years' Eve party.
They, in turn, delighted in our holiday rituals. They came to my 3 sons' Bar Mitzvahs, where they danced the hora. They came to our Erev Yom Kippur dinner, and our Break Fast. They have come to our seders, where Elaine's mother delighted in my mother's brisket, while George ate at least two bowls of piping hot matzo ball soup. That alone cemented my mother's love for George.
Food has been a way to celebrate our differences and our similarities. Recently, friends hosted a 25th wedding anniversary for George and Elaine. I made stuffed cabbage and pierogi to honor Elaine's Polish roots, and beet salad to honor George's Russian tradition. Elaine's 90-year old Polish mother pronounced my stuffed cabbage superior to her own! Whether or not this is true, I'm deeply honored by her compliment, and thrilled that in this shared recipe, Jews and Poles come together. Can–dare I ask–stuffed cabbage begin to heal the scars of history? I don't need an answer for now, just Elaine's mother enjoying it.
A deep and abiding friendship with our Catholic and Russian Orthodox friends has, I believe, taught my children a valuable lesson. From an early age, my Jewish children learned not mere tolerance, which is a good starting place for everyone, but a deep appreciation of others' cultures and religions. They learned we're all not so different. We all like stuffed cabbage.
It's not just a family or personal message, but the message of my business, Challah Connection. Here at Challah Connection, I strongly believe that my customers are not just people like me. No, they're Catholic and Buddhist and Russian Orthodox. They are in Idaho and Florida, California and Canada. They–we–come from all different places and beliefs. That's what has made my company something I am deeply proud of. We're not just a company that provides goods for nice Jewish people like ourselves. We're a company that provides for the richly diverse world in which we are so lucky to live.
As we approach the holiday season of Hannukkah and Christmas, I look forward to lighting the candles of the menorah. I know that on at least one of those nights, Elaine and George will be by my side, spinning a dreidel, sampling a latke, learning a few Yiddish words.
Soon after, I will marvel at the star on the very top of their Christmas tree.


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In order to earn the LL.M. degree students must complete 22 credit hours in the three components of the program described below. Students pay a flat tuition rate in two installments, and they make take additional credits without additional charge. Courses shown below are representative of those that have been offered in the past. Some courses are repeated every year, while others vary from year to year.1. The International Business and Trade Summer Law Program in Krakow
Students must take at least six credits in this component, which normally means three courses, but some students take an additional class and earn more credits.
- Comparative & International Trade
- International Business Transactions
- Law of the European Union
- Global Issues in Intelectual Property
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods
2. American Law Program in Krakow (ALP)
Students take at least nine weeks of courses from offerings like the following. (One week courses are one credit. Two week courses are two credits.)
- The American Legal Profession: Regulation, Professional Responsibility and Discipline
- American Legal Research
- American Legal Analysis and Writing
- Remedies in American Law: Public & Private
- American Public Law: Constitutional Principles of Government
- American Intellectual Property Law
- American Business Organizations
- Negotiation for Lawyers: Theory and Practice
- American Tort Law
- American Criminal Procedure
- Organization of American Government: Principles of Operation and Sources of Authority
- Corporations
To see the range of courses offered by the American Law Program in Krakow in the past, consult the list of courses from twelve previous sessions (2000-2016).
3. CUA Summer Session in Washington, D.C.
Students must take at least six credits in this component. Three of these credits must be in a legal reasoning and writing course designed specifically for foreign LL.M. students. The course develops skills in objective and persuasive legal writing with assignments tailored to deepen students' understanding of the American legal system.
In addition, students may elect a substantive law course offered in the CUA Summer Session.
Students may elect to write a 25-40 page scholarly paper in lieu of the substantive course. Many students who are pursuing research, e.g., toward a Ph.D., elect to take the course but use CUA's excellent facilities to gather materials and work on their paper during the summer session. CUA's highly-qualified and service-oriented reference librarians are eager to help. CUA professors also are willing to provide suggestions and guidance on students' research.


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What People Are Saying About the FTC's Investigation of Google
Search is a "highly competitive market where change happens rapidly";
"To characterize Google as a 'gatekeeper' is to attribute to it power that it does not possess";
"It is hard to see how consumers are harmed here"
Search is "a well-working, highly competitive market where change happens rapidly"; Google's "next competitive threat can come from anywhere"
Daniel Oliver, former FTC Chairman
"This competition should also be instructive for the Federal Trade Commission, the several state Attorneys General, and the European Commission who are investigating Google for its alleged dominance of search that they should show actual harm to consumers before seeking to interfere with how markets evolve. This competition should also demonstrate to them that search is a well-working, highly competitive market where change happens rapidly — the sort of market regulators should let flourish on its own." (The Hill, April 13, 2012)
Chris Crum, WebProNews
"The bottom line is: nobody is forcing users to use Google. Some people use Yahoo as their search engine of choice. Some use Bing. Some use Baidu. Some use Yandex. Some use Blekko. Some use DuckDuckGo. Some use Ask. Some use something else entirely. It just so happens to that the vast majority of people prefer Google." (WebProNews, June 13, 2012)
Hal Singer, Managing Director and Principal at Navigant Economics & Affiliate at the International Center for Law and Economics
"It may not be natural to associate Amazon (an online retailer), Apple (a device maker), and Facebook (a social media site) with search, but in the technology industry, your next competitive threat can come from anywhere. Monopoly and the kind of robust platform competition between Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are mutually exclusive portraits of reality. Will the FTC turn a blind eye toward this advanced form of competition?" (Forbes, September 18, 2012)
Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association
"Ultimately, if an online business is forced to slow its pace of innovation, the company will suffer the same fate as Alta Vista, Infoseek and countless other search engines that didn't survive. The Internet's open design, consumer choice, and the nature of competition and free markets almost guarantee it. Technology and innovation have made it incredibly simple to switch to a competing service -- from Pinterest to Facebook, Bing to Google Search, Hotmail to Yahoo! Mail -- it's all simply one click away." (Real Clear Policy, May 24, 2012)
National Taxpayers Union Open Letter to Public Officials, Signed by 101 Economists
"Google, with its popular online search engine, is the latest target of regulators claiming to be acting in consumers' interests, even though barriers to entry into the search market are exceedingly low and Google's competition is but one click away for online users. Furthermore, such competition can come from many different directions, not just among similarly structured companies in a given sector. Any search engine's business model faces competitive challenges not only from other search engines, but also from social networks such as Facebook, mobile-phone applications, and a variety of other advertising platforms." (National Taxpayers Union, May 7, 2012)
"Google doesn't act like a monopolist"; "to characterize Google as a 'gatekeeper' is to attribute to it power that it does not possess"
Glenn Manishin, Duane Morris LLP
"Google doesn't act like a monopolist and shares none of the characteristics sheltering classic monopolists from competition. Its astounding success in Internet search is universally regarded as a consequence of better design, superior code, better products and plain old hard work." (Forbes, February 3, 2012)
Ed Black, President and CEO of CCIA
"Google's competitors have bellowed about Google's so-called 'monopoly.' But popular doesn't mean illegal. According to economic theory, a monopolist provides a product or service that has few, if any, substitutes and therefore can charge higher prices, innovate less, and generally ignore customer's needs. This is simply not what is occurring in the 'search' space." (Forbes, June 19, 2012)
Stephen Foley, Associate Business Editor of The Independent
"...I'm not convinced Google has a monopoly position in searching the internet. Yes, the 67 per cent market share is large, and Microsoft's Bing has stalled below 16 per cent, but these figures could change quickly if Microsoft – or more likely, a new pair of graduate students at Stanford University – invent a better search engine." (The Independent, August 18, 2012)
Howard Rich, Chairman of Americans for Limited Government
"As of May 2012, Google sites accounted for 66.7 percent of U.S. web searches, according to comScore. Microsoft sites ranked second with 15.4 percent, while Yahoo sites came in third with 13.4 percent. That's a commanding lead, but it's certainly not a monopoly – and even if it was government would still have no business interfering." (Forbes, June 19, 2012)
Tim Worstall, Forbes contributor
"Finally, in economic terms, that Google has a monopoly is obviously untrue. It's the largest of a number of contestants in the market, this much is true. But market dominance is not in itself an economic reason for legal or political action. Only possession of an uncontestable such position is. And since anyone can indeed start up a new search engine, indeed people try just that every couple of months, there just doesn't seem to be any reason at all why Google should be forced to change its ways in the first place. Further, any web user has a choice of engines to use: there just isn't a lock in which would justify action." (Forbes, May 24, 2012)
Jonathan Rubin, Rubin PLLC and Advisory Board Member, American Antitrust Institute
"Beyond its influence over users' preferences, Google has no means of control over its users' access to any website on the web. To characterize Google as a "gatekeeper" is to attribute to it power that it does not possess." (RUBIN PLLC Public Interest Blog, July 10, 2012)
Robert H. Bork, Antitrust Scholar, Law Professor, and Author
"There is no coherent case for monopolization because a search engine, like Google, is free to consumers and they can switch to an alternative search engine with a click." (Chicago Tribune, April 6, 2012)
"Comparisons [to the Microsoft case] are naive and inaccurate"
Ed Black, president and CEO of CCIA
"Some have compared the FTC's current investigation of Google to other big antitrust actions in the high-tech space. These comparisons are naive and inaccurate. Not all 'high-tech' markets are built alike, and neither are all antitrust actions. The markets for mainframes, operating systems, nationwide wireless providers and microprocessors bear as much similarity to the competitive realities of websites as they are to the market for tennis shoes." (Forbes, June 19, 2012)
Glenn Manishin, partner at Troutman Sanders and former DOJ antitrust attorney
"U.S. vs. AT&T and U.S. vs. Microsoft – both of them had a bottle neck over consumer access to technology. Google has no such thing. It doesn't own the line; it doesn't own the software; it can't control where users go on the Internet. It has no power over price even for the ads because they're auctioned off. And there's no barriers to entry." (CCIA Media Briefing call, September 13, 2012)
Search results are a "legitimate exercise of Google's First Amendment right"; "the government cannot force Google to rearrange its search results"
Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law Professor
"Briefly, the heart of the accusations is that Google somehow prioritizes its own thematic search results over results originating from specialized competitors. Whether this is so is a contested question, which turns, among other things, on disputes about what would constitute 'neutral' judgments and what would be a departure from those judgments. Yet even if it is assumed that Google engages or plans to engage in such prioritizing, that prioritizing would constitute the legitimate exercise of Google's First Amendment right to decide how to present information in its speech to its users." (SSRN, May 9, 2012)
Neal Katyal, former U.S. Acting Solicitor General, partner at Hogan Lovells
"The First Amendment protected speech is the creation and use of the [search] algorithms — in expressing a judgment to select from and rank the thousands of sites that might be relevant to a search request. . . . Just as it could not order a newspaper to publish a certain op-ed in the interest of "fairness," so, too, the government cannot force Google to rearrange its search results because it believes the results would be "better" under some other still-to-be-identified metric. The simple point is that search results are themselves a form of speech because the algorithms that produce those results embody the search engine company's editorial judgment as to which content in its index is most responsive to the user's query." (Law360, August 21, 2012)
"The FTC's mandate is to protect consumers. Where are the consumers that are hurt?"
Eric Goldman, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and director of the school's High Tech Law Institute
"From the consumer side, we don't have a lot of evidence indicating that consumers have actually suffered any harm themselves. In other words, there are a lot of people who have a lot of money and interest in trying to prove that there's a problem. And yet all those resources dedicated to this issue haven't yielded anything persuasive that consumers aren't getting what they're looking for from the online experience." (CCIA Media Briefing call, September 13, 2012)
Geoff Manne, Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics,
"In fact, the theoretical case against Google depends entirely on the ways it may have harmed certain competitors rather than on any evidence of harm to consumer welfare. For example, Google's implementation and placement within its organic search results of its own shopping results is alleged to make it difficult for competing product-specific search sites (like Nextag or Amazon, for example) to reach Google's users. Leaving aside the weakness of the factual allegation. . . it is hard to see how consumers are harmed here." (Forbes, May 7, 2012)
Orson Swindle, Former FTC Commissioner
"Antitrust law is about preserving competition in markets for the benefit of users and consumers. . . . And since consumers have the choice of whether or not to use these websites, the companies can hardly be legitimately subjected to allegations of unfair business practices or monopolistic pricing schemes when everything is available for free." (Daily Caller, April 10, 2012)
Mike Masnick, Chief Executive and Founder of Techdirt
"The question is are consumers being harmed, that'd be an interesting debate to have, but the only complaint so far seems to be 'Google's big' . . . . The complaints are coming from companies who don't like how they rank in Google, and it's not government's job to remedy that." (Dow Jones Newswires, April 12, 2012)
Charlie Black, Republican strategist and adviser to Mitt Romney
"The FTC and the Justice Department are fighting over who gets to go after Google, because they're big and successful . . . . The FTC's mandate is to protect consumers. Where are the consumers that are hurt?" (Bloomberg, August 29, 2012)
Wall Street Journal editorial
"Tying down Google's search functions in a bid to satisfy Brussels won't necessarily improve the user experience. Search has come a long way in the past decade, but it's still often frustrating and tedious. That suggests there's plenty of room for improvement and competition. Making Google less useful to make competitors happy won't make surfing the Web any better for consumers." (Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2012)
Proposed remedies "are problematic and largely unworkable"; they would "harm consumers, impede competition, and stifle innovation"
Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land
"Overall I was very surprised at the skepticism that speaker after speaker expressed about the success of a potential antitrust case against Google...While many legal experts conveyed discomfort with Google's power and size, the large majority of panelists during the sessions I attended argued that antitrust rules either don't fit the situation or wouldn't legally apply or that remedies are problematic and largely unworkable. Echoing the earlier discussion about GM, etc., there was also a recognition of how dynamic and unpredictable the technology markets are today." (Marketing Land, May 17, 2012)
Marvin Ammori, first amendment lawyer
"The proposed remedies might benefit the short-term economic interests of Google's competitors that are members of FairSearch and ICOMP, but benefiting competitors is not the goal of antitrust law. The goal of antitrust law is to promote consumer welfare, competition, and innovation. The proposed remedies, however, would do the opposite: harm consumers, impede competition, and stifle innovation. The remedies would invite government agencies and technical committees to second-guess and evaluate both mundane and game-changing engineering and user-interface decisions regarding Google Search, reverse long-standing fair use principles rooted in constitutional requirements, and empower competitors to litigate rather than compete against daily innovations and disclosures by Google." (white paper, May 14, 2012)
L. Gordon Crovitz, Commentator for the Wall Street Journal
"As a regulatory matter, there is real risk that the current antitrust review by the Federal Trade Commission will block innovation in the search industry. The agency could freeze Google into its historic way of doing business by stopping it from delivering answers directly (removing the consumer benefit) and by banning acquisitions such as Frommer's. There is a long history of government overreach in technology, which changes faster than regulators can keep up. Antitrust claims are often based on the size of the companies involved and not on antitrust's true purpose: to maximize consumer benefit, not to protect competitors." (Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2012)
Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law Professor
"Most of us started out by using search engines other than Google; we switched to Google because we had heard that it provided superior results. We can easily switch away if we conclude the results are no longer satisfactory. This user power -- and not governmental coercion -- is the proper remedy for any perceived unfair selection by search engines, and the proper deterrent to such supposed unfairness." (Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, May 22, 2012)
National Taxpayers Union Open Letter to Public Officials, Signed by 101 Economists
"Perhaps most alarming is the notion that Washington can engineer a "remedy" in this case that is superior to the equilibrium markets will find. There is even discussion over rules dictating how search results "should" appear to a user. Micromanagement to this degree deserves neither a place nor a precedent in our economy." (Open letter, May 7, 2012)
Robert H. Bork, Antitrust Scholar, Law Professor, and Author
"In this rapidly changing industry, control through an antitrust decree is simply unrealistic. Some market-oriented legislators have suggested that an antitrust remedy against the search engines is preferable to more direct regulation. But there's not much of a difference. An antitrust order would convert a court into a regulatory agency. And what is the court to regulate? Google estimates that it introduces changes to improve its search algorithms 500 times a year, more than once a day. The first opinion completed by a judge will be hundreds of algorithms behind. . . . Competitive discipline is far more effective than any antitrust decree." (Chicago Tribune, April 6, 2012)
Tom Lenard, president and senior fellow of the Technology Policy Institute
"[I]f designing a remedy for Microsoft was difficult, it would be even more so for Google. Virtually any conceivable remedy would constrain Google's ability to improve its search results and be a vigorous competitor in the emerging interplatform competition. This would not serve consumers." (Investor's Business Daily, March 23, 2012)


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BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 31 (UPI) -- Israel is widely seen as the prime suspect in the "most complex" cyberattack by a data-gulping computer worm known as W32.Flame that has hit Iran's oil industry and other targets in the Middle East in recent days.
And Israeli leaders are doing little to discourage speculation that the Jewish state's newly established cyber command is the main culprit behind the attack that some analysts say marks a new era in cyberwarfare.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon, who's also minister for strategic affairs, hinted Monday that Israel was involved in the Flame attacks that in April targeted Iran's oil industry, already battered by international sanctions, as well as computers in Saudi Arabia, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Sudan and Egypt.
"Anyone who sees the Iranian nuclear threat as a significant threat," he said in Tel Aviv, will find "it's reasonable to take various steps, including these, to hobble it.
"Israel is blessed as a country rich in high-tech and these tools that we take pride in open up all kinds of opportunities for us."
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu set up a National Cybernetic Task Force in July 2011 tasked with developing defenses to protect the country's strategic infrastructure from Internet-based attacks.
The following month, Israel's military establishment formed a cyberdefense command within the C4I Directorate -- command, control, communications, computers and intelligence -- under an army colonel who formerly headed Matzov, the Hebrew acronym for the Center for Encryption and Information Security.
At the center of this highly classified network is Unit 8200 of Military Intelligence, a super-secret signals intelligence and codebreaking unit that's understood to have been given responsibility for all the Jewish state's cyberwar capabilities.
The Jerusalem Post reported in May 2011 that Unit 8200 was suspected of playing a key role in developing the Stuxnet worm that Tehran said in September 2010 had disrupted its nuclear program and high-value industrial facilities.
Computer experts generally agreed at the time that the mysterious Stuxnet worm, then the most sophisticated malware system ever detected, could only have been put together by the intelligence services of Israel or the United States or another combination of states.
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel quoted sources familiar with the Stuxnet operation as insisting it was a "a blue-and-white operation … a purely Israeli operation,' referring to Israel's national colors.
The sources said a secret Israeli unit, most likely Unit 8200, was responsible for programming much of the Stuxnet code.
U.S. sources say Israel's Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev Desert south of Tel Aviv was used as a testbed for the Stuxnet virus by a U.S.-Israeli team before it was unleashed against Iran June 22, 2009.
The Iranians since then have been hit by other worms dubbed Stars and Duqu, and have apparently struck back against Israel with their own cyber weapons. In November, Israel's military and intelligence services Web sites crashed for several hours in what appeared to be cyberattack.
A few days earlier, Anonymous, a shadowy group of global hackers and online activists, had threatened to hit Israel to retaliate against its economic blockade of the Gaza Strip.
But whether or not Anonymous was responsible, the Israelis braced for Iranian cyberattacks.
Yiftach Ron-Tal, a reserve major general and chairman of the state-owned Israel Electric Co., warned: "We need to be prepared for the possibility that critical infrastructure will be paralyzed."
The Iranians are believed to have built up a sizeable cyberwarfare network to counter what they see as a concerted Israeli-U.S. effort to cripple their nuclear project through a multilayered campaign of disruption and assassination.
Kapersky Labs, the Russian Internet security company that discovered W32.Flame, says it's the most complex and sophisticated cyberweapon it's expected have come across.
"The Flame malware looks to be another phase in this war," said the group's co-founder, Eugene Kapersky.
Where the ground-breaking Stuxnet malware damaged industrial controls, the Flame virus is designed to spy and gather intelligence by stealing programs. It can even switch on microphones attached to a computer to record conversations, experts say.
"This is a fully featured spying program that's grabbing anything it can," said Orla Cox of Symantec, a leading computer security company.
We suspect there's some nation state involvement because of the funding you'd need to have behind this."


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Since Alex Smith can't officially become a Chief for nearly two weeks, we can't know for sure how he feels about things.
But according to a source close to the former 49ers quarterback — his mother — the move is not going to be without emotions.
"It was bittersweet," Pam Smith told Randy Covitz of the Kansas City Star of her son's losing a job, and then having to move. "It was hard. Alex had worked long and hard and been through a lot of coaching turnover, and a lot of issues, . . . injuries. It seems like things were really clicking, and he was playing at an exceptional high level. It was hard."
Pam Smith still attends all her son's games, though the commute from her home in San Diego to mid-America will be a bit longer.
She thought the Chiefs were a good fit for her son.
"You're going to get a smart, very hard-working, very high-character person," she said, "and by any measure, one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet."
At a time of year when anonymous quotes from scouts and personnel men can tear down every player in the league and in the draft, it's good to know there's still a way to get an on-the-record quote saying something nice about someone.
So if anybody needs my mom's phone number, let me know.


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Bookmarked Recipes Roundup #19
Bookmarked Recipes: a monthly event to encourage food bloggers to revisit the recipes they have bookmarked from magazines, newspapers, cookbooks. websites, blogs, to try them out and post about them.
Read on to see all the entries and my two giveaway winners. If you recreate any bookmarked recipes in December 2012, you can join in by adding them to the linky at the end of this post for the next roundup.
December Bookmarked Recipes is open for business.
If you would to add a post, just go to the linky at the bottom of this post.
- Please remember that bookmarked recipes must be suitable for vegetarians, in line with this blog.
- Please link to this post and state where you bookmarked your recipe from.
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When one car manufacturer comes up with a potential advance in safety technology and proposes it for the market, does the Big Auto lobby shoot it down as bad for business?
If a toymaker says it wants to sell a gizmo that's far safer for children, do its peers object, saying that if this safer thing goes on sale, pretty soon all manufacturers everywhere will be forced to make their toys safer?
Of course not. But this kind of harassment and faulty logic on the part of the gun lobby is precisely what has quashed the hopes this spring of a manufacturer who is proposing to bring a so-called smart gun to the U.S. market.
Armatix, a German manufacturer, has developed a pistol that can't be fired unless its authorized user is wearing a watch with a radio control that enables the gun after a five-digit PIN code is entered.
Given the massacres with which we have grown terrifyingly familiar, given the real concerns responsible gun owners have about children and others finding and shooting a gun, given the 11,000 non-suicide U.S. homicides in a year that involve guns, there would seem to be a legitimate market for such a technological advance.
But when a local representative reached a deal to make the smart gun available for sale at the Oak Tree Gun Club up in Newhall, the Big Gun extremists came out loaded for bear. The company representative began to receive death threats. "I have no qualms with the idea of personally and professionally leveling the life of someone who has attempted to profit from disarming me and my fellow Americans," one commenter posted on calguns.net. After the Oak Tree owner spoke positively about how such a safety advance could "revolutionize the gun industry" in a Washington Post article, his shooting range and store was threatened with a massive boycott. The gun lobby suggested that there was a worldwide conspiracy afoot because, shudder, the company's representative had once testified before a United Nations panel.
All of a sudden, without explanation to the Armatix representative, the deal was off, and all signs of any involvement with Oak Tree were gone.
Because that is how the gun lobby works: In the classic manner of the schoolyard bully, only one armed to the teeth.
There are so many problems that access to smart guns would address. Murder and suicide rates could well go down. Crooks who grab away a police officer's sidearm couldn't use it. Stolen weapons would be useless to the thief.
It is true that lawmakers in one of the 50 states, New Jersey, passed legislation a decade ago, after one or another of the American massacres, stating that once smart guns became available in this country, all guns sold in the state would have to be smart. It's highly unlikely the law would hold up to Second Amendment scrutiny by the courts.
But that doesn't matter to the extremists at the top of the gun lobby and the scum at the bottom who do their dirty work with death threats. It doesn't matter if many Americans who want a safer gun would like to be able to buy one. We can't, and if we try to, we might sleep with the fishes.


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MOSCOW, ID — John Dunn, who operates the University of Idaho's Student Recreation Center, has a theory that students who work out at the facility achieve higher grade point averages.
"The combined GPA of those who visited here at least once was 3.01 versus 2.67 for those who never visited," he said, referring to data from a survey issued in 2003 by the rec center.
During most weeknights, the stationary bikes and treadmills are in perpetual motion. An average of 1,900 people use the facility on any school day — 75 percent come in from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. In one year's time, the 11 treadmills logged 97,161 miles, the 44 bikes cycled 224,187 miles and the seven stair steppers climbed 662,326 floors. To buffer students' physical efforts, individual TVs were added to some of the bikes, which doubled their usage.


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My Daily Bread-Rye
I used a recipe off the Internet for Jewish Rye that sounded like it would work. About 640g of KA High Gluten was used in place of first clear and 270g of Rye along with 200g of my AP/Rye mix starter was used. The dough called for 2 T of kosher salt which I thought a little heavy but went with the recipe the first time :>) I liked the way it handled and rose. I let it ferment after mixing for 2 hours and divided into 3, 1.3 Lb loaves which final proofed for an additional 45 minutes. Recipe called for 375F for 10 minutes of steam and another 30 of dry heat. I got to 180F after only 22 minutes of dry baking.
The loaves looked great to me. I'm not a Rye expert but they were very soft and chewy and flavorful, if just a hint of salt. My wife said she didn't taste the salt so who knows? The made up sour starter which I didn't use calls for potato water to be used. I liked the idea of using the starchy water which I have used in Memo's Brown Bread and loved the texture of the brown bread. So, I made up some potato water for this experiment.
Next trial will rely less on yeast and more on my SFO starter I love so much and I'll have a new 50 bag of clear I have to pick up for $9.00 at a wholesaler. I'll back off the salt to my usual 2% unless BROTKUNST or someone else who knows Rye advises otherwise.


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ATLANTA (AP) R.J. Hunter and Manny Atkins scored 19 points apiece Wednesday night to lead Georgia State to an 81-63 victory over UNC Wilmington in Colonial Athletic Association action.
It was the fourth straight conference win for the Panthers (10-11, 5-3).
Hunter, a freshman and son of Georgia State coach Ron Hunter, had 3 steals, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocked shots. Atkins, the CAA's top 3-point shooter, was 3 for 5 on treys and made four steals. Devonta White chipped in 17 points.
For the Seahawks (7-11, 2-4), Keith Rendleman recorded his third consecutive double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Chris Dixon scored 20 points, but no other Seahawk scored more than six points.
Trailing 42-33 at halftime, UNC Wilmington got within 46-40 early in the second half. But White and Hunter hit treys. Georgia State outscored the Seahawks 30-7 off turnovers. They're now 0-10 on the road.


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