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[ This weekend I'm transcribing masses of audiofile notes for future posts on Beta Culture, as well as working on some book-y stuff — I have a book in the works, working title "BraynDrops, the Freethought Bathroom Companion" — but unfortunately neglecting things here. I swear I'll be back soon with some new stuff. Meanwhile, here's a repost of a piece from Sept. 15, 2011. ]
It was hot, the day the coyotes danced.
It was about 1990, and I was ranch-sitting for a friend in Bishop, California. The owner was up in the mountains all summer, but there were cattle at the ranch, and somebody needed to be there to look after them.
In this particular case, ranch-sitting was a minimalist job. The cattle were out in a pasture with plenty of water and grass, and cattle don't need much more than that. Really, all I had to do was walk the pastures once a day and make sure nobody was sick or injured or dead.
The east side of the Sierra Nevada range is mostly "high desert" — not the rolling dunes of sand most people think of when they hear "desert," but just really dry sagebrush country. The well-watered ranch, by contrast, was an oasis of shade trees and green grass, especially beautiful to someone like me who'd grown up in wet, green country.
My dog loved the ranch too. Ranger was a 5-year-old German shepherd, my big bony 90-pound buddy with huge ears, great floppy paws and, ahem, one other admirably large attribute (of course I mean his nose — what did you think?), whom I called Ranger the Valiant Warrior.
Most of the day I was busy at the ranch with my sign carving business, a portable endeavor that I simply brought with me when I agreed to watch the ranch for the summer. But twice a day I'd put down my tools and Ranger and I would walk out into the pastures to check on the cows.
It was sunny that day, with no hint of a breeze. The sky was cloudless, and that impossible deep blue that only people who live at high elevations ever get to see. I wore a t-shirt for coolness and my cowboy hat for shade. The only sound to break the stillness was the occasional clicking flight of grasshoppers as we stirred them out of the grass. A viny tangle of wisteria covered a decorative arbor near the front screen door of the ranch house, and the sweet drowsy smell of it hung in the air.
I unlatched the creaky gate of the ranch house's back pasture, and Ranger and I strolled out into the back pasture. The six black brangus bulls – pets all – were cloistered in this separate pasture to ensure they didn't pass on their muscley genes at the wrong time of year. They concentrated stolidly on their grazing as Ranger and I approached, only raising their heads to make sure we weren't their solicitous owner, showing up with treats. As soon as they saw we weren't, the six heads went right back down into the grass. They kicked at biting flies, swept tasseled fly-swatter tails at their flanks and munched their way through life.
The dog and I passed through the cloud of sweet pungency that surrounded them, through a second gate into the side pasture, where we ambled toward the front of it along a well-worn cow path. I usually made one huge loop of this cattle-domain, first patrolling the borders to make sure the fences were intact before cutting in toward the herd itself to observe the individual animals.
We stopped while Ranger splashed into the irrigation creek to cool off. He had a playful way of drinking that was more a lunging snap than the more sedate lapping of other dogs, and he took a couple of jabs at the cold, clear water. This many years later, and now living in the east where all the creeks are murky and warmish, I marvel to remember that, in the high country, even this cattle-pasture water was clear and clean. I drank out of it myself a time or two.The side pasture was divided into three large sections. This time of the year, the near section — where I now walked — was empty of cows, the grass resting. The connecting gate between the middle and far pastures was open so the herd could wander to either section at will.
On this day, they'd chosen the middle section. The fence bisecting the near pasture from the two farther ones was covered in climbing ivy, and formed a solid visual barrier four or so feet high.
But something strange caught my attention. Even before I looked directly at the cattle, out of the corner of my eye I could tell something was different. They were all standing with their heads raised, and other than the occasional flick of a tail, nothing was moving. Most peculiar of all, they were ranked in concentric rings, a bovine theater-in-the-round, and their attention was focused on some central point.
Mountain lion? No, the cows were neither scared nor aggressive. Lone bear cub? Disneyesque bunnies in tutus? I couldn't guess. But I knew I wanted to see it.
I crouched down and quietly approached the vine-covered fence. I ever-so-slowly raised my head until I peeked over the leafy upper edge.
And there they were, two coyotes. Playing. Practicing canine karate. Dancing. Something.
For whatever reason, they were leaping, bouncing, dashing, pouncing, giving each other high-fives in midair and then springing back with bright eyes and laughing expressions on their coyote faces.
They bowed, wriggled, looked at each other sideways, wrestled and bumped sides, stood up and briefly tapped lithe paws on each other's shoulders. All of it in springy-legged delight and some of it almost four feet off the ground, as if gravity had taken a holiday.
They were radiant, brighter than life as sunlight falling through the baked air caught the tan highlights on their grizzled coats.
If ever there was a moment of magic, this was it. The anemic "mysteries" of religion and mysticism pale beside it. Here were real animals doing something I'd never seen, never even heard of, in beauty and delight that even then I knew I'd never be able to adequately describe.
Animals have secrets. Certainly because it's a necessity of their lives, living as they do in the continual knife fight which is life in the wilds, but also — and mainly — because no modern human has yet taken the time to learn about them.
But on this day, I was briefly able to witness something of the hidden life of coyotes.
To this day, the why of it escapes me. Whatever they were doing is a mystery as far as I'm concerned, and probably will remain so. I've never even asked a biologist about it — maybe for fear I'd get a Skinnerian dullard who'd make them out to be biological drones, mechanically responding to some chemical urge with no hint of choice or joy about it.
Eventually, my crouched legs began to ache, and I shifted position ever so slightly. But coyote eyes, ever tuned to danger, picked up the slight motion of my head over the fence. They stopped instantly, happy tails frozen, and peered in my direction for an instant. Tails and ears flat, they loped off in opposite directions. I felt like a skunk dropped into the middle of a birthday party.
After a few minutes, the cattle went back to grazing. Ranger and I went on with our walk in the warm day.
Okay, maybe it WAS some sort of automatic pair-bonding ritual. Until I know that, though, I will continue to see it as the honestly happy greeting of long-separated friends, or just the high spirits of young siblings enjoying a midday break in the warm sun.
To my eyes, it was conscious, deliberate and joyous. I would be very reluctant to see it any other way.
For me, on that day, and for whatever mysterious reason, the coyotes danced.


text: Friday morning, Nick Lachey will unveil a tiny, bejeweled car to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Hot Wheels. The 18-karat white gold "toy" features more than 2,600 diamonds, and it will be auctioned off for Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Better be careful when putting it through the little car wash — or making it do the loop-de-loop — or playing demolition derby. Isn't that what you did with Hot Wheels as a kid? Anyway, not sure why they chose Lachey to "unveil" this blinged-out car in a publicity stunt: Maybe because it's cheesy, and they're playing to his strengths? [Marketing Daily]

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July 31, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- For the second year in a row, UCLA Anderson School of Management joins a select group of business schools offering the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV). The program, scheduled for August 1-9, 2009, at UCLA Anderson, dispenses experiential, state-of-the-art, education and training in entrepreneurship and small business management to soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines disabled as a result of their service supporting the global war on terrorism. EBV intends to open doors to entrepreneurial opportunity and small business ownership to participants by developing essential core competencies and guiding attendees through the various stages of entrepreneurial development and the sustaining of created businesses.
"As we have in the past, it's our true privilege to support disabled American veterans who return home and seek economic and entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves and their communities," said Judy Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management. "UCLA Anderson's longstanding engagement in entrepreneurial studies positions us well to help veterans build the foundation they will need to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations."
The EBV was first introduced by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in 2007. The following year, the EBV Consortium of Schools was launched as a national partnership with UCLA Anderson School of Management, Florida State University's College of Business, and Mays Business School at Texas A&M. Purdue University joined the consortium in 2009. The EBV is designed around two guiding principles. The first focuses on practical training in the tools and skills of new venture creation and growth, with an emphasis on issues and potential obstacles specific to disability and public benefits programs. Establishing a support structure for graduates of the program is the second, equally vital, element.
"We are extremely grateful for the generous support that we have received for the EBV program," said Elaine Hagan ('91), executive director of the Price Center. "The success of our inaugural class has demonstrated the enormous value of the EBV, and we are looking forward to seeing great results from this year's program as well."
The UCLA Anderson EBV program is administered by the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and is comprised of three distinct phases. In Phase I, in advance of arriving on campus, students participate in a self-study curriculum facilitated by an online discussion and assessment module that is moderated by entrepreneurship faculty and MBA students. During this phase, attendees develop their business concepts.
In Phase II, which unfolds during the nine-day residency at UCLA Anderson, students are immersed in the essentials of business ownership through experiential workshops and in-class learning with UCLA Anderson faculty. During Phase III, EBV participants receive twelve months of ongoing support and mentorship from faculty experts and volunteers, including UCLA Anderson alumni and members of the business community.
Throughout the EBV course, students develop strategies for raising capital, attracting customers, and writing business plans that are most effective for their business model. The program is entirely free -including tuition, travel and accommodations- thanks to the generous support of corporate sponsors and private individuals.
For more information on the EBV, please go to: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x20079.xml
About the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is a recognized leader in entrepreneurial education. Since 1987, the Price Center has supported teaching, research, extracurricular activities and management development programs in the areas of entrepreneurship, venture capital and social enterprise at UCLA Anderson. 90% of UCLA Anderson's full time MBA students enroll in entrepreneurial electives while at Anderson, and more than half are active members of the student-run Entrepreneur Association. The Center is known for its extensive outreach and the impact of its management development programs, which provide entrepreneurial education to such diverse groups as directors of Head Start agencies and community health organizations; leaders of NGOs in Africa that are working on the HIV/AIDS crisis; founders and executives of entrepreneurial companies (including minority-, women- and disabled veteran-owned enterprises); directors and officers of venture-backed and public companies; and K-12 teachers working to develop entrepreneurial curricula, among others.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Global Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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Gorgeous dresses by Bleubird Vintage, I think this is my third post in a row featuring a dress. So for a change of topic... Cupcake Ca...
Gorgeous dresses by Bleubird Vintage, I think this is my third post in a row featuring a dress. So for a change of topic...
Cupcake Camps ~ an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and eat cupcakes in an open environment....sounds like my kinda thing!!!
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Haha cupcake camp? Sounds weird. How about you just bake some of your own and eat them with people you actually know? xReplyDelete
Cupcake camp! What a fantastic idea, I checked the site, and even though it's not by me, it's a great way of getting lots and lots of people around and eating far too much sugar xoxoReplyDelete
I have a dress like that peach one with the pleats! It's so old and I love the weight of it!ReplyDelete
lovely! great find! xoReplyDelete
Cupcake camp! Haha i love it!ReplyDelete
Erin ~ oh I love that one, its probably my favourite. not sure if colour would suit me though.ReplyDelete
Kelly ~ I was thinking its more like those fundraiser morning teas...but cupcakes. and youd just do it with a bunch of friends....plus im too lazy to cook cupcakes for myself.
Bleubird vintage is great...but they always sell out of things that I would have liked before I see that thing (usually dress)...ReplyDelete
Haha Lissy surely if you cooked anything it would be cupcakes. When i'm over we're making some. ALRIGHT?ReplyDelete
A fundraiser sounds a bit better! In my mind cupcake camp was like summer camp where everyone sits around eating cupcakes and the camp instructors are all crazy hyped on sugar.
those dresses are so niceReplyDelete
cupcake camp :D great idea! and the yellow dress is beautiful :)ReplyDelete
Those are both super cute dresses. There is no such thing as too many dress posts haha keep them coming xxoReplyDelete
These dresses are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
These clothes are so divine... I love them. Perfect for summer days of lounging around.ReplyDelete
And I saw your twitter post about Cupcake Camps, and I'm super interested... I don't know that I would do it through that actual program, but I think it would be really interesting to plan a HUGE gathering of bloggers somewhere in a central area, probably in the US? Perhaps?
I think I'm going to do a post about this soon. I mean, maybe this summer in Kansas City or Chicago, or somewhere in a big city, and we could all meet in a park and it would be BYOC. (Bring your own cupcakes, to share of course!) What do you think about this?
Just thoughts, who knows? :)
ahh! i love that first dress. and both pairs of glasses (:ReplyDelete


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Wow that looks like quite a handfull. Congrats Jeff
Wow that looks like quite a handfull. Congrats Jeff
Congrats, Jeff. That's a thing of beauty.
Way to go Jeff! Very happy for you.
everything in the photo is literally Epic.
Congrats Jeff :D
Congrats Jeff! Now, almost as important, what is the name of that bar?
Very nice... accessories. Congrats!
cause after seeing the Epic I looked at the beer, and said to myself "that looks
like a Guinness to me. Man that is just perfect!"
Then my eyes traveled just left of the beer, and that was just perfect two.
Sorta like this Guinness Add (see the beer then the bigger picture).
I'll stop now.
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Below the Surface
Joseph W. Zarzynski '73 is at home in a history classroom — even if it's underwater.
By Keith Davis
The U.S. Department of the Interior lists six shipwrecks as National Historic Landmarks. Among them are the USS Arizona, USS Monitor, and Land Tortoise, which has lain at the bottom of New York's Lake George for 252 years. Designated by the Smithsonian Institution as "the oldest intact war vessel in North America," the 1758 Land Tortoise radeau was discovered in 1990 by Joseph "Zarr" Zarzynski and his colleagues from Bateaux Below, the nonprofit educational corporation Zarr cofounded in 1987.
"Exploring the bottom of Lake George transports me back over 200 years," Zarr says.
Originally from Endicott, New York, Zarr graduated from IC with a history degree and taught in the Saratoga Springs school district until retiring in 2005. Six years into his teaching career, he took up scuba diving and began exploring underwater mysteries. After authoring books on the Loch Ness monster and Lake Champlain's own lake monster named Champ, Zarr's visits to Loch Ness took a different tack when, in 1985, he helped salvage a WWII-era bomber whose pilot had ditched into the lake during a training flight. Recovering the aircraft intact after 45 years of submersion inspired Zarr to shift the focus of his underwater research to shipwrecks, and to do it closer to home. (He was also inspired to get a second master's degree, in archaeology; his first was a master of arts in teaching.)
"Diving in Lake George, I'd discovered that some of the sunken vessels had been vandalized," Zarr says. "Bateaux Below was established to promote historic preservation of those sunken vessels and to conduct underwater archaeology."
Though referred to as shipwrecks, many of the vessels were inspection-ready when they went down. In autumn 1758, Britain was competing for control of North America with the French and their American Indian allies. With winter coming, the British were reluctant to expose their wooden fleet for fear enemy raiders would burn them, so they sank 260 warships with rocks, intending to raise the vessels when fighting resumed that spring.
"Many were raised, but we've found nearly 50 that weren't," Zarr says. "Most of them were bateaux, which were about 35 feet long and used as troop transports."
Two and a half centuries underwater took a toll on the bateaux, but the Land Tortoise, a seven-sided, oar-propelled gun battery of the radeau class, was found intact under 107 feet of water.
In a presentation to the Ithaca College history club, Zarr talks about the French and Indian War,
underwater archaeology, and the importance of preserving underwater historic landmarks.
"We saw it exactly as it looked on the day it sank," Zarr says. "It was like visiting a one-of-a-kind cathedral. The insights the find gives into 18th-century military history makes the Land Tortoise one of the great shipwreck discoveries of the 20th century."
To build on those insights, the six volunteer members of Bateaux Below have undertaken a systematic inventory of Lake George's sunken vessels. Employing robotic cameras, advanced navigation equipment, and Klein side scan sonar — a towed probe that produces an ultrasound of the lake bottom — Bateaux Below has located nearly 200 vessels from all eras.
"We're currently 60 percent done mapping the lake," Zarr says. "Once we finish, we'll have a greater understanding of the people and watercraft that once plied Lake George."
Because the project attracts few grants and the work is done by volunteers, Zarr calls the effort monumental. "We put in an estimated one million dollars of donated time, expertise, and services on the Land Tortoise alone," he says.
But thanks to Bateaux Below, the Land Tortoise; a cluster of seven 1758 bateaux; an 1893-built steam launch Cadet ex Olive; and the Forward, a 1906-built gasoline-powered launch, have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also, a state park was established at the bottom of Lake George in 1993, offering divers free observations of the Land Tortoise, the cluster of seven bateaux, and the Forward. For nondivers, the scuba visitations are detailed in two DVD documentaries that Zarr coauthored and served on as executive producer. One,The Lost Radeau: North America's Oldest Intact Warship, aired on PBS in 2009.
"I believe the final frontier isn't outer space, but rather our oceans and lakes," Zarr says. "History sometimes is like a book with pages missing. Our underwater archaeological investigations have put some of those pages back into the book. I hope we have many more pages to find."
Learn more about this expedition.
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This is awesome! Mr. Z was my 7th grade history teacher at Saratoga High and I had no idea he went to Ithaca!
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EngagingCitiesSubmitted by chrishaller on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 00:38.
It's time to lift the curtain: Together with my friends Micheal Hinke and Stefan Höffken I created http://EngagingCities.com, where I'll be blogging in the future.
EngagingCities helps urban planners understand and use the internet. We write about new online developments and give practical advice. How can new technologies make your planning processes more participatory, collaborative or effective? Which online tools best suit your needs and how do you use them effectively?
As you can tell, compared to the last year or two, my eParticipation focus will be more on Urban Planning again. We're just getting started, I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions how to make it better!
BreakSubmitted by chrishaller on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 18:18.
Trends for 2010?Submitted by chrishaller on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 21:07.
It's that time of the year, the holidays are coming closer and I decided to take some time to take a look at what others are predicting for 2010 in eDemocracy and eGovernment.
One article that caught my attention is Dion Hinchcliffe's The Government 2.0 Forecast For 2010: 7 Predictions in the Social Computing Journal. His key points include:
- Social computing will continue to grow in government, but won't hit critical mass in 2010
- Self-service integration and app creation makes deeper inroads
- Open data goes back to the drawing board
- Cloud computing will go big
- Government 2.0 apps expand the boundaries of transparency and citizen involvement
- Government portals (rightly) continue to incorporate social media, but deep engagement will be elusive for now
- Collaborative video, geo-enablement, mobile, and crowdsourcing will get initial lift but remain niches
It's a pretty comprehensive set that thoroughly analyzes many of the exciting things that have been discussed under the Government2.0 umbrella this year, while preserving a realistic viewpoint.
He notes: "innovations point the way towards a future that includes participatory citizenship and the Web as a civic platform as well as open data (both internally and externally to agencies and state/local governments) and social computing. And that's just the beginning."
2010 should be an exciting year!
Administration Launches Comprehensive Open Government PlanSubmitted by chrishaller on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 17:41.
Exciting news:
WASHINGTON – Dec 8 at 11:00am ET, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra will launch the administration's comprehensive Open Government Plan, furthering the President's commitment to increasing transparency and accountability in Washington and ensuring greater access and information for the American people.
This announcement will be streamed live on http://www.whitehouse.gov, and will be followed by a web forum where individuals will be given an opportunity to ask questions and offer suggestions about the administration's Open Government Plan.
WHO: U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra and U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra
WHAT: Administration Launches Comprehensive Open Government Plan
WHERE: Watch it live and participate at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
WHEN: Tuesday, December 8
11:00am ET
Social Web CounterSubmitted by chrishaller on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 23:36.
Promising Practices Presentation at eCitizenship InstituteSubmitted by chrishaller on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 23:24.
On November 12 and 13, the Center for the Study of Citizenship hosted an institute, "eCitizenship: New Tools, New Spaces, New Strategies," in collaboration with the American Democracy Project–itself a collaboration of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the New York Times. I gave one of the plenary addresses based on our Promising Practices in Online Engagement paper. Other presentations were given by Jose Vargas of the Huffington Post, David Smith of the National Conference on Citizenship. 34 AASCU campuses were represented by 110 faculty, administrators, and students.
Participatory Budgeting in Cologne, GermanySubmitted by chrishaller on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 00:37.
My former colleague Matthias Trenel at Zebralog posted a great slideshow that highlights their multi-channel approach to create a participatory budget for the City of Cologne in Germany. Having been involved in some of their earlier work around participatory budgeting in Berlin, I'm amazed how far their approach has evolved.
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Collaborative Architecture in Second LifeSubmitted by chrishaller on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 17:08.
Clip that highlights the fascinating ways architects already use Second Life to collaborate and engage with stakeholders during the design process.
WhiteHouse.gov Goes Open Source; Runs on DrupalSubmitted by chrishaller on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 00:11.
Via techpresident:
The great Drupal switch came about after the Obama new media team, with a few months of executive branch service (and tweaking of WhiteHouse.gov) under their belts, decided they needed a more malleable development environment for the White House web presence. They wanted to be able to more quickly, easily, and gracefully build out their vision of interactive government. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), the Virginia-based government contractor who had executed the Bush-era White House CMS contract, was tasked by the Obama Administration with finding a more flexible alternative. The ideal new platform would be one where dynamic features like question-and-answer forums, live video streaming, and collaborative tools could work more fluidly together with the site's infrastructure. The solution, says the White House, turned out to be Drupal. That's something of a victory for the Drupal (not to mention open-source) community. [...]
Let's really try to extract the last drop of possible meaning from a choice over a CMS. Squint a bit, and it's possible to see the White House's move to open-source software as a move towards the idea that collaborative programming can inspire -- or at least, support -- a more distributed politics. [...] This idea, that a politics crafted by the people could be a powerful thing indeed, emerged in a slightly mutated way during the Obama presidential campaign, but has arguably receded below the surface during the first nine months of the Obama Administration. First the WhiteHouse.gov CMS gets more open, then the White House OS? Perhaps.


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Adobe Updates Sandbox in Reader, Acrobat XI
Adobe began shipping its latest version of the popular Reader and Acrobat software this week. Considering the number of attacks that target PDF vulnerabilities, maybe it's time to think about upgrading to the more secure version.
Adobe added a number of new security features into Reader and Acrobat XI, such as support for elliptic curve cryptography and PDF whitelisting, as well as beefing up the sandbox. Protected Mode in Reader XI now has data theft prevention capabilities, Scott Gottwals, group product manager of Adobe Reader, wrote in the Adobe Reader blog on Wednesday.
Protected Mode was first implemented in Adobe Reader X and Protected View in Adobe Acrobat X. Adobe has enhanced Protected View in Acrobat XI and added it to Reader XI, Gottwals said. Protected View works the same way in Reader and Acrobat, whether the PDF files are viewed in the application or in the browser. This feature can help block screen scraping attacks, among others, Gottwals wrote.
"We've even added a new Protected View, which implements a separate desktop and winstation for the UI, providing an additional layer of defense," Gottwals wrote.
Sandbox Technology
The sandbox's primary focus in Adobe Reader X was to prevent the attacker from installing malware on the user machine and from logging keystrokes, Priyank Choudhury, a security researcher on the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team wrote on the ASSET blog. In Reader XI, Protected Mode now restricts "read-only activities" to prevent attackers trying to read sensitive information on the user's computer.
The goal of the sandbox technology was to prevent malicious code from exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to break out of the application and interfere with the operating system or other applications.
"Since we added sandbox protection to Adobe Reader and Acrobat, we have not seen any exploits in the wild that break out of the Adobe Reader and Acrobat X sandbox," Choudhury wrote.
In fact, there were several cases this year where Adobe had to rush out an out-of-band patch for older versions of Reader and Acrobat to close security flaws being exploited in the wild, but were able to wait till the scheduled update cycle to fix the same issues in Reader and Acrobat X. Protected Mode in Reader X and Protected View in Acrobat X successfully blocked unsafe documents from launching malicious code, lessening the severity of the vulnerability in those versions.
Time to Upgrade
As SecurityWatch has previously reported, attackers often use booby-trapped PDF documents to infect users with malware, steal information, or take over the machine for other malicious activities. The attacks themselves are pretty straightforward: an email with a simple message asking the recipient to open the attached file.
Considering the number of attacks out there, users should no longer be running Acrobat or Reader 9.x or older.
Since Reader and Acrobat XI is a new version and not an update to the existing one, users have to manually download and install the latest software, an Adobe spokesperson told SecurityWatch. Users who enabled the automatic updater would still need to do the install manually.


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Austin Dixon is our Digitization Technologist. He has an Associates degree in Computer Programming and Networking from Shelton State, and is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at UA. Previously, he was employed as a Network Administrator for a retail chain. He aspires to become a Software Developer.
In his spare time, Austin is often in his home electronics workshop building things like human interface devices and electronic art. He keeps a blog [www.PhotonPunk.com] where he chronicles his personal programming and electronics projects.
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- B.S. Computer Science, University of Alabama (In progress)
- A.A.S. Management and Supervision, Programming and Networking, Shelton State College, 2010
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Junior Contestant (12 yrs & Under) - DARKES Apple Pie Bake Off Contestant Entry
- 天數: 6 小時 (左右)
- 位置: Darkes Forest, NSW
- 产品编号: JunAPPPie
How does it work?
- Entries can be made online from this site or in person at the Apple Shack. Each entrant must enter separately. In other words only one person per entry. This allows us to create your own unique entry number. Junior is 12 years and under.
- On the day there will be lots to do while you wait for the judging and plenty to eat.
Program on the day:
8.30am- 9.30am pie/crumble registrations (drop your cooked pie or crumble in)
9.30am -11am Orchard Walking Tour (limited numbers)
12.30pm Winners announced & photographs
1.30pm Winning Pie Auction
Throughout the day entertainment including
music, Jumping Castles, wood fired pizza, cider, coffee and apple pie!
If you are able to make a visit to the DARKES Apple Shack at Glenbernie Orchard, prior to the competition day, as a bona-fide entrant, you may collect a complimentary 2kg pack of cooking apples and 2 x disposable pie pans. You can use these for practice cooking prior to the day or for your bake-off entry. It's up to you.
Simply show us your receipt or your confirmation email on your smartphone to receive your complimentary apples.
If you live too far from us to visit and pick up the complimentary pack of apples prior to the bake-off, you will need to use your own sourced from elsewhere, as unfortunately, we can't send you free apples and pie dishes.
Bring 2 BAKED, IDENTICAL APPLE PIES (family size not single serve, and we recommend in disposable pie pans as we cannot guarantee the return of the pie pans) to the DARKES Apple Shack at Glenbernie Orchard from 8:30 a.m. and before 9:30 am on Sunday, 20 August, 2017.
- A trophy will be awarded to the top three scoring pies in each division (Open Male, Open Female, Junior Male, Junior Female and Open Apple Crumble).
- A perpetual trophy for each division will reside at the DARKES Apple Shack bearing the top three scorers names.
- Bragging rights to claim your pie was the 'Best in DARKES Apple Pie Bake-Off 2017'
- Results will be published in the local newspapers including the 2508 Mag and 2515 Mag, and various social media.
- Apple pies must be double crust. In other words the pie must be predominantly apple and will have a crust top and bottom.
- At check-in, pies will be randomly assigned a number, and judges will not know the identity of the entrant.
- Judges will include local representatives of the CWA and local identities
- Pies will be judged on the following criteria:
Appearance: 10%
Filing & Crust 40%
Texture and Over All Flavour/Taste: 50%
- Judging begins at 9.30am with awards immediately following judging, around 12pm.
- Judged apple pies will be sold to the public after judging, and proceeds will go to the Stanwell Park Country Women's Association (CWA). Winning pies will be Auctioned.
- The Contest is open to anyone wishing to bake an APPLE PIE.
- Only double crust apple pies will be accepted, no slices or strudels
- Official DARKES Apple Pie Bake Off judge's ruling as to eligibility will be final.
- Pies MUST be checked in by 9:30 am on contest day (20/08/16). Late entries not accepted.
- Other fruits may be added but remember this is an apple pie competition so apple must be predominant and the addition of other fruits should enhance the apple not take over.
- Pies that need special handling, refrigeration or heating elements are not allowed.
- The finished pie cannot contain raw/uncooked eggs (white or yokes).
- We recommend that pies are baked in disposable pie pans only, as we can't guarantee the return of your pie pan.
- Pies will be scored on appearance, crust, filling and texture and overall flavour/taste.
- The top three scorers in each division (Open and Junior) will receive a trophy to keep and have their name etched on a perpetual trophy that will hang in the DARKES Apple Shack at Glenbernie Orchard.
- All pies will be sold after judging to raise money for the Stanwell Park CWA.
- If you wish to bake a pie and not have it judged we will be happy to accept it and sell it by the slice to raise money for the Stanwell Park Country Women's Association (CWA).
- At check-in, pies will be randomly assigned a number, and judges will not know the identity of the entrant. Pies should be family sized not single serve and it is recommended that they are baked in disposable pie pans only, as we can't guarantee the return of your pie pan.
- Pies will be judged on the following criteria:
Appearance: 10%
Filing & Crust: 40%
Over All Texture, Flavour/Taste: 50%
- Basic eye appeal.
- To what extent does the whole pie entice you to want to try it?
- Is the decoration creative and appetising?
After slice:
- A single slice unveils the looks and consistency of the filling and crust.
- Runniness, juiciness or firmness.
- Pies should have generous, well distributed fruit as well as good colour and definition appropriate to variety used.
Crust & Filling – 40%
The judges will evaluate two primary components of a pie – individually and then as a combined entity. These two components are the crust and the filling. They should first each stand on their own merits; and then blend together into a great combination. The judges will evaluate aspects of the crust first, then the filling. Here are some aspects they will consider:
- Nice aroma, pleasant, uniform flavours. All ingredients taste fresh and are well balanced. A complimentary use of spices and seasonings that are not overpowering. Generally, crust has a pleasant, mild flavour that complements the filling. However, in some specialty pies, the crust may be used to help create flavour accents.
Crust Consistency:
- Pastry crusts should be flaky and delicate, but not fall apart too easily. They should melt in your mouth with a mild, pleasant taste that complements the filling. They should be a light golden colour, baked throughout and an even thickness across the side and bottom. The crimp should seal thoroughly all the way around the pie.
Overall Flavour – 50%
Consider the memorable quality of the pie, are you impressed? This is the judges' final chance to rate the pie overall.
What makes a good pie? Here is a brief guideline for what traditional wisdom says makes a good pie…
- Flaky, melt in your mouth consistency that has a mild, pleasant flavour and is baked evenly throughout to a light golden colour. Gluten free versions will be taken into consideration and may vary from gluten flour crust versions. The crust should have a tight seal around the edges.
- Smooth uniform components with pleasant aroma and flavour which matches the advertised flavour. Appealing colour, and a nice aftertaste. Final fruit consistency will reflect variety used and cooking method. Even distribution and firm, but not overly crisp texture for varieties that hold their shape.
DARKES 'Bake Off' FAQ's
We thought it might be helpful to share our responses to some common questions we've been asked about the pie bake-off:
Are nuts allowed?
Yes, all nuts are allowed, but if used it must be clearly stated at check-in on the bake-off day, and marked with the pie.
How about bacon? Or cheese?
As long as apple is the main player, yes, you can add other flavourings
But No meat pies here, folks!
That being said, the simpler pies tend to be the winners. Apple should be predominant.
Is this an apple pie eating contest?
No, it's an apple pie baking contest that anyone can enter. However, if you want to eat apple pie, we need you to! After the judging, all of the homemade pies are available for sale, either in slices or whole. We just won't keep track of how much you eat or how fast, which is a good thing.
Where do we go to drop in our pie?
Come in to the DARKES Apple Shack between 9:30-10:30 a.m on the 24th of July. We will point you in the right direction from there!
Should the pie be brought at room temperature or warm?
This is entirely up to you. But please know that, in the past, in other competitions we know of around the world some winners brought their pies in hot, and others made their pies the day before. So we don't think that the temperature of the pie upon arrival matters much in determining who the winners are!
What's the earliest we can drop our pie in?
Pie check-in opens at 8:30 am. All pies MUST be received by 9:30 am.
Please remember DO NOT BE LATE we won't accept your pie for judging after check in has been closed! Really.
Will you REALLY turn my pie away if I'm late?
Yes! We hate to do it, but rules are rules! And it is only fair that all contestants have the same time restrictions.
So, allow yourself plenty of time for baking & parking.
Can I bake my pies in non-disposable pans if I'm all OK with not getting the pans back?
Yes, if you don't mind losing your pan, you are welcome to bake the pie in a different kind of pan. But, based on feedback from other competitions around the world, some winners have been in disposable pans, some not, so we do not believe it impacts the outcome of the contest.
Why do we need to pay an entry fee?
Our goal is to fundraise for the Stanwell Park Country Women's Association. Profits from the entry fees and pie sales on the day will go to the CWA. This will be a great day and fun way to support a great Australian volunteer organisation. Thanks so much for helping us out!
Why do we need to bake 2 pies?
Because there may be multiple rounds of judging, we need 2 pies from each contestant so that the appearance of the whole pie can be judged in each round. Your appearance pie will remain uncut as long as you are still a contender to win! Pies should be family size, not single serve.
Is this event child-friendly?
Yes! The DARKES Apple Pie Bake Off is for all ages!
Children 12 yrs and under can enter the Junior Bake-Off Section.
Is this event pet-friendly?
Only service animals are permitted.
For the safety of all participants, house pets are not allowed. Sorry folks!
What if I need to cancel and not participate in the contest?
If your plans have changed and for some reason you won't be able to attend, let us know so that we can allow others to register! Unfortunately, we will not be able to return your entry fee, but at least it goes towards raising funds for the Stanwell Park Country Women's Association – a great cause!
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Samsung has long been the leader in U.S. TV market share, but the manufacturer is facing some tough competition, especially at the budget end. Lesser-known competitors like Vizio and TCL are coming up with TVs that can challenge the Korean behemoth's picture quality at half the price.
The Samsung E550 is a decent television with fairly deep blacks for a budget TV and bright, natural colors. Off-axis performance is very good, making it suitable for wide rooms, and the TV has excellent uniformity, making dark scenes easy to watch. Only a slight softness -- particularly to movement -- tarnishes an otherwise solid performance.
There are two TVs in the E550 range, a 40-inch and the 46-inch; the smaller model looks like the better deal at the time of review. If you're looking to spend this amount of money, though, there are plenty of other options, including the surprisingly good and much less expensive TCL P60.
Series information: I performed a hands-on evaluation of the 46-inch Samsung LN46E550, but this review also applies to the other screen sizes in the series. All sizes have identical specs and according to the manufacturer should provide very similar picture quality.
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While Samsung's TV looks black in the pictures above, it actually isn't. The bezel uses something like Samsung's old Touch of Color design, which infuses the plastic with a faint puce glow. The TV sits on a solid stand but unfortunately, it doesn't swivel.
The remote control is a little older-looking but quite usable.
The television's menu system is straightforward and easy to use; it shares the same look as the TVs I've seen over the years.
|Key TV features
|Display technology
|LED backlight
|Screen finish
|Smart TV
|Internet connection
|3D technology
|3D glasses included
|Refresh rate(s)
|Dejudder (smooth) processing
If you're paying less than $500 for a television, you can't complain about lack of features. In Samsung's case this is often a good thing as it usually means your money not wasted on frivolities. The backlight, unlike pretty much every other 2012 Samsung TV, uses old-school fluorescents and not LEDs -- not that that matters much for picture quality.
The TV does include a Clear Motion Rate of 60 according to the specifications, but this is really just a way to invent a tick box where there wasn't one before. What it really means is that the E550 has the standard 60Hz refresh rate without smoothing of any kind.
Although it doesn't have Smart TV, the E550 does offer photo viewing and music playback via the USB port.
Picture settings: The TV boasts just three modes -- Standard, Vivid, and Movie -- and lacks the gaming-specific options of competitors like Vizio and Philips. Properly adjusted, advanced white-balance controls help ensure a better picture. The TV does miss a color management system, though, and as a result its colors aren't as accurate as they could be.
Connectivity: This TV isn't a direct replacement of the D550 and nowhere is this more obvious than in the number of connections provided. The D550 had four HDMI ports, two components, and an Ethernet port. In comparison, the inclusion of only a pair of HDMI ports seems stingy, as does the shared component/composite port. If you're looking to use the TV as a PC monitor, you'll have to use one of the HDMI inputs, as it lacks a RGB port. Also missing is a digital audio output for connection to an external amp.
Picture quality
Last year's Samsung D630 was one of our favorite budget LCDs. Here was a TV with dated styling and old-hat fluorescent lighting, but it was one of the best TVs at the price. While there are some similarities between it and the newer E550, the successor can't quite live up to the former's performance.


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Family dynamics are complicated. And that's especially true of a star system in Draco, the dragon. One or two stars in the system may be driving two more into each other's arms.
RZ Draconis is more than 1700 light-years away, so it's far too faint to see with the eye alone. And even with a telescope, the system looks like a single pinpoint of light. But careful measurements of the system's light reveal that it's more than just a single star.
The two largest stars of RZ Draconis are so close together that they're almost touching. In fact, the gravitational attraction between them is so strong that each star bulges out toward the other.
Observations over many years show that the stars may be moving closer together. If so, that could be the influence of one or two other stars in the system. There's at least one other star, and some observations suggest there are two more.
These stars are much smaller and cooler than the system's two big stars. Yet their gravitational influence could rob the close-together pair of momentum, causing the stars to spiral closer together. Eventually, they may touch each other, and even trade the gas in their outer layers. In essence, that would create two stellar cores surrounded by a single envelope of hot gas. In time, they could even merge to form a single star — an event that would really stir up the family dynamics.
More about stars that reach out and touch each other tomorrow.
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Our rugs are artisan crafted and no two are alike. Given their handwoven nature, slight variations in shading and size are inherent to the design.


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The right fitness equipment can make daily exercise not only much easier to stick to, but a lot more fun than mere sit ups or jumping jacks. Unfortunately, many of us have busy schedules, and don't always have time to get down to the local gym to make use of the fitness equipment. What most people don't realize is how affordable fitness equipment at Sam's Club can be.
Sam's Club has the fitness equipment you need, from a power rack or weight bench to a complete multi station home gym. If aerobic exercise is what you need, you can find stationary bikes, treadmills and ellipticals too, and many of these machines cost significantly less than a yearlong membership at a gym. When you consider that these machines can give you years of use and that you'll likely use them much more often than you would if you had to travel to the gym to use them, finding your fitness equipment at Sam's Club is the only logical choice.


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HOLLY HILL | A central Florida man is accused of fatally beating his sleeping father in the head with a sledgehammer after a night of "playing puzzles."
Holly Hill police say 33-year-old Vinayak Shanbhag was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree murder.
Officers were called to the home Saturday morning to assist on a medical call. They found Shanbhag sitting on a couch with his mother. Police found Panduran Shanbhag in a pool of blood with a bloody sledgehammer nearby.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal (http://bit.ly/1gTPHV6 ) reports Shanbhag's mother said she had heard her husband coughing but didn't think anything of it because he had a cold. They slept in separate bedrooms.
The son told police his father said something that upset him while playing puzzles and he decided to attack him.
Information from: Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com
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The Knickerbockers are in San Antonio tonight to take on the 7-1 Spurs. The Knicks are coming off a 99-89 victory over the Magic on Tuesday night, and carry their undefeated record into the heart of Texas. The Spurs are coming off a 84-82 win against the pre-Dantoni era Lakers, and have won three straight overall. The Spurs are one of the few teams around the league playing just as well as the Knicks. I still don't understand how this game isn't one of the two on TNT tonight, but I guess it is okay, I'd rather listen to Breen/Frazier than Marv/Reggie. Anyway, tonight's contest is the first major measuring stick for the Knicks this season as they take on the Spurs. Yes they did beat down the Heat on opening night at the Garden, but the great teams are the ones who can get a win on the road against a top opponent. The Knicks haven't won at San Antonio in their last eight tries, and the Spurs have won 22 of the last 24 games at home dating back to last season (those losses came in the Western Conference Finals to the Thunder). So the Knicks have their work cut out for them tonight, and need to continue to do the things that have them sitting at 5-0 in the early season.
Continue to win the turnover battle: The Knicks are currently tops in the league as far as turnovers go, committing just under 11 per game, significantly improved from a season ago. On the flip side they are forcing the most turnovers in the league at 17.58 per game according to HoopsData.com. Making sure you don't waste any possessions is obviously important, no more so when you play against a veteran team like the Spurs. The Knicks are going to need to continue to take care of the basketball tonight to give them the best opportunity.
Attack the glass: So far this season it's hard to look at the Knicks and pick out a flaw, but if you were going to talk about one it has been their rebounding. The Knicks are actually 2nd to last in the league in rebounding differential, and have allowed the 7th most offensive rebounds per game. They are the best defensive team in the league as of now, but cleaning up the defensive glass is just as important as forcing a bad shot is. I would like to see a little more Marcus Camby tonight.
Keep Tony Parker out of the paint: The Spurs are at their best when Tony Parker is getting into the paint and breaking down the defense. He is one of the best point guards in the league at creating havoc with his penetration and using his tear drop to get easy buckets. He averaged 32 ppg against the Knicks last season, and if Felton/Kidd/Prigioni do not keep him out of the paint he could be in for another big game.
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Oregon Coast Beach Weekend Retreat by Boora Architects
Boora Architects designed the Oregon Coast Beach House as a set of two different-sized volumes linked by a large covered deck. The smaller front volume shelters the two car garage on the first floor and an office space on the second floor, while the larger volume is separated into public and private spaces. The garage/office volume was covered with a hybrid copper rooftop that forms an origami-joined ceiling. Overlooking Siletz Bay, the 2,865 square foot Oregon Coast Beach House displays an U-shaped floor plan arranged around a central courtyard and capturing 180-degree views of the natural surrounding landscape from the larger volume's mostly glazed second floor.
Constructing a powerful duality – spaces for contemplation and connecting with nature versus private, quiet rooms – Boora Architects designed the coastal weekend retreat for the enjoyment of its inhabitants: "The upper floor in the largest of the two buildings is extensively glass-walled. Windows crescendo from 8 to 15-feet tall at the most outward facing point. A large covered deck extends the indoor footprint by nearly an additional 1/3, joining the massing of the residence, framing an outdoor invisible wall. The lower level is more private, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a flex room–a space that converts open living area into a guest bedroom by pulling two eight-foot sliding hemlock accordion pocket panels to form walls. A 45-foot long covered walkway sided in horizontal slats forms the base of the U-shape. The landscaped courtyard fuses building with walkway, creating focus on where interior and exterior spaces merge. At night, the residence appears as a lantern, and the central courtyard is its hearth."


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This year has been a historic one for the Natick boys swim and dive team.
Not only did the Redhawks go a perfect 12-0, but they also beat rival Framingham for the first time since 1991 in a swim meet.
"That's almost as long as I've been alive," said Natick coach Caitlyn Shaddock.
Add those two aforementioned accomplishments with a win at the Bay State Conference Championship meet for the first time in over three decades, and this winter has been pretty impressive for Natick.
Too good not to post!pic.twitter.com/BiJrtXwloY— Coach Shaddock (@NatickBoysSwim)February 1, 2018
So Daily News Senior Multimedia Journalist Tommy Cassell brought in Shaddock and three of her athletes in sophomore Ian Arnold, junior Kyle Burati, and senior Jordan Arnold (all three from Natick High) to talk all things swimming and diving.
Burati is a diver, Ian Arnold specializes in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle and Jordan Arnold's bread and butter is the 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke. Shaddock swam at Milford high for coach Dave Chaplin.
The foursome and Cassell discuss the season, their emergence into the sport, some of their idols, how Ian Arnold deals with being 5-foot-7 in a sport of six-footers, and how Burati likes to say "HI" to his Astronomy teacher (Ms. Shaddock) in some unusual ways.
Listen to the full conversation by clicking below.
Each week, Tommy Cassell of the MetroWest Daily and Milford Daily News will talk with a high school sports figure from throughout the MetroWest and Milford areas.
A new episode is released every Wednesday. Follow Cassell on Twitter at @tommycassell44. You can subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any other podcast provider. Don't forget to rate and review. And if you aren't a podcast listener, every episode of Cassell's Corner is available here on our websites.
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Bobby Grant was both hero and villain in Rochdale's 1-1 draw at home to Chesterfield.
Grant scored the first goal of Keith Hill's second spell in charge at Spotland, cancelling out Jay O'Shea's opener for the Spireites.
But Dale's hopes of securing a win to mark Hill's first home game since he returned as manager were undone when the striker was dismissed five minutes from time after a late challenge on Sam Togwell.
Chesterfield opened brightly and were inches away from the opening goal when Jay O'Shea was teed up by Marc Richards and sent a 20-yard effort against the crossbar with goalkeeper Josh Lillis beaten.
With the home defence struggling to clear their lines, the Spireites went agonisingly close again when O'Shea's sliced shot from the left narrowly evaded Richards at the back post and when the striker managed to find the target Lillis saved his turn and shot from 20 yards.
The visitors took the lead 10 minutes into the second half, O'Shea side-footing home from the left of the penalty area.
Grant scored a 25-yard curler to level the match before seeing red for a late tackle on Togwell in the centre circle.
There was late drama when Richards appeared to be fouled in the penalty area only for referee Andy Haines to wave away appeals. Rochdale broke upfield and it took a good save from Lee to deny Brian Barry-Murphy and secure the point.


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As we near the end of the year and survey the 2011 housing market, it is clear that it has struggled to maintain and sustain measurable growth. And, the lack of stability and minimal growth in the market over this past year has been a source of tension and anxiety for remodelers and builders alike.
In October, we received promising news from the U.S. Commerce Department that growth was present in the market, even in this inconsistent economy. Reporting a 5.7 percent increase in new construction single-family home sales during the month of September, the glimmer of market improvement shown through, making it the fastest growth of new-home sales over the past five to six months.
Now this week in the news, home industry experts are projecting measurable growth in 2012, a prediction that was once forecasted to remain flat. National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief Economist, Lawrence Yun expects to see stronger home sales over the next fiscal year, predicting a 2012 Gross Domestic Product rise to 2.2 percent from 2011's 1.8 percent growth.
This expected growth is largely attributed to anticipated job growth of 1.7 to 2.2 million over the course of the next year and the subsequent decline in the unemployment rate to 8.7 percent in the second part of 2012.
Favorable home affordability and low mortgage interest rates have provided a beneficial buyer's market, consequently improving the housing market, industry-wide. Existing home sales are expected to rise 4 to 6 percent in 2012, totaling to an estimated 5.2 million, while new home sales are anticipated to rise to 372,000 versus a record low 302,000 in 2011.
"There is a sizable pent-up demand based on population growth, employment levels and a doubling-up phenomenon that can't continue indefinitely. This demand could quickly stimulate the market when conditions improve," said Lawrence Yun. "Once home prices turn positive on a sustained basis, consumer confidence will rise and help the broader economy to improve."
With 45 states posting double-digit gains, according to the NAR, demand for new homes and existing home sales show compelling evidence for the 2012-projected gain. To further confidence, all new homebuilders are reporting a marked increase in sales. Reputable builders such as, K. Hovnanian (+33%), Beazer Homes (+33%), and KB Homes (+22%) are all reporting a rise in new home orders.
This is credible support for home remodeling, building, and home product professionals to have high expectations entering the next fiscal year, and this news will likely shape 2012 strategic planning sessions industry-wide.
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I consider myself lucky to be born in the 80s. In school, we still had chalkboards and overhead projectors, and only one computer lab in the Catholic school attended until the 4th grade. That was a city school and part of a well funded parochial system. I remember playing some crazy math games, typing games, and of course, Oregon Trail. In fact the computers were brand new to us and weren't part of a class. We had to stay after school and sign up for a special program. It was filled with kids like me who were eager to learn. (Though I never did learn proper typing technique)When we moved to the suburbs my grade school didn't have a computer at all. And in fact I didn't use a computer to do research in school until my junior or senior year in high school. And then again there was was computer lab in the library. We of course wasted time looking up the hamster dance. My friend Lee was the only one that had a cell phone, and most of my friends had pagers. We're talking 98, 99 here. The only reason he had one was for emergencies and it was one of the old motorola flip phones and little antenna. As a kid I'd never imagine that I could do everything from my phone. Order food, watch crap on the internet, look up dates on Match, or research any dumb fact I could think of from one little device that works anywhere... absolutely insane. And now it's feasible I could have a robot delivering a shipment of tea ...It's even more amazing talking to my dad about this stuff. As a kid he'd read Dick Tracy and his little watch had a screen on it that'd do pretty much everything. And I'd watch Star Trek:TNG and their tablets and tricorders did everything... It's just crazy to think about.
after Amazon said the drones were being tested and could be in the public within the next year...
that's cost-effective and durable enough to be deployed on a mass scale and complete its job reliably.
Quote from: Kevadu on December 13, 2013, 01:03:35 PMthat's cost-effective and durable enough to be deployed on a mass scale and complete its job reliably.You forgot armored. People are going to shoot those down for free stuff.


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Ronald E. Smith of Warwick, NY, a retired assistant director for the Orange County Consumer Affairs Weights & Measures Department, entered into rest on Monday, September 24, 2013 at St. Anthony Community Hospital, Warwick. He was 69.
The son of the late Charles Smith and Charlotte Weslowski Smith, he was born on March 3, 1944 in Warwick, NY.
He was a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara Smith; son, Kevin Smith of Florida, NY and two grandsons: Kevin and Craig Smith. He was predeceased by his brother, Thomas Smith.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, September 26th from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the T.S. Purta Funeral Home, 22 Glenmere Avenue, Florida, NY 10921. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, September 27th at St. Joseph Church, 20 Glenmere Avenue, Florida, NY 10921. Burial will be in St. Stephen's Cemetery, Warwick, NY.
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This is the documentation for "Digitizing the S. D. Cabaniss Papers," an NHPRC-funded grant project which ran from January 1, 2010 through February, 2011.
The grant "Digitizing the S.D. Cabaniss Papers", part of the "Digitizing Historical Records" effort by NHPRC, was funded for 14 months. The intent was to provide online access to the content in a low-cost, scalable model which simulates online the experience of the patron in the reading room. That is, the finding aid provides the descriptive information about the content, and from the finding aid, content in each series is linked in the order found in each file and box.
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LOS ANGELES – Whatever it is, it won't be dull.
In his first day as USC's basketball coach, Andy Enfield promised a culture change. He vowed to turn the Trojans into a "national brand." He didn't shy from the challenge of being in the same city as UCLA.
Most of all, Enfield preached basketball joy.
"My coaching style, I like to enjoy my team and I want my players to have fun," Enfield said. "I know that word, fun, is kind of a generic term sometimes, but I really mean that. We enjoy ourselves."
USC hired Enfield on Monday night, the culmination of one of the most unlikely rises in recent coaching history. Three weeks ago, Enfield was the little-known coach of tiny Florida Gulf Coast University. Two high-profile victories later, Enfield landed in the Pac-12 Conference and increased his salary nearly tenfold.
Enfield's team, a No. 15 seed in the NCAA Tournament, reached the Sweet 16 with massive upsets of Georgetown and San Diego State. Roughly 72 hours after the ride ended, with a loss to Florida on Friday night, the Trojans tabbed Enfield as the full-time replacement for former coach Kevin O'Neill.
It is, by all measures, a risk. Enfield, 43, has only 69 games of experience as a head coach, although he did spend five years as a Florida State assistant and worked for four years as an NBA shooting coach.
Haden and USC are wagering that they have captured lightning in a bottle, that Enfield's up-tempo style of play – his team got the trendy tag of "Dunk City" – will play well with recruits and will help establish an identity for a program that has long wallowed in the shadow of USC football and UCLA basketball.
USC went 14-18 last season and lost in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament.
"We really need to, and want to, make basketball relevant at USC," Haden said. "We've had starts of good programs, but never really had a sustained program for a long period of time, which is what we're trying to build here. We're trying to build a very credible basketball program."
USC took a long, strange path to Enfield. Haden made the curious admission that he hired a search firm to look for O'Neill's successor "more than a year ago." O'Neill didn't get fired until last December.
Haden said USC initially looked at 40 to 50 candidates. The only candidates known to have interviewed were Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins, interim coach Bob Cantu and former coach Tim Floyd. Others rebuffed USC's interest, including Pitt's Jamie Dixon and Steve Alford, who later chose UCLA.
Hopkins didn't speak to reporters in Syracuse on Tuesday, but his boss lambasted USC's hire.
"Mike was, by far, the best candidate they had," Coach Jim Boeheim said. "People in those situations, they try to take a guy who is a head coach so they can say they hired a head coach, that's all."
Enfield said that he didn't speak with USC officials until the weekend, and that he made only one visit to campus several years ago, but that he chose USC over "considerable interest" from other schools. Enfield's reported six-year contract will pay him approximately $1.5 million per season.
"This is an opportunity to build something special," Enfield said. "It doesn't get any better for me. USC is, I think, one of the best basketball jobs in the country."
Enfield has a number of immediate challenges. First and foremost, he must hire a staff of assistants – Cantu, Dieter Horton and Tony Miller have not been told their fate – particularly one that has ties to Southern California, given that Enfield has never played or coached west of Milwaukee.
If nothing else, Enfield has momentum. He's the coach of the moment, riding the wave of recent celebrity, and his hiring thrust USC basketball into the national conversation, of which it is rarely a part.
"I think it is an added bonus," Haden said. "I think his style of play was certainly attractive to me and to us, as long as it's a winning style. … So the buzz was expected, but it wasn't really the driving force for why we did this."
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|MLBPA Press Release
Selected in a secret ballot of all Major League players, Gordon earned a Players Choice Award by finishing the 2009 season with 14 home runs, 63 RBI, 28 doubles and a .270 batting average in 103 games. Drafted by Chicago in the 2008 June draft, Gordon attended the University of Georgia, where he finished the 2008 season tied for first among NCAA Division I home-run leaders (28) and was second in runs (97) and total bases (221).
In Gordons honor, the Major League Baseball Players Trust has awarded $10,000 grants each to the Childrens Hospital of Illinois and the National Parkinson Foundation. 2009 Players Choice Award winners in all categories will designate charities to receive grants totaling $260,000 from the Players Trust. Since 1992, the Players Trust has recognized the outstanding on-field and off-field performances of Players Choice Awards winners by contributing nearly $3 million to charities around the world.
Through the Players Trust, Major Leaguers contribute their time, money and celebrity to call attention to important causes affecting the needy and to help encourage others to get involved in their own communities. In partnership with Volunteers of America, the national human service organization, the Players Trust administers the Action Team, a national youth volunteer program currently inspiring the next generation of volunteers in more than 150 high schools in cities throughout the United States. For more information on the Major League Baseball Players Trust, please visit www.MLBPLAYERS.com and http://www.youtube.com/mlbplayerstrust.
The Players Choice Awards winners (Outstanding Pitchers, Rookies, Comeback Players, Player of the Year and the Marvin Miller Man of the Year) were selected by secret ballot of all Major League baseball players, under the supervision of accounting firm KPMG.
The 2009 Players Choice Awards finalists are [winners in bold & underlined]:
American League:
Outstanding Rookie: Elvis Andrus (Texas), Gordon Beckham (Chicago White Sox), Jeff Niemann (Tampa Bay)
Comeback Player: Russell Branyan (Seattle), Aaron Hill (Toronto), Scott Podsednik (Chicago White Sox)
Outstanding Pitcher: Roy Halladay (Toronto), Zack Greinke (Kansas City), C.C. Sabathia (NY Yankees)
Outstanding Player: Derek Jeter (NY Yankees), Joe Mauer (Minnesota), Kendry Morales (LA Angels of Anaheim)
National League:
Outstanding Rookie: Chris Coghlan (Florida), Tommy Hanson (Atlanta), J.A. Happ (Philadelphia)
Comeback Player: Aaron Boone (Houston), Chris Carpenter (St. Louis), Nick Johnson (Florida)
Outstanding Pitcher: Chris Carpenter (St. Louis), Tim Lincecum (San Francisco), Adam Wainwright (St. Louis)
Outstanding Player: Prince Fielder (Milwaukee), Albert Pujols (St. Louis), Hanley Ramirez (Florida)
Either league:
Man of the Year: Curtis Granderson (Detroit), Torii Hunter (LA Angeles of Anaheim), Albert Pujols (St. Louis)
Player of Year: Joe Mauer (Minnesota), Albert Pujols (St. Louis), Hanley Ramirez (Florida)
For year-by-year Players Choice Awards results, please visit: http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/programs/choice_winners.jsp.
The Major League Baseball Players Association (www.MLBPLAYERS.com) is the collective bargaining representative for all professional baseball players of the 30 Major League Baseball teams and serves as the exclusive group licensing agent for commercial and licensing activities involving active Major League baseball players. On behalf of its members, it operates the Players Choice licensing program and Players Choice Awards, which benefit the needy through the Major League Baseball Players Trust, a charitable foundation established and run entirely by Major League baseball players. Please visit the Players Trust Channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/mlbplayerstrust.


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Screening for lung cancer would cost billions
Screening older adults for lung cancer – the USA's leading cancer killer – has the potential to save thousands of lives, but at a cost of billions of dollars to the Medicare program, a new study shows. The new analysis is being released as leaders of the Medicare program are considering whether to pay for the screenings.
Researchers found that screening eligible smokers and former smokers with low-dose CT scans would allow doctors to detect 54,900 to 141,900 additional lung cancers – mostly at earlier, more curable stages — within five years, depending on how many people get screened.
The price tag for Medicare patients would cost $9 billion to $27 billion over the same time, also depending on the number of people screened, according to a new study released in advance of the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. That would increase an individual's Medicare premiums by $3 to $9 a month.
Screening people for lung cancer could make a huge dent in deaths from the disease, says lead study author Joshua Roth, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
In 2011, a large study found that using low-dose CT scans to screen adults at high risk for lung cancer reduced mortality by 20%, compared to performing chest X-rays. The trial targeted a specific group of people at highest risk for lung cancer: current and former smokers, ages 55 to 74, who had consumed the equivalent of a pack a day for 30 years.
In 2013, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federal advisory panel, recommended lung screenings with a favorable grade of B. The Affordable Care Act requires that private health plans cover screenings recommended with a grade of A or B, with the exception of some older plans not covered by the law.
The health law doesn't require Medicare to cover the screenings, however. An outside advisory committee last month gave the screenings a rating of 2.2 out of 5, and recommended against providing Medicare coverage, due to uncertainty that the benefits outweigh the risks in the real world, outside of a carefully controlled trial. Medicare has not yet announced its final decision.
Screening people for lung cancer carries real risks, including increased radiation exposure and collapsed lungs, according to the task force.
Some are also concerned that hospitals will offer the tests to lower-risk patients as a way to boost profits.
"The marketing potential of this is so enormous," says Peter Bach, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Center for Health Policy and Outcomes, who requested the Medicare advisory panel review. "It triggers so many lucrative (follow-up) tests. The medical centers see this as a huge cash cow."


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A List ApartMarch 05, 2004
My first article for A List Apart was published this morning. "CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death" is an investigation of a new technique that has been formulating for the last six months or so.
The CSS Sprite method enables rollovers, buttons, and dynamic image maps on a simple HTML unordered list. By dropping all
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:hover state images into a single image file, IE flicker can be avoided and download times should be quicker. Not to mention the time saved by not exporting a few dozen sliced images. Have a look, and feel free to discuss the article in the ALA forum.
Interestingly, it seems like my better ideas have about a six month incubation period. The Zen Garden began in late October, 2002, and launched in May of 2003. I extended Pixy's preload method for a set of style-switching buttons on mozilla.org in September last year (which were cut, obviously), but didn't quite put all the pieces together until just the past few weeks.
Two quick technical notes. First, before someone calls it out, the example image uses graphics from Super Mario Brothers. The original Nintendo Entertainment System used a completely different sprite mapping technique than the basic summary in the article, which saw all graphics broken down into 8 pixel by 8 pixel chunks. So the analogy doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but ALA isn't exactly the place to discuss obsolete tile mapping systems…
Second, though it's obvious to most, I didn't make it that clear in the article that the advantage to this approach is that the containing block can be placed anywhere in your document flow that you'd place an inline item. Yesterday's post on positioning explains this a bit better.


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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – UMBC senior Cody Mezbish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) recorded a career-best 6k time of 21:34 as the UMBC women's cross country team placed 18th out of 29 teams at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals, Friday afternoon at Lehigh's Goodman Course.
Villanova (31 pts.) took home the team crown, paced by race champion Emily Lipari and runner-up Nicky Akande. Lipari just edged her teammate out at the 19:53 mark with Georgetown's Samantha Nadel placing third (20:09) to lead the Hoyas (35 pts.) to a second-place finish.
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Sophomore Nicole Dawson (Jessup, Md./Hammond) once again was the second UMBC athlete across the line, completing the 6k course with a time of 22:14 in 99th place. Freshman Sarah Zielinski (Boonsboro, Md./Boonsboro) and junior Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) were five and six seconds back, respectively, in the 107th (22:19) and 113th (22:20) spots. Senior Kirsten McGovern (Sykesville, Md./Century) rounded out the UMBC scoring squad, placing 157th in a time of 23:42.


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