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Nominations sought for 2013 RUSA achievement awards, research and travel grants
For Immediate Release
Tue, 09/18/2012
Elizabeth Markel
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CHICAGO — Nominations are now being accepted for the many achievement awards and conference travel and research grants offered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
RUSA, which represents librarians and information service professionals in reference, collection development, adult readers advisory, genealogy, resource sharing and user services, is accepting nominations for the following 2013 awards. The deadline for all nominations is Dec. 15, 2012, with the exception of the BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award, which has a deadline of Jan. 31, 2013. Award criteria, nomination forms and instructions for submissions are available at each of the award's web pages, which can be accessed by clicking on the award names below.
This year's list of honors features two new awards:
- The Gale Cengage History Research and Innovation Award encourages submissions from MLS degreed librarians looking to further research relating to history and history librarianship. Research must reflect interest in one of the History Section's subject-oriented committees: Genealogy, Local History, Instruction and Research Services and Historical Materials. The winner will receive up to $2,500, sponsored by Gale Cengage, and a citation.
- The BRASS Business Expert Press Award for Academic Business Librarians recognizes a librarian new to the field of academic business librarianship to attend the ALA Annual Conference. The winner will receive $1,250 for travel expenses supported by Business Expert Press and a citation.
Awards for Individuals and Groups for Professional Achievement
- The ABC-CLIO Online History Award is a biennial award recognizing an individual or group of people for the development of free, sustainable online history resources. This award consists of $2,500 donated by ABC-CLIO and a citation.
- The BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to business librarianship. Sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning; $3,000 prize and a citation.
- The Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services is given to a library or library system for developing an imaginative and unique resource to meet patrons' reference needs. Sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning; $3,000 prize and a citation.
- The History Section Genealogical Publishing Company Award is presented to a librarian, library or publisher who is a RUSA member and recognizes professional achievement in historical reference and research librarianship. Sponsored by Genealogical Publishing Company; prize of $1,500 and a citation.
- The Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award honors an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. Sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning; $5,000 prize and a citation.
- The John Sessions Memorial Award recognizes a library or library system that has made a significant effort to work with the labor community and by doing so has brought recognition to the history and contribution of the labor movement to the development of the United States. Supported by the Department of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO; the winner receives a plaque.
- The Louis Shores Award recognizes an individual reviewer, group, editor, review medium or organization for excellence in book reviewing and other media for libraries. The winner receives a citation at the RUSA awards ceremony.
- The Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award recognizes a librarian who has made significant contributions to library adult services. The winner receives a citation.
- The Reference Service Press Award recognizes the most outstanding article published in RUSQ during the preceding two-volume year. Sponsored by Reference Service Press; $2,500 prize and a plaque.
- The Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award is given to an individual for his or her outstanding professional achievement, leadership and contributions to interlibrary loan and document delivery. Sponsored by OCLC; $2,000 prize and a citation.
- The Zora Neale Hurston Award honors an individual ALA member who has demonstrated leadership in promoting African-American literature. Sponsored by HarperCollins; the winner receives $1,250 supporting travel to the ALA Annual Conference, a plaque, tickets to the United for Libraries Author Tea event and a set of Hurston's books in print with HarperCollins at the time of the award.
- The RSS Service Achievement Award is a citation presented annually to a Reference Services Section (RSS) member in recognition of exceptional contributions to the section.
- The MARS "My Favorite Martian" Award is a citation presented annually in recognition of excellence in service to the MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference Section.
Travel Grants to ALA Annual Conference
- NEW! The BRASS Business Expert Press Award for Academic Business Librarians is sponsored by Business Expert Press and is presented to a new librarian in the field of academic business librarianship in order to support attendance at the ALA Annual Conference. This award consists of $1,250 and a citation.
- The BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award presents $1,000 to a student enrolled in an ALA accredited master's degree program to fund travel to the ALA Annual Conference. This award's nomination deadline is Jan. 31, 2013.
- The Morningstar Public Librarian Support Award, sponsored by Morningstar, Inc., offers $1,000 to support the attendance at Annual Conference of a public librarian who has performed outstanding business reference service and who requires financial assistance to attend the conference.
- The STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring Award offers $1,250 to fund ALA Annual Conference travel expenses for a library practitioner who is new to the field of interlibrary loan/document delivery or electronic reserves and who has daily, hands-on involvement in the areas of borrowing, lending, document delivery, electronic reserves, material delivery or resource sharing.
Research Grants
- NEW! The History Section/Gale Cengage History Research and Innovation Award consists of up to $2500 and a citation. This award is granted to an MLS degreed librarian from an ALA accredited school to facilitate and further research relating to history and history librarianship.
- The BRASS Emerald Research Grant consists of two $5,000 awards and a citation presented to individuals and groups seeking support to conduct research in business librarianship. This award is sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
More information about these awards, including nominating instructions, can be found at the RUSA Awards Web page. Monetary award amounts are subject to change without notice and are contingent upon donor funding supplied at the time the award is presented. Questions about these awards should be directed to the committee chairperson or to Leighann Wood, RUSA awards program coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, represents librarians and library staff in the fields of reference, specialized reference, collection development, readers' advisory and resource sharing. RUSA is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services, and collection materials they need. Learn more about the association at www.ala.org/rusa.


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Cancer agency agrees to freeze new grants
Texas' embattled cancer agency, complying with a request by the state's top elected officials, said Wednesday it would stop awarding grants until it can assure the public it is conducting its business properly.
The chairman and vice chairman of the governing board of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas endorsed an appeal by Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus for a moratorium on grants until concerns about the agency are addressed. Collectively, the three officials appoint the majority of the agency's board.
"These issues need to be resolved to restore public confidence in CPRIT," Jimmy Mansour, chairman, and Dr. Joseph Bailes, vice chairman, said in a statement.
The controversy principally stems from two commercialization grants awarded by the agency, one to an "incubator" led by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the second to a Dallas-based company, Peloton Therapeutics. The two grants, which together involved more than $30 million in taxpayer money, didn't undergo the peer review considered essential to agency awards. Both have been halted.
Further scrutiny has followed reports by the Houston Chronicle and other news organizations about the activities of a foundation established to supplement the salaries of top cancer agency officials.
The letter from Perry, Dewhurst and Straus said it is vital that CPRIT cooperate fully with current reviews, implement recommended changes, enact governance reforms and fill key vacant positions to ensure "all future grant requests are properly reviewed and acted upon - prior to future grants being awarded."
Timely manner
The reviews are being conducted by state auditors, local prosecutors and the Texas attorney general.
"We expect these milestones to be given high priority and met in a timely manner," the officials wrote in a letter dated Tuesday but released Wednesday. "The mission of defeating cancer is too important to be derailed by inadequate processes and a lack of oversight."
Earlier Wednesday, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, called for more transparency and oversight of the $3 billion cancer agency.
"There are far too many troubling questions with our state's cancer institute that need immediate legislative attention," Davis wrote in a letter to Perry. She noted that the agency was "plagued by accusations of cronyism, conflicts of interest, insider deals, and a lack of transparency and accountability to the public."
An out-of-state ethicist called the freeze on grants appropriate.
"They need to regroup, rethink procedures and safeguards, and re-emerge with a more tightly regulated set of procedures," said Paul Wolpe, director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University in Atlanta. "If they do that, I think the public confidence can be restored pretty quickly."
But Wolpe added that he's "sorry it took (CPRIT) this long to see it. They could have avoided a lot of damage if they had responded quickly and decisively to the initial complaints."
Private donors
Davis, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Open Government, questioned whether private donors, whose names the foundation keeps secret, should continue to supplement the salaries of the agency's employees.
Davis also urged Perry to evaluate whether commercialization grants, intended to bring new cancer drugs to market, are consistent with the Legislature's intent that CPRIT funds be used to "create and expedite innovation in the area of cancer research" and to "promote a substantial increase in cancer research."
The cancer agency has awarded about $100 million in commercialization grants, and officials have said it intends to increase the share of funds it allocates for such work.
Davis also asked Texas Comptroller Susan Combs to make her office's two previous audits of CPRIT "readily accessible online so that the public may easily locate and examine them." The office subsequently posted the audits at http://www.window.state.tx.us/finances/pubs/CPRIT/.
Sen. Jane Nelson, chair of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services, said she had pre-filed legislation to strengthen ethics at the cancer agency. Among its provisions, the bill requires CPRIT to strengthen protections against conflict of interests for employees, governing board members and peer reviewers.
On Thursday the House Appropriations subcommittee will meet to discuss the beleaguered cancer agency.

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SeptemberTuesday, September 11, 2012 11 September 2012
So much for my diligence with updates... good news is I was too busy not being sick to get on the computer!
I saw Oncology yesterday and things are going reasonably well.
The good news:
- This week marks 12 weeks of remission for me - this is the longest I have sustained a remission in over 2 years.
- The chemo injections are not making me violently ill as the last few drugs did.
- My bone marrow is tolerating it beautifully (the only other drug that elicited a sustained remission put me in bone marrow failure and earned me an extra month (Christmas sadly) in the hospital fighting severe infections) and my liver is standing up beautifully.
- I'm eating about 75% of my calories at this point - the most ever since this started!
- We talked to him about the fact that when I get my injections (Friday) I then spend between 2 and 5 days basically bed ridden. I can get up and move about but I get very sore/sick very quickly unless I stay laying down/reclining. The tiredness is indescribable - I quite literally will fall asleep at the kitchen table. We're going to change 'chemo days' so that I can feel well for the weekends and sleep away a tuesday or wednesday instead but some weeks (like last week) it drags on all week... I was finally feeling a bit better and realized it was Friday - chemo day - again. This week however went MUCH better - I slept off Sunday but otherwise was in decent shape. Anyways - the bad news is his advice was (while he was very sympathetic about it and did say some people just get wiped out - something about it being an antimetabolite and at that point his words got too big even for me) that it's most likely something I will just have to cope with. I didn't expect a 'here this pill will fix it!' reply but had hoped for at least a 'it gets better over time'. Unfortunately we've given it time, it's not improving. He gently said that I may have to convince myself that sleeping and being sick for a few days is better than where I was 2 years ago, starving to death and living on a hospital ward. Point taken.


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I hope Jessica Lange never ends her collaboration with Ryan Murphy. "American Horror Story" just won't be the same without her.
No matter what outlandish acts Murphy and his co-producer Brad Falchuk ask of the Oscar and Emmy winner, she turns them into small-screen magic.
That's never been truer than in the scare-fest's latest season, "Coven" (9 p.m. CT Wednesday, Oct. 9, FX; 3.5 stars out of 4). Lange plays Fiona Goode, the all-powerful Supreme witch of an ages-old coven that fled the Salem Witch Trials for the relative peace of New Orleans. Fiona has been around forever, though, and time is taking its toll. She may still be beautiful and shapely, but she needs a pick-me-up and will do anything to get it.
After some soul-searching, er, sucking, at one of her homes in L.A., Fiona heads to New Orleans, where she busts in on her estranged daughter. Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) runs Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, which really is a Hogwarts for novice witches.
"Your little kingdom is a mess," Mommy Dearest snaps when Cordelia demands she leave. Fiona insists on helping Cordelia properly teach her young charges—newcomer Zoe (Taissa Farmiga), Madison (Emma Roberts), Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) and Nan (Jamie Brewer)—to protect themselves from a coming storm.
"It's Salem all over again," she warns.
As Fiona, Lange transforms from privileged, Prada-wearing ball-buster to desolate, fading beauty to a mother crushed by her inability to connect with her daughter—all while remaining a supreme bitch. (The premiere isn't titled "Bitchcraft" for nothing.) Her first scene with Paulson, also continuing her stellar work from last season, is heartbreaking. Defeat washes away Fiona's bravado when Cordelia snaps, "When are you going to die and stop ruining my life?"
Fiona's desire to remain youthful dovetails nicely with the flashback story that opens "Coven." "Just look at this wattle," moans Kathy Bates as Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie, a real-life 1830s serial killer who tortured and murdered her slaves. As she laments the state of her face, Madame applies her own beauty secret—human blood.
Bates' performance totally lacks the vanity and self-consciousness that defines her character. She's frightening to watch. "The heeelll I caaann't," she spits when her daughter, caught seducing the houseman, suggests mom can't control her. What Madame does to the houseman—and a bull's head—is even more terrifying.
Murphy has suggested that "Coven" will be more fun than past seasons of the anthology series. Sure, when one of your witches has a killer vagina, there are bound to be a few sick laughs. And Lange and her young costars know their way around a put-down, too.
But I have my doubts about how "fun" it'll be after watching Bates and Angela Bassett, as Marie Laveau, a vengeful voodoo priestess who may find fault in Fiona's actions. The flashbacks alone might have some viewers running for a bucket.
Although the premiere is hampered by unnecessary narration and over-exposition, it's still a bewitching brew of whimsy, psychological scares, horrific atrocities and the wonderfully relentless feeling that something wicked this way comes.
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4-14-12 Nationals Park
Today we would head to Washington DC for a Saturday/Sunday trip.
Today's game would be a 4:05 start, meaning the gates would open at 1:30.
We ended up not making it to Nationals Park until almost 1 PM, and ended up being about 20th in one of the many lines that had formed. Several minutes before the gates opened, this was the scene:
It was chaos. The Nationals were giving away a Stephen Strasburg bobblehead to the first 15,000 fans. In DC, everyone is crazy about Strasburg, so there were 15,000 people that showed up early, making batting practice really tough.
As soon as I got into the stadium, batting practice was just getting underway, so rather than scurrying around in left field looking for balls (there was already about 100 people in there anyhow by the time I got in), I headed straight up to the upper deck in right field. This was my competition:
As a result, I was able to get a trainer to toss up a ball that a Nationals batter hit to the track in right center field.
As a result, I was able to get a trainer to toss up a ball that a Nationals batter hit to the track in right center field.
During batting practice, Nationals park only allows fans in left field, center field, and the upper deck in right field for the first hour. For some odd reason, right field, which is the largest section of outfield seats, is closed off.
It became quite clear rather quickly that I would have to go for toss ups, or glove trick balls.
There were plenty of glove trick balls in the bullpens, but the Nationals are militant like in prohibiting ball retrievers from the bullpens, so I didn't even try. I did glove trick this ball from the gap in center field for ball #2.
After hauling it in, I turned and handed it to a little boy on my right. It was a classic Nationals training ball.
In the meantime, batting practice was ridiculously crowded. Worse than probably any opening day. There was literally no room to really move and catch any BP home runs:
And the Nationals and Reds didn't hit too many anyhow.
I ended up spending much of batting practice right next to the batters eye and trying to get toss ups.
Eventually, I was able to get Sam LeCure to toss me ball #3.
That was it. What a zoo.
Here's today's baseballs (2 pictured because one was given away to a kid):
2012 Stats:
Game: 3 balls
Season: 36 balls
Lifetime: 1580 balls


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Specification wise, the new ADATA Premier Pro SP310 offers read and write speeds of up to 410 MB/s and 180 MB/s respectively, while the maximum 4K random write is up to 45,000 IOPS. To be available in capacities of 32, 64 and 128GB, the new SP310 can be used as a primary drive or in a hybrid configuration as a cache drive for the traditional HDD thanks to its support for Intel's Smart Response Technology (SRT).
Based on JMicron JMF667 series controller, the Premier Pro SP310 supports S.M.A.R.T and NCQ command sets as well as TRIM. It is backed by a 3-year warranty.
Unfortunately, ADATA did not announce any details regarding the actual availability date or the precise price but a quick check at our favorite price search engine shows it listed at around €40, €60 and €100 for 32, 64 and 128GB versions.


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Our history
We have pioneered new ways of looking at mental health and improving the lives of people experiencing mental illness for more than 60 years.
How the Mental Health Foundation began
In January 1949, Dr Derek Richter, a neurochemist with a particular interest in mental health, vented his frustration at the scarcity of funding for the field. "I am getting tired of this perpetual fight to get small sums for research," he wrote, "when our colleagues working on cancer and TB are almost embarrassed by the money being thrust at them." Richter, director of research at the Whitchurch hospital in Cardiff, had an idea for how things could be changed. Obviously, he declared, "there should be a Mental Health Research Fund."
Derek Richter and his legacy
We spoke to Derek Richter's colleagues Ted Reynolds and Robert Balazs about Derek, his motivations, his legacy and why he decided to set up the Mental Health Research Fund, which later became known as the Mental Health Foundation.
Richter enlisted the help of Ian Henderson, a well-connected stockbroker, and the first meeting of the Mental Health Research Fund (MHRF) took place at the Royal Society of Medicine on 18 July the same year. Henderson took the job of chairman, while Sir Geofrey Vickers VC, the distinguished war hero, lawyer, and systems scientist, became chairman of the research committee.
Fundraising began in earnest, with the aim of securing money to award grants. Meanwhile, the embryonic organisation set itself the task of bringing together experts practising a variety of approaches. This bore fruit in 1952, when the first MHRF conference took place in Oxford. The research committee was also a multi-disciplinary affair, aiming to give a voice to all academic fields concerned with mental health
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Early years
In our first two decades, we became a key funder for research work and began to influence government policy on mental health. This model remains at the heart of our work today - we use our groundbreaking research and development work to influence policy and improve services delivery.
New ways of working
We took on our current name in 1972 and shifted our focus away from laboratory research and towards working directly with - and learning from - people who experience mental health problems. We pioneered new ways of involving mental health service users in research projects as both participants and researchers. This approach ensures that the expert voices of people with experiences of mental illness are always reflected in our work.
Expanding our role
We expanded our work as an information provider and campaigning organisation in the last decades of the 20th Century. We promoted the idea that that good mental health and wellbeing is for everyone and not just those experiencing problems.
We have continued to work at the forefront of mental health, often focusing on overlooked and under-researched areas such as personality disorders and mental health issues that affect black and minority ethnic people.
Our public mental health campaigns on topics such as exercise and depression, diet, smoking, alcohol and friendship have raised awareness of their contribution to mental health and helped to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
The distinction between learning disabilities and mental health problems was not as clear in the past as it is today. The field of learning disabilities has a lot in common with the field of mental health - including a history of institutional care (and neglect), discrimination and stigma. However, this has sometimes led to unhelpful blurring of the areas in which they are different.
In 1999 we decided to take our learning disabilities work forward under a new brand - the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities.
In 2003, the team doubled in size with the transfer-in of the learning disabilities team from King's College London. Today FPLD works directly with people with learning disabilities, their families and services to help put policy into practice, carry out research and development work and influence national and local policy.
Looking to the future
Our work will not be done until we eliminate the needless suffering that mental illness causes to individuals, their family, their friends and society as a whole.
We rely on the generous support of many individuals, companies and grant-making bodies to do this. If you would like to help, please support us.


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The Chargers officially have announced the arrival of 21 undrafted free agents. They've also signed one veteran: offensive lineman Rex Hadnot.
Hadnot, an eight-year veteran, started 16 games for the Cardinals in 2011. He previously played for the Browns and Dolphins.
In San Diego, Hadnot will join a group of guards that includes Louis Vasquez, Tyronne Green, Brandyn Dombrowski, and rookie fifth-rounder Johnnie Troutman. The Chargers lost Kris Dielman to retirement, who had a seizure after suffering a concussion against the Jets.


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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
KDD 2008 panel on the future of social networks
One question that was repeatedly presented to the panel was how to make money off social networks. Underlying this question, and at least once stated explicitly, was the issue of whether social networks really matter or are just the latest flash in the pan, the latest bubble, and soon to fade if people find the riches they deliver fall short of their absurdly hyped expectations.
The best answer to this question came only at the very end, sneaking in when the session was already over, from panel chair Andrew Tompkins. Andrew said that he thought that what was most likely is that most money would be made from understanding an individual in a network and their immediate neighborhood. He expected that, as the space matured, the more theoretical work that we see now that looks at global patterns and trends across different types of social networks would continue, but the emphasis would shift to understanding each person in the network and from their behavior and their immediate neighbors to help people find and discover things they want.
Another question that came up and went largely unanswered was, are social networks really application specific? That is, are the patterns we see in one network (e.g. mobile) distinct from what we see in another (e.g. LinkedIn) because people use these tools differently? There was some evidence for this in one of the conference papers where there was a rather unusual distribution (PDF) reported in the contact lists of Sprint mobile customers because of how people use their mobile devices. The general issue here is that there is a different meaning of a link between people -- A friend? A colleague? Someone I e-mailed once? -- in each of these applications, so it is not clear that conclusions we draw from analyzing one social network generalize to others.
And this leads to another question, are social networks just a feature? That is, are social networks just a part of an application, not an thing worth anything by itself? For example, is our e-mail contact list only important in the context of e-mail? Is Facebook just a tool for communication, like IM, but not really best described as a social network? This came up a bit during the Q&A with the panel when someone suggested that perhaps we were just using one hammer -- graph analysis -- on every problem when the graph might not actually best capture what is important, the underlying activity in the application.
Though it was not discussed at all during the panel, two of the panelists focused their work on privacy, which made me wish I had asked, do we really have firm evidence that people care about privacy in these social applications? Instead, it seems people say they care about privacy but then freely give away private information when asked ([1]). From what I can tell, we do not really know to what extent privacy really matters to social networking application users, do we?
In the end, it seems many questions remain, some of them quite basic, on the where social networks are going. At this point, it is not even quite clear we know precisely what social networks are, much less whether they have an independent future.
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"Andrew said that he thought that what was most likely is that most money would be made from understanding an individual in a network and their immediate neighborhood."
Give it another year or so when the mobile platform (iPhone), local content(outside.in, yelp) & location come together... Money will be made! A whole bunch of it....
Someone said .. "If its important news it will reach me" ..
If you take that further .. "If its important & useful information it will available to me"
My 2 cents!
- September 3, 2008 at 6:28 PM
- Craig said...
The best answer that came at the end reminded me of VRM. Though with my knowledge, I don't ever remember behavior of immediate neighbours being discussed in that context. However I'm sure the foundations still apply and profiles could be generated to target individuals who choose to opt-in. The problem with ads like those I see people with concerns about on Facebook is that they aren't obviously opt-in. (I just tried finding a relevant ad for me with thumbs up and down and couldn't find one).
As for social networking being just a feature, I'd definitely agree with that. People are the killer app. Without people your app dies. The ability to build social and professional relationships - for exchange of mediums individuals desire - is at the forefront of everything we do.
I do however believe that people do appreciate a separation of concerns in the form of task-centric spaces in which to collaborate with like-minded individuals. This to me is the point at which people do care about privacy. Also that it is highly contextual and individual. Why I believe there are so many privacy studies where people say one thing, yet do another.
- September 4, 2008 at 6:59 AM
I think the strategy hint is better defined as
"if its important anything, it will find me"
- September 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM


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Wow! I haven't blogged on here in over a year and two months! Wow, what a shame! There has been so much that has happened in the past year with the Twins, so I will do a quick recap with thoughts:
- Twins win AL Central- We all knew it would happen. We were awesome. Too bad we couldn't win in the post season...cough
- Joe Nathan surgery- This was a bummer. And now he will never be the same [See 2011 Twins season for more]
- Requiring Nishioka- This was really cool! Too bad he only played a couple days before going on the DL this year...
- Twins having the worst start of the season ever- This was so depressing. I didn't even want to know what the score was!
- Everyone going on the DL. Ugh, makes me angry that we have a huge team of call-ups (However, they are pulling their acts together lately!)
- Harmon Killebew- This ripped the Twins apart. Really cool that there is a picture of him under home plate and a big '3' on the water tower!
Now to today. The Twins have won 14 of their last 16 games and have won seven straight. Who would have thought that this team would make such a turn around after how they played the first two months! We are actually back in the hunt in the A.L. Central. Yay!
Congrats to all the triple A guys who kicked butt in todays game. For real, if the Twins are winning games with our call-ups, then imagine what we can do with our veterans off the D.L.!
Oh and P.S. Casilla? You made everyone pee their pants today. Thanks for that bud.


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One of Orange County's largest and most unusual buildings can be found in Laguna Niguel. Modeled in the style of a Babylonian ziggurat, the Chet Holifield Federal Building sits between Alicia Parkway and La Paz Road at the Avila Road cross street.
The distinctive seven-tiered, flat-topped pyramid, completed in 1970, continues to dominate its newer surroundings. The structure of almost 1 million square feet houses numerous federal agencies and department offices. The first floor alone covers nearly nine acres, and the parking lot was designed to accommodate 15,000 employees.
The story of this grand structure includes events beginning in 1966. Rockwell Corp. chose the land in what was then an isolated spot as a secure location for its Autonetic Division that served the enormous demands of the Vietnam conflict. However, before the building was completed, this fortress became a casualty of the war's winding down. Rockwell never moved in, and the building stood empty for four years.
In 1974, Rockwell traded the building to the federal government for two manufacturing plants in Los Angeles. After nine years of underuse, the federal government put the building up for sale. Soon it was given a new name, "White Elephant," after it failed to attract a buyer.
The government took it off the market and quietly filled the space as south Orange County was developed at a rapid pace. By 1984, the Ziggurat, as it is called, was filled to capacity and continues to be so.
No longer isolated, the building stands amid a large commercial area where hilltop houses overlook its silhouette and drivers along Alicia Parkway can easily view this remarkable structure.
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Just a quick post to let you know i have had a miscarriage. Was bleeding again and it was confirmed today at hospital. Im ok just getting my head around things.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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Monday, 22 June 2009
Adjusting to my new life
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Friday, 12 June 2009
Finally i went for a scan!
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Thursday, 4 June 2009
For Diver
Diver this post is in response to your comment about the Psycology text book. I will just write what appears on the page.
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder in which there is great fear of open or public places. This fear can be so great that agoraphobics are often reluctant to leave the safety of their homes. Agoraphobia on its own is rather rare. in most cases, patients who develop agoraphobia already suffer from panic disorder, and so the disorder becomes panic disorder with agoraphobia. The fact that agoroaphobics typically also suffer from panic disorder is important in understanding agoraphobia - agoraphobics try to avoid open or public places from which escape would be difficult if they were to experience a panic attack. Thus, they are frightened of what might happen to them in public rather than the public places themselves.
Before discussing the criteria for panic disorder with agoraphobia, we will consider the definition of a panic attack. According to DSM-IV-TR (APA 2000), a panic attack involves intense fear or discomfort, with four or more bodily symptoms suddenly appearing. These symptoms include palpitations, shortness of breath, accelerated heart rate, a feeling of choking, nausea, sweating, chest pain, feeling dizzy and a fear of dying. Panic attacks can be distinguished from other types of anxiety by the fact that they are typically short in duration and of great intensity.
The DSM-IV-TR criteria for panic disorder with agoraphobia are as follows (APA 2000):
- Recurrent unexpected panic attacks.
- At least one panic attack has been followed by at least one month of worry about the attack, concern about having more panic attacks, or changed in behaviour resulting from the attack.
- Agoraphobia, in which there is anxiety about being in situations from which escape might be hard or embarrassing in the event of a panic attack.
- The situations are either avoided, endured with marked distress, or manageable only with the presence of a companion.
According to ICD-10, one of the main criteria for agoraphioa is that anxiety is largely restricted to: crowds, public places, travelling away from home, and travelling alone. Another criteria is that there is frequent avoidance of the situations causing anxiety.
Approximately 3-4% of people develop panic disorder with or without agoraphobian during the course of their lives. Similar percentages have been found in many countries and ethnic groups. About 75% of those suffering from agoraphobia or panic disorder with agoraphobia are female. One likely reason why men show less agoraphobic avoidance than women uis because they are more likely to drink heavily so that they can go out in public.
Case Study : Lynn, An Agoraphobic for 8 Years
Friday 19th December
Today has been the biggest challenge. I woke up and immediately felt anxious. Too much time in bed and too much time to think have caused this. From 7am all i could think about was 'I need to go out, I havent been out in 2 days, what if i cant do it again'? I sat and i thought about it, and thought about it and thought about it. In the end I was so worked up that i could feel the panic attack getting closer. I ran to my bedroom and got dressed and went out. I knew if I just faced the problem instead of sitting thinking about it, i would feel much better. it worked. I went out and walked my usual route and felt fine. I enjoyed it actually even though it was freezing and pouring with rain. I ended up back in bed after this. Still not well at all and while suffering from the cold it is probably not a great idea to walk in the rain. but mentally i feel far better.
Saturday 20th December
Arrgghhh maybe that walk was a bad idea. I. AM. SO. ILL!!! There is no hope of me leaving my bed today. But i can rest easy and not obsess about not getting out again. I also have the added joy of looking after my three nephews tonight. I can barely look after myself right now.
Sunday 21st December
I feel so much better! Got up and took two of the boys out for a walk. We were out for quite a while. On returning home I learned my dad was heading out to do some Christmas shopping. I quickly jumped in the car with him and asked him to take me for a spin. I havent been in the car since Tuesday so i wanted to prove to myself that i can still do it. We went around the usual and then for some reason my dad took a wrong turn. The panic really does come over me in waves. One minute i felt it rise from my tummy to my head and then it would go down again. i think if i can mentally talk myself through this i will be ok but when taking the wrong turn my head just went 'No No No'.
How does Lynn's account tie in with what you know about agoraphobia?
Diver im not sure if this answers your question. After my case study it just goes on to sum up the Agoraphobia section. I would be interested to read peoples answers to the question though.
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Debt collector Antangela Pauldo had heard every excuse for why people couldn't pay their auto loans. And like most in her line of work, she instinctively had a skeptical view of every sob story.
Today, however, Ms. Pauldo has a new appreciation for the depths to which some in her profession will go to collect debts, especially ones that are no longer legally owed – or were never owed in the first place.
A nearly 10-year-old credit-card account she claims wasn't hers popped up out of nowhere and led to verbal harassment and voice-mail runarounds. Finally, $900 was garnished from her bank account by a Georgia law firm. The firm is now being investigated by the state Office for Consumer Affairs.
"It's made me look at my job differently," says Pauldo, who complained to the Georgia Better Business Bureau. "There are [debt] issues that people bring up that are legitimate, and it's my job to help them – not criticize them."
The story of the debt collector who got burned by her own industry is part of a widening debate about "zombie debt," or debt that never dies. At issue: the tactics used by third-party debt collectors to coerce Americans into waiving a US common-law right: debt forgiveness.
On the heels of a credit-card reform movement in Washington, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now joining a growing number of states to strengthen consumer protections and shed more light on the shadowy tactics of junk debt collectors.
The question, experts say, is whether Congress and regulators have the fortitude to stand up to a $100 billion industry that represents the underbelly of America's recent addiction to easy credit.
"Nobody thought there'd ever be such a thing as a debt industry," says Robert Manning, director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services in Rochester, N.Y. "Now we're seeing a set of issues emerge about American insolvency laws, entrepreneurship, and the whole social and moral underpinnings of who gets loans, and why.
"This is the bottom of the food chain," he adds. "They have power to freeze accounts, create collateral damage, and see who responds."
Hundreds of such "junk debt" firms – ranging from mom-and-pop operations to multinational companies with 100 employees or more – buy millions of discharged accounts from lenders each year. (These are bad loans that a bank has written off as a loss for tax purposes.)
They then run computerized "skip traces" that use Social Security numbers to locate debtors, then cajole them into waiving the statute of limitations on old debts and paying up.
Junk debt companies can legally try to collect. Thirty-year-old consumer protection laws give consumers certain rights, but they don't guarantee that debt collectors must inform people of those rights – creating what the FTC's Julie Bush calls a "gray area" that can be exploited by collectors.
"There's no requirement that [debt collectors] indicate that the debt is older than the statute of limitations," says Ms. Bush.
What happened to Atlanta mom Stephanie Maple shows how the junk debt industry makes money, as well as the kinds of tactics it uses.
In Ms. Maple's case, a $5,000 debt may have been bought by a collection agency for as little as $100. She paid $200, then had another $700 taken out of her bank account without her permission before she finally stopped getting calls. The company realized as much as an 800 percent profit, but may have broken laws in the process, including those that prohibit collectors from verbally threatening or abusing consumers.
"We have never been in trouble like this before. We're hardworking poor people, so when they threaten us like, 'We're going to issue a warrant and lock your husband up and take your home,' naturally I panicked," says Maple, an airline employee.
Such complaints are skyrocketing, reports the FTC. In 2008, 34 percent of complaints against debt collectors were for harassment, up from 19 percent in 2007. Another 13 percent of those who complained say collectors used obscene, profane, or otherwise abusive language – also an increase from the previous year.
Why all the phone yelling? The short answer: Debt collectors, who often work on commission, are trying to adjust tactics to a recession, when fewer consumers have extra money and often can't get fresh credit to pay off old debts.
Still, the industry as a whole welcomes reform, says Patrick Lunsford, editor of Inside ARM, an industry newsletter.
Governed by both the FTC and Federal Communications Commission (the FCC has a role because telephones are used), debt collectors often work under contradictory rules, Mr. Lunsford says. One example: Leaving voice-mail messages about debts is not allowed because of privacy concerns, but that necessitates repeated phone calls, which consumers often complain are abusive.
"The majority of [debt collectors] are good actors, and they want [more] guidance," says Lunsford.
But the industry is likely to fight one proposed reform: forcing phone collectors to let consumers know upfront that theirs is a time-barred debt that they don't have to pay. That would undermine the entire zombie debt business model, says Mr. Manning.
"This system is not designed to have people knowing their rights, but to dupe people into waiving their rights," says attorney Dick Rubin of Santa Fe, N.M., an expert on zombie debt. "Most people are so well-meaning and trusting that they don't know how to tell these people to get off."
Under the Fair Credit Act, consumers have the right to request that collection agencies validate the debt in writing. But acknowledging an old debt by making a partial payment essentially refreshes the debt, affecting a consumer's credit report.
Charles Walker says he was sued by a debt collector over an old government college loan, but never received notification about the court date, possibly because he had recently moved. The judge found for the debt collector, a process that reawakened the debt on Mr. Walker's credit report, putting his homeownership at risk.
"I don't have anything against them for attempting to collect debt," says Walker, a computer networking technician in Richmond, Va. "But the tactics they use are just so underhanded, so aggressive and downright bullying."
For a long time, Georgia regulators thought they had no jurisdiction over debt-collection practices. A recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling found otherwise. So the state is now investigating two major national collection firms in Atlanta, the home of several national debt collectors. A Superior Court in Cobb County, Ga., will decide whether the state has a right to subpoena records from those firms to investigate complaints. •


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Liu continues to campaign as hard as he ever has – which means a full schedule of public appearances as well as constant fundraising and racking up endorsements. He got another big one this week, when Borough President Melinda Katz threw her support behind Liu.
"In the State Senate, John will be a champion for the working families of Queens – and that's exactly the change we need," said Katz in a statement.
Despite the fact that the IDC's five state senators – of which Avella is one – have decided to abandon their power-sharing agreement with the Republicans, the Queens Democratic Party is not giving up its bid to unseat Avella, who has often clashed with party leaders even before he joined the renegade faction in the State Senate.
So, for the next ten weeks or so it looks like we are going to have a contentious race leading up to the Democratic Primary in September. And it's getting increasingly chippy.
Following news of the IDC's decision to caucus with the Democrats, the Liu campaign sent out a statement calling on Avella to pledge not to rejoin the Republicans if the Democrats fail to win an outright majority this fall. Here's the statement from a Liu spokesperson:
"We know that Tony Avella will say or do just about anything to stay in office, hoping no one notices that he's one of the most ineffective legislators in Albany. We also know that Senator Avella abandoned the Democrats who elected him once, and now he won't say if he will join forces with the Republicans again if they gain seats this year. The question to Tony Avella is simple: Will you pledge not to caucus with Republicans again if the Democrats don't win a majority this fall? The people of the 11th District have a right to know if their Senator will stand up for Democratic values or keep making backroom deals with Republicans that sell out his constituents," said Liu spokesperson James Freedland.
The Avella campaign immediately pounced on the challenge by issuing a statement inferring that Liu had already conceded defeat in the race. Enjoy:
While we're glad that our opponent's campaign acknowledges that come the new legislative year Senator Avella will be in office, one would think that our opponent would be focused on his own struggling bid. Given disgraced candidate John Liu's slew of federal criminal investigations, staffers taking the fall, unpaid campaign finance violations totaling over $500,000, and culture of corruption, Mr. Liu might want to look in the mirror before questioning Tony Avella's record of integrity.
The people of the 11th District deserve a Senator who holds himself to a higher standard - one that Senator Tony Avella has always met. Come November, Senator Avella looks forward to an IDC-Democratic Coalition to enact progressive reform, not to back down from a primary fight. If Mr. Liu is looking for a reason to get out of the this race, he's going to have to admit the real challenge: he no longer has a reason to run.
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iPhone 5 ignores NFC - a stay of execution for some?
Apple's decision to ignore NFC and mobile payments lets other players get a stronger foothold before the war begins.
To be honest not many pundits expected Apple to add Near Field Communications to the iPhone 5 for short-range wireless interactions, but it seems to be an omission many people are disappointed about. It would fit perfectly with the new Passbook features baked into iOS6, designed to work with e-ticketing systems and loyalty card programs. NFC could also tie in with the iPhone's existing EasyPay mobile payments system, which deducts funds from an iTunes Store account but is currently restricted to Apple retail outlets.
Android hasn't done much with NFC to date, but it's finding its feet as a technology anyway. It's the basis of the payWave and PayPass contactless credit cards introduced by various Australian banks, plus it's used by Melbourne's Myki ticketing system. There are a range of other NFC trials underway around the country. The Commonwealth Bank wasn't prepared to wait for Apple and issued its own NFC-enabled iPhone case to work with its Kaching mobile banking and payments application. Other financial institutions, including several banks and PayPal, have also introduced app-based mobile payment options which don't utilise NFC -- looking to get an early foothold before Apple steps in. Visa also wants a slice of the action and is trialing its V.me digital wallet in the US. Meanwhile Isis is a joint mobile payments venture between Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. They're all gearing up for the mobile payments war which is brewing.
Android has lead the way with NFC in smartphones but little has come of it. NFC is supported by many new handsets along with Google Wallet, but you're at the mercy of your region and your telco as to whether they're activated. Meanwhile Microsoft is adding NFC support under Windows Phone 8 and its digital wallet with new handsets such as Nokia's Lumia 920, but not HTC's 8X. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft or the telcos will hold it back in certain markets.
Both Android and Windows Phone 8 seem ready to take a bite out of the NFC market while Apple drags its feet, although there are still hurdles to overcome. The Commonwealth Bank's Kaching app for Android doesn't take advantage of NFC in handsets, because the bank says Android doesn't use the security components of NFC required for secure financial transactions. Westpac's Android NFC trial requires a custom SIM card to securely store banking details rather than simply trusting the handset's hardware and software. This fragmentation, reflective of Android as whole, is one of the key issues holding back the NFC ecosystem.
The fledgling NFC space seems ripe for someone to step in with the killer service which "just works", which is exactly the kind of opportunity Apple loves to pounce on. So why hold off with the iPhone 5? Because the market isn't quite ready and Apple isn't quite ready to exploit it. Apple's style isn't to simply enter new markets as an also-ran (although there is the occasional dud such as Ping). Apple's style is to negotiate deals with the major providers, play hard ball, deliver a slick user experience and then totally dominate the market while retaining control of the end customer. Look at the experience of the music industry, which failed to master the online music model until Apple stepped in and stole its customers away. The movie industry isn't faring much better, while book and newspaper publishers are also feeling the squeeze from Cupertino.
Following the same model, it's possible Apple's long play is to be the iTunes of mobile commerce and financial transactions. But it's going to do it in its own time, on its own terms. Passbook in iOS6, for storing e-vouchers, is a stepping stone. Right now Apple is striking Passbook deals with the major players in the retail, ticketing and transportation sectors, with early partners including Virgin Australia, United Airlines and Amtrak. Major retail and ticketing partners in the US already include the likes of Starbucks, Target and Fandango.
What's surprising is that Apple's hasn't taken the same iron-fisted approach to Passbook as it has to the app store. Passes are not vetted the same way apps are. Nor is Apple demanding a slice of the action or invoking its in-app purchase policy, at least at this point. You do however need an Apple developer account to create Passes, which rely on the JSON data format. You also need to run your own server if you want to issue dynamic passes which can update on the fly. These kinds of technical challenges have spawned a range of Passbook brokers, such as Melbourne's PassRocket, aiming to help small businesses get onboard. Apple will encourage this, at least for now, because initially Passbook is all about critical mass.
It won't happen in the next year or two, but I'd say Apple's end game is to become the iTunes of transactions and perhaps rival PayPal. It would be foolish to rush into that space now and get thumped by PayPal, but Apple will move in phases. First Passbook, perhaps NFC next -- to extend its reach and put the pressure on the major financial players. I'm told by people in the know that the NFC Point of Sale gear deployed in Australian supermarkets can be extended to support more than Visa and Mastercard, but that it would take a well-connected heavy-hitter to make it happen. As a stepping stone you might see Apple strike a "strategic partnership" with one of the big financial players to get a foot in the door, but it would be an uneasy alliance. Just like Google Maps and SkyHook, Apple is your best friend until the day it can survive without you.
Once Passbook has a critical mass of business users, both big and small, Apple will have the clout to eye off the financial space and negotiate with the big players. Apple won't move until it feels it has the upper hand, then it will squeeze them hard and quite possibly demand a slice of the action as it currently does with in-app purchases. Eventually it may try to muscle financial institutions out of the picture, expanding its own EasyPay system in an effort to steal business away from the banks and credit card providers. You'll still need a credit card to top up your iTunes account, but intra-iTunes transactions will start to take their toll as Apple builds its own financial ecosystem similar to PayPal.
Having watched Apple squeeze content providers, the big financial players won't go down without a fight. They're not as arrogant and short-sighted as the music industry. The biggest mistake when fighting Apple is thinking you're too big to lose. This is why the financial players are proactively forging ahead with their own mobile payment systems which are less dependent on Apple. The banks and credit card providers, not to mention the likes of PayPal and even the telcos, want to lock in their profitable customers before they become Apple's profitable customers.
When viewed in this light, Apple's decision to hold off on NFC in the iPhone 5 actually gives competitors an extended window of opportunity to establish themselves before Apple turns its eye on the mobile payments space. Or maybe I'm paranoid and crazy, and Apple is content to simply dish out loyalty cards so you can get your tenth coffee free. I'd say businesses wanting to avoid the fate of the music giants should be looking to engage their customers in the mobile transaction space and establish a strong relationship, before Apple tries to steal them away.
George Palathingal joined The Sydney Morning Herald in 2001. He writes about most fields of entertainment but has always specialised in music, most notably as a live reviewer.


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Without our help, the world's forests would not be burning
Today 12:00pm - Fuel is everywhere in rainforests, but it seems unimaginable that such humid ecosystems could ever catch fire. And without human intervention, they dont.
Outcry goes global as Amazon forests burn
Friday - The environment minister of Brazil, where wildfires have been sweeping the Amazon rainforest, was booed at a climate event yesterday as celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande joined an international chorus of criticism.
Germany pulls millions in Amazon funding
13 Aug 19 - Germany will suspend $39 million in funds sent to Brazil to finance projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest.
We might be expecting too much of the Amazon
7 Aug 19 - The Amazon might not be sequestering as much carbon dioxide as we think, scientists say.
Rampant deforestation driven by greed for meat
5 Jul 19 - Brazils huge beef sector continues to threaten health of worlds largest rainforest.
Brazil leader guts environmental agencies
12 Jun 19 - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appears intent on decriminalizing Amazon deforestation, ending most fines, straitjacketing law enforcement, and gutting environmental agencies with mass firings.
Coal-dependent Chile vows to come clean by 2040
7 Jun 19 - Chile, host of the next UN climate talks, has unveiled its plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, which will require one of the fastest coal shutdowns anywhere.
Scientists fight Brazilian leader's cutbacks
31 May 19 - Brazils scientists are fighting back against President Jair Bolsonaros plans to slash funding for research and education programmes.
In the land of El Dorado, clean water has become blue gold
11 Apr 19 - In the land where the legend of El Dorado began, the race is on to solve the mystery of a vital 21st century treasure the water that tens of millions of people rely upon across northern South...
Climate change drives migrants to the US
9 Apr 19 - The northern triangle of Central America, the largest source of asylum seekers crossing the US border, is deeply affected by environmental degradation.
Costa Rica aims to show world the way
28 Feb 19 - Costa Rica has launched an economy-wide plan to decarbonize the country by 2050, as the Central American nation aims to show other nations what is possible to address climate change.
UN calls Brazil dam burst a crime
5 Feb 19 - The Brazil dam burst last week happened less than a month after the countrys new climate-sceptic government came to office promising a relaxation of environmental laws and inspections to take the...
Brazil's resources open for business, says Bolsonaro
25 Jan 19 - Brazil will strike a balance between environment and much-needed economic development, Brazilian president Joao Bolsonaro has said in his first overseas speech.
Bolsonaro appoints 'beef caucus' minister
11 Dec 18 - Brazils far right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has named Ricardo de Aquino Salles, a 43-year-old lawyer and a staunch beef caucus ally to lead his environment department.
Bolsonaro names climate denier as key minister
19 Nov 18 - Brazils president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has named an anti-globalist diplomat to lead on foreign affairs and his countrys relationship to the Paris Agreement.
Bolsonaro already at work in the Amazon
15 Nov 18 - Deforestation in Brazils Amazon jumped almost 50 per cent during the three-month electoral season that brought Jair Bolsonaro to power, according to preliminary official figures.
Amazon is adapting, but not fast enough
13 Nov 18 - A 30-year analysis of Amazonian trees finds the worlds largest rainforest is already adapting to climate change, but probably not fast enough.
How fund managers could help save Amazon
12 Nov 18 - Large asset managers could play a pivotal role in safeguarding the Amazon forest, a new report shows, amid concerns Brazils president-elect Jair Bolsonaro could strip the planet of its lungs.
Bolsonaro to merge environment and agriculture
2 Nov 18 - Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro will merge the environment and agriculture ministries, a move activists have warned could imperil the Amazon rainforest.
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This year�s Riesling Festival raised $28,081 for the Canandaigua Family YMCA, supporters announced Thursday morning from the front steps of the Y on Main Street.
Kids attending Y programs provided a backdrop for the announcement sitting on the steps behind the speakers, shading their eyes from the hazy sunshine. Speakers included chief executive officers Lauren Dixon, of Dixon Schwabl, Robert Schick of Lyons National Bank, and the Y�s� Laurie O�Shaughnessy. Canandaigua Mayor Ellen Polimeni also spoke at the news conference where a symbolic check was unveiled and many thank you�s went out to festival organizers, participants and others connected with the annual event.�
�That�s a beautiful check,� said O�Shaughnessy, noting money raised goes to help pay for financial assistance with Y memberships and free programs that uplift individuals and families.
Dixon said the 2013 donation represents the proceeds raised by nearly 30,000 festival goers. Over the five years the festival has been operating, it has raised more than $150,000 for the Canandaigua Y, Dixon said.
In expressing gratitude, O�Shaughnessy said the donation represents �an investment in our health, our kids and our community.�
Dixon said planning has begun for the 2014 Riesling Festival set for Aug. 9 and Aug. 10, 2014.


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Here's my advice to the rainbow family people of influence. I don't want to say "leaders", because as a herd of cats, they have no leaders, and they're not kidding when they say that.
- You should print up T-shirts that say "I tried to stop the Rainbow Gathering and all I got was this worthless T-shirt." Offer them to any USFS personnel within reach. For extra bonus points, print "USFS" in block letters on the back. Of course, if you get accused of bribing them, point out that the shirt is worthless, and since you're giving them to every USFS personnel who shows up, they are technically not an economic good since they aren't scarce. Print that on the shirt itself, in fine print, of course.
- Offer to share food with them. Sharing food is a very primal act of bonding. If they want to have a chat with you, eat while you're talking to them, and keep offering them food.
- If they target your medical staff again, make sure that the press knows that your infrastructure is being targetted. Speculate that the USFS is doing this to cause a disaster which breaks down the Gathering from within, and point out that innocents will suffer.
- "Elect" a new Leader of the Rainbow Gathering, who sets up their own authoritative-seeming web page with contact information, etc., and have them be 1) not at the gathering, and 2) completely out of reach during the gathering. If people come looking for a leader, say exactly what you say now. "We have no leaders". When asked where he is, you say "I haven't seen him."
- Oh, hell, for that matter, he doesn't even need to exist.
- Stop saying that you have no leaders. The harder you press that claim, the more they'll think you have secret leaders. Instead, explicitly say that you have Tail Followers. They don't lead anybody; they just follow the decisions made by the group. They're scribes, not chieftans. No member of the Rainbow Family will move when they say "Jump!"


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Editor's note: Ed Foster-Simeon is President/CEO at U.S. Soccer Foundation and is a former Deputy Managing Editor at USA TODAY. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) -- Well, so much for the idea that Americans don't care about soccer.
The U.S. National team made it out of the so-called "group of death" Thursday to advance to the knockout round of competition at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Regardless of how much further the Stars and Stripes advance in the biggest sporting event on the planet, they already have revealed something that even casual observers can see.
Soccer is now woven inextricably into the fabric of American life.
Television viewership numbers continue to set new highs with each U.S. game The proverbial office water cooler has been abuzz with chatter about the U.S. team's dramatic 2-1 win over Ghana and its heartbreaking, last second 2-2 tie with Portugal. "Where are you watching the game" has become the question of the day. Thousands filled the streets for viewing parties in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington -- in the middle of the workday.
Soccer used to be their game -- the Europeans, the South Americans, the Africans. Today it is our game too, bringing the nation together in a passionate embrace of its athleticism, its skill and, yes, its excitement.
But it hasn't always been this way. Even after the U.S. hosted the World Cup for the first time in 1994 -- setting attendance records that still stand today -- many still dismissed soccer as somehow not quite American.
Some, like political commentator Ann Coulter, still do. She wrote Thursday in the Clarion Ledger: "I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer," she said in an op-ed. "One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time."
A few million Americans disagree. Slowly, but surely though, soccer has grown on us as a nation.
Why? A changing America has become younger and more diverse, and those two demographics simply love soccer more than their parents.
Increased immigration from regions where you learn how to kick a soccer ball as soon as you learn how to walk -- Latin America, Africa, Europe -- and particularly, our growing Hispanic population, is only deepening the nation's relationship with soccer.
In the U.S., the Latino population has soared to 17%, according to the U.S. Census. And that number is only growing. And by most estimates, the U.S. will be more non-white than white somewhere around 2043, with most of that growth coming from countries where soccer is the dominant sport.
And members of the Millennial generation -- those born between 1980 and the early 2000s -- have been big drivers of the growth in soccer in the U.S. Between 1990 and today, the number of players registered in organized youth soccer programs doubled to 4 million, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation, the governing body for the game in the United States. While most Baby Boomers cut their sporting teeth on football, basketball and baseball, today's young adults are arguably the first generation to grow up with soccer as a major sport in their lives from their earliest childhood memories. It's a widely shared experience among today's young adults.
Today, soccer is the second favorite sport for those 12 to 24 years old. It's the third largest participation sport in the country. Soccer is the team sport with the highest growth rate over the past decade. That 41% of players are women only broadens its appeal.
U.S teams performing increasingly well on the international stage hasn't hurt either. The U.S. Men's National team has qualified for seven consecutive World Cups. Our Women's National team is ranked No. 1 in the world.
While interest naturally peaks among aficionados and novices alike during a mega event like the World Cup, and subsides afterward, this is not a passing fad.
Total attendance at soccer matches in the U.S. in 2013 exceeded 10 million, according to attendance figures compiled by U.S. Soccer. Our country has become the largest market in the world for international matches, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation, the governing body for the game in the United States.
At the professional level, Major League Soccer has expanded to 22 markets and there is more soccer on television in the U.S. than any other country in the world. Some 2,928 matches from around the world were shown live in 2012. TV ratings for the World Cup have already topped the NBA Finals and the World Series in America -- Sunday's game against Portugal brought in more than 25 million viewers and was the most-watch soccer match in U.S. history. It is a niche no more.
But we need to make it even more accessible. For example, the standard pay-to-play model -- where participation in local leagues can cost parents as much as $1,800 per child, not including travel -- has been a barrier to access for children and families in low-income communities. The U.S. Soccer Foundation is working to provide thousands of children and families in under-resourced communities with easy and affordable access to quality soccer programming and safe places to play.
Not too many years ago, the standard joke was that soccer was the game of the future -- and always would be. Well, it seems the future is finally here and it's here to stay.
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Hey, it's not every day that a completely fuzzy, nearly 30-foot long meat-eating dinosaur is described, now is it? I'm afraid my current schedule won't allow for a full skeletal of this critter for several more weeks, so consider the skull a down payment.
First, I should say that I'm not going to retread much of the excellent writing that has already been done onYutyrannus. If you'd like more in depth coverage, I highly recommend David Hone's excellent write-up on his blog Archosaur Musings. For more coverage and some reasons to question whetherYutyrannus is a actually a tyrannosauroid, check out Darren Naish's coverage on his Scientific American TetZoo blog. I'd also be remiss to not mention Brian Switek's article over at the Smithsonian website.
Photograph by Roberto Appiani
What I will cover are some of the difficulties I've already observed in restoring Yutyrannus. The reconstruction above is based on one of the beautifully preserved skulls (there are 3!); like everything else found in the Yixian Formation, the specimens have been squashed flat. Relatively robust bones like a femur hold up fairly well, but skulls really don't. They tend to be highly three-dimensional in shape, and are made out of relatively thin elements. In particular, on theropod skulls the top and rear of the skull tend to fold upward as the head undergoes the pancake treatment of diagenesis
.Small dinosaurs with larger eyes and brains (like the juvenile Scipionyx above seen at right) exaggerate the problem even more, and unsuspecting artists can restore the skulls as having huge domes over the eyes if they don't know better. In Yutyrannus I suspect we are seeing something similar, which probably exaggerates the apparent size of the nasals (especially as you move closer to the eyes), as well as the top of the skull at the back.
If you check out the beautiful photograph of the head of juvenile specimen ELDM V1001 in David Hone's blog (the same one I've restored above), you can probably see what I'm getting at.
The skull restoration at the beginning of this article takes those things into account, attempting to return a 3-dimensional shape to the steam-rolled remains of the skull (by the way, the mandible is largely a place holder for now, the surangular is actually a fairly different shape). Below I've included a comparison of the the skull with and without those "corrections". Because there are three skulls, and because they have likely been subject to distortion from somewhat different angles, I should be able to double check this with greater precision once I get around to doing the full skeletal.
For those of you investing the time to study the comparison image, the top one is the restored version, while the bottom one treats the outline more literally. In both cases I've re-articulated the lacrimal (the bone in front of the eye) with the jugal (the bone underneath the orbit). In both cases the lower jaw is (as mentioned above) just a generic placeholder that is the correct size, but doesn't take the information from other specimens into account.
That's all the time I have to put into a new skeletal on my own whim for the moment. Until I get a chance to do the whole thing enjoy this Yutyrannus I.O.U.


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Life Technologies' Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Provider Program Adds 12 New Members in US, Europe and Asia Pacific
With more than 30 members the program is the largest network of next generation-based exome sequencing providers in the world
Dec 20, 2013, 07:30 ET
CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that five new American, five European and two Asia Pacific sites joined the Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Provider program. Within three months of the program's launch, it's become the world's largest network of next generation-based sequencing service providers with more than 30 members representing some of the premier institutions in the industry.
Until now, exome sequencing through a service provider has taken six to eight weeks and required as much as three micrograms of DNA. Using the Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Kit, the Ion Proton™ Sequencer, and Ion Reporter™ Software, these service providers can sequence two exomes in a single run – going from DNA to results in two days. Additionally, Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Providers require just 50 ng of DNA and offer very competitive prices, making exome sequencing accessible to any researcher. This program eliminates the need to batch samples just to make the price of exome sequencing affordable.
"Leveraging Life Technologies Ion PGM™ and Ion Proton™ next-generation sequencing platforms and an expert technical team, WuXi AppTec offers customer-focused programs to meet your exacting clinical research needs, including high-quality exome sequencing," said Heather Malicki, Scientific Director, Virology Technology Development, WuXi AppTec.
"The Ion Proton Sequencer's simple and high-throughput workflow, from sample preparation to sequencing and data analysis, is ideal for exome analysis and will allow us to better and more quickly serve our diverse global client base," said Laurent Farinelli, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Geneva-based FASTERIS SA.
"The Ampliseq exome represents the next step in bringing sequencing to all, simplifying the workflow and dramatically reducing the time required," said Richard Allcock, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia and head of the Lotterywest State Biomedical Facility. "In doing so, it brings consistency and scalability, allowing exome sequencing to be performed economically by all laboratories."
The Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Provider program welcomes the following American, European and Asia Pacific institutions:
- Kashi Clinical Laboratories, Portland, Ore.
- RUCDR Infinite Biologics, Piscataway, N.J.
- WuXi AppTec, Philadelphia, P.A.
- Molecular Resource Center, Memphis, Tenn.
- Research and Testing Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas
- FASTERIS SA, Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland
- Eurofins MWG Operon, Ebersberg, Germany
- NIMGenetics S.L., Madrid, Spain
- GENOMAX - Plateforme de sequencage, Strasbourg, France
- Cellcall Ltd, Budapest, Hungary
- Lotterywest State Biomedical Facility, Perth, Australia
- DNA Link, Inc., Seoul, South Korea
In addition to being faster and more affordable, the Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Kit delivers the most uniform sequencing coverage in the industry*, with up to 98 percent of bases covered at 10-fold, and up to 95 percent of bases covered at 20-fold, for a single exome.
Customers can receive their data within hours after a sequencing run with Ion Reporter™ Software, which provides a list of mutations, including copy number variation and associated annotations drawn from dozens of public databases. It also enables service labs to access their data through the web and rich filtering tools that help them focus on the most relevant variants.
"The popularity of the Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Provider program has grown rapidly, reflecting significant underlying demand for fast, easy-to-use Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome sequencing," said Maneesh Jain, vice president of Marketing and Business Development, Ion Torrent. "The service provider program model enables customers with research projects of any size to have access to this ground-breaking technology."
The Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Provider program is part of the Ion Certified Service Provider program. To learn more, visit: lifetechnologies.com/ioncsp.
The Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Kit, Ion Proton™ Sequencer, and Ion Reporter Software are For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
*For complete details on the performance of the Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Kit and Ion Proton™ Sequencer, go to our web page at lifetechnologies.com/ionexome.
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